The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-14 00:00:00

GREECE.

The Moniteur publishes a letter from Athens, of
the 4th inst., which gives the following particulars
relating to the origin and issue of the recent con- '
flicts in that capital :
" To make the cause of the late disturbances in-
telligible, it will be necessary to state that M. Bul-
garis, ex-president of the Provisional Government,t
had been making great efforts to restore his influ-
ence, and had succeeded in forming an important
party in the Assembly„ He had also collected I

around him a band of devoted partisans, 900 in
number, tinder the command of Lieut, Laoutzako
(Leotzakos), composed partly of soldiers and partly
of peasants from the country. While M. Bulgaria was
thus preparing his return to power, the arrival of M,
Christides drew from him many of his supporters in
the Chamber, and his friends in the army were
greatly diminished by the influence of M. Grivas.
Affairs came to a crisis when, after the return
of the Commissioners from Copenhagen, the Chris-
tides party succeeded in ousting M. Botzaris from
the Ministry of War, end getting M. Coronaios (a
decided opponent of M. Bulgaris) appointed in his
stead. On the very day M. Botzaris left the
Ministry of War, a band of 40 men, commanded by
an officer named Kyriacon, left Athens, for the
purpose, as was supposed, of plundering the tnha.
bitants of the country. M. Coronaios immediately
sent a detachment after this band, which was sur-
rounded and brought back to Athens ; but on
entering the city they succeeded in escaping from
their captors, and took possession of an empty
house, from which they fired on the troops. The
Minister of War then sent against them a de-
tachment of Laoutzako's battalion, with two
howitzers, but these troops all went over
to Kyriacon. M. Coronaios, greatly alarmed,
despatched a hundred men to take up a position
at the palace, and at the same time Laoutzako was
invited to a conference, where he was arrested and
sent on board a Greek frigate lying in the Piraeus.
On learning the arrest of their officer, Laoutzako's
battalion took arms and seized two ministers of the
opposite party, MM. Callifronas and Coumoun-
douros, whom they held as hostages for the security
of their chief. Having been joined by a party of
the artillery under the command of Papadiaman-
doulo, they next marched on the palace and attacked
the troops posted there by M. Coronaios. In the
conflict which ensued and lasted the whole night,
the son of Admiral Canaris, a lieutenant of infan-
try, was mortally wounded. At 8 in the morning
the fighting ceased. The Assembly having been
convoked meanwhile, the Ministry was dissolved
and the president of the Chamber invested with
the supreme power. A deputation was at once sent
to the palace to propose an armistice, which was
accepted, and in order to obtain the release of the
ministers held as hostages, Lieut. Laoutzake was
liberated. No further disturbance occurred that
day, but the next morning (the 2d July), M. Coro-
naios, the Minister of War, having gone to the
Bank with a few lancers to come to an understand-
ing with the gendarmes who guarded it, was fired
at by them and obliged to send for additional troops.
On hearing the firing at the Bank, Laoutzako's men
marched to the assistance cf the gendarmes, but were
compelled to take refuge in the neighbouring houses,
from the windows of which they fired on t'.e troops
under Coronaios, who were cannonading the Bank.
At the same time the house of Admiral Canaris
was assailed by others of Laoulzako's men, and
vigorously defended by M. Grivas and his pallikars.
During the day about 100 persons were killed or
wounded, but in the evening an armistice for 48
hours was concluded through the intervention of
the French, English, and Russian Ministers. The
next morning the Ministers of the three Powers
addressed a joint note to the President of the As-
sembly declaring their intention of breaking off all
relations with Greece if hostilities should be resumed
after the expiration of the armistice, and proposed
that the Bank should be placed under the protectiou
of a small English, French, and Russian gar-
rison. This last proposal was accepted by the
President, and at once carried into execution.
On the evening of the same day, the deputies who
had till then sided with MM. Bulgaria and Laout-
zako accepted the terms offered by the Coronaios'
and Christides' party, and o❑ the 4th a ministry of
conciliation was formed with M. Roufos as its pre-
sident. M. Papadiamandoulo, military commander
of Athens ; M. Artemis, commander of the gendar-
mery, and the chief of the police, were dismissed
from their functions, and quietly submitted. The
Assembly also decreed the removal of all the troops
from Athens, the security of the city being entrusted
to the National Guard alone. All material disorder
has now ceased, and as there is at present a regular
Government supported by the Assembly, any
further disturbance can only proceed from factious
rebels."