The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-14 00:00:00

Five years ago there was not a s'nrile steam-boat to be
see , in the Euxine. There are now eight or tee established
at Odessa and Sebastopol, which ply le tween those ports
an I Gahttz,Varna,Trebizond, Censtantii ()plc, and 'Smyrna.
Three ;ears ago, the communications between Cens!ant n-
ople and !.•;nivrna were kept up by means of a solitai y pa eke',
whieh sometimec, with favourable winds, t ompleted its voy-
age in seuenty hours, but frequently, in conequence of ft. e
, very changeable breezes in the Archipelago, was a week or
a fortnight, or even longer, upon its way. The fares were.
so high that few persons availed themselves of this convey-
ance ; and it was at length given up. Lately two steamers
hvOA3v,e,gebeiennthpirutt
y uponhours
twhi7hat
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,ty,
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fata-
lity. While we arc writing, the Turkish watetruen of tl,.
Golden Horn and the Bosphorus, a numerous race. com-
prising from fifteen to twenty thousand men, and reputed
to have inherited all the fanaticism of the extinct Janissa-
ries, are in mutiny against tier power of steam, which
threatens, they say, to consign them and their families to
ruin. In consequence of their hostility, the steamers be-
tween Constantinople and Smyrna have been compelled to
suspend their operations. This is one of the checks which
the progress of civilization is destined uniformly to encouu-
ter ; but no arm—not all the population of Stamboul com-
bined—can now repel for any considerable time this vital
power from those seas.
There is no nation to which the steam-boat is more es-
sentia!, or upon which it has already, considering the brief
period of its existence there, conferred more signal :dvan-
tages, than upon Greece. Horace's ode, " Prensus in
,Egec," has celebrated the variable character of the wincig,
and the manifold perils attending the navigation of that
part of the Mediterranean. Those difficulties and dangers
may now be said to exist only in his poetry. Three years
ago, if a traveller desired to proceed from Smyrna to Na-
poli, or the Pirious, ho might have deemed himself forth.
nate if he had not to wait three weeks for a small hark be-
tween the former port and Hydra ; the passage thither
would have cost him at least three weeks more, and at Hy-
-1 dra be would still have had to confide in tertune for the
discovery of some coaster which might enable him to ac-
complish his object ! The whole voyage is now performed
in thirty hours. At this moment steamers may he den
smoking in all directions to or from the Pirrous. Au omni-
bus cenducts the traveller in two hours from the port of
Athens, over a macadamised road, which three years ago
was a wretched bridle path, interspersed with brushwood
and rocks! A railroad will soon convey him over the stone
interval in twenty-five minutes. The consequence of tilese
changes is already simply this—that round the Piraeus,
where four years ago scarcely even a hut was to be sect), a
town has already grown up ; and Athens itself, which the
Turks left a pile of ruins, as at this moment one of the most
beautiful capitals in Europe!
But the perfection of this mighty innovation, in our Opi-
nion, consists in the fact, to which Mr. Seeecer has alluded,
that wherever it appears, the spirit of coma ant 'mt.:ring im-
provement, which peculiarly characterises the civilization of
England, is sure to follow in the wake of the paddles. The
complaint of tie calque owners and rowers on the Bospho-
rus, is not such that their trade is injured by the steam-
boats ; on the contrary, the truth is. that the facility thus
given to strangers to visit the " City of the Sultan," has
very materially increased their trade. It is their prejudices
which have taken the alarm.

L.MERICAN ToWN-MAKING.-Thoe w!lo have
been to the " west, where towns are wade in a night

(on paper), sold in en hour, and built up in a week, have
seen the arts. of :,peculators make a map of the surrounding
country, laying down railroads and canals, .11 centering in
their towns, which is thus demonstrated to be the future
•• emporium of the west." The following anecdote takes off
this practice of the town-speculating to aT. We copy it
from a New Yorl: paper :—" A fellow who had observed
all the sellers of land, and seen all the canals, railroads,
which had been built on paper, brought a noble cow
to one of the !,.reat land markets to lie placed her
by the side of one of the land otlices, and offered her for
si.de. • What •is the price?' asked one. •It is GO dollars,'
he answered. • Sixty dollars!' vociferated an astonished
countryman ; • wl-y, is she worth so much'' ' Here is a
map of her, a:(1 the fellow, pulling out a paper with a huge
cow pictured upon it, from his breeches pocket ; and ho
continued, • Yen see here the great Wildrt..t. turnpike runs
immediately' under her tail to the City of tile Swamps.
Satin Lake C4nal will intersect. her head on the top horn
side, and the Cataract Railroad pas,e; .lircetly through
her! Gentlemen, don't all s:leak at onc.•.'

I )11 the nei,l bourhood of Kiibarchan lived two
men, father and son, weavars by trade, a,,0. sole
tants of the tenement. For year: they had made family
worship before going to bed, the old man praying and lho
san reading the chapter. One night the sot, was reading
from the twelfth chapter of Revelations—" Another won-
der in Heaven, a greet dragoon." Stop, Hughic," say,
Cie father, ",thou's wron•—its no dra4oun, its a dragon."
What should ken best," quo' Ileghic, " ''host I have the
bank afore• me ?" " I'm no haedin:r about that, r,e
read it fifiy times, and Pm right ; dear. me Hugh,
thou ever hear o' a dragoon being in that grid plane?
ne.er did " " Ay, ay, father ; but this is a wou'er though."
" \Veel, wee!, read awa, Hugh ; it couldna ba coy o' Cla-
tC.S' bloody troopers at may rate."
M. Dudouvt, one of the Deputies for the Depart-
ment of La Mamllo, inxtituted a vomplaint before
the Taibunal of Correctional Police, reheine to a kind of
depredation that is daily oi.eurring in furnished hotels. In
March last he arrived in Paris, and hired an :apert went at
the Hotel des Ainbassadeurs, in which there were a secre-
taire and two chests of drawers. He deeosited in the see-
reteire a anus of 1,980 f., locking the door ;and carrying the
key away in his pocket. Notwithstanding this precaution
the whsahr of the money was stolen. Ta:ese were no ;ap-
pearences of violence, and the door bad been locked again
after the theft. On applyine the keys of the drawers to
the lock of the secretaire, ;t was found by M. Dudouyt. that
one of them easily or.ened it, and no doubt had been used to
effect the robbery. The trial came on yesterday. The
Counsel of Mme. Lecouvreur, the mistress of the hotel,
maintained that she was not liable to make good the loss,
because he had not warned her of his having left property
of value in his apartment ; but this objection was overruled
be the Tribunal, and she was adjudged to pay the sum lost,
on an affidavit being made by M. Dedouyt as to the amount
actually left by him in the secretaire.—Pari; Payer.
Citulioit-RATES —Last week, a handbill was
pretty extensively circulated in this city, announcing that
the various articles which had been seize:l from a number
of Dissenters under warrants of distress for Church-rates,
would be sold by auction in the Women's Market-place
on Friday afternoon—provided an auctioneer could be found
for the purpose. Accordingly, at the. time appointed, a
considerable number of persons assembled to witness this
now very common process. by which the Church of England
is established by lain. The goods announced for sults vr,re
twenty-four volumes of books, seized from Mr. H. Merri-
drew ; thirty-five pounds of sole-leather, seized from
sNeliersesdrs.t.roN itm
lers.e
Edward
a wire fender, and set of fire-irons, seized from Mr. W.
i:;on forty-ninenop ; six pounds\ev:nds or of
ibzarr::
Mayo ; tour imitation rosewood chairs, seized from Mr.
B. Peake : and twenty pounds anti a half of loaf sugar,
seized from Mr. R. Hands. One half hour after another
passed away, however, and
.neither the articles above-
unwed, nor tin auctioneer, nor the Chief Constable, who
made the seizures, appeared ; and we therefore infer that
none of the auctioneers would undertake the business. We
come to this conclusion, because we know that it was the
wish of the parties, when before the Magistrates, that any
goods seized should be sold by public auction: We know
that the MagiStrates made no objection to it, and also that
Mr. Prosser, the Chief Constable, expressed his readiness
to comply with the request. 'Tie only reason, therefore,
which we can assign for the goods not being offered by
auction is, that no auctioneer in Coventry would mix him-
self up in an affair savouring so strongly of oppression, and
exemplifying-,
to what an extent injustice may be perpetrated
under the form of law. We understand that Mr. Prosser
has since disposed of the goods by private• contract.—
Co VC 11 iry Herald.
C.l)bbtehden hislived
master
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The .coidislant Baron de 13oneours, who, as our
o f jereaders,vel
smaanydreenna esin, lisne aboutrge
amount,yc•ar ago, a
Paris as a wan of fashion, for which trick he was tried and
sentenced to hard labour at the hulks for 00 years, was
again brought before the
.jury upon an accusation of having.
forged the acceptance of M. Cremieux, the horse-dearer, in
the Champs Eylsces. to a bill for 1,000 francs. On being
called upon for his defeece the Baron, whose real name is
Journet, admitted the forge • but
declared that he had
done it only to ra•,,e another indictment agsinst him, and
be removed to the prison of the Coneiergerie from that of
Bicetre, where he found himself very necomiertable. lie
added Clint it was impossible that M. Creuneux could ever
have been defrauded of the money, and said that he wrote
to inform bins of the bill hoping that his letter would be in-
tercepted by the police and his removal from Bicetre take
place immediately. The Tury acquitted the Baron, upon
which he entreated the Avocet-General, who conducted
the prosecution, that he might not be sent back to Bicetre,
but be allowed to remain at the Conei-rgerie until sent
away to the hulks. The Avocet-General. not having it in
his power to grant the request, recommended Journet to
petition the Procureur-General.—Gakeneni.
The story about an eccentric woman, named Law-
son, which has been going the :mind of the papers, describ-
ing her eccentricities, and stating that ho dr,inh inn) re-
cently taken place, was copied it SCRIP, giiiliObt verb. et lit.
from " The Percy Anecdotes," published some 12 or 15
years ago.