The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-24 00:00:00

GREECE.

The Paris papers publish advices from Athens up
to the 19th inst. inclusive. It does not appear that
the insurrection is as yet over. A despatch in la
Patrie gives the following details of the works taker/
by the Royal troops before Nauplia :
"1. The batteries of cannon and mortars on
the polygon of Mount St. Elias, Those batteriee
caused great loss to the besiegers. The guns were
turned against the town on the following day.
" 2. The redoubts erected at the village of Arias,
and armed with rifled cannon.

~ 3. The mill of Tabacoponlo, defended by s
mortar battery.

"4. The gunpowder mill of Cephalari. The
insurgents, before abandoning that position, where
large stores of arms and ammunition were col-
lected, inundated the powder and destroyrzd all the
materiel collected. This is a great loss to the Stater
for the pyrotechnic workshops communicating with
the powder-mill had just been terminated, and had
alone cost 500,000 drachmas.

" However, the success obtained by the Royalisto
is important, as it will allow them to open their
fire with more advantage against the town, which
is commanded by the plateau of Mount St. Elias."
La Presse places no belief in the telegraphic
despatches from Athens, and says that Nauplits
still holds out.

La Patrie, under the head of " Latest Intelli-
gence," says ;

4, Fearing lest the insurrection in Greece should
spread to the lonian Islands, the English Govern'
ment has ordered two or three ships of war to Pr°-
ceed to Corfu from Malta. Turkey has also ordered
a body of troops to the Greek frontier."

SINKING OF A RUSSIAN SI R,431 ER,
AND SUPPOSED LOSS OF ALL ON BOARD.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.
Telegram received this morning from Constan-
tinople announces a collision between a British and
a Russian steamer, and the total loss, it feared, of
all on board the Russian boat. The despatch 18
dated March 21st, and states that the, screw steam
ship Laconia, bound from Liverpool to Constan-
tinople, had arrived at the latter port in a rec'st
disabled condition, she having her bow stove in and
other damage to her bulwarks and rigging. Captain
Haram, of the Laconia, states that his vessel WO
in contact with a Russian steamer, supposed to be
the Balhita, bound for Salonica, which sank imlile"
diately after the collision. Many lives Were lost'
The telegram is vague, and leaves room for people
to suppose that all on board the Russian ship
perished.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 21 (Evening).,
A collision took place last night in the Sea 0.1
Marmora, between the Liverpool steamer Laconlo
and the Russian steamer Colchis. The latter suni•
Fifty-two lives were lost.

THE LATE WM. SHARMAN CRAWFORD.—
publish to-day the resolutions passed at a meeting of
committee of the tenantry of the Crawford estates, by whet°
the erection of a suitable memorial monument to their be;
loved landlord and " The Father of Irish Tenant-right
has been undertaken. It was originally intended that the
monument to be raised should be the tribute of the teuto'
try exclusively ; but when the project was set on foot rato'l
personal friends and public admirers of the late 1d r'
Crawford expressed a desire to contribute to the erection
of the monument. It was accordingly resolved by the
committee to open the subscription lists, without solicits'
tion, to all whose respect and regard for the private Wort
and high public character of Sharman Crawford would d'r
pose them to join his tenants in raising a monument to per;
petuate his memory in future time ; and John Cleland'
Esq., of Crossgar, county Down, has consented to be the
recipient of these contributions. The form and site of the
monument have not been decided on; and it is stated- 11
the committee that on these points the wishes of the Cre#:
ford family will be faithfully ot served. It is probable thP
it may be a tower or obelisk erected at Crawfordsburnt the
beautiful marine residence, on the shore of Belfast Leal
in which the venerable Sharman Crawford drew his les
breath.--Belfast Northern Whig.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.—A. special Court
Aldermen was convened on Saturday, to receive the rettgli
of the election of an alderman for the ward of Castle 135,
nard, in the room of Sir Henry Muggeridge, Bart., resign
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided. The minuteo
of the proceedings of the last court were read and agreed kn
after which Mr. Orton, the attorney in waiting of the Vti;
Mayor's Court, read the report of the election on the 113'a
inst., which declared Sills John Gibbons, Esq , citizen 70
salter, to have been duly elected as a fit and .proper 11ers-
to fill the vaeant office lately occupied by Sir Henry ld2ge
geridge, as alderman of the ward of Castle Baynard. o
report having been read, Mr. Gibbons was led into 1-0
court by the common crier, accompanied by Mr. Jame
Smith. The new alderman having taken the neceso;
oaths, received the hearty congratulations of each
riletilbe
of the court,

During the time a party of convicts were e 131;;
ployed at Chatham Dockyard on Saturday afternoon
breaking up one of the old vessels of war
now being UM'
to pieces near St. Mary's Creek, three desperate characters
named John Keen, alias Keenan, Robert Harboard, alt to
Burns, and Joseph Jones, alias Rothwell, contrived;
effect their escape in a very daring manner, by iudlt:il3l3
into a boat, which was lying close to the creek, in w-eed
they crossed the river. Before, however, they had reachthe opposite side their escape was discovered, and the_
were given chase to, and recaptured as they were rat'"---
across the country.
FATAL ACCIDENT FROM BEING ENTANGLEPIoNt
MACHINERY.—On Friday afternoon, a shocking acci"„et
A
befel a youth named John Dixon, while employed 'ln
horse thrashing machine, on the premises of Mr. I°be,
Jubb, farmer, of Cliffe, near Selby. It aears thAt
pp
tween 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the ahoy° d 3.0
Dixon, while ascending the machine, got entangled in the
machinery, and in this pitiable condition he rernainedr)p.
about half an hour. The coroner's jury returned the '`,
lowing verdict :—" The deceased came to his death illc°ullo
sequence of his leg being accidentally entangled in t
wheels of a thrashing-machine. In order to prevent 3 rcii
petition of like misfortunes, the jury recommend that :pit
such machinery should be protected, and a greater an'°--to
of light thrown upon such machines. The jury beg also
say that they attribute blame toWilliam Bollans, the forvi
man attending the machine, for allowing the boy to proceec:
to his work by an unusual passage during the time the ra''
chinery was in motion.”—rorkBhire Gazette.
The tobacco crop in many parts of Cuba is stave
to have entirely failed.