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 taken
by the Royal troops before Nauplia

"1. The batteries of cannon and mortars on
the polygon of Mount St. Elias. Those batteries
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
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 destroyed all the
materiel collected. This is a great loss to the State,
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 telegraphi°
despatches from Athens, and says that Naupli6
still holds out. .

La Patrie, under the head of "Latest Intelli'
gence," says:—
" Fearing lest the insurrection in Greece should
spread to the lonian Islands, the English Goverir
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 MAMBA
AND SU,PTOS.ED LOSS OF ALL ON BOARD.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.
A telegram received this morning from Constan-
tinople announces a collision between a British and
a Russian steamer, and the total loss, it is feared, of
all on board the Russian boat. The despatch le
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 toest
disabled condition, she having her bow stove in and
other damage to her bulwarks and rigging. Captain
Harem, of the Laconia, states that his vessel vree
in contact with a Russian steamer, supposed to be
the Balhita, bound for Salonica, which sank imme"
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 of
Marmora, between the Liverpool steamer Laconia
and the Russian steamer Colchis. The latter sunk.
Fifty-two lives were lost.

THE LATE WM. SHARMAN CRAWFORD.—Iire
publish to-day the resolutions passed at a meeting of a
committee of the tenantry of the Crawford estates, by whom
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 tenon'
try exclusively ; but when the project was set on foot mall
personal friends and public admirers of the late Mr'
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 worth
and high public character of Sharman Crawford would (118"
pose them to join his tenants in raising a monument to per'
petuato 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 hi
the committee that on these points the wishes of the Crave
ford family will be faithfully olserved. It is probable that
it may be a tower or obelisk erected at Crawfordsburn, the
beautiful marine residence, on the shore of Belfast Lough
in which the venerable Sharman Crawford drew his last
breath.—Belfasi Northern Whig.
COURT OF ALDERMEN.—A special Court of
Aldermen was convened on Saturday, to receive the return
of the election of an alderman for the ward of Castle Bar
nerd, in the room of Sir Henry Muggeridge, B art., resigned'
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided. The minute/
of the proceedings of the last court wore read and agreed tef
after which Mr. Orton, the attorney in waiting of the Lord
Mayor's Court, read the report of the election on the 13t11,
inst., which declared Sills John Gibbons, Esq., citizen and
salter, to have been duly elected as a fit and proper person
to fill the vaeant aloe lately occupied by Sir Henry Mug°
geridge, as alderman of the ward of Castle Baynard. Tho
report having been read, Mr. Gibbons was led into the
court by the common crier, accompanied by Mr. James
Smith. The new alderman having taken the necessary
oaths, received the hearty congratulations of each member
of the court.

During the time a party of convicts were OW
ployed at Chatham Dockyard on Saturday afternoon ill
breaking up one of the old vessels of war now being take°
to pieces near St. Mary's Creek, three desperate character*
named John Keen, alias Keenan, Robert Harboard, ali'
Burns, and Joseph Jones, alias Rothwell, contrived t°
effect their escape in a very daring manner, by juniPills
into a boat, which was lying close to the creek, in whiell,
they crossed the river. Before, however, they had ratchet'
the opposite side their escape was discovered, and they
were given chase to, and recaptured as they were making
across the country.
FATAL ACCIDENT FROM BEING ENTANGLED 114,
MACIIINERY.—On Friday afternoon, a shocking accident
befel a youth named John Dixon, while employed at
horso thrashing-machine, on the premises of Mr. Jobil
Jubb, farmer, of Cliffe, near Selby. It appears that btr
tween 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the above (131 P
Dixon, while ascending the machine, got entangled in tho
machinery, and in this pitiable condition he remained for
about half an hour. The coroner's jury returned the fol"
lowing verdict :—.; The
.deceased came to his death in con-
sequence of his leg being accidentally entangled in th°
wheels of a thrashing-machine. In order to prevent a re:,
petition of like misfortunes, the jury recommend that ail,
such machinery should be protected, and a greater amoun
of light thrown upon such machines. The jury beg also to
say that they attribute blame toWilliam Bollans, the for°
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