The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-02 00:00:00

GREECE.

A letter from Athens, 17th ult., in the Monileur,
says The municipality of the Piraeus yesterday
gave a banquet to Gen. Magran, and the superior
officers of the French division. All the minis-
ters of his Hellenic Majesty, Admiral de Tinan,
and his officers, and MM. Wyse and Forth-Rouen
were present. The utmost cordiality prevailed.
The Mayor of the Pincus proposed the health of
General Magran, and thanked him in the name of
his fellow-citizens for his noble conduct and that of
his troops since their arrival in Greece. General
Kalergi, Minister of War, proposed as a toast the
success of our arms in the Crimea."

ITALY.
"
A letter from Civita Vecchia, 24th tilt., in the
lifiteer,
r' says ;_ The Eclaireur, Government
te which had been sent to Naples by the
French Government, to take oil board the mortal
remains
steamer,
of the Princess Zenalde Bonaparte,
arrived here yesterday. According to the direc-
tions of the French Ambassador, seconded with the
greatest eagerness by the Pontifical authorities,
the body was immediately carried to a Chapelle
Ardente, in the cathedral, with all the honours
due to the rank of the illustrious deceased. The
body will remain there until the arrival of Prince
Joseph, who is every hour expected from Spoleta,
and who is to accompany the ,mortal remain?, of

his august mother to Rome in the French steamer
Tibre."

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, Nov. I.—The election for the Town
Council of this city commenced this morning. The
Liberals have triumphed, notwithstanding the
efforts of the clerical and Conservative party. The
election is th e more important, that it has taken
place almost on the eve of the opening of Parlia-
ment, fixed for the 7th instant. The candidates
elected belong to the so-called " Liberal constitu-
tional party." Up to the time of going to post, the
result of the elections at Antwerp' had not tran-
spired, but there are grounds for believing that the
Liberals will also triumph in that city.

MISCELLANEOUS.
A leiter from Athens, 15th, says :—" Brigand-
age is increasing in an alarming degree in Beotia
half way between this city and Thebes. A band
of 25 robbers lately attacked the inhabitants of a
village, and three of the latter and one of the for-
mer were killed in the contest. Kyriakos, the rob-
ber chief, and some of his followers, on the 2d inst.,
carried off in the open day, the son of an inhabi-
tant of Laurie, named Selivaniotis, and also the
son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Zoras, and took
them to their haunts, where they keep them de-
manding a very large ransom for their deliverance.
On the 6th, a band entered a monastery at a short
distance from Athens, and tortured one of the
monks who refused to give up the money of the
establishment ; and on the following day another
party of them attacked and robbed a number of
travellers."

A letter from Berlin, 27th, states that, by order
of the military authorities, an experiment was re-
cently made for employing the electric telegraph
in the open country, by connecting it to existing
telegraphic lines. The result showed the extra-
ordinary rapidity with which the junction may be
effected. Ten men, in the spate of two hours,
established the telegraphic wire in the open country
for the distance of a Prussian mile (nearly 4 miles
and three-quarters English), and in five minutes
after a despatch was transmitted to Brussels and
Vienna.

We read the following in the Official Milan.
Gazette of the 22d ult. :
" There are people who have got so accustomed
to the political forms of 1815, that they cannot
admit the possibility of any change in the relations
between state and state. But it must be kept in
mind that the policy which was then adopted was
one of conservatism. The policy now followed by
Austria is but the continuation of it, and if she
happens to be is opposition with one of the states
which took a conspicuous part in the alliance at
that period, it is because that state has not be en
faithful to its principles. Austria has not changed ;
she does not change the fundamental principles of
her policy. Russia alone has changed hers ; hence
the difference between the views of these powers.'
A letter from Rome in the Parlamento of Turin
of the 29th ult., contradicts the rumour of a depar-
ture of some of the French troops of the garrison
of Rome. for the East.

The Giornale di Roma of the 27th ult., contradicts
the statement made by the Ami de la Religion, to
the effect that there was shortly to be a meeting of
bishops in the Eternal. City.
Monsignor Paolo Paolini, President of the Tri-
bunal of the Sacra Consulta at Rome, expired on
the 21st ult.

The Frankfort Post Zeitung thus satisfactorily
accounts for the apparent slowness of the opera-
tions against Sebastopol. The Allies were obliged
to fortify themselves against the besieged and
against the army at Bakshiserai. In order that a
sortie in force shall have no chance of success, re-
doubts and entrenchments have been constructed
behind the batteries, in short regular lines of eir-
cumvallation have been formed as well towards
the city as towards the west.