The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-13 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

GREECE.
ATHENS, OCT. 7.—A short time ago his Majesty presided
at a Council of Ministers, which lasted above ten hours, with-
out so much as a glass of water being allowed these poor
wretches in the way of refreshment. All this -work was to
convince the King of the utter impossibility of setting the
laws at defiance, by issuing an ukase, constituting the Gover-
nors of the provinces sole judges in civil cases, arising from
contested Turkish property and claims. The proposal had
already been made to the Council of State, and when rejected
with scorn by that assembly, the meeting of Ministers took
place, to persuade the King of ►he danger of openly bidding
defiance to that body.
Regny, the French Controller of Finance, cannot get on
at all with the Greeks, who, high and low, where money is
concerned, areas quick at placing figures in their proper po-
sitions as your best astronomer with a thousand tables of lo-
garithms.
Yet, to support this man Regny, a Russian agent, Monsieur
Lagrene, chooses to go all lengths, to back the Greek Go
vernment through all manner of misdeeds, and to do his ut-
most to counter act his instructions, which must be similar to
those of Sir E. Lyons, for the interests of France and of
England are exactly the same in this country. The French
complain that when invited to the French mission they find
themselves at a table where they cannot make themselves un-
derstood, for not a word is spoken but Russian.
That very disgusting affair, the War-office sale of crosses,
has been wound up with eclat. Oilman was sent to Nauplia,
together with the Greek messenger of the War-office, to be
tried by court-martial. The Capitaine Rapporteur (Govern-
ment Military Prosecutor) is an old Frenchman, speaking not
one word but anything but his native tongue, and so deaf as
not to be able to hear a syllable ; moreover, with a hundred
Scmaltz power propensity for strong liquor, rendering him a
most eligible person for a situation of trust, requiring talent
and a quick comprehension of facts. This gentleman re-
ceived written instructions from the War-office (which it was
not even thotight necessary to keep secret) to do all in his
power to get Oilman acquitted and the Greek condemned.
The usual members of the court-martial being Greeks were
not considered trustworthy, and a Special Court was chosen
by the War-office to judge itself. A little German Major was
fixed on as President. Other gentlemen of the same
kidney having been found to fill the Bench, the busi-
ness was settled, not, however, exactly according to the
War. office orders ; for not even this packed Court
dared condemn the messenger; so both Offman and he
were acquitted. It was never for an instant attempted to deny
the fact brought forward in the accusation, namely, that of
Oilman having sold the crosses.
ATHENS, Ocr. 10.—King Otho is actually gone on his
long-promised visit to his Klephti subjects of Roumelia, and
now we have nothing of royalty left at Athens but the hollow
plaster busts of his Majesty, warranted perfect likenesses by
the Italian boys. Young Absolute, after putting off his
,journey for nearly a month, started on Monday last with a
suite of two Greeks and a host of Bavarians, who, by-the-by,
had only about an hour's notice to prepare themselves.
The attacks on the lonian Government inserted in the
Greek official Newspapers, have not been noticed seriously
yet ; but an article i❑ a late number of the Culfu
Gazette, must show King Otho that the eyes of the lonian
Government are quite open to the hostility displayed by the
Bavarians, and I have no doubt that the hint will be taken.
The following is the article alludel to :
( From the Corfu Official Gazette, No. 400 )
" We hasten to publish the following translation of a note
from his Excellency the Lord High Commissioner to his
Highness the President of the Senate, in which his Excel.
lency communicates various documents relative to certain ar-
bitrary proceedings to which several lonians have been sub-
jected in various parts of Greece, and to the protection afforded
to those individuals by Sir E. Lyons, Minister of her Majesty
the Queen at the Court of Athens. We advise the subjects of
these States proceeding to Greece, not to neglect furnishing
themselves with their passports, to avoid all question as to
their nationality, questions which may perhaps have occasioned
the events alluded to ; and it gives us much satisfaction to
make known how efficaciously her Majesty's Minister will in
all cases grant that prottction to the lonians which is their
' right :
" g The Lord High Commissioner to the President of the