The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-12 00:00:00

ATIIENS, SEPT. P.—This is the constitqioa..a..the Loseeesos:
• gislative Government of Greece.Sa•Tlin King has a nuai- " •
ber of Bevarian -hangers on •:abesit his person ; private
secretaries, doctors, aides-dc-camp, &c. &c. ; young gentle-
men who,- having studied at the colleges of Gertheoy, and
hevina placed spectacles on their noses, tire neeessare badge
of their clase consider themselves the pink of every thing
that is learned. These Bavarian Solons and Lycurguses
compose the Legislsti%e enactments by which it is proposed
to govern Greece, and their compositions having been duly
admired and approved of by his Majesty, are then trans-
lated by some Greek youths, who are quite competent to
misinterpret any sense, if by chance they should find it.
Having assumed its Helenic form, the Kin.- call his Mi-
nisters together, not to discuss its merits, at to sign and
make theinselvesf responsible for its contents.- The project
of law (for, thanks to Ceuta d'Armanseerg, it still remains,
a project until approved by the Council of State) is then
sent dean to that assembly. The Couneil, formed of about
twenty six members in all, is dit ided into s -veral sections or
committees—the legislative section, financial section, judi-
cial section, &c., and to one of these, according to eircum!
stances, is the project refle red. The King usually presides
at the general assembly of the Conseil, the project of law is
read, and with it the amendments and observations of the •
section that has already examined it. The clauses are put
to the assembly, and the project having passed or been re- •
jected, left integral or altered, returns in 'due curse to the
Ministers. • Now, if the you:;g Bavarian savans could be
got rid of, and an upright Greek Ministry be. formed, it is
doubtful to me whether the Council of State might not be
improved so as to furnish the basis of an excellent constitu-
tional assembly ; at all events, it -has. lately shown itself
worthy of some confidence for opposing one of the most
scandalous and blood-thirsty attempts of the Bavarians to
establish a military despotism tltrougheut tl is country, that
would have placed Greece in a worse position than 'e% en it.
was in tinier the dominion of the Turlos.
It is well known that the rebellion in Messina was got
up by the Russian patty, and Glarakis, the Minister of the
Interior, prompted and baclaed by his Bevarian Mephisto-
philcs, Dr. Witmer, has taken alvantege of this event to
propose the establishment of military tribunal, throughout
the kingdom. The project of law was signed by the Mi-
nistry, and sent down to the Council. Now, leaving out of
the question the legality of such an attempt, as there does
not seem to have been one instance of the civil authorities
having declared their incompetency to act, the question
may be dealt with in one word, as it was actually dealt with
by the Primate Zamnis in the Council. " The Bavarian
Regency," said he, " gave us the trial by jury, end the
Greek who. will sign the last ant would depri‘o us of the
blessing desierves tic death of a traitor to his country."
Only one men, a Russian partizan, endeavoured to speak
is favoer of the lacy, but he eventually- signettits rejection ;
so tbet,• uneuialusaclas condemoed in Committee, it was
Wv the King wiAnnut submitting it to the, Qoun-
cit i t full sitt-g. Tiiis event is of considerable importance, .
as it shows that the leading characters among the Liberal
and educated Greeks, although dependent on the King for
their dai'y pay,have still the courage to stand up in opposition
to his wishes for the lil)erty of their countiy ; while, on the
other hand, the attempt at such scandalous absolutism
I proves that King Otho is advised to adventure his thro
to obtain, at all hazards, unlimited power over his subjects.
He is capable now, as he has been on former occasions, of
acting in direct opposition to the opinion of the Council.
No words can express the contempt in which Zographo
is now held for having signed this vile ordonnance, so for-
tunately strangled in eltbirth ; and though he may flutter
from party to party, offeliog his services to all, as be can
only obtain the support of Mcnsieur Lagrene, he is fisting
at a rapid pace, with nothing but this inverted parachute to
save him.

I am almost ashamed to mon'ion the Bank.
The affair
is become so ludicrous as hardly to m. rltts attention,.e but
stillmakes
its ias
tattiyi'kd duty
here, anti
afao omwutil7preurt:joenest
Englandz"infe, inte-
rested rested in the matter. li.,,,adppoefars,
whichthe the hire's 11Ionsieur
Reg,ny's bank commission
ltet per, in compliment to Monsieur Regny, who formerly
kept cows, has been named a member, after runny meetings
plucked up courage to ask to see the Royal Ordonnance on
which they were acting. After mock hesitation Regny al-
lowed it to be read, when it turned out that they were or-
&red to examine into Regny's proposition for a bank,
whereas he the said Regny had actually been keeping them
for a couple of months examining every plan that had ever
been offered at various times to the government, except his
j own. On his declining to produce hi 7 proposition, the cow-
keeper, not Remy, got up, and said that he had a proposi-
fon to make, which, on his reading it, from its absurdity
was received with shouts of laughter ; but another member
having produced a proposal from some English merchants
of Smyrna to lend money at moderate interest, without eir-
eulatmg paper, the effect that this produced obliged Regny
to explain his own plan. He stated that the French Go-
vernment would advance a million of francs, that Eynard,
of Geneva, would furnish half a million, and that he had
promises of another half million from English speculators.
The privileges demanded by him were, to circulate paper
to the amount of a million, and a monopoly for 15 years.
The questions which have to be put I fanny should, and no
doubt will, come from from the proper quarter. By what
authority does Mousier°. Regny, nominally Gree. Comp-
troller of Finances, make propositions f,-ohm 1' once; and
fin- what purpose does France make herself a party, by the
means derived from a loan to Greece, to a Russian 711C17illre
that must condemn Greece to poverty for fifteen years ?-
21fOrning Chronicle.

WI/ IT E WHITTINGTON WIT EA T.-A most prolific
crop of this splendid wheat was sown by Mr. Benbow, of the
Brick Barns, 1-I.lnley, the straw of which attained the enor-
mous height of six feet eight inches, and is calculated to aver-
age seventeen bags p,-r acre. In the garden of Mr. Sunirnets
of the Bird-in Hand. Stock-green, may he viewed eighty-two
ears of barley, the produce of a F ing I e corn. Such an in-
stance of pr,1111:• multiplict,tionha:s hardly a parallel iu agricul-
tur:l records.— Worcester Chronicle.

DARING PLOBBERY.—A few evenings since, as
Mr. James Ballantine, a shipowner, the landlord of the Golden
Anohcr Tavern, in High-street, Wapping, and his•wife, were
entering at the Deptford entrance of the Greenwich Railway,
just befurc the departure of a train, they were surrounded by
a party of the swell mob thieves, and Mrs. Ballantine was
hustled while she ha I hold of her husband's arm, and her
pocket cut, front whieh a purse containing three sovereigns
and seven or eight shillings in silv, r was extracted. Directly
the robbery was committed, and before Mr. and Mrs. Ballan-
tine had time to recover from their surprise, a cry was raised
of " Take care of your pockets." Mr. Ballantine made an
instant complaint to the officer on duty, and requested him to
look after the thief; but the only satisfiction he got ahraed
re-
ply from the officer in a very insolent manner that ladies
no right to carry so much money about them.
The newly-matrled Madame Herbziot
' t took her trial on
de
Satur-
dayMan.chatnps, late M idernoiselle 1 oitre .
acts of violence.
of promoting debauchery, fit':',,lned.n
before the Tribunal of Correetionawl
i the service of the pri-
Two young women, who hadt.,!.),2n,
ge with MauchAmps, gave
iptosli,ce upon the charge
i,siecution, which, from its na-
ture, testimony was rendered
esrideernytc,ehiliensl;seuppliovretd,,findtic,oonp:
of the prisoner in the presence
by a woman as to the
years
and a half 'old. The prisoner en-
of a child only six
3u-stiouing the witnesses, to prove herself
ture, cannot be rtpeactoenduct
leavoured by cross 9 i.
' the Tribunal declared her guilty, and sen-
omPrisoncdfir tighteen months. Madame
innocent; but .
on hearing this, turned towards the witnesses
.d ~ This condemnation is more infamous to those who
and said
pronounced it than it is to myself."
have
The master of a National School in Mayo, named
Fegan, writes that lie has been enabled, after some ' weeks'.
study. to remove the geometrical difficulty, hitherto unaccom-
plished, the trisection of en angle. He invites the attention
dtee7cleaule)ebranttopbs,e
of the scientific to his discovery,—Freernan's Journal.