The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-23 00:00:00

[MORNING HERALD.]

The " Captain NiCholas Kephalasi" whose
address to the Pope, in the name of the Provi-
sional. Government of Greece, we gave a few
days since, turns,out to have been an agent with-
out authority or credentials. He is discredited
by the Greek Deputies in London. ,The nature
of his business with the Holy Father was calcu-
lated to excite some doubt. His Holliness is one
of the last persons whom the Greeks would have
meddle in their affairs. The Roman and Greek
Churches, though more closely resembling each
other, than either resembles the Reformed,
hate each other most cordially. The Italian
or Roman Catholic monks, who, as Mission-
aries or otherwise, have visited Greece, or
the Turkish provinces where the Greek rite
.prevails, express more rancour against the hete-
rodoxy of the Greeks; than even against the
Mahomedanism of the Turks. It is, therefore,
most unlikely that the former- wanting a king,
like the frogs in the fable, should come to his
Holiness for one. It may be dubious whether
such a person has existence at all, as the said
Nicholas Kephalas,—hut the document to which
that signature is appended seems to have come
through the Paris journals from Rome.-7 Perhaps
the Pope thought he was falling into oblivion,
and resolved to play -a -part—that
.of patron
of or mediator for—the Greeks-, and to give
some colour to this he has got up the Address,
of " Captain Nicholas KelAialas." His tame,

moreover, is gone by. There. is not an old Gen-
tleman in Europe of less influence, beyond his
own immediate vicinity., than this once formid-
able and powerful personage. .Even in Catholic
countries, where the clergy are most strenuous in
establishing spiritual power and influence, though
the principles be what are called ultra-montane,
it is not the design to re-establish the direct au-
thority of the Pope. In Naples only does he ap-
pear to have any real authority. The clergy of Spain,
have re-grasped what was wrested from them by the
Cortes,buttheyhave not re-established the ancient
rights then abrogated, of the See of Rome. In
Ireland, where the Catholic Clergy seem so scru-
pulous in maintaining the Papal power in its in-
tegrity, they, seem to treat it as a power to be
exercised by themselves. The late Pope appears
to have perceived this disposition of the Clergy
of Catholic Europe to strengthen the Papacy, in
order that they themselves might usurp and exer-
cise it; and hence he preferred sharing his influ-
ence and patronage even with a Protestant
Crown—in Prussia or in England—rather than
abandon it, under the name of domestic nomina-
tion, to the Bishops and Priests.

[NEW TIMES.] •
Joint Stock Companies have at leist this bene-
ficial effect, when they are directed against a
whole trade, that they soon produce a degree of
harinony and cordiality among the. members of
the trade. This effect has clearly taken place
among the Stage Coach Proprietors, who all
'' set their horses together" against the " Ge-
neral Stage Coach Company." It seems the
Company have already begun " trotting along
the road" to Bristol, but the Proprietors reckon
upon' soon getting the " whip hand" of them.
The latter argue thus : the duty paid on the
Company's Bristol Coach is about 801. a month ;
the mileage paid the coachmaker about half that
sum ; the money paid for horsing the coach may
be 4001. besides the salaries paid to managers,
coachmen, guards, &c. all of which expences,
as those of the ground worked by the Compa-
ny's own stock, are going on, let the amount of
receipts be what it may. As to the heavy amount
of damages frequently given against Coach Pro-
prietors in cases of accident, it was only yester-
day, that we had to notice a judgment of three
hundred and fifty pounds in a single case, arid not
by any means a gross one of the kind. 'Then again
there are valuable parcels lost, for which the
coach owner has often to pay. These are consi-
derations which might not unreasonably deter
prudent persons from taking shares in such a con-
cern
as the General Company, more especially
when it is remembered what Mr. Justice Bayley
said in the case of Blackett v. Weare, which
was a suit against an individual Member of a
Joint Stock Company for goods furnished to that
Company, and a verdict was given for the plain-
tiff. The Learned Judge, in laying down the
law to ' the Jury, said, " It was desirable that
those who took shares in these Joint Stock
Companies should make some examination into
the solvency of the concerns in which they were
jointly rind severally liable for the debts of their
respective Companies, and those who furnished
them with goods could recover the value of them
from any tudividual Member they thought proper
to select, nor had that individual any right to
complain, since he could recover it again by con-
tribution from his copartners. Stich was the law
of the country, and he considered it to be a very
beneficial law."