The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING-, APRIL 9, 1847

QUEEN'S volunteers had, however, repressed the
aovement ; and, rendered valiant by their success,
tad marched out to force Count MELLo to raise the
siege of Estremoz. Their courage, however, failed
-,hem when they came in sight of Count AIELLO, and
hey fled back to Yelvas, pursued by a detach-
nent of AIELLo's forces. The remains of the gallant
volunteers re-entered Yelvas in complete disorder,
,laving lost one hundred men in their flight.
The Ist and 2d inst. were kept as close holidays,
Ind there was consequently no Bolsa.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.

The rumour of the downfal of the Coletti
Idministration in Greece has occasioned a great
,ensation in Paris. The National, taking it for granted
:hat the rumour is true, has the following furious
r tic' e on the subject:—
" The Ministry yesterday received news of extreme
gravity. It is stated that M. Coletti, chief of the Greek
Cabinet, has been overthrown. The fall of this Minister
.s a striking triumph of English police. Since Mavro-
iordato lost power the representative of Great Britain
at Athens has constantly struggled against M. Coletti,
rho was considered, whether rightly or wrongly, as
:paced under the influence of France. There is no sort
)f embarrassment that Sir E. Lyons has not created
against the Greek Cabinet since it has existed; and
,e"hilst English intriguers laboured to enfeeble the llel-
:enic Government in the interior, efforts were made to
,•ause it to lose consideration abroad. We still
-emember the words of Lord Palmerston in open
Parliament, that the Cabinet presided over by
M. Coletti was only a heap of brigands.
Events have succeeded to words. A miserable
quarrel, excited by the Turkish Ministry, has furnished
Lhe occasion so long expected. A trifling dissension, or,
at least, a dissension easy to appease, has taken the pro-
portions of a serious rupture. The Porte, encouraged
,y England, has no longer put bounds to its exigoacies.
To the offers of an honourable satisfaction, it has replied
by maintaining, in its absolute terms, a pretension hu-
miliating for the Greek Government. At the same time
tireat Britain enjoined the Cabinet of Athens to pay in
totality, and without further delay, the interests of the
loan contracted by Greece and guaranteed by the three
protecting Powers. The insufficiency of the financial
resources of a state reduced almost to misery by Bava-
rian administration was counted upon, and a refusal too
well founded was foreseen. The calculation was just.
Coletti was not able to satisfy his engagements, and
he has fallen under the menaces of his pitiless cre-
ditor. If it be true, as is stated, that England sup-
ported her demands by the guns of her fleet, it is easy
to understand why the Greek Cabinet has fallen. Our
policy, then, has just received a new cheek. It is France
that Lord Palmerston has stricken in overthrowing Co-
letti. Shall we submit without resistance to this new
attack on our interests in the Mediterranean ? Shall we
leave English domination to establish itself in the Archi-
pelago ? Or shall we only accompany with sterile
regrets the fall of a Ministry placed under our protec-
tion ? Such are the questions to which the intelligence
received yesterday give rise. The Chamber will
examine this day in its bureau a Bill relative to the
Greek loan, and will no doubt seize the occasion to ques-
tion M. Guizot on the conduct he proposes to adopt at
Athens. And, besides, explanations on this new com-
plication must be made from the tribune. The English
I'arliamer.t is to examine the affairs of Greece in one of
its early sittings. The French Chamber will not allow
itself to be outstripped, and it will, we hope, know how
to reply to a hostile manifestation by a solemn expres-
sion
of its sympathies for a Government which its
feebleness, more perhaps than our interests, commands
us to protect."

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In the bureaux of the Chamber of Deputies, on
Wednesday, the Committee appointed to examine the
Bill annually introduced for the payment of the in-
terest of the Greek Loan, commenced their labours.
Several questions were put to the Minister of the In-
terior as to the truth of the rumours in circulation
on the subject of Greece. He was asked particularly
if it was true that the Government was in possession
of information of the fall of M. COLETTI'S Ministry,
and of the appearance of five English ships of war at
the Piraeus ? M. DUCHATEL replied that the Govern-
ment
subject,
jaedetreceived no information of any kind upon
, and that he had no reason .to think that
there wa, any truth in the rumours. He acknow-
ledged, however, that the affairs of Greece were in a
very delicate position, but he gave an assurance that
the French Government knew how to act with pru-
dence in that affair, but also with firmness, in the
event of there being any reason for the display of that
quality.
Whether the rumours be true or not, we hope that
this article in the National will open the eyes of the
Greek SOVEREIGN and the Greek nation to the true
character of AM. COLETTI. It is evident that COLETTI
is the Minister in reality, not of Greece, but of
France. "It is France that Lord PALMERSTON has
stricken in overthrowing COLETTI," says the National.
" Shall we submit," At asks, without resistance to
this new attack on our interests in the Mediterra-
nean ?" How could the dismission of COLETTI be
construed into an attack on French interests, if he
were not the Minister, not of Greece but of France.
Wetrust that these avowals will rouse a national feeling
in Greece, before which the anti-national Afrancesados
will be compelled to give way.

The Ministry have consented to the prise en con-
sideration of M. REMUSAT'S proposition for excluding
placemen from the Chamber. The Bill for aug-
menting the effective force of the army for home
service by 10,000 men, passed the Chamber of Peers
on Tuesday. _ _

The Nemesis, a new sixty-gun frigate, is to be
launched at Brest on the 14th instant; on the 15th
the Tage, of one hundred guns, is to be launched ;
and on the 28th, the Faune, of sixteen guns, will be
launched.

It is said that several Chinese labourers have left
Amoy for the Island of Bourbon. They receive a
sum of money in advance, with a promise of monthly
wages. The Spanish authorities have also authorised
the hiring of Chinese labourers for the Philippine
Islands.

On the Bourse, on Wednesday, the Bears circulated
a rumour that the KING was ill, and that Marshal
Souvr was dead. There was no foundation for these
rumours.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Wednesday at 78f. 50c. , the Five per Cents., 116 f. 50c.;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,235 f.; Rouen, 880 f. ; Havre,
675 f.; Great Northern, 628 f. 75c.; Avignon, 790 E;
Vierzon, 565 f. ; Bordeaux, 512 f. 50c.; Boulogne, 430 f ;
Troyes and Montereati, 300 f. ; Basle, 210 f.; Dieppe, 335 f. ;
Paris and Strasb.urg. 430 E; Tours and Nantes, 425 f. ; Paris
and Lyons, 427 f 50c.; Lyons and Avignon 4551.: Cette,
447 f. sbc.; Spanish Three per Cents., 34%. , ;
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 1.
Boulogne and Amiens, 163‘, Dutch Rhenish, 4—Northern
of France, 12%--Paris and Lyons, sA—ltouen and ILtvrc,
26%—Sambre and Meuse, 6.

RUMOURED ILLNESS OF LOUIS