The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-06 00:00:00

DEATH of the GREEK GENERAL

LONDOS

The papers lately received from Greece announce the
melancholy death of General Londos, one of the most
celebrated men of the Greek revolution. He was born
in Ageum, in the PeloponnesuS, of opulent parents, and
early evinced that he was destined to be a great man,
and a saviour of his suffering country. Scarcely had the
flag of liberty been raised, than the intrepid Londos
willingly espoused the cause, and devoted his life and
his all to the independence of his country. Ile lived to
see that hope realised, and since the restoration of peace
took a prominent part iia the affairs of the country. But
what enhances the glory of this man is his co-operation
with General Kalergi and the rest of the Septembrians,
for the Greeks obtaining their constitution. Toe blood-
less revolution of the 34 of September Must be fresh in
I the memories of every lover of Greece. Ingratitude
on the part of those, however, who benefited by
the change, is the fruit that they who risked their lives
obtained, but the generous Londos never so much as
opened his mouth against the ungrateful. "We have
done our duty to our country," said he. " Ingratitude
is frequently the reward of those who risk their lives.
But the nation is not ungrateful, 'tis the enemies of the
nation who are so ; and of such I do not wish to have
even the gratitude." Whoa Annister-of-War, Londos
committed a few political errors, but they were not of
such a magnitude as to deserve the exaggeration of his
enemies, and since the accession of the Coletti Adminis-
tration, when injustice and every atrocity were corn
mitted, and the constitution unheeded, both Londes
and his co -operators were justified. Such was this valu-
able man, for whom all Greece mourns, and for whom
all the Hellenic tribe will mourn when informed of his
death which took place on the 24th of September, acci-
dentally, by the firing of a pistol which he was placing
in a box after having loaded it for the purpose of taking
it with him on the morrow, being invited by his brother
to go and dine with him at the monastery of the Polite
ileum. As to his arming himself, when going out of
Athens, he was perfectly justified in consequence of the
present circumstances. His accidental death, however,
was construed into voluntary kuicide by his enemies, and
Coletti, and the President of the Synod, a flatterer of
the Administration, denied sepulchral rites to this
benefactor of Greece. The latter bases his denial
on the 14th canon of Timothy, the Alexandrian ;
but without examining strictly, as the canon demanded
of him, in order to be convinced whether the sui-
cide was voluntary or accidental, M. Coletti screens
himself behind his responsibility, and dares even to deny
military honours to the deceased General. In vain the
report of doctors, to prove that they cannot confidently
say whether the suicide was voluntary or accidental. In
vain the statement of the advocates, to show that, ac-
cording to Timothy's cause, the synod cannot deny ec-
clesiastical rites ; in vain did they prove that if the
Synod pertinaciously persist, military honours could not
.he denied ; nothing can bring them to a sense of their
duty. His relations have resolved to embalm the body,
and wait for a period of decency and public morality in
order to pay due honours to one of the first martyrs of
the Greek revolution. What a state of things are these
in Greece ! Let Coletti take example from Mehemet
Ali, who, on the decease of the Greek Patriarch, ordered
his troops and the military bands at Cairo to accompany
him to his last abode. Such unheard of conduct
is a disgrace to the name of man. But Coletti
cares not a straw ; winds may blow and rains may
fall, he still reposes on the bed of roses prepared fir
him by Fraud°. Strange, it will seem, why Greece, with
the co-operation of nearly all civilised nations, does not
prosper. But how can she when she has such miscreants
for her rulers, who are seconded by France, and whose
system of government is identified with such outrages
against„every law and feeling of nature? A strange
coincidence must not be omitted here. When Sir Ed-
mund Lyons placed under General Kalergi's order the
steamer Geyser, to convey him to the lonian Islands,
in consequence of the persecution of the Coletti
Administration towards all the Septembrians,
General Londos accompanied him to the Piraeus,
and on taking leave of him, as if forseeing that he
would be persecuted after death, addressed him in these
emphatic words:—" I am afraid, General, that not only
whilst living will they persecute us without a cause, but
that even after death they will deny us the sepulchral
rites." Tbis has been related by General Kalergi him-
self, who is now in London, far from his country, in con-
sequence of the ingratitude of those who are reaping the
fruits of his labours, and who think that, by persecuting
the Septembrians, and in particular General Kalergi,
they do service to the monarchy, and will thus secure
for themselves those high offices in the state of which
they are totally unworthy.

REVIVAL OF THE SOUTHERN

WHALE FISHERY.

The most spirited efforts are nowin progress, under
the auspices of some of the most influential pametin the
commercial world, -to restore the whale fishepes of
Great Britain. The progressive decline of this enter-
prising trade in this country, and its simultaneous and
enormous increase in the United States is fraught with
considerations equally humiliating and alarming. The
"British Whale and Seal Fishery CoinpanY" ap-
pear to have discovered substantial reason for believ-
ing that it may be..retived; with an unusual Combination
of private profit and public advantage. They propose
to commence their operations in the northern
fishery,' where their expectations of success are
founded on statistical reasoning which seems to
he irrefragable. It appears that so extraordirArily-
fluc:uating is' the produce of that fishery, from the state
of the seasons and the ice in the Arctic Regions, that
in one of a series of 32 years, during which the quan-
tity of oil retained by each ship has been accurately
obtained, the average quantity for each was less than
11 tuns, involving, of coarse, the owners of all in enor-
mous loss ; while in another year the average qtiantity
was nearly 190 tuns, yielding to all a very large profit.
The same disparity is found to. prevail between different
,hips in the same season ; fur during the present year,
while' one ship has obtained one-hundred and 'seventy-
five tuns. another equally well navigated has returned
clean. It must be perfectly clearithat'a trade so uncon-
tr,dlably uncertain is, in its very nature, unfit ,:for indi-
vidual operation; like fire or life assurance, it must, to
be profitable; be conducted on a large scale, and be
-pread over a lengthened period. In individual hands it
becomes little hettir than a gambling sf)trculation.
The successful quietly pocket their
.gainp, and retire ;
the ioSei-TtlitovZ,'-atp the game in .iisgiarthiis has the
Wrthern fishery dkyed. The decline of the Southern
fishery appears to have been chiefly produced by other
causes, which, emfiiacing evils beyond individual
remedy, appear likely to be amended by a powerful com-
pany. On the whole, the GOvernnient having intimated
its approval by the grant "of a *charter limiting the lia-
bility of shareholders, theleading merchants 'of the City
having afforded their sanction 'to its prospects 1)3;1N-com-
ing its directors; and the obleets`being in the highest de-
'gree patriotic and useful, its Auedess, we are Inforined,
may beiconsidered certain..