The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-29 00:00:00

COUNT DE 1301 S LE COMTE.

By the Levant mail we have received Athens
papers to the 10th, and intelligence from Constanti-
nople to the 7th.
An Athens journal publishes the following note,
dated October 20, 1846, from Lord PALMERSTON to
Sir EDMOND LYONS, in reply to a letter of the 10th
September, to which was annexed a copy of a letter
from M. COLETTI to M. Mussuais, the Envoy of the
Sublime Porte at Athens, on the subject of emigra-
tion to Turkey. Lord PALMERSTON says—

" I set out upon the principle that all who reside in
Greece, whether they have lived there for a long time,
or arrive from any part of Turkey, enjoy the incontest-
able right of quitting Greece when they please.
When the three Powers created the kingdom of Greece,
they wished to establish a free state, and not a prison.
It is natural that the Government should see with an
unfavourable eye Greeks preferring to emigrate into
rurkey, instead of remaining in the kingdom; but it is
the fault of the Greek Government if this preference
exists. If the Greek Ministry persists in its system of
bad government, and if, besides, brigandage, oppression,
and murders increase, because they remain unpunished;
if there be no security for the property of peaceful and
laborious inhabitants, it would be astonishing, in fact,
if those who can quit the kingdom should remain any
longer in it. I desire that you may transmit officially to
M. Colletti a copy of this letter."
The Aloniteur Grec announces that COLETTI'S
health is so much improved, that he will be soon ena-
bled to resume his duties.

Intelligence has been received at Constantinople
of the death of TAYER PACHA, the Turkish Comman-
der-in-chief in Kurdistan.' The Government state
that he died of apoplexy, but it was reported at
Constantinople that he had been killed in an action
against the rebels, in which the Turkish army had
been completely defeated.

A letter from Rome, of the 12th, gives the follow
ing additional details of the late storm in that city:—
.

" We know not how to describe to you the effects of
the tempest which has devastated this city for the last
your days, and which still continues. We never wit-
nessed such weather ; the rain fell in torrents, and the
,htinder rolled incessantly. The Tiber overflowed its
banks in the most frightful manner ; one-half the city
inundated by its waters, and the inhabitants of the
Corso have five feet depth of water round their houses.
Na the quarter of the Campo Marzo, the Chetto,
Ripetto. the Corso from the Place du Peuple to the
Place Colonna has the appearance of a large lake. The
inhabitants, surprised by the rapidity of the inundation,
round themselves prisoners in their houses without food,
and several without any assistance being possible.
Since 1805 such a scene has not been witnessed. The
logs has le en immense. The shops and the cellars are
under water. Yesterday the waters subsided a little.
A part of the Corso is free; but boats still ply through
the adjacent streets, carrying provisions to those who
are still imprisoned. The Jews' quarter has suffered
the most, but the extent of the disaster cannot be yet
known; the mails no longer arrive, and two or three
brides on the high road from Bologna, and in the
Marches, have bees carried away."

Monsignor GRASSOLINI hari been appointed Governor
of Rome, in the room of Monsignor MAumr, ap-
pointed Auditor-General of the Chamber. The
Commission of Legislation charged to prepare a new
code, continues its labours actively. The Code Na-
poleon is to form the basis of the new legislation ;
but the laws of other countries are also carefully
examined, with a view to render the work of the
Commission more complete.

The accounts brought from Lisbon, by the
Scourge steamer, just arrived at Portsmouth, are to
' the 14th, At that date SCIIWALEACIC had advanced
against St. Übes, which had, been evacuated twelve
hours before his arrival, by th,a guerillas of DAS ANTAS
—their avowed tactics being to wear out the QUEEN'S
troops, by harassing them, and to avoid coming to
action if possible. In their retreat the guerillas were
joined by nearly the whole of the men forcibly en-
rolled by the QUEEN'S Government as " St. Übes'
Chartist Volunteers." During the occupation of St.
Übes the guerillas behaved exceedingly well, and
manifested no disposition to annoy either foreigners
or natives residing in the town. Nothing further
has been heard at Lisbon as to the rumoured
defeat of Lars by BOMFEIi. The last ac-
connts represent BOMFIM. /IS being at Alcobaca and
LA.FA at Pombal ; with the Coimbra insurgents and
VILLA REAes guerillas in front and Bostrises 2,000
men in his rear. The Marqui's of LOULE, at Coimbra
had 4,ooo:men and 14 pieces of cannon with him
CASAL was advancing against Oporto, and it was said
that DA,s ANTAS, leaving f!,000 men to garrison
Santarem, had marched to its relief.
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Madrid papers to the 20th have arrived.

It appears that the Ministerial crisis is over for the
present, and that the Ministry will hold together
until the meeting of the Corl.,!s, when, it is not im-
probable, that an attempt will be made by Senor
PACHECO to form a new Cabiiiet. The Clamor Pablico
states that he has been consulted by the QUEEN on
the subject. General RONCJIM, it is said, will be the
new Governor of Cuba, and General VILEALONGA
has been dispatched to the frontiers of Portugal ; he
is accompanied by his staff e.nd by two squadrons of

Lancers.
The Eco dcl Comercio an nounces that the notori-
ous ALBERNI, upon whose denunciations General
PRIM was arrested and ban ished, has, in his turn,
been arrested and imprisoned,, but upon what charge
is not stated. The same ;journal, alluding to the
report that the Ministry has !aeld a discussion on the
means of preventing M. Ot•UZAGA from taking his
seat in the Chamber of Deputies, observes that the
hatred of the Court and of t he Ministry to this gen-
tleman is no ground for tr ampling upon the law,
which opposes no barrier to I pis performing the duties
entrusted to him by the elect ors.
MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 19.- --The Three per Cents.
34 ; paper 33i 15-16 cash ; •t;he Four per Cents., 21;
Five per Cents., 21 ; Excha: ;e on London, 36g.

We have received the Paz i s papers of Friday and
Saturday.
The Presse of Friday h a.s a long article on the
subject of the English alliance, which, of course, is
filled with abuse of this cou iltry. Our readers will
recollect, that one day last week, the National was
seized by the Government of 13cers. it now appears
that the article on the recal of M. BARRET DE JOEY
from the Mauritius, was tb e• one which was con-
sidered as seditious. On th is subject, the National
has the following:—
"The respday before onsible editor of !lie National having a
peared yest erp-
M. A A. Didier, the Judge of
Instruction, we at length knee r what caused our seizure
the other day. We, who declal •ed that we knew nothing
about the matter, were, it appe 9.rs, covered with crimes!
Hebert has, however, had tine extreme kindness to
take up only hree in a rail( 'r short article ; but, if
he had thought fit to look do. sely, he could have found
several others quite as monst; rous as those of which
we are accused. The following r are the three enormi-
ties committed by us, without ( 12r being aware of it
I, Offence against the King's person; 2, Assigning to
the King the responsibility of thi ) acts of his government;
3, Adhesion to another form of government. It is evi-
dent that if M. llebert did not accuse us of exciting to
hatred and contempt, of prove king to overturn—pro-
voking without the proposed e ffect being carried into
execution—end three or four ( idler slight offences, the
reason is that lie is a good-nat; mod person, and that he
has a secret kindness for the N ational. As the public is
the first judge of press offen ees, we would willingly
take for arbitrators in our case, not our friends, but our
daily adversar:es. The 'Mai 3, for instance, discussed
one of the artieLes of the numt ,er that was seized. had

it by chance discover:a, we sh ould like to know, in that
article or elsewL ere, the thret offences specified above?
"What was the subject treated cif in the article? We had
been reproached with having opposed the policy of the
Cabinet with respect to Spam, ald of having maintained
that thig marriage hay ing broken the Enghsh alliance, it
was desired to re est; thlish. it at the price of the most
shameful conces-ions, The pun4Lshment which fell on
cur Consul at the Ma uritius, at the haughty injunction
of Lord Palmerston, was a tirst: justification of our
views. We showed al 1 the weakness and cowardice that
existed in that precipitate reparation accorded by M.