The Sun.
London, England, 1834-03-14 00:00:00

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Late accounts from Greece state that the
G-vernment is actively engaged in the revision, com-
menced under Calm tristrias in 1830, of all the ordinances
of the Emperor Basilins Abz,do, whico form the basis
of the civil debts of the Greeks. All such of these laws
as ate to remain in force will be collected into one code.

It is also occupied in searching fir all that is not to be
found in the Basilica, which have great authority with
tu- Greeks, and which even are referred to by the Turks
t i decide their differences with their enemies. It is hoped
that the scatter ti fragments of these laws will be easily
discovered. It is added, that nothing will be admitted
into the new legislation of Greece but such laws as are
rodipletety in t-cordance with the manners and habits of
the people. —French Paper.
An oversight committed in the negotiation of
the last Greek loan, which we noticed at the time is again
t,,e subject of comment in the money-market, on account
of its having been understood that at the Bank of England
the portion of that loan having the guarantee of this go-
vernment is admitted to be fully as valid, for all purposes
of loans or otherwise, as any other English secut ity. This
being the case, it certainly appears to he an extraordinary
cant of attention to allow money to be raised at par, or
below it, under the guarantee of Great Britain, in a 5
per cent. stock, when our 4 per cents. were at 104, and
are to all appearance on the point of having the interest on
them reduced. As the whole liability is incurred in the
first instance on behalf of the new Greek government,
this would appear, on a superficial view, to be a matter of
secondary consideration ; but it the guarantee of England
is meant, which is no very improbable contingency, to be
ultimately available, it would have been a piece of salu-
tary foresight to limit that responsibility at the outset as
much as possible. The only thing to be said in palliation
of the error is, that the contract took place in Paris,
out of the observation at least, if not out of the control,
of this government, but still great blame must attach
somewhere for tie oversight committed.-- Times.
On Wednesda7, between 1 and 2 o'clock, as
the Earl of Denbigh's carriage, in which were her Grace
the Duchess of Gordon and the Countess of Denbigh, was
proceeding along Piccadilly at a moderate pace, a labour-
ing man, named Thomas Phillips, in crossing the toad,
ran against the po!e of the carriage, through some defect
in his sight, and was knock,d down underneath the
horses' feet, and before the coachman, to whom not the
slightest blame is attributable, could pull up, the fore and
hind wheels passed over hie body, just above the waist.
The Counted. immediately alighted, and evinced the
greatest concern at the unfortunate occurrence. The poor
man was taken up in an apparently liteless state, and was
immediately carried to St. George's Hospital, where, on
examining the injury he hid sustained, three of his ribs
were found to be severely fractured, besides some in-
t,rnal injuries of a highly dangerous nature. The Countess
of Denbigh instantly followed in her carriage to the
hospital, and directed that every thing requisite, however
expensive, should be procured at her cost, and having
also ascertained that Phillips's wife and family reside in
Grey-stre-t, Limehouse, immediately drove there, and pre-
sented the wife with 201. for the present support of herself
and faintly.

DEATH OF A MAN IN ST. WINIFRED'S
WELL.—Yesterday morning week, the body of a man
stark naktd and quite dead, was found in a sitting posture,
immersed in the water of St. Winifred's Well, at Holywell.
It appears that the deceased, respecting whom nothing is
known, was a pilerim to Holywell, for the purpose of
Lathing in the far famed well, for the cure of some real or
imaginary ailment, and that nothing daunted by the cool-
ness of the weather, he stripped off his clothes, and took
his seat in the well, either late on Sunday evening or early
on the morning'of Monday. The consequence has been
alreidy described. A coroner's inquest was held on the
body, and a verdict of " Found dead " returned. When
found he had a •tring of beads round his neck, with a cru-
cifix attached to i,.

NEWBURGH.-AN EXCELLENT HIDING
PLACE.-Ldst week, as the presees and pantries of a
donee publican were undergoing a general review, a
powerful sweep of the besom very ungraciously disturbed
the slumbers of the Family Bible, when down fell that
reverend hermit upon the floor with a thump, which shook
the whole bigger). The untoward accident was deplorable
in the extreme. Whh a sigh, in which love and venera-
tion were admirably blended, the huge tome was raised
from its low estate, when, 0 dear, the very leaves were
found torn and scattered in the dust. What was to he
done now? with a trembling hand they were lifted—with
watery eves were they examined. Amazement and joy,
they were not the leaves of the Bible, but five one pound
mites, which were carefully laid in that forgotten place of
safety seventeen }ears ago ! There is no sale so secure as
that which is deemed not worth the opening. —D undee
Chronicle.

THE LATE THOMAS BIDDLES.—Iii the
case of the late Mr. Biddloi, as in many similar instances'
the wealth of an individual has been exaggerated. Mr.
Biddli-s has left a property somewhat under 250,0004,
which he has divided, with the exception of a few lagacie.,
the whole of which do not amount to 2,0001., among his
own immediate relatives, all of whom are, or rather were,
very poor and very illiterate. The principal is to remaib
untouched for ten years, the will providing that for that
period the recipients of his bounty shall receive the interest
only. To one of Mr. Biddies's grandnieces, whose lather
and mother are both dead, and who has been brought up
by her grandfather (Mr. Biddlea's brother), Mr. Biddle
has bequeathed the entire property which would have
come to both her parents as well as her own. On her
grandfather bei g told by one of the executors that, baying
in prospect a lady's fortune, it was necessary that she
should receive a lady's education, he replied that he al-
ways sent her to an evening school, and that farther he
could not spare her, as she milked the cows, went all his
little errands, and "scoured to admiration."

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MAzen 13

Mr. BERNAL, Sir R. FERGUSSON, and other TUPTI-o,erB
of the House of Commons, brought up the Sugar Doti( s
Bill, the Runcorn-gap Railway Amendment Bill, the
Bristol Railway Amendment Bill, and the Warwick
Borough Bill.