The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-09 00:00:00

SWEDEN.

We have received intelligenc3 from Sweden to the
27th ult. The result of the divisions in the Cham-
bers of the Nobles and the Peasantry on the subject
of the proposed reform of the representative system
is, as we anticipated, adverse to the project. The
former have rejected the Bill by a majority of 227
votes in a house of 405 members, and the latter by a
majority of 65 in a housa of 105.
Although the matter was already settled by
the adverse vote of the clergy, the similar decision
to which these two other important branches of
the Legislature have come proves, as we before
stated, that the ancient Constitution of Sweden is
that most adapted to the desires and wants of the
people.
The burghers did not divide upon the question until
the result in the other house was known, bat on the
214 of December the project was adopted by them in
a full house with a majority of only 14 votes. It is
probable that this majority would have been still less
if the matter had not been already settled by the re-
sults in the other three orders.
The question of any change in the Constitution of
Sweden is therefore set at rest for the present.

LEVANT MAIL.
We have received Athens papers to the 28th ult.,
arid Constantinople to the 24th. The reports of the
sittings of the Chamber of Deputies, of Athens are
uninteresting. The Courrier cr Athones states that
bands of robbers continue to infest the country. A
party of brigands lately pillaged the principal houses
of the village of Melissima in open day. A few days
after this exploit, the robbers had a skirmish with a
party of soldiers, of whom one was killed and ano-
ther wounded. Scenes of a similar description
have occurred in Euboes, Livadia, Boeotia, and
Attica. At Gortyna a party of ninety travellers were
attacked and robbed on their way to Tripolizza. A
numerous band attacked the village of Machala in
Acarnania, pillaged several houses, and put some of
the inhabitants to the torture. Oa the 17th ult., a
band of twenty robbers, under the orders of CoNT-
zomiu, attacked the Turkish village Zatanti, and
had a smirmish with an Ottoman detachment, which
lost two men.

The Journal de Constantinople, of the 24th ult.,
mentions an insurrection which had broken out at
Damascus against the recruiting laws, but was
quelled by the Imperial troops. Eight of the ring-
leaders were arrested and sent to Constantinople to
be tried ; the other prisoners made on the occasion
were sent to Canea, to be enrolled in the regular
troops.

A WEALTHY PAUPER.—At a meeting of the
Saint Pancras board of guardians, last Tuesday, the master's
report stated that a girl, aged 17, who had been 12 years in
the workhouse, left the house in consequence of her
having suddenly come into possession of 1,7501. Several
guardians inquired whether she could not be compelled to
reimburse the parish for the expenses of her keep, &c. Mr.
Cook, the vestry clerk, said that if authorised by the board
to do so he would compel her to repay the moneys expended
upon her support ; and he was accordingly ordered to adopt
measures to indemnify the parish.
Edward Cirden, Esq., of Clifton, Ashbourn, who
died at en early hour on Sunday morning last, has munifi-
cently bequeathed the sum of 5,7001. invested in the funds to
the following charitable purposes : —To the tenants of 18
almshouses in Ashbourn, 2s. per week for ever ; to those of
four clergymen's widows' almshouses, 12/. per annum each ;
and the residue to the national school at Ashbourn, and the
parish school at Ipstones, Staffordshire. It has been cur-
rently reported, and is generally believed, that he has left a
sum of money for the building and endowment of a new
church in Ashbourn.—Derby Mercury. _

EXTRAORDINARY INCREASE OF CUSTOM DUTIES.—
At the last meeting of the South-Eastern Railway Com-
pany, J. Macgregor, Esq., the chairman, made the foilowing
extraordinary statement with reference to the gr3wing trade
and commercial importance of the town of Folkestone. He
stated that the Custom duties on merchandise were-4,0081.
in 1847, 8,128/. in 1'44-1, 42,'601. in 1849, and for the first
six months of 1830, 41,31f1.
GROSS SUPERSTITION OF THE NINETEENTH CEN-
TURY.—That a Bishop with a revenue of some 20,000/. a year
can be an imitator of the Apostles —Punch.