The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-22 00:00:00

GREECE.

We find the following in the Courrier d'Athenes of
lle Bth:

" The conferences held during the last ten days be-
tween Baron Gros and Mr. Wyse warranted a hope that
the Anglo-Greek dispute would soon be settled; unfor-
tunately up to this date we have received no information
on the subject, except the rumours which are current,
and which tend to prove that the difficulties are entirety
owiag to our Government, which is encouraged to re-
sistance by its natural inclination to defend the past, and
by the counsels of some foreign diplomatists. Without
giving these rumours more importance than they de-
serve, we must yet admit that there must be some truth
in it, for we have during the latter days remarked great
activity among the diplomatic body, without anything
having transpired. In Let M. Thouvenel, M. Persiani, the
Russian Charge d'Affaires, and Baron Perglas, the Ba-
varian Minister, have alternately had long audiences of
the King, which can only refer to the question which
monopolises public attention. What we are at a loss to
explain is, that Baron Gros has not yet communicated
the result of his negotiations to our Government.
What are these negotiations about then?
" The resignation of M. Balbis, Minister of Justice, and
provisionally entrusted with the finance department, has
been spoken of since yesterday. It is true that M.
Balbis has more than once declared his intention of re-
signing es soon as the dispute was settled, seeing that
he differed in opinion from his colleagues on the course
to be followed. The resignation of M. Londos is also
spoken of; but as no plausible arguments are adduced
in support of this rumour, we must doubt it, the more
so as nothing seems as yet to denote a disposition to-
wards a change of policy, and as, with the best inten-
tions, it would not be easy to find a person willing under
present circumstances to accept the por:fulio of foreign
affairs."

MALTA and the lONIAN ISLANDS.
We have received Malta journals to the 12th and
Corfu to the Ist. The only news in the Malta papers
are the expulsion from the island, by order of the
Governor, of M. Sichere, a Sicilian refugee, and the
forwarding of a most numerously and respectably
signed petition to Lord Grey, as Secretary of the
Colonies, praying him not to sanction the articles in
the Code drawn up by the Council of Government,
declaring the Roman Catholic to be the " dominant"
church in the island. The Corfu journals announce
the opening of the States of the lonian Islands by the
English Lord High Commissioner. On this occasion,
that high functionray delivered a long speech, of
which the following are the most interesting por-
tions :

" Mr. President and Gentlemen,—
" It is with a feeling of no ordinary interest that I
meat here, to-day, for the first time, the representatives
of the lonian people elected under, the new Constitution.
What the practical working of the Constitution will th—
in how far the new principles engraf ted upon the
Charter of 1817, with her Majesty's sanction, and at
your own desire, will harmonise with the old—time and
experience must determine ; but I should do little
justice to my own feelings, or to your conduct, if I were
not to take this opportunity of stating publicly that the
elections, even in those islands, where party spirit has
run highest, have been conducted .with admirable order
and tranquillity, and that the people, generally, have
evinced a singular aptitude for the new rights and powers
with which they have been entrusted.
" On my part, I hope that I have fully redeemed the
pledge, which I gave at the close of last session, to ab-
stain from interference of any kind. The Government
has considered itself simply as the guardian of the pu-
rity of the vote. The Senate has stated publicly the
grounds upon which it rested the decision of the points
referred to it by the regents of the different islands, as
they arose upon the first application of the new system;
and I am willing to hope that many of those who, at
first, questioned the expediency of the changes made in the
electoral law of May, 1849, by shortening the duration
of the poll, and dividing the islands into electoral dis-
tricts, will admit that both have contributed to the ease
and liberty with which the rights of the constituency
have been exercised.
"I pass now to the practical objects that demand your
attention during the present session.
" The Senate, within the term prescribed by the law,
will present to you detailed accounts of the revenue and
expenditure, prepared in conformity with the under-
standing entered into last session. The article of the
Constitution, which requires the presentation of these
accounts within six days after the commencement of the
session, precludes the possibility of the submission to
you by the new Senate of any well-digested plan for
equalising the expenditure with the income; but the
suoject requires, and I have no doubt will receive, your
most serious attention.

" I have always felt that the machinery of government
in these islands is very costly, and that the whole system
stands in need of revision. In undertaking this task,
which is more peculiarly the duty of the popular branch
of the Legislature, I should recommend you to follow
the example of countries which have had a longer
experience in self-government, and to appoint two
committees, each consisting of five or seven members—
the one to examine the civil list and the ordinary
and extraordinary expenditure; the other the duties of
which the revenue is composed, and their bearing upon
the different classes of the community. I have directed
the most ample materials to be prepared in every depart-
ment upon these subjects; and, if the Assembly should
think proper to empower its committees to call before
them the heads of each department, as would be done
in England or in France, and to examine them per-
sonally as to the details of the respective offices, the
pay and duties of those employed under them, and the
practicability of conducting the public business with
greater economy, I can assure you that, on the part of
the Government, there shall be no disguise or conceal-
meat of any hind. It is the interest of all that the
work to be done should be done efficiently, but cheaply;
and that, while proper provision is made for sustaining
the dignity and independence of the Government, there
should be no extravagance and no superfluities; that
the taxes which it is cecessary to levy should bear
equally upon all, and that every species of property
should bo made to assume its share of the common
burden.

" Upon these points you will find some u,eful sug-
gestions in the report of the finance committee, presented
to your predecessors at the close of the last session; and if
the indications contained in that report be proimily tol-

lowed up, with the aid of such materials asnthe. Go-vern-
went can supply, I have little doubt that the rcsults

will be valuable."

The speech then goes on to say that in the course of
the session the Lord High Commissioner will state
his reasons and that of the mercantile body for think-

"Animated by this sentiment, I have at once acqui-
esced in your own choice of a President, although it may
be unusual to see the presidencies of both brances of the
Legislature assigned to one island; but I feel, both fr3m
my personal knowledge of the individual selected, and
from the fact that he was honoured with your unani-
mous suffrages, the most entire confidence that he will
discharge the duties which he has undertaken with
honour and impartiality.
" One other quality is wanting, especially at the com-
mencement of a new Parliament, with respect to which
I have the pleasure of knowing that the ideas of your
President entirely correspond with my own, and that is,
a firm repression of every act, within these walls, that
militates against the dignity of the Assembly, and the
decorum of its proceedings. Born myself in a free
country, and having served a long apprenticeship in
public life, I may be permitted to express to you my
conviction, that while publicity is the law of your de-
liberations, it is only the more necessary to enforce
order as the basis of liberty itself. It is at the poll, not
in your galleries, that the judgment of the public is to
be expressed as to your votes and your conduct as
legislators. Here freedom of thought and speech ie
your right—silence and attention is the duty of all who
are suffered to be present at your sittings; and the ex-
perience of every free country has proved that the As-
sembly which allows this rule to be infringed, pays the
penalty of its fatal indulgence by the loss of public con-
fidence and of its own utility.
" With these sentiments, and with the most sincere de•
sire that the session about to commence may be con•
ducive to the honour and happiness of the lonian States,
and to the strengthening of their friendly relations with
the protecting sovereign, whose confidence has placed so
large an addition of political power in their hands, I

leaie you to commence your labours with every hope
that they will be crowned by a happy result."
The President of the Assembly replied as follows :
"My Lord,—The Legislative Assembly, over which
lam proud to preside, has heard with much attention
your Excellency's speech, and will have the honour of
replying thereto at au early period.
"In as far as I am personally concerned, lam very
grateful for the sentiments which your Excellency has
expressed with regard to me, and I beg to return to you
my warmest thanks.

" We, my Lord, the elected of the people, will ever
take as our guides liberty and justiee, as they alone can
satisfy the people from whom we have received our
mandate.

" Our banner, is the country.
" Our mission, its prosperity and its rigbtg.
"Our strength, the voice of the people.
" With these principles we will tread the path of truth,
hoping that her Majesty, our exalted Sovereign Protec-
tress, learning through your Excellency our wants and
our condition, will entertain our wishes."

A letter from Corfu says,—" The greatest agitation
prevails here from the result of the election. Men,

the very dregs of society, have been raised to a seat in
the House of Representatives—men banished for
crimes of a deep die. They openly speak of an an-
nexation of the islands to Greece ! and hate the
English most cordially."

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following
gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations for
the diploma, were admitted members of the college at,the
meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 19th inst. :
Messrs. Patrick Culhane, Glin, Limerick; Alfred William
Mooie, Pimlico; Jephson Potter, Manchester; Rowell
Walter Voss, Swansea; William Prater, Exeter; John
Edwin Cathcart, llon. East India Company's Service, Ben-
gal; John Errington Forster, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; John
Clark, Derby; Edward Adolphus Brown, Chelmsford; Isaac
Coggins, Lower Hayford, Oxfordshire; William Hewett,
Reading, Berkshire;; James Jeken, Dover; John Watkins,
Hon. East India Company's Service, Calcutta; and Frederick
John Dyer, Blackheath.
SUDDEN DEATIL—On Thursday a most awful
visitation of God was experienced in the death of Miss
Elizabeth Moore, aged twenty-six years, second daughter
of Mr. Moore, of the Lodge, Messing, Essex. The young
lady had partaken of an early dinner and appeared full of
iife and spirits, when she complained of a difficulty in
breathing, and rising from the sofa, fell heavily upon the
floor. In less than twenty minutes she was a corpse. The
only words she uttered were, " My God, I am dying."
IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—On Saturday, Mr. W.
Archer, builder, of Portland-town, obtained 219'. in gold
at the Bank of England, for the purpose of paying his work-
men, and having deposited the money in his pocket, he en-
tered an omnibus. At the same moment, a man about 35,
dressed in a brown paletot, took his seat beside him, followed
by a female carrying an infant. When near to the Angel. at
Islington, the lady was seized with hysterics, causing great
alarm awl confusion among the passengers, and the vehicle
being stopped, she was got out and taken to a surgeon's.
It was then found that the gentleman in the brown paletot
was missing, without paying his fare; and on Mr. Archer
feeling for his money, that was gone also. Suspicion was
aroused, and on proceeding to the surgeon's, the woman was
found to have instantly- departed.
THE JUDGES AND CORPORATION AT ST. PAUL'S.
--Yesterday, being the first Sunday in Easter Term, the
judges, according to custom, attended divine service at the
metropolitan cathedral, being accompanied by a large num-
ber of the members of the civic corporation, and several
sergeants-at-law. More than usual interest was excited in
consequence of a rumour, which had been extensively cir-
culated in various quarters, that the Bishop of London would

be the preacher on the occasion. The cathedral was densely
crowded, and a large number of persons went away after
having fruitlessly striven to obtain admission. Shortly after
three o'clock
.a procession, which had been formed in the
nave of the cathedral, moved into the choir, her Majesty's
judges and the members of the corporation taking their
places in the prebendal stalls which were reserver for them.
Am ngst those present were Lord Chief Justice Campbell,
Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr. Justice Patte-
son, Mr. Baron Rolfe, Mr. Justice Wightman, Mr. Justice
Talfourd, the Lord Mayor, the Recorder. Alderman W.
Hunter, Alderman Sidney, M.P., Alderman Moon, Alderman ,
Carden, Mr. Sheriff Nicoll, Under-Sheriffs Wire and Millard,

the Common-Sergeant, sergeants-at-law, the Dean of St.
Paul's, the Dean of Chichaiter, and several members of the
Common Council. Full choral service was performed, and
in :the absence of the Bishop of London the sermon was
preached by the Rev. J. Endell Tyler, 8.D., Canon Resi-
dentiary and Rector of St. Giles's. The Reverend Gentleman
selected for his text the 13th verse of the 14th chapter of St.
Paul's Epistle to the Romans " Let us not, therefore, judge
one another any more, but judge this rather that no one put
a stumbling-block, or any occasion to fall, in his brother's
way." The sermon was listened to with profound attention,
and at its close the procession left the Cathedral in the order
in which it entered.

APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. W. M'Lean, the Assistant-
Secretary to the Board of Customs, has been appointed se-
cretary of that department, in the room of Mr. Scovell, who
has been placed upon the retired list; and Mr. Gardner, a
gentleman of great experience in the secretary's office, has
been promoted to the rank of assistant-secretary, in the
room of Mr. M'Lean. Mr. J. Arkle, Landing• Surveyor at
Dundee, has been promoted to the office of Landing-Survevor
of the Customs at Cork, vacant by the decease of Mr. Hart;-
and Mr. G. Arnott, Comptroller at Lynn, to be Comptroller
and Landing-Surveyor at -Dundee. Lieutenant Edward
Griffiths, R.N., is appointed Superintendent of Liberated
Africans at St. Helena.— Observer.

DRORY-LANE THEATRE.—A paragraph appeared
in our paper on Saturday, giving a short report of the pro-
ceedings of a general meeting held on the previous day, of
the actors and actresses engaged at that theatre. We have
received a communication front Mr. Vandenhoff, complaining
of the inaccuracy of a portion of that report, in which he
states that it is a misrepresentation to assert that either him-
self or Mr. Anderson demanded or suggested the payment of
their salaries before provision should be made for other mem-
bers of the company. He adds, that such a proceeding
would be entirely at, variance with his conduct towards his
brother performers, through the whole course of a long pro-
fessional life.

LEICESTER. TRADE. - General trade continues
about as last reported. The knit hands belonging to that
branch that has been some weeks on strike are now generally
at work at old prices. The hands belonging to the sock
branch en strike still remain out. The worsted and woollen
markets remain depressed. Prices of cotton as last re-
ported. The Niagara steamer just arrived from America
brings some further orders for various goods manufactured

here; and thecommercial conidition of tile States beingver;
I:calthy, and money tolerably easy, it is hoped that this
country will share largely in the benefit accruing from a free_
trade policy, and from the effect of Californian gold.

ins that a change may be made ,in the mode of levy-
' ing the duties on corn and currants. He recommends
measures to be taken for preventing the coritinunnce
of abuses with respe:l to church property, and an-
nounces a B it for improving the system of public
education. He then refers to certain public works in
the island, and announces the conclusion of arrange-
ments with the Austrian Lloyd's for increasing steam
communication between different ports. The speech
concludes as follows :
" I have now adverted briefly, but frankly, to those
practical questions, which I regard as most interesting
to the country, and consequently as best entitled to your
attention. Upon all those questions you may expect
from me and from the Government, just formed, a cor-
dial concurrence in every reasonable proposition. Lay
aside, therefore, I beseech you the idea of antagonism,
with which the minds of men have been fod during the
recent contest. That contest is now over. You have
agsumul the responsibility with the realities of power.
Use that power with moderation and good sense, and
you will confer an ineatimiable benefit upon your
country. Believe me, when I assure you that there can
be no natural or necessary antagonism between you and
myself, as the representative of the protecting sovereign
—or between the Assembly and the Senate of these
States—both emanating from the same popular source
—for, with one exception, I have taken the present
Senate from the bosom of the Legislative As-
sembly. That exception implies no want of consi-
deration for the present representatives of Cephalonia,
amongst whom I could have selected names that would
haze been an ornament to the Senate, and with whom I
should have had the greatest satisfaction in co-operat-
ing. It is founded upon a public principle, which tells
me that it is dangerous as well as unjust to place the
man, who had the distinguished honour of filling for five
years the post of President of these States, in a position
that may force him either to abandon political life at the
close of the Quinquennium, or to use his power, during
the last years of his Presidency, in such a way as to se-
cure his re•election.
" I give you this explanation, not because I am bound
to account to you for the use which I make of the
powers confided to me by the Constitution, but because
I wish to convince you of my sincere desire to act with
you, if you will accept my co-operation within the limits
of the Charter, by which, and under which, you are here
assembled.
" I have called that Charter a new era in the history
of these States, and it is my wish to prove to you that I
so consider it, by giving a more lonian character to the
Government. All that I desire is to combine a respect
for rights, acquired by long and useful services, with
the regard due to your own just expectations. I wish
to stand between the future and the past, and to try, as
mediator, to conciliate their interests; but, as I told you
in my first speech, so I assure you now, that in all prac-
tical reforms you will have no more willing fellow-
labourer than myself, and that even where I do not
agree in all your opinions, they will receive from me the
most respectful consideration.