The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-01 00:00:00

GREECE

ATHENS, DEC. 9.—The great and all-absorbing
subject of discussion and anxiety for the_last few days
has been the election of the Committee for drawing
up the Constitution, in concert with the King. This
did not terminate until past ten o'clock last night—a
very late hour for the National Assembly at Athens,
though at St. Stephen's the business of the night
would only then be commencing. The moderate
party, who are attached to English principles of go-
vernment, have obtained a most triumphant majority.
Upon this occasion, as well as upon the election of
Vice-Presidents, Mavrocordato and Colletti agreed to
support each other ; but on both occasiows it turned
out that, although the Mavrocordatists, in compliance
with the earnest wishes of their chief, voted against
their own inclinations to a man, for Colletti, the adhe-
rents of the latter, about forty in number, broke the
agreement, and did not vote for Mavrocordato.

-Upon the first occasion, Mavrocordato was disposed ‘:
to think there might have been a mistake ; but, when . ,
the same conduct was repeated, it then became evident
that it was the bad faith of the Muscomangites, as the /
party of Colletti is designated, which had placed him
next to Mavrocordato in the list of Vice-Presidents,
and above him in the Committee for the Address.
This circumstance has excited a strong feeling of in-
dignation against the treachery of these persons, and
a sense of the impropriety of allowing Greece and
Europe to be deceived as to the real state of parties in
this country, induced the adherents of Mavrocordato
and Metaxa to withdraw their votes from Colletti
upon this last great occasion, when those were to be ,
chosen by whom the fabric of the Constitution is to
be constructed, and thereby to demonstrate that lie
cannot reckon upon the support of more than forty-
three certain, and about twenty doubtful votes in the
Assembly. Mavrocordato and Metaxa, however, in
the spirit of peace and union, did all in their power
to dissuade their friends from withholding their votes,
declaring that they would prefer seeing him again in
a fictitious majority, rather than risk the disadvan-
tages of disunion. Many would not act upon this ;
suggestion, and the consequence is that Colletti stands •
low in the list; and, if more than forty of the friends
of Mavrocordato and Metaxa had not, at their earnest
solicitation, voted for him, he would have been ex-
clouded altogether.
In the Committee for the Address the French
party, as it is called, is represented by Colletti alone,
or with the equivocal support of Anastasio Loudos.
The proportion is two to five. In the more important
Committee on the Constitution the disproportion is ,1
still more marked, being only four to seventeen, so
that the French party, about which so much has been
written and said for the last three years, has dwindled f
to a miserable minority; and well it may be so, when
no better man could be found to supplant Mavrocor-
dato, in 1841, by means of a million of francs, than f
Christides, and when he, " the despised of all men," 10,
finds a fit successor in Riga Palamides as champion
of the party. Neither this personage nor Conduri-
ottis, the President of the Council of State, are in
either Committee, though they made every effort to ft
be elected.
Tricoupi, the late Minister in England, owes his
election to an accident. General Church might have
been placed at the head of the Commission for the !;
Constitution, but, having heard that his name was on !I
the list, he did not rest till he got it withdrawn, ge•
neroosly thinking that none but Greeks should take
part in the solemn office of constructing the Consti-
tutional edifice.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
COURSING.

ALTCAR COURSING MEETING, DEC. 28 AND 29.—The
Sefton Club (16 dogs) was won by Mr. A. Graham's
Sir Edward ; Mr. Jefferson's Lowther ran up. The
Molyneux Plate (16 dogs) was divided by Mr. Aderus'9
Matchless and Mr. Slater's Scrutiny. The Croxteth
Purse (12 dogs) was won by Mr. Temple's Titania (late
Woskie) ; Mr. Standish's Stranger ran up. The Altcar
Stakes (12 dogs) were won by Mr. Hunt's Trapball; Mr.
Richmond's Rockett ran up.

THE LATE ASHBURTON INIVRDER.-011 MondaY
last, Edward Webb, better known as " Deaf Ned," and
Charlotte Williams, a woman who accompanies him in
his peregrinations, were fully committed to the count),
goal for trial at the next assizes, charged with being par;
ties concerned in the foul and horrid murder committed
last summer, near the town of Ashburton.—Somerset
Gazette.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—An inquest was held on Fri-
clay afternoon by Mr. Higgs, Deputy Coroner for West'
minster, at the 'George, Gilbert's-passage, Clare-market,
on the body of Joseph Corbyn Abbott, aged 69. Frog
the evidence it appeared that the deceased left his home,
No. 1, Selwood-place, New-road, and proceeded to the
Strand. Whilst proceeding up Drury-lane, on kis way
home, he was attacked with apoplexy, and fell to the
ground. A police-constable coming up, he was conveyed
on a stretcher to King's College Hospital, where he was
attended to by Mr. Brown, the acting physician, but
died the same evening. The deceased's son said h°
had to complain of what he considered great neglect On
the part of the police. his father not returning at
the usual hour, and supposing that something might
have befallen him, he went to the Bow-street stir
tion-house and made inquiries concerning him. The,
inspector who was on duty answered him sharply, and
said he knew nothing about him, although it was from
that place the stretcher was brought on which he was
conveyed to the hospital. That was between twelve and
one in the day after his father was taken ill, and it Ws'_,
not until two o'clock on the following morning that he
knew where ho was. Police-constable F 56, the rev.°
who brought the stretcher, said, that he gave in his re'
port of the occurrence to Sergeant Weston, and be
could only account for the son not receiving information
by the pressure of business, The son said, that O 1
going to the George-street station-house, the inspector
there gave him every assistance. The Coroner and jai;
were of opinion that there was great neglect on the par
of the police, but they could not go into it as it did 110 t
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concern the deceased's death. A verdict of " Died fres'
an attack of apoplexy" was then returned, the Coronert
advising the relatives to write to the Commissioners
Police on the subject.
A CANDID ADMISSION.—We are able to state,
on the best authority, that Mr. Bulwer, before his de'
parture for Madrid, received from the French Govern
ment the most satisfactory assurances as to the policy
to be adopted towards Spain, and that one imports
point, on which he felt it necessary to speak rather
strongly, was settled entirely to his wish. It was fulls
understood before he left Paris, that Count Bresse,
would cordially support him in the views entertained b/
the British Goverment for the settlement of affairs S
that country.

DIRECTIONS TO POLICEMEN.—The Learned Judge'
Mr. Baron Rolfe, in one of the cases lately tried befo'''
him at Worcester, said, with regard to policemen puttl
questions to persons accused, that he was sorry the bl
had got into such a tender state on this point. It was gale, ,
rally laid down that policeman were exceedingly var.':
in putting any questions to persons in their custoop
now he thought it was often well for them to do so,
,1;1
he had seen cases in which such questions were °o./.
essential to the establishment of a person's innocents
however, as he did not like to differ from his brethrr,.
he always told policemen not to say anything to prisOnev;
CULTIVATION OF FLAX.--An influential mestillYti
was held at Norwich, on Wednesday last, the Mayo
the chair, at which the following resolution was ado Pit
That this meeting being of opinion that much bent,
may arise from the cultivation and manufacture of 17,.
in this city and its vicinity, with a view to the reite
nerative employment of the poor, and the profitable Jr'il
vestment of capital, strongly recommend that a gent
meeting should be convened of all persons who she,
willing to contribute to the promotion of this very
sirable object."
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