The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-27 00:00:00

GREECE.

Our last advices from Athens are of the 30th of
November, but are of little interest.

Government is on its last legs ; ruin, poverty, deso-
lation, appear to await the people.
The change in the Finance Department has but
opened the eyes of the new Minister to the horrors of
his own situation, and reports are rife, that, disgusted
at the state of affairs in general, he will shortly resign
his seat.

The Minerva and Seicle have been seized.
MALTA, DEC. 15.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.—SIIIPS IN MALTA HAR-
Bouß.--The Queen, 110, bearing the flag of Vice-
Admiral Sir E. W. C.F. Owen, Commander-in-Chief
in the Mediterranean ; Ceylon, receiving ship, bear-
ing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir J. Louis, Superin-
tendent of Malta Dockyard ; Impregnable, 104 ;
Monarch, 84 ; Vanguard, 80; Belvidera, 38; Cy-
clops, steam frigate; Geyser war steamer; Magpie
surveying cutter • Prometheus, Polyphemus, and
Alecto steam packets, and Radamanthus steamer,
troop ship.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE REST OF THE FLEET.—Rod-
ney, 92, Inconstant, 36, at Barcelona ; the Formida-
ble, 84, at Mahon ; Savage, 10, and Owen Glen-
dower, convict ship, at Gibraltar; the Lizard steam
tender, on her way to Malta from Gibraltar ;
L'Aigle and Snake at Corfu ; the Howe, 120, bear-
ing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir F. Mason, second
in command, and the Scout, 18, at the Piraeus of
Athens ; the Magicienne, 24, and Devastation war
steamer, at Smyrna ; the Stromboli war steamer at
Constantinople; the Indus, 78, Vernon, 50, the He-
cate, and Vesuvius war steamers, at Beyrout ; the
Medea war steamer at Alexandria ; and the Beacon,
surveying vessel, at Suda, in Candia.

MOVEIIIIiNTS.—The Snake arrived from Syracuse
on the sth inst., and took her departure on the Bth
for Corfu, conveying thither his Excellency the Right
Hon. Stewart M`Kenzie, who arrived unexpectedly,
incasr., on the 7th, in the French steamer from Mar-
seilles. The Dutch frigates Rhyn and Jason sailed
for Smyrna on the 10th, calling at Athens. The
Geyser steamer-of-war, bringing the lonian mails,
arrived from Patras, Zante, and Corfu, on the lltb,
after having been ashore outside the lighthouse of
Cephalonia, thrown overboard her gulls, and sustained
serious damage.
The Cyclops steam-frigate arrived from Barcelona
and Mahon (whither she proceeded to escort the For-
midable, considerably injured), on the 12th, and re-
turns to Mahon, accompanied by the Vanguard, as
soon as the weather permits of their getting to sea, to
assist this crippled vessel, which it is pretended, is,
if practicable, to be navigated to Malta, where the
captain and fficers will stand their trial for getting
her ashore, or rather for not keeping her off. The
Great Liverpool arrived from England and Gibraltar
on the 13th, and the Polyphemus from Marseilles, on
the 14th, bringing the overland mail of the 6th. The
Magpie, surveying cutter, arrived from Suda Bay on
the same day ' • the Rhadamanthus, troop steamer,
from Plymouth and Gibraltar ; and the Belvidera fri-
gate, from Barcelona, with the Right Rev. Lord
Bishop of Gibraltar, who seems to be doomed to be
unfortunate at sea, having experienced a most awfully
terrific squall in entering the harbour, which the
vessel did under a mere jib. The Great Liverpool,
owing to the bad weather prevailing, only got to sea,
on her voyage to Alexandria, this morning. The
Belvidera proceeds to Gibraltar on Monday next, to
be at hand in case of fresh disturbances on the coast
of Spain. On the 12th a French ship of the line
passed Malta, steering to the westward. The French
steamer, which arrived last night from Syra, brought
no Smyrna or Constantinople mails, as these had not
reached Syra when she left.

POLICE COURT.—VALETTA.
(Before Mr. Justice Harper.)
MONDAY, DEC. 5.--Lieut. Gibson, of the Rifle
Brigade (2d batt.) was placed at the bar, charged on
the oath of Mr. St. John, Adjutant of Police, with
having caused a disturbance at the theatre on Saturday
night last, and afterwards for having made use of in-
decent and improper language to the public assembled
near Mula's coffee-house, after having left the theatre.
It appeared in evidence that the prisoner, being in
a box next to the family of Mr. L. Barbar, a respect-
able merchant, had insulted two ladies, who were
there with their brother, by making improper signs,
and by taking their opera glass without permission,
and afterwards using improper language to their
brother.—The prisoner niade no defence.
Mr. Harper, after severely censuring the prisoner,
observed that he could only attribute the taking the
glass to one of two motives—either to steal it, which
he (the Magistrate) could scarcely believe, or to in-
sult the family of Mr. Barbar, The Magistrate
concluded an able speech, by saying that it was
highly disgraceful that an officer wearing her Ma-
jesty's uniform should make that iform the cloak
for crimes of so disgraceful a naturg that it was the
province of every gentleman, and more particularly
of every officer, to protect females from insult, and
not, themselves, to insult them; and after hinting in a
delicate manner at the melancholy consequences which,
not long since, resulted from liberties taken with
females of respectability and character, sentenced the
prisoner to a fine of 51., and a period of five days' im-
prisonment.

We learn that Mr. Barbar has applied to his Ex-
cellency the General Commanding in-Chief for redress
for the insult offered to his family, the above case
having been brought forward by the police, without
any reference to himself. And he has equally brought
to the notice of the Colonel the conduct of Lieutenant
Hamilton, another officer, on the same occasion, which
is, if possible, even more reprehensible.
The indignation of the people has been raised to
the highest pitch at these outrages upon all decency.
The insult offered to the public at the door of Mula s
coffee-house was of peculiar danger as well as atro-
city, and might, and would in some countries, have
produced a popular commotion. We sincerely trust
that his Excellency, as Commander-in-Chief of the
Forces, will show to all the
world that such acts can-
not be committed by the military, or any other per-
sons, with impunity.
We have heard that his Excellency has written a
letter to the Colonel of the Itifle Brigade, in which
his Excellency has most severely reprimanded the
officers in question, and has ordered the Colonel to
read the letter before the-whole of the officers of the
regiment.

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from the Manchester Board of Gas Directors—" That
PRICES OF GAS.—a appears by
in all large gas establishments—except those in Liver-
pool, where the price to all is 7s. per 1,000 feet—the
charge varies according to the quantity used by dif-
ferent classes of consumers. With reference to their
present report, the Directors have applied for and ob- 1
tained returns from. seventeen of the principal gas-
works of the kingdom, and the average highest price
1,000 feet; the average lowest
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mences at Christmas, when the present prices of Cs. to
large consumers, and 7s. to small consumers, will be
reduced to ss. and 63. per thousand cubic feet, ac-
cording to the quantity consumed.
PECULIARITIES OP SOME NATIOIVS AS TO Fool).—
Other nations abstained from eating parts of certain
animals, as well as the Jews, from a religious princi-
ple ; neither the Assyrian, nor the Egyptian, ate any
fish, and the Priests of the latter nation used no meat
nor drink imported from foreign countries; and, as
to the product of their own, exclusive of fish, they ab-
stained from beasts that have a round foot, or divided
into several toes, or that have n o horns ; and birds
that live upon flesh. The Egyptians accounted, espe-
cially swine's flesh, unclean ; whosoever touched one,
though in passing by only, washed himself and his
clothes. Mayor's History of the Jews.
The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel
the Columbine, from Rotterdam, arrived off the
Custom-house yesterday with the Dutch Mail.
A bright little fellow on being asked by his school-
ma'am—" What is a bridge ?"—promptly replied,
"A thing for vessels to sail under.