The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-19 00:00:00

MOLUCCA MARRIAGES.

The following curious account of the ceremony
of marriage in these islands is given by one of the
officers on board the French frigate Astrolabe, dur-
ing her voyage in the Southern Seas to discover the
wrecks of the unfortunate navigator, Monsieur le
Compte de la Perouse, which vessel arrived but a
short time ago at Toulon :
" The woman, attended by some of her own sex,
comes into the mosque and seats herself; then the
Imum, or, if the parties are persons of rank, the Ca-
liph, holding the man's right thumb, addresses him,
and inquires if he 1611 marry that woman, and live
with her according to Mahomet's law ? To this the
man answers I will, or 1 will not, if he has any par-
ticular reason for making the objection. Then the
Priest asks the woman, who is veiled, and still sit-
ting beside, the like respective questions, if she will
obey ? Three times must she answer ' I Will,' in a
very loud tone of voice.
" The woman then rises; the man and she pay their
respects to the company present ; the woman is
unveiled by the Priest, who gives her over to the
husband as his private property to conduct home;
but, before she leaves the mosque, the Priest gives
the husband the folloning admonition You
trust not touch your wife with lance or knife; but,
if she do not obey you, take her into a chamber and
chastise her gently with a handkerchief, for never be
it said that the sons of iilahomet lay harsh hands
upon his daughters.' The party then retire amidst
the acclamations of the:assembly."

It is a singular curiosity, that in a chapel in
this neighbourhood, oa Sabbath last, three young gentle-
men, all of the name of G—, all waives here, all pro-
bationers, and all licensed within twelve months of each
other, preached in succession. The minister of the
chapel, who was to be from home on that occasion, being
asked by one of his congregation who were to preach on
Sabbath, is said to have replied, with his usual pointed
wit, " Three Scotch Greys !"—Aberdeen Observer.

On Thursday evening, about seven o'clock,
the Victory four-horse coach was overturned in Deans&ate,
Manchester, opposite the end of Bridge-street, on its
arrival from Chester. There were seven passengers, five
of whom were on the outside ; and, by a singular de4ree
of good fortune, not one of theta sustained any injury
worthy of notice, although they were all thrown with
violence upon the flags in front of the late Mr. Tivi,s's
shop. The only person materially injured was the coach-
man (LyanY), who had his uncle dislocated. —Ma nches-
ter Mercury.

CHARACTER OP THE PRESIDENT OF

GREECE.

d

(From the Q:4arterly licrictr.)
The man who by intrigue, by bribery, and 11
menace, has succeeded in placieg himself at the
head of the Greek Govermnent, is a
adventurer, and a mere tool in the hands et
Russia. We say this advisedly. When Russia
was required by the Allied Powers to give "P
the lonian Islands, to be placed under the pro 7
tection of Great Britain, she felt exceedingli
sore at this arrangement. At that time th°
family of Capo d'lstria had, great influence
these islands, and Count John, the present Pre",-,
sident of Greece, was one of the Russian Mi-
nisters at Petersburgh. The old Count and
family, resident in Corfu, with all their Ltd'
herents, were in open and violent opposition.to.
every measure of the British Government;
all its views and intentions were misrepir7;
sented, and their unfounded grievances et)4-
calumnies were advocated in the British
Parliament by Mr. Henry Grey Benett ana:
Mr. Joseph Hume ; and in Petersburgh b 5,
Count John Capo d'lstria, to whom the nhu.'
father wrote that, among other barbarities cow
mitted by the English, they had designedly inv.(
ported the plague into Corfu, with the view 0'
reducing the people to such a state of desperr
dency and entire submission, as to allow the
Lord High Commissioner to avoid the 1110'7
ment of such parts of the treaty as were O°S
exactly to his liking. This letter from-- the
father to the son was intercepted, read, and for•
warded ; but the Emperor Alexander knew the:
English too well to take any public notice ","
the absurd story of this silly old lonian.
On this ground alone, we do not think thal,l
either England, France, or Austria, ought t°,:.
consider Count John Capo d'lstria as a fit
person to be placed at the head of the Greek.
Government. It is, in fact, neither more 119,11:
less than throwing Greece into the bands o
Russia, between which and Servia the province!r
Albania only is interposed. To talk of the index
pendence of Greece under such a man as Car
d'lstria i 3 a farce. Let us see what has he°
his conduct since his arrival.

At the national assembly of the Greek der .
ties, for the choice of a ruler, held in June last •
at Argos, he had the indecency to appear in 3
full dress Russian uniform, decorated with itur
sian orders; and to protect his august person'
against any retaliation on the part of some of th:e
.
deputies whom he had insulted, and to in;iT'''.
date the assembly, he surrounded himselfh
Colocotroni's troops, which also bivouacked
,T.),
the steps of the building in which the assembly
was held ; thus circumstanced, he had ever)`,
thin; his own way; he made long speeches, ._1.7
not. one deputy ventured to utter a single
He is accused, how justly we know not, of ell:
pending the money sent by Russia and Frao`lii°
in bribes to the electors and deputies; andtiaa,
order to secure a majority for himself, he "
the unparalleled audacity to bring forward Greet
deputies from Candia, Scio, Samos, Negroril
and other islands and places still in the pcile,
sion of the Turks, and not included within t"ts,
line of demarcation drawn by the Allied Plesee •
for the boundaries of future Greece ; but oria'
arrangements he privately affects to despise, of
been for that ilis
impolitic cn(l'll9e.
talks of his conquests and the determinatioT-the.
the Greeks to extend the boundaries beyo",:s:
indeed e d
line proposed
it
tyn
o
the Allies.
tack—to give it no harsher name—on, the
Turkish fleet in Navarin, planned, as it loth -'
now seem, by a Russian Admiral, and for 11::
sian objects—had we not compelled Ihrahl7_,
Pasha to withdraw his troops, and the reniaiel
of the Egyptian fleet to move homewards,—aa:
had not a large French force landed on
Morea,—it is clear, almost to demonstratial
that the Russian army would never have.crosse".
the Balkan, the Greek question would probal4
have been settled by the Ambassadors then re.;
gociating in Constantinople, and the whole atsii
of the Russian wir materially altered. frbe_,
might Count John Capo dlstria, with his brlrci
ther, a man still more generally obnoxiouv`r
the Greeks than himself, have taken their dello
ture for Russia, without the assistance and 07.4
of an English line-of-battle ship, which afforuea
them a conveyance from Ancona to the M°l,o
and in return for which piece of service, its g
as civility, the said Count cannot conceal ors
bitterness and animosity which he botch
against the English Government, and to vq„,
he is said to give utterance in his conversa",
ig
to a d (T ee of indecency and irritation Os 1,1
ez; cialer
quite laughable. The gallant officer, u"loore
Church, to whom singly the Greeks are kss re'
indebted than to any other individual, "Lfiyr
tired in disgust, declaring, that " the aet"a hat?
tern of the Government of Greece is not ';;
many with his opinions or conscienli .$0
therefore, it be meant to give to the fiel:ictode'
by no means united, Greeks a steady 101 that
pendent government, we are morally cetta.,l -r tbe
this object will never be accomplished lone,,
administration of Count John Capo dqs.tri:rnea
We should be very happy to hear crf the
the rumour of a Congress, to be 141" °lt is
settlement of these important
time, if the peace of Europe is to be ore'ery
questions' ia;

BIRTH. the
On the 17th inst. at Bevis-hill, near Southampw" ,
lady of R. Clutterbuck, jun. Esq., of a son. f.
MARRIED. „,,t)f
On the 17th inst. at Chatteris, Canthridgeshire,2oo
Roy. R. Titian!, Rector of Bluntisitam, David let
Chapman, Esq. of York Terrace, Reg,nt'a-14* 0
Maria, daughter of the Rev. D. CliattiAd,
Chatteris.
DIED. Novo
On the 18th inst. Captain Wiiliam Adamson,
ed
able E,st ladia Company's Service, of Clapham, etyoir
On the 17th inst. Maria, widow of the late W.
ton, Esq. of Lesdenhall-street. 1.1 Jilor
°
On the 18th inst. the Rev. T. Powell, of --u„101)-
who had been 46 years pastor of the B..ptist
Mitchell-street. et,
On the 17th inst. Mr. 11. Williams, of Turn
aged 74.
On the 15th inst. at Rye, Sydney, t'te el lest soa e
Rev. R. R. Knott, A.M.

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EAST INDIA.—DEATHS.
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At Vizagapatam, June 7, of apophxy, Cop •• 0 Ci
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3d N. V. 8., aged 44.
At Jauinah, April 13, Ensign .1. C. Durai'4'
Regt. N. I. ~. rip'.
At Kamptee, May 16, J. Jones, Esq. '''' '' t 1)
59
Regt. Light Cavalry.
At Bangalore, May IS, Ensign W. Robert n'
is f
Regt. N.J. . 9
At Madras, July 2, Mr. W. Grant, aged '''''f.- 0
ites
Examiner of the Board of Revenue. sth
At Kamptee, April 27, Cipt. A. Bentleil - OP
1
N. I, late Paymaster• Olt. ' '
At Coimbatoor, May 29, Captain 11. . '
Regt. N.I. -
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