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Miscellaneous.
At Antwerp , lately , a picture , about a foot high , and a foot and a half wide , was bought by a glazier of that town for ten sous . On the following market-day he sold it for seven francs and a half , and the latter purchaser , having ascertained that it was a Holy Family , by Raphael , re-sold it to an amateur at Bruges for 3 , 200 francs .
Judge Bouldin , of the House of Representatives , New York , fell down and suddenly expired , while in the act of eulogizing his eloquent predecessor , the late zM _ r . Randolph . His wife , who was in the gallery , witnessed the distressing event . GREECE . —Late accounts state that the government is actively engaged
in the revision , commenced under Capo dTstrias in 1830 , of all the ordinances of the Emperor Basilius Mazedo , which form the basis of the civil rights of the Greeks . All such of these laws as are to remain in force will be collected into one code . It is also occupied in searching for all that is not to be found in the Basilica , which have great authority ivith the Greeks , and ivhich even are referred to by the Turks to decide
their differences with their enemies . It is hoped that the scattered fragments of these laws will be easily discovered . It is added , that nothing will be admitted into the new legislation of Greece , but such laws as are completely in accordance with the manners and habits of the people .
TURKEY . —Accounts from Constantinople state that matters there have again taken a very grave aspect , and that the Government is evidently much " embarrassed . It is said that our representative there has assumed a more decided tone , and to have peremptorily required the sultan to do that ivhich he will not do unless compelled ; ancl it is affirmed that cur ambassador , Lord Ponsonby , has lately presented a
memorial to the Porte , stating the objections of his government to the treaty ofthe Sth of July last , and requiring that attention shall be paid to it . The Augsburgh Gazette states , that the Russian government had fixed April 15 th for the final evacuation by the Russian troops and authorities of the principalities of AVallachia and Moldavia . The emperor , it is added , had given up his claim to the instalment due b y the Porte , and on account of which the two principalities had been held b y him as security since the last war .
THE DARDANELLES . —A Russian brig of war , lately about to pass the strait of the Dardanelles , without being furnished with a firman from the Porte , was stopped by the commander of the first fortress , and compelled to veer about . The Turkish government wished , it is said ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Miscellaneous.
At Antwerp , lately , a picture , about a foot high , and a foot and a half wide , was bought by a glazier of that town for ten sous . On the following market-day he sold it for seven francs and a half , and the latter purchaser , having ascertained that it was a Holy Family , by Raphael , re-sold it to an amateur at Bruges for 3 , 200 francs .
Judge Bouldin , of the House of Representatives , New York , fell down and suddenly expired , while in the act of eulogizing his eloquent predecessor , the late zM _ r . Randolph . His wife , who was in the gallery , witnessed the distressing event . GREECE . —Late accounts state that the government is actively engaged
in the revision , commenced under Capo dTstrias in 1830 , of all the ordinances of the Emperor Basilius Mazedo , which form the basis of the civil rights of the Greeks . All such of these laws as are to remain in force will be collected into one code . It is also occupied in searching for all that is not to be found in the Basilica , which have great authority ivith the Greeks , and ivhich even are referred to by the Turks to decide
their differences with their enemies . It is hoped that the scattered fragments of these laws will be easily discovered . It is added , that nothing will be admitted into the new legislation of Greece , but such laws as are completely in accordance with the manners and habits of the people .
TURKEY . —Accounts from Constantinople state that matters there have again taken a very grave aspect , and that the Government is evidently much " embarrassed . It is said that our representative there has assumed a more decided tone , and to have peremptorily required the sultan to do that ivhich he will not do unless compelled ; ancl it is affirmed that cur ambassador , Lord Ponsonby , has lately presented a
memorial to the Porte , stating the objections of his government to the treaty ofthe Sth of July last , and requiring that attention shall be paid to it . The Augsburgh Gazette states , that the Russian government had fixed April 15 th for the final evacuation by the Russian troops and authorities of the principalities of AVallachia and Moldavia . The emperor , it is added , had given up his claim to the instalment due b y the Porte , and on account of which the two principalities had been held b y him as security since the last war .
THE DARDANELLES . —A Russian brig of war , lately about to pass the strait of the Dardanelles , without being furnished with a firman from the Porte , was stopped by the commander of the first fortress , and compelled to veer about . The Turkish government wished , it is said ,