The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-30 00:00:00

CHICORY AND COFFEE.

Mr. CRAWFORD, in the absence of Mr. Moffatt, asked
the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the restrictione
which at preempt exist in regard to the sale of chicory and
*Wee mixed, are not now to be removed in consequence of
the equalisation of duty upon those articles.

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The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that
on the 29th of lard month dirsotious were wiled by the
Treasury to the Board of Inland Revenue, resctndiag the
orders of February and May, 1853, which prescribed the
limitation with regard to this mixture, and ordering the
board not to interfere with say proceedings with respect to
M. The factitious inducement to the mixture being or
mosed, there was no 'airiest mama, the article be
wholesome one, to interfere with the freedom of the
(Hear, hear.)
THE CONDITION OF TURKEY.

Upon the order of the day for going into Committee of
es
r. 'GREGORY roes to call the attention of the house to
the condition of Turkey and its dependencies. After allud-
ing to • recent partial and premature discussion of what
was generally called the &titan question, he proceeded to
say that the question which was one at the ahadow of
which diplomatista were laid to tremble, ought no longer to
be shirked. hat that parliament should be asked whether
the policy of the pest should be the criterion and standard
et our policy of the future. He did not believe that the
most ardent advocate of the independency of the
Molten was prepared to support la on abstract grounds.
It wee altogether a matter of expediency—of two evils it
was better to choose the least. It had been thought bet-
ter to prop up a d rotten to the heart's core, rather
Ikea face • ton and as European war. He
wee not prepared is Sod fault with the policy of the past.
It was impossible Ms overate what might have been the
effectlof •presnature rush es the amen of the " sick ma,"
leery sumessive English seatimman bad duos his best both
by entreaties and expostulations to endeavour to remedy
the barbarism of Turkish maladministration. If those ex-
postulations and entreaties had borne fruit this would have
been a tindication of the past, and a justification for
000tinuing in the same direction. But those entreaties
and remoustrances and warnings bed not only been
set aside but deliberately disregarded. Besides
which, the rate of Europe wee changed from
what it was when the past policy might have
been expedient. He was ready to admit that among the
lower classes of the people were found LmWity and gala
rainy, but the moment the Turk emerged from that con-
dition those qualities entirely disappeared. There was
so middle class in Turkey, in one acceptation of
the term ; the Turk spoke no foreign language, and
would engage in no 'peculation@ acmes the MS ; and he
(Mr. Gregory) knew so great Turkish beaker or manufac-
turer, or Tuthish house of business. The aristocracy were
bad enough, bat they had disappeared, and had been sna
deeded by a bureaucracy which was infinitely worm. If the
emissaries from Constaatimple ware men of ability, energy,
and honour something might be hoped • hot energy and
losour were not amongst their qualitioes, and bribery
sod corruption were the means by which they governed, Sup-
paling that some foreign dependencies of England were in-
habited by • people as enbmiseive as the people of Lower
Bengal, out of whom the spirit of resistance had been driven
by centuries of orerioo, and suppoaiog they were to
aweep together keepers of the rant, infamous houses
a the Haymarket, actuated by no other idea
than the gratification of their passions, ha,
and avarice, sad mot theme govern those dependencies ;
that was the most Aria parallel be could draw of what
the Turkish government was sad what Turkish rola were.
The result of this rate of things was, that all hope was
'rushed out of the people, and civilisation languished in that
parasitical embrace which killed everything it clung to.
Those who had bees in Asia Visor haw that their horses'
hoofs amused over miles of unfilled land which formerly
was the first cultivated in the world. It might be said
that that was the result of the irruption of foreign invaders ;
but there was still life and vitality left in the country till
the Turk came and trod it oat. Not long ago he read an
account of a Christian community in Asia in which
the writer spoke of the oppression which the Nes-
torian community suffered at the hands of the Turk.
stating that desolation followed wherever the Osmanli
placed his foot, arid that the appearance of the cap of the
TurkuM irregular was the signal for general potatc. The
author of this was Mr. A. H. Lard— (a taught —the vindi-
cator of the oppressed ryot in Bengal, and of the injured
Italian, but whose whole eloquence was now exerted in
mating scorn and oosturnelv upon those unfortunate
Christiana who wasted ado no more than the Italians
bad done. But than woo a ray of light is all this, aad the
policy he would recommend was a very wimple,. .oee
Be would recommend that those stipulations should
be corned out for which went to war with
Russia. sod that they should rtgrasecure those poisonern
of the Porte by taking away the causes of discontent. And
we were encouraged in this came ; for wherever a siogla
province bad escaped from the grasp of the Porte it had im-
proved, and as saw as it had relapsed into the power of the
Pore it had Mora again desolated and degraded. They
bad inertias of this is the case of Albania under All Paolo,
sod of Syne nadir Mehemet AIL All he asked was that
Englsod would see that the stipulations of the treaty were
carried out ; that the moral weight of England should as
far as possible be exerted to procure for the dependsoons
of the Porte the advantages of self-government ; and that
ae far as possible the centralising system of Turkey
might be put an end to; for he was convinced
that the beet we. of governing those dependencies was, as
in the case of Egypt, by means of viceroys. He was ea-
rimed that the time would come before long 'when he
should be justified for having brought forward this
question, sad for having protested against the coati-
snare of a policy which meted solely upon expediency, and
which when that expediency no longer existed biome