The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-29 00:00:00

GREECE AND THE lONIAN ISLANDS.

Mr. D. GRIFFITH having asked the noble lord at the
head of the government what would be the nature of the
guarantee to be entered into to prevent the future acquisi-
tion of the loeian Woods by any other power than Greece,
and which of the European powers would be the parties by
whom that guarantee would be executed,
Lord PALMERSTON (mistaking the question for one of
which Mr. C. Bentinek had given notice, viz.:
whether the representatives of England, France,
and Ramis, resident in Athena, had lately
made a protest against the state of aff,in now existing in
that city and its neighbourhood, and in whet terms •
and whether a copy of such protest would be laid
upon the table, with other papers relating to Greece),
mid—The representatives of England, France, and Russia,
resident in Atheism, have made a protest against the state of
affairs at present existing in that city mad its neighbour-
hood, and that protest will be laid upon the table of the
home with the other papers relating to the recent condition
of Greece. I should state with regard to the disturbences
is that country, that there are agenta at work for the purr-
pow of preventing the establishment of Prince William of
Denmark as King of Greece, and who ace therefore desirous
of throwing every possible difficulty and emberrasameut,
both in Greece and elsewhere, in the way of the accomplish.
meet of such an event ; bat those efforts, I can assure the
hon. gentleman, will be entirely fruitless, and the new King
will go to (trews, sod will, I trust, establish tranquillity is
that country.
Mr. D. GRIFFITH drew the noble lord's attention to
the misapprobeesion of his object, and repeated his question.
Lord PALMERSTON repli-d that the treaty by which
the territorial hesitations of Greece were fixed received the
sanction of the different powers, and no change, there-
fore, could he made in it without their consent. The

treaty by which the lonian Islands wouid be ceded to
Greece, would obtain the sanction of tke same powers;
and the transfer of throe islands to any other stets coul
not, he presumed, take plans without their concurrence.
FORCED LABOUR IN EGYPT.

Mr. D. GRIFFITH asked whether there was any truth in
the amertion made by H. Lassepe in his report to the
shareholders of the Suez Canal, in which, for the purpose of
palliating or defending the employment of forced labour
on that mark, he undertakes to any, " The company of the
English steamers in therrestabliahmeot at Suez are provided
by the Egyptian government with the porters and labourers
uicrrfor the embarkation and debarkation of their
cargos by means of forced labour (travail obligatoire).^
Lord PALMERSTON—I cannot be answerable for any
smarte' of H. Lemma. Ido not know whether or not it is
a fact that forced labour is employed by the l'emosular and
Oriental Company for the p upper stated in the hoe. gentle•
man's question ; but it is quite certain that whaliever the
order oft the Sultan for putties an end to forced labour in
Emit shall come into operation, that order mast apply as
will to those persons employed by the Yealostalar and (Ahem
tal Company as to the labourers employed by any other par-
ties in k.eypt.