The Express.
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THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1847.

be a geed or a bad system, bat it was not one
with which the sentence of the judges had anything
to do. The question was, whet was the best systems;
and when sentence of transportation was passed, bow it was
to be carried into effect. Having said so much ja vladlwatlsu
of the government with regard to what was cad *dr di.
(elation of the system and the law, he woad MOM MOON
to rest the defence of the planproposed on the speeches. of Me
honourable friend near him (Mr. Hawes), of his right
honourable friend the home secretary, and his right bosos
able friend the judge advocate, who bed lately
The change was, he thought, an improvement in the
There must be some change, and the esereete from •
Diemen's Land were such as to compelEse late govemelenit
Ito determine not to carry on the presmat system, and II am
their opinion that it should be abandsned. The sightruM
gentleman (Sir J. Graham) said tbat there were not
meragh, or cells, to confine those poem who were mew
teiseed to transportation, sad reesibre there must be
subsidiary means employed, ark r working in the hulks
or on the public works, if Ailment of the system was edeird.
With regard to a change ha the law, he did not se reel
differ on that part of the girder with the hon. and kerma
gentleman. He thought some pen ago that, as the rusk&
ment of death was takearidywa in many cams tree&
ported= ought not to be to meaty ofilelled; width
it was ; and when he was in he apetergheei a drew
in the law. But it must be dew whit mane treeiden.
don of each particular act of psdhamest, and the let-
tere of each offence, before it coal be decided what mimes
should be punished by transportation, and what by impel.
sonment. This subject would meet with the mire Mew
tion of the government, and with regard te a bill he
making sentences more in accordance with punialumente,
it would also be attended to by the government with a
view to its introduction in another session. But it would be
unwise to introduce two such measures this year. With
these explanations, he would express a hope that the house
would make no objection to these bills. So far from wishing
to commit the government to any future plan, be
was rather anxious that these bills should haves
passed without discussion, and that the subjoin I
of transportation should have been dissented on •
separate motion. (Hear, hear.) No subject earl be
more important or more worthy the attesiles el w
house, but he hoped when the house came to ahem oosk
a bill they would consider the benefit of the weds
as well as that of the mother country. It had best
too much the custom, in passing sentences of transportsd's.
to consult the convenience of this country, by getting rid ed
persons of evil habits, and to take that view of the guanine
alone—that they enre bound to consider the interests of the
colonies, sod in planting provinces which might become
empires in the future, they should endeavour not to make '1
them the seats of malefactors and convicts, but communities
which would set examples of virtue and happiness; and
they ought not, as Lord Bacon said, to be composted of the
scum of this country. (Cheers.)
The house divided.—For going iota committee 124
Against it 76-48
CORN IMPORTATION BILL
On the motion of Lord J. Itessztt, the house resolved
itself into committee, and agreed to a resolution, that the
chairman obtain leave to bring in a bill, further to suspend
until the Ist March next the duties en the importation of
corn. The house resumed, the resolution was reported
forthwith, and leaveN AVIGATION was given te brßlMing in the bill.
..
On the motion of Lord J. Ruserax, the same form was
gone through, and leave given to bring in a bill to allow, for
time to be further limited, the importation of corn from
any country in foreign ships.
LUNATIC ASYLUMS BILL.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, as he understood
the amendments of the Lords to this bill were an inter-
ference with the privileges of this house, he should move
that they be considered that day six menthe, and should
bring in anew bill.
Leave given accordingly.
COMMUTATION OF TITHES ACTS.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE obtained hove to bring in a bill
to amend the Tithe Commutation Acts in England and
Wales. The house adjourned at half-past one o'olode

that it had the most ample grounds and necessity for
defying them. The entire correspondence of Mr.
BULWER and Mr. SOUTHERN proves, that the re-
action against the Portuguese constitutionalists, un-
dertaken by the court of Lisbon, was planned, and
protected, and salaried from Madrid. Mr. SOUTHERN
names the very sum forwarded. The same letters
announce that SALDANHA was but a creature of
CABRAL, and that the whole counter-revolu-
tion in Portugal was a Spanish intrigue, get
up, at French suggestion, for Spanish and French,
not Portuguese, purposes. With such information be-
fore them, it would have been most disgraceful in the
British government not to have resisted most peremp-
torily any attempt at Spanish or French intervention
in Portugal. And we are glad to see that the British
government did resist it.
The Chnesiek and Times assure us, that the French
King made offers to the Queen of PORTUGAL of any
assistance, she might require, to put down her rebel-
lions subjects. The French government, in a subsequent
despatch, disavows having made any offer, cxceptunder
the quadruple treaty, and in concert with England.
With respect to the Spanish government, it pro-
mised, under the Duke of SOTO/SATOH, not to do
more than advance a corps of occupation to the fron-
tier. Under the new ministry of ?settee°, the Spa-
nish cabinet declared that it would concert in all with
England, except a sudden crisis should arrive, over-
throwinf the throne of Donna MARIA.
"M. ACEIECO'a real wishes," writes Mr. BULWER,
"are to arrive at some fair transaction in favour of
the Queen, in concert with ourselves; that he has no
wish to interfere at all with an armed force, and is
not likely to do so without our concurrence."
To this Mr. Binwza adds, that the moderado and
military party might indeed force M. PACEIECO to
intervene alone, but this would be contrary to his
wishes and opinions. Senor PACHECO'S views aro still
more fully stated in Mr. BULWER'e letter of April 13.
Such being the sentiments of the Spanish minister,
it is evident that neither he nor his cabinet menaced
us; and that the only fears of Spanish intervention
could proceed from a military movement or moderado
faction, overruling the minister and precipitating the
army into Portugal. Any such factions movement of a
Spanish party we were bound strenuously. to re-
sist. But we have a very different opinion of
Senor Pecneco, and have fewer objections to enter-
ing into a convention with him for the co-operation of
a corps of Spanish troops, than we should have had if
the assertions of the Zinies and 6'hroniek had been
correct. Far from this, the entire conduct of Senor
PACHECO leads us to consider him as a friend of
Spanish liberty and of English connexion, and as one
whose character and conduct, as evinced' in these
despatches, completely separate him from those mode-
redo and Afrancesado factions, whose intervention or
influence in Portugal we should most strenuously
oppose.
At the same time we cannot but think that our
diplomatic agents in the peninsula somewhat exagge-
rated the fears and difficulties, with which they were
beset. Sir HAMILTON SEYMOUR seems to have been
in a continued state of needless alarm. That diplo-
matist was hourly affected by fears and suspicions,
quite unfounded ; and his venting of these feelings
of alarm has evidently infected and un-Englified our
cotemporariee. The story of M. De VARENNEB having
offered the unconditional aid of France to Donna MARIA
is evidently an exaggeration and mistake, arising
from the state of Sir HAMILTON SEYMOUR'S nerves.
A Spanish ship in the Tagus', with some Spanish
marines, threw him into terrors of Spanish interven-
tion on another occasion. Then the envoy enter-
tained exaggerated fears of the Miguelites, of whom
Mr. SOUTHERN formed a far more correct apprecia-
tion. In fact, whether it was owing to his personal
connexion with the COBURO family, or to tempera-
ment, Sir HAMILTON SEYMOUR had a HMO= tender-
ness for Queen Donna MARIA, which has led to many
errors in opinion here. Even in the conditions im-
posed on the Queen, it is evident that Sir IL SEYMOUR
would have relaxed and allowed that obstinate female
despot to exclude her political foes from the amnesty,
if the firm and positive order of Lord PALMERSTON
had not precluded the possibility.
Mr. BULWER has shown great ability and address
throughout these negociations. In the early part of
them his success in combating the efforts and influ-
ence of COSTA CABRAL at Madrid, even at a time
' when French and moderado influence prevailed, is
very remarkable. Some of his lettere, however,
betray, we think, an exaggerated fear of Spanish
pretensions to intervene. We should, moreover, have
desired that his instructions had permitted his replies
to menaces or insinuations of this kind to have been
more firm. These interventions of Spain in Portuguese
affairs are bad precedents, and we venture to predict
their terminating one day in conquest and absorption.
The French telegraph has put us in possession of
the latest news from Portugal, to the effect that DAs
ANTAS, with the best of his troops, had been cap-
tured, no doubt after having embarked, as he threat-
ened to do, at Foz. It is to be hoped that, thus
reduced, the members of the Junta may yield, and
that, as our plenipotentiaries contemplate, further
bloodshed may be spared.
Even then, however, we have undertaken no
easy or enviable task. We have stopped the
liberals of Portugal in the very height and cer-
tainty of triumph, and, having done so, as our
own agents avow, we are bound to see that
liberal party put permanently in possession of those
rights, which the Queen has promised. Moreover,
we have sanctioned the armed intervention of a Spa-
nish force, for the purpose of putting down a body of
Portuguese liberals. By. this act, we fear, the parties
of Portuguese and Spanish courtiers, Portuguese and
Spanish exallaclos, are for ever linked and identified ;
the interests and fortunes of the two countries are
intermingled, and the independence of the lesser coun-
try becomes henceforth a reed for every wind to shake,
and for every power to pretend to modify or infringe.
And much do we fear that the quadruple treaty, as
' now interpreted and applied to liberal as well as
absolutist insurgents, will prove a convenient tool of
despotism, and an inexhaustible source of trouble to
• England, of injustice and oppression to Portugal.

Twegreat mischief which lies at the bottom of all
others in our law of debtor and creditor, is the process
against property in favour of the individual creditor.
The process against goods, or writ of Teri facial, in
nine cases out of ten, either is at first, or becomes in
the end, an instrument of fraud. The maxim of the
common law, rigilantibus non dorntientibut omenrrit
kr, or, in English, " the law helps those who help
themselves," involves as a consequeme that if a man
takes the trouble to sue his debtor be is at Meaty
to satisfy his claim out of his debtor's nr•PaW.
though there be a hundred
.other with
exacy the same demands as his, but who have either
neglected to seek legal means of recovery, or been
anticipated in doing so by the activity of one out of
the whole number. If the debtor have 2001. worth of
prowty, and ten debtors, each of 1001., to pay out of
it, the first who sues and proves his debt, takes his
1001. with costs, which probably exhausts the estate,
and nothing is left for the rest. They may. ail have
mita pending, but the one who gets Judgment
and execution firstonakes a clean sweep, just as much
es if he were the sole debtor or the sole plaint/I
'nisi', unjust. There is this further evil. The prao-
ties bads to a scramble, in which, occasionally, the
property itself disappears. Sometimes two creditors
oome in neck and neck. Two executions are lamed,
and two seizures going on at the same time. In a
case at Southampton, mentioned by Mr. Commissioner
Faux (to whom
elesiniblic is mainly indebted for ex-
pose, of the evils of our bankruptcy and in-
solvency laws bailee the two judgment creditor,
the auditor to a fiat took part in the
b.
The property Word was a hair dresser and perfumer's
desk. One of the executive creditors, and the sheriff's
tam acting in his interest, threw a quantity of the per.
homy cat of the wiedow, thinking probably that this was
**Wend mods dilating it into the steed, sad carrying
it ow. The roreatioo, of course, tke &streaks of the
MiliF. ha maks was hmeght by the migoose; bat it
.411=4"siffieg elm the law helped these who
sp,Arder this system, hurried sales are knocked
virhich by collusion between sheriffs' officers
and brokers, the most nefarious sacrifices of property
take place.
But no evil, in such eases, is at all equal to the in-
justice which satisfies one creditor at the expense of
thereat
We have been considering the ease in which the
suitors in execution is bona fide. But in very many
ease', the common law is resorted to not by the cre-
ditur against the debtor, but really and truly by the
debtmagainst the creditor. He finds a friend of ea may I
constimes as his own, or a man of straw to sue. He kb
judgment go by default. Execution issues. Mean-

while he defends the action brought by the bond fsde
creditor. The law furnishes him with only. too many
means of procrastination. All are set :n motion,
special demurrers, rotten pleas, and judge's orders.
When, at last, judgment is signed and execution'
issues, the creditor finds that " the friend" has been
beforehand with him, and he is left to pay the costa of
his attorney, and swear at the common law. ,
Meanwhile, if the property be furniture, the head
fine creditor has the annoyance of seeing his debtor in
grinning enjoyment of chairs and tables, which he
declares he pays rent for to the convenient friend and I
judgment cre&tor aforesaid; and if goods, he is driv-
utg a roaring trade, selling them, as he impudently
declares, merely as the agent of the same dens ex
machines, the real " friend in need," and accounting to
him most religiously for the proceeds. The honest
creditor knows the humbug of all this. The debtor b
hardly at the pains to laugh in his sleeve. But as
things stand common law affords no better remedy.
Besides the submission to execution in favour of a
friendly or fictitious creditor, the dishonest debtor
may mono his property to the same convenient
friend, in satisfaction of a fictitious debt, the rascality
of which proceeding, in nine cases out of ten, the bowl
fide creditor is unable to prove at law. If he ventures
on the attempt, his snit is transferred from the debtor
to the debtor's straw friend, and he finds himself as
Mr. Fess puts it : " As helpless as a blind man in a
contest with two thieves, each 'seeing perfectly well,
and each a master of his weapons." Need we wonder,
then, that it is found in practice that only one creditor
in eight ventures to sue his debtor at common law P
But suppose ho has recourse to the bankrupt law.
It must be remembered that this only extends to
traders ; that debts under 501., due to single persons
or partners, are not within the protection of this
law; that there is very great difficulty in forcing a ,
debtor to commit an act of bankruptcy ' • and that
under the law there is no sufficient punishment for
fraud.
But deficient as the bankrupt law may be in
these points (and that it is deficient, at least
in cheapness, ie found in the fact, that to
" work a fiat," even in a small estate, costs 100/., of
which the court takes half), it has the good effect
of distributing the property of the debtor among his
creditors. AU changes in the law should tend to
assimilate the effect of judgment and execution, at
common law, to that of a fiat in bankruptcy in this
particular. Let all execution against property be for
the benefit of all creditors. It would not be difficult I
to construct a machinery for this purpose, or rather to
accommodate existing machinery to the production of 1
this result. We would not presume to offer the
following outline, except as a proof that there is no
insurmountable difficulty in the way.
Let every creditor who is anxious to recover be
required to appear and make affidavit of his debt
before the Court of Bankruptcy. Let the court thereon'
issue its summons to the debtor. He appears sad
admits the debt, or declares that be has a geed
defence to the whole or part. If he admits the debt,
the court fixes a day before which he must either
pay, or make some arrangement satisfactory to
his creditor. If he fail, execution issues against
his property for the benefit of all his creditors, such
failure being considered, ipso facto, an act of bank-
ruptcy. If he assert that he has a good answer to
the demand, let him give security to defend the
action within a certain time, and in default let him
be declared, at the end of a further period, at once
bankrupt, and let his property be distributed under ,
the bankrupt law. If he defend the action, let
the costa be at the discretion of the judge.
When the debtor is adjudged to pay them,
let them be taken out of the properly
in the first instance, the suing creditor being rei
as the agent of the rest, and then let the remainder
be distributed among all, as in the other case. If his
defence be declared frivolous by. the judge, let him be
severely punishable, by imprisonment, and, if bis
affidavit have had no grouud of truth whatever, let
him be liable at once, and necessarily, to the legal
consequences of perjury.
Every debtor is either solvent or insolvent. If
advent, this course would bring him summarily and
'haply to book, without the delay and cost of an
mike. If insolvent, not temporarily, but hopelessly
sail completely, some such proceeding as we have
sketched might often be the means of arresting him
on the road to ruin, and saving something out of the
wreck for his creditors. If his difficulties were only
temporary, it would Five an opportunity for
arrangement and composition. The law before it
could give effect to all equitable compositions between
debtors and creditors must get rid of such absurdities
as those involved in the well known case of " Camber
v. Wayne," the soundness of which, as reported, we are
glad to see has lately been questioned. The doctrine
held in that case seems equally at variance with sound
commercial policy and common sense. It amounted
to this, that a creditor cannot bind himself by a simple
agreement to accept a smaller sum in lieu of an ascer-
tained debt of larger amount. Thus if A, a shaky
debtor and not over-scrupulous, owe B, a respectable
and not vindictive creditor, 1001., and B seeing
symptoms that A is meditating a " smash" or a
" bolt," begins to tremble for his debt, and offers to
Ato release him from all claim on payment of 101. ;
lin a word, to take YE. and wash his hands of the
'man altogether ; the law interferes to prevent A from
so binding himself, and calls the arrangement " a
nudism pactum." But if, besides the SOL, A offers
to take 50/. and a Mick of sealing wax, or SOI. and •
red :herring, such an agreement is a good one at
common law, because there is then thrown in a "bene-
fit, or legal possibility of benefit," to the creditor," which
will turn the scale, and render the consideration suffi-
cient to support the agreement." Well might Coss
remark that, "the reason of the law is not like man's

common reason."
The first mischief, then, to be got rid of, in our law
of debtor and creditor is, execution against property
for the benefit of a single creditor. The subject of
arrest must be reserved for another occasion.

Mr. I. SHAW LTHEVRE has addressed the elec-
tors of the University of Cambridge. In these
days of subdued party spirit, and of a de-
mand for excellence and eminence in special
talents and acquirements, few ought to have higher
' claims to sit in parliament than Mr. LEFEVRE. His
distinguished academical career gives him pecu-
liar rights in addressing the university. Mr.
LEFEVHed life, since he quitted Trinity,
has been a busy and a useful one. He has been suc-
cessively Under Secretary of State, Poor-law Com-
missioner, and Secretary of the Board of Trade ;
proving, by his perfect accomplishment of the
duties of these offices, that a man of science and
learning may be also one of the best men of business,
a feet than which none could more tend to enhance
the character of our universities and their education.
At the same time, science and learning require
representatives in parliament, although hitherto the
universities seem not to have thought so. At a time
when the great commercial centres and communi-
ties of the kingdom are displaying in general an
absence of extreme political feeling, and substituting
for such a close attention to the especial interests and
development of commercial enterprise, the universi-
ties should come to consider academical interests
apart from the old fanatical speculations about
church and state. To members of the universities so
disposed, Mr. LEFEVRE will be a welcome candidate.

WE have at last received the official statement of
the votes in the second Chamber of the Prussian Diet,
on the various modifications of the proposal to petition
the King to convene the Chambers at least once every,
twa years. The results are curiously illustrative of
the actual position of the Prussian legislature.
A motion that the King be requested to acknow-
ledge the right of the Diet to be summoned annually
to deliberate on the estimates of the year, or that his
Majesty, if disinclined to do so, should submit an al-
ternative proposal to them, was supported by 260 and
opposed by 247 votes. A majority of two-thirds
being required to carry a motion of this kind, it was
held to be negatived.
A motion that the King be requested in considera-
tion of legislative Fecedeats and general utility to
consent to summon the Diet annually, or propose
some other periodical term of meetingorm supported by
327 and opposed by 171 votes. The majority was only
six votes short of the required majority of two-thirds.
Had three of the members who cried " nay " cried
" aye," the motion would have been carried. But
this not being the case, 171 voters are held to out-
number 327. _ _ . .

A motion, that on grounds of right and utility,l
the King be requested to convene the Diet once every
two years, was supported by 287 and opposed by 205
votes, and, of course, according to the very peculiar
political arithmetic of Prussia, held to be lost.

Lastly, a vote was taken on a motion differing from
the preceding simply by the omission of the word
iresbesondere (especially), by simply requesting those
who supported it to rise, and the minority gave in
without counting the voters.
The King and his ministers are fighting a losing
battle for mere words. In an assembly so talented, so
judicious, yet so firm as the second chamber of the
Prussian Diet has shown itself to be, 327 gentlemen
will not long acquiesce in the legal fiction that they ails
outnumbered by 171. The Prussian government is
wantonly courting public dislike.

The affair of M. Emile do Girardin occupied the
public and the press in Paris on Wednesday. That
deputy was brought before the select committee
of the Chamber on Tuesday, bat it not being
open to the public or to reporters, and the members
having come to an agreement not to disclose what
should take place there until the report shall be
laid before the Chamber, no information of a certain
kind could be obtained. Numerous and contradictory
reports were of course in circulation, none of which
appear worth repeating. M. de Girardin was again
to appear before the committee on Thursday. It is un-
derstood that he declines to produce any documents or
evidence before the committee, reserving these either
for the Chamber itself or for the peers, should he be
sent there.
Much embarrassment is Fiven to the cabinet by the
absence of M. Duchatel, Minister of the Interior, who
has retired to Tronville, on the alleged ground of in-
disposition. It is, however, affirmed, that indisposi-
tion is little more than a pretext to render it more
manifest how much the cabinet depends on him. He
is not on the best terms with M. Guizot.
A cabinet council was held at the Tuileries on Tues-
day, to decide on the measures to be taken respect-
ing the governorship of Algeria, vacated by Marshal
Buraud. The resignation of the marshal is defi-
nitively accepted. It is now said that he will be suc-
ceeded by General Itumigny, who had, on a former
occasion, been for a short time interim governor of
, the colony. If this report be well founded' the mea-
sure will be one adopted merely as the harbinger of
the vice-royalty of the Duke d'Aumalc.
Advices from Berlin have been received in Paris to
the effect that M. de Hochow, the minister of Prussia
at the court of St. Petersburg, had arrrived in that
city, and was the bearer of grave intelligence respect-
ing the health of the Emperor, and respecting the ge-
neral discontent which prevailed at St. Petersburg
respecting recent events.
The Conetitutionnel says that numerous arrests have
for some time been made among the military of the
garrison of Paris. Soldiers of different arms are seen
conducted continually under escort to the Abbaye, a
I place now used as a military prison.
The attempted intervention of the French minister
at Berne with the head of the federal government, in
hew of the separate league of the seven cantons
(which we alluded to yesterday), has roused the in-
dignation of the liberal opposition, who allege that
M. Guizot in this matter is basely truckling to Aus-
tria, and Le National even asserts that the note of M.
Bois le Conte to the president of the confederacy. M.
I Ocheenbein, was written at Vienna. " The bad style
of this note," says Le Natiooal, ' is apparent. It
seems to have been verbally dictated by Austria. It
is written in the French spoken at Vienna."
A serious disaster has occurred on the new line of
railway between Avignon and Marseilles, which was
just ready to be opened. The viaduct which carried
the railway over the river Neurthe, one of the prin-
cipal works of art upon the line, has fallen. The
particulars of this event had not reached Paris, but it
appears that no lives have been lost. The damage to
the company will amount to from two to three
millions of francs.

The Madrid correspondence of the 4th has been
received, but is without interest. No journals ap-
peared on the 4th, in consequence of the festival held
on the 3rd.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MAI' 19.
On the 16th inst. an extraordinary council of
ministers was held at the Porte, relative to the dif-
ference existing between Turkey and Greece. On
the following day an order was issued by the govern-
ment for depriving the Greek consuls resident in the
Ottoman empire of their exequaturs. It has also been
decreed by the Porte that in one month's time from
I the date of this order, the coasting trade between
Turkey and Greece will be stopped, and the importa-
tion of the productions of the -latter country will be
prohibited throughout the Sultan's dominions. At
the time that the Porte came to the above de-
cision, they were fully aware that Coletti had
written to Prince de Metternich, asking his
advice in the present question, and promising
to abide by it, whether it should be to
yield to, or to resist, the demands of the Turkish
government. That the reply of the Austrian minister
would be in harmony with the wiiles of the Porte it
was natural to conclude. It was known here, from a
sure source, that it had been agreed between King
Otho and Coletti that on the receipt of Prince de
Metternich's reply, the latter should resign and make
it appear that he was forced to do so by the united
influence of England, Russia, and Austna. This, it
was supposed, would increase the sympathy already
existing amongst the populace in favour of Coletti,
and would be an additional means of securing the suc-
cess of his party in the elections. The new cabinet
would be formed with the majority of its members de-
voted to theex-minister. After the opening of the cham-
bers Coletti would continue for some time to influence
the acts of the government from without, and when a
favourable opportunity offered he would again return
to office. It was the knowledge of these facts which
determined the council of ministers, held at the Porte,
on the 16th instant, to come to the resolution mentioned
above. They hope by these vigorous measures to
terminate matters before Coletti can put his plan into
execution.
It is very evident that Coletti wishes to conciliate
the Russian party in Greece. lie has given several
of the leaders a place in the cabinet. His object
seems to be to create a fusion between them and the
French party. As we foresaw, the Emperor Nicholas's
note, of which we sent you a copy is a former letter,
arrived very mel cipropos for Coletti's projects. He
denies stoutly the existence of any such note, and
says that it is a weak invention of the English
minister. He asserts openly that he is sure
of Russian support, and that the Emperor will
never abandon his cause, which is that of
Greece sad of Christianity. A despatch was received
at Athens from the Bavarian minister at Paris, which
seemed to shake Coletti's reliance on the French go-
vernment. He had written to Guizot, through
the Bavarian minister, requesting to know what part
France would take in case Greece should be forced
into hostilities. M. Guizot was said to have replied
that France would do all she could to restore ami-
cable relations between Turkey and Greece, and that
in case her efforts proved ineffectual, and a war be-
tween these two powers supervened, she would re-
main neutral. Coletti feels the support of France
rather uncertain, and therefore it is that he is now look-
ing more anxiously than ever towards Russia. It is
very probable that his wish to see a cordial under-
standing between these two powers in Greece will be
very shortly gratified, but it is not equally probable
that a combination of the kind will tend to the advan-
tage, either of Coletti, rig oft a Xing Otho himself.

Abe Cow.
The Queen visited her Majesty the Qom Dowager,
yesterday, at Marlbogizeliewee. Majgaty also took
an airing in an open mai bar.
H.R.H. Prince animal by lasat.-Colonel
the Hon. C. B. Phipps sad Coked Dear" resided yes-
terday at a meeting of the Society bribe lossengsment of
Arta, Manufactures, and Commerce, fa his4esse,A4klphi.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, a by the
Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady Caroline Cache, Has. ins Paget,
Lord Canals, Lord Alfred Paget, end Colossal Benverie,
honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre with
their presence yesterday evening.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge, attended by
Lady Augusta Cadogan and Baron Kneeebeck, honoured
Mrs. Lawrence with a Matt yesterday, at her residence,
Eel-
ing_Park. Rival Memel& partook of a de,jeil ne.
Their RR. HH. the Hereditary Grand Duke and
Grand Duchies of Sue Weimar, attended by their suite,
visited and inspected the British Museum yesterday.
MILH. the Duchess of Cambridge honoured the
Earl Cadogan with her oompany at dinner, last evening, at
his residence, in Piccadilly.

of Metropolitan Improvements
yesterday, at the office of her Majesty's
_of Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-place.
There were present Viscount Morpeth, Lord Lyttelton,
Lord Colborne, Sir R. H. Inglis, Sir C. Lemon, the Right
Hon. J. C. }terries, and Mr. Hope. The Ecclesiastical
Commissioners for England had a general meeting, yester-
day, at their office to Whitehall-place.

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