The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-28 00:00:00

wee a fads, wee the rely we ea reseed width, after having
• reedilled decheel mem, hid deported from it. Of coon*
he refound dim to Ibis meted teepostay et Ireland, which
wee sew abolished. (Laughter.)
Mr. ['HEIL mid he had felt that it would be officious
on his part to intrude himself no the house before the
Chancellor of the Each qua. (Hear, !star, and laughter.)
He had directed his attention to thin subiect in Ireland, and
in reply to a letter which he wrote to the Chancellor of the
Etchequer, he received an answer conveying the same
opinions in rubstanee which his right hon. friend hadyust
exessed. Having afterwards written to Mr. Trevelyan on
thusubject, that gentleman communicated with Mr. Pen-
nington. The latter gentleman, %peaking of Professor De
Morgan's plan, published in 1811, said, "In this way,
no doubt, a decimal currency miaht be established,
but mark the consequences. A labourer whore wages
were 10,1. a dap, and who, at the end of a week, might
expect to he in possession of 60 pence,.4 240 farthing., would
find that he multi obtain for that, not ss. in silver, bat only
4s. 2d." It was added that a shopkeeper, who had been in
the habit of selling an article for 3d . and who expected for
four of thaw articles to receive the value of Is., would find
that he had to receive four per cent. lees. (Hear, hear.)
He had consulted some gentlemen eminent for their know-
ledge of the science of numbers, and they thought there
would be no difficulty in dealing with any sum above 6d.
If there Were a new coinage, all new coinage would, of
emirs., be made with reference to it. (Hear, hear.) He
thought the 3. piece might be called a royal, the Is. half
a royal, sod Gd. a quarter of • royal.
Mr. W. BROWN observed, that he had bean in the habit
of keeping accounts both in decimals and in the English
coinage. When the Americans changed pounds -hillings
and pence into decimals, for a short period some little diffi-
culty was experienced by tradesmen, but as the law of the
United States required that amounts should he kept In dol.
his and tents, the matter soon b-eansc familiar, and it was
found that decimals afforded a much smaller chance of mis-
take. He hoped that the government would at the earliest
possible period adopt the decimal mode of reckoning.
Sir 0. CLERK feared that as the two-shilling piece would
in site be so near that of the half-crown piece, many persona
would be led into mistakes.
Dr. BOWRINO said he would not press his motion. He
believed that the government would soon be able to introduce
the decimal system with the concurrence of the nation.
The motion woe then withdrawn.
IRISH RAILWAYS.

In reply to a question from Mr. B. OsBORNII,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said be
would bring forward this subject on Friday next.
ETAT& OF GREECE.
Lord I. MANNERS, on rising to eall the attention of the
house to the present condition of Greece, said that the ex-
pectations which were raised when E ,gland, at the instance
of Mr. Canning, took a leading part in the liberation of
Greece, and the important Eon:mean consequences which
most ensue if es present reign of imbecility, cruelty, and
extravagance of all sorts were permitted to continue, must
he his excuse for venturing to ask the attention of the house
to a subject which he knew was rather against its tastes and
disposition. He would first very shortly tncc out the
condition of Greece. In 1832, when the King of Bavaria
accepted the throne of Greece for his younger sou, he entered
into stipulations that a constitution should be given to the
Greeks, and the three ;striven, France, England, and Russia,
=el to advance a loan of 800.0001. eseh, the interest of
wee to be repaid by instalments from the national
exchequer. Eleven years 'missed away without either of
them stipulation being fulfilled. In 1839 Count Nes.
mired* wrote to the Russian minister at Athens urging
payment of the interest, bat without effect : the English
government was equally active and equally energetic; but
if the Mars which he moved for were granted, it would be
shown that this country was still paying 40,0001. a year as
interest of the loan. The Greek people, however, at length
worn oat by a series of oppressions, rose almost as one man,
and by a Monitor revolution, conducted with far less of
anger and disturbance than any other revolution which
modern times had witnessed, succeeded in procuring the fel-
filmset of the stipulation as to a constitution. It was then
biped that in future the affairs of Greece would be cott-
ontail ms better prisciplos : but he grieved to say,
AM thee lope bed ma ban ensured. (Rear, hear.) In 1844
the esaikka •10e008011•S la bad as it had been previously;
amd the amens% iesdred elm, day of the violence, the ex-
iled in widen entreges which were committed on
1111:Zgyapoirfitld dm meet painfully that the expseta-
Mem salliagln laU had not hitherto been fulfilled. There
Aloe we dm net merely with the tacit consent, but by
Or melbeeity ef them in power; and acting under the
evened indemmes et ether powers, Greece was in 1817 re-
amed ts • esmilifies which would, be thought, justify the
Olgenteina et en unanimous opinion of reprobation and
einem. Re venid now proceed to show how the
ceneelleled metineltise had connived at, and, indeed,
themmierjerpalnibed, some of these most extraordinary
croaks embeses on life and property. The governor
et Praia. anode) Y. Coletti, the prime minister, said
thiltems aim et the government, whether designedly or
elbeirwhe, embed the people to rebellion, and compelled
Mem le Me rep gems against the government, or to do
inglhing to Mimi thimmelves from that oppression, per-
sonal, umMelei, nee moral. under which they were crushed.
A petition premeed to the Chamber from Patina not more
than two maths age, stated that the members of a family
bad bias arrested and subjected to torture for three days,
sad thmt• all their effects were sold. A petition from
11••••• i• maid that the tortures which had been en.
awed there were unheard of and horrible ; some
had been inemedei by the feet, others by their arms
sod bp, wham missy bad had their flesh torn and their
ban mralilated. So late ago as September 3, 1848, the cons-
sagnisr el the sth battalion writing to the minister of
Orem en the subject of brigandage in Ammonia, which he
had been sent there to pat dews, said he was impelled to
slob that briendmie we eltiefiy mmeureged by the
=iliof the gerernammt. An asses* free Athens
a sem shoe peeeimee was aqiessi Im a erten of
promessien of whisk II bed lent the reemery tine. the end
stall Pasha's goverammett. In fact the outrages committed
under the Greek povirremnit greatly exceeded those which
led been cossunitted fermerly wader the Turkish one.
(hem her.) In the province of Laconia a town had
been Alma destroyed hi uenes of an election contest.
Belie mew bed to debt ether infringement. on the °coati-
hallenet °seem Under the existing administration the
yealS/1•••••1 of Adams which had always been re.
the Tads, end whisk produced about 8,0001. a.
been Mead end ersindered by the government.
A similar alum Ind been penned with respect to the mo-
Mdpal revenue et ether towns. But what was more grow
Wei, that Mareesenlato, who was universally admitted to be
Me of the gredist me in Greece, though elected for no less
then bet Mimi elseleral districts, had been prevented,
saw aorm ideskem, bon taking his seat in the chamber.
DA be me isms tea part of the case which was perhaps
liagia bases/ tine to an English audience, for, having
yid taper in consequence of the mismanagement
des .et the net, they certainly had a right to
ie
war r "thee bard upon this 'object. In narrating
Me eberammeemese he need go no further back than last year.
The Greek Mists. of Finance then told the representatives
that the nailing treasury was in a state of complete disor-
iiii mid that he could give neither an account
111rstimest me if the expenditure of the country, and
mad fermi& se budget in consequence of the frauds com-
mitted on ON Mate by the public functionaries. Re
added that stilliess were owing to the state, though he could
met tell by vibes. (A laugh.) In the budget which he
I=j Ilhe anent of the large foreign debt, owing to
Tame, sad Russia, was totally omitted. The
Immo sr an mem was placed at 14,488,299 draclunes,
neigh, et 14,788,548 drachmas, leaving a deficit
of . chimes. On seeing such a budget presented
emote to Sir E. Lyona, and stated that her
t looked on this • n as a falai&
=lVirg= eiresenomty and retrenchment made by
the Greek rablisily on their seessaion te °aloe, and come-
r:24 jestilping the ant of Greet Britain in
that a of the 1•••••11 of Greece
amid& be appnerialeil the pigment of the interest upon
the leery and ts- adding, that 11- mob a seen continued to
be pusenisi, they should tuts seek meararee as might seem
netawsr, to prevent the squandering of the national
revenues mad the emisminest sacrifice of British rights
through the avenging, re corruption of the public often.
Akar se straw an expeenion of opinion by one usually so
I ailed have been expected that the statesmen of
tariff,
have applied themselves to the subject. But
WM* marsh followed. On tn. third day of February
La the same minister of finance told the chamber that
be eeeld on longer conceal that the robberies committed on
the public revenue pealed all measure. But this, he mid,
wee set the Mk of the minister. Things had arrived at
welt a pees that it was impossible to put an end to the abuses.
On benrieg this, the Judge-Advocate of the Royal Court of
Athens mid not longer east wide his anger, and ex-
chimed : wit mais things exist, it is the minister who ought
le be pmbhheL" This caused an uproar. It was averred
als ion dome sinister had falsified the finance report
=dews Mthe horse, end that he had else
the ISM average. of the country. A eim
MOM we Ofilliated to inquire into the
s=
time, mad they that the Maim v
oreghteibe It was right to say, lirinnar, did
a indmity of ha the chamber rejected that
bet Abe-11sense adobes' meesrdielen owned to the balsa/
a past et it—eismaly.thefehlleadea et the dross report
aad hiedldmerif tram the sharp by tillyied that he
wee matamtel by patriotic motives, and that, If he had
shows a Ims if revenue, foreign governments would '
have ssetmi a pasties of their debts to be dithered !
(Gem hen)) It we redly ahead bsperibb to meet that
• stem stasis I. snit a whim as this wiebert of the
ilibesk arson mead bans mob on animism et soh a de-
eniptisa. He wesemesy te be singed, bellies be emeehaimd, to
Muds to the emilimppy batters by wbbil snob &minister wee
sepported. Thome nes as ea% , in bliing
fro. Caletil limn bed dembeedhowever that it was .. France
that had Shea thew se = pe._ressate—Yraimee that had
=admidelle their France that bad plated
their dimasel." Det=../1. Gamed was so
shushes( a eboneter Sallie weal& pus with-
out babe It we nmeeney, Gmeedise, that he shad& direct
attention to whoa bad been said by a mini uses iysemna
pereaa—ao bee as Whiled them Y. Galant bimeelC
Rare ea How. NiSielia elmseved that thine wen met 40
members present is the braes, mad, streespem herbs been
mimed to withdrew, the Mae was wineselosa aim
beingleis lima 40 members present, the beer dad ad
karma& sag this day.

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