The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-18 00:00:00

LMPERIAL I'ARLIAMENI.

HOUSE OF LORDS-41ONDAT,Nit 17.
TM Loose ion at 6 o'clock, Lord CANIPPILL tit Speaker.

JUDGES OF ASSIZE BILL.
Os Mt. motion of Lord CAMPBELL this hill wits read
'Mad Mac

PRIVILEGE.
Lord BROIJOIIAM—t an sorry to address your lord-
**, on scot • talon, but I have gives notice to the pule
and he refines to comply with the orders of the house. No
gmtliesisa hos • nine to he is the penmen gallery ; no-
bodyorn has a right to be than but perness and the daughter,
of p
Uri CAMPBELL Femme and the unmarried
daughter, of peers
'Lied BROUGHAM—If he does an wane dews, I shall
mom your lordships to neon. the order of the bean. It is
OA MOM intolerable that that podiums Ilse splines assigned
Men is this limn, and he ought to take hie see, for he is
sow eseluding two pennies. f" Hen. hear," and Inighter.)
[After • short paten, daring which the patlemen in clam
non retained his seat in the peeresses gallery, the noble aad
learned lord proceeded]-1 now prom
tei move that
the standing order he anima/ed. Do not appeal that Ido
this is any spirit of discourtesy. I gave ample notice to the
gestlassaa that it be oh] not come out of that plain where
he Ms so right to be, 1 should address your lordships on the
subject. (The Depute Caber of the black Rod was then
directed to remove the gentleman.)
Mr. Pullman and a messenger shortly after tutored the
gallery, when the gentleman in question, who was said to be
the Chevalier Hunan, the Prussian minister to this sounts
immediately left. followed by severe! ladies. The eibearm
Soo of the noble until d lord caused great exeltemest
in the house, which was much erowded, and apparent
digestion amongst the ladies n the pinery.
SHERIFF OF WESTMORELAND BILL.
Oa the motion of the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, this
hill was read a Mir 1 time and poles%
AFFAIRS OF GREECE.
Lord STANLEY : My lords, I know not whether, at the
moment at which I rise to address your lordships upon the
most important question which I hare given notice of bring-
ing under your consittermioe, the anticipations
which the Doti, marquis (Lansdowne) entertained
some eight or ten days ago have been realised or sot; that
at this moment to. unhappy differences which hays pre-
veiled between her Majesty's government and that of Frame*
have heel bringht to an anicabl- conclusion; or whether points
of &inane will rennin unsettled; but I am sure I speak
sincerely when I say, if they do so remain unsettled, I hops
and trust they are about to be broagb: to a speedy sad satis-
factory conclusion. Bat in any ene, whether those anted-
pati ens have bees realised or sot, I foil toothiest that the
noble =argyle wilt ant think that • 'foie-rent cause for
pressing upon me (as undoubtedly I shall sot feel it a ref-
anent cause for seceding to the request) a further post-
ponement of 'his discussion. Nay, my lords, I may Iss
permitted to doubt whether the postponement whisk tau
already taken place may not rather have had the West Sf!
retard=: than palerstine a final settlement rat this ques-
tion, which evety one most most eagerly desire, with a
view to the great interests of the whole world, and to the
maintenance of the good staderstauding between the French
government and the OOVIIIMPOOIIt of England. In truth, im-
portant as those circumstances are, vially important as
thing ant be which touches the amicable relations and cor-
dial good understanding between two notions so powerful
and intimately c monied as England end Franey. yet I feel
this question. great aid important m it ts, is tans an loci-
dental, sad m it were a ruppl =rotary, pen of the great glace-
tin which I am desirous of bringiag under your lotdenips'
mensidirratim—so mach so that I most beg you to remember
that n do pressing events are apt to thrust out of view those
kleh have prec,.:ed th m. I must remind your lordship
thot bs fore any intimation of the good offices and mediation
of Fusee were mode, I had stated an intention of calling
your lordship.' emir. to the pr-tvedines of the British go-
vernment and the British minister wi-h reward is Greece ;
and that that separate and distinct motion was only post-
ret the request of the noble marquis, founded on that
esiention which it was then hoped would les t to • speedy
and amicable settlement of these matters; end which now,
unfortunately, happens to hay. lad only to fresh and increas-
ing complications (Haar, hear.) It is far from my wish to
drag your lordships throach the weary waste cf men
which now lie oa your lordship' table, or to give
your lordships one-twentieth part of the labour which I
have undergone in sifting and examising its substantial
write of ;Ms pm. My lords, I can only say. that I have
risen from the perusal of those poen with regret and
shame for the part w itch my conatry has taken. I have
risen from them, net nub the emanation with what little
wining. the affairs of this world en altninistered, but rather
with what a prodigality of 1011y...WW1 what • lavish expen-
diture of misdirected ingenuity, uaaremary conio!iicseions
have inn acenssolatcd—unneemeary dialeulties t.ays been
renal—and reed s is themselves elevated late matters of im-
portance, and the Minn of the world literally not permitted
to adjust and regulate themselves. (Hear, ben.) Beloee 1
proceed to address your lordships on the spec de question
before you, I may by permitted to call your attention to the
preliminary portion of the resolution which I am about to
submit; Munn I un 'irs.snd that to the wording of
the preliminary part cat the resolution some excep-
tion has been taken. That to which I am prima-
rily desirous of calling your lordships' attineion, is not
whether the misunderstanding which prevailed between
France and England vie a inisiendirseanding in which the one
country ac the other hg. been in fault Pence. I am not about
to gall your attention to the question wh.ther the peaces of
Europe is lik,ly to be disturbed—whether the present arrange-
ments an likely to he amicably eoncluded—tee they so or
not, it will mono ao differ-nee in of-rence to my resolution,
Means my affirmation is this, that the comma the govern-
ment have pursued by its villence—by its unnecessary in-
terference—by its abstinence with communication with
other powers—by its intrinsic injustice, has been calculated,
and has cadangerni, the entinusses of our friendly rela-
tion with other powers That It has endangered them few
of your lordships will be inclined to deny; that we my
neap* design may be probable, and that we have escaped,
God gnat it may be true. I hope rather than trust
that those events will leave nothing bebiad, or any ill-feel-
ing either between Estland and France or any other of the
great powers of the continent. Hot that is not the question
to decal-. I ask your lordships to den lie whether the course
pursued by the government has been such as not rashly
ar.d unneciesuily to disturb that harmony which ought to
prevail between all those great powers. I ask you
my lord% to state whether, among the claims urged against
the weak end Miele anti of Greece, and enforced by the
naval might ref thi. peat empire, there are not some which
are either doubtial in point of justice, er exaggerated in
amount. I will ask you tartar, on • review of the whole
con, spondenee, portions of which I shall lay before your
lordships, whether these claims, it founded la the strictest
jut i at, have nut been pressed forward in such • manner es
to render their indignant refusal by a great rata about a
matter of necessary conclusion; and although I am far from
standing here to apologies for the tonnes and preemies.
dons which is some of them mantle:ens have characterised
the Greek government, I say those prevarications and ex.
taus found coma palliation in the tone, the imperious tone
with which claims, if they bad been just. but still more
claims which are not just, ban been forced upon the coot,
pulsory adoption of that power. I am sure that I
am representing the English feeling, and the feel-
ing wrack is animating your lordships, when I
say that, whatever may be the question pending
between Independent nation whatever cause of complaint
one country may have sguinst another—the tons and Ma-
nage in which such coasplaiutshould ice urged—the manner
in which molests for reparation or for apology should be
made, shout t at all events be the same whether addressed to
the strongest used most powerful or to the weakest and most
in-le:decant state. (Hear, hear.) Igo further, and soy that
it is consistent with the generosity of English feeling that the
more your sense of right gives to your request the character
of a demand, the more you should be careful to veil under
the studied language of courtesy your demand, whatever it
may be ; and to avoid by the manner of your request
wounding that national sensihility which will always be
found in an inverse proportion to the resisting power of the
country. (Hoar, beer.) I shall ask you, my lads, whether
this has been the course pursued towards the Greek go-
vernment. I now wish to call to your lordships' notice the
preliminary part of my resolution in which I call upon you
" fatly to recognise the right and duty of the government
to assure to her Majesty's subjects residing in foreign states
the full protection of the laws of their states."
In hung down that proposition, I believe I hive correctly
laid down the international law. (Hear, hear.) I now
pray your lordship not to enter on the consideration of this
great subject without duly weighing the political condition
of the hingdons of Greece, and what is the sole organisation
of that country ; that Greece Is a kingdom of not more than
14 or 15 years' standing—that it is a constitutional
kingdom of much shorter duration—that although
it is theoretically an independent country, yet
that it is partly by treaty, and circumstances which have
ocearnd imbseepent to the treaty, placed under the joint
protectice of three of the most powerful coonskin in the
world—Easland, Frame, and Russia—and that Mom omen-
Mks hays jointly teed the independence of Green.
Unfortunately , this is the sole claim which they have on
Greece In oddities to their guarantee of its independence,
they ban all of them contracted pecuniary liabilities and
momenta% which gin to CI throe of them a right, most
dangerous if exercwd, of istermeeldlini and interfering
with the interest aisnaistration of lb. kingdom. But, more-
over, nothing can be more untarnrmbl, to the fair and im-
partial discomion of thin questions which from time to time
must arise between sent • government and the subjects of
other pewees (Rears heart Now, my lords, it is notorious
that since the period when these papers commenced, since
the administrating of M. Coletti, this has been the case in
Greece; and the consequence was that during the latter part
of Sir Edmund Lyons's stay in Green he was leas the
aseredind minister of this country to • friendly sonnies
than the bead of a party in opposition to the existing govern-
Meat, and the *imitator when M considered to have been
pinged in power contrary to his exertions and to the dein-
twat of his interest, and whom emequently he was using
every means to displace from power. This is a matter of
notoriety. It bas bees so during the administration of
Conn% of Colophon sad his successor. I believe the ad-
ministration of M. Loades have been friendly to the British
government, but prior to his coming into office, it
was believed that the Oink government was actin( on
Preach advice in hostility to English interests; end the
necessary renovating' of this state of things was that the
Greek government was not dispe aid to view with peculiar
favour demands pressed on It, even had they been founded
in justice —peened too by a minister who wasng his bust to
displace the goveramat to which he was seereditied. It is un-
fornicate that, of the variouselaienn advanced by her M jeaty's
government, there is but cm, namely, that of fir. ffinny,
in which the claimant appears to have been a person of
character and nspectability. The poster portion of claims
an Mg people whom character, bents, and position do not