The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-28 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

We have received Cape Town journals of Much
23. The only item of any interest conta►ned in them
is the following, relating to Natal, from the South
African Commerval Advertiser:
A letter of a lets date has been waived from Natal, com
municating the iatellisenos that 23 pamensers had arrived
per Flora, from Mauritius, whose dcaien it was to sou, in
the colony, aid to engage in the cultivation of the sugar
cane, which grows remarkably well at Natal, so much so as
to astonish old and expatiate-ea Wrist India and Mauritius
planters, who had found their way to the colony. With
cott, n ud saran as its staples, Natal cannot fail to advance
ilia rapid strides to effluent* and wealth. It is added that
the pine apple is common all over the colony, and that one
parson hes no less than a thousand growing in his garden.
ships Seringapatam, Geyser, and Hound
wren in Simon's Bay.

FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE
GREECE.

TISCOCXT PALMITUITON TO THE MARQUIS OF 110111411411 Y.

Foreign dike, May 19, 1850.
--
My Lord,—Her Majesties government have learnt with
en velvet. from yuur Excel!, try's despatches ant from
the ronversations which I had with M. Drouyn de Lhays
bsforc hie r tarn to Peri', that ,ircumatancee connected writ
the resent settlement of the differences between her Ma-
jesty's goverment and th. gov, respect of Greece have pro-
duced an us lavanrable impresion en the minds of the mem-
ber, of the Frinch government, and that the French go-
vernment conceives that the course which events at Athens
have taken, hat shown on the pats of hcr Majesty's govern.
meat a want of consideration ler France, and has c.,ordi.
toted a departure from an understanding which had been
rrablished between the two g ,sernmente.
Her Mej sty's government had hoped that it would have
b.en un ,ecessiry for them to aunts the French government,
se your etoellercy evil however do, that nothing could ever
be further from their th ugh's or intentions than to put at.y
slieht upon the government of France, or to fail is any
manner or upon any cccasion in shoeing that coneidsration
for France which is so justly doe to her by her Majesty's
government, bath from her high station among the powers
of the world and from the friendliness of the relations which
hav• existed between her and Great Britain.

With regard to the understanding which had been esta-
blished between the two governastnts resp•cting the nt go•
tiauons at Athens. I trust tt at the explanations which your
exulleney is hereby instructed to give will ftIII2TO from the
minds of the French government the impression that any
such understanding has b. ea deputed (rum.
la order to the clear comprehinsion of this matter, it ig
necessary to revert to the note (which I suldreased to M.
Drouyn de Lhuys on t►e 12th of February. signifying the
acceptance by Ler Msje,ty's toverumuit of thou good
office, of Francs which M. Droayn de Muir bad offered in
his note of the 7th of that month.

My note of the Idth of F,wruary stated that as her Ma-
jesty's government " would prefer tditaining satisfacii in from
the Greek g anent by the tritely intervention of the
government ot France rather than owe it to the continued
employment of force, her Majesty's government would with
plea.mre accept the good offices of France in this matter."
The note went on to state that in order to Five free scope
for the diplomatic action of the Freoch negotiator, the Bri-
toil admiral should at once swoon all coercive measures,
and should eontinue to suspend them during the negotia-
tion which the French government wee about to set on hot;
but that as her Majesty's government could not give up the
demands which hat been made on the Greek government
for reiress for wrongs which British and lonian subject' had
suffered in Greece, the su'pension of the action of the
squadron could only eontinue for a reasonable and limited
time, and must necessarily cease, if after the capiration of
such a period the matters in dispute should not
have been satisfactorily arranged. Tns note stated,
moreover, that all detained vessels would remain
as pledges in deposit until • final arrangement ahuuld
have been made; and the note further stated, that
in order to give the freest scope to the action of the French
negotiator, her Majesty's minister at Athens should be in-
structed not to mix himself up with tile negotiation of the
French agent, excel t in so far as he might be rtquts:cd by
such agent to do so.
It is c:ear from this note, that It was stated to the
French government, from the outset, that what her M..-
jesty's government accepted was not arbitration, but good
offices, with a view to übmin by such means that satis-
faction and redress which might otherwise have been ob-
tained by the continued employment of fora; that her
Majesty's g aaaaa matt could not give up any of the de-
mands made; and that the principal negotiation which
WWI contemplated was a negotiation between the French
diplomatic agent and the government of Greece.
On the next day, the 13th of February, I transmitted to
your excellency, for communication to the French govern-
ment, a short explanatory summary of the six demands
which Mr. Wyse had been instructed to make, and which, as
stated in my note of the 12th of February to M. Dronyn de
Lhays, her Majesty's government could not give up.
It was afterwards settled between M. Drouya he Lhuys
and me, as was stated to your excellency in my dee-
patch of the 15th of February, and in my despatch to
Mr. Wye. of the same dam, that her Majesty s government
fixed no limit of time as the period beyond which reprisals
were not to remain suspended, but that her Majesty a go-
vernment relied upon the candour and frankness of the
French negotiator to give notice to Mr. Wyk, if after • rea-
bones% time he should find that he was not likely to succeed
is his negotiation with the Greek government.
It was, moreover, clearly understood, is the course of
various conversations which I bad with M. Danny.. de'
Limy. upon these matters, that the meaning of her Ma-
jesty's government was, that It should rest with the French
negotiator to determine whether and when his negotiation
with the Greek government ought to be considered as
having foiled ; that the action of the squadron was to rt.
main suspended until Mr. Wyse should receive notice from
the Frisch negotiator that he had withdrawn from the
negotiation; and that Mr. Wyse was not to take upon
himself to determine that the French negotiator had failed.
M. Dronyn de Limy' frequently complained of the narrow
nom of the reage which was left for the action of the French
negotiator, seeing that many of the demands were for speci-
fied things or for fixed law, and that it was only as to the
wording of the apology for the affair of the Fenton'', and as
to the amount top paid to Mr. Finlay for his land, and to
M. Pacifico for his various losses, that any discussion could
take place. In these conversations I frequently referred
M. Drauyn de Limye to my note of the 12th of February,
as stating the conditions on which the good offices of France
had been accepted, and I pointed out to him that we had
declared from the outset that the demands which had been
made could not be given up ; but I said that although it was
necessary that a proper apology should be made for the
affront offered to the British navy in theme of the boat's
'mew of the Fantome, the form and wording of that apology
were open for discussion; that although we must insist that
Mr. Fiolay should receive Just compensation for the land
' which the King of Greece had arbitrarily taken from him,
the proper amount of that compensation was a matter to be
ascertained ; and that although we required that M. Pacifico
should be compensated for the losses whisk be bad actually
sustained by the pillage of his house and by the destruction
of documents bearing on his claims on Portu-
gal, the amount which might be justly due to
him on those accounts was a matter which re-
mained to be determined ,• and that in regard to these
claims of Mr. Finlay and M. Pacifico, It was the principle
which was the sine qua non, and not any specific amount
of money. and that the details of these sums were matters
upon which reuonablo propositions might be made and
considered. Moreover. on the 9th of April, It was agreed
between us, that if Harm Gros, the French negotiator,
should make to Mr. Wyse any reasonable proposition in re-
gard to those matters which admitted of discussion, Mr.
Wyse should not at once reject It, even if he did not him
self think it entirely aceeptable, bat that he should send it
home for decision, maintaining In the meanwhile the status
quo as to the suspension of the action of *a fleet and the
detention of the Greek vessels.
The existing arrangements for packet communication
with Greece afforded me no opportunity that I was aware of
of writing to Mr. Wyse between the 9tla and 17th of April,
the 17th being the day on which a messenger would have
bad to leave Louden to embark Ia the whet which would
leave Marseilles on the 21st of April, sad would probably
arrive at Athens on the 2sth. Bat on the lAth of April
N. Decay. de Mays same to me and proposed a new
Course of Wing. He said that it was evident that
the aegotlaties at Mims 'sonatas& lad dillealtia