The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-16 00:00:00

AFFAIRS OF GREECE.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE wished, before the
Noble Lord (Stanley) proceeded to put the question with
respect to the affairs of Greece, of which he had given
notice, to put it to the Noble Lord whether it would
tend to answer any public purpose to enter into any
discussion on the subject while negotiations were still
pending.
Lord STANLEY felt that the appeal which the
Noble Marquis bad made to him had placed
bim in no small difficulty. He was most anxious to
have the information he required, but he should, after
the appeal that had been made to him, limit himself most
steictly to the line prescribed by the Noble Marquis. The
Noble Lord then, at some length, adverted to what had
taken place in ,Greece, and to the declarations of
the French Minister and Lord Palmerston, that
this country had "accepted the intervention of
France, and observed that it might naturally have been
expected that no time would be lost in acting on that ac-
ceptance, but so far from that being the case, on the 19th
of BM). a courier arrived at Athens, bearing, it was said, a
private dispatch from Lord Palmerston, approving of the
conduct of Mr. Wyse, but studiously avoiding any allu-
sion to the acceptance of French mediation. News had
been received from Greece of a later date, in which
there was no indication that the blockade had
been raised except what had been said in another place
last night. He must remind the Noble Marquis that the
more conciliatory tone of the second dispatch from
Count Nesselrode was dictated in the expectation that
the acceptance of the good offices of France would be
acted on. There could be no doubt that Russia
and France expected that such would be
the case. It was not his desire to enter
at the present moment more fully into the subject, be-
cause he felt certain that it was the desire of
the Noble Marquis that the good understanding
between France, Russia, and England, should be
preserved. He would therefore satisfy himself by
merely asking the Noble Marquis the cause of the delay
that had taken place in suspending hostilities after the
mediation of France had been accepted.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that the first
intimation his Noble Friend at the head of Foreign Af-
fairs had of the intention of the French Government
to offer their mediation was on the sth of February, and
that was communicated to him in a letter from M.
Drouin de Lhuys, who had acknowledged that he had
not then been formally authorised to make that offer.
His Noble Friend might therefore have declined to act
on that information, but on the very same
day he wrote a letter to Mr. Wyse informing
him of the expected offer of good offices on the part cf
France. Those offers were not received till some time
afterwards, and, therefore, he did not see that his Noble
Friend WR,4 to blame. Of this ho was sure, that the
greatest expedition had been used in putting an end to
the state of things that had occurred in Greece.
After some observations from Lard STANLEY and
Lord BROUGHAM, the subject dropped.
COMSIONS ENCLOSURE BILL.
This Bill went through Committee.
AUDIT OF RAILWAY ACCOUNTS.
This Bill was read a third time, and on the motion of
Earl GRANVILLE was ordered to be referred to a Select
Committee.