The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

In the National Assembly on Wednesday, the first
order of the day was the discussion on the Bill relative
to the credit of 522,000 francs for the payment of the
dividend on the Greek Loan, due on the Ist of March,
1850.

After a few words from M. Casimir Perier, the re-
porter on the Bill, in favour of the immediate grant of
the credit, the Assembly declared urgency and the
discussion commenced.

M. Mauguin said, that he intended shortly to de-
mand from the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in what
condition were the negotiations respecting the
Greek affair in London. He believed that no indi-
cation had been either tendered or accepted, but
that the Government had merely offered its good
offices. The Minister had presented the question in
the Greek point of view, and he (M. Mauguin)
was anxious to hear him treat it in a French point of
view. England inflicted, in Greece, a check on Rus-
sia, which had already experienced a check in the
Dardanelles. France had likewise suffered a check
at Athens, after faithfully standing by England in
the Turkish affair. This was a serious fact. England
was an essentially circumspect and prudent power,
and could not, without some grave motive, thus offend
tho3e two powers. The Greek question was connected
with another far more momentous, and England must
have been conscious of the existence of some immi-
nent danger to have adopted so extraordinary a
course towards Greece, and so strangely disregard
all international laws. England saw that Turkey
was able to defend herself, and she wished to crush
Greece, who might make a dangerous diversion on her
frontier and furnish seamen to Russia. Her object
was to neutralize the power of Greece, however
feeble it was. M. Mauguin then asked the Assembly
to fix a day next week on which he intended to ask
the Minister for Foreign Affairs to what causes he
attributed the extraordinary armament now in pro-
gress throughout Europe, and if the Minister of War
and his colleague of the Finance Department had
adepted the measures necessary for the protection of
the French frontiers ?

General La Hitte, Minister for Foreign Affairs,
thanked M. Mauguin for putting off until next
week his interpellations on the armaments of
Europe. The Assembly, on the 9th, fully ap-
preciated the grave reasons which prevented
the Government from making any commu-
nication that might compromise the success
of the mediation, or, as M. Mauguin was pleased to
call it, the good offices of France. He would
confine himself to state that M. Gros, who had
been appointed negotiator, must have ere now
arrived in Greece. He will receive on board a
French ship-of-war Mr. Wyse, the British Minister
at Athens, and M. Londos, Minister for Foreign
Affairs of Greece. M. Gros will either treat directly
with them or with the commissioners they may re-
spectively appoint. The instructions he has received
are similar in every respect to those given to the ne-
gotiators in the affairs of Naples and Mexico.
The Assembly after wards voted the Greek Bill by
a majority of 585 to 2.

M. Mauguin having next invited the Assembly to
fix his interpellations for this day week,
General La Ilitte observed, that in the present po•
sition of every country and the general policy of
Europe, it would be inopportune to agitate the ques-
tions ref3rred to by M. Mauguin. He trusted,
however, that it could be done safely at
no very remote period, while he would convince the
Assembly that those armaments did not menace the
tranquillity, dignity, or integrity of the rights of
France. He accordingly requested the Assembly to
postpone those interpellations for a month.— (" No,
no!" on the Left,'• Immediately ! ")
The Assembly having acceded to the Minister's
request, Members on the Left exclaimed, "Do you
intend to wait until the Cossacks should arrive on our
frontiers ? It is odious ! It is treasonable !"