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LONDON, SATURDAY. AUGUST 2, 1845.

The Lords met at five.

The Earl of BESBOROUGH brought up the report of
the Committee on the case of STINTON, who had given
evidence before the Dublin and Galway Railway Bill
Committee. The report was to the effect that it would
be inexpedient to prosecute him for perjury.
On the motion for the third reading of the Bills of
Exchange Bill Lord MONTEAGLE moved as an amend-
ment that it should be a permanent instead of a tempo-
rary measure. The motion, which was supported by
the Marquis of LANSDOWNE and opposed by the Earl
of DALHOUSIE and the Earl of ELLENBOROUGII, was
rejected on a division, the numbers being for the amend-
ment, 9 ; against it,37.

The other Bills on the table were forwarded a stage,
and their Lordships adjourned.

• The Commons met at Four o'clock.
Lord COURTENAY having moved that the report on
the London and York Railway be received,
Mr. WARD moved as an amendment that the Bill be
re-committed. The Committee, although they had been
unremitting in their labours, had heard all the parties
concerned. They had, in consequence, done great in-
justice, and he therefore moved the re-committal of the
Bill. The cases of the York and North Midland, of the
Midland Counties, and of the Eastern Counties lines,
had been decided on by the Committee without having
been heard.

Mr. HUTT, who thought there was good reason to be
dissatisfied with the decision of the Committee, seconded
the motion.

Lord COURTENAY explained the nature of the pro-
ceedings before the Committee, and defended the de-
cisions to which the Committee had come.
After a short discussion, the amendment was nega-
tived by a majority of 60 ; the numbers being, for the
motion, 79—for the amendment, 19.

Upon the order of the day being read for going into
Committee of Supply,
Lord PALMERSTON drew the attention of the House
to the present state of Greece, and called upon the Go-
vernment to interfere to prevent the cruelty and tyranny
at present practise in that country.

Sir R. PEEL briefly replied ; after which, the House
went into Committee, and, a vote of 20,0001. having
been agreed to in behalf of the sufferers at Quebec,
shortly afterwards Adjourned.

The times are gone by when the dignity of humanity,
the cause of the human race, being outraged by some
act of signal violence or atrocity could be summarily
vindicated by England with that high hand and in-
flexible purpose which CROMWELL displayed on more
than one memorable occasion—when BLAKE was the
messenger of British resentment, and a British fleet
was the vehicle which bore at once the demand of repa-
ration and the thunder to enforce it. It may be well that
the relations of Europe have since become too com-
plex, and the powers ef independent states too equally
balanced, to admit of the recurrence of such events now -a -
days. Yet, nevertheless, conditions of circumstances occa-

sionally arise that make one deplore the altered tone and
more prudential spirit which our Government is compelled
to assume, and finds the necessity of acting under, in re-
ference to enormous political delinquencies on the part
of other Powers. A case of this kind, we must own,
was opened last night in Parliament, by Lord
PALMERSTON, in one of the most powerful and
remarkable speeches of the session. From cer-
tain communications and petitions which had been
transmitted to his Lordship he was enabled to bring
under the notice of the House of Commons some statements
touching the present condition of Greece, and the suffer-
ings of the Greek people, disclosing an amount and
variety of misgovernment, ministerial profligacy, and
shameless oppression, such as even in Greece itself—the
fated theatre of an iron despotism, or a bloody anarchy.
for so many ages—have scarcely found their parallel.
Lord PALMERSTON showed that since the removal of
MAVROCORDATO, a " sound patriot," from the head of
King ()TITO'S Government, which was effected by the
basest and mo,t invidious intrigues, COLETTI—a man
brought up in the school of the execrable ALI
PACHA. (the monster of Janina)—and subsequently
wielding in Egypt the irresponsible powers delegated to
the officers of oriental princes, bad been elevated to the
post of Prime Minister. Under this man's withering
possession of office, the social, internal, and political
condition of the country had fearfully and rapidly de-
clined. The pay of the regular army had been per-
mitted to run two or three years in arrear. In their
place the Government had retained and exercised the
services of large bands of the Polikary, a species of
frontier robbers by profession and descent of the
most violent and remorseless character, who
were over-running the villages in every di
rection, plundering the inhabitants, or exposing
them to the most inconceivable tortures and atrocities,
for the sake of extorting their money, goods, or posses-
sions from them. In those instances where an accused
delinquent could not be readily found, these wretches
would proceed to the village or town of his residence,
and, on a plea of punishing collusion, would seize a
dozen of the residents, tie them together, set them
swinging, and in that position cruelly scourge the soles
of their feet. Others they would subject to the agoniz
big infliction of passing ramrods through the calves
of their legs. Some were thrown upon their backs,
and stones of enormous weight placed upon their
chests, in, their vain attempt to escape from which they
struggled till life became extinct. As for the native
peasant women, besides other indignities and brutalities,
they were subjected, occasionally, to the dreadful lacera-
tion of wild cats, who were introduced within the
ample folds of their habiliments. These, and a thousand
other atrocities, have long been habitually committed,
with the knowledge of COLETTI, unpunished, un-
restrained. The people of Messina, and other places,
have sent over petitions imploring the interference of
this country to put a stop to these infernal practices, so
utterly disgraceful to the Greek Government. to the age,
to all Christendom, and to universal civilisation.

And surely, not without reason, might these unhappy
people turn their eyes to England, seeing that we took
the principal share in constituting their present state an
independent sovereignty; that we are, with other Powers
guarantees for the integrity of that state; that we ad-
vanced to the Greek Government a large pecuniary loan,
in the repayments of which that Government is largely
in arrear ; and that we hold, as a security for those
repayments, a power to impound, at any time,
the principal sources of the national revenue, and
aro entitled thereaut to repay ourselves. Ssurely,
without resorting to any armed intervention by
expensive armaments, we are in ample condi-
tion, under these circumstances, to insist on the
miserable servants of the half_imbecile monarch of a so-
vereignty, to say the least of it, in a state of tutelage as
to ourselves and the other guaranteeing powers, desisting
from the countenance thus given by them to these revolt.
ing excesses—to insist on the dismissal of a Minister
whose machinery of government is five centuries behind
that of all other European kingdoms—to insist on re
spect for the rights of a people who hold a constitution
to I%bieh the faith of the King has been solemnly
and irrevocably pledged, despite the scandalous
violations of it which he permits or perpetrates ever)
day. We hope that Parlament, whilst it will assuredh
affirm the doctrine of non-intervention, wherever it can be
honourably—and even safely—acted on, will elicit from
our own Government some more energetic and intelli
gible declarations than as y which have yet been elicited
from the cold and vague responses of Lord ABERDEEN
or Sir ROBERT PEEL. They have but to speak a:
becomes the Ministers of an English Constitutional
Sovereign—and these scandals of our times must cease,
the Greeks be reinstated in their just rights, and
COLETTI and his myrmidons be dismissed to the infamy
and obscurity their crimes have so justly merited.

Madrid papers to the 25th have arrived. They contain the
official announcement of the arrival of the QUEEN, her mother,
and her sister at Saragossa on the 23d. They were greeted
throughout their route with expressions of the most enthu-
siastic loyalty.
The Eco del Comercio states that the POPE, in agreeing
to the expulsion of the Jesuits from France, made it a condi-
tion that the French Government should support the preten•
sions of the Count DE MONTEItIOLIN to the hand of Queen
ISABELLA.

The following is the account of the discovery of the con
spiracy at Malaga, to which we made allusion yesterday
The account was brought by the courier from Andalusia :

" The Andalusia mail," says a letter, " has just brought us
some news of interest from Malaga. As early as the 19th, the Go.
vernor of that city had been secretly apprised that a conspiracy had'
been formed, and that it was to break out on the 21st. He had
sent this information to the Infante Don Enrique, whose ship was
in the port, and the Prince, after concerting with the Governor,
had gone out to sta. Matters were in this state when, on the
ing of the 20th, a,sergeant of the provincial regiment of Jaen waited
on the Governor, General Caminero, handed to him some money
given to him as a bribe, and disclosed the whole of the plot.
About a thousand old National Guards were at a given signal to
have repaired to the Merced Gate, and, relying on various
sergeants and soldiers, the conspirators expected to obtain a
supply of arms, to surprise the authorities, and to appoint a direct-
ing Junta, in the name of Espartero's regency and of the Constitu
tion of 1837. General Canainero hastened to the Merced barracks,
ordered the troops to arms, addressed the soldiers, and summoned
before him seven sergeants implicated in the plot. Three of them
immediately avowed all, and the rest of them soon did the same.
The General, forthwith instituted a Council of War, for the
punishment of the guilty, and numerous arrests promptly followed.
A house was surrounded and entered by the police, in which a
rather large quantity of war ammunition was discovered. After
adopting these measures, the Governor demanded further instruc-
tions of the Captain-General, who resides at Grenada. On the 21st
Malaga was perfectly quiet."

A letter from St. Sebastian, dated July 28, announces that
the Queen of SPAIN arrived at Pampeluua on the afternoon
of that day, and that she would proceed from thence to the
baths of Santa Agueda, by way of Vittoria, and afterwards
visit bilboa. Catalonia was quite tranquil.
The Madrid Bolza was closed on the 25th.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The
Journal des Debats gives the following, which may be consi-
dered an official contradiction of the statement made by
Lerd PALMERSTON, relying with authority on the Anti-
Slavery Reporter, that France had entered into a treaty with
the Imaum of MUSCAT for the revival of the slave trade :
" Who, then, could doubt the existence of this document.
Lord Palmerston was able to give himself the satisfaction of causing
a momentary embarrassment to both Sir Robert Peel and Lord
Aberdeen in their turns; and he was able to enjoy another not
less lively gratification, that of seeing his accusation republished in
France by several Journals, who hastened to borrow from the
Anti-Slavery Reporter the convention with which the French Go-
vernment had been reproached. Unfortunately for Lord Palmer-
ston, and for those who amongst us made themselves the echoes of
his assertions, the convention alluded to does not exist, and never
has existed. It was only the rough draft of a treaty which never
for one moment had the approbation of the French Govern-
ment. Lord Palmerston confounded this project with a
treaty which has been really entered into between the Imaum
of Muscat, and M. Romain Desfesses, commandant of the
station of the Isle of Bourbon, and the principal clauses of which
we published some months past. The Imaum of Muscat, Seid Said,
a powerful, active, and truly intelligent Prince, removed his resi-
dence some time since from Muscat, near the Persian Gulf, to
Zanzibar, on the eastern coast of Africa, where he entered into
extensive agricultural undertakings, and, it may be added, made
remarkable attempts at promoting civilisation. The governor of
the Island of Bourbon, from which Zanzibar is not far distant,
struck with the efforts and the success of this Prince, entered into
communication with him, and through the intermediation of a
young and brave officer of the navy, Lieutenant Kerdudal, pro..
posed to provide for one of the most essential wants of the Island of
Bourbon--hands to carry on agriculture, which was rapidly pro-
gressing. His object was to procure from the African states
of the Imaum labourers not in the character of negro slaves,
but as free labourers. To the credit of the negotiator it must
be said, that every precaution was taken to prevent negroes
thus procured from being considered slaves. Still, however,
this recruiting for negroes offered some resemblance to the slave
trade, for it might give rise on the African soil to some of those
acts of violence which characterised that abominable traffic, so
strongly reprobated by all civilised nations. The act entered into
between the Imaum and M. Kerdudal on the 20th April, 1845,
was not to be of any value, or be attended with any practical con..
sequences, until alter it had received the sanction of the French
Governmeot, to whom it was transmitted from Suez. The reply of
the Government was promptly given. It admitted that the system
of recruiting for free labourers, in spite of the guarantees with
, which it was sought to surround it, gave rise to questions of the
most delicate and difficult nature with regard to the suppression
of the slave trade. The negotiation was not, consequently, ap-
proved of, and an order was for warded to the Governor of
Bourbon not to carry his project any further. A circum-
stance worthy of being noticed, and which reflects the greatest
honour ou the !maim also took place. The Sovereign himself,
who forbids the slave trade iii his states, had perceived in the
inte.-val, after placing his signature to the convention, thatit might
be interpreted as opening a door to a traffic in negroes, and had
thereupon dispatched his Prime Minister to Bourbon to have it
annulled. It was at this time that the refusal of the sanc-
tion of the French Government was received. The Go-
vernment, however, did not intend to relinquish the benefits which
might be derived for the commerce of the country from a treaty
with the Imaum. It entered into direct communication with Seid
Said, and Romaiu Desfosses was invested with the necessary
powers to negotiate in the name of the King. This time there
was no allusion made to the question of labourers, and the nego-
tiatcr acquitted himself of his task Vi.ith skill and piomptitude.
It is a treaty of commerce bet Ween France and the States of the
'maim, which has resulted front his conference with that Prince.
This document secures to our shipping and our trade in the ports
of that Sovereign advantages at least equal to those enjoyed by
England and the United States. If we are well informed, this

treaty has received the signature of the King, and has been for.
warded to our negotiator for the exchange of ratifications."

From the following article in the National, on the delay
which has taken place in the adjudication of the Northern
Railroad, it would appear that officials can job in railways in
France as well as in England :
" Why this long and mischievous delay ? The reason is ex-
tremely sht.ple, and he who is a long time in finding it out must
have very little knowledge of M. de Rothschild or of his friend M.
Dumon. M. de Rothschild sheds silver tears every time he thinks
of the North Railroad ; it is so fine a prey, and would have been
finer had not the press during the last two years wickedly opposed
it. Although much diminished in value, it is still worth the no-
tice of those houses which are unquestionably at the head of the
financiers of Europe ; but it is necessary that competition should
not come forth and add to the reductions already made by the
Chamber; and consequently, at any price, all those indiscreet per-
sons who might venture to enter the lists against those great
houses must be scared away. To effect this two measures may be
successfully employed—absorption and exclusion. To M. Roths-
child belongs the first—to M. Dumon the second. The mode of
absorption is now being employed. M. de Rothschild is in cor-
respondence with all the solid bone fide companies, and is negoti.
sting for their not sending in tenders for the contract. Some of
these negotiations have succeeded—others have failed, at least fur
the present, and whether they will or not ultimately gain their
end no one can tell. Should M. de Rothschild be toiled, then
will come the turn of M. Dumon. Against any company which
may pass over the head of M. de Rothschild, he will bring into
play that famous commission which he has at his disposal in ex-
treme cases, and which admits or rejects—and frequently without
reason—such tenders as are not found to be agreeable. All these
proceedings are perfectly well known, but never have they hitherto
been brought into play with so much audacity."

The KING, by a decision taken in Council on the joint
report of the Ministers of Marine and Finance, has autho-
rised the immediate employment in the naval service, of ten
out of the seventeen steamers built in virtue of the law
of July 16, 1840, fur the Transatlantic service, but which
has not yet been established. In consequence of this
order, the naval division of 26 ships on the western
coast of Africa, under the command of Admiral MoN-
TAGNIES DE LAROQUE, with Capt. BOUET WILLUNMES, se-
cond in command, will be thus composed, viz., Steamers :
Caraibe, of 450 horse-power, bearing the Admiral's flag; the
Caimau, the Elan, the Espadon, the Phoque, of 220 horse-
power each ; the Australie, the Euphrate, and the Narval, of
160 horsepower each. Sailing vessels—The sloop-of-war
the Camille, of 430 tons; the sloops—the Indienne, and the
Infatigable, of 380 tons each ; the brigs-of-war Grenadier.
of 20 guns, and the Abeille, of 18 guns ; the Advice brigs—
the Alcyonne, the Bougainville, the Cigogne, the Comete,
the Fleclie, the Leger, the Papillon, the Itossignol, and the
Surprise ; the schooners the Amaranthe, the Hirondelle, the
Jonquille, and the Fine.
The Constitutionnel is very violent in its protests against
England for binding Brazil to her engagement for the sup-
pression of the slave trade, and denounces the conduct of the
British authorities and Government as a violation of the
rights of nations.
A letter from Zurich, of the 27th, in the Constitutionnel,
says :

" The greatest uncertainty still hangs over the death of M. Leu,
and the utmost activity of the Lucerne police, aided by that of the
adjoining cantons, only give rise to vague suspicions. What is
certain is that the Government of Lucerne,six days after the event,
was not in possession of any information of a nature to lead to the
discovery of the guilty party. The police has issued orders to
➢ladame Steiger to quit the Canton of Lucerne without delay, or
else she should be forcibly expelled by gendarmery. She was con.
sequently compelled to abandon her children, and depart by night
to Zurich, where she arrived on the 26th. On the following day,
another order was issued ordering the children to leave the city,
which took place under the care of a faithful domestic. The pro-
ceedings of the Diet are without interest."

The Duke of MONTPENSIER arrived on the Bth at Cairo,
where he was received by IBRAHIM PACIIA. On the 9th he
left for Suez, with ABBAS PACHA, one of the Viceroy's grand-
sons. At Suez he visited the steam corvette, the Archimedes,
and the English Bombay steamer, the Victoria. He returned
to Cairo on the lath, and left, for Upper Egypt on the follow-
ing day.

The Grand Duke CONSTANTINE arrived at Smyrna on the
11th. On the evening of the 9th a fire broke out in a large
warehouse, but was •extinguished through the exertions of
the crews of an Austrian and a French vessel. The schooner
Elizabelta returned to Smyrna from Ourlac on the 9th inst.,
with detachments of marines from the Bello n e frigate and the
Venetto brig, which were placed at the disposal of the com-
mandant of the Adria, until tranquillity should be re -esta-
blished in the city.
Advices from Athens are to the 13th. M. PISCATORY, the
French Ambassador, was endeavouring to keep the Greek
Cabinet together by bringing about an understanding be-
tween Commrn and General Giuosons.

Considerable gloom pervaded the Paris Bourse on Thurs-
day. The Three per Cents. on that day closed at 83f. 70c. ;
the Five per Cents. at 1211. 75e. ; Orleans Railroad Shares,
1,231 f. 25c ; Rouen, 1,065 f. ; Vierzon, 7721. 50c.; Havre,
885 f. Avignon, 1,022 f. 50c. ,•'Basle, 268 f. 75c.; Spanish
Actives, 36f.; ditto, Passives, 6i.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 182 f. 50c. prem.; Boulogne, 1321.
50c. ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 15f. ; Paris and Lyons
(Laffitte), 32f. 50c.; ditto (Calon),par ' • ditto (Ganneron),
6f. 50c.; Northern Line (Laffitte), 451.; ditto (Rosamel),
Ilf. 50c.; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 12f. 50c. ; ditto
(Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 3f. 50c. ; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 17f. 50c.;
ditto (Talabot), 36f. 25c.; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale),
3f. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par; ditto and
Cette (Espeleta), 10f. ; Creil and St. Quentin, par ; Paris
and Strasbourg (Ganneron), 151.; Dijon and Mulhouse, par;
Dieppe, 20f.
LYONS, JULY 26.-Avignon and Marseilles, 9921., end of
July ;• Paris and Orleans, 1,200 f., ditto; Paris and Rouen,
1,050 f. ditto ; Orleans and Vierzon, 75.51., ditto ; Orleans and
Bordeaux, 670 f., ditto ; Montereaux, 512 f., ditto.

GREAT FIRES AT QUEBEC.—The High Bailiff of
Westminster has received two letters from the Mayor of
Quebec, begging him to bring under the notice of the
citizens of Westminster the distressed situation of the
inhabitants of Quebec, occasioned by the two fires vi hich
have taken place there on the 28th May and 28th June
last. By the first fire 1,650 dwellings and two churches
were destroyed, and 12,000 inhabitants were left withcut
house, food, clothing, or bedding. By the last fire
1,200 dwellings, two places of worship, three schoolhouses,
with stores and outbuildings, were destroyed, and at the
time of his writing to the High Bailiff, he states there
were 15,000 inhabitants scattered over the fields, without
shelter or food ; and he suggests to the High Bailiff that
contributions of clothing, bedding, building materials—
bricks, slates, tiles, tin, iron, nails, glass, and other
articles of hardware used in building—should be for-
warded to Quebec, addressed to Alexander Simpson,
Esq., Treasurer of the Belief Committee. Any of the
citizens of Westminster who feel dispost d to respond
to this application may have further particulars given to
.hem at the High Bailiff's, 40, Jerinyn street, St. James',
and he will thankfully receive any money donations on
this account which may be remitted to him.

Sir Jamei Graham left town this morning for Osborne
House, Isle of Wight, on a visit to her Majesty.

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
COVENT-GAMilz&z.
Notwithstanding we had an unusually large supply of
both Fruit and Vegetables, the general demand was active
at our quotations ;—New Potatoes, from 3s 6d per cwt;
Turnips, is 3d to 2s 3d; Carrots, 53 to 6s ; Young
Onions, Is to 2s ; and Greens, is 6d to 2s 8d per dozen
bunches; Broad Beans, 10d to is 2d ; Peas, is to 2s ;
Gooseberries, Is 3d to 3s 6d; Currants, 2s 6d to ss; French
Beans, 3s ; Apples, is 3d to 2s ' • Pears, 2s to 3s ; and
Spinach, 9d to Is per half sieve ; Cherries, 2d to 8d; Hot-
house Grapes, 4s to ; and English Pine-apples, 5s to Es
per lb ; CauliloWers, 8d to 3s ; Cabbages, 8d to is 2d ; and
Peaches and Nectarines, 15s to 24s per dozen ; Horse-radish,
2s to 5s .per bundle ; Lemons, 7s to 12s per 100
Cucumbers, 2d to Is 6d ; Colonial Pine-apples, 6d to ss; and
Melons, 2s to 5s each; Radishes, 4d per dozen hands; Green
Gages, is 6d to 2s 6d; Orleahs Plums, 2s to 3s 3d ; Small
Salad, 2d; and Mushrooms, 6d to is per punnet ; Straw-
berries, 2d to 6d; and Raspberries, 4d to 8d per pottle.
_ _

NIIV7CiATS AislD lalsnarril4s.;.Z.
For each kind of Meat, the supply of which was moderate,
we had a steady inquiry at our quaations.—Beef, from 2s
10d to 4s; Mutton, as 4d to 4s 8d; Lamb, 4s 10d to 6s;
Veal,. 38 8d to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 2s 8d to 4s 2d per Blbs, by
the carcase. We had only a limited supply of Poultry, yet the
demand was in a very sluggish state, at barely stationary
prices.

NEWPORT.
Prime Beef and Mutton were held at advanced rates, while
;he value of other kinds of Meat was firmly supported. Beef,
from 3s to 4s; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 1(kl ; Lamb, 5s 2d to 6s;
Veal 3s 10d to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 33 4d to 4s 2d per 81bs.