New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-02

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We take the following from our London psPen,
ENGLAND.
The Ministry and the t'reek Question.
The following article from the london GLOBE, the
organ Of Lord Palmers.on, VIII be read with inter
est at the present crisis;
We have RETAINED from dwelling on Lord Stan
ley notice Of his motion for Msadsy next out offs
natural wish TO avoid the rish Of embarrassing the
negotiations pending between our GOvernmeat aad
that OF France. We have preferred allowing Lord
Palmerston's critics 10 have thor own way tor
few days to entering upon a defense which Il
would have been difficult % conduct without endsn-
gering the result for which believe both parties
to the late controversy are sincerely anxious. and
which We believe 1t will be Ia Lord Lanslowaes
power TO announce on MOadsy evening Wa are
persuaded that even il our expectations should DO
disappointed, the same considerations will weigh
with equal force upon Lord Stanley.
We are indeed at q loss to conceive hos the nogo-
tiations at Athens and the causes of their ruptare
can be discussed without appor,ionlng the share Of
blame due to either lisgant; bat i Is out OF the
question TO suppose that IN English Peer can volun
tarily step forward TO rip up controversy still
pending between his own couniry and foreign
Government, and thwart Lord Palmerstons honor
able hopes Of vindicatiug his own position without
giving Just cause Of umbrsge TO bis ally. Lord
Stanley seems indeed TO ackno Wedge the impro-
pnety Of this course, and has carefully excluded
from the wording Of this notice any reference 10 the
special case between Frarcs and England. The
noble Lord denounces our claims against Greece
as doubtful In point of Justice or exaggerated
IN amount and deplores that they have been en-.
forced by coerciye measures directed against tho
commerce and people Of Greece" Bat while we
recognize the right feeling which has imposed this
limitation upon Lord Stanleys range of attack, we
may be permitted to marvel at the noble Lords
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pushed by the very powers who are mlstak emily
supposed to be interested in rvaling aud oatgen.
eraling Great Britain on this question.
Lord Stanley evidently composed the terms OF
the motion, and he will probably speak on Monday
evening, under the same incorporate and unscru
pulous irritation, with which Lord Palmerston's
professional antagonists originally announced the
means taken for enforcing Mr.. Wyses claims on
the Greek Cabinet. For about a week il was in
deed currently believed that the English feet was
employed in acts of wanton tyranny on a helpless
though independent State and that Lord Palmer
ston had spitefuly raised demands which, prepos-
ferrous as they might be, it was utterly impossible
for Greece TO resist, but which would infaibly be
rebuked and confuted es they deserved by the
Powers who had oooperated with us in erecting
the Greek Kingdom Lord Stanley forgets that in
the interim the public mind has been completely
eng htened upon these qualifications, aud that the
very powers whose indignant interference we had
been told to dread, had themselves felt the neces
sity of acknowledging the validity Of our claims
We had been deafened with stories Of Lord Pal
merstons intuitiye exaggeration; 1t turned out that
Count Nesselrode himself was prepared to recon-
mend King Ohio at once 10 satisfy the reasonable
complaints preferred by Mr.. Wyse.
The public had been informed land. for all we
know, had begun b believed that the spoliaton OF
Messrs. Finlay and Pacitco was standing joke
in the diplomatic world the first publication on
the subject showed that Baron Gros warm par
tizsn Of the Greek cause. was himself so utterly
unable to deny the principle OF the indemnity
claimed on behalf of NJ. Pacitico. that on the 10th
Of April he actually proposed to set aside $50
shares, Of 1000 drachmas EACH OF the Bauk Of
Greece, as a security that the Greek and English
Governments would jointly enter into an investiga-
ton Of NJ. Pacifico's claims on Portugal We have
purposely chosen the case of which the most I'M
fair advantage has been taken and even on this
we see the French Government parated itself az
widely as possible from the unjust and irrational
aspersions thrown on the conduct of our Cabinet
by its domestic enemies. No one has ventured to
question-we do not say the policy, but-the i'm
peratiye obligation which compelled Lord Palmers-
ton after delay Of two whole years. TO insist on
reparstion for the plunder of English subjects at
Sacine, for the infection OF torture on Engsh sub
jects at Pyrgos, and for the unparalleled insult
Of imprisoDiDg an officer and boats crew OF the
Fant6me.
These were points on which no other country ia
the word would have allowed is demands for satis-
faction to be deferred for a single week, and on
which it would have been too desperate an under
taking 70 get up cry against Lord Palmerston.--
But on NJ Paciiicos case every Liberal prejudice,
every ungenerous means OF ridicule, was most I'M
sparngly and unscrupulously exerted and on this
we suppose that Lord Stanley will choose to take
his stand on Monday evening Is it possible to
give more glaring evidence Of the noble Lords
incapacty for calm and serious statesmanshp than
this afforded by the fact Of his venturing again to
ventiste the calumnes, upon which the joint opin-
ion of Russia and France has been invoked against
us,-and invoked in vaini
We have acknowledged the propriety Of Lord
stanleys intention 10 con6ne bis criticisms TO tho
original Justice OF our claims and the means taken
by Lord Palmerston for enforcing them. We have
no apprehension in leaving the case Of the Govern
ment in the hands Of the Lord President, who
will doubtless conduct the defense of bis colleague
with the Judgment temper and Information he has
80 often shown upon this subject But we must
put in our explicit protest against the monstrous
Observation-Disclosures which seems 10 be erected
into a standing maxim with the Protectonist OPP
position-of conhning all attacks upon Lord Pal.
merstons policy to the House from which he il ex-
cluded We are told that the dignity and ex perence
Of the House Of Lords eminently qualify il for dis
cussions upon high and delicate matters Of State
policy and that there our foreign relations above
all are likely to meet wi.h a .ar more can1ssd sp.
prsc .. Fan In the hot atmosphere OF the Com
mons However this may be, 1t is satisfactory TO
think that il is reason which has no chance Of
going down with the English people.
Our characteristic love OF fair play 10 outraged
by the systematic direction of attacks against Z
statesman who has not the means OF answering
them and the high testimony thus Implied 70
Lord Palmerston's ability In debate WIZ scarcely
ne an excuse for 30 dastardly and mean warfare.
This. we say, is the opinion gradually spreading
over England; and il we do not share II TO the
S IL is because we are rejoiced TO think that the
House of Lords is thus favored more from necessi-
Nv than from choice. In the days when the pre-
sent Lord st. Germans brought forward motions
ON the Spanish civil war; and Sir James Graham
tried 20 cripple the China expedition at It's outset
the House OF Commons was not found 80 insult
sbe an arena for speeches upon foreign policy.
We believe that the discovery Of It's disquaiiica-
ton has only been made since the responsible