2 AUGUST 1845, Page 10

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SATURDAY NIGHT.

Greece and its disorders were the most prominent subject among the -variety of business transacted in the House of Commons last night. It was introduced, under favour of a money-bill, by Lord PALMERSTON; who reviewed the history of the modern kingdom, from its erection at the peace in 1827 to the bloodless revolution in 1843, which effected the long-de- layed representative constitution. At first, Mavrocordato, a good patriot, was appointed Minister; but he was removed for Coletti, a statesman bred under Ali Pacba in Egypt; and the result is, that the country is in a state of anarchy. While the regular army is in arrears of pay, the public trea- sure is squandered on bands of Palichars, marauders, robbers, thieves, and plunderers, who commit the most abominable excesses: assassinations go on In the capital; the country-people are tortured— men hung up by their feet .and beaten as they swing—wild-cats put down the loose dresses of the -women; and depredations are committed on the Turkish frontier. The belief is, that Coletti wishes to provoke the Greek people into excesses that would seem to disprove their undoubted fitness for representative govern- ment. Lord Palmerston could not believe that France countenanced that policy—that she or Russia would refuse to join with England in represent- ing that the constitution should not be set aside by the unjust exercise of .arbitraly power.

Mr. BAJLLIE COCHRANE corroborated that picture of the state of Greece. The King and people are equally victims of a low intriguer, for such is -Coletti. The barbarities executed under orders are such that the local 'officers do not like to enter into particulars. Rut Coletti is the tool of Piacatory, the French Minister in Greece; and he againra vain man, a Rived by the Frenekjournals, which accused him of weakness;

wherefore he tried to precipitate events and to become leader of a war. party. Mr. Cochrane strongly censured the inaults which obliged General Church to resign his offices in Greece; a man who had sold his commission in the British Army to devote the money to Greece, and had, by his colm- sal, saved the King from a forced abdication.

Sir ROBERT PF.HL replied very much as Lora Aberdeen did on Thurs- day. lie said, that however strong his own opinions, he was precluded as a Minister from expressing them in the House of Commons, as Lord Palmerston and Mr. Cooluane did; but he so far transgressed lila own rule as to join in the censure of Sir Richard Church's treatment. Here the matter dropped.

Mr. GOULBURN moved to postpone for three months the report on the bill for regulating joint-stock banks in Ireland and Scotland; stating that Government intended to introduce such a measure next session; and re- serving to them the power to include banks that may be established in the interval. The motion passed of course.

Earlier in the day, there was a discussion on the London and York Rail- way Bill; which Mr. WARD moved to recommit, on the ground that pro- moters of competing schemes had not been allowed to bring their oases fully before the Committee. This was denied by Lord COURTENAY, Chairman of the Committee, and by some members of that body who dis- sented from its decision; and the motion was negatived, by 79 to 19. The report of the bill was received.

Mr. WAELEY asked Sir James Graham, whether he had heard that the paupers of a union in Hampshire are employed in grinding bones, and that while at their task they quarrel for the bones; drawing out the marrow and gnawing off the meat? Sir &AMES Giuliani heard the statement with horror: he could not believe that such an abuse existed; but lie would at once inquire.

In the House of Lords, the Select Committee on John Stinton's cue re ported, that it would not be expedient to prosecute him.

On the third reading of the Bills of Exchange &c. Bill, Lord MONT- EAGLE moved an amendment to make it perpetual. The Earl -of DAL- HOUSIE presumed that the House was not prepared to sanction that total abolition, instead of suspension, of the Usury-laws. The Earl of Dame- BOROUGH was in favour of continuing merely to suspend the laws: how- ever salutary the suspension might be in time of peace, it would be utterly unmaintainable in war; for how could loans then be raised by Government? Eventually, the amendment was negatived, by 37 to 9; and the bill passed.

Several measures Which we have not noticed were "forwarded a stage" in both Houses. The Commons sit today; the Lords adjourned till Mon- day.