The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-07 00:00:00

THE CESSION OF THE lONIAN ISLANDS•

(FBOll LAST WIGHT% GAZIIITIL)
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 5.

Her Majesty's Government have received from
the Hon. Henry Elliot, a copy of the following
memorandum, which he had delivered to the Presi-
dent of the Provisional Government of Greece :

It is her Majesty's earnest desire to contribute to
the welfare and prosperity of Greece.
The treaties of 1827 and 1832 bear evidence of
this desire on the part of the British crown.
The provisional government of Greece declared,
upon the withdrawal of Bing Otho from Greece,
that their mission is to maintain for Greece consti-
tutional monarchy and the relations of peace with
all other states.

If the new Assembly of the representatives of the
Greek nation should prove faithful to this declare

tion, should maintain oonstitutional monarchy, and
should refrain from all aggression against neigh-
bouring States, and if they should choose a sove-
reign against whom no well founded objection
could be raised, her Majesty would see in this
course of conduct a promise of future freedom and

happiness for Greece. In such a case, her Majesty,
with a view to strengthen the Greek monarchy,
would be ready to announce to the Senate and re-
presentatives of the lonian islands, her Majesty's
wish to seethem united to the monarchy of Greece,
and to form with Greece one united State ; and if
this wish should be expressed also by the lonian
legislature, her Majesty would then take steps for
obtaining the concurrence of the powers who were
parties to the treaty by which the seven lonian
Islands and their dependencies were placed u a
separate state ender the protectorate of the British
crown.

I are to take care, in my communications upon
this subject, to make it understood, that the elec-
tion of a prince who should be the symbol and
precursor of revolutionary disturbance, or of the
adoption of an aggressive policy towards Turkey,
would prevent any relinquishment of her Ma-
jesty's protectorate of the lonian Islands.
Her Majesty's Government trust that, in the
selection of a sovereign to rule over Greece, the
Greek Assembly will choose for their king a prince
from whom they can expect a regard for religious
liberty, a respect for constitutional freedom, and
a turners love of peace. A prince possessing these
qualities will be fitted to promote the happiness of
Greece, and will be honoured with the friendship
and confidence of her Majesty the Queen.

Mr. Bright has accepted an invitation to the
annual dinner of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce on
Thareday, the 15th inst.
Mr. John Pender the representative of Totnes,
has placed at the disposal of • committee the sum of one
thousand pounds, to be applied as they may see fit for the
general welfare of the inhabitants of that borough.
The Recorders of Exeter and Penzance on Mon-
day referred at some length to the present system of punish.
meet. The learned gentlemen concurred in reoommesding
• return to transportatioa.. . . .

The Moniteur publishes a long and detailed so-
want of criminal jurisdiction in England, especially so far
as it bears on preventive imprisonment. A Paris correspon-
dent says :—" It is vary carefully done, not containing
above a dozen very glaring mistakes, the principal being
that a prisoner monot be assisted by counsel before a
police magistrate, and that the magistrate takes a decision
without asking the prisoner if he has anything to my."
The Journal du Havre announces that the tele-
graphic methorologiail information organised in England by
Admiral Fithßoy will, for the future, be regularly trans-
mitted to France. On Monday the Uri despatch was
posted up in that port, coritainieg the weeds. " A gale may
be expected from the north-west." The system of the
adrenal is based upon the fact that the telegraph is more
rapid than the most violent storm. Mamma terrible hurricane
does not travel more than 2,700 metres a minute ; so that
on warning by telegraph seamen at, a distance of 1,000 kilo-
metres (lithe of a mile each) ie the direction which the
, storm is taking, they would WV seven hours to prepare for
I the tempest.
A POLITICAL Don JIYAN.—The Nord of yester-
day says, In an article beaded " Don Joan Diplomatist,"
that the regent positioo of the British Cabinet, between its
old flame Turkey and its fresh conquest Greece, is calcu-
lated to recall that charming scene from MoliZre, in which
the seducer persuades each of his victims that she alone has
woe his heart. It adds, that until it has fuller information
respecting the intentions of " Don Juan Palmenton," it
must perforce describe his recent conduct u " political
bigamy."
Tas FRENCH HI Maxwo.—The Moniteur of
yesterday metal= a very long article upon the priest
eat* of Mexico, which it be translated from a Vera Crag
paper, and which fills no fewer thee five columns of its
space. The article is highly favourable to the Preach ex-
pedition, and declares that the country is favourable to it
also. " Public opinion," it says, "salutes with an eethu-
Mum bordering upon madness the generous projects of
Preece in behalf of our unhappy cosetry." According to
ties writer et the article it is rely the donagereas in
Mexico who an opposed to the hese& hennaed's.
LOAN roe. THI 003riDliltATI Govzsinsiarr.—
It is understood that a member of the Confederate gems-
mast has arrived in Liverpool, having the neosemny racial
dcountenta and full power to negotiate a loan in this OMB-
tay. It is proposed to rake the loan upon the security of
oaten stored in the Southern States.