The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-27 00:00:00

at work in life Aliatr customs territory, and
2 beyond it. The ,000 6wt. of raw sugar
embployed in the production cost, at 159., 8,100,0009. ;
the duty amounted, at 716., to 3,650,000. The total
of these sums deducted from the 16 millions will leave
about 31 millions for the remuneration of native
industry. of which about one million reached the
pockets of the workmen. The average price of loaf
sugar duty free vrai 18;f4.; therefore the consumers p. id
121f1. per oentner,or 5,600.0009. more than they would
have paid had they brought foreign sugar free. Of
these 6 millions the state got about 31 millions for
the duty; the remaining 21 millions were the gains of
the refiners. Therefore 6 millions are drawn from the
people that one million may be bestowed upon labour.
The new sugar tariff must not be confounded with
the reform project going on ; but is now the law.
It is reported that the KiEgs of Bavaria and War-
temberg will meet the Emperor at Linz.

WEST INDIA MAIL.

By Ylectrie Telegraph.

The Teviot arrived at Southampton to-day, with
dates from Jamaica to the 22nd October, and Tri-
nidad to the 23rd. She brings 419,451 dollars,
112,000 of which are on accout.t of the birxican
dividend.

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.

The speech of the president, in answer to Sir G.
Ward's address to the Deslative Assembly, was
unanimously adopted. It ex/wanes the regret of the
Assembly at the late events in Cephalonia, and ap-
proves the measures taken by hio excellency for the
suppression of the revolt, rendering him thanks
therefore; it asserts the persuasion of the Chamber
that all the sentences pronounced had been fully
jue-
tifled by "the gravity of the crimes," and goes on to
say that the Assembly will consider thi' corrections
necessarily made in the constitutional refos "ms adopted
in May of the present year, in order to give' them the
sanction of its approval. "In the mean dale it has
the comforting assurance that her Majesty's ,govern-
ment entirely adheres to the desire and intention of
giving more popular form to the lonian legislatu..e by
abandoning the system of nominating to seats in the
Assembly through the medium of the primary co,tn-
cii." The address then continues u follows :
The liberty of election in its fullest extension, as one c f
the fundamental bases of the new constitutional system,
being established, the Assembly is steadfast in maintaing that
the best guarantee for real liberty of election will be secret
vote, and it trusts that her Majesty, deigning to consider the
humble address of the Assembly upon this point, will be per-
suaded that such is the only mode of voting which suits the
particular circumstances of these islands.
The Assembly has ever given the importance which your
excellency lateens eto the reforms now in force to the con-
trol of the chamber of the ordinary and extraordinary ex-
penditure. It constitutes the true basis of public economy,
and it was therefore that in the beginning of its application
differences arms between the Assembly and the Senate—
differences which the Assembly is happy to see ter-
, =Mated in the sans. it entertained—that is, in the sense
which secures for ever the importance and cal effects of
11110 M.

Your excellency's proposition to abolish the transit duties
in Corfu seems well calculated to augment the transit trade
at a small, if, indeed, any, loses, to the revenue. The As
sembly is ever disposed to give its consent to all that may
facilitate and tend to the commercial prosperity of these
states, and is so convinced of the propriety of the said pro-
position, that it is disposed to extend the same to all the
islands, in order that the Individual commerce of each may
obtain a corresponding advantage.
The Assembly, in clueing this respectful address, fails not
to express sentiments of the most profound gratitude to her
Majesty, the sovereign protectress, for the gracious ex-
passion of ber royal intentions, communicated through your
excellency.
That this people have received the reforms with gratitude ;
that its legal representative a concur in them in good faith ;
that they will be productive of benefit to the lonian people,
and strengthen the bonds between the protecting govern-
ment and protected people, the Assembly does not doubt.
And it is but en act of justi to which your excellency ren-
den to the lonian people, when you frankly state that, as
regard'. the legislature of the states and the great majority
of the lonian people you have h.d no reason to doubt their
concurrence in the principles which your excellency has
enunciated

The address concludes with an assurance that all
the acts of the lord nigh commissioner will be dic-
tated by impartiality and junta*. Sir G. Ward re-
plied by thanking the Assembly, and repeating the
aasurance of his "cordial co-operation in the work
that remains. to be done."