The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-17 00:00:00

THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.

The following is the speech delivered by Prim.*
Comm on opening the United Roumain Assembly
at Bucharest on the 6th :
Deputies,—Your pprreesseneocroe around me oo this solemn occa-
sion fills me with a legittimate pride for the success of the
mission which the Rournain nation oonfided to me. This
day on which the representatives of the two Principalities
have thronged round the throne of our common country, is
one of rejoicing for the whole nation, and of happiness for
him whom you have elected. A new life this day com-
mences for Itoutnania. The Porte and the guaranteeing
Powers have recognised the union of the assemblies and of
the ministries of the Two Principalities, and my govern-
meet will communicate to you the modifications which
have necessarily been made in some of the sti-
pulations of tie convention of the 19th August,
1858. Faithful to the mission which you have con-
fided to me, and certain that it is the firm will of the
Roumania to always remain united, I have already pro-
claimed, in face of the whole nation, the definitive union of
the Principalities, aid have told you that it will be such as
Roumania has desired. lam persuaded, gentlemen, that
neither the Porte nor the iliaaraateeing Powers will ever
think of suppressing the union which they have now recog-
nised as being so necessary for the happiness of the Print'.
*Rim We must not lees sight of the fact that the coo-
solidation of the sluice cells for complete abnegation on our
We must forget the mad dissensions of the past and
labour in common for the moral and material development
of Roumania. In ceder to secure the progressive improve-
ment of our institutions, several bills will be im-
mediately presented for your examination. The
most urgent wants of the country, to which I
principally direct your immediate attention, may be
summed up as follows :—" Union of the administrations of
the two Principalities in order to assure the unification of
the laws and admiolstrative regulatioos ; the' proper divi-
sion of the administrative attributions in order to allow of •
decentralisation which will relieve the council of ministers
from the weight of numerous matters which now ateorb
their time to the prejudice of the general interests ; reorge
nuation of the prefecture' is miler to increase their import-
ance and facilitate their authority; organisation of the
ministries; separation of the administrative from the
judicial power ; communal and commercial orpoisstio• ;
unification of the taxes ; formation of a superior control for
the public amounts ; introduction of a real and risible
equilibrium in the budget of the state; a fondues's:44l re-
organisation of the public instruction on such base. as will
guarantee a good moral and intellectual education to ) oath ;
a law on the press, to secure its liberty and prevent the
abase of it ; and the establishment ,of railways, the con-
struction of which is so essential to the development of the
prosperity of the country.
Those are the priocipal measures with which you will
have to occupy yourselves this session, and I recommend
you to take them up according to their imprison and ur-
gency. A wide field will be thee cradle, your activity.
and I feel the fulled, confidence in your seal Be assured
that, in labouring with intelligence to consolidate our insti-
tutions, we shall not only guarantee the prosperity and
existents of Roumania, but shall prevent any one from
ever entertaining an idea of separating what God has made
to be smiled. May the Almighty bless your labours!

THE GREAT EASTERN.