The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-06 00:00:00

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.

nu that mi gob deed wee to promote the *ritual but unless reformers are el Ss alert, and even with
o. the r.e• h UM. Pati'hel when shm were their utmost watchfuluses. to something wears to
„,„ ;weaken is eonicquenee of several baseless make tnisiders mak feel their tenure of olio totter-
•,,,l • the ame time by owl individual
kg and insecure, they will be dallied with and post-
r " that be °Vies(' to the till whir.% the
sad u:timately tided over till another year.
• • "KEY Bliieli.hc hi but ja. akin, not because be did Peod.
A.
pt mai law capable of splendours*, tat bet- The thanks of reformers are, however, due to
; ...i.e..; that the bill was a &featly, ono, and did Lord JOHN Resume for his so speedily disabusing
. ti re.ht boas. Ha hoped that the bill he WU thou, of any towing hopes
they
may have enter-
.o; the table was sue • a one as ha could tabled of receiving effective assistance at the hands of
11. had Parat:y hoes woad •erinc the 'abject, and
Prd 1..
eounwseichtiow with thh boo. government in their efforts to reform our representa-
..e hoo Ihe would nut Dame an early day for the nee system. They have fair warping given them
that whatever reform, they achieve most be the work
of their hands; that they have nothing but opposition
to look for on the part of government. 'lO them-
selves they must owe the extension of the franchise;
the ab Alton of the petty, venal, and nominee boroughs
left in existenc : or created by the Reform Bill; and
the enfranchief meat of populous, wealthy. and intelli.
gent communities which are still 1. ft without their
due share in the meional representation. And in tine
struggles to attain these objects, government though
unwillingly and indirectly, must be aiding to them. If
there be any one of the promised government measures
which cannot with common decency or safety bs
abendof id, it is that for recreating an elec.,
torsi body in Ireland. Under the existing law
the electors of Inland have dwindled down
to a mere nominal number. Ireland mud have a
c netituency, and can only obtain it by extending the
suffrage to all ratepayers. No measure short of this
can prevent the electors of Ireland becoming as ludi-
crously few in number as were those of Scotland
before 1831. But will the EngEeh ratepayers not
enfranchised by the 101. qualification remain quiet
if they are denied the right of participating in
parliamentary elections, while thee. see it cor.ceeltd
to Irishmt n similarly eircumeanet'd with themselves!
Can minket, prdend that tho English ratepayer,
however poor, is less qualified to exercise the electoral
franchise is telligently than his Irish countryman?
The attempt to withhold from Englishmen and
Scetchmen what is granted to Irishmen will raise
throughout the island a storm of discontent and in-
dignation before which even Lord Jodie RusseLL
mos: bend mud quail. the inevitable reconstrecion
of the Irish conditstency is a guarantee that the day
of a new and satisfactory reform bill fir England and
Scotland is not tar distant.

p,; . t

ES astri lit sail that ha would be happy to
. ..tht u. mot', attains .• that point,
• NM a. oda to sod toad • lint tins.

PUBLIC OVFICERS.
pllll 11011 P its• • Lotk• that he would MOTO
• o toe &meant et salarive. Monies, and
allow-
v.d Feuded to all per,as b•ddiar any public
v.rient or eepara • ditties performed by
h • al,riet, sannier, or all .waiess ; speriliap the
• ice do y: rad. at the semis of money already
E Zitt•rest royal pekes f•r the last three ran,
.tiony paid. au 1 tte snout doe at the ate-
' ...I worth,' such nine already rated will be
inpd• ;elle tear matte. carouse at the period
0%.,l to to seceoary.
-e ibtr adjourned at a quarter to 10 till 12 o'cleek

IZ-e
•

OUTGOING MAILS.
f r Urban. Ppa.bm, and Cribraltar will br made
ta., rang, rett 7.
r;1 Nu-.ills, to the Mediterranean, Eiypt,
g, te., will be ai4e up to-mortar

us Bestish North Aerates sad the I.7elted
up at the circuits of Feb. 8.
I . lifts, ezzladsou Bermuda, Rarauttab,
.N•lw o,lcetts, and Mastro, and inaludirs
. :1. 4.ane.tee:lie rreera. New Ornnsee,
br andel* ea Feb. 17.
r ti,oral•tr, Melts, Lir eel., obit halm& 1.4109,
end Chits. rid Southampton, m 4
ntoratug cf 20.
r?:..kris, the Ward. and Buenos Ayres, will
th • tsarist of Mush 4.

w •'ATEY 49' LUXUOII. MAMIE.

Ig
Aura. Mk,. Wa. Altera... 11 o.

WEDSLIDdY, FEBRUARY 8

tt • • too strong." Med Lord Bnoucitair, in
t. . 0-•uy, when he learned how I..rg• the
• ruiui.km ro•nened to the House of
c. • al t• v first election wider the IL form Act.
1.. • lie own and his colleagues' be-
_ • era—their incapacity :0 do what was
1. 40; a. I ;a.; were hackett by a sufficieut force
et •• • .1.. taw cs, who would s.ick to them even
t• • )
• it abeam'. Minis err ere not quite
1..., •,r they wee in %hut first reform pee-
-1,. ; are, Cr themselves " too
It. 'faat fa'al mainii.y of 49 on the address in
t• • I '0 0. atsdoue all Before michrers Rot it
tic • I i. I. it w.akneee, and were full of the brat
ti•nee they got it ail their good resolu
t• , Z:I R out of them, as Nat 63 ever 808
A. •-' o,r "tea d out ut toe palms of his LaGde."
and true so3ing,
...evil er In. the amt. a monk won!,;' e;
t. e kvilinsmell—tne devil a n.calt w+.he.
TLe ti si ,yinptom at Lnrd JOHN Ittrothea at-
tar, r:i g nir ague fit of apprehension :r, as was
t';.- t el ,he gentleman .n black whom Dr.
J. lIN. N WI urtd with the designation of the first
WI ill. ; •.tc avowal of his determination to put
cf : • . c.• ;1.4 of penitence and amendment—to go
cry •••• •: tr a, least one yoar m Tr. To a question
from r. ,1:'%; t.. 1, is 1 •rds`.ip replied on Monday i•ight—
thron .:.e tam c gee oat flattering promise
in 4.. • . •p • eh, and the estentations butt; of Mr.
- ,nee -eta of bills—that "it was not
the • out AAAAA r.ment to propose any bill foe
the .A , • o ILA tuft. age is Edgland this year."
N t wita Mating down the Lopes he had
t • .71- esei rd in the lvessts of parliamentary
ref...nu craculsr p4nes cf the Quir-En's
magnificeot twerpretition put upon
it 11 6.., er a•ur. s Lord Jou mic.t needs laugh in
tlu:r , r. .I.dit. "He would not en:er into
the er um. I;?., • r give his flagella tit the present
• he no:n.11 thrt some gentleman would
•z .• a. c' uuJer ffiscnrs•nn, and he should
maintAin t' e op•nice.s he r3W te;ii."
• k. dlI invi•er parl.a.rentar) !cf •rmers to
e. ore of reform in order that he may
p wish the aid .f the conserca-
-,:y At his bock, of tv.j.:.f.ns it. lie
• a ;lid coaxing • recmaint play-
. .d rip his castle of cad., that
rase the plea sore of blowing the
••tire down. And in a spirit of equally
Lard JOHN calls upon reformers to
At ~in thcught'e like; " he tells them that
i• •,. n sill originate a discussion on the tx•en-
. I rnc;lt..e, be will be " ready to maintain
which he now holds "—whstAver there

b
th,
l.rc

i Ll

'a: IA ol:it of economy which no one can
el. it P. ttib, d by the whip with laudable perti-
Lac r) that is the economy of Rood and liberal
Delon, t rev may squander the public money, but
err erds are dispensed as charily as their
• ~1 with the commodity. Before they
• Lp their minds to propose any measure that
✓ n or coaciliate the people, they examine
(arr. :1 svntt..er it is absolutely neersra7 to COD-
-0.0r., whether the evil day for baying golden
c0r.11,4 tmly nut ba put off a little longer. They
then tern toe measure round and rotted, view it on
i• en weigh it, ask themselves whether a little
I. u.i.y no- be enough, pare and nibble at it till ttey
1.7.1.4 it within a grain of the lowest weight at which
it w:2 pas. current. The only kind of extravagance
that is cuparduaable in their eyes is the extravagance
eni g more gaud than is necessary for their own

PARLIAMENT having set the question of a return to
protection at re-t, we may resume the cuneideration
of how and at wLat rate rent may be rnhintained.
And first of all, let us entreat these wha indulge in
calculations on the subject, to start alt-nether afresh,
and not to commit the palpable unfairness of the Scotch
farmers in Blackerovd's Magazine, or Mr. CHRISTO-
Plll.ll and Mr. PACK?. in parliament, who set out
with the expenses and nric,s of production under
the protective regime, whilst the returns of produce
are valued according to the reduced scale of free
trade. Mr. Cluttsroeiika calculates even his tithes
as high when wheat is at 40e. as when it was at Ns,
his tradesmen's bills idern, and his capital, whether
Boating or fixed, as rigidly. the some.
Sine:y all this is gross Imposition on the very face
of it. If stock, labour, food, be all dim•nished in value,
surly less capital will be needed for land. With
lower prices, labour will be also lower. If profits on
live stock and the price of corn are reduced one-th'rd,
the expense of feeding and paying labour wi:l be re-
duced more than one-sixth.

Then, when a proprietor, like Mr. CHRISTOPHER,
comes forward to describe his Lad as aaturally inca-
pable of producing even one quarter of wheat per
a'ne, but as now producing fear quarters by the ap-
plication of *ems 2!. 10s. an acrein artiLial manures,
over and above the manure furnished by two-thirds of
the farm employed in feeding stock, how can the coun-
try be bound to make speculations of this kind good
and profitable? That such specr.!ations can be mule
w itn SUMO" there can litt no dt-I,bt,hut as to leg.slat.ve
enactments ensuring them profit, or !ecurieg a certain
rent, it is as idle as guaranteeing by law a certain
prcfit on any branch of manufactures. In such eases
the landowner way perhaps ,lead, that his rent
is but the interest of capital laid out. But how can
the legislature guarantee returns, and permaneat
returns, to capital ?
A landlo:d may ressmab'y expect a curtain annual
price fur the Lateral fertility of the soil, and in aiA-
thin, an annual price on the &nitwit of fertility per-
manently a'..ded by improver/len*, but even then per-
manence cannot be calculated in eternmm. Whoa the
natural fertility of the soil is only valued at so many
years' purchase of rent, how can Mr. CHRISTOPHER
expect a full return for capital by-rat double the
number of years before?

'there is, however, ample margin both for lmdlir d
and for tenant improvements throimboit the sail
of England. There Mind', first of all, dr..inage,
known frequently to have repaid itself in atingle crop,
bee generally to be avenged as producing from 10 to
20 per cent. upon the outlay. Then there is the bet-'
ter c.diptstion of firm buildings to the most efßc:ent
me.tia of feeding cattle and procuring manure ; the
more convenient di,position of fields according to
the adaptation of the soil to various courses of crop-
ping, and better arrangement of feucee and opening
of internal roads. Teat there is room f ir a general
diminution of the cost of production and marketing
by such outlay there can be no doubt. Two
years' rectal might well be spent on such,
and the result we have heard calculated by most com-
petent witnesses as 73 per cent. saved on the cost of
production, and 10 per cent. gained in the amount of
produce. If we take our former instance of a farm of
2501. a year, and that the lendlord's money coats him
6 per cent., we shall in this scheme of economy have
121 per cent. on 5001., or 051., applicable to the sup-
port of rent.
High farmed lands of small natural fertility we
leave out of the question. They f irm a class apart,
and are, in fact, manufactures. But they by no
means constitute so large a portion of the kingdom as
the calculations based on them would lead one to

bef.rb parliament met, and before the strength of
pert:es Wg4 red b- a division on the address, minis-
tete rad NA misgivings that their antagonists might
have a mejurity to the Loreto, a strong minority in
Commons, and strength enough in the existing
nom., ,u-dionbuted, and corrupt constituencies to
reran. n a dissolution of parliament. They, there-
kre, W. rd up their courage to the sticking-point of
throw:. .g themselves on the people by an extension
of the suffrage such as would enable them to deal
Lglel.en.ledly with the questions of free trade, the
Li& crven, lac. The promise disarmed the jealousy
of vie a .1n et reformers ; tne threat brought to the ma-
niAtriel rank, a few of the protectionists,and deterred
else reel hem puehing matters to extremity. Unmean-
ing, mak—bele'e amendments on the address were
moved to bath houses, and supported by studied dis-
claimers of their having any meaning. The moat
timid of the protectionists absented themselves or
fairly fazed the ministerial ranks. Ministers
discovered that there was no reality in the
opposition with which they had been so
loudly tame-env:l, that their adversaries were
if possible ru.ae afraid of the consequences cf a
victory c.an themselves. They discavered that in the
prussic parliament they may always count in emer-
geteies upon a majority that will tally round them as
the het and most trustworthy instruments of an olr-
structive policy. Tbay Lave consented to continue to
A..* on the disgraceful tenure of impeding all
fisciell el re •l reforms, and the first sacrifice by which
the, emit to cement their *Nance with conservatism
is the abandonment of all their projects fee extending
the franchiser in England.
Wilt the cowardly game of playing fast and loose
Kith prnmises of reform stop here? The phrase with
which the Times on the !corning of the meeting of
perMentent wound up the anticipatory rehearsal of
the (1..“.4.'s speech that had been communicated to
It, is ominous: " Where much is announced there
wiJ er.r be much disappointment, for the ex-
perience many sessions proves an imperial
lege!ature to possess only limited pallier.. II
wtrde have any meaning, it is that
ministers are to introduce measures to be
&hated, tot passed; that they have in contemplation
a set.i.ti lot' talk, not of work. This is transferring
tie et. t. sertion of bills—the massacre of the inno-
f'-ati as tt ha been called—from the end to the be-
forfeit g.l the session. If the government-inspired

snite- t hoax-vquare speak moth, the pim-
ps.: t.i t ,;.neral extension of suffrage through-
Iva tenpin is not the only popular hope that has
tees t xtittil but to be disappointed. Colonial reform,
the It:ltt r. of the Woods and Forests, retresohment
°' `r is oditose, an improved registration for Ireland—
hi.rl other fair promises may not be disavowed
to tivaly as the general tztenaion of the suffrage ;

suppose.
Let us turn to land and farmers under more i
natural circumstances, who figure seldom in statistics. I
We allude to those small farms and their occupiers
to be found in the western and north-western dairy I
districts, and indeed throughout every part of the 4
country, settled on the poorer sorts of clay lands. I
Possessed of small capital, and but routine skill,
there is no class of farmers ID universally menaced •
with extinction as they are in the present period of
transition. There is a cry, no doubt, for letting them
go to the wall, and replacing them. But that is not
so easy. To replace them will require not only more
new tenants' capital, but much landlords' capital, to '
furnish and adapt the buildings for large holdings.
We deem it therefore indispeasablo to help
these smeller fanners over the difficulty, not
only in justice to them, but for the preservation of
rent to a large class of landlords. Now this can only
ba done by the landlord himself bringing improve-
ment, and examples of improvement, to the very door
of the small farmer. He must be taught, not by
lectures, but by example—not by theory, but ex-
periment. And the landlord can alone do this. In
Ireland, with so little sympathy between the two
clones, this nay have been impossible. But in parts
of England it is not only possible, but indispensable.
We have here touched upon two instances in which
ter t may be kept up by active interference and
appli-
cation of capital on the part of the lardlord. There
are other cases where the application of capital is the
affair of the tenant, and will be willingly undertaken
by him. In that cue he must be secured by a lease,
or by some law of tenant-right, or of a tenant's right
of compensation for improvements, much more clear
aLd incontestable than is at present laid down.
We have, however, enumerated instances sufficient,
and gone into them enough, for one time. Let us
only remark how the efforts to be made, as well by
landlord as tenant, necessitate a greater employment
of labour, and consequently a greater diminution of
local taxation, whether in poor-ra'e or the prosecution
of crime. It is by a spirit of improvement pervading
the country that the population can beet be saved
from weighing upon the rates. For not only is the dear
labour of Lancashire cheaper than the underpaid
labour of Donetshire by its effectiveness upon the
soil ; but it is cheaper by its influence on the material
comfort and moral habits of the population. We may
be perfectly. convinced, that the extreme poverty of
the labouring class is in effect the dearest of all
charges upon the income of the rich.

rum, Fax. 3.
For I! /be Amount.
Money. ,10panIng Mem& Lowest. Clones.
—l
$ pee anda............ 37 SO '57 80 37 95 57 36 67 64
6 per Cents. 95 30 93 43 96 83 34 83 93 0
3 do. new Luau. . ~ ~ n n n
4 per Coats. n n n N II
4 per Oman 99 09 0 99 0
Exabange on London : 30 dam 23 421 • 90 days, 26 30
Inlan„ 3, 1810
neDo. 6, 1812
Do. 4 - „ Treasury Bonds...
to. 21
Piedmont 3 per Cents 87 13 „

Borasm—Paris and Orleans, 1520 ; Paris and Rouen, 565; Rouen
and Lane, 247 50 ; Avignon and Marseilles, 210; Strasbourg and
Wk. 115; Nortb, 466 25:; atou;crenu and Iran,., 110 ; Faris and
s.rnorure. :57 30; Tours andN..ntei, 266 25, Grand Combc, 600;
Orleans and Bardeen; 413.

GERMANY.

The followirg is the lIIIPPBage of the King of
Prussia, of the 31st ul'., which ac-olopanied the offi-
cial pnqiestion of the revised cons•i•Aition
We, Frederice &c.—linve seen with eatisfection
from the recent decision of the chambers which have jne'.
been I.,id 'reform ns, that they has adopted th. greater num-
ber of our proposidons of the 7th of Jenuary, respecting the
revision of the constitution. We regret that proposition
respecting entails (fldci comnasse) has not met with a similar
adoption. We shall, therefore, reserve the protection of the
rights of survivors as proposed by that article, to the law
promised in the eoncituti tar on the oul ;, et of entails, upon
a •ound it ion correknonding to the constitutionally determined
future creation of the Usi.er Chamber.
Tha raviden of the cocstitution prwerib,d by the consti-
tution raw ;p: of the 5.1 Dee., 1848, we consider to be coin.
plated, and have executed the constitution with all the
alterations and additions adopted by both chambers, and
have ordered i.r puhlication in the official code of laws. In

atvordsnee with the last condition of ..he consti,ution, we
shall take the oath prescribed by it in presence of the united
chambers, and at the same time receive the osth of our
ministry and the members of both chambers. This solemn
set we have fixed to take place en Wednesday seat, tke tith
February, end ruptire the chambers to aaemble together
(Jr the purpose, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon of that day, in
our royal residi-ice in Beetle.
Given at Charlottenburg, 31st January, 1350,
(Signed) FREDERICK. WILLIAM;
and eounterbigned II all the ministers.

THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER ON CLERICAL I
Dotes.—At • m..eting in aid of tho funds of the Society for 1
the Employment of Additional Curates, the Bishop thus
acquainted the mrttic2 how he would act in disposing of the 1
funds of the society : " Where I find a willing and ready
peculation I would gladly relieve them ; wl ere I find s ne-
glected, abandoned, godlces population, still more gladly
would I seek to aid them. I will aid on ne principles of
party—on no pricciples of private or individual pique or
opinion. But if I find incumbents preferring their wretched
ceremonial of a put time to the vital essence of Christianity—
if I find men dwelling upon a dress in the church instead
of the spirit in which the deotrints of that church
should be taught, clinging to the surplice of ministration
instead of the word and vital truths of God,—and telling
me (for unfortunately I am not speaking of imaginary cases)
that they must cling to thou antiquated follies, nasanction'd
alike by the letter and the spirieof Christ—telling me, I say,
that they must cling to those antiquated follies, er that they
must become infidels—then, on them I will not bestow your
bounty. And if I find, under the affected plea of catholi-
cism, and the ancient customs of your church, any claiming
to themselves the right of withholding baptism and burial
from others—seeding children from the church gates whose
parents are anxiously craving for them to be received into that
church—sending the same child unburied from their church
gates in consequence of the want of that baptism which they
themselves refuse—on them I will not bestow your bounty."
—Manchester Guardian.
„_
REPRESENTATION OF uoLCHESTER.—sne Writ for
a fresh election for this borough, in the room of Sir Henry
Smyth Batt., was received on Ssturday by the mayor, who
has fixed Thursday next for the nomination. On Saturday,
at the request of a deputation of the liberal party, Mr.
Bowyer, who lately contested the borough of Reading, paid
a visit to Colchester, for the purpose of reconnoitering the
relative strength of parties in the town ; hut, at a public
meeting to which he was invited la the evening, he intimated
that, under preoent circumstances, with the strong feeling
existing in the town, and with so formidable an opponent's
Lard J. Manners, he did not think he ought to engage them
fa a ountest with so slight a prospect of a successful is-we.
A party of 'irate,' voters has been deputed to wait upon a
proposed candidata in London (whose name is not men-
tioned), to request him to contest the borough. On Mobday
evening Lord Manners addressed a meeting of the elec-
tors, at which Mr. Unwin, a frtmtrader, took up the chal-
lenges thrown out by several of the speakers, and asserted
the hopelessness, as well as the impolicy, of a return to pro-
tection. Towards the close of the meeting an attempt to
pull Lim from the form on which he was standing was
seated by those friendly to his views, and a slight collision
took place; but, beyond the fracture of a few chain and
sundry torn garments, no injury was occasioned.
NEW CHURCH IN ST. MARTLEBONE PARISH.—
Yesterday a numerous meeting of ladies and gentlemen re-
siding in the district of Christ Church, Marylebone, WAS held
in the National School room, High-street, for the purpose
of promoting the erection and endowment of a new church
in Carlisle-street, Portman-market, to he devoted chiefly to
the use of the poorer inhabitants, 60,000 of whom were
stated to be unprovided with church acnommodsti in. The
sum required for the purpose in view was etated to be
10,00 W., of which one half is to be expended on the
building and the other on the endowment of the church.
Resolutions in accordance with the object of the meeting
were unanimously adopted. Lord Ashley occupied the chair
on the occasion.
ALARM OP FIRE AT ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.—
Great alarm was caused in the Borough on Monday night,
owing to flames being seen issuing apparently through the
roof of St. Thomas's Hospital. Messengers imotediati ly
started in all directions for the engines, and in the course of
a few minor.* a strong body of the London brigade with
several engines reached the hospital, when the firemen hap-
pily found that the cause of so much alarm was owing to
one of the chimneys taking fire, the flames from which, as
tbay rushed through the pot, being suppoeed by the crowd
to Mara through the roof.
[Advertisement.)—THE UNFAILING SUCCESS OP
VIENNA.—JAN. 27.—A memorial ham been for- Howowayls PILLS ANL OINTIORNT TRI CO's or RINGWORM AND
ALL DIALIOMS ON TIM NS IN.—A medical gentkumus residing at LIMB,
warded by the Austrian cabinet to tie Central Federal Cora whiter child had been severely afflicted with ringworm OW upwards of
mission, as well as to all its ambassadors to the different
m el a. Ittrod e"" knows
ot ao In cure this dreadnu jrz
German states, for the purpose of paving the way to a sus- hbut
imself ,:nd other was
mention', A:: toorter "
recur Was per-
tem, union with Germany. mauled to use Hodoway'. ointment and pills, these medieinse having
HAMBURG, JAN. 31, NooN.—The frost of last night tta:itedppyrnetetWo'eltrity
ilny ellatinWtlOefet7iVhati,imerim'
rectilini=gattig
has rendered the ice so firm and solid, that sledges with the Mame from the system. —NA' by all druggieta, and Eroteseor
goods are passing to and fro. Betablithment, 244, strand, London.

TO THE LORD HIGH COMMISSIONER OF
Tfiß lONIAN ISLANDS, ON HlB RECENT
CONDUCT.
Slk—The time has now arrived, with the opening
or the parliamentary session, when your conduct, as
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands,
already condemned by the public opinion of your
countrymen as derogatory to British policy, and
unworthy the name of England, must be brought
before the great tribunal of British statesmen for
their final judgment whether barbarous cruelty
and utiatiated despotism are henceforth to form a
portion of the instructions to be furnished
to English governors abroad by the Colonial Office.
Differing, a, we do, in language, anomalous as is our
position, and totally whhout a representative in this
country, wish a literature silenoed by the shackles of
authcnty and a press whose fetters are but just
loosened; it might have been expected that the
wrongs of the lonians would have been unheard and
anredressed, but my presence in this cuun'ry and the
accident of long residence which has made me &sharer
in the feelings, as well as conversant with the lan-
gnage of your coubtr, men, have enabled me, aided as
I hove been by a nobleman, to whom all lonians must
ever feel deeply grateful, to place these matters with-
out loss of time, and in their true light before the in-
dignant public, and I now complete my task by this
public letter to yoursolf in the full conviction that it
will meet the eye of some member of the legislature
and induce him to compel en inquiry, which mutt in-
evitably result in your condemnation and disgrace.
A sense of duty, under the urgent circumstances
which surround the present position of my native
country, wiled alone induce me to conquer the repug-
nance which I feel in addressing you personally on
the late occurrences in Cephalonia and Curio. I
would willingly have regarded them as fruits of the
syst-m, not of the man, end have found a parallel in
the acts of Sir Howard Douglas and Sir Thomas
Maitland for thou) of Sir Henry Ward. But it is
not so. A short three months of your administration
have accumulard crimes and cruelties far exceeding
the faults and errors of the thirty years of the pre-
cedicg commissionere, and a long catalogue of charges
is already recorded aeaket you. Would to God that
any of them could be contradicted by you, or the
bureaucracy of officials in the lonian Islands who
have inveigled you within their grasp.
You are publicly secured is all the lonian papers,
without a single exception, as well as by the Greek
and Italian press,
1. Of far exceeding even the arbitrary towers
vented is you by the louian constitution.

2. Of cOntiniing martial law throughout Cepha-
lonia after the trifling riot there Ind been instantly
supprrieed by the people themselves.
3. Ofexaggerating into a general rebellion through-
out Cephalonia what was in reality a mere local out-
rage in a small district.
4. Of sip tsing men to trial by courts-martial, and
thereby depriving them of the protection of the forms
of
.justice.
3. Of stopping the Cenhalonian press, and (thcugh
you yourself, I am told, were once the editor of a
newspaper) consignirg the editors to banishment
without form or trial, in violation of all the gua-
rantees of the law of the press.
6. Of shooting and hanging, according to ycur
i own account, twenty-one individuals mare or less
criminal, and some inrukent, for this merely local &D-
I turbarce.

7. Of flogging by cet-o'-nine-tails—a punishment
hitherto unknown in the islands or Oteece—no less
than three hundred persons in Cephalonia, whereof
many are asserted by the public papers to have sub-
sequently died, and of wh•ch all account was kept
back in your public speech to the lonian A,s-mbly.
8. Of burning down houses, uprooting vineystd,
and currant p:an`ations, is a punishment upon sus-
pected or criminated individuals.
9. Ot causing two innocent persons to undergo the
feeling and terror of death by a simulated execution,
as a means of torture, to obtain testimony from them
as to the concealment of arms by their neighbours.

10. Of suborning spits andencouraoing informa-
tion of conspiracies and sedition which had no exist-
ence, and then refusing to give up the name of the in-
former, or even to punish him for the false inf oma-
tion which had caused such terror and disaffection '
throughout the country.
11. 01 committing outrages on the rights of cirzens
and the sanctity ef privite life in Corfu, by invading
their dwellings at night, seizing their papers, and
mprisoning them; subsequently exiling several of
them without any trial or hearing, such as the Italian
Colond Zsmbecari, Rocco Carerini, aid ethers.
12. Of banishing likewise without hearing or tiisl
Joseph Menterato and Ella Zone, both editors of

newspapers.
13. Of discouraging and preventing public lectures
f the instruction of the lonian youth, in reusing
permission to Dr. Diomedes Delviniotti to give a
'milk lecture on the history of medicine.
This is but an abridgment of the charges already
made against you, and it is on this account I am
compelled to bring your alleged conduct thus publicly
before your countrymen.
When I first heard of your appointment as Lord
High Commissioner to the lonian Islands, I co..gra-
Vitiated myself that my countrymen had at last ob-
tained the object of their wishes, is having to preside
over them a civilian, and one who for some years
past had been pointed out to me as likely to hold a
distinguished rank among British statesmen.
Your avowed opinions, your representation of the
liberal constituency of Sheffield during three 'virile-
meets, and the able manner in which you had
administered the duties and carried out the
financial reforms in the naval department committed
to your charge, were also in my opinion sufficient
evidences of your enlightened views, and guarantees
of your prudence and competence to execute the office
of Lord High Commissioner.
I was much fortified in this opinion by the frank-
ness of your manner at an interview I had with you
previous to your departure, in which, at your request,
I explained to you briefly the desires and aspirations
of the lonians for a revision of their constitution ; and,

in which, speaking without local sympathies—of
which, though an lonian, I am from long residence
in this country totally divested—l impartially set
before
.you the state of parties progressive and retro-
grade in that much mismanaged country. Your answer
was that the reforms were granted, in a moment of
enthusiasm excited by your sympsthy with the
just and honest desires of my countrymen. I
also took occasion to forewarn you against the clique
who were always ready to surround a new Lord
High Commiseioner and trammel and retard every
onward effort on his part for the good of the people
entrusted to his charge.
How great, then, was my surprise to hear that, no
sooner hsd you arrived in the islands, than it was
whispered that you were about to place obstacles in
the way of the royal sanction to the modifications of
the constitution granted by your predecessor ! How
much greater my astonishment to learn the course
you have pursued in repressing the trifling cutbreak
in Cephalonia—to read your proclamations—the ac-
counts of shootings, hangings, and floggings in that
island—the terror of the people, the stoppage of their
trade, the banishment of their public writers, and
outrage upon outrage committed by your authority
in defiance of all rights and laws!

Since the lonian Islands have existed there is no
example of such horrors—horrors neither called for
by the necessity of the cue, nor justified by the
result, outrages which hare caused a stain on the Eng-
lish name throughout eastern and western Europe,
which no future granting of liberal constitution can
eft*, no eclat of new honours, no applause of sena-
tors publicly assenting, bat shuddering in private, can
obliterate.

By this time yon may have reflected whether it is
better to conduct a government by terror than by
law ; whether it be wise to deal with a riot u a re-
bellion, and whether the love of a people is to be
won by acts of blood end tyranny, but I
should like to ask the designing men who
' have taught y.:u to consider hanging and shooting as
the most fit means for governing the lonian Islands,
in contradiction to what they have characterised as
" the mistaken clemency and lamentable supineness "
of your predecessor, Lord Beaton, whether it has
never struck them that the feelings, not to say the
rights of the lonians were worthy of regard, and that
the people governed u well as the governing power
have a claim to consideration. 'I hat the lonians
have rights is an established fact—by the treaty of
Paris, which clone gave England a protecting power
over them;• that these rights have been violated and
their constitutional prisftes filched from them by