The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-20 00:00:00

GREECE.

ATHENS: June 10.
The King opened the Chamber of Deputies yes-
terday in person.
After requesting the members to be seated, his
Majesty delivered the following speech :
" Gentlemen Deputies—l have pleasure in seeing
around me the representatives of the people, for
whom I feel a constantly increasing affection. I
have the satisfaction to announce to you that my
relations with foreign Powers remain friendly, and
that the maintenance of those relations is one of the
principal cares of my government. The consolida-
tion of public order has claimed particular attention
from my government, whose conduct has been
guided by the free exercise of the rights established
by the nation and by royalty. I congratulate the
Greek people upon having once more demonstrated
during the elections that they are animated by the
same spirit. Urgent and recognised wants concern-
ing the general administration of the State, the
maintenance of public order, the assimilation of the
legislation of the Seven Islands, now happily an-
nexed to that of the rest of Greece, solely within
the limits demanded by the administration of those
provinces, all have required to be dealt with imme-
diately by my government, by acts of the executive
power. These acts will be submitted for legislative
sanction, and I am persuaded that you will rightly
judge both the motive which dictated them
and the end they proposed to fulfil. My govern-
ment has considered that the gratitude due to the
great guaranteeing Powers, and the good of the
country itself, required the definitive settlement of
the question of the loan of 60,000,000 drachmas.
This settlement, byintroducing order in our finances,
and rendering the State budget a reality, will enable
us to take seriously into consideration the fulfilment
of our other obligations, and thus to establish our
foreign credit. Negotiations have been opened with
this object, and their result will be communicated to
you in due course. By reason of the events of the
last few years, the State budget shows a considerable
deficit. My Government has attentively studied
this important matter, and will lay before you dif-
ferent projects tending to establish a balance between
revenue and expenditure. Moreover, as the Assem-
bly has not discussed the budget of the current year,
this budget, as well as that for next year, will be
laid before you during the session.

" You will also have to examine bills relative to
three questions of the highest importance, since they
affect the moral and material welfare of the people
—I allude to the partition of the national lands, the
alienation of national territory upon which settle-
ments have been made, and the modification of the
system of taxation.

"My Government will also lay before you vari-
ous bills relating to the conditions to be required
for nomination to the public service, to the educa-
tion of the different classes, and especially to a
combination between primary instruction and the
functions of the lower clergy, which, while meet-
ing the wants of the latter, will have the effect
of improving and completing the moral and religious
education of youth. Bills for administrative and
municipal organisation, upon the basis of decentra-
lisation, economy, and the good government of the
country, and for modifications to be introduced into
the organisation of the tribunals for the purpose of
making their jurisdiction correspond to the admini-
strative circumscriptions, will also be submitted to
you.

" The attention of my Government has been
directed to the measures to be adopted for the im-
provement of the army, which ought to be released
as soon as possible from the discharge of duties
foreign to its functions. You will have at the same
time to discuss a more intelligent organisation of the
National Guard.

" The increase and the improvement of the means

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