The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-07 00:00:00

"PROPOSITION OF MR. DANDOLO.

" I propose the union of the Seven Islands with Greecer;
and that a memorial be presented by the Assembly to the
Queen, and that, through her Majesty, the other Powers b 4
also called upon to accept the proposition.

"PROPOSITION of MR. LOMBARDO.
" Inasmuch as the wish of the people of the Seven Islan
in respect to its national allegiance has now officially be at
made known, and by the vote of the Assembly of 26th
November, 1850, with respect to union, both by the pulat
cation of the unanimous vote of the Assembly under date 4,
the 20th June, 1857, and by the unanimous expression 01
the departmental councillors and municipal councils on tb.,7
arrival of the present Lord High Commissioner in extraoe'
dinary mission, which has lately taken place ;
" The Assembly resolves that a committee of 11 mete
bers be chosen to propose to an Assembly the appropriinte
plan for carrying into effect the now generally express'
and officially published wish of the people with respect 147
its national allegiance."
This resolution was passed in the following for 11
" The Assembly of the Seven Islands proclaims that th 1,7
sole and unanimous will of the lonian people has been, an 10,
is, the union of all the Seven Islands with the kingdom 71
Greece."
Thereupon Deputy Marinus moved, on the pW
of the whole Assembly, the following proposition
" That a committee of 11 members be chosen to repot'
to the Assembly on further measures for carrying out th,
order of the Assembly with respect to the declaration of OW
Assembly as to union."
On the proposition of Mr. Dandolo, the Assemblf
decreed that the Parliament House be illuminated
in the evening as the temple of all the seven islands'
On Friday a ceremonious levee of installatio
was held by the new Lord High Commissioner sj
the Palace of St. Michael and St. George. It WO
more numerously attended than any former on ot
and the representatives of the lonian Assembl
who the day before had so conspicuously proclaim(
their disloyalty, all hastened to make their Waal
to his Excellency.
The Parliament assembled a half-past 1 o'clo' 114
and was met by the following official message frt )11
the Lord High, Commissioner, which was deliver'
by Sir G. Bowen, the Government Secretary, 13.4
tended by his Excellency's aides-de-camp
"MESSAGE OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE LORD HIGH CO 111;
MISSIONER TO THE MOST .NOBLE THE LEGISLATI

ASSEMBLY.
" His Excellency the Lord High Commissioner has bee
informed that in yesterday's proceedings of the Most Nobl
the Legislative Assembly there is a proclamation of the will
of the lonian people for union with Greece.
" The Assembly exists in virtue of the constitution, Dag
cannot but regulate itself according to its provisions.
" The Assembly has also, through inadvertence, deviated
in another point from the constitution.
tc It has. elected a committee for the purpose of submit
ting to the Assembly the further measures connected witlt
the proclamation aforesaid.
" The one and only legal method of expressing the desirso
of the Assembly is by a petition, memorial, or represents
tion,' in-conformity with the Constitutional Charter, Chap.'
VII., see. 7, art. 8.
" By immediately limiting the power of the committees.,
and by declaring it competent only to suggest and draw
such petition, memorial, or representation,' the Assem blj
will be in the path of legality.
" His Excellency the Lord High Commissioner, seei, sit
no other possible mode of applying a remedy to the mid''
carriage which has occurred, considers it his duty to gi
this information to the Legislative Assembly, and has col.
fidence in its prudence.
" By command of his Excellency.
(Signed) " G. F. BOWEN,
" Secretary to the Lord High Commissioner.
" Corfu, Jan. 28, 1859."

THE LAST OF THE CONVICT HULKS.—The 10144'
remaining vestige of the system of keeping prisoners e
board disused ships of war is just about to be abolished
the breaking up of the staff of the Stirling Castle cow n
hulk in Portsmouth harbour. This ship has lately bct9l;
used for the reception of prisoners sent home from the col %,
vict establishments at Bermuda and Gibraltar, but it '
henceforth to be discontinued even for that purpose, 1111
10
there will no longer remain a single convict hulk in us CI
the English Prison Service.—Civil Service Gazette.