The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-19 00:00:00

moderate revenue is devoted to rearing tho illegitima

children of the population.
" Such are some of the principal questions which will be
offered for your consideration. There are others which
will doubtless be presented by private members and by the
Government during the progress of the session.
" I have now performed my duty as the representative of
the protecting Sovereign in these States. I have
propwell
osed
measures which I believe to be conducive to the public
fare. I now devolve upon you the duty, which properly be-
longs to you, of maturely considering
and finally deciding
on the adoption or rejection of those measures.
"To secure the public prosperity and welfare, it is in-
dispensable that a cordial and harmonious understanding
*
should exist among all the constitutional authorities of e
State. Nothing shall be wanting on my part to further
this most desirable object. Your loyal assistance and frank
co-operation are also invited for the welfare and improv
ment of the people. My confident hope and belief , that
is
now, when I devolve the responsibility on you, you will
prove yourselves worthy of your mission, as the represen-
tatives of the lonian people, and that yon will labour to
se
improve the condition, and to secure the Well-being of tho
who have confided their interests to your keeping."
The most illustrious the President of the Assem-
bly, Sir Dionysius Count Flamburiaris, then ad-
dressed his Excellency as follows :
the
" Excellency,—As the Speaker of the house, and in
name of the Assembly, I cannot reply to the contents
of
your Excellency's important address. I shall call the at-
tention of the house to the subject, and shall feel highly
gratified, when authorised to give your Excellency a Pre"
cise answer in detail.
" I must, however, assure your Excellency that the house
is animated by the desire not only of co-operating With
your Excellency and the most illustrious the Senate, but
whous
also of promoting any measure that may tend to the Pra
cal welfare of the people that it represents, and in
your Excellency evinces so great and lively an interest."

INDIA AND CHINA MAIL

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING.
The Ceylon steamer, Captain Evans, has arrived.
She left Alexandria, Dec. 6 ; Malta, Dec. 10; GLl'd
raltar, Dec. 14.
She brings 9G passengers, including the Earl °0
Portarlington. On freight 1,412 bales of silk, 15°
boxes of oranges, and. 100 bales of almonds and
general cargo.
Her Majesty's ships Hibernia, Renown, Racoon,
Argus, Scourge, Osprey, and Intrepid Were 'l'
Malta.
Her Majesty's ships Marlborough, Brunswick'
Orion, Doris, Neptune, and Mohawk, and
French liners were at Gibraltar.
Her Majesty's screw corvette Scylla left Gib for
raittir
on the 12th, with the steam dredger in telvf
Malta, and the Firebrand returns to England.
The Gibraltar Chronicle says the attention of the
Government of Morocco has been officially called to
the 14th article of the treaty existing between th?'
United States and Spain which prohibits the eitla
zens of one country from accepting foreign letters
of marque to cruise against the commerce of the
other.
There is no later news from the seat of war. f
Gibraltar exchange on London, 517, ; Paris, d.•
32c. ; Marseilles, sf. 32c. ; Genoa, sf. 37e•
The crew of the ship Lisbon arrived at Gibraltar
on the 10th from Algesiras, where they bad bees
r
taken by a French barque. She was bound kr.ne—
New Brunswick to Hull with timber, and
doned off Cape Finisterre,' water-logged.