The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-22 00:00:00

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.

RESUME OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE
ASSEMBLY.- JuLt 2.
DANDOLO—PeopIe complain that we have been
doing nothing, and it was but yesterday that I have
been told that they take no further interest in our
proceedings, since a petition is already circulating
praying that Corfu may be declared a colony.
Lombardo and several o-hers, rising, ask M.
Dandolo whether what he had said was to be consi-
dered as an official statement.
ARVANITACIII-1 was told yesterday by M. Cat_
doni that the petition had been presented to him
for signature.
PRESIDENT—I am not come hither to do what
M. A. or M.B. may wish, but I shall act according
to the dictates of my conscience.
LO3IBARDO—A petition for the colonisation of
Corfu ! We are horror-struck. It behoves the
member for Corfu to inquire into the matter and
report thereon, that we may determine what to do.
The whole house agreed to M. Lombardo's pro-
position.
PoLow (Member for Corfu)--Such a petition is
by our penal law an act of high treason ; the Advo-
cate
D-
,,,tbing about it. A report of
FviosDcAalTEnazsEtNtEhßerleLfo_relknow something about it..
matter, knowing
this sort had been spread about formerly, but proved
not to be true. If evil wishers spread such a report
to cause a disturbance, do not allow your enthu-
siasm to take stops unworthyof the importance of
the subject matter ; but rather wait, examine, con-
sider, and then decide.
PA DOVA N (Head of the Public Instruction)._
This very moment I have been told for a certainty
that M. Candoni has been called upon to sign the
petition.
ARVANITACHI—In a former sitting we were told
by the Advocate-General that there are some who
are averse to the reforms ; and the Lord High
Commissioner in his speech assured us that our
rights should be protected. How, I ask, can those
promises be reconciled with the existence of this
infernal scheme !
ADVOCATE-GENERAL—I am desired to repeat to
you what I said formerly, viz., that it is the inten-
tion of Government to protect the free institutions
of this state ; and I add that if the fact reported
were true, I, one of the first, should not be here as
Advocate-General ; with the reforms I entered
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into office, and if they are dropped I should not
hold the pl
PHILLIPPAS—The petition, it is said, has been
put in circuiation for the last three montl!s. I
Plypeet therefore that the police has been conniving
at it.

DANDOLO—If a petition had been circulat:ng
praying f;r a union with Greece, the police would
have seized it and torn it. Why do the p&ice of
the Advooa,e-Gcneral not perform their duty in
in the present inAatice ?
A DVOCATE-GENERAL—ThiS takes me unawares ;
no propo,,ition has been laid on the table. I re-
quire time to answer. _

- LOMBARDO—The police have no right to interfere,
each lonian has the right of petitioning. But no
Corfuote, I am sure, has the most did int wish to
see Corfu become an English colony ; aid there is
none in the other islands who is not horror-w.ruck
by such an idea. [Many vofc-s repeat, " There is
none.") Not only is every :lonian ready to make
use of every means in his power to object to any
petition for oetinisation, but he is at the swine time
willing to sign wi, h a pen dipped in his own b'ood,
" That union with Greece is our sole wish and de-
st! e." [The President got up, and with him all.
the members of the house, crying, with enthusiasm.
" Yes, yes, yes."] Let therefore, prove to the
foreigner, what we have already proved, that what
is m ost grateful to us is to get rid of his protection.
Cuxi—lf a petition praying for tie uni,.n with
Greece had been circulating, the Government would
not have left a stone untouched to discover it.
Why dos the Government take no steps at pre-
s.-nt ? It is not far the members of Corfu alone to
move ; they must be support edby the sister islands.
[M. Marino gets up, and with him a'l the members
of the other six islands, shouting with enthusiasm,
" We are ready to sacrifice all we have for our sister
Corcyra, andfor the whole Greek nation."] Who will
be surety for the tranquility of this place? But lot us
put a stop to all other proceeding as a demonstra-
tion of our sentiments towards the Government
and the protection.
DANDOLO,—I propose that M. Candoni and the
inspector of police be summoned and examined
before the house.

MARINO—I agree with M. Dandolo, and propose
further—first that a committee of inquiry be ap-
pointed ; secandly, that the Government be in-
vited to inform ns what it knows of the subject-
matter, and what steps have Leen taken by the
same.

VALAJRITI—If such an infernal plot has been
contrived I scorn half measures, Lut am ready to go
thither where the question may be solved at once,
sacrificing for that purpose the last penny I pos-
ses, my children, and all that I have.
PADOVAN—I assure you that if any base creature
who shall have participated in the scheme should
happen to put his foot on any part of the country
where I have influence he shall find his grave there,
for the grave is the proper place for such abumin-
able and flagitious beings.
LOMBARDO—We have voted to-day unanimously
our national resurrection. Thanks to you, Mr.
President, you have been the first to rise and. vot9
f►r it ; thanks to you, members of the home, and
particularly to you, Ccfalonist4, you have bteu
amongst the first to declare that you sul,scrily.) with
your blood the union with Greece. Who dare now
say that the foreigner can find any support in these
islands ?

PRETENDERI—He can find none.
LOMBARDO—With enthusiasm and unanimity we
have voted our national resurrection ; hencefor-
ward, therefore, it is by force only that the pre-
sent political system can be kept up. Order, there-
fore, that our proceedings of to-day be printed
forthwith.

The house unanimously ordered the printing
thereof.

ADVOCATE GENERAL—We are a Greek independ-
ent State like Greece, with the sole difference that
we are under Briti-h protection. We all wish for
the greatness and the glory of the nation ; but the
question as to when a union with Greece and the
whole nation will take place, must be decided by
time and by, circumstances.
The house unanimously appoints a committee of
inquiry, and is adjourned.
(Signed) FLAMPOURIARIS, President.
J. DUSMANI, Secret Aries.
N. Luse,