Star.
London, England, 1823-04-04 00:00:00

LONDON.

FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1823.
THE YUNDS.
STOCK EXCHANGE, HALF-PAST TWELVE,

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Consols opened this morning at 744, and, up to this hour, they
are 741, 1, with a heavy market, though several great sales have
been made by some eminent Brokers. t •
FOBRIGN FUNDS. -
Spanish Bonds, which opened this morning at 301, 1, have
fallen to 491.
Current Prices: Chilianim/ 67; Nes► Spanish 391, Old 54j,
New Prussian 791, Old 714 ex. die. Rumba 71178, Cotom-
-141F2 ste
PRICE OF STOCKS AT FOUR O'CLOCK.
5 per Cent. Consols 745% %
4 per Cents. New 941,6
Imperial 3 per Cents. 73% 3/4.
India Bonds 295. 31s.
Exchequer Bills of £l,OOO, 13s. 12s. Us.
Ditto Small 14s. prem.
Consols for Payment 74% %.
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We have before us the Speech of his Its.rzart'a
Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Sir Txoe. MAIT.•
LAND, to the new lonian Parliament, which met at
Corfu on the Ist of last month.
We regret our limits will not allow us to publish
it at length—the substance of it we will give, with
same extracts.
Speaking of thesonviction that the new Parliament
will be guided by genuine feelings of patriotism, Sir
Tuoraits MAIXLAND says, ig of this the character, the

known talent, and the property in the country of the
persons I have the honour of addressing, is the ample
guarantee."
He then enters at length into the diffeience between
the present situation of the Islands and that in which
they stood at the period of the promulgation of the
Constitutional Charter of- 1817, and congratulates
the Assembly " on the increase of the prosperity of
every part of the population," which -be attributes
principally to the general demeanour of the people,
under circumstances of a trying nature.
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Into the misrepresentations of the transactions in
the lonian Islands, 44 which have been spread over
Europe, and nowhere more industriously circulated
than within the dominions of the protecting Sove-

reign," he declines entering—" fur it is sufficient,"
says the General, " for you to feel, and for his Ma-
jesty's Government to know, that you actually enjoy
more of the blessings of civilized life, more liberty,
and a greater degree of prosperity and afiluence, than
many of those countries in which there is an affecta-
tion of la►nenting the tyrarny and oppression under
which they falsely say you live."
In regard to the neighbouring warfare, he observes:
—46 These unfortunate hostilities are, as usual, at-

tended with the greatest horrors and atrocities. The
lonian Government, however, will continue to seize
on every opportunity of exercising the duties of hos-
pitality and humanity in favour of the unhappy
victims of that wide desolation which forms the pe-
culiar character of this cruel and bloody warfare."
Adverting then to the internal situation of the
Islands themselves, his Excellency feels confident " of
the continuation of the present calm and unruffied
tranquillity,".andrecommendi, in consequence, to the
Executive lonian Government " the recal to their na-
tive island (Zante) of those turbulent individuals, being
five in number, whose behaviour, daring the life criais
of the affairs in the Morea, forced the-Government to
remove them from the island for a time. They com.
prise the whole number of individuals treated,in this
manner, nor is there a single person within the hates'
in a state of arrest or detention on such an account:.
The speech then adverts to the finance of the islands.
The accounts are up to the close of the last financial
year, viz. 31st January, 1823.

Spanish Dollars.
. 707,875
- 590,518

The receipt durirg the last year was -
The expenditure - ditto - . -

Surplus Revenue within the year - - 117,337
" Your financial affairs (says the General) continue
to wear a promising aspect. Certain it is that this is
not the result of fresh taxation ; for you well know ,
that no additional imposts have been laid on the'
people since the establishment of the Constitutional
Government of 1817, unless the modification of the
then existing taxes, under the regulation made by
Parliament, in 1818, is considered in that light. But
to settle the point at once, a Return of the present
commercial duties and taxes of all descriptions is laid
on your table ; together with a statement, shewing
how they stood at the period of, and antecedent
to the connection between Great Britain and these
Islands."—From these documents it appears that miti-
gation and not aggravation of taxation was the result
of the regulations of 1813 alluded to.
The crops during the last year, failed in Corfu. In
the islands of Cefalonia, Zante, and Ithaca, the last
year, however, is declared to have been one of unex-
ampled prosperity. In them the crops were good,
and the price of currants high beyond all precedent,
owing* in a great degree, to the total destruction of
the currant vineyards of the Noma. On this Sir Tito-
WAS says—
" From real documents which have been sub-
mitted to me, it appears that the proprietors of Ce-
falonia, Zante, and Ithaca, have received in one year
a return, clear of all charges whatever, of twenty to
*jay per cent. on the value of their respective pro.