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pettiest and it affords me the highest satisfaction, at
a time when the aviculturists other party of
theowoOd find the greatest diffitult y in obtairdng isle
their prOduce, that the iAt4itants of these islands
Arrm the happiest exception from the general din-
tress, and that,the praiseworthy industry they ha
shewn, since the establishment of the present Consti-
tutional Government, in the material extension of
the cultivation of their lands, has.met its riue reward."
In regard to the Expenditure, the Civil List is laid
on the table for the consideration of -the Assembly.
The chief heads of expense are mentioned : such as
,the Government Buildings at Corfu) the new Market
and Laxsaretto in Ctfalonia, and the new Military

Hospital it Zante; also the sums are alluded to e;-
pended within the year in all the islands to make
roads, and in paying, during the year, an extra body
of militia to guard the coasts, the plague having
shewn itself on the neighbouring shores. An account
enumerating every item of expenditure is laid on the
table.

The sew College is to open at Corfu during the cur
rent year, and not at Ithaca, as originally proposed.
Speaking of the Administration of Justice, the Ge-
neral expressei his regret that the progress has not
been greater in remedying the defects, but which he
ascribes to the difficulties which lay in the way. He
considers, however, that great substantial-ameliora-
tion has been effected, and adverts particularly to an
Act of Parliament of last year, from which the
greatest benefit has been derived ; and fiom the
effect of which, steadily persisted in, hi expects the
certain reformation of the Laws, and of the Judicial
Service of the States.
This Address concludes with the following obser-
vations on 6e late general elections in the Islands :--
"" At the time" says Sir T. Maitland, "that the pre-
Phent charter was framed, it must be known to many
of those Lam now addressing that the greatest diffi-
culties were supposed to exist in introducing the sys-
tem of voting viva pace, instead of the old one in
practice of bulls and hallooing-boxes ; and it was
even contended that this last manner of voting was
necessary for the preservation of the pea,- and har-
mony of society.
" It appeared to me then, as it does now, that thle'ib•
troducing the system of vcting viva awe on all occa-
sions, would of itself tend to form the charabter and
correct the morals of the people more than any other
measure that could be adopted ; and its success has
not only, I own, exceeded my most sanguine expec-
tations, but has also, I apprehend, surpassed those of
every well-wisher to his country. For whether we look
at the number of electors who assembled, and their zeal
and anxietyto exercise their electivefranchiseviva voce,
or whether we consider the quality and description of
the persons they have returned as their representatives,
it must be obvious that everything that has been aid
by a few factious individuals is proved, by the act
and deed of the whole of the Nobility, and of every
person of respectability or property, iu the country,
to be utterly false.
" The conduct, in fact, observed by all ranks of
society seems to me to be exactly such as is best calcu.
lated cc insure, and at the earliest period, an extension
of the liberties and franchises possessed by the People.
" Let me not, however, be understood as holding
out the most distant idea that his Majesty will ever
permit the introduction into these Islands, of those
wild and destructive, principles which can only tend
to sap) the wealth and happiness of nations. What I
mean to say is, that you will always find me disposed
to propose to his Majesty's Government' such further
extension of the privileges of the people as a conviction
of their 'Moral improvement and of their increased at.
tech ment and confidence in their Government may war-
rant; and every recommendation on this head, when
limited within the bounds of any real practical view
of the case, will certainly meet the sanction of his
Majesty, from that anxious solicitude ever displayed
in favour of these States by your august Protector,
my magnanimous and gracious Sovereign."

We lay before our Readers, at greater length than
we were able to do yesterday, the Debate in the
French Chamber of Deputies, on the Budget for the
ensuing year. The statements of M. LABOURDON•
Nays, who, it will, be remarked, is one of the most
violent Ultra Royalists in the Chamber and propor-
tionably eager for the invasion of Spain, will be found
to contain some important truths. He complained
warmly of the " tardy and indecisive policy" of M.
de VILLrLa; of the impunity which had attended
" those provocations to disobediense in the army,
which all France has witnessed," and of the fact that
no measures have been a yet taken to lead the army
rapidly to the spot where the Spanish Revolution
should be decided." "In short," said he "by an as-
tonishing and fatal contradiction, the apparent pre-
parations are for war, while the real ones are for
peace."—" You have had six months to prepare, and
already your Cavalry is in want of forage, and the
snort urgent scant is felt on every side."
M. de VlLLsr.a followed M. de LABOURDONWATZ
in a speech of great length, but, it is remarkable,
never once contradicted the statements thus so boldly
put forth as to the state and progress of the Army of
Invasion. He did not set the minds of the friends of
the war at ease by assuring them that there had been
no provocations to disobedience in the army, or no
' reason to dread their effects on the troops ;he did not
re-assure the Assembly that seer was really the result
which he contemplated; nor did he dispute the U.