The Sun. — 1863-10-13 (London, England)

THE CONFEDERATE STEAM RAMS.  The Liverpool Emancipation Society have presented the following memorial to Lord Russell on this subject : The Liverpool Emancipation Society to the Right Hon. Earl Russell, K.G., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.  Liverpool, Sept. 28.  Murder in the County Waterford,  Mr. President and Gentlemen,--You have all eady learnt from my proclamation the reasons which induced the protecting Sovereign to dissolve the late lonian Parliament. Her Majesty the Queen, ever desirous of testifying her friendship and goodwill towards the Greek nation, has with a view to increase the territory and to consolidate the strength of the Greek kingdom, intimated to the Powers of Europe her readiness to relinquish the Protectorate hitherto held by her over these States in virtue of the treaty of 1815. Mindful of her solemn obligations, the Queen has been desirous of ascertaining from the lonian people their wishes in regard to their national future. Her Majesty, therefore, under the powers reserved by the Constitution, has convened a new Parliament as the legal and authentic method of ascertaining these wishes. By means of the provisions stipulated by the Constitution, a full cognizance of the condition of public affairs has been acquired by the lonian people, and free and unbiassed elections have given them the opportunity of deliberately forming and expressing their opinion on a question so intimately connected with the national interests. They have availed themselves of this opportunity by electing the present Assembly, and I now call upon you, Gentlemen, to inform me in the usual address, with a delay as short as you may consider proper, whether it is, or is not, the desire of the people, by whom you have been chosen, and whose representatives you are, that the Protectorate of her Majesty the Queen, my august Sovereign, over these States should cease, with the intent that the lonian Islands should form henceforth a portion of the Kingdom of Greece under his Majesty King George and his successors. In case your answer should be in favour of annexation to Greece, it will be my duty to lay before you, by message, certain detailed arrangements which are requisite for the completion of this measure :1. It will be necessary that you should pass a resolution in the usual constitutional form, by which, after the cessation of the British Protectorate, and until the establishment of the new Constitution, his Majesty the King of the Hellenes shall be enabled to exercise in these States all rights of Sovereignty, including those privileges and functions heretofore exercised by the Protecting Sovereign, the Lord High Commissioner and the most Illustrious the Senate. 2, I shall propose to you, in the name of her Majesty, that, on the cessation of the payment of the sums heretofore reserved as the contribution for military protection, and as the Civil List of the Lord High Commissioner, there shall be reserved as the first charge on the lonian revenue the sum of £lO,OOO yearly in augmentation of the Civil List of his Majesty King George. 3- I shall call upon you to recognise all contracts and engagements entered into by or on behalf of the lonian Government up to this time, and all equitable claims on the same.  I am, Gentlemen, Name in full Address in full Occupation Date .  CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of ~....1 the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon-4.,',."70,11. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert :ri (••• Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8.. is Chairman) are now receiving_ouSUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the 'oe nt of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge and Ridderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks, (Strr,alfozd-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, smith, and ,snlitilvV, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs. (3)._ and _ayne, and Co., Messrs Ilanburys and Co., or Messrs. T a Co., bankers, London. ti " Tereent on lig t enary Committee, in submitting.; the subscript' shk._oetrhee nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers r. st thj,..P a for their aid and assistance. The Committee tI,T bii.th-peila_i_taa upon the ground that Stratford is not only admirerZe of Shakspeare, but the centre of attraction to tome, the tow the great Poet's works and that it was his wo he loved, and where he lived and died. p-n, 11/ in the i,,, -"'EE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, way Tenninus-:pediate vicinity of the Great Northern RailpresidentSratron— b Xing's-cross. The