draw up tables of the prices current of every description of goods; they are published with the greatest regularity. The mode of keeping accounts continues to afford the best guarantee of the faithful administration of the revenue by the clear, accurate, and public system by which the expenditure is recorded. The Government feels much gratification in presenting to you and submitting for your examination the accounts of the province for the year 1843. Express thereon, Honourable Representatives, your conscientious opinion, because, with respect to all that relates to the administration of the public treasure, I repeat what I have said before, viz., that I shall not consider myself as invested with supreme power. It is with pleasure that the Government presents to you the official register of the same year. In it are recorded, in the usual chronological order, your honourable sanctions to bills, the decrees of Government, and all the reports, whether special or general, which relate to the administration of the public revenue. The receipts, expenses, and estimates present the following results : The ordinary and extraordinary receipts reduced remaining in the Treasury in 1844, and con- Current Money. Dolls, Rs. 38,742,831 71 3,209,115 31 The result being that in 1843 there were expended 35,533,716 4 of the present claimable debt, in order to Total amount .. 20,045,600 5 55,579,317 1 The estimate of 1843, including that of the Honourable Junta of Representatives, as well as the private present claimable debt, Shewing that in 1843 there were expended, including the debt 68,321,884 2 12,742,567 14 Your Honourable House will discover the cause of this diminution, in the disbursements which have not been made, on account of neither the amount of the deficit, nor even a portion of it having been entered in the Treasury; in the very remarkable savings made in the war expenses, and in the calculation as to the time such war would continue. It is satisfactory, Honourable Representatives, to find that our system of public revenue has so solid, so simple, and so intelligible a basis. The law of the estimates imposes upon the Government the duty which it takes a pleasure in fulfilling. This valuable guarantee is now consolidated. We present you that of 1844. Examine it, and pronounce your sovereign sanction. General Estimate of Salaries and Expenses for the Year 1844, including Extraordinary ones, the Metallic being reduced into Current Money. Calculation of Ways and Means for 1844. Balance in Treasury in debentures and metallic money reduced into current Receiver-General's Office. From import and export duties, by sea and land, port dues, Post-Office dues, auction duties, and those upon titles, the hiring and letting of houses, curriers' yards, salting establishments, and police Direct taxation Stamped paper, patents and certificates of the registry of weights and measures Extraordinary receipts Sale of hides Item of existing public funds.. Treasury. 3,209,115 31 34,471,927 2 2,000,000 .. 1,800,000 1,000,000 It belongs to your enlightened deliberations upon the measures proposed by the Administration which succeeds me to provide for the deficit of the year 1844. Honourable Representatives! I have laid before you a faithful picture of the Administration. Divine Providence has deigned to favour us by the preservation of the all-important rights and interests of the country. The glory of the Confederation is immense. You are surrounded by your fellow-citizens whose hearts are full of gratitude. The Government offers you its most sincere congratulations and its deepest acknowledgments. America contemplates you, and the whole world admires the virtuous constancy with which you maintain the principles of reason and the privileges of liberty. Legislators! All sacrifices are consummated. Our beloved country is free, sovereign, independent. I beg now to remind you of my domestic cares. I ask your sympathy for the bitter sorrows of my heart, and for the sufferings of a debilitated constitution. I can no longer support so great a responsibility or abandon the Republican principles I have maintained through life. Be pleased, Honourable Representatives, to grant that secession from the supreme command which I have so often, and with so much reason, earnestly solicited. I feel deeply affected at saluting you for the last time within these precincts of resplendent glorious liberty, and I bow with humble gratitude before Almighty God. May He, without whose favour glory is but ephemeral and virtue fragile, crown, Fathers of the country! your labours with his propitious protection, and your work with the lasting and felicitous prosperity of the Republic. FELIPE ARANA. MANUEL INSIARTE, JUAN MANUEL DE ROSAS. The Executive Power to the Honourable Representation of the Province. In fulfilment of the superior Decree of the 21st December, 1837. in which it is ordered that the message which the Government shall present to the Honourable Junta of Representatives on the 1st of January of each year, that day being the one appointed for the solemn opening of its sessions, must be closed and dated on the 27th of December of the preceding year, and that whatsoever occurrence worthy of being known to the Honourable Representatives of the province which may take place from the 28th of December to the 1st of January must be conveyed to them by a special communication, the Undersigned has the honour of addressing the Honourable Representatives, for the purpose of informing them that the conduct of Commodore Purvis, in the recent non-recognition of the blockade of the ports of Monte Video and Maldonado, not having been approved [1844—45.] 4 S by his Excellency, Her Britannic Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary at this Court, the said commodore has withdrawn that hostile measure which he had adopted on his own responsibility, had made it known to the Commander-in-Chief of the fleet of the Argentine Confederation on the 20th instant, and had notified it on the 21st to Her Britannic Majesty's Consul in Monte Video. The withdrawal itself the commodore communicated officially to the said Consul on the 25th instant, stating that, in consequence of the decision of his Excellency the British Plenipotentiary at Buenos Ayres, the contents of his (the commodore's) letter of the 21st relating to the suspension of the recognition of the blockade for ships carrying the English flag must be considered as void and of no effect. This satisfactory result, Honourable Representatives, is of itself sufficient to prove the illegal and arbitrary manner in which the British commodore interfered in the war carried on by this Republic against Rivera; the discordance of his hostile procedure with the orders and instructions of his Government; bis unjustifiable determination to arrest the regular and decisive progress of the war, and prolong its disasters; and his zealous and pertinacious efforts against the Confederation, protecting, as he did, by every possible means, the refractory Government of Monte Video, to which he had allied himself, and the ferocious Unitarians who aid and assist it. Humanity deeply deplores that the commander of the naval force of a nation friendly to the Confederation should, with such capricious obstinacy, foment and encourage war in these countries, regardless of the claims of humanity and civilisation, putting himself in the ranks of the aggressor, the author of the war, and placing the Governments of Great Britain and the Confederation in a difficult position as regards the preservation of the relations of that perfect understanding which at present unites them. May God preserve you many years! FELIPE ARANA. JUAN MANUEL DE ROSAS. SPEECH of the King of Sweden, on the Opening of the Extraordinary Diet.-Stockholm, July 20, 1844. (Translation.) MY GOOD LORDS AND SWEDISH MEN, My entrance into this place, in the midst of the Estates of the Swedish realm here assembled, recals the bitter thoughts of a great, an irretrievable loss, and my salutation to you is one of sorrow and bereavement. Never have these sentiments more justly surrounded the peaceful grave of a revered father. His memory is blessed by 2 nations, whom his mighty genius had united together by indissoluble ties. By their union he has laid the foundations of a new and glorious future for the North. By brotherly concord they will fulfil his dearest hopes, his warmest wishes for the independence and prosperity of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The first meeting of a King with the delegates of the nation, at the beginning of that course which they are called upon to pursue together, is solemn and important. The intimate reliance with which they repose on each other, the integrity and justice which mark their intentions and their acts, will, with the assistance of Providence, secure the peace and happiness of our beloved country. We have prayed in the temple of the Lord for the protection of the Almighty. The strength which we require for the performance of our important functions we must now look for in reciprocal relations of affection and good faith, of good will, and harmony. I promise you, my good Lords and Swedish men, that I will promote justice and truth, that I will advance the progress of enlightenment, and further the development of the noble and precious qualities which distinguish the reflecting and vigorous sons of the North. I expect from you in return a sincere co-operation in this great cause, and the confidence which pure intentions and unceasing care for the country's welfare may reckon upon receiving from a high-minded people. When I summoned you, my good Lords and Swedish men, to this extraordinary Diet, I consulted rather my ardent longing for your presence, at an epoch of so much importance for myself and for the realm, than the possibility of completely preparing and laying before you, in so short a space of time, the many important matters which are the subjects of my consideration, and on which it is my desire to learn your determination or to hear your wishes. Great social questions which remain over from the last Diet will occupy your time and demand your attention. But I hope to be able, while you are assembled, to bring to your notice various weighty matters for deliberation, and foremost among them, a proposition for a new criminal code more consonant with the ideas of our time, and with the attempt to unite with a necessary severity in punishment, the consideration due to the value of human life. Considering the necessity and importance of a simplification of the internal administration, and of a more complete organization of the system of defence, I shall give my uninterrupted attention to these essential matters. In order to obtain therein your enlightened co-operation, I purpose soon to summon you again to a new extraordinary meeting. It is with lively satisfaction that I inform you of the obliging sympathy and friendly sentiments manifested towards me by all |