f the supplies
was L9,760,814; the rest was furnished from the inexhaustible sources of
Great Britain.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.

Parliament was prorogued on the 11th of July by a speech from the
throne, in which the prince regent, after recapitulating the events
which led to the glorious termination of the war--for the war, as will
be seen, had terminated--trusted that there would be no relaxation in
the exertions necessary to establish the permanent peace and security of
Europe.

CONGRESS OF VIENNA.

The Congress of Vienna continued its sitting at the commencement of this
year. The result of the deliberations of the allied sovereigns may be
thus briefly stated:--The King of Prussia obtained the electorate of
Saxony, Swedish Pornerania, and a great portion of the territory between
the Rhine and the Meuse; Russia obtained the grand duchy of Warsaw under
the name of the kingdom of Poland; Austria, as before related, recovered
Lombardy, etc.; Tuscany was given to the Archduke Ferdinand; Genoa was
bestowed upon the King of Sardinia; Parma and Placentia were ratified to
the ex-empress Maria Louisa; the foreign policy of the German states
was submitted to the decision of a federal diet, under the control of
Austria and Prussia; Sweden acquired Norway at the expense of Denmark;
England was gratified by the acquisition of Heligoland, the Cape of
Good Hope, the Isle of France, the Ionian Islands, Malta, and all the
colonies won during the war; and Holland and Belgium were confirmed as
the kingdom of the Netherlands, under the House of Orange. The
allied sovereigns were thus engaged in parcelling out the world, when
Talleyrand informed them that the prisoner of Elba had returned to
France, and was again seated on the throne of the Bourbons.

AFFAIRS OF FRANCE.

Although Napoleon consented to retire to the island of Elba over which
he was to rule, it was never his intention to remain there. No sooner
had he arrived, in fact, than he commenced his intrigues, in order to
effect a return to France and empire. Under the plea of nonnecessity he
dismissed his few troops, and these joined their old regiments for the
purpose of preparing the general mind to receive back the emperor, who
had so often led them on to victory. All these regiments were, in fact,
almost to a man in his favour; the tri-coloured cockade was preserved in
their knapsacks, and his memory in their hearts. These sentiments were
reported to