The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-27 00:00:00

song us who has pwitimly sad pormanostly me-
ceeded ia the work of oolooial goveranteet, it is
to be hoped that he is not. 40, be laidlemakaailike,
nor set to work are other than Mboial
Chiefly through the esertionpAlliir W.
won= the principle of colonial self-govseutimeat is
established in our polisy, e$ oven our geslllllieo
colonists ere now to be permitted to msnagelhelr
own affairs. Faulty ea is the constitution which is
sent out to there, it convey* power to amend flair.
Ilse great truth which oolonista never could make
England understand—that the entire welfare of
colociesdepends on their sound political state—will
now be taught by illustrations of fact. We shall se*
our Galatia' flourish or fail in proportion to their,
wisdom in framing their political system, and in
carrying it into practice. The point of colonial self-
government is completely settled, and a new age is
opening before all oar communities in distant lands.

That new age opine a new career to statesmen.
There is plenty of work for the riaiog statesman to
do, however diligently and successfully every colony
may apply itself to the work of self-government. He
has to rule and guard minor colonies in their non-
age, and to diners infallibly the line of separation
between imperial and colonial interests and action,
and to graduate and diminish imperial control with
the nicest wisdom, and to induce certain changes in
the form of honours and independence rather than as
burdens imposed from home. Ot this last kind is the
military defence of colonies which grow from day to
day more able to defend themselves. The Colonial
Minister has to unite the firmness of an imperial
administrator with the modality and candour of a
distant observer. He has to defer to colonial know-
ledge sad habits of thought in some matters, while
preserviag the imperial 000trol in others. He has a
delicate and difilealt task before him—no lees is the
future than in the days when the colonies were wholly
and immediately subject to Downing-street rule.
It is evident that his work is quite as abundant as
it is arduous and delicate. It is is fact perfectly
absurd to propose that half a hundred colonies, scat-
tered through ail climates, should be governed by

one Petiolate; of State. That antique arrangement
must soon be set aside. To emend it may be the
first effort of the man, whoever he may be, who shall
prove himself adequate to the splendid career of Ele-
mental Colonial administration. What will follow,
he will himself show as—or the next generation.
What we know beforehand is, that a more beneficent
and a more brilliant sphere of duty cannot invite the
aspirations of a warm heart and a wise head. It was
the hope and expectation of many that the state..
man we have just lost would occupy it, and render it
illustrious. He is gone; and the next words which
follow upon those of grief for his lose are an in-'
quiry, Who is worthy to succeed to his task—his
aspirations

Mir Court.

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WINDSOR, Om. 26.

The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess
of Heat, the Prams Royal, Prime Edward of Baas
Weimer, the Porammes Waists, sad Combos Lomita,
Lady Mosta Brea, Hyman de Illpah. Ifsjor•Gmeral
the Ha. Charles Grey, the Eight Has. Sir Charles ad
Lady Kw Wood. sad Major Garters& Sir !tabard &wised.
TM bead of the 2nd Life Ganda played during dieser.
Her Majesty's private bead afterwards performed is the
castle.

The Queen sad Prises. attended by the Dubose of Atboll,
Majorafraeral Beeltiey. and Colonel Seymour. left Wiadeor
by a speatel Maim of the Great Wratera Railway at tea
*Week this swain hr London. Her Majesty drove to
Baeklasham Palms, afterwards called es the Duchies of
Olootottor, sad retuned to the Castle at two eolook pan.
TO. Prime. Royal to& la tits Itidiarboaw.

♦ depateties from the City imputing Market,
bed ea latervba wit► the Chu/teller of the Besitegoar
yesterday, .t his "MUM Tandems is Mersin-street. rho
depaterisa emulated of Mr. R. L. Taylor (stairmen), Mr.
Deputy Olthord. Mr. Deputy Hicks, Mr. Portia+, Mr. De
Jersey. the Tura Clerk, the City Bassembessur, the City
&UMW, sad the City Architect.
Tbs Lord Cbsaesbor boo appolated slues o'clock es
Friday mast, the 2ad of November, at hie lordship's nat.
dues la tipper Brook•street, foe the venial= of tba Lord
Mayor and the ether authorities of the City of Lemke, is
order to lip* bee Majesty's appeohatisa of du Lord
Mayor elem.
The Lord Chearialler wUi.. the same day (the firm of

IllsMalmo Term) motive the j.dg.., CI-oon's cowneel. Its
They will arrive it kit lerdeldp's residesse it twelve
°Week, end at me o'elook tile Lord Chastener will proceed
to kit emirs at Westminster.

His FainUsnoy Count iieisanneggo and the
Comatose Helmut Yielmessegge 'tribal at the Raaeverias
fegadea fa Grosvmer-plase last emafag hula Ramsgate,
whoa lie wakes" mad daughter loaded from the Calais
steamboat at aa early bed yesterday merely, after
esperieseieg s perflou Tome amen thi alma, the
dosses belag compelled to sake for the Dawes, mad
'mutually easseedmg is Ladles bee pareemen at Rumple.
The Countess Stanhope mot with a severe meidost
yesterday monde; by breaking her slim liar ladyship,
with the feeble sad. wee ea based the isstisestal sesame
which leaded her pasesseses at ltempte yesterday mom
tag lamed d Dever, is sassegassas of the vela* of the
eters, shrift whisk the IDOSJIUM bad a fall by whisk ohs
'vetoed the Whey. Her ladyship Is however plop ce
taysambiy.
HL Excellency tits Preach Anibriefiadoe and the
Cesslessele Peridasy IWO left ile Freya malmsey (Albert-
gate-hmos) for Breedlasda, mess Ramsey, as a visit to
Velma awl Visseineas Ilelaiseseem

The Earl sad Countess Granville eatertained a
whet 'bele to dialler lad selpatag at that reddest* ta

The Marquis of Lansdowne ham left Lansdowne.
h.ew he &wreak Wilts.
The Bishop of Llandaff has given a donation of
1001. to the feed sew befog Wood to defray the it :poems of
rolieing the cathedral at Liaadaff. Bermes. Wiedsor
(Lady Sento Clive) bas likewise gives 1001, sad Lord
Dyeevor sad flit Cbarlee agas. Dart., us liberal Moen.
Tho But and Countess of Morley Sr. *rapist at
Baltriee, Devoe. We are happy to lean that tbe noble earl
is be iamb better Mal*.

TM Marquis al Claarkard• arrived at as Fid-
dew vothrsy swim by Os said-day polo M Illooday
last, sad proesodod to Bassborossb Park, when his lord-
ship wI l rasa& • Ise a few days on s visit with the Earl of
Bossboroogli.

Tbo Yawitoti► inserts a postioal address to M. Victor
11•10.12 whisk that distiagaished nib is npreashed to
the bitterset Issassr ha sews expreadeas to hare
cusped Min is Wain to tbo won

The Rev. A. Middleton, 8.A., of Queen's College,
Osford. has boot appoiatad to the enemy of Peso:airy, neat
hobos's.
The Rev. G. M. Gorham has been appointed to the
visors., of Walkoriatisaa. mat Chriasboroagh.
Hie Greve the Deice of Athol. has arrived ia Loa.
dm Ma Blair Cards.
A. J. B. Bamford Hope, Req., hes given fifty
'oms towards tho ovistioa of the new Wsslaysa Mods
is Malthus,.
The report is Apia revived that the Secretary to
tho Timmy. Mr. Imes Wilson, proprietor of the Smog
wisf, has been wade 'batman of the Island Revenue
Dowd. UM. a year is the salary gnashed to the caw
Major Grant, one of the heroes of Aiwa sad Bahr
Mews, is et mew orioessiag et Rawl*, se ith marriage
tsar.
Amos** frees the mat of wee in the Rest warms-
shier thedeseh of Linteasat Warty (henna, Wort son
of the Rev. Mary Cerweri, of Woririagesa. la the Morital
of
the elltb Roefweso, of dpisatsri, m Ms 7th of the pro-
oasentaalib. Mr. Corms was fa his ltilY7oer, Ind •Mr
ometbs see Meal the fftb, the assimens OS the bead of
which Ms mamasi sash. the .111===
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