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

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27.

Betsy age opens a new weir to ova worthy of
the course. No doubt, whoa the Creeds@ hod goo*

ea long enorgh fur every 'sae to have made ui his
mind that the Holy flrpalehre would be taken within
a certain time, or would never be taken at all. people
wondered what there would then he left for gallant

gentlemen to do in the world. lust thin, some
mariners and fishermen were settling themselves on
arta* shores serves the Atlantic. where, in spite of

wintry saow-storms and dim fogs wrapping in gloom
the soundiog beaches and silent forests, they mw a
clear prospect of figure toil and honours end of many
a brilliant career for British gentlemen, when the line
of the BDwaiws and the Hunts should have weed

away. Britons were than beginning to colonises and
while, is the interval between that time and this, many
mother wen bee opened and gone by, the natural

worse deviate hse brought us to the poiat of time'
when the honour of eneceeshal Colonial Adosioistra-
.

don pregame itself as *soot the highest prime within
reach olds* virtuous ambition of the nieeteentls ern-

tary. Daring that interval, Ragland has sommittod
almost every mistake within the range of pomibility
is the management of her colonies. For above a
century the group of settlements on the North At:an-
tic were oor only colonies; and they were left to fish
and host pretty mush after their own pleasant. Then
followed a few acquisitions in the West Indies,which
were still Dew in Bnaisruate time; sad one or
two on the African coast. When the Plantations
Booth of New Brunswick became the home of Puritan
refugees, the opening was fairly sada for that kind
of emporium which mast furnish us with a tree
political philosophy in relation to colonies. For a
lag time, oar Marion colonies were treated (u all
colonies are toe a time) with negligee's,
insolence, and tyranny ; and at length rile
happily lost them, gaining in their plass a
eicarads in civilisation and commerce, an ally is the
vindication of free institutions, and en experiassatal
example of the working of democratic trepoldienahm
while all forms of despotism are ea their bet trial all
over the rest of the world.
One sash secession from oar empire wee eesagli,
however; sad every Englishman who known what
he is talking about is glad that we have about half-
frhundredoolonies (besides dependencies) still attached
to as. We will sot undertake to say that we haw
hitherto deserved to have so many, for we have luso
extremely slow in learning the lesson which the less
of our American utopias should have taught us. The
fatal apathy at home which no colony knows how to

sedate has been is gross of late years as it ever ws
before the American war; so has the insolent'
senceit which insisted on legislating for people at
the antipodes from the English point of view;
and to this may be added the question-
able Freedom of penal transportation. There
was mash to be said for and spinet it ;
bet we would sot listen to argument or russastrasee
till the attention of the nation was commanded by
weans of inesence at home who bad the savage,
seal. and industry to do patios to the colonists and
the truth. He whom we be/renew to moats, Sir W.
/101.111W01111, was the great mover is this work
and the Archbishop of DUBLIN and a few Others
pee him their support and assistance—just in time,
it appears, tomes some of the colonies who made this
the question on the soluion of which their continued
allegiance to the British Crown should depend. •
This is not the only experiment we have tried on
oar fellow subjection far shores. Mr. WAXI7IIII.DII
principle and method of colonisation, however valu-
able, must depend for their working on eireemsteness
which cannot be so well appreciated in Loaden as es
the spot ; and we hare insisted toolist#
on its abstract merits, and have
tee little to modifying censiderationk to lie
prodigious detriment of some of the Asset asimelnii

ea the globe. We seem hardly to ham loaned yet
. that the way of areatiag a wellorganissd sad to
plated inclement, and of preventing a dispersion
of. the Meer sad waste of capital in a new eoluty,
white is right tad meet valuable in the ordinary
cireamstames that alone were familiar to us, might
be ',rabiese sr eves fatal in a sew mats of things,
like that of the gold-disomeries; and we have per-
sisted in the otherwise sensible policy of MOM.
mating labour by restricting land sales under dream-
steatite in whisk it him been all bet fatal to the
colony. All the old tooditions having been set aside
by the gold-dissoveriss—labourers abousdiog to dig
up their owa espial. instead of dropping in in
small numbs's, and comenaleg the capital imported
by the time they meld obtain say morn from the soil
—the first objest so doubt is to apply as mesh as
possible of the abeeeding labour end capi-
tal to the produstisa of food and materials,
for axport. Yet have we insisted on the
same regalatioes about the pries sod disposal
et lead se if theeolosists were leading in as mem
pissed wilderness, where they meet dad with each
other by barter, or import their precious metals.
The immigrants ham suceseded, after fearful suf-
ferings end irreparable mischief to the stosals, rope-
kaki', and prosperity of the colony, is tilling the
ground in some places where it ma dug for other
porpoise; and a great blessing it is that agricultural
Wintry is fairly established about Ballarat, and in
some other spots in our Australian colonies. Bet it
L a for more important blessing that the English at
home have learned that the colonists are the people
whit, when coos 'bowleg strength sad capacity for
self-government, must be beet able to determine sock
questioes as the price of land, and the mode of dis-
posing of it. This bleseisg—of a amvietios that
colonise which ham arrived at a certain point of coo-
selidation, are better able to govern themselves than
say English statesman ma be to gown the.. in
reprd to their local inteteste—was sot obtained in
Australia, though we derive theme a sigma Bleat».
doa of th• truth. We owe it to a series of benefee
tars of their country, some of whom bare elaborated
the principle, while others have applied it to peso-
tice. The names of BULLER and Lord DIMEAM,
sad sow of lioassworre, came mournfully before
the memory here—toes who understood this great
*object, sad worked upon it, and died almost before
their career was begun. There is one living, happily,
and still in form for work, who bat doss greet things
I. carrying out the experimeet of seismal self-
gemrameat in regard to purely colosiel affairs.
Lend Thoth found Geode disturbed, half-alienated,
aad haff-impoveriebsd by the soaneqamess of old
asiegmemment, but ea the road to regateratios, if
wisely ruled. He left thesada trangeil, loyal, and
prosperous ayes example. Having VW matt'