The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-18 00:00:00

AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORTATION.

The following Minute, submitted by the Vio-
Soria& Cabinet to his Excellency Sir Charles Darling. reached
London yesterday, and has beam forwarded to us (Timm)
for publication :
" The copy of Mr. Cardwell'. despatch, in reply to the
resolutions of both Houses of Parliament against the con-
thulium of transportation to Western Australia, which
roar Excellthey did me the honour to tranionit to me, has
bass duly laid before my colleagues.
•" It is to the government of this eolooy matter of the
retread regret that all *Herta made by them, the parliament,
sad the people of Vittoria, in common with the other cola
aim, have failed to secure that mamma of justice the cola
aloes had a right to impost; bat the decision of her
Ilaisety's permanent is Mill more deeply to be deplored as
at direst variance with the statement made by the Duke of
Newcastle la 1853, and In eontravention of the porsey which
ft was declared by his greoe to be the duty of her
Majerty's government to adopt towards the Australian
oolooies.

"In the moo/tiding paragraph of a minute which I bad
the honour to submit to your Excellency in September last,
I felt it necessary to indicate the comae this government
would be forced to pursue io the ovoid of the threat/sod
coutinuanoe of tines's:elation beta carried out ; and it
now becomes my duty to state to your Excellency the stops
which your advners have fait it imperative upon them to
lake in the discharge if their impossibility to the people of
this taker.
" Upon a careful consideration of Mr. Cardwell's de-
spatch, written in the face of all the earned repromotatioos
add/eased to her Majesty's government, it ban been forced
I upon the attention of myself end my colleagues that further
remonstrance is in itself useless ; end that the time has
arrived when it is incumbent upon o in the exercise of our
powers of miff-government to initiate legislation in oon-
, notion with the colonise whose interests me alike affected
I for oar common protection.
`I have accordingly addramod a circular to the chief
aseretary of each of the colonies interested, inviting the Co.
operation of their respective governments in framing a
immure to be submitted to the consideration of the several
perliaineets prohibitive of all intemearso whatsoever with
Western Australia, in order that her position as the only
convict colony in Australia may be distinctly marked.
" Safficiset time has sot yet elapsed for me to have re-
ceived any reply, but from the miasma foaling of clematis-
faction which prevails throughout the Ina colonies I can
have no doubt that the proposition will meet with their
appr val
"Intimately connected with this proposition is the ques-
tion of the postal wake with Groat Britain. No measure
for the isolation of Western Aasnalie could be efficient
while the mail stamens continue to call at King George's
Sound; and, although serious inconvenience most result
from an y interruption to frequent and minim postal coin-
municaMon, eo satisfied is the goverment that Ilia people
of Victoria, in the dried of the continuance of transport'.
Moe, would deny themselves the privilege of the mail service
rather than be emceed even to the possibility of the intro-
duce:too of soeviats, that I have to beg year Excellency will
be pleased to notify formally to the imperial authorities
that naless the terms of the existing arrangssomit with the
Peninsular and Orisetal Company be altered, and the com-
m consent that their ;white shall not touch at an port
us Western Australia, tho government of Victoria will, at
the expiration of six months from the Ist of November
next, meet to metribute to the semi subsidy ; and
further, that they withdraw their offer to join in establish-
ing a fortnightly service except upon similar conditions.
" I cannot express to your Eimillmoy the tats your ad-
rims have felt in being obliged to take this counts • but to
have hesitated would have been to neglect their 'highest
duty.
" In rev:meting that year Emelleocy will forward a Dopy
of this memorandum to the Right Ron. the Socrotlry of
State far the Coked's, I would mime to suggest that ft be
aoximpaniad by
your Exosilsulty's testimony to the reality
of the («lisp o
ofths people ol Victoria, as made known by
memorials and hrough the public press and ales to the
disooetoot which has manifested itself throughout the
colony. at the Miriam of her Majosly's government.
' Jamas IlTumace.
"Chief Secretary'soffice, Melbourne, August SC'