The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-21 00:00:00

THE METEOROLOGIC OPPICE OP THE
BOARD OP TRADE.

This morning • small blue book of 58 pages
()Detaining the report of Admiral Fitaroy for the put
year, was issued. Applications for the centioeart
signals wars made in the past year from no lee
than fifty-four plows on our coast. Evidence is give"
to show that the British notices which are sect dolly ie
Fiance are highly appreciated ; our neighbours, indeed, he,,
commenced arrangements for a system of pout Weep.*
for ordinary weather as well u for storms ; and the Nano,
"whin government have in view a limiter organismic'.
lad autumn several cautionary notices of impending het
weather were sent through Heligoland to Hamburg, sy
even to Rostock, at the spemal request of Prolcesor Dove;
and lately inquiries about ice and probable cold weather
telegraphed from Hamburg Wife answered so satidactord
that a cargo of 8l tons was countermanded. Admiral Fitz-

roy arcribie the opposition which has bees raised to the
system to interested weans, of whom he proceeds to gi%
some description. He says that as to the foreca,sts of
weather the views of seafaring may of the maritime popon.
ten in general, of the coast pima, and of her Ilajeetyg
officers in commend are reensithahly favourable.

NEW ZEALAND.

This morning was issued a copyof correspondence
between the Becretes7 of State for the 001011 ii• sad the
Governor of New Zealand, subsequent to the Duke of New-
castle's despatch of May 26, 1862, relating to the abudoie.
meet of imperial control over native affairs In that coley.
The papers include a memorial addressed to the QUOOII by
the Howie of Representatives in New Zealand and certain
resolutions adopted at a meeting in tbs.:obey, and a long
despatch, occupying sight pages of the rotary, freye his
Grans the Duke of Newoutle to Governor Sir 0. Grey, dated
the 20th of last February. The two great questions at hoes
between the home sad eoliths' governments are who shall
i govern the Retires sad who shall pay the expense of
governing them. Os this head, the views eatethinsd
by the two authorities are of a very oppegt.
character. Hie Pace, on the part of the Baia
government, gives at length his reason for holding
" that the duty of civilising and ecotrolline the aborigines
of New Zealand rests in the that pia°s with the inhabitants
of the odociy, who are primarily interested in the order,
prosperity, and tranquillity of their own country, sad on,
within its limits, alone exercise the power of imposing tan
and passing laws--thas the imperial government is sot
called moo as a natter at right to relieve the inhabitants
from any part of their responsibilities—that for their own
apposed advantage it has hitherto so relieved them, bee
upon implied conditions which have long been imporfeetly
aegßi.soed in, sad have now been plainly repudiated by the
that the failure of the system thane
and the necessity far abandoning iR arises an
pursed,
tl negteet d the home government to omens he
powers, but from the imdequitoy Minims powers, and the
furl of the colonial community to wafer, or to submit to
them." His gram emends that the New ZeAseid goverment
have sot yet shown an adequate apprehensiou of the dada
of self.defenes, and he sews that her Majesty's gores.
meat do not Nowak.) the obligation of supporting tbe
Modena the war to which Great Britain is now robjeet
until the authority of the law is re-established. The
allegiance of the natives, he rays, has never bees moo
than nominal. Her Majesty has received the ',admen
very graciously, bat has not cocanteaded the Wean!
Minister to recall the dension cornimaisehad het yen
with respect to the administration of native elem. In
concluding his asepses h the sage duke the. &doss the
difficult position in which Sir George Grey bas been placed
by the course of events :
The colonist' having consistently "fainted hoes the
home t, by the different methods in which it me
to ninth was claim, that it should mese to mane
Native affairs, sad (what is stall more important) having
refused to reeds, that management possible, which ands
responsible government was at any rate most Moult, in
home government has resigned that function. This rola-
quishmant does not require the swot of the colonels
to make it effectual. It is completed by the an rd
the home government, which (in conformity with a-
quae' which it is now too late to recall) no longer remise
of you to take personal charge of the Wive seers
terry's department. If you resume or retain the perusal
control of that department it will not be in obedience to
instructions from home, but either at the request at the rs.
'possible ministers, or under some press* momity mos
mooed by their action or inaction, and for the memmeaces
of which, therefore, the home government an not nem*
able. Your constitutional position with regard to year
advisors will (as desired by your late miniery) be the
same in regard to Wive as to ordinary colonial affairs ; theta
to my, you will be genendly bound to 'weeded to Sles sober
which they recommend for your oloptioa, and for whisk,
therefore they will be responsible. I my, genseally, be-
came there remain several monogamist in which it meld
be your duty to act upon your ow u judgment in opposites'
to chairs You mold be bound to exercise the nevem
powers which you possess, by preventing any step abut
invaded imperial rights, or was at VOJIADOO with the pieties
on the faith of which her Idajesty's government sequin'
the sovereignty et New Zealm4 or in any other my
marked by evident iggustice towards her Majesty's
'objects ad the native ram. In the interests of to
coloniata themselves you might And yourself bound,
under conceivable circumstances, to appeal from year go-
vernment to the General Asicaubly, sad from the Gomel
Amiably to the constituencies, in case the policy mow
mended for your acceptance appeared to you clearly die.
estrous. You would
.be boned to judge for ymroell mto
the justice and of employing, and the best mote
of employing herMa*Sy's forces. In tithe matter you
might of comes fortify yours& by taking the opinioaeef
your ministers, but the responsibility would rest with
yam& and the officer in command. Lastly, the
fact that the misty the colonist"
_threads for the
present oa a form of the Queen's troop' Isis
mined at the expense of Great Britain gives this
country a right to require from the colonise that their la-
the policy, on which the continuance of peace or renewal ef
war threads, should be just, prudent, and liberal. It a
plaia that the willingness of Great Bemis to continue the
aseistams will be moot materially affected by the dime-
tiou of the colonists to adopt such mamma as is
judgment are calculated to remove immediate
and to place the future relations of the rams ow a sound
bases. I trust that these considerations will give you that
weight in the administration of the colony which, eve. in-
dependently of them, would be due to your sagacity, 111010•
tine, and experience. In sending you to New Zealand, her
Majesty's government conceive that they have placed at the
command of the colonies the services of the person
most cowpoke' as an adviser to guide their conocils, and
es
an administrator to any into execution the :molt of
your joint deliberations. The rest will now depend on
themselves, and I trust that by availing themselves freely
of your advice, they will be able to place the goverment
of the /thorns on a footing which will raider the duty of
providing for their own internal defence less onerous than
they at present anticipate."

Several foreign journals speak of an invention
just produced in Germaey, namely, a musical bed so coo.
strutted that by MIMI of a concealed pion of mechanism
" the pressure of the body produces the softest harmony,"
which lasts loos @sough to lull one to sleep. At the bead
of the bed is • dial with • heed, which can be placol at
whatever hour the person wishes to awake ; and at the
time fixed " the bed plays a march of Spoatiai, with drums
sod cymbals, loud enough to wake the eourdest sleeper."
Voris Gazette of Berlin states, from Posen, that
a duel was fought on the 14th in the wood of Laczyn, Dear
Bowies, between M. Stephan Bobrowski, who is believed
to bee member of the revolutionary committee of Waves,
and soother person who by some is believed to be • fried
of Miercelawski, sod by others OM of the Polish reac-
tionary party. The former was killed.
The panne executed by the eminent Romeo
jeweller, Sipco Castellani, for the Primers of Wales, by
eammindon of a body of British noblemen cud gentlemen
residing in Rome this winter, oonsista of an elegant
of 70 laurel haves, in wrought gold, for the hair ; a oerk-
Lou of 45 encient beads, of vitreous composition, found
two yeah ago is an Etruscan tomb near Dolmens, and
beautifully shaded with white, blue, sad green, but not
repolished, merely remounted in a rick and tastetal
geld setting ; • very beautiful wrought sad churl
gold bracelet, in nine compartments, each of a diff crept
design, a fats simile of the traumas' of the Martha @
iNnipanies Etruscan museum ; • brooch with pendant chaps,
copied from • Greek model found is the Crimea) museum
of Hertel, representing • head of Modem, with four hod
heeds above aad below ; earrings of Greek design, with
antique beads to match the necklace • sal, krihuhl•
or brooch, of smaller dimensions, and of elaborate patters.
similar to the besoalet. These beautiful sad cl.‘wiral •
esuemeats ere iseksed is sal aliquot °onkel of scarlet relrvi,
esahowed with diver. •