The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-30 00:00:00

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Toms is the more reason for welcoming all
positive evidence on the subject of colonial life and
manners, such as is to be found in the speech of
Mr. Gauss DrYFY at the dinner given him by
his old compatriots on Saturday, because, as he
justly observed, there is a certain class in this
country which loses no opportunity of misrepre-
senting what Englishmen are, and what they do,
when they leave our shores. It would seem as if
to these persons England is nothing more than a
huge prison or a monstrous "scholastic institu-
" tion," from which it is a crime to escape, and
that nothing but evil is to be expected or believed
of the hardened reprobates who dare to break its
bounds. For wherever Englishmen settle, and
settling carry with them the institutions of their
native land, adapting them to the circumstances of
• new and freer life, there are sure to break out
at home malevolent insinuations that among them
law is defied ; that • brutal tyranny "of the mob "
silences all open speaking and extinguishes
all freedom of thought ; that a gross and
reckless " democracy " usurps all power,
and makes participation in the government by
the " educated classes" impossible. It is true that
these statements sometimes are so recklessly false
as to carry their own contradiction on their face.
That great arithmetician, Mr. Lows, who can
value votes at their precise equivalent in pots of
beer, told an admiring and applauding House of
Commons that in Victoria, where the worst of these
evils were to be found, the democracy cared so little
for the franchise that it was diminished by • half on
the imposition of a registration fee of one shilling
on each vote. Mr. Lows did not, however, ex-
plain how the democracy, being so all powerful,
came to enact, or permit • law which thus out
short its own existence, nor how it chanced that,
being so eager to carry its own measures that it
would give no respectable person • chance of being
elected as representative, it was so indifferent that
a 'billing a-head was an insuperable bar to its
peeking the franchise. Mr. DCYFY, however,
supplies information by which to correct the exube-
rance of Mr. Lows's fancies and facts.
We learn from the former gentleman that the
diminution of the 'constituencies by the requiring'
of registration was not nearly so serious as Mr.
Lows represented it, and that the cause lay, not
in the shilling fee, bat in the necessity of losing a
day's work in attendance at the registry office, and
of proving • six months' residence, which, in •
wandering population, is often • fatal obstacle.
But Mr. Lows was not the only slanderer of the
Australian colonies on the night of the Reform
debate. Mr. GREGORY quoted a vote of the Vic-
toria Assembly against assisting the immigration
of women, in proof of the evil influence of a demo-
cratic constitution. But Mr. Durre tells us that
the vote in question took place five years ago, and
that • contrary vote has been passed in every year
since. It lies now with Mr. GREGORY to clear
himself from the charge of attempting to sway an
" aristocratic " House of Commons by arts
of rhetoric, of which certainly a democratic
assembly would not be very patient.
When this ia the answer to these honourable
gentlemen's "facts," it is scarcely worth while to
follow them in their philosophy, or to trace, as
Mr. Durwv did, the wonderful hypotheses they
constructed, to prove that people could not get into
the Colonial Parliaments who held offices that dis-
qualified them from standing ; or that Democracy
must be retrograde because one colony out of two
in which the question was agitated refused to
apply the doctrines of free trade in • case in which
AnAst Simi' admits of an exception.
Happily, whatever statements are indulged in
for the edification of a highly educated and
equally credulous House of Commons, when the
object is to burke Reform in England, we all
know pretty well the real value of these party
assertions. Nobody in practical life is deceived
by them. Nobody, however educated and refined,
has ever been withheld from going out to Australia
by the apprehension of being " swamped" by
the democracy. And nobody has ever come back
to tell us that he has been swamped, at least by
the democracy. Party divisions there are, of course,
naturally more warm than they have been
here for twenty years. Political changes there
are also, necessarily more frequent because the
colonies have not yet fallen on the device of
making everything smooth by putting • leading
Whig into office to carry out Conservative policy,
and selecting for chief • gentleman who is so very
old that nothing can be expected to be done till
he is dead. But though our colonial friends tell
us, and write to us, of tremendous party struggles,
and of the utter ruin of the colony which is going
to follow as • consequence of their rivals getting
into power, we neither hear of the ruin being
accomplished, nor of our friends leaving the colony,
or even ceasing to struggle. The fact is that we
all recognise very clearly that men's minds are not
turned upside down by theirgoing to the antipodes.
An Englishman at home is still an Englishman in
Australia. He does not lose his sense, or his fair
play, or his courage by the long voyage, and so
when he gets to the end of it he finds, and be
helps to make, • state of existence in which he is
not tyrannised over, nor driven into sulky retire-
ment, nor debarred from his natural and
iej‘...4.-Loate influence. It la true that in •