The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-05 00:00:00

On the Tote of 125,0001. for education being proposed,

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Mr. BWART suggested that a statement should be made
by a iniaistn the crown of the appropriation and results of
the snm voted for eduatioo, u well as of the same voted for
the promotion of literature and art, en the introduction of
the clam of estimates eimmally devoted to those subjects. The
right hen. member for Tainwortli had acceded to this proposi-
tion several years ago.
fEr G. GREY said that he would etas now whet were
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the principal items of expenditure of the parlLunentary grant
of 125,0002. The stipends of teachers were 18,6801. The
appropriation of this money was doubly devoted to affording
education, end contributing to the support of the schools
The salaries of 62 masters and 92 schoolmistresses who had
obtained certificates of merit in 1848, was 11,4921. Then
were 200 students in the training schools who received
4,11011. There were, in addition to grants to the National
Society and the British and Foreign School Society, the ex-
penses of the tra'ning schools maintained by these bodies.
The plan of the government bad given a stimulus to educa-
tion, and it became necessary to check the expenditure in
ceesequence of the flambee of claimants.
The vote was agreed to.
On the vote of 1,3001. for the National Gallery,
Mr. VERNON BYITR askea whether the Chancellor of
the Exchequer was able to make any proposition as to the
gallery given to the nation by the late Mr. Vernon, whose
pictures were in a cellar under the National Gallery /
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER quite agreed
that it would be desirable to provide better accommodation
for then pictures, which had been presented to the nation by
the munificence of a private geatlemur. The only reason
why it bed not been done was, that, of course, it would en-
tail, in some shape or another, considerable outlays, end he
did not tea justified in the present year, and in the present
state of the finances, to propose any additional outlay.

The rots was agreed to. The rosasialsg Totals wen
agreed to.
PROTECTION (SCOTLAND) BILL.

The bill Ina read a second time. To be committed on
Monday.
SHEEP STEALERS (IRELAND) BILL.
Tbis ball was read a second time. To be committed on
Wednesday.
GOVERNMENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN
COLONIES.

Mr. HAWES said that it was not his intention to occupy
the house at any length in introducing td.e bill which he
had now the honour to ask the howls to consider, with •
view to the better government of the Australian colonies.
Those members of tee bonne who had perused the papers
which had been laid upon the table would, in a very great
degree, have mastered the details of the bill which he now
presented. The bill was framed with a view to meet the
wishes of the colonists, and, as far as possible, it pro-
ceeded upon the buds of the constitution which now
existed in Sew South Wales. Some time IRO his noble
friend the Secretary if Sate for the Colonies addressed a
despatch to the governor of New South Wales, raising the
question of a new constitution fur the colt nisi, and pointing
out toe constitution conferred upon New Zealand as a model
The colonists considered the contests of his despatch, and
communicated by resoluti no agreed to at public meetings
that any alteration in their existing conotitution would be
unacceptable. His noble friend, in deference to the opinion
so electrum!, determined at once to abandon his own
opinion. The baiis of the coaridution was • governor
and legislative assembly cocci-ling of thirty-six, twelve
• the council), rs being ofilciel, and twenty four
dieted by the people at large. The council had worked ga-
urally utisfutsrity to the colonies, and under these Mecum-
, steno's, niter much consideration, it was determined to adopt
it as the basis of the inure constitution for the Australian
ettnies generally. The main object of the bill was to carry
that constitution into ramie,. In New South Wales • de-
sire bad long existed for the separation of the southern per-
Mon of t"m colony, Port Philip, from the colony of New
8 oath Wale.. The first object of tee hill was to create a @o-
perate and &rind colony, that of Port Philip. The next
object was t r confer upon nil the Australian colonies,
New South Wel a, Pert Philip (which would henceforth
be known by the name of Victoria), Van D:easen's Lard,
South Australis, and Western Australia, condilonally, •
constitution similar to that which now existed in New South
Wales. He said " onditimally," because at t .is moment
Western Australia was unable to defray the expenses of its
own government ; and until it was elr's to do so, it was not
intended that it should enj )y the benefit of this constitution.
Thera
was another great object c ntemplated in this Ml',
and that was the federal union of all these colonies for certain
general pureous. It was intended that these colonies, baying
thus scoarate:and independent legislatures, should be em-
powered to elect certain members at a general assembly of
the whole union. the general council would hare the
power to establish n supremo, court ; it would have the regu-
lation of all weights and measures; it would have the
regulation of the opt-dikes within the four colonies ;
it would have to legislate on all matters connected
with roads, canals, or railwate ; to legislate cos.
ceroing beacons and lighthouses, end the general enactment
of laws which 'Meted all the colonies in relation to a
ether subject or matter en wbi hth • anembly, by the ad-
dress of tie (afferent legislative council', might be culled ea
to act. The bill also decided spin establishing certain civil
ISt.. It was not proposed in any way to alter existing civil
lists; they were taken a' the amount at which they now
stood, but it was thought unjust that these civil lists should
be fixed permanently without the legislative bodies in the
separate colonies having a control ever the 'moan
Another great object attained by the bill was the fixing of
certain amounts for public worship. By the existing consti-
tutional act, the sum of 30,0001. a
de yeuwas set aside for public
worship, according to the severed denomination of Christians
and the census or the year 1841. By dividing the colony of
Vittoria from New South Wales, it would become neressery
Is dienibute this mosey, and by the bill • sum of 28,0001.
was reteined for New South Wales, and a mum of 6,0001. was
retained for Victoria. Them sums exceeded the amount of
the existing appropsiations •' but as the colonies would possess
the power of revising and reducing by bill these several
meal. 9, he hoped the house would not object to this point at
the bill. Van Diemen's Land was a convict colony, and ft
was necessary, therefore, to adopt ample Melte for diffusing
spiritual instruction there; and it must be understood that
the money would not be devoted to any particular sect, but
that it would be given to the established church, the Roman
crholics, the presbyteries', and the independents.
Another great object of the bill was, to endeavour to
place the trade of these colonies upon an nail foot-
ing as between c,lony and cony, in order dud there
might be the ume free intercourse between each ea
there existed between the different counties in lir
land. The great of ject of this provision was to es-
tablish uniformity; and taking as the bill did the tariff of
New South Wales as the one of the largest buis, and leaving
the *then to hargeonUt thehe in harmony with that, it was
hoped that in that manner all difficulties would be overcome.
The general assembly alone would deal with the custom
duties; and should any of the colonies done to alter the
tariff, they would have to address the Governor of Australia,
and through him the General Assembly would deal with
the subject. These were the main provisions
of the measure, and the papers on the table clearly sheered
the principle upon which it rested. He hoped the details
would be found to harmonise with that priample, and that
practically good effects would result. The bill left undi -
turbid the existing constitution in the colony, but should the
*denies wish to aftee that constitution and adopt another
fen, they were left unfettered, and could modify it ea they
demised. He wished the measure to be in the hands of hos.
*embers before any discussion was raised upon it, and it
would be transmitted to them in • coop!' of days.
Mr. GLADSTONE was apprehensive that this bill would
pens Monk parliament attracting • much less share of at-
tention then ft deserved. But attention should be drawn to
ft, banns the discussion edits merits would in every way be
besedcial. He was friendly to its seismal purpose', for the
deggigges apes which it was founded—namely, the report
oft mongtftee et Privy Council, and the bin itself, p_ ro
pod a gissen'd advance in our colonial legislation. The
chboreld alikei:7l,l,lll,l44:tralisal.:4,"suvt ii"inonsTeisLwbiSoniblthnedeadt Wales,ilhtew fr
where
it wee extremely limited. 11.1 ears kerne') He telly cow'
caned with the benOteitZ, grtlemen ebee
should be powers given to the ca10:74" to el
iediff their
- own
constitutions and tnir own civil ,8 Land.hed
some doubts rennin the eivil list of Van L.. colony
He did sot knew if it was intended to fix Inca s. ~creua
all it at present paid ; but although admen to antis4l ~c
in the colonial Amps upon our senates, he . -
Wther unjust nee imlitic nat we should pay a porton of
governor's missy .1 Van Dismiss Land.
Mr. HAWES—We do so.
Mr. GLADSTONZ, in that an, wee gaits satisfied.
There was another part of the measure on win% be should
await with anxiety to learn the views of the rivernment—
he mean that portion which related to tramp:anion.
He was afraid that that was the standing diMoulty of all
colonial meenteries, and that it promised to became more for.
'Mashie hem year to year. rt wee the difficulty of uniting
the tree fanatical in Van Diemen's Land with the main-

Zia '-• nnetiso.

OUTGOING MAILS.

The malls for Vigo, Oporto Idabel, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar,
will be made op on the moaning of the 7th of 'nee.
The mails, yes Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ceylon,
India, lloug-Bong, 14.• n LLI be suds up on the evening of the 7th of
June.
Made for British North Amorist end the United Metes will be
made up on the made; of the Bth of June.
The Ws u. India Matta. maladies berms* Havana, Name,
Honduras, New thieves, and bleattn, and including them tog
Hadar; St. JusarloAsieerague, New Grenada, Chill, and Pere, will
be made up on the morning at the 17th June.
7tte meth for Gibraltar, Malta, 0 the balm Islands,
Adel", Ceylon, India, itone-Kong, end tAma, em Ileathempton,47
be w, on the 20th aline.
The mails for Madeira, the Breathy end Buenos Arrea• will be made
upon the evening at the 4th dirty.

Mall WATT'S AT LONDON RRIDOS.
Tess Ds. —llsntler. 41 Tan post Aftentoss. 2 all. Test 2.
Tp.epsow—Tioulap. To al. past I . Atsessees. 38 W. Tut S.

LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 5.

UNDAUNTED by the repulse of last session, Mr.
Rums will, tonight, ask the House of Commons
whether they have a mind to reform themselves—
being the second time of asking. And the opponent,
of reform and popular tights may rest assured that
the question will be repeated year after yeti., until a
reluctant "yes " is extorted from the honourable
house. No reasonable request was ever finally re-
fused, except for want of due pertinacity in asking
sgain and again. Tte unjust judge granted the
widow's prayer to get rid of her importunity; the
Roman King bought the Sibyl's book, awed by the
stern reiteration of her offer ; the annual motions for
embolic emancipation and can law repeal bore fruit
in due season. The parliamentary reormers of Great
Britain will find in Mr. Ht3l6, or lime of his col-
leagues, an advocate to press their claims upon the
legislature, session after session, until they are con-
ceded.
If the House of Commons are endowed with
common prudence and foresight, they will see
that at no more propitious season than the pre-
sent can they set about the good work. There
is no passionate excitement, no clamour out of
doors, to over-ride their deliberations. But the pc-
pular calm is not the result of apathy. At no period
of our history have there been more unequivocal
symptoms visible of a deep-rooted and wide-spread
I determination on the part of the people to have the
basis of our representative system extended, and the
exercise of the elective franchise purged of corruption.
The rapid end steady progress of associations for
obtaining forty-shilling freeholds proves the deter-
mination of the nnenfranehised to find a way into the
pale of the constitution. The numerous nibbles at
legislation against electoral oorruption prove
the conviction of our public men that
their electioneering manoeuvres stink in the
nostrils of the people. The very tran-
quillity and silence of the discontented are
ominous of the earnestness of their resolve s, as the
deepest waters are ever the smoothest, and ;he hush
of the atmosphere is never so intense as immediately
before the burst of the thunder-storm. The nation
will have parliamentary reform, and if our legislators
wish to bring andistracted, unagitated minds to
ascertain the best means of effecting it, they will
buckle to their task before the earnest longings of the
people are kindled into passionate efforts.
At the risk of being charged with repetition, we
would observe that Mr. Humes bill embraces all the
essentials of real representative reform. It would
establish a suffrage qualification stainable by every
man of well-regulated mind and average ability.
It would enable the voter to exercise his right of
suffrage unbiassed by sinister selfish interests, un-
deterred by the threats of power, or the clamour of
nsitory local excitement. By apportioning repro-
""•••,_ ,yes more equally to the population, it would
sea Lt. "ere a more real representation of the
aieteecoush:P"PThtet"o.'.•dersadtbeaftpyordaywiltionsftsanaithe ball" oillifiklielteffectutsir.
And lastly, the compentisolp limited duration of
the bill cos:tomPlateas would
I :tittirarndriat:ehti. the lavish expo:ltars which
ineepeies revue% eal,l keep members of