The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-23 00:00:00

in relation to New Zealand is to leave the settlers
to follow out their metal intentions. The
' territorial sovereignty of England should be midland
to an assertion of the exclusive right of British sub-
jects to colonise that group of islands. Om land
items ought to be withdrawn se soon as possible ;
a ship of war might be allowed to visit the islands at
intervals to remind the natives that the settlers are
recognised as British subjects. The settlers should
be left to organise a simple form of government
suited to their needs. Political intrigue and party
spirit might be diminished by allowing the British
crown to nominate the governor ; but it ought to be
understood that the governor most exercise his
authority by a council which can command the sup-
port of the colonial representatives, and expect to be
recalled if he cannot enforce it under this condition.
The colony ought to be understood to be limited to
those parts of the island in which the English nee
preponderates sufficiently to render the enforcement
of its laws and customs practicable; and the limits of
the colony:reight be extended from time to time as
the English population extends, and the native title
is satin= by purchase or convention as in the
United

ROME, Dsc. 12.
As I anticipated in my note of yesterday the provi-
sional government has been decreed by the menu:ruts
veto et both chambers at four o'clock, an boar after I
bed closed my letter. The debate was brief, but to
the point. And the preamble is a remarkable expo-
sition of the simple facts of the case divested of all
sentimentality or admixture of spiritual matters in a
partly secular sad political act. Here is the text of
tile lad deeieioa :

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Corkin*/ that*e liana states sajoy a representative
==tad an the guarantor of a constitution, that a
destiaatioa is therein drawn between the attri•

hulloes tether throe power in the state, whose connexion is
yes so nasal 1. that ono being in they're, the other two
saner Imo held exonplets ; and whereas on Jim night of the
nth Nor. the norreiga has left Roar without appoiotiag
a, sad wirer a paper, date d the 27th, bona Outs,
%appoint • junta, is deficient in constitntional
gr."—seassery to shelter the inviolability of the monarch
mad mid junta, it does not in fact exist : consider-
ing that the two houses of parliament, is concert
with the reanicipal council, hove a tight to obviate
the evils malting tram these acts by exhorting in special
mango to that effect the sovereign to return, that said
nistongers wore sot only refused entrance into the Neapo-
litan terrlicy, but their object milord nugatory by those
in othrelanos on the posit/ : considering that he sow lives
is • lead not his own, where deputation/ from his subjects
are denied anew, and the two houses debarred from idling
court with him r by law entitled for the government of
the ematry, that it is uneeertain whether he is a free agent,
but most certain that ho is not surrounded by his natural ad-
visees ; and ma no rote sus resists without regainr adminis-
tration, or life and pvinty exist without proper guardian
ship ; to prelude the poriblity of myths civil war, to
P reserve tho conatitution with tho rights of owsreign, as
therein degas:: the two chambers, urged by the obsolete
nersolty of the crisis, have by the deliberate act of each in
its sopersto onpaclty decreed sad now decree
1. Thor shall be conatituted a provisional supremo junta.
2. It shall be composed of throe members wired outside
1110 dreier of the representative body, named by ballot among
the deputies, and approved by the upper chamber.
3. The junta shall, in the name of the sovereign, and by
majority of voices, exercir the executive functions of the
Mate, according as laid down in the constitution.
4. The junta shall cease to exist on tho return of the Pon-
tiff, or on his naming in a constitutional furl • substitute of
hi own selection, which shall at once supersede the present
membews 'hurt

Such is the upshot of yes'erday's proceedings. To-
day the junta has been named in the persons of the
three senators (lord mayors) of Rome, Bologna, and
Ansena, who will forthwith enter on their functions
and meet at the Quirinal palace. It now becomes a
seam of small importance what may be the future
vanims of the pilrims or prisoners of Gaeta. As
hog as the cardinals can contrive to forego the lux-
wheel life whith the stoppage of their salaries (4,000
&Gus each annually) will cut short, so long, and no
logger, will these functionaries persist in their opposi-
tion to the unanimous determination of the Roman
laity, town and provinces. It will take some time
to convince them that this is no dogmatical, or pole-
mical, or canonical controv,:rsy, but a mere matter of
secular business; and as soon as they open their eyes
to that simple fact their arrival may be
looked he at the gates of the Roman treasury.
The Pontiff, himself, is still the object of affectionate
interest to the Romans, who yet learn, with painful
emotion, that he is freely receiving deputonnes from
the municipality of Naples, blessing the army of the
blind and brutal tyrant, flattering and blessing his
ministers, blessing the butchers of Messina, and hold-
ing up the government of Ferdinand as a model of
paternal administration. Such is the tenor of the
advice@ from Gaeta, and these notices are placarded
on every wall of Rome.
The chambers are now sitting, and the routine of
public business goes on.
DiCl3lllll 14.
Lord Napier, of the Neapolitan embassy, is jest ar-
rived here, bid I have not been able to ascertain with
what precise object. General Garibaldi is another
arrival. Znochi, of Ramps, has left that town with
the view of joining the Pope at Gaeta eid Legbora.
It was very unfortunate that no Bridals mishear was
hen during the late revolution, am his mama and
support might have thwarted the efforts of the..
foreign diplomatists, who, in carrying off the Pope
from Rome, have consummated the nun of the tem-
petrel power of the papacy. That institution may be
now considered as defunct with the ecclesiastical
principalities of Liege, Salsburg, Cologne, &o. &o.
The diplomatic body have overreached themselves,
and find themselves now outwitted by the Roman
Senate of both houses. We are now returned to the
government of Triumvirs, viz., Prince Corsini, with
gonfaloniers of Ancona and Solaria, after a lapse
of some 2,600 years. Everything is in the utmost
ealm.
The speculations of French and other ournals as to
Rome being the theatre of rapine, slaughter, and
every imaginable &easter, are quite melancholy delu-
moos. The Irish papers are peculiarly insane, and
misseably ignorant as to facts. But this is not won-
derful. The French flotilla is off Clyne Vecchia, bat

creates no alarm here.
A quantity of silver dollars, quite fresh from the
taint, buries the effigy of Marra Mares& and the
A.D. 1780, have soddenly made their appearance in
every part of Rome. The scarce of this influx of me-
tallic surreaey is quite mysterious, but the phenome-
non is bodied by Use papers.
There is a dory current here, which I give without
any comment. The Very Rev. Dr. Heenan, late vicar-
general of Drowse, who died here of • broken heart
on the 16th Nov. Out year, and whose death was then
noticed in your journal, u it is in Mr. Whiteside§
book on Italy, as exemplifying the results of denial of
justice and a rank instance of • summoned,
oa his death-bed, Monsignor Palma, then seastary of
propaganda, to meet him at the judgment-riest--and
exactly one year and a day elapsed when the official
was boohooed to meet the wampum Nov. 18, 1848.

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