The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-15 00:00:00

03LONIAL.

BRITISH NORTH A3IERICA.—CANAD.t.—Our
Canadian papers add little to the able abstract of public
affiirs in our Montreal correspondent's letter. The financial
statement of the inspector-general shows an income oy
512,9931. in 1846, against 524,306/. in 1845, and on expendi-
ture of 505,2281. in 1846, against 600,3891. in 184.5. The
difference, however, arises from no cause that indicates 1058
of prosperity in the province. The returns from tavern
licenses which were formerly appropriated to the general are
now reserved to meet local expenditure, and so on. The
Mon/resl Herald states:
seven German vessels have arrived in the river and at Montreal,
under the provisions of recent British statutes and orders in council.
These, we believe, are the first vessels hearing a foreign lag that have
ascended thi St. Lawrence since the conquest. The emigrant. who
daily arrive here cease in dreadful plight. The deaths at the emigrant
sheds are fesrfulle numerous • 25 deaths a day have been about the
average at the sheds. Great dlesatbfaction prevails at this pouring
out of paupers noon us, and, however reasonable this feeling cer-
tainly is, it has given occasion for a great deal of nonsense to be
talked out the cruellies of the English aristocracy, Sr. However, '
the thing, to say the least of it, is most dlagracefitl. A remonstrance
from the Hours of Assembly to to go hoc., LJ this mall to the nu-
' pedal authorities.
Nawyousnuoen.—'llic dates from this colony arc
to the 25th of June. The new governor had set energetically
to work to improve the sewerage and supply of water of St.
Jelin's. Fever was on the decrease. The Morning Post
(St. John's) of June 22 states:
The saddest and extreme transitions which have marked the wea-
ther daring the few past days have struck even the &AI Inhabit-oats as
something extraordinary, bat for the last chance, from cold and frost
sad Mitt, to the mildnesa, warmth, and belmineasto which the month
of June has a legitimate claim, we are confident all feel peculiarly
grateful. The frost on the sights of Friday and Saturday loot was
very severe, and we regret to learn that the opening vegetation re-
°rived a check from its effects, the potatoes having in several Jost moes
been blighted, tia well aa the beans, which latter, we are sorry to
state, have suffered also very severely from the effects of the grubs.
On the 24th it stated, on the authority of a letter from
St. George's Bay, that
The straita were full of ice on the let of June, and a French brig
was on shore at POlt-11-POrt. A letter from the name party and
place, dated the 4th of June, further mentions, that on the 2nd inst.
a heavy gide was experienced there, equal in violence to that of the
19th deptember last,—that all the remelt were driven ashore, and It
was almost impossible to get them off, owing to the difficulty in
obtaining help, the physical energies of the people being campietely
pro-tested from their want of food.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—Our dates from this co-
lony are to the 14tk of February. The legislative council
resumed its sittings on the 2nd of February. There was
every prospect of the session being a protracted one. A bill
to charge the governor's salary on the general revenue in
stead of the customs was read a first and second time on the
3rd of February ; read a third time and passed on the 622.
A bill for the naturalisation of a number of German settlers
was introduced on the 3rd, and passed through committee on
the 6th. The Lunatic and the Impounding Act Amendment
Bala of the previoussession were resumed. Some technical
amendments have been mail e in the former to meet the views of
' the home government as indicated in 'despatch on a similar
subject to the authorities of New South Wales. Both bills were
advanced in committee on the Gth. Company's Clauses, Rail-
way Clauses, and Land Clauses Consolidation hills, on the
models of the English ones, have been presented by the
governor. The council, after meeting twice, was adjourned
to the 17th of September.