The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-08 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Them are papers from Sydney to April 10th. On
the 22rd March the Legislative Council was opened
by a commission, consisting of the colonial seer. tart',
the attorney-general, and the colonial treasurer, the
governor's attendance being prevented from the recent
loss suffered in his family. The governor's address
commenced by congratulating the council that, not-
withstanding the commercial depression which pre-
vailed in the mother country, and the consequent low
prices of colonial produce, the chief resources of the
colony had continued to increase. It also noticed
the fact that, although the advanced price of agricitl-
cultural and pastoral labour had pressed so severely
on the employers, it had, on the other hand, been the
source of highly remunerative employment to the
working classes. His excellency then proceeded as
follows :
1 have endeavoured. by seeking fresh supplies of labour
from the mother country, to restore that equillibrium, the
maintenaece of which between the two classes is an ssential
to the gem ral, as well as to their mutual, welfare. The
an'icip itions which I entertained in my I•st open-
ing address to the council have, I am glad to say, been
fully realised. Tee whole of the land and emigration de-
benture. have been paid off, and the territorial revenue has
exhibited so proancrolia a state as to enable me to request her
majetel's government to send out to the celony an addition
to the 5,000 statute adults already promised, and of whom
the two first thin leads lately arrived in the Hy.
&tatted and Lady Peel, an equyl number in the nestling
*eases. T'-.ere is teen- prospect that the whole of this
iminierrien may be ell' cted without the necessity of
incurring env debt. The territnri il revenue will thus
remain trail-dile an a security for raising any additional
our which eircnmstances may render expedient The
emigrant,' row in progress of arriving are to be !sett
equally from the three great divisions of the United King.
m. They are also to be equally divided between the
Sydney -net Poet end the expense share.
aceordinr so that telt disttiet will ri ...lye the number for
which it i aye. I ill cause to be breateliately laid before
yea the orreepoi 'PTICC w ich his taken place en
the subject with her maji .ty's coornattst sail the
Lona anti Emig-than C mmitsion, rs. Connected
with the no sly of I (hour to the cot oar, I will also
cause to be iriti berme you n despatch `rom the Right •
Hon. Sal G.-ev, setting forth the ter es on which
her majesty's ft, Terrroott will) be di•pesed to send out exiles
and ticket-ofleove holders, to hi eubniquently followed by I
their niece and families, and bye nunilver aft, e emigrants,
CqUel to the number of such exil,e and ticket-of leave b
at the expense of the British Treasury. This pronoun!
is mode subject to the concurrence of the legislative eouneil. j
and I accordingly recommend it to Tour early and attentive
eoneiderrion. The tt•ual alastraete of receipt and exion
figure for the pest year will be forthwith laid before you.
I um happy to he able to say that the revenue emlinues
in ate ry preperout state. The collections in 1147 -hew a
considerable increese on the nrevious year, psrticul rly
in the district of Port Philip. The estimates are in course
of preparation, and will he presented to you on as early
day as possible I have appointed a board to superintend the
temporal reculation of the •' ennminat tonal schools, leeyingtho
religious instruction of the children entirely end, r the direr.
tine of the clergymen of the different denominations to sieh:ch
they respectively belong; I have also appointed a s-pirate
hoard to superintend the schools to be established on Lord
Stanley's national system. I have received a despatch from
the Se retary of State on the subject of establishing steam
communicatton bet wren England and the colony, by way of
the Cape of Good Ilene, and by means of vessels fitted with
i auxiliary screw propellers. This despatch will be laid before
you. I will also cause to he laid before you a despatch fro m
the Secretary of State, conveying to me the authority of her
majesty's government to introduce a measure authorising
the employment of the f :rle of the savings bank in the
nroseeution of any public works of general utility. It will
he my further duty to place before you some of the
despatches on subject. of interest to the colony. which I
have received from her majesty's principal Secretary of
State for the Coloni I Department. Among them is one
transmitting a series of reports relating to the protect of cell-
structing a railway from Halifax to Quebec. His lordship
directs particular attention to one of these reports on the re
suit of experience in the United States of America with re-
gard to wooden railways. and points out the great import-
ance of establishing such %Jeans of communication at the
earliest porible petite' in this colony. I shall avail myself
from time to time of the usual medium of conferring with
you by message on any other subjects of importance which
it may be necessary to communicate to you..--Cmts. A. Flu.
ROL—Bydney, 2let March, IBA