The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-01 00:00:00

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yesterday received information (from as undoubted source)
that in a small cottage within two miles of the city the fever
has declared itself, and that the number of residents therein
is not less than twenty one. A medical friend also informed
us on Saturday last that he had just contributed toes subscrip-
tion in favour of a child of thirteen, the lest survivor of a
family of six—five having died of typhus."
NOVA SCOTIA.—There is a great deatth of news
in the papers received from this colony. What follows from
the Morning Chronicle (Halifax), deserves attention:
" We understand that several counterfeit sovereigns
brought here by some men who came out in the Avon are in
ciroulatio in this city. A man caught in the act of passing
one of these counterh its has been arrested and is now in
gaol. It would be es well fur our fellow-citise ns to be care-
ful in taking sovereigns, as the imitation now introduced is
said to be remarkably good, and it is therefore probable that
a large number are afloat."
In the absence of news however, we dad in the Courier
(Halifax), for Europe, a renewal of the claim fur represen-
tation of the colonies in the imperial parliament. Some
time ago we submitted Mr. Howe 'a views on this subject to
our readers. A writer in the journal we have named, ad-
dressing Lord J. Russell, offers the following suggestion :
"My lord,—The colonist who now addresses you ventures,
at a moment when action is more acceptable than theory,
end at a crisis when delay may be pregnant with danger,
to warn you against • partial measure of union [of the North
American provinces]—whilat a much nobler project is within
your reach. I mean the consolidation of the whole British
empire, by representation from every part of it. I trust, my
lord, the completion of this great measure will yet give im-
mortality to your name. The adventles it would confer
upon our colonial possessions would be innumerable—and in
the course of deep and thoughtful inquiry I have not been
able to discover any objection of a feather's weight. Perhaps
Tour lordship will not contemn a hasty pmposition on this
important subject. The British colonists alone at the present
moment embrace upwards of 70 distinct possessions covering an
area of more than '2,000,000 square miles, and containing a
population of over 1,000,000 souls. They consist of
eleven in Europe; eleven in Asia, including the recently
acquired territory of Hong-Kong; Hee in Australasia ; thir-
teen in Africa ; eight in North, five in South Amrrics ; and
nineteen West India islands. These c doilies constitute " the
empire on which the min never sets," and of whose political
systems the throne of Queen Victoria is the centre; bat
alas! bow few of their people ever beheld the mon •rch they
revere—end how many of them have vainly aspired to be
considered part and meet of her glorious empire, instead of
being stung with the degrading epithet of dependency ?
Why is it, we ask, that an Englishman, on leaving his native
land, is no longer endowed with the same privileges—is no
longer entitled to the same proud national feeling ? Be it
yours, my lord, to sweep away this sense ofolegradation, and
to unite us all in one common bond of brotherhood.
Of the seventy-two p es...redone I have referred to, four at I
least wuld not require representation—the Falkland Is'ands,
Aden (mouth of the Red Sea), Pernendo Po, and the Is-
land of Ascension. Of the remaining 65, there are hut 47
whose respective populations exceed 10,000, and probably all
of these might not wish to avail themselves of the privilege of
representation. On the other hand, some few colonies,
whose population may be lees than 10.000, might wish to
send a repress n'a ive ts.,th as the !elands of Bermuda). A
fair estimate, allowing one representative for each colony,
would be about fifty memberi, and if the imperial parlia-
ment were thrown open to them to-morrow, I do not believe
more than that number would be sent. Surely, my lord, no
objection could be urged spinet 50 members entering
the imperial parliament, to represent the feelings and
views of the extensive colon es of the empire —no
objection. I mean, as regards an undue prepon-
derance in the councils of the nation. Their pro-
portion would be about one fourteenth of the whole re-
presentation ; and all increase would be passed upon and
restricted by the judgment of parliament. These represen-
tatives could be chosen by the legislatures of the respec-
tive colonies from which they w. re sent, or they could be
elected from the members of council of such colonies as have
not a representative constitution. They should be suitably
paid by the colonies that sent them, and this would be a suts
&tent check upon undue claims for increased representa-
tion. This, also, I respectfully submit, should be all that
the colonies would be asked to contribuee towards the ex-
penses of the empire, in consideration of their new privilege;
but I think the gem nil question of a large reduction in the
expenses of the government might noun afterwards be pro-
posed, by tt c dimiuution of the military establishments, and
the more effectual organisation of tie tallith of each colony
instead. The colonies might thus become indirectly inatru.
mental in diminishing the burdens of the parent couutry,
and perhaps ultimately aid in extinguishing the national
debt."