The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY, EVENING, APRIL, 10, 1849.

Mot* whiehnere enehring man severely. Whether yes
will preang Mama memos -.high your portion Of that
Mau ladikeed nig be a neaten ends* he your own ma
evetietti
_bat / think lee pine ere yes mint preps-
eZitelfeMeot !mike foe "Om Msiduable waster
of the colonial reames.
ilwolenbt that the lea new offered hula be meet
preatailly *gigged la hatpin* an foamy end ether
abbe weitke,mattt se a in snmenetable "dignity is the
ef ofeeting the theme& dainege ear mar planta-
tions epos the ma* pried*. Gond mideees is the re•
man of this coustry be owe more restored in the Made
of sies at bane, it would be of mere benefit to us than
anylegislative puma whatever • end I venture to predict,
eves In the taco of the proem gloom and deprtwios, that es
British Guiana has survived that social revolution which.
looser or later. meat eternise her sleve-helding rivals, se
she will survive the aisle of their e =petition, under which
she is sow Isbourism to swans the highest rusk moss the
sugar-producing countries tithe western world.
At the request of the Via-President of the Pinto-
cid College, a copy of this address woe granted, to
enable them to propose a reply. The Governor then
requested the court to name a day for taking up the
estimate; but the majority giving him to understood
that they would do to only on condition that the eivil
list was to be left open to discussion, be adjoined
them sites die. On the Bth of March the combined
court transmitted the knowing reply to his excel-
lanai's address :
Gem/dim Demerara, March 6, 1849.
81r,—Your excellency having been pleased, on the 27th
February, to adjourn the Combined Court sins die, we have
been deprived of an opportunity of replying to your end-
leafs sank, delivered to the Combiaa Court on that
deiire sow take the liberty to send the reply of the elective
monhers of the Combined Court to your esesUesers speech
sad have further to re quest your excellency will be pleased
to Mow the same to be plant on the minutes of the Cm-
bitted Cart at the proper time.
We have the honour to mann, Sir, your excellency's
men obedient etersats,
James Stuart, Peter Ross, Thos. Porter, jog. J.
Gordon, Wm. Brace Perrino, Wm. Davison, John
Creel, A. Dulf, Chas. Conyers, Peter M. Watson,
Wm. Brand.
To His Excellency Hoary Bendy, Beg.,
Governor of British anise, Ite., he.
To his Zae= a,
&e. lfleary Darkly, , Governor of
aviee Ike. le.
We thank your watilaarg he the speak delivered to the
Cenabined Coat ea the lath February.
Your enediamy lee Indy limed that the endeavour of
the Combined Cart to raises the shit Ilet originated purely
in a perseena of be being heavier has the aim mid
aw 4 sad of the meal dhst it wield have es !Mishear-
ing poptdatioa. The wee ~MS mid more elimigly sow
thee on the 90th Adv. DK
Year ineelleney See been pissed to state that the d.-
mend for that Manisa has treat the Ant been urged upon
her Majesty's goverment, rather with an appearance of re-
taliation for the dindaatisa of the protecting duty on
colonial supra than apes the ironed of its own lanais
writs.
With every reopen be yew extellutey, we met dimmest
haw this. We near keg the fol'y to suppose that we would
Mows the mesas et the imperial parliament, in regard
M altoword pay I hat we dais the right of pointing out
her lislestp's pmemment the Injurious effects these swa-
mis have es es; and we would refer to the evidence taken
hence the eummitme of the Ham of Commons on " sugar
end sale phmileg." es sandlop duadeat proof of the in-
intimate memos
panrid* topsoil pediment have inflicted
upon the ages, es encase.
And, la refutation if the charge sad* agaiest us, of act-
ing ia e erdrit of Manion, we Grave your excellency's at-
tends, to the resolutions of the Court of Policy, dated the
Melt et Denenebtr, Ilia, and to Lord Grey's despatch, dated
the lint of Februsty, H4B, acknowledging the reeript of the
sciatica.

la-matliniatkon of the truth of the statements needs in
these resolutions, we would refer your excellency to the re-
tinue of estates pissed under sequestration, laid before
the Court of Polley by the AdmiaiCrator-General ; and
these will, we trust, enviers your excellency that we
have not been actuated by any suck spirit aa that imputed
to us.
We have always been most anxious to proceed with the
public business, as the minutes- of the Combined Court will
prove. It will be seen that on the 16th Jan. 1848, the Com-
bined Court extended the tax ordinanee, which would have
upired as the 30th Jun, to the 110th Sept. following, in the
coofident expectation that the representations which had been
made would have instead the Secretary of State for the Co.
looks to sanction a redeetien of tie civil list; but instead of
this, Lard Grey, in his despatch of 17th June, instructs
the Lieatenant-Cloverner sot to give his assent to the
renewal of the tax ordinance, unless passed for the re.
mainder of the financial year, which would expire on the
30th June, 1849 ; and he reiterates this instruction in his
despatch of the 16th August following. It has been the
right honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonise who
has stopped the supplies, and prevented us from proceeding
with the estimate. - .

On the 20th July, 184% a vote was taken on the Inn
item of the estimate, and canted by a majority, reducing
the *nil list from 39,0721. to 28,072 L ; the Combined Court
was then adjourned eine eke; it was subsequently mumbled
by Licutenuit Governor Walker, on the 25th September,
1548, and 22nd January, 1849, but however without trans-
setieg any business; Lord Grey rill nfueiog to Eaten to our
representations, although he had yielded to the colony of
Trinidad that which he had denied to British Guiana, thus
evincing a spirit of hostility to this colony unprecedented
in the records of the Colonial-office. We meet solemnly
affirm that all the loess which have taken place, and all the
evils that may follow from the stoppage of the supplies, are
attributable solely to the conduct of Lord Grey, and on him
the sole responsibility must rest.
Sine an ultimate appeal to the Imperial Parliament is
threatened, it is only to be regretted that each wee not made
at an earlier period, seeing that the petition assumed by the
Combined Court was the same several months ago as it is
now. The Inhabitants of this colony have forwarded peti-
tions to both houses of parliament, setting forth their griev-
ances, sad praying for redress, and we rely on Justice being
If
na.
If the power of setting maids the civil list ordinance can be
eoaferna by an order in council, then the ground, that the
dismiss of the civil lilt would be an invasion of individual
/10111.011 Si MINI abandoned. It is acknowledged by your
enesthmer that power to alter dem exist, and the most
elessimas ammo of the authority ef orders in council
rub even the cemmissioa of the governor, gives orders in
Ms& only an equal authority with the acts of the colonial
estate. Ws, however, maintain that the Combined Court is
the "sly authority that can legally interfere in matters of
ilemmes Moreover, the question at brae is not the menu-
seen of a edema engsemmt ; the enspe_ll.Sts Mai as It
wax, has been nullild• by the acts of her Majesty's govern-
ment, who have violated that act both in spirit and letter.
Oa the 20th July, 1848, the Combined Court deliberately
reamed the bra for the civil list, on which reduction it
takes he Men&
We assure your excellency , that it is our most anxious
• to missed with the public business, and to give thel
aellaaste • mak careful reelable, with a view of reducing tbs
se
an oppiehmity
espenetese t but, unhappily,se. year excellency will act afford
of de
We shell hi nepers!l to diem the best mode ofvying
taxes fir the *deny when theCosa
bind Cori %It =rib raising the " Ways sad
Means." Tim sidmieems he past years will show the great
exertions whisk have bees made to support the public in-
stitutions of the colony; but with every desire to make
liberal grants for their future rapport, the present impove-
rished state of the colony is such, that even in the public
institutions the expenditure must be much reduced, as we
have no longer the means of supporting them on their pre-
sent scale.
The change in the constitution to whisk or excellency
refers is a matter especially teethe on of the Court
of Policy, which court we led embeed will give due con-
sidenUen to any measures left& helm it, to promote
such changes as may be for the benefit of the celery. The
changes fought have ben height under the nodes of
parparliament in petitions frost the Inhabitantslnhabitants*warded as
r of January kat.
The mounts laid bikes as by your' melon will main
our careful examination. It, ti ArA ea, appems to us that
they have been furnished to ye. ala an impeded sad humor-
reit tom, but this can only be enertained vibes is semi-
Miss is made as to the applies*. of the fads Nadi out of
the seism, nest, whisk will have on egeelef st=2
Whs. yen enellesey affords us sa
islet& the public *shun the mesas of et kw the
meek expenditure will receive our met enside-
Min, with the view of relining the inhabitants, as musk
asjimille, from onerous sad mean tozation.
We are well aware of Maness nessimi by the present
state of things, alike Wender to the Mal museum of the
'May elms and to bethink. We met, however, *-
din that the donee members of the Combien Court, have
is ne way bees the swam of any evils whisk may have
Many arissa, or whisk may hereafter arks, from the
the anal- Her secreeb=f
=B:the senile is mien to blame, from his
la Wham M lien to resposeal reprossakesse,
In ids memilen he upwards of twelve meths. It we he
Lmien kr sur serious consideration, erns the proper time
ens% sustain into the legality of the maim made,
ra_beiedaet Lintenmst-Goversoe Walker, sins. the 30th
e=r7easalisasy thus to rant eirionly non
the emenesses on may plea whatwerme,
the rein* penkka ir the minimum of pests end
order within the edeny. Your appeal and nbeenest
warning were nesimmey. We have always 'Then tie
most anxious *kens peeves means fir the reeintemases of
pesos and order, and we emphatlially deny that the elective
menthes of the Combined Court have, In any way, pee-
vented the seeismry supplies from Wee raised. Hs: lib
pairs lisinesey if , and the examen bore, are alone
to blame, and es them mast the responsibility solely rest far
any mishennes eihkb may betel the colony in esesequenes
of the slimes* di* supplies.
We ben nein as we Ins 'lrony stated, atkintsil to
Ms ken with the Teens esimlly with mint to lbo
psi* ef the pieimmat, but we have neriked our
undoubted right as Math eaten to remain oar all
issa, and theinjories laileel upon us by imperial
dos.
The advance of 176,011.1. by pediment, alluded to your
eseslisears speech, wee, es lie the nifty of British Gains
is misread, raked es eat MAL Med these biou brought
Into the market at the dmothey um* to have bees, the
aid of parliament weed hen been imessimary. The delay
arm solely kin the esindes deem is the way by the
oolonal idle. We meld rhea your excellency, that
there is a wide diatom's hewn an adman by parliament