The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EV
ENING, DECEMBER 19, 1848.

136. BOWAN_ mew, Ils. to 135.; ibme, lb. 66. • old, lb to
141. Ise, lb. Pees. pay, Ile. to lb. t_
_white, lb. per
Wes bushels Oste, new, 176. to 805.; floe, 210 to
Ds. ; old, Eks. to 225. ; in., Els. to 26.. Batley, 28a to
30.. ; doe malting, 31s. to 3b. U. pr quartos.
Hanizios , Dee. 18.-We had a tarp attoodsees,
peed •
geed sappy sere, at market to•day. Toe bud suasa::
Whs. an old with more freedem, end in
inetmees, to • bops, at ft. to Is. pee qr. advisee ea
late prima Few or Peas offering, yet the sal* was
dud sad slow at fall prime.
1111n1FORD. Des 16.-We had • meaty supply of Wheat;
asssequestly be dry samples are in nquest, sad is may
instances a trifling adultea aprevious rates was oboist..
There was not mash malting Barley in offer ; prices Were
mesh the us. Besse, Peas, and Oats were in slow de.
mend, at brim pesos.
LANCASTIIn, Dec. 16.-We GM but thinly supplied with
Wheat, will. sold slowly at as advance of ls. U. to b. per
load. Oatmeal was very pimitlful, and sold at 265. to 26e.
par load. Beans lower, sad esly in limited demand.
STITWINO, Des. 11.-A pod supply of saw Wheat to
but chiefly is bad coadisiss, which was entirely sr
glutted ; old sold freely, at late rates. Barley la A
na supply,
sad b. per qr. lows,. Oats, Bum, and Peas, altered.
Wheat, whits, old, 141. 10s. to 161. ; ass, 98. to 131. ;red,
old, 131. 10s. to 14L ; new, b. to 121. Barley, saltily,
30..
to 335. ; griadieg, 265. to 27e. Data, 16e. to 19s. Bea. 211
to 366. Peas, Mi. to 40s.
TAnalotten,l6.-We have roily a tare
eat
her
own this week. T. markets my' deli,
wele
very dirty again. Wheat, for the beet perials, are whitest
alteration in prices ; (tedium! panels a very slow sale. TM
demand far Barley la limited ; the best malting sells is the
same tams as last week, bat rood shipping polities mod
ordinary sorts ere cheeps!. Is Bows, Peas, sad Oats not
.00h doing withoat altersti. In value. Who., white, 50e.
to 62a. ; red, 455. to 478. Bally, 28a to 325. Bsam, sew,
34a. to 355. Peas, Me. to 311 s. Osta, 20a. to 255. per qr.
Fusion Oaane.-The MU ming oneassme umbels of
pals mad meal from Frumps have takes plate within doses
glow dap: The vemel Maud. ROWS, team Ronan, hteeght
396 bap of dour and 385 qrs, of Bailey ; the Jilt mod
Asa, hem Dualairk, 330 qrs. of Wheat; the IMlsh, from
Rama, 480 qrs. of Wheat ; the Jean and Mairgent, from
Roomy 640 qrs. of Rye ; the Taral, ken Abbeville,
the Jame, from lierseilles, 140 bap_ of Fires 3_ the
Flak, from Nistiport, 430 quartets of ite.,• the Vet.
guelli, fuse Havre, 160 sacks of Matt and 330 bass of
seed ; the Elisabeth sad ,dram Abbeville, 690
socks ef Mar; the Wipe", from Dunkirk, 694 Up
of Floor ; the Rand Provides., from Dunkirk,
3,603 pa. Wiest; the Aso Dry., from Thuskirk, 666
Wheat;of Flees ; the Poise., frost Dookirk, 250 qrs. of
Wheat the Sarah Ana, from Ift. Valor', 330 begs of Flour,
end 200 of Wheat ; the Ariel, hem Dunkirk, 649 socks of
Floor ; the Frisadship, from St. Vabssr, 610 seeks of Flour,
and 80 qn. of Rye ; the Sylph, from Ham 1,969; sacks of
Flour and 126 qrs. at Wheat; the Canna, Mat Hass,,
1,160 maim of Flour ; the Alphonse, from Rouen, 643 sacks
of Floor; the Balkh, from Calala, 100 Mee Barley; the
Jason, from Roues, 725 qrs. of Rye; the t, tress
Ram. 1,000 socks of FlOlll j the Marie Jos=
from Roues, 817 sacks of ; the Deux
tines, hem Roo., 620 sacks of Flour and 313 sacks of
Farina Flour ; the Echo, from Dankirk, 196 qrs. of
Peas; the Emilio and Angels, from Roues, 790 qrs. of
Wheat and 16 sacks Flour; the Midge, from Dunkirk.. 655
bared s of Flour, and 260 qrs of Wheat; the Joao* Lucie,
from Caws, 2.26 sacks of Four and 75 qrs. of Barley ; the
Gustave, from Es, 225 masks of Flour, and 220 gee. of Bar-
ley, and some of Beans ; the Sylph, from Matesilles, 200
bags of ladian Corn, and 20 bags of Flour ; the Columbine,
from Havre, 210 packages of weds and 26 of Beans ; the
Pere Chauvelon, from Rastas, 600 qrs. *I Barley, and 100
bales of Clover seed ; the Fanny, from Dunkirk, 264 qrs. of
Wheat: the Pirate, from Daakirk, 716 sacks of Flour ,• the
Abraham, from Abbeville, 266 qrs. of Wheat; the Frimtd-
ship, from Dunkirk, 418 qrs. of Wheat, sad 46 harrels of
Four; mad the Nude, from Ham, 470 tacks of Flour ; all
the produce it Francs.
Harlow, Dec. 11-What. Polish, 100 122; Ash.
and Maid., red, 106 123; white, 106 123; Mark. k Brunewlek,
101 l 123; stark. Poo, es ; Udine* la 116 ; Lower Ylni,
teal k brown, an ailastaa, 33 64; Main. Elba & boa.,
87 !lolanda & 11eek.,43 83; Marks. sad (Marburg, 45
e 2 ; Ash. S Mead., 52 87.--41sta: Upload, 20 40; Meek. and llont.,
25 40 ; Lower Elbe. 24 40.-Seass, 52 50 ; Haas, 63 76; Vetches, 68
56; ; lope seed, In 186.
CATTLE, bus-Total of Cottle received in London
by the Eastern Cowie. Railway, for the week ending Dec.
16 :-Boasts, G6O ; Calves, 96 ; Sheep, 4,848 ; Pigs, 112.
COLCIIIIIITaIt, Dee. 16.-Then was a mall number of
Sheep at market, and prices may nominally be considered
the saw se last week. There wss a cul show of Beasts,
MIN Of which were intended for obristmas slaughter.
There were several lots for sale, prianpally Scots, of very
good quality, but, owing to the high prices asked, were not
sold. Is loan stock the trade woo very dull. The Pig trade
was very slack, sod large fat Hogs were sold at from 3e. to
31. 4d. per stone of Sibs. Sows in Pig continue in demand.
Supply : Sheep and Lambs, 670 ; Deists, 337 ; Pigs, 20,0;
Caves, 0 ; Horns, 39.
Itioawica, Dee.l6.-Our market exhibited a largo show
of store cattle ; trade, being the week before Christmas, as
Right be expected, was very dull, and nothing doing worth
notice. Being the Christmas Show for fat cattle, all were
aosioaa to eta the stock exhibited, and fewer went shown
than for years put. Never was less disposition known on
the part of the buteliers to purchase. The peas were badly
fluid. Hoopes iu good demand, keeping Sheep firm
is
value. Fat Sheep nearly neglected, at 7s. to 7s. 64. per stone
of 141bs. Stare Pigs and fat Pork remained without alter.
ation.
Far Yesterday's markets ass kW isaye

nismiT. Can it be /massed at,tbso, that the detects
and abortemainge of the investigation are even
more !suggestive than the lows fasts It has
brought out, or than the feeble recommendaons it
has terminated in? Yet how soaring mast be the ease
against the Eoclesiestioal Commission, when a com-
mittee so eoustitated, and hearing few but official
apologists as witnesses, was compelled to condemn its
conceedings and to remains:me an alteration of its

1101m1111 FUNS.
4pa 444„ A.. Odd% 1 pre wl. eamiallaall 13
16 irel 01 Illele. DOM IS 4 Orme& Wined 116 e., 3
31 VW Ont. don, a las lb Malawi. we%
•kW Illaamalbs• 11d5.731 41 U=l ...•• Pomba lida. 4114
Wassw, tI4 44 11‘,01316,
• gisrt= Arsara. IS 3 te......lLaid IL 14
DOD Colwalailb. l— SVW alirslin r 3
Dilartalma Wreirdse 5a..16 1 Wlt.Delreed.
_l/0...
71•01.DeadieleMele •••••• it.
14 pee Oi. Dela 116..ggi tP-1—.10i:1-1=Z .. lit
met DMA Oerm. semi 4
RAILWAYS.— The Afire market Wu food 'dry
is the day, sad, tar French shares, a httle wild.
Badger*, which touted snarl 911, have now blies
beck to 6 to 81. The English sbare market is heavier,
by abort k to 4per @bare from yesterday's rims.
We quote Easters Qantas 12 to k ; Oxford sad
Won War, 22; Oalseadna Fret, k premium; Boob,
S discount.
/SLY sneers° DP TO TWO THIS DAT IN LONDON.
(Yoe/rases ors winks write iast NM.)
Ma, NM, Boa, &Z.L, 1 UMW. Dm, Is Matlock. i
INr. and Word la., rid Km. shim, ad 1.11. New Al.
Ileiren end Enter, 33
Oelidonlea, Sll 1 _ 1131;.1111
Do. New IN. PM» SI Da. OMIK.Peor., 111 1
Omen & Ilalybasel 31 S bdOidast BMA sad BM •
nate= Orroitie• 121 11 swat amiiil... IN4 14
Do, New Gam 1 par Clllll 41
tka. IL 5 par CL /40. 3, p pat Nardi 164 4
E. Mies R Moe 1. St 11.), 13d Nialerw4•4
D. Mir* 174
E. l•wdisebbe, 164
Swear. amil, md Dor, 111 N.1:1141/ lig
Cleard Ilierlbm, St 1
Do. Kelm A. WC. 44 5 me m. a arm (b , 14
Da. D. S per Oent Gear, 41 f MAIM O•Nt. 7
Greeted IliaiLL..elisd), 771 111•1111111 li:
GI. MD L
Greet Wanes 416 Ditilliat 1
Do. 014.. ITS II Do. No. If
Do. YJUo. 1 6 Tent, Nowa.
New 17 S M. Odd. New.
Do. 4 106 le Iler.), II
HMI endeelbe. IS Do. Nana. No. 1 (Tort end
Lme. and IMAM 141/14 all Nem.), 141 1
D. Ildele (1141.). 41 Do. Rm. No. I (New. end Dm),
De. lbw Om 4 per CL, 211 141
__
De. W. . !KM 9 De. DIL. Par.. 2 6
imam ani Warms. 31 5 York and N. ema„
lea, ware, end s., 301 4 Da. enc., IN te
Da. New. 31. Orr.. 1111 De. IL & W. R. SLOW 11.1
LI& &P. Wenem 1141 le lealeme arid Mame. 54 .6
ne. New um, Si saminkeera 14
Ds. Ft•ba. 14 • N.WVINWOLS4,3
Do. IM IL 11. & L.(C)._lll OremosarlDeremaa. 14 II
Dm Si P. Waste% 40i so
Da. New Farb ind =IN 1%
D.. Thirar d Remo mid Km re. 11 lof
D. New ,7 pw et, 3
LIVERPOOL SALM Ilsrmana 111.—Om .'car.
The market was Ewa bear.
Caledonia IteL, kin 3d. p NM Anglin New OW., 31
Greet Noriters,l 4 Vadisak 14
Do. (B), K le. d Do. Halm, Sil 111‘ M. d
IAL & Tevity.F.,lll cl NKOMO& Itlrdo, use. V.
De. Min. d N. indlerdidr% MO
On KR 17•14. p Ileopoliee Usim R. &C, 11111
Lemma 11. Ifs.
1701 11 S. Vesi. & Dower,_ll4•4, 711 1.11
Ds. Km Cps., 11. Se. ed. 1 Taft, Nem. St NW. mew N. a
1111m1lb _MeV; LW. No. 1, Rid s.), set
tireL,l .4e. 341. Do. M. No. I, 1 d
Ch. Orieraby S stet.), i Do. (O. . 1 Par.) 66 d
ki I Oran & & W. (li Mid), IS d
Tam e'rhem.
SW. Ime., & Clmab..la., 51 d Los. 11 North Waders, 111
KIM IlerMers. 111 d Do. New Gra. ll P
ialina, •66 a
N
Len it • (A1.i1.. ~. LC), 31 d Do. SSW% 111 1 d
Do. 111. eL, SI 4 4 R. TM. & Doe., 0.4, / 4
(Nest Orialaby sad SW. 101. sb., Telt. Neese., end Bar. I
111 4 d Llo. (O. N. b. Par.), 4 d
Do. urn. Til
wascassram sums. Olamwaw I.
There me • eery bsoriat market, and prime west up
oessiderably in all iiesoriptiore of stock is 'whisk winos
was done.
wedeln= Pre...lp Las. h N. Went New 13111., li 11
O. Northers, 1114 d De. IL & B. Qra (C), le f p
Lase. Si Yee& KEY, 4 d Itdkad tol. at., fl 11
D. U. *arm 71 1 d N.
Do. W. IL U., 3 & L & Dolielbidtl4l
15.0., mac a um. Ws., N.l. D. Ni. f,lll
af Do. No. 4, 71 1
Do. blibtlw. 7 4
BILIKNOBAII BALEL Damon IL
There me • pod mamas of wizens dose is tkie market,
sad all shares went up considerably, the madam,/ Mimi gill
upwards at the class of the day.
N. It 16 eltraws. IS Mr. (A),7,61.116.34. el
N. itoff.rdetire. SI lill Do. (It), 41 76e. 3dL d
15..,talfurialure, I 1 1 a 34.4 Shrive d» LIMN 3 d
LEEDS BALE& Damen* IS.
niers wee • more animated business transacted in shares
than fur NM time past, and prime generally were rather
firmer.
Liumeldre Qua, 4f Kam., (Id, dc Ltaeolnetiro
ONostbera, let Ile. M. d Tref 101. le. U.
New Ulnae, 30 4 N. atsionahirs. 314,,81
F. laaeratthe Now, • il Lode wad Mb*, 1
lddland Sarni, 1114 Lands sad Bradford.
Caellde Eateries. la. id. d
BRITIOL BALES, Dorsal' It.
The market tontines* to Lamm tvith in prices and sales.
Great Western Qrs., 4 d 1 N. ft allordshirs, 31 d
Do. New 174., 21 d CaledoWW. 21
LU MARE% Darman= D.
&Letter% Derma, a Bohm I London end Brighton New 31.
I Onar. 6 per Cent. 0
Prof. Nu.), 174
Flan and Selby 11aless, 414 l North htsiordsaurd 51 d

PRODUCE. —MD :cum-wt, Hay-past Mo.—
The Sager market has opened with a firm and active *prof-
anes to day, and the public sales an progressing steadily,
with prices rather in favour of the seller.. The refined
market has ales wont rather an im;iroved appearance.
The small public sale of plantation Ceylon weatfoff briskly, at
very full prices, and there has been a good business dose by
private contract, in native Ceylon at 30s, which Is Cid. ad-
vance.-Saltpetre sold freely at the extreme prices of last
week. Refraction 4. 275.; refraction 3,27 e. to 27e. 64.-
Cotton has been in fair demand, at folly previous rates.-
Tea • Public sales are desisted for Thursday, which has
suspended bunions by rivate contract.-In other articles
no alteration; hat there seems to be an lammed confidence
ow the part of buyers generally.
PRICKS C U RREN T.
Ones. per cot. own ram Pigs, No. t. /13 1... 0 a
W. ladle, B.P.bers. 33e. N. M. led Men II IS- • 0
Yellow &Orley ... NI 4...37 Cergo et Oirdiltor 0 0... • 0
Pins .. ... .......... 35 0...03 realise lt e... 12 0
Burne' i, brows.. 17 1.. 33 LEAD, et per toa.
To ....... ..... 14
1..41
sheet
beet l4 0 14 •
Flea .. —... ..
BeveliMatrae.b 27 C.. 311 Ben. ...-.. .16 IC.. •
yellow SS C.. 36 Pses.i ..... -es io 0
White 37 C.. 43 red or ninon ... IS 10... 0
rorroina„ Wows-- 32 0...33 Oran IS 0...13
Teßow . .. SS 6..37 Oue, on 232 lowan. d.p.
Ore, ini ........ 39 5..51 ads. Gni, pole 10... 0
Band. Dinbro'.. 40 0...54 WSW 23 N... •
44 •11...44 brows 9 yellow 24 C. U
Lam_ lo Boad.
Week lolla, =linter :44 0....." AS
OwSO 5- Ili On. .. - ... 33 10...33 1
Own. 35 C.. 40 Soeth.see .... 34 10...27
Ur 5O 0...100 O'ne,Gallipoli;ploa 43 0...40
Opploo, pm& ordi- Cons Net 36 0...39
Pare........., .... 29 0.10 Beak Rape, gels,
PIN ei... SO •C.. 35 pie tom .....
Ms..-- .. SS •... 50 TANN 13 0...33
Ictsieheto 9;6,42 5... a
Ord. PROVO:OWN per ewt.
latter-Oati, let 69 0...70
se:lW 91 0.. 54 4the 49 090
end Pa- &Ow 0 0... 0
ft e... 15 Dahlia. let. 0 0... 0
Tee, et per lb. thud* do 62 •...e8
. 0 0 ... 0 WIWI, IA 74 0..60
~ire; et per ewe.
NMI While • 6... 13 W 62 C. 72
.... .... . 76_ • Beef, NW% per
Mawlemilla 7 0... 13 Inns -.. • 0... •
I NOM limn ... 14 0.. 20
1 '113............. Id 0... SS Pon. prior nen_ SO •...$2
Nam. lees.Perelairk 1 N 11. 12 •
am at per isil. Do" Sedan
Wm! WWI dem, Waterford. I
Reef........... 1 3.. 1 4 sZiewt. Id 0...116 •
Denenn, 21 to .«......... 60 1...116 •
36 per nat.
O.P. ... .. 1 ... 2 1 Lard.Wrikkel... 142 L'is 6
lauds, is) I; a Datio 111 ... 46 0...T0 •
perAvaeneekdalpp. II 0-71 0
Panarite nuke 1 ... 4 0 Hon. Oa eal Os% at per lb.
!trendy, batman 3 ... 510 B. A. mill. Min,
Ontlehepattad.p. 10 ... 0 0
=ad Oahe Oa OS
Scotch ...... ..... 10 ... 0 0
Irak . 10 ... 0 0 Ina, dry • 0 ...0 •
71.01. pir ton. Prated a ....•
1wi1tig,.....r 0...40 0 3011070.4. du i 4..:: P
head ... • C.. • 0 Wog info. dry.... 0 0 ...0 I
Dena sad Yleeeleh 30 0..10 0 seam. ...... .... s 11-4 8
hiselsad
4°1!°•"21'...1°1.L.. -- - SA* 07 0•0 --.0 •
• s ...• al
L Lots per
WY- ...
BMW% s
Woos%
Myer i • • ... T •
De tom.
le=eatelee-d3 11.- • I
..... 4 4... 4 111
4 4- •
reellar= 4 L.. •
1111=Imp sad
P 4
-
Uri ...... 9 11...10
1aa....,...... l3 10...15
Sepia Illano *..... 10 10...11
Ord eleniers. 3 10.- 3 1
- -" .16 • AO

i

....66001153'0 ...51
aulultot
Mit dim SS 10... 0
Ng% Ulm 311 10...14
outdo* St 10... 0
$1 10...0
33 0...00
OA
140...1i0ni
Is 0 0..33
Bombayll ...14
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10 10...19

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0... 0 0
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Bus

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TALLOW.—TaIIow sestina( sto decline. Peters-
burgspot,6d.; January to Much deli-
very, 42e. ; February to March delivery, 435.

HAY.-8111110111,D, Moo d Clock.—Mears. Cooper
sad Davis report trade at the foUowl.g qaotattoss :
Rime Meadow. 10
65, to 770. Boma. 366. 146.1 Wm.... Si. tollit
Werke . 606. to lito. I time ... 106. to VOL

COBBL---Artivide at the grestaries, by the Eastern
Coentiss !Maws', he the week ending Dec. 1G:
344 W2 gm
1121 ~ 1
I Items
1112222
Iloilo .... .... 824 ~ Mew Art maw
Busd
1241 „
Crustostriz, Dee. 18.—The supply of all gran to-day is
quite equal to the demand. Wheat realms the priors of bat
week. Bewley in fair demand. Oats and 8e... a limited
sale, _without any alteration is velars. Wheat, 101. to 181.
eer teed. Bexley, Ms. to 31s. per qr.; Oats, 16s. to 265. ;
Deem, MA, 42e.
Doutuarun, Dec. 16.—We have again large applies of
Wheat end Barley. New Wheat is still in bed cnditioa,
and, the demand bring more nstricted, we havesto report
a very heavy market ; Ilse dry qualities were 64., and forced
sales of new were Is ~ under last week.
tooßarly, Is., /or the
beet trades ; middling sad grinding, Is. 24. per quarter
lower. Oats, slow sale, and nominaL Beane 6d. per three
bushels lower, and a dew sale. Wheat, new, 16.. to 195. ;
fins, 194. Gd. to 20s. ; old, 17s. to 202. ,• fiats, 21s. 6d. ;
Blemolsorn, 14s. to 16s. ; due, 171. ; Bye, 10s. to 12e. ; fine,

culture, and carry off prizes at flower shows. Nor I
diddle expenditure on Caddesden stop here; fora few
months a,the ecolesisstical commission, at a board
meeting when there were 'items episcopal aad.oaly
two lay commissioners present, authorised the Bishop
of Oxvoao to charge his see with 1,7001. more to pay
the balance of unauthorised expenditure due in respect
of the adornment of Cuddeeden palace.
Encouraged by the success of his successor in the
see of Oxford, Dr. BAOOT quickly found out that the
episcopal palace at Wells was in a sad plight ; it
wanted bedrooms, it wanted stables—in short, there
wee no end of its wants. Bat Dr. Boocers applica-
tion for the means to supply all these wants came
too late. Dr. Witaxitroacis had been beforehand
with him. The younger and wilier prelate had ex-
hausted the episcopal funds for the present. But
where there is a will there is a war. And so, unable
to give him the money, the ecclesiastical commission
authorised Dr. BAOOT to borrow 4,0001. and lay it out
on the pekoe at Wells, and kindly charged the episcopal
fund with the payment of the annual interest on the
amount so raised. Aud of the 4,0001. for which the
episcopal fund is thus pledged, Dr. BACOT, the
Bishop of Bath and Wells, spent a part in building a
conservatory, and thereby blocked up from view a
window of the episcopal chapel which was the *deli-
; ration of all who saw it.
Is the Episcopal Fund, or any other fund, safe in
such hands P
cases of its
Yet these are, as we shall show, trifling
wanton waste.
Church extension, indeed!—Episcopal spoliation,
rather !

minced their survey. New Zealand may be added
to the number. It is tree that the Conk's Brno
settlements had already been planted before Goyim;
Honor was sent out ; but the first step of Govern
11oesON was to seek out a place remote from
dk,
scrambling colonists in the Bay of Islands, and tin
more remote from the more systematic colonies sof
Cook's Strait, a place in the estuary of the Them:
where white man had never eat his feet, in ordee
establish his government in comfortable seeteZ
from the troublesome Englishmen he came to rate-1—
The course pursued with the old colonies of
land was directly the reverse of what we have beet
describing. The adventurers who planted the coke.
were left to organise their own government, end,
grad measure, to administer it. The governmentl
-
New England was organised and administered by 44
settlers themselves; the government of Penneyieeek
was organised by 'Mutest PENN, and admit,'
by the settlers. In most of the old colonies (and k
all) the home government claimed the 'ight to end;
nate the governor, bat in all of them there was es
elective assembly standing in the same relit ion to
the governor that the parliament of England did is
the home government in respect of legulatioe sea
taxation, and interfering much more exteusively
in the exercise of executive authority and the
atle
pointment of civil officers.
policy t
It would be a mistake to attribute the chff
betweeno England's old and new systems of colonig
sounder views on the part of our ancestree
It was accident that insured to the older colonies mere
!tee scope for regulating their internal affairs led
developing their resources comparatively unimpeded
r (zzitious interference from the mother sentry.
the charters under which Virginia and Mule
ebsemetta Bay were originally settled were granted, the
prevailing theory of the relations between subject led
sovereign was widely different from that which eel
modestly established at the revolution of 1688. Tee
settlers who left this country to form colonies or to
establish themselves in colonies already settled berm
1688, believed that they continued the liegernen tf
their sovereign, but recognised no authority ove
them as existing in tie representatives of hie Engesk
subjects. They held that they were to be governed
by the king and their local parliaments exactly es
their countrymen who remained in the old country
were to be governed by the king a-d their wee.
moot. The parliamentary government of the ma.
monwealth waned that it had succeeded to th
royal rights over the colonies, but did not exist loig
enough to enforce them. The English parliaments under
the restoration legislated for the colonies in the spirit
of the long parliament, but home intrigues and streb
glee engrossed too much the attention of Englieli
statesmen during these two reigns to adroit of the
legislation being enforced. After the revolution the
parliamentary
.government assumed that the colonise
stood to them m the same relation aa they hadongi.
nally stood to the crown. But during tke refuel
Verremem, ANNE, and the two first Brunswick prime,
little attention was paid to the colonies. Even the
navigation and customs laws were laxly enforced;
the idea of extorting tribute from the cotonies wu
rejected by the sound sense of Wsteott
henry and their local government was rarely
interfe'red with. The attempt to derive a revs.
one from the colonies, taken up by needy
ministers at the beginning of the reign of GUMS
brought the question of parliamentary authority
over the colonies to an issue, and the controversy
ended in Great Britain's losing thirteen of its bed
colonies, because a parliamentary majority insisted
upon treating them as subject dependencies, not u
blood relations, who had formed distinct communities
and retained their allegiance to the same crown.
Since that time the authority of oar parliamentary
government has been strictly enforced over the fee
weaker colonies which were retained under British
rule, and over all the colonies which have since been
founded, or wrested from other states. The school
of directly and avowedly extorting tribute from
the colonies has indeed been practically date
Boned ; but indirectly they have been made Int
butary. In all the colonies the customs duties im.
posed as part of our commercial system have been
kept in the hands of the imperial government ; the
collection and management have been made the pne
text for keeping up a staff of custom house officiele it
all the colonies, nominated by the home government
from among its subservient political agents. The
nomination of governors, judges, law officers of the
crown, and, in short, the nuuttuatioce to all colonial
offices which had salaries attached to them sufficiently
large to tempt government partisans to emigrate tothe
eolomes,has in like manner been exercised by.the home
government. The colonies have been indirectly
I taxed by being made to maintain the set
vioeable partisans of the ministers of the
day, men in the immense majority of instance
utterly incompetent to discharge the duties of
the offices they held. The colonies have been taxed,
not for the advantage of the mother country, but be
I afford corrupt ministers the means of rewarding the
tools by whom they established their power at home.
Every opportunity has been embraced of multiplying'
unnecessary officials in the colonies, in order to extend
ministerial patronage in the mother country. This
system has been pursued to such an extent, that to
avoid provoking disaffection in the colonies, ministers
have been obliged to persuade parliament to
undertake the payment of many of these super-
numerary officers. To keep the colonies subject
to this wretched system, ministers resorted to the
device of governing them by " family compacts" of
resident colonists, and by enforcing in their behalf a
monopoly of the mother country's markets, whielt
benefited not the resident colonists at large, but I
few overgrown proprietors and trading capitalists,
most of whom have been permanent absentees,reselthit
corstantly in the mother country. Under this system
colonies have been regarded by successive &Webs°.
vernmenta solely ass sourced' corrupt ministerial lane
I nage. The colonists have suffered by this system:
having been made to pay inefficient and suaerthuthe
public servants at extravagant rates; and having hid
the profits of their trade engrossed in a great meson
by absentee capitalists. The inhabitants of the mot
ther country have suffered by this system : has*
been obliged to bear part of the expenses d
colonial government; having had many brioche
of their trade monopolised in the name of the oleos;
and havlng had their venal boroughs represented by.
the absentee colonial proprietors, the abject slues of
any minister.
een
spirit among the resident colonists, has of lateb
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breaking up this system of colonial misrule. lb!
adoption of free trade, as the national commercat
policy, is accelerating its entire dissolution.pen
The growth of a more enlightened and indedent
tunately, both for the colonies and the rnotes
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country, we are on the eve of being
compelled w
n
establish such a system of relations with our ',ikon
e
hFet
as prevailed to a great extent in practice, Una.
not in theory, before the American war of
• dependence.
vice

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t the heads of the church, after haring avowed
their anxiety to promote the extension of the parochial
system, and after having been crowded together in a
commission having that extension for its main object
—should refuse to throw the money derived from what
are called " the paying bishops " into the fund appli-
cable to the great cause they. profess to have so much
at heart, is, of itself, a suspicious circumstance. To
say the least of it, the refusal argues a closer attention
to their own pecuniary interests than to the
lavish expenditure they have made or can hereafter
welfare. But when it tarns out that aftergalenl7l:el
make on bishop's palaces, on episcopal gardens, and
on prelatical coach-houses and stables, there. will gill
(when the act of 1838 comes into full operaton) be a
balance of no lees than 16,0001. a year in favour. al
this Episoopal Fund, the refusal becomes sugrisvase
that them are behind the separation larger
than even the most abundant security for the pay-
ment of episcopal stipends end for the settlement of ,
occasional accomts for palatial repairs. The opera-
lion, it suet never be forgotten, was not accidental;'
it did not arise out of the natural order of circus&
stances ;it was not intended by parliament. How
it did originate has been so eby Sir
JAMlia LIBAHAN, that we borrow his account of
the job :
Is the year 1836 the Ant ecclesiastical co
As fmmissio irst seen wasr
appointed. Ia that year span the report of
miaeloners, an set of parliament was Introduced, doilies with
the episcopal TIMM*, and carrying into effect the sepses of
those Ent earambrakhage. That eat remaimil It Isms es-
ti 1840. la the year 1840, Meads& apes the seised ro-
pe& of tbe melesisetioal seassaseiceses, an ast et leftmost
me passed, dealing with the property of shaman, sad en.
Wag a hind avowedly for the purpose of asgmestiag the en.
slewssests of small vin gs. That set—the & 4 Viet., c.
1411—matained fa tli he 19tb sorties these words " the
ismer set and this act shall be construed as if
thisy were me sad the same eat." Ia the opi.
this of lawyers, the effect of these words was
la - the episcopal fund and the common fund then cre-
ating fats one mass available for the same uses ; and from
MO to 1841 the distinction between the fends did not exist.
ta ism it was obliterated altogether by the words to whiek I
have called attention. In 1841,
the end however,of one claims, an aet was par
sea
ed
anima the act of 1840 ; .anat
80, it repealed the provision contained is the important
WOMB, " that this act and the preceding set shalt be con-
strued se one and the same act." No soma being takes of
the eff of the words in the former act, from the attention
houseth not having Man called to them, them iu.portialt
words in the set of 1840 were repealed by the act of 1841 ;
the complete fusion of tae two funds was thus destroyed, and
the emend= of the two funds was then for the first time
created by statute.
In this crafty and, unhappily for the church,
, eincessafal trick there is little difficulty in
treeing the experienced hand of London's ever
meddling Diocesan: for he it is who has
huge and comprehensive designs on the Epis-
Z27;Fund thus ingeniously, if not very credi-
, established. He looks forward to its still
unappropriated balance of 10001. a year as a source
whence not only to endow the three new bishoprics
of Southwell, St. Alban's, and Bodmin, which he has
seduced Lord Julin RUSSELL into the folly of con-
templating; but he confidently talks of applying
some part of this annual sum to the extension of the
episcopal order in our colonies. A very pretty plot to waste
the means of the church, One, too, that aught have been
successful had ministers only procured in the Bishopric
of Manchester Act, the legislative sanction they
sought to Dr. BLOMVIELD'S extravagant scheme of
Bishop (as counter distinguished from Church)
Extension.
To throw away 12,000!. a year on the foundation of
three new English bishoprics, when that sum could bei
far more advantageously applied to the endowment of
forty new parochial districts, with an annual stipend
of 3001. a year to the incumbent of each, would be
a piece of indecent waste. Quite of a piece, it U
true, with the past conduct of the Ecclesiastical Com-
mission ; but not likely to be tried now that public
attention is fairly fixed on the proceedings of that
body. It is, indeed, so utterly inconsistert with the
present state of the church and of the recessities for
its extension, when compared with the means appli-
cable to that extension, that even a bishop, when the
matter is put plainly before him by lay intelligence,
shrinks from giving an expression of assent to Dr.
BLOMFivi D'l34 igne. Dr. KAT; the Bishop of Lin-
coln, was examined on the point before Mr. DEBI-
BON'S committee, and thus he spoke thereon :
It has been given in evidence bas one of your lordships'
bench that an addition of bishops is the thing beyond any-
thing else that is required for the advantage of the church
might I ask whether that is your lordship's opinion ?—I
think that an increase of bishops is very desirabie in some
instances ; but if I were to be asked whether I think it more
desirable than an increase of parochial clergymen, 1 must
say that I do not think it more desirable.
Then, with the view entertained by your lordship, after
the poorer sees which at present exist shall have been pro.
Tided for, there would be no objection to the' union of the
episcopal and common fund P—l do not say that it is act de-
sirable that there should be an increase of bishops ; but if I
am asked to compare the menses of bishops with that of
parochial ministers, on the supposition that I must forego
the one or the other, I should say that I should forego the
foundation of additional bishoprics ; and yet Ido think that
in some eases the foundation of additional bishoprics is most
desirable. The question In my mind is, whether the same
uhject might not be accomplished in another way, and
whether a power might not ibst given to the commission,
which does not exist at the present moment, of making over
from time to time a portion of the surplus of the episcopal
fund to the other fund.
But,begging Dr.Ksr z's pardon, the occasional trans-
fer of a portion of the surplus of the Episcopal to the
Common Fund, will not do. After the extravagant
waste of that fund by the bishops, the separation
must be done away.with altogether. There is no
safety for the remaining 12,0001. a year but to merge
it in the Common Fund. There is no security against
the creation of new bishoprics but in the extinction
of the Episcopal Fund. The Bishop of LINCOLN sees
this clearly enough : he admits the question to resolve
itself into this alternative The extension of the pare-
dried system by the extinction of the Episcopal Fund,
or the extension of the Episcopate by the distinct
existence of that fund ?
After all the sums that are required to make good the pay-
ments to the poorer sees shall have been paid, does your
lordship think that it would be desirable to preserve the die.
tiaction between the episcopal and the common fund, or to
blend them together 2—That depends upon the answer to an-
other question. If an increase of bishoprics is contemplated,
then I should say of necessity you must continue the die-
Unction, as the means of providing the incomes for the addi-
tional bishops.
Would it ible, out of not be perfectly poss the commas
hind, if both funds were blended,
_to make the payments to
the new bishops, if new bishops should be considered to be
required for the benefit of the church P—l think that would
be a very unpopular measure, because there con be no
doubt that, do what you will, you can never provide, at Tina contrast between the early histories of New
least Ido not see the means of providing, the necessary England and New Zealand, to which we drew often-
means far meeting the continually lacressicff demand for tion on Tuesday last, indicates the predominant
parochial clergymen. Of course it would be a question whs. of our modern colonial policy. The home authoritie.
then it was more conducive to the good of the church that
additional biships should be eppointed, or whether the of the present day mistake the founding and sup- GERMANY.
number of parochial ministers should be increased. porting of colonial governments for the founding and
The first step, then, to be taken is a return supporting of colonies. They do not care for colonies, PRUSSIA.—We have Berlin papers of the 16th
to the original mtention of the legislature—viz., that but they have a decided penchant for organising colo- inst. The so-called democratical committee for inquiring
there should be no distinction between the funds at nisi gov.ernments, appointing colonial governors, and into the expenditure of the public money hive pale
the deposal of the eoclesiastical commission. For, we supporting both against annoyed and grumbling licly.addressed two interesting questions to the court
reiterate, that, constituted as that commission now is, colonists.
e tunas!
with an absolute majority of bishops upon it, and with English ministers now-a-days hold the faith that purpose
onfoemixamnatediningbymthwe
the non-attendance of its lay members at the board, colonies are made for governments, not governments debt. Those questions are whether the 7,000 w
the Episcopal Fund is not eafe. We have but little for colonies. Catch any colonial minister in a candid thsders paid by the French government uan Wm'
space to-day left to give instances of its past misappro- mood, and, if you snail hint at that moment nity for the provisions supplied by the Prumiln P2'3'
pnations: but one or two of the minor cases we will with representations against any colonial offi- pie to the French army (during the invuion of PeS•
thrdpaymunientat of dtlf°g.
find room for. cial, he will frankly tell you that it is ma by the latter) have not been ed
When Dr. Bsnor was Bishop of Oxford, with his duty to support the men whom he has paying off the debts on the private propertY of 1:
scarcely 2,0001. a year, he was obliged to put up with appointed, or whom he found already appointed and throne, and partly in purchasing new ProPeir;
divers defects in "the episcopal palace at Cuddesden. kept where he found them. This is no imaginary the royal family ; and oleo whether the interest ? „
Bat no sooner was Dr. WILBERFORCE raised to that answer: it has been given to more than one of the deposited national debt bonds, instead of being PII;
see, with 4,5001. a year, than the palace was die- unfortunate agents who have had to dance attendance in the state treasury, has not found its will inwmA
covered to be uninhabitable. With the smaller in- at the colonial-offiee—to waste their hours in polo- " private treasuries of certain persons in rerY
come Dr.Bsour was compelled tolive in it unrepaired ; chamber of sighs," as the ante-chamber of the segtons.” Amongst the members of the commies!"
but, with double the income of his predecessor, Dr. nial minister is proverbially designated. Nay, the nominated by the United Diet were Celia Sell_
WILBERFORCE was allowed to throw the cost of its re- colonial-office has sometimes gone further than this, Prince Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, and Herr
partly employ
..
pairs and decorations on the Episcopal Fund. For these and created a colonial government, where no colony As those individual' are appealed to by sune.;
purposes the ecclesiastical commission consented at first existed, in the hope that one might grow up to find probable that the questions,
to grant the Bishop of OXFORD the sum of 3,5001.; but, employment for their nominees. Labs= is one case great seneation, will not be altogether left on
is
on the express condition, incorporated in an Order in in point to which a governor, council, and subordi- answered. bulk
Council, that all expenses over and above the said nate officers have been sent out, before there was a It is contemplated to establieh a joint stock
sum of 3,5001. shall be defrayed by the said Stamm, single road traced, a single house erected, or Magdeburg, with a capital of one million of ,
Bishop of Oxford, his executors or administrators." a single settler arrived to occupy the one Banks of that kind exist already in Pomerania sn'
That sum was, howeveropilekly spent; and, being ex- or use the other. Port Besington an- Silesia. which have excited
varied but little
!mated, the Bishop atteeded the and produced other example, where a governor and his On 'Change, on the 15th, prices .„l.
a plan for beautifying the episcopal gerdens at myrmidons, with a military guard, have been await- from those of the previous day. Business was str::
Cuddesden, for which, of worse he haff no funds. ing, for the last eight or ten years, the arrival of set- notwithstanding'the improved prices of the
,I_*;
The commission willingly yielded 'to the voice of the tiers who have not yet shown any disposition to join Rentes, as much anxiety was felt respecting tn•
charmer, and the episcopal fund was forthwith them. The late North Australia would have been a suits of the election of a President in France•
charged with 1,3001, more, that Sewn, by divine third example, had not Earl GREY seen the ridicule Mr. Hergenhalut, the last of the FraiddST7,,,
providence, Lord Bishop of OXFORD, might indulge of the thing, and recalled the governor and his missioners of the empire at
.Berlin, left that city s,`"
his elegant tastes in the fashionable science of . ..ouncil, after they had pitched their tents and cos- 14th inst.

A REPUBLIC has a great many ineenven;ences. But
MS of its undoubted advantages le its freedom from
dynastic interests and prejudices. Yesterday the
French government was conducted by General CA-
VAIGNAC, who was supremely indifferent to whether
BOURBON or HAPSBURG reigned and prevailed in
neighbouring kingdoms. To-morrow Louth BONAPARTI
will have assumed the reins of state. And from that
day the French govcrnment can no longer be considered
indifferent to questions of dynasty. The great question
of who shall rule in Italy, who shall role in Spain,
which the republican President of the French Republic
I might have lent his aid to solve in the manner
beet suited to the interests of the country to be ruled
over, will now be answered in the way most condu-
cive to the BONAPARTE interest.
We all have heard of one mode of settling the
vexed government of Lombardy. This wen, to make
it over to the Duke of LEUCHTZNBERG, the
son of EUGENE BRAUHAINOIS, the adopted son
of NAPOLEON, and the equally adopt son-in-
law of the Emperor NICHOLAS. There can
be little doubt that such a settlement of the
hostilities of North Italy would be highly agreea-
ble to the Czar, and equally flattering to the new
President of the French Republic. Whilst of all the
modes of disposing of the Milanese, on the supposi-
tion that it is not to remain Austrian, this mode
would be most agreeable to the court of Austria
itself. That court would thereby introduce into Italy
the most formidable rival to CHARLES ALBERT, the
most formidable barrier to any Franco-Italian king-
dom. It would make Russia a party to the great ,
league for the permanent enslavement of Italy.
Whilst France would be bribed to acquiesce, by the
advancement of a supposed BONAPARTE, Or the con-
tingent promise of Savoy.
We need enter into no argument to prove that such
an arrangement as the placing Italy under the
safeguard of Russia would be highly inimical to
France, to its interests, and to the great liberal
cause. But it might be rendered highly accept-
able to any family or met of ministers govern-
ing France. For, first of all, such an arrangment
would evidently either imply, or lead to, that
close alliance between France and Russia so often
talked of, and several times attempted, but which,
singular to my, never drew near completion without
bringing utter ruin on the French prince or minister, I
wheever he might be, that lent himself to it.
The first difficulty that strikes one is, how Germany
could be induced to consent to arrangements so dis-
graceful to her. But, alas, Germany is no more
Her public spirit and general interests have suffered
a complete eclipse. The pride and honour of that
country lie buried beneath military rule. And
soldiers, who hold Germany in thrall, think, like
NARVAT2, more of their own predominance than their
country's unity, influence, or honour. The young
Emperor of GERMANY, the unfortunate and vacil-
lating King of PRUSSIA, look to Russia and its armies
for support in any extremity against the impatient
turbulence of their subjects; and neither are in a
condition to resist Italy's being treated like Poland in
the last century, and reparcelled out amongst foreign
tyrants.
It is easy to foresee, as the remit of such a new league,
that CHARLES ALBERT would be sacrificed, that the
Pope would become once more a sacerdotal prefect of
the holy alliance, and that South Italy and Spain
would be left to the BOURBONS as the price of their
acquiescence. Amongst the needless calumnies got
up against Gen. CAVAIGNAC by his foes, it was al-
leged that the Pope would not come to France because
its government was wielded by_ the son of a regi-
cide. In a BONAPARTE his Holiness would hare
entrusted his cause and keeping. Yet strange to say,
the personage whose turbulence expelled Pius IX.
from Rome was no other than a BONAPARTE, the
Prince DE CANINO himself, who has been playing the
part of Runt.
How the King of NAPLES is to fare in this " right
about face" of European diplomacy, it would be
difficult to conjecture. At present his Majesty and
his Sicilian subjects have got into a hitch
where they may stick long enough. In the
reconciliation proposed to the Sicilians, the
King insists on one condition, which is, that he shall
have full command over the military, and uncontrolled
power to re-model, appoint, and form the new Sicilian
army. He demands, in fact, the full power of the
sword. If the Sicilians grant this demand, they
simply bare their necks before the Neapolitan execu-
tioner, whilst they place in his bands a naked and
powerful sword. This was precisely what CHARLES I.
demanded of his parliament; and the whig historian,
Mr. MACAULAY, fully states the Sicilian case,
when he panes judgment on the English one. Mr.
MACAUIAT says, that " it would have been mere in-
sanity in the parliament to leave the King in posses-
sion of that plenitude of military authority which his
ancestors had enjoyed."
The tort' limes may demur against this judgment
of the whig writer. But the Sicilian parliament may
plead the opinion of an eminent member of the Bri-
tish cabinet, and who happens not to be Lord PAL-
MERSTON, that it would be inanity in them to yield
to the demand of their King.
would I