The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-17 00:00:00

hoe Muse the Frew& party to lain the I
111"." • --r mat to Lord Wait% appeal to these to
▪ mm e. etieative rs
uitii.foosempaia: Um tenanting turned, it i
te gay until the
whim tiossissaw=antbentio Mu-
aM• OK• premot is mimited es a state mystery
"••••- &Atm the light. It kat become, hese mid, that
...laligeeniegml Mt, diPulailla he too* PromMeiewie of indi- '
ZhaWok aeither the I
llsgoviteriteet tl teethe ministry
wahl elit beam consent to. I tette that there would
ditikulty in taking office without the Baldwin
b". n c
• d ,„per -Ina a liberals ; for the organs of the
pied piny have openly avowed t!, et they Cheer-
amp she o double minority ' pmeipla. Toe
;o'er( of this term I tight to tell you ia, that
fht =tante of the parlimentry neetrity of
of the provisos shall be entitled te
Liktoatstriel odors allotted to that divi.lea it the council.
Al* pt ech Callidians will always probably
_he the els c-
log on/ of Lower Canada. the " double
w =otiosity
pisektforild Suit them remarkably well; foe it would
always in power, sitting by turns with the Tepees
rthi7rof a liberal or consereative majority for Upper
pole as the ease might be. Whether the principle could
„di 10.07.ftionely way be questionab'e. It does not seem
oat tut peuicipie, eo sionsise, was offered or reeognised by
oment in its recent tenders of office. This is an
gig m jam:iadag pert of the mystery to be cleared up by the
agag pedimental y explanations.
aseresetions terminated but the other day. Lord
sa NUI•Ids ministers have shown exemplary patience in
Ring eyes all meant appointments so long amid the
goon of the press and the community, of all clams, who
lan puurelarly, Lod with reason, demanded that the judi.
eel should be made effective. The appointment were
mested mealy two days ago (the 24th inst.). Judge Rolland
lesse ehief.jusUee ; Mr. Smith, the law attorney.
citr=illidge ; and Mr. Badeley attorwy-getu nil.
are not etch as the French party would
bagmat, rus pleased with ; bet I know of no other
roger objection to them. The parliament has been con-
tralti* Sod of June. The conservative party have
einto lards p..!).• or. factions, based more
ealeilleliditfilereTem"."Thdilley'Leave,l it believe, than
ru:iuelcist:l7e-
ke the nonce, and will support Lord Elgin's
osisny with a respectable majority through the coming
swim. You mod net infer from the failure of these late
gegotiations to bring in the French, that there is !anything
wt.,s to good government or sound allegiance at the core
with that race. Fearful mistakes are made in England upon
bead. with regard to everything Canadian there seems
to tea very active alarau,t prinCiple so the genius of the
Eno* people, agsinbt which it is the interest of that people
who Larneolsrly on their guard. The kindest and most
grate eratisent to Lord Elgin pervades the mass of the
French Casaba race, notwithstanding the failure of the
he ies
not yet broken up, and the hour for the de-
puled ef the mail, owing to the execrable roads, has been
segatily changed to one six hours earlier than had bees
leniently mouoced, compelling me 'o be more brief th in
/ cabanas might be. The mail brought by the Cambria
cum in Nay late last night.

COLONIAL.
NEW SOUTH WALES.—Sydney papers to the
10th of January bass isms to hand. Col. Barney, the au-
foxden of the mew eakiny of North Australia, sailed
Sydney on the fith of Ju.nary, to lay the foundations
al that onticment. According to the Australian, the site
that has been selected for the capital, or at least for the first
Ms, is Port Curtis. This locality was originally discovered
by Flinders in 1801, and explored by Oxley in Noe., 1823.
It is Mutated nearly in 24 deg. S. lat., and 131 deg. 46 min. ,
Rica. It had been called Rodd's Bay by Captain King. It
is of difficult aortas and the river which falls into it (called
by Oxley the Boyne) is liable to excessive floods. About
twelve mules to the S.E. a harbour was discovered
by the mate of the reveal which conveyed Mr.
Oxley to Port Curtis, to which the entry is half a mile
wide, and the anchorage (in five fathoms) perfectly land.
lotted. About two degrees to the northward of Port Curtis
b Braid Sound, into which falls a large river, yet unex-
plored, which, judging from Dr. Leiehhardt's discoveries, is
my likely to prove the easiest channel of anus to the high
table land, with its healthy climate, adequate supply of
mmospberic moisture, and excellent grasing grounds.
Upon what principle Col. Barney's choice of a site has been
fixed does not appear, but it has been severely animadverted
upon is the colony.
Throughout the colony the returns of the grain harvest,
notwithstanding a gold deal of wet weather during the
reaping lesson, appear to have been above the average. At
thandagai (on the Upper Morumbidgee), the rains had
destroyed the hay crop. At Moreton Bay they had covered
the country with luxuriant herbage. The wool-clips were
beginning to arrive at the sea-port.. It was yet too early
to form a definite opinion of their prospects, but the mann-
patios/ were on the whole fsvourable.
An important meeting of electors had been held at (fool-
barn, on the subject of a return to transportation. A large
majority declared in favour of the abolition of penal settle-
ments throughout Australia and the adjacent regions, but
expressed a wish that parties condemned for political, mili-
tary, or " slight " offences, might be sent to the colonies as
"talks."
PORT PHILIP.—The Enterprise, that arrived at
Liverpool on Saturday, has brought news from this colony to
the 22nd of January. Freights were exceedingly high, and
an estrercely great de nand fir labourers prevailed.
NEW ZEALAND.—A Nekam Examiner (by-the-
by the arrivals from this settlement are much more desul-
tory end irregular than from any other in New Zealand), of
the sth of December last, mentions the departure of Mr.
Bruner, accompanied by two natives, to attempt alterna-
tively :—to pass from the south of Howick Lake to the open
country below ; or to trace the Buller to Its mouth. On
reaching the °out, he was to proceed to Araurs, in lat. 43 ,
deg., the termination of his journey along the west coast last
winter i and thence to eras the island to Port Cooper. From
that point he was to attempt to reach the heads of some one
of the great southern riven, and to strike the coast again
about the southern boundary of the New Edinburgh settle-
ment.
The New Zealander (Auckland) of 23rd January, re-
ceived by the Driver, states that no personal interview took
place between the Governor and Heki at the visit of the
former to the Bay of Islands. Heki was afraid to venture
himself on board the Driver, and is now mortified at having
lost a chance of art interview.
WEST LNDIES.—ANTIOIIA.—By the Lydia, ar-
rived at Liverpool on Saturday, accounts front this island to
the 15th ult. have reached us. The sugar crop it was ex-
pected, would be more than averagely good. Beautiful
weather tended still more to confirm this opinion.

Zbe Court.
HER MAJESTY'S STATE BALL.—(Continued from
the Court Circular of Saturday.)—Her *jetty and Prince
Albert, accompanied by their RR.IIII. the Duchess of
Kent, the Duke ar..l Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince
George, and H.S.H. the Prince of Leiniogen, returned to
the ball-room aft o. supper, and dancing was resumed.
Her Majesty's piper, performed seteral pieces. Her
Majesty and her royal consort, accompanied by the
royal family, and preceded by the Lord Steward and the
Lord Chamberlain, afterwards paved across the picture gal-
lery to the second ball-room (the throne room), where qua-
waltzes, and pollute were danced, and where the
august party remained until a quarter before two o'clock,
when the Queen and Prince Albert retired, accompanied by
the members of the royal family, the quadrille band playing
the national anthem on the departure of her Majesty. The
dancing then ceased. The distinguished guests immediately
took their departure, and so great were the facilities for
Vest afforded by the temporary entrances, and so complete
the arraugements with respect to the carriages, that in lees
than half an hour the whole of the numerous company pre-
sent at this regal fife had quitted the palace.

H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen
and PAW* Albert on Saturday.
The Queen and Prinoe Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Leiningen, honoured her Majesty's Theatre with
their presence on Saturday evening. The royal suite con-
sisted of the Countess of Charlament, Hon. Miss Dawson,
Lord Waterpark, Sir B. Codrington, Lieut.-Col. Hon. C. B.
Phipps, and Capt. the Hon. A. H. Gordon. H.R.H. the
Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady A. Bruce, also honoured
the Performance with her presence.
The Queen Ikrwager, attended by the Marchioness
of °emends and Earl Howe, honoured her Majesty's Theatre
with her presence on Saturday evening. The Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Lady A. Cadogan and
Bane Knesebeck, also honoured the performance with their
reeseciee.
Tke Doke of Cambridge and Prince George visited
the Queen Dowager on Saturday.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Duchess of
Kent, the ladle. and gentlemen of the court, and the do-
mestic household, attended divine service yesterday in the
private chapel, Buckingham Palace. Her Major, the Queen
Dowager attended divine service yesterday in the Chapel
Royal, St. James's. The Duke of Cambridge attended di-
vine service yesterday morning in the chapel of the Foundling
Hospital.

H.R.H. Prince George had an interview with Sir
G. Grey on Saturday, at the Home-office.—Major-General
Sir Hurry Smith had an interview with Earl Grey, at the
Colonial.office, on Saturday.—Mr. Higham, secretary aid
comptroller-general to the commissioners for the reduction
of the national debt, sad Mr. Tidd Pratt, had an interview
with the Chinesllor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his
official residence in Downinr-street.—Dr. Paris had an inter •
view with Sir G. Grey on Saturday, at the Home-office, and
relented the annual report from the National Vaccine
Board.—Lord Kinnaird had an interview with Mr. Strait on
Saturday. Viscount Duncan, M.P., bad also an interview
with the r*ht hon. gentleman, at the office of the Commis-
sioners of Railways, in Great George-street.
A cabinet council was held at half-past two o'clock
ingenue's}, afternoon, at the Foreign-office. It was attended
by Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of
Wedowee, the Earl of Mint*, Sir George Grey, ViNwat
Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the 13x.0hst
,
the Earl of Auckland, Sir John Bobbins*, Lord C
Viscount Morpeth, the Bari of Clarendon, ate Marqui
Clawiterfft, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the Right
Ron. B. Labour:here. The council sat an hour and a half.
Lord John Rummell had a dinner party on Saturday,
at his residence la Cbashamplaee.
hen were received on Saturday at the Colo-
aisiliZat,cfrom the governors of the North American pre-
mien ; and also from the governors of New South Wales
and New Zealand.
The following members of the new Bishopricks