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THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY; EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1846.

the hind, which may and which ought to be available
for improvement and for labour.
Then there is the alternative of 7emigration,
especially in inland counties. In Kildare, for
example, Mr. JOHN LATOCCHE, may have some
reason for loudly demanding it. In Longford,
another central county, where half the population
are this moment employed on the public works,
emigration seems almost indispensable. But that
it can be more profitable than domestic employ on
the coast of Clare, where waste lands abound, and
fisheries invite, is very doubtful. From fifteen to
twenty thousand male labourers annually emigrate
from Ireland to the New World. Laws are already
in fort* for facilitating their emigration, and the
operation of these laws may bo strengthened.
The sales of land, either by government, in defaultof
interest or instalments being paid up, or by the land-
lords themselves to get rid of incumbrances, cannot fail
also to attract capital to the land. That portion of the
estate, disencumbered by the payment of the price of
the remaining portion, will have its rent more
available for agricultural employ. Whilst that
acquired by the new purchaser will draw most pro-
bably from the savings of trade to outpour them upon
the land. The wealth of the town population in
Ireland has been greatly augmenting of late years,
whilst the influx of the rustic population into towns
has not increased, as we sec by the last census. The
operations of the Savings Banks show the increase of
civic prosperity even in the midst of agricultural dis-
tress, the traders in produce and the exporters of it
finding their gains probably augmented by the crisis.
Any measure throwing land, in more tempting and
manage able portions into the market, would in
Ireland have the same effect, that revolutions have
had in France and in Spain, by pouring back that
wealth and population which bad government and
insecurity concentrated and made to stagnate in
towns, and not in manufacturing or industrious towns
either, and giving an immense impulse of prosperity,
as well as a general desire of order and good govern-
ment, to those countries.

AN interesting pamphlet has been transmitted to
us from Nova Scotia--" Letters to Lord John Rus-
sell, by Mr. Joseph Howe." In 1839, when the
question of responsible local government for the
British North American colonies had just been raised
by
.Lord DURHAM'S report, Mr. HOWE published a
series of letters to Lord Jolts, advocating the con-
cession of responsible government to the colonies.
The views advocated by Mr. Hovre have to a con-
siderable extent been acted upon since that time, and
in the opening of his present letters he contrasts the
seven years previous to 1839 with the seven which
have since elapsed, with considerable effect. In the
seven years
.previous to 1839, the journals of every
North American colony presented " their annual bill
of indictment" against their local rulers in the
form of addresses to the crown, and the imperial
authorities, though not always directly charged with
the grievances complained ot; were sometimes openly
implicated and boldly menaced. During the last
'even years the local executive governments have
been left to settle accounts with the colonial assem-
blies, and the storms have burst on the heads of those
who provoked them, while Downing-street has been
left in comparative repose. In the course of the seven
years which preceded 1839, the mystification in
which colonial government had become involved
compelled all the North American colonies to send
delegations to London—some of them twice or thrice.
They were compelled to do this for the settlement of
such questions as how much salary a Nova Scotian
judge ought to have, or who should sit in the
executive council. These matters are now deter-
mined by the votes of the legislative assemblies, and
no delegations have gone to Downing-street
since 1839. In the seven years tirevions to 1839,
there were two insurrections, costing four millions
sterling. " From the moment," says Mr. HOWE,
" that the leader of Lord SYDENHAM'S government
boldly avowed in his place in the assembly, the re-
sponsibility which he and his colleagues owed to the
legislature, you might (but for questions of foreign
policy)have defended North America with a serjeant's
guard."
From this retrospect of what has already been
achieved, Mr. Howe turns to direct attention to what
seems to him yet wanting to make the new system
work quite smoothly. Since the introduction of the
new mode of local administration by Lord JOHN
RUSSELL'S despatches in 1839, colonial governors
have been practically irresponsible. It is their
councillors for the time being, not themselves,
who are responsible to the local legislatures.
They proclaim themselves and are truly re-
sponsible to their sovereign alone. But that respon-
sibility they have never been made to feel, and never
expect to feel. Mr. Howe's proposal is : " Leave
the representatives of her Majesty free to select their
advisers from any of the parties which exist in the
countries they govern : but let it be understood that
they must not become partisans themselves ; and that
when, from personal incapacity, personal quarrels, or
want of tact, they are unable to fill up their chief
offices, secure the supplies, and conduct the govern-
ment with efficiency, by the aid of a working
majority, their removal will be the inevitable
result." Not their removal only for Mr.
HOWE, arguing on the analogy of the officer
tried by a court-martial for running his ship
upon a rock, suggests that "at least an unsuc-
cessful and incapable governor should incur the
penalty of failure and incapacity in all other branches
of the public service." He adds, "It should be the
care of the imperial authorities to make every colo-
nial governor feel that his responsibility to his
sovereign is a reality, and not a fiction. I can
devolve soy responsibility upon no man,'—' my duty
to my sovereign compels,' and such like phrases,
which governors often repeat with a flippancy that
raises an incredulous smile on the face of a colonist,
would then be words of fearful import and deep sig-
nification, pronounced with grave deliberation, and
conveying an assurance of good faith, upon which
North Americans would surely rely."
From this subject a transition is naturally made to
the selection of governors. " Men are trained," says
Mr. Howe, for the army, the navy, and for the di-
plomatic service of the state; but we have no normal
school for the education of colonial governors. The
consequence is, that two or three provinces arc often
mismanaged before the neophyte has learned to
Ilgovern well, if indeed he ever learns." Mr. HOWE
proceeds to illustrate how the unreasoning obedience
required in the army and the navy by the nature of
the services renders them bad schools for colonial
governors. The drawbacks of the diplomatic service
are also indicated. He hints at a very different
school in this passage:
I am aware that the selection of governors for North Ame-
rica, at the present time, is no easy task : because men of a
different order of mind, and with a higher style of training
than pass muster in other portions of the empire, are
required by the exigencies of this 'continent. To under-
stand this, my lord, let us take a governor of l'ilassaehusett.,
and inquire by what steps he has risen to the elevation he
enjoys, and by what process his mind has been ripened for the
:ss=of his high functions. Born within the state he is
y a citizen, bound to her by filial and patriotic
feelings--his early studies, not less than the active pursuits
of manhood, make him familiar with her people and their
diversified, interests. The strusrales by which he ascends
through the hustings to this House of Representatives, and
thence to the Senate, presiding, it may be, at times over one
branch or the other, give him a training and experience
eminently calculated to prepare him for the gubernatorial
chair. To provide for the British colonies governor, to work
our monarchical system, as these men work theirs, is a con-
summation most devoutly to be wished for.
The second letter of the two now before us may be
regarded as an expansion of this hint. The object to
be attained is—That, on the one hand, equal allure-
ments may be held out to our young colonists to cal-
, tivate all their intellectual faculties to the utmost, as
the peculiar institutions of the neighbouring states
hold out to their youth; and that, on the other hand,
the inhabitants of Britisl North America, by being made
to feel themselves as completely identified with the
institutions of the empire, as the citizens of the United
States are with theirs, may be imbued with an
equally devoted patriotism. 'Various suggestions arc
thrown out as likely more or less to promote these
objects : representatives in parliament for the colo-
nies; promotion for colonists in the Colonial-office;
opening to them a career in the army
or navy. Ti'e example of the Highland
regiments raiqecl by CIIATTI%M is referred to.
" Try some such experiment in North America. Raise
two or three regiments—train colonists to command
them—let it be understood that in those corps merit
only leads to promotion ; and give theni, in name,
dress, or banner, something to mark the province
whence they came. Try a frigate or two on the
same principle; call one of them the Nova Scotia;
man her with the hardy fishermen who line our
sea-coast, and hoist the Mayflower beneath the Union

Jack when she goes into action. From the heads of
these regiments, and the quarter-decks of those ships,
the fiery spirits of North America would pass, if they
were worthy, into the higher grades of both services:
they would be to us what West Point is to the youth
of republican America,—schools of insdruction and dis-
cipline ; and then we should be prepared not to envy
our neighbours, but to meet them on the frontier or
the coast when the meteor flag of England was
unfurled."
These and such as these are the thoughts which
are now fermenting in the minds of our North Ame-
rican colonists. It is desirable that the English
public and its statesmen should be aware of the fact.
The moment requires that they should be noted
We have thrown loose the cable of protection which
tied the colonies to us; we must grapple them to our
side by other bonds. The matter is urgent ; the very
last letter of our Montreal correspondent shows that
the parliamentary warfare in that colony is about to
be renewed by the popular leaders. Mr. IlowE,
from whom we have quoted, is no republican ; he is
the descendant of a loyalist of 1776, and proud of his
lineage :—" My father left the old colonies at the
Revolution, that he might live and die under the
British flag. I wish to live and die under it too ; but
I desire to see its ample folds waving above a race
worthy of the old banner."

FRANCE.--RtILWAYS.—The Journal des Chemins
de Fer announces that "the Minister of War strongly ad-
vised the construction of the railroad between St. Quentin
and Manbeuge, as highly advantageous, in a military point
of view, and that most probably it would be the object of one
of the few railway bills presented to the chambers in the
course of next session. Ihe receipts of the Paris and Orleans
Railroad during the week ending on the 15th inst. were
173,9331., and from the beginning of the year, 8,880,4741.
Those of the Paris and Rouen line, during the same week,
were 143,2191., and since the Ist of January, 7,980,9.531.
The Tours and Orleans section of the Bordeaux road pro-
duced, from the 10th to the 16th inst., 62,6061, and since its
opening on the 2nd of April, 2,196,697 f. The receipts of the
Northern Railroad, between the sth and the 11th inst.,
ammonisted to 1.97,041 E—via. travellers, 15,959 in number,
94,87 W. ; and Memo gad ;sartimumli/;102,1641."
AN EXPENSIVE COPYRIGHT.—Ths Areithiabop Of
Paris, M. Affre, has just produced a little book, entitled
" An Elementary Catechism an the Doctrines of the Catholic
Church." The work, very inconsiderable in appearance, and
having nothing remarkable in its composition, has been the
subject of most eager rivalry oa the part of the Paris pub-
lishers, who have exhibited as much anxiety for its possession
as if it were a second " Monte Christi'," or a new production
promising the sale and popularity of the " Mysteres de
Paris." The Archbishop has received for his little book the
sum of one hundred thousand francs.—Atlas.

BELGIUM.—BRVSSELS, DEC. 19.—Yesterday and
this afternoon the Chamber of Representatives was busied
with the discussion of the remainder of the budget of the
Interior. As usual, the debate took a political turn, the
leading opposition members accusing government, and par-
ticularly Count de Theux, the Minister of the Interior, of
being submissively devoted to the Roman Catholic bishops,
and of having established numerous convents. The minister,
in reply, asserted that he had only sanctioned the foundation
of three institutions of the Smuts hozpitalii,na, and that
fewer establishments of that kind had been formed since
1830 than during the corresponding period under the Dutch
government. The government was also reproached with
baying fostered a system of university education which gave
a preponderating influence to the clergy. The misery of the
Flanders was brought again on the tape, and M. Rogier, in
alluding to the assertions made by somehonourable members
to the effect that that misery might be traced to the non-
existence of a customs union with France, condemned such
statements upon the ground that they only tended to deceive
the inhabitants of the distressed provinces by engaging them
to expect a measure which, under present circumstances,
was altogether an impossible one. 1,1. de Mulenaere ex-
pressed the opinion, that " a commercial association
with France upon a larger basis than the existing one would
be the most efficacious remedy for the sufferings of the
Flanders. In the senate yesterday and this afternoon the
discussion turned principally on the law relating to province.
M. Dumon Dumortier contended, in opposition to M.
Vergauwen, that the hand-spinning and weaving trade in the
Flanders had no chance el competing with machinery, not-
withstanding the great sacrifices made by the state (with re-
feraice to customs revenue and grants a money) to sustain
it. The hon. senator urged the government to extend the
operations of the Belgian Exportation Society, in order that
it might export, not only the linens of the Flanders, but the
general produce of the country. After pointing out the in-
sufficiency of land in the Flanders, compared with the popu-
lation, and the scarcity of labourers on the other hand, in the
Campine, M. Dumortier recommended the immigration of
a portion of the Flemish population into the latter district.
The suggestion called forth marks of approbation from many
members, but it was combatted by the Minister of Finance,
chiefly upon the ground that such an immigration would be
premature, and that he did not yet despair of the prosperity
of the linen trade of the Flanders. He argued that it was
not always advisable fir a government to interfere in the
affairs of a people, and asserted that although Eneland hail,
in a few months, expended more than 160,000,000 of francs
in Ireland, it had not remedied the evils of the latter country.
lie warned her senators against sanctioning the principle
that it ought to be as in England, a regular system of p
ux-
rates. The minister attributed the present decadence of the
Flemish linen trade to the loss of the extensive markets
which it formerly possessed in Spain and in the Spanish solo-
' nies, and to the fact that the only real market it now had
was the French one. The various articles of the law were
under discussion this afternoon.
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ITALY.—A letter from Rome, of the 9th, says:
" The Pope has just issued a decree by which the convicts in
the prisons of Rome, and who are very numerms, are no
longer to be permitted to work fur tradesmen, to the injury
of the honest and industrious, who are unable to manufac-
ture articles at the low rate charged for them by prisoners.
Some hesitation is said to have existed on this subject, not-
withstanding the just claims of the different classes of honest
and industrious workmen in Rome, on account of the desire of
his Holiness to entourage habits of industry in the prisons,
by rendering it the interest of the prisoners to practise them,
but the matter has been so judiciously regulated, that con-
victs for fixed periods will still be able to gain a trifle, which
may be laid by as a fund against the temptation to crime on
their leaving prison, and the honest labourer will receive
the fair reward of his industry. The Pope has in this affair
set an example which other governments would do well to

follow."
The Duke of Lucca has issued two decrees estab-
lishing a new organisation of the finances of the Duchy, and
created a public debt, with a sinking fund, on the model of
that of Piedmont. Bonds are to be issued of 500, 400, and
200 seudi. The public debt is fixed at 800,000 scudi.
NETIIERLANI)S. AMSTERDAM, DEC. 17.
Accounts from Anaheim, Nymepren, and other pl ices state
that the Rhine, the Meuse, the Yawl, and the Waal are full
old:tiling ice. According to the Zwolle paper, the mouths
of the Zuider Zee are nearly blocked up by ice, and all navi-
gation is nearly at an cod. The arrivals at Hellevoetsluys
yesterday were the Commercial Packet, the City of London,
and the Rainbow, from London, and the Harmonic and the
Afina Halberdina, from Liverpool. The Anuterdantsche
Courant of this evening .tabs that a meeting of calico ma-
nufacturers was recently held in Hengelo, in order to take
steps for improving that branch of iouustry. It was resolved
to forward a petition to the King, begging his Majesty to
intercede with the Handel-Maatachappij (the great com-
mercial company of Holland) for the adoption of measures
tending to prevent a stagnation in the calico trade. A
deputation has proceeded to the Hague. The Dutch Society
of Literature and Science has just proposed the following
prize essays for the commencement of the year 1848:—" A
genuine history of the government of Leicester in the
Netherlands;" " An account of the historical novel, and an
appreciation of its worth ;" An essay on the origin,
development, and influence of the civic aristocracy in the
province of Holland." All these essays may be written in
any one of the following languages: Latin, English, French,
or German; in the last the Roman lettere must be employed.
The Federal Diet of Frankfort has ornamented
the pieces of artillery intended for the fortresses of Ulm and
Rastadt with the Eagle of the Austrian empire, as an emblem
of the Germanic Confederation. In order to distinguish
these from the arms from those of the other states, which
have also the double-headed Eagle, the German Eagle has
neither the crown, the sceptre, nor the sword, attributes
which were added only in the latter days of the German em-
pire. This measure is enasidered to be a first step towards a
common flag for all the states of the Zollverein.
A letter from Breslau Mates that the change of
costume imposed upon the Jews of Russia and Poland by the
emperor of Russia has caused great loss to the silk manufac-
turers of Silesia, who provided the silk garments for the
Isrealites. A single manufacturer of Silesia provided silk
for the dresses of the Jews to the amount of 900,000 dollars.
RUSSIA.—We learn iron St. Petersburg that the
Emperor of Russia has adopted the proposition made by the
Asiatic committee, for the free export of linen cloths through
the customs on the frontier of Asia.
PERSIA.—THECHOLER.A.—TREBIZONDE, NOV. 20.
—We have received letters from Teheran of the 28th of Octo-
ber, from Tahreez of the 4th of November. Nothing of im-
portance had taken place in Persia, except the continued
prevalence of the cho.era, which had extended to the other
provinces. whore it had not appeared last spring or summer.
Mohamed Schah's health had much improved ; during the
whole time of the prevalence of the cholera he had resided in
the mountains. This monarch, en weak in mind and
body, is less afflicted with the gout than he was. lie is oc-
casionally to be Been riding dressed in tatters, in the environs
of Teheran, attended by a numerous guard of cavalry. The
heir to the throne, whom the cholera has just carried off,
was, like his father, of a frail constitution and weak intel-
lects. Persia has to felicitate herself at the death of this
young prince, who would have been still less capable
of governing than his father. He had become the
humbled servant of Russia—the mere mention of the
name of the " (tar-blanc" made him tremble. When in 1837
'he Emperor Nicholas visited his provinces on the other side
of the Cantasus, the Schah sent his eldest son to Erivan to
compliment him. The diminutive size of the Persian Prince
was a remarkable contrast to the colossal figure of the Rite
sian lionseror. Eye-witnesses of this ins rvicw hale told me
that it was with difficulty that the Emperor could refrain
From laughing when he saw before him a wink child dreeed
in a grotesque manner with an immense pointed cap, in the
shape of a sugar-loaf, on his head, and bowing with timidity

when he approached the Bowater. The Cur, however,
contained himself, took the young pripeli o hip, ca-
ressed him, and put a ring or great Tattle on his tiger. It
is said that the heir to the throne never rgot the
impression produced on him by this iIItOZVIOW. e cholera
Wall stiU at Tabrees at the departure of the last Tartar
courier, but it had not committed such great ravages
there as at Teheran and Ispshan last summer. Tabrees
stands on a height, and it is expected that the severe cold,
which set in in October, will soon put a stop to the
disease. The European consuls bad left the town
and retired so Herbi, at the foot of Mount Sahant.
Behmen Mirza, governor of Tabreez, and brother
of the Schuh, had retired to Halat Buschan. It appears
that the cholera had ceased to commit its ravages at Ispa-
ban, but that it still raged at Schnee and Kiernan. This
plague has not advanced in the direction of the Caucasus;
Tiflis and Erivan are still free from it, and the rigours of the
season will prevent its passing the Caucasus. But Europe is
threatened with this terrible plague in another direction.
After having carried off numbers of the inhabitants of Bus-
sora and Bagdad, it has got to Diarbekir. There is a constant
commercial Intercourse between this town and Aleppo, and
it is much to be feared that it may spread into Syria.
ANIERICA.—A SLAVE CASE.—A curious slave
cane took place lately in New York. Information was re-
ceived at the office of the National Anti-Slavery Standard,
on the 19th of October that a brig, culled the Mobile, from
Savannah. and commanded by a Capt. Buckley, had on
board a coloured man, who was supposed to be a slave ; that
he was not allowed to leave the vessel, that the mate had
been seen to beat him, and that his cries had attracted the
attention of several persons in the neighbourhood, to some
of whom the man had declared himself to be a slave. On
1 the r^ception of this intelligence, Elias Smith, who is an
officer connected with the Anu-Slavery eflice, immediately
procured a writ et habeas corpus, and with an officer pro-
ceeded to the Mobile.
After a good deal of altercation the poor fellow was brought
from the ship and taken on shore He bore upon his face
and person evident marks of the ill treatment to which he
had been subjected, and of the stout resistance he
had made before the officers of the Mobile had succeeded
in confining him in the irons which were found upon him.
According to the statement of Captain Buckley, this per-
son, George Kirk, concealed himself on board the brig
Mobile, at Savannah, and was not discovered for several days
atfer she sailed front that port for New York. She was then
too far upon her voyage to return. lie acknowledged him-
self to be the slave of Mr. Chapman, of Bryan, Galveston,
who had hired him to a Mr. Warren, a stable-keeper in
Savannah, in whose service he was when he concealed him-
' self on board the Mobile, in the hope of reaching New
York, and gaining his freedom. It was the purpose of Cap-
ella Buckley to confine and conceal him till the brig returned,
or ism other opportunity offered by which he could return
him to Savannah. This outrageous and inhuman purpose
would, no doubt, have been successful, but for the vigilance
of Mr. Lewis and the promptness end energy of Mr. Smith.
The ease came before the court of oyer and terminer, and
the fact having become publicly known, the court-room and
the passages leading to it, were crowded with people of all
complexions and classes, and of both sexes. The City-ball
was surrounded by hundreds of people, chiefly coloured,
who awaited in deep anxiety through the whole day,
the decision of the court. On the following day
a decision was given by the presiding judge, Judge Edmonds,
and George was discharged from the custody of the captain of
the Mobile. George was brought into court to hear the de-
cision, and hardly left the court-room when officers arrived
with a new process, to take him before the mayor, under an
infamous law of New-York, by which a right is given to the
captain to seize and return any fugitive who may be found on
board his vessel, on an order of the mayor or recorder.
George was out of the building but a moment before the
officers were in pursuit of him, and was taken, amid the
shouts of an excited multitude, to a place of concealment. He
was subsequently found out, and brought again to prison ;
mid this was done merely for the sake of a reward of fifty
dollars, offered by the captain of the Mobile, instigated by
which, and authorized by the chief of police, the whole
po: iee force of the city became slave-hunters. Under a new
writ of habeas corpus, the case again came before Judge
Edmonds this morning, but what the result may be it is im-
passible to tell.

ARRIVAL OF TIIE ANTELOPE, SCREW STEAMER.
—LivEttroot, DEC. 21.—The splendid vessel, the Antelope,
screw steamer, Captain O'Brien, arrived in the Mersey this
afternoon alter a passage of 31 days from Pernambuco. She
left Rio on the 2nd, Bahia on the 13th, and Pernambuco on
the 19th of Nov. She brings dates from Rio of the 4th Nov.,
the papers having been forwarded after her to Pernambuco ;
but as the packet from the River Plato bed not arrived she
brings no news of the remotest interest. The exchanges
continued stationary, viz., 28 to 281. Freights unaltered.
The Swordfish, which left Liverpool on the 30th of October,
arrived at Pernambuco in 27 days, and answers to letters sent
out by her have been received by the Antelope.

COLONIAL.
MAURITIUS.

—•-- • —•
The Mauritius papers of the 29th of September
advise the receipt of a despatch from the Secretary of State,
suggesting new arrangements for the supply of coolie labour
to the isllnd. In obedience to instructions, Sir W. Gomm
had laid a minute before the legislative council, calling upon
them to take into consideration the propriety of imposing a
d rect tax on the employers of coolie labour, and the esta-
blishment of an indefinite period of service instead of the
rr..sent meet^ of annual engagements The Cerneen pub-
lishes the following observations on the subject ;
We do not think that the Government will be justified, in the •tate
of embarrassment in which the country is, in retaining the duties
already existing for the purpose of meeting the expenses of immigra-
tion, and levying the direct tax proposed, unless it applies the surplus
receipts over the attendant expenses to a more considerable intnaluc-
don of la's:purer& Applied to any other purpose, it would only be a
fiscal exaction as arbitrary as inopportune. For the rest, we will never
omit to repeat that, if the tipsters of engagement is changed, even if
the number of Immigrants is increased, we shall have neither order
nor regularity in labour, as long as the government is unable to
cause its laws and regulations to be executed by means of an effectual
and sufficient police.
NEW SOUTH WALES. _ _

There are papers and letters from Sydney to the
19th of August. The meeting of council had been postponed
to the Bth of September. An impression appeared to prevail
that an attempt would be made to defer the settlement of
the Crown Lands question till next year. The feeling that
justice to Port Philip required its separation from New South
Wales appeared to be gaining around at Sydney.
Accounts had been reeeivtd at Sydnt y of an outbreak of
the prisoners at Norfolk Island having taken place, and that
before it was suppressed chief-constable Smith and three
other constables were killed. About 1,100 of the prisoners
had in consequence been placed on the chain, and secured in
the various buildings. Another revolt was threatened when
the account left.
Valedictory addresses to Sir G. Gipps, from teetotal so-
cieties, the Mechanics' School of Arts, from certain of the
citizens of Sydney, and settlers in one or two country dis-
tricts, have been moved, adopted, and presented on the occa-
sion. A subscription fur a testimonial to his excellency
(which at the time we write amounts to 1,01014 has been
got up by the Very Rev. the Vicar-General. Many highly
respectable persons joined the clergy in their demonstration.
On the otter hand, the opposition It( pt up their fire. A
j ent d'esprit was handed about proposing to erect a column to
commemorate the close of the official careers of Lord Stanley
and Sir George, with the following inscripti-n :--'• This
column is erected by the colonists of New South Wales to
commemorate the retirement, or rather the dismissal, of the
Right Honourable Edward Geoffrey Lord Stanley from
office as Secretary of State for the Colonies; and also the
rccal of Sir George Gipps, Knight, from the government of
this colony individuals by whose nets every interest in New
South Wales has been sacrificed, and whose exercise of arbi-
trary powcrhas done more to alienate the affections of a loyal
people front monarchical institutions than many years of
good government can redeem."