The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1851.

WOOLLZ:4B.—There had been a little inquiry for these
goods. Sp. stripes, blt to 90. Long ells, 6 dub. 60e. to
6 dole. 70e. Camlets, 2i dole. to 23 dub.
EXCHANGE ON ENGLAA H.—BAtik post bill*, 4.. 91d. to
41.9 d.; American eredPs, 4s. 1 I id. to 4s. I Id. On India
Company's bills, 226r5. per 100 :lots., nominal.
insintiye.-31. 3s. for tea, and 3/. 10s. for silk.

COLONIAL.
CEYLON.

The Colombo .314nthly Examiner, in its general
summary, dated 13th October, says :
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The preliminary proceedings of the legislative council,
the gaieties of the season, and the alarming illness of the
Queen's Advocate, have occupied attention this month.
Owing to the ast of these circumstances the sit-
tings of council, wholP attention has been chiefly
devoted to the consideration of ordinances involv-

ing legal changes, have been postponed nntd the 23rd
instant. Ills Excellency the Governor is at this time at
Oalle, for which place he left on the 12th inst. Three
more new ordinances have been brought forward and read
a first time. An ordinance to amend that portion of the
Police Ordinance relating to the collection of the assess-
ment tax, which, owing to the disgraceful neglect of the
department appointed to make the collection some six years
ago, has been made an instrument of injustice and oppres-
sion in several most flagrant instances lately.
M we are closing this short summary, we learn from the
Obaercrr the melancholy intelligence of the death of Mr.
Edward Morgan on :he 13th inst. ; the deceased, who was
employed on t'ol. Braybrooke's estate at Gallantenne, was
shot whilst passing through the Oodawella jungle, about 3
o'clock on the day previous. lie died Irons the effects of
his wounds at Mr. Sabonuitliere's bungalow at Dunally.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
Perth and Freemantle journals have arrived by
the Overland China mail to the end of August.
About a year ago we noticed that emigration to the
sister colony, South Australia, was decimating the
Swan ; a refiux appears now to have taken place ;
and on August 19 the Louisa arrived at Perth from
Adelaide with 47 passengers, being the mechanics
applied for by the convict department. An expedi-
tion left Perth, August 22, in quest of guano. Their
destination is Dampier's Archipelago, calling at
Shark's Bay upon their way up, and bringing from
thence a detachment of the 99th Regiment stationed
there. The vast supplies of guano at Shark's Bay
have been removed; the only vessel loading there
at the end of August was the bright Planet, and her
cargo had to be boated a distance of eleven miles.
Captain Batty reports that he was there a
month engaged in exploring, and that he is
satisfied there is no more guano. The pilot-
age fees and harbour dues at St. George's
Sound have been done away with, and the port
of Albany made entirely free in these respects.
Additional proofs of the richness of the Champion
Bay district, with regard to minerals, have been far-
nished in the shape of several excellent specimens of
copper ore. Plumbago in large quantities has also
been discovered on the grant of the Geraldine
Mining Company ; a report was also current that
coal had been discovered in the vicinity. All the
late arrivals of ticket-of-leave men were taken up on
landing, from which it may be gathered that convict
labour is eagerly availed of. An extract published
in the official Gazette, of the receipts of the colony for
the quarter ending June 30, 1831, sets down the
revenue at 3,6031., which, with the money received
on account of the parliamentary grant, makes a total
of 3,2741.; the expenditure for the quarter was
5,3341.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Adelaide journals arc to the end of July. The
elections, which have kept the colony in a state of
ferment for months, have, with a solitary exception,
been concluded, and the electors were employed
in entertaining their representatives, as also the re-
jected candidates, at public dinners. The following
elections have been completed: J. B. Neale', North
Adelaide; E. S. Dutton, East Adelaide; A. L.
Elden, West Adelaide ; Captain Hall, Port Adelaide;
R. D. Hanson, Yawls; G. M. Waterhouse, East
Torrens ; C. S. Hare, West Torrent); Wm. Peacock,
Noarlunga; John Baker, Mount Barker; Robert
Davenport, Hindinarsh ; Geo. Fife Angus, Baronet;
Captain Hart, Victoria; Captain Begot, Light; Wm.
Younghusband, Stanley ; G. S. Kingston, Burrs.
From the above list it will be seen that
Major O'Halloran, and other old members of
the late council have not succeeded in obtaining
seats in the new representative Assembly. Referring
to the result of the elections and the council, the
South Australian Register acknowledges :—" We
have already owned the impression on our minds
that the council, now so nearly formed, is not ade-
quately constituted to represent the wealth, the
wants, and the intelligence of the province. The
council will meet with an early dissolution." The
Tunes, on the other hand, remarks: " No one can say
we have made the anti-state-grant question the
all in all' in the choice of our representatives,
but we are heartily rejoiced at the result ; and now
that that question is settled, we look to the men who
have been returned on that interest to achieve for us
the further triumphs of vote by ballot, universal suf-
frage, no property qualification of members, and
whatever else may be necessary to the placing of our
political freedom on a sure and lasting basis." Mr.
Mann has resigned the temporary appointment of
advocate-general, and Mr. Hanson has been installed
into the office. The governor's intention is, it is said,
to call the new council together on or about the 19th
of August.
NEW ZEALAND.

By way of Singapore, Port Lyttelton (Canterbury
settlement), journals have been received to the middle
of July. Owing to the occurrence of several gales,
accompanied by great lose of life and property, a
public meeting was held on July 4th, to consider the
best means of preventing these disasters, which
spread great. alarm, especially in the ruling
of the various articles of consumption forwrll
the place was dependent on the neighbouring colo-1
niea. Casualty after casualty had made the week a
sad and memorable one. The meeting decided
in suggesting that mooring. be laid down, and other
practical suggestions for the safety of the ship-
ping in the port. The Lyttleton Times, July
6th, says. that the Society of Land purchas-
ers are in an unfortunate position. An irrecon-
cilable division, of a somewhat personal cha-
racter, occasioned the resignation of nearly
the whole of their council. One of the members, it
appears, commenced an action against some of his
colleagues for a libel, that libel being the minutes of
the council, at the same time refusing to resign his
seat. The rest, with one exception, declined to act
with him any longer. The land purchasers of the
settlement have subscribed large sums of money for
public services; additional funds continue to fall into
the hands of the association on the same account.
The organisation of the Society of Land-purchasers
is objected to in its existing form; "but," says the
Times, "it is far better than nothing; it is better, we
believe, than any machinery which so young a colony
has ever had for expressing public opinion, and upon
its own conduct will depend whether it sink into a
farce or develope into a legislature." A public read-
ing-room has been opened, containing about 600
volumes, temporarily borrowed from the College at
Christchurch.
From Wellington papers to the 12th July, we
gather a few items. The legislative council of New
Zealand had met : its proonengs were opened by a
veech from the Governor-in-Chief. One of the chief
duties of the council was to pass a bill establishing a
general legislative council, and for providing provin-
cial councils. The Land Claimants' Bill was fully
&missed on the 11th of June, Sir George Grey
suggesting that six months should be allowed to
persons living. in the colony, and fifteen months
to persons rending out of it. On a motion for a re-
turn of the quantity of land sold by the New Zealand
Company, Sir George Grey said that the government
was not in possession of the records of the company's
transactions in Wellington and Wanganui ; those at
Nelson and New Plymouth had been given up, at
Otago, in consequence of a dispute between the asso-
ciation and the company ; he thought the records
would not be given up. On the 7th July, the legis-
lative council remitted the proposed duty of 11. upon
every ton of imported Sour for a year. The Provin-
cial Counal Bill had aimed a warm delfts.

• Three casualties we thus cloven:led :—John and Char-
lotte, Panllae, and Belogien schooners, whore ; the Mar-
garet wader water; the Milan and John, cotter:, dashed to
Owns; the brig Torrington redseed to • ware wreck.

EASTERN Commas AND SOITTIIT.ND JUNCTION
RAlLRLY.—lresterday a loag arranient was heard before
Sir W. Horse, by Mr. Selwyn sad Mr. Prior, on behalf of
the Alia massager, and by Mr. H. Hank, for shareholden,
on the validity to bind the shareholders of the company''
deed, which appeared to be without 'tonsils with usattesced
lignsturegt "'VW b 7 the trustees, sad iatormal is other
particulars.