The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-15 00:00:00

COLONIAL AFFAIRS.

The Times BON in the measures of the government of
Victoria violations of law and right so gross and palpable
that it is impossible to affect to misunderstand them.
There is generally much to be said on both sides of •
quarrel, bat the present age seems to go all one way. We
need not trouble ourselves about the merits of these met-
sum. Let public opinion in Victoria settle that as it
would settle it in England. Where one Chamber repre-
sents !rumbas, and another property, nothing I. more likely I
than that they should come into collision. The remedy for
that is a reform of the constitution, and, on • case being
made out, parliament would, we doubt not, be ready h
apply it. Meanwhile the conduct of Sir Charles Darling
supplies as gross a case of public delinquency as has for
many years come under observation.
Before the termination of the New Zealand war, it is, is
the opinion of the Times, desirable that the lessons of our
experience in these islands should be thoroughly impressed
upon the public. That the imperial army was fully
able to bring the war to a suoixedul ter-
mination was shown by the intelligence just re-
ceive ; but this weir prevented by the impediments
of authority, and the colonists could net finish It in
theirown way. Nfeeling of self-reliance ha. since been intro-
duced, and has been attended with marked success. If the
savages gave any further trouble they would be shortly and
sharply dealt with. The troops and volunteers could
give a very good account of them when allowed to fight 111
they pleased. The Maories, who are a mere handful of
savages, have now been disabused of the idea that New
Zeeland is theirs, and, though they cannot reverse a na-
tural law, there is not the slightest reason why they should
not peaceably fulfil whatever destiny may be in store for
them.

78 TOPICS.

The Post ogre's with its contemporaries that the p,rtion
of Mr. Nebo ly'e munificent gift already expended has bees
laid out with judgment and discretion, and sympathies.
with the complaint of the trustee. of being assessed on
their property for the tonal taxes, including poor rates eud
income tax.

The /h.-raid puts entire credence in the reports in one or
two of the American papers of the dangers of a negro
insurrection, from which the Southern States have just
escaped, and enlarges upon the affrays reported at WV-
mington and one or two other districts. Its inference in
that the Degrees are discontented, and that the North has
greater difficulty in dealing with them than the South had
under slavery. Not all the cant of black philanthropy
can prove the ability of white men and black men to
live and consort together on equal terms. Out of his
own sphere, and beyond the ranks of his coloured brethren
no one cares for the negro, who thus lies beyond the pile
of white social civilisation, a poor discontented creature,
Lying by brute force to accomplish a moral impossibility.
The document, purporting to be a proclamation of
General Prim, leaves us in doubt, the Telcyraph observes,
as to whether the proposed revolution is to be political or
dynastic. In either event, whether it is a war upon the
crown, or merely a play for the premiership, it is not easy
for Englishmen to sympathise heartily with the insurgent
awe.

The Tekyrapit ridicules the committee of the Stock
Exchange for discovering at the eleventh hour that the
"house " in (lapel-court has been made a rendezvous for
gamblers. If the rules, it says, now to be enforced against
bubble speculations bad been promulgated only a yen
ago, what a world of mischief might have been prevented !
In that period, hundreds and thousands of persons of
limited income have been ruined by practices which
were at least within the cognisance of the Stook
Exchange, and which that body has not, until within
the last few days, won fit to denounce. Parting the new
rules for regulating trasiroctions in the shares
companies savour too much of the policy of abutting the
stable door after the steed has been stolen ; for the edict
published on Saturday has not, and cannot have, a retro-
spective operation. Yet it is satisfactory to lama that •
check is at length to be put upon malpractice; which have
beggared many a decent household ia the United Kingdom.
Our milk and meat supplies having hitherto been
insufficient for our needs, the Daily News thinks
that suggestions tending to meet the want ace
worth consideration at this time, and particularly
mentions • project of importing preserved cow's milk from
countries where kin, of our own familiar sort abound. It
has been proved possible to preserve all the essential parts
of milk by evaporating the water, and bottling the white
powder which remains. The essential part. of gallons of
milk are this stored away in a single bottle ; and the
aliment has been found, when watered into milk'again,
sweet and as nutrition—as good in every way--at the end
of • year or more, and after having sailed round the world,
ea when taken from the cow.

LORD ROMILLY.—There has been some cavil,
though slight, at the elevation of the Master of the Rolls
to the peerage. What if the elevation had been not so
much bemuse Sir John Romifly was Master of the Rolls, as
becauseethe Master of the Rolls was Sir John Romilly
The man who upon full knowledge was particularly recom-
mended by Mr. John Stuart Mill as a most'fit repreeenta-
tire for Westminster, and who was looked to by as exten-
sive body of the heeds and graduates of the Load=
University as their repel:mutative, had the franchise
been onferred upon them, is not likely to be, in
impartial judgment, an inferior peer. Nog is the
leading promoter of the Encumbered Estates Act, that
act of which Sir Robert Peel emphatically said, it was so
good a mama that he really wondered how it could have
passed ; a me which alone, from itsbeneficent effects,
would have earned a peerage for its foster father; likely,
in impartial judgment, to be an inferior member of the
House of Lads. A lawyer who decides more on legislative
principle than legal precedent is likely to have his judgment
reversed ocesedonally by judges of the latter sort. If Lord
Romilly be snob a lawyer, so much the better foe him and
for the public good. It is of such lawyers that, so far as
the law providee them, the true statesmen come.—
Examiner.

Iftraopoursit Fans HoerrrAL, DEVONSHIRS.
SQRAIII, Crrr.—The earmate number of paint. relieved
during the week wading Jan. 13 was—Medical. 658;aargica/,
448: total. 1.106 ; of which 470 were new MSS.
CRYSTAL PALAcz. HALF-A-CROWN DAY.
13.truanar, Jaw. M.—Admission, on payment, 485 ;
ditto, by mason tickets, 1.113; total, 1,678.