The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-14 00:00:00

BRITUSM COLUMBIA.

(mos ova 01IX C0131111103111111rf.)

VICTORIA. Dec. 26, 1636.
Colonel Moody, family, and staff, together with
°Detain °matt, arrived here by the mail yesterday
bat although they had been expected for weeks,
sad the hotels here are notoriously unfit for
Wire or families, sot the slightest preparation of
soy kind had bees made foe their reception. They
Laded is sleet sad rain, making their waz in •
(suable plight up, from Eisquirsatilt a expectation st
ladiag shelter in Victoria ; bat shelter then was
wee, and, after rassacking the town and rummaging
every little cheerless weather-boarded but to the
sisbarbs, the colossi and family were obliged to /s-
-keet to Eriluistaalt, and take up their templeury
teener, oo board the Satellite, until • great barn-
fike wooden building, next the Pesti-allse, wss
altered oat for their reception. This lodging OW
lima of three apartmt•nta, the main room easneinst-
Sag the parlour, drawing-room, reception-repo,'
kitchen, scullery, and public office of the new
lieutenant-governor; and there Mrs. Moody, like
a true sold'er's wife, with her interesting
shildren, sits is • spirit of serene migration,
is an onowpeted isolator space within a sort of
iseanteritsble, looking apparently as cheerful, happy,
sad abstracted a, if installed in the most rotArreAo
boudoir. Were I Oovernat notglee, methinks I
would have tweed stealthy orders beforehand to hare
She great waste house scrubbed oat with soap and
water, to put rash matting, on the doors, plain
blinds upon the windows, a few cheap chairs and
tables in the sitting-room, a few rough stretchers
with coarse bed-clothing in the dormitories. I
would, furthermore, have had • ►lab-shed slyly
na
up in the rear to do duty as a kitchen,
nod then. laying seeds the stilts, I would have mode
a call of kindly welcome on the new arrivals ; and I
fancy I could have derived infinite gratification is
sarolling the colonel's look of obligation, in seeing
W lady's smile of gratitude, and in hearing the
delighted little nese exclaim, in tones of
" dear mamma. what kind, good man prepared
this mice warn been for us, views you said we
would' have to live is scold tent

A troop of sokl-out young soldiers and bowled-ost
young potlemea of the fast school, arrived by the
same boot, who made it a point, no doubt, to travel
ia company with the Colonel, and give him to no-
detstand, an the course of the voyage, that if say
ifilficultiee should beset him in the new colony,
they would be ready at his beck to enrol them-
selves a. Akita volunteers, and take say Iwo af
service he might employ them on foe his per-
sena! advantage or the public welfare. I lissr
the " haw-able" aspect of the metropolis was
isS-
ait.l,y log to those self-expatriated young
Dwells; were somewhat compensated,
I dare say, far their disappointment to that
suspect by the eeriose admiration of the In-
dial P.:TRIM:jos who gased in • mate of
awe street woodier at their shiny boots, their
bad patterned treason, their than. and pins, sod
flogs and studs, sad their may other a:vitiate
ornament; quite sew, gad attractive to the
prunati.• gave of the island aboriginals. The !lilies
of foppen. however, will soon be medicaid by •
little goldfield mid I ism quite proposed
MD ma dose young ova settle down into vestal
(shies& Their program, moreover, is to be wet.
embed, because it deprives the government of any
manage for persisting to & most objectionable practice,
and use which her gives rime to exceeding dreads-
Betion in the public mind—l mean the habit of am-
piryiog foreigners in all offices of trust and
emolument. The apology heretofore was that seas
ethers were to be found ; bat now that British sub-
kilts of character and iedocatioti are mains amongst
as ia numbers, the cities'ss expect sot only that this
mamosti:ational system will be dimmatinerd for the
premot, but that all posit appoiatmante of the kind
shall be cancelled. They cannot be senstioned by
British law, which will cease to be respected,oreven
obeyed, if administered through such channels.

J 4.
Colonel Moody has notified his intention of Fiets•
seeding on a peshinatuiry •isit to the seat of his
future laboars to-sorrow. Hi takes to his train

Chief Junco Bmtiie, whose only official act as yet,
within the broad limits of his jurisdiction, km been
the swearing in of Governor Douglse. But this has
art been the learned judge's fault, it is understood.
Beier and anxious to go into harness and lick the
share into some shape or other, in organising tribe-
wile, selecting subordinates, and rehearsing—as it
!we—the programme of the future before another
avalanche o immigration should overtake the colony
he • still helpless state, he has been constrainedly
resting on his °grain the "lend capital eines his ar-
rival. If I might venture a suggestion to meet
ewe branch of the service, it would be an advice to
Colonel Moody tote the home authorities for • large
Bah from the Lela police force. I saw how
admirably the expedient answered in Victoria (Ana-
tralia‘„ and from the increasing expectations that burst
forth every day with regard to the yield of gold
from the mines next season. I see no probability
whatever that, under existing circumstances, a
'efficient number of respectable, properly qualified
mon could be got together in time, and familiarised
with duties which are much more difficult of at-
tainment than those of • soldier of the line. It
b proposed, I understand, in part consideration of
es export duty of 2s. Id. per or. on gold, to carry
It he., by armed escort, to Langley, and thence by
steamer to Victoria; but as vet there is neither
bane nor mule, bridle, saddle, whip, or spur,
bolster or pistol, man or accoutrement, for the ser-
vile, the necessities of which will be upon os about
mix weeks hence. This is another phase of the
"masterly inactivity," but one on which I am not
inclined to lay much etre*, for miner., when they
get the gold, will manage some mode of getting It
either to market or into safe keeping. In fact,
from the way in which this self-carrying
system works in California, it strikes me the
eatabliAment of an escort might with great pru-
dence and propriety be postponed for the priest,
it, at all events, until other more priming and in-
dispensable arrangements are carried into effect. Is
Victoria (Australia) the several banks have gold-1
buying offices in the various diggings, where the
miser obtains an outside price for hie duet, from the
keenness of the competition and in the absence of
banks in those regions. I have no doubt but that
merchants, for the purpose of making their remit-
tances, will originate similar establishments. Buying
it at a redacted price, that will merely indemnify
them foe the cost of carriage to the present capital,
and leaving this cost at 6d. per oz., there is no reason
why the other 2s. should not be exacted, until the
contemplated e•cort "fully equipped; and perhaps,
after al!, this mode of procedure might be most bow-
Gm. to, the revenue.

Us. L
Ity advice, received tut evening from the Upper
prayer the American amalgamation system of 00-
vernor 'Mug's, is beginning to bear its legitimate
fruit', for Britiah rule is being overborne by Lyme
km and vigilance-committee tactic. under the pre-
midency of a notorious escaped Californian gambler.
All this morning groups of citizens might be seen in
variouv quarters of the town inquiring if the
Governor was yet awake," and a strong feeling
prevails in favour of getting up a popular muster of
volunteers to go up river, itoon.cate the claims of the
ilid.day murderers, and drive them over the border.

• •
JAN. 9 (ta tea*.
The Beaver, from Feeler River last bight, brings
down the intelllgeoce that Colonel Moody went to
the Upper Fraser with all the Royal Engineers he
wield muster (25). to disperse the American basditti.
The force is manifestly insufficient to deal with 300
armed and desperate moo, and the citizens are in-
tensely diesreeted that Governor Douglas has not
mat him • reinforcement of marines from the uses-
emu in Eequinmalt, or asked for a volunteer
Leos, w bleb b. could easily get. «'e all here eassemly
hope the attention of Parliament will be called to
the existing state of things early, so that he& ia-
etrootions and police, or military succour may be
mat out to preserve lb* peace, else when the dig-
est crowd returns, is • dew months, British sub-
Jests will hereto coeds* themselves to the island.

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