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SPORTLNO INTELLIGENCE.

A SPECLLL EDITION of the " EXPRESS,"
issotainisi the results of the day's Races, is pub-
lished every evening daring the Sporting Season, at
.sin o'clock.

Ws recently directed attention to the accounts
which had arrived in this country of the pro-

grew aad prospects of the new colony of British
Colombia, as it is is &tore to be called. Whether,
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amour estemporary, the Times, thinks, the birth of
this the Lat•born child of England is to be regarded
rather with sorrow thaa with joy, ss au unwelcome
additieo to as already over-numerous family ; or
whether we hail it as another arrow in the quiver of
Britain's strength and glory—one thing is most cer-
tain, that the child lives and thrives with all the
vigour of an infant Hractn.r.a. We are not about
to disputa. after the close of the session, the wisdom
of that Parliamentary resolution which has con-
signed its early training to the sole care and disci-
pline of the Colonial-office, nor will we Lame
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that the Colonial Minister is insensible to the
obligation which he his undertaken, to the magni-
tude of the interests involved, or to the lessons of
experience which former Colonial legislation has
taught se. Certainly, the necessity of some inter-
ference with an acknowledged though troublesome
fact, was not been or recognised by the Colonial-
(dice one hoar too early; and with the annimption
of that unlimited power which Parliament has con-
ferred, it has accepted that undivided responsibility
which the country will require from it. Educa-
tional philosophers tell us, not without reason,
that the first three or four years of a child's life are

the most important of all, in respect to the
system of training to be applied to the de-
velopment of its moral and intellectual powers;

and if there be any truth in that fanciful snaky
sometimes instituted between the life of the
individual and the progress of a people, whhit
has formed the foundation of many a Colonial-oda

regulation and the staple of mueh of its thetas.*
then has the recant Act of Parliament which pima
this colony tinder the sole sway of the Colonial-olloa

during the first four and most important years of ib
existence, conferred on that Department the fearful
responsibility of so directing its moral nature that it
shall hereafter constitute • source of power mad
strength, and not of weakness and vexation, to its
parent Empire. It is no light matter that we have to
deal with. If one tithe of the reports which have
already reached us be true, not only the existence
bat the material progress of the Colony is placed
beyond the need of assistance from home, nor can
seer scything from official neglect.
The country is teeming with gold, which for
years will afford a staple export from its harbours.
Thousands of hardy miners have planted their foot
on the soil and their pickaxe in the rock : to feed
and clothe them, commerce is already at work, and
the land is said to be fertile. Before the year clone,
every material element of • civilised and powerful
community will exist in • spot hitherto assigned es.
• hunting-field to a trading Company. But will
there be there also that social element of a well_
ordered, stable government, whose authority will
be not only acknowledged and acquiesced in, bat
loved and respected' Will the community be so
regulated that they can live at peace with the
ancient iehabitante of the forest and the prairie ;
or moat those cruel and reckless wars which
diagrams tire Indian frontiers of the United States be
bare carried on, to the extermination of one race and
the demeralimation of the other P Will the Colony,

t, oympathios of whims cilium are partly Amok-

sea—which Nelda be ea oiliest et envy sad eijsalssey
• is ear powerful neighbour, bs elms seam of anxiety
sad fear to onamilves—ta &all its loyalty be seemed
ea the solid beads distend sad asee6on? These ere
questions which 34 thaw= Luton will hare to
ponder well. To then who think that the Elegise et
Oreat Britain is already terse mmegh, and who would
abandon rather than add to ear distant possessions,
the answer is wholly immaterial : but sot so to those
who believe that, until the whole earth is sub-

jugansd le the ems of civilised man, it is the daty
or inglit to be the pride of England to maintain the
idlessee of her name, and to spread the tiles-
top of her institutions to the uttermost ends
of the glebe.
We aro Italy convinced that this colony of British
Columbia is destined to be either one of the brightest
jewels ia the mew% or ems of the heaviest Modem
which the orrrwerafai lust of empire has Im-
posed *pia as. Already it has bee% diseased
whether am Frameless in Qilifornia, or Vittoria in
British Celambia, is to be the great emporium of 0111
Putts i and leaf Were the occident of the poil
Maieriaise sod its immediate consequence's had gII
a resting bearing to the *pinkie, it was petaled
eat that the pomsehm of this coast, with rain
herhenire, in Meth lasivoi the seenseand of the
vast waters of the Wailers Mama. It is idle,
however, to suppose that we cm held it se we hold
Gibraltar, or Ades. or the Falkland Ishends—nay,
even as we hold Australis or New Zealand; or as we
held it when it was peopled with the wild Indian
alone. It boedors ea a mighty and numerate pm-
*, in whose isdividaal and aggregate life ambition
and 'series held an sepal sway with the love of
liberty sad of mantry—who have appropriated to
themelme Mindy more than one territory boring
their ancient limits by the Maple process of °Minim-
tien—with whom anaszation is a tens which dis-
pose of every flaw in a legal title to posseseim. Its
population will be fed from thence; and if the Ja-
mass brief with them stoat arse and Moog
slums to draw from the earth its riches and its
sesereases, they will bring also that impedes.. of
illegitimate and impends restraint, which is set
softened by the habit of loyalty, and which will not
wait until self goverossent r bestowed upon them by
the ordinary Mow mesas of English legislation.