The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-27 00:00:00

(Stamped Id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

ANNIVELLIBY OP THE FOUNDATION OP THE
AUSTRALIAN COLONIES.

Yesterday being the 71st anniversary of the settle-
ment of the Australian Colonies, a dinner took place in the
Albion Tavern, Aktersgateestreet to eels-
= mu at the
t. The chair wonocenpied by Mr. HENRY
Moon, late member of the legislative councils of New South
Wake set at Victors. The vicerakman were—Sir Wm.
Meatier Manning, LL.D., meeeent New South Wales;
Mr. James A. Foul, Temank Mr. B. P.S. Start, Vie-
torte; Mr. B. Stis, South' Australia; Mr. Jll/601 B.
Filegmaid, New...land. The stewards warn—Copt in
Clartm Maim. W. Archer H. G. Ashler:tit, Richard
Butler, D. Benjamin, H. C. E. Childers, John Dunn, I. H.
8. Duda, John Dobie, R.N., P. A. Da Cross, W. F. De
Bells, F. H. Dukes, P. W. Flower, I. J. L. Foster, John
Gilchrist W. 8. Grahame, G. R. 008ths, H. Hughes, J.
F. Jester G. A. Lloyd, A. Langhorne, Mat. H. Marsh,
M.P.,A. A. Mmeired, A. P. (below, T. W. Smut,
Helmet Torus, W. Weigarth, 8. P. White, Frederick
Weld, A. W. Team, M.P.
A the grub present were the Right Hon. Mt B. L.
Bulrrarantytten, het Majesty's fisentary of State for the
Colonies ; 6tr John PAWL'," First Lord of the Admiralty;
tßerl el Carnaireon, Under-Osereeare et rote far the
Colonies; Ler Alfred Gltezeirl, ILP.,
_,Mf. Hovered Hill,
Sir James Order, Captepta Ballot; Mr.
Drumm °Dula' r?rellesitte, rocemisamy-general ; Mr.
Wilcox, M.P.,1114 flamed Maly, Mr. James Atlas, Mr.
Gardneri Mr. James fiedere, ant Mr. Ideary Sewell.
Amongst the colonists ere noticed Si, H. Watson Parker,
the ley. Dr. Lillis, Mr. R. R. Herm** 411. Utter WU-
▪ r. Brooke, Mr. 0. A. Awry, Mr. awls
Lang, Mr. H. Mercer. Mr. D. Lurch. Mr. Philip Jones,
Mr. P. T. Smith, Mr. J. 8. Mort, Mr. C. Newham, Mr. George
Rem, Mr. J. Levi* Mr. P. Piper, and many where Up-
wards of 160 gentleman were present.
After the usual loyal toasts,
The C11•1811/01 proposed The Army and Navy," which
was responded to with great rurality.
Coker Clawtza, after reteterg thanks for the army,
nalargel on the growing rospory of the Australian Wo-
rse, sells speakteg ars pespephisel sod physical pro-
blem erresseed wktreek messed lek essectios rat
oar word he had ea re newest own a trod of
merry which would ocenest inethreler prober ef
Amgen& with that meggliesie maws anallgslago width
W beam. known in all aye at as TOOK inn Ifs dogs al
alma la lbw at 811 M Os &dor. Ho woe cateigead,
ba in*Anstraita maid ho hod torablo of anggattlas
en
imam pageinan, and "sold prow* pirrosnantly
"Irtiaggisdago el tie DO segko. (Cher)
litzarnest WI the Film width he bad the
Imam *MI Mena upon him the duty of returning
Nei non Ind arab service talak `hick be was rarity
mere& reply Hit therepessibility of thee posiion,
sere at the premed isenrat—(hear)—aad r keg
no
Imi War henoar to fill it, keV raid devote every sera
that seism ot t
whir is permed to the og to
ogradand negaticat ry of mime that
the =
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des Fred err el steam had is a
raieitprYslyreeked. (" Her, lbw," and' ottnan)
nig umlaratand that he Mend to oar Alps, led
not to these gallant allows or thou leave wanton vireo
disciplise, vire grkweyorese gam of saving ark
country gas as pail teem ast Ullman at any know ptaini.
(Land chows.) Zs Ina ba men sat pa* goossupdan
in attributing the mak/ft irk MOIL- Mhod bass totagood
to the feet that be on sillily oinestini ylalt the
British colonies, as mach se Is the ket that be had saw re
honour of being at the head if rederedapartmant. gilleses4
He could not forget that it re Ids good foram Ito he ass.
Booed with the Oelasil Degerneent of this country at the
particular cries when dim put and wonderful discoveries
of gold, which hadS7.lk
fie bereamd prosperity not only
to the Australian but Blesad also, were made,
and just when thou menessameccing im wonder-
ful career of wealth sad pespetty the rapidity of which
had never been equalled la the blatory of the world. And,
addressing as he was a large Whet gentlemen oonnected with
that distant part of the world, he owned that, deeply into.
need as be felt in the British navy, and zealous as he was
in the performance of his duty towards that Britbb service,
ha coal d not help fee/leg a ping of regret that he wee no
longer comnected with those colonies. Ha must, however,
express his conviction that their welfare had never been, and
could not be, entreated to better hands than tree of his right
hen. friend (Sir B. B. Lytton). No man could occupy that
distinguished pain= without feeling the deepest interest in
the welfare and prosperity of those noble dependencies; and
he could ensure them that one of the warmest and &Meerut
wishes of his heart was that the prosperity of the Australia
colonies might long continue, and that the people of Ana-
-1 tram might be a greet and fionnshing people, as he wee
sereethey would be, through a long period of time.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed, "The Right Hon. Sir
'award Haire Lytton, and the rest of her Mejeety's minis•
kn."
The torte having being drunk with three times three,
Mr R. B. Lrrrox said—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen,
es the part of myself and my colleagues in her Majesty's
Mieistry, I beg to return thinks fur the honour which you
have jut conferred upon us. My right hon. colleague, Sir
John Pakingtou, hr referred, with much courtesy towards
myself, to that poet which I now hold in her Majesty's service,
and which was once filled by Min with so much popularity
and talent. It is indeed a poet of immense responeibility,
and if tie duties be conecientiouly discharged it is one which
requires incessant labour. Its duties are as varied en the
different parts of that vast dominion which it pervades. Each
of or colonies, from the greatest to the lean, from the little
island of Labosn to the great province of Canada or of Vic-
toria, has a right to aspect from her Majesty's government
the most careful thought for its interests and the most affec-
tionate anxiety for its prepees. But you, gentlemen of
Australia, you may well create • sentiment of sympathy
and reaper in the breast of the oldest statesman.
The chairman has placed in my bends a tout which I have
to propose before I sit down, and thst toast reminds me that it
k now jut 71 years ago since the first Australian colony was
founded. Only 71 years ego! Why, that is juet the life-
time*/ • single man who attains to the verge of old age;
and k that period—a period which may be embraced in the
corm of any ordinary permit in any of our obscure villages
—Australia has been enabled to attain a position to which the
he. mere than 1,000,000 Bridle sutjects, a revenue of more
then 5,000,0001., imports amounting to 27,000,0001., and
exporter amounting to upwards of 22,000,0001. (Charm)
And while her material progrers arid prosperity have bees
so great and so startling, what ha been the advancement of
Australia in all that can dignify and ennoble man P We
turn from the penal settlement, which wee the first spectacle
presented by Australia, to communities presenting the highest
standard of morality, enjoying the utmost degree of liberty,
and proving by the loyalty and order which perverts them
that they appreciate and ere worthy _of the bleseings which
they have attained. (Chews.) I believe there is no part of
the civilised world where there is a higher somas of the im-
portance of those moral illafkolltel without which society
cannot continue to flourish. The aristocracy of Intellect, the '
aristocracy of civilisation, the aristocracy of elevation of
character is not forgotten in Amanda. There is an
acknowledgment there of the value of education faits higher
and more dignified aspects. The University of Sydney Ina
already obtained a royal charter, and the University of Mel-
bourne is just about to receive one—a charter which gives
the power of conferring the mune kind of degrees in rte, in
medicioe, and in law as are conferred by the ancient and
august Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, degrees which
will be equally rateable throughout every part of been
Majesty's dominions. (Cheers.) Tasmania has not—per-
haps in consequence of the absence of gold discoveries—
eared the same degree of program In this respect as
tome of the adjacent colonic. She bas, however, by a
noble act of her local legislature, recently been endowing no
less than eight echolarships of 2001. a year each for the sup-
port of eight Tasmanian graduates at the universities of this
country. While, therefore, you have promoted the weltered the
the working-elegises, you have manifested a growing percep-
tion of the great fact that continuaities rise in the social
mule, not merely by the increase°, population, but sir by the
diffusion of those generous notions and that intellectual ad-
vancement which arise from educational culture. (Cheers.) And
then, again, I think you have taken great pains to taffy
along with you and to cultivate the character of the English
gentleman; and 1 believe that as long as our Australian
colonies last the manire.. and the gentleness of the gentle-
men of England will be found avociated with the soil.
(Cheers) There is one cause especially to which I trace the
identity of cheracter between England and her Anstralisn
colonies. The first settlers in America were refugees from
England before England had acquired chit and
religions lit rty. Hence there wee a long tinkling feeling
of bereditny resentment, and perhaps an hereditary miscon-
ception; for, perhaps, to this day we are amongst all the old
powers of the world that am which is the must Halle to ca-
pricious fluctuations as regards its fiendly xffinitles tower
us.
coßiatinttryymt,..genbitt.rtlerd oaf.gryAustre.oivitieu,titooo4
nwoith.you from
this i.i...
of the reigns of the Stuarts, but on the contrary, you cut:A
with you feelings of affectiou for shee country,and for *benig-
nant Queen, and the tie has been all the stronger bemuse it has
been of the gallant character. (Cheers.) During the Crimean
war Australia showed her sympathy with the mother country
by subscribing 160,0001. for the relief of her suffering
children, and you manifested a similbr feeling during the
prevalence of the Indian mutiny. Thus have you proved
that you are embraced by that electric rod which unites in
Modred sympathy the most dietent extremities of the
British empire (Chews) Gentlemen, I think the
time Is Dot far dieing when these new colonies
of ours will be great states and nations, when
you will have amiss em well as police for your defence, and
lam la place of that single armed steamer which Queen
Victoria pays for, goer will have harbours throat
with a
forest of mar drag from war ships of your own. (Cheer")
It may happen at that period that England herself will be in
danger ; it may happen that the other great powers of the old
world will rise up against the venerable parent of PO many
noble children. If that period should ever arrive, I believe
the colonies will not be unmindful of the tie that
binds them to the mother country. (Loud chews.)
I believe that these veer will come thick and feat emcee