The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-09 00:00:00

AUSTRALIAN COLONIES.-NEW SOUTH

WALES.

From flies of pspers received from this colony to the
end of the year we learn that an election of a mem-
ber to represent Sydney in the Legislative Council
had taken place. Tne poll closed on the 19th of
December, when Dr. Bland wee returned by 601
votes, one of his opponents (Mr. Bogue) receiving
2.56, and the other (Mr. Wilsbere) 210. Little
interest was taken in the election : out of 4,611
electors, only 1,076 recorded their votes.
The only allusion to the proposed new constitution
for the colony that we find to these papers is in the
following paragraph from the Sydnry Morning
Herald of the 20th Dec :

A preliminary meeting, to consider the propriety of call-
ing a public meeting to ascertain the views of the colonists
on the bill now before parliament, for the alteration of the
constitution of the colony, was held at Lyons' rooms yester-
day a/tempo. A eeasiderable number of persons having
assembled, it was proposed that Mr. G. K. Nichols should
take the chair. That gentleman having declined, Mr.
Smart and Dr. Douglas wore in vain app-alid to. Mr.
Charles Kemp was be.ought, but being noubtful as to the
propriety of at all calling a meeting, also ascus4 himself.
At lasi, after some ex:uses, Mr. hisses Marin was induced
to fill the apoarently unpalcable office of chairman ; aed,
having read the advertis, ment cellists the meeting, after a
long pause, and a good deal of by play, Mr. Samuel Lyons
proposed that the meeting do adjourn sine die. Tbis reso-
-1 utionn was not wee-tidy!, and another long pause ensued,
which was broken by Mr. Edward M Encroe, who moved,
" That as this new constitution WAS • thing that they neither
approved of nor disagr, ed with—aud so, being a thing they
did not understand, they would have nothing to do with it.
Noon.) seconded this, and pause the third ensutd, which was
terminated by the meeting adj iur,iing sine die. A more
sonselese and absurd affair was never witnessed in Sydney.
VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.

Our dates from this colony are only to the 20th of
December. The monster meeting which approved of
the bill for the government of the Australian colonies,
u reported by our Sinowire corrr,pondent last over-
land mail, was not held till the 20th. Our corre-
spondent only mentioce4 in general terms that the
bill was approved of. That his account was correct
is, however, confirmed by the tenor of the fellowing
remarks from Van Diemen'. Tani journals :
According to a requisition signed by a nunsher of the most
respectable inhabitaaft of the northern division of the
Wand, the under-sheriff had convened a meeting to be held
on the 20th instant, fur the purpose f petitioning the
Queen and parliament on the subject of a representative
assembly, and against the continuance of transportation to
this colony; and further, for the purpose of recording an
expiation :of public opinion with re'erenea to certain de-
spatches transmitted to England by Sir William Denison,
and upon his administration of the government of this colony
gets' e twice:ton Examiner, 19th December, in speaking
of the meeting to be held the next day, in ref. nine to the
despatches of Sir William Denison, cle&tensted him as—" a
humbug—the personified curse of the colony ever Isbiuring
in opposition to its interests witi n he imagines his own sti-
pend is in peril."