The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-14 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, NAY 14.

Tits Australian Colonies Government Bill
oat of committee much as it went into it.
the addition to the title (" as amended in C3MIE
and on the consideration of amendments '') 1: w
not be easy to distinguish the original bill from
amended one. The only improvement worth no.:
is the omission of the words which empowered
(projected) general Australian Congress to !-
regulations for the disposal of waste lands, an
provement that Mr. EVELYN DENISON Wou:1
have expunged.
_ _ . _

The.ireat"defect of the bill is its vaguenes-
obscurity, the vows quence of its faulty cons•ru.•
The bill is not, properly speaking, a bill for the
government of the Australian colonies.
a bill for the separation of the r
vine of Victoria from New South \\
and its erection into a separate colony, upon
have been engrafted—as of quite secondary and ,
ordinate importance—provision:, for establishing t
' tive legislatures not only in the new colony be
the entirely distinct and icdependent colonies of
Diemen 's Land, South Australia, and (under cer
conditions) Western Australia. The constitutions of
colonies are enacted in a parenthesis.and by mean:
vague allusion to the constitution of New South W
Three colonies receiving for the first time repro,e-
tyre constitutions, are referred to two acts confer:
a constitution on another colony, and 4.):d •
are to adopt as much of them as is const-, c.
the provisoes of an act for dividing that colony
two. The three colonies are invited to make a •
mony " of the three act,,, and take the resu:: t.,r
constitutions. This is not much better than tt

them to take Magna Charts, the Bill of Huth:-
the iteorm Act, and make constitutions analozo

that of England out of them. It is not giving
stitutions, but materials whereof tocompose them.
entailing upon them doubts, difficulties, and
This faulty construction of the bill it was the
the House of Commons to have amended : b:.
few honourable members who take or prole-s to
an interest in colonial affairs were so eager to
by propounding and arguing abstract theories '7
nial government, that they could not condos:.
the more humble but more useful task.

Well, the bill, with all its limitJl,lmq p 1.4
several amendments having been negativ.
thus much, at least, may be mid t
confers upon three colonies immedie..

upon a fourth in perspective, representeiv.
tares. The provisions of the bill are
obscure—the admixture of government ::or.:
the legislatures will be a source of fobbing scd
tion—the reserved civil lists (curtailed though::.
will disgust the colonists; but still the 0
have got legislative councils in which their re r

tativie are the majority. The colonies have
means of securing to themselves self-governn:
all local matters. Downing-street may :Imago:
time, but henceforth, if the Australian ea:on

true to themselves, even Downing-street uv:st
them in accordance with the local popular w
of this the colonists are obviously aware, for al

a man they have declared respecting the M.0,1'-
is much better than we hoped for; give t: us
means, and without loss of time."

I3ut this wish of the colonies Mr. Gt.ll,sr,'%.
in no humour to gratify. His mode of riht
the bill was to refer it to the colonies for eonsid, r

Within what conceivable period does Mr. (i
imagine that men strugglingto reclaim the *sex
uses of humanity would find time to study t%..
parliament and a bill, with voluminous amend
counter-projects, and long speeches, and pro,
opinion on them Mr. OLAnstonu evidenCy

h; has to do with Oxford students—cttrions 01,;.%

on the theory of constitutions. Hut the
colonists are rough and ready men of
want a constitution they can make use ot. sh 3
without loss of time. The truth is, tli'
Gt.susroNn wished to constitute the ee:e:••

court of appeal, to which he might apply to
the decision of the House of Commons on hi•
siastical clauses. We suspect that if his
were granted, the decision of the tribunal art'

to would be infinitely leas palatable to 11:m
that or the tribunal whose judgment hr seeke to
reversed.

Mr. HAWES anticipated this by the anneut:
that Governor GREY had waived his object:,
representative government, and that steps ".
forthwith taken to introduce it into New Zes,lAl

Mr. itoynceK moved that the provif.,""
the bill for instituting a general congrevo ••
Australian colonies shall be extended to
North America. Mr. lionni,cx advocated
legislatures for each of the Australian colonic., .!•
they could be of no use. In a federation of co-
double legislatures would be of some use. lu the
grease of the United States, the House of
tires represents the aggregate body or A"V:
citizens in proportion to their numbers; in the• •••
each state has an equal number of reply&