The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-21 00:00:00

AUSTRALLAN COLONIES.-WESI
AUSTRALIA. _

By the leclla and Chita overland mail ee : .-
ceived ce..ounts from Swat Ricer to the c...
November last. The colony had been thr,,e..
state of excitement by tEe publication in tI. -
Gazette of an announcemet t thet, uncer ice':.
from her Majesty's government, the colony t
converted into a penal settlement from June,'
will be remembered that early in ltillt
transi;ortation system was so leudly disclaim% .
Australian colonies generally, a very
signed petition was addressed to the hon.. .
inept by the Swan folk, praying that Wes:e7-.
tuella might be converted into a penal
thinking thereby to supply the demand for :.
cheap rate, and to have the benefit of
mentary grant of money as a salvo for
taminating influencta of the convict system.
latter particular the Swan River settlers 1.2. c
disappoin.ed. Earl Grey has signified his
to poLute the shores of Western Australia
victs, but withholds the protective force at .1 .
queut expenditure conceded to New South 11...
Van Diemen's Land. The disappointment, a:
sequent excitement, amonget all classes of
at the Swan is stated by a correspondent t?
ecribable. This feeling is thus stated by O.
Independent : "The fiat has gone forth that
Australia is now a penal settlement, and the:
it remembered, without a correspondent in.:.
public expenditure on the part of t:
government, to render this bitter
latable to our cceonists. We never
the willingness of the home government •.
us convicts, but we frequently warned the ...
of the odiens measure thatotherwise than an ..
of crime, together with the labour, no 11,!
would accrue from it. • • • s
for the result of the convict agitation some •
since. By it the inhabitants of Western .t.
have suicidially subjected themselves and ti.,.
dren to the contamination and infamy its.:
from a penal settlement."
The Inquirer (Nov. 7), which advocated r't,
duction of convicts for the expected salvo, r,
" And now what do we reap by this boon—t•:.
concession—this immediate and plenary rep?
humble petitions? We are ranked as a peu,•,•
for the purpose of receiving adult felons, el;
undergoing punishment for crimes coma'
the mother country, are yet to be supports.:
expense of the colonists. • • • Ma need •
state that a grievous expense aill be esta.r,
the colony, consequent upon the erection of
formation of an efficient police, &c., to meet
greater amount of taxation will be enforced.
A subscription has been raised for the e:'
erecting a lighthouse at Fremantle, the go
having offered to quarry the stone. A sur
bad also been set on foot for the purpose of
ing a bridge across the Swan in acute ,•
locality within the district.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
Adelaide journals to the middle of 0.•
chiefly occupied in detailing strictly kcal
portant matters. The South Ausfreili.:.
notices that another "monster mine "
covered in the neighbourhood of the IN
mines; the mine is called Wheal Maria.
quence of some presumed similarity to the
vonshire mine of that name. The ore is r,
be in large masses. The ship Sultana, frc
to Adelaide, was lost on September 2:4:11,
ing on the Tonbridge Shoal. Crew and 14
I cargo saved.

PORT PHILLIP.
The journals notice that a report had
general currency, at Melbourne, that Sir
Tennant was to be the first gewernor of the
of Victoria, and that Mr. La Trobe would e.
Emerson in the poet of secretary of Ce
more suitable appointment should fall won'

FEMALE EMIGRATION.—Tho sub-realm'
pointed to consider the most advisable mode .Sr,
some of the most important objects of !dr.
great scheme, have made their report, utit:-
into the subjoined heads :—let. Toe propa
emigrants. 2nd. The most effectual mode of pr's"
emigrants during their transit to the celocies.
and protection to be insured to them on loodc,
cost of their outfit and passage. One of the, 1114'
to selection is good character. The most strict ‘,
to be instituted on this point ; and -in earl,'
character and habits of the candidates for es., '
preliminary " home " is proposed to be estabb±
their conduct can be watched prier yr r-:.
" Misted emigration," is to term a feature
tions, and various detail measures are recorstsf",
luring the efficacy of the arrangswenu.
by,
been adopted, and a committee of selection '.
appointed "to prepare a list of fifty csnlihttes
tioa."

at Court.

WINDSOR, JAN. 19.

The Qom walked this moraiai i 4 the Slopes aad
Withal:web
The recd family took walking eaeroise I. the grounds
editeest to the Code.
- go' kw Higbee= Priem Albert weat out 'heeds( this
senties, attended hy Seymour,He. R. Doyle, Lard Charles
r,,,eoy. Won't F. R. awl amoral B mtge.
Tu., Earl of Ca/lisle arrived te.day at the Castle, oa a visit
to the (Jena .ad the Priam.
The medlars, party tkb meals, itieludwi the Esei of
("wok, Racily Seymour, Lady Fealty Howard, sad
Camel the se. Charles sad Hn. Grey.
ts. 20 —The Hama sad sßoyal Highness Priam
hlhert, tierlivyal Rightism the Primus Royal, the ladies
"a pentlossof ei the mut, and the de nestle household,
sttroded divine servile this msealogstuit • private chapel.
ye, Hon. and Rev. O. Wellesley

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The Duke of Cambridge minted the Dubose of
Moterster on Satarday. Her Royal litglasse the Dashes,
of CAnbridge visited the Royal Dachas yesterday at Glou-
cester House.
A rub-committee of the coanniwrioa for the exhibi-
tion of 1851, situating of Earl OtaaviSe, Mr. Jones Loyd,
sod Mr. T. F. Gibe" met at the Board of Trade on Satur-
day. The menshen of the caeca:ire committee were sum-
moned to confer with the salswonstainee.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Colvile, Mr. Rib-
bon, Mr. T. Monkey, Mr. C. Mamie, Mr. Night's, and
Mr. A. Macgregor, had an interview with Viscount Palmer-
ston at the Foreign-office on Friday, on the subject of the
blockade on the coast of Africa.

A committee of the Lords of her Nfajetty's Privy
Council for Trade acd Foreign Plantations lad a meting
at the Baud of Trade on Saturday. There were premat the
Right Hon. H. Lsboneliera, Earl Grey, Lord Campbell,
Karl Gnusville, and Sir Edward 8y...
The Marquis of Lansdowae (Lord President of the
Connell) has issued invitations for a fall dress dinner party at
Lansdowne House on the 30th iast. to the NOM and
sesoadvr of as address is the Reuse of Lords and a party of
peen.
Despatches for the Governors of Malts, Ceyloo, and
Bong Kong were sent off on Saturday evening from the
Colonial•offce. Despatches were also sent off for the Lord
Sigh Gommisoioavr of the lonian Islands.

TAR OPENING OE PARLIAMENT.—On Saturday
s commenced at the New Palace at Westminster
Letrodmopsaing of tte ensuing session. All the apparatus
need In eionsplrting the interval decoration of the new Rouge
of Lords was removed. The new fouls of Commons will
not be ready for the memben until after the Raster reams.
The admission of the pabl . to view the House of Lords will
rev-memento on Saturday, the 2nd of February, by tickets,
to be obtained at the Chunberlain's-ofle• on the 30th inst.
The I 4serifrer men the Queen will not open parliament in
r•non•
Illlrll EXCITTIBERED ESTATES ACT.—We have
nem& to believe that there is sow under the consideration
ci the government • hill, to be introduced in the ensuing
for the purpose of giving more efficient action to the
Irish Esembered Baas, Act.
TAE The DCTI Es.—ln order to give as much effect
at poslible to the representations of the deputations who
bare war had an audience with Lord John Russell on the
satire et the enormous disproportion of the tea duties,
vole of the moat eminent tea-merchants and inhere in the
City of London are taking very active measures to have
rtl, On. numerously signed, presented to parliament, with
the view of having them imposts equalised before the close of
the fcr.heoming session.— Wahl, Chronicle.

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