The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-21 00:00:00

WALES.

Sydney avian have reached us by the India over-
land mail to middle of October last. Mr. Low's mo-
tion for the abolition of the Sydney corporation was
negatived by a large majority, there being 8 &pissed
16 nose. A Captain Heoenden, a trader between
Sydney and Portland Ray, had levsnted in one of his
vessels, having swir.dled the Sydney folk out of
18,0001. In the legielative council the question of re-
emigration to California had been brought forward by
Mr. Dangar, woo suggested that on all future occa-
sions emigrants provided with a passage at the pub-
lic expense should refund the cost of their
peerage to the public treatury upon their
quitting the colony without having remained a suffi-
cient time to confer a proportionate benefit for the
expenditure incurred by the colonists ; the time re-
stricted being five years, and that no mechanics ought
in future to be assisted with colonial funds to enable
them to emigrate. Oa a division the motion was lost
by 13 to 5. The Railway Bill had passed the legis-
lative council, end that body was busily occupied
about the establishment of a university of a purely
secular character, to be endowed with an annual
grant of 5,0001., and a further grant of 30,0001. for
building purposes. The scale on which the institu-
tion is to be erected and conducted is thus stated by
the select committee in their report:
The professors whom it is considered desirable the senate
should be empowered to engage at once are—
lit. A professor of classic. and msthensatics, who shall be
considered the principal of the university, and have a salary
of 8001. a year.
2nd. A professor of chemistry, at 4001. a year.
3rd. A professor of natural history, including the animal,
vegetable, sad mineral kingdoms, at 4001. a year.
4th. A professor of experimental philosophy and civil ea-
gineeriag, at 4001. a year.
sth. A professor of anatomy, physiology, and medicine, at
3001. a year.
It is the opinion of your coma ittee that these professors
will be sufficient to begin with; but, as education progresses
and a mor • minute subdivision of knowledge become. expe-
dient, a different distribution of the departments of literature
and science assigned to each professor will be required u well
as the appointment of other professors, to open out new
fields. Among these latter probably a professor of modern
history and political economy, and a protium of modern
languages, will soon be found iadispensable.
In addition to toe salaries or stipends which it is thus
proposed to snips to the several professors, out of which it
is intended that they shall provide all necessary apparatus
for the elucidation of their leaturee, your committee consider
it just to allow to each of them 1001. to defray the coat of
their passage to the colony, and 1001. a year also for house
rent. until apartments can berovided for them in the uni-
versity. It is farther proposed to give them the whole of
their clue feee, with an understanding, however, that a sub-
division of the subjects allotted to each may be made from
time to time, as the senate may deem expedient. This
arrangement, it is obvious, will gin the professors a direct
interest in making their lectures as instructive and agreeable
as possible ; and it is hoped that by means of this twofold
stimulue, men of fleet rat, attainments in literature, science,
and arts, will be found to compete eagerly for those offices.
The colonists complain bitterly of the conduct of
the home government in delaying the arrangements
for opening a steam communication with Europe by
way of Singapore. The Legislative Council, after
narrating the various unsuccessful steps of the
executive to consummate the grt at object, passed the
following resolutions :
That notwithstanding the foregoing facts, and the expecta-
tions raised by the Secretary of State in the despatch of the
date above referred to. this council sea no preapect of re-
ceiving the benefit of steam communication with the mother

country within a rusonable time.
That this council, therefore. in common with the whole
community of New South Wales, entertains a feeling of die.
appointment and mortification that a measure of such vital
importance to the colony should have been so long delayed,
and that so little apparent earn• stases should nave been
evinced by the home authorities for its accomplishment.
That a petition be forwarded to her Most Gracious Ma-
jesty, the Queen, embodying the foregoing resolutions, and
prying that her Majesty will graciously direct that steps be
taken to accomplish this great object ; and that an address be
presented to his excellency the governor, requesting that he
will forward the same to the Secretary of State for the
Colonies for presentation to her Majesty.