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LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 7.

Tna correspondence respecting the Australian
Colonies Government Bill, which was presented to
parliament on the lit instant, throws marvellously
little light upon the sentiments with which the
colonists regard the measure. Relative to Western
and Smith Australia, and Victoria, we have Earl
ORBVB despatches to the Governors, but no replies.
Relative to Van Diemen's Lind, we hare the Geyer-

nor'. opinion of the kind of irwitUtions best adapted
to the colony, but nothing from the eoloni.M. From
New South Wales our information is a little, and only

a little, more explicit.
In the first place, it must be kept in mind that the
opinions elicited from the inhabitants of New South
Wales, relate not to the measure now before par-
liament, but to a constitution for Au,tralia after the
fashion of the New Zealand one, which had a few

features in common with the prese. nt bill, bat was of
a much more questionable character. Inter alia, it
was proposed that the elective msmbers of the Legis-
lative Council should be appointed by indirect elec-
tion—that they should be nominated in each district
by the district councils. This insidious proposal which
was very properly met with an unanimous burst of
indignant denunciation, has been abandoned by go-
, vertmu nt.

One feature common to the two measures is
the general council or cangrcas for all the Australian
colonies. It is obvious that the inhabitants of New
South Wales see that the time has not come for such

an institution. At present, if the colonies are equally
repute nted in a general council, the large colony of
New South Wales will have its views neutralized
by the small communises adjoining it; if a pre•
poi.derance in proportion to its wealth and popu-
lation is given to New South Wake, the small
colonies will be subjected to it. The time will come
' when such a general congress may b 3 useful, though
we beiieve that its introduction will be the signal tor
separation from England. Indeed, the only functions
such a legislative body could discharge, without
encroaching on the rightful self-government cf the
individu a colonies, would be those which, 83 long as li
they remain parts of the empire, must be discharged
by the imperial legislature. When the time comes
for such en institution, it will spring into existence
as a matter of course; to create it prematurely can
only ds mischief. Oovernment have wisely yielded
to the repugnance expressed towards indirect elec-
tions by the culoniss ; they would show equal wisdom
in striking their premature general council out of their
bill.
On another rout the measure row before par-
liamt ut indicates a per;ial concession to the wishes
of the colonists. The plan of government originally
contemplat d dene-1 the colonial legislatures any
control over the civil lists. The present bill goes to
enact civil lists in great part of a merely ; 11.credt cha-
racter, and only insists thot the salaries of the go-
vernors and the fends for the maintenance of the

clergy shall be exempted from the control of the
local legislatures. We are disposed to consider even
a temporary civil list, prescribed by the imperial
legislature, as unwise. It would bo better to
leave the colonial councils to shape their exe-
cutive to their social and civil wants and deter-
mine what they can afford towards their support
The complicated organisation of an ex. cutive in favour
at the Colonial-office w;11 be little better th _n an iLcum-
bronco in a colony. The remuneration of governors
may safely bo left to the c =mon sense and liberality
of the colcrists; and es to the fund for the main-
tenarco of the clergy, knowing as we do the bend-
ments of the colonists on this head, we feel assured I
that the attempt to fix the sum to be set apart for that I
purpose here, will prove a perfect apple of discord.
No man knows this better than Earl Gins, and his
only apology is, that without such a protho he could
have no chance of carrying his bill through the
Lords. The bishops weuld not let him. If this
be true the bishops are even a more short-sighted
generation than we have always taken them to be.
The Australian colonists have always evinced a
strong &tire to make liberal provision for religious
instruction. Leave the matter to themselves, and
their clergy will have no reason to complain. But if
the imperial parliament insist upon fixing the susten-
tation fund of the clergy now, and if the colonists
thick the refit of the government bill eufliciently
valuable to buy it by conceding this point, they wiil re-
taliate for the encroachment by insisting that the
sum now named shall be permanent. It may be
largo ite to the wants of the population now, but will
be utterly inadequate before ten years have passed.
The bishops, by grasping at too much, will get less
1 than they might have had by fair means.
There is oars provision of the Australian Colonies
bill which has been vehemently assailed in parlia-
ment, but which obviously finds favour in the eyes
of the inhabitants of New South Wales—the siegle
legislative council. This question has been tho-
'roughly canvassed in the colony, both in the legisla-
tive council and out of doors. In the council a de-
cided majority of the elected members was in favour
of only one assembly. In a house of 21 members 11
voted in support of this resolution :
That this council is disposed to view favourably the pro-
position of separating the dsithcrations of the nominees of
the crown from those of the representatives of the eeopOr.sad
Considers that if such an amendment be made in the present
constitution, it ought to be accompanied by the cession of
the territorial revenue, or the Schedules A, B, and C, to the
sPeropristion of the Representative Assembly.
Ten voted for the following amendment :
That the word " not " be inserted before tlispo.cd, and the
words " but that the cession of the territorial revenue. or of
the Schedules A, B, and C, to the appropriation of this coun-
cil, would be an amendment in the present coustituttun,'•
after the word " people."
The minority of ten consisted of nine elected mem-
bers and one official member; the majority of eleven
consisted of four elected, four official, and three nomi-
nee members.
At the public meeting held in Sydney the expres-
sion in favour of only one legislative council was still
more unequivocal. de Nhin IN said:
The question of whether two houses were better than one
might be disputed. In an independent country, perhaps, it
was so ; but here they had no mitosis's for the constitution
of a second house. They were dependent for its constituents
solely on the will of the government, which would give it a
very ditferest position to that occupied by the House of
L frils at home. Fee better for them to keep the constitution
which they had at pres. it, which had as yet worked well,
and had not been found suit with by the colonists.
Mr. Illctrie, after dencuneing the scheme of indi-
rect elections, said :
This would not be a sufficient restriction en popular in-
flufnee, and so they must have a heislative council of
crown nominees to suststu the government intluenca. But
where were the materials to come from in a colony like this ?
Wu it supposed for a moment that such a body would be
in any may analogous to the Rouse of Lords? Where
would they find learned lords to guide their decisions?
Where would they tied any Id judges to direct their council ?
These elements would be mainly %venting.
Mr. JaMes MACARTHUR, the moot conservative
speaker at the meeting, said :
Ho should be glad to see two houses erected when they
were tit t r it; the principle he thought a piece of justice,
but they were not fit for it yet. They had no materials for
an upper house, and could nut have for a very lung time to
come.

Mr. WENTWORTII, infinitely the most powerful
thinker, impressive orator, and influential political
leader in the colony, though he addressed the meeting,
did not touch up3u this subject. Ile, however, has put
his opinion distinctly and explicitly on record, in the
following resolution, which he submitted to the
legislative council:
That this council is averse at present to the introduction
of the old form of colonial constiatoion, embracing two
houses, the oue composed of n miners of the crown, the
' other of the representatives of the people Because
there does not, and for some con4derahlo period yet to come
cannot mist in these colonies, any close of witticient fortune
and stability to be raised to the sieuation of hereditary lege,-

Won, or even to be created lergii
cause if this opinion be correct, the Upper Roam smlg..
then be compmed of nominees of the crown, appoi,'•
during pleasure, or for limited periods; sod the exp.ri."-"r„
of other colonies shows that a council thus constitan,4 mere machine interposed between the exteutive
representatives of the people, to ward off the respanith
attichcel to the exercise of the veto, and 14Iii to pe;":'.
those wholesome end constitutional colisiocs which
have e., sad still are, wherever they owe. the
sourcedd preservation of constitutional freedom.
the
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public the senmeetingtiments ofat the Sydney ens speakertirel we hereto-A:
c!"
y
and the petitions and memorials from theosest.,
hold similar language. The colunists eoa;
are t 1r..:
opinion that, for the present at least, one
council is enough for all useful purpose,:rt
this being the cue, it is to be hoped that go,tnna.j
will not allow itself to be badgered into ir.Hict.o,.: • ;
councils upon them—an arrangemeut every way
expedient in young settlements.
Though government appears from the 105p,r5..,.
seated to parliament be yet in ignorance of •
taken of the questions we have touched upon ;it
Diemen's Land, we tome learriel from sour...,
which the greatest confidence is due that he,- z,e
exactly the same as those expressed by tl.t:
haunts of New South Wales.

WE venture to say a few mwe words on •,,
ject of the advertisement duty.
What is the advertisement duty ? if
keowledgc on this point, we will Ttn'ns •
the question ourselves. In some cases
upcn trade ; in others a tax upon literature
instances a tax upon charity; not unfreiv-n.jr
upon calamity; whiLit every day it inte:po-.:-
between the working man and his readits',
obtaining an honest livelihood from the
has work to offer to him.
Snpposa there were a law by whits, a
charged eighteen-pence for merely mliic•,;
he could give him occupation ? Suppnit beers -
enactment by which a servant st eicir
place was comp lied to pay ls. (11. to ;;1„,
day nntil she got it? Who wouit
such enormities: who would ;int Li..
against such a mode of dealing with Lot ire.:.
seeking its reward? Andyet such tart{ a-
would be only advertisement duiies in ann•:..:r
In this country it is peculiarly difficult for any
in any clans of life to address persons!ir
another with a view to obtain employees.
habits, and man:-.era, ant customs are urn.ai.j,:
posed Loa free interchange of personal communie,
and especieliy 23 tetween eke s diff.ring in w.
circnnastancer. In ,Ica metropolis a-d other
towns, which are the great of en'crpri—
ni..cl indttary, s .•y is itcrcabit
wa t of local and endue ual 1:•.n
the advertisement is .disoiti, ti:E 0: iv
which the great maul of the population nave
of making themselves known to otl:,rr. N.•
this means of Keith.; or offering emp!'.yrre-,
taxed in the cast cf short cdvcrt:seraents
of filty per cent. upon their cost..

A -member of the House of f• Ann
the other nig'.t that he would suppa•
for the remission of taxation -xi
benefit the poorest class of the eenz:
was philanthrophy, ; thoneh thi -e
paratively little political science
mination. We give het crept
volence, and we call un hi.a to
peal of the advertisement tiley. I
the remissiou of wl.ich would so dir,
poorer class. We hear every day a
concerning our poor ncedleworicirQ,
thousands upon thousands of thou at
meet, and yet we will answer fur i-
one lady in twenty in London who
woman when she desires to erne:l)y et
is that there are no means of coairewi.
the parties. The price of the neta-=-
by the paper and stamp duty,
cessible to the needlewoman tLot it
for a lady to addrei a herself to ti.dt ri,
coleuses of a public journal. (to t7c
price of an advertisement, enhanc'e's
penny duty, places it out of tlie t 1
WOW to advertise f.r
addt ese herself to chls3 who Lie
of affording her emj-.. amt. l'
meet duty, and, for a the
give late name and a• .!..tss to a Iraq:,
equate. art wouid _:.•1 to s.: tar t
motion at a ;Air reum .1 1:,:r hard
The effect of the nis...;:isem(nt duty
this country is particularly tei.n-imis.
and we belit vs nith truth, that a te. '
vertise for G!. or 7!., in the Unittd
as he can advertise in this coue.try ti
This is the street rf the duty, and oi
poly wt ich the taxes upon r.-"
effect of engendtiire. te.cl
the mac cez? of nilvertiting• .'..t is
trade in England. As the ..I,et
render trade advoriserrents
the rule, those wt., hare avail: d :ht
means of publi. `.tar hart c•nie '
than the uimii ;.t
their competitors. the coo:alum:a
advertising trn.dcs:nen ate cl,-, •
a degree of
injustice,
who take
business.
" are verz,
must pay for t'em: 1 .
that the advei r
rather by the kereiteed cost of Lis tp.
believe, is mrst usually the case. by-
Banal amount of ceitt,:u which he brings
blishment.
Can any one tell us a rrasoo why a
published announcements should be taxi.'
may puff his goods verbally to any ex•t':.t
Why should the man pa; the gtverrni
prints, Buy, 1)4," whilst lc who iv
Buy, buy," is pm:nit:et to shcut
penalty being indicted on him . I
advantage is afforded to trade in
rag,ement is given to hait•-a-dui:
duals,—to the comrcsitor, tha
the paper-maker, the news V.1.,1:.:a
of literature, the rewepiper
more. See, then, what al. alpardiry
a distracted mother scads round ib
make known the foes of her eh.lo
paying any tax, bust if she appta.s
of to the ear, and makes her loss kilo,
medium of &newspaper :a:Nit-ilk:titer
the CnANCEI.I.OI: w ant: Ext t!E
privilege of endeavouring t•• -

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Tint very proper dec:s•ln c:' Mr.
FADE in the bankruptcy at the ...:c I
Royal Its Fan Opera has corsigesid !... •
DELArttli.l), if not to tt c
to the annals or chconiel.s of 1:s ..•••••••
cannot "adorn a tree," it ritAy
The fortune accumulated by Ow
life spent in manufacturiog +le r
has been wantonly and untiress.'r
by its inheritor, as a saeritice to e •
of the rich. In eigt;teen
gulacred 'o.cr,
singers and French dace, .red
leaving himself with • 1
' world, he stood inde'••:l
the sum of 33,1100;., %chi, ;b k
e 0,•
them cighteenpenoe in tho pon.
carry out an experiment N.lli it was •••1!.. •
by the intrusion of a plet,nte•seckl.n;, tg
talist, which could only ent,,•cci ;n
thorough man of busine,s,l6:ll.i. led-:
as money.
If Mr. DELAFIELti: object had
lay
but a merryone, he has saccxied. I::• •
out of post ty's favourite beverage. d•
treatment than a sear and a het
arlistis, even though aceonipautc.l
most retitled in a Villa, the rk:i and :3,
which attracted the curiosity and
itself. Mrs. TllnAl.es marriage
gusted Dr. Jimssox hy its disregard •
prietice of her former ht: ; and. ur ;Tit:
ruin of Mr. Del..trlEt.v's noble ti•!tanc
with its humble and honest ertgtn:
it Mr. 'ltt.tchE.ti's Jeartie.s./..
its senseless overthrow.
Mr. I)EtArtet.ll has tea ruined
.:n
seize on the Lyric Mama and Fashion
had not his enterprise been essoeuitisi
would never have rustle PO rash.a vs.,ntut,
was but the pretence under whaali he ll'

;ion for high art is. to
.be attained only by pure
taste; and pure taste shams to employ, as its chief
mtge.. reckless vulgar expenditure. The /loyal Italian
(lists, under Mr. DELATIELP'S direction, is another
prat that gold in whaterer abundance will not
achieve everything. And to make the public respon-
eible ter his failure, is to relieve him from the moral
folly of his proceedings, at the expense of public pa-
tronise... I'6 blame of his ruin is his own ; it is his,
and hie only.
'flit project of the Royal Italian Opera was a noble
one ; w. ',thy of the highest succese. The project was not,
however, DELMIELTI'S :he was hat an interloper;
he gareed its direction because he had a fertilise to
tore ; he lost his fortune therein, not because the pro-
ject r..t.tired such an expenditure, but because he
injutsel t project by his wholesale extravagance
end h.s thorough oaten's. And now, when the
project has no Mr. DELAFIELD to overlay it with his
gebt it -tied?, and really appears to have, much
better theeces of success, than ever it had with all his
means and appliances.
Blame not Italian singers or French &menses, any
mote :hart the English public, for Mr. Dusrlseu's
ruin, They were but the agents be which he
insisted on destroying himself. His offence against
their profession and ag.inet them is almost as
flegra..l,a. it is against tee highest branch of the lyric
drama. as it is against society. And, it is worthy
OICJmn. =nation that in a moment when he fled
from a e wee which he had injured, the Comets, the
011•1-. thaTAIIRCRINIA, and the Nlentos, of the Italian
The sow. interposed their reputations and their hardly-
wrought foetunts between their scampering director
and hi- babbled subscribers, between their interior bre-
thren cad west of employ meet. between the Royal
Italian Opers,whose servants they merely were, and a
breach of its engagements. We oft en hear of the greedi-
ness of l-alian singers ; let us not then forget that
in 113-19 they supplied the honour of au English
director, and kept open br their attractions, but not
to their pit tit, the house, lest their characters should
be imeeached, or their gratitude to the public be
called in qmstion.
No : neither the unsouudates of the project nor the
Meat public support; neither the insatiable de-
mands of fereign artistes nor their jealousies; not
all thi se jell:noses put togeteer, were the causes of
Mr. Di L stunt's rain. " Alone he did it." Ills
own felle, his own uctitnese, his own recklessness—
% there, and not to other pecple's faults, is his bank-
ruptcy owing. He would be rained ; nobody could
IMO h'm. Even the myse emu., and much wanted
Mr. Weß4rut. only aided him in his mad carter.
The moot fashionable of his frieeds tried to check him
in his vulgar race ; but the man was bent on Rasing.
hall-street; and eighteen months carried him thither
at the rest of 33,"G0/. t honteter people. lie relied
oa tLc power of money; and it would not carry igno-
neer ned rashness through.
Ott e.s have failed in the direction of the Italian
°per, before Mr. DELAFIILD. Mr. MONCK NIA•4ON,
Eitee.4. a .d Lerorre all sunk 'seder the weight of the
Ilayneok.t. house; but theirs were days in which
London could not furnish musical audiences twice a
week or even one lugs house; whereas the ex-
pent of the last three years testifies that this me-
rrop -1 • an now supply audiences unsurpassed in taste
and cr • sell refinement for two houses thrice a week.
l',.ne y, the deficiency of such an audience was re-
be made up by a certain number of sub-
scrip: of.. at large sums. Now, the subscription eye-
Hetes .onger needed to ensure crowded houses ; nay,
is r- re houses being &lel. All that is required
t, g od :management complete success is the
pease f the educated classes to go at moderate
pie •.. at, and not better subscription lists, is the
ni is spired et Covent Garden and at the Queen's
I.:.ciat Lewer the pines of byes, of stalls, of s-ats in
tee pe. acd with the finest works of the best masters,
• have been dnrine the last ten years,
s will be umply tilled, and highly enc.
!et., with prices at the rates at which they
miletained during that perioJ, success is
e• for they a-c prohibitive to all except
11t e •y wealthy. Let the directors of the two
1•-•:.• . ete teke then a lesson teem Exeter Hall,
v .1
have no reason to complain of public
L.: :he musical audiences of tendon will
ee: to pay prices which ere unknown in any
tore 1.,T i iof Europe. eren to tear VI.UtDOr in her
i• ..• 4 rains, or ALBONI in her sweetest warbles.
1. . • ::.rema the sensuous has superetded the
i:.::',ltetztal.; but not even for the grutifictaion
,f in cut iested tied delicate of our seises can
w, t • Fir ft phis% and a half fora stall, or to
tee fan:lies to boxes oostirg from fire to eight
cr • el .: !rms. Atd if it be that these great prices
..i.e2a :ha treasuries of the honws, it only the
1.. e, I eetnnts tLe interest of the theatres at which
ter

fxtorted to break down the system which
Irtio.st it intercepts, and appropriates them.
1•d stand between tips, places of amuse.
m.:.t a: .d inbl.c, it is for the theatres to put
air Ire* is more direct c:ramunication with their
TEJ. n one a.

t -.tro-.age has not, it is to be feared, done
:he British drama. But it would be an error
re to supp:se that it is the national drama of
i oily svtlich suffers in tLis century. Thit of
appears to be 'gully on the decline, if the
bts emiaired in meat investigatbns can be
1. Fix between the years 1830 and 1849 we
t►at no fewer than 36 theatres in Paris

wit, 6to ruined; and that in the first seventeen
a.o-.•i....f the republic twelve houses were closed for
Taut •t sd qqcte support. Though there is in such
.l comfort for the British drums, thy will

..rar thy
-r metropolitan directors that they only lin-
g c Isamu with their class in the most theatrical
• ot Enrol*.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WIDNVDAT, S•3O P M.
.1 mini! of ministers wee held yesterday morning
• E'veC.c, at which Prince Louie Napoleon pre-
* dc-l. before the meeting the Pretioent of the
ic Lsd a long conference with General Chan-
• .er.

' • .litocien of Strasburg states that the first
r... the army of the East already formiog
city. Two regiments am already on their
. •Lat city from Lyons.
1,. jou.nals of to-day are safely taken up with
a-outs of t►e battle in the bureaux a-pr.-pot of the
tr:3 ors' b.ll. The legitimists are triumphant on that
point, but ei:ent on the subject of the election; but it
ei not be concealed that they are seriously annoyed
Ly 0.46 Ware of all their candidates fur election in

'ltem is talk to-day of negotiations on the part of
the government to come to an understanding on the
inlets' bill and the Avignon railway bell. The
&sort seeing that the members of the committee on
the former project all belong to the majority, with
one exception, that of M. rascal Duprat, hope that
alone arrangement may yet be come to. But it is still
said that as fez as the intimates of the Elyseo are
concerned, they rather desire the schism to break
firth opeily, en order, if possible, to found the
liapoleorian principle on the remnant of podia-
e• tory institutions.
With regard to the Avignon Bill, there are frequent
coaft.enees at the ministry of finance, for the purpose
el lumina fusion amongst the rival companies.
• Hoene:al Union published at noon a large pie-
re,d, to- taking the names of three candidates chosen,
w. address, in which tie electors are exhorted

' :n the interest of order, because, though
• .ires may not be gratified by the three chosen
e--1 • • ova, still they are bound to combat the prin.
• excite the fever of all.
• mal.ifestation at the Bastille, con.isting in the
• ~/.111 of funeral crowns and garlands round the
,-t the column there, hascontinued, and may lead
to notrlrence of the police. To-day again nume-
n.c. pilg,jau might be seen coming to place their
at the shrine of liberty.
'Pie debate in the Chamber to-day was devoid of
:t.ti rep.,

c Prism stye :
tt ire Wormed that oa Saturday a new Set of democratic
..44:1.Latrs tut L. elev.ticaa of the 10th Mush will be pub-
. hit will he accompanied bff remarks tending to
p‘wers remind by the tic Socialist
-.0.411.e.tte faint the electoral committees. Out information
t 41.1.1, and we wan the collectors to be On their gaud
to maga which it may be scught to icy for their
• • ..autl.

r ,11.NryAra:N.—The Daleee Alarms!, of the 24th,
• We are antlierierd to Mate that, in a ministerial
:.• hat al4ht, it was determined to abstain from
r negotiations relative to a fixed prolongation of
Tabs roolutien has ba-n communicated to
tat ai.i'ws &dun of On nedistiag pawns.

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