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tows yarn they may happen to be. If it ia a
patter of public concern that other soldiers should

be enembarraised on such arduous service as that in
ladia at present, it is no less so that oar Akers
should go out in the fittest condition to meet all
contingencies, and to do and endure all the service
and all the hardships to which they are profession-
ally liable. The public have a right to remonstrate
against any act by which the military strength of
the army in India is impaired, and by which power of
any kind is put into the hands of the enemy ; and
every woman who at this time goes to India is a
burden upon the regiment to which her husband
belongs. No eircurostance of the whole mutiny is
better known than that our officers in all the pro-
vinces where the mutiny exist' have been hampered
and rendered nearly as helpless as the ladies them-
selves by the presence of women and children. At
every place which has held out, and at Lucknow
conspicuously, the garrison would have dispersed the
rebels, and would have effected one junction after
another of their small forces, so as to have changed
the character of the struggle long ago, if they bad
not been compelled to shut up the women and
children, and stay by them. Daring the first flight,
ending sometimes in escape and sometimes in
a cruel death, our gallant countrymen were com-
pelled to give up their arms to mobs of villagers,
and, with bursting hearts, to repress their instincts of
seltdefence, because every blow they struck would
be revenged upon the women.
We honour the wife who goes everywhere with
her husband sea missionary, because she is as good
a missionary as he, and they can help each other.
We honour the CATHERINE Monressotts who stay
with their husbands in the plague-stricken city, be-
cause they are naturally-appointed muses, as their
husbands are the physicians of body or
soul. We honour the ship-captain's wife
who navigates the vessel is extremity, saving life
and property, because it is a case of eittmenity—the
husband being delirious, and no one else on board
being qualified for the work. But it is a wholly
different affair when the wife can by no means help,
but only hinder, the husband's proper business. One
would think this so obvious that it would be mere
waste of time to dwell upon it at all ; but the fact
stares us in the face that officers wives are going
sat to India, and some even as brides. There have
actually been merriages for the very purpose. To
everybody else it is clear enough that the true cou-
rage and patriotism ia in those who stay at home
with the most quietness and simplicity. The trial is
so hard that there is genuine heroism in meeting it
dicerfully. We need not describe what it is ; for
tbe national heart beats in sympathy with the
widowed wives whose husbands are almost as

Toe crisis in the Messy Market is as yet far
from over. The drain upon the resonties of the
Bank, ea is clear from the most superficial glance, is
proceeding with unabated severity. Golds ill flows
to the Continent in payment for silver, and, in addi-
tion, there is an active demand for sovereigns for the
United States and Canada, ea weU as for the
Scotch, Irish, and Provincial Bank.. At the
same time there is a renewed rush to the
Bunk for money. The Bank Directors cannot
be expected to calmly look on whilst the
movement continues thus severe. They have this
morning raised the rate of discount from
eight to nine per cent. It would not
surprise us if the question of the propriety of
even additional restrictions were to come under
discussion in the Bank parlour. In the interest of
the public, however, we would protest earnestly
against any limitation of the date of the commercial
paper receivable for discount at the Bank. As our
monetary laws stand, an immense power for
good or foe evil is vested in the hands
of the Bank Court, especially at period. like the pre-
sent. We sincerely trust that they will continue to
set with the calmness and deliberation which have
hitherto eharacteriaed their proceedings. It is open
to them to consider the advisability of charging a
higher rate for bills having more than 60 days to
run, but the absolute rejection of such paper would
go so far towards crippling the commerce of the
country that we will not Inhere that the Directors
wiU entertain the idea for a moment.

the question now arises, will nine per cent atop
the drain upon the Beak ? Under the circumstances,
we do not believe that the new restriction will do
more than cheek it Until the exchange between
England and America experiences an important ad-
vance, sold will inevitably flow thither. At the
same time we are under the necessity of remitting
to the Continent considerable quantities of gold in
payment for silver drawn thence for shipment
to the East, the drain being at present
aggravated by the remittances of silrer for
account of the Fast India Company. Many
persons will be disposed to hope theta fresh rise in
the rate of discount will cheek the foreign drain
upon the Bank, end give a fresh favourable impulse
to the foreign exchanges, and that supplies of gold
from Australia will arrive in time to mitigate the
existing serious pressure. We have a misgiving
that in gene respects these views are over magnum,
and we gannet contemplate without great pain the
severs distress w►ich a prolongation of the et:sis will
occasion in all circles, even amongst houses of acknow-
ledged solidity and caution. 'room apprehends" the
position of the Bank of England is appreabaidang
closely to that witnessed in the autumn of 1847.
The institution retains its grasp upon a large stare
of gold, bat the reserve of notes mast be rapidly
diminishing under the extreme pregame. Now, we
admit that there is a considerable discrepancy
between the features of the two periods; external
influences, conducing to an external drain, are now
a prominent cause of embarrassment. Bat in one
important point the symptom of the two epochs cor-
respond closely; we notice& growing disposition on the
part of the public to hasten to secure money, lest the
procuring of it should hereafter be attended with in-
creased difficulty. With every wish to deal cau-
tiously with this very delicate branch of our subject,
we cannot refrain from declaring our conviction that
• continuance of this Femurs will demand the inter-
vention of Government. The Bank Act is again
upon its trial, and its justification may upon this oc-
casion, ea in 11347, require all the eloquence
isf its advocates. Should that Act be now
found to stand in the way, and stop the flow
of the life-blood of commerce, its provisions must be
suspended, as they were ten years ago. The com-
mercial community will cheerfully pay eight, nine,
or ten per cent. foe money until the pressure sub-
sides, let them but be assured that the needful sup-
ply will be forthcoming at even those high rates
upon good securities. We commend this matter to
the earnest consideration of Government. It

inaccessible as if the grave lay between, while
still subject to the perils and sufferings of mortal
existence. The noble denies of the old crusading
knights never had a more heroic calling than these
English soldiers' wives of the present day; and
every one of them who sends forth her husband with
an unloaded mind and in unfettered arm is doing
her best to serve her country and promote her hero's
honour. These patient and self-sacritleing women
have taken to heart the few words spoken in so
many places in India since last May—" Get home,
" you and the children, the first moment you can;
" and then I shall be tit for duty." The getting
home was the one thing to be desired; and from
the time this was known no woman should have
desired to go out, or should have been allowed to do
so. There was a time when it seemed that nurses
might have been sent to Calcutta with advantage,
to tend the sufferers there who were waiting to come
home ; but the very service for which they were
proposed was an evidence that no other women
should go.

Cbt €oun.

WI LIDSOIL, Wes. 4.
There wen no addition to the royal dinar party
yesterday.
T Qom reds in the Ridtag Home this morning,
atterked by the Hon. Honda Atopford.
Her Majesty held a Privy Council at 3 o'clock this after.
as" Present—The Prince Consort, Hal OreavUle, the
Lad Chmera" the Hari of Clarendon, the Duke of Wel-
ling.," sod lad Homo Bruce.
At the Ce Parliament was ordered to be farther gno-
mon. kam Fridey Dolt, the 6th inst., until Thursday, the
l7th of Derrember. -

Those who have recently sailed intend to May at
the Presidencies, and especially at Calcutta, if the
state of the country forbids their accompanying their
husbands farther. It needs no showing how, in
that case, they had better be at home. But it is
well known that Calcutta is in an over-crowded eon- '
dition, just when it is of the utmost consequence
that there should be all pomible room for the
arriving troops, and the utmost economy in food and
all ',applies. The officers cannot get their salaries
paid; the civilians arc undergoing a redaction of
their pay; nobody has any money, jest at the time
when the necessaries of life are dear beyond all pre-
eedeat. While the soldiers, on whom hangs life or
death for hundred, and thousands of our countrymen,
see kept huddled together in their ships in the midst
of malaria, because every room in Calcutta is
crowded, and while the markets do not exhibit food
enough for the popalation,every nonresident woman
is, to speak the plain truth, a nuisance—a nuisance
so serious, that it is to be hoped the authorities will
forbid the transmission of any more, unless the good
sense of the ladies themselves, or domestic authority,
renders any official treatment of the subject wine-
Celeary.

Rae llegady having boa plowed to appoint the Right
Rea Ideory Bad Dub to be Lord-Lieutenant of the
sawnty of Oloothetw, his lordship wee sworn into °Moe.
Tice Hon. Wm. Bathurst was Clerk of the Council in
'UMW
The Queen gave audience to the Earl of Clarendon sad
let Onnvilla.

NEW LEGAL APEOINTX11:11111 (fate DAY).—Mr.
Justice Cherwell bee bees swilled Gs lodge el' the New
Court of Probate. TM learned **lag jut appointed iris
eons* Mr. Rarest N. Cromwell, bailee.-eat-law, to be his
eervelary. &Jr H.B. floating, the Pronallar-Genarel, le to be the
sew Comma Law Judge, and at present the mew Solicitor-
Oshawa has sot been Bard upon. The Why of the judge of
the wow court la 4,000 t. a-year et phial. A. comma law
judge the eatery was 5,50U1., out of whki his loedehlp had
to pay his Mena expellees. His saw duties ass sot expected
to occupy lies stows two or three days a week.

Lord Creerorne sad the Hoe. Y. Sorkvilla West were
the lord sad groom in walther.

BAREPSUIRE.—Among the 6sitore at Gordon
Castle der* the lest few days have bees her Grace the
Derems of Gordon, Rev. William end Mrs. Christie, the
Coeearof Fife, Lord Mocduff end Roe. Mr. WWII., Dr.
Wilma, Sr Al.. end Lady Gordon Commis', Dr. Woodford,
111/. IMMO,' Earl end Lady CColltAlbil• Grosvenor Rev. ,
David rad 1111 s. Dewar, Captain FM, Rm. Robert Grosvenor,
Mr. sad Mho Mama* lir, Maxim Gerais end Mee
Mllsadd, Tench y ; Mr. eel the Mews .Sr, ae. Lord
Ardor Leenco, Lord Gordon Lamm, sad Rev.
Wiliam Tamar, t the°C.ser7tr ns Wideman, for the meth.
The Zest of Mar* M.P. sad the with Kira Gre-
MIS, Ifettriagera, Lady Caroline Lady
ylirmaeille Hem azi:l7l the His. Presets Gerdes
Se Cards be Raked= Roam, on a
siellanwe r fasi se reale br Meisecathe, Sasser.
Their Seem Warmthe Priam sad Peterna Edward of
Sae Wilmer haws am es early dy dr the sea& Earl
Bethant, Lewd Haar, (Medea Lemma, M.P., end Lord Ales.
011.61 LIMO; P., also isms ere, kr the south.
LOAD BROVORAM'S VISIT TO LIVERPOOL—Lord
Berreglaws, who Is to lamenrate the Queen's Collsgs at
tirdity, arrived there teat 'molar by the Lerida.
Li=
at lisbarr Menem Raßway, to stay with Yes. Brown, M.P.,
ad-MIL

is their duty to watch the progress of
affairs most closely, and if they postpone action
until the cry of distress becomes as intense u in
1817, they will be ailed to a strict account. We
are no alarmista—we have confidence in the cau-
tion and energy of our countrymen, and in the general
soundness of our commercial 'position, bat the pres-
entee may become too severs to accord with the
maintenance of the Bank Charter Act in its integ-
rity. It will be said, perhaps, that the relaxation
of the Act would accelerate the efflux of bul-
lion. We do not believe that the result would
be so, bat if nine and ten per cent. rates of discount
prove inselcient to keep the bullion here, we would
say. let it go. And we firmly believe that an imme-
diate intimation from Government to the effect that,
should necessity arise, they will be prepared to
authorise the Bank to extend its issue, if even in
contravention of the law, would go far towards re-
assuring the public mind, and preventing an exten-
sion of the area of embarramment.

LoM Graaville maim °is Add.

The Lord Chancellor, Leeds Clarematen, °mown* Duda,
and Ernest Bruce, and the How. Win.Bathtust, traversed
from London yesterday afternoon, by a special train, on the
Greet Western Railway, to attend the Queen's Privy Council
held at Winders Castle. The Duke et Wellington, the Earl
of Clarendon, and the other noblemen present at the Council,
returned by a 'pedal train to Paddington In the evening.

MINMENT has decided, eery properly, that
the wives and children of the soldiers shall
not oto to India at present ; and so special and de-
termined is the decision that Lord l'Annuar has
made arrangements to prevent the children euffering
from the lose of any educational advantages which
they would have derived from the regimental schools,
if they had accompanied their fathers. The children
belengdig to regiments sent to India are to be
admitted him to the military schools of any garrison

PROROGATION or PARLIANIINT.—A supplement
to Tuesday's Gazette, published yesterday, announces
as follows :—" At the court at Windsor, the 4th day of
November, 19,7, present, the Queen's Most Excel-
lent Majesty in Council, it is this day ordered by her
Majesty in Council that the Parliament, which
stands prorogued to Friday, the 6th day of November
instant, be further prorogued to Thursday, the 17th
day of December next."

Vie Marchiossess of Londonderry is staying on a
aldivith the Earl of Roden, at Tailrace* Park. The
asik martial' ta at Mount Stewart. Dowadahs.
The Earl Fortescue and Viscount and Viscountess
ibrington see pasting the season at Castle urn, surrouudzd
by a family

The Earl of Dartmouth is expected in town to-
morrow, from Patabull, Stafford/hue.

Tbs bombes of Gainaborough has taken a mate
of maws Is Ihe west wing of the Qt 1,311.11 hotel, Upper
Norwood, where the Counts of Roden and Lady Maria
Porwror an sojourning.

Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Ereeby left town
yesterday for Torquay, Devon.

. -
Lord and Lady Lalthorpe have returned to Perry
Hall, Birottaihant, from a tour of visite.

Lord and Lady Word arrived at the St. George's
Hotel, yesterday, from Paris.

We are requested to state that the Bishop of
Landow Ira retuned to town, and will melee the clergy as
east at London Howe from divan to two o'tlock on Taw
tlar•

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
baye left Hughes:lm Mawr for Torqoay.

Mr. Matthew Arnold, M.A., oriel-College, Ox-
ford, Professor of Poetry, .ill deliver, in the English lan-
guage, an inaugural lecture at the Clarendon, Orford, on
Saturday, the llth of November, at 2.

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A CONVOCATION STRUGGLF.—An animated con-
test wAdog en of the election of a proctor to ems in con-
reedlike hes fait Lean brought to a does In the diocese of
Glaninoner sal Bristol 11. Mal church party put forward
the Rev. Mr Charge Prewar, Bert.. vicar of Modems*
while ha low dwelt pea ty blond them never in favour of
the Bev. F. W. Rhea, M.A., View of Fairford. At the termi-
nation of the innshere were—for Str George Preece;
ill; far Yr. Rine TN. Or George Prevost, hawing been
fres *holed, will take bis mot at the next meeting, which
viR tab plows la lehresay nest.
RINITOBATION or Picrvw TO BConatm.—We
sze&L.no Loam that, open the repssestatiou of several
noblemen awl fin maimed with Scot-
law73klejostry hes hen prise* *era to commend
BatNsaW. two which ware mewed frees Stiehng Cacti.
te Cad my many years elys, shall be rmtoved to
The plenum an esposeed is have beam painted
/;Made Ban" aid !sty Moment -Jame the Fourth
Seedend, his Maim frinumw, and Rabat Rolm," sad
'Tb. Qum sf James fro north with deist George ;"
fray wan sot boss Banyan Cetus with emeral oar=
inesie albs Maratastivi Ast-Tnesures Exhibition,
=To mob saaNd ; and, in comequenee of the reme-
dially montlesed, they Intl be itorwardri from
Metrodenaw to Bellwood Pato; and ho exhibited to the
rabbiwe sßs gar msnt known as Lord Dankly't thong-
wn.—Bnolosma,

The Ilatioul Beak of Genoa hr wind its rota of
Mono hos 7 7i Psi 01110.

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, Mt

NEW SOUTH WALES.

We have received advices from Sydney, New
South Wales, to Aug. 12, being four days later than
the date of previous advice.. This intelligence
ruches us by way of Callao.
On the II th of August the second easion of the
first parliament of New South Wales was opened by

his Excellency the Governor-General. We gather
from the report of the Sydney Empire that the
opening was conducted with much ceremony, and
that the traditions of Westminster are conscien-
tiously observed in the capital of the Australian
colony. The occasion was honoured, we are told,
by the presence of a brilliant assemblage of ladies,
i distinguished visitors, the foreign consuls, dignita-
ries of the church, and officers of the army and
navy. The Lower House was summoned by Black
Rod, and the Speaker was greatly admired in his
"splendid new state robes." His Excellency, who
was attended by an aide-de-camp, and received with
a military salute, took his place on the vice-regal
throne, and delivered the following speech :

HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN OP THE LZOISLATITICOUNCIL,
MID GENTLEMEN OP THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLE,

I should have called you together at an earlier period, but
had I done so (owing to the unmet's' length of the last session,
whit h was prolonged until the 17th March of the present
year), a inCrient interval would not have been afforded to
the government for the preparation of the boatmen about to
be brought before you, neither would a sufficient recess have
been granted to thuee izienitieni who were withdrawn for so
long a time from attending to their private affairs. The delay
whtcb hag taken place will, I feel assured, be conducive to
the ultimate despatch of public buelnees, as It has enabled
the government to mature many messume of great Importance
to the welfare of the eountry, which, together with the esti-
mates for the year lSStf, will be immediately brought under
your consideration. To the following measures of reform and
social progress I would more particularly Invite your at-
tention.

Experience has already shown that the change in the sys-
tem of government requires a corresponding change in the
system of representation. A bill will therefore be immedi-
ately laid before you to increase the number of members of
the Assembly to remove the diaabilities to vote a-icing from
change of residence or qualith stion, to introduce the ballot,
and to bring the electoral distribution in harmony with the
changes among the population indicated by the late census.
This bill will be accompanied by another for the purpose of
regulating the_ proceedings at elections, diminishing the ca-
yenne of candidates, and providing more effectually against
the evils of bribery and corruption.
A bill will be laid before you on en early day, to provide
for the future management and die of the public lands,
which, while preserving the faith of the crown, will
render the acquisition of lend n fee simple more easy to all
who are likely to bring it into profitable use, and thus Cecil-
tate the permanent settlement, end, at the mane time, increase
the prodectivenem of the country. One of the meet impor-
tant objects of the measure will be to augment the means
available for public improvement, and more especially for
those great works of internal communication which are now
so much desired, without unduly pressing upon any clued
the community.
The Municipalities Bill of last session, modified and
improved in some important partieulara, will be immediately
submitted for your considemtion.
A bill toe the establishment of district courts will be again
brought forward in an amended form. The object of this
bill is to facilitate and expedite the administration of justice in
the interior, and to relieve the Supreme Court from the pre-
sent excessive pressure of business. The criminal law re-
quires simpliecation and amendment, in order to make the
punishment of crime more certain ; end, in connexion with
this aubjec t, I propose to bring under your special notice, the
important question of secondary punishment.
The subject of education has received the most anxious
consideration from the government; and it is my intention to
lay before you a measure which, while it will not in sny way
interfere with the religious convictions of a single individual,
will supply adequate means of inatruction for the whole com-
munity.
Regulations have been established to facilitate the intro-
duction from the United Kingdom of useful immigrants
under private engagement. The opportunity thus alorded
for the selection of immigrants by weans of private egency,
and of providing them with passages in private ships, will,
he productive of great public advantage. It is pro-
also to grant remission certificates in the purchase of
E?. is
to persons introducing immigrants of the labouring
classes, tinder such regulations as may be found desirable.
The latter object can only be effected by legislative enactment,
sad the necessity measure for the purpose will, accordingly,
be brought forward at en early day.
Arrangements have been made by which it ia believed the
efficiency of the railway department will be materially in-
creased. The °fiber for whom, at the request of the legis-
lature, 1 applied in ROS, has lately arrived in the colony ,
and I trust to be able to lay before you, shortly, such a re-
port from him upon the general question of railway con-
struction and management as will greatly facilitate the de-
termination of the measures necessity for the extension of
railways into the interior.
The unprecedented continuance of heavy rains has made
communication by the ordinary roads of the colony Glencoe
impracticable, end has hitherto unfortunately impeded the
beneficial expenditure of the sums voted for their repair. It
le intended to apply to the liberality of parliament for • such
larger amount than usual for the maintenance and repair of
the leading thoroughfare. of the colony, end to place them
under a more satisfactory eyetem of management.

Contracts have been entered into for the construction of •
line of electric telegraph from Sydney to Albury. The pro-
per of this work, and of those undertaken for • similar
purpose by the sister colonise, justifies the expectation that
the galvanic (limit between all the chief cake of Australia
will soon be completed.
I have to congratulate you upon the succeeska o
of the act of lest eoesien for the amendment of the Crasti:
letting to the tnensgement ,4 the gold fields, and upon the
orderly conduct and gradually increasing prosperity of the
population et the mines.
The important questions of en inter-colonial character
which are constantly et Sting suggest the establishment of •
federal legislature, posimessing power and authority for their
diervavion end determination in the interests of the Anatre-
lien colonies generally. I recommend this important sub-
ject to your early consideration.
The Legislative Assembly having asserted the principle
that ell legislative bodies should be elective, it will be
creamery at the earliest period oonsistent with its deliberate

determination that the subject of the constitution of the
Legislative Council should be taken into the consideration of
the legislature, and it appears to me that a fitting opportunity
for this purpose will be afforded, when, by the intended revi-
sion of the electoral system, the opinion of the country upon
, this fundamental question can be clearly ascertained.1
It is desirable to separate the political duties of the Attor-
ney-General from his office of Grand Jury, and in order to
terry out this reform, a bill will be introduced to authorise
the appointment of a public prosecutor.
The recant proclamation of the *oblige of the Sydney
Mint in Victors will, I believe, be of great advantage to
the colony and to New South Weise And I venture to hope
that her Majeety's government may be induced to make cur-
rent the colonial in all carts el the British empire.
GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY,
The financial condition of the country has during the re-
cess received my most anxious attention. It ie • subject of
congratulation, that the deficit in the revenue existing at the
commencement of 1656, has been diminished by economy and
the improved state of the public income, and that, up to the
present time, I have not been compelled to avail myself of the
authority to borrow any portion of the sum of one hundred
and fifty thousand pounds, placed at my disposal to cover this
deficit. it is not my intention at present to propose any alte-
ration in the customs tariff, nor to increase the amount of
revenue raised by indirect taxation.
The estimate. of expenditure are prepared, end will be im-
mediately laid before you. The utmost economy, consistent
with a desire to provide for the growing wants of the rising
country, has been observed in their preparation.
The collection and distribution of the duties on goods en-
tering the colony by way of the River Murray has been the
subject of correepondenoe between the government of Now
South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, which will be
laid before you. It is hoped that this correspondence will
lead is the completion of a temporary arrangement sari.-
factory to all parties, and ultimate/ to the adoption of one
tariff of customs does common to all the Australian colonies.
A bill will be submitted to you for the purpose of legalising
the contemplated arrangement.
The temporary and varied character of a considerable por-
Goa of the public debt, and the inconvenience which is felt
in some instances from the want of a desirable mode of per-
manently investing trust and other moneys, has rendered It
expedient to fund the debt of the colony on certain renditions.
A measure for this purpose has accordingly been prepared,
sad will be laid before you.
It has been thought advisable to modify the present system
of receipts and payments at the Treasury, by relieving the
Minister of Finance and Tiede from the anomalous position
of combining a political office with that of a public accountant,
responsible for the custody and expenditure of the public
money. A bill to give effect to this measure will be presented
to you.
A bill to establish the office and define the duties of the
Auditor-General will be re-submitted to you on an early day.
HONOURABLE GIESLER= OF ERB LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,

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AND CHIFTLZMIN OP THi I.IOISLATITI

correopcesdenoe on the subject will be Immediately lad beka
you, and I earnestly reoosomend the IMIIMM11) to your con
sideration and approval.
The colony bee been visited during the gala few months by
sense and aimed unprecedented floods In various parts but
it is a subject of sincere gratitude to Providence, that these
visitations have not been attended with any serious It.. of

The commercial and monetary stela of thsoountry is sound
and satisfactory, and I are most thankful to be able to state
that prosperity attends all interest* in the community.
Various important cassinues, to which I need not specially
allude, will also be presented to you, and will, I am sure, in
common with those to which I have adverted. receive your
attentive consideration. I again samara you of my eameat

deidre to eo-operate emcee milonaly end cordially with the
legislature to the beet of my ability for the publics rood ; and
I 'Weer* trust that the remit of your del bera ruay,
under the=Vtrof Almighty Ood, conduce to the Lam-
aism and of the ingt community tree
interests ere comm tted to your c
The address having been ooncl , his Excellency retired
in the same ceder ea he entered. The council then adjourned
uttte four o'clock in the afternoon.

The ina laportanue of mean adamant anorgewee
for the iminsesmut of the lighthouses end baboon en the
mast, sad the saparsllloll en. Settee it Rio OM mita-
blishmests, la suggested the et eppoinn bea,
whom it is pursed to Incorporate. satrust with tho per-
formance of these duties : the neassen num bas beim
prepared for this purpose.
1 shall lay before you important corrospondenee which has
led to the establishment of banking and commercial agencies
for New Smith Wales in London, upon terms advantageous
to the nclony.
A proNisional arnotganient has bean entered into with the
Royal Mail Means Packet Company, fur • monthly postal
communication between. Southampton and Sydney, yid
Panama and New Zealand. Should this scheme be candid
into effect, It will gin to these colonies the advantage of a
Mum comausioados with England eery fortnight. The