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mother-cOuntry among their dearest memories, and
as the days are long past when the Home Govern-
ment could dream of exerting direct authority over
a distant and reluctant people, it seems at first
sight as if nothing were likely to disturb the pre-
vailing harmony. However, the actual situation of

affairs is something very different, and when we
find a series of meetings announced to consider

" the present most unsatisfactory relations between
Great Britain and her colonies," we are more in-
crested in the programme than surprised at the
Generally speaking, our executive action
ays far behind our public discussion. We

intention.

have faced disestablishment in theory before

we get church rates abol6ted in practice ; we
are settling the minor details cf compulsory educa-
tion before our officials are even prepared for a whole-
sale scheme of national instruction, and we are puzzl-

rig over the drawbeks to the ballot while the powers

,hat be are discussing what fresh checks can be put

on the malpractices of open voting. In the case of
the colonial question, however, all is reversed. Men
are anxiously pondering a grave and difficult subject,

weighing the arguments for and against giving mili-
tary assistance to the colonies, when Lord GRANVILLE
suddenly appears upon the scene, quite ready and
willing to settle the whole matter most promptly and
conclusively. Few of us are disposed to consider the
colonists altogether in the right ; few of us believe
that the faith of treaties and the rights of possession
have been as scrupulously respected in dealing
with tho natives of New Zealand as they would
have bee❑ in transactions with independent whites ;
and we cannot forget that the Maories, however
superior their race or remarkable their native intelli
ge

;ace, are at best but semi-civilized, and cannot,

therefore, be held as blameable for acts of cruelty or
treachery as Europeans,. This, however, is not the
question. Lord GRANVILLE is not asked to give his
moral support and unconditional approval to all that
has been done in times past. The colony of New
Zealand is in the midst of a harassing war, destruc-
tive to the interests of the settlement, and fatal alike
to colonists and natives. The great object to attain

is the end of the war, and this cannot be accom-
plished
without proper forces. The mother country
has withdrawn her troops by mutual agreement.
The colony now asks for troops, to be paid for
by the colonists, and the request is met by a distinct
refusal. What is more, the English Colonial Minister
uses language which lery plainly implies that lie
considers it a matter of very little moment if the
whole of the British colonies break off their allegiance,
and judging from the temper his first attempt has
produced in the Southern Seas, it appears very pro-
bable that should he remain long in Downing-street
we shall have to congratulate him on the transfor-
mation of the Empire into a Kingdom.
Whether Englishmen are prepared for so very
speedy a settlement of the question may be eoubted,
and the assembly of colonists and colonists' friends
who gathered on Wednesday in Cannon-street are
disposed to prove the contrary. Sir GEORGE
GREY, who was present, spoke the feeling of
the meeting and of the country at large
when he demanded a distinct enunciation of
the Minis'erial policy. "If the empire," he said,
" was to be disintegrated, let it be done openly, and
with the full assent and knowledge of the nation, and
not by the act of a single Colonial Minister." If the
colonies were to be thrown off, they should have fair
warning of the change, and so be able to decide
among themselves whether they should coalesce or
endeavour to stand separate. But the new theory
propounded by Earl GRANVILLE, and apparently de-
termined upon by the Cabinet, is assuredly very far
from expressing the wishes of the English people.
Every interest is opposed to it. Our commerce can-
not do otherwise than suffer from the alienation of
our largest customers. Oar military strength will be
diminished, as nodoubt some of the fine positions now
held by English power will be seized upon by foreign
ambition. The interests of peace must suffer, for it
has been happily shown that, as the young Anglo-
Saxon communities ri:e in the scale of nations, their
influence, joined to that of the mother country, would
be all-powerful for peace. The interests of those
religious and political truths which Englishmen hold
so dear must suffer, should England relax her autho-
rity ; and while, in every point of view, there would
be a sense of loss and failure, it is not very
easy to ascertain what possible advantage
would be gained by the adoption of Earl GRANVILLE'S
original and adventurous policy. If any of the co-
lonies, grown stronger, should seek hereafter to esta-
blish complete independence, by all means let the
ties of union be dissolved amicably and deliberately ;
but a hasty and insulting severance of the bond
without consulting the interests or wishes of
those most concerned is a very different thing. Lord
GRANVILLE is treating a colonial empire of which
Rome in her palmiest days would have been proud
with neither the affection of a mother country ,nor
he courtesy of an ally.

THE unfortunate petitioners who prayed for the
winding-up of the European Assurance Company did
not spend their money in vain. Their request was,
indeed, refused; but it has been the means of bring-
ing about a revolution in the affairs of the great
office which rthey sought to dissolve. The
revelations made in court induced the shareholders
to investigate their affairs, and the committee who
made the inquiry have been very decisive in their
advice. If the company is to retrieve its seriously
damaged position, it must, the committee
decided, have a very different system of management.
It was recommended that the board of direction be
changed, and this advice has been followed. Only
three of the offending directors have been re-elected.
The committee further advised that agency expenses
should be curtailed, and retrenchment effected
in other directions ; that the Society's position be
further examined by actuaries ; and that a call of ten
shillings per share be made, to strengthen the com-
pany's position rather than to meet claims. Besides
this, it is thought advisable to reform the deed of
settlement so as to allow some of the largest
policy-holders to become directors. These measures
and especially the last, must command approbation.
If faithfully carried out in the future there
will be much ground for confidence in the
restoration of the Society's stability. These
prompt and effective decisions must be gratifying to
all who are concerned in this or other offices.
Whatever might have been the result if the peti-
tioners for the winding-up had succeeded, they have
undoubtedly done good service in causing this
change of management. The case is a
remarkable example, too, of the value of
publicity. Without this latter aid it is scarcely likely
that the petition for winding-up would have effected
such great results. It is hardly possible that the dry—
and to manypersons unintelligible—report of a Chancery
case would have so aroused public attention without
the comments and exposures which were given by
the press. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the legal
decision which condemned the Times for commenting
upon a document respecting the European Company,
on the ground that the subject was under judicial in-
quiry, will not be carried to its logical conclusion. That
decision is both absurd and injudicious. It is absurd
because the whole of the obnoxious articles whicL
contained the comments complained of were repro.
duced in full, not only ill the Times, but in other
newspapers ;
and, as this time they appeared as part
of a law report, their publication was perfectly legal.
The articles were unlawful in their original state ;
but they might be legally reprinted, and their pub-
licity multiplied a hundredfold, as part of the case
against; the Times The decision is injurious be-
,

cause it is calculated to materially restrict that circu-
lation of intelligence which is sometimes the only
public safeguard. It may be said, indeed,
that the only value of the many com-
mercial trials which have occurred recently
has been derived through the press. How
many offenders have been condemned in courts of
justice ? How many victims of fraud have recovered
their property ? It is too notorious that justice,
through the inadequacy of the law, has failed
to punish commercial immorality, and that
public indignation, aroused by the diffusion of intel-
ligence, has been the only terror of evildoers. Why
then restrain the agency by which this retribution
is brought about ?

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, NOV. 25.

ller Majesty, accpmpanied by her Royal High-
ness Princess Beatrice, walked and drove in the
Home Park this morning.
Princess Louise also went out.

ACCOUCIIEMENP OF THE PRINCESS OF

WALES.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales was
safely delivered of a Princess at 12.20 this morn-
ing. This joyful event was celebrated to-day by
the hoisting of the Royal Standard and Admiralty
flag from the top of the different Government
offices, and at one o'clock royal salutes were fired
by the Park and Tower guns.

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CLOSING PRICES.

Gold closed at 1241 ; the highest quotation dur-
ing the day was 125 x; the lowest, 124 i.
Sterling Exchange on London lOB4.
5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ll4l-.
Li " 1885 ll3.
4f " 18G7 ll5l.
10-40 «
Illinois
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Cotton —Mid. upland 2sc.
Petroleum—Standard White 33le.
Flour, extra state, $5.10e. to $5.70e. Corn, old
mixed, sl.loc.

PLYMOUTIf, Nov. 26.

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Westphalia, from New York, on the 16th instant,
arrived here this morning. She brings one hundred
and twenty-two passengers, eighty-three sacks
of mails and $32,946 in specie. The Westphalia
landed four passengers and 46 sacks of mails, and
proceeded for Cherbourg. The London mails were
forwarded by the 8 a.m. train.

BAVARIA.

MUNICH, Nov. 25.

The reports received up to four o'clock this after-
noon show that in 22 electoral districts 32 Liberals
and 30 members of the Ultramontane party have
been elected.

TILE INSURRECTION IN DALMATIA.

TRIESTE, Nov. 26.

According to advices received from Cattaro the
further pursuit of the insurgents of Crisvoscie, who
had withdrawn to the inaccessible parts of the
mountains, has been found impossible, nor have
the authorities been able permanently to occupy
the captured forts of Dragali and Zagvordie in
consequence of the inclement nature of the climate.
The troops have therefore been transferred to head-
quarters in the strongholds on the seaboard of Cat-
taro. At several of the important strategical points
occupied by the troops bloek houses have been
erected.

BOMBAY MAILS.
GIBRALTAR, Nov. 25.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Massilia, from Southampton on the 20th inst.,
arrived here at 9 a.m. and left at 4 p.m. to-day for
Alexandria. All well.