The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-26 00:00:00

N°. i7,968.] LONDON, FRIDAY E E N -e
xi sS PElfi APRIL 26, 1850.

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May, at Twelve (if not previously disposed of by Private Contract),
in consequence of the decease of the late Proprietor,
An excellent, substantial, and commodious FAMILY HOUSE,
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The Fine and Important DOMAIN of GAYIIURST, with its ex-
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two hours' easy journey of town.
IVIESSRS. DANIEL. SMITH and SON are
commissioned to SUBMIT to PUBLIC COMPETITION, in
the course of the ensuing Summer (unless an acceptable offer shall
be previously made by Private Treaty),
The above most important and desirable FREEHOLD ESTATE,
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and within about three miles of the Wolverton Station on the Bir-
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their offices, in Waterloo-place, Pall-mall ; or of Messrs. Delmar and
Wynne, solicitors, 46, Lincoln's Inn-fields.

LEICESTERSIIIRE.
The famous ESTATE of BROOKSBY, comprising the entire parish,
near Melton Mowbray, with its fine Old Mansion, Manors,
Fishery, and valuable Advowson—an estate, from its exceedingly
rich soil and vif inity to Leicester, and other great looal advantages,
offering a peculiarly rare and eligible landed investment.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
SELL by AUCTION, in July or August next (unless pre-
viously disposed of by private contract),
The above very choice and most valuable FREEHOLD ESTATE,
comprising about 1,200 acres, embracing some of the finest arable
and grazing land in this proverbially fertile district, let to first-class
tenants at rents amounting to nearly 1,000/. per annum, Also the
Perpetual Advowson of the Rectory of Brooksby, the incoMe of
which is about 300/. a year, and the Manor of Brooksby, &c., and
being only seven miles from Leicester, and in a celebrated hurling
country, with a first-class station in the parish, It is a remarkably
attractive and important property.
Particulars and plans are preparing, and in the Interim ever° In'
formation may be obtained in Waterloo-Place, or of Messrs. Delmar
and Wynne, solicitors, 46, Lincoln's Inn-fields.

The valuable FREEHOLD FARM of OADBY, within three or four
miles of Leicester, on the high road to Market Harborough; also

the Advowson.
MESSE.S. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
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This capital FREEHOLD and nearly Tithe-free ESTATE, offer-
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a ring fence, about 164 acres of first-rate land, with good farm,
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which the income Is about 2701. a year.
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Csurt (late New Slaughter's Coffee-house).

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
BRISTOL, APRIL 25.—English wheat is in a fair average
supply, with a better sale, at last week's prices. In foreign
little passing, as holders generally demand more money, with
hich our millers are reluctant to comply, but at previous
rates there is rather more disposition to purchase. English
wheat, new, sold at 35s to 39s per imperial quarter ; foreign
white, 40, to 42s per 4801 b ; ditto, red, fine qualities, 34s 6d
to 36s ; ditto, ordinary, 32s 5d to 345; ditto hard, 32s to 345.
Flour in better request, but without improvenient in value.
English seconds, 27s to 29s per sack ; American, sweet, 21s
6d to 22s sd. per barrel. In malting and grinding barley
scarcely anything doing. English malting, 23s to 28s per
imperial quarter ; ditto and foreign grinding, 18s to 21s per
4001 b. Of oats and beans the sales are still very restricted,
and quotations in a great degree nominal. Devon and Welsh
oats, 13s 6d to 14s 6d per imperial quarter; Irish, white, 15s
to 16s 6d per 3201 b , ditto, black, 14s to 14s 6d per imperial
quarter. Beans, English, 24s to 27s 6d per imperial quarter;
foreign, 2ls to 25s per 4801 b. The arrivals have been—wheat
13 quarters, oats 100 quarters 350' barrels, barley and beans
nil, flour 900 sacks 210 barrels. The averages for the week,
according to the corn inspector's return, have been—wheat
37s Id, oats, 143 I Id, barley 23s 2d, beans 265.
BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 25.—At Gloucester market wheat
maintained the currency of that day se'nnight. At Worces-
ter the same day a further reduction of is per quarter was
submitted to. Barley unaltered, Only retail sales of oats
were reported. English beans fully as dear ; foreign were
unsaleable. Rather more inquiry for peas. This week a few'
sales have been effected in fine wheats, at our quotations.:
Barley held for former prices. Oats 6s per quarter lower.
English beans in fair demand, and rather more doing in
foreign. A few parcels of peas continue to be taken on specu-
lation. At this day's market there was a short supply of Eng.
lish wheat,•and, in some instances, rather more money 'was
obtained for fair qualities ; but we make no alteration in our
quotations. Rather more sale for good barley. Nothing
worth notice doing in oats. Beans held for quite as niuch
money. Peas held for a little advance, which buyers would
not subinit to. Our millers have reduced the retail price of
flour 3s 4d per sack. •
LOUGHBOROUGH, APRIL 25.—At our market. to-day, we
had a fair supply of all sorts of grain. Wheat fully as dear,
but very little business done. Barley also the turn dearer.
Oats and beans no alteration in price from this day week.
BOSTON, APRIL 24.—Wheat, red 31s to 36s Od, white 375
to 395, extra 418 ' • barley 19s to 22s ; oats 9s to 16s ; beans,
20s to 255; peas 21s to 24s per quarter.
LYNN, Aram 23.—Wheat 30s to 345, fine 36s to
38s • barley 185 to 205, fine 12s to 24s per qr.
Ijeriwasiam, APRIL 24.—Wheat 34s to 335; barley 20i to
2 s ; oats 14s to 17s ; beans. 21s to 25s per quarter. Bates'
8d to Od per lb ; eggs 24 for Is.
ALFORD.—Averages for the week ending April 22—Wheat,'
326 Bfd ; barley 20s Od ; oats 00s Od ; peas 006 Od per qr. '
NEWARK, APRIL 4.—Wheat, white 42s to 435, extra 445?
red 36s to 38s, extra 39s ; barley, malting 22s to 235 6d, extra
s 4s, grinding nominal ; oats 15s to 18s ; beans, 25s 26s' to
2.75; peas nominal ; tares 00s to 005 ; malt 00s to 00s per' qr. '
ROTHERHAM, APRIL 22.—Beef 5s ud to 5s 9d, prime. 6s II
per stone ; mutton, clipped 4d tn 4id, in wool bd to bid per lb.
DERBY SMITHFIELD MARKET, APRIL 23.—The supply
of fat beasts to-day was decidedly less than it has been for
several weeks back, the great part of the animals were in the
hands of jobbers. The demand for beef was about the sense,
and all the animals were disposed of. The supply of sheep.
was about the average, without any alteration in price..' The
number of fat pigs was more than equal to the demand. The
supply of fat and store calves was again large, and it was with
difficulty that they could be disposed of. Beef, 41c1 to &If ;
mutton, 5d to Od ; veal, 4d to 4hd per lb. ; pork, 7s• per.
score. Rough fat,3s 6d per stone of 141bs. Hides, lid per lb ;
calf skins 2d to 3fd per lb.
GLasGow, APRIL 24.—We have had fair supplies coast-
wise. From Ireland only about 91 quarters of wheat; 530
quarters of oats, and 1,356 sacks of flour have been received ;
and from abroad the imports comprise about 6,494 quarters of
wheat, 40 quarters of beans, 1,854 sacks and 908 barrels ,of
flour, and 1,428 quarters of Indian corn. A bout 1,480 .guar-,
ters of wheat and 1,334 quarters
,of beans reached Grange-
mouth from the continent. There has been no material va-
riation in the value of any article during the week, and sales
have been only of moderate extent. This day's market was
well attended. Wheat and flour met a good retail sale at the
full rates of this day se'nnight. Barley was more inquired
after, without, however, leading to any change in value. Oaks'
and oatmeal were in better request, at full prices. Other ar-
ticles ruled dull, with little therein passing.
EDINBURGH GRAIN MARKET, APRIL 24.—Wheat The
quantity of wheat brought forward to-day was €67 qrs, being
59 qrs less than last week. Top price the same, and the average
4d down—l 18 qrs unsold. Barley—The quantity brought
forward was 360 qrs, being 5 qrs less than last week.
Price on the top the same, and the average 6d down-67. qrs
unsold. Oats—Of this kind of grain we had 839 4s
brought forward, or 191 qrs more than last week. The top pri4e
8d down, and the average 5d down-195 qrs unsold. Beans
The quantity of beans to-day was 149 qrs, or 39 qrs less
than last week. Price on the top is down, and the average
Is 4d down—sB qrs unsold.
Top of Wheat ... 62S1b. 42s Od
„ Barley ... 55A lb. 26s Od
0, Oats 44f1b. 20s Od
„ Beans 67f1b. 28s Od
EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKET, APRIL 24.—The supply
of cattle this morning was 733, being 105 more than last week.
The attendance of buyers was numerous, but (al account of
great quantity shown, sales were rather dull, still last week's
prices were maintained. At the close of the market a
clearance was not effected. Top price, 65 6d ; current, 6s
secondary and inferior, from 4s 6d to 5s per Dutch stone?
The supply of sheep this morning was 1,662, being 41 less
than last week. Demand good, and last week's prices fully'
supported, and a good clearance effected. Demand for lambs
also good, and all sold at prices from 20s to 22s a head:
Top price of best mutton, 5f d to bid per lb ; current, bd
middling and inferior, from 4d to 4d per lb.
CORK, APRIL 24. Flour—First lls 6d to 126 6d; extra 14s
seconds, 1 Is to 115 6d; households 9s to 108 6d; thirds, 7s to 8. dd
per cwt. Oatmeal 966 d to 10s; Indian meal 6s 9d to 7s 3d; wheat
meal, 9s 6d to 10s per cwt. Indian corn 1304 to 1376 6d per ton.
Bran 5106 to 0/ Os per ton. Hay—Farmers 20s to 365; averagd
325; dealers 38s to 468 Od; average 425 per ton. Sts aw—FarMers
lOs Od to 29s Od ; average 25s ; dealers 30s Oil to 005 ()di
average 001 Od per ton. Bread—Whesten loaf 6d to 6id•S
household loaf 5d to bid per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to
9cl per lb. Eggs-35 id to 3s 8d per hundred. Coals—
Newport lbs; Lydney 176 ; Landore 156 ; Best Neath
Culm 146 per ton. Tallow 40s Od to 006 per cwt.
Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial, gallon. Meat
—Beef 4d to 6d ; mutton 5d to 6d; veal 5d to
6fd ; pork 3f d to 31(1 ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sausages 5d per
lb. Hops 13/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates 3126 6d to 315 s per,
ton. Bark—Barbary 71 55 to 815 s; Valonia 141 to 01; French
71 5s ; English 0/ per ton. Fleece Wool 10s to 12s per stone.'
Hemp 321 to 001 per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 16s to 17, ; red:
ditto 20s to 22s per barrel ; Newfoundland 9/ Os to 111 per
ton. Timber—Memel, 85s per ton ; deals, first quality, 18s,
second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 14s to 20s;
salted 15s to 21s per cwt ; calf skins 2id to 2fd per lb.
Potatoes, white 9d to 10d ; Minions 12d to 14d ; Guano—
Peruvian, 111 105; Ishaboe, 91 per ton; Tar—Archangel,
19s per barrel.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. •
TA .r TERSALL'S.—YEsTERDA.v.
The entire interest of the betting centered in Ghillie
Callum, who opened at 10 to 1, and receded, point by
point, notwithstanding a very large outlay, until be
reached 15 to 1, taken to some hundreds; supporters,
however, were so numerous that at the close 12 to 1 was
the highest offer. Nothing else was backed to any ex-
tent; but Clincher, Voltigeur, and Mayors were very
firm at the prices quoted. The two favourites for the
Two Thousand Guineas Stakes left off at the same
price, 6to 4 being offered on the field. The price cur-
rent at the close of business was as under:—
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
6 to 4 agst Lord H. Lennox's Beehunter
6 to 4 agst Mr. Hill's Pitsford
3 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Hardinge
20 to 1 agst Sir R. Pigott's Moultan—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Mickleton
50 to 1 agst Lord Orford's Zadoc
CHESTER CUP.
10 to 1 agat Lord Howth's Peep•o'-day Boy, 6 yrs,
9st
12 to 1 agst Sir R. Pigott's Essedarius, 4 yrs, 7st 91b
—taken
12 to 1 agat Mr. Merry's Miss Ann, 4 yrs, 7st
17 to 1 agst Capt. Harcourt's Ellerdale, 6 yrs, Bst 31b
17 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Chantrey, 4 yrs, Est 101 b
20 to 1 agst Mr. OsbAldeston's Fogleman, 5 yrs 7st
20 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Roland, 4 yrs, sst 811;
25 to 1 agst Mr. Eddison's John Cosser, 5 yrs, Bst 51b
—taken
25 to 1 agst Major Pitt's Mounseer, 4 yrs, Est 91b-
-taken
50 to.l agst Mr. Isaac Day's Cockermouth, 5 yrs,
6st 101 b—taken freely
50 to 1 agst Mr. Disney's Captain Grant, 3 yrs, sst
—take 1,000 to 15
2,000 to 30 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Minimum, 4 yrs, skt
101 b—taken
DERBY.
5 to 1 agst Mr. W. Edwards na Bolingbroke—take
11 to 2
6 to 1 agst Lord Airlie's Clincher
8 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Mayors—taken and
offered
11 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Voltigeur—taken and
offered
12 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Ghillie Callum—t
15 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's The Nigger
15 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's The Italian
20 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Mildew
20 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Nutshell
25 to 1 agst Lord H. Lennox's William the Con.
queror—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. H. Hill's Pitsford
28 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Penang—taken
30 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Knight of Avenel—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Gannon's Deicoon
1,000 to 15 agat Mr. Disney's Captain Grant—taken
several times
sto 1 agat Kent's lot-6 to 1 laid to 100 L
2,000 even between Voltigeur and Ghillie Callum

The subscription-room will be opened on Saturday, the
4th of May, for comparing books on the Chester,Cup.

BATH STEEPLE CHASES.—THURSDAY. •
A Free Handicap of 5 soya. each, and 40, added; the
second to save his stakes. 4 miles. (19 Sobs.)
Mr. Voter's Vengeanoe, lOst
Mr. Huphes's Tipperary Boy, lOst
Mr. Cooke's Verax, lOst 31b ... (T. Holman) 3
The following also run:—Lord Lurgan's Fugitive,
list 51b, (Bradley)—Mr. Cartwright's Thurgarton,
lOst 61b (Davenport)--Mr. O'Key's Maurice Daley,
lOst (Archbold)—Mr. Hughes's Miss Collingwood, 10,t
(Tasker)—Mr. Holates's Vixen, 9st 101 b (011iver)—Mr.
Elmore's Agitator, 9st 101 b (Archer)—W. A. Sait's
Alexander, 9st 71b(Owner)"—Mr. A. Laud's Sarah Sykes,
9st 71b (Higgins)—Captain Green's Treasurer, 9sc 71b
(Boyce)—Mr. Routle's.Recruit, 9st 41b (Reed)—Capt.
West's Little Nun, 9st 41b (Vivian)—Mr. Evans's Tam-
worth, 9st 41b (Burrows)—Mr. Chilingworth's Powick,
Bst 10Ib (Tweedy)—Captain Barnett's. India Rubber,
Bst 101 b (James)—and Mr. Brick's Fairy, Bat 7lb
(Rolnb). W,913 by half a neck.
The Bath Hunt Steeplechase
.Stakes of 5 soya. each, 2
fr, and 25 added, the second to save his stake. Four
miles. (5 Subs:). • -
Mr. Lansley'i.Gentlernan (G. Lansley) 1
Mr. G. Gambrell's Lottery (Owner) 2
The Scurry Stakes of .2 soy& each; 1 ft, and 10 added.
Heats.' TWo Miles. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Taylor's bay gelding, llst
Mr. Bryant's'Dolphin, list... 2 1 2
Mr. Johnson's,Vivancliere, list 71,b
CURRAGH APRIL MEETING.--,-WEDNEsDAY.
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The. attendance this day was miserable in the extreme,
not more than twenty persons having come down by the
train frora Dublin. The great event of the meeting (the
Wellingtona) brought only five, out of fourteen that ac-
cepted, to the post, and was won after a magnificent race
between Dough and Ballinafad by the latter by a neck.
Bullion-won the Free Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs.,
25 added, by a dozen lengths. The Corinthian Stakes,
with which the day's amusement concluded, was a capi-
tal race, and won on the post by only half a length, well
and steadily piloted by Mr. W. Poulett, of the 2d, or
Queen's.
The winner of the Madrids, Captain Grant, has been
challenged by Brother to Johnny and St. John; it will
he run off this day, when fine sport may be expected.
Wellington Stakes, 20 sovs., h ft. Thre years old Course.
Mr. Irwin's ch f Ballinafad, 6 yrs, Est 91b...(Wynne) 1
Mr. Murphy's ch c Dough, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b...( Magee) 2
Mr. Disney's b c Victory, 3 yrs, 6st !lb (Jones) •3
Lnrd Waterford's f Queen Margaret, 3 yrs, 6stiolb 0
Free' Handicap of 10 sovs., h ft, with 25 soya. added.
Mr.'E. Power's Bullion, Bst 111 b (Dawson) 1
Mr. Foster's ch g Lord G. Bentinck, Bit 61b (Kenny) 2
Mr. Irwin's Se set Norah, Bst 51b
Sweekstakes, 10 sovs., h ft, fur hunters, racers admit-
ted, 20 sovs. added. One mile and a half on the Pod
Course.
tOrd Waterford's Due-an-Darras, 5 yrs (Mr. Poulett) 1
Mr. Quin's eh c Farewell, 5 yrs (Mr. Kennedy) 2
Mr. •Williamson's ch g Poor Yorick, 5 yrs (Mr. Peel) 3

AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA.
The Jutland and Sleswick pirates, who fourteen
centuries ago performed the great achievement of
conquering and colonising Britain, have since,
in the persons of their descendants, achieved the
still greater feat of colonising and settling, while
they are in a fair way of conquering and occupying, a
whole continent, to the destruction or absorption of
every other race. The Anglo-Saxon population of
America, in fact, constitutes, at this moment, a people
more numerous and mighty than any European nation
of the period when their emigration commenced. The
very same people is now engaged in achieving ano-
ther great, although not equally great enterprise, the
colonisation of another continent, Australia ; and the
Australian colonies, within sixty years of their first
foundation, are already calling loudly for self and
responsible government, which is, by more than a
century, sooner than,the American colonies made a
similar claim. 'We have not the least doubt but that
it will be to the mutual and permanent advantage of
both parties, that these demands of the colonists,
which are in no respect unreasonable, should be
liberally and readily granted.
The better to understand our position in relation
to them, let us compare the two continents alluded to.
America has a greater extent of territory, and there-
fore more room for expansion than Australia. Its
natural products are more valuable, its soil is more fer-
tile, and its climates more varied and propitious to ve-
getation. Its greatest superiority over Australia, how-
ever, consists in its magnificent water communication,
—its great rivers, its splendid lakes, its navigable es-
tuaries, and its commodious harbours. Finally, it
possesses the vast advantage of being only one-sixth
part of the distance that Australia is from the civili-
sation and markets of Europe.
Let us now see what Australia is. It is said to
contain three millions of square miles. But of this
we take it that about one-half, or all of it that lies
north of the twenty-fifth degree of south latitude,
is unfit for our use as Europeans, and, most pro-
bably, for the profitable use of any people, on
account of the comparative sterility of the land,
or what in such a situation is equivalent to sterility,
the drought of the climate. But for these great and,
we fear, insuperable disadvantages, the tropical
portion of Australia might have been peopled
from industrious and teeming China, which,
with the help of steam navigation, is at an easy dis-
tance. Notwithstanding this serious deduction from
its available area, Australia has extent enough for the
abode of a great people, as what remains is equal to
near twenty Britains, or above seven countries as
large as France.
The absence of good water communication is the
greatest defect of Australia. It has not one great
river which at once penetrates deeply into the coun-
try and communicates by a navigable course with
the sea. The best of its rivers are not equal to
those of the fourth or fifth order in America, and it
has no lake at all of commercial value. Another
almost equally great disadvantage is frequent and
long-continued droughts, even of its southern parts,
which, however, as strength and wealth increase, may
in time be at least mitigated by the erection of great
works of irrigation, such as those on which the exist-
ence of whole populations depend in the warmer re-
gions of Asia.
In salubrity of climate Australia has a great su-
periority, not only over America, but over every
other country. For the rearing of sheep and the
production of fine wool, it may be said to possess
almost a natural monopoly ; and in this respect,
it Is ill soon become as necessary to us, and pro-
bably as important, as America is for the growth of
cotton. Its adaptation of pastoral husbandry is such,
indeed, that we have often thought, had it been set-
tled by Tartars or Arabs, or even by Anglo-Saxons
of the time of Hengist and Horse, that it would have
been now thinly inhabited, by nomade hordes, mere
shepherds and robbers, if there was any one
to rob. One immense advantage Australia possesses
over America, which must not be omitted—the total
absence of a servile population and an alien race. In
America the bondsmen forma a fourth part of the
whole population, and in Australia little more than one
sixtieth, speedily to vanish altogether.
If the comparison between America and Australia
have reference to the facility of achieving and main-
taining independence, all the advantages are unques-
tionably on the side of Australia. It is at least six
times as far away from Europe; and a military force
sufficient to have even a chance of coercing the colo-
nists could not get at them in less than four months,
while the voyage would force it to run the gauntlet
of the equator and both tropics. When it
reached its destination, supposing its landing to be
unopposed, it would have to march every step to
seek the insurgents, for there is neither river nor
estuary to transport it into the interior of the country.
The colonists, rifle in hand, and driving their flocks
and herds before them to the privation of the invader,
would of course take to the bush; and do so with im-
punity, being without tents or equipage, or risk of
starvation, having a wholesome sky over their heads,
and abundant food in their cattle. With a thorough
knowledge of localities, the colonial riflemen, under
such circumstances, would be more than a match for
regular troops, and could pick off soldiers with more
ease than they bring down the kangaroo or opossum.
We should look, however, to the number and cha-
racter of the Australian population. In 1828 the
total colonial population of Australia was 53,000, of
whom a large proportion were convicts. In 1843 it
was 300,000, of which the convicts were but 6,000.
In the two years since, 37,000 emigrants have pro-
ceeded thither, and the total population at this mo-
ment cannot be less than 350,000. It has,• there-
fore, been multiplied in twenty-two years' time by
near seven-fold ; and if it should go on at this rate
of increase, in the year 1872 it will amount to close
on two millions and a-half, which is a greater popu-
lation than that of the old American colonies at the
declaration of independence, and after an existence of
175 years. Such a population, or the one half of it,
weu!d, from numbers, position, and resources, be un-
conquerable.
Such is a true picture, we conceive, of the position
in which we stand in relation to our Australian colo-
nies. Meanwhile the colonists are loyal, affectionate,
and devoted, and (the result of absence and distance)
with really warmer feelings towards the mother
country than those they left behind them. It will be
the part of wisdom on our side to keep them in this
temper. They demand nothing that is unreasonable,
—nothing that it is not equally for their advantage
and ours that we should promptly and freely concede.
They ask for, responsible government, and doing so
they ask for no more than what is possessed by

their fellow-citizens. They ought to have perfect
power over their own resources and their own
expenditure ; but, in justice and fairness, they ought
also to defray their own military charges ; and,
seeing they have neither within nor without any
enemy that can cope with a company of light infantry,
the cost ought not to be oppressive to them.
The Australian colonies are, at present, governed
in a fashion ,to produce discontent and .recalcitra-.
tion. They are, consequenly, both troublesome
and expensive. The nation absolutely gains nothing
by them that it would not gain, and even in a
higher degree, were they self-governed, or, for that
matter, were they even independent. Thus, emigra-
tion to them would go on at least in the same degree
as it does now. It does so go on, to the self-governed
colony of Canada, and to the, country which was
(nice colonies, and this after a virtual separation of
three quarters of a century.
In like manner will our commercial intercourse
witli the A,ustralian colonies proceed under self-go-
vernment. In 1828, the whole exports of Australia
amounted only to the paltry sum of 181,0001., and in
1845, the last for which there is a return, they had
come to 2,187,6331., or in seventeen years' time had
been increased by above- fourteen-fold, a rapidity of
progress to which there is no parallel. At this ratio, of
course, they cannot be expected to proceed in future ;
for the Australians, having coal, iron, and wool
in abundance, will soon learn to make coarse fabrics
for themselves. The finer they will long receive
from us, as America, after its long separation, still
does. But that the Australian colonies, under any
circumstances, are destined to become one of the
greatest marts of British commerce, may be con-
sidered as a matter of certainty. The only good
market in the world, for the wool,' the tallow, the
train oil, and the copper ore of Australia is England;
and to England they must come, even if Australia
were independent to-morrow ; and they must be
paid for, too, in British manufactures. Independence
has never kept the tobacco of America from finding
its best market in England, nor has it prevented
American cotton from becoming the greatest of
the raw materials imported by England.
A common lineage, a common language, common
manners, customs, laws, and institutions, bind us and
our Australian brethren together, and will continue
to do so perhaps longer than the British Constitution
itself will last. They form, in fact, a permanent bond
of union ; whereas the influence of patronage and the
trickeries of Conservative legislation, do but provoke
and hasten the separation which they are foolishly
framed to prevent.—Examiner.

interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colo-
nial Office.

The Rev. Mr. Tyl#, rector of St. Giles, had an
interview yesterday with. Sir. George Grey. Sir
John 111'Neill had also an interview yesterday with the
Right Hoq. Baronet at the Home Office.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
a general meeting yesterday.

MR. BUNN AT BIRMINGHAM.
(From Aris's Birmingham Gazette; April 22.)
The attention of the dramatic community has been
very strongly excited during the past week by the
appearance of Mr. Bunn on the stage of this town,
which he directed so many years with such deserved
popularity previous to his assumption of the reins of
government of the national theatres of the metropolis.
Mr. Bunn introduced to us on this occasion The
" Monologue " which he has• recently delivered with
remarkable success in London, and which has elicited
a more unanimous expression of public opinion from
the press, than any instance of recent date we remem-
ber having called forth. We are not at all surprised
at this; after watching, with highly gratified feelings,
his portraiture of character, his intimate acquaintance
with all the resources his subject brings into action,
his beautiful declamation, his animated manner, his
incessant humour, and thorough knowledge of his
art. The professed object of the entertainment- is
to review the stage in its past and present condi-
tions, to bring into more general notice the unceasing
commentaries, and their mostly unmeaning matter,
on the great poet who has been, and ever must
be, the great prop and only permanent hope of the
drama, and while accounting for the apparent decay,
to ascertain the prospect there is for the restoration
thereof. Mr. Bunn bas grappled in a masterly man-
ner with the ablest, and has exposed in the most ludi-
crous manner the weakest, of the numerous writers
who, in attempting, to exalt Shakspere, have had in
view the latent notion of exalting themselves ; and
who, in presuming to lay bare the fallacies of the
poet, have only exposed their own. Mr. Bunn has
been content to deal with those men of eminence at
the head of whom Dr. Johnson stands conspicuous,
and has judiciously passed over the more modern
body of critics (excepting Mr. Payne Collier, whom
he very highly lauds), because their writirgs for the
most part, are but a rechauffe of the opinions of their
abler predecessors, and have not carried with them
any degree of authority, influence, or interest. It is
impossible to combat with minor minds, and Mr.
Bunn has therefore taken no notice of those almost
diurnal reviewers whose genius is of that class which,
aiming at instructing the public, only exhibits its
own incapacity. It is evident that Mr. Bunn's study
of his subject has been deep and ardent, and he has
certainly brought more to bear thereon than
most of the commentators lumped together,
whose incongruities he bas so properly lashed.
When listening to his exposition of their anachronisms.
we derive the highest instruction and the greatest
amusement at the same time ; for Mr. Bunn has so
admirably composed his work, that if, in the dry de-
tail which he must have occasionally to wade through,
the interest of the auditor should not keep pace even
an instant, with his own enthusiasm, he introduces
some touch of humour so irresistibly droll that the
spectators' feelings are poised throughout between
high admiration and uncontrollable laughter. It was
a matter of wonder to his delighted listeners how
Mr. Bunn, or, indeed, any of the eminent public
performers or speakers who have preceded him, could
for three successive hours, unassisted by a human
being, fix the attention of a whole audience in so un-
tiring and so delightful a manner. If the limits
of a weekly journal would enable us to do this,
we should derive a
kpleasure pleasure., only to
witnessing his perforreapce, frogs analysing, in
the most minute manner, one :sof, the most
powerful, most interesting, and rabst success-
ful entertainments the English stage has had to
boast of. We cannot do this, but we, should be guilty
of an unpardonable,omission Wee,sl,l(l not refer to
his consummate delineation of trioc"'‘Fitches " in
Macbeth, which has never been surpassed, in our
belief, by any performance the English stage has had
to boast of; and it really leads one into a world of
wonderment, where we naturally are induced to ask
the question why Mr. Bunn, with every possible re-
quisite for being one of the greatest actors ever
known, selected the position of a manager instead of
a performer ? He reached the topmost branch of one
tree, by leasing at one time—a thing hitherto un-
known—both Covent-garden and Drury-lane
Theatres ; and we cannot see why he might not have
perched on the loftiest branch of the other tree, by
pourtraying the genius of all our great dramatic
poets. The-manner in which he placed before us the
wonderful language which Shakspere has allotted
to the Weird Sisters, exempting it from the mum-
mery which hue invariably hitherto disgraced it, was
one of the grandest displays of histrionic art it was
ever our good fortune to witness,. The manner of
Mr. Bunn altogether is animated, colloquial,
familiar,, but perfectly unobstrusive ; he can
sway his audience entirely at his will,
excite their sympathies
,and when satisfied therewith,
be can command their loudest laughter. His general
readings of the language of Shakspere are the purest,
and at the same time most powerful, and may cer-
tainly compare with any actor of eminence we can
call to mind. We are exceedingly sorry that the
visit of this highly-gifted gentleman has been so
short ; for, after witnessing twice his admirable en-
tertainment,
and recollecting at the same time that as
an author of some of the best performances of the pre-
sent day, the poet who has sent into the world those
sweet ballads, in the mouth and on the piano of every
singer, and the most extraordinary manager that all
Europe has produced, we feel no small degree of pride
in recollecting, and in recording, that it was in this
town Mr. Bunn began a career that has been at-
tended with so much success and so much imperish-
able renown. We observe by the Manchester papers
that Mr. Bunn will give his entertainment in that
town during the present week.

EMIGRATION TO THE STATES.
MR. CATLIN'S LECTURE.

Yesterday evening Mr. Catlin, the well-known
American historian and traveller, delivered a farewell
lecture at Exeter Hall, on the Valley of the Missis-
sippi and the advantages of emigration to the western
states. The credit of placing before the public in
a dispassionate form the obstacles which encoun-
ter the emigrant, and the advantages which he is
certain to derive after these difficulties have been
overcome, is due to Mr. Catlin; and, judging from
the number and enthusiasm of his auditors, it is
evident that his services in their regard have not
been altogether unappreciated. The manner in which
Mr. Catlin conveys his information is peculiarly at-
tractive. An earnest desire to benefit his fellow-men
appears to be-his principal motive ; and while, on the
one hand, he points to the 'thriving homestead which
has been raised in the prairie's depths, as if by magic,
by the industry of some sturdy islander, he points
with the other to the consequences which mast
inevitably await those who imagine that, •when they
have crossed the Atlantic, a modern Canaan awaits
them, and that the golden fruits of enterprise and
perseverance are to be plucked without a manly
struggle for their possession. Mr. Catlin calculates
that an industrious emigrant, possessing sufficient
capital to cultivate eighty acres of land in the
western states,
ought to be able to support his fa-
mily almost immediately upon their settlement. The
emigrant about to make a settlement has nothing to
do but hire a keg' boat in which to stow his family,
his goods,
and the materials necessary for the con-
struction of a , wooden house '(and the latter are to
be had for next to nothing), and get himself towed
up the Mississippi to the location he has chosen.
To the emigrant, there appears to be nothing wanting
but society. Upon this subject, and also with a view to
economy, Mr. Catlin seems to think that the most ad-
visable course for intending emigrants to pursue
would be to unite themselves into associations, and,
having purchased large districts of land, subdivide
it into equitable proportions. A society, having for
its object the colonisation of certain districts
in the states on the mutual principle, is
now in course of formation in the metropolis,
and Mr. Catlin announced that he intended to
take the conduct of the first party of emigrants,
with a view to their settlement on the banks of the
Mississippi. It is afterwards his intention to
ascend the river, and, accompanied by persons expe-
rienced in mining operations, explore the auriferous
regions lying on the eastern, slopes of the Rocky
Mountains.

The lecture was illustrated by a series of maps on
a large scale, and by a number of paintings produced
from sketches taken on the spot. The latter formed
not the least pleasing portion of the entertainment.
The drawing and colouring afford evidence that Mr.
Catlin, who is himself the author, has been no unob-
servant admirer of nature in her varied forms, and
that he has added to his reputation as ti traveller and
an historian •the attributes of an intelligent and
talented artist.

ADMISSION OF SoLaciTous.---rhe Master of the
Rolls has appointed Wednesday, May 8, at the Rolls' Court,
Westminster, at a quarter past nine in the morning, for
swearing solicitors. Every person desirous of being sworn
on the above day must leave his common law admission, or
his certificate of practice for the current year, at the Seers-
torY'e office,lle-Yordo CbancerY-1412e, on or before Tuesday,
May 7.