New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-19

it in the earth. doomed the coil and people where
it fosted to remorseless slavery and p'uuder.
In hours of sickness and distress, like our
Southern oppressor, she lent aid and assistance
to her eDslaved colonies, but, like him, equally
doomed them to lend the sweat Of their brow
and the toll Of their hand INCREASINGLY to well
her wealth. The lesson Of America, pointed BY
the scsthing FIRE of Chatham, the president WIS
dom of Burke, and the exuberant humanity OF
Fox, was Dot without its effect, and
England somewhat relaxed her exacting grippe.
A. larger ard more generous ideas grew upon her
governing state smen. or a. the increasing strength
and improved intelligence of her governed peo-
pies made it necessity. her yoke has become
more light and gentle, until as in the instance Of
our DeiehbOrs of Canada. she has perui ted the
Colony to choose it's own Institutions, and govern
itself To this wise generosity Of policy or pra-
dent Difference to necessity, England i' indebted
for the present peace and prosperity Of many Of
her Colonies and her consequent ability to ersft
Der armies to the ever absorbing drain OF Sevas'
topol. The loyalty Of man, nsions is In their d.
gesiiop, and Napoleon wisely proclaimed that 'oe
stomach governs the world. As long as the ston-
sch is fed with material prosperity, the Colony
tits all serene; but when the paug OF distress
seizes Oh that organ, the feeling of nationality
and the memory Of former injury, break out.
What is I'll feeling of immortal hatred to En-
gland, which fpite Of every effort to exserunats
It, fourishes rankly under the very shadow Of
British power in India, in Malta, in the Greek
Islands, and which, among the Irish, in our own
land, RACES down from sire to aon but the spawn
Of her former wrongs!
To within re last eighteen months Australia
had been too ex itiDgy enwrspped in the pursuit
Of her newly fouid treasures to bsssOw much
thought upon her constitution. But since the to-
mutt subsidized in her veins, and tue golden fever,
with it, over trade and spirit of speculation aud
extravaganza, has, as in California, brought its
natural reaction of bankruptcy ard ruin and
unstable goods, she has begunte champ restlessy
under that BIT, which in the hour OF her ntoxicaton
she hardly felt and to put herself that very peril
nent question, whether any nation ever did an
Others business for nothing, and whether she
cannot find among her own vigorous population
brains as capable of directing her destiny as those
which, Gagged in the exclusive craniams of select
few on the other side Of half dozen oceans, have
managed to get the affairs Of their parent country
into 80 ridiculous NULL There is thatin the char
acter of the population ofAustralia which gives US
certain heart and hope that even if the present
report be not true, such questions will soon be
put, and find an echo in independence. No doubt
the settlers in the colony have until the last few
years, been derived from the sweepings Of the
gaol and hulk of European crime, but this dross
has been vastly improved and invigOrated
by the recent emigration, which, owing to
the greater cost of passage, and consequently the
better and more educated class which it absOrbs,
has been of far healthier characte, than that to
our country. This more recent emigration has
generally consisted Of young men, whose personal
independence, as evinced In emigration, would
naturally inspire them with love Of national in
dependence and fit them to enjoy it. Among the
most successful and thriving settlers in Australia
too, are many of our countrymen who naturally
carry with them love of republican institutions.
When we add to this the rough independence
and rude dsrelish Of even necessary restraint
which our Californian experience teaches that
the air Of the mining region begets, we shall not
be deemed as indulging any rosy dream in con-
jecturing that such q population will not long
submit to have their rulers and judges selected
to satisfy the requirements Of party in distant
land, and their laws tinkered and sent out ready
made by few dull dozers of Do wning-st.
Thatpeculiar pride of British bureaucrats and ar
istocrats CALLING everywhere is nowhere more so
CANT exclusiveness and morbid superciliousness-
not checked and softened, as it is in the parent
country, by the larger influences Of metropolitan
life and of Royal Court which, however unpal-
atable to the democratic many, acts as salatary
stay upon the domineering propensity Of the ars-
tocratic few-stands out in cruder antagonism to
the popular classes of the community. And if
this be keenly felt in the East and West Indies,
where the enervsting climate inclines to in.
dolence and servility, how much more must
this petty oficialsm gall so rough and in
dependent a people as those who are gath.
cred in Australia. Although there is about
this rising if true, an air of turbulence which
wears the aspectmore Of riot than revolution,
and the character of those with whom it has sprung
might incline them more to an anarchy than reg
ular republican form of government yet even if
the wild excess of passion should bring about Aus
tralias independence, the issue will 60 far to re-
deem ttemOtive, in securing to future generations
the blessings of democratic institutions, and that
attendant peace, prosperity and progress which
are their glorious crown.
THE pURyIC IAVDS