The Nevada journal., 1857-09-04
REPRESENTATIVE REFORM N Enc

REPRESENTATIVE REFORM IN Eng
LAND.-What our forefathers contended
for while subjects of the British crown
is being seriously agitatcd in Great Bri
tain-the representation of the colonies
in the British Parliament. A late num-
Der Of Blackwood has an excellent arti-
Gle on the proposition. The reasons
urged for a Federative Union are nu-
merous and convincing. 1t is shown
that the emigration from the mother
country is of startling haracter-more
than four millions of persons having left
the United Kingdom in forty years
These, it is said, have been drawn from
the industrious classes whose loss Bril-
tain can little afford to sustain She
has a deep interest III fostering the 10y
atty Of all these in whatever portion of
the British possessions they may be
found. They are consumers of English
manufactures, and will as such, if ten
derby treated, continue to contribute 10
the wealth ofthe parent country. Great
Britain from her circumscribed limits is
obliged to resort to colonial extension
Colonies are indispensable to receive a
surplus population. Otherwise emigra-
ton would seek a home with peoples
inimical to the British government, aud
whose interests are antPgonistic and det-
rimental. The duty of the home gov
eminent is to keep alive a British spirit
in the hearts of the colonists. To do
so, it is contended that representatives
in the House of Commons is almost in
dispensible.
Distance is at the present time no Oh
stacle in the way of representation
The mammoth Steamship about to make
its trial trip, it is claimed, will cross the
Atlantic from the westermost point of
ireland to the eastermost headland of
Newton Midland, i'll three days-less time
than it formerly took Scottish peer to
find his way to London. The British
Colonies of North America are therefore
as near in point of time to the capital of
of the British Empire, as in the days of
the American revolution, some of the
remote boroughs Of England were.-
Even Australia and India are aot so far
removed from the seat of power as not
to be conveniently represented there.
In. order that the House of Commons
need not be too large and cumbersome
it is suggested that many boroughs hav-
ing a small population but entitled UNI
der existing regulations to return mem
beers, be disfranchised, and the places
supplied by representatives from the col
onies. The plan of disfranchisement
was proposed several years since by
Lord John Russell, but being now advo-
Gated by the tory party 1t may be more
Liable to receive a favorable considera-
ton.
Blackwood has much to say of the
justice of the plan of colonial represer-
tation. Itmay be suspected, that other
motives than desire to render exact
justice, lie at the bottom of the move.
The late war with Russia has imposed
burthens of taxation upon the people of
Great Britain in addition to former de-
mands upon their pockets for the sup
port of government. To tighten these
burthens it may be cheap way to oh
tain money from the colonies, to allow
them representation that taxation may
follow. While the colonies are not repre-
scented they consider themselves as but
dependencies of the British crown, TO re-
ceive assistance from rather than render
assistance to it. But make them integ-
raj parts of the empire, equal in all re-
CARDS to the home government and the
burthens of government of right must
fall alike upon all the parts. Men for
the army and navy, subsidies for war,
and every other levy upon the inhabi-
tants of the colony, legally made on the
home island, will be demanded and col
ected of the newly represented coun-
try.
Thus the policy of the crown may be
to grant representation to colonies, if
the abstract principle of right has not
its infuence-it is likely to be only a
pretext.
PERsoNAL.-We regret to learn that
c. F. Wood, Esq, late Deputy Sheriff
of this county, intends to leave here for
Oregon in few days, perhaps to take
up his residence there. A host of friends
join with us in wishes for his success in
his future course. He is one of our old