The Press. — 1856-12-20 (London, England)

THE HON. JUDGE HALIBURTON, on Tuesday evening, addressed the members of the Manchester athenaeum, in the library, on the position and prospects of the North American colonies. The hon. judge, who was very warmly received, briefly sketched the history of our North American colonies, and described colonial government as characterised by the greatest ignorance, the grossest neglect, and great injustice. The rapid growth of the colonies was astonishing. They had now arrived at the point, as regards population, at whicb the United States asserted their independence. Where would those colonies be in ten years?—  The question must be asked and must be answered. Were toe colonies to be amalgamated with the United States? He did not think the United States wanted them, and he was happy to say that they did not want the United States; but still this alternative was " on the cards." There was a road called annexation, and it must be kept in view, for it led to the United States. Second, were they to form a confederation, each colony constituting a little State of itself, and so have a sort of congress, presided over by a viceroy? There were difficulties in the way of the third alternative ; but they were not insurmountable. Could the colonies be made part and parcel of England ? This was his favorite plan. But the colonists would not consent to such a union unless it were based on perfect equality. They had been degraded enough, and would be degraded no more. So far, they had been treated with the utmost possible contempt. Every petty German prince had a place here, but the colonies had none. Representation in Parliament was one thing they would require. The colonist felt that, tf he had been born in the United States, even the Presidentship would be open to him, whilst, as he was, he was looked down upon with contempt by the Yankees, and not considered an equal by the British. If he bore this any longer, he deserved to bear it. He naturally asked himself why Ireland should have representation and the colonist none ? The House of Peers contained no colonist; the late Governor-General of Canada left the country knowing just as touch of it as when he landed in ; and those upon whom titles had been conferred, in connection with grants of land in Nova Scotia for settling the colony, neglected it until the land been made valuable and then claimed it under their patents. In the House of Lords the colonists claimed equal participation with England. He wished that some man of political influence in this country would take up the question ; and he commended it as a fitting one for the energy and talents of Lord Stanley, as a young and rising statesman.  THE SALARY OF THE NEW RECORDER FOR BRISTOL, Mr. Sergeant Kinglake, has been reduced, according to agreement, from 0001. to 5001. per annum.  pelant.  THE JUDGMENT of the Lord Chancellor in the Tipperary Bank case, holding the shareholders not liable beyond the amount of their respective shares, has had the effect of weakening the confidence of depositors in other joint-stock banks, and has led to run for gold on the branches of the National Bank in Tipperary and Cashel. The manager has desired ten days' notice to pay deposit receipts, but there is no doubt of the stability of the bank. THE BROADSTONE MURDER still painfully occupies public attention. No further discoveries since that of the bag of silver last week have been made. A most searching inquiry to ascertain the persons wbo had access to the place where the basket was deposited, or who, not having business, were seen in its neighbourhood, has been set on foot, but it is said that this is merely a precautionary measure, for the police are in possession of facts which will go further than anything which can be elicited by such an investigation to point out the guilty person. Doubts having been entertained whether any money was taken from the cashier's room on the evening of the murder, it is now positively stated that by a document in the handwriting of Mr. Little it appears  SATURDAY,  that the sum of 3341. in gold and silver was carried off by the murderer. A mysterious story told by one O'Dowd, an engineer, that be one night last week saw a mufficd-up man come out secretly from a back window of the railway offices, and remove a bidden deposit, is disbelieved. The London detectives have given up the search, and left Dublin.