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3610nieu. In the wealthy and pmperous setCle- | km ua Lrom ahe Australian group of |
nenf of Viotoria there h | j u t been, W ususl, a |
pried election. A Bjliniatry of no great atrftngbh
rad no very high oherPu:fm--as we, learn from OUT
wal oorrespondent, who L entirely borne out in
zis ire- by the Mulbowma Arp--;wan .placed
rejoice in the pmbablerwith&d of a powerful | n a mino*, and obteined the Governor's con- |
tiveil, nor yet of those who beliove that they aee | lent to e disJo'tuti?n, | Once being cornmithd to this |
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in fdrtr COR~IB% the extinction of fivery. | We | h p, they ,bethought themelvea of 8a, the topia |
of fbe Colonies and those inWfe1y oon- | which were likely to have ~ & h t with the |
nested with them 9nd interestad in them. In the | iowest and most' kt t~orat cd ths ncoda. in i |
mafher of emigration the United States had fairly |
p$ the M af other countries apeakin8 |
the Briaksh language, and ths emigration to our |
ooloniea wan counted by hundreds, while W | never -committed themselves before, and with |
e-tim | to North America waa counted by | reference to wbicb the dissolution did not take |
thousanP& This waa due partly to oontigaity, | placa This pmgramme contained, among other |
partly to the wish of the frien& and relations | things, probctim to native industry, payment of |
of peraons who had alredy emigrated k be re- | members (3001. a-year each), and s repeal of the |
united in their new homes, | partly to the prestige of | gold export duty. The Protective movement was to |
a S | - | revolt from Great Britain, but, more | m r e | the mpport of | the populationa of large towns. |
than any of the& things, ta the notion that America | The payment of members wm to give, at l9ast until |
mas a land of perfect libeity, where, free from the | the Rill was carried, the ptwsone returned an interest |
King, the noble, the landlord, and the taxgakherer, tho people ruled in all their might and majesty, rnq | idtmtid wit& the existence of the Ministry. All |
these measurea are obviously most injurious to the |
efsve those Ism to the rich and | the instructed which | public interast, and t |
in less favoured lands they received from thv | ticuLar1y ~ ~ I L ~ C I B |
The introduction of passports, the imposition of ari | ds@FiWone of the wealthiest in the world, By |
income-tax, the suppression by main force of new- | mca meam the AdmirrYJtration has obtained nome- |
papers which do not gpeak the language of the | thing which may posdbly tura ant to be a bare |
Oovernmant, the prospect of a commercial collapse, | majority, bat in doing this they haw greatly |
and the foundations which are being laid broad | dagpaded the quality of the A b l y, which, not |
and deep of an enormous national debt, must | by my msans too elevabd before, it is agreed on |
inevitably check for a time at leaet, and perhaps for | & haha, is now snnL far below ita formar level. |
ever, tho vast emigration from England, Scotland, | Many of ita best mernbera have been excluded |
and Ireland to the United Xta,tes. | Yet people must | to make way for persona of %he most indifferent |
emigrate somewhither. | In a community like ours | charaater. | Parties are too nearly Manced to carrg |
them will always be ardent and discontented spirits | on the Government with much a body, and what |
chbhg against the exisbing order of .thin@, and | we h v e fo expect ia another dissolution,-mother |
1dj;rging to find in a new society opportunities fqr | acandd-s epedacle of psttian bidding againat each |
which they would seek in vain in an old one. | The | other for the suppart of an @orant rabble, 8nd |
Colonies naturally expect to secure a considerable | d c i n g the pnbliu interesf for s | few weeks or |
portion of this emigration. | There is, beaidee, | month of preoariOw and degdad official existence. / |
mother emigration of which the Colonies are no | The f a d is, that in Victoria and New South Walea, | -- |
leas degiroua-the emignrtion of capital. They not | that hP8 come forCCpaSii whc'h was | iera~een bJ; the4 |
um-bly | expect that a conaiderable portion | foundem of the Amerha Constitation. _Renpo_n- |
of t b | v& sums which now go to redsem the | sible gov# | M ~ | a | ~ | ~ | d | g | & | @ | ~ | l | f | ~ |
wilderness in North Americe may be attracted to | ab"surdity. m u i t h e f o ~ ~. d m of the American |
other and more favoured lands, where, un+r a | R+mbli~ would very gladly have induded a re- |
better k t e md a more orderly Governm~nt, | apomible government in their plan, if they had |
the earth m y | giw forth her increase, and a | no% been M&FO | that in an un-c~d | democram |
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man of wealth reoeive his own with usury. | responsible governmeii€ | ia equivalent to no govern:& |
Probably, by thaae who do not look narrowly | m=- AC-km M one set of men sw in poesek |
into mch fhinga it wil l be thought that the con- | aim of mm? the & cpmbine whl them and |
j n n c h is particulrry fevourable, and that reni- | eject th&, | to be in turn ejeated b i a drnilar m- |
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dence in our Colonie~ was never so attractive as | bination. b | their efforts to retain or kr a e b upan |
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now. Time was, and that not long ago, when olu Colonies wore aubjecfed to the meddling denpotism | office aach party eeeka to outbid the other, and to |
supplmii it in the goad g~aces | of kh08e constituents |
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of the Coloaial-offfoe, but that system has been | on whose votea office depends. | It waa the rivalry |
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pulled up by the mob, and hrs b e n succeeded bg | at -dentid eldiono which cumpletely' demo- |
the rule at responsible Ministriw, holding of6ce | cratized America, and the work Konld hare been |
at the pleasure of hembliea elected by suffrage | done much more ~wedily if the srtction had been |
almoaf anivemsl, and under the protection of the ballot Eere, than, it may be supposed, we have found apt wcipienta for that superfluous capital m d redudant population with which we are mm* times encumbemd, But we fear the picture will not be found no fair upon doser inapeation, and that in theae yougm communities may be already de- tectedmoat of the v b s which have so speedily arrived at a full-grown maturity in the atreng soil |
of the United 8 b k |
N ~ W | Walea. | This movement owes its origin |
to fhe | .pi.it of Protection to which the p m | . | --. <. |
& | l+%elbonroe | m | O W ~ | its mccesa. | Ths | ~ h ~ " | ~ P e r n ~. ~ n ~ | &v&&ij'6pea3d | 6hr |
ijolo& | qaafieEling h u t | their tariffs, and the | 3Pmvincial P ~ ~ e n t | on the 6th mth | filiaw |
ctasses, not content with protecting them- wlvp by law8 of arcluaion and high import duties, and emancipatian of th- who dig Ffold from i I
taxation, am aimrthg &heir dominaiian in another
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form by having | r e o ~ l l ~ g e | h | s t r i k ~. |
in the | infel&poe brought by a aingie msil. |
Although infinitely l= disastro~ than that which we daily receive fram America, we can trace in if the eamo elements of confugion, which only need
b e and mien to develop themselves into re-
anlix equally lamentable. It is evident that the
Q&- of society end of governmemt in them, comrnnnitiea hse been overthrown, and that they /
d e l h, " a r e the meaea,'and, aa it would seem, the only mesns, of reaching and retaining power. The QolonieRl have gone i great way in a few
;peata, but they have further yet to go. | bembly, aach Government, is worn than it9 / |
prebmmr, and the men who are too bad for tbe |
oaea of today ore found too mpedeble fox the p m |
poses of to-momw. There ia no limit to thia down- | ~ i e m | to be iolpnbtival~ required | and ths dl50a lW to |
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a | bich I | have r r f e r d *Ill, | I bust, ke ~ o r m o l ~ ~ k d |
ward tendency; there is no power in the +e | class | a | kdom md by the p*triolJPm of ths memben of a |
whioh governs these oommunities to regenerate
itself or reform them. We see in Australia the
image of what we have eeoaped in England, and
may wall profit by the spectacle. But such thixlga
are not dculated to allure mlonista or to attc&ct
capital seeking investment, and the misfortune
of America A d have been much mom the opportunity of the Colonies if the Colonies bad not
bwun to resemble her a little too doselv. What
effect them things have on the of the I Empire, and what duties they impose on the Home | Gov-ent, | it may be worth while to con side^ |
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An Aot to confirm certain Acts of Colonial Legislatures. | [28th July, 1863.3 |
WHEREAS doubts are entertained respecting the validity of divers Acts passed by the Le islature of South Australia for the purpose of altering the constitution of thc Legislative Council an8 House of Assembly of the said Colony ana respecting the powor of Colonial Legislatures to make laws for the above purpose and it is sxpeaient to remove such doubts Be i t therefore enacted by the Queen's most | ExceUent Majesty by and with the advice and conset~t | of the Lords 8piritual and Temporal and |
Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of | tho same as follows: |
l. In this Act of Parliament the term " Colonial Legislature" shall mean the authority (other As
than Her Majesty in Coandl) competent to make laws for any of Her Majesty's Possessions abroad ~~~~~~~n~ | terms |
except India the Channel I ~ l t l n d ~ | and the Isle of Man, | Qovernor!' |
The term "Governor" shall mean the officer l~wfully | administering the Government of any |
2. All laws &g&&521 passed or purporting to have been passed by any Colonial Legislature with | Confirmation of |
the ob'ect of declarin | or a tering the constitution of such Legislature or of any branch thewof or the | certain Acts of |
;ode | 2 appoin&elacting | the members of the same shall hare and be deemed to have had from | Colonial Legisla- |
the date at which the same shall have received the assent of Her Majesty or of tlie Governor a£ the | tures. |
Colony on behalf of Her Majesty the same force and effect for all purposes whatever as i f the said | Legislature had p o s s s s s e d ~ w e ~ s | of!&rj;sTaws | for the ajbjecto aforesaid and as if a-alities |
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