English Extracts.

New Zealander, Volume 1, Issue 8, 26 July 1845, Page 4

English Extracts.

A rumour, says (lie Dublin Statesman, has been for some time gaining giound, that the snm of £100,000 will bo asked lor, ami, as a matter of coutse, gi anted in next Pdiliament, for the erection of a groat univeisity in L eland, in which cheap education will be afforded on as\stemof peculiar instruction, in which also professors of j rill denominations, Roman Catholics and Uniuilians, will be eligible, and where degrees of all kinds will be conferred. The Roman Catholic Clergymen in Ireland, Messrs. Frost, Burk, OBrien, Macnamara, andßnshie, have lately renounced Catholicism, and are now prepdimg for the nimi&tiy of the Church otEngland. The " Agitator" seen.s to have incurred the resentment of his French radical fuends. The Reforvie states, that a distinguished statuary and caricatuiist is about to moke a cast representing O' Connell holding a torch in his right hand, and in his left a pail of cold water. A large factory is about being established in Berlin for manufdctuiing a species of composi-i tion equal to the finest marble, from plaster of Paris and a solution of alum. i

Colonies, and their Governors. — There is one circumstance which our Colonial Office seems altogether fo have forgotten,, or rather Jo have not yet observed; it is the veiy different class of population which of late years have been emigrating to our colonies, and are there the Cramers and entertainers of public opinion. The old emigrants were in general a rude and adventurous amphibious set, whom it was requisite to control with the discipline of a man-of-war, rather than with the laws and habits of their native home ; and colonial governors, accordingly, were in the habit of considering their Government bouses as a quarter-deck, from which they ruled the population like a crew. This arbitrary system, however universally perserered in, cannot be maintained without undermining and endangering the entire of our colonial possessions. Our principal colonies have received, within the last score years, a population of the welt bred and the educated, the highminded and susceptible ; at least a sufficient number of this class have emigrated to take the lead and to give the tone to public opinion in the colonies. And public opinion cannot be dealt with after the traditional fashion of GovernmentI general ? Turn where we will, Governors of colonies are at variance with their colonies; in Canada, in Nova Scotia, in New Zealand, in Australia, or every one of those settlements which have received «an infusion of the better] and educated class, there we find the colonial public revolt against Governors who take their will for law and their caprice for policy. Lord Stanley has evidently perceived this general forwardness, arising in part from the composition of the colonial population, and he has been compelled to yield to it by the concession of some kind of representative rights. Instead, however, of placing administrative policy in harmony, with this new btate of tilings, he has thought it requisite to counterbalance and seek to neutralize these concessions of freedom by a proportionate harshness on the part of Government. When we remark the simultaneous efforts made by Sir Charles Metcalfe and Lord Falkland to nullify and oust the Liberal party in Canada and Nova Scotia, and for no cause that we can see, except the doctrinaire pi inciple of resisting democratic tendencies, it is impossible not to ti ace both to orders and to a pre-conceived policy fiom home.

Parliament and the Colonies. — Parliament has been further prorogued till the 4lh of February, 1845, then to meet for the despatch of bubiness. Already the note of preparation for the coining session begins to rise on the ear, and grow louder and louder. As yet little lias transpired whereon to base conjecture as to what colonial subjects will be brought before Parliament. An aitempt will piobably be made to open up the sugar question. Mr. Scott will, in all likelihood, aguin bring the atFdiis of New South Wales before the House of Commons. A thorough discussion of the affairs of New Zealand cannot by any possibility be evaded. It could be desired that some independent member would draw attention to the frontier policy of the Cape of Good Hope. The settlement of Natal— the unsettled state of the currency in Mauritius— and the oppressions exercised in Madagascar upon British shipmasters and traders, combine to direct attention Jo the connexions of these count! ies with each other and Great Britain. Could not some regular postal communication with Mauritius and Natal be established at Aden or Ceylon? The aspect of affairs in Canada is favourable to some attempt in favour of that colony being made in Parliament. The Colonial Office swindle in South Austi alia ought to be bi ought upon the tapis. These are the special affairs of individual colonies or colonial groups; but notice was given last session of a motion which concerns them all — respecting the evpeihency of granting representatives in Parliament in the colonies. Alternatively with this discussion one might be raised on the necessity of simph f) ing and establishing by statutary enactment the right of direct appeal from the colonies in all matters of adminishation to the Privy Council. 4 There are two topics in whi-h all the colonies are concerned, and in which all the friends, of the colonies m Parliament might act in conceit. With regard to the special questions they might accommodate each other in ananging the best time and manner of bringing each foi ward. Siu-h spontaneous, unfettered co-operation would grow in time into a habit of acting in concert, which would immeasurably increase the weight of the colonial interest in Parliament. The colonial interest in Parliament may also strengthen itself by alliances. The East Indian government is threatened with an increased subjection to the board of Control. The non-colonial dependencies of the empire — the Channel Islands, Malta, Gibialtar, and even Heligoland and St. Helena — have claims to nrgeand friends to urge them. All these parties have to a considerable extent common cause with thecolonies — can be assisted by them, and tiestow assistance in return. There ought to be a league, offensive and defensive, among all the "outlying" portions of the empne.

Potatoe Sugar — The growers ot potatoes in the British Kingdom are likely to be benefitted by the exertions of the home sugar manufacturers, who are now determined to purchase all that comes within their leach. At the manufactory of potato sugar, at Stratford in Essex, and other places, we understand that the "fruit of the earlh"( potatoe) will betaken many quantity, and at a fair price. We have no doubt that the juice of the cane is. superior to the meal of the potato, but we have no positive pt oof that the potatoe can make up in any quantit) what is deficient in qualit) ! and as no one can question the nutriment in the potato, we do not see, why potato sugar should not be as advantageous to the tea or collee table as the potato I=. to the dinner table ; be this as it may, we have it on good authority that three tons of the i<iw nidtenal will produce one ion of the manufactured article, and consequently the British manulactmeis can successfully compete with the foieign and colonial produce. Why is a newspaper like the blood of a healthy man ? Because it very much depends on the circulation. 1 In Norway there are 72,G24 full owners of land, to 30,568 fanneis and 42,074 labouieis. Jn France itheie are 10,290,682 owners, hi Ireland only 10,000. j