SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—SPEECH OF GOVERNOR YOUNG.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 233, 23 August 1848, Page 4

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.— SPEECH OF GOVERNOR YOUNG.

Tin- follow me excellent and tru'y liberal speech re-•.p-viini? i lk- "ffiiis of South Austiaki, especially with rfclficnce to Religious Lilie-ty and rho Rights ot Consecure, was delive-ed bv Sn Htnry E Y. Youngs the uen- Governor of that Colony, at a pu >li« dinner given to him on Saturday week. We give it as reported in the Ltvopool Albion • — « The one-hiil' of my life has been already passed in or near the colonies, and I am thus competent to bear testimony to the c^erness and to fl) c anab.iteJ r flection With vrhub Rntish rohn.nts turn their thought* to the country they have hit, and how much they are comtoited to find thenisdvs exempt from the bitterest and heaviest pnng of c\ik, that of being out of mind as well as out of sight It will b, my pleasing duty, on my arrival at Adelaide, i» insr-int them with the welcome Hssnwncc— and to he enabled to give them this assurance w.is one ot the pnrcipal i,iiises of my presenca heie to-day— that sympathy is Jek in all their wunts and wishes as eoulially as if but a county or u shire dnided them from their countiyine:i ; and thus tlviy will, 1 tnir*t, »><! led to he! that the common bond of national allegiance which, even across two mighty ocean*, binds them li this their gloi bus fatbei land w ill never be slackened or weakened by unnatural indifference or inattention to then welfare. For ruy pait, I conqratulste myself and the colony placed under my cl'argc, that we possess the inestimable advantage and comfort of having such numerous and iuflutnlial friends in Ergland as I have now the honour to see befoie me. 1 congratulate myself on being 1 called by her Majesty to superintend the public service in a colony, the gieat cardinal punciple of which is, a provision to secuie a coi.tmuous and an untainted slicain of British emigration. Thus it is that the relations of the colony with the patent stale are placed on the best «tiid suie«t foundal ous. Time and numbers serve not to weaken, bur to knit together the closer and thestiongei those ties of patriotism ■which » constantly recuniti" infusion of lundied blood cannot fail to reinforce. Other incidents attendant on the settlement of a colony in South Australia have created in me a deep inteiest in its welfare. I esteem jl no mean privilege to be a member of a community re-uaikubly alive to the blessings ol civil and religieus l.berty; and in which the voluntary and unparalleled Christian liberality of an individual has munificently endowed the English episcopate. What Wordsworth wrote of an illustrious wairior and btatesrn,n may be »>oie appropi lately applied to this diotinguished member of the Church Militant ; 1 . &he such seed I loth sown, as jields, we trust, the fruit of fame In i leaven. 1 Banns alluded to the Church of England, it may be as well for me, rfjjard being had to the existence of numcious religious communities in South Australia, that 1 should plainly de< lare that, although in communion by descent, by education, and by steidlabt convil'Uod, with that Chinch, 1 nevertheless esteem myFelf to be iutimately incorpoiatcd in that far wider and more universal body which incudes the human rr.ee redeemed by our Divine Sty our, and of which tp-ri'iual body the Church of England forms but a fiuctional part, and not the whole. It the wisdom of the heathen sufficed to prompt the sentiment, that nothing that was alien should be alien to humanity, so in my judgment, without subtracting from this esten* hive benevolence, it ought to be peculiarly the chalacteiistic of Chriotiaii charity to esteem nothing alien to it that is Christian. So far, then, as depends on me, by precept and example 1 shall inculcate ill South Ai.Ltruhn Loul Bacon's maxim, that Church controversies ought not .0 be like the emulation of the Liier and the thistle, which can rei.d and tear and wound the most, and be the most unprofitable, but like the vine and the olive, which can bear the most useful fruit. With ieS[icct to ihe nature and form and constitution of fin local government in South Aust.alia, it will not be expected in roe to say much, or, indeed, anything, save in the most general terms— first, because 1 really know nothing that is not equally wtll knewn to others, namely, that which is contained in printed jiailiamentary blue-books, or that which has bteii officially made known to persons now present : and, secondly, because of forms of government it is confessedly true in most cases, that that is best which is btst administered, and my individual duty will be to make the best of the law as it now exibts in South Australia, or as it may hereafter exist by virtue of other aid higlier authori'y than mine. This much, however, I claim the right ot making no unnecessary mystery about—that, deeming the power to do good to be the true aud lawful end of all aspirations lor office, the official position inwhhh it appears to me that a governor can befct achieve ttiat laudable end is, that he should rather direct in chief than be required to busy himself in the details of executive and legUlatwe functions. His position should be that, wliuh I cannot help th-nking is one ruggesied to Great Britain no lets by motives of prudeuce to herself, thau by motives of tiue magnanimity to her colonies — I mean that GntisU colonists, having a franchise conferred on them by law, should be thei admitted to share in the responsib.lith'o Mid t'utks of their own local govern, went to the same extent, and in the same manner, as similar ie-j,onsibilities arid duties are shared m in th s country by the people possessed of the (ranehue. Nor ought the policy of such i\ concessitn to be limited to thin point alone. As a natural Mid jubt consequence, I tru.t the time is not i emote v/hen the pnnleges and honours, the cheap rewards of ruonaiehial nations, titular and hertdiiaiy distinctions which, in this counIry, usefully flow us of the s^ace and favour of the crown, will be wisely e-itmtled to reward and fatimu]6te eminent public services in the cokmies, as they now do, and it is to hd hoped ever will continue to do, in this part of the groat British empire. A kindred race will flourish under kindred institutions, and attachment to the monarchy will be as stiong in the colonu-s as in the counties of Great Britain. However difficult it is for me to touch, in conclusion, on matteis personal to myself, et>])ccially after the handsome, but far tco flalieiing, encomiums which have been lavished on me, I should be wanting in a proper sense of obligation, were I not sinceiely to assure you, that I shall pray and strive to be at least in some degree worthy of your favourable opinion, by zealously co operating with the intelligent, the industrious, and the moral colcuUtu of South Australia to promote the welfare of that important settlement." The statesmanlike addicts of Sir Henry was loudly cheered throughout.

An Episcopal Palack —We are informed that it is jn c< ntemplulion by the local authonues, to fleece the helpless, impoverished, and oppressed eclon'sts, for the erection of an episcopal paUce. We boi c they will pi o test against this monstrous pioject. The day is not distant when each denomination must sustain us own Clergj — ai.d it is intolerable thnt eiihi-r money or land, the propeity of the public, should be applied to, or alienated for, ssctarian purposes. It is ol no consequence to the community whether Ministers of religion be housed in castles or palaces, so long as the cost of their accommodation is defrayed by their adherents,

The first preachers ot the Gospel, it is true, were more frequently to be Found in prisons than in palaces, and Paul esteemed himself fortunate when permitted to occupy a "hired house. 1 ' High salaries, and official aggrandizement, have never contnbutr d to the efficiency of a Gi spel Ministry, but have invariably corrupted every system until what was once a Church, has become a mere political institution. Church and State never ran be »1 ied. The one is secular —the other spiritual— and when politicians profess to unite them, we only see one political corpoialion a^sociatfd with another. It was the observation of a profound tninker and eloquent orator of ihe past generation that the " boasted alliance seems to be little more than a compact between the Priest and the Magistrate, to betray the liberties of mankind, both civil and religious." The Colonists should be instructed by experience, and resolutely nsibt all attempts to exalt and aggrandize a clasi that have already proved the foes of freedom, and the advocates of slavish submission to tyranny the most odious —"Launceston Examiner,