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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3441, 5 January 1880, Page 2

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(PEB 8.8. BoTOBUA AT THE BtUFJ.)

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The London papers continue to condemn Mr Berry's extreme proposals. The Times, after contending that reason, able proposals for a compromise were offered, plainly hints that if these are not accepted, and Berry pushed matters so far as to again apply for the intervention of the Home Government, the extreme Democrats might find themselves somewhat disappointed at seeing the Victorian constitution altered^by Imperial Parliament in a manner not all in accordance with existing claims of the excited colonial Democracy. , Respecting the Prince of Wales' anticipated visit to Australia, the Argus correspondent states on the authority of one who is on the most intimate terms with Sis Royal Highness that great as is desire to visit the colonies, there is little chance of his being able. There are three seriou* drawbacks, the first, the Prince's personal unwillingness to put the country to the expenses of * visit made in ft semi regal suite which certainly could not be less than his Indian visits .secondly, the un> desirability of his being absent from England during the time of the next general election, which there seems now every probability .will take place about the close of next year. < The Prince is apparently a fare of the strength of Colonial susceptibilities and the intercolonial jealousy, and would be most unwilling to rouse,, any such feeling, and the fear that if he werelto visit the Melbourne Exhibition the people of New South Wales would feel aggrieved at not having honored their display with his presence. Matters of Trade. Great Britain has already paid .the United States 25 ,000 dollars for conveying the British-Australian mails across the American Continent,'in reference to which a traveller; writing to the Pall Mall Gazette, asks what benefit is derived from this expenditure by the English people, to which he says in reply: That not only do the English derive no benefit at all, but they actually play into the hands of their trade rivals, the. Americans, by opening up to them additional markets in Australia and New Zealand by means of the direct steam communication between those colonies and San San Francisco. The French journals state it is in contemplation to separate the Ministry of the Colonies from the Ministry of Marine and constitute a special Colonial Minis- | tr j. Aa Important Question. Speaking at Hereford, Colonel Arbuaoth, M.P., said the next question of the day would be the consolidation of the Empire. England had immense colonial possessions, and in a few yet m their trade must equal that of any other country if the British Government will take steps without delay to bring about an alliance with the colonists to induce them to give England advantages they would not give foreign nations: ;