The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-30 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 30.
THE troubled state of affairs at the Cape of Good
Hope cannot present itself to any one's attention,
without at once striking forth the involuntary ejacu-
lation of, 'What is Sir HENRY PoTriNGER about?
What is the cause of his delay? Ile has been long
since appointed governor of the colony. The salary
and dignity being small—the former not more than
5,0001. a-year—both were doubled by his nomination
as High Commissioner. Yet the new governor stirs
not. Where is the hitch? Is it, as reported, that
being merely a Company's officer, there are objections
to his commanding the high and puissant heroes of
the line? Such absurdities as this, which have so
p
often roved most prudicial to her Mess service,
ought to be cut throuej ministerial
and abolished by ministerial
firmness and good sense.
Whatever may be the cause of Sir HENRY'S
loitering in this country, it must, in the actual cir-
cumstances of the colony entrusted to his care, be most
mischievous. The latest accounts from the Cape afford
no greater prospect of settlement than those, which
brought the first intelligence of the Kaffir irruption.
The savage intruders were still prosecuting their
forays with unchecked success and impunity. The
retaliatory inroads into Kaffirland had been productive
of nothing but great losses in horses and cattle. A con-
siderable proportion of the burgher levies had returned
to their homes in disgust. The Governor, deserted by
Sir ANDRIES STOCKENSTROM and Colonel HARE, was
preparing for fresh incursions into the country of
CREILI, falsely and prematurely announced to have
been pacified.
In the present imperfect state of information it is
impossible to say who is to blame for this. It may
be that the Governor, as asserted in a communication
relating to the affairs of the Cape which we this day
publish, has been thwarted by persons in office under
him. It may be that he himself lacks the energy
and power of combination required to put down the
Kaffir disturbances. But be the cause what it may,
the procrastination of the new Governor must be de-
trimental. By this time, Sir PEREGRINE MAITLAND
is aware that he is superseded; will he, while look-
ing daily for the arrival of his successor, venture
upon any comprehensive or energetic operations ?
Eery hour of Sir HENRY PUTTINGER'S dinvading
adds
tov the impunity and confidence of the
marauders.
In one respect the intelligence last received from
the colony is satisfactory. From the preparations
making to sends commando into Cuziti's country, and
from the moody retirement of Sir AKDRIES STOCK-
EKSTROM, it seems pretty certain that the fudge treaty
with that chief has not been sanctioned by the gover-
nor. It really is time that the farce of treating with
the heads of savage clans in the name of the British
crown, as if they were its equals, should cease to be
repeated. These leaders do not possess enough of
power over the warriors and elders of their tribes to
enable them to keep the treaties, nor are their own
notions of civil government and international relations
sufficiently developed to enable them to comprehend
the full force of such contracts. They are rendered
vain, presumptuous, and ungovernable by being
treated as equals of civilised sovereigns. The only
relations that can exist between uncivilised tribes and
a civilised government are subjection or armed sur-
veillance. To secure the frontier of the colony, Sir
ANDRIES STOCKENSTROM proposed to make CREILI
sovereign (according to our European notions)
over all the other Kaffir chiefs, and then to
conclude a treaty with him. How long would it re-
quire to teach CREILI, his nobles and commons, the
meaning of the relations which the words "sovereign"
and " subject" convey at once to a European ? How
long would it take to inspire them with that habi-
tual, almost mechanical obedience to laws and institu-
tions which civilised Europeans begin to acquire from
their cradles ? The scheme is almost too extravagant
for a political romance. And if its self-evident absur-
dity be not enough, it has been tried in New Zea-
land; it was tried in the Cape Colony with lIDITZA ;
and in both cases with disastrous consequences.
This country has two kinds of dependencies : its
colonies being communities of civilised Englishmen
who have gone out from the parent state and organised
civil society, either where there were few or no natives,

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