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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 17.

Mn. ADDERLET, in a letter which will be found in
another column, deprecates in very strong terms the
assallest delay in the governments issuing a consti-
tution fur the Cape of (loud Hope. We can have no
wish to throw ()Weeks or cause delay in the grant-
kg of that constitution, except with the view to have
it well considered and well suited to the wants and
prospect.. of all classes and districts in tko colony.
What we want most especially to avoid is a repeti-
tion of that blunder and folly which concoct and
grant constitutions one day, as was the case with
Dicw Zeulaud, which urn so little suitable as to be ,
obliged to be suspendiml before they arc even in
operation.
Mr. ADDERLEV says that the entire colony is most
anxious and eager fur a constitution, and he would
seem to imply, for any constitution. This, with all
due respect for Mr. ADDERLEY and the colonists, is
childish. A constitution is not a plaything. When
such a thing is to be given or to he had, it requires
the utmost consideration of grantor and grantee. A
war is new raging along the whole frontier of the
Cape. The Cape people, with ever so much
of a constitution, do not pretend that they
could emidect that war, or pacify those
hostilities without the money and the troops Of
Englund. We not only think this, but think that
with all the wisdom of a colonial assembly, wan
may again arise, for which England may again be
answer:ble. It behoves the English the-
e"
weigh well in whose hands and in what condition ho
places the Cape, when he abandons the government
of it.
On perusing the last Blue Book, in reading the
demand' of Mr. FAIRIiAIRN and Sir ANDRIEs Srocx-
nsineon, it is plain that they demand two elective
°Pencils, both of which would be completely in their
interests. They demand that the upper chamber
should he elected, not, as in America, by local choice
or influence, but by a general ticket, which
would throw the whole legislative power, and,
by consequence, the executive into the hands
of one party, that represented by Mr. Fans-
Beam and his friend. Now, it is our opinion
that this mode of electing the Legislative Conrail
:is radically bad, and that it will sacrifice the future
peace, harmony, and, by consequence, the strength
and prospects of the colony to a party. We say that
the effect of adopting Mr. FAtaBAIEN'S proposal will
be to set east and west radically at variance. Mr.
.ADDERLEV meets this objection of ours by snorting
that the people of Port Elizabeth in the east desire
the constitution at all events, but to have themselves
protected against the danger we point out by
a proviso, guaranteeing that the eastern dis-
trict ten be separated from the western, on
the members of the former expensing the wish.
What is this but laying down in the constitution
the eepuration of the colony? Far oar part, we
should like to know what effect this separation would
be likely to have. If separated, the eastern district
would is• all fbr war, the western all for peace. And
with separotelegislaturvs, the gentlemen of the west
would wash their hands of the squatters and com-
latents of the cast, who would look to JUAN Butt
exclusively to support them, and to pay the piper.
;Mr. AUDEILLET, indeed, tells us that the constitution
is to " retrench useless taxation " at home, for the
'support of the colonies. Now, our objection to a
huniedeonstitution, ravished by the triumph of a
party. is that it will saddle England with greater
expense. and with untold embarrassment.
We know nothing of Mr. MONTAGUE, except from
the blue hooks, and these show him to be a very able
and not un illiberal man. We admire his speeches
en the constitution, as well as Mr. Emanates 's.
The entire debate in the Legislative Council does
honour to the' colony. And we believe that it was
merely necessary to have continued these debate. in
order to have arrived at a very fair constitution.
Buppre.itig that the tory members and the official
elouncillon. did carry certain clauses with too srbi-
trary a hand, the Colonial-office, under the influence
of the British parliament and press, might have
amended them. But no; when the colonial go-
vernment was ready to yield a great deal,
Maws. FarillAtax and STOCKENsTRON would be'
contented with nothing less than having everything
their own wig. Now, we do not think that they
Amid have their own way; for we see great defects,
great unrairtfcsm, and an inevitable schism and divi-
*el of the colony, were they to triumph altogether.
Nay, we think that Lord GREY'S granting them
their every wish would be the ruin of this very
Pepe Ulm , party, which would be overborne by a
raise or Awn semi-barbarous, mare powerful, and
IP9te huroffiltte elements in the colony, which live
of the vet 2f barbarism, and ore engaged in daily
104 • conflicts with it.
131 s. Aayt= views the question as amen party-1
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