The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-14 00:00:00

GOVERNMENT NOTICZ.

Colonial-office, Cape Town, Oct. 4, 1848.
His Excellency the Governor desires it to be notified,
for general information, that he has lately received dis-
patches from the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, in acknowledgment of his announcement
of the measures taken by him for the government of the
country beyond the Orange River and of the district of
Natal, as explained in his Excellency's proclamations of
the Bth March and 10th February last, respectively.
His Lordship remarks that he cannot doubt the neces-
sity of the first of these measures, inasmuch as the
policy of Sir P. Maitland evidently tended to the
same result; and that if the necessity of carrying
further what he had begun did exist, the intermediate
course of neither including the territory of the emigrant
Boers within the limits of the colony, nor leaving them
altogether beyond the control of British law, and the
protection of British establishments, seems to be well
calculated to avoid considerable embarrassments.
His Lordship further remarks, that the tendency of
his Excellency's measures, if duly executed, will be to
give somewhat more regularity and greater strength to
that rude system of government which has grown up of
itself among the people of that country, from the neces-
sity of their position, and to provide them the assistance
which they really require, for the purpose chiefly of
settling their disputes among themselves, by the inter-
position of an authority to which all the different races
of men whom circumstances have brought into such sin-
gular relations with each other look up with respect.
His Lordship, therefore, expresses himself as prepared
to approve o- the extension of British sovereignty over
the country between the Orange and Vaal rivers, upon
the receipt of some further information with which he
has requested to be supplied.
In acknowledging the receipt of his Excellency's
dispatches relative to the Government of Natal, Earl
Grey has furnished hisExcQllencywith a detailed statement
of the policy which he considers applicable to that district,
remarking, at the same time, that he is tar from expecting
the immediate creation of the various establishments re-
commended, and is well aware of the absolute necessity
of proceeding by very gradual and cautious steps in at-
tempting to reduce a population still little removed from
barbarism under the restraint of civilization.
His Lordship accordingly expresses himself as pre-
-vexed to
„sanction the_b measures adopted
by his Excel-
lenty for, ringing haekthe emigrant I3oers, and settling
• them ii:;1
,the dstriate
osed
f Natal, and the measures pro-
d pistrict.f or Vie oveioment of the natives within that
By command of his Excellent
(Signed) j Y tb-e Governor,
°RN MONTAGU, Secretary
to Government.

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