The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-09 00:00:00

NEW CONSTITUTION AT THE ANTIPODES.

One of the most practised of Englishmen, Gover-
nor Sir William Denison, has just constructed a
constitution and a system of government for this
remarkable race of people. Experience has proved
that men may make mistakes in providing for the
Pitcairn Islanders, now settled in Norfolk Island,
and it may turn out Sir William has also mistaken
them. But on the face of the thing the constitution
he has framed seems a very fitting one for the
modern Utopia—for a race noted hitherto for its
gentleness, obedience, love of order, and a very
fair share of industry. Universal suffrage, election
of magistrates annually, and appeals only to the
decision of their ownlot selected juries in all ordinary
cases, may briefly serve as the outline of the con-
stitution. Annually, the day after Christmas-day,
the chief magistrate and his two assistants, deno-
minator' councillors, are to be elected ; the chief
magistrate must be at least 28 years old, must
be a resident, and must own a landed estate on
the island. The councillors must be resident, and
must be at least 25 years old. The chief magi-
strate
will be in fact, although not in name, the
Lieutenant-Governor of the island, carrying into
effect all instructions he may receive from the
Governor of New South Wales ; and he will carry
OR the government of the land, with the advice
of his two councillors, whenever he asks it. All
three will act as magistrates during their year of
office, and commissions as magistrates will be
forwarded to them from Sydney annually, as
soon as official notice of the election has been
sent up. Every male inhabitant of 21 years
of ago will be an elector, provided he has been
six mouths a resident, and provided he can read
and write. The laws and regulations of the
island may be changed at any time by a public
meeting and a poll of the people present, providing
the change has been called for by the chief magis-
trate and councillors ; but the proceedings will
have to be forwarded to the Governor of New
.South Wales for his approval. All minor cases of
police or of debt, arc., will be decided by the magis-
trates ; all more serious cases, criminal or civil, by
juries of seven elders, not less than 25 years of age,
chosen by lot ; but cases involving danger of life or

limb must be reserved for the consideration of the
coin to of justice in Sydney. Every child must re-
ceive a public education, a pecuniary penalty being
levied for non-attendance, heavier than the fee
charged for attendance ; the schoolmaster to re-
ceive all the fees and penalties, which will be col-
lected for him, free of deduction, by the chief
magistrate. No beer, wino, or spirituous liquors
to .to landed on the island except for medical stores.
The chaplain of the island is entrusted with con-
siderable powers ; he will be the returning-officer,
but cannot be elected magistrate or councillor ; ho
will have supreme charge of the education given to
the children ; he will keep and issue the medical
stores. The only public income provided appears
to be that derived from police lines and penalties.
So curious a mixture of thorough Radicalism gene-
rally with Toryism in religion and education we
have never read before. It would be a Utopian
constitution for any ordinary people, who would
certainly soon grow disaffected as regards the reli-
gious, the educational, and intoxicational provi-
sions. But possibly it may all the better suit the
peculiarities of the inhabitants of the rook-bound
island of the Pacific.-11faitland Mercury,

SALE OF THE PROPERTY OF LEOPOLD 1011)TATM—A
further sale of the property of Redpath took place yes-
terday, at the auction mart, when Mr. Marsh sold by auc-
tion the following:—The reversion to 83 shares in the
London and Westminster Bank, 201. per share paid ; and
to the sum of 1301. secured en mot tgage, receivable on the_
death of a lady aged 63, unless a gentleman aged 40
10"11.Dire receivable va4boloel. 3 per
should die unmarried in the life time of the lady, cold
aged 87, sold at 2901. The reversion
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sosfn. ma loa Consols,fd y 166. 13s. 4d, receivable on the death
of a lady aged 61, sold at 65/
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