The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

e respectable colonist, under the operation of
- - vstem, is a grumbler from the

wesent colonial

very first hour in which he sets his foot upon the
land of his adoption. He sets out with the notion
that he is to be powerfully aided by the Colonial
Office ; that he is to be petted, dandled into pros-
perity ; and he finds when he reaches there that he
has ceased altogether to be an object of considera-
tion. There is a Governor, it is true; an expensive
ff ; a court, and an aristocracy, into which he
not be admitted; and an opposition party,
a contact with whom his feelings shrink, the
of such party being to revile
overnment policy. He cannot
e Colonial office; and, if he did, would
ivoured with any notice of his
Yet he finds his arrangements
stantly interfered with by the
concocted generally in utter
1 wants, and changed as often

sole end and prat

,bablv not be

nmunications

lectations o

lorance of colonia

as the government of the mother country is handed
over from Whig to Conservative, and vice versa.
The consequence is natural. He becomes disaf-
1, dissatisfied with his position; his energy
iasm fail him, and, along with them, his
value as a member of the community into which
he has thrown himself.

and enth

But the worst feature of the system is its expen-
In some of our younger colonies, to
h we are looking to secure consumers of our
Inufactures and other products, it is found that
the mother country is paying 9s. to 12s. in the
pound as the expense of government and protec-
tion. At the Cape, for instance, we find in the
t an item of £1,000,000 for
the suppression of the Caffre war ; and probably
the whole amount expended in this colony will not
fall far short of £2,000,000. Now it is not to be
supposed that conflicts of this character would con-
lue to be provoked if the local government was
largely administered by the colonists them-

st public balance--

payment of their cost

A large and expensive

staff Might be cut down to a reasonable limit in
nearly every one of our minor colonies. A host of

nefficient secretaries and attaches, pets of the Co-
onial Office or the Horse Guards, might be ex-
nged for less expensive and more efficient ser-
fs—men intimately acquainted with the wants
;hose colonies, and deeply interested in husband-
7, their resources.

It is perhaps unfortunate that a subject of such
importance as that of Colonial Reform should have
fallen into the hands of such a member as Sir Wm.
lolesworth, whose views are rather extreme, and
s as to the value of colonies at all are
ool—who looks at the question
mnds, shillings, and pence, of
s and casks of hardware, rather
ting the national greatness ; but we
must at least thank him for having thrown a flood
upon the evil working of the system. The
t must now see the necessity

er as one of

of cotton goo

We m

a prompt and extensive movement
se to allow these noble possessions to be alien-
d from us, and their interests to be tampered
onsible and an incapable office ;
tow upon them that boon which
Engiishimen- in every quarter of the globe value
t highly—the right of self-government. No-
ess than this can diminish their costliness to
Ind thus neutralise the most powerful
ongst our ultra-liberal politi-

an irr

and pre

the na

tion,
weapon of those

cians, whose aim is to throw away our colonies

,ogether

LAW

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unfortunate characteristic of the practical work-
ar legal system, that justice is too frequently and

) easily evaded by the subtleties of pleading, and the
tine difficulties involved in bringing the most ordinary

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