The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-12 00:00:00

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or MS emplra from miarure, In every impartment of thr
state, produced by the ejection from power of Lord Mel
bourne's cabinet, we commend to their perusal The Budget
No. f 3, just published. Col. Torrens therein demonstrates
that for the creation of the predisposing causes of the failure
of the financial affairs of South Australia, the late govern•
went, and the late government alone, are responsible ; ' for
that failure the country has already paid upwards of £150,000,
with the certainty of an annual charge for the colony. The
Colonel shows, moreover, bow Col. Gawler was sacrificed
by Lord John Russell to screen his protege's—the land and
emigration commissioners—one an Elliot. ' The high-
minded soldier,' says Colonel Torrens, ' who led the storm-
ing party at Badajos, and who commanded the flank com-
pany which charged the Imperial Guard at Waterloo, has
been dismissed from his governmeipt—the commissioners
who disobeyed the act of parliament have been retained
office.

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merits of the respective parties in accordance with these dif-
ferent awards of arbitrary power. Col. Gawler has no friend
',ad no political connection—no family ties with

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Is touched a chord which, if we
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mistake not, will vibra,
not, however, think it right to content ourselves with
the notice which is here taken of Colonel Gawler; but
we Subjoin the deini-ofticial notice which was published
of that brave officer at the time of his appointment as
Governor of South Australia, in 1838 :
" Colonel Gawler is one of the most distinguished officers
of the British arty. lie was present at several of the Duke
of Wellington's great sieges and general actions : viz., Bada-
jos. Vittoria, Nive, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse, and Water-
loo. He volunteered the storming party at Badajos, (where
he was severely- wounded,) and commanded the right flank
company of:llie4l2d regiment during the great charge on the
Imperial GilardS at Waterloo. Colonel Gawler is distin-
guished for high intellectual attainments as well as for gal-
lantry in the field. At the military college he stood first in
mathematics, and some tracts which he has published on
professional subjects are written in a style remarkable for
perspicuity and force. From his acquaintance with the me-
chanical and physical sciences, and from the attention he has
given to the principles of government and of political econo-
my, he seems peculiarly fitted to call forth the resources of
a new colony, while his character for calm determination and
temperate vigour appears, as it were, especially adapted to
extinguish dissentious and party feuds ; and, to borrow his
own happy expressions on another subject, bring all author-
ities and parties in the colony `to act together in the mighty
energy of mutual confidence.' Captain S. Gawler, '73d
regiment, (father of Colonel Gawler, the new governor,) was
killed at the head of the grenadiers of his regiment, in close
confict with the enemy, by a spear wound, in the storming of
Port Moggerall,in the Mysore, in December, ]834."
Of Colonel Gawler we would only further observe,
he is a Conservative—a known, tried, and experienced
man ; lie was superseded by the late government to
make way for Captain Grey—a liberal—unknown, un-
tried, and inexperienced. The responsibility of that
act rests with Lord John Russell. An injury has been
inflicted on Colonel Gawler; and we deeply regret that
Lord Stanley, apparently, has not done him that jus-
tice in the House of Commons which lie had a right