, 1872-07-13

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1T is not without interest to notice the
:" entirely different manner in which the
q" Budget Committee in st. Croix has fran
"ed its report. The Committee opposes
all those chief items of Expenditure, that
do not appear as reductions when com
pared with the former budgets it also
q" dissuades from expanding larger amounts
edwards measures of general public utili-
"ty. The report handed in by the Com
"mittee seems, thus, on all points to be
:" pervaded by u certain meanness or petit
ness"
It was evidently the intention OF the ig-
norant scribbier in the Berlingsie to soft
solder the st. Thomas Council for their del
icate treatment of Governor BiIle's Budget.
Now let us see what the Iidende, which
(ipse dixit) represents public opinion OF the
ever-faithful island, has to say of Governor
Bille's administration, OF how tar the COun-
Gil and the late Governor have a%Iyanced
toward the "welI-consjdered wishes Of the
inhabitants" After the necessary flowers
of rhetoric, flowers of gardens and of fields
and m adows have been made to do duty
for something more substantiaI-th blush
ing Tidende, like another young lady, comes
to the point in the following strain:
".-..--It would not, however, be amiss
to call them ('the most potent, grave, and
reverent signiOrs,' that is, the Counci-AIem-
bers) back to a due appreciation of
the gravity Of the occasion. For this
purpose it is necessary to go back a
tweIvemonth, and it will be found that the
Royal Rescript of the 22nd May 1871 sets
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was COMMISSIONED to perform. Apart
from the vague moral instructions convey
ed to him regarding the promo
ton of the free Development Of
the energies OF the inhabitants, and the
advance of their welfare, it is to be OBJ
served that there were two objects which
were rattle" less indistinctly stated. The
one was to further such ordinances IS may
be considered necessary for a sound and
vigorous Development of civil life. His
Excellency may be excused for not having
shown in what manner he has complied
with this rather broad mandate but as
regards the second charge there can be no
mistake. 1t was, 'that the preilmlnarles
"to a Bill concerning such ameIloratlOnS IN
"the Colonial Law as experience might
''haye shewn to be appropriate, be contin-
"ued and brought to a close with all ASST
'!Asity and energy" In plain words, His
Excellency was to revise and amend the
Colonial Law as quickly as possible. In
stead Of finding any assiduity and energy
displayed in this, which was the most dis
tinctly stated of the Royal charges, they
appear, such as they were, to have been all
employed in measures which can scarcely
ever be made to pass muster under the first
of the two charges, as being Unnecessary
for a sound and vigorous Development of
civil life. The epithet is, however, sug-
gestive, and hence, perhaps, is it that we
obtain a ciU1 engineer. This can scarcely
be called the ''historical," but rather the
s~ronicoz development of royal Instructions.
AS regrets are not only vain but useless,
nothing more shall be said on the subject.
The Military ordinance can not, even by
aplay upon words, be made to do duty as
a Development of Grill life, and must there
fore be held apart as something in some
way connected with the stability of estab-
lished positions, which was also mentioned
in the Rescript. The appointment ola