Lord Stanley will not let any colony, or group of
colonies, forget who is Colonial Minister. Long ago, he promised Guiana, that by March 1845, five thousand Coolies should be introduced from India : in August 1845, less than six hundred had been introduced ; so that a year had passed and the only thing like a fulfilment of this Cooly promise is the way in which Lord Stanley takes the matter—for that certainly is coolly. He was to have asked Par- liament for a loan ; but the whole session slipped away without a word. The Colonial Minister was busy with New Zealand, and only too anxious to avoid discussion wherever he could. If Guiana formally express dissatisfaction, no doubt Lord Stanley will indite a long correspondence, to be printed in a Blue Book. For Lord Stanley's notion of practical government for the Colonial empire is summed up in that one branch of industry—the writing of Blue Books. Let a colony suffer, it has a Blue Book ; let it be on the verge of insolvency, another Blue Book ; let it revolt,— "still," as the Duke of York said to Mr. Gibbon, " scribble, scribble, scribble—another volume—another damned large beat.'
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