Occurrences here and there in our wide Colonial empire remind
the politician of the extensive interests at stake.
An outbreak at Norfolk Island confirms the views which have induced Lord Grey to break up that establishment of concentrated but nncrushed vice, and keeps in sight the shocking results of our present penal system. At the Cape of Good Hope, the Kafirs, one of the rudest and poorest races on the face of the earth, hold the forces of imperial Britain at bay, standing to shillyshally between yielding and de- fying. Sir Henry Pottinger is on his way thither.
The Jamaica House of Assembly has formally enunciated the agitating doctrines recently promulgated at a "parish" or county i meeting n the island. Our sympathy with the colonists has al- ready been expressed ; but we cannot too earnestly repeat our ex- hortation, that in the effort to procure their rights they should be guided by judgment, and. should take care to secure on their aide the concurrence of public opinion in England. It would be as easy to do so as not, and it would make all the difference be- tween success and failure.
