COMFORT FOR THE COLONIAL OFFICE.
[Prom the Weekly Chronicle, this MOM!
Our able contemporary the Colonial Gfizette has assumed to itself the functions of " an Eye" upon the administration of Colonial atrairs, and, in a series of masterly articles, has pointed out the mode in which some of the duties of those who profess to take charge of the British Colonies ought to be performed. It has prepared for Mr. Poullt Thomson a mueli in tie favourable reception in Canada than he could have amicipated, without some previous ill:ling as to his views ; it has shown Mr. Eliot!, the .soi-disma Commissioner- General of Emigration, how to write such an Emi:qation Report as the country will require before five years have elapsed; and it has entered, ill common with oarsclves, its solemn protest against the intuit iii whieh the resources of the Australasian Colonies are about to be frittered away, nod their career of pros- perity cut short, by the singularly lamt..olictory regulations upon the subject of land and labour that have recently is'sue.1 front Downing Street.
We intend to join the Cohmial Gazei le in this crusade again-t abuses. which have only escaped reprehension hitherto, from the extraordinary want of in- lMination that has prevailed in England upon Colonial matters. If our con- temporary be "nit Eye" upon the Colonial ()thee, we will assume the humbler function of Flapper (upon the Lapotan principle) to Lord John IItu:sell and Mr. Vernon Smith; and we will venture to promise them that, if the constant drop system can secure their attention, they shall have no excuse for slum- bering at their posts.
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