Sir Hercules Robinson appears to have acted with great promptitude
and decision in Fiji—a colony, by the way, that wants a name, and may just as well be called "New Carnarvon." He was only a fortnight these, and in that time he received the submission of the Bing and the principal Chiefs, organised a pro- visional government—we imagine on the Jamaica or Ceylon model—established a tariff like that of New South Wales, calculated to produce 125,000 a year, and made, we hope, but do not know, a compromise about the debt. The real work of organisation will, of course, have to be done by the first new Governor ; and Lord Carnarvon, who has just made an able Colonial clerk the son of a Suffolk clergyman without a particle of interest the Governor of the Bahamas, will, we doubt not, be able to find the right man. The first Governor should be paid without any reference to the resources of the colony, the work of founding being too severe for an apprentice to the trade. England can spare /25,000 for the five years' services of a real ruler. There is a strong native police to be formed, too—a most difficult operation—and a rowdy European population to be kept in order by means which may require the co-operation of a man-of-war.
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