9 APRIL 1870, Page 3

We inadvertently omitted to observe last week that, in quoting

on the 26th ult, from a very brief telegraphic summary of Sir P. 1Voodhouse's address to the Assembly of the Cape Colony, we misinterpreted to some extent his drift. In point of fact he was urging the Cape Colonists not to accept responsible government, on the ground that sooner or later it must lead to separation, —a case which he illustrated from the fate of Canada And New Zealand. Mr. Monsell explained the other day that the Colonial Office disagrees with the Governor's view, and considers his inference from the various colonial precedents prejudiced and erroneous. No doubt it does.