The Report of the Conunission which was sent t inquire
into the affairs of the little-known Colony British Guiana is gloomy, though excellently writtc The Commissioners point out that the Government the Colony has never really governed ; too g sacrifices have been made to the staple commodity sugar and to the obsolete Constitution, which is a re of Dutch rule. The Commissioners fully recognize t energy and ability which has enabled the Dew sugar industry to survive in spite of the convent! of much larger plantations elsewhere, but this survil as the Report epigrammatically says, means a Gove ment " of sugar, by sugar and for sugar." For seve years there has been an annual State deficit, and loans of the Colony cannot be floated here under Colonial Stock Acts. The root of the trouble is that the electorate. of about 11,000 persons returns a per- manent majority to the Combined Court which controls na !lee.
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