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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1432, 15 December 1886, Page 3

The British people, which wanders everywhere and settles everywhere, and found? nations as bees settle, we hardly know how or why, will stay nowhere under any rule but its own (says the London Spectator ). Throughout the earth there is no body of 10,000 Englishmen obeying any law they did not make. They settle in no part of Europe, in no division oflAsia, which is not theirs; in no pirt of America where their law is not supreme. They are unattracted by the wonderful wealth of Spanish America, or the endless spaces of the Portuguese dominion ; and when once, by a rare chance, a band of them found themselves in Texas, subject to Spaniards, they established, almost without trial of the native power, a Revolutionary Republic. They glided away from Java within three years of its cession to the Dutch; they scarcely settled in the Transvaal, because it is not English ; and if Bengal were foreign tomorrow, every planter would by 1890 have Boughf.a'.career elsewhere.