Colonial.

Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 19, 31 August 1848, Page 1

Colonial.

[We give a place to the folowing memorial beleving that it may prove interesting to our readers, but by no means as admiring the compostion of it. The fomal complaint that the Superintendant gave no ball on the Queen's bin day is of charming naivete.] Copt of Petition adcpted by the Council or |thk City or Meibuurxe, And orderfd to bb Printed, 22nd June, 1848To her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God, Queen of Great Bri'a n end Ireland Dif nder of the Faith, &c, &c. The Humble Petition of 'he Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the City of Melbourne: Sheweth— That your Majesty's Pclitioners approach the Throne with the most feiv.nt expression of their devoted loyalty end attachment to your Majesty's Rryal Person and Government, and Ihe most piofouad veneration for the Institutions of the British Empire. That your Majesty's Petitioners are the legally constituted Representai.ves of the Metropolitan City of Melbourne, which contains upwards of one-third ol the entire population of the large and flourishing District of Poit Phillip; and, in theabsence.of a Local Lesislature, fotm the onlv popular organ for the expression of public opin'on existing >n this Province. That your Majrsly'B Petitioners deeply regret that in the conscientious discharge of their duly to the : - constituent* and to the community, they are under the painful necessity of approaching your Majesty wita this expression of their complaints of the administration ol tlie Government by bis Honor Ch<rles Joseph La Trobe, Enquire, the Superintendent of this Di»l-ict. That your Majesty's Petitioners feel deep'y aggrieved by the systematic mismanagement of the money appropriated b> the Legi-la.ure of the Colony far the Public Service of this district, the sums which have Irom time to time b-en voted for the execution of Pu die Works, of acknowledged urgency and imponaice, having been in veiy many instrnces withheld from expenditure, avjvredly with the concrt-rence of his Honor the Superintendent, to the manifest inj'iy of the whole curnuauiiity ; the money so voted forming iu every instance only a smalt portion of the annual surplus Revenue of th'S District. That your Majesty's Petitioneis also complain of the great neglect of many Public Works and Institutions of the utmost consequence to the welfare of this District, which has characterised bis Honor the Superi itendent's admin : st.-atioo of the Government; such neglect beng not only highly detrimental to th : s Pro*. vi- ce, but utterly inexcusable, since at the very time large sums were bemg annually abstracted from the Revenue of this District, without any apparc .t re tnonstranrc oi tbe part of bis Honor, and off ta he expended on similar objects in the distant District of Sydney. That jour Majesty's Petitioners have likewise to complain that in the'r official intercourse with his Honor the Supeiintendent, on matters of high public impouaucs, they have experienced, on the par: of Uts Honor, an extent of obstruction, faithlessness, and in. sincerity, biithly disc.editable in the Representative of your Majesty, and very prejudicial to the interest* of this City and District. Your petitioners further take the liberty of representing, that his Honor the Superintendent, although possessing the rank and authority of a LieutenantGovernor, has never upheld the dignity of his high office in a manner befitting the Representative of your Maj siy, and hev altogether failed of affording to the Colonists, even on the natal day ot their beloved Sovereign, those opportunities of testifying their loyalty and attachment to your Majesty's Royal Person and Government which are customary in evety portion of the British Empire. That your Majesty's Petitioners have the less reluctance in laying their complaints before the Throne as his Honor's tenure of the office of Superintendent of this District, has alreadyfar excreded the term permitted by your Majesty's Herniations for the Service of the Colonies; and your Msjes'y's Government having announced that this Province Will speedily be erected into a separate Colony, beating the royal name of *' Victoria,' your Petitioners earnestly hope to sje jour Majesty mare fittingly represented in the perso.i of the Governor, to whom its infa-it destinies are to be entrusted. Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray your Majesty to favourably consider the premises; and, as your Pet.tioners have lost all confidence in the aJmimstrat'on of the Government by his Honor Charles Joseph La Trobf, E»quire, that jour Majesty will be graciously pleased to remove him from the office ot Superintendent of the Por: Phillip District. And your Majesty's Petitioneis, as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c., &c., &c. A. Ru>hu, Mayor of Melbourne. l. s. John C. Kino, Town Clerk.