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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 37, 13 March 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

New South Wakes.—Wo understand that a question of considerable difficulty lias arisen which threatens to render somewhat embarrassing the relations between the Colonial Government and the officer commanding thajmperial Forces in this colony For several years past a rather liberal colonial allowance has been granted by the Parliament to supplement the Imperial pay of the military stationed here. A dispatch has however been lately received!by his Excellency the Governor from the Duke of Newcastle, informing him that in the opinion of her Majesty’s Government the rate of colonial allowance granted to the troops is an excessive one, and directing that it is to be reduced to that paid in the colony of the Cape of Good Hope. The reason given for this reduction is’ that the excessive allowance to the troops in these colonics operates unjustly towards those serving in other stations. Wo believe that Colonel Kempt has been informed of the arrival of this despatch but that pending the receipt of an official intimation from the Horse Guards it will not be acted upon. It will be remembered that the voting of the allowance in question has frequently met with opposition in our Legislative Assembly and after this direction from the Home Government the dosire reduction will probably be readily effected bv the local Government. It does not appear that the vale to which the colonial allowance is to bo conformed bears any fair proportion to the expenses of living in New South Wales, and it is apprehended that, the enforcement of the order would excite much dissatisfaction amongst the soldiers and would interfere with the maintenance of military discipline. It is stated that a military board has been appointed to inquire into and to report upon the matter.—Sidney Morning Herald. De TOQUEVJELE’S PROGNOSTICATIONS OF THE Disruption of the Unitei/States.— ln the chapter on dangers, that menace the American Union will be found the most interesting prognostics of actual occurrences—the fear that the rapid and disproportionate increase of certain states will injure the independence of others—the deep-seated uneasiness and ill-defined agitation of the South, which feels its strength graduallp diminishing, and that of the North and West becoming prepondcrant—the constant envy and suspicion manifest-inn 1 itself in the interpretation given to every act of the legislature that is not "unequivocally 'favorable to Southern interests—the belief of the Southern States they arc impoverished because their wealth does not augment as rapidly as that of their neighbors, and that their power is lapsing from them because other cognate peoples by bettor industry and freer labor are bringing the wilderness into subjection and covering the seas with their merchandise—all these motives are portrayed and analyzed regretted and reproved. But neither from what is written there Jnor in his correspondence can it bo predicted that Do Toequeville anticipated America’s present calamity. He could not have believed that the people which had clearly recognized the defects of their first scctnri an polity, and after a patient investigation of two "whole years had adopted the Federal Constitution which raised their country to the range of the first nations of the globe and produced so very laige an amount of material prosperity and moral contentment, would wantonly compass the destruction of that constitution. He explains indeed that the loyalty of the inhabitants is primarily given to the separate State, and that the love and the habits of Republican Government bad been engendered in the townships and in the provincial assemblies ; but, he adds, that every citizen transfused his attachment to his little republic in the common stock of American patriotism, “ and regards the Union as his own personal protection,trio less than as his national pride.” Union was limited and incomplete, its exercise was not incompatible with liberty, and that it does not excite any of those insatiable desires for fame and power which have proved sofatal to groat publics while it has an advantage over all other federal constitutions in the sagacious provision that it should execute its own enactments. Only in one letter in answer to some reclamations of Senior’s against the insolence of the United States, does lie contemplate the possibility of dismemberment, “ which,” ho writes, “ I cannot desire : snob an event would inflict a great wound on the whole human race ; for it would introduce was into a great continence from whence it has been banished for more than a century. The breaking of the American Union will be a solemn moment in the history of the world : I never met an American who did* not feel this ; and I believe that it will not bo rashly or easily undertaken.”— Alexis de Toequeville, in the Quarterly Review. An American Innkeekeu. —Old Rowe kept an hotel where, as ho used to say, you could get anything what was ever made to cat. One day in came a Yankee, and stepping up to the bar asked oldßowewhathecould give him for dinner. “ Anything, Sir,” said old Rowe, “ anything, from a pickled elephant to a canary bird’stonguc.” “Wa’al, said the Yankee, eyeing Rowe, “ I f-ocss I’ll take a piece of pickled elephant.” “ Well, we’ve got ’em got ’em all ready, right here in the house but you’ll have to take a whole ’un, ’cause wo never cut ’em.” The Yankee “ thought lie would take some codfish and potatoes.”