OFFICIAL NOTICE TO THE COLONIES. {From the Spectator )

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 286, 24 February 1849, Page 5

OFFICIAL NOTICE TO THE COLONIES. {From the Spectator )

Thoroughgoing subserviency to any authority ofteu bcgels ingenuousness, by removing all donbtorsciupie, and so tli aiming discretion. Mr. I/awes has Mfali words which discover the rule of the coiouial office in cci tain important affairs, and ejives to all injured colo» nies a valuable hia'. Mr. Hume had tin citened that if justiie were notdono to Jdtnuica and JJu'tsh Guiana in ccrtJin financial affairi, their legislatures might stop ih- supplies. Mr. Hawes. according to the report of the Titiic>, ansncieJ in this wise — " With u.spect to the oonrie her Mijexty's Gov«rnment mi-.hf t^i.e if Jai.vnca o<' G'li.tiia bhouM refuse. \o dc f i ay the oii'onse of the puiilic .'nablistro nt , ho w-m''d oa'^y :.ny ' 'Ufficienr ioril'? day is th«- evil theKOi.' // sul.'i o -ylafe of t'/.tnf/; should arise it would tv it ie for ilic doc eminent to determine hoio they .sfioit'il a<t tojuirfs i/iihv who mi£>ht kavc afai?' ciaim npmi Ike tutnUn»i a-ul justice of the mothet country. lie must Bay, Uuivevtij ihut he h n d no rtaaon to

•uppo<e that either Jamaica or Guiana would act in the manner anticipated by tlie lionouroblc member for Montrose. If the colonists coiibidered that n reduction of public, expenditure was necessary, and if they calmly and fairly weighed the just claims of individuals and the interest* of the colonies he was satisfied there would be no objection on the part of his noble friend the Colonial Secretary to a just and well-consi-•lered scheme of economy. He thought the noble lord was bound to oppose any crude and sweeping measures which might peril the best interests or the colonies ; hut he was convinced that any well-considered scheme of improved administration or economy would meet with the most cordial and earnest attention of his uoble friend." So Mr. Hawes avows that Minister! " will determine how they shall act towards those who have a fair claim on the attention and justice of the mother country"— when the Colonial Legislatures rebel ! They will under stand: in colonial affairs, the Whig Ministers wish nvery strong form of " pressure from without."