MAURITIUS.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 298, 7 April 1849, Page 6

MAURITIUS.

The Mauritius Asiociat'on lately pointed out to Earl Grey ih? deplorable *tate to which bir William Gomm had reduced the colony by maladministration, Hit Lordkhip made no leply. His Excellency's intended successor (not named) is laid to have demurred to the reduced salary, £5,500 a-year. Sir W. Gomm'i salary is £7000. W • do not observe any recent quotation for wheat ; but New South Wales flour i& quoted at 4 dollars 10 cents " pet' bag." The colonist* of the Mauritius have refused to Uke Earl Grey's ticket-of leav- immigrants. Le Manricien, in its retrospect for 1848, sumt up th°. eviK past and retrnspecliTcofthe colony, in the following terms : — *' Our crop is considerably reduced in quantity. 'I he value of sugar is less by 25 per cent. The reduction rf taxation is small, and the expenditure remains the same. A disca?e has injured the plantation*, and oh Rome estalei des Toyed the young canea." T. c " ISpizootie " his cuned off nearly all the horned cittle in the island, and the pons of MadngaiCar »r« Bill shut Estates have besu solJ judicially at ruinous prices, tlie.-fl btiing no purchasers exi-'pt the mortgagee^, who »o netiines b''c*mB proprieiorg in spite of tnemselvcs. Tlicie i> no confidence or credit in coniineice, and a ruinou* r.ite of exchange is exacted against "hipments. Finally, what js *orte than all, the proffered assistance ot Earl Grey, by the es'ablmhnoent of a sound sjs. tern of cuirency, lias been a dead letter. Under ciicums'ances of extreme ••uffei ing and public caiutiitv, the inhabitant? of the colony have united in pituiiii'insj thrir sovereign, not for any isolate mensure of rel'cf, but for a general <hange in that system of Government which has brought the colony to ruin. We "ill recapnuiate the leading points of the petition: — •'" 1. They nave prayed lor the removal of the ousting rcstr.cti.'ns on Free Immigratiun. 2. For an Elective LegisktiveA!)Sembly,as{the. only means of obtaining the repaired ruduclions in the present enormous Ezpenditure of the Colonial Government. 3. For a re. visi *n of ihe \ ronednre adopted by the Court of Law. 4. For Municipal Institution!. 5. For renewed attempt! to establish an intercourse with Madagascar,''