By Command of Hit Excellency the Governor, (Signed) JOHN MONTAGU, Secretary to Government.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 384, 19 December 1849, Page 3

By Command of Hit Excellency the Governor, (Signed) JOHN MONTAGU, Secretary to Government.

The proclamation wai published early in July in answer to a communication from the Anti-Couvicfc Association. TUe Anti- Convict Association had also adopted a resolution, to the effect that if any person' should accept or retain a seat in Council as an unofficial member he should be considered as indheclly assisting in the introduction of convicts, and consequently come withia the icope of the pledge signed by the members. On the previous Saturday it was resolved in public meeting, that " it will be a violation of the pledge to furnish any supplies of any description to the naval departmtnt at Simon's Town, directly or indirectly, while the Neptune with her prisoners remains iv charge of the senior officer on the station, until it shall be proclaimed that the Neptune, with all her prisoners, shall go away, and that supplies are required for the protection of her voyage." On the following Tueiday it was resolved that neither the military, naval, nor civil departments should be supplied until the Order in Council making the Cape a penal settlement was rescinded. We subjoin a few other items of intelligence from Cape Town. — By His Excellency's direction the Attorney-General had frorned a plan of representative government for the colony. It was conceived any constitutional changes might be legally effcted by Letters Patent. The Acts 3 and 4 Viet. cap. 35 and 5 and 6 cap. 76, with the New Zealand charter, have been vied at the ground work of the plan. Martin West, Esq., Lieutenant Governor of Natal, was dead, and Colonel Boys, of the 45 Regiment, wai temporarily appointed to the vacancy. Van Dirman's Land flour was selling at £20 per ton ; and wheat at 9i per bushel. The Tory had anited with 220 emigrants, hating left England on the 17th. July. Great complaints are made at Adelaide of the indiscriminate influx of emignnts. It is proposed, in order to correct thi* evil, that the purchaser of laud of the val'ye of j§Bo, should have the nomination of three emigrant!* ...... „