RHYMES FOR THE TIMES—No. 2.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 577, 12 February 1851, Page 3

RHYMES FOR THE TIMES—No. 2.

CONSTITOOTIONAL LIBERTY ! We have brought our mexsuke.— Dr. Fa. Speech, Feb., SI Axk— « me Boid Dragoon." The undersigned petitioners are very much put out Dy the horrible mismanagement vou’ve heard so much about, ™ ™ odest }y em body in a string of resolutions a heir brilliant ideas on ** •wLtoutuauiio. The long Constitution, fiddte faddle, twiddle twaddle; .ong constitution of Fiddle stoke &Fogs*. Self Government, we say, is the unmolested sway cash that we can get from you or any other And lest you’d interfere with us, which would be wrong we do think.; There must be no Instructions, and no Veto, and no nottnnk In our long Constitution, Ac. 3 there* 6 mOn<?y paid “ Jaxes we ’ 1! be represented But though you find half the revenue, no Nominee* are fair: All officers who please ,us not we’ll put upon the shelves, — Our uninstructed Governor, and nruntUrnyoj selves By our long Constitution, &c. 4* So soon as we’re delivered- in a legist "w~v Our whims must be the law in spite of aught that you may say ; 5. You may appoint the Governor, and pay him without doubt, 6. But we reserve the modest risrht of kickin'’ vey out, " ° In our long Constitution, &c. 7. The Judges too must only judge according as we please, For we reserve the British right of ousting them with ease; ' ’ ’ For a man who wrongly sticks to right, and won’t from justice budge, Though sure to lose his place .thereby ’s a snockmgly bad judge,

Says our long Constitution, &c. 7. There are sundry little tiresome jobs we leave you, s.s 3, bore, Such as sending of ambassadors and making peace or war: r And marquisates (not parquisites) and other odds and ends, ~ But when you’re giving titles nut, 0! don’t ferret your friends, ° Of the long Constitution, &c. 9. It may happen the majority of members we elect May something do in Council grave to which vou may then let our Judges, sackable, decide the knotty ease, Or your own Privy Council may suit you to an ace, Says our long Constitution, &c. 10. On the number of our Chambers we don’t know what to do, The bachelors demand .but one, the married men say two; 11. But when we get these, there we’ll stick for years and never fear, 12. Just meeting for delay of business once in every year, With ourJong Constitution, Ac. 13< Now come we io the question which is a question yet, ' About the number of .each race who should the franchise get; Each white man should of course, but as toM&ories we confess ’ A little difficulty which compels ue to digress, From our long ConstitutioE. Ac Tis distance, ’ says the poet, “ lends enehanteuent to the view,” And so enchants your twenty clerks, they don’t know what to do : How to legislate for white men we on'the spot knew be?t;— How to legislate for natives det your twenty clerks suggest, ' ' To our long Constitution, dec. 14. All manageable beachcombers will for the 'Council do, 15. But our flocks increase so fast we’re like the woman with the shoe ; So we’ll do with the waste lands as may from time to time seem fit, That every jolly Councillor may get a jolly bit, By our long'Constitution, &c. 16. The districts to elect us .we’ll fix after we’re elected, 17. Aud we’ll change these laws if they don’t eause the gains which we expected; So with compliments :to Molesworth, and to Mister Godley too, (For his sentiments agree with ours) we end this long to-do Of our long Constitution, fiddlefaddie,twidtSeiwaddle; The long Constitution.of l’iDDLEsrosE &Fogs! And your .Petitioners will ever prey, Ac.