New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, Avril 19, 1851.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 596, 19 April 1851, Page 2

New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK’S STRAIT GU A R D IAN. Saturday, Avril 19, 1851.

The article which we have extract the Sydney Morning Herald, under th 1 of “ Chartism in New Zealand,” W j]| dare say, afford amusement to our from the ignorance displayed by it B etS in his introductory remarks, of the and feelings of the settlers of p or t j\- >° !! son. The very first sentence to whi k i gives utterance betrays the extent of his ' norance. “ The settlers of Port Nichol thus writes this learned Theban •«» to be thoroughly inoculated with the prjncipies of Ultra-Chartism.” Because h e i met with some newspaper reports of <• tain persons calling themselves a Cnn tional Association,” and finds- that th persons have drawn up along repose" bodying their suggestions on the a New Constitution, because these tions have been brought forward Meeting, and carried by dint of mantes ing and unscrupulous partizanship.hearrii; at the sage conclusion that the report J presses the opinions of the settlers lington, and that the Constitutional Ass® ation must needs be the mouth piece oft settlers. Whereas in fact the report ref», red to has been repudiated by the bulked settlers in the town, the protest which u drawn up soon after the adoption of then, port, having been signed within eight ai forty hours by 230 persons reside of the town and its vicinity, all colonists having a stake in the colony, the settlers in the Hutt district, whose op ons may be fairly taken to represent thosec the country settlers in general, in a sepant memorial, signed in an equally short spa of time by upwards of 157 persons, a pressed their entire disapprobation of 6 suggestions contained in the report, ai utterly disclaimed the proceedings of t! meeting. And if time had pennitted,« longer interval had been allowed 'or obtait ing signatures, a much greater numb might have been obtained. The whd movement was a last desperate effort of Jl' Fox’s before leaving his “ adopted country, and is generally admitted to have bees complete failure, while the Constituti® Association seems to have vanished withi

prime mover and supporter, as it has ei bited no signs of animation since narture ; indeed the general feeling & strongly against it, it has been so comply exposed to the laughter and ridicule oft settlers, that it appears to have died as tural death. f Now it would just be as reasonable sj true to assert, because convicts have tej sent to New South Wales, that therefi] all the settlers in New South Wales been convicts, or to say that the citizens, San Francisco are right in believing person who arrives from that colony toM been originally a convict, as to the settlers of Port Nicholson as f j Chartists because a few crotchety p e *| and disappointed placehunters in tleraent have put together a string of -. surd and mischievous suggestions on | subject of local Government, which !>J been repudiated and condemned hy j more moderate and influential P ar *'°j community. The Ultra Chartists, -■ seem to have frightened the writey ' n ,- Herald from his propriety, bear an smaller proportion to the sober minded | derate settlers of Port Nicholson thajj the convict population of New South ’1 to the free settlers of that colony’ 1 Herald then proceeds to shew the fo-f . absurdity of many of the suggestions! tained in the report, but these were sR discussed at the time that we need n° ble our readers by a renewal of the -j sion. We need only in conclusion serve that nothing could more str j mark of the framers of the ',g or their ignorance on political Q ueb , t l than that, while indulging in travagant republican reveries, profess to be seeking only to °b tal ” vileges and institutions of their Fat j