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 (permanent official) of the Colonial Office. He, no doubt, will, as before, strive to prevent the formation of a colony which is to be governed at a cheap rate, to defray the whole cost of its government, and to be governed in local matters by the colonists themselves. Bat we doubt whether he will be able to lead Mr. Stanley by the nose as he led Lord Goderich. Mr. Stanley's knowledge of colonies, with his undoubted talents and industry, will enable him to appreciate the greatness of the present undertaking as an experiment in the art of colonisation. If he should do this—which, indeed. Lord Goderich did while he thought for himself—he will decide accordingly; and having promised to let the colony proceed to its destination, he will keep his word—which Lord Goderich did not as to a similar promise. In short, Mr. Stanley, notwithstanding some defects of temper, is a man; while Lord Goderich, with the most amiable disposition, is, begging his pardon, and speaking politically, ' an old woman.' We may, therefore, congratulate the new association on the removal of Lord Goderich to the sinecure of the Privy Seal."

In concluding a long article, the Spectator commented on the "Very judicious statement of the objects of the South Australian Association," as given in the prospectus, and commended it to all who desired that colonisation should be pursued systematically, with a view to raising the profits of capital and wages of labour, by a great and continual enlargement of our field of production. The article concluded thus:—