The "conservative princip...
The 5 conservative principles" of the Holy Alliance ap. pear to be not only flourishing, but spreading. The public prcss, that common enemy of tyrants, after being effectually muzzled wherever a legitimate could set his finger-after being put dow7n in every corner of the old world, except in ,he yet unripe dominions of Great Britain, is now in a fair way of being extinguished even there-not, indeed, by a ,ke.ct intermeadling of the Holy Allies, but through the operatioe of some Instinct, akin to those which havo :1 ready warned the Monarchs of the Continent to beware of that danger, which, beyondt all others, if not opposed at an early stage, must finally and inevitably destroy them. In India, and now, it seems, in South Africa, both portions of the British empire, the press has been demolished, Our first wish is, that India, by whatever Tneans, may be enlight- enedl and set free. If, however, there be some shadows of argament raised upon the question of a free press in India, and thosevanislh in a moment before the light of truth, what can be conjured up by the bitterest enemy of free discussion, as an excuse for dreading the political conse- quences of a press at the Cape of Good Hope? What.popa- lation is to be excited there ? What confederacies of Ma- hometan or Hindoo potentates? The high-minded Hot- tentots, and Caifres so emiinent in arts and arms !- these are to be stirred up by English newvspapers to shake off our military dominion ! If not the wretched na- tives, what power is it that Lord C. So3SEBRST shrinlks from, when he employs a censorslhip (as reported in this day's Times) for putting down the public press? The English settlers! the Dutch boors ! the military garrison the naval cruisers! If his Lordship's acts were such as would not bear the light when fairly described and trans- mittel to England by a local newspaper, it would be pos- sible to understand the bearing of such an exercise of authority; but is it, we must ask, essential to the main- tenance of order and quiet in every British colony, that all those laws which protect at home the personal rights asnd property of the subject, should be superseded at the Gover- nor's pleasure ? WVe invoke the representatives of the people, now dispersed, to consider well these matters at their next meeting. HIow long is it, fromrI the first symptom of mortification at the extremities, before it preys upon the heart H