—The Resolutions are nearly complete; and I am as proud over them as is Beauty with her pups.

I have begged Rintoul to come to examine them critically before they shall be copied fair to be sent to London.

You will have them on Monday morning.

I feel uncomfortable at not being able to confer with Adderley upon them: for if he gets them into discussion in the House, they will be called "the Adderley Resolutions," and well known by that name in all our Crown Colonies.

I have letters from New Zealand which explain why Governor Grey did not establish free government in the Southern Province. He wished to do so, and has made his wish fully known in Downing-street; but he dared not himself make such a distinction between North and South: the Office would not take his hints to them that they should do it: page 71and so the South is sacrificed, not to the North, but to the necessity of withholding representation from the Penny-an-acre landsharks of the North. This comes to me, through only one person, on whom I can rely, from Grrey himself. You shall see the letters the first time you come here: and if Lord Grrey were not a hyæna, he should see them too. All the Southern Settlements are discontented, and Wellington in very hot water, accordingly.

Thomas seems to be doing his work well: and the next news will probably be that the survey is going on. What do you mean to do? You can do nothing good without a good government. You say you want nothing but courage to try the only chance of getting the indispensable thing: if you cannot find courage, cannot you have a fit of desperation?

My heaviest labour in thinking about the Resolutions has been in trying to make sure of Adderley's entire concurrence: but we ought to have had him here to have had a discussion.