SUSPENSION OF THE NEW ZEALAND CONSTITUTION.

Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2 May 1848, Page 4

SUSPENSION OF THE NEW ZEALAND CONSTITUTION.

A recent arrival puts us in possession of the pleasing intelligence that the new constitution which had recently been vouchsafed to New Zealand is to be suspended for the period of five years. The suspension, however, is only to take effect on those parts which are more particularly objectionable, it being considered desirable that the district councils, in their common form, and other constitutional parts of the scheme should be enforced so far as practicable. This result according to official giving, owes its origi to an timeid and spirited remonstrance on the part of Governor Grey of New Zealand. It so there is every reason to believe that he has done the whole of these colonies an essential service, and thereby earned the lasting gratitude of every inhabitant who lays any claim to he privileges of a freeman, as there can be little doubt that since the model constitution has been sheivd the copies will be shelved a'so, and our remonstrances against the changes with which we have been threatened will therefore be unavailing, further than to show with what spirit and energy we ate determined to resist any infringement of our constitutional liberty. We are uot uncustomed to laugh at the strangulation of any body's off-spring, but we certainly do fetl some inclination to chuckle when we reflect that the darling first-born, and indeed the only important specimeu of my Lord Grey's ministerial gestation should turn out such an unseemly—such a lugubrious illegitimat*— despised, degraded, and abandoned by all—even by his Lordship's mo t favourable protege—the much beloved but uin-ressively carressed New Zealand. Neither are we accustomed to smi-e at hope deferred," though we cannot but experience a tendency to be facetious when we consider tbe nature and the probable effect of the policy which dictated the studied silence of many of the Port Phillipians in reference to the •'new constitution." Although we have no wish, nor see any reason for believing that seperation will be defercd because of the non-enforcement of the new constitution, the apprehensions of our southern friends notwithstanding, yet we cmnot but exult on the fatuity of that policy with which surrender nearly every fundamental principle of freedom, for a measure which at best could ouly be productive of a slight saving in the revenue. The condnct of the New Zealanders, who are in a much worse perdicament aud much more in need of a change pf Goverument than the Port Philupuus is singularly favourablt when compared With that of the latter.—Sydney Atlas, Ayril 1.