THE TROOPS AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3406, 16 June 1868, Page 3

THE TROOPS AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

It appears that the representation! of the House of Assembly of the Cape of Good Hope, backed by despatches forwaided by Governor Sir Philip Woiehouse, protesting against tbe withdrawal ' of the troops from that colony, have had the effect of inducing the home Government nob to withdraw any of the troops this year, or to demand from the colony any additional contribution for its defence. There is an unmistakable absence in that colony, at least, of the glorious self-reliant policy whioh was to do so much for New Zealand, when oace it could be effectually put in force here — which has not happened yet. What might hare occurred if Mr. Weld had been able to stick to the helm it would be hard to say ; but there cau be no mistaking the fact that the boasted self-reliance policy of former days, 10 far as regards our treatment of the Maori rebels, lias degenerated into the "let-alone policy." The Argus, commenting on the deferred withdrawal, says:— "The Government do not, however, surrender either the policy or the scheme with regard to the defence of the colonies which they hare announced, but they consider the representations sufficiently serious to warrant for this year a suspension of the order. We mention the resolutions of the House of Assembly and Sir Philip's despatches only because they are particularly mentioned as weighing with the home Government. We confess that we neper expected that any such deference would hava been shown to representations from the Cape, but we are none the l«*s pleased at the reception they have met with. We are so accustomed to hare our protests treated with something very much like contempt, that respectful attention to them eomts quite a? an agreeable surprise. Those who have persevered in sending home representations, which many of us thought would be utterly vain, deserve all credit for their persistence. Though they may have had little to do with the decision of the home Government, they at least were in the same direction as the more weighty representations which have proved effectual."

Stbong Milk fob Bases. — When an overworked journalist seeks to invoke an idea he scrateheth his head. Thus many of the anecdote* of small people come into beiog. Whether the following " came to the scratch" iv this wife or actually occurred, the intelligent reader it at liberty to "divine." Little Jimmy is a boy well trained in all the arcana of juvenile science. Know* all about his liver and his lungs j can number you the p»ir of nerves, and locate them, as well as divide them into afferent and efferent, organic and animal. In fact, littls Jimmy is brimful of physio-chemical information, as his uncle recently found to his cost. They were at mett with the other members of the family. The uncle was much annoyed, net to say shocked, at the rapidity with which little Jimmy caused food t> vanish through the cavity of the countenance commonly called hi* mouth. He remonstrated, and slily hinted that a boy so thoroughly posted as a hygienic physiologist ought to know better than to ' bolt" his food. But the uncle was crashed. Quoth Jimmy, with bis mouth full : " I eat rapidly to avoid dying by diab«tes. Don't start, but hear me out. In the iosalivation of food during the process of mastication, the fctarch of bread and potatoes is converted into sugar. Hence, the more chewing the more sugar. But an excess of sugar in the blood is the occasion of diabetes. Hence, to avoid that excess and the consequences, I eat rapidly and with little mastioatign," Long before this speed* wai coßoladtd, the nntle had suooumbed. > VJXM