PROGRESS OF THE WELLLINGTON REVOLUTION.

New Zealander, Volume 13, Issue 1147, 15 April 1857, Page 2

PROGRESS OF THE WELLLINGTON REVOLUTION.

Xsumm, as we showed the other day j.* from satisfied with " the sense and spirit" •" which the Featherston, Fox, and FitzWj! Government has carried out the " glorious wT stitution" of the Province of WelliiJ* And now we have the Chronicle of warning its readers in that thriving settltm !! that the Removal of the Seat of Governm ! to the " Empire City" will not be ''all s l to the Province at large." Its remarks onV matter are so forcible, and indicate so clear], the daily-increasing insight the outlyJ colonists of Wellington are obtaining , the ulterior ends of the policy of their pr e3eilt rulers, that we give them at length:— Skat of Government.—The Superintendent fl> Featherston), alludes, apparently with much 6a ti" faction, to the "liberality of the appropriation •& erectingthe House of General Assembly, andiatfauto to the other Provinces of the South, that the rated of the Seat of Government to Wellington shall c* them nothing. Now, we are are not is?—to the advantages of having the General GwJ/ ment in the " most central position of the colony" IJut it will not be all advantage This Province j s a great extent and importance. Its Government wj|i -oon have really more to do than the General Govern, ment, whose functions must be comprised in a surf compass. We have read the Acts of the General Aj. sembly in the Session of 185G; and have some diffi. culty in discovering what they will have to do in Igjj except amending the Customs Act, passing the Appro! priation Act, and other matters of course. It appear to us that the General Government will, ere long, bet mere affair of routine; and that its duties for thtnmg part might as well be discharged at Auckland as £ Wellington. Be this as it may, once placed at W e [ lington, in close contact with the active and really boi ness-like members of the Provincial Government, ara it will be surprising if jealousies in the beginning quarrels in the end are not the consequence. i\, e will be on one side, the triumphant feeling of progrea - for Provincialism is as sure to advance on to Centralism as M. De Toci}ueville's Democracy ution Anstocracy —and on the other, the unpleasant consciousness of decreasing importance. It will only he bn rare exertion of forbearance that personal and public collisions wi Ibe avoided. We do not deny that Am probable evils may be counterbalanced by the advintages of the proposed removal of the Goverameu; from Auckland to Wellington; but think it right to warn our readers that the prospect has some dark spo-j —it is not all rose colour.— Wanganui Chmmk, March 19.

True, tlie General Government is not here niiK'ii complimented: true, that by implication its members tire described as indolent and uc-busineSs-like; but then we all know tlie extent to which the ultra-Democratic Government i Wellington has been accustomed to flatter itself and the amount of laudation it expects from everybody else. And, on the other hand, there is much more than at first sight meet; the eye in the remark about the jealousies saj dissensions that would be the inevitable result of the General and Provincial Government: being,' brought into such close contact in the windy city of Wellington. The fact is, At settlers in Wanganui, like those in AhurirL ire begining to count the cost of the " liberty" they enjoy under the soi-disant Republics rule of " the three F's"—a Republican which is a thousand times more despotic than the Central legislation of the General GoiaS; neut. Witness the recent Act to prevent labouring immigrants from leaving the Province, an Act which His Excellency and his Ministers must disallow, which has been lisallowed.

The art of Political and Provincial Puffery has been brought to great perfection by the - Prophets" of Wellington ; but it speaks well for the good sense of the settlers of Ahuriri md Wanganui that they are not inclined to >ay unquestioning honour to these pseudoProphets.