THE "Wellington Independent." Wednesday, May 8, 1850.

Wellington Independent, Volume VI, Issue 477, 8 May 1850, Page 2

THE "Wellington Independent." Wednesday, May 8, 1850.

We print bolow, from the Morning Chronicle, of the 21st December, a leading article commenting in terms of strong approbation, on a letter addressed by Mr. J. R. Godloyto -Mr. W. Gladstone, M.P., the Ex-Secretary-for the Colonies. The letter itself we have not seen; our extract from the Chronicle, being taken from a Sydney paper, the Editor of which has apparently not himself met with it. If any of our readers should have a Chronicle, of the 21st December, which appears to, be that cbri'tuining the letter, we should be much obliged by the loan of it.

In the meantime it will be gathered from the article which we re-print, what the tenor of the letter is. It appears to bo a valedictory address to Mr. Gladstone, containing a summary of the opinions of Mr. Godley on the subject of Colonial Government. It is therefore not a little gratifying to observe the extent to which he advocates the independence of the Colonies on the Home Government —limiting the tie to so much and no more interference on the part of the latter, as may contribute to the maintenance of the external relations of the Colony, in conformity with the principles adopted by the Imperial country; but as regards every mutter great and small in which the internal relations of the colony are concerned, leaving it to the sole administration of the Colonists themselves. It is indeed satisfactory to find the views, for holding which, we have by the small governing section been stigmatized as a faction, thus participated in and and openly avowed by a gentleman, of whose fitness to judge the Chronicle highly, and still more to find Mr. Gladstone, the probable future Colonial Minister, allowing himself to be the medium of the publication of such views to the world. Headed by their author the Canterbury Settlement, cannot fail to be a powerful ally in the cause for which the bulk of the Colonists have under every discouragement been fighting for ten years; nor indeed are we without hope that that Settlement may bring out with it the long wished for Charter of Self-Govemment, which shall restore us to our fights. That the days, nay the hours of Colonial despotism are num.numbered, none can doiibt who have watched the progress of events in Ceylon, Guiana, the Cape of Good Hope, and the the majority of the colonies whose "cry has so long gone up" Not much longer will the Colonial Minister and his clerks be allowed to turn away the hearts of the children from their parent, and to sow broad cast the seeds of perpetual discord between them.

A fine little schooner of ahout 20 tons, built for the Colonial Government, was launched by Mr. M'Kenzie.from his yard, on Monday last. This vessel was originally intended for the Wanganui river,but has been considerably enlarged in the course of building, so as to make her sufficiently large to proceed from one settlement to another.