1849, Colonial
Administration, April 16, 1849, on the Australian Colonies, Feb. 8,
1850, March 22, 1850, and May 13, 1850. On the Kaffir War, April 5,
1852. On the New Zealand Government bill, May 21, 1852. Also speech on
Scientific Colonisation before the St. Martin in the Fields Association
for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, March 27, 1849.

[219] On the Colonial Bishops bill, April 28, 1852.

[220] Wakefield was their common teacher. In a letter as secretary of
state to Sir George Grey, then governor of New Zealand (March 27), 1846,
he states how the signal ability of Wakefield and his devotion to every
subject connected with the foundation of colonies has influenced him.

[221] To Lord Malmesbury, Aug. 13, 1852. _Memoirs of an Ex-Minister_, by
the Earl of Malmesbury, i. p. 344.

[222] 'Should a war take place, I must declare that I should more
deplore success on the part of this country than defeat; and though as
an English citizen I could not but lament the disasters of my
countrymen, still it would be to me a less poignant matter of regret
than a success which would offer to the world the disastrous and
disgraceful spectacle of a free and mighty nation succeeding by force of
arms in putting down and tyrannising over a free though feebler
community struggling in defence of its just rights.... That our dominion
in America should now be brought to a conclusion, I for one most
sincerely desire, but I desire it should terminate in peace and
friendship. Great would be the advantages of an amicable separation of
the two countries, and great would be the honour this country would reap
in consenting to such a step.' Mr. Gladstone spoke the same evening in
an opposite sense.--_Hans._ 39, p. 1466, Dec. 22, 1837. Walpole, _Hist.
Eng._, iii. p. 425.

[223] See, for instance, _Spectator_, Jan. 17, 1845; _Times_, June 8,
1849. In 1861 it was estimated that colonial military expenditure was
between three and four millions a year, about nine-tenths of which was
borne by British taxpayers, and one-tenth by colonial contribution.

[224] _Edward Gibbon Wakefield_, p. 331. The reader will find an extract
in the Appendix. 'The New Zealand Government bill of 1852, with all its
errors and complications, was a grand step in the recovery of our old
colonial policy; but perhaps its chief contribution to the
re-establishment of constitutional views was Mr. Gladstone's speech on
its second reading.'--Right Hon. C. B. A