CHAPTER VI.
THE LEGISLATURE AND EXECUTIVE.
It has come to be understood that the appropriate mode of
governing a Colony is to have a King, Lords and Commons
as we do at home. And if a Colony be a Colony in the fashion
described by me when endeavouring to define the nature of a
Colony proper, there cannot be a doubt that this is the best
mode. Where Englishmen,—or white men whether they
be of English or other descent,—have gone to labour and
have thus raised a community in a distant land under the
British flag, the old constitutional mode of arranging things
seems always to act well, though it may sometimes be rough
at first, and sometimes at starting may be subject to difficulties.
It has been set on foot by us, or by our Colonists,
with a population perhaps not sufficient to give two members
to an English borough,—and has then started with a full-fledged
appanage of Governor, aide-de-camps, private secretaries,
Legislative Council, Legislative Assembly, Prime
Minister and Cabinet,—with a surrounding which one
would have thought must have swamped so small a boat;—but
the boat has become almost at once a ship and has
ridden safely upon the waves. The little State has borrowed
money like a proud Empire and has at once had its stocks
