"For your kindness which has enabled me to take a course so well calculated to remove all difficulties, I beg leave to return you my sincere thanks.
"I remain, Dear Sir,
"Yours very truly,
"Robert Gouger.
"P.S.—The proposed Bill might, if that course were preferred, be introduced by Mr. Whitmore or some other member of the association.
"I ought to have said that there is not the least chance of the committee assenting to a Joint Stock Company for the purchase and sale of land, as suggested in your official letter. If the measure were turned into a private speculation, those who are interested in it would immediately withdraw. If their object had been private advantage they would of course have jumped at Mr. Stanley's proposal that they should have land at a lower price than other people; but such a preference would be directly contrary to the principles of colonisation which they wish to see adopted."
"Answers to objections made by the Colonial Office to the South Australian Commission. Sent to Lefevre with the foregoing letter.
"See the charter, its conditions, restrictions, and reservations.
" I. That the charter would create an imperium in imperio.
"Answer. The Latin answer is, Qui facit per alium facit per se. It is a delegation of authority. An independent and a delegated authority are widely different. For example, the recent Act of Parliament and Orders in Council, which establish a branch of the English Government within the Chinese Empire, have set up an independent authority as respects the Chinese Government; but as respects the English Government, the superintendents of the English trade at Canton will exercise a
