News from Colonial regions follows suit. In our great separated
colonies the United States, the North and the South are once more beginning to grow angry on the subject of Negro Slavery, apropos to the suggestion of forbidding it in California ; and the whole question is again raked up from the bottom. In Canada, an Indian riot mentioned in our news last week had been suppressed : it arose in a misunderstanding among the In- dians, and only serves to remind us that rebels in some parts of Canada might have awkward allies. From the Cape of Good Hope we have a little more explanation of the rioting there. It seems that the rioters were Negroes rather than Coolies, and that they were instigated by Whites, with some very indiscreet suggestions from official persons, the Governor included. Port Phillip had added itself to the settlements protesting against the admission of convict emigrants ; and the local Governor, Mr. Latrobe, seems to be with the colonists.
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