RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT [PART I 
humanity of handing over the large native population to the 
uncontrolled management of a legislature composed of those 
whose habits, interests, and prejudices were so entirely 
different. He had therefore prepared and introduced into 
the Legislature a Bill to reduce the two Houses into one, 
consisting of a nominee president, four persons holding 
offices of profit under the Crown, and thirty-two elective 
members. It was the hope of the Governor thus to secure 
the more effective presentation of the views of the Govern- 
ment in the Legislature, and to restore the power of the 
Executive to carry its wishes into law. Lord Granville, on 
March 24, 1870,! replied, demurring to the Governor’s views 
of responsible government, and expressing doubt if the 
change of legislature would effect much strengthening of 
the Government, and stating that if the Bill were rejected the 
Colony must face the alternatives laid down in his dispatch 
of December 9, 1869. 
Naturally the Bill was rejected in the Lower House by 
a majority of thirty-four to twenty-six, but in reporting the 
fact on April 2,% the Governor still pressed for the retention 
of the troops, urging that in view of the position in Natal the 
troops must be retained, leaving it for the Colonial Govern- 
ment to give more adequate power to the Executive. But 
though the Legislative Assembly supported the Governor 
by an address to the throne praying for the retention of 
the troops, the Imperial Government declined to accede to 
the request, and the Government were told that they must 
take steps to place the finances in order and to make other 
provision for Colonial defence. 
Matters were now complicated by the discovery of dia- 
monds in territory claimed by the Orange Free State, but 
on October 172% Lord Kimberley addressed a letter to 
Sir H. Barkly, who had been chosen to be the new Governor 
of the Colony, declaring that the existing form of government 
could not be allowed to continue, and must be replaced by 
a Crown Colony control or by responsible government. The 
! Parl. Pap., H. C. 181, 1870, pp. 18, 26. * Ibid., II, 1870, pp. 3 seq. 
$ Ibid., C, 459, p. 46. 
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