The New-Zealander. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 22, 1847.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 163, 22 December 1847, Page 2

The New-Zealander. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 22, 1847.

Be just and fear not: Let all the ends thou aims't at, be thy Country's, Thy God's, aud Truth's.

Thb famine in Ireland and the scarcity of food in Great Britain, has at length ceased. The immense arrival of foreign corn has not only been the cause of the breaking down of some stores, but of some corn-merchants also Speculation, like ambition, knows not where to stpp ; the inordinate possession of either generally ends in a man's winding up his accounts, or in being wound up in a sheet. — America has undoubtedly been the chief source of the large supplies of grain and flour poured into the British markets. Certain it is that do European state could have sent any great quantity, for almost the whole continent has been suffering from the same calamity.—In Hanover the Government was driven to allow even the sale of dead horses for food, which were retailed out at lx per lb. ! It is clear then, if America had never been colonised, the number of persons at home who have perished from want, would have been much greater. No amount of English gold, or Mancheater bales, could have procured one barrel of flour, either from the Cocktaws or Cherokees. An unanswerable fact, for those few who will obstinately maintain, that no good results from colonization, Whilst, however, we rejoice that plenty now reigns in the Mother Country, we should not omit an examination of the resources of her colonies in this hemisphere, in case of a similar deficiency of food. We feel convinced that the result of such an enquiry would be very satisfactory. There is the greatest probability that a famine would never be common, at the same period, to the whole of these settlements. The difference of climate of each is almost a sufficient guarantee. A drought in New South Wales, or South Australia, would be relieved by the colder colonies of Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand ; and it would indeed be remarkable, if any deficiency in the latter countries, could not be met with by supplies from some of the Australian colonies. As for New Zealand such is iti uniformity of climate, that none need fear to reap in this countiy, who take the trouble to sow. Taking a slight liberty with our favourite poet, we are inclined to exclaim, " Lives there a man with heart so dead," " Who ne'er unto himself hath said," V This is my own, adopted land ?" The Southern colonies too are not separately under the yoke of despotic, or semi-despotic governments ; nor is their commerce hampered by the existence of prohibitoiy laws.— They will in case of necessity, be not only able to assist each other, as the European States usually are, but free and willing from reciprocal advantages, to do so. Had not South Australia been in mere infancy, or had the more recently founded colonies been in existance, flour would not have been £100 a ton in Sydney seme eight years since. No, -we may be thankful such times are as many others in history — vanished never to return again. The ancient proverb is then equally applicable to colonies of a free people,— " The more the merrier."

We had scarcely finished the above when We had handed us some newspapers from Honolulu, one of the Sandwich Islands. A newspaper of twenty-four columns, well printed in the English language, and crowded with advertisements, from the place which destroyed our Cook, is a remarkable feature even in these " go-ahead" times. We look on the Sandwich group, although distant, and even north of the equator, as bound up by interest in a community with the Australasian colonies. Here at best is found the mass of Anglo-Saxon colonies to which the Sandwich Islands properly belong. And what is still more to the point, a cry for European emigration, and no feeble one either; is raised by the Po lynesian No Chinamen will do, it tntißt be of our own raee — not a little complimentary by the bye. We give an extract or two below.