WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1848.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 247, 11 October 1848, Page 2

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1848.

Tuvr Colonization is a science, by the Colonial Office and the Colonial Emigration Commissionois, imperfectly understood, or impassively neglected, has long been a truism painfully obvious to every reflecting colonist. It has now, most fortunately become a fact not less obvious in other and more influential quarters. The truths, which in pertinacious desperation, have, for weary years, been inculcated by Colonial writers, of every colony, have at length struck home— a spark has caught— a ray has entered into other souls— until, like the fiery cross of old, it flashes far and wide, dispelling darkness, and summoning other and energetic instruments to impart vitality, and brilliance to its expanding blaze. It is however, to no inherent love of the Colonies— to no magnanimous desire to render fair and impartial justice to hands-full of expatriated Englishmen, seduced or shovelled to England's Antipodean possessions— it is to no abstract regard for Colonial welfare, that the Colonies owe the powerful advocacy which the most eminent and the most influential of the British Journals are now exhibiting, not in their caute, but in demonstrating that population and poverty have become so powerful in England, that unless the Colonial safety valve shall be largely and liberally opened, there are many and serious apprehensions of the Imperial engine experiencing a terrific explosion. To avert a national calamity so deplorable, the TrMEs, the Morning Chronicle ; Journalists, whether daily or hebdomadal, Reviewers, be they Monthly or Quarterly, have assumed the pen with an earnestness and a vigour which speaks volumes for the sincerity of their convictions. They dwell with graphic fidelity on the sad amount of penury and privation at home, and they point with truth i and reason to the Colonies, and in especial, to I the Australasian colonies, as a haven for the^ indigent, the refuge for the destitute ! And they do well so to point, the field is ample, and the welcome will be cordial. But, although with wisdom and justice, and liberal concession to her social and political claims, Australia may be made the willing recipient of countless thousands of England' a struggling inhabitants, yet these ardent advocates of National Emigration by wholesale, must bear in mind that no where is Reform so imperative as in England's Colonies, and that to pour In multitudes of discontented English upon justly discontented colonists, would (without relaxing the reins so harshly and so incompetently held by Downing-street), be to aggravate evils these able commentators would do well to expose and which they should earnestly seek to extirpate. To render Australasia heart-whole British requires but little concession. It is to permit her to govern herself, instead of crushing her "by Downing-street. To render her really a pree possession, and not a feudatory of an ephemeral Secretary of State. To purge her of the spawn of patronage, who bar the Australasian youth of their reasonable, their native ambition. To suffer a free traffic in land, by facility of its acquisition. These, and a few similar concessions would ensure the love and the loyalty of a people whom oven unkindness can hardly estrange, but which a trifling conciliation would bind for ever. We have already transferred a variety of papers from various journals illustrative of the Colonial movement which is gaining such rapid ground in England, and, as opportunity offers, we shall transcribe many more. One of the most powerful appeared in Phaser's Magazine for May. It is too long for present insertion, but shall be given at an early day. Meanwhile, as confirmatory of the folly of endeavouring to exact an exorbitant price for waste lands, and as a yet stronger corrobation of the accuracy of the views, on that subject, expressed by us in our last, we quote the following extract. " Why persist in the suicidal practice of selling waste lands, which it is the obvious policy of the government to bring under cultivation with as little delay as possible 1 And if you must sell, why fix your price at a rat* sn f-xravagaut as to hinder all, except men of «übstance or capital, from becoming purchisers? In