The New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 278, 27 January 1849, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

Me just and fear not: Let all the etuh lliosi aims't at, be thy Country's, Thy Gou's, and I'tutUS.

SATURDAY, JANU aTiT 27, 1849.

We cannot dismiss our correspondent Ruricola with a foot-note. His letter, (which will be found in another page), is patriotic and praiseworthy ; but we perceive nothing in it to convict us of error, in our " editorial attacks on the government system of land sales-." Had those attacks been unjust, or our position a weak one, we deserved to be beaten in both ; but, we incline, on the contrary, to think, that our correspondent has done much to advance the one and to fortify the other. We believe it to be the firm and approved conviction of the old and experienced colonists of Australasia, that were Crown lands conditionally and, at the same time, piudcntially given.) instead of being tried to be grudgingly and graspingly sold, in provinces so remote and feeble, that such a system of alineation ■would not only be much more consonant with the honour and dignity of the Crown, but incalculably more advantageous to British commerce, British manufactures, and the British world at large ; and incomparably more beneficial to the colonies, who, by such a system would find their resources developed, their prostrate energies new strung, and a healthy and vigorous growth insured by an ample and equable introduction of those absolute necessaries, capital and labour, the absence of •which our correspondent so sensitively and so earnestly deplores. Such a system would speedily blot the barren waste from Nature's plastic face. It would create the golden fields and luxuriant pastures, it delights lluricola. so glowingly to imagine. It is the wildest of dreams to suppose that a wilderness can be sold at an extravagant price, yield a profit to the purchasers, and achieve prosperity to the colony. The proof is to the contrary, and the experience of ages testify the fact. If the demonstrations we have given upon the authority of M'Culloch are insufficient. If the annually recorded stream of emigration of yeomanry and peasantry to America, where land of the finest quality may be bought at from two shillings and six-pence to four shillings and four-pence an acre, and the tiny rill of paupers shovelled to Australia, where indifferent land js locked up at

twenty shillings an acre — if these he not " conlinnation strong " that Englishmen will not embark, at a greater cost of passage money, to lands four times more distant, and half a dozen times more costly; — then, contrast the present prostrate state of Australia and Tasj mania, with that of their unequalled piosperity when land v/as free or cheap : — and, if even that will not satisfy the sceptical — why then take our own New Ulster Government Gazettes, that for instance of the 17th instant, and what read we there, hut lands offered time after time and withdrawn, because purchasers cannot be found so insane as to buy at the monstrously exaggerated prices insisted upon by the Government of New Zealand. It is no answer, that a few lots occasionally move off. These are risked in the true spirit of gambling ; or in the desperation of men, who finding themselves at the world's fag end — " place their all upon « catt, And will stand the hazard of the die/ These, however, are but the exceptions to prove the rule, and to shew that New Zealand is hermetically sealed against every attempt at beneficial colonization. This, despite the coultur de rose expositions of Ruricola., is the stern, the sterile, the incontestible fact ; and we should be but sorry decoy ducks to lead any " distant reader " to a fool's paradise, by dressing up our subject in language which would not stand what we conceive to be the test of t:uth. In decrying such, a system we have no purpose of our own to attain. We have neither land to buy nor to sell. Nor have we personal prejudice or predilections to indulge. Our motto, "Be Just and Fear not," is our conscientious guide. The Wakefield land imposition has been the proven curse of every colony subjected to its unstatesmanlike infliction. If we can by iteration and reiteration of its injuries and injustice, be instrumental in its revocation, we shall consider we have deserved well not only of our colony but of our country. Every colony is loud in exclamation against its wrongs. We lament that every colony should be so void of unanimity and uniformity of purpose as not to form a Colonial League to petition, petition, petition, their Queen and Country, for relief from the barbarous oppression. According to New Zealand the superiority claimed for her soil, because of her abundant rain, we fear, nevertheless, that a vivid fancy has caused Ruricola to go a head a little at random. Our correspondent will, we hope, excuse"us, but to seek to compare our harvests with those of Europe, " say for a period of fourteen years," sounds to us as somewhat of an Hibernian suggestion, the Colony just approaching its tenth year of existence, and its agricultural operations being so limited, as scarcely to entitleit to other than a very partial, almost an amateur consideration. In production of green crops, grasses, clovers, turnips, mangel-wurzel, and the like, we feel it will eventually bear the palm, but for the growth of wheat, barley and oats, it will do well if it " holds its own " with Tasmania, more especially if that colony were to produce merely in the very limited range to which Ruricola confines the tilth of New Ulster. Can Ruricola. give evidence of any spot in this province where ninety-six bushels of wheat per acre, of sixty pounds tojthe bushel have been grown ? There are thos* in Auckland who can testify that Mr. Charles Seal of Hobart Town grew above that quantity, upon land carefully measured, in Maria Island, on the East coast of Van Diemen's Land. But what of that'? It does not prove the capabilities of the entire colony any more than picked spots of New Ulster demonstrate the general fertility of New Zealand. Ruricola must not run quite so fast to conclusions. He must pause until New Zealand be fully stocked ere he vaunts the immeasurable superiority of her pastures so loudly. We perfectly recollect when those of Tasmania were yet but maiden pastures, and but partially stocked. Then, her beeves and her sheep, to use the colonial metaphor , were rolling in fat. Her fields are now overstocked — the grass, then, " up to the knees," is, now eaten down, and it is a fact worthy of consideration, as applicable at least to Van Diemen's Land, that native grass once eaten down, never springs up as at first ; it becomes largely intermingled with a worthless grass, called silver grass, and loses much of its pristine nutritious qualities. We have seen silver grass in New Zealand, and it is, therefore, possible that the same causes may be productive of the same effects here. We require not to be told that grass is not indigenous to New Zealand. It springs however, without being sown, when the fern and the brush are removed. Our correspondent upon a former occasion, told us, that " none but those who have enclosures, can now hope to bring a beast to a marketable condition." If this be so, does he not himself testify to the valueof our exposures of the injuries of the government system of land sales, or rather of attempted land sales, seeing that by such a dog in the manger policy " the country is too generally covered with obstructive vegetation." That is, it is compelled to lie u>aste t because man is denied the means of its conversion ! " This is not a pastoral country;" writes Ruricola, "the land and climate are too good for this region to be waited in cattle runs." And, yet they are wasted in a manner infinitely worse. They

ate left waste, in the fallacious hope that purchasers will be compelled to buy at a price that would entail poverty and distress ! The lands are naturally lich, the soil easy of tilth, and the climate is most auspicious. For the early and the latter rains of New Zealand, aie a source of wealth which will render her artificial pastures far superior to those of the other colonies, placing them, generally, upon an equal footing with the highly cultivated and irrigated meadows of Tasmania. Is it not, theiefoie, deplorable that such lands should be left, by arbitrary impositions, profitless 1 Rum com asserts that here we have no burthens on the land ! It is true they do not uppear in the shape of tithes, rates, &c; but of what matter that, if the burthen of extravagant, idle, insolent, and incompetent servants exceed the rates, tithes, and wages of industrious, civil, expert, and cheap labour to boot % Ruiucoia says — " the man who sows here reaps all for himself." All we can say is, that he is a monstrous fortunate fellow. Australian and Tasmanian experience proclaim that the man who sows thete, reaps almost nothing for himself, but nearly all for his servants : — and that such is nearer the mark here Rmucon. himself testifies, in these words : " We want labour at such a reasonable rate, that the employer may obtain some return for his capital. Not only are wages ruinoudy high, but the labour obtained is of a most inferior kind. Settlers are now under the necessity of discharging their servants, and letting their ploughshares rust /" We trust Ruricola will not misinterpret our criticism of his letter. It is not with a wish to be caustic upon him, but with an earnest and an anxious desire to expose a ruinous system, that we investigate his views so keenly. We believe that, like ourselves, he is animated with the most praiseworthy anxiety for the interest of his adopted land. We both seek to arrive at the same goal ; we only pursue different paths. Ruricola has spoken merely of the Auckland district — an open, brushy one — but to be just he must take New Zealand at large. In the valley of the Hutt, the first crop, according to the estimate of the late Colonel Wakefield, cost the settler £12 per acre, — in cutting down, not grubbing, the trees; — add to this the cost of fencing, grubbing, the twenty shillings an acre cost price, the expense of passage out, the erection of a cottage, stock-yards and other farm buildings, and how far short will the purchase money fall of the average lands of England ? It is a consideration of these outlays, and a " practical" but not a " con amore" experience of colonial rural life, that enables us to insist that five shillings an acre are more than the full value of unreclaimed lands. It is not in good taste, nor is it justice, to sneer at " arid Austialia." Without her past prosperity New Zealand would not now exist. Her Heece has made her a great province. We have yet to learn that silk and cotton culture will not render her a still greater. As to healthiness of climate, Aye imagine that not one of the colonies of these seas have aught to complain of ; but, if clear skies and a bracing atmosphere aie to be the tests of superiority, then, we incline to think, Van Diemen's Land must assuredly step in and claim precedence of us ; and, as for scenery, whether of the grand and romantic, of the soft and the pictorial, of the river and the bay, of the mountain and the gien, Tasmania surpasses all that we have ever beheld in any quarter of New Zealand, north or south. As for robust and rosy cheeked " infantry," Tasmania, ay, and Australia likewise, can produce them as plump and as brilliant as a new fledged ensign's gala jacket : whilst for female ' loveliness, whether of form or feature, Tasmania confessedly and hopelessly distances all colonial competitors. We have nothing, either on the score of health or beauty, to deplore, but if Ruricola would lay claim to " all the graces," he must expect some adventurous knight, if merely for the Quixotry of the thing, to splinter a lance with him, and to show that the AngloSaxon is as little degenerated in New South Wales as in New Zealand. Ruricola has spoken of the rapidly decreasing Maori race, and it is with deep regret that we have frequently listened to the same melancholy statements from other well informed quarters. Fifty chiefs, among the many known to the late Colonel Wakefield, died within a period of six years. Much injury is said to result from their filthy habits and constant use of the blanket. Now that a i medium of communication for their enlightenment exists, it were an act as Christian as philanthropic to point out the danger and its remedy. They are, with all their faults, a noble race. We have now followed our correspondent through his several paragraphs, not in a spirit of disputation, but in an honest desire to satisfy him of the reason of the belief that is in us. We have endeavoured to avoid any expression calculated to give offence, not only because we detest controversy, but because we desire to evince every courtesy towards those who seek only the advancement of our common country.

The establishment of a College at Nelson is one of the interesting topics of the day. It is

known, no doubt, to the majority of our readers that, according to the plan for the foundation of that settlement, a portion of the money paid in purchase of land was to be set apart for the creation, in due time, of a College or Superior School. That money has now increased to a sum bordering upon fourteen thousand pounds, and the Nelson colonists have determined that I the time has arrived to carry out their desires hy an early foundation of a Collegiate Institution. That the Nelson College shall be as free as possible from all sectarian ascendancy, whether Episcopalian or Denominational, is, we understand, one of the most anxious aims of its proprietary. They are desirous to institute a FREE COLLEGE, where the youth of all rel giou» faiths may meet upon neutral ground. Where the Protestant and Roman Catholic may acquire an equal measure of moral and mental culture, without, in the smallest degree clashing with the religious instructions, or alarming the religious prejudices of either. That the College may be established in the most effectual manner, the Committee of Management have advertised in our own and the Nelson journal " to receive (with as little delay as may be practicable) written communications on the details of the subject from any gentlemen whose feelings and pursuits have induced particular inquiries into the question." To this appeal Mr. Gisborne has promptlyresponded, in a carefully wiitten letter, which we this day publish. It is not, however, to be expected that practical and personally uninterested writers will give their gratuitous consideration to a subject which, to be well elucidated, must involve much time, earnest inquiry, and mature reflection. In our opinion the Committee would have done wisely to offer premiums for the three best essays upon a question so deeply affecting the mediate and immediate interests of their Institution. Fifty pounds, in bounties of twenty-five, fifteen, and ten pounds each, open to contributors from any of the neighbouring colonies, would prove but an unconsidered trifle in comparison with the information which would most assuredly be derived. It is not yet too late to ponder our suggestion. Better lose a few months in reflection, than reflect when too late.

The Society for the Promotion of Colonization held a meeting at the Town Hall of Brighton > on Thursday, the 10th of August; for the purpose of laying the objects of that Society before the inhabitants, and, if approved, to form a Branch Society. The High Constable was called to the chair. The hall was filled — and many ladies were present. The proceedings of this meeting presented the question in two lights ; but, as the Sydney Morning Herald, from which we quote, has given but one aspect— and that the favourable one — we are precluded comment or observation on the speeches of those who prefaced the business of the meeting, by an inquiry of — " You would not try to transport us, would you V Interesting as this one sided report is, it is too long for our columns : — we shall therefore present its pith, in a rapid and condensed summary. The Hon. Francis Scott, opened the proceedings in his usual able and argumentative manner, disclaiming any desire save that of rendering to his fellow-countrymen, what he could not but consider, a most important benefit ; to remove them from want and hunger to plenty, and to all the advantages and blessings, which a better climate, in the same dominions, ruled over by the same sovereign, afforded to the subjects of the same empire ;; — ■ Could he but thus aid and benefit his suffering fellow-countrymen, he should indeed be transported with delight. Mr. Scott proceeded to contrast the fearful privations of England with the lavish superabundance of Australia — the large wages for an easy day's work there, compared with the scanty pittance for eagerly contested and scarcely to be obtained English toil. The attainment of independence in perspective "in the colony — the Union workhouse in bloodless prominence in the old country* Children a blessing, and a source of prosperity in the one — a drag and a drawback in the other. Mr. Scott concluded a feeling and a felicitous speech by moving — " That considering the distressed condition of a large number of the labouring population of the United Kingdom, and the extensive and remunerative field which our colonies present for their employment and relief, it is the opinion of this meeting that im* mediate steps are expedient with a view to an organized and well-regulated system of colonization,'* Earl Nelson, seconded the resolution ; demonstrating that emigration was alike an individual, a national, and a colonial gain. Mr. Chapman then proceeded in a speech of considerable length, to propose the following resolution — " That, at the emigrant, the mother country, and th« coloniei, participate alike in the advantage of emigration, it ii just and desirable that the expense attending such a measure shoul I be borne by each, and that for «uch purpose if is desirable that Branch Socistiei should be formed, and that accordingly •ucli a branch be formod in Brighton." In the course of his observations, Mr. Chapman said, that if any of the charges which had been so strongly put forward as to transporting their fellow-creatures to foreign countries were tiue, he would have nothing to do with the society,

He knew what it was to leave his native soil and friends, (hear), and he regretted that any should he ohliged to do so ; hut such was the case, and their object was to alleviate the pain of such a proceeding as much as possible, and to enable those who took it to obtain their wishes. They had no controul over any body ; if they carried fifty resolutions, they could not oblige them to emigrate, and nothing would lie sanction, whether it was emigration to the Cape, or New Zealand, or South Australia, unless it was voluntary on the part of those who went. (Cheers). Wherever they went, they must work. He did not tell them they were going to a Paradise ; but they were certain of a market for their labour and of ample remuneration, and he hoped the colonies would soon be brought within six weeks' voyage of the home country, for the benefit of loth. The Hon. Walter Wrottesly seconded the motion, giving a graphic and a glowing picture of New Soutb Wales, which he had recently visited, and showing that there, there was room and verge, and means enough for millions. Mr. Mark Boyd followed ; but, ere moving the third resolution, proceeded to combat the opinions of some of the antagonistic speakers, termed (upon what ground we know not), Chartists, by the Sydney Herald. Mr. Boyd disavowed the charge that he and his friends were " the hirelings, the paid agents of the government sent down to Brighton to induce their poor but honest countrymen to transport themselves to a colony where they would be eaten up." He disabused the minds of his audience of the abominable impression attempted to be got up that government provided rotten ships, so that the poor emigrants might be more rapidly disposed of. This atrocious accusation Mr. Boyd not merely disproved, but showed to demonstration that the very reverse was the fact. Mr. Boyd acquainted the meeting that his was a very different position with respect to Australia, from that of his friend, the Hon. Walter Wrottesly. Mr. Wrottesly possessed no interest in the country, save that felt by an intelligent and enthusiastic traveller — he and his family, on the contrary, had a very large stake in the soil. Mr. Boyd, alluded to the difficulty, even on the most pinching dietary, to make both ends meet at home, and went on to detail the liberal scale of wages and of rations, and the distressing lack of labour of all sorts in the colony. To these topics Mr. Boyd did justice ; and had he stopped there, it would have been better for his reputation. But when he adventures such a flight as this that follows he surely cannot hope to pass uncensured ? There is another interest in Australia languishing from want of hands, of which he is reminded by seeing some blue jacket! before him ; he alluded to the fisheries. Fheie, nipn of Brighton, men of the coasts of Sussex, is a field of enterprise and industry open to you. You, who hare dared lhe buttle and the breeze, — you, who cnab'ed a Nslson, a Duncan, a Howe, and a St. Vincent, to place us in the yan of nations,— you who authorised us to sing, ' Britannh rules tbe waves,'— >ou, to whom we aie indeb ed for our proud pre-eminence, — y< |U i whose sires bled with Rodney, and had an aesylum found them by a grateful country in the royal palace of Greenwich. He (Mr. Boyd) coul t tell them,— the descendants of these bravo n en, —that on the coasts of Australia was an inexhouslib'e, an illimitable fi«ld for their industry ; and he coulii also tell them that the ship-owner in Australia, in consequence of the -want of a supply of haniti, is entiiely at the ineicy of the few there are, who aie so fretted and spoiled by high wages and the luxuries of that brilliant climate, as to Yvave almost lost the cha. rscter of British tars. He (Mr. Boyd) would give one ins'ance of what the ship-owner is exposed to, which he had been told by a gentleman in that Hall recently arrived from Sydney. A relative of hi« (Mr. Boyd'i) lias a large steamer running from Sydney to Adelaide, in South Australia. The iteam was up, the bell ringing for the start, the pasiengers assembled on the decks; (we may fancy ourselves at the end of the Chain Pier,) when my relative went on board and found the Captain, enquired if all was ready for sea ? — why, Sir, laid the Captain, the men have nearly all left the vessel to drink in that public house, and the engineer has just told me in dismay, that they lefuse to come on board in obedience to my orders; my relative had a number of South Sea Islandeis working for him at his whaif, for such it the scarcity of sailors, that a large pioportion of the crews of each ship consist of New Zealanders ; and the South Sea Islanders are every day becoming more and more a valuable addition to our mercantile marine in that part of the world. My relative asked the captain if he brought him twenty picked men could he go to sea ? be said he could, and in the course of a few minutes my relative was seen at the head of a band of fine athletic South Sea Islanders hurrying tj (he ateamer. This wai too much for Jack to stand, who witnessed tbe movement from the public. house, — a race emued between ths sailors and the South Sea Islanders, which should get on board the steamer first, — precedence wai given to the sailors, and the vessel went to sea. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers). We confess we are at a loss to discover th e remotest link of connection between our great naval worthies, and the compassionated shipowners of Australia. To drag " a Nelson, a Duncan, a Howe, a St. Vincent, and a Rodney " from the marble in which they have long lain " quietly inurned," however germane to a national occasion, is a piece of impertinent claptrap when applied to a paltry matter of grasping private interest. It may suit the views of Mr. Mark Boyd to eulogize the owner, and denounce the mariner. Seamen, however, as well as others, have an indubitable right to do the best they can for themselves. Mr. B>yd should have remembered that painters take opposite views of the same subject — as the Lion informed the artist who gratuitously exhibited one of his tribe vanquished by a man. Does Mr. Boyd imagine that Jack has no reasonable grounds for complaint against owners ?

Would it be impossible for him to turn the tables and say, that by pinching and paring they had almost lost the character of British shipowners 1 We venture to assure him that a very, very different version can be given of the departure of the " large steamer running from Sydney to Adelaide ;" — such, for example, as this, which can be confirmed by a cloud of witnesses. The large steamer — the Juno — on the day in question, was weakly and inefficiently manned, and the chief cause of the white people quitting her, was because the kidnapped South Sea Islanders were constantly working on board — or rather tailing on to a rope, here and there — and leaving the work to be done by men that " have almost lost the character of British tars." These were so few and fai between that the " large steamer " could not be moved — and there appeared to be no one on board except Mr. Boyds " relative " to issue conflicting orders. From two o'clock till six, this exhibition was carried on, amidst the jeers of every seaman in Sydney Cove. The " large steamer's " anchor hooked the quarter chain of the ship " Johnstone," which vessel she fouled, tearing her away from the wharf, smashing her quarter, swamping a waterman's skiff, carrying away her own port bulwarks, and, after much difficulty, putting to sea in a most disgraceful and unseamanlike manner. The circumstance would be beneath recording, were it not that Mr. Mark Boyd makes it the occasion of trumpeting — to a people who disbursed twenty millions that slavery might be suppressed in their dominions — the success of certain man-catching experiments amongst the savages of the South Sea Islands : — experiments, in flagrant violation of the Slave Piracy Act — experiments denounced by the independent press of New South Wales — experiments to which the attention of the Colonial Legislature was loudly called, and against the repetition of which especial acts were framed. When we see such prostitution of terms, in a public assembly of free-born Englishmen, we cannot restrain our indignation. It was well for Mr. Mark Boyd, that the " Chartists " were ignorant of the " South Sea Islander " infamy, otherwise his position might have proved a most unpleasant one. Mr. Boyd moved the third resolution to the following effect — " Tbat the Society for Promoting Colonization, recently formed in London, having great national objects in view, h entitled to public Bupuort and co operation ; and tbat this meeting pledges it, elf to aid its interests by contributing to Us funds, and extending its influence." This was seconded by Dr. Blair and carried unanimously ; after which Mr. C. D. Logan, late of the Sydney Emigration Office, presented himself to the meeting. We give his speech entire, because it contains the expositions of a practical man thoroughly conversant with his subject, and which, we must say, Mr. Logan handled in an able and efficient manner. C. D. Logan, Esq., moved— " That, in the opinion of this meeting, it is likewise most desirable that a Ladies' Association should be formed in this town with a view to the collection of subscriptions, and assisting' ths most de.titure emigianti, more particularly females, with clothing and other relief." Mr. L»t(an said, that in presenting himself to the meeting, he acted in willing accordance with the request of the committee, though at the same time he telt that he bad but little claim upon their attention beyond that which was ordinarily lecognised in every assembly of Englishmen, namely, that he was a utranger, and as one who lnd but very recently returned after a sojourn of sevtral years in the Australian colonies. The ob>ervatioiis which he hid heard to night from some preceding speikets displayed a lamentable want of information an to the true condition of Australia and the actual prospects of the labouring classes who might proceed tuither. He therefore felt bound, from the long and practical experience he had acquired in the distribution of emigrants on their arrival, to mention the facts ; aod with this vipw he would state emphatically that, if any class of persons were benefited more than another by emigration, it was the labouring man and the female domest-c servant. In stating this, however, he did not intend to hold out golden visions to the idle. On the contrary, he would impress upon them that in Australia, as well as in Eugland, the eternal decteehad gone forth "(hat man should live by the sweat of his brow." He could assure them that such was the demand for labour in N j .w South Wales, that ench ship on her arrival was eagerly beset by crowds of settlers, and that in almost every instance, the emigrants were hired direct from the vessel, and at excellent wages. He would now appeal to the ladies I who graced the assembly that evening— he would | appeal to them on behalf of the wives and mother* of Auitpalia — he would appeal to them on behalf of those whose interests were dearer still — the Buffering poor of their own sex, who were languishing here in indigence, bat to whom, in the colony from whence ho had come, comfort and virtuous independence were available. He wished that a Ladies' Association should be formed in this town, to assiit de erving femalei, desirous to emigrate, either by pecuniary aid or in articles of clothing for their outfits. He felt the necessity which existed for such an aiiocia'ion, as there were many virtuous females in the humble ranks of life whom a becoming diffidence would prevent from confiding the tale of their diitrenes and their destitution lo strangers. He would respectfully urge, however, upon the ladiei present, that in Australia they did not want the exotics of the toilet or the nursery— those were luxuries which were not required there. He would therefore request, that any aisociation that might be formed in this town should direct its efforts to assiit the emigration of an humble and industrious cass of servants at the best calculated to meet the domesiic wants ot the colony. In conclu•ion, he would observe, that the authoiities in New South Wales exercised the most rigid circumspection in the hiring of emigrants from the ships after arrival. The Emigration board, at the head of which was Mr. Merewether, tht emigration agent of the colooy, a most humane and zealous public officer, took the greatett care that all female* were hired to penons of proper character ; and to carry out this object, a person possesiing local knowledge was sent on board to assist the Surgeon Superintendent of every vessel : in fact,

nothing was wanting, as far as the protection of the Government could be exerted. But, in connection with the Brighton Ladies' Committee, Mr. Logan proposed to liaTe a corresponding Ladies' Society in New South Walei, who would keep the emigrant, not only on a-rival. but when out of place, and provide for her a proper asylum. Thii vvas seconded by Montague Gore, E->q., M.P., and plsa carried unanimously, and a vote ot thanks wa« then poised to the High Constable for Ins services in the cluir, aud the meeting broke up at nearly 12 o'clock. Mr. Blair lias been requested to net as Honorary Secretary, and will be happy to furnish every information in his power, both in to the objects of the society, and also as to the colony, fiom which he has just tetumed.