ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 764, 10 August 1853, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the Nnw-Z exlXkde'r. Srn, —I am glad yon have raised your voice against the immigration of Chinese labourers and servants into this country.. The southern settlers of New Zealand, who are putting down their names for thes<? people* are, perhaps, ignorant, that they are doing an act which will ftot only produce inuch misery, but cause the deaths of many of the unfortunate Chinese who may be induced to migrate. This is not a fiction, but a conalusion drawn from the history of the-human race. There is not on record a single instance of the natives of the tropics having migrated- suddenly to a country within the temperate zone without much sickness and many deaths result--ing. The negro race, children of tropical Africa, decay in the cold northern states of the St. Augustine war, which took place in 1702,, a body of Indians were captured in the tropical parts of South America, and sold as slaves in New England, hut they suffered much from the coldness of the climate, and most of them died of consumption. During the year 1810, a body of African troops, the 4th West India Regiment,, was quartered in Gibraltar, but the climate pro duced so many deaths from consumption that it was found necessary to remove them to the tropics.The Hindoo soldiers, brought overland to resist Bonaparte’s invasion of Egypt, died nine times faster than they died in the plains of Hindostnn,. and in the cold regions around Cahool they were driven into hospital with maladies unknown to them in their own country. In short, no race of men bear transplantation worse than the children of the tropics. Let us suppose that a cargo of Chinese harr been shipped for New Zealand. During the voyage some will die, and more will sicken, for the natives of India, shipped under the watchful eye of Government, as labourers, suffered much misery during their short voyage to the Mauritius. Arrived at Wellington, the Chinese will complain that the climate is very cold and damp. They have been told, perhaps, that the climate o New Zealand is the finest in the world; but they who told them this forgot to add, —not for the children of the tropics, but for the Anglo-Saxon race. In a short time their hothouse constitutions will give way, and many of them will become ill, —the good men who have induced them to leave their native land will consider themselves bound to keep them, although they cannot work, until they die, but the great body of the people will let them crawl into some public hospital, Europeans who have lived long in the East Indies like to carry home with them Hindoo servants. The East India Company oblige all wh > do so, to deposit in their hands a sura of money sufficient to pay their passages back to India, because thev found the streets and hospitalsin London filled with sick Hindoos, unable to work theif passages home I trust the Government of New Zealand will take a hint from this, and make all those who bring Chinese here deposit money to take them back.

This Chinese Immigration Association is a had scheme from beginning to end. It is nothing hut an attempt to revive slavery under a different name. I could rally imagine a set of done-up West India planters setting the scheme a-going, but am surprised the religious settlement of Canterbury did not kick, the agent of the association out of the town. If the ship has not yet sailed for China I would suggest that her destination be changed to Africa, for I have lately heard, on good authority, that the squadron now on the look-out for slavers is very much reduced. A negro weighs a stone more than a native of the Celestial Empire, so that three hundred negroes would hew more wood and draw more water than three hundred and fifty Chinamen; besides, a Chinaman sulks un 'er kicks and abuse, hut a negro, like a spaniel, improves. If the Directors of the Chinese Association adopt my suggestion. I trust they will let me shaig in the spoil, and not forget to send me up, by the first Government brig, after their living cargo arrives, two stout niggers, so that I may have the pleasure of emancipating them and sending them home* S. -