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Taranaki Herald, Volume I, Issue 15, 10 November 1852, Page 2

Last week we noticed that portion of the English news brought by the late arrivals which more ' intimately concerns our own community. There are, however, other points which, hot so immediately bearing oh our present interests, cannot fail most materially to affect the future of these settlements. Aroused by the gold mania, which appears to pervade the universal world ; and brought by its operation to a sense of the dUngSt 1 which it may bring to her most vital interests at homp, added to the extremely critical state of her Australian dependencies, Britain appears to be preparing, as well as she may, to mee"t the impending emergency ; and when her immense wealth and influence, directed by the 'indomitable energies of her intelligent population, are considered— 'there is little doubt that all the difficulties will be met, and much *which 'wears the aspect of unmitigated evil, will be found resulting in an increased amount of good. It is an elevating sight to see the powers of mind in nations, as in individuals, toiling -against adverse circumstances, and coming through the fiery ordeal like gold thrice tried, turning defeat into victory, and finally, as it were chaining "fate to the chariot wheels of their destiny. He who could doubt the result, belongs not to'the sister islands of the west, which cousolidatcd, make the sum of her incalculable power. We believe ourselves, that the 'finger of Providence, may Tiere be tracetl, pointing to the salvation of a nation, which before all others of the earth, has been most instrumental to human 'progression. Gold has been discovered everywhere, and close on the track of those discoveries, following, as if directed by divine mind, are mighty undertakings, calculated to employ it a<l, and which in their no distant operation, seem destined to distribute the energies of civilised Europe, over the whole habitable globe. Emigration, Steam communication, ahA Railroads, all seem to tend to one and the same end, the relieving our vastly over p6* pulated native country. The living stream will presently set in, blessing and revivifying alike -the land it leaves, and the land it seeks. We should say, that viewed atight, the wisest and safest solution of this future for New Plymouth, will be found, not in emigrating to communities made up of the refuse of society in search of gold, got, if got, with every deprivation and degradation repulsive to man possessing proper self estimation ; and kept, if got, as the robber keeps his spoil, in secret, and at risk of life— but in the wide spread prodnction of all the ne* te'ssaries of life. We have never known the time wheft Gold could hot be bought. But it is questionable whether (after a time, aye, no great time) the same may be said of the materials of human sustenance in these islands. Certain it is that nothing can prevent at no very distant period, an immense influx of people into all the settlements of New Zealand, and duty and interest equally point out the course which a settlement like this should pursue, adapted as it is for the pro* duction of every description of human food.

Nor do we entertain a doubt that those whom self-respect and prudence induce to bide the result of honest industry in this set-

llement, will find in the long run that they are no losers even in a pecuniary point of view. Avoiding at the same time the mental and moral corruption which no worldly wca'th can compensate.