The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-20 00:00:00

PANY AND THE AUCKLAND ISLANDS.

We extract the following curious chapter in colo-
nisation from the bydssey Monate/ Herald :
When intelligence of the formation of the Southern
Whale Fishery Company Ant reached Sydney. we ex-
pressed our opinion that the projectors of the company had
committed two fatal errors ; first, in attempting to mix up
colonisation in their commercial affairs ; and secendly, in
fixing their main establishment at the Auckland Islands.
We regret to find that our predictions have even at this
early period come true, and the affairs of the company have
become involved to a very serious extent.
Had the company fixed their dep6t on the north shore of
Putt Jackson, or at Newcastle, or at l'ort Stephens, they
need not have expended above 2,0001. in the erection of a
store and dwellings for their labourers, and their chief
officer could have been called a superintendent, and been re-
munerated by a salary of 1001. or 600/. a veer; but when
they undertook to:colonise, they eoesideresl it necessary to
have a " Chief Commissioner, and as he was to have the
chargo of the settlement, the Queen was advised to make
the commissioner a Lieutenant-Governor (who of course re-
quired a staff), and thus it came to pass that the affairs of a
company owning seven ships, which could be managed by
any Sydney merchant with the aid of an extra clerk, were
placed under the superintendence of his excellency Lieut.-
Governor Enderby.
The Auckland -Islands are as far south that the weather
esooedintly tempestuous, end the winter very bitter.
This rendered necessary houses of a more expensive kind
than are usual in Australia, and such of our readers as
know what "founding a settlement" means, will not be
mirprisedilto hear that some 30,0001. has been expended in
buildings and improvements at Port Rom, from which, as
the settlement is to be deserted, the company will receive
but very little benefit.
The London shareholders of the company, not feeling
satisfied with the progress of affairs, the company at their
last anneal meeting resolved to send out a deputation to
inquire into the state of affairs, and about four months
since, Mr. Dundas, one of the directors' and Mr. Preston,
the secretary of the company, arrived at Port Ross for the
purpose. They were, of course, received with all due re-
spect, proceeded to make their inquiries, and on the ground
of general mismanagement determined to remove Mr.
Enderby from office ea chief commissioner, and assume the
management of the company's affairs themselves. Mr.
Enderby at first declined to recognise their authority to
remove him, but ultimately resigned his appointment in the
company's service.
And now comes the part of the transaction which gives
the affair more general importance than if it only concerned
the affairs of a trading company. Mr. Enderby, as
Lieuteaant-Governor, by the Queen a commission, declared
his intention of continuing to exercise his authority; but
as every posses on the island was in the service of the
MO 1111.• weld *boy him. Government House "
CMSto the eemposy, sad as his excellency refused to
vacate it, tae .spesial -commissioners " removed hi furni-
ture to a saran rem. and dunked hint to leave the settle-
ment. HI esedissay declined to leave the " colony " of
'dish the Oases led mote him lisatessat governor, and
✓eveled dr of Ness. Nose mei Neck-
line& se end linsisesi the eseMehiss. The
isigisteolte matissell Mast. salmidarimesq the revere-
deo el Ask orpoiannesee. mid the merielles were re-
ns emmialesme weep sheet le leave
Cialislieet, and glees Beikeby netise tbat if he did
oat leave the blend la the eta eeser In which they were
shoat to depart they would pet him ea board by tome and
take him to Wellingtow,where they would provide him a
pesters es Nmilmad. Whether they would venture on
sash eller 111Ulliel to be sows
We =she ne simment est these sztreenlistuy transac-
tions ; we isoisly phis them es rased as a
is the ef esmosieso se/ selenisa-
ti▪
es. Maws. Dmeles sad we Wiens, Weeded
to pressed to Mem la New to see whether it
would eols4 syid pless to wish/ ea semi the
set eempanye's
en/. the News thle Wise a astable
filet tber y o
ff
epees on to Sydosy. After
their esspeeltmee ef lieso is high latitudes we
do net filet the amps, will be Mspesed se loan
settiamto sea* of Otegeo bet will be contest with tie
ism diemiliell bst more yesillable 1111111iiiiiiMei Si a
mew apse. Owe a dap ma be esavesimely Med est
▪ dlegreebei bet verepe.-4bobeibee sod New
Zlailledi &Mai.

A POLICE CONSTABLE DROWNED AT LEEDS.—A
coroner's bigamist was held at Leeds on Moeda/ relative to
the death olOso. Smedley, one of the borough police. The
deceased had sot been very bag in the force, sad on the
previous Saturday seoesusit be was found drowned is the
river dire, sear Crown Peiat.bridge. He had hoes omen
on duct by his esegosat at at, o'cloat on Saturday mora-
ine, but at two eels* he was Limed from hie beat, which
is near the river side, and wee not sees alive again. There
wee nothing is the appearance either of his clothes or his
body te 'tidiest' that he had bean ntaltreatod, audit is kap-
puled that he had accidentally feats Lt'the river. TM
jar' retuned a ought of " /mad drenremed."
FACTS TOWARDS AGIMCIMMORAL DEVELOPMENT.
—Pleats on osligtot to what I Mind a " sport," and it has
bus hurl *MY not sport be liellewed up, it may be not
only establiebeil as • dialled mei% but b. made to yield
Omi_L,togetestatteLei=the
re=yli:vbiould really
t7triala isle, • K. Fele% amming te liable.
neviArsages
Cfressielle, hem ssteelly seemedell demispig perfect cad
mesas' wheMilmm ens the by
messes, te
a mead alga be took oduentsge einfitif "win its
nub, mil swigs sad spin sewing the meet ramerkable
end met diresimpsi d Ike *au re yielded; end tines in
twelve snesseshis seem developing suArnenthd wheat.
New, sield serimkasiells or bosrhM say dhows,.
the MIMS of waft or sompedieg cereals or seer esefel
plasm et at, Megription te "sport" at wal, immswee sad
rapid
ital=4usight be speedily looked for in the
; sad one of nay chief objects in pre.
atehis set. was to megost means whereby this very
power may probably be at ones obtained. Being
aware that varieties of Sowers are slam Axed " sports."
and having heard frost a gardener in the secret that char-
coal has a decided power of invigorating the colour of red
Sowers, the ides struck me that perhaps charcoal might
Mange the Wear of dowers altogether' and so compel
them t• "sport," and thus enable the horticulturist to
obtain seeds liable to farther sports and varieties, which
might then be Ind ia the meal way. Thimbles, more-
over, that the eneseklut dahlia would be a good subject on
whisk te experimestellee, I chose two--a whits one, with a
flintilligg of red aloes the margin of each
:2, 21he me den eisige hue. These, alter pleating
their reels. I tramsl with rings of ciurmJ,
tad irenhed abs pelt, which is exactly what I
had amistelleL The seen. had become a vivid red,
and the crime las exhiblead • lagalar variety of sports
Bowels rename hem a *mai end complete red, without
• vestige sf through Wawa of red streaked with
white, sod of white streaked. Mgt red, to some like the
milled Mae, have sneered sbeeltamously on one and
the mem sum. Thsse mid% I spoke of to some of the
weeith, guldinses to the ZeelegleakOardens, where there
is a• immeme dlipley of dahlias ; they had never produced
anything lithe MK let I hope the hint will not be lost
on them. The isaMisal essidesion, however, which I
would Melee to law heat the Seelo, that if flowers, and
hence their imago= be the ee sabswia compelled le
" sport," so may the seeds of the email end of green *rope,
such as turnips, potatoes, Sc., and thee new, and, it may
be, greatly developed, varietiesbe permesend obtained. I
perceive that it has lately beam sineeted that elerwl has a
singular power of invigorating sad shagging sr deepening
the stem colour of the leaves of the peace plant, and I
cannot doubt gL its having a like infuses, on its dower and
seed. Our pasent ears of wheat may, for all that we
know, be thus or otherwise developable even to the mag-
i nits& of Indian emn.—Conespondent of The Builder.