The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-02 00:00:00

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Eeretnaeind mice
Mader.°l4.k,ftich is
thenshi settingar re;
betringe to alter their course If they OM not fouoath
nd •
/*mild now beg attention to the result of the 'bon
Used with other measures ; it is this, that by far
of settlers were caught (if you please) and detained in
than were ever before In modem history, at the maw
it:id of time, caught and kept in any distinct colon
strong with good faith; the cammiteioners stood p
give purchasers their land without delay. 1 was on
conscaiardon under the sign manual, and was their re
colony.
I will not enlarge upon other unavoidable cause
mach as the necessity of providing for the labourin
could not and regular employment until the settle
and who were moat eagerly longed for in the n
nice, at a time when those °Monica were in hi
the necessity for erecting public buildings to roost
pulation of 15,000 souls, which might, moreor,„
gone on to double its numbers ; but I will only pop
when I left South Australia it was in locralcial
harmony, civil order, and protection, produce, expo
ramications, and public constructions, what I have
by far the finest colony in proportion to its duratii
tort', produced at a scot to the parent state not gr
has been required to bring other ixilonies to the
condition, and moreover, containing in itself the foil
present extraordinary prosperity. Every one kno
stance of a young tree borne to a great distance friar
the rit.lc, cost, and anxiety are in the removal as
firmly set In a good soil, it isnot surprising that its
fruit at little expense. Discovering, by very lam
march, that the capabilities of South Australia we
now known in England to be) very mat, I took dt
establish the colony, and of neoesaity incurred a lan
diture in so doing.—l remain, Sir, your obedient se
Brunswick-square, Nov. 5.
THIS LARGE PRIMARY EXPENDITURI
OUT TO BE WHAT I, AT TILE TIME, WAS
WOULD BE, TILE HIGHEST ECONOMY,
with its communications, both maritim
well opened, and almost every essenti
its early condition, is supporting its 'DI
menet; from its own resources, with
surplus of rerenue. Firmly planted an
it is springing with an innate vigour Is
to spread its branches far and wide, ;
" far East " with its fruit. Storms
passed over it ; but upon what new col
not fallen ? Is not the history of model"
tion a series of struggles for existence?l
was never " nearly bankrupt ;" it al,
assets amply equal to its debts, and th
bankruptcy which it bore for a time,
severity with which, for a time, it
doubts of its solvency, were visited.
In jastice to the colonists I am be
that their so-termed " unlucky spin'
speculation," has also been regarded it
by far too much severity. Sufficien
not been made for the aberrations of t
combined with human failings, wh.
throw into a work so difficult, as t
turning an unexplored wilderness at 1
their mother country, into a country
they have left. Settlers in a new I
pared with the inhabitants of an old e
munity, are like troops in the fiel,
with an army in home quarters; but
and soldiers in a field day in Hyde
exhibit energy in expressions avid ac
shown on the fields of Sslamane
Waterloo, the Commanding Officer •
find the card of the Commissioner of
table by breakfast time the next I
which was regarded in England as
of the Colonists of South Australia}
in all, achieved a victory of whirl
effects in the " far East " shall Is
Salamanca, Vittoria, and Waterloo
almost forgotten. In high social fe
industry, sound morality and relig
attachment to the mother-country,
few such colonies in existence, alit
basis the edifice must stand firmly
lrease.—l remain, Sir, your obedient
Brunswick-square, Ike. 1, 1846.