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London, England, 1858-07-10 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 10.

SPORTLNG LNTELLIGENCE.

♦ SPECIAL EDITION of the " REPRESS,"
sesilinsieg the malts of the day's Rases, is pub-
lished every evening during the Sporting Season, at
sln dolga.

Tu discovery of gold is the continental pores-
Mesa of the British Crown on the Pacific side of
North America tends to a solution of the quail:in an
to what shall be done with the territories west of
the Rocky Mountain., which for the last forty yean
the Hudson's Bay Oampany have held, ander royal
&owe. Previously to that discovery we had to deal
with a great mutiny, not merely aneettled, but
almost entirely without civilised population to rule,
and having, in comparison with other treasmarine
poseessiona of Queen %%twee, very few attractions
for colonisation. To have created a colony without
colonists would have been an inversion of the order
of Inman progress and society, and have involved a
yentas waste of public money. But the rush of
gold diggers from California, Vancouver's Island,
and Visehiagton Territory, in search of the awl-
!rem deposits on the Fraser and Thompson
Rime% throws a new duty on the British
Omer:mem ; and the step which Mr. LA-
maculae hesitated when at the Colonial-office
to take, 84 Bctwita LTrrow is compelled to make
by at coo, emoting the territory into a new colony,
by a name, however, which it is to be hoped will be
at once changed. Bat despite the prospects of gold,
of the tine situation of the new colony, and the un-
doubted fertility of some portions of it, Sir Brtsrea
Lerrom has an arduous and difficult task in hand.
Nowhere shall we Sod plantation more of "an heroic
" work," as Lord B•cow terms it, than in this
oddly designated district of New Caledonia.

Look to the immense extent of the country to be
covered by the protection of law and order—no
lees than 200,000 square miles. Of food it con-
tains little or none. The sufferings of the Indian
tribes from want, starvation, and climate, are ea-'
paralleled elsewhere. These tribes roamover it, dis-
puting, fighting, robbing ; at peace, no doubt,
with the far traders of the Hudson's Bay
Company, from whose stations they have hitherto
derived their supplies; bet tearing other European
visitors, and hating and detesting the Americium'
who are sure to be the first arrivals. Rivers empty
themselves into the Pacific, and these rivers are na-
vigable for some diatance into the interior; but then
come rapids and gorges to interrupt further ascent.
On the enterprising emigrant or gold seeker must ge,
carrying his miserable sustenance with him on starve-
ling ►oases, which, food failing, he is obliged to kill
and devour. On he most go, tracked and followed by
red savages ready to carry off on the firm opportu-
nity everything be has in the world. And then,
when, the gold washing streams are reached, and
when in the midst of penury, cold, and starvation,
he is about to be rewarded, u he thinks, for all his
toil and endurance, after he has dog his hole and
reached the longed-for auriferous deposit, the,
(according to Governor Dor(aso) he is " quietly
• hustled and jostled" by the Indians out of his for-
tune and reward ; for the red men are resolved that
aces shall have the gold but themselves, and tremble
lust the salmon on which they depend far winter's
food shall be driven away by the cupidity of the
white mes. Already, too, the Americana are pour.
lag across the frontiers, and war to the knife follows
a collision of Indians and Americans.

Nevertheless, in spite of all these difficulties the
task of colonising this country is now inevitable. It is,
however, a kind of colonisation in wbieh the English
people are not adepts, it is colonisation for which the
British Government is not well suited, it is colonisa-
tion is which war sad bloodshed are along inevit-
able, in which we mast be prepared for large expen-
ding* and for many disappointments. A beginning,
however, meet be made. At first we must concentrate
ear efforts on the Framer and Thompson Riven, and
ass if we cannot, on their coat favoured loealities,
lay, in small and enterprising communities, the
foundations deep and strong of that powerful
British counterpoise to American power botweee
the Atlantic and the Pacific which Mr. Rorer:Tic's
had patriotism loves to picture. Generations may
have to par before the outline he sketches can be
filled up bat the first log hat plant,d in these wit.
demesies: the first winter pealed by pioneers; above
all, the first steamers that amend to the rapids of
Fraser river and connect the mew enterprise with
that England of the Pacific, Vancouver's raiand_are
occurrences of mighty import in the world's history.
It is naturally pleasing to the genial imagination of
the any Colonial Secretary to inaapirate sod have
W some amestated with so distingeished a work.
Whets the gold was first discovered Governor
DOUGLAS'S Ant thoughts were of taxes " Here," be
wrote to the Coksaial•odire, " we shall find revenue."
A. better evidence of the richness of the deposit.
rushed hiss. "we yeast," said he to that Depart.
mat, "have * military force—e, frigate oa the
s' emit and marines to land won't do. Yoe must
" mad me troops." Aad when at List gold from the
dews lieges to glisten in the streets of hie little
mopital In Vancouver's Wand. " We must, quo&
be to the Colamisl Minister, " keep out the
" Ainevicsas." Happily, wiser counsels than those
dir Cleverser Mucus prevail at hank Sr intern
ILTI"16 Ponelees to open the country to all the
te establish speedy steam commenicallos
istireva It and Ragland, and to give to its mithei

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