The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-04 00:00:00

FUTURE OF EASTERN SOUTH AMERICA

Now, the first grezt fact is, that here, in South America,
are numberless thousands of square miles of the most splendid
land in the world, for the production of every article the
soil will yield to man. Here, in Brazil, and in the provinces
drained by the tributaries of the La Plata, is every variety of
soil—mountain, valley, plain, and torest, claimed by a race
of people who, like dogs in manger, will not cultivate
themselves, and yet claim a right to prevent others from
doing so. What a monstrous folly, to guarantee by treaties
the possession of these lands to these Iberians ! Now, one
of two things will be done some day—either the industrious
masses of Europe will invade these countries, and take by
force what they require here for their necessities ; or these
lands must be silently conquered by the slow and sure pro-
cess of immigration, and the present owners absorbed in
the industrious race that will really people the country.
Here is all this glorious continent, that has been be2.ging
throa 400 years i.i) rcpleniehca, 0611 occupied only iu
spots, few and far between, and these more like sore places—
some skin diseases— than even rags of clothing for the earth.
Before I came to this country I thought much less favoura-
bly of emigration, even of colonisation, than I do now.
What I have seen here has opened quite a new field to my
view ; what I held before (that it is our urgent duty to
cultivate our own land to the highest degree) is all right ;
but it is not enough, my notions were narrow; it
seems to me, now even, that I see God bringing
this good out of the evil of the ownership of
and in England, and thus he is aciullty compelling us
to go forth and replenish the earth, far and wide,
instead of cramming ourselves all into our own island, and
making all England one great town. The process of absorp-
tion of the Iberian race has given symptoms of commence-
ment already. There are multitudes of Irish in the Pampas,
and hundreds of English in the towns (Monte Video, Buenos
Ayres, Rio de Janeiro, &c.) the latter chiefly merchants. They
say, however, that most of these leave the country after
amassing what they may consider enough. I doubt, how-
ever, this of the former, for I believe these Irish to help
the exodus by sending home money to their friends to bring
them out, and they are well behaved, industrious people
here, but the merchants all go home when they have filled
their purses, except the few who are fascinated by the beau-
tiful girls of the River Plate, and marry them. So there is
not much intermixture of blood among the better dressed
class of people attached to the soil. From the Brazilian
towns they all go home, frightened off by the yellow fever
(which, I have no doubt, is a special curse upon negro
slavery ; I do not believe it has yet appeared anywhere,
except where the whites are in contact with negroes, either
for the purpose of the slave trade, or for living
upon the produce of slave labour ; but I may be wrong.)
Perhaps, too, Brazil is too hot for the Englishman to work
out of doors at present. Ido not think it would be too
hot for a vegetable feeding white, but we must take John
as we Slid him. However, there can be no question that

Brazil may be made perfectly habitable for him, or he
made a fit inhabitant for Brazil, thus—by gradual accli-
matisation. There is no other country in the world except
Africa in which this process can be perfectly gone through,
and Africa is not to be colonised by whites yet (all the
negroes have to be sent back to Africa, and taught, perhaps
compelled, to cultivate their continent for their own benefit).
The climate of the River Plate, and the parts near it, must
be the most splendid in the world, the most pleasant
to a European. Here, then, on the banks of these
rivers as high up as possible,—as near the heat as possible
(to shorten the process and to be more central',—let the
commencement be made ; and let us, generation after
generation, push farther northwards, colonising ever, till
our blood has become suited in our decendants to the
glorious son of Brazil ; and let us make haste about it too,
that we may occupy that country before all its splendid
tir.i.ber has disappeared before the ruthless fire of the lazy
Portuguese, who can find no means of disposing of it but
burning it as it stands.
From Paraguay, Brazil, and the Plate. By C. B. Mans-
field, Esq., M.A. With a Sketch of the Author's Life ; by
the Rev. Charles Kingsley, jun. Cambridge : Mac-
millan and Co.

In Naples there are evident signs of precautions on the
part of the authorities, as though they were aware of the
great excitement in the public mind. Strong parties of
gendarmes now patrol the Toledo every night, and the city
begins to assume a similar appearance to what it did in
1847.

AUSTRIAN ITALY. —The lieutenant-general of Lombarpy
and Venice has published the assessment of the taxes of
the Venetian provinces for 1857. The land tax is fixed
at 19 962.310 f., and the other taxes form a total of
52,012,272 f. These two sums together make about 40 per
cent. of the whole annual revenue of the landed property of
the kingdom.

These narrow minded Clamourers—Professors who repro-
bate improvement and discovery as innovations—are silenoed
by the most respectable part of the Faculty, who do not
scruple to recommend such articles as have acquired celebrity'
by their intrinsic merit. But it is a subject of regret, with
all classes of the community, that the most valuable Patent
and Public Medicines ara often counterfeited. JONES'S
MEDICINE WAREHOUSE is established on the principle
of selling Genuine Patent Medicines and Drugs only
Captains of ships, officers in the army or navy
ladies and gentlemen, and others, geing to a distant
part of the empire, or into the country, may at all
times have a large or small assortment of these Approved
Medicines, safely packed, with ample directions for use, so
as to go without risk to any distance, furnishing an admit..
able resource of superior and well-tried remedies alway
at hand. Perfumers, chemists, &c., will, on application
receive a wholesale price list, affording them an opportunity
of purchasing on the very lowest terms. English and
Foreign agency carefully conducted. F. G. J. receives
almost daily, parcels from London, whence all articles of a
new kind may be procured free of carriage. Jones's, 5,
Paradise-street, third door from Church-street, and nearly
facing Lord-street.--Adv.