The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-13 00:00:00

locks upon it. One person, ap.pointeil bJ the passen-
gers, should have the custody of one key, and the third
officer of the ship the other, so that no peon could get
at the contents till both parties were presint. With re-
gard to the barbarous custom of shavirg on crossing
the line, it was a humiliating and.villaitieus ordeal, of
which he had unfortunately bed persorel experience
—(Laughter)—and he was not surpreed that the
stout men of Kent were afraid of it. For himself
he had inserted a clause in the regulations of his last
ship, prohibiting the practice altogethet, and also the
exaction of money from the pisseegers for exemption.
Emigration was only now in its Wavy, and he be-
lieved it was the duty as well a%ike,interest of the
shipowner to-mire -EiSniisrs as comfortable as
they possibly could within the limits of a ship. The
first move he intended to make in this matter was to
have a ship fitted entirely for emigrants, of 2,500
tons burthen, or 1,800 tons register, to he called the
Caroline Chisholni, and which would convey that
lady and her fellow-emigrants across the seas to the
Australian colonies, and be the forerunner of a line
of ships of the same character.—(Cheers.)
A person in the body of the meeting asked Mr.
Lindsay his opinion of iron ships ?
Mr. LINDSAY would answer that question by say-
ing that he was building iron ships now himself, be-
cause, they were superior in strength and security
to wooden ships. This he thought was illustrated by
the fact of the Great Britain iron steamer, when she
ran ashore, being got off, after knocking about for a
number of days, without any other injury than the
rust, whereas another vessel, while going down. a
quiet river to Bristol, struck the beach, and became a
total wreck.
Mr. ROBERT LOWE, M.P., said that, having resided
for eight years in the Australian colonies, and having
had ample opportunities of judging of their resources,
ho was convinced that those who could not provide a
good, comfortable, and sufficient maintenance for
themselves here, could not do better than go to a land
which came as near to his notion of an earthly Para-
dice as any country in the world, lied where, with
common industry and care, a certain competence and
even effluence awaited every man who kept from in-
temperance. There the climate was most exhilirating
—there there were no blue devils—(Laughter)—they
had no November fogs, and no days which suggested
gently to a man to go and hang himself.—(Laughter.)
Provisions, too, were exceedingly cheap, and he had
often bought the best hind quarters for his family at a
farthing per lb. Tea was ls. a lb.; and sugar and all
other necessaries proportionately cheap. Much cloth-
ing was not required, in tact the clothes that were
worn were more for look than for use ; and houses
to live in did not require to be made of stone or
few slabs cut from a tree constituted suffi-
cientbriek a
materials to erect a dwelling. In fact, if there
was not a single grain of gold in the whole country
the attractions of the colonies were sufficient to in-
duce aoy labouring man who considered his position
and was not comfortable here to transfer his ener-
gies to them. For his part he considered that the
gold did not constitute their advantages, but only
drew attention to their advantages, because if people
saw that in a few years they could rise to comfort,
affluence, and independence,
and that was the case
long before the discovery of gold, they would say that
fact was quite sufficient to lead reasonable men who
wished to escape from poverty and want, to go
thither. And therefore it was not merely on the
round of the gold discoveries that be advocated
ground of the gold discoveries that be advocated
euugratlUu, las.,,sa..s. ie., new Ty eeea
possibly in some respects better, if there wacfsnnOd'gaoniod.
He would just touch on some of the causes which power-
fully checked emigration to our Australian colonies,
and diverted the stream to a rival power, the United
States of America. The two causes most strongly
and violently operating to deter our people from going
to Australia and preferring America were the high
price of land in Australia and the system of trans-
portation. In America the emigrant could buy land
for a dollar an acre from the Government ; in Aus-
tralia the Government would not permit land to be
sold under 11. an acre ; so that the emigrant to Aus-
tralia went three times as far in order to buy land
for five times as much. That was the way in which
our Government protected our colonies and stimulated
people to go tbere; and the consequence had been up
till very recently, that whilst upwards of 250,000
subjects of this country annually went to the United
States, only
30,000 went to Australia; and yet the
parties paid their own passage to America, while those
who went to Australia were taken out at the expense
of the colonies. We were actually obliged to bribe
people to go to our colonies, instead of going to a
place not one-twentieth as eligible for emigration.
If, therefore, they wanted to promote the best kind of
emigration, they ought to advocate the reduction of
the price of land to the American rate, by which means
they would get the people to settle and fasten on the
land, which was much better than, by opposing as great
obstacles to their obtaining an inch of the coil in
fee ,simple in the colonies as they experienced in the
old country, to make them a migratory population,
which would leave its regular employment at the first
word about gold diggings or any similar discovery.
It was in vain, therefore, for Mrs. Chisholm to plan,
or Mr. Lindsay to execute, when the Government, by
a gross and glaring policy, were doing everything in
their power to counteract their efforts. The second
hindrance to emigration to Australia was the system
of transportation, which appealed to higher and
nobler motives--to a man's conscience and his feelings
as a husband and a father. They said to a man,
"Go by all means to the colonies, but you go under
a penalty
daughters in contact with convicted felons.' In
that you must bring up your sons and your
,
order that the colonies might continue good and vir-
tuous, we ought to keep as far as possible from them
this contaminating flood which we were now pouring
over them month after month. It might be said that
Van Diemen's Land was the only colony to which
convicts were sent ; but it must be remembered that
that island was very near to the other colonies, to
which the passage was cheap, and the facilities for
escape great, and that penal settlement must become
only the filter through which the foul stream flowed
to all the other Australian colonies.—(Hear, hear.)
The proceedings, which were protracted to a some-
what late hour, terminated with a vote of thanks to
,he chairman.

IRELAND.
ENCUMBERED ESTATES COMMISSION.
DUBLIN, TUESDAY.—AII extensive sale, by order
of the commissioners, took place in Belfast on Friday
and Saturday, of ground rents arising from several
infeeplots
simple,ofground, n duellingß3lfa sihnouthsees
matter of the estatet and premises, held
of Mr. Alan Gardner Brown and Mr. Charles
Grainger, owners and petitioners. The entire pro-
perty produces a clear annual income of about
1,8401. 17s. The property Was put up in 94 lots, a
few of which were sold by private contract. The
amount realized by the sale was--by private sale,
2,3501.; by auction, 30,4501.; gross amount, 32,8001.,
for an annual income of 1,940/. 17a.