The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-22 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, :yIATICEI 22 1852.

An empire like that of GI. Britair, the principal
importance of which, in On' of territorisl maguituue,
ari-es from the fact of the forty colonies in its po--
session, must necess4rily ia,gard its stability as de-
peodent in a great measure upon the state of its
maritime power and its prosperity upon the extension
of its commerce. In consequence of the force of our
conviction in these particulars, we have insisted all
along Upon the imperative demand there is upon our
administrators to foster the naval energies of England,
and we have at the same time insisted to the utmost
of our ability upon the advisability of removing all
restrictions upon the interchange of importations and
exportations. Hence our advocacy of a standing
navy. Hence also the earnest part we have taken in
forwarding the establishment of free trade, and in ap-
plauding the abrogation of the navigation-laws. It
was, moreover, from our sense of the enormous Ure-
sponsibilities devolving upon an administrator en-
trusted with the conduct of the Colonial Department
of the Government that We beheld with
such peculiar dismay the meddlesome
insensate policy
adopted by Earl Guy__ and
tne policy
which has unhappily led to so much ill-feelin
shed, and confusion. With scarcely less
blood-
chagrin
have we remarked the appointment as his a
as totally in auccelaor
by the Earl of DERBY ofman expe,
rienced in the office as the Right Hon. Baronet the
Representative of Droitwich —that member of the Ca.
billet against, whom in particular was directed
the humorous sarcasm of BERNAL OdBORNE, to
the effect that the new Illinistry is nothing
less (as Cousin PHCENIX says), "in point of fact," than
"an amalgamated Society of Chairmen of
Quarter
Sessions." We have from a consideration of the
geographical position of the British territories—terri-
tories scattered in vast fragments over Europe, Asia,
Africa, and America, embracing besides this the
whole of a fifth continent, or, (as it is called in
Hibernian phraseology) a " fifth quarter" of the
Globe like Australia, with tracts of ground
stretching as far northward as the ice-hound
shores of Wellington Cadnriel, and as far southwards
as the coast of Victoria Laad— front a consideration,
We say, of the widely separated dominions of Great
Britain, we have long insisted upon the urgency of
carrying out some grand scheme of settlement and
colonization, with a view to the cuitivaJon of the
earth in directions hitherto almost unexplored. IL
candy, the attention of the community has been di-
rected will more than customary interest t the re-
sources 'ling dormant in the soil of Australasia,
by reason of the discovery of gold in the districts of
the Mulwarre Ponds and Lake Bathurst. Elsewhere
facts have come to light such as have assured us
only the more of the advisability of affording our
surplus population the ad,,,,..age
of proceeding from
these overcrowded islands to other localities more
eapable of yielding them subsistence and of opening
up opportunities fur the acquisition of wealth.
Among the more remarkable projects havin these
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benefits in view, there is one to which we were the
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