The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-06 00:00:00

cut down and disposed of, it would be worth, at
present market price in New South Wales, not less
than half a million sterling."
This being the case, need the public wonder that
the opposition exhibited to the New Zealand Colo-
nization Bill last Session, originated chiefly ar?
the friends and supporters of Christian Missions,
and especially among the friends and supporters of
the Church of England Society's Mission to the
Aborigines of those islands ?
"It professed" (continues the writer in hi! usual
vigorous and fearless mode of describing hypocrisy and
villany), " it professed to sympathise with the feeble
efforts of that race to rise to a higher level in the scale
of humanity, and to occupy a prominent place in the
catalogue of civilized nations. And, more than all
this, it professed to deprecate the serious obstacles
which a community of European colonists might in all
likelihood throw in the way of the general reception of
the Christian religion by the natives of New Zealand.
I am sorry, however, to be called on, from a sacred re-
gard to the interests of truth, as well as to the cause of
humanity and the Christian religion ; I am sorry, my
Lord, to be obliged to state that the anticipations of
unmingled benefit to the Aborigines of that island,
which were thus founded on the prospect of their
being left entirely, for the future, to the charities of the
Church Mission in New Zealand, were alike unwar-
ranted by the past history, and by the present condi-
tion, of that mission."
And he adds, in another place—
" In such circumstances as those I have thus detailed,
your Lordship will not be astonished that the New Zea-
land Mission should hitherto have made so slight an
impression for good, as it has confessedly done on the
interesting natives of that island, notwithstanding the
enormous expense at which it has hitherto been con-
ducted.—(lts present cost, I believe, is 15,0001. per
annum. It has been as high as 17,0001.) It is humi-
liating, however, to reflect, that instead of exhibiting
that Christian virtue to the natives of New Zealand, so
many of the Missionaries of the Church Mission in that
island should have actually been making common cause
with the veriest spoilers of the natives in the land ; and
that the natives should have had such good reason to
say of them, as they have done again and again, that
their only reason for coming to New Zealand was that
it was a better country than their own.'"
This accusation, however, does not apply to all
classes of Missionaries. Dr. Lang admits that the
Mission of the Wesleyan Methodists, towards the
northern extremity of the northern island, as far as
he can learn is in a highly prosperous state, and
states that its success is to be attributed in no small
degree to the fact that the Wesleyan Missionaries
are strictly prohibited by the laws of the Society
from acquiring property of any kind, whether in
land or agricultural stock at their missionary statims.
Dr. Lang disapproves also of the New Zealand
Land Company, because he does not consider they
have a good title to the land, and also because their
system of colonization would increase " the scramble
for land in New Zealand, which is at present active
and unprincipled enough, and which will conse
quently be increased tenfold, and be generally cha-
racterised by a total disregard of all moral prin-
ciples and of the rights of humanity." The
only remedy, he considers, is the establishment
under the sanction of the Government (which they
can form without an Act of Parliament) of a Bri-
tish colony founded and conducted on Christian
principles, which will " afford the only prospect of
preserving the New Zealanders from the ruin and
extermination with which they are at present
threatened, as well from their professed friends as
from their undoubted foes." We recommend these
letters to the attention of the Christian public, and
more especially to the attention of the numerous
parties who are called upon to answer accusations
which so seriously inculpate both their morality
and their religion. If the Doctor returns to New
South Wales we would recommend him to beware
of wheaten bread.

PARIS MONEY

MARKET, AND

COMMERCIAL NEWS

Money is not so scarce as heretofore. The receipts
at the savings bank en Sunday last were B,ooof. more
than the disbursements, a proof of the improvement of
business amongst the middle classes.
The reduction on the colonial sugar duties has pro-
duced a beneficial effect at the seaports. In Francs
the question of colonial sugar (produce of the sugar
cane) and that of beet-root sugar are of vital import-
ance. The colonies supply, for annual consumption,
no less than 80,000,000 kil. (2lbs each) of raw sugar,
upon express condition that they are to be exported in
French vessels only, and the reduction of the dutis
thereon became necessary to prevent the ruin of the
colonies. The Government will, no doubt, support its
measures, and the Chamber of Deputies will not again
interfere with the subject. However, there is nothing
to prevent the Government from coming to the assist-
ance of the manufacturers of beet=root sugar, which also
pays a duty. It would appear, from an exact calcula-
tion, that in England each person, one with the other,
consumes annually 20Ib. of sugar ; in France, on the
contrary, each person uses not more than 81b. in the
same period.
The cultivation and manufacture of beet-rout is ma-
king rapid strides every year in Germany and Prussia.
France at the present moment possesses an immense
number of beet-root sugar manufactories (70 in the
northern departments), which have combined for the pur-
pose of resisting the payment of duty on home sugar. It
seema imperative upon the Government to listen to their
just remonstrances, and endeavour to calm the irritation
manifested by so extensive a branch of commerce. At
all events the beet-root manufacturers have a right to an
indemnity.
Great alarm and outcry have been excited among
those engaged in the manufacture of thread throughout
France : the thread spinners demand that the duty on
English thread should be augmented ; but, from the best
information on this subject, it appears that no niaterial
alteration will take place. It is by Royal Ordinance that
the Government intends " rectifying" the tariff of duties
on thread.
Tile President of the Council has announced in posi-
tive terms that the negotiations entered into between
France and England, relative to the revision of the
tariff of duties of the two countries, would shortly be
resumed.
The harvest, as regards grain, has been generally good
throughout France, The price of corn has been reduced
at almost every market, and, consequently, confidence
is fast returning. _

Bordeaux wings maintain their prices ; large quanti-
ties have been bought, and Paris cannot expect much
wine from that quarter during the two next months.
RAILROADS.-In France the locomotive system has
not been understood ; large sums have been frittered
away without any important result or future advantage.
It appears that 8,000,000 sterling has been expended
on mere intermediate railroads, whereas, for the same
sum, a fine and extensive line might have been esta-
blished, to the great improvement of the communication
with foreign countries. France is, therefore, far behind
her neighbours in this respect, and there is little pro-
mise of her awakening from this state of torpor.

PAWNBROKERS.-By the 50th section of the
New Metropolis Police Act, 2d and 3d Victoria, cap. 47,
it is enacted, " That after the passing of this Act, every
pawnbroker within the metropolitan police district, and
every agent and servant employed by any such pawnbroker,
who shall purchase, or receive or take any goods or chat.
tels, in pawn or pledge, of or from any person apparently
under the age of sixteen years, shall be liable to a penalty
of not more than 51."