The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-15 00:00:00

NEW ZEALAND.

In 1855 the European population of New Zealand was
only about 60,000. At present it is probably rather under
than -over 120,000, while the terrritorial extent of the
country is somewhat greater than that of Great Britain and
Ireland, or only 50,000 acres less than the whole of Great
Britain and Ireland, with all the adjacent isles—as New
Zealand contains 78,300,480 acres,
Here, then, is one of the finest colonies, if not the finest
colony in the world, with a population smaller than that of
a good-sized English town, and with square acres as many
as those of England, Ireland, and Scotland together. The
climate of the colony is as superior to that of Australia as
are the Maories or natives of New Zealand compared with
the emaciated and inanimate aborigines of the golden
region. In Australia, however, the native race will
soon become extinct. Even the Maories of New
Zealand—the finest native race of darkies in the world
—are decreasing in number every year, although the
decrease is much less rapid than with the Australian native.
The present Maori population of New Zealand is about
50,000. Like other native races in countries where Euro-
peans have permanently settled, the New Zealanders will
no doubt in the course of time—say 50 or 100 hundred years I
—become nearly if not entirely extinct. At present there
is room to accommodate at least 25,000.000 European I
settlers, although the colony does not contain the two hun-
dredth part of that number.

I once either read a prediction or heard it predicted that
" New Zealand would at some future period become the
Great Britain of the southern hemishere," Although I
have but little faith in modern prophets and prophecies, I
confess myself sufficiently credulous to accept and believe
in the above prediction as an exception to the rule.
Comparatively little known as she is at present, New
Zealand will, no doubt, some day become an important and
populous country, if not a great nation. She has all the
elements to warrant suck an opinion and to justify such a
belief. With a fine„ if not the finest Climate in the world,
the colony has every corresponding advantage. Though
the object of this work to say more
she cannot, at present, boast of extensive golds fields fully
developed, like those of Australia, a treasure more valuable
and inexhaustible may be found in the periodical riches of
her soil.
It would be foreign to
opinion
it s
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In the few foregoing sentences will be found the summary
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ZEALAND. with the most impartial
having visited and per-
land to Otago.
sonally inspected every province in the colony—, from Auck-

2he Cotton Lord. By Herbert Glyn. Smith,
Elder, and Co.

As may be inferred from the title, the locality of
this tale is laid in and near Manchester, whilst fac-
tory life furnishes many of the details. The hero,
Francis Miles, is only son of a wealthy manufac-
turer of low origin. He has no taste for commerce,
but leads a dilettanti life, dabbles in chemistry, tries
his hand at painting, and has a quick eye for female
beauty. On a visit in an agricultural district, he
is smitten with the charms of a labourer's daughter,
Mary Rueby, and as farm work is slack, and the
millowner wants fresh hands, the Rueby family
" flit" to Manchester. Here Mary
becomes servant
to the Miles family, and the attentions of Francis
turn the girl's not very strong head ; and although
he is engaged to a very estimable Young lady named
Margaret Hall, the impressionable Francis and the
simple Mary depart together, uncertain where. At
Crewe, however, his mind misgives him. He leaves
Mary 'at a hotel, proceeds to London alone, and is
laid up with a raging fever. Mary meanwhile, thus