The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-07 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1853.

The necessity for emigration has long been ap-
parent to the more reflective and the more rational
of our fellow-countrymen. It is clearly proved
by the periodical returns of the Registrar-General,
showing the extraordinary and increasing redun-
dancy of the population. It has been further
illustrated by the vastness and diversity of our
colonial' possessions. Combining these two facts
together—facts it will be admitted as remarkable
as they. are incontrovertible—we can appreciate
at a glance the marvellous advantages certain to
accrue from a judicious employment of the re-
sources at the disposal of the Government. Re-
sources, observe, on one side of labour and on the
other of materials for its employment! Resouroes
—here of a vast superfluous community, there of
ample fields, capable of supporting it, if '
but properly cultivated ! So that benefits
might spring out of what at first would appear
only formidable sources of embarrassment : the
prolific overplus of the inhabitants of England
being provided for by the fecundity of her scat-
tered and as yet unpopulated territories. Out of
the forty colonies of Great Britain it is assuredly
manifest that scope enough (and to spare) can be
found whenever we list for the unemployed
energies of the industrial multitude. Eastwards
we have long availed ourselves, it is true, of the
opportunities there presented to us—yielding
occupation to the more enterprising of our chil-
dren either in a civil or military capacity, iu
Ceylon or in Hindostan. Westwards, again,
we have not altogether closed our eyes to
the good capable of being there readily
evolved from the direction of our industry
towards the development of the natural reStlurees
of the West Indies, of the two Canadas, and of
the gigantic dominion known unhappily as the
fur-forests of the Hudson's Bay Company, and
extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from
the coast of Labrador to Port Essington. Never-
theless, although the attention of our trading and
emigrating population has been directed, not un-
frequently, as we have said, towards these two
opposite points of the compass, adequate endea-
Vours have never yet been adventured upon by
England with a view to avail herself, for the
support of her own unnurtured children, of the
neglected opportunities for skilled labour lying
dormant under the pomp of her Asiatic empire,
or of the squandered, because uncollected, trea-
sures Perpetually sprouting up and dying away,
according to the alternation of the seasons through-
out the broad and f
American
posses rui
tful extent of her North
is at length, ivelllollB. All this is undoubted. It
generally re,o,nl
rejoice to know, becoming pretty
It
is awakening us to such.
the
colossal projects as
construction of a system.
of railways in Hindost
ansystem destined be-
fore long to carry the steam
ngine to and fro
betweoi. Cape Comorin
and
th
casus—between the waters of e Indian Cau-
those of the Barrampooter. the Indus and
strailar move-
ment, moreover, as we took occasion to remark
only last evening, has recently induced the
Canadians to summon Mr. ROBERT STEP_
SON to Montreal, so that the engineering marvel
effected by that eminent man across the menai
Straits may be emulated before long across the
wide current of the river St. Lawrence. In con-
sequence of which it may now be hoped, not
altogether unreasonably, that colonists from the
mother country may in time flourish and multiply
throughout the enormous extent of what has
hitherto remained a luxuriant wilderness, imper-
vious saving only to the foot of the wild beast or
of the furrier-huntsman.
Meanwhile the astonishing mineral discoveries
in Victoria have latterly wakened the cupidity and
roused the enterprise of large masses of our popu-
lation—carrying them away in crowds from the
shores of the United Kingdom to the magnificent
solitudes of Australasia. The change effected in
this direction has been altogether so really
wonderful in its character as to invest the
circumstance of the discovery of the south-
ern gold-diggings (coming to us as it did
at a period so surprisingly opportune) with
the solemnity, and the dignity, and the
glory of a direct dispensation of DIVINE PROVI-
DENCE. Everything indeed has combined of late
to afford us facilities for the removal of our re-
dundant population from the over-crowded little
archipmlago on which our power as a civilised race
originally sprang into existence, and upon which
it has hitherto flourished during the process of its
development—facilities for the removal of this
redundant population from the mother country
to her numerous and most fruitful colonial
possessions. Astonishing treasures of gold