The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-19 00:00:00

PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.

The eighth and last of tl.e unrivalled series of concerts
giren by the above Soei,ty, took lilacs! last night at. the
Hannver•square Rooms. - It was, perhaps, the most splendid
one of the sea3on, sus eyed the Philharmonic orchestra has
proved very materially since its commencement, when we had
to complain of occasional iudicision and want of consente.neous
feeling. The leader was Mr. Loder, who fills the post with
abiEtyi and the necessary firmness of bearing : the conductor,
Mr. Mostheles, was not quite so much to our taste ; we have
before spelketi Of his extreme fidgettincss, and his plan of turn-
ing his faceto the atAitnt'e and heating time to them, instead of
to the orchestra is in our opinlon about the worst that could
be adopted. The first part opened with Beethoven's sinfonia
in 13 flat, and concluded with Weber's overture to " Dcr Be-
herrscher der Geister ;" the second part a manuscript sin-
fonia by Mendelssohn in A, and terminated with Mozart's
overture to " Die Zauberflote." They were all plAyed in
that inimitable style to be heard only at these concerts. Some
parts of Mendelssohn's composition were very beautiful, but
as a whole we did not admire it. The first movement was
mere hard threshing, without any
.object that we could dis-
cover. This composer may proouce a sinfonia tit to be
heard on the same night with one of Beethoven's. at
some future period, but at present the overture should offer a
fitting boundary to his ambition. The insti-umental solos were
a piano forte concerto, by Mr. Sterndale Bennef by one for
the violin by Mr. Blagrove ; they were both played vt:!,h great
finish, and in a very masterly style, and applauded to the
In the first part, Madame Corti Damoreau sang the romance of
Rossini, from " Guillaume Tell," " Sombre foret," and a
duetto with Mademoiselle Placci, " Serbami ognor," from
Semiramide." They were both superb performances. In
the second part, Signor Ivanoff, was most deservedly encored
in Mozart's " Oh ! cars immagine," from 41 11 Haut() Ma,ico,"
a compliment, which coming from the Philharmonic auditory,
cannot be too highly appreciated. The only other vocal piece
of this part was the " Scena" of Donizctti, " Fatal GotTredo,"
exquisitely sung by Cinti Damorcau. The room, notwith-
standing the other great parties in town, was crowded by an
auditory of the most brilliant description, and the applause be.
stowed on the compositions, more enthusiastic than on any
other night of the season.

COLONIZATION OF NEW ZEALAND.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

The facts recently laid before Parliament relating to emigratien, and
I now that the public mind is turning in that direction, and that cmigra.
lion is proceeding on so great a scale, as to become of national impor-
' tance, it appears that not less than 604,000 persons have emigrated
from Great Britain, with a view to settle in foreign lands, within the
last twelve years. I❑ the last year the number amounted to upwards
• of 70,000. Of all these by far the greater number have settled in the
United States—a very small proportion only in Colonies strictly British.
Within the last two years a problem has been solved, fraught with con-
sequences to the future welfare of mankind, and especially of the mil-
lions of the overwrought, uneasy, industrious classes of Great Britain.
The enlightened founders of the new Colony in South Australia
have shown, by a successful experiment, how a fund can be
created out of the waste lands of the Colonies for the extension of our
empire, without coming for one shilling on the public purse, at the same
time that a new opening has been made for that healthy co-operation of
labour and capital which in the old country takes the form of a ruinous
and overwhelming competition. South Australia has never appeared in
the estimates; and yet, although scarcely two years have elapsed since
the first adventurers landed, so perfectly have the economical principles
affecting the deposal of land acted that, by the last accounts there were
not less than 4,000 people living together in a town—mot scattered, as
at Swan River, or in the backwoods of America, in log-huts, over a
wilderness—but living in a town and its vicinity, with all the
circumstances of a thriving, organized community. The re-
ports of this success, coming from all classes of the settlers in one
uniform tenor, have operated magically in various parts of the country.
The Commissioners are disposing of land in large quantities, at a pound
an acre, to persons of some capital, and, under the provisions of the Act
of Parliament, are employing the whole of the fund thus created in car-
rying out poor persons of the working classes. Here is at length a true
Agrarian law, which makes the waste land of the colonies no longer the
plunder of the Aristocracy, but the inheritance of the people. We see
that it is proposed to apply the South Australian principle to the colo-
nization of New Zealand ; and, understanding it in that way, we think
the project is deserving of the most serious and favourable con-
sideration. We have looked into the Bill, and without making
ourselves partizans to a measure which requires and deserves to
be fully discussed in Parliament, we must say that the
Bill appears to have been the result of great deliberation, guided by a
deep sense and an enlarged view of justice and humanity. In par-
ticular the provisions made for the benefit of the aborigines are per-
fectly novel. They seem to form the basis of the schemes pervading
it in all its ramifications, going far beyond all that has ever been at-
tempted, or even suggested, by preceding philanthropists, and, as such,
do honour to the improving spirit of the tittles. We must ascribe this
in great measure to the facts of the whole scheme having been devised
by a body of individuals, who, having entered into it con amore on
grounds of public policy alone, have worked at it incessantly, and
have produced a plan which mustprisna facie command the attention
of every impartial judge. In all former attempts at founding
colonies by merely official persons the object has been
manifestly the creating of a new field for jobbing, the formation of
honourable and snug spheres of exile for the scapegraw vagabond scions
of aristocracy. As for the natives, they have been treated like the
Kangaroos, as mere wild animali. In Van Diemen's Land the Colonial
Office made short work by authorizing a general battue, and the last
man was shot, or transported from the island, within the last three or
four years. No broad legisk.tive provision has been made for the Abo-
rigines : every thing has been left to the transient attention of a secre-
tary or clerk. Lord Goderich and others have written and spoken
magnificently on the subject, but they have done nothing. They have
not invested their humanity with the force of law, Their denuncia-
tions, fulminated in Parliament, have produced no effect at the anti.
poles ; and we have seen their most energetic despatches converted into
curl papers by the ladies' maids.

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It is because we see Symptoms of a more practical benevolence ill the
Bill that we are inclined to give it a fair hearing ; . and because we con.
ceive that a Board of Commissioners strictly responsible to Parliament,
without any private interest in the undertaking, and, in an affair with
which mere party cam have nothing to do, selected from the most emi-
nent men in both Houses without regard to politics, is more likely to
do justice to a single colony, in which they will take the zealous inte-
rest natural to founders, Min the Colonial Office, which has not latterly
shown. itself competent to more business than actually devolves upon it.