The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-01 00:00:00

(From the Courier.)

Great praise is claimed by the Ministerial organs, be-
cause—

" The acknowledged industry and tact of the Noble Secre-
tary for Colonial Affairs, which have been so long exempli-
fied in his administratica of the Home Department, have
been applied to the consideration of the beet mode of
carrying out the principles laid down in the Report of a
Select Committee of the House of Commons on colonial
lands, and in forming a plan for giving efficiency to the
operation of those principles.
" The result will be seen in Vac resolution taken by
Lord John Russell to recommend that the South Australian
Commission be r :Yoked by the Crown, and the office of
General Agent for Emigration be abolished; and that, in
lieu of these authorities, a Colonial Land and Emigration
Board, to ( one :t of three Commissioners, shall be formed.
To this 1.34 and is to be entrusted the control and disposal
of all the Crawl lands in the several colonies; and from it
will be re. (My obtained such correct information as parties
interested in emigration may desire to receive."
What the " principles" to be carried out may be
does not very clearly appear, but we can have very
little hesitation in expressing our belief that any change
in the system of colonial management generally must be
for the better, and more especially in that department
connected with the disposal of colonial lands and emi-
gration. Hitherto these have been made available al-
most wholly to the purposes of Ministerial patronage
and to the private views of land-jobbers and schemers,
who might chance to possess Parliamentary influence,
with the tact to bring it to bear upon the fears or favour
of the Colonial-office. The revocation of the South Aus-
tralian, as well as of the Emigration agency, are more-
over advisable measures to begin with, for the extraordi-
nary- anomaly of the first, by which a sort of imperious
ill iMperio was created, the direct authority of the
Colonial Office superseded, and its indefeasible du-
ties of administration and protection of the subjects
and the property of the realm transferred to an
irresponsible and unconstitutional body, was too
monstrous long to be tolerated. How the heavy
debt with which it has already burdened that un-
fortunate colony is to be disposed of, or liquidated, we
have yet to learn, but it may be apprehended that with
the dissolution of the Commission the Colonial Office
means to take charge of all its obligations and respon-
sibilities also. If so, and the debt come therefore to
lie guaranteed, that is consolidated with the National
Debt, is it proposed to continua payment to the loan
contractors and bondholders of that grossly exorbitant
interest of ten per cent. per annum, of which we believe
they are now in the receipt according to the contract ?

CONIMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SOCIETY.—On
Saturday last the anniversary festival of this Society was
celebrated at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill ;
and the muster of members and friends of the Society,
we are happy to say, was even greater than that which
took place on a similar occasion last year. The Lord
Mayor presided, and, after proposing the usual loyal
toasts, introduced, in a speech replete with good feel-
ing, the principal toast of the evening-, " Success to the
Commercial Travellers' Society." His Lordship pointed
out in a very forcible manner the advantages which every
one engaged in the laborious occupation of a commercial
traveller might derive from being a member of this So-
ciety. It appeared from his Lordship's statement that
the total amount of money paid by the Society to mem-
bers who had declared on the funds was 11,1091., and
to their families, 8,8661. ; while the money which the
Society had received from them did not exceed the sum
of 3,272/. Independent of this, 65,7301. had been ex-
pended on sick and infirm members or their families,
from whom only 9,239/. had been received. The num-f
her of claimants relieved by the Society amounted to
1,112, and consisted of 362 members, 313 widows, BS4
children, and 53 orphans ; and the number on the fund
in October last was 293, consisting of 50 members, 110
widows, 30 children, and (3 orphans. The toast was
drank with great enthusiasm. The Secretary then read
the list of subscriptions, which amounted to about 1,000
guineas.

KENDAL ANTI. CORN-LAW PETITION..—
The petition adopted at the meeting of the N'tioritnig
Men's Anti-Corn-law Association on Monday evening
last, has already received about 1,500 signatures, and
from the willingness and anxiety to sign it, that nuatiLcr
will be very rrreatly increased. The wives qc, the ape.,
rativcs have bean most eager in thei; solicitations to be
allowed to add their names, rind (lading that it is con-
trary to usage, expross Oe strangest wish that a peti.
00;1 bi-,' originated for themselves. The dearness
of bread is an argument that comes home. to them, and
the cries of their family speak with a force that compels
convict ion.—Kmial
ME HARVEST IN NORTH. DERllYsinitE._
COM is Still out on Tideswell moor ; but should the
weather continue lino a few days, the farmers will, no
donbi, be enabled to get it "housed."—Derbyshire
r)4O k,

othina ,r-
TA PC Or TRADE.--- Ni b 1...... w t 6 report.
A great part of the worlonc, are 641 of employ, and
there is but little pro_Teet (If any spring trade with Ame-
rica, whic..„h wiii prevent their being employed for some
tine,--,-44cicc.iler _Mercury.