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and clear understanding, that the arrangement as a
whole will be attended with some considerable imme-
diate saving, and will involve no claim for compensation
to any person naw employed in this branch of the public
service.

J. RUSSELL.
The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, &c.

Treasury Chambers, Jan. 10, 1840.
Sir,—The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury having had under consideration the letter ad-
dressed to them by Her Majesty's Secretary of State
on 30th ultimo, conveying a proposition for forming a
Colonial Land and Emigration Board, for the British
Colonies generally, and for abolishing the office of
Agent-General for Emigration, I have it in command
to request you will state to Lord John Russell, that as
his Lordship is of opinion that the appointment of a
commission for superintending the sale of waste lands of
the Crown in the colonies, and the application of the
proceeds of those sales in defraying the expense of re-
moving emigrants from this country to the colonies, in
which the lands to be sold may be situate, will conduce
to the better regulation and make effective supervision of
of these branches of the colonial service, my Lords do
not see reason to object to the proposed rate of remu-
neration to the commissioners, or to such other parts of
the contemplated arrangemerts as are explained in his
Lordship's letter.

Referring, however, to the expectation entertained by
Lord John Russell, that some considerable immediate
saving will result from these arrangements, I have further
to requst you will observe to his Lordship, that in the
event of the anticipations in this respect of Colonel
Torrens and Mr. Elliot being realised, the saving will
entirely accrue to the respective land funds of the colo-
nies of South Australia and New South Wales ;
and, under these circumstances, assuming that the sums
already appropriated from the funds of these colonies,
or included in the usual Parliamentary vote for
emigration agencies for the present salaries of Colonel
Torrens and Mr. Elliot, may continue to be available
towards defraying the salaries of the proposed Com-
missioners, my Lords would request to be favoured with
a communication of his Lordship's views in regard to
the mode of providing for the further excess of 1,4001.
per annum which will still be required for this purpose.
I have also to request you will suggest to Lord John
Russell, with reference to the contemplated functions
of the Commissioners as a Colonial Land and Emigra-
tion Board, recapitulated in his Lordship's letter, that in
framing instructions for their guidance, in regard to
effecting sales of land, or to the application of the avail-
able proceeds of any such sales towards the removal of
emigrants to the colonies in which the lands sold may be
situate, care should be taken that their proceedings are
subjected to such control and direction of this Board, and
of her Majesty's Government, as will be necessary, in
order, on the one hand, to guard against the disposal of
lands at undue prices, :rod, on the other hand, to re-
tain full power of making advisable appropriation of the
proceeds of land sales to defray the expenses of survey,
and of opening roads or other works, which, although
not specifically attaching to the removal of emigrants to
the colonies, are nevertheless often equally calculated to
facilitate and promote colonization.
James Stephen, Esq. G. J. PENNINGTON.

Downing-street, Jan. 13.
Sir,—l have laid before Lord John Russell your
letter of the 10th instant, relative to the format ion of a
Colonial Land and Emigration Board for the British
Colonies, and 1 am directed to request that you wil;
acquaint the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury,
with reference to the observations contained in that
letter, that Lord John Russell assumes that the same
amount as hitherto being voted by Parliament, the sales
of land which may be effected in British Colonies, under
the superintendence of the Commissioners, will produce
a fund equal to defray the remainder of the expense of
the Commission ; and that the charge thus thrown on
the proceeds of such sales will form a very inconsider-
able per centage on the gross receipts. His Lordship
proposes that the charge of maintaining the commission
should be apportioned amongst the different funds raised
by the sale of lands in different colonies, the contribu-
tion from each fund being in exact proportion to the
amount of it.

Lord John Russell further proposes immediately to
communicate to the Lords Commissioners of the Trea•
sury the instructions addressed by his Lordship to the
Commissioners, in which instructions they are referred
to such regulations as the Lords of the Treasury may
see fit to prescribe for their guidance, in whatever re-
lates to the financial administration of the duties con-
fided to them.

With regard to South Australia, instructions having
already been furnished by the Lords Commissioners of
the Treasury to the Colonization Commissioners, Lord
John Russell apprehends that the reduction of the
number of the Board from nine to three will probably
not render necessary any recision of those instructions.
Adverting, however, to the terms of the Act of Parlia-
ment regarding South Australia, Lord John Russell
thinks that it will be necessary that the utmost care
should be taken to keep the accounts of that colony,
and of the establishment maintained in this country for
its service, apart from all the other accounts of the
Commission. The consolidation of the two existing
offices and the enlargement of the sphere of action of
the Commissioners will, however, as his Lordship ap-
prehends, be directly beneficial to South Australia, by
diminishing the total charge hitherto thro•.vn on the
revenues of that province.

JAMES STEPHEN.
G. J. Pennington, Esq., &c.

NON-INTRUSION AT A DISCOUNT.

[The Rev. Gentleman who makes so deplorable a
figure in the scene described in the following paragraph,
is one of those champions of vetoism whom the Com-
mission of the Assembly sends vagabondizing round the
country to convert the people to the non-intrusion faith.]
ELLON, APRIL 8.--On Monday last (being our mar-
ket day), it was announced by placards that, on the
evening of that day, the Rev. Mr. Begg of Liberton
would address a meeting to be held in a wood-yard in
the village. At the hour of meeting about fifty boys
and girls congregated together, and, in a short time
after, a number of young people belonging to the vil-
lage and neighbourhood made their appearance. An
honourable Baronet (Sir W. Seton), accompanied by
the Rev. Mr. Begg, mounted a platform erected on the
end of a saw-pit. After some verses of a psalm had
been sung, Mr. Begg came forward to address the
meeting. Scarcely a word was he allowed to
speak, far the hissing, yelling, end all manner of
noise, were tremendous. He tried again and
again, but to no purpose, being assailed with cries
of" Go back to Liberton, and obey the laws of your
country," " We will send for you when we went you,"
&c. The Hon. Baronet next came forward, and craved
a hearing for his Rev. Friend, but still the tumult in-
creased. Crackers were let off—rotten eggs were
thrown, one of which besmeared the Rev. Gentleman—
and the party very wisely thought it high lime to make
their exit, and in doing so the Hon. Baronet was rather
unceremoniously treated. We grieve to see this. The
platform was next occupied by a parishioner, who pro-
posed the following motion :—" That it is the opinion
of this meeting that the Rev. Mr. Begg would be much
better employed at Lihcrton looking after the spiritual
welfare of his parishioners, than in intruding himself
amongst the contented inhabitants of this district, creat-
ing strife and dissension,"—which motion was carried
by acclamation.—Aberdeen Herald.

Mr. Morison, the Hvgeist, since the year 1830,
has paid to the British Government 60,00:1/. for Medicine
Stamps, which fact the Officers at Somerset House will prove.
Mr. Morison deems thi to be the best refutation of all that has
been, or can be said, against his medicines by a set of low interested
Doctors. In confirmation of the truth of his theory and prac-
tice, Mr. Morison rafers the public to the work of the late Dr,
James Hamilton, of Edinburgh, on Purgative Medicines
British College of Health, New Road, London, April. 1840.
SUBSTITUTE FOR EMBALMNIENT.—When M.
Gaunal made his process public be was not aware himself, per-
, haps, of the use to which it could be applied. Several weeks
ago the body of a boy, murdered under very suspicious circum-
stances, was brought to the Morgue—the place where all persons
found drowned or murdered, and who are not immediately recog-
nised, are exposed—and the veins were injected according to the
plan laid down by M. Gaunal. The corpse of the poor boy ro-
mained several weeks in as fresh a state as when it was found a
few hours after the murder. It has not yet been recognised,
but one cannot but admire the facility thus offered for recogni-
tion. But for this discovery, the utmost time that the body
could have remained at the Morgue would have been five or six
days. M. Gaunal's process is extremely simple, and attended
with very little expense. He makes a
solution, composed of
sulphate of alum and hot water, in proportion of two pounds of
the sulphate to a pint of hot water, and injects by the right caro-
tid artery; in summer three quarts of this liquid, and in winter
less, according to the temperature.—Paris Letter.
CHARTIST PIKES.---A few days ago, whilst
the ploughman of Mr. Huntley was engaged ploughing a field
at Sherburn Hill, near the city of Durham, he turned up from
mother earth a poke, which at first offered some obstruction to
the plough, and on examination it was found to contain 40 pike
heads. They were handed over to the authorities.—Tyne
Mercury.
TIIE POST OFFICE STAMPS.—The new adhe-
sive stamps are struck in the same manner as the very elegar.t
labels introduced by Walker to protect the public against
the
counterfeit,' of his needles; the chief difference in those for
latter purpose consists in the greater beauty and variety
Prince
of
the
Con-
designs, being correct profiles of the Queen a
sort in relief on coloured grounds, which are executed in the
first style of art, arid far surpass those selected by the Govern-
ment. In the one case it is necessary only to produce stamps
that will bear the sc-utiny of appointed persons acquainted with
the work ; in the other and more difficult instance, indifferent
judges, when once acquainted with them, will readily detect an
imitation. The public must place a high estimate on and ar,
tick requiring such protection, and affording so liberal
tronage to the tine arts.