The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-11 00:00:00

WAY BILL.

On the motion that this Bill be read a third time.
Lord BEAUMONT called the attention of their Lord-
ships to a petition against the Bill from the Glasgow,
Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway Company, and
moved that this Bill be read a third time this day six
months.

The Earl of DEVON, as Chairman of the Committee
which passed the Bill, supported the decision, and ex-
plained the grounds on which he did so.
PUBLIC HEALTH BILL.
CONFERENCE WITH THE COMMONS.

A conference was requested by the Commons with
their Lordships on this Bill, which was granted, and held
in the Royal Gallery. The Lords appointed were the
Earls of Devon, Granville, Strafford, Canning, Redes-
dale, and Hardwicke.

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Earl DEVON, on the return of their Lordships, re-
ported the result of their conference.
EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.
Earl GREY laid papers
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clothing and provisions, was 201. The average
Number who for the last seven years had gone out was
122,000; whilst last year the number had increased to
258,000, the cost of carrying out whom could not be
less than 2,500,000/. Ile did not wish to under-
rate the importance of emigration to Australia,
as it afforded an eligible receptacle to those who could
not succeed in making a living at home. The colonies
provided a great quantity of tallow and other useful.ravv
materials, whilst they took a vast quantity of the produce of
the mother country; therefore emigration to that part of
our dominions should be encouraged to the utmost extent.
The Noble Lord then referred to the rapid increase of
the prosperity of New South Wales and Tan Diemen's
Land, at the present moment, as compared with what
it was in the year 1828, when the population, includ-
ing the Convict inhabitants, was but 53,000:
now it was 300,000, or five or sixfold ; in
1828 the exports increased in value but
181,000/., whilst in 1845, the last year for which the
returns had been completely made up, their value was
2,189,000/., showing an increase in seventeen years
of twelvefold the amount in 1828.—(Hear.) In 1830,
when he first knew anything about these colonies, there
was no such scheme existing for the emigration of the
labouring classes to New South Wales. The expense
of emigration at that time was much larger than could
be afforded by a labouring man, so that practically there
were no means of emigration for that class of society. In
the course of tho year 1830 his Noble Friend Lord Ripon
established a system for the sale of land instead of gra-
tuitous grants in Australia; and at the same time the
principle was laid down that the revenue realised by
those sales should be applied to carrying out labourers
to that colony. A commission was appointed, at the
head of which the Duke of Richmond presided, and of
which he himself (Earl Grey) was a member. The first
measure of that commission was to prevail upon the
shipowners to furnish a passage at a cheaper rate.
They did so; but the funds applicable to emigration
were at that time exceedingly small, and for the first
few years the progress of emigration was so slow that
no very valuable result was likely to arise from it.
But the measure itself being founded on a sound
principle, its operation gradually increased, until the
results became very important. In 1837 the extent of
emigration had so far increased that his Noble Friend,
who was then Secretary for the Colonies, appointed a
separate commission for the management of that business,
and hence the origin of the Land and Emigration Com-
mission. That Commission adopted measures of incal-
culable importance, both for the benefit of this country
and the colonies. At that time the population of New
South Wales was only 77,000, but in the course of ten
years the population was almost doubled, emigration
having added to it not less than 62,000 persons. Those
persons were sent out under the superintendence of the
Commissioners, and the greatest possible advantage had
resulted from that proceeding. At the same period the
Commissioners sent out to South Australia about 10,000
persons ; the New Zealand Company also sent out about
7,000 ; so that altogether in those ten years there were
sent out between 90,000 and 100,000 emigrants to these
colonies, of whom no less than 80,000 were provided
with a passage out of the sums derived from the sale of
colonial lands. After this general statement he would
now turn for a moment to one or two individual cases
by which the result would appear still more remarkable.
The great district of Port Philip in Australia and the
colony of New Zealand had been the creation of not
more than ten years. Ten years ago there were in Port
Philip only a few scattered inhabitants of between 2eo
and 300 in number. In March, 1846, the population of
that district, according to the last census, was 32,800.
The town of Melbourne contained between 8,000 and
10,000 inhabitants. The imports into the colony in
1847 amounted to 205,0001., the exports to 343,000/,
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making altogether a revenue of 138,000/. collected in a
district which only ten or twelve years ago had been
occupied by 200 or 300 persons. In South Australia
the results were almost equally remarkable. But he
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