The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-27 00:00:00

EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND.

It was announced a few days ago that the Govern-
ment had promised—not a little to the astonishment
of most people—to guarantee a loan of one million
for New. Zealand, the money to be expended in
public works and in promoting emigration. A Par-
liainentary paper just issued tells us what the
scheme of emigration is to be. The New Zealand
authorities intend to appoint agents in England to
select emigrants, who will be required to furnish
only so much towards their passage as would suffice
to take them to America—from £2 to £4 each adult.
The remainder of the passage money, amounting to
about £l2 each adult, will be defrayed by the Colonial
Government out of this loan. The New Zealand
authorities thus hope to introduce'3o,ooo emigrants
to the colony in the course of the next eight years.
There can be no doubt that such a scheme will prove
of much benefit to New Zealand. Emigrants at
present prefer America, mainly because of the small
cost involved in getting there ; but now that the
New Zealand Government offers a passage for the
money that is needed to cross the Atlantic,
many people will doubtless he glad to
go to the fine southern colony. At the same tim e
there can be little doubt that in guaranteeing this
loan, Earl Granville has departed from the policy to
which he has hitherto adhered so rigidly. He him-
self admits it. In a despatch announcing his consent
he says :—" I trust that the decision of her Majesty's
Government to waive the objections which attach to
the guarantee of colonial loans, will be received by
the colonists of New Zealand as a proof of the deep
interest which they feel in the welfare and pros-
perity of this great possession of the Crown."

THE DIFFERENCES AT THE ADMIRALTY.

It is stated through a trustworthy source that if is
most probable that both Sir Spencer Robinson, the
Controller of the Navy, and Mr. Reed, the Con-
structor, will remain in office. The matter, however,
has not been finally decided, the case being in all its
particulars one of an exceedingly perplexing cha-
racter. The United States Gazette expresses some
gratification at the possibility of new hands being
grafted into the Executive Department of the ser-
vice, and it declares, that although there is no doubt
that the allies have wisely seen their threat
to be ineffective, and consented not to vacate their
seats, still it would be felt as an insult
to the services if their conduct were passed over and
their resignations not accepted. The Army an d
Navy Gazette does not view the matter in the same
light ; that and other military journals believe that
the differences (which solely arise out of Sir Spencer
having felt himself aggrieved in being placed on the
retired list,) if they had ended in the retirement of
the two officers, might have considerably affecte d
the administration of naval affairs, and brought about
changes anything but desirable at this crisis. Cap-
tain Robert Hall, C. 8., the present superintendent
of Pembroke Dockyard, would, in all probability,
have been the officer who would have been asked to
fill Sir Spencer Robinson's position, had he retired,
and Mr. Reed's office, there is reason to believe, might
have been offered to Philip Thornton, Esq., the
present master shipwright at Chatham.