The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-13 00:00:00

GANTIC JOB.

We rejoice to perceive that the Manchester Chamber
of Commerce have uplifted their voice against one of the
most stupendous jobs ever perpetrated by a corrupt Ad-
ministration. We allude, of course, to the proposed
cession of Vancouver's Island to the Hudson's
Bay Company. The iniquity has not yet
been consummated, though the audacity that could
plan the wholesale public pillage is, doubt-
less, sufficiently brazen to go through with it.
The " family party" who have got hold of the reins
of government are really making a nice thing
of it. My Lord Grey, in his capacity of Colo-
nial Minister, makes a present to his uncle, Mr.
Edward Ellice, and his fur-trading company, of an
island—one of the most valuable of British posses-
sions, and for which we were within an ace of
going to war with America—with as perfect sing
livid as the Premier installed his brother into the
Sergeantship at Arms. Truly Earl Grey is turning
his patronage to most able account. The word to
his private circle is no longer simply, " Who wants a
colonial governorship ?" " Who wants a colony ?"
his Lordship now asks. " I," says uncle Edward,
" I want a colony ;" and it's all settled. Van-
couver's Island ceases to belong to Great Britain, and
becomes the private property of a monopolists corn •
pany of furriers, lucky enough to have a colonial
Minister's uncle for a co-partner.
The apology put forward by the Colonial-office
for this infamous transaction, when the withering
exposure of Mr. Gladstone, towards the close of
last session, brought officials to bay, is almost as
bad as the projected robbery itsel. It was, for
Booth, Lord Grey's ardent zeal to promote the
interests of colonization that alone prompted him
to make a gift of Vancouver's Island to an anti-
colonising company. Think of that, Master Ford !
The Secretary for the Colonies could devise n• other
method of peopling a British possession, except deli-
vering it up to a corporation whose direct interest
it is to keep it a wilderness. The plough does not
often follow the trail of the trapper; and whenever
it does we may be quite sure it is not with the
trapper's good will. " A secret and grasping
company,"—as the Manchester Chamber of Com-
merce justly designate the Hudson's Bay Com-
pany—who have, for centuries, preserved in waste
a tract of territory larger than Europe, are
not likely to turn over a new leaf in their adminis-
tration of Vancouver's island. Their character, too,
is not greatly calculated to induce settlers to trust
themselves to their sway. At this moment the
protest against oppression of the entire inhabitants
of the only settlement they ever founded—that of
the Red River—is under the consideration of
Government. Yet before the Company are cleared
of the serious charges of malversation that lie
against them, Lord Grey threatens, with indecent
haste, to make them absolute lords of a territory
whose importance to British interests it is impossible
to over-estimate. A clause in the deed of gift, how-
ever, entitles Great Britain toyurchase back the island
at the end of eleven years. The upehot of the busi-
ness will be, that we shall have to do so, at a price
that will sorely burden the British tax-payer, but
afford a famous dividend to Mr. Edward Ellice and
the other members of the Hudson's Bay Company.—
Liverpool Mercury.

SUDDEN DEATH or THE CHIEF CLERK TO LORD
CHIEF JUSTICE WILDS.—Mr. Holland, who for many
years was the Chief Clerk to Sir Thomas Wilde, who,
upon the appointment of the Learned Gentleman to the
Lord Chief Justi,:eship of the Common Pleas, was by
his Lordship inducted into the lucrative cffice of Chief
Clerk, being of the value of from 1,2001. to 1,500 per
annum, died suddenly yesterday morning. Deceased
attended to his duties on Saturday, and appeared to be in
the full enjoyment of his usual health, while engaged
about mid-day in the arrangement of some documents
for the Lord Chief Justice, in the private room, he was
taken suddenly ill. He was immediately conveyed to
his residence at Chelsea. The immediate cause of death
is attributed to spasms of the heart.
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