The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-04 00:00:00

EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1851

Will the Times now, we ask, make tardy repara-
tion for the serious injury which it inflicted, or
rather endeavoured to inflict, on upright and respect-
able men ? Will it in common justice to those
calumniated persons render; the amende honorable
even at the eleventh hour? We fear not. The
company are, however, fortunately in a position to
defy the calumnious aspersions of interested City
jobbers, who, jealous of the extraordinary progress
already achieved, and of the prosperity of any under-
taking in which they are not permitted to appropriate
" the lion's share" of the profits, may dare to repeat
their infamous falseloods and that even although
the Times should gain prostitute its columns by
promoting the objects of these people, and again
refuse to give insertion to the defence and vindication
of the aggrieved parties, fully satisfied that truth
must ultimately prevail.

Recently we took occasion to celebrate a circum-
stance which we could not but regard as propitious
to a cause we hold much at heart—the cause of a
well-regulated system of colonial emigration. Our
allusion, we need. scsrcely say, is to the reception
given a few days since to the Provincial Secretary of
Nova Scotia by the municipal authorities of the an-
cient city of Southampton. On that occasion the
remarks elicited from the Hon. JOSEPH HOWE in
reference to the very important schemes he is
known to advocate, and with a view to the
carrying out of which, he has arrived amongst
us on a mission to her MAJESTY'S Government,
were of a nature calculated to arrest no small
degree of attention--illustrating, as they did, the ad-
vantages accruing from the development of the
sources of wealth still lying dormant in our North
American possessions. The value of these observations
it was impossible not to recognize, even from
the brief report furnished in one or two of the local
newspapers. Since then we are glad to see that the
speech of the Provincial Secretary of Nova Scotia has
been transcribed, we presume front stenographic
notes, and published in the form of a substantial pam-
phlet.* Having consequently before us the complete
harangue almost as it fell from the lips of the orator,
we turn to it again at our earliest opportunity, with
feelings of genuine satisfaction. Were nothing
further to result from the visit of Mr. Howl to
England, than the delivery of this speech, his mission
could not by any possibility be regarded as fruitless
of happy consequences both to the mother country and
her Transatlantic dependencies. For we conceive the
arguments embodied in it altogether too cogent and
persuasive to pass without being productive of
good to the community. Hearing from the
mouth of one empowered by his knowledge
and his experiences to pronounce upon the capabi-
lities of the British territories in the northern
continent of America, hearing from his mouth such
explicit declarations of the wealth that might be de,
rived from the labour required towards their proper
cultivation, the people of England cannot remain
deaf to the entreaties of nature and of reason—en-
treaties all tending towards the work of a systema,
tised Transatlantic emigration.
Those who may recoil from a scheme for the colo-
nization of the Canadas and the contiguous provinces;
through an erroneous preference for the more genial
atmosphere of the southern parts of the American
continent, would do well to weigh the force of the
folrlo. w
lli nog w sentences,E, articulated on the 14th ult. by
Mr. when
addressing the intelligent inhabis
tants of Southampton :--
"It is often said the climate of North America is
rigorous and severe. Do me the favour to glance at the
eastern hemisphere, including Europe, Asia, and Africa,
and separating the northern countries from the south,
the vigorous parallels from the warm and enervating,
tell me in which reside at this moment, the domestic
virtues, the pith of mankind, the seats of commerce, the
centres of intelligence, the arts of peace, the discipline
of war, the political power and dominion? Assuredly in
the northern half. And yet it was not always so. The
southern and eastern portions, blessed with fertility, and
containing the cradle of our race, filled up first, and
ruled for a time the territories at the north. But as
civilization and population advanced northwards, the
bracing climate did its work, as it will ever do; and in
physical endurance, and intellectual energy, the north
asserted the superiority, which, to this hour, it main-
tains."

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Therefore the Provincial Secretary of Nova
Scotia implies that the bleaker climates of the
western, as well as of the eastern hemisphere,
should receive the preference, as being calculated
better to advance the interests of enterprise and
through them the general cause of civilization. Be-
' sides, we hear him say a moment or so afterwards,
" the climate of North America, though colder than
that of England, is dryer when it is cold. I rarely
wear an overcoat, except when it rains; an old Chief
Justice died recently in Nova Scotia at 103 years o
age, who never wore one in his life. Sick regiments
invalided to our garrison, recover their health and
vigour immediately; and yellow fever patients corn-
ing home from the West Indies walk about in a few
days. Look at the countenances and robust appear-
ance of the inhabitants, and you will see the vigour
and energy that the climate of North America im-
parts."

Notwithstanding these very numerous advantages
,he emigration has all set in from Europe to Awe-

rica upon the southern parts of the latter continent.
Upon this circumstance, hear our orator from Nova
Scotia :—"Whither went the Mayflower,' that sailed
with the Pilgrims from this port ? To the heart of the
New England states. Whither went PENN'S and
BALTIMORE'S emigration ? To Pennsylvania and
Maryland."

But if we listen to the Honourable JOSEPH HOWE
upon a theme yet more familiar to his intelligence,
we find his accents become yet more potent in com-
mending the provinces already referred to as the
proper localities for British colonization. He ob-
serves—

"Nova Scotia, in many respects, greatly resembles
England. It is nearly an island, being joined to the pro-
vince of New Bruns% ick by a narrow isthmus. Of coal,
it has endless fields; it has iron in rich abundance; in-
exhaustible fisheries surround its shores; and its noble
harbours are open all the year round,"

Perhaps, however, the most powerful arguments
employed by the Provincial Secretary of that impor-
tant possession of the British Crown have yet to be

* " Speech of the Hon. Joseph Howe, Provincial Se-
cretary of Nova Scotia, on the importance and Value to
Great Britain of her North American Colonies ; deli-
vered at Southampton on the 14th of January, 1851."
Bvo. pp. 25, London: Trelawney Saunders, 1851.

in the interim, tley relied on the facts, that they had
sent out a body of experienced Cornish miners—
nearly thirty in number—provided with all neces-
sary tools and inplernents for the pursuit on which
they were enbring,—on the report of the local
correspondent cf the Times itself, which con-
tained this pasage—" I am bound in justice to
all parties to aid that from all I can see and learn
the company (tie Anglo-Californian) has performed
all its engagemeits to the Cornish miners with fide-
lity. Money is placed here, and bills of lading for a
further supply hive arrived, coming forward to pro-
vide for their waits and pay for their passage into
the interior ;" aid also on the fact, the truth:of which
could easily be ascertained, that there was an absence
of all debts or chims upon the company by tradesmen
or others in this 3ountry—that, in fact, they paid their
way honestly ant honourably in both hemispheres.
Under such circimstances they naturally demanded
why a leading ani influential organ of public opinion,
which had the mans of knowing that the provisional
directors had acbd bond fide in every matter that
could be inquird into, should charge or insinuate
that they had acted maid fide in other cases with
respect to which it had no better evidence than
the statement of a writer in its columns.
This vindication was, however, as we have already
stated, suppressec by the Times, and would have
been altogether vithheld had we not given it pub-
licity.
Well, Sir HENRY VERE HUNTLEY has at length
arrived in Englaid, having justly merited the thanks
of the company fir his arduous, zealous, and efficient
exertions. He his appeared at various meetings of
shareholders, and his explanations and reports have
been of the mat satisfactory description, carrying
conviction to every honest and unprejudiced mind.
We refer our frinuls and the public generally to the
report of a meeting of shareholders recently held at
the Corn-Exchaage, Lincoln, and also to the resolu-
tion unanimously adopted at a meeting held at Pen-
ritb, at which the shareholders present expressed
" their entire confidence in the manager and directors,
and in the ultimate success of the undertaking," both
of which will be found in other parts of this day's im-
pression.

particularised, aiding, as they all do, in forcing the
benefits derivable from North American emigration
upon the attention of all reflective Englishmen. Con-
spicuous among these arguments are the subjoined :
"In twenty-two years, 124,272 settlers have gone to
Australia and New Zealand! About half the number
on the poor-rate of Scotland in 1848. Not a tenth part
of the paupers relieved in Ireland; or one in fourteen of
those who were supported by England's heavily taxed
industry, in that single year. Nut more, I fear, than
died of famine in a single county of Ireland, from 1846
to 1850; and less, by 60,000, than the number of the
young people who were in the workhouses of England
and Ireland in 1849. Valuable then as these eastern

colonies may be, and respectable as may have been the
efforts to improve them, it is obvious that as aids to the
removal of pressure upon the resources of the United
Kingdom, those who calculate largely upon them are
sure to be deceived. The reasons are obvious. Aus-
tralia and New Zealand are 14,000 miles from the shores
of England; the British provinces of North America
aro but 2,500. Every poor man who embarks for Aus-
traliamust be Maintained by somebody for 120 or 150
clay s; while be is rolling about in idleness on the sea.
The ()Winery passages to North America, in sailing
vessels, is about 40 days. With steam we may hope
soon to reach. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in 8 or
10 days, and Canada in 12.. The expense of a passage
to the east is 20/., to the west it is 31. 104; and with
emigrant steam-vessels may be still further reduced.
Then mark the disproportionate prices of land. In
Australia or New Zealand 100 acres of land cost 1001.
sterling; in the Canterbury Settlement, 3001. In
Western Canada 100 acres of the best laud in the em
pire can be bought for 401.; in Loner Canada for 201.
In New Brunswick, where there are still 11,000,000 of
ungrapted acre 3 in possession of the Government, for
121. 10s. In Nova Scotia; where land is now in many
districts, as valuable as any of the colonies, and from
the increase of commerce, soon will be in all, we give
100 acres of Crown laud to au emigrant for 101."

If these facts are not enough of themselves to ex-
cite the enterprise of colonists, we know not the re-
lative import of such temptations. Only a day or so
back, the Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledged
to the deputation who waited upon him in reference to
the iniquitous duty on advertisements that the meresight
of an American newspaper, with its enormous and
well-filled advertising columns, was enough to make
the mouth of a Financial Minister water with
mingled sentiments of delight and envy ! The
picture sketched by the rapid but vivid elo-
quence of Mr. HOWE, is in its way quite as provoca-
tive of envy among the mass of his auditors. All
one's anxiety is to be one among the number of emi-
grants to the New -World, one among the throng of
those colonists who, we doubt not now, will be hur-
rying across the Atlantic to our North Americ an
possessions—intited to adventure thither by the ear-
nest and persuasive voice of the distinguished gen-
tleman recently arrived amongst us on a mission
from Nova Scotia to:the English Government.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The semi-official Patrie announces that the demand
for an increase of the PRESIDENT'S Dotation will be
made to the Assembly without delay. The Bulletin
de Paris, another of the semi-official organs of the
Elysee, gives us in the following statement an inkling
of the arguments which will be urged by the Ministry
in support of this demand. The Bulletin de Paris
says :

" The number of petitions for assistance addressed to
the President of the Republic is at the minimum 90, and
sometimes as many as 250 a day, making an average of
150. Admitting that one-third of these demands are
rejected, there still remains 100 to satisfy every day, or
36,000 a year. It is impossible to estimate the average
of the assistance granted at less than 30f. At that rate
it is about ,1,100,0001. a year which the President ex-
pends in daily assistance, without reckoning subscriptions
to ballS, concerts, benefits, races, charitable works, en-
couragement to the arts, manufactures, commerce, &c.
It will be thus seen that the funds of the dotation are in
great part employed before-hand, and in a manner which
cannot excite any political susceptibilities."

Should the Dotation be refused the present pro-
visional extra-Parliamentary Ministry will, it is said,
be permanently installed in office.
General AVM, who has just returned to Paris
from Constantinople, has been appointed Ambassador
to the Court of London.

Accounts from Cherbourg state that upwards of
200 vessels had been driven into that harbour by the
recent storms.

The Sack has the following on the recent rise in
:he funds.

" Each day of the past week stock for cash has been
greatly in demand. The Rente continues to spread
more and more throughout the country. Capital, in
fact, is flowing more and more into this sort of invest-
ment; and that this will be kept up so long as the inte-
rest of stock is higher than the profits drawn from in-
vestment in land is most probable. Before the revolu-
tion of February there was a feeling of distrust in the
public funds amongst a great part of the population,
from the apprehension then gonetally entertained that
in case of political perturbations the funds would not be
respected. This feeling has been removed by the con-
duct observed by the Republic towards Renders, and
now the 'little capitalists show unlimited confidence in
public credit."

- PARIS BOURSE, FEB. 3.—Latest Prices.—Five per
Cents., 96f. 85c.; Three per Cents., 57f. 95c.; Bank
of France, 2,2501.
SUSINESS lluiNk, IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TOE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 3.

Boulogne and Amiens, 9%—Luxembourg, 25Z—Namur
and Liege, B%—Northern of France, 15% —Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 4 —Paris and Rouen, 28—Paris and Strasbourg, 9%
—Rouen and Havre, 11;a—Sambre and Meuse, 3A—Tours
and Nantes, 514.

THE OPENING

OF

PARLIAMENT•

HER MAJESTY'S

SPEECH.

Parliament was opened this day by her Majesty in
person with the usual formalities. Shortly after one
o'clock her Majesty left Buckingham Palace and
proceeded in state to the New Palace at Westminster.
The route taken by the royal procession was along
St. James's-park, Whitehall, Parliament-street, and
Palace-yard. Her Majesty and her suite
arrived at the New Palace at West-
minster at two o'clock. Her Majesty
was received in due form and conducted to
the House of Lords, where having ascended the
Throne and ordered the Commons to be summoned,
her Majesty was, on the appearance of the Speaker
and a crowd of Members at the bar, pleased to de-
liver the following most gracious Speech :

" MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
" It is with great satisfaction that I again mee
my Parliament, and resort to your advice and as•
sistance in the consideration of measures which affect
the welfare of our country.

" I continue to maintain the relations of Peace
and Amity with Foreign Powers. It has been my
endeavour to induce the States of Germany to carry
into full effect the provisions of the Treaty with
Danmark, which was concluded at Berlin in the
month of July of last year. I am much gratified in
being able to inform pm that the German Confe-
deration and the Government of Denmark are now
engaged in fulfilling the Stipulations of that Treaty,
and thereby putting an end to hostilities which at
one time appeared full of danger to the peace of

Europe.
" I trust that the affairs of Germany may be ar-
ranged by mutual agreement, in such a manner as to
preserve the strength of the Confederation and to
maintain the freedom of its separate States.
" I have concluded with the King of Sardinia
Articles Additional to the Treaty of September,
1841, and I have directed that those Articles shall be
laid before you.
"The Government of Brazil has taken new, and
I hope efficient measures for the suppression of the
atrocious traffic in slaves.

" GENTLEMEN OF TUE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
" I have directed the estimates of the year to be
prepared and laid before you without delay. They
have been framed with a due regard to economy, and
to the necessities of the public service.
" Mr LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
" Notwithstanding the large reductions of taxa-
tion which have been effected in late years, the re-
ceipts of the revenue have been satisfactory.

" The state of the Commerce and Manufactures'
of the United Kingdom has been such as to afford
general employment to the Labouring Classes.
have to lament, however, the difficulties which
are still felt by that important body among my people
who are Owners and Occupiers of Land.

"But it is my confident hope, that the pros-
perous condition of other classes of my subjects will
have a favourable effect in diminishing those diffi-
culties, and promoting the interests of agriculture.
" The recent assumption of certain Ecclesiastical
Titles conferred by a Foreign Power has excited strong
feelings in this country, and large bodies of my sub-:
jects have presented addresses to me expressing at-
tachment to the Throne, and praying that such as-
sumptions should be resisted. I hale assured the©
of my resolution to maintain the rights of my
Crown, and the independence of the nation, against
all encroachment, from whatever quarter it may
proceed. I have, at the same time, expressed
my i ea' nest desire and firm determination,
under God's blessing, to maintain unimpaired the
Religious Liberty which is so justly prized by the
, people of this country.
"It will be for you to consider the measure
which will be laid before you on this subject.
" The administration of justice in the civil depart-
ments of law and equity, will no doubt receive the
serious attention of Parliament; and I feel confident
that the measures which may be submitted with

a view of improving that administration, wil,

discussed with that mature deliberation which impor,
tent changes in the highest Courts of Judicatun
in the Kingdom imperatively demand..

" A measure will be laid before you providing
for the establishment of a system of Registration of
Deeds and instruments relating to the Transfer of
Property. This measure is the result of inquiries
which I have caused to be made into the practicability
of adopting a system of Registration calculated to
give security to titles, and to diminish the causes of

litigation to which they have hitherto been liable,
and to reduce the cost of transfers.

" To combine the progress of improvement with
the stability of our institutions will, I am confident,
be your constant care. We may esteem ourselves
fortunate that we can pursue, without disturbance,
the course of calm and peaceable amelioration;
and we have every cause to be thankful to Almighty
God for the measure of tranquillity and happiness
which has been vouchsafed to us."

Mr. Cobden addressed his old constituents at
Stockport on Friday, at a dinner given to Mr. Kershaw, one
of the present Members for that borough. The Honourable
Gentleman's speech was similar to that which he delivered
at the" Parliamentary Soirée" at Manchester in the previous
week.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governors of Ceylon and Hong- Kong, the
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian islands,. and the
Governor of Malta.
The Royal Society of Scotland, at the head of
which is the Duke of Argyle, are strongly urging the muni-
cipal bodies in that country to petition Parliament for the
speedy completion of the trigonometrical survey. They
say, that although the survey has been going on for thirty-
one years, its progress has been so slow that the mere skeleton
of the work is not. yet completed. The Irish survey was
commenced in 1825, and practically brought to a close in
1843, at an average outlay of 40,000/. a year, while the
average expenditure of the survey for Scotland had only
amounted to 1,200 a year. If carried on at the same rate,
it would require 160 years for its completion.
Grasolow, Fau. I.—Cotton—The market showed
some animation in the early part of the week, but it has
again relapsed and closes dull, purchases being only made for
immediate wants. Prices are rather in favour of buyers.
Middling Orleans may be quoted hid. per lb. The transac-
tions for the month of January just closed do not exceed
5,000 bales. The market for goods and yarn is flat, and
little business doing. There have been three failures during
the week, but the liabilities are not large, and they have not
created any sensation. Pig Iron—There has been scarcely
any change in the price of pig-iron during the week, and an
almost complete absence of business, which makes quotations
quite nom!oal. To-day 435. for No. 1 against bill of lading,
445. 6d. for No. 1 Gartsherrie, and 435. 6d. .for warrants may
be quoted as the prices.

MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL..--The treasurers of this
excellent charity have been informed of a very seasonable
addition to their funds, by a munificent legacy of 1,0001.,
free of duty, under the will of Thomas Anseldo Rawson,
Esq., deceased.

SURREY CONSUMERS GAS LIGHT ASSOCIATION.—
On Friday the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of
the works of this company at Botherhithe was performed by,
the Lord Mayor in pretence of a large concourse of spec-
tators. His Lordship said he bad no personal interest in the
association, but he considered himself bound, upon, public
grounds, to support it, inasmuch as its object was to supply
a good and cheap article of general consumption.
SIR JOHN BARROW'S MONUMENT STRUCK BY
LIGIITNING.—We regret to state that the beautiful tower
erected in commemoration of the late Sir John Barrow, at
Ulverstone, on the coast of Cumberland, was, on Thursday
night last, the 30th of January, struck by lightning, which
partially destroyed the cupola and damaged other parts of
the building. After the many instances of such casualties, '
it is matter of surprise and regret that early means are not
resorted to for guarding such beautiful structures against the
destructive effects of atmospheric electricity.
A workman upon the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway was killed on Saturday last at the foot of the Sutton
incline. He was injudiciously crossing the fine when an en-
gine came up, knocked him down, and -paseed'overhistody. I