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

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1851.

MEETING OF pARLIA_MEI`a

' in the interim, they relied on the fartQ, that they had

sent out a body of experienced Corm4ll miners—
nearly thirty in number—provided with all neces-
sary tools and implements for •the pursuit on which
they were entering,—on the report of the local
correspondent of the Times itself, which con-
tained this passage—" I am bound in justice to
all psrties to add that from all I can see and learn
the company (the Anglo• Californian) has performed
all its engagements to the Cornish miners with fide-
lity. Money is placed here, and bills of lading for a
further supply have arrived, coming forward to pro-
vide for their wants and pay for their passage into
the interior;" and also on the fact, the truth.of which
could easily be ascertained, that there was an absence
of all debts or claims upon the company by tradesmen
or others in this country—that, in fact, they paid their
way honestly and honourably in both hemispheres.
Under such circumstances they naturally demanded
why a leading and influential organ of public opinion,
which had the means of knowing that the provisional
directors had acted bond fide in every matter that
could be inquired 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, suppressed by the Times, and would have
been altogether withheld had we not given it pub.
licity.
Well, Sir HINNY VERE HUNTLEY has at length
arrived in England, having justly merited the thanks
of the company for his arduous, zealous, and efficient
exertions. He has appeared at various meetings of
shareholders, and his explanations and reports have
been of the most satisfactory description, carrying
conviction to every honest and unprejudiced mind.
We refer our friends and the public generally to the
report of a meeting of shareholders recently held at
the Corn-Exchange, Lincoln, and also to the resolu-
tion unanimously adopted at a meeting held at Pen-
rith, 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.

Will the Times now,;pe, 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 falsehoods ; and that even although
the Times should again 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. Oar
allusion, we need scarcely 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. Josaru 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 from 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. HowE 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 Canada 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
following articulated on the 14th ult. by
sentences,
Mr.HowE, cnaddressing the intelligent inhabi-
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 cora-Aries from the south,
the vigorous parallels from ay., warm and enervating,
tell me in which reside at tlis moment, the domestic
virtues, the pith of mankind, the seats of commerce, the
centres of intelligence, five 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
the cradle
theradle f our race, filled up first, and
unletdain f
of
at the north. But as
civilization and population advanced northwards, the
bracing climate did its work, as it will ever do; and in
containing
a time
physical endurance, and intellectual energy, the north
asserted the superiority, which, to this hour, it main-
tains."

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 overce,at, 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 com-
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 thesre very numerous advantages
the emigration has all, set in from Europe to Ame-
rica upon the southerr, parts of the latter continent.
Upon this cireurns►.ante, hear our orator from Nova
Scotia :—"Wilit,lver went the Mayflower,' that sailed
with the Pilgrir
.s from this port ? To the heart of the
New Englard. states. Whither went PENN'S and
BALTIMOP,b
vs emigration ? To Pennsylvania and
Mary lan

But If we listen to the Honourable JOSEPH Howla
upon a theme yet more familiar to his, intelligence,
we find his accents become yet more potent in cone
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 if,land, being joined to the pro-
vince of Now Brunswick by a narrow isthmus. Of coal,
it has endless fields; it ),las iron in rich abundance; in-
exhaustible fisheries surround its shores; and its noble
harbours are open &U the year round."
Perhaps, howctv er, the most powerful arguments
employed by th Provincial Secretary of that impor-
tant possession, of the British Crown have yet to be
it S

perch 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. 284 London: Trelawney pounders, 1851.

perticul,,rised, aiding, ac they ell dr, in forcing the
benefits dmvable 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
are but 2,500. Every poor man who embarks for Aus-
tralia must be maintained by somebody for 120 or 150
days, while he is rolling about in idleness on the sea.
The ordinary 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 201., to the west it is 31. 10i.; 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 land in the em
pire can be bought for 401.; in Lower Canada for 201.
In New Brunswick, where there are still 11,000,000 of
ungranted acres 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 land to an 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 mere sight
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 1 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—incited 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 Patric 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 staVament an inkling
of the arguments which will be urged by the Ministry
in support of this demand. ThFJ 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 301. 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 men 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 .D,otation be refused the present pro-
visional extra-Parliamentary Ministry will, it is said,
be permanently installed in office.
General Aurac, who has just returned to Paris
from Constantir topics, has been appointed Ambassador
to the Court of London.

Accounts frc ma Cherbourg state that upwards of
200 vessels had teen driven into that harbour by the
recent storms.

The Slade b Lau the following on the recent rise in
the funds.

" Each day of the past week stock for cash has been
greatly in dem. an d. The Rente continues to spread
more and morel throughout the country. Capital, in
fact, is flowing !wore and more into this sort of invest-
ment; and that tihis will be kept up so long as the inte-
rest of stock is higher than the profits drawn from in-
vestment in lan di is most probable. Before the revolu-
tion of February there was a feeling of distrust in the
public funds au iongst a great part of the population,
from the apprehension then generally entertained that
in case of politi. :eh perturbations the funds would not be
respected. Tbi .s feeling has been removed by the con-
duct observed NT the Republic towards Rentiers, and
now the little mipitalists show unlimited confidence in
public credit."

PARIS Boca ,s: a, FEB. 3.—Latest Prices.—Five per
Cents., 96f. 85. a.; Three per Cents,, 57f. 95c.; Bank
of France, 2
BUSINESS DO N a IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LOND( )N STOCK EXCHANGE, Faa. 3.
Boulogne ano I Amiens, 9%—Luxembourg, 2%—Namur
and Liege, 814— Northern of France, MlA—Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 4—Paris iLnd Rouen, 28—Paris and Strasbourg, 9%
—Rouen and Ho tv.re, 11LA—Sambre and Meuse, 3A—Tours
and Nantes, 5%..

THE O P KLN

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PARLIAMENT.

HER MAJESTY'S