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11/ LAY 17, 1842

PRICE 5d

TIMBER DUTIES.-One person, speaking of the in-
tended reduction in the timber duties, said, " that unless
trade improves, there is as much timber now in Lanca-
shire as will last seven years." Immense quantities both
of bricks and timber are useless in the buildings unoccu-
pied. The remission of the timber duties is a great hiss
to the revenue, and not likely to benefit the people.— The
Struggle.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited the
Suffolk-street Gallery last week, and purchased a picture
of Mr. J. W. Allen's. So judicious a partialitr for the
works of this truly English Landscape Painter is an ex-
cellent compliment to British artists.

useless to look to the Goyerrinzent for the. initiative.
In •• all periods of history' Governments were never
found commencing, any course :of improvement, or
aiding it, till the people forced it upon them. It was
not .to the Government that they must look for com-
mencing any work to save the Aborigines of the
world from ruin. It had not supported the measures
that had been recommended by this society, and why ?
because the public was not sufficiently alive to the im
portanc of the subject, and if they went to the Go-
vernment without backers they would get very little
there. lle urged on all the necessity of supporting
this Society, on the ground that those who did not do
all in their. power to prevent great evils must be held
to be in part guilty of those evils. lle showed that
by, introducing civilization among the AborigineS,
this country would be benefited, from the demand
that would spring up for our menufactures, while the
native tribes would also become valuable producers of
commodities which this country consumed. having
dwelt feelingly on the blessings that would follow
from the world living in a state of universal brother-
hood, he noticed the objection that had been made,
that civilization could not be introduced, if the efforte
for that er.d were separated from the _introduction of
Christianity, and observed, that there was an impres-
sion that this attempt would fail, as all offices had.
done. In this there were many errors. He denied
that the attempts to civilize barbarous tribes had
failed, because the introduction of Christianity was
not associated with the labour, but because the public
did not sufficiently enter into the importance of those
labours. This Society was one for interposing between
their own people and the Aborigines of the earth,
when engaged in deadly conflict, and prevented
them from destroying each other. It was a peace-
making society -,•-• a police society, if they liked,
for the whole world.—(llcar, hear.) Was there
any one who would not assist in the efforts
of such a Society ? If the Government could be told
that the great hall up stairs had been crowded _with a
meeting, feeling a strong and holy indignation at the
injuries inflicted on the Aborigines of the earth, they
would find that a measure would soon be laid before
Parliament on the subject. The Government IN-onld
then take the initiative in formal legislation, but the -
initiative would re Ay have been with the public. To
accomplish their ends, a statement of the flats and
principles connected with the subject was necessary,
and- this could only be done by meetings, not in Lon •
don only, but in all parts of the kingdom. They
wanted a grand general movement on the
question, but how could they get this with-
out funds ? The Society was left. Without funds
and could not act; it could not tell upon the com-
munity—it had.not the means of reaching the ear of
the public at large. •Let the meeting help it, then,
in its future struggles, taking this consideration with
them, that in the present state of this country emigra-
tion must increase ; and if this must be the case—if
they must create new empires in the east and west, •
let them not be as they had hitherto been—empires
founded in blood, and consecrated by murder.—
(Cheers.) Sad ! sad, was the history of British colo-
nisation. The history of no community exhibited
evils more frightful than the history of British emi-
gration, if faithfully given. Let them make it, then,
in future, a work, not of danger, but of peace=not
Of invasion of foreign tribes and people, but of amal-
gamation with them—not of attempts to plant our
feet on the necks of those feebler than themselves,
but of becoming acquainted with to whom we may be
useful, and who may be useful to ourselves. Let
them make the work of emigration so pure, so moral,
so hallowed, so just, so sternly honourable, that no
one need, either be afraid or ashamed of the name of
emigrant. He concluded by enforcing the necessity
of carrying out the plans of the Society with regard
to all the countries mentioned in the Report.
W. GORE OUSE IX, Esq. (late Charge d'Affaires at
Brazil), seconded the resolution. Ile said, in secondin!r,
this resolution, I avail myself of the opportunity of
expressing, as a new member of this Association, the
high opinion which I entertain of its praiseworthy
objects, and the extreme satisfaction with which I
perceive that its efforts have not been useless in call-
ing
attention in this country to the duty of affording
to numerous aboriginal races of mankind that proteci-
tion to which they have now a just claim from
Great Britain. My opinions have, lam well aware,
no other weight than that which may be allowed on
the score of personal experience, and an observa-
tion of several years, both in North and South Ame-
rica. That experience goes to prove that without now
referring to those great principles of justice and be-
nevolence upon which this Society is founded, the
best policy for our Colonists to pursue, is that of ob-
servance, not only of strict equity, but of the greatest
forbearance towards the native tribes with whom they-
may be in contact. lam convinced, from what
have seen, that well-directed and supported efforts to
conciliate, civilize, and render them useful allies, in-
stead of bitter enemies, will never be made uselessly ;
It is with regret, also, that I have observed, that in
almost every instance of asserted aggression or out-
rage on the part of native tribes, or wherever an
apparent character of determined hostility or fem.-
city has been exhibited by them, it mild be
traced to wrongs inflicted, in the first instance, on
the part of the white man, or a violation of all jus-
tice and a denial of rights evinced towards them by
more civilized communities. One of the permanen t
and necessary characteristics of this Society, which
formed an additional inducement in my own ease for
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be-
ing desirous of the honour of belongmg to it, is the total
absence of all political party spirit or bias in its object
and composition ; still it may be allowable to express
the deep feeling of satisfaction with which I have
• seen the late declaration of the distinguished Minister
who presides over the Colonial Department of
her Majesty's Government, that attempts such as that
lately made at Natal, in the neighbourhood of
the Cape of Good Hope, will not be allowed
to succeed. I may also he permitted to feel and
express some self-gratulation that the form of Govern-
ment under which we have the advantage of Ming
enables that Government (possessing, as it does, the
• greatest and most important colonial empire that the
world ever saw,) to interfere effectually whenever
necessary, for the protection of those aboriginal
possessors of the territories that our Government now
occupies, from the interested and shert-Bighted op-
pression exercised towards them by its own subjects:
I trust that the efforts of this Society may become
practically ancillary to the just and humane policy
adopted by her Majesty's Government towards the
numerous aboriginal tribes under its protection.
lI.TfNDAL ATK IN ON, Esq., seconded the resolution,
in an animated and eloquent address. He could not
conceal from himself that humanity must shudder on
Perusing the " history of Colonization." The first
step taken on the settlement in Van Diemen's Laud
was to slaughter men, women, and children. The
history of the unfortunate people in South Africa
would ever be a stain upon the policy of England.
The Boers had come out, they had much to answer
for, their path was tracked with blood, and they had
recklessly sacrificed human life. It had been said,
what had Government clone in the initiative for the
improvement of the' people ? • Ile answered, nothing ;
they had left the whole to the people.—(Cheers.)
He trusted that the public would rally round • insti-
tutions like the present, and in that 'hope he would
most cordially support the resolution.
The resolution was then put by the CHAIRMAN, and
declared to be carried unanimously.
Sir C. E. SMITH moved the next resolution
" That this Society recognises the great importance of
investigating and recording facts connected with the pre-
sent moral and physical condition of the uncivilisod races
of man, with a view to the elucidation of their origin,
and the adaptation of suitable measuroc for the introduc-
tion of time arts of civilised life and intellectual culture,
as offering the most availing means of arresting the pro-
gress of evil, and aiding in the introduction of the bles-
sings of Christianity."
He believed that nothing but Christianity NI/mid arm
that Society with success, and it. was therefore their
duty to extend its principles as much as possible.
DANIEL LISTER., 'Esq., seconded the resolution.
The great object of the meeting was to get rid of the
difficulties that attended the colonisation of other
countries, which he believed was only to be effected
by the introduction of Christianity.
The resolution was then put to the meeting, and
declared to be carried unanimously.
The SECRETARY, in announcing that Mr. Teioke,
I Esq., would move the next resolution, stated that
that gentleman had, since entering the, room, nib-
scribed two guineas to the funds of the Society.
Mr. TOOKE then came forward and said • that ho
had not intended that the latter part of` the informa-
tion should have been communicated to the meeting.
He had been a pleased and an instructed auditor of
their proceedings, and felt as they all must have felt,
that their best thanks were due to their Chairman
for the zeal and ability which he had ever displayed
in promoting the interests of the Society.—(Cheers.)
There could be no doubt but that, his endeavours
must be ultimately successful. Dr. IloOgkin would
enrol his name on that small list of practical philan-
thropists, to whom was due the credit of having ori-
ginated great designs.—(Loud cheers.) The Hos.
Gentleman concluded by moving the thanks of the
meeting to Dr. Hodgkin for his able conduct in the
Chair.
M. L'INSTANT, of Hayti, seconded the motion,
which was carried by acclamation.
The compliment having been acknowledged by Dr.
llonaanc, the meeting separated.