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cate a free trade in all things, a free trade in cattle—lral

we a free corn trade—would be practically of no im-
portance. The Whigs, therefore, by proposing to allow
the importation of corn at a fixed duty, rendered the pro-
hibition to import Cattle unimportant ; while Sir R.
PEEL has won the hearts of the free traders by a con-
cession that is nearly worthless in conjunction with the
sliding scale. Their conduct on this occasion is an ex-
ample of that gullibility- against which we desire to
guard them. At the head of a majority of 100, Sir IL
PEEL has been compelled to yield ; and we beg the free
traders will consider that fact, in order to prevent them
throwing away their advantages.

We read a great deal in public journals of the cor-
ruption of the people, and very little of the corruption
of the Government. Because, the latter is constituted to
take care of the former, and promote their moral im-
provement, it is assumed as beyond a doubt that it is
superior to them. and always answers the intended
pur-
pose. This is evidently a great mistake, and to expect the
moral improvement of the people from our Government,
is to look for a substance where there is not even a
shadow.

The decision of the Belfast election, huddled up yes-
terday like so many other Election Committees, has
added to the number of instances already known of the
Legislature springing from the vilest corruption. The
election was at once declared void. The bribery was
kept out of view by a resignation. In truth, proofs
of that corruption have of late been so numerous that
even Sir ROBERT PEEL, no purist, who has been familiar
with scenes of corruption in the House of Commons all
his life, cries out shame, and calls on the Members of
both sides to skin over the foul ulcers if they cannot
cure them. In all those instances—and the public has a
thorough conviction that the cases in which corruption
is practised and concealed are much more numerous
than the detections—w'e find the co:nponent parts of the
Legislature labouring assiduously to corrupt and debase
the people.
Does the Executive afford us a better example ? We
will not imitate the bad taste of both Houses of Par-
liament, and speak of our amiable and high-minded
QUEEN as constituting the Government, and responsible,
therefore, for the many evils which the misery of the
multitude brings holm to its door. Her example, as a
woman and a Queen, as a wife and a mother, can only
be beneficial to the community, while the example of
the Government is the very reverse. Its whole career,
latterly, has been tortuous duplicity. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S
promises and his performances are no better than a
most mischievous fraud. He broke up the late Ministry,
and delayed that relief for which the people were pant-
ing, because he and his party, were opposed to the re-
laxation of our commercial restrictions, and he has in-
troduced a series of measures to carry out in a bungling
manner the principles which, in opposition, he would
not allow to be acted on. The one obvious difference
between his measures and theirs is, that they really
meant to benefit the public; while he proposes, by set-
ting one interest against another, to secure his own
power. His example is one of gross deceit. He ob-
tained power on false pretexts, and ho uses it only to
spread dissension and delusion through the land. Even
the Morning Post cries out against him as a promise-
breaker, and those who placed him in office trust him no
longer.
With a corrupt Legislature, and deceitful Executive,
how can we reasonably expect a moral people ? The
salt which should preserve has lost its virtue. If they
be not superior in morals to both the Legislative and
Executive powers, and be unable to infuse a wholesome
reform into both, there can be no hope of improvement
either in the conduct of the Government or in their inn
rality. In general, we are less disposed to advocate
organic reform than measures of immediate utility ;
but such measures having been obstinately refused, we are
compelled, like others who are thoroughly disappointed
by the conduct of the Government, to fall back on or-
ganic changes as the only means of preventing the Go-
vernment continuing to injure and corrupt society.
Grievous disorders must ensue if the Government re-
main, as at present, more corrupt than the governed.

THE LATE ATTACK on the QUEEN.

Since the prisoner Francis has been in Newgate he has con-
ducted himself remarkably well. He appears very composed, and
exhibits some appearance of being aware of the fearful position
in %shish he is placed. Of course none of the officers or
others connected with the gaol have had any conversation with
him in reference to the offence with which he stands charged,
but it may be relied on as a positive fact that the prisoner has
on several occasions declared that there was no ball in the
pistol when it was discharged. A turnkey is continually with
him, to prevent all possibility of his making any attempt at
self-destruction; but his conduct or behaviour does not give
the slightest ground for supposing that he would commit such
an act were he so minded--he appears quite calm, submissive,
and obedient, and that he should hays committed such
a desperate act appears most extraordinary. The conduct of
Cooper, the man charged with the murder of the constable a_
Highbury, proves a striking contrast to that of Francis. He
has been so violent and brutal on various occasions that he
has effectually alienated the kind feelings of all those with
whom he has come in contact while in the prison from him.
The prisoner up to yesterday persisted in declaring that the
pistol had n.,thing in it but powder, and some circumstances
would induce a belief that his assertion was correct, there being
up to this time an entire absence of proof in any way that the
weapon was loaded. The most diligent search has been made,
but no trace of a ball has been discovered, and from the posi-
tion in which the pistol was proved to be fired, if it had been
really loaded with ball, there is every reason to,believe that the
bullet must have been discovered.

LONDON:
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1842.

The distressed people of England have reason to be
grateful to Lord KINNAIRD for having brought their
condition under the notice of the House of Lords last
night in a vivid and striking manner. The Noble Lord
proved by the conduct of the Ministers that they know of
the great and general distress, and he complained of the
inefficiency of their measures to relieve it. The people
had asked for bread, he said, and their Lordships
had offered them stones. Our population is in-
creasing, but the consumption of each individual is
lessening. Thus the consumption of wheat had been
less, last year, by 800,000 quarters than the year be-
fore, and it promised to be less this year. At the same
time the poor-rates in Marylebone had increased from
44,5731., in 1836, to 76,3551. in 1841. Crime, too, is
increasing. The Noble Lord quoted a variety of facts
relative to the consumption of different places, and to
diminished employment, to show that the condition of
the people was deteriorating. All his observations had
no other effect on the Duke of WELLINGTON than to
make him impatient ; and lie told the Noble Lord to
wait to see the effects of the measures introduced by the
Ministers. We regard such policy as most erroneous.
The people require to be convinced that they are cared
for, as well as actually to receive relief ; and as
their Lordships have no great deal of work on hand,
and have heretofore readily inquired into the distress
of the agriculturists, the least they could have done,
we think, was to have granted the Committee, and insti-
tuted a searching inquiry into the condition of the
people. If their Lordships are acquainted with that
condition, it is a terrible reproach to them that they do
not devise means to remedy it ; or, if they cannot, let
them abdicate their legislative functions. If their Lord-
ships are not acquainted with the condition of the
people, it is a scandal to them that they do not inquire
into it. Either their Lordships are excessively ignorant,
or powerless ; and in either case they can have no claim
to the respect of the people, whose distress they cannot,
or will not, relieve.

As may naturally be supposed, the occurrence has created
very great sensation throughout the country; and the I rovin-
cial Journals that have already appeared, express in strong
terms abhorrence at the act, and at the same time testify to the
congratulations of all upon the merciful interposition of Provi-
dence in behalf of our beloved Queen.

At the meetirg of the East Surrey Agricultural Association,
on Wednesday, at Croydon, Sir Edmund Antrebus, the Presi-
dent, on propo,ing the health of her Majesty, said he could
not help alluding to the two atrocious attempts that had beets
so recently made upon her life, and which he said, ap-
peared to have been only averted by the almost miraculous
interposition of Providence. He added, that he knew that
at all times this toast was received by the members
with enthusiasm ; but he called upon them at the present junc-
ture to respond to it with increased energy, as a token of their
abhorrence at the dastardly outrage that had been committed ;
and, at the same time, to express their congratulation,—a
feeling which he was quite sure was entertained by the whole
country, at her Majesty's escape.
The company hardly allowed the President to finish his
address, before they commenced giving vent to their feelings
by a volley of enthusia.tic cheers. The professional singe s
then gave the National Anthem, and concluded with the fol-
lowing additional stanza, whi.:h was first composed at the period
of the attack made by Hatfield, upon his late Majesty George
the Third :

" From every latent fcc,
From the assassin's blow—
God save the Queen.
O'er her thine arm extend,
For Britain's sake defend
Our Sovereign, Queen, and Friend

Whatever may be the merit of Sir R. PEEL'S commer-
eial•reforms, they are the offspring of necessity. Ile is
no more now an enthusiastic free-trader, who sacrifices
his party to a theory, than he was a convert to Popery
when he consented to bring Forward Catholic. Emancipa-
tion. He is a mere expediency politician—the chief of
the red tapists—who would not, if he could have helped
it, have risked his power by offending his supporters.
The fact is, as he has stated, that population has out-
stripped the supplies of
food which can at present be ob-
ta;ned from our own soil, and, to avoid some of the ut-
most severities of famine, he has been compelled to pro
pose measures which he supposes will have that effect.
His conduct, dictated by this palpable necessity, is the
strongest proof we have yet seen of the growing ascen-
dancy of free-trade principles. All that intriguing poli-
ticians can do is to obey them, even while they deny their
power.

This fact is instinct with practical deductions. Al-
ready Sir R. PEEL has been obliged to depend on his op-
ponents for the success of his propositions. He cannot, it
is clear, long carry on the administration by the aid of a
party who mistrust him and hate his measures. In fact,
both Tory and Whig Journals have already alluded to a
Speedy dissolution of his administration. The principles
which are now forcing him to act adversely from his
friends will then be still more in the ascendant, and the
pra qical question which the friends of free trade ought
betimes to consider is, will they who are aided by a
power superior to Sir ROBERT PEEL and his combined
host of monopolists, help him, for his own purposes, to
delay their certain victory ? If they be courageous and
true men, with confidence in their own principles, let
them leave expediency to him, and they will soon be
able to dictate the course of the Government.
We are afraid, however, that, they are not staunch. They
havi already been bribed to support a worth less Tariff which carries an Income- tax with it. They have been
smitten with a fancied liberality ; and as the Whigs said
nothing about cattle, they have adopted the conclusion
that Sir R. PEEL is a better free trader than his oppo-
nents. But they proposed a measure as to corn, which
made the concession as to cattle of minor importance.
England possesses such immense advantages in rearing
and fattening cattle, that with a free trade in corn she
need no more fear a competition with foreign oxen than
with foreign cottons and hardware. Though we adyo.

God save the Queen."
The whole company repeated the stanza with the greate;t
enthusiasm, and at its conclusion the cheering was again re-
newed, and continued for some considerable time.

Since the prisoner has been committed to Newgate, the
ga^lers have continued their inquiries, but nothing further of
any importance has transpired, and there does not appear the
slightest ground for supposing that the prisoner had any ac-
complices. Some fresh witnes!cs have, however, been sub-
' eenaed upon the trial, and among them are the keeper of the
coffee-house which the prisoner frequented in Mortimer-street,
and the person with whom he lodged in Titchfield-street.

PORT TAIAIOT, GLAINIORGANSIIIRE. (From
Correspondent. )—This port has been visited, during the
last week or ten days, by a vast concourse of peo?le, whose
curiosity has led them there to see the large Egyptian ship
(1,000 tons) which has just left. She is called the Ashereen,
and belongs to Mehemet Ali, PF.cha of Egypt, and is com-
manded by Captain Mahomet Saad, one of his Highness's
naval officers, and a native of that country. Her crew con-
sisted principally of Egyptians, and her complement is made
up of Maltese seamen ; the latter were taken nn board at
that island. She is a large and warlike-looking corvette,
and is pierced for eighteen guns. She brought to Falmouth
a cargo of Egyptian corn, and after discharging it, under-
went considerable improvements s.hd repairs under the
able hands of Messrs. Fox and Co.' of that port; Front
thence she was consigned by the Pacha to the Zsevereor and
Company of Copper Miners in England, to load a cargo rf
their coal. She is rigged in English fashion, and hiss the
character of being a very fast sailer. It Inty be Ktharlted that
only one other Egyptian vessel ever ViMted the shores of
Great Britain ; and Port Talbot may, therefore be in tly proud
of the hcnour done her, the more so as her noble floating dock
has not been opened, or the new channel completed for the re-
ception
of such large vessels until within the last tsv'elor,
months. It is estimated that at least 10,000 persons have
visited the port to P:e her, many of whom travelled as far as
twenty miles for this purpose. The first Egyptian vessel
visited this e',eintry about twenty-three years ago, and came
boun London with a present to our Government; in return,
gln was ordered to be fiqed, at the Royal Dock-yard, at Dept-
ford, in every respect as an English frigate. There are four
other vessels at this port, now loading real, for the Mediterra-
nean, and six have lately left for the same destination. The
Ashereen sailed on Tuesday last, being in chsrge of one of
the Port Talbot pilots. In the present week the duty on coal
shipped for foreign ports, by the Governor and Company of
Copper Miners iu England, alone would have amounted to 28ti1.
We sincerely hope Sir Robert Peel's treasure in regard to the
export duties on coal will undergo a material revision before
passing, so that this important and rising branch of trade,
Box Tunnel pre_
Sun employs so large a population, may not be plaell
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jeopardy, or suffer injury by the imposition,
and 72; mg the walls a the
On Saturday, the 9th inst., the
sented a most splendid though singular appea:ance caused v
sun shining directly through it,
to use the expression of !ner_witnesi, as though the whels
tunnel ha I been gilt:" nls circumstance will ecceir again in
the fall of the yeas kduring the month of October). At this
time of the ;ear it appears about live in the morning ; in the
fall, of c.:.,arse, not so early.— Wiltshire Independent.
A meting of the members of the Colonial Society
was held yesterday in St. James's-square, for the purpose of
preparing a congratulatory address to the Queen on her provi.
dential escape. Protestations of the heart-felt attachment of
the colonies to the Sovereign of the parent kingdom were
warmly made at the meeting. The address is to be presented
by the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Mountcashel, the Earl of
arewood, Lord Clifford, Sir Duncan M•Dougall, and Sir
Agustus D'Este.

A Constantinople letter of the 9th inst., says:—
" Tahir Pacha has made a proposal to the Council of Alinis-
ters to send a commissioner to Tunis, to watch the conduct of
the Dey, but the Sultan opposed it, as being unwilling to do
anything that might give offence to France. Risa Pacha,
Illarshal of the Palace, who has alwa3s been an inveterate
enemy to the new system of reform, is so deeply affec'ed by p
Vizier ulmonary phthisis, that his life is despaired of, and the Grand
in is confined to his bedby the re-opening of an old wound
his thigh, which, it is feared, will render amputation ne-
(teary."

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING-, JUNE 3, 1842.

a sufficient width the whole way for two carriages to pass. The
distance may appear small, but the difficulties to be contended
with were considerable. The road, which follows the beach li
i 3 throughout its whole extent, built far above the influenc of
(ei tide, and, consequently, walls of rough masonry were nee a •
nary on the side nearest to the sea; while on the other side it has
had to be cut out of the hills. Several protruding rocky
points had also to be blasted ; tut the stability of the road,
now once made, is a recompense for the trouble that was taken
upon it.
" 11. The Porirua road is fit, at present, only fur the passage
of cattle and pack-horses ; but is of much importance as
throwing open the rotate to Wanganui and Taranaki. Both
these roads have been made at the exclusive expense of the
Company, whose pecuniary interests however, though not
consulted in the first instance, will doubtless be eventually
promoted by every facility given to intercourse between the
town and the country, and by the opening out of fresh agricul-
tural tracts to the enterprise of the settlers.
' " 12. It is scarcely necessary to dilate, at this day, on the
easy access of Port Nicholson, and the security of Lambton
Harbour; but as both the one and the other have been ques-
tioned by parties seeking to disparage the settlement, it may be
satisfactory to you and to the public, to hear Mr. Heaphy's tes-
timony on the subject. 'As the accessibility of Port Nichol-
son (he observes), during the heavy contrary gales which
sometimes prevail, has been questioned, I may here mention
that the number of vessels that have beit in against strong
gales, is 14, and 53 with slight winds. Out of this
number, 47 were strangers, and 18 entered by night. Each
time that I have entered Port Nicholson has been against con-
trary winds, and three out of the five, times have been by
night. It is fortunate to be able to add, that since the forma-
tion of the Colony, no vessel has met with any serious acci-
dent, either while in the harbour, or when entering.' Of
Lambtnn harbour he states :—' The anchorage is not only per-
fectly land-locked, but in the direction of the prevalent winds,
its distance from the beach is so small, as to prevent any swell
arising in a gale which would affect the shipping.' Four piers
or jetties have been run out into the harbour to facilitate the
landing of cargoes, alongside of one of which, vessels of 150
tons burden can discharge.
" 13. The following table exhibits the number and tonnage
of the vessels which have entered between the date of the
Tory's arrival with the Company's first expedition, and the
7th of December last:— Number. Tonnage.
Vessels from the Australian Colonies ....... 57 8,611
New Zealand coasters, and vessels from
whaling grounds.. ............
Vessels from South America ...... .....
Vessels sent out by the Company with

emigrants and stores
Private vessels from India
Ships of war ........

149 13,877
3 1,000

41 15,002
8 2,454
4 2,000

Total ... 262 42,944
Your Directors doubt whether an equal number of ships and
amount of tonnage, ever entered the port of an infant settle-
ment in the first two years cf its existence.
" 14. The English population of Wellington and the neigh-
bouring villages is estimated as amounting to about 3,700 in
November last. 01 these, 3,469 had emigrated from England
in the Company's vessels, and the remainder- had come out in
private vessels, or had arrived from the Australian colonies.
111 r. Heaphy states, that the number of those who have left the
settlement is very trifling; and that the births have greatly
exceeded the deaths. He calculates the number of the white
population at this moment at about 4,600. As many as 200
of the natives are said to live so as to be completely
domesticated in the families of *e English, to work
for them, and to deserve to be reckoned among the civilized
inhabitants of the place. The number of houses in Wellington
alone—besides the adjacent villages—was estimated in Nov.
last at 445, of which 195 were substantially built of brick or
wood, at an aggregate cost of about 23,600!. Many of the
dwellings and warehouses are stated to be excellent, and some
of the former to possess much architectural beauty. Land
suitable for building near the beach was letting at the close of
last year, for short terms of years, for 10s. per lineal foot of
street frontage, and that on the beach for 11. per foot water
frontage. Commerce and trade were flourishing, as is, indeed,
proved by the great number of vessels which have visited the
port during the short period of its settlement, from the Austra-
lian Colonies and the whaling grounds, those of the latter
description being, of course, excellent customers for provisions.
The pecuniary difficulties of New South Wales had been the
means of furnishing Wellington with a large supply of live stock
at very low prices. Coal has been found at several points near
the settlement. When Mr. Heaphy left Wellington there
were twenty vessels in the harbour, several of which were owned
by merchants of the place ; and one vessel of sixty tons
burthen was on the stocks, and nearly ready for launching. From
another authentic source, your Directors have learned that the
receipts of the Custom.house in the first month after it was
opened, amounted to 1,000/. Mr. Heaphy mentions that
up to the time of his quitting the settlement, only one failure
in business had taken place, and he believes that in that in-
instance the insolvent party paid 15s. in the pound. Several
scientific men bad taken up their residence at Wellington, and
the formation of a Horticultural Society shows the existence of
a disposition to pursue objects of science as well as those of
profit. There is no want of other indications that our country-
men, in undertaking the war upon the wilderness, have not
forgotten, and are not inclined to neglect, the tastes and pur-
suits of civilized life.

" 15. The facts recited (which have been selected
from a mass of information) are enough to show
that neither the elements of wealth and social comforts,
nor the energy and patient industry which qualify men to at-
tain them, are wanting at Wellington. The success of the great
experiment which it has been your honourable fortune to try,
and the high merit of the colonists to carry out, on the beautiful
but till now unreclaimed and unprofitable shores of New Zea-
land, is secure: the settlement has beyond all question, taken
permanent root. Nevertheless, the quickuess and extent of
the further growth of the community which you have founded,
is dependent, in a great measure, upon aid from without. The
colonistwand your Directors equally feel that it would conduce
most essentially to the enhanced prosperity of the settlement,
if means could be devised by which parties possessed of
land,—to the improvement •of which, in proportion to
its extent, they have already devoted considerable capital,—
might be able to obtain loans upon the security of such pro-
perty at reasonable interest, and for longer periods than con-
sist A ith the rules and practice of ordinary banks. Land in a
new colony, rapidly increasing in value, must afford the best
security for such advances, if made in the first instance with
a prudent regard to the fair market value of the pro-
perty charged. And where, as in such communities, profits
are extremely high, and capable, for a considerable time at
least, of being acquired without diminution of rate, from
an extended capital, it must manifestly be the interest of the
landowner to increase his means of production. Your Direc-
tors were assured of this, and of the great anxiety of the
colonists that loans of the nature in question should be avail-
able to parties of undoubted substance and character, disFosed
to engage, bona fide, in agricultural or other useful operations ;
but yet they were unwilling that the Company should at once
take upon itself the direct instrumentality of a system of ad-
vance for considerable periods upon landed security. They
preferred that the actual management of such a system should
be in the hands of parties making it their primary business ,
and they have, therefore, endeavoured to arrange the matter,
through the instrumentality of a Company whose general objects
are well calculated to advance the prosperity of the colonies in
which they are brought into action. A negotiation with that
Company has been opened ; and your Directors regard the ob-
ject in view as one of so much importance, as to demand that
the means of effecting it should be anxiously and unceasingly
sought for.
" 16. One other subject connected with Wellington requires
notice in thin plate, Yet& Directors allude to the founding of
a town at Wanganui, where the sections of die holders of the
secondary series have been selected. The landowners in that
&strict were anxious that the most eligible site in the block
from which they had to make choice of their respective allot-
ments shotild be set apart by the Company for a town; and
they tio'licited that, in eotisideration of the. inferiority of the
situation held by parties possessed of seetintiS lti Wellitigtcrill
half an acre in the new town should be granted gratuitously ft/
each proprietor of a country section, with a consecutive right
of choice, following the order in which they had taken up those
silleldieilig: 13iit ylitir Directors did not think it reasonable,
nor even for the interests of the parties Using tkit request, to
accede to it specifically. They accordingly instructed yoitr
principal agent to lay out a town of 500 acres into quarter.
acre allotments ; and then to permit the holders of the secon-
dary cettletls to id* for the thoite of these town lots, alter-
irleatteinl3rg* further, ti
that
ithaht
the
i.
ati
'Z On behalf Of the Cdrtipany I di-
es stl tictitliad fof file Company
should be sold by public auction, after reasonable tiotiee its
Wellington and the adjacent settlements- If by these means,
other parties possessed of capital are brought to settle in the
tottn, 'tier Directors ate persuaded that the parts of it which
shall fall to the lot of the holders of the secondary sections will
be more valuable than if they had been permitted to appro-
priate the whole ttl the tdwh, dr at least all the most eligible
site in it, to theinse veS. fit order to cottimeitairate their
grateful sense of the great services which a noble member of
their body has rendered to the, settlements of the Company,
your Dlfeettirit hive instructed Colonel Wakefield to give to
the town founded as above sieseribed; the name of ' "'etre.'
" IY. The length to whit)! this Report has already extended,
and the imcbsaity Of adVettitig, befdrC they dose it, tO other
subjects of great ihiporfahe.e, compel your Directdrs to no-
tice more bristly than they should otherwise desire to do, the
deli-lent was filially
state and tirospeets of New Plymouth. The site of that set-
chosen, ill Illarall 1841; at Taranake,
between between Enid anti Eliatolti; in a district iihith
is stated to be Of etpinent fertility, generally level, acid
tree froth Mintier; the plain§ beiiik I,bireted ;Pith the ittauriain
ferns which attain to such all efiormOua Sias in that soil slid
climate. The great, indeed the only Want, is that of a har-
bour, stieh ticeoftimododu tot shipping being `seldom Email
in Nevr Zealand lh the itlitnediate *kinky of any con-
si 'erable quantity of level told; and the fivers aboresnattied
having hah:., Whieh ket-ant shy hilt Small lidaiterl faint entering
theta: Mit a wind bloWilig off sfibrE is iiiitHol le Vh iiiitrelitient;
and to last but a short time,. the anchorage in the read-stead
is good ; and your Directorshave sent out several sets of moor-
ings for ships,, in order t,o facilitate he landing of cirgoes. The
coast, htlids out great IndlicetrielitS fof adtetitufea itt whaling ;
and by the 1 teat accOUnts; the Settlers Were about to forth a
corntianf tot 84 a .tlittilbet ti t hats for *hat is
t
Called tile " s 'Bre fabfj,,' Mit the ptiiiiati siobationi
of the colonists of New Plymouth will be agricuttiiird,
Wellington being indicaleclt catttre as the commercial
entrepot for all the ;malice!) Am, of ,Cook's Strait. Inc
sni'vel's ssre Wail y,elt. Sitiffsklillly: Ohl, tiMn gitutment,
were given '6w, bh t 'eltith NOVeinber ' Hd# it i.,as Rpte,bd
that the subiirban sections whilld be re4d's.foi distribution abotit
the middle ot Dbeeinl4r: T 4 tBtal giikllsh FolitiOtion at
i\ret)r Plolioititi i; litiii about B,d'o souls, of whom the Company
hls sent out 735. . .

Bthtehren4triaerlairmatiff(ajtrasnbofthe several settle-
yhtit Dikeetors
conbe& t halm great ati3!! t 8 thh.
the constitution o a Bishopric of the Chtiren
knglatid In Ni,v Zealand ; and oil - the appointment of
the ItU;: b6oilfe Aligilittis 4141.4 tl getii`rnin distinguished
alike by zeal and energy and 1)43- Win* W thOt
?fficC. YiT Atc 1-14,t this tilediure efigthPY siig;
geskW Strntifili tirOd bBv4nitielif 1)3 the Aiso-
Of 15,17,in Which this Company' had ica Origin
your Deetois hve always asserted the great importance of
fyinishing the settlers with the means of religious instructs, n
ittid to the,. flitiphtnientiil Pritteip/e,, that the
Company will snow no pirila i 8 ft.fiYigt of int dnE
religious deniimiiiatioti, but that the'ntimbers, and consequent
4tits 8f abh shall be the iiiedSti-e df the preport ion of
iny thl)ie Fitrithiea Aidt„th6 intY make.
In several, ititeibietis which yhtir Direetofs dati tiistitt
Bclllth% the boilld snot fall . reengnise, With extreme
iatistaettolit .t 6 ileWsi did the cattiest desire
to promote the temporal as welt as llle !!piriiiial *Witte td the
whole community inhabiting New Zealand, without disiietthiti
of race, colour, or creed, by which the Bishop appeared to be
actuated in undertaking his arduous and responsible functions.
The Bishop having expressed his readiness to cover wit) an
equal sum any contribution which the Company or its friends
might be disposed to make, with a view to secure to those of
the inhabirants of Wellington and New Plymouth, who are in
communion with the Church of England, the blessings of spi-
ritual instruction through the instrumentality of a fixed and per-
' manent ministry, your Directors thought that they could not
better evince the sincerity of the Company'sdesire to promote the
religious and moral welfare, as well as the temporal advantage of
the colonists who have connected themselves with it, than by
securing to the settlements the benefit of double the sum
bestowed. They gave to Wellirgton 2,000!., and to New
Plymouth 5001. Your Directors desire to call public attention
to a Committee which is on the point of being formed, with a
view to raise additibnal subscriptions to these church finds;
and tbey beg y!), to bear in mind, that the Bishop has pledged

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