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ealalll_ities ? Can there be a moment's doubt or hesita-
of ;as to the propriety of giving the starving millions
esi- toinntrclijeas permission and opportunity to emigrate to
where they may meet with profitable em-
ssbie blessed and
they may be brought under the
and humanising influences of Christianity—
f ere
they may spend their lives in the midst
Peace and plenty ? The West India colonies
Possess a climate similar to, if not far more salu-
bri tors than, that of their native country ? Have
rich these colonies a soil almost inexhaustible in its
of ries; and capable of maintaining, without the fear
th. famine, millions upon millions of inhabitants, and
c,oat Without imposing upon any the necessity of under-
:llg a degree of labour incompatible with the most
under-
the alacrity ? Again, may we not look to the
to igration of native Africans and Indian Coolies in-
to `lie West Indies as an experiment, not only impor-
tant in reference to the commercial and agricultural
pr osPerity of those colonies—not only as calculated to
Promote the temporal welfare of the immigrants—but
fa an experiment affording the highest degree of satis-
faction to those who are interested in missionary enter-
ju
se ? In every part of our West India possessions,
as far cultivation has extended, we find Churches,
Chapels, and Schools rearing their heads, and Bishops,
Clergymen, and teachers, waiting to instruct the igno-
rant and to reclaim the superstitious. These, there-
fore' are fit and proper places to receive the Indian
sad
African outcasts.
:la India and Africa are not the only places from
leh emigrants may be supplied for the West Indies.
reat Britain is, at the present moment, suffering from
a surplus population, for whom it is now impossibls.,to
Provide adequate employment. We have been, of late
!ears, making extraordinary efforts to discover suitable
settlements in our colonies for our starving poor, to
Prevent them from perishing in our streets and through-
°tit the country. We do not blame the government for
affording facilities for emigration from Great Britain
10 our Australasian colonies. But we do blame the
G°vermnent for not affording similar facilities for emi-
gration to the West Indies, where congenial employ-
Inerit may be found for thousands of our starving arti-
lans• Still more do we blame government, who thus
Provide outlets for the superabundant population of
Great Britain, and, at the same time, pass laws pro-
hibiting emigration into our Western Colonies from
countries where the population is still snore superabun-
dant than in our our own, and where the consequent
amount of Suffering is incalculably greater.
We are told that in Great Britain and Ireland, with
"1)914 thirty millions of inhabitants, the population is
increasing at the rate of one thousand per day, and
that a vent must be found for this increase to some
Part of our colonial possessions. What then must be
the increase in the population of India and Africa,
ittieielmiston inasthey do with their tens and hundreds of
What must be the sufferings of the in-
habitants of those countries when visited by famine ?
It is ,
frightful to contemplate the mass of suffering to
Which they must be subject. And yet no provision is
Made for giving the unfortunate inhabitants of India
and Africa an opportunity of seeking employment in
countries which are exempt from those direful visita-
tions to which both India and Africa are periodically
subject. Is this consistent with British humanity ?
Are we justified in condemning these poor creatures
to remain on a soil which cannot support them, and
Where they are left without a chance of bettering their
Condition ? Is it humanity to prevent a labourer from
resorting to the best market for disposing of his labour ?
Are we not acting with the greatest inconsistency while
eve accord such a privilege to our own population and
deny it to the inhabitants of India, who are even more
Willing and anxious to avail themselves of it than are
the destitute poor of Great Britain and Ireland ?
What would Englishmen, Irishmen, or Scotchmen say,
if any nation on earth were to prohibit them from
leaving their native shores, and to prevent them from
going to seek employment in the sickly Prairies in the
far West of America? What would they say if they
Were debarred from going to the more genial climes of
Canada, Australia, or New Zealand ? Would they not
exclaim against the injustice of such a prohibition?
And yet this is precisely what the government of this
country has been doing in reference to those who are
anxious to emigrate to the fine, healthy climate, and
-..Productive soil, of the West Indies, where poverty is
comparatively -unknown, and pauperism is " a tale Of
Other lands."
But it wi'l be said that it is really too bad to remove
the poor Indian outcast to such a distant country as
British Guiana—a country of which they absolutely
know nothing. What do the poor people of this
Country know about those distant colonies to which
so many of them are constantly emigrating? And
Yet they are urged and encouraged to quit their native
lands for those distant and unknown shores. The
Poor Irishman knows just as much about the far
`West of America, New South Wales, or New Zealand,
as an Indian Cooly does of the Mauritius, Guiana, Tri-
nidad, or Jamaica. In place of discouraging the re-
moval of those poor people, we ought to supply them
with the means of emigrating to a free county, where
they may earn more than sufficient for a livelihood—
become useful members of society—be placed under
the influences of Christianity—and exempted from the
horrors of famine and pestilence. It is repugnant to
every principle of humanity to prevent the poor African
or Indian from thus bettering his condition.
Much has been said of the insalubrity of the West
India climate, and especially of the fatality of the climate
of British Guiana. 'We have consulted several works
On the subject of the West India climate, and we have
conversed with many individuals who have spent twenty,
thirty, and even forty years in our different western
colonies.' From all that we can learn on the subject we
have no hesitation in stating it as our conviction that
there is scarcely a climate on the face of the earth more
salubrious than that of the West Indies, not only as
respects the inhabitants of tropical regions, but even in
reference to European constitutions. The average du-
ration of human existence, even in British Guiana, is
Mitch greater than it is in Great Britain. Instances of lon-
gevity are quite as frequent among the white population
of the West Indies as they are among the people of this
country, and among the black population they are much
More frequent. In Jamaica, in particular, instances of
longevity bear a far greater ratio to the whole popula-
tion than they do in the most favoured districts of Great
Britain. It is by no means unusual to meet with
Negroes in that Island who have attained the age of
31.1 e hundred and ten years and upwards. It is not
',Ong since we recorded the death of one who had ar-
l'wed at the extraordinary age of one hundred and nine-
teen The West Indies are happily, almost entirely,
exempt from that fatal scourge, consumption, which
numbers among its victims annually, in this country,
so many hundreds of thousands. That numerous
train
of diseases which arise from exposure to in-
clement weather, and from want of food and proper
shelter, are scarcely ever experienced in the West In-
(ties. The bountiful hand of Providence has blessed
those colonies with such a teeming soil, exuberant in
Producing every necessary of life, that there is
enough of food spontaneously supplied to keep
a Population thrice as numerous as they possess
at present from any fear of want. With such a
fertile soil, waiting for labourers to cultivate it,
tan, d promising such an abundant return, can we be
'Mined for urging the necessity of immigration into the
the -West Indies ? If, with the knowledge which we
Possess of its vast, boundless, but imperfectly deve-
JUPed resources, we neglected to urge this question
upon the attention of our countrymen, we should con-
ceive ourselves guilty of a most culpable dereliction of
duty, and liable to the imputation of being enemies to
the welfare of our country and to the best interests of
humanity.

Of what curious ingredients is Whig-Radical loyalty
composed ! So alien is the principle to the feelings of
'rerals, and so irksome is the hypocrisy with which
they endeavour to pass off their spurious and counter-
feit devotion to the Queen—because they believe that
she, like themselves, is a partisan in politics—as attach-
Meta to the Monarchy itself, that they are, even in
spite of themselves, compelled to make compensation
to their outraged principles by attacking Royalty on
another side, and, as it were, adjust the balance by
Pouring out unmeasured abuse upon other members
of the Royal Family of England.
There hardly appears an article in the Ministerial
prints where the name of her Majesty is introduced
with fulsome panegyric, in which this kind of political
Compromise does not appear. The writers, all unused

:o find their principles countenanced at Court, cannot

venture on so suicidal an act as to indulge their innate
hatred of Royalty at the expense of the Mistress whose.

savour has hitherto been sufficient to counterbalance

and neutralise the hostility of an indignant nation.
But still democratic prejudice must have vent : the

daily aliment of such creatures is detraction, and their
natural appetites must be somehow or other gratified,

or they are miserable.

" Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret ;"
which line we will translate, for the benefit of that
accomplished member of the Town Council, Mr. Al-
derman Earle, whom does not even understand French
when it is spoken to him :—" You may turn out Na-
ture with a pitchfork, but she will always come back
again;'' or perhaps it will be more intelligible to him
if we render. it, by a homely English proverb, nearly
equivalent in meaning You cannot make a silk
purse out of a sow's ear."

Hence they take care always to introduce a set-off
against the praise which it suits their policy just now
to lavish upon our youthful Queen, and this set-off is
composed of the most malignant libels against her
nearest relatives and connections. Strange must be
their notion of the tastes of, that deity to whom they
offer up the incense of their adoration, when they ven-
ture to place the foulest offerings on her altar ! Like
the Hottentots of South. Africa, they parade themselves
before the being to whom they wish to do honour,
arrayed in garbage.

We never remember to have seen a more wanton
and profligate attack than that which appeared a short
time ago in a leading Ministerial journal upon Queen
Adelaide... A lady whose whole life has been one of
exemplary propriety, and who has endeared herself to
the nation by her conduct, both in the highest earthly
station and afterwards when she descended from that
lofty rank,—whose actions, one would have thought,
might have challenged the respect, if not the praise,
of even a political enemy,—has been singled out as a
victim on whose head is to be poured the noisome
stream of Whig-Radical calumny and detraction. A
system of espionage is to be set on foot, and every
expression that falls from her lips noted down, in eager
hope that something may at last be found on which
the envenomed fang of party malice may fasten ; and

if she can answer her accusers—and no individual in
England can do so with more sincerity and truth—in
the words of Brutus,

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ;
For I am armed so strong in honesty,
That they pass by me, as the idle wind,
Which I respect not,"----

what matters it ? Lies must be coined and circulated,
and charges brought against her deliberately, which
have not the faintest shadows of truth for their support.
If, indeed, the calm and blessed virtues of domestic

life can be considered an offence, because they are
contrasted with the glare and glitter of fashionable
frivolity, the fault lies not in her who practises the
former, and to assail her on that ground is the severest
libel which her base-minded opponents can write upon
themselves.

But there is yet another mark set up, against which
it seems to be thought there is a plenary indulgence
given to discharge every shaft which hatred and ma-
lice can suggest. This is one of her Majesty's Royal

Uncles—the King of Hanover—heir presumptive to
the British Crown. With regard to him, abuse has

absolutely no bounds ; and "wretch," and " tyrant,"
and " monster," are appellations which are thought
too weak to express the detestation in which he is held
by the fawning parasites of Queen Victoria. They
think themselves entitled to give full play to their
imaginations, and conjure up a hobgoblin in King
Ernest, which may terrify silly women and children,
but which is only ridiculous in the eyes of men who
look at things and facts as they really are, and in their
true proportions. Far more than half of the calumnies
uttered against her Majesty's Uncle are altogether un-
true, and in what remains much is exaggerated, dis-
torted, and discoloured. His conduct in the govern-
ment of the kingdom of Hanover is likened to that of
a Moorish despot—and this by writers who know
nothing of the constitution, habits, and wishes of the

Hanoverians, but who test every act of State policy
by its applicability to the peculiar character and con-
stitution of the British nation.

The same kind of language is used towards George
IV., and most contemptuous expressions are freely ap-
plied to the " patriot king"—" Good King William."
In fact, the Whig-Radicals seek to recommend them-
selves at Court by vilifying all her Majesty's nearest
relatives, and do all that lies in their power to make the
royal family of Brunswick hateful in the eyes of the
people. Such is Whig-Radical loyalty ! And when
Queen Victoria, in after years, discovers the true na-
ture of these hypocrites, and consents no longer to al-
low her name to be used as the watchword of the Li-
berals, they will fling aside every restraint of common
decency, and, by base libels upon herself, make them-
selves amends for the constraint they now put upon
their natural tastes and inclinations.

* Vide the report of the Town Council proceedings in our

ast impression.

The cause of the Conservatives is in as healthy a
condition as we can possibly desire. Ipswich, Man-
chester, Cambridge, and Newark all tell the same tale,
and everywhere the Whig-Radicals look wretched and
chop-fallen. We can state that it is confidently as-
serted in the Carlton that Sir Robert Peel will have a
majority of five in the present House of Commons,
when it meets for business in the next session ; for the
changes which have taken place in seats, and the va-
cancies which have been occasioned by the acceptance
of office on the part of members, have so reduced that
majority of ministers, which was becoming " small by
degrees," not only to " beautifully less," but to abso-
lute zero—or, rather, a negative quantity less than no-
thing. If, under these circumstances, ministers dis-
solve, the state of the Registrations tells them that they
will be hopelessly and irretrievably beaten—lost be-
yond the possibility of redemption ; and if they do not
dissolve, they will be unable any longer to command
even those " hap-hazard," " chance," " dust-in• the-
balance" majorities of last Session immortalized by
Lord Brougham. If this be the case will they go out ?
Nobody believes in the possibility of this without a last
desperate struggle, and therefore the people of Eng-
land may look for a dissolution ere long. It may
come at any moment, and we may be quite sure that
the moment will be chosen in which there is the best
chance of finding the Conservatives off their post. Of
one thing we are certain, that the Melbourne Ministry
will move heaven and earth to remain in office until
the Queen's marriage is celebrated. This would be a
trump card in their hands which they would take care
to play to their own advantage. But the game goes
against them : they hold too many knaves.

At a late hour last night we received the Sydney
Commercial Journal to the 14th of July. We have no
room to make any extracts in our present publication.
There is no news of political importance from the colony.
There was a great scarcity of the necessaries of life at
Sydney. The price of bread was enormously high.
The 41b. loaf was selling at 2s. 6d., and it was fully
expected to become much dearer ! Several vessels had
been dispatched for India and the adjacent islands to
import wheat and rice. The Government seems to
have been greatly to blame for allowing matters to
come to such an extremity.

On the principle of audi alteram partem we have
given insertion to the second letter of " A Father" on
the subject of the Collegiate School about to be esta-
blished in this town. We have done this the more
readily because " A Father" has assumed a more mo-
derate and courteous tone while writing of those gen-
tlemen from whom he so widely differs. Before, how-
ever, we offer any remarks in reply to our correspond-
ent, we must distinctly inform him that we cannot ad-
mit any further communications on the subject of his
letter. The matter has been amply discussed, and
would be impolitic as well as unnecessary to distur
the minds of our readers with any further controversy
When there is so much need of union on the part co:
Churchmen, it is the very height of folly to perpetuate
this childish quarrel. The point at issue, notwith-
standing all the importance attached to it by " A Fa-
ther," is of the most trifling and insignificant charac-
ter. It ought never to have been magnified into the
occasion of so great a quarrel. When we say this we
beg to be understood as only expressing our own sen-
timents on the subject. We have had no communica-