The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-13 00:00:00

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their produce by the 31st October, v

ny individuals were embark-
nvoy of merchantmen about to proceed

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nte Video up the river to Corrientes, under the
protection of the British steamers, succeeded in getting
up. (and there was little doubt of it,) a great and thence-
forward increasing trade would be opened out, which
would all centre at Monte Video; and, leaving Buenos
Ayres isolated, would have a most ruinous result for
Rosas' political influence in the states of Entre Rio, Cor-
rientes, and "Paraguay, and would relatively place Monte
Video in a flourishing position even if_ Rosas' army re-

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This step of the allie

ministers

was highly approved of.
PROSPECTS OF EMIGRANTS TO AllSTRALlA.—Erni-
grants of capital now proceeding to New South Wales,
have a great advantage over those who arrived in the co-
lony a tew yews ago ; for, in 1839 and 1840, mixed flocks
of sheep sold at £1 ss. per head, cattle at £5 10s., white
farms were scarcely to be had for love or money ; where-
as, at the close of 1844, mixed flocks of sheep averaged
ss. per head, and horned cattle £1 ss. per head, and very
many farms, or small estates, of rich soil, were in the
market at extremely low figures. Farms of a thousand
acres, completely fenced in, and partly cultivated, with

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comfortable brick cott4es, stables, and all necessary
outhuildaigs, (such as could not have been erected for
less than £800,) are now to be readily purchased for ten
or twelve hundred pounds from colonists who either are
in embarrassed circumstances, or believe they can employ
their capital to better advantage than in farming. The
persons best adapted for Australian settlers are young
men with £2OOO and £3OOO in their pockels, who have
sufficient moral courage to resist all the temptations of a
town, adhere firmly to the less polished and rather mono-
tonous routine of a bush life, and are not too fastidious,
but, on emergency, could eat damper (a coarse dark
bread) and salt junk, using their fingers instead of knives
or forks, drink tea out of tin pots, and sleep in the open
air with saddles for their pillows, occasionally without
even a cloak for a covering. Atter landing, the emigrant
of capital ought to be excessively guarded in his move-
ments, and take no step without due consideration. He
should remember that he is in a land of wrangers, and

allow no insinuating tongue of interested giver of dinners,
to induce him to embark one shilling of his capital in any
colonial business, until he has gained much local experi-
ence. The emigrant will-find that he has plenty to learn,
with not a little to unlearn ; and he who spends some

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months in acquiring colonial knowledge, will find himself,
ar the end of a few years, in a ve,y different position from
those who foolishly believed themselves possessed of in-
tuitive knowledge of colonial affairs, and dashed headlong
into them. Australia presents many inducements to fa-
milies having capital of about £Booo—the heads of which
are men of education, possessed of strong minds, and good
common sense, but not having been brought up to any
profession or business, have no likelihood of increasing
their capital at home. If, however, the head of the fa-
mily—no matter how well educated and upright—be a
man of vacillating disposition, emigrating to Australia
will only have the effect of reducing his family to a worse
plight than they were in at home ; for, it is a fact which
will not admit of dispute, that, to succeed in the colony,
men must think and act for themselves, and oftener listen
with suscipion than credulity to advice that has any refer-
ence to pounds, shillings, and pence. We will suppose a
family, and there are many such, existing upon £2OO or
£3OO a year in England; sums which they would consider
good interest fur a capital of £BOOO. Such a family
would, at home, have many difficulties to contend with.
They would be excluded, by their poverty, from occupy-
ing the position in society to which, perhaps, the head of
the family, by birth, manners, and education was enti-
tled. Now, if this family emigrated to New South Wales,
their posit. on in society would soon be reversed. They
would be no longer dependants on others for their social
existence, and they would find out that their £BOOO, judi-
ciously managed, was quite sufficient for the foundation
of a fortune. The whole family could be landed for £2BO
in the colony. £lOOO will purchase an improved farm,
in any of the respectable districts, with all the requisite
buildings, 100 or more acres in cultivation, a good garden
and orchard, besides being stocked with fifty head of
horned cattle, and eight or ten horses. From the farm
alone, without any other delay, the family, however large,
would obtain all the necessaries, and some of the luxuries
of life; and if worked as a dairy farm, it would return in-
terest on the purchase-money. A sum of £2OOO invested
in good mortgages, at ten or twelve per cent., will return
the family as much as their whole income in England
amounted to; while the remainder of the £BOOO, judici-
ously expended in sheep or cattle, will, besides increasing
their annual income, eventually double and triple the
original capital. The position of such a family would soon
be changed for the better—their style of living would
gradually become more conformable to their increased
income.—Balfour's Sketch of New South Wales.