The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-20 00:00:00

om outrage by the strong hand of
3d they offer to find them remunera-

ave em

They ask us to
and they promise to keep
d enable us to shake off from our
Won which is crushing
g to accept the aid
zs of our prisons, and the houseless

he burthen of t

dney, and other Colonies
s to till their fertile soils ;
len of every kind;
omestic servants male and female ; for indus-
li adult and non adult, for which they offer
beyond its utmost dreaming; whilst, here
sses are in excess over the
ling each other at every turn,

11 \villa

outcasts of our great
Australia, Canada

out fc

- -
for artizans, and handicra

• p.al,L L
at home;

,he same cl

demand for t

I from each others lips and the
clothing from each others backs. In these new colo-
article of necessity is
ity of labour. They could

Be su

supply

h-eekel by the

eel-, wn

other raw

bad only a portion

_ Yet we resolutely
refuse to give them the aid which they require.
The thousands of industrious emigrants who would
Madly rush to people the lands of Australia, Sydney
and -

of ever

ery kind, with mut-
and with wool, and

to an unlimited extent, if they
)f the surplus labour which is

)urther

this county

, by the cheape
United

nada or tt

and becoin

mplements nor the energy to cultivate.
;em, by our neglect, to retrograde into
the condition of hangers on upon the outskirts of
eiviiization, whose benefits they may not enjoy :
rbour feelings of bitter hatred,

we leave to their

in vain against the
)gulphing them, or to

rid the nearest wav (

s, which they reach as
ut of ten, to scramble

aich they have neither t

capital, tl
We leave

we drive them to I

irastea
of th

remembritnce of the coun

Lave e

birth : instead of becoming, as we might
bled them to become, thriving members of
.red communities, knit to us by the ties of

ry of a common fatherland,
)g with us their abundance of agricultural
Ind giving in return a prefer-
ence and a market for the ineustrial products of

and ott

prod ti

Great Britain

of interest, of philanthropy,
of justice to-our colonists and to our suffering and
industrious poor, and consideration for those classes
upon whom the burthen falls at present of main..
twining them in compulsory idleness—the present
emergency calls loudly for large facilities to be
afforded for the purposes of emigration. Petty
and desultory efforts either of the government, or
of individuals, or of philanthropic societies, will
e requirements of the case. A cargo
otn the unions of Ireland or from

On every ground—

not meet th
now and then

the b,

tish Highlands, with a few reformed con-
victs from the Parkhurst prison, are only like the
drops of an April. shower upon a parched wilder-
ness. We want a large and comprehensive

•hich will give a

mad farm

rance to the capitalists
t countries of a constant

upp]y of labour, sufficient to
ineet the progressive extension of their operations.
the very utmost we can
can exercise an injurious effect
e working portion of the

and continu(

r that

achieve in thi

open the conchtio
present s(

is ample capital at present
engaged in most of these colonies to quadruple
their cultivation; and there is more both of capital
mulct enterprise at home, only waiting to carry them
out until the time when their possessors can be
made sure that hands will not be wanting.
It may be pleaded, no doubt, that the country

nnot at pres3,nt spare funds. -But we apprehend
that this plea is not a valid one ; and we are pre-
ed to maintain that an extensive and well regu-
eed system of emigration might be carried on
without involving a farthing of ultimate cost to the
to whatever local bodies may be found
nake the attempt. In the first place it
is by no means to be inferred, neither is it desirable,
that even a majority of the parties to be assisted
should be without funds, or require a free passage.
who would emigrate and
it would probably only be
the rate of passage to the level
ited States, to divert them to more
distant and desirable colonies. Arrangements

taunt

wllin

In-the c

ie of num

became valuable se

necessary to brir

nade, too, of a sufficiently binding cha-
iaeter for the repayment of the advances in these
itaces to the colonial authorities. Another source
from which government would be enabled to pro-

might 1.

feet it

self frOm the effect of the primary outlay,
would be the largely increased revenue which would
be produced by the sale of colonial lands, which
ievenue would begin from the moment that it was
lcuown in the colonies that supplies of labour were
A large portion of the emigrants assisted
)übt consist of the redundant fami-
;o agricultu
&Pendent for half their

out would no

support upon the rates;
nent disposal of these in a land
labour would be eagerly welcomed,
mine, be so far a boon as to render
with the government for the gradual

_ outlay, a matter perfectly
may. Further facilities for the advancement of the
abject in view might be found if earnestly sought
for. What, for instance, need interfere to prevent
some of our large ships of war, at present lying
idle in our dock yards, from discharging their
guns and ammunition, and taking out a thousand
passengers each, by the adult males of which, with
a proper complement of officers, and half, or even
third of a crew, they could be efficiently navigated ?
The machinery, however, of such a measure is a
minor matter, not worthy of being dwelt upon. A
committee oehalf a dozen practical statesmen could
settle the whole in a single sitting. The recogni-
tion of the broad principle of the question is all
that .we contend for. And we contend for it on
ether and far higher grounds than thoie to which
we have already adverted. We repeat, as we set
out with stating, that we see, in the position of
great Britain towards her distant colonies, a direct
calling of Providence to undertake the greatest
mission to which a Christian nation can be sum-
moned—a mission, too, which she alone, of all the
nations of the earth is capable of fulfilling. The
Almighty, in his goodness, and
,for his own high
purposes, has intrusted to her care, in the distant
aittipodes, vast territories, upon whose soil and
-uried and 'genial climate he has bestowed his

a fev

doing ti

on the evidenc

that sch

)y the (

and go into d

specifications

me al

Is of t

will be t

D receive

iect to

UOl-11.

1 and con-

th. It
should

a specittca-
We

the completion of which

cost, is as effectually and truly a step in advance as
if they had proceeded to purchase the land and
break ground. The public must
selves on this point, or be drawn
sent firm attitude of opposition to t
The promise to come again before fL

t not deceive them-

scheme

I pre-

mates,