The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

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lieved by—the manufacturers: Assuming the number ofbirths
per cent. in the agricultural counties to have been as great as
in the kingdom at large, it results, from the greater increase of

numbers Which has taken place in'the manuilicturing districts,
that between 1801 and 1841 they received from the former abov(
1,000,000 of their surplus population. It further appears, from

the census of 1841 as compared with that of 1831, that t
her of men employed in agricultin

is not increasing

And it is furtfier‘probabli; that from the adoption of various
sanitary measures, and the general improvement of medical
science, the increase in future years will be in even a higher
ratio than in times past. jf,then, there should be that increase

which seems so highly probable, and if the land cannot employ
them, what is to become of them, or of the land either? espe-
cißlly if, as must some day happen, the manufacturers should
come to a check, and not be able to receive the usual influx.
It really seems as if they must tail back upon the land till they
swamp all the rents, unless they be provided with a new home
iii the Colonies, where they would not only cease to be burthen-
some to the land, but ,would become even beneficial to it by
their demand for manufactured goods, thus enabling the ma-
nufacturers to continue their usual drain of the waste water
from the land. Our export trade is already greatly indebted to
the Colonies, which, including the United States, take now
twenty-eight per cent. of our whole exports. Let us once
lodge a nation of 5,000,000 in New South Wales, which, by the
operation of natural laws, would soon become 10,000,000 and
a 0,000,000, and imagination eon ,carecly set bounds to the
demand which might arise for the products of our manufactur-
ing industry."

That tbe condition of the emigrants would be improved,
we need only refer to the extracts which we gave a week
or two since from Mr. Waghorn's pamphlet. The plenty
which is proved to exist in those distant rezions contrasts
tantalizingly with the want and misery from which too
many of the inhabitants of this country are unfortunately
suffering.

* A monthly publication, which ought to be extensively cir-
culated. It affords a valuable digest of all intelligence .on-
meted with the colonies, especially of an ecclesiastical charac-

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY AND THE SUP-
PRESSED AND GARBLED DESPATCHES.

The London Times on Tuesday volunteered a defence
of the officials of the Colonial-office from Ihe charges
brought against them by Lord George Bentinck ; and read
a lecture to that nobleman for the alleged crime of accus-
ing men without proofs to support his accusations. The
explanation (!) given on Tuesday night, however, in the
House of Lords, and the able statement of the Case by
Lord Stanley, appears to have wrought a change in our
contempary's opinions. Admitting the possibility of an
accidental mistake, with respect to Sir C. Grey's despatch,
he coincides with Lord Stanley in condemning the conti-
nued withholding of the despatch in question, after the
error committed had been discovered, and the total sup-
pression of an important paragraph in Governor Higgin-
son's despatch. Upon the subject of the misrepresentation
of the substance of the memorial from Jamaica our con-
temporary is rather severe ; and we give his view of that
transaction at length, as confirmatory of those which we
have ourselves already expressed
With regard to the West Indian memorial—on which
after all, the substantive charge against Earl Grey rests—
the case is equally clear. The tendency of Earl Grey's
statement was absolutely to lead the house into gross
error. All the peers present, all who read Lord Grey's
speech, must on the strength of this memorial, so ex-
pounded to them, have arrived at the conclusion that a
number of planters were investing capital in Jamaica—
and doing well."
" The unhappy memorialists had but little idea of the use
to which their complaints would be applied by the Colo-
nial Secretary.
" Earl. Grey at the time he addressed the house was in