New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-11-21
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Correspondence Of The Tribune.
LoNDoN Friday alternooD November
The British Colonies are nevor.lsiling cares 10
keep the state Physicians in practice. Canada
and the Care are all suffering from political levers
Of more or less intensity and which produce cor
responding msladcs in the Mother Country The
theory Of contsgion or non contsglon, a. am ;uI
10 settle on the small scale is much palmer where
nations ere concerned Tor as all men and al
states arc N spiritual contact, everything which
happens to them, whether OF disease or health,
Is The subject Of special contagion. By contseion
We live and work by contagion, we depart and
die. By contagion, diseases produce their oppo-
,tes-tyranny giving birth to reaction, aud the
cold to the hot and sweating stages OF excitement
| and disturbance
The Cape especially claims attention this week.
In former letter dw cit at some length upon the
trans 3oftaton system, and upon the re'olute sit-
| tude show by the Cspers 70 the Colonial Govern
meut, attempting 10 make the ColoDyinto model
penal settlement. The excitement al the Cape
mas not diminished bat increased, and the mere
ment has had no other effect than to make the
Colonial Secretary, Ear Grey, more dominant
and exactng which in It's turn has driven the
Cspers 70 new and more decided demonstrations.
Not only is me Cape destined to receive the first
class convcts, supposed to be reformed and
amended By prison discipline, but also the NH.
,sry Convicts from China and Ceylon are 70 be
Transported 10 the South African possessions
Tse Colouists rose as one man sgslnst this deter
mi nation and as you may suppose, II Is the most
wealthy respectable and conservative part OF tue
population which is mos; strenuous IN It's resis-
lance 10 the Government. The end Is not yet
II the Cape succeeds IN It's refusal to take our
first class reformed Vagabonds snd rutt ans,
then there Is virtually an end, either immediate
or prospective, to our system OF transportation,
OF else we must organize strictly PeRal colonies
Ike Norfolk Island, irOm which honest settlers
and wealth " 10 be scared away, as from pesil-
lentls region. In the after case We enter upon
system from which the mind can see no issue for
what Is ultlm stely 20 be done 10 the world, which
- every dsv being squeezed into smaller dlmcn-
| slons IN the cordial grasp OF steam and the arts
! with growing communities, al yAgab0nds Or po-
lceme0. pit.ed Ike lshnas, against al society
| and civilization The element OF Reform, spd
the divine gl.t Of oblivion, cOud hardly ever yist
tlose pensl shores. but the terrible escutcheon Of
| the father crimes would stand over every house
| down t. a ste Posterity uumIxed with Any other
eleme NJ which could elevate and govern the bAser
parts Of the society from & mora centre. Look-
ne a. the dissdvsntsges, present aad to come, Of
these axes Of wees Il IS hardly likely that the
Government viii care T. add to them, or q people
IeS shores With races which must one lay be-
come 6 SERIOUS problem in the world winch in-
deed vii have treated them So hardly. and " Ii
| deserve 50 little a. their hands Ihen, 4 We at
tempt J. 60 away With the Transportation s. ate
ard - consume or own crime on oar own Island
We foster rs u las been said So many leaders Of
| the dAnEerous classes and not removing those
| classes from Their bad associates, or from the
| sphere OF that public scorn and mlstust which
Keeps them vicious, were they ever s. viriaoasly
| Inclined We entirely prevent them trom turning
over = new eaf aud se only expe them from
| the PRISON as 90 much seed % be TUNED over Ia
socie:y, and 70 revert 70 prison sgsin IN crops
| increased IN q geOmet-lcsl ratio. Whi. then =
| England q dc with her COW css
| Ii the questOs OF uors' sewsge and 81 Pres
eat settle H. or t,ther leave u 70 settle Itself
| much IS toe msterisl sewage IS settled dis
charge our refuse pop stion Intothe great Thames
| Of society, and drink IN again '0- our own health
| and nutr aeui. 10 not see the way oct Of the
! difficulties bat | vou,d sggges. 70 statesmen 70
| sioiy the moral and TIE mRtsna question 70
| cethe!. that what IS bright IN each may lllGmlne
| what 10 dark 10 the other. Even # we could XII
| the Coancils that would only be transporting
ithem - another Colony which vs. ought ~ guard
| with the most Jealous care | mean the other
| world. in which we ourselves are T. be settler;
soma dav: ami moreover granting tat Go1 :
Iawssreo nly One Law, We have 20 remember nat
this world ;esching shows thst God Goes 'o- rs
only what we DO Tor ourselves aod that deStn
neither humiliation. pos Reform. The SOCIAL exi-