The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-06-25

nary prudence will suggest. we may await
future events with tolerable composure.
AustraIin-Manifest Destiny In an Oriental
View-Clear the Track.
Away round on the other side of the globe,
between the South Pacific and the Indian
liza, not much less, in its superficial area, than
these United States. with all our accessions from
France, Spain and Mexico. A monster itself, it
is the mater monstrorum OF that mighty archi-
pelago of monstrous islands, which, all altogether,
mother and children, constitute the fifth geo
graphical division. af.eih; one Of the many leg
acies Of Capt. Cook to the British crown, is now
undergoing SO rapidly the process of transform
alton from native barbarism to civilization. that
the dullest political philosopher can hardly
question its manifest destiny, 1t is evidently
destined, and at no far distant day, to become
an independent power among the nations. in
fact, another mighty Anglo-Saxon republic,
sharing with ours the commercial supremacy of
the earth.
We have entertained this impression since the
confirmation Of the extending golden resources
OF Australia. SO extraordinary as to stagger
our credulity for a time, even with the fixed
fact" of California already before our ewes.
But the varied and highly interesting Austria
liam intelligence which we have spread before
the readers Of the HERALD for several DAYS past.
cannot be read Understandings without a con-
Grmation Of this original impression into an es-
tablished conviction that Australia must sooner
or later become a great independent republic,
with a society and with institutions, political
and religious, analogous to our form.
This conclusion is not derived from any
symptoms Of impending rebellion among Her
Britannia Majesty's ~colonists and gold diggers.
Notwithstanding such symptoms are occasion
ally betrayed; but it is the natural deduction
from the general drift Of the colony to that ad-
vanced condition when colonial guardianship
is but as the swaddling bands Of infancy to the
young giant bearded to the waist. The elements
in Australia arc still in q state of fusion: they
have assumed, as yet, neither shape nor
consistency; but they are tending to the or
ganization Of civilized society, of law and
order, and the established usages and require
ments of a permanent community. The start
has been made, the ground has been broken.
and the work will 60 on. Steam and gold can
accomplish, as they have accomplished, results
incredible to contemplate, and miraculous in
their achievement.
Colonization to Australia is at length fairly
setting in. The settlement of the country ia
fairly under way, by thousands of the same all
powerful Caucasian elements that make up the
stren gth and substance. the bone and blood and
muscle Of this country and the British Empire.
With the increase Of the facilities for emigration.
the tide setting into the gold regions will be
correspondingly increased; and, as in Califor-
MIA SO in Australia will the mines draw around
them the substantial materials Of agriculture.
manufactures and commerce.. Thus. almost
with the rapidity of an ~encampment in the
desert, the enduring realities Of villages. towns.
and cities are rising and spreading all along
the gold coast. By-and-by these people will
feel themselves too large for their colonial
hreeches, and England. from her past expert
ence, We are inclined to think, will not waste
her strength by c%oercing submission upon an
unwilling people, when her own commercial in
terests may tie better subserved by conceding
their independence.
The theme is suggestive; but we need not here
pursue it. In view, however, of the manifest
destiny" of Australia. how important to us be-
comes the opening and inviting field Of CONNER
cial enterprise in the distant Orient. and among
that mighty Gordon of Indian islands, Of which
is the chief. In this connection, how