Smyrna times., 1858-08-05
The New Gold Regions in the British
Parliament.

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which have produced so much excitemer
throughout this continent, are having CORES
Pondlng effect on the public mind of Great Br
tam, as evinced in recent interesting debat
10 the House of Commons on the eyenno .
The goth alt, upon series of resolutions sinh
mitted by Mr.. Roebuck, proposing to terminal
the charter of the Hudson's Bay company. will
view to the resumption by the Crown of IL
original authority in those parts of British
America where that corporation, for man,
years past, have had, and still have, exclusive
privileges, if not exclusive jurisdiction.
The question, says the New York Ernross
would be one of the first magnitude to us of the
United States, even if it were separated from
every consideration save that which simply pro-.
poses to terminate that now venerable and oi.
gantlc monopoly; but directly connected as it
Is with the gold discoveries on Frazer's River
the organization of Government for New
Caledonia, with the sudden influx of an Ameri.
can population into that territory, it assumes an
Importance which, in our judgment, cannot we'll
be Overraled.
we see from this debate that the proposed
termination of the company's charter is not
looked upon by British statesmen as expedient
SIMPLY with reference to commercial considers.
uons' nor as step, recommended solely by a
conviction that the Hudsons Bay companv's
exclusive right to trade in the vast regions over
which they exercise control, can no longer be
recognized with justice to the rest of the eOual.
ly deserving OF Her Maiesty's subjects. In
short, the Hsdson's Bay company is to be rot
rid OF now, in order that the British govern
ment, by means of an extensive and systematic |
plan ofcolonization, in its North American nos. |
sessions, may establish counterpose to the
power and progress of the United States. This
Is the old idea of an European balance of power
for America, revived in new shape and in
rev quarter. Sent to tine tomb of the Capu-
lets III Central America, the ghost Of this bal
ance of power thus starts up anew,-runs off
to the far North, and fits through the magma.
tlons of English st.tesmen, across Hudson's
Bay, along the shores of the Great Lakes, over
the crests of the Rocky Mountains down to the
golden sands of the distant Pacific. Abiding
to the United States, Mr.. RoebCck says " we
have created power on the western continent
which, if something were not done by England
10 the way of counterpose, would overshadow
not only England but the earth." 1t is to curb
this young Colossus, then, that the Hudson's
Bay trappers must retreat before "an organized
system of colonization" chain of towns.
cities, and villages is to be thrown across the
continent, from the head waters of the st. Law
renee to the Rocky Mountains. Trade and
commerce are to spring up as if by the wand
of some mighty Eastern magician, in regions
where at present are only bowling wildernesses
The waste places are to be made glad, the des. I
ert is to blossom like the rose, and, to crown
all, the Atlantic is to be connected with the
Pacific by railroad across the continent. Ma. |
ture, in those high lattudes, has been kinder to
the wild beasts than to mankind. The wide
expanse of territory embraced in the Hudson's
Bay charter is to-day a great empire, but its G
population is composed almost exclusively of I
the beaver, the muskrat, the otter, the mink,
the bear and the wolf. 1t would take MIR. Roe |
buck hundred years at least to make begin.
ming 10 GUST that sort of population so as to I
make it inhabitable for human beings,-and
when the beginning is made, another century
will be required to impart to it the necessary
as an agricultural, mining or manu.
featuring country, to attract to it permanent u
population. And, in the course of two hundred l.
years, does it ever enter the heads of these '
dreamers to dream what will be the position of Il
the United States in the scale of nations! o
Says the Express, let Great Britain go ahead, c
then, with this system of colonization upon 0
our northern frontier. We happen to be turn
ing out a number of promising new States e
along pretty much the same parallel of latitude,
and we should like to have her in company.
Bot our good mother must hurry up, or Brother q
Jonathan will leave his maternal ancestor so far G
behind, that overtakiDg, much less counierpois- (
iog him, will soon be wholly out of the ques- I
zion. The race is a noble one, and, be the end @
of it what it may, civilization at least must be :
abe gamer; for wherever the English colonsi, !
or the Yankee emgrant goes, the English
Gsngue, the love of liberty, and last, but not
ieast, the Christian Religion, is sure to 90 too.
RAIN.-We have at last, after six weeks of I
exceedingly dry weather, been visited with
several fine showers of rain-not one-ihird of
Ihe quantity needed, however but sufficient to
revive the p rchel rass m l W lied corn.-
Much Of the early corn was injured by the late !,
drought beyond recovery. DR.. Daley has pro- /,
cured raiR-guage aud furnished us with the
following record for the month of July :-2Oth :
day. 2-l0ths Of an inch Both, l0ths,--makng
one inch, all tsld. On Aug. I'd, and 3-I0lhs
of an inch of rain fell.
GT"The Atlantic Menthiy,', for August.
containing one handred and twenty-three pa.
ges of most interesting matter on yarious snb.