The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-08-04

Within these districts there is space for
twelve large States. The sixty thousand
square miles in the Fraser and Thompson
river district is the paradise of this empire
We are told that from the forty-ninth par
allel, some three hundred and fifty miles
north, n more beautiful country does not
exist. The Parliamentary Committee were
told that .its fisheries are most valuable;
its timber the finest i'm the world for mari
time purposes it abounds in bitumnOus
coal well fitted for the generation of steam;
and its climate is fine, equable and salu-
briOuS. In many respects this region is
not unlike Northern California and but n
little more than year since auriferouS de-
p0stS found in pretty large quantities, made
the resemblance still more marked and
created the widest excitement among all the
adventures on the western slope of the
mountains, from San Diego TO the mouth of
the Columbia. The richest placers seemed
TO be in the table land between Fraser and
Columbia rivers, and it is To this district
i that the attention of British statesman is
now turned. For nearly two centuries the
navigation of these rivers. their tributaries,
the bays, straits or sounds into which they
flow, has been monopolized 10y the Hudson
Bay Company. ln addition to this the COM
1 paliy holds, under a tripartite tenure. all the
/ territory extending from our northern from
tier to the Arctic Sea. First, they hold un-
der license from the Crown. the colony of
'Naacouvers Island secondly, the territory
extending from the Pacific TO the Rocky
Mountains, now to be called New Caledonia;
and third, under the Charles the Second
charter, the vast territories extending from
the Rocky mountains TO Hudsonis Bay
The Crown viii resume almost Immediately
all the territory held under license; the
charter is rather more difficult matter.
Mr.. Rocbuck, as one of deputation address
ing the Premier ON the subject, pursued this
line Of argument: That such policy should
be adopted as would develop the British
possessions, ana make a continuous line of
populated and improved country from the
Atlantic to the Pacific as counterpoise TO
the rapidly increasing preponderance of the
United States ON this continent. While, he
said, the border States-Minnesota and
lowa-were filling up TO the frontier, the
British had, on the other side, nothing but
little colony on Red river. This primitive
. state of things Mr.. Roebuck accredited, with
justice, to the monopolyof the Hudson's
Bay Company. The Premier agreed with
the deputati0n i'll their general views.
y new colonial government is to be es
i-tabliShed for the region under the name o
New CALEDONIA, the bill for which has al.
ready passed Parliament. The new govern
ment will embrace the territory that extends
from our frontier TO the sources of FraSe
river ii is four hundred and twenty mile
long and about three hundred broad, witt
an area of about three hundred thousan,
square miles. This territory takes in th,
whole of the gold fields, and all of the bes
: land, so far as known in this part of British
North America. Under the bill the Crow
: is TO make the laws for the new colon.
: during five years, and if before that tim
the colony should have the material for self
: government, Il Legislative Assembly wi
;, no. doubt be given. The Secretary, alludin
to the circumstance that some gentleme
might think FIVE years too short perioC