The Sun. — 1840-10-30 (London, England)

HILL. If, as the Times properly says, Lord CARDIGAN ought to retire from the army, nothing but a spirit of partizanship keeps it from saying, as we do, that Lord HILL ought to retire from the Horse Guards.  jlu the early part of the month of September, w•e callcd attention to the Report of the New Zealand Committee. We then felt our ourselves obliged to  object to the WA K EFIELD system of colonization. and to defend against its advocates, the individual colonization of New Zealand, which has already taken place to a considerable extent, and which they, for their own purposes, have cried down as full of criminality. We now beg leave to call attention to an article extracted from the Spectator, describing the present condition of the colony of South Australia, established on the WAKEFIELD prindeaebrst, in which, by the bye, that the Governor has pc e d Btyb et colony t it he seems very much to have imitated the home authorities under which it was placed, and put a stop to that influx of labourers on which its presumed prosperity  was to depend. That was the bait held out to capitalists, and though caught, they will get nothing mum, apparently, than the hook. On September the 7th and 9th, we pointed out from the Fourth II eport of the Colonization Commissioners, that the WAKEFIELD plan of setting down complete an old society in the wilderness, had been t tended with many of the charges of such a society  ,shout its conveniences. In the South Austra Tian Reand, of September 26, we find some additional facts bearing on this point, which arc worthy of notice. It quotes from the South Australian, of April 21, a statement that flour was then selling at from 601. to 701. a ton, while it was from 361. to 401. at Sydney, and in Hobart-town from 381. to 421. The 411). loaf was selling for 3s. 6d. or four times the price in England. From the Southern Australian, of March 19,  it quotes an account of two men being executed, but for what offence it does not say. They are desetibcd as hardened villains, who had escaped  from punishment in the other colonies, and their punishment collected a considerable crowd. The other prisoners against whom sentence of death was passed were reprieved, and their sentence commuted to perpetual banishment. The same journal is quoted as the authority for stating that " chain gangs of criminals arc to be employed in the public works," and that an act of incendiarism had destroyed a haystack. Mr. WAKEFIELD may undoubted!) boast of having transplanted an old society into anew country, one which carries with it most of the crimes of the mother country without its conveniences. (MI t.%  In the Southern Australian, of Ma'reh 26, as quoted in the Record, it is stated that robberies have become frequent recently. With this state of internal society, robberies frequent, incendiarism beginning, murder perpetrated,. food scarce, and a Government loaded and loading the colony with debt, is it not a farce to say that the WAKEFIELD system is successful ? Immense resources indeed have been tempted into the concern by flattering representations. More capital has been employed in establishing the colony than sufficed to establish all the North American provinces, and the result is little better than dearth, demoraliza tion, and distress.. "To all these disadvantages we see no set-off but a continual demand, on the pars: of those who have gone thither, for more hands and more labour. They want more companions their misery, and more toil to be extracted from half. famished contending competitors for employment. It must not be supposed that the extravagance of Colonel GAwLER is some accidental thing. A Governor entrusted with his power, and uncontrolled by the governed on the spot, will be sure to he guilty, according to his taste, of some such extravagance, and will follow his own caprice. No one of the Governors has yet given satisfaction. Captain HINDMARSU, as well as Colonel GAWLER, got the colony into trouble. It is the necessary osystem, that the colony must independent of the peoplec haver i sc (l a u Governorence o f Such a colony, even if founded and conducted on tlejo int-sto aektm principle,hoe would have, in a Board of t Directors as well as in its confidant in the colony, such a Governor ; and whenever his  interest or caprice led him to do wrong, he would do it. Colonel WAKEFIELD has not yet been proved, but we anticipate for him no more noble career than has distinguished Captain