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NEW ENCOUNTER OP ENGLAND AND AMERICA IN THE WEST . The reasons wlricli have actuated our Government in bringing forward their New Caledonia JBill are only too pressing . ; but we may entertain a hope that their action indicates a right Bpirit , which is far more important than the letter of any bill , however necessary that statute way be . We have every reason to anticipate that the settlement of British Oregon , so often
talked about , will be accomplished very suddenly j some portion of "the territory is no doubt occupied by this time , and emigrants will continue to pour in before the colony has even been christened , much less supplied with police and government . It wns high time , therefore , that the Government should step in , assert the authority of the Crown ,
send to it a Governor , and give it a name . They have named it " New Caledonia , "—a name to be found in another part of tho American main less favoured than this , and leas likely to be colonized ; but by the time the pressure of population carries emigrants across the Arctic circle as well as tho Equator , the old " New Caledonia " will bo able to provide itself with an alias .
There has been moro than one Missouri compromise , and the latest effected an equitable division of the broad lands west of the Itocky Mountains , between Great Britain and the United States , tho "boundary-line being no natural feature of tho country ,
but the forty-ninth parallel of latitude . Probab-ly inconveniences will arise in detail from that division , but at least it avoids the difficulties which arose out of the boundary casa between Maine and New . Brunswick ; and there appeared every probability that any difficulty from that source would be postponed indefinitely , for no disposition was shown to settle the immense tract which theoretically " belongs" to us . Not that it was in any way unstated to colonization . Everybody who had visited reported irell from * Vancouver , who surveyed it from the *
shores of- 'the Pacific , to Mackenzie , who pioneered the approaches of the trappers and traders through the northern portals of the Hocky Mountains ; and every fresh survey has confirmed the best accounts . The comparatively rapid- decline of the Rocky Mountains towards the west offers a more varied and ^ ternpored climate . ; the soil is fertile to an American standard ; the region is intersected "b y the highways of jSTaturefine rivers ; . and it has- 'long , been known to possess mineral riches , from gold , which is the cash of trade , to coal , which gives carbon to the steam lunsrs of commerce . The new
discovery whicli has excited such a sudden rush of settlers , or diggers , is the extent and character of the gold formation . As to the ratio of gold available for the labour of collection , weliave as yet only the most imperfect inform ation ; but it would appear to be ¦ considerable , and it may very probably resemble-the proportion already found in the southern part of the same region , California . As to . the extent of the gold , there is stronger evidence . It is found on the lands of Fraser ' s
Hiver , which opens into King Greorge ' s Sound ; it itt known to vein some strata of the -Rocky Mountains ; it exists so far south as California ; and we may plausibly suppose that the whole region is really El Dorado—a broad Umpire of Gold . . Can we wonder if there is a rush to it ? Can we overrate the crowds which will throng every entrance to that theatre ?
There , from the Pacific to the Rocky Mountains , lies the one talisman ¦ which can give to its every finder , wealth , power , estimation , sumptuous living , love itself—or what passes current by its name ; and amid the hard-driven labourers or adventurers of England and America , will there not be more men eager for that conquest than for distinction and promotion in India ? Of course : the armies
marchnig Last will but feebly represent the armies rushing West . No recruiting inspector , no medical officer , no magistrate will select that vaster army ; ifc' will comprise all grades , al [ ages , all characters , sizes , and dispositions ; and in the diggings near the settlements the burglar will settle down by the side of tho farmer . Indeed , they are probably there now , and no great wonder . Hosts ready for such enterprises have been collected in New York , on the road to Mormon ' land , in Australia , and in California , on the very bordero £ the new land of hope .
"Well , tho greatest of colonies have had doubtful beginnings . Homo was founded by beaten Trojans , unsettled Greeks , questionable aborigines , and scamps of all lauds ; Germany began in a manner that no policein agiatrato would approve ; and antiquity only softens our own genealogy ; while in Australia we have ourselves succeeded in planting a republic of felons . "But most communities of the kind have not been
planted by tho sons of tho million in quite such a stato of high training for mischief ; and hence the just anxiety of our Ministers to get up a respectable Government as soon as possible . In this respect tho position of tho territory is vory peculiar . Tho Hudson ' s Bay
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v ' — ... ' ¦ . ' ¦ ¦ ¦' '' ¦ ' : . ' : . ¦ This journal , established for the . purpose of advocating the principles and accelerating the progress of tHe' advanced [ Liberal party , lias so Tar accomplished its mission as to have secured . a wide and influential circle of readers and supporters as respects Folitics and Literature . The want of an Independent and Impartial Commercial Organ has , however , long been felt in the Mercantile and Trading Circles , and the Conductors of The Lxadeb" purpose , at the suggestion , of a large and hig-hly influential Body of Commercial Men of the City of London and Manufacturing- -Districts , tb enlarge the sphere of its influence and usefulness by INCREASING ITS SIZE EIGHT PAGES , . and adding A COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT , supplied with SPECIAL INFORMATION FROM EXCLUSIVE AND TRUSTWORTHY SOURCES . THIS ADDITION will afford ample space for detailed and accurate information upon the condition of Commerce at home and abroad ; for a correct weekly -view of the state find tendency of the various Markets , and of the Banking and Monetary interests generally , also for the publication , when required , of tbo Board of , Trade Kcturns in the most concise and intelligible form ; and generally for the advocacy of Mercantile interests . Taiutf Reform , consistent with the true principles of Fivee Trade ; untiring opposition to class protection , in such form as to assure Foreigjfl Countries that England has no jealousy of their . Commerce and Manufactures ; a Spirit of Perfect Independence , arid a fearless advocacy of tho -great truths ., of Political Economy , in all its branches—fiscal , Monetary , and Legislative—will be the guiding , principles advocated iu the Mercantile Bection of the enlarged Paper . A . Department of the Paper Avill be devoted as a Journal of Indian Puoguess , opening to the friends of Indian * advancevneiit the means of advocating English . Settlomciit , ' Hallways , lliver Navigation , Irrigation , Cotton , and tho various questions most essential for the welfare of India , and now exciting such deep interest in tho public mind , " The Leader" will be found to be tho only Papor representing tho real interests of our South African Colonies , now so rapidly advancing under Parliamentary Government . It will also bestow special attention upon the Mercantile Marine , and will represent tho interests of a profossion of growing importance , and tho ' . Advancement of which is of such vital consequence to our mercantile interests . While thus adding entirely new features , there
Will DC NO ALTE 11 ATION IN THE POLITICAL , LITERARY , akd artistic portion , which has hitherto secured to the paper its high position ; but , on the contrary , efforts will be made to add to the interest and efficiency of each department , by procuring additional sources of information both at home and abroad ; and by every means that a liberal outlay can command . THE FIRST ENLARGED NUMBER , containing Thirty-two Pages ,
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N " " ¦¦ ¦ SATURDAY EXT t •'' ' ( Jidy 2 ± th ) , PERMANENT ENLARGEMENT or THE LEADER , BY THE ADDITION OF EIGHT PAGES ( ONE-THIRD MORE ) , DEVOTED TO COMMERCIAL XNTFORMATION AND THE ADVOCACY OF MERCANTILE INTERESTS .
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SATtrKDAY , JULY 17 , 1858 .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there j . 3 nothing so unnatural ' and convulsive , as-. the scram to keep things fixe d when all t he ¦ world is by the very law of its ere atAonih eternal progress . —Dii . A . it « oxi . >
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Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1858, page 684, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2251/page/12/
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