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elements of wealth is the characteristic of the new plan of colonization . The excessive appropriation of land is restricted by the imposition of a
land price ; the fund which thus results is devoted to the gratuitous transport of emigrants ; young couples of the two sexes are selected for the purpose , removing the greatest means of increase from the redundant
population of the mother country to the scanty one of the colony ; and , at the same time , a sufficiency of capital is secured by confining the appropriation of land to the men of substance .
The purchaser has his money returned to him in the shape of labour . The injury which might seem to result to the labourer is but in appearance ; he cannot
appropriate land quite so soon ; but , labouring in a flourishing settlement , his savings will soon enable him to acquire land which possesses a real value .
The last colony founded by England , South Australia , is regulated according to this plan . There are now about 1500 souls in the settlement , and emigrants
are continually departing from England . The minimum price set upon the land is \ L per acre , and the land orders sell at « considerable premium . The town allotments of Adelaide ,
the infant metropolis , fetched from 21 . to 10 /* or 15 / . upon the spot ; and the prosperity of the colony is most promising . As far as it has yet gone , that experiment has fully proved the justness of the theory . Cook was the first European
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that landed on New Zealand * and its exceeding fitness to be the site of a British settlement seems more than once to have crossed the mind of the sagacious circumnavigater . Since
then every Englishman who lias visited the place has echoed the same opinion . In fact , an English colony , attracted by
the amazing fertility , the convenience of the many excellent harbours , and the native disposition to traffic , is already beting formed there .
But directed by no govern * ment , controlled by no authority , the country is visited by all the abominations of anarch y * The crews of whalers , rude and often
brutal , and the followers of seaport traffic , constitute the bulk of the English residents . About 150 or 200 runaway convicts have carried the vices of that
colony over the Australian seas . On the shore at the Bay of Islands only are upwards of twenty grog-shops , and the scenes of our gin-palaces are rehearsed
in the face of primitive nature . The sailors , drunken by tens and hundreds , with the masters of the vessels sometimes taking lead in debauchery , are plundered of their property *
The effects ot intercourse between such a class and untaught savages may be conceived . Vice , disease , and coldblooded murder have followed
the European to the land . Mercenary ferocity , taking advantage of the resources of civilization , but unchecked by its better knowledge , has delighted in maltreatment , extortion , and
