COMPETENCE IN A COLONY CONTRASTED WITH POVERTY AT HOME; OR, RELIEF TO LANDLORDS AND LABOURERS HELD OUT BY AUSTRALIAN Colonization and Emigration. A MEMORIAL ADDRESSED TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL, ETC. ETC. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. MDCCCXLVIII. 870.125 5 A Meeting, held in London in December last, on the subject of Colonization, formed a Committee, comprising among others the following gentlemen: The Lord Farnham; the Lord Crofton; Lord John Chichester, M.P.; Hon. Capt. Maxwell, M.P.; Hon. John James Hewitt; Hon. Francis Scott, M.P.; Sir Robert A. Ferguson, Bart., M.P.; Sir William Verner, Bart., M.P.; Sir Edmund C. W. Macnaghten, Bart., M.P.; Sir A. B. Brooke, Bart., M.P.; A. Shafto Adair, Esq., M.P.; Captain Bateson, M.P.; Col. Matheson, M.P.; Richard S. Bourke, Esq., M.P.; John Boyd, Esq., M.P.; George Duncan, Esq., M.P.; A. E. Lockhart, Esq., M.P.; John Young, Esq., M.P.; William Lockhart, Esq., M.P.; Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P.; William Forbes, Esq., M.P.; J. W. Sutherland, Esq.; Mark Boyd, Esq.; Hananel De Castro, Esq.; Archibald Boyd, Esq.; Captain Hamilton, R.N.; Jacob Montefiore, Esq.; Captain Trevelyan; D. Q. Henriques, Esq.; E. Lennox Boyd, Esq.; Samuel Browning, Esq.; R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. The Committee to be permanent, and with power to add to their number. The following Resolutions were adopted: 1. That this meeting will do its utmost to urge on Her Majesty's Government the propriety of giving pecuniary assistance in aid of an Emigration to the Colonies upon a large scale, being deeply impressed with the conviction that the relief that would thus be afforded to the distress iv in Ireland and Scotland, while it would secure a comfortable provision for the Emigrants themselves, could not fail to lay the foundation of wealth and prosperity in an important part of Her Majesty's dominions, the benefit of which the Mother Country would ultimately reap. 2.-That Australia, from the salubrity of its climate, the demand for labour that now exists, and is likely to increase, the abundance of food for the support of the labourer, and its other advantages, both social and physical, offers, in the opinion of this Meeting, an admirable outlet for Emigration. 3. That the Meeting feel confident that the Colonies themselves will liberally contribute to any measure of pecu niary aid which the Government of this country may sanction. It was determined that a Deputation should wait upon Earl Grey; and that the accompanying Memorial should be laid before Lord John Russell. HENRY WHITE, Secretary, 4, New Bank Buildings, London. |