THE NEW COLONY.
WE promised last week to say something in answer to the objec- tions against the South Australian Colony. These, however, have crowded so thickly upon us, and the present political crisis de- Islands so much of our sr ace, that we must postpone our remarks on the Colony till next week. We shall then examine fully the objections of the Times, the Courier. Cowan, and some corre- spondents. But let us say here, that many of the objections urged against this undertaking,, have no more relation to it than they have to the Holy Alliance for example), or the Bank ques- lion in the United States. Both the Times and the Courier have wasted time in objecting to several things which never had exist- ence; to parts of the plan wh:ch nobody but themselves ever heard of ; such as that the meastne is to be carried into effect by a "company," and a "joint-stock," and "directors." There is no company, no joint-stock, no stock of any kind, no director : every part of the measure is to be conducted by the Crown, and by no other authority. Nearly all the objections, also, which rest upon the alleged novelty of the scheme, are inapplicable to the system of colonization which is to be pursued in South Australia. That system has been partially at work in the United States for one third of a century, and was fully adopted some years ago by our Government for New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, It was by means of that system (the sale of all waste land with- out exception,. and the expenditure of the purchase-money on emigration) that a great ship-full of poor-women were enabled this week to set out fin- Van Diemen's Land. We must stop for the present ; having, we hope, said enough to induce the Times and the Courier to learn what the plan of this Colony really is.
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