The first colonizers of America were uteri of Dsvo•. Cornwall.
'19le spot held utmost sacred in Non h America dents of
those bold Englishmen who eressed the A thee Lame, is
"the Rock of Plymouth.' in 31::ssacinvaa Is. Nate, new heunlhag tue the inhabitants of our Western counties, home in the fifteenth and sixteenth cemusies by time set Ye,. England,
and the West ladies. 'file llawkls,s, Ii :,!.es, For-
teseues, Conrtenay s, Petro, Gilberts, Peri: e ',pi:ems, be- longed to distinguished families in Cornwall :and Devonshire. 'Fhe colonizing spirit is revived in their de,.......tdants t and the two advanced posts of maritime England heed the emig.rating en- terprise of 1840 This week our advertising Othl l■ min the prospectus of Mlle Plynmeth Company of New Zealu , , , established in strict connexion with the New Zealand Company of Losslon," and likely to prove a vigorous and flourishing offshoot. The plan of colonization is, of course. the Wakefield or Bondi A ustrnlian ; and, turning to the list of Directors, we feel assured of the knowledge and steadiness with which the principle will be maintained in the opera- tions of the Company. The Earl of Devon, head of the Courtenays, is Governor ; and among the Directors are the representatives of some of the first families in the West of England,— Buller, Eliot, Gil- bert, Lemon, St. Auhyn, Molesworth, Pendarves, and Vivian,—for her Majesty's Master-General of the Ordnance, albeit a man of war from his youth, will sanction and direct the peaceful pursuits of this useful association. Men of all political parties meet on common and friendly ground to push their fortunes as colonizers : as is well remarked in a little book which describes the constitution and plans of the Com- paq, " a field is now opened, in which, apart from the strife of political warfare, all parties may unite for a common object, and practically de- monstrate how close is the alliance between the agricultural and com- mercial interests of the country." Success to therm—Colonial Gazette.
" The Journal du Havre of the 15th instant announces the departure of a transport (the Comte de Paris) with a number of colonists, sent out to Australia by the French New Zealand Company. The expedition was to settle on the Banks Peninsula, on the Eastern coast of Ava Poenamoo, which has been purchased by the Company."— Times.
TavaI Poenamoo is the Southern Island of New Zealand. Our neighbours will be a day too Into for the fair. The whole Southern Island has probably been declared a British colony by this time ; and one of the expeditions, months ago despatched by the New Zealand Company, had an especial eye to Banks's Peninsula. The twelve hundred emigrants who have quitted England under the auspices of the New Zealand Company, have been taught to expect emigrants from France. These they would receive as friends and useful cape- raters in a private character as settlers ; but they would resist by all means (and they are not only well armed, but would be commanded by experienced officers) any attempt of the French to establish a na- tional footing.—Colonial Gazette.
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