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Thr A)pectatot

OCTOBER 29, 1831

NEW COLONY IN AUSTRALIA.—In the absence of Parliamentary business, we have thought that we could not do better than devote a portion of our pages to the consideration of this subject, which is of so much interest to so many individuals and to the nation at large.- We have, treated it copiously and minutely— in fact voluminously, for we • wish to com- priSe in one view, all the obtainable informa- tion, necessary to guide the reader to a sound opinion, and possibly to a practical decision of considerable importance to. himself.. This is one of the advantages of a large paper, and we think tho properest use to which on a suitable occasion, ample space can he applied.