EMIGRATION TO NEW SOUTH WALES.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 27, 1 November 1842, Page 4

EMIGRATION TO NEW SOUTH WALES.

Two returns of some interest, as relating to the colony of New South Wales, have recently been published by order of the House of Commons. The first return shows that, of 118,592 emigrants from the United Kingdom during the past year, no fewer than 27,386 departed for that colony. Of this number, 22,752 were enabled to emigrate by means of bounties payable in New South Wales ; and, according to this statement, 4,634 defrayed their passage from other sources. Great as this tardy influx of people undoubtedly was (and to its tardiness most of the late colonial embarrassments are attributable,) there is reason to believe the colony could even now employ, with advantage to itself and the labourer, an equally large addition to its population, should it take place in the present year. By the second return it appears that of 56,000,0001b5. weight of sheep and lambs’ wool imported into the United Kingdom in 1841, 8,000,000 lbs. was the produce of New South Wales. The aggregate quantity imported into this country from the whole of the Australian settlements was 12,399,090 lbs. With a population probably not exceeding 200,000, those colonies appear to have received British woollen manufactured goods valued at 91,851/.; and by the account of exports, whence this statement is taken, the entire amount of similar exports from the United Kingdom, to all parts of the world, did not exceed a declared value of 5,748,673/. —Hobart Town Courier.

The National Debt. —This incubus upon the industry of the whole country amounts to the prodigious sum of 840 millions of money. The interest paid annually amounts to about 29 millions of pounds ; the management is entrusted to the Bank of England, for which 130,000/. is paid. It would take the immense amount of 7,000 tons of sovereigns to liquidate this monster debt. These would take one person forty-three years in counting, supposing he worked ten hours each day. They would make a footpath of gold one yard wide from London to Manchester. Dated from the time of Adam till now it amounts to five shillings a minute. It would take two-and-a-half times the whole of the refined gold in the world to wash off this national stain. Fifty years ago, the interest of the debt was nine millions, twenty less than at present. This debt at present is five times as large as the debts combined-of Russia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Prussia, Austria, Bavaria, Wirtemburg, Saxony, and Hanover. It is four times as large as that of France, and seven times as large as that of Holland. If all the people in the known world were to pay one penny annually, it would require sixty years to clear it. There are 284,000 proprietors of this Herculean monster,

,called fundholders. What a large blooming [picture for contemplation. —Colonial Observer. j Execution of a Native Black at Port Phillip for Murder, —On Monday, sth September, a little after the appointed time, eight o’clock, a. m. ; Roger, the aborigine* convicted at the last sittings of the Criminal Court,, of the ! murder of Mr.. Codd, at Portland, about two years since,, suffered the extreme penalty of the law near the new gaol, amidst a large concourse of spectators, amongst whom, we are sorry to say, were several females. Although the culprit, since the passing of sentence, was fully aware of his awful situation, and did not entertain the least hope of mercy; yet he had no notion whatever of a futurity, or of rewards and; punishments in another world, beyond the indistinct impressions universal amongst all savages, that they will exist somewhere, and under some different character. Mr., Robinson, the Chief Protector, was extremely attentive, even to the last; but his efforts to instil into his mind the truths and consolation of religion, Iwere altogether fruitless, and no clergyman haviing interfered, the wretched man died, as he [had lived, with the bedief that, after death, he [would rise “a. white fellow.” During the jmorning of the execution, he repeatedly denied the crime for which he was about to suffer, charging the murder, as hitherto, upon others, and asserting that Mr. Codd had been guilty of serious offences against his tribe. Upon the road to the gallows, however, constable Waller said to him, “ plenty sulky this morning,” to which he replied—“ not sulky, but very sorry for killing Mr. Codd.” During his passage from the gaol to the place of execution he appeared perfectly composed, gazing around on every side, and turning quick towards any bustle which might be amongst the crowd pressing to obtain a sight of him. Upon arrival, his arms were pinioned, and he mounted the ladder with a firm step; but the sheriff not having arrived, he was again brought down, and for about ten minutes kept in what must have been an awful state of suspense. The sheriff having appeared, he re-ascended, and, but a short time having been occupied in adjusting the rope, was launched into eternity.— Colonial Observer.

The report, on the arrival of the Apolline , of the appointment of the young Lord Glentworth to succeed Sir John Franklin in his administration of this Government, was generally current, but we cannot trace it to a sufficient foundation (over and above one English newspaper, not of first-rate authority) to justify our retailing it as even a probable occurrence to our readers. A Birmingham artizan has manufactured, as a present to the infant Prince of Wales, a pair of silver guns, perfect in all their parts, whose weight is only an ounce and a half and a fourpenny piece. This is an early effort to teach the young idea hoio to shoot in the royal scion. A schoolmaster, describing a money-lender, says, “ He serves you in the present tense, he lends you in the conditional mood, keeps you on the subjunctive, and ruins you in the future.