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Colonist, Issue II, 8 December 1857, Page 1

the sole claim will be that of the grass right guaranteed to the squatter for ever at a just valuation, until the land be required by a direct purchaser: The results will be an inducement to the squatter to improve his run and promote agriculture, it willbcs to his interest to populate his estate; he will purchase' as much of it as he can, and sit down securely in his homestead, and spend his gains as he makes them. There" will be an immediate influx of money into the Colonial Treasury—our debts may be' met and public works undertaken; alltend^ ing-to increase commerce. Many land purchases will be made as improvements proceed, which will feed the public purse,, nor will alienating the niere grass rights of the land be depriving the country of its capital, for all purchased lands will be subject to taxation, in proportion with other property in the colony, and all shall be open to purchase. It is considered that with this perpetual right to the grass, such confidence will be established that in a few years many of the runs may be made to double their carrying capacity, and four sheep fed where two only are fed now—a great gain to the country, for in the multiplication of stock our strength lies. It is every way advantageous both as export and food; If we compare the foregoing plan and it 3 results with the old system of granting large tracts to individuals, or the wild uncertainty with which the property of the country is lying almost waste—-what advantages it offers! Why, it would, more advantage the country to make a free gift to. the present occupants of the fee simple of their splendid domains on chance, subjecting them to direct taxation, than to let them remain in their present stagnant state," the whole country being nothing less thaii a loosely-kept sheep-walk, without a vestige of advancement; and so it will remain until security be offered for investment.-^ Communicated. The Requirements of Canada, tCanada can absorb in the present year art* immigration of 75,000 souls. The towns require a large number of artizans, and we presume that the committee of the Wellington Emigration Fund are now enabled to provide the means of emigration for 800 persons of this class. There is no reason whatever to suppose that either the Government of this country or of Canada will come forward to give any such assistance as will tend to give an undue impulse to emigration. Paupers and the clearings of work* houses are not the persons who would be welcomed in Canada any more than they; are at home, and the local authorities, should they be disposed to assist persons who are a burden to their union to emigrate to Canada, should remember that Canada is 'the land of hope' only for those who can carry to its shores either capital or free and willing labour. The cause of emigration, would receive a great blow and heavy dis-> couragementif a system of deportation of paupers, similar to that carried on some time since by the Emigration Commissioners to South Australia, were to be commenced with respect to Canada. We do not apprehend that any indiscriminate emigration of this kind will take place, nor are there sufficient grounds for supposing that during the present year the number of emigrants will be larger than can be readily disposed of in the North American possessions.— Canadian News. Poisoning by. Strychnine.—Speaking of the value of Professor Taylor's evidence, in the trial of Palmer, the London Herald says:—lt will be-in the recollectionof ouf readers that on the trial, of William Palmer, Professor Taylor gave it as his opinion that strychnine could not, after a certain interval^ be found. This very appalling announcement was contradicted by other chemists, o( whom Messrs. Herapath and Letheby were two, and it has since been submitted to a careful inquiry by two gentlemen—one of them Mr. J. E. D. Rodgers, well known, as a lecturer on chemistry at St. George's School of Medicine, and the other, Mr. G. P. Girdwood,; assistant surgeon in the Grenadier Guards. The experiments made by these gentlemen were extended in number and variety ; and at considerable intervals after death—much greater intervals than elapsed in the case of Cook—• they found that by their analysis, strychnine was yielded, in very remarkable quantities* In the case of a rabbit only one sixth of a grain had been given to the creature, and the poison was found in the stomach, the flesh and the bones; and in three hours the poison became fixed and recoverable by chemical process. In the case of a dog the same result was found; other experiments were made upon several animals with the same success. The conclusions, therefore, to which Messrs. Girdwood and Rodgers have come are exceedingly important in jurisprudence, an 4 they are to this effect;~"l* That the opinion that strychnine can only be detected when the poison is in excess is untenable, and unsupported by trustworthy analysis. 2. That the opinion that strychnine is decomposed in the process of the destruction of life is founded on the rusultsi of analysis by imperfect processes, and hence is unsound and unphilosophical. 3* That strychnine can always be detected* when it has occasioned death, in the blood* organs, and tissues of the body, quite independently of the contents of the stomach* 4. That it is found unchanged in the urine* 5. That the delicacy of the reactions of strychnine, and its extrodinary stable qualities, render its detection more certain than any other poison." What would not Mr. Serjeant Shee nave given, on the trial of Palmer, for the result of Messrs. Rodgers' and Girdwood's experiments ? How much more sa-* tisfied the public mind would have been, if the exact poison by which the guilty parties perpetrated the crime had been fully and exactly discovered*, Subject fob a Debating Cwa.^*lf a man had & grizzly bear by the tail, would it be policy ta hold fast; or let go? 1 " Why did Adam' bite the apple ?" asked a country' schoolmaster of one of his scholars. " Because he ha* 'no kuife/ 1 said the boy.-