The following indignant remonstrance has been presented to Earl Grey

by the Reverend Dr. Lang, of New South Wales, on his departure, this week, from England. The writer is well known as an eminent leader of the Scotch Presbyterians in the colony, and as an influential politician in secular matters of the Liberal school, not adverse to the Whig party. Ilia energy is attested by his active pursuit of public objects on behalf of his adopted country: he now leaves our shores for the seventh voyage to Aus- tralia; having circumnavigated the globe six times before, always in the colony's service. His Australian patriotism and Colonial nationality have been evinced in many compositions from his rough and ready pen; his talents and attainments have supported him in an arduous career; his natu • sal force of character has obtained him influence even where he has fallen to conciliate. We may smile at the deliberate intention which he imputes to a certain busy matron, of procuring Lord Grey and Lord Clarendon to send out young Irishwomen in order to promote "mixed marriages" in Australia and present Protestant fathers with a Roman Catholic progeny: that notion of so peculiar a plan de propaganda fide would probably not have occurred except to one who sees the matter from a stern Presby- terian point of view. But many Protestants in England as well as in Scotland will sympathize with Dr. Lang's complaint as to the partiality shown in favouring certain sects to the exclusion of others. Some of our readers will require this sketch of the writer for the right understanding of his epistle. We need only add that Dr. Lang is thoroughly informed on Australian affairs and the state of feeling in New South Wales.

TO THE EARL GREY, &C. &C. &C.

On board the ship Clifton, of Gravesend, 14th November 1849. My LORD.-4t is now nearly three years since I arrived in this country, as a representative of the people of New South Wales, for the furtherance of certain ob- jects of vast importance to my adopted country; and as I am now on the eve of my return to Australia, with but little prospect of ever setting foot again on English ground, I trust your Lordship will entree me for troubling you, previous to my de parturc, with the result of my experience and observation of the first three years of your Lordship's administration, as "Autocrat of all the Russia" of our Colonial empire.

I beg, therefore, to assure your Lordship, that I arrived in this country enter-

taining the highest hopes, as a British colonist, from your Lordship's accession to office—an event which I was simple enough to regard as one of the happiest omen for the Colonies: I am now returning to Australia with the bitterest disap- pointment and the deepest disgust, cherishing precisely the same feelings as the celebrated Dr. Benjamin Franklin did when be left England as a British subject for the last time.

My principal object in coming to England, towards the close of the year 1846,

was to give stich an impulse to emigration to Australia as would direct to that country many-families and individuals of virtuous character and industrious habits, who weed- not only contribute materially to develop its vast resources, but who wonkilianstnit the precious inheritance of our civil and religious liber- ties animpaii*Ibii posterity. in this object lam happy to say that I have sue- Ceeded- far fireatend-lny owe highest expectations, although I have experienced no- thing f1&ntth feettielpOillee butenervifity and obstruction. 1;tnuhilioVnieiltile' ,eviteagnr-te send-forth to Australia a number of minis- ters of rebate?* to maintain and to extend our common Protaestantism in the Southern heranOpheee. In this object I have also succeeded to a considerable ex- tent; having already sent out, in great measure at my own risk and charges, from-W.0e to eighteen Evangelical ministers, while I am carrying out with me in this versed not fewer than twenty-four young men as candidates for the minis-

of the highest character and the fairest promise. It occurred to me, in rowhiag the seceisaary arrangements for such an enterprise, that as your Lord- ship's subordinates of the Emigration Department were sending out Episcopalian moisten; and Romish priests at the public expense, the Berne indulgence might be extended ti snob ministers as I have referred to. But I regret to state that my application to this effect was most ungraciously refused by your Lordehip's Department... t -third eilljeet was to direct a stream of British emigration of a superior cha- racter to the bloreton fiay district of New South Wales, with a view to the cultiva- tion of cotton and other 1. ropical produce by means of European free labour. And as Moreton Bay is in latitude 24 South, a much lower latitude than any to which British emigration had previously been directed, and as coy avowed object in ori- ginating that emigration was one of transcendent importance not only to the British empire but to the interests of humanity, I appeal to your Lordship, whether it was not reasonable, in such an undertaking, to have anticipated the countenance and assistance of your Lordship's Department I regret,. however, to be obliged to acknowledge that I have not received the slightest assistance from the Colonial Office. On the contrary, when I had succeeded, notwithstanding every petty annoyance that incapacity in office could suggest, in sending out the Scat ship toed, consisting of about two hundred and fifty emigrants, of the cha- racter and description I have mentioned above, to that remote locality, instruc- tions were actually forwarded to Australia from the Colonial Office, to prevent the local Government from affording to those emigrants any such assistance as was indispensably necessary for the carrying out of the great undertakieg in which they were engaged-1 mean the attempt to cultivate by means of British free labour in Australia the peculiar productions of the West Indies and the Slave States of North America. My Lord, I will not trust myself to characterize such a pro- ceeding, and will leave it to your Lordship to do so. Notwithstanding these discouragements and obstructions, however, I have suc- ceeded in deepetching not fewer than three ships, containing near six hundred emigrants, to Moreton Bay. And in proof of the correctness of my anticipation in regard to the practicability of cultivating Tropical productions by means of British free labour in that locality, I beg to refer to the following extract of a letter which has just been received from one of these emigrants—a practical farmer from Clithero in Lancashire; and to add, that a company for the cultiva- tion of the sugar-cane and the manufacture of sugar is now in process of forma- tion at Moreton Bay, under the superintendence of an experienced planter from Jamaica, whom I bent out for this express purpose by the second of the three vessels.

"Boyle Farm, Brisbane, Moreton Bay, 9th April 1849. "All that Dr. Lang has said about the geniality of the climate and the fertility of the soil is perfectly true: there is no duubt but the cotton-plant will grow amazingly. There are no; two opinions on this subject ; and as soon as the requisite machinery can be got for dressing it, there is no doubt that it will be entered into with spirit." (Slgued) "WILLIAM BOLCOM."

In reviewing the intercourse I have thus had with your Lordship's Depart- ment for the last three years, I cannot but express the extreme regret, not un- mingled with indignation, which I cannot but feel as a British colonist, when I reflect that I have myself experienced much more courtesy and attention, merely as a British traveller, from the President of the United States of America, in his marble palace at Washington, than I have done, as a representative of the people of New South Wales, from the paltriest underlings of your Lordship's Department. Like the mutes in the Sultans palace at Constantinople, these fa- miliars of your Lordship regularly strangle honest men, and every honest mea- sure connected with the Colonies, in the dark recesses of their political Inquisition; and the people of England never hear of the matter, any more than the Turks used to do uf those hapless victims whose bodies were thrown at midnight into the waters of the Bosphorus.

In singular contrast with the heavy blow and great discouragement which emi- gration of a superior character to Moreton Bay has thus experienced from your Lordship's Department, is the officious encouragement and assistance afforded by that department from Colonial funds for Irish female emigration. In the Re- port of the Commissioners for administering the laws for the Relief of the Poor in Ireland, addressed to his Excellency the Earl of Clarendon, of elate July 14th 1849, I find the following announcement- " We have to report with satisfaction the steady progress of the emigration of orphan girls from the Irish workhouses to the Australian Colonies, whirls we undertook in pursuance of your Excellency's command, and which we first comuienced in the spring of 1848. Slime that time, the number of these emigrants shipped from Plymouth for Sydney and Adelaide has been 2,219, at a cost to the unions of about 51. per head for outfit and conveyance to Plymouth ; the remaining cost being defrayed from the Colo- nial funds."

Now, my Lord, from the origin and character of the influence which was noto- riously brought to bear upon your Lordship and his Excellency the Lord-Lieute- nant of Ireland in furtherance of this measure of Irish female emigration, no in- telligent person, at all acquainted either with the parties who originated that mea- ltime or with the Australian Colonies, can doubt for a moment that the real object of those parties at whose instance your Lordship was induced to sanction the measure in question was simply to supply Roman Catholic wives for the English and Scotch Protestants of the humbler classes in Australia, and thereby to Romanize the Australian Colonies through the artful and thoroughly jesuitical device of mixed marriages. Your Lordship has thus been transforming your Department, as far as Irish female emigration is concerned, into a mere Runtish propaganda. And what right, I ask, my Lord, had your Lordship to mi-appropriate toe funds of the Australian Colonies—funds derived almost exclusively from the capital and enter- prise of English and Scotch Protestants—for any such purposes or in any such may? Was it because there were no "distressed needlewomen" in England to whom a free passage to Australia would have proved an invaluable boon? Was it because there were no virtuous unmarried females struggling with poverty in Scotland, that the funds contributed in such large measure by English and Scotch Protestants, should be appropriated in inundating their adopted country with Irish RNIMUMMI ? I admit that neither your Lordship nor his. Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland could possibly have had any design to unprotestant- iie the Australian Colonies. I sin well aware that in this whole matter your Lordship and the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland were merely the dupes of an artful female Jednit, the able but concealed agent of the Burnish priesthood in Australia, who bad thin adroitly managed to attach both of your Lordships—two Ministers of State—to her apron-suing. The cruel injustice, the enormous wrong which your Lordship has thus been inflicting upon the Protestant colonists of Australia, is the more inexcusable for the following reasons. The late Legislative Council of New South Wales, at the instance of a Select Committee of that body, of which I had the honour to be a member, had actually recommended to your Lordship, that in any future immigration into that colony at the public expense, there should, as nearly as possible, be an equal number of immigrants from each of the Three Kingdoms; and the same recommendation and request was also pressed upon your Lordship, in a series of petitions which Iliad the hOnCur to shbinit to your Lordship, on my arrival in this einintry, from variteteimiiertnnt districts of liew South Wales. Bat, in that spirit Of haughty and oontemptudus disregard both of the feelings and wishes of British colonists and Colonial Legislatures which seems to form a leading principle of your LordshipSadadnistration, these reehninendations and requests have been left unheeded, 'and steemee..diametri-

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Your Lordship's procedure in the matter of the ,lreeturtritaisefIlialfewienn• to New South Wales has been precisely similar' Witt character. predecessor, the Right Honourable W. E. Glad-Moire/1'nd' projented seittee,„,,P's Formed a new penal co!ony on the East tuatie 'sof Australia, to the Northward of New South Wales, in which it was proposed to carry out A improved system of convict discipline. Had this Tdfdicious measure, which your Lordship unceremoniously and without examinatioliet'aside on your acceesion to office, been pursued, your Lordship would have heel spared all the humiliatioe and annoyance which your Lordship's Department has reCently experieneetl tet, New Zealand, from the Cape of Good Hope, and from New South Wales. But your Lordship appears to be quite above both advice and warning in this matter; for your Lordship has not only determined to transform the peculiarly interesting and promising settlement of Moreton Bay into a penal settlement once more ;At has actually ordered more convicts to be sent tm.Sydney, in the face of the re_ peated remonstrances and protests of the Midenisis; My Lord, there are certain injuries and insults—especially those offered to communities—which, for the good of society, ought neither to be tolerated nor forgiven; and this, I conceive, is an injury and insult. of that particular kind. If your Lordship, therefore, should persevere in carrying out this measure, in direct opposition to the publicly expressed opinion of large bodies of the colonists of New South Wales in all parts of the temtory, the people of that colony will, in my humble opinion, be justified in resorting to measures of Self preservation which your Lordship will scarcely anticipate, but which will effectually insure the re. dress of all such grievances for the future. That measures of the kind I refer to have already suggested themselves, as matter of absolute necessity in the last resource, to men of the highest Rending and influence in the Australian Colonies, I beg to offer your Lordship the follow- ing proof. In the year 1814, when the late Governor of New South Wales at- tempted, under the notorious pretext of being the Queen's bailiff, and of having in that capacity the exclusive administration of the wade lands of the colony, to revive the policy of Charles the First, by imposing vexatious taxes upoa a large portion of the colonists without the consent of their representatives, certain of the principal squatters gave out, in my own bearing, that they would at all events stand to their right; and that even if her Majesty should send out ten thousand of her best troops to put them down, they had sheep nod cattle enough in the colony to buy them all off in a few weeks. For the co- lonists have not failed to discover, from the numerous desertions that arewotualkdintge place even at present, that the temptation of a comfortable settlement in the genial climate of New South Wales, as compared with the possible results of a campaign in India, the usual destination of British troops in Australia, greatly too strong for the virtue of a soldier. Now, my Lord, the sheep and cattle of the colony, in whichits wealth mainly consists, have more than doubled their number since the year 1844; and your Lordship is aware that the waste lands, of which the value is incalculable, will always be at the disposal of any Govern- met.t de facto, whatever may be the origin of that Government, and whatever form it may assume. And does your Lordship suppose that men of British spirit, with such means of redress at their hands, will suffer themselves to be treated any longer like mere children in a nursery, by any Peer in her Majesty's realm? Does your Lordship suppose that there are not men of higher mark in Australia than the Irish incapables of Dublin and Ballingarry? For three years past your Lordship has been promising a-constitution for the Australian Colonies; but if that constitution should not be something very dif- ferent from the miserable apology for a constitution which your Lordship's subal- tern, Mtiziawes, presented to the House of COMMODB during last sesaiou of Par- liament and subsequently withdrew, I will venture to predict that the colonists will endorse and return it with the well-known post. officemarks "Too late" and "More to pay." Very moderate concessions would, have satisfied the colouists three years ago; but such concessions will not satisfy them DOW. To use a vulgar but expressive phrase, which I trust your Lordship will excuse, they will now "go for the whole hog," or for nothing at all. For the three years of gross misgovernmentwhich your Lordship has permitted to subsist throughout the Colonies—misgovernment which it was fully in your Lordship's power, and which it was your Lordehip's first duty, in accordance with your town previous professions, to have rectified—your Lordship, in my humble opinion, deserves both dismissal and impeachment; and if the Government of this great nation were only in such able and vigorous hands as the extreme urgency of the times demands, both of these measures of justice would be dealt out to your Lotus-nip without fail and without hesitation. As far as regards the Australian Colonies, your Lordship has for three years past been knocking at the gate of futurity for the President of the United States of Australia: e assured, my Lord, be is getting ready, and will shortly be out; and he will astonish the world with the manliness of his port and the dignity of his demeanour. As in duty bound, he will make a profound obeisance to your Lord- ship in the first instance, in grateful acknowledgment of the concern which your Lordship has had in his paternity: he will then take his place in the great family of nations, with a proud consciousness of the brilliaut career upon which his country has entered when delivered at length from the baleful domination of Downing Street. He will require no soldiers to enable him to keep his seat, like Louis Napoleon; he will have no foul blot of slavery to defile his national escutcheon, like Zachary Taylor. I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's very humble and, most

obedient servant, (Signed) Joule Dunnitoem LAsio,