19 FEBRUARY 1831, Page 9

The letters from Lord Howicies correspondent P , of which

two (No. VII. and No. VIII.) appear ill another part of this paper, acquire additional interest through the attention which

his Majesty's Government is bestowing on the subject of which they treat. Lord HOWICK has given notice, for Tuesday next, of his intention to bring forward a measure of Colonization in the House of Commons ; when we shall see whether there be any truth in the common charge against Parliament,—that it is indif- ferent to the happiness of that numerous class which may be called the great body of the people. Lord Ilowicx's proposal will, we have reason to believe, involve a plan of Systematic Emi- gration,—of emigration, however, we trust, not to be forced by the interested will of parish overseers ; but perfectly voluntary on the part of the emigrants, with whom there should be no species of interference on the part of Government, except in so far as the Government would provide a passage, free of cost, to such persons as might be desirous to emigrate. The grand point is to obtain a fund for emigration, without giving to any individual landlord, rate-payer, or overseer, any control in the conduct of emigration. Such a fund, we have often said, may be derived-from the colo- nies. Upon this point, the letters of P--to Lord Howicx, as well as the following extract from the Morning Chronicle of yes- terday, throw important light.

"Lord Howick will, on Tuesday next, ask for leave to bring in a hill for facilitating settlements in his Majesty's foreign possessions.' We are informed that, under this humble title,, a measure of great importance . will be proposed. Why the word Emigration' was excluded from Lord Howick's notice of motion, it is, perhaps, easy to divine; considering how unpopular that word has been made with the public. The fact, however, is, if we are not mistaken, that the Government look to systematic colo nization, of which emigration is only one ingredient, as a powerful means of improving the condition and removing the discontent of the agricul- tural population. We have before noticed the excellent regulations for the disposal of waste land which Lord Howick has bestowed upon New South Wales ; and we trust that his Lordship may, on Tuesday, intimate that Government proposes to extend those regulations to the Cape of Good Hope and the Canadas. ". The American Government obtains every year, by the sale of new land, above 1,500,000 dollars but this large sum does not include the proceeds of sales of land by the separate States, each of which has an exclusive property in all the waste land within the State. We have heard the whole amount of sales of new land in the United States estimated at a million and a half sterling. How useful would such a fund be to this country for the purposes of emigration ! "It is satisfactory to us to be able to remind our readers, that the uni- versal sale of waste land at a fixed minimum price, together with the em- ployment of the fund so obtained in conducting emigration, and thereby constantly increasing the emigration fund, was originally suggested in this journal, in a series of letters, which were afterwards published by Mr. Robert Gouger, under the title of ` A Letter from Sydney.'"