On the evening of the 15th instant, a considerable number
of the in- habitants of Glasgow assembled in Dr. Wardle w's Chapel. and passed resolutions promising support to the Aborigines Protection Society ; entreating the British Government to interfere with the American and Spanish Governments in behalf of the Africans in the schooner Amistad, brought into the United States, and claimed as Spanish subjects ; and praying that the recognition of Texas as an independent state may be refused.
A meeting was held in Glasgow on Friday, to hear Dr. Thomas Rolph and the Bishop of Kingston, both from Upper Canada, discourse on the advantages of emigrating to that province. The Bishop was unable to attend, in consequence of indisposition ; but Dr. Rolph harangued the meeting at length. He dwelt upon the prevailing ig- norance of the actual state of the Canadas in the Mother-country ; and the advantageous field they afforded for British capital and indus- try. He recommended colonization from England as the surest means of preventing their absorption into the American Union. He abused the Americans, and Mackenzie, the fit correspondent of Mr. Hume. Lord Durham, Mr. Poulett Thomson, Mr. Leader, and Mr. Roebuck, came in for a share of his displeasure ; and in short, Dr. Rolph talked in the strain of a Family Compact man. Practical suggestions as to the best mode of colonizing the Canadas, he had none to make ; and e are sere that the " bankers, merchants, manufacturers, and ship- owners," whom the Lord Provost of Gleeeow courteously convened to hear the Doctor, departed with little edification.
The Glasgow Argus of Thursday contains a copious report of the speeches and proceedings at a (limier given at Glasgow on Tuesday, in the Trades Hall, by the West of Scotland Committee of the New Zea- land Land Company, to celebrate the departure of the first Scottish• colony from the Clyde to New Zealand, Lord Provost Dunlop was in the chair ; and among the company, which was composed of about 150 gentlemen of all polities, were Mr. Sheriff Alison, Mr. Wallace, M.P., Professor Nicoll, and several clergymen and Magistrates of Glasgow and the neighbourhood. The speeches were excellent in matter and
spirit—especially those delivered by the Reverend Dr. Mdeeod, Sheriff Alison, and Professor Nicoll ; the last of whom gave a luminous ex- planation of Mr. Wakefield's " Grand economical conception in .refer- mice to colonization," in proposing as a toast, " The author of the Wakefield system of .enigration, and success to South Australia and the
neighbouring Colonic." Mr. Thornton Leigh Hunt proposed the health of Mr. Ward, M.P., "who, as Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of 1836, had commenced that series of investigations which had been continued by Lord Durham and Sir William 3.1olesworth."
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