27 MARCH 1841, Page 13

GERMAN AND BRAZILIAN COLONIZERS.

THE science of colonization advances. We have observed symptoms of that advance in two very opposite quarters of the world, Ger- many and Brazil. Germany, the change of whose social condition since the days of TACITUS and its primeval forests, is sometimes overlooked, is puzzlesl how to dispose of a redundant population; and the activity in that field of enterprise which has been exerted of late years in England has attracted her attention. An article in a journal of European circulation, the Allgemeine Zeilung, which has been sent to us as one of many that have appeared in the German papers, indicates a very advanced stage of opinion. It comprises a review of the state of colonization from England, and of the several projects which have been set on foot in Australia and New Zealand ; evincing a very familiar acquaintance with a rather complicated Subject. It also refers to the other movement to which we have alluded, in Brazil. The exertions of a denizen of that remote empire have turned the public attention in Rio Janeiro to the expediency of colonizing the country on scientific principles, ac- cording to the Wakefield system. With an intelligence and a readi- ness seldom found in older and more advanced countries, the lead- ing men of Brazil at once reeopized the superiority of free colo- nization over slavery ; the impediments which England has thrown in the way of the slave-trade having quickened their apprehension. A project of law is before the Brazilian Legislature for disposing of wild lands at a price, the proceeds to be devoted to emigration from Europe ; a circular has been addressed to the Ambassadors and Consuls in Europe, to encourage emigration of labourers and artisans to Brazil ; and several slaves employed in the public de- partments have already been discharged. To Germany, whence a disposition to migrate to South America has already manifested itself, the endeavours of the Brazilians for attracting emigrants have been especially directed ; and, to judge by the article in the Allge meine Zeitung, the Germans are disposed to respond to the call, and to join the large numbers of their nation already settled in Brazil. They only require guarantees that their political rights shall be preserved to them- " Only large and if possible compact masses of German emigrants can maintain themselves in Brazil, without falling hack into barbarism, and assi- milating themselves to the half-savage horde of Negroes, Indians, and Mesti- zoes, which exist in some parts of the interior. They must have extensive municipal rights, and the most perfect guarantees of their rights and their property. The difficulties which they will find there on the part of nature and of man will be fully large enough by themselves, but they earl be con- quered if those guarantees are given ; and until such guarantees are given in a satisfactory manner, we shall advise every one of our countrymen to avoid Brazil, and to emigrate either to North America or to South Australia, where they will find a more moderate climate and civilized communities."