A Hundred Years Ago
Some weeks ago, we laid before our readers the heads of a proposal which had boon submitted to the Government for founding a Colony on the Southern Coast of Australia. As wo foretold would be the case, the proposal has been adopted ; only two modifications of it being required by the Government—first, that the male adult population shall be 10,000 instead of 5,000 as was proposed, before a Legislative Assembly for governing the Colony be called - and, secondly, that the Governer shall be appointed by the Crown instead of by the Chartered Company which is to lay the foundation of the Colony—though, as in the ease' of the Governor-General of India, ho will be paid by, and will be tho servant of, the Company. With these not very important alterations, the plan put before the Government has been approved ; and is to have effect by means of a royal charter, which is to incor- porate the Company, to bestow on it temporary powers Of ever:I- ntent, and to fix certain principles of government and colonization, which, if the project 'should succeed, will form the constitution or great charter of a future empire.
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