NATIONAL COLONIZATION SOCIETY.—A meeting of this Society took place on
Wednesday ; Mr. Wilmot Horton presiding. The ho-
nourable gentleman on taking the chair, disclaimed all connexion with the peculiar views Of the gentlemen who originally:proposed the scheme of the Society and the meeting. (A disclaimer which, by the by, indi- cated no great tact on the part of those who placed him there. They ought at least to have had a Chairman of their own mind.) Mr. Horton then went into sonic calculations to show the practicability of the plan of parochial emigration, and mentioned a case where it had actually been carried to a certain degree into effect. The case was that of the parish
of Bennington in Kent. "Iii 1825, the expense of maintaining the poor ill that parish was 2,975/. ; in 1826 it amounted to 2,962/. In 1827, 53 individuals were removed to the United States, at an expense of 5341.; whirls sum was borrowed at 4 per cent. In that year there was spent for the relief of the poor 2,2151., and 85/. was paid by instalments on ac- count of the loan, making a total of 2,300/. In 1828, 87 persons emi. grated at an expense of 621/. The instalments in part payment of the loans amounted in that year to 2121., and the expenditure for the main- tenance of the poor to 2,285!.; total, 2,497/. In 1829, no emigration took place. There was paid that year, on account of the loans, 317!.; and for the support of the poor 2,0081.; making a grosaamount of 2,3254 In the year ending Lady-day 1830, there was a small emigration, which was effected at an expense of 40/. The instalments this year amounted to 2511., and the sum expended in relief to 1,9331.; total, 2,184/. Thus the rates had been reduced its four years from 2,962/. to 2,1841.; of which sum 251/. was paid in part discharge of the principal and interest of the loans. 1,197/. had been borrowed, and 866/. paid on account of principal and interest so lent. In 1825 and 1826, there were from 70 to 00 able-bodied labourers on the parish from want of employment. Since the latter period 56 labourers had emigrated with their families • and now there was rarely a surplus of labourers." The individuals al- luded to were sent to the United States.
The resolutions were severally put and carried without much oppo- sition, the Chairman having deprecated discussion. On Mr. Butt's moving the third resolution, he entered into an account of the new the ,ry of emigration, which was first developed in our pages. He was followed by Mr. Sterling, and he also gave his decided support to the plan. Both of these gentlemen were interrupted by the Chairman, who was extremely anxious in no way to mix himself up with the plan proinul. gated as the manifesto of the Society. On Mr. Horton's name being placed on the Committee, he again declared, that if the Committee were considered to be bound by the plan, he could not act with it. Colonel Torrens, Mr. O'Brien, and several others spoke ; and it was agreed, after a lengthened conversation, that the Committee should not be considered bound to adopt the scheme laid down in the pamphlet; and Mr. W. Horton and the other gentlemen who had before objected to belong to the Society, allowed their names to be placed on the Com- mittee.
This seems rather a whimsical termination of a meeting called to ap- prove of a certain plan with a view to its general adoption. The Corn. mittee appointed on 'Wednesday is evidently not a Committee of the National Colonization Society, but a Committee for arranging a plan of emigration ; amid in all probability, its plan, when arranged, will be wholly different from that of the persons who were most active in forming it. The meeting, which was meant to found the National Society, has ended, for the time, by putting an extinguisher on it !
EreING Foars.r.—The resident gentlemen and commoners have re- cently resolved to resist the more extended enclosure of the Forest. A liberal subscription has been entered into to defray the expenses of legal proceedings. • - RELIEF FROM MAD DOGS AT Lasr.—The parish officers of S. Leonard's, Shoreditch, intend to refuse parochial relief to paupers who ; keep dogs.
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