The British and Foreign Aborigines Protection Society. — This is the
title of a new association, under the Presidency of Mr. BUXTON, the late M.P. for Weymouth, formed last spring by Dr. HonoxiNs. the very able physician, and a few other indivi- duals more or less acquainted with the actual condition of the coloured natives of a colony, and all zealous to improve it. The Society's labours have not been very influential. But its first publication, now before us, will be useful. This is a republica- tion of the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons of 1b35-6 on our Colonial Aborigines. The Report was commented on in the Spectator of the 19th of September ; and the Protection Society takes some views of it similar to our own. For example, the Committee of the House of Commons promulgated, for the first time these three hundred years, the strange doctrine that civilized nations should not make treaties with uncivilized tribes. The Society points out the absurdity of this, as we had done, and aptly shows that the Committee is inconsistent with itself on this point. This is not the only objection made to the Report, although the comments are expressed in an extremely moderate tone. In strongly recommending the Society to continue such useful publications, (which none but Societies can afford to print), we would suggest an early correction of an error in the preface; which accuses the Spaniards, and absolves the English, of hypocrisy in regard to Coloured people. It is exceedingly to be feared that this country is very far from being in arrear on that score.
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