Anybody want a kingdom all for himself, twice as big
as the Isle of Wight, with hills as high as Skiddaw, timber, fresh-water streams, beautiful climate, varying only from 38 deg. to 78 deg., and a soil that will grow anything ? The Telegraph of Friday says there is such a kingdom to let, to be had of the British Government for a moderate rent. It is the island of Auckland, 180 miles south of New Zealand, with no natives, and belonging to the Colonial Office, which some years ago leased it to Messrs. Enderby, who leased it again to a Company. The latter failed to pay the rent, and Government accordingly took possession again. No farther assignment has been made, and if anybody wants to be a sort of king, and can get forty or fifty labourers together, Lord Granville will, we doubt not, make him Lessee, Governor, and Parliament all together. He ought to be rich enough to keep a steam yacht though, or he will be rather more secluded than if he kept a pike. If adventure is not wholly dead among us, that island will be taken up this year.
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