At this dull season of politics, the following extract from
the Paris journal L'Oulrenter, which we reprint verbatim et literatiin, with all its mistakes, from the Ni"gueialeut of the 1st instant, may entertain some of our readers.
" Bientot les membres site comite zelandais it Londres curent connaissance de cctc prdcieuse ressource industrielle et des merreilles creait. Cctte connaissance !tato ses efforts et les stsect.s de l'clatreprise. L'Angleterre, on he sait, achete pour plus the cent millions de francs de chauvre, de liu et de tuiles A la Bessie et it d'antres tants ; aussi c'etait un beau butte it commenter que de pouvoir lui dire, It elk?, nation maritime et industrielle : ' Nous allons vous affranchir d'un commerce ondreus, vous etwichir d'une industrie nouvelle. Dane peu la colonic naissante suffira par les produits naturels de son eol aux besoins de votre marine royale et marehande. " La population tintmci..re comprit ces avantages: des sommes considerables furent souscrites aussitot que demandecs ; et cot elan national dont les resultats soot incalculable*, justitiera eette phrase Won discours de sir Georges Sinclair an parlenient : • La NouvelleZelande sera bie nag plus utile it l'Angietow pie tie be fount jamais les Aineriques fEspagne.' " Dans les premiers mois de WO, le plan de he colonization, retarde dans son execution par l'absence de lord Durham et de M. Gibbord Wakefield, tons deux an Canada, reprit it. lour retour tot mtouvel essor. I.e conalt6 fttt diginitivement constitut"!; lee terres, dont la complmie dolt prendre possession, fluent Daises en vent au prix the 25 fr. l'arpent. En moins (Yon mois, plus de cent mille arpent furent venang, et dela ks emplaceinens tat dolt .^..tre fond6e la ville, chef-lieu the l'etabliement, se caent it sine priwo tflevdc.An nsois de mai thornier, dews batinions, le Tm.ry et k eignt, ont voile pour la NouvelleZelande, sous les (mires du colonel Walkelield. Nait i. fils Won des principaux chefs de Pile, jeune holotne the vin,gt-cinq tins, depois mois en Angleterre, a eV: choisi pour aecompa,,,mer (vile exp.:lit-ion console sun agent et son interinediaire. Ce jeune iumesthutiro, d'une intelligelwe et inane capacite remarquables, a repetd maintes fois que se fri:rcs appelaient la civilisation de toils leurs vomx.
" Les commissaires (lime accompagnent eette ext:6.1irkl5 doivent, it icor arAvec, s'occuper tie Cont mire unit eglise, founder one jeole pour 1-education des enfans indigines et des colons, line on ltApitah, une banque, et diverses institutione litti.raircs et phila!,1 piques. Stir le s nav keit sont embarpids, en profusion, des machines a ,.r, aes mottling, deg outdo pour tons les metiers, des instrumens aratoires. des (lions et des urines de toute espike, surtout cit semenees et des gritines do toutes ies productions d'agrieulture et d'hortieulture europtlennes. " All MOIS de septeml■re, eing mare.: navires, rare, le.Dae de et he ..liqn.korid du Bengtde, out fitit voile stir les traces de leurs devaneiers, et sw. ces Icitimens se soot embarques des fils de pairs d'An,gleterre, des membres de la chambre des cc !ampules, des eitoyens recommandables par leur fortune et hair position snciale, conjointement avec des artisans, des laboureurs, et minim un corps the montaguards ecossais, dons he costume pittoresque du clan du due sic Sutherland, Anglia ils appartiennent. Deja he total des colons embarques &passe trois milk, et (Pant res expeditions se preparent encore, quo suivront edit que seduit l'exansple. L'elan est donne ; le succts de Pentreprise est assure. " Dane quelques mole, ces navires vont revenir charges tie taus lea riches et spontanes produits de la Nouvelle-Mande, de fer, de metaux precieux, de bois, de gommes et resines, the hiss surtout. Dans ectte 'passe do retours, qui
Wawa coAte quo les frais de r6colte et d'embarquement, Pindustrie et lo commerce de la metropole trouverunt un ample et productif aliment.
" Ces beaux r6sultats, c'est une compagnie particuliere qui les a conquis • c'est nue entreprise privee qui s'est crue assez forte pour essayer cette mare]; Ludic. Le gouvernement anglais Pa jug& telle, et lord Melbourne, Belidté d'accorder la colonisation un appui officiel a justement r6pondu : ' L'Amerique et la France s'y opposeraient, mais la Nouvelle-Wanda est an champ ouverte it tons.'
" Voila le fluor= Tie l'Ammgleterre maritime et commerciale vient d'ejouter A sa eouronne ; viola le fruit • de cot esprit national dont les Anglais sont si fiers. Mais, anus l'avons ikjd dit, la place West pas prise entierement ; et la France, quoique devanceat, la France laquelle faisait allusion le premier ministre angle's, n'a cin'a vouher pour se crtamr ausi an kablissement &in d'avenir et digne d'elle.
The following extracts from French papers and the Paris correspondent of the Standard also bear testimonyto the interest and importance attached in France to the colonization of New Zealand.
NEW ZEALAND.—The steps recently taken by the British Government towards the colonization appear to awaken the attention of our Paris contemporaries to the importance of a settlement in that quarter. Several of them
this morning contain observations on the subject—" If we are rightly informed," says the Journal the Commerce, in reference to the colonization of New Zealand, " a resolution had been come to by the Ministry, that the independence of that country should be acknowledged, and thus that it should be wrested
from the sovereignty claimed over it by England, when certain well-known speculators, proposing some projects of colonization, demanded the interpo sition of Government to insure to themselves the monopoly of the colonization. According to them, it is no longer a question of recognizing the independence of New Zealand; and all that is wanted is to take possession and make a settlement. If the occupation of the Northern island is impossible, they will conquer the Southern. These new pretensions, whatever epithet mrt be attached to them, have not failed to embarrass our Government, which is completely at a loss what decision to come to. The armed store-ship the Aube, Captain Lavaux, which ought to have been long ago at sea, with orders to oppose by force of arms, it necessary, the proceedings of Captain Hobson authorized by the English Cabinet to take possession, is still waiting for instructions, which probably will not be given until they will no longer beexecutable." The Autional confirms the statement of the Cimanerce ; and adds, that as soon as the willingness of the Government to do something towards the colonization of this country was known, such crowds of speculators beset the ,Alinisterial bureaux, each demanding preference and privileges, that, to get rid of their importunities, it has been decided to postpone doine any thing an the matter. The Presse asserts that the recognition of New Zealand is decided on by the Cabinet ; and adds, that a difficidty still exists to whom the Consul that would be sent thither is to be accredited—whether to Baron Thierry, under the title of Charles the First, or to the celebrated native chief Pomare. "We must confess," adds our contemporay," that we do not understand the perplexity of the Ministry. The Cabinet cannot but know that for several years past an English Political Agent, sent to the Confederation of Native Chiefs, has heen established in the 3.3.ty of Islands, and has planted the British flag on a mound near his residence. 'Why should not France do now what England has already done?" The American Government, with its accustomed. perspicacity, whenever a prospect of commercial advantage presents itself, appears also on the alert. The Journal de Paris says, that the United States have just named Mr. Fitz Dliu of Bendstone, Consul at New Zealand, to reside at the Bay of Islands, and to be accredited to the Confederation of Chiefs in the island of Ika-na-Mativi. A Government schooner is to take this gentleman to his destination, and to remain there under his orders.— Gatigtami's Messenger.
The New Zealand question is one of vast interest and great importance. The Ffeach are mad about it. The bureaux of Ministers of Marine War, and Foreign Affairs, are bes m ieged with applications from capitalists, speculators, financiers, merchants, bankers, &c. for permission to form colonies in the South isle, or Tawai-poenamon •' for protection in establishing colonies there ; for charters of incorporation to socitIticls ,znonymes, for patronage to societies cm commandite ; and, in one word, for all sorts of aid and protection, encouregeanent and help, in the task of colonizing, cultivating, possessing, and governing the isle in question, to say nothing of -the North isle, or Ika-na-Mauvi. The orders given by the British Government to Captain Hobson, and the letters received from Baron Thierry in France, are the cause of all this stir; and the recent news of a French crew having been eaten up by the New Zealanders, has of course added not a little to the excitement of the French people. The French Government has promised to examine into the national or political portion of the question ; hut with the commercial portion it is already sufficiently tormented. Each Minister him his favourite speculator or capitalist, who has been to ask him for his protection : and each one has pledged himself, that if the Government shall encourage colonization and COIT1^ rnercial speculation in Oceanic, his friend or friends shall have the preference. Su many have promised, and se many promises must be broken, that the Ministry have now deemed it the safest way, one and all, to adjourn inde
finitely all measures of a commercial or colonizing character with respect to New Zealand, and to attend exclusively for the time being to the question of
"whether Great Britain, already established on all the coast of the immense continent of New Holland, and mistress of Van Diemen's Land, shall have in Oceanic another vast colony ?"—Paris Corresiumdent of the Standard.
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