169 CHAPTER XIII. Grievances of New South Wales—Dismemberment—Emigration fund misapplied—Commercial importance—Statistical evidence. The proposed division, or dismemberment—as it is in dignantly denominated by the colonists of New South Wales, who are loud in its condemnation—is founded on the supposition, that the extra-limital districts to the north and the south of the nineteen counties would constitute a more extensive territory than could be effi ciently controlled and administered by one Government. For this reason, the Port Phillip district, or Australia Felix, is to be erected into a separate colony, and to be re moved from the jurisdiction of Sydney; and that fine northern region, comprising the cool and elevated pastures of New England, the spacious harbour of Moreton Bay, and the Brisbane and Clarence rivers, is to be, for the same reason, placed under a government of its own, and be forthwith laid open to purchase. The expediency of this measure, with general reference to the colonization of Australia, we will not discuss. Its effects upon the town of Sydney and the nineteen counties, of which Sydney is the capital and the commercial out- port, and upon the interests and fortunes of 114,000 colonists, cannot fail to be of a serious character. I