hardly any expense to the parent state, all that can ever be required of our -working population from that part of the empire which they overburden, to that to which they would prove a blessing. Gentle men, I agree with my eloquent and esteemed friend, Mr. Macleod, that it is astonishing the attention of Government has not ere this been turned to this subject And why, I would ask, may not part at least of the British navy be constantly employed in transporting emigrants of all classes to our colonial possessions ? Why should two hundred vessels of different sizes, that are now in commis sion in the British navy, be employed only in useless parades, when hundreds of thousands on the British shores are pining for the means of transport across the seas, and millions of acres on the other side of the ocean, teeming with verdant fertility, await only their robust hands to be converted into a terrestrial paradise ? Why should the British navy, not be employed, like the Boman legions in time of peace, in works of public utility ; and why should their efforts not construct causeways across the deep, which would bind together the immense circuit of the British colonial dominions, as strongly as the highways constructed by the legions cemented the fabric of their mighty empire?” It has been deemed a maxim of good government to leave the formation of colonies to private enterprise; and, doubtless, this principle might have weight in any country but Great Britain, where the amount of distress seems too extensive to be effectually relieved by any other means than the direct agency of the State. To any proposition in favour of a national system of colonization, the answer would probably be “ the expense.” We can raise twenty millions for the emancipation of negroes ; we have squandered hundreds of millions on wars of doubt ful expediency ; but we cannot muster ten or twelve millions in anticipation of colonial land-sales, although we know that the measure would free us from annual outlays in the shape of assessments and poor-rates, equivalent to more than half of the whole sum expended on emigration I