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tances bath them and settle, even

if

they

Could

Ian Counced that no

Aun would bomew mistaker or

lted on the

part of an English

shartsrighted

Statesman. If undred there were as

chance of

а

a collos-growing.

Elllement

in Rome Northern part of new Holland,

the question might

phew

be different. Buli

the immense Advantage of

tlie

Australian Colonies in the Tecuperates

Zone has been their purely

Europeans

character. This has caused their energy

And their rapid propices,

and has so

Doo qualified them for self-government.

Here there is no

inferior

race to deal

Ascio

wrth - no perplexing negro question

America, and no powerful and warlike

Savages

។។

Moreover

there is

Savages to be apprehended as in New Zealand degenerate and loquids trile of half breeds to lover the general tow

Mr. Vavasseur.

the con hary

of the Community. propover it as a deliberate object of policy to introduce tast multitudes of Chinese as

a permanent element of the Australian population. The prevent duhabitants have know better; they have exerted themselves,

my opinion wisely, to prevent, further influx of a turbulent race of Heathers, addicted to cibominable trees, whose presene

And in

1.

csence is debasing in time of

dangerous in time

peace and would be de

of trouble.

the

case is otherwise in Mauritius on the West India Colonies. In those Camtries, since Asiation labor is undispensable and a pure European polity impossible, Chinese Settlements might very likely be an advantage

Increover as

Englishmen,

We are

nativally

aver ve

to

amy

restrictions that

fancy

can be avoided, so that carld we ourselves the Advisers of the Emperor of China,

it is probable that we should recommendt

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