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council, moving leisurely and proudly along, or the lively barouche of Mr. 

 Whalebone, the ship-owner, to the one horse shay, in which the landlord of 

 the Tinker's Arms drives out his blovvsy dame to take the hair arter dinner 

 doubles Hyde Park Corner, and arrives on the Corso ; where ever and 

 anon some young bachelor, merchant, or military officer, eager to display 

 his superior skill in horsemanship, dashes briskly forward along the 

 cavalcade at full gallop. " 



The fourth and seventh chapters of Volume II, Dr. Lang devotes 

 to the important subject of emigration the former containing a state- 

 ment of the advantages which New South Wales holds forth to 

 various classes of emigrants of moderate capital, and the latter con- 

 sidering emigration chiefly in reference to the practicability of settling 

 in New South Wales a numerous agricultural population. Both of 

 these chapters are eminently deserving of the attention of those in- 

 tending to better their fortunes by going abroad ; containing as they 

 do almost all the information which could be desired by persons 

 in their circumstances. This colony seems at present to hold out very 

 peculiar advantages to many classes of emigrants, more particularly 

 to mechanics, labourers, agriculturists, and families of moderate 

 capital. Mechanics can earn with ease two pounds per week. Money 

 can be safely invested on loan, at an interest of ten per cent. ; and 

 families who can afford to invest a small capital in farming, building, 

 or other useful speculations, and have skill to conduct them, may 

 turn their funds to even still better account. 



We have never yet been able to find out any satisfactory reason 

 why the government of this country, in the establishment of its colo- 

 nies, has all along, as a matter of course, established in them at the same 

 time the episcopal church. Could our Sovereign Lord the King do 

 with his colonial subjects what the virtuous King Henry the Eighth 

 did with his loving people make them all conscientious Episcopa- 

 lians by an Act of Parliament it might be well enough. But among 

 the colonists there are certainly, at least, as many conscentiously at- 

 tached to other forms of faith as to that which happens to be the go- 

 vernment one ; and it is hard that the non-conforming sects should 

 be laid under the necessity of supporting both their own priesthood 

 and the priesthood of another church, of whose tenets they do not ap- 

 prove. Why is the sect, called the " Church of England," selected 

 from all the other sects, and endowed with such a princely munifi- 

 cence ? Not, surely, because it in particular has done more than any 

 of the other churches for the attainment of British liberties ; because 

 its clergy have all along shewn themselves opposed to their extension. 

 Nor, surely, can it be because it is the cheapest establishment of all 

 the others; as with a much smaller sum than goes to enable half a 

 dozen of the Reverend Fathers in God to "clothe themselves in 

 purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day," the Presby- 

 terian Church of Scotland supplies the religious wants of the inhabi- 

 tants of nearly a thousand parishes, and gives education to the children 

 of nearly the same number of schools. 



In the work before us the author complains, and with reason, of the 

 unequal division of the funds destined to the support of the church in 

 New South Wales. To the Episcopal establishment, which consists 



