NEW SOUTH WALES.* 



" WE have seen the land, and behold it is very good!" Such is 

 the motto which the reverend author has prefixed to his book ; and 

 one more apropos in every respect we are sure he could not have 

 found, had he searched the Bible from the beginning of Genesis to. 

 the end of Revelations. In fact, when taken in connexion with the 

 remainder of the verse " be not slothful to go, and to enter and 

 possess the land," it may be regarded as containing the sum and 

 substance of the two volumes. 



The author is a Scotchman, and was educated for the established 

 church of his native country. After obtaining his " licence" (a step 

 which we believe is equivalent to " taking out orders" in England), he 

 embarked for the distant colony of New South Wales ; not like most of 

 his countrymen, to " buy, and sell, and get gain," but with an object 

 which we could wish to see enter more frequently into the calcula- > 

 tions of the priesthoods of all communions one of pure philanthropy. ' 



Dr. Lang arrived in the colony in 1821, and since that time has 

 been actively employed in endeavouring to make himself useful, and 

 to promote its interests in a variety of ways. Within that short 

 period he has been the means of founding no fewer than four churches 

 in connexion with the national church of -Scotland. He has also, 

 without any aid from Government, and at his own sole expense, in-, 

 troduced into the colony a numerous body of highly respectable 

 emigrants, both in the middle and lower ranks of life; and, finally, 

 he has been the means of forming at Sydney, the capital of the 

 colony, an academical institution for the education of youth in the 

 elementary and higher branches of knowledge, similar in plan to the 

 useful and much admired " Institution" at Belfast, and which has 

 received the name of " The Australian College." 



In a residence of upwards of ten years in the colony in his having, 

 in the prosecution of his various schemes of benevolence, come into 

 contact with most of its leading men, and with the mind of the 

 colonial public itself and in his having had the most ample oppor- 

 tunities of observing the fortunes of many emigrants from the time of 

 their settlement in the colony, and the various causes which have 

 contributed to the formation of these fortunes the author has thus 

 had very peculiar advantages for obtaining correct information, and 

 forming correct opinions on the subjects of which he professes to 

 treat ; and that he has not allowed these advantages to remain unim- 

 proved the volumes themselves bear most ample testimony. They 

 are evidently the production of a man who knows his subject who 

 has viewed it in all its bearings and who has thought and reasoned 



* " An historical and statistical Account of New South Wales, both as a 

 penal Settlement and a British Colony." By John Dumnore Lang, D. D. In 

 two volumes. London . Cochrane and M'Crone. 



