MR. MERIVALE'S WORK ON COLONIZATION. 
Just published, in One Volume, 8vo. price 18.s\ 
COLONIZATION and COLONIES 
Being a Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Oxford 
in 1839, 40, and 41. 
By HERMAN MERIVALE, M.A. 
PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 
Second Edition, with Notes and Additions. 
"rpHESE lectures were delivered 
at a time when by a series of 
most important events public atten- 
tion had been directed to our colonial 
dependencies. The emancipation of 
the slaves in the West Indian islands ; 
the Canadian outbreak, and the mis- 
sion of Lord Durham to that portion of 
our transatlantic possessions ; the 
change of Imperial policy from restric- 
tion to free trade, by which for a time 
colonial prospects were clouded ; and 
the rise of a new school of reformers 
who contemplated a reconstruction and 
extension of the British dominion in 
our distant dependencies, on principles 
of internal self-government and com- 
mercial freedom —theseandotber causes 
had invested the subject of Professor 
IVierivale's course of lectures with deep 
interest and importance, when they 
were delivered before an University 
audience twenty years ago. They are 
now republished, the text being sub- 
stantially the same, but supplied with 
appendices which bring the course of 
events down to the present time. But 
the onward current has been so rapid; 
principles so novel and daring have 
been promulgated and acted on; in- 
ternal resources have been developed 
on so gigantic a scale — by immigra- 
tion, resistance to the introduction of 
convicts, the gold discoveries, colonial 
exports and imports, and the progress 
of self-government — as to place the 
subject still more prominently before 
the public, and to compel all readers 
who take cognisance of political events 
to watch with anxious interest the 
development of colonisation. Professor 
Me-'vale's tieatment of this great question is 
Cain, and philosophic, alike worthy of the theme 
and the academic halls of a noble University. 
He divides his subject into three parts, present- 
ing m the first division an historical summary of 
the progress of the colonies of modern Europe, 
comprising those in the new world belonging to 
fc*pain, up to the period of their independence ; 
those still belonging to the same power in the 
West Indies, and to the Portuguese, Dutch, and 
French ; auu our own possessions in the West In- 
dies, North America, -South Africa, 
and Australia ; with a sketch of Britisu 
Colonisation generally, and of the 
North American colonies to the time 
when the ill-advised measures of the 
home government led to their seve- 
rance from the British nation. Jn the 
second part, the Professor treats of the 
economical effects of colonisation on 
the parent state, showing- the effect of 
emigration on the progress of popula- 
tion and wealth, and on the relations 
between capital and labour; the in- 
fluence resulting from the exportation 
of capital which takes place in the pro- 
cess of colonising ; and the system of 
colonial trade generally, with remarks 
on the restrictions on the import and 
export of goods. The third and larger 
portion of the volume is devoted to an 
inquiry into the progress of wealth and 
society in the colonies; and in this 
almost illimitable field the author treats 
of the threefold elements of prosperity 
in new colonies— land, capital, and 
labour, and under the last-named divi- 
sion enters at length into an explana- 
tion of the various means resorted to 
in order to secure an adequate supply, 
by subjugating native races, or by im- 
porting convicts cr slaves from other 
parts of the world A concluding- 
division of the work is devoted to an 
investigation of the progress of wealth, 
rates of wages and profits, and tax- 
ation ; to colonial expenditure, modes 
of supporting public institutions, and 
the position of the Established Church ; 
and finally to the social and political 
characteristics of colonial communi- 
ties, the political relation of colonies to 
the mother country, and the principles 
of colonial government. — We have 
barely indicated the topics which have been ably 
treated by Professor Merivale, in his extensive 
course : it is sufficient to add that those persons 
who desire to examine the subject in detail will, 
find in his lectures ample materials for forming a 
correct judgment on the numerous important 
questions which are constantly starting into 
prominence relating to our colonial empire." 
Midland Counties Herald. 
London : LONGMAN, GEEEN, and CO. Paternoster Eow. 
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