NEW GUINEA. 
independent of all pbilantkropic considerations, require 
tliat at least one refuge should be established on the 
coasts of an island nearly ],400 miles in length, and 
which are now traversed almost daily by the shipping 
■ employed in the commerce of the Far Eaat, The antece- 
dents of the Netherlands Government in these regions are 
not favourable to the supposition that the establishment 
at Port Humboldt has been formed with philanthropic 
views, but civilized nations are not likely to be particular 
in their inquiries as to the motives of action, if a new 
port, in a perfectly inhospitable region, is opened out 
for the general convenience of shippiug. 
