EMIGRATION. 
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AUCKLAND. 
It is remarkable, that whilst no country has been benefited 
more than Great Britain by her colonies, no government has 
paid less attention to them. They have founded themselves 
by that inherent energy which so peculiarly belongs to the 
Briton, and not by the fostering care of a paternal government. 
Even to this day there is no general plan of emigration adopted, 
and no energy displayed in carrying out the present system. 
There is a lifelessness and deadness on the subject, which is 
perfectly amazing; and when we look at the energy displayed 
by the United States, the aid she affords her emigrants, the 
facilities she gives them of acquiring a home, we cannot wonder 
at her obtaining more than nine-tenths of those who leave 
their native shores: nor can we be surprised at the rapidity 
of her rise, compared with that of our colonies. 
The conduct of Great Britain on the subject of emigration 
is perfectly suicidal. No empire possesses such an extent of 
country, enjoying a mild and genial climate, which remains 
unoccupied, and no kingdom has such an overflowing popula¬ 
tion to people it, with such a certainty of general benefit to 
the empire; and yet it does not make any real effort to 
accomplish so desirable a work, though the doing so would 
relieve the parent state from a surplus amount of population 
which remains idle at home, an incubus on the industry of the 
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