Two individuals in this party are estimated to have realized £40,000 by trade.

E.-Seven adults. The head of this party only remains on the ground originally granted. He is one of the chief sheepfarmers, and a very large landed proprietor, considered to be worth £30,000, made entirely by sheep. The others doing well in various parts of the country.

F.-Fifteen adults. Arrived with small means. One individual is rated as worth £5000.

G.-Thirteen adults. Much scattered over the colony, and, with the exception of one, doing well. One individual has realized £5000 by sheep.

H.-Twelve adults. Sent from England by parish charity. All very comfortably established; the property in this party worth £10,000.

I.-Eleven adults. Also a charity party. One individual has realized full £20,000 by trade, and the others are all comfortably and firmly established.

K.-Ten adults. Many of these have dispersed ; but one individual has, besides 5000 acres of landed property and houses, 2500 sheep, 560 cattle, sixty horses and mares, four waggons. He came out without a penny; is worth £8000.

L.-Ninety-four adults. One extensive wine-merchant possesses a good farm, several small locations, 2500 wool sheep, 150 cattle, and two waggons. Came out poor, but now worth £10,000. Another arrived as a servant, now a large landed proprietor in Somerset District, worth not less than £20,000. Another, equally destitute on his arrival, has realized £10,000 in trading, and possesses much landed property. Another by the same means has accumulated from £12,000 to £15,000. Another is supposed to be worth £5000. But the trump of this fortunate party is a merchant, who possesses twenty-three large farms, is connected with several flourishing mercantile firms, has two ships and very extensive flocks of cattle and sheep, and believed to be worth from £50,000 to £60,000. His original capital is estimated to have not been more than £100. The rest of this party remaining are doing well.

M.-Ten adults. Came out in low circumstances. One person had, three years back, 1000 fine-woolled sheep, 120 cattle,

several waggons and horses, a good farm, and houses in Graham's Town bringing in a rent of £270 a-year, and worth altogether £7000. Another has a good farm near Graham's Town, several waggons, horses, cattle, &c., worth not less than £2000.

N.-Ninety-six adults. Brought out some capital. The greater portion of this party are in flourishing circumstances. One is estimated to have realized £30,000, another £10,000, and several from £1000 to £5000.

0.-Eleven adults. The head of this party has property in Graham's Town worth £5000, besides in other places. Another has property worth £2000 in the district of Utenhay, besides a large stock of cattle. Another by trade has realized £10,000. This individual emigrated as a parish apprentice. The remainder are either in Government service, or doing well on the frontier.

P.-Forty nine adults. Came out under the benefit of the Duke of Newcastle's subscription. Several are well-established as traders. One as a country inn-keeper amassed property worth £5000, and the rest are in a state of comfort as farmers.

Q.-Fifteen adults. Most in good circumstances, and one as a trader and merchant has property valued at £25,000, has retired from that business, which his family are carrying on, and now is an opulent sheep-farmer.

R.-Twenty adults. Brought some capital, possess a large extent of landed property, and sheep, and are worth £15,000.

S.-Seven adults. One has three fine farms and valuable property in Port Elizabeth, worth £8000. Another has five farms, also much property in the same place and worth £10,000. The first came out as a servant, and the other with but very little

means.

T.-Eleven adults. With very small capital, one who in 1823 was reduced to his last ten pound note, has now property bringing in a rental of £301 per annum, a farm worth £1000, and holds a government appointment of £500 a-year. Another has realized property worth about £5000 and holds an appointment of £100 a-year.

V.—Twelve adults. With circumscribed means, doing well generally. One person has amassed from £8000 to £10,000.

W.-Eleven adults. With but little capital. One has a fine

estate near Cape Town, and another has, as a merchant, realized above £9000.

X.—Thirty-three adults. Many of these are in thriving circumstances, and one large family is reckoned to have made from £15,000 to £20,000. They all came into the country very nearly destitute of "the needful."

Y.-Eleven adults. Arrived very poor. One family in this party is said to be worth £9000 to £10,000, the remainder in various degrees of comfort.

Z.-Fifteen adults. All doing well. Four persons of this party estimated as worth £17,000. The head of the party brought out considerable capital.

The above return comprehends twenty-four parties out of the fifty-seven who came out to this colony in 1820, whose adult population, on landing, appears to have been more than equal to the remaining thirty-three parties, which were chiefly formed by single families and small bodies associated for purposes of emigration. We are enabled to trace with greater distinctness the success of the first named twenty-four, because they have remained more together-very few have left the Eastern Province; but among the latter thirty-three who are less easily distinguished, we have numerous instances of the acquirement of considerable wealth. The great emigration then of 1820, which numbered 3760 souls, women and children inclusive, cost Great Britain a Parliamentary grant of £50,000, and gives the following somewhat satisfactory result of that early experiment of government emigration; namely, a settlement firmly planted on the barbarian frontier of the Cape colony, which, if honestly protected, will secure, as it has hitherto done, a solid rampart to the rest of the colony. A settlement which within twenty-two years has consolidated in landed property and other wealth at least £1,000,000 sterling worth of property, after all the deductions to be made for the Kafir invasion of 1834; a settlement peopled chiefly by the necessitous who could not have contributed to taxation in Britain, but who are now regular taxpayers in the colony; a settlement whose inhabitants are at present great and increasing consumers of the manufactures of England, which they would not have been had they clung to their birthplace; who will export this year above 1,250,000 lbs.

of wool, besides other produce; who by their enterprise are creating a boundless market in the African interior for the produce of their mother country; and who have opened and are opening an almost illimitable space for the spread of the truths of the gospel and the diffusion of all the blessings of European

civilization.

RECAPITULATION.

FROM the foregoing observations I think the reader will agree with me that a fair case has been made out in favour of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope as a spot where Englishmen, to use the emphatic term of Germany, house fathers, may safely resort to bring up and settle their families,-where, as patriots, they may have the satisfaction to establish the laws, language, free customs, and independence of their native land, and where as Christians they may extend their faith, and contribute to enlarge the Messiah's kingdom in the dark regions of Africa.

The following positions, I believe, have been fully established; and if so, few of the colonies of Great Britain can shew a more favourable prospect to those who are inclined to leave their native land and in search of a new home among the far spread possessions of England:

1. The Cape of Good Hope has all the advantages of a new, combined with those of an old country. The experience of many years as to soil, climate, &c., has already been gained for the benefit of new comers, and it possesses an abundance of cheap stock and provisions not to be found in any other new possession of the crown.

2. It possesses within its frontier lines large portions of good and tried land, which can be purchased at from 2s. to 5s. per acre, including buildings, &c., besides a considerable extent of Government property still unappropriated.

3. It has in its immediate vicinity considerable portions of country which the natives would gladly alienate for a trifling consideration, and immense tracts of fertile territory, entirely depopulated by native wars, which Government could assume

and parcel out without any injury to aborigines, and with the probability of contributing rapidly to the civilization of the neighbouring tribes.

4. It has a climate empyrean; perfectly unrivalled by any other possession of Britain, or any other country whatever.

5. It has a sea board of 720 miles, with fine bays, and a fertile country in its rear, only wanting labour and capital to be covered with teeming fields and opulent cities.

6. It has a rich and productive soil, and might be converted into a grain-growing and provisioning country to an extent almost illimitable.

7. Its productions are more varied, more valuable, and more in request by the manufacturers of Britain, than those of any other colony.

8. It has a considerable and progressing interior trade with the savage natives, amounting to upwards of £80,000 per annum, besides a steady commercial intercourse with Europe, India, Brazil, and other places.

9. The exports of its own produce, Government expenditure, bills drawn by visitors, missionary societies, &c., exceed the amount of its imports.

10. It is the nearest wool-growing colony to England. More than a successful rival to Australia, being half the distance; possessing superior climate and pasture, and advancing in its production of the staple article of wool in the ratio of sixty-four per cent. per annum, to the sixteen per cent. of New South Wales, or four times faster.

11. It is one of the lightest taxed countries in the world.

12. It has the blessing of equal and just laws, administered with the greatest purity by independent judges, and of trial by jury in criminal cases.

13. It participates in all the valuable advantages of a free press, and free discussion is allowed throughout the whole breadth and length of the land, except in the legislative council. 14. It enjoys every religious privilege without any disqualification for office" freedom to worship" in its fullest extent.

15. The local government maintains in every town public schools, open to all classes, where elementary instruction is gratuitously given by able masters expressly sent out for the pur