COLONIAL MAGAZINE

AND

Foreign Miscellany.

EDITED BY

P. L. SIMMONDS, ESQ., F.S.S.,

HONORARY AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE STATISTICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL
SOCIETIES OF PARIS; THE LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEBEC;
THE LITERARY ASSOCIATION OF BARBADOS; THE POLYTECHNIC
ASSOCIATION OF ANTIGUA; THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES
OF MONTREAL, JAMAICA, DEMERARA, ETC.

"The Chart of our Colonies is a Chart of the World in outline; for we sweep
the Globe, and touch every shore."

LONDON:

1S, CORNHILL.

LONDON:

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PREFACE.

THE present number concludes our first year's publication, and three volumes of SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE are now before the public.

We have spared no expense in establishing the work on a sound and extended basis, and in consequence have acquired such a reputation as few periodicals have attained. Our aim and desire has been to make it known and respected wherever British enterprise has carried our language and our flag. We have perseveringly sought for authentic information from every quarter of the globe, and opened up new channels of correspondence with talented men in the Colonies which will be lasting and valuable. With such a list of writers as our pages now exhibit, we may challenge the criticism of Europe.

From every British dependency, and from many foreign countries, important communications continue to reach us, written by intelligent observers-men possessed of judgment, ability and experience, and who have, at the same time, the best interests of the British Colonies and the Empire at heart.

It is a proud reward for our labours, and a high source of satisfaction, to know that SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE has already obtained a "world-wide fame," and is extensively read in the most distant parts of the universe. Throughout the length and breadth of our Indian Empire, in Ceylon, Singapore and China-in each of the Settlements of the great continent of Australia, in Tasmania and New Zealand, Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope, Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, Brazil, British North America and the United States, the West Indies and Algiers,-from each and all of these we have communications bearing testimony to the value and importance of our publication.

We have bestowed upon the work a large share of watchful supervision and untiring literary energy; but to the priority of our Colonial intelligence, and the originality and completeness of the various subjects we have discussed, is attributable much of our success.

Essentially and practically a trading people, the commerce of Great Britain has been pushed by the enterprise of her citizens to every