A vast variety of concurring events all tend to warrant the conclusion that the Petition of Right, on its presentation, will receive the favourable consideration of Her Majesty. This course, as already said, is an appeal to the CONSCIENCE OF THE SOVEREIGN, as the fountain of justice. And it is an appeal from whom, and for what? From the most numerous, powerful, and wealthy section of the old nobility of Scotland-for ends which will restore the utility of the Baronetage, and make it instrumental to the extension of Scotland over those her outlying domains in the Western Hemisphere, which, for centuries to come, will be the noblest appanage of the British Crown. It is but the other day that the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in his place in Parliament, on the occasion of the debate on Lord John Russell's resolutions relative to the state of the country, asked the question, "WHAT IS SYSTEMATIC COLONIZATION?" and was answered with the "Hear! Hear!" of the House. Her Majesty will remember, that by the erection of the ULSTER BARONETAGE in 1611, her ancestor King James I. did more (as Hume the historian records) in the short space of nine years to advance the systematic Colonisation of Ireland, than all the preceding sovereigns of England had achieved with the sword for the settlement of that kingdom during the course of the four hundred and forty years which had elapsed since the conquest of it was first attempted. And further, Her Majesty participating in that great monarch's "royal care for the honour and weal of his ancient kingdom of Scotland," which led him "to annex to the Crown thereof the dominion of New Scotland in America, that the use of it might arise to the benefit of the Scottish nation," will not fail, like King Charles I., "to be desirous that the wished effects may follow by the continuance of so noble a design," nor withhold her personal aid, that the integrity of covenants entered into between her ancestor and the Baronets in verbo Principis shall be fully and faithfully maintained. In connexion with the Nova Scotia Question, we have now before us two compilations which have issued from the press since the General Meeting of the Baronets of Scotland at Edinburgh in November last. The one is entitled "MEMORANDA, OPINIONS, EXTRACTS, AND NOTES RELATIVE TO THE NOVA SCOTIA QUESTION; "the other is "Notes on Nova Scotia, in relation to the Home Condition Question." These brief publications contain a multitude of statistical facts and political reasons in support of King James I.'s injunction to the Privy Council of Scotland, written from his deathbed on the 23rd of March, 1625,— "Persevere for the furtherance of this ROYAL WORK, that it may be brought to a full perfection: because it is to be the foundation of so GREAT A WORK, both for the good of the kingdom in general, and for the particular interest of every Baronet." In the last of these documents it is laid down that "unlocated land, surplus capital, and redundant population, form the elements for a Golden. Rule of Three, by which to solve the main difficulties of the Home * Mortimer, Adelaide Street, Charing Cross. Condition Question;" but we regret that another Session of Parliament has closed without any further exposition of the mind of the Government upon the all-important subject of Colonisation, than the declaration made by Sir James Graham in the House of Commons on the 26th of May, that "he believed that any extensive emigration undertaken by the Government would fail in this country, because of the indisposition of the people to go to a distant country with a long seavoyage." What does Sir James Graham mean by a long sea-voyage, at a moment when the pressure of destitution is such, that a portion of our fellow-subjects in the Western Highlands have declared they will rather "swim across the Atlantic," than undergo the living death of starvation which they now endure? The distance between Glasgow and Halifax is about 2,700 miles, and it can be effected in less time than a voyage between Leith and London thirty years ago. The Britannia steamer, a few months ago, made the passage out from Cape Clear to Race Point in six days and eighteen hours! Again, who ever dreamt of the Government itself undertaking any extensive emigration? What the Government have to do is, to consider that there are nobler attributes of statesmanship than presiding over two Houses of Parliament who seem to consider that they have no other public functions than those connected with legislating for railways. If that Minister whom The Times has styled "The New Zealand Thimble-rigger" would on the one hand advise the Crown to erect a new Order of Baronets for Australia, to advance in the East objects similar to those which the Ulster Baronets were created to effect in Ireland, viz. "to establish that so great a Province of the Empire shall more and more flourish, not only in the true practice of religion, civil humanity, and probity of manners, but also in the affluence of riches, and abundance of all things which contribute either to the ornament or happiness of the commonwealth"-and on the other, afford to the Nova Scotia Baronets every due facility as regards the revival of their just rights and privileges in the Western Hemisphere-he might then retire into the easy chair of official sinecurism, so far as systematic Colonisation and Emigration is concerned. The claims of the Baronets of Scotland, taken collectively, would be satisfied by 2 of the eleven million acres of ungranted land lying in the Province of New Brunswick alone; and further, they are urged at a moment when in Scotland one-tenth of the population are paupers ; and when deposits to the amount of £25,000,000 sterling are lying idle in different banking establishments of that country, bearing only 2 per cent. interest. The fearful expositions which The Times has lately been making by the publication of the reports of its "Own Commissioner," with regard to the state of the inhabitants of the northern counties in Scotland, are all corroborative amplifications of the mass of facts embodied in the speech made by Sir Richard Broun to the General Meeting of Baronets referred to at the commencement of this paper. These heart-rending expositions cover Scotland with infamy and shame, and give a most emphatic point to the address which he then made to the collective members of his Order. Certainly, it never was intended by the Crown in founding the Baronetage, that it should become at the end of two centuries, for all the enlightened and patriotic ends proposed by its institution, a mere CAPUT Mortuum. The eyes of the country are now fixed upon this movement; and we cannot believe that out of the proud roll of the one hundred and fifty men forming the Order in Scotland, there will be found many Esaus ready to sell their birthrights in Nova Scotia for a mess of pottage. "To move and extend," says The Times in a recent leading article, "to pursue the setting sun, and wear pathways across the ocean-to people desert shores-to wrest the first fruits of victory from rugged nature, and found great empires,this seems the glorious destiny of the British race.' The peculiar . mission of the age is THE EXTENSION OF GREAT BRITAIN over the boundless regions that own our sway in the Western World. This mission, so fraught with the benign attributes of Peace, it is the especial heirdom of the Scottish Baronets to head. The leading-staff of so grand an enterprise ought not to be placed in less exalted hands. In the language of Charles I. to the first members of the Order, "there are none of the subject whom it concerns so much in credit to be affectioned to the progress of the plantation of Nova Scotia as the Baronets, for justifying the grounds of the Royal favour, which they have received by a most honourable and generous way." Starving myriads now wait the call of these illustrious chiefs; and so noble, so soul-inspiring, is the vision of adding new realms to the uses and the hearth-seats of the British family, that we never cease to wonder why COLONISATION is not with us the passion of the great, as well as the necessity of the humble. Assuredly the day-dawn of better social times now begins to breakand to the Baronets of Scotland and Nova Scotia collectively, in reference to the Nova Scotia Question, we would use the language of encouragement which a distingnished Ulster Baronet has lately addressed to their Honorary Secretary :-"Yours is a grand, a glorious project. Its influence extends over a vast space, both in the Old World and the New. It must affect the destinies of hundreds of thousands of human beings, not only now, but for ages yet to come. It is a giant labour, bringing care, anxiety, and toil. But an ardent mind like yours will be cheered on its onward course by the high feeling which the consciousness of a great duty performed, and the bright gleam of hope that ultimate success will crown your indomitable efforts, cannot fail to bring. I shall anxiously look for intelligence of the progress of that course your spirit-stirring appeal suggests to all which is high and excellent in the land. When the ancient ardour of the nobles of the North shall rally round the STANDARD you have raised, to assert their feudal dignities and territorial rights, may God grant every success to their united efforts!" IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF DEMERARA. Year 1836 to the Year 1844, compiled by the Royal Agricultural and Com- mercial Society of British Guiana. arises from such articles having been exempt from duty during a portion |