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(FROM A PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT,)
London, January 30, 1836.
I LAST wrote you by the Giraffe, and by that
opportunity I informed you of the establishment of
the " London Association for the protection of the
interests of the Colony " A deputation from this
Association had an interview with Lord Glenelg,
and obtained his Lordship's sanction to make the
following- public, viz. :—" To contradict the report
that any members of His Majesty's Government
had asserted in the House ol Commons that the
Colony was a failure. Lord Glenelg added from
himself that His Majesty's Government considered
the Colony had succeeded, under all the circum-
stances, fully equal to the expectations originally
formed of it, and that it was going on in a pro-
sperous manner." This was published in the news
papers. The "Mirror of Parliament" having
stated that Sir G. Grey had used the expression al-
luded to, led us to bring the matter before Lord
G., although Sir G. had denied to me six weeks
before that he had said so, when I waited on him,
seeing the Times report of his speech. The aim
of the Association has been since then, to disse-
minate correct information throughout the country,
and contradict what is false, by means of cor-
responding members in the agricultural districts
and sea-ports. Some of the members of the Asso-
ciation hatä had frequent intercourse with die Aus-
tralian Bank Directors, with a view of havhig a
Branch at the Swan. They assured me that they
were as desirous of the fondation of the Branch as
the Colonists, aud would establish one whenever
they had sufficient information of the resources of
the Colony to sanction such a measure. On re-
ceipt of the Perth Gazette, J placed in the hand»
of the Directors the number which contained the
application of your Agricultural Society, signed by
Mr. M. MacDermott, with the appended statistical
report, signed by the Governor, which he laid
befuie the Ëoard of Directors. About this time I "
was obliged to leave town, but Captain Gascoyne
(one of our Association, and a very intelligent,
well-informed man) will com m m neate with the
Directors on the subject. I feel persuaded a
Branch of the Australian Bank would do more for
the Colony than His Majesty's present Government
could do, however favorably disposed towards it
The Archbishop ef Dublin is a friend to the Co-
lony, and belong» to the ** Poor Inquiry Board ?
he said that lie would suggest, that several hun-
dred poor people of respectable character should be
sent to the Colony, and a sum of £5,000. to be saint
out to pay their passage, which thay should re-
pay-to the Local Government by instalments fiom
their wages. . We proceeded to the Board, and I
underwent an examination, with respect to this
pi oject. Í plainly stated the poverty df the settlers, s
and, in reply to a question from the Board, I said^
Í could not answer tor the additional laborers being
sure of employ, unless a Branch of the Australian
Bank was established, which we were now trying
to accomplish. t ,

With respect to what has beert doing for the
spiritual wants of the Colony, you will perceive, by
the accompanying paper, that we have formed a
society under the denomination of the Western Aus-
tralian Missionary Society.

The following is a copy of the Paper alluded
to:-

MISSION TO WESTERN AUSTRALIA,

COMMONLY CALLED THE SWAN RIVER SETTLE-

MENT.

At a Meeting in the Vestry of St John's Chapel,

Bedford-Row, on the 23d of September, and by
adjournment at 32, Sackville-street, Piccadilly,

on the 30th, the Hon and Rev. Baptist W.
NOEL, in the chair,

Captain Irwin, late Acting Governor of Western
Australia, having stated in detail the claims
which the Aborigines and Colonists have upon the
sympathy of the British Christians; and having
also shown that, while facilities for Missionary ex-
ertions are presented in that region, the spiritual
wants of the inhabitants are left almost wholly
unsupplied.

It was unanimously resolved,-

1 -That a Society be formed for establishing a
Christian Mission (in conformity with the princi-
ples of the Church of England) to the Aborigines
and more destitute of the Settlers ; and that its
designation be, The Western Australian Mission-
ary Society.

2.-That the system to be adopted is to include
the instruction of the Aborigines in the arts of
civilized life, on the plan pursued in the Moravian

Missions.

3.-That, as the Meeting consider a gentleman
who has offered to conduct the Mission duty
qualified, a fund be raised for the purpose of spend-
ing him out, together with his wife, who will af-
ford valuable assistance m the work, and two
Catecchists, of whom they also approve ; and that,
with a view to this object, an appeal be prepared,
and submitted to the public, embodying the prin-
cipal points in Captain Irwin's statement, and
based upon the Resolutions now adopted.

4.-That a Committee be appointed to conduct
the general business of the Society, and the fol-
lowing gentlemen be Members for the ensuing
year, with power to add to their number:

Hon. and Rev. Baptist Capt. Bazalgette, R.N.

W. Noel. Capt. Gascoyne,
Rev. G. Barker. Capt. Cates.

Rev S. Jones. B. Smith, Esq

Rev. H. R. Maude. Lieut. Maynard, RN.
Rev. M. Hobart-Seymour. J. Wooley, Esq.

Gen. Tolley, V.P. Thomas Meox, Esq.

C. E. Mangles, Esq , Treasurer.

Capt. Irwin, Honorary Secretary.

5.-That an Annual Subscription of Ten Shil-
lings constitutes the Subscriber a Member of this

Society.

6 -That application be made by the Secretary
to certain noblemen and others, now or hereafter
to be named, to solicit their patronage in aid of
the Society.

(Signed) Baptist W. Noel,

Chairman.

Subscriptions and Donations will be received by
the Treasurer, at 37, Austin Friars; Messrs.

Drummond, Bankers, Charing Cross; and by
Lieut. Skinner, 3w, Sackville-street; Piccadilly.

Appeal-The Colony of Western Australia,
commonly called "The Swan River Settlement,"

which was established in 1829, now consists of an
European population exceeding 2,000 persons,
scattered over a tract of country more than 200
miles in extent. The Aborigines in the district
occupied by the Colonists may amount to about
the same number. For the spiritual instruction of
the Settlers, there is only the Colonial Chaplain,
stationary at Perth, the seat of Government : it is
evident, therefore, that all who reside in tha re-
moter parts of the Colony must be destitute of the
advantages of religious ordinance ; while the natives
of the country, who are still in the lowest state of
barbarism, continue in the grossest heathen dark-
ness, without a single Christian teacher of any de-
nomination among them.

In the year 1832, an application made to His
Majesty's Government on the part of the Colonists,
for additional Chaplains, and a memorial for Mis-
sionaries to the natives, addressed to the Church
Missionary Society, were equally without success.
By a communication recently received from a gen-
tleman holding a high official situation in the Co-
lony (dated 18th March last) it appears that the
religious feelings of some of the Settlers themselves

are beginning to decline. After inquiring whether
any thing had been arranged by way of Missionary
aid from the existing Societies in England, the
writer adds,- "We are fast lasping into a state of
indifference in that respect, both as regards our-
selves and the natives. Indeed, we, who have
known better, are in a most deplorable state, from
the gradual fading of those impressions which

habitual exercise tends so much to keep distinctly

marked."

Every one who appreciates the blessings of the
Gospel will be desirous to extend them to those
who, constrained by circumstances to settle in this
distant region, are severely feeling the privation of
the means of grace so which they are now subject-
ed; and as regards the Aborigines, it is plainly a
moral duty to train them in, the habits of civilized
life, and to prepare them, by religious culture, for
the great social change to which their intercourse
with Europeans has given birth. Impressed with
these considerations, a Society was organized in
Dublin at the commencement of the present year,
for sending out Missionaries to the Colony ; but it
was subsequently deemed more expedient, on many
accounts, that the principal or Central Society
should be in London ; the Association in Dublin
still co-operating with the friends of the object in
England, and undertaking to contribute liberally
towards the funds required for the purpose.

The spiritual interests of the Colony have also
awakened the interests of several friends of religion,
in Glasgow, Members of the Church of Scotland,
whose pecuniary assistance has been generously
offered for the subject. It is due to the latter to
state, that this Mission originated in a proposal,
on their part to the Church Missionary Society, to
send to the settlement a Missionary of the Church
of England,--the Colonists being mostly of that,
persuasion, and that the necessary funds would be
raised by the Glasgow Association, and friends of
the cause in other parts of the United Kingdom.
The Society, in lamenting their inability to accede
to the proposal, expressed tbeir deep sense of the
"liberal and Catholic spirit" that suggested it; a
spirit which, it is confidently expected, will be
evinced by the friends of religion of other denomina-
tions, in answer to this appeal. The Committee
are happy in being able to state that an interest has
been excited in Germany, through the instru-
mentality of the Rev J. Fjellstedt, of the Church
Missionary Society. That Gentleman writes from
Stuggard,of the 27th of August last (after com-
municating with some friends on the subject), his
expectation that a corresponding Association could
be formed there, that would take much Christian
interest in the Mission. As various attempts to
obtain the desired advantages from several Mis-
sionary Institutions have failed, and as the spiritual
aspect of the Settlement, unless speedy measures
of relief can be adopted, must become gradually
more distressing, it has been resolved to establish
a separate Society, the express object of which
shall be the religious and moral improvement of
the Colony. The progress which has been already
made may be learned from the foregoing resolu-
tions ; and it is certainly hoped that Christians of
all denominations will lend their countenance to an
undertaking, the design of which is the perpetua-
tion of pure and undefined religion among those of
our countrymen who have emigrated from their
native land, and the propagation of the Gospel
among the benighted heathen in the midst of
whom they are settled.

By Order of the Committee,

(Signed) F. C. IRWIN,

Honorary Secretary.

The Rev. Dr. Ginstiniani, the Missionary se-
lected by the Society, is highly approved of by the
London and Dublin Committee, for his spirit and
acquirements ; he is a man singularly fitted to con-
duct the Mission. Dr. G. has been in the habit of

preaching, in London, in English, German,
French, and Italian ; he knows, also, the Hebrew,
Syriac, Greek and Latin languages. He has a
good practical knowledge af the sciences, botany,
chemistry, mechanics, &c. He has also taken a
distinguished degree as a physician. He has fully
proved his sincerity and devotedness to the cause
by the sacrifices he has made.

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