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Title Registers of Correspondence, Orders, Statistics, etc., and Miscellaneous, The Colonial Gazette, 1839
Author Marquess of Normanby (Phipps, Constantine Henry); Lord Howick (Grey, Henry); Earl Russell (Russell, Lord John); Elliot, Sir Thomas Frederic; Lord Sydenham (Poulett Thomson, Charles); Lord Durham (Lambton, John George)
Date 1839
Document Type Periodical
Reference CO 386/190
Library / Archive The National Archives
Collection Name Colonial Office: Land and Emigration Commission, etc.
Description A weekly, non-partisan periodical founded partially under the auspices of the Colonial Society of London (and from August 1839, published at the office of the 'Spectator'), intended for a colonial readership. The periodical encompasses news from Britain, its Empire, Europe and the United States, reviews of books on colonial subjects, analytical pieces, and letters from readers. The main focus of the periodical reflects its motto of "Ships, Colonies and Commerce", concentrating upon matters such as legislative developments in Britain and its colonies, business/market news, shipping, prospects for migrants, and the risk of armed conflicts. Canadian affairs receive a great deal of attention.
Series Description This series contains original correspondence, entry books and registers of the Agent General for Emigration, the South Australian Commissioners and the Land and Emigration Commission. Amongst the miscellaneous contents are registers of births and deaths of emigrants at sea 1854-1869, lists of ships chartered 1847-1875, registers of surgeons appointed 1854-1894, and volumes of The Colonial Gazette 1838-1842.
Biographical Note / History A Colonial Land and Emigration Commission was created in 1840 to undertake the duties of two earlier and overlapping authorities which were both under the supervision of the Secretary of State. These were the Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia, established under an Act of 1834, and the Agent General for Emigration, appointed in 1837. The new commission dealt with grants of land, the outward movement of settlers, the administration of the Passengers' Acts of 1855 and 1863 and, from 1846 to 1859, the scrutiny of colonial legislation. In 1855 it became the Emigration Commission. In 1873 the administration of the Passengers' Acts was transferred to the Board of Trade. The commission's powers were gradually given up to the larger colonies as they obtained self-government, and after 1873 its only duties were the control of the importation of Indian indentured labour into sugar-producing colonies and it was abolished in 1878.
Theme(s) Politics, Legislation and Governance; Ships and Shipping Lines; Motives for Emigration
Places New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Canada; China; Jamaica; Cape of Good Hope; India; France; Antigua; Portugal; Barbados; Grenada; British Guiana; Belize; Mauritius; New South Wales, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory, Australia; Trinidad; Tobago; New Zealand; Russia; Afghanistan; Turkey; Malta; Natal; Maine, Illinois, Oregon, Texas, United States; St Vincent; St Lucia; Sierra Leone; Dominica; Barbados; Brazil; Montserrat; Malaysia; Mexico; Ionian Islands; Falkland Islands; Gibraltar
Ports Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia; Plymouth, Falmouth, Liverpool, London, England; Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, India; Guangzhou, China; Rio di Janeiro, Brazil
Ships Liverpool
Keywords hurricane, disease, plague, land sale, land claim, journalism, press, legislation, judiciary, politics, religion, morality, newspaper, crime, shipping, trade, diplomacy, war, sugar, slavery, army veteran, emigration, navy veteran, transportation, assisted emigration, administration, separatism, opium, agriculture, farming, labour, labourer, legislature, crime, parliament, army, publishing, sugar, coolie, bounty emigration, indentured labour, apprenticeship, Christianity, tax, East India Company, indigenous people, communication, postal service, mining, banking, railway, town planning, health and sickness, surveying, advertisement, finance, money
Language English
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