POPULATION CONTROL AND INDUSTRY HABITS

Pet a Stop to and the population may of course e expected to increase rapidly and in proportion to its visible augmentation will arise the neces Bity of eitier resorting to their former heinous mode of restricting the population or of cultivating such habits of industry as will be sufficient to their support and the fatter result is by far the most pro bable as it is not easily conceivable that any thing wrthe human shape should willingly revive a custom revolting in its priuciple and practice taevery sense and feeling merely forthe sake of shunning or avoiding a portion of exertion to which man in his pproach to civilization must conseat to endure to defend himself against privations which are not even tolerable to savages who are necessitated to submit te wants which however acutely they may feel yet they have not the power to relieve. In this view the natives of Otaheite may be looked forward to as a people capable ofa much reformed condi tion and of becoming at no very distant period a good and useful community 1 _ From Captain Nicholson of the Hawis we re ceive the following report of three dangerous reefs discovered.