The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-09 00:00:00

HELPING THOSE WHO CANNOT HELP
THEMSELVES.

The Lord Mayor of LOllllOll, ,11.,thert Bosley), president of
the British end Colonial Emigration Society, has sent the
following letter for publication:—

Some -short time since I ventured to make an appsa
for help to enable some deserviug families to emigrate
That appeal was responded to, and the British and
Colonial Emigration Society have been perniit•ed to
aid about 5,00 e souls in seeking another sphere of
labour. They are gone, and we have heard of their arrival
at their Sr stination, with the exception of the two
ships that left the docks only on Saturday week. In
the goodness of Cr of all are safe, all cared for, and all
in a position to provide for their families. The foil m-
ing extracts may, perhaps, create some little interest
in many, but especially in those who have realised that
although some branches of industry are again It iurish-
ing, yet that class iif labour connected with building
has been, and still is, in a lamentable state of depress

• No. 1. Extract from • letter written in Toronto on
the 10th of June by Mr. J. Etnahlson, C.inadian Go.
vernment Emigration Agent :

"It affords me much pleasure in being able to state that all
the emigrants who have arrived tin to thi• elate hag work
found sor them without deity, and that the demand for
labour instead of diminishing absolutely hicremies. Famiers
return home from thi, agency, day after day, unable to
secure the hands they requ re. They are offering from 10 to
2,1 dollars a month for good hands, with board and lodging,
slur railway contractors are pi)ing nparards of lj dollar a
day
.51. sterling). and cannot obtain anything like tiie number
of men of which they stand in need. ills is a good rate of
wages considering that beard and lodging era he had from
Bs. to 103. sterling a week. We could readily find employ-
ment for 3,01X1 or 4,000 more earth labourers, and we shall
be glad indeed if you can devise means to send us that mum
her or more. Toronto Is growing rapidly; in fact there is
not a street of the city In which you will not find buildings
In course of erection. The prospect before the Dominion Is
a bright and happy one, and when the means of c immunica-
tion, now in course of construction, are fully opened up to
Manitoba and the Far West we shall be in a po3iti in to offer
Inducements to the surplus poideation and capital of England
that cannot be excelled in any part of the world. We shall
he enabled to offer British waste lands of exuberant richness
to British people in unlimited quantities where taxation Is at
present unknown."

No. 2. From the Toronto Glohc of June 14 :

"About SOO er&grants have arrlvkd hsre, and all have
readily round employment either In the neighbourhood or up
the river. There is room for 2,0u0 or 3,000 more."

No. a Copy of a letter addressed to W. Dixon, by
Mesera. Mac (maid and Co • Grand Metisa, Quebec,
June 13, ISTO.:

_
" W. Dixon, Esq , Sir—We are instructed by the Chair-
man of the Commissioners of the Intercolonia! Railway to
write you and say we r, quire 4.0 good substantial labouring
men. Thirty can bring their famines—children not to ex-
ceed four in number to each family. The families will be
provided with clmfortable shanties to board the single men.
Wages during the summer months, one dollar per day ;
during the winter months, eighty cents per day. We also re-
qiure 30 first-class etonncutters ; ten may bring families.
Wages for same during eurnmer months, two dollars and fifty
cents per day; during winter months, one dollar and fifty
cents per ttay. Be so kind as to give us notice of their
departure, no that we can be pet maul to receive them and
maks theta confortable.—Yours with respect, W. E.
DiArDO:iALL and CO.'

We have indeed cause to be thankful that a demand
for labour is springing up, but at the same time to
deplore that the Poor Law returns for the metropolis
for the aecond week of last month, el ill show an in.
crease of &COO paupers over the corresponding period
of at year, and that there are thousands vole, are not
paupers seeking employment in vain, and ruking to be
assisted to reach a country where a good will, a good
heart, and a good constitution will ensure c'impetence
and comfort. We have now 500 on our books looking
to us for aid. Oar funds are exhausted, but may we
not hope the sum of £2 rat may he entrusted to us to
help them in their endeavours to help themselves, and
then hopefully to await another year's experience of
God's over-ruling providence?