The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-03-20 00:00:00

EMIGRATION.

Day by day the subject of emigration becomes
of increasiug importance, an 1 the argamentm iii
favour of it are acquiring additional force from
the contin, ed po:erty anti ether -as at home, as
well as f:mn the operations of the National Em-
igratian AA Society, the B.dtish and Colonial
Emigratit n I and, and the formation to a small
°stew, of emigration clabs. An immense meet-
ing held in London out Saturday evening last has
brought out such remarkable facts—for we re-
gard as facts the statementa made by men of
known honour and standing—that we cannot re-
frain from urging them on the attention of our
readers. Colonel Torrens, who presided, ably
advocated emigration, especially to Australia.
From many parts of Great Britain, he said, the
cry of dietreaa was, " Give us bread for our-
selves and children, or work," while from Aus-
tralia the cry came, " What shall we do with our
beef and mutton, our corn and root crops 2'' To
solve the double difficulty, he urged that the
waste bifida of the colony should be aold at is
fair price, and the money so gained shoold be
expended in taking out labourers to cultivate
them. This seems sound common sense, to
which it is difficult to conceive any objection.
Ile pointed out, too, that the Transvaal territory ,
on the coast of Africa, a territory as I Irge as
France, had been given over to some Dutch Goers.
As to Australia, the Colonel speaks from lung
personal experience, and he maintains that the
poor distressed mechanics, artisans, and labour-
ers of our own country can there secure compe-
tence by honest industry. Other speakers
urged that Government should take up the sub-
jeet as a national question, and that private en-
ergy is not equal to the work. We think so too,
but still private enterprise and philanthropy
must not be discouraged; and when we notice
the large seats of money comlng in for the Bri-
tish and Colonial Emigration Fund, we feel
convinced that great good will thus be done on
the wholesome principle of mutual help. Al-
ready this association has assisted 900 emigrants
to Canada ; they have sent a small party of emi-
grants front Woolwich to Queensland; and they
are now making arrangements for despatching
other parties of emigrants to Canada. All this
is very hopeful, but as the numbers of our un-
employed poor are immense it will unfortunately
go but a little way towards remedying the evil.
The lion. W. McDougall, a member of the
Canadian Government, mentioned a very import-
ant fact—that he is over here to negotiate " a
small land transaction " with the British Gov-
ernment —to obtain control over and establish
English institutions in North-west British Ante-
rica, a territory "about the size of the whole of
Europe." There were, he said, forty millians of
acres in this new country, with a tolerably fair
climate, so that there is land enough for all.
We sincerely hope that this 'small land transac-
tion" may be effected, and meanwhile it is satis-
factory to find that this great meeting decided
on presenting to Government a petition in fav-
our of an enlarged emigration scheme. We are
persuaded that a sound, judicious, and extended
scheme of emigration, especially to Canada and
Australia, is becoming u increasing necessity of
the age.

BRR itar.4ll7.—A SOCCROVIIL KX P ERDIR wr.—Th e
Ciri! A'rrvice avette has the following inter.
noting remarks.--, There are very few simple articles
of food which can boast so many valuable and important
dietary properties as cocoa. While acting OR the nerves ,
as a gentle stimulant, it provides the holy with souse of
the purest elements of nutrition, and at the yam, time
corrects and invigorates the action of the digestive or-
gans. These beneficial effects denim I in a great mea-
sure upon the manner of its preparation, hut of late years
such close attention has been given to the growth and
treatment of cocoa that there is no difficulty in securing
it with every useful quality fully developed. The singu-
lar success which Mr. Epps attained by his homeopathic
preparation of cocoa has never been surpassed by any en.
perimentalist. Far and wide the reputation of Epps's
Cocoa has spread by the simple force of its own extraor-
dinary merits. Medical men cif all shades of opinion
have agreed in recomniending it as the safest and naii-st
beneficial article of diet for persons of weak constitu-
tions. This superiority of a particular mode of prepara-
tion over all others is a remarkable proof of the great
results to be obtained from little causes. By a thorough
knowledge of the natural laws which govern the opera-
tions of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful applica-
tion of the tine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr.
Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately
flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doc-
tors' bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of
dies that a constitution may be gradually built up until
strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. au-
diva, of subtle maladies Are floating around as ready to
attack whir veer there is a weak ptint. We may vs.
Gape many is fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well forli•
lied with pure blood stud a properly nourished frame.