The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-04 00:00:00

TELE EXPRESS,
- accompanied me, would be satisfied (sa some die- •
" count for discontent and disappointment must
" always be allowed) ; but I am sure they could
" all be placed safely, and find themselves at the
" end of six months in a far better position than
" they could ever hope to occupy at home."
The great drawback, however, to this, or any
other form of female emigration at present, is to
be found in the state of the Immigration Barracks
at Dunedin, of which Miss Rye speaks in very
strong terms. Her condemnation is amply jus-
tified by the facts specified, which sufficiently
prove that the management of this place is a
scandal to the local Government. It is a large
wooden building, erected some years ago for gene-
ral emigrants, chiefly families continually arriving
from Scotland, and recently set apart for female
emigrants without being in the least fitted for their
reception. There is accordingly neither decent
accommodation nor anything like efficient supervi-1
sion. "The girls are frequently left to themselves
" for hours together, the matron continually sleep-
" Mg from home; there is not the slightest sccom-
" modation for the girls to 'tidy-up' (i.e., to wash
" clothe.' after a four months' voyage), nor can
" they get water to drink without going to some
" public-house down street, and, to complete the
" picture, there is neither bench at which the poor
" girls can sit, nor table, however rude, upon
" which they can place their food. There is per-
" feet liberty of ingress and egress at all hours,
" and everyone is allowed to do exactly what
" seems beat in her own eyes. A more demo-
" ralizing school for undecided characters could
" not possibly be imagined, and a more discre-
" ditable place does not exist under the sun."
Such a state of things is undoubtedly a disgrace
t, the Government of the place ; and to aggravate
the evils of this comfortless and neglected public
lodging, the Government had recently "crammed
" the Otago constabulary, a body of mounted
" police from Melbourne," into the same building,
the men's and women's wings opening into each
other without any efficient division between them.
Of course Miss RYE was able to look after her own
emigrants, and secure everything necemary for
their comfort and protection ; but numbers of
women, for whose presence at Dunedin the local
Government is responsible, are left exposed to
all the evils and dangers incident to this wretched
barrack life. Owing to the large influx of people
from Melbourne and other Australian ports
during the last twelve months, there
has been a partial cessation of general
emigration, single women alone being required
from the home country. "So urgent has been
" the demand for their services," says Miss RYE,
" that orders have been sent from this Govern-
" ment to their agents in Edinburgh and London
"to send out 100 single women a month, the
" understanding at home being that a proper place
" was provided for them after landing." Numbers
of girls were accordingly sent out by Government
agents, and, on their arrival, left to their own de-
vices in this barrack. Miss RYE is doing a public'
service in directing attention to this terrible abode,
and holding up the grievous neglect of the local
Government to indignant rebuke. Nothing can
be clearer than that it is the first and most im-
perative duty of the Government to provide effi-1
ciently for the temporary accommodation, and
therefore, of course, for the comfort and protec-
tion, of the women they induce to emigrate
The Otago Times insists quite as strongly as
Miss RYE on this duty, reproaching the Govern-
ment for its neglect, and calling on it to provide
immediately a proper building, properly situated,
for the reception of female emigrants. We
may hope, therefore, that the existing management
will not survive Miss RYE'S pointed exposure
and strong local efforts.

fbe Court.

BiLMORLL, Joss 2.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and
Primer Beatzice, drove oat yesterdsy morning, and in the
afternoon walked and drove, aocompenied by the Princess
Helena.

Princes" Helena went out riding in the morning.
Princess Loch., Princess Beatrice, and Prince Arthur
went to Invercauld.
Dr. Gild left the castle yesterday morning.

Mr. Thweitee, chairman of the Metropolitan Board of
Works, Mr. The, M.P., Mr. Doulton, M.P., end Mr. Parks,
had an interview with the Right Moo. W. Cowper, M.P.,
yesterday, at the office of her Majesty's Works and Public
Buildings.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colooial-office
from the Governors of Hong Koog, Ceylon, and Malta.
Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar and
Labour.

The Stern Correspondence of Berlin announces
that the Queen of England will anise towards the end of
the month of July at the Castle of Rosensu, near Coburg.
Her Majesty will probably be accompanied by Earl Rummell.
The Earl of Essex was married yesterday at
Trinity Church, Chelsea, to Lady Louie& Boyle, the eldest
daughter of the Viscounts= Dunprvan. The earl had been
previously married, baring eipoused, in 1825, Lady Caroline
Capel, daughter of the Bth Duke of St. Albans, but was
left a widower in 1862.

The Countess Apponyi will have a ball at Chan-
dos House on Tuesday next, the 9th inst.
Viscount Marsham, the eldest son of the Earl of
Romney, is about to be curried to Lady Constance Haat-
inp, the youngest daughter of the late Marina of Hast-
ings, and of Barbara, Baroness Grey de Ruthyu.
Mr. Henry Milbank entertained at dinner last
evening, Eaton-place, the Earl and Countess of Efling- I
ham, the Earl and Comdata of Donoughmore, the Earl and
Countess of Elective, the Earl of Wicklow, the Earl of St.
Germans, the Earl of Abingdon, the Countess of An-
trim and Lady Helen M'Donaell, Lord and Lady Otbo
Fitzgerald, Lady Alvanley, and Mr. and Mrs. Holford.
Last evening, Frances Countess Waldegrave
bad an assembly at her ladyship's residence in Carlton-
garde's, previously to which Mr. Chichester &stemma ani
the counter received the following company at dinner :
Tbe Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi, the
Earl Russell and Lady Georgians Russell, the Earl of
Clarendon, the Viscountess Donerade, the Dowager Lady
Truro, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone and Mrs. Glad-
stone, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell and Mra. Cardwell, the
Hon. Spencer and Mrs. Ponsouby, Mr. and Mrs. T. Barium,
Mr. Henry Greville, Mr. Arthur Russell, and Mr. West.
The Count de Paris was amongst her ladyship's earliest
visitors at the assembly.

Mr. Gibson bag been summoned from Rome by
the Prince of Wale* ti England to execute a bust of her
Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra.
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JUNE 4,