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

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HA YMARKET.
EVIIIIIIO, AN FNLUCK Y MORTAL Miss Hares.
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BRITANNIA.
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LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 4.

Ir is impossible not to admire the rare practical
energy, intelligence, and 'Ka-denial displayed by
Miss Rca in forwarding the work of female
emigration, to which she has devoted herself. This
work, if wisely organized end well conducted, is
one which promises to be of essential service not

only to large classes of onr over-worked and ill-
paid countrywomen, but, what is equally important,
to the colonies themselves. Yet the task is one
of such delicacy, and surrounded by so many

peculiar difficulties, that success can only be se-
cured by a rare union of zeal and judgment,
enthusium and discretion--qualities not often
found in combination. Some well-meant but ill-
conducted schemes of female emigration have so
far miscarried as to produce in some of the colonies
a temporary prejudice against efforts of the kind,
. .

and the influence of this rejudice is still apparent
in some of the colonial criticisms of Miss RYE'S
effort. Female emigration, to be really useful, must
of course be founded on &practical knowledge of what
the colonists actually want. To send out deli-
cate but highly accomplished women, or giddy,
thoughtless, pleasure-loving girls, is useless, or
worse than useless. But, even as the most pre-
judiced of Miss RYE'S colonial critics admit,
there is abundant room in the colonies for young
women of solid acquirements and good sense,
who can work with their hands as well as
their heads, and, in general, for intelligent
girls of industrious habits and good principles,
who are able and willing to work for their living.
These are the classes, and the only classes,
which Mies Rys has encouraged and assisted to
emigrate, and the assistance offered has been of the
most thorough-going and practical kind. Before
sending any young women out either as governesses
or servants, Miss RYE put herself in direct commu-
nication with some of the chief people of the colo-
nial towns to which they were sent, and in this
way provided for them accommodation and em-
ployment on their arrival. The effort was attended
with an unexpected amount of success, but it
was made on a comparatively small scale. In
order to enlarge the area and increase the useful-
ness of the work, Miss RYE determined last
autumn to go to the colonies and ascertain for
herself their real condition and actual require-
ments. This brave and devoted English lady
accordingly set out, with a large number of
female emigrants under ker care, went heroically
through the cares and privations, the labours and
anxieties of a four months' passage in an emigrant
ship, and is now actively engaged on the other side
of the globe, not only in providing for the com-
panions of her voyage, but in securing a proper
reception, and preparing decent homes for those
of her countrywomen who may follow.
It is satisfactory to find from her recent letter
to a contemporary that Miss RYE has already suc-
ceeded in the primary object of her visit to
Otago—the settlement of her emigrants. " I
" have now," she says, " the pleasure of ■ CnK
" that, with the exception of about three or four
" servants (who will probably be placed in a few
" days), all my girls and governesses have found
" suitable employment—the latter at salaries
"of from 601. to 401., the former at wages of
" from 401. to 201. per annum. My respond-
" bilities having thus so happily terminated, I shall
" endeavour to give some idea of the city in which
"my young charges have settled. Of this city,
Dunedin, the capital of Otago, Miss RYE gives, on
the whole, a favourable account. It has risen in
wealth and importance with extraordinary rapidity
during the last eighteen months, and is now • very
prosperous and flourishing place, with " two daily
" and two weekly papers, three good banks, five
" large places of worship, besides three or four
" small Jewish synagogues." The town has, in-
deed, quadrupled within the last year and a half,
though it still retains traces of a settlement, nearly
all the houses being built of wood, and half the
temporary population living in tents. Both
food and lodging are dear, meat being fourteen
pence a pound, and the rent of two small rooms
from twenty to thirty shillings a week. On the
other hand, wages are correspondingly high, some
" men getting 11. a day, and I:is. being an ordi-
" nary wage." The place is very healthy, and the
soil favourable for the growth of English fruits and
vegetables, especially potatoes. The prospects
of the place are, according to Miss RY I, very good,
and she believes it affords a good field for female
emigration. " Emigration ought never to cease
" to this place, for its capabilities are very great ;
" indeed, if another ship-load of servants and
" governesses of my own selection were coming
" out next week I would undertake to place
" them all within a month of their landing. Ido
" not say that they, any more than all those who