The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-31 00:00:00

We must unquestionably have a monied Auo-
ciation at home, if emigration is to be the relief
to our manufacturing districts that we need, and
must obtain. Instead of wasting our money in
feeding in idleness many more people than the
cotton manufacture could maintain, if it were open
to revival from this moment, it is the merest com-
mon sense to spend whatever is necessary for the
conveyance to a new land of those who desire, and
are fitted, to go. Our readers have observed the
scruple which has prevented the application of the
relief fund to the outfit (at 3/. • head) of persons
who would at that cut be taken off the relief list
for ever ; and no doubt most of us have felt that
such an outlay would be the cheapest charity of
the time. For our part, we cannot conceive of
anything plainer than the course before na—rup-
posing there is no defect in the evidence of the
state of the labour market in our chief colonies.
There is plenty of money afloat at present—enough
to lend to a dozen foreign peoples, and to invest in
a hundred schemes at home. Why do we not lend
to our emigrants, so much as will enable them to
go to the colonies, and take possession of the indus-
trial posts open for them there f India cannot
spare her coolies, for she is short-handed at home.
The colonists do not like the Chinamen ; and they
are quite right, as long as they can get comrades of
their own race, and language, and faith, and mind
and manners. Let the liberality of the Colonial
Governments be met by the enterprise
of British capitalists, and everybody will
be helped, and nobody hurt. Men of business
can have no difficulty in devising and securing the
repayment of their advances to the emigrants,
whether out of their wages in the labour market,
or as the servants, or the tenants of the capitalists
who enable them to go. If such • scheme were
set on foot, by men of adequate credit and cha-
racter, it might prepare for the total retrieval of
Lancashire whenever the prices of cotton and cotton
fabrics become equalised, so as to enable the
manufacture to resume its course. Every good
and wise citizen will look well, however silently, at
the alternative.

FOR several years put it has been a common
thing for clergymen, and benevolent gentlemen and
ladies, to lecture on emigration in their own
parishes, and to help away a few of their neigh-
bours who wish to go. The hearers are more or
lees struck by what is told them. At first it may
seem u if they all desired to be off directly.
When the necessary weeding of the applicants
has been effected—when those who are too old, or
otherwise unsuitable for government acceptance,
are cleared off the list, together with the unhealthy,
the disreputable, and the incumbered, others
must stay behind with them. Others again cool
down, and will at any rate wait ; and some draw
back at the last moment, after all the arrange-
ments have been made for their enterprise. Of
the few who really go at last, some write disap-
pointing letters, some do not write at all ; and a
small proportion send money in a year or two, to
carry over their relations. Such is the course in
ordinary times. It goes on still ; but it is almost
lost sight of amidst the pressure of anxiety in
Lancashire and Cheshire to go to a land of plenty.
When the country parish movement is remembered
in these busy days, it is for the sake of inquiring
how to proceed in applying to the Government
Emigration-office. Here is the first agency.
It has been very properly pointed out that
the Government office exists for the purpose of
assisting to certain colonies persons and families
who present themselves duly qualified as to time
of life, health, character, etc., and who are pre-
pared to fulfil the published conditions, and observe
the rules. It is simply an agency for transmitting,
cheaply, safely, and comfortably, those who apply
for the benefit. According to the Official Direc-
tory, there are four of these offices in England—
namely, at London, Liverpool, Plymouth, and
Southampton. Good as this agency is as far as
it goes, it is fully occupied with the ordinary run
of emigration, and it can give little help in so
urgent a crisis as the present.
Yet the popular mind is apt to turn to the
Government. As every old woman who would
like to be better off in her latter days thinks "the
" Quaxit would do something for her, if she was
" properly spoken to," and believes it to her
dying day, so any class which finds itself in dis-
tress concludes that Government could and should
set matters right again. The unemployed cotton
operatives of Glasgow spoke out this view with all
possible openness the other day, when they met
to consider, and adopt unanimously, a Memorial to
Lord Puienutrow, proposing the imposition of
a tax, in the form of the income-tax, to provide
for the employment, emigration, and colonisation
of the citizens who are out of work. We need not
enlarge on the fatal faults of this scheme—on its
retrograde character, on its injustice to the labour-
market, on its vicious centralisation, and its viola-
tion of the principles on which English society is
founded. Lord Pamesairroir will no doubt ex-
plain, when the Memorial is presented, how im-
practicable it is. There is no help in this di-
rection.
We have spoken before of the scheme of a Co-
operative Society in Queensland—a colony where
it really seems as if any healthy, intelligent, and
respectable settler could not fail of achieving a com-
fortable independence. Good land may be had
on exceedingly easy terms ; there is au assured
demand in advance for the crops ; and the
cotton which that land and climate will grow
is of the finest quality. It is said—with how much
correctness we know not—that this particular plan
of emigration meets with little or no welcome
among the Lancashire people, striking as has been
the prosperity of the cooperative associations
which have grown up before their eyes. Perhaps
the candidates for emigration feel a reluctance to
form a pert of a community of a thousand families
who will be bound to remain together for a certain
time, to secure the fulfilment of the virtual condi-
lions of their settlement. More probably still,
they dislike the immediate subscription, and its
continuance till they can have their turn to go ;
and they may dread the contentions which may
arise among the many who will be eager to get
away. This is very natural ; but it seems a pity,
considering the multitude of resources actually
awaiting the industry of a thousand families of
varied training and tastes. When we read of
the fine cotton crops already rained, and the fer-
tility of the land in grain and grass and roots;
of the pastures, producing meat, wool, and dairy-
produce to any extent; of the mulberry trees and
the silkworms, from which valuable samples of
silk have already been sent home ; of the profit
that German settlers have already made of their
bees in that flowery land—it does seem a pity that
the colony should be driven to admit coolies and
Chinamen, for want of labour, when so many
thousands of ourselves are in need of a field for
our industry. Here we seem to come in sight of
what ought to be done.

Tae VOLMITXIM Review AT BILIGHTON.—We
are authorised to state that the arrangements for
Volunteer Corps going to Brighton on Easter Mon-
day will be substantially the same as those of last
year. The railway authorities have arranged that
the return trains should commence to leave Brigh-
ton at 6.30 p.m., and continue running alternately
to London-bridge and Victoria stations at the
average rate of six trains per hour.

Cbe Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, MAscir 30.

The Queen, accompanied by the Prinoma Louis
of Hew, drove out this morning. LieutenanaColooel the
Hon. D. de Hoe, Equerry in Waiting, attended on horseback.

Deapatches IMO received yodertley at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of the North American Province',
Gibraltar, and Malta.

On Sunday their Royal Highnesses the Prinoe
and Princess of Wales attended divine service at the parish
church of Sandringham. The Bev. G. Moron officiated.
A large number of parses, from Lynn and other pleas
round Sandringham went to Sandringham Church to gratify
their curiosity; and the church was not only tilled to ate
utmost tepidly, but as many as 200 were left standing
txdaide, and through these their royal bight:icemen and their
at:Madame had th make their way.
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred lass arrived
at Marseilles, where be will remain a few days to recruit
his strewth after the fatigue of a sea voyage. A gentile-
maa has arrived at Windsor Cutts to announce the state
of the prines's Smith. Although he has recovered from
the fever he in much weakened by its effects, and will sot
arrive at Windsor Castle before Thursday neat.
A story ix afloat of the honour paid by Prince
Alfred's brother middies to their royal mamma* apropos
of his election as Kim of Grasse. Hearin a great row in
the young gentleman's berth, as board the Royal George,
the captain, on inquiring the cause, found the mesa had de-
termined to crown the Prince. So they had got the ship's
carpenter, or anneerer, to make a tin crown with which the
Prince was solemnly breaded, a musses dip being first stuck
as each point of the circlet, and lighted.
Their Royal ffighneesce the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Priaoaaa Mary leave St. James's Palace to•
day for The Cottage, Kew, for the Easter recess.
The Duke of Rutland has been receiving a select
party at Belvoir Castle during the peat week.
The Earl and Countess of Lichfield left town a
few days since for their seat, Shugborough Abbey, Stafford-
shire.
The Earl of Airlie has left Campden-hill for his
neat, Cortacby Castle, Scotland. Her ladyship remiss in
town.

The Karl and Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary
Shuihope have left Groevettor-place Houses for Chevening
Park, for the Easter recess.
The trustees of the British Museum have unani-
mainly elected the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., to supply
the waraney oremieeed in their number by the lamented
death of the Marquis of Lansdowne.
Viscount Canterbury is at present on a visit to
the Duke of Bathed at Bebe& Castle,
Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley and the Hon.
Wes Stanley leave Doverstreet this day for their mat,
Alderley Park, Cheshire, for the holidays.
Sir Fitzroy Kelly will take the chair at the third
ennivemary festival of the Solicitors' &invoked ASo
ciatioe, to be held at the Freemasons' Tavern on the 17th of
June next.
DRATII or LORD Tammirows.—The Right Hon.
Hoary Ifeetagn Upton, Vimoost Templetown, expired os
Saturday morning at hie residence in the Missy, in his
64th year. The deceased peer was the only see of the first
viscount, his scalier Lewin been the only daughter of the
fifth Earl of _ &Welch. He - born at Dorking is

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land gratis for cotton-growing, to a duly conati• As the deemeseated d— the descended
tuted Company, which is at liberty to select for to his brother, the Hoe. George Frederick Upton, who
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featddeet.d daughter.hw.of
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itself. The term may be extended ; but it may rcrr,:rl.l
not ; and the colony must take care of its own the Coldstream Guerda from 18.F5 to 1858, ie which latter
interests, and get labour elsewhere if it is not sup- Iti's trhabet:trieVtela.mallr,gen:rill. H
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plied from home. The colony could absorb 2,000 Hie lordship wee nominated a C.B. is IAIS, and 71)1a.
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labourers per month, between the port and the rated with the %stole of the Logics of Hoses: is the fol-
. . 'omen year. He has represented Antrim sines Slay 18159.
briali. There are five cotton companies in active o
OLAND.—A meeting is announced to be geld at
operation. As our readers are aware, some money the Town•hall. Woolwich. oe Thursday sett, is favour of
has been sent thence, and more from other places, YeAP°4l. Mr. P. assneur, ILP. Mr. Aegereteie, 11.1.
lderman or providing a free passage; and yet the emigration will lame, X.P., and Cense
pressa,.