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LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9.

OF all the reports of public proceedings which
have issued from the distressed districts in the
north, the strangest must surely be that of the
meeting of the Manchester Board of Guardians
last Thursday. There must be some odd people
at Manchester ; and it seems to be one effect of
the pressure of distress to bring out what eccen-
tricity there is. We saw last week that there is
great eagerness in other Lancashire towns to dis-
claim the remarks of the Mayor of MANCHESTER
in disparagement of the discretion and usefulness
of the LORD MAYOR'S London Committee for the
management of the Relief Fund; and we have
no doubt we shall presently hear of equally strong
remonstrances against the treatment inflicted on
the plan for Female Emigration to the colonies by
certain citizens of Manchester at the Board of
Guardians last Thursday. While reading some of
the speeches it is scarcely possible to believe that
they could have been uttered in earnest by men
charged with the care of the poor of their town.
Not only Mime RYE but everybody who feels any
interest in social affairs thought at once of Emigra-
tion as a resource for the younger operatives of
Lancashire as soon as the distress became urgent.
Some of our colonies are in urgent need of domestic
service of all kinds, and of an equalisation of the
numbers of men and -women. In Lancashire and
Cheshire, meantime, the gravest anxiety under the
distress has been felt on account of the young
women who are cast adrift from work and wages
under circumstances of strong peril to their re-
spectability. What could be clearer than that
it would be a great blessing if any practic-
able number of respectable and hardworking
young women could be removed from the scene
where there is nothing for them to do and enjoy,
and placed in the midst of well-paid work, with a
prospect of a happy home. Miss RYE and her
friends were not in a hurry, however. They have
learned by study and experience the serious nature
of their work ; and they did not fly to Lancashire,
and offer rash invitations to hungry people to fly
to a paradise beyond sea. Miss RYE has herself
informed us that she had doubts about the fitness
of the factory women to meet the needs of the co-
lonies ; and she waited and watched, and studied
the case in silence. At length, the evidence she
wanted appeared through the channel of Mrs.
POTTER'S scheme for placing young women in
domestic service, for training, as well as for tem-
porary subsistence. The characters given of these
young women generally are so good, in regard to
the spirit and temper with which they go about
their new work, and their capacity of being
trained to it is so favourable, that Miss
Rye's doubts were removed. In answer to
urgent petitions from the distressed districts that
she would go, and organise • scheme of Emi-
gration, she at length replied publicly that she
was coming to consult with them what could be
done. Through the Manchester Board of Guar-
dians we now learn that she has been there ; and
the Chairman, Mr. RICKARDS, declares that he
finds her a practical woman, furnished with the
good sense and knowledge requisite for the conduct
of such measures as she proposes. Some of the
Guardians, however, think that she may be sus-
ceptible of improvement ; and they kindly pro-
pose to increase her wisdom, to change her aims,
to alter her methods, to make a new thing alto-
gether of the enterprise to which she has devoted
herself, after years of such study as they have not
yet entered upon. These gentlemen imagine that
respectable young women will not know what
to do with themselves in the colonies ; they
fancy that the life is so rough and rude that
it should be reserved as a sort of punishment
for unsteady girls ; they avow themselves disposed
to keep the good girls at home, and propose that
Mils RYE shall give up her Emigration scheme for
one of transportation, for the relief of the mother
country. One sentimental speaker especially re-
commends a young thief as a specimen of the sub-
jects Miss RYE should take in hand for reformatory
purposes. It seems never to have entered the
heads of these speakers that there are respectable
girls enough to do both the going and staying.
The number who could by any possibility go would
be scarcely missed from the working. class of Lan-
cashire—great as would be their importance in
British Columbia or in Queensland or in Natal.
It is • very great object to save from suffering and
degradation each one of the hundreds who might
be sent ; it is a very great object that the existing
homes in the colonies should be made comfortable
and civilised ; it is a very great object that
as many hundreds of hard-working settlers
(farmers, artisans, tradesmen, and labourers)
should have the possibility of marriage and a
home brought within their reach ; and these bene-
fits warrant all the devotion which we see given
to the object. But the utmost success of the
plan would not strip Lancashire of its steady
young women, nor bring the number down to any-

thing like that which the manufacture can,. at
best, demand for years to come.
Miss RYE may safely promise that she will
leave under the care of the Guardians as many
respctable young women as they will at all know
how to sustain in their respectability ; and on her
part it must needs be pointed out, as the gentle-
men cannot see it without, that they have been
guilty of outrageous impertinence in their com-
ments on the proposal before them. Their Chairman
communicated the proposal, of which he thought
favourably; viz., that the Guardians should use
the power which they possess to a certain extent
of contributing to the expenses of the Emigration of
some of the persons actually on the rates. The
members of the Board had to form and express
an opinion on this proposal, and they had of course
full liberty to explain the grounds of their opinion.
Four of the members went further than this, and
what they said amounts to • recommendation to
Miss RvE to relieve them of bad and doubtful
subjects by transportation to the colonies, where
the chances of housekeepers and bachelors and
society at large would depend on the reformation
of the immigrants, under the hard circumstances
and soft sentiments of their new life, and of the
philanthropic Guardians who sent them there.
The reply on Miss RYE'S part, if any were
needed, would be very short. She wants the very
best sort of working women for such an object as
founding society in a new region. She must have
women of unquestionable integrity and industry,
of sound health and cheerful temper, and ability
to learn, wherewith to supply the needs of colo-
nial homes, from that of the bishop in the city, to
the farmhouse in the wilds. She must have
women to whom none of us would be afraid or
ashamed to entrust the keeping of the honest and
genial repute of the English maiden and matron.
These Manchester gentlemen may think that
it is no concern of theirs whether our countrymen,
so far away, get good wives, or have only a crowd
of unsteady and unpromising women to choose
from ; but we doubt whether that sort of conside-
ration entered their heads at all. Every citizen,'
however, who has the honour of his country, and
the welfare of future communities at heart will
understand and appreciate Miss RvE's purposes,
and the qualifications she brings to bear on them.
The Chairman of the Manchester Board is evi-
dently one of these, and his testimony to Miss
RYE'S title to help and instruct the Guardians in
their arduous work of relief reads as an uncon-
scious and inevitable rebuke of the gentlemen who
were exposing themselves so pitiably.
The scene speaks for itself, and it would not be
necessary to advert to it but for two reasons. It is
a warning to us to guard against any notion getting
abroad that we are thinking of shipping off our
frail and foolish young women to the colonies;
and it suggests some very serious thoughts on
behalf of a distressed operative population which is
more or less at the mercy of Guardians so ill-
informed, and so comfortably unconscious of their
own folly.

THE PRINCE OF WALES AND PRINCE
ALFRED AT BRUSSELS.

BRUSSELS, Stet 8.

To-day a grand ch, janer was given at the palace
of Brussels, at which the Prince of Wales and a
number of distinguished personages were present.
The Prince and Princess Christian of Denmark,
with the Princess Alexandra, arrived here this
afternoon, and were received with military honours
at the railway station. _ _ _

A reception afterwards took place at the palace.
This afternoon the Prince of \Vales, the Count of
Flanders, the Duchess of Brabant, and the Royal
Family of Denmark visited the city and the Zoolo-
gical Gardens.

Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie
of Ramis (Princese of Lenclitemberg), attended by the
Countess de Vaeykoff, Prince Ga'Main, Mr. Museard (secre-
tary), and suite, have left town for Dover, en route to
Berlin.

His Excellency M. Draneht Bey has arrived at
Claridge's Hotel, from Pads.
The Princes and Princess of Viano have left
Ttoinas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Paris.
The Count and Countess Miniscalchi have re-
turned to Claridge's Hotel from Warwick.

The Countess of Durham was safely delivered of
a daughter on Friday last, at Lambton Castle. Her lady-
ship and infant are progressing favourably.

Lord Loudesborough has arrived at Thomas's
Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Grimace, Yorkshire.

Lord de Lisle and Dudley, and Mr., Dirs., and
Mir Henene have left the St. George. Hotel.
Lord Thomas and Lady Sophia Cecil have arrived
in town from Burghley Hall, Stamford.

Sir James and Lady Matheson are receiving a
amnion of skitors at Stornoway Castle, Isle of Lewis.

The Crown Princess of Prussia will proceed to
Reinhardsbruno on the 15th inst., with bar children, and
will remain there during the stay of Queen Victoria.
The Bourne Gazette of Berlin states that Prince
Alfred has sent word from Dantsic that he will not be able
to pay his intended visit to the Prince Royal of Prussia, or
be present at Potsdam at the christening of the young
prince.

It is stated in a letter from Edenkoben that King
Louis of Bavaria intends to proceed in the strioteet inCoflll iio
by way of Strasburg, Basle, and Geneva to Marseilles, on his
way to Rome, where his Majesty will stay for two months.

The King of Hanover has arrived at Osnabruck
with his family, and intends to remain there for some time.
On the 3rd instant the Grand Duke of Hesse
Darmstadt inspected a body of troops at Worms. The Prince
and Princess Louis of Besse arrived in the town early in
the morning from Auerbach, and whilst his royal highness
joined the grand duke, the princess paid a visit to the cathe-
dral, the magnificent proportions and gorgeous architecture
of which greatly excited the admiration of the distinguished
visitor. On leaving the cathedral she inspected some taste.
fully Isil out gardens adjoining, and again visited the cathe-
dral and a portion of the interesting old town. The princes&
was then driven to the Rhine, where a boat was in waiting
gaily dressed out with fiags, and manned by the persons
employed at the grand ducal bridge. Her royal highness
enjoyed a abort trip on the river, and then, about half-past
two, rejoined her husband and returned to Auerbach.

Some distinguished members of the imperial
family of Austria, under the incognito of the Count Schuss-
kirchen and suite, yesterday visited Woolwich Arsenal by
special notification from Sir Edward Lugard, Under-Secre-
tary of State for the Department of War.
His Royal Highness Prince Adalbert of Prussia
visited Deptford Dockyard on Sunday, and inspected the
iron-cued ships Favourite and Enterprise.

Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clothilde left
the Palsis-Royal on Sunday for Menden.
The number of passengers arriving at Boulogne
from Folkestone and London in August last was 14,986.
There were 13,253 departing; making a total of 28,110
passengers from and to England in the mouth. In the
month of August, 1831, which had until now been that of the
largest passenger traffic on record, 11,571 passengers arrived,
and 11,151 departed ; making a total of 12,722. The past
month shows, consequently, an increase of 5,517 pawn.
gets on the number which until now had marked the most
active period in the international intercourse.
The sth and 6th volumes of Varnhagen von Ense's
Memoirs, the seizure of which by the Berlin police has
been already announced, have also been seised at Leipsic at
the publisher's (Brockbaoa) and other booksellers.
The range of buildings erected at Sheerness for
the wives and families of the married non-commissioned
officers and men of the Royal Artillery, at a cost to the go-
vernment of 11,0001., is now completed, and only awaits the
official Inspection to be taken formal possession of by the
government.

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