The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-03 00:00:00

EMIGRATION TO THE CAPE OF GOOD ROPE.

The Cape Town Immigration Board, at their last
meeting, a few days before the deportees of the
resolved to forward tbe following communication to the Emi-
gration Commissioner In England:
Immigration.olfloe, Caps Town, July 20, 18.59.
The Honourable W. Field, Fag., Emigrauott Commissioner,
London.

Sir,—l have the honour to ackaowledr the receipt of
three letters from you of the 6th ultimo, soquejnting me, tor
the inf. rmation of the Immigration Board, of the &lecture
antis Burlington with emigrints on the 30th Ray, end of
your having chartered the Lord Raglan to convey emi-
grants to Table Bay, which were to embark on the, l6th
instant. The board instructs me to inform you that the im-
migrants ter Bride have all t.ken employment, and
with the exception of • few, have quitted the depot—
those remaining being the parents of children sufferiug from
measles. Several remained also for mune days. owing to
the unfavourable state of the weather, and the difficulty ex-
isting at the present time to procuring conveyance for their
removal to the interior. The wages obtained by most of them
me quite equal to former raters, se will be men by s list ac-
companying this. The board deeires me to call your atten-
tion to the drearnstance of one of the immigrants per Bride,
named Simon Luau, havine died of consumption the day
after his snivel, and would recommend a more strict in-
quiry into the health of emigrants generally, and that none
be sent out but such as are and have been for some time in
perfect health, end in the habit of working for wages.
Luray, according to the statement of the surgeon-superin-
tendent, Dr. Pears., came on board in a very delimit. and
precarious state of health, showing evident symptoms of
consumption ; and it has come to the knowledge of the
board that revere! seat out on former occasions, particularly
of the Brotch per Gipsy Bride, were invalids in search of
health, some of whom have died, and a few recovered.
Lucas leaves a wive and etc children, with the prospect of a
seventh, allot whom continue at the depot at the expense of
government. With regard to farm labourers, the board oon-
eiders it meet undesirable that such immigrants should be
encumbered with large families, and particularly with any
number of young children, each operatinglas a hindrance to
their obtaining ready employment; end when they do mew
with employment, the wages they receive are sometimes so
inadequate to meet their expenses that they nitural
feel dissetirtied, and become disheartened. The board
deems it necessary to remark upon the practice
adopted in come come by the agents employed under
our direction' as has been stated by the imm te them-
tetra., of describing a man Incorrectly in to his trade
or calling, in proof which I herewith enclose a list of names
of men who declared they were refused to be received under
the heed of their proper felling, but were allowed to enter
themselves under some other head, to order to render them-
wires eligible. This tabs statement has given dee to con-
siderable unpleasant-nem and disappointment in one or two
. .

cases ; it mis;leada the public, and ceitees the immigrant who
refuses employment to puffer. In consequence of several of
the last immigrants cousidering themeelme privileged to re-
main at the depot for the fell period of ten days, notwith-
standing that offers were made them of employment previous
to the snivel of that date, under an erroaeous impreeton that
suchermallowed, whether they were able to obtain situdions or
not, the board bee considered it neoeseary to alter that portion
of the rules of the depot bearing on the 'object, and to sub-
stitute five days as the period allowed, and no longer time,
except aids the special permission r f the board. There hen
been, generally, mach more difficulty in getting the lest than
sny previotut ommigranta to take employment, and but a few
°sly, comparatively, have shown any desire to proceed in-
land. The surgeon-superintendent of the Bride having
noted In his journal that there were strong reasons for be-
Having that the third mate dieing the mpg') bad given
spirits to some of the imrsigrante' and it appearing from the
statement evade by him that ouchs's' the ogee, the gratuity
to which he would have been otherwise entitled was withheld
from him. This the board ondiders it necessary to comma.
nicere, in order that, by making known what has been done
in this Mauna, it may prove a warning to other officers on
board ernigtaet yam& (swim here .—I have, he.,
"W. gammon, Secretary."
The following is the male of wage' et which engagements
were made in Cope Town by the immigrant* per Bride
Fenn lebonrers, 21. to2l. 10s., with board and lodging end 3, to
4 per day wehout ditto; railway labourers, as. 64. to Is.
per day; stonemasons, 6a. 6d. per day; wheelwrights, 6.. 6d.
to per day; carpenters and Jaime's, 75.; coachbuildera,
6b4l6;oesazelrs, pieee-work, toad to 6s. or 7s, per diq; ca-
ms, 6s. per day, or piecework; butchers, 31. Wee
per mouth ; blacksmiths, 6e. to 7s. per day; tailors, piece.
work, ie. to Sr. per day; painters and glatims, 3/. 10e. pet
month and found, or plea-work; briek•mtkers, piece-work;
dreesmakers, 1. 101. per month end found ; hmuottmakts mid
nurses, 11. to 11. 10s. per month and found; female 000ko.
It. to 21. per month and tend.

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VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMO-
TIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.

Fenian Department.—Lord Edward Percy Ht.
Maur has pawed his examination Si unpaid attaelef at
Vienna. Mr. Doff Ainslie Grant beg pared his txaminatios
as unpaid attache at Madrid. Mr. A. C. Gaoling has pained
Lie examination as unpaid attache at Pmts.
War-ottice.—Metters. George Mackie Lewis, Charles WTI.
lism Baker, John Pater, J. W. Heritage, John PtU'•t
Macke, sod S. F. G. Osborne, have pure, their examina-
tion fur temporary clerkships in the War-offica. Messrs. J.
L. Robertson and Astlay Cooper Ryland have passed their
examination as depu•y-amnant comminary-general in
Tasmania.

Omen; Postsoram.—Mr. Thomas Brown has been sp.
pointed a c'erk at Liverpool. Mr. Cheeks Wilde bee been
app Awed a clerk at !Eruption-on-names!.
The Admirslty.—Mr. John Conroy Hutcheson has beset
appointed a temporary clerk.
Customs.—Mr. John Itslph, collector at Cheater. ha been
promoted to be collector at Sligo. Mr. P. M. Mac,
controller at Hamming, bas been promoted to be collector
at Padetow. Mr. George Berard has pawed hie examitiation
as clerk at Helmet Mr. John Graham bet passed his exa-
mination se tideeratter at North Shields.

Inland Revenue Department.—Stamps and Tires Branch.
—Mr. John Purdue, inspector of taxes, Somata/it-house;
Mr. John Symons, inspector of tame at Metal ; end Mr.
Richard Mayne, surveyor of tare* at Camden-town, are
about to lathe on superannuation. Mr. J. B. Allan, surveyor
of tax s, Kendal, has been promoted to Chaltoeford district.
Hades Brancia.—Maftra. J. Hamilton, profsupervie
HAAS; J. Driakwrtar, of Dublin; Robert
Dublin second district, have been promoted to the rank of
surveying-general examiners at Somereet.house. Mr. J.
Halning, London east district, has been appointed arabotant
export surveyor, vies Mr. G. H. Smith, deceased. Mr. W.
11. Newman, supervisor of Northampton, bas succeeded Mr.
T. Drinkwatir in Dublin first district.
. .

Ceti.la.—Mr. Matthew Ryan, Inopeotor of Customs fa
Upper and Lower Canada, has retired, and the office is
alviiiihed. Mr. Thomas Worthiegton, inspector, Upper
Canada, has been appointed aaaiatant commissioner of car
tome. . .

East Indies.—Loed Mick Brown bee been appointed
under secretary to the government of Bengal. Dir. A. R.
Thompson boa been appointed knfor secretary to the go-
vernment of Bengal. Mr. G. E. Ban, sonstant commit-
sinner to Rangoon, has been appointed collector of customs
at Meeady. Lieut. W. F. Grey hue been appointed an
assistant cemenisalonn at Henzada.—Oivil Service Gazette.

W. T. Copeland, Esq., M.P., has presented through
the chairman the munificent contribution of the following
opecimens of the ceramic art from his manufactory in the
Potteries to the Lichfield museum:—The busts of Lord
Helier Lord J. Rummell, Duke of Wellington, O'Connell.
Sir It. Peel, Sir C. Campbell. Mr. Sparrow, Cooper, Gen
Outram, Havelock, Jenny Lind, Emperor of Russia, Lord
George Bannock. and Sir Wolter Scott; ales three large
biota of Juno, Adadne, and Clytic ; and the beautiful groups
of the Bathers, Sabine, Little Nell, Boy and Rabbit, Paul
gni Virginia, Mother and Child, Boy with Shell, and group
of Terriers. Altogether it is an exquisite and valuable col-
lection, and is an important addition to the institution, r
showing the productions of this county.
A VISIT TO LEIGH HUNT.—The following pump
occurs in a book by Colonel Fuller (an American officer), 4116.
titled . Seethe from a Locomotive ; or, Life and History la
Europe "
—" On entering the Little parlour, tuthd as a
' study, a tall figure, dressed in a waning gown, with a
lass cape, came forwaril awl graved my hand with a sort of
Burins tenderisers and cathuaimm, and said, lem glad
to welcrine • gentleman who hens poken such hearty words
for Buinis.' Tea err soon ordered; and for two delight-
ful boars I eat Bedroll's to the fluent sad wattage ing
talk of the contemporary, the companion, and the trend
of Byrom, Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey,
Lamb, Hoots, Campbell, and all the men of wit and
wisdom who*. stars have sparkled sad vanished in the
literary galaxy of England during the lest fifty yeare. Leigh
Hunt is now nearly eighty years of age; and yet his
complexion has the faiths.. and oottness of youth. lib
hair is a. white as rho bloom of the almond-tree, sad
as fall and glom, as the head of a child. His brow is
broad sr beautiful, and his eye sa gentle and se clear
• that of • woman who has never seen a cloudy day.
His beat is as merry as a bird's, and his look sad
manner alternately playful and pensive, but without
▪ shadow of sadness. The dear old man, with all his pre-
Hone poetic memories—with his venerable juvenility—this
genial octoseearisn, this unfailing roes in the scow—how
like he senor to hie own glorious ' Abort Ben Adhem;
that sweet 'mere of all Religion distilled into a tingle drop ;
soil which by the way, as the author has kindly sent it to
me, written in hie own beautiful hand, I will here quote,
eltbough it may be already familiar to every schoolboy la
America :

" Abon Ben Adhetn (may hie tribe increase i)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,
And saw within the moonlight in his tome,
Making it rich, end, like • lily in bloom,
An angel, writing to in. book of gold.
Exceeding peace and made Ben Adbats bold ;
And to the presence in the room b• said :
• What writeet thou?' The vision netted Its head,
And, with a look, wade of ell sweet accord,
Answered, ' The names of those that i.e.t the Lord;
• And is mine oat r staid About. • Nov, net so,
Replied lb. angel. Aton spoke more low,
But dimity still, and said,' I pray thee, then,
Write me se one who lover hie billow wen.'
The snarl wrote, and vanished. The text night
It came mein with a gruet wskening light,
Mad abosid the natnee whom love of God had bissi'd,
And, to Ben Adheue a Lima led all the test."