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EMIGRATION.-Sir P. Earp, in his new work on the
" Gold Colonies of Australia," after describing the
various classes who would find it expedient to emigrate,
says, "Another class of persons is much wanted in
Australia, and it is a class with which England is but
too well furnished, viz., females. The• disproportion of
the sexes, though much has been done of late to remedy
it, is still very great ' • and if taken out under parental
protection, or under the auspices of the London Com-
mittees for the purpose of female emigration, too many
females can scarcely be sent. Much will, however, de-
pend on themselves. Australian squatters and gold-
hunters are • well to do in the world, and have
abundant means of creating desirable homes, but they
have no discrimination as to what is wanted to make
a home desirable. Industrious, young women, even
though with little pretension to beauty, would not be
long in finding such homes ; but fine ladies, posseSsing
nothing beyond the trash accomplishments which in
England are thought so much of, would not only not
succeed in forming favourable alliances, but would run
great risk of the lowest social degradation. Young
women who contemplate emigrating, should, however,
remember that the settlers require industrious, domesti-
cated wives ; and that they are sufficiently acute not to
take any other. Useless fine ladies are completely out
;they areelnenoiee fortlikel educational
likely tdom
tariorynal;
numbertohfeplacne
in Australia
is already overdone, they will not con-
descend to become servants, and they cannot get back
Aualreadystralia
in the e
to England. For the introduction of industrious,
unpretending gilrs, whether as wives or servants, there
is scarcely any limit. The step, however, is a serious
one, and cannot be recalled—once made, it must result
in great good or great evil—there is nothing interme-
diate. The home, whenever found, will be a plentiful
one, but it will be an industrious one. Indeed, without
constant occupation, the life of a woman in the interior
of Australia would be insupportable. Shut out from the
world, without other amusement than that arising from
her duto to her home, industry would become to her a
necessary of life. Such a life of solitude has, however,
one great advantage—a few years only are requisite to
accumulate a sufficient to spend the remainder of.life in
the comforts of society."
COLONIAL " BußKlNG."—Another thievish importa-
tion from the parent country has made its appearance
over
the
city,
e e t
f when
a e
in the City of Melbourne within the last week, which is
nothing less than a system of "burking." A new ar-
rival was passing through one of the narrow streets of
e. Be
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Being
fellows lsaot
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active
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its
towards s
armed
clammyi m
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we
isud-
denly a
folds
huge American dagger, he resisted the diabolical at-
tempt
litt e
hrt
made upon him,. and in brandishing his weapon,
the sight of the glittering and
and theylformid am
formidable steel
teeeelstrock
terror into the villains' away
Hcrald, erEmPllo)ing their foul purpose.— Melldnornc
without ar •