The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-08 00:00:00

' while the cost of keeping servants will advance
rapidly. Young gentlemen and young ladies, de-
riving that title from dress, education, and accom-
plishments alone, will, if things go on as they are
now doing, find it remunerative enough to use
their muscular system a little more than many of
them have done ; and if they can guide its exer-
tions by a clear head and a willing heart, they
need not despair even in old England. If, how-
ever, like the farmer, with whose remark we began,
they cannot brook the apron, the paper cap, or
the smock frock at home, they can easily put up
with it all in a colony. There, not only are the
witnesses of their former habits left behind, but
all their new associates will live in like style, or
rather in no style, with themselves. Many will
also be found who will sympathise with them inthe
first hardships of a change which they themselves
experienced. Still the remedy is the same ; there
must be the change from polished idleness to plain
rough work. They must take Mrs. CHISHOLM for
their teacher, must doff the attire of the office, the
counting-house, and. the parlour, and make up
their minds to honest industry in the most un-
varnished sense of the phrase.
On no other terms can our overdone middle
classes relieve themselves. Labour is alleviating its
condition by emigration, in the
their
ecase both of fanthdoosef
who go to a better market fothose who remain to enjoy a widened one. The
hundreds of young men and young women who
answer
in vain every advertisement for a secre-
tary, clerk, or railway situation, for a nursery
governess, or a teacher of every accomplishment
for 201. a year, must relieve their market also.
They are not wanted here ; they are not wanted
1 anywhere. In this country they only lower the
salaries of the lucky ones who get a berth till the
luck is hardly to be envied. In Australia, or in
Canada, they are equally superfluous ; diggers in
Australia, or working-farmers in Canada, espe-
t cially if commanding but a very moderate amount
of capital, may see their way to a certain inde-
pendence ; but educated quill-drivers find no use
for their powers but that of writing melancholy
letters home. If, however, whether male or
female, they have sufficient physical vigour to get
over the commencement of a life of sober work,
their sky soon begins to brighten. Habit soon
makes all easy, robuster health and conscious
independence imparts the pride of men and women
to their bearing. They soon cease to be ashamed
of what daily makes them aware of its advantages,
and the hope of yet better days makes the young
lady, from some terrace in an English town, sing
merrily in a Melbourne kitchen ; or a 8.A., and
even an M.A., of one of our universities, whistle
as he drives his waggon to and from the baggage-
covered quays. For our part, we still prefer
agriculture to gold digging. Van Diemen's Land
is now becoming as wealthy by the gold diggers
paying 4s. for the 41b. loaf; as the diggers are by
keeping what they can save after such enormous
expenses, and so many failures. The grower of
food will for a long time have the advantage over
the digger. The supplies from England or America
are so distant, that all the farmers within easy
reach of the Land of Gold must always have a
first-rate market for their produce. The tempta-
tions and the risks of the agricultural life are a'so
much less, and the prospect every way better for
those who purpose a colonial settlement. In
regard to Canada, the letter in our Friday's paper,
from an old correspondent, entirely bears out Mr.
RONEY'S interesting statements. There can be no
doubt that the able-bodied industrious labourer,
the little farmer of small capital, hardly getting a
living on a few acres of land, and carting for his
neighbours ; the farmer's son, active and strong,
with an amount of property which here is scarcely
sufficient to work properly a small farm ; the
farmer himself, yet hale, with a vigorous rising
family, hardly able to make two ends meet—
would all find on the Banks of the Ottawa, and
almost anywhere in Canada, a glorious field for
their industry or their capital.

An interesting festivity took place last evening
at Dover, in celebration of the opening of the
Lord Warden Hotel—a splendid establishment
in connection with the terminus at that seaport
of the South-Eastern Railway, and one which it
is understood will be conducted upon a scale pre-
cisely similar to that of the Pavilion Hotel at
Folkestone. The occasion was one possessing a
twofold interest in every respect entitled to pub-
lic consideration. It indicated a large amount of
local prosperity already achieved, while, at the
same time, it augured the yet farther continuance
of that success and its more extended develop-
ment. During the last ten years, as the Chair-
man of the occasion intimated yesterday, the con-
tinental traffic via Dover has been actually
doubled, and this, moreover, notwithstanding the
deteriorating effects of perpetual competition from
London direct and from Folkestone. Doubled
in a single decade, while the railway sys-
tem of the Continent may still be con-
sidered as, comparatively speaking, only
arrived at the period of its commencement,
the traffic through Dover to and fro between
France and England may be reasonably expected
to attain before long an increase much more ex-
traordinary. It is only now, as Mr. JAMES
IVIACGREGOR remarked last evening, that a trunk
line of 360 miles has connected the frontiers of
Spain with the city of Bordeaux, while in another
direction a yet larger enterprise of a similar
character, a trunk line 400 miles in length, has
j ust been completed between Strasburg and
Bwitzerland—in addition to all which it may be
confidently anticipated that Dover and Marseilles
will speedily be brought together by a new route
of direct steam communication. Bearing those
three facts in recollection, it must consequently,
we take it, be perfectly obvious that a remarkable
stimulus is at this moment on the eve of being
imparted to that Continental traffic, the extension
of which has even now been so astonishing both
in rapidity and magnitude. And of the Conti-
nental traffic Dover remains up to this hour
indisputably the focus, or centre, or prin-
cipal point of radiation. Of this fact we can-
not possibly doubt for an instant even while
we remember the sudden rise of the neighbour-
ing harbour of Folkestone. It becomes a matter
of interest, therefore, to all those who are soli-
citous to observe the fulfilment of those golden
anticipations, that the South-Eastern Railway
Company should in all respects aid, as far as it
possibly can, this advance along the path of social,
physical, political, and commercial improvement.
It cannot be forgotten, of course, that for the
progress already made in the direction above inch-
cated, the country is mainly, if not exclusively,
indebted to the enterprise displayed by the direc-
tors and promoters of that vast establishment.
Without the intervention of the South-Eastern
Railway Company, nothing of all this, obviously
enough, could in any way have been accomplished.
But for the zeal shown by the Directors of
that company
in acquitting themselves of their
onerous and complicated responsibilities, we might
still have been not very far ahead of that miser-
able old systemuner mentioned last evening by Mr.
between D
RICE
half a dazed Wretched boat traversed the channel
and at a snail's pace, with
bed, cabined, and.
eoecl_Passengers literally " crib-
the like of which nowadays
fora period during
comfortably from LoYnlidthe traveller may pro-
ceedfortifications ! Thanks to the
Bridge to the Paris
I ment, however, of the solie.,amirable manage-
th Eastern Railway
Company, matters have arrived at a position
wonderfully different. The original project has
been happily conducted by that management mid-
way between the Scylla, of the public and
the Cha-
rybdis of the shareholders—the latter
being an in-
satiable great of diN ide , nds and the former an equally
insatiable greed of accommodation. Insomuch,
indeed, has the onward movement been expedited
by the Directors in spite of all these interposing
difficulties, that one of the after-dinner orators
yesterday had the delightful effrontery to talk
about the certainty of the time arriving when
travellers—[don't let the reader be alarmed, we
'S ever-
arc act going to allude to Mr. MACAMAY
lasting New Zealander !]—when travellers from
China shall procure tickets at the South-Eastern
Railway Station to carry them direct to Pekin.
And, what was more, the charming audacity
of the suggestion could be listened to last