The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-28 00:00:00

FEMALE EMIGRATION.

The fourth annual meeting of the British Ladies' Fe-
male Emigration Society for providing matrons, books,
and employment during the voyage, visiting ships, &c.,
was held yesterday afternoon, at the Hanover-square
Rooms. The Earl of Harrowby occupied the chair.
The Noble CHAIRMAN, in addressing the meeting—a
very crowded one—said, in effect, whatever may be the
public feeling as regards emigration, it cannot be doubted
that the means of instruction and profitable employment
should be provided to counteract the certain demo-
ralization of idleness and ignorance. By the agency
of this society a large mass of persons, gathered toge-
ther at the depot, and on board ship, are brought
under religious instruction at comparatively small ex-
pense. At few other seasons are the emigrants ready to
listen to advice, or able to devote so large a portion of
their time to self-improvement. It is plainly our duty
to embrace these opportunities and to do what in us
lies, that the people which England sends forth shall
make her colonies prosperous and respected. From the
report it appeared that the total number of ships visited
during the past year was made up as follows :-109
Government ships, carrying 39,742 emigrants ; 92 pri-
vate ships, carrying 23,000 ; 13 sailing from Liverpool,
carrying 3,250 ; and 24 sailing from Bristol, carrying
6,0-00—in all 238 ships, carrying nearly 71,992 emigrants.
The total receipts of the society by annual subscriptions
for the year ending April was 370/. 175.; donations 6101.
Bs. id.; collections, 441. 7s. 6d.; total, 1,0251. 12s. 7d.;
with the balance from last year (1901. 71s. 5d.) made a
total of 1,216/. 4s. The expenditure had been 9581.,
leaving a balance in hand of 2581. 4s. The com-
mittee are still unable, from want of funds, to en-
gage the services of salaried matrons. All they can
do at present is to give them, prior to embarkation, a
short course of instruction in their duties generally. To
obviate this difficulty it is proposed to raise immediately
a fund of 1,000/.

The meeting was afterwards addressed by several
gentlemen, among whom
Archdeacon DAVIS, from Melbourne, detailed the
difficulties of a voyage of 14,000 miles. lie said that in
Victoria the proportion of males to females was 10 to 1.
Where this disparagement in numbers exist, there is
great danger to the female emigrants on arrival if not
adequately protected. No relief was to be found for idle•
ness in Melbourne or other places in Australia. The idler
was passed by with contempt by everybody. The picture
given by the rev. gentleman of Tasmania was the reverse
of everything that is good.
Resolutions in conformity with the objects of the meet-
ing having been agreed to, a vote of thanks to the chair-
man terminated the proceedings.

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244, Strand, London,

AN OLD MAN-obi-WAIVE! MAN.—There is now living
in Rutland-street, Hulme, an aged veteran named
Joseph Gillman, who until very lately has maintftined
himself by the labour of his own hands. tie was born
at Little Over, near Derby, in the year 1759. He ac-
companied Lord Rodney on a cruise to the West Indies,
on board the Triumph, 74, in the year 1774. He was
engaged in the memorable battle off Port Royal,
Martinique, between Lord Rodney and De Grasse,
in 1782. His next general engagement was on the
glorious Ist of June, in 1794, in the Bay of Biscay,
under Lord Howe. On the morning of that day to his
gun were appointed 16 men, and in the evening only
six of them were left alive. His next engagement was
on the 17th of June, 1795, under Lord Cornwallis,
against the French fleet of 27 ships of war. The
English fleet numbered nine only. The battle 'was
in 1802,
waged for 12 hours, off Brest, and undecided.
-!.1. aterwards removed on board the San Josef,
George, 98 guns,
the Baltic, and hadinhilvs hfuicllh
and volunteered from that vessel to the Prince
Nelson's flag-ehiP d was paid off at PlymOuth
hagen. In that action he wshashaerpe
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boat, and assisted to
After this he enteredset fire to a vessel of the enemy.
in which he had 61. a
month,
board the Hensley privateer,
for French East Indiamr?, cruising on the look 1 out
equinoctial, having crosse _in the neighbourhood -of a the
d the line, he believes, liun-
dreds of times.—Manc ea er Examiner.
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