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garrets of east London for the open plains of Adelaide,
and the sunny slopes of Sydney. We hear of one of
them drawing the great matrimonial prize of a hus-
band with 2, 000/. a year ; and though we cannot hold
out such tempting lures to all emigrating maidens,
it is something to know that they may reasonably
expect honest and well-conducted husbands, good
houses, and abundance of the necessaries of life.
The committee of the fund state, however, that
their resources are now nearly exhausted ; and at
the present rates of freight, they will not be able
to procure passages for many more emigrants. On
examining the society's balance-sheet, we find that
the girls have been hitherto sent out at a cost of
about 181. per head—a small sum for a philanthro-
pist to invest in securing an honest English mother
to a colony—a small sum for a religious person to
give for the sake of saving a Christian soul from
the fearful temptations of ill-requited toil and
grinding misery. We do not mean to say that every
girl has turned out well, or that all the emigrant
ships have been under equally good discipline. All
attempts at charity, however judiciously devised
and ably executed, have their exceptional cases.
But, as a whole, the Female Emigration Fund has
had complete success. The longer it works, the
better it works ; and we most earnestly hope that
the appeal which is now being urged for its conti-
nuance and expansion will be immediately and
warmly responded to.
There are two points of view under which this
subject presents itself—the amount of
.good 9on-
ferred-On the girls themselves, and on the class to
which they belong, as emigrants, and the benefits
which they offer to the colony as immigrants. So
far as our appeal is concerned, we may pass rapidly
over the latter consideration. The Female Emigra-
tion Fund not only promotes an object of general
social utility, but it gives the mother country an
opportunity of retrieving some of the wrongs which
she has inflicted on her penal colonies. It is one
of the first duties of the State to secure, both at
home and in its dependencies, a respectable state
of public morals ; and our charity cannot be better
employed than in furthering the domestic happi-
ness and well being of our expatriated brethren:
A country's strength is in its hearths—the fireside
virtues are the secret of a nation's social integrity
—the security of the state is in the family. We
have sent enough of female corruption to the shores
of Australia—the present fund presents an oppor-
tunity for patriotism and charity to redress the in-
jury perpetrated by the State. It is a debt we
owe to our colonies to offer them the corrective of
an honest and unpolluted female population. In
sending pure wives and mothers to Australia, we
are cementing its attachment to the English Crown
and Government ; and the marvellous prosperity
of our southern dependencies, and the immense in-
ducements which they hold out to respectable wo-
men, seem to be providentially designed, among other
purposes, for relieving us from the dangerous and
unnatural excess of unemployed female industry
which exists at home.

But our immediate concern is with our own so-
cial duties here in England. We rejoice, indeed,
if by any means we can exercise a beneficial influ-
ence over the future of the Australian continent.
It is something that, in every respectable and
well-conducted girl whom we land at Sydney or
Adelaide, we are casting a good grain in that
mighty seed plot of nations, and providing for the
perpetuation of English blood and English vir-
tues and manners. But, Us regards ourselves, we
have personal responsibilities and duties towards
our poor, hard-worked, and much-tempted shirt-
sewers and waistcoat-makers: Their wages have
not risen—at least not in proportion to their needs;
and their moral perils certainly have not decreased.
E. ven on the lowest ground of expediency, it is our
interest to get rid of a superabundance of unem-
ployed females—a derangement of the social equi-
librium which holds out a powerful encouragement
to prostitution. To promote the emigration of yet
uncorrupted girls is economically, as well as morally,
a social duty ; for it strikes at the root of vices
which are no less expensive to the community than
they are destructive to the individual. All non-
productive classes are dangerous to the State ; and
never is the danger more formidable than when it
presents itself in the shape ofAn unemployed excess
f female population.
These are considerations which address themselves
to the patriot and the economist. Need we say
what higher motives appeal to philanthropy and
Christian duty on behalf of these forlorn and ne-
glected girls ? Not long since, in urging the claims
of the Church Penitentiary, we dwelt on the
necessity and duty of providing a remedy for female
profligacy. But if, politically as well as religiously,
prevention is better than cure, it is as much a
Christian obligation to forestall sin as to provide its
victims with a home. In the Emigration Fund
we have a scheme which is working well—which
is rescuing the weak from temptation, and the
poor from penury. Shall its work of mercy be per-
mitted to languish or expire ? We trust not.
Prosperous times like these bring with them new
and peculiar responsibilities ; and it must not be
forgotten that, while destitution has been alleviated
among the class for whom we plead, the cost of
emigration has risen very largely. If it is more
diffipult than ever for an honest girl to emigrate,
the greater is the charity of assisting her to ex-
change—like those whose letters we published on
Saturday—the fetid food of the stalls of Whiteeha-
pel for " the grapes and peaches of Perth," and the
hovels of Stepney for the land which seems almost
to reverse the Scriptural curse ; " for there is no
poor people here, everybody is doing well," as
"M. J." assures her " dear father and mother."
Even widows have a second chance, or rather a cer-
tainty, in that paradise of women—witness the
humble-minded "J. H.," now "J. W." The
Australian Ccolebs at present cannot think of
searching for a wife—it is the female emigrants who
are the choosers ; and if any decent girl remains
six montlls without her " stone house and lawn" at
William's Town or Swan River, it will only be from
embarrassment in selecting among her suitors.
Never was there a charitable enterprise which more
forcibly commended itself alike to the feelings of
the Christian philanthropist and the judgment of
the social reformer than the Female Emigration_
Fund ; and we earnestly trust that a great and
beneficial work, which has thus far so completely
justified the expectations of its promoters will not
be suffered to droop and languish for want of ade-
quate support.

THE FRENCH EMPEROR.
(From the Times. )

The customary receptions upon the recurrence
of the new year have been held by the Emperor of
the French in the Palace of the Tuileries, which
has been redecorated with unexampled splendour.
The richest furniture of the Garde Meuble has
been brought once more to light. Whatever bore 1
the stamp of the easy and unassuming household
of the Citizen King of past days is discarded as
unworthy of his magnificent successor ; and the
Royal abode in which, five years since, a gang of
armed marauders established themselves, amidst
the ruins of a princely family and all the touching
associations of domestic life, has passed through a
fresh course of gilding to fit it for the pomps and
vanities of another Empire. The scenery of that
great playhouse of the State is shifted, it seems,
as rapidly as the exits and the entrances of ifs
performers require. Some there are, no doubt,
among that laced and feathered throng of courtiers
who adhere to the place with unalterable fidelity,
and recognise in all the changes it has been their
lot to witness no certain rule of conduct but their
own interest. Yet, even among the names which
have just been added to the French Senate there
are few, if any, that can be counted either as a
loss or as an acquisition by any party.
relations
M. de in
Rochejacquelein and M. de Pastoret were already
known to have fallen off from the
their names once - belonged ; and the
of M. de Flahault with the Imperial
comipanions, and, with
family have long been matter of
even the household of the Emperor
composed of his old boon
. la nt notoriety.
cause
l i o principally
oi s a whichß u
the exception of Marshal Va
spectable General of ArmitliilltaerY) these great officers
e ranks ins t
ry.nor personal distinc-
toifeSutiantethheaivrernesepeithet7v
accustomedreceptionandtiie
le r ies,
took place, then, at
ocie y.
theTiTeui
by the Papal Corps Diplomatique, headed
Nuncio, who had
presented his cre-
dentials on the preceding
greeting on the n day, exchanged a rapid
new
But the studied year with the ruler of France.
absence of the principal Continental
Ambassadors whose recognition of the new Em-
pire had been not unintentionally postponed till this
day was past, was necessarily more remarked than
the presence' of those who attended the Imperial
levee ; and although there is no doubt that the
acknowledgment of the new
Empire will not be
long withheld—a,nd, indeed, the credentials of
several of the German Ministers are known to have
already arrived in Paris—the expressive coolness
manifested on this occasion has not been without
its effect on Louis Napoleon, and has entirely dis-
pelled the illusion of his cordial understanding
with the Northern Courts. We undex.stand that
the credentials of the envoys of these States

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will be in the form commonly in use between
the Sovereigns of Europe, although some doubt
has existed as to the precise appellation by
which the new Emperor is to be addressed. But
if the substance of the measure be unanimously
determined on, we are disposed to attach little
importance to verbal reservation, and if the thing
be done at all, it is worth while to do it civilly.
Nobody in writing to a stranger hesitates to sub-
scribe himself "Your most obedient servant," and
if the usage of diplomacy leads Queen Victoria to
style Louis Napoleon " her good brother," the
form would only acquire unnecessary importance
by its suppression. But though these forms will
probably be employed, unless the Court of St.
Petersburgh and Vienna endeavour to evade them
by some small subterfuge of language, we have
reason to believe that the recognition of the Empire
will be accompanied by a dry refusal to take any
cognisance of the internal changes which have led
to this alteration in the form of the French Go-
vernment. The plebiscite and the Smultus-consulte
which have been officially communicated to foreign
Powers by the French Government can have no
bearing on the external relations of France, and
the ground on which the Empire is now recognised
is solely the desire to maintain unimpaired all-those
conditions which have so long consolidated the
peace of Europe. Lord Malmesbury will, there-
fore, stand alone in his recorded admiration of the
manner in winch the French Empire has been
established on the basis of universal suffrage, for
the other great Powers, speaking in far more
guarded and reserved language, content them-
selves with a bare recognition of the known result.
Such will be the substance of their communica-
tions to France, and the language of the
three Courts will be similar, though not iden-
tical. The concert which Lord Malmesbury
had at one .time laboured to establish be-
tween the Continental Powers and her Majesty's
Government on this important subject was of
course materially affected by the strange panegyric
he thought proper to pronounce on the new Em-
peror, and by his naïve avowal of unqualified con-
fidence in his assertions—even when they were
addressed to the French Senate.
While the delay in the recognition of Louis Na-
paleon's new dignity by the leading Powers of the
Continent has caused a degree of dissatisfaction
and irritation which the form of the communication,
when made, will probably, not altogether remove,
it is not irrelevant to notice the appearance of a
pamphlet, which professes to treat of the " limits
of France," and does, in fact, revive the most ex-
travagant pretensions of territorial aggrandisement.
As a strict censorship is now exercised in France
over all works of less than 20 printed sheets, and
everything which has not the approval of the Go-
vernment is instantly prohibited, it must be inferred
that the opinions expressed in this pamphlet are not
without patrons and advocates in the State, and, in
fact, we have reason to believe that the same views
are very openly professed by M. de Persigny, now
Minister of the Interior. The pamphlet itself has
been profusely circulated, we might say distributed,
in the barracks of France, and it is read with avi-
dity by the army. Its object is to prove that the
French nation has steadily declined from its proper
position and influence in Europe, and that it can
only recover its natural ascendancy by its military
resources and by a large augmentation of territory
at the expense of its neighbours. The old theory
of the Alps and the Rhine as the natural boundaries
of the Empire is there revived, and the French
reader is informed, with the usual fatuity of such
compositions, that his Belgian and German neigh-
bours are eager to fall under the same yoke which
he bears himself. This vulgar trash would hardly
deserve the notice it has received if it were not to
be taken as an indication of some such latent pur-
pose in one portion at least of the French Govern-
ment. The public mind in France, which had been
excited by the rapid fortunes of the Imperial aspi-
rant, is suddenly chilled by the failure of several of
his schemes, and by the evident uneasiness of his

position at the discomfiture of these hopes. As
President of the Republic he seemed master of his
fate ; as Emperor he is already struggling under a
heavier burden than he has yet had to bear. This
attempt to divert the attention of the nation and
the ambition of the army into the old track of ra-
pine and conquest is probably no more than an
experiment on public opinion, but on several for-
mer occasions similar experimental pamphlets have
been tried, which led afterwards to more serious
results. It deserves, therefore, to be considered as
one of the signs of these times, that it shows with
how little cordiality on either side the usual forms
of official recognition , will be exchanged between
the French Government and the Northern Powers.

THE VICAR O.I`...ROTIIRRHAM 03t-'.Sat.RREg .;DAN-
SANTES.—The Rev: R. Moseley, the vicar of nether -
ham, on a late occasion spoke from the pulpit in con -
demnatory strains of the annual ball about to be give n
at that place, and went so far as to read out the name
of the patrons of the ball as objects of public reproba-
tion. The matter was represented to the Archbishop of
York, who disapproved of the proceeding, and the
Doncaster Gazette inform us that " Mr. Moseley has
judiciously adopted the recommendation of his primate
by candidly avowing that it was an error of judgment
in reading the names of the patrons. But at the same
time he solemnly declares that no change has taken
place in his opinion on the inconsistency of such amuse-
ments with a spiritual and Christian life. As we have
no wish to protract discussion on this painful subject,
we are heartily glad that . the good sense of the vicar,
through the intervention of the archbishop, ultimately
prevailed, and that he has withdrawn the offensive part
part of his declamation. At a meeting of the ball com-
mittee, held on Wednesday evening, and after the vicar's
letter had been read, it was unanimously resolved,—
' That he be informeg the ball committee accept his
apology, relying upon the admonition which he has
received from the Archbishop of York having the de-
sired effect of preventing him from using the pulpit of
our parish church on any future occasion in such an im-
proper manner.' "

THE CONVICT CHRISTIE.—This wretched man left
Edinburgh for Aberdeen on Friday evening, in charge of
Mr. Kempster and two other officers. He seemed quite
at ease, it appears, during the journey, and talked freely
of the crime for which he had been condemned. In fact,
he made a ccrnplete confession of the twofold murder,
alleging, however, that he had no intention when he en-
tered the cottage of committing the atrocious crimes.
He stated that his object in visiting Mrs. Ross was to
obtain a sack and a pitcher he had left in her house some
time before, which the widow refused to give up, as he
owed her some money. Exasperated at her refusal, and
being the worse for liquor, he said that he seized a stone
which he found in the house, and struck her with it on
the head, when she fell heavily on the floor. Upon this,b
her little grandson, escaping from the bed, held him
.T,
the legs, exclaiming—" What C are you doing to *rangfit
when the hardened ruffian (as he himself avowed)
the child's skull by one blow of the samestone with
denied
which he had killed his grandmother: Christie
aeofanthdeblooi
trace of
mur-
dersha vi n; gaunsde used
seeing
nagx
teliaet
stone
ni
en
covered
rceodmz tisbs commission
he stated he cast it into the fire, to obliterate all
murdered M Robbie also, adding
stu-
pidity in not having
CH his last moment. Christie
that he should regret it i
the cruel deed. He bitterly reflected, on. his own
was.grriht-
val i somewhatn
Aberdeen,
expressing . a t the.
his crowds
opinion
mai
have restrained their impatient curiosity until the 13th
of next month. At the same time he expressed a wish
that his execution had been fixed to take place in Edin-
burgh, " he had so many acquaintances in Aberdeen
thatheshould be embarrassed in recognizing them dur-
ing his last moments.—Edinburgh Post.
EXPENSE OF PUBLIC MONUMENTS IN PARIS.—The
following is the expense occasioned to the State by some
of the principal monuments of Paris :—The Triumphal
Arch at the top of the Champs Elys4es, decreed 1806,
suspended during the first years of the
IRB2esst,oarantdiotne,rmire:
re-
sumed after the Spanish campaign, in
nated in 1840, cost in all 10,432,841 f. ; the Madeleine,
commenced in 1764, continued slowly until 1789, de-
stined to serve as the Teniple of Glory in 1806, and
terminated in 1842, cost 10,079,448 f. ; the new Hotel
of gn Affairs, commenced in 1846, and now nearly
terminated, will cost, when finished, 4,968,000 f. ; the
Library of Sainte Genevibve, commenced in 1843, and
terminated in 1850, cost 1,775,000 f. ; the hotel on the
Quai d'Orsay, commenced in 1810, destined at first to
the administration of Foreign Affairs, afterwards appro-
priated to the Council of State and the Court of Ac-
counts, and terminated in 1842, cost 6,000,000 f. ; the
Polytechnic School, with reconstruction and enlarge-
ment, 2,000,000 f. ; Ecole des Beaux-Arts, commenced
in 1820, and terminated in 1846, 3,515,907 f. ; Museum
of Natural History at the Jardin des Plantes, hot-houses,
&c., 3,881,713 f. ; New Chamber of Peers, commenced
e
in 1836, and terminated in 1841, 3,867,876 f th
Column of July, commenced in 1833, and terminated in
1840, 1,224,098 f. ; the Institution of the Blind
thdon, commenced in 1757, and ordered by P
on the Boulevard des Invalides, 1,850,000 f.
bNronze gates
1806, to be completed, has just had
8, up to 1830
erected, which cost 183,000 f. ; total expen
day nearly
25,000,000 f. ; since then to the present
ropriations and
nded • the aPP. • in round
4,000,000 have been expe ,
1%111 give
alterations which it is now undergoinge,OE for this magnificent
numbers an expense of 30,00 ,
of Deputies, terminated in
monument. The Chamber
en,
cost 3,524,833 f. ; the
anoiew Children,
ionilin.
Madhouse of
Obelisk, 523,3-, ,
erection of the f
the Hotel of Public Works,
Chbrenton 3,000,00
restoration of the Sainte Chapelle
ifocuosnsbturuilcdtiinogn,s
Schoolr of Mines, 851,000 f. ; the C011ege1,164,778f•
lege1,164,778f• ;the
1,433,000 f. ; the Ecole Normale.
of France, '',4 • the
since then,
The Giornale dt Roma of the 21st ult., contains a
n..„000,000f.
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mallBat4eBr37ab, ' alteration,
andelsneB,tf'. da restoredt,
atrhe. aboute
comparative table of the Population of Rome in 1851
and 1852, from which it appears that the population,
which in 1851 amounted to 172,382, is now 175,838,
The proportions of births
Ito
I)33er;
inofodnetthiss,46a9s,lptoor
3t4lo2es2l;tn,bgt
eph aeeenrnatidvineracreyrae a ,pg
oespenu
number
afio,
en:Si:B
.f
as
births
day 15. Thela4v.erarrghe number of deaths per month is
The proportion of marriages to births
is as 1 to 4; the number of the former amounted in 1852
to 1,470. For the last ten years the total increase of
Population at Rome is 13,432.