The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-04 00:00:00

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—, 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 e immediately and
warmly responded to.
There are two points of view under which this
subject presents itself—the amount of good con-
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 considerationf Thlneinale Emigra-
tion Fund not 'only promotos an*ject 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, as 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.
Even 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 of an unemployed excess
of 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 bo 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
difficult 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 6dear 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 Coelebs 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 months 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 its
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
town 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. M. de la
Rochejacquelein and M. de Pastoret were already
known to have fallen off from the cause to Which
i
their names once belonged ; and the relations
anio
of M. de Flahault with the
family have long been matter of notoriety,ispri
Imperial tiOns
Valliant
even the household of the Emperor But
composed of his old boon comp ne ip all
y
these great officers
the exception of Marshal ns, and, with
spectable General of Artillery,
of State have neither niilitar nor
it society.
p.erwsohnoalisdisatinreci
tion in their respective rank,3;.i
The accustomed reception took place, then, at
the Tuileries, and the eorps Diplomatique, headed
on the preeed. who had presented his cre-
dentialsby the Papal Nuncio,
greeting on the new yelairigwditalyi ,theiexcruhaluergeodf
Fararanpcied.
But the studiedwalbsence of the principal Continental
pire had
Ambassadors,
been not unintentionally postponed till this
lose recognition of the new Em-
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—and, 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 understand that
of these States
the credentials of the envoys

THE VICAR OF ROTHERHAM ON SOIREES DAN.
SINTES.—The Rev. R. Moseley, the vicar of Rother -
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 s
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 complete 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,
her little grandson, escaping from the bed, held him by
the legs, exclaiming—" What are you doing to Granny:
when the hardened ruffian (as he himself avowed) split
wthheiechhihlde'
haiing used an axe at all in the commission of the shasdkulkilllebdy
honise
grblaonwdmoofthtehre. sacmherisstti7 edewinietdh
mur-
ders ; and seeing the stone covered with hair and blood,
he stated he cast it into the fire, to obliterate all trace of
ILlTmoboteenatl.so,
Christieadding
the cruel deed. He bitterly reflected on his own stn..
opinion that they might
p thatidii stu-
pidity-in
heA-
was somewhat irritated at the. crowds.. awaiting his arri-
valhave 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, as he had so many acquaintances in Aberdeen
that he should be embarrassed in recognizing them dur-
ing his last moments.—Edinburgh. Post.
EXPENSE OP 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 Elysdes, decreed 1806,
suspended during the first years of the Restoration, re-
sumedscommencedn aieedditnaofklsBer:itonhe, elejoSs6sptt4ah,innei
es campaignahoTlnletimicontinued
143 20
f ,6Bl4:Glwifli 11.0y;r
yluB then2i
ntsic Madeleine,alnB7B69de-
term
A ff alnilicB: soes
m,coG:omseoctesmv
Genevieve,
'Wheneelnv ,cei7ned,7slc,iBono Imooolmy finished,fB.e4 commenced
destined4te
dh, a9en6 idBn, nowohotellaoBo4f
first.3on ;ne aattrnhh
tol ydee
terminated in 1842, cost 10,079,448 f. ; the new Hotel
QtetoLefuairmrmihFrojairnandreya:oglitteeorddfs,asiyna
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
in 1836, and terminated in 1841, 3,867,876 f. ; the
Column of July, commenced in 1833, and terminated in
1840, 1,224,098 f. ; the Institution of the Blind Children,:
on the Boulevard des Invalides, 1,850,000 f, The Pan'
thdon, commenced in 1757, and ordered by Napoleon
1806, to be completed, has just had bronze. gates
iB3O
erected, which cost 183, 000 f. ; total expense up w
25,000,000 f. ; since then to the present day nearly
alterations which it is now undergoingf
forthis magnificent
4,000,000 have been expended; the appropriations
numbers an expense of 30,000,000
Deputies,
terminated in
monument. The Chamber of Depost ~
3 524,833 f. ; the
1843, and restored since
52th3e3n.,
4c;
bturuhiciedilllogns.
a• vd eh io* nu roundse
of
'Hjotel theof PubliclVEi Works,
of the Sainte Chapelle,
nriations and
1,164,778 f. ,
1,433,000 f. , th r , -- e 140ie 1\ ormale
Col-
let of France,
erectionCi 10msren7tiosnot,.f ; 3t h,
tOehoeoO, Orb(101
tifso. Obelisk, 523,3'24
ttiho en
tort a the expenses of const
di on,
2,000,000 f.
a.ntTdheic wSsch;fn ol‘ffi.ntheseseBsvl:::ufs. ;
reraet about 660,000,00 ff
aof the 21s* 't
. ni ~ contains a
comparative table of the population of Rome in 1851
tolanlatt yhe labeteinostne:rtedop'o:ul. population and 1852, from which it appears that the population,
which in 1851 amounted to 172382, is now 175,838,
is as 1 to 33; of deaths, as 1 to
Leine an increase of 3,456. The • .
The Gioi•nale di, l
proportions of births
33; the average number of births per month is 469, per
day 15. The average number of deaths per month is
422, per day 14.
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 o f
Population at Rome is 13,432.