The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-26 00:00:00

FEMALE EMIGRATION FUND.

Yesterday another band of female emigrants, forty.-
ono in number, embarked on board the ship Kent, off
Gravesend, destined for Port Philip, under the auspices
of the Female Emigration Fund. A deputation from
the committee, consisting of the Count de Strzelecki,
C.B. ; the Rev. Joseph Brown, rector of Christ Church,
Blackfriars ; the Rev. W. Quekett, incumbent of Christ
Church, St. George's-in-the-East ; and Mr. W. T. Hely,
accompanied the emigrants from the Fenchurch-street
station to Blackwall, and thence to Gravesend on board
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the vessel. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Buxton, Mr. Fowoll
Buxton, the Misses Prince, the 'Rev. Mr. Mansfield,
incumbent of St. Peter's, Saffron-hill ; Mr. Charles
Cochrane, Mr. Moor, and Capt. Stanley Carr were also
of the party. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P.,
the chairman and founder of the Female Emigration
Fund, was unavoidably prevented being present.
The emigrants dispatched on this occasion have been
principally occupied in domestic service in the metro-
polis, and they also include three sisters, daughters of
a surgeon in the country, and the daughter of a clergy-
man. They have of course all been strongly recom-
mended to the managing committee on the score of cha-
racter, and have, besides, spent a term of probation at
the " Home," in Hatten-garden, established in connec-
tion with the society, previous to their embarkation. They
are all young women, between seventeen and thirty,
and as we saw them assembled on board the ship they
presented as a body a highly respectable and promising
appearance, and were characterised by great propriety of
demeanour. On board the Kent, a handsome new ves-
sel, built by Wigram and Co., at Blackwall, they are
furnished with every possible accommodation calculated
to render the voyage agreeable, including a capacious
sitting apartment and commodious sleeping berths, com-
pletely separated from every other part of the ship.
They are placed under the care of an experienced ma-
tron, who has been to Australia in that capacity snore
than once, assisted by five sub-matrons, chosen from
among the emigrants themselves. A schoolmaster also.
accompanies them to afford them suitable instruction
during the voyage ; and they will have the advice of two
surgeons in case of sickness.

On reaching the vessel at Gravesend the emigrants
were conducted to the apartment assigned for their use -
and, being all assembled,
,the Count de Strzelecki read
a letter addressed to them by the Hon. Mrs. Sidney
Herbert, in which that benevolent lady, in the most
touching and affectionate terms, reminded them of the
great importance of the step they were about to take in
leaving their native country for a distant land, of the
encouraging prospects it held out to them, and urging
upon them the necessity of persevering in a course of
honest industry, frugality, and virtuous conduce as the
only means of ameliorating their condition, which was
the great object of their emigration, and of reflecting
credit alike on the mother-country and the society un-
der, whose auspices they were enabled to proceed to their
adopted home. This suitable advice was further en-
forced by some well-timed observations of the Count
himself, Mr. Moor, and Capt. Stanley Carr (two gentle-
men on a visit here from the colony for which the emi-
grants are bound), the Rev. J. Brown, the Rev. W.
Quekett, and the Rev. Mr. Mansfield. The committee
and the rest of the party then took an affectionate leave
of the emigrants, and shortly afterwards the vessel was
on her voyage.
This seems an opportune occasion for stating a few of
the results of the Female. Emigration Fund, and of the
labours of the philanthropic indiniduals to whom its dis-
tribution has been intrusted. That fund, it will be re-
membered, was raised by uoluntary subscription in the
winter of 1849, and amounted to 22,0001. That sum was
afterwards further augmented by occasional contribu-
tions, and by interest on Exchequer bills, until it
amounted to 23,1781. ss. 024/. 16s. have, in addition,
been received from the friends of emigrants on account
of their passage ; so that on the Ist of January in the
present year the total receipts were 24,1031. Is. J 1 that
sum 11,7621. 13s. 6d. have been disbursed in the pas-
siged of emigrants ; 2,2041. 2s. 4d. in their outfits and
shipping expenses ; 1,7351. 15s. in the edxpenen.sessBol.
the Emigrants' " Home," in Hatton-gar
°seers
Bs. 9d. in gratuities to surgeons, matrons,. and
district committee
Colonisa-
tion Loan Society ; and 701. in
of ships ; 3001. in a grant to the Family
bgereantionexppeurndpeedsesin 165a,61a5r11.1e.5:
expenses;l,r2.ln3tsi /n. 5
stationery,s . i n
lladll. h foratvcee. n;
i 1,0871. Is. ld. in advertise-
ments •g'aud 1,565/. lls. Bd. as liabilities for part pas-
sage money for ships now on the voyage ; making the
total expenditure 20,5381. 19s. id., and leaving a work-
ing balance now in hand of 3,5641. odd. In 1850 the
society forwarded 409 female emigrants to the various
English colonies ; 228 in 1851, and 434 in 1852, in all
1,071. A return—the latest received by the committee
—of the employment obtained by 49 young women sent
by them to Port Philip in March, 1852, shows that 11
of them have been engaged in the colonies as domestic
servants at wages of 25/. a year; two at 301., one at 521.
14 at 201., and four at 18/., with rations in addition in
every case. The lowest wage that any one of them
receives is 141. Most of these women were previously
employed in this country as domestic servants, at Is.
mtoin7esd. auwoenek.emMraantymogf, twheemre, asetrtvhaenttsimouetthoefy
6d. and 2s. a week ; and as needlewomen, at from 3s.
pdelatceer.- These fapcts sig
P eak for themselves. We are further as-
sured that the demand for female servants of all descrip-
tions in the colony, to whicli those hue hitherto been
sent, is largely on the increase, andiTiat the emigrants
dispatched are more than ever certain to find, upon
their arrival, immediate employment and ample remune-
ration.

CALLING OUT THE MILITIA..—We understand that it is
the intention of the Government to call out the whole
of the militia of England, for one lunar month's train-
ing, in April or May next. The fore° is to be out all
over the country at the same time, with the object of
checking the double, and even triple enlistments, which.
it is suspected have taken place. The appointment
. tehet
an adjutant-general of militia is only postponed 11
force is raised. Lord Palmerston so perfectly under-
stands the working of the militia that since his
idn
to office matters have been adjusted which needed_itvai are
master's hand. All now promises well.
Mil i t ary Gazette.
letter from Smyrna,
AN EXECUTION AT SMYRNA.—
of
twentythe peremptory 7 t h ,
hfaeclx been for a long time in
against malefactors, whoe _
aeha,
either from weakness
oercilAtthiorenehdilladybseepnrreevicoeiuvselyd
ses
otrhdaetr s two
of
prison, but whom l.Kram 11'
would not order to be executed.
or some other motive,
danydestteherdotyerhsacTiallsl:aessiin.
executed,
a few days.
One has been
Talhreeacolnyeexe,hcue
M. Guillois, second Dragoman to
nated,
fatbhoeurt.hltrwlveof months since, a poor Armenian
tailor, a
where
eFrench Consul. He was conducted to the place
the crime was committed, and when there, M.
Guillois was, according to the Turkish law, thrice asked
whether he would forgive the prisoner. On a negative
reply being given, he was handed over to the executioner.
The man made a desperate resistance, w)iich rendered
his sufferings still greater, for two men held him by the
hair of his head while the executioner cut at lis neck,
and fearing to injure those who held him, he could not
strike very heavy blows. The body was then thrown
into the gutter, with the head behind it, where it lay
until the next day, when it was taken up, and carried to
the Greek hospital.