The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-17 00:00:00

EMIGRATION MOVEMENT.

However various may be the opinion of statesmen
and politicians on the question of emigration, the
people have long decided in its favour. Want is a
hard task-master, and the hope of earning where-
with to live in the land of the stranger is preferred
to the certainty of starvation in their own. Whilst
Government is debating the question, the masses are
acting for themselves. Thousands are hastening
from the land of their birth to the western world,
hoping to earn there the subsistence they cannot pro-
, cure at home.

Want induces supply; thus the tide of emigration
has called into existence a company styled the Western
Virginian Land Company. The company is under
the direction of gentlemen of respectability and
standing, which is a guarantee for the hone-Ay of the
undertaking. The land they offer is stated as corn
bining the important advantages of healthiness of
climate, easiness of approach, with a rich soil, fertile
in all the peculiar productions of the western States.
Equally important and desirable is the protection the
company propose affording emigrants to their lands,
undertaking to forward them through recognised and
appointed agents direct to their intended location, at
the same time furnishing them with every informa-
tion for their guidance. If properly carried out, this
will secure an amount of protection Government
schemes never afforded, and which individual enter-
prise can alone accomplish.
The plan also which they have adopted of alloting
single shares, allowing the amount paid on such
shares to he taken out in land at any time at the first
sale price, with a liberal discount, the shareholder
still retaining his interest in the profits of the com-
pany, will enable the industrious and saving of all
classes desirous of emigrating, to provide for that
event by a very trifling periodical outlay. This com-
pany would, in fact, appear in this respect to have
introduced into the system of emigration a novel fea-
ture, combining the advantages of the building and
land sale companies now so generally known and ap-
preciated amongst the labouring classes, with the
security and benefits afforded by the mutual assurance
companies.
As an undertaking designed to afford protection to
at present a most unprotected class, it would appear
every way worthy the support of the emigrant and
the philanthropist, whilst, if only half the prospective
advantages detailed are realised, to the capitalist it
offers a safe and most eligible investment.—Liverpool
Mail.

CANALS.
1 4 i 4 IDirldend
Names of 10. Dividend Names of .
Price. . per I Price.
Companies. 1 per Companies. A .____ 1
AnnLIM. ;
at , Annum. in
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A, I X
Ashtn & 01.1 h 97151.55. pcl 70 Monmouthsh 100 101. ' -
Ishby-d-la-Z 113 4/. I.- Mntgernrysh 100 51. -
Banisley.. • • 160 121. 180 Macclesfield. 100 - 15
Basingstoke.. 100 - - Neath •.• • • • 100 20/. 340
Brknk&Abrglso 51. 85 Nottingham. 150 121. -
I:romford.... 100 141. - Peak Forest. 78 31. 40
Dualey...... 100 4/. - Regent's .... 33 11. 4s. 20
Derby .- - 100 Cl. 63 Rochdale -• . 85 41. 54
Ellsmre&Chs 133 41. 54 Shropshire • . 125 81. -
Erewash ... 100, 321. - Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 130
Forth & Clyd 100 41. - Do.Lk Fd it 12 6/. p. c. -
GrAndJunctn 100 6/. 80 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 275
Grand Union 100 1/. 10s. 213 Shrewsbury..! 125 151. -
Glamorgnsh . 172 13%1. - Stourbridge..ll4s 201. 305
. iistr &BrklylBo - i - Strtirdou Avi 79 11. 10s. -
Grantham .. 150 121. - Severn and 111 26 11. Bs. -
Huddersfield. 57 - - Wye Rail. 1
Keunt & Avu' 39 7s. 6d. 5 Tnit & Mr-1 t5O 301. -
Lancaster ... i 47' 11.10 s. - sey • •
Leeds& Livrp; 100 \ 341. 505 Thams &A-led 19 - -
Leicester .... 140 101. 75 Worcstr &i
78 21. 41%
Leiestr &Nth 83, - 41. 36 • Binning.
Loughborogh, 142; 701. 530 Wilts & Bike 67 11. I
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