The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-25 00:00:00

EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.

The Duke of Manchester protests in the Times
against certain portions of an article which appeared
in that paper on emigration to Australia. His
Grace first of all demurs to the statement that if the
Government of Great Britain assist the emigration
of such as the Australian colonies desire to obtain,
we shall be depriving ourselves of good citizens, on
the ground that whether a man lives in Middlesex
or South Australia he is equally a citizen of the
British Empire. With regard to the remark that
the recipients of parochial charity would not suit the
colonies, and the doubt expressed by the Times
whether the actual stream of emigration does not
represent the full volume of the natural outflow, he
says that there are at this moment many men
who have all the qualities of first-rate
emigrants, who still not only have not the means of
paying the passage of themselves and their families
to the Colonies, but are on the verge of starvation
through their reluctance to become the recipients of
parochial relief. We maintain felons, says his
Grace, in luxury, if we can compare a gaol to the
usual habitations of criminals. Paupers, many
of whom are idle vagabonds, are much better off in
the workhouse than honest and industrious labourers.
And are we not to risk, he asks, the advance of a
few pounds sterling to a man who shudders at the
idea of being a pauper, and who would no sooner be
a felon than the highest in the land—a risk which
might, with proper management, be infinitesimal?

THE COLWICH NUNNERY CASE.

"The cry is still they come," and the very natural
question follows, when will there be an ending to
the letters on "The Colwich Nunnery Case ?" Every
day fresh correspondents rush into print. To-day'
a letter appears from no less a personage
than Bishop Ullathorne, who writes all the
way from the city of Infallibility itself, and
therefore has a double claim to be heard.
The object of his lordship is to explain the manner
in which the lady is said to have escaped from the
Colwich Nunnery. He says her own statement
to him was that she had left the convent, not
over a wall, but through a garden door, and this he
believes was the fact. There was, he observes, no
occasion to get over any wall, for both
the front door and the garden gate were always
accessible, and always during the day on the latch.
He adds that the lady in question, after leaving
Stapehill, tried several other convents on the Con-
tinent, but succeeded in none, and was finally
released from her religious obligations. Since that
time she has repeatedly, and even as late as last
year, petitioned for leave to return to the convent at
Colwich, but the request has always been declined.

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