The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-19 00:00:00

EMIGRATION.

Sir C. E. Trevelyan writes to the Times on the
subject of emigration. He refers to the experience
acquired in 1852-3 in a more limited attempt to
relieve distress by similar means, and quotes
the report of an emigration society then
formed, under the patronage°of the Prince Consort.
The object of that society was to assist emigration in
the Highlands and islands of Scotland: It was con-
ducted as much as possible by entire families, and in
accordance with the rules of the Colonial Land and
Emigration Commissioners. Passages to Australia
were provided by the Commissioners from colonial
funds for able-bodied men and women of good
character and a specified age. A. certain
proportion of children were allowed on production of
sufficient clothing ; and on payment of to on
adults and 10s. for children. The society advanced
the stun necessary to make good an insufficient outfit.
The owners or trustees of the properties from which
the emigrants departed paid. one-third of the
sum disbursed to the society. The emigrant% repaid.
to the society the whole of the sums advanced, and
they were applied in the same manner as the original
sum. The result, says the writer, was that Up to
October 1853, 380 families, consisting of 2,605 per-
sons of both sexes, from infancy to old age, including
500 marriageable young women, were assisted to go
to Australia. He leaves those who aro engaged in
the benevolent work to judge how far this plan is
applicable to their object.
Mr. Geschen, M.P., has written to a member of
the Committee of the British and Colonial Emigra-
tion fund, offering to subscribe 10s. a head towards the
expenses of each emigrant sent out by the company this
year up to the number of 2,000 emigrants. He expresses
a hope that a friend to whom he has spoken will sub-
scribe 10s. a head for a further 2,000. He suggests
that the society should exert itself to obtain further
subscriptions on similar terms.

CO-OPERATION IN EMIGRATION.

The Daily .21retes asks, Why is not the principle of
co-operation applied to emigration ? It says when
our first parents went out with the world
all before them, and the scantiest of out-
fits for their pioneering expedition, they
went out leaning on each other. If Ad am delved,
Eve spun ; and the whole community thus divided
between them the cares of the journey. Having
shown that all the earlier migrations of people were
probably conducted on the same associative principle,
and that there have been instances where modern
colonists have acted on the same system with success,
the writer observes that it is difficult to understand
why something of this co-operative system should
not be adopted with English emigration.
The advantages, he contends, are manifold.
It gives friends facilities to follow, and
might begin on the very preparations for the journey;
in the outfit of the families that formed the expedi-
tion, in the method of their convey a ice, in the pur-
chase of land, in the erection of temporary homes,
and in the future operations of the little community.
In such an expedition, he adds. there would be no
looking for work on arrival.

PAUPERISM.
The return of the number of paupers receiving
relief in the month of November, 1869, compares
unfavourably with the corresponding month of 1868.
In nearly every district there is an increase.
In Yorkshire pauperism has augmented four
per cent. ; in the metropolis, about three ;
in the south-west, but a small fraction; in the south-
east, from three and a half to four ; and in the north-
west, about ten and a half. There is a decrease of
one per cent. in the west midland district, and of
about two per cent in the eastern. The total num-
ber of paupers in England and Wales for the last
week of November 1869 is given at 977,472. For the
corresponding week of 1868 it was 968,747.