The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-04 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUAR Y
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particularised, aiding, as they all do, in forcing the
benefits derivable from North American emigration
upon the attention of all reflective Englishmen. Con-
spicuous among these arguments are the subjoined :
" In twenty-two years, 124,272 settlers have gone to
Australia and New Zealand! About half the number
on the poor-rate of Scotland in 1848. Not a tenth part
of the paupers relieved in Ireland; or one in fourteen of
those-who were supported by England's heavily taxed
industry, in that single year. Not more, I fear, than
died of famine in a single county of Ireland, from 1846
to 1850; and less, by 60,000, than the number 'of the
young people who were in the workhouses of England
and Ireland in 1849. Valuable then as these eastern
colonies may be, and respectable as may have been the
efforts to improve them, it is obvious that as aids to the
removal of pressure upon the resources of the United
Kingdom, those who calculate largely upon them are
sure to be deceived. The reasons are obvious. Aus-
tralia and New Zealand are 14,000 miles from the shores
of England; the British provinces of North America
are but 2,500. Every poor man who embarks for Aus-
tralia must be maintained by somebody for 120 or 150
days, while be is rolling about in idleness on the sea.
The ordinary passages to North America, in sailing
vessels, is about 40 days. With steam we may hope
soon to reach Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in 8 or
10 days, and Canada in 12. The expense of a passage
to the east is 201., to the west it is 31. 10;.; and with
emigrant steam-vessels may be still further reduced.
Then mark the disproportionate prices of land. In
Australia or Now Zealand 100 acres of land cost 1001.
sterling; in the Canterbury Settlement, 3001. In
Western Canada 100 acres of the best land in the em
pire can be bought for 401.; in Lower Canada for 201.
In New Brunswick, where there are still 11,000,000 of
ungranted acres in possession of the Government, for
121. 10s. In Nova Scotia, where land is now in many
districts, as valuable as any of the colonies, and from
the increase of commerce, soon will be in ell, we give
100 acres of Crown land to an emigrant for 101."
If these facts are not enough of themselves to ex-
cite the enterprise of colonists, we know not the re-
lative import of such temptations. Only a day or so
back, the Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledged
to the deputation who waited upon him in reference to
the iniquitous duty on advertisements that the mere sight
of an American newspaper, with its enormous and
well-filled advertising columns, was enough to make
the mouth of a Financial Minister water with
mingled sentiments of delight and envy I The
picture sketched by the rapid but vivid elo-
quence of Mr. HowE, is in its way quite as provoca-
tive of envy among the mass of his auditors. All
one's anxiety is to be one among the number of emi-
grants to the New World, one among the throng of
those colonists who, we doubt not now, will be hur-
rying across the Atlantic to our' North Americ an
possessions—incited to adventure thither by the ear-
nest and persuasive voice of the distinguished gen-
tleman recently arrived amongst us on a mission
from Nova Scotia to the English Government.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The semi-official Patrie announces that the demand
for an increase of the PRESIDENT'S Dotation will be
made to the Assembly without delay. The Bulletin
de Paris, another of the semi-official organs of the
Elysee, gives us in the following statement an inkling
of the arguments which will be urged by the Ministry
in support of this demand. The Bulletin de Paris
says :

" The number of petitions for assistance addressed to
the President of the Republic is at the minimum 90, and
sometimes as many as 250 a day, making an average of
150. Admitting that one-third,pf these: demands are
rejected, there still remains 100 to satisfy every day, or
36,000 a year. It is impossible to estimate the average
of the assistance granted at less than 301. At that rate
it is about .1,100,000 f. a year which the President ex-
pends in daily assistance, without reckoning subscriptions
to balls, concerts, benefits, races, charitable works, en-
couragement to the arts, manufactures, commerce, &c.
It will be thus seen that the funds of the dotation are in
great part employed before-hand, and in a manner which
cannot excite any political susceptibilities."
Should the Dotation be refused the present pro-
visional extra-Parliamentary Ministry will, it is said,
be permanently installed in office.
General AIIPIC, who has just returned to Paris
from Constantinople, has been appointed Ambassador
to the Court of London.

Accounts from Cherbourg state that upwards of
200 vessels had been driven into that harbour by the
recent storms.

The Siacle has the following on the recent rise in
the funds.

" Each day of the past week stock for cash has been
greatly in demand. The Rente continues to spread
more and more throughout the country. Capital, in
fact, is flowing more and more into this sort of invest-
ment; and that this will be kept up so long as the inte-
rest of stock is higher than the profits drawn from in-
vestment in land is most probable. Before the revolu-
tion of February there was a feeling of distrust in the
public funds amongst a great part of the population,
from the apprehension then generally entertained that
in case of political perturbations the funds would not be
respected. This feeling has been removed by the con-
duct observed by the Republic towards Rentiers, and
now the little capitalists show unlimited confidence in
public credit."
PARIS BounsE, FEB. 3.—Latest Prices.—Five per
Cents., 96f. 85c.; Three per Cents , 57f. 95c.; Bank
of France, 2,250 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEL 8.

Boulogne and Amiens, 9%—Luxembourg, 2%—Namur
and Liege, 81,12—Northern of France, ls%—Orleans and Bor.
deaux, 4—Paris and Rouen, 28—Paris and Strasbourg, 9%
—Rouen and Havre, 111,4—Sambre and Meuse, 3A-3:ours
and Nantes, 514.