The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-08 00:00:00

1111 E SUN, LONDON, SATURoA Y EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8., 1866.

Emigration of Young Women under Miss

Rye's Scheme.

By the Red Jacket, which left the Mersey for
Melbourne on the 30th ult., that indefatigable emi-
gration reformer, Miss Rye, sent out the first com-
pany of young women under the new regulations
secured by her personal visit to the Austral'an colo-
nies. Miss Rye, after four years' travelling and
effort in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland,
New Zealand, and the other emig:ation fields of the
antipode:, has returned with powers which go far to
remove the difficulties that stood in her way when
she began her good work, five yeo7s since. She has
cont7ol of Government funds amounting to about
£3,000 per mouth for the purpose of send'ng out
emigrant.; suitable for the relr'rements of the
colonies, in such a way as secures them from the
evils—overcrowding, bad san'taty mairgement;
and prevalent immorality—which ti-,ve done so much
to discourage the emigration of respectable people
to that part of the world. •
The Scotsman gives the foYowing particulars of
Miss Rye's work :
" With the view o: ascertain'lg by personal ob-

servat:on the condition of things under which these
Government emegrants leave this country, our ccrre-
spondent visited the depot at Birkenhead wh-l.e they
were quartered there previous to embarkaton, and
the vfssel itself, which lay alongside the depot,
directly accersible from the latter by a large covered
gallery. He found there in a". about 360 emigrants ;
of whom 100 were known as "Rye's young women,"
about as many more young women holding warrants
of emigration issued by the Government of Victoria
in the colony, several families, and a considerable
number of young men. The party under Mess Rye's
erre were gi.ils especially selected by herse'f. The
quavfications insisted upon in these ca: es are good
health and good moral character. The fist is
tested by medical examination; the second paray by
reference, and mainly by Mss Rye's personal in-
tercourse with them. Theme two requisites, being
secured, 'the bids are passed from their homes to the.
colony free of cost to themselves, except to the extent
of 10s. for bedding, &c., on board ship. They are
received in the first instance into the home depot,
placed by Miss Rye under the c- re of a qua'ified
matron on board ship, and at the end of the voyage
received into the Government Emigrant's Home in
Melbourne until they are provided with employers,
who must themselves be accredited persons of good
character. To show the Ind of regu'ation existing
in this respect, we may state that no pub"can is
allowed to engage a g'.4 from the Emigrants' Home,
or indeed any girl who has not been long enough in
the colony to have gained some practical experience
of life there. In the present instance M'ss Rye's 100
consists of 72 Engsh girls, 7 Scotch, and 21 Irish,
well formed, healthy, inteigent, and of respect-
able appearance. About the whole company there
was an a.e.r of se'f-respect and business-"'re indepen-
dence, combined with modest decoram, which spoke
well for Miss Rye's fitness to e -c=charge the task she
has undertaken, and promised as well for the com-
munity of which these girls are about to become
members. Many of them seemed to be country
girls, accustomed to exercise and hard work. A".
were qualified for domesiic service in one form or
other, and seemed to be of a higher class than the
average of our domestic servants at home.

" The other g'73s, who were not under Miss Rye's
care, were what ire called warrant-holders.' Thai
is, they receive their passage to Melbourne by vir-
tue of Government warrants or passes obtain I for
them, and paid for at a remarkably low rate, by re-
latives or friends in the colony. These ere goi ig
out to fathers, brothers, cousins, or to future
husbands; and the GoverDment :n cease to be
responsible for them upon the'r arrivrl. at Mel-
bourne, where they w:'.l be handed over to their
friends. The remaining emigrants on board the Red
Jacket, excepting only seven families under Mss
Rye's care, sent out on nearly the same terms
as her girls, were also warrant-holders. Most of
these belonged to the classes most sr'ted to etr;gim-
tion—labourers, arLisans, farm-g.rls, home-servants,
and so on. Of the married men who went oat with
their fatr —cs under Irss Rye's d'rection, one was a
c;.-.penter, one paluter,one ply nber, rid the others
Lire i lar trades:

" Our correspondent was much interested by the
a:zangements on board sr •p. The Red Jacket is a
large ship, broad of beam and roomy, fitted up m:th
accommodation-for 700 or 800 emigrants. There'
are three large cabins set apart; respectively for single
men, single women, and maizied pe3rle with their
farulies. The single men's cabin is forwrrd, the
s:ngle women's aa, with the married people's cabin
amidships. It is with the single women's quarters
we are at present most concerned, and a description
of the department in which they are lodged w
serve pretty nearly as a description of the other sec-
tions. This cabin is a large, conrnodioui, and we"-
venti!ated apartment, with 125 berths, for the ac-
commodation of 250 girls, and provided with 20 or
30 mess-tables. The berths are a". furnished with
bedding, and curtained off from the body of the
cabin. They are arranged in racks, or sets, with
12 bei (for 24 g.:ls) in each rack, and are both
larger and further apart than is usual in the steer-
ages on board even passenger ships of the best ''.llCl7.
Adjoining the cabin r--e a lavatory, with large zinc
troughs and sar'l basins lavatoiy, by-the-by,
though large, night be a ittle larger with advan-
tage) ; a dispensary, from which the ship's doctor
dispenses only for the cabin, the others having each
its own dispensary ; the matron's dormitory ; the
hospital, capable of holding 30 or 40 patients ;
other recessary adjuncts.
" The d'scipl'ne of the ship is equally well.
understood from the regalations of this depart-
mut. No man is all.owed free access to this
cabin, except the doctor. This gentleman,
who has made Lcveral trips to Austral:a,' and
back, has already so far gained the confidence of
the authorities that his remuneration has increased
each voyage. By a salutary regal.ation his pay de-
pends upon his success in keeping the passengers
healthy ; for he will receive £1 a-head for every
emigrant he lands in Melbourne alive from the Red
Jacket. lle acts as chaplain to the ship, and is
vested for the time being with full magisterial
powers. The only other persons, except, under
regulations, the captain or his deputy, admitted at
any time to the cabin, are certain of the married
men, who are appointed to receive the stores from
the single men, who bring them from the forward
hatches and deposit them amidships, v-id convey
them to the single women's cabin. Constables are
appointed from amongst the married men, to pre-
vent communication between the forward and after
cabins ; and any breach of these regulations.' is
punishable with 24 hours' in the black-hole. The
girls are separated into messes of eight in each.
Each mess has its own " captain"--the woman ap-
pointed as cook for the voyage—and its own table.
Each woman has her own plate, basin, knife, and
fork, &c., and a bag to put them in, which hangs
])y the side of
r clothes.herber berth,
in company w:th the bag
containing
h It is the duty of the " cap-
tain" of each mess to keep clean the table utensils
of the mess, and to preside over the mess at meals.
The other girls are appointed in turns to scrub the
floors, tables, berths, and fittings of the cabin, to
wash clothes, and otherwise take their share in the
coanr en duty of preserving cleanliness and health.
"It is obvious that these arrangements have been
Icarefutly made, and that they are about as perfect
as such arrangements can be. The Emigration
Commissioners have had before them the sad expe-
rience of many blunders and crimes in emigration
transport, and these prolisions and regulations have
not come too soon. While their ships are fitted
and arranged upon some such plan as this, those
einigeants, and friends of emigrants, who are wise
and well disposed, must see the importance of pre-
ferring government supervision to the accidents and
often systematic mismanagement of private vessels.
The Red Jacket starts with every advantage. She
is far from overcrowded, and her passengers are
healthy as far as can be known. It is greatly to
the credit of Miss Rye that she has made it a positive
cmdition of her taking past in this work that her
girls shall be sent out only in government ships.
Such arrangements ate the best means of compelling
a re:orin in the emigration traffic, and in emigrant
ships generally. Miss Rye's influence amongst the
young women of the country is great, and deserves
to be greater, for wkile her kindness of heart and

self -sacrificing interest in the work commands their
confidence, her prompt and bus;ness-ne acuteness
assures the selection of such etr;grants as will do
credit to themselves and to the colonies to which
they go. Her next company will. be despatched in
October, and in the meantime she will be occupied
in receir'ng applications and exam:ning appllcants
for her next shipment.

The Atlantic Cabe of 1865.

The following telegram was received by neuter's
Telegram Company (Limited), at 7.50 p.m., from
Mr. R. A. Glass, managing director of the Telegraph
Construction and Mgintenance Company (Limited),
Sep ".;. 7:

VALENTIA, Sept. 7.
" Following received from Great Eastern at 6.11

p.m. :-

" ' Canning to Glass. —Ship's time, noon, lat. 49
8 ; long. 51 26. Total cable payed out from splice,
698.81 miles. Distance run from splice, 606.6
mocs. Total slack, 15.23 per cent. Heart's Con-
tent d;stant 114.8 ni'les. Weather fine. Sea calm.
Tests perfect.' "

By telegram we learn that the steamer France,
belonging to the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique,
arrived at St. Nazaire yesterday, bringing dates from Vera
Crux Aug. Pah, Havannah 18th, and St. Thomas 24th ;
400 passengers ; and 51,500,000 for London and Paris.
Subjoined is a very important circular issued this
morning :
You will have learned f ro.n the public prints that on
Thursday last an order was obtained from the Court of
Chancery authorising this committee and its solicitors,
Messrs. Lewis and Lewis, of Ely-place, Holborn, assisted
by Mr. Oswald Howell, of the firm of Walker, Reddall,
Nix, and Howell, accountants, of No. 89, King-street,
Cheapside, to investigate the books and accounts cf Overend,
Gurney and Co. (Limited). The undersigned having formed
themselves into a committee on behalf of the shareholders,
ho pe, through the instrumentality of their professional auxi-
liaries, to establish grounds for resisting the payment of the
call of .£lO ; for holding the whole of the directors responsible
for the capital of the company ; and generally for promoting
the interests of the shareholders in this disastrous concern.
In order to carry out these important objects it will be
necessary to raise a defence fund at the rate of so much
per share. The proportion will, of course, depend on
the number of co-operating shareholders and shares re-
presented, but we have no reason to suppose that under
any circumstances it can exceed five shillings per share.
At all events, the-undersigned have already received so
many spontaneous promises of aid from shareholders very
largely interested, that they confidently expe'd such an
amount of support as Will reduce the charges- much below
the foregoing estimate, and they consider it onlynecessary
at present that with the annexed authority a provisional
payment of 2s. 6d. per share should be remitted. In. the
event of your agreeing to support this committee you will
be kind enough with all convenient speed to sign the an-
nexed authority and forward it with the proposed remit-
tance (either by Post-office order or by a cheque crossed
'Bank of England," payable to Mr. Oswald Howell) to the
undersigned at the above address.
ALARMTNG ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon a
very alarming accident occurred in the Victoria station of
the Brighton and Chatham and Dover Railway Companies.
It appears that one of the Brighton Company's trains, con-
sisting of five empty carriages, was standing in the
" shunting-yard," about to be shunted. The train due at
Victoria station from the Crystal Palace at 2.14 then neared
the station, when the signalman turned the lever in his
signal box, in order to shunt the Crystal Palace train on
to its proper platform. The connecting rod of the shunt,
however, broke and the points remained open, allowing the
Crystal Palace hale to run on to the line upon which the
Brighton train was standing. A coPision then ensued, in
which two of the carriages of the Brighton train wore
smashed to atoms and the other three were more or less
injured. Tho Crystal Palace train was one of those in
which the carriages are closely coupled, and it is stated
that had they been coupled by ordinary irons the force of
the collision would have overturned the whole of them.
By means of the close coupling, however, not one was
thrown off the line, and the lives of many passengers were
by this means saved. Th 3 damage to the Crystal Palace
train in comparison with that of the Brighton was very
slight. The whole of the roof lamps were smashed, as
well as the lamps in the guard's break-van. The engine
fortunately was a Lew tank engine, one specially em-
ployed upon the Ciystal Palace line, and of extreme power.
It has sustained some damage, and will require repairing.
One of the guards—Robbins—states that he looked out of
window and saw that an accident was inevitable, and at
once applied the break, but while in the act the collision
took place, and he was thrown from one end of the car-
riage to the other. He has sustained a severe contusion
on his arm. Many of the passengers were much shaken.

FLOODS IN THE MIDLAND COUNTIES, Sept. 7.
After a slight cessation of rain on Thursday the weather
again became stormy, and through the remainder of the day
and night heavy and deluging rains have fallen. In conse-
quence of the great quantity of moisture which has fallen
during the past fortnight, there are inundations in man y
districts of the midland counties, and there is now no doubt
that a great deal of damage will be done. Between Keg-
worth and Loughborough there is a great quantity of water
out, and cattle have been with difficulty extricated from the
flood. The crops (particularly barley) are suffering. A
great deal of that which has not been gathered is soddened
and stained, and in some plaoes has sprouted. At Aslock-
ton, between the rivers Trout and Smite,.the land is under
*rater: The meadows 'between Beeston, and Sawley are
submerged ; and, indeed, in the vale of the Trent gene-
rally the waters have appeared, and, as there is every ap-
piarance of unsettled weather, a much greater and very
probably much more disastrous flood will take place than
has occurred at this time of the year in the midland coun-
ties for many years. At Burton-on-Trent and other dis-
tricts in Staffordshire the floods have appeared. Harvest
has been greatly retarded, and much of the grain—that
which has remained so long in the field—will be of very
inferior quality. Throughout Lincolnshire, Leicestershire,
Notts, and Derbyshire there was a good breadth housed
before the heavy rains had done much damage; some has
unfortunately been carted too precipitately. Around Bourn,
Louth, and Spilsby the rains have been deluging, causing
injury to all kinds of produce. In some parts of Notts
very little has been done in the fields during the past fort-
night, and consequently the condition of the grain is suf-
fering, The barometer remains low, the waters are still
rising, and there is every indication of continued moisture.
A fair breadth of grain in some districts of these counties
has been well cleared. Around Stamford there is not much
remaining out, and from Talfington to Peterborough nearly
all the grain is cleared.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO DUNROBIN.—The Inverness
Courier, referring to the report of the postponement
of the long-looked for visit of the Prince and Princess of
Wales to Dunrobin Castle, says :—" A circumstance has
just occurred that creates some uncertainty as to whether
the visit will take place this year. The King and Queen
of Denmark have announced an intention of coming to
this country on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales,
and should this take place at the time sot apart for the
northern journey it would be necessary for their Royal
Highnesses to postpone the latter and proceed to England."
The Northern Ensign, however, says it is still believed that
their Royal Highnesses will be present at the review on
the 29th curt., and that the Prince of Wales will in person
take the command. A distinguished party is to be at the
castle, including Lord and Lady Grosvenor and the Earl
and Countess of Caithness.—Edinburgh Courant.
FRENCH GENEP kLS RISEN FROM THE R
England has no parallel instance to show of pro-
motions from the ranks of the army to the highest =Pi-
ta y offices, which have baen so common in France since
the f •st revolution. "La ca.::ere ouvet:s aux talents"
has there received many illustrations, which would doubt-
less be matched among ow :solves were the road to promo-
tion as open. Roche, Humbert, and Pieheg. s began they •
respective careers as private soleiers. Rothe, while a
the Kin& army, was accustomed to embroider waistcoats
to e.mble' him to eat a money wherewith to purchase books
on m"itary science. Kleber, Lefev:e, Suchet, :Victor,
Lannes, Soult, Masseur St.. Cyr, D'Erlon, Murat, Aug.p-
re:.r, Bessieres, and N al rose from the ranks. —ln Warne
cases promotion was rapid, ia others it was slow.

_ .
Ney enlisted at 18 ia an hussar regiment, and ,
adva-iced stop by step ; Kleber soon discovered his =tits,
surnaming him "The Indefatigable," and promoted him to
be adjutant-general when onty 25. Gn the other hand
Soult was s:x yea-s from the date of his, enl'itment before
ho reached the rank of sergeant. But Soult's advancement
was rapid compa-ed with that of Massone, who served for
14 years before he was made sergeant ; and though he
afterwards rose succesb:vely, step by step, to the grade of
colo ael, genera'. of and marshal, he eeclared that
the post of sergeant was the stop which of all others had
cost him the most labour to win. Sirclar promotions r-om
the ranl-s in the French at sty have continued doWn to our
own day. Changernier entered the Klng's bodyguard as a
pi:vate in 1815. Marsnal Bugeaud served four yerrs in
the'ranks, after wb:ch ho was made an officer. Marshal
Illaidon, the present French Miu'lter of War, began his
milita- y career es a (11 arnmer boy; and in the po...rait of
hi n in the ga7lety of Versarles his hand rests upon a
chum head, the picture being thus painted at h's own re-
quest. Instances such as these inspire French soldiers
with enthusiasm for the': sou 'co, and each private feels
that he may possibly cart; the baton of a marshal in his
knapsack. —Self Help, Now Edition.

DIRECT COMMISSIONS.—We are requested to
state that from the Ist of January, 1867, until further
notice, the age of candidates examined for direct appoint-
ments will be from 17 to 20 years for the infantry, from 17
to 22 years for the cavalry, and from 17 to 26 years for
colonial col2s. _

NQUET TO MR. BRIGHT.—Mr. John Bright has
consented to receive the address which was passed to him
at a pablic meeting in Rochdale a short time ago at a ban-
quet that is to bo held soma time in the month of Oc:ober.
Earl Russell, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. J. S. Mill, Mr. W. H.
Loatham, Mr. E. A. Leatham, Mr. G. Wilson, Professor
Fawcett, and other distinguished gentlemen, aro invited to
to present. A spacious mill belonging to the Go-operative
Store, which will accommodate 8,000 persons, has been
secured by the committee to hold the banquet in, and
the interesting event will be on a srand scale,--Mandester.
Examilier. •

NOTES

FROM
TRAINING DISTRICTS.

(THIS DAY.)

[The Doncaster St. Leger is near at hand, to
be rapidly succeeded by the Cesarewitch and Cam-
bridgeshire, the weights for which are now pub-
lishel.• Turfites are deeply interested in the results
of these three great events, and are anxious to
glean all reliable information as to how the several
candidates are progressing in their preparation.
To meet the requirements of our numerous sporting
subscribers, we have made arrangements to be fur-
nished daily with Special Notes from the various
Training Districts, so as to keep our readers well
" posted up" on the actual work done each morn-
ing by the principal competitors for the leading
current racing tournays.]

NEWMARKET.
We shall have a long team of horses at Doncaster, for
Emigrant, tho. Lady Dundas filly, Tormentor, Lochaber
Stolen Kisses, King Charming, II Ro Galantuomo, Chel-
tenham, Nine Elms, Troublesome, Scour de Charite,
Fripponnier, Miss Harriette, Artesian, Cecrops, Gold Pen,
Musician, Lass o' Gowrie, Pericles, Opoponax, Novice,
Misfortune, and three or four of Lord Glasgow's have done
special work for their next week's engagements. Ves-
pasian went on from Warwick, and Thomas is to ride him
in the Leger, to cut out the work for Lord Lyon. Neither
of Godding's horses are fit for the big race, and the roan
colt will be found the best. He merely cantered and galloped
a mile and a quarter to-day. Artesian is very ripe. Nu has
been eased, and is not likely to run for the Great Yorkshire
Handicap, after all. Knight of the Garter galloped over a
mile this morning. Tourmalin and Tormentor (the latter
of whom Is badly treated in the Cesarewitch, and will not
run) each did a couple of miles.