The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-21 00:00:00

3 THE AID AND PROTECTION TO BE INSURED TO

THE EMIGRANTS ON LANDING.
The anxiety of the sub-committee on this point
has been greatly relieved by the communications
which they have had with the Colonial Land and
Emigration Commissioners, who have most readily
placed at the disposal of the committee the macinery
already established in our colonies for securing to the
new comers the same protection, aid, and guidance
which they are in the habit of affording to parties
who emigrate under their own direction.
On reaching the colonies, the emigrants will be
received by Government officers, who will be in-
structed to give them all the assistance and advice
they may require, as to the rate of wages, the places
where employment may be most readily obtained,
and other similar points. They will also be received
in barracks and rationed fur a limited period, should
any delay inevitably occur in securing employment
for them.
Committees of ladies already exist in Sydney and
Melbourne for the purpose of addressing female im
migrants to suitable situations; and it may reasonably
be expected that the interests of the communities of
which they become members will induce the colonial
Legislatures to co-operate actively with the com-
mittee in providing promptly and carefully for the
emigrants consigned to them.

THE COST OF THEIR OUTFIT AND PASSAGE.
Assuming that the sojourn of each emigrant in the
probationary-house may average a fortnight, the sub-
committee conceives, from examination, of the ac-
counts of similar establishments, that the total
outlay thereby incurred will not exceed Bs. per week
per head.
The cost of passage may be estimated at from 121.
to 141. per head, and the sum of money to be given
to each emigrant on landing by the emigration agent
in the colony should not exceed 105.
The sub-committee would further suggest, in order
to diminish the expenses and extend the operations of
the committee— _ _ _

.....
1. That the district committees should ascertain
whether applicants for emigration, or their friends,
have any means of contributing a portion of their
passage-money ; and that in every case in which such
means are found to exist assisted passages only should
be granted. •
2. That in every case the emigrant should be re-
quired to furnish her own outfit, as specified by the
committee. In cases where the emigrants have ac-
tually no means of procuring such outfit, the parishes
cn which they have a claim for support may reason-
ably be expected to provide it.
It might be also advisable that the committee
should consider whether, at some future period, it
would not be well to make known throughout the
colonies that assisted passages would be granted by
them to females whose friends, having already emi-
grated, are desirous of sending home for them, but
do not possess the means of defraying the cost un-
aided.
Were the committee to defray one-half of the ex-
pense of their passage, the other half being previously
lodged in the h ands
_of the Government agent by
their friends in the colony, all anxiety ias•to their
future fate would be dispelled, whilst the aid and
protection thus affarded to women desirous of joining
their friends abroad would prove an incalculable
'eenefit to them and to the communities which ti,fy
join.
This report having been considered, it was prc-
po;ed and carried,—" That the same be received and
adopted."