carrying out the principles of the Family Colonisation
Society. She believed, however, that the adoption of
the Post Office order system would do more for emigration
than £50,000, and that a larger sum of money would
thus be brought to this country than the colonists, however
liberal, would be disposed to grant. She mentioned
several pleasing instances in which money advanced to
assist females in emigrating had been either wholly or in
part returned, including the cases of two girls, who
having had very eligible offers of marriage, declared
that they would not marry till they were out of debt;
and she concluded by stating that she would be happy
to give advice to any one who might call upon her at
her residence.

The twenty-ninth party of emigrants sent to Australia
by the committee of the Female Emigration Fund
sailed on the 25th inst. for Port Phillip, on board the
ship Kent. They were 40 in number, comprising
milliners, dressmakers, artificial flower makers, school
teachers, and servants. Thirteen of them are under 20
years of age, 16 from 20 to 30, and 11 from 30 to 35. A
large proportion are from the Surrey side of the river,
and owe their good fortune to the recommendation of
the district committee of Christchurch, Blackfriars-road,
and the benevolent incumbent of that parish, the Rev.
G. Brown. Mainly through the exertions of the
Rev. Mr. Quekett they have excellent accommodation
provided for them on their passage, including thorough
ventilation, every facility for cleanliness, and clear and
precise rules to insure decency and good order. Ample
provision has been made for giving them employment
during the voyage, and there are two surgeons on
board. About 1,100 female emigrants have now been
sent out to Australia by this fund, which was raised in
the winter of 1849, and which amounted to nearly
£24,000. From a statement of receipts and expenditure,
published at the close of last year, it appears that this
sum has been very economically administered, the office
expenses presenting an unusually small per centage on
the whole capital, and in consequence of this feature,
combined with the high position of the subscribers, and
the beneficial and benevolent character of the emigration
promoted, sanguine hopes are entertained that the
colonial Legislature will come forward with handsome
votes of money to recruit the nearly exhausted
exchequer of the society.

The Government Emigrant Ship Caucasian sailed
from Southampton on the 21st instant, bound for
Australia, with 220 emigrants on board. This is the
first ship that had started from Southampton since it has
been made a government emigration port. The
emigrants have been residing in a building in the dock fitted
up as a temporary emigration depot. Each emigrant has
received a package of tracts from the Religious Tract
Society, and also a Bible and Testament from the
Christian Knowledge Society. The clergyman of the
dock district and dissenting ministers of the town have
attended to the spiritual wants of the emigrants during
the stay of the latter in Southampton, and divine service
has been performed daily at the depot or on board the
Caucasian. Many of the emigrants are of the
agricultural class, or they have been mechanics and artisans
in rural districts. Great numbers of them have been
comfortably off, but having large families are anxious
that their children shall strive where the struggle for
comfort and independence is not so severe as it is in this
country. There were some fine young men and women
among the emigrants; and the children who were very
numerous appeared healthy and intelligent.

In the last advices from Australia, the satisfactory
fact is mentioned that the Sum remifted to England from
the 1st of January 1852 to the present time, by newly-
arrived emigrants at Adelaide and Melbourne, to enable
their relatives to join them, through the agency of the
Family Colonisation Loan Society, has amounted to
£7826. At the same time, the experience of this society
with regard to the reliance to be placed on the good
faith of those whom they have assisted with loans has
justified thus far, in the fullest degree, the confidence
originally expressed. Out of £865 advanced for two
years to 156 adults by the Slains Castle, which arrived
in Australia in February 1851, £264 has already been
repaid. The emigrants by the Blundell, 180 of whom
received a total of £780, have likewise returned £93,
although they did not arrive till September 1851; and
those by the Athenian and Mariner, which arrived
respectively in February and June last, have also begun
to make remittances.

The Mortality on Board of Emigrant Ships for
Australia calls loudly for legislative interference. By
the last accounts from Melbourne, four Liverpool ships,
each with eight hundred passengers, have arrived after
having sustained losses by death, which, in a British
port, would have compelled searching investigation.
The Bournouf has lost 83 souls, or 10 per cent. The
Wanota 39 souls, or nearly 5 per cent. The Marco
Polo, which made the swiftest voyage ever known, 53,
or nearly 7 per cent, on their respective complements of
800 passengers; and the Ticonderga, 104 souls, in a
number of passengers not stated. The last case is the
most striking, because a voyage of sixty-eight days only
must have been performed with winds invariably
favourable. Just after these ships sailed, Mrs. Chisholm,
in addressing an audience on emigration, compared a
ship to a house, and said: "I have just seen 800 souls
go to sea without either a window or a chimney to their
living rooms. I expect to hear of fever, but in the
present state of the law neither I nor the Government
can do anything to stop the packing, or to compel
ventilation." Her prediction has been horribly verified.

NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS.

The engrossing topic of interest in the intelligence
from France is the unexpected announcement of the
Emperor's Approaching Marriage. After several demi-
official notices in the government journals, the Emperor
himself made a formal communication on the subject on
22nd instant. The President and a number of members
of the Senate; the Archbishop of Paris, the President
and vice-president of the Legislative Body; the President
and members of the Council of State, and other
officials, were summoned to the Tuileries; when they
were assembled, the Emperor accompanied by his aides-
de camp and several marshals, entered and took his seat
on the Throne. The ex-King Jerome was seated on his
right hand, and Prince Napoleon, his son, to the left:
the marshals and admirals stood on both sides of the
two Princes. The Emperor stood, and in a firm tone of
voice read the following remarkable address—

"I yield to the wish so often manifested by the country in
coming to announce to you my marriage.

"The alliance which I contract is not in accord with the
traditions of ancient policy, and therein is its advantage. France,
by its successive revolutions, has ever abruptly separated from
the rest of Europe. Every wise Government ought to try to
make it re-enter in the pale of the old Monarchies. But this
result will be more surely attained by a straightforward and
frank policy, by loyalty in conduct, than by loyal alliances,
which create a false security, and often substitute family interests
for those of the nation. Moreover, the example of the past has
left in the mind of the people superstitious feelings. It has not
forgotten that for 70 years foreign Princesses have not mounted
the Throne but to behold their race dispossessed and proscribed
by war or by revolution. One woman alone seemed to bring
happiness, and to live more than the others in the memory of the
people—and that woman, the modest and good wife of General
Bonaparte, was not the issue of Royal blood. It must, however,
be admitted that in 1810 the marriage of Napoleon ?. with Marie
Louise was a great event. It was a pledge for the future, a real
satisfaction to the national pride, as the ancient and illustrious
branch of the house of Austria, who had been so long at war
with us, was seen to solicit the alliance of the elected chief of a
new empire. Under the last reign, on the contrary, the amour
propre of the country had to suffer, when the heir to the crown
solicited, fruitlessly, during several years, a princely alliance, to
obtain it only in a secondary rank and in a different religion.

"When in the presence of old Europe one is borne on by the
force of a new principle to the height of ancient dynasties, it is
not by giving an ancient character to one's escutcheon
(enveillissant son blason), and by seeking to introduce oneself at
all costs into a family, that one is accepted. It is rather by