An institution of this kind will shortly be established in the South of England, the object being to supply a thorough system of education, embracing everything necessary to prepare youths for colonial life. Let us hope it will be a success, and lead to many others with a similar object-the qualifying our young people to lead a healthy and successful life elsewhere, and thereby lessen the struggle for those who elect to remain here.

Immigration to London and the large towns from the country must always cause a congestive state of the labour market. It is proposed to meet this evil of "excessive population" at the leading centres of the kingdom by an extension of State-aided emigration and it is said in favour of the proposal that, instead of a stagnant labour market and low wages or no wages, a state of utter misery, the State would be removing the population to our colonies, where there is plenty of land, high wages, ample work-a demand, in fact, for that labour of which we have too great a supply.

If the result promised was certain of being accomplished, it would require good reasons for objecting to the means for so worthy an end; but would an extension of State-aided emigration be as beneficial as some imagine? The cause is the influx of labour; do you remove this cause by adding to the temptation? Or, is it not rather calculated to increase the evil if it be known that, failing work here, the State will aid you to get work elsewhere? Voluntary effort, we are told, is unequal to the effort of getting rid of our surplus population. But is it that we have too much population, or that we do not properly train our people to earn a living with us?