surely they or theirs may advance upward and become successful and prosperous men.

Emigration I do not object to; on the contrary, if I had to live my life over again, before deciding upon what steps to take for the getting of the means of subsistence, I should carefully weigh the respective merits of stopping in the old or migrating to the new world. But what I do object to, is the interference by the State-the artificial forcing or tempting of labour to quit our shores, instead of the natural exodus there from of the men who have thought it best to go, and have qualified themselves by economy and self-denial here, in saving up the means to defray the passage out. It is impossible for the State to make a proper selection out of the mixed multitude of good, bad, and indifferent people that would want to go; the majority not in earnest, but thinking the change may be better for them; but why they are to succeed in the new, after having failed in the old world, they cannot tell us. They will say, "This market is overstocked; the colonies want the labour of which here we have too much." But I deny that we have an excess of "good" workmen, and the colonies do not want our " bad" ones. Emigration is an excellent thing, left to itself. It is an outlet for those who see no prospect of achieving their ambition here, and who think they will start in life on better conditions abroad than they could obtain at home; and it seems nature's remedy to give more elbowroom and a better chance for those left behind. It does for modern life what war did for the earlier ages, and it is steadily developing from this natural