life - these notes may not have been penned in vain." The result is satisfactory, but it is quite an exceptional family, full of capacity and determination, acting up to the belief that

"Perseverance is a Roman virtue,
That wins each God - like act, and plucks success
E'en from the spear-proof crest of rugged danger."
HAWARD.

I would have every one desirous of emigrating told what Goethe said to a youth who proposed going to seek his fortune in America, "Your America is here or nowhere." There is always scope for earnest workers; before thoughtful enterprise, and persistent plod-cling every barrier must in time yield. But for this we want self-reliant men, men who believe in self-help, and not in State help. Emigration, in its proper sense to America commenced with the departure of the Puritans, who colonized New England. They were followed by the Germans, who settled principally in Pennsylvania. The Dutch colonized New York; the Swedes, Delaware; the French, Canada and Louisiana. The advantages soon became apparent, and our statesmen recognized that every fresh colony extended the national, political, and social influence; that they opened new markets for the productions of the mother country, giving, at the same time, fresh impetus to maritime trade; and that they formed safe outlets for an impoverished or overcrowded population. But emigration, to be successful, must be resorted to from the right motive-the desire on the part of the individual to get on-and not the sending away at the expense of the State, influenced by the dread of that bugbear, "over-population."