An old writer says
tnat it is as clearly toe design Qf Providence that the fertile wastes of the New Worldsiionid d© iructmea dv tne emigrant nopuiations oi tee Did world, as tnat tne sun snouid eve ugnt ana neat ; thai Lord Bacon says colonisation is an heroic work; that it is the emigrant who has earned the languageot atiaissoearG ana Milton over nan tne eartn; tnat u Britain be the empire on which the sun never sets, it is to her emigrant warnors that Britain mainly owes the boast: and that emigration is an older and a nobler thing, andone ©reductive oi tar grander results, man arms, arts, commerce, law. pnvsic. or divinity.I’EE booial and economical semefits of emigration., and John Stuart Mill repeats thatColonisation is the very best affair of business in which an old overpeopled country can engage.” The dictum might well blazon in gold as a guardian motto, at Westminster, and be the handwriting on the wall of every chamber of commerce in the kingdom. It is a national truism and this is another,of all Bntish exports, tne most vromaoie export, is tne emigrant.in tne last iortv years o.uuu.uuu oeonie. nearly oneiourtnoar nresent population, nave sailed irom tne United Kingdom to our three great emigration fields. Amenca. Canada, and Australia. The national convulsions, the social earthquakes, which our little islands have escaped by the safe seaward flow of this, its populationlarva, defy an computation, u tnese six minions oi emigrants, ana, their increase four millions more, had been caged up in our narrow streets and fields, increasing a thousandfold the numbers of our destitute and our desperate, who will assert that England would now have been England, that the Guelphs would have been at St. James’s, the Russells at Woburn, the Stanleys at Knowlsey.