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    210 OPEN C OUNCIL.

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    To the Editor of the English Woman''s Jo...

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    210 Open C Ouncil.

    210 OPEN C OUNCIL .

    To The Editor Of The English Woman''S Jo...

    To the Editor of the English Woman '' s Journal . ON THE _MeAjSTS OP _PROMOTING _FEMALE _EmIGKRATIOjST .

    Madam , the few generall Keenrring first remarks y b , eing but and to a I E class a . have suggestion E . _' settlement s _Kew letter Zealand . In What tlie and more January in I its have elf particularl secure to number say from may y , I in the venture app view l fluctuation y , to since to Australia offer from s of a

    population , it has always afforded , more facility of entrance and establishment With to regard emigrants to exchange of the female of communication sex . , and arrangement of reception , sufficientl

    even and known betwe never for en and the will provided colonies until respectable the for and : relative the the un demand home proportion woman country for having femal of , there the e the domestics sexes is opportunity one amon has point g the never of settlers marriage ceased is y ,

    next soon , leave to a free every s her original offered engagement yo : information g . To women awaits them eligible on arriv as servants al of the , there choice is of situations , passage and they are protected and properly eared for till the time of

    ourselve entering s upon nor them of themselves . But this desirous is a class to of peop go out le not ; and super thoug _abounding h we among could spect spare of them marriage , , hoping still to draw there others are not up , and they hthis are article to be snared of exportation by the pro has

    to be manufactured , . The colonies invite enoug neither , the ignorant nor the stained ; caution on the contrary in selecting , the authorities from town- press populations upon their , and agent protest s here against the necessity any from of

    reformatories efforts to make . efficient And this for makes the work practicable required , , a and proud promises , helpless success , but blame to the - hi less g Yo her number ur class correspondent . of I the hope need to E y . show . . E . how interests the interests herself more of both particularl might be y best about pro a -

    moted in combination . To make it safe and respectable for a young lady , ment simply and as introduction such ., to go out , not to a a government colony , must negotiation be a matter . Therefore of _private that arrange man - -

    ner and of multi entrance plies the is limited starting , but points every . * introduction If pattern or widens precedent the previous were wanting limit , we could look to India , though only as to " The Way Out" is there any

    resemblance add to . the Thither luxuries the of beautiful an enervating and accomp clime ; lished hither were came invited the intelli to share gent and and rewar sound d -hearted for labor for , and expansion the high to privilege all their of faculties raising , new where altars there to God is room . and distinct

    calling Young . ladies Governesses , who , have who no will introduction go up the country s as visitors , and , can must make have themselves a generally useful in whatever may be the condition or occasional emergency

    of desired the househol by * the d settlers , in the that same in m specified anner that cases the the mistress colonial must government , are so much will bear partof the expenses , ; and any lady conscious of ability in any useful

    and department the manner , could of learn proceeding of the . London It is a lonel agent y w her ay , chance I confess of . maintenance I believe it would be a safe one .

    There is another class , numerous , necessitous , and suffering , to whom their there cries is no have way , entered unless , into like the the ear defrauded s of the reapers Lord of of Sab St o . ath James , and ' . time he is ,

    taught pleased needle to move -women the hearts who of I am their assured sisters would towards be almost them , — in the the ill same -paid want , un- , and in greater temptation _, , if debarked , in a colonial port , than at home .

    * Such , proceedings do to some degree already obtain , for I had the pleasure of hearing by the last mail that a friend , a gentleman , upon a farm in the Canterbury settlement , who had serious intention of coming home to fetch a wife , had found one in a young lady who had come

    out to Ghristchurcli only last June .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 210, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/66/