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    238 ON ASSISTED EMIGRATION.

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    If we were asked to wMch . colony such , a class of women might New _Tbe sent Zealand most advantageousl because it is a y , class we should station most ; there unhesitating the preponderating ly answer

    proportion established is not of church , so the rampant , peop and le colleg as is an in iate some educated schools of the proportion are _otlier there colonies ; ; the order mania , and and life for an

    money and property and person are amply secured by the character , and our general emi bearing grants on the out of rinci the in le great small of the bod bodies Canterbury y of , the say settlers six Emi at gration . first We , Society b would y assisted with send

    this passages difference , that p instead p of the Canterbury government g , iving half started the and passage managed , money , by , the some new of society our wealth which y we Eng propose lish ladies should , who be lan

    should advance that money to the intending emigrants . The p price upon grants for which ) is steerage seventeen the government passengers pounds of in ( who that cluding of province course provisions acts form is ; the " this when bod , the an y average of elig emi ible

    person How much presents can herself afford to their , to London towards _ag-ent , the question ? is If asked the your passage

    answer is Five pounds you , then , the pay Canterbury agent promises another five pounds pounds , and so that the emi the grant colony g doubles ives an whatever I O U for sum tlie is remaining put down

    but seven then no one ; but laboring people are permitted to offer themselves , , so that this plan , admirable though it is , only reaches one class of

    persons . Of course educated women could not go out as steerage passengers are taken out , but would the princi surel ple work upon as which well these for another steerage and passengers hiher g

    , y class of emigrants as for them . The Cost of Passage hij private ships from London and _Liverpool to

    different Colonies is as _follotvs , ( from Official Reports ) : — """"""" —— - _CABIjST . INTERMEDIATE .

    ERO 1 _T . TO , Cost Provisions including . Cost Provisions including . - ~~ £ ~ 7 . £ ~ T £ s . £ ~ _sT

    London Liverpool Quebec Ditto 12 15 15 0 8 5 10 0 t 20 0

    London Liverpool London New Ditto Y of Good k . 35 15 15 0 0 to 50 0 . 20 0 to 3 15 Cape Hope

    Liverpool L Liverp ondon ool Sy Ditto Ditto dney 45 35 30 0 0 0 „ „ „ 80 35 55 0 20 16 0 0 to „ 20 28 0

    London L Liverpool ondon V Tasmania ic Ditto toria .. 35 40 35 0 0 „ „ 50 80 0 0 0 1 16 1 6 0 0 „ ,, 25 25 0 0 0

    London Belfast West Ditto Australia 35 45 0 0 , , 55 0 16 0 t „ 25 0

    London Belfast South Ditt Australia o ... 35 40 0 0 „ „ ,, 45 0 0 16 . 0 to 25 0 0

    L L iver ondon pool New Ditt Z ealand 42 35 0 0 „ 45 0 0 20 18 0 0 „ 23 0 Plth Ditt 40 0 „ 20 0 ,, 0

    London ymou California o . 60 0 „ ,, 35 0 „ „ 40 0

    238 On Assisted Emigration.

    238 ON ASSISTED EMIGRATION .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 238, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/22/