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166 THE COLONIES AND THEIR EEQUIEEMENTS.
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The I Believe Establishment That All Of ...
lion of £ 15 per annum ; still later , ( only ten days ago , ) 250 "women / applied for another vacancy worth only £ 12 a year ; ( the daughters
of many professional men being among the numbers ;) and , on the authority of Mrs . Denison , lady superior of the "Welbeck Street
alluded Home , _luondon to 120 , women I may s _ajDp tate lied that in at _oio an _; office 3 D ax similar only to to find those tha alread t there y
was literall , y not one situation for any one of , them . How marvellous , in the face of these terrible facts , that there
should be one objector to this movement ! To all such I would say" Knowing as you do our statistical reportshow can you
believe , that every woman in the United Kingdom has , a fair chance of obtaining employment that will enable her to live a happy and
decent life ? " For my own part , I am convinced that this question will never be satisfactorily answered without the aid of emigration .
No ~ , not even if the Society for Promoting the Employment of " Women could be multiplied indefinitelywith a branch association
established in every village in the land . , As very little is known generally about emigration , I shall
venture to give a brief outline of tie subject , chiefly to show the impossibility of our working with the Government Commissioners ,
and with the very sanguine hope that the colonial authorities may have their attention drawn more fully to the subjectand be induced
, to act with us in the matter . . Government emigration commenced in the year 1815 . From
that date to the close of 1860 , ( a period of forty-six years , ) upwards and of five est millions ablish a new of p home ersons have our lef colonia t these l possessions shores to . seek Of these a fortune five
millions North America and the United States have absorbed by . far the largest numbers of emigrants . America still retains the
proud position of the favorite colony , last year the proportion being . 87500 bound for the United States and Canada : for 24302 only
for , the whole of the Australian colonies . , It should be distinctly understood and remembered , that
Go-; _vernmen responsible t emi agents gration here simp , who ly receive implies , on our apply par cer t , tain recog sum nised s voted and .
_, for the purposes of emigration by the various colonial governmentswith whom we are in communication ; and according * to the sums
_* yoted of by the desp various atched Leg to isl the ative colonies assemblies . Plow abroad these are sums the vary numbers will *
be persons seen from the following statement of the Emigration Commissionerswlioat the commencement of 1860 write"We have in
our hands , for , the conduct of Australian emig , ration , , for New South Wales £ 25000
, Victoria 50 , 000 South Australia . . . . . . 9 , 000
During the year further remittances were received—viz . £ 15 8 , 000—making a grand total of £ 242 , 000 available for emigration from
the commencement of 1860 to this present date .
166 The Colonies And Their Eequieements.
166 THE COLONIES AND THEIR _EEQUIEEMENTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 166, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/22/
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