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emigrants of respectable characters, of all trades, as well as 

 those attached to agricultural pursuits. The plan adopted is 

 an excellent and thoroughly honest one. Every emigrant, if 

 single, obtains from the Government thirty acres of good land, 

 and, if married, fifty ; five for each child above one, and ten for 

 every one exceeding ten years of age. The rate of the land is 

 to be fixed by Government at a fair and reasonable sum, and, 

 together with the passage-money, to be paid four years after the 

 location of the emigrant, in five annual instalments. From 

 the moment the colonist steps on African ground he is an 

 independent owner of land, although not entitled to sell his 

 property until his obligations to the Government are liquidated. 

 The local parliament has granted a sum of £50,000 to promote 

 emigration. The Cape probably offers to an industrious 

 emigrant a more advantageous field for active energy than any 

 other country in the world. Some of the German colonists, 

 the remnant of the British Legion engaged in the Crimean war, 

 who, under General Stuttersheim, have settled in British Caf- 

 fraria, are thriving prosperously. They are the first pioneers 

 of the German' element in South Africa, and, under the pro- 

 tection of a liberal and free government, are increasing in 

 number annually in consequence of the favourable reports 

 which they transmit to their native country. 



An emigration of a peculiar kind has unexpectedly taken 

 place. An impostor amongst the Caffres, who had assumed the 

 character of a prophet, pronounced the end of the world as 

 imminent, in consequence of which large numbers of them 



