Ixvi ENCOURAGEMENTS FOR EMIGRATION. 
springs of industry would be very great. Besides, 
the funds necessary for this purpose would revert 
to the country by a thousand indirect channels. 
Persons unacquainted with our Australian colo- 
nies, whether Van Dieman’s Land or New South 
Wales, can form little idea of the increasing de- 
mand for, and consumption in them of every 
species of British manufacture. The liberal en- 
couragement given by government to every prac- 
ticable scheme of emigration, and the sum ad- 
vanced by it towards the expences of the voyage 
to the labouring classes, sufficiently indicate the 
light in which the subject is viewed by the legis- 
lature 5 and the fact that no private family taking 
out servants to Sydney, has in any one instance 
been able to retain them, on account of offers 
more advantageous from other quarters, shews 
clearly the great demand for labour in the colony. 
If I might judge of the feelings of the majority of 
respectable individuals there, from the assurances 
of the few, they would willingly defray any paro- 
chial expences attendant on the voyage, provided 
the services of such individuals could be secured 
to them foi a time sufficiently long to remunerate 
them for such payment. The tide of emigration 
should be directed to Sydney, Van Dieman’s 
