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EMIGRATION. 
country. Emigration being encouraged, the greater would be 
the revenue of the country; the larger the amount of its 
manufactures consumed, and the certainty of its prosperity 
increased. There ought not, in the present day, to be such a 
building as a poor-house in the land, spoiling the prospect with 
its unsightly bulk. If the amount of labor be not greater 
than the demand, where would then be the want of it ? 
The unemployed part of the community, which rusts in 
idleness at home, is wanted abroad, where it would speedily 
become useful to itself and to others. 
The judicious bee-master has always his spare hives prepared 
to receive the successive swarms before they are thrown off, 
well aware that b} r his neglect of so necessary a provision, he 
would be the loser, and that the amount of his honey depends 
on the number of his hives. Precisely the reverse of this 
has been the policy of Great Britain. Year after year she 
throws off her swarms without any provision being made to 
retain them within the limits of the empire. They have, there¬ 
fore, passed on to increase the power and resources of another 
state ; and to what a sad extent this has taken place, see the 
astounding population returns of the United States. There 
was no reason why the myriads and millions which have gone 
to swell out those returns should not have been located in 
the wilds of Australia, but the want of a more liberal policy 
in our Government. It has sought to drive a hard bargain with 
the emigrant, who, rather than submit, renounces his allegiance 
to so selfish a mother. 
We do not invite emigration to our colonies, and the present 
amazing growth of that infant giant nation forms a striking 
proof to the world of England’s unmotherly care for her 
children. This is seen in the difference between the price of 
land in the Australian Colonies and in the United States: the 
latter, which is comparatively near at hand, merely demands 
the sum of 4s. an acre, and gives the applicant the right of 
selecting any unoccupied spot, in any district he may please, 
and without delay, for every place has its land office ; whilst 
in those antipodal realms, which can only be reached after a 
long and expensive voyage, the emigrant finds the minimum 
