NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1141, 5 April 1870, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

(Prom the correspondent of the " Argus. ) EMIGRATION. Emigration is fast becoming the foremost topic of the times. Under the terrible pressure of compulsory idleness and consequent penury, the movement is daily acquiring depth and intensity. By public meetings, by benevolent subscriptions, by stronger organizations, by deputations to Government, and by earnest appeals in the public press, it is sought to stir up society to do its duty to the thousands who cannot find work to do, and who must slowly sink into the abyss of pauperism if some industrial outlet be not speedily found. To promote efficiency in the work, the National Emigration Aid Society and the Workmen's Emigration Society, represented by Mr. Potter and Mr. Beales, have been amalgamated. A strong effort was made to induce the older British and Colonial Emigration Society to enter the new league, but after some rather unseemly passages-at-arms, the attempt was abandoned as impracticable at present. The committees, however, will co-operate with each other. District committees are being organised all over the metropolis; a monster petition to the Queen is in process of signature ; and a great meeting has been held in Exeterhall, under the presidency of Sir George Grey, at which Sir James Lawrence, Sir W. Denison, Mr. Torrens, M.P., and Mr. M'Arthur were among the speakers. Mr. Goschen has offered to contribute 10s. per head towards the expense of sending out 2000 emigrants this season, and he mentioned a friend who was willing to do the same. Bankers* and benevolent ladies are also sending in their offerings to the Mansion House. After several preparatory meetings in the civic hall, a great gathering took place the day before yesterday in the Egyptian Hall. A strong spirit of determination animated the gentlemen present. • A deputation is to wait upon Mr. Gladstone, to insist on the necessity of some kind of help and cooperation on the part of Government. Should the Administration refuse financial aid, a strong appeal will be made to Parliament shortly after its convocation, and, meanwhile, efforts will be made to rouse the public mind from its habitual listlessness in relation to the subject. At the inauguration of the National Emigration League, on the 14th inst., Mr. M'Garel munificently opened the subscription list with £1000. The Poor Law Board hare removed all restrictions which previously prevented co-operation between boards of guardians and the emigrati'o'a Societies. Surely our Australian brethren cannot hear of these benevolent endeavors to reinstate the suffering sons of toil in a position of honest independence and comfort, without stretching out 6 hand of welcome from the other side of intervening oceans.