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family emigration, how easy and how safe it would be for a neighbour to say to a neighbour who was emigrating, "Will you take charge of my daughter, or niece, or cousin, and see that she gets into a respectable situation in the Colony." How easy and satisfactory it would be for ladies and others who might feel anxious to befriend single females to procure them protection through a society thus constituted. This guardianship does not cease at the conclusion of the voyage; the single females are not all at once lost sight of, but the agents of a benevolent and Christian-like Society would be directed, as the rules suggest, that every means should be used to facilitate their respectable settlement, even to the arranging of their correspondence with their relations in Europe. This is a point, the communication with their relatives, that involves the most grave consideration, and calls for the benevolent interference of that reformer of abuses on the high seas, the Earl of Mountcashell, and to whom every humane and benevolent mind must tender the highest meed of praise and respect, for the manner in which he lately scrutinized the monstrous atrocities committed on board emigrant ships, and advocated their remedy. The strong moral feeling and determination evinced on this occasion by his Lordship, to do his duty as a Christian man, and a member of the legislature, will prove the best deck-watchmen those poor girls can have on the wide deep. But, with regard to the postal communication between this country and the Australian Colonies, it seems to be very defective, for the irregularities, the miscarriages in this respect are a constant source of complaint and deep affliction with emigrants and their relatives at home.
One of the most paramount objects which this Society
