ABSTRACT
A period of sixteen months has now elapsed since the publication of a letter in these columns from the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, referring to the disclosures which had been made by our Special Correspondent for the metropolitan districts, with regard to the suffering condition of the needle-workers of London, and containing a proposal to turn to practical account the information which had been collected on the subject, by the organization of a plan for promoting the emigration of females, of the poorest class, to our distant and half-peopled colonies. The arrangements for the protection, comfort, and improvement of the emigrants on their voyage to the colonies have been so frequently described in accounts people have given from time to time of the despatch of different parties, that people need not now allude to them in detail, but shall proceed to notice some particulars respecting the reception and success which the emigrants have met with upon their arrival in colonies.
