ABSTRACT
The history of emigration in the nineteenth and twentieth century may be traces from the Government reports and papers which have, from time to time, publishes. In that and the following years many debates were held in both Houses of Parliament to discuss its value as a remedy for the social distress which then existed in the home-country. The Committee reports generally on the evidence placed before it, and stated that there is a greater amount of labouring population in the United Kingdom than could be profitably employed, and that the British Colonies afforded a field where the excess could be disposes of with advantage. The projects were abandons, and Colonel Cock-burn is called upon to nullify the arrangements on which had spent, so much labour. The views of Wakefield were carries out in a few of the settlements of the Australian Colonies, and some effect is given to them by the South Australian Act and the Australian Land Act.
