The Committee for promoting the emigration of females to the
Australian colonies, where there is a great disparity between the sexes, have been authorized by Government to grant a free passage to females. The Committee formerly only allowed 121. to female emigrants, who had to pay 5/. to make up the deficiency. The new ship Canton, 510 tons, has been taken up to convey those who may wish to avail them- selves of the bounty of a free passage, and will sail from Gravesend on the 30th of April. Servants accustomed to the duties of a farm-house in England are particularly recommended to emigrate, the colonial farmers being in great want of young women of steady and industrious habits to fill situations in their families.
While duly sensible of the advantage and convenience intended, by assigning a separate gallery for reporters in the temporary House of Commons, we regret, on visiting it, to find that, when seated in it, the whole, or nearly the whole of the Treasury bench and its opposite, from which most speakers rise, is hid from the sight ; so that, besides seeing nothing, and thereby missing a great deal of what occurs, the reporter will be frequently at a loss, especially in a new Parliament, to know who the speaker is whose address he is taking down.— Herald.
An officer of the Indian army, stationed some hundred miles up the country, writes thus to a friend here—" We have eight ladies at our station, three married, and five spinsters. They are all well enough in heir way, pour passer le temps; but only one of the latter, I think, ill succeed in getting a husband. You will be surprised at this last emark ; but the fact is, the Indian market is completely glutted at esent, and the men, in consequence, are getting fastidious."
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