FUNDS FOR EMIGRATION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.
Tottenham, 7th June 1848.
SIR—As the distress among the labouring population arises almost always from the want of employment, which at this time is so fearfully diminished from the stopping of the works of the new railroads, persons have turned their attention to emigration as the only source from which any permanent relief can be expected; but the advocates for this measure are always asked where are the funds to come from to pay the expenses. I beg to suggest, that the large sums still unappropriated of the various subscriptions collected within the last few years for the Distressed Manufacturers, the Metropolitan Fund, and the subscriptions for the Irish and Scotch of last year, that are still in hand, be applied to this purpose; and that Ministers should bring in a bill to enable them to take the whole of these large sums into their hands, and apply it to this purpose; and I do not believe that any one of the subscribers to either of these funds would object to it. Indeed, under proper regulations, the money might be made to give more lasting benefit than it would have done if the whole had been applied to the purposes for which it was originally collected.
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