The Amelia Thomps• n sailed on TI ursday for Vali
Liemen's Land, with a cargo of female emigrants, and others, in all 280 persona. The Tomes says- " Of these the families, principally English, make up about one third. The remainder are for the greater pate women, most of them young, and some of them not very young ; but the majority are of that class which have been accus- tomed to farming or domestic industry. There are a few educated females in the list of passengers, whose object is to procure employment as governesses; but we fear that the demand in this instance will not be equal to the supply, small as that supply is. The English portion of the cargo consists, for the most part, of a families.' The Irish portion (with the exception of sixteen young and well-instructed girls from the Foundling I lospital in Cork) consists of isolated females from different counties in Ireland."
The Red Rover steam-boat took the passengers down the river. accompanied by Sir John and Lady Franklin, Dr. Lushington, Sir Charles Lemon, and Lord Clements, who attended on behalf of the Emigration Committee, to see them safely on board the Amelia Thompson. Some disturbance took place oil board, in cons( quence of the English portion of the women complaining of too close a juxta- position with some of the Irish : but the difficulty was soon got over. The demeanour of the party is represeuted as being very cheerful. The gentlemen who attended the embarkation afterwards dined together.
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