EMIGRATION AND THE UNEMPLOYED.
(To VIE EDITOR Or TR& " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—You were good enough last year to insert a letter of mine in your columns in connection with emigration and the unemployed, in which I gave details of a loan emigration scheme which I had started, and asked for funds to assist in the work. Thanks to those who responded, I received a sum of 2400. This is all in circulation, and I have already had 2165 repaid, which has again been loaned. In many cases there has not yet been time for repayment. I feel sure that those who so kindly helped me would like to know bow well the emigrants I sent to Canada are doing, and how cheering and grateful the letters are that I have received from them, many of whom were on the verge of despair, but, with the timely help of a loan and a trip across the sea, at once found work suitable for them, either on farms or the railways, or in their own trades. I have now sent out a hundred and sixty emigrants, only a few, it is true, out of the eight hundred that have applied ; but money is wanting. Men have walked ten and fifteen miles to see me, hoping for a loan, and I have often been obliged to say that all my money was either out or promised. I have no difficulty in placing any number of willing workers. It cost a to send each of these men from poverty to com- parative riches. I have, of course, to be most careful in selecting the emigrants, and do not send any without three new references,—from an employer, a householder, and a minister of religion. If any of your readers will help me as they did before, and would send contributions to the address below, I should be most grateful, and will send a receipt at once.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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