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 to discourage persons from emigrating, quite puzzles me. If it is meant by 'official' that it issues from the Colonial Government, when it is the Colonial Government that is paying for the passage of the hundreds of emigrants who are continually being sent out, not only from England, Scotland, and Ireland, but from France, Italy, and other places on the Continent, I think Mr. J. Varney must have been mistaken, if the report he saw was concerning New South Wales, as to the 'officialness' of its character. However, he is not likely to be injured by going to Australia; for assuredly no man will reach there who falls back at the first, or the hundredth, evil report he hears concerning the country.

I think leaving Birmingham was the best step we ever took, and I think leaving London will be the next best. We have suffered a great deal since we have been in London. Were obliged to pawn almost everything we had before I could get anything to do. I had some difficulty in obtaining my present situation. The reason they took me in was this: they had but one man in the manufactory who would undertake the work which I am upon, it is so excessively heavy, and he would rather have