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19 on board. It may be assumed that they will consist of aged men and women—the patriarchs and aged matrons of the family—young couples without children, families with children of various ages, single young men, and single young women, single widows, and widows with children. There are now two respectable widows on the list; one, aged 38, has four children—three girls of the ages of 18, 14, 12, and one boy 16. The other widow, aged 60, with a steady looking daughter of 23. These two families can pay half their passage money, and have relatives in the Colonies. Just as I was writing this, a respectable young man has called, entered his name in the Family Colonization Book, and that of two sisters, and another young woman, a near relative, their respective ages being 26, 24, and 23; the girls are in service,, and they can pay £8. each towards their passage. In the classification of groups, then, I respectfully beg to suggest the following for the consideration of the Committee and the public. I would not have all the single females placed as they axe now in emigrant ships by themselves, perhaps forty, fifty or sixty of them together, but I would have them thus arranged. I will begin from the family cabins or berths. Say, then, that cabin No. 1 is occupied by a family who have two grown up daughters, for no children who are above 14 years of age must sleep in the some cabin with their parents. The next cabin. No. 2 is to be allotted to single females, and is to hold six sleeping berths; I would place the two grown up daughters of family No. 1 in berth No. 2, the widow of 60 and her daughter aged 23 in the same, and two friendless or orphan girls. Here is reasonable protection for these two friendless girls; the parents in No. 1 and the widow would naturally look after the conduct of these two young women, would ad-