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Table showing the number of commitments for serious offences in the undermentioned years in England, Scotland, and Ireland: —

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Brougham's Colonial Policy, i. 61, 62.

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Cunningham's New South Wales, i. 262.

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Table showing the annual exports of British manufactures to the undermentioned Colonies, from 1828 to 1846.

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It now (1849) exceeds 200,000 souls.

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Colonial Magazine, i. 431, 433.

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While we write these lines, the following advertisement, which appeared in the Times of Oct. 10, will illustrate this vital difference: —

"Emigration. – The undersigned are prepared to forward intending emigrants to every colony now open for colonisation, at the following rates of passage-money: – To Sydney, £15; Melbourne, £15; Adelaide, £15; Swan River, £20; Van Diemen's Land, £20; New Zealand, £18; Cape of Good Hope, £10; Natal, £10; California, £25; New York, £2, 10s.; Philadelphia, £2, 10s.; New Orleans, £3. – Harrison & Co. —11 Union Street, Birmingham."

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Emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland to Australia and New Zealand: —

– Porter's Parliamentary Tables, 1846, p. 236.

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Sentenced to be transported —

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At the rate of £7, 14s. a-head – the present rate in Australia.

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Viz.: – 1847, 258,000; 1848, 248,000; 1849, understood to be still larger. —Parliamentary Reports.

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See Dublin University Magazine, October 1849, p. 372.

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For the benefit of the uninitiated, assistant-deputy-paymaster-general; A. A. D. P. M. G., acting-assistant-deputy-paymaster-general; a long title, but not so long, by four syllables, as that of the letter-carrier of a certain German war-office – Ober-kriegsversammlungrathsverhandlungpapieraufhebergehülfe.

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