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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 185, 7 August 1871, Page 4

" Chinese Cheap Labor " is marking out new courses for itself in New South Wales, Two Chinamen have started as bushrangers, and tried to rob the Araluen mail. The attempt, however, was frustrated, aud the heathen highwaymen were arrested. Emigration to New York. — The report of the Commissioners of Emigration for the year 1870 states that the total number of passengers landed at New York during 1870 was 255,486, of whom 43,316 were citizens or persons not subject to bonds or commutation while 212,170 were aliens, for whom commutation was paid or bonds were executed. The alien emigration of the year, as contrasted with that of 1869, shows a falling-off of 45,369. The number of German emigrants arrived last, year was 72,350, being less by 27,255 than that of the year 1869. The number of Irish emigrants -iniving in 1870 was 65,168, showing a falling-off of 1.036 from the year 1869. During the 24 years that have passed since the Commission was, by the laws of the State, called into existence, 4,500,000 emisiranis have arrived at New York, and have refeived more or less of the care and protection of the Commission. During that time 1,320,912 emigrants have been cared for by it in sickness, and supported and provided with suitable employment. The Archbishop of York on the Paris Revolt. — The Archbishop of York was present yesterday at tbe laying of the foundation stone of some new schools at Sheffield. In the course of an address which he delivered from the stone he referred to the revolution in Paris, and said they might depend upon it that such great historical lessons were written for their instruction. Without presuming to judge France, and without saying that religion was extinct there, they might depend upon it that ihe ruin, the misery, and the desolation which existed in France — so great indeed that history could not recall anything like it within the ages of civilisation — they might depend upon it that all this came from one plain cause. There was iv modem minds a great aspiration after liberty, and he shared in it as much as any man among them. The aspiration after liberty had marked the history of the English people more than that of any other nation of modern times, so far as he heikhew; but because people had been following out the promise of liberty created by their own foolish ideas, they had not only r failed in obtaining it, but had brought upon themselves ruin and desolation, and their liberty had ended in smoke and flame. But what was it in its progress ? It was terrorism, it was injustice ; every mahwas. afraid of his neighbour in prison because' he" was afraid of him. That was whit; they hacl seen in another country., ; What ;.was, liberty,,? It begao in t a man getting free * from himself ; it began in a man getting f ree-from his- own passions. The'liberty in which' every "nian let hiß;pa.Bs'ipns r^nas they! wpaid.^as' no, liberty at h all ; lit", r^ust have the same kind of end as it had had in France. The school, they were about; to open was to.hjia.mip.da tenipl^iof liberty, .becauße ( it w.ould be the means of teaching those who entered it to govern themselves