MIXED EMIGRATION.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 396, 30 January 1850, Page 3

MIXED EMIGRATION.

No. lip. ". Downing -street, HihJuly 1149. Sir,T-l. I h&ve much latisfaction in acquainting you, that Parlimcnt has, on the recommendation of Her Majesty's Government, granted a sum of money in order to enable the Government to lend free emigrant! ,to those colonies which receive convicti fiom th<i countiy The intention of Her Majesty's Govarnnoeojt is to tend, at nearly as they may find practicable, a number of free persons tqual to that of the male cpnvicts .received in each colony, which co-oper-ate* with thU country in carrying iuto effect this important part of psnal discipline. 2. 1 much regret, as you are anare, that too finan« cial. state of the country lait'yenr did not admit of careyini; into effect this .arrangement in favour of New South Wales, as I had hoped when I directed you to ascertain the views of the Legislative Council. I trust, however . that in the mea ure now adopted, the legit* latu'e and the inhabitants of the colony may recogite the earnest desire which Her. Majesty's Government entertain to conciliate their willing assent to the policy which has been .adopted on this subject. I am quite sensible 'that without the co-opeiation of the colonists, the Bj stem of vonvict discipline which hat now been adopted,' however promising it may be in other respects, can hardly be expected to succeed. On the other hand, with tharco-opeaaticn, I hope that it may at once furnish each colony receiving convicts with uieful labour, and materially conduce to the reform of the prisoners wbo'are'femoved thither, while the numbers sent being moderate*, and the convicti being placed under jndicious management, no perceptible injury may accrue to the moral tone of the community. It it needless to lay, that this last and most important result may be eipectetf ,|o be greatly prompted, by the provision now made lor tfitrochjeing simultaneously with the prisoners an eqttai nVniber of persons who have nev«r been convicted of any pffepce against the lawa of hit country 3. Part p'f 'this vote will be uxplanded in tending out the wives md faniliesof the convicts, a measure which appears at all times to have been considered desirable for promoting good order and the reformation of ta 0 convicts, 1 ' 4. I may further take the present opportunity of apprising you, that her Majesty's Government have made arrangaments for sending out, whenever practicable, military pensioners at the guard in convict ships, instead of, as at present, solpiers proceeding to join their- regiments in Australia. This will be ddne at the eKpeusc of the general funds applicable to transportation, and the effect will be, without cait to the colonies, to increaie their supply of labour, and the elements of security and good order, by introducing men acquainted with the use of arms and, accustomed to military discipline. But as some of the ptnsioneri will be married men, and at it it obviously desirable to provide for enabling them to be joined by their fantil.es,- it has been determined that tome por. tion of the grant cannot be more properly employed than in sending out the wives and children of these military emigrants. 5. Considering the importance of endeavouring to introduce a due proportion of females into those colonies to which male convicts are sent, I shall direct the commissioners to devote part part of this grant more particularly to promoting the emigration of females, and especially of girls properly selected from the workhouses in different parts of the kingdom. 6. If there should not be a sufficient number of emigrants under tho foregoing descriptions to employ the whole of the funds, the balance wi'l probably be expended. in sending emigrants under the same rules as! established by those sent by the Colonial Landfunds. ■ 7. In all the uses to which this vote may be turned, the grear object will be to employ it in the manner which shall appear. calculated tit once to supply the largest 'number" of free people, in proportion to the amount'i|*pen"ded, and likewise to compose them of those tdftsiei' jrhich may be best calculated to obviate the pjei uliar evils apprehended from the introduction of codrfyfo ; 8. I shall give the Commissioners of Emigration tile necei«ary instructions for entering without delay on the expenditure of the grant., ' , I hate the honor to be, Sir, . j,, 'Your moat obedient, humble servant, GREY. Governor Sir C. A, Fitz Roy, &c