IMMIGRATION.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 925, 10 February 1872, Page 3

IMMIGRATION.

If. «as recently stated that Dr leatherston, the Homo Agent, had aiade arrangements to .send out emigrants from the north of Europe. How easily these may he obtained, and what class of immigrants they may he expected to prove may be gathered from the following, which we take from the San Francisco " Bulletin ":—" A correspondent of the ' Bulletin,' "Frans Peterson, writing from Gotenburg, Sweden, states that there are thousands of men and women in that country who would, gladly emigrate to California if assisted by parties who want their labour, whom they would serve faithfully so long as they agreed to. Wo have turned his letter over to the Immigrant Union, hut some facts are stated to which we will refer in this place. The wages of a Swedish servant particularly of a •female are barely sufficient to provide her with clothing. They are about 12dol. per annum, gold ; in exceptional cases only, say for first-class cooks in the houses of the rich, rising as high as 25d01. a year. Men servants are usually paid 2odol. a year and found. -Farm labourers are, in some phices, paid as low as one-third of a rix-dollar per day—hardly more than a bit (Gd.) of our money. In many places a vav-n is paid half a rix-dollar for felling a free, cutting and splitting the logs,

and piling up the wood into a cord. Tbis is a hard clay's labor for a man living like the Swedish laborer, on a little thin oatmeal gruel, a few potatoes, and now and then a salt herring. Clearly Swedon is too poor to offer a suitable field for the operation of the International.