your stockings. Brothers must remember that their
sisters cannot visit them in their cabins, nor will it be
proper for brothers to go where their sisters are. Show
your respect to your sister by never speaking to her
except in a public room in the ship or on deck. By thus
acting you will go a great way to protect those young
females who have no brothers with them. In the
system of grouping, married females, single females, and
single young men should be in those groups, feeling a
common interest in keeping up the character of the
group. Nothing injures emigration so much as loss of
character among females in a ship. They were now
going to a country where they will make money fast;
some had now so much money that they were begging
soldiers to take care of it. But the best soldiers they
could have were the young girls of their own country.
(Hear.) Wives were wanted to lock up the gold. She
would advise the Irish to adopt the plan which the
English had adopted, viz., it was a point of etiquette for
those young men who were leaving girls behind them to
enter the girl's name for a passage in a subsequent ship,
and to pay at least one sovereign as a deposit. For
females in England, although attached to young men,
do not like the idea of going to Australia for a husband.
But by laying down a deposit for her, she thinks she is
going to fulfil a promise which is held sacred.—When
the meeting broke up Mrs. Chisholm was loudly
and repeatedly cheered by the whole assemblage.

By the Government Emigration Returns, it appears
that sixty-one ships, having on board 21,907 emigrants,
bound for America and Australia, sailed from Liverpool
during the month of August. The number sent out in
the previous month was 21,385, so that in the last month
there has been an increase of 522 emigrants. The
number in the corresponding month of last vear was
16,714; and of the year previously (1850) 14,296. Those
destined for America were chiefly Irish and Germans,
the former preponderating; while Scotch formed the
majority of persons making their way to the Australian
sheep-pastures and gold-diggings, to whichever pursuit
their inclinations may lead them when they land upon
terra firma. These numbers have no reference to the
vessels which are being continually despatched by
independent firms in Liverpool.

The Female Emigration Society continues its beneficent
labours. On the 16th inst. the twenty-seventh contingent,
of forty female emigrants, embarked in the Carnatic,
bound for Sydney. They were attended from Hungerford
Pier to the ship at Gravesend by the benevolent persons
who form the active portion of the society—the Hon.
Arthur Kinnaird, the Hon. William Cowper and Mrs.
Cowper, and others.

NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS.

The French President is making a tour through the
southern departments. The accounts of pageants,
rejoicings, and loyal demonstrations, officially promulgated,
are in the usual style, and entitled to the usual
measure of belief. To pave his way to the throne, the
President has contrived the getting up of a petition
to the senate, purporting to be from "fathers of
families," and praying for the empire. This document
begins by premising that in France all interests are under
the truly sovereign influence of the person who is the
chief of the state; and that who shall be chief ought not
to be periodically questioned. Then follow these
paragraphs:—

"Considering that a father of a family, under a presidency of
ten, fifteen, or twenty years, cannot possibly know under what
political conjunctures he will provide for the marriage of the son
or the daughter that just now he fondles on his knee;

"Considering, consequently, that a presidency of ten, fifteen,
or twenty years, cannot possibly altogether and justly satisfy
the loftiest and sweetest sentiments of paternal and conjugal
love;

"And that, were it otherwise, the births ought in a very
peculiar manner to correspond to the peculiar exigences of this
periodical renovation of the executive power;

"Considering, likewise, that under a presidency of ten, fifteen,
or twenty years, the industrious and provident workman is
equally troubled in his prudence, in his love of labour, by the
uncertainty in which, under an unstable government, he finds
the political conditions which ought at some future day to promote
him from the position of a labourer to that of an employer."

The petition goes on reciting its "considerations" for
the purpose of showing that periodical elections would
cause fatal disasters to fathers of families; asserting that
they will never be happy and safe, or provident for their
family; that "our generation would violate all the
duties it owes to succeeding generations, if enamoured
of anarchy;" that the "self-denial of Prince Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte," who [desired to reconcile parties,
has produced exactly the reverse of the effect which the
heir of the Emperor desired; that old parties trouble all
existing interests, because they may legally appear at
stated intervals; that the old parties abuse the great
and noble disinterestedness of Prince Louis Napoleon;
and that hereditary power in France will "for the
future have no other support than the people's love and
—and so "grandly within fifty years—its twice-merited
gratitude to the family of the Emperor." And having
massed together these considerations, the petition closes
with a prayer:—

"That the father of a family may be at ease as to the future
of his children, and remain untroubled by the uncertainties of our
political future; that industrious and intelligent labourers may
not suffer from the same uncertainty in the legitimate hope of
providing for their old days, for themselves and their families,
the just reward of their labour and their frugality.

"For this purpose have the undersigned, confiding in your
high wisdom and providence, the honour most respectfully to
pray that you will make use of the right which the existing
constitution confers upon you, for the interest of the future of the
country, in order to re-establish political authority on its truly
national and popular basis—the only one which suits our age—
namely hereditary tenure of sovereign power in the family of
Bonaparte."

Henri de la Rochejaquelin, the son of the heroine of
La Vendée, and formerly a zealous and leading legitimist,
has accepted the office of President of the Conseil
Général of Deux Sèvres. He has published in a Paris
journal a sort of apology for his conduct:—

"I had seen," he says, "men and political parties closely
enough to be convinced, that if the coup d'état of December 2
had not taken place, I certainly should not have had the satisfaction
of witnessing the triumph of my own opinions, but that
we should have inevitably fallen into the hands of a faction, Red
or Blue, which would have given us a regime of which I cannot
say that I should have in the slightest degree to acknowledge
the mildness. I did not desire to see the present Government;
but it has the double merit in my eyes, first, of preventing others
from appearing which I should have infinitely less desired to
see; and next, of having its basis on the national will, of appealing
to all the men of worth who are willing to give their loyal
and disinterested co-operation to the service of their country
without asking for any renunciation of their principles. I do
not think that Louis Napoleon would think himself honoured by
the support of apostates."

A circular, addressed by the Bishop of Chalons to his
Clergy, and published in the Moniteur, has excited a
strong sensation in France. The expression of "man of
God," applied to the President of the Republic, has
above all given offence to many. The only possible
excuse that can be assigned for the extreme obsequiousness
of this document is that the writer was an officer
of the Empire. The following is the circular, which is
certainly quite a curiosity in its way:—

"Monsieur le Curé—The Prince-President being about to
visit the south of France, it is only right that he should be
accompanied by our prayers that his journey may be a happy
one. What he has already witnessed in the east, the touching
testimonies of affection which he received there, have shown
him merit are the sentiments of France towards him, and how
grateful we are for all that he has done for us; for he devoted
himself generously, he ventured everything, and effected things
which no one had thought of before this time. May he be blessed,
this man of god, this great man, for it is God who has raised him
up for the happiness of our country, to cure all the wounds which
sixty years of revolution had inflicted! Once more may he be
blessed! We will pray for him; it is the tribute which he is
entitled to demand from us for the emminent services which he has
rendered us, and which he is anxious still to render us; and it is a