It is that we cannot spare good men, and that every honest, industrious fellow, who leaves these shores, is a loss to the country • and a loss felt more year after year." Then, the '' Times " cautions Colonial authori ties against the evil that may arise from what it is pleased to consider indiscrim inate emigration, and asks whether they are " quite prepared for the sort of material they will find on their hands, when they are taking the bad with the good, as they must on a large emigra tion." About this, we need scarcely say

there will be little apprehension felt on ' this side of the equator. The immi gration hitherto has been indiscriminate enough in all conscience. It was still more indiscriminate in America, and yet that country prospered with it ex ceedingly. "What, however, we look forward to, is a time when the emigrants who leave will be of rather a better caste than have hitherto reached us. It is impossible for the recently ar rived immigrants to send other than favorable accounts to their friends. These will be so widely talked of that they will become almost as familiar as household words. Hitherto we have been largely engaged in turning " ne'er do wells" into respectable colonists. In future we shall have some of the more prudent, plodding, and thrifty, who will soon learn to " get on" as it is called in tho Colonies. Before this stream of emigration set in with anything like its present inten sity, English manufacturers were exer cised in their minds how to compete with their foreign rivals, who had the advantage of cheaper labor. Some had taken their factory machinery to the j Continent. Orders were being executed by foreign manufacturers for goods in which English supremacy had long been undoubted. Attention was being turned to the advantages manufacturers en joyed in China, where labor was abun dant and cheap, and the laborers, defc, tractable, and exceptionally hard work ing. Chinese labor, it had long been noted, had been sweeping like a wave over the vast Continent of America. 