township of Tungkillo (the seat of the company's works)
is increasing in extent. Schools have been established,
and nothing can be more gratifying than the rapid
progress which the children are making—both in the
ordinary branches of education and in religious instruction.
The lord bishop has arranged for a monthly visit
to Tungkillo, by a clergyman, and a Wesleyan minister
also attends once a month regularly. By subscriptions
among the people, a useful Sunday-school library has
been established. The miners' library, liberally provided
by the directors, has proved very acceptable, and is
calculated to have very beneficial results; the subscribers
voluntarily pay one shilling a month towards the
expenses of the institution, and one shilling entrance.

PROGRESS OF EMIGRATION AND COLONISATION.

Several letters, addressed to the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, have been recently received at the office of the
Female Emigrant Fund, in reply to communications
made to the colonies soon after the institution had
commenced its operations. The accounts from the Cape
colony are particularly encouraging; and the committee
have decided on the immediate selection of fifty young
women for emigration thither; and it is intended that
thay shall be despatched on or about the 15th of next
month. Governor Sir Harry Smith and Dr. Gray, the
Bishop of Cape Town, have manifested extreme interest
in the operations of the committee. The Bishop writes
as follows, under date April 25th:—"The class of persons
in whom you are interested is one which is much needed
in this colony. I have no hesitation in saying that a
very large number of females of good character, who
would take the situations of household servants, at wages
at least equal to what you give in England, would in a
few weeks be absorbed. We shall be quite prepared to
employ as many as you are likely to be able to send us,
and I am sure that if they come as you propose, not
more than thirty at a time, with characters (which
should be sent with them, and addressed to me), they
will all be engaged within a day or two of their arrival.

The communications from New South Wales are of
an equally cheering character, as will be seen by the
subjoined extract. Dr. Broughton, the Bishop of Sidney,
writes, on the 6th of May:—"The following observations
are founded on data supplied by an analytical view
of the census of New South Wales for 1846, the last
which has been taken under legislative sanction. The
total population of New South Wales, including Port
Philip and the crews of colonial vessels, was then shown
to be (in round numbers) 189,000; viz., males 114,000,
females 75,000. The proportion of females born in the
colony was 14 per cent beyond that of males. The
arrival of female emigrants during the year 1849 has
exceeded that of males by nearly 18 per cent. Supposing
such causes to have been in operation during 1847, 8, 9,
(since the census was made up), the ratio of the sexes at
the present time may be as females 5, males 7, instead
of 5—8, as in 1846. Still, therefore, there is an alarming
disproportion; and it must be the prayer of every friend
of virtue and morality, that this inroad upon the appointment
of the Almighty may not be continued. I see
every probability that within the limits of the settled
counties, several hundreds of women acquainted with
household work, if they were of unblemished characters,
would readily find engagement in respectable places,
where they would be well maintained and attended to
until they should dispose of themselves more to their
advantage.

Information has also been received of the arrival at
Toronto, under the care of Mr. A'Court, of those
emigrants who were sent out to Canada in the Elspeth,
and, further, that they had all obtained places within a
week:—and intelligence has arrived from Port Philip,
stating that the Culloden, the first ship despatched to
that quarter, was hourly expected, and that the colonists
were ready and anxious to receive her emigrants.

The Slanes Castle, the first ship sent out by the
Family Colonisation Society, founded by Mrs. Chisholm,
sailed on the 30th of September, from Gravesend for
Australia.

The Emigration from the Western and Southern parts
of Ireland, goes on without abatement. This month
two vessels have sailed from Galway for New York,
each carrying nearly 250 possingers, many of them
belonging to the better class of farmers. The Tipperary
Free Press thus speaks of the flight from the southern
district:—"The tide of emigration from this unfortunate
land to the colonies and the United States is swelling
beyond measure. No conception can be formed of it by
the vast number of families which pass through both
town and country en route to Waterford, &c., day after
day, as the great emigration movements principally
take place by night! On Wednesday night the watchman
on duty in this town counted no less than 54 horses
and carts laden with living souls and baggage, all
destined for a foreign land; and when so many have
passed through Clonmel in one night only, what estimation
can be made of those who have travelled for the
same purpose through the various highways leading to
the ports which branch off at some distance from this
town?"

NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS.

THE position of parties in France is unchanged. The month has been filled with the intrigues and
counterintrigues of the minister-at-war and the commander-in-chief, and with Louis Napoleon's attempts upon the
army by means of chickens and champagne. But the end of the month leaves matters much as they were at
its beginning; except that at last the poor President is fain to announce, officially, his intention to remain
perfectly quiet and attempt no coup d'état, but to wait in patience for such fortune as the Assembly may choose
to provide for him.

Of German affairs in their present state it is hardly possible to speak, so as to render what is said in the
remotest degree intelligible. But the still lingering Schleswig-Holstein dispute has furnished excuse for
an insolent threat on the part of Russia and France which may yet unite Germany and strengthen Prussia, in
spite of her poor imbecile king; and the gallant people of the little Electorate of Hesse Cassel maintain
still their attitude of calm resistance, in spite of the open bullying of declared foes and the timid hesitation
of cowardly friends. Time must bring forth the rest.

California is added to the American Union, and the opponents of slavery exult in another free state. But
their richer harvest of triumph is arrived, as we predicted that it would, in the agitation against the Fugitive
Slave Act. North and South, East and West, the abolitionists are now more active, resolute, and powerful
than ever. Even the advocates of the law do not fail to perceive this, and already coolly declare themselves
prepared for "an agitation of a most fearful, revolutionary, and bloodthirsty character." Sooner or later we
believe that it will be all this. But have the more prudent class of American Statesmen considered it in that
light, or prepared themselves sufficiently for the very possible, and perhaps not very distant result?

News from China comes over so high a wall, that it never comes but imperfectly. There is a pretty well
authenticated rumour, however, of rebellious doings in the south; and that the insurgents, led on by a new
aspirant to the Empire, have worsted the regular troops in more than one engagement. An usurper generally
makes so excellent a prince that it may possibly be for the interest of us all to wish success to the rebel.