The evils resulting from a surplus population in an old community, were never more seriously felt than in Great Britain at the present moment.

Assuming that the amount of surplus population is 2,000,000, the excess of labour and competition thus occasioned by diminishing profits and wages, creates, it has been said, an indirect tax to the enormous extent of 20,000,000 pounds per annum.

It has appeared to many experienced persons, that it is in emigration, we should best find the means of relief from this heavy pressure; particularly if the individuals encouraged to go out to the colonies were young persons of both sexes, from the industrious classes of the community.

Even if no more than three couples were induced to emigrate from each parish in England in ten years, the relief to the springs of industry would be very great.

Besides, the funds necessary for this purpose would revert to the country by a thousand indirect channels.