| | | |Proportion| | | Population. | Exports. | per head.| | | +-------------+----------+ |United States of America, | 14,000,000 | £12,425,605 | £0 17 6 | |Canada, &c., | 1,500,000 | 2,739,291 | 1 16 0 | |British West India Islands, | 900,000 | 3,786,453 | 3 12 0 | |Australia, | 100,000 | 835,637 | 8 14 0 | --PORTER'S _Parliamentary Tables_. [8] It now (1849) exceeds 200,000 souls. [9] _Colonial Magazine_, i. 431, 433. [10] While we write these lines, the following advertisement, which appeared in the _Times_ of Oct. 10, will illustrate this vital difference:-- "EMIGRATION.--The undersigned are prepared to forward intending emigrants to every colony now open for colonisation, at the following rates of passage-money:--To Sydney, £15; Melbourne, £15; Adelaide, £15; Swan River, £20; Van Diemen's Land, £20; New Zealand, £18; Cape of Good Hope, £10; Natal, £10; California, £25; New York, £2, 10s.; Philadelphia, £2, 10s.; New Orleans, £3.--HARRISON & CO.--_11 Union Street, Birmingham._" [11] Emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland to Australia and New Zealand:-- 1830, 1,242 1836, 3,124 1842, 8,534 1831, 1,561 1837, 5,054 1843, 3,478 1832, 3,733 1838, 14,021 1844, 2,229 1833, 4,093 1839, 15,726 1845, 830 1834, 2,800 1840, 15,850 1846, 2,227 1835, 1,860 1841, 32,625 --PORTER'S _Parliamentary Tables_, 1846, p. 236. [12] Sentenced to be transported-- England. Scotland. Ireland. Total. 1846, 2805 352 753 3810 1847, 2896 456 2185 5537 1848, 3251 459 2678* 6388 * Rebellion. --_Parliamentary Returns_, 1846-8. [13] At the rate of £7, 14s. a-head--the present rate in Australia. [14] Viz.:--1847, 258,000; 1848, 248,000; 1849, understood to be still larger.--_Parliamentary Reports._ [15] See _Dublin University Magazine_, October 1849, p. 372. MY PENINSULAR MEDAL. BY AN OLD PENINSULAR. PART I.--CHAPTER I. On the evening of the 13th of February last, I was sitting in my library, at my residence in ---- Square, when a double knock at the door announced the postman. Betty presently entered, bringing, not as I anticipated, a letter or two, but a small packet, which evidently excited her curiosity, as it did mine.