Mrs. Chisholm’s plan offers several advantages of an important character. It will enable many to emigrate who, though frugal and industrious, are not only unable to raise _the whole_ passage money; but, during temporary trade-depressions, would be consuming their savings. It will keep families united, and cherish an honourable, independent spirit. It will secure a class of emigrants calculated to improve the moral tone of the colony; for, as the character of each emigrant will be investigated by his fellows, there will be no room for the deceptions practised on the wealthy charitable. The certificate of shop-mates with whom a man has worked, is more to be trusted than that of the clergyman who has only seen him in his Sunday clothes. It will afford the best kind of protection for young girls or single women desirous of joining friends in Australia, because each ship will be filled with “groups” previously acquainted and mutually _sifted_. Among minor advantages, the cost of passage and outfit, by the aid of co-operation and communication, will be much diminished. The two following instances will display the practical working of Mrs. Chisholm’s plan. Among the applicants to join the Society (for already the working-classes are prepared to subscribe two thousand pounds) was an artisan in the North, belonging to a trade which “strikes” periodically. When contemplating these “strikes,” the leaders of the trade base their financial arrangements for supporting the body while out of work, upon the savings made by the more frugal of their associates. The artisan in question being a Teetotaller and skilful, had three times been able to save from fifteen to twenty pounds, with the express design of emigrating; but twice his stock of cash had been melted in the common treasury during strikes. With the assistance of a loan from the Society, he will now be able to emigrate. There can be no fear of such a man not repaying it honourably. Had he been able to emigrate a few years ago, he must have been wealthy by this time, and in a position to help all his relatives to join him. Again, a benevolent Dowager Countess has subscribed two hundred and twenty-five pounds to this Society; a sum which has been appropriated to assisting the following parties in making up their passage money to Australia. Let us see what this money will do:— It will send three wives with nine children, out to join husbands in Australia. Two aged widows who have children there. Ditto a man and wife, who have children there. M. and wife, with five children. H. and wife. P. and wife, with three children. L. and wife, with seven children. (This man has received the insufficient sum of fifty pounds to pay his passage from a brother in Australia.) W. and wife, with four children (have received twenty-five pounds from Australia for same purpose). Five young men, of whom three have relations in the Colony.