Liverpool is the great port of embarkation for nearly all the emigrants who leave the British Isles for the United States. When intending emigrants arrive at this port their minds are generally taken up with the voyage they are about entering upon, and in making the necessary preparations for laying in their sea-stores. People who are not accustomed to travelling are more or less liable to be imposed upon by the class of men who live by their wits. The port of Liverpool, during the last forty years, has been infested with gangs of heartless scoundrels, who have made a business of robbing innocent and confiding emigrants whose confidence they obtained by deception. I know it is next to impossible to pass through Liverpool in the character of an emigrant without being victimized in some shape or another. My advice is to avoid all those kind and amiable people who become your friends almost before you are aware of it. They are ravening wolves in the clothing of innocent lambs, and would rob you of the last farthing if they had the opportunity afforded them.

To an intending emigrant, then, I would say, if you have time between your arrival and the sailing of the ship, purchase your sea-stores without the aid of a third person, unless you have a personal friend in town. If you have a family of children and intend going out in a sailing-ship, purchase at least' one stone of flour per head, and as much bread as will serve you for three days.