CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING EMIGRATION. Week ending 5 September.— On the complaint of several of the passengers by the bark Kilmans ( as above entered) that the master refused to fulfil his engagement to them, to carry them on to Montreal, I proceeded to investigate the case, and finding their complaint justly grounded enjoined the master officially to send them on forthwith; this he ultimately complied with. Week ending 12 September.— Only 23 emigrants arrived this week; the most part went to Upper Canada. No remarks of moment. Week ending 19 September.— The reports lately received at this office from the government of Upper Canada give very satisfactory accounts of the situation of the emigrants that pro- ceeded there this summer. The demand to all persons of the working classes has and continues to be exceedingly great, and the prospects of employment for the ensuing year at the public works now in progress and others to be begun will enable this department to dis- pose of any number of labouring emigrants. The arrangement in contemplation by the commissioners of the New Land Company in the Eastern townships will also afford consi- derable employment. I intend to suggest to them the expediency of their making such improvements auxiliary to promote the settlement and employment of emigrants from the United Kingdom, and not give the work out under exclusive contracts to Americans, to the disadvantage of the objects contemplated by His Majesty's Government, in making the annual expenditure under the charter instrumental or aiding the settlement of the townships by emigrants, and affording employment to the Canadian and emigrant labourer in want of it. From the many communications lately received at this office from the magistracy and landed proprietors in various parts of the United Kingdom, in relation to their employed labouring population emigrating to Canada, it is very probable we shall have a very extensive emigration of persons of the working classes next year. The Canadas were never in a better situation to receive them, and the arrangements and facilities under the immediate direction of this department, aided by the cordial and zealous co- operation of his Excellency Sir John Colborne, gives the chief agent every confidence, that under the benevolent and favourable protection of his Excellency the Governor in Chief, he will be enabled to provide satis- factorily for any extent of emigration that may visit the country. The chief agent cannot calculate on many more emigrants arriving this season ; perhaps the total during the season may reach 12,500. Many causes have operated to produce the falling off in the number of emigrants, and which, in the humble opinion of the chief agent, .. might have been avoided at the close of the navigation. The annual report from this depart- ment will contain the respectful view of the chief agent on the subject, as also other sug- gestions for the information and consideration of his Excellency Lord Gosford. The following are copies and extracts of some of the numerous letters on similar subjects received from magistrates and landed proprietors and charitable institutions in the United Kingdom, in relation to sending out emigrants, with the answers thereto from Mr. Buchanan, also extracts and copies from the government and agents in Upper Canada, the commissioners of the Lower Canada Land Company, 8cc. & c., with answers from the chief agent. No. x. LOWER CANADA. Report on Emigration. 12 Dec. 1835. I ) (*• COPY of a LETTER from the Secretary of the Children's Friend Society, Sir, 3, Exeter Hall, Strand, London, 28 March 1835. TWENTY boys will be embarked on board the Elentheria, for Montreal, to be forwarded to and apprenticed at Toronto, under the care and directions of Mr. Orrock. I am directed by the committee of management of the Children's Friend Society to ex- press their thanks for the valuable assistance rendered by yourself to their agent, Mr. Orrock, and to request your further aid in forwarding those children to their destination, and in rendering any further assistance in your power in providing for them when there. This request is more particularly made with a view of affording these poor children your aid and assistance, should any unforeseen circumstance deprive them of their departed guardian, Mr. Orrock. I have, & c. To A. C. Buchanan, Esq. ( signed) Henry Wood, Secretary. Chief Agent for Emigration for Quebec. COPY of a LETTER from W. Gray, Esq., relating to the sending out of Children from the Charitable Institutions of Edinburgh. Sir, Edinburgh, 30 May 1835, West Kirk Workhouse. YOUR letter of the 20th November ultimo I duly received on the 31st January, and I have the instructions of the managers of the institution to thank you for the attention you have paid to their communication, and to express their sense of the able and judicious system you recommend. Since that period the individual in Loudon district to whom the four boys went, Mr. Thomas Taylor Crookston, has written home for 10 boys and five girls in behalf of the different parties, and the managers have sent" six of the former and five girls by the Hebe, one of whom is to present you this letter, on condition that they are apprenticed, the boys till they are 21, the girls 18 years of age; and that they are properly clothed, lodged, fed and otherwise properly treated, without making any stipulation for wages, but leaving 76. c 2 that