CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING EMIGRATION. 23 will present this note, every facility and protection in their transport from Montreal to Pres- cott, should they proceed by that route. Mr. Buchanan believes that these emigrants are well provided with every requisite to enable them to reach their destination; but should any unforeseen accident overtake any of them, the chief agent solicits for them the care of Messrs. Whiting & Co. and Messrs. M'Pherson & Co. To Messrs. Whiting 8c Co. and Messrs. M'Pherson 8c Co, Montreal. / No. 1. LOWER CANADA. Report on Emigration. 12 Dec. 1835. Office of His Majesty's Chief Agent for Emigration to Sir, Upper and Lower Canada, Quebec, 29 June 1835. THE emigrants whose names are subjoined, with their families, are from Norfolk, in England; they have been well recommended to my protection and consideration; and I have therefore to request you to render them every aid in your power in their getting forward to their several destinations. They are all well provided; but should any unforeseen accident overtake any of them, you will afford to such that care and assistance their situa- tion may require. I have, 8cc. To John Patten, Esq. - A. C. Buchanan, Chief Agent Government Agent for Emigrants, Prescott. Office of His Majesty's Chief Agent for Emigration to Sir, Upper and Lower Canada, Quebec, 9 July 1835. THE accompanying letter from Mr. Harvey will inform you of his anxiety to get a supply of labourers, to work at the St. Lawrence Canal. Mr. H. Robinson, who will deliver you this letter, is instructed by me to inquire into the situation of the emigrants going forward from Montreal to Upper Canada generally, by the St. Lawrence and Ottawa routes, and to confer with you and the other gentlemen con- nected in their transport, if any further improvement can be effected in facilitating their proceeding to their destination to Upper Canada. I have, 8cc. To Mr. W. R. Whiting, ( signed) A. C. Buchanan, Chief Agent. Forwarding Merchant, Montreal. Office of His Majesty's Chief Agent for Emigration to Sir, Upper and Lower Canada, Quebec, 14 July 1835. I HAVE taken the liberty to forward to you a packet of piinted instructions for emigrants, which I request you will be so good as to have forwarded as directed. Mr. Low, the Govern- ment agent at Liverpool, and the agents in Ireland, expressed a wish that I would send them some information. If Colonel York is at Dublin Castle, please have him forwarded the packet of printed papers; but should he not be in Ireland, be so good as retain the papers, and have them circulated as you may think proper. The parcel for Mr. Rice, I hope the right honourable gentleman will send a portion off to the Limerick Emigration Society, of which I believe he is a patron. I am anxious that Mr. F. Lewis should possess the last information as to the state of the Canadas for the labouring population of England. Some very unfounded misstatements were made by witnesses examined before the Poor Law Com- mittee in 1833, also misstatements and erroneous opinions from societies and public meetings at Montreal and Quebec, tending to check emigration, recorded in the General Report of the Committee. The increasing demand for labourers, artificers and servants in the Canadas is so great, that I think it my duty that the fact should be known in the United Kingdom as publicly as possible, to counteract the unfounded statements that may be disseminated by designing persons unfavourable to emigration, and in preventing the poor unemployed labourers of Ireland to obtain a chance of bettering their condition in these fine provinces. At present I could provide immediate employment for 20,000 persons of the working classes. Public improvements are much retarded in Upper Canada for want of hands, and the rates of wages are unusually high. Common farm- labourers can readily obtain in Upper Canada from Ibl. to 30/. a year, with board, lodging, washing, mending, See.; day- labourers from 3s. to 4s.; good servants, male and female, are much wanted. I hope my letter to you last May, with reference to a clause or two that Mr. Gladstone omitted in the New Passenger Act, may have reached you in time to have them introduced before the bill passes, I being obliged to report to you the want of proper attention on the part of the officers of the customs at many ports in Ireland, but more particularly at Limerick, by their permitting vessels with emigrants to clear for Canada not sufficiently provided with provisions. The brig Francis Spaight, Captain Gorman, lately arrived from that port, is a strong illustration of my remarks. I intend to write the Government agent at Limerick on the subject; and would respectfully suggest, that a remonstrance from the Colonial- office to the collectors of the customs generally in the United Kingdom would have a very desirable effect to prevent a repetition of such abuses. The number of parish emigrants and other poor labouring persons, aided by landlords, that have arrived here this season is considerably greater than former years, in comparison 76. D 2 tq