10 PAPERS RELATIVE TO EMIGRATION TO CANADA. / / 10 vinced the Association will derive great gratification by the perusal of the mass of highly interesting information we have obtained, and which exhibits this Province in a more pros- perous state than perhaps the most sanguine and experienced inhabitants could have anticipated. I have, & c. ( signed) Frederick Widder, Commissioner. W. B. Jarvis, Esq., Sheriff of the Home District, And Chairman of the Meeting of the 15th of October 1840. It was then moved by Sir Allan N. Macnab, and seconded by Robert Dixon Esq.; and Resolved, That Robert S. Jameson, Esq., Vice- Chancellor of Upper Canada, be the President of the " Canada Emigration Association" for the ensuing year, and until the next annual election. Carried unanimously. — No. 3.— ( No. 137.) COPY of a DESPATCH from Earl Grey to Governor- general the Right Honour- able the Earl of Elgin. N0< 3, My Lord, Downing- street, 18 November 1847. Earl Grey to REFERRING to your Lordship's despatch, No. 82, of the 26' th of August last, Govenor- general enclosing a return of the assessed value of certain townships in the Newcastle Dis- x^ N^ vember' 18" 7 tr* ct' Western Canada, settled by pauper emigrants from Ireland between the ' years 1825 and 1828, for the purpose of being laid before Parliament, I have to inform your Lordship that I gather, from two Reports of a Select Committee of the House of Commons on Emigration, dated on the 26th May 1826, and 29th June 1827, that 2,024 Irish pauper emigrants embarked from Cork in the year 1825, for Upper Canada, under the superintendence of Mr. Peter Robinson; that of this number 621 men, 512 women, and 745 children were located on the New- castle District, and that the total expense of the conveyance of these emigrants from Ireland to Canada, and of their settlement at Newcastle, including their sustenance up to the period at which their first crops enabled them to provide for themselves, was 43,145/., no portion of which appears to have been repaid by the settlers. I have now to request that your Lordship will ascertain and report to me, whether the townships, of which the assessed value is contained in your des- patch, No. 82, are the townships on which these Irish pauper emigrants were settled, and if not, that you will furnish me with any information which it may be in your power to obtain respecting the formation of these settlements. I have, See. ( signed) Grey. No. 4. Governor- general the Earl of Elgin to Earl Grey, 15 March 1848. — No. 4.— ( No. 30.) Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor- general the Right Honourable the Earl of Elgin to Earl Grey. Government House, Montreal, 15 March 1848. My Lord, ( Received 10 April 1848.) WITH reference to your Lordship's Despatch, No. 137, of the 18th November, calling for further information respecting the settlements formed in the year 1826 by emigrants from Ireland, under the superintendence of Mr. Robinson, I have the honour to communicate such additional particulars as it has been in my power to collect from the scanty records remaining in the public offices here, relating to those settlements, and from inquiries which 1 have instituted on the spot. Enclosed is a return of the number of acres granted to Mr. Robinson's emi- grant's in each township, and returns in detail showing the present condition of every lot so granted, that is to say, the number of acres in each lot ( generally 100,) the number of acres now cleared and under cultivation, the number of souls, houses, cattle, & c., on each lot. From these details it will be sufficiently apparent, that none of these townships were settled exclusively by the emigrants of