The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-06-12 00:00:00

THE EMIGRANTS TO CANADA.

In the House of Commons, on Mondayevening, Mr.
Alderman SAlornons asked the First Lord of the Ad.
iiiiralty whether he hail received from the commanders
• f the Crocudde and the Serepis, which cony, yell work-
men recently discharged trim the Government estab-
lishments at Portsmouth and Woolwich, any reports as
to the conduct of such workmen during the voyage,
and as to their disposal on their arrival in the D.minion
of Canada; and inquired if those reports could be laid
upon the table.
Mr. Childers: About 1,100 persons have been taken
in the Crocodile and the Serapis to Canada during the
last two months. They were -elected with very great
care from among the workmen who have been em-
ployed for some time either in the Dockyard or in the
Arsenal, and their conveyance to Canada, although in
Her Majesty's tniopshipa, was muter the management
of the Emigration Commitisioners, and it has been
carried out with complete success. From the com-
mander of the Crocodile we have a report dated May
7, to this ffect
The emigrants ate landed 'all well,' and I have much
pleatute in reporting that Li cm the time they have been Olt
board the Crocodile their conduct has been everything that
could he desired, and no tody a men ...Ind have given less
trouble I may here state that the eh .plain and surgeon,
with the pat inasterand other officers, have been unremitting
in their zeal and .bare is carry out their Lordships' Metre.,
nobs avid the eon trawls have Slit been remiss in expressing
their gut it ti.le tor the kindness shown them"
Tiiis is the report from the commander of the
Seraphs
"Quebec, Iday 16, 1869.
"The emtgrtnts nave behaved well and I am happy to
inform their lordsh•ps that, the ps...sags tieing a smooth cue,
lifty have experience i little rno discomfort."
With reference to the latter part of the question, the
dieposal of the emigrants on their arrival at the Domi-
nion of Canada, we have this report from the emigra-
tion agent at Quebec :

"May 31, 15439.
"From Information recently forwarded to me, 1 learn
that these peoyle were judiciously distributed among the
niral didlicts in his reightiourhood, and that no difficulty
was experienced in obtaining immediate employment tor

We shall be happy to lay the papers on the table ae
soon an they are complete.

Commending ;he subject of Emigration to those who
have " enough and to spare," the Rev. John F. Kitt°,
St. Matthias Pansmage, Poplar, writes :
I trust that you will give me a few Imes In your
paper to inform the trends if entigf.itlue and of tie: elm.
grants how satisfactory are the reports which have been
revved concerning those who have been sent out this season
to Canada
Mr. Suifford, the trumlgration agent at Quebec, write. that

all the emigrants wino had reached that port had been satis-
factorily di,posed of.
Accounts received from private sources speak of the uniform
good behaviour of the emigrants during the voyage. Letters
received from the emigrants themselves testily to the kind-
ness which they met with from the officers of the ships and
from the agents of the Dominion Government.
The Canadian papers, writing on the same subject, point to
the contrast between the present activity of the Government
and what they call "the miserable policy manifested last
year by the Entigration Department."
On the whole, nothing can he more favourable than these
several accouna, coming trom so many different quarters.
Our emigrants have been welc .med and provided (or, swal-
lowed up In the inexhaustible demand for labour in the Do-
minion. The committee of the littitish and Colonial Linigra-
lion Fund can have no cause to regret that they acted upon
the representations made to them on this head.
Surely, Is most seem to be a cruel thing that the Crocodile,
which we moli-rstand was to have made a second voyrge,
cannot again be made available for want of f tools, though
Owe ore hutitheds N no would willingly go if the opportunity
were MI vile.l them.
The cm numnittee ate ohligel to heeitate to send out the 200
which can be lair. iii time Parra, because public contributiolis
. onue in so slowly Ti," Lord Mayor of London has expressed
rm-e, ive ally cootributiom that may be sent
to the Mdlilitoll-iiOUSII, RIO his hearty co-operation ought to
show that emigration is not of necessity detrimental to the
interests of imp emplo)ers of labour.