The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-04-13 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

Aceording to a Mint return published on Wednesday
the gold coined in England during the peat year was
£4,859,860., of which £364,111 consisted of half-
sovereigns. This total is lens by £1,142,254 than that
in the previous year, and £664,108 below the average of
the past ten years. As compared with 1853, the year
of the greatest gold coinage ever known, it shows a re-
duction of £7,092,531, the amount on that occasion hay-
leg reached £11,952,391. The silver coinage last year
was £373,230, containing £363,679 actual value in me-
tal. The pieces comprised were 1,671,120 florins,
2,562,120 shillings, 2,233,440 sixpences, 4,158 fourpenoes,
1,762,728 threepence', 4,752 twopences, and 7,920 penos.
The copper coinage was to the extent only of £6,720,
containing £3,492 value in metal.
WATER COMPANIER..-R. return has been published to
show the gross receipts for water supplied by each of the
public companies incorporated for the supply of water in
England. As regards the London water companies it
appears that in 1856, or 1856-57, or the laid year for
whieh returns are made, _the following were the gram
receipts, vie. :—The Chelsea Waterworks, £43,071; the
East London Company, £85,286; the Grand Junction,
£52,590; the Hempsteed Waterworks, £10,360; the
Lambeth Waterworks, £34,645; the New River Com-
pany, £166,367; the Southwark and Vauxhall Water
Company, £41,914; and the West Middlesex Company,
£72,165. The New River Company is assessed to the
poor-rates, for £30,909 (on pipes' engine-stations, and
plant) ; the Southwark and Vauxhall for £11,237; the
West Middlesex for £9,508; the Hampstead for £1,290
only; the Lambeth for £9,613; and the East London for
£6,844 (all rates). The aggregate amount assessed to the
poor-rates in the cue of the Chelsea Company (1856-57)
was £10,835.

EMIGRATION TO CANADA.—Copies of dui-etches rela-
tive to emigration (in continuation of Parliamentary
paper No. 12.5 of 118.11i00 2, 1857) have been laid before
l'arliament on the motion of Lord Stanley, M.P. The
immigration report of the agent at Quebec, dated Dee.
31, 1867, shows that the total number landed at that
port during the season was 32,097, out of 1,840 cabin and
80,451 steerage !mecums. The number of vessels thus
employed was 231, of 143,963 tons, and navigated by
5,436 seamen. The average plumage of the sailing ships
wee 44, and of the steamers 12 day'. The immigrants
were very free from disease, the mortality among the
English passengers having been no more than onethird
of 1 per cent. The foreign passenger' suffered more.
It appears adviseble to make the voyage in a steamer,
aa the mortality Ma was exolueively unlined to wiling
vowels, not one death having occurred in any of the
steam packets. Of the 32,097 immigrants of last season
11,098 were English, 4,466 Inch, 4,924 Sootch, 4,872
Germans, 6,470 Swedes and Norwegians, besides 216
BOlffillllll, awl 51 Canadians. The increase is principally
on the English mid Norwegians, and it was among the
latter that the greatest mortality marred. Of the total
number of 12,449 males embarked 3,518 were fanners
and agricultural labourers,
2,188 mechanics, 327 men-
chants' clerics, he., 134 servants, and 6,979 common
labourers. Complaints were made by the paseengers of
five vessels for violation of the Act of Parliament; in
three oases convictions took place, and in two oompen-
cation wee made by the owners. The complaints were
against Captain Craig, of the United Service steamer
(Wort supply of water); Captain Olive, of the ship E.
A. Bright (scanty supply of meat, flour, and water, &L);
and Captain Corner, of the ship WDonnell (scanty
supply of water sad food); the other two eases (settled
by compromise) were 1110110 of the ships lon and Mel-
bourne. Them Noes deserve to be pointed out, as the
treatment senerelly experiesood by emigrants on their
voyage to gush,, Is siga to be very satisfactory, and
serious eompletais an rare. A lam PluPartitll of the
milfteats (Wlllt sJ4i ed fesei(u) Pcoeeediet to the
"160111 Parte ed the yahv)aseteehhoso to Isks the New
York routs; but numerous 0911111iite muds by Pee.
swipes ,on this roc* es both voyage some the

0061111 and It New York, so that the Cenndhp mfrs.
Wei will be largely diverted from this line hereafter.
Emigrants, especially woii, are partietfhtrly eautloned
by the *gent at quebeo 40* the risks they must run
If they adopt the rode of New York, and they are
strongly advised to go out rid (tubes S summer and
rid Portland in winter. The passage at either season is
no longer, and it is less expensive on the whole. Emi-
grants are also strongly advised to secure their Pa
try ',turners preference to sailing vessels ; andmte
steamship, all things considered, will prove the cheapest
In the sequel. The to'tel expenditure of the Emigration
Department of the province ardothrle to £11,939, and the
total direct relief extended to destitute Immigrants at
the several agencies wee £8,138, The gross total srri-
vale of immigrants in Canada during the year amounted
to £71,220,—viz., 32,097 rid the St. Lawrence, and
39,123 by the route of the United States, and of the
whole number 37,034 went to the Western States,
while KM settled in Canada. 191 emigrante were
lost by the burning of the Montreal, the master of which
steamer was, at the date of the report, lying in gaol with
• terdiet-ef " manelaugliter" against him. The owner
had evaded erred. The immigration of 1867 waa very
useful in Canada. Lettintrers, espoinally agrioultural
ones, were in great demand, and " ftnialel" Were " uni-
versally inqnired for," all finding work at "tilt wages
but skilled mechanics are in excess of the demand, arid
find it difficult to obtain employment. The demand for
this sort of work is always limited, and the new comers
are at • great disadvantage in finding places. Canada
offers least encouragement to "those who have no
business or calling." Merchants,' bankers,' and lawyer,'
clerks, and, generally speaking, persons of sedentary
habits, who have been glued to office stools half their
lives, are not wanted in Canada, and ought not to emi-
grate unless their friends are able to provide for them
until employment can be found, 327 persons of this
elms (steerage passengers) went out lad season, " and "
there is" really no employment for them." There is
ample encouragement, on the contrary, not only to
capitalists (with judgment and experience), but also for
the "handy and industrious," even if unpossesaed of
large resources. Farm labourers will always do well,
and no man with health and strength, resoived to take
Rush work as in offered, can fail to earn • good liveli-
hood. There is no want just at present, of unskilled
labouring immigrants. Persons thinking of emigrating to
Canada will do well to ponder these things well before
taking the irrevocable step.