The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-27 00:00:00

CANADIAN LAND AND RAILWAY
ASSOCIATION.
Thu Ant annual meeting of an amociAtlon, which
dates its existents from somewhere about the middle of the
year 1618, sad whisk has fur its object the amelioration of
the social condition of the working classes, by providing
more extensive fields for their employment and giving pro-
motion to their labour, was held yesterday evening at the
Literary and Balestifie Institution, in John-Mreee, Fitzroy-
square. The objest of this mociation is to promote colonisa-
tion among tits working elms, to purchase and cultivate go-
vernment lends in British North America, end to form a
rai.way from Halifax to Qaebse. It was commenced if
1843. The report stated that the legislative assembly on
Nova Scotto had passed a resolution to allow, in aid of the
railway, 20,0001. a year foe twenty years, the inhabitants of
Halifax, 4,0004 a year, the government of New Brunswick,
20,0001 a year, and lands to the extent of ten miles en each
side the railway, and the government of Canada, 20,0001.
Thus making an annual grant for twenty years of 60,0001,
with land to the extent of 6,000,000 acres. All that was
wanting now was the guarantee ..f the imperial government
for the regular payment of the sums granted by the colo-
nies; end the report added that a recant interview with
gerl Grey gave hopes that there sums would be
uaranteed when a sufficient party came forward to
undertake the construction of the railway. Thus, it we-
believed, a great and important field would be opened for
the labour of tbe surplus population of Great Britain and
Ireland. It was &Nimble, therefore, to make this a work-
ing-clan movement. The chairman, in the emend of a
lenateened address, made some practical observations upon
the utility of oolunisation, and the benefits of combining it
with the construction of a railway, to op,a up the resources
of the country. He gave a fluttering detcrip ion of the coal
products of Nova Scotia. The field, he believed, was larder
than that of Great Britain, and with a =mutes et 60,0001.
a year, which was ample for the capital required, he did
not see how the undertaking could fail. At tne close of his
speech, Mr. Wright yielded the chair to Ur. L J. Heneard,
who, in eulogisiug the undertaking, described it as affording
a practical means of emigration, and at the same time of
profitable employment and permanent settlement. Mr.
Ceniebell, the secretary, then read a list of the parties who
had been invited to attend the meeting. They oomprlsed the
leaders of the different sections of free-traders, ounservatim,
and radicals. Earl Stanhope appeared to have been the',
most prominent person invited : and the noble sail, in de-
clining to attend, expressed his readiness to take the chair
at soy time at a great public meeting to be held in London,
to test the question of how far the working classes were pre-
pared to advocate the principle of protection to industry and
capital. The acceunu hawing been paned, a series of reso-
lutions were proposed. The moat important of them set
forth the necessity for labour being protected, sad authorised
measures to be taken for obtaining a bill or charter of incor-
poration during the next parliamentary session; and further,
that in the meantime her Msjrsty and Prince Albert shou,d
be humbly requested to become patrons of the undertaking.
They were all carried, after which the meeting, which was
but thinly attended, separated.