The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-09-07 00:00:00

CA NJ D. 4.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LOWER CANADA, JULY I.
People in England, I believe, are not much interested in
Canadian affairs, but you may rest assured the day will come
when it will be a powerful country, but who it will ulti-
mately belong to is a question. The population is rapidly
increasing, and the wild lands every succeeding year com-
ing into extensive culture. Vast tracts which only a few
years ago framed the hunting grounds of the Indian, are
now covered with flocks and herds. Cottages arise in all
directions as it were by enchantment. Every difficulty
vanishes before mutual support. The poor emigrant, who
one day is exposed to the skies, will find him the next in
his cottage. The favourite custom here is what is termed
making a bee, which is always practised where expedition
is wanted. The person who intends getting up his house
or barn, has the timber prepared on the spot, and upon
notice given the hive assemble. Only one afternoon is re-
quired, and the largest frame of house or barn is up and
roofed before night. Every man works with as much zeal
and alacrity as you may imagine sailors would do when a
prize was in sight.
But the fact is, the Americans and Canadians would d
as much business in this way with a score of hands as ten
times the number of Europeans could effect. The dexterity
with which they use the axe is surprising. These people
never need want; they can always support their families
by cutting timber and drawing it to the mill, or burning it
and making potash. On the other hand, the European
husbandman would starve until he became acquainted with
the expert use of the axe. A Scotsman will very soon get
into the habit of finding his bread in the woods; but the
poor Irish have no conception of this kind of employment.
The latter will walk about, his bands locked behind him,
and unless he can find sufficient cleared ground to put his
spade in, and raise murphics for the young Pats, they must
absolutely, perish. I have seen a young settlement of this
kind, where the devil a bit have they got during a Six
months' winter but potatoes ; yet they have turned out
gayly in the spring, and no grumbling. But these people
evidently want support for a limited time, as they are not
much in request as farm labourers.
In the States of America, the inland navigation is of a
wonderful description, and the progress of education is
superior to any thing of the kind in Europe. I believe
landholder is taxed to support the public schools, and they
are every where thickly planted. The very lowest of the
peasantry read and write well.
If the States hold together another century, they will
be mighty in power ; but their different constitutions and
laws clashing with the supreme Legislature, renders this
impossible. The Slave question, as well as that of inland
tolls on canals, and; other opposite interests, all seem to
announce 'some change in the

William Washington, a nephew of the celebrated
Washington, has arrived from Malta at Hydra. This
young officir of artillery, the inheritor of his uncle's
virtues, and filled with .the greatest enthusiasm for the
struggle in which the Greeks are engaged against bar-
barians, has decided on entering into the ranks of the
Greeks, and has set out for Napoli di Romania for that
purpose.

A letter, dated the 16th of May, from Malta, says,—A
disgraceful occurrence took place here the other day. A
Church Missionary, who lived not far from our barracks,
and who was very zealous in his profession, having frequent
meetings at his house, to which many of the soldiers re-
paired, had given offence to the Maltese, it is alleged, on
account of having•converted a young man, whose brother
was a priest. They assembled riotously, and broke all his
windows, instigated, it is said, by some of the clergy, who
were seen 'setting them on, and would have gutted his
house and sacrificed him to their vengeance, had he not
been protected by the military. As it was, he was obliged
to leave his house and retire to a friend's in Valetta, but
they followed him even there, demolishing the windows of
his friend's house, but I do not hear of their having pro-
ceeded to any farther violence. A chapel for the metho-1
dists, which is just built, has, I believe, been attacked and
injured in like manner. Such proceedings, in my opinior,
I ought to be promptly put down, but the officers of Govern-
ment are backward in interfering, the Maltese having had
some clause, peculiarly favourable to them and their form
of religion, inserted in the stipulation at the delivering up
of the Island to the English, on which they presume, at
least so it is understood ; but they need no stimulus of that
kind ; so bigoted are they, and so ignorant, that the will of
the priest is considered as authoritative as the voice of God,
a id the influence of the priest extends to every action, how-
ever insignificant. A servant girl would not dare to put on
a crp without her spiritual director's sanction.--Glosgow
Chronicle.

The loss incurred by speculators in consequence of the
fall which has taken place in the French 3 per Cents. since
the first day of their emission, is calculated by the Anis-
torque at no less a sum than fifty millions of francs.
An American journalist gravely relates that " numerous
' fish have been found floating upon the waters of the Schuy-
kill supposed to have died from a stroke of the sun!"
TRANSPLANTATION OF FISIL—The breeding and fat-
tening of sea-fs'i in fresh waters continues to be pursued
with ardour and perfect success by Mr. Arnold, in the
island of Guernsey ; who, in a pond of about four acres,
on the coast, has no less than thirty-seven species of sea-
fish, which Dr. M'Cullocb enumerates ; including turbot,
cal, mackerel, plaise, flounder, sole, herring, sprat, prawn,
shrimp, oyster, nsole, &c. No kind of sea-fish whi .11
has been introduced into this pond, appears to have died,
or suffered deterioration, in consequence of its change of
lenient. This pond, having been embanktd from the
sea, is, during all the winter months, so copiously supplied
by a brook, as to be perfectly fresh. During some periods
in the spring and autumn, owing to the decrease of the
brook, and to leaks through the embankment at high
Pitt -r, the pond becomes brackish ; and, during-a part of
most summers, it is almost salt, and yet none of the fish
suffer inconvenience from these changes.