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nAgatioll. and Captain OATS% tame Muse
in the Iphigemie. We have Quebec Papers to
the 12th of August; the article of loon interest
they contain, is an recount of the arrival there,
on the Ist and id of that month, of several vessels.
from various ports in Ireland, bringing 1,010
settlers; one from Leith, with 298; one from Ply-
mouth (the Bridget, WALKER) with 29—making a
total arrival of 1,337 emigrants from this country in

two days. The whole number that had arrived oat
at Quebec this season, was 6,047.
A. Crust& is at all limes an intereating, and is
daily becoming r itemising colony, it is with much
satisfaction we are enabled to state, upon good au-
thority, some regulatinus and observations relative
to laud voted to settlers in Canada, in July, 1818 :
OBSERVATIONS ON LANDS, AND TROUSER 01
HOLDING LANDS, GRANTED NT GOVERNMENT
TO SETTLERS IN CANADA.

PregswgArn teennred to Half pay 0./Pere—Lieutenant.
Colonel 1,200 acres, Major 1,000, Captain 000, Subaltern
WO, Serjeant 200, Corporal 160, Private 100; and i ea►
1011. d to purchase as ouch sore as heron tonnage.
Choke of towds, o► Athrattion—Deperras on dream-.
dances; if you petition fur • particular spot, ungraded,
iii. generally obtained.
/folding—lu Upper Canada, generally Areelilld ; in Loviee
Canada, subject lasagna!! Aue, or quit-reat ; if grant.
ed is always frerheld.
No whom granted--lly the Governor sad Council on a
areadnatire frurn the Secretary of State for the Colonial Dr
parioneut, fur which application roust be made at \intact
in Loudon, stating qtralilleatioas, he.

Claim by whirll s permit isocomies enfilled—Servititde it
the Army ur Navy, wit► • promise to clear and improve a
certain portion is • gime time, or Bocci (via. seven acres
it five years) Civilian., Ce►tiiate of Emcees and ca.
parity to improve, ke. and taking t►e Oath of Allegiance
to ►is Britannic Majesty.
Tithes—Now payable fur lands granted.

Local sdronlooss of Rank—A Proprietor to a very small
talent is qualified in vote for a Representative is the Howse
of Asienitily, or to become aßtpresentative thee.
Ezponnea on Wing inoraorsion, ire.—About 31. for every
ROO acres, for snaking U.S the patent,

Allowesakfor Roads—Fi re sem additiosal oil every 100
are allowed foe rooda.

Church Lands—Certain portions of land are allotted for
the useftfthe Clergy, and are called Clergy Reserves :-.-these
am allowed by Government, but nut nut of grinds to lath.
beats.
••Aesistenseo by Grieerwment to Settlers—None at present,
mold to disbanded 'Alien, who receive twelve inamtlik
'Bijou', and implements of husbandry.
Prices of Provisions,— Meat, bread, and vegetables, rather
cheaper than the average of England. Wines, spirits, teas,
mean., aud other artirles, sabjert to Customs and Excise in
England, are raWdli Aram I. Canada.
(101bing--Very expensive, especially woollens, shoes, &e.

Upper Canaria, rids mil, proffering wheat and
other mains, and most fruits common in Europe. la many
parts of Lower Caaada, soil is also esteellera, bat the satire
Canadians ate generally idle and bad farmers, not half
ploughing or nettling their land, and negleeting, to an al.
moat issortdoble degree, the see of manure; where more at-
testing has heels paid to the land, the cultivator has always
aorweaded sad bums well repaid; but in this part there is
much poor bind.

Upywr Canada, sir saluhrious, winters short
(about four months). I■ Lower Canada, the winters art
hunger (shunt seven montbs), but nut so tr.), severe as hits
at times been represented, the inhabitants being very seldom
restrained (rum visiting one another—this twiny the season
of the year mostly chutes for visiting and eacetesions to a
considerable distaste.
Land can be cleared animal 2!. per acre.

The Semiramis, recently arrived at Portsmouth,
under the command of Captain JOSEPH H A RalkoN,
late First Lieutenant, sailed from Port Royal on
the 27th July, with a freight of specie for the
Havinnah ; arrived there on the td August, and
sailed again on the 4th, with 900,000 dollars, be-
sides gold dust. cochineal, ■nd ivory, on account of
merchants in London. The Cherie, Capt. Wm-
Liis, had arrived at Port 'loyal, from the coast of
Africa (having left Cape Coast Castle on the plst
of May), and was to sail for England about the
10th ult. The Tyvials was the only ship beside at
Port Royal. During the three years service of the
Semiramis upon the coast of Africa. she lost only
two of her men by sickness.

The spirited resistance which the turbulent ma-
nufacturers of Manchester experienced on Wed.
uesday, in their attack upon Messrs. GRAY and
Co.'s premises, near Ancoat-strtet, and the blood
spilt on that unhappy occasion, have not had the
effect of preventing the repetition of such violent
proceedings. The unfortunate men assembled in
crowds on the following day, and proceeded
to attack the factories of the most obnuxioav mas-
tery, but the presence end activity of the military
quickly interrupted their proceedings. They then
satisfied themselves by parading the ►treets of Man.
cheater, and displaying flags, inscribed with the
declaration of their waists. The rioters of Manches-
ter are countenanced and encouraged by the manu-
facturers of many neighbouring towns, who by
flocking to Manchester increase the uproar, and
render the appearance of the entire body more formi-
dable; and it is computed in private letters. that the
combined numbers of those who in Manchester, and
within the circuit of ten miles round it, have in a
violent manna expressed their determination not to
work at the usual prices, are nut fewer than 50,000.
The danger that threatens society from the exas-
peration, or even from the thoughtlessness of so
large a body of Oleo continuing so lon a time in
idle and dissolute habits, sad accustomed to set
the authority of the State in some degree at dr-
fiance, is extiemely formidable, and cannot he

contemplated without the most serious apprehen-
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It hos. indeed, been very frequently averted,
that the conduct of the workmen has not arisen
altogether from the displeasu►e they might indivi-
dually feel at being compelled to labour at a price
less in their estimation than the fair reward of their
exertions, but that it is the result of an intriguing
spirit, actively fomenting for treasonable purposes
the red passions of these people. In this opinion Mr.
Serie:nit BEST seems to concur ; for. in his address
as Chief Justice, to the Grand Jury. at the opening
of the Cheshire Sommer Assizes, the Learned See.
jeant observes—
r' It is a fact tow clear to admit of a momeat's doubt, that
the whole of those movements which have agitated the peace
and tranquillity of the country, are the mull of a foul and
wicked conspiracy to destroy the ittansfactures of the laud;
and progressivtly moving from crime to cris•e, to anni►ilate
every thing worth preserving in the coantry!"
We perhaps might not feel ourselves quite ready
to assent to this opinion in its full extent; hut of
this there can he no question, that by whatever
causes the manufacturers may have been excited to
demand a higher rate of wages, they are in their
present condition fearfully exposed to be tampered
with, mid induced to commit crimes from which, in
other cirettrnxtencer, they would have recoiled in

horror. Three Verson, named Boguely, Johnson,
and Drummond, have been arrested at Stockport,
and indicted, the Grand Jury having found true bills
against them. It is stated that a meeting of the
mastera was to have token place last Friday at
Manchester, for the purpose of offering certain pro-
!insults to the workmen. I,'e sincerely hope that the
measure will restore confidence between the work-
men and their emplo}ers, and obviate the dangers
that now threaten the very existence of our staple
mann factures.

The late gallant Captain Sir JAMES Yee, was
distinguished by bold and vigorous enterprise, and
never ceaseless teal for the honour and prosperity of
his country. The disease which closed his taunts'
existence, in the 36th year of his age (atrophy, or ge.
neral debility, not dropsy.), was produced by ar.
(loons and anxious service. He bo►e his affliction
and the approach of death, with the destruction of
all the hopes and expectations which his ardent
mind had formed, with the highest fortitude; and in
a body kept alive alone by artificial means for four
or live days, he retained his mental faculties until
within three or four hours of his final dissolution.
His remains will be landed from the Semiramis, to-
morrow morning, to be interred with all the ho.
due to his rank in Portsmouth Garrison
Chapel.
The following are among the ships daily expect-
ed to arrive front foreign stations, to be paid
Orlando and Toney, from the East Indies; Eurydice sod
Griffon, from the Owe and St. Helena; Albion, Tagus, and
Satellite, from the Mediterranean ; Pique amid Pelican, fro*
Jamaica; Saracen and Harrier, Arms Halifax; Hastings
(new 74), frum Calcutta.

The Mersey, Pheasant, and Raleigh, at Ply.
mouth, are ordered to be prepared for commission.
The Fauns, Thuis, and Pistols, were sold out of the
service last month.—The Serapis, at Portsmouth,
is to he fitted for a cosivalewent-ship, at Jamaica.
The Driver is to be paid off, and recommissioned
for Channel service, The Homilies is to he paid off,
all n■ndiug, and te.commissioned.—The Ives. and
Wasp were paid off on Saturday morning.—The
/ph►genia is to be fitted for foreign service.
Tile Waterloo, 80, will be launched at Ports.
mouth Dock-yard, at the latter end of this month.
At Spitlie.id—ltoyal George yacht, Tiber, Iphi.
genii:, Semiramis, Carron. Rosario, Leveret.

The transports Sir George Osborn. Aldbury,
Lady Hamilton, and Alfred, have arrived from
Quebec, with the remains of the 7th battalion of
the 60th and 99th regiments, on board. who are to
be iti•banded. About 300 men of the 99th regi-
ment made choice of remaining iu the country
as civilians; and, in consequence two months p,iy
and twelve monthe rations, were given to each
man, besides the usual grant of land. The trans-
ports sailed from Quebec on the 2d ult.
A General Court Martial was held at the Royal
Marine barracks,__Portsinouth, on the .23th August,
for the trial of First Lieutenant GILBERT LANO
DON. of that corps, on the following charge :-
4' That Lieutenant LANGDON had been seen coin-
ing out of a public-house, on some day between the
Ist and alit days of May last. in a state of intoxi-
cation ;"—on which charge the Court found him
Not Guilty, and did most fully acquit him of the
same. Ltrut.-Colonel MONCNIEFFS, President.

The Royal Hone Artillery, stationed at Ponte-
fract, will he reviewed by Major-General Sir Jou*
Blm, in Pontefract Park. on Thursday, the 10th
of September, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and, in
con.equence, the Stewards have postponed the be-
ginning of the races on that day until half pad two
in the afternoon.

On Thursday afternoon the Hon. GEO. ANSON
made his public entry into Yarmouth. The ar.
rangetuersts of his friends for the occasion must
have been most gratifying to his feelings. A
deputation in carriages mid on horseback went
to Bradwell to meet him, and the freemen and
nu i►umense concourse of spectators assembled
at the Anson Arms, South-town, to join the
procession from Bradwell: on its arrival at South-
town the horses were taken from Mr. Anson's
carriage, and it was drawn by the populace.—
The procession went entirely round the town, and
ended at the Committee-rooms in the Market.
place. liniumenible Cgs and colours were dis-
played from South-town to Yarmouth, and the Quay
exhibited a most interesting sight, many of the
vessels having their yards maimed and dressed
with a profusion of flags. In the procession there
was an elegant blue flag, with the word " Warerko"
encircled in a wreath or oak and olive leaves, in
allusion to Mr. ANSON having had the honour of
►haring in the glories of that immortal b►►ttle.-.
The number of persons assembled on the occasion
war truly astonishing, and we are glad to add, that
uo OmtilliCe of outrage or tumult occurred. Mr.
Anson commenced its personal cauvass

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