The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-03 00:00:00

AMERICA

NEW YORK, JUNE 21.

General M'Clellan's army before Richmond has
been reinforced by the corps under General
M'Dowell.

The weather is fine, and the roads firm in Vir-
ginia. General Morgan, of the Federal army, re-
ports to the War Department, under date of the
18th inst., that he that day marched upon and
occupied Cumberland Gap, which the enemy
evacuated four hours before his arrival.

Cumberland Gap is a pass in the Cumberland
mountains at a point where the boundary lines of
the States of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee

converge.

A telegram authorised by the Federal Govern-
ment, which stated some days ago that Little Rock
the capital of Arkansas, had been occupied by a
Federal force under General Curtis, is unfounded.
That city still remains in the possession of the Con-
federates.

No further intelligence that can be .depended
upon has been received of the movements or posi-
tion of General Beauregard.
Vicksburg still holds out against the Federal
flotilla.

The Confederates declare their intention to defend
the city to the last extremity.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, July 2.—Business is still limited in
amount, and the market heavy. Threes, for the
end of the month, are now at 68f. 30c, Little
doing in Railway Shares. The market closed as
follows :

4t per Cents. 96 70
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 15
New 3 per Cents
Do. end month —
Credit Mobilier 835
Do. end month 835 -
RAIL,

Bank Shares 3140
Credit koncier 1635
Piedmontesc Fives 73 20
Italian Loan 73
Roman —
Austrian

Spanish Threes 51
Home Debt

-AYS.

Orleans

Cash. Account.
1250 .. 1260 --

Northern .. •. . lO3O 1047 50
New ditto . 992 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 1073 76 .. 1080
Geneva ..

Southern B3S 75 836 25
Western
Eastern
Sardinian ..
Austrian
Lombard 606 50 .. 601 25

JURYMEN'S GRIEVANCES.

EMIGRATION 70 THE NORTH
AMERICAN COLONIES.

The report of the emigration during the past year
to our North American colonies has just been pub-
lished, and shows that they have benefited in this
respect by the American war. The number of per-
sons landed at Quebec during the season was 19,923
or 9,733 more than in the previous year. There
were also 4,664 arrivals in Canada by the American
route. At all times, however, a large proportion of
those who sail hence for the St. Lawrence intend
to proceed to the United States, and on the present
occasion the total was 10,700, so that out of 24,587
arrivals in the province the aggregate that actually
remained was 13,887. The number of vessels en-
gaged in the conveyance of the 19,923 emigrants
to Quebec was 147, of which 40 were steamers and

107 sailing ships. The former had an average pas-
sage of 12 days and the latter 381 days from ports
in the United Kingdom, and 50 from the Continent.
The proportion from the United Kingdom was 9,305,
from Germany 1,318, and from Norway 8,620. The
latter were chiefly the parties who proceeded to the
United States, where they have large settlements
in Illinois and Wisconsin. The emigration from

the United Kingdom was particularly healthy, but
four deaths having occurred during the passage—
one female adult and three children, two of whom
were infants ; but in the German and Norwegian
emigration there was the heavy mortality of between
two and three per cent., owing to the absence of
that medical inspection which is enforced in emi-
grant ships sailing from British ports. Small-pox
and measles are ascertained to have prevailed among
them previous to embarkation. The nationality of
of the emigrants of last year and of 1860 is stated
as follows :

English
Irish
Scotch
Germans

Norwegians
Danes

French
Americans ..
Colonists ..

Total ..

1860. 1861.
.. 2,491 .. 3,574
.. 2,831 .. 3,180
.. 1,850 .. 2,015
.. 725 .. 2,040
.. 1,809 .. 8,668
.. 74 .. 54

4 ..
366 ..

.. 10,150 .. 19,923

The increase appears chiefly in the foreign emi-
grants, which amounts to 8,154, or equal to over
360 per cent. From the United Kingdom the in-
crease was 1,597, or 21* per cent. Of the emigrants
from the United Kingdom, a large proportion were
persons possessing means, who came out with the
intention of occupying the free grant lots offered
by the Government. As regards the trades or call-
ings of the adult emigrants, of whom the total
number embarked was 7,464, it appears that they
were classed as follows, showing that the majority
from the United Kingdom were labourers and me-
chanics, while from the Continent they were mostly
farmers

Total. British. Foreign.
Farmers .. .. 3,865 .. 993 .. 2,872
Labourers .. .. 2,227 .. 1,737 .. 496
Mechanics .. .. 846 .. 651 .. 189
Professional men .. 39 .. 35 .. 4
Servants (male) .. 31 .. 30 .. 1
Clerks and traders .. 300 .. 300 ..

Miscellaneous and un-
enumerated ..

.. 156 ..

94 ..

Total .. .. 7,646 .. 3,840 .. 3,624
Nearly all the emigrants who arrived are stated to
have readily found employment at fair wages, and
it is added that the prospects for the present year
are upon the whole favourable. From reports re-
ceived from foreign sources, a large influx of emi-
grants is expected this season from Germany and
Norway. Ireland is now being canvassed by the
agents of the Provincial Government, and maps,
pamphlets, &c., containing the fullest information,
have been circulated throughout Great Britain.
Information recently elicited by the Bureau of
Agriculture, in reply to questions addressed by
them to the municipal authorities throughout
Canada, shows that the following number and
classes of emigrants are required in various parts of
the country :
Farm labourers .. .. 4,916

Female servants • •
Boys over 13 years ..
Girls nver ditto .. ..
Mechanics .. ..

.. 3,342

.. 2,486
.. 2,259

.. 2,610

15,613
In concluding his report to the Governor-Genera],
Mr. Buchanan, the chief emigration agent, ob-
serves :—" The continuance of hostilities in the
United States has been the occasion of directing
the attention of many persons in that country to
advantages which Canada offers; and I have re-
ceived numerous inquiries from residents there re-
specting the Crown lends open for sale in this pro-
vince. A large number of French Canadians have
returned from the States during the last year, some
to their native places, and others to settle on the
Crown lands in the Ottawa, where they had every
prospect of doing well."