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

AMERIC A

NEW YORE, JUNE 21.

General IVlTlellan'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 oity 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.

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 124 days and the latter 38.1, days from ports
in the United Kingdom, and 50 from the Continent.
The proportion from the United Kingdom was 9,305,
from Germany 2,318, and from Norway 8,620. The
latter were chicfly 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 tbree 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 embarkatiori. The nationality of
of the emigrants of last year and of 1860 is stated
as follows :

English ..
Irish GO
Scotch ..
Germans • .

Norwegians
Danes ,

French ,
Americans , ,
Colonists

Total ..

1860. 1861.
.. 2,491 .. 3,574
.. 2,83', 3,180
• • '.,850 .. 2,015
.. 725 .. 2,040
.. 1,809 .. 8,668

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74 ..

.. 4 ..
.. 366 ..

.. 10,150 .. 19,923

The increase appears chiefly in the foreign mi-
grants, which amounts to 8,154, or equal to over
360 per cent. From the United Kingdom the in-
crease was 1,597, or 212 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.
.. 3,865 ..

British. Foreign,
, 993 .. 2,872

Farmers

Labourers .. .. 2,227 .. 1,737 ..
Mechanics .. .. 846 .. 651 ..
Professional men .. 39 .. 35 ..
Servants (male) 31 .. 30 ..
Clerks and traders 300 300 ..
Miscellaneous and un-
enumerated ..

496
189
4
1

.. 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 ..

Female servants ..
Boys over 13 years ..
Girls over ditto .. ..
AT ech an i c a .. •-

.. 4,916

.. 3,342

.. 2,486

.. 2,259
.. 2,610

15,613

In concluding his report to the Governor-General,
Mr. Buchanan, the chief emigration agent, ob-
serves :—" The continuance of hostilities in the
United States has been the occasion cf 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 planes, and others to settle on the
Crown lands in the Ottawa, where they had every
prospect of doing well."

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pork-pie hat and the Poole paletot introduced hY
Anonyms ; but, alas I. she causes no effect at all, for
she is not Anonyms, ; C.--, Or
she is only the Duchess of A.-- ,
the Marchioness of B—, the Countess of
some other of Ac.onyma's many eager imitators. The
crowd, disappoii:ited, reseat themselves, and wait.
Another pony ca rriage succeeds—and another—vi
lth
the same is
d
rewarded. An ony ma and her ponies appear, ati
they are satisfit !d. She threads her way dexts‘rouso
with an unconscious air, through the throng, out-
mented upon -by hundreds who admire and hug'
dreds who
speak to an acquaintance, and her carriage is
andla
envy her. She pulls up her ponies. to
stantly surrounded by a multitude; she turns
then,
drives back again towards Apsley-house, and.
—away into the unknown world, nobody kno
whither. Meantime, thousands returning from tua
Exhibition are in ,olersibly delayed by the era%
collected to gaze on this pretty creature and
pretty ponies, be
and his police to keep the thoroughfare open are
and /;,he efforts of Sir Richard Diane
utterly frustrates',.
Could not you., sir, whose business it is to kn°
everything and everybody, and who possibly, the
fore,. .may know Anonyma herself, prevail on her 0
drive in
.some other portion of the Park as long do
the. Exhibition lasts ? If she will but consent t° sy
this, the fashionable crowd will certainly
follo e
her, and the road to the Exhibition will be set fre
1 for the use of the public.