The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-15 00:00:00

SCOTCH IN UPPER CANADA.

We have great pleasure in communicating satis-
factory accounts, with which we have been favoured, from the
interesting settlement of Lanark, in Upper Canada. Our enter.
prising-countrymen enjoy excellent health. They are proceed-
ing successfully in clearing their land and accumulating stock;
though by some Injudicious choice on the part of the Govern.
ment Surveyor, the land had not turned out so well as was ex-
pected, being in many places sandy and rocky, and by no
means so fertile as the ground generally is in that country ;
yet are the settlers pleased with the return. Each has from
eight to fifteen acres in cultivation, and many of them have
built new houses, and appropriated the on huts to their
cattle. They have set up a school, which has already thirty.
four scholars ; and their Alinister has announced a newspaper.
A grist-mill has been erected by Mr. D. Bower. The settlers who,
as was fbrmerly noticed, abandoned their possessions, and went to
work In the United States, had, after a few months trial, generally
. chine back. Their wages, though high, were paid in the trou.
blesome shape of goods, or winch, however, they got a ready
! market on their return. Cattle thrive so well that many of the
settlers, who bought only one cow, have already seven or eight,
young and old. They have calves at two years old. They are
attended with very little trouble, living mostly on the leaves
and shoots of trees. As the horses in the English forests bruise
the whins with their feet to save their mouths from prickles,
and as the sheep in the moors of Scotland draw up the ling that
they may get at the soft white stalk enclosed by the hard under.
hose, so the cows of Canada bite through small trees to bring
within their reach the tender shoots; and when the trees are
too thick to be thus cut, the sagacious animals bend them down
with their necks, and push along till they reach the tops.—
They are little subject to distemper ; but in two or three in.
stances have been killed by the fall of trees. They give from
five to six Scottish pints of rich milk a day. which churned,
will 'yield 16 oz. of butter. In size they are about equal to the
cows of this country ; and sell from 41. to 51. each. A pair of
oxen will cost from W. to 20/. They are the only beasts of
burden. No horses have yet been introduced. Now that some
extent of' land is cleared, they are adding sheep to their stock.
.I.lle sheep are fine-wooled, and will be very beneficial to the
fire-side manufacturers. Pigs and poultry thrive exceedingly,
and find most of their own food daring the summer. Wheat,
rye, pease, and potatoes are the surest crops, and are of the
best quality. Flax grows luxuriantly. Turnips in general
are good, but they sometimes fail. Indian corn is also uncer.
tabs, from being occasionally too late. Pumpkins are easily.
cultivated, and are admirable food for cattle. Melons are raised
without trouble, and are eagerly devoured by the settlers in hot
weather. All the culinary vegetables flourish in gardens. The
female part of the colony grumble at the log-huts and the cold
in 'winter, but sincetheir husbands are in circumstances to build
good houses, almost every trace of dissatisfaction has vanished.
A correspondent (Mr. James Lindsay), who has a good deal
more land In cultivation than the average, says, " the
people are now making themselves comfortable. They have
this year put up,many more houses and hams; and are going on
with more. icy are all convinced how much better they are
off here than they were in Scotland. In place of one week's
previsions for their family, they now have twelve month of
ood flour, and all other cornforta of life; and many of the
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able for the colony. ' Our climate is 10 degrees south of that
of Glasgow, and a few degrees warmer; however at the warm-
est not intolerable, but very delightful even at noon. The nights
are generally very cool, and the dews copiously abundant....
Indeed the whole season through there is such a similarity to
the climate of Scotland, that, could a person be removed tram
the one to the other asleep, little difference could be observed.
A few days after Christmas, the frost gets dreadfully severe in
the night time; but if clear, the sun has as much influence even
then as at house in the month of March. Our severest weather
is in the months of January and February; however, excepting
2 or 3 days, every 10 or 12 days, about 9 or 12 days in the whole
winter, the temperature has been such that a person could
scarcely fell trees through the day in the woods with his coat
on, without much perspiration. From the Ist of March till
the 9th or 10th of April, the sun's influence melts a part of the
snow every day, till it entirely disappears. In the woods,
where the sun's influence cannot reach, it lies till near the end
of April, when it disappears even in the shade. The spring
comes on us as soon as the snow is off; and every thing springs
delightfully rapid. The buds open gradually, and about the
oth or 9th of May, all is green. After the land is cleared its
aspect is veryiike that of lands in Scotland. Some tracks very
level, some hilly, sense a strong black soil, sonic a yellow loam,
some clay, sonic sandy, some rocky, and some covered pretty
thick with tumbling stones. We have a very pure, healthful
air—an almost unclouded sun—a soil astonishingly grateful to
the labours of industry: This country, is thickly intersected
with delightful rivers and lakes, stocked with fisliesilf. we had
time to catch them."—( Glasgow Chronicle. )

M..de CIIATEAUBRIAND is reported, during his
short sojourn in Switzerland, to have written an-
other pamphlet against the French Ministers, and
particularly against M. de ViLr.ELE. The rumour
asserts thm the political conduct of the President
of the Celli-tell is depicted in it from the time he
was a Member of tile colonial Assembly, and
that some traits are mentioned by no means fa-
vourable to his character. rrn, pamphlet is ex-
pected to be published in a foreigh country.
STEAM CARRIACIE.—About two yoga ago, we
mentioned the invention of Mr. Gough, of a steam .carfa.t; to
run on common roads, and its having been tried on the Stodz-
pokt-road. Since that time we have beard nothing of this
vehicle until the present week. On Tuesday evening, how.
aver, the inventor gave it another trial. Its pace. on level
ground was about three miles an hour, and, in addition to the
guide, who sits in front, it carried three or four passengers.—
The steam-engine is on the high pressure principle, and its
power, we understand, acts exclusively on the hind wheels.--
( lliancherter Paper.)
A robbery to a very great. extent in money and
Exchequer Bills was committed on Saturday
night or Sunday morning, by breaking open the
counting-house of Messrs. H wm Lit and ST, to,ty,
in Duck-foot-lane, Thames-street. The .Exche-
quer Bills stolen amount to some thousands of
pounds.