The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-15 00:00:00

HAY.

Chester

Newmarket First Spring 4
Liverpool Craven l3
Bristol and Clifton l3
Newmarket Second Spring
York Spring

JUNE.

Epsom
South Shields
Manchester
Reigate
Ascot
Newton
Bibury Club
Buxton
St. Alban's
Nottingham

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As this is the season when Emigrants to the Canadas
are taking their departure, the following extract of a
letter from Dr. Wilson, late of Ripon, in Yorkshire,
now settled in the Eastern Townships of Lower
Canada, may be useful to them :
MASSAWIPPI COTTAGE, LENNOXVILLE, EASTERN TOWNSHIPS,

LOWER CANADA, AUGUST 30, 1834.
" I am glad to learn from you, that the little information
respecting this country, conveyed by my letters, has been
acceptable to those interested in the subject of emigration.
I do greatly wish to be useful in a cause so important to the
people of Great Britain. The British American Land
Company have made great purchases in these Eastern
Townships. I suppose they have not less than a million
of acres. They seem to have employed this season in sur-
veying and exploring the country. I have endeavoured to do
something for their defence, by shewing that by their means a
a work will be accomplished of great public utility, which
could never be effected by individual enterprise, and that it
is only by the powerful machinery of a chartered company,
by the combination of talent, information, energy, and capi-
tal, that a vast tract of excellent land, now a dense forest,
can be rendered fit for the use of a British population. In
order to sell their lands, they must render them accessible
and available to individual purchasers, by cutting roads,
building bridges, constructing mills, and performing other
works for public convenience, which private persons feel no
inducements to undertake.
" I wish to impress upon the minds of people in England,
who are desirous of rendering this part of Canada as useful
to British population as it is fitted by nature to be, that
every effort to establish here a thriving community will
fail, without the influx of capital. The indefatigable natives
of the United States, who first settled in this part
of the country, have already expended on it a large amount
of mere labour. If persons were here having moderate
capital, and not inclined for large speculations, who would
be satisfied to possess such a portion of land as they could
easily pay for, retaining at command a supply sufficient to
pay the labour of improvement, and to purchase such ne-
cessaries as the soil does not yield, they might be happy
themselves, and the occasion of happiness to an industrious
people. Such a class is greatly required in the present con-
dition of this country. Emigrants of this description would
find their own means of living greatly improved. With rea-
sonable desires they would here find a place suited to their
means, affording no luxuries, but every requisite of health-
ful existence. If capital were thus introduced, and labour
rewarded in money, the various departments of industry
would be kept more distinct—the classes of ,producer and
consumer would be well defined—markets would be
established where the mechanic, or other labourer,
would meet the farmer and give him in cash a fair price
for his surplus produce. I hope that-the -Land Company
are well informed on these matters. Upon their measures
will depend the fate of a district, having almost every na-
tural advantage, partially occupied by as industrious, tem-
perate, and intelligent people, who have won it by excessive
labour, and brought it from a state of nature to a point of
improvement, not to be passed without the stimulus of ca-
pital.
" We are now comfortably settled upon the farm which
I mentioned in my last ; I entered it in the beginning of
March, but as the house required great alterations and re-
pairs, I left my family at Sherbrooke, and went tp super-
intend the workmen. It was ready for occupation in the
middle of May, when my family found a home which greatly
delighted them. It is indeed a lovely scene. My cottage
fronts the west, and on this and the southern aspect,
I have built verandahs. Here my little ones enjoy a shade
or a shelter in the open air, as the sun, wind, rain, or snow,
prevail ; and here, how greatly should I enjoy the society
of my good English friends ! Our site is a dry knoll de-
scending in every direction except the north, where it rises
to a height sufficient to shelter us. The river flows at the
foot. On the other side the Massawippi, where is the
greater half of my land, there is a gentle rise of fifty acres,
from thirty of which the forest has been removed. The
surface then becomes steep, and terminates in the summit
of a mountain range, having an outline of most beautiful un-
dulation. The face of this mountain is in a state of nature,
covered with a dense mass of maple trees, which yield me
sugar. A good public road, leading directly into the
United States, passes between my house and the river.
On all sides of us are farms having a fourth or a
third part cleared, occupied chiefly by Americans. We
have six cows giving milk and three others, a yoke of fine
oxen, a pair of horses, and a dozen sheep and their lambs.
We have got above twenty tons of hay, and a few days ago
we put the first sickle into our wheat. We have also pota-
toes, oats, turnips, and a little barley. Our garden, which
occupies the slope from the house, towards the south-west,
has supplied us well with pens, cucumbers, and other vege-
tables, and promises some fine melons. In a country Fist
emerging from the wilderness the people are more engaged
in producing the things which sustain life than in adding to
its enjoyments ; little attention has therefore been given to
the niceties of gardening, and no good fruit has yet been
raised. Good English seeds of all descriptions are therefore
valuable here. You kindly say that you wish to send me
some. Any thing of this kind should be sent by the ships