The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-09 00:00:00

EMIGRATION TO CANADA.

In 1860 there landed at Quebec 10,150 immi-
grants-2,491 wereEnglish,2,B3llrish, 1,860 Scotch,
1,809 Norwegians, and 725 Germans. About
three-fourths of the English and Scotch remained
in Canada and about a fifth of the Irish, the rest
proceeded on to the United States. But other im-
migrants arrived by other routes, and the
whole statement for the year stands thus :
Landed at Quebec, 10,150 ; arrived via United
States, 4,829 ; making 15,042, of whom 7,152 pro-
ceeded to the United States and 7,827 remained in
Canada—a larger number than in 1859 by above
1,500. 4,769 of these new comers selected Western
Canada to settle in, 614 the Ottawa district, 1,200
Eastern Canada. Although nearly all the Norwe-
gians proceeded to join their 'large settlements in
Illinois and Wisconsin, a small Norwegian settle-
ment has been established at Gaspe, and it is hoped
it will succeed, as the natives of Norway ate by
their former habits peculiarly adapted to the cha-
racter of that part of Canada, which has hitherto
been almost rejected by all other European im-
migrants. Of the German. families who have
within the last two years settled on the Upper.Ot.-
tawa, 40, who brought with them a capital of only
75 dols. each, together 3,000 dols., have property
already of the value of nearly 12,000 dols. A con-
siderable proportion of the English and Scotch im-
migrants were farmers, many bringing with them
a capital of from £3OO to £l,OOO. The two classes
most wanted are female servants and agricultu-
ral labourers men who can plough and mow
and reap, and who understand draining; and
such men soon become landowners. During the
abundant harvest of last year 2 dols. a day were
offered in vain by farmers for labour, and a larger
supply will be in request this season, as the farmers
are prosperous, and extending their operations, and
the general prospects of the province have greatly
improved. Of the assisted emigration, 10 youths who
arrived from the Wandsworth and Leeds Refor-
matories were directed up the Ottawa, where they
were all immediately employed; and a party of 40
from Lord Palmerston's estates in the county of
Sligo, who had been provided with a free passage,
being all able young men and women, found imme-
diate employment in the rulal districts, although
the young men had not been accustomed to agri-
cultural pursuits. It appears that, in spite of rei-
terated warnings, skilled mechanics and clerks still
present themselves in great numbers. It does not
seem known that the posts of mercantile life are
occupied by the sons of successful immigrant far-
mers. Mr. Buchanan, the Government chief emigra-
tion agent, reports at the close of the year :—" The
class of people whom we want, and who cannot fail to
do well, are those who, having a small amount of
capital, are prepared to purchase and settle on our
lands, and make homes for themselves in the
forest, as the inhabitants of this free and fertile
land have done before them ; the hardships to be en-
countered now are less than they were 26 years
ago, when a few thousand people were scattered
over -a long frontier of country." With 100 or
200 dollars men can purchase the right of those who
make it a business to chop and clear a few acres,
erect a loghonse, and sell. The mineral discoveries
are attracting_ attention. It will be interesting to
watch the effect of the civil war in the United
States upon the European emigration of the present
year.

It is stated that M. Doyen, the sub-Governor of
the Bank of France, has left Paris for Constantinople, ac
eompanied by an accountantand M. Cousiniery, the Smyrna
banker. The object of this mission is to come to an ar-
rangement with the Greek houses involved by the late
failures.

A MODERN " FAIR MAID OF PERTH."—Mr.
Millais, in filling up a group of those exquisitely drawn
figurei; which have rendered his works so very highly valued,
some time ago took for a model a little gift, remarkable for
her classic fineness of feature, a pupil at the Industrial
School at Perth. The painter is about to give the finishing
touch to the picture ; and the little " Fair Maid" the other
day set out to London, that he may have the benefit of a
final sitting before removing the work from his easel.—
Edinburgh Courant.

MUNIFICENT LAYMEN.—Mr. A. Pryor, of Hy-
lands, near Chelmsford, has undertaken to build a new
church in the neighbouring parish of Widford, entirely at
his own cost. The old church, a very dilapidated structure,
is in course of demolition. A " school church," erected
by Mr. C. Morrison, vice-chairman of the Victoria Dock
Company, for the use of the inhabitants of the district
which the docks may be said to have created, has just been
completed. The building has cost about £2,500. Mr. G.
H. Packe, M.P. for South Lincolnshire, has contributed
about £l,OOO towards the recently effected restoration of
Caythorp Church, near Grantham. With such instances
as these of liberality on the part of the wealthy laity, and
no doubt many other recent acts of equally munificence
might easily be added, the Church of England may take
courage for the future.
A Mlle. Rivay yesterday brought an action
before the Tribunal of Commerce againet Di. Itety, director
of the Theatre Lyrique, to compel him to execute an en-
gagement into which he had entered with her. Her state-
ment was that, having composed an opera called
" Maitre Palma," which bad been performed at his
theatre, without, however, any great success, ho had
directed her to prepare a new one, entitled La Croix
and had guaranteed her forty represen-
tations,J
commencing in
Blanche," anuary ; but that though
she had cosiPosed the opera,
he had never produced it. To
this M. Itety answered that the dramatic censorship had
•egaly modified the work, and
had changed its title to that
of " Gaston." It was, therefore, not the same as that
which he had ordered, and ho was on that account not
bound to produce it. But the Tribunal finding that, after
accepting the opera, he had wilfully delayed the produc-
tion, ordered him to pay the plaintiff I,ooofr. as damages
for the injury she had already sustained ; also to represent
the work within a fortnight under pain of paying her a
further Eltra of 5,000 fr•

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE, OF LORDS.—(This EVENING.)
This being Ascension Day their Lordships did net
assemble.

HOUSE OF COMMONS:—(Tnis EVENING.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' amendments to the South Shields Improve-
ments and Quay Bill were considered and agreed t), and
the bill was ordered for third reading. The following bills
were read a third time and passed :—Banbridge Extension
Railway ; Downpatrick and Newry Railway (new title) ;
Great Southern and Western Railway (Extension) Bill ;
Llandaff and Canton District Markets, :Londonderry and
Coleraine Railway, Manchester and Milford Rlilway
(Aberystwith Branch), Stockport, Timperley, and Al-
tricham Junction Railway, Tyne Improvement, Vale of
Clywd Railway, Birkenhead Railway, London and North
Western Railway (Liverpool Lines), and Cheshire Midland
Railway Bills were considered and ordered for third
reading.