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

EMIGRATION TO CANADA.

In 1860 there landed at Quebec 10,150 immi-
gran ts-2,491 wereEn glish,2,B3llrish , 1,850 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 comer 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 are 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
Slico. who had
been rt•ev.Lcioa n ikla a flona
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 25 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 loghouse, 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-
companied 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.

THE DOUBLE CHILD MURDER IN SUFFOLK.-
The miserable woman Salmon, who recently murdered two
of her children at Edwardatone, near Botsford, has since her
imprisonment in Bury St. Edmund's gaol, manifested such
unmistakeable symptoms of insanity, that it has been deemed
advisable to place her, without further delay, under proper
restraint. Shehas accordinglybeen removed to St. George's
in• the-Fields lunatic asylum.

PEDESTRIANISM EXTRAORDINARY.—T. Andrews, a
nativeas to of
astonishing inwalking Ewsasexin on Saturday last, performed
the g or running 83 miles on a
ingfeat
of
n Braintree,
road having several nasty hills to trouble the pedestrian.
The path to be traversed was from Sudbury to Bury, in
Suffolk, a distance of l6)e• miles, and this had to be covered
five times. His first journey was accomplished in a trifle
over two hours ; he started at five in the morning, and
reached the end of his fifth trip by half-past ten at night,
Strange to relate, at the conclusion of his task, he appeared
very little distressed. Andrews offers for a reasonable
wager to walk 60 miles a day, for six consecutive days.
A MODERN " FAIR MAID OF PERTH."—Mr.
Millais, in filling up a group of those exquisitely drawn
figut co w hleh have reuderea ins works so very highly valued,
some time ago took for a model a little girl, 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.
action
A Mlle. Rivay yesterday brought an a
before the Tribunal of Commerce against IU. Rety, 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 had been performed at his
theatre, without, however, any great success, he had
ad guaranteed her forty represen-
directed her to prepare a new one, entitled " La Croix
Blanche," and h
shet at h
i onasd,
nc in January ; but that though
cco°rampmoseedre opera, he had never produced it. To
this M. Rety
answered that the dramatic censorship had
greatly modified the work, and had changed its title to that
of f, Gaston." It was, therefore, not the same as that
which he had ordered, and he 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 paw'
of paying her a
furthermata Qt 6,0001 r.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-YESTERDAY.

The SPEIKER entered the House shortly alter twelve
o'oloek, but it was fully twenty minutes past that hour
before fourty members assembled, when the hon. gentle-
men took the chair.

PRIVATE BILLS.

The Portsmouth Water Bill was read a third time.

The Great Dover-road (No. 2) Bill was read a first time,
as were also the following—the Caledonian Railway Bill,
the Romney Railway Bill, the Salisbury and Dorset Junc-
tion tßailway Bill, the Rliguny Railway Bill, and the
Staffordshire Potteries Water Bill,