The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-28 00:00:00

REMARKS.

The atmospherical pressure has generally decreased : on the south
west coast of Ireland the fall of the mercury amounts to six-tenths of
an inch, whereas at Yarmouth a rise of two hundredths has taken
place. The Temperature has not much changed. A south-west gale
is blowing on the south-west coast of Ireland : at other stations the
wind is light and variable. Much fog with mist is reported. Rain
has fallen, and continues to fall in Irelani. On the east coast the
weather is tine,

A charge of manslaughter wasmade against a lad named
William Paternan, before the Bedford coroner, on the 25th
May last, when he was committed for trial, the coroner
having no power to take bail. The evidence being of Vie
slightest, he was acquitted ; but for two months he has
been in prison, because he was unfortunate enough to
have a criminal charge laid against him.
We are actually threatened with a quiet Ireland. The
Ireland of " Peep o'Day Boys," of Whiteboyism, of
Ribandisro, and Fenianism, is on dit, an Ireland of the
past. But more, the Ireland of atrocious outrages, abduc-
tions, assaults, and duels, is for the time non est. Instead
thereof, we have Irish judges congratulating Irish juries
on the absence of crime. But if Fenianism is dead
its spirit still walks the earth. The wife of
" Captain" Mackay has just given birth to a boy, which
survived only two days. Its burial, says a Dublin cone.
spondent, was made the occasion of a demonstration by the
Fenian sympathisers. The coffin containing the body of
the infant was placed on a bier drawn by two horses deco-
rated with white plumes and green boughs. Shortly before
eight o'clock p.m. a procession was formed, led by the bier,
and followed by a number of young men as chief mourners,
wearing crape tied with a rosette of green ribbon. After
them followed some hundreds of young men marching in
military order, four deep, each wearing a green leaf, or
carrying a green bough. Then followed a long line of cars,
and a numerous concourse of people closed the procession.
The proceedings were conducted in an orderly and peace-
ful manner.

From a communication addressed by a correspondent to
tne Standard, it would almost appear as if it were now
necessary to follow a telegram to its destination to inquire
if it has safely arrived. At eleven a.m. on Thursday,
July 16, a message for Littlehampton was handed to the
c'erk, at " Station 5, Lothbury." The sender drove
down the next day to the house to which he had
addres;ed. it. It had not arrived. The next
day brought no message, and he wrote to the
secretary. A week has elapsed, and no reply to the
letter ; ten days, and no telegram ! It would be interest-
ing to know to what mysterious limbo unanswered letters
and unused telegrams are relegated in this lotus-eating
department. Is a clerk kept on purpose to perform the
" happy despatch "on a heap of documents, and thus
lightenthe labour of his fellows? Truly, the Go rernment
has been none too early in its interferes:we.

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OSBORNE, July 27.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, walked in
the grounds this morning.
Prince Arthur left Osborne for Chatham.

EMIGRATION TO CANADA.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stß,—My attention has this morning been called
to an article under the above heading in the columns
of one of your contemporaries, complaining that the
Emigration Department in Canada is thwarting
the efforts now being made by societies here to for-
ward a desirable class of Emigrants from London;
imputing to the French Canadian priesthood in
Lower Canada a hostility to Englishmen and Pro-
testants, and charging the Government of Canada
with indifference, if not with positive opposition, to
emigration.

The immediate cause for these remarks is the alleged
withdrawal of the grant formerly made by Canada
to assist emigrants in reaching their destination
in the interior, and the statements, if unexplained,
cannot but have a most injurious effect on Canada
itself, while they are also calculated to discourage
the labours of a committee in London, whose well-
directed benevolence I most readily acknowledge•
It is true that the grant which had been voted for
some years to assist us in forwarding emigrants to
their destination was this year reduced, not with-
drawn. It was found that the grant, instead of
being required to aid persons coming to settle in
Canada, had been in practice almost wholly applied
to forwarding emigrants from the continent Of
Europe, who did not intend to settle in Canada
at all, but whose destination was Illinois, Wis-
consin, and the other Western States of Ame-
rica. The timber ships coming from the conti-
nental ports landed their cargoes of immigrants
at Quebec. Many of the passengers represented
themselves as wholly destitute, and as a matter of
charity they were aided in their 700 miles of transit
through Canada out of the grant in question. Of
27,000 emgrants who landed at Quebec in 1866 but
4,000 remained in the Province. it was frequently
found that many of this class who were forwarded
through the country at the public expense bad
actually money orders on their persons to consider-
able amounts. The facilities thus given to make
the transit through Canada gratuitous seem this
year to have stimulated parties interested in we'
veying German and Norwegian emigrants to the
Western States to land unusual numbers
at Quebec, many of them possibly desti-
tute, and the recent department order, to which
reference has been made by your coutern-
porary, was doubtless prompted by these in-
creased arrivals of persons who were merely journey-
ing through to a foreign country. Its intention/
which was solely to check what will be acknow'
ledged as an abuse, appears to have been wholly
misunderstood in certain quarters. Canada desires
to stimulate a healthy system of emigration. The
grant for this purpose this year (I speak froth
memory) is about $60,000 ; and there are pai3
Government agents in Quebec and in almost every
city and town in the various provinces of Canada
whose sole duty is to afford assistance and in'
formation to and procure employment for intending
settlers.

The subject of emigration is one which under the
new Constitution devolves jointly on the Govern-
runts of the Dominion and of the several Pro-
vinces, and negotiations have been going on be-
tween the two, for the purpose of instituting a
sound and liberal system of attracting settlers to
to the country in such numbers as can be properly
provided for.

It is perhaps unnecessary to notice the charge
made against the French Canadian priesthood
" that they are openly hostile to any accession to
the British population and to any introduction of
the Protestant element ;" but the testimony of 3
Protestant and an Englishman who has lived
among them for more than 30 years may perhaps
be of some value. I believe that there is no coup"
try in the world where there is less religious
bigotry and prejudice, or more liberal views and
good feeling both as respects race and religion
than in Lower Canada. The English Protestants
here are in a minority of one to five, and
whether as regards their respective Churches/
their educational institutions, their manage-
ment of charities, their political arrangements/
or other kindred subjects, where antagonism might
be looked for, the most perfect good feeling pre'
rails. Instances, indeed, are not unfrequent where,
French constituencies have returned English and
Protestant members to Parliament in opposition t°
French and Catholic candidates. In years When
there is unusual sickness and destitution among the
emigrants the foremost in acts of benevolence are,
the French Sisters of Charity, who, regardless 01
contagion, minister as nurses with untiring devo-
tion to Catholic and Protestant alike.
We have many obstacles to contend with, but
from religious and national prejudices we have Pr°w
videntially thus far been spared.
I believe it is true that difficulties of the nature
referred to by your contemporary have occurree•
Whether they are attributable to a misconception
of the recent action of the Government or the eic-
treme precaution of the shipowners to guard theca:
selves against possible loss I cannot say ; but it 1:
on every account desirable that a repetition of ales,
difficulties should be prevented, and that concert 01
action should exist between the authorities in Ca;
nada and any societies here whose efforts may be li
philanthropic and well directed as those of the Eat
London Committee.—Your obedient servant,
JOHN ROO.
Clarges-street, July 27.