Farming men will be generally in demand, and a moderate supply of unskilled labour also may be required. Female servants, with some experience, will find places readily, but they must be unencumbered by families of children. But no encouragement can be offered to the emigration of superior artisans and mechanics who have not some resources on which to fall back. These classes, dependent on immediate employment, may find themselves greatly distressed should there be further delay in the re-commencement of the works which alone can require them. Farmers possessed of 400l. or 500l. being prudent and industrious, are sure to do well.
Capitalists can always find good and safe investments.
The legal interest is now 7 per cent., but 10 or 12 per cent. Good farm servants stand the next best chance of settling to advantage, but clerks, porters, grocers, gentlemen's servants, male and female, and mechanics accustomed to the highest kind of skilled labour, had better remain at home until the times change. The emigration from the United Kingdom to New Brunswick comprised in 1858 only 309 persons, being considerably less than even the small immigrations of 1856 and 1857. In the month of August last a new set of regulations was proclaimed throughout the colony for the disposal of the crown lands. A copy of these regulations we print in the Appendix.