The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-08-29
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extracts from Lord Sydenham's

through Upper Canada, which favored land he thus
describes -
"I am delighted to have seen this part OF the
country; i mean the great district, nearly as large
as Ireland, placed between the three lakes, Erie,
Ontario, and Huron. You can conceive nothing
| finer! The most magnificent soil in the word-our
| feet OF vegetable mould-a climate certainly the
best North America-the greater part of it admi-
| rably watered In word, there Is land enough and
capabilities enough for some millions of people, and
In one OF the finest provinces IN the world; the most
perfect contrast TO that miserable strip of land along
| the 1t. Lawrence, called Lower Canada, which has
| given much trouble.
81 shall fiji the capital of the United Province in
this one of course. Kingston will, most probably,
| be the place; but there is every thing to be done
| yet, to provide accommodation for the meeting OF
the Assembly In the spring"
Of the Canada Clergy reserves, he writes as
follows:
"The Clergy reserves have been, and are, the
great overwhelming grlevance-the root OF all the
troubles of the Province, the OF the rebellion
the never-falliDg watchwoTd at the hustings- the
perpetual source of discord, strife, and hatred Not
man of any party but has told me that the greatest
boon which could be conferred on the countrywould
be that they should be swept into the Atlantic, and
that nobody should get them; for after all, there is
little to divide-there will be nothing, after deduct
ing The charges, for the next ten or twelve years;
but the difficulty lay in the settlement. And when
TO this never failing source OF excitement here you
add the consideration, that by the Union It you left
the question unsettled, you would throw the agita-
|
all its Ills, the greatest OF ALL religious dlssention Is
| hitherto unknown, the necessity for a settlement
becomes douby great. Thank God, shall achieve
| it. My Bill, OF which sent you copy, has gone
| through the Assembly by considerable majority,
thirty to twelve, and feel confident that get
it through the Council without the change of word
T" IT II is really carried, 1t the greatest work
be of more solid advantage to it than all the loans
and all the troops you can make or send 1t Is
worth ten Unions, and was ten times more difficult.
G. " l,,r h.,t, h
to make you understand the state of feeling upon
this subject, and the evils which this question has
caused, which you cannot do, you would not.
confess, too, that had little hopes of succeeding
in the Asse emily. For fifteen years every Cover.
nor has only made the matter worse and though
might have got the Council 20 agree to giving the
funds to education, never thought ! could get the
Assembly, which Tor thirteen years has voted tor
that, and against religious purposes, TO consent to
such plan. But told you that would work to
some purpose, and have done it. Ten members,
who had always before voted for education or pub.
lie works, voted generously for me this time, though
they may lose their seats by It,"
| Ga the I4h of June 1871, the first session of the
United Legislature opened at Kingston. The
following extract from letter of Lord John Rus
sell, dated two days previous, is amusing. Luxu-
rious dogs Three dollars per diem, besides arm
chairs. desks with stationery, and Heaven knows
what
81 think we shall do very well here. have really
a very fair house for the Assembly and Council to
meet in /; and the accommodation would be thought
|
Commons. But the fellows in these colonies have
been spo by all sorts of arm CHAIRS
desks with stationery before each man, and Heaven
knows what So suppose that they will complain
| The house lodge in is really a very nice one-or
rather will be when finished, which will just suit
the arrival OF my successor and the public offices
are far better Than at either Montreal or Toronto
But the confusion OF the neve Is tremendous, AND
| the practical consummation of the union is, l as
sure you, far from honeymoon"
Upon the important subjects of Education and
Emigration, he SAYS
"The ONLY things cannot manage here, which
should like to deal with, education and emf
grafton. The first can do nothing in first. for
want Of money, and next, because | cannot get the
Priests to agree to any feasible schemes. They pre-
tend TO be In favor OF something, but are in reality
opposed to teaching the people at all, being weak
enough to think that so long as they are ignorant
10 have taught them better, for then the masses all
left the Priests for the agi'ators
"For emigration have done here nearly all that is
possible, and little enough it s; but do not see how
to do more. Wakefeld's plan of bringing out la
borers by the sale OF lands is utterly mpracticable
in the e Colonies Land is worth nothing except
for the labor that is bestowed upon it and that is
barely remunerated, even putting out of the ques
ton the cost OF transport The whole land revenue
arising from sales, OF the two Canadas, does not
reach 100000 year, which might bring out 1000
luntary emigration, and shall have probably double
next year. To talk OF emigration fund from
land, than, Is ridiculous The only thing to do is
to encourage voluntary emigration by afiording all
the assistance In our power TO forwarding and
placing the people when they arrive, and either To-
eating them, or getting work for them. This
have done. have dispatched about 1000 to the
Upper Province at the expense OF government, who
would not otherwise have been able TO get on and
as many from Quebec to this place (Monrea) be-
sides For here again is one OF the capital blunders
made In England upon this subject. You treat
Quebec as Canada think that when you have
thrown ship load of poor starving emigrants under
the rock there, you have placed them in a situation
to provide for themselves. On the contrary, they
have to go four or five hundred, many eleven or
twelve hundred miles further, before they can do
so. And this is expensive, dllatory, and difficult
But suppose them arrived at their des inatioD, what
| is TO become OF them? Land they cannot purchase
and if it is given to them it is of use for they
must starve for a twelvemonth till it yields crop
Besides which, Irish and English laborers know no
more Of clearing and settling forest than they do
OF the longitude. II would take them a day to cut
down tree, which a backwoodsman will do in
three minutes. Well, then, they may labor for
wages But fewpeople can afford to pay for labor.
what il produces; and the farmer here can no more
give dollar day, with his prices, than he could
guinea. This is the fact. IL Is true there is great
outcry for laborers and more laborers but when il
comes to the point OF hiring them, unless il be
| during the harvest, every farmer in Upper Canada
will tell you that he cannot paw them. Even this
year one half OF my 22,OO0 entrants must have
been unemployed, or have gone to thu States, but
| tor the public works | was carrying on"
| "This lisa picture OF the chance for emigration
on large scale, of which you talk so loudly in
| England. But although consider II impossible to
frame any great plan, such people seem to look
| Tor, and which has been limited at, but never ex-
planned In Lord Durhams Report, by no means
despair of good. shall send Dr. Rolph to England
again agitate and if possible, promote the send
ing of people by themselves, their landlords, or
their parishes, and in this way have no doubt OF
getting at least twice many next year as this. j
shall devote all my means on this side OF the water
| to settling them either with people who may be
able to afford to pay for labor, Of which there are
some, though not many-or to locate them In parts
of the country where public works are being carried
on, so as to combine settlement with wages. This
by the bye have already done to great advantage