New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-24
X, III wh.e and sosor.a men, ssid that il W. Ais il.

bth white and eoSorea men sid that il We his in
teress 10 employ tse Stmer l,pe; they required,
a. rule, LEES Nolirs Sser. Tee oapit.lat f'asd
TIE colored mes tos apt 70 neglect 70 discnsrs-
their peeuDis0 Obligations promptly aad pusctaA-
". Toey Ab said iha: sbiIs there was htsle grave
crime found smops tie negroes, there were bad
men o. all couplexlons aud thss the colored men
bsd ttelr share II them.
The pubic schools Of Cansds arc open alike to
al. without distinction Of color. Tne negroes ~
= general rule, are aazloss f,r educati n, sod
uany indeed a.tsch mose value TO school edacseoo
thnp perhaps IT deserves. About one half Of ali
tie eour d coildreo of Toronto attend the public
sch ols OF the rsmaiDder, many attend private
schools. We saw several colored Chi dfen 81 the
Model School which is attached to the Nsrmsi
Scseol at Toronto The teachers informed me that
they found them equally docie sud intelligent with
the whites Sons alo &C hsd 70 De made for
their eonduc. on account VI tho annoy aDcs and
teasing they suffered from the white children.
The Degroes have four churches at Toronto
two belonging to the BAPTIST sDd two 70 the Meth
odist persuasion Ths former pay their clergymen
S4oO Year, and tie later from $3.50 ~ 500. A
number att bd the Church Of EDslsnd, aud there
are some few Ccogr- gshonalisu and Roman Cssho
lies The only eOlored clergyman / met lefs no
favorable impression either of his abihty or his
learning,
On ffst entering Canada We repeatedly heard it
asserts that the colored population wss gwen to
petty thievipg, and one gentleman connected with
,be press told NE that he bsdeved she Jail at To
ror 10 was flied With colurei people. Oa inquiry st
the Jail itself We found but three colored persons
in il; the remainder Of the inmates, aud they were
numerous, were whites. The reports Of the Chief
Of Police aud the Keeper of the Prison, however,
put this matter, so far as Toronto is concerned
finally at rest In bis annual statistical report to
the Council, Mr Samuel Sherwood, Chief Of the
Police at Toronto returns j. 346 persons as ar
rested BY the police force during the year ending
December 81, 1856 OF these, 7S only were cOored
not ID per cent No~ IS the coored peo-
ule constitute at the lowest computation be-
tx cen two aid three per cent of the total popua
| ton Of Toronto, tina is high, and may add an
u.expec ell evidence of the general god conduct
If the cOlOred people; and the value of it is in
creased when we remember that they all originally
belonged to the class in hch crimes sgainst order
ard property are the most rife Of the whole num-
Der of persons arrested 295 were males and lO5l
or nearly Ons- fourth, were females; while OF the
colortd people 20 were m.les and only not quite
one ninth, were females.
The printed report of Mr.. Sherwood refers, a.
v,ss stat.d to tha total number Of arrests OF
the.e, 922 were summary panished by fne in
273 cases the charges we're withdrawn, and 230
cases wero dismissed. Thinsing that possibly
the actual commitments 10 jail might set
different face upon the matter, We obtained from
Mr. George l.. Allan, the intelligent keeper OF the
Jail at Toronto, the monthly return Of commitments
10 that prison from O;tober !, 1855, to July 81,
| 1857, period of twenty-five months, transcrbing
tb. In from the books Of the jsil in his presence
The total commitments amounted In that period
to 1870, of whom 81 not quite two per cent,
were cOlored immediately after tho passage Of
our Fugitive Slave Law, Mr.. Allan informed Us
that there was sudden increase in the number Of
commitments amopg the colored people, almost
wholly for petty iarcenies. This increase Of crme
Mr. A. attributed to the number of fugrives who
focked into Canads without any means Of cup
port, and whom destitu,on drove TO theft; In .
few months, as The new -comers found employment
this increase disappeared. On tho whole. Mr.
Allan was decided in the opinion that, a. regards
crimes saainst the law, the condition Of the coored
people was better than that Of the mass Of the pop
ulstOu.