low-subjects here in the settlement of their ample and attractive domain. The inexhaustible resources of British North America are now lying dormant and profitless, comparatively speaking, for want of that main element of wealth, an active and abundant population. The cities of Edinburgh, and Glasgow, with the manufacturing town of Paisley alone, comprehend more inhabitants than the entire portion of Western Canada, including the city of Toronto, the towns of Kingston, Brockville, Cobourg, Hamilton, Niagara, many other towns, and an extent of country of several hundred miles. Thus, while the dense population of the United Kingdom is a source of perpetual inquietude and anxiety, the scanty population of Canada is a great drawback to its advancement. Whilst here, they must be objects of constant solicitude; there, with the wide field for their exertions, they can not only ensure their own success, but become profitable customers to the manufacturers of this kingdom. All the industrious classes have succeeded well in Canada, and none more than those from Scotland. Large sums have been remitted by those who went there penniless, to aid in the removal of their destitute relatives in this country. During the last eight years, through one channel alone, £15,000 have been thus remitted in average sums of £8. In the city of Toronto, a Savings' Bank has been established, the deposits of which, during the last half-year, amounted to £2,377. The sales of land have materially increased of late; and from my own knowledge, there was a larger subjugation of the forest in the Home District, and generally through Western Canada, last year, than for many years past-perhaps greater than during any preceding year. Admirably adapted for Britons by the salubrity of its climate, the fertility of its soil, its proximity to Britain, the constant intercourse maintained by steam, the moderate price of land, the abundant reward for labour, the immense extent of internal water communication, the friendship of all classes of the people, its government, constitution, laws, all tend to recommend a scheme of Colonization to every patriot and philanthropist in the kingdom. The present enlightened Governor of British North N America, animated by the example of his predecessors, is desirous of encouraging Emigration to the utmost of his power. In general, the demand for unskilled labour has been very small, mechanics and agricultural labourers being most in requisition; but his Excellency, in his despatch to the noble Lord, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, states, 'during the approaching season so many public works will, I trust, be in operation, that there can be no fear of a want of employment for all who are able to work.' Since I have been in Scotland, I have been asked by many persons, Do not all the Emigrants go over to the States? I am happy to give the GovernorGeneral's reply to this interrogatory:- The Emigration during the past year from this province to the United States has been comparatively small; and there seems reason to believe that it · has been balanced by the Immigration from the United States. Those who went from this were principally persons whose relations were settled in the United States, and who, coming out to join them, had taken the route of the St. Lawrence, on account of its superior cheapness.' The late Lord Sydenham, in a despatch also to the former Colonial Secretary, when forwarding the returns made by the Emigrant agents in the province, says, 'These returns afford the most conclusive answer to statements which have been circulated, for mischievous purposes, through the public press, and which may, perhaps, have been repeated in England, that Emigrants were leaving this province in great numbers for the United States, and that great distress prevailed among those who remained here. Your Lordship will perceive that these statements are not only not consistent with truth, but are the very reverse of it.' I have felt it my duty, my Lord, earnestly to direct your attention, and that of the people of this country, to this portion of the subject ; because, although I feel myself on this point invulnerable, yet I cannot disguise from myself that a very mischievous influence has been exerted over the public mind by a late author, who, however much he may have immortalized himself by the subdued mode of travel he practised in England some years since, took advantage of travelling by steam in Canada, and having only seen its waters, took upon himself to pronounce upon the character of its land. I have disposed of his crudities. in a letter which I have publicly addressed to him; but I here unhesitatingly affirm, that in the whole length and breadth of our Sovereign's dominions are not to be found all the elements of domestic wealth, social happiness, agricultural prosperity, and commercial greatness, more highly concentrated and thoroughly available than on the continent of British North America. Large and fertile domains, mines and fisheries, capacious harbours and hydraulic privileges, cities, towns, villages; and above all, the increasing means and opportunities for public worship and education. "In reading the account, for some months past, of the arrivals from the western hemisphere, I have been much struck and gratified, that whilst columns of the public journals have been devoted to the accounts from the United States, the intelligence from Canada has been summed up in the very significant expression, 'There is no news from Canada; all is quiet.' Long may it so continue, distinguished for its love of order, probity, laws, and government, and its proud and happy connexion with Great Britain. Last year a highly respectable clergyman of the Church of Scotland, the Rev. Dr. Liddell, was sent from this city to preside over an university formed for the express benefit of the Scotch population in Canada. This year, the present Governor-General has just laid, in the greatest pomp, the foundation-stone of a kindred institution in the city of Toronto. The people of Scotland have ever felt a deep solicitude for the education of their people; and the establishment of universities, schools, and churches, will be most satisfactory to them. I have previously said that the Scotch are amongst the best and most thriving settlers in Canada;—they are so ; in some districts the language of Ossian and Fingal is the common language, and the tartan is still the favourite garb of kind women and brave men. All industrious men succeed in Canada; the miner from Cornwall, the fisherman from the Orkneys, the ploughman from the Lothians, the hardy spadesman from Connaught, form together a united and prosperous people. These are some of the grounds on which I invite your co-operation and assistance in the removal of your too numerous population to settle on the ample field thrown open for them in the possessions of Her Majesty in North America." After some other observations, I concluded my address as follows: "Before I conclude, there is one subject on which I would say a few words: I allude to the revival of the claims of the Baronets of Nova Scotia. Of the rights or the expediency of advancing the claims of the Baronets, it is unnecessary for me even to express an opinion; but I can have no hesitation in stating my conviction, that their present patriotic combination, irrespective of those claims, founded on considerations of the loftiest philanthropy, as well as on the principles for which that Order was founded, is highly meritorious, and must prove eminently beneficial. Nothing, I am persuaded, will more gratify the subjects of the British Crown residing in the transatlantic possessions of our Sovereign, than the knowledge that a powerful, illustrious, ancient branch of the British nobility are interested in their welfare, united together to watch over their progress, and promote their success. Such a confederation, zealously co-operating with the people in the provinces, will greatly tend to preserve their tranquillity, extend their settlement, and enlarge their prosperity. British North America, by her rapid Colonization, under such auspicious influence, will cause additional employment to the sail and loom, by her extended commerce, flourishing agriculture, and prosperous population; whilst our maritime greatness and manufacturing interests will be wonderfully promoted, and the parent state and the Colonies thus united together in the indissoluble bonds of interest and affection, the motto of Scotland will be equally that of the Empire, Nemo me impune lacessit!'" I concluded by moving the following resolution :- "That Her Majesty's possessions in North America present an inexhaustible outlet for the redundant population of the United Kingdom; whilst it is matter of national importance that their great resources should be speedily developed." Sir Allan Macnab then rose to second the motion, and was received with deafening cheers, which lasted several minutes. When the plaudits of the auditory ceased, the gallant and patriotic chieftain said— 66 Although I have been in the metropolis of the land of my fathers but a few hours, I rejoice that my first visit is on so auspicious an occasion as the present, and to support so important a subject as that now occupying your attention. I can speak, from long experience, as to the great capabilities of the country where I was born, to receive the whole overflowing population of this country; and I can refer with great pride to every vote of mine on this subject during several successive parliaments in Canada, as an earnest of my desire to promote the settlement of that province, by the inhabitants of the British isles. It does seem to me extraordinary, that considering I could be at my own residence, many hundred miles in the interior of Western Canada, with less than one mile of land-carriage, and in eighteen days from this city, that so valuable, and important, and interesting an appendage of the British Crown should be so little known, and less appreciated. But I believe better days are dawning upon it, and the existing misery and distress in Scotland, I am certain, may subserve the best interests of British North America. I think such an union and co-operation of the Nova Scotia Baronets as the present, will prove an eminently useful material in the Colonization of British North America. I can answer, that the people of Canada will be proud to act with so useful, influential, and numerous a body; and their confederation, at this time, for the purpose of promoting the Colonization of the British provinces in North America, independently of their assertion of their own claims on the British Government, will very greatly promote a sound and beneficial Emigration to Canada. I think with many of the speakers who have addressed this meeting, that the time has now arrived when this question must be fairly met, and the evils complained of effectually remedied. The sufferings of the people of Great Britain, and the need of an augmented population in Canada, must no longer remain in such anomalous apposition. With these feelings, it is as the son of |