in the cause of the Tories, because tithes and Toryism go together. Like Saul and Jonathan, they have been lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they will not be divided.' These parsons have urged the farmers to give their votes to the Tories, with much greater eloquence, and zeal, and pathos, than ever they urged sinners to forsake their sins; and shew that they regard tithes as of much more value than men's souls; and with all their preaching of trust in Providence, they trust a great deal more in the Tories. In fact the clergy, as a body, are, in despite of their gowns, and bands, and oaths, a swarm of detected, blasted infidels. The living is their God-Toryism is their creed-knowledge is their aversion, and libertinism is their practice. The return of the Tories to office-for we cannot say to power-and this general election, has called them publicly forth, like the return of spring calls forth wild animals out of their holes; and great will be the exultation of these godly men if the Tory party are triumphant. "The property qualification of the electors meets us again in the counties, instead of the only just qualification of all voting at Parliamentary elections, even subjection to the laws which the Parliament makes. If Jesus Christ himself, poor as he was, and his apostles, too, were in this Christian country now, they would have no vote; and the clergy and the bishops, too, would oppose their having any such right, because they were poor !"* DOCUMENTS. DISSENTERS' SUBSCRIPTIONS TO CHARITIES. "WHILE it (dissent) has done this, it has been made to contribute its proportion towards the support of an endowed church; and yet it has, as if refreshed by its exertions, greatly surpassed that church in its contributions of service and money to those greater efforts of Christian benevolence which are not of a sectarian, but of a general character."-(" Case of the Dissenters.") The advocates of the "voluntary system" cut a very sorry figure among the supporters of public charities. Probably they carry their principle to the extent of saying that all hospitals should be supported by the patients. It appears that there are to the Huntingdonshire Subscribers. Subscriptions. 3 ditto The whole amount of the subscriptions is 267 guineas, and of these the dissenters subscribe the very large and mighty proportion of one thirty-eighth, while the subscriptions of clergymen alone amount to 66 guineas, more than nine times the amount given by the whole body of dissenters.-Northampton Herald. INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE ENLARGEMENT This is only a common specimen of the style of one of those newspapers of which it is said that 50,000 altogether go among the lower orders every Sunday. In addition to the most horrible lewdness, indecency, and blasphemy, these papers are now trying to stir up the very lowest orders against the ten-pounders as their great tyrants. deacon Cambridge, Rev. Dr. Shepherd, Rev. C. Benson, N. Connop, Jun., Esq., Samuel Bosanquet, Esq., James Cocks, Esq., H. J. Barchard, Esq., and others of the Committee. Among other business transacted, grants, varying in amount according to the necessity of the case, were voted towards re-arranging the pews in the church at Hinxhill, in the county of Kent; building a chapel at Sarisbury, in the parish of Titchfield, in the county of Southampton; repairing the church at Great Wigborough, in the county of Essex; rebuilding the body of the church at Llanrian, in the county of Pembroke; repewing the church at Westcote, in the county of Gloucester; rebuilding the chapel at Bottwnog, in the county of Carnarvon; enlarging and repairing the church at Trefilan, in the county of Cardigan; building a chapel at Danehill, in the parish of Fletching, and county of Sussex; enlarging, by rebuilding, the church of St. Michael, Stamford. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. THE following is the present account of the subscribers to our venerable Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, according to the Report for the year 1834 : Clergy. Lay. 64764846 = Males. Females. 11,322 +2788 = Total. 14,110 365 The new subscribers for the year 1834 are 158 + 138 = 296 + 69 = The Report of 1834 contains also a list of legacies of £100 and upwards, which have been bequeathed to the Society from 1714 to 1834. The amount appears to be £198,178 16s. 1 d. £. 8. d. 64,954 14 5 100,002 3 10 £. 8. d. 164,956 18 3} 33,221 17 10 Total £198,178 16 1 R. W. B. NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE WITH A PARTY OF EMIGRANTS, SENT OUT FROM SUSSEX, IN 1834, BY THE PETWORTH EMIGRATION COMMITTEE. BY J. MARR BRYDONE, SURGEON, R.N. I PREFER the route to Toronto by Montreal, Rideau Canal, and Kingston, to that by New York, the Erie Canal, and Oswego, for the following reasons:The expense of freight to Montreal will be less than to New York, in consequence of the great number of ships proceeding to the St. Lawrence in the spring and summer for cargo; while there are few or no English ships to New York with the like object. If the voyage be undertaken about the middle or latter end of April, it may be accomplished in the same period of time, or, at most, two or three days more than to New York, and with perfect safety, provided a fit ship be engaged, and the master gives proper care and attention to his vessel. Emigrants, if proceeding in a body, should go on in their ship the whole distance to Montreal, 180 miles from Quebec; by so doing they avoid the great trouble and inconvenience attendant upon landing their luggage at the latter port, or even shifting it on board a steamer, which may probably be sc One Baron Vryhouven left, in various stock, £66,331 3s. 2d. Can any of your readers inform me who this most munificent nobleman was? This record of his splendid bequest is the only memorial I possess of his former existence. crowded, as to afford accommodation very inferior to that they have been accustomed to in the ship. They can procure at Montreal a decked boat, which will come along side the ship, and at once take the people and baggage on board, without the trouble of landing and re-embarking it or them. Such a boat as I procured, and have described, affords the people every requisite accommodation, ample protection, and shelter from all weather-either the heat of the sun by day, or the cold by night, while passing through the Rideau Canal; and they and their baggage will remain undisturbed, a circumstance of the greatest importance, until they reach Kingston; from whence there are steam boats daily to Toronto; the whole cost from Montreal to that city being 198. per passage, including one cwt. of luggage for each passage. Thus from Portsmouth all the way to Toronto, only three different kinds of conveyance would be employed-namely, the ship to Montreal; the decked boat from Montreal to Kingston; and the steamer from Kingston to Toronto. Whereas by the New York line, four different kinds of conveyance must be employed-namely, the ship to New York; the steamer from New York to Albany; the track-boat from Albany to Oswego; a steamer, or other vessel, from Oswego to Toronto. Our passage from Montreal to Kingston, from some trifling accidental occurrences, occupied eight days and some hours, although usually performed in seven days. At present, the Rideau Canal is in its infancy. I am fully satisfied, however, that this part of the journey may, and will be accomplished, in six days in less time, at less expense, and with much less trouble and danger, than from New York by the Erie Canal and Oswego, which passage cannot be accomplished in less than seven days. The charge by steam-boat to Albany, including 100lbs. of baggage, one dollar; from thence to Oswego, 209 miles, at 1 cents per mile, three dollars and a quarter, but including only half a cwt. of luggage from Albany to Oswego. The cost of the other half cwt. would considerably increase the expense by this route, already exceeding that of the Rideau. Moreover there is not the smallest probability of the expense on the Erie Canal being reduced, as is evident from the following extract of a letter of Thaddeus Joy, Chairman of the Board of Forwarders, to A. C. Flagg, of the Comptroller's Office, Albany: "July 10th, 1834.-The Forwarders on this canal feel a lively interest in doing all in their power to make the New York and Ohio Canals a desirable channel for the conveyance of merchandize; but I am frank in saying, that I do not believe a less rate than is now charged will ever sustain them while they transport with their present expedition, and more especially so, when our rail-roads, which are fast progressing, shall take our passengers from us.”Albany Argus, 6th August, 1834. Comparative Statement of the Expense of the two Routes above described, exclusive of Provisions : And, moreover, no one covered boat on the Erie Canal could have contained our whole party; and to have divided them would have been productive of considerable inconvenience. The personal safety of emigrants on the Erie Canal is much endangered by the frequent occurrence of bridges, which cross it almost at every mile, or mile and a half, and are only about three feet above the top of the boat. The following extract is a strong corroboration of what I say :— "The boats, too, are made narrow and confined, to ensure speed; and a very little inadvertence in moving about may leave you in the lurch. While on deck this forenoon, my attention was attracted by a splash, the boat going at a good rate, and, on looking round, to my consternation, I beheld George, a fellow of ten years old, in the centre of the canal, sticking erect, like Tantalus, with the water at his chin. He was speedily relieved, without further damage than a little fright and a complete soaking; but, had it happened a few yards further on, the event might have been very different, as the canal there suddenly deepens. It was altogether to be considered as a very providential escape. "The numerous low bridges over the canal are extremely annoying, and require constant attention. My youngest boy was prostrated, happily without injury, as we entered Rochester, and a poor woman received a deadly blow on the following morning at Lockport."-Fergusson's Second Visit to Canada in 1833, p. 20. The almost innumerable houses along the canal, where beer and spirituous liquors can be obtained at a very cheap rate, and the facility with which the people can have access to them, would render it a difficult task to keep them together and in order, and make the duty of a superintendent one of great responsibility and extreme difficulty in the execution; while along the Rideau Canal, the temptations of this description to which the people are exposed are few. A canal being also under formation on the St. Lawrence, to avoid the Long Sault, will, when accomplished, cause a more powerful competition to arise between the forwarders by the St. Lawrence and the Rideau than that which already exists, from which the expense by both these routes may yet be considerably diminished. It is also a matter of great importance to British emigrants, that they should pass through a tract inhabited by their own countrymen, having the same habits, manners, and feelings as themselves; where they will be more likely to meet with sympathy and assistance, and, at the same time, avoid the impositions but too commonly practised on emigrants in passing through the States, and the risk of being driven back to their native country through despair of finding work, as was the case with many who returned in the same ship with myself from New York. Some emigrants are induced to prefer the United States by the low price of their land; others may be enticed away by misrepresentation in passing through them. Against this there is no security. Every settler in the States must take an oath, by which he renounces his allegiance to his king and native country, (not so in regard to an American settling in Canada.) If he have been dissatisfied with the existence of things at home, he may, perhaps, not be averse to this; but let me inform him, that he will not find the boasted prairies of America like the meadows of England, the richest of the soil. The advantages of the most fertile regions of the States are more than counterbalanced by the greater insalubrity of the climate, when compared to that of Canada. The English emigrant may rest assured, that he will not long feel himself satisfied and comfortable amidst American manners and customs; but will become disgusted with the peculiar system of liberty and equality that prevails in the States, and will regret, when too late, the step he has taken. Although 22,754 emigrants had arrived at Toronto this season, they had all been distributed, and were apparently lost sight of in the general population, and still there was a demand for labourers-for sober and industrious labourers and mechanics of every description. Young women, in particular, were very much wanted. Any reasonable number proceeding to Canada would find places there in a few days. In fact, the deficiency of young women in that colony is so great as to be frequently mentioned in the emigrants' letters, and made the subject of much complaint in the newspapers. Middle aged women, qualified to act as housekeepers, cooks, nurses, and in various other domestic offices, are also much required. I have already described the destination of the Sussex emigrants of this year. With respect to those of former ones, wherever I went I obtained satisfactory information concerning them. If, in any instance, there were an exception to this, it was uniformly accompanied by the expression, that he or they "might do well if they would." Here are millions of acres, of very fine land, heavily timbered, still uncleared. Many gentlemen of considerable property have, within these two years, settled in Canada and much capital is now embarked in these provinces. Gentlemen, although possessing capital, cannot themselves clear the immense forests which cover this fine country. Capital must come to the aid of the workman, by increasing the demand for his labour, and keeping up the present high rate of wages; of which I will mention only two instances out of many that came to my knowledge. William Squibb, from the Isle of Wight, and Henry Heasman, from West Grinstead, were engaged at Blandford-the one at 251., and the other at 201. per annum, with board and lodging. The expense of living, taking every thing into consideration, will not exceed one half of what it costs in England. Every thing is cheap for the poor man except house rent; but he is usually lodged and fed by his employer. Articles of dress were formerly dear; but the competition, caused by a greatly increased demand, has already much lowered their price, and is continuing to do so. It is clear, therefore, that this is the country for the mechanic and labourer. Let the emigrant but carry with him frugal and industrious habits, or the determination to acquire them, and he will be sure to prosper. But it should be remarked, that the rate of wages I have mentioned, so advantageous to the poor labourer, in the first instance, in procuring him an abundance of all the necessaries of life, and exciting the hope and prospect of obtaining greater comforts, becomes his chief obstacle the moment he attempts to emerge from his present sphere. He will then, in his turn, feel the pressure of high wages. The price of oxen also, which are indispensable, is gradually rising with the increase of population and of capital in the country. The man of small means, even if he has been accustomed to labour, finds considerable difficulties to contend with, for the first few years, in clearing the forest and getting his land into a state to produce a return. To him who has been brought up as a gentleman the task is still more severe; and very few of this class are qualified to succeed in it. No one, therefore, under such circumstances, should make the attempt, unless he is capable of enduring fatigue and privation; can be satisfied with the necessaries of life; and look on its luxuries with indifference. Those who are possessed of such qualifications, and, at the same time, have a knowledge of agricultural pursuits, a few years will place in a state of comfortable independence. 1 He who has the command of money may read ly surmount all the obstacles in his way arising from the expense of clearing land; building his house (and offices), or renting one at a very high rate; providing himself with oxen and horses, now much advanced in price; and furnishing his farm with the requisite stock and implements of husbandry; and the expense of living until he shall have cleared a sufficient quantity of land to meet his expenditure. |