572 Population of Great Britain and Ireland [DEC; 



once : the emigrants themselves, we think, will be benefited by emigra- 

 tion. 



On the next point, however, examined by the Committee the mode 

 in which the funds are to be raised for Emigration we cannot get on so 

 fast ; and we rather suspec-t that a portion of their plan here, which takes up 

 at least 1 00 pages of room in the Report and evidence, will never, except 

 upon paper, take up any room at all. The first part of the proposal of the 

 Committee, in principle, and divested of the multitudinous figures and 

 calculations that encumber it, is That the legislature shall borrow a cer- 

 tain sum of money, for the purpose of locating emigrants in foreign colonies, 

 and providing them at starting with such supplies as seem necessary 

 to ensure their success : this Loan to be afterwards repaid by the emi- 

 grant, in the shape of an annual rent levied upon the land allotted to him ; 

 the first payment of such rent commencing three years after his location, 

 and continuing until the whole sum advanced to him (with interest) is dis- 

 charged. As the principle here is all that is of consequence, we shall 

 just briefly state that the loan furnished to each emigrant such individual 

 being " the head or master of a family of five persons" is to be ()0/. 

 Distributed and laid out for his advantage, according to the following course 

 or table, on his arrival at Quebec, or any other port (specified) of our 

 North American colonies : 



" Average estimate of the expense of settling a family, consisting of one man, 



one woman, and three children, in the British North American provinces; dis. 

 tinguisbing the various items of expenditure : 



Expenses of conveyance from the port of disembarkation to . s. d. 



place of location 10 



Provisions (and freight), viz. 1 lb. of flour, and 1 Ib. of pork 

 for each adult per diem, and half that quantity for each 



child; pork at AL a barrel, and flour at II. 5s 41 17 8 



House for each family 200 



Implements; consisting of four blankets, one kettle, one 

 frying-pan, three, hoes, one spade, one wedge, one augur, 

 one pickaxe, two axes, proportion of grindstone, whip- 

 saw and cross cut saw, freight and charges, in all do 318 



Cow 4 10 



Medicines 100 



Seed corn , 1 6 



Potatoes ditto 12 6 



Proportion of general expenses: clerks, surveyors, &c. c.... 250 



Canadian currency 66 4 8" 



Now thirty years are to be allowed the colonist for pay ing this advance 

 back, with the interest. And advantages are to be allowed him on pur- 

 chasing up the annuity at an earlier period ; and the rent is to be taken in 

 money or in produce, according to his convenience. And all this looks 

 plausihly upon paper ; and we are not at all prepared to say that even the 

 fact of its total hollo wness should stop the project of emigration if that plan 

 be in other respects found advisable : but if we are to canvass the Report 

 of the Committee, and bind ourselves by a part of their conclusion that 

 " they would not fa<z\ justified in recommending to the House a national 

 outlay of this nature, without the prospect of direct return' then we 

 must confess that neither the facts nor the analogies upon which they 



