CORRESPONDENCE. 



[1852. 



ordinaiy use. It is maiiufactui-ed by Messrs. Ransome & May, 

 of Ipswich, wlio obtained the gold medal of the Royal Agricul- 

 tural Society of England at the general meeting at Oxford, and 

 a second time at Derby. The price of the cart is not necessarily 

 much higher than those of the older and less efficient vehicles. 

 Flat carts were used in many pails of the country for the harvest 

 home, but they obviously incurred more or less damage to the 

 crop. Frames projecting at an angle from the body of the cart 



were subsequently employed to accomplish one of the objects 

 obtained by Messi-s. Ransome & May's cart ; which secures not 

 only great width in loading, bxit a perfect guard to the wheels. 

 In the present state of agricultural fiffaire, small savings are of 

 great importance to farmers, who may soon economise the cost 

 of a cart in the saving of labour and time, and the safety to crops 

 obtained in conveying them by proper vehicles from the field to 

 the fai-myai'd. 



CORRESPOiVDEBTCE. 



For many years the people of Canada have had just cause to 

 regret, that information respecting the resources of the vast tewi- 

 tory they possess, should have had such a limited circulation in 

 the Mother Country. It is needless now to enquire into the minor 

 causes of the extraordinary ignorance which but too generally 

 prevails in England of the progress of the Canadas, and of the 

 admirable opportunities they oft'er for the safe and remunerative 

 investment of capital, or the exercise of well-applied industry. 

 We are willing to rest satisfied with the explanation, which at 

 the first blush suggests itself, that the commercial and industrial 

 classes at home are so completely engaged with their present 

 relations, that without their attention is pointedly drawn to a new 

 field for enterprize, by authority upon which they can rely with 

 confidence, they do not care to embark in projects which appear 

 doubtful or visionary, through ignorance of the circumstances 

 under which they are to be pursued. 



It is with peculiar pleasure that we have now the opportunity of 

 calling the attention of the Canadian public to the proposition of the 

 Society of Ai-ts, embraced in the subjoined con-espondence. We 

 are there told that " the correspondence which has taken place with 

 the Colonies, on account of the Exhibition, has brought to notice 

 that those by whom it has been conducted are capable of affording 

 a vast amount of information, which only requires to be collected 

 and printed to make it of great use to this country." We are 

 further informed, that among the principal objects which the 

 Council of the Society of Arts have in view in establishing the 

 Colonial Committee, are, — 



1st. To make known to the mercantile and general public of 

 Great Britain and Ireland, the principal products of each of the 

 Colonies, and the facilities for obtaining them. 



2nd. To point out to the Colonists any of those products which 

 may be advantageously imported into England. 



3rd. To afford such information as any Colony may require in 

 regard to Implements, Maehinerj', Ciieniical or other processes 

 nacessary to the prosecution of its special branches of industry. 



It is almost unnecessaiy for us to urge upon our fellow-coun- 

 trymen the importance of availing themselves to the uttermost, of 

 the opportunities presented by the Society of Arts, tln-ough whose 

 agency the British people may be made acquainteil, not only 

 with our progress in tlie Industrial Arts but more especially 

 with the nature and extent of those vacant and neglected fields 

 of enterprize in which this country aboinnls. 



Correspondence relative to the estahliskment of Communication 

 between the Society/ of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce 

 (of London,) and the Canadian Institute, with a view to 

 advancing the knowledge of the resources and capabilities of 

 Canada abroad, and of promoting information on the same 

 subject within the Province. 



Government House, ) 



Quebec, llth July, 1852. j 

 Sir,— 



I am directed by the Governor General to transmit to )''ou as 

 Corresponding Secretary of the Canadian Institute, the enclosed 

 copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Society of Arts, 

 Manufactures and Commerce, to Her Majesty's Principal Sec- 

 retary of State for the Colonies, with enclosures having reference 

 to the establishment of a Correspondence between the Society- of 

 Arts, and similar institutions in the Colonies. His Excellency is 

 desirous to ascertain, through you, whether the Canadian Institute 

 will be disjjosed to engage in the proposed Correspondence with 

 the Society of Ai-ts, as he believes that the objects of the Institute 

 and the interests of the Province would be promoted thereby. 



I have the honor to be. Sir, 



Your most obedient humble Servant, 



F. Cumberland, Esq., 



Corresponding Secretary/, 



Canadian Institute. 



R. BRUCE, 



Gov, Secretary. 



Copy of a Letter from the Secretary to the Society of Arts, Ma7mfaclHres 

 and Commerce, to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the 

 Colonies, 



Society of Arts. John Street Adelphi, London, ? 

 26tb March, 1852. ) 



Sm,— 

 I am directed by the Council of the Society of Arts to acquaint you, 

 that they have appointed a Committee of the following Membera of 

 the Society, viz : — 



Joseph Glynn, Es^q. F. R. S. 

 ■Wyndham Harding, Esq. 

 Nathaniel Lindley, Esq. 

 Alfred Reade, Esq. 

 Lieut. Tyler, Royal Engineers. 



The Earl Grey 



Robert Stephenson, Esq. M. P. 



Dr. J. F. Royle, F. R. S. 



Professor Solly, F. R. S. 



John Bell, Esq. 



C. Wcntworth Dilke, Esq. 



to consider the best means of making the Society useful in advancing 

 the knowledge of the resources and capabilities of the numerous British 

 Colonies in all quarters of the world, and in furnishing the Colonies 

 themselves with such information as may be required on subjects con- 

 nected witli Alts, Manufactures and Commerce. 



The accompanying Enclosures, Nos. 1 and 2. will explain the Con- 

 stitution of tlie Society, tlie objects tliey have in view in adopting the 

 present measure, and the means wnich they possess of carrying them 

 into effect. 



The Council conceive that one of the first steps towards the attain- 

 ment of their Objects, will bo the establishment of a Correspondence 

 Willi similar Institutions in the Colonies ; or, in the smaller Colonies, 

 where no such Institutions exist, with a Committee consisting of three 

 or more Members, in all cases where volunteers for such n purpose can 

 be found. 



I am therefore, to express the hope of the Council, that you will be 

 pleased to accord to the Society the advantages of that co-operation 

 and assistance which the Colonial Office is so well able to afford, to 

 enable them to place themselves thus in correspondence with the 



