This important measure has been checked for a season, but there can be little doubt that it will ultimately be carried through, and must prove of the greatest advantage. The line has been surveyed, and the expense will not exceed L. 10,000 or L. 12,000. It is not unlikely that the Americans will construct either a canal or railway from Lockport to Ontario, connecting the Erie canal with the lake, and which must prove another heavy abduction of traffic from the Welland. The Rideau canal is one so entirely in the hands of Government, that I shall leave it there without remark. Education is a subject which cannot fail to interest emigrants of a higher class, and it may be of importance for such to know that the style of education for both sexes is rapidly improving. The Upper Canada College at York is well endowed, and when its wild acres shall be settled and cultivated, will become an institution not to be sneered at by any Alma Mater at home. The charges at present are, Besides Board, under surveillance of the Principal, L. 25 per annum. which, there are other boarding-houses in York, and other boarding-schools at Cornwall, &c. I would now offer a few remarks to those who may feel disposed to emigrate, from a view rather to prospective advantage than from the call of stern necessity, or from inability to provide for a numerous family at home. Assuming such an individual to be a man of sober habits, by which I would be understood to mean not merely a distaste for debauchery, but of a temperament which derives its chief enjoyment from the domestic circle, and from useful and rational pursuits; to such a man I am not afraid to say that Canada holds out an inviting field of enterprize and profitable occupation. Let him not, however, suppose that he is just at once to bask in the full glare of prosperity. Many disagrèmens await him, but none which a man of ordinary discretion and perseverance will be long of surmounting. The circumstances, connexions, and habits of individuals are so various and so opposite, that it would be vain to draw up a scheme of settlement suitable or palatable to all. Nothing, however, is more certain than this, that here, as in all human arrangements, much benefit may be derived from combined efforts. For such a purpose, my own wish would be to form a small association of colonists, who would go to market for a tract of land suited to their purpose, and which there can be no doubt they would procure in a large block, and for a price to be paid down, upon very advantageous terms. Having made the purchase, let each individual be immediately put in absolute possession of his own estate. Future arrangements would be dictated by circumstances; and self-interest, the most efficient of all agents, could be easily brought to bear upon the good of all. Artisans, machinery, live-stock, with many other requisites, could be procured, at a remunerating rate for a community, which would never have paid a return to individual settlers, and a prosperous advance might soon be looked for. Of course, I cannot be supposed to contemplate a communion of property, or such-like wise headed dreams; but the mutual solace and comfort of ten or a dozen respectable families thus planted together, is beyond any estimate we can form. Sickness and death itself would be shorn of many terrors to the head of a family, when thus assured of his little ones having kind and willing friends around him, embarked in the same concern, and yet having no temptation to injure or defraud. Objections to such a plan may be raised upon the ground of human fickleness and whim, and certainly the selection would require to be made with strict attention to character and sense; but no insuperable difficulty presents itself to my mind, which should prevent it from being carried into successful operation. I would have the stock agreed upon placed in the hands of respectable agents, as the Upper Canada Bank, or a bank at home, a small committee appointed, and power given to make a purchase, and to have it surveyed and divided, and each man's portion set off by lot, or in such other way as might be preferred. Should any special advan tage, as a mill-power, gypsum-quarry, &c. accrue to one portion of the property, it might be again appropriated by lot, or have such conditions attached to it, for common behoof, as would place all the parties on a par. Our farming interests at home have been severely scourged of late years, and capital has been, at each revolving term, compelled to meet demands, which profits reasonably expected ought to have supplied. Nor is it perhaps the least lamentable part of the case, that, notwithstanding the too palpable loss before their eyes, scarce a farm comes into the market without a very general competition. How shall we seek to solve conduct so much at variance with ordinary discretion? Perhaps it frequently arises from a man having grown up to middle life, with his habits and views fixed beyond a change; or, again, with a valuable stock, for which no adequate price is to be had,—in which predicament there scarce remains for him a choice but to venture upon another cast. Many are the worthy and respectable men of this description, who may certainly better their condition by a removal to Canada'; but it is a serious step, not to be lightly adopted, and which, above all, they must remember, cannot with safety, consistency, or credit, be retraced. In Canada he will become proprietor in fee-simple of lands, at a rate per acre which would scarce pay half of his yearly rent at home; but this is to be effected at a sacrifice of many early ties and connections, and by a cheerful submission to many privations and botherations, which will require a steady and cheerful temper to surmount. From the prices of land, the rates of wages and labour, and the value of produce, which are given, and for the accuracy of which, I think I can pledge my credit, every man will be enabled to form a judgment for himself, so far as written statements avail; and I will only again repeat, that Upper Canada certainly appears to me blessed with all the solid materials of human happiness, independence and comfort. How long she is to continue in pupillage, or when the period will arrive when the parental tie is to be severed, are questions, momentous indeed, but difficult to solve. It must, however, be the anxious desire of every patriotic Briton and Canadian, that, happen when it may, or how it may, a cordial spirit of mutual concession and goodwill shall be the instruments of bringing it to an adjustment. In this, and in no other way, can either country hope to derive from it security or advantage. I am conscious that I have occupied more of these pages than I fear my readers will approve, and shall therefore make a halt for the present, merely concluding with a few tables, which may be useful. They are drawn from sources equally authentic, but different from those formerly given. Prices of Live-Stock, Upper Canada. Hire of a man for farm-work, with board, per month, Do. of female for ordinary house-work, Carpenter per day, ...... do. Reaper's wages (find themselves) per day, Common labourers at Indian corn or potato work, do. ............... Wheat, reaped, and hauled into rick-yard and stacked, per acre,... Household Furniture. These articles are handsomely and substantially finished; and the native woods, such as bird's eye maple, black walnut, birch, elm, oak, cherry, &c. supply excellent and beautiful materials, ON THE METHOD OF TRUSSING HAY FOR SALE IN ENGLAND, AND ITS ADVANTAGES. (To the Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture.) WHEN an English farmer visits the city of Edinburgh, nothing surprises him more than to see the slovenly manner in which hay is cut from the rick, and carted out for sale. In a country so far advanced in the practice of agriculture, and where economy in that business is a national characteristic, as well as an advantage, it is astonishing that the inconvenience and loss attending this mismanagement of hay should not have been long ago remedied, Many customs and methods of cropping and working land have been mutually borrowed; and as the intercourse between the two kingdoms is more open than |