Evidence. Extracts from acquainted with Canada, that Chief Justice Robinson has the highest and most deserved reputation for ability and knowledge in the province. 37. Having given the commissioners your own opinion, and that of Chief Justice Robinson, upon the scheme first suggested, does any mode occur to yourself which would be more likely to be successful in aiding landlords to locate proper persons in Canada, who might be willing to go?-The mode that I should be inclined to think more feasible would be based upon the assumption, that government would give us assistance so far as to afford a free passage to emigrants, so that that part of the expense which I have argued would be clear loss should be spared to us-that the associated capitalists should buy a district in Canada, and undertake the improvement of it by means of public works. That they should have an agent in that country whom they could thoroughly depend upon, and who should report from time to time when he was in want of labourers. That in proportion as one part of the district became improved he should sell it at an increased price, and should repay interest upon the capital advanced out of that increased price, spending the remainder continually upon the purchase of fresh land. That the members of the association in this country should merely recommend those whom they considered to be desirable emigrants. That, as they found the agent in Canada reporting that there were means of employment for fresh labourers in proportion as the others settled upon the land, government should give those fresh labourers so recommended a free passage to the scene of operations. That thus the landlords in this country should not be at the expense (which I have argued to be a dead loss) of the passage, but should merely be at the expense of the outlay upon the land, and should also incur the risk of the land speculation proving a failure. That members of the association alone should have the power of recommending emigrants, and that they should do so upon the footing of sending out those whom they considered to be likely to be efficient labourers when they got out. [RETURN No. 106. RETURN showing the Number and Ages of Persons who Emigrated direct from Ireland to Colonies and Foreign Countries 98 14 82 120 35 16 Waterford 1,296 752 2,048 525 339 Youghal 231 116 347 207 103 ལྤ, ཋ ཧྨ ཛྫཱ ཋ ྣ ཎྜ 5,049 3,995 9,044 2,794 2,053 4,777 3,891 2,832 6,723 655 459 1,114 2,131 1,396 3,527 1,898 1,889 3,287 62 160 TOTAL 19,145 13,862 33,007 11,739 8,678 20,417 17,662 12,603 30,165 5,815 4,500 10,315 12,161 8,639 20,800 15,113 10,260 25,382 2,278 2,146 4,424 6,277 5,558 1,835 15,326 12,822 28,148 15,701 13,653 29,554 499 1,061 1,292 1,132 2,424 2,325 2,145 4,470 8,179 2,975 6,154 5,065 3,695 8,700 2,844 2,194 5,038 2,604, 2,234 4,838 1,460 1,222 2,682 1,492 1,216 2,708 1,932 1,531 3,463 562 251 73 324 244 162 406 120 51 161 122 99 221 232 154 386 309 5 4 Ea Number and Ages of Persons who Emigrated direct from Ireland to Colonies and Foreign Countries during the Ten Years TOTAL, 19,623 18,192 37,815 69,807 53,995 123,802 28,242 18,810 46,452 2,864 2,249 5,113 581 234 107,792 81,433 189,225,10,725 9,050 19,775 2,300 2,253 4,553 800 194 494 121,117 92,030 214,647 |