of
Wiltshire people settled in the township of Dummer under many more
disadvantages than those placed by Government in the township of Douro.

The Dummer people had no shanties built for them, no cows, and were
given much worse land; and yet they have done much more in a shorter
time. An air of comfort and cleanliness pervades their dwellings, and
there is a neatness about their farms and homesteads which is generally
wanted in the former.

It must, however, be borne in mind that paupers sent out by the
Government, or by their own parishes, are not a fair specimen by which
to judge the working classes, who emigrated at their own expenses. Of
the latter, I know hundreds who, upon their arrival in the Upper
Province, had spent their last shilling, and who, by persevering
industry, are now worth hundreds of pounds. No person need starve in
Canada, where there is plenty of work and good wages for every man who
is willing to labour, and who keeps himself sober. The working man with
a family of grown children, when fairly established on his farm, is
fully on a par, as regards his prospects, with the gentleman, the owner
of a similar farm, and possessing an income of 100 pounds per annum.
The reason is obvious. The gentleman and his family have been used to
wear finer clothes, keep better company, and maintain a more
respectable appearance, and if he has children, to give them a more
expensive education.

Then, again, the gentleman and his family are physically less qualified
to undergo the hardships and toil of a practical farmer's life. On the
other hand, the working man thinks it no degradation to send his sons
and daughters out to service, and the united product of their wages
amount, probably to eight or ten pounds per month. He is contented with
home-spun cloth, while the spinning and knitting--and sometimes
weaving--required by the family, are done at home. Labour, indeed, is
money; and hence in a few years the gentleman with his income is soon
distanced, and the working hand becomes the man of wealth, while his
children eventually form a part of the aristocracy of the country, if
the father gives them a suitable education.

There is one thing, however, to be said in favour of the gentleman--
namely, his education, which fits him for offices and professions which
must remain for ever out of the reach of the half-ignorant. It is,
therefore, only in agricultural pursuits, and mechanical operations,
that the working m