ber of emigrants landed at the port of Quebec, in 1845, was
25,375.

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NUMBER OF EMIGRANTS SINCE 1829. |
|----------------+----------+----------+----------+----------+---------|
| |'29 to '33|'34 to '38|'39 to '43|'44 to '45| Total. |
| | | | | | |
| |----------|----------|----------|----------|---------|
|England. | 43,386 | 28,624 | 30,318 | 16,531 | 119,354 |
|Ireland. | 102,264 | 54,898 | 74,981 | 24,201 | 256,344 |
|Scotland. | 20,143 | 10,998 | 16,289 | 4,408 | 51,838 |
|British American| | | | | |
| Prov. &c. | 1,904 | 1,831 | 1,777 | 377 | 5,589 |
| |----------+----------+----------+----------+---------|
| | 167,697 | 96,351 | 123,860 | 45,517 | 433,425 |
+----------------+----------+----------+----------+----------+---------+

Upper Canada would seem to have received the largest share of the influx
of population. The increase in the number of its inhabitants, between
1827 and 1843, is stated at 230,000.

The local government has for some few years past encouraged, although
rather scantily, as Mr. Logan can, I dare say, testify, an exploration
of the natural resources of the Canadas, as far as geology and
mineralogy are concerned. Its medical statistics, its botany and
zoology, will follow; and agriculture, that primary and most noble of
all applications of the mind to matter, is making rapid strides, by the
formation of district and local societies, which will do infinitely more
good than any system of government patronage for the advancement of the
welfare of the people could devise.

The public works have also, for the first time, been placed under the
control of the executive and legislative bodies by the formation of a
board, which is itself also subject to the supervision of the
government.

But much remains to be done on this important head. A melancholy error
was committed in making the President, and consequently all the officers
and _employes_, of the Board of Works, partizans of the ministry of the
day; thus paralyzing the efforts of a zealous man, on the one hand, by
the fear of dismissal upon any change of the popular will, and
neutralizing his efforts wh