In 1822,
10,465 immigrants had arrived at Quebec. This year 10,188 immigrants
had arrived. Nearly 60 families, consisting of 200 persons, the
majority of whom were Quakers, had come from Bristol, in England to
settle in Upper Canada.

The legislature of Lower Canada was again summoned to meet for the
despatch of business, on the 25th of November. It was the last session
of the parliament. Lord Dalhousie in opening the session apologised for
the statements about financial difficulties, which he was obliged to
make so frequently. He entreated the House to proceed with the public
business harmoniously. He recommended the further consideration of the
judicature bill, and his message of the 4th of February, calling
attention to the expediency of enacting a law for the public registry
of instruments conveying, changing, or affecting real property, with a
view to give greater security to the possession and transfer of such
property, and to commercial transactions in general, which had been
overlooked in the previous session. And the Assembly proceeded to
business. Thereupon Lord Dalhousie officially informed the House that
he had suspended the Receiver General from the performance of the
duties of his office. The Governor had directed his attention after the
close of the previous session, to ascertain the state of the funds upon
which large appropriations had been granted, and there appeared to be
L96,000 in the hands of the Receiver General. But when His Excellency
had called upon that officer to declare whether he was prepared to meet
warrants to that amount, various accounts and statements shewing claims
on the part of the province, on the imperial treasury, and the military
chest, the payment of which into his hands would enable him to meet the
demands of the government and, in time, to pay up the actual balance of
his accounts with the public men, were submitted to him. He was not
then prepared with the balance required to meet the warrants for the
public salaries, and he requested that the warrants might not be issued
until the 1st of July, when the revenue of the current year would place
funds in the chest. Lord Dalhousie agreed to the Receiver General's
request, concerning the time of issuing the warrants; but the question
as to the repayment of the sums claimed by the Receiver General as due
to the province, being one on which His Majesty's government alone
could decide, Mr. Davidson was sent to England, on the part