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ssage 2 dollars without board. "St. John's to Laprairie, 16 miles per stage, 5 shillings to 7 shillings 6 pence. "Laprairie to Montreal, per ferry steam-boat, 8 miles. 6 pence. "Montreal to Quebec, by steam-boat, 180 miles, cabin, found, 1 pound, 5 shillings; deck passage, not found, 7 shillings 6 pence. "Those proceeding to the eastern townships of Lower Canada, in the vicinity of Sherbrooke, Stanstead, &c., &c., will proceed to St. John's, from whence good roads lead to all the settled townships eastward. If they are going to the Ottawa River, they will proceed from Montreal and Lachine, from whence stages, steamboats, and batteaux go daily to Grenville, Hull, and Bytown, as also to Chateauguay, Glengary, Cornwall, Prescott, and all parts below Kingston. "Emigrants can avail themselves of the advice and assistance of the following gentlemen:--at Montreal, Carlisle Buchanan, Esq.; Prescott, John Patton, Esq." --------------------------------------- Number of Emigrants who arrived at New York from the United Kingdom for six years, from 1829 to 1834:-- [TABLE] [Transcription note: The data presented below was originally in the conventional tabular row / column format.] Row 1. Headings Column 1: Year. Column 2: England. Column 3: Ireland. Column 4: Scotland. Column 5: Total. Row 2 Column 1: 1829 Column 2: 8,110 Column 3: 2,443 Column 4: 948 Column 5: 11,501 Row 3 Column 1: 1830 Column 2: 16,350 Column 3: 3,497 Column 4: 1,584 Column 5: 21,433 Row 4 Column 1: 1831 Column 2: 13,808 Column 3: 6,721 Column 4: 2,078 Column 5: 22,607 Row 5 Column 1: 1832 Column 2: 18,947 Column 3: 6,050 Column 4: 3,286 Column 5: 28,283 Row 6 Column 1: 1833 Column 2: - Column 3: - Column 4: - Column 5: 16,000 Row 7 Column 1: 1834* Column 2: - Column 3: - Column 4: - Column 5: 26,540 Row 8 Column 1: Total Column 2: - Column 3: - Column 4: - Column 5: 126,464 * The returns for 1834 are made up to the 20th November of that year. ======================================= III. AMERICAN PASSENGERS' ACT. The 9th Geo. IV., c. 21, commonly called the "American Passengers' Act," was repealed during the Session of 1835, by an Act then passed, the 5 and 6 Will. IV., c. 53. The intention of the new Act is, of course, to secure, as effectually as possible, and more effectually than the previous Act did, the health and comfort of emigrants on board of passenger ships. By a clause
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