to render us your valuable aid in that direction. There is a large emigration from the United Kingdom, a good deal of which goes outside the Empire for want of proper direction. You will gather from what I have stated that in no country can more advantages be obtained by settlers of the right classes than in Canada, and that fact alone may perhaps cause you to interest yourselves in the question. Every one is able to do something to help to disseminate information about our colonies, and to endeavour to direct the movement that takes place, so that it may remain under the British flag. In a new country, as already mentioned, there must necessarily be more openings for the young and energetic than in the older ones, but it must be borne in mind that the same qualities are necessary for success there as elsewhere. A capacity for hard work, energy, and enterprise will make themselves felt anywhere, but nowhere so rapidly, and with such great results, as in a country like the Dominion. People are sometimes sent to the colonies for their country's good-some of them do well, but many of them fail, and their want of success is not always attributed to themselves. That is not the class we want. You will, I hope, endorse my opinion that Canada is a good place to live in, and that it offers abundant advantages to people of the right stamp who will come over and throw in their lot with us; but we have no room for what may be terined the idle, the thriftless, and the ne'er-do-well portion of the population. No one need fear emigrating nowadays; formerly it was different. The present steamers are fast and comfortable, and the accommodation is regulated by law. The cost of the voyage is not great, considering the distances, and there are railways to take the emigrant right from the port of landing to his destination. The colonist cars are comfortable, and contain sleeping berths, and ample opportunity is provided of obtaining

abundance of cheap food-in fact, it may be said that modern arrangements rob emigration of all its old-time terrors and persons who go to Canada from this country will find Government agents, to whom they can apply for advice, from the time they start until they reach their new homes, no matter in what part of the country they may be. The people who are particularly wanted in Canada are capitalists, large and small, farmers, farm labourers, and domestic servants. I suppose every country will welcome capitalists, but there are few parts of the world to which they can go with more certainty of success than in the Dominion. The conditions of life are very pleasant, and persons with small incomes will also find many advantages there. Living is cheap, there are plenty of opportunities of enjoyment, plenty of sport to be had, while, as already mentioned, the educational system offers great advantages to those who have families. In any part of the Dominion a farmer either with small or large capital can do well. He can either buy an improved farm in one of the older provinces (they are to be had at very reasonable prices), if he desires to have the social conditions and surroundings to which he has been accustomed, or he can purchase an improved farm at much less cost in Manitoba and the North-West; or take up a free grant of 160 acres of land for himself and each male member of the family over eighteen years of age. Prices of produce have been low for a long time as in England, but in Canada the expenses of a fariner are much less than in England, and the margin of profit is, therefore, greater in any circumstances. British Columbia improved farms are also to be had, but prices are rather higher there, owing to the fertility of the soil, and to the better rates realised by its produce than in some other parts of the Dominion. Canada, of course, has its drawbacks as well as its advantages, but the latter are generally considered to

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outweigh the former, which explains the expansion that is continually taking place. Although he is now getting better prices than for some years past, it would be idle to ignore the fact that the Canadian farmer has felt the depression that has been passing over the world, but at the same time the low prices have hit him less hard than farmers in many other countries. This arises from the fact that his land is cheap, taxation is low, labour-saving appliances are in constant use, he is his own landlord, and last, but not least, that he and the members of his family do their own work, and only employ such additional hands as are absolutely necessary. There is no royal road to fortune by way of agriculture in Canada, any more than elsewhere, but it is a strange circumstance to me that farmers in the old country will go on struggling against adversity, against the force of circumstances, while their capital is being frittered away, when they can go to Canada and farm there, with a smaller capital and with greater chances of success, apart altogether from the advantages they have before them in providing satisfactorily for their growing families. We have room in Canada for thousands of farmers—one might say hundreds of thousands of farmers—and I hope the time is not far distant when Canada will attract the attention its many advantages deserve. If people are doing well in Great Britain one would hesitate to advise them to move unless future considerations prompt it; but those who are contemplating emigration ought to bear in mind what a field the colonies, and especially Canada, offer to them, and the consequences that must follow their development by British hands and muscles.

Farm labourers are always in demand in Canada, although their immigration is particularly advised in the spring months. They get good wages, and if thrifty and hard-working may look forward at no distant date to becoming farmers on their own account, and

the owners of their own farms. This applies largely to single men, for the reason that cottages are not usually provided on the farms as in the old country. The single men generally live in the farmhouses, and become, as it were, a part of the family. Hundreds of instances could be given where labourers have emigrated who have been successful in the manner described, and one cannot help thinking how much better it would be for the thousands of farm labourers who, in the last few years, have migrated from the English rural districts to the towns if they had gone to Canada, instead of passing a more or less miserable existence among the congested populations which they have helped to swell. In Canada they could have turned their skill to some advantage, while in the English towns they have simply become unskilled labourers, uncertain of employment, living from day to day, and from hand to mouth. There is a great demand everywhere for female domestic servants, both in the country districts and in the towns. Their wages are generally good, although, excepting in Manitoba, the North-West Territories, and British Columbia, not higher than in London; but the homes are comfortable, and the girls seem to have more freedom and more liberty than at home. One of the difficulties Canadian ladies complain of is that their servants get married so quickly, which perhaps, however, the servants do not regard as a disadvantage. No doubt servant girls have a disinclination to travel far away from home, especially if they have to go alone, and are without friends in the places to which they may be going. This difficulty, however, is overcome to a certain extent by the supervision afforded by emigration societies in the United Kingdom, by the Government Agents, and by the Ladies' Committees which are to be found in most of the Canadian cities and towns.

There are many other matters of interest relating to Canada to which I might have referred, if there had

been sufficient space. I have endeavoured to place

before the reader some of the considerations that have brought about the unity that exists at the present time between the different parts of the Dominion, the progress that recent years have witnessed, and which enables the most encouraging opinions to be formed of its future. The reader will understand that our greatest needs at the present time are more people and more capital to develop the great resources with which Canada is endowed. Canadians are proud of their country, and they believe in it. They are proud of their connection with the mother country; and their constant endeavour is to make their beloved Dominion not the least important of that family of nations, all under one flag and owning allegiance to one Sovereign, which seems to be the ultimate destiny of our Empire. Its peaceful development and the strengthening of the union of its component parts-socially, commercially, and politically-is a question than which there is none other more important that can engage the attention of British statesmen, whether in the United Kingdom or in the colonies.