"Berwick and Kelso Warder" (continued)

" British North America possesses inexhaustible physical capabilities of greatness and of wealth; she has a territory which is spread out to an interminable extent, and fertile in almost every production, conducing to the necessities and gratification of man; her navigable rivers, her capacious and and convenient ports, and the broad, blue bosom of the Atlantic main, which connects her with the mother country and its other colonies, and with the kingdoms of Europe - all give to her the means and the facility of acquiring the most ample and the most permanent strength. Taxation can scarcely be said to exist in British North America. Servants and labourers, and mechanics, of all descriptions, are certain of employment and ample remuneration; and instances are numerous of persons in this class having sent home money from their savings to assist in bringing out their indigent relations. The public works in progress will furnish employment for many years to any number of labourers coming from Great Britain, and will continue to sustain the high wages they receive for their work. In the possessions of the British Crown on the continent of America an adequate and industrious population would cause agriculture and commerce to flourish to a boundless extent. In those fine provinces, so little known, and so imperfectly appreciated, by the parent state, the sources of productive industry are inexhaustible, and every human being sent from the mother country, enjoying sound health and well-regulated habits, may find employment suited to all the gradations of strength, skill, and capacity; a country so prolific with respect to sources of human industry is at our very door, within four weeks' sail of our shores, and is now brought by means of steam navigation within less than 14 days' distance. It requires but an extended emigration to cause an immense and rapid increase of its individual prosperity and general welfare; whilst, on the other hand, the over-crowded and famishing districts require but a transfer to these colonies to effect a great diminution of national misery, pregnant with alarm, as to its ultimate consequences. Nor is there any reason to fear that the demand for labour will be checked by the number of persons from this country seeking employment. Persons going at first as labourers are able to save money so quickly, and so soon to become independent, and able themselves to afford employment to others, that it may safely be said, that, in proportion to the number of new settlers in the province, will be the increased demand for additional labourers. That the present moment is the most propitious for the establishment of a scheme of emigration, on a large and effective scale, cannot be denied. Our fellow subjects in Upper Canada, as may be seen by the annexed address to her Majesty the Queen, from the House of Assembly, implore their Sovereign in tones of blended loyalty, patriotism, and sympathy, which cannot be read without emotion, that a plan emanating from her councils, may be established, which shall enable the surplus population of the United Kingdom to be happily transferred from their present dreadful position, to the unpeopled and unsettled lands of that fertile and extensive region, a transfer which will materially strengthen and effectually preserve the British colonial dependencies on that continent, and most firmly rivet the bonds of affection and interest which attach them to the parent state." (to be continued)