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Le lecteur trouvera ici un écrit, de notre plume, en langue anglaise, où nous n'avons fait qu’effleurer cette question des races en Canada. Si nous avions autorité pour donner un conseil nous répèterions avec notre illustre et regretté ami, l'historien national du Canada et cela tant que durera le vasselage colonial,

‘Que les Canadiens sôient fidèles à eux-mêmes; qu’ils soient sages et persévérants, qu'ils ne se laissent point emporter par le brillant des nouveautés sociales ou politiques. Ils ne sont pas assez forts pour se donner carrière sur ce point. C’est aux grands peuples à essayer les nouvelles théories. Ils peuvent se donner des libertés, dans leurs orbites, assez spacieuses. Pour nous, une partie de notre force vient de nos traditions ; ne nous en éloignons ou nc les changeons que graduellement. Nous trouverons dans l’histoire de notre métropole, dans l'Angleterre elle-même, de bons exemples à suivre. Si l'Angleterre est grande aujourd’hui, elle à eu de terribles tempêtes à passer, la conquête étrangère à maitriser, les guerres religieuses à apaiser et bien d’autres traverses. Sans vouloir prétendre à une pareille € ?stinée, notre sagesse et notre ferme union adouciront beaucoup les difficultés de notre situation, et en excitant leur intérêt rendront notre cause plus sainte aux yeux des nations,”

The component parts of our Nationality. BY THE AUTHOR OF (MAPLE LEAVES. »

Tracing the origin of the various nationalities who inhabit British America,—fixing the exact epoch.—describing the true causes of their migration from their European homes to Western soil —determining the precise proportion in which each element enters into the formation of the composite population of the Dominion,—this, indeed, would be a theme replete with interest ; on which, at some future period, one hopes to see the genius of some of our leading writers exercise itself. Many eloquent pages would this study, viewed in its multifarious phases, furnish for philosophical investigations ; nor would it be foreign to enquire whether the various types of the Caucasian race, to be found in the new world, are really undergoing the extraordinary transformation which some savants pretend. Geoffroi St. Hilaire, Edwards, Smith, Carpenter, certainly hold on these points opinions startling in the extreme, and calculated, if founded, to make one feel at times quite uncomfortable. M. A. de Quatrefages, a member of the Institut de France, in a remarkable book, edited in Paris in 1861, L'Unité de l'Espèce Humaine, asserts that the air of this continent produces in time strange modifications in the structure of man—the human body, especially the neck, elongates —the oleageneous tissues diminish ; the eye is more sunk in its orbit,

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&e, Smith and Carpenter are of opinion that the European left to to himself on American soil, will in process of years change to the aboriginal savage, s0 that eventually the true Yankee will become a fullblooded Huron, a fierce Mohawk, or a blubberloving Esquimaux, according to his habitat, Did we, men of the New Domiuion, by reason of our superior monarchical institutions or better descent, cherish the fond delusion that we might perchance escape this formidable though gradual process of desintegration ? Abbe Brasseur de Bourbourg, a high European authority, rudely dispels it : nay, his utterances are s0 positive, that at the very time we indite these lines, an occasional, a grave doubt, now and again, hovers over our mind, lest we should already be in our tastes, samething of a Huron or à Mohawk. In our dark moods, we take to thinking our great-grand-children, or their children, may turn our scalp hunters. No hypothesis is too far fetched for a European savant, and, doubtless, ere long, we will be told that the exact epoch, when it can be progaosticated this metamorphosis will be complete, is settied on undisputable grounds. As Tom Hôod's ‘Last man” is expected to flourish in the vear 2001, would it then be premature to fix the year 1970 for the time when the progressive native of the Empire State, which claims to lead on all points—will take to carrying tomahawks, first as a substitute for a black thorn or à revolver, and next as his natural weapon of attack ? It may not be unreasonable to infer that, thirty years after, the next generation will think it derogatory to close up a social gathering without the war-dance ; the European press will, about that time, probably, teem with accounts of Yankee, pardor Indian, ferocity in New-York, such as white men from beyond ihe seas, being scalped for presuming to enter, without permission, the precincts of Manhattan for purposes of barter. Still how much work yet to be done by enterprising Jonathan, ere this comes to pass : the conquest or annexation of England ; the dismemberment of France, of Italy, &c., not to mention a variety of minor changes in the map of the globe!!! Verily, our respect for savants, great though it be, does not permit us to accept this new theory of races, except sous bénéfice d'inventaire. The old maxim is much more to our fancy

Non animun, sed cœlum mutant qui trans mare currunt,

Our brethren of « Dear Old England,» as Sir George E,. Cartier quaintly calls her,—can breath in peace for a time—a long one possibly—as this direful consumnation will likely be coeval with the conquest of England and dispersion of the Britishers by the Maories, when Macaulay's New Zealander will stand on

Blackfriars bridge, surveying complacently the ruins of London, and trying by dint of a native interpreter to decipher Milton's Paradise Lost. The next transformation might be the conquest of Europe by the Cossacks, who will soon after cross over to wrest America from the Mohawks of Manhattan !!!

But le‘ us revert to the history of the races of the New Dominion, as we find them at present and examine their component parts. This disquisition brought to à successful issue, would involve deep rescarch ; nor are we sure that allthe historical data required are readily accessible. Possibly, an abler hand than ours may weave into one harmonious whole the silky webs now floating about, to many unnoticed. May this soon be so! Until the task be completed, we may be allowed to offer a few desultory thoughts, which have occurred to us in the course of our readings.

For the Province of Quebec, the chief fountains of such ethnological knowledge appears to us to be :—1st. The census tables under French and English domirion. ?2nd. The registers of marriages, baptisms, and burials of the different churches (and students of history must ever feel grateful to the Notes already published on this subject by the late Abbé Ferland, and by the Bishop of Rimouski, when Pastor of Beauport). 3rd. The biographical dictionnary of the families who emigrated from 1600 to 1700, the fruit of the long and oatient rescarches of the Abbé Tanguay, made in Canada and in France ; a work now in press. Amongst many striking features, one will be apparent to all.— the preponderance of the military element in the population of the colony. Very different, indeed, was the status of our early settlers, when compared to that of those who settled in other French colonies, or in some oftle English ones. Canada never had to build up her fortunes on the success in after life of exconvicts, ex-garroters, or ex-ticke -of-lcave-men. Hardy farmers, industrious mechanics, soldiers, adventurous fishermnen landed in crowds on the shores of a country reported to contain something more than fertile fields—mineral wealth in exhaustless quantities. The first nobles of the French realm vied with one another in finding men and treasure to bui.t up this New France, whose future s0 flattered the vanity of taeir great monarch. High-born women, such as the Duchesses de Bouillon, D’Aïguillon, and Madame de La Peltrie, undertook to provide virtuous young girls to go and seek their fortunes and husbands in this favored land. It is astonishing to see with wha: sollicitude the morals of these emigrants were watched over before they left France, until they landed in Canada. In some cases, the slightest indiscretion caused them to be sent back to where they came from. This is a very

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different version, let it be remembered, to that circulated by Baron Lahontan ; but it is nevertheless a true one. Retired officers and many French gentlemen of ancient lineage, but unable to maintain their families in the extravagant splendour which obtained at Court, asked for grants of lands in Canada. The progeny of some of those—our seigneurs—exist amongst us to this day. At that earlv period, none but gentlemen could obtain commissions in the French army ; and it required Court influence to procure these appointments.

Canada was then singularly fortunate, both under French and under English rule, in the class of settlers attracted to it Under the iatter, political persecution deposited on its shores the cream of the population of other countries. The war of Independence in the New England provinces brought over our border crowds of the most educated, influential and refined men ; their descendants exist and exercise a powerful influence amongst us to this day.

The historian Ferland has devoted the first fifteen pages of the second volume of his excellent work to vindicate his countrymen from the aspersions which some ignorant writers, such as ? Lebeau and 3 Lahontan, had attempted to fasten on them. The ante. cedents of the early settlers of St. Christopher, one of the West Indies, may have been doubtful ; but, on reference to history, nothing of the kind can be imputed to New France. + From 1621 to 1641, the emigration came plentifully from Perche, Normandy, Beauce, Ile de France, Saint Onge, Poitou, and le Pays d’Aunis. The Huguenots were not encouraged to settle, for fear of religious strife.

The Company of Rouen, and that of M. de Monts, which had preceded it were under the control of merchants and traders, who resided chiefly in Normandy. It is, then, not surprising that they selected their employés at Rouen, at Dieppe, at Cherbourg, at Fecamp, and at Honfleur. These employés became familiarized

1 Father Le Jeune says, in the ‘‘ Æelation for 1636.” Maintenant nous voyons tous les ans aborder bon nombre de très honorables personnes, qui se viennent jeter dans nos grands bois, comme dans le sein de la paix, pour vivre ici avec plus de piété, plus de franchise et plus de liberté.”

The historian Ferland quotes, as a striking proof of the purity of morals in the colony, the fact gleaned from the register of the R. C. Church at Quebec, that out of 674 children baptized at Quebec, from 1621 to 1661, one only appears to have been illegitimate.

2 Aventures et Voyages au Canada—1727.

3 Nouveaux Voyages de M. le Baron Lahontan dans l'Amérique Septentrionale,

4 Ferland’s Cours d'Histoire du Canada, Vol. I., p, 274.

with the country ; and when England returned it to France in 1632, and France appeared inclined to keep it, they enticed over to Canada their friends and relatives, who occasionally sailed for America with their whole families. It was from Dieppe that Champlain, after his return from England, where he had been carried a prisoner by the English, sailed in 1633, with a party of officiers, missionaries, and colonists. These pionecrs had doubtless been taken from Normandy and the Pays de Caux.

In 1634, arrived Robert Giffard, the fivst seigneur of Beauport, accompanied by his wife and children, and seven other large families. They were soon followed by others from Perche, who took lands in the Cote de Beaupré (Beauport, Ange-Gardien, &c.)

Two important families landed from France in 1636—named Le Gardeur: and Le Neuf. Allthe families who arrived before 1642 clustered round Quebec, except some few who removed to Three Rivers, to take advantage of the abundance of game (fish and fur) in the neighborhood of Lake St. Peter.

The first lands cleared and conceeded at Quebec, were the Coteau Ste. Geneviève (St, John's suburbs) the shores of the river St. Charles; the seigneurie Notre Dame des Anges, west of G.H. Parke’s, on the Charlesbourg road ; the little village of Fargy, at Beauport; the fiefs St. Michel and Sillery, near Quebec. Ghamplain had noticed, long before this date, the beautiful, natural meadows of Cape Tourmente, and had placed herdsmen to look after the cattle in the pasturage. Some people settled there in 1633; and in 1636 Governor Montmagny and Father Le Jeune found some French families there, which the missionaries visited several times every year. Father Le Jeune—whom we may call one of our most devoted missionaries—states why the place is named Beaupré, «ear les prairies y sont belles et grandes et bien unies.»

After 1640, the stream of French emigrants increased. From 1641 to 1655, several inhabitants of Brittany came over. The registers of Quebec Cathedral show a number of persons emigrating from Paris; many girls taken from the royal charitable institutions. «Several of them, » says Revd. Mr. Ferland, «were orphans, whose parents had died poor whilst in the King's service; some were the daughters of French army officers ; and one, for certain, was the child of a former Governor of Nancy.» About 1660, the children born in the country began to count in the population ; but emigration continued, composed, as Mr. Rameau! observes, «of an importation of French peasants, peaceable, laborious and well trained under their feudal seigneurs, » In 1664, the famous re-

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giment of Carignan, commanded by Col. de Sallieres, accompanied the Marquis of Tracy. A couple of centuries later, in 1838, we read of one of the English noblesse, the magnificent Earl of Durham, obtaining from his royal mistress the distinguished favor of bringing out, as a suitable escort, her household troops, the Coldstream Guards; but, beyond carrying away in legitimate wedlock, some of our city belles, we do not find the population Of Canada affected by their sojourn. Not so with the Carignan regiment, four companies of which were disbanded shortly efter their arrival in Canada. This splendid corps of warriors, with laurel fresh from European battlefields, !? seems to have been victimized ex masse, by the Quebec fair. Every Josette had a militar Joe; the officers made fierce love to the daughters of the seigneurs, Of the Procureur du Roi, of the conseillers du Conseil Supérieur, Ke. Kc.; whilst their gailant men vowed undying attachment to the «black-eyved Susans» of their own class. The natural result, a not uncommon one, was, that ere many seasons, were over, the parish priest and his vicaires were kept busv as could be, christening the numerous young Carignans, whom the next census would claim. ? The sons of Mars spread over the country : some became the sires of most patriarchal families, and rose to be Governors—vwitness Baron Saint Cas‘in in Acadia ; others obtained grants of seignories, and built forts at Ste. Therese, at Chambly, at Sorel, —such as Col. de Sallieres, Captains de Chambly anû de Sorel. Capt. Du Gue married mademoiselle Moyen, of Goose Island, (county of Montmagny.) whose island home had been burned and relatives tortured by the [roquois in 1653; whilst others, either returned to France, or made lovematches or marriages de convenance with Canadian heiresses,

1 The battle of St. Gothard, in Hungary, &c.

2 “The beneficial manner in which this infusion of superior blood, operated on the education and domestic manners of the colonists, previously devoted to the humblest occupations of trade, may be easily imagined. Liberal tastes were encouraged, sentiments of honor and generosity pervaded the highest rank in society, the influence of which was speedily felt through every class of the inhabitants

‘‘ Measures were adopted to infuse a more liberal spirit in the colony, to raise the quality and character of the settlers, and to give a higher tone to society. The King (Louis XIV) took a most judicious method to accomplish this. He resolved to confer upon the Government à degree of comparative splendor, worthy of the great nation of which it was a dependency. In 1664, he sent out to Quebec the most brilliant emigration that had ever sailed from France for the New World. 1t consisted of a Viceroy, à Governor-(General, an Intendant and other necessary officers of the civil Government, the régiment de Carignan, commanded by Colonel de Sallières, and officered by sixty or seventy French gentlemen, most of whom were connected with the noblesse. Many of these gentlemen settled in the Province, and, having obtained concessions of the waste lands, became the noblesse of the colony, and were the ancestors of the best French families of the present day.”—/Zaœwtins" Ne Iistorical Picture of Quebec.

viz.: Capts. Saint Ours, De Berthier, De Contrecœur, La Valtrie,

De Meloises, Tarieu De la Perade, De la Fouille, Maximin, Lobiau, Petit, Rougemont, Traversy, De la Motte, La Combe, De Verchères, &kc. Several of the domains owned by those military swells are yet in the possession of their descendants.

To trace step by step the career of the descendants of these stalwart colonists would take us much further than the limits of these historical jottings -will permit. À compendious work, of some six hundred pages, t'is said, by Abbé Daniel, a French ecclesiastic of the Sulpician Seminary of Montreal, contains a mass of material, on these families which, some day or other, may he wrought into shape.t

Fathers Le Clercq and Charlevoix testify in glowing terms to to the morality, frugality, bodily strenth, and courage of the first settlers.

«As to bravery,» adds M. Aubert, 5 «even, if as Frenchmen, il was not theirs by birthright, the mode of dealing which in warfare they have to emplov towards the Iroquois and other savages, who generally roast alive their prisoners, with incredible tortures, compels the French to look on death in battle as preferable to being captured alive ; they, therefore, fight like desperate men, and with very great indifference to life.»

That our French ancestors weré brave, hardy, devoted to their adopted country, and moral in their conduct, history abundantly proves ; that they considered themselves of goodly stock and ancient descent, seems beyond a doubt; that their proud monarch, Louis XIV. thought the same, abundantly appears, by his own assertion, that « New France contained more of the best blood of Old France than all the other numercus French colonies of the day put together. »

We regret that this portion of our subject should come to a close without having an opportunity of referring to the census tables kept under French rule in Canada, and which are now to be found in the Parliamentary Library at Ottawa.

In the first portion of this sketch, it was stated that the military element occupied a prominent position in the component parts of our nationality. Let us then, at one bound, overleap a century, and see what is going on in 1764, when the celebrated 78th Regiment, Œ- ’sHighlanders,» were disbanded.These 78thmenspread over th + ,gth and breadth of the land. Some attracted, no doubt, by the

4 Histoire des Principales Familles Françaises du Canada. Montréal : Eustbe Nénécal ; 1868.

5 Mémoire par M. Aubert.

ltrie, name, settled in (New Scotland): Nova Scotia; someremained inthe imin, parishes round Quebec. The Fraser Clan alone, with its offshoots e, De at Murray Bay, Fraserville (Témiscousta), St. André, St. Thomas, itary Beaumont, Québec, Montréal, Nova Scotia, &c., has attained to such dimensions that an enterprising lescendant, the Hon. John > stal- Fraser de Berry, L. G., thought sericusly of reconstructing the its of clan last winter—tartans, claymore, philibeg, kilts, and all, — rk, of January frosts to the contrary notwithstanding. Several of Wolfe’s eccle- followers had also become Canadian landholders, viz., General ass Of James Murray, the distinguished owner of Belmont, on the St. ay he Foy Road, Québec,—which on his return to England, passed over by purchase to one of his officers, Col. Henry Galdwell, who bems to came the founder of a Canadian family of note, and was the Le first father of Sir John Caldwell. Another of Gen. Wolfe’s officers, Maj. Samuel Holland, purchased an adjoining domain, of some nen, il three hundred acres, which to this day is known as Holland's n war- Farm ; whilst another again, Major Moses Hazen, settled at St. vages, John's, near Montreal, and joined Brigadier-Gen. Montgomery in le tor- his unsuccessful attempt to conquer Canada in 1775. In 1762, we ferable also find Meadow Bank, ? on the St. Louis Road, near Quebec. e men, owned by Hon. Hector Theophilus G'amahe, afterwards Lieut.- Governor.

o their The idea pervading the minds of these distinguished men dantly seems to have been, that those beautiful sites selected by them k and would increase rapidly in value, by the introduction of British march, rule in Canada. and become, in time, mines of wealth, or happy 1s OWN homes for their children. But British rule, with British freedom Lood of left out, did but little, either for Canadian soil or Canadians, of the during the dark period which began in 1759 and closed in 1841. About this time, Lord Sydenham, a most astute politician and e toa ruler, with the view of anglifying the French Canadians, united census the Lower to the Upper Province, hoping bv the preponderance 10w to

of the English element in both Provinces, to swamp and kill out that nationality which would not die. The new constitution had a most seductive name, «Self-Government » It was readily accepted, as it contained by implication, with much that was evil, a principle of life, —equality to all races.

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Emigration from France mostly ceased during that period. One-half of the French families of wealth, who could sell their

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lands, left Canada in 1760-1-2,1 rather than live under British rule; though several again returned to Canada from France about 1783 ; one of our most respected French families, that of Col. Dambourges,? for instance, emigrated to Canada after the conquest. The emigration however, was in the main British (until, we may say, the year 1810)—of men of means often, sometimes of men of superior education.

The closing of the Baltic to english ships during Napoleon's continental wars, by creating a demand for Canada's valuable woods, opened up new fields of enterprise. Canadian oak and pine became 50 sought after that several english merchants established themselves at Quebec about 1810. Thus in this very year, one week after the death of the noted Col. Henry Caldwell, assistant Quarter Master to General Wolfe, arrived at Quebec William , Price, Esq., the respected Laird of Wolfe’s Field—better known from his extensive lumber establishments and mills in the Lower St. Lawrence and in the Saguenay District as The King of the Saguenay : several other large Canadian Timber Firms trace to

that period their origin. To the first Napoleon’s continental blo- L cade and closing of the Baltic, we owe our immense exportation Y business — which for Quebec for half a century became so \ vast as to overshadow all other commercial or manufacturing I enterprise., Surrounded with water powers—with one of the finest ports in the world, frequented annually by some fifteen hundred v ocean ships and steamers, teeming with anumerous population, as ’ yet remunerated by low wages, Quebec has in herself, the means 0 of becoming as great as prosperous by her manufactures, as she ct was once by her exportation of the wealth of the forest when: se | ever her capitalists wake up to the fact.

| A most noticeable element of prosperity and refinement, was added to our population by the war of Independence,—the United ne impire Loyalists. Some 10,000 staunch adherents to the House of Hanover, came across our border, or penetrated by ships to th 1 à New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Though Western Canada be- JT nefitted the most by the exodus from the late British Provinces, " | Eastern Canada got her good share. These brave men had sacri- th | ficed fortune and position to consistency. and their allegiance to Rue ma | 1 Another migration to France, of the educated and wealthy class, took place tra in 1763, on the conclusion of the Treaty of Paris (10 febrüary 1863) which ceded Qu | Canada to England. ott the : 2 Dambourges’ heroic conduct in repelling with Capt. Nairn, the attack of wh ' Arnold’s soldiers, at Sault-au-Matelot street, Quebec, 31st Dec. 1775—mérited No

for him more than empty compliments ; as brave as DeSalaberry, his heroism was as ill as requited.

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King George; and King George, as a good and paternal sovereign, indemnified them by pensions, land grants, honors, and emoluments, tothe best of the ability of the English exchequer. Of such were the Ogdens, Holts, Sewells, Smiths, Gambles, Andersons, Jones, Robinsons, Baldwins, Sir James McCauley, Hon. John Wilson, John Strachan, Captain James Dettrick, Roger Bates, Joseph Brant, Hon. John Stewart, Hon. Samuel Crane, Hon. George Grookshank, Sir Joseph Brook, Hon. James Crooks, Dr. Schofield, Hon.John McDonald, Thomas Merritt, Hon. Henry Ruttan, Hon. John Elmeslev, Chief Justice ; Ion. Hector Russell, Adminstrator; Hon. Henry Allcock, Chief Justice; John White, Atty.-Ceneral ; Mrs. Secord ; Colonel Clark, Hon, W.H. Merritt, and Philemon Wright; all sons or descendants or connections of the glorious 10,000, who were aptly enough, at one time, denominated by Upper Ganadians, «The Founders of Western prosperity.» To follow them in their after fortunes, and describe their brilliant careers, would take us bevond the scope of this paper.

We next have to note an appreciable increase to our population, by the intermarriages of the oflicers and men of the De Watteville and Meuron Regiments, ! disbanded in Canada, after the war Of 1812. The descendants of the De Montenachs, Labrucres, Dufresnes, D'Orsonnens, and others, are amongst us to this day.

To statists, such as our Auditor-General, and his able assistants. we shall leave the congenial task of fixing, with the census tables before them, the exact ratio of the foreign element, settling of late years in our midst; prominent among which must of

course appear the? Celtic race, whose prolific nature does not seem to suffer in ‘he least from its national grievances ; and next

1 These regiments, we think, had been formed in England from French ofticers and soldiers detained as prisoners of war, and who had been granted their liberty, on agreeing to serve against all the ennemies of England, except their own country —France. On the breaking out of the war of 1812, they were sent out to fight the armies of the United States.

2 We have here strangely united together all the original elements of the British race. We have the Celt, with his traditions of ‘‘ good King Arthur” from whom, through her ancient British ancestors Her Gracious Majesty may claim descent ; we have the Saxon or Teutonic element, and in Quebec we have a race that have come from Normandy and Brittany, the one the land of the Northerner or Normans, and the other inhabited by'a Celtic race, cherishing the ancient British traditions of King Arthur and his twelve companions. The Norman French of Quebec may well feel proud when they remember that they can claim what no other portion of the Empire can assert-—that they are governed by a monarch of their own race, who holds her sceptre as the heir of Rollo, the norman sea-king who first led their ancestors forth from the forests of the North to the plains of Normandy.

The men of the North and then place in History,” « Lecture by R. @. Haliburton, F. S. À.

the canny Scot, with whom in the great race of wordly wealth few indeed can keep pace.

Some, however, of the best and fairest of our population, and we say it with a feeling akin to regret, we are liable to lose, and do lose, by causes beyond the control of legislators : we allude to that not inconsiderable portion which annually carries to other climes its youth, its freshness, its refinement owing to that unaccountable and perverse hankering of British officers to rob Canada of her brightest gems,—her fair daughters. Does this necessarily prove that the beauty, maaners, and accomplishments of the colonial lass are superior to those of her English sister ; or, is the Canadian Belle chiefly sought for in marriage, as being a species of «forbidden fruit,» taboed by Belgravian mammas, whose « hopefuls » are serviag in the colonies. Quien sabe ?

Having, as we hope, fulfilled the promise made at the inception of this paper, of furnishing for abler pens — a few hints and suggestions, to be hereafter enlarged on, we shall close the subject with a tabular statement compiled especially for us, by à youthful lady friend, with a penchant for ethnological studies, — under the heading Military Marriages in Canada of late years; it helps to prove some of our propositions, and shows statistically to what an alarming extent the union sentiment, to use an Americanism, prevailed in the Canadas. Here goes this curious document which we fear, is very imperfect :—

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