Circumstances. change people's ideas a good deal. Lord Dufferin as
an English landlord would, we suppose, apart from his personal graciousness of character, be quite ready to hang up Mr. Arch, or Mr. Mitchell, or anybody else who proposed to transport a few parishes, or perhaps half a county, of English. labourers to Canada or the Union, but Lord Dufferin as Viceroy of Canada has very different ideas. He invited Mr. Arch and his companion, Mr. Clayden, to dinner, gave him an entertain- ment at which 1,700 people were present, and above all, gave him letters of recommendation to all his subordinates throughout the country. Canada, especially Lower Canada, appears to have impressed Mr. Arch mightily, though he is severe on the aluttieh farming always apparent in a new country; but he has gone into the interior, to see what the "good land " is like, and send the
report home. There is no doubt whatever that, although his object has been to keep the people here, not to export them, his first report will send them out in thousands from the South, for when once a family succeeds, the village always empties itself— and lie makes his promises moderate, dwelling not on this or that case of exceptional prosperity, but on the long lines of pleasant cottages, with thirty acres round them, which he found in Lower Canada, and which seem to have excited him to enthusiasm.
