General P. L. MacDougall gives his experience derived from an acquaintance with Canada of over forty years. His father acquired there a tract of wild land, the population of which, when he first knew it, consisted of squatters, very few and far between. "The possession of this land first turned my attention to emigration, both as a means of colonizing and for relieving the plethora of our home population. I was thus enabled to try an experiment in connexion with emigration in which I was fairly successful, and the place which, when I first knew it, was simply a wilderness of forest, is now a flourishing settlement, having for its nucleus a small town that has grown up round the station of the railway since constructed, and passing through the property. My first building was a house for my agent, an old brother officer who had fallen on evil times owing to unfortunate speculation. My second building was a church. In these commercial days the first question asked of any scheme for promoting the welfare of the poor, whether in providing improved dwellings at home or a more comfortable existence abroad, is, Will it pay? And quite apart from its moral influences, my church proved commercially an excellent investment, in attracting settlers who would not have been attracted without it, and in retaining others who would not otherwise have remained. Believing then, as now, that emigration may be attracted, but that any attempt to force it must result in disappointment, I was careful not to raise undue expectations by highly-coloured accounts of the advantages of the property, and I should never have thought of adopting the plan favoured by Lord Carnarvon, of bringing out poor families at my own expense in the expectation that the outlay would be