The Morning Chronicle publishes and puffs a series of letters
from " A North American Traveller," who undertakes to give an original and valuable account of the British possessions in North America. We have been at the pains to wade through these communications ; and any thing more trashy we never read. Vulgar in thought and ex- pressitai, dull and conceited, the writer reminds us of the compilers of fifth.rate Continental road-books, never consulted but for names of places and the character of inns. Perhaps as the series proceeds, and the tourist enters the land-jobbing region, he may exhibit more spirit and purpose. In the introductory epistle he gives an inkling of his real object-
"In the beautiful and productive country and (to me) fine climate of Upper Canada, as well as in the eastern townships of the Lower Province, there ate hundreds of thousand. of acres of the richest land in the world to be had for a few shillings per acre ! Surely, surely, the people of Great Britain, especially the industrious poor, or farmers who wish to emigrate with small means, should take an interest in such a colony."
Sweet innocent ! Pity that thy speculation, and the fond hopes of thy employers, should be dashed by the growing knowledge of capital. ists in and emigrants from this country, that abundance of land to be had for a few shillings an acre may be the cause of a colony's ruin, not of its prosperity.
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