§ In answer to Mr. MONSELL,
§ MR. HAWESstated, that the question which had formerly been put to him on the subject of the tax on emigrants related entirely to the suggestion which his noble Friend the Secretary for the Colonies sent out to the Canadian Legislature, with a view to a Passengers' Bill being introduced into the Assembly there. Since that, accounts had been received, he believed he might say, of the passing of an Act imposing a much higher tax than formerly, namely, 10s. a head, on all emigrants arriving in Canada, coupled with certain other very severe and stringent provisions. That Act, however, had not yet been received in this country; and until it was formally communicated to us in the shape of an Act, it was impossible to say how far a mitigation of its provisions could be suggested. In the present state of that province, however, in reference to emigration, and the experience of the last year, when 90,000 emigrants left this country for Canada, of whom 5,000 died on the voyage, and 10,000 after landing, entailing an expense 1203 of nearly 100,000l. to provide for the destitute on their landing, he could not hold out any hope to his hon. Friend that the Act would he disallowed.