CANADA.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 289, 27 July 1860, Page 3

CANADA.

Quebec, May 4.—The navigation has at length opened, and we are again placed in direct communication with Europe. The steamer United Kingdom—the first arrival of the season —arrived on Saturday, in fourteen days from Glasgow, bringing about a hundred passengers, followed on Tuesday by the North Briton, of our own line, as we are prone to style the vessels composing the Canadian line. She had nearly three hundred emigrants on board. Neither ship reports having seen anything of the spring fleet, which is now due at this port —a portion of it being six weeks out. The detention is believed to be attributable to the circumstance of the Belleisle Straits being partially blocked up with field ice—through which ft would be neither easy nor politic for the sailing craft to venture at this'early date. We are told that an extensive emigration is setting in from Europe this year, by way of the St. Lawrence, and if we may take as a sample the number and class of those who came by the abovementioned steamers, the emigration statistics for 1860 will compare favorably with those of any year since 1847. ....■■ In parliament much has been done to push business through, and on the government days of the week the house meets three times a day. The estimates are going through without much real discussion, and the hope is entertained that parliament will adjourn on or about the 20th, in order to meet the Prince of Wales upon his arrival, to present an address, as originally mooted would be the case.,. »■.■••' : Quebec is about to witness the exciting scene of a new election —the three unseated members again to present themselves to their constituencies. You may recollect that the former election was declared null and void in consequence of several thousand fictitious votes having been recorded. One of these members, the Hon. Charles Alleyn, has for some time filled the important post of Secretary to the Province, and now that the electoral division principle has been made law, he for one relies upon being returned again by the Irish population. He remains at his post en attendant. ■■■■'■■, A superannuation fund is on the point of being introduced into the civil service of Canada, which resembles in mpstparticulars that already found to answer so well in England. The officers and clerks of the different departments have held meetings on thesubject,andexpressed themselves highly pleased with the arrangement —one of the chief points being that the Government will support the fund with about 30j000 dollars per annum for seven years, so as to give it a proper footing. Here the news of the terrific encounter between Heenan and Sayers has been received with anything but satisfaction. On the other side of the border, however, I see that on; the strength of it two desperate pugilistic recontres have taken place and, curiously enough^ both were drawn. — Correspondent London Daily News. . ....

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