REMARKS ON EMIGRATION. 455 on by improvidence, or by having engaged in the timber business, will compel them to sell their farms, and commence again on woodlands. Joiners, stone-masons, saddlers, shoemakers, tailors, blacksmiths, cart, mill, and wheelwrights, and (in the seaports) coopers, may always find employment. Brewers may succeed ; bvit in a few years there will be more encouragement for them. Butchers generally do well. For spinners, weavers, or those engaged in ma¬ nufactures, there is not the smallest encouragement. Active labouring men and women may always secure employment, kind treatment, and good wages. To gentlemen educated for the professions of law,^ divinity, or physic, offers no flatter-] ing prospects. There are already too many lawyers, '• as they are admitted as attorneys and barristers on serving an apprenticeship of four or five years in the colonies. There are, of the Established Church, not¬ withstanding the astounding statement made some time ago by Archdeacon Strachan, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, fully more clergymen, in proportion to the members of the church, than in England . The members of the Kirk of Scotland , as soon as a sufficient number to support a clergyman settle within a reasonable distance of each other, generally send for a minister to Scotland . Anti- burghers, Baptists, and Methodists, have preachers in every settlement where they have members, or can gain hearers. The Roman Catholic Church is re¬ spectably established—its clergy well supported ; and no class interferes less with other persuasions than