"On board the Conrad and the Birman were 518 persons from Mull and
Tyree, sent out by his grace the Duke of -----, who provided them
with a free passage to Montreal, where on arrival they presented the
same appearance of destitution as those from South Uist, sent out by
Colonel -----, that is, 'entirely destitute of money and
provisions.'"

Numbers of these people perished, as we are told, of disease and want
of food in the winter which followed their arrival in Canada; and that
such would have been the case might naturally have been anticipated by
those who exported them.

The wretched cotters who are being everywhere expelled from the land
are forced to take refuge in cities and towns, precisely as we see now
to be the case in Ireland. "In Glasgow," says Mr. Thornton--

"There are nearly 30,000 poor Highlanders, most of them living in a
state of misery, which shows how dreadful must have been the
privations to which such misery is preferred. Such of them as are
able-bodied obtain employment without much difficulty, and may not
perhaps have much reason to complain of deficiency of the first
requisites of life; but the quarter they inhabit is described as
enclosing a larger amount of filth, crime, misery, and disease, than
could have been supposed to exist in one spot in any civilized
country. It consists of long lanes called 'wynds,' so narrow that a
cart could scarcely pass through them, opening upon 'closes,' or
courts, about 15 or 20 feet square, round which the houses, mostly
three stories high, are built, and in the centre of which is a
dunghill. The houses are occupied indiscriminately by labourers of
the lowest class, thieves, and prostitutes, and every apartment is