Pastoral countries, such as the territory of Uruguay, New South Wales, Van Dieman's Land, and South Africa, have this great advantage over arable countries that their resources can be developed much more rapidly, with a much smaller amount of labour, and with much less capital. This is one of the causes of the sudden rise of the trade with Australia, and it is also a considerable cause of the rapid development of the prosperity of Monte Video. Its power of producing hides, wool, tallow, and provisions is unlimited, by any thing except the deficient numbers of its population; and whilst on this subject, I may mention that Monte Video is the only one of all the Republics formed out of the ancient possessions of Spain which has been sufficiently well governed to attract to its shores any considerable number of emigrants from Europe. It will be seen from the following table extracted from the books of the Custom House at Monte Video, that not less than 33,607 emigrants arrived in that port between November, 1835, and December, 1842:-- _Table made from the books at the Sala de Comercio of the number of passengers who arrived at Monte Video from Nov. 1835 inclusive, to the end of 1842._ KEY: A: Basques, from both sides of the Pyrenees. B: Frenchmen. C: Gallicians. D: Catalanes. E: Spaniards from Cadiz, &c. F: Genoese. G: Canarios. H: Portuguese and Brazilians. I: Miscellaneous. J: Total. ----+-------+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+-----+-----+----- | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J ----+-------+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+-----+-----+----- 1836| 1116 | 56 | ... | 94 | 112 | 365 | 744 | 782 | 331 | 3600 ----+-------+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+-----+-----+----- 1837| 348 | 72 | 101 | 485 | 310 | 175 | 949 | 454 | 223 | 3117 ----+-------+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+-----+-----+----- 1838| 1939 | 71 | 85 | 264 | 284 | 645 | 2320 | 294 | 177 | 6079 ----+-------+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+-----+-----+----- 1839| 233 | 69 | 141 | 64 | 53 | 202 | ... | 160 | 111 | 1033 ----+-------+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+-----+-----+----- 1840| 1107 | 80 | 106 | 107 | 58 | 727 | ... | 316 | 122 | 2623 ----+-------+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+-----+-----+----- 1841| 3965 | 121 | 408 | 104 | 92 | 2552 | 365 | 101 | 111 | 7819 ----+-------+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+-----+-----+----- 1842| 4968 | 227 | 502 | 143 | 293 | 2123 | 774 | 140 | 166 | 9336 ====+=======+=====+=====+=====+=====+======+======+=====+=====+===== | 13676 | 696 |1343 |1261 |1202 | 6789 | 5152 |2247 |1241 |33607 ----+-------+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+-----+-----+-----