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the city in wliich tliey stand, but are calculated to be a valuable means 

 of artistic education and an inspiration of true patriotism." We also 

 add here the hope that this gift of a distinoriiished Canadian artist may 

 also call attention to the fact that Toronto has not yet erected an art 

 gallery or museum in which a permanent collection of paintings may be 

 housed, exhibitions annually held, and Canadian Art otherwise stimu- 

 lated. In this respect the enterprising capital of Ontario is behind the 

 city of Montreal, and even the village of Sackville, in New Brunswick, 

 where, it is not generally known, the only artistic building of this class 

 has been built for some years in connection with Mount Allison Univer- 

 fiity, whore a distinguished Canadian artist. Professor Hammond, gives 

 lectures in art, with the assistance of the fine collection of paintings — 

 in some respects tTie best in the Dominion — which is found on the walls 

 of the museum. 



17. Canadian Archives. 



The annual report presented to Parliament by Dr. Brynmer, the 

 archivist, contains the usual interesting material.. The calendar gives 

 an abstract of the documents relating to the Provinces of Upper and 

 Lower Canada from 1824 to 1828 for each province. An interesting 

 document in the preliminary report is a memorial for an Act of Incor- 

 poration for la company to employ steamers between Valentia, on the 

 southwest coast of Ireland, and Halifax, Quebec and New York, return- 

 ing to Valentia, thence by subsidiary lines to Bristol, the Clyde, etc. It 

 is pointed out that the first proposal for a steam service with Quebec was 

 supposed to have been made in 1851 or 1852 ; the memorial here pub- 

 lished shows that such a proposal had been made nearly thirty years 

 before. 



A letter of Wolfe's has been published for the first time in full, and 

 in the notes is a report from him on the progress of the siege, which 

 gives an account of the disaster to the Grenadiers in consequence of the 

 rash and ill-advised attack without waiting for orders. 



The notes contain (A) papers relating to the siege of Quebec ; (B) 

 correspondence relating to the formation of land companies in Canada ; 

 and (C) documents respecting the nationalizing of aliens arising largely 

 out of the disputes as to the qualifications of Barnabas Bidwell to repre- 

 sent a constituency in the provincial legislature. 



18. Tidal Surveys. 



It is with much regret that the Council have heard that the Minister 

 of Marine and Fisheries is unable, this year, to proceed vigorously with 



