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formed ; but the congregation was very small. In its 

 ecclesiastical concerns, the city appears to be in a very 

 prosperous and thriving condition. A new Roman 

 CathoHc cathedral, and a palace for the bishop, have been 

 of late years erected. The cathedral is chiefly remark- 

 able for its size and internal capacity. It is so fitted up 

 with pews as to afford sitting-room for ten thousand 

 people ! New churches belonging to other denominations 

 also, and all handsome, are springing up in various well- 

 selected situations. 



As I went along the streets, evidences of the prevail- 

 ing political excitement presented themselves every- 

 where. Among others was a large placard on the walls, 

 headed " Rebellion Rewarded," and containing extracts 

 from the speeches of Lords Stanley and Lyndhurst in 

 the House of Lords, on the subject of the recent Com- 

 pensation Bill. I could not help regretting that opinions 

 should have been expressed by influential men in the 

 Home legislature, which those who were now declaring 

 themselves enemies of British connection should be able 

 to quote with something like a show of reason, in 

 justification of their illegal violence. 



I visited the ruins of the Parliament House. It had 

 been a fine massive building, constructed of the blue 

 Trenton limestone, which is much employed as a building 

 stone in Montreal. The outer walls were still standing ; 

 but though massively built, it appeared to be entirely 

 incapable of repair. It is a defect of this stone, other- 

 wise excellent for building purposes, that the united 

 action of fire and water upon it causes it to crack, and 

 fly into numberless splinters. Hence the walls of the 

 Parliament House, and those of a large hotel lately 

 burned down in the city, are shattered and splintered in 

 every direction. This is an evil to which walls of brick, 

 sandstone, granite, or hardened slate, are not so subject. 



Monday^ Sept. 24. — The wind was blowing cold this 



