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with an air of great animation, and take his seat, to the visible, Hut, of course, repressed 

 disconcertment of several honourable members, and others. 



Altogether, it was a very complete little world, this asseinbiage within the -Walls of the old 

 wooden church at Tork. There were present, so to speak, king, lords and commons ; gentle 

 and simple in due proportion, with their wives and little ones ; judges, inagistrates and gentry ; 

 representatives of governmental departments, with their employes ; legislators, merchants, 

 tradespeople, handicraftsmen ; soldiers and sailors ; a great variety of class and character. 

 AU seemed to be in harmony, real or conventional, here ; whatever feuds, faihily or political, 

 actually subsisted, no very marked symptoms thereof could be discerned in this place. But the 

 history of all was known, or supposed to bC known, to each. The relationship of each to eacli 

 was known, and how it was brought about. It was known to all how every little scar, every 

 trivial mutilation or disfigurement, that chanced to be Visible On the visage Or linib Of any one, 

 was acquired, in the performance of what boyish freak, in the execution of what practical jest, 

 in the excitement of what convivial or other occasion. Here aiid there sat one who, in obedi- 

 ence to the social code of the day, had been " Out," tot the satisfaction, as the term was, of 

 himself or another, perhaps a quondam friend— satisfaction obtained (let the age be responsible 

 for the terms we use), in more than one instance, at the cost of human life. 



X.— KING STREET : ST. JAMES'S CSURCE.— (Continued.) 



It is beginning, perhaps, to be thought preposterous that we have not as yet said anything of 

 the occupants of the pulpit and desk, in our account of this church interior. We aire just about 

 to supply this deficiency. 



Here was to be seen and heard, at his periodical visits, Charles James Stewart, the second 

 Bishop of Quebec, a man of saintly character and presence ; long a missionary in the Eastena 

 Townships of Lower Canada, before his appointment to the Episcopate. The contour of his 

 head and countenance, as well as something of his manner even, niay be gathered irom a remark 

 of the late Dr. Primrose, of Toronto, who, while a stranger, had happened to drop in at the old 

 wooden church when Bishop Stewart was preaching : "I just thought," the doctor said, "it 

 was the old King in the pulpit !" i. e., George III. 



Here Dr. OldU Stewart, formerly rector of this church, but su'bsequently of St. George's, 

 Kingston, used occasionally, when visiting Tork, to officiate — a very tali, benevolent, and fine, 

 featured ecclesiastic, with a curious delivery, characterized by unexpected elevations and 

 depressions of the voice irrespective of the matter, accompanied by long closings bf the eyes, 

 and then a sudden re-opening of the same. Whenever this preacher ascended the pulpit, one 

 member of the congregation, Mr. George Duggan, who had had, it was understood, some trivial 

 disagreement with the doctor during his incumbency in former years, was always expected, by 

 on-lookers, to rise and walk Out. And this he accordingly always did. The ihoveinent seeihed 

 a regular part of the programme of the day, and never occasioned any particular remark. 



Here Mr. Joseph Hudson ofiioiated now and then, a military chaplain, appointed at a com- 

 paratively late period to this post ; a clergyman greatly beloved by the people of the towa 

 generally, both as a preacher and as a man. He was the first officiating minister that we ever 

 saw wearing the academical hood over the ordinary vestment. 



Here during the sittings of Parliament, of which he was chaplain, Mr. Addison, of Niagara, 

 was sometimes to be heard. The Library of this scholarly divine of the old school was pre- 

 sented by him en hloe to St. Mark's Church, Niagara, of which he was incumbent. It remained 

 for some years at " Lake View," the private residence of Mr. Addison ; but during the incum- 

 bency of Dr. McMurray, it has been removed to the rectoty-house at Niagara, where it is to 

 continue, in accordance with the first rector's wUl, for the use of the incumbent for the time 

 being. It is a remarkable collection, as exhibiting the line of reading of a thoughtful and intel- 

 ligent man of the last century : many treatises and tracts of contemporary, but now defunct 

 interest, not elsewhere to be met with, probably, in Canada, are therein preserved. The 

 volumes, for the most part, retain their serviceable bindings of old pane-sided calf; but some 

 of them, unfortunately, bear marks of the havoc made by damp and vermin before their transfer 

 to their present secure jjlace of shelter. — Mr. Addison used to walk to and from Church in his. 



