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mansion of the late Sir James Stuart, Bart. This eminent 

 jurist closed there his career in 1853. The house was 

 afterward bought by his nephew, the late Judge of 

 Vice- Admiralty, George Okill Stuart, who expired in 

 it, in April, 1884. At the death of Judge Geo. Okill 

 Stuart, this spacious homestead, was purchased in 1894 

 by Mr. Wm. McPherson, son of Sir David McPherson. 



One would imagine the street was predestined to be 

 the head-quarters of our ermined sages, ever since the 

 Court of La Stfnechausstfe sat about 1660, at the eastern 

 end in a stately building, since removed. On, or near, 

 the site now stands the dwelling and study of James 

 Dunbar, Q. C. Let us try and name some of these 

 eminent gentlemen of the long robe : Judges Lotbiniere, 

 Mabane, Monk, Dunn, Elmsley, Sewell, Rene Edouard 

 Caron, (subsequently a respected Lieutenant-Governor), 

 Van Felson, Jos. N. Bosse, Tessier, Bona venture Caron, 

 Guillaume Pelletier, G. Bosse, Routhier, Duval, Tasche- 

 reau, Fiset, Maguire, La Rue, Cremazie, Chauveau. The 

 sons of Esculapius, have of late invaded the locality, 

 without, however, any perceptible increase in the death 

 rate ! Some barristers have held out in that street for 

 more than a half century. Sir 1ST. F. Belleau occupies 

 still the house he acquired in 1835. One land mark 

 of our Republican neighbors will some day or other 

 disappear, cooper Gobert's little shop, where were laid 

 out, on Sunday, 31st December, 1775, Richard Mont- 

 gomery's stiffened remains brought in from Pres-de- 

 Ville. Two handsome new structures now replace the 

 Montgomery house, indicated by an inscription. 



There stands solitary, half- lit up by the departing 

 orbofday,aroomy, old, not very ornate edifice, familiar 

 to you. In rear is seen from the street the lofty, solid 

 wall of historic Mount Carmel ; Judge Geo. J. Irvine's 

 dainty floral walks, and some lith Lombardy poplars, 

 occupy the place where of yore was erected Dupont de 

 Xeuvilie's wind-mill and cavalier. No trace now of 

 the frowning, three-gun battery, in position in October, 



