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respect rendered convenient and suitable for 

 the performance of the catholic service, although 

 not sufficiently large for the increased popula- 

 tion of the city, nine-tenths of which profess 

 that faith* The interior decorations are rather 

 splendid, and display some taste in the arrange- 

 ment. The English church, in Notre Dame- 

 street, is not yet finished ; but from the design 

 and style of building it promises to become 

 one of the handsomest specimens of modern 

 architecture in the province: some delay has 

 been occasioned in its progress by the funds at 

 first appropriated being found incompetent to 

 complete it. The seminary of St. Sulpice, or 

 Montreal, is a large and commodious building 

 adjoining the cathedral ; it occupies three sides 

 of a square, 132 feet long by 90 deep, with 

 spacious gardens and ground attached, extend- 

 ing 342 feet in Notre Dame-street, and 444 

 along that called St. Francois Xavier. The 

 purpose of this foundation is the education of 

 youth through all its various departments to 

 the higher branches of philosophy and the ma- 

 thematics. It was founded about the year 

 1657? by the Abbe Quetus, who, as before men- 

 tioned, then arrived from France, commissioned 

 by the seminary of St. Sulpice at Paris to su- 

 perintend the settlement and cultivation of theiF 

 property on the island of Montreal, and also to 



