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132 has, by his industry and economy, accumulated 100,000 dollars in property. He has now retired from business and his three sons are studying for the medical profession. I am exceedingly happy to add, that few men are more respected than he, not because of his wealth only, but for his piety also. Mr. M. owns two lines of omnibuses, and horses and carriages. Dr. T., mentioned above, has quite a respectable drug store, in one of the principal streets, which no gentleman of his profession would feel disgraced to enter. An ice merchant, who furnishes hotels, public houses, and private families, during summer with ice, has a farm under good cultivation. His son-in-law has on the same farm, a two-story frame house, furnished as well inside as it is finished outside.

The winters are long and intensely cold in Canada, during which but little out door work can be done, which causes a deal of suffering among the poor; to remedy this, to some extent, soup houses are established, from which they can obtain coal, wood, bread, and soup. In the winter of 1858, only one coloured family made application for assistance. However, we must take this fact into consideration, that the necessities of this class are, to some extent, supplied by a few benevolent friends, who interest themselves in their behalf, but not sufficiently to prevent numbers of them from applying for assistance from the Town Fund. Many too would rather,