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143 business, much more than any other coloured gentleman in the town: he is therefore very much respected by them. He lives in a neat well-furnished brick house. Rev. W. Troy, my colleague and fellow labourer among this class, owns property in this town, also a farm in the country. Here is mainly his field of labour, where he is now erecting a chapel with a school for their benefit. The Lord has abundantly blessed his humble efforts in bringing many to a knowledge of the Truth as it is in Christ Jesus. He is the leading man among them.—Mr. B. has been employed at the railway station for four or five years. He has not been absent a single day, unless prevented by sickness. By his steady habits and faithfulness to labour, he has won for himself a high respectability. Mr. Lewis Clark, who was her Majesty's Mail Carrier from Windsor, across the river to Detroit, in the State of Michigan, is a Fugitive Slave, from the State of Kentucky, but to the disappointment of his employers in the Post Office, he was necessitated to give up that useful and respectable occupation. His former master having been informed of his locality and avocation, notwithstanding it had been several years since he left Kentucky, pursued him to the very borders of Canada, watching his return with the Mail in the city of Detroit, on the States side, anxious to lay violent hands on the poor man, to bind him in chains, and take him into