"It'll Be A Good Spec When Congress Buys These Colonies; Some Of Our Ten-Horse Power Chaps Will Come Down, And, Before You Could Whistle 'Yankee Doodle,' We'll Have A Canal To Bay Varte, With A Town As Big As Newhaven At Each End.

The Blue Noses will look kinder streaked then, I guess." The New- Brunswicker retorted, with some fierceness, that the

Handful of British troops at Fredericton could "chaw up" the whole American army; and the conversation continued for some time longer in the same boastful and exaggerated strain on each side, but the above is a specimen of colonial arrogance and American conceit.

The population of New Brunswick in 1851 was 193,800; but it is now over 210,000, and will likely increase rapidly, should the contemplated extension of the railway system to the province ever take place; as in that case the route to both the Canadas by the port of St. John will probably supersede every other. The spacious harbour of St. John has a sufficient depth of water for vessels of the largest class, and its tide- fall of about 25 feet effectually prevents it from being frozen in the winter.

The timber trade is a most important source of wealth to the colony - the timber floated down the St. John alone, in the season of 1852, was of the value of 405,208l. sterling. The saw-mills, of which by the last census there were 584, gave employment to 4302 hands.

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