280 NOTES TO BOOK Ill.

NOTE B, page 217.

“ IT is a very general custom at Newfoundland for the labouring classes and others, in the winter season, as a compliment to the clergyman, to bring him from the interior a quantity of wood or fuel. The friends of the clergyman of the established church at Saint John’s, some short time ago, proposed what is there called a ‘ general haul of wood’ for his benefit. I had the gratification of hearing the good, pious, and venerable bishop of the Roman Catho- lic church address his numerous congregation, and request of them that they would join in the haul of wood, and that their general exertions, in behalf of his brother of the established church, would be more gratifying than any thing they could do for himself. On the day of the haul, it was most gratifying to observe the Roman Catholics, united with their brethren of every other religious per- suasion, moving immense masses of wood in the direction of the house of the worthy minister. The great body of the working people were Irish, or their immediate descendants ; and I can assure your lordship, that it warmed my heart, though the mercury was fifteen degrees below zero, to observe the perspiration floating down their manly brows, whilst vying with the people of other countries, and other religions, as to who should pay the greatest compliment to the respected individual. The quantity of wood hauled out by the united efiorts of the people was great indeed ; but it would be an act of injustice to the individual for whose nominal benefit this haul was made, not to state that it was soon conveyed from his residence to warm the cheerless cottages of the poor, the sick, the Widow, and the orphan.”—Mr Morris's Letter to Lord Bexley.

NOTE C, page 250.

WERE it not for the sailors who are bred in the United States fishing vessels, that nation never could man a fleet; and Mr de Roos’s conclusions would have been correct, had we not given the Americans a participation in our fisheries. It is well known, that during the last war, the Americans never could have sent their