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would cause a steam-vessel to be regularly navigated between the ports in the St Lawrence and Halifax for four years. The House of Assembly of Nova Scotia voted L.1500 to encourage the same object. The Assembly of New Brunswick voted L200 the first year, and L.100 each, for two succeeding years, provided that the steam-packets should touch at Miramichi; and the Legislature of Prince Edward Island voted also a sum on similar conditions. There is good reason to believe, that if the Trans- atlantic Steam Company were only once to com- mence effective operations, the colonial legislatures would grant sums in aid of an undertaking which promises such great advantages and benefits. If the postmaster-general were applied to, it is also reason- able to suppose that he would direct contracts to be made for the company’s vessels to carry the mails, in preference to their being conveyed by the dan- gerous uncomfortable packets that sail at present between Falmouth and Halifax. The exCellent coal which abounds in Cape Breton ' and Nova Scotia, is not only admirably adapted for the furnaces of steam-engines, but it affords an advantage of which the United States are not possess- ed. This coal-has lately been carried, for the use of steam-vessels, to New York and some other places. The following extracts from a report, published at New York, will show how much that article, which the nearest points‘of our colonies afford, is appre- ciated by the Americans. “ Since the introduction of steam-boats, pine-Wood VOL. I. 2 F. '