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on by improvidence, or by having engaged in the timber business, will compel them to sell their farms, and commence again on woodlands.

Joiner s,stone- masons, saddlers, shoemake1s,ta1101s, blacksmiths, cart, mill, and wheelw1ights, and (in the seap01 ts) coopers, may always find employment. Brewers may succeed ; but in a few years there will be more encouragement for them. Butchers genel ally do well. For spinners, weavers, or those engaged 1n ma- nufactuI es, there 1s not the smallest encou1agement.

Active labouring men and women may always secure employment, kind treatment, and good wages.

To gentlemen educated for the professions of law, divinity, or physio, British America offers no flatter- g hig prospects. There are already too many lawye1s, as they are admitted as att01 neys and barristeis on se1 ving an apprenticeship of four or five years in the colonies. There are, of the Established Church, not— withstanding the astounding statement made some time ago by Archdeacon Strachan, t0 the Secretary of State for the Colonies, fully more clergymen, in proportion to the members of the church, than in England. The members of the Kirk of Scotland, as soon as a sufficient number to support a clergyman settle Within a reasonable distance of each other, generally send f01 a minister to Scotland. Anti- burghers, Baptists, and Methodists, have preachers in evely settlement Where they have membeis, or can gain hearers. The Roman Catholic Church is re- spectably established—its clergy well supported ; and no class interferes less with other persuasions than