its proper remuneration.  And then—­such at least is the general idea—­the getting together of news and the framing of intelligence is a costly operation.  I can only hope that all this is paid for by the advertisements, for I must trust that the editors do not receive less than the moderate sum above named.  At Sherbrooke we are still in Lower Canada.  Indeed, as regards distance, we are when there nearly as far removed from Upper Canada as at Quebec.  But the race of people here is very different.  The French population had made their way down into these townships before the English and American war broke out, but had not done so in great numbers.  The country was then very unapproachable, being far to the south of the St. Lawrence, and far also from-any great line of internal communication toward the Atlantic.  But, nevertheless, many settlers made their way in here from the States—­men who preferred to live under British rule, and perhaps doubted the stability of the new order of things.  They or their children have remained here since; and, as the whole country has been opened up by the railway, many others have flocked in.  Thus a better class of people than the French hold possession of the larger farms, and are on the whole doing well.  I am told that many Americans are now coming here, driven over the borders from Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont by fears of the war and the weight of taxation.  I do not think that fears of war or the paying of taxes drive many individuals away from home.  Men who would be so influenced have not the amount of foresight which would induce them to avoid such evils; or, at any rate, such fears would act slowly.  Laborers, however, will go where work is certain, where work is well paid, and where the wages to be earned will give plenty in return.  It may be that work will become scarce in the States, as it has done with those poor jewelers at Attleborough of whom we spoke, and that food will become dear.  If this be so, laborers from the States will no doubt find their way into Canada.

From Sherbrooke we went with the mails on a pair-horse wagon to Magog.  Cross-country mails are not interesting to the generality of readers, but I have a professional liking for them myself.  I have spent the best part of my life in looking after, and I hope in improving, such mails; and I always endeavor to do a stroke of work when I come across them.  I learned on this occasion that the conveyance of mails with a pair of horses, in Canada, costs little more than half what is paid for the same work in England with one horse, and something less than what is paid in Ireland, also for one horse.  But in Canada the average pace is only five miles an hour.  In Ireland it is seven, and the time is accurately kept, which does not seem to be the case in Canada.  In England the pace is eight miles an hour.  In Canada and in Ireland these conveyances carry passengers; but in England they are prohibited from