to engage about thirty tailors; lie told me the country was going to ruin, owing to free trade, and dissented entirely from my opinion, that it is because of the restrictions put by the Legislature upon the hours of labour in our factories, and the incompetency of our workmen. After he had engaged his men, I asked him how he had got on; he said, "Very satisfactorily; but they are 'all Germans;' they seem to be more painstaking, to take a greater pride in their work, and they are sober and thrifty." You will find it is so. We are not only losing our foreign trade, because other nations are taking the trade away from us, but "foreign labour" is taking away the work from our people here at home, because they are more dependable. Without the help of the Jews, I do not know what our tailors would do; they are equal to any emergency, can get any quantity clone; the more there is to do the better they like it. It seems to me that instead of being so eager to get rid of our people, it would be much wiser to train them to be equal to make in a proper manner clothes, boots, &c.; adopt means to cultivate and perfect our people in making better and cheaper the different articles the nation excels in, and by this means, secure for our working class the means of earning an honest livelihood at home. We want the industrial and technical schools to take the place of the old "apprentice" system. We want an organization in every parish for developing the stall and practical intelligence of the working class; we want facilities in every parish to enable our young people to obtain sound instruction, theoretically and practically, that will make the glen good workmen, the women good housewives. We want a greater faith in the belief "that there is