NOTE C, page 28. THIS word, in its appropriate meaning, denotes lands formed by a long, continual and gradual alluvion of a river. Such lands are universally formed in rivers conveying slime, whenever sufficient space is furnished for their reception, and where falls, straight points of land, or any other causes, check the current; on the contrary, whenever the current is uniform, the water at all times pure, or the banks high and sufficiently near each other, and sufficiently firm merely to yield a passage to the stream, intervals are not and cannot be formed.-Dwight's Travels. Dugald Stewart remarks that this word, borrowed from the phraseology of a camp, inter vallos spatium, the space between the palisades, was successively used, first, to express a limited portion of longitudinal extension generally, and afterwards limited portions of time; and adds, "the same word has passed into our language, and it is not a little remarkable, that it is now so exclusively appropriated to time, that, to speak of the interval between two places, would be considered a mode of expression not agreeable to common use." The application of the word to time, arising from its application to space, is very remarkable in its musical acceptation. NOTE D, pages 73, 83. "It has been often remarked," says Buchette, with great truth, that history becomes deficient in interest in times of peace, and that the annalist finds ample materials for comment in the sanguinary details of war." He marks the following as among the most important periods of the history of Canada since the war : 1815 Impeachment of Chief-Justice Sewell and Monk by House of Assembly. 1816 Impeachment of Judge Foucher by House of Assembly. 1818 Commencement of financial difficulties under Government of the Duke of Richmond. 1819 Its lamentable termination, by his death, from hydrophobia, which cannot be even alluded to without a tribute, however inadequate, to his extraordinary fortitude and self-control. 1820 Government of Lord Dalhousie. 1822 Union of Provinces proposed to Imperial Parliament. 1827 Dissolution of House of Assembly and prorogation of Legislature in consequence of the election of Mr. Papineau as Speaker of the Lower House. 1828 Reference of the affairs of Canada to a Committee of the House of Commons, and departure of Lord Dalhousie. Subjoined is a list of Governors, &c. of both Provinces. 1818 Duke of Richmond. 1819 Hon. James Monk (President). 1820 Sir Peregrine Maitland. Earl Dalhousie, G.C.B. 1824 Sir F. N. Burton. 1825 Earl Dalhousie. 1828 Sir James Kempt, G.C.B. 1830 Lord Aylmer. 1835 Earl of Gosford. 1838 Major-Gen. Sir John Colborne. Earl of Durham (six months). Major-Gen. Sir John Colborne. 1839 Rt. Hon. P. Thomson (afterwards Lord Sydenham). PROVINCES UNITED. 1841 Lord Sydenham. Major-Gen. Sir R. Jackson. 1842 Sir Charles Bagot. 1843 Sir Charles (afterwards Baron) Metcalfe. 1845 Earl Cathcart. 1847 Earl of Elgin and Kincardine. 1811 Major-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock (President). 1817 Hon. Samuel Smith (Administrator). 1838 Major-Gen. Sir G. Arthur. NOTE E, page 231. Report of Committee on Petition of the Church Society of the Diocese of Toronto, respecting "An Act to provide for the Sale of the Clergy Reserves, &c." "Your Committee cannot but consider that, at the time these lands were originally set apart for the support of religion, and the maintenance of public worship, it was thereby intended to create an adequate fund to form a permanent endowment for those important objects. "And when it is further borne in mind, that the members of the Church of England, inhabiting the 'state of New York, are at this day enabled to erect their churches, and station their Missionaries in every section of that extensive country, by the aid of funds provided by the pious care of a British monarch, when that country was a British colony; that the numerous Dutch population of the same state are supplied with Pastors, from ample funds provided also at an early day by the care of the government, and that in both these cases the foundation of the endowment was a grant of land, insignificant in extent and value at the time it was made, compared with the Clergy Reserves set apart in this Colony by His late Majesty King George the Third, but which grants being scrupulously preserved and respected by succeeding governments, now yield most munificent resources for the support of religion: "When your Committee also take into consideration, that our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects of Lower Canada are enjoying, at this day, the most ample endowments for their churches and colleges, arising from early grants of land, which, if alienated at the value they once bore, would have afforded but a nominal provision, wholly inadequate to the wants of the passing hour, they feel strongly the impolicy of the provisions of the act to which they have referred, and the justice of the claims set forth by the petitioners. Besides, it is stated in the petition of the Church Society, that 'the petitioners have observed with great regret, that, under the system which has been adopted for the sale of the Clergy reserves, and from the great deductions made from |