TO THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, CANADA. TENANT FARMERS-Improved Farms, with Dwellings and Farm Buildings, can be purchased at from £4 to 10 stg. per Acre, or for the amount required to carry on a leased farm in Great Britain. CAPITALISTS-Eight per cent. can easily be obtained for money, on first-class security. MECHANICS, FARM LABOURERS, SERVANT GIRLS-Employment can readily be obtained at good wages. FREE GRANT OF 200 ACRES Of Land can be obtained, on condition of settlement, by every head of a family having children under 18 years of age; and any person over 18 years of age can obtain a FREE GRANT OF 100 ACRES on condition of settlement. These lands are protected from seizure for any debt incurred before the issue of the Patent, and for 20 years after its issue, by a "HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION ACT." Emigrants, on their arrival at Quebec, should communicate with the Agent for the Province of Ontario, MR. H. A. MACLAURIN, who attends all Vessels coming into port. ASSISTED PASSAGES. THE GOVERNMENT OF ONTARIO will pay to every Adult, AGRICULTURAL OR FARM LABOURER, OR FEMALE DOMESTIC SERVANT, emigrating to the Province of Ontario, and paying his or her own passage, or the passage of his or her family, the sum of Six Dollars (£1. 4s. 8d stg), on the following conditions : 1st. Each such Emigrant must be approved by an Ontario Government Emigration Agent, and furnished by such Agent with a certificate entitling such Emigrant at the end of three months residence in the Province, to the Refund Bonus of Six Dollars. 2nd. Before such Refund Certificate is delivered to an Emigrant, the passenger warrant or ticket must be produced for the endorsement thereon of the issuing of such Certificate, by the Agent issuing it. 3rd. The Agent issuing the Certificate must be satisfied that the Emigrant is of good character, and of the Agricultural or Farm Labouring Class, or a Female Domestic Servant. Of Professional men, Book keepers, Clerks and Shopmen, the Province has enough already and to spare. 4th. The Immigrant, or the party in charge of assisted Immigrants, on landing at Quebec, must present the endorsed certificate to the Immigration Agent for the Province of Ontario, at his Office at Quebec, who will again indorse the certificate, and give the Emigrant such advice and instruction as may be required. 5th. The Immigrant having reached the Agency in the Province of Ontario nearest to his or her intended destination, will then be provided for by the Local Agent, and sent by free pass or otherwise where employment is to be had. 6th. At any time after three months from the date of the endorsement of the certificate at Quebec, and upon proof being furnished and endorsed upon such certificate (which certificate must be presented in person or sent by mail to this Department), that the Immigrant has, during the interval, been and still is a settler in the Province, the Government of Ontario will pay to the individual entitled to the same, the sum of six dollars per statute adult (12 years). 7th. Parties in Ontario desiring to send money home to bring out or assist their friends to immigrate, or to bring other persons as Immigrants to Ontario, can do so through this Department without danger of loss. 8th. Full information can be had on the subject of Immigration to Ontario, on application to Sydney Robjohns, 120 Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London; C. W. Colter, Alexander Buildings, James Street, Liverpool; Peter Byrne, 54 York Street, Glasgow ; C. J. Sheil, 19 Eden Quay, Dublin; Jeremiah Murphy, Cork; T. A. Pearse, Stonehouse, Plymouth; and David Spence, Secretary of the Department of Immigration, Toronto. BY ORDER. DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION, ONTARIO, DAVID SPENCE, Secretary. Toronto, September, 1874. THE Toronto Fur Manufacturing Company Will no doubt be a welcome addition to the industries of the City, and will supply a want long felt by WESTERN MERCHANTS. Every department in the Fur line will be embraced in its operation; dressing, dyeing, plucking, &c., hitherto only attempted on a small scale. We are now in a position to execute all orders, however extensive, either in SKINS or TRIMMINGS, or of MANUFACTURED FURS, from the commonest grade to the very finest. Our representative is at present in the North-West Fur bearing regions making our collection of skins from the Hunters and Trappers direct. We shall be in a position to offer BUFFALO ROBES at leer rates than the Hudson's Bay Co. usually realize at Public Sale, and we feel sure those who bought early will bear us out in stating we succeeded in doing this last year, thus proving the assertion that Toronto, being nearest the Fur bearing section, should be headquarters for Furs. Particular attention will be given to Fancy Robes, Bear, Wolf, Fox, Coon, &c., and we call special attention to our new and important substitute for Buffalo Robes, and closely resembling them, handsomely trimmed and lined, well adapted where a warm but lighter Robe is required. We are offering two qualities, and at such extraordinarily low figures as will at once insure large sales. We are extending our premises to over double their present capacity in order to afford every facility for increased business. Friends in places out of the usual route of our travellers will please reserve a share of their orders till they visit the market and make a personal inspection of our stock. Orders by letter receive careful attention. TORONTO, July, 1874. J. GILLESPIE & CO. Referring to the annexed article from the Mail of the 2nd June, we feel sure the Western merchants will appreciate and second our efforts to ensure for Toronto the position in the Fur Market to which it is now justly entitled, AN IMPORTANT TRADE MOVEMENT. "Various changes of a commercial nature are going on, in great part at our own doors, as consequences of Confederation and the acquisition of the North-west, the great importauce of which may not appear to the public for years yet to come, but which will some day be universally acknowledged. Among these may be mentioned the extensive change in the fur trade, which is now in course of shifting its headquarters from Montreal to Toronto. In taking advantage of the new and favorable conditions of the fur trade of the great North-west, the pioneer firm appears to be that of Messrs. J. Gillespie & Co., of this city, who are making such extensions of their already well-established business as promise to make Toronto the centre and emporium of the fur trade on this continent. Toronto, being nearer than any city of equal commercial importance to the fur-producing territories, has unequalled advantages as a warehousing and manufacturing depot, also as a market to which buyers will resort. Messrs. Gillespie & Co. now seud their agents to the farthest fur-producing districts to collect furs and buffalo robes, a business which has been heretofore monopolized in these regions by the Hudson's Bay Company. During the last two or three years the fur trade of this city has vastly increased, and now a fresh impetus will be given to it by the organization of the TORONTO FUR MANUFACTURING COMPANY,' chartered by Act of Parliament, with a capital of $50,000. The new Company will be composed chiefly of members of the firm of Gillespie & Co., and will engage extensively in fur manufacturing in all its branches. A large building on King Street West has been purchased, with another ge bu.. suitable for a factory attached to it, in which the manufacture of fur goods of all kinds will be caeu on. srs. Gillespie & Co., as the leading members of the Company, will conduct the sales, and during the coming season wi De prepared to offer to the trade the Company's goods in their various lines. Western dealers will now find that there is no need of their going so far as formerly to purchase, seeing that they can be supplied here, at the heart of the trade. They may consider, too, the advantage of buying near home from the actual manufacturers, by which direct responsibility for the goods purchased is secured --something which it is well known cannot be secured when buying in distant markets, or from third parties. A want long felt by western dealers will now be supplied; and, to show what Toronto can do in the fur trade, it may be mentioned that at the Hudson's Bay Company's annual sale of buffalo robes last year the prices asked were higher than what Toronto was selling at all through the season. Messrs. Gillespie & Co. have greatly enlarged their premises on Yonge Street, the capacity of their warehouses now being doubled, making theirs probably the most extensive fur house in the Dominion." HUNTER, ROSE & Co., PRINTERS, TORONTO. ADAM, STEVENSON AND COMPANY. PUBLISHERS AND BOOK IMPORTERS. WHOLESALE AGENT: A. S. IRVING. SINGLE NUMBER 30 CENTS.] [YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 THE CELEBRATED CARRATRACA MINERAL WATER IS UNSURPASSED AS A PLEASANT AND COOLING APERIENT. One or two glasses of CARRATRACA every morning before breakfast, or on an empty stomach during the hot weather, will keep the system cool and healthy. CARRATRACA WATER stands unrivalled as a valuable remedial agent in cases of Habitual Constipation, Derangement of the Stomach and Bowels, Chronic Inflammation of the Kidneys, Gravel, Gout, Rheumatism (especially the chronic forms), Scrofula, Skin Affections of all kinds, Dyspepsia, Heartburn, Acidity, and as a Purgative it is unequalled. CARRATRACA MINERAL WATER, Fresh from the Springs at Plantagenet, Ont., IS KEPT ON SALE BY HOTELS, DRUGGISTS, and others throughout the Dominion, And may be had, in Barrels and Kegs, of the Proprietors. WINNING, HILL & WARE, 389 ST. PAUL STREET, MONTREAL. SPECIAL NOTICES. Mr. ROBERT BENNETT, of Montreal, is authorized to receive Subscriptions and Advertisements on account of the CANADIAN MONTHLY. P. O. Box 868. SUBSCRIBERS IN ARREAR for the MONTHLY will oblige the Publishers by remitting at their earliest convenience. But K CATA CHRISTIAN LIFE AND CHARACTER AS READ IN THE CATACOMBS. BY REV. W. H. WITHROW, M. A. EW places in Rome are more attractive FEW to the student of Christian archæology than the Lapidarian gallery in the palace of the Vatican. In this long corridor,* are preserved a multitude of epigraphic remains of the venerable past-shattered wrecks of antiquity, which have floated down the stream of time, and have here, as in a quiet haven, at length found shelter. The walls on either side are completely covered with inscribed slabs affixed to their surface. On the right hand are arranged sepulchral and votive tablets, altar-dedications, fragments of imperial rescripts and edicts, and other evidences of the power and splendour of the palmy days of Rome. On the left are the humble epitaphs of the early Christians, rudely carved in stone or baked in terracotta, and brought hither chiefly from the crypts of the Catacombs. Of greater interest to him who would rehabilitate the early ages of the Church, and "To the sessions of sweet silent thought Would summon up remembrance of things past," is this long corridor of inscriptions than any of the four thousand apartments of that vast palace of the Popes, with their priceless bronzes, marbles, gems, frescoes, and other remains of classic art. He will turn away from the noble galleries where the Laocoon forever writhes in stone, and Apollo, lord of the unerring bow, watches his arrow hurtling towards its mark, to the plain marble slabs that line these walls. Here the monuments of pagan and of Christian Rome confront each other. The spectator stands between two worlds of widest divergence, and cannot but be struck with the immense contrast between them. On the one hand are recorded the pride and pomp of worldly rank, the varied titles and manifold distinctions of every class of society. The undying historic names of Rome's mighty conquerors, the leaders of her cohorts and legions, mingle with those of her proud patrician citizens, * It is eight hundred feet in extent, and contains and alike display on their sepulchral slabs about three thousand inscriptions. the august array of prænomen, nomen, and |