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322 On a Sunday, while at Montreal, on my way to the Episcopal Cathedral of Christ Church, I allowed time for unclear the celebration of High unclear at the Church or Cathedral annexed to the Jesuits College. As I left the building the thought in my mind was "I should like to ask the Priests who have just been officiating, if they have, or can imagine, any reasons for believing, that this service is either acceptible to god, or edifying to man? In the English Cathedral the service was very well & impressively read by an elderly Clergyman; but the young Clergyman who afterward occupied the Pulpit was far too unclear acquainted with what passes in the mind of his most familiar friend; hardly with what passes in his own mind. One who has just come from the States may compare the manners & customs of the American [circled J-273 L. Cross] travelling public with those of the Canadian. the former are very much in advance of the latter. the Canadian Conductor, unlike his brother officers to the south, appears to make no attempt to keep things & persons in order for the general advantage. Any body, however rough, (& many Canadian travellers are in unclear very rough indeed, perhaps because they are lumberers out for a holiday) is allowed to take his seat in the Ladies' Carriage. The unclear, & most unmannerly fellows, sometimes with short pipes in their mouths, & in their shirt sleeves, are permitted to perambulate the train staring every body in the face; I suppose merely to show that they are fond of the situation. But what I found the most annoying of all was, that I hardly ever left