utilized, but a bad quality of pig-metal imported from home, while much refuse metal and iron that could readily be converted into good wrought iron, wastefully thrown aside. Lime and other building stones, cement, gypsum, as well as brick clay, in the same profusion, some little used, but most neglected. Copper, silver, and gold swell the list, promising to reach no mean magnitude as items of production, but the mining for them, as well as their after treatment, conducted in an extravagant fashion, and with an entire want of scientific knowledge.

He next points out that even the most important article of food— flour—is provided principally from Southern Australia and California, with this strange anomaly that, whilst one province gluts its market from these countries, a neighbouring province, having enough and to spare, exports its surplus to Europe; and that the only present successful institution in the category of colonial manufactures is beer.

As a means of stimulating attention to industrial manufactures, the author urges the introduction of rudimentary scientific instruction into Common Schools, and also the formation of an institution where practical or technical science might be acquired. He then gives an indication of the branches of instruction usually included in such a course.