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Guelph Herald ; Peterboro' Chronicle ; Brockville Recorder; Dumfries Courier;
Brockville Statesman, Niagara Chronicle, and Argus; Ottawa Advocate; The
Church; Cobourg Star; Woodstock Monarch; Chatham Journal; St. Catharine's
Journal: Bi-antford Courier; St. Thomas Standard; Eelleville Intelligencer;
Life at the Springs; Deutsch Canadian; Hamilton Gazette.
British Papers.—European Times and News Letter, Dublin Warder, Downpatrick
Recorder, Leinster Express, Dublin Monitor, Edinburgh Weekly
Journal, Army List, Navy do.. Blackwood's, Dublin University Magazine.
A'eiv i'ork.— Anglo American, Evening Express, Albion, Sim, Spirit of the
Times. Commercial Advertiser, t'tica Gospel Messenger.
The Journals of the House of Assembly are also kept here.
There is also a Mechanics' Institute. Three newspapers are pubUshed here,
" the " Hamilton Gazette," '• Journal and Express," and " Herald." Sir Allan
McNab has a handsome mansion, called " Dundurn," a short distance out of
the town.
Amount of ratable property in the to-\vn of Hamilton, £109,998.
List of Government and District Offices kept in Hamilton.— SheriflF, Clerk of
Peace, Treasurer. Judge of District Court, Inspector of Licenses, Collector of
Customs, Warden, Judge of Surrogate Court, Registrar of do., Crown Lands
Agent, Emigrant Agent, Superintendent of Schools, District Clerk, Clerk of
District Court, Coroner, Registrar of county of Weniworth.
Professions and Trades.—Niue physicians and surgeons, sixteen lawyers,
three breweries, ten wholesale importers of dry goods and groceries, five importers
of hardware, forty-nine stores, two foundries, four printing offices, three
booksellers, three chemists, sixt^'-five taverns, two tanneries, three coachmakers,
two soap and candle factories, four auctioneers, five saddlers, eleven cabinet
makers, three watchmakers, six bakers, ten shoemakers, three gunsmiths, three
confectioners, fourteen groceries, eleven beer shops, six builders, five stone
masons, five tinsmiths, four hatters, fourteen tailors, eight painters, one marble
and stone works, thirteen blacksmiths, three ladies' seminaries, two schools for
boys. Four banks— " Gore," " Conunercial," " Montreal," and " Bank of British
North America."
Principal Taverns and Stage Houses.— " Week's (late Press's) Royal Exchange."
and the " Commercial." The former contains above sixty rooms.
Land Agents.—J. T. Gilkison, King Street; Alex. Glen, King Street; and
Wedd, Street.
Commission Merchants and Shipping Agents.—M. W. & E. Browne, Land &
Routh.
Stage and Steamboat Fares from Hamilton to the folloiving places
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Place.