SAINT JOHN (ante), capital of St. John co., N. B., is built on a rocky peninsula, slop ing up from the harbor. The streets are laid out at right angles; they are wide, and some of them are cuttings 40 ft. deep through solid rock. There are many fine public build ings and private houses. The principal building materials are brick and stone. Among the public buildings are the court-house and jail, the provincial insane asylum, market house, post-office, almshouse, city hospital, city ball, opera-house, academy of music, Roman Catholic cathedral, the Victoria hotel, the barracks, the mechanics' institute, and the Dominion penitentiary. The city has a fire department, a police force, a system of water-works, furnishing water from Little river 4 in. distant, and having a capacity of supplying 5,500,000 gallons daily. The streets are lighted with gas. Horse cars run through the city, and to Portland and Indiantown. There is a fire-alarm telegraph. There are between 30 and 40 churches, schools, banks, academies, orphan asylums, sev eral newspapers, good hotels, a natural history society, a historical society, etc. The
city government consists of a mayor, and one alderman and,one councilman from each of the nine wards. The manufacturing industries are extensive, including ships, lumber, machinery, tools, paper, leather, carriages, boots and shoes, cottons, etc. The city is connected with points in Maine b' the European and North American railroad, and with Nova Scotia by the Intercolonial railroad. Steamers-run from it to Boston, Port land, and various points along the river and in Nova Scotia. The entrance to the har bor, which is one of the best on the continent, is protected by Partridge island, on which are a lighthouse and a quarantine hospital. The channel is protected on the e. by a breakwater. The foreign trade is considerable. The chief article of export is lumber. There is a suspension bridge 640 ft. long over the gorge through which the river is discharged.