'MANITOBA (ante). A considerable portion of this province is prairie-land, diversi fied by patches of elm, ash, oak, poplar, and maple. The soil is a rich black mold, producing from 20 to 25 bushels of wheat to the acre, the grain ripening in 110 days. It produces also oats, barley, corn, hops, flax, hemp, potatoes, and all kinds of garden vegetables. The savannas of the Red river afford excellent pasturage. The winter climate, though severe, is declared to be milder than that of the Red river valley, farther south. The short summers are very warm. The climate, on the whole, is healthful. The Red river is valuable for navigation, except when it overflows its banks and inun dates the surrounding country. The Canadian Pacific railway has its course through the province. A larg,e proportion of the inhabitants are Roman Catholics, that religion having been established at an eArly day by missiouaries to the Indians. A Roman Oath
clic archbishop resides at St. Boniface, and the see-house of the Anglican lord-bishop of Rupert's Land is at fort Garry. The board of education is composed of equal numbers of Roman Catholics and Protestants. There is a considerable Scotch Presbyterian element in the population. St. John's college (Anglican), and St. Boniface college (Roman Catholic), were founded in 1872. The executive government consists of a lieutenant governor and a council of five. The legislature is composed of a legislative council of seven members, appointed for life, and of a legislative assembly of 24 elective members. The public business is carried on in both the English and French languages. The: common law of England is in force in the province.