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were planned out for the Cnbotian patron, Sain John, and the most fertile district between the tw sites selected for his Saintship’s rural recreation an profit — for it is not unlikely that old European “ Town and Country” ideas were working like leaven in the nomenclature of the early discoverers. and; producing in their imaginations the city ofSt. John’s, Newfoundland; the city ofSt, John, New Brunswick; St. John on the Labrador coast, and fairest of all, the Island of St.John, afterwards styled “the garden of British North America.”

But the tutelary Saint, after three hundred years, was trespassed upon, and his Zoological Garden con—- verted into a colony for human beings, under circum- stances whieh must have annoyed Saint John, for it seems his Saintship still puts the Island “on the limits” for a few months, under King Frost, every year; but his ire is relaxing, the periods of his com- mission to King Frost are getting shorter and shorter, and the Island, notwithstanding the disownment of her first master, is promised submarine communica— tion, through the agency of electricity, with both his Cities.

Three hundred years after the first christening a second took place,and Saint John was, by legislative enactment, deprived of his nominal honors and pos- sessions, which were then given to a live Prince. The excuses to St. John were two—lst, the similarity ofthe names ofdistant places, all called “ St. John ;” and Qndly, to show loyalty to her sovereign lord by a sort of making friends with the head gardener, for choice cuttings, a virtue which remains to this day not only firm, but practical and unhesitating-——- through all “ the diggins” of America,

But the honor done to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, has never been repented of, and subsequent events have proved that there was something in A NAME, when the Island of Prince Edward, thus ele- vated herselfin the scale ofColonies, and thus look- ed forward to a glorious future.