present repairs to the Chatham Bridge

£100   For improving the Grand River Swamp Road—   total 10,000—required this year 9,000   For improving Rouge Hill and Bridge, also another   bridge and hill east of the former—   total £6,500— required this year 5,000   For Belleville Bridge 1,500   For the completion of the Dover Road over the   mountain, to the limits of the town of Hamilton, and   erection of toll-gates 5,500   For the improvement of the road from L'Original   to Bytown, by Hattfield, Gifford, Buckworth, and   Green's Creeks, as surveyed and estimated, together   with the building of a bridge across the narrow   channel, at the mouth of the Rideau, on the line of   the road from Gattineau Ferry to Bytown—total   cost, £5,930—required this year 3,000   Owen's Sound Road, comprehending the line from   Dundas by Guelph, to Owen's Sound direct (this   sum being for the chopping, clearing, drawing, and   forming of the portion not yet opened, and towards   the lowering of hills, or otherwise improving such   bad parts of the line between Nicolet and Dundas   as most require it) 4,000   For opening the road throughout from Lake Ontario,   at Windsor Harbour, to Georgius Bay, on   Lake Huron, this sum being for the opening of the   road from the head of Scugog Road to the Narrow's   bridge 2,000   For improving Queenston and Grimsby Road,   for laying on the metal already delivered, and completing   such parts left unfinished as are most advanced,   and establishing gates 8,000   (To finish the remainder of this communication   within the Niagara district will cost £16,000, and   that within the Gore district £10,000.)     For improving the Trent navigation, towards the   completion of the works now in progress £12,000—   for this year 6,000   To cover expense of surveys, examination, preparation   of estimates of the cost of improving the Main   Province Road across the ravines of the Twelve and   Sixteen Mile Creeks between Toronto and Hamilton;   opening a road from the main road to Port Credit;   opening and completing a road from the Ottawa at   Bytown, to the St. Lawrence in the most direct line;   of opening a road between Kingstown and the Lake   des Allumettes on the Ottawa, with a branch towards   the head of the Bay of Quinte; of opening a   road from the Rideau, thence by Perth, Bellamy's   Mills, Wabe Lake, to fall in with the road proposed   from Bytown to Sydenham; of completing   the Desjardin's Canal; of constructing the Murray   Canal; of overcoming the impediments to the navigation   of the river Trent, between Heely's Falls and   the Bay of Quinte, and also for a survey of the   road from Barrie to Lake Huron, through the   townships of Sunindale and Nottawasaga 2,000   For improving the Amherstburgh and Sandwich road 1,000   For the Cornwall and L'Original road 900   ————   £47,000

WORKS OF A GENERAL CHARACTER, AS CONNECTED WITH

THE COMMERCE OR REVENUE OF THE COUNTRY.

To forming a dam across the branch of the Mississisqui,
and forming a portage road at the Chats	1,250
For works upon the Ottawa and roads connected
therewith, as detailed in the Report of the Board
of Works of 3rd February, 1845, laid before the
legislature—total £21,600—required this year	8,500
For building a landing-wharf, with stairs and approaches
at the Quarantine Station, Grosse Isle	2,750
For the extension of piers, and opening inner
basin at Port Stanley harbour—total £6,000—
required this year	1,200
For dredging at Cobourg harbour	500
For expenses of piers and dredging at Windsor
harbour	2,000
For repairs and erection of Lighthouses—total
£7,900—this year	5,000
For the formation of a deep water-basin, at the
entrance of the Lachine Canal, in the harbour of
Montreal, to admit vessels from sea	15,000
For the erection of a Custom House at Toronto	2,500
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	£39,700
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Total currency	£125,200
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W. B. Robinson,

Inspector General.

Thus, from the commencement of the operations of the Board of Works in the Canadas, or in about six years, there will have been no less an amount than a million and a half expended in opening the resources of that "noble province," as Lord Metcalfe styled it, in his valedictory address.

This, with the enormous outlay of nearly two millions during the revolt, the cost of the Rideau Canal and fortifications, and the money spent by an army of from 8 to 10,000 men, has thrown capital into Canada which has caused it to assume a position which the most sanguine of its well-wishers could never have anticipated ten years ago.

Its connection with England, therefore, instead of being a "baneful" one, as a misinformed partizan stated, has been truly a blessing to it, and proves also, beyond a doubt, that, now it is about