arch.
"Monday, 7th April--the last trip.

"A courier from Kingston may be looked for here in 14 or 15
days from the above periods, where he will remain 2 or 3 days,
and then return to Kingston.

"Another courier will proceed from this with the Niagara mail,
<i>via</i> Messrs. Hatts, where the Sandwich letters will be left,
both from Niagara and this 'till the courier comes from there
to return with them.

"Letters put into the post office will be forwarded at any
time by

"W. ALLAN,
"Acting Deputy Postmaster."

There are in existence several commissions issued by Mr. Heriot to
postmasters in Nova Scotia, in which he signs himself Deputy Postmaster
General for the Province of Upper and Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, and New
Brunswick, and their dependencies. It would appear therefore, at all
events, that during a portion of his term of office he had supervision
of all the posts in those colonies.

Mr. Heriot was succeeded in the year 1816 by Mr. Daniel Sutherland, who,
on his accession to office, found Nova Scotia and Prince Edward's Island
wholly withdrawn from the Canada charge. New Brunswick, however,
continued to be included in it. The postmasters in that Province being
commissioned at Quebec and accounting to the Deputy Postmaster General
there.

In the year 1817 Lower Canada had 13 post offices; Upper Canada, 12;
Nova Scotia, 6; New Brunswick, 3; Prince Edward's Island, 1. In this
year the mails were running between Quebec and Halifax once a fortnight,
all the year round; between Quebec and Kingston, once a week; between
Kingston and Toronto, once a week; and between Toronto and Amherstburg,
once a fortnight.

In the year 1820 there were in Lower Canada 20 post offices; in Upper
Canada, 19; in Nova Scotia, 6; in New Brunswick, 3; in Prince Edward's
Island, 1.

In 1824 there were in Upper and Lower Canada 69 post offices, and 1992
miles of established mail routes. The annual travel of the mail was
370,000 miles. The gross revenue was $68,000; and the revenue
transmitted to England, after deducting $1200, the supposed surplus for
New Brunswick, $21,000. At this time the population of Lower Canada was
about 440,000, and of Upper Canada 150,000.

In this year Mr. Sutherland was succeeded, as Deputy Postmaster General,
by Mr. Thos. A. Stayner, and shortly after was effected the separation
of nearly the whole of New Brunswick from the C