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Bricks, (common) per thousand.........£1 2s.

Any quantity of corn, indeed produce of any description, generally finds a ready market, on terms of cash payment.

FIRES IN TORONTO.

Fires are of frequent occurrence in Toronto, the greater part of the town especially the suburbs being built of wood. One of the most alarming and destructive fires ever remembered in Toronto, broke out on Tuesday morning, 22nd day of August, 1843, which, in less than two hours, consumed upwards of thirty wood houses, destroying the homes of sixty-four families. Firemen were speedily on the spot, and exerted themselves in a most praiseworthy manner, but the

flames had gained such an ascendancy, that their progress could only be stopped by pulling down houses apart from the fire, to arrest the further progress of the flames. On the first alarm being given by the firebells, I hastened to the spot, which was within 300 yards of my residence. There I beheld a most heartrending spectacle ;-mothers, who had left their families, to attend to their various duties, were running about in frantic agony, and almost in despair, for their children's safety. Great exertions were made, and no lives were sacrificed. A great number of houses had previously been burned down, since I first entered the city of Toronto.

Oct. 25th, 1843, I was awoke at midnight from my sleep, by the cry of fire, and the jingling of the alarm bells. I arose, and proceeded to the scene of the conflagration, which was at the end of the street where I resided. Two large dwelling-houses, with the whole of their furniture, were entirely consumed, together with the contents of a full-stored and extensive timberyard. The night was still, and the devouring element could not be subdued, till everything within its reach was entirely consumed. The buildings, and other property destroyed, was near to the border of a shrubbery, separated by a small valley. The night being dark, the reflection of light upon the foliage of the trees, and the congregated multitude who were assembled to witness the work of destruction, furnished an awful, but one of the most magnificent sights, imagination can possibly portray.

SLEIGHING AMUSEMENTS.

In winter, when wheels are rendered useless by the snow storms, and sleigh carriages are in full action, there is such a jingling of bells, as would almost lead the mind to fancy that every star in the firmament had a tongue in motion. I have taken my stand on the side walks of the most public streets in the city of Toronto, when it was good sleighing, and my ears have been greeted by the merry sound of about a thousand bells in motion together. The cattle, as well as the occupants of the vehicles, seemed cheered by their invigorating sound; even the oldest hacks go-ahead, and are seemingly as frolicsome as those of first-rate condition; and a sudden spring, occasioned by a touch of the whip, will sometimes produce very amusing summersets, leaving the parties prostrate on a snowy bed; whilst other upsets have unfortunately been attended with more serious consequences.

The rough-shod horses suffer greatly from over exertion during the winter months; for, in addition to the rapid speed with which they are driven over the immense lakes of ice, they have often to leap, and drag the sleigh after them, over fissures on the surface. Few winters pass over without several being lost between the ice; and, sometimes, more melancholy consequences have resulted from such dangerous journies. Few horses last through the sleighing season, particularly if driven by one possessing the racing spirit of the province-which is carried to an extreme by all par