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CANADIAN GUIDE BOOK. 25 lands, a small but handsome mansion at the south-eastern base of the Mountain.—By crossing the street, and passing the Government Garden on the left, the stranger will find himself at the Champ da Mars or Parade Ground, a level space of two hundred and twenty- seven yards by one hundred and fourteen, well adapted for military exercises. Hence there is a fine view of the north-eastern slopes of the Mountain; and the eye is caught by an airy and commodious building on an elevated site in this direction.—This is the General Hospital, and is well worthy cf a visit from the philanthropic or pro fessional traveller. It is one of the principal ornaments of the city. It is pleasant to reflect that in 1818 the earnest representations of the Ladies’ Benevolent Society (formed expressly for the relief of indigent emigrants, and that personally superintended a soup-kitchen for this purpose; showing the cases of sick who needed, but could not procure, medical aid, succeeded in engaging the sympathies of the public in behalf of the claims of their Association. In the interval till the opening of the Institution in 1822, the patients occupied for a year a small house, of four apartments, called the House of Re covery, and for three years a larger one, of three wards, in Craig Street. Its benevolent purpose is, “ the reception and care of dis eased poor, and others who may not have the means or convenicncy of being duly cared for, when sick, at their own places of residence.” The building is so constructed that each of the two wings has an equal capacity with the centre. The central building and the land belonging to it cost £5856. It would be wrong to omit allusion to the circumstances nnder which the Richardson Wing was added in 1832. The Ilonblc. John Richardson, a Scotchman, emigrated to the late British Colonies in 1774, and, having come to Canada in 1787, attained great eminence as a merchant, and by a long career of important public services earned the grateful feelings of his fellow- citizens. To give expression to these in a permanent form, on his demise in 1831, it was resolved to erect a cenotaph to his memory in Christ Church. The sums obtained for the purpose in Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, and London, and elsewhere, so far exceeded the requisite amount for carrying out the object, that, as the best mean* C