Româ reducem post 13 menses, et votis redditum,
Tota civitas exultans recepit.

Plurimisque magnis rebus gestis, majora meditatus,
Vitæ laboris et gloriæ
Cursum confecit,

Anno rep. sal. MDCCCXXV. prid. Non. Decemb.
Aetatis suæ LXIII.

Hic ora, Lector,

Ubi vivens orabat.

The ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH of the CONGREGATION stands on the hill leading from the Esplanade to St. John's-Gate. It is not of ancient construction, and perfectly plain in its interior. Its spire is seen immediately above the ramparts.

The ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH of ST. ROCH'S is the place of worship frequented by the inhabitants of that populous suburb. It is also a modern edifice of very spacious dimensions, with a spire; and is situated in an open space, fronting towards the Vacherie, or former possessions of the Jesuits. It is well finished within, and has several paintings. the Sacristy are portraits of Pope Pius VII, and of Bishop PLESSIS, a great benefactor to this Church. The ground on which this Church is built was given by the Honorable JOHN MURE.

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The Church of Notre Dame des Victoires is the only one in the Lower Town belonging to the French inhabitants. It stands in the square, or market place, plain and substantial within and without; and possesses claims to antiquity, having been built and used as a Church previously to 1690. In that year amid the joy caused by the defeat of Sir William Phipps, in his attempt to capture the Town, the Fête of Notre Dame de la Victoire was established, to be annually celebrated in this Church on the 7th Octo

ber-that being the day on which the first intelligence of the coming of the English was received. On that occasion, it is stated that M. DE LA COLOMBIERE, the Archdeacon, preached an eloquent discourse. After the shipwreck of the English fleet in 1711, which was considered by the inhabitants as a second victory, and little less than a miraculous interposition in their favor, this Church received the name of Notre Dame des Victoires, in order to commemorate both occasions at the same time. The same preacher, M. DE LA COLOMBIERE, is stated in our French manuscript to have again delivered a most eloquent sermon, "which was listened to by the auditors with transports of joy."

This Church was also destroyed by the fire from the Pointe Lévi batteries in 1759. It is said that it contained at that time a picture representing a city in flames, with an inscription stating "that in the year 1711, when Quebec was menaced with a siege by Admiral Walker and General Hill, one of the Religieuses prognosticated that the Church and the Lower Town would be destroyed by the British in a conflagration before the year 1760." We know not how far this tradition may be founded on fact; but it would seem that the inscription, in those terms, must have been placed upon the picture after the prophecy was accomplished. The story is, however, said to have been well attested, and to have made considerable impression on the minds of the people at the time. Our French manuscript mentions the joy of the people at the defeat of the attempt in 1711, but contains no allusion to the supposed prophecy.

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CATHEDRAL OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

It has been stated that the Convent, Church and Garden of the RECOLLET Fathers occupied the site in the front of the CASTLE OF ST. LEWIS, as far as the URSULINE Convent in the rear, and contained within St. Lewis, St. Anne and Garden Streets. After the burning of the Church and Convent in 1796, the buildings were razed to the foundation, on the extinction of the order, and the ground appropriated as a site for the new ENGLISH CATHEDRAL. The COURT HOUSE is also built on part of the ground. The area in the centre of the Place d'Armes was not always so large. Until a few years ago the foundations of the Récollet Church were to be traced upon the rocky surface, several yards in advance of the present boundary on the western side. On levelling these foundations, and the rock on which they stood, two plates were found, the inscriptions on which were given in the account of the Récollet Church. In the month of July, 1834, on sinking one of the posts which surround the area of the Place d'Armes, some human bones were discovered very near the surface. As, from their situation, they must have been outside the Convent, it may be fairly supposed that they were the remains of one of the Aborigines, buried there before the coming of the French.

The English Cathedral was built by the bounty of Government, upon the representations of the first Bishop of Quebec, and consecrated in 1804. It is an edifice of regular architecture and very respectable appearance, standing in a spacious area, handsomely enclosed by iron rails and gates, and planted with trees. Its exterior length is 135 feet, its breadth

73; the height of the spire above the ground, 152; from the floor to the centre of the arch within, 41. The communion plate of this Church is very magnificent, and persons in London went to see it while making in the hands of Rundell and Bridge. This plate, together with the altar cloth, hangings of the desk and pulpit, which are of crimson velvet and cloth of gold, and books for divine service, was a private present from King George the Third. A good peal of eight bells, of which the tenor bell is about 16 cwt., was procured some few years ago, by the subscriptions of the congregation. The Church has an excellent organ and a regular Cathedral choir, but no Dean and Chapter. It serves also as the Parish Church, until such an edifice shall be erected, with a reservation in favor of the Episcopal rights. Near the altar is an elegant font of white marble.

Two new galleries have been recently constructed in the Cathedral, thrown back on each side of the organ, for the accommodation, respectively, of the children attending the male and female National Schools-the front of each is allotted to the orphans of the Asylums, in their distinctive dresses.

MONUMENT TO THE LATE LORD BISHOP OF QUEBEC.

A beautiful monument, to the memory of the late Bishop of Quebec, the Right Reverend JACOB MOUNTAIN, D. D., has lately been erected in the Cathedral Church, within the rails of the communiontable, immediately over the spot where his mortal remains are deposited, occupying the lower part of the space of which the remainder is appropriated to the second table of the commandments.

The dimensions of this monument are eight feet by six, and its weight exceeds two tons. The work, which is executed by Nicholls, is of white marble, upon a marble ground, finished off in a semi-circular form at the top. The execution is very superior, the whole effect extremely striking, and the likeness of the Bishop most satisfactory,-although the friends who remember him in this country, where the nature of the climate induced him to dispense with the wig, regret that the head is not represented with his own venerable hair. The principal object is his bust in the episcopal dress, the whole head inclining forward and standing out entire, from the shoulders upward. The bust rests upon a pedestal on which the arms, surmounted by the mitre, are carved, and below, the inscription is engraved. On the other, a full length figure of Religion, clasping a bible to her breast, with the emblematical appendages of the cross and the crosier, or pastoral staff.

The monument forms a conspicuous ornament of the church, and is a suitable memorial of the excellent prelate who was the first occupier of the see, and procured the erection of the building itself. It is a circumstance, however, which ought not to be left unnoticed, that, upon his demise, a desire was expressed by his clergy, and formed the subject of very gratifying communications which passed among them, to combine in paying a tribute of this nature themselves to his memory, if not rendered unnecessary by the proceeding which might be adopted by the family. The inscription is as follows, and we are sure that it will be regarded as simple and modest: