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all grounds of historical and artistic value. We have not so many such grounds in Canada. These few glorious battlegrounds, and above all that of Louisbourg, in my estimation, should be preserved for all time to come as a public park at least; they should be put under the same category as are to-day those smaller grounds I have referred to, where the engagements of 1812, and those against the Fenians were fought. A museum should be opened at Louisbourg for the preservation of what remains of its old and valuable relics. Every earthly thing that is found within and without the walls, capable of being carried away, is torn down and taken home by the tourists. The old cannon of Louisbourg are to be found everywhere in North America, except in Louisbourg. The Americans, those Pilgrims Abroad, excel above all in the art of demolishing old monuments and taking the pieces home—the English come next. Vandalism is practised on a large scale at Louisbourg. The Goths and the Vandals demolished the temples of Italy, and used the wooden fixtures for firewood. The block-house at Annapolis-Royal was pulled down, some fifteen years ago, to make firewood for its caretaker, one Mr. Hall, with the sanction of a barbarian, I mean a minister of the crown. The Vandals and the Goths melted into coin the artistic treasures in gold and silver which they found in Constantinople. One of our ministers of Militia and Defence sold the old cannon of Fort Beausejour, in New Brunswick, to foundry men, and put the thirty pieces of gold in the Dominion treasury. The Vandals and the Ostrogoths made lime out of the statuary chefs-d'œuvre of Rome and Athens; our governments, all of them, provincial and federal, allow the last bricks and ornamental stone of Louisbourg to be sold for building chimneys, basements and wells. I now appeal to this our present government to put a stop to that wanton devastation, and do something for the preservation of at least the remaining ruins of old glorious Louisbourg.