5th and 6th of January last and was sadly disappointed in not seeing you. Some of the Provincial authorities in this place, who from their name and position should be emulative of being high-minded and honorable have never ceased to persecute me since the time that I was appointed Engineering Surveyor of this Province. On the 6th Inst. their efforts prevailed, for on that day I received a letter from Mr. Domett (who is now here terminating my employment with the Government) As I cannot get any of my farming land, and as my income for the next four or five years not sufficient to keep my family I must be occupied somewhere. Here, there is not anything to do; but, it occurs to me that my particular knowledge and experience might be advantageously employed in your Province. I will therefore by next mail, as I cannot today the steamer so soon sails, address to you an official letter which perhaps you may be pleased to submit to your Council and tell me the result. My daughter Frances has returned from India, she has lost her husband he died from an attack of the liver.