COLONEL THE HONORABLE JOHN PRINCE,

JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT OF ALGOMA.

LIKE the clerical founder of what has been somewhat flippantly termed the "School of Muscular Christianity," Colonel Prince sympathizes kindly with every breeze that blows, reserving, however, his especial approval for that peculiar quality of east wind which is made crisp and pungent by means of a judicious infusion of what sailors call "by north." It is exhilarating to look at a man like Colonel Prince, who possesses that kind of defiant physique which no cold can pierce and no storm can penetrate, whose sporting jacket, "close buttoned to the chin, keeps cold without and a warm heart within." It is pleasant to look at such an one, wind and weather proof, lightly clad, radiant, and glowing with a complexion "like red poppies in brown corn;" every movement vigorous with health; every step elastic, as if it sprang from the heather; every expression beaming with brightness, as if it had been fanned with pure air and bronzed with field sports. No exposure seems to reach such a frame, and no fatigue disables such a constitution. All the winds may blow in succession, and "crack their cheeks," he greets them with hospitality, and resolutely refuses to shut them out with the woollen walls of a great coat. The tones of his big manly voice, though varied and flexible as Apollo's lute, are singularly clear and full, as if they belonged to one whose speech, born of freedom and fresh air, was as bright