Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 4 avril 1850, jeudi 4 avril 1850

[" A tr ,r- a/ u , ^ 1 W-viNU-vU \u2019\u2022 J 5Nc AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.VOLUME XLII.THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1850.NUMBER 41.m WANTED.-yf/-ANTED,\u2014By W: NOTICES.___t\t_ Respectable Family, an experienced NURSE, to take charge of three Children, the youngest an Infant.Apply at this Office.March 30.\tu\u201439 r ANTED.\u2014Two or Three active YOUNG MEN as SALESMEN.-ALSO,- A BOOK-KEEPER, one who can be well recommended.Apply to BENJAMIN, BROTHERS, Notre Dame Street.March 21.\t35 WAN TED tor a Grocery Establishment in this city, a YOUNG MAN having a know-iedge of BOOK-KEEPING, and can act aa Sales.man\u2014the best references will be required.Enquire at this Office.March 28.\t38 AN Individual thoroughly conversant with Mercantile Accounting, wishes to procure o oitl'UATION as Book-keeper to a respectable Firm, or in an Insurance Office : in both of which capacities he has been respectably engaged.The most unquestionable testimonials of qualifications and integrity will be produced, and security found if required.Until a permanent engagement offers, he would undertake to bring up a Set of Books, or to make out Accounts, &c.Address, Z., Herald Office.February 26.\t25 WA N T E D.\u2014A steady Young Man as SALESMAN ; he must produce good testimonials as to character and knowledge of business.Apply to Jno.Henderson, 93, Notre Dame Street.February 16.\t21 A YOUNG GENTLEMAN, perfectly understanding the English and French languages, and who writes an unexceptionable hand, is desirous of obtaining Employment as a Copyist or Translator.Apply at this Office.October 24.\t203 W' ANTED.\u2014A YOUNG MAN fora Hard-ware Store ; he must speak French and English, one who has had some experience in Eountry Store would be preferable.He must produce a good reference as to character.Apply at the Herald Office.February 19.\t22 Notice.ALL persons having CLAIMS against the vacant Estate of JOHN' RENNIE & CO., late of Montreal, Grocer, are hereby requested to present the same, duly attested, on or before the 20th instant, by order of JAMES TORRY, JOHN WHYTE, Curators.Montreal, March, 12, 1850.\t31 NOTICE.rïlHE CO-PARTNERSHIP hitherto existing B between the Subscribers, under the Firm of HOLMES, YOUNG & KNAPP, is this day DISSOLVED by mutual consent,\u2014Mr.Young retiring from the same.Benjamin Holmes and Joseph Knapp being duly authorized to settle up the Accounts and liquidate the Business of the late Firm.JOHN YOUNG, BENJ.HOLMES, JOSEPH KNAPP.Montreal, 3Iat Dec., 1849.\t3 NOTICE.THE Subscribers will henceforward CONTINUE BUSINESS under the Firm of HOLMES, KNAPP & Co.BENJ.HOLMES, JOSEPH KNAPP.Montreal, 1st Jan., 1850.\t3 NOTICE.|HE Subscriber will CONTINUE BUSN NESS in his own name for his own ac** count.JOHN YOUNG.Montreal, 1st Jan., 1850.\t3 T NOTICE.riYHE Subscriber begs to intimate to the pub-I He, that he has appointed Mr.ANDREW MANN, No.12, St.Frangois Xavier Street, Agent, for tlte sale of the FLANTAGENEI WATERS, in Montreal.E.LAROCQUE.October 4, 1849.\t137 MjEW books, JUST RECEIVED AT THE CHEAP CASH BOOK STORE.\u20acON CREGAN complete in 2 parts, price 2s 6d \u2018The Wilmington\u2019s, by the author of Emilia Wynd.ham, Is 3d 'The Red Hand of Ulster; or the Fortune of Hugh O\u2019Neil, an Irish Tale, by Mrs.J.Sadlier, price in paper, Is 3d, bound in muslin, Is lOJd \u2018The Clandestine Marriage, Is 3d The Debtor\u2019s Daughter, by Arthur, Is 3d The Diary of a Pawnbroker, Is 3d The Orphan of Moscow, translated from the French, by Mrs.J.Sadder, bound, 2a 6d.\u2014 This is a very interesting story, admirably translated Brownson\u2019s Quarterly Review The Accordéon Instructer (Hone\u2019s,) Is 10id History of the War with Mexico, by Jenkins 5s iByrne\u2019s Dictionary of Mechanics\u2019, &c., &.C., parts 1,2, 3 and 4, Is 3d each Barley\u2019s Universal History, 5s Noel and Chapsal\u2019s French Grammer, 3s 9d 'Christy's Ethiopian Glee Book, 3 parts, bound in one, 3s 9d Roland Cashel, by Lever, complete, 3s 9d Humboldt's Cosmos, 2 vols, bound, 8s 9d ¦Dark Scenes (rom History, by James, 3s 9d The Unanswered Phamphlet, entitled; a review of the Charges made against the Church of Rome, by the Rev.W.Taylor, 5d Devotions for Holy Week in Latin and English, 2s 6d (Life of the Blessed Virgin, Is Challoner\u2019s Meditations for every day in the year (abrigded,) price 3s 9d 'The Spiritual Consoler, translated from the Italien, Is lOJd The Subscrioers are now publishing with the approbation of the Right Rev.Dr, Hughes, iBishqp of New York, an illustrated edition oi the CATHOLIC FAMILY BIBLE, in the German Language.The Worik 'is being issued in parts of 80 pages with an Engraving, price la 3d each.Parts 1 and 2 now ready.\t_ D.&.J.SADLIER, No.179, Notre Dome Street-March 26\t37 new books RECEIVED BY EXPRESS THIS DAY.WOMAN\u2019S FRIENDSHIP ; a Story by Grace Aguilar The Wilmington\u2019s; a Novel, by the author of \u201c Emilie Wyndham\u201d, &c The Steward ; a Romance of Real Life, by the author of \u201cValentine Vox\u201d, &,c \u2018The Red Indians of Newfoundland, by the author of the \u201c Prairie Bird\u201d, &c, illustrated \u2018Gretna Green; or All for Love, by G.W.M.Reynolds The Bronze Statue ; or the Virgin\u2019s Kiss, by do Confessions of Con Cregan ; complete Literature and Literary Men, by George Gilfillan The Living Authors of England and of America, by Thomas Powell \u2014ALSO,\u2014 The Art Journal of London for March Shakspeare\u2019s Works, (Boston edition) No.12 For Sale by R.& C.CHALMERS.Montreal, March 26, 1850.\t37 NEW NOVELS RECEIVED BY THIS DAYS\u2019 EXPRESS.rpHE Confession of Con Cregan, the Irish G.l JL Bias, by Lever The Mysteries of the Court of London, by G.W.Reynolds The Wilmingtons, by the author of Emilia Wynd.ham,&c.The Steward ; a Romance of Real Life, by H.Cocton The Bronze Statue\u2019; or the Virgin\u2019s Kiss, by G.W.Reynolds Roland Cashel, complete, by Chas.Lever Wilson\u2019s Tales of the Borders oi Scotland, part 29th White Jacket; or the World in a man of War, by Herman Melville Woman\u2019s Friendship ; a Story of Domestic Life, by Grace Aguilar Gretna Green ; or all for Love, by G.W.Rey-nolds Pendennis, by W.M.Thackery, No.4 For Sale by JOHN MoCOY, No.9, Great St.James Street.Montreal, March 26, 1850.\t37 CALIFORNIA RISKS.NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF LONDON.OFFICE : No.17, Great St.Janies Street.ing of the Local Board held this day, to accept Proposals lor ASSURANCE on PARTIES GOIN - TO CALIFORNIA, via Panama or Cape Horn, or Overland.Amount not to ex.need £1,000 Sterling on any one life.Extra Premium, 3J per cent per annum, (including the Sea Risk for going out and returning Irom, for re.eidence and travelling in any part of Upper California, or at 2 per cent premium,extra, per annum, for residence (only) in San Francisco, St.Diego, or Monterey.Persons already assured by the Society, for an amount exceeding £1,009 Sterling, (for \u201c Whole Term of Life,\u201d) and going to Califormia, may cancel their present Policies, and get NEW POLICIES granted, for £1,000 Sterling, with leave to proceed to and from California, and to reside and travel in Upper California, as above.F.CAMPION, Agent for Montreal.March 19, 1850.___________________35^ FOR SALE.PRIME UpperCanada BU TTER, in kegs Do Upper Canada CHEESE Do SMOKED HAMS Superfine Flour, Oatmeal, and Pot Barley D.BUSTEED, .February 21.\t23 NOTICE.PARTIES INDEBTED to the Firm of J.M.FERRES & CO., Printers and Publishers of the MONTREAL GAZETTE, are hereby notified, that NO RECEIPTS, for Monies due to the said firm, are VALID, unless signed by the Subscriber.THOS McKAY.Montreal, Oct.9, 1849.\t192 WITH reference to an advertisement of MR.THOMAS McKAY\u2019S relative to our affairs, drawn up by a declared enemy to the Press, and published at his instigation, we have only to say, that we hold ourselves individually, and as a Company, responsible (or all debts due by the Firm, and for all settlements effected with it.Our customers we know will require no farther guarantee.J.M.FERRES & CO.J.M.Ferres, John Milne.Montreal, 11th October, 1849.\t193 d.0 12 10 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 GRAND LOTTERY.rHJHE Subscribers beg to submit to the public X the following SPLENDID ASSORT-MENT of VALUABLE PRIZES, to be Drawn by LOTTERY, on account of Mr.J.GAR-RATT, Great St.lames Sireet, for which 210 Tickets of 4 Dollars each will be issued, the Prizes in number will include\u2014 £ i 1\u2014\tGold Lever Watch, heavy case.20\t0 2\u2014\tLadies\u2019 Gold Watch, beautifully enamelled.17 10 3\u2014\tLadies\u2019 Gold Watch, enamelled case.*.*.12 10 4\u2014\tGents\u2019 Gold (Anchor Escapement) Watch, 13 holes, Jewelled.12 10 5\u2014\tDo.do.do.do.12 10 6\u2014\tDiamond Ring (Large Stone), So' lid Gold.7\u2014\tDiamond Ring (Large Stone), Solid Gold.8\u2014\tDiamond Ring (3 Stones), Solid Gold 9 -Diamond Ring (3 Stones).Solid Gold.8 10\u2014\tElegant Gold Cable Chain.11 11\u2014\tDo.do.Chain Fancy Pattern.6 12\u2014\tGold Albert Chain.6 13\u2014\tGold Albert Chain.6 14\u2014\tLadies\u2019 Gold Brooch, Madonna &, Child, beautifully painted.6 15\u2014\tLadies\u2019 Gold Brooch, Real Topaz Slones, Pendant Drop.6\t0\t0 16\u2014\tLadies'Gold Bracelet.6\t0\t0 17\u2014\tElegant Eight.day Clock, with Glass Shade.6\t10\t0 18\u2014\tElegant Pair Vases, with Flowers and Glass Shades.4 19\u2014\tElegant do.do.do.do.3 20\u2014\tElegant Gilt Time Piece.2 21\u2014 Elegant\tdo.2 22\u2014\tElegant Pair China Vases, beautifully painted.2 23\u2014\tElegant Pair China Vases.2 24\u2014\tLadies\u2019 Gold Bracelet.3 25\u2014\tElegant Pair China Vases.2 26\u2014\tPair of China Vases.1 27\u2014\tGents\u2019 Solid Gold Signet Ring.2 28\u2014\tLadies Ring Set with Turquois.\t1 29\u2014\tGents Gold Scarf Pin.1 30\u2014\tGents Gold Scarf Pin.1 31\u2014\tLadies Gold Broach .1 32\u2014\tLadies Gold Regard Ring.\t1 33\u2014\t1 Sett enamelled Studs.1 34\u2014\t1 Gold Scarf Pin, real topaz Stoue 1 35\u2014\t1 Sett of enamelled Studs.1 36\u2014\t1 Gold Scarf Pin.1 37\u2014\t1 Gold Hunting Locket.1 38\u2014\t1 Solid Gold London made Pencil Case\t1 39 to 105\u201467 prizes consisting oi a Diamond Pointed Gold Pen, with Silver Case at 10s.each.33 0 0 0 0 10 10 10 10 10 5 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 0 0 0 10 5 eUlwiPl list of advertised letters- LETT E RS REMAINING UNCALLED FOR in the MONTREAL POST OFFICE, to the 31st March 1850, and received 0 0 5 0 Î2I0 Subscribers at £\u2022243 ; each is.210 Farmers and Ploughmen.REGISTRY OFFICE FOR ALL CANADA.A REGISTRY BOOK will be OPENED on the 1st APRIL next, for the REGISTRATION oi N AMES of FARMERS requir.ing Ploughmen.Emigrant Ploughmen Will do well to make inquiry, on their ar.rival, at the Registry Office, by which they may at once find employment, or by entering their names and qualifications, with the references brought by them, may meet with suitable Situa, lions.Every information will be given to Emigrants in regard to reaching their destination, travelling charges, &c.&c.All applications by leitermust be post-paid.JOHN G.DINNING, Agent, Office, 35, St.Frangois Xavier Street.Montreal, Jan.15, 1850.\t6m\u20147 OTTAWA GLASS WORKS- THE Undersigned having purchased the above extensive WORKS, at Vaudreuil, and hav.ing also erected Works for HOLLOW GLASS WARE, are prepared to execute ORDERS for the following, upon the most reasonable terms, and with despatch : WINDOW GLASS, of all sizes, to 30 x 40 thin and thick.Do\tdo\tcolored.HOLLOW WARE, SODA BOTTLES, APO.THECARIE3\u2019 BOTTLES, Phials, Tubes, and Cylinders, and Mineral Water Bottles to any pattern.GLASS SHADES and Covets, Gas Bells, Milk Tureens, &c, &c.DOOR and SASH KNOBS and PLATES, glass or Porcelain.The Undersigned respectfully solicit Orders from the Trade in Canada, as soon as possible, so as to have them executed in advance, which being done, the goods will be forwarded to any part of Canada, or elsewhere.Orders received at the Works at Vaudreuil, or at the People\u2019s Hotel, Notre Dame-street, Montreal, punctually attended to.BODEN & LeBERT.March 21.\t55 In favour of Subscribers.£33 5 0 Catalogues are now ready lor delivery, and the Goods are on view at the Office of the Subscrib.ers.D.FISHER & CO., 22, St.Frangois Xavier Styeet.O\u201d Prizes to be drawn as soon as the List is filled up.Montreal, March 21, 1850.\t35 GRAND LOTTERY.THE Subscribers beg to submit to the Public, the lollowing splendid assortment of VALU.ABLE PRIZES, to he drawn by LOTTERY, on account oi Messrs.M.ROSSIN & CO., 133, Notre Dame Street, for which 250 TICKETS of $4 EACH will be issued.The Prizes to be 75 in number, and will include :\u2014 An elegant Fine Toned Rosewood Pianoforte, value.£35 A splendid Set, comprising a 21-Day Clock, and pair ol Vases, all of the finest Porcelain and artistic finish, with Glass Shades,.A Set Solid Silver Desert Knives and Forks, English make Guildhall Work,Pearl Handles, in Rosewood case.A large Electro Silver Salver, modern pattern.AGold Hunting LeverWatch, 13 holes Jewelled.A Gold Geneva Watch best make.A do do do do .A Superior English Lever Silver Watch, with Gold Key.A Handsome and Complete Gen lie men\u2019s Dressing Case, large size, with Finest Fittings.A Rich Electro Silver Bread-Basket, best quality and neatest style.One Dozen Best Electro Silver Table Spoons, Threaded Pattern.A Silver Hunting Geneva Watch.A do do do do .A Bread-Basket, best Sheffield Plate.A Butter Cooler, best Electro Silver.A\tdo\tdo Sheffield Plate.A Lady\u2019s Dressing Case, complete.A Pair Electro Silver Candlesticks.\u2014also,\u2014 57 Minor Prizes, value.- w.X- '- T.S.SUTHERLAND, Wliolcsale ami Retail Grocer ami Wine Merchant, No.108, Notre Dame Street,: BEGS leave to call the attention of his Friends, and the Public generally, to his Stock of GROCERIES, one of the most extensive and complete ever offered in the market.His Goods are all of the very best aimloy.no-jf huvin- -1 \" purchased previous to the great rise that has lately taken place on almosl every article in the line, he will continue to sell at extremely low prices.Those laying in a Winter Stock will do well to call and examine for themselves:\u2014 Fresh Fruits of all kinds, (crop 1849) 25 cases English Cheese, and positively the only English Cheese in the market 180 cases English Patent Sperm Candles, dodo 15 cases Fresh Citron, Orange, and Lemon Peel 5 bales Soft Shelled Almonds, (fresh) 12 hhds Martell and Hennessy\u2019s Brandy, Pale and Brown 2 pipes ditto, (superior to any in market) 10000 lbs Double Refined Loat Sugar \u2014also.\u2014 Champagne, London Porter, East India Pale Ale, Port, Sherry, and Madeira Wines, in wood ; Liqueurs, ol ell kinds ; Scotch and Irish Whiskey : Teas, Coffee, Chocolate, Cocoa Paste, Broma, Confectionery, all fresh, and unsurpassed in quality ; Sugars of all kinds ; fresh ground Spices, Pic.kies, Sauces, &.c.&c.\u2014and,\u2014 500 cases Superior Old Bottled Wines Which will be sold at extremely low prices to close an account.Those laying in a stock for Christmas should call and examine these Wines.They are principally put up in one dozen cases, and as to quai, ity, will speak for themselves.Montreal, Dec.13, 1849.228 NEW PATENT Rap-Welded Rocouioilvc Tubes.THESE are the only TUBES so extensively used in England, Scotland, France and Germany, for Locomotive, Marine and other Engine Boilers.\u2014also,\u2014 PATENT WROUGHT IRON WELDED TUBES, for Gas, Steam, Water, &c.For Sale by HENRY I.TBBOTSON, 218, Pearl Street, New York.James Russell dc, Sons, Patentees.March 2, 1850.\t27 up since the 1st March, 1850.A Adam A Allan Thomas Armstrong George Austin Patrick Adam Nelson Austin Mr Abbott Miss Matilda Atfield Geurge 0 0 30 0 0 20 0 0 15 0\t0 T1 15 11 11 8 0 0 6 10 0 5 10 0 GOLD DIGGINGS.LATEST ARRIVAL FROM THE MINT.rjpi 10 10 10 15 0 10 10 0 .62 15 0 HARDWARE.HE Subscribers being disposed to relinquish ihe RETAIL DEPARTMENT of their business, are prepared to treat with parlies, lor the sale of the STOCK and GOOD WILL.The present assortment is principally new, and in good condition, and is, in every respect, the best Retail Stock in the city.Their usual importation will be received by the first spring vessels, and such portions of it as were intended for their Retail would be included in the sale.The business has increased rapidly, every year, since its commencement, and notwithstanding the general depression in the Retail Trade, for some time back, the present year forms no exception.The Subscribers have no hesitation in saying, that the Establishment is the most flourishing and extensive one of its kind in Canada, and that it offers inducements to parties desirous of embarking or extending in the RETAIL HARDWARE LINE that are rarely to be met with.A LEASE of the STORE and such other parts of the PREMISES as would be required, can be obtained from the advertisers, for three years, from the first of May next, and they have no doubt but that a favorable arrangement could be immediately made for a further Lease, if required.The Subscribers lake this opportunity ofgraie-fully acknowledging the patronage of their numerous Retail Customers, and beg to inform them, that as with their assistance, they have been enabled to establish a business which is too good to close, they will carry it on as heretofore, unless they meet with a desirable successor, for whom, or themselves, as the case may be, they beg respectfully to solicit a continuance of the valuable support hitherto extended.BRYSON & FERRIERS.March 7.\t29 Webster\u2019s Spring Wheat.MINOTS of the above very superior SEED WHEAT, in quantities to suit purchasers.WILLIAM LYMAN & CO., Agents, 194 and 196, St.Paul Street.BachantA Beard John Barret Mr G B Beatty George Baron Miss Mary Beathy David t Bi»farv4 JrvU*» Borland Miss Ann Burnett Thomas Burnston Mr N Burns Mrs Rosy Boyd John Boutwell Samuel Boyle James Cunningham Mrs Ann Conger Anne Maria Crates Richard Costen Thomas Clarke Edwin Coupe Miss Anno Crossby William Cunningham William Craggs Mr Coyle Edward Connell Owen Corning Messrs &.Cj Cox Michael Curran Catherine Cuddy Richard Conway Patrick Coia Isaac Collins David Doyle Jeremiah Donn Thomas Duskin Mary Donaghey Richard Donntgana Joseph Drake Sir Francis L Duffy James Dwinnell Johnson Dulens R V Dunnel William DrotCharles Donel Patrick Derm on A English Miss Eliza Ewin John Elliott Capt Ernestine Frye Ira Farrell Francis Farmer Patrick Frazer G S Fray Mary Flood James Flanigan Patrick Finly Jonathan Fusomens Robert B Browne A M Esq Buhner H Breslow O Bryan Wm Bellinge Richard O Burns Alex Buckley Anno Boyd Thomas Bowden John Booth Messrs &, Co Boyd Thomas Byrne Peter Boyce Richard C Cornell E Coffey Peter Conway Michael Clendennin James Cassady John Casy John Coates Chas A Carr Henry Chipman R Campbell James P Coligan James Caldback Elizabeth Garrick Myles Chisholm A B Cashin Arm Cassils Miss Agnes Cavana John D Doud Francis Duckett Stephen Dovle Matthew Donlon J Doilson Thomas Dixon Margaret Donaldson William Dier Joseph Dennis J S Davis Daniel Dolton James Daniels Mr Davis George E Ellis Thomas Edward Williams Elliott Mrs William Robertson Wm\tRussell John Reman Charles\tRedmond Michael Reiley Patrick\tRyan S R N S\tRyan John Reaves George\tRobenson Honble Ranson John\tRowland Alexander Richardson E H\tRyan Maigret Robb Alexander\tRyan Patrick S Smart G Sirous Oliver\t Stanrahan Timothy\tSimmington Mr Sammon Eliza\tSmith Miss Shilly Henry\tSarntone Miss Mary Scott Thomas\tSullivan Margret Sheperd John\tSmilh Stephen Sheal Hugh\tSutherland Robert Shilly James\tStevenson Robert Savage James\tSmith Miss Sarah Scott Waller\tSmilh David Shankland Bernard\tStanley Capt Sanderson George Shanley Bridget\tStrane J S \tSnaith Francis Spencer Thomas\tSwitchen Mrs Simpson Rev W\tSleeth David Smallwood Mrs\tSmith Frederick Tacher John\tT Turner J M G Tully J\t2 Thompson John Tobin James\tTaylor Donald Todd W\tTaughrin James Tobin Michael\tTaylor Susan Tomville Michael\tTeeze Miss Thomson A\tTaylor Mr Timmons Francis\tThomas David U V Viot Eduard Union Tent I O of R Vanburen Dr\t Walls Thomas\tW Walsh Thomas Walker Stephen C\tWilson Hugh Walsh Win\tWilde Henry A Ward Rose\tWillion Mary Webb Sarah A\tWilson Mrs Walsh Patrick\tWilson Messrs Tesk Watt James\tGo Watson W Esq\tWellson John Walker Bridget\tWilson Rose well Wells Mrs R\tWright John HE Subscribers have received from LONDON, via Boston, a large assortment of PINE JEWELLERY Of the Newest Style, consisting in part of\u2014 Gold and Silver BROOCHES, BRACELETS, CHAINS, STUDS, PEN and PENCIL CASES, &c.Also, Oval and Round DAGUERREOTYPE LOCKETS, (double) ; Jet Bracelets, Brooches, Chains, &e.; Silver Bouquet Holders, Blue Steel Spectacles with London Smoke Glasses; GOLD CHATTELA1NES, a new article.\u2014also\u2014 Superior DIAMOND POINTED GOLD PENS, only 3s.9d.each; SILVER PENS, Gold Pointed, at 2s.6d.each.GEO.SAVAGE &.SON.February 21.\t23 P.S.\u2014G.S.& S.would beg to call the attention of the public, to their large stock of GOLD and SILVER WATCHES, which they offer at REDUCED PRICES.In all 75 Prize.£250 0 0 Catalogues will be prepared, and the Goods on view at the Siores ol the Subscribers, on TUES.DAY, the 5ih inst.The Drawing will take place on or about the 25th of this month.Tickets may be had, either from Messrs.ROSSIN & CO., or SCOTT & GLASSFORD, 27\t204, St.Paul Street.P.S.\u2014Parties in the country, desiring tickets by addressing S.& G.enclosing remittance and paying postage, will meet prompt attention.March 23.36 SWAN\u2019S COPY BOOKS.THE Subscriber begs to call attention to these very superior COPY BOOKS, with Engraved Head Lines, for every kind of writing.\u2014also,\u2014 Ornamental Copy Books, and Mercantile Copy Book containing the most approved forms used in business.ROBERT WEIR, No.7, Great St.James Street.94 June 19.T1 LOTTERY.JG.SHIPWAY intends disposing of by .LOTTERY the following PRIZES.The Tickets will be FOUR DOLLARS each, 115 Subscribers.A Splendid Bay Mare value.£25\t0\t0 A very Handsome Pair of Pistols, SiU ver Mounted, new.15\t0\t0 A Gentleman\u2019s Gold Watch.7\t10\t0 A Lady\u2019s\tdo do .6\t0\t0 A Gold Guard Chain.2 0\t0 A Silver Watch, Lever.7\t0\t0 A Small Model Ship.3\t15\t0 An Accordéon.,.15\t0 A Pair very Handsome Wine Coolers, Silver Edged.18\t0\t0 A Mechanical Picture in a very Handsome Frame (curious).15\t0\t0 An Oil Painting.7\t10\t0 An Easy Chair, beautifully ornamented in Berlin Wool Work.7\t10\t0 Dear Sir,\u2014I have ground some of your new variety of Wheal, and consider it a superior article.(Signed,)\tIRA GOULD, Arthur Webster, Esq.,\tCity Mills, &c.&c.&c.Gilbeam James V Gurhy Edward Greaves Margaret Gun James Gangh John Gunny B Goodwin James Grant Mrs D Griffith John Hugheby John Mr Hyde Sami C Mr 5 Higgs Wm Jr Hogan Denis Mr Highland Michl Humphrey John Mr Hurley Elizabeth Miss Holan John Mr Hodgins Mrs Hicks Benj Mr Homes Jas Mr Husting Geo Esq Hays Wm Hall Lucinda Miss Irwin Catherine Irwin Eliza Jane Ivey John Mr Irwin Jas Esq Johnston Mary Mrs Johnson W m F Mr King Catherine Mrs Kelly Patk Kid Wm Kerens Thus Krebs Mary Ann Kelly W M Esq Lindsay Mrs Lumey Ann Miss Low John Mr Lumming Bridget Little Robt Mr Landley Frederick Mr Little Ann Mrs Lyon W m Esq 50 Firewood.HE Subscriber has on hand a quantity of TAMARAC, HEMLOCK, SOFT MA.PLË, &.C., as well as the BEST HARD FIRE WOOD, which he will dispose of in lots to suit purchasers at low prices.(CT Charitable Institutions supplied on reason-able terms.WILLIAM RODDEN.December 14.\t228 M.TRAMLY, COACH MAKER) St.Mary\u2019s Street, BEGS to inform the Nobility and Gentry of Montreal, that he continues his BUSINESS at his Old Stand, where he is prepared to execute all orders entrusted to his care at moderate rates and with all despatch.March 5.\t3m ts\u201428 Wanted, IOHA BUNDLES 1st quality PINE SHINGLES, for which Cash will be paid.None but 1st quality will be purchased.HIBBARD & CO., St.Paul Sireet.March 14, 1850.\tde\u201432 Best English coke.A FEW Chaldrons for Sale by the Subscriber.WILLIAM RODDEN.December 14.\t2.£115 10 0 The above articles are all valued considerably under the cost prices.They may be seen at the Subscriber\u2019s Auction Rooms, on Friday next, where tickets may be had.A Committee of Subscribers will arrange the drawing.J.G.SHIPWAY.February 28.\t26 LOTTERY.TPIE Subscriber will dispose of by LOTTERY, 50 Subscribers at FOUR DOL.LARS each.Ave:y Excellent GRAND PIANOFORTE, in a Rosewood Case, cost £120.Tickets may had at the Subscriber\u2019s Office, where the Instrument may be seen.J.G.SHIPWAY.February 28.\t26 Byron\u2019s Eii'e anci Works.FEW Copies of LORD BYRON\u2019S LIFE and WORKS, 2 vols., 8vo.JOHN McCOY, Great St.James Street.March 19.______________________34___ rrUiE PERPETUAL OFFICE-SLIDING 8 CALENDAR, in both languages, particularly adapted tor Offices and Business men generally, showing the Days of the Week on which all the Days of ihe Month have fallen or do, and may fall without limit of time, and at different prices to accommodate purchasers.For Sale at the Book Store of John McCoy, Great St.James Street.March 7.\t1m\u201429 A F OR SAL:*; by the Subscribers : \u2014 130 boxes T D PIPES LEMESUR1ER, ROUTH June 12.Choice Flower Seeds.VARIETIES of British and Canadian FLOWER SEEDS, growth of 1849, grown expressly for the undersigned, and selected with special reTerence to the climate of Canada.An allowance made upon taking a quantity.Descriptive Catalogues to purchasers, gratis.WILLIAM LYMAN & CO., 194 and 196, St.Paul Street.March 23.\t'\t36 LTo the Lu dies.ADIES\u2019 India Rubber Gloves for gardening \u2014also,\u2014 Gentlemen\u2019s Long and Short India Rubber Driving Gloves, Mittens, &.c &c.&c.WILLIAM LYMAN & CO., Sole Agents for Canada.194 and 196, St.Paul Street.March 23.\t36 Agriciiliurai seeds.rgVHE Subscribers offer for Sale:\u2014 JL Fine Sifted Timothy Seed Large Vermont Clover do Western do White Dutch do Large Alteringham Carrot Mangle Wurtzel Sweedish Turnip Seeds Yellow Aberdeen do White Globe A large assortment of GARDEN and FLOWER SEEDS just received from ENGLAND, via New York.S.J.LYMAN & Co., Place d\u2019Armes.March 2____________________________27_ To Printers, Engravers, &c.THE undersigned has just received a supply of PERKINS\u2019 PORCELAIN or PEARL SURFACE CARDS, different sizes, of excellent quality, well adapted for Letter Press, Copperplate or Lithogiaphic Printing.\u2014besides\u2014 A general assortment ol CARDS, White and Coloied.\u2014also\u2014 .Printing Ink, common, fine and best Colored Ink of different qualities Tympan or Parchment Skins, various sizes ROBERT WEIR, 7, Great St.James Street.June 13.\t89 PAINTING, paper-hanging and glazing.FRANCIS CLARKE wishes to return thanks to his friends and the public generally, for the large share of patronage bestowed on him for ihe last ten years ; and, at ihe same lime, to say, he is still to be found at his old stand, No.10, Alexander Street, where he intends to pursue his usual system of punctuality and despatch, as he is now carrying on business solely on his own account.February 28.\tdde\u201426 Mullins Mary Mooney Michl Murray Wm Mr Murray Ann Morris Eliza Miss Myles Michl Mr Mooney Michl Monroe Dunean Esq Minchin Wm Esq Muran Jas Murphy Jas Mr Morrison John Mr Moore Mrs Moulin Wm Mr Murphy Michl Mulligan Richd Mr Mullieren Michael Murphy Fra Thos Mr Ford Elizabeth Fitzgerald Miss Ann Finlay Margaret Fitzgerald Michael Fitzgerald Miss Ann Flunnagan Patrick Fletcher Mrs Mary Fallon Thomas G Gray Charles Gilmarten Bridget Grace John Galehor William Getaings Mary Gappay John Geihings Richard Garrity Miss Gemmel Robert II Handyside Peter Esq 2 Hamilton T Esq Hartley W M B Esq Henderson Mrs Hagerton Richd Mr HardtS Mr Henepy Mrs Hartley M E Mrs Hueitt Lucretia Miss Henderson Peter Mr Hamilton Wm F Fsq Harigan David Mr Hamell Patk M Herrick Adeline Miss I &.J Jamieson Peter Esq Johnston John Mr Jackson Peter Mr Johnston Mrs Johnson Wm Mr Jones Hastings Esq K King Peter Realty Catherine Kyle Wm\t2 King Wiu Esq Kerrigan Wm Keating Jos L Loyd Leach Lafin Catherine Leitch Alexr Mr Lawrie D Mr Laudel Dalhousie Mr Laverty Rosey Lenahan Mary Lawless Mary M Murro Alexr Moore Ann Miss Murrey John Morrisson Mr Mil ward Thos Macey Terence M Mead C S Mr Maxtill John Mr Mack Michl Mr Mares Edw Mr Muloun Mr Mahon Cornelius M Miss Mark Mr Melville Sophia Miss Mahoney Mary Mahon Jas Mr Warren Widow Hannah Wright Margaret Walfch Mr\tWoolsey J W Esq Y Young John Dr Persons asking for any of the above are requested to ask for \u201c advertised letters.\u201d The figures alter some of the names denote the number of letters to the same address.JAMES PORTEOUS, Post Master.Post Office,\t1 Montreal, April 1, 1859.s\t41 mm REGISTRY OFFICE, COUNTY OF MONTREAL.rgMlE REGISTRAR for the COUNTY OF JL MONTREAL informs the public, that from this date DOCUMENTS fyled in this OFFICE, will be ready for delivery 15 days after de.posit.G.H.RYLAND, Registrar.March 20, 1850.\tts 3m\u201435 Toronto Spring Races, 1850- Toronto sweepstake of £25, half forfeit, to name and close on or before the 1st May ; to which will he added £75; second horse to save his entry.Turf Club weights.Province bred Horses allowed ten pounds.Three mile heats.Entrance to be made to C.Oates, and R.Tinning, Jr., Toronto, Proprietors of the Course.PRESENT SUBSCRIBERS : M.LEERAMBOISE, J.WEBSTER, 79th Regt.N.E.O.CLEAR, DR.C.CORYELL, CHARLES GATES.Toronto, March 16, 1850.\t40 Montreal Board of Trade.The Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Board was held on Monday, -agreeably to notice.Thomas Ryan, Esq., President, in the Chair.The following Report was read :\u2014 The Council of the Board of Trade of Montreal, on rendering up their trust at the close of their term of office, have the honor to submit the the following Report of their proceedings for the past year :\u2014 j.The Provincial Legislature being in Session when the Council commenced their labors, in the month of April, 1849, and a new Tariffof Customs being then before the House of Assembly, a deputation was appointed to wait on the Inspector-General and other members of the Government, with a view of urging on their consideration the propriety of naming the 5th July next ensuing, as the date from which the new Tariff should take effect.By this arrangement, the Spring importations, generally, would have been admitted at the comparatively moderate rates \u2019uty of the Tariff of 1848.The ground on which the Council rested their application, was the fact that Spring importations to some extent had already been made to Western Canada by way of the United States subject to the low rates of duty only, and it was an evident injustice to lay heavier imposts on similar articles then daily expected to arrive by way of the St.Lawrence.However obvious and fair this reasoning, the Government nevertheless declined acceding to the wishes of the Council so far as to postpone the operation of their Bill to the 5th July, but they agreed to put an immediate stop to the recurrence of the anomaly complained of, by pushing the new Tariff rapidly through the Legislature, ob-! taining the Royal Assent to it, without delay, so | that it might become law, and take effect at once, throughout the Province, and thus place all subsequent importations on an equal footing.This was accordingly accomplished.During the same Session, a Committee of the i Council was engaged in watching the progress and provisions of the Acts 12 Viet.Caps.cxiv.i and cxv it., relating to the Trinity Houses at Montreal and Quebec, and succeeded in obtaining a modification of certain clauses, in so far as they related to the light dues payable by vessels bound : to Montreal ; but they w-ere unable to effect any ] change in the regulations regarding the duties and remuneration of Pilots between the Ports oi | Montreal and Quebec.In connexion with the subject of Pilotage, an important matter was later in the season brought under the notice of the Council.It appears that under the 21st Section of the Montreal Trini-I ty House Act above cited, steamers or other vessels trading from Canada West to Quebec are subject to a penalty, unless in charge of a Branch Pilot ; while similar vessels navigating between Quebec and Montreal only, are exempt from the obligation of employing one.As this clause hears heavily on Western vessels, and seems to have been inadvertently copied from previous Acts wherein it had reference to sea-going vessels solely, Acts made long prior to the employ-: ment of decked vessels in the trade from the Western Lakes downwards, the Council considered that the subject called for a representation to the Government, and they accordingly prayed them to stay proceedings which had been instituted before the Trinity Board against certain persons for alleged contravention of this clause ; the Government, however, did not feel warranted to interpose their authority in any manner which might seem to conflict with the strict letter of the law,\u2014however harsh and unwise its operation.But this renders it the more necessary that the attention of those interested should be called to the importance of seeking an amelioration of this portion of the Act on the first opportunity.Before leaving the subject of Pilotage the Council may remark that a Notice appears in the OJi-cial Gazette, stating, that application will be made to the Legislature, at its next Session, to incorporate and give ceitain powers to the Branch Pilots between Quebec and Montreal.As these powers may involve questions of great importance to the interests of the Commercial community, it will be well to watch narrowly the introduction and progress of any measure on this subject.During the past year the Council have had several comnriunications with the Deputy Postmaster-General, whose ready attention to their suggestions they think it their duty to acknowledge.The length of time occupied in the transmission of the Western Mails from Kingston downwards, and the inconvenient hour at which they usually reached Montreal, during the Summer season, having attracted the Council\u2019s attention, an application was made to Mr.Stayner, so to regulate, if possible, the contract for carrying these Mails in 1850, as to insure the arrival of letters at Montreal each evening, instead of each morning, or about 12 hours earlier than heretofore.By this means, merchants and others might reply, without difficulty, to their Western correspondents, by j the morning\u2019s return Post.The Council are happy to be able to communicate to the Board, that a new contract has been entered into by the Deputy Postmaster-General, which will effect, to CHAMPLAIN AND ST.LAWRENCE RAILROAD.NOTICE is hereby given, that Three Calls ot FIVE POUNDS oaeh per Share on the | '^-^t, this destrable change, and that IN e w Capital Stock of the CHA1V11 LAIN and o L | j \u2022 /-«r tV-»o Sin-vimor co«»cr»n \u201c - RAILROAD COMPANY, have LAWRENCE been made and will become payable at the Office of the Company, in Montreal, one on the First day of April, one on the First day of May, and the last Instalment on the First June next ensuing.' W.A.MERRY, Secretary.Montreal, February 12, 1850.\t19 McDonald Jno McKay John McNamara Patt McHenry Mary McNamee Ellen MAC McEvey Miss Margret McGrath John McDonnell Miss Mary McGuire Thos McGuire Francis McMonagle Hannah andMcCarihey Daniel Susan McQuillan Thos McNamara Margrctt McMahan Jas McNab Mrs C McNabb Leon McMullen John McNamara John McTague Jas McEntire Thos McLellan Wm McIntyre Gordon McCabe Thos McGrade Ann McGregor Gregor Nolan Anne Nolan H Neigle John Nun James\t^ O\u2019Connel Richard Owens Patrick\t2 O\u2019Malley Rev A\t2 O\u2019Day Mrs John Purcell Mrs Purcell Miss Pratt Francis Pringley Paul Pictowe Walter Proctin Thom -.s Purhamus James Perry John Perceverance Tent McGill Wm McGuiie Henry McDowell Messrs J & Co McGill Wm McCaffrey Patk McGrath Jas McGuire Miss Margret McCready Henry McCulloch Mrs McGrane Mr McGuire Francis McNamara Patt McGinnis Hugh N Nicholson John Naysmith Miss S N Neale Samuel 2 O Oates Martin O\u2019Brien Mrs Elizabeth Outhen Rickeson O\u2019Reiily T P No.107 I O of R Phepoe Richard Phelan Andrew Palmer John Penly Sir W D Parkin I Phillips Wm Pendergrass Thomas DR.WISTAR\u2019S lialsam of Wiitl Cherry.No Quackery\u2014No Deception.\u2014In setting forth the virtues of this truly great medicine, we have no desire to deceive those who are laboring under affiiclion, nor do we wish to eulogize it more than ii justly deserves.Yet when we look around and the vast amount of suffering and distress oc-cassioned by many of the diseases in which this medicine has proved so highly successful, we feel that we cannot urge its claims too strongly, or say too much in its favor.Various remedies, it is true, have been offered and puffed into notice for the cure of diseases of the lungs, and some have been found, no doubt very useful ; but of all that have yet been discovered, it is admitted by physicians, and all of who have witnessed its effects, that none has\t- proved as successful as this.For Asthma, Short- j ness of Breath, and similar affections, it may be pronounced a positive cure.It has cured Asthma in many cases of ten and twenty years\u2019 standing, after physicians had declared the case beyond the reach of medicine.Beware of the Syrups and all oilier preparations of Wild Cherry.Buy none but the genuine Dr.Wistar\u2019s Balsam, signed I Butts on the wrapper.None genuine, unless Signed I.BUTTS, on the wrapper.For Sale in Montreal, by Wm.Lyman & Co., and John Carter & Co., St.Paul Street; also by Alfred Savase, Notre Dame Street; and S.J.Lyman, Place d\u2019Armes.April 2, 1850.\ttisC\u201440 during a certain portion of the Summer season the Western Mails will reach Montreal as suggested ; indeed it only wants the co-operation of the Department of Public Works, by erecting lights on Lake St.Louis, to insure to the public i the continuance of this improved arrangement throughout the whole season of navigation.The i Council urged upon Government the.necessity of lights on Lake St.Louis so far back as the ; month of September last, and again very recently; and the following extract from Mr.Begley\u2019s reply to their last communication on this subject, induces them to hope that this important improvement will no longer be delayed.Under date of the 11th of March, Mr.Begley writes as follows \u201c This department is still withoutlhe requisite authority \u201c for proceeding with the erection of Lights on Lake St.\u201cLours, but, considering the importance of the proposed \u201c improvement, another application will be made to the \u201c Executive ou ihe subjecl.\u201d Irregularities and delays having occurred in the \u2022transmission of the English Mail from New York to this city, Mr.Stayner, on a representation from the Council, submitted the matter to the Head of his Department in London ; but, op the causes of complaint had arisen within the United States Territory, and beyond British jurisdiction, a reference was made to the Post-Master Genera! at Washington,\u2014since when there has been less Queen\u2019s Lodge Odd Fellows Reid G I O of Quirk Prudence R Rush Ellen PLANTAGENET WATER.Montreal, March 23,1850.My Dear Sir,\u2014 I have pleasure in complying with your request, that I should inform you of my opinion in regard to the medical value of the Planlugenet Spring Water.It is now about twelve months since\u201d! became familiar with its employment in practice, and my observation of its affects fully confirms the accuracy of the opinion which I expressed to you in April, 1849, and which I based at tiie time upon its chemical composition, as revealed by the ana\u201d lysis of Mr.Hunt.I iiave used the water rather freely, and have never been disappointed in my expected result.It has gently operated on the bowels, freely relieving them, and this more or less actively, in accordance wilh.the quantity used.Ills emphatically an anlacid laxative of value, and will be found serviceable in all cases, especially requiring that indication to be fulfilled.My experience of it, in cutaneous affections is more limited ; too limited indeed to permit me to offer any positive opinion of curative efficacy.I do not doubt, Irom the presence of Iodine and Bromine in the water, associated with Magnesia, that it will prove serviceable in these cases also.It would require a more extended observation, than that ol a few months to confirm this opinion.As an ordinary laxative in pregnancy, I know of none safer, more palatable, or more generally acceptable to patiems.I remain, Y ours, very truly, A.Hall, M.D., Lecturer on Materia Medica, McGill College.Sold by A.Mann, Agent, 12, St.Fran5ois Xavier Street.i Montreal, April 2, 1850.\t40 The inconvenience experienced in Montreal j consequent on the closing of the Weekly Mails for England at an early hour on the mornings of Monday, throughout the season of open navigation, was represented to Mr.Stayner, and some small extension of the time for posting letters granted,\u2014but as the departure of the English Mail on the forenoon of Mondays may frequently involve the necessity of writing letters on the Sabbath,\u2014for instance, when the Mail from England (a frequent occurrence) arrives on the evenings of Saturday, or on Sunday, the Council deemed it expedient to address his Lordship the Post-Master General, praying that, if practicable, the Mail Steamers from Boston and New York might, for the future, be despatched on Thursdays instead of Wednesdays.This would allow the Mail at Montreal to be closed on Tuesdays instead of Mondays.The Communication of the Council on this subject was transmitted on the 29th August through His Excellency the Uover-nor-General, and a copy was handed to Mr.Stayner, who promised to support its prayer with the Post-Master General, but no reply has yet reached the Council on the subject.Inconvenience having occurred in consequence of the regulation by which Goods in Bond, arriving at an eatly hour by the steamer from Quebec, were made liable to seizure if landed without a Permit, which Permit could only he obtained on the opening of the Custom House at 10 o\u2019clock each day, the Council represented the matter in the proper quarter, and immediate permission, by the principal Officers of Customs here, was granted to land such Goods at whatever hour in the morning the steamer might arrive.Some question having arisen as to the Custom House mode of allowing Tare on Muscovado Sugars, and the Council being satisfied that the mode adapted bore unequally, in certain cases, on Sugars from Halifax and the West Indies, and gave an undue advantage to imports by way of the United States, they proposed to the Head of the Department an uniform system of Taring all Raw Sugars, no matter whence imported, viz.: that the Invoice Tare should be allowed when specified, but, when no Tare was specified in the Invoice, that the allowance should be as follows: 12 per cent, on packages over 1000 lbs., gross, 14 per cent, on packages from 500 to 1000 lbs., Actual Tare on smaller packages.And the Council had the gratification of finding that their proposal was promptly acceded to.Mr.Andrews, Consul for the United States at St.John\u2019s, N.B., having visited Canada on a mission for obtaining general statistics, on which to Reciprocity between the British North American Provinces and the United States, addressed a letter to the President of the Board, requesting to be furnished with statements of a varied and detailed nature connected with the Trade of Canada ; these were most willingly supplied, accompanied with such remarks as Mr.Andrews\u2019 communication called for; and the Council have learned with pleasure that he has found their communications of considerable service.Thus, (however the important question on which it is brought to bear may be decided,) the Council have the satisfaction of knowing that they.were enabled to supply a large mass of reliable information in a quarter very likely to influence the result of pending négociations.The Correspondence, too voluminous to include in this Report, will be found on the table.The Report of a Committee of the Council of the Board, as well as certain communications to Government founded thereon, with reference to the construction and operation of the new Navigation Act, having been published, as also two approved Minutes of the Honble.the Executive Council on the same subject, this Council deem it superfluous to recapitulate the views therein expressed, further than to repeat the assurance given by the Provincial Government, that Foreign Vessels from Sea will be permitted to proceed to Montreal and return thence, with or without cargo, under Special License.Thus the advantages of the long and anxiously debated question of freedom of Navigation will soon be practically tested in Canada.In the month of October last, the Council memorialised the Governor General, on the subject of prosecuting the Works on Lake St.Peter, and again urged this important matter on the notice of the Government in a letter to Mr.Secretary Leslie, bn the 7th of last month.The Council are advised that the sum required to complete opera-tions'in the new Channel would be comparatively trifling ; and it must not be forgotten, that this small additional expenditure would render productive the large outlay already incurred, and which at present is utterly wasted.Indeed, so important to the navigation of the St.Lawrence does the execution of this work appear, that when offering their views to Government, the Council did not hesitate to express an opinion that no objection could be made to the imposition of a moderate scale of tonnage dues on vessels passing through the Lake, sufficient to defray the interest on any fresh expenditure which may be needed to complete a deep water Channel.On the foregoing interesting subject, no explanation of the views of Government has been received.The question of a Canal to unite the waters of the Saint Lawrence and Lake Champlain being frequently before the public during last Summer, the Council deemed it their duty to address the Government, praying that any rights reserved by the Act authorising the formation of a Company for this purpose might be exercised by the Government, so as to prevent any injury to the interests of this city, in the selection of a location for the St.Lawrence terminus of any Canal which might be .formed.More recently, being desirous of ascertaining if any progress had been made in the organization of a Company, a letter was addressed to Mr.Glass, Honorary Secretary to the Committee appointed for this purpose at Saratoga, in August last, whose reply, to the effect that no progress has yet been made, but that the Executive Committee will soon be called together to deliberate, will be found on the table.These two projects\u2014the completion of the Channel through Lake st.Peter, and the choice of an unobjectionable line for the proposed Canal\u2014 are of such paramount importance to the Trade and Citizens of Montreal, that the Council most earnestly recommend them to the attention of their successors.Much inconvenience and loss have been experienced by those engaged in the Book Trade, from the uncertain state of the law relating to Copyright.By an Act passed by the Imperial Parliament in 1847, Her Majesty in Council was empowered, by Proclamation, to suspend the operation of the Copyright Law of the Empire, so far as related to any Golony \u2014 the Legislature of which should, by Statute, make adequate compensation to the holders of British Copyrights.The Parliaments of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick promptly legislated on the subject ; they imposed a duty of 20 per cent, on Foreign Reprints of British Books, winch is set aside for the benefit of the Proprietor of the Copyrignt, and this compensation being deemed sufficient, Her Majesty legalised the trade in these Provinces.The Council would, therefore, recommend that their successors should bring under the notice of the Provincial Government, the necessity of a measure similar to that of the Sister Provinces.Anxious, by moderate charges on the great staple productions of the West, to hold out new inducements to draw trade to our City, the Council have prepared, and recommend for adoption, the printed Tariff of charges on the table, the rates in which are generally lower than the previous scale adopted by the Board of Trade, and will contrast favorably, it is hoped, with the charges at New York.In tares on West Indian and other Foreign productions, the changes made are in all cases most favorable to purchasers in this market.Coupling these reductions and alterations with the cheapness, facility, and rapidity of transport which our magnificent Canals afford, it is evident that Montreal offers great advantages as a place of interchange for Western Produce and Merchandise from beyond Sea.As intimately connected with this question of competing successfully for the trade of the West, the estimation in which may stand our Inspection brands for Ashes, Flour, Beef, Pork, Lard, and Butter, is important.Ranking, as these do, deservedly high, yet serious, though informal, complaints have reached the Council, particularly as regards Flour and Provisions, during the past season.As regards Ashes, it may be observed, that the charge for cooperage, of 9d.per barrel, seems too much and also that great inconvenience arises from combining various sorts, as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, in one Inspection Bill.This might be easily avoided, by the Inspector classing each distinct quality separately ; and thus purchasers would avoid being encumbered with qualities un-suited to their wants.It is very desirable that the incoming Council should attend to these suggestions, and they will find some useful hints in a Report, la\u2019ely prepared by Mr.Bockfts, on the subject of Ashes inspection, and which lies upon the table.The Council believe that Mr.Lepro-hon will give every facility to any changes which' may be found for the interest of both buyer and producer.On the invitation of the Council, Mr.Watson, Flour Inspector, attended one of their late meetings, and agreed, at their suggestion, to send to New Yorkfor samples of the new standard of qualities of Flour lately established there.As the law provides that the standard at New York must regulate the inspection here, there will, probably,, in future, be two brands (No.1 and 2) of Superfine.Serious losses have occurred, from time to time, by deficiency in the weight of Flour, and the Council conceive it to be the duty of the Inspector to attend as well to the weight as to the quality of the Flour he inspects.All this they commend to the attention of their successors.So much of the business of Montreal is now transacted through the intervention of Brokers, that it appears to the Council very desirable that their Tariff of charges should be determined, and some system to regulate their dealings established.With the co-operation of the Board of Brokers, this will be easy of accomplishment.Owing to the languid state of business, and the appearance of Cholera, the Council did not deem last season favorable for attempting meetings \u201c On \u2019Change.\u201d They trust that in the season about to open similar causes will not intervene to prevent the resumption of these meetings.The Council have noticed with regret that tha Board of Arbitration of this Corporation is seldom or never resorted to for the settlement of questions at issue between Merchants or others, and they think that means should be taken to render it so effective as to induce references to its judgments with confidence.They are persuaded that differences could be adjusted with considerable saving, both of time and money, if referred to persons chosen from a well selected Board of Arbitration, legally constituted and sworn to the right performance of their duty, as this Board would be.Recourse to arbitration is had with good effect in most of the Commercial Cities of Europe.A legal decision in Western Canada having called the attention of the Council to the conditions contained in the Policies of the Inland Marine Insurance Companies doing business in this City, and the Agent of one of these Companies having addressed the Council, requesting them to specify such conditions for a Policy as would probably meet the approval of the Trade, a form was prepared, which lies on the table, and is recommended to the consideration of the Board ; it is simple and comprehensive, based chiefly on the Marine Policies in use in England, and is applicable to Sea risks as well as those of Inland Navigation.A Committee on the subject of Harbor Dues and Rates of Wharfage was appointed by the Council, but have deferred reporting, as they understand that a measure is in preparation by a Member of :4 found a Report with reference to'the effects of I the Legislature, with whom they have not ye{ « 063876 118063 MONTREAL HERALD AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.had an opportunity of conferring.The r^ult of their investigations, so far as made, will be at me service of the incoming Council.The Council are enabled to inform the coaru, that the Order in Council, lately published in several of the Provincial Journals, (though not in the Official Gazette,) and which contained seveial new regulations relative to trade and vessels trad-in» inland, and which bore date the 1st December last, is no longer in force, being lor the present suspended until further orders.Accordingly no time should be lost in making representations \u2022against any of its provisions which may seem ob- jeaionab^ncii\tbeen informed, and believes, it is intended by Government to require Entries for Goods to be henceforth furnished tn duplicate.One Entry only was required last season, though the law certainly provides for a duplicate see 10 & 11 Viet.Cap.31, Sec.12.For statical purposes a duplicate seems desirable, and it regular and detailed statistics be furnished to the Trade, they will more than compensate lor any additional trouble.The Council is also informed that Ships Reports will be required in duplicate ; this, as the law at present stands, cannot be exacted-see 10th Section of Act above cited-and the new Council should watch the introduction of any measure on this subject to the Legislature.The Council having addressed the Inspector General, requesting to be informed of any contemplated new regulations in connection with the Customs Act, have not received any reply to their communication ; they also applied for Statistics of the Trade of the Province, but have only received a printed Table of Imports without distinction as to whence or by what route imported.In the absence of more ample and reliable data, the Council aie unable to form any definite conclusions on the relative state of many of the trading interests of the Province ; but no one who, for the last two years, has observed the downward course of those markets, in which the great staples of the Province, Timber and Breadstuffs, had formerly a preference, can any longer doubt that the Free-Trade policy of England has dealt a heavy blow to the prosperity of the Export Trade of Canada, and that the predictions of former Councils, as regards its effects upon the Trade of Montreal in particular, have been more than realized.The Council, nevertheless, hope that the time is approaching when by a union of the great interests, British as well as Colonial, which have suffered from that policy, measures will be matured which, without involving any heavy tax on Forefon products, and without injury to any great branch of National Industry, will yet ensure a preferential interchange of all commodities .between Great Britain and her vast and varied Possessions throughout the world.The Treasurer\u2019s Account will be found on the table.Balance on hand this day £55 15s.9d.All which is respectfully submitted.(Signed) THOMAS RYAN, President.(Signed) CHS.LINDSAY, Secretary.Montreal, April 1st, 1850.After which, on motion of the Hon.P.McGill, seconded by John Frothingham, Esq., it Resolved,\u2014That Ihe Report be approved, adopted and printed ; and that the best thanks of this Meeting be given to the President and Council, for the ability and energy-displayed by them in the discharge of their important du-ties during the past year.The following gentlemen were then duly elected to office for the present year :\u2014 Thomas Ryan, Esq., President.D.L.Macpherson, Esq., Vice-President.Hugh Allan, Esq., Treasurer.Members of Council.\u2014Joseph Knapp, James Law, J.Ogilvy Moffatt, Allan Gilmour, Charles Bockus, Hew Ramsay, L.H.Holton, and D.L.Macdougall, Esqs.Board of Arbitration.\u2014Andrew Shaw, T.B.Anderson, Wm.Lyman, Jas.Gilmour, J.B.Greenshields, H.H.Whitney, H.Vennor, A.Bryson, C.S.Ross, T.Kay, J.Leeming, and T.M.Taylor, Esqs.POST OFFICE NOTICE.rf COMMENCING MAILS FC the the on the 9th instant, FOR ENGLAND, via UNITED STATES, will he DESPATCHED from Montreal, EVERY SUNDAY MORNING during the PRESENT MONTH, up to SUNDAY.23rd instant, inclusive, and every ALTERNATE SUNDAY during the Months of JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH and APRIL, 1850, commencing on SUNDAY, 6th JANUARY.The Boxes will be closed for PAID LETTERS on the previous Saturday, at FIVE o\u2019clock, P.M.UNPAID LETTERS may be dropped into the Box during SATURDAY NIGHT.NEWSPAPERS must be posted before Four o\u2019clock,?.M., on SATURDAY.Genera] Post Office, ( Montreal.19th Dae., 1849.(\t231 liR-L, v; THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1850.O\u201d First Page.\u2014Report of the Council of the Montreal Board of Trade\u2014List of Letters remaining uncalled for in the Montreal Post Office.We disposed of the N.Y.Albion\u2019s Original Grey\u201d correspondent, on Saturday, and we have now a few words, in all courtesy, to say to his deluded owner.The Albion labors hard to convince \u201cAmericans,\u201d\u2014of whom, he says, he numbers very many amongst his friends and supporters\u2014that, because we believe the Annexation of Canada to the neighbouring confederation of independent States, would, in matters social and commercial, strengthen instead of weaken our connexion with Great Britain ; we can, therefore, be no true republicans\u2014that we are, what he calls'* Annexation fine-drawers,\u201d who would wish to \u201c take up a position so skilfully and comfortably, that whilst our interests are promoted by Annexation, our British tastes and sympathies may be preserved in their original purity.\u201d Now, vve would assure the Albion, and his American friends and supporters, that we can see nothing contradictory in the most \u201c ardent Republicans\u201d being, not only desirous of \u201cremoving the barriers existing between\u201d them and their Republican neighbours,\u2014of the same race, language, religion, laws and literature\u2014and, at one and the same time, being equally desirous to preserve their \u201c British lasfei and sympathies in their original purity\u201d ; as well as to strengthen and extend their social and commercial intercourse with the Mother Country.We believe that these are the sentiments of all liberal-minded and enlightened Americans, however ardent may be their love of Republicanism, however confirmed their convictions against Monarchy in any form.Many,\u2014nay, we shall, perhapsj not greatly err if we say the overwhelming majorU^\u2014of our republican neighbours, while, with us, they are satisfied, that where, as in all British Colonies, the seeds of self-government have been effectually sown ;\u2014and where aristocratic institutions, however strong the attempts may be to introduce them, cannot exist\u2014 there, the only practicable form of Government is that of a Republic.But they are nob consequently, of opinion that, where society is differently constituted, as in England ; or where the very rudiments of self-government have yet to be learned, as in France, Spain, South America, or even Mexico; there the republican form of government is either safe or practicable.As to their \u201c tastes and sympathies\u201d\u2014unconnected with government\u2014religious and secular, literary, legal, social, aye, and even political, so far as the popular branch of the British constitution must be viewed as their model\u2014they have ever been \u2014modified, of course, by their difference in position and circumstances\u2014and must ever continue to be, essentially British.On this subject, we would quote the following passage, from a very able article in the Edinburgh Review, upon Lamartine\u2019s History of the (French) Revolution of 1848.The writer says :\u2014 We do nor believe, for ourselves, that any organic changes whatever are worth the evils and the risks ol an insurrectionary revolution ; at least to the generation that makes it.But, if there were any motive that could induce us to encounter those evils and to incur those risks, it would be the prospect of escaping from M.de Lamartine\u2019s favourite institutions\u2014universal suffrage in politics, and the voluntary system in religion.Now, we are not, perhaps, prepared to endorse absolutely these sentiments ; but relatively, as applied either to France or England, we have no fault to find with them.What we maintain is, that the Annexation of Canada to the United States, will, in the first place, never be attempted by \u201can insurrectionary revolution\u201d ; and secondly, that the \u201corganic changes\u201d, involved in our adoption of republican institutions,\u2014that is\u201c universal suffrage in politics, and the voluntary system in religion\u201d\u2014are necessary to our advancement and prosperity, as a branch of the great Anglo-American family.Both these \u201cinstitutions\u2019\u2019 have, in our opinion, been fairly and most successfully tested, in the United States : there they have worked admirably, and, although all human institutions are in there nature imperfect, there they have been found far more conducive to the general happiness and prosperity and piety of the people, than has restricted suffrage and compulsory religion in any other country.The Albion winds up his remarks in the following words :\u2014 If one may possibly smile at the Herald's desire to remain socially and sentimentally British, whilst becoming pol M.y and pecuniarily American, a downright li\tis engendered by the lu- dicrous effort at making Lord John Russell an Annexationist, conveyed in the last sentence of our quotation.In the fullness of his prophetic vision, or under a painful sense of the perils into which his colleague Earl Grey is leading him, Lord John does indeed venture a hint at independence ; but the cool assurance with which this remote contingency is transformed into a cheer^ ful acquiescence in Annexation\u2014all Ministerial declarations to the contrary notwithstanding\u2014does indeed pass common bounds.This weak point has without doubt been found out by some of our Canadian contemporaries; and it is so obvious, that to point it out is sufficient.If young Canada have no better allies than Lord John we need not feel uneasy about its project.Our contemporary misrepresents us.We indulged in no\u201c effort at making Lord John Russell an Annexationist\u201d\u2014vve were guilty of no \u201c cool assurance\u201d in transforming his Lordship\u2019s hint at independence, into a cheerful acquiescence in Annexation.What we said was,\u2014speaking of Canadian Annexationists :\u2014 They think ihe nme, which Lord John Russell \u201c anlicipales,\u201d has arrived\u2014when \u201c ihe link ol the connexion has become onerous,\u201d to both parties ; and when \u201c we can ourselves, in amity and alliance with England, maintain our independence.\u201d We merely quoted Lord John Russell\u2019s words, as reported in the London papers-Lord John may oppose our independence\u2014 and, as the London Times says, its \u201cinfallible\u201d consequence, annexation\u2014by all peaceful and constitutional means : he may never give \u2018* a cheerful acquiescence\u201d in our separation from the Mother Country ; but, we, at least, find an abundant security in his words, that, so soon as the majority of the people of Canada demand their independence, Lord John Russell will not be the British Statesman to advise his Sovereign to refuse it to them.Let the Albion read the following commentary of the iondon Times, upon Lord John Russell\u2019s \u2018* hint at independence\u201d :\u2014 On the most delicate part of the question Lord John Russell has spoken as plainly as we could desire.He does not shrink from contemplating the eventual independence of our colonies, and proposes to prepare them for it by free instiiutions.For our own part, we think it the merest prudeiy to blink that inevitable event.When a Colony tools itself really independent\u2014that is, able to protect its soil, its citizens, it» property, and its institutions against all assailants, and to keep order within its own borders, it will undoubtedly aspire to the dignity as well as convenience of absolute self-government.Our European neighbours have taught us this lesson in the assistance they gave to the United Provinces ol America during the war of independence ; and we have taught the same lesson in return by our haste to recognize the independence of the South American States.It is the order of nature, and we cannot fight against it, except to our disappointment, loss, and disgrace.At present, however, there is not one ol our colonies that could stand by itsell.There is one, indeed, that if it pleased could throw its off, only to lake up with another master.On the subject of Canada the Premier spoke with the loyally of an Englishman, and the reserve of a Minister.We agree with every word that he said.Unless it should become a matter ol necessity to each individual Canadian it certainly is a superfluous and a perilous piece of disloyalty to consent to annexation.No man can tell what he will have to suffer if he takes that fearful leap, and how much the reproaches of conscience may be aggravated by disaster.But from Lord John Russell, and from every other statesman who may hold office in this country, we ask for something more than a mere sentiment on the disloyalty and danger of annexation.We ask for a pledge.Should the day arrive\u2014should on overwhelming majority in Canada declare either for annexation, or for that independence which will infallibly lead to it, wo have a right to ask helore-hand that our own loyalty may be spared a painful appeal.England has spent £100,000,000 in the vatu at.tempi to subjugate the Unitetl Slates, and she will not do the like again.If Canada chooses to run the fearlul risk of causeless separation, let her do so, if not with our consent, at least with our opposition .The italics in the above quotation are, of course, ours ; but, if the Times speaks the sentiments of the Government and people of England, can any sane man doubt that both will leave the question of Canadian independence, to be decided by the people of Canada, and by them alone?We have a word or two to say in reply to the Times.First, we would point out the glaring, however plausible, fallacy ol the \u201c Thunderer,\u201d in representing our independence, and annexation to the Union, as \u201c throwing off\u201d England, ** only to take up with another master.\" It might as well be argued that New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, or any other of the States forming the the confederation, in joining the Union, \u201conly threw off England, to take up with another master\u201d / The position, although plausible, s too false and ridiculous to admit of argument.Annexed to the Union, Canada would be independent\u2014she might, indeed, thus lose a kind and generous master, but she would cease to be a sentant.If she prefer servitude to independence, the Times, the Albion, and even Lord John Russell, would seem to promise she shall not be \u201c turned off\u201d ; and that her people will not be hardly tasked\u2014they will not be asked to wear livery, and will have an abundant \u201c second table\u201d kept up for them.No doubt, a moderate-minded man might live and die happily and contentedly enough, in such a state of comfortable dependence ; but, as the old English proverb has it, \u201c service is no inheritance,\u201d and he would be fortunate, indeed, if he could make such a provision for his children as to raise them above the necessity of wearing any man\u2019s livery\u2014however gorgeous and becoming it might be.As to the Times\u2019 direful \u201cth underings\u201d, regarding the sufferings, incident to \u201c that fearful leap\u201d,\u2014\u201c the reproaches of conscience, aggravated by disaster\u201d, &c., &c.\u2014what are they but mere \u201cbunkum\u201d, utterly unworthy of the serious consideration of any man who has a conscience to direct him, or courage to perform what his conscience tells him is his duty.The Times\u2014and our friend the Albion, who, we beg his pardon, we had almost forgotten\u2014may rest assured that the Annexationists of Canada, although ready and willing to weigh, carefully and respectfully, anything in the form of reason and argument, which may be adduced in favor of pro- longing their connexion with the Mother Country, until even in the opinion of Lord John Russell, \u201c the link has become onerous,\u201d\u2014and even the Times will admit they are entitled to \u201c aspire to the dignity as well as convenience of absolute self-government\u201d \u2014they will not yield one jot either to blus-teriugs or sneers, but will calmly, peacefully, and constitutionally, urge their reasons and argunents uptn their fellow-countrymen» until they obtain that \u201c overwhelming majority\u201d, which, all admit, must secure to them and to their children, what Scotland\u2019s Peasant-bard calls, The glorious privilege, Ol being Independent.Mr.Chabot\u2019s Resignation\u2014Responsible Government as it Works.\u2014A few weeks ago it was announced to the people of this Province, that His Excellency had graciously pleased to elevate to that sublime hierarchy, who are ex officio talented, patriotic, immaculate\u2014in short, worthy of the most unlimited confidence of their fellow citizens,\u2014one Jean Chabot, Esq., Solicitor, of Quebec.And this gentleman was not merely supposed to be endowed, by the aboveact of His Excellency, with all sorts of political and moral philosophy, to fit him for the Government of mankind ; but we are, in duty bound to believe that he also received with these high qualities a special revelation in the mechanical arts.Mahomet\u2019s visions were a sorry inspiration, compared to that which Jean Chabot, Esqr., received by the communication of the viceregal mandate.He was at once the virtu-ousest, wisest, best of men.He was Montesquieu mixed up with the learned blacksmith\u2014fitted to lead a senate or to fix a flue\u2014 to aid Mr.Drummond in codifying the laws of Canada, or see that the drains about Eimsley House were not in state calculated to injure the health of the illustrious inmates.The new prophet neither wanted his Medina, nor his Kadesha.Quebec believed in him, and Wetenhall, consented to be his helpmate ; but, unluckily, the likeness to the Arabian just failed where it was most important it should hold good.The Eastern prophet eschewed wine.Mr.Chabot imitated, but did not resemble him : lie took to whiskey ; and therefore, at about that period of his mission when the apostle of the desert was spirited away on the back of the beast Alobrak, and saw the seven heavens, Mr.Chabot was also spirited away ; but only saw the inside of six groggeries and a police station.The President of the Society of St.Vincent de Paul de Q,uebec, had a fine opportunity of experiencing, in kind, the gratitude which his fellow creatures owe to his benevolence.Vincent de Paul ramassant l'enfant trouvé, was enacted at Toronto by a worthy creature in a blue coat with white numbers and letters on the collar ; and Venfant trouvé, was also Venfant perdu.Mr.Chabot resigned for private reasons.The command was, after all, issued to the wrong man.Jean Chabot is not Mahomet ; but only a faqueer, and having merely affected inspiration, without possessing it, has been spinning round and standing on his head till the business has proved too mighty for his nerves.Collapse has followed excitement ; and the Chief Commissioner of the Board of Works, instead of planning canals to connect oceans, is again shrunk to an Attorney, very careful to have all his motions end with a conclusion for distraction of costs.It is very well the imposture has stopped where it did ; and, anxious as we are for economy we hardly think a whole Province could have been treated to a farce at less charge than the Chief Commissioner\u2019s four months salary.Tickets to the shilling gallery would have been more extravagant.In another month the House of Assembly, supposed to consist of the best men of Canada, chosen out of all others for integrity and intelligence, would have met together merely to bow down and worship this image among the other images which Lord Elgin has set up.To differ in opinion would have been denounced as disaffection\u2014to oppose him, would have been represented as open rebellion against that Responsible Government, which the people are said to have been twenty long years trying to es» tablish.And if any, though willing to worship, should have suggested that the idol might have a more decent shape, the helplessness of Aaron\u2019s answer would have been the Governor\u2019s best excuse\u2014\u201c there came out this calf.\u201d The truth is that the Province has been called on to pay £750 per annum to a gentleman, who, had he not been a scandal, would still have been useless ; and who every body knows could be nothing else than useless.The name of his office was but a pretence.In reality he might as well have received the money, si mply as the member for Quebec : as a reward for past votes ; a retaining fee for future ones ; and an example of rewarded merit, certain to have a wholesome effect on the rising generation.They used to gibbet pirates near frequented ports, to teach honesty to young sailors.But, however good the les son, it availed nothing to the swinging scarecrows at whose expense it was given.We have found out a better method.The example himself enjoys it as much as the beholders profit by it ; and though Mr.Chabot has dropped a good deal before the time when he should have done so in the natural course of things, we have little doubt the experiment will be persisted in.Justice to the District of Quebec, or some other District will still make itneees-sary that the entire Province should be swindled to support responsibility and pay for votes.and costly struggle which preceded the emancipation of England\u2019s Colonial Slaves \u2014 the time and circumstances required to effect that great measure ; and secondly, that the moral iniquity of Slavery must, in fairness, be divided between those who directly profit by it\u2014the Slave-owners of the South, their customers, the Cotton manufacturers of Great Britain, and theircustomers again \u2014viz : every man and woman who, knowing them to be the production of slave labor, buy arid wear the fabrics of Manchester or Glasgow.The Pilot is perfectly right in saying\u2014\u201c the whole subject, we are fully aware, is involved in great perplexity\u201d ; although, we think, he is blind to the certain operations of cause and effect, when he adds,\u2014\u201c but we are not inclined to think that the Annexation of Canada would help the slave.\u201d We observe, in the last issue of the Pilot, that our contemporary\u2019s Sherbrooke correspondent \u201cAscot\u201d attributes the authorship of the letter signed \u201c Orford,\u201d lately published in the Herald, to Mr.Ritchie, Jun., the Deputy Returning Officer for Orford, at the late election.In justice to that gentleman, we beg to state that Mr.R.was not the author of that, or of any other communication in the Herald, upon the subject of the late Election, or upon any other subject whatever.meal each.InChagres there are no regular streets\u2014no quadrupeds of any sort to be seen except pigs\u2014and the houses are miserable huts made of the bamboo cane and covered with the palm leaf, which, when dry, resembles a roof of straw.Before starting, we saw that our stock of provisions was complete, purchased a lot of cocoa nuts at a couple of cen s each, for the sake of drinking the milk they contained (a tumbler full) on the road, and at 5 o\u2019clock in the evening our canoe was paddled up the river, conducted by two stalwart Indians\u2014or niggers if yon preler the name.My friend and I each bought a straw hat, at Chagres, at 4 dimes (4 a dollar)\u2014we found it very useful\u2014umbrellas were too high- priced, $5 each, luckily Dr.-and Mr.-each had anumbtella, and we shared them.As soon as our canoe was pushed off, our Indians quietly undressed themselves and were prepared to take us up the river.This is, however, the custom of the country among Ihe natives and no longer excites our surprise.Boys and girls in the streets of Chagres, Gorgona, Getna and Panama, and all other of these villages up to the age of 11 and 12, do not put their parents to any expense whatever for clothing, as they wear none.Our canoe-men worked all night until 3 a.m., and by that time we had only gone up some 14 or 16 miles, nearly 2 miles an hour ! Westopped at a rancha or hut at this hour.Dr.- and I probably would have contended successfully with | rrx .> a p* pt e pt pv AT AT r» O /~t r\" the Uld Company ; as it is, they found it requisite ] 1 tvTYjJjli (X UiVl 1VI Cj IV UU/.to amalgamate with that Company, and although 1 _______________________________________________\u2014 the busmess is now carried on, under the désigna.| non of the New City Gas Company, it is, in fact, I The Witness.\u2014Our contemporary would do well lo state his own views, without making unjust and uncandid reflections upon the motives of others.We are contented to abide the decision of the public, alike as to our views and motives.Provincial Parliament.\u2014The Toronto Globe announces, on authority, that the Parliament is to meet on the 14;h of May.Montreal Building Society.\u2014At the last monthly meeting the Directors disposed of three Shares, of £100 each, at 22£ per cent bonus.Fire.\u2014Last night, at 11 o\u2019clock, a fire broke out in a house in the St.Lawrence Suburbs, Dorchester Street, belonging to Mrs.Gauthier, nearly opposite Mr.Bower\u2019s grocery store ; it was completely consumed.The Voltigeur fire engine was first on the spot and rendered good service.A considerable quantity of light bread was seized on Monday by the Police.John Ingram.\u2014A mceiing was held on Monday evening, which was attended by persons of all shades of political and religious opinion, for the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning for a commutation of the sentence on Ingram.Francis Johnson, Esq., occupied the Chair, and the meeting was addressed by several gentlemen.It was unanimously resolved that a petition should be prepared immediately, and we have no doubt that it will be very numerously signed.Fourteen persons were arrested by the police on Sunday night, as thieves or vagrants.We are informed that the Easter Collection for tiro poor, at St.Patrick\u2019s Church in this city, on Sunday last, amounted to £50 Os.3d.This was a very liberal collection.The sermon of the day (on the Resurrection) was de-ivered, we understand, by the Rev.Mr.O\u2019Brien, and was an eloquent production.The Almoner of the Irish Poor, begs gratefully to acknowledge the handsome sum of nine pounds ten shillings, being one half of the proceeds of a benefit given by Mr.Stone, in favor of the Protestant and Catholic Asylums of this city.The Treasurer of the Montreal Protestant Orphan Asylum, acknowledges with many thanks, the receipt of nine pounds ten shillings, being one half the proceeds of a lecture on Biology given on Monday evening last, the 1st instant, by Mr.Stone, for the joint benefit of the Catholic and Protestant Orphan Asylums of this city.It is to be hoped that our readers will bear in mind that the amateur performance of Rob Roy, by the Garrick Club, from whom so much is expected, takes place this evening.The occasion and the attraction, we should imagine, will produce a bumper house.left our two friends asleep in the canoe, and we went up and took a cup of coffee, served up by an ugly black,\u2014the rancha, a vast barn, being lighted by the small flickering light which the remains of the chimney fire gave.I threw myself on the ground in the centre of the hut next to our canoe-men, and, with pistol in hand, slept two hours.At daylight we returned to the canoe (Thursday, 28th Feb.,) and started again up the river\u2014water so shallow, poles used instead of paddles.The river Chagres passes through a more beautiful country- than anything I could ever have con-c&ivsd\u2014this yertainiy must have been the stream which ran through the garden of Eden ; on either side of us the most beautiful trees and shrubbery, the palm, the cocoa, the bamboo, the banana, the cactus, &e., growing in wild profusion, the sides of the hills studded with green and high shrubbery ; the river runs by streets, as the natives term it, i.e., it runs in a straight line for about two acres and then takes a sudden turn and runs in another line for a couple of acres and so on, so that, look at either side or at either end, you see nought but the beautiful palm and all the endless variety of the east or the soulh.These trees, moreover, are crowded with birds of the largest as well as the smallest size, innumerable quantities of turkey-buzzards, eagles, blackbirds and large white birds, size of a duck, and I should say every species of beautiful singing birds.There were also quantities of parrots and parroquets, monkies, alligators, lizards, &c.I anticipated seeing a low marshy country, my surprise at finding such a delightfully situated river may be more easily imagined than described.At 8 a.m., on Thursday, we stopped near a rancha and took our breakfast,\u2014verily we were fit subjects to be carricatured.It had rained in the night; we had had scarcely any sleep ; we conse-quenily looked like pictures ot misery, half-undressed ; we squatted ourselves under a tree on the ground, everything wet, no knives, forks, nor plates ; we hauled out onr bag of provisions and eat our salt meat, tearing it with our hands with our two Indians behind us watching for us to throw something to them to eat ; we had some left from the day before which had become tainted ; we threw that to them, they seemed delighted, and soon did they demolish it, but we had an unlooked-for trouble, we were surrounded by some 20 pigs, half dozen hungry dogs, and a whole host of poultry.We had to make every effort to keep off this formidable army and eat our meal in as peaceable a manner as possible : but no, on, on they came, grunt followed grunt, until at last we had each of us to take a regular post and drive off our tiresome enemies.The whole scene to us ourselves appeared so ludicrous that we enjoyed the fun much, and notwithstanding the above, being hungry, we relished our meal more than if we had ea\u2019en it in a palace.The weather at times was awfully warm, ranging at limes up to 130° and down to 100 ° in the sun.We reached Gorgona on Friday morning, the 1st March, at 11 ; thus taking 36 hours to come some 45 or 50 miles\u2014here we discharged our boatmen and prepared to hire mules to reach Panama, a distance of 24 miles.But this route I will- continue in my letter No.3, which I will write before I leave this place.In my opinion Chagres is a healthy place and the trip up the river is really quite agreeable \u2014if I were making a tour of pleasure, instead of one of business, I would desire no more beautiful spot to go up and down than the Chagres river\u2014the current is so strong that boats come down in 14 hours.My next will describe the mule route from Gorgona to Panama.We, of course, are in the dry season, no doubt everything must be changed and different in the rainy season.We are all perfectly well, so are all the other Canadians who are encamped about a mile from us.G.J.the *\u2022 United Gas Company of Montreal,\u201d and as such they offer for the lighting ol the city lamps, not at an opposition price, or less than cost, but at £4 currency each lamp, for the gas and light-ins, and 10s.additional for repair, a fair and \u201dno.derate rate \u2014the lowest in Canada, and as low as in Liverpool, where gas is sold at 4?6d.per 1,000 cubic Icet, Olid £4 sterling or £4 17s.4d.curren.cy, is charged for eachVstreet lamp.1 he report of the Light Committee further states, that the New City Gas Company ¦* have refused to continue lighting the public lamps, un.less the price paid were increased to £4 10s.cur.rency per lamp, and other new and stringent conditions were inserted in the contract.\" Now, in place of ibis, the Company at the expiration of the contract, made offer to the Mayor, to continue to light the lamps, until the difference between the contracting parties was arranged, and that if no arrangement was come to, and it was decided the city should be lett in darkness, then £4 currency per lump only, should be charg-ed, during the time of such négociation ; but if a new contract was entered into, such lighting should be charged at rale of contract.As to the \u201c stringent measures\u201d alluded to, the copy of tender of 22nd January which accompa.nies this, shows that these arè simply requiring prompt payment for the article furnished, accord-ing to contract; tor it docs not longer suit the Gas Company to be paid in Corporation Accep.tances, requiring Individual Indorsers.I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, W.R.FALCONER, Manager.) Montreal Herald Ufeice.I\tApril 3, 1850.Since our last the weather has continued mild, with every appearance of the approach of summer.In Several places the ice is broken up, and a few daysol the fine weather which we have lately had, will open the navigation in this vicinity.We hear ol several accidents having occurred in crossing.We have no information in commercial materts to report.Prices remain as at our last quotations.The Superintendent of the Welland Canal gives notice that the works of that» canal will all be.ready, and the levels filled to allow vessels to pass from lake to lake by the Fort Maitland route, on Monday the first day of April and within a few days after that date, the shorter and direct route by Port Colborne will also be fully opened for naviga lion.J\tCity Hall, £ Montreal, Jan.12, 1850.Lake Champlain.\u2014The steamer \u201c Saranac,\u201d commenced her regular trips between Plausburg and Burlington on Monday the 25th ultimo\u2014the earliest arrival by steam on record.The Saranac will, for the present, leave Burlington on the arrival of the western stage.The line boats, commence their regular trips as soon as the lake is clear of ice.There will be a day and night line, composed ol the steamers United States, Saltus, Burlington and Whitehall.{Reported for the Montreal Herald.) VIA MONTREAL AND BUFFALO LINE-April 3, 8, A.M.Quebec.\u2014Unpleasant Drizzling Rain\u2014Wind S.W.Three Rivers.\u2014Beautiful Morning.Montreal.\u2014Fine\u2014Wind N.E.\u2014Ther.28 above; Btr.29,95.Cornwall.\u2014Fine, Clear, and Warm.Brockville.\u2014 Beautiful Weather\u2014Wind East.Kingston.\u2014Mild\u2014Wind South\u2014Storm coming\u2014Channel clear of ice.Oshawa,\u2014Fine\u2014Wind S*E.Toronto.\u2014Mild and Cloudy Appearance of a Storm\u2014Wind S.E.Quebec, 5, P.M.All the Stock of the Quebec Forwarding Company, consisting of 2 steamers and 18 barges were sold this afternoon for £2618.The steamer Quebec, 93 feet long and 20 feot broad, sold for £500, and the steamer Huron, 93 leet long and 19 broad, sold for £600.Some ot the barges are capable of carrying 1800 barrels and cost £700.Buffalo, April 3.\u2014The \u201c May Flower\u201d and ihe Atlantic\u201d have taken their places in the Central Railroad Line, and the former left hero ihis morning for Detroit.We learn by Cleveland papers, that ihe Ohio Canal Iromjthat place to Portsmouth is open, and the first boat arrived yesterday morning from Akron.Sir,\u2014Adverting to your letter, dated the 5ih ult., intimating that the contract for lighting the street lamps, will expire ou ihe l»t March next, which letter was duly laid before the Council, I am directed to request, that the New City Gas Company, will commumcafer, at their earliest con-venience, if they are prepared to enter into a contract wiih the Corporation to light the city lumps, after the 1st Mardi next ; and if so, upon what terms and conditions they desire such contraol to be made.I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most ob\u2019dt.servant, J.P.Sexton, City Clerk.W.R.Falconer, Esq., Manager of the New City Gas Company.Montreal.S New City Gas Company\u2019s Office, J Montreal, 22nd Jany., 1850.Dear Sir,\u2014Your letter of the 12ih inst., was yesterday laid before a meeting of the Directors of this Company.I am instructed to inform you that this Company are willing to contract for the lighting of the city lamps at £4 0 0 each, for the gas and lighting, and 10s additional on each lamp for wear, tear and repairs, or, in all, £4 10 0 for each lamp, per annum.Or the Company Will contract at the same rate as formerly, viz : £4 0 0 per lamp, and the Cor-poration to be at all expenses of repair to lamps, pipes, &c., connected therewith, and in Winter to furnish the requisite spirits required for thaw, ing the lamp service-pipes.Payments to be made monthly, and the 20th section ol the Company\u2019s Charier 12 V., c.Ifc3 to be inserted in the contract, I am, dear Sir, Your most obedt.servant, W.R.Falconer, Manager.J.P.Sexton, Esq.Return of the Assets and Liabilities of the Commercial Bank, M.D., on the 28th of Febru ary, 1850 :\u2014 LIABILITIES.Promissory Notes in circulation not bearing miercsi\t Bills of Exchange in circulation\t£310,836\t10\t0 Bills and Notes in circulation\t\t\t Balances due to other Banks and Foreign Agents\t\t36,903\t4\t2 Cash Deposited, not bearing in-terest\t\t\t89,186\t1\t0 Do\tbearing interest.\t36,863\t14\t4 £373,789\t\t9\t6 ASSETS.Coin and Bullion\t\t53,217\t4\t1 Landed and other Property\t\t23,426\t18\t10 Government Securities\t\t\t\t Promissory Notes and Bills of other Banks\t\t15,523\t0\t0 Balances due by other Banks and Foreign Agents\t\t\t48,273\t9\t4 Notes and Bills discounted, and other debts due to the Bank, not included under the foregoing heads\t\t640,241\t1\t1 \t£779,686\t13\t4 Pjenner\u2019s Cider\u2014We would direct attention to an Advertisement in another column, of Fenner\u2019s celebrated Cider.A Depot has been opened for the Sale of this article at 184 Notre Dame Street, where the real article may be had.\u2014See Advertisement.We are greatly surprised that the Herald should institute a comparison between the Irish and English poor and the Slaves of the United States.\u2014Pilot.Our contemporary misapprehends us.We instituted no comparison between \u201cthe Irish and English poor and the Slaves of the United States.\u201d Our comparison was between the \u201c Irish question,\u201d as affecting the United Kingdom, and the \u201c Slavery question,\u201d as affecting the United States.Again, our contemporary says :\u2014 When we are told that Annexation would \u201c in no respect involve our participation in the guilt of Slavery in States, over which the Federal Constitution exercises no authority,\u201d we must remind the Herald that if we were to admit the correctness of this assertion, which we do not.the case of the District of Columbia remains, and the argument founded on it is unassailable.That District is under the sole control of Congress.Here our printer misled our contemporary \u2014 we corrected the passage in our last issue.What we wrote was, that \u201c Annexation would in no respect involve our (the people of Canada\u2019s) participation in the guilt of Slavery in States, over which the Federal Constitution gives us (the people of Canada) no authority.\u201d It is true that the District of Columbia is 6i under the sole control of Congress,\u201d but not that any individual State can exercise authority over it.Congress will, we trust, when lime and circumstances permit, relieve the District of Columbia from the stain.We repeat, the Pilot and those who, with him, stigmatize the people of the Free States of the Union, as the supporters of Slavery\u2014or, as he more offensively expresses it, as living \u201cin companionship with the owners of human flesh and blood\u201d\u2014such persons should bear in mind two things First, the long, arduous We are again indebted to a friend for the following interesting account of the journey, en route lo California, across the Isthmus of Panama, received by him by the last mail [No.2.] Panama, Pacific Ocean, Tuesday, 5ih March, 1850.(Thermometer 124° in the sun, 89° in shade.) I wrote you a long letter from Chagres, my No.1, on the 25.h February ; I write you now from here in fulfilment of my promise given in my last.I will give you but a short description of the crossing of the Isthmus, as it is too fatiguing to write in this warm climate, and I am eyeing my Indian hammock: with a longing desire to throw myself again into it, as I do all day.I will here mention at the beginning, that the ship Tennessee, (steamer), which we of the Cherokee expected and were promised would be waiting for us, has not yet arrived ; we have consequently the pleasant prospect of being detained here some two weeks\u2014we are, however, in capital spirits, the best of health, and among friends\u2014so that all goes on well enough, barring the extreme annoyance of such long and so many detentions, before we can reach our destination.So liitle information has been given of the crossing the Isthmus, that I will here detail you my experience.\u2014 Parties are formed on board the steamers generally to go together, but they are sure to be broken when the selection of canoes comes to take place.I had formed first a party with Messrs.-to cross together\u2014we were to be eight\u2014a canoe for four was hired for them, and consequently we separated.My friend and I then joined with the double party of thirteen Canadians who were in our steamer; on coming ashore, owing to their heavy baggage, their two canoes could hold only 13, (we two made up 15), we therefore made up a new party ; we joined with two of the passengers of our acquaintance, Dr.- and Mr.-, hired a canoe to hold fyur, and for forty dollars we came from Chagres to Gorgona, a distance of about 45 to 50 miles : the canoe could have held 5 persons, for the same price, but we preferred not being overcrowded and paying 10 dollars each instead of 8 each.I would advise any person who comes across to purchase an umbrella and a straw hat, and the lightest summer clothes.I landed at Chagres from the steamship on Wednesday, the 27lh, at 11, a.m., in a small boat, paid one dollar.My friend followed in half an hour.Chagres looks picturesque on landing\u2014we passed the remains of the old earthen fort and towers built by Cortes when he came to conquer Mexico.On the sMe of the Chagres River, where we are first landed, the few Americans who remain here, for the sake of selling liquors.&c., reside; but on the opposite side is the real town of Chagres, inhabited by copper-colored blacks, partaking a little of the Indian, and whose mother tongue is the Spanish.Let me here remark that the passage money to the Indians should be half payable on starting and the balance on arriving at your destination.The natives try to insist on being paid the whole amount at once, but this must be resisted by the traveller when he makes his bargain.Before starling we eat an uncomfortable dinner of salt meat in a hut, yclept the \u201cAmerican Hotel\u201d, having yams instead of potatoes ; we paid 6 dimes (3s 9d; lor our Return of the average Assets and Liabilities o( the Bank of Upper Canada, on the 28th ol February, 1850 : \u2014 LIABILITIES.Promissory Notes in circulation THE HON.MR.DALY.Mr.Adderly wished to ask the Under-Secretary for the Colonies il the secretaryship of Mauritius, to which a gentleman named Bayley had been lately gazetted, had not been offered previously to Mr.Dominick Daly, lute provincial secretary of Canada (\u201c Oh\u2018 oh !\u201d) and, if so, whether the reason he assigned tor refusing it was not that he considered the duties of the office could not be efficiently discharged by a stranger to the colony?(\u201cOh,!\u201d) He wished also to ask if Mr.Bayley was a person who, by previous residence in a colonial possession, or by acquaintance with colonial administration, was well qualified for such a post (Murmurs, and cries of \u201c Oh, oh !\u201d) Mr.Hawes said he did not think it a part of his duty to answer such questions respecting the appointments made by Her Majesty\u2019s Government.(Hear, hear.) If the hon.member had any charge to make, or any censure to affix to the gentleman alluded to, let him take his own course.(Cheers.) \u2014London News.Balances due toother Banks.Cash deposits not bearing interest.Cash deposits bearing interest.ASSETS.Coin and Bullion.Landed and other Property of the Bank.Promissory notes or Bills ol other Banks.Balances due from other Banks.Notes and Bills discounted, or other debts due to the Bank, not included under the foregoing heads.£187,568\t5\t0 5,205\t5\t10 124,385\t6\t8 14,798\t5\t8 £331,957\t3\t2 36,340\t14\t5 31,232\t19\t1 .\t21,015\t8\t9 17,289\t10\t0 ,\t16,187\t4\t1 , 600,201\t6\t11 £722,267\t3\t3 NEW YORK MARKETS, ^April 3\u20146£, P.M.Ashes\u2014Fair demand for Pots, market buoyant ; sales at D6,U6 a 6,12^\u2014Pearls continue steady ; sales 100 barrels at 4,75 a 5,61.Flour, &c.\u2014A greater disposition to realize ; inquiry moderate lor the East and local trade ; Canadian quiet at 04,62^\u2014receipts moderate ; chigan ; 5,12£ a 5,314 for strait to fancy gan and good Ohio ; 5,50 a 5,624 for pure see ; 5,75 a 5,874 f°r fancy Ohio; 5,75a for extra Genesee; 5,8L a 6,00 for extra Ohio.Rye Flour heavy ; sales 400 barrels at 2,75.Grain\u2014Wheat in limited demand, market steady.Rye steady ; sales 6000 bushels at 57c, and the residue on private terms.Barley heavy at 73c.Oats 39c a 41c for northern ; 35c a 37c for Jersey ; 28c a 33c lor southern.Corn in good demand lor the East\u2014southern yellow better ; sales 10,000 bushels at 52c for heated; 53c for mixed ; 54c a 55c for white southern ; 55c for southern and Jersey yellow.Provisions.\u2014Pork continues heavy and dull, a few hundred barrels sold at D 10,00 for Mess ; and 8,31 for Prime; 9,00 for Sour ; and 10,50 a 10,75 lor extra Mess.Lard in fair demand for export ; sales 500 barrels and tierces at 64c a 6 J c for good to prime.Butier firm at full prices.BUFFALO MARKET\u2014April 3.Flour, &c.\u2014Little inquiry ; sales 100 barrels Country Wisconsin at D4,374\u2014other grades quiet at previous rates.We learn of nothing doing in Grain.Seed in moderate request ; sales 40 or 50 barrels in lots at D3,624 for Clover ; also 30 barrels Timothy at D2.124.and one shilling lor packages.Provisions in good demand and steady at prices of last week ; sales 60 barrels Mess Pork, city inspection at DIO,00.SANDUSKY MARKET.\u2014March 30.Our streets to-day present a lively appearance, and considerable trade in a retail way has been done.One thousand bushels Wheat on market to-day, for which 88 cents was offered on board aud refused.Corn.\u2014The feeling in this article is rather improving, with a slight tendency up.wards.We hear of no sales, but it may be quoted at 35 a 37 cents.Other articles at previous rates.DETROIT MARKET\u2014April 1.Flour\u2014The quantity coming in does not exceed the demand for city consumption.Fair demand lor retail trade ; flour in lots of 20 to 50 bbls at $4,50.Mess Pork D10 a 10,50.CORRESPONDENCE.To the Editor of the Montreal Herald.Sir,\u2014No one will deny that good roads are essential to the prosperity of any country, and I am happy to see that in various parts ol the Pro.vince strenuous efforts are being made to render travelling somewhat less of a positive danger to life and property than it has been.A great deal, however, is yet to be done in road making in Canada ; and the question, which experience can now decide is, whether plank roads or macada-mized roads are the more suitable in every respect, as to cost, durability and ease of travel ?\u2014 The general impression seems to be that plank roads are by far io be preferred to any other sort, excepting, of course, railroads.As an investment, they have been found to pay remarkably well in many parts of the Upper Province, and in the Northern and Western Stales\u2014and in nearly every Southern State there are, at this moment, plank road companies, and plank roads springing up in all directions ; in fact, quite a mania now exists on this subject in many of the States.\u2014 Still, it must be admitted, that in our own immediate neighbourhood, the turnpike trustees do not seem to find this kind of road to answer so well as the macadamized road.This, however, is probably a peculiarity to our neighbourhood, for no where on the continent does any city possess such exhaustless treasures of stone as we have within a mile of our doors, enabling us to make stone roads at a tithe of the expense of most other places.Our climate, perhaps, may have an injurious effect on the planks, causing them to decay much more rapidly than elsewhere.There may also be something in our soil that may be deteriorating to plank roads.I write, however, not to give, but to elucidate information, from those thoroughly acquainted with the subject.Perhaps, some ot the Longueuil road trustees would favour the public with their views of the matter ; or some of your Upper Canada correspondents might, through your columns, give us something of their experience as to the benefit, or otherwise of the the kind of road referred to.Some of your brother editors, too might, fur a while, refrain from discussing such trumpery matters as the appointment of this or that political place-hunter, and turn their attention to matters of such vital importance to the community as the subject of this communication.1 am, Sir, Your obedient servant, M.A.J.Montreal, March 28, 1850.J New City Gas Company\u2019s Office, i Montreal, April 3, 1850.To the Editor of the Montreal Herald.Sir,\u2014In the report of the Light Committee, given in yesterday\u2019s, Herald particular notice is taken of the letter of Mr.Bethune, dated 13:h Sep.tember, 1847, as the cause ol the Corporation entering into a contract with the Old Gas Company, to light the city lamps at the rate of £4 currency per lamp, merely for a term ol two years, in place of live years, as offered by that Company.In reply to this portion ol the report, I must be permitted to state, that its authors are laboring under a misapprehension\u2014the then Mayor ol the city, as well as the then Chairman of the Light Committee having distinctly declared that Mr.Belhune\u2019s letter in no way influenced that decision.Mr.Bethune\u2019s letter appears to have been thought unworthy of a reply, and no notice whatever was taken of it, nor was any encouragement held out that the New Gas Company would obtain the contract, at the expiry of the two years.Although Mr.Bethune, in his letter, specifies the time when the New Company would be able to light the city, yet the Council were so much in favour of the Old Company, that they entered into a contract with it, lor a term of two years, expiring on the 1st March, 1850; a time when, from the seventy of the weather, and impossibility of opening the streets, they well knew, the New Company could not offer for a contract, commencing at such time.Had the Council either given the New Company a portion of the city contract, or held out encouragement, that they might obtain it, they CALIFORNIA\u2014UNITED STATES GO-VERNMENT REPORT.(Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce.) Washington, Monday, March 25.Mr.Thomas Butler King\u2019s Report on California was read to the President and Cabinet, to-day, and occupied two hours and a half in reading.It will ol course be soon presented to Congress.The topics of which it treats are :\u2014 The population of the country ; Its agricultural resources ; Extent and production ot the mineral region ; The commerce and navigation of California; The legislation necessary for the territory, And, especially, in regard to the disposition of the gold bearing lands, belonging to the United States.The population of the country is now about one hundred and twenty thousand.An accession to the population by emigration during the year beginning at the next dry season,\u2014on the first of May,\u2014is estimated at two hundred thousand.The agricultural capacities of the State are vastly greater than has been heretofore represent\" ed.There is a vast extent of pasture lands, unsurpassed anywhere in the world, in verdure and richness.The wild oats grow spontaneously all over the plains, yielding an annual crop at the rale of forty bushels per acre.Any number of cattle and sheep may be raised.Two hundred thousand head ot cattle must be brought into the country during the next two years.The cattle were formerly killed for their hides, which was the chief article of export; and they were worth but four dollars a head ; but now they are worth twenty or thirty dollars a head.California is especially adapted to wooNgrow-ing ; a gentleman was about to import 1U,000 sheep from Mexico, with a view to go into that business.The future value of the vineyards is represented as very great.As to the commerce of the country, he estimates the value of imports received in California from the Atlantic States, for the next year, at four millions of dollars in flour, six millions in lumber, and two millions in other articles.As to the article of lumber, its price is now $75 per thousand, and cannot be lower, because it is below the cost of labor necessary for cutting and sawing lumber in California.It can be carried to California for $24 a thousand, and supposing il io cost $20 here, it will continue to pay.The gold region is described as extending five or six hundred miles from the South to the North, and from lorty to sixty miles in width, from East to West.It rises gradually in an inclined plain, from the Sacramento Valley, to the elevation of 4,000 feet at what are called the Foot Hills.Between these hiils and the Sierra Nevada, a number of streams have their course, and take their course through the Foot Hills, westward.Mr King examined twelve of these rivers, and found them all very rich in gold.The termor) on the North is very rich in gold ; and the conclusion is inevitable, from all the facts that the whole quartz plain, containing three thousand square miles, is lull of gold bedded in the quartz, and some of which, disintegrated from the quartz by the torrents, may be found in dust and lumps in the beds of the streams.The whole number of foreigners in the region, who ore gold hunters, is filteen thousand.There have been but seven thousand American gold hunters.The Chilians, and the Sonora people came in crowds, and have carried off twenty five millions.The Americans have procured fifteen millions.The Chilians are expert diggers.The amount of gold already procured is forty millions.But forty millions more will be procur.ed during the dry season\u2014say from ])Iay till No.vember.The regular mining operations in the solid quartz rock will soon begin, and can be continued during the wet as well as the dry season.Mr.King estimates the amount of gold which will be procured, from the 1st May, 1851, till the 1st Nov., 1852, at one hundred millions ! He recommends that the lands be retained as public property forever,\u2014and as a perpetual resource lor the public exchequer.To the workers and diggers of gold, he propos, es to grant permits, at the rate of an ounce of gold for each pound.For the encouragement of regular mining oper-ations, he proposes to grant leases of a limited number of acres, to persons or companies, at a small per centago on the amount of gold procured.Statement of the Affairs of the Quebec Provi.dent and Savings Bank, for the year ending 20ih March, 1850:\u2014 Cr.Balance due Depositors on March 1, 1849.£31,772 4 2 Deposits daring 12 months.£54,484 8 5 Withdrawn dur\u2019g 12 months.44,311 10 10 Balance at credit of interest account.Leas Expenses for year.1,131 19 471\t1 10,172 17 7 660 17 9 Total Liabilities.42,605 19\t6 A Canadian Patriot in Luck.\u2014Wm.E.Fellows, of Oswego, a young man about 25 years, who was engaged in the bloody fight at Windmill Point during the Canadian Rebellion, and was there captured by the British and sent to Van Dieman\u2019s Land, has just returned to Oswego with $12,000 in gold dust.After being liberated from Van Dieman\u2019s Land, he went to Oregon, aud from thence to the mines.\u2014Buffalo Courier.Dr.Bank Stock.£12,493\t15\t0 Public Loans.\t14,715\t0\t0 Loans with colle»* teial security, or Real Estate and Public Debentures.11,581\t16\tl Cash in Quebec Bank at interest.Interest accrued but not received.38,790 11\t1 3,387 16 10 427 11\t7 £42,605 19 6 TORONTO xMARKET.\u2014March, 28, No transactions in Flour to note.Since the arrival of the Niagara, our market has been dull.Millers\u2019 extra superfine, by retail in bags, I9s a 20s per 196 lbs.Farmers\u2019 fine, by retail 17s a 17s 6d per 196 lbs.Fall Wheat, 4s a 4s 44d per bushel of 60 lbs.Spring Wheat 3s 3d a 3s 8d per bushel of 60 lbs.Rye, 2s per 60 lbs.Barley, Is 9d a 2s per bushel of 48 lbs.Oats, Is 3d a Is 4d per bushel of 34 lbs.Peas, 2s a 3s per bushel of 60 lbs.The latter price being only paid for the marrow fat pea.Indian Corn, 2s a 2s 6d per bushel of 60 lbs.Potatoes Is 6d a Is 9d per bushel.Grass Seed 8s a 8s 9d per bushel of 48 lbs.Clover Seed 20s a 22s per bushel.Hay 45s 55s per ton.Straw 20s a 25s per ton.Cord-wood 11s 3d a 12s 6d per cord lor good hard wood.Oatmeal 18s 9d per barrel of 186 lbs.Pot Barley 25s per barrel.There are several buyers from Oswego, in the market.A transaction has transpired, of 23,000 bus.best fall wheat purchased at 4s 6|d currency, or 91 cents per bushel, deliverable in bond in Oswego,\u2014marine insurance paid by purchaser.Also, a sale of 500 brls.Flour, at 18s 9d, the sellers paying insurance in store for a month, which brings the nett price to 18s 9d per barrel.We have no more trade transactions to report.Some other transactions in flour has taken place, one lot ol 700 barrels at 18s 9d, and a few small lots at 18s 9d a 19s.MILWAUKEE MARKET.\u2014March 20.Nothing doing in the market, the extremely bad roads cutting off receipts.Prices are tending up.wards.Wheat 60 a 68c for spring; 78 a 85 for winter.Flour D3 75 a 3 87 for good country brands, and 12^ cts more for choice do.\u2014 Butler very scarce, and a good article will bring 25c.Crops in Michigan.\u2014The Monroe (Mich.) Commercial says: \u201cThe wheat crop in this country, os we learn on inquiry of farmers and others, bids fair to be better this season then in several years past.The appearance of the crop at this time is represet.ted to be very promising and indicating an abundant harvest if not injured hereafter ; and Monroe will continue, as heretofore, to turnish the best market for this staple product of Michigan.\u201d Ohio Wheat Crop.\u2014Farmets from wheat growing counties are in great glee at the prospect of an old fashioned crop of wheat.It never looked better, say they.For two years the crop has been a failure and the farmers were getting discouraged .They now feel quite sure of a great yield.Amount of Wheat in Store at Chicago on first March, for a Series of Years.\u2014The fob lowing were the amounts of wheat, in store at Chicago, March, 1 for the past six years:\u2014 March 1st, 1845.\t Do\t1846.Do\t1847.Do\t1848.Do\t1849.Do\t1850.VIA MONTREAL AND TROY LINE.Washington, April 1.\u2014In consequence of Mr.Calhoun\u2019s deaih there was no business in either House.In the Senate his death was announced by his colleague amidst profound and solemn si* lence.Elogiums were pronounced by several Senators.It was stated in the course of the remarks made by the first speaker, that the immediate cause of Mr, Calhoun\u2019s death was an affection of the heart.Mr.Clay then made a brief but beautiful and affecting address, couched in touching terms.Mr.Webster lollowed, and paid a noble and merited tribute to the memory of the deceased, and is still speaking.In the House the Session was opened by an eloquent prayer by the Rev, Mr.Guerin, in which he alluded to the death of Mr.Calhoun\u2014after this the House adjourned.Mobile, March 25.\u2014The Royal Meil Steamer Avon arrived un Saturday Morning in the Bay, in three and^a-half days from Vera Cruz; She brought 40 passengers, principally from New Orleans, and $15,000 in Specie.Boston, April L.\u2014Deliberation of the Jury\u2014 Incidents, &c.\u2014The family of Dr.Webster was.not informed of the verdict the night it was ren.dered, but some friends undertook the task of preparing them for the news.The awful disclosure was made known to the family on Sunday morning by Mrs.W.H.Prescott.The scene was most heartrending, and the wails and shrieks could not bo concealed from the passers by.Every effort has been made by their friends to as-sauge the grief of the afflicted wife and daughters, who up to a lute hour, confidently expected an acquittal.A letter of condolence was present, ed them on Monday evening by the heads of all the principle families of Cambridge.This morning the immense crowd retired from the Court Room and its vicinity, and without the least disturbance.A medical student, named Hodges, has announced, to a Clergyman, that he saw Professor Webster standing over the corpse of Dr.Parkman, but had taken an oath that he would say nothing about it.Lately in a fit of delerium, he raved much about the mysterious murder, and acknowledged what he had seen.The Minister came to Boston to inform the Government, but it was too late.The student has been in Maine during the trial.Washington, April 1.\u2014Business at the Capital is entirely suspended.Senators and Members are seen in groups discussing the late sad event.The President\u2019s mansion and the Executive Departments are shrouded in mourning, presenting a solemn and imposing scene.Washington, April 2.\u2014Obsequies of Mr.Calhoun.\u2014The official business is entirely suspended at the Capital.The Committee of Arrangements, Pall-Bearers, Messrs.Hanogan, Clay, Webster, Cass, King and Berrien, and the mourners met at the late residence of Mr.Calhoun this morning to remove tite corpse.The Galleries of the Senate were densely crowded.Followed by the Judges of the Supreme Court, the President, Heads of Departments, Ministers of various countries, &c , &c., the coffin with the attendants entered, and the Members stood up.xMr.Butler read the Episcopal Burial Services, and the Chaplain from the desk read prayers.He is now preaching from the 87th Psalm, 7th verse, u I have said we are God\u2019s, &,o., but we shall die like men.\u201d(?) In the House the Speaker said,, in conformity wah the Resolutions passed yesterday, Officers and Members will now proceed to the Senate Chambers, and there join in the funeral ceremonies, which were agreed to.Mr.Calhoun\u2019s work on the Constitution, on which ho has been engaged this four years past, was completed last December.It is soon to be published; by his friends.Mr.C.in this work, developed his peculiar theory ol Government, by what he used to call concurrent majorities.The Shower of Flesh and Blood.\u2014The late shower of flesh and blood which carne off in Sampson county, is reported far and wide and exciting the especial wonder of everybody.We will venture a solution of the problem.It is the habit of the Turkey Buzzard, to overload its stomach with the proceeds of any dead carcass that may fall under its observation, and lay in a comeatable state.On mounting into the air, finding the load too cumbrous, it disgorges a part ofthe same, and thus produces a shower ol the kind described ; real flesh and blood.If the bones ol some animal or animal?, horse, cow, or sheep, robbed ol their fleshy covering, are not found somewhere not far from the sceno of the shower, alter a strict search, we recant the above and go back to point\u2014\u201cDont know.\u201d Wilming-.ton {N.C.) Courier.Something like a Gold Chain.-The Journal of Commerce mentions that a solid gold chain, ot a value exceeding $400 as it came from ihe mine, is about to be presented to the Honorable Daniel Webster, having been forwarded for that purpose by George VV.Eggleston, of San Francisco.It was manufactured in that city and may be seen for a few days at Ball, Tompkin\u2019s & Black\u2019, where it has been sent to be engraved with an appropriate inscription.\u2014N.Y.Com.Ad.DIED.On the 1st April, ot his residence, Cote St.Paul, Mr.John Carmichael, aged 6! years and 2 months, a native of Arsyleshire, Scotland.\u2014 Friend, aad acquaintances who wish to attend the funeral, will meet the procession at Dow\u2019s Brewery, on Thursday, (this day), at 3 o\u2019clock : place of interment Old Burying Ground."]