Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 25 décembre 1852, samedi 25 décembre 1852

[" VOLUME XLIV.AND DAILY COMMEM^ MONTREAL, SATURDAY MORÏJI FOR SALE.Platt's Cheese- rwo TONS PLATT'S CHEESE, just received and for sale by D.BUSTEED, No.23, St.Peter Street.November 9.\t21t F FOR SALE, at REDUCED PRICES Bay State Long Shawls Bay State Square Shawls and Handkerchiefs Scotch Longs and Squares Turkey Red Prints and Handkerchiefs Scotch Tweeds Cloths, Beavers and Witneys Blankets, Scarlet and White Flannels 100 Bales Best American Batting 250 do do Wadding \u2014also,\u2014 2 Punslslay Whiskey, very fine WALTER MACFARLAN, 212 St.Paul Street.Nov.5.\t214 OR SALE\u2014\t\u201c\t\u2019 64 kegs BICARBONATE OF SODA, best Newcastle manufacture.CARTER, KERRY & GO.136 St.Paul Street.' October 26.\t2o5 THE Subscriber has jnst received, and offers for Sale, at No.128 St.Paul Street\u2014 50 hhds Bright Muscovado Sugar 100 puns Muscovado and Clayed Molasses 500 packages Twankay and Hyson Tea 100 do Tobacco, 16\u2019s, 5\u2019s, 8\u2019s 100 brls Herrings, split and unsplit Brls of Oil\u2014Seal, Cod, Rape, Sperm, &c Pepper, Pimento, Cassia, Loaf Sugar, Soap Candles, Manilla and Tarred Cordage Paints, of all colors And a general assortment of GROCERIES.L.MARCHAND.October 11.\t192 OR SALE by the Subscriber\u2014 Superior Salt Butter in firkins Fresh Oatmeal Fine Yellow Cornmeal New Buckwheat Flour Fresh Raisins and Currants, crop 1852 Stewart\u2019s Syrup London Stout Porter, quarts and pints East India Pale Ale, do\tdo Fine Old Brandy, Pale and Dark Prime Port, Sherry, Madeira and other Wines choice assortment of General Together with a Groceries.November 23.CHAS.D.PROCTOR, 13 McGill Street.225 DEY GOOES.©csxvsr, wcob r*ii nJuTnir^ We rejoice to observe that a better day appears to be now rapidly arriving.Whilst the bench and the bar were alike doggedly and stubbornly opposed to every endeavour made by laymen to simplify the processes of the law, amt to open the gates ot justice as well to the poor man as to the rich, the cause ol law relorm was comparatively hopeless.It is true that, within the last century, there have not been wanting a lew lawyeis of the highest eminence, who have devoted much of their great learning and natural energy ot character to the removal of many ol the more glaring and scandalous abuses which disfigured the Statute-book and corrupted the practice of the Courts.Amongst these the names of Romilly and Brougham must be prominently and gratefully mentioned.But, great as were the capabilities which those distinguished men brought to the benevolent task which they voluntarily imposed upon themselves, they had the mortification of finding that their progress was but slow, and that they were submitting their enlightened propositions to a generation whicti was not yet ripe to appreciate or to receive them.Times have changed.The very classes who a few years since, were the stoutest in their resistance to even the slightest modification ot the evils which surrounded and arrested the administration of the law, are now amongst the foremost to call for their removal, and to suggest remedies for the mischief they have occasioned.There is scarcely a man of rank or eminence, either upon the bench or at the bar, who is not now a law reformer.Our readers will hardly suspect us of leaning, with any great partiality, either towards the persons of the present Administration, or to the general character of the policy which guides them ; but, in all candour and justice, it must be admitted that much of the active spirit now manifested towards a broad and sweeping refornriation of every branch of the law, is entirely attributable to the energy and vigour of the very able and learned lawyer who at this moment fills the office of Lord High Chancellor.Great as the legal attainments of Lord St.Leonards are universally acknowleged to be, and sound and unimpeachable as all his judgments from the bench have been, we venture to predict that fame will hereafter point to his name less as an admirable administrator of justice than as an able and successful amender of the law.As relates to the Courts of Chancery alone, he last year introduced and carried through Parliament three measures which have established a complete new system in those Courts.The first of these provided for the abolition of the Masters in Chancery ; the second took steps for improving the jurisdiction of equity ; and the third, called the \u2018\u2018Suitors in Equity Relief Bill,\u201d afforded great relief by the abolition of superfluous fees and unnecessary offices.These acts have now come into full operation, and bid /air to effect a complete revolution in the practice and character of that branch of the jurisdiction of the country to which they particularly apply.There are to be no more cases of\u201c Jarndyce v.Jarndyce.\u201d Henceforward the jurisdiction of theCouits of Chancery will be quick, economical\u2014and probably no country in the world I will afford a tribunal in which questions of property /nay be dc*aU will/ moic oauataccv»»i-iy «-»/ iciorc rapidly.Even if he want no further, [his reform would be sufficient to gain for Lord St.Leonards the gratitude of the community.But we are delighted to find that the wholesome measures ofthe last session are but a prelude to the greater reforms which are to flow from the same learned hand.In a brief address to the House of Lords, a few evenings ago, Lord St.Leonards intimated that it was his intention, in the course of the current session, to introduce measures for improving the management and administration of the Suitors\u2019 Fee Fund\u2014for amending the law of Patents\u2014lor revising the law relating to Lunacy\u2014for correcting certain deficiencies in the law of Bankruptcy\u2014and for digesting anU codifying that branch of the criminal law which relates to offences against the person.Thus far we are informed of the sweeping amendments which the Lord Chancellor contemplates in those branches of the law to which Englishmen have long been in the habit of looking with a painful and almost hopeless eye.But, whilst these beneficial measures are promised to us from the wojlsack, we have the gratification of finding that actual performance is outstripping the mere word of promise in the House of Commons, and that the law officers of the Crown for Ireland are proposing a series of amendments in the law and judicature of that country which, in many respects, will carry the work of bold and masterly reform farther even that it has yet been attempted to be carried in England, in the measure introduced, not many nights ago by the Irish Solicitor-General, for the improvement of the procedure in the Courts of Common Law in Ireland, provision is made for the total abolition of all the absurdities and anomalies of special pleading, and for giving to the suitor the same advantage of a simple, cheap, and expeditious procedure in the superior courts which modern legislation has recently given him in the inferior courts.By this reform the suitor is promised a saving ol from one-half to one-third of the present expense, without any diminution of the integrity or learning of the tribunal by which his cause is to be tried.Another great principle of this bill is that the suitor in Ireland shall no longer be tossed about from law to equity and from equity to law, like a shuttlecock, lor the pastime of practitioners ; but that the courts of law shall have power to administer complete justice in the matter before them, without compelling the patty to ask the leave of the Court of Chancery to get justice in the court of law.This extravagant absurdity has been too long the reproach of our jurisprudence ; but it had become so inveterate and time honoured as to require no small degree of courage to venture to disturb it.The measure thus introduced was hailed with approbation from all sides ol the House, and is likely in a very few weeks to become part of the law of the land.Whilst this wholesome measure lor reforming the practice and judicature of the courts of law has been in progress, the Attorney General for Ireland has not been less active in preparing and bringing in a complete and comprehensive code of laws for the future regulation and government of the relations between landlord and tenant in the sister kingdom.The magnitude and importance of this labour and the blessings which will be attendant upon it, if it shall succeed, cannot be overestimated.Everybody knows that half the misery and well nigh all the crime that have darkened the annals of Ireland, for many sorrowful and suffering years past, have sprung from the undefined or conflicting conditions which the law has imposed in relation to the tenure of land.In many parts of the country law and custom upon this vital question have been so much at variance, as to place anything like legal redress beyond the reach ot either party, and thus it has constantly happened that each has taken the law into his own hand\u2014the landlord arbitrarily unhousing the tenant\u2014the tenant, remorseless, shooting the landlord.The measures now introduced by the Irish Attorney General are brought forward for the specific purpose of amending the whole of the previously existing law relating to the tenure of land in Ireland, and ot establishing such a state ot things as shall at once secure the just rights and advance the true interests of tenants as well as landlords, and, as it is hoped, promote a feeling of harmony and good will between both.The object is a noble one.It has been boldly and skilfully entered upon.We earnestly trust it may succeed.NUMBER 239.Glad would all the millions of our people have been to know that tho hero would stand before Parliament to receive their thanks\u2014would enter the House of Lords under the singular circumstances of his accumulated honours,\u2014having risen through the whole gradation of ranks before he took his seat at all.Glad would those multitudes have been to know how their hero would outlive most of them, and would at last lie,not uuder the sod, but under the high-raised cross of our greatest cathedral; not left \u201calone with his glory,\u201d but with Nelson by his side, and the certainty of being visited by successive generations, till that lotty roof shall crumble down, to be the outermost coffin of England\u2019s two greatest heroes.Glad, again, would the thoughtful among those multitudes have been to know that Wellington would live till his precise position in modern history should be determined by the lapse of a long period of peace.We are not among those flatterers of the great man who rate his political services as high as his military achievements.We would rather point to the truly civic tendencies of his military services, and to the singularity of his position as bridging over the passage from the military to the civic age in Europe and its history.Wellington\u2019s wars were for the preservation of national existence ; of our own, and a good many more.The day.-; V; ere t?V'71' TV'ltÿll'QOVtLliAj» r:»»- WTTlH\u2014t.tl wnt\t' rrr» sonal offences, for bits of aehateable land, or for want of excitement, or of something to do.Itwas that England might remain England, with her government and laws, and language, and her liberties, that Wellington paid the glorious ransom of his seven years\u2019 warfare and his fifteen victories.Those victories were so splendid that the barbaric pomp of the old military ages could not but stretch itself out to enfold them ; and thus, in one sense, the fame of our hero is connected with those military periods of the world which are passing away, to be regarded, at some future time, like the encampment of the Greeks before Troy, or the progress of Alexander in India, or the march of Cambyses from Memphis to Thebes.This being one aspect of Wellington\u2019s achievement,s what is another?He was attending his duty in the one House of Parliament when that warning was given in the other which will never be forgotton while Europe has a history\u2014Canning\u2019s warning and prophecy of the inevitableness of a War of Opinion in Europe.This warning was uttered on the 12th of December, 1826; and deep it must have lain in Wellington\u2019s mind, as in many others, from that time forward.War was not overfbut war would in future be for new objects, and animated by new principles.Wellington\u2019s wars secured civic fruits, and future wars must be for purely civic purposes.We see now, year by year, that it is even so.We see that the War of opinion in Europe began in 1848, and that it must break out again and again, or be protracted till the great conflict of opinion is settled.The warfare on which Europe is entering received a sort of civic preparation ages ago ; when, for instances, our Barons assembled at Runnymede ; and when a middle class was growing up at the months ot rivers, and within the walls of towns, under cover ot the feudal wars of sovereigns and nobles.When our own House of Lords met, after the close of the war's of tho Roses, and found their numbers reduced by two-thirds, while the burgher- classes bad increased and multiplied, that of the field for a far-distant war of opinion had begun which Wellington was to complete.He swept away the last military power which interfered with the operation of civic principles ; and he has delivered over to us, clear of barbaric intruders, and swept ofevery ambush the field on which the war of opinion is to-be fought.That done, he has retired into his grave and we must look for leaders as appropriate to the coming time as he was to his.Nations and their rulers know very well that it is the first principles of social liberty that have now to be contended for on the continent of Europe.It may probably be the greatest war that the world has ever seen.If the aggressions of tyrants should bring it on very soon, no man living is likely to seethe end of it.The struggle will be, in fact, between the Asiatic and European inodes of living in society\u2014a much larger question than one .of nationalities and territorial dominion.The struggle will be between despo-1 -^âsm and representafee institutions.Despotism Tes in that nart .oLEnmonaavh) et^| oypufd'-,, ^ by an Asiatic atmosphere ; while, in the mo?t advanced countries in the west of Europe, the representative system of government has never been more than a mere beginning.Young and feeble, however, as the Western Opinion to has thus far appeared, it is strong enough to have put Eastern Opinion to some hard shifts and latterly, to that hardest of all, unbearable tyranny.Wellington lived to see territorial alliances giving way before political affinities\u2014the old before the new\u2014the mechanical before the essential union ; and many of us may live to see the thickest of the fight, when Pope and Kaiser, Emperors by ancient prerogative, and Emperors by vulgar usurpation, may he struggling for a supremacy rendered vain by the actual disintegration of nations.It may be for a generation yet unborn to see the issue of the warfare.What that issue will be, no man will presume to say.We can only say what it will not be.It will not be, as in many wars of the olden time, a mere recurrence to the previous state of things;\u2014a burying of the dead out of sight, and going on as before.It will not be a set of grants and concessions of territory, agreed upon by potentates, with out reference to their peoples.Wellington saw the last of such doings.When the conflict is about the establishment, of the principles of western civilisation\u2014with the representative principle for tho lending feature\u2014 the terms of peace must be something very different from that.We will not prophesy that which shall be.It is enough to say that we have done with the past, and that we know it by the token, that the military achievements of our greatest soldier were, in fact, civic services, and that thus, while one pier of the great arch of his fame is hung all over with the banners of armies and the trophies of the field, the other is planted on that table land where, if men go to war, it is because peace beckons them on ; and if men strive to lay one another low, it is that manhood itself may arise to live in a higher freedom.The Sovereigns of Europe sent mourners to Wellington\u2019s funeral.They, as they bent over his grave yesterday, probably thought of him as a warrior in the olden sense.\u2014 We trust there were native Englishmen among that vast assemblage who thought of him more as the preserver of our nationally; and, in that, as the champion\u2014unconsciously perhaps, but most truly\u2014of the popular liberties of Europe.f Law Reform.[From the News of the World.] Whatever doubt or hesitation may be reasonably entertained as to the sincerity or capability of the Derby Cabinet, in dealing with those points of commercial policy in which the interests and feelings ofthe community are most strongly and most immediately enlisted, it must, at least, be conceded that they have grappled with the intricate and difficult subject of legal reform in a large and liberal spirit, and with a bold and masterly hand.In the course oi the last session of Parliament, whilst they were still tottering on the verge of official non-existence, they inaugurated The Past and tho Future.Our Wellington is in his grave.Some of us remember the dread of hearing that news in our youth.Some who were infants at the beginning of our century remember, as a dark cloud resting on their household day, the death of Nelson.They remember hearing what Mr.Pitt said\u2014that he had often, while Minister, been called up in the night to receive news good or bad, and that he had always before been able to lay down his head, and sleep immediately ; but that when Lord Collingwood\u2019s despatch with its tiding from Trafalgar came in the night, he was so restless that he rose at three o\u2019clock.From 1809 to 1815, there was a dread that news of the like kind might come about Wellington.The death and burial of Sir John Moore had touched all hearts ; and whenever tidings arrived of a new sweep of the French armies over the provinces of the Peninsula, men held their breath in the fear that the next news might be of Wellington lying under the sod\u2014\u201c left alone with his glory.\u201d A Benevolent Agitator.We find in Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, the following particulars of the history of the \u201c Irish Agitator\u201d who conspires for Irish railways and plots Irish Industrial Exhibitions, and spends £26,000 at a time out of his own pocket to carry out his revolutionary views\u2014\u201cWilliam Dargan is a self-made man.He was originally a common laborer, had he only risen to be a carpenter or a stonemason, his friends might have said that- he had succeeded in life ; but he had a Saxon heart in his Celtic breast, and working his way steadily, soberly, from point to point, making every inch of his road good as he travelled over it ; he advanced from bricklayer to builder\u2014from workman to master\u2014from cottage jobs and repairs to contracts for public buildings.He had attained this position before the railway system rose up \u2014and he, the self-taught man, had won for himself an honourable place among the intellectual and money aristocracy of Dublin.There was a soiree given one night at a distinguished house in the Irish capital, when railways became a topic of conversation ; and a person present suggested a line between Dublin and Kingstown.Very good : but where is the money to be got?What would it cost?One sum was named\u2014another was hazarded.But what a difference between them ! The idea was about to die out in a laugh, when the first speaker said, \u201cHere\u2019s a man who will tell us in a moment.Here Dragan ; yours is the head for a calculation ! what would a line of rails to Kingstown cost ?\u2019 Tablets were out, and a pencil writing down a few hurried figures.In two minutes a result was announced\u2014so low as to astonish every one present; and it was then agreed to meet next day and consider the project.\tThe\tcompanny was\tformed the Act of Parliament obtained, and in due time tenders for the contract were invited.It was the first bit of railway in Ireland, and there were no Brasseys and Petos in the sister country.Most of the tenders were ridiculously high; but William Dargan sent in the same rough draft as he exhibited at Lady-\u2019s soiree, and got the contract.\u2014 That work laid the foundation of his fortune, and from that hour the self-made man has been the soul of railway enterprise in Ireland.\u201d Such is the man who gets up a Great Industrial Exhibition out of his own private means.The White Rose.Written in the fifteenth century, and sent by the Duke of Clarence (of the house of York) with a white rose to Lady E.Beauchamp, a violent adherent to the house of Lancaster :\u2014 \u201c If thys fayre rose olfende thye sighte, Plac\u2019d inne thye bosomme bare, *T wyll blush to finde itselfe less Whyte, And lurne Lancastraune there.But if thye rubye lippe it spye, As kyss it thou may\u2019st deigne, With envye pule\u2019t wyll lose its dye, And Yorkysh lurne again.\u201d TO CORRESPONDENTS.53-TAKE NOTICE\u2014We take no letters out of the Post Office unless they are pre-paid.Tin wo 3, [Are tcheooTT, !SiiE AfOjy.^jai, a® SATURDAY MORNING, DEO.25, 1852.5i3\u201dOn First Page.\u2014Cheap Minor Railways\u2014 Another Hildebrand\u2014Law Reform\u2014The Past and the Future\u2014A Benevolent Agitator\u2014The White Rose.THE WEEKLY HERALD FOR Europe, tire United States and tire Country, IS NOW READY.May be had at the Herald Office, or at Weir & Dunn\u2019s, and R.Chalmers & Co.\u2019s, Great St.James Street.Christmas Day.\u2014Again has the revolving year brought round the great Christian festival; again are our Christian friends and readers called upon to celebrate, with those nearest and dearest to them, the advent on earth of their Saviour and Redeemer ; and once more are we called upon to he grateful for the privilege of wishing them, in time-honored phrase, as we most sincerely and heartily do, A merry Christmas, and many, many happy returns of the season.Report of Dr.Wolfred Nelson, on the present STATE, DISCIPLINE, MANAGEMENT, AND EXPENDITURE OF TIT F TÏTCT\u2019DIO'P A vn OTHER PnraOiTSlT« Oa-AT-A-DA- East.\u2014Printed by order of the Legislative jdssem-bly : John Lovell, Quebec\u2014We yesterday received a copy of this very able, and, as we trust it will prove, practically useful report.We have not as yet had time to give it that attentive perusal, which the great importance of the subject, and the very praiseworthy, full and elaborate treatment it has received at the hands of its learned author, justly claims for it.We shall take an early opportunity of doing so, and, in the meantime, will only remark that Dr.Nelson\u2019s report affords, in its elaborate and pains-taking investigations and conclusions, a striking and gratifying contrast to the slip-shod and slovenly inspection, and helpless lamentations over their present abominable condition, of the Upper Canada Gaols, of his ««learned colleague, Mr.Dickson, lately published.Dr.Nelson has evidently gone to his task remembering that the subject of his encpiiries had never, previously, been more than glanced at, and determined to spare neither time nor labor in fully and completely investigating every branch of it.He has, according-jngly, furnished the Legislature and the country with such a mass of information, as, we trust, will not fail to induce a prompt and effectual reform in the entire system of our prison discipline, management and expenditure.We were certainly not prepared for such a result, but it appears, from the report before us, that, in the last mentioned particular, no gaol in the province calls for a more rigid investigation than our own.So far as the expenditure is concerned, it would appear to partake quite as much of the character of an hospital as of a gaol.For example, take the following question and answer :\u2014 Q.What is the annual expenditure for medical comforts to the prisoners in gaol, for the last five years ?A.This appears to have been as follows :\u2014 In the year 1847 .£228\t1\t10 \u201c\t1848.205\t3\t7 \u201c\t1849.257\t15\t0 \u201c\t1850.449\t17\t6 \u201c\t1851.647\t7\t6 An account was also paid to one Daniel Sexton, for beef furnished in the year 1851\u2014£93 13s 3d.Thus, in 1847, the year of a dreadful epidemic fever, the \u201c medical comforts\u201d ordered by the Physician and provided by the Gaoler, cost £228 Is lOd ; and, in the perfectly healthy year of 1851, the same \u201c medical comforts,\u201d so ordered and provided,cost the country £741 Os 9d I Then, under th^.same heading of ''ni-dical comforts,\u201d suppnuu by tlic TfaoIer^'we\"lin3~fhe following entries :\u2014 Potatoes supplied but not charged.Fish given but not charged.We need not say that this is a most unsatisfactory and improper system.The country neither asks nor expects the Gaoler to give either potatoes or fish to the prisoners in his charge ; and when he charges the \u201c cost price;\u201d as we find, of 3d for each lemon, for each glass of \u201cbest bottled port,\u201d for each glass of gin toddy, &c., &c., we really cannot see why he should not charge, in proportion, for fish and potatoes.The whole of this system of \u201c medical comforts,\u201d evidently, demands revision; more especially, as we find that, in the Quebec gaol, the annual cost of these 11 medical comforts,\u201d \u201c including additional dietary, meat, wine, milk, &c.and payment of nurses for sick\u2014extra allowance for insane persons, and allowance to children,\u201d averages from £120 to £130 a-year.Appended to Dr.Nelson\u2019s Report are some admirable remarks and suggestions on the general subject of Prison Economics, to which, as well as to the Report itself, we shall take an early opportunity of again directing the attention of our readers.City Council.\u2014We can only think of one valid excuse for the non-attendance of the 11 gentleman in question,\u201d complained of by our friend and correspondent.\u2014how sings old Nathaniel Cotton ?Though fools spurn Hymen\u2019s gentle powers, We, who improve his golden hours, By sweet experience know That marriage, rightly understood, Gives to the tender and the good A paradise below.It is true that our bard for many years kept a lunatic asylum at St.Albans\u2014where his brother-poet, the unfortunate Cowper, was for some time an inmate\u2014and that the \u201c baser soft\u201d have not hesitated to insinuate that the Muse, by whom he was inspired, was somewhat flighty in her ideas.Our correspondent, however, we have reason to know, will feel the truth of the worthy old Doctor\u2019s sentiment even more than he admires the harmony of his verse ; and will, consequently, at once, acknowledge the force and validity of the excuse we venture to make for the peccant Councillor.At the same time, it must be evident that, while the inhabitant of a domestic \u201c paradise below,\u201d can scarcely be expected to devote much of his time and attention to public affairs, it is equally so, that these public affairs are not likely to prosper greatly under his non-attendance\u2014in short, as our friend delicately hints.How much they err, who, to their interest blind, Slight the calm peace which from retirement flows! L\u2019Erb Nouvelle.\u2014We lately congratulated our friends in Three Rivers upon the birth of this youngest child of the press, wishing him Godspeed in the arduous but praiseworthy career he had just started on.We are sorry to see, however, that he has so soon, like Bunyan\u2019s pilgrim, tumbled into the slough of groundless and unwarrantable attacks upon the conduct and motives of one of the oldest and most deservedly respectable public servants in that ancient borough ; and that about a few coppers, erroneously charged, not by him but, by the mailing postmasters.The wholeaffair is as ridiculous as it is malicious, and all who know Three Rivers will agree with Mr.Dickson\u2019s opinion on the subject, as stated in a letter to our pert \u201c little Benjamin.\u201d Mr.D.says :\u2014 Captain Robertson has received so many testimonials of good conduct from the respectable inhabitants of Three Rivers, and as during a period of over twenty-five years, which he has held the office, not one well-grounded complaint has been made against him, he can well forgive the malicious and unfounded accusation of L'Ere Nouvelle.Russians in Circassia.\u2014The N.Y.Tribune's London correspondent, whom the editor vouches for as particularly well informed, writes thus :\u2014 From the best sources at Constantinople, I can inform you that the Circassians have again signally defeated the Russians.The Turkish Government has received these tidings, and though they seem to be exaggerated,\u2014they speak of sixty guns captured,\u2014yet there is no doubt about the fact.The Mountaineers have taken the offensive, and a Russian army of thirty MONTREAL HERALD, SATURDAY, DEC.25, 1852.thousand men has been dispersed.The London papers have not yet got the information, but you can rely on it.In the Marine Department in Constantinople great activity is displayed.They have already transformed two of their men of war into screw steamers.It seems that the example of France will soon be followed by all the maritime powers.The Turkish infantry is to be armed with Prussian needle-guns.The new ministry exerts itself to the utmost, in order to have an efficient force for any contingency.The Grand Vizier is a most energetic man, not so easily to be bamboozled by foreign diplomacy, or cowed by threats, as Reschid was.The Montreal Harmonic Society.\u2014It will be seen, by the advertisement, that the meetings for practice of this Society have been changed from Monday to Tuesday evening.We cannot call the attention of our readers to this change, without thanking our harmonic friends for the pleasure we experienced in attending their last Monday evening\u2019s meeting.It is seldom, indeed, that so great a treat is afforded to the lovers of music, in our community, as to hear the choruses of the best composers done justice to by so full a company of well harmonized male and female voices.We recommend all our friends who sing, to lose no time in joining the Society, and those who can only listen, to make a point of attending their weekly concerts.One little hint we may perhaps be excused for offering to the Society\u2019s talented Director, Mr.Fowler,\u2014the music would, surely, be as effective, if the performers faced the audience, in which case the prospect would be decidedly improved.At Christmas I no more desire a rose, Than wish a snow in May\u2019s new-fangled shows ; But like of each thing that in season grows.What can be more seasonable than our good friend Dolly\u2019s hospitable invitation to his customary Yule Bowl ?\u2014See advt.The Festival Season.-\u2014We understand the Montreal Typographical Society intend holding their Annual Festival, on Tuesday,11th January next, in the Concert Hall, St.Gabriel Street.The O oKoraiLtw uf Management, ytc are told, are now actively engaged making the necessary arrangements.We are happy to learn that the Rooms of the Natural History Society are to be open to the public on Christmas Day, and New Year\u2019s Day, between the hours of 10 A.M., and 4 P.M.Visitors will find there a large and well-arranged Museum, stored with a many curious and wonderful things from all quarters of the Globe.The Colonial Life Assurance Company.\u2014We recommend our readers to Mr.Davidson Parker\u2019s advertisement, in another column.The Colonial Life Assurance Company offers many advantages to persons wishing to insure their lives, and parties intending to do so should call at the office of the Company, and examine the healthy state of the Society\u2019s affairs.The Weather.\u2014We had all sorts of weather yesterday, including thunder and lightning.The latter struck the conductor of a house at the corner of Craig Street and St.Lawrence Hill.\u2014 It did no damage ; but knocked the snow off the roof.We are requested to state that there will be divine service in Christ\u2019s Church Cathedral, on Christmas Day, at 9 and half-past 10 A.M., and at half-past 3 P.M.-\t_\t- I - - - LOWER CANADA COLLEGE.Report ending Ciiristmns, 1852- Number of Pupils in Attendance, 105.SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION AND AWARDS OF MERIT.Greek, Latin and Mathematics.Dux\u2014R.Hervey, Maitland.Latin.1st Class\u2014R.Walkem, J.Walkem, J.Mayer, J.B.Learmont, J.Reinhardt.2nd Class\u2014E.Adams, Walkem, R.Latham, C.Tuggey, J.Par-kyn, H.Vardon, T.Alexander, E.Thayer, D.David.3rd Class\u2014G.Beers, R.Spiers, J.Dunbar, J.McConkey, James Hall, A.G.Keller.French.1st Class\u2014R.Walkem, J.Reinhardt, W.Mann.2nd Class\u2014James Levey, J.Mack.3rd Class\u2014 W.G.Beers, E.Sharpley, S.Ollendorf.Mathematics.1st Class\u2014J.Arnoldi, R.Walkem, W.Mann, J.Walkem.2nd Class\u2014R.Dunbar, J.Mayor, A.Smith, J.Reinhardt.3rd Class\u2014J.Harvey, T.Alexander, H.Vardon.Arithmetic.1st Class\u2014H.Mackay, J.Mackay, W.Mann, J.Harvey, E.Townsend, R.Walkem.2nd Class \u2014E.Wanless, A.Wallace, J.Padfield, J.Walkem, D.\tDavid.3rd Class\u2014J.A.Pillow, E.Sharpley, R.Latham, S.Ollendorf, W.H.Warren.4th Class\u2014A.Donohue, R.Belham, F.Lovelace, J.Tuggey, Jackson.English Subjects.Geography,\u2014Globes.1st Class\u2014H.Mackay, J.Mayer, R.Harvey, R.Walkem, D.Belham, J.Fisher, J.W.Teller.2nd Class\u2014E.Sharpley, S.Ollendorf, E.Wanless, E.Thayer, A.Spiers, J.Spiers, J.Hall.Preparatory\u2014J.W.Tuggey, A.Donohoe, J.Jackson, R.McFarlane, G.F.McDonnell, T.David, Rogers.History.1st Class\u2014R.Walkem, E.Townsend, J.Walkem, H.Mackay, W.Mann.2nd Class\u2014F.J.Pad-field, J.Walkem, E.Thayer, J.Halden, H.J.Bil-ham, E.Sharpley.Preparatory\u2014R.McFarlane, Speirs, A.O\u2019Donohoe, G.Rogers.Science.1st Class\u2014E.Adams, G.- Duncan, D.David, R.Walkem, J.Walkem.Prenarntory\u2014T W Tng-gey, A.Donolioe, G.F.McDonnell, W.Hume, R.McFarlane, T.David.English Grammar.1st Class\u2014R.Walkem, R.Harvey, (equal), E.Adams, J.Mack, (equal), J.Reinhardt, H.Mackay, W.Mann.2nd Class\u2014D.W.Tuggey, J.Pillow, R.Spiers, E.Wanless, H.F.Bilham, J.Harvey.Preparatory\u2014J.W.Tuggey, A.O\u2019Donohoe, G.F.McDonnell, J.Spiers, T.David.English Composition.Essay on Canada\u2014Gale Boston, J.B.Learmont.Life of Alexander\u2014R.Harvey, R.Walk-era, J.Mack.Elements\u2014H.Moody, T.Houliston, G.Boston, E.Thompson.Etymology and Orthography.1st Class\u2014Not placed.2nd Class \u2014E.Thayer, R.Dickson, W.G.Arnton, J.Bryson, J.A.Pillow, A.Wallace.Preparatory\u2014J Jackson, A.McFarlane, H.T.Alexander, J.W.Tuggey, T.David, A.Levey, G.Rogers, J.Spiers.Commercial Subjects.1st Class, Book-keeping\u2014J.Levey, H.Moody, J.Mackay, G.Boston, J.Mack, R.Dunbar, J.Mayer.Mental Arithmetic\u2014J.Mackay, H.Mackay, R.Walkem, W.Mann.2nd Class\u2014J.Reinhardt, A.Wallace, J.Pillow, R.Spiers, E.Wan-less.Writing.1st Class\u2014J.B.Learmont, E.Adams, D.Bilham, (equal).2nd Class\u2014L.Levey, J.Mack, J.Fisher, J.A.Pillow, R.Latham.Preparatory\u2014 E.\tLovelace, J.IV.Tuggey, G.Rodgers, R.Bilham, J.Jackson.Mapping.1st Class\u2014D.Bilham, T.Duncan, J.B.Learmont.2nd Class\u2014J.Harvey, H.Bilham.others are hermetically sealed till May, and in passing along, if one happens to see the unfortunates who may be engaged at needle work, in close rooms, with a temperature of say 75 ° ,* will understand why female beauty is so evanescent; whereas, with different arrangements and more common sense, health and good looks might be acquired and perpetuated during the season of dry cold.Why is modern science so little regarded, and there is so little demand for Thermometers to regulate the heating of dwellings?Why do we never see a 11 Register,\u201d or moving plate of metal over the chimney piece, to allow the heated and impure air to find its way into the chimney.But the most surprising thing of all is the want of attention to proper ventilation in churches.One church has too much cold air in the centre ; another is so close that, in sitting in the gallery,one feels inclined to faint, whilst below sleep entirely overcomes the most attentive listener, and the cause is, there not being an opening of any sort in the ceiling, for the escape of the gaseous and stifling air.Excellent discourses are thus thrown away on a drowsy audience.At Halifax, N.S., the military chapel is well contrived for ventilation.Behind the cornice, ¦which is attached to the wall at its lower part, five openings are made on each of the side walls, to communicate with a covered trough outside.This goes all round the building under the eaves, and has two openings in front, which may be closed, if required, by Registers, and so get up a great heat ; but they are generally left open when the chapel is in use, and a safe and healthy current of air is thus kept up, without the fear of (what haunts so many) \u201c sitting in a draught of air.\u201d I am, &c.,\tX.Montreal, December 24, 1852.* 6â° is the best temperutme for a silting room.LOWER CANADA.Shipping Master\u2019s Office.\u2014From the fifth annual Report of Mr.Hawkins, just published, we learn that out of the 1055 vessels arrived during the past season, 501 ships lost men by desertion to the number of 1,659 ; while the year preceding the total arrivals being 1185, there were 2559 desertions.The number of ships and seamen enregistered at the office this season was\u2014of ships 281, of Docvmcnj\t-tui,a.l since uslUUUSnmCQt Ot ttlG office in 1848,\u2014ships 1879, sailors 9,830.Of 28 ships launched this year at Quebec, but 5 were supplied with men by the office.The following extract is interesting : It is therefore evident that had measures been adopted to procure men elsewhere for the new ships, crimping and desertion would have been effectually checked by this \u201c worse than useless office.\u201d If those evils were put an end to, we should have double the present number of ships anually in our port.NEW SHIPS ON THE STOCKS AT QUEBEC, DECEMBER 1852.Ship Yards,\tNo.of Ships.Olivers.4 G.\tH.Parke.2 T.C.Lee.2 Baldwin and Dinning.2 St.Jean.2 Gingras.2 H.\tN.Jones.2 H.Dubord.1 W.G.Russell.1 Cottenham.1 E.Lee.1 Nesbit.1 Mercure & Pelcher.1 Valin.1 Davidson & Goudie.1 Vaughan.1 Jobin.1 The aggregate tonnage of the above 26 Ships may he estimated at over 28,500 ; to man which, at the rate of only 3 men per 100 tons, upwards of 800 seamen will be required.Rate of Wages at the Port of Quebec, as per agreement at the office, 1852.Owners of lands in the Counties of Sherbrooke, Stanstead and Drummond should at once attend to the payment of their taxes, as the lands in arrears are advertised to be sold on the first Monday of February next.Lists of owners may be found in the Canada Gazette.CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS, {Reported for the Montreal Herald.) SPECIAL MEETING.Wednesday, 22nd Dec., 1852.Present:\u2014His Worship the Mayor; Aldermen Homier, Lynch, Grenier, Leclaire, Atwater, Frechette, Whitney ; Councillors McCambridge, Montreuil, Tiffin, Trudeau, Corse, Valois, Campbell, Marchand, Labelle,Bleau, Adams, Goyette and Mussen.The following petitions were presented :\u2014 From proprietors and others in Fortification Lane (west), and from residents in Union Avenue, for lamps.\u2014Referred to the Light Commit- From J.11.Bcrthelot, Esq., offering a piece of ground to continue Dorchester Street.\u2014Referred to the Road Committee.From a number of proprietors in the burnt district, praying to be charged the full assessments for the two months before the fire, and that for the remainder of the year, their properties be reassessed as vacant lots.\u2014Consideration postponed, and, after a long discussion, declared to be out of order ; finally it was decided to refer the petition to the Finance Committee, who were to report ou Tuesday night, for which time the Mayor was to call another meeting.The applications for the office of Fire Inspector were then read from Messrs.Dubuc, Belaire, Wright, and Gundlack.Mr.Dubuc was then unanimously appointed Fire Inspector, on motion of Mr.Atwater, who gave Mr.Dubuc a high character for capacity and integrity.He said also he knew that the ceremonies which had been gone through since the last meeting were unnecessary, and dictated by motives which he did not think the best,from the first ; but he never wished to do anything in an underhand manner, and therefore consented to postpone.Mr.Whitney thought Mr.Dubuc\u2019s character not at all raised by what had just been said.He had always been in favour with Mr.Dubuc ; but he conceived that if his appointment had been carried the other day, there would have been anything but fair play exhibited.Mr.Campbell had lately read a paragraph called fishing for popularity, in the American papers, which seemed to him to fit Mr.Atwater exactly.For his own part, he was determined to oppose anything which looked like unfair proceeding ; and when Mr.Atwater said he knew that what had been done since last meeting was unnecessary, it reminded him of what had been told him by a certain gentleman before the last meeting, that it was unnecessary to go.He did not intend to go ; hut he then thought there was something going on underhand, and he was determined he would go.Mr.Marchand was not disposed to say that those who opposed the appointment of Mr.Dubuc at the last meeting had done so from improper motives, on the contrary, he thought on consideration, though he had then been for making the appointment at once, that they had actec! quite rightly, as rightly as Alderman Atwater, that night, in opposing the proceeding on the assessment.Mr.Atwater did not intend to make any attack on any one ; but only to defend himself from the charges of underhand proceeding.The fact was, that he had a right to bring up this matter, or any other, at a quarterly meeting;and he did not approve of the national distinctions which were too often introduced into the Council.The Councillor opposite indulged too much in this, talking, as he did, about loving Irishmen, &c.Mr.Campbell had never said in the Council that he loved Irishmen : but, as it had been mentioned, he said now that he did love Irishmen\u2014 they were an open hearted set of people, who would not, at any rate, make wooden nutmegs.\u2014 As a Scotch Canadian, he did love Irishmen.Mr.Adams then moved that the by-law of the city, relating to firewood, be amended, so as to allow all lengths to be sold.He pointed out that at present, all wood was bound by law to be of a certain length.This iu the nature of things, was almost impossible, and the practical effect was, that the large consumer got all the best wood, and the poor man the worst.He wanted to have the size of the cord fixed at 96 cubic feet, but to allow any length to be used, and measure accordingly.Mr.Homier moved the reference of the amendment to the Committee appointed to revise the by-laws of the City.Amendment carried.Mr.Campbell mentioned that the Committee to revise the by-laws had had two meetings, and had done some business ; but he had since been unable to get the Committee together.A great deal of the business of the Committee was to revise the system of taxation.On that point they had written to Boston, and had received most valuable information ; but not liking a Committee which dragged on so much, he would give notice of a motion to discharge the Committee.Mr.Adams then moved to amend the by-laws relating to skating, football and shinty in the street, so as to make the fine not to exceed £5, nor the imprisonment forty-eight hours.At present it was impossible to enforce the fine of 10s ; for the boys who offended were irresponsible, and were just sent back to do the some thing again.He therefore wanted imprisonment annexed.As the motion was out of order, it was made a notice.Councillor Marchand gave notice of a motion to consider the Report of the Finance Committee, on applications for reduction of assessment in the Burnt District ; and also of a motion to give the proprietors in the Burnt District, who pay their assessments as now due, the right of claiming a reduction hereafter.Councillor McCambridge gave notice or a motion to remit all costs to parties sued for assessment, &c., this year.The Council then adjourned.Definition of Bussing.\u2014Re-bus, to kiss one again ; omni-bus, to kiss them all ; blunder-ius, to kiss another man\u2019s wife ; sylla(y)-6«s, one lady kissing another.Drawing.Landscape\u2014E.Townsend, Dunbar, J.Arnoldi, R.Harvey.Mechanical\u2014H.Moody, J.Parkyn, J.Arnoldi.Recitation and Elocution.1st Class\u2014L.Levey, E.Thompson, J.Mayer, Dunbar.2nd Class\u2014A.G.Keller, J.A.Pillow, J.Walkem, J.W.Teller, J.McConkey.3rd Class\u2014R.Dickson, A.Spiers.Preparatory\u2014 Speirs, G.Roger, Levey, Donohue, Prowso.Singing\u2014Music.J.McConkey, J.Houliston.The Rev.Doctors Leach and Davies kindly attended, and assisted in testing the proficiency of the students.S.PHILLIPS.CORRESPONDENCE.THE MONTREAL SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY.May 1st/G) 18th per month.£5\t0\t0 \u201c 18th © 2nd June,\t\u201c\t 6\t0\t0 June 2nd (a) 30th\t\u201c\t 5\t10\t0 30th © 3rd July, £6, £6 10 ©.7\t10\t0 July 3rd © Sept.10th,\t 8\t0\t0 Sept., 10th © 25th,\t 7\t0\t0 \u201c 25th © Oct.11th.C\t10\t0 Oct., 11th © Novr.15th,\t 6\t0\t0 Novr.20th © 22nd, £6 © .7 10 0 Owing to the demand for men after the 15th November, for two new ships of the respective tonnage of 1372 and 1070, the office arrangements at £6 per month were interrupted by the tampering with seamen without the office; in consequence of which, the majority of the men required by the office and who had signed articles for £6 per month, half advance, refused to proceed to sea under £10 sterling cash down.The total number of foreign vessels engaged in the Quebec trade was 134, being 17 more, than in \u201951.Of these 41 were from Norway, 51 from the United States, 31 from Prussia.To the Editor of the Montreal Herald.Sir,\u2014Permit me to solicit the aid of your Journal, on behalf of a most unpretending, but most benevolent and useful charity\u2014the Montreal School of Industry.At this admirable Institution, destitute and orphan children, of both sexes, are supported, educated, and trained to industrious habits, till they attain an age at which they may be safely entrusted out, as Apprentices, to learn a trade or business, by which, at a subsequent period of life, they may be enabled to provide for their own maintenance.This Institution receives no aid from the Legislature ; and besides the trifling proceeds obtained from the labor of its inmates, and of the charitable Ladies who conduct its affairs, is wholly dependant upon voluntary contributions for its support.It comes within the sphere of this admirably managed charity, to provide clothing for the poorer classes, without the Institution, having claims on their benevolence, at merely nominal prices ; and an immensity of benefit is thus noiselessly conferred, during the most inclement seasons every year, on many who would otherwise be exposed to much privation and suffering.A Public Sale of Useful and Ornamental Articles, in aid of the funds of this benevolent Establishment, will be held in the Rechabite Hall, Great St.James Street, from noon till evening, each day, on Wednesday and Thursday next, the 29th and 30th instants ; and the truly benevolent, who, at this festive season, may he seeking for suitable presents for their juvenile relatives and friends, will be thus afforded an opportunity of effecting their object, at the same time that they furnish assistance to a most praiseworthy and serviceable charity.Let not the fact be forgotten ; but let all attend to whom this appeal is addressed, and they may rely upon it, their gifts will not be less acceptable, because the price of them will minister to the Orphan\u2019s comfort, and soothe the Widow\u2019s sorrow ; and the reflection, so far from diminishing, will heighten and augment the joyous and gratified feelings, with which they themselves will hail the New Year.Montreal, 24th December, 1852.THE SEIGNIORIAL TENURE BILL.To the Editor of the Montreal Herald.Sir,\u2014It is a bad \u201c sign of the times \u201d that a bill, such as that proposed by Mr.Drummond, on the Seigniorial Tenure, should pass unnoticed ;\u2014 were it a bill introduced by a private member, this would not be surprising, for it might then be taken for granted that such a bill would never become law.It is to be feared that the very fact of its being an \u201c official measure \u201d prevents its discussion.\u2014 Few are inclined to express their objections to a measure which, were it even wholly bad, they know will be supported by a majority which has never yet refused its aid to any scheme emanating from Government, whether it be the wresting a charter from a company to transfer it to an individual, or to authorize the Government to take possession of a bridge which they had sold.Some there are also who dread the licen-ciousness of a press feil with \u201c Government pap\u201d, and which will, with all imaginable virulence, attack those who dare attempt to maintain their rights, and will denounce the injured, as if they were the guilty.That our Provincial Legislature has no respect for the legal rights of individuals, or corporations, does not require to be more than alluded to.The fact is patent to every one who has taken the least interest in its proceedings.Before proceeding to notice, at greater length, the details of the bill, I should very much like to know why \u201cnothing in this act contained shall extend or apply to any Seigniory held of the Crown,\u201d nor to any Seigniory of the late Order of Jesuits, nor to any Seigniory held by the Gentlemen Ecclesiastics of the Seminary of Montreal, or to the Fiefs Nazareth, Augustin and St.Joseph.Ifwe are to place confidence in the statements pat forward by Mr.Drummond, in support of his Seigniorial measures, when the act conferring upon the Ecclesiastics of the Seminary, the Seigniories of Montreal, &c., our legislators were in perfect ignorance of Seigniorial law, our judges knew nothing of a most important part of the laws they were sworn to administer.Why should laws passed in \u201c the dark ages \u201d be maintained in this very enlightened period of December, 1852 ! Badinage apart, as Mr.Drummond would say, why are the Ecclesiastics of the Seminary of St Sulpice, and the Seigniories of the Fiefs Nazareth, St.Augustin and St.Joseph, to have more than a full value of their property secured to them, while other Seigniors may be despoiled of part of their property, and trust to chance to receive the value of the remainder ?\u2014 I pause for a reply.Observer.December 23, 1852.VENTILATION.To the Editor of the Montreal Herald.Sir,\u2014As far as health is concerned, there are few things that require more attention (and receive less), at this season of the year, than the due ventilation of public and private buildings.At the commencement of the winter in Lower Canada, it is the custom to shut up the house with double outside doors and windows ; some of the latter have 11 turrets\u201d or sliding panes for occasionally refreshing the rooms with pure air ; UPPER CANADA.We believe the Toronto Butchers are making preparations, to have the meat market at Christmas, unsurpassed.We noticed a lot of cattle passing along King Street, among which were twe heifers fed by Mr.T.Smith, of Minico.One was six years old, which weighed, we understand, nearly 3,000 lbs ; the other was three years old, and remarkably fat, well made and heavy.The former we believe was purchased by Mr.J.Car-son, and the other by Mr.Wm.Gray.We also notice some fine hogs, fed by Mr.Thomas A.Milne, of Markham.He had a lot of twelve, weighing 4,019, sold at $6% per hundred.\u2014 Colonist.A woman named Isabella Miller was found dead in a \u201cShanty\u201d in the Township of Scarboro\u2019 on the 13th inst.From the testimony of the witnesses who were examined at the inquest, which was held on view of the body, on the following day, it appeared that the deceased was subject to fits, and was also a drunkard.There were no marks of violence on the body.The verdict of the jury was : that she died from the effects of drunkenness which perhaps induced the fits.\u2014Ibid.The weather, yesterday, was very disagreeable ; in truth, as much so as could readily be imagined.In the morning, people said it would snow.It did so, and rained as well.Both of these were accompanied with a high east wind, and an uncomfortable coldness.The whole rendered walking nearly impossible for ladies, and not desirable for persons of the masculine gender.\u2014Ibid.Lamentable Occurrence.\u2014On last Wednesday Miss Fitzgerald, daughter of the late Mr.R.Fitzgerald of this town, left home, and has not been heard of since.A shawl has been found on the pier at Port Dalhousie, which belonged to the missing lady, and which of course excites the worst fears.Miss Fitzgerald\u2019s father was killed exactly a year ago, by falling from a loaded wagon coming down the ravine near St.David\u2019s ; and wo are of opinion that from that time an air of peculiar melancholy exhibited in her countenance, argued a mental affection, which is the only solution to the present most afflictive occurence.\u2014 Deep sympathy exists in this community with the afflicted family, all of whom are highly respected.This is certainly one of the most afflictive dispensations we have known.The father lost his life in the act of bringing home goods from Buffalo.The family have since been most industrious\u2014the older boys most attentive to a widowed mother and their sisters ; and now when the sore was healing, to have this addition to previous sorrows, is most depressing.We may well say\u2014\u201c God moves in a mysterious way.\u201d\u2014 St.Catherines Journal.The Anti-Slavery Meeting.\u2014Notwithstanding the pitiless pelting of sleet, with a high east wind, on Thursday evening, which it certainly required some courage to face, the St.Lawience Hall was well filled even to the gallery, on the occasion of the Anti-Slavery meeting.Among the audience was a large number of ladies, whose enthusiasm, it appeared, was proof against the inclemency of the weather.The meeting was respectable.\u2014 The chair was occupied by the Rev.M.Willis, D.D., President of the Anti-Slavery Society.\u2014 The proceedings were opened by prayer, which was said by the Rev.Mr.Roaf.After which, the chairman briefly and appropriately stated the object of the meeting.John Scoble, Esq., from London, Secretary to the British & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, was then introduced.He commenced by dilating upon the evils of Slavery, as it existed in different parts of the world.He condemned it as an unmitigated evil.He said that the application of the property principle to human beings aroused his indignation, and had madfe him resolve, to devote his whole life, and what little talent it had pleased God to give him, to the cause of its extinction.He stated that he had witnessed the evils of Slavery, and could narrate to the audience worse scenes than those described iu Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin.That hook was no exaggeration, but underdrawn rather than overdrawn.He gave some illustrations of the evils of Slavery in the separation of families ; and contended, that the total ignoring of marriage and parental relations, and causing all slaves, male and female, to live together in common, like brute beasts, were some of the worst abominations of a most unchristian and inhuman system.He severely condemned the attempted justification of Slavery by the authority of Scripture.Yet such justification, he regretted to say, was made, and such abominations as he had described, were of every day occurrence, in the neighboring republic ; the boasted land of liberty ! British subjects, he contended, ought to feel proud of the fact, that when a slave puts his foot on any spot of British soil, in any part of the world, that moment he became a free man.This part of Mr.Scoble\u2019s speech, elicited much, indeed \u2022enthusiastic applause.He said, besides the slaves in the United States (3,179,489 by the census of 1850), there were three and a quarter millions in the Brazils ; eight hundred thousand in the Spanish colonies ; fifty or sixty thousand in the Dutch colonies ; and more than a quarter of a million among the South American republics.All that showed there was plenty to do for the anti-slavery agitators.After speaking for about an hour, Mr.Scoble sat down amid cheering.A collection was then taken up ; and while the plates were being handed round, Mr.Henning, the Secretary, gave some information in relation to the condition of the Society.He also contended that a healthy tone of feeling on the subject of slavery was fast growing in the United States.He appositely remarked, much to the amusement of the meeting, that none could be more susceptible to the influence of opinion abroad, than boasting brother Jonathan.Brother Jonathan could not stand being ridiculed, and much less despised, even by Canadians.From this premise, Mr.Henning concluded that a strong anti-Slavery feeling in Canada, would not be without influence in the United States.The Rev.S.R.Ward, a negro, was next introduced to the meeting.He was received with continued cheering.He is tall and fine looking, very dark in colour, and possesses the usual outward characteristics of his race, strongly marked.He is evidently a scholar.His diction was elegant and correct; his manner dignified ; and it is no disparagement to the learned white gentlemen who proceeded him to say, that he made the speech of the evening.His speech and presence, on Thursday night, in the St.Lawrence Hal), afforded palpable proof to all those there assembled, of the capabilities of his race to receive literary education, and we cannot conceal, that he would be an awkward autagonist for any pro-slavery man to enter the lists with.He commenced by giving an account of his labours in Canada in the anti-slavery cause and slated, that in his recent travels over the country he had held 100 public meetings.He said that he had met with much sympathy, and also much opposition.He did not believe there was any use in denying that there was a strong pro-slavery feeling in Canada.There were many persons in the Province, and this City, who had been slave-holders, and who had made their fortunes by that means.These persons retained their old prejudices in favour of slavery.Nor did he believe there was any use in concealing, that in many parts of Canada the Negro was treated differently from the White, in churches, in steamboats, and in hotels.In some churches Negroes had only one corner allotted to them, where they might sit ; in some steamboats they could not obtain cabin passage ; and in some respectable hotels they could not obtain accommodation.\u2014 This kind of treatment, he contended, was great hardship.He narrated some individual instances of it.In fact, he said, he had found stronger prejudice against his people in some parts of Upper Canada than in the United States.Speaking of the condition of the Negro settlers in Canada he imformed the meeting that they were peaceful and industrious citizens.He had visited schools for their children, and had found them well kept.The scholars were proficient, ho knew from personal examination, in geography, gram-tiier, arithmetic, Latin, Â': : and, in truth, in some places, white children were even sent to Negro schools.He asked no pity for his people, but only for their rights.He believed them capable of becoming exemplary citizens.If any person were to go to the wharves and see the arrival of immigrants from different parts of Europe, they might find many, whom he should not be afraid of comparing with his people who fled from slavery in the United States.The very fact of escaping from slavery implied much energy, and he begged to assure those whom he addressed, it was a very different thing from a white man going on board of a steamboat, or in a railway car, to travel withersoever he listed.He next took a city contemporary to task for the strictures which it had seen fit to make upon negro immigration into this colony.He combatted the idea of shipping to Africa all the negroes on this continent.In fact, he said, it was impossible, as there were nearly twelve millions of them, and that rendered shipping them all off impossible ; so, per fas aut nefas, they must stay, and it only remained to do the best thing possible with them in America, the Editor of the contemporary he found so much fault with, et id genus omne, to the contrary notwithstanding.The speaker sat down amidst prolonged cheering; and after prayer by the Rev.Mr.Jennings, the meeting separated.\u2014 Toronto Colonist.UNITED STATES.Surplus Revenue\u2014Washington, Friday, Dec.17.\u2014-The Secretary of the Treasury will probably ts-consider his decision that he is restricted by existing laws from appropriating the whole surplus revenue to the purchase of the public debt.He will, no doubt, arrive at the same opinion on this subject, which is entertained by Democratic members of the Committee of Finance.But it has now been ascertained that the question is of less importance than was supposed ; and that the amount of the surplus has been greatly exaggerated.After meeting the appropriations already made, for the year ending June 30th, 11853, the surplus will be only seven or eight millions in the United States Treasury.There is no danger ot the accumulation of a surplus of forty millions by next December, as has been supposed, and stated in the House.\u2014Journal of Commerce.The Broadway Railway.\u2014The Mayor of New York has vetoed the law passed by the Common Council of that city giving the right to construct a railway in Broadway.He does so as well because he objects to any railway there as because the Common Council has granted the right to persons who offered few public advantages, while they had before them offers of considerable public advantage.Expenses of the Government.\u2014The estimates from the Secretary of the Treasury, which have been laid before Congress, make the cost for the next year about $10,000,000 to govern the new territory, and about $25,000,000 the old.There are also the interest and principal of the public debt to be provided, so that the entire expenses will exceed fifty millions.The legitimate expenses of carrying on ihe Government do not exceed $35,000,000.The total amount of appropriations daring the year ending June 30, 1854, is estimated at $46,203,753, to which is to be added $480,986 for several appropriations which will be carried to surplus fund.There will also be required for the service of the last three-quarters of the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1853, made by former acts of Congress, the sum of $15,355,271.The lumber business of Albany lias reached $7,000,000 during the present year.This is large, and yet the advance of prices upon the total receipts here of two or three articles of provisions, reaches full $8,000,000 for the same period !\u2014 Albany Register.\u2014The Manchester (N.H.) Mirror says : \u201cAn Irishwoman in North Haverhill, in this State, gave birth to four live children, one day last week! They were all doing well when last heard from.This is a progressive age.\u201d This reminds us of the lady who a few weeks ago presented her \u2018liege\u2019 with three healthy little fellows at a birth in this city.They are said to be doing well.Manchester is a little ahead, but we are within one of it.Aye ! it is a progressive age ! A case of interest to travellers and transportation companies, was decided last Friday, by Judge Andrews, of Cleveland.The suit was brought by a passenger against the steamer Niagara, to recover the value of a trunk and its contents, containing wearing apparel and $2500 in gold coin.It was proved that he had delivered the trunk to the porter of the boat, stating that its contents were valuable, that he wanted it taken in special charge, at the same time paying the porter a quarter of a dollar for the purpose.The trunk was lost, Judge Andrews instructed the Jury that if it appeared from the evidence that this money was being transported for purposes of future investment, and no part of it was intended to be used as travelling expenses, the boat would not be liable for any portion of the money.The jury, under charge of the Court, returned a verdict for $500, the value of the wearing apparel, disallowing the $2500 claimed for loss of money in the trunk.The Boston Tmes says the \u201cSpirit Rappings\u201d in that city are doing an immense deal of mischief at this time, and it learns of several cases of insanity produced by this delusion.A terrible tragedy has taken place at Petersburg, Va.A man named Benjamin Sadler, confined in jail on a charge of kidnapping, with another named Jones, rose against the authority of the keeper of the prison, whom they locked in one of the cells, and then attempted to escape; but were stopped by a negro and a man named Sturdivant.The check was but momentary, both men being shot by Sadler, and Sturdivant instantly killed.The citizens started in pursuit, and Jones was caught, but Sadler blew out his own brains ; thus causing the loss of three lives.It\u2019s an ill Wind that blows Nobody Good.\u2014 Mr.Philip Morrill states, in the Bangor (Maine) Whig, that a disease supposed to be allied to that which has infected the potato crop, lias attacked the thistle and mullon (both serious pests to the farmer) to such an extent as to annihilate the former in that portion of the State.So far as he has observed, none have escaped this year.The Caloric Ship Ericsson.\u2014The engines of this new ship were worked yesterday for ten hours making six and one fourth revolutions per minute.Only four hundred and twenty pounds of coal were put into the furnace during the op-peration, and in consequence of working upon a checked draft, the whole of the coal was not consumed when the engines were stopped.It is the intention to work the engines for several days, and the first trial trip of the ship will not be made until it is ascertained that the engines are in complete order.CUBA.\u2014The earthquake at Santiago de Cuba, on the 29th November, completed the destruction left unfinished by the previous shocks.The Redactor gives a full list ot the buildings entirely dilapidated, including several public buildings, stores and private residences, and a list of others seriously damaged so as to be untenable.But few persona], mishaps, and none of them serions, are detailed.The shock was felt throughout the island.\u2014The Havana correspondent of the N.Y.Times says that on the 6th inst., the garrote was administered to three negroes\u2014two male and one female servant\u2014who had poisoned their mistress for the purpose of consummating a robbery\u2014 perhaps as cool and deliberate a deed as appears iu the annals of Spanish crime.She administered arsenic in the food of her mistress when indisposed; and by injections that were ordered by her physician, and in everything that she took of medicine or diet a small portion was given, so that her ailments continued without the usual appearance of foul dealing.The male servants were in the conspiracy against the life, by procuring the deleterious drug, which, with the restrictions protecting the community, had to be obtained by much cunning and stratagem.They have justly suffered for a crime that they were planning, and occupied in the commission of for two or three months.In the case of the female \u201c Merced,\" a delay of execution would have been more in conformity with the spirit of the age, as she was \u201c encient\" with seven months\u2019 life but in according with the sentence, they were dragged on hurdles, fastened to the tail of a horse, from the inner court of the prison to the front entrance, where they were met by several of the\u201c Brothers of Charity,\u201d who lifted them from the basket-hurdles and bore them to their chairs, where they paid the awful penalty due to society in a few moments.SARDINIA.Liberty of tlie Press.Announcement of the undersigned Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Turin, on the subject of prohibited Books and Journals :\u2014 We, pastors, guardians, and defenders of the morals and doctrines of Jesus Christ established by the Church ; in accomplishment of the grave duty which is incumbent upon us to forearm the faithful confided to our care against all the ambushes that are spread for them, by means of a fatal liberty to publish books, writings, periodical tracts, lithographs and engravings, which are a continual outrage to virtue and faith, and are spread in profusion over our Country ; and in virtue of the authority with which we are invested : I.\tRemind our well-beloved Diocesans that the Holy Church having never repealed the decrees relative to the reading and possession of bad books and journals, and the Sovereign Pontiffs and other sacred pastors having continued to enforce their observance, they have preserved all their strength ; and, consequently, no person may, without express permission, read, nor have at home books or journals prohibited by the Church, without committing a grave fault and incurring the penalties provided by the Church.II.\tThese are the penalties : 1st, Books ofhere-tical writers, containing heresies, or treating, ex professa, of religious matters, are prohibted under pain of excommunication, reserved to the Sovereign Fontiff.There are also prohibited, under the same penalty, nearly all the books which, since the year 1664 till this day, have been condemned by the particular Bulls or Briefs of the Sovereign Pontiffs.2d, Heretical books treating of any other subject, and all condemned books whatever, either containing or suspected of containing false dogmas, are prohibited under the pain of excommunication, latœ sentensiœ, not reserved.3rd, Other books, condemned for immorality or any other reason, cannot be read without rendering the reader liable to a grave fault, and incurring the penalty established in the decree of interdiction.III.Under the denomination of prohibited books or journals are the following : 1st, All those which have been nominally inscribed in the Index, prepared conformably to the decree of the very holy Council of Trent, and by the directions and orders of the Sovereign Pontiffs.2d, Those which, according to the rules of the Index, and the decrees annexed, are declared generally prohibited.Such are principally : Heretical books which treat, ex professa, of religion, as Bibles, Catechisms, Creeds, and others of the same kind ; in a word, all those which contain their errors, and either defend or confirm them ; the books of the heresiarchs and chiefs of Sects, although they do not treat of religion ; and those of magic and judicial astrology, whoever the author may be; heretical books, whatever may be the subject, if they have not received the approbation of the Ordinary ; Bibles in the vulgar tongue, or any parts thereof, unless they have been approved by the Holy,See, or unless they contain a commentary of the Holy Fathers, or of spme learned Catholic author, and the approbation of the Ordinary; all the publications in which God, the Saints, the Sacraments, the Catholic Church, her worshippers, or the Apostolical Holy See may be attacked ; books which treat, ex professa, of obscene things, of a nature to corrupt manners; lithograghs, engravings, and all images tending to this detestable end ; books which have been prohibited by the Ordinary, as containing heretical propositions favoring heretics, or suspected dogmatical, impious, rash, injurious errors towards the Holy Church, and tending to schism.Such, after mature examination, with advice of theologians and Canonists, we unanimously declare to be the following books :\u2014I Valdesi cenni storico per Amedeo Best ; La Confessions, saggio dommatico storico di L.D.Sanctis ; Gustavo, corrispondenza religiosa ; Libera Propaganda, diretta da A.Borelli ; Corso compléta didirrit-topublicco clementare opera del Marchese Diego Soria ; Gli orrori del Inquisisione ; I misteri di Torino e di Roma; La Slemia del Fischietto ; L\u2019Almanacco degli Opérai ; J.a ftlosofla dette Sa-sole Italiane di A.Franchi.4th.We also declare prohibited, and we prohibit, as being of a nature to corrupt morals and faith in the hearts of the faithful, and to defame the ecclesiastical hierarchy and the Princes, and to confound ideas of vice and virtue, the following journals :\u2014La Gazette del Popolo ; 1!Opinione ; L.a Slroga o Maga ; 11 Fischietti ; L\u2019llalo e Popolo ; IlMonitoride Co-nuni Italiani ; and this without prejudices to other condemnations, which may be, or have been, been pronounced by any of us in our respective Dioceses.5 th.These books and journals may neither be printed, nor read, nor circulated, nor lent, without incurring the penalties above indicated ; and who ever has them at his disposal should deposit them with the Ordinary of the Diocese.We, however, permit, as to journals, that they be consigned to the flames, in order to get some profit from them.We do not extend this interdiction to foreign vicars, nor tp administrative magistrates, who may tnr called on in the exercise of their functions, to' examine such writings.6th.We must not forget here to make special mention of the treatises which the Sovereign Pontiff now on Canon Law happily reigning has lately condemned in his brief of the 22nd August, 1851, commencing by the words, Ad Apostolicœ Seiis, and we declare that, by this brief is already implicitly condemned the tract entitled, 11 prof essore a suvi con-cittadini, in which are rashly defended the propositions condemned in the aforesaid treatises.We also remind all that, in virtue of the brief above cited, the applications of censures that will be incurred by those who contravene this interdiction (Jo wit, the suspension of ecclesiastics from the Divine offices, and the greater ex-communication for the laity), is reserved to the Sovereign Pontiff, and they apply equally to those who shall fail to give up such books to the Ordinary, though they may not have read them.7th.As to books and journals whose titles do not figure here, and of which indeed it would be impossible to insert the whole ; and as to those which under other titles are but reproductions of these preserving their bad tendencies and doctrines ; we, following the example of many venerable Catholic Prelates, declare them prohibited in principle, under the penalties hereinbefore indicated, as already condemned by the Church, together with all those which offer the characters we have pointed out, and which are consequently contrary to faith and Christian morals.8tb.If any doubt, whether a certain book be or be not prohibited, our Diocesans must abstain from reading it, till they shall have addressed themselves to their respective cures, or at least to some enlightened and pious personages.Those who, knowing our directions, refuse to submit, and will, without advice, read indiscriminately the prohibited books and journals, will therefore expose themselves to the evident danger of acting against the laws of the Church, and of grave mistakes.They cannot receive absolution, so long as they do not change their conduct.9th.Ecclesiastics, as well secular as regular, ought to show an example to the laity in the exercise of Christian virtues, and chiefly in the practice of obedience to the directions of the Church, as we have already reminded them, and we declare that they are bound to submit all their writings, whether signed by them, or appearing under other names, to their proper ordinary, or to the ordinary of the place where the books are to be printed ; otherwise they incur canonical penalties.10th.We remind editors of the terrible responsibility they assume in publishing any production hurtful to religion and morals, and of the rigorous account they must render to God for all the evil which may result therefrom to their neighbours, as well now as hereatter.We therefore pray and conjure them to submit their writings to ecclesiastical examination, not only when the question relates to the bible and catechism, to liturgies and prayer books ; but whenever they treat of anything which may directly or indirectly interest religion.11.We especially exhort all printers, booksellers, or venders of engravings and lithographs, to conform to the laws of the Holy Church, if they have respect for the salvation of their souls.I2th.We declare that even those persons who shall have obtained from the Holy See permission to read the prohibited books and journals, may truly read and keep them, taking the prescribed precautions ; but that they will render themselves guilty if they contribute otherwise to spread or republish them ; and if their subscription contributes thereto, they may not continue it.We exhort,earnestly, our well-beloved clergy, and honest laity, to oppose to the propogation of dangerous books and journals, that of books and and journals of a good spirit, and to procure for themselves a copy of the index of prohibited books, which they may have on application to the printers of the Bishoprics, or to the Bishoprics themselves, at the lowest price, with all the appendices.The present notification to be read from the pulpit, and posted in all societies.(Signed by two Archbishops and eight Bishops.) October 2nd, 1852.LATER EROM CALIFORNIA.The United States, from Aspinwall Dec.9, 7 P.M., and Kingston, Jamaica, Dec.12, 6 P.M., arrived on Sunday morning.The United States brings 198 Passengers $55,000 Gold Dust on freight, and $300,000 in the hands of the passengers.The dramatic company of Navada have sent the sum of $473,50 to the Relief Committee of Sacramento, being the proceeds of a benefit held at Dramatic Hall.The roads are reported to be in a wretched condition.A company of men at Strawberry Valley took out a few days since a lump of gold weighing 54 ounces.The Stockton Journal says the Deputy Sheriff of Maripesa County passed through Stockton on Sunday last with a Mexican prisoner, supposed to be the principal in the horrid murder of two white men and one negro, whose bodies were found near a large Mexican camp in the neighborhood of Mariposa.The Mexican was captured at Benicia.On approaching him, the officer fired two shots at the Mexican, which brought him to a stand, when he wheeled, and drawing a knife, made a direct movement to attack the officer, who instantly leveled his pistol, and firing, shot the Mexican in the mouth, the ball lodging in his neck.He still advanced, and the officer fired again, striking him in the right wrist, when he changed his knife into his left hand and still continued to advance.The officer again fired, shooting him in the shoulder, when the Mexican closed with, and cut his clothes- in several, places, but a heavy coat and vest saved his life.The contest was soon ended, however, owing to the wounds the Mexican had received, and he was again secured, brought back to Benicia and started for Mariposa under the charge of the same officer who had been so untiring in his endeavors to trace out and capture him.We understand that this daring ruffian is named Sepulveda, and belongs to an extensive and wealthy family in Los Angeles.Oregon- The Oregonian gives the following description of a coal bank on \u201cSkookum Chunk,\u201d a branch of Chickalees, on Puget\u2019s Sound :\u2014 The coal bed is situated about fifteen miles from Olympia, and the route to it appears quite feasible for a railroad.The coal rests on a strata of indurated sand, and consists\u2014first, of two feet nine inches of very compact coal ; second, six inches soft tale; third, twelve inches coal; fourth, four inches very fine sand ; fifth, three feet two inches of very fine coal.Above the coal is a strata seam eight feet in thickness, of indurated sand, iu which marine shells abound.The dip of the strata is about one foot in four.Mr.P.explored it for more than half a mile, and from the best information he could obtain, it extends several miles on the bank of the creek.The coal appears to be of the kind denominated semi-bituminous.SoutR America# {From the Panama Herald.) We have dates from Valparaiso to Nov.15 and from Lima to the 26th.Reports from Valparaiso seem to indicate a dissatisfaction with President Monti\u2019s policy, and the rapidly increasing influence of the priests and Jesuits.The Editor of the Mercurio has been arrested for having published some articles considered offensive to the latter.Business has a little improved, but there is no particular activity in the markets.Dolirin ie occupied with the most, lutportaiil scheme, namely, opening its vast resources to the Atlantic by means of some of its rivers, tributaries to the Amazon, which, if accomplished, would be of the greatest benefit to the trade and commerce of the world.From Peru, we learn that her forces are being concentrated quietly, but no mention is made of their ultimate destination, as she has refused to give any satisfaction to Equador relative to the Flores affair ; it is presumed she is but preparing to resist any satisfaction Equador may attempt to take for the injury she imagines Peru to have done in that matter.The Bishop of Carthagena has been well received in Lima, and been granted a pension by the President.The question in dispute with the Panama authorities has been referred to Bogota.From that city we learn that the English Government had made a formal declaration of blockading the coasts, on account of the defeat which the contract made with the English Charge d\u2019Affairs, relative to the Mackintosh claim, met with in the Camara this year.The Grenadian Government, however, having satisfied the demands of the English Cabinet, orders from the British Legation in Bogota have countermanded the blockade.On the 28th October, the birthday of Bolivar was celebrated in the capital.From tlie Istlimus# The anniversary of the Independence of the Isthmus of Panama was celebrated with great show on Sunday, the 28th ult.M.Le Vicomte du Jay de Rosoy, Chancellor of France, at Panama, died of apoplexy on the night of the 26th ult.M.de Rosoy was a volunteer in the army of his country in the war against the allied forces of I814\u2019-15.He entered the Polytechnic School of Paris in 1818 and in 1820 was appointed secretary to the General-in-Chief, of that institution.In 1823 he served in the campaign in Spain.In 1825 he was secretary of M.De Corbiere, Minister of the Interior, and in 1826 he was Inspector General of the Charitable institutions of France.As director of a French company for California he arrived here in 1849.He became Chancellor of France (Vice Consul) at the French consulate in this city some three months since.Duke ran, nor iny grief at the scoundrel spirit of the times, that such a man should meet with the treatment he did.* * * immediately assented, and said, you saw that he was, idolised and the saviour of his country, now insulted and even abandoned.The first was of little consequence, being by rascals or ignorant people, but the last was to him unaccountable.\u201d \u2018Nov.23, 1819.\u2014The D.of Wellington passed me in Pall-mall going to the House of Lords to hear the Speed).He stopped his coach and asked me if he should take me.When I got in, I saw him busy about the doors, which he was locking with a key in the inside.I asked what he meant.He said that ever since he had been shot at in Paris he had used that precaution.I knew, said lie, the conspiracy was pretty extended, and thought they might be at me again in a less bungling way.Their way ought to have been to have killed my coachman, when, ifmy doors could have been opened, what should I have done ?Now they are secure, and by leaning back you may fight a window better than a parapet wall.This he accompanied with the appropriate action.\u201d\u2014Vol.ii.p.31.Whether in his own defence or the nation's.\u2014 The duke was alike determinedly and calmly prac-itcal.Many remember the putting tip of tlie hall-proof outside shutters of Apsley House.There was no more idea of braving outrage without precaution, than of vindictive feeling when it occurred.\u201c At night,\u201d says Ward (When the bill of pains and Penalties against Queen Caroline was abandoned), \u201c there was an illumination and some rioting.\u201d The Duke would not light up, and sat at home all the evening, and so quiet, he said that he began to think he was a popular minister.\u2014London Globe.CHRISTMAS DAY.Give welcome to our Winter guest, He comes but once a year, And why not greet him with a smile As well as with a tear.He is a Pilgrim, with the shades Of ages on his brow ; He travels on through frost and snow, Then greet him warmly now.When first he came through heavenly gates He breathed Judea\u2019s air, And standing on her holy soil\u2014 He told his mission there, Ami now Tor eighteen hundred years, He\u2019s strayed through every clime, And left his footprints all along Upon the steps of time.He\u2019s seen the Shepherds of the hills, Pass like the mists away.And through the vales they called their own, The stranger\u2019s children stray.Has seen the Jew to gentle foes Yield up their \u201c sacred trust,\u201d And walked the \u201c race of promise,\u201d left To sorrow in the dust.And he has looked on scenes of death, Of bloodshed, and of strife, Has sought iu vain, to woo to peace The troubled waves of life.But still his accents falter not, He tells us of his birth, And brings a blessing, and a hope, To every child of earth.The lonely, and forgotten ones, May hear his soothing voice, He comes alike to bond, and free, And bids them all rejoice.He teaches \u201c fortune\u2019s favored sons,\u201d How they may truly live, And offers treasures to the poor, The world could never give.And yet he sighs not o'er our woes, He speaks not of the tomb, But points us to that \u201c eastern star\u201d That trembles through the gloom ; He tells where frail, and erring, man, Must kneel to be forgiven, And breathes in mortal ear, the song That angels chant in heaven.Then let us greet our Winter guest, E\u2019re yet his steps depart, And give the Pilgrim all he asks, The homage of the heart.Our morning thanks, and evening prayer, He\u2019ll bear as off\u2019rings now, And pass upon his homeward way, With light upon his brow.Christmas Eve.M.H.S.TEADE AND COMMERCE.West Indies* We have our files of Jamaica papers to Dec.11.The Journal says :\u2014 We have seen a letter from a Member of our House of Assembly, now in England, addressed to another Member of the House in this city, in which the writer mentions it as a fact, that Lord Harris, the present Governor of Trinidad, has accepted the Governorship of this Island, and that it is expected he will assume the Government before the end of the present year.Lord Howard de Walden bad been offered the appointment, but he declined it.A slight shock of earthquake was, we are informed, felt in the neighborhood of Halfwa^ Tree, in the parish of St.Andrew, at 11 o\u2019c/a^ on Friday morninuf Dec.3._ There were two shocks of earthquake felt in Kingston on the morning of the 10th, the last between 1 and 2 o\u2019clock.They were both very slight.A no tiler Earthquake at.St* Jago de Cuba* An earthquake as violent, and of longer duration than that which occurred\u2018on the 20 th of August last, has plunged our population into utter consternation, afflicted as they have been by a devastating epidemic which invaded our formerly enviable quietude and felicity.THE ARMY.Change of Regiments.\u2014The following is a detailed account of the changes of the stations of the regiments, which are about to take place :\u2014 The second battalion of the 1st Royals, under command of Lieut-Colonel Bell, proceed from Cork to Cephalonia, to relieve the 30th Regiment, under command of Lieut-Colonel Cavan, and the 30th will proceed to Gibraltar, to relieve the 26th Foot.The 26tb, under the command ot Lieut-Colonel Hemphill, will proceed to Barbardoes, to relieve the 34th Foot, under the command of Lieut-Colonel Brown, will proceed to Halifax, Nova Scotia, which garrison has been short of its complement of troops since the return home of the 42nd Royal Highlanders in June last, and at present stationed at Sterling Castle, under command of Lieut-Colonel Cameron.The 85th Foot, second on the roster for foreign service, proceeds from Portsmouth, uneer the command of Lieut-Colonel Power, to the Mauritius, to occupy the station vacated by the second battalion of the 12th Foot, under the command of Lieut-Colonel Perceval, which has not been filled since the departure of the battalion for service at the Cape of Good Hope.The 57th and 31st Regiments of Foot,third and fourth on the roster for foreign service (the 57th under the command of Lieut-Colonel Goldie, and the 31st under the command of Lieut-Colonel Staunton), will proceed, the former regiment from Cork, and the latter from Fermoy, to Corfu and Zante, to relieve the 41st and 47th Regiments of Foot at those stations.The 31st takes the place of the 41st at Zante, and the 57th that of the 47th at Corfu.The 41st Foot under the command of Lieut-Colonel Carpenter, and the 4th Foot, under the command of Lieut-Colonel O\u2019Grady Haly, proceed to Malta, to relieve the 76th Foot, under the command of Lieut-Colonel Clarke ; and the 76lh will proceed to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to relieve the 97th Foot, the latter regiment being ordered home.The reason for two regiments proceeding to Malta to relieve one, is owing to the 41st and 47th regiments being each composed of six companies, and the 76th they are to relieve having formerly two battalions now merged into one, contains 10 companies.The 97th to be relieved by the 76th, had also two battalions formerly, and now consists of 10 companies, ordered home, on being relieved by the 10 companies of the 76lh.The first battalion of the 71st regiment under the command of Lieut-Colonel Denny, fifth on the roster lor foreign service, and the 48th, sixth on the rosier, and under the command of Lieut-Colonel Hon.A.A.Dalzell, proceed, the former from Kilkenny, and the latter from Newport, to Corfu, to relieve the 49th Foot and 92nd Highlanders, and they will proceed to Gibraltar to relieve the 41th Foot, under the command of Lieut-Col.Hon.A.A Spencer.The 44lh will proceed to Montreal, to relieve the 20th E'oot, under the command of Lieut-Colonel Horn, ordered home from Canada.Tlie Duke on Self-reliance.The Nation honoured itself in Wellington.\u2014 Let it lay to heart the true and just views of Wellington on the habit of self-reliance, so signally exemplified in his own career, and deemed by him so indispensable to the vigour of national character.We make our following citation from the Memoirs of the late R.Plumer Ward, whose opportunities of intercourse with the Duke at the Ordnance Office have enabled him to record some striking traits of him.The extract refers to days, happily gone by, of dangerous internal tumults ; but the spirit of the lesson is not less applicable to voluntary action, and resolute self-reliance against external dangers :\u2014 \u201c This led him to his favourite notion, that the loyal should be taught to rely more upon themselves, and less upon the government, in their own defense against the disloyal.It was this, he thought, that formed and kept up a national character ; while every one was accustomed to rely upon the government, upon a sort of commutation for what they paid to it, personal energy went to sleep and the end was lost; that in England, he observed every man who had the commonest independence, one, two, five, or six hundred, or a thousand a year, had his own little plan of comfort\u2014his favourite personal pursuit, whether his library, his garden, his hunting, or his farm, which he was unwilling to allow anything (even his own defence) to disturb ; he therefore deceived himself into a notion, that if there was a storm it would not reach him, and went on his own train till it was actually broke in upon by force.\u201d The way in which public feeling righted itself about Wellington is not the least striking thing in his career.To be sure, the mitigating effects of times less unprosperous than from 1815 to 1820, administration less repressive, and, last not least, a Court more respected\u2014must be taken into account.Ward writes\u2014 I could not disguise to myself the danger the MONTREAL RETAIL MARKETS.CORRECTED BY THE CLERKS OF THE MARKETS.Dec.23, 1852.BONSECOURS.\t\t\t\t\tST.ANN\u2019\t\t\tS.s.\ta.\t\ts.\ta\tS.\t(T.\ts.\trf.Wheat, - permlnot4\t3\ta\t4\t9\t4\t3 a\t4\t9 Oats, - - - - 2 BarJey, - - - 3\t1\ta\t2\t0\t1\t10 a\t2\t1 \t4\ta\t3\t0\t2\t9 a\t3\t0 Peas,\t-\t-3\t0\ta\t3\t9\t3\tG a\t3\t10 Buckwheat,\t-\t- 2\tO\ta\t2\tG\t2\t4 a\t2\tG Rye,\t-\t-\t- 3\t4\ta\t3\t4\t3\t3 a\t3\tG Flaxseed, -\t- 5\tO\ta\t6\tG\t6\t0 a\t6\tG Potatoes, - perhush.1 Beans, American,\t3\ta 1 none\t\tG\tI 0\t8 a 0 a\t1 0\t10 0 Beans, Canada,\t- 5\t0\ta\t6\t6\t0\t0 a\t0\t0 Honey,\t- per lb.0\t4\ta\t0\t6\t0\t0 a\t0\tO Beef,\t- per lb.0\t3\ta\t0\t6\t0\t3 a\t0\t7} >vIuuon i\t-\tner /ir.2\t0\t\tc\tO\t3 1\t9 f\trt_\tc-4 turn!),\t-\t-\t- Î5\t0\ta\t6\t0\t\t3 a\t3\ta Veal,\t-\t-\t- 3\t0\ta\t10\t0\t4\t0 a\t10\t0 Pork,\t-\tperil).0\t4\ta\t0\t7\t0\t4 a\t0\t6 Butler, Fresh, -\t- 1\t6\ta\t1\t4\t1\t1 a\t1\t3 Butter, Salt, -\t- 1\t0\ta\t0\t0\t0\t11 a\t1\t0 Cheese,\t-\t-\t- 0\t3\ta\t0\t6\t\t3£ a\t0\t5 Lard,\t-\t-\t- 0 New Maple Sugar, - 0\t6\ta\t0\t7\t0\t8 a\t0\t7 \t4\ta\t0\t6\t0\t0 a\t0\t0 Eggs, (fresh) per dozen 1\t0\ta\t0\t10\t1\t2 a\t1\t3 Turkies, (old,) couple 6\t0\ta\t7\tG\t7\t6 a\t14\t0 Turkies, (young)\t- 5\tG\ta\t4\t0\t4\tG a\tG\t0 Geese,\t-\t-\t- 6\t0\ta\t4\t0\t4\t6 a\t6\t6 Ducks,\t-\t-\t- 2\t0\ta\t2\t6\t2\t6 a\t3\tO Fowls,\t-\t-\t- 2\t0\ta\t2\t6\t2\t0 a\t2\t6 Chickens, -\t-\t- 1 Woodcock, per brace 0\t0\ta\t2\tG\t1\tG a\t2\t0 \t0\ta\t0\t0\t0\t0 a\t0\t0 Pigeons, wild per dozen 3\t0\ta\t3\tG\t0\t0 a\t0\tO Do tame per couple 0\t6\ta\t0\t\t0\t0 a\t0\tO Hares,\t-\t-\t- 0\t9\ta\t1\t0\t0\t9 a\t1\tO Oranges,\tper box, 20\t0\ta\t22\t6\t0\t0 a\t0\t0 Apples,- per barrel, 7\t6\ta\t10\to\t10\t6 a\t17\t6 Peaches\t)>er basket 15\t0\ta\t0\t0\t00\t0 n\t00\tO Onions,\tper barrel 10\t0\ta\t0\t0\t12\tG a\t16\t0 Flout,\tper quintal 11\t8\ta\t12\t0\t12\t6 a\t14\t0 Oatmeal, -\t-\t- 9\t0\ta\t10\t\t10\t0 a\t10\tG Beef,\tperlOOlbs.15\t0\ta\t27\t6\t18\t9 a\t30\t0 Fresh Pork,per lOOIbs.25\t0\ta\t30\t0\t25\t0 a\t32\tG Halibut,\tperil) 0\t4\ta\t0\t6\t0\t4 a\t0\t0 Onions, per bush.4\tG\ta\t6\t0\t4\tG a\t5\t0 MONTREAL HAY MARKET, Dec.23, 1852.Average Price of Hay and Slrawfor the last six days\u2014 n, d.h.d.Hay, perlOO bundles, - - -40 0a50 0 Straw, do\t- -\t20 0 a 26 0 Imports by tlie Champlain ami SI* Lawrence Railroad* Dec.22.\u2014D Montgomery, 13 bxs 5 bis ; Wilson & Couillard, 2 bxs; Nelson & Butters, 11 bxs; Cheney, Rice & Co, 3 bxs.Dec.23.\u2014Morrison, Cameron & Empey, 18 bxs 5 bis ; II Ramsay, 4 bxs ; J Parkin, 2 cases ; R Campbell & Co, 3 bis ; Y Mussen 3 es 1 bl ; G Ilngar, 1 furnace 1 bale 1 box 12 bbls ; Noad, Young & Co, 33 bbls.PRODUCE CIRCULAR.Toronto, Dec.17, 1852.No.1 Superfine Flour, instore, 21s©22s ; Extra do do, 22s©22s 6d; Wheat, from waggons, 4s©4i 3d ; Barley, from do, 2s©2s 3d ; Oats, from do, Is 3d©ls 6d ; Oat Meal, per brl.of 200 lbs, 20s; Timothy Seed, per bushel, 7s Gd©10s; Clover Seed, 22s 6d ; Pork, carcass, 25s©32s Cd ; do, Prime Mess, per brl, $13 50c ; do Mess, do do $15© $16; do, Prime, $il©$12; Butter, prime, 9d© lOd; do, dairy 10d©lld; Wool Canadian, Is 2d ©Is 4d.Flour.\u2014Our Market has been quiet the past week, buyers and sellers too wide apart; the Quebec and Montreal orders, entirely below the market, waiting for a further advance before operating.Winter prices will open at 22s.6d.for top brands\u20144000 bris placed for delivery in January, at the quotations, closing at an advance \u2014in consequence of the steamer\u2019s news, which settles the the question of prices for this winter.Wheat.\u2014Our Mills are, with few exceptions, without wheat.Expecting lower prices after the closing of the navigation, they will now be obliged to go into slock, at an advance, which will ensure a spirited winter\u2019s business (roads permitting).The demand for both Wheat and Flour this Winter, will far exceed the quantity offering, at extreme prices.Pork.\u2014Large supplies coming forward, and prices still advancing, 33s.9d.has been paid by Quebec agents.In other articles small business doing.Weather continues open, and shipments made to Oswego, and Cape Vincent, this week.R.A.GOODENOUGH, Produce Agent, Front Street, Toronto.TRAVELLERS\u2019 LIST.Arrivals at Coleman\u2019s Montreal House, Dec.22\u2014O Goodrich, Burlington ; J A Dyer, Bangor ; W Fiske, Lowell.Dec.23.\u2014W F Crook, A B Stetson, Rouse\u2019s Point ; J P Willard, Troy ; J L Flowers, J M Clark, St Johns.Arrivals at the St.Lawrence Hall, Dec.23.\u2014G W Eaton, Buckingham ; A L D McKay, Og-densburgh; W L Felton, Sherbrooke.Dec.24.\u2014J B Moore, Richmond.BIRTH.At Port Kent, N.Y., on the 16th instant, the wife of Colonel C.M.Watson, of a daughter.MARRIED, At Lachine, on the 18th instant, by the Rev, Geo.Simpson, Mr.Andrew Rough, Agent New York and Montreal Railroad (at Caughnawaga) to Margaret, youngest daughter of J.Laflamme, Esq., Lachine.DIED.At Hemmingford, on the 9th instant, Jane Graham, the beloved wife of John McNaughton, in the 39th year of her age.STRE-WOO».The best quality in the City, delivered Free of Charge.THE WOOD-YARD opposite the Union Engine House, will be OPEN to Customers THIS MORNING, and continue so during the Winter Months.Dec.13.\t235 "]