Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 29 mars 1853, mardi 29 mars 1853

[" ni liiSktoJ&.-W isAniiû \u2022 WuAk.5x:\t\\ \u2019% '\\l).X \\ v \u2022:- ô-i^'^^'-v __ h-A\\>5 .(f YOLUME XLY.;iND _ DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.ftromncicti parliament.{Reported for the Montreal Herald.) LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.Qcebeo, Friday, March 11, 1853.ADDRESS OP C.DTJNKIN, ESQ., Before the Legislative Assembly of Canada, on behalf of certain Seigniors, petitioners of the Honorable House against a Bill introduced by the Hon.Mr.Attorney General Drom-mo^d, entitled \u201cAn Act to define rights of Seigniors and Censitaires in Lower Canada, and to facilitate redemption thereof.\u201d (continued.) A fourth Ordonnance has been cited; rendered by M.Hocquart on the 23rd ot January, 1738, and which is to be found on p.170 of the same volume, the Ordonnance in (act which was printed durin» the last session of Parliament at Toronto, as bearding on this question.But, like the others 1 have remarked upon, it will be found to have really nothing to do with it.Several habitons of Gaudar-ville, in this case impleaded their Seignioress, the Helle.Peuvret, demanding\u2014not a grant of lands which she had refused to make\u2014bqt \u201ctitles in due \u201c form of the lands she had conceded them, (titres \u201c en bonne forme des terres qu\u2019elle leur a concé-\u201c dées.) and that, upon the footing of the titles of \u201c the other lands of the said Seigniory.\u201d Her reply was, \u201c that she was quite willing to pass \u201c deeds to the habitans Plaintiffs, of the new lands \u201c she had granted, the same to be taken immedi-\u201c ately behind the first grants of the said Seigni-il ory,\u2014and at the cens,rentes and seigniorial dues \u201c which the Intendant should please to indicate \u201c (et aux cens, rentes et droits Seigneuriaux qu\u2019il \u201c nous plaira régler.\u201d) Hereupon the Plaintiffs objected by their answer\u2014and this manifestly was the sole point in serious dispute between the parties\u2014that behind the first range of grants there was a swamp, and that their lots ought to be marked off in rear of it.To this the Seignioress in turn made objection ; and here the In-tendant had to decide.The Grand Voyer visited the ground, and reported.The Intendant settled the point in favor of the Seignioress\u2019s pretension ; and, so doing\u2014and in terms of her express consent, of record in the cause, directed that the grants should be \u201c at the cens, rentes ordained by lf His Majesty, to wit : one sol of cens per arpent \u201c of front, and one sol of rente per arpent in super-\u201c ficies, and a capon or 20 sols at the choice of \u201c the said Seignioress, per arpent of front.\u201d\u2014 \u201cOrdained by His Majesty.\u201d How?When?apropos ot what ?There is nothing to show.It may have been, that such orders had been sent out, in reference to grants en censive, within the domain of the Crown ; though the fact is at least noticeable here, that these rates are not those which, as we know from other documents now published, were fixed for grants in the censives of the Crown, about the same period.To this consideration I shall have to advert presently ; and I pass from it therefore now, merely observing as I do so, that it is certain that at this very period the Governor and Intendant w ere fixing various rates of dues, not identical with this rate nor with each other, for censive giants within the Crown domain; and that the case, as an authoritative decision, amounts to nothing, because\u2014as 1 have said\u2014it purports to have been on this point a mere judgment by consent.For aught we know, the Seignioress may have gained by it, may have got higher rates than those of her older grants.Noth-V ing in the case indicates that they were lower.One more ordonnance I cite in this connexion ; not as making against my view, (for I haveiound none that do,) but as the one other, which I have found, indicative of any maierial control exercised by an Intendant over the terms of a grant d cens made by a Seignior.It is another ordonnance of M.Hocquart, under date of the 23rd of February 1748, and is to be found at p.202 of the same volume.In this case, the Fabrique of Berliner impleaded the Seignioress, to obtain from her a notarial deed to a lot held by them for the iast 38 years, under a billet de concession.The Defendant declared her willingness to pass the deed, but demanded to be allowed to insert in it certain clauses,\u2014one to the effect that theland, if ever alienated by the Fabrique, should become chargeable in her favor with a certain rate of dues, stated by her to be that of the other lands in her Seigniory,\u2014and some other clauses of a kind not likely to have been contemplated at the time of the granting of the billet de concession.To these tatter clauses the Fabrique gave no consent ; and the Intendant, rightly no doubt, disallowed them, \u2014and directed the passing of a deed that should merely stipulate for payment uf dues by any party acquiring from the Fabrique.The rate named in the judgment is not identical with that proposed by the Seignioress, as the rate usual in her Seigniory ; the former being partly payable in capons, and the latter in wheat; and no leason is given for the variance.Indeed, it reads as though made by inadvertence.Be this, however, as it may, so much at least is clear, that this ordonnance, equally with the others I have been commenting on, is not a case ever so remotely coming within the purview of the enactments of the arrêts of Marly.I say more,\u2014I dare not undertake to weary this Honorable House with comments on every Ordonnance anAArrêt in detail, thus over and over again to prove a negative,\u2014but this 1 must say, after thus remarking on these cases\u2014the few I have found, of a tenor which has seemed to me to call for notice here,\u2014that I have most carefully studied every printed Edit, Arret and Ordonnance laid before this Honorable House in connection with this whole subject; and every other that I have been able to find ; that I have arranged them all in order ot date ; have read and re-read them all, so arranged ; have made a written abstract of them all; and, though I will not say that the Edit, Arrêt or Ordonnance does not exist, that shows this procedure by habitant against Seignior, provided for by this arrêt of (Marly, in some stray instance to have been resorted to and carried out, I will and do say, that after every effort made I have not found it.I do firmly believe that it is nowhere to be found.And not only do I find no proof of this procedure under this arrêt of Marly having ever been carried out.I fail equally lo find a case ot the enforcement of the alter arrêt of 1732, which prohibited all sale of wild land, by whomsoever made, under pain of nullity and escheat.Both, so far as one can see, were mere threats.1 will not sav they were never meant for more.But that they were no more, I cannot doubt.Indeed, that this part of the first arrêt of Marly had so fallen into desuetude, is further to some extent evidenced by the tenor of the Declaration of the French King, of the year 1743, to be found on page 230 of the second volume so often quoted.\u2014 By that Declaration the King undertook to regulate the course to be followed by the Governor and Intendant, and in proceedings had befoie them, in regard to the matter of the granting and escheating of land.But there is not in it, nor yet in the King\u2019s subsequent Declaration of 1747 (p.172 of the third volume laid before Parliamen!) explanatory of it,\u2014any reference to this peculiar procedure (most of all requiring regulation, one would say, if then a procedure really ever taken) for the quasi escheat of land, part of a granted Seigniory, and its grant by the Crown to the habitant, prosecutor in the cause.It was not a procedure seriously thought about.I would not be misunderstood.My position is not, that the Governors and Intendants let the Seigniors alone.They let no one alone.They were for managing everything and everybody; for not allowing wild land to be sold by anyone\u201d; for not letting men of any class make their own bargains or deal freely about anything.I daresay they interfered with Seigniors.Very likely_the arrêts of Marly not coming up to their notion of the extent or kind of interference they were in dined to resort to,\u2014they interpreted them more or less to be what they were not.Some of the arrêts 1 have remarked upon, are indicative ofthis sort of thing.And very possibly a vague impression as to what might be done by an Intend ant in any given case, under color of his notions of these arrêts, or representations as to what was the King\u2019s pleasure, may have had more or less of effect at one time or another, in leading Seigniors to concede at lower rates or under less onerous charges and reserves than they otherwise would have done.The same kind of consideration, no doubt, influenced other classes of men as to other matters.But such influence was no influence of law ; changed no man\u2019s tenure of his laml,affect-ed in no way the legal incidents attaching to a man\u2019s property.And without any such influence operating to that end, it was impossible the rates of concession ofland should have been high.By 1663, we have seen that not far from 3,000,001) of arpents of the land now so held, had been granted en fief.under those of the titles of that period which still remain in lorce, and perhaps twice that quantity had in all been granted under all the titles then extant.The French population, to that date, is stated not to have amounted to 2,500 souls.At a low calculation, the extent of the grants must have averaged something like 10,000 arpents for every family.In 1712, when the arrets of Marly were promulgated, the grants en fief covered more than 7,000,000 ot arpents ; tor a population (Indians excluded) of hardly 22,000 souls; some 1,800 arpents at least on the average for every family.And in 1760, the grants were 10,000,000 of arpents, to a population of about 59,000 ; or still, about 1,000 arpents to a family.Could land bear anything but a low price under such circum stances?And these figures all understate the fact.For they are given without reference to the large grants made beyond the present limits of Lower Canada, and where the population bore a still smaller proportion to the extent ot the land I granted than it did in Lower Canada.Aut low (as compared with present values) as the ruling rates always were in Lower Canada during these periods, they were never uniform, or fixed by any law or rule.it would have been contrary to all precedent, to every notion of law antecedently prevailing in the country, if thev had been.No doubt, the doctrine will be found laid down in most of the books, that the cens was in its nature a small redevance or due \u2014nominal, so to speak\u2014imposed merely in recognition of the Seignior\u2019s superiority, and mainly valuable as establishing his right to the mutation fine, known under the Custom of Paris as tods et ventes.And from this fact, some have thought and spoken, as though it was of the nature of the fixed yearly Seigniorial dues, upon and granted en censive, to be low and nominal.But it is forgotten by those who draw this mistaken inference, that the doctrine I have referred to is by these feudist writers laid down, only with reference to the cens, properly so called, as contra-distinguished from the rerifes which also iormed part\u2014and by very far the larger part\u2014of these yearly dues.Even, however, as to the ecus, in France, there was no kind of uniformity; and for the amount and character of ihe rentes, no limit whatever could be assigned to their variations.The total amount in France, of a seignior\u2019s yearly dues accruing on his lands granted en censive, were as various as the caprice of local customs, and special contracts, possibly could make them ; as a general ruie they were anything but low'.Indeed, it has been clearly established as matter of historical research, that the cens itself was not in its original a nominal due, but (as the very word, cens, census, imports) a real and onerous tribute\u2014fixed in money and in the course of ages rendered light in amount, by reason not merely of advance in money prices, but also of the enormous depreciations of the currency that for some centuries disgraced the history of France.\u2014Hervé, the writer from whom I have already quoted, and the weight ot whose authority on these matters cannot be questioned, alter conclusively establishing this historical tact, in his 5th volume, lays it down (p.121) \u201c que tou-\u201c jours le cens a été proportionné au véritable pro-\u201c duit de la chose accensée, lorsqu\u2019on a tait de véri-\u201c tables baux â cens ; et non pas des ventes sous \u201c le nom de baux â cens, et qu\u2019il n\u2019est point par sa \u201c nature une simple redevance fictive et honori-\u201ctique; that the cens has always been proportion-\u201c ed to the veritable product of the estate granted \u201c à cens, when the parties have made real grants \u201c d cens, and not sales disguised under that name, \u201c and that it is not in its nature a mere fictitious, \u201c honorific due.\u201d The cens et rentes here in question, no less than the censet rentes of old subsiting in France under our Custom of Paris, bear, and ever have borne, ibis legal character; are, as to amount and kind, whatever the parties may have agreed to make them; represent the consideration of the grant, in terms of the contract establishing the grant.To turn to tacts.The terms of a few grants en censive, made before 1663, are to be found in the 1st of the volumes laid before Parliament.In 1639, for instance, (see p.351) a piece of land close to Quebec was granted at 1 denier, the twelllh part of a halfpenny of our currency, per arpent.In 1647 (p.12) a tract ol a quarter of a league by a league in depth, was granted at the same rate; but with the proviso that such rate per arpent was to be paid \u201c lorsqu\u2019il \u201c sera en valeur seulement,\u201d \u201cas it shall passing indication oi the idea then entertained of flavored class.the value of the twellth part of the coin now pas- ^ 1\u2018-\u20141- sing as a halfpenny.Two years after, in 1648, (p-382) land at Three Rivers was gianted at the enhanced rate of 3 deniers per arpent ; and in the same year (p,314) two months later, other land, to be taken at Three Rivers or Quebec, was g:ant-ed at the further advance of 6 deniers per arpent.These grants and some others like them, are grants by the Company ofNew France.Almost at the same date, in 1648, I find men * tion in the recitals ol an Arret, (vol.II, p.176 Edits et Ordonnances of 18U6) of a grant à cens by a Seignior, at the rate of 12 deniers per arpent of cleared or meadow land, together with a quart of well sailed eels.And it may be added, by the way, that this grant (thus early made) stipulated the droit de retrait, or right ot pre-emption by the Seignior, in case of sale of the land by the grantee.I was desirous to have had it in my power to lay before this House something like a statement ot the extent of range of ihe variations observable .\t-\t- ,\t,\t- -\u2014.O.ior, from whom they at dmerent periods and in different parts of the i hnd to acquire the right\u2014of course for value.Province; but they are so almost infinite that I lffhe same strict enforcement was uniform of the s imably that of the nearest approach to regularity of sysiem ever attained under the French Govern-Iment.1 In truth, uniformitvot rule and absolutism have V TyTTttle to do with one another^ vVc have seen ready that even in the 4 cases, between 1713 and 1827, in which the Governors and Intendants a iempted, by their fixed rate clause, to enforce a, rule on grantees of Seigniories, they could no ' ing themselves to make that rule one and tk same,\u2014but, by prescribing ihree different depths! grants in three out of the four cases, laid down truth three different rules, for three several Seigniories.1 he recitals of numbers of the Ordonnances and Arrêts, as we find them in the second of the Volumes laid before this Honorable House, all tend to the same conclusion.Over and over, we find the Intendants taking cognizance of rates not at all alike; and constantly enforcing them, just as the contracts chanced to set them inrth.Sometimes, the Arrets clearly show more than one rate in a Seigniory.In one that occurs to me, (to be found on p.165 of this second Volume) three such rates are incidentally referred to as co-existent in one and the sam»\t, \u2014i .l,-\u2014- at all extraordinary\u2014as in truth it was not.Further, to turn to still another description of proof.In the table on the subject, printed as part of the Appendix to the Seigniorial Tenure Commissioners\u2019 Report, (Vol.3, p.159 and seq.,) are stated, in all, the terms of some 47 grants en censive., o( dates prior to 1760, made id 48 Seigniories.And these grants exhibit some 40 variances if rate.In one Seigniory alone 6 or 7 of these variances are shown ; in another, 5 ; in several others, 2, 3, or 4.But to what end heap proof on proof, of a fact so certain,\u2014so everywhere patent on the face of every document we have, that at all refers to it ; of a fact so consonant with every probability arising out of the antecedent law of the land,\u2014so certainly made known as a fact, to the Crown b'-its Governors and Intendants,\u2014so certainly recog*-nized and sanctioned by the Crown ?There can ^thing be proved, jf-jjjjg js n0i.I pass to another consideration.I said, not long since, that the Seigniors, rif at all more controlled by the authorities than he law warranted, were at all events not the only parties so controlled.But that is not all I must say.They were the parties least so controlled.Why, the very obligation imposed on so many of them by their deeds, was an obligation to aid in controlling the class below them,\u2014to compel that class to live on their lands, to reserve oak timber for the King, and so forth.Before, as well as after the arrêts of Marly, the grants made to that class were constantly escheated for failure so to settle them._ 1 he complaint of the Intendants was, that the Seigniors were only too little zealous in enforcing this control.The arrets ol Marly threatened a penalty hard ot enforcement and not practicallyenforced against the Seignior, and for the censitaire ', but contrived the shortest and most summary mode possible\u2014a mode constantly resorted to\u2014of enforcing its penalty against the censitaire, and tor the Seignior.Ihe arret of 1732 pretended\u2014not to annul) simply a Seignior\u2019s sales of wild land,\u2014but alll Such sales made by any one.If ever enlorced, wet may take it tor certain, that the censitaires\u2019 sales would not have been the sales MONTREAL, A TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1853 1\u201c par tc , .\t\u2014-to escape the for- torleiture.be brought \u201cinto cultivation only,\u201d\u2014a curious ^The censitaires were not then the powerful or soon felt it to be quite impossible, with the very little time I was able to devote to this particular branch of research.A friend to whom 1 applied a few days since to aid me in this respect, was able to spend a very short time in an examination of a limited number of old grants in the vaults of the Prolhonotary\u2019s office at Montreal.Taking the first in alphabetic order, of the names ol {he notaries of the old time, whose minutes were there deposited,\u2014that of one Adhémar,\u2014and striking on the year 1674, as remote enough to fall within M.Baudot\u2019s times of innocence, he examined as many of that Notary\u2019s deeds as the short time he could give to the matter allowed.From their state and style of writing he was unable to examine many in that time, but all he could examine showed an almost incredible absence of rule or usage, as well at that date as at others\u2014whether as to amount or kinds of dues, or as to the quantities granted, or as to the clauses and reserves attached to grants.Hereafter\u2014so soon as time shall allow\u2014I will establish this fact (for it is a certain fact) beyond the possibility of doubt, by ascertaining and laying before the public the terms of a sufficient number ol these all-varying deeds.For the moment, I must be content to cite four; the first four that my friend chanced to examine, and of which 1 hold authenticated copies in my hands.They aie of dates falling within 8 consecutive days of September, 1674 ; the first, being of the 5th\u2014the second, of the 12th, and the third and fourth, of the 13th, of that month; in fact, I believe them to be the four consecutive deeds of concession which it was that Notary\u2019s fortune to pass in those eight days.The first, second, and fourth are of grants in Batiscan ; the third is of a grant either in Batiscan or Cap de la Magdeleine.Either Seigniory belonged to the Jesuit fathers ; presumably not the most exacting, or irregular in procedure, of the Seigniors of the time.The first of these grants is one of 40 arpents by 40-; 1600 square arpents.The yearly dues are stated at 30 Livres Tournois, 30 capons, and 10 deniers ften twelfths of a half-penny) of cens.Valuing the capons at In sols a piece\u2014the money rate per arpent is something over a half a sol\u2014 something over a farthing of our currency.The second of these grants is of 4 arpents by an unstated depth ; the rate, 1 sol Tournois per arpent, 1 capon per 20 arpents, and 4 deniers (i of a half-penny) of cens : in all\u2014upon the same valuation of the capon\u2014about lisais per arpent, more than treble that of the grant ol the week (before.The third is ol 2 arpents by 40 ; the rate, as though the parties had not likeit ever twice to do the same thing in the same way, or on like terms, is stated at half a boisseau oi wheat, 2 capons and 2 deniers of cens.The fourth\u2014a grant of 60 feet square near the mill of Basticau\u2014is for 3 Livres Hournoh, and 1 [denier of cens ; a rate of more than 1 sol for every jfoot of front by 60 feet of depth.I Quantities\u2014amounts\u2014rate\u2014styles of rate\u2014 [could scarcely have varied more.Again, to lake another kind of proof, and from another and later time, in 1707 and 1708, we find Mr.Baudot complaining of the extraordinary diversity everywhere prevailing ; sending home table to exhibit it ; and proposing, by way of remedy (p.8 of Vol.4, as laid before this House) the adoption as a rule of universal application, of the rate of \u201c a sol of rente, and a capon of 20 sols \u201c at the payer\u2019s choice, per arpent of frontage.\u201d as we have seen the suggestion was not adopted.In 1716, when the subject was again under review nothing approaching to it appears to have been offered by Air.Begon, or thought of by any one else.Between 1734, however, and 1753, ive have opies of some ten grants en censive, printed in the 1st and 4th of the Volumes laid before Parliament, made by the Governor and Intendant for the Crown.\" And here, at aifevents.i7_unïïôrmity~ûF rate conid have bee_n_ttie rule any where, one would\t\u2019 '\t* '\t:\t: Even where favored, it was seldom to an extent that would be thought much of,in days like ours.P or example; in 1706 (I refer to p.35 of the second volume laid before this House) Mr.Baudot was called on to interpret a clause, general it would seem in the grants made by the Seminary, in their Seigniory ot Montreal, (and in those days, by the way, not uncommon elsewhere,) by which that body had reserved to themselves the right to take without payment any quantity of wood they pleased on their censitaires\u2019 land.The Seminary expressly consented as a favour, to limit this reserve to the right of cutting down for their own fire wood one arpent in every sixty, to be chosen by themsel ves, near the clearings of the ccnsifaires, and for their buildings or other public works any further quantity they might require_______And this offer was accepted ; and by such consent ot parties, Mr.Baudot pronounced accordingly.At all dates, we find the Intendants strictly enforcing the prohibition to fish against the habitans, unless by leave ot their Seign' ______expect to find it.Five of these grants, from 1734 tbHvoO, (Vol.4, p.27, and Vol.1, p.p.242, 243, 247, 248 and 249,) are at the same rate, being all grams near Detroit ; but it is not the rate suggested in 1707 by Baudot\u2014but one materially higher, and this, though the land granted was so far hack in the .wiidelniSs) TBIs new\u201crate is 1 sol of cens per arpent of Iront, 20 sols for every 20 arpents of extent, and a quarter of a minot of wheat per arpent of front by 40 arpents.A sixth grant at the same place, in 1753, (Vol.1, p.252,) is made nominally at the same rate, but the depth being 60 arpents, the real rate per arpent is, so much lower.A seventh\u2014of the Isle aux Cochons, in Lake Erie\u2014in 1752, (Vol.1, p.251,) is made with no reference to this rule at 2 sols of cens, 4 Livres ot rente, and a minot ol wheat for the entire grant\u201420 arpents by half a league.\u2014 The eighth and ninth ot these grants, are at Port St.Frederic, in 1741 and 1744, (Vol.1, p.245 246,) and the rate is an advance\u2014not inconsiderable, according to the notions of those times\u2014on that ol the four grants at Detroit first referred to.It is 1 sot of cens per arpent of front, 20 sols of rente per 20 arpents, and half a minot of wheat pin-stead of a quarter) per 40 arpents.And the 10th grant of the number, at La Presentation, in 1751, j(Vol.1, page 250,) being of an arpent and a (square, for convenience of a saw-miU built by the ^grantee, is at 5 sols ol rente, and 6 deniers ot cens.I No observance, therefore, of a fixed rule, even\u201d in the censive of the crown ; theHKvërnôFimi [ InTëhdent, gÜlîtlilgXâmF throujirthi^éfidd^pTi.-Seigniors\u2019right of banality, of which I shall have to speak more hereafter, and by virtue of which no man was allowed to resort to any other than his Seigniors\u2019 grist mill.And even as to Corvées, or the obligation to involuntary labor at the Seigniors requirement, notwithstanding the Ordonnance of 1716, printed last year at Toronto (and to he found on page 57 of the second volume now before this House,) under which it has been contended that all Corvées were then prohibited,\u2014and notwithstanding the dislike ot them expressed to the government at home, in 17U7, 1708 and 1716 by Messrs.Baudot and Begon,\u2014not even herein was the censitaire in fact relieved.Everywhere I fina them enforced.Nay, asiate even as 1723, (see p.35 ot volume 2,) ] find an extra day ol corvée ordered by the Intendant, for all the habitans ot Longueuil on the exparte demand of the Seignior \u2014the censitaire not so much as summoned to make answer to the demand before judgment rendered.And this control and these interferences were not merely resorted to, in matters where the Seignior\u2019s interests may be said to have dictated them.In 1709, for instance,\u2014I quote now irom pape 41 ot the second volume ol Edits et Ordonnances published in 1806,\u2014Mr.Baudot, whose especial mania for interference with all sorts of people and things I have so often had to notice,! issued his ukase, \u201c forbidding the habitans ot the \u201c neighborhood of Montreal to keep more than \u201c two horses or mares and one colt, as their doing \u201c so would prevent their raising horned cattle and \u201c sheep, and would lead to a scarcity of other \u201c animals.\u201d From this absurd caprice of an Intendant, 1 pass to a piece of serious legislation by the King, as to which again there can be no mistake.In 1745,-1 cite from page 151 of the 1st volume of the Edits et Ordonnances published in 1803,\u2014the King by an ordonnance, forbade the habitans throughout the country, to build any house or stable, whether of stone or wood, on any piece of land of less extent than an arpent and a half by from 30 to 40 deep unless it were, within the limits of some lour g ox village declared such by the Governor and Intendant, and this on pain ot demolition of such building and 100 Livres of fine.And from the time of its promulgation down to 1760, that Ordonnance with all its severity\u2014a severity pressing only on the habitant class\u2014was, as is well known, most rigidly enforced.And it did not quite come up to the ideas cherished by the functionaries of the then Government as to the extent and oppressiveness of the control that ought to be brought to bear on the unfortunate class of men for whom it was intended.Py all means whatever, they were to be forced to abide the life of lisk and hardship then falling to the lot of the rural settler,\u2014neither suffered to hold only so much land as they might want, nor under any pretext to leave their forest wilderness for the easier life of the town.By 1749 (see p.Ixxxvii ot the 2d Volume of Edits et Ordonnances, ot 1806) an Intendants Ordonnance \u201cwith intent to advance 11 the cultivation of the country, forbids the habU \u201c tans who have land in the countiy from corning \u201c to settle in town, without leave ol the Intendant \u201c granted in writing ; and orders all persons of the \u201c town, letting houses or rooms to any whom they \u201c shall suspect to be/w&hkm/s of the country, to \u201c declare the same to the Lieutenant General of \u201c Police,\u201d\u2014of course that they be sent back, punished or unpunished, as occasion shall require.j Control ! Every one, I repeat, was controlled, as happily none can be now.But the weight of the control pressed on the censitaire, Ihe Seignior in comparison was free.Such as it was, moreover, that control is of the past ; to all intents, as regards the law ot the land, it is as though it had never been.Woman\u2019s tenure of his property is affected by it; neithercensi/aire\u2019s, nor Seignior\u2019s.Both hold as proprietors ; their rights defined and protected equally, by the law.\u2014For my clients, I am here, not to ask for a return, in any the very slightest particular towards the old system under which they were (as 1 have shown) the comparatively favored class.I recall that past, as it was, only that 1 may protest on their behalf against the monstrous error and injustice of any attempt now to subject them (and them only) to its influence, or rather to the influence, other and far worse than that past ever inflicted on inflicted on their predecessors,\u2014such as may not, cannot be made to.af-fect any class whatever, where (as with us) the jlaw alike and equally protects all classes, all property, all rights.I proceed to another portion of my argument.I have said, that the proposition on which alone this Bill can for an instant be defended, is the proposition, that the Seigniors of Lower Canada are not truly proprietors, but trustees bound to concede at some low rate, and under few or no conditions or restrictions ; and that this alleged trustee capacity of theirs, if it be the fact, must arise either from something in the tenor of the antecedent law of France, as interpretative of their position ; or from something done when their grants were made or afterwards, down to the cession oft his country to the British Crown; or from something done since that cession.Unless 1 am* it/M .much mistaken, I have showm, that alike the tenor half! of the old law, the terms of their grants, the ac-' * tion, legislative and otherwise, of the French Crown, and the whole course and character of the jurisprudence (so to speak) of the country, while under the French Crown, establish in terms the contrary proposition ; prove that, to the date of the cession, they not only were proprietors, but were even the proprietors who held by the higher and more perfect and favored tenure,\u2014were in fact emphatically the proprietors of the favored class.Passing now to the period which has elapsed since the cession of the country to the British Crown, I believe that my further propo-position, that nothing has been done since the cession to take from them their proprietor quality does not require much argument for its support.1 shall easily show that the history of this whole matter since the cession , is such, as to suffice of itself to assure to them that quality, with all its incidents, were it even doubtful (as it is not) how far it attached to them before.But before occupying myself with that part of my subject, 1 perhaps ought to offersome remarks on a point which may be said to suggest itself incidentally, as one passes from, the consideration of the French period of our history» to our own.It is this ; how far what has been said and written since the cession, can be suffered to affect our inferences on this matter, drawn from what we have before us of all that was said and written Previously.* how.)sir .in\t- opinions oi men ot mark since the cession, can go to prove the existence befoie that date, of a state of things in Canada, differing from that which I have (as 1 think) established, by the examination of the grants, arrêts, ordonnances, despatches and other documents of all kinds, of date before the cession.The truth is, that the tradition (so to speak) against which I argue, is attributable to statements made since the cession of the country.It has grown up since that period, and it may not ho uninteresting to show how it has grown up ; and that it has done so in a manner and under circumstances to attach no importance whatever to it.At first sight, indeed, this must seem tolerably obvious; for it is a maxim of law, and of common sense too, that the best evidence alone is to be taken.If it be the fact, that from the tenor of the law of France, of thp S#.i htor\u2019s\tuirpcî from the ITrench King or through his officers in the colony, and the legislation and jurisprudence of the country under the French Crown, one has to assign to the seigniors of Lower Canada the quality ot proprietors\u2014such as I have shown it to attach to them ; if this, I say, be proved by the best \u2014the only real evidence we can obtain ; it is not necessary to show how any counter-impression may or may not have since grown up.But, evident as this is, 1 may be allowed, I trust, in consi-ideration of the extent to which it has latterly pre-jvaiied, to offer some observations by way of ac-(con- ting for its origin and progress.Perhaps there never was a country in so peculiarly false a position with respect to its traditions of its own past, a& Lower Canada.On the occasion of the cession, the high officers who had administered the government lett the country; with them went, too, the superior judicial functionaries, and a large proportion of the men of higher rank and better education; leaving behind them comparatively few who were not of the less educated class, or at any rate of the less capable of preserving in the country a correct tradition as to the spirit of its old institutions.New rulers arrived in the Province, not speaking the tongue of those amongst whom they came, and whom they had to govern ; wholly strangers to their laws, usages, and modes of thought and feeling ; bringing with them the maxims and opinions of the nation of all others the least resembling that which had first (settled Canada; not at all the men to seize\u2014or even to try to seize\u2014the peculiarities of the law they came to supersede ; whether as to the prerogative lot the F\u2019rench Crown, the confusion of legislative, (judicial, and executive functions pervading its Twhole system, the uncertain and purely commina-tory character habitually attaching to it, or the i ast land complex detail of laws and rights of property \\subsisting under it.All this, I say, they were not likely to understand, or make the effort to understand.The law ot England, their law, one need hardly observe, is essentially a law of unwritten customs ; and most of all, perhaps, with regard to that particular description of English real property, which answered most nearly to what they here found subsisting as land held en censive.In England, copyhold property is almost entirely\u2014perhaps 1 should say, is entirely and essentially\u2014governed by unwritten customs neculiai to the uifi\u2019erent manors and holdings.The very term \u201ccustom\u201d as they found it in use here, was a term calculated to mislead them.The Custom of Paris here established, and the other customs locally prevalent in France were not unwritten cusioms, like those of an English manor, or the great, geneial body of unwritten custom known as the common law of England.They were written documents, enacted by authority,\u2014statutes, in English phrase, not customs.Indeed, in Canada there was even less of resort to unwritten usage, as regarded the terms of the holding of censive lands, than in old France.In France, undoubtedly, in many cases, rates of ceils and other dues could only be traced back to local unwritten usages which, as it were, supplemented the known written customs of the land.But in Canada there was no dark antiquity to peer into; here every thing was new, had had its origin within a date that could be reached , every grant d cens was by an authentic instrument, the precise tenor of which could be ascertained ; or if in particular instances it happened that this was not the case, it was merely that the parties had trusted each other\u2019s faith, and so entered into a contract which they might possibly have some practical difficulty in proving and enforcing to the letter ; hut the terms of which were yet to be ascertained and enforced in all such cases, as well as mi»ht be, in common course of law.All this, I repeat, was not calculated to lead to a very correct first impression, on the part of these new rulers of this country.Inclined naturally to see m the Canadian Seigniory an English manor, and in its censitaires a body of English copyholders, it was not possible for them to avoid attaebin» too much weight to the motion of customary rates and obligations, and to* little to the terms of the actual contracts.They hardly could realize how sntirely in Canada the existence of these written laws and written contracts dispensed with\u2014precluded one might say\u2014relerence to unwritten custom in this class of cases.All this was not all.If they had been ever so well disposed to studyCanadian law,\u2014as they were not, they would have found it hard to do so to much purpose.Books of such laws were not plenty to their hands ; not of inviting bulk, or style or language.Of the model treatises on French law, to which at the present day lawyers of ail countries resort, by far the greater part did not then exist.What books there were, were the older, larger, in every sense heavier volumes, ot an earlier age.They were little likely to find readers in men, inclined neither to fancy their language nor their law.The Provincial records, moreover, as I have said, were in the same tongue, in a hand-writin< not to easy decipher, imperfect, in disorder; anil there were few or no persons in the countiy likely much to help the authorities in the attempt to find out what they amounted to.Besides, the first Courts in the country, alter the cession, by courtesy called courts of law, were military Courts, made up of soldier judges ; and as, no doubt, it is true that the lawyer is apt to be an indifferent soldier, it is no less true that the soldier is apt not to be much of a lawyer.And even this was not all.These Courts thus set to declare and administer the law of the lands were set to declare and administer they knew not what law.The general impression with the new, English ruling class, of course was, that a great deal of English law was to be introduced ; and it was a question that no one could answer, how far French law, how far English law, how far a mixture of the two in some way or other to be worked up, was to be the rule.It was under these circumstances that an arrêt, the only one of the kind which I find cited, as making against my clients\u2019 interests, and of which I have now to speak, was rendered.I refer to the arrêt of the 20th of April, 1762, printed on the last page of the fourth of the volumes laid before this Honorable House.It purports to he takgn from the Register of arrête ot the Military Coun-Cll,°,f, ^?ntreal I such Council composed of Colonel Haldimand, the Baron de Munster, and Captains Prévost and Wharton ; four highly respectable officers of Her Majesty\u2019s army, 1 have no doubt.And it reads thus:\u2014 \u201cBetween the sieur Jean Baptiste Le Duc \u201c seignior ol Isle Perrot, appellant from the sen-\u201c tence of tne Militia Court (Chambre des Milices) of Polnte Claire, of the fifteenth March last, ot \u201c the one part ;\u2014 \u201cAnd Joseph Hunaut, an inhabitant of Isle Perrot aforesaid, Respondent of the other part ;\u2014 1seeIJ lî*e sentenee appealed from, by ¦ which the said sieur Le Duc is adjudged, (con-\" damne) to receive in future the rents of the land which the Respondent holds in his seigniory at the rate of thirty sous a-year and half a minot of wheat, the_courtjiot_having the power to amend \u201c anv ot thp r\t___i\ts\u20147\u2014- paid at the rate of fifty-four so/s in money and a minot and a halt of wheat a\u2022year.,, Now, what is this judgment worth ?Four gentlemen, not lawyers, reverse a sentence which rtlh?.\tmaSt say was l^fectly sound and nBn , and condemn a censitaire, who by his written contract was to pay thirty sols and half a m no !LWhrt,r0n y\u2019 t0 pay fi(trf°\u2018\"' so/s and a minot and a half of wheat ! The court below had the contract; the Seignior for some extraordmaiy reason, had appealed ; and, what is AnnLeX;tra?dli!iar)'\u2019 tlle court ma\u2018utained the Appe l, not, be it observed, reducing the rent actuMly to give the Seignior more than his written contract established in his favor.And they did this, not on proof ef circumstances, showing the deed to have been wrong, as they-tootc it to be ; but merely on the ground of the supposer! existence of a customary rate so fixed and invariable as of itself to prove the clause of the deed an error.And this, in at deed of 44- years standing?And though, as we! have seen, at all times, as well after as before the! time of its date, ail maimer of varying rates had! themselves testifying.And though the very rate which they coolly declared to be the one legal rate of \u201cconcessions in this country,\u201d absolutely was not so much as one of the various rate which we know lo have been prevalent even in the Crown censives immediately before the cession., 1 have shown that most of the Détroits grant of the Crown, at his period, were made at a nominal cens, with a sol of rente per arpent-, and a quarter of a uinot of wheat for every arpent by _/br/y; some, hvwever, fixing this same quantity of wheat for every arpent by six/i/ ; and I have shown that there were Royal grants during the same perod at Fort St.Frederic, where the rate was the like cens, the same so/ per arpent, and the half cf a minot of wheat, per forty arpents.And we lave here the declaration (par parenthèse) thst any rate below the yet higher allowance of ahalf minot per twenty arpents, is so re-/ pudiated hy cygRun, that though stipulated be-l tore nolaties torty-four year.2go; a Court of tawi is to pronmnee the deed wrong, and raise the rate) Jo this new standard.\t^ I The judgment is merely as unjust and mistaken, from first to last, as its authors could well have made it.It furnishes one further proof that in fact there was no fixed, known-rate of concession; and it proves, for all matters presently in issue, nothing more.Fo return, however, to the matter more immediately under consideratioii-the question of the rise and progress of the mistaken impression which has grown up as to the existence of this supposed fixed rale, and so forth.Till 1772,1 am not aware of the appearance in print of any work purporting to set forth the tenor of the old French laws and customs ot Canada.There was then printed in London, tor Parliamentary purposes (Parliament being then on the point of discussing what became the Quebec Act of 1774) a remarkably well drawn, though short.-ab-stract of those laws and usages', which had been sent home by Governor Carleton, from a draftpre-pared by a committee of French Canadian gentlemen.About the same time there appeared also a publication by Mr.Maseres, who had been Attorney General here some years previously; and which contained not indeed anything like a connected statement of Canadian law, but several papers and documents having more or less bearing on Canadian law, and as a whole, of considerable interest.The other publications of that time, connected with the discussion of the Quebec Act so far as 1 am aware, were not of a kind to call for mention; as they hardly, if at all, tended to throw light on any point of present interest.And it was not till 3 years later, in 1775, that Mr.Cugnet\u2019s well known (though now rather scarce) treatise \u2014still much too short and slight of construction\u2014 was published in this country.The imperfection and inaccuracy of statement which more or less mark ail these works, in reference to our present subject, 1 shall have to note presently.For the moment, I observe merely that they appeared after a lapse of from 12 to 15 years alter the cession of the country to the British Crown ; that within 3 years after that event \\the King\u2019s Declatatiun (1763) had assured His Majesty\u2019s subjects of the introduction, as nearly as might be, of the laws of England ; and that about the same time it had been ordered that the granting of Crown Lands in Canada was to he in tree and common soccage, that is to say, undei the English law.All this time, therefore, people were kept in uncertainty as to the very existence of the old laws of the land?besides that they had had haidly any means of ascertaining (had they wished it ever so much) what those laws were.\u2014 Of the Seigniors, in particular, tew held even the titles of their Seigniories ; and many, no doubt, had never seen them, and had no kind ot knowledge nt théir teims.To those who are not familiar with the law and usages of this part of the Province, it may seem strange that people should not be in the habit of keeping their own deeds.But it is well known, to those who are, that such is the case.Deeds are passed,as matter of course, before Notaries,-\u2018-public functionaries, who preserve the originals, and whose certified copies of such originals are always authentic, proving themselves mall Courts of law, whenever produced.In the same way, copies of a Royal grant, or other public document, certified by the proper officer, serve every purpose of an original.Thus, nothing is more common than for persons not to keep what one would call their most valuable papers ; & it is not uncommon for them to become strangely forgetful of what they contain.There is a peculiarity in the position of a Seignior, that makes this habit one into which he is peculiarly apt to fal I ; for in all those classes of action which a Seignior ordinarily has to institute in maintenance ot his rights, he is under no necessity of showing his title.It is enough if he allege and show himself to he the Seignior de facto in possession of such or such a Seigniory.(To be Continued.) I ieme, foil ve.\u2014A NUMBER 38.he ministry had not abandoned their scheme, ;endering the Legislative Council Elective.J_ r Mr.Stuart moved the first reading of the bill for repealing the law, which enables proprietors who have leased their houses to take them away from the lessees, if they desire to inhabit them tnemselves.,Mr-DRüMM0ND supported the bill, which did what he had himself proposed to do some time ago ; but which had been greatly opposed.Mr.Hincks asked if this bill was intended to cover the cases of sales by the lessor, during the course of lease.\t\u2019 b ^ Af1** ®TU^RT> as we 'understood, said yes.Mr.Chabot in answer to Mr.Smith (Frontenac) said that advertisements had been issued for tenders for steamboats for a Tug line between Kingston and Lachine.No advertisement had yet appeared informing the Trade of the rates of Toll because the rates were not yet determined on.Also in answer to Mr.Robinson, that it was not intended to act in opposition to the views of his predecessors on the subject of payments for ^MlJVëcTTdrnpaper3 connected with disputes relative to the Indian claims on the Grand River.Also with respect to water lots in By town Also for a statement of the expenditure on the Rideau Canal, for the year 1851 ; also for receipts and expenditure of the Indian Department, and for certain other returns relative to Railways, for the years 1849, 1850 and 1851.Mr.Hincks said that this was an omnibus mo-j tion, made to catch as many members as possible! by taking in anything.Now, as to the Rideau Canal, it was a work made by the Imperial Government, with which Canada had nothing to do.All such motions as these, therefore, were likely to make this expensive work be thrown on the Province, and then the House would have a good opportunity to know what the expenses were.\u2014 He did not wish the Government to be made the medium of applying for information, which might be refused.The House had applied to the Canada Company for information without much success, and the experiment was better not to be repeated.As to the Indian question, it was entirely under the control of the Imperial Government, and on his applying for information, he had been told by Col.Prince that he had no objection to give it; but had no clerks, nor the means of employing any, to make out the returns.However, it was only right, as much as possible to avoid interference with these Indian affairs, for the Indians had no representation, and of course in all disputes between them and the whites, the whites had an unfair share of power in the House.It was for this reason that the Imperial Government, at the request of Lord Metcalfe, had taken these affairs into their own hands.No doubt, if wrong were done to the whites, the Government would be bound to protect them ; but in this matter the Government were quite ready to be responsible for what had been done, because they were sure it was based in justice.Then, as to the investment of Indian monies in the Welland Canal, that agnin was a thing the Provincial Government had nothing to do with, and could give no information about ; nor did he see why the hon.member for Haldimand should ask for it, unless he stood up as the champion of the Indians.How could the Government apply to the Imperial Government for an account of the way it spent its own money.\u2014 If there were any information wanted on any subject which the Provincial Government could exercise influence over, he would not oppose a motion for that purpose.Col.Prince considered the Indians in his neighbourhood in all respects equal in intellect and business qualities and in education to the white men who lived among them, and yet so absurd were the regulations by which they were surrounded that he could not ask one of those men to take a glass of whiskey punch in his own house, without a fine of £5, (laughter and cries of the Maine liquor law).That was not passed yet ; but what he wanted to say was that he would, after the recess, bring in a law to put the Indians on the same footing as the white.He did not mean that he would take their freeholds away ; but he would take away some of the privileges which they had superior to those of the [white men, such as the privileges of hunting at unseasonable times, though they were too good sportsmen to do so ; such as the privilege under some circumstances of not paying their debts; and such as the right to rescind their leases, &c.Mr.Mackenzie contended that all information ought to be given to Parliament when it was asked for, and he read an extract from the Pilot in 1848, alleging that full information concerning the Indian department ought to be gone in-ito.After that, these accounts were produced and printed in the most minute detail by Mr.R.Campbell in 1845.What change then had taken place now, that what was right in 1845 and 1847 was wrong in 1853?It was evident, however, the hon.Inspector General was acting under superior instructions.For himself, 160 of his ^constituents were Indians.ÉMr.Merritt also contended that the Indian (fairs were out of the control of the Provincial rovernment.Mr.Brown did not agree in that doctrine.\u2014 The country had lately been threatened almost with civil war arising out of Indian affairs, and it was, therefore, too much to say, that the Go- Mr.Smith (Durham) moved an amendment the effect of which would be to remedy the injustice which he thought had been done to Quebec by the bill.Hitherto Montreal and Quebec, had had equal representation, now it was proposed to add the banlieu to the city ot Quebec, which was then to have three members like Montreal ; but the County of Montreal was to have two members, whereas the County of Quebec was to have but one.He, therefore, moved in amendment to give the city of Quebec the same limits as heretofore; but to divide the County into two Ridings, one to consist of the banlieu, with two members.Of course, in moving this amendment, he desired to preserve an equality between Upper and Lower Canada ; but he believed there would be no difficulty about that as many members of the ministerial side of the House felt that it would be right to give one other member to a large County in Upper Canada.There was not only an inequality between Montreal and Quebec ; but the District of St.Francis and that4of Three Rivers had alarfrfiJLPi\u2019Or Quetec.Mr.Dubord could not understand why in tbe district of St.Francis 45,000 inhabitants should have as large a representation as 70,000 in the district of Quebec.Mr.Morin said there were two reasons for this apparent injustice ; first, the townships were rapidly increasing, andiecond, it was nec.essnry tn do justice to all origins.'\t4|C(ju'.Mr.Dubord declared that he supposed the district of Quebec was less represented than it ought to be, but he now found that the Diatrictof Montreal was least represented.The fact was that in proportion aiaiEslrict was richtanipopulous, in that .proportion was it badly represented under the bill.He then went'bver the several districts of Lower Canada, and gave the figures to illustrate his observations.This advantage he said was not given to people of English origin or of French origin ; but it was especially for men of purely American origin that this great sacrifice of the rest was to be made.It was said, indeed, that after the bill was passed, the boundaries of the counties might be changed ; that would rather deceive the gentlemen from the Townships.In the meantime, notwithstanding his objections to the bill, he should vote for it, even if his amendment did not carry, in conformity with the will of his electors, who thought it an improvement on the present.Mr.Hincks was glad to see the strange changes which had taken place ; first, that Sir A.McNab had come to propose such an amendment as he had done, based on population ; next, that the member for Quebec, of British origin, should accuse a ministry, composed, so far as Lower Canada was concerned, of French Canadians, of too great liberality to a population of another origin.Lower Canada had rather more than her fair share of the representation, and it showed a like liberality on the part of the French members of the ministry to give a full share to the minority who had nothing to hope or expect except from the justice and liberality of the majority.As to giving this new member to Quebec to be balanced by another to Upper Canada, if that were determined on, there would be all the trouble over again, to determine to what county in Canada West the other member should be given.\u2014 He assured the hon.member for Lennox that he had not done injustice to his county, on the contrary, in his absence, he had taken care that it should not lose one member.Mr.Chauveau said that Quebec could not complain of the share she had in the representation, when it was shown by her own advocates that Montreal was less represented than she.As to the division of the banlieu from the city, it was inexpedient, because it would separate a population of homogeneous character; besides, in the county, the tenants of the banlieu would not have votes and would thus be disfranchised.Mr.Stuart denied that he had attacked the ministry for doing more than justice to the population Of British origin.He desired to know no vernment had nothing to do with this question.! He could such distinctions, but to induce the~populations oETall origins to be'~ôn~gd6d terms with each Giber.i Yeas 20 ; Nays 56.Mr.J.A.McDonald declared his opinion that the country did not want this bill ; having been very well represented before, and having therefore never asked for a change.The eighty-four members of that House had hitherto well represented the country, and if the bill were now passed he had no doubt the result would in the changed opinions of some members show that the same mean$ were used\u2014well understood means \u2014which were employed by Lord Castlereagh to carry the union in Ireland.And yet the only reason ever given for this measure at all was to prevent governmental corruption.Well he, as a member of the opposition, did not fear that corruption.He could not vote for the bill on account of the evident inequalities in the electoral districts that would be created by it.He bad no doubt the hon.Inspector General would have done right, if he could ; but as it was he met with so much pressure from without that he could not help making those unfair divisions of , which he, (Mr.McDonald) complained.It was Ssaid_by the ministry that the country was not fully represented-; if that were assert that hffffid not mean to (j LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, Wednesday, 23rd March.The petition of the Town Council of Quebec, relative to the North Shore Railway, was ordered to be printed for the use of members.Mr.Ridout moved the first reading of the bill to extend to the Insurance Companies, incorporated by Colonial authority, the same rights and privileges with regard to the maximum amount of Interest to be charged, for the use of, or loan of money, as the Provincial Parliament has granted to the U.Canada Trust aud Loan Company.The motion was opposed by Sir A.M\u2018Nab, who thought the motion was brought in only because there were a few Insurance Companies in Toronto.Mr.M\u2018Kenzie also opposed the motion, alleging that the Trust aud Loan Company was petitioned against by twenty thousand persons, and that the present measure was but a bill to increase the means of extortion.Mr.Ridout had no objection to extend the operation ot his bill to any companies, whether in Toronto or elsewhere.(Mr.Smith [Frontenac] conceived the further it as extended the worse it would be.Besides, he lought the motion was out of order, inasmuch i it was a practical repeal of the provision of a 11 of the House at present before the council, inch expressly excepted Banking and Insurance ompanies from the right to take more than 6 :r cent, without penalties.He was ready to 1 vote against the first reading.Mr.Hincks remarked, that government had often been blamed for rejecting bills on tbe first reading, and he thought it would be discourteous to do so now.The present bill in no way repealed any part of Mr.Brown\u2019s bill.\u2014Motion carried.Mr.M'Kenzie moved for a return, showing the stockholders\u2019 names and shares of the Railway between Toronto and Lake Huron, and information relative to the terminus on Lake Huron.\u2014 Ordered.Also, for an Address to His Excellency, for a copy of the Third Annual Report of the Directors of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum at Toronto, adopted 7th February, 1853.\u2014Carried.In answer to Mr.McKenzie, Mr.Hincks said that the season of the year had prevented any steps beiug taken by the government, in consequence of the Address of this House on the 8th Nov., 1852, relative to a Survey of the Country between the Ottawa and Georgian Bay, and that it was intended to grant lots free to settlers.Also, that a speedy settlement was expeetea in default of which a bill would be introduced to restore the rights of Creditors of Indians on the Grand River, taken away by the 3rd Section of the 13th and 14th Vic., chap.Also, that in the public accounts for 1853, about to be submitted to the House would be Why the hon.member for Haldimand said he had one hundred and sixty Indian constituents ; but there were 70,000 acres kept up from civilization just for those 160 persons.It was the same in many other parts of the country.He held nearly the same doctrines as to the canals, and was convinced the Imperial Govenrmeut would give the information at once, if written to by the Clerk of the House.He had the fullest confidence in the Superintendent of Indian affairs, but he thought he might get his information from interested parties.He hoped that part of the motion relative to the Tuscarora Indians would be separated from the rest, and that it would be granted; for he fancied that without any injustice to the Indians, the whole question of their land tracts might be settled so as to bring those lands into more useful occupation.On the suggestion of Mr.Hincks that the motion might be allowed to pass another day and in another shape, Mr.Mackenzie withdrew his motion.not, consistentlvwitirBritish principles I avoid dissolving the-House, after declarmg\"bythe bill that it did not fully represent the country, ^either the Clergy Reserves nor any other me a' sure of real Legislation could be submitted to the~Tag-end~ of a Parliament dishonored by its 7 any of the clauses co^Hïïmd in th»\tJ\u201d iJ'= auumumu lu \u201e\u201e\t- - MLitmoeedprcsn\u2014 fovm(j detailed Statements of the Clergy Reserves .tr,-\tCouncil by the said Sieur ii ivi6 uCi\u2019 t.he APPel!ant> answered on the 19th March last, and notified on the 3rdinst.; a writ-t.611 defence furnished by the Respondent, and the \u201c (henparties'g^81011\tt0 * and havl\u2018lg hea\u2018d \u201c The Council, convinced that the clause inserted in the said deed, which timis the lessee I (preneur) to pay yearly half a minot of wheat and ten so/s for each arpent, is an error of the notary, the usual rates at which lands are granted m this country being one sol for each arpent in \u2022 superficies and half a minot of wheat for each ar-\"pent in front by twenty in depth, orders that in luture the rents of the land in question shall be Fund of Upper Canada, and of Lower Canada, with the Sales, Leases, Receipts, Payments, Interest, &c.Mr.Mackenzie, moved for a statement relative to the Cash at the Credit of the Government ; a statement of the Public Debt in gross, with the amount of interest paid thereon during the last twelve months; a statement relative to the Sinking Fund ; copies of Correspondence between the Chartered Banks and the Government, on the subject of the Public Deposits ; a statement relative to the Clerks, or other employés in the Public Departments, and to the hours of business in the Post Offices and Custom Houses in Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, Toronto, and Hamilton.\u2014 (Carried.Mr.Morin said* in answer to Mr, Stuart, that CALL OP THE HOUSE\u2014REPRESENTATION BILL.The House being then called, the members absent were found to be the following, viz : Messrs.Boutillier, Boulton, Galt, Papineau, Lyons, James Smith, O.Leblanc, and Joimsou.Mr.Morin then moved the third reading of the increase of representation bill.It was not necessary, after having done the best to arrange the details of the bill in a satisfactory manner, to discourse at length upon it.He therefore simply moved the third reading.Sir A.McNai moved in amendment a proviso to the third section, by which every constituency having one member under the bill of which the population should hereafter attain 30,000, should have, thereupon, an additional member upon a proclamation to that effect to be issued by the Governor General.He said that already so much had been said and well said on the subject of this bill that he contented himself with moving this amendment to record his opinion.Upon the vote being taken the numbers were found to be\u2014Yeas 21 ; Nays 55.Mr.Christie asked if ministers meant, if this bill passed, to allow the present Parliament to go to its natural term of life ?He intended to propose an amendment to the effect that the bill should not go into effect till the 7th day of Jany., 1856.He thought there was no necessity for any dissolution, inasmuch as the ministry had the confidence of the country, and he thought deservedly.If the government would take his amendment, or give an assurance to the effect he required, they should have his vote.Mr.Hincks could do nothing, but what he had already said, that in reference to the present bill it was not intended to dissolve the present Parliament.It was clear, however, that if in the natural course of things a dissolution should .occur, the hill must come into operation.Mr.Seymour in answer to tbe praise bestowed by Mr.Christie on the bill, said that Upper Canada had not had justice done her.There were six constituencies at the eastern end of Upper Canada with only 59,000 of population, who were to have six members.On the other hand Frontenac, Lennox, Addington and Prince Edward, with 61,000 population were to have but three members.Again Dundas, Leeds, and Glen-gary with about the same population were to have five members.Why this,unless because Frontenac, Lennox and Addington and Prince Edward had the misfortune to be represented by conservative members.\t-^ C Mr.Brown merely rose to enter his protest against the doctrine that the appeal to the people should not be made upon the passing of this bill, though he acknowledged there might be reasons to prevent that appeal immediately.The very fact that the house had passed such a bill as this, showed that it did not consider the representation sufficient.own confession of incapacity.\" T3ol.Prince said if the country had not petitioned for the bill, it was because they knew it would be passed unless they petitioned against it, and they had not petitioned against it.This was not a revolutionary measure ; but a measure of improvement.In answer to what Mr.McDonald had said of the change of opinions on the part of certain members, he remarked that it was not because a man was once a tory that he was to be always a tory.Sir A.McNab thought, considering this bill had been three times rejected with the assistance of the hon.member who spoke last, the country if it really wanted the bill would have done as that hon.member\u2019s countrymen did in England when the reform bill was rejected\u2014would have poured in petitions, in its favour.Mr.Mackenzie conceived the best argument in favour of the popularity of the bill was that it had already passed three times by a majority of two-thirds less one.Though not perfect it was a good bill that would have given general satisfaction.The main motion was then carried 61 to 16.The following bills were then read a third time : viz\u2014Ontario and Huron Railway Company Bill ; Bill to attach Georgina to York ; Bill to incorporate Hamilton and Port Dover Railway ; Bill to amend act relating to Niagara Harbour Company, after a long discussion.The House then adjourned.Thursday, March 24, 1853.Mr.Badgley moved for copies of all correspondence relative to the building of the Montreal Court House.Mr.Chabot objected to give all the correspondence of the architects, contractors &c.; but was ready to consent to the motion if it were confined to the correspondence of the Judges, officers of the Court, Bar, &c.The works had been suspended in consequence of these representations and some other causes.Mr.Cartier said the Bar of Montreal had made some representations to the Government on this subject; but had not gone so far as to ask for a suspension.They had not done that because they knew suspension of the work would lead to a great increase of expense and consequently of taxation.That expense of course had been now incurred ; but the responsibility did not rest on the bar of Montreal.Mr.Drummond agreed with Mr.Cartier, that the bar had not contemplated the suspension of the works at the new Court House.He believed they had only asked for such changes as were necessary for the correct administration of justice ; and that was absolutely necessary, for had they not been made the accommodations would have been less convenient than at present.He had been implored by the Prothonotaries to interfere and had done so.One great defect in the first plan of the new building was in the vaulting where the records would have been exposed to a most serious extent\u2014an extent which endangered the safety of the fortunes of thousands.Another thing that was faulty was the want of sufficient exits from the buildings.According to the plan there was but one door, whereas it was commonly supposed, and he thought rightly, that there should be at least three.He had assistgcLin choosing the plnn which burl been accepted for the building, and nf took the responsibility of doineso: but, thank GoivEKRld\t' cy, not pnt.his owq vanity before the public welfare, and when ha found a mistake had Mr.Robinson repeated what had been previously said in Committee about the injustice done by tha bill to certain parts of Upper Canada, especially by limiting the representation of the larger population of Upper Canada to an equality with that of the smaller population of Lower Canada.This injustice was especially great, seeing that the present was felt and acknowledged 4o be a final measure.The truth was, however,/ [that Upper Canada would not submit to that in-1 justice, and that if she could not obtain redress! by fair means, she must seek it by excitement,) Hiich could not fail to be mischievous./ ¦hastened to rectify it.The attempt to rectify the errors he had pointed out obliged inquiries by professional men, which inquiries occupied considerable time, and thus caused the suspension which certainly was not directly done because of tbe representations of the bar, though it was the result of those representations.Mr.Sicotte was willing to accept the documents offered by Mr.Chabot; but did not think the others should be refused.Instead of £30,000 the building would now cost £50,000, and this difference of cost would fall on the public.The particulars then ought to be known.Mr.Badoley said from what had been stated it was eyidant that the plans must have been bad originally.Then it was said that the works were very bad.Thirdly, a suspension had taken place and had given the contractors very large additional claims which had been allowed by the government.Now all these things had added immensely to the cost of a work which had to ha borne by.the District of Montreal, and not only f the Distnct but the poor of the District, inasmuch / as the suitors in general were poor rather than l rich, well then these works having been rendered so much more expensive, the difference 1 ought not to fall on the District of Montreal, since | the whole had been under the direction of the go- / vernment, who ought to have prevented the cir- [ cumstances which led to his increase.He would accept the correspondence offered in the mean-time, and would move again, if, as he supposed, it should be found not to supply all the information which he required.Motion granted accordingly.Mr.McDonald (Kingston) moved the first reading of a Bill to repeal, amend and consolidate the provisions of certain Acts therein mentioned, aad Jojy\tseuL s-cedfetr aha oumtudfr t'ieàs in Upper Canada.Carried.Also a Bill to explain an Act, intituled, \u201cAn Act to provide a remedy against absent Defendants.\u201d Also a Bill to incorporate the Catharaqne and Peterbough Railway Company.On motion of Mr.White, an Address was ordered for a Return of all Correspondence in possession of the Government, relative to the separation of the County of Wentworth.The hon.member said that it had been stated that some petitions on which the measure had been founded were forgeries.Sir Allan McNab said this was a serious charge against a respectable county.However, he left it in the hands of the member for Wentworth.That was not the only report he had heard.He had been told that the signatures to the Rebellion losses petition had been cut off and attached to petitions for the maine liquor law (loud laughter.) Mr.Hincks suggested that the most convenient method to investigate the signature to the petition in question was for the hon.member to call at the Secretary\u2019s Office and see for himself.\u2014 The House could tell nothing about forgeries.\u2014 As to petitions he had heard that some railway petitions had been signed all through the State of Michigan.Mr.White made no charge against any one.\u2014 It appeared to him that the hon.member was very tender about forgeries.For his part he had heard that a clergyman near Hamilton had attached signatures to a wrong petition and sent it across the Atlantic on the Clergy Reserves question.Sir Allan McNab thought these insinuations l should not be lightly made, and thought no | clergyman would be guilty of such an offence.J Mr.White did not intend to make any charge i against any one.He would adopt the Inspector [ Generals suggestion, motion withdrawn.\tI Mr.Ridout, moved to add the Honorable Mr.Macdonald (of Kingston,) to the Select Committee, to whom has been referred the petition of Bryce, McMurrich & Co., and others, on the subject of the Assessment Law.Mr.Dubord moved an address to Her Majesty, on regulating the Fees of the Court of Vice Admiralty.\u2014Carried.Mr.Drummond said that formerly there was great cause of complaint on this subject, which led to proceedings in the House.In consequence a new tariff had been drawn up and sent home by Mi-.Black ; but the Imperial authorities would not consent to adopt them until they had had an expression of opinion in the country.A committee was therefore appointed of three merchants and three gentlemen practising at the bar.They were unanimous in thinking the tariff reasonable.He had, himself, inquired into the tariff'; for he had supposed it must be exorbitant, when a case in which damages of£5 had cost £42.He found, however, that though damages were small in that case, the nature of the case was very important: it was indeed a first class case, conducted in the most solemn manner and which might have involved damages to the extent of many thousands of pounds.It was in fact a collision case.Nor did he find that the charges in the tariff were higher than those ot Montreal, known as Judge Reid\u2019s tariff.He mentioned some items, and continued to say he thought it was not proper for the House to apply in this way to the Imperial Government, unless with good cause, especially after so much care had been taken to consult the colony.Another reason why he thought such an application would be unsuccessful was that though drawn up in the first instance for Quebec, it had since been extended to all the Colonial Vice Admiralty Courts.If the member would move for a committee he would not object.Mrt Dubord believed the merchants who had sanctioned the tariff were heartily sorry for it.As to others they were gentlemen of the long robe, and no doubt thought the more taxes the better.The hon.Attorney General had consulted the Judge of the Court; but of course that gentleman was interested in having fees as high as he could.Then the hon.gentlemen said that the case he had investigated was one of collision ; but if so would he not say that the same costs have been excessive in case of simple debt ?Now there was a mere pilotage case of £5, arising out of a mistake in the translation of the law\u2014one version speaking of vessels of 120, and the other of 125 tons.The expenses in that were £36.The hon.member mentioned some other cases, which he thought showed that the tariff was very much too high.Mr.Smith [Frontenac] had been induced from what he had heard from his hon.friend for Quebec to take up this matter, and he had heard enough from the hon.Attorney General to convince him that the fees in this Court were very much too high.The hon.member then went over the fees charged in the Admiralty Court and compared them with the costs allowed in the Courts of Upper Canada, showing that the former were very much in excess of the latter.Upon the whole he regarded this Court as an immense nuisance, which ought to be reformed by the Court being like other Courts, put under the authorities of the country.Since he had come down to Quebec, he had learned to appreciate the advantage which the country may obtain from shipbuilding, and this should lead the House to do every thing it could to foster that trade.Col.Prince paid a high eulogium to Mr.Black, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, for the passing of the Black acts.He cared nothing about the costs and knew nothing about them ; but he declared the reduction of fees, and the course taken by Mr.McKenzie, intended to allow cobblers and tailors and blacksmiths to practice in the Courts, was fast ruining the legal profession and consequently the country.Take his own case ?Here the hon.member drew an affecting picture of the misfortunes which had befallen him by the decay of the law.In disgust he had refused longer to practice as an attorney ; in disgust his eldest son had left the profession and was now an officer in the army ; and in like disgust his second son, also a lawyer, had taken some other steps, the particulars of which did not reach the reporter\u2019s box.He concluded by again regretting the speedy downfall of the legal profession, which he said was the first step to revolution.Mr.Christie after a few words by way of1 preface, moved an amendment, altering the motion so as to make it a motion for a committee instead of an address.Sir Allan McNab inquired of ministers, whether it is their intention to proceed, during the present session, with the Bill to amend the law with respect to the solemnization and registration of Matrimony.Dr.Rolph without acknowledging that it was usual to ask these questions with reference to bills before the House, would yet reply more explicitly than he conceived himself bound to do.He intended to go on with the bill and to make it as palatable as he could to the country in general.Mr.Cameron moved the second reading of the Bill (No.55) to restrain the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating Liquors.Mr.Smith (Frontenac) did not, in opposing this bill, desire to oppose temperance principles.But he conceived the subject not a proper one for legislation.The truth was that the effect of moral suasion, and the influence of the Clergy had done more in Lower Canada to promote temperance than any law could possibly do.It was indeed pleasing to see that in the rural parts of the country especially, the use of spirituous liquors was almost wholly discontinued^.This was not done by law, but by persuasion.He thought this was a law which above all others ought to have come from the government, since it must greatly diminish the revenue.Besides,, many men had erected breweries and distilleries, and they would be ruined if the bill past.Besides the market for coarse grains would be thoroughly destroyed\u2014a market of the greatest consequence to Upper and especially to Lower Canada.He had not faith in the law passing in its present shape, or he might vote against it ; but in the hope that something might come out of it to forward the cause of temperance and in respect to the numerous petitions before the house, he would vote for the second reading of the bill.HVhen, however, he heard the Inspector General speaking about the petitions, he could not help wishing that the same regard had been shown to petitions on the occasion of these presented against the Rebellion Losses Bill.Mr.Fringe began by confessing himself to be » very fond of the social glass, and of society, but, I fond as he was of these indulgences, he would j cheerfully give them up, it to do so would pre- F h MONTREAL HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1853.(«78 ous poop creature from tbs evils eaness.He then went into the eonsiderationofthe bill, which he declared was much superior to the Maine Liquor Law, inasmuch as it was simpler and capable of being understood bj \u2018h6™031 f0.1' tish magistrate in the country.It might be said of him, Is it was said of the Queen by John Wesley, she had not much religion about her ; but he loved her because she patronized religion in others.He had been accused of bunkum.But bunkum was the Parliamentary vice, of young members, ¦who wanted to be again returned, but could not be applicable to Col.John Prince, who had represented Essex for seventeen years, without ever asking for a vote.He believed the bill ought not to come into operation, for eighteen months or two years, in order that those who held heavy stocks of liquors might get rid of them, without loss.But as to the bill, its advantage could not be doubted.All over the country he saw young men wasting time, ruining themselves in bar-rooms and taverns.It was the keepers of , these places that he wanted to prevent from carrying on their iniquitous traffic.After a few words from Mr.Dixon, i Mr.Robinson said that the hon.member for I Essex had certain advantage which other men ! had not He had a brewery on his own farm, f and was within half a mile of the town of ! Detroit.Mr.Smith (Frontenac) believed, whenever the bon.member went to Detroit to have a social glass he made the Yankee\u2019a drink the Queen\u2019s health.Mr.Cameron also remarked that the brewery would be ruined like the rest.The Bytown and Pembroke Railway bill was read a second time.The House adjourned till Tuesday.Hamilton Gas Companv.\u2014We observe that this Company, under the very able management of our late fellow-citizen, Mr.M.E.Glackmeyer,is in a flourishing condition, and that a dividend of 10 per cent, has just been declared upon its Stock, for the year 1852.It will be seen, by our advertising columns that Messrs.McEwan & Bishop\u2019s Concert takes place in the City Concert Hall, on Friday evening, 1st April.The programme is one of excellent selections^ and we have no doubt will draw a full house.About 2 o\u2019clock, yesterday morning, a fire was discovered in the shed attached to the auction-room of Mr.Tobin, St.François Xavier St, which is in close proximity to the office of this paper.In consequence of the timely notice we received of its appearance, the flames, which had only partially broke out, were speedily extinguished.We entertain no doubt that this was another abortive attempt to set fire to a building ; and we are led to this conclusion from many suspicious circumstances attending the attempt, and also from the fact that the building alluded to was empty, and divested of the means by which fire could, under ordinary circumstance, be communicated.\u2014 Transcript.TO CORRESPONDENTS.Yj\u201dT A KE NOTICE.\u2014We take no letters out of the Post Office unless they are pre-paid.MESSRS.S.M.PETTEN GILL & GO.10) State Street, Boston, AND 122, Nassau Street, New York, MTrrrMCBO.O TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1853.?CPSee First Page.DCPSee Supplement.Canadian Line op Ocean Steamers.It will be seen by the advertisement, in another column that the first of this line will leave Liverpool for the St.Lawrence on the 17th of next month.\u2014 This announcement would, we learn, have been made at an earlier day, but for impediments encountered by Messrs.McKean, McClarty & Go., in making their arrangements, in consequence of the hesitation, and ultimate refusal, of the Imperial Board of Trade to recommend the grantino of a charter, by the Crown, limiting the responsibility of the stockholders in the proposed North American Steamship Company.It is not easy to understand upon what ground this refusal is based, when we consider that similar charters have been granted, within the last few years, to no less than eleven different ocean steamshipping companies, and considering the just claims of the North American colonies upon the Imperial Government for every facility, elsewhere granted, to aid them in securing direct steam navigation with British ports.In connection with this subject we have received the copy of a memorial addressed to the Duke of Newcastle, by Robert Lament, Esq., of the firm of McKean, McClarty & Co., which we shall publish on Thursday, our limits not admitting of our doing so to-day.Tht New York Crystal Palace.\u2014The construction of the Crystal Palace in Reservoir square is now going on with considerable rapidity but it seems scarcely practicable to complete it in time for opening the exhibition in May.It is the general opinion that the building will not be completed for occupation before the 1st of June.The directors have determined to organize a separate department of mineralogical, mining, and chemical products.Messrs.Benjamin Silli-man, Jr., and W.P.Blake have been engaged to classify and arrange the specimens in this department, and it is expected that the mineral resources of both Europe and America will be richly represented.A geographical arrangement is to be observed.\u2014AT.Y.Com.Advertiser.We publish to-day the Presentment of the Grand Jury for the Queen\u2019s Bench, Criminal Term, of this District.This document will be found worth perusal, and should be read and attentively considered by every good citizen and friend to order.It exhibits our prison as entirely unsuited to the purposes for which it is intended, and instead of being an institution to repress crime and promote reformation, it is a very hotbed of iniquity, a fruitful source of every lawless propensity.It has long been ascertained that the plan of the building and its internal arrangement renders any proper classification and separation of the prisoners impossible ; and there is no probability of a change for the better unless the building is gutted and remodelled from end to end ; and as this would likely cost about as much as it would to erect a new prison, we would recommend that the present building be changed into a House of Industry or of Reformation for juvenile offenders, and that a new prison be erected on the most improved modern plan.Whatever may be the remedies required, or the course to be adopted for the removal of the difficulties complained of, we do hope that our intelligent Prison Inspector, Dr.Nelson, will give the subject his early and best consideration, and that the Executive Government will promptly aid him in this much-needed reform.As matters now stand, a perpetual injury is inflicted on our community and a lasting disgrace on the Province, to say nothing of the deep injustice to humanity itself, by maintaining within our midst a nursery of crime and disorder, at the cost of the State.Mail Baos.\u2014Our Upper Canada exchanges, last season, were very strong in their condemnation of the importation of mail bags from the United States, by the Post Office Department, as it implied that our own artisans were incapable of producing an article suitable for the regular mails, either in regard to quality or workmanship.We are glad to perceive that our Postmaster General is disposed to afford our own mechanics a fair opportunity of testing their skill.Tenders have been advertised for the delivery of mail bags for the Post Office Department at Quebec, and we have recently seen specimens of bags, made by Mr.Dean, of this city, which, having had an opportunity of comparing them with those imported from the States, in point of workmanship and material, appear to us, at least, to be very superior.There certanily appears no longer a necessity or excuse for a resort to a foreign country for articles of similar manufacture for the public service.Mr.Dean, it will be remembered, received the first prize for trunks, &c., at the Provincial Exhibition.He is now, we understand, engaged in making specimens of his trunks and mail bags for the New York Exhibition, where, we trust, he will be as successful a competitor as he was here.Canada Life Assurance Company.\u2014We would direct the attention of our readers to the extremely satisfactory statement of the past management of this Company, and its results, in our advertising columns.The comparative statement of the business done by the Canada Life Assurance Company, and by 19 British offices, during the last 4% years, is not only interesting in itself, but affords gratifying evidence of two important facts\u2014namely, the great favor with which that most benificent of modern institutions, Life Assurance, is viewed by the people of Canada, and the thorough confidence they have in the stability and prudent management of the Canada Life Assurance Company.Daring Burglaries.\u2014We regret to see, by the last Brockville Recorder, that several robberies have lately been perpetrated in that town and neighbourhood, and that the authorities had not yet succeeded in tracing-out the criminals.\u2014 Among others, the house of Mr.Wylie, the Editor of the Recorder, had been broken-into, and some fifty pounds worth of property stolen therefrom.Natural History Society.\u2014We are requested to state that the next Lecture before the Natural History Society, will be delivered to-morrow evening, by Auguste Delisle, Esq.Subject Botany.To commence at 8 o\u2019clock.Free to the public; but children under 12 years not admitted.LAW INTELLIGENCE.(.Reported for the Montreal Herald.) SUPERIOR COURT\u2014WEEKLY SITTINGS.Tuesday, March 15th, 1853.Present :\u2014Mr.Justice Day.Mr.Justice Smith.Mr.Justice Vanfei.son.Attorney General pro Regina vs.Morland-Two cases.They came before the Court on the merits.The Court could not pronounce judgment on account of the imperfect state of the records.In one of them the demurrer fyled was wanting ; and in the other, the pleas required to be drawn up in a more formal shape.Delibre discharged in both cases.Clement et al., vs.Geer, and Pettis en des, and Drummond Deft, en des and Clement Inter.Day J.This case came before the Court on two answers in the nature of demurrers,\u2014one to the intervention fyled by Clement, and the other to the plea of fin de non recevoir fyled by the Defendant en des aveu.It was unnecessary for the Court to go into the merits of these demurrers For if the facts stated in Clement\u2019s intervention were true, they were sufficient to support his claim.It was a mere question of fact.The same reasons applied to the plea of fin de non recevoir.The demurrer to the intervention and to the plea were therefore dismissed.Ææparfe Bourriere,\u2014for Certiorari.Granted.Gillespie vs.Srague.\u2014Recusation maintained, Burrell vs.Papin.\u2014This was an application under the Prerogative Act, 12 Yic., calling on the Court to issue an order against Papin, to show cause why his election as Councillor for the St.Mary\u2019s Ward of this City should not be declared null and void.Application granted returnable on Tuesday next.IJMoreau et vir vs.Mathias and Fisher.\u2014Van-felson J.In this case the intervening party had fyled nine pleas and not one of them were good.The facts they allege might come in by an exception temporaire, but not in their present shape.Pleas dismissed.New Music.\u2014We have received from Mr.Thompson, of Place d\u2019Armes, a collection of New Music, published by Messrs.Lee & Walker, 188 Chesnut Street, Philadelphia, for whom Mr.Thompson is agent in Montreal.Mr.T.has for (ale a large supply of the latest and most fashionable music published by the above-named house.larceny,\t2\tdo\tdo.do\t3\tdo\tdo.do\t3\tdo\tdo.do\t3\tdo\tdo.do\t3\tdo\tdo.do\t4\tdo\tdo.do\t9\tdo\tdo.(.Reported for the Montreal Herald.) COURT OF QUEEN\u2019S BENCH.CROWN SIDE.Thursday, March 24, 1853.Present:\u2014The Hon.Jean Roch Rolland.The Hon.Thomas Cushing Aylwin.Justices of the said Court.The Queen vs.William Darling and Joseph Rinter, on charge of uttering counterfeit bank notes.On motion of Mr.G.Robertson, of Counsel for the prisoners, they were admitted to bail, to appear on the first juridical day of next term, to answer the said charge.The Grand Jury returned the following \u201cTrue Bills,\u201d viz.: William Cupples and Henry McGuire, for assaulting a Constable in the execution of his duty; Thomas Welsh, James Claffy, and Rose Ann Doherty, for Manslaughter.Saturday, March 26, 1853.Present :\u2014The Hon.Jean Roch Rolland.The Hon.Thomas Cushing Aylwin.Justices of the said Court.Henry McGuire, on indictment for assaulting a Constable in the execution of his duty, was arraigned and pleaded not guilty.Trial fixed for first juridical day of next term.Urial Greggs, on indictment for larceny, was put on his trial and acquitted.The Grand Jury returned the following \u201c True Bills,\u201d viz., John Henderson for obtaining chattels by false pretences ; Edward Hamilton, larceny, and Alexander Louis Pappen, for subornation of perjury.The Court pronounced the following sentences, viz.:\u2014 Michel Guilbault, larceny, 1 calendar month common goal, at hard labor.William Trowton Mathew Dubois, Joseph Dempsey, William Hunter, Robert Coot, Pierre Viger, Francis Laydon, Michael Coyle, attempt to commit arson, two years common goal, at hard labor.John Coley, larceny, 2 years Penitentiary.James Ralston, obtaining valuable securities by false pretences, 2 years Penitentiary.Anastasie Godin, stealing from the person, years penitentiary.Marguerite Donairon, ditto, 2 do do.John Kearney, the younger, cutting and wounding, 2 do do.James College, stealing a gelding, 3 do do, Laurent Contu, the younger, stealing a mare 3 do do.Joseph Lerigé dit Laplante, ditto, 3 do do.James Quegan, larceny, 7 do do.Margaret Molloy, ditto, 14 do do.François Xavier Collette, unlawfully opening a post-letter.The defendant was condemned to pay to Our Sovereign Lady the Queen, a fine of £50, and to stand committed in the common goal of this District until paid.PRESENTMENT Of the Grand Jury of the Court of Queen\u2019s Bench, District of Montreal, March 1853, The Grand Jury, in making the following Presentment, are influenced more by unwillingness to deviate from a long established custom, than by any strong persuasion of marked beneficial results likely to accrue therefrom.Year after year have abuses and nuisances been clearly pointed out in the Presentments of the Grand Inquest of the country, some of them affecting the very foundations of public morals, and consequently rendering a temporizing or tardy policy in correcting them extremely dangerous to the best interests of society, and yet these abuses not only continue, but appear to augment in aggravation.Notwithstanding this fruitlessness of former Presentments, the Grand Jury most respectfully beg leave to invite attention to the following matters, which, since their empannelment, have come prominently under their notice.First, the state of the Montreal Jail.The Grand Jury have, in the discharge of their duty, made a thorough visit to this building; they have spent several hours in examining its structure, made themselves acquainted with its management and internal government, and scrutinized the condition of its comfortless inmates.The unsuitableness of this building as a public prison has been frequently pointed out by former Grand Juries.With ill-constructed water-closets, imperfect ventilation, stoves for cooking purposes, even in summer, scattered over the passages and unsuitable places, and the indiscriminate grouping of prisoners into insufficient space, it is doubtless owing to the cleanliness and strict order which prevails, that disease and death have not been much more frequent within its walls.As it is, the Grand Jury found a number of the pri soners in a diseased and emaciated condition, some with jail scurvy, and some fast wasting away in consumption.In conversing with these prisoners, they manifested a great desire for potatoes or other vegetable diet, of the use of which they are, it seems, deprived, under present jail regulations.Without venturing to decide on questions which pertain to the science of medicine and diet, the Grand Jury would point out that a proportion of potatoes, or other vegetable food, is found both cheap and wholesome for persons out of jail, and that the absence of them in places of confinement renders residence there as injurious as the long sea voyages of former times, when, for want of vegetable food, ship scurvy cut of! or disabled nearly the entire crews of vessels.tpla\u20185the arrangements of the prison are dele-mnrUl nn- \u201ct p5ys!cal> theJ are even more so in _ ™.iP?\u2019n\u201et0f-TT- Without classification in Sthtr andIt,mal 7 °r age\u2019 the Prisoners mix together, and have every opportunity for mutual contamination.With no occupation previous to trial, they assemble in groups, to listen to the rehearsal of tales of iniquity and daring villanv from the most abandoned of their number it is under such a state of things, in accordance with the well-known social and imitative laws of our nature, that all should rise to the same standard of criminality; and if this result does not always follow, it is not the arrangements of the prison which prevent it.The young and comparatively uncontaminated thus soon become hardened in crime, and although the offence which brought them into pri- son may have been slight, they go out of It confirmed villains.Instead of being reformed under the discipline of law, they are made a pest and a burden to society during the remainder of their days-\t.\t¦ ,.The situation of the female prisoners in this respect is really deplorable.A young girl, perhaps carefully brought up, by poor but moral parents, tempted by the love of dress so common among her class, pilfers some trifling article worth a few shillings from her mistress.1 ie police are called in, she is committed to prison, and the law, designed to prove reformatory in its operation, proceeds, at a cost of BOme en twelve pounds to the country, to make this mere tyro in crime a confirmed thief and prostitu e.She is kept idle during her protracted confine-ment in the jail, cooped up, and in close conn-guity, with harlots and thieves of the worst \u201c cription.She is consequently continually under the worst of influences, and she must, indeed, be more than human, if she escape from prison unprepared for the worst of crime.The Grand Jury have found several young females in.Ja\u201ci under circumstances such as they have described, who have already undergone a tedious ^confinement, and have still to remain in prison till April, awaiting their trial.\t.¦ The Grand Jury can conceive no greater injustice to a young female, suspected of crime, than to thrust her into the same ward with mistresses of brothels, there to remain for weeks or months before being brought to trial.In view of these terrible evils to individuals and to society, the Grand Jury would earnestly recommend the immediate adoption of some plan of proceeding summarily in the Recorder's or Police Court, with all cases of petty theft and disorderly houses, so that the prison may not, as at present, be thronged with prisoners awaiting their trial for minor offences.Society would thus be saved from the ravages of an extensive system of demoralization,\u2014the public from a large outlay consequent on these tedious imprisonments, and subsequent indictments before Grand and Petty Juries, whose valuable time is now unreasonably occupied with minor offences, and cases involving the merest trifles.The Grand Jury would also recommend, in connection with this, the establishment of a house convicted for the first time.Most, if not all, of this class, as experience in other countries shews, might, by undergoing a proper period of reformatory discipline, and learning a trade, be restored as useful and respectable members to society.The Grand Jury have found some cases of extreme hardship among the prisoners.They would respectfully point out the following :\u2014 Elmire Prince has been incarcerated since the 14th of August last, for constructive contempt of Court, as the Grand Jury were informed.The prisoner had been placed as guardian over furniture under seizure.In the great fire on the 6th July last, it would appear that the property was consumed, and the prisoner, being unable to produce the furniture, or to pay the debt, amounting to some few pounds, a rule of Court was issued against her, and though she has already suffered over seven month\u2019s imprisonment, there would seem to be no prospect of her release unless the peculiar hardship of her case should be looked upon as affording matter for special interposition.Sarah Martin, another female prisoner, confined under circumstances peculiarly distressing, and whose mind is evidently yielding under the imprisonment to which she has been subjected, should, in the opinion of the Grand Jury, be removed to Beauport Asylum, if the circumstances ot her case do not permit of her release from prison.The Grand Jury have to report the general appearance of strict order and cleanliness, throughout the interior of the Jail, and they are of opinion, that it is, in a great measure, owing to the good government of the Jailor, Mr.McGinn, and efficiency of his subordinate officers, that greater difficulties and hardships do not present themselves upon inspection of this ill-constructed prison.The Grand Jury have examined, with much satisfaction, extensive alterations in the North East wing of the Jail, accomplished under the superintendence of the Jailor, Mr.Thos.M\u2019Ginn, chiefly by prison labor, and consequently at a great saving to the country.The alterations consist of the erection, in brick work, of six tiers of cells, in imitation of the Kingston Penitentiary cells.Without venturing a decided opinion as to the sanitory advantages of this plan, the Grand Jury have to report the work as well done, and would earnestly recommend a continuance of this prison labour economy, under properly matured plans.The prisoners are, as Mr.McGinn, the Jailor, observes, \u201cdelighted to be employed\u201d; and, under his intelligent superintendence, they could, at a comparatively trifling expense, re-construct a great portion of the interior of the building, as well as erect work shops, and thus prepare the Jail for the introduction of a proper classification, and separation of prisoners.The Grand Jury regret to be compelled to state, from the evidence which came before them, that, in a large proportion of cases, the offences were committed under the influence of strong drink, and that the prisoners were either at the time of committing the crime, in a state of intoxication, or were habitual drinkers.In one case, it ¦was proved that a youth (who has since pleaded guilty) had gone direct from the barroom, after drinking, and set fire to his employer\u2019s premises.The Grand Jury believe that with such facility of obtaining strong drink at the multitude of taverns, licensed and unlicensed, which exist in our city, and in the surrounding country, and with the present wretched system of prison arrangement and discipline, all efforts at thorough reformation, or repressiou of crime, must prove, in a great measure, abortive, and therefore the Grand Jury would suggest and recommend earnest and immediate attention to these important subjects, believing, also, that the adoption here of such prohibitory laws with respect to the sale of intoxicating liquors, as may have been found practicable and salutary in the experience of other countries, would greatly benefit Canada.The Grand Jury, a portion of whom reside in the city of Montreal, deem it not irrelevant to advert, in order that the same may be remedied by the proper authorities, to the want of any effective regulation for the removal of ice and snow from the houses and streets of the city.The numerous accidents of a serious nature, which yearly take place, demand that some effectual means should be devised to prevent their occurrence for the future ; and the Grand Jury, without assuming to indicate what precise means should be pursued, deem it their duty to observe, that if such calamities as have recently taken place from these causes, can be avoided by the exercise of a proper vigilance on the part of our municipal authorities, a grave responsibility rests upon them for the omission.The placing of filth and offal on vacant ground, or unfinished streets, is another nuisance which the Grand Jury respectfully represent should not be permitted by the City Corporation ; from this cause several localities in the city have been greivously annoyed, and the public health endangered.The Grand Jury would point to an aggravated instance of this kind, in in the vicinity of Philips\u2019 Square, Beaver Hall.\u2014 In this beautiful suburb locality, so airy and convenient for the citizens in summer, heaps of disgusting filth have been thrown withinja short distance of a populous neighbourhood, and of the public road.The exhalation from these deposits, so close to the broad plank walk, which, during summer evenings, is thronged with citizens seeking fresh air, is, in the opinion of the Grand Jury, highly injurious to the public health, as well as disgraceful to those whose business it is to prevent it.The Grand Jury deeply lament to state that in investigations on indictments before them, the evidence brought out the alarming fact, that there exists in our city a band of men who make a sort of business of suborning perjury and obtaining witnesses to swear falsely, and that, for trifling sums, witnesses have been obtained who have learned by heart the contents of depositions written and furnished to them, and afterwards appeared in Court to testify to the same, without any knowledge whatever of the pretended facts they attempted thus to prove.As this is -a species of conspiracy which may at any moment ruin the character or fortune of any citizen however innocent or inoffensive, the Grand Jury particularly pray the proper authorities to follow up with the utmost rigour any clew which may be obtained or which they may be able to sift out concerning it.The Grand Jury concur in the recommendation of former Presentments, that Jurymen should be paid for their time, and for the expense necessarily incurred in the discharge of the public service.In conclusion, the Grand Jury desire to tender to your Honourable Court their sincere thanks for the luminous charge delivered on entering on their duties, and for the aid afforded by yonr Honors in their performance.They would also acknowledge the ready assistance and great attention they have received from Mr.Brehaut, the Clerk of the Crown, and_ from Mr.Shiller, whose polite, prompt, and efficient discharge of his duty has greatly assisted the Grand Jury in their tedious labours.The whole nevertheless respectfully submitted.WILLIAM WORKMAN, Foreman.Grand Jury Room, > l J Ôuebec Correspondence of the Montreal Herald.Quebec, March 23.Last night the Representation Bill was passed by a majority much larger than was expected, I believe, on either side of the House.Below I send you the result of this bill, arranged in tabu-larform.Of course, the complexion of the newly-arranged constituencies can be given only proxi-mately, and the actual returns will always depend upon a number of collateral circumstances) which will modify the results that might be expected from the character and political leanings of the people.I give a list, which has been prepared here by persons who, I believe, are well-informed, and which will show what sort of party-justice has been administered in Upper Canada.It is no matter whether Conservatives or Liberals may triumph at the polls, at any actual election, the result shows that the Counties having Conservative tendencies are to return a much smaller number of members, in proportion to their population, than those of an opposite political colour.UPPER CANADA.\tLiberal.Conservative.\t\t\t Counties.\tMem.Pop.Mem.Pop.\t\t\t Toronto\t \t\t\t- 1\t1 1\t15,397 15,397 Peel\t\t\t\t1\t24,816 Lennox and Addington\t\t\t1\t23,120 Huron and Bruce.Norfolk\t\t1\t21,285\t1\t22,035 Grenville\t Welland\t\t1\t20,707\t1\t20,141 Hastings, So.Riding\t\t\t1\t19,812 Frontenac\t\t\t\t1\t19,150 Haldimand\t Hal ton\t\t\u2022 \u2022 \u2022 \u2022\t1\t16,m\t1\t18,312 Lincoln\t\t1\t18,278\t\t Oxford, N.R\t\t1\t18,883\t\t Glengarry\t\t1\t17,596\t1\t1 7.582 gênt.\u2018r:.\t1\t17,469\t\t York.\t\t\t\t\t1\t17,206 Elgin, E.R\t\t\t\t1\t17,181 Prince Edward .\t\t\t1\t19,000 Lanark, S.R\t\t\t\t1\t16,956 Durham, N.R\t Essex\t\t\t\t1\t16,817\t1\t16,767 Middlesex, E.R\t\t\t\t1\t16,207 Oxford, S.R\t York, N.R\t\t1\t16,712\t1\t16,330 Waterloo, N.R\t\t1\t16,052\t.,-\t York, E.R\t\t1\t16,000\t\t Ontario, S.It\t Simcoe, S.R\t\t1\t15 675\t1\t16,108 Northumberland, E.R.Wentworth, E.R\t\t1\t15,828\t1\t15,575 Northumberland, W.R.\t1\t15,400\t\t Perth\t\t.Peterboro\u2019\t\t\t1\t15,545\ti\t15.237 Wellington, S.R.\t1\t14,541\t\t.Brant, W.R.\t.Hamilton\t\t1\t14,176\ti\t14,116 Dundas\t\t\t\ti\t13,811 Durham, S.R\t\t.\t\ti\t13,965 Grey\t\t\t Wentworth, W.R.\t1\t12,934\ti\t13,217 Ontario, N.R\t Hastings\t\t1\t12,696\ti\t12,165 Wellington\t.\t1\t12,255\t\t Victoria\t\t1\t11,657\t\t Kingston\t.Brant, E.R\t\t1\t11,250\ti\t11,582 10,947 Simcoe, N.R\t\t\t\ti\t Lambton\t\t\t\t\t1\t10,815 10,778 Leeds, N.R\t Lanark, N.R\t\t1\t10,481\ti\t \t\t\t\t Waterloo, S.R\t\t1\t10,486\t\t Prescott\t.\t1\t10,487\t\t Leeds, S.R\t\t1\t9,782\t\t Renfrew\t.\t1\t9,415\t.,\t Russell\t\t Brockville\t\t\t1\t8,925\ti\t8,554 Stormont\t.\t1\t8,290\t\t Elgin\t.\t1\t8,237 7,760\t\t By town\tf\t\t1\t\t\t London\t.\t1\t7,035\t\t Niagara\t.\t1\t5,596\t\t Cornwall\t.\t1\t6,355\t\t \t34\t452,371\t30\t523,993 \t\tAbout\t\t Lévîs, comprising the Parishes of Saint Joseph, Notre-Dame, Saint Jean Chrisostôme, Saint Henri, and Saint Lambert.Dorchester, comprising the Parishes of Saint Anselme, Saint Isidore, Sainte Claire, Sainte Marguerite, Saint Bernard, Sainte Hémédine, part of the Townships of Buckland and Metger-mette, and the Townships of Frampton, Standon and its augmentation, Cranbourne, Ware and Watford.Beauce, comprising the Parishes of Saint Elzé-ar, Sainte Marie, Saint Joseph, Saint Frederick, Saint François, Sainte George, the Seigniory of Aubun-Delisle, part of the Townships of Metger-mette and Clinton, the Kennebec Road Settlements, and the Townships of Jersey, Linière, Marlow, Rixborough, Spaulding, Ditehfield, Woburn, Gayhurst, Dorset, Shenley, Aylmer, Price, Lambton, Forsyth, Adstock and Tring.Mefantic, comprising the Parishes of Sainte Agathe and Sainte Sylvestre, and the Townships of]Inverness, Nelson, Somerset and its augmentation, Halifax, Leeds, Broughton, Thetford, Ireland and Colraine.Lotbinière, comprising the Parishes of Saint Nicolas, Saint Giles, Saint Antoine, St.Flavien, Sainte Croix, Lotbinière, Saint Jean Deschaillons and all the remainder of the augmentations of the Seio-niories of Deschaillons and Lotbinière, and of that part of the Seigniory of Saint Croix which is not included in the Parish of Sainte Agathe.Chicoutimi, comprising the Townships and Settlements of Saint Johns, La Trinité, Harvey, Simard, Tremblay, Bagot, Chicoutimi, Laterrière, Simon, Jonquière, Kinogomi, Labarro, Metabet-chouan, Signay, Mésy, Caron, Charlevoix, Bour gette, Taché and Delisle.Tadoussae, comprising the Townships and settlements of Saguenay, Tadoussae, Little Saguenay, Sainte Marguerite, Bergeronnes, Escou-mins, Iberville, Laval, Latour, Betsiamites, the Seio-niory of Mille Vaches or Portneuf, the Terra Finna of Mingan, the Islets of Mingan, the Island and Seigniory of Anticosti, the settlements and losts of Manicouagan, Betsiamits, Godbont, Saint Paneras, Pointe des Monts, Saint Paul, the Seven Islands, the Jeremie Islands, and all the other tracts of land comprised within the limits aforesaid.River, Baie Saint Paul, Saint Urbain, Eboule-ments, Saint Irénée, Malbaie, Sainte Agnès, Saint Fidèle, the Townships of Setrington, De Sales, and Callières, Isle-anx-Coudres, Hare Island, and all the other tracts of land comprised within the above limits, and Islands nearest to the said County.Montmorency, comprising the Parishes of St.Jean, Sainte Famille, Saint Laurent March 26, 1853.LIBEL ANNOYANCES.Among the commonest annoyances to which publishers of responsible newspapers are subject are suits for libel, often grounded upon the shallowest pretexts, and instituted for the basest purposes.Yet, even with the present partial and unjust law, complaints might not he numerous were suits bona fide in their character and brought upon reasonable grounds and by responsible parties.But in nine cases in ten, libel suits are instituted by some thievish pettifogger.Every paper suspected of thrift has been more or less annoyed in this manner, and every publisher can attest that so far from having perpetrated a libel within the true meaning of the term, he neither knew of the article beforehand or heard of it or of the parties afterward until served with a summons by the Sneak & Steal who had taken the dirty business in hand.\u2014N.Y.Tribune.1 to 13,300 1 to 17,400 Thus take the country through, 13,300 persons of one shade in politics are to have the same weight in the Government as 17,400 of another shade\u2014such is the equitable manner of reforming the representation in Upper Canada.In Lower Canada the results speak more for the fairness perhaps, I may say, the liberality of the stronger party.LOWER CANADA.\t\tF.\torigin.\tB.origin Gaspé, 8702\t\t10904\t.\t1 Bonaventure\t\t10853\t\t1 Rimouski\t\t13351\t1\t.Temiseouata\t\t14552\t1\t Kamouraska\t\t19375\t1\t L\u2019Islet.\t.\t\t10591\t1\t Montmagny\t\t11945\t1\t Bellechasse\t\t12094\t1\t Dorchester\t\t12790\t1\t Etehemin\t\t14855\t1\t Beauce.\t.\t\t15507\t1\t Megantic\t\t15357\t\t1 Lotbinière\t\t15061\t1\t Chicoutimi 7079 )\t\t7079\t\t Tadoussae 1865 $\t\t\tA\t Saguenay\t\t13041\t1\t Montmorency\t\t9598\t1\t.Quebec\t\t\t18889\t1\t City\t\t\t42052\t2\t1 Portneuf\t\t19951\t1\t Champlain\t\t13896\t1\t.Ville de Trois Rivières\t\t4936\t1\t St.Maurice\t\t9211\t1\t Maskinongé\t\t13415\t1\t Nicolet\t\t\t18957\t1\t.Yamaska\t\t14748\t1\t Berthier.\t\t16390\t1\t.Joliette\t\t\t18218\t1\t Leinster.\t\t12824\t1\t L\u2019Assomption\t\t16866\t1\t Terrebonne\t\t16353\t1\t Two Mountains\t\t15726\t1\t Argenteuil\t\t14129\t.\t1 Ottawa.\t\t13038\t\t1 Allumettes\t\t9865\t\t1 Drummond, 9025 ?\t\t15564\t\t2 Arthabaska, 6539 )\t\t\t\t Sherbrooke, 6640 5 Wolfe,\t2235 )\t\t8875\t\u2022\u2022\ti Town of Sherbrooke\t\t4847\t.\u2022\ti Compton\t\t7463\t\ti Stanstead\t\t10255\t\ti Brome.\t\t10010\t\ti Shefford\t\t\t11083\t\ti Missisquoi\t\t15203\t\ti Richelieu\t\t19350\t1\t St.Hyacicthe\t\t17344\t1\t Rouville\t\t\t16338\t1\t Bagot.\t\t13622\t1\t Iberville.\t\t14861\t1\t Vercheres\t\t14465\t1\t Chambly\t\t12535\t1\t Laprairie\t\t14054\t1\t Lacolle.\t\t15226\t\ti Napierville\t\t13541\t\ti Cbateauguay\t\t17354\t1\t Beauharnois\t\t12162\t1\t Huntingdon\t\t15190\t1\t Soul anges\t\t11512\t1\t Vaudreuil\t\t9917\t1\t Isle Jesus\t\t11053\t1\t Hochelaga, Montreal,\t\t10500\t1\t Jacques Cartier, do\t\t9166\t1\t City of Montreal .\t\u2022\t57715\t1\t2 AN ACT TO ENLARGE THE RFPRESEN\t\t\t\t Lombardy emigrants have sought the protection of the Piedmontese government, which has protested to Ihe court of Vienna.The sequestrations were going on.Four executions had taken place at Pesth, namely, Charles Juhbal, Kossuth\u2019s tutor, Charles Andrassfly, Samuel Sarkosy, and Caspar Noszlopy, TION OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS PROVINCE IN PARLIAMENT.Gaspé, ineluding the island of Bonaventure.and all the Islands wholly or in part opposite to the said County and nearest thereto, the Fiefs and Seigniories of Sainte Anne, Mont-Louis, La Magdeleine, Grande Valée des Monts and Anse de l\u2019Etang, Grand River and Pabos, and the Townships of Cap-Chat, Sydenham, Fox, Cap Rosier, Gaspé Bay North, Gaspé Bay South.York, Douglas, Malbaie, Percé and Newport, Bonaventure, including all the Islands wholly or partly opposite to the said County of Bonaventure and nearest thereto ; the Seigniory of Shoolbred and the Townships of Port Daniel, Hope, Cox, Hamilton, New ItichmonS, Maria, Carleton, Nouvelle, Mann, Ristigouche and part of Matapédia.Rimouski, ineluding all the Islands lying nearest the Parishes and Settlements of Matane, Metis, Saint Joseph, Sainte Flavie, Sainte Luce, Saint Germain, Bic, Saint Fabien, Saint Simon, the Seigniories of Lake Metis and part of Matapédia, and the Townships of MaoNider, Matane, Saint Denis and the augmentation thereof, Cabot, Neigette, Maepés and Duquesne.Temiseouata : all the Islands nearest to the County, comprising the parishes of Trois-Pistoles, Saint Eloi, Isle Verte, Saint George de Caeouna, Saint Arsène, Saint Patrice de la Rivière-du-Loup, and the Townships of Whitworth, Viger, Begon, Denonville, Baudot, Demers, Hocquart and the Seigniory & settlements of Temiseouata.Kamouraska, including all Islands nearest to the County, comprising the Parishes of Saint André, Saint Alexandre, Saint Louis of Kamouraska, Saint Paschal, Sainte Hélène, Saint Denis, Mont Carmel, Saint Paeôme, Rivière-Ouelle and Sainte Anne, and the Townships of Bungay, Parke, Woodbridge and Ixworth.LTslet, ineluding all Islands nearest to the County, but not any part of the Islands hereafter annexed to Montmagny ; the Parishes of Saint Roch, Saint Jean, L\u2019Islet, Saint Cyrille and the Townships of Lessard, Fournier, Ashford, Gar neau, Casgrain, Lafontaine, Dionne, Arago and Leverrier.Montmagny, comprising Grosse-Isle, Isle aux Oies, Crane Island, Isle Sainte Marguerite, and all other Islands in the said River as aforesaid, the parishes of Cap Saint Ignace, Saint Thomas, Saint Pierre, Bertier, Saint François, the Townships of Ashburton, Montmini, Bourdages, Patton and part of the Township of Armagh.Bellechasse, comprising the Parishes of Saint Vallier, Saint Raphael, Saint Michel, Beaumont, Saint Charles, Saint Gervais, Saint Lazare, part of the Townships of Armagh and Buckland and the Townships of Mailloux, Roux, Bellechasse and Daaquam, Napierville shall comprise Sherrington and the Parishes of Saint Cyprien, Saint Edouard and Saint Remi.\u2014 ^Ikateangai shall comprise the Parish of Sainte PhiUomene and Chateaugai, the Settlements and Parishes of Russelltown, Saint Jean Chrysostôme, Sainte Martine, Sainte Urbain, Saint Malaehie, and the remainder of the Seigniory ofBeauhar-nais with the exception of the Parishes of Saint Clement, Saint Louis and Saint Timothée.Beauharnois shall comprise the Parishes of a!\" Clement.Saint Louis de Gonzague and Saint Timothée.Huntingdon, comprising the Indian Lands of am Regis, the Village of Huntingdon, and the Townships of GodmanChester, Elgin, Dundee, iimchinbrooke and Hemmingford.boulanges shall comprise the Seigniories of boulanges and New Longueuil, and the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth ranges of the Township of Newton and augmentation adjacent.y audreuil shall comprise\" Isle Perrot, the eigniones of Vaudreuil and Rigaud, and the rr \u2019\tthird and fourth ranges of the owns up ot Newton and augmentation adjacent.Laval shall comprise Isle Jésus and Isle Bizarre, ami all Islands lying nearest to or wholly or in part opposite to the same.The East Riding of Montreal to be called Hochelaga, shall comprise the Parish of Montreal without the City, and the Parishes of Longue .01nte aux Trembles, Rivière des Prairies and Sault aux Recollet.The West Riding of Montreal to be called Jacques Cartier, shall comprise the Parishes of Lachine, La Pointe Claire, Sainte Anne, Sainte Genevieve and Saint Laurent.The City of Montreal shall be comprised within its present limits.Pierre, Saint and Saint François, Isle Madame, and Isle-aux-Reaux, and the Parishes of Saint Féréol, Saint Joachim, Sainte Anne, Chateau Richer, Laval and Ange Guardien.Quebec, comprising the Parishes and Settlements of Beauport, Saint Edmond, Saint Gabriel, Saint Ambroise, Charlesbourg, Sainte Foye and 1\u2019Aneienne Lorette, the Townships of Stoneham and Tewkesburry, Fief Hubert, and all other tracts of land included in the above limits.The City of Quebec, including the Parishes of Notre Dame de Québec and of Saint Roch de Québec.Portneuf, comprising the Parishes of Saint Casimir, Grondines, Deschambault, Cap-Santé, Saint Basile, Saint Raymond, Sainte Catherine, Ecureuils, Pointe-aux-Trembies, Saint Augustin, Saint Alban, and the Townships of Gosford, Alton, Roquemont, Colbert and Montauban.Champlain, comprising the Parishes of Sainte Anne, Batiscan, Sainte Geneviève de Batisean, Champlain, Cap de la Magdeleine, Saint Maurice, Saint Stanislas, Saint Justin, Saint Prosper, Saint Narcisse, and the Township of Radnor.The Town of Three-Rivers shall comprehend the Town of Three-Rivers within its present limits and the Banlieue of Three-Rivers.Saint Maurice, comprising the Parish of Three-Rivers, without the Banlieue, Fief Saint Etienne, the Forges, the Parishes of Pointe-du-Lac, Ya-machiehe, Saint Sévère, Saint Barnabé, and the Townships of Caxton and Shawinigan, and the augmentation of Caxton.Maskinongé, including all Islands nearest to the said County, comprising the Parishes of Maskinongé, Rivière-du-Loup, Saint Léon, Saint Paulin, Sainte Ursule, Saint Didaee and the Township of Hunterstown, and the Gore thereof.Nicolet, comprising the Parishes of Saint Pierre, Gentilly, Sainte Gertrude, (excepting the Township of Maddington,) Bécaneour, Saint Grégoire, Nicolet, Sainte Monique, part of the Township of Blandford and the Parish of Saint Célestin.Yamaska, comprising the Abenaki Settlement, and the Parishes of Saint David, Saint Michel, Saint François, La Baie and Saint Zéphirin, the Seigniories of Pierville and Bourgmarie Est, and the augmentation of the Township of Wendover.Berthier, comprising the Parishes and Settlements of Isle Saint Ignace, Isle du Pads, Berthier, Lanoraie, Lavaltrie, Saint Norbert, Saint Cuth-bert, Saint Barthélémi, Saint Gabriel and the Township of Brandon.Joliette, comprising the Parishes of Saint Charles Borromée, Saint Paul, Saint Félix, Saint Thomas, Sainte Elizabeth, Sainte Mélanie, Saint Ambroise, Saint Alphonse, comprehending also the whole of the Township of Kildare and augmentation and the Township of Cathcart.Montcalm, comprising the Parishes of Saint Jacques, Saint Alexis, Saint Esprit, Saint Li-guori, and the Townships of Rawdon, Chertsey, Kilkenny, Wexford, Chilton, Doncaster and Carrick.L\u2019Assomption, comprising the Parishes of Saint Suipice, ineluding Isle Bouchard, Repentigny, L\u2019Assomption, Saint Roch, Lachenaie, Saint Henri and Saint Lin.Terrebonne, comprising the Parishes of Terrebonne, Saint Thérèse, Sainte Anne, Saint Janvier, Laeorne, part of the Parish of Saint Jérôme, the Townships of Abercrombie and Beresford, and part of the Township of Morin.Two-Mountains, comprising the Parishes of Saint Eustache, Saint Augustin, Saint Benoit, Sainte Scholastique, Saint Columban, the Mission of the Lake of Two-Mountains, that part of the Parish of Saint Jérôme which comprises the Côte Saint Joseph, Saint Eustache, Sainte Marguerite, Sainte Angélique, and part of the Township of Morin.Argenteuil, comprising the Parishes of Sainte Placide, Saint Hermas, Saint Andrews, Saint Jérusalem, and the Townships of Chatham, Wentworth, Grenville and augmentation, Harrington, Gore, Howard, Arundel, Montcalm, Wolfe, Salaberry and Grandisson.Ottawa, comprising the Townships of Loehaber and its augmentation, Buckingham, Templeton, Hull, Eardley, Masham, Wakefield, Portland, Derry, Rippon, Denholm, Low, Aylwin, Hincks, Bowman, Villeneuve, Lathbury, Hartwell, Suffolk, Ponsonby, Amherst, Addington, Preston, Bidwell, Wells, Bigelow, Wright, Northfield, Blake, McGill, Killaly, Dudley, Chabot, Bou-chette, Cameron, Maniwaky, Kensington, Egan, Aumond, Bouthillier, Kiamica, Merritt and Camp-bell.Pontiac, comprising the Grand Calumet, Alu-mettes and little Alumettes Islands, and all other islands opposite to the said County and belonging to Lower Canada, and the Townships of Onslow, Bristol, Clarendon, Litchfield, Thorne, Aldfield, Mansfield, Waltham, Chichester, Sheen, Esher, Aberdeen, Hastings, Aberford, Kirkiby, Labou-chère, Gladstone, Graham, Cawood, Leslie, Stanhope, Huddersfield and Pontefract.Drummond, comprising part of the Township of Upton, and the Gore thereof, and the Townships of Durham, Grantham, Wendover, Simpson, Wickham and Kingsey.Arthabaska, comprising the Township of Maddington, part of Blandford, the Townships of Warwick, Norton, Stanfold, Arthabaska, Bul-strode and augmentation, Chester and Tingwiek, and that part of the Township of Aston and its augmentation and Gore, which is not included in the County of Nicolet as above described.Sherbrooke, comprising the Townships of Melbourne, Brompton and the Gore thereof, Shipton, Windsor and Stoke.Wolfe, comprising the Townships of Wolfe-town, Ham, South Ham or augmentation of Ham, Wotton, Garthby, Stratford, Weedon and Duds-weli.'I he Town of Sherbrooke shall comprise the Town of Sherbrooke within its present limits, and the Townships of Orford and Ascot.Compton, comprising the Townships of Compton, Westbury, Eaton, Clifton, Hereford, Bury, Newport, Auckland, Lingwiek, Hampden, Ditton, Winslow, Whitton, Marston, Chesham and part of the Township of Clinton.Stanstead shall comprise Stanstead, Barnston, Hatley, Barford, and Magog, East and W est.Brome shall comprise Bolton, Potton, Sutton, Brome and that part of the Township of Farn-ham, which is to the East of the prolongation of the rear line of the Seigniory of Saint Hyacinthe.Shefford shall comprise the Townships of Mil-ton, Roxton, Ely, Granby, Shefford and Stukely.Missisquoi, comprising the Parishes of Saint Thomas, Clarenceville, Saint Armand East and West, Notre Dame des Ange, the Village of Phillipsburg, and the Townships of Dunham and Stanbridge, and the western part of the Township of Farnham.Richelieu, comprising the Town of William Henry and the Parishes of Sorel, Sainte Victoire, Sainte Aimé and Saint Ours.Saint Hyacinthe, comprising the Town of Saint Hyacinthe, and the Parishes of Saint Hyacinthe, Saint Damase, La Présentation, Saint Barnabé, Saint Jude, Saint Charles and Saint Denis.Rouville, including all Islands lying wholly or in part opposite the said County, and the Parishes of Saint Mathias, Sainte Marie, Saint Hilaire, Saint Jean Baptiste, Saint Césaire, l\u2019Ange Gardien and Saint Paul of Abbotsford.Bagot shall comprise part of the Township of Upton, the Township of Acton, and the Parishes of Saint Hughes, Saint Simon, Sainte Rosalie, Saint Dominique and Saint Pie.Iberville, shall comprise the Parishes of Saint George de Henryviile, Saint Alexandre, Saint Athanase, Saint Grégoire and Saint Brigitte.Verchères, including all Islands nearest to the said County, and the Parishes of Varennes, Ver-chères, Contrecœur, Belœil, Saint Marc, Saint Antoine and Sainte Julie.Chambly and Longueuil, including all Islands nearest to the said County, and the Parishes of Boucherville, Longueuil, St.Bruno and Chambly.Laprairie shall comprise the Parishes of Laprai-rie, Saint Phillippe, Saint Jacques le Mineur, Saint Isidore and Saint Constant, including the Sault Saint Louis, and all Islands in the said County.St.John\u2019s shall comprise Saint Luc, Blairfindie, Saint Jean, Saint Valentin and Lacofie, including all Islands lying nearest te the same.UPPER CANADA.The Counties of Huron and Bruce, and the Counties of Lennox and Addington, shall respectively be united for the purpose of Representation ; and each such Union of two Counties shall form an Electoral Division : The following Counties shall be divided into Ridings, for the purpose of Representation, and each of such Ridings shall form an Electoral Division : The County of York shall bo divided into three Ridings, to be called respectively the North Riding, the East Riding, and the West Riding : The North Riding shall consist of the Towu-thips of King, Whitchurch, Georgina, East Gwillimbury and North GwiUimbury ; The East Riding shall consist of the Townships of Markham, Scarborough, and that portion of the Township of York lyipg East of Yonge Street ; The W est Riding shall consist of the Townships of Etobicoke, Vaughan, and that portion of the Township of York lying West of Yonge Street and the Village of Yorkville.The County of Middlesex shall be divided into two Ridings, to be called respectively the East Riding and West Riding: The East Riding shall consist of the Townships of West .Nissouri, North Dorchester, Westminster and London : The West Riding shall consist of the Townships of Mosa, Eckfrid, Caradoc, Metcalfe, Adelaide, Williams, Lobo and Delaware.The County of Oxford shall be divided into two Ridings, to be called respectively the North Riding and the South Riding : The North Riding shnll consist of the Townships of East Nissouri, East Zorra, West Zorra, Blandford, Blenheim, and the Town of Wood-stock ; The South Riding shall consist of the Townships of North Oxford, West Oxford, East Oxford, Norwich and Dereham.The County of Hastings shall be divided into two Ridings, to be called respectively the North Riding and the South Riding : The North Riding shall consist of the Townships of Lake, Tudor, Grimsthorpe, Marmora, Madoc, Elzevir, Rawdon, Huntingdon and Hun-gerford ; The South Riding shall consist of the Townships of Sidney, Thurlow, Tyendenaga, the Village of Trenton, and the Town of Belleville.The County of Durham shall be divided into two Ridings, to be called respectively, the East Riding and the West Riding : The East Riding shall consist of the Townships of Cavan, Manvers, Hope and the Town of Port Hope; The West Riding shall consist of the Townships of Clarke, Darlington and Cartwright.The County of Northumberland shall be divided into two Ridings, to be called respectively, the East Riding and the West Riding : The East Riding shall consist of the Townships of Cramahe, Brighton, Murray, Seymour and Percy ; The West Riding shall consist of the Townships of Hamilton, Haldimand, Alnwick, South Mona-gan and the Town of Cobourg : The County of Ontario shall be divided into two Ridings, to be called respectively, the North Riding and the South Riding : The North Riding shall consist of the Townships of Reach, Uxbridge, Brock, Scott, Thorah, Mara, Rama and Scugog ; The SouthRiding shall consist of the Townships of Whitby, Pickering and the Viillage of Oshawa.The County of Wentworth shall be divided into two Ridings, to be called respectively, the North Riding and the South Riding : The North Riding shall consist of the Townships of Beverly, Flamborough East, Flambo-rough West, and the Town of Dundas ; The South Riding shall consist of the Townships of Saltfleet, Binbrook, Glanford, Barton and Ancaster.The County of Lanark shall be divided into two Ridings, to he called respectively, the North and the South Riding : The North Riding shall consist of the Townships of Sherbrooke, North, Dalhousie, Lanark, Ramsay, Levant, Darling and Pakenham ; The South Riding shall consist of the Townships of Montague, Elmsley North, Burgess North, Sherbrooke South, Beckwith, Drummond, Bathurst and the Town of Perth.The County of Simcoe shall be divided into two Ridings, to be called respectively, the North Riding and the South Riding ; The North Riding shall consist of the Townships of Nottawasaga, Sunnidale, Vespra, Flos, Oro, Medonte, Orillia, Tiny, Tay, Matchedash and the Town of Barrie.The South Riding shall consist of the Townships of West Gwillimbury, Tecumseth, Innisfil, Essa, Adjala, Tosorontio, Maimer and Mono.The Counties of Leeds and Grenville shall he formed into three Ridings, to be called respectively, the North Riding of Leeds and Grenville, the South Riding of Leeds, and the South Riding of Grenville : The North Riding of Leeds and Grenville shall consist of the Townships of Kitley, Elmsley, Wolford, Oxford and South Gower : The Soutli Riding of Leeds shall consist of the Townships of Yonge, Escott, Front of Leeds and Lansdowne, Rear of Leeds and Lansdowne, South Crosby, North Crosby, Bastard and Burgess ; The South Riding of Grenville shall consist of the Townships of Edwardsburgh and Augusta and the Town of Prescott.The County of Wellington shall be divided into two Ridings, to be called respectively, the South Riding and the North Riding : The South Riding shall consist of the Town and Township of Guelph, and the Townships of Puslineh, Eramosa and Ein ; The North Riding shall consist of the Townships of Nichol, Garafraxa, Pilkington, Peel, Arthur, Maryborough, Amaranth, Luther and Minto.The County of Waterloo shall be divided into two Ridings, to be called respectively, the North Riding and the South Riding : The North Riding shall consist of the Townships of North Waterloo, (ineluding the Town of Berlin,) Woolwich and Wellesley: The South Riding shall consist of the villages of Galt and Preston, and the Townships of South Waterloo, North Dumfries and Wilmot : The present Township of Waterloo being divided, for the purposes of Representation only, into two Townships, to bo eallocl respectively, the Township of North Waterloo and the Township of South Waterloo ; the Township of North Waterloo to include and consist of that part of the present Township of Waterloo lying within the following limits, that is to say : commencing at the south west angle of lot Number forty-six, in the said Township, thence easterly along the southerly limits of the said lot, and of the lots Number forty-seven, forty-eight, fifty, fifty-one and fifty-three, and the prolongation thereof, to the middle of the .Grand R iver, thence along the middle of the said River against the stream to the prolongation of the limit between the said Lots Number one hundred and thirteen and one hundred and fourteen, and along the limits between the said Lots Numbers one hundred and thirteen and one hundred and fourteen, northerly and easterly, to the westerly limits of Lot one hundred and seven, thenee along the westerly limits of the said Lot Number one hundred and seven, northerly to the northerly limits thereof, thenee along the northerly limits of the said Lot Number one hundred and seven and of Lots Number one hundred and six, 84 and 96, easterly to the easterly boundary of the said Township, thence along the easterly, northerly and westerly boundaries of the said Township, in a northerly, westerly and southerly direction respectively, to the place of beginning : And the Township of South Waterloo to include and consist of all the remaining part of the said present Township of Waterloo.The County of Brant shall be divided into two Ridings, to be called respectively, the East Riding and the West Ridi ig : The East Riding shall consist of the Townships of South Dumfries, Onondaga, East Brantford, and the Village of Paris.The West Riding shall consist of the Townships of Burford, Oakland, Tuscarora, West Brantford, and the Town of Brantford.The present Township of Brantford being divided, for the purposes of Representation only, into the Townships of East Brantford end West Brantford : The Township of East Brantford to include and consist of all that portion of the present Township of Brantford which lies on the cast side of the Grand River : And the Township of West Brantford to include and consist of all the remainder of the present Township of Brantford.The County of Elgin shall be divided into two Ridings, to be called respectively, the East Riding and the West Riding : The East Riding shall consist of the Township of Baybam, Malahide, Yarmouth, South Dorchester and the Village of St.Thomas ; The West Riding shall consist of the Townships of Southwold, Dunwich and Aldborough.Each of the other Counties in Upper Canada shall form an Electoral Division.Provided always, That the Townships of Gloucester and Osgoode shall, for the purpose of Representation only, be detached from the County of Carleton and attached to the County of Russell.The City of Toronto shall form an Electoral Division.The City of Kingston shall form an Electoral Division.The City of Hamilton shall form an Electoral Division.The Town of Brockville shall form an Electoral Division, and shall, for the purpose of Representation only, include in addition to its present limits, the whole of the Township of Elizabethtown, which shall for the said purpose be detached from the County of Leeds.The Town of Niagara shall form an Electoral Division, and shall for the purpose of Representation only, include, in addition to its present limits, the whole of the Township of Niagara, which shall for the said purpose be detached from the County of Lincoln.The Town of Cornwall shall form an Electoral Division, and shall for the purpose of Representation only, include, in addition to its present limits, the whole of the Township of Cornwall, which shall be detached from the County of Stormont.The Town of London shall form an Electoral Division.The Town of By town shall form an Electoral Division.GENERAI, PROVISIONS, And be it enacted, That in Lower Canada the Counties of Gaspé, Bonaventure, Rimouski, Temiseouata, Kamouraska, L\u2019Islet, Montmagny, Bellechasse, Lévis, Dorchester, Beauce, Megantic, Lotbinière, Saguenay, Montmorency, Quebec, Portneuf, Champlain, St.Maurice, Maskinongé, Nicolet, Yamaska, Berthier, Joliette, Montcalm, L\u2019Assomption, Terrebone, Two-Mountains, Argenteuil, Ottawa, Pontiac, Compton, Stanstead, Brome, Shefford, Missisquoi, Richelieu, St.Hyacinthe, Rouville, Bagot, ill©» Verchères, Chambly, Laprairie, St.A Parma decree declares that every individual found guilty of conspiring against any foreign state shall be punished by five years at the galleys.The Messaggere di Modena states that martial law had been proclaimed at Forli.Three political arrests had been made at Sidonia.An English officer had been expelled from Tuscany, on suspicion ofbeing engaged in forming a revolutionary committee in Florence; his name is George Crawford, brother of Mr.Crawford, member of parliament.The Austrians had occupied the fort of Belvi-dere, and the fortress of Bassa, and directed the Tuscan artillery to be removed there.Genoa, March 8.\u2014Intelligence has been received from Naples that an attempt has been made on the life of king Ferdinand.That he had been wounded so severely by a gun shot in the leg that the limb was obliged to be amputated.It was also reported that there had been several collisions at Naples between the people and the Swiss soldiers and many of the latter had been killed.A decision has been made in Munich against the editor of a Paris paper, which contained an article against England.TURKEY.Prince Menchikoff, Russian minister of Marine and special ambassador to Turkey, has arrived at Constantinople, and immediately put himself in communication with the government.The porte has, it is said, resolved to refer the question of the holy shrine to the arbitration of Prussia, which it is believed will be accepted.Russia makes a positive demand for the publication of the firman in favor of the Greek church, which the Russian minister obtained some time since, but which has until now been regarded as a dead letter.Johns, Napierville, Chateaugai, Beauharnois, Huntingdon, Boulanges, Vaudreuil and Laval, shall be represented each by one Member in the Legislative Assembly, the United Counties of Chicoutimi and Tadoussae, by one Member ; the United Counties of Drummond and Arthabaska by one Member; the United Counties of Sherbrooke and Wolfe by one Member; the East Riding and the West Riding of the County of Montreal each by one Member; the Cities of Quebec and Montreal each by three Members ; the Town of Three Rivers and the Town of Sherbrooke each by one Member ;\u2014And that in Upper Canada, the City of Toronto shall be represented in the Legislative Assembly by two Members, and each of the other Electoral Divisions of that portion of the Province by one Member each.Arrival of the Steamer \u201cAsia.\u201d THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.The royal mail steamer Asia, from Liverpool, March 11th, arrived at New York on Friday evening at 6 o\u2019clock.The Asia brings 56 passengers.The Washington was off Cowes on the 12th.The screw steamship Andes put back in a leaky condition, after being ten days out.She arrived in the Mersey at 11 A.M., on the 12tb, cargo dry.The Asia saw, going into Liverpool, American ships Parthenon, Connecticut, and \u201c Mark Wood.\u201d On March 13, 10.42 A.M.passed steamship America, from Boston for Liverpool.On the 24th, 5 P.M., passed the Africa, from New York for Liverpool.There is absolutely no news, except that comprised under the head of \u201c latest intelligence.\u201d The Jewish disabilities bill has been read a second time in the English parliament.The Oronoco mail steamer brings news from South America to January 29, and by the Forerunner from Africa to Feb.14, but nothing important is received.The French news is very dull.Some political arrests were made at Nuremberg and elsewhere.Switzerland is much excited respecting Austrian insolence towards Tessino.At Mantua, Graziola, abbot of Revere, aged 70, M.Speri, of Bresia, and Count Montanara, of Verona, were to be hanged on the 3rd inst.; 25 others were likewise condemned to death or to eareere duro.LATEST INTELLIGENCE.Liverpool, March 12.\u2014It is now definitely settled that the Pope will go to Paris to crown Napoleon and his wife.The ceremony is expected to take place on the 5th of May.The ship Francis Henry has arrived at Plymouth from Melbourne with £300,000 in gold.Paris, Friday.\u2014After some fluctuations 3\u2019s closed at 81 20 ; 4)£, 104 40.Oar latest accounts of the state of affairs in Montenegro announce that statu quo has been re-established in Montenegro.All hostilities had been suspended, and the political refugees removed to the interior.Kleck and Sutorina are said to be guarantied to Austria, and the porte assures the Bosnian Christians of its protection.Ibrahim Pacha is dead.ENGLAND.The English and Continental markets are alike dull with all the influx of gold.Money in England is becoming lighter.Two more members of the parliament, Messrs.Heyworth and Horsfall, of Derby, have been unseated for Election bribery.Four men were killed by the explosion of a locomotive at Longsight station, near Manchester, and an accident happened to the Birmingham and Bristol Railway train of the 9th, by the breaking of an axle of a locomotive.Two or three persons were killed.There have been numerous railway casualities in England of late.The Greenland whale fishery fleet, amounting to twenty-six sail, sailed from Peterhead on the 27th and 28 th ult.The African mail steamship, the Forerunner, arrived Plymouth on Tuesday evening the 8th inst., from Fernando Po, Jan.30th, Cape Coast Castle, 7th, and Sierra Leone 14th Feb.on her outward passage.Commander Lynch, U.S.Navy went in the Forerunner by Teneriffe and joined the United States ship-of-war John Adams, and proceeded down the coast via Sierra Leone.Commodore Bonden, commanding the French squadron, was on the eve of sailing with the flag ship El Dorado, five steamers, and a land force of 600 men, to punish the Bijooga tribe, who had plundered a French vessel and butchered her crew.The admiral in command of the British squadron had destroyed several slave settlements and barracoons.The health along the coast was on the whole good.The Oronoco, West India mail steamer, whoso arrival at Southampton was advised by telegraph per Pacific, had $1,442,106 in specie on freight, of which $45,000 were to the account of the English holders of Mexican bonds.FRANCE.Gossip says that the Empress Eugenie will not suffer the line of the Bonapartes to fail.A French consulate is to be established at Broussa, the residence of Abd-el-Kader.M.de Solmme, husband of Madame de Solmme, whose recent expulsion from France caused some talk, has gone to Havre, to embark for America.The corvette Eurydice is fitting at Toulon.The transports Prevogante, at Cherbourg, and Sarcelly, at Brest, are under orders for the Pacific.Ahured, caliph of Medjana, in Algeria, lately came to Paris, to pay his respects to the Emperor, but on his way back to Africa, died of appoplexy.His obsequies were celebrated at Marseilles with great military pomp.Prosecutions are being taken at Nuremburg also at Munich and Hamburg, as if in anticipation of an outbreak.Several political arrests have been made at Furth.SWITZERLAND.The Daily News\u2019 correspondence from Berne and Geneva represents the political condition of Switzerland to be one of great excitement.\u2014 Petitions from the convocation of the federal council are in circulation.Great discontent is felt with the federal executive, because it has not published the Austrian notes and its own replies and then thrown itself upon the nation.AUSTRIA.The emperor has quite recovered.His wound, indeed, was at no time dangerous to life.He has conferred a small pension on Lebenini\u2019s mother.HUNGARY.Andrusffy was shot in the Neagebauve, and the other three hanged at the usual place of execution, before the Ulloer gate.A great crowd attended.Sarkozy suffered first.Noszlopy, the last, says the Presse, was the only one who showed no signs of repentance.ITALY.At Milan there is no relaxation of Austrian oppression.Citizens are forbidden to approach the sentry, and M.Bernardi having failed to observe the regulation, was bayonetted.The number of arrests made in Milan between the 11th and 25th of February, was over 600.The army in Lombardy is to be reinforced by several brigades.An augumentation has been made to the force now numbering 15 000 men on the frontier of Ferno.The sequestration of property continues.Saffi has published in the Italia Popoli a letter defending the rising at Milan.Three persons were to be hanged at Mantua on the 3d for political offences, viz\u2014Mr.Sperri, of Brecia, an amnestied refugee; Count Men tenara, of Verona; Grazziola, the married abbot of Revere, over 70 years of age.Twenty-five other persons have been condemned to death, or to twenty years hard labor in irons, and are under prosecution.The Mercantile Courier of the 4th, announces that the Lombard emigrants, effected by the decree of sequestration, had appealed to the Piedmontëse government for protection due to men who had legitimately emigrated and become naturalized subjects.The ministry, after consulting the crown lawyers had resolved to protect against confiscation and to forward remonstrances to Vienna, and in the meantime have given notice of that intention to the courts of London and Paris.CUBA.The intelligence from Cuba, given in another column, is, in all respects, of a very exciting character.It will be seen that still another outrage has been committed against the American flag by Spanish naval officers.The Baltimore schooner Manchester, which arrived here yesterday, from Kingston, Ja., reports having been boarded, when twenty miles east of Cape Antonio, l)y twelve nixDix feolongingr to a.Spn.nish cruiser, who took possession of the vessel, conveyed her inside the reef, and after overhauling her papers, broke open the hatches, took out about a third of her cargo, and even went so far as to undertake to break open the letters of her consignees.After a detention of twenty-four hours, being unable to find anything to confirm their suspicions, the Spaniards demanded thirty dollars of the captain of the M.for safely piloting him through the reef, and then permitted him to find the way out in any manner he could.Comment upon this high-handed proceeding is unnecessary.The repeated outrages of this nature upon the flag of our country cause the blood of Americans to boil with indignation.This matter will no doubt be promptly investigated by the administration at Washington, and measures taken to either prevent or resent a like occurrence in future.One would suppose, judging from the six days\u2019 later news from Havana, brought by the steamer Isabel, Charleston, that the Spaniads had enough to do to take care of their own affairs on the island of Cuba, and would carefully avoid making an unnecessary and suicidal quarrel with this government, by waylaying and maltreating those sailing under its banner on the high seas.It is understood that a serious disturbance had arisen among the troops stationed at St.Jago de Cuba; that a whole company had deserted ; that fifteen of the men were captured and sentenced to death but that the officers were deterred from executing them for fear of a general revolt.This really looks ominous.Spanish military commandants, for once, have been dismayed at the threatening position assumed by their own men.They well know that, should this feeling of discontent spread among the Soldiery, Cuba will bid farewell to Spain forever.But the foregoing does not embrace all that is of interest in the Cuban news.We are informed that another cargo of Africans had been successfully landed from a slaver, and a rumour was current that the clipper slaver Lady Suffolk had also run in with a load of blacks.We perceive that the British steamer Devastation had arrived at Havana, and, in connection with other vessels, was expected to make a general onslaught on the slavers, and, if possible, effectually check the abominable traffic.\u2014N.Y.Herald, Saturday.TRADE AND COMMERCE.ENGLISH MARKETS.LONDON MARKET\u2014March 11.Baring Brothers quote London, colonial and foreign markets very firm.Sugars very active.Coffee steady.Flour and wheat dull and lower.Rice 3di®6d lower.Tea in fair demand and steady.Cotton heavy at i^d decline.The Iron trade is firmer ; common Bars in Wales are steady at £8 5si5)£8 10s, while Rails are in more demand at £8 15s£9, with no sellers under the latter rate.Scotch Pig has declined to 51s on the Clyde, owing to the failure of several large speculators.Money Market.\u2014Consols 99% to 100 for money.A steady business done in American securities, and prices have been fairly supported.LIVERPOOL MARKET\u2014March 11.Cotton depressed; %d decline on middling and better qualities, and %d on inferior.Ai£ thorized quotations :\u2014Fair Orleans 6%d ; Mobile 6d ; Uplands 0%.The week\u2019s sales comprise 40,880 bales, including large Manchester orders, 1410 of which were on speculation, and 4580 for export, closing dull.Breadstuffs are dull, with large arrivals.The weather is fine.Wheat 2d lower ; white 7s 7d ; red mixed 6s 8d 6s lOd.Flour is Is lower; Western 24s ; Baltimore 24s 6d ; Ohio 25s.Indian Corn\u2014White Is lower; dull at 30s.Beef\u2014Better qualities are active ; Prime Mess 97s 6di@112s 6d.Pork\u2014Little doing.Bacon\u2014Moderate|request, full prices, and stock light.Lard 55s.Tallow quiet at 45s 6d.Philadelphia Bark 9s 9d.Ashes dull ; quotations unaltered.Rosin\u2014Large sales, at 5s 3dl5)12s 3d.Turpentine is in fair request at 14s 3d.No sales of Tar.Spirits quiet at 64 i® 65c.Tea\u2014Good trade business ; fully 6d dearer.Coffee\u2014Sales limited.Carolina Rice\u2014Little doing; prices unchanged; considerable business in India.Tobacco in moderate request and prices steady.Manchester Market is very dull at lower prices.Imports by tbe Champlain ana St.Lawrence Railroad.March 23.\u2014C Seymour, 253 jars ; Stephens & Mills, 24 bags dried apples ; J M Tobin, 141 brls herrings ; Clarke, Thompson & co., 68 bxs 6 bis ; Hibbard & oo, 22 bxs ; W Hilton, 142 ps and 4 bdls mahogany ; W Whiteford & co, 53 bis 7 bxs 6 bis ; A Laurie & co, 7 bxs 2 bis ; R Campbell & co, 5 bis 2 es ; T McKay & co, 2 cs ; Huddon & Quevillon, 4 bxs.March 25.\u2014Whiteford & co, 32 boxes 5 bales ; Clark, Thompson & co, 8 bxs ; A Laurie & co, 4 bxs: Carter, Kerry & co, 4 es; J Patton & co, 4 cs ; J McKay & co, 1 bx 2 bis ; Miller, Glassford & co, 1Ü bxs 10 bis ; NS Whitney, 10 bis yarn ; J Ambrose, 35 bxs ; A M Farley, 9 bxs ; Leeming & Sabine, 70 cs hats ; Morris Bros, 16 bxs hats ; G Mclver, 4 bxs; Mrs Solomon, 4 cs hats ; A B Barker, 2 bxs ; Ferrier & co, 3 cs 2 bxs.METEOROLOGICAL TABLE.Date.\tThermome- ter.\t\t\t\tBarome- ter.\t\tWeather.\t 1853\t7 a\t.M.\t3 p\t.M.\t7 A.M.\t3 p.M-\t7 A.M.\t3 P.M.Mar.19\t20\tX\t28\tX\t29,65\t29,75\tFair.\tFair.20\t25\t(c\t45\t«\t29,84\t29,72\tFair.\tFair.21\t39\tM\t44\t«\t29,62\t29,54\tFair.\tCloudy 22\t34\t\t43\t\t29.50\t29,50\tFair.\tFair.23\t32\t((\t44\t((\t29,54\t29,54\tCloudy\tFair.2431\t\t