Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 14 mai 1856, mercredi 14 mai 1856

[" MONTREAL HERALD STEAM BOOK ê JOB I'KINTliM 0M0Ë, fliotre fc'Sfs.n.M- Street, (Near St.Frs.Xavier Street, MONTRE A 1.rjpHK Proprietor of thl?Bsintiitebaioul begs te ji_ inform hia Frionda nnd the public ia general, that having BNLAnaED his Stock of PRINTING MATERIALS, STEAM PRESSES, &c,, ho ia now prepared to undertake every description of Printing, such aa Books, Pamphlets, Magazines, Insurance Policies, Programmes, Catalogues, Posting Bills, Hand Bills, Railway Bills, Steamboat Bills, Gir.ulats, Invitation and Funeral Letters,Druggists' .md other Labels,&e., with despatch, and at the lowest city prices.23* Visiting nnd Business Cards neatly and promntly executed.JAMES POTTS.Jan.26.\t22 CORPOMTIDN MONTREAL.Notice is hereby given to farmers and others, desirous of procuring the MANURE being collected in the several Streets of the city, that they can receive the same on application to the undersigned.JAMES A.B.MCGILL, City Surveyor.City Hall,\t?Montreal, April 10, 1858.}\t85 DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE VOLUME XLVIII.MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 14, 1856.NUMBER 114 * *.A SECRETARY ia wanted for the UNIVERSITY OF McGILL COLLEGE.Preference will be given to a gentleman competent to fill one of the Lectureships in the College.Application to be made to Mr.Principal Dawson.W.S.BÜRRAGE, *\tSecretary McG.C McGill College, ?Montreal, April 15, 1850.)\t89 NEW SHAWLS, MANTLES, Bonnets & 'Dresses, AT THR BmiTisn & FORBiei-N ÉShawl Warehouse, 288 Notre Dame Street, Montreal.MORÎSON, 0AMËR0H k EMPEY RESPECTFULLY intimate to their Customers and the Publie in general, the return of one of the Firm from the various Manufacturing Districts in Britain, France and Germany, with a Rich, Elegant, and decidedly Cheap Stock of NEW AND FASHIONABLE GOODS, suited for the Season.Inspection is solicited of their Magnificent Assortment of Long & Square Wove, Cashmere, Tissue Barege, Cashmere d\u2019Ecosse & Crape Shawls.Also, French & English Delaine & Cashmere Dresses; Printed & Checked Challi & Barege Delaines; Plain & Printed Barege Dresses & Robes ; Plain, Striped, Checked & Moire Antique Silks & Satins ; French A British Chintz, Bcilliantes & Hoyle\u2019s Plates; Jiace Goods, Embroidery, Flowers, Bonnets, Mantles, Mantelines, Visites & Scarves.These Departments are now replete with all the LATEST & MOST USEFUL'STYLES, as worn at present in Paris, London Sc New York, made from every New & Fashionable material now in use.\u2014Also on view,\u2014 A Consignment of 75 Pieces VELVET, BRUSSELS, TAPESTRY & IMPERIAL CARPETS, at a discount of 25 per cent oflf Manufacturers Price List.NEW SPRING GOODS, R CAMPBELL & CO.are now receiving e via Boston and Portland a complete as-sortment of FANCY and STAPLE DRY GOODS, which they offer by the piece or package on favorable terms, and to which they invite the attention of town and country buyers.Montreal, March 27, 1856.\t73 CARPETING-.rpHB Subscribers are now receiving their usual JL extensive supply of CARPETING, which embraces everything in that line, from the COMMONEST DESCRIPTION to the MAGNIFICENT MEDALLION CENTRE VELVET.And all having been purchased bef >re the late advance in Woollens, can be offered on the most advantageous terms.Parties Furnishing would do well not to buy until they have inspected our stock.STEAMBOAT FURNISHINGS constantly on hand, at the lowest possible prices.R.CAMPBELL & Co.April 7.\t82 WANTED.Nova Scotia Railway Office, HALIFAX, MARCH 22, 1856.EXTEMSIOB7 OF TKÏIHfK 3LI1VE TO WEIiSOJFS, SHPUEHTACAIME.Tenders for Grading, Construction, Sec.TENDERS will be received at this Office, until SATURDAY, the 10th day of May next, at 12 o\u2019clock, noon, for the Construction and Finish of that portion of the Railway extending from the end of Contract No.7 to Nelson\u2019s, Shubenaeadie River, on the Eastern Road leading to Truro, including Road alterations\u2014the distance being about ten miles.The Board will furnish Rails, Chairs, Spikes and side keys.The work to be completed by the 30th day of June, 1857.Plans, specifications and quantities may be seen on the ground, on Thursday the 1st day of May, and afterwards at the Engineer's Ofifioe.An Engineer will attend persons desirous of Tendering, and meet them where the line crosses the Nine Mile River Road, at 10 o\u2019clock a.m.Tenders to bo accompained by the address of parties tendering, and the names of their Bondsmen.JOSEPH HOWE.Chairman.March 25.\tgo S.W.ABBOTT & CO/S EXTENSIVE FDMITUBE ESTABLISHMENT, 118, Craig Street, il3 SW.ABBOTT & CO., having Enlarged, \u2022 Newly Arranged, and Fitted-up their Ware-Rooms, are now manufacturing and Importing the Largest and Most Varied Stock of FURNITURE and HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS ever offered in this Market.Their extensive and Spacious Rooms and increased Facilities will enable them this Season to offer a much Larger Stock of FIRST CLASS GOODS than formerly, comprising a Great Variety of Rose-Wood, Wali^tt and Mahogany Parlor and Dining-Room Furniture.Sofas, Couches and Chairs of every variety, Upholstered in Tapestry and Damask.Also a General Assortment of Cane Seat Office Dining and Common Chairs, What-nots, Centre Tables, Matrasses, Spring Beds, and every description of Common Furnilure.They are now Finishing, and in a lew weeks will be prepared to Exhibit, over Two Hundred Setts of Rose-Weod, Mahogany, Walnut and Ornamental Chamber Furniture,\u2014Reautiful New and Original Designs.They would most respectfully invite the attention of all in want of Goods to call and examine their Stock.March 18.\t66 Wholesale Ware looms up stairs» MOEISON, CAMERON & EMPEY, 288 Notre Dame Street.Montreal, April 24, 1856.\t97 New Goods via Boston.ri'IHE Undersigned, AGENT FOR-BRITISH i MANUFACTURES, has just received via Boston, TWO HUNDRED PACKAGES of NEAY SPRING DRY GOODS, which he is prepared to sell by the Package or Piece, a due margin being allowed to purchasers of the former.The Goods, which are now on view at the Warehouse, ST.JOSEPH STREET (rear of Cathedral), consist in part of\u2014 Ashton\u2019s 7-8, 9-8 and 5-4 Prints, in every variety of these well-known Goods Printed Muslins, in the most recent designs Fancy Tweeds and Cassimeres, French, English and Scotch Hobbs & Co.\u2019s (Vale House) White Shirtings and Grey do Printed and Colored Twill'd Flannels Dick & Sons' (Clyde Mills) Celebrated Spool Cotton WILLIAM HOBBS, Ja.April 8.\t83 JOHH LEVETj.Importer of Segars, Tobaccos, and Fancy Goods, CRYSTAL, BLOCK.MOST respectfully informs his numerous friends and customers that he has just returned from Europe after visiting all the principal manufactories on the Continent, and has succeeded in selecting the largest and most varied stock of Tobacconist Goods ever imported into Canada, consisting of every article appertaining to the Trade\u2014ail of which he expects by early Spring ships, and will offer them to the Trade at a small advance.Just received, per steamer Canada, 20 eases of those most favorite and celebrated WOODVILLE SEGARS, and daily expected, direct from Havana, 75 cases of VARIOUS BRANDS and of the CHOICEST QUALITY.Also, his usual assortment of MANUFACTURED and FANCY TOBACCOS.Montreal, April 9.\t84 MASONIC EMPORIUM.AGENTS WANTED\u2014The greatest tJAJ iJ'ij?chance ever offered to the public to make money.Full particulars civen to all by enclosing two postage stamps.Address W.& J.JOHNSON, South Kingston, N.H.May 9.\t1m 110 TAILORS.A FEW FIRST-CLASS WORKMEN wanted.Apply to\tGIBB * CO.May 8.\t109 WANTED,\u2014A first rate CORN BROOM] MAKER, to carry on the business in the | Provincial Penitentiary, to whom liberal wages will be given.None need apply unless able to conduct it in ail its branches.Apply to THOS.DRUMMOND & CO., Kingston, C.W.! May 7.\td 108 FOR SALE.SUGARS\u2014 Dry Crushed Crushed ?White do j Yellow Also\u2014 125 hhds Prime Muscovado, For sale by JAMES TORRANCE.April 30,102 Belmont sperm candles\u2014260 boxes Bordeaux Vinegar East India Rice\u2014200 bags, For sale by JAMES TORRANCE.April 30.\t102 FOR SALE.A8JCE & ROY, Importers of Fancy and Staple BB.'St G-ÛÛBS, 202 Metre Dame St., 202 RESPECTFULLY return their thanks to their numerous customers and friends for the liberal and distinguished patronage they have received since in business, and have the pleasure of informing them that they have received and expect daily, a NEW and EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT of SPRING k SUMER GOODS, recently selected by MR.AUGE, in the British j and French Markets, COMPHÎSINS : Filled Long Shawls Cashmere & Barege Shawls French DeLaines, Bareges, & Muslins Ribbons, French Flowers, Feathers Parasols, Lace & Sewed Works Alexandre\u2019s & Courvoisier\u2019s Kid Gloves \u2014also\u2014 A General Assortment of Hosiery, Haber- j A dashery, Linens, Shirtings, Calicoes, DeLaines, I Lustres, See.A Variety of Summer Tweeds, &c, &c, So Constantly on hand, a complete assortment of Mourning Goods, Paramatta, Henrietta, Cobourg and Canton Cloths, Bareges, Crape Collars, Chemisettes & Sleeves, 6-4 Patent Crape & Rof led do.G iods Marked in Plain Figures.Only one Price.April 10.\t85 WANTED-A YOUNG MAN, as INVOICE Clerk.Apply to W.DARLING & CO., 239 St Paul Street.May 6.Liverpool salt\u2014 1500 minots Coarse 300 bags do And\u2014 200 sacks fine Stoved Salt, For sale by JAMES TORRANCE.April 30.\t102 {Ai ANTED\u2014A MAP or WRITING ENGRA-V f VER Also, a COPPER PL ATE PRINTER.Apply pre-paid, stating terms and capabilities, to À.Z., Box 118 Post Office, Toronto May 3.\tdu 105 NOTICE TO WHOLESALE MERCHANTS.A YOUNG MAN, a thoroughly competent BOOK KEEPER, at present employed as such in an Office in this City, msy be disengaged on the 1st of May, or as soon after as he can get another situation.The Grocery business would be preferred, as the advertiser has had several years experience in that trade.The first reference can be given.For further particulars, please address X, Drawer 174, Post Office.April 22.\t95 WANTED,\u2014A Situation in a Wholesale Grocery or Dry Goods Establishment, by a young man who is desirous of learning either business.Best of references given if required.Address \u201c Delta,\u201d Post Office, Montreal.April 23.\t96 AGENCY WANTED.WELL-ESTABLISHED COMMISSION AGENT in DUNDEE is desirous of forming a connection with a Canadian house of some standing to buy LINENS for them on Commis-\tSALE BY THE CASE i 1 Landing, ex \u201c queen of the lakes\u201d\u2014 Zante Currauts, caroteels and brls Belmont Spern^Candles, C\u2019s and 12\u2019s Patna Riee in hags \u201c Bass & Go\u2019s\u201d Pale Ale, qrts and pta \u2014And daily expected,\u2014 Otard, Dupuy & Co\u2019s\u201d and \u201cHennessy'a\" Brandies \u201c DeKuyper\u2019s\u201d Gin, hhds and cases Jamaica Rum, puns and hhds Scotch and Irish Whiskey Sherry Wines, \u201cDuff, Gordon & Co\u2019s\u201d and \u201cBar-don\u2019s\u201d Boiled and Raw Linseed Oils, hhds and qr casks Nutmegs, Mustard, &c, &c For Sale by HUGH FRASER May 1.103 i Otto roses.\u201475 oz very fine otto ¦ ROSES, for sale by\t! LYMANS, SAVAGE & Go., 226 St.Paul Street, April 29.\t101 MAMS AT VjJd PJESt POUND.FOR SALE by the Subscribers, ex \u201cDON11 from Hull :\u2014 30 tons Best London Washed Whiting, in brls 10 tons do\tParis White 150 kegs Dry White Lead 30 kegs do Red do 25 brls Putty, in bulk 6 csks Sugar of Lead 100 tins Paris Green, Dry and In Oil 50 bxs Black Lead 4 bags Genuine Englbh Vermillion 500 tins Rlundel.\u2019e White Lead \u2014Also, in Store,\u2014 2000 tins White, Grten, Blue, Yellow, Paris Green, Rose Pink, Chrome Yellow, &e.\u2014And,\u2014 1600 half-bxs Window Glass 150 cases do do WOODS, PERRY & Co.Nov.10\t267 Fire Bricks and Grindstones.j^OR SALE by the Subscribers- 20,000 Best Newcastle FIRE BRICKS 500 do GRINDSTONES, assorted, from 16 to 60 inches FROTHINGHAM & WORKMAN.July 14\t5.16 Hudson bay salmon, in Tierces and Brls.For sale by Oot.,4, WATSON à WILLIAMS.235 500 chasers.FRESH SMOKED HAMS, for sale at the above price, in lots to suit pnr- March 22.Sion.None but Fiçms of some standing need apply.Address (pre-paid), with all particulars, to Box 71, Post Office, Dundee.April 29.\t1m 101 WANTED\u2014A GOOD GROOM and COACÏ- I OQf) MAN, required to go to the country dur- CONNOLLY Sc LANTIER.2m 69 Toys, Consignments of Saddlery, Books, Violins, and Jewellery.HENRY CHAPMAN & GO.April 7.\t82 GAS LUSTRES AND FITTINGS» G&S LUSTRE WAREHOUSE, 76 GREAT SAINT JAMES STREET.THE Subscribers respectfully invite the attention of their friends and the public to their extensive and elegant stock of Gas Lustres, comprising 1, 2, 3 & 4 light Dining Room, Drawing Room and Parlor Lustres, in bronze, trass, ormolu and crystal, of the latest and most admired designs ; Hall Lamps, BedRoom, Library and Kitchen Brackets, Plain and Ornamental Harp Pendants, Vase Lights, &c ; with a complete assortment of Gas-fittings suitable for shops, which, having been for the most part manufactured by themselves, they are enabled to dispose of cheap.Also, Glass Shades in great variety.R.MITCHELL & CO., Gas-fitters, &c.April 17.\t91 DEJIM GARDNER\u2019S POISON FOR BUGS will be found a most effectual exterminator.For sale only by\tJ.GARDNER, Chemist and Druggist, Opposite Morison, Cameron & Empey\u2019s, West End Notre Dame Street, April 12.\t87 HEWRIfr\t0.43 ot the eoiuh side of the said Coie St Guni -ume, consisting of two arpehts in front by 20 arp-nts in depth bounded in front by ths Qu-ens highway in rear by the lands of ibe Cote Ste Mtriel on one side by the remainder of boc No.43, belonging to Jean Bte.Leger, and on tne other side by Jotepb Monpetit with a bouse, bat11, and other buildings thereon erected.The whole purchase mom y to be in cash, excepting that portion of it payable to the minors on their attaining th ir m -jority.For further intoim.tiun, apply to the undersigned Notary, at the said Village of Ste.Marthe, County of Vaudreuil.D.OLLIEfi, N.P.Ste.Marthe, April 23, 1856.\tr ws 98 SALE BY AUTHORITY OF JUSTICE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a QUARTERLY MEETING of the Shareholders of the MONTREAL MINING COMPANY will be __________________________________ w.held at the Office of the Corporation, on WED- Coal to be used, as all will be convinced who | ^®SDAY the TWENTY-EIGHTH of MAY next, \u2014in -11\truee CJa CL, _______A cu\u2014; at ONTO oV.IOCk.P M .to trnnannf.fh» hnoinooa r\\P at ONE o\u2019clock, P.M., to transact the business of the Company.By order, ADAM HANDYSIDE, Secretary.Montreal, 25th April, 1856.\tts 98 College of Physicians and Surgeons Lower Canaeia.of will call at the Office, 5, St.Sacrament Street.P.D.CARRIQUE.Sept.29th, 1855.\t231 IT\u2019OR SALE by the Subscriber\u2014 1?Wrought and Cast Iron CAR WHEELS, Scrap Iron Car Axles, BAR IRON, PIG IRON, CAST STEEL, SPRING STEEL, Bolt Copper, Copper, Brass and Steel Wire, Yel- i low Metal, patent and common, Block and Grain ' Tin, Pig and Sheet Lead, Brass Locomotive Boiler Tubes, Patent Lap-welded Iron Boiler Tubes, Composition Gas Tubing, Patent-welded Iron Tubes, screwed, lor gas, water or steam, .-1 \u2014 Boiler and Tank Rivets, Unscrewed Nuts, square TEN o\u2019clock a.m.and hexagon, Hammers, Hammer Handles, Pa- Candidates are required to deposit their cre-teut Lifting Jacks, Tackle Blocks, three & four dentials with either of the Secretaries at least sheaves, Patent Steam Indicators, Finished ten days before the meeting, and to fill up a sche-Eugine Brass Work, Engine Packing, Cotton j dule of their education, forms for which can bo Waste, Hair Felt for covering boilers and steam ! obtained on application to the Secretaries; and pipes, Asphalte Roofing Fell, Locomotive, Car- : they are a'30 required to deposit at the same time LPHE SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING of the Board i.of Governors of the College of Physicians & Surgeons, for the purpose of EXAMINATION, will be held in the CITY OF MONTREAL, on TUESDAY, the THIRTEENTH of MAY next, at liage and Signal Lamps, Circular and Square Fire Brick, and Ground Fire Clay, &o &c.OILS.Pure Sperm, Mason\u2019s Sperm, Olive, Lard, and Car Oils, of the first quality, for machinery and engine purposes.WM.MBIKLEHAM, Young\u2019s Buildings, McGill Street.Sept.22.\t226 4000 FRESH SEEDS.fta large Red American Onion 200 lbs large Ytl ow do do 500 fts long Red Mangold Wurtzel 200 do large do Globa do 200 do do Yellow do do 60 bushels Spring Taros or Vetches 20 do Yellow Swedish Turnip 20 do Assorted Kiuds do 200 fts\tdo Laobaize Together with a general supply of the smaller Seeds\u2014all received by late arrivals by way of the United States.\u2014 Also\u2014 Red Dutch Clover White do do Rawdon do\tdo Vermont do\tdo U.0.do\tdo Ail warranted flesh and true to their names.LYMANS, SAVAGE & CU., 226 St.Paul Street.April 1, 1856.\t77 the amount of fees which would become due in the event of sucees-ful examination.HECTOR PELTIER, M.D ( a J.E.LANDRY, M.D.) Secretaries.Montreal, April 12, \u201956.\t87 S3\u201d The Quebec Gazette and Sherbrooke Gazette will please insert the above twice a week for one month, and send account to the Treasurer for payment.Puper and Account; Books.WISOIÆISiâ.SÆ.fT\u2019HE Subscriber has aiwaya ou hand a large JL and well assorted stock of Writing, Draw-i ing, Wrapping and other Papers.! Also, all kinds of Account Books and Miscellaneous Stationery.HEW RAMSAY.May 2.\tDdu mwf Cm 104 ^SCHOOL BUOES.TN STORE\u2014 I 7 hhds \"Hennessy\u201d Brandy ) Pale 15 Jrrcks] \u201c 0tard- DaPuy & O0\u201d i & lB850Wn\u2019 100 oases \u201cMartell\" & \u201cOtard, Dupuy & Co\u201d do 13 hhds DeKuyper\u2019s Gin 5 qr-cks Islay Whiskey orÎL l Pale and Gold Colored loZts l Sherry Wine 5 qr-cks / p 15 cases S ™ 1 10 brls Hibbert\u2019s Porter \u2014ALSO,\u2014 Champagne, Salad Oil, T D Pipes, Cigars, Pickled Codfish, Round Herrings, ke, kc For sale by DONALD FRASER, 11 Lemoine Street.Dec.10.\t292 Wine FOR SALE\u2014 Sparkling Hock Sparkling Moselle Still Liebfraumileh and Eockheimer HENRY CHAPMAN k OO.Jan.3.\t3 200 House Coal.Chaldrons GLASGOW SPLINT GRATE COALS, carefully screened, in lots for family use, for sale by WM.MEIKLEHAM, Young\u2019s Buildings, McGill Street.Sept.22.\t 225 POR SALE\u2014 .\t30 Tinnets SUPERIOR TABLE BUTTER for family use.ALEX.WALKER, Custom House Square.Deo.28.\t307 Tow Unes.HAWSERS, from\tt0 8 inches, suitable for the Lake and River craft, for sale by GORDON &OO Sept, as,\t,228 Ground land Plaster, THE Subscribers offer for sale one thousand barrels fine Ground Land Plaster.LYMANS, SAVAGE k CO.Oct 29.\t256 Seeds ! Seeds ! ! Seeds ! ! ! TUST RECEIVED FROM EUROPE, via Bost-J on, and warranted fresh and true to their kinds, an extensive assortment of FIELD and GARDEN SEEDS, selected with the greatest care.LAMPLOUGH & CAMPBELL, Late Alfred Savage & Co., Next the Court House.Aprils, 1856.\tS3 Ginger Beer Bottles.THE Subscribers have a few gross of the above for Sale.LAMPLOUGH & CAMPBELL, Late Alfred Savage k Co., Druggists, next the Court House, April 8, 1856.\t83 CAHTEH, KEBRY & GO., Wholesale Druggists and Importers of Paints, Oils, Colors, and Dye Stuffs, HAVE received by ships from the various Ports of Great Britain, their SPRING importations, to which they invite the attention ot Druggists and General Merchants in Town and Country 8t.Paul Street, Montreal.June i\t130 NEW SPRING GOODS, [UST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE\u2014 \u2022J Paisley and French Filled Long Shawls \u2014WITH,\u2014 Every novelty in Printed Shawls.ALEX.WALKER, Custom House Square.March 27.\t73 SEWED M'SLISS, 5 CASES, consisting of the latest styles in COLLARS, OHEMIZETTES, HABIT SHIRTS, SLEEVES, GAUNTLETS, RICH FLOUNCINGS, TRIMMINGS, &c.ALEX.WALKER.March 27.\t73 CLOTHING FOR THE MILLION, VirBOXsBBA&H FOR SALE\u2014A large and complete assortment of SPRING and SUMMER CLOTHING.Customers or buyers sending orders may rely upon every justice being done them, and goods charged, if possible, less than if they were on the spot.Two bales Superfine New SCOTCH TWEEDS, ex steamer \u201c Canadian.\" Fifty hhds Pure Double-Berried DeKUYPER\u2019S GIN.WALTER MACFARLAN.March 13.62 SEED WHEAT\u2014 600 minots Fine Seed Wheat for sale by WHOLESALE WAREHOUSE, St Francois Xavier Street, Montreal, THE Subscriber has always on hand ample s ocks of tha following api rovtd TEX I BOOKS :- The national Serbs (prize editions,) on fine paper, and sunttantiiily bound Primers of all kinds Spel.iog Books- Mayor\u2019s, Carpenter\u2019s, Webster's, Bu'ter\u2019s, &c.Grammars\u2014Lennie's, Murray\u2019s laree and sma'l, Kirkbam\u2019s, Gobbet's, McCulloch\u2019s, Reid\u2019s, Chamber\u2019s, Arnold\u2019s ko.kc.Arithmetics - Thompson\u2019s (British edition), National 1st and 2nd, Walkiughame, Ingram\u2019s, Gray, Melrose, Trotter\u2019s, Bonnycasile, Lisa Chambers\u2019, Table Books, Arithmetical Tables bv Butler, kc Book-Keeping\u2014Bruton's, Morrison's, National, Chambers\u2019, Ac Readers\u2014English Reader, McCulloch\u2019s Course and Series of Lessons, Ewiog\u2019s Elocution, Reid\u2019s English Composition, Chambers\u2019 Composition, Whatley\u2019s Logie and Rhetoric, Blair\u2019s Lei tures, &c.Dictionaries\u2014Walker\u2019s, Reid\u2019s, Fulton\u2019s, Johnson\u2019s, Webster\u2019s, Buchanan\u2019s Technological, &c.Ac.Geography\u2014Gibson\u2019s Geography of Canada, (just published,) Morse\u2019s, the National, Geography Generalised, Goldsmith, Stewart\u2019s, Ewing\u2019s, Reid\u2019s, Olney\u2019s, &c.Allasses\u2014Johnson\u2019s New General, Physical and Classical, Johnson\u2019s National, Ewing\u2019s, Chambers\u2019, Parley\u2019s, Quarter Dollar Atlas, Scripture Atlas (price 4d).School Room Maps, including a large and clearly defiaed one of Canada just published.Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, 12 inch.Histories\u2014Roy\u2019s Canada, new edition, 2s, Histoire du Canada 2s, Rome 2s, England 2s, Simpson\u2019s England, Rome, Greece, Pinnoek\u2019s do, do, and do, Keightley\u2019s do, do, and do, White\u2019s Great Britain, England, France, Sacred, Universal and Outlines, Tytier\u2019s Elements, Magnall\u2019s Questions, kc.French, Italian, German, Latin, and Greek Text Books used iu the principal Colleges and Schools.School Requisites in great variety, including Copy-books, Slates, Paper, Account Books, Drawing Pencils and Paper, Mathematical Instruments, Reeves\u2019 Colours, &c.&c.H.RAMSAY.May 2.\tDdu mwf Cm 104 WILL BE SOLD at the door ot the Parish Church of ST.GREGOIRE de MONNOIR, on MONDAY, the nineteenth of May next, at TEN o\u2019clock ia the forenoon, the following immoveable property, belonging to the community which has heretofore existed between Edouard Bourdeau and the late Esther Ste.Marie, his deceased wife, to wit : A FARM situated in the pariah of St Grégoire de Monnoir, in the Seigniory of Monnoir, measuring three arpents in width by twenty-eight at least in depth ; bounded in front by the Queen\u2019s highway, in roar partly by a road and partly by Joseph Sevigny, on one side, to the north, by Edouard Sorel, and on the other side, to the south, by Pierre Guedesse, and one named St.Germain, with a house and barn thereon erected.For the conditions of sale apply to the undersigned Notaries.V.&C.VIN0ELE7TE.\u2022 St Athanase, April 28,\u201956.rwslOS SALE BY VOLUNTARY LICITATION. lot of laad In C«niaa c\u2019nveyed and to whom, ss'es ir ajretdiobaa Le, oonsrejel i r sgceo i 10 fe oon-voytd, whetoir of Crown, Clergy, Scho,.! or üuivereiiy lar dj, J sui a' eai« es nr Leuion (ro-fer'y, Lon bO.u Augus', 1-64.up to 3uc January ¦ St; Etiling on wautn besiowed and when «cd ty wh,u au'.ho,.ty, the coaditims of the si veial s -, rs, togttaer with the coaeidentioa agieed 11 no received in each ca.e, and also wh a day su on lands were conveyel in liqoidjtion, n-hib.tiug ihe oatuio of nny such claim or claims.Ho said th- t thcie h d always been an outciy against j bbing in lands, when that was done ooder a government with a lew councillors But ih re was as much jobbing done now as ever ; and he wanted to know who got the lands.There had been a good deal of lands sold for strangely low prices in the North West and Lowtr Canada.Ho wanted to know whether tln-re were any other claims like \\hs Clarke Gamble cLime Î Any jobs like that, at Point Leii t.msng them ?Then three millions of aciei weie to be given lor this North Suoie Railroad?How was this?Lower Canada had only yielded £3 000 last year, though £30,000 had been laid out for railroads.Opper Canada, it is true, got £30,000, but then it had paid large sums into tbo treasury.He wanted that explained Tbtre was an hon.member\u2014one Ool.Princa\u2014who b d once tu ned ce.mpletely round in t olnics, just as the member for Thiee Rivers had done.Toe Crown Lands Commissioner had explained why the latter turned tound ; and Col.Prince, it ap peared, had done so because he got a va uaoie fishery tor a yotr.He wauted to understand tba , and also ihs fa lure of the purchasers ol Crown Lands in the North West to fulfil settlement dutis.Mr Drdmmond objected to the motion on the gro .nd ot the expeutO and labor it would throw on £.I puny ; believed at first that the stock sheets were Tuesday, May 13.Several other clerks and salesmen in the employ of Messrs Morison, Cameron & Empey were examined, and cross-examined, as to the value of the goods damaged, but could state nothing definite as 11 the exact loss.But they had no doufct the loss was equal to the amount at which it was estimated.The chief questions put to these witnesses related to the mode of conducting the business m the shop\u2014as to marking the prices, the manner of making sales, receiving cash, keeping acconnts, &c.Mr.Barnett, another clerk, had been three years in the store.He had the management of the small wares ; his department was in the thitd story.The same questions were put to this witness as to the preceding ones, relating to the manner of taking stock.There could be no mistake in the amount ot stock entered on the books; never knew a second pi ice taken.Left the store the right of tho fire at half-past 11.\u2014 Mr.Morison Was always the last man who left the store, and took the keys home ; the painters left before him that night; observed the goods piled on the counters in the second story ; the reason they were piled there was to allow the painters to paint the shelves; came next morn-ng and saw tha goods very much damaged ; picked out some of the goods for Messrs.Benning & tiarsaloa ; they were about three-fourths burned ; those around the wall were, some of them, so idly burned that you conld not say what they were; the stock of 1854 was worth about £28,000, he believed ; does not know exactly what it was worth in 1855, bat if must have been greatly in excess of the previous year.Cross-Examined\u2014His department was wholesale, but some were sold retail ; conld not give an opinion as to the value of hia depar-ment; heard that the value of the stock in 1864 wag £28,000 ; heard th\u2019s after the fire ; may have heard so before the fire, but is not certain ; thinks he naked the qaestion of the book-keeper ; left the plaintiff's after the Are.Mr, Neil, Book-keeper to the plaintiffs, gave [ detail* of the ©ode of taking stock ; there sonlj ! all safe after the fire ; Mr Empty opened the safe aad saw them there, and said \u201c Oh ! Fm glad they are all safe\u201d ; those that were missing were the ones he had left on his desk, after he had entered them in his recapitulation book\u2014that account! for jumping in the stock books from No.32 to 45 ; these books were blank ; ha discovered this want when estending his books, and ashed Mr.Empty if be should alter the pages or leave them aa they were, he said \u201cleave them as they are.\u201d He took tho books to Mr.Empey\u2019s boose, oa the night of the fire, ia a sleigh ; went back to the house next day to look after them ; after bo came back f.om Mr.Empey\u2019s he saw fire in the third story, on the McG-il Street side.He went to tha Montreal Insurance Co.\u2019s office to be questioned about the fire ; there were a number of gentlemen present : they bad the stock books which were giveo to them immediately after the fire.A case of gloves cams up the day before tho fire, which had not been opened because tha invoice had not been received, and orders were given not to touch the case until it had.Morison, Cameron & Empey paid about £60 a week for manufacturing of goods, to workers in the city, not employe a in the store.Cress-examined\u2014Docs not remember whether it was after the Isto?May or not tfciat stock sheets were taken to Mr.Maitland\u2019s.Only a few days transpired between the time they vs ere taken end the time he was examined before tho Montreal Insurance Company, which was on the 5lh of May ; he entered nothing into the recapitulation book before the extension and checking was completed; could not say how many books ha left on the desk the night of the fire \u2014there might have been half a dozen\u2014conld not say how many stock sheets passed through his hands the day of fire ; those ho had checked were entered in tho recapitation sheet and put into the safe ; was under the impression that, on the night of the fire, the stock sheets wore all in the safe, until some were found wanting\u2014then he remembered ho had left some of them on his desk that night; knew that there wore some missing when he came to look over them ; is quite sure that he numbered those sheets before anything was written on them ; thinks he has left stock sheets two or three times before on his desk, but they were put away by Mr.Empey ; he always locked np the safe; never altered any of the numbers or paging on these books\u2014at least does not remember doing so; was careful in paging ; may have altered some, but does not remember; stock was taken at selling prices.\u2014 (Counsel for the defendants here laid tho stock sheets before him, the original sheets which were handed into Mr.Maxtiana\u2019a office ) He identifies these as hia stock sheets; recognizes the figures as hia own ; some of the sheets were partly burned; does not recollect where he saw them first, whether it was at the store or Mr.Empey\u2019a house \u2014nor the time; thinks it was the day after the fire ; on one of the recapitulation sheets ate some pencil marks which are not his ; the word \u201c recapitulation\u201d at the tup, and some figures, are, he thinks, Mr.Empey\u2019a ; tha sheet is a recapitulation of the whole s ock; he cannot point oat the figures £798 18s Id for fixtures, as furniture in the store ; can\u2019t find them either in the stock book or the sheet; couldn\u2019t say whether the books partially burned were cittd in the recapitulation sheet or not.Here the counsel asked him how much 40 yards at 7j^d per yard made; he said, 25s; tha eouneel then showed him the book where it was marked £25.Is quite certain that the stock sheet containing the error was entered into the recapitulation sheet ; the addition must have been a mistake.An affidavit sworn to by him, was here produced and read to the jury.It stated that the stock was taken in February last ; stock sheets were numbered from 1 to 45\u201445 was, by mistake, pi\\t ia the place of 33 ; the intermediate numbers were not used; the murks 100 on the top of the pages were to distinguish them from those marked 75 ; 75 was to show that the goods on these sheets averaged 75 per cent, on the sterling cost; said it did not follow that 100 most mean 100 per cent ; the 100 meant not 75, but the goods in the sheets marked 100 were at different rates ; on stock sheet 26, 87)^ was marked not in hia figures ; stated to the \"judge that the figures Were marked to indicaie the rate; on being again questioned as to the particular number 100, he said it was to distinguish the sheet from 75, but they represented nopaiticular rate ; being shown several with no numbers at all, lie said they were 87)^ ; all these in blank were taken in at 87% on the sterling cost.Mr.Rose again questioned witness about the £25 error, also about the different per centage marks on the different sheets.The 100 mark had no relation whatever to the 100 per cent advance.There was no hesitation in giving up those stock sheets to the Companies\u2014none whatever.Mr.J.G.McKenzie\u2014Has been acquainted with Morison, Cameron & Empey for years ; is Director of the Equitable Insurance Co ; does not recollect hearing anything about an order to keep up the books; has sold to Morison, Cameron & Empey, since the fire, £20,000 worth; has a very high opinion of Mr.Morison ; btlitves they had e very iarge stock at the time of the fire.Cross-examined\u2014Would cail £30,000 a large stock for Messrs.Morison, Cameron & Empey.Mr.Ruffurd, Accountant\u2014Had been employed examining ihe bocks of Messrs.Motison, Cameron & Empey since February ; has had largo experience in accounts ; on the commencement of the investigation he made application for the books ; got journal and ledger of Messrs.Morison, Cameron & Empey from 1854; their stock on hand in March, 1854, was £24,107 16s 8d according to the ledger ; British purenases of goods amounted to £30,988, from March, \u201954 np to 28th Feb., \u201955 ; purchases by United States added to this sum, would make above £36,000 ; for this amount the invoices hud been in his possession, with ths exception of about £500 ; he hero showed the balance sheet» to the jury which had been drawn under his direction ; the Sun of Messrs.Morison, Cameron & Empey, at the balance in 1854 ware worth in clean cash £9233 7s 5-5, this is what they had caved Einee they cotnmanced business; on the 28th February, 1855, in roriTtd numbers, they had in stock £42,000 ; in tho interval between this and the fire they purchased, at different times, according to the invoices, to the amount of £2130 and £300\u2014United States goods £148\u2014making in all, with other items, according to his calcula-lations, the stock at the time of the fire amount to £41,000, at cost price ; he is perfectly satisfied with the correctness of those accounts ; he is also satisfied that on the 28th Feb., 1855, tho stock amounted to tho above cum; examined the invoices, one by one, that had come from the sellers of the goods; (tho invoices were handed to the jury for examination) ; what statements he has committed to the jury aro the true results of the books, and he has no doubt whatever as to their correctness.Cross-examined\u2014These statements are entirely founded on the balance sheets of 1854; which made in round numbers, after some deductions, £28,000 ; he investigated all the purchases from 1st March up till the time of the fire ; he traced them through the invoices ; the amount of European pttrebases from the 1st S:ay, 1854, up to the 28th February, amounted io £25,470 Is 7d sterling; American purchases during same period £369 I8s Id currency ; for goods purchased in Montreal daring the same period £5,243 13s 2d, exclusive of cash purchases, which amounted to £3,000 ; ascertained ai! tha figures by the invoices lor all except the cash purchases ; these be ascertained fnm what came before him, and as far as he could judge this sum is a tair approximation.(The books were now produced to the «itness, partially burned, and a number cf the pages were destioyed ) Saw nom the journal that it c uld not have gonafuitaer than September, 1553 ; the books put in hand were the ledger and journal ; was shown a bundle of invoices to see if they had the custom house stamp ; gaid that nine-tenths of the invoices hud tne custom house stamp ; verified the stamps ; assumed the amount of cash purchases at £3,000, ont.cconnt of sums paid out tomantua-makeis ; there was £20 a week for this purpose; also, some bills from other shopkeepers in the town ; altogether ho had not the least doubt in estimating the sum at that amount; a discrepancy of £300 was here discovered between two different papers, but it was ia favor of Messrs.Camert a and Empey.Mr.Court\u2014Knew Messrs.Cameron and Empey ; with regard to the stock on hand at the time of the fire, he ia inclined to believe that the statements made by\"\u2019 the previous witness are substantially correct ; has no reason to believe otherwise ; with regard to small discrepancies, these will occur in ail extensive concerns ; he went over in detail the accounts went over by Mr.Rufford, stating that he had verified them by bills and invoices ; has not the least shadow of doubt in his own mind but these are bona fide invoices ; has examined tbo invoices from the 1st of February, 1854, to the 1st of March, 1855, very minutely.Court left sitiiog at 4 o\u2019clock Whatever reduces the price of bread, without depreciating its quality, must be regarded as a benefit to the public generally and every one can judge of the advantage of the application of Steam machinery to the manufacture of bread by the scale of prices which Mr.Hecker proposes His scaie ia a pound of bread for one half as many cents as the barrel of flour costs dollars Thus, when Sour is ten dollars per barrel, the bread will be five cents a pound : when nine dollars, four and a half cents a pound ; when six dollars, three cents a pound, or four pounds of bread for a shilling.We hope to see flour fall to this price, before the end of the year.\u2014Steam has often been called a benevolent agent, but it never so well deserved the epithet mote, as it does now, when it is employed in cheapening the price of bread,\u2014N.F.Sun.COERESPOKDENCE.Bread made bv Steam Power.\u2014Every day, almost we l ear of some new application of machinery and steam power, which facilitates man\u2019s labor, and enables him to accomplish results which to his unaided labor, would be impossible.We now have steam power applied to tho making ot bread.Mr.John Hecker, of Rutgers street, announces to the public that he has at last accomplished the long and much desired object, namely: \u201cThe mannfactnre of bread entirely by machinery.\u201d We havo teen shown specimens of tho bread thus manufactured, and it is of good quality\u2014-not so light as bread made by hand, but more evenly mixed and made.Three advantages ate claimed by Mr.Hecker for his steam made bread, over bread made in the ordinary mode First that it is clean ; second, that it contains more nutriment, being made from fresh ground flour ; and third, that it ia cheaper, because made at les?Êïtmaitf.To Ihe Editor of the Montreal Herald._ Sir,\u2014Several statements ia reference to the character of the works, executed under my inspection, upon the Montreal and Brockville section of the Granff*Trnnk Railway, appeared not long since ia the Montreal Pilot, and have since been copied into other papers in Upper Canada.These assertions are so entirely at variance with the facts that, in vindication of myself and tha Chief Engineer of the Company, as well as to disabuse tne public mind of any false impressions they may have created, I beg yon will allow me space in your paper for the following remarks.Having myself made the location of the Montreal and Kingston section, and daily witnessed the progress of the works, the grading, masonry and its foundations, iron girder bridging, track-laying and ballasting, from the commencement down to the present time, it cannot be denied that I have had the best opportunities of judging and cf appreciating the real character of the work-t.The main features by which wo are to judge of any Railway aro : 1st, the masonry and bridging ; 2nd, the station buildings and workshops ; 3rd, the permanent way, including suitable widths of cutting and embankments, and thorough drainage ; and, 4tb, the rolling stock.(1.) The writer in the Pilot has not attempted to disparage the masonry or bridging.It would bo a useless task, and only evince a want of discernment ia him to attempt it, since they command the admiration of every intelligent person who has seen them ; and yet, in giving to the public an account of the Railway, they aro altogether of too important a nature to be overlooked.As specimens of art and engineering skill, the bridges at St.Anne\u2019s and Yaudreuil are uurivaiied by anything in America, aad will bear favorable comparison with works of the same class in Europe.They illustrate the application of wrought iron to the purposes of permanent bridging, under a variety of circumstances, and are, therefore, objects of peculiar interest to tho Engineer and man of science, independent of their very imposing appearance.In order to avoid the delay and inconvenience \u2022\u2014the danger and constant expense\u2014attending a draw, the bridge at St.Anne\u2019s has been elevated over the lock and the navigable channel outside, at considerable additional expense to the contractors, so as to admit of the passage of the Ottawa steamers and the river craft under it.The Bridge over the Rideau Oanal at Kingston Mills, just finished, has been elevated above the canal in like manner.For the security to passengers which this arrangement gives, the public should award due credit to the Engineer who devised and the contractors who executed the plans.The masonry of the piers and abutments are of durable limestone, laid in regular and heavy courses of rock-faced ashlar, and all below the water-line is built in hydraulic cement.I cannot conceive that anything more solid or substantial could be desired, nor have I seen better work, more durable masonry, or a more appropriate style of architecture, on any railway that I have visited in Europe or on this continent.The Same permanency of construction characterizes all the lesser girder bridges end culverts throughout the line.(2.) The station buildings and workshops are likewise permanent, weliarranged and faithfully constructed, and suited to all the requirements of a Railway.The workshops at Point Charles are on the most extensive scaie, and sufficient for the manufacture and maintenance of the rolling stock fora thousand mties of railway.They are yet in an unfinished stare, and only partially furnished with machinery ; but some of that already placed is of the most massive and powerful description in modern use, and admirably suited to turn out work with accuracy and despatch.(3.) Tbs Permanent Way.In the Pilot of tho 28 h ult.the writer states :\u2014 \u201c According to contract, Messrs Brassey & Co.were to provide sufficient width of land for a double track, embankments and cuttings being made sufficiently wide for a single track only.In cases of embankments, however, the Engineer-in-chief, in order to save tha contractors the expense of a little additional wheeling, has allowed them to excavate the material re qtiired for the single track from the sits of the intended second track, thus leaving a large trench to be filled in at great expense whenever the latter shall be made.Any one travelling along the line may satisfy himself as to this point In England it is always usual to leave intact in embankments the site of the future second track \u201d If, by this statement, the writer means to imply that sufficient land has not, in ail cases, been acquired for forming the doable track, he is in error.Tho least wid th acquired is eighty feet, but the average is nearer one hundred feet, which affords plenty of room for the second track, including ditches upon both sides.Bat he has done the Chief Engineer great injustice in saying, that \u201c in order to save the comractors the expense of a little additional wheeling, he.has allowed them to excavate the material requited for the single track from the site of the intended second track.\" Let the writer, if he can, point out a single place between Montreal and Bi-ockviile where hia statement can be verified.So far from that being the intention, I can tel! him, on the contrary, that lithographic plans were famished from the Chief Engineer\u2019s office, to all the contractors\u2019 agents, showing bow the bank for tha single track was to be formed from the side ditches, leaving a broader space on tho south, where the second track is to be, than on tha north side of our present track.\u201c Any one travelling along the line can satisfy himself\u201d that these instrnotions have been faithfully carried out.Be next remarks \u201c We have formerly asserted that the iron of tho rails is of inferior quality.We repeat the assertion, and any one who examines the Grand Trunk Road between Lachino and Montreal, may satisfy himself of the fact.The rails already look more worn than those of the Lachine Railway, which have been in use for about nine years.The chairs, as they aro called, are not of the proper size and quality, and the spikes for fastening them are neither jagged in the usual way, nor are they long enough, and conarquemiy the road is absolutely unsafe.As a conséquence of the track beiag so disgracefully laid (the joints between the ends of the rails being, in some instances, an inch and a half wide), the passenger train leaving Brockville at 10 a.m., and consisting of only three cars, does not usually reach Montreal before fire p.m., thus taking seven hours to ran 112 miles\u2014 or 16 miies an hour\u2014a speed not much over that of steamboats coming down the river; while on the Toronto and Hamilton road, opened during the winter, the distance of 40 miies is regularly run in an hour and a-half by passenger trains, being at ths rate of 26 miles an hour.\u201d And in the issue of the 30tb, he adds :\u2014 \u201c Such a road would not, in England, be permitted by the Government Inspector to bo opened for traffic,\u2014a fact well known to the Grand Trunk Contractors themselves, and to the Chief Engineer of the Company, if to no ono else.\" In reply to these sweeping charges against our permanent way, I would observe that our rails are of the best quality, manufactured by the first English houses, and weigh 62 lbs.to the lineal yard, and at the point of the line alluded to are simply bright from use, owing to the frequent passage ot- ballast trains, and trains carrying stones for tha Victoria Bridge.The chairs are of wrought iron, and weigh eight pounds, and the spikes half a-poond each.Without being ragged or \u201cjagged,\u201d it is almost impossible to draw them, aud ss means of fastening the rails are quite sufficient.The ballasting is incomplete ; when finished, it will be of such thickness as to give two feet between tho top of the rail and the formation.2 he' track is well laid upon cross-ties of tho best kind of wood, plain, about 30 inches apart between centres.For a track so new, only six months in operation, and opened in the fall, it is in very good order.Perfect drainage, good ballast, and the carefal attention of the trackmen have secured us this advantage.During the wiater months tbo trains were allowed six hours for the 125 miles between Montreal and Brockville, but when the frost began to leave the ground, in spring, an additional hoar was given them, for a few weeks, for the purpose of providing against any irregularity of the track which might happen from that cause.It rem tired, however, in much better order than wo an icipatrd, and the additional hour was un-n eessary.Since the opening of the navigation, express trains have been put on, which perform their trips in five hours, including stoppages, with tho greatest ease and regularly.The track is improving every day.Ballast trains are at woik, completing what was leit unfinished last year, and, in the*coarse of a short time we shall be able, if the public require it, to run through in four, and by the close of the season in three hours, with perfect safety.It is also stated by the same writer, that \u201c The renewal of ties, decaying from insufficient ballasting, and imperfect drainage, will form another iarge item of expenditure, at a date much earlier than is looked for.\u201d I should infer from this remark that his experience in this country has been too limited to make him aware of the fact, that the severity of our climate necessitates a different system cf permanent way from that practised in England.Here the ties must bo exposed in order to let the surface water pass off under the rails\u2014there the track ia \u201c boxed-up\u201d so aa to cover the ties and show nothing but the rails.Experience establishes tho necessity for this difference, and it is absurd to draw unfavorable comparitons between English and Canadian railways on that account.The calculations of loss to the Province, which the writer has made, from using, as he asserts, an inferior description of iron, are not based upon any acknowledged data, and are therefore mere groundless assumptions, cf no value whatever, (4) Rolling Stock.The best evidence of the efficiency of our engines is, that they perform their trips with perfect regularity, and are worked with economy.Some of them are of English, some Canadian, and the rest American manufacture.They are good serviceable machines, well adapted to our present business.The English engines especially are worked with great economy, requiring lees fuei, and from the simplicity of their con-Dtrnction and the absence of all useless ornament, less labor in cleaning and keeping them iu order.The passenger cars arc generally admired for the good taste with which they ar® flashed, sad the superior quality of tho materials employed in their construction.Made of the best Canadian woods, they wiil challenge comparison with any bnilt ia America.The box, cattle and platform cars, are all well built and of the best materials, and everything has been done to make them as strong and serviceable as possible.In the foregoing I have endeavored to give a concise and correct account of this portion of the Grand Trunk Railway.Wherein it differs from that contained in the Pilot loan with confidence refer to the works themselves.Any one passing over the road can satisfy himself of the correctness of my statements.In their permanence and efficiency, in the success which has attended the first opening, and in the increasing business, it will be seen that not only has the Province ample security for its mortgage, but when the line is opened through to Toronto there is every reason to expect that the hopes of the shareholders wiil be fully realized.Samuel Keefer, Asst.Engineer and Supt.Brockville Section.To the Editor of the Montreal Herald, Sir,\u2014On perusing the Montreal Herald of yesterday\u2019s date, I perceive therein a communication dated from this place and signed \u201c Justice,\u201d shewing some of tba disadvantages of attaching this parish to the proposed now district of St.Hyacinthe.Being myself a native of Sore!, I cannot let the subject pass without avowing dissatisfaction with each a measure, and which will, I havo no doubt, bo expressed publicly hero in a day or two at a meeting to be held on the subjevt.Your correspondent justly observes, that it were better for them that Mr.Drummond leave them as they are.\u201d It would appear from yonr correspondent\u2019s remarks\u2014\u201c As there is a Court House, three miles from Sorel, of course the inhabitants of tho iatter place wonld prefer goinc to \u2019hefoimer\"\u2014that Berthier is similarly situated as Sorel, in Mr.Drummond\u2019s proposed judicial partition.I would, therefore, suggest, considering the unfairness of requiring tho greater to surrender to the lesser, that Sorel be made the centre of a judicial district, to be formed out of Berthier, Richelieu, part of Yercheres, and part of Yamaska.Onei.reason for preferring Sorel to Berthier with its Court House, is that Sorel is, aa \u201cJustice\u201d remarks, \u201cthe fourth place in Lower Canada\u201d.\u2014its population outnumbering even that of St, Hyacinthe ;\u2014itis the markot.town for the most part of the county of Berthier, for the whole of tha county of Richelieu, most of the county of Yamaska and several parishes of Ver-cheres.Sorel is surrounded with unrivalled water communicatioas, and every description of accommodation can bo commanded there ; all which proves clearly tho advantages of making Sorel the chief town of such a district.The convenience oi a Court in the market town to which people resort is quite obvious\u2014a fact which a just and wise Government will not hastily overlook.Sorel would bo about equidistant from the extremities of such a district\u2014a matter treated with consideration in England, of late years at least.However, if our Government should resolve not to let Sorel have what wo think justly belongs to it, that of making it the chief town of a district, I hope they will at least allow her to remain pinned to her mother city, Montreal.R.Sorel, May 9, 1856.To the Editor of the Montreal Herald.Sir,\u2014Can any ono give a reason for closing the quarterly returns of our Customs as is now done, that is, on 5th January, 5th April, 6th July, and 10th October ?The only reason I have ever heard given for the practice was that they followed it in England without any reason at all.Nor could any one ever tell me what the fifth of October had done that it should have been slighted, nor what the tenth had done that it should be honoured.England, however, has abandoned tbo practice ; anti, as we followed her into the absurdity, it would seem bat consistent to follow her out of it.But, I fear that the idea is too vast for our present Inspector General to grasp.The man who last year was so much startled at ths proposal to call l'trente sous\" a twenty-five cents\u2019\u2019\u2014 who thought tha adoption of dollara and cents as our money of account, a matter \u201c that demanded serious consideration,\u201d will hardly venture so far treat the beaten track as to permit the quarterly accounts to be dosed at the end of the quarter I We shall sob.Yours, C.Montreal 13th May, 1856.TRADE AND COMMERCE.IMPORTS Per \u201cSPECTRE,\u201d Orkney, Master, from Liverpool, James Burns & Co, Agents.Law, Young & co 100 bxs ; Frothingham & co 460 bdls iron ; Perrier & co 1450 bdla iron 343 do do ; Benny, McPbeison & co 233 bdls iron 3 cks 1 cs : Henderson & Holcomb 2 cks ; Louts J Be-liveau 1 csk ; Laurie, Stirling & co 1 cs ; Brewster & co 13 pckgs ; S Greensbtelds, Son & co 1 cs ; J Hickey 1 ble ; W Bellhonse & co 8 casks 4 pckgs 3 bills pans ; W Darling & co 18 pckges ; j H Evans 2 do ; Wilson & Gouillard I bale ; El-well & co 3 csks ; I Buchanan, Harris & co 24 cs 10 cks 249 boxes 65 kegs 970 bdls sheets 70 bdls steel ; A Hope & co 100 boxes 3 csks 1144 sheets iron 3 cs 90 bdls steel 3 rods 7 bars copper ; J L Beaudry & co I cs 1 bl ; J Henderson & co 2 erts ; R Lewis & Son 1 cs ; P Paterson & Sous 12 csks 6 pckgs 12 ingots tin 9 bdls wire 3 bars copper; J Harrington 43 csks 7 cs 5 anvils ; A K Boomer 12 pckgs ; A Urquhart 82 bris beer; H B Smith & co 42 hhds earthenware; order 517 bars iron 400 plates do.Receipt* of Western Pi-otlucs.May 12.Per steamer LORD ELGIN\u2014Gibb ARosa 5000 bush Indian corn 1000 brls flour.Per barge CLEVELAND\u2014Lane, Stephens & oo 866 brls 62 casks hams 18 do shoulders 66 do tallow 294 do lard.May 13.Per steamer BANSHEE\u2014D McPherson 3 bags potatoes ; O J Onsack 240 do wheat ; J & H McLennan 25 puns high wines.Per steamer BRITANNIA\u2014James Burns & co 1534 brls fioor ; I Buchanan, Harris & co 500 do ; J Kershaw 4s Son 3 hhds shoulders ; Lockhart & Loneon 46 brls beef 9 do ashes ; John McPherson & co 9 do ashes.Per steamer PROTECTION\u2014L Renaud & Frere 957 brls pork 7(i0 kgs lard 300 brls meat ; Damaso Matson 50 brls whiskey ; Lymans, Savage & co 70 brls lard oil ; Grand Trunk Railroad 2 cs; Jos Tiffin 200 kgs lard ; Gibb & Ross 30 brls ta'-low ; J Tyrrell 10 brls pork ; H Jones & co 60 bgs wheat 5 brls ashes 2 kgs botter 1 do lard 19 doz snaths 2 brls meat 1 do hams.The Stock maiket is heavy, but prices are not materially lower, although there is but little animation.Foreign Erchanga is not active for to-morrow's steamers, but rates are nominally the same.Bills on'London 109JÆSU0 : Paris 5.17S m 16$.DRUGS, &c \u2014The sales include 3 cases opium at §4 31$ ; 250 kegs Newcastle bi curb soda §4,-43$ ; 600 do Liverpool do 4%V@4% ; 50 tons sal soda 1,66%|®1% ; 100 toes sodaastt 2%/S)2,56%; 25 casks cream tartar 28%/3)29; 15 csks ombro madder 11®11%; 1,000 lbs prussiate potash 29 ; 2,000 lbs Gum Arabic sorts 11; 13 bales Alex, senna 12%; iOO lbs Venetian red 2% ; 50 brls Epsom salts_2%; 100 lbs by potash $t,12% ; phosphorus in lots $1,00 ; 3,000 lbs Oarraway seed 10c; 1,500 oz imported quinine $2,50/®$2-52% ; 50 brls and cases borax 27%/3>28 ; 100 lbs tartaric acid 42%.Castor oil coaiinues dull at the decline last noticed, and is nominal at$l,25.FRUIT\u2014The large invoice of layer raisins reported yesterday was sold at$3,25/a>$3 37% ; 4,-000 Havana pine apples at $3,25 ; 60,000 Baraco.a cocoa nuts at §29/®$20 ; and 2,000 Baracoa bananas at $l,25rô)$2l25, FISH\u2014Dry Cod aro ia good demand, with sales of 2,000 quintals at $4,18$, to arrive \u2014 Mackerel are also steady, with sales of 1,000 brls No 2 at $7 25.IRON\u2014Scotch pig ia selling at $32©33, and the market exhibits more steadiness at this range.English bar is firm at $62,50 for common, and $67,50 for refitted, the latter in good stock.LEATHER\u2014We have no change to notice in prices, but there is a fair demand and rates are well maintained.LUMBER\u2014A cargo of pine was sold tc-day for Rio at $16.MOLASSES\u2014Is firm, and desirable qualities ot ali descriptions are in good request ; distilling, which was more freely offered a tew days since, is now in better demand.The saies include 20 hhds Porto Rico at 40c; and 100 brls New Orleans at 47/@48.NAVAL STORES\u2014Crude turpentine is firm at $3)12%®3.25 with sales of 500 brls.Spirits turpentine are in active request for the home trade, with sales of 500 brls, chiefly in lots, at 43 i@44.Rosin is still firm, and 1100 brls were sold at $1,70, most holder^ now asking more.Tar is steady, with sales of 300 brls at $1,75/02.OILS\u2014Linseed is in light stock, and holders are firm at 76/077 for large and small parcels, the higher rate being generally asked at the close.Crude whale is more active, but hardly as firm ; 2,000 brls, to come here, have been sold at 74/0 75.Crude sperm remains about the same ; 1200 brls were soldat $1,78, cash Olive unchanged : 200 bskts were sold at $3,56%.RICE\u2014The improvement\"iast noticed is fully sustained, with farther sales of 125 casks at $3,75 (04,37%.The stock is less than 9000 casks.SALT\u2014Is very quiet, hut Liverpool is firmly held.SEEDS\u2014Clover is unsettled, and quotations are, to a great extent, nominal ; 50 brls Canary seed were sold at $3 per bushel.SPICES\u2014Wo notice sales of 300 mats cassia at 36c, 6 tnos; 30 bgs pimento at lie cash ; and 2500 lbs cassia vera at 13%c ; cloves are held at 12%c; pepper, lO%/011c.SÜGAR\u2014Our report yesterday was accidentally omitted ; the sales for ton days are 50 hhds Cuba at 6%ci08c; 150 do in bond, C%c/06%c ; 50 très Texas, 8c; 1400 bxs Havana, 7c/09c.TOBAOCO\u2014Tho market is without further change ; the sales include 56 hhds Kentucky at 10/014%c ; 22 cs Florida, 15/019C; 45 do seedlcaf, G%c/016 ; 256 bales Havana, pari at 25c ; and 25 do Kentucky stems at P.N.T.FREIGHTS\u2014To Liverpool aro firm, with but little doing ; grain may be quoted at 5d/05%d ; flour, la 9d ; cotton, 3-16d, «itb but limited\u201den-gagomenta; 900 brls rosiu, la 9d ; 200 brls oil, 26s.To London, 2500 brls oil cake and 1000 do flour, both at 2s.To Antwerp, 1500 brls rosin, 2s 6d/02s 9d, and tons wood at 27s 6d.To Hamburg, 400 brls rosin 2s, and 50 hhds molasses at 2%c