Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 11 avril 1862, vendredi 11 avril 1862

[" POST OFFICE, MontbkaIi, March 17, 1862.Arrivals and Departures of Mails at Montreal MAILS.Quebec, Danville, -r-rsur-rrnTTCti \u2022___ _1\u201e\u201e John Âitken & C©*, 211 A 213 Notkk Dame Street.Edward HIxon\u2019s Furniture and upholstery ware- rooms, 172 Washington Street, Boston, (opposite Bromlield Street), has constantly on hand and is manufacturing the newest styles of CABINET FURNITURE.We have also the best and iahst styles of UPHOLSTERY GOODS, which will be Sold at.the lowest market prices.The above Furniture is of our own manufacture, and warranted to stand Furnace Heat.Also, HIXON\u2019S SUPERIOR FURNITURE POLISH, for Oiled and Varnished Furniture, at Wholesale and Retail.172 Washington Street, - » - Boston, FOR SALE OR TO LET.ON REASONABLE TERMS, TWO FIRST-CLASS HOUSES, Nos.1 & 2 Windsor Place, with all modern improvements, good and convenient Out-Houses, &c.The situation is of the best.For particulars, enquire of AROH.FERGUSON, Mansfield Street.March 24.\t71 SI 60 A__ YEAR.TO LET, A very convenient HOUSE, No.50 San-gninet Street.Hall, Sitting and Dining Rooms, and Kitchen on first floor.______Seven apartments on the second flat, and a spacious Garret above.Enquire at this STORES AND OFFICES TOJLET.TO LET,\u2014TWO STORES and OFFICES in Young\u2019s Buildings, McGill Street, Apply to JOHN YOUNG.January 31.\t27 STORE TO LET.The first class two-story CUT STONE WAREHOUSE, No.301 St.Paul Street, at present occupied by Messrs.__Foley & Co.iediate possession, if necessary, ebruary 13.OFFICES TO LET, At No.18 Great St.James Street, TWO ROOMS, connecting on 1st floor front.THREE ROOMS, 2nd floor front, and _____.THREE ROOMS, 3rd floor back.Applv on the premises, ^Feb^uary 9.A|i 35 © - .Vi.\tî-, .l f lYi.TO LET, March 14.OFFICE and LARGE ROOM, on second Flat.DOUGLAS & CO., 296 St.Paul Street.63 For Sale at Pointe Claire, On the Island of Montreal, that well-known FARM, situated on the \u201c Pointe-a-Guenettes,\u201d three miles from the Village Depot and nineteen miles from the City of Montreal, containing six acres in front by twenty in depth, and in rear four acres by twenty, forming in all two hundred acres, on which are a substantial Stone House, Wooden Stables, Barns, Sheds, &c., Springs of good Water, two Sugar Bushes, &c.\u2014also,\u2014 A Meadow adjoining, of twenty-eight acres in superficies.The whole or half to be sold.Apply, on the premises, to PETER LYNCH.Or to April 4.JAS.SETH, Esq., N.P., St.Francois Xavier Street.2m mwf 81 FOR m, A Very Desirable BUSINESS STAND, in the thriving Village of MOULI-NETTE, a few miles from Cornwall, ________C.W , heretofore occupied by Messrs.J.N.Dixson & Brother as a General Store.The Building is of Wood, and well fitted up in every respect, having plenty of Shelving, Counters, Desks, Drawers, &c., &c, and a large, Dry Cellar attached, very valuable to any one wishing to buy and pack butter.The whole in perfect order, and conveniently situated for the shipment of produce to any market.For further information, apply to MILLAR, THOMSON & GO., 266 & 268 St.Paul Street.March 19.\t67 A\" FOR SUE, OUR BABY.Did you ever see our baby, Little Tot, | With her eyes so sparkling bright, And her skin so lily white, Lips and cheeks of rosy light?Tell you whst \u2014 She is just the sweetest baby In the lot.Ah ! she is our onlj darling, And tome All her little ways ire witty, When she sings heipttle ditty, Every word is just as pretty As can be\u2014 ; , Not another in thii city sweet as she.You don\u2019t think so\u2014you ne\u2019er saw her ?Wish you coqld See her with her playthings clattering, Hear her little tongue a-chattering, Little dancing feetcome pattering\u2014 Think you would Love her just as well as I do\u2014 Every grand\u2019mama\u2019e only darling I suppose, Is as sweet and bt.glit a blossom Is a treasure to hei -bosom, -tvS Luy iu38.Heavenly Father, spare them to us, Till life\u2019s close.The Tariff.\u2014It can scarcely be doubted by any one who has read the report of the Commissioners on the Militia, that we shall want a large addition to the revenue.Unless, therefore, Mr.Galt adopts the same war policy as Mr.Chase, and shall place his reliance upon loans and shin-plasters, we must soon have a repetition of the old farce of raising the wind.We think it probable that one mode of performing the operation will be by re-imposing the tolls on the St.Lawrence Canals, a step which will set at rest the minds of our American neighbours, lately much exercised by the advantages offered by this exemption to through transportation by our own route.But we doubt if this will bo a sufficient resource for meeting the deficit and providing for the new charges.We shall, therefore, in all probability have an increase in the tariff, and it will become interesting to know, if this is to come down like Mr.Cayley's celebrated thunderbolt, just iu time to catch the importations by the spring fleet, ordered upon the faith of a different and lower scale of duties.Of course we are not official or semi-official ex-_ puucirra-or'Alinlsterial pdiicy ; bui, reading the signs of the times, we can hardly doubt that there will be another turn of the Custom House aBlisou \u201e\u201e Editorial Correspondence of the treat Herald.\u201d \u2018Mon- Paris Correspondence of the Herald.\u201d 1 Montreal FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 11, 1862.PUBLIC APPOIHTMEHTS THIS DAY.Living Wonders at Mechanics\u2019Hall, (the Aztec Chil-aren), Daj\u2019 and Evening.Montreal Oratorio Society\u2019s Concert, this evening, in Nordheimers\u2019 Hall, at Eight o\u2019clock.AUCTION SALES T-AIS DAY.BY SHAW & BROTHER.Damaged Carpets, at Dubois\u2019 Store, Notre Dame Slreet, at Ten o\u2019clock.Household Furniture, &c., at Albert Place, corner of St.Urbain and Lagauchetiere Streets, at Ten o\u2019clock.Books, &c., at Dubois\u2019 Store, at Seven o\u2019clock.BY JOHN J.ARNTON.Household Furniture, &c., at his own Stres, at Ten o\u2019clock.BY J.B.PARDELLIAN.Household Furniture, &c., at 23 St.Joseph Street, at Ten o\u2019clock.BY ALEX.BRYSON.Hardware, &c., at his stores, at Seven o\u2019clock.BY JOHN O.BROWN & SON.Dry Goods, Jewellery, &c., at their Stores, 191 Notre Dame Street, at Seven o\u2019clock.THE TEMPERATURE YESTERDAY.State of the Thermometer (ia the shade) at the door of Mr.McPherson, watchmaker and i eweller, corner of St.Francois Xavier and Notre Dame Streets _ April 10\u20149 A.M.30 above zero.2 P.M.43 above zero.5 P.M.40 above zero.ABHSVAIaS at APRIL 10.H0TS2LS.38 TO LET, A GOOD-SIZED ROOM, well adapted for Manufacturing purposes.Apply to ______\tA.B., Herald Office.January 20\t17 TO LET SHOP and DWELLING, No.32 The St.Lawrence Street, at present occupied by Messrs.Morrow & Kimpton, Grocers.Apply to Dame Widow THOS.DUROCHER, No.34 St.Lawrence Street.March 18.\t66 FOR SALE OR TO LET, The LARGE STONE STORE at the Longueuil Ferry, formerly occupied as the East India Company\u2019s Tea Store.Apply to T.B.ANDERSON.February 4.\ttvs 30 EMPLACEMENT, situate in Little St.James Street, of 38 feet in front by 60 feet in depth.FOUR BUILDING LOTS, situate in Lagauchetiere Street, of 22 feet in front by 75 feet in depth.SIX LOTS, situate in Bleury Street, of 24 feet in front by 80 feet in depth.FOUR LOTS, situate on St.George Street, of 25 feet in front by 80 feet in depth.TWENTY-EIGHT LOTS, situate on Cote-a-Barron, of 24 feet in front by 70 feet in depth.SIX IjOTS, at tlio DO;me place, of 2& feet in front by 110 feet in depth.For the conditions and more ample information, apply to J.ATKINSON, No.44 Dorchester Street.March 24.\t71 Water Powers & Lots To iLet or Lease, Lawrence Hall.ad fa COTE AT SAIN T PAUL.THE Undersigned offers to LET or LEASE, at COTE ST.PAUL, valuable WATER POWERS and LOTS.Distance from Montreal about 1J miles.For further particulars, apply to WILLIAM PARKYN, Cote St.Paul.March 22.\t287 FOR MF.St ___________________ Mrs Lawdor and family, Ottawa; C Gray, do; R Watson, Brockville; Lt-Col Jaruis, Toronto; G P McKenzie, Galt; J Leys, Toronto; P M Mose, Quebsc; J B Babcock, Boston; A AOoe, do; R Coe, do; Mr Maxwell,Quebec; J Ross, Brockville; W E Ross, do; B Steadman, Sterling; T Baxter, Wellingtun Square, W M Jamieson, Montreal; Rev J C Haines, Durham; R Dalglish, do; R D Korkin, do; A H H MacGheer, St Johns, N B.Ottawa Hotel.J McKay, Scotland;Col Knowlton, Knowlton-ville, O E; L Cushing,Chatham; W H Ashworth, Quebec; J R Miller, Boston,; W Grant, Montreal; S r>v-cluj Oct»»-\u2019-'\u2014-r\tJ XX Brockville; S Hopkins; Mrs McKinney and child, Niagara Falls, N Y; J Cushing, Fitchburg, Mass; A Craig, Townsend, do; W Revo, Sherbreoke; A Anderson, do; Mr Anderson, jr, do; L Robinson, Waterloo; G Hallen, do; E A Taylor, do; D Browne, do; G S Kemp, do; D L Reynolds, do; F Reynolds, do; Mrs Reynolds, do; Hon A B Foster, Shefford, O E; J W Wood, Brigham, C E; H Kendall, Magog; W Colquhon, Cornwall; T H Grant, Quebec; G R O\u2019Connor, do; W Horne, do; J McOalium, N Y.Montreal House.Hon P Moore, Phillipsburg; Mr Wilson do; H S Foster, Brome; W McKay, Goderich; C S Hopkins, Sherbrooke; S G Wells, Toronto; W Cote, do; Mr Shaver, Gharlotteville; H T Athens, Day-ton; R Morris, Troy, N Y; W T Palmer, Albany; A R Coats, do.Cosmopolitan Hotel.J Gordon, Guaph; J O\u2019Neil, Port Hope; W Angus, Montreal; Mrs Queen, Quebec; E Lyons, Arthabaska; Judge Pollette, St Johns.Oflice.March 22.70 April 2.Opposite Bromfield Street.3m 79 B V.&.m&Iilk SHIRT STORE!, 272 NOTRE DAME STREET.EINGLAND& I WAIT EG to invite the attention of the Public to their most extensive and most carefully Selected Spring Stock of Parasols, Umbrellas, Cotton Hosiery and UnderclotMng, Cotton Shirtings, Linens, Scarfs, Ties, Shirts and Collars, IN EVERY VARIETY.The Hew \u201cTom Thumb\u201d and \u201cSensation\u201d Collars, HOSSSRV, GLOVES, &c.April 1.78 MONTREAL n ROUSE SIROPS For Sal@0 500 barrels Golden Syrnp 2^0 barrels Extra Syrup 2Ü0 barrels Standard Syrup STARKE, SMITH & CO., 284 St, Paul Street.April 1.\t1m 78 HOUSE TO LET.That Large Two-story STONE DWELLING, formerly occupied by the late Benjamin Brewster, Esq., consisting of fourteen Rooms, with large Kitchen, Pantries, and all modern conveniences ; Ice House, two Graperies, Large Brick Stable and Carriage House, with about twenty acres of Land.Immediate possession.Apply to Or to February 27.J.B.SMITH, Proprietor ; JAMES SMITH, N.P.50 TO LET.A Convenient CUT STONE HOUSE, \u2022 to me kTUDrirosj conuuumg umc rooms; Apply to THOS.JENKING, 207 Notre Dame Street.February 19.\t43 TO LET, A Neat two-story BRICK HOUSE, No.^ 1 Poplar Place, Mountain Street, with Gas and Water.Rent low.Possession 1st May next.Apply to C.TUGGEY.February 8.\t34 TO LET The Handsome VILLA RESIDENCE and GARDEN, with Coach-House and Stabling, No.129 Drummond Street, above Sherbrooke Street.Kent moderate.Apply on the Premises, or to HENRY JACKSON, 2 Cornwall Terrace.February 4.\t30 SHOPS MD DWELLIKGS.TOLET .The SHOP and DWELLING, at the Corner of Wellington and Dalhousie Streets, now in the occupation of Mr.McBride.Enquire of EDW.GOFF PENNY Herald Office.January 21.\t18 To LET, TWO SHOPS and DWELLINGS, Nos.36 and 48 McGill Street, facing the St.Ann\u2019s Market.____\t\u2014Also \u2014 A BRICK WAREHOUSE, off McGill Street.\u2014And\u2014 The large STONE STORE, No.9 William Street, presently occupied by Thos.Gordon & Co.Apply to W.E.PHILLIPS.February 21.\t45 THE LADIES of the HOTEL DIEU offer for SALE that portion of their FARM, \u201c LA PROVIDENCE,\u201d lying between Sherbrooke and Bagg Streets, on Cote-a-Barron, and comprising about 47 LOTS, of different dimensions.Persons desirous of purchasing, on application to the said Ladies, at their Establishment \u201c Mont Ste.Famille, or to their Attorney, Mr.WEEKS, may learn the terms of Sale, and be shown a Plan of the Lots January 1, 1861.\tmwf 1 MlÜWIüLLAlUÜUtJS.EXTENSIVE STEAM TO LET.MILL m mi-\u2014xi .-,\u201el UvUmaivn STE AM SAW Canal, better known as \u201c Brewster\u2019s Mill,\u201d capable of doing a very extensive business.The Second Story is well adapted for Sash, Door, Blind, or other manufacturing purposes.Immediate possession, if required.Apply to Or to February 27.J.B.SMITH, Proprietor ; JAMES SMITH, N.P.50 HOTELJO LET.TO LET, that commodious and central HOTEL, situated in St.Paul Street, opposite the Bonsecours Market, and at present occupied by Messrs.Ville-neuve & Pariseau.The Stables attached to the Hotel will accommodate upwards of fifty horses.Possession on the 1st day of May.Apply to JOHN ATKINSON, No.44 Dorchester Street.February 20.\t44 TOLET, That Spacious HOUSE and GARDEN, Sherbrooke Street, for many years occupied by Madame de Montenacte._____\tBENJ.DELISLE.January 23.\t20 HOUSE TO LET.A very convenient and pleasant HOUSE, No.22, Corner of St.Antoine and St.Edward Streets.Possession on 1st May next.Apply to A.RAMBAU, 112 Commissioners Street, Or 20 St.Antoine Street.February 6.\t32 TO LET OR FOR SALE OR To be Exchanged for a Property in the City of Montreal, THAT SPLENDID PROPERTY, situated in the City of St.Hyacinthe, near the Railroad Depot, containing nine ________acres in superficies with a beautiful Villa and large Outbuildings thereon erected.The House contains all the modern improvements, such as Bath, Water Closet, Gas, Ice House, &c., &c.Terms very liberal.For further particulars, apply to A.or G.LAMOTHE.March 18.\t@6 GIBB & CO.HAVE JUST RECEIVED, per Steamer \u201cNova Scotian,\u201d their Spring supply of Gentlemen\u2019s Underclothing, Cravats Scarfs, Ties, Railway Rugs, Macintosh Coats, Leggings, Hats, Caps, -.-1 \u2018.-oRp.fveci saje of Birmincrham.Sheffield and American Hardware, which will be continued this evening at the stores of Alex.Bryson, at half, past Seven punctually.The goods are all staple and new, and embrace an excellent assortment of door locks, Clark\u2019s patent and other butt hi nges, screws, brass goods, table, pocket and other cutlery, scissors and razors.Also, hand and tenon saws, files, augers, planes, and a groat variety of other saleable stock.The collection of furniture advertised by Messrs Shaw & Brother, to be sold to-day at the boardiig house, Albert Place, corner of Lagauchetiere and St.Urbain Streets, will be worthy the attention of householders.Sale at ten o\u2019clock.Sale of Damaged Carpets.\u2014Dealers and parties furnishing hotels and dwellings should bear in mind the great carpet sale at Dubois\u2019 store today.Most of the carpets turn out to be very little injured, and of these the damaged portions are cut off, so that the carpets to be sold in rolls are almost perfect.Most of them are valuable carpets, of the latest designs, a new invoice having been received a few days before the fire.Catalogues can be had at the stores this morning._ See Messrs Shaw & Brother\u2019s advertisement.The collection of fine furniture, plate, chima and cut glassware, to he sold to-morrow, at the residence of Mrs.Wurtele, No.3 Balmoral Place, St.Catherine Street, will be open for examination by catalogue, to-day, from 10 to 4 o\u2019clock.Catalogues can be had of the auctioneers, Messrs Shaw & Brother.rctXLITIA APPOINTMENTS.Argenteuil Rifles\u2014To be Major, H Abbott ; to to be Capt, G Rogers ; to be Lieut, S Rogers ; to be Ensign, J Boyd.Prince of Wales\u2019 Regiment of Vol Rifles\u2014The rank of Major is granted to Capt Latour.Chasseurs Canadiens-To be Qr-Mr, Capt A F St Jean ; to be Chaplain, Rev J J Perreault ; to be Capt, A Audet ; to be Lieut, F Cardinal.Fourth Batt Montreal\u2014To be Capt, N J Handy side ; to be Lieuts, W W McClellan and G W Herbert ; to be Ensigns, A Murray and J Parkin.Fifth Batt Montreal\u2014To be Lieut, F Castle ; to he Ensigns, H Bailey and W A Hall, CORRESPONDES CE.To the Editor of the Montreal Herald.Sir,\u2014I see in your last number a letter signed \u201cThe Pilots of Montreal,\" wherein 11 one John Wilson\u201d is said to be a very bad fellow, and what he said about the Trinity House pets are \u201ccalumnies.\u201d Now, Sir, will you give me the name of this gentleman who has suph a regard for me, in order that I may deal lyith him in his proper colours.What I said about the Pilots last fall I was perfectly justified i» doing, inasmuch as I hafi suffered severe loss and detennon by the bad conduct of some of them, and what I said I am prepared to prove, and perhaps the Pilots and their friends can tell why the promised investi, gation before the Trinity Board did not take place.I did not meddle with their Tariff of Fees, but since they can\u2019t let me alone, I have no hesitation in saying that quite as good Pilots as they are can be got for the ships at one half the present rates.Many ships were taken to last season without pilots, and nearly the whole of them wouW not he bothered with them at all, except to satisfy the insurers.Since the river has been dredged, and buoyed, there is neither science, skill, or labour in being a Piled of a vessel behind a steamboat ; all they have got to do is to see that the ship is properly steered by one of the sailors, and some of them can\u2019t even do that, and I have seen repeatedly the secon4 Pilot and wheelsman of the steamers sent aboard the vessels to talf.e pharge, and do what the Branch Pilot could uqt do.Every vessel that went aground last year when in tow of the Caledonia was caused by the stupidity and obstinacy of the Pilots in not doing as they were requested to no hy tV,o\tand when a vessel is aground they are of no account whatever, for the steamer and'crew do all the work, The Pilots of the steamers get from $?0 to $60 a month ; they are vastly superior to one half of the Brandi Pilots and do all the work, while a useless ornament is strutting about as pompons as a turkey cock, and getting $20 down and $32 upwards for twenty to thirty hqura attendance, and fed at the ship\u2019s expense ; but they consider ships as their lawful prey, and like wolves over a carcass fly at any intruder who would touch their booty.Hence the rejection of almostevery candidate that presents himself for admission, The real cure is to do away altogether with the Trinity House and let Pilots earn their living by free trade like other people, There are hundreds of skilled mechanics in Montreal working hard all the year round, and cannot make one-fourth the money that these pampered Pilots do in six months, and yet they are not satisfied, and should the Governor sanction the new bye-law, three-fourths of the ships leaving Montreal will have to pay $40 to $50 for 20 hours attendance to a person about as much use as the ornament on the vessel\u2019s stern ; that is my estimate of many of the Pilots after seventeen years experience, and if Mayor Beaudry and the other gentlemen of the Trinity Board think differently they are welcome.One thing is certain, I cannot profit in any way by expressing a candid opinion.Yours very respectfully, JOHN WILSON.Montreal, April 9.To the Editor of the Montreal Herald.Dear Sir,\u2014In your notice of to-day respecting the ice and snow being cleared away by the City Railway Company, you were in error, as it is to the energy and perseverance of Mr.Alex.Easton, the enterprising lessee, that the public are indebted for what is certainly a great benefit, as in a few days, through Mr.Easton\u2019s exertions, they will have clean streets and a cheap and comfortable means of locomotion\u2014no small consideration to the thousands who cannot afford to keep carriages or hire vehicles.A CITIZEN.Montreal, April 10, 1862.Cariboo.\u2014Five well-known residents of Meoford started for the gold diggings on Tuesday ; two had gone befere, and were to join them at New-York.They were all respeltable, steady men, and have resolved to stick together,\u2014 Owen Sound Tima, Paris, March 28, 1862.The dangers with which the European settlements in China are threatened hy the rebels, and the horrible atrocities committed by these and the insecurity of the Europeans in so formidable crisis, seems at length to be rousing both France and England, to the necessity of assisting the Imperial Government against these hordes of miscreants.However bad the constituted regime of China may be, there seems little doubt that the Tsepings are still worse, and there appears to be a strong probability that the dévastai ion and ruin which the latter are bringing upon the districts in which they are now operating, and the destruction of European commerce which we must be prepared to witness if the Tæpings are allowed to continue their policy of pillage, murder, and burning, will determine the Government of both countries to lend their energetic aid to the Imperialists, in order to put down the rebellion, whose sole object is now regarded in this, hemisphere as plunder and destruction.The French manufacturers, angry as they are with the treaty of commerce, seem most anxious to make a brilliant figure in London.The applications for admission have greatly exceeded the capacities of the space allotted to the French Department in the new Industrial Palace, and {real disappointment is felt here in consequence.The French declare that the proportion of space given to them is much less than was given by France to England in the Exhibition of 1855 ; and, of course declare this 11 unfair treatment\u201d to be quite in character with the usual proceedings of11 jealous, selfish, and perfidious albion.\u201d It is unfortunate that such an impression should have been taken ; though, perhaps it was hardly to be hoped that no dissatisfaction should be felt by our pleasant, but not altogether unsuspicious or unprejudiced allies.The Queen, though still overwhelmed with grief, is nevertheless striving to bear up under her heavy affliction with a brave and quiet fortitude worthy of all admiration.It is not to be hoped that resignation to a loss which has darkened her life for the rest of her earthly career, can be at once regained by the Royal mourner, and though her Majesty is doing her best to force herself to take a renewed interest in the affairs of the State, as in the affection of her family, she can only do this through severe and painful effort.In a letter just received in this city, from a member of the Royal Household, who has perhaps a better opportunity than any other for forming a correct judgment of the state of its august Mistress, the writer remarks, 11 the Queen has hitherto been supported under her loss more than we could have hoped, but her misery is terrible.\u201d Her Majesty has always been very kind to the poor people in the neighbourhood of the various Royal residences, by whom she seems to be much beloved, and the fact that she has lately resumed the unassuming visits which she used formerly to make to the sick and afflicted, will be hailed by her distant lieges with satisfaction, as a sign that her thoughts and energies are beginning, even if slowly, to return to their accustomed channels.A short time since, when the curate of Osborne entered the cottage of one of his poor parishioners, confined to her bed by illness, he saw a lady, in deep mourning, sitting beside the sick woman\u2019s pillow, and reading to her.His step on the threshold of the door caused the lady-reader to turn and perceived that the visitor was no other than her Majessy.Respect for the Queen at once prompted Jhim to step back, and to retire ; but the Queen rising said to him, gently, \u201cPray come in ; I should be sorry to cause an invalid to lose the consolation of a visit from a minister of the Gospel,\" having signed to the curate to enter, she quietly left the cottage.Another little incident, which occurred but a few days ago, tends also to encourage the hope that the Queen\u2019s mind is regaining something of its usual elasticity.It seems that her Majesty, with Princess Alice, and an equerry, was taking a carriage drive near Old Windsor, when, in passing over Runnymede, her attention was attracted by the stock-in-trade of a poor Italian image-vendor.The carriage was stopped, and the Queen, with characteristic kindness, bought several of the images.But when the Queen ordered her attendant a liberal price for his wares, it was found that the united cash of tfie whole party was insufficient to furnish the sum required.With the aid of the servants, however, the money was soon procured, and the poor Italian, on learning who was his customer, was quite overwhelmed with enthusiasm at the discovery.Though her Majesty has sometimes exoited a little dissatisfaction by her somewhat rigorous exclusion from her presence of persons whose position would enable them to obtain admission to most of the Gontinental Courts of Royalties,-an exclusion always most rigorous in the case of ladies - she has always, in doing the honours of her house, shewn great affability and feminine kindness to those who have had the honour of being her guests, A lady belonging to the suite of one of the royal dames, who visited her Majesty at Osborne not long before the illness of the Prince Consort, speaks with enthusiasm of 11 the simplicity of bearing and unaffected kindness\u201d of her royal hostess, She says that about an boni after her arrival at the villa, while en-gaged in the serious occupations of the toilette, she heard a light tap at her bedroom door.As she was just in the aot of putting up, her 1.\u2018.back-hair,\u2019\u2019 an operation which, as my lady-readers will all admit, brooks no interruption\u2014and supposed it was either her own fflftld ftr ope of the housemaids of the yjlla, she simply said 11 Come in j\" only half turning her head, as she heard the rustle of a silh dress approaching her toilette table.But, to hey amazement and trepidation, who should she see but the Queen, coming smilingly up to her, and cutting short the.apology she was about to offer for not having opened the door, by desiring her 11 not tp disturb herself,\u201d but to go on with he* toilette.II) have just come in,\u201d added her Majesty, glancing round the apartment, 11 to see if everything is right and comfortable in your room.I hope you will find it go, and that you will enjoy your stay here.\u201d Her Majesty, still standing near the corner of the table, went on talking to her, simply and pleasantly, asking her about her journey, how she liked England, what she thought of the views about Osborne, &c., chat-tmg unaffectedly, and completely merging the Queen in the genial and hospitable hoatesa.After talking thus for about five minutes, her Majesty withdrew, just as she had entered, leaving the Lady of Honour to complete her toilette at her leisure, and continued her round of little visits to all the llady-gues*s just received under her roof, It la understood here, though no formal announcement has yet been made on the subject, that the Emperor and Empress will visit the coming Exhibition, and will probably be present at the opening.Several of the other Sovereigns, it is thought, will probably do likewise ; and it is generally felt that, under these circumstances, the opening of the Exhibition by a Royal Commission would scarcely be complimentary to these illustrious visitors, and that the Prince of Wales should be allowed to take the place of the Queen on that occasion.A short time will show whether her Majesty, as it i-hoped will be the case, consents to gratify the very general feeling of the country, and it may almost be said of Europe, on this point.The London limes, however, states positively that the Prince will not do so.In spite of this being Lent and of the gay world being therefore supposed to be expiating its peccadilloes in the traditional sackcloth and ashes, Court and Capital are \u201cup to their eyes in gaieties, only slightly modified in deference to the exigencies of the ecclesiastical calendar.Just before Lent set in, fancy balls were given, a dozen deep.Princess Mathilde gave one, very splendid, at which only historical costumes were admitted.Count de Morny, emulous of the success of his fairy cousin\u2019s entertainment, gave a ball a few nights afterwards, at which the display of diamonds was \u201csomething prodigious.\u201d Young Count Demidoff wore a black costume, of the date of Louis NIII., literally blazing with diamonds, among which figured like an electric spark among rushlights, the famous Sancy, glory of the Demidoffean possessions in the jewellery line.This renowned stone was the smallest of three diamonds found by the brave and rejoicing Switzers, in the treasury of Charles the Bold, after the battle of Granson.It was taken to Lucerne and there sold for 5,000 ducats, to a Jew, who took it to Lisbon, where it was purchased by the Court, and put into the royal Crown of Portugal.It remained in that Crown for nearly 300 years, when it was carried off by a dethroned King of Portugal, who came to Paris in 1595, and ended his days in France as Prior of Crato.From the exiled ex-Sovereign this diamond was purchased by Nicholas de Har-lay, Sire of Saucy, which mediæval village now gave its name to the stone ; and from the descendants of the ancient Knight it was subsequently bought by the French Government, and inserted into the Crown of France, from which it was stolen during the first Revolution.It was subsequently offered for sale and purchased by Prince Demidoff.A.M.de Lutrotb, of the Di plomatic world, appeared as 11 A River,\" erery part of his person bei-\u2019g covered with diamonds just as thick as they could be stuck together.Countess de Persigny wore a splendid costume, carefully imitating that of a Chinese Empress and so on.Not to be out of the prevailing mode, the Prince Imperial also gave a ball.The rooms were darkened, and lit up splendidly with tapers, the little guests arriving at noon, and departing at two o\u2019clock.They nauced for a short time, but soon went into various plays ; and after enjoying some amusing conjuring feats performed tor their delectation, a tombola, iu which everybody got some charming little present, and a refection of creams, fruit, and oilier simple dainties, they took their leave of their Imperial hosts, and the young \u201cHope of France\u201d went quietly to his usual afternoon lessons.Since Lent began, dancing is more moderately indulged in, and only privately.No balls are ostensibly given ; private theatricals, displays of conjuring, clairvoyance, table - turning, \u2019 and fortune-ielling taking their place.The Princess de Beauvais has just achieved a brilliant success that will long be remembered even among the shifting impressions of this kaleidescopic metropolis.The Orphan Asylum of St.Anne\u2019s, for girls, has been going down hill of late ; ambits exchequer was so nearly empty about three weeks ago, that the Lady-Superintendent of the establishment waited on the Princess, implored her to bestir herself on its behalf, and declared that, unless speedy aid were given, the asylum must close its doors in a fortnight.The Princess, moved by the pleader's earnest entreaties, assured her that she would at once go to work on behalf of the charity.\u201cWhat woman wills, God wills,\u201d added the Princess, quoting the well-known French proverb, \u201cand I promise yon that I will set your asylum pecuniarily at ease with the least possible delay.\u201d In pursuance of this laudable determination, the Princess resolved to give a theatrical entertainment, followed by a supper, the tickets to both play and supper to be purchasable only at such exorbitant prices as people with money to throw away would be.supposed to be willing to pay ; the cunning Princess knowing that every creature who cared for the reputation of tha highest Ion would make it a point of honour to be seen at a reunion of so costly a character.As her own reception rooms are small, she went off at once to the wife of the great banker, Bar-onejs de Mayendorff, whose hotel in the ugly, noisy, dirty, vulgar rue Cadet is one of the largest and most splendid in Paris, and got the Baroness to lend her, for the occasion, the vast and magnificent saloon, called the Salon du Nef, (the Nave Saloon) from its being built like the interior of a cathedral, with pillars down the sides, groined ceiling, stained-glass windows, and so forth.This immense room occupies nearly all the drawing-room Boor of the hotel, and communicates, by a little spiral gothic staircase, with another room of similar dimensions, on the next story, which serves as a supper-room.The Nave Saloon was fitted up as a theatre.; Dumas\u2019 L\u2019honneur est sauves, Octave Feuillet\u2019s Barbier Héroïque, and a little one-act trifle of George Sand\u2019s, were selected for the representation ; Prince Poniatowski was invited to lead tha orchestra; and the Princess, passing in her own mind a review of the beaux and belles of the capital, selected the very handsomest and grandest as actresses and as actors, men of tha highest fashion, making these gentlemen pay 500 frs.each for the honour thus conferred on them.The salle de spectactle was fi ted up in the most elegant style, the footlights hidden by masses of flowers, rows of blue fauteuils, embroidered with gold, filling the hall, and the gallery being fitted up in similar style.All the seats were occupied by ladies ; those in the hall paying 25 frs.; those in the gallery paying 15 frs.As for the gentlemen, they \u201cmade themselves small,\u201d as the French saying is, and stood where they could, paying 25 frs.each for the privilegi of standing or sitting on the steps of the little spiral staircase.The affair went off capitally ; the plays were voted \u201cdélicieux,\" and the supper, at 20 francs a head, ditto ; and such was the vehemence of the desire of the gay world to be able to boast of having been present, that the entertainment was reaeated on the following Tuesday and Friday, the hall being crammed to its utmost each time.The receipts left a clear profit of 22,000 frs.The indefatigable Princess next induced the Duke de Luynes to lend his noble saloons for a Bazaar, at which the fair actresses of the Nave Saloon appeared as saleswomen, and cleared 15,000 frs.St.Anne\u2019s Orphan Asylum is therefore once more in a flourishing condition ; and the Princess has achieved the reputation of being one of the mostspirited and successful 11 patronesses\u201d extant.CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.SPECIAL MEETING.A Special Meeting of the Council was held at 8 o\u2019clock on Wednesday evening, His Worship the Mayor presiding.INN-KEEPERS IN THE COUNCIL.Councillor Muir presented petitions from the Montreal and other temperance Societies against tavern and saloon-keepers being allowed to have seats in the.Council.Laid on the table.PETITIONS.The following Petitions were than read and referred to the appropriate Committees : \u2014 F rom the inhabitants ofSt.Catherine and Guy Streets for foot-paths.From D.Wood, for a foot-path for Upper Mountain Street.From the residents of Guy Street for lamps.From Brown and Gnilbault offering to ceda the land required for the continuation of St.Urbain Street to the city limits.Frora Mv Adams, for permission to erect a steam-engine in Colborne Avenue.from Mr.Carroll, fi»r the dismissal of certain policemen.THE GRAND TRUNK.The Mayor said he had been requested to lay the following letter before tha Council : Quebec, Marchas, 1862.Sir,\u2014May I beg the great favor of your informing the City of Montreal how much the Grand Trunk Railway Company regrets the delay which, trom no fault of theirs, has arisen in reference to the commencement of the works of the AioGill Street extension, towards which the Council so liberally decided in October last to subscribe, in accordance with the existing agreement with the Corporation.I had imagined at the date of the Council\u2019s resolution of October last, and at which time I left Canada for England, that by tlie arrangement with the Hon.John Young, in behalt of the Terminus Company, the early construction of works, and their instant commencement was secured ; and the Company in that expectation immediately carried out the lines of railway upon their own land.Rut it appears that unexpected difficulties arose as to the mode of passing Mill Street, and Mr.Young was unable to procure the full amount ot capital required within the time stipulated.That time was, however extended ; and without troubling yem with all the details, I may state that I am waiting for letters from England which will have an important bearing on this subject, which the Comcany con-sidai\\ in common with the City Council, to be so pressing, and which you may bo assured will not fail for want of any exertion on their part.Montreal is thé centre of the Grand Trunk system ; and if proposed arrangements wi th other companies for united working are completed, the question of centra! terminal accommodation for a larger interest, will become more and more an essential work,-.-to the extension of which, as the traffic progresses, capital will be raised on the joint security of the United Companies, and which the separate security of the Grand Trunk Company will not unfortunately at this moment command, I need not say, after the opinions I had the honor to express last year in my official letter to your predecessor, laid before the Council, that there is not an atom of truth in the statement which has gone abroad, viz; \u201cthat the Company's offices are to be mu5ved to the West.\u201d They uill remain at Montreal; and the bill which the Company are about to introduce to Parliament, for the power to re-arrange their affairs, contained, when it left England, two months ago, contains now, and will, if Parliament enacts the measure, hy law finally provide -that Montreal shall be the seat of the Company\u2019s head offices in Canada.This fact must have been perfectly well known to those who have set forth this and other false and unjustifiable reports.I have the honor to be, Sir, Yonrmost obedient serv\u2019t., Edward Watkin, Superintending Commissioner.At the suggestion of Aid Balmer, the letter was referred to the Finance Committee, to take such action upon it as the interests of the city may require.The Road Committee submitted a report recommending that the expense of every common sewer shall be borne by the owners of property in the street through which the sewer shall be made.The report was laid on the table.APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE PRESENT TEAR.The City Clerk proceeded to read the following report : TUHIS WORSHIP THE MAYOR, THE ALDERMEN, &c.The Special Committee of the Chairmen of the several standing Committees of the Council appointed to consider the appropriations for the current year, Respectfully report, That in and by the Act 24 Yic.Cap.67, passed in the last Session of Parliament, it is provided : (Here are cited the clauses restricting the annual expenditure, &c.) That in accordance with the above provisions.y°ur OQinimttec caused a statement to be pre-pared oy the City Treasurer shewing the receipts from the past civic year, ending on the 3lst Jan.last, which said receipts amount to $504,726 29 ^ , jV iUhQuut your Committee recommend should be appropriated as follows, viz : 1 _ 1- or the payment of the interest and sums required for the sinking fund on the debt due by the City.$307,852.99 2.For the general and ordinary expenses of the City, viz ; To the Finance Committee as per statement .$40,333 18 To the Fire Committee 13,832.00 To the Police Do.33,843.90 5247 MONTREAL HERALD DAILY COMMERCIAL ter, produced a third shirt, which witness also TRADE AND COMMERCE.identified.To the Market Do.To the Light Do.To the City Hall Do.Health Committee____ E o a*d Committtee, amount already expended .Amount appropriated for stones.Amount to be expended during the year.To the Water Committee .3.For reserre of 5 per cent, on receipts of $493,146 to meet unforeseen expenses.8,619 00 15,000.00 2,210.00 500 3,903 19,040 14,309.02 §3'7,252.02 17,625.00 24,657.30 , .\t$504,726.29 in making out the appropriation for the Police Committee, your Committee in view of the loud and numerous demands for an augmentation of the Force, deemed it expedient to increase the strength of the Constabulary force by 15 men, hut this could only be done by reducing the pay of the men from 4s 6d to 3s.9d per day, which your Committee have done, and for which they have to ask the sanction of the Council.By referring to the above statement it will be seen that there is granted to the Road Committee, for keeping the roads in order, and for general improvements, this year only $14,309.02, an amount altogether insufficient to meet the numerous demands upon that department ; but it is all that could he spared for that department after providing for the interest of the debt and the sinking fund, the general expenses of the other departments of the Corporation, as they were bound to do under the new law.Under these circumstances, your Committee directed their attention towards finding out some mode of making up the amount required, to enable the Road Committee to carry on the works of the year.The only means, in their opinion, of attaining the object in view is by effecting a small loan, and as the Council have now a bill before the Legislature asking for authority to borrow certain sums of mouey, and amongst others one lor £25,000 for drainage purposes, it occurred to your Committee that if that amount were turned from currency into sterling, giving the Corporation the privilege of applying the difference to the repair of streets and general improvements during the present year, it would afford the proper remedy to an evil which is not likely to occur another year, as more care will probably be taken to collect the revenue this and every succeeding year, when the stringency of the new law comes to be felt.Your Committee, therefore, recommend that an amendment to that effect be asked to be introduced in the Bill above referred to.Tbe whole nevertheless respectfully submitted.(Signed,) Fits.Leclaike, Henry Bulmer, R.Bellemare, Frederic Penn, George B.Mdir, Henry Lyman, D.Gorrie, J.B.Rodland, J.B.Homier.Committee Room, City Hall, Montreal, 9th April, 1862 .A very protracted discussion ensued, several members commenting at great length on the items of the report.Councillor Stevenson finally' moved that the paragraph alluding to the augmentation of the Police Force be struck out, and that tbe pay of the men be allowed to remain as at present.The amendment was lost by 16 to 10.Coun.Stevenson moved another amendment to the effect that the distribution of the appropriations for the present year be made in proportion to the respective contributions of each ward for the past year.The amendment was lost by 17 to 9, The adoption of the report was then moved and carried by 20 to 6.A report of the Finance Committee recommending the appointment of Mr.Rouer Roy, as joint attorney of the Corporation, along with Mr.Henry Stuart, each at a salary of £'250 a year, was adopted.The Council adjourned at two o\u2019clock in the morning.C0ÏÏBT OF ÛTJEEFS BEÏÏEEL CROvvN SIDE.(Mr.Justice Mondelet presiding.) Thursdiy, April 10, 1862.StealinO a notarial record.William McGinnis was again placed at the bar, charged with stealing a notarial transfer As already stated, on the 10th April, 1860, the house of Mr.Barbeau, notary, Laprairie, was burnt and with it the original notarial document, a copy of which was fyled in the Prothonotary\u2019s office in the Court House.This copy the prisoner was charged wiih stealing.He came to the Court House with one Milton, who did not understand the nature of the document, hut was told by tlie prisoner to put the copy of it down the water closet of the steamer crossing to Laprairie.Mr.Kerr defended the prisoner.Mr.John Honey, deputy Prothonolary, proved the record to have been fyled as Exhibit No.2 in the case in the Superior Court, described at the previous triel.David Buchanan, Prothonotary\u2019s Clerk, said he remembered the prisoner coming to the office between 10 and 11 o\u2019clock in the forenoon, and requesting witness to show the record.Handed it to him, and he examined it for about three-quarters of an hour in the office.While he was doing so, witness was called away, and when he returned in a few minutes, prisoner had left, and the record was lying on the counter, but exhibit number 2 was missing.Could not swear that this exhibit was in the record when he handed it to prisoner.James Milton, laborer of Laprairie, said he knew the prisoner at the bar.Came from Montreal to Laprairie with him in Spring two years ago.Prisoner asked witness to came up to the Court House, he did so and stood outside, but prisoner went up into the building ; when he came out he had a piece of paper in his hand, and gave it to witness while coming to Laprairie.Mary McFarland was examined, and stated that the prisoner told her he had stolen the copy ; the original was burned and he had a clear acquittance from old Duclos.John McDonald, a farmer, said that in the summer of 1860, prisoner told him he came to the office in Montreal and asked the Clerk to show him a certain paper\u2014a transfer between Jean Ble.Varjn and his, prisoner\u2019s, father, and while the Clerkii attention was called away, he took the paper and pat it in his coat sleeve ; he then went out of the Court House and gave it to James Milton, and told him to pat it in his boot.Prisoner then said that there were three men after him for the paper ; Mr.Lanctot the lawyer, the clerk iu the office and another.James Mib ton afterwards threw the paper down the water closet while crossing to Laprairie.This was the case for the Crown.Mr.Kerr proceeded to address the Jury for the defence.Before uoing so, however, he submitted to the Court that there was no evidence on which the Crown could iSty f°r a conviction.He read the clause of the Statute on which the indictment was framed, and contended that a copy of a deed of transfer stolen in thé present case, did not come under the statufe.The sscOnd count of the indictment charged the prisoner witil stealing a notarial minute, to wit, an authentic copy.&C.Now he contended that an authentic copy was riot, according to our interpretation of the law, a notarial minute.The indictment distinctly charged the prisoner with stealing a notarial minute, and not an authentic copy.His Honour said it would have been better that the indictment should read thus : an authentic copy, to wit a notarial minute.The latter words would then have gone for nothing and left the former unaffected.Mr.Kerr observed that the difficulty arose from copying an English Statute, and dove-tailing to it the words \u201c notarial minute.\u201d Mr.Johnson said it was owing to \u201c scissors legislation.\u201d There were no notorial minutes in England, unless protests of notes, &c., were considered such.The subject was open to criticism, and had attracted his attention before he framed the indictment.He referred, however, to \u201c Instructions sur lesconventions\u201d to show that a copy might take the place of the original minute when the latter was destroyed.His Honour thought Mr.Kerr\u2019s objection should have weight.He would therefore reserve the point and submit it to his colleagues on the Bench in the Court of Appeals.Meantime the prisoner would be tried for stealing the paper, which might subsequently be declared a crime or not.Mr.Johnson intimated that bail would be taken if the prisoner was convicted, as he was only charged with a misdemeanour.Mr.Kerr then addressed the Jury.For the defence he called, John McFarland, who said he told Milton that he would be arrested if he did not tell Mr.Lanctôt all he knew of the matter.James Alexander tried to make him drunk this morning, but he could not be bought for a glass of grog.One Pilotte testified to Milton\u2019s being a drunken character, at the same time giving the prisoner a good character.James Alexander also gave the prisoner a good character.Said he never told Milton or McFarland not to tell all they knew against the prisoner ; he only said in conversation with them \u2014\u201cdo the prisoner justice.\u201d This closed the case, and Mr.Johnson having replied, the Court summed up, and after a short deliberation, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.Bail was received for the prisoner until the point of law reserved be decided, himself in the sum of £100, and two sureties iu £50 each.STEALING FROM A SHOP, &C.A little boy, named James McGurk, was then placed at the bar, before an English-speaking Jury, charged with having, on the 19 th January, stolen two pair of pants, a woolen shirt, and two cotton shirts, the property of Mr.Lavender, Merchant Tailor.Henry Lavender identified the articles produced as his.On cross-examination, the counsel for the defence produced another shirt, which Mr.Lavender identified as his by the private mark which ïvas on it, The counsel then, amid much laugk- Detective O'Leary said\u2014 On the 2nd February I went to the house of one Sheppard to search it.While there the prisoner came in.I arrested him, and finding the shirt on his person, asked him how he came by it.The prisoner replied that he bought it in McGill street.But five minutes afterwards he said he got it at home.Mr.McCord addressed the Jury for the defence, observing that of the two shirts produced, he had placed Mr.Lavender\u2019s private mark on one himself, and that it was in every respect exactly identical with the stolen shirt, though it was not Mr.Lavender\u2019s.He then called a young man in his office, who stated that the first shirt was bought at Mr.Arthur\u2019s, and the second at Mr.Lavender\u2019s.He saw Mr.McCord copy the private mark of Mr.Lavender on the shirt bought at Mr.Arthur\u2019s.Daniel Rose gave the prisoner (who had been in his employ) a good character.James Thompson testified to the same effect.The Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty.The Court was then adjourned at 5 J P.M.CITY AND DISTRICT SAVINGS BANK.At the General Annual meeting of the Patron and Honorable Directors of the City and District Savings Bank, held at its office Great St.James Street, on Monday the 7th April, for the election of aboard of Managing Directors for the ensuing year; Olivier Berthelet Esq., was called to the Chair and Mr.Barbeau, the Actuary, was requested to act as Secretary.The following Report was then read by the President, A.La Rocque, Esq.:\u2014 To the Patron and Honorary Directors of the City and District Savings Bank of Montreal.Gentlemen.\u2014The Board of Managing Directors have much pleasure in submitting to you, in a few words, the Sixteenth Annual Report.of the affairs of the Institution, wbicn they are happy to say, shews a steady progress in utility and prosperity.The total amount due to Depositors on the 31st December 1861, was.$770,446 58 Amount due to Minors and others on the property of the Bank___\t16,829 54 Tks addition this year to the Reserve fund, after paying all expenses and making donations of $2,500 to Charitable Institutions, is $14,370 66, making it, in total .91,401 82 $878,677 94 This sum is invested as follows : In City of Montreal, Provincial, and Champlain and St.Lawrence R.R.first Mortgage Bonds.$327,692 62 In Bank stocks, viz : La Banque du Peuple, City, Bank of Montreal, Ontario and\tCommercial.\t91,652\t59 In loans at short dates on endorsed promissory notes, with the collateral security of Stocks, Bonds, &c., &c., such as required by law.306,006\t01 In the Property occupied by the Bank.23,135\t35 In amount due on sale of portion of the above.10,400\t00 In Office Furniture.900\t00 In deposits on call at 4 per cent interest.with five different Banks of the City.118,891\t36 $878,677 94 The total number of accounts opeu on the 31st Dec., 1861, was_____ Which may be classed as follows : 3,204 Of $50 and\t\t\tunder\t1,217 \u2022om 50\t\tto\t$100\t524 ll\t100\tu\t200\t525 u\t200\tll\t400\t439 It\t400\tCl\t800\t287 (l\t800\tll\t1200\t95 u\t1200\tll\t1600\t55 a\t1600 and\t\tupwards\t62 3,204 The Act under which this Institution was first established expired last year, and was renewed by the Legislature in the last Session ; it has been thought advisable to ask from the Legislature during its present Session a Special Act of Incorporation, founded mainly on the provisions of the present law, but which will somewhat modify the organization and extend the powers of the Institution.The whole respectfully submitted.ALF.La ROCQUE, President.E.J.BARBEAU, Actuary.It was then moved by C.Dorwiu, Esq., seconded by J.B.Smith, Esq., and unanimously resolved\u2014 That the Report and Statement of the affairs of the City and District Savings Bank, now submitted, are highly satisfactory, and that the same be received, adopted, and published.Moved by Wm.Bristow, Esq., seconded by Francis Clarke, Esq, and unanimously resolved\u2014 That tile thanks of this Meeting be given to the President, Directors, and Actuary, rur tneir valuable services in conducting the business of the Bank for the past year.William Bristow, Esq.having consented to act as Scrutineer, the election by ballot of the Board of Managing-Directors for the ensuing year was proceeded with, when the following gentlemen were duly elected, viz: \u2014 Edwin Atwater, A.II.Delisle, L.H.Holton, Hy.Judah, Hy.Mulholland, Dr.W.Nelson, Henry Starnes, Wm.Workman, Alfred La Rocque, and Edward Murphy, Esquires.\u2022.On motion of Wm.Workman, Esq., seconded by Wm.Bristow, Esq., the thanks of the meeting were unanimously voted to the Chairman for his services.E.J, BARBEAU, Secretary.The Board, having met the following day, Alfred LaRocque, Esquire, was duly elected President, and Hemy Mulholland, Esquire, Vice-President, for the ensuing year.FURTHER EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT OF THE FINANCE MINISTER OF CANADA ON THE TRADE OF THE PROVINCE.The erection of the Free Ports of Gaspé and Sault St.Marie, which took effect on the 1st January, 1861, should also be taken into account iu comparing with the revenues of 1860 and 1861.' The value of importations into these ports respectively (including the outports attached to Gaspé) was in 1860, $286,558 for Gaspé, and $54,421 for Sault Ste.Marie\u2014forming an aggregate of $340,979 as the value of importations at those Ports in 1860, upon which duties amuunting to $35,278 were collected.The value importations into those Free Ports, in 1861, increased to upwards of $480,000, the duties upon which would have amounted to about $45,000, under the existing tariff.In order, therefore, to establish a fair comparison between 13ÇQ gnd 1861, the deductions from Revenue caused by the modifications of the Tariff and the policy by which Free Ports were created, should be taken into consideration, ajnl that to the actual collections from customs in 18.61, Amounting to.,\t$.5,768,192 Should be added > 1st.Loss on books now free.$ g^oo 2nd.\u201c on Raw Sugars .129,000 3rd.\u201c on goods imported into Free Ports .45,000 182,009 $4,1950,192 The Official Returns (Table No.15,) show the actual amount of Exports reported to be $34,-717,248.To this it has been usual to add 121 per cent to the officially returned Exports from Inland Ports, which has been estimated to cover such goods as on a frontier of 1200 miles, find their way across the border unreported.With this addition, the Exports of 1861 stand at$36,614,195 1860.34,631,890 Increase in 1861.$1,982,305 The whole of this increase is more than made up by the Exports of the following two articles of Agricultural products, viz : Indian Corn Exported in 1861.$1,087,277 Indian Corn Exported in 1860\t.528,630 Wheat Corn Exported in 1861\t.4,260,380 Wheat Corn Exported in I860 .2,308,627 With reference to the channels of trade, it will be found (Table 17,) that of the whole imports of 1860, goods to the value of $13,548,665 were imported via the St.Lawrence, whilst in 1861 that amount rose to $17,249,055.The exports show a still greater improvement in the com merce via the St.Lawrence, the exports having been in 1860 .$14,037,403 and in 1861.22,524,735 Thus the whole trade by the channel of the St.Lawrence amounted in 1861 to.$39,773,790 in 1860 to.27,586,068 increased trade via the St.Lawrence.$12,187,972 One feature in the exports of 1861 is deserving of special note, as indicative of the favor the St.Lawrence route is obtaining iu the West as a channel for the exportation of the produce of that section of tne United States.It is the item of$3,505,11, value of goods iu transitu from the Western States seaward ria the St.Lawrence.The new era inaugurated in the Gulf districts and the Western part of the Province, by the creation of the free ports of Gaspé and Sault Ste.Marie, is of so recent a date that the effect of the policy which led to the establishment of such ports can scarcely now be fully ascertained ; but the increased trade of those ports during the first year of their new commercial existence, justifies the belief that the objects for which they were mainly create, i e., the encouragement of the fisheries and the settlement of the country, bid fair to he realized.The imports at Gaspé and outports have increased from $286,558 in 1860, to $392,068 in eluding in this amount $11,867, value of goods imported at Amherst, upon wuich duties were under special circumstances collected, and $5,-472 entered at New Carlisle, within the Free Port, but for consumption out of its immediate limits.The imports at Sault Ste.Marie experienced a somewhat corresponding improvement, the figures standing for 1861.$92,704 do\t1860.54,421 GAZETTE; FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1862.Increase.$38,283 (See Tables No.11 and 12.) A marked improvement has taken place in the ship building branch of the industry of the Province, as shown by Table No.34, by which we find thut the number of all classes built, in 186 0 and 1861, respectively, was as follows :\u2014 1860.\t.Number, 74.Tonnage,23,993 1861.\t.do\t96.\tdo\t33,187 In.in 1861 do\t22.\tdo\t9,194 The increase in the shipping of our sea ports is also deserving of note.The number and tonnage of vessels which arrived and departed in 1861, as compared with the previous vear, stands as follows :\u2014 Vessels Arrived.Vessels Departed.No.Ton.No.Ton.1860.1,992 831,434\t1,923 821,791 1861.2,468 1,089,035\t2,395 1,060,325 In.in\u201961.465 247,601\t472 238,534 The trade of the Provincial Canals has largely increased, and nowithstanding the deductions under the order of Council of the 28th May, I860 authorizing a remission of refunding of 90 per cent, ot the Tolls on the Welland Canal incertain cases, the actual collections on the Canal during the pastyear have exceeded the Toils of the two previous years 1859 and 1860, in the former of which the refunding Regulation did not exist.The amount of Tolls on the Welland Canal actually paid into the Treasury in 1861, after refunding 90 per cent, in the cases authorized, is $ 175,201.In 1860 the collectors were $168 157 and iu 1859 $124,700; shewing an increase of $56,501, in 1861 over 1859.By a reference to the comparative table (No.11) of the movement of properly, passengers and vessels on the Provincial Canals, it will be seen that for the last four years the Tonnage of property carried on the Welland Canal increased 8,09 per cent, in 1861 over 1860, and 19,33 per cent over 1858.The St.Lawrence Canal, upon which the Tolls have been totally abolished since afltUMt.y 1860, the increase has been much larger, the percentage of 1861 over 1860; being 20.89, and of 1861 over 1858 46.46.The decrease of the Traffic on the Chatnbly Canal was large last year, being 47.47 per cent, less than the Tonnage movement of 1860, and 8.22 per cent, less than that of 1855.This falling off many be ascribed to the interruption of the Lumber Trade with the United States.The Traffic of the Burlington Bay Canal is, to a certain degree an index to the trade of Hamilton.The Tonnage of goods which passed through it in 1861 exceeded by 47.38 per cent, that of 1860 and 201,54 per cent, that of ]858.The Ottawa and Rideau Canals, and St.Ann\u2019s Look, show a decrease of Traffic in 1861 compared with 1860 and previous years, if we except a comparison of the Traffic by the St.Ann\u2019s Lock in 1861 and 1858, which shows an increase of nearly 29 per cent, of the former over the latter year.The boon conferred on the internal transport Traffic of the Prouince, by the order in Council of May, 1868, will he estimated by the following statement of ihe Tolls refunded, and the amount of Tolls not collected, but to which the goods passing through\u201cthe\tProvincial\tCanals would have been subject under the Tariff of 1860 :\u2014 1861.Welland Canal\u2014Tolls refunded.$ 55,326 S.Lawrence Canals\u2014Tolls not collected.121,902 Burlington Bay Canal\u2014\u201c\t\u201c\t\u201c____32,799 St.Anu\u2019sLock\u2014\t\u201c\t\u201c\t\u201c.6,183 Rideau Canal\u2014\t\u201c\t\u201c\t\u201c____17,651 $223,861 The excise duties on stills and proof spirits, brewers and malt liquors, also show an increase during the last year,the amounts collected from these branches ofthe excise Revenue being, for the last thiee years, respeclivelv areas follows 1859\t.$240;164.41 1860\t.244,428.57 I860.285,947.59 Table No.27 shows the various descriptions and the quantities of grain and other substances used in distillation and brewing, and also the quantity of spirits and malt liquors produced during each of the years above mentioned.The following extracts of that table shows a large increase in 1861, over the two preceding years :\u2014 FOR DISTILLATION.Total quantity of\t\t\t\tProof Spirits \tGrain.\t\t\tDistilled.1859.\tI860.\t1861.\t1859.\t1800.1801.Bush.\tBush.\tBush,\tGats,\tGals.\tGals.691491\t708081\t919249\t2170484\t2188291 2911897 1517416\t567257\t429634\t1069386\t138528\t905703 1208909\t1275288\t1348883\t32399870\t3327819 3817000 FOR BREWING.Total quantity of\tMalt Liquor.1850.Bust], 200144 motto Malt.18C0.Eusli.234174 15 JUKI 1801.Bush.287480 lUV-.l-J 1859.Gals.2188715 I860.\t1801.Gala.\tGals.2140790 2923440 âkl® ftsdos l 4Ü5001 MiSfeSrSf ïfflttîiai kSSftiiii Looking at the reductions made in the duties on Brandy, Wines, Fruits, Teas, Sugars and Oof-fee, the repeal of the duty on Books, and the exemption from duty of all goods imported into the two Free Ports of the Province, there is good grounds for satisfaction at the general results of the Trade for the past year, especially when it is considered that the neighboring country, with which Canada has such extensive commercial relations, is involved in a war which has to no small degree disturbed the commerce of the world.A.T.GALT, Finance Minister.THE ARMY.(From the London Gazette, Tuesday, Mardi 18, 1862.) War-Office, March 18.2nd Life Gs\u2014W S McMahon, to be Cornet and suh-Lt by pur, vice Alleyne, wl}o ret.4th D Gs\u2014J De B Lynch, gent, to be Cornet by pur, vice Child, prom.6th D Gs\u2014Capt R Cpote, fm 29th Ft, to be Capt, y B-ilajor C P Rosser, ex.3rd Hussars\u2014W H Starkey, gent, to he Cornet by pur, vice Webb, app to 45th Ft.5th Lan\u2014E P Mackenzie, gent, to be Cornet by pur, vice Sadlier, prom.6th Ds\u2014Capt J Evans, fm 9 th Lans, to be Capt, v J.Hardy, who ex.9th Lans\u2014Capt J Hardy, from 6th Drags, to be Capt, vice J Evans, who ex.12 th Lans\u2014Cor H J R Cruise has been permitted to retire by sale ; J E P Hooper, gent, to be Cor by pur, v H H J R Cruise, who ret.16th Lans\u2014G C K Baldwin, gent,late Lt S Cork L I Mil,to be Cor by pur, v Jeeves, who ret.R A\u2014Lt W M Glasgow has been permitted to resign.R E\u2014Lt W Boileau be Sec-Capt, v C A Rice, who ret on h p : Lt W C O\u2019Connor removed.GreuGds-Ens and Lt C Fludyer to be Lt and Capt by pur, v H H Cholmeley, who ret ; G C K Johnstone,gent, to be Eus and by pur, v Fludyer ; W U O\u2019Connor, Viscount Castle-Cuffe, Page of Honour to her Majesty, to be Ens and Lt without pur.Coldstream Gds\u2014G G Macpherson, Esq, Page of Honour to her Maj, to be Ens and Lt without pur.3rd ft-Eus J J B Haydock to be Lt by pur, y G Ë Eündie, who ret; CE Reeves, gent, to be Ens by pur, v Haydock.10th Ft\u2014J A Little, gent, to be Eus by pur, v Boddam, app to ÿsrd Foot.16th Ft\u2014E W Carleton, geht, to be KnS by pur,'y Bridger, app to 83rd Ft.29th Ft\u2014Capt and Brevet-Major C P Rosser, from 6th Drag Gds, to be Capt, v'R Coote, who ex.38th Ft\u2014Staff-Asst Surg R De B Riordan to be Àsst Surg, v Henderson,' who reg.39th Ft\u2014Ens C A Taylor to be Lt by pur, y WH Palmer, iyho ret ; F S Arnott,.gent, to be Ens by pur, v Taylor.53rd Foot\u2014Lt S J Nicholls to be Adjt, v Lt Pye, who resigns.64th Foot\u2014Lt H V Brook, fm 9§tk Ft, to be Lt, v F E Wilson, who ex ; Ens E j Jekyll, fn) 15th Ft, to be Ens, v Anderson, prom.7lst Ft\u2014f W pickson, gent, to be Ens by pur, v H G Dods, who ret.73rd Ft\u2014Lt T W $ Miles to be Capt by pur, v R J Hereford, spbo ret ; Eus II Synge to be Lt by pur, v Miles ; Èiis J W Bqd- titvinj fcpm 1 \u20182tlx Ftj to Exxoj v\tvx-jo \u2014Staff Assist-Surg R Adams, M D, to be Assist-Surg, v Corbett app to staff.83rd Ft\u2014Ens A G Bridger, from iqtb'Ft, to be pps, y F Ford, who ret.95th Ft\u2014 Lt F E Wilson, frojn Gfth Ft, to be Lt, v H V Brooke, who ex.100th Fi\u2014Qt-lnsi W Hume, fm k-p 72nd Ft, Garrison Qt mst at Gibraltar, to be QtwtoPBJ&Ster, v G Grant, on half pay.Unattached.\u2014Lt J Briggs, fm Mil Train, to be Capt, without purchase.Brevet.\u2014Lt-Gen Sir J .McDonald, K C B, Col of 92nd Ft, to be Gen ; Maj-Gen T G Ball, Col of 8th Ft, to be Lt-Gen; Bvt-Col A Shirley, fm Lt-Col h-p Unatt, to be Maj-Gen ; Byt Lt-Col C C McIntyre, CB, Major 78th Ft, to be Col ; Mai H W Meredith, 41st Ft, to be Lt-Col ; Capt E B Cooke, 83rd Foot, to be Maj.-Memorandum.\u2014 Lt O\u2019N Segrave, h-p Unatt, has been permitted to retire by sale under conditions of Feb.15, 1861.Brigadier-Generals.\u2014Staff officers having the rank of Brigadier-General may be permitted, after the 1st of April next, to receive the money allowance in lieu of two servants, provided such officers are not attached to the head-quarter Staff.This is only to extend to Brigadier-Generals in command of brigades, and not to officers holding staff appointments who may have the relative rank of Brigadier-General.Distinguished Service Rewards.\u2014Lt-Col W K Stuart, of the 86th Regt, has been granted the distinguished service pension of £100, vice Maj-General Townshend, appointed Colonel of the 25 th.In consequence of the withdrawal of two battalions of Guards for service in Canada, a battalion will no longer be quartered in Dublin, and the 1st of the Coldstreams, now in that city, will return to London, being replaced by a regiment of the Line.____________________ Cannon Balls.\u2014The New York Herald speaking of the gradual increase in the size of cannon balls, says : u in 1812 twenty-four pound balls were considered large.A few years later sixty-four pounders were terrible missiles.During the Trent affair England attempted to scare us with one hundred pounders, of Armstrong\u2019s make.Now we have one hundred and twenty pound balls fired from the Monitor, four hundred and sixtv-nine pound balls fired from the Lincoln gun at Fortress Monroe, and two cannon are in process of manufacture which will carry balls weighing one thousand and ninety pounds.Current Topics\u2014rinrnce and Trade.\u201cHERALD\u201d OFFICE, 7 Montreal, April 10th.) The past week has exhibited the same dullness that characterized the previous one ; the same causes producing like effects.The river road still holds good and sleighs, are freely passing over.A large quantity of Hay keeps coming in, which will tend to prevent any high range of prices during the spring.Over the markets there is but a very retail trade doing, the condition of the roads preventing farmers bringing in produce.We give the receipts for the week by the Grand Trunk Rail Road.Flour for week ending 10th April.brls.12,057 * rom 1st January to 3rd do.\u201c 105,934 Total, 117,991 Wheat for week ending 10th April.brls.25,402 From 1st January to 3rd do.\u201c 165 333 Total, .210,735 Ashes for week ending 10th April.brls.157 From 1st January to 3rd do.\u201c\t2,720 Total, 2,877 Pork for week ending 10th April.brls.190 From 1st January to 3rd do.«\t11,938 Total, 12,128 Butter for week ending 10th April.kegs.198 r rom 1st January to 3rd do.\u201c\t5 078 Tota!).\u201c\t5,276 Iu Produce very little has been doing ; and ouing to a steady decline in theEnglish markets, we must quote lower prices here for flour and wheat.As regards the latter, the views of buyers and sellers are too different to allow of operations for future delivery.Some small sales of flour have been made at $4 80 in all Mly, but this before last news.We are informed that the-.,\u2014™ bushels No.1 flour advertised for sale by the Commissariat, have been placed at prices ranging from $4 55 to $4 65.Bag flour is'dull at $2 50 (3) 2 60, with a fair amount offering.In the coarser grains there is nothing doing.Provisions are very dull.We hear that the Commissariat sold 100 barrels pork (Chicago Mess) at $12, and refused to sell any more, preferring to repack and hold over.In beef nothing is doing.The market in New York for both flour and wheat is dull and drooping, the reduction in flour being in some instances 10c z® 15c'#'barrel.There is no change to note in the price of wheat.As before said, the English markets show a steady decline.Respecting that of Toronto, we quote from the Toronto Leader, of 8th inst, Monday, April 7.The business done in produce last week was exceedingly limited, reports having fallen off both by teams and rails, to almost nothing.Our dealers have turned their attention to the seeking of a market for the grain now on hand, and several cargoes of wheat and barley have already left our harbor.All the vessels that have sailed up to the present time\u2014three or four\u2014have gone to Oswego.We do not anticipate, however, any great movement will take place before the canal is opened between Oswego and New York via Albany.The additional cost of storage there will prevent shippers from .moving their grain from this side, until the ice is perfectly removed.As the Canal navigation will soon open, we have taken some trouble to procure correct information respecting our carrying fleet of steamers, schooners and barges for the coming season, and we now give it.We expect it will be correct, as the returns were sent in by the different Forwarders :\u2014 JACQUES, TRACY A 00.LINE STEAMERS.\u201c Huron,\u201d.capacity bids.3800 \u201cColonist,\u201d.do.\t3800 \u201cIndian,\".do.\t3000 \u201c Avon,\".do.\t3000 \u201cOttawa,\u201d.do.\t3000 \u201cSt.Lawrence,\u201d.do.\t3000\u201419600 BLACK AND PERRY (BEAVER LINE.) Str.\u201c Bowmanville.\u201d.brls.\t5500 Str.\u201c Ranger,\u201d.do\t2900 Prop.\u201c Whitby,\u201d.do\t3200 Prop.\u201c Magnet,\u201d.do\t2900\u201412500 COWAN & HOLCOMB.Str.\u201c West,\u201d.brls.\t3800 \u201c\t\u201c Brantford,\".do\t3800 \u201c\t\u201cGeo.Moffatt,\u201d.do\t2700 \u201c\t\u201cWellington,\u201d.do\t3500 \u201cBoston,\u201d.do\t3000-16800 The Mail Line, consisting^ of the x\t\u2022 ' - A.pion,\u201d \u201cMagnet,\u201d \u201cBanshee,\u201d and \u201cNew Era,\u201d which average 1750 brls each.10500\u2014 59400 This comprises the through steamers.We have, further, the American line connecting with British steamers at Ogdensburgh ; last year the \u201c Welland\u201d and \u201c Ottawa\u201d were on the route, eacli carrying 1500 barrels.The \u201c Ottawa\u201d was sold this spring, but will be replaced, we are informed, by another boat.We have, also, the Bay Quinte Line, John F.McOuaig, Agent.It consists of the steamers \u201c St.Lawrence\u201d and \u201c Indian,\u201d and barge \u201c India.\u201d The capacity of the steamers is 3400 brls.flour, and of the barge 9000 bus.wheat.Next comes the Beauharnois Navigation Company, from Cornwall to Montreal.It consists of the \u201c Salaberry\u201d.capacity brls.1200 \u201c Richelieu\u201d.do 500 The latter runs only to Beauharnois, As regards barges, Jacques, Tracy & Co.are agents for E.Berry & Co.Their fleet consists of 8 barges, carrying 100,000 bushels of wheat, 7 of them have been nearly re-built this last winter.Cowan & Holcomb 27 barges and 4 lake schooners, capable of carrying 250,000 bushels.They have also two tug steamers, the \u201cJenny Lind\u201d and \u201c Gem,\u201d and a new floating elevator in Kingston.We may mention that the \u201cBrantford\u201d and \u201c George Moffatt\u201d have been thoroughly repaired, and now class A 2 for three years.Glassford, Jones & Co\u2019s, fleet, between Kingston and Montreal, consists of 26 craft, the carrying capacity of which is equal to 280,000 bushs.per trip ; they have also two tug steamers.They will have several schooners on the lakes in connection with their barges at Kingston.They have also made arrangements for 1:4 extra barges, capable of carrying 100,OOQ bushels, J.& H.McLennan have 14 barges, carrying 150,000 bushels.H.Robertson has 22 barges (15 new), capable of carrying 200,000 bushels.Such is the return of steamers, &c., regularly engaged in the trade, but should the supply coming forwarti prove more than expected, we can easily add largely to the number by hiring, the^same as we did last year, a number of vessels engaged on other routes.We wrote recently on the probable rates at which freights would open this spring ; we to-day quote from the Toronto Leader \u201c Freights have opened moderately, and whpat has jic-en taken freely to Oswego at 3J 4e per bushel; flour 14/® ]§c, although, we believe, plenty of vessels are offering at 13c.There ià not much doing in freights further east than Oswego, although contracts have been made for flour by steamer to Montreal at 40c, and wheat, by schooner and barge, at 10c.Steamers ask ISc to go there without breaking bulk.\u201d We give the imporb] °f goods into the Port for the quarter ending 31st March.We had intended to comment upon them, but space to-day floes not permit it :\u2014 Iropoiis of the leading articles at the Port of Montreal, for the quarter epffing 31st March 1861 and 1862\t' 1861.Articles.\tM^i\u2019Ch.\t\tTwo months previous.\t\tTotal \tQn\u2019ty.\tValue.\tQn\u2019ty.\tValue.\t$ Gin, gals\t\t\t132\t86\t202\t122\t208 Brandy, gals\t\t39\t49\t\t\t49 Wine in wood.\t151\t112\t112\t143\t255 Do in bottle,do/.\t\t\t97\t266\t266 Cigars, lbs\t\t2083\t1663\t2640\t694\t2357 Starch.lbs\t\t6\t1\t1200\t87\t88 Soap, lbs\t\t1438\t167\t3956\t584\t751 Tobacco, manu.\t74413\t6315\t14790\t5868\t12183 Boots and Shoes\t\t7820\t\t1130t\t19127 Molasses, gals.\t56661\t9800\t78974\t7869\t17669 Sugar, raw, lbs.\t159419\t29022\t1250006\t49595\t78617 Coffee, greenjbs\t40369\t4888\t42023\t5124\t10012 Tea, lbs\t\t186740\t43532\t79632\t29741\t73273 Glassware\t\t\t2400\t\t4754\t7154 Cottons\t\t\t884979\t\t452790\t1337769 Silks & Velvets.\t\t169255\t\t44082\t213337 Woollens\t\t\t457767\t\t271460\t729227 Tot.Dut.Goods\t\t2037089\t\t114S562\t3186651 Tot.Free Goods\t\t96175\t\t146493\t242668 \t\t2133495\t\t1296055\t3429550 Total Duties.\t\t419818\t\t186774\t606592 1862.Articlea.\tMarch.\t\tTwo months previous.\t\tTotal \tQn\u2019ty.\tValue.\tQn\u2019ty.\tValue.\t$ Gin, gals\t\t\t\t\t\t Brandy, gals \u2014\t44\t67\t\t\t67 Wine in wood .\t160:\t87\tcc\t107\t194 Do in bottle, doz\t93\t438\t45\t42C\t858 Cigars, lbs\t\t411\t459\t750\t52C\t979 Starch,lbs\t\t42893\t1412\t8\t1\t1413 Soap, lbs\t\t630\t141\t3043\t214\t355 Tobacco, manuf.\t6896\t414\t72764\t9048\t9462 Boots and Shoes\t\t1083\t\t\t3733 Molasses, gals.\t1039!\t161\t27592\t4257\t4418 Sugar, raw, lbs .\t722045,\t35897\t38790\t1850\t37747 Coffee, greenjbs\t62999,\t9886\t72758\t11692\t2157S Tea, lbs\t\t174630\t81512\t73522\t38058\t119560 Glassware\t\t\t2176\t\t10037\t12213 Cottons\t\t\t605365\t\t177364\t783729 Silks & Velvets.\t\t100379\t\t4681\t105060 Woollens\t\t\t356490\t\t68454\t424944 Tot.Dut.Goods\t.1\t1513483\t\t503796\t2016279 Tot.Free Goods\t¦ .1\t69565\t\t616762\t686327 \t1582173\t\t\t1120558\t2702731 Total Duties,\t' | 388158\t\t\t117400\t405558 In Dry Goods, the trade has not been at all equal in amount to what it was last year, but it has this advantage, that although the volume of business is less, the results are more satisfactory.The imports and stocks being light, there have no forced sales.Stocks in country buyers\u2019 hands are still considerable, and although a number of Western men are forward, they do not evince that mania for buying which they did last spring.Then, on their first visit, they invested so heavily that they did not return the second time ; this year, having so far only bought light-ly, they will most probably pay us a second visit before the clo^e of the season.The prices of staples, such as shirtings, heavy calicos, &c.; range from 15 to 20 per cent higher than last year, whereas fancy goods are much the same.This is easily accounted for.All goods that take a large quantity of the raw material employing but little labor in the manufacture feel at once the rise in the raw material ; whereas all goods, such as muslins and other fancy articles employing much labor and but small amount of the raw materia], are comparatively little affected by the rise iu Cotton.Our buyers have been able also to purchase to advantage in the Home markets owing to the complete stagnation there ; that although the mills are working half time and the price of Cotton is high, still so slight is the demand that manufacturers have not been able to raise their prices commensurate with the rise of the raw material.Our Dry Goods merchants look forward to a fair and remunerative business this spring.Respecting the Dry Good3 market in New lork, we quote from the Shipping List ofthe 9th instant :\u2014 \u201c The market both for Pomestic and Foreign Goods, though not so actire as might be desired, is nevertheless as favorable as could be expected, and the indications are, that with continued suc-cessful operations of the Union troops against the Confederates, there will be a corresponding improvement in all departments.It is confidently anticipated that with the restoration to the L nion of the seceded States, there will be a grand revival of the Dry Goods trade, and that very full prices will obtain for nearly every description of both foreign and domestic manufactures.\u201d Our late advices from England do not contain news of any commercial importance.The question ofthe supply of Cotton is still before the public; but we think the enigmajs rapidly being solved by the number of heretofore unconsidered cotin-which, should the der England nearly independent of the Southern States.Money continues easy, and business generally is very dull.Our last American views is of great importance, the Federalists tfppear to have gained considerable advantage oter the Confederates.What the effect of the news on the prospect of trade, remains to be seen.We quote from the New York Shipping List~ \u201c General trade remains without noteworthy improvemeut, though we think the volume of the three days, recorded iu our regular Review in another column, shows some increase.There is little desire to speculate manifested in commercial circles, and the bulk of transactions on speculation are confined to other branches.Gold _has been 'tolerably active since our last, and the premium has for the most part been 2 la) 2i # cent., but the market was dull yesterday at 2 /® 21 # cent., while the tendency was to a further reduction.Foreign exchange has also ruled firmer, and though the market was by no means active yesterday, the quotations are somewhat higher than Friday last.\u201d In local matters we have had a meeting of the Board of Trade for the election of new officers.We have previously given full particulars of the meeting ;^we need only say now, that the trade of Montreal has grown latterly to such importance, that we trust the new Board will take the necessary steps to suggest all improvements for the improvement and furtherance of tbe trade of the city.In New York, Liverpool, and other large cities, the Chambers of Commerce always take initiative in suggesting all trade improvements, and we trust our Board of Trade will not be backward in following their example.As regards local financial matters, money is rather scarce for want of good paper to offer, little business doing, and money is required for payment of duties.Exchange, Bank on England is flat at 101 ® 10J, private Bills 9 ® 9).Exchange on New York is 1J # cent., discount for Bank, and large operations for private have taken place at 2 i® 3 # cent., discount, at which latter figure the banks buy freely.This decline is caused by the large export of gold from New York to London, causing the exchange between the two cities to rise as high as 112 j IS) 1121.Brokers are buying American hills at 2 # cent., /® 3 # cent., discount.MONTREAL BROKERS\u2019 CIRCULAR For the week ending April 10, 1862.Mo.736.Montreal, April 10,1882.F H O » IT O S3 .$ ASHES\u2014Pot.$ cwt.o Pearl.6 FLOUR\u2014Canada Fine, ^ bbl.\tlUGlbs.4 Superline No.2.4 §2gï£2ïïS-S8:4\t; 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