Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 16 février 1869, mardi 16 février 1869

[" CORPOR aTiON NUTIGIS.CCRP0RAT1UI UP MONTREAL.Result of the domination lor Mayor of the City, and Councillors in the several Wards thereof.PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, in conformity with the p-o-isions of the Act 23rl Vic.cap, 72, that the Nomination of Candidates for the office of Mayor of this City, and Counci lors for the several Wards thereof, was held on FRiuAY, the TWILFTH DAY of f EBRUaRY Instant, at the hour arid places, and before the Memb rs of the Council of th s City, named in the notices previously given of the said Nomination.MAYOR : William Wokkman, Fsquire, being the only Candidate nominated, was proclaimed duly elected Mayor of this City for the ensuing ter tu of the sal d office.COUNCILLORS : EAST WARD\u2014J.A l\u2019i.l>grET, Esquire, being the only Candidate nominated, was pio-ciaimed duly elected Councillor for the East Ward.CENTttE WARD\u2014Aldice Bernaud, Esquire, being the oniy Candidate nominated, was proclaimed duly elected Councillor for the Ceut e Ward, WEST Ward\u2014Charles Alexander, Esq., being tho only Candidate nominated, was proclaimed duly elected Counoihor for tne West Ward.ST.ANN\u2019S Ward\u2014william RonnEN, Esquire, being ihe only Candidate nominated, was proclaimed duly elected Councillor for the St.Ana\u2019s w ard.BT.an lox n li Ward\u2014John James Browne J.E.Mollin and w.E.Kay, Esquires, having been dmy nominated, a Poll Was granted.ST.LAWRENCE WARD\u2014Bernard Devlin, Esquire, being the only Cand.date nominated, was proclaimed duly elected Councillor lor the St.i awrence Ward.ST.LOUIS WaRii\u2014Joel Leduc and Gottlieb Reinhardt, Esquires, having both been nominated a Poll was granted.ST.James WaRl\u2014E.X.it Charles, Esquire, being the only Cauoidate nominated, was proclaimed duly elected Councillor for the St.James ward.ST.MakY\u2019s Wari-\u2014Patrick Jordan, Esquire, bring the ouiy Candidate nominated, was proclaimed duly elected Councillor tor the St.Mary\u2019s Ward.The Election iu the Waids where there is a contest will be held iu the CITY HALL, from the 24th to the 27th iustaut inclusive, iu the manner prescribed by Law.All persons whose names are on the Voters» tins for any ol the said Wards may obtain Certificates of Qualification i o vote at the said Election, by applying %ersonally at the Office of the undersigned, in the City Hall, betwixt the hours of Nineo\u2019c ucK A.M.and ElVE o\u2019clock P.M,, from WEDNESDAY the TWENTY.F jURTII, until SATURDAY .he TWENTY-SEVENTH day of FEBRUARY instant, both days inclusive ; aud ail persons may vote at the ta.d Election by writing or causing to be written o.r the inuer page of said Certijicatea, Ihe name of the persons lor whom they imend to vote an Councillor, a.jd by depositing said Certificates, so fi led up, in the Box of the Ward iu which the sard voter may have a vote, in th® Office of the undersigned, at any time between the hoars afores id, from the 24ih to the 27rh day of February instant, bo h days inclusive In ail cases of parties who are unable to write, the Law requires that the blanks iu the Certificates shall be filled up iu the presence of two subscribing witnesses.CHS.GLâCKMEYFR, City Clerk.City ri,ERK\u2019s Office, Ci y Hall, Montreal, 18th f'eb., 1869.\\\tr tTS 87 AND DAILY COM MEROIAL GAZETTE.VOL.LX I MONTREAL, TUESDAY MuRNING, FEBRUARY 16, 1869 INSOLVENT NOTICES.INSOLVENT AC! OF 1864.No.886.LA BANQUE JACQUES CARTIER, a body politic and corporate, duly incorporated by Law, carrying on Banking business, and having their principal Office in the City of Montreal, PlaintifT ; r«.JOSHUA G BEARD and GEORGE T.BEARD, of Ue City of Toronto, in the Province of Ontario, and SAMUEL W.BEARD, of the City of Montreal, all Coal and Commis-sion Merchant», aud heretofore copartners.carry ing on business as such at the said CHy cf Montreal, in tne said District of Montreal, in the Province of Quebec, under the name and firm of J.G, BEARD &CO-, Defendants.A WRIT OF ATTACHMENT has issued in this cause.Montreal, thirteenth day of February, 1869.T.BOUTHILLIER, dn 38\tSheriff.ANNUAL REVIEW OF THH TRADE & COMMERCE MOÎsTTHKa-J-,.MIDNIGHT »0B THB Insolvent Act of 1864.In the matter of THEOPHILE ROLLAND, of the Parish of Montreal, Grocer, an Insolvent, THE Creditors of the above Insolvent are notified tuat hn has made an assignmeot of bis Estate and Effects to the undersigned, with whom they are required tofl'e their attested claims, with vouchers, within two months from this date.JOHN WHYTE, Official Assignee.Montreal, 8th February, 186»\tdu 3* :! NOTICES.INSOLVtNI AUl OF 1864.In the Matter of JOHN RHYNA3, of Montreal, Commission Merchant, Insolvent.THE Creditors of the above Insolvent are notified that he has made an assignment of his Estne and Effects to the undersigned, with whom they are requested to file their attested claims, with vouchers, within two months from this date, JOHN WHYTE, Official Assignee.Montreal, 6th February, 1869.\tdu 33 I NSOLVtNT ACT OF 1864.In the Matter of BASÏLIDE ROY, of St.Stanislas de Batisean, P.of Q., Insolvent.A THIRD DIVIDEND SHEET has been prepared, subject to objection until the twenty-fourth day of February next.JOHN WHYTE, Official Assignee.Montreal, 28th January, 1868.\tdu 24 ¦À-TT-tisJN XXOiST ! Sale by iuftoiitj ef Justice, PUBLIC MOTIOEisby these presents given that the Lots of Laud hereinafter mentioned, depending of the ESTATE of the late GEORGE DESBARATS, Esq., i ».wia lifetime O.neen\u2019s Printer, resident in the City of Montreal, will be sold to the nignesi.a»uu last bidder, viz.: \u2014 ©th.FRIDAY, the Nineteenth February next, at ELEVE rs o'clock in the forenoon, at the door of the Parish Church, in the City of Three Rivers, in tbe District of Three Fivers, the following lots of land situate in Notre Dime street in the City of Three Rivers, viz The lots No.251, 252, 253, 251 and 255 on the North-West side of said Notre Dame street, and the lots Nos.256.257, \u2018.53 and 259 on the South-East side of said Notre Dame street, containing whatever dimensions they may have.The conditions will be made known at the time of sale, or previous thereto, by applying to the undersigned Notaries at their office, No.6 Littie St.James street, Momreal.J.A.J .ABADIE.N.P.J.E.O.DABADIE, N.P.4th January, 1869.\tt3 MILL K KEÏ MESSRS H.& a.SAUNDERS beg to acquaint the public with the following facts relative to the assertion recently made by Messrs.Russell & Sons, that they are \u201cChronometer Makers to the Q,ueen.\u201d There is absolutely only one test of the character oi a Chronometer maker known to or recognized bvthe British Government.Thatis, the periodical competition instituted by the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, to which all the leading makers Send specimens of their productions.The Chronometers are subjected to a most searching trial, aud their performance carefully notée}.The res üt is atterwards published as a Parlia-paper.In the Government trial for the year just ended, Mr Sewill\u2019s Chronometer stood at the top of the list, thereby surpassing all the oti:er makers in the Kingdom, while Messrs.Russell & Sons stood the twenty-firs down the list, proving that even after Mr.Sewill there are isinteen manufacturers whose Chronometers are'superior and more reliable tnan those of Messrs Russell, who, during the whole of the years thf y have been in business, have never succeeded in selling a Chronometer to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, for the use of Q,ueen v ictoria\u2019s Royal Navy\u2014tbeir Chronometers having invariably been returned to them as below the standard required in Her Majesty's Navy.Messrs.B.& A.Saunders beg also to remind the public that, the productions of Mr.Sewili, ir addition to being proved to be superior to ai others before tbe unquestionable tribunal re ferredto, have received the most distinguished Royal and Internati nal HLonouis tnat were ever conferred on a manufacturer; as, for instance, being the only Liverpool maker to whom was a warned the Great Prize Medal of the ±n-ternationai'Exhibition of London in 1862.and the Grand Medal of Honour at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867.Messrs H.dr A.v-aunders refrain from com-me1*!; Upon these facta, being convinced that tbe.v apeak for themselvea\\ and further, notwithstanding th^ specious evasions of inferior manufacturer\u2019-, tbe Pttr.E viliMUiNCE of Mr.Sewill\u2019s productions will be appreciated by the people of Canada ; their superb rity being conclusively demonstrated by the credentials of the highest authorities in horologic science.J une 20.\tIts 147 INSOLVENT_ACT OF 1864.In the Matter of DUNCAN CAMPBELL MORRISON, of the Village of Almonte, in the County of Lanark, in the Province of Ontario, Trader, an Insolvent.THE Creditors of the Insolvent are notified that he has made an assignment of his Es tate and Effects, under the above Act, to me, the undersigned Assignee, and they are required to furnish me, w thin two months from Uhls date, with their claims, specifying the seeurity they hold, if any, and the value of it; and if none, stating the fact; the whole attested under oath, with the vouchers in support of uch claims.E.J.LINDSAY, Assignee.Mol sons Bank Chambers, LYUjui/x-oe*», 1 db 30 Insolvent Act oi 1864» In the Matter of JAMES MUIR, of the City of Montreal, Merchant Tailor, An Insolyent.A DIVIDEND SHEF.T has been prepared, subject to objection until Saturday, the Twenty-seventh day of February, 1869.T.S.BROWN.Official Assignee.Montreal, 6th Feb.1869.\tan 31 Insolvent Act of 1864.DOMINION OF CANADA.) Province of Quebec.\t> District ol Montreal.\t) SUPERIOR COURT.In the Matter of RICHARD P.STRICKLAND, An Insolvent.On FRIDAY, the Twenty-seventh day of March next, the undersigned will apply to the said Court lor a din charge under the said Act.RICHARD P.STRICKLAND.By his Attorney ad litem, F E.GILMAN.Montreal, 14th Ian., 1368.\t2m.MS YE-AH 1868.ASHES \u2014General Review of Pot?, Pearls, Stock on hand, Receipts,^Deliveries in 1861 and 1868, IRON AND HARDWARE-Pig Iron, Scotch Bar, Refined Bar, Hoops, Sheet and Boiler Plates, Canada Plates, Tin Plates, Cut Nails, Heavy Hardware, and Shelf Hard ware, Home Made G oods, Ac., Imports, &c , Ac.FLOUR AND CRAIN\u2014The Flour Market for 1868 ; Ma\u2019zi, Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rye, Pease, Oatmeal, Cornmeal.C ROCE RI ES\u2014Sngar Raw, with state-mL nt oi Imports, Sales, Prices for the year Stock on hand, &o\u201e Ac., Sugar, Porto Rico, Cuba Refined\u2014prices for 1868 ; Carrant?, Raisins, Bunch do, Prunes, Figs, A.'monds, Nuts, Filberts, Walnuts, Bath Bricks, Bine, Bottles ; Tea, Young Hyson, Gunpowder, Imperial, Hyson, Ac., Ac., with Stocks on hand, Imports.Exports, Ac.; Molasses, Mustard, Ssgo, Liquorice, Fruit, Indigo, Spices, Rice DRY GOODS \u2014Cottons, Bag and Cotton Warp, Linen Goods, Woollens, Flannels, Imports for two years.DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES \u2014Woollens, Lettons, Linens, Ac., Ao.PROVISIONS \u2014Flour, Receipts for 186* and 1868 ; range of prices Cut Meats, Mess Pork, Prime Mess, Prime, Extra Prime, Beef, Lard, Butter, Cheese, Tallow.FISH -\u2014General Review.COAL \u2014General Review.OILS \u2014General Review.PAINTS \u2014General Review.FURS \u2014General Review of the Trade, Mink, Beaver, Foxes, Lynx, Fisher, Otter, Kacoon, Badger.BOOTS & SHOES \u2014General Review.DOMESTIC PAINTS \u2014General Review.DRUGS, &c.\u2014Soda, Soda Ash, Sal-Soda Bi-Carbonate of Soda, Caustic, Baking Powder, Saltpetre, Alum, Madder.SEED \u2014General Review.GLASS & GLASSWARE \u2014General Review.BANK STOCKS \u2014Montreal, Bank B.N.A., People's, City, Ontario, Molsons, Merchants\u2019, Toronto, Jacques Cartieï, Gore, Quebec, Nationale, B.T.Bank.This Review will be published in Pamphlet Form in a few days- Orders for copies to be sent to the \u201cHerald\u201d Office.TELiGBIISj ÜÊ&\tNew Yoke, Feb.\u2019 15, Midnight.Opening, 135 j.Closing, 135£.EUROPEAN TELEGRAMS Maritime News.GLAÇQ}w,Feb.15.-The steamers Brittania and \\lauhattan from New York have arrived.Qdbnstown, Feo.15 \u2014The steamer Palmyra, from New York, has arrived.Surrender of Cretan C hiefs.Lkb^n, Feb.15.\u2014 Official infermatiou of the surrender to Turkish authority of the insurgent Chitfi of Crete is received.No More War Preparations in Greece.Athens, Feb.15.\u2014The new inihiotry hw issued instructions to tbe military and naval officers countermanding the recent orders fur war-like preparations.Fight Between the Chinese and British.London, Feby, 15.\u2014v Late despatches from China report that a collision took place at Swanton between the Chinese inhabitants and the crew of the British gunboat Grasshopper.The fight was obstinate and bloody.The sailors fought desperately but were overwhelmed by the natives whoso numbers weie constantly increasing.Tue sailors were compelled to retire to tbeir ship with eleven ol their number wounded.Many Cbinamea were killed and wounded in the affray.Flight of Lopez.London, Feb.15.\u2014Later advices from Rio Janeiro ful'y confirm the previous reports of the evacuation of Asuncion, and of the flight oi President Lopez into the forest.Foreigners iu Japan.News has been received from Japan via Shanghae, that the Mikado had received the Ministers of the foreign powers at Ytddo with gr.sat ceremony, and showed an earnest desire to .maintain peaceful relations.More Voiunteera for uuba.Madrid, Feb.15.\u2014Arrests of Carlists continue to be made in this city and in different parts of the country.Regiments of the regular service and large numbers of volunteers daily ofler their services to the Government for the suppression of tne revolt in Cuba.Turkish Appointments.Constantinople, Fen.15\u2014Tne Sultan has appointed Menmademin Ali Pasha Grand Vizier, and Minister of Foreign Affairs.Ruschid Pasha, Minister ot the Interior ; Medhat Pasha.Governor of Bagdad, and Omar Pasha, Governor and commander-iu chief of Caudia.TUESDAY MORNING, FEB.16,\t1869.appointments McGill University \u2014 Lecture on Metallurgy, this evening.THIS DAY.Mining and AUCTION SALES THIS DAY.BY G.MCGREGOR.Dry Goods, etc .at J.Moriscn & Co\u2019s, new store, at ten o\u2019clock.a CANADA, Province ok Quebec.District of Montreal INSOLVENT _ACT OF 1864.IN THE SUPERIOR COURT.In the matter of PIERRE DAIGLE, tt ader, of the City and District of Montreal, OD1LJU HEBERT, trader,and HECTOR OUVERT, advocate, both of the Parish of Pt, Charles, in the District of St.Hyacinthe, all three having heretofore done business ana commerce together in partnership at the said place of Montreal and St.Charles under the firm of DAIGLE, HEBERT & DUVERT, Insolvents.NOTICE is hereby given that on Saturd ay the Twentieth day of March next, at Ten of the clock in the Forenoon, or as soon as Counsel can be hep.rd, the undersigned will apply To the said Cou rt for a discharge under the said Act, DAIGLE, \"HEBERT & DUVERT, By DUHAMBI» A DROXiBT, Their Attorneys ad li\u2019em* Montreal, 4th J an., 1869.\t2na 13 TEMPERATURE In the Shade, by Standard Thermometer, ob* served by Chas.Hearn, Optician, 242 and 241 Notre Dame Street.a.m.\t1 P.M.\t6 p.m.22.0\t2l.o\t18 3.Recorded by Patent Register Max.\tMin.\tMean 27.0\tIt.®\tI9.o February 15, 18t9 DOMINION OF CANADA.Pro vin ce of Que *>p c.District cf Montreal.SUPERIOR COURT NOTICRi&nerePy Riven mat Dame JTJLIA-A.CLUElT, wife of Jones A.Johnston, of tbe City amà District of Montreal, Merchant, duly authorised, has instituted an action en separation de Biens, against the said Jones A.Johnston, her said husband.Montreal\u2019, 28th January, 1888.F.E.GILMAN, 2m 115\tAttorney for Julia A.Cluett.CAN A La, Provi ck of Quebec, District of Montreal.INSOLVENT s ACT OF 1864.PRIVATE BILLS.PARTIES in tbe Province of Quebec intending lo make application to the Parliament of Canada for Private Bills, either for granting exclusive privileges, or conferring corporate powers for commercial or other pui poses of profit.or for doing anything tending to affect the rights or property of other parties, are hereny notified that they are required by the 51st and following Rules of the House of Commons (which are published in fud in the Canada Gazette), to give T WO MONTHS\u2019 NOTICE of the application (clearly and distinctly specifying its nature and object), in the Canada Gazette, in English and French, and a'so in a newspaper published in each language in the District affected, sending copies of the first and last of such notices to the Private Bill Office All Pétillons for Piivate Bills must be presented within tbe yzrsi three weeks of the {Session.ALFKED TODD, Chf.Clk.Committees and Private Bills, H.cf Commons.Ottawa, eth Feb., 1869.IN THE SUPERIOR COURT.In the matter of CHARLES LEGER, alia» CHARLES LEGER dit PARISIEN, trader, of the Village of Lachine, in the District of Montreal, An Insolvent.IVT OTICE is hereby given that the undersign-1^1\ted n*s fy led in the Office of this Court deed of composition and dischaige, executed by his Creditors, and that on Saturday, the Twentieth day of Maj&ch next, at Ten of the clock in the forenoon, or as soon as Counsel can be heard, he will apply to the said Court for a confirmation of the «discharge thereby effected in his favor under tUei said Act.CHARLES LEGER, By Duhamel a Drolet, His Attoinies ad liUm.Montreal, 4th Jan.,, 1869.\t2m t 3 News by Telegraph.European Telegrams.Spanl.b Kews.Midbid, Fek 14.\u2014The constituent Cortes organized yesterday by electing Beve.ro President.The Provisional Government continues its efforts to baffle the reactionists.Many arrests have been made o.members of the Car-list party in Ibis city, and a number of Carliets have been arrested while crossing tbe frontier from France.Arrival.Southampton, Feb.14.\u2014The steamer Deutschland has arrived from New York.Economy in Government.\u2014We have heard I a great deal about retrenchment and econ-I omy in our own Government, for a good many years past ; but we have, so far as we remember, never seen the first reduction Lntest Prices Of bold at New York , in any ot our expenditures except in the Parliamentary printing, which was made during the time when the late Mr.Benjamin was the Chairman Of the Printing Committee.Perhaps something may have been done last session in the reduction of the salaries of Parliamentary employes-, hut it will require a little time before we can tell whether that was anything more than a sham.In England, also, there has been very little of reduction in expenditure for a great many years\u2014none, we suppose, since the early Whig financial reforms immediately after the passing of the Ee-form Bill.A much more important method of financial amelioration even than reduction was hit upon by Sir Eobert Peel.His changes in the tariff lightened the burdens of the people, while they at the same time largely increase,; the revenue.But this ease\u2014felt upon both sides\u2014by the tax payers, who were relieved of oppressive imports, and by the Government, which found itself with plenty of ready money\u2014tended in no respect towards a diminution of costly establishments.There were two other causes which did much to swell instead of diminish them.One of these was the Crimean war, and in general the growth of the military spirit in Europe, coincidently with, if not as a consequence of, the accession of Louis Napoleon to the Imperial throne of France.The other was the large number of middle-class men, es pecially of those belonging to the leg 1 profession, who were by the first Beform Bill admitted to an influential position in polidcal life, arid who greedily seized upon evei y opening for placing themselves and their connexions.Be the causes what they may, the cost of governing the country has been constantly augmenting 4mm year to year.On the other hand th* Æeveiûpe-ment of this middle-class influence, accompanied by a vast extension of foreign trade and ol domestic employment in the various railway services, wuich have together done so much for the mercantile and professional ranks, have still left an immense mass of poverty below, which, in times of pressure, such as England has known for the last four or five years, is enlarged by accessions from the body of industrious and respectable artizans.Much has, no doubt, been done for the advantage of all classes who are willing to work and capable of working ; but it is also certain that there is still a very dreadful pressure on large numbers of the populat:on, only relieved during oc casional years of prosperity, but felt in all its intensity in periods like the one through which the mother country has lately been passing.The perception of this fact has been forced upon British thinkers by ac tual circumstances, and has, no doubt, given special prominence to tie demand for financial reductions, ;witüout which it seems impossible that fiscal reform should be carr\u2019ied much farther) since there is, of course, à point at which the reduction of duties can continue to augment the revenue derived from theta.It is not, of course, expec ted that tie mere saving of a few millions a y e ar in theduties can do much to cure the evil of whinh we are speaking.It is right in itself, however, that no more money should be spent by the Government than is actually required, and, of course, all savings in tkat direction release some sums of money io be employed in the support of the peiple at large.But there are local burdeœ, such as we here call municipal taxes, a d evil local administration, which press ttore hardly on portions of the population than the sums they contribute to the coisolidated ro/enue ; and if the Government can succeed in obtaining the command of a few millions a year without increase in taxation, it may make endeavours to reform these evils which it cannot othetwise attempt.The poor law system, forj Example, originally designed for a counLy in wnich the agricultural population wis enormously greater than at pn sent in proportion to the number of residfluts in thë towns, now leaves the wealthier parts if London with a comparatively light por rate, while it Paris uorrespouueuce or Montreal Herald.tbe AMERICAN TELEGRAMS.ITuUvd States relations with Spain.Nkw York, feb.15.\u2014The Herald publishes a number oi cipher teleerams which recently pi \\ssed between Capt.-General Lersuncli aud Ge neral Mena, commanding at Puerto Principe, sho wing that the Captain-General was not und er much apprehensions from the fillibuster-ing e xpeditions in this city, as be was officially inforr wed that the U.S.Government was all right \\vith Spain Improvements.The Herald, Mexico ciiy, correspondent says : Measures aie being taken to introduce steam navigation on the lak'is around the city.A steamer is already afloat, and a dredging machine has been in operation for some time.Bfovemems in favour of Santa Anna.General Turgana aud other Generals have pronounced in favour of Gen oral Santa Anna, and at last accounts the mopement was progressing.Gold Contracts, Washington, Feb.15.- In tne Supreme Court to-day chief Justice Chase delivering the opinion decided that gold contre cts must be satisfied with coin where the kind .of enrrenev is not mentioned, then legal tenders are as lawful in such connection.Messrs.Davis and Swaynee gave their qualified consent,, but Mr.Miller dissented in a^great measure from the opinions.Arrivals.New Yobk, Feb.15\u2014The steamers Etna nd Bremen, from Europe, have arrived.SPECIAL MIQM TELEGRAMS DOMINION TELEGRAMS.YjATEST FHGM OTTAWA.(Front our own Correspondent.) Ottawa, Feb, 15.Severe* Snow Storm\u2014Itoads IblocUed up.A severe snow storm, accompanied with high wind from the East, has prevailed here since noon yesterday.There is no sign of its abating yet.The roads are blocked up.No produce fron i the country iu the markets.LATEST 1KOM TOifOHTO.Toronto, Feb.15.Trains Delayed.The Grand TrunK tram from Montreal, due here at noon yesterday, only arrived at eight o\u2019clock this morning.City Extension.The city is rapidly extending nortkvrard.The latest evidence is the removal of the, toll house ion Youge street just outside the city limits.It has been moved over a mile farther north.Bouses are crowding in t\u201ee Yoi kville feuburb which has necessitated this.Endowment Fnud of tfi (*i n's ColJiege.The Township of Vaughan has sub sciibed nearly $1,000, and Scarboro over $1,200 towards the endowment of Queen\u2019s College.Religions, Bevival meetings were held in the N orthern Congregational Church every e'vening last week.Oysters Falling in Price.Oysters have fallen 10 cents per c-\u2019n, and it ff expected there will be a further fall of 10 cents.makes the poorer part still poorer by sad k GARDENING.STORAGE -I\tbegs to inform the publie, that n .he is prepared to undertase every description of Gardening on easy terms.Book Work Draining, and Landscape Gardening of «very description executed with taste.Parties laying out new Gardens will do well to crnsuH me be ore going elsewhere.Address\u2014200 St.Lawrence Main Etreet.September?.\t[ggj YTOTJI^GKS STOHiES AMD Elevator Warehouse, Cl AW AL BASIN'.W JiilililJY GTON Street.First-class storage for grain, FLOUR.SUGAR, MOLASSES, SALT, and General Merchandise, Bonded or Free (Bond No 87.) After close of Navigation, the Ralls of the Grana Trunk will connect with these Stores,' and parties Shoring will please bear In mind that Cartage und handling of properly will thus be saved on Shipments to Portland, Ac., during Winter.JAMES INCUS.November 2S.\t285 AMERICAN TELEGRAMS.Arbitrator on Boundary Question.The President has accepted the office of arbitrator upon the Boundary question which has arisen between Great Britain and Portugal on the coast of Africa.Chill Accepts the Mediation of tbe U.S.Late advices from Peru show that the Re- publics of tLo Pnoifio ooaaf.hava nocaptâff ifili mediation of the United States in their war with Spain, and a Congress of Plenipotentiaries from the belligerents is expected to meet in Washington during the Spring.Yellow Fever Raging in Peru, Lima (Peru) advices state that the yellow fever is raging fearfully in the seaport towns in the fouthern districts.Ravages on the War-rath.Chili news is dated Jan.17.The savages hadrassedthe river Malecco in large bands, and were||ttttacking the defenceless villages in their way.The revolution had been completely suppressed.Revolution In Quito.A revolution bad broken out at Quito, the capital of Ecuador ; and Espinosa, the President, had been overthrown without bloodshed.Garcio Morello, an ex president, has secured tbe Executive chair.The revolution in Venezuela has not made much head-way.Failure.Clsvxland, Feb.14.\u2014Messrs.Cottrell and Dickey, an Elevator firm ot this city, failed yes-teiday.Their liabilities reach $300,000, and their assets amount to $50,000.It is said they were arrested last night.Shoch of Kartbquake.San Francisco, Feb.14.\u2014A slight shock of rarthqu-ke was felt here at 4:10 yesterday.The shock was also felt with considerable force at San-.The tidal gauge at Fort - indicated earthquake disturbances at some point at present unknown.New Tiorlx field Room, The Times editorially says tbe bulls and bears of the gold room are having a tougher fight than.slnce 1866, There is a known short interest of forty millions, and it is surmised the aggregate must be close to double that amount while free mention is made in the gold room of four brokers who are daily consumers of twelve millions in gold.A powerful clique,on the other hand, has been buying heavily, and it D nip and tack between the bulb and beais just at present, and whichever goes under will be pretty badly tnbmerged.Nature Always A dmir ble\u2014\u201cThe arrangements of nature are admirable,\u201d exclaimed a young lady, during the late high winds.\u201cThe same wind which disarranges our dress blows dust into the eyes of the wicked young men who would take advantage of our confusion.\u201d The Alabama Treaty in E.n'gland.\u2014The obscurity which hung about tbe terms of this treaty when they were first itnnounced has not been cleared away by th>9 publica tion of the text.When we saw the text as first printed, professedly verbatim, in the New York World, we expressed a fear that it would be found to be very far indeed from producing the settlement which was desired and which was promised by the negotiators.This fact seems also to have struck some of our English contemporaries, who are still debating even the mean log of the words of the treaty.We confess that to our minds the words are not so ambiguous as the result which those who wrote them desired to bring about.There seems to us to be a most undesirable complexity in the method of arriving at the practical determinations which have been prescribed by this treaty, and especially a considerable danger of having conflicting decisions, from the constantly shifting tribunal, which is to be constituted afresh for each particular claim,by drawing lots whenever the Commissioners disagree.In England, however, they seem not yet to have arrived at a clear and general conception as to whether Mr.Seward\u2019s original demand has or has not been granted, and therefore as to whether the British Government is or is not to submit to another power the question whether she has exercised with propriety a function which was wholly within her own discretion.It is greatly to be regretted that a treaty, whose completion seems to be desired by the best men of both the nations which are interested, should have these apparent defects; for it is one, of all others, which being once accepted on all sides, should leave no after dregs of misunderstanding behind it.To slur over any real difficulty\u2014to accommodate verbally a real difference in thought and intention, after the manner in which men have sometimes constructed theological creeds\u2014can only result in renewed disputes in a very speedy future.It will be better to wait a little and have a frank agreement, intelligible to all the world, both in its words and the rationale of its results, than to see the present so-called settlement only break out afresh in a renewed wrangle.dling upon.them the li/pport of their own paupers.Belgravia cin well afford to pay high taxes, but in Belgravia there are few or no paupers.St George\u2019s in the East, putting aside th) mercantile establishments, is inhabitfd by persons of whom few are much abwe the pauper class, and they have to mantain the large numbers who in that neigibouihood are really pau pers.It is eviefent that the local organization must be it some manner changed, Jmt during the transition the Government mav have in soae measure to aid the local funds.These muses having determined a movenu\u2019nt tovards reduction in expenditure th ® Government have set about the work w.\u20191* earnestness and resolution, The largest reduction will probably be made by dimino binS the effective strength of the army ard\ti but aU the Sreat establishments will ?eel the change.The mastery whicn Mr.Cln'Mera is believed to have acquired over the subject of dockyard management is now employed in ]arge reforms in that department of expend il Rte.We learn that Woolwich and Deptford are both to be closed, or, we may parhaps say, abolished, while the whole machinery is being simplified, and brought into the shape which prevails in other business estab-ments.For example, we see that a large staff of gentlemen who have hitherto been employed in making several copies of the same letter or other document are now to be superseded by a copying machine.Of course this one saving taken by itself would be too insignificant for notice, but it is an index of the spirit and mode in which the promise of economy is being fulfilled.We presume that the Ministry will this year ask Parliament for some millions less than any Ministry has done for several years past.Paris, Jan\u2019y 29, 1869.The flood of winter gaieties is rapidly rising to its full height, and the fashionable world is expending on the usual frivolities of an nrban \u201c season,\u201d an amount of energy, pe\u2019severance and abnegation (of rest, sleep, health aud freshness) that might achieve wonders, if devoted to some more useful en i.It has sometimes come into your correspondent's he d to think, with a feeling akin to vexation, of tbe extravagant way in which toe mechanical forces of tbe planet are wasted by the homunculi who people it.Jost tbiok, for instance, of all the waves that are teating, at this particular moment, as I write, and as you, dear and respected reader, read these lines, on all the shores of all the oonti-nents and islands of the globe ; reflect that just as many have been rising aud falling, day and nigbc, on every point of the ocean\u2019s rim, since the octan existed, and will probably go on rising and falling in the same way, as long as ic shall continue to exLt, that is to say, uutil the coral insects that are said to be filling up the bsp, shall have finished their work, some hundreds of millions of years hence ; think of all the winds that are now blowiog, that have been blowing, and are still to blow, aU the world over, during the same space of time, and compute, if you tan, how many tira- s more then the amount ot force'necessary to perform all the hard work of the world is tuna allowed to run w-ste, through our not yet having contrived any wav of making use of it! So with the sun\u2019s rays ; so wit.n the central heat of the earth ; so with the thousand other sources of force which Nature has placed around us, leaving us to find out tor ourselvis the means by which we cun make them available.Something of the same feeling is naturally excited uy calling to mind the prodigal waste of physical strength, t.me, energy and money now going on amongst tne fashionable people of every capital aud every considerable city of Europe ; the devising aud preparation of toilettes, the dyeing un 1 dressing of hair, the doctoring of complexions, the prac t sing of airs and graces, the rushing to and Iro among diuners, balls, parties, operas, theatres, and concerts ; the dancing, t e small talk, the rivalries, heart-burnii gs, jialousies, aud duelling ; and imagine what might be done without all this outlay, if the world were only a little more intelligent and reasonable in the choice of its occupations I To return, however, to the chronicling of the world as it is.let me remark that a considerable portion of the \u201c upper world\u2019 of Paris has formed a sort ofa society, with a view to re act pgtinet the gnwing extravagance of dress, wnich has heel causing the most fashionable women of thiï region to assume so close a likeness to the {ueens of the demi-monde.The ialies iu qvestion have agreed to abandon hoops, tinse/ trimmings, and fal, e hair ; and to wear their lair in the simpler styles of classic day-, rathtf than combed up to a point on the top of thehead.as at present.Instead of the present fifty edifice of false bait and various ornaments, a simple wreath, or a few bunches of flowers will be the head-gear for evening parties.Just now, the rest of tho fashionable world s piling up Its turret of nair higher than ever, Ihe hair being stuck over with flowers, je .ell, and bands of tortoise-shell or shining met^/.Some beauties place a little fringe of ralst short straight hair across the forehead, hell down by a flat wnathof small green leaves, or little flowers ; the fringe of hair atout an inch deep, and combed down flat and straight upon the forehead, being laid on just a; the roots ol the true hair, the join being Hidden by the wreath.Others spoil a large bon ^uet of flowers on the top of the head, and, Irom th s bouquet, a long trail of the same flowers, twisted iu amoag the long curls now dangling over fashionable shoulders, and down fashionable backs,the said trail being sometimes wound round the bosom and waist of tbe wearer, a d sometimes allowed to fall to the very bot-ton of her training skirt, slightly attached to the same, here and there, to keep the long streamer of blossoms from flying off at a banquet.or being violently severed from its wearer t\u2019he attempt to revive the historical panier has failed ; but a modification of the style, much less ugly than the original, h»s come greatly into vogue, viz: a soit of short tunic, extending across the back from hip to hip, looped up in various ways, and successfully imparting the puffiness which is now considered so indispensable for the top of tbe skirt.These draperies are made of tatin rr velvet of the same shade as the dress, it the latter be of dark silk ; sometimes of superposed flounces of the same material, each flounce edged with a roll of satin, or quiiling of narrow satin riband ; if the dress be of mu-lin, white tulle, or light siik, the pamei-is of soma bright contrasting colour ; for iu stance, a dress of pmk aud white striped silk, with a panier of pink taffetas ; of white ano green striped silk, and a panier of green satin ; a dress of pale French gray, poult de soie, with t panier formed of a series of putts of Pompadour Dine taffetas, finishing oft' with a flounce, trimmed with rien blue silk fringe.Another favourite style of gown for evening dress is flounced up to the waist with narrow flounces, each flounce headed with a wreath o; tiny flowers ; if of tulle or crape entirely covered with little puffs, each pail held down with a small sprig of flowers, or a jewei (real or sham as the case may be) or India beetles, or UttU puffs of swans\u2019-down, orjhe feathers of so in* .mall, rare, bright-plumaged bind.Une o Princess Metternich\u2019s recent toilettes was ct white crape, dotted over with puffs, each pub held down by a small crimson teatner and diamond ; one of the Empress\u2019s was of pink crape, putted, with a email white rose in each putt and a diamond dew drop in each rose.At tm last ball at tue Tuilleries the Empress wore a white tulle skirt, dotted over witn carnations, a white satin bodice, three rows of diamonds mounted in black, and a splendid aigrette o: me same over me forehead.The Emperoi looked very well, shook hands cordially witn young Hussein Pasha, aud asked him how h< liked Paris aud how he got on witn his studies.Phe young Prince replied that he was delightoc with Paris and that he was gettiug on web with his studies ; and then, bonding low, in took the Empress's beau ilui outstretched bane aud kissed it with much respect.A good many foreigners, including many Americans, were present, but the star of the evening was Mile.Bonner, the beantilul daughter of the Minister of State, who is about to bestow bei hand, with a dot of -£20,001), on a titled bride groom, with an income of £40,000, a year, a fortune regarded iu this couutiy as colossal Her beautiful sister, Countess Weiles de la Val ictte, mailed to a sou of the late Foreign Minister, is one of the greatest beauties ol Pails, The balls at the Hotel de Ville, of which we had tbe second last night, otter so mseni-fic eut a spectacle that invitations to them are sought tor with the greatest eagerness.Tin.view from the head of the broad mor.umenta, staircase of white marble, down into tue mag-üiticeLt Uuurt Of Humour, from.wLioh n springs, full of lights, flowers and fountains, and surrounded by tne wonderful galleries, running round each story, their arjhes draped with crimson velvet and gold, with a flood ol light streaming througn fiom the great chau-rt 'iers behind, and gioups of splendidly dress -a\u2018\t-.oi® ieamng out, and watcuiug me bnl Manr aiid animated scene below, is as splendid as anv such ^ \u201c>\u201cld WBÜ bü- ThaU thc staircase itself,\tfu'jle row of pal Guards, looking almost SB resplendent cbough by no means so statue like, kfl Gardes at the Tuileries, with lts riou bordering of flowers, aud its thickets of raru exotica at every landing ; the superb suite of apartments, so magnificently faruisUed and ornamen.ed, tne blaze of the lustres, and the splendid toilets oi the guests ; fnrnisn a succession of drawing-room perspectives haidly to be occupants, and so great was the crowd assembled outside to see her come out, that it was found necessary, in order to prevent accidents, t) smuggle her out by the entrance reserved for the Imperial Family.The weather so mild iu St.Petersburgh, has been, for a week past, sj cold here that half Paris has been skating on the lakes in the Bois de Boulogne.The Em-ptor, Empress, and Pficce Imperial have all been on the ice, skating as merrily as their neighbours ; aud tbe {Skating Club has been in a state of great glory, havlug converted its pond into a sheet of glass-like smoothness, by its ingenious arrangements for watering tue same boillog water, divided into a fiae mist, thbs producing a perfectly smooth and even suiface.Jack Frost, however, rarely remains long together in this region ; three days ago the weather became milder, and eleven persons went in, but were happily fished out agaiu.The fioit is now rapiily disappearing.We have not as yet seen a flake of.snow this winter.A colder winter was that of 1791, when a young mao, a pupil of the Military School, might have been seen skating with his comrades, on the 5th of January, in the Moat, then very deep, round the Fort of Auxonne.Winn the neighbouring clock struck five the youth took off his skates.\u2018\u2018Have one more round before going U urged his comrades.\u201cNo, no.I\u2019ve had enough; besides, it is five o'clock aud I\u2019m going to dinner.\u201d The others went on skating ; but the ice suddenly gave way and they were all drowned.The youth who had left them to go to his dinner, aud who, but fur this circumstance, would have shared their fate, became subsequently known to the world Napoleon Bonaparte.It may be interesting to distant readers to know that the inheritor of the youth who thus narrowly escaped drowning has just decided on introducing into the French Cavalry the English system ol trotting as less fatiguing to the norses than the French system, aud the same acute observer has just ordered six carriages from a leading English coach-builder.NUMBfcK to use our reason in judging what is right, thus giving special inspect to reason and conscience as distinguishing faculties in man.He teils us when we pray to say \u201c Our Father.\u201d Aud if we want to kuow the way of reconciliation with God, let us sit at the feet of Jesus and receive with grateful heart his touching parable ot the prodigal son.Repent o: the sin and come b ick to the Father, casting yourself ou his mercy , aud you will fiud the open arms ready to welcome you.This is Christ\u2019s method of reconciliation or atonement.If Jesus were to appear in our city, it is thus he would speak and teach still.And thus speaking, how would the orthodox teachers of our day, papal ad protestant \u2014 how would they regard nim and treat him ?I venture no opinion on this noint.Certainly his leaching would be found to differ materially from their ecclesiastical and authoritative creeds.But I only state the recorded facts of the case when I say that the orthodox priests of his own day were his persistent and deadly foes.The constables whom they sent to arrest him on a certain occasion returned to them, saying \u201cNever man spake like this man.\u201d Nevertheless they ceased not their perseention untd they brought him to death.Aud it is spec ally worthy\"of note in these days of renawed sacerdotal, claims that in the narrative of Christ\u2019s life onf earth, as given in the New Testament, we d i not had tbe word \u201c priest\u201d at all, except asl the name of that class who were his enemies, md persecutors.\t-' [ If I am asked what is Christianity, I go away oehind all priests and creeds, and say that\u2019\t_______________ Christ is Christianity.Son of God and Son of/iu h s hand by the living God, and thu7cioth- Man.ns he was.he came to restore all the Rnm)6 ed with plenary authority he is constitut d chief pastor .f the flock of Christendom, such 13 FKOTESTAKTISM A FAILTDEE?SBRMON BY REVD.JOHN C0RDNBR.The second lecture of this course was deliv(r_ ed on Sunday evening last 10 a large and atten.live audience, in tho Church of the Messiah, The Bevd.gentleman gave as the text for this sermon :\u2014 JoUn xv., 1\u2014\u201c1 am the true vine.\u201d Matt, xlii., 26\u2014\" When the blade was sprung up and brought Urib fruit, there appeared the tares also.\u201d Is Protestantism a failure ?The assertion f ern a Protestant Episcopal pulpit that Protestantism is a failure suggests tnis question and provokes the discussion on which we have entered.You wi 1 remember that on last Sunday evening I announced several topics as suggested by the question, aud involved in the line of reply wnich I proposed to t ke.The tiist two points were, the Christianity of Jesus Christ, and Sacerdotalism, as a growth thereupon.To these topics we shall conhne ourselves this evening, Iu view of their high importance and various bearings, let me ask your patient, candid, and devout attention.Aud may tne Spirit of truth guide us into all truth.About ten years ago I met a Franciscan friar on board a Mediterranean steamer.He was free in informing me of his own religious poti-lioo, and ready also to inquire about mine When I told him that I was a Huitarian he said he had been a Missionary at Hong Kong when Sir John Bowring was there\u2014that he hau met Si\u2019 John, who was a Unitarian and a good man, hut tben, he added, a Unitarian is not a (Jnriotinn, I attempted to reason with him bui found him immoveable.To every thing 1 said, he simply repeated, a Uuitarian is not a Christian.With the view of bringing him to reason I fell back on his own method and simply repeated, a Franciscan is not a Christian This led him to explanation.Then I enquired if he accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as a competent teacher and guide in religion.He, oowed reverently and replied, \u201cmost certainly.\u2019 Then, I ri j lined, hath he not said : \u201c i hou shah ove Lord thy God with all thy heart and mind, nd thy neighbor as thyself ; on th-se two com-ands hang all tbe law and the prophets.Has ) not said: \u201cThis do, and thou shall livera My Franciscan friend paused and swept hie' eyes round sea and sky ; aud slowly answered, yes Then said I, if a Uuitarian follows this teaching of Jesus, and in his spirit does that to which Uhrisi promises eternal life, is he not Christian and an heir of eternal life ?He answered that he dare not deny it.When I neard this, I felt that Jesus Christ was indeed a reconciler, not only between man and God, but also between man and man.I felt that in the -simplicity and sublimity if his doctrine there Was that which would bring harmony, peace, tmd life eternal to all intelligent existence.Truly, my Italian friend, and 1 stood at op-1 oosite points on the great circle of Chri tianj theology.But as I looked into his calm and arnest face, and heard him speak of his missionary work in foreign lands, I had no doubt if his being a Christian, accepted of our com-non master.And while in services reuderec or Christ\u2019s cause, I felt he had the advantage of me, I felt that in my own simpler and more Humane t eology, I had the advantage of him.For, while he was perplexed as to my position, t had no perplexity concerning his.There, at east, I knew that I was the true Catholic, aud uot he.He looked at Christianity as presented by the Sacerdotal Corporation called the] Chore i.I looked at Christianity as presented 0y its first and great teacher\u2014even Christ him-rd pharisaic virtue has its stohes ready to strike the woman down.He urges no priestly claims, he periorms no priestly rites, but he speaks his sweet beatitudes to the gatbeied multitude ou the hill side Aud when he closes that sermou on the mount, the people say one to another, he speaks with authority, yet of a different kind from that of the scribes, priests, or professed preachers of the time.His word was vital with the truth of God, and so struck home to the heart and conscience of his hearers.He propou ids no metaphysics writes no creeds, makes no attempts to put men through a process of intellectual gymnastics, as a condition of fellowship with himself and favour with his Father in heaven.No, so far as we know, Jesus never wrote a line.He entrusted his divine word to the keeping of the thin air, and it has reverberated through the world for more tbau eighteen hundred years bearing light, and hope, and comfort, and strength, and joy, and progress wherever it has gone.Love God and man, he says, this is the chief thing\u2014all depends on this.If your heart, is set on your possessions, then sell them all he says, and give to the poor.For thus only will you be able to conquer avarice.Ask him how his true disciples are to be known, and you will hear him reply : By their love one toward an other.Listen to his parable of the Good Bam antan, and receive here his divine rebuke to ail sectarian prejudices and national animosi ties.Give ear to nis parable of the talents, and learn that for every gift given,faculty bestowed aud privilege granted, God will require honest and faithful use, and hold us all to strict account, according to the measure of talents bestowed.And notice well how he calls on us and the growth becomes larger aud more im- gïS'ifiswSpfflsflsJSî'?\tmau> nuch fruitas it may yield.Roots aud branches, foliage, flowers, aud fruit have all become mingled and intertwined.Soma who taste of the fruit of the wine m ay think that it ought to be larger and better.Aud thus thinking,-they may follow the branches of the growth trough entanglement, and seeing its composite character they may wish to remove the parasites\u2014the ivy aud the clematis\u2014so that the vine might grow more freely accordiag to its own proper growth.But those who are content in its shadow reisist any such attempt.One root is as good as another to them, ana since the roots are all under ground and out oi sight, they assert and insist that there is but one root to the whole growth as it stands, and that the whole must be maintained Intact and sacpod The'true vine is Christianity as planted by Jesus Christ.The parasites, ivy and clematis,! stand for sacerdotalism and such foreigi growths as have struck root along with it, andl grown up around it in such imposing proportions.The whole growth, in its composite] character, in its mixed foliage, flewer and fruit,j may be taken to represent the sacerdota church of Christendom.This sacerdotal churct proclaims Protesiantiem a failuie.We shal consider this matter of Protestantism moje di-l rectly next Sunday evening.Meantime we may take note of sacerdotalism and see how fop it has been a success or a failure.The controversialists who have provoked this discussion by proclaiming Protestantism a failure have quoted newspaper correspondents in evidence.I admit the legitimacy of this course, but to serve auy good purpose the evidence should be taken in full.When taken partially on behalf of partisan eccleaiasticRm, such testimony is only calculated to mislead.1 shall offer some evidence on the other side, to supply the deficiency.Iu a recent issue of the New York Timeses correspondent writes from Naples : \u201c FT m these statistics (which he gives) I conclude that in Italy three-fifths of ihe giown-up women are absolutely ignorant ot the first rudiments of education.I am confirmed in these conclusions by the revelations made in the census of 1861, wUen it was found that of tue men sixty out of a hundred could neither read nor write, and of the women seventy-eight in a similar condition.Further 14.Diseases : Small-pox, 6 ; heart disease, 2 ; apoplexy, 1 ; inflammation of brain, 2 ; diarrhoea, 1 ; scarlatina, 3 ; infantile debility, 22 ; stillborn, 2 ; puerperal fever, 1 ; old age, 1 ; inflammation of kidneys, 1 ; spinal complaint, 1 ; méningites, 1 ; enteritis, 1 ; hcemorrhage, 1 ; dropsy, 3 : phthises, 2.Police Court.\u2014Junes Jackson w s sent to gaol for one month for stealing a bottle of beer from a chamber.Christopher Pbiston, for stealing a quantity of pork, was sent to gaol for one montb.\u2014T.M.Taylor and James McDougall, Esqrs., are the visiting Governors at the Protestant House of Industry aud Refuge for the present week.\u2014 The Secretary-Treasurer of the United Board of Out Door Relief acknowledges, with thanks, the following donations : From Gilbert Scott, $100 ; G for a poor family, $10.35 ; Perrier & Co , $20 ; T.E , $4 ; Robert Mills, $i , H.W.A., $5 ; J.L.M., ï>5 ; Jag.Roy, 10 bags of potatoes ; Jas.Ferrier, juur , » parcel of clothing ; \u201c A Friend,\u201d 2 small parcels do ; Angu», Logan, & Co,, a ream of wrapping paper.Weekly report of the Saint Bridget\u2019s Refuge, ending Saturday the 12th inst.: Males, 618 ; Females, 220 ; total, 838.English, 77 ; Irish, 649 ; Scotch, 36 ; French Canadians, 76.Total, 838.Montreal Di=penbary.\u2014Number of patients prescribed for at this Institution, for the week nding February 13th, 164.Males, 83 ; Females, 8t.Of the above number 38 were children under 7 years of age.The United Board of Out-Door Relief would earnestly request donations of boots, ahoes aud India rubbers, from firma who have not yet sent in any of these articles, as many of tbe poor are greatly in need.Please send in before Thursday, Germania Quartette Club.\u2014A highly sue-cesful concert wai niven last night, in the Mechanics\u2019 Hall, under the auspices of the Germania Quartette Club, Mr.Carl Thorbahn conducting with his usual efficiency.The programme was judiciously selected, comprising several of the best known and appreciated works of the great masters.The performance was throughout marked with so much ability and taste as to render criticism in detail superfluous.The proceeds of the concert, which mast have been considerable, were to be appropriated to tbe German Protestant Church Billiards \u2014A match of some iuterest came off last night at the St.Lawrence Hall between Mr.Alphonse Derome and Mr.Frank Dion, the farmer being the winner.The game was American four ball, 500 points.Mr.Derome\u2019s bigh-e-t scores werej65, 40, 36 and 27, and average 14 12-42.Mr Dion\u2019s best run was 24, which he made twice, his average being 7, and his total 293.There was a large number of lookers-on ani considerable interest was manifested in the game.Mr.Ed.Lapointe acted as referee.GI l\u2019Y OO U IN CJJL l_i.There was an adjourned meeting of the City Council last night,Councillor SIMARD presiding.Moved by Alderman DAYID, seconded by Councillor MASTERMAN that tbe Road Committee be authoriz id to advertize for Tenders for the cleaning of streets from 1st April to 1st December, and to accept the same under the sanction of the Finance Committee, who shall allow a certain snm, being a part of the grant to the Road Committee.Alderman RODDEN thought it was a good plan to contract at an early date, as It gave contractors time to make their arrangements which would no doubt make tbem come cheaper, but he thought that such a course was hardly legal as it was against the general orders of the Council, He would request the Alderman to insert a close \u201c under the concurrence of the City Attorneys\u201d.Alderman DAYID said that he would allow of the insertiou.The motion then passed.Alderman RODDEN, seconded by Alderman David, moved that the following be inserted among the amendments : To obtain a copv of the cadastre of the city now preparing; to keep books of registration of sub-divisions of properties as indicated ; to oh-tain annually the copies of records of alterations and additions to said cadastre ; to enable the Assessing D-partment and Treaaury of the city to collect the same against the respective properties iu the city with more correctness.Aid.Rodden, Yalois, and G.VY.Stephens spoke on this motion.Alderman YALOiS moved, seconded hy Councillor G.W.hTEPHENS, that the Corpon-tion do not pay for such copy of cadastre, but, if it could be obtained without expense, procure it.Alderman RODDEN accepted the amendment, after which the motion was passed.Un motion of A darman DAYID the Council went into committee of the whole on the amendments to the Act of Incorporation.They passed certain amendments to the amendments on Expropriation which will be published tomorrow.The Council then adjourned till to-nighGat half-past seven. .r'n~ ir tt\"\"¦\u2014\u2014\u2014r1^»11 , -ry^-nrivKi \u2014 , ttOMTSBAL HERALD XHB DAlLV COMMRHOtAL OAgfeTTR i Tt!EWi)A^, EERisLARy Hi ?! V è Children\u2019s SeepitaL ' Yesterday afternron was held in the Dis-pens uy a meeting of the Committee appointed to take steps for the establishment of a Children\u2019s Hospital, Mr.Phillips presiding.Mr.Miiioy having expressed his inaoiiity to undertake the duties of secretary, Mr.T.A, Evans was appointed to that office.In Mr.Evans\u2019s absence X)r Trenholme acted as Sec.pro tem.L-tters were read from several gentlemen, who were unable to attend, expressive of sympathy and co-operation with the promoters of this undertaking.\t,\t.It was stated that about $2,000 had been promised towards the erection of a hospital._ A discussion arose as to an afiiliation with the Montreal General Hospital, but the project was dropped as impracticable.Mr.CARTER suggested that a committee be appointed to draft a petition to the Local Legislature for an Act of Incorporation.He said that lie and his friend Mr.Ogilvie would Icok after it.Mr.OGILVIE expressed himself most happy to .assist lu any way he could.It was moved by Mr.PRENTICE, seconded by Mr.ALEXANDER and resolved that Messrs.E.A.Prentice, Charles Alexander, Drs.Carpenter, Campbell and Trenholme be appointed to draft said petition.Mr.PRENTICE moved, seconded by Mr.MILLOV, that Mr.Carter be requested to undertake the putting of the bill through the House.Mr.CARTER said he would be most happy to undertake the responsibility, and that if the petition was sent in before the end of the month, the Act cf Incorporation could be obtained at the present session.A conversation then ensued as to the name of the hospital, after which it was resolved that it he called Ths Montbkal General Hospital for Sick Children.The time of opening such an institution was - then considered, when it was determined to ! obtain a house and start ope\u2019ations with 6 or 8 beds so soon after the first of May as possible.Messrs.Prentice, Evans, and Dr.Campbell were appointed a committee to see after the renting of a house, furnishing it, and obtaining t the necessary officials and servants, and to re-Î port at a meeting, of which notice was to be given by the Secretary.On this the meeting adjourEed.ÏHE DOMINION.CORRESPONDENCE- t .< United States Life Insurance Cem-panies.To the Editor of the Montreal Herald.The \u201c New York Times\u201d of the 9 th commenting on the expenses of Life Insurance Management in the United States, says : \u201c That it must be admitted that there is much in life insurance management as seen in this country, which demands the attention of thoso who would have it permanently successful.Although not as reckless or rorten as the Tribune represents it, the system is far removed from what it ought to be.It is often delusive in its pretences and promises, is as a rule extravagant, and in its competition for business frequently neglectful of conditions that are essential to lasting prosperity, In the haste to acquire business, the blunder which has operated so disastrously in fire insurance is committed.Agents are tempted by an unwise rate of commission to indulge in false representations, and, with the help of medical referees, to fasten upon companies risks which in prudence should be declined.The last annual returns to which we have access are those for 1867.These show that of forty-four companies organized, or doing business in this State the ratio of expenses to total income averaged more than 28 per cent., while the ratio of expense to premiums averaged upward of 31 per cent.These averages are greatly too large.Compared with the expenses of Scottish companies\u2014the most carefully managed in the world\u2014even 28 per cent, is excessive.It is about eighteen per cent, higher j than it should be.Of the forty-four companies included in this calculation, several maintain expenses at a standard which is evidently incompatible with solvency.Tans we discover one company whose every dollar of premium income was absorbed by expenses, winch actually amounted to 90 per cent, of income from all sources.Another of our City companies spent 76 per cent, of its total income, or 96 per cent of its premiums for the year.A Cleveland and a Providence company \u2014each having ageacies here\u2014charged to expenses, respectively, 56 and 60 per cent, of their enure income.Six other of our companies averaged more than 40 per cent.; and ten considerably over 20 per cent.Only two in the entire list are below 11 per cent 1 These facts are certainly sufficient to prove the necessity of reform in life-insurance management.They are eonclnsive as to the prevalence of an extravagance which, in the circumstances, is reckless if not criminal.They show that seme of the forty-four companies are not entitled to confidence, and that the system which involves the great majority in .au annual expenditure out of all proper proportion to the business transacted, is in many respects bad.When it is remembered that the aggregate annual income of the companies embraced in our analysis exceeds $57,000,000, and that the amount of insurance carried by them is $468,000,000, the importance of the subject becomes apparent.With interests so vast and delicate at stake, economy and integrity are qualities of management with which no company can afford to dispense.Reform is needed in the interest of those who contemplate insurance as well as of those who are already insured.It is needed all the more urgently because of the trifling informa-flou wuich the public generally possess in regard to the matter.And this is the real danger in life insurance.The companies are In a great degree exempt from criticism.The State Superintendent does his duty, we are aware, and the value of his services is great ; but of independent and intelligent eriticism there is absolutely none.The literature of insurance in this country amounts to little more than a publication of documents prepared by the officers of companies, and as a medium of public instruction is therefore almost valueless.When the companies find that their conduct of business is scrutinizsd, and that the acquisition of business is in some degree contingent upon prudent management and a frank and full exhibit of their affairs, we may hope for wholesome change.In the meantime we can but emphasize the duty of watchfulness on the part of every man insured, and the importanco of discrimination on the part of all who contemplate the provision for the future which insurance is designed to afford.\u201d The above, coming from one of the leading journals in New York, certainly deserves particular attention, and the importance, as is stated, of dxscrimiuation on the part of Insurers caunot be too forcibly impressed in Gaua-dajust now, and parties must not be too easily persuaded by the supposition that the late Act of our Parliament in demanding a deposit is sufficient guaranteee should a loss arise.I am, Yours, SECURITY.The \u201c Staff of Lise.\u201d\u2014Since the beginning of the year, the bakers of the city have been running the gauntlet of antagonism in the way of prices, which periodically affects quotations of the \u201c staff of life.\u201d At that time and fur some time previous, bread had been selling (retail) fora york shilling per four pound loaf, although the principal iagiedient thereof, i.e.flour, was and is selling at an average of $4 50 per barrel.This, of course, was an imposition.The main reason adduced for it was the rise in the price of labour, which was caused by the action of the journeymen bakers\u2019 association, about a year ago.Employes have for that time and are now obtaining an average of $10 am/es., besides.working several hours less iu evefy twenty-four, which improvement in the financial-condition of the journeymen, the \u201c boss\u201d bdkers contend, has raised their wages up to about double of the rates formerly paid, and hence they claim that bread cannot be profitably retailed for less than a york shilling or twelve cents.About the beginning of the year, however, seveial of the \u201cbosses\u201d who deliver bread, reduced their prices some two and some as much as four cents per loaf, and the great majority oi the manufacturers therein were compelled to follow suit and come down mote or less in price.Many of them, however, have gradually crept up again to the normal price, and quotations have been jump, ing about, in the most unsettled manner, since the New Year.For instauce, iu many of the \u201c corner groceries,\u201d the large loaf can be purchased for eight cents, while at some of the bakers\u2019 establishments as much as twelve cents is demanded.Of course, in bread as in most other articles, different qualities will secure different prices, and some few old established bakeries have never reduced their prices at all.But there seems no good reason why, at the present price of flour, bakers should charge more than ten cents per loaf, unless it be the simple one, that they want to have a large profit.\u2014 Upper Canada Paper.\u2014The Galt February Cattle Fair, held on Wednesday last, was, the Avorter says, a success.At an early hour cattle began to cume io, and by 10 o\u2019clock the number on the ground was the largest that has been brought in to any of our fairs for some time.The cattle, generally, were in iair order, but with the exceptiou of some 20 head, were rather light.But few \u2018.cows of inferior quality were offered, aud did apt gSH readily.The attendance of buyers was large, aud sales were made readily, while pricey may be said to have rauged from 3£c to 5c per \u2019lb.live weight.The following are some of the sales which took place :\u2014Andrew Dryden, 2 head, $226; Peter Barton, 3 head, $137; Walter Armstrorg, 1 cow, $49: Jaa.Douglass, 1 bead, $42.60; Ford and Douglass, 5 head for $202, aud 2 head for 4c per lb ; Jas.Smell, 1 cow, $40 ; Jas.Cowan, l pow, 4Jc.live ; Thomas Oliver, 2 head, $17.fiillott & Oo, Brantford199.M8 Fahey & Co, Quebec.-.Kamel & Co, \u201c\t.318.000 McUreevy JL0 Swtieiger&C , Ber-ia.03 000 Trepannier.A, Levis.Charland, G, 8t Valier.295,0.-0 Peters, 8imon, Queoec.« Matthiew Co, \u201c\t\u2022\u2022\u2022 .Ware & Co.\t\u201c\t.460 Ken\\ W, Kemptville.*20 240 Humomier, Q, iebec.JfW 000 Papupalon it Co, Devis.400.ti00 Jobin \u20141\tO _ \u2018\u2018\u201cOfcOO\u2014'SO' O CO to*- A**- THE DYING BODY SUPPLIED WITH THE VIGOR OF LIFE THROUGH Dr.Kadway\u2019s Sarsaparillian Résolvent.A small atom of vacine matter is sufficient to ebarae tire system of the most robust and weighty body against Small Pox ; -this potent power is secured throuth the blood In every drou of Dk.Radway\u2019s Sarsaparim.ian Kk-solvent, there is concentrated, tbe nourishint strengthening and purifying propertier, thit will securr to every human b-ing, pure, rich atrong and healthy b.ood If the Siood can be charged with vacine matter in atomic nronor» lions, that reuroduces on tne parts of the body inoculated a poison of such virulence that an atom will charge an ordinary body, containing llu ponnds of blood ; is it not reasonable that a remedial agent like Radway\u2019s Saks aparix-lilAN KtSOi VENT, made from the most healing purifying, strengt-hening extracts from the vegetable kingdom of known medicinal qualities and combined together by the highest chemical skill, and the medicinal properties or these nrn.stances obtained under a process, that secures only the active properties of the sutntano-s used, should have equally as potent power for Cleansing, purifying enriching and strengthening the blooc* ?Every drop of the Haksafarii,-pIan Résolvent communicates through the Blood, Sweat, Urine, ard other fluids and juices oi tne system the vigor of life, for it repairs the wastes oi the body w ith new and sound material.The SaRsaparilj-ian Resolvent possesses tissue making andjlesh makiny elements, and supplies the system with.any deficiency ot Caloric or heatmaking constituents.£io matter how iJeep.y seated or engrafted iu the tissues, cartilages glands, organs, or bones, disease and corruption may be, t re influence of this powerful a^ent on the blood and otherfluids, that supply the living body with repairs, will so chat™ the system with such constituent\", &stQ r^yolve aud exterminate the dead and decomposing matter, and su p-ply Its place with sound aud living structure nourished by rich, pure and stroug b,ood the chemical *c;ion which the Sarsaparh;.ltan xvEsulvent has on the substances taxée into tbe siomach during itg process of digestion into Uhyme aud Ofiyie, before it is made blood, as well as the nourishing constituents it converts into biood, and its specific action, when eutering in the circulation, it exterminates every atom ol virus irom the blood, aud resolves away all deposits of disease, whether caused ov the action ot some specific poison or virulent disease, or Mercury.Uorrosiv .sublimate Uaio-m.I, that may Uave aocumu ateu iu the bones tissues, canilag- s, or joints, or from some transmitted family complaint tr.at may have run Uirougn Jaaif a dozen generaiiiooe.«cküfüoa, Consumption, sypuilis, uncured ANn BaDuy t«h ated Venereal, .n its many forms, tiLANDULAR DISEASE, ULCERS IN THE THROAT, Mouth, Tumours, Nonas in the «lands, and Other parts of the Sy-tern.Soke EVES, STRÙMOKOUS UISOHAKOES from tire Ears, and the worst forms of Skin diseases, Eruptions, Eevek Sores, Scald Read, Bins Work, Balt Rheum, BrisipellaS, acne BlacK Spots, Worms in the Flesh, Tumors Cancers.In the Womb and all Wbaktnq and Painful Discharges, Right Sweats, loss cl sperm and all wastes of the life principle, are within the curative range of this wonder of lionï.KN uhemistky and a few days use will prove to any person using it for either of these forms of disease, its potent power to cure them If the patient dally becoming reduced by thé wastes and decomposition that is continually piogressing, succeeds in arresting these wastes and repairs' the same with new material made from healthy blood, and this the saipjapakil-lan will, and does secure, a cure is certain for when once this remedy commences its work of purification, and succeeds in diminisniog the loss of Wastes, its repairs will be rapid) and every day the patient will feel himself growing better and stranger, the food digesting better appetite improving, and fiesh and welgnt increasing.blot only does the «aksopakillian Resolvent excel all known remedial agents in tne cure of Chronic, scrofulous Constitutional, »kin and (syphiloid Diseases, but it Is the only positive curative for Kidney, Bladder, Urinary, and Womb diseases, Drawki UlABEATES, DROPSY, STOPPAGE Of WATER INCONTINENCE Of URINE, Bright\u2019s Disease\u2019albuminuria, and in all cases where there are Brick dust deposits, or the water is thick.- cloud i mixed wi.h subsumcea iHvc rue while 01 an egg or tnreads Uks white èük, or there is \u201e morbid dark, niiious appearance, and white bone dust deposits, and where there is pricking, burning sensation wnen passing water, aod pain in tne omall of the Balk, along the a oins.In ah these conditions Kadwaï\u2019s MaksaParI.llian Kesolvrnt.aided by the application of haij-way\u2019s heady Belief to the tSjfiiRE and Small of the Back, ana (he Bowels regulated with one or two of BadwaY\u2019s Kegulajing Pills per day, will soon make a complete cure; ina lew days, the patient will he euabldd to hoid and dischaige his water natural y without pain, aud ih« Urine wib he restored to its natu al clear, and amber or cherry colour.BJK BE-NJ.JBBODIE, DESOOBTEL, HUCK NEB, and many other eminent medical men\u2019-used one of the ingredients of the barsaparil LIAN BXSOLVBlST, j, e.PARIERA BRAVA, as a speciaii y in all Urinary difficulties, in its crude state, and eulogised it above ail remedial agents fur Urinary d.scnarges, and Womb difficulties\u2019 and as aiiihontripiec in oalculous uiseases, and it is now regaried as superior to buchu juniper Cubebs, Cop -hia, digit ms, xurpuntink DIN,