Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 1 avril 1869, jeudi 1 avril 1869

[" i«i à.ï'i% MÀIÜ^P Plying thoügctfblly bar b'eèdiejj, èiso teï éittlfi^ in the slanting sunlight, on the village grëon, As if weaving in the stocking she is knitting, Here and there\u2014a memory of what has been.Fair see Ip, and neat and*clean and Very cornel) Seeking peace alone where peace is to be had Jnot the one to make a home supremely homth i And a heart in search ofgladneas truly glad.Is she dreaming really of the ^avs departed, Or of what are yet to come with fewer fears ; Does she image forth no lover, tender-hearted, Drawing near and ever nearer through the years ?L ie's deceitful in its aspect, meekest maiden ; Ar^ what seems so fair to-dav may prove as fouL Gay at morning ; and at even, sorrow-laden.We may be, and often are, without control.Vet, meek maiden, fill thy mouth with phantom kieses, Sitting thoughtful in the drooping purple light, And dream on thy pleasant dream of honied blisses, Knitting far into the mellow antumu night.Iw.\\ms (ch If AND DAILY CO 1869.NUMBEK APR! mUiiS Burning, MONTREAL ÿfÊgfEK Sis At THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1869.AtPFOINTMiQNTS THIS DAY.Reading ana Music in aid of Church Home, at Calhsdrai School-room, at 8 p.m.AUCTION SALES THIS DAY.BY JOHN J.ARNTON.Furniture, two schooners had New!dhex£adlt-I0ns °n the nortbern shore.News has bee^ received from Nuevitas to the vicinity11'6 m8Urgant3 were Yery active in the Cuba BiowSj New Yobs, March 31.\u2014Advices from Cuba from patriot sources state that Cespedes has replied to Dnice\u2019s declaration of war to the knife, by a decree that all persons taken here after, except regular Spanish soldiers, are to he put to death.LOCAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.Quebec, March 31.When the House met, Mr.Carter presented tho following petitions : From the inhabitants of Cote St.Louis in favour of the City Passenger Railway bill.From Hugh Allan and others, of Montreal, praying that the 17th elause in the Montreal Corp\u2019ora-tion bill be not adopted.Mr.Carter reported the two bills of the Quebec Corporation and the Quebec Citizens\u2019 Association.From Committee, recommending their amalgamation to certain points ; a change of qualification of electors and date of election ; the election of Mayor by the Council ; and the abolition of the distinction between Aldermen and Councillors.Mr.Bellerose, from the Contingent Committee, reported a reduction of the expenditure of the House of $1200 by the abolition of forty °mces since last session.On motion of Mr.Jodoin, returns of the sums received by the municipalities of the villages ot Longueuil and Chambly Basin was voted.Mr, Brigham moved the second reading of the bill to amend Article 2250 of the Civil ( i-.do rr.nric'.t-t\u2014 c.\t.\t.\u2014 f., s~~ ia - -\t\u2014\tibiVmUb.\tt- lee moved six months hoist.Messrs.Ouimet, Iivine and Hemming supported the bill.Mr.JOLY deprecated any tinkering with the Civil Code.The amendment was lost, and a second reading carried on a division of 12 to 27.Oq motion of Mr.Brigham the bill was then read a third time and passed.Other third readings : \u2014 Mr.Mailloux : Respecting the authentication and custody of registers of the Civil Status.Mr.Carter : to incorporate the Dental Association.Mr.Dunkin : respecting aid to certain Colonization railways.Mr.Dunkin : to amend the law respecting hawkers, pedlars, tavern keepers and billiard tables.Mr.DUNKIN then moved tho House into Committee to consider certain resolutions respecting members indemnity, saying that, the Government had decided to assume the responsibility of increasing it to $600 for this Session, considering its exceptional length They are as follows :\u2014Resolutions : That the Act passed in the 31st year of Her Majesty\u2019s reign, entitled \u201c An act respecting the indemnity to members of the Legislature and tho salary of the speaker of the Legislative Assembly be hereby so revived and continued in force as that all provisions thereof touching the salary of such speaker shall apply to this year and all touching indemnity to such members to this session, the latteVj however, amended as follows :\u2014 By the substitution at the end of the first section of the Act of the words, \u201c six hundred dollars and no more\u201d for the woids, four hundred and filty dollars and no more\u201d ; by the insertion in the second session of the act, after the words \u201c but each during the session\u201d of the words\u2019 \u201c after the first on which the members attend as\u2019 aforesaid.\u201d By the addition to such second section of the following sub-section : A member shall not be entitled to said sessional allowance for ^less than thirty-one days attendance, reckoned as aforesaid ; hut his allowance for any less number of days shall be sis dollars for each day\u2019s attendance.Mr.JOLY moved in amendment to strike out $600 on the resolution, and substitute $450 thereof.Mr, ROBERT seconded the amendment.Mr.SCRIVER opposed the increase, Messrs.HEMMING and R HEAUME spoke in favour of the amendment.Being put was lost on vote of 14 to 29, and yeas and nays being asked, the Treasurer stated it was not customary to take them in committee.A resolution adopting the hill respecting houses of reform and industry was read a third time and passed.Mr.OUIMET thon moved the second reading of the Notarial bill, commenting at great length on its desirability and explaining its provisions.It being six o\u2019clock the House rose while he was yet speaking.At half past seven a message was received from His Honour transmitting tho following supplementary estimates for the consideration if the House :\u2014Legislative Council, additional $3,600 ; Legislative Assembly, additional $15,-000; Administration of Justice, &c ; Reformatory of St.Vincent de Paul, additional $1,-200 ; Education and Schools in poor Municipalities,_ additional $4,000 ; Public Works, Biüd Buildings, rent?, Insurances, and repair of Public Buildings generally, additional $1,006; rents, Court Houses and Gaol, additional $40» ; Batiscan Bridge and towards repair in rebuild-\u2019 ing, $800 ; Protestant House of Industry and Rafugo, $800 ; Magdalene Asylum, Bon Pasteur, additional $300 ; Ladies Benevolent Society for Widows and Orphans including the late House of Refuge, additional $350 ; Freres de la Charité de Sfc.Vincent de Paul, $300 ; Hospice de la Miséricorde, $200 ; Hospice de la Providence of Joliette, $200 ; and to the distressed people of Red River $2,-500 ; to meet the demands of Municipalities fund, $6,000.Total, $12,850.The House then went 1 nto committee again on the Montreal Corporation Bill, and discussed several amendments proposed by Messrs.Beaubien and Hemming, which were lost, and the Committee rose and reported progress with leave to sit again.Mr.DUNKIN then moved for concurrence in the report of the committee on the resolution for indemnity to members.Mr.JOLY moved, in amendment, to refer back the report, with instructions to substitute $450 for $600.He advised the appropriation of the additional subsidy to colonization, agri-cultuio, or any other of the great public interests of the Province calling for the utmost encouragement that the finances could ber r, Mr.HEMMING argued that every man\u2019s time in this country was money, and Members services during the present session fully entitl-\u2019 ed them to an increased remuneration He did not wish to give a buncombe vote, though he was fully aware that, in voting against the, amendment, he would still oh lain increased subsidy as tho amendment would he negatived.Mr.MARCHAND condemned the insinuations that those voting for the amendment were actuated by anything other than their convictions that an increased indemnity was uncalled for at present.Messrs.RHEAUME and DUNKIN spoke again in tavour of the increase, and Mr.BEAUBIE against it.A division was then taken, resulting in the loss of the amendment by 16 to 34.For,\u2014 Messrs.Bachand, Beaubien, Benoit, Clement, Desaulniers, Gaudet, Gendron, Hearn, Joly, Marchand, Mailloux, Poser, Scriver, Tremblay, and Yerrault.Against,\u2014Messrs.Baudrean, Bellerose, Bellingham, Bergevin, Besset, Brig-baro.Garter.\u201eQhapleau, Chauveau, Church, Dugas, Dumoulin, Dunkin, if'onin^USrbu' Hamilton, Harwood, Hemming, Irvine, (Sol \u2019 Gen! ), Jodoin, Larue, Lavallee, Lecavallier Locke, Mathiew, Moll, Ouimet, Picard, Poupore Rheaume, Robertson, and Ross.The resolution was read a second time and Mr.DUNKIN introduced a bill based on it.On motion of Mr.DUNKIN the House went into Committee of Supply on Supplementary estimates and adopted them with a very slight discussion except the last, rising then and reporting progress with leave to sit again.Mr.Chauveau\u2019s bill respecting the Industrial Schools was then passed through Committee and read a third time.Mr.Dunkin\u2019s bill respecting the Public Works of the Dominion abandoned or transferred to the Province, was read a second time.Also the bill respecting authentication.Certain documents afterwards put in Committee and read a third time.The amendments of the Legislative Council to the game laws amendment bill were adopted.Other third readings,\u2014 To divide into two registration divisions, 2nd registration divieion, County of Kimouski, Mr.Garon.To divide the Municipalitiy of the County of Eimouski into two distinct municipalities, Mr.Garon.The House then adjourned at 11.15 P.M.List of Passenger per \u201c S.8.Austrian\u201d from Liverpool.Mr.Jordan; Mr.Howie; Mr.Cullinane ; Mr.White ; Miss Matthaus ; Mr.J \u2019 B.O\u2019Doherty ; Mr.McKean ; Mr.Telfer ; Mr.f, Pedder.Steerage 348.The Kesouroes op Canada,\u2014A few weeks ago we referred to the proposal for the establishment of beet root cultivation in Ireland, and the manufacture of beet root sugar, for the development of her resources.We expressed in that article the belief that many parts of Lower Canada would be found better adapted than Ireland for the growth of the sugar beet, judging by the crops of the ordinary beet or mangel wurtzel, which attain a great size and yield a large return.That this Province stands much in need of manufactures as a source of employment to the population admits of no doubt ; but it is difficult to excite sufficient interest in an enterprise which requires patient and steady perseverance, rather than large capital, and necessitates, besides the co-operation of a class of men who are proverbially unwilling to move off the beaten track, and not un- i naturally so, considering that a mistake I committed at tho beginning of the season\u2019s / farming operations may take years to I remedy.The making sugar from beets ' required experiments of a costly nature before it paid, in fact thousands of pounds were lost in the business, but the resources of science were brought into play, and now it is a simple commercial undertaking, depending on proper management,business habits, and sufficient knowledge of the processes by which the root is converted into sugar and the refuse turned to the best account.The mode of cultivation is similar to that of any other green crop.The land must be thoroughly pulverized, well worked over, heavily dunged, and the seed deposited in drills, not on the flat, and, requiring to be kept from weeds, this crop is a most valuable one where there is a proper rotation observed, a difficult matter to have accomplished where the returns for green crops cun only be looked for after some years, as the expense of the one crop must necess arily be borne by those which succeed it.Were this branch of industry, however, established there would be at once provided a market for the green crop, the greater part of which would be restored to the soil after all the saccharine matter that cam be obtained has been squeezed out of the roots.The pulp contains every constituent in the root except the sugar, and that loss could easily be supplied in feeding cattle which produce the manure to- make up the loss caused by the removal off1 the crop, and the ground is left in the best, possible state for the cultivation of grain, crops and hay, on the system adopted wherever agriculture is going on as it ought to be.The results of the manufacture must, of course, depend on the manner in which the business, in all its branches, in conducted ; and that depends on the rules which regulate business of any description.But the returns from the land itself, for this single crop, can be approximately estimated.By the most improved metnoas or rarming, 3S tons of roots can be taken from a single acre.Allowing, however, only 20 tons at the rate of five dollars per ton, $100 would be received as the gross return for an acre,\u2014a sum much in excess of what would pay all charges and costs of cultivation, clearing, and.preparing for future crops ; and this would employ an additional number of bands, would give a largely increased yield of grain and grass, and would make not two only, but many blades of grass grow where only one grew before.In the neighbourhood of a city like Montreal, the sewage which at present causes so much expense for its removal, could be turned to account and made to yield a large revenue.In Mr.Stephens\u2019\u2018\u2018Book of the Farm,\u201d in the edition published twenty years ago, the author expresses his doubts as to the suitableness of Scotland for growing this root to a profit.Recent analyses show that that opinion was erroneous, and that that country not only grows beet with more sugar than that in the English root, but with a very much higher per centage than that in the Dutch root, which has been used for the manufacture with a profit.Forty.two specimens from England and nine rrom Scotland grown from seed distributed by Mr.Duncan, who has erected works at Lavenham in England, were analysed by Dr.Yoelcker, the agricultural chemist, and compared with roots from a Dutch sugar farm The result showed in English roots 9.61 per cent of sugar, in Scotch roots 9.13 and in Dutch 9.0.The result is due in a great measure to the soil, but in certain cases that would seem to be much influenced by the manure and treatment of the crop.Of all the specimens analyzed that grown on the London sewage at Barking proved the highest in sugar producing quality.In France, Holland and Beigium sugar farming is every year extending.It has got no protection against competition from foreign grown sugar, but has established itself as a branch of agriculture, paying its own expenses and leaving a profit.The consumption of sugar is every year inoreasing, there is a de; mand for employment for the population and there are lands admirably suited for the growth of this root, almost idle for one reason already stated among others, that root crops at present seem to be very expensive to raise because they must bear all the cost of the after crops of grain and grass, they are therefore little cultivated and as a consequence cattle cannot be fed to the same advantage, so that the adage is realised here to the fullest extent\u2014no roots, no cattle ; no cattle, no manure ; no1 manure, no crops ; no crops, no support for a large portion of our population.Would it not be well for practical men to turn their attention to this subject, and as-icertain if some better subject for discus-ion could not be found than empty talk bout colonization schemes which end iqf [nothing.Lunatics in Gaols.\u2014We made some strictures in Monday\u2019s issue on the con-\u2019\u2022-^.of the powers that be, in reference to In\t\u2014-.T- -ncr- ¦- - more precisely the facts as re- the msace aeooj tamed Kurds our own gaol in the city of Montre al.There are now some dozen or more of persons confined there as dangerous lunatics.One lot of them was duly examined several weeks since, and their insanity certified to the Government, but as yet no order has come for their removal to the Asylum.Either the Asylum has no room, or the Lieutenant-Governor has no time.The difficulty in respect of the examination required by law does not lie with the medical men, but arises from the fact that only one of our judges will go to the gaols upon such an errand, and his duties take him away at times to other Districts.The result is that the lunatics remain incarcerated for weeks under the most unfavourable circumstances, the probability being that in some cases at least their insanity becomes thereby hopelessly confirmed.But the evil does not stop here.For want of sufficient room the gaoler is obliged to put these lunatics in the same ward with the untried prisoners.This is not only disagreeable to these persons, whom the theory of the English Criminal Law considers as innocent until they are proved guilty, but who in practice are treated rather as if their guilt were a foregone conclusion, but it is positively dangerous, and it is with reason they complain that their lives should be thus exposed.The gaoler has no alternative but to lock up these lunatics, and keep them constantly looked up, which is sure to make them raving mad, or to have the moderate ones at large among the untried prisoners, with some person to watch them.If he locks up the lunatics he does them great harm, and if he allows them to go among the untried prisoners he exposes these latter in a way which cannot be justified.The faults of his superiors, therefore, fall upon his shoulders, and subject him to blame which does not properly belong to him.There should be the utmost celerity in every department to ensure the transmission of these unfortunates with the least possible delay to the Asylum, and they should be sent in small numbers.Think of taking some fifteen or twenty lunatics, with all the necessary attendants, upon such a journey as the transit from Montreal to Beauport, at any time, and especially in winter, and it will be seen at once that they should not be treated as ordinary convicts are, and removed in large nnmbers from place to place.On the contrary they should be examined as soon as possible, and forwarded without delay, if for no better reason than on the score of economy, as the destruction of clothing consequent upon their being long detained In the gaol is no small item.The Selfdenyinq- Lesislators.\u2014It will be seen by the report of the proceedings at Quebec, that the members, on account of the length of the session, have voted themselves $15G additional each, making the sessional all owance $600 for each man.The surplus of the revenue can probably stand the additional sum, and the dignity of the local house must be supported, let who will pay.The \u201cBoston Post.31\u2014The publication office of the Boston Post has been .removed to larger premises suitable to the v/ants of its increasing business.The Post is generally recognized as one of the most .able journals of the Democratic party in fhe United States.CITY JCTEMS.Church op St.James ths Apostle.\u2014Tho annual meeting of the vestry of the Church of St.James the Apostle was held in the vestry on Easter Monday evening.Mr.George R.Prowse was appointed Incumbent\u2019s Church Warden, Ml James Crathern was re-elected Church Warden on beLalf of the Congreation.Messrs.J.H Winn and Frederick Kingston were elected Lay D-slegates ta the Diocesan Synod.Bkcorder\u2019s Cotrar.\u2014Damage Poirier, carter, driving without h.number, $10 or two mouths, Uldeno Montrais, and Joseph Larne, were charged with fooing drunk and assaltin q a lad named Louis .'Pionife, $2.50 or fifteen days.Peter Maher impeding passengers in Gt.St.James street, and disorderly conduct in I léchâmes\u2019 Hall, $1 or eight days.Win.Adam t, a lad, disturbing the peace in Gt.St.James street, and impeding passengers on the sifle-walk, $1 or eight days.Edward Green, a lad of 12 years, wag n rrested for driving without a pocket number.He explained that his brother was sick and h e had taken his place.The lad was discharged and forbidden to go again upon the stand as a carter, Hugh Howell was arrested laefc night for loitering in Mountain street, and \u2022throwing snow balls at passengers.He was dfochargod.John Fisher, was charged with assaulting Robert Calvert.Fisher was fined $1 and costs.\u2014\tThe United Board of Out-Door Belief meet at tho House of Refuse to-morrow at ten o'clock, a.m., punctually.\u2014\tThe Committee of Management of the Montreal General Hospital acknowledges, with thanks, the receipt of a donation of $40 from Messrs.Grant, Hall & Go., and employes.Dead Child Found\u2014O n Tuesday afternoon an inquest was held by t he Coroner over the body of an infant, which w as found in a box on the canal near Wellington Bridge.The box must have been put upon t he ice early in the winter, and has only now b een discovered by the thawing of the snow.Street Cleanino.\u2014For the cleaning of the city tho streets have been divided into three d;s riqts, and to the under-menti.med contractors has the work of cleaning been entrusted for the ensuing season : The Eist, West, Centre, and St.Ann\u2019s Wards to Mr.F.H.McKennar.The St.Louis, St.Lawronee, S!i.James, and St Mary\u2019s Wards to Messrs.Bowes and Parkes, and the St.Antoine Ward to Mussrs.Wait and Tavlor.The total to which tho contracts amount is about $15,300.\u2014The United Board of Out Door Relief beg to acknowledge the following additional donations collected by Messrs.Corse and Healy :\u2014 B.Gibb, $10 ; J.W.Hopkins, $5 ; Prowse Bros., $5 ; James Baylis, $5 ; R Campbell & Co., $10 ; B.Hutchins & Co , $5 ; Brown and Childs, $5 ; Dawson Bros., $5 ; Thos.Paton, $5 ; M, $10 ; George Stephen, $10 ; P.D.Browne $2 ; Cash, $10.Nazareth Blisd Asyldm.\u2014A soijee wag held last night in the Asylum, St.Catherine street, and was well attended, the room being filled with a highly respectable company.The exercises were opened with a discourne by tho Rev.Mr.Martineau, upon the subject, of \u201cCharity, temporal and spiritual.\u201d Six ijr seven little blind girls then recited pieces of poetry in French, which they did in a very acceptable manner.Miss Jaques then sang, very effectively, a song npon \u201c charity.\u201d Sbe was accompanied on the pianoforte by Mr.Boucher.Rev.Mr.O'Farrell delivered a very able rHdress upon the education of the blind, showing: that many persons thus afflicted had risen to positions of eminence.Two little girls read with much taste and apparent ease, selections from English and French, sacred authors.Mr.Baucher gave two comic songs with much humour.Several songs wore rendered by the blind children and others, who seemed to have derived much benefit from the instruction given.At the close of the exercises a little girl, four years of age, thanked the audience for their attendance, and the interest they had taken in the Nazareth Blind Asylum.Cool BuResss\u2019 Minstrels .\u2014In the Mechanics\u2019 Hall last night there was a large house, and \u2018\u2018 Cool\u201d and his troupe had a \u201c big time \u201d Many of the performances were warmly applauded.Cool's Company appear to be something above the average of \u201c burnt cook performers,\u201d and there is nothing in thir performances to which the most fastidious can take exception.Theatre Royal.\u2014 By special request the amateurs of the 69th Regiment reproduced the programme, the performance of which so gratified the public a short time since.Miss manneFdBsîëfiecr1 the military.\u2019 The drSôa'of Ambrose Gwinnett was placed npon the hoards In a style which reflected the highest credit upon the men of the 69th.After this Mr.Batters, that comical genius, produced as he knows how to a couple of songs in which there was a rich vein of humour.The officers of the Regiment performed the farce of \"His last Leg,\u201d that odd fish, O\u2019Callaghan, (Mr.Butler) being the best character of the evening.The officers appear to understand and appreciate farcical productions, and did wemder-fnlly.After a clog dance by Mr.Hinnesay the farce of the \" Area Belle\u201d wound up a night\u2019s entertainment of the most enjoyable kind.The Band of tho Regiment was in attendance.' THJE OOTJUTS, COURT OF QUEEN\u2019S BENCH.criminal side, march term.Present : His Honour, Mr.Justice Monk.The Court having been opened at ten o\u2019clock, Joseph Higgins withdrew hia plea of \"not guilty,\u201d to the charge of larceny, and pleaded guilty.Louis Leduc was called to the bsr charged with having, on the night of the 20th of February, broken into the roorri of one Octave La-belle, who resides in St.D ominique Street, and taken therefrom $50.60 arid other articles.Octave Labelle testified to having left his house on the night in question, having locked his door.On his return his room had been opened and the monev and other things taken away.High Constable Bissonnette produced the money and other articles which were identified by Labelle.To Mr.Piche, witness continued\u2014was certain that the things were his.Prisoner desired to have the cage delayed, in order to get a lawyer, hut this was denied him, Napoleon Pelletier saw the prisoner on the night in question, at the corner of Craig Street.Prisoner wished to drive his horse which he declined.Prisoner then got into his sleigh and he drove him round to several places, at Rosselle\u2019s, on Craig Street, Leduc produced a pay of money which Bosselle said ought to he kept out of sight.They then drove off into St.Lawrence Main street, when he got out refusing to pay his fare.He gave prisoner into thie custody of a policeman who was passing.John Armour, policeman, deposed to having met last witness and prisoner.The carter told him the prisoner had a large amount of money in his possession.Wituess then examined him and finding this to be the case took him into custody.\tjtjs- No witnesses were called for the defence, and the Court haviug summed up, the jury, without leaving the box, found the prisoner guilty.Charles Bignon withdrew his plea of not guilty, on two indictments for larceny, anl pleaded guilty.feloniously receiving stolen goods.Eusobe Lemaie was charged with having on the 12tb of January received stolen goods, the property of John Mathers.Mathers gave precisely ^he same evidence that ha gave yesterday, as0 tLhe ciicumstances of his robbery.Detective Lafon swo deDOsfc'd to having found the watch in pofrD'.\tL,{ tL\u2019e prisoner, and also to having anvaeB High Constable\tdepose J\tthe badreputation^V^s * J the hadMrheenaTakI , *\t^ to the Coursol.\tv\this case before Mr.Thencfo^\tft;*\tCrown.MrfU»\ttoe a aaaitioaou and called m.'-tysJ\u2019/emaie\u2019s son and daughter and one Mdlle.IÇürue, who contradicted the Detective's statement.Napoleon Melocho was then called and S lid that whan he was arrested he placed the watch in the bed which he had just left.arraignment.James Cromack, stealing a promissory no pleaded not guilty, trial on Saturday.On application of Mr.Clarke, Q.C , he was re-admitted (o trial.The Court then adjourned.AFTERNOON SESSION.John Ryan, Maria Mack and Margaret Latti-moro were placed at the bar on a charge of having, on the 18th February, stolon a port-monnaie and a sum of money from one Jean Bte.Deslauriors Mr.Bothwell appeared for the prisoner.J.-Bte Leoault dit Deslaurisrs deposed to having been stopped in a yard by Maria Mack on tho 15 th February, where she was afterwards joined by Laftimoro and Ryan who robbed him of his purse and money.He gave information to the police, and identified pri-Süirers in a house in German Street.Detective Cullen testified as to the particulars of the arrest of the prisoners who were pointed out to him by Deslauriers.Detective Murphy corroborated this.Mr.Bouchard produced the deposition and prisoners\u2019 voluntary statement taken before him.This closed the case for the prosecution.For the defence Mr.Bothweel called, Wiliiam O\u2019Brien, gunner in the Royal Artillery, who testified to haying been with the women and the boy from six o clock till eleven on the night in question.Michael Kennedy gunner\u2019s evidence corroborated the statement of O\u2019Brien.Mr.Bothwell then addressed the Jury for the defence, followed by Mr.Ritchie for the Crown.His Honour charged the Jury, who shortly returned with a verdict of not guilty.Tho Jury returned in the afternoon with a Verdict of not guilty againtt Lemaie.The Court adjourned till next morning at toil (o\u2019clock.japtIR\u2019f OF KKVIEW.Montreal, March 31, 1859.Coram MomNSM® J-i Torrance J., and Beaudry J.William Hervey vs.Kobeut Hervey.Judgment in favour of yUintiff confirmed.Mondelet J., dissenting.Mondelet J.\u2014This is an acti,\u201d3 recover from defendant, who is executor enJ\u2019 fiduciary legatee, under the last will end testaJ'*-3*' the late James Hervey, ot Brockvillq sum of $500, the amount of a legacy biqueatht^ to plaintiff in will of the late William Hervey.The terms of tho will,\twhich the action is founded, are as follows :\u2014\"I hereby will, devise and bequeath one hundred and twenty-five pounds, to my ward, William Hervey, youngest son of my cousin, the late James Hervey, to be appropriated to the finishing of his e location.\u201d The testator died the 27th April 1864.Tho defendant had since held possession of the said testator\u2019s property, for one half as executor and universal legatee, and for the other half as fiduciary legatee, and he refuses to 4'ay to plaintiff the said particular legacy of £12iï.Tne defence to the action is twofold.First that it is specially mentioned in the said will t sat the object of the bequest was \u201cfor the fin ishing of plaintiff\u2019s education\u201d and that at the tune of the death of the said testator, the pli lintiff had arrived at the age of twenty-one ye are and had finished his education, and that th e object of the legacy having been accomplit \u2019bed the plaintiff was not entitled to claim its.payment.Second: That the plaintiff at the .time of the testator\u2019s death was indebted to the estate of the late James Hervey, in the sum ofi$83i?.98, as per account of record, being for cash adv'ances made to him from time to time by Jamt'S Hervey, and that this sum should be held to oompensate the bequest.The plaintiff admits iAat he was twenty-one years old, and that he ha.! finished his education at the time ot the death of the testator.From the above it would at'em clear that the object of the legacy had he m accomplished, and what makes the matter st Ml dealer, is the fact that all the time, from the making of the will up to the testator\u2019s death, th e plaintiff had been continuing his education a id the expense of the said testator.There is no room here for explan at Ion as.to what constitutes the finishing of the plaintiffs education, since he admits that at tLW time of the testator\u2019s death he had finished it, aiid iQ fact was at the time actually engage d la a practical business for which he had been S&ted.As to the second plea, compensation, th «re is great doubt as to the propriety of acting .upon it, the plaintiff having no right to claim the bequest of £125, it having lapsed.The safest course now is to dismiss the action.The judgment appealed from should therefore he reverted.Toriîancb, J.\u2014This was not a question of fact but a question of pure law.The plaintiff did not deny the facts as alleged by the defendant, but the question was, whether by law the ac-complisiament of the object for which the legacy w as given before the dentis of the testator removed from the executor the responsibility of satisfying the legacy.The Court was of opinion (that it did not, and tho learned Judge, in support ol this opinion, quoted \u201c Bedfield on Wills,\u201d w hicb, though an English authority,and of no positive efficacy in our Courts, was nevertheless tl le embodiment of pure reason, and derived from the Roman law.to the following ef- O,.,.mua\u2014\u201c\t-\t- \u2014p\u2014i-i - pel the leffacy to be applied to the special purpose in the will mentioned.In Barton vs.Cooke it was decided that if a legacy were bequeathed to an infant to be use tl for a particular purpose, and it could not I'eso applied it would nevertheless be due, to be applied in some other manner.As to the other plea of compensation it was not avrilab le.The late James Hervey, as appeared from his accoEnts, was a very careful man and marke & every item of his expenditure with exact preci «ion, but although he kept an account of the advances made to the plaintiff there was no' proof or even probability that he intended to charge them against him.The judgment of the Court below should be confirmed.There was anoth er case of Jearmie Graham Hervey, sister of pla intiff in the above, plaintiff vs.Robert Hervey the defendant above, la which the facts were the same and the plaintiff\u2019s admission the same, and.judgment was given in the same sense, Mondelet J.di/isent-ing.Thomas R.Johnson vs.Ai-fred Rimmer.\u2014 Judgment for plaintiff reversing the decision of the Superior Court.Mondelet J\u2014The plaintiff submits for re-vision a judgment rendered by the Superior Court at Montreal (Berthelet J) declaring the plaintiff\u2019s action to he perempted on account of tho lapse of three years of no proceedings in the case, the last proceeding certified by the Prothonotary being \u201c délibéré decharge\u201d on the 20th April, 1865.The proceeding now in question is a motion by the defendant in person, signed by him, he present in court, for \u201c peremption d\u2019instance\u201d unless cause to the contrary be shown on the 27th May, 1868.This motion was dated on the 18th May.The service of that rule \u201c nisi\u201d was made upon A.Cross, Esq., advocate, by leaving a certified copy with himself in person in Montreal.Such a service is insufficient as there may be many persons of the name of A.CrosB in different parts of the country, and how do we know that the A.Cross, in question is the Attorney of Record for plaintiff in this cause.This would settle the case, even were there no other reasons against the decision of the Superior Court.In rigorous proceedings such as the present, he wno complains of the negligence of others should be all right himself.The plaintiff acting unner the prescription of the code, made a motion on the 19th May, 1868, that defendant be ordered to appear in person, or to name another A ttorney ad litem in the said cause within such delay as should be fixeij by the Court, and that ia default of his so doing the plaintiff should be allowed to proceed ex parte.The rule obtained on that motion was regularly served upon the defendant in person on tho 22nd May, 1868.On the 18th, most singularly, the defendant, before being served with the above rule, makes a motion, before whom no one can toll, in his own name (he being without an Attorney in the case) and he never having obtained leave from the Court to appear ia person, for \u201cperemption.\u201d On tho 30th September, 1863, tne Court granted the motion of defendant, and awarded the \u201cperemption.\u201d The whole of these proceeding are not only irregular, hut null and void, and the proceedings from and including the defendant's motion of the 18th May, 1868, should by the judgment of the Court, reviewing the judgment appealed from, be set aside, and tne parties ordered to proceed as to law, and justice may appertain upon tho rule obtained by plaintiff against defendant to appear in person or name another Attorney Michael Connelly kt al.vs.William W.Stuart\u2014Judgment for plaintiff confirmed.\u2014 This is an action by plaintiffs to recover $1,000 damages resulting from ïhe non-delivery to (hem of two thousand barrels of rye flour, in August, 1887, according to the terms of the sate made by defendant to them, c ntainefi lu a memorandum signed by the parties at Montreal the 14th March, 1867.The plaintiffs rest their claim a ion the fact that there was an advance of fifty cents per barrel over and above the price made by plaintiff to defendant, and that in consequence of the non delivery, the plaintiffs were unable to meet the engagements which they had entered into to furnish rye-fiour.The plea is, that before the 31st of Aug.the plaintiffs omitted to offer payment, and thereby had abandoned the contract ; that tho delivery of tho flour and the payment of tho money were concurrent acts ; and that the plaintiffs wore in default in not offering to perform their part ,of (he contract, and could not insist upon the performance by the defendant of his part.The question then to be decided ia, whether, by the terms of the contract, it is to be taken as mutual, and dependent covenants between the parties.There is no evidence of offers to perform the contract on the part of either,no \u201cmise en demeure\u201d on either side.The judgment appealed from is in favour of the plaintiff, and was rendered in tho Superior Oourt by Monk, J., on the 9th July, 1868.It is necersary, clearly and distinctly, to lay down a principle, whereupon will rest the decision in this case.It is important to tho Mercantile gommnnity.Defendants plead that there was no flour ia the market ; then how could plaintiff be bound to make offer of the money.This consideration induces the belief that the plaintiffs were not in default, and are entitled to a judgment in their favour.The juJgment for $l,0G0 is accordingly confirmed.Joseph Leblanc vs.Alfred 0.Trnteau.\u2014Decision of the Court below ia favour of defend-, ant reversed.Mondelet, J.\u2014The question for the Court to decide is whether tho sale of a credit of $500, alleged by the plaintiff to have been made by him to the defendant by verbal contract, comes under Article 1238 of the Civil Code, and is not susceptible of verbal proof.This $500 claimed by the plaintiff ia for a sum of $888 7.0, due to the plaintiff by one Antoine Lassonde, the amount of some notes.The defendant denies the existence of the debt claimed by the plaintiff.The parties having gone to proof the plaintiff wishing to examine witnesses was prevented by the decision of the Honourable Judge on the objection of defendant that the contract could not be proved by oral testimony.The only question at present before the Court is, whether the sale alleged by the plaintiff is one of those commercial matters, concerning which the Code forbids the admission of oral evidence.The words of the Code are as follows : \u201cNo action can be maintained concerning a sum of money over $60, supported only by oral testimony, upon any contract for the sale of goods unless the buyer has accepted or received part of the goods or given something in earnest to hind the bargain \u201d But there is no question £ere of goods hut of the sala of a credit.There is (hen error in the judgment appealed from, and it ought to be reversed, Riohar'.o Freeman vs.Thomas T.Seorill.Mondelet J\u2019.\u2014The Circuit Court for the District of St.Francis gave on the 12th February 1868 on a motion (0 quash the writ of Saisie Revendication issued in this case a judgment whereby, not only was tho vorifc set aside, hut the action itself was dismissed.The Court was perfectly right in quashing the \u201c Saisie Revendication.\u201d As to that part tho judgment appealed from will have to be confirmed, but it will have to bo reversed as to that part of it dismissing the action.The action could not legally be dismissed upon a motion, and further the dismissal of the action is not even prayed for in the motion.MUSICAL MATTifiHS, In.glancing back over the past eight or ten years of the musical history of Montreal, it cannot hut be gratifing to every sincere lover of music, to note the marked progress that has taken place in our city during that time.A desire and demand for a better style of musical performance ; a more thorough appreciation of what is beautiful and nobling in ibis divine art ; and a neglect of, and dissatisfaction with the mediocre and common place which formerly were all that could be appreciated or enjoyed, an among the most striking changes that this retrospect discloses.That much of tho change is attributable to contact cf our population with musical, communities outside of our own, both personally, and through the medium of the press, no one we presume would be disposed to deny.The diffusion of musical information by means of such full and comprehensive reports and discussions as are presented in the columns of musical journals like the London \u201c Orchestra,\u201d and \u201cMusical Times,\u201d or \u201c Dwight\u2019s Journal of Music,\u201d of Boston, has also, undoubtedly, had much to do with the advance we have made, although the full benefit derivable from this source of improvement is to day very far from t'eing attained'in our city, owing to the limited circulation of these or similar journals among our .musical people.But underlying and supporting all other causes of our progress in musical njatters rests the influence exerted by the musical profession of the city; an influence paramount to all others, because direct and immediate, .As a church may be known by its clergv, so the musical position of a community may be gauged fey the men who direct and superintend the .musical development of that community.Until about the time already refered to, with a few exceptions, the individuals who assumed the responsible duties of teachers in this, one of the most profound and subtle of all sciences, were not such as to inspire respect either for themselves or for what they taught.The mass of them were men of limited culture, taste or re- .t.(.I *i.~i.voM -fV1 discerning or comprehending the beauties, the grandeurs, or the complexities of the science they professed to expound.It was not to he expected that there could be much progress under such guidance.Gradually, howevef, this discouraging state of affairs came to wear a different look.Capable men sprang up from among us, or came and cast in their lot with ours ; and, to-day, we rank among our musical professors, not a few who have Oirned distinction for their earnest, sincere and conscientions efforts in the art they follow.Not the least meritorious ot these, is a gentleman who, although ho has been but a short time with us, has, in these few weeks, proved himself deserving of more than ordinary consideration for his musical talent and ability\u2014 Dr.C.F.Davies, lately appointed organist of the Ohureb ot St.James the Apostle (Rev.Mr.Ellegood.) An opportunity to hear this gentleman play upon cDe or8au having been afforded on Sunday evening J90!') after service, we gladly avail ourselves oiÿfr# privilege of being present.Without, of course, preeGmiug to criticise in a public journal an impromptu performance cf this kind, we can say, without hesitation, that the Doctor\u2019s playing on this occasion was admirable, and left little, if any, room for faultfinding.Although the pieces selected were, with one exception, of a lighter character than suited our individual taste, they were, nevertheless, exceedingly well perfoimed, and gave evidence of good taste, abundant powers of execution and a pleasing style on tho part of the player.We were especially pleased with his manner of improvising, a gift without which no oganist can he successful, The skillful choice of stops, and different combinations of the same ; the spontaneous flow of fresh, and original ideas ; a delicate imagination restrainedjby the proprieties of musical knowledge, and tempered by the taste and finish of musical culture ; these, together with an ability to execute properly any form of musical thought that may present itself, are among those rare and desirable qualifications ¦which all true organists most dearly prize, but which comparatively few possess in the same degree as Dr.Davies.We are glad to know that it is Dr.Davies further intention to play for half an hour after evening service for a tew Sundays.This will enable many to hear him who otherwise might aaot be able to do so, and we shall then doubtless, have the opportunity of expressing, an «pinion upon his reading of the more severe i «ud genuine specimens of organ composition t \u201c Tiie Mon of tlia North,\u201d Last night a lecture was delivered before tho Literary Society in tho Hall of the Natural History Society by Mr.Halihurton, son of the late Judge Halihurton (Sam Slick.) Mr.Chamberlin presided.Mr.Halihurton first gave a glance at the origin of many of tho nations of the world, and the great man who had come into mention during its rise.He said that Canada had not arisen liko most nations, but had come into existence in a more common place way.But, he argued, this would be no disadvantage because the people of the couutry were of the same blood as the Barons -who had carried all before them, and their climate was the same as that which had produced the Norsemen and Vikings who had sailed the ocean, and established themselves all over Europe.Hu took a glance at the four principal nations who had preceded them in the march of civilization, the Egyptians, the Syrians, tho Greeks, and the Romans, showing their leading characteristics, which with the Egyptians was a war against time, as was seen by their pyramids and stately monuments wlikh had withstood the ravages of time The Assyrians loved power,as their massive hulls and tho stern faces of their kings testifiad.The figures of t e gyptjans were stationary, wbilefc those of the Assyrians appeared to he on the move.Then came the Greeks, graceful and well skilled in letters and the arts ; after these came the stern, bold, imperious Romans, which in its way-paved the road for Christian civilization.But these had to give way before the barbarian hordes of tho North, who\u2014Vandals, Goths, and Huns\u2014carried all before them, and Europe was purified by a deluge of blood.Tho lecturer then traced up, through the dark ages, the descendants of the Northmen, who had peopled England and Normandy, and whose descendants now peopled this Dominion, Ho hoped that, if ever Canada .should become anything more than a colony, that her people would revere the name of Northmen, and that like their ancestors the ships of his people might penetrate every sea and create for themseives the same respect as those of their predecessors.During his lecture Mr.Halibpr-ton paid a high tribut to the late Mr.McGee as one of those enthusiastic mon who desired to sec the advancement of their country.At the close of the lecture a vote of thanks was passed to Mr.Halihurton for the excellent lecture he had delivered.The Ouihreali of 1837.Mr.T.S.Brown gives in the New Dominion Monthly, a sketch of the events which preceded the outbreak of 1837, ia which he took so prominent a part.The sketch opens with a short notice of the writer\u2019s genealogy, to prove that he is of a good \u201c Tory stock,\u201d and like St.Patrick, \u201c came of daeent people.\u201d At the age of fifteen, Mr.Brown was already a politician, his politics apparently, being a mixture of newspaper articles and \u201c Plutarch\u2019s Lives,\u201d and he appears to have plunged with all the ardour of a boy into the discussion of the quee-tions that were agitating the public mind.In 1818, the Parliament of Lower Canada was called on for the first time to provide for the \u201c Civil List\u201d ; there was no responsible government ; each colony had an elective House of Assembly ; a Legislative Council appointed for life by the Crown ; a Governor, a worn out military officer, knowing little beyond the word ot command ; an Executive Council, responsible to nobody, and exercising in Lower Canada a controlling power ; a Parliament which could debate and vote, but had no power, and could exercise no control over the expenditure, most of which was provided for by the Imperial Government.Such is the description given by Mr.Brown of the state of affairs at this time.The call for a \u201c civil list \u2019\u2019 at once provoked a contest.Tne Assembly was French Canadian in its composition, the official body British Canadian, and to their side the Legislative Council lent its support.Bill after Bill passed by the Lower House was accordingly rejected by the Council, and Governmental irregularities committed against continued remonstrance.Tho Assembly, as the only check, resolved, in voting the supplies, to consider each salary separately and make an annual grant only.The Government and Council insisted they should be voted in a lump, for a term of years, and to be dividedf by the Executive.Angry debates, a deputation to London, fair promises and the remedy to be left in the hands cf tho Canadian Government, is a history of all that was done up till 1835.In that year Lord Gosford was sent out as Governor, with a Commission, which, like other Commissions of later 'date, did nothing\u2014about as much as it was probably expected to do, Parties wore beginning to divide, the !\u2019Papineau party\u201d was formed, that to which Mr.Brown was attached, and of whose Chief, Louis Joseph Papineau, he speaks in the warmest terms.In 1836 the struggle between the two Houses continued.There were no supplies voted.The only creditors were the Provincial officials, to meet whose wants there were £140,000 in the Treasury, which could not be touched without a vote.In March, 1837, Lord John Ruasel introduced into the House of Commons a series of resolutions authorizing the Governor of Lower Canada to draw this £140,000, without a vote, to pay off the arrears of the Provincial salaries.As usual where Colonial interests are concerned, tho House of Commons passed the resolutions by a large majority, and in the Lords the only dissentient was Lord Brougham, Frightened at his own success, Lord John declined to act on the resolutions, promised to bring in a hill founded on them, but did not, and in June added £140,000 to the Army Estimates to enable tho Governor to pay all arrears from the military ouest.The news of the passing of the resolutions set everyihing in a blaze, public meetings were called, and held by counties, Mr.Papineau spoke for hours at a time, the subject of tho addresses being complaints of the maladministration of the Government and neglect of petitions, approval of the conduct of the House of Assembly and demands for redress.But besides these a mixed Protectionist and Free Trade league was formed to encourage native industry ; to use no article of British manufacture, and to smuggle from the United States all the articles that were required for .consumption.Fired with the idea that he was showing chivalric devotion to a cause which separated him from those of his own race, Mr, Brown flung himself, heart and soul, into the (Struggle.Meetings were held in Montreal, in spite of all fears of bloodshed ; a \u201c Central Committee\u201d sat en permanence, to which ail the dismissed militia officers and magistrates repaired, and where they were glorified \u201c country notables,\u201d often made \u201c Chairman\u201d went home elated with the honours, especially when seen in print.\u201d Parliament assembled in August, but dispersed without waiting for the prorogation, after declaring that redress \u2014» '1 r \u2014*11\t»*11 JnulNlliLlVe 11C- tion, and public meetings went on.To add to the discontent, 1837 was a year of scarcity Provisions had to be imported ; the American hanks suspended specie payments ; Canadian banka followed the example ; and leading politicians hesitated to plunge the country into greater difficulties.Annoyed at the timid counsels which had nearly stopped the Montreal meeting in June, Mr.Brown,finding the masses, who saw no barriers, ready for action, had projected a \u201c Young Men\u2019s Party,\u201d but met with no encouragement till the end of August, when ho found an Association of French Canadians calling themselves the \u201c Sons of Liberty,\u201d to which he attached himself.The Association was in two divisions\u2014civil and military\u2014Mr.Ouimet, a young lawyer, being President of the first and Mr.Beaudry, late Mayor of Montreal, vioe-Pre-sident.Mr.Brown commanded the military division as General.Frequent meetings were held and the Association marched openly in strong numbers.According to Mr.Brown his labours at this time were excessive.The following quotation will show how he was employed j\u2014 \u201c I had in 1836, commenced a series of letters, published in the New York Hxpress, over the signature of \u201c L.M.N.,\u201d which, at first, presumed to proceed from high authority, were everywhere republished, and commented on like manifestoes of a party.They hod reached the twelfth number, threatening armed resistance, and were now known by our party to be solely published by me on my sole responsibility.I wes a constant writer for the Vindicator, and author of many \u201c imprudent\u201d articles.I had, perhaps, t ttended and spoken at more public meetings than any other one man, and none had more to do with their organizations.I was everywhere, day and night ; one of the youngest of the actors,'everywhere enthusiastic everywhere confident.My hand was on the plough, and I looked not back.The government of the country was at a dead lock.I saw no remedy but to push on the movement we were engaged in to its ultimate result, let that be what it might.Ardent, devoted, disinter, ested, and fearless of consequences, with no enmity against any one, and no self-object in view, I felt impelled by a necessity that can alone bo understood or appreciated by those who, in times of peril, find themselves forced into prominence.The course taken by our party was the true one.Thirty years\u2019 reflection confirms the opinion that we pursued a right course, and the only one open.We could only protest by public demouEtrations.They were legal, aud wo were, as British subjects, right in resisting their huppression ; and when, in the end, illegal warrants for high treason were issued, we were justified in attempting self-defence.\u201d The results were the resignation of magistrates and militia officers, accompanied by letters intended to add fuel to the flame ; the forcing to join the movement of those in country places who were nnwiltingio do so ; the passing of resolutiousin tho County of Two Mountains (since become so strongly attached to the Government), that \u201c the country could have no confidence in any one holding a commission horn the Executive,\u201d and the pioposal that \u201c pacificators\u201d should he elected to whom all matters of civil contest should be referred.From all these movements tho French Canadian clergy, with few exceptionc, held aiocf, aud Bishop Lartigue issued a mandement denouncing most po itively all agitation and agitators.The closing meeting of the season, that of tho \u201c Five Counties,\u2019 \u2019 held on the 23rd of October, was attended by more men of superior position thon any that had preceded it, and included such speakers us Mr.Bupinean.L.M.Viger, Louis Lacoste, E.E.Rodier, Dr.Cote, and Mr.Brown.The resolutions were strong ; tha organization of the Sons of Liberty was apprtved and \u201c hopes expressed that Providence and the sympathies of our neighbours \u2014 Provincial and American\u2014would bring round a favourable moment for emanc'pation.An armed party fired salutes, and a plan for the confederation of six counties was adopted.\u201d No fecret was made of these movements ; no revolt was intended ; no preparations for war, no purchase of arms or ammunition.\u201cPublic clamour,\u201d says Mr.Brown, \u201c was incessant, but all in words.» * » q'he leaders were a noble band ; any of them might, on any day, have sold himself to Lord Gosford for a cash price and certainty of honourable consideration with his previous opponents, but none even wavered.\u201d The nature of the \u201ctroubles\u201d is thus explained by Mr.Brown \u201c In truth the 1 troubles\u2019 of Lower Canada wore nothing but a content between two pro vinçial parties, in which the Governor, representing British authority, and the -nilitary under him, took the wrong side ; and the subsequent establishment of a form of government in ac cordance with the 1 well understood wishes of the people,\u2019 that we have since enjoyed, was an acknowledgment of error, and an honourable apology, though Hie merits of those whosacri-ficed moat in devotion to the right cause have never been recognized.\u201d The first collision that took place was on the 6 th November when the Sons of Liberty met in a yard, west of the present Ottawa Hotel.The 11 Doric Club\u201d were ready for a fight, but a portion of the meeting passed quietly into Notre Dame street and get away, aud Mr.Brown formed the two hundred who remained into companies, two deep who, amed with stout sticks, made a rush aud got clear.Mr.Brown himself returned, hut was knocked down and left senseless, and the wounds he got destroyed the edgnt of his right eye.The other party destroyed the Vindicator office and held possession of the city.The French Canadians were suddenly silent, th?ir \u201c General\u201d being laid up in bed ; leading men kept out of the way, and their was a stillness as of expectancy.While still suffering from his wounds an agent from Lyon Mackenzie was brought to Mr.Brown\u2019s room to consult about a rising in Upper Canada, and to this move Mr.Brown appears to have made no objection.Ap rests were made for high treason and writs issued on the 16th Nov., that filled the gaols for the winter.On that day learning that a writ was out against him, Mr.Brown escaped, could could not cross at Hochelaga, and had to trust to the mercies of a drunken habitant to carry him to Pointe aux Trembles.Mr.Brown had two rifles, and through the stupidity of the Ai-bitant he narrowly escaped being killed with one of them.Through a furious snow storrr, with a drunk French Canadian,and driving the horse himself, he reached th habitant\u2019s house, half dead from cold and suffering from the agony of his yet unhealed wounds.Crossing next morning to tho island opposite Pointa aux Trembles ho met two of his chefs dc section, heard news of the attack made on Longeeuil by Bouaventure Viger, and they resolved to \u201c establish a camp and be soldiers,\u201d a resolution to which Mr.Brown naively says ho assented, \u201c being revived by the day\u2019s rest and supper.\u201d The army consisted in the first place of three\u2014the General and two officers,Gauvin and Desrivieres.\u201c I gave one of my rifles to Desrivieres, Gauvin, I think, had a pistol ; and, thus armed and equipped, we declared for war, and established the first \u201cPatriot\u201d camp in Canada.\u201d These were but slender preparations for a war of independence.On the road to St.Charles, where the camp was to be formed, tney met a crowd of excited people, who demanded why the chiefs were deserting, as they had guns and powder, and could defend them.Warning had been conveyed to the leading men who were compromised, and already most of them had concealed themselves or fled to the United States.By a singular coincidence on crossing the Richelieu to St.Charles the General found waiting on the bank Mr.Papineau, Dr.Wolfred Nelson, Dr.O\u2019Callaghan, and another.Nelson was making preparations for defence at St.Denis.Gauvin, who had found a sword, put it on, and heading a squad of seventeen men, armed with rusty fowling pieces, marched up to the manor house of Mr.Debartzh, took possession, fortified it and mounted sentries, who all addressed Mr.Brown as \u201c General,\u201d a fine horse, new saddle, and bridle being provided for his use.\u201c At any othpr time,\u201d says Mr.Brown, \u201cthis would have been rather grand ; but, with aching bruises, a swollen head, one eye recently destroyed, and my jaws closing, to stop eating, it required resolution to maintain the position.\u201d Two old rusty six-pounders, found in a barn, were mounted on barricades, which were begun, but never finished.Country people began to flock in with what Mr Brown calls a \u201c singular collection of fusils,\u201d one musket, not a bayonet, and all the fowling pieces of different bores, so that it was not easy to make cartridges.To attack this incongruous force, two expeditions were sent out,\u2014one under Col.Wetberall, by way of Chambly, tho other under Col.Gore by way of Sorel.But the weather was bad ; the troops arrived worn out, and frozen, and after a few rounds retreated to Sorel, to which the \" patriots\u201d were afraid to follow them.Neither party fiad the slightest idea oi the strength, or rather weakness of the other.At St.r enis, Wolfred Nelson commanded a force with only fifty fowling-pi ces of any use.Their fort was a stone house, the upper gable of which was knocked in by round shot, and three killed in the garret.Mr.Ovide Perrault was accidentally shot by a parting shot and Lieut.Weir, of the 32nd regiment, who had lost his way and was taken prisoner, was killed while trying to escape, Of the troops, six rank ana file were killed, brnidr-s a few wrmndeH nnd iu.-.'.tf.-mo patriots had 10 or 12 killed.Reports began to come in that (he \u201c patriots\u2019\u2019 were in possession of great parts of the country ns far as the lines.But news soon arrived that tho leaders from Lacadie were in St.Alban\u2019s trying to collect arms, and Mr.Brown and Wolfred Nelson only were left to lead the rebels.The formermado what disposition of his men he could, the advanced post wore on a small si ream two miles above the village where a hundred of them were billeted, the bridge was ordered to be destroyed, and the skirmishers to dispute the passage and fall back.At midnight a scare took place, and tho out posts fell back in disorder.Next day lulled into security by the report that Col.Wether all was retreating, an attempt was made to improve the camp ; the fire arms were counted, 109 in all, many of which could not be coaxed to fire, and 250 men made up the whole force.But an alarm was brought in that the troops were coming, and at the head of the pickets numbering 25, General Brown rode forward and discovered the troops marching in strength far beyond the power of resistance by the patriots.He repeated his orders to fire from behind the woodpiles, and rode to the rear as rapidly as possible to bring up some more men.As he was turning to go back to camp, he was informed by a habitant that the British Commander had sent word that if the insurgents dispersed nobody would be harmed.Not to be outdone.Gen.Brown thought he would also issue an amnesty.\u201c Supposing from this that Col.Wetberall was pressed by \u201c Patriots\u201d in the rear, and was hurrying to Sorel, I sought a fit person to caray back answer that if the troops laid down their arms, they would be allowed to proeeed unmolested.\u201d But round shot firing about his head, and the men falling back who had been fighting, soon undeceived him.Ha tried to rally but could not.The day was over and towards dusk he ji ined Doctor Nelson at St.Denis.As to the reasons that led to this apparently mad attempt to do anything with a force armed and equipped as the French Canadians were Mr, Brown says:\u2014 \u201c I may well he asked what we expected to effect with such wretched preparations at St.Charles ?I can only answer for myself, that, seeing the determined animation of the people, I thought the leaders would remain with them, and that the raising of the \u201c Patriot\u201d flag at St.Charles, would be the signal for a general rising ; that men and arms would flow in from the States, as into Texas ; and that Sir John Col- I sbÿlaé ffufoti.feVHùlssiâ Mohitsâl lor Qüobettj iaafiag ils ail tbs ectihtr?oaîeida.iïad there been the militia la ,vs and military knowledge oi to-day, this was easy.Then Î thotight wS would, in the winter, send Commissioners to England, in mercantile phrase, \u201c to make a settlement.\u201d Ours was simply a provincial war cl factions.The \u201c Bureaucrats\u201d vanquished us, and the province had to wait a few years for government based upon \u201cthe well understood wishes of the people.\u201d Had we vanquished them, there would have been only a delay of a few months, with an immense saving to the British Government.\u201d it was on Saturday the 27th Nov.the St.Charles affair took place.On Monday St.Denis was evacuated, and the leaders, including Mr.Brown, Wolfred Nelson, and Mr., now Sir.George E.Cartier \"passed the day sect, cd very stupidly in a swamp.\u201d Delusive hopes were still entertaimd that Wetherall\u2019s success was but temporary, that his troops wonld be made prisoners before crossing the St.Laurence.Bot his success was decisive.With a tew men the patriots returned to St.Denis and remained till 2nd December, but the report of the arrival of Col.Gore caused a second and tinal evacuation.Mr.Brown made good bis esc-pe ; his companions were captured.The reward of £500 offered for tho apprehension of Ne.son was paid, but Mr.Brown after remov-tng for some time ont of the Province relumed and remained unmolested.The results of the demonstration, feeble and fruitless as it seemed, have been of tho highest importance, and changes, mainly due there is no doubt to the outbreak were made in tho legislation and government of the country.^\t.\t.¦ J !.\t1 Manufactura cf Iron.The following letter has been addressed to the Halifax Morning Chronicle : \u2014 Tfce science of chemistry has done an im-mepsp deal within the last decade towards explaining the secrets of metallurgy.The Besse.mer process has been the result of long and patient scientific investigation applied wish scientific care and skill.The Ellershausen process on the other band, is merely empirical\u2014the result, as acknowledged of accident.He had attempted making steel in Montreal by a process similar to Heath\u2019s, patented in England ma-v toe Ca^ bBt failBd- Tlle second attempt at z id ehafo!\\'l\u201cs\u2018fue f ork,s\u2019.tns asB of cxidi-7\tr3* uon for «^carbonizing the molten metai, equally unsuccessful.Mr_ Hargreaves oti.8DcaBhire EQaland tamed a patent lu 1867 ru,\tir0^ ^ steel by a new precass, wherein k,.decarboni-zed the cast iron by the use of pulveii3acj jron ore, and at the same time eliminated the other imparities\u2014silica, sulphur and phosporus by the addition of nitrate of soda.This process was explained to Mr, Ellershausen and others interested with him in 1868.Mr.Hargreaves placed the palveriz 3d ore in the converter before the molten metal was poured in.Mr.Ellershausen has modified the operation by pouring in the pulverized ore and the molten iron at tho same time.This may answer well enough for treating cast iron of superior quality, but Hargreaves produces lion and steel of the best quality from the most impure pig iron manufactured in Great Britain.The chemistry of tho process as described by toe New York \u201c Times\u201d is absurd.\u201c In toe Bessemer p-ocess (they persist in spelling it Beseimer] the oxygen of the air combines with tho iron,\u201d &c.Any tyro in chemistry knows that the exygen combines with the carbon, having a greater affinity for it than tho Iron, and passas off as carbonic oxide.A more recent modification of the I-Iargreaven process saves the re-héating of the blooms, and consequently cheapens the manufacture still more.The results of such scientific enquirers as Bessemer, Chenofc, anl Hargreaves, show that not only can puddling be done away with, hut that there la actually no necessity for oven smelting the rich iron ores found ia this and the adjoining provinces.Many of the largest deposits of ore are nearly pure oxides of iron.To convtrt this into malleable iron it is merely necessary to drive off the oxygen, then hammer or roll cut the iron into bars.At present the round-about and expensive method is pursued of smelting the ore in p largo furnace whereby the ore is deoxid'asd, but the oxygen is replaced by carbon.This csrbon is then got rid of by the processes already referred to.A now process, very simple and effective, has been successfully tried upon pure Canadian ore, whereby malleable iron is produced from the ore direct, and at a less cost than pig iron can now be manufactured.Of course it is only tl e very purest ore which can be treated in this way; but then as we have millions of tons of such material within the Dominion it will enable the iron master hero to produce wrought iron of a superior quality, and at a much lower ate than can now be doue by the iron manufacturer in England.The Bessemer process will still remain the cheapest for producing steel, but for the production of wrought iron ail of toe present known processes will be superseded.Hammerman.ODDS AND JE-NLDS, Reflections by an Old Sachblor \u2014The cot plexion of a girl of the period differs from railway season ticket\u2014the one ia, and tl other is not, transferable.\u2014I love to see lift children hating unaccu domed delicacies, at my ii0.irÊ rejoicos ai I think of tho Nomesis the family doctor awaiting them._We he much of the balance of power, tho balance happiness, and the balance of comfort ; but my thinking the most effective balance of all to be fouad at your bankers.\u2014A cramp: waist generally betokens brains of a simii description.Marino a Clean Sweep.\u2014Giving him a Tu kish bath.\u2014Sir Joseph Jekyll left his fortune to pi the National Debt.When Lord Mansfie heard of this, he said Sir Joseph was a goi man and a good lawyer, but his bequest was foolish one ; he might as well have attempt to stop the middle arch of Biack-lriars-bridi with his full-bottomed wig.Disgustinq Meanness.\u2014To tan adog\u2019sht with his own bark.\u2014Why is half-past seven o\u2019clock in the eve ing like the next morning\u2019s breakfast ?\u2014On because it isn\u2019t eight yet.No Doubt.\u2014A man who had a scolding wi being asked what he did for a living, replied ] kept a hot-house.Brimming.\u2014 Who says that man will nev have the power to fly ?\u2014A scientific friend h so far solved the problem as to be able, wi the greatest ease, to \u201c skim over\u201d\u2014a newsp per.Beauty and Wit.\u2014Handsome features alo are incapable of expressing real beauty, speech alone is incapable of expressing wit.Application.\u2014The crow will become whl before the man who seeks for knowledge wit oat application will become learned.\u2014 A Man being asked, as he lay sunning hi self in tho grass, what was the height of 1 ambition, replied, To marry a rich widow wi a bad cough.\u201d A Blessing.\u2014Referring to the recent numerc deaths of eminent persons, the Paris Chariva in a family scene, gives an excellentcaricatu \u2014Wife (fondly embracing her husband) : \u201cA all those great talents leaving us 1 Wha blessing, my dear, that you were never mt than a nullity 1\u201d Business with Pleasure.\u2014This is the wa; coloured gentleman in New York announc his intended marriage, combining business w: pleasure\t\u201c Notice.\u2014Seazar Carter will married at Miller's Hall, November 25, 1888.seven o\u2019clock, p.m.Admittance to toe hi fifty cents.A good time expected.Come c come all.\u2014Seazar Carter.\" Anything for a Change.\u2014Mamma : \u201cWhl is papa ?Why, he has gone to town, of cour to earn °omo more Bread and butter.\u201d_Ye Young Lady\tPeriod : \u201c I wish he wot earn hnn» sometimes, instead 1\u201d Lake Inhospitality,\u2014Turning out your to A little girl wanted to say that she had fan, but had forgotten what it v/as called; she described it as a \u201c thing to brush tho wa: all off you with.\u201d A short man became attached to a tall w mail, and somebody said he had fallen in lo with her.\u2014\u201c Do you call it falling in fovi said the suitor ; \u201c it\u2019s more like climbing up it.\u201d Lucid Direction.\u2014\u201cCan you tell me the re to Greenville ?\u201d asked a traveller of a boy whi he met on the road.\u2014\" Yes, sir,\u201d said the h \u201c Do you see our bam down there?\u201d\u2014\u201cYe said he.\u2014\u201c Go to that.About three hundi yards beyond the barn you will find a lar Take that lane, and follow along about a m and a half.Then you will come to a slippi elm log\u2014you be mighty keerful, Strang about going on that fog\u2014and then you go till you gat to the brow of tbe hill, and the the roads prevaricate ; and yon take the 1 hand road, and keep that until you get intc thicket ; and when you get there, why ther then-\u201d\u2014\u201c Wnat then?\u201d\u2014\u201cThen I\u2019ll durned if you ain\u2019t lost!\u201d Ought to Hate Known Him.\u2014An indi dual possessing unmistakeable evidence of .rican extraction, was arr igned for larcei The judge, as of right, was Uignifiad, but sa with severe presence, \u201c Are you guilty or nc \u2014\u201c Sar 1\u201d\u2014\u201c Did you steal these clothes?\u201d repeated.\u2014 \u201cGolly,boss, \u2019chare never done ~\u201cTnis man says you did.\u201d\u2014\u201cHe ai nothin' but white trash.\u2019\u20141 And what arc yc \u2014\u2018 Me ! Why, don\u2019t you know me ?I rid i you in the percession.I helped to lead j borne when yer got tired that night.Don\u2019t .\u2018member me now ?\u2019\u2014There was tbe sudden nol pros, in that darkey\u2019s case that judicial ; nais afford an example of.So much for advantages of good society.Temperance Hall Concerts.\u2014M.Bello finishing his song has been vociferously cored.\u2014Bill : What\u2019s that chap brought bi for ?\u2014Harry : Why, he sung his song so b ly, they are going to make him do it all o again.Monsekeeiiei's Slaumtf Hemembei- that there are no Gooiing Extracts of Lemon Yanilla, &c., equal to those prepared by Joseph Burnett & Co , of Boston.Ask for Burnett\u2019s, and take no others.\tIts D eowW 45 UÜ% fti i lï IliiEALb àMu ÎÀÎLV nf^stf i TjfeTy>gg3g£»5gg»tfiï totBwtàêf jigawi liiB DOiVîmiON- A Soldier Strike! dhÿn nu Sdpkrior Officer \u2014At a garrison court martial assembled at tho Old Fort Barrack To.onto, Private Michael Moran, of the 20th regiment, was brought before the court, presided over by Captain Gore, R.A, when ho immediately knocked down Sergeant F.Pearman of his own regiment, the principal witness against him on the charges of drunkenness, threatening and insubordination.Prisoner was handcuffed at once and taken back under escort to the guard-room.After a short interval be was again brought up, and the evidence heard against him, though the witnesses while giving their testimony were frequently interrupted by the savage oaths and impiocations of the prisoner.A report will of course be made of tiuse extra acts of violence and insubordination\u2014the first of which by the articles of war entails the punishment of death.It is said that Moran is an old and hardened ruffan, of whom his regiment would years ago have been well rid.An Old Hero.\u2014At present there resides in the township of Trafalgar a veteran named James Brennan who formerly belonged to the 13th Light Dragoons\u2014the present 13th Hussars He served under Wellington in the Peninsula and was present at the battle of Waterloo, upon which occasion he took part in several brilliant charges and, in company with his gallant companions, broke numbers of French squares.After peace was declared the army was reduced and Brennan discharged, without a pen-l'on.He then emigrated to Canada.He is depending for support on the charity of the public in Trafalgar, and frequently speaks m glowing terms of the gallant 13th ; and he often wishes for an opportunity to visit his old regiment.\t.Murderous Assault.\u2014On Monday while Mr James Crocker, proprietor of the Albion Hotel Toronto, and Mr.0.Martin, were in the bar of Palmer\u2019s saloon, they met a man named Henry J.Smith, whom Mr.Crocker had expelled from his hotel some weeks before in consequerce of his inability to meet his board bill.Smith accosted Mr.Crocker pleasantly, and the latter asked him to take a drink, which they did, and Smith said that if Mr.Crocker pany him to Mr.MatUeson's shop; \u201ce would pay him.He assented, and accomp»dled Smith up the streer.They entered Mr, Mathsson s store, when Smith asked him CMatheson) if he considered him (Smith! to be a d\u2014d thief.Mathe-son replied that he had always been honestly dealt with by Smith, when the latter, saying to Crocker, \u201c do you hear that Î Now I\u2019ll pay you, \u2019 struck him a savage blow on the face witn the top of a lightning rod which he held in his hand, breaking several of bis teeth.Mr.Crocker was stunned with the blow, hut clinched with Smith, when the latter grasped his left hand in his teeth and nearly severed the first joint of the middle finger.He mutilated two lingers of the other hand also, and tried to \u201cgouge\u201d out one of his eyes before he could break away from him.When he did so, he looked around him for some weapon to defend himself, as ho feared being killed, when Mathe-son, divining his intention, drew a revolver from a desk in the shop, and, it is said, threatened to shoot him if he stirred towards Smith, whom he told to run as fast as he could by the back door.Smith ran out at the back door just as Capt.Prince and two policemen entered the front.They gave chase to Smith, whom they captured.Mr.Crocker was taken home and Dr.Wr ght called in to attend to his wounds, which were found to he serious.Smith seems to be an adventurer, having been put out of several hotels in Toronto for non-payment of charges.Spring Weather.\u2014The Kingston News says : The weather has become mild and spring-like, and although from the presence of warm rain and rapidly thawing snow the present picture is made up of wet and moist discomfort, yet the anticipation of coming summer is a sufficiently pleasant feature to dispel auy great amount of gloomy dreariness.The sap is stirring the trees and the bnds of the maples, elms and willows are swelling.The windows of the houses exhibit pots ot newly blown hyacinths, crocuses, Chinese primroses and other favourite flowers whose early charms make us feel impatient for the pretty little hepatica, dogtooth violet, and the numerous other floral gems of our native woodlands.A few early beetles have already made their appearance, and the pietty little tortoiseshell butterfly may bo seen any day sporting in some warm sunny corner having passed the winter in safe torpidity within the hollow of some friendly tree.The tribes of swans, geese, ducks and mergansers already commenced to wing their unerring to their distant breeding places in the far north, the daily matin song of the robin, and the sweet warble of the little rossignol, demonstrate the return to their summer homes ot many of our old friends the birds, and the quick succession of recovering nature will soon once more bring upon us the sudden bursts of the glorious Canadian summer.The ice on the river is hourly becoming more treacherous, and ice boats have already taken the place of sleighs in the travel between Wolfe Island and Capo Vincent, and a few days more of the present warm weator will suspend the travel across the lake until the sleighs and ice boats are replaced by the usual ferry boats.Last year the ferry boat made her first trip to Cape Vincent on the 31st of the present month six daye earlier than the previous year, and, with the present prospect, the commencement this year will not be many days later.Lost.-The Fergus News Record says: On the 8th inet., we learn that a small boy, soa of Mr.Edward Noble, of Peel, who left home to go to his grandmother\u2019s in search of a sister never reached there, and is supposed to have perished in the snow drift.Treasure Trove.\u2014A child about three or four months old, was left at the door of David Perron, Esq., Mb, Vernon.The little one was well wrapped up, and stowed very comfortably in a basket, with a lot of small articles designed for a child\u2019s use.The waif was handed oyer to a woman in the village to keep until its unnatural mother can be found.Departed Spirits.\u2014On Thursday night or Friday morning last, some persons entered the Elora Falls Distillery, and carried away about 200 ealions of highwines.The robbers effected au entrance tb rough a small back door, and from thence into the receiving room.The liquor was in the Receiver, and it is supposed they filled it into barrels and carried it away.Mr.Fraser offers a reward of 5>200 for the discovery and conviction of the parties.Demand for Cattle \u2014There appears to be a great demand for cattle, especially for cows, for the American market at present, judging from the large numbers that have been shipped from this neighbourhood lately.Durrng the last few weeks Ameiican dealers have been scouring the country hereabouts and buying up cows right and left.If this wholesale exportation of poor 1 bossy\u2019 continues much longer, it must seriously affect the price of that greasy but indis-pensible article of household economy, known as butter.\u2014(Berlin Chronicle.Perished in a Snowstorm.\u2014On Thursday, the 4th inst., Miss Grace Blue, of West River, started for Boushaw, and returned the same evening as far as Mr.John Campbell\u2019s, where she stayed for the night.Next day it was snowing and drifting and very cold.Against the advice and wishes of Mr.Campbell\u2019s family, she left in the morning to go to the house of her brother-in-law, who lived about a mile off.She was never seen alive afterwards.On Monday one of the neighbours discovered a basket, tied to a tree at the roadside.Search was made immediately, and on Tuesday the body was found imbedded in three or four feet in the snow, at the edge of the clearance, and within two himured yards of the place to wnich she was going, v/i.^re the basket was found, some branches had been Wokej, and piace(j on tlle gIi0\u201e on which it is tbouan.u,, t down to rest-> She left tne basket tied on tËe\t^ her way about 100 yards farther wh6n Bhe sank down exhausted, to rise f \u2019 snow drift was very blinding, iftfliUstbe wind was in her face, she had, every now and again, as shown by her foot-prints in the crust, to turn round and take breath.\u2014P.E.I.Patriot.Visit of Our Generals to Buffalo and Washington.\u2014Lieut.-Gen.Sir C.Windham took his depariuro from the Rossin House on Saturday.Sir Charles\u2014accompanied by Gen.Stisted\u2014goes to Washington via Buffalo.From the latter place an invitation was extended to them b3r the officers of the United States garrison there ; and tbe Generals, fully appreciating the courtesy of their American friends, at once arranged to visit Buffalo.Generals Windham and Stisted go from Buffalo to the Federal Capital, with the view of paying their personal respects to President Grant.\u2014Toronto Telegraph.A Whisky Sellers Dodge.\u2014The Toronto \u201c Telegraph\u201d says : The proprietor of a saloon on King street west has adopted a very ingenious ruse for the evasion of the Saturday night law.He retains a demoralized member of the medical fraternity, who issues certificates to all applicants for drinks, to the efiect that they require stimulants on account ofiil health.As the law provides, a medical certificate shall authorize the sale of liquor at any hour, the saloon keeper is enabled to sell openly, and with out restriction, and does a roaring business.Mad Dog.\u2014Some consternation was occasioned on Saturday among the residents of Dal-housie street, Toronto, by the appearance in that neiehbemhood of a rabid dog.Three hogs were bitten by him.After being chased for some distance he was brought down by a shot from a revolver, which effectually finished him.The hogs will also be destroyed to ore-vent the spread of the disease.Tlie Dominion Tclegrnitli Company.(From the Qalt Reporter.) Why, in the name of everything that\u2019s good, do not the Directors of the above Company clear up the doubts that at present hang round it ?With suspicion on every side, with grave charges made, with Directors resigning, all the general public bas had laid before it in the way of refutation has been that at a dinner at St.Catharines, at which were present Directors and Stockholders, we \u201c out side barbarians\u201d were assured that it was \u201c all right.\u201d No proof that the charges made were false, no proof of the soundness and integrity of a concern in which the people of this country are asked to invest $500,000, hut merely, champagne congratulations on the construction of a few miles of the road, and grand prophecies ! fot the Mate.îf this U to remote dietrust, to I tefuto charges, it is easily dons, hut wo are doubtful.The Upper Canada and Commercial Banks were » all right\u201d till they failed- and, more to the point, the \u201c Grand Trunk telegraph Company\u201d was no doubt heralded as all right,\u201d and decidedly proved its right to be considered so.Why, if everything is satisfactory, if the inauguration and present position ot tne Company are satisfactory, is it not clearly shown to the public?The originators of the scheme are pronounced to he speculators and unsound.Why not disprove this ?They are accused of controlling the stock in order to gain their own ends.Disprove this.Of having secured the contract for the building of the line at an exorbitant price, and such as to allow them a profit of something like $125 per mile, or one half of the contract price, and that they secured this contract without it having been submitted to tender.Disprove these assertions.Distrust is too general now to bo neglected.Stock must yet be sold\u2014and who will buy ?Payments on stock already subscribed will become .due, and who, in the face of all these charges, will have any satisfaction in making those payments, or will not avoid such payments if possible.The Company at present is loaded down with an incubus of doubt.The Directors must remove that load before success üiÈfiiiüïes wfo iastltttted bÿ poàllhgffiâfi&s i ïômIu.I ti&bot otwo U.s ;.ï aaifo ft Bitoug* different points With a view to the detection of minded, bpiiitad, Intolliifontj and sensible the thieves.This was not successful, and on j woman.I think i perceive these qualities in can crown the undertaking, UNITED STATES.A Prinea of Swindlers.Perhaps the most audacious swindler since Cagliostro is the bigamist, Wheeler, alias \u201cCunningham,\u201d whose latest exploit while lying, in prison, was the bogus confession concerning the Rogers murder, published about two weeks ago He was brought to trial on Wednesday.The principal witnesses were Weymar, the father of the Tari vtown girl whom he married first, and Miss Eighmer, whom he charged with complicity in the Rogers murder.The jury rendered a verdict of guilty.When the verdict had been returned, the Judge asked him what he had to say against the passing of the sentence.Cunningham spoke half an hour in reply, and undertook to re-narrate the story about the Rogers murder.The Court stopped him, however, aud pronounced sentence.He was condemned to Sing Sing for five years.Before going ho lavighutl his ta-ro-vvolls among the White Plains officials, and took occasion to say that after his release he would marry a wife for every month of his confinement.He has intimated to his fellow prisoners that he had been confined on the same charge as that for which he was sentenced in New Jersey and Michigan.\u201c Cunningham\u2019s\u201d real name is Wheeler.He is a notorious bigamist.He is about 53, Upon his finger a massive ring has become stationary from long indulgence in its position.He was the only son of a lawyer in Buffalo, N.Y., and emigrated to California in 1857.While in the golden State, he acquired a fund of knowledge of persons and particulars of family history which served him in bis future operations.Returning to New York last Summer he boarded for several weeks in the Astor House and French\u2019s Hotel, pursuing his profession of swindling the public.Among the first places at which traces can he obtained of his movements is at the house of a Mr.Benson, where he appeared about the first of November last with a story about a Californian estate of $75,000, for the transfer of which he possessed the necessary powers.The property he represented had been left to an aged lady, formerly an inmate of Mr.Benson's house.The family of the latter were of course thrown into a fever of expectation.But the all-powerful stranger did not deliver the papers which were to place the fortune in her hands, and suddenly disappeared.He appeared soon afterward at Saddle River, where he visited the house ot Mr.Banta with a story somewhat similar to that upon which he expended his efforts in Jersey City.A little girl had been adopted by Mr.Banca, and \u201cthe pleasing stranger brought her a fortune of $100,000, the papers being, in this case, as in the first, in his possession.A daughter of his host attracted the attention of the wealthy Californian, and he made a hasty proposition of marriage which the young lady as hastily accepted.Before the engagement had been completed however, Wheeler disappeared, carrying with him a watch, money, and some clothing belonging to Mr.Banta.It was ascertained, that ho had also victimized one or two neighbouring farmers with whom he had bargained for the purchase of land.He appeared soon afterward in Morristown,where ho borrowed $400 from Mr.Ward, a farmer with whom he had entered into negotiations for the purchase of his farm.He seems to have transferred his operations to East Tarrytown, N.Y.He came into the neighhourbood where his first matrimonial speculation was made, representing that he had purchased a farm from a Mrs.Cunningham.He had paid $1,000, upon the property, and had made his journey for the purpose of viewing his new possessions.He visited the neighbouring farmers with great freedom, examining their stock and making arrangements for extensive purchases.Among the gentleman at whose houses he was, was a Mr.Weimor, for whose daughter, Wheeler manifested a decided partiality.A proposition for marriage was made and accepted, and the pair were united before the period which he had fixed upon for the extent of his visit had expired.On the day following Cunningham left to complete his purchase, promising to return to his new wife, when they would enter into possession of his property.He went up the river to Poughkeepsie, from which place he crossed New-Paltz, searching for opportunities for investment.In the stage, his fellow-companion was a Miss Ameigh to whom he proposed marriage before their journey was ended.He was accepted and returned in a few days afterward and made her his wife.The fame of his wealth had been circulated among the young lady\u2019s friends, and Cunningham took occasion to make the most of the credit wnich it gave him, by purchasing all manner of household articles without paying.He obtained advances of money, and having secured all pecuniary benefit, left without notice.He visited Mr.Laird a.few days afterward, calling himself White, where he made, himself friendly with that gentleman, having known his son intimately in California.Before the lapse of many days he offered his hand to Miss Laird, but was rejected.In attempting to get away with a supply of booty Cunningham found himself watched, and made a journey by night.He was, however, overhauled and compelled to surrender.The developments of his history his falsehoods and swindles during the period over which this sketch extends, leads to the conviction that he is one of tbe most persevering of liars.CELLARS IN NEW YORK.The law regulating the health affairs of the Metropolitan District defines a cellar to be a basement having one-half or more of its height below the street level ; and, since last July, the same law has forbidden the occupation of such apartments for lodging purposes without a special permit from the Board of Health.There are hundreds of such cellars regularly used for sleeping purposes, and the Sanitary Superintendent has lately been paying unusual attention to them.In some cases they are well drained, lighted, and ventilated ; but in very many instance they have been found so filthy, or damp, or dark, or ill-ventilated as to make their occupation dangerous to life.Scores of such cellars have been reported against during the last few weeks, and in each case a notice has been served on the owner calling on him to clean his premises as the case may require.If this notice is not complied with, a suit is commenced against the delinquents.More than 200 such suifs have already been instituted, and this campaign will be continued until subterranean New York has received a purifying and reconstructing such as it has never known before.A SHREWD EQjGUS CHEQUE GAME.A swarm Of unsophisticated Germans of Rail, ocaoR appeared before Judge Hogan at the Tombs, to enter complaints against an Italian giving his name as Anthony Carroll (Antonio Garolli Î), who had been arrested for perpetrating a number of swindles by means of bogus cheques.Carroll would make up his mind to secure possession of certain well-paying liquor saloons, grocery stores, cigar and tailor shops and propose to the owners to buy them out, provided that he could obtain possession, at three o\u2019clock in the afternoon, as that hour suited his finaneial ideas, He would then draw his cheques representing that he had money on deposit to meet them.These transactions were invariably consummated just after banking hours, so that the truth or falsity of his representations could not be ascertained till the following day.He would then take possession of his liquor cigar, grocery or tailor store, as the case might be, keep open and sell all the goods possible for cash, np to the latest hour, pocket the proceeds, secure the premises and decamp, leaving his dupes to get their eyes open at leisure, and resume business again after obtaining new keys with which to admit them to their stores.Carroll has been practising this system for several weeks and doubtless his income has been large, paiticularly as his expenses were light.This game, however, he played once too often.Simon Trunk of 77 Mercer street, sold out his lager bier saloon1 with stock and fixtures included, to Carroll who gave him a chedk on the Fulton National Bank for $325, purporting to have been drawn by August Millard.Carroll took immediate possession and before closing the place at night had sold lager and cigars to the amount of twenty-five dollars.Of course he failed to appear the next morning (12th inst.), aud Mi-Trunk, on presenting his check for payment learned that it was entirely worthless.Jacob Miller sold to the accused his three years\u2019 lease of the tailor shop 77 Mercer street for $1,050 for which he received a cheek on the Fulton National Bank.Among the other persons who had been defrauded were Sophia Gondola he having bought out her cigar store for $340 and many others, whose names it is unnecessary to mention.It is also stated that Carroll has been operating extensively in Brooklyn and East New York.Judge Hogan committed Carroll to the Tombs for trial without ball.ROBBERIES AT THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NEW YORK.For several weeks past the librarian of the Mercantile Library Association has been at a loss to solve the mysterious disappearance of many valuable works.It became such a serious matter that the directors were notified and Friday additional volumes being missed, among them a set of valuable references, the officers made an examination of the catalogne, and found that about $1,000 worth or more of the most valuable works of the association had been stolen.Mr.Allen and the librarian apprised Captain Caffrey, when detective Tally was directed to work up the matter.In this he has been successful, having secured the thief, two alleged receivers aud a portion of the property.Tully in company with the Thrarian, called at the bookstand of Luke Kerwln.The place was securely closed, and the officer went to his home, leaving the librarian on guard.He was not long in finding Kerwin, brought him to his place of business, and, they found twenty-four volumes of the association\u2019s property on his shelves with the library' stamp erased.He said he had bought them at different times from Solomon Phillips, alias \u201c Adolphus that he had paid him altogether some $200 and had been buying them six or eight weeks.Detective Tally obtained from Kerwin a full description of the vendor of the volumes and the books feund were taken to the stationhouse with him.The detective visited the library, thinking that Phillips might be \u201c negotiating\u201d for the works he intended to sell later in the day.He met the individual on the steps, and asking him if he was \u201c Mr.Phillips\" he said Yes,\" when he was taken into custody.On their way to the station house he made a full confession of the manner in which he had stolen the goods.He had at first obtained the confidence of the librarian, clerk, &c., and being a subscriber they would allow him to take the books to the reading rooms below, when, after their perusal, he would coolly put them under his arm.In this manner he has obtained as many as ten volumes per day, receiving from Kerwin at the rate of $1.50 per hook, always cash.When questioned as to the receiver\u2019s knowing whether they were stolen or net he explicitly stated that he did, and had often spoken about it.He then named another party to whom he had disposed of them, one John Henley, No.2 Chambers street.That place was visited with the librarian, and the detective discovered upon his shelves seven volumes, which were at once recognized.Henley was also arrested and the books addo d to the previous lot at the station house.MURDER IN BARKHAMPSTED, CONN.A deliberate and cold blooded murder took place at Centre Hill, Barkkampsted,on Monday morning.James Hickox, who is a machinist, out of work, went to Centre Hill to get a job at chopping wood, and during the time boarded with a man named Evans.He had been boarding at Evans\u2019 house for several weeks, and on Monday morning, while the family wore at breakfast, Evans jumped up, seized the carving knife; and throwing Hickcox\u2019s head back with his left hand, cut his throat fiom ear to ear, Hiokcox started up with the blood streaming from his throat, and ran into the street, falling down when about ten rods off, and immediately expired.Evans claims that he caught the murdered man and his wife iu the act of criminal intercourse the night before.He fled to the woods, but was subsequently arrested, and is now in gaol at Winsted.The Trial of the Child Murderess\u2014The Parisian press has paid little attention to the details disclosed during the trial which has been just brought to a close at the Assizes of Mon-tauban.These details exhibit a social depravity hardly ever surpassed.The leading criminal In this horrible affair was a woman named Delpech, whose principal occupation seemed to be murdering little children, the offspring of illicit amours.She had carried on her trade for some years, when the suspicions of the police were aroused.A search was made in her house, and it led to the discovery of the skeletons, and iu some cases only a few bones of her victims, and she and some of her accomplices, were brought to trial.She made a full avowal and not only did she not profess any compunction for what she had done, but laughed several times during her examination.She has got the name of the \u201c Ogress but the ogress of the nursery tale was less merciless, for she tried to save the children of the wood-cutter.The woman Delpech, beyond all doubt, a most hid- your own dear self.Do not desert me.\u201c 1 Oh, let no rival your affection share, Long as my bosom beats, ye lovely fair.\u2019 .I am becoming quite bald with anxiety and Rouble.Not so with yon.You can spare me one of your bright ringlets.I shall both in the quantity and quality of crime.Her price for taking charge of these children varied from lOOf.to 400f., as She informed the court ; her treatment of them she avowed with the most revolting indifference, without omitting detail.When the infants cried for hunger she gave them oil of vitriol in a bottle to drink, and then silenced their screams of agony by plunging their heads in boiling water.Tbe verdict of the jury was \u201c guilty with extenuating circumstances.\u201d What these \u201cextenuating circumstances\u201d were it is hard to say, unless they were founded on the fact of her having committed ten or twelve murders instead of one or two.The \u201c extenuating circumstances,\u201d however, saved her life.She was sentenced by the Court to hard labour for life.Diseased Live Stock Shipped Fast from Buffalo.\u2014A contemporary mentions the fact that sheep afflicted with the \u201c rot\u201d and a steer with a cancer in its flank arrived at the stock yards of this city last week and were shipped thence to tbe East.The facts are correctly stated, hut the arrival of diseased animals at the East Buffalo yards has become so common that we have ceased to report each reemrence of the event.There is scarcely if over a week in which there are not diseased animals among the stock arriving at the yards.Cancer is the most common and one of the most disgusting forms of disease.A few days since our reporter observed two cases of cancer in a single car load.Vigilant watch is maintained by Inspector Jocelyn, and the flesh of the infected animals is thus kept out of oür city meat markets.Eut here his authority ceases, as he has at present no power to arrest the animals or prevent their shipment to Eastern markets.The hill now before the Legislature of this State re enacts the law of last year conferring special power upon the commissioners and inspectors, but it has not yet become a law.\u2014Bvffalo Express, March 23.The Pullman Cars.\u2014The agent of the Great Western Railroad writes to the Chicago \u201c Tribune \u201d to contradict the state ments of the correspondent and eye witneis in regard to the recent accident.He says the Pullman car cannot have been out of order, because it has only been three months out of the car shop ; that the car ahead of it was tbe first to leave the track, and pulled the sleeping-car after it ; that the accident was probably due to a broken rail ; and that the track of the road is one of the best in the country, but that it is \u201c impossible at this time of year\u201d to prevent such results of the.upheaval and sinking of the road-bed.ENGLISH^ NEWS, Elopement In High Elle.The English and Irish papers of recent date contain the following account of the elopement of an Irish marquis with the wife of a Government official in high standing :_ A most extraordinary piece of scandal in high life has just come to light, namely, the elopement of the wife of Captain Vivian with the Marqnis of Waterford.The gallant captain is a lord of the treasury and member for Truro.For some time past the lady's name has been mentioned in connection with the partner of her flight, and her disappearance was not wholly unexpected.She left home on Monday morning, alleging that she intended to proceed to Brighton to see her mother and would return the same evening.As she failed to make her appearance Captain Vivian proceeded to the, Victoria station and ascertained that the Marquis of Waterford and Mrs.Vivian had the previous morning taken tickets for Paris by way of Dover, accompanied by a friend.He followed them and soon found the object of his search at n Wfill knrvtxTv-» Y-o«-oI.ivr,.r.YrîttTn^ her husband\u2019s arrival and lockedJhei self up in an inner chamber.Captain Vivian, however, succeeded in obtaining assistance and burst open the doors.He then ascertained that Mrs.Vivian had attempted to commit suicide by swallowing chloroform.The quantity taken was not, however, sufiic ent to cause more than partial insensibility.Captain Vivian is understood to have implored his wife to return for the sake of her children, of whom there are four, but that she peremptorily refused, although her husband assured her that her escapade should be kept a profound secret.Tbe lady, however remained firm in her determination not to return to the shelter of her home, but pleaded that she might be allowed to retain her youngest child.This request Captain Vivian declined to comply with, and returned to London without having encountered the Marquis of Waterford.The latter has, It is believed, caused a communication to be made to Captain Vivian that when the Judge Ordinary of the Divorce Court shall have dissolved the legal ties which now prevent his marrying Mrs.Vivian, he will, as a man of honour, make her the only compensation in his power.Meantime Captain Vivian has left town, and will not return to his place in the House of Commons until his presence is required for the division on the second reeding of the bill for the abolition of the Irish Church.'Ibo Assizes\u2014Midland Circuit.Nottingham \u2014Extraordinary Case of Breach of Promise cf Marriage.\u2014 Stmmington v.Etherington.\u2014Plaintiff is the daughter of Mr.Symmington, a surgecn residing at Dewsbury, in Yorkshire ; the defendant is an independent gentleman, and resides on his own property, at Sneinton, near Nottingham.Plaintiff was 40 years of age, and defendant about 61.\u2014Mr.Digby Seymour, for the plaintiff, said his client had sacrificed the bloom of bar early youth for the defendant ; and there has passed between them 134 letters, 34 of which were on his brief, from which the learned counsel read copious extracts, the court from time to time being convulsed with laughter.In one of the defendant\u2019s earliest letters, dated 1858, he said :\u2014 \u201c I\u2019ll never leave, deceive, nor forsake you.Forty summers have I wandered on this terrestrial scene, tossed by various tempests.I feel still at a loss to comprehend why you should hesitate for one moment to let me know your exact age.Can you think, my dearest, that I should allow my feeling towards you to be influenced or affected in the least whether you were 50 or 60.No 1 no 1 Alice is engraven upon my breast, and there it must preserve it as a sacred token of your affection and love.1 never cease thinking of yon, from the rising to the reclining upon my lonely conch ; and I watch with an anxiety I never before experienced for the reception of those loving and cheering lines reciprocating the sincere and heartfelt sentiments of the unchangeable love and affection of your devoted and ever attached, John Etherington, Jun.\u201d \u2014In another letter of the same year, the defendant wrote :\u2014 \u201cAccept therefore the humble declaration of one who reveres and adores you ; for come what may, as long as I have a head upon my shoulders and hands to work, I will never desert that woman if she continues in the path of rectitude, who has for so long a period fostered me in her thoughts and devoted herself to tne.I do highly appreciate your letters.They are short, but they are no less sweet and lovely, and embrace in a few words what it takes me sheets to disclose.But what is this inclosed in an envelope ?It it not glass.No, it is reality.It is a lock of my dear Alice\u2019s hair.How comforting, how exhilarating, \"how beautiful 1 Where shall I place it ?Here, next to my heart in the interior of my inside waistcoat pocket.There shall I preserve it as a precious token of unchangea-bfe love.It shall remain in the envelope ; neither gold nor silver shall encircle it, they would debase it.\u201c But you, oh, you, my A lice, So perfect and so peerless are created.Of every creature best.\u201d \u201c Will you permit these lines to this abrupt conclusion by reiterating the sacred and warm expression which closed your last.I am sure you will accept the overflowing stream of affection which has dictated these lines, and prjp, served me in your bosom, whore alone my %,aj2 piness is centred, for I am still, and ever ;.be, your ever devoted and attached, John -i.-HERINGTON, Jun.\u201d In a subsequent letter the defendant concludes as follows ;\u2014 \u201c Fatigue would bo much more agreeable to me than repose, and dangers than ease if endured in your service.\u201c \u2018 The idea does no solid pleasure give, She must within my sight as well as fancy live.\u2019 And now, my dear creature, accept from your unworthy love the deep current of affection which has dictated these lines ; and permit mo to reciprocate those endearing lines which closed your last.May God bless, protect, and direct you for the best, is the sincere prayer and wish of your ever devoted and attached, John Etherington, Jun.\u201d In another letter, which occupied four sheets, defendant said :\u2014 \u201c But, ohl my dear Alice, if I could again but see you, how many proof could I give you of those endearing sentiments which so completely overwhelm me 1 Never mind, my love; the time is not far distant, when I trust we shall again meet ; and then, oh then my Alice, sush sweet kisses and embraces, we should never forget them .With you at my side, oh 1 my amiable Alice, my long-cherished love, cheering me on to happier days, I would walk bare-footed 100 miles to see you for a few days.\u201d In the course of a few years the defendant\u2019s letters became cool, and he ceased to correspond with the plaintiff in 1863.She wrote to resmonstrate with him, but he never answered her letters.In 1868, however the defendant wrote to her as follows :\u2014 \u201clam surprised at your Intolerable impudence and audacity, and yet I need not be when ' I find, unfortunately, women so imprudent as to he constantly following, pestering, and bor ing men with their insatiable, affected, and selfish devotion and humbug, gratifying no doubt to those who merely consult their own interests and other people\u2019s pockets, but, be assured, command not the least sympathy of men, who regard this sort of conduct with pity mingled with contempt.I told you many years past that I declined all correspondence and all association with you iu terms sufficient to convince the most senseless, and for reasons which I had then apd now good cause to entertain ; and yet, notwithstanding, by your note of yesterday, you appear to have been following me with your 1 pappish\u2019 letters for years past, dogging my every step and movement.What do you mean by this conduct ?I don\u2019t want you, I would not be bothered with you at any price.I -r-t'A CoUstiHicdbUt \u2018flho has aü Ufi'idüüoü* j thirst for knowledge wants to know ii the whsel of time is ever tiiqd.-\u2014You had better find out one of ÿoüf faults then ten of your neighbour\u2019s.-\u2014Tears are as dew whibh moistens the earth, and renews its vigour.Remorse has none ; it is a volcano vomiting forth lava which burns and destroys.Discipline.\u2014That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is iu the manifestations of parental love, compassion, and tenderness, is the most sure of its object.It 8° contrives the administration of chastisement as to convince the understanding of those who are exercised by it that reformation is tbe object aimed at.Equivocal Premises.\u2014\u201c It seems to me you loaves are not of the same weight,\" muttered a fault-finding housewife to abater, as she poised a couple of loaves from his basket ; \u201c do you suppose you can cheat me ?\"\u2014\u201c I don\u2019t want to cheat you,\u201d replied the baker, not relishing, such an insinuation ; \u201c I know the loaves were weighed, and one weighs just as much as t\u2019other, aud more too, I dare say, if the truth was known.\u201d \u2014Dyers are as liable to err anybody.They are but hue men.; 11,08 iïï 8J.081 Ucd WifiWk\t| $0, % '¦ Chicago Spring boa Inal.PEiCS, ar .\tj DS3W 74 T°£gCBYp\u201cot Chiluren relieved,\t- .,alu ; invig- orates tne stomach anu- no'°-\u201e ,cts acidity and wind colic.PerfeVp.iW-A.,* fff all cases, as millions of mothers ca a testify.Thirty-five cents a bottle.Offices, 2J5 Fulton Street, New York, and 205 High Holborn, London, .England, Be sure and call for \u201cMRS.WINSLOW\u2019S SOOTHING SYRUP,\u201d Having the/ac-simiic of \u201cCurtis & Perkins\u201d on the outside wrapper.All others are base imitations.\tfrilSW 74] True Mbrit appreciated.\u2014\u201cBrown\u2019s Bronchial Troches\u201d have been before the public many years.Each year finds the Troches in some new, distant localities, in various parts of the world.Being an article of true merit, when once i sed, the value of the Troches is appreciated, and they are kept always at hand, to be used as occasion requires.For Coughs, Colds, and Throat Diseases the Troches have proved their efficacy.Mr.JAMES I.FELLOWS, Chemist, St.John, N.B.:\u2014 Dear Sir,\u2014Having used your Compound Syrup for some time in my practice, I have no hesitation in recommending it to patients who are suffering from General Debility, or any disease of the Lungs, knowing that even in cases utterly hopeless it affords relief.I am, Sir, yours trulv, H.G.ADDY, M.D.St.John, N.B., January 1868.No organ of thought or action can be employed without the assistance of the blood, and no orgnn can be employed safely or with impunity without a supply of healthy blood.With healthy blood the exercised organs become well developed, whether they be muscular or intellectual ; how necessary then that the whole human family should devote more attention to this important subject.Fellows\u2019 Compound Syrup will cause the formation of good healthy blood by its action on the Digestive Organs, the Lacteals,' the Heart, Lungs and Nervous System.\u201c Persons suffering from impure blood, or whose health is giving way, either as ministers or those who study closely, will find in the Syrup the material to build them up and the Tonic to keep them there.\u201d\u2014Dr.Clay.Sold by Apothecaries.Price $1.50 par bottle, or 6 for $7.50.JAMES I.FELLOWS, Chemist, St.John, IJ.B.FRANCIS CUNDILL & CO., Wholesale Agents, du-DSW 68\tMontrea TRADE & COMMERCE LryBRFoop, March 30.\u2014The steamship Peruvian arrived here to day.HERALD OFFICE, ) Wednesday, 31st March, 1869.J Customs\u2019 Revenue.\u2014Comparative statement for Quarters ending 31st March 1868 and 1869 1868\t.$732,069 72 1869\t.661,833 99 $ 70,235 73 Financial.\u2014The Btock Market was dull and inactive tp day, few transactions being reported in any class of Securities.Bank of Montreal are in favour, however, at 144^, asking 145.City are the turn easier, and Ontario are j better.People\u2019s changed hands at 108, more being demanded at the close.Gore are held for £ over yesterday\u2019s rate, and Royal Canadian are the turn downward, there being sellers at 78, while buyers offer 74.Holders of City Passenger are offering at 106^, 1021 being bid.Other shares are nominally the same.Latest Chicago JSIarlrets by Telegraph.Chicago March 31.Flour firm and and in fair demand.Spring firm and in fair demand ; Spring Extras $5.00 IS $6.621.Wheat in fair demand for speculation ; No.2 $1.11 IS 1.121.No.1 quiet at $1.16 /S $1.17.Corn quiet and declined ic IS lc ; new 64c IS 54|c.Oats dull ; No.2 fresh at 53c (S> 531.Bye steady and easier ; No 1 fresh $1.20j ; regular $1.19.Whiskey dull ; 88c asked; 87jc bid.Lard 18c.Sugar pick, led hams in demand ; city 16c ; country 15jc ; dry salted shoulders 12c ; buyers April 13j \u2022 sweet pickled shoulders 13c.Live hogs dull ¦ common to_ choice $9.50 ® $10.86.Cattle dull and easier, with large supply ; cows $5 00 $6.75 ;_ shipping steers $7.00 (S $7,80.Receipts.\u20146,500 barrels flour; 11,000 bush wheat ; 16,000 do corn ; 8,500 do oats ; 1,400 do rye; 30,000 hogs.\t\u2019 Shipments\u201412,000 brls flour ; 12,000 bushels whea t; 32,000 do corn ; 3,800 do oats ; 3,800 do rye ; 1.500 do barley ; 2,600 hogs.BîcWEoj-k Marhets by Telegraph.March 31.Cotton weak ; sales to-day at 29c for middling Uplands.Flour dull and 5c to 10c lower ; receipts 8,-977 brls ; sales 6,400 barrels at $5.75 (S $6.20 for Super State and Western; $6.25 (S $6.90 for common to choice Extra State ; $6.25®$7.35 for common to choice Extra Western ; $6.60 (S $7.75 for R.H.O.Rye Flour quiet ; sales 150 barrels at $5 (S $7.00.Wheat market dull, and lc to 2c lower ; sales 32,000 bush at $1.49 IS $1.50 for No.2 Spring delivered.Rye quiet.40$ron\tks?.h Ls»le® Western.Barley dull ; receipts none.Oats dull ; receipts 4,871 bushels; sales 2,500 bush at 75c®75jc for Western in store ; 77c for do afloat.Provisions\u2014-Pork heavy ; sales of 1,500 brls at $31.12j ® $31.25 for New Mess; $30.75 ® $31 for old do.^Lard easier at l7jc (S ISJc for Steam ; 18Jc (S 19jc for kettle rendered.Latest English Mnrlrets by Telegraph.London, March 31, p.m.\u2014Consols 93 for money ; 93j for account.Bonds 83}.Stocks quiet.Erie 24}.I C 97f.Liverpool, March 31.\u2014California White Wheat 9s 10 ; Cheese 76s 6d.Pork 101s 2d.Havre, March 31.\u2014Cotton on the spot If 47c; afloat lf46jc.London, March 31, evening.\u2014Consols, 93 for money ; 93} for account.Bonds 83}.Stocks quiet at 24} for Erie, and 96} for 111.C.Tallow dull at 45s 9d.Frankfort, March 31.\u2014Bonds 87}.Paris, March 31.\u2014Bourse quiet.Rentes 70f 27c.Liverpool, March 31.\u2014Cotton unchanged ; Uplands, 12}d ; Orleans, 12|d; sales 12,000 bales.Spirits Petroleum, 9d.Turpentine, 30s.Antwerp, March 31.\u2014Petroleum, 53}f IS 54} f.Cora Excaange uatiy Report, Montreal, March 31, 1869.Flour I?trl.ot 196 ibs.\u2014Superior Extra none; Extra nominal, $4 90 (S $5.00; Fancy $4.65®$4.75 ; Supers from Canada Wheat $4.50 IS $0.00 nominal ; Strong Supers from Canada Wheat $4.50 IS $4.60 ; Superfines from Western Wheat (Welland Canal) nominal, $0.00 IS 0.00 ; City brands of Superfine (from Western Wheat) nominal, $0.00 ® $0.00 ; Canada Superfine No.2 $4.25 IS $4.30 ; Fine, $3.90 IS $4.00 ; Middlings $3.6-0 IS $3.80 ; Pollards nominal ; U.O.Bag Flour $2.20 IS $2.25 per 100 lbs ; City brands nominal.The Flour market was very quiet this forenocn.wlth easier feeling than yesterday,\u2014there being a few sales of Strong Bakers\u2019 Flour at $4.55, including a 300-brl.lot,\u2014$4.57} being also paid, while choicest brands were held at higher rates.Super.No.2 sold at $2.30,\u2014Fine at $4.00,\u2014Middlings at $3.70.Oatmeal, per brl.of 200 lbs.\u2014Nominal at $6.00 13) $6.20, according to quality.Wheat, ÿ1 bushel of 60 fbs.\u2014U.C.Spring Wheat, buna.Pease, do .Beef, brls and tea.High Wines, puns Hams, birds.Lard, brls.Whlskev, oaks.Corn, bush.Petroleum, do____ Tallow, do , .Oats, bus.Flax Seed.Hops, bales .1194 35 Flour,'barrels.Ashes, do Pork, do Leather, rolls.65 Butter, kegs.\t31 Cheese, bxs.\t80 Tobacco, hhds.11 Hides.282 Oatmeal, brls.Barley, bush____\t130 Dressed Hogs Bye ., Bacon.DA3LV STOCK REPORT.Montreal Wednesday, March 31, 1869.{Û P\tfo £0 fo OOC ^ sagous o 2 b P s» g c O £ B b o P 2 £2 ¦ ooghW; gw: g: o o o ; #\u2022 ot si 03 4a.cn or Oi at a> æ ^ o o o © ® © P P P e* et- e+ a.4».^ tfo.tfo.4AtM>03 ^ki*.£t.4A4A4A4AC0Cl ©®©ZK©®©©©®©©®CD®©®©©©© 2 © o P * g © © © © © © © o o © © © © © © © ®®®®>H®®®®®®(t>®®®®©©07(S)Ô® PPP^ëPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP c-.e+e* si tl- et- rt- u-\te*-e-j-e7_b Ç* eh ç* et- e.+- et PPT pi?!' Q!>0 5 p-pet- ef-et-cfct-etet-et-ct-et-t^é+èt-èt-et-c+pr^- : e.g.ï&affsESS.c'SBsSwc ««^3: ; 03\t\" Yaggœg Sp\u2018W&g.pr © p 9 p* 3 £ DO aggQtf SPgl'S ubo p*p -«Wo ooooo3.\u2019gS\u2018do0oSg S-b\u2019\u201d ^r ©.^ Q O o O O o © : p oo ^ cLQ?^J*3Gooicd.-iccP'o\tI O \u201e OG £L Cki pi p., Q< _ et- ?b P :\t^\t©\t: \u2022\t>b\tP.\u2022\t©\t\t\u2022 :\tn :\t:\t: P : $£ \u2022 % ©: - ^§§1 \u2018\"I- g;; THE DYING BODY SUPPLIED WITH THE VIGOR OF LIFE THROUGH Dr.Railway's Sarsaparillian Resolvent.A small atom of vacine matter is sufficient to charge the system of the most robust aud weighty body against Small Pox;\u2014this potent power Is secured through the blood.In every drop of Dr.Radway\u2019s Barsafakillian Résolvent, there Is concentrated, the nourishing, strengthening and purifying properties, that will secure to every human being, pure, rich, strong and healthy biood.if the blood can be charged with vacine matter in atomic proportions, that reproduces on the parts of the body inoculated a poison of such virulence that an atom will charge an ordinary body, containing 140 pounds of blood; is It not reasonable that a remedial agent like Radway\u2019s Sarsaparillian Resolvent, made from the most healing, purifying, strengthening extracts from the vegetable kingdom of known medicinal qualities,and combined together by the highest ohemleal skill, and the medicinal properties of these substances obtained under a process, that secures only the active properties of the substances used, should have equally as potent power for Cleansing, purifying, enriching and strengthening the blood ?Every drop of the Sarsaparillian Resolvent communicates throngh the Blood, sweat, Urine, aid other fluids and juices ot the system the vigor of life, for It repairs the wastes of the body with new and sound material.The SARSAPARILLIAN RESOLVENT possesses tissue making and flesh making elements, and supplies the system with any deficiency of Caloric or heat making constituents.No matter how deepiy seated or engrafted in tne tissues, cartilages, glands, organs, or bones, disease and corruption may be, the influence of this powerful agent, on the blood and other fluids, that supply the living body with repairs, will so charge the system with such constituents, as to resolve and exterminate the dead and decomposing matter, and supply Its place with sound and living structure, nourished by rich, pure and strong blood.By the chemical action which the Sarsaparillian Resolvent has on the substances taken into the stomach during Its process of digestion into Chyme and Chyle, before It is made blood, as well as the nourishing constituents It converts into blood, and its spécifié action, when entering In the circulation, it exterminates every atom ol virus from the blood, and resolves away all deposits of disease.Whether caused by the action of some spécifié poison or virulent disease, or Mercury, Corrosive Sublimate, Calomel, that may have accumulated In the bones tissues, cartilages, or joints, or from some transmitted family complaint that may have run through half a dozen generations.Scrofula, Consumption, syphilis, uncured AND BADLY TREATED VENEREAL, tU ItS many forms.Glandular Disease, Ulcers in the Throat, Mouth, Tumours, Nodes in tjjk Glands, and other parts of the System.Sore Eyes, Strumorous Discharges from the Ears and the worst forms of Skin diseases, ErupI tions.Fever Sokes, Scald Head, Ring Worm, Salt Rheum, Erisipellasl acne Black Spots, Worjis In the Flesh, Tumors\u2019 Cancers.In the Womb and all Weaking and Painful Discharges, Nïôht Sweats, loss ol SPERM and all wastes of the life principle are within the curative range of this wonder of Modern Chemistry, 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 the wastes and decomposition that is continually progressing, succeeds In arresting these wastes and repairs the same with new material made from healthy blood, and this the SarsapXril lan will, smd does secure, a qure Is certain for when once this remedy commences Its work of purification, and succeeds In diminishing the loss of wastes, Its repairs will be rapidf and every day the patient will feel himself growing better and stronger, the food digesting better appetite improving, and flesh and weight increasing.Not only does the Sarsaparillian Resolvent excel all known remedial agents, in the cure of Chronic, Scrofulous' Constitutional, Sect anq Syphiloid Diseases, but it is the only positive curative for Kidney, Bladder, Urinary, and Womb diseases, Gravel DIABEATES, DROPSY, STOPPAGE of WATER, INCONTINENCE of Urine, Bright\u2019s Disease, albuminuria, and in all cases where there are Brick dust deposits, or the water is thick, cloudy, mixed with substances like the White ct an egg, or threads like white silk, or tb.ere\u2019is a morbid dark, bilious apuearancë; and ivliite bone dust deposits, and where there is pricking, burning sensation when passing water, and pain in the smalt, of the Back, along the Coins.In all these conditions radway\u2019s Sarsaparillian Résolvent, aided by the application of Ra\u2019' way\u2019s Ready Relief to the Spine an\u201d Small of the Back, and the Bowed;; regulated with one or two of i-Uuway\u2019s regulating Pills per day, will soon make a complete cure; In a tew days, the patien( will b,e onabldd to hold and discharge his water naturally without pain, and the Urine will be restored to Its natuial oiokr, and amber or cherry colour.SIR BENJ.BRODIE, DESOOKTEU, HUCK-NER, and many other eminent medical men-used one of the Ingredients of the Sarsaparillian Résolvent, i, e.Pariera Brava, as a speciality in all Urinary difficulties, In Its crude elate, and eulogised it above ail remedial agents, for Urinary discharges, and Womb difficulties, and as alithontriptic in Calculous diseases, and It is now regarded as superior to BuohV.Juniper CUBEES, COPABIA, DIGISALEi; TURPENTINE, Gin, &o., as a Diuretic,' both In England and France, and now, as it is presented to the public, under the new Chemical process of Dr.Radway\u2019s late discovery of obtaining the active properties (in vacuo) from vegetable substances, by which the true curative principle of Pariera Brava, called Oissampelink is secured and combined with Sarsaparillian and other associates in the Sarsaparillian Resolvent, its power In these diseases is à fixed fact.In purchasing this medicine, see that the letters K.R.R., Kàdway\u2019s Renovating Résolvent, is on tfie front of the label, and the word Sarsaparillian in large letters on its side.Every bottle to be pure and genuine must be signed Rad way & co.The price of the Sarsaparillian Resolvent Is one dollar per bottle, or six bottles lor $5.00 or $10.0(1 per dozen.Persons sending ap.n.order for ten dollars to Dr.JOHR RADNy AY, 439 8t.Paul Street, will receive one dosieh package, free of freight, to any part of this Dominion.Sold by all Druggists, add general storekeepers, and agents for radway\u2019s Ready Relief.H.B.This medicine Is entirely different from any preparation of Sarsapariilas, thereiore do not be persuaded to pm chase dny Sarsaparilla iu place of the SArsparillian Resolvent.See that R, R.R.is on every bottle, JOJH.JS RADWAY, M.D.B7, Maiden liahe, New York & 489 St.PaulStreet Montreal N.B.\u2014Accrued Interest on Deoentures Is invariably paid by purchaser in addition to quoted price MAODOUGAIjIj co DAVIDSON, Brokers, North British Chambers, Hospital Street.Opening; and Closing; tguotatloasorstocR In Meyv YopEi.'.Hew York, March 31-4.30 P.M.Closing.131} Gold\t\tOpening Pacific Mail\t Telegraph\t\t\t 89} New York Central\t\t Erie\t\t\t\t Reading.\t\t\t M.S\t .\t\t 91 i C.& P\t\t\t\t O.& Tol\t \u2018\t¦\t Rock\t\t\t làii\t North Western\t\t nfd\t\t .\tQ2-Ï\t Wayne \t Quicksilver\t\t\t\t 5-20S of\u201962\t\t\t\t.1191 Milwaukee & St.Paul.Sterling Exchange\t\t Interest\t\t PER GRAND TRUNK EaST.J Red path à Soa 91 hhds ; J H R Molson 43 28 tea.hhds, SPECIAL NOTICES.SIR J AMES C DARKE'S p iïmauE FILDS.This well known medicine Is no Imposition but a sure and safe remedy for female difficul ties and obstructions, from any cause whatever and although a powerful remedy, It contains nothing hurtful to the constitution.To married ladies it Is peculiarly suited.In all oases of nervous and spinal affections pain in the back aud limbs, fatigué, or slight ex ertion, palpitation of the heart, hysterics, and whites, these pills will affect a cure when all other means have failed ; and although a powerful remedy, do not contain Iron, calomel, antimony, or anything hurtful to the constitution.Full directions In the pamphlet around each package, which should be carefully preserved.For full paitlcularSjJget a pamphlet, free, of the agent.N.B.\u2014$1 and postage stamps enclosed to any authorized agent, will insure a bottle containing over 60 pills, by a return of mall.JOB MOSES, N.Y., Sole Proprietor.SPJEOIAL, NOTIC®.Sir James Clarke's Female Fills are extensively counterfeited.The genuine have the name of 11 JOB MOSES\u201d on the package.All others are worthless.For Sale by Northrop & Lyman, Newcastle, General Agents for Canada.Sold by all the Druggists lu Montreal, ana medicine dealers everywhere.June 10.\tDBWlvSO BOGLES HYPERION FLUID.-The following will show the estimation in which this article is held In the South : Charleston Hotel, 1 Charleston,S.C , March 7,1851 j Mr.Wm.Bogle, Boston\u2014Dear&lr : Some time ago my hair commenced falling off to such an extent I began to fear I should become prematurely bald.After using many of the popular restoratives of the day, a friend suggested your Hyperion Fluid, which 1 was Induced to try, with, I confess, but little hopes ol success.I was surprised and gratified, however, after a short trial, to find a decided Improvement, and I now possess a fine crop of healthy hair, which I can only attribute to the extraordinary qualities of your justly celebrated Hyperion Fluid.You are at liberty to publish this for the benefit of others similarly afflicted, and I hope success may crown your deserving efforts, and that the sales of the Hyperion Fluid may be commensurate with its superior merits.Yours very truly, Thomas S.Nickerson.To preserve the complexion use BUGLE\u2019S ENAMEL POWDER, which Is also elegant for the Nursery.\tr DS W 66 HAKE 'HOILET ARTICLE,.GST BOGLE\u2019S EHAMEL COMPLEXION POWDEE.IâB THE SECRET OF BEAUTY.Anew, elegant, and agreeable preparation for beautifying the Complexion and rendering It fresh, clear, pure, and of marble delicacy, yet entirely free Irom anything which can possibly be injurious to the cuticle.It eradicates Tan, Discolorations, and all Eruptive Affections of the Skin.One trial will decide Its superiority over auy other article, either liquid or powder, whether of foreign or home manufacture.At the sea-shore, where the skin Is affected by the sun, it will prove Invaluable ; aud equally so in cold weather, when the skin Is liable to be chapped.It is soothing for children, and the nursery should never be without It.Bogle\u2019s Enamel Complexion Powder must take first rank among cosmetics, and Its effects be seen In the domestic circle, iu society, aud wherever eyes of ilgnt and forms of beauty come to grace the scene.Price, 60 cents.Done up In two separate colours\u2014White and Roseate.So bright the tear In Beauty\u2019s eye.Love half regrets to kiss it dry ! So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E\u2019en pity scarce can wish It less.Proprietor,\tW.BOGLE, .j, \u201e , ,\tBoston, And for Sale by his Agents everywhere.March 29.\tDSW 74 SSatciielor\u2019s Eâaiir This splendid Hair Dye Is the best In the world.The only true and perfect Dye\u2014Harmless Reliable, Instantaneous.No disappointment.No ridiculous tints.Remedies the ill eflects of had dyes.Invigorates and leaves the Hair son and beautiful black or brown.Sold by all Drug gists and Perfumers ; and properly applied at Batchelor\u2019s Wig Factory, No.16 Bond Street New York.January\tDW 11 Holloway\u2019s Pjlls and Ointment.\u2014Kidney Diseases.\u2014Disorders of the Stomach are ofthe complicated with affections of the kidneys and \u2022Pl,Li:,s are eminently useful In both.1 heir mild cathartic action cheeks Inflammation in that region, and the regular application of the Ointment to the small ofthe back and loins assist to counteract the irritation of the urinary organs which, always accom-panics venal complainte.Sold by all Druggists,\tr DSW 74 JBURNITT\u2019N COCOAINE for the hair is universally acknowledged to be the best Invigorator and the finest hair dressing known.For sale by all Druggists.March 3,0.\ttisD eowW 75 BIRTH.in this city, on the 31st ult, Mrs.P.F.Heery, of a son.Aimnal THE DERBY.Grand $2000.for TICKETS should he secured at once, as the Book will be closed next week.April 1.WILLIAM & ISAAC.r 77 Fire.Marine and Inland INSUKANCE AGENCY CAPITAL-$1,000,000 home INSURANCE COMPANY, MW HATEff, Conn.nssp\u2019ra__________*i.R99.974:.39 PREMIUMS RECEIVED AND LOSSES PAID.18GS\tISOS.January.$180,721\t99.$178,514\t83 February.160,644\t58.162,807\t64 March.163,010\t35.85,500\t06 APr11.171,485\t12.124,606\t73 167,481 79.105,931\t75 163,902 17 .87,884\t11 160,099 01.134,960\t60 144,594 64 .67,489\t78 160,844 24 .88,723\t03 .\t123,163 57 .\t88,083 32 207,751 35 .96,080\t59 May,, June.July,.August,.September, October.\t172,476 32.November.173,120 22.December, $2,026,034 81 $1.331,746 01 ¦WESTERJST ASSURANCE COMPANY «F CANAÏJÂ.Capital - -.$400,000 Karpins.$200,000 liumaï Fremiam Income $300,000 IvHiS prosperous Home.Institution Is now .transacting a larger business than any other Company in Canada, and by Its prompt and honourable dealing commends Itself to Mercantile men.Vessel owners, and Proprietors wanting reliable Insurance.Buildings, Stocks, Furniture, Manufactories, *o., insured against FIRE.Vessels, Cargoes and Freight insured against the risks of MARINE and INLAND NAVIGATION.Parties having Vessels to Insure, can have them surveyed and rated by our Inspector, on leaving the name and location of the Craft at onr Office.RISKS also placed in the best New York, Boston and Philadelphia Companies.OFFICES, 102 St.Francois Xarler Street.PUBLIC MalTtKGS, I Thistle Coiling Clot, THE Members ofthe MONTREAL THISTLE CURLING CLUB are hereby notified that the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Club will be held in the Office of David Shaw, Esq., Royal Insurance Buildings, on SATURDAY, 3rd April, at Noon, for the Election of Office-bearers and other business.O.M GOULD, Secretary, m 77 April 1.March 30.db 75 Meicantile Lihrarj Association, HlflE ANNUALGENERALMEETINGofthe S.MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION of MONTREAL, for receiving the Annual Report and other business, will be held in tbe Hall of the Association on MONDAY, 6th April, at EIGHT P.M.The Annual General Meeting for the election of Office-bearers and other business will be held n the same place, on MONDAY, the 12th April, at the same hour.A.McARTHUR, Secretary.March 25.\t, (th 71 Mount Poyal Ceoieleij Cooipaoj, N°TIÇE is hereby given that tbe ANNUAL GiLNIiiRAL MEETING ofthe Proprietors of this Corporation will be bolden in tbe Office of tbe Montreal Assurance Company, No.25 Great St.James Street, on TUESDAY, tbe SIXTH day of APRIL next, at the hour of THREE in the afternoon precisely, to receive tbe Report of the Trustees for the past year, and for the transaction of such other .business as may be then and there submitted.WILLIAM TURNER, Secretary.Montreal, March 31, 1869.\te 77 Montreal Wareiioosiiig Compani, Ag®^^AL MEETING of tbe STOCKHOLDERS of this Company will be held on the SEVENTH DAY of APRIL next, at the Office of Messrs.H.& A.Allan, In this City, at THREE o\u2019clock P.M., for the election of Directors, and for such other business as may be lawfully transacted thereat.By order at the Provisional Directors.(Signed.) ALEX.MOLSON.Montreal, 23rd March, 1869.\tfirs 7( MONTREAL Permanent Building Society.fT