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[" IB ©uriEIBIEŒ SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 183T.VOLUME XXXXIL PU08PKCTUS OP A MONTHLY PKAIODKALt TO UB ENTITLED THE BIBLE ADVOCATE, Tn he Published under the superintendence of the tOMMlTTEU OF THE MONTREAL AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY.THIS work, at its ntimc sug^«kts, will advocate the in.created circulation and pcruial of the Holy Sckiptumb* (for whirli it it to be lamented there it in this Province to much neceatity), by diftusiiiK lm|Mirtant information on the kuhject.niakinu earnett appeals to the consciences of Chrittians, and briiKiini! into view the success vfrhich hat attended those meaiiK in other countries.The interetting facts and anecdotes furuUhed by the operations of MiM>iunariet will particularly be noticed; while the proceeding* of the Parent Society and of all others connected with it, or engaged in the same cause, with the state of the Branch Associations of the Society in Mon.treal, will also lorm part of the contents of the Paper.99 MORBI BT STUDKA BT POPULOS BT PRÆLIA DICAM.Viau.(jKOhc.IV.6.NUMBER 51, CASTLE OF ST.LEWIS, 1.\t,\tQuebec, I'Mh April.1837.N contornnty with an instruction from Ilia Majesty's PhinctpaL Skchktahy op State for the Colonies, addressed to Ilia Excellency the Governor in Chief, and hearing date February, 1S37, Public Notice is hereby given, that from and alter the 1st June licit, put'chasers of land will lie required to pay down, ut the time of Sale, 10 per cent, on the whole vhIiic of the purchase, and the remainder within fourteen days, from the day of sale\u2014that until the whole price u paid the pnrchaseis will not be put in p»ekt>joii of the land treal, will a so oim pai o ic ton en s o te aper.\t^ \u2014and that in the event of payment not being made within the It is hoped, and may be eipctted, that Mumtert of the prescribed period, the sale will be considered void, and the Gospel, and the friends of Religion and Morality, will not only j deposit l»c forfeited.contribute to the design by furnishing original articles or other interesting matter to the pages of the Advocate, hut will also exert themselves to obtain Subscribers, uud send tbeir names; previously to the issue of the paper, to Mr.William Greki, iy7fSl.pttul Street, Montreal, to whom all communications (post paid) should l>e addressed.Terms ; per annum when delivered in town, Is.3d.per sin.gle copy, or 1*.each for ten and upwards : when sent by mail, postage included, 1*.Dd.per single copy, or Is.6d.each for ten and above.Montreal, March 21, 1837.GOVERNMENT SALE OF ANCHORS, Ac.liy Tender.&c.N OTICE is hereby given, that sealed Tenders or Proposal* will be received at KiogMton Dock Yard, until the Mist May, Iroin such persons a* may be willing to purrhn'e the Aurhora, 4rc.remaining ut the following Naval Station* i \u2014 Place, No.and\tWeight.\t\u2022\tQUEBEC.Or/*.\tQrs.lbs,\t 1\tAnchor, old,\t.\t.\t42 MONTREAL.\t0\t0 1\tA nr bur.\t\t 72\t1\t0 1\t«%\t\t 40\t2\t10 1\t»*\t\t 85\tA\t21 1\t\t\t 33\t2\t15 1\tM\t\t 31\t0\t14 1\t*t\t.\t30\t0\t0 1\t«\u2022\t\t 21\t0\t14 1\t.4\t\u2022 \u2022\u2022\u2022\ta\u2022\u2022 \u2022\t^\t1\t5 2\t\u2022 1\t.\t.\t15 ISLE AUX XOIX.\t3 each.\t 1\tAnchor,\t\t 37\t:t\t0 1\t,4\t\t 12\t3\t21 1\t\u2022 «\t\t 12\t2\t0 KaBast Iron,\t\t\t 40 KINGSTON.\t0\t0 1\tAnchor,\t\t 12\tS\t17 1\t44\t\t U\t0\t0 1\t44\t\t 9\t1\t17 1\t4»\t\t 8\t1\tIrt 1\t44\t\t 7\t0\t0 1\t 'seed in the Report, and in fume respects a different one.The ecclesiastics of the seminary of St.Sulptce ut Haris had been established a lonununity of Homan Catholic piiests in 1615 ; and in Hib.'i, an association which had sub* Misted for some time for the conversion of the Indians of New Franets made to them, by a registered contract in I'aris, a donation of all their right of property in the Island of Montreal, vipoii condition that the domain and pronerty of the island should b** inseparably united to the seminary in this iustrununt the seminary declared their domicile Co be at Paris.In 1677, the King of France, by letters patent, gave penuissi >u to the above-mentioned community to establish a cumin unity and seminary of ecclesiastics in tlic Island of Montreal, whither they had already sent some priests, and intended to send more to the number of 14 ; W hich tiew couiiminity was to be ter the conversion and in \u2022traction of subjects of (he crown of France ; and to facilitate this establishment, the king confirmed the donation of Ib&S, and put for ever into mortmain the fam/s and teig-nrary \u2022/' Montrait, as consecrated to tied, and to he enjoyed by the members of the seminary and their successors, free of alt lights or claims of the crown, from which they were declared to be released.As it seems to liave been stated in 1826, as the opinion of M.Dupin,* a very celebrated Parisian lawyer, that the effect of these letters patent was to give the lauds and seig-uetiry totbe new community at Mou\u2019real, it is necessary to remark, that the tenor of the letters patent is not, of themselves, to establish the new community, but only to give authority to the community at Paris to establish it ; and that* so far from separating the seigneury from the comm unity at 1\u2019aris, the letter* patent continued the donation of 166:1, which in distinct terms forbad any such separation.Some public documents of a later date put it beyond all doub', that the community at Paris retained its seigneury.An edict of lOilS, recites the title to the entire seigneury of *\u2018 the ecclesiastics of the seminary of St.Stilpice of our /food city of Patu\" and mentions the documents which lAry derive from the administration of justice, which forms a considerable part of the foundation of l/tcir seminary in the island.Other letters patent of 1714, prove the same thing.An arrêt of the council of statu of lôth May, 1716, describes the ecclesiastics of the seminary of St.Sulpice, at Paru, as seigneurs of the Island of Montreal, and recites another arret of 1711, for reuniting to the domain of the \u2022aid seigneurs certain lands formerly conceded by them.The iustruuieutof 1764, executed by the seminary at Paris, under the authority, it is said, of thu British Ministers of the day, aud accepted by the seminary at Montreal, established (be same point.Therefore, notwithstanding the opinion of M.Dupin,! consider it as dear and certain that, at the time of the capture of Montreal in 1760 by the British army, the right ot property to the seigneury of the island of Montreal was in the community of the ecclesiastics of the \u2022 seminary of t»t.Sulpice at Paris ; but although no formal instrument is now to be found by which it was done, it appears by the words of an arrêt ot I70¥.and another of 1716, that the Parisian roinniutiity, under the permission given by the King, had established a community at Montreal, somewhere between 1677 and 1702, most likely immediately after the letters patent of 1677 : and the arr$t of the 5th May 1716, which imposed a tax of 2,000 livres upon the seminary at Montreal tor the repair of the fortifications, styled that seminary the \u201c seigneur direct\u2019* of the island.In 1760, therefore, at the time of the surrender of Montreal, there were tuo communities, the one domiciled at Paris, who were the seigneurs of the island of Montreal, aad the community\u2019 at Montreal who were in the actual occupation of the seigneury.and in the immediate receipt of its revenues, bat who had been created by, and were subordinate to, the community at Paris, and to whom it was a legal itnpossibily that the Parisian community could have transferred the whole of their seigneurial rights.The Montreal community being the creation of the other, could not well, in its corporate capacity, have been a member of it without toms reconstruction of the parent society, which does not appear to have taken place ; but it seems that all the individuals of the Montreal community were members of that at Paris.They exercised the right of appointing the registrar or grelher of the King\u2019s Court at Montreal, aad their own places of residence were exempt from the jurisdictions of the King's Courts : See l Edits & O.p.289.By the capitulation of Montrealt in 17Ü0, a demand made in article 33, that \u201c the communities of Jesuits and llccollets, and the house of the priests of St, Sulpice at Mon-treat, should be preserved in their constit'itions and privileges^ was, by the general commanding the British army, \u201c refused, until the King's pleasure be known.\u201d But by the 34th and 35th articles, it was granted that all the communities and all the priests should preserve their moveables, the property and revenues of the seigneuries and other estates tohich they possessed in the colony, of what nature soever they were ; and that the same estates should be preserved in their privileges, rights and exemptions.By the definitive treaty of 10th February, 1763, Canada, with all the right of the crown of France, was ceded to His Britannic Majesty, who, by the 4tb article, agreed to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada, and to give the most effectual orders that his new Homan Catholic subjects might profess the worship of their religion, according to the rights of the Komish church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permitted.His Britannic Majesty further aggreed that the French inhabitants or others who had been the subjects of the most Christian King, in Canada, might during the period of 18 months, retire with all safety and freedom wherever they should think proper, and might sell their estates, provided it should be to subjects of his Britannic Majesty.At this point it is desirable to consider in what posi- * Sec Report of a Committee of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, I March, 1834.t It must be remembered that the capitulation of Montreal did not take place until a year after that of Quebec, so that the demands of the garrison, probably, were in seme degree foreseen, and the remoteness of the province both from England and from France, and the dimcutly of bringing to the notice and understanding of the authorities In Europe the interests of the inhabitants of Canada, may account for, and perhaps justify, the fact that the capitulation rather resembles a set of preliminary articles of pence than the mere capitulation of a town.It certainly has been eonsldered, both in Canada and in England, as having effect beyond the occasion on which It was made.It in ribliscd ot the head of the volume of Public Acts, which regarded as comprising the fundamental laws of the colony, and is referred to in the opinions of the Crown law «ffieers.even in recent times, as bearing on the present internats nf the parries to tha questions respecting the \u2022dfMiirjef Mortreal.lion the two communities of the seminary at Paris and the seminary at Montreal were left b) the capitulation and the treaty.General Amherst, when he assented to stipulations respecting the permanent enjoyment of immoveable property, which could not be construed otherwise than as emending beyond the period of the war, allowed the limits of a capitulation to be exceeded, and it does not require any argument to show that conditions granted by a general cannot be valid to any extent beyond what the laws of the naticn for which the general is acting, will permit.This indeed was intimated in the answer lo the 41st and 42d articles of the capitulation, and more distinctly in the 4th article of the definitive treaty.But inasmuch as it is certainly within the authoiity of a general to grant to a stipu- ( lating party the property in their moveables, and as General Amherst\u2019s assent respecting the permanent enjoyment of real and immoveable property, was blended in the game article with that respecting moveables, if the British Government meant to repudiate any of the stipulations respecting the permanent possession of real estate, it was incumbent on them to do so at the first opportunity, or at all events in the definitive treaty.Not having done so otherwise than by expressing, what must always have been implied, that the liberty of the Catholic religion was not to exceed what the iaws of Great Britain permitted, it seems to me that, subject to that proviso, the 33d and 34th articles of the capitulation of Montreal have always been binding, in honor at least, as lasting conditions ; and that they must be looked to even now as a part of the grounds on which all claims reapecting the seigneury of Montreal must he argned.From this opinion, however, I exclude those words in the 34th and 35th articles which relate to \u201c privileges\u201d and \u201c honors\u201d of estates, as repugnant to the 33d article, which referred all u privileges\u201d to the pleasure of the King.Two somewhat discordant stipulations then were to be reconciled after the ratification of the definitive treaty.By the one the constitutions and tiie privileges, as far as Canada was concerned, both of the community of Paris and of that of Montreal, were made dependent on the King\u2019s pleasure ; by the other the communities and priests were promised the permanent possession of their seigneuries, as tar as the laws of Great Britain permitted, but with the liberty to sell their estates within 18 months to any subject *4 itis Britannic Majesty, under which term were included those Human Catholic inhabitants of Canada who should choose to remain there, and give their allegiance to the British Crown.Now the point on which the whole case turns is, whether the laws at that time permitted the recognition in Canada of the constitutions of the seminary of St.Sulpice at Paris and of the seminary at Montreal, or of either ot them; and U seem to me that it did not, which makes it unnecessary to take any notice of tiie question which might otherwise arise, according to recent decisions, respecting tire rights of aliens to hold real estate in Canada.The two constitutions of the seminary at Paris and of that at Montreal, as they are disclosed tous in the letters patent of 1677, and every other document which relates to them, equally established the temporal pre-eminence, authority and jurisdiction in Canada of a corporation d miiciled at Paris ; and in this respect each of those constitutions was incompatible with the supremacy of the British Crown.1 know not how the constitution of a corporate body can in law be so separated into parts, asthat one of its pervading principles can be vicious and void as repugnant to the universal law of the Empire, and the others stand good : and as the constitution of the seminary at Montreal appears to have been in substance that it should occupy tiie property and discharge vicariously the duties of the Parisian community, under its directions, 1 come to the conclusion that the definitive treaty of peace of 1763, determined and put an end, as far as Canada was concerned, to the powers and rights of tiie seminary at Paris, and to tiie corporate capacity and legal existance of the seminary ut Montreal, excepting that both were to remain capable for 18 months to dispose of their property if tiie members of them should choose to do so.Having stated this opinion, which, I am confident, it is better for all parties should be distinctly brought forward, 1 am desirous of stating, with equal plainness, that the 34th article of the capitulation having been in no way repudiated by the treaty, nor qualified othe-wise than by a restriction of the liberty of the Homan catholic religion to what the laws ot Great Britain would permit, and tiie objects and purposes of the seminary having always been considered to be laudable and beneficial, the Crown appears to me to have been bound, according to every generous construction of the law of nations, to give, within that limit, to those ecclesiastics of the two seminaries who remained in Canada, as full an enjoyment of the ordinary seigneurial profits of what had been their property or their possessions, as they had before, and this not merely for their natural lives, as private and unconnected individuals ; but, seeing that the objects of the seminary had been praiseworthy, to give it to them as nearly as might be in the same manner as they would have enjoyed it if the constitution of their community, which was now at an end, had continued to subsist ns a legally recognized institution.This would not include such franchises as the appointment of the greffier of the King's Court at Montreal, nor an exclusive jurisdiction within their own walls and within the farm of St.Gabriel, both of which they had en-\u2018oyed, and have since at one time claimed ; but it \u2019ould, by a liberal instruction, include and account or the permission, which was given to them by the Jrown, to admit new persons (even foreigners) into their society : and 1 feel some confidence that if the whole subsequent history of the possession and the claims of the seminary on the one hand, and of the conduct of the British Crown on the other, not only towards this seminary, but towards the other ecclesiastical Homan-catholic communities of liower Canada, be examined from this point of view, they will admit of a consistent explanation which cannot otherwise be obtained.In this separate Minute, which does not lay claim to the authority of a report of the commissioners, it would be considered superfluous for me to go minutely through the whole series of subsequent events, but in the opinion which I have expressed, I have had in view : 1.\tThe Proclamation of October 1763.2.\tThe Instructions to Governor Murray, 1763.3.\tThe Letter of Monsieur deGuerchi, of 1764 ; given in the 1834 Heport of the Assembly of Lower Canada.4.\tThe Instrument of 1764, executed by the St.Sulpieiuns at Paris.5.\tThe difficulties stated by Sir James Marrlot,.at p.122 of his Heport of u Plan of a Code of Laws for the Province of Quebec, 1774.6.\tThe statute of 14 Geo* 3, c.83, s.14.7.\tThe Instructions to Governor Carleton, 3d January 1775.8.\tTiie Act of Fealty and Homage on the part of j the Seminary, 1781.9.\tTiie claims on the part of the Seminary, and opinions of the Crown Law Officers in 1*89.10.\tThe introductihn of some Priests from France in 1794, und upon subsequent occasions, | with the sanction of the British Government.11.\tThe assumption by the Crown of the pro- ?perty of the Jesuits and of the Kécollets, und the proceedings from 1770 to 1801.respecting an intended grant to Lord Amherst ot tiie Jesuits Estates.( .See the Heport, with an Appendix, from a Select Committee of tiie House of Commons in 1817, on the Hegulations of Homan catholics in Foreign States ) 12.\tThe Opinions of Crown Law Officers on questions respecting the Seigneury in 1806 and | 1811.\t.\t.n.\u2022 * 13.\tTiie Instructions to the Governor in Gluet, Sir George Prévost, in 1811.14.\tThe case of-Fleming, against the Seminary of Montreal, which is taken notice of in Mr.O Kill Stuart\u2019s Heports.part 2, p.184.15.\tA correspondence and négociations which have been going on at intervals for nearly the last 20 years between the Seminary and the Provincial Government and the Colonial Office, during which the opinions of the Law Officers have been taken botli in England and Canada.16.\tAn Address to His Majesty from the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, in 1830.\t( See Journals of the Assembly of that year, p.2;>9 ; and Heturn to an Address of the British House ot Commons,30 June 1830.) I*.A Report of a Committee of the Assembly, dated 1st March 1834.{See Appendix to the Journals of that vear, I i.) With the view which I have taken of a sub|ect involving such abundant materials for serious differences of opinion, and adverting to the sentiments expressed in the address to His Majesty from the House of Assembly of Lower Canada in 1830, which I have reason to believe are still entertained by that body, I cannot recommend that the affairs of tiie seigneury of Montreal should at present be brought before the Provincial Legislature, which i have no doubt would take up, in the spirit ot the Address of 1830, the whole details of any proposed arrangements, both as they regard pecuniary questions and tiie system of education.I would propose that the opinion of the Crown Law Officers in England be asked, whether the Crown, without the authority of Parliament, can coustitute the ecclesiastics of the seminary a community tor the purposes of education, confirm to them their possessions, and at the same time mid in such a manner that it may be easily enforced, impose a legal obligation that they will, on stated terms, release the inhabitants of the seigneury from the obligations of the tenure en roture» In Canada, of late years, more than one Roman catholic college has been incorporated, either by Letters Patent under tiie seal of tiie Province or by the Provincial Legislature and it no insuperable objection exists against this being done, for the Seminary, with the condition which I have specified, I would recommend that, after the official correspondence which has taken place, tiie Crown should forego not only its claims to the seig.neury, but any claim which might arise out of the droit d\u2019indemnité, or subsequently out of the droit tie quint or de relief.METEOROLOGICAL REPORT, Kept at Martyn\u2019v Omekvatohy St.Petek Street, v.ton/.7Î-IS-& î\t1 A'.U,.it-Ü-M For the last week, taken at 1! am.)ute.1 7Vr.' Bar.1 Wind.| Remark*.ar, 32 33 43 31» 10 April 23 24 25 26 27 28 2»_______________________ Variation of 'J'/iennomeler for the past week.Highest\u201413 Loin st\u201432 ÏÏ 30\u201427 HVit 30\u201431 Fast 30\u201417 23\u201438 JO\u201410 Fist 30\u2014301 West 43\t30\u201417 Fast t.ight Breezes, Clear.Light Airs, do.\u2022\u2022\t1 do.do.\tCloudy.Calm Clear.\\Fine Breezes, Clear, ^Light Airs\tdo.! do.do Cloudy.Variation of Barometer for the past week.Highest-30\u201431 Lowest\u201423 \u201433 46 QUEBEC, APRIL 29, 1837.| The road between Montreal and thi« city is improving.The mail arrived this morning between 10 and 11, A.M.By it we have received Montreal papers of Thursday and New York papers of the evening of Saturday.Jamaica papers of the 5th April had been received at New York.The news is not important, the following extracts comprise all that is worth repeating : \u2014 Some alarm appears to have been created in the pecuniary affairs of Jamaica by the colonial bank haviug refused to receive the British shilling at its present current value.Mr.Bartholomew Sevmour, examined before the House of Assembly, stated that the British silver passing at the rate of 12 to the pound, and the doubloon at 16 dollars, are the two most safe and convenient rates at which they can be made CUThetiong prevalence of a severe drought was the reputed cause of the more extensive spread of the small pox.The Governor was expected to visit Montego Bay, April 16, and afterwards to proceed to Falmouth.\tt The Lord Bishop bad been very active in the parochial Sir Joshua Rowe, the Chief Justice, does not give satisfaction.His decisions are pronounced contradictory, sometimes too lenient and sometimes baisb.To show how the negroes are emboldened by the apprenticeship law, it appears that they frequently waylay and rob their white roasters on the road.We are sorry to see that at the latest accounts, the Money Market and business generally in the United States wore a most distressing appearance.The New York papers received yesterday by mail, ara of the evening of the 20th instant, at which Una three large, additional, failures had occurred in that city, one of them a house extensively connected with Canada.Accounts liom England by the 24th packet ship are most anxiously looked for as the fate of a vast amount of exchange it expected to be then ascertained.Of the severity of the distress at New Yoik some idea may be formed from a statement in the Commercial stdeertinr, of the liHh instant, of a house of high standing having suspended payment for eighty thousand dollars, with bonds and securities, of the most unquestionable character, to the amount of more than 300,000 dollars in possession, on which no advances w*ould be obtained, though it is added there are private de|M>sits in the hanks to the amount of seventeen millions, of dollars.A general gloom veenu to overhang the commercial world, and it is greatly to be feared that the utter derangement of the monetary system now prevailing in the Uuited States, will be felt on the other side of the Atlantic, and in England in particular.\u2014 The intimate commercial connexion between the mother country and the United States may well create fears that the cheering anticipations entertained by the London Courier (whose article we copied in our last,) of the re-cstablishnient of confidence from the assistance rendered to the leading houses engaged in the American trade, by the Bank of England, will hardly be realised.In the Uuited States, confidence seems at the present moment entirely suspended,\u2014the planter of the South, the merchant and money dealer of New York, manufacturer of the Eastern States, are all in the same distress.Fictitious credit and the over issue of paper money are the main causes of this state of affairs.A great and wide-spreading commercial convulsion appears at hand the lesson it will cairy with it, may, and will in many instances, be a severe one, but the result will be to check that gambling spirit which has now supplanted fair trading in, almost all mercantile transactions all over the world, aud to place commercial intercourse, both foreign and domestic, on a surer, though perhaps on a less brilliant footing than that it has latterly sustained.Since the foregoing was in type we have received our New Ycrk paper of last Saturday Evening\u2014they report a slight amendment in the stock and share market, but no abatement in the general distress of the money market.The following is from the Uommerciul Advertiser of that day :\u2014 Wall-street-One o\u2019Clock\u2014No relief yet in the money market, and indeed no prospect ahead, only, that it apfiears to us the state of things cannot be much worse.Yesterday, the names of several extensive deniers were added to the long list of unfortunates ; in all probability many will follow in the same train this afternoon.What adds to the distress of almost every individual, is the situation of country paper, particularly of our own safety fund banks with the exception ofthe Geneva Hank and Hank of Huffalo.and |>erha|)s one or two others.Hut one or two brokers will buy this money, and they have taken only a limited amount at two to two one-half per cent.Halt-fast One o\u2019Clock\u2014It will be seen that several descriptions of stocks have improved to-day ; and sales, however, were but small.The Hank of the State of New York went up to 89, which is 2 per cent, advance of yesterday.Rail Road stocks have advanced about 2 per cent.Exchange on England 11] to 12.!.The Havre packet Burgundy, lapt.Rockett, arrived lust evening, by which we have received our Haris files to the evening of March 17, aud Havre to the 18th, both inclusive.He-ing only one day later than the advices by the lust arrival from England, the intelligence is but scanty.^ The commercial difficulties which have risen to such a height in this country and in England, are beginning to la* sensibly felt in Fiance also, and on the continent generally/ The Courier Fr-iiçuis says that the number of failures In Paris since the beginning of 1837, is four times that of the same period in 1836.Business generally is languid, and in the great article of provisions especially, there is little demand, while the markets are over-stocked.The same complaint is made, as here, of want of confidence ; but it is ascribed to the uncertain political condition of the country.DEMONSTRATIONS.\t* ^ However peaceable may be the inclinations of the people i the greater portion of the Province, it cannot be disguised that there is a reckless faction in Montreal which would, and yet may, if not attended to in time, involve the country in all tha evils of civil itrife,should their treasonable admonitions have any effect on those to whom they address themselves.The Vindicator i« the loudest in this ylôdh mhor; read the gentle language of this mild and loyal man -who, ere the fray is begun, can utter > most prave ords.'\u2014How he may act should lie rouse his faction to deeds of arms is yet to be seen.But his swaggering and roaring, appears laughable to those who know the biped for it is all by instruction, and is intended to strike the good people of England, who are little acquainted with the nature of tha animal, with that sort of fear and trembling that is excited in the wondering rustic at a country fair, who, innocent of cash, views, with astonishment and dread, the painted efiigy of» the fierce and never to be turned Hyena,\u201d on the show cloth of some itinerant menagerie, but, unable to obtain a sight of the atiimitl, figures to himself a monstrum \"horrendum, informe, ifigrnt,\u2014whose strength, measured by his roaring, must b« equal to at least a doxen puffing steam-engines.Whilst those who have paid their pence and got behind the curtain see in this valiant roarer only a poor caged and crouching creature, showing his teeth, and erecting his bristles, not in anger, but in dread of the commanding lash of his merciless and exacting owners, who never hesitate to »» stir him up with a long pole,\u201d and make him exhibit himself to the spectators_What a caricature it would make ! We will strike off a slight sketch of it.First there is the great agitator with the au at the end of his name instead of O\u2019 at the commencement of it\u2014 which makes some difference after all to Milesian ears, even when radically attunned,\u2014directing the exhibition of bis caged Caliban.»» Now i.udger, my man, stir him up, rouse him to a roar\u2014There Neddy, now walk round and show your teeth, stand out of the way ladies, aint ha terrible ! \u2014Take care little girls and boys don\u2019t go near him or he\u2019ll eat you,\u2014gentlemen don't poke at him with your sticks, if you please, or you\u2019ll spoil his roaring.\u2014Now Neddy Caliban treat us to a roar.\u201d\u2014(Neddy sets up a most wild and discordant howl.) » Bravo,\u201d exclaims Grand Louts.Now only observa that, mind his roar, that ere\u2019s just as the Ilinglish Hyenas roar.\u2014\u201c Yes,\u201d says a bystander, « one would think by bit waring that he had been educated by Mr.Roebuck in his suj.Logical gardens at Bath.\u201d\u2014»* You are partly right there, citizen,\u201d says the exhibitor, M but come Neddy treat the company to one of your loudest roars.Neddy Caliban pacea his den, shows his teeth, sets up his bristles, looks very fierce, makes his obeisance to Grand Louis, who affects to put his whip in bis pocket, and opening his jaws and displaying tremendous tusks commences the performanca with a roar\u2014 \u2022\u2022 Hurrah for Agitation,\u2019* «» My dear Irish friends,\u201d says the Agitator with the au at the tail, you will bear in mind that is\u2014The O'ConaeU cry.\u2014Now roar away Caliban.\u201c HURRAH VDR AGITATION ! *' \u2014The 0* Cornell cry.It gives us great pleasure to announce, that the reeling created throughout this wealthy and populous District, by Lord John Russell's infamous resolutions, is one of unmised indignation.They are met every where with \u201c curses not loud but deep,\u201d and a fixed, stubborn determination, to resist any and every attempt to enslave the country.The Reformen are already on the alert.Some preliminary meetings have, wa understand, been held, preparatory to call, ing a meeting of the rich and independent Ceunty of Riche. , ,\tT., (lie frteüüiJei» \u2022>< CuU,\"v M, l)e Hut lA'b u-tiii»-*.will br|.i.u tb« Uuoi of boo* ll.« L ïtV'l'l'W» * HwM r*HtiUiUUHd tlu UHHhlUUUu* Jt.-U of it* liui./trtvhttforfniiiunl i\" »ucb m .|UH.n r I» onunou* f.ir tl.c trwkno*, ^ulmliou of r,.rd C;-for,l.It will, wc lm>< no douM ^ fallowed tlir«.URh.ut the l*r«mme hy MWlUr ii.eetliu», *ud i^i .e the »utin»irr will Im'e o»-r their lif»d», the |ieo|>le / Uwc- tiiiwl» will tell Mb their repreie.itiiHm u.d ,|.fjr rulcr»a tl*«t tbvy ui« uot the *tyll- frourwhitb *Uvu me ' \"il t'uuld not (je otherwiüe.Thom who have condietted, mid »ufce*»fully coiiihatted, lhe wtleii.|Jt» of DalhoUMc tu ,iMy .Wuv their nuMiey without the milhoiity of law ; Ihiwe who LJ »e*r ufier year.p.oU»ted -li-iiwt the unioiwt.tut.o.ml interference «f the Hriti.b Parliumeut lu our interiml affm-i, ivill not now allow it |o K'» abroad ,0 'I'* woild, that Ibeii \u201eM.ei|dc> uml iiroleM* are iiothiiiK latte, than wait.,m(ar.Tbev '.II not («nuit it to he .aid that, at tl.c beck of even a Houle of Cànutno.u, they now .miction what they hav« u|, ,0 ,hi.day m doaKcdly, w .e|aaledly, w con.i.tently, and ao hou- j'Lwbfil'd «ad dithanuiabU fun'lion of Whig* avl Torln, ,Ja U»usc «/\t\u201crtfolmtd'^ butin «urne, «i«v Rtttlutiên» I» Hnuikilëti th?/««< rrmnoal of f.iher/v W «» Ih' CcUuUl\tA Houie of Lord», the fundamental wiiieitde of whow fàin.tituthm i.ini.n.eal to human freedom, Lyeudorwtbe deUrminatiou of the combiiwd ene.nie» of freedom in the Lower llouw.hut neitl.er the Hetolutioiw, .heir author», nor their lupiwrier».can obfcU|'e the nature of tlnnu».H\"bbtrii trill be robbtrtf tlill.HuMell may, therefore, order hit DtfUlu, Coffonl, /«\u2022 plunder our public ckt»t.A .ecoud FaUlah, he may »ay to hi» worthy chum\u2014\u2022\u2022 Rob me the £u bequer, Hal !\u201d\u2014and hi.Deputy and chum may rob it acrordinif : hut e»eii tin» will nut Iriili/e the plunder.Our riglit.nuit not he violated with impunity.A iiowi.of indignation must he rai.ed from one eitremity of the Province to the otber, agaiiut the Rohbkm, mul a|{ain«t all tluwe who piKTAKa or thb riusucK.IIKS< KKUR\u2019I\u2019H, THKUR MUiTT Ml WO FSACfc IS THK * K^* PistK\u2014no qwirttrt fur the plundtrert- Agitate! Agititr'.Auitatk! ! ! Destroy the Revenue; denounce the oppre»-«or.Jlvery thinir is lawful when »ur fundanwntal liberties me in danger.\u2022\u2022 The guard, die -they never sur.euder.,, The ice on latke St.Peter had not moved on Saturday la»t u.we erroneously stated ; it ha* In wever since di.ap|>eaicd.I,alteaui which arrived last night from Sorel with fit»h fi»li mul wild fowl, report that the channel of the river throughout their Pmange wa« free from ice.Here, the main river is completely open, and the norili channel was Inst night o|ien below die Kails of Montmurenci.The river St.< hm lci i« open above the bridge, and the ice ha» broken up at the month ; \u2022\u2019\"ill probably move to-uight.The ice .till l.ungs on Beauport ! Hal», but there i.nothing to prevent u ve».cl coming to the wharves.The Great Britain is jmt come into hm hour.A eteamhoat from Montreal is ei|»eitcd on Monday neil.Tnr.1'- o Clock Gns.\u2014Tne thing of the mid-day Gun, on Pol aloes, 400\tdo.\tW heal, lo'io\tdo.\tiinrlev.loot)\tdo.\tOats.THE Brethren of Lodge No.17, are requested to attend atthe Albion Hotel, on SUNDAY next, at TWO o\u2019clock, for the pur|io»e of following tlie remains of their late brother, Ahuouin, to the (dace of interment The Ofllcris and Memliersor St.John's l»dge, the Lidge of the Kovals, and all transient brethren, are requested to meet us above stated.Appropriate Badges will be furnished by ike Albion Lodge.By order of the Worshipful Master.W.BRADFOR D, Secretary.Quebec, 28th April, 1837- 2!nl.April, 1887-\t________£_________________ NO I ICE.TFNDEKS will he received at the office of Ihe sub-?cribom until the 8th May, Iront p \u2022rauna desirous lo furni*b the following nrticlea : Mia- ^ All of Ihe best (|ii«nty.ALLAN G1LMOI R & ( *.(Juehoc,\u201827th April.tW8T.\t'I 8\t_____ ^|N1IK buvinesH of Saddlery and llarne*a-Makin* B.heretofore carried on by the late James Marshall, in St.Vallier street, St.K.a\u2018ks suburb», will !>e continued by the undersigned, the widow of the late James Marshall.MARGARET MARSHALL.Quebec, SKtli April, 1837.\tu THOMAS HINCKS REED, H'nrkiii/r 11 p/wliterer and l\u2018ilper Hanger, TTT} ES I* EOT FULL Y inform» hi» frieml* ami Hie public i/UL that lie will conHlltie to executo sll orders eiitrii»-ted to him lu hi» line of buainea».witli the utmost desputch and at his it»ual moderate prices.Ladies and Gentlemen luruishing their own tiwyteriol* will have n decided advantage both a* to pi ice and quality.(Corner of St.John ami Palace streets.) Quebec.Y8th Anrll.D*S7.\t________________________ HOUSES.F on SALE.\u2014A 7 year old (off) Gelding.Iti hands high, well proportioned, powerful, active, of fine action, true in hamc»*, and an admirable charger,\u2014a written wai- ____________\tranly will he given.A 3 vear old (off) 1 bred Gelding, qualified to start for the King\u2019» Plate and Three Rivers Stakes.A beautiful thorough-bred, got by the sire of several w,P-nera in Long-lsland *»:\u2019h a certified pedigree, and a faultless Canadian Stallion.\u2014Tne two latter will stand for the use of Mae**.Enquire at the Stables of AUCTIONS.HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.On MONDAY nest, the J»i of May, at ONE o'clock, at the subscriber's Auction Rooms, (Without reserve,) A GENERAL assortment of Household Furniture, Glass and Earthenware, China, Dinner and Tea Sets, Mirrors, uud other articles.\u2014 AI AO, \u2014 2li Casks Warren\u2019s Hlockiug, 15 do.Ojiorto Wine, ta Iwtlles, (3 dos.recti,) 20 do.sujierior Ixmdon Poi\u2019cr, ( 8 do.do.) 110 Reams Wrapping Paper, SO do.fine Crown do.Conditions\u2014C«»lk G.D.BALZARET1T.Quebec, 2$(h April, 1887.Will be sold mi MONDAY nest, the 1st of May, at Hie re-^ silence of Mr.I^inuuiuuk, near (>oudie Wiiarf./]! Ouantity of Household Furniture, consisting of Tables, lace at the Stare of J.M.Ross A Co., on the above day.Sale at TWO o'clock.P.SHEPPARD, A à B.Quebec, 27th April, 1887.Will bo sold at *he subserihera' Store* qn TUESDAY nest \u20182d May, at ONE o\u2019clock, AN extenaivp and general assortment of Eeasoitabltv - DRY GOODS, Cloth», Tailor*\u2019 Trimmings nnd Furriers\u2019 Summer Good*,\u2014belonging to three Raukrupt Estates.The wnole pontively without reterre.J.M.FRASER & CO.Quebec.28th April, 1837-\t__ Will be soid on WEDNESDAY next the 3d of May, at No.11, Rampart street, near Hope Gate.A QUANTITY of Household Furniture, cuosisting of Mahogany dining, card, loo and other tables, chairs, sofas, cnests of drawers, carpets, beds and bedding, pier and other looking-glasses, double and single, stov-s, china, gbiuand earthenware, kitchen utensils, and other articles.\u2014ALSO\u2014 A Gold lever Watch, 8 holes jewelled, cost 80 Guineas, aterlg.; and a good Silver .ever Watch.Sale at.ONE o\u2019clock.Conditions\u2014Cami.Quebec, 27th April, 1887.M.COLE, A.& B.and WORKING-MEN.THERE will lien General Meeting of tins Society on TUESDAY next.2.1 May, at 7 o'clock in the Evening, at the usual pla«-e.for the purpose of choosing Officers for the vear then commencing.All members are particularly requested to attend, HS seveial important matter* will probably « Uo.,h.\t\u2022^\u2019^IIn'vallerand.Secretory.Queliec.27th April, 1887.\tb V OHN MACNIDER informs those still owing accounts to tl the late firm of John Macnidkk 4 Co., that from the prospects of the Civil List being soon paid (and not wishing t expose those willing to pay when they get paid,) that he will defer the sale of their account* till after Hie payment of the Civil List, when it will certainly take place, of which notice will lie given.Quebec, 27th April, 188L__________c_____________ flTHE subscriber, in lignin requesting tbf public in ge-1 nernl, the gentlemen of the Garrison, and bis frieml» in particular, to oecepl of bis m< »t sincere thanks for the liberal encouragement they hove conferred on him to this day,in his line, a* Mfxchsnt Ftntllt*, begs leave In solicit the continuance of their support.He will be disposed I.» receive and execute with .11 possible attention and diligence, at bis residenre.St.John .Street, No.-, all order» wilh which they may favor him; he Is also lead y to take charge of all Fura which may bo trusted to his care, undertaking to return them In the same state n* the» were received.He will also have constantly on I,ami, nn assortment of Cloth, Velvet nnd Water-proof Silk Cnp», Ac.of hi* own making, ot « new pattern, and ¦t «oil.,.,.pH.\tJnSEr|| ^CROIX.Qnel.ee.2.Mh April.1q., aud tow occupied by llyiHiljte Duboid.Em|.\u2014A|.piv to ^\tJ.M.FRASER A Co.Quebec.2711, Mari h.|S37.\tu TO -J' LET, A Three aloi y Hniiae in SI.(ietievieee street, fronting the (ieveriuuent Uardati, and uuw «ccupiod by Ae.-CoM.-Genl.Pip|>«*.a^\tA,\u2018SO' '.vÇfo Tint llouse and t iflicu in Stun s as-streot, now ocenpied hy tiers.Haeker A to.\tALSO, 'I he Honac aud Simp in Huude-atrect, occupied \u201c*'4 AJcssr*.J.A J.Thornton.ALSO.'I w > rxrellent llouiea, with Stabling, &.Publl,, with\t\" U- ronlam eight horse*, with a lame *« I\twhich will Alto\u2014« .tore above J*, £ 'i r 'T?.VV',,, 8 i'*\u2018 '\u2022 Pe\u201cr* u,M!d \u2022\u201c ¦ Grocery Store, and the whole of the Shop hxtu ca may he bad with the Ilou»c if required Apply to *\t1 .or,-.\tJAMES HUNT, April 1.1837.\tu-1\tNo.1, Cul-de-Sar.^T BE LET.from the hi of May next.AT large and convenient establishment ia Palace * .« ,V.'\tMan,ion H-.u^, Utelyorvu- ItPptcd hy Mr*.StiUn and at present hy Mr.A.H\\ imvn.Tin* bou»e )>o(»et\\es all the convenience* and advan-ag.*.required for a Hotel or Boarding Hmiseon a large «ale ; it will let wtth or without the furniture at a low rent.pavinel t\t^\t^\tmn,i on Icrm.of f Ts; Apply to Quebec, 22d March, 1837.M\u2019.PHILLIPS, Old Custom House, Lower Town.TO LET./TTYIFO new and excellent brick Hou.e.,situate in the Upper Town, St.Genevieve Street, belonging to bv Hr.nr.V-,\t-«l»« «ne occupied at present w\t\"n,, ,,,e olher ^ U-P'-in Temple, With out houie* and other buildincs.Ac.«\tLOUIS PANET, Notary.Quebec, 16tl, Marchai887.\tu\t7 TO ict»\t\u2014 _ From the First nf May next, IJlU \\ ( omfn.tuhle Cottage, aituate at Mount plea- T.-nt \u2022\t?\"*\u2022\t'\u2022»\u2019 the late 1 m\u201d M\u201c,0r F^O\u2022,\u2022 T hotUr* contain» five good room » \u2022\u2018\u2022«chen, arwfaot»' apartment* end cellar., and wi hofo attnehed lo if « g«rd«»n arid gond «tablei F*s- \"¦ r-J*™vs»».' ^\tTO LIT r r'MK H'*u*e No.24» SL Ann-atreet, lately occupied *\t1\tPweaiun given, 1st May.Apply to Mr.Robmt Auopp, Juo.Advocate, neat door.ii r-1 I r.tit tt n i*.i r t ^ WT'tO LET, nn*l nos-essinn gii \"'JtO I* next, the hnilsc helonging *»\u2022 In 'tan Lnrrlte, at present nr flS J/^SM ALL n0USE in Rue I))on, .'it.John Suburb*, Ajqtly to R.H.GAIRDNRRs No.8, St.Anne Street, tfh.Nov.7 836.\tn TO LI T, ^|>I1F House In S|.John Street, Upper Townr I next donr tn Mr.Cole, now occupied hy Mr, *' Dodd, master tailor.Thia House ia an excellent stand for a master tailor or nther tradesman.Rent moderate Apply to Mr.Lawlor, proprietor.4th April.|8*ri\t\u201e TO BE LET.^a^nfNHE House m St.Peter Street and premises in the ™ rear, formelly occupied hv Mcwrf.Paterson, Young Co\u2014Apply to'\tGILLESPIE, 1 INLAY A Co.80th March.1886.\tu a TDOfil W* '¦81™ Road, a I jfcE OR SALE OR TO LET, with imroerlial» possession, that along Home with stable and coach-hfutse, pleasantly rttnafed In Sf, Vallier-street, at the foot of Polact Hill, lately nrcnpfed hy John Davidson, Feqnlre ; It ia well adapted for a small family.Application tA h» made to J tw*4 H.Kina, Esqnlre.Qtiebgc, 17th September, IK85.\tn sftiA VENDRE OU A l-OUF.B, avec poaeewaloi» Immédiat», rétte maiaon de p4err» avec 4tuhl« et remtae avanlsgenarment sitn/e anr la rn» Nt.N\u2019allier, au ha» de la cAte du Palais, ci-devant ogjggpég pnr John Davidson, éenygrt Inqnelle est tria convenable A petite famtltv.*dFadre*»>r àJaata* H» K a» a, éaupgr.Québec, 17e Septembre, 1835.\tu QUEBEC,\u2014Printed and published hy THOS.CARY & Co.Fit nCMiaON* ' il*LL "]