The Montreal witness, 23 décembre 1865, samedi 23 décembre 1865

[" \"2 Va COMMERCIAL REVIEW AN TÉLEGRAPHIC NEWS.FURTHER EY 8.8, + CUBA\u201d 1t was said that Austria and Mexico were negotiating for the more speedy enrolment of 10,- v00 Austrians, which were to be furnished for 5 \u2018At the American banquet in Paris on Thanks giving Day, our minister, Me.Bigelow, expressed very pacific sentiments, and Gen.Scho- field proposed the toast, ** Fricudship between France and the United States.\u201d The * Persia\u201d arrived out on the 8th.The Arago\u201d arrived at Falmouth on the 8th.COMMERCIAL.Livænroo., Dec.9.~Cotton sales to-day 5,000 bales ; market easier, and some descriptions are a trifle lower.Breadstuffs quiet and unchanged.Provisions quiet and steady.Petrolenm firm.Loxpoy, 9tl.\u2014Consols for money 874 to 87 5-l6ths.Erie Shares 87} to 59.N.C.814 to 82.U.8, 5.20%, 63] to 64.STILL FURTHER BY THE \u201cCUBA\u201d Tee Faxsans.\u2014The third Fenian trial, that of Michael Moore, pike-maker, resulted in his conviction, and he was sentenced to ten years\u2019 penal servitude.The speciul commission for the trial of the Fenian prisoners would adjourn in Dublin on the 13th inst.till the 6th of January, the interim being devoted to the trial of Cork prisoners.The trial of Haltigan, an employé in the Irish People's newspaper office, is progressing.The channel fleet is ordered to winter in Ireland, and the officers are not to be allowed the usual leave of absence.The Futric says that General Schofield isabout :0 proceed to England on a confidential mission \u201crom President Johnson, to prevent any difficulties arising between Great Britain and America.Mr.Cardwell, the Colonial Secretary, has promised the Anti-Slavery Society that a searching inquiry would be made into the tate proceedings in Jamaica.The Paris Bourse waa flat on Saturday; rentes closed at 63f82¢.The three mates and the boatswain of the ship - Antartic,\u201d lying in the Mersey, bound for New York, have been lodged in jail, charged with xilling the cook and steward.Bell's Life published an account of a complimentary dinner given to John C.licenan by the Victoria Club of London, prior to his visiting America.: The mail from Ports on the West Coast of Africa has arrived.The news is unimportant.The Army and Nacy Gazelle says there are between 19,000 and 20,000 of the regular army in Ireland.The same paper says that the army sm poe than usual.Gazar Bruraiy.\u2014The affairs of Jamaica continue to sbsorb great attention.The Peace Society had addressed a memorial to Earl Russell on the subject.A deputation from the Anti-Slavery Socicty was to wait on Mr.Card- well, the Colonial Secretary, on the same subject, on day the \u201c Cuba\u201d left Liverpool.Sir Henry Storks, Governor of Malta, had been summoned to England.One rumor connects this movement with affairs in Greece, but other reports say be may probably be sent to Jamaica.The Army and Navy Gazette says, his summons to England bas reference to a Jamaica commission of inquiry, which, report says, will be composed of Sir IL.Storks, Sir E.Head, late Governor of Canada, and a legal gentleman.The London JJaily News says that the Government has written Gov.Eyre, requiring a full explanation of the Jamaica aflair.and bas resolved to institute a thorough and searching inquiry, the form of whieh will be made known in a few days.The weekly return of the cattle disease in England shows a continued increase.Anofficial letter from the Consul-General at Odessa states that the cattle plague exists permanently on the steppes of Kherson, and is cured by sudorifics.The Royal Agricultural Society have resolved that its usual annual meeting shall not take place until next year, on account of the cattle disease.Capt.Waddell, of the \u201cShedandoal,\u201d remained in Liverpool, and will continue to do so until the extradition claim of the United States is adjusted.Franck.\u2014The weekly return of the Bank of France shows an increase in cash on hand of 22} millions of dollars.The Pall Mail Gazette says that the message of President Johnson is looked for in Paris with unusual interest, owing to the belief that it contains paragraphs commenting on the action of France in Mexico, which will require explana- on.The Patrie says that negotiations are progressing between Austria and Mexico for the more speedy enrolment of 10,000 Austrians who, under the original arrangement, were to be re truited in Austrin in five years at the rate of 2,000 men a year.The Bourse closed quiet and steady on the 8th inst, at G8f VOC, Sean asp Cini.\u2014The Paris Pairie says that President Jonson has ordered the American Minister at Chili to offer lis good offices for the settlement of the Ilispano-Chilian affair.It adds that the friendly intervention of England and France also affords ground to expect that the difficulty will be amicably adjusted.The correspondent denies that the Queen of Spain is in ill-bealth.Swznex.\u2014In the louse of Nobles the Government Bill for Reform in the Coustitution was adopted by 364 against 2904.The Chamber of the Clergy unanimously passed the bill, which\" has thus gone through all the four Chambers.There was great rejoicing throughout the conn- try over the event, and a great public festivity and illumination at Stockholm was preparing in honor of it.Jrauy.\u2014The Chamber of Deputies has clected gcor Mari its President by a majority of 9 over MONTREAL, SATURDAY] tent continued to be addressed to the Emperor \u201cof tracts distributed by this by pumerous Provincial Dicts.a number which would have: COMMERCIAL.for a short supply.The con ss tions for devd London Money Market \u2014The English funds Thanks.expressed to the continue flat.Consols further declined § on the | clety for its continued supp 8th inst.The demand for discount was rather gentiemen who bave suppl active, and à little business was done under six The Sunday school is as sucd per cent.\u2018 accommodation will admit @ Liverpool, 9th, am.\u2014Cotton\u2014The regular Meetings, classes, and lectd weekly report of the Liverpool Cotton Market bave been regularly held th was sent out by tbe \u2018 Peruvian.\u201d Every month during the y: Breadstuffs.\u2014Flour quiet and steady, Wheat cial tea-meeting, which has be quiet, but firm ; Winter Red, 10s 4d to 108 11d.gupplied with interesting 3 Corn flat, and td to 1s lower ; Mixed 308 t0 304 of the various congregations, 9d, supplying the tables.The Provisions\u2014Beef firm.Pork inactive; mar-| had a favorable result on th ket bare.Bacon very dull, and prices are still believed that the course o declining.Lard quiet and steady ; sales at 728} Vice Chancellor Dawson, wi to 74s for European.Butter dull and unchanged.\u2019 the Association of its difficul Tallow firmer, and 6d higher.| The rooms continue to be Produce.\u2014The Brokers\u2019 Circular reports:\u2014 ber of volumes added to the Ashes quiet at 424 for pots, and 38s for pearls.1g, and 1,062 volumes have Sugar heavy.Coffee steady.Rice inactive.| ference library being const , and to various nted their aid.ful as the limited of various kinds, Bers, the members oughout the city tures have not finances, but it is r, delivered by go far to relieve used, and the num- ary last year was u issued ; the re- Cod oil steady, Resin dull.Spirits of turpen- : Sunday-school teachers an drletgymen.From tine inactive.Petroleum firm, at 3s 2d to 35 6d new arrangements on a sysifiasvggested by Mr.for refined.Bandham, the Reading-roonffrill be better sup- London Markets.\u2014Baring's circular reports : | plie than hitherto with ne Wheat quiet and steady.Flour Scarce.Iron i odicals, firm.Sugar firmer.Coffee tending upwards.\" Tea quiet.Rice flat.Spirits of turpentine firm- ue state of the Finances * g in er.Petroleum firm refined 3s 6d to 3s 7d: : oil qui Committee have, therefore, Crude nominal ; Sperm oil quiet.Linseed cake the first time, to lay the pd fim.Tallow stead® at 46s Gd.ciation before the Chris \u2014r | $500 have already been re d from various ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF THE YOUNG sources towards lessening debt, not includ- MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.ing what is expected from DgDawson's lectures.This interesting annual festival took plice ee Tie.fens.dcknowledging on Tuesday evening in the Mechanics\u2019 Hall.The ho bad hitherto given it support, and ape room, notwithstanding its great capacity, was pealing to them for a confguation of their aid.handsomely filled.Across one end was a table, | ; frain f furnished with refreshments provided gratuit-\" The CHAIRMAN said he \u20ac a no refrain pt ously by ladies of various churches, who feel an er t Rik irc interest in the work which this Associntion is nz .the va whic ed performing in the city.The Rev.J.B.Bonar | Association bad done dari i the past he occupicd the chair, and on the platform was the | the great discretio J Pr a Rev.Mr.McVicar, Rev.Mr.Alexander, Rev.G.War in % hich they performÿf their bors.Douglas, Rev.Dr.Irvine, Rev.Mr, Watson, Rev.The Rev.Mr.Brices Uo delivered an ad- Mr.Baldwin, Kev.Mr.Duclos, Rev, Jean Paul dress, which he said shoulfibe brief, because he Cook, Rev.Mr.Bland, Rev.Mr.Briggs, Rev.was 10 be followed by Mg Ceok, s gentieman Mr.Derrick, Rev.Mr.Gibson, Rev.Mr.Guady, from France, and who wd in reality occupy Mr.Massey, and Mr.D.Bentley.the space in the programnd devoted to him, Mr.A numerous and very efficient choir were also Briggs.The report, he fom ked, should be upon the platform, and between the addresses read byall.Work, of wish it gave such evi- sang some choice pieces of sacred music in good dence, was mais ucblesfmission, and in the style.Mr.Pearson presided at the melodeon.good work which this Asfeiation had under- At the request of the chairman, the Rev.Mr.taken, the young men ¢f all denominations Watson led the opening devotional exercises,\u2019 could join, He would however, detain which consisted of singing, reading of the Scrip- them, but make way fof their distinguished tures, and prayer.friend from France.The Cua acar then rose and said, the Young! The Rev.J.P.Cook, on en's tian intion was oldest asso- self Lonored in ing Mens Chyiatiso Aupociato ut ad a octal ai à ee not need any advocacy on his part, or words of Young Men's Christion Associations in the world, commendation.Indeed, be would feel it out of namely, those of London, Paris, and Geneva.place to say much of the self-denying labors of The one in Paris was just a5 old as this one in these associations, and, especially, would he not Montreal.He was the first member of a Young now speak of the good works of this one of Mon- Men's Christian Association who, as such, bad treal.There were several speakers on the pro- visited a similar Association in America, and tbe mme whom the audience would wish to bear, only one that he had visited on this continent and he would call at once on the choir.was that of Montreal.He should confine his The choir then sung the anthem, \u2018\u201c How Lea: | observations to the Paris Association, which tiful upon the mountains.\u201d wus formed in 1851-52.Having conceived The Secretary, Mr.P.A.Buutoy, then read | the idea of doing so, his first thought was synopsis from Che report, which is a very lengthy to find some Christian young men in document, but replete with interest, and will Paris, which he found a very difficult task in- shortly appear in pamphlet form.In so doing.deed.He went to the ministers of Protestant he glanced at some of the more important facts churches, and at length succeeded in obtaining and objects of the Association, and showed what ! three or four active and devoted young Chris had been done to carry out the latter.i tian men.He afterwards, upon further inquiry, From the report it would appear that the As- found three or four young men, who were Swiss, sociation lias had to contend with straightened and who had real Christian zeal, and by and finances and changes in the working staff, by be had collected a little band numbering among others there being the resignation of the twelve.These at first used to assemble in the late President, the loss of whose services has bedroom of one of them, where they met for the been keenly felt.There has been an increase ef study of the Scriptures.They then resolved to members during the year, and a change in the organize themselves into an association, and machinery of the Memberslip Committee has | after some little difficulty obtained the requisite been effected.governmental permission to doso, styling them- The labors of Mr.Millen have been restrict- selves the Young Men's Christian Union.So ed during the summer to mission work among unused were the Parisians to any association of the seamen.During their absence his time can\u2019 young men for such purposes that they were be fully occupied in fostering cottage meeting \u2018for some lime much mystified thereat, and work, and visiting, kc.During the year |varlous surmises were entertained, one of 12,540 tracts have been distributed by him;|which wns that they were an association to families, 1,720 : to institutions, 164: and to |of enthusiastic young men engaged in the ships, 159 visits have been paid, 11 situations study of Christian or church archiecture.\u2014 have been ebtained, 1:53 families relieved, Having got it formed, however, it had been the and 48 mission prayer weetings held, besides means of great good to young men arriving in a weekly service in the General Hospital.Paris from the country.It had iteelf grown eo Subscriptions have been given by friends of the that they had had to remove four times, each time poor to the amount of $84,37}, of which $69.61 to larger rooms.They had now more than have been expended for relief.Mr.Millen has one hundred members, and at their special meet~ been everywhere kindly received, and has taken ings had a large attendance.They had also a a leading part in the Bethel services, which have rending-room, and their example and labors secured the attention not only of the seamen on had been so successful that there were now in board ship, but often even mors that of his list- France eighty similar, or branch associations eners on the wharf.Mr.Waton, as city mis- from that of Paris.Some of these were certainly sionary, has labored earnestly in his peculiar very small, but in the aggregate they numbered work, and it was under considaation to recom- | eleven hundred young men.In Paris they had mend that, to bring him into closer connection delivered a course of lectures on the life of with the Association, he shouldhold some official Christ, which wns done by way of answer to the position in the committee.Cottage meetings work known as tue \u201c Life of Christ\u201d Ly Renan, were held in ten districts throughout last season, and these lectures were attended by a thou- with varying success, The Sabbath Evening |aand young men of the university of France Meetings in Nazareth street stil continue under The special aim of these associations in France the superintendence of Mr.Jokn McDougall.was to bring young men to Christ, and induce The people come outin great rumbers, and a them to work for Him, the associations confining marked improvement in the môrd condition of themselves to their evangelization, and after those who come under its influene is noticeable.| wards sending them to labor within the sphere Another Sabbath evening meeting was started [of their own respective churches.These orin Mountain street ; but, probably tom the small- ganizations were also composed exclusively of ness of the place of meeting, not nuch increase young men, none being received after 30, and in number has been gained.[t bus been in the none being permitted to remain after 35.They hands of Mr Cameron and qfhers Immediately | were caret not to interfere with the ordinary after the regular addresses, Rime ing for conver.work of the Church and of its ministers, some sation on Gospel subjects has been lately begun.of whom were at first jealous that they would do This mode is recommended to those interested in so, but who were now so convinced to the con- similar efforts.The tract distrilution work of trary, and impressed with their zeal and Chris- the year is, on the whole, satisfacory, and there tian knowledge, that when 8 Sunday-school ls a prospect of extending it aystematically.Dur- teacher or other Gospel agent was wanted, they ing the year 263 sca-going, ani 1,000 river would make application to the association for crafts had been visited, and 7,783 tacts of 32,051 such to le provided them from amongst its ages in various languages have been issued.(members.Young men knew each others {r.Kneeshaw Las resigned the ofice of chair- peculiar wants, wishes, tastes, and temp- man, which has been ably filled byMr.Jardine, tations, hence the advantage and pro- public.About ng, said be felt bitn- address the As- Avstau \u2014Votes against the September pa- b; who labors among the soldiers, and fires very priety of their association being confined to the encouraging report of bis success.The number young.Ie was much Hensel with what be .ments were only for its punishment.ce of the oldest its FAMILY NEWSPAPER.DECEMBER 23, 1865.had seen here, and the scale of ihe operations, and should not fail on his return to France to tell their smaller societies how large and efficient .were these associations in America.The Rev.Mr.Boxan gave the thanks of the meeting to the lust speaker, and said he would ask him to tell them In France of our gratitude 10 them for having bad Jfr.Couk to listen to that night.An intermission of Gfieen miuutes now touk .place, and on anthers was suug by the choir.The Rev.Dr.Envies then came forward.He said the time had come when the churches could sum up the poiuts wherein they agreed, and the young men of different denominations meet together for Christian labor.He did not care by whom the work was done go that it were doue.Ie was greatly pleased with the report, and when it was published in pamphlet form be was sure it would be read.The matériel and the charitable character of the association would commend it.It ought, in bis opinion, to receive a vote of thanks from the Corporation for it was doing Corporation work in hindering crime, whilst many of the enact- The corporation licensed houses, and then punished people for duing that which the incitement provided in those houses caused them todo.This Association bad divided the city into thirteen districts, and were trying to prevent therein the crime and consequent fines inflicted, He gave testimony to the work of the city missionaries und stated that by the exertions of this class of laborers in Belfast, its drunkeuness and crime during twenty years had somewhat diminished, although its population had doubled, whilst the increase of churches and ministers had been beyond all precedent.The Young Men's Christian \u2018Association was doing a similar work here.Out of the Young Men's Christion Associations in the States, lnd sprung the Christian Co mission, an enormous organization, which lu done an immense amonnt of gool in the American army during the war, The result was in great measure owing to the catholicity of their operations, « characteristic, 100, of thuse of the Young Men's Christian aty.In tbe name of the great Master whem God speed.The Rev.Mr.BaLpwix delivered a short, but space forbids us inserting.\u2018There never was, Le | said, a time when the Church was more loudly called upon to be one in action against Rome and the sceptical spirit of the age.The Church had had pleasant times, but it was now likely that her path beavenwapd swould lie across a dreary desert, but wbich would at length bring ber to the good land.He then enumerated the other influences and characteristics of the age which were inimical to the gospel ; but though doctrines might be assailed and the fires of scepticism or superstition lick around the pillars of the Church, it would not be consumed.As the grandeur of the setting sun was often greater than his rising, so would the latter days of the Church be more glorious than anything the world bad yet seen.At the close of thisaddress the doxology was sung, when those present arose and partook of the refreshments, after which the meeting broke up ; having been one of the pleasantest, and, let us trust, one of the most profitable of those annual gatherings of the Young Men's Christian Association and its friends.PRESBYTERIAN UNION IN NEW SOUTH WALES, For some time past negotiations have been carried on for à general union of the Established Church, the Free Church, and the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, existing in New South Wales.These negotiations have been brought to a successful issue, and, in the month of September last, a meeting was held of the representatives of the three bodies for the ratification of the union.The articles forming the basis of union were read, during which all the members of conference stood up, signifying their assent to each article by holding up their hands.This being done, the three moderators declared the dissolution of their respective Synods, and their future amalgamation in one body, and then proceeded to sign the articles of union which had been read by the clerk of the assembly.The Rev.A.Thomson was uani- mously elected moderator of the tirst General Assembly of the united churches, nnd the Rev.J.B.Laughton, assembly clerk.A most excellent inaugural address was delivered by the moderator, in which he dilated on the importance of the essential characteristics of the Presbyterian Church, and on the necd for, and the advantages of, a firm adherence to the vital principles of Christianity, and an intelligent real for their propagation.The Rev.Dr.Fullerton then moved, and the Rev.A.C.Geikie, formerly of Canada, scconded, & resolution expressive of thanks to Almighty God for His merciful guidance in bringing the negotiations for union to xo successful an issue, and advising that the articles forming the basis of union be engrossed on the minutes of the General Assembly, and \u201c signed by all the members of this supreme federation of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales.\u201d A public meeting followed in the evening, which was attended by a dense crowd of us.The newly elected moderatoroccupied he chair, and addresses were delivered by the Rev.W.Purves, the Hon.J.Macfarlane, M.D., the Rev.J.B.Laughton, Professor Smith, M.D, tbe Rev.Dr.Steel, Mr.J.Richardson, the Rev.J.Kinross.All the speakers dwelt strongly on the advantages of the union which had just been consummated, expressing their thanks to God that it had been 80 successfully brought about, and indulging in bright visions of the increased efficiency and usefulness of the united churches.The large assembly separated, highly delighted with the meeting, and rejoicing that à long-de- sired project bad been happily completed.This is unquestionably one of the greatest ecclesiastical movements of the day in New South Wales, and the example here set might be very advantageously followed by other reli- ciation in this! he served, hie wished the latter prosperity atl \"with the defendant, aud he bad n | The judgment of the Superior Court exceedingly eloquent, address, which waut of\u2019! of Commons.\u2014\u2014 No.102.gious denominaticns, The munifold divisions of the Church buve often dove much to impede the progress of Christianity in the we.\u201d I, and it is much to be desired that tho: 9 lo do aiready agree in fundumentul principles, hold 34 their minor differences, und become ose in all practical arrangements and efforts \u2014Toron'o Glote.COURT UF APPEAL Biwosuses, (defends \u2014JUDGUENTS in the cour below.Apeliant : and Dre , (plaintiff ia the court Lelow,) Respondent -\u2014This was an appeal fron a judgment rendered by Mr.Justice Smith.in favor of the respondent.The acta was brought on the following letter of garente, which the appellant bad given to the resnond- ent for goods to be supplied to the firm of C.F Hill & Co., consisting of C.F.lil} aad J.L Brondson, the latter a gon of be ar \u201c Montreal, 11th August, 1860.\u20148, Esq.\u2014Sir, I hereby agree to become sec\u2018iri*s Messrs.C.F.Hill & Co., for whatever faruiture you may trust to their care.(Signed) J.Brondsen.\u201d The declaration set up th: {ie letter of guarantee tbe plaintifi cuzs C.F, INill & Co.large quantities of for which they failed to account in f- the 1st July, 1863.8 balance of $15\" mained due, of which defendant was acting.On the 17th Aug., 1863, plaintifl rade are tarial demand on defendant, requit\u2019sg aim tv pay within two days.in defanit whoreot L wild sue C.F.Hill & Co.at defendant's =x and cost.Defendunt did not pay, and puaat.f ul- tained judgment against C.F.Hill & Co.fr $1,282 on whicli execution was sied out, ap: return made of mule tone and no i The plaintiff then brought bis nit agai ant to recover what was due within t of the letter of guarantee.The ples was tla the document termed letter of guar: mere: Iy expressed the defendant's willie 9 ic be- cume security, but that plaintiff is aeve formed defendant that lic accepted tué setter guarantee, and nothing was «ver dirs to vont plete the obligation.Further, tit defendant wrote the letter in question on the iar: of one James Mathewson becoming securi'v joint).the defendant to pay $1508, being of the debt, interest, and costs in the Hill & Co.From this judgment the peal was instituted.Meredith, J., said that after examizizz the case carefully, the court was of opizios t'a: the letter in question was a sufficicat letter of gai.antee: and, secondly, that the evidence wi sufficient to show that the debt claimed wa: for goods delivered under the letter of guarantee.Mondelet, J., was of opinion that the grout fully established that the farniture woz1 never trave \u201cbeen entrusted te C F.Hil & Co.by plaintiff, except on the faith of the losis of guat- antee.Judgment confirmed unanimously IT « THE COUNTY COURT AND SESSIONS, HAMILTON The December term of this court was opibe.last week, his homor Judge L:gle presiding The principal business of the cour appeared to be the quashing of convictions under the Dun- kin Act.The joke is being passed round.tha: although the act in question was designed io be a cold-water Act, it does not seem as it it would hold water.At all events, not only water.bu a good dealelse appears to go through it very easily, when the strict letter of the statate and the usage of common law are inquired 13% The following cases were disposed of :\u2014 JAMES HOEY, APPELLANT; rf.THE TuWNS.# oF SINBROOK, RESPONDENT.This was an appeal from the convicl.ch vi Henry Hall and Richard Barlow.Esqa.for ie ling liquor contrary to the * Tempersece Actaf 1564.\" Conviction quasked with costs.Mr.Waddell, assisted by Mr.Robertson, of Dun- dus, for the apellants: and Mr.Sndiri« fer res- pendent, There were four other convictions against the same party, who is a tavern-keeper at Hali's Corners.All the convictions were quashed with coats.Cases conducted by same patties.THOMAS LAWRENCE, APPPLLANT } ro, THE TOWKrHI® OF SALIFLERT, RESPOKDENT This case was similar to the above.Cons.u- tion quashed with costs.Mr.Wadde!.fer ape pellant; Mr.MeKcican for respondent.ARTER TOWNSHIP OF SALTFLERT t#.LEV! NULL A similar case to tbe above.Quasued w.ih cosus.\u2014Toronto l'aper, [This is wholesale work in favor of tae 1am trade.Who is Judge Logie \u2019=Eo Wr | Removar or Bim Roszar PgL.\u2014dir Robert Peel's removal is, of course, very gratifying to the Irish Members, more particularly the Popish portion of them.Sir Robert, some years back, did such service to the cause of truth and of Protestantism, in conjunction with that of political liberty, as to commit a sin for which there is no forgiveness.The Remish clergy could never be reconciled to the brave and able Sir Robert, who told them more truth than ever they beard before from the lips of an Irish Chief Secretary.Now that Sir Robert Peel is vacating an office which be has most ably filled for a considerab\u2019 time, it is but proper to state that, in point - actual conduct, he has given very little grour of complaint even to the factious portion cf the Irish people.He bas shown a self-control for which the public had not given him credit, and a patience under provocation which his enccess sor, Mr.Fortescue, will hardly exceed.In à word, Sir Robert, we think, bas deserved well, and be will leave a thankless office, we trust to take np an independent position in the House He is too buoyant, too frank, too independent, too self-reliant, aud too contemptuous of shams of every sort, and of all hypocrisy, to run very comfortably in the Governmoat team.=British Standard. u 814 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.DzcEmBER 23, 1865 Contemporary Press.SPIRIT OF THE EUROPEAN PRESS.VIE FPENIAX IRIALS.The strange cécape of Stephens, lemder of the Venisas :u [rclund, from Richmond jail at Dub.lip, has excited ~ome alarm, uot on account of ite intrinsic importance, but the circumstances of hus escape prove to a demonstration thut he vas aesigted by accomplices within the prison, and | that all that Le bad to do was simply to walk out of the prison door.This escape might be made mich of.for it i really the only exploit tha: Feniauism tus yet achieved, if we except the fring of twu pistol.at two police ofticers, fram a distauce chosen with such careful refer- anve bo the personal safety of the marksmen that the irsilcts, though well aimed.were spent before reaching their destination.À special com- miesfon has been upened in the [rish capital to try political prisonere.The prisouers, though secused of conspiring witb intent to plunge their ecentry into civil war, are not put on their trist for Ligh treason, or for any offence invulving the penalty of death, but for felony, punishable simply br transportation.The disturbance of | pessefal avocations, and the check to improve meri arising from popular uneasiness in tly mexnlime, are deplorable.The trials are reault- ag ia ronvictions and sentences of from ten to twenty ears transportation or rather imprisonment FARLIAMESTARY UEFOKN.Mr Forster.the under-Secretary in the Culo- aia} offre.has been addressing his constituents at Bradford on Parlismentary Reform.He ex-; prasees bi< belief that the ministry must bring | \u2018orward a Reform Dill.and that the Liberal! party must support it.He shows that Mr.Glad- ¥tope hae pledged himself in the most distinct lmngeuge to the extreme theory of the Radicals.tase sil class distinctions with regard to the electoral privilege are unjust and indefensible, He expects Earl Russell to do his duty.and make: it appear that the Premier's first duty ia to settle the vexed question of the franchise.lis ows wishes are distinctly stated.fle says :\u2014 \u201cWaatit is pecessary to pass uow is a Bill | which shull admit the working classes tu their | share.| do not say to the share which they may «ventually receive.TI do not say tn an | overwhelming or a perponderating share.1 do 201 believe any now demand that or think it pose ible, and a great many do not think it eveu desirable.But, it will mean this, that they are 10 be admitted to a substantial and real share\u2014a share which would make its passing an era in| he history of the country, marked by the per.formaance of à task on which it would Lave been = worth while to any of us to have worked TUE MANCHESTER MEETING.tanchester bas taken the land in demanding! an inquiry into the conduct of Governor Eyre.4 pestle pressure from without is all the more Beosmary because Parliament is pot sitting.A deputation appointed from the meeting there bold, waited on Ear! Russell at hie official resi- danee on the 28th ult.Fo reporters were present, bul we understand thet the members of the deputation were grati- bod with the results of the interview.Earl | Raasell was not surprised at the deep and widespread concern which the news from Jomaica | had awakened.or insensible to tbe urgent ne-| onseity of inquiry into the circumstances under | which 50 maoy of our fellow-subjects bave been slanghiercd.The result of the interview was to impress the deputation with Earl Russell's anxious desire that juatice shall be vindicated.There is still, however, à work for public opinion te do.It is the disposition of all governments to indorse.as far az possible, what has been done, and to defend their own servants, No objection can be made to this feeling: but the laws of the empire, and the lives of the Queen's subjects, and the honor of Englnad.must not be sacrificed to official tenderness.THB WAR IX QHILL Hie Excelleney M.Bermudez de Castro, the Spaaish Minister for Foreign Affairs, has sent « vary long circular tw the agente of her Catholic Majesty abroad, relative to the affairs of Chili, These explanations are rather long, and we are of tbe opinion of those who say that the best defences arc the shortest.Chili refused coal to the Spanish ships, permitted recruiting for the Peruvisn fleet, and did not repress insulting Manifestations againet Spain.M.Tavira, the Spanish Minister, was appointed to negotiate in the matter, and declared himselfsatisfied with te somewhat evasive explanations given by Chili.This was notsatistactory to the Govern- wont; and the settlement of the pending dif culties was thorerefore intrusted to Admiral Parejs, who demanded from Chili a salute of twenly-one guns, an explicit explanation of, and apology for, the insult offered to Spain, and s strict fulfilment of the previous treaties of peace.Failing these, be declared the blockade, Aad the rupture of diplomatic relations.The gemera! opinion in England seems to be that the whale trouble arises simply from Castilian pride, possibly ambition.TRE NEW AUSTRIAN LOAN.The empire of Austria coming for the first me on the European market to ask a loan from France of 225,000,000 francs, is & political event of the greatest importance, and regarded by all parties as a most important sign.The new loan entablistics between Paris and Vienna ties which | have no longer anything to fear from diplomatic difficulties.SYRIA.\u2014TUN CHOLERA UNDIMINIBURD.The Hadikhat et Akhbar, \u201c The Garden of News,\u201d a native Arabic paper, published in Bey- rout, says :\u2014\u201c Now, be it known that the cholera lias not decreased greatly in the \u201cHoly Place\u201d (Jerusalem), and the news which bas arrived during the past week states that the deaths per day are but little less, there being about thirty every day from this disease.And, moreover, hut little hope is entertained of its departing from Acre, and, alas! death has returned in the above city ; likewise there is no decrease in mortality inSidon.In Tripoli the deaths have not amounted to more than twenty per day; but there is little hope that it will soon depart from thence.From Damascus we have not heard any news respecting the disease for the last ten days.Ou Thursday last it was reported that à woman died in Beyrout from cholera, but since then up to the present moment no cases of death have occurred, and the disease is decreasing.News from Alexandria shows that the plague has not disappeared there either.From the West we are told that the cholera has appeared in some villages in the Lebanon, where, as is usual, it bas 00 power up the mountaing, but has attacked the towns.\u201d THE NEGRO MASSACRES IN JAMAICA.(From the london Daily News, Nov.30.) The further intelligence which the West India rail brings from Jamaica must intensify the anxiety with which the acts of the anthorities there have been regarded throughout England.We obtain no further insight into the evidence of a plot by which the massacre of the alleged rebels has been said to be justified.Un this head everything still stands on the footing of cutor, of hearsay evidence, of statements that \u201ct is said\u201d there was a conspiracy.Coneider- ing the constant sitting of couris-martisl, the surrender of so many voluntary prisoners, the torturing by the lash on every side, and the final admission that order is now so far secured that au amnesty has been issued, it is certainly incredible that, if overwhelming evidence of sucha conspiracy exists, it should not have oozed out, and should not have been published in the newspapers of the island.But in these sources of information, as well as in the Governor's speech to the [fouse of Assembly, we search in vain for i.We find column after column Alled with recapitulation of the particulars of the first horrid outbreak iu Morant Bay: we find a statement by cach survivor of all he saw and all be suffered : we find the despatches of the several commanders of parties, and copions details of every event by correspondents of the press.Bat of evidence of this deep-laid, all-embracing plot, thie volrano\u201d on the brink of which, the Governor tells the Legislature, the colony has been\u2014this determination \u201cto make Jamaica a second !ayti\"\u2014we are furnished with not one tittle that would bear & moments examination in an English Court of justice.But the character of the evidence on which this alleged plot rests is to be seen perhaps most clearly from what has been published as conclusive proof of Mr.G.W.Gordon's guilt.We yesterduy laid before our readers an address which had been published by that gentleman prior to à mecting of St.George in the East, called Ly the Custos himself in July lust.This document is furnished by the paper we have niready quotcd from as a specimen of his speeches and proclamations Ly which \u201c the masses were inflamed.\u201d And what docs this seditious incitement and evidence of treasonuble conspiracy contain?An invitation to the people to attend the meeting the authorities had called\u2014a recommendation that Mr, Cardwell's * very indiscreet despatch\u201d should be \u201c well-handied in a loyal Apirit\"\u2014an assurance that \u201cWe know that our beloved Queen is too uoble-hearted to say anything unkind even to her most humble subjects, and we believe that Mr.Cardwell and ber Majesty's other ministers are gentlemen too honorable and honest in their intentions wilfully 10 wound the feelings of her Majesty's colonial subjects: but we fear they have been deceived and misled, and the consequence isa serious grievance to our people : but we rdvise them to be prudent yet firm in their remonstrances, and we have ao doubt that truth will altimately prevail.\u201d And then an earnest and passionate, yet surely most loyal and constitutional catreaty :\u2014 \u201c People of St.Anns, poor people of St.Anns, starving people of St.Anns, naked people of St.Anns, you who have no sugar estates to work on nor can find other employment, we call on you to come forth.Even if you bo naked, come forth, and protest against the unjust representations made against you by Mr.Governor Eyre and his band of custodes.You don't require eustodes to tell your woes; but you want men free of government influence\u2014you want honest men==you went men with a sense of right and wrong, and who can appreciate you.Call on your ministers to reveal your true condition, and then call on Heaven to witness, and have mercy.\u201d Is this evidence which we in England can be asked to accept of as n deep-1aid plot for the mas sacre of every white man at Christmas, under the auspices of G.W.Gordon, Who writes such words?Was there any wilder perversion of honest meaning and legal acts found in the mouths of the infamous informers who two centuries ago hatched the Popish plot, than in the production of such a document as damning evidence of the writer's ferocious treason ?But while such is the evidence of crime, 40 far as during à month of trials and slsughter- ing ithas been made publie, the evidence of its unishmeut is very rent.It will be remem- d that the total number killed by the rioters on the Lith October was sixteen, aud two planters were killed nextday.For these deaths the vengeance taken by courte-martial in the town of Morant Bay alone is atated, by a correspondent who seems to have been at pains to be accurate, as \u201cup todate,\u201d on 26th October, 103 rebels execnted.The courte-martial were still, however, in full swing, and on the 27th eighteen more were sent to the gallows, on the 28th eleven more, on the 30th sixteen more.At this petiod the despatch closes.Bat while thus the number executed in the town alone was 147, the same careful correspondent adds: \u201cIt may not be uninteresting to your readers to know that slightly over 1,050 rebels have been banged and shot in the h of St.Thomas up to date.\u201d however, are only the executions in the form of martin! law.Of how many were shot down in the bush, or slain on the ashes of their homes, no account can ever be given ; only we know that riversare described ns foul with the pollution from the dead bodies that are festering om their bani that whole districts are described as impoñotrable from tue stench of corpses, and that certain roads are described as fringed with caroases of \u2018 rebels.\u201d We are told by the Colonial Standard of Nov.6, that * Mr.Justice Kirkland, the only acting authority at Bath, received a verbal order to shoot prisoners, but did not consider that authority enough for such a proceeding.Hesent of to Morant Bay for a confirmation, mt delayed, from some cause, starting his des; so much so that the prisoners have inc to between 120 and 150 in the meantime.\u201d But when there was no ground for either shooting or hanging prisoners, the cat wasalways a le.The same paper tells ua flogging is going- on from morning lo night.Many women and children detected as rubbers are catted and let daily.Tle greater criminals aro sent on te Morant Bay to be banged or shot.Details are furnished of the jeats of the sailors on the sufferings of the miserable wretches on whom they are performing this hideous office.Nay, with the Las} refinement of cruelty the lash is applied, before Jrial, to those who are set apart for trial, and wha are afterwards shot! .| But we cannot pollute our columns with more of such appallingfietails.If but a thousandth part of such tales form the staple of the Ja maica newspape; d which are narrated with Loartiest applause\u2014are true, hell itself Las broken loose in tit wretclied island.But the dcmons are not the blacks, who burst into the sudden fury of a jgingle day, and never afterwards offered the pemotest show of resistance.They are the vile men, who, for week after week, have been bolding their feast of blood ; who bave, by formof law, taken fifty lives for each one that the themselves lost; who have, on pretence of a future insurrection, made a whole region barrie with extermination, and un- inbabitable with the pestilence of putrifying bodies ; who gloët and jest over the tortures they inflict ere mercifully elay : who flog naked women andéebildren ; and who ble sphem Almighty God wh their thanks for His mercie vouchsafed in dolipering their enemies into their hands.It is no leeger human nature that exists in that land ; k with blood and maddened with cruelt§, our soldiers and sailors have become as wild and have lost every vestige and sent t of humanity, while they bandy complimen# on their common triumphs over panic-stricked and fugitive wretches, over a foe who hay nev crossed a sword with them in fight, nor even a musket-shot in their \u201c glorious campaign.\u201d This awful i must be stopped if we would not have all civilization rise to execrate the dame of Englighmen.(From the Morning Ster Nov.30.) The Maroons bere been industrious in the work of slaughter.They bare by no means belied the expectations of their friends.They tell how at ene in their devastating career the rebels\u2014men, Yomen, and grown children, as they were te mention to prove how Btting the ap, of rebel was\u2014took refuge op the tree-to) ining that there they would be \u201c but the sagacious bush- rangors,\u201d exclaims the delighted narrator, \u201cout.macivred them,\u201d and whilst not one of their men was lost, the rebels were all shot down and the ground strewed with their dead bodies.All \u2014 man, woman, and grown child; and the children, who could not By for refuge to the tree-tops what of them when the ground is so cumbered with the deed.The Maroons did not find it necessary to explain.They were, however, to be received by the Governor in Kingston in solemn ceremonial, with their grotesque colonel, at their head, adorned \u201c with 8 common Kilmarnock cap, ornamented with braid over his hat, and a kind of poignard in his sheath of geat-skin at his aide.* * * » * * * Jt must not be thought that the Christian troops were as regardiess of the young children as these savage mountaineers, Ser- geant-Major Thompson went out with a body of volunteers to Manchioneal and captured a group of twenty-nine\u2014men, women with suckling children, and boys of mature growth.They were marched direct to the barracks to Captain Luke and tried by him.Many women have been executed, and one poor wounded child, the son of Moses Bogle, was flogged.He and his mother were caught together, and the correspondent who narrated the capture expressed his hope that these two notorious insurrectionists (a wounded child and his mother) would meet the doom that ushered Paul Bogle into another worid.To prove that Paul Bogle was worthy of death, one newspaper describes him thus :\u2014\u201c Paul Bogle, the rebel chief, is a very ferocious-looking fellow, and baring lately had the small-pox, he was the true type of the fiend.\u201d We think there is one truer type of the fiend, and that is embodied in those persons, whether marked with the small-pox or not, who exhibit such a thirst for blood\u2014sucl aa exultant revolling in slaughter.DEAD-LOCK IN THE COLONY oF VICTORIA.A quarrel bas broken out between the Upper and Lower Chambers.Both are elected.The power is reserved by the Constitution to the Upper Chamber of sssenting to or dissenting from the Appropriation Bill, but any alteration in that Bill is forbidden.Itis the wish of the Assembly to make certain al\u2018erations in the taxation of the Colony.To thess the Upper Cham- berobject.In order to compel assent, the Lower Chamber hag tacked them on to the Appropriation Bill, and presented both together for the assent of the Upper.\u2018The Upper Chamber has laid the Bill aside as an infraction of its privileges, exercising in so doing the legal authority vested in it by the very words of the act of the Imperial Parliament.The result is that there is in the Province no legal authority for collecting or spending the revenue; and this state of things, putting aside the policy or impolicy of the mes- sure, on which each Chamber bas an uadoubted right to pronounce, is produced by the violent proceeding of the Assembly in tacking the Taxation Bill tothe Appropriation Bill.The serious part of the affair to come.The Assembly, failing to obtain the assent of the Chamber, has passed resolutions authorizing the collection of the taxes, and the Ministry have begun to collect the revenue under these resolutions.Of course, the Assembly cannot deny that such a collection is entirely without legal warrant.Persons have been found to resist ite collection, nnd uotices of action have been given to the revenue officers employed in this illegal business.Now comes the most serious part of the affair.The Attor- ney-General has informed one of these persons that the Government will resist to the Court of Final Appeal, if neceasary, tne attempt improperly to recover moneys paid under the sanetion of the Legislative Assembly, and\u2019 that the Act of Parliament intended to be passed to give legal form to the resolution will be retrospective, and will subject all persons who endeavor, by legal means, to defraud the revenue to the costs of their litigation.This is & very serious business.11 is bud enough that the Lower Chamber should seek to override the rights conceded to the Upper ; it is worse that they should usurp powers which the joint assent of the two together, with that of the Governor in the name of Her Majesty, ean alone confer.But this violence le eclipesd by the chicanery with which it is sought to carry it out.The taxpayers of Victorinare plainly told that, if they dare to resist a claim manifestly itlegal, the Government will, in the first place, employ agninst them, at the public expense, all the arts by which a jast claim may be delayed and made ruinous to the person who prefers it ; but that they will also, whenever legal authority can be obtained, punish, by a retrospective Act, those who prefer such claims by the payment of costs.We also hear something about the judges being, after all, only officers of the Attorney-General\u2019 Department, snd of the necessity of removing them, should they fail to be sufficiently pliable.Altogether the proceedings remind us more of the collection of Ship Money, or of the attempts of James IL, than of anything in modern English history, only with this difference, that the claim for Ship Money was supported, however vainly, by 8 long array of ancient precedents, while in this case the illegality is 50 gross and flagrant 28 not to admit of the slightest palliation.In old times these things used to be done by kings ; now the infraction of las comes from the people.\u2014London Tipes.EXCITEMENT IN MONTPELIER.VT.(From Boston Journal.) During the past week articles have appeared in two or three of the papers of this city, stating | that a Professor B.Melchior\u201d had been forced to leave Montpelier, Vi., under the penalty of being shot if be remained or attempted to return after be bad left.We have letters from geñtle- men of the highest respectability in Montpelier, corroborating in every particular Mr.Atkins's statement, which is as follows: \u2014 \u201c Ormce or Arors axp Parmor.Montpelier, Vt, Dec.12, 1863.: To the Editor of the Boston Courier.In the Conrier of last Saturday appeared nu article from a person styling himself \u2018 Prof.B.Melchior, of Montpelier, Vt., which iz a tissue of falsehood.That man came to Montpelier poor and destitute, pretending to be a loyal refugee from the South.The rector of Christ's Church presented his case to the charitable; I was induced to aid him to scholars in French and drawing, through the Argus and Patriot; the Masonic fraternity interested themselves in his i room, ven | ; bi bo EE ci CT \u2018moat ire porter att to get him pupils, that he might earn bis own livelihood eventnally.Among these pupils was a bright, interesting Miss of fourteen or fifteen years, belonging to one of our best families, and she it is who is the young lady he claims to have been married to.The facts are that he grossly insulted, and attempted ber ruin, while giving her a drawing lesson on Monday of last week, locking his door ere he tried to thus foully wrong a guileless girl of tender years.For this he was waited on by two of his best friends, \u2014men who liad done all possible to befriend him,\u2014end told that, having proved himself a scoundrel, he must leave town, which he did.All his talk about \u2018contract of marriage,\u2019 \u2018secret marriage, \u2018 discarded lovers, \u2018 destruction of my things, \u2018intense excitement,\u2019 \u2018 menaced to be shot,\u2019 \u2018 not permitted to see my wife, nor her parents, nor any friends, nor even collect my dues,\u2019 etc, is all as false as the heart of the scoundrel who wrote it.He had no things, the very clothes he wore having been given him bere; there was no excitement ; be may thank fortune that he did not see the parents of the miss he attempted to wrong, else ne had not been alive : he not a friend here ; it is not probable the men who waited on him were * discarded lovers, both Laving been married about as many years as the miss bad lived : and he had no dues, being in debt to every man who would trust him.Prof.B.Melchior is en impostor, a sponge, and a vil- Iain, who is gcing about the country imposing upon the unwary and charitable.Hay Argixs.\u201d {The indivdual spoken of above cams to Montreal, and endeavored in various ways to get before tie public.The almost invariable developments of bad character in such travelling teachers, lecturers, doctors, and others, as come without proper introductions, should lead to the utter exclusion from cnnfi- deuce of the whole class.\u2014FEp.Wir.) AN OUTSIDE CONGRESS.(From the N.Y.Tribune.) Several gertlemen are now in Washington, accredited es members of Congress from States recently in flagrant rebellion against the authority an¢ integrity of the United States.\u2014 Some of thue can take the oath prescribed by the last Congress, whereby they are required to swear thatthey have voluntarily taken no part in the recatattempt to overthrow the uaion by force of arns ; but more cancot.But ther is still another class of outside representatives in Washington, headed hy Messrs.Frederick DougfRus, and George T.Downing, who sre there to look sharply after the rights and interets of four millions of American people.Tlese owe their election to no intrigue, no cancus 30 cabal ; draw no pay, a swindie nemileags from sweat of the Amerl- can public; they are paid\u2014liberally paid, as they must be to meet the exactions of ashing- ton lendbirdism\u2014by these who send them, and will be slent partners in no fob no claim, no steamshi) or railroad grab tbe Federal We can't help considering their elec.Treasury tion and position more dignified and ereditable thaa thow of average members.Suppose, now, that these two classes of out siders should quietly come together, and on a platform of peace and everlasting concis tion between their respective constituenci who would not rejoice?What action of the inside Congress would be half so important or half so beneficent?How poor and tawdry would seem the stained-glass ceiling, three-story mirrors, nine-dollar per yard carpets, spotted marble $100 desks, fluring upholstery, and barbarically profune gilding, of the official House of Representatives beside the rudest and coarsest furnj.ture of the dingy, bare-walled room, wherein the representatives of \u2018Southern Chivalry, and of African Industry, should establish the basis of a hearty and overlastiog amity and cencord ?How many auditors would remain to Speaker Colfux's menagerie while there was room fur another to squeeze within eyesight or earshot of that wherein the entente cordiale between the whites and blacks of the South was inaugurating itself?How quickly would \u201cpale the ineffectun] fires\u201d of Monroe-Mexican Buncombe before the sunrise of a.true Southern reconstruction! Do we seem to speak lightly ?Most certainly we were never more in earnest.À reconciliation between the Southern whites and the blacks would completely solve all our remaining diff.culties in an hour.Mr.Stevens might demand confiscation : Parson Brownlow might call for military execution ; the cottou-jobbers now roaming over the Gulf States might insist, so long as a simple bale remained outside of their clutches, thal martial law could not safely be withdeawn ; politicians might expatiate (ever so truly) on the bad tempor and imperfect reconstruction of the ex-Rebels: but let it be proclaimed that the ropresentatives of the late slaveholders and 1buso of the Black race had come to 3 full and clear understanding and agreed on the basis of future harmony, and no parliamentary tactics could keep a single Southern delegation out of Congress for even a week.We do not know that anything like this will even be attempted ; but we rejoice that the presence at Washington of Messrs.Downing, Douglass, and their confréres.affords opportunity for it.Should it pass unimproved.we are sure the fault will not be theirs.THE MONTREAL REGISTRY OFFICE.If we had a Goverument which at all reapect- ed the right of the public to be served by public scrvants, we should certainly long ago have had areform in tbe Registry Office of Montreal.Year after year every one who has had anything to do with that Office has bad to compluin of the most inconvenient delays, which are of grave moment when the largeness of the interests at stake are considered.We now see that & gentleman numed Thibaut writes to a French contemporary that during eight days he went ten times to the Registry Oftice fur some deeds relating to a Sheriff's sale, which it was of great consequence that he should have, and was every time promised the deeds immediately, till at last he found that impertant public functionary, the Deputy Registrar, amusing Limself with a lively conversation with some friends, and, on asking Tor Lia papers, was rudely pushed out of the door, w was then cl r = showing the on met ot of the public manifested in this office, though without any of the accompanying aggravations of which Mr.Thibaut complains, came to our notice a few days ago.It was necessary to obtain a certificate of the registration of à certair document which was to be sent to England, in order to make a claim for s sum due ons life policy, and the person who went to the office on the business was informed that he could not pos- aibly bave the work done in less than six weeks.Whether he will get the paper in six weeks has yet to be seen; but here was the case of a widow, having all the pressing need for money which usually accompanies the loas of the head of a family, and she must have the receipt of the provision which bad been made for her postponed for six weeks, because a well-paid public officer chooses to do his work in so slovenly a manner as tobe always in arrear.There were some special circumstances, which need not be mentioned, besides the desire which every ope has to receive a considerable amount of due money, which made it important that the business should Le transacted without delay, in order to avoid the poseibility of à very long postponement.But all that did not affect the raind of the Montreal registrar.À family might, forall be cared, be involved in a lawsuit or have their property sold by the sheriff for want of a gum of money, the payment of which was delayed solely by want of business-like habits on the part of the registrar.Ifauch delays were necessary, that would be another matter: but it takes no longer to register a deed now than six weeks hence; nor is there any reason why the work of each day, as a general rule, should not be done on the day.Any occasional pressure of business beyond the average could not cause delay beyond a day ortwo at most; and we hold that the Govern.meat ought to insist upon it that the registrar should bring his work up to, or nearly up to the latest moment, s0 that if a deed is le for an: purpose at the office.the party who deposits it may have some hope of getting it back while the thing is fresh in his mind, and not only after months of delay, by which time he perhaps bas forgotten the whole matter, snd may find, too Inte, some blunder or omission in the ; which would never have taken place bad the work been completed while the affair was fresh.Banks and many other establishments bring up their books daily.Why should public officers be the only ones from whom the transaction of business in a business-like way is not expected ?Herald.[Perhaps the attention of government bas never been called to this matter.Its importance demands immediate attention now.\u2014Ev.Wir.) Conwin.\u2014The death of Thomas Corwin will snap another link uniting the present with the preceding age of our republic.Though à few of our older notables\u2014Gen.Oass, Mr.Buchanan, Gen.Beott, &c.\u2014still remain with us, yet the past fifteen years have witnessed sn estraordi- aary mortality of our eminent public men.\u2014 Jobin Quincy Adams, Henry Olay, Joba O.Calhoun, Daniel Webster, John Foray h, Roger B.Tenney, Jobn Catron, Martin Van Bures, Joshua R.Giddings, John Tyler, James H.Han- mond, Owen Lovejoy, and ever so many other?\u20141o say nothing of Wars bloody harvest\u2014it seems clear that our old race of statesmen are called away, to give place to the new, if suck there shall prove to be. | Decemser 23, 1865.THE MONTREAL WITNESS.815 MISCELLANEOUS NEWS, Ravvns or Tnoors raox Jawaica\u2014The right wing of the 17th regiment returned to Halifax on the 20th ultimo, from Jamaica, their servcies not being longer required there.They left on the 13th ult, and the remainder of the regiment was expected soon to follow.Executions nevertheless continued to be of daily occurrence in the island.\u2014/leraid.Caorios ro Reurr75us or FUNDS To nik Uxiten Sratzs.-\u2014We learn that a considerable number of letters containing remittances for the United States have recently miscarried.It Is believed that they have been stolen in the United States, for registered letters have been traced as far as tbe Lines.Registered and unregistered letters bave alike been lost.\u2014/b.\u2014 According to the latest advices from South America the blockade of Santiago was still going on.The President of Peru has announe- ed his intention to make s thorough change in ihe Administration of the Republic, \u2014 À Solicitor's Journal article on the Janimica outbreak does uot hesitate to assert \u201c that in the eye of the law, and utterly irrespective of the question whether Mr.Gordon did or did not deserve his fate, Brigadier Nelson, and the officers who sat on that Court martial, and the soldiers who carried their sentence into effect, have one and all been guilty of wilful murder.\u201d \u2014 Nothing can be more complete than thie way in which Dr.Underhill bus cleared himself from the charge brought against Lim in Governor Eyre's despatch.The Sururday Review is not usually too favorable towards dissenters, or inclined to let slip any opportunity of throwing dirt at a dissenting minister ; yet even this journal declares, that Dr.Underhill's letter to Mr.Cardwell, which Governor Eyre denounces asw prime cause of the rebellion, was inconsistent neither with Imperial nor with Colonial law,\u201d and characterizes the Governors charges against him as extravagant injustice.\u2014 Methodist Ke- corder.Jusricu Buacmoxt REINsTATKD.\u2014AIL who read the account we gave lust week of the treatment to which Mr.Beaumont, the Chief Justice of British Guiana, had been subjected by Mr.Hiacks, the Governor of the Colony, will be glad to learn that Mr.Beaumont has accomplished the ubject for which he came to England.The whole case having been laid before Her Majesty's Ministers, the suspension order was speodily set aside, and a censure passed upon Governor Hincks for his hasty and unwise procedure.Mr.Beaumont is consequently replaced in his office, and the fuct, we are assured on the best authority, will be hailed with delight Ly the people of Guinns, especially by the negro population, because equal justice was well known and strongly felt tobe the guiding principle of the Chief Justice's decision in all cases that came before lim.\u2014 London Christian World, 1st December.{Such a man might have saved Jamaica from the recent horrors caused by the small governing ddique.\u2014Ep.Wit.) Tus Mceosreo Mi.Gorvos.\u2014The appuint- ment to tbe Under-Secretaryship of the Colo- Dial Office of Mr.Forster, the representative of Bradford, is about good à guarantee as could just now be given, a searching inquiry wil te made nto the late deplorable doings in Jamaica.Mr.Forster is an able and earnest friend of the oppressed, and will assuredly unite beartily with Mr.Cardwell, or whoever is to be his chief at the Office, in \u201cdemanding justice upon those who have used the name of their Queen to cover a foul murder\u201d; if such, indeed, it shall be proved to Lave Leen in the case of Mr, Gordon, and as there are additional and strong reasons for believing that it was.Remarkable testimonies are coming fromall quarters to the excellent character of Mr.Gordon, from gentlemen who had known him for many years in Jamaica, and from others who made bis nc- qualntance when he visited England \u2014/oudon Paper.- Literary Basesgss.\u2014In this Jamaica business one hardly know: whether Governor Eyre or the Times newspaper is most to be reprobated.The Governor bas perpetrated a shameful massacre, and the Times glories in it.The Governor bas, in the most reckless and groundless manner, charged Dr.Underbill with being the main cause of the riot, which, to cover his own cruelty, he magnifies into an insurrection resulting from conspiracy ; and the 7imes dares to endeavor to sustain the charge.But, happily, the position assumed by the Times is seen by almost everybody to be so manifeatly that of an unserupul- ous partisan as to render its articles tolerably in- noxions.As if fully conscious, indeed, of its own baseness of purpose, the Times has refused to admit to its columns letters sent by must competent writers of the Baptist denomination, and leaders of the anti-slavery cause, clearly disproving the allegntions made both against the missionaries and against the negroes : while devoting much space to communications from ignorant and malicious correspondents, hatin religion and freedom, Who would gladly banish all the teachers of Christianity from Jamaica, and restore tho chains and whips of slavery, with all the planters\u2019 vice and licence that prevailed before the days of emancipation.\u2014 /.ondon exican Avrairs.\u2014The New York [oss basa letter from the city of Mexico, Nov.34, which says that the police frequently to the rooms of foreigners at 3 o'clock in the morning, and take them to the diligence office, furnish them with seats, and convey them out of the country.Major Geo.FP.Adams, of the United States Army, been missing for nine days.The correspondent represents the condition of affairs in Mexico as decidedly favorable to the Liberals, \u201cThe Imperialists and Liberals in Mexico occupy about the following relativ~ position : Three-fourths of the territory is to-day tinder the direction of the Liberal or Mexican authorities : the late strategical movement of the Liberals baring compelled Bazine to recall nearly all of the troops under his command in the States of Jalisco, Michoncan, Guanajuato, Puebla, Guerero, and Osxacs, in order to protect the city of Mexico.With the exception of Sisal Merila, in Yucatan, Maximilian is unknown in the State, Not an imperial order nor an imperial suliier is known in tbe State of Chiapas.In the Soutl- ero portion of Vera Cruz and Ouxaca, and south of Acapulea, in Guerrera, no attention is paid Maximilian or the embryo empire.No mails nr- rive from these districts.[on Senora, Siusloa, Chibuabua, Colbuila, Now Leon, Tam- aulipes, tecas, as Luis Potosi, Northern Vera Cruz, Northern Mexico, Guanajanta (with | the exeeption of the large cities), the authority of Maximilian is unknown, and in the cities it is not enforced on account of the weakness of the garrisons.\u201d AMERICAN NEWS.«\u2014 The Judiciary Committee of the House bas agrecd to report a bill to-morrow striking out the word * white\u201d from the charter of Washington City.= A Lill i» to Le reported in Congress after | adjournment, making liberal appropriations for: improvements and repairs of harbors on the sea and lake coasts, and in navigable waters generally.; \u2014 Secretary Seward has received from the Secretary of State of Oregon a despatch announcing the passage of the anti-slavery amendment of the United States constitution.This is the twenty-eighth ratification, though all are not yet officially announced.\u2014In the Senate yesterday a resolution was offered instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to consider the expediency of adopting the Eight Hour rule in all employments and places within jurisdiction of Congress.It was laid over informally.In the House, a resolution for printing 20,000 extra copies (instead of 250,000, as first proposed) of (ien.Grant's report was passed.Mr, Henderson, of Oregon, offered a resoln- tion that treason is a crime and ought to be punished, which the House adopted by a unanimous vole\u2014I153 yeas.A resolution was passed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a National Bureau of Education, without limit of race or color.On motion of Mr.Wilson of Iowa, the House adopted a resolution substantially the same as the latter clause of the Stevens resolution rejected by the Senate, providing that all papers relating to claimants from the Itebel States, Le referred without debate to the Joint Committee of fifteen, and that no persons be admitted as representatives from such States till the final report of that committee.CoXSTITUTIONAL AMEXDMEST WITH CONDITIONS.\u2014NMiseissippi has ratifed the Constitutions, Amendment with conditions and reservational Her Legirlature declares that their assent shall not Le construed into an abridgment of the precions .doctrines of State Sovereignty, nor into a consent that Congress may abolish Slavery in any State that refuses 10 rutify.The Mississippi lawyers have got a new cdition of Story and expound the Amendment ag inopern- tive except in such States as expressly assent to it, no matter wheilys three-fourths do or not.Their third proviso is that the second section + shall not be construmt\u201d as a grant of power to (Congress to legislate in respect to the freedmen.Will Congress and the Supreme Court be kind enough to take nutice?\u2014 Apropos of the freedmen, this same Legislature saw fit 10 pass a law probiviting freedmen from renting or leasing lands\u2014a specimen brick of the house they mcan to build for the freedmen to livein.The President straightway ordered this law (0 be disregarded, and Gen.Howard issued an order to Col.Thomas to continue to protect the freeduien in the rigbt to lease lands.That is all right and proper and necessary, but does it not properly raise & question as to the precise condition of a State wherein the President may nullify a law by his execotive Order?Is Mississippi reconstructed, or isshe mot ?Ifshe is, bow can the President interfere with her municipal affairs?{fabe is not, what right has she to ratify a Constitutional Amendment ?\u2014T'riliune.CANADIAN NEWS.\u2014 t:oal oil discoveries are reported in Caledon and also in the township of Verulam.\u2014 No less than ttenty-two robbers were arrested in Kamournska one day Inat week and lodged in jail.\u2014 A child twelse months old, duugliter of Mr.Ingo, of Barrie, was suffucuted last week by un elder sister lying upon it in the cradle.\u2014Several barns have been burned lately in the township of Blarehurd\u2014it is aupposed br incendiaries.~ A new branch oF business is to be eztab- lished in Dundas\u2014the manufacture of wooden screws, na article which has heretofore been imported altogetlier from England and the United States.\u2014 Jolus Orr, vf Dowaie, was killed on the 12th, by fulling from a shed upon which he was working, thereby fracinriog his skull and rupturing a blood vessel.He was but twenty-four rears of age, \u2014 À mau in Clinton \u201cran\u2019 a weekly paper fur à short time, got a sunber of exchan upou his list stopped kis paper and then sold his exchanges\u2014the papers onr'nning 10 send them in ignorance.\u2014 The coroner's jury hat investignted the death of the girl Mary Wedlock at 8t, Marys on the 6th inst, by the iurning of ber adopted father\u2019- house, found th.t the fire was the act of au unknown incendiary.\u2014 Quebec papers contain an advertisenient offering a reward of $1000 for the apprehension and conviction of the person who stole from the safe of the late Thos.C.Lee, al Hare Point, documents and papers belonging to the late Thomas C.Lee, M.P.P., and Col.Dumas.\u2014 (icorge McCue, belonging to the Indian Village, Chemong Lake, was drowned on the 9th inst, while attempting to catch fish through the ice on that lake.\u2014Mr.Michae] Marsha)!, millwright and sawyer, an employé of Mr.Dickenson's, Long Istand, was drowned at the latter place on 13th inst, in attempting to crore the main channel on the ice.\u2014 Francis O'Reilly and Anne Cuningbam wore tried at the Guelph quarter sessions on Thursday for sttempting to conceal the birth of a child, aud were acquitted after waking piteous apposie to the jury.\u2014 The Guelph Advertiser says that at the fall show on Wednesday, a wether was exhibited which cost $120, and weighed 80 lbs to the quarter.dressed.It was bought from Mr.Stone for the New York market, and was declared to be without exception the tineat sheep ever raised in America.\u201c \u2014 À female horse-thief has been arrested at Simcoe, Elizabeth Gage, who coolly drove off with a horse and buggy attached, which she found under s shed near a church in Victoria, where divine service was being performed, She is ouly fifieen years of age, but old in iniquity.anotber old resident, Mr.Elijah Doom, of Woodlouse, who was born in Virginia, and settled in this country upwards of fifty years ago.For many years he was the puly Surveyor in that section of the country.He leaves behind hima large number of deecendants to the fourth generation.\u2014The London free l\u2019ress Says tlmt a curious and unlooked-for development has tuken place at Delaware, while sinking the \u201c Pioneer\u201d oil well, on the property of the Delaware & Un- tario Petroleum Company, in that a vein of tin ore Las been met with at a depth of 203 feet in the rock.The vein has & thickness of vight inches, but its breadth is, of course, at present unknowa.\u2014The London Free Press says that on Wed- uesday and Thursday last a party of gentlemen comprising Mr.Swinyard, of the Great Western, Mr.Charles Hunt, Mr.Wallace, Mr.McKellar, and A.G.Ramsay, of Hamilton, and others, visited tbe Enniskillen oil regions fur the purpose of inquiry ; the object being to determine how far the petroleum trade would warrant the construction of a line of railway from Bothwell to Ol] Bprings aud Petrolia, terminating possibly at Wyoming.\u2014The order of merit in shooting of the regiments serving in Canada, 88 shown by retarus of rifle practices last summer is as follows :\u20144th batt, 60th rifles, 1st batt.Rifle brigade, 30th regt., 47th regt., 25th regt, Royal Canadian rifles, 16th regt.The best abot in the service in British North America is private William Huit, 47th regt.; the best judge of distances, private William Evans, 30th regt; the best shooting companies with sea servige rifles are D and | companies, 4th batt.60th rifies; and the best shooting company with losg rifle is K company, 47th regt.Tur: Rewaso or Mreir-\u2014Baron Alfred Fal- kenberg, the Consul for Sweden and Norway, at this port, has kindly communicated to us the following fact : \u201cThe King of Bweden and Norway has been pleased to confer the medal in silver for bravery on Capt.Clement Pinel, master of the schooner * Margaret\u201d br Glasgow, for saving, with great peril to higself and vessel, the crew of the Norwegian bark * Republic,\u201d Capt.M.Dahm, abandoned at sa the 28th October, 1864.* The \u201c Republic\u201d bound from here to | London, with a cargo of Suber, and left on the ith of the same month.\u201d\u2026-Quebce Chronicle.ExtcuTIVE CLEMEXCY.\u2014Ât the meeting of the Exceutive Council in Montreal, on the ÿthinst.several cases were considered, with a view to the exercise of the Royal Preggative of mercy.In the ease of Wm.1.Engligh, convicted of rape at the last Assizes for the cquoty of Victorin\u2014sen- tenced to be banged on 20th inst, n commutation of the sentence made ; the prisoner to be imprisonsd in the Provincial Penitentiary for the term of bis natural life.In the case of John Hamilton.convicted of the murder of Geo.W.Hatton, at the last Agives for the county of Perth, and sentenced to te hanged on the 13th inst, the prisoner was répited until the 27th February next.In the ase of Wm.Begg, convicted of rape, sentenced be hanged on the 18th inst, nt the last Adsizes the county of Prince Edward, the sentence wi commuted to imprisonment for life in the ncial Penitentiary.McDowell, C.W., to be hing on the 25th Dec.for the murder of bis brothet, has been respited to the 27th of February, after which time it is not known bow be will be dealt with.\u2014Quelee News, Tax Frexcn Vorvxtamis aT Niacara.\u2014De- cidedly there is something wrong in the administration of our war office.The following fact will show it :\u2014It is known that a company of volunteers raised in this rity, has left a fortnight since for the frontier.It seems that the volunteers bad made it a xine gua non condition of their engagement tht their pay should be hall a dollar a day, a condition which, after many a conference, was finally accepted by the authori- | ties.On the faith of this arrangement, the | volunteers started cheerfully for Niagara, the station assigned to them.Now, this is what takes place in Niagara :\u2014The volunteers receive only fifteen pence a day, and, irritated by this denial of justice, they refuse to march: out for drill.This is notall.They bad been promised to reccive their uniforms on the way at Montreal ; 1hey have as you, received neither trousers nor tunics.A private letter which imparts to us this information adds :\u2014 Apparently the government intends that we should mount guard iu our underclothes.\u201d Evidently, there is | carelessness or abuse somewhere, and, in the ! interest of the government and the volunteers, these grievances must be remedied.\u2014Courrier du Canoda, TELEGRAPHIC NEWX Quebec, Dec.IR.\u2014 Weather mild and beautiful, Court or Arrears.\u2014=The Chief Justice being able to take his seat upon the bench to-day, the Blossom case came before the court.Five times tried in Montreal, and, save in one instance, no decision given, it was transferred to our city, where the law was to be finally interpreted and judgment rendered.Bat it seems as tbe prospect of a solution of the difficulty was as far off as ever without Judge Drummond.There were still only four Judges present, and these, it is said, seem equally divided, the Chief Justice and Judge Meredith being apparently of as strong opinion on one side of the case as Judge Aylwin and Mondelet are on the other.Of course, his Honor Chief Justice Duval did not state bis views, but the general impression in court, from his observations, was, that he was favorable to the application for bail.Neither Blossom nor Mr.Devlin, his counsel, was in attendance, and the petition was simply enb- mitted on his bebalf by Mr.M.A.Hearn.\u2014 The argument of Messrs.Ramsay and (Kill Stuart against the application, occupied the court All day.Mr.Ramssy contended that it was discretionary with this court to grant or refuse bail in all cases, and that in this matter it ought to be refused.Mr.Stuart raised a que jon as to the jurisdiction ofthe court under the circumstances, and the Chief Justice appears to have already studied the ease.His formally expressed opinion may be looked for in a day or two, but unless it coincide with those of Judges Aylwin and Mondelet, which it is said is not likely, tho matter will remain in stat geo until March next, when the absence of Mr.Sanders and the death of O'Leary will, no doubt, ensure the release of Blossom and his aeeracintes without sny bail.\u201cThe Norfolk Reformer records the death of | A one-story brick dwelling on the Oul-do-bae occupied by a tinsmith, was entirely destroy hy fire at seven o'clock this evening.The house wag in ashes before a drop of water could be obtained from the hydrants.The origin uf the fire is unknown.BkLLEVILLK, C.W., 18th.\u2014The fire of Saturday night originated in the cellar of R.Holden & Co's drug store, from a lamp coming in cone tact with some Japan leaking from a cask.The fire immediately spread with great rapidity, and all courts to extinguish it proved fruitless.The loes is estimated at $70,000, on which there were about $39,000 insurance, The following isa list, of the sufferers as near as can be ascertained: Erastus Holden, $10,00, insured for $3,000; J, Whiteford, $12,000, insured for $8,000; R.Holden &Co., drug store, $14,000, insured for $6,000 ; M.Gillen, hardware, $12,000, insured for $4,000; F.Hackett, dry goods.$14.000, insured for $10- 000; M.Adamson.grocer, $3,000, insured fur $2,000; J.L.Orme, book store, $1,200, insured for $1000 ; John Taylor, watchmaker, $200 no insurance : Elliott & Co, Curtis Lewis, Nathan Jones, B.18.Smith, and others; damages to buildings and stock 10 the extent of three or four thourand dollars.Nearly all the insurance companies are more or less interested.Hon.B.Flint wns to-day elected Mayor by acclamation.Ortawa, 18th.\u2014Minieters are all bere yet.aud st this woment [4 p.w.| are in Council.It is expected that most of them will leave 10- morrow, Me.Alexander Morris M.P.P., is in town.The first uumber of tbe Fines, à new duily paper, appeared this morning.tis published in the name of Mr.Rebert Davis.The weather is not so severe to-day as during the three days previous, Very little snow as yet.Steighing not good.Quasce, tyth\u2014About six o'clock last eveu- ing, a fire broke out in the basement of a stone house, situated between Cul-de-Sac and Little Champlain streets, and fronting the Champlain The Idea Literal, of Puebla, in its Wodnes- day\u2019s edition, for first time recognizes the overthrow of Republicanism in Mexico.The Emperor gives $2,000,000 to nid emigration, and places the whole amount st the disposition of Mr.F.Maury, Colonization Agent fur the Empire, Vera Cruz is being cleaned, fuurs being entertained of the cholera.Alvarez und Denz, commanders, are reported moving 1 getier toward Sinaloa, During a recent vices at Martiniy \u20ac, 18 Zouaves were killed and 37 wounded.WaBHINGTOR, 18th \u2014=MF.\u2014\u2014\u2014.of Musssclu- sette, offered the following re \u2014 Hesotved,\u2014* That tLe House cerdially concar in the views cf the Secretury of the Treasary in relation to the necessity of the contmction of the currency, With u vicw to av early resumption of specie payments.+4 the business interests of the country will p t,and we Lercby pledge co-operative aeticn to that end as speedily ss possible.\u201d The reaolintion was agreed toby 144 to 56.Sr.Lotis, luth \u2014T'he luss to stesmboat jo.perty on Saturduy by \\be muving of an x gorge, including their cargoes, is about à quae- ter of a million of dollars, of which abun sixteen thousand dollars only is insured.\u2014 Weather very mild, and another crash w= looked for at any moment, the ice baving sgn gorged on Saturday night.Steambout under writers, and all others interested, are taking active and cnergetic measures to juve the Lia's u the harbor from further disaster.The Fenians in this city, on Saterday pig oy voted 10 sustain General Sweeney, the Fenusa Becretary of War, and resolved to take no ™.- ther action in tbe present diffieultice of the therhood until tbe argival in tLi Stephens, the Head Centre of Trels Umar, 19tb.\u2014The first fury miles of \u20ac vu Union Pacific Railway to Omaha Weer.finished yesterday.The track to Frumenr.e miles farther weit.will be Fni