The Montreal witness, 27 juin 1866, mercredi 27 juin 1866

[" \u201801 Vor.XXI.= IMERCIAL REVIEW MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, JU = #4.AND FAMIL NE 27, 1866.I NEWSPA PE R.CORRESPONDENCE [For tbe # \\irness.\u201d SILVER, 13 there not a nemberof the Legislature who will take up this question?At tbia moment à very large part of the trude of ile count done on à currency only convertible into tle currency of the country at a discount of 4} per cent.Surely the serious character of this me position on the public demands relief, Let it be in the form of a short act, making ita mis demeanor to endeavor 10 pass United States and English silver at more than a valueof 21 cents + for the quarter dollar, and the shilling ard other coins, respectively, proportionally to this.The world does not probably contain such an.a other case of wrong, where the currency of the country is on & gold basis, to huve coins that da not belong to the country furm the great bulk of the circulating medium, and these at tle enormois discount, to convert them into gold or bills now, of 4} per cent.M.REV.C.C.CARPENTER.A letter from this gentleman, well known ©: .Canada as the founder of the Labrador Mission, mentions the receipt of advices from the Mission this spring, by which it appeared that Mr.Eutler | and Mizs Macfarlane were both well.Mr.Carpenter\u2019s health not permitting Lim to engage in ministerinl labor, and requiring à mild climate, he is, it seems, going to Clattanooga, on the | Southern bozder of Tennessee, \u2014the scent of son of the most desperate contiicts of the late war,\u2014 under the circumstances mentioned 1n the following extract :\u2014 \u201c BERNARDSTOX, Mass, June 15, 1504.\u201cWe are about starting for our Southern | home, on Lookout Mountain, Chattanvoga, Tenn.The founder of the \u2018 Educational Insti- | tutions,\u2019 just started on that mountain battle- | ground, bas an aim no less than to reproduce | Amberst College and Mount llolyoke Seminary | in that peedy region.The enterprise is founded | in prayer, and we are very hopeful of success, and of ultimate spiritual blessings to come througle its channel to that region.The term commenced a mouth ago, with nearly 40 scholars; more than expected, at first, ina New Englnd school.The location is beautiful, and | my position\u2014Treasurer and ness Agent\u2014 such as will secure an avoidance of speaking and study, \u201cI say (bis much, that you may Zee what the Lord is doing in the South, and bow He is per- mittiog us to have a small part in His work there.\u201c| have been securing grants for Library and Reading-room ; aod trust you will let the faith- | ful testimony of your Witrers to all good things, reach the youth of the school.If you can do this consistently.change the address of my copy, from \u2018Cireenficld, Mass, to \u2018Chattanooga, Tennessee.\u201c(Good men on this side, as | presume on youre, are Loping that the recent invasion and the resuit will tend, in God's Providence, to unite more the two Christian nations who sbould now be united to meet the great struggle, which seemingly the \u2018 time, and times, and dividing of time, must shortly bring about.\u201d FROM OUR CORRESPUNDENT AT THE SEAT OF GUVERNMENT, UTTAWA, TIst June.The predicters of a speedy adjournment of the session bave proved sadly at fault.The budget, which Mr.Galt was to bave brought tion of the Local Legislatures, will be taken up / before the adjourument,\u2014that is to say, if we thusiasn where there Is no present opposition is by the band, are to have an adjouromeat, which I very much doubt.A report is now in circulation that this: will be one of tbe longest sessions on record; but it is probable that there is just aa little ane | thority for tbis prediction as there was for: the one to which 1 have just alluded.; So fat the Ifo::se bas not exhibited extraordi- | nary industry.[t opens at tbree, and usually closes its labor before six.Sometimes as early as hulf-past four., the dubates 14 ua much attri- wking on tke ras of the Le Janlty cons! the improvement g members are y than atiicat @ bia commen: t lam - tite satizfied tbat the diffi- jesty in private «a well as in publie, Mr.Jowe called fur three cheers in Ler bonor, wuich were | given less Leartily tbun they would have been : the two nations together.The ligaments were growing stronger uvery year, Commerce, religion, literature, bound them together ; and 1ow of they had been proposed at the conclusion of bis there was this Division to bind then faster, ull address, and marred in some degree the effect of\u2018 the ties had become so strong, that there was harge of uemies who accuse us of §U0i EN DEATIL sympathies and disloyal tendencies, le Xr.Jobo: then reviewed Lis publie life, and al McRidnen, Givd suddenly on Tuesday inst.The luded very pleatantly to its abrupt termina.devcased was a son-in-law of the ae Hom.tion after his neceptance of the office which Tlowaz MeKay, He was the first President of he had beld under the Imperial Goverument in & Prescott Railway Company, in counexion with the Fisheries, when be lost his tte Ottaw Le remai In is 1 he ran against Mr.presentation in Parliament of St, Andrews Presbyterian and wat mos® prunctusl in 1Le Utior, Erhuo) VOLUNTEER stiery snd the Garrison La ce on Monday evenisg.TL latter crmyany w moutkz Nos, 1 ifles are stil) atthe front, CatLeton.NOVA SCOTIAN \u2018CURRESI\u2019ONDINCE.D'ARNOUTH, Nova Scorn, | June 18, vs, 3 The Hon.Juroph Howe, who leaus the anti- Confederation movement in Nova Scotia, und tas gathered about him many of Lis old politi | cal en him ju ment & mivdel cottrerce d until the railway el on in Lunenburg County.\u201cI retired,\u201d he without une furling of animosity against hose who had procured my defeat, but not with- ew.llewasdefonted.Mr.ont the feeling that it lay in my power to do my many years an cider in the country some service, in consequence of the ac- ureh in his city, ! cumrilaiel exprrience of past years, and that it tending 10 Lis duties w amistake 13 exclude me from the legisla- a ire.Mr.Howe made some very good points in the course of his address, The sudden conversion of Les been relieved \u2018rom some who voted for the resolutions; the un- parliamentary argument (int \u201cthe Queen desires Cuntederation\u201d ; the absence of all allusion a duty at Prescott for nine : to Confederation in the speech from the Throne ; our exposure tv Tenian raids; and the inability of Cauadæ lo end va help, ns shown in tbe early snrin#: the bogna proclamation scattered through the country warning the peo- ; ple agalost listening to Mr.Howe,-\u2014were very {well presented, He also dealt with the examples of Confideration which are cited\u2014as that between England and ieland\u2014and was very happy in his remarks.He was not so happy in his references to the sus well as friends, who pronounce currency, and bis allusions to the oljection made 4 present attitude towards the Govern- Ly some to Nova Scotia as à smail country and ive, bas Leen spending, producing small men was a were play upon some past weeks in visiting the westera coun- words.