The Montreal witness, 13 octobre 1869, mercredi 13 octobre 1869

[" COMMERCIAL REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, Vor.XXVI.MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1869.No.83._\u2014 | 19 the Bure of the timber in the weakest condi- # Semper, Ut, Te, Digos, Sequari.\u201d and on the hearty the one you bave just read to me, but\u2019 way.It would be easy to make up the cards ia TEE NI ORTHERN RAILWAY.\u2014ME.LEG: tiou to the traction, causing it to crush or other,\u2014* Decori.Decus.Addit.Avito.\u201d On the Rate which I attach a higher value.! Suh 4 way a3 to give Tacility for Firingiog the +.Legge's report on * The Available Routes\u201d eh pe road, bas been presented to the Provisional Directors of the Montreal Northern Colonisation Railway Company.Mile-End, à site which offers peculiar facilities for the acou- mulation of cordwood, is provisionally selected, a3 the terminal point in Montreal; while Ho- chelaga, on the East end of the city, is chosen us (be terminal station\u2014which, it ia stated, will ful6l a greater number of conditions required, especially with reference to the lumber interests and connection with tbe future lines of railwsy 15 the east aad south.The report dilates upon the importance of the Mile-Ead site, ns regards the cordwood trade and the ordinary traffic, and then adde :\u2014With the main line carried via Bulmer and Sheppherd\u2019s brickfield direct to Hochelaga, all the various advantages to be reaped from the successful carrying out of the enterprise will bs realised.The next terminal point selected, for the present, is in the village of St, Jerome, situate on tbe Nortb River, and distant from Montreal about 28 miles in & north-westerly direction.Here firewood commands no higher price than $1 a cord, while in Moatreal that important article of consumption varies in price from $6 to $7 a cord==the difference in price showing an ample margin for profit to the producer, freight and probit to the railway company, with reduction ta the consumer.= From 8t.Jerome extensions westerly can be made to Lacbute or Granville, or easterly to New Glasgow ; while an extension northward, through the Laurentian Mountains, reaching to the anconceded lands in the rear, and drawing trafic from the banks of River Rouge, will add greatly to the interests of the Company.The routes surveyed by Mr.Legge, nsaisted by Messrs Lecisire and Meltabüry, are three in sumber :\u2014 Route No.1-\u2014From Mile End, via village of Sault aux Recollet, St.Rose and St.Thorese 108t Jerome.The distance between the two extreme points is 28.14 miles, or 0.97 miles in excess of an air line ; and the estimated cost, including bridges, rolling-atock, and other equip- ments, is $609,609, or $21,613 per mile.Route No 2.\u2014From Mile Ead, vis Vineta Bridgeto St.Jerome.This route, while .taking advantage of the improved site for crossing the Back River at Vinet's Bridge, still labors under tbe disadvantage of the St.Rose crossing.Its length iv 37.72 miles, or 0.55 miles in excess of an air line ; and it will cost $623.298, including bridges,equipments &c, or $18 844 per mils.Route No.3.\u2014From Mile End, via Vineta Bridge, St.Martin, Moulin a la Dalle, St.Therese, to 8t.Jerome.Tbe distance by this route, is 31.33 miles, or 4.16 miles in excess of the air line.The cost, including bridges and equipments, ia estimated at $444,654, or $14,224 per mile.The most noticeable feature in the construction of this line is the reduction in cost of bridges over the two branches of the Ottawa, na well as the more favorable gradients at those places.The following table will presentat a glance the salient points of each route em Total Total Cost Routes length, cost, per mile Miles complete, No.1 «28.14 $609,609 $21,663 Ni 7.72 $522,208 $18,884 8133 $444,855 $14,224 Length Length Total Total straight curved amount of length of Routes line line curvature bridges Miles Miles De Feat No.1.21.83 8.31 563 3588 23.56 4le 318 3322 26.60 478 450 1972 Financial considerations induced Mr.Legge % recommend the adoption of tbe longer lice, via Moulin a la Dalle, as it secures & saving of $78,000, in first cost, The objection to this route is the extra 3j miles over which the through freight wiil have to pass; but this will ned 10 some extent, by the easier gradi.ots to be traversed.On the other hand, the railwey will, if passing in this direction, obtain Aa increased amount of traffic from the large and futishing village of St, Eustache, and from tbe other villages and populous coontry to the orth of it, which might find its way into Mon- \\resl ter tbe ordinary macadamised roada were the nearest railway station located at St.Roce or LA further east, .0 meet the impediment arising from the ele~ Thtion of tbe Mile-End plateau Gao feet) above the business partof Moatrea), it has bsen recommended to reach the level of the harbor by an fatention of the main line from pear the Coteau ocis rosd.The line from Mile-End to the ; Tbor is 2.71 miles; the total cost of which petion Will be about $45,000, or $16,600 per pa on ct including its proportion of rolling- od and equipment.Mr.Leg ge strongly ury a mediate couatruction of this section, for, : ae the company will at once nd In; ge ; ny 0 in lumber for exportation, either by water © by the îins of railway projected from Lon- po to unite with the American lines on the The Hockelaga extension Is also urgent\u2019 1 re.Hand for sup, fine cord-wood to the brick and ue Ing, end to large portion of the eastern tes of tbs city, receiving in return a consi- Io oo mount of freight in the form of bricks, Tue bridges are to be on the \u201c Ho : we Tross pi Arch prnolple; and will be roofed.The po width of land taken is 30 feet.The on Gels 4 1L 8) In.The wooden perm ont Ÿ 7 recommended is that known as tbe \u201c Poster in 2 allway.\u201d The style of engine preferred Foster Falrlie Raton Engine.\u201d Though Mr.con = estimate te $150 » mile more than the $60 the Olifton road\u2014the former being Me older mile, while the latter, according to the Potter © ves $1,500, yet Mr.Legge prefers a a ne de ii 10% The rally are laid longitudinally, expos- 1 broom up.\u201d 2nd.The joints in the rails occurring at short intervals of 12 to 14 feet, without assistance of the chaire or flah-plates of the ordinary iron rail, causé an uneven surface to the road.The engines and rolling-stock, in passing over the line, at each inequality, ispinge on the rails to à greater extent thaa if they were vniform and continuous, and thus increase the destroying sgencies, while, at the same time, acting preju- dicially on the rollivg-stock itself.Thess two leading objections bave been eur- mounted in the * Foster system.\u201d It bas been estimated that the aggregate supply of wood from « ., Jerome and St.Sauveur will reach to 46,613,000 cords\u2014a supply equal to the present consumption of Montreal for 388 years.Pine timber is reported in abundance in the Wexford, Doncaster, Oarrick and otber townships, Computing tbe probable ennual revenue from the three items of wood, grain and passengers, the gross amount estimated is $141,000.Eighty per cent.being allowed for working expenses, &c.\u2014the sum of $38,200 re- maing for interest account, The sum necessary to build and equip the line from Hochelaga to St.Jerome is $489,654; which, at 7 percent.per annum, will require $34,275.To meet this amount there is the Government guarantee of 3 per cent.per mile for 34.04 miles, on $5,000 a mile, which amounts to $5,106; add on the cost of bridges over tbe Ottawa, at the same per centage, \u2014$3,211,\u2014 $8,317.This sum, added to the estimated profis on traffic ($28,200) shows a total of $36,517, leaving a balance of $3,241, after paying 7 per cent ou the investment, and allowing 80 per cent.for working and renewing expenses.The report estimates the saving eJected to Montreal by the construction of this line at the sum of $236,000 per annum.It then proceeds \u201cOr in the event of tbe Corporation of Montreal, and the various municipalities interested, agreeing to become responsible for the ancual sum required as interest on the total coat, less the amount of Government guarantees, $8,317, it would only amount to $25,958.We have shewn that the city and municipalities will each year save, on only two items of the traffic, the sum of $236,000, from which deduct the amount of interest on cost of railway, $25,958, for which they would be liable, and a net yearly balance of $210,043 is in their favor.\u201d (Signed,) Cuarces Leaos, Oivil Engineer, and Provisional Director M.N.C.R.VISIT OF H.B.H.PRINOE ARTHUR.* Coming events,\u201d it is said, \u201c cast their sha- dowu before them,\u201d and this has been verified in Montreal in regard to the visit of His Royal Highness.For the past few days signs of his coming might be observed, =chic ly, however, in the public preparations by the Corporation, in the way of erecting three triumphal arches, &c.Amongst the decorations of the city, in boner of the occasion, these, of course, stand foremost.They have been erected, respectively, across Notre Dame street, at Devin's corner by the Qourt House, and nt Muir's corner, Place d'Armes, whilst the third spans Beaver Hall Hill, opposite the Baptiat chuech.The Prince, in bis progress from the wharf to bis residence in Simpson street, passes underneath there leafy and ornsmental structures, whereon are inscriptions of welcome, and which are né- orned with nationnl emblems, allegorial figures, &o., and crowned with numerous and tagte- fully disposed banners and fags.THN ARCHES.The arch at the Oourt House\u2014if arch that may be called, which arch ie not=is à rather imposing piece of work, differing in design and, to some extent, material from those ordinarily put up, It is simple in outline, but striking in effect, consisting of a massive pedestal on each side of the streat, connected with and supporting an equally massive horizontal portion.Each pedeatal stands upon a bass covered with palm, and bas attached to it a couple of pillers, between which stand figures bearing baskets of flowers, The whole is covered with white aud pink cotton, tastefully fluted in panels, whilst the pillars wre wreatbed with broad bands of crimson.The panels are framed in evergreen The word \u2018 Welco ue\u201d is in large characters on the upper portion, and the top literally bristles with the spear-headed staffs of groups of (he national flag artistically disposed.The arch at the Place d'Armes is of n Gothic design, probably to be in keeping with the adjacent Parish church.Ic is divided into three compariments, namely, the main arch, under which the royal carriage passed, aod two small side arches.Orer the centre, in large letters, be words, \u2018Prince Arthur,\u201d foscribed beneath the city arme; and, beneath tLese, arranged in the carve of the arch, are * Welcome to Montreal,\u201d whilst underneath these again, sod midway In the passage of the arch, hangs s large crown of palm, also festoons.The [113 ports of the arch are decorated with painted twigs of maple, the ross and beaver ; and over the small arches the word \u2018 Welcome\u201d is inscribed, in French as well as in Eoglish, Above these, on one side, d, bearing the crosses of the Union Jac! , on the other, à similar form in green, and carryiog barp, wreathed with shamrock, The whole is surmounted with three small turrets, and, aloftin the centre, float two British Sage.The Beaver Hall arch is very rich and taste.fal, and consists of one wain span, with two open spaces, or niches, on either hand.It is ornamented with the royal crown, shield, and the monogram of the Prince; beaver and other national emblems, rose, shamrock, and thistle, and, conspicuous, are four classical figures, representing the four seasons, Along the arch are tbe words \u201c Welcome, Arthur, to Montreal\u201d Likewise, on one hand, in medmival characters, ia the Inscription, reverse side of the arch, nearer Phillip\u2019s Fquare, | are the following : \u2014* Arthar, Bienvenu à Mor- treal \u201d ; also, \u2018 Puæmium.Virtutis.Honor,\u201d and ' \u201c Ubique, Patriam.Remivieci\u201d The royal arms and crown are over the arch, and the summit ot the whole is crowned with flags, great and small, whilst several portions of the body of the structure are filled in with hot-bouse plants.On the Laprairie pier, Bonsecours wharf, 8 beautiful Pavilion-like structure had been erected for the reception of the Prince, and the presentation to him thereon of the city address.The Eoglish flag floated over it, and the flaor and steps were covered with crimson cloth.The awning roof was in colors of alternate red, white, and blue.In tbe centre was s light pillar, wreatbed with flowers, and the were tastefully decorated with ever- aod festoons of flowers.A heap of coals at the foot of the pier was i- genuously bidden with evergreens, and what was previously unsightly thus became ornamental.The pier itself had been swept and cleared, sa far as possible, since upon it were to be drawn up the guards of honor from tbe regulars and volunteers, likewise the various bodies of police.The work of decorating by private parties did not visibly begiu before this morning ; but at no early hour St.James and Notre Dame airsete begau to be aatir, and wany stores and other establishments were being ornamented with evergreens in various tasteful devices.Flags, \u201800, began to appear from windows, and, along with festoons, were stretched acroes the street, slmost obstructing the view, ad well as being hoisted over the banka and public buildings.The streets thomaelves, on a portion of the line of procession, were being swept, and it was evidently the intention of the muthorities to make the city appear smast and clean; and, to this end, the bright sunshine and clear atmosphere greatly contributed.Nearly all the vessels, including ocean steamers, were decked out with bunting, aad flags floated (rom the Royal Insurance Building, and from the top of à number of offices and warehouses, a well as the City Ball, giving tbe river-side view 8 very spimating and gale-like appearance.The route of the procession beyond Beaver Hall was more or less marked by the display of flags from private residences.Flags flsated at the Eoglish Oathedrai, McGill College, the Natural History Society's Rooms, &c., and many of the residences on the side of the Mountain had flags hoisted over them, THE ARRIVAL OF PRINCE ARTHUR.Owiog to fog upon the river on Friday morning, His Royal Highness &id not arrive until a quarter past two o'clock.At about two o'clock the steamer Magnet\u201d Love in sight, O:her communities have scen me but as a pasiing visitor of a few hours, whereas the people of Montreal csnnot consider me other- wige than as a resident, and their assurances of welcome are, therefore, all the more appreciated.Most anxious am I to consider Moatresl, for the time being, my bome, and to lose no opportunity of becoming fally acquainted with ita institutions, ita people, end its commerce ; and from the kindly feeling and consideration shown towards me, throughout this Dominion, I feel confident that no exertions are needed on your part to render most agreeuble my sojourn in this city.That yous loyalty isalready well known to and duly appreciated by Her Majesty, needs no further assurance, the selection of Montreal a» my residence, is à sufficient proof of the confidence Her Majesty places in tbe devation of the citi.sens to her throne and ber person, ns well au to ber family.Anvaon.The Mayor then introduced the members of tbe Corporation respectively to the Prince, who shook each one warmly by the hand, aud afterwards most of the remaining gentlemen, lay and clerical, who were on the platform were so intioduced.H.R H amidst loud cheers from those on the platform aud near the pier, and accompanied by His Worsbip the Mayor, also by Maj-Gen.Wyrd- bam, and the Prince's Secretary, then entered a carriage, drawn by four splendid white horses, and, to the strains of the National Anthem, drove along the pier towards the whatf leading to the street above.This was the signal for s general outburst of chsering, and waving of handkerchiefs, which never ceased during his progress.Jacques Cartier Square, Notre Dame, and St.James street were crowded with well dressed spectators, and the windows were filed, principally with ladies.The continued acclamations were at times almost deafening, and along with the wildest waving of handkerchiefs, bouquets were phowered upon the Prince, who from time to time acknowledged these floral presents and the reiterated cheers.At the Place d'Armeg the scone waa grand and exciting in the extreme.The most phlegmatic were for the moment carried away, and, with uncovered beads, added their cheers to those of the multi- tade.Still the crowd swept forward like a torrent through St.James street and up Beaver Hall Hill, accompanied by the ssme demonstrations of delight, and each anxious only to see the royal visitor.A cavalcade of mounted military officers, regular and volunteer, preceded the carriage, and an escort, consisting of Oapt.Muir's troop of volunteer cavalry, followed it, and after these came th long lire of carriages containing the membera of 1be Corpts ration, &c.The Fire Pulice and tte volunteer corps that bad, at wide intervals, lined the with the Britizh flag flying at stem and atern, and ehorlly afterwards it passed under the bridge.A number of guns were now fired aa n salute; and, as the steamer took a wide eweep to bring-to at the wha royal ealute thundered forth from St, Helen's Island.The wharf and street above it were crowded with thousand: of epectators, and algo the adjoining steamers.A guard of honor from the Voluateere, and one from the Royal R.fle Brigade, were drawn up near the landing-place, and Captain Muir's let troop of Vulunteer Oavalry was stationed at the head of the pier.Oa the platform were the Mayor and Corpore ation, and 8 number of military officers, inclod- ing Mej.Gen.-Wyndham ; there were also several clergymen, Catholic and Protestant.As soon as tbe bont bad been made fast, His Worship, ia his scarlet official robe of office, and accompanied by Maj-Gen.Wyndham, went on board, aud in a few minutes H.R.H, stepped on to the pier between His Worship and Gen.Wynd- At the sight of bim an enthusiastic cheer burst forth, which he gracefully acknowledged by taking off his bat aud bowing.In a few moments be has ascended the platform sud taken his position on the dais ; bis appearance snd bearicg favorably impressing every one.The Mayor then proceeded to read the following ADDRESS.To His Royal Highness Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert.May it please Your Royal Highness, We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Oitisenn of tke Oity of Montreal, most respectfully beg leave to approach Your Royal Highness, and, in the name and on bebalf of the people of Montreal, to con- gratulste Your Royal Highness upon your safe arrival, and to extend to the gon of our beloved Sovereign a most cordial welcome to our city.The people of Montreal upon learning Your Royal Highness\u2019 intention to visit the city, looked forward with unmixed pleasure to that event, but they now experience increased delight in tke knowledge that Your Royal Highness been pleased to select this cily as your abo for a period which they fear will only be too short.We earnestly bope (bat the sojours of Your Royal Highness in Montreal may prove to be one of unslioyed Beppiness and satisfaction, and, on behalf of ibe people, we pledge ourselves that every exertion will made to render it go.© pray that Your Royal Higbness will ao.cept the assurance of our dutiful loyalty and attachment to the person aud crown of your Royal Mother, our belcved Sovereign.ity Mali, Montreal, 8th October, 1869.The city clerk then read it in\u2019 French, and HR.H.gave it to bis secretary, and at once read in a clear voice, sud with the most perfect emphasis this REPLY.To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Oitizene of the City Montreal.Mr Mayor and Gentlemen, 1 thank rou rer slacarely for your ron ox.ons of welcome, and your eengrstulations Toon my safe arrival at Montreal.Many addresses have I received ss loys\u2019 and aireets, succeeded, and the whole, reemiog to be carried slong in a whirl of exuberant feeling, made rspid way, by Philips Square, Union Avenue, snd Sherbrooke street, to the temporary residence of the Prince on Stmpsos strest, H.R.H.everywhere meeting with demonatrations cf loyalty similar to those which bad been so liberally bestowed upon kim in the more populous part of the city.Tho streets along the whole line of march sud even in places not favored by the actual passage of the Prince, had since morning put on a gay and festive appearance.The proce:sion passed under an unending succession of flags.HALFPENNY CARD POSTAGE.The authorities at the General Post Office have (eays the Scofeman) recently had brought under their notice a system of card postage, which bias been tried, it is believed successfully, in Germany.It 18 proposed by a card postage to attain two objects ; first, postage reduced to a halfpenny for certain kinds of written com: munications; acd, second, an incrasse of cot- venience in the transmission and receptioa of communicstions, wbich are of a brief, and not confidential character.At frst sight, a peany postage seems cheap enough, and tha trouble of folding up a letter, and putting it in an envelope, may be looked upon as infinitesimal.But those who conduct large businesees, can tell à very difforent tale.There arc houses ia Loa- don and Liverpool, sud in all our great centres | of commerce, whose daily batch of letters received and sent by post, would fill s sacko! moderate size, To auch firms it would surely be to trifliog matter If a proportion of their postal business, say oven one-third, could be transacted at one-half of the present postage, and if; the folding up and placing in envelopes nad closing of scme hundreds of letters per dim | could bo saved charge of tranemilting & (bousand cr two of m circulars by post, testify whether the folding land because there are two disticet sets of ci address sides all one way, for convenience of | 60rting\u2014ag, for example, by having the word | address printed at the top of one side, aud by baviog a border round it, or in some similar uc mistakeble way.The advantages of such a means of communication would be enormous to the public, Circulars of meetings, formal ac- krowledgments of receipts of articles or of letters, circulars of all kinds, bulletins, announcements of deaths, business cards, and advertise- monts, notices of motions for meetings of pub- He bodies, might be printed on those cards, and circulated to those for whom they were intended in half the time, a» well as at ball the expense requisite under the present cumbrous folded sheet of notepaper and gummed envelope prac- vice, THE BLACK RIVER ROAD TRAGEDY, (From the St.Jokn, N.B.Telegraph, Oct.1.The intereat manifested by tbe public in the dis of the perpetrators ofthe double muz- der on Black River road has, at times, been very great since the remains of the woman and child were found, and their identification and that of different articles of their wearing apparel commenced ; but it reached a climax yes- terdey while Mre.Crear was giving ber testimony.Her arrival in this city, and ber known intimate relations with the missing sister, the letter that she had received purporting to come from her, and the evidence which it waa believed she would be able to give, naturally excited great interest and caused the court to be densely packed before 10 o'clock a.m., when the court resumed proceedings.But it was the impression produced on the mind of Mrs.Orear by the different articles that were submitted to ber for identification, parts of dresses which she swears she had purchased or made up for her sister.Sarah M.Vail, or her child\u2014ber sistet\u2019s fine bair, of which she was eo proud, her teett, with which witness was £o familiar, the ribbozz and trimmings of ber dress\u2014it was in referring 10 these that she became gradually excited to an enormous pitch, her emotions finding vent ic bursts of weeping and in frequent\u2019 lamentiors over her sister, and expressions of aversion towards ber destroyer.It was at noon that tke first scene occurred.The bench where tie judges usually sit was occupied by clergymes, magistrates and other gentlemen.In the elerk's desk, just beneath, sat tbe coroner; around the table, in front of him, were the re - porters and the barristers.To tle left of tke coroner sat Mrs.Orear, between Lim and the jurymep, in tbe adjoining box Ina chair ic frontof Mrs, Crear, facing ber acd only & short distance from ber eat Mr.Jobo A.Munroe, arrested under suspicion of being tic murderer of Mics Vailand L , and ou:z.Ce ot all was the purging mass of abaorbed spectators, pres.siag forwavd,extehing every word of ihe witness ard dividing their attentions ciitfly between ber and the prisoner.The appearance of tae court yesterday cen never be forgotten by any who were present.It was wken viewing portions of what she identified as her sister's dress and above all when she was chown the waist ribbon worn by her sister, that Mra.Crear come pletely broke down.Bobbieg out wildly, \u201cIt is tbe ribbon which I bought at James Msrson's! \u201c Oh! my poor murdered siste:! How could he doit!\" \u201cTake away that drees out of my sight; I made it for her myzelt I\u2019 The coroner, the jurymen, tbe spectators, all wept, visiblr, many audibly, the whole scene ut'erly baMing description.What was most rematkable was the fact that Mr.Munroe seemed comparatively ucmoved.The jury, unalle to proceed with busicess, bad to ask an hour's adjournment of the court in order to recover their composure.Similar scenes, though perbaps cot quite so overpoweringly painful to all coacerced, cecar- red several times during the afternoon, Lanp TEnDRE 1m Jamiasp.\u2014The special com missioner of the Lou 'on Times, who is now en- qiring into the question of land tenure in Ireland, bas recently written another letter, this time from Athlone, The burden of bis remarks is much the same as that contained in former letters, namely, that if tbe smail holders in Ireland were assured of their farms they would successfully compete with any «thee farmers from eilber England or Scoisnd.The com.ocr gives a description of alsrge property, 32,000 acres, bought by a Scotch gentlemsn for over L£500,6(0, and upon which cearly the same amount bes been spent in improvements.Ke showsthat, while that which was before à little better than wasie land is now à tbriving pre- perty, bc amaller farme held on leases by, comparatively speakiog, poor Irichmes are very little inferior to the great Scotch estate.Ths com- Let any man who has bad tke .wiseioner points out that £o one law will faitly he exigenciee of tLe iard trouble in Îre- and placing of them in their covers was nyt a cumstances to be dealt with.There is the sye- most time-devouring and patience-trying pro-, tem wbich existe in England of the landlord ceediog, not to speak of the difference betwen doing everything for tho farm, putting ali the one thousund pence and one thoussad hall improvements on It and letting it tow tenant pennies, which 1s a trifle cver £2.It Is pro.| who bss no interest in it beyond making what posed, by the Introduction of a halfpenny card he can out of it duriog histerure, And there is ont Fouts of sending formal! and unconfilentisl notes by post; and a very cursory glance at the uestion will show that to do so would be great, for the convenience of the post-office Itseif, an would, do far from decre: post-office trafic, tend rather to increate it, while diminishiog most materially the bulk aod weight of the ma The system would be simply this: Carde would be provided of o standard sis by the post-office, having in one corner &s en integral part of the card, & triangular atamp.\u2018These cards would be sold by | tbe post-cffice lu packets, Just as s'amped cave.lopes are sold Dow at tho rate of one hallpensy for each stamp, A trifling addition might be made to the charge, to meet the expente of providing for the card itself; but probably this would be uonecoessary.Oae side of these cards would be appropriated to the note or writing to be sent, and the other side to the ad- dress, and these oards weuld pass through the post-office, and Le deliverod in the ordinary cinnati was hel e, to lower the expense aad diminish tie the case of poor occupiers who have reclaimed 8 barren waste or a morass, and who, bavicg made valuable that which was originally worthless, are now at the mercy of men whose land they bave thus improved.A law whick ing the receipts from effectually righted this class could bardly fail to press iniquitously on the large class who have done everything for their property tbemrelven.\u2014Glode.owners À disorderir mecting of 500 people in Cic- for tbe purpose cf espellicg the Bible from schools.= Of all professionalism\u2014of all meloderama- lo sensationalism and rant in the pulpite=mes ate getting utterly weary and they acein theright of it.Nor will they abide mere chattorers, whose glib talk contradicts all ese of reality.What is needed now snd at all times in the Obristisn pulpit ls manly earnestness aad godly simplicity ==240 whose whole hearts are evidently in their work\u2014men who bave something to say and some faculty for saying it well.pA dy.= ari Vig ot ma rr 4 018 Contemporary Press.SPIRIT OF THE EUROPRAN PRRSS.TRE MANIZEITO OF THE IRISE CATHOLIC BISHOP).The resolations of tbe Bpiscopal meeting at Maynooth College are sufficiently alarming ; yet, according to the Tory papers, nothing less could be expected from Mz.Gladstone's expression of a desire to govern Ireland according to the wishes of the people.The Roman Oatbolic bishops deliberately call on the Government to overtars the eduestional system which bas been erected by the wise forethought of great state men, and tas sown broadcast the seeds of that charity and that tolerance which are indispensable to any nation whose members profess different religious creeds.Daily Telegraph, Bept.7, says: \u201c Ireland has won such benefit from the arrangement that it bas an educational machinery which only needs to be extended in order to become the best in the world.But, since the time at which tbe national schools were erected, a striking change has come over the Roman Oatbolic hierarchy of Ireland.To a great extent it bas become Ultramontaue.It is now less Irish than Papal.Above all things, it aspires to implant ia tbe minds of the Roman Catholic children s spirit of bliod obedience to Rome.That cannot be done, however, unless the children shall be educated in schools which are priestly as well as Catholic, aod in which the very rule of three itself Las a dogmatic tinge.Hence, in the langusge of the ! resolutions,\u2019 the assembled bishops declare that to Oatbolics only, and under the supreme control of the Church io all things sppertaining to faith and morals, can the teaching of Catholics be safely entrusted.Hence, aléo, they make a series of demands which, in most respects, are so startling that they may lead to a new outbarst of the \"No Popery\u2019 crs, accompanied by all the old bitter- zess and the old bigotry\u201d THE RETURN TICKET SYSTEM.The Pall Mall Gazette has ventured on what a contemporary calls the dificult and thankless enterprise of seeking to reduce to reason the return ticket policy of railway directors, urging that those who travel by return tickets should Lave the Liberty of visiting what places they like oa their journey, returning when they please, and even of trans\u2018erring the ticket to another, if ore convenient.PRINCE NAPOLEON'S EPRICR The liberal ideas expressed by Prince Napoleon in the French Senate, on the Znd of September, are nothing uncommon, viewed as the utterance of one to whom popularity may soon become all important.It is only to be hoped that, if be should come to bave a share in the Government cf France, be may continue to entertain the same.Le Journal des Débats, wbile highly oom- mending many points in bis speech, thinks that be \u201c does not estimate equitably enough the two attempts made in France to establish con~ stitutional monarchy.There is singular injustice in reproaching the Bourbous with the reverses of 1814 and 1815; they were no more responsible for them than the surgeon i guilty of tke wound be is asked to bind up.It was not the ambitions dreams of Louis XVI, bot the errors of Napoleon I., which bed leagued all Rarope against us; end Lonis XVIIL, by acoepting the throne under such deplorable circumstance.«: Jeast rendered France the ting the most deplorable con- defeat of the Emperor.As for * y of 1830, whatever reproaches those wish to mase against it who bave the greatest .nterest in representing it in the least favorable light, they even were forced to do it the justice to admit that st was, above all\u2014as one of the \u2018writers most dear to the Revolution has said \u2014 \u2018a ful daylight Goveroment.\u201d If its adversaries reproached it then, as Prince Napoleon does now, with the too great jofluence exercised by the Crown, they bave been able since to compare the personal government of King Louis Philippe with that which they bave seen established since 1853.\u201d TEE POPE'S REPLY TO DR.CUMMING The Pope writes to Archbishop Manning, and condescends to cast no more than a side glance at \u201cDr, Cumming, of Scotland.\u201d Still, bis letter to Archbishop Manning is an answer to Dr.Cumming, and if not calculated to benefit the prophet of Crown-court, it is assuredly calculated to damage the Pope and the Papacy.Everybody, includiog Dr.Oumming, was per- \u2018ectly aware, from the commencement of the correspondence, thet the Pope would never consent either to try to convert Dr.Cumming 0 Romanism or to be knocked down by the Doctor's theological arguments.Oa this Lead, therefore, there was nothing to learn, and the Pope could do bimself neither good no ill.But be damages himself in the eyes of all who possess the full use of reason by declaring, with absolute, unfaltering dogmatism, that there can be no alliance between Rome and any kind of enlightenment.The Church, be possesses \u2018\u201cinfallivility in deciding que: 8 which belong to dogma or to morals,\u201d and cannot reconsider questions which bave been once decided.He repeats the aséertion of n former letter, that Hit cannot be denied or doubted that Jesus Christ Himself, in order that He might apply to All generations of men the fruits of His redemption, built here on earth upon Peter His only Church, that is the one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, and gave to him all power that Wad necessary for preserving whole and inviolate the deposit of faith, and for delivering the same faith to all peoples, and tribes, and nations.\u201d \u201cTbe \" primacy\u201d both of honor aud of * jurisdic.tian\" was thus bestowed upon the Popes, and \u201cis placed beyond the bazard of disputation.\u201d Acosedingiy, if any one depies the infallibility of Rome be cannot be argued with, He must either submit and recant, or be, by the mere fact of refusing to do so, an excommunicated heretie, in à state in which be cannot be \u2018sure of bis salvation.\u201d -Ja all this the Pope does as much to retard the apread of Romasism in this countr: 88 could be attained by the joint action of ail Protestant controversialists from Land's Rod to Jobo o'Groats.Without disgulse or elrcumlo- cution the Pops bids the civilised world believe that ba end & few oid fogies whom be calle Cardinale are the incarnated comscience of mau- bat, the volos of the cts Mie made audible.this monstrous, appalli tion con be received, anything oon Lobia If the Pope gets à man to to him after this, be THE MONTREAL WITNESS.consider that mas siready bis own.Bet 201 only will all Protestants who retain their reasoniog faculties be startled lato irreconeil- able antagonism by the promulgation, at this critical moment, of the preposterous presumptions and pretences of Rome-=the Liberal party among Roman Catholics are in no bumor to be satisfied with it.THE CAREER OF FATHER HYACINTHE.(From the London Telegraph) Although still comparatively young, Père Hyaciathe stands among the chuef pulpit forces of tbe Romish Oburcb.Joining the order of Barefooted Uarmelites, he speedily won digtine- tion by his scholersbip and hie cultare, no less than by bis extraordinary power of speech.At an early age be promised to add a bright star to the galaxy of French pulpiteloquence.But, from the time of his first utterances, be was regarded with suspicious glances by leading dignitaries of Rome.He was seen to be tainted with Liberalism.His words bad not that tone of absolute submission to the Holy See which is now coveted by the most powerful among the priests of France.Oa France, alwoat as much a8 on Ireland, tbe Ultramontane party bas laid its grasp.Much of the power which the Jos- wits have more than once lost in that country they have won back.Such dioceses as that of Orleans are ruled with a rod of iron, in accordance with the dictates of tbe Uitramontane coed ; and the prelates who represent the old Liberalism of France inspire in mea like Bishop Dupanloup much the same hostility with which the extreme High Oburch diguitaries of England regard their extreme Broad Church rivals.The Ultramontaue party, however, have been forced to fight a hard battle with their Liberal foes.They have bad to contend witha band of men to whont nature bad given extraordinay intellectusl gifts, and whose piety it was impossible for the jealousy of orthodoxy itself to impugn, Such men as Lammensis, Lacordaire, and Montalsmbert fancied that they rould bridge over the chasm between the theological oreed of the fifteenth century mod the political creed of the nineteenth.In theen- counter Lsmmenais was 30 utterly overthrown by the members of bis own Church, that be cut loose the ties which bound him not only to Rome, but to revealed religion itself.Lacordaire died while the struggle was set at ita hottest ; and Mon- talembert\u2019s record has yet to be written.To the same band of enthusiasts, although be occupies a less exalted pince, belongs the present Archbishop of Paris, Monseigneur Darboy.Apardent Liberal a3 well as au ardent Oatholic, Monseig- peur Darboy has more than once been the object of Papal suspicion, and bas been forced to reaffirm bis devotion to the Holy Bee.But his chief offence was tha ¢dmission of Pére Hyacinthe to tbe Osthedral of Notre Dawe.To that historic church the intelleat and the religious fervor of Paris flocked when attracted by such eloquence as that of the Barefooted Carmelite.And the eager crowd was not disappointed.Lottered end unlettered, academicians and épiciers, felt the fascination of the brilliant preacher, After the great charch had been filled in every part, a man of ghort stature, and singularly bright, prepossessing face, would ascend the pulpit and address the expectant multitude.His oratory was strikingly natural.It was very muoh like the best speaking of the forum transferred to the saoctuary, and made holy by the infusion of sacred themes.I: was the reverse of ecclesiastical.About the Oburch the Father did not ssy much; about doctrines be said still less ; and about the clergy Le said little that was not a rebuke.On the other hand, he made the aisles of Notre Dame resound with the moat uncompromising Liberalism, In words of buro- ing eloquence be taught men that they owed duties to each otber as citizens, and that aa fatbers of families they were dowered with 1ights which even the Church could not take away.The claim of the clergy to direct\u201d the conscience of the wife, and to se ide tbe authority of the husband, was a pretension which Pé.e Hyacinthe denounced with that pecaliatly cotting, because pereonal eloquence, which men can wield when assailing the members of their own order.He asserted the right of the bus- band to be supreme in bis own household, and the duty of the citizen to obey the laws of his own country.Uomoved by the threats of Rome, he raised up that old banner of French Liberalism, cu which was ingeribed devotion to the family and to the nation.Without directly aassiling the priestly pretensions of the Ultra- montane party, he set forth dootrines which made those pretensions null and void.Heuce the men of Prance listened to the French preacher with undisguised rapture.A religions creed which did not compel them to break off all visible connection with Rome, and yet left them masters in their own households and citizens of their own country, was the very thing for which they pined, On tbe other hand the Uitramontane party of Paris were furious against the discourses of the Oarmelite, All his elcquent denunciations of the vices which sre preying on the life of France were powerless to still the flerce cry of heresy.The preacher was assailed with that cry ; and, st lsat, even the courageous Arcbbishop of Paris so far bent before the storm, that he put an end to the series of Carmelite discourses nnd invited the chief rival of Pére Hyacinthe to ill the pulpit of Notre Dame.The new preacher, Pé:e Felix, strove hard to undo the mischief wrought by bis gifted predecessor.A Jesuit, and dowered with the graces of bis own most accomplisbed order, be lent all the riches of Lis rhetoric to vilify Protestantism, and to preach the duty of uncompromising submission to the Huly Ohureb, ne represented by its obief bishop.But the effort was in vain.The echoes of Hyaciathe's eloquence still lingered In men's ears.At Isat, b.wever, the words of calumny won over to the side of his foes the chief dignitary of his order, who bad before encouraged the great preacher with loving words.In & letter to Myacinthe the Father- General of the Barefooted Oarmellles blamed bim for dolog the very things which he bad previously encouraged him to perform, and commanded him to use a language, or to Y preserve & silence, which would not bs the loyal expression of conscience.Lowvow, Oct.10.\u2014Tho functal of Martin, the Penian, who diod nt the King's Oollexe Hospital, in thie oity, on bot Sth lost, took place to-day, and was attended by 6 lo.Rb fatber, mother, and olber saisons be docensed, Were present, wearing a 0, sod participated in the wremoniie arth BRITISH ROCLMSIASTIOAL INTRULI- GENCE.(From ths Christian World, Sept.10.) Krimooral.\u2014The organisation of tbe Irish, Qbareb In its disestablished condition is still tbe obief toplo in the Episgopal world.Meetings, lay and clerical, continue to be beld in all parts ot Ireland, and the feeling grows stronger from | day to day in favor of the representation of the | laity.It is surprising to see bow cordialiy the clergy enter into the proposal; sud it will Zot be the least of the happy results of diseatablish- ment that clergy end laity will be fousd co-| operating togetber in a way they bave never bitherto done for the promotion of the Church's | welfare.The spirit of independence is manifesting 1teell, and one of the resolutions generally adopted is that thers are to bo Bo ex-officio cle- tical members at the general Synod except the archbishops aud bishops.Further announcements are made of handsome offe:s for the eup- port of the clergy ; and there is little doubt that a large sum will be at the disposal of the Church by the time that the digestablisbment is fairly given effect t0.\u2014\u2014The new Eplacopsl Cathe dral at Inverness, was opened with great éclat on the 1st inst.There was a great master of the Scotch bishops and clergy, and the English Oharch was represented by the Bishops of Oxford and Rochester, the cathedral is to coet £20,000, and there is still a debt on it of £5,000.One of the London High Church papers says that the Society for Promoting Christian Know ledge will be asked in November to make a grant of £1,000 towards the liquidation of the debt.\u2014\u2014=The Bishop of Carlisle still continues very ill at hia episcopal residence pear that city, It is usderstocd that the Bishop of Winchester will not reeign bis See until the middle of next month ; and it is reported that be intends to act most generously as to hig retiring pension, asking for a great deal legs than he might have claimed.By the Ospe mail, just to hand, we learn that a charge of a serious character has been brought agatnat De.Twells, Bishop of Orange Free State, and would be heard before the ecclesiastical court.~\u2014\u2014There was an snti-ritualistic disturbance at tke church of St.John the Baptist, Embden street, Hulme, near Manchester, on Sunds: morning.When the clergyman left the church after gervice be was hustled and booted, acd some ptone-throwing took place, which resulted in one person being taken into custody.The minister was carried off ia & cab under the protection of the police \u2014\u2014Oa Monday night the parish church of Mudbury, Devon, was entered, and the altar-cloth, candles, ywera, and other ritualistic decorations were either carried away or deatroyed.\u2014\u2014The services at St, Michaels, Shoreditch, on the evening of ths Zud, were of the highest ritualistic order.There were clouds of incense, 81d à procession with candles, crosses, and other things to correspond.\u2014-\u2014The South Australian papers received in London on Monday night, state that the ritualistic services of two clergymen in that colony were occasioning bad feeling amongst the Episcopalians.Pas:arremian \u2014Tbe friends of the Beotch Established Oburch appear to be every day mors sensible of the necessity of something being done to strengthen its position as an institution allied with the State; but perhaps no more significapt proof of this could be given than the proposal which bas been made by the principal organ of the body in the North that a union should if possible be sought between it acd the Free and United Presbyterian Ghurches; and that the greater part of the funds which it now receives should bo divided amongst the united Church.It may be recollected that when Dr.Norman Macleod in bis interview with Mr, Gladstone, for the purpose of getting Govern.meat to introduce a bill for the abolition of patronage, wag prezsed on the money part of the question he refused to look at the propossl to divide any of the State funds with the Free Church clergy; but it seems that the newspaper organ is even prepared to face this difficulty from its anxiety to carry out its scheme.Had euch a suggestion been made two years ago it would have been regarded as the freak of a person more fit for Bedlam than the responsible post of editor of the chief Scottish Oonservative newspaper organ.\u2014\u2014Another singular petition has been forwarded to the Home Secretary having reference to the strength of tbe Scotch Establishment in the Highlands, As our readers are aware, Nr.Bruce was, toward the close of the Inst session questioned about a petition which had been forwarded from the inhabitants of Waternish, Isle of Skye, atat- ing that as the parish church was now vacant from the death of the last minister, no successor should be appointed to it by the Orown, seeing that less than balfa dczen people attended it, and that the service kad been at times perform- od in the parlor of the minister's house.The memorialiste also prayed the Government to rent or sell the place of worship to the Free Oburch, to which most of the inhabitants belonged.Something of the same kind bas been done in the cass of tbe pariah of Lochs, in the Island of Lewis, Ross-shire, where a vacancy bag occurred in consequence of the death of the Rov.Mr, Reid.This memorial is signed by 1,- 447 of the parishioners, who also belong to the Free Church; and they state that Mr.Reid's congregation ordinarily consisted of two inid- viduals, and thats similar te of msttera pre vails in the other parishes in the island, with the exesption of Stornoway, where the Establishment retainsa small body of adherents.The specific plea which they present is tbat no fresh minister should be nominated by the Crown, iu whom the patronage it would seem is vested, and that they should be allowed to rent or purchase the church; but they vemturs to argue In & general way for the application of the Irish disestablishment principle to Scotland, especially in the Highlands and Islands where the Establishment as a rule bas few adherents.\u2014\u2014e.M'Laren, M.P.for Edioburgh, bas published two letters on the subject of his bill for the abolition of compulsory church-rates in Scotland.He also states that be intends to bring before Parliament the question of the £22,000 whiob the Scotch Establishment annusily receives ont of the Consolidated Faud fn aid of its General Assembly and otter expenses.The honorable geotleman says this aonua same category of payment au the Krgium Donum and Maynooth grants, now swept away, sod that many Members of the House of Commons wore wholly unaware of auch An allowance until they had seen bis reference to it amonget notioss of motion.It may be interesting and that it is uoderstood that It was to him thet the right bovorable gentleman was indebied fer many of those important facis connected with Scotland of which be made such telling wee of late years in Parliament.To Lim the pub- le of Edinburgh is mainly indebted for the establishment, many years ago, Of schools for the industrious poor in all parts of the city out of the fands of one of the wealthiest charities of the North\u2014George Heriot's Hospital.By this act he benefited the community to n degree that no otber public measure may be said to have done, and deprived that institution of much of ts monastic character; but before this could be done an Act of Parliament had to be obtained, acd it was considered a master-stroke of policy in having got Lord Redesisle to agree to theal- teration in the will of King James's jaweller, the founder of ihe iostitation.He is a member of the United Presbyterian Church, and was the ablest defender of the well-known Forbes-Mac- kensie Act, before the Parliamentary commission appointed some years ago, to inquire into its working and the effect it bad bad in diminishing drinking in Scotland.Wescuvan.\u2014It is suggested that arrangements should be made which will permit of and encoursge the more genersl employment of \u201csupernumerary\u201d ministers in villages or elsewhere.At present very many of theso aged or infirm preachers, though able to perform a moderate amount of work, are left without the oppor- tuvity of doiug so, not bavi It appears likely that a which will tend to improve the position of the eupernumeraries, while at the pame time strengthening Metbodism in rural places by securng for them resident pastors.\u2014\u2014Mr.W.Henderson, of Stainsacre, Yorkshire, who died recently in bie ninetieth year, was one of tbe few persons remaining of fbose wbo remembered having heard John Wesley preach.The founder of Methodism died in 1719.NATURALIZATION.(From N.Y.Tribune.) The Lord Chief Justice of England has pub- lisked & work on the nationality question, or the law relating to subjects and aliens, which ¥ promiges to be a valuable auxiliary in the settlement of the dispute ag to naturalization.The Lord Chief Justice, beside being by far the most eloquent of ail the Boglish judges, bas one of the rare intellects which can combine to a high degree the attributes of the lawyer and of the poli- ticisn.Eaglich lawyers, even when professedly liberal, are celdom in advance cf the average public mind on political eubjecta; but Sir Alexander Cockburn almost invariably takes a place in the front of every great question In this instance be goes as usual, straight to the heart of the subject and declares that every man should be free to denationalize himself when he pleases, and become m citasn of any country where be may choose to take up bis residence.More than that, he peremptorily declares tbat there is no legal foundation whatever for the almost universally received idea that British law may be construed to make all the posterity of Eoglish parents born in apy forgien country British subjects.We confess to a little surprise at this declaration.Was Bogland then made uneasy about a possible dispute with this country to arise out of a supposed provision of British law which bad, in fact, no existetice whatever ?The danger was believed in there; it was belived in hers ; was it after all only a myth?So says the most clear-bended and certainly the boldest of the English judges.We trost bis exposition of the law may prove to be correct.If so, eadit quæstio as regards tbe naturalization dificuity there remains hardly anything on that subject for the United States and Bagland to dispute about.SPEECH OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL AT TBE TORONTO BANQUET, Sir Joha Young on rising to respond, was greeted with a perfect storm of applause.Silence having been restored, he nid :\u2014 Guurceuxx,\u2014I need acarcely tell you that your kind reception calls for my warmest thanks.I will now speak of my tour through the Provinces, which is drawing toa close, The survey, which I have been able to make of them, bas necessarily been cursory.Ihave seen much to interest and much to admire.But before I touch on any other topic, I must first eay that the reception which was accorded to me, on Her Majesty's representative, was everywhere most gratifying.(Applause.) As far as I can jadge, the welcome came from the warm feelings of the people.(Applause.) I was assured everywhere, and on ali occasions, of their deep loyalty to the Queen, (applause,) and of their firm attachment to the name and institutions of Great Britain.(Cheers ) Infact, they showered upon me demonstrations similar to those which greeted (as was but right and natural) with greater effusion His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, Every town and hamlet poured forth its inbabitants, and his visit gaveexquisite pleasure to vast numbers\u2014indeed to the whole people.1 am glad to think that they understood bis visit in ita true sense, 39a freak proof of the consideration in which Her Majesty bolds her subjects on this side of the Atlantic, and of her desire to secure their affections; as à proof to them that, though distant, they are not forsaken, or in danger of teiug overlooked, (Obeers) The tone of the addresses which were presented to me, or with which I was honored, were to me & source of great satisfaction.In every thriviog little village,and well-kept town, as [ passed from one to the other, those addresses spoke with pride of their position and prospects, and expressed their contentment with the institutions 30 happily established in Canada, and with the stability and future prospects of the Dominion.Now, I must own, in making this tonr through the country districts, I way scarcely prepared for the large numbsr and prosperous appearance of the towus, or for the aspect of the country.I had been told that farming was good in Oatario; but ! was not prepared to find it had been carried to such à high pitch.I passed through large districts in which every feild seemed well euclosed, snd carefully tilled.The farming seemed to be carried on with ail the implementa which ingenuity bas discovered fn late years, In order to abridge labor and add to the profits of farming aud the supplies of the country.(Applause).The results of these exertions which I saw st the great Fair in London were such as were very creditable to to many of our readers to kpow thst Mr.MLaren ia beotheriz.law to Mr.Joba Bright, the people.My stey was short and the crowd on the grounds was eo great that I conld see but CT \u2014 Ocroser 13, 1869, 4 part ofthe exbibats; bat I was strac profusion of fruits and root crops, x Ti * various vegetables.The show was traly uificent lu variety and luxariance.I va ail, interested in the quastity of implements oy show, of light carriages, of the different objects, such aa tweeds and oloths, betokeniog nascent manafactures ; ia fact, I may sum up by sayiog,the reality far surpassed my expectations, (Ape plause.) As to the reliance which the generally expressed on the future fortunes of the Dominion, I trust it will be crowned with the utmost success.(Cheers.) Iam persuaded that tbe great scheme of Confederation is one of the wisest, most comprehensive, and most honorable projects in which the British Government ever engaged, (cheers,) believing that it will add strength and happiness, both to the people of England and to the people of Canada.The steps which bave already been taken, bave re.Alected great credit on those who are engaged in them, and lasting lustre will be shed on the names of those who will succeed in completing the great work.1 say this at an early day, We are still on the threshold of Confederation, From what I soe and bear, I believe tbat erg long all will be fully convinced of, and acknoy.ledge the advantages of this Qonfederation, | need not enter into details; but tbere is ong point on which I may touch.1 believe that the coutge of legislation will be facilitated snd thy quality of it improved by Confederation; be.cause it stands to reason that legislators elected from & large area will be in & position 10 deal more comprehensively with great questions, more impartially with smaller ones, sod with more aathurity with both than can be expected it controversies are to be carried on and decided ia the narrow cirole in which they originate.(Cheers) Again, all matters of mere local terest will be decided in the Provincial Assemblies more calmly and carefully when dissociated and apart from general politica.And also there wili be brought to aid in the discussion, men who bave acquired experience and greater segacity in the larger spheres, and who can give material aid in the solution of all local questions.But it seems a truism to say that each Province will be benefted by baviog brought to bear upon it tbe spirit, weaith, and intelligence of the united Provinces.It seems à truism to say that each Province in th respect will be better off thao if left to its own resources to carry out ita own views without regard to its neighbors.But this applies especial.1y to great schemes, such as great lines of inter.communication\u2014an extended lice of railway, ny one from the Atlantic to the Pacific, between Halifax on the one side and some port in British Columbia on the other for its termini, The question will be far more effectively, not to aay it can only, be dealt with by a Government repregenting the interests of both termini, and of the intervening territories than by a series of negot'ations to be entered in\u2018o with separate Governments, jealous of and at rivalry with one another.I need not further dwell on the advantages of Confederation.I believe they are admitted in this country, and I bave no doubt that speedily every symptom of discontent will disappear from sll the members of the Confederation.(Obeers.) But I look with hope to the future because I see all around me in the nature of the country and the people who io.habit it, elements which are sufficient $0 raise sanguine and well-founded hopes.The country spreads out a vast expanse of fertility, inviting and rewarding cultivation, Lakes and rivers of ample sise, and teeming with Hsheries, afford outlets and inexpensive highways to commerce ; and thers are prospects of mineral wealth in various quarters, particularly that kind of wealth such ag coal and salt, which are most conducive to the interests of the people, and which, perhaps, in many cages, are more lucrative than mines stored with what are generally supposed to be the more precious metals.But after you bave summed up all contained in the fair fields and rich mines, and all the wealth of land and water, there remaius a more precious treasure, which is indispensable to the working-out and making valuable ali the rest, and that is an energe\u2018ic and intelligent population.(Cheers) In this respect, | think that Canada may be congratulated, I believe that you have all the elements for the future, if not for the present, of à great and powerful population.When | look arourd at the races to whom the population here owe their origin\u2014when I recollect the qualities with which they are endowed, they seem to me to possess everything that is necessary to form a grest State, and their different qualities when combined will form a union of mighty power, You have in the Province of Quebec the inbabie tants of French origin, who have carried to this continent the steady patient labor, sud thrifty habits of their ancestors, of those ancestors whose achievements are emblazoned in many & page of the history of Europe.And referring more particularly to the Province of Ontario, you bave those loysliste who, frat, from their interest in British institations, and Bttache ment to the British Crown, gave up thelr homes and lands and faced what wa then a wild and bowling wilderness, (Cheers) may perhaps be slowed to allude patticulatly to those that come from my own country-=meD of Celtic and Anglo Saxon race, whose qualities were fully tested in the great struggle towards the close of the seventeenth century.Those whose fortune was inferior in that struggle, ave since redeemed their laurels by brillisat ection?under foreign standards, and by their Bdelity 10 the losing cause, It is true they never regained their ground in Ireland.As their poet sayt: \u201c For in far foreign Oelds, from Duckirk to Bele e, ) Bre Lie the soldiers Aud chiefs of the Irish Er gade.\u201d They died in exile; but the memory of their valor and good faith wurvive forever.Theo, again, those on the other side\u2014the men hos achievements bave latterly been recorded lives of light by the brilliant pen of Mac, anlsy ; those who successfully conducted we toilsome retreat from Cavan, who turned bay and held their ground st Eapisklled, through many a month of doubt and peril fo whomanother band sustained the longest # » which ever took place in the Britis Talore \" and watobed from the walls which their ™ made impregnable, the slow approach © by valls from Lough Foyle, which were bringitf them relief to close the conflict in their & umph=# triumph not more glorious to be fenders (han it proved adrantageous to ed and their assailants, snd tothe ceusof air iberty theo and for al ain Tres are the satecedents of Jour DE THE MONTREAL WITNESS.649 ere \" ! cently, within à week, (wo bishops bare resigued several bundred miles they went between walls baal by » man li où the shores of Bediced [ Hr you may ground your Dominion.Of taught a school with much success in Glen their sees, Mr.Disraeli, during bis tea months almost vertical, ranging from five to Sfteen bug.Basin Batis a on A tbis I feel convinced=if its races will only William ; while thero he gratuitously devoted !in ffize, nominated to the sees of Canterbury, dred feet in height\u20141be exterior rim ofthecan-| _ a poy iron mine bes been discovered in content.to dwell together in peace, and to work |much of bis leisure to church work Ia the Loudon, Hereford, Lincoln, snd Peterborough.on being from twenty-five hundred to four thou.ge vicinity of Wilmot, County of Aunapolis, N.S hand in band and forget the feuds and reli-| neighborhood, which eventuslly led to bis During the vive years cf Lord Palmerston's sand fest above the bed of the river.More than Tyg ore, it is said, is of à ven =\u201d we ality, gious differences which distracted and dis- ordination by the Bishop of Huron fo 1828.At: premiership twenty-four episcopal appointments two hundred waterfalls n: À cascades emptying an analy, showing it to contain 68 o ery! graced Ireland, if you refrain from importing the time of bis death be was ia the full vigor of were wade, & unmber reaching to within two of themasives over tbe wally * the canon into the of pure iron, and the balance zinc and manga.into this now country animosities which, even ifs, being only 38 age of years, of 8 pall but the entire streagth of tLe hieraroby in the House main river were sten 10 th.distance, nese.Mr.Power, the proprietor, nig lf in the old, bave survived the causes which gave bardy frame, quick and intelligent, of much of Lords as seitled by tue Irigh Oburch Act.var .: \u2018 ganise a com any à p it °F prop hy re them birth, (cheers) you will achieve great ect on aod Snergy of cumsacter yet, & : The oldest prelste now upon tte Bench is the nai Ges Broker = oa with Saving yo, pany to work it.\u2014 Yarmouth (¥.8.) i i ti ind a: enial disposition.\u2014 iddui i i .things, for | believe with the poet t nd g p ph Bishop of Chichester, who is 83, Wall street, and drawn out $27,000 as (te Lasnoxvicin.~Subscriptions are now teing .\" od bora of the brave |0n Monday last, the Bishop of Huron, as.\u2014 I \u201cTe pave al god are sisted by\u201d the Ven, Archdeacon Patton (of of Grae: aoe ponual Bazaar of the Ladies profits on some gold bought by telegraph one | collected for the construction of anew Episcopal Ocroser 13, 1869.ulation, aod these are tbe foundations on [removed to Canada West, ané for fire years Perhaps, in a University city, you would prefer it in tbe original : + Fortez naseuntur fortibus et bonis, oes ee ram pti columbam.\u201d There is no resson for exciting these controversies hore, where there is land enough for all; where there is ample verge and scope for everyone's exertions.(Obeers.) If Imay gite advice, though one generally does not give advice in after-dinner speeches\u2014it wonid be to tbe people of this country to take no basty resolutions ; to make no violent changes ; to shun buying tickets in lotteries of revolution.(Hear, bear.) I am confident of this\u2014if the Provinces will stand hand to hand, and if the the Provinces will be true to their own interest, and to each other, you may Luild up a great fabrle.(Cheers.) A |p, fabric of power which will go far to realize ths anticipations sketched out by Mr, Cardwell of a great British Confederation, extending over all quarters of the globe.You will build up à fabric of which the most powerful States may find it to their interest to seek an alliance; and the proudest Sovereign in Europe glad to cherish and perpetuate the allegiance.Sir Jobo resamed bis seat amid enthusiagtio applause.THE INDIANA FAIR DISASTER.Up to the fatal hour not even the slightest circumstance bad occurred to mar the barmony of the grest exhibition.The 30,000 psople withn the inclosure were enjoying themselves to the fullest extent, the most of them being gathered into the amphitheatre or forming a living wall around the time track, on which some fast horses were being exhibited.While the feati- vities were at their height there came a loud re« port like the discharge of a heavy piece of artillery,end soda concussion which shook the amphitheatre and the various balls to their foundations.Looking in the direction of tbe saw-mille, where a trial of speed had taken place a few hours previously, tbe horrified multitude saw an immense cloud of steam, dust, and cinders, put up, followed by a shower of missiles, and fragments of mutilated human bodies.Then the air was filed with the shrieks of panic-stricken women and the groans of the dying.A deadly appreben- sion seizsd upon the people.Women screamed and fainted.The crowd surged to and fro, and people were trampled under foot.A rush was made for the scene of the explosion, where a dreadful sight was presented.In the midst of the surrounding wreck were seen human bodies ia every stage of mutilation, some of them being nothing more than shredded masses of human flesh, without form or shape, with the entrails stil palpitating.Blood, bones, bair, ekin, and fragments of limbs were found on every hand, while the greedy earth soaked up the poola of dark blood which flowed from the mangled remains.cores of persons slightly or seriously wounded, or simply stunned by the explosion, were seen with blanched and \u201cbleeding faces, crawling away from the wreck, The sigbt was ozs to appal the stoutest heart, Strong men grew pick and faint ag they locked on the ghastly remains, and turoed sadly awsy.Hacks, car.tiages, and wagons were impressed, and into them were piled the dead, the dying, and the wounded.Many, badly Lurt, but still able to move, limped away unattended, sod made their way outside the gates, where they were picked up by kind-hearted Persons in carriages, and driven to the city.\u2014_\u2014 OANADA ECOLESIASTICAL NEWS, ErucoraL.\u2014 Visitations of tbe Bishop of Montreal for the month of October 1a] st.\u2014Dar.bam, 10.30, Confirmation ; Sth\u2014Lacolle, 10.30, Confirmation ; 7th\u20148t, Remi and Edwardstown, 10.50, Confirmation; 20th\u2014Ootean du Lac, 2.00, Oonfirmation ; 24th \u2014 Bedford, Sunday Morning Services ; 24th=Frelighaburg, Sunday Evening Bervice ; 26th\u2014Donbam, Ruri-Disconal Meeting.\u2014The Rev.Mr.Hurst, minister of the Episcopal church at Windaor, Diocese of Huron, bas departed for England on & aix montha\u2019 leave of absence, In his parting address to his congregation he stated that when be took charge of the parish, ten yeara back, the church bad a debt pon it of $6,000, and to-day it stood free, At that time the inkabitants of Windsor only num- bared 15,000: while the numbers on bis own parieh book to-day are 1,000 \u2014=The Rey.William Macauly, of Picton, Ont., was present.els few days since, by the members of bis con.Eregation, w & silver ten service, on the dccasion of his departure on a visit to England.e Rer, gentleman bas, for 40 years, been minister of the church at Picton.\u2014A \u2018 Grand Union Pic-Nic\u201d will bo held at Oaelds town, eszly in the present month, for the purpose of Teising fands to procure a new bell for the Tndian church, The various Indian t-Ibes will Tepresented, and addresses will be glren, tb In Eoglish and in Indian tongues, \u2014\u2014 Is proposed in Ottawa {oat by the J members of the Chapel of Base, Buster Street, to hold a bazaar early nest month or the purpose of raising funds for the purchase of '& new organ for that edifice.\u2014\u2014A4An Tort is being made in Parry Sound to reise money for the erection of a church and parson.se.The newly appointed missionary to this Shion, the Rev, Mr.Hall, will also conduct divine service, occasionally, at Rosseau and orth Junction.\u2014\u2014\u2014 We learn fot the London, Oat, Pagers that the Indies of Obrist church I tbat city, intend to bave 4 sale of plain and Tey articles in the Oity Hall, on the 13th and i 1th inst, They also state that the alterations 0 8t Paul'y Oathedrsl are now nearly com- Tited, snd that Mr.Nitschke bas begun to tabu the organ in the cancel.Itis expected at the Cathedral will be re-opened on Sunday - ~The Rev.J.W.Sims, missionary to ber Indians on Manitoulin Island, Lake Haron, = ote sudden demise by drowning has been Ha J Announced, was à native of baaingetoks, in wpahire, and left England for New Brunswick vont Jear 1881, where be was engaged for line a à teacher.He subsequently Oatatio), the Revs.G.Keys, of Christ church, Exeter ; W.Davis, of Si.Mary's, McGillivray ; T.E.Sanders, of St.James\u2019 chorch, Bitdulpb, consecrated \u2018\u201c God\u2019s Acre,\u201d in that parish, \u2014 Mr.H.Robinson, of London, Ont, haa deeded a site for tbe erection of an Kpiscupal church in Westminster, capable of seating 300 persons.The work will commence early next summer, \u2014\u2014The London Free Post says, tbat tbe inhabi- tante of Ailan Oraig contemplate the erection of sn Episcopal Church et that place, and a monster concert is projected, in order to assist the building fund \u2014\u2014The Bishop of Montreal will preach in the church of Bt.James the Apostle où Sunday next, 10(b inst.His Lordship has already preached in 15 churches in this diocese, and it hie intention to endeavor to do #0 in all tbe churches of bis see, 80 that be may come soquainted with all the congregations under his Episcopal superintendence.Camapa Pas:syrzaiay.\u2014Owiog to the loss sustained by the temporalities fund of the Church on account of the suspension of payment by the Commercial Bauk, an appeal, we are informed by the Presbyterian, has been sent to every con- Bregation for circulation among its members\u2014 to which appeal it is earnestly hoped there will be a liberal response.\u2014\u2014Mr, Paton having resigned the office of Treasurer to the Sebolar- ebip and Bursay Fund, says the same suthor- ity, it is requested that communications and subscriptions be forwarded to Professor Mowatt of Kingston.\u2014\u2014At the close of the regular meeting of the Presbytery of London, Ont, on the Let ult., it was appointed that the next meet ing be beld in St.Andrews chureb, Stratford, on the 1st Wednesday in January, 1870.\u2014\u2014 The Rev.Mr.Masson, of Russelitown Flats, hag been presented with an elegant pulpit gown by the ladies of hin congregation.\u2014\u2014Owing to the appointment of the Rev.G.D.Ferguson to a professorship in Queen's College, tbe two stations at L'Original & Hawkebory, villages on the Ottawa river, are destitute, Tog ether, there are about 90 familiea in the charge.\u2014\u2014 On the 22nd ult, the Presbytery of Hamilton met at Woolwich, for the purpose of ordaining snd inducting Rev.G.Yeomans, to tke pastorate of St.Andrew's church.\u2014\u2014The Rev.F.RB.McDousld, of Brooke, Fredericton, bas received a harmonious call to Bt.James\u2019 church, N.B.\u2014À pew, and it is asserted, by far the costliest church connected with the Kirk of new Brunswick, has recently been built at Portland, St.John, N.B, Pastor, Rev.G.J.Caio.e\u2014 At Guelph, Ont, on the 15th inst, the Rev, Mr.Wardrope was inducted as pastor of Cbal- mers church.\u2014\u2014It has been srranged, we believe, that on Bunday, Oct.17th, the new North street Presbyterian church, Londen, Out, will be formally opened.\u2014In pursuance of the new arrangements in tbe Canada Presbyterian church, for the holding of Local Synods, the Synod of Toronto, extending from Colborne on the east, to Southampton oa the north-west, assembled in Bay street Presbyterian church on Friday last.The ger- vices were conducted by Rev.Dr.Jernioga the first moderator.WaeLavar Mermopir.\u2014A four days\u2019 meeting will take place at Williamsburg, on the Oart- wright Circuit, commencing on Bunday, Oct.17th.\u2014\u20140a Monday evening, the 4th inst.à soiree, in aid of the fund for the payment of tbe new organ in Mount Zion Wesleyan Methudist churcb, Hamilton, Ont., came off at the Crystal Palace.The cost of the organ is $400.\u2014The firat series of Missionary Meetings, for Bowman.ville Oircuit, will commence on Sunday, the 24th Oct.inst, when three sermons will be preached by tbe President at Orono, at 104 a.m.; at Leskard, 2} p.m.; and at Bethel, 8] p.m.The Missionary Meetings for the week will take place as follows, viz.Bethel, on Monday, 26th ; Orono, 26th ; d, 27th; Bethesds, 28th; and Providence, 29th, Erisoorar MetHonisT \u2014Â social Ten Meeting was beld in the Methodist Episcopal eburch, in Hamilton, Ont., on the evening of Monday last.Owing to its success, it is intended to hold monthly meetings of similar kind.Paimirtvs Mersonssr =-The annual missionary meeting of the Gore Street Primitive Methodist Church, Hemilton, was held on Tuesday, the 5th inst, Baprur.\u2014The annual meeting of the Canadien Baptist Foreign Mission Society will be beld at Woodstock, on Thursday evening, the in the new Baptist Seminary at Chicago.of the 13th chapter of Mack, * Heaven and earth been performed in connection with the terrible Ocr-poon Pausomxe\u2014A ministerial correspondent of the English Method Recorder, endeavors, by stating hig own experience of outdoor work, to stimulate bis brethren to \u201c gosnd do likewise\u201d He says:\u2014