The Montreal witness, 23 mai 1872, jeudi 23 mai 1872

[" \u2018 .ADVERTISING TERMS.Dally Witaess, 100.por tiau-fieut insertion s se.A subsequent insertion Sa, sach subsequent week, Vor.XXVIL, New Buxizs.Cotemporary Press and News.THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS.(From Londen Daily News Correspondent.) Naruss, April 27.\u2014The flery torrents continue to precipitate themselves from the mountain, sud, apart from the misery and the constercation which appear ln ovury face, the efficts are terrible.Fancy a fiery torrent bitty metres wide, and six, sud even ton metres in helgbt, coming down and destroy- jug all it encounters! Houses aud hamlets are buried in tbe burning leva ; the orange plsats, the green gardens, the fruits covered with flowers dried up with tbe portentous hot ; and ull is black, covered with ciudersand worse etill several spots with scorie, I have myself approached as far as 1 possibly could.1 visited the Ban Sebastiano road, penetrat:d into the garden of the Villa Ricciardi, The smell nearly drove me sway, but still T fn- sisted on procecding.On the spot close to the burning lava 1 saw several soldiers of infantry posted, to prevent poople entering the Louses.\u2018l'he poor soldinrs were perspiring tersibly, and yct there they stoul, in the imminent danger of the lava incrossiug- They reminded me of the Roman auldiers of Pompeti.In the Ville Ricciardi 1 saw a deep valley covered to the to] by lava, still burning and smoking.Higher up the San Setastiano road is traversed by the lava efde, It thrown down tices, and just balf surrounded a small house lately built n the street.The migration continues still In great proportions, and presentas touching spectacle, Old men, half naked, taking with them an ox or 8 sbeep, women with childtun on their backs, young men and women, with mattresses and kitchen utensils on their shoulders, sll running down towards Naples.The detouations are so powerful ad sn new to the greater part of the inhabi- tents that they believe an earthquake ouly too probable.On the fields beside of the vine.yarde, groups of peasants are encamped, aud everywhere soldiers and National Guards are carryipg provisions to them, and directing them where to go, The King was st Ran Selastinno nt half.past six, and remained there a long time destributing sums of money, and animatiog the local authorities to do their Lest in aid of the sufferers., 1 fear many a day will pass before a trustworthy return of the dead and wounded will be obtuinid.In some places more thau otbere it ner1 à difficult thing to induce the peasants to abandon their houses aud pro.petiy.Navree, April 28.Last night the spectacle grand &s everat 6 dirtauce, As terrifying a8 «ver where the lava streams continæ-d to Lurn snd stifle the air with pestilential vaçors.\u2018lhe agitation lu Naples was greater than before.All the saints\u2019 tabernacles in the streets were illuminated, and crowds gather- od ip frent of them praying aloud, In order to prevent disorder, the authorities summoned the National Guards under arms, 8 summons readily answered.The gusrds patrolled the strects, snd more especially when the religious fanaticism excited by priestly influence sppeared in force.The crowd was enormous, gasing on the imposing spectacle.Around Vesuvius appeared one mass of fire, and the ses snd the sky were as ted a8 Vesuvius itself.The detonations continued the whole night.It seemed ss though a fierce battle was going on in the most untiring way the whole time.Before the break of day the ciuders commenced falling, and have lasted up to 13 o'clock.Early this morning the etreets were quite crowded with ople, who appeared terribly frightened.unt Vesuvius had disappeared altogether from their sight.The aky waa an black ns in one of the severe fog days in the City of London.Maby who had come from Rome, and had auiived by the half-past six trai Loft Naples again by the 9 a.m.train, fearing sa earthquake.Indeed, the sky presen all the appearance of such a catastrophe.The rain of cinders reminded yon of the one de.scribea by Bulwer which preceded the da struction of Pompeil.Now the sky is clear, the sun plays on tho blue calm sen, and a atu] jous colump, four times as high as Mount Vesuvius itself, rising from the central cone, is bent north-eastward, 11 pm \u2014] left off writing this am.because the weather looked so fine, and the sky was ro cleat snd brilliant, that I thought the best thing I could do was to profit by the change, and advance as far as possible against our terrible encmy.Accordingly 1 proceeded towards La Cercola.The country was covered thick with black cinders, and not a single flower was left untouched to show forth tne brilllancy of its colors.Everything was black, à most saddening spectacle ; and this morning strangely contrasting with the splendor of the sky and the silvery waters of this enchanted gulf.The effects of the sun on this gigantic black colamn of smoke above Vesuvius were most picturesque and fantastic.Along the streets I continually met cabs and carts loaded with poor furniture and barrels of wine.The peasants and the inhabitants of the villages are now returning to their houses, and seem saxious about the fate of thelr property.The display of troops along the strovts wes imposing.You wonld think that the enemy was a few hours\u2019 march from Rome, and that the outposts bad atrict orders {0 see that no one orossest the line, These poor soldiers bave been on the spot the last six days working hard, and look somewhat exhausted, but do their beat to be cheerful, and cea or, active in prevent po of doubtfal appearance from pene- Ping towards the places where there are abandoned houses.Close to La Cercols the loud detonations commence n.Thesky darkens and the shower of néers recommences.This light fine dust comes down upon you sometimes in flakes like snow.You are soon covercd sll over with it, and it penetrates luto your eyes and your mouth, J wished to see something more than mere vineyards covered with this black tain, and looked out for & man who could carry me up the hill across the fleld 10 thespots where the lava atill came running down from Mount Vesuvius, IT ma ed to advance, snd passed am inn where \u20ac stout Joily-lookingg wan was looking after the barrels of bis wine, which he had already of out in order to save them in time.Then passed several military posta and soon found myself before a wonderf sight.It fe @ torrent which I might describe as of burning coke.A torrent of enormous width, perheps à mile, and five-and-twenty feet in eight; but it has now stopped in its course.In spite of the filthy smell I picked up à Pleceof the burning lava.Qutside it is black, peeping inside you see the fire burning awey, hat with the heat of the sun an the heat of the lava, it was enough to melt one.This torrent of fire hes only stopped after advancing about ten miles.1am glad to state that the report current of the death of à y of forty tu divideals is unfounded, All the persons, with the ex lon of one man, who perished, complied with the directions of the soldiers and were saved.Half the town of San Bebastiano le destroyed.The church and tower remain standing, bot are surrounded by lava, It was with some difficulty that many persons could be induced to abandon the piace.A large num- bet of old women had shut themselves up in the church, and protested against quitting It.The police-inspector, accompanied several of bis men, entered the building sud ordered the women toleave, They refused, snd began \u2018The King has again visited San Rebastlsne 0 proceeded 40 thé spet la eskiy, counted as #80.100, first & simple gouy obelas, sscompanied by ons of lala aides-de-camp.His Majesty carried with him & large padket of ten-franc pleces, snd distributed them to all who scoosted bim.To many of the poor people he spoke at length, asking them what impression was first produced upou them by the cruption, and many other questions.On returBiug to Naples I found the people burr) ing bone with their umbrelles up, the rain of cinders being insupportable.Thu cartiages were hastoniog away in & most miserable state of dirt, the black shower having caught them walle driving along the Chiais promenade.Even at Caserta the fall was heavy and irritating, I found my room at the botel in à terrible state.The cinders had penetrated Into the place, and thickly co- verud even the sheets of the bed.A most unpleasant rain that which entors even through the fastenivgs of your window ! Professor l'aluier! continues to reside at the Observatory.His despatches, and likewise those of the several mayors in the afflicted districts, are published hourly in bul- Ictios, aud posted on the walls.Groups of ple gather round them in order to obtain the latest information.Naruxs, April 79, 1 pm\u2014t was awakened in the nigbt by tbe cluders balf suffucatiog me, The carpet close by the window was covered half au tuch with them, and on touk- ing out vf the window, I found that the darkness was eo complete ns to render altoge invisible the ges lampe.Tuls -cont@-bardty\"} y fiud my way along the Chisis, on sccouut of the cinders blinding my eyes.[It hed been raining durivg & part of the night, sud the sticets were in à filthy state.Everywhere the pecple were rushing wherever the cries of the Neapolitan boys announced that some frevh edition of the journals had appenred.Of cuurse, the desire to have the latest accounts of what has occurred is universal, Bat the rain of the cinders and the scori forms the sub) sct ofevery conversation.I found soveral pursous examining the statistics of the previous crup- tivua, aud looking very blank on finding that bis downpour bas nesrly always preceded 8 fresh ruption, And this rain ie really very troublesome.It has pow assumed a different character, aud is no longer like à thin dust.Tiny gtains are blown in your lace by the wind, and make à nolse knocking against the windows just like a storm of hail.Near Cercola the storm Of scorir was an strong during the night that the roldiers there, in order to ba protected againat it, were obliged to build huts of the branches of trees, The priesta seem to profit by tbe occasion, and continue to repest that the catastropheis a punishment to the Neapolitans for baling with manifestations of joy the occupation cf Bome by the Italian trope.Superstition is, of course, rife bere, Y rater.day in one of the streets I bappenrd to meet with an old woman who, on bcholding à troop of soldiers, commenced shricking like a ma nise, and declaring that it was their presence in Naples that had excited the wrath of the Almighty.The police were obliged to put tle old lady in a cab and convey her home.The courier who arrived this morning from fan Scbastisno said that while it was till dark he was attracted by cries proceeding from one of the slopes of the hill, On looking towards that direction he could distingnish several persons making signals with white handkerchiefs.The authorities at once despatched some engineers to the spot.Itis sup) that those poupls were shut Up between the lava and have remained tuere ever since.The lava being now cooled, it may be «ony to form a bridge and save them.Iam sorTy to say that there seems to exist no doubt 6 to the fate encountered by a pasty of several persons who left Portici for Vesuvius on the 25th.They were in & carriage, and nothlug Les been heard of them since that terdble night.Several of the wounded, who lay at the Pellegrini Horpital, are now deal, In con- mquence of the severe injuries received.No precise data as to the total of deaths has ben obtained as yet ; but it appeses that the num.gr of the victims is above eighty.THE CANADIAN GUARANTEE.(From the London Spectator, May 4.) \u2018The history of this Canadian transaction leaves & bad taste in the mouth.Mr.Gladstone will doubtless be able to say à groat deal for the arrangement, and it is quite possible that Parliament may be convinced by Lis explanation ; but we do not belleve that suy one will like it, or fail to wish that the pegotiation bad taken some other form.As our readers ate aware, 8 good many of the matters in dispute to be settied by the Washington Treaty were Canadian matters, and the Canedisna were not at ail content with the method of neltling them adopted by the Special Commis- loners.They thought their fishing rights bad been sold too chesply; they were not pleased with the surrender of the exclusive right to navigate the St.Lawrence, and they were disgusted at the omission of all demands for compensation on arcount of the Fenian raids, Bo grumpy did the colonists become, that the Canadian Ministry, after bonestly defending the Treaty, informed Lord Kim- betley that \u201cunless their hands wero strength ened\u201d in some way\u2014unless they could offer some sweetmeat with the bolus\u2014the Parlis- ment of the Dominion would probably refuse its sanction to the Canadian clauses, and thus destroy the main advantage of the Treaty.War for tha cod.fiesh would always be hanging over both countries.The Canadian Government accordingly suggested that as the Pacific Rallroad would cost £8,000,000, the British Parliament might guarantee half that sum; in which case they might be able to induce the Legislature of the Dominion to waive their mievances aud swallow the Treaty down, Lord Kimborley received this proposal with some reluctance, but on the 18th March he wrote a despatch in which he promised that as soon as the Canadian Government had given effect to the Troaty by the is.rue of & proclamation, Her Majosty's Ministers would propose to Parliament to utes 8 loan of £2,500,000 for the parie Railroad.This offer was accepted, and greatly to the rurprise of the House of Commons, Mr.Gladstone stated on Monday that & bifl would be introduced sanctioning the guarantee.When questioned asto the toeaning of such a promise, the Premier nectned embarrassed, and could not be certain na to tho precise terms, but finally promised the papers since published and a full explanation.The explsaation is still to be beard, but on the face of the papers we do not like the tranraction, which ie neither more nor less tban à bribe to indace one of our own Colonies to part with sone of its rights, real or imaginary, to a foreign power.If Canada ie In the right in her demands on Washington, weought to have supported them, aud not bribed her + and if she ta in the wrong, we ought neither to have bribed her nor supported them.About the fish perhaps some sort of defence can be made out, for we may allege that as we took local property for an Imperial purpose, the local preprictor was entitled tocom- pensation, and guarantee was AD extremely convenient form of paying it.There is no objection that we know of to that argument cacept this, that ne the property-right in the Ssh accrues only h the sovereignty over the water within the three.miles line, apd ae that sovereignty belongs to us and not to Canada, which is not an Independent State, we sre paying for something we do notreceive, Still if we like to pay our own people on a doubtful title rather then ap- pur to press theoretio rights too far, there s mo objection of principle to that course ; but paying @ dependent state to lot us off the duty of advoosting its right to compensation for undoubted injuries is » very different matter, rod engrests that we were bo edger Sor na peers ment that we were willing to ber all objectors, bovures Me tl \u201cobjections.Tom been treated by 8 school-hllow, and Jobs es eal.tor ought to explain thet to the master ; but À the base as the master is & hot-tempered fellow John promises Tom an orange if he will only put up with the injustice sud say notblng.e do not know that there js anything actually immomd in that, but there is somv- thing wonderfully mean-spirited about itand all the more because the bribe was not volua- tary, not a result of cool reflection on clrcum- stapves connected with the general welfaro of tLe echool, but was suggested by Tom, whose one fault je undue appetite for oranges.« Plemse, air, I've been kicked, and if you don't gives me sweeties I shall cry.\u201d let us pot be mistaken as deprecating the promise of & guarantee in Îtuclf.We believe the Cauada and Paciiic Bailway to be an ua- dertskiog so important to the Empire and so valuable to wenkind as to deserve not ouly a guarantee, but a direct and large subvention.Juiniug the two great occsns by a road through tbe most fertile of our American territories, the glorious valley of Baska'chewsn, which may one day maintain twenty millions of English-speaking men, the allroad will te the highway of the world, the alternative line between Europe and Ada, from which we may at will at- teck Clive or rescue Indie.From Nouth- ampton to Calcutta we shall iravel Ly steam, end Liver pass through a foot of territory outside our own dominion.The only draw- luck to the project is that when completed the rced will be ro inconcelvably valuable hat hall not bo able to to give it Jt is not with the grant we quarrel, but with its apparent motive ; with the disposition to avads all difficulues by payments of money which ib seems to us to betray, and which has about it to our mind something of the discredit attached to readiness to pay tribute.tis true we are paying to our own peoples, bat till we mre paying in order to avoid the unpleasant necessity of making ourselves disa- grecable to the United States ; to help us, in fact, to sbirk one ofthe duties of Eropire ; and that, gloss it over as we may, is not a satis factory position.Suppose, when Alaric had taken Aquileia, the Augustus of the day, instead of moving lis legions, hed paid the Aquiliitans to rebuild their city and say noting ahout thesack, Should we not cousider that transaction evidence of the waning chere gy of Rome ?Mr.Gladstone's defence will of course be that England, \u201cthe blind Titan, staggering tudur the too vast orb of her fete,\u201d must get over incidintal boulders the best way she cau ; that a Government intent on su vast an operation an & reconciliation with the United States must do disagreeable things, und make concessions bere and promises there, and If propeity is to be sacrificed must soothe the holders of rever- vionary interests, aud we readily mulmit there is LU complete answer to that defence.1 we authorize an attorney to get us out of a lawsuit by compromises, we must leave him sctne discretion ; but still he must be judged Ly the way in which that discretion is used, and held 10 the distinction b tween comp au- sation aoû bush-mioney.Buppose Csonda marched with Mexico, and Indians had com: across the border, bareying quiet folk, should we, when settling with Mexico, have paid Canada not to say too much about her losses at the hands of the Indian braves?We doubt 1, sud doubting it, cannot but feel that geand undertaking as the Pacific Railrosd is, snd anomalous aa are our relations to Canada, and great as is 1he advautage of getting rid of an Amtrican quarrel, we have been buying our wey out of a scrape with hard cash whon we ought to Lave marched out with our heads uy.Our henos, perhaps, is iutact, but 8 treaty can Lardly be worth such an amount of 4 boving \u201d as we have bestowed on crery- body, un amount which may very well have jpduced the Government at Washiogtes, slways well informed as to all transactions on the American Continent, to thiuk we could stand just a little more sqrizezing.Peace is WANTED\u2014CHRISTIAN DAILY PATEES.BV REV.N.P.POWELL, ET.LOUIS.7 have just looked over the creed cf the |, Bosten Council\u2014the Plymouth Rock Creed.Une clause says, © We believe in the wmiaie- try of the Word,\u201d to which uo one can Lali to ray, Amen, But I could uot belp interliaing, « Aud we belleve also in the powcr of the press.\u201d The Press Las beaten the Pulpit, It in not only 8 power, but tha power of the age.Ît is monlding opinion educating and forming the moral convictions of the people \u2018It reaches the crowds ; we ministers do not.It reaches more home circles than we do.It invades every place of busin:as It makes itecll a power in saloons, iu hotuls, in cars, in the street.It goes to the people ; we ask the prople to come to us, In the quieter times of the past the minis ter was judge, oracle, father, Now this new power has ¢lbowed Lim from bis place.It ie adapted to the age\u2014all of the age\u2014the age in all fts methods of life.ls not the great roblem of the Church, or rather of Christian- ty, to convert the press-\u2014to make Îta preacher of the bigh sentiments, exact morality, snd pure faith of Jesus ?The Church does not fail to recognize its full power.We haveour religious wecklien our denominational organs, our montbly uttersnces, sad all these are excoi- lent, some of them grand.They do the work they were intended to do.Put the paper that goes everywhere, the after-hrenkiast des gert\u2014tho news bearer that comes at moraing and evening to gossip for half an hour with almost every person who can read-\u2014-the paper that is in advance of all others to form able opinion, to biss its readers.forestall.ng the weeklies and monthlies, ie the daily.Grant the immense power of the New York Independent, Harper's Weekly end their peers, they could never have done what was done last yest by the New York Times.The hammer of Thor, if used to break the beads of giants, must come down with & rapid stroke, anwelise a heavy, It must keep the spot warm that it hits; snd be dreaded aoû only for ite ti.ud given, but for its blow that is sure to come again before the evil ean recov or its bresth.We have Dow quite 8 number of Christian papers ani magazines, but that other distinct and overshadowing power, the daily press, we have not yet used ; and till we do use it there ate seven blows struck for worldliness to one blow struck by us ; seven blows for business, patriotism, or for party or pleasure to ove for piety.The establiehment of a daily Christisn newspaper in each of our large cities Is now the one thing most deeply needed.If they cannot be made at first to pay thelr way, then Christians must sup them, We must take hold of the plastic spirit of the sge, and mould it.The trouble is now, we are L'asy all the time trying to uudo wbat has been already dones-we come in at the rear with our press and or sermons, Wo must go to the van.Welcome, then, to the efforts now making in New Yoik to eatablish the Witness.Thanks to the pioneer in Montreal.We believe in the power of the press ; and in its mislstey of the Word, Let us now understand that with the mme broad human sympethy, the same shrewd business adaptation to the needs of men characteristic of out weekly pros we mean to take bold of the daily life the world.A portion of the press ia pow the pores above all others, in evil.t publishes abroad Infquity, and is the mouthplece ofall corruption.Que daily press is largely subsidized by quacks and the vilest panderers.It ie dangerous to allow an ri nary local paper to enter your family.I have va laid downa paper whoes editors would incensed at being called public cormpton.But they have published in this number the most barefaced advertisment of obscene books : hat could be found, And lt le flanked by a half dosen more but one degree less danger- ous, Ui alud one to give up the readings ofecanity ba « Why dont you goto editors and ask them 10 stop throw- \u2018Montreal TRI-WEEKLY EDITION, PUBLISHED T MONTREAL, THURS | | roa DAY, Witness, DAY, AND SATURDAY.AY, MAY 23, 1873.THURSI ing these things in our wall\u201d « Yes,\" added anuther.# 1 plcked up à dy last night, and when 1 laid it dow to ight tere ribly with the passion it roused.\u201d We must bave the pow of the prom os our side, or lose the Few Lave theis opinions changed by spéjchee.Tho news paper bas settled the q tor le asleep.\u2014 Chicago DŒLLINGER BUBN The great German F making all retreat from th tn against papal Infallib Burlin correspondent of gives the following acco which Dr.Dollinger historical Collegium at M G His SHIPS, , Dœilinger, ls tion he has tak.imposible.The London Times f tho lecture with concluded bis ch University :\u2014 Altogether sbsndoning former cautious standpoint, be aimed bif last remarks not against the individual ac tha presout Pupe, tutagaiost the Papacy as institution.* The Papacy.\u2019 be freely seso \u201cls based upon au audacious faluification, A forgery in [ts very outs@ Ît has during tho Jung y eats of its existence eda pernicious influence upon church State slike\u201d If this is the way be deals pith the Popo, you (au easily fmagine how lashes the Josuita.Their very breuth, ¥ he facisimed, \u201c is more pein of excommunication.Continued resis- tence on his part would necessarily lead to closer relations betwesn the Croats and their co-natiovalists of tho orthodox faith, the Survisns.The Belgrade Goverument soem to hope fhat Germany, being interested in each and every disturbauce pending her financial sottioment with France, will mediate Letwven Nervia aad Turkey.Zuas va, Disçumrion.\u2014\u2014À Jusuit father Dsu- ed Kuve, like many of bis brethren, has allowed bis seal to overrun his discretion.The other day two members of the Old Cs tholic Congregation ut Cologne resolved to be marrid, aud chose that the ceremony should be performed by thelr own clergy wan, There secrus to have ben no doubt as to the legality of the marriage, Lut Father Heve, who was one of the Lent preachers in the cathedral, denouuced it on the ground that the young couple would be living in « state ofconcuvinage if the ceremony wore performed by their own clergyman alone, The bridegroom, it is said, will scek bia ru- medy in action against Father It ve, aud the Prussian authotitics will prosecute bim fur abus of the pulpit, Asvannia-\u2014A remarkable invitation, says the Chrutian World, bas been sent to English Cbristiaus to send the Gospel to one of the comparstively few nations to whom It to atiii uukoown.deadly than 3 \" - Menelek, King of Bhos, fu the He an pee w \"pony hn tha porthern part of Abyssinia, sad originally e .LS try into the \u2018Thirty Yearé War) which destroyed two-thirds of ite ludabitants, and loft It weak sud divided againstitæeif for à couple of centuries.Thoy involved the Hapsburge in the suicidal policy which ecould-awt but end in thelr cxclusion from Gamany, The cheated Spain of hier world-wide dominion, aacriticed Poland, and so utterly degraded the Gallican church that the political suziliation of France lecame 8 tnerr question vf time.\u201d To these cenaures was added the certain conviction that, fring themselves from Pope snd Loyola, the German Catholics would some day joiu their Protestant compatriots, and establish au uadi- vided national church, extending from the borders of Kusais to the confines of France, 1t will bo easily usderstood that these lectures of the venerable Professor have created 8 sun- sation.One of the difticulties with which Old Ca tholicirm has hitherto had ta cope was the re- rerved attitude of its orixinator.As long as T'o\u2018ilinger only atood up egsinst the latest cciumauds of the Pope, he alienated the friends of religious reform as much by his extreme moderation as he attracted them Ly the energy with which be expused what he reyardod as error, But nuw that hie has taken up such 8 dicidud attitude aud thrown the Page over.Load, one of the most palpable obstaciestuat stood in the way of Old Catholicism is removed avd à chance afforded of ulterior progress.To derive as much advantage ns possible frum this fortunate turn, the Old Catholic congregations will hold another Con.ress in the summer, which may be expected to use very different language about the Holy S-e from whut we heard at Munich last year, This time thu Congress will probably assemble at Cologne.A MODEL LEGISLATURE.The New York Legislatare, after a longer session than has been held since 1816, adjourned on Tuesday ; or as the World expresses Ît © ceased to insult the intelligence and integrity of New York.\u201d How it has performed its work amd fulfilled the expecta tions of the people of the Hate, may be gathered from the summing up of the New York dailies, which, wonderful to relate, for once hotestly and heartily agree.The Tri bune says: \u201c Populsrly ithas bern s Logis.lature of reat expectations.The session bas been Yoog ; it was mele fraitiessiy ions \u2018 by ficqaent snd frivolous adjournments and vacations, Members, Wish few exceptions, mauifeated listlu intersst in the public busi- | n wood thing, but life grows very tedious , pens, and took hold of the istzer questions when it is all concession.which came before them with an indifference and hesitation which could not have been the result of inexperience so much as downright unwillingness to push things that did not im: diately benefit them personally, It may be ungracious to my that the People will be glad that the Leglslaturs has adjourned, and bas thus ended its power for mischief, Lut this is probably as trae ss unpalatable.The World expresses itself in 8 more forcible manner : © The Legislature yesterday ad- Jourued in 8 bediamite clamor of mutaslly * exnepersted political fmpostors.\u2018 When rogues fall out, the proverb tells us, ¢ honest men come by tbrirown) It is pity we can- pot always put faith in this ancient saying.\u2018The rogues at Albany have fallen out, but honest men have not come by thelr own.Elected to secure \u2018 reform\u2019 in the atministra- tion of the affaira of the-city and the State, re has made the very name of ench in the nostrils of decent people.\u201d The Times heads its netice of the adjournment \u201c À Good Riddatee,\u201d and goes on to ray :-\u2014# The Legislature adjourned yesterday \u2014a0 much the better for the people of the Riate.A more incompetent, or perhaps a more corrupt, Legislature has never asserablod.It was elected to carry oùr vital reforms every one of which 1t has neglacted.We dismiss à collection of stupid end dishonest schemers, leavened by a few able and upright men, to the contempt of the people of this Blate and the entire country.May heaven forbid that the community should ever be cursed by an equally base rabble I RELIGIOUS NEWS.\u2014 The Rev.Edward N.Kirk, D.D, the venershle pastor of the Mount Vernon Congregational Church in Boston, aad in his younger dayn cclebrated es a \u201c revival preacher,\" is now totally blind, \u2014 The Rev.Dr.Todd, of Pittefield, has had an injunction put upon him by his physiciens, and bas retired finally from active service.He has been in the ministry forty-seven years, thirty of which have beet spent in hin present torate.During sil time years the Doctor been busy with his pes as well sa his voice, and bas earned by industry the right to rent for the remainder of kis life.His people will take care of him, \u2014 Bpurgron proves that he ought to {tine- rate.In a sermon on \u201cWmvailing for souls,\u201d be asked the prayers of Mi his Church that God would favor them with arevivel, [I have not, ssid Mr.Bpurgeon, to complain that I have lahored in vain, sad spent my etrength for nought ; far from it.I have not even to think that the bleaing is withdrawn from the reaching of the Ford even in à mossnre, for never had so many ces of conversion fo my life, aa 1 have known since I bave been restored from sickness ; § have nover before received so many letters fu no short à time, telling me that the sermons printed have been blest, of the sermons preached hore ; yet 1do not think we cover had 60 few conversions from the regular con 1 partly ac count for it from the that you cannot fish in one pond Almay sad always catch es wany fish as at first.haps the Lord has saved all of you He means to save ; sometimes, 1am staid lio bas ; and thon it wifi be lie use my ing on presching to you, 8 had better shift quarters and ry drowhore else, 1t would be n melaucholy thought if I be Heved lt.I do not believe it, T only fear It.Butely it ia not always to be true that stra: who drop in here only once, are conve you who sre always heating the Gospel re main usaflected, Strange, but may 18 not be strangely, lamentably true of you?This vory dey may the anrlety of Jour Christin friends be excited for ms and way you be led to be snxions yourselves, and give your eyes no slumbye till you find the Saviour.Tun ScLavomian Carteti06.\u2026\u2014Aocording te the latest Russian adrices, the Croat \u2018Bishop re eet Agrass, bas bosn called tpon 0 prom he dogme et Tnhliidiity under ol less than six million subjects, G oma Mr, Waldmeier, at Beirut, urging him to visit \\ Lis country, and establish a Cristian mission there.The young King became acquainted with Mr, Waldmeicr when he was ous of the prisoners of King Theodore, of Abyssinia, who was eo severely punished by the British bo- cause be would not relesse them, More than a year ago be wrote to Mr.Waldmeier, re- | questing him to come to his country, and * Fuperintend some indastrial works.Me.Waldmeler stated that sa ho had been dell.vera from prison, be had consecrated his lit * to the preaching of the Gospel, and the advancement of Christ's kingdom, hy whom | alone heathen nations i tought futo prosperity.lie requested the king to give Lis support to the establishment ! of a Protestant Christian mission in his country, prowising that, If he could, he wonld re can bo saved and : Germane sre to be found.They bave transformed the County of Waterloo into the « garden of Canada,\u201d sud seem as though they could render fertile tho barren rocks of the Upper Uttaws, They add stability to our population, develop more especially the agricaltural resources of the country, eod ss mechanics and laborers are even preferred to other dationalities.And if some of them do show & love for \u201c lager beer,\u201d and are inclined to distespoct the Sabbath, yes they are not worse than others, and the means which elevate and purify the people of other lands are just aa «fective with the Germans, Let that uation that is without sin cast the first stove st ther, FEW GERMANS BRTTLE HERS.Btreams of Germans pass every year through the fron arteries of our country to the fac West of the United States, while very fow indeed remain within our borders.The ques tion bas again sud again arisen, \u201c Why is this!\" And 1 deem it right that liana suould know the (anse and demand Îte remor- al In tbe l\u2019nited States there are st present about as many Germans as there are souls in all the Dominion of Canada, and they Incresse aunually at the rate of 190,000 to over 150,000 ty immigration from the Vaterland.The incresse in Canada may be told by = few scores or hundreds at the outeide, What is the cause?The great bulk of Germans come to America to seek farm land, Have we no Land for them In Ontario and Quebec there s vivays , present; of land that could be purchased cheeply, and even some that ls slmost given away.All { bring some Christian artisans with him.The king jos fully complied, promising never to hindoror prevent him from preaching the u thousaz:d dollars for his journey.Almost i simultaneously with the juvitation, Dr.Keaff, auvther ofthe Abysaibian prison: rs has issued from the press at St.Chrischona a translation of the New Testament fathe Gi le langnage, rpoheu by the Mohammedan tribes adjoining Hhoa end snlijret to its king, who desires to bave the Christian religion restored to them.Cran Am Preacaisa.\u2014~The New York Witness in noticing the commencement of ope n-Bir preaching in New York and Brooklyn on Seuday last mak-s the following practical romparks, which will apply mote of less w other cities :\u2014 When it is remembered that Christ's * preaching was mostiy in the open air, and that much ofthe Aposties\u2019 preaching was in hie open air, and that the most earnest presch- «in of all ages bave tried the same plan with i excellent results,it appears strange that open- | air preaching should uot bs more common.the climate of this country favors it, and there is no difficultyalont getting au audience any- wbtre.In fact, 8 very considerable portion Gospel, sud sending him 4 mfe conduct snd\u2019 of the population can be reached in no other | | way by the prescher, for they will not come into the churches or mission rooms.1f each | earnest church were during the summer | mason, to hold an open-air service every eblath afternoon or evening, either in front , of its own door or iu some convenicnt place ! in its neighborhood, how much might be accomplished ; and §¢ the Young Men's Chris tien Associations would arrange forgneetings in the parts of the city where there are faw | or no churches, the reproach so often brought | that they beglect the | \" against Christiune, | heathen at bome in order to attend to the hea- .then abroad, would be rolled away.Aud ater all, it would only be obeving the Mester's | command, who raid, * Go ye iuw ail che world | and preach the Gospel to every creature\u201d ; and, again, \u201cGo out into the etroetaand lanes, and ! highways, std hedges, and compel them to come in.\u201d = The bay famine is seriously ft in some sections of Vermont.Many of tue cabtl>- | owners arc entirely destitute of hay, proven- | der, and the means to obtain either.Calls \u201cbave been made upon the Bulectmen of | towns for help, and many mote are anticipet- ed.There is danger that many auimals must , starve.| \u2014 A French settlement called St.Etienne from the French town of that nam-, ls being established at Eltingville, Staten Islsnd, on à large tract of land which is picturesquely { situated on the bay, aud extends back to the railroad.The colonists are silk weavers, an are settling there under the auspices of the u Staten Island Silk Company,\u201d an associs- tion of Freuch capitaliats in thie city, who have set apart the morthern portion of the | tract, bordering ou the allroad, for a site for a factory.\u2014 With the exception of only one * nay,\u201d | additional rule in the Treaty of Washington, | and praying the Evnate to ratify it, were adopted by the Chamber of Commerce Feator- dsy.This action will, no donbt, have an important bearing on the disposition of the new article by tbe Senate.The course of President Grant in submitting the matter to the Senate, leaving that body free to act as they see fit, is most unwise ; And the momentous interests involved should remove the issues from the arcns of party strife.He who sacrifices to party in this case what is due to mankind, ls not acting either maa Christian or patriot.\u2014N.I.Witness.Avsacs.\u2014The Pail Nail Gazetts referring to a telegram that sppesred in the London journals stating that many Alsatisus who are liable to military service have voluntarily enlisted in the German Lancet regimeut stationed at Strasburg, and in the 115th Regl- meut of the Line, sayn thin statement needs explanation.\u201c The apparent meaning of it fa that 8 certain number of Aluatisns bave of their own accord entered the German army \u2014an idea which may be at once dismissed.All Almatiaps of twenty, not having served iu tbe French army, are to be taken by con- actiption for the army of Germany in October next ; and youths capable of passing the test examination prescribed for \u2018one-year volun- tecrs\u2019 may, M elsawhere in the German Empire, escape three years\u201d service by volunteering for & twelvemonsh.The Alsatian volunteers are young men anxious to profit by this permission ; and it must be remember- .od that the choice for thom lay not between , srving end not serviog in the German army, , but between serving for ous yest and serving for three.\" \u2014 CORRESPONDENCE, GERMAN EMIGRATION TO CANADA.The following deeply interesting letter is from & gentleman who has recently returned to Canada after more than two year\u2019 stay in the German portions of Europe.It will be found well wocthy of thoughtful perusal :\u2014 (To the Editor of the Witness.) TRE GORMAN CEARACTBA.Sin\u2014It will be unnecessary for me to enlarge on the character of the Germaus and the adven- ger of n German element In oùr population, eir industry and economy sre already too and to the | \u2018 i , 1 ! | i + \\ ! | the resolutions recommending the proposed | cany immigrants ate not paupers, and isuy of these Germans ovuld with the greatsst case buy a furm at « moderste price, aud be glad of the opportunity Aud pow that the door to cur great West Ts throwh open, so alms st unlimited supply is offered for the taking to lie 10iling, kroaning millions of over-storked, over-taxed Europe, In this respect wa have advantages to offer at least equal to those in the l'uited Hiates, Vast pumbers of these (ierman immigrants are Jnborers and me chanics, Juve we no work for such \u2018The cry for laborers and servants, und the returns of our manufactorics, answer most emphatically that hundreds and thousands could find employment at respsctable wages, and that the supply would but increase für demand.Why, then, don't they come?Are their political proclivities against us, and in favor of republicanism ?Not at ali, as a rule.Very few leave Germany from mere political motives.They leave to find & better home and Lyighter prospects for their children.There is indeed s widespread dread of the looseness of a government under which lyach law is 50 powuiful, and whose shadows sro an faithfully reported aeTors the sea as the brighter traits.I do tot hesitate to say that thousands sud thousands sre kept at home from mistrust f the government of the ncixhboring repuvlie, Do they avoid us because we are British ?Not at all ; they are not vo inimical to ail thst is Englith as some sec to suppose, Mou talk sneeringly of England's dueadence of late, snd of her loss of prestige in the councils of Europe, 1 bave fouud it otherwise, Nu throne is regarded as more stable than Bri- taiu's.No crowned bead is more respected than Britain's Queen and the avte of no other government are more parrowly watched in vider to lvain lessons of political economy.When England's Énances reported 8 balance on the right side, and taxes were reduced as 8 consequence, all Europe stood amazod and wondered how it could be done.When the State Church of Ireland was separated, every step was closely observed, and other states bave followed aud are now following in her wake.England may no longer be so feared, but sho is envied, and her prostige is of 8 higher and nobler character than that of arms.The respect for ber army aud navy in none the less, while her moral power is greater tLan ever.The thought of becorning s Bel- ton uss nothing in iteelf repagnsut to the German tind, THE HEASOK WAY.What, then, are the bindrances ?Une of the most potent 1s ignorance of oor country, ignorance of ite political position and of its internal sdvantages Almost every ides I beard amongst the Germmaus at home had ANNUAL GUBSORIPTIONS.Daily Witness, Delivered, 94.00 1 Mailed, $3.00 Tr-Weskly, 92.001 Weekly, 91.00, How Dominion Monthly, $1.80.Canadian Messenger, 300._ No 62 course of the Ottawa River by stage, and by boat when .The farther you ge the less inviting does the prospect become.1 don\u2019t mean the sounery, for that ia really besa.tiful.Sometimes you could simost fascy yourself on the Hhine snd further back in Thorne you find acenes of lakes above aud rocky walls of tiny mountains that remind you of à miniature Tyrol.These are all very good in their way; but to the hamgry emigraut seeking for land they are mather repellant than otherwise, The prospect of crops snd harvests plenty grows less promising.You pass sove- ral portages by means of sages over rough roads.Un efther band you have for miles os miles an endless arrey of bisck stems and bare (hand batches of burned forosts,inters persed with occasional deserted clearings whore pop lass sud random shrubbery grow wild.The character of the 80.1 will by well ua.derstood by all who bave studied the matt.r at ull, when they considez that à ridge of tho Lavrentisn formation runs scress the river i these repious and over the North of the Province.Alopg the immediste valley of the river, and in sume utber favored spots, are some excellent lande, while further back, rock\u2014bare, bard rock\u2014 is the preva nt soil, with a sprivk.ling in its hollows of light saud, on which the red pine grows, but which wuen cleared will not even gruw healthy grass.la cuuutloss desurted clearings you can find little besides rock, sand and \u201c greeu sorrel! Huwover, swonget the rocks and sand are occarioand ppicpen ot lack mond.Happy the man a pate enough to yet @ farm of oue or more Lundred scree and then discover somewhere ons of those previous spots! TRE UESULT.Now, what is the resuit as fac aa the settlers ans copcermd?Bumie came with mesus sod have dove tulerubly well by dint of had work, and favored with 8 tolerally happy choice of land, These ary few.Others came with little means aud out ofa patch of mould have done pretty well; but the great majority merely exist by latoring iu the shantius in the winter, aud tiling on their stony © patch\u201d in summer.} um told that when they have au Average of cight bushels of wheat to the acre, they consider it à very good season, and that they often reap less than they sow.It tes rare thing that they sell suytbiug off their farm excepting wild raspberries, which they carry many & weary mile to fiud à market.Une man was telling me of lis prosperity this ycar over last, and said he had always bed to luy food : but this last harvest he was able to scl] à few Lush-1s of putatocs, Tuo fact is, they bave to live in such a way sé no other civiliz-d community could live so as to exiet atall, on land white other nationalities would starve.True, there are many of them who are hardly snuible of their own hard fare, from the fact that they are a stop higher than they were at home, where they suffered a kind ; of slavery, sud may have been glad of the pickings of the ewill barrel to sppeate their hunger, lhey bave been in that region now from ÿ to 34 yvare, and very few have replaced the cne-roomed calin buiit on their arrival.The most of those who make any- thiug remove either to the States or to other , 1tn of Censdn\u2014a thing they do with the greatest reluctance, as they are very strong in their gregarious tendencies.ANTI TMKIGRATION TREDENCY.Now, what has this to do with emigration ?Nearly every family of Germans on the Cppe Ottawa may Le looked upon as à counter «migrant agent, to keep men away from our laud.A few have followed theïe friends hither, but very few with the intention of staying; yet the ties of kindred and nation ality do overcome sometimes the attractions of better prospects elsewhere.They tell me, one and all, with whom I spoke on the sub ject: «Our friends, families on families of them, want to come ont, and write to ns for information and aid, but we can\u2019t with a clear copscience ark them to come here.The set- ti ments sre spall, and pour, sud scattered ; the land can never have any agricultural worth, we caD never support schools nor churchis properly ; our children are growing up ignorant and discontented.and we don't kbow what tp cay to them It in said that hundreds of families turned their attention in this direction during the American war; but ® | when they saw the rocks they were expected, strong tlavor of the medium through which : pot, to accept as 8 gift, but to purchase for a news from Canada reached them.Of course we can't euppose that reports from Canada wonld te much improved by passing through the hands of American reporters and publishers.The ides I found most prevalent was that Causds iss cold, dreary region, where wig- was are more numerous than houses, and then, to crown it all, the poor people are subject to a distant power, int whote coffers they are compelled to pour their bard-got gains as tribute! When I told them of the real state of affaire=of our healthy and streng theming climate, of our soil which will repay the bnsbandman\u2019s toil, of our civilisation from which even Europe might learn, of our freedom without license, which any uation might envy, and above all, of our real connection with Tritain, which gives us strength and sta bility while it not only receives no direct tribute but saves usa vast outlay which in apy other case wonld be absolutely necessary \u2014Why, they said, that's the very place where we would like to go I\" Why this ignorance ?The answer is very : They have not been taught otherwise.The United States have acted promptly and well io this matter, In every district, in almost every hamlet, are notices and adver.tisemuents of lands in the Far West.Almoet every paper directs attention to the address of the emigraut agent ; and pamphlets, with maps, descriptions and statistics arc as plentiful as black bread snd smoked sausage, But from vne end of the laud to the other, from Jannary to Jauuary, nothing is seen or heard of Canada in the papers, unless it be a murder ors detailed, twisted account of tronbles with French half-breeds by way of Bt.Pauls.No address of emigrant agent, no uotice of land tor sale or to be given away, no map no sta.tastica,no posted bills\u2014nothing.Ob yes, [ must not forget that 1 did hear ouce of one notice put upin en almost unknown railway station fu Wurtemberg! The great cause of this ignorance is wast of effort on the part of Ca pada ; not bere in Canads, but at home.What ia the use of all these colored advertisements in German stuck uw in our railway stations sod hotels, offering land to the Germans ?No use whatever.Not one immigrant in a hundred leaves Germany without a deGoite desti- uaticn, and all our advertisements won't detain him short of that.DISCOUHAGRNENTS.Another cause of the paucity of Germans here is their actual treatment in Casads.Not a few instances of personal hardship bave | read.Take one instance.A man camo full of hope to Canada, sccking employment, lo na- pounced bimeelfat the Immigration Office on landing.He was told that emigration wad certainly their business, but that they did not deal with lndiriduale-the fact being over looked that communities are made up of individuals, snd that the proper cate of & single individual would very probably be the means of reaching hundreds, That men wandered about seeking in vain for himeelf what «a triendly word from an agent might bave secured him, and then, disappolated and di ated with Osneds, tovk advan ot « vensel etart- ing for Europe, and worked bls passage home again, and there he is to-day, in all probability à standing reproach to us, and en un, id agent to keep men away from our shores.The influence of such some met potent amongst 0 hae SANT TO GETE ANOKGST THN BOOKS.The mont culpable act of discouragement to Germes emigration on the part of Canada was tbe sonding of some acotes of farailios 9 to the desolate rocks oi the Upper Ottawa.word or bv about his disrlt bor the Pome - z tL | | | } | price they turned away and sought a home elsewhere, These seltlemments are simply 8 dead weight on every effort towards securing emigrants from that part of the Vaterland from which they come.They are mostly Pomer- anians, and Lardy intelligent men they are.They deserve 8 Letter chance for themselves for their offspring, sud for those whom they would bring 1f they conld.WHAT SHOULD BE DONE.What has our country done to attract emigrants here from Germany 7 Very little, indeed, that 1 can see.Immense sums of monty have been voted for emigration purposes, and occasional spasmoric attempts have been made, and then all has passed away and been forgotten, A simple and easy lan of emigration agency in Uermany would be an eany thivg to accomplish, if the object wers simply to throw open our country\u2019s advantages to all deserving emigrants of whatever pation or creed; but there seems tobe a bidden wire somewhere to pull, which makes it more desimble to use an endless amount of rud-tape, and give some friend a pleasure trip across tbe coran.Two things ought to be done to ensure anything like à healthy and satisfactory emigration to onr country :\u2014 1.in the first place, we mnst make the country really attractive, by treating emigrants well who come, and then make the advantages of the lend generally and thoroughly known, That blot on our national eacutcheon-the existence of those German settlements on the Upper Ottawa\u2014ought tobe removed.Take 8 dozen of those familles and transplant them to the fertile West, where they will have room to grow, snd they wiil do more real emigration work for the Dominion than #9 many agents sent to the old country st the cost of thousands à year.Of course that seems at present no easy matter to accomplith.But if our Dominion Gore crument can\u2019t do it, because these Germans are Canadians siceady, sad per they are mostly Protestants\u2014if the TOment of Ontario cannot do it, as they would.very naturally not like to send sway theirown ple\u2014it must be done by private means, by noble-souled and patriotic men, who bave the many-tided interests of our national fatare at heart.(It will perhaps be ouly right for me to may here that some gentlemen in Government «mploy are indirectly doing what they can for these people.) 2.The second thing is to make use of arrangements actually existing alt over Gare many snd Switseriand for the benefit of exiat- ing emigmnts.There are offices for this pure pose ln different cities, whose branches extend to ail parts of the land, where they sell ticket to ail parts of America.\u2018The agente there pather the emigrnnta together and accompany them to Havre, Bremen, or Hamburg, where {hey are seen miely on shipboard, and bidden God-speed on their journey to thee new home.These are not paid agents of any eountry, bat the whole arrangement is the result of private enterprise ; snd could they make à duilet dy velling & few ticketa to Canada, they would do it as willingly as for the States.The only thing ts to make them thoroughly soquatnted with ovr country and its advantages ; let them de able to offer reasonatiie rates of passes) and thet advertiss, Little stresms woul theo begin in unexpected places, and flow to- futher until shortly, from sll these portaship.cade would sail for Canads, asd not for the Btates through Canada.WUAT 36 ACTUALLY BEING DOWER.But what ls eotually done ?Judging from veports the present ministontion fo tends to sa emigration « policy\u201d with nergy.have nothing to say dbves that policy an vegans other salions, Shon Lise CO mit a. A Tle \u201c= Clare vom _\u2014 \u2014o-ceus = WE \u201cm4 wondered why an agent should be stationed In Belgium, where very fow over think of migrating.But as regards Germany, a nt has been sppoluted, with several sul to manipulate this policy among the Teutons.But where are they sent ?To Pomeranla, whence the hardy men of the Ostawa bail, and where the climate prepares them for our own?Not at all; the fame of the Ottawa Valley has gone bofore them there, But direct and almost exclusively to discontented Alsace and Lorraine, where they are to besd all their energies to obtain men who are ath wa Catholic in all their sym] , ve may very ly ask, do they go just thers, and only thers, where political discontent alone loosens the hold of the people on the land of their fathers\u2014a land rich in corn and wise, and where they are whhed away for their country's good\u2014instead of going \u2018where needy populations present a field already white unto the harvest 7 The object ls to get some of the lords of the soil to soll out emigrate with all their tenantry, &c., and make a grand settlement in the West.A very nice thing in theory, indeed, to people our land with & population and their rulers ; so nice to have some few specimens here of the old feuda! times! And then they would fit in #0 nicely with the present inhabitants of fair Manitota\u2014the blethright of the metis / The bead emigration agent carries all the Government papers for the whole company, and none of the others can act without his direction, and bis hands are ticd,so that bis can only do as the man at the wheel may\u2014nod.He is supplied sith letters from the Roman Catholic Bishops of Canada to the Roman Catholic Bishops of Alsace and Lorraine, with strict injunctions to follow their directions, Why Is this ?wo ask satonished, «Ub, you know Manitobs is French and Roman Catholic, abd that is just the sort of people to be sent out there ; they would find themselves at home at once\u201d Indeed ! 1 am much at a loss to know how an; part of our Dominion must be either Frenc or Roman by appointment of the titete.1fit 1a to be understood in Europe that popery le the State religion of Canads or of Manitoba, it would be well for us to know it here,\u2019 Mz.Editor, I fear 1 have been too lengthy for your valuable columns, but where 1 sve such a constant evidince of many-sided mie.rule and the only balf-hidden grasp of Rome at the belm of State, Tam sick st heart.How long, how long ehall it be thus?J have no {dea of preaching a crusade against either the Government or the I.C.Church, but as 8 Canadian and as a Christian I do hope aud pray tor the time when the power which controls the State will be patent to see, and when our nation's gates will be thrown open without fear or favor ; when true liberty ahall beknown in all our borders, and equal ad.\u2018vantages offéred to all men, with special favor to none.Yours very truly, Cuarces S.Es.Preston, Ont, April 26.PARLIAMENTARY COBRESPONDENCE (Special Cor.of Witnems.) Orsawa, May 20.TAX ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE.The proceedings of today were not very inter eting, and nothing in the shape of excitement varied the quict routine of an ordinary private bill day.Towards six o'clock the motion and speech of Mr.Hoss, of Dundas, in favor of a tax on sgricultural produce of the Rtates, threatened to raise a protectionist and froe-tiade breeze ; but after the hon.gentlo- man had sat down the question was summarily disposed of Ly the raising of the point of order: No private member has a right to initiate anything calcuisted to affect the revenue or incivasc taxation.The argument of Mr.Ross met the views of thie rurale, who believe the farmers desire and require protection as well as manufa-tur.r< aud others, a8 pricés bave been unremunerative of late, and the Americaus show no disposition to abandon their one-sided system.Neither Government nor Opposition, however, appeared much interested in the arguments urged, or ready to take action in the matter.TRE BT.CLAIR FLATS CANAL.Mr.Mackenzie's remarks on the St.Clair Carul attracted the notices of members.Bis complaint about the practical surrender | of Cavada's pretensions to the disputed channel by the treaty was grave vhough, tending to crente tbe conclusion that Canadian interests had in this instance been sacrificed.His accusation of American aggressiveness in like transactions, coupled with the assertion that by important American authorities snd general copnent the disputed channel belonged to Canada heightened the uneasiness produced by the ventilation of this subject, The Premier's explanations after dinner went far toresasure membern,by presehting the prospect of à joint peaceablo use of the canal by both Dations, and ri moving tbe impression that the question had Lun finally settled against Ca- pace, 88 the treaty had not cloeed the boundary controversy, which had yet to be dealt with, though it extended all navigation faci- Htics to Canadians as well aa to Americans.FEW RRUNEWICK SCHOOL LAW, Mr.Costigan again brouzht up the grievances of Now Drunswick Catholics on the school question, repeating the old complaints, and though informed by the Premier that Parliament bad no jurisdiction in the matter, and that tbe Provincial Lginlature could ant be interferred with, he persistentiy retravetled the whole ground, and was followed by Mr.| Bellerose, who spoke Ebglish very well, determining to make biramelfl ndderstood and to make sn impression upon the House, Bir G.E.Cartier's long rambling speech in reply \u2018was designed to convince hia followers of the dangerous policy of meddling with qnestions reserved to Local Legislatures, and of appealing Provincial grievances to a central y whose majority was Protestant, In course of Lis remarks the N.B.School system was condemned as unjust to Roman Catholics, and its early repeal predicted.One of Cartier's obiecix was to quiet the discontent of his Roman Catholic followers and induce them to atandon the present agitation, which some of them seemed Indlaposed to do.The asaal small compliments were paid to the liberality of the Roman Catholic wajority of Quebec in dealing with the School nuestion and others aflecting Protestants.FREEMASONRY\u2014A REPLY TO 4 ANTI- MASONIC.» (To the Editor of the Witness.) Fig] bave reed a letter from \u201c Anti-Ma- sonic\" in your issue of Z0tb, and would fuel obliged If you could give room to à few lines, which (ae tar, nt | es one point in his letter Is concerned) will disprore his statement, He says: # eo eo o * * and then began such a scene that fully established, among otber things, the (act that Masons, being true to their oaths as such, could not be true to jua- téos mor the laws or interests of their country.\u201d {Te italics are mine.) Ac \u201cAnti-Masonic le so fond of quoting a book entitled « The Book of Constitution of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Canada | suppose, in possession of ft, and 1 émply will rofer bim to pare 89 (Edition 1870) of tha same, where in the section of the \u2018 Charge to a newly fnitlated Candidate \" be wili find the follow.it tail blii © \u20ac ® PB Cmcorarion or van Wirunes during the week ending May 184, and the corres.poading week of last year :\u2014 TRLWEEKLY, WEBRLE, w [A Total per week.620 Total par week.7.400 voi.nae u Moutreal Witness THURSDAY, MAY #3, 1872, A MILLION DOLLAR JOB.The Church of Rome has had a long spell of successful intrigue mod acquisition.She has fomented rebellion,compassud the death of a Protestant, and got 1,400,000 acres of land for distribution among the metis, from whom its tiansfer will be easy to herself, Aud now it is the turn of the Hudson Bay Company to enrich itself at the public expense.Between the town of Winnipeg and Fort Garry is a stretch of bigh and dry prairie land containing about six hundred acres, situated at the confluence of the Red River and Assiniboine, with the great highwaye of the Province convergiog to it.This plain, itis believed, will be the sito of the future metro polis of the North-West.Of this the Hudson deal of the land in it in the hands of a wealthy Bay Company at the time of the transfor of the country, were only allowed 10 acres round their fort as a reserve.Nevertheless thoy continued to hold possession of the entire tract, in rpite of the several attempta to dispossess them ; and now it appears that by some underhand means the 10 acres In the original grant bave been transformed into 500, and the Company have acquired a title to the ownership of this location, which is valued at $1,000000, The Manitoba Literal says it is reported that the thing was done by means of an onder in Council from Ottaws, and it this be true the Dominion Government have wilfully thrown away st least $1,000,000, The avowed object of the Company is stated to be te lay out this land in building lots and scl! the same to the highest bidders, snd it may be guessed what a splendid profit they will make when it is stated on the autbority of the Manitoba Trade Review (a journal by no means unfriendly to the Company) that all the public buildings, such as the Post.oftice, ' Parliument Loildings, Custom House, &c., are to be erected on these 500 acres, This, of course, will enhance the value of the lots there, but property in the present town of Winnipeg will be seriously depreciated.Win- i Bipez is progressing most rapidly towards Point Douglass on the north, while the tract | sized by the Company is on the south side, stretching to Fort Garry.If this unjust scheme be carried out, the Trade Review says # the people of Winnipeg, through the action | of their Government, will, within a year or i two, find their property situated on the out- rkirts instead of, as it should be, in the centre of a city ; and their investments in the country will decrease from year to year in value, instead of increasing.\u201d Even in regard to the ground for these public buildings, the Company showed unparalleled meanness ; for, according to the Trad Review\u201c when our Local Government hero asked that 100 acres might be laid aside for the purpose of erecting Government buildings thereon, and laying out a park for the comfort aud enjoyment of the people, the answer waa 50 acres; or, in other words, the meanest immigrant can ob tain by right 110 scres more than our own Government was able to get by asking for it.Certainly, we in Manitoba are to be envied!\" It is bard to say which of the parties has behaved most disgracefully in the above matter\u2014the Hudson Bay Company by their | greed, or the Dominion Government by their | indecent subserviency.Are Canadians to | pride themselves on living under and sustaining a Government that has proved itself the mere tool of a grasping hierarchy and an un- ! scrupulous corporation ?It is impossible to calculate the misery laid up for a city by the locking up of a great company, whcse interests will for ever stand before those of the community.Horace Greeley\u2019s shdication of his post as Editor of the Tribune, during the presidential canvas, has, naturally, excited general remark.It was, and may be still, the popular opinion amongst the Western tarmers that he wrote all the articles, Ilow the Tribune can get along without Greeley, or Greeley without the Tribune, It is hard to say; for they have long been identified.Public oplaion is pretty evenly divided on the wisdom of his abdication ; but very few are found to question the motives that prompted it, or the good faith in which it will be carried out.One cause of the philosopher's temporary retirement may be that his sanctum has lately been invaded aud transformed into sn \u201c old curlosity shop.\u201d Almost every friend in New York has (ols bound to send Mr.Greeley either some likeness of his well.known countenance, or an old felt bat as a votive offering, Besides, multitades of pilgrims are preparing te visit the ebrine, The New York //ere:d expatintes on the advantages Chappaqua will afford as the headquarters of a successful campaign, and pro.dicts that Gresley, as the modern Cincinnatus, the man of the plough, will be able to easily defeat Grant, the man of the sword, The Times stands almost alone in the atate- ment that Horsce Gresley retires from the foreground of the Tribune to dictate ita policy in the background\u2014that the proprietor of the abow conceals himself behind the scenes that he might enjoy & better opportunity for pull.log the wires that make the puppets jump The World, Mr.Greeley's life-long adversary, unhesitatingiy scknowledges the good sense and propriety of the act.\u2018The over.fastidious taste displayed by that journal when sitting in judgment upon the conduct of outsiders, cannot help displaying Itself in the case of the retiring journalist.It says: ¢ We think he ought to have taken this wise and decorous step a little souner\u2019 To make smends for this little censure It pays the following graceful compliment : \u2018 Whatever figure Mr.Creeley may make as President, if he should be #0 unfortunate as $0 be elected, it cannot be forgotten that journalism is e pursuit io whiok bho was foesls prinecpe; and We shall be too glad to welcome him back to this field of ase.fainos and Infnence In (be early part of levember, if he should be maved the au of being rus down by oflos-seskers.\u201d enntime it recommends him to ge to » | That and notbing more.THE MONTREAL WITNFSN.Europe or to the Far West, lost he sheuld be suspected of inspiring what he does not write.OFFICE BEEKING.This is the bane of party politics.The good old rule is no longer regarded that \u201ctho place should sock tbe man\u201d The man now seeks the place.In the Old World, still, the best man Is nominated for the highest «ices jim the New, tho most available, There, Le retains it during good behaviour : here, till à change of parties, Our neighbors will be wholly occupied till late in the autumn with this scramble for offices.We can open no exchange that is not full of it.Thu season is like a cholera season, when every ordinary disease seems to assume the type of the epidemic.One la reminded of the poor lunatic who at his imegi- nary banquets was troubled with the uneasy sensation that somehow or other \u201cthey all tasted of porvidge.\u201d Politics, news, legislation, diplomacy, to whichever department of the paper we turn, the miserable dish is alt that is served up to us and partly disguised in sume new form.Porridge itself wers a better bill of foro than to bave forever before us, as if by unceasing miracle, what Jefferson called \u201cseven principles: five loavesand two fishes\u201d Most candidates we opine, to whatever party they belong, are sound on (he \u201cseven principles\u201d They embrace pretty much ali that is involved in the contest, They all claim that they are entitled to some office for party services they bave already rendered, instead of their being better qualified than others to promote the public good.This whole system of office-secking is wrong end vicions.Every four years the country Is turned upside down, whiist over a bundred thousand oftices are sought for their honors, salaries, and, most of all, for the opportunity afforded to ** make a good thing\u201d out ofthem, One swarm of hungry cluimants succeeds another, like the successive plagues of the locust, paîmer-wort and canker-worm.By the way, such party names would Le mors cuphonious and significaut than Barnburners, Locufocos and Silver-greys.The country Is robbed, and, what is worse, all in turn are likely to be corrupted by oflice-seeking.Thus, in the face of all true economy, the American nation allows itself to be devoured by thousands of half-starved office-holders, who are forever giving place to men hungrier still, Under these circumstances, we have heen amused by an exchange that ls at the trouble to hunt up the meaning of the word « office\u201d in the dictionary, It is found to be a deriva tive compound of two Latin words that signify \u201cto perform work.\u201d Office, then, means service, It means that, and nothing clee.It means work, instead of wages.This is the true idea of the word.We trust that the announcement of the lexicographer's definition will scatter this whole army of lazy oftice-seckers, as th reading of the riot act would disperse a mob, It, at least, aflords œuother instance of what Trench, in Lis \u201cUse of Words,\u201d would call the scondary meaning they come to have at.tachecd to them showing a degeneracy of mannere, TRADES UNIONS, \u2018The bill which has been laid before Parliament by Sir J.A.Macdonald for assimilating tbe law regarding trade unions with that of England on the same subject, enacts that such unions are not unlawful by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade Rut trade union contracts, looking to merely trade regulations, are not enforceable before any Court, ese unions must be registered and will have power to hold real estate for : buildings, the same to be vested in trustes, Any member of 8 trade union withholding or misapplyipg money, &:., of such union is punishable ; aud the bill in general is, we speak of the suport from Brital; foreign countries and the Colonies, fin adhe ad vantage derived is the profit yielded to the merchants on thelr venture.The bemefit to Britain le the sun total of thess exports, In 1871 that smounted to $1,110,000,000, which was just so much added to the wages and rofit of the inhabitants of Britaln.Of this brie amount the Colonics took nearly à fourth, or £255,000,000, As far as that was the produce of Dritaly, it is evident that all the expenses connected with the change from raw material to manufactured goods went into the pockets of differvnt classes of the home community, And even where the raw material was imported, the same thing could be amid; for, lu order to purchase that, other manufactured goods must Lave been sent, Of course this would not apply to the foreign manufactured goods, amounting in all to some fifty millions of dollars, sent to Britain for exportation ; but the Colonies take very little of these, Then there are very Important indirect operations caused by the Colonles, which really swell the value of their trade, though it dves nut sppear at first sight.Goode, for instance, are sunt to China, with the order that a return cargo of tes should go directly toCansda.Buch an export is evidently to be put to the credit of that Colony.\u201d \u2018I en too he shows that * the consumption of Hritlsh manufactured goods per head of population is out of sight larger in the Colonies than in any Mreign country, « For iustance, in 1868 the consumption of such goods in tbe North Amsilcau Culonivs was at the rate of 36,35 per head ; in Austra- lisand New Zealand, $31 86 ; lu the Caps and Natal, In 1865, $43 | in the West Indies, in 1861, 213; while fn the United Btates, in 1870, Ît was only à little over $3 ; in France, in 1806, $1,50 ; In Germany, in 1857, $1 70 ; in Italy, in 1808, S1 ; and lu Brasil, $2.52.\u201cOf all the imports in the three yours 1844 6 into the North American Colonies 42 per cent, was of British produce ; into Australia, 47; to the Cape aud Natal, 607 wbile to the United Btatco Ît was 31 ; to Frante 9 ; to Spain 18 ; to Russia 17 ; and to Beigidn 8.« Ofall tbe tonnagethatuntered the different colonial and foreign porta in three ycaru\u2014the Iatest for which returns could de securoed\u2014in the case of the North American Colonies 80 percent.was British: Anstralls, 03; Cape, &c., #5; West Indies, 60; Ceylon, 87; while iu the United Staten it way 47; France 36; Hanse Towns, 36 ; Hussla, 34 ; Italy 23.« Would this continue if the Colonies were independent?Mr, Hamilten shows conclusively that it would not.\u201d The advantages afforded by the Colonies to Britaïn in connection with emigration are shown to be very great, as are also, on the other hand, those accruing te the Colonies from British connection; but we bave no room for Mr, Hamiltou's details under this head.\u201cThen as to the expense.Ie it x0 great as represented ?Has it ever been in the most expensive times t Me, Hamilton shows that it bas nos.\u2018The Parliamentary returns bave been made in à way which leaves their accuracy open to great question.For the 19 years frum 185 to 1871, all the expenses cou- nected with the gaols, police and military, in the penal Colonies, and for the trausport of convicts from Britain, have Leen actually charged to the Colonics, But let the re- ture be taken even as they are, amd what do we find?That the money that has come into the Imperial Exchequer from the prolits made on Colonial trade for the same period, has covered and more than covered all the alleged expense ;\u2014the surplus being on the most moderate calculstion more than $500,000,000, 1{ we take 1871 alone, the thing is seen still more distinctly, During that year, the total expense of the Colonics was £1,111 900, The texation ou the pruiity, made by bome produce exported during the samo time, was 22,680,000.The Imperial Treasury was accordingly benefited directly in that one year tc the cxtent of nearly seven millions and æ half of dollars.We are to bear in mind, also, that foreign countries involve exj-ense in the way of Amoassadors and Consule, as weil as of cruisers to protect the trade.\u201cOn the subject of Colonial tariffs, Mr.Hamilton apeuks very Benaibly.He shown that Colonies must have money to carry on the business of the country, and that so long sa hostile, protective, aud discriminating tarifls are not resorted to, Britain has uo reason to crmÿlain.* The advantages of the Colonies to Britain in caso of war are dwelt upon with special force, For the supply of food, for coaliug stations, for fiicudly hatbors of refuge and repairs, they are shown to be indispensable.believe, neatly a transcript of the English | Without Canada as & colony, of in a state of statute legalizing trade unions.Under itno © offensive and defensive alliance, which would | be about the same thing, how could British master or father, ron or brother of a master, war steamers keep to sea on either the Atlan- in the particular business in connection with ! tic or Pacitic Oceans?Let all Colonial ports which any offence under the act is charged to have been committed, can act as 8 magistrate or judge in the case; and the term \u201c trade union\u201d is, held to mean such combination, whether temporary or permsaent, for regu- Iating the relations between workmen and masters, or for imposing restrictive conditions on the conduct of any trade or business, as would, if this act had not been passed, have been deemed to be an unlawful combination by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in restraint of trade.A bill which is a sort of complement to the foregoing, is aleo before Parliament.It provides for the punishment of persons guilty of Intimidating masters or workmen, aud such intimidation ia thus defined :\u2014 Being a master, to dismiss or cease to employ any workman ; or beiug 8 workman, to quit any employment, or return work before it is finished ; being & master, not to offer, or being & workman, not to accept any emplay- ment or work ; being à master or workman to Lelong to, or not to belong to,any temporary or permanent association or cumbination ; being à master, to alter the mode of carrying on his business, or the number or description of any persons employec by him, Any person guilty as above will be liable to three months\u2019 imprisonment, with or with out bard labor, The following are the do- finitions of what is meant by molesting or obstructing :\u2014 If he persistently follows such other person about from place to place ; or if he hides any tools, clothes, or other property owned or used by such other person, or deprives him of, or hinders him in the use thereof ; or if he watches or besets the house or place where such other person resides or works or carries on business, or happens to be, or the approach to such house or place, or if with two or more other persons he follows such other person in a disorderly manner in or through any street or road.As under the preceding Act, eo in this ; no master, or father, son, or brother of à master in the particular business in connection with which any offence under the Act id charged bo have been committed can act aes magistrate in the case.; _ COLONIAL RELATIONS, There bas of late been much discussion of the relation that the Colonies sustain to the Mother Country, which, on the whole, has done good.One of the mort valuable contributions to the literature of this subject with which we have recently mot, is a paper read before the Statistical Bociety, London, Eng- and, om the 19th of last March, by Mr, Archl- bald Hamilton ; an abstract of which is given in the Toronto Glebe.A wiser policy, according to Mr.Hamilton, then the one pursued by the Colonial Office would bave been to bind the Colonies and Parent Binbe more closely teguibier.île thus shows how for they are from being » burden oa Britala: + Ws are not to think, whea we be either neutral or hostile, and Britain would be iu a very different position from what she iz in to day for disputing with a maritime rival the sovereignty of tho seas.# Nor isthe question of mere \u2018 sentimont\u2019 to be overlooked, though with a disciple of ; the Manchester School Itmight be regarded with supreme contempt.That has done wonders in the days past, and will ju the: days to come ;and it will bea md day for Britain when the integrity or disraption of her Empire fs to be retitled altogether from sentiment, and merely on the hard-cash question.Which will pay best ?The maintenance of the Km.pire, Mr.Hamilton shows, wdl pay best ; but, even though it did not, it would not follow that it would be either honorable or, in the loug run, advantageous, that it should coms to an end.\u201d Lanor Savincs \u2014Attention has been called in Massacliusetis to the satements of General Uliver in the report of the \u201c Bureau of Statistics of Labor,\u201d concerning the deposits in Savings' Banks.According to his statements, the number of « wage-laborers\u201d who are depositors exceuds thai of capitaliste who are stich, Yet a large proportion of the deposits is owned by capitalists ; and a discussion bas arisen in the papers as to the prosperity of the \u201c wage-laberers*-of the State.\u2018The Legislative Committes on Banking bave investigated the subject ; snd the cashiers of the dificrent banks, though there is no opportunity for a classification of depositors incline to the opinion that very Sw persons who can: be properly termed capitalists have deposits in the Savings\u2019 Banks of the State, Several facts are stated which are wornh poting.Many domestios commenced with a deposit of twenty dollars, and increased it eventually to four or five hundred.Three.fourths to seven.eighths of the deposits are from the working-classes, In the South Boston Savings\u2019 Bank, for instance, thres-fourths of the depositors of $308 and upwards are actual laborers, who earn thelr living with their hands.Gen.Oliver, however, atill as werts that his conclusions sre warranted by the facts, and that he is ready #0 submit them to ay statistician.Ata hearing, Mr, MoNell, for the bureau, asked that bank officials be summoned by the Committes for examination, which the Oommtttes declined to do.Inmienarion.\u2014We to-dey devote considerable space om our firet page to à most interesting letter on German emigration to Canada ; its paucity, the reason why, end the best means of promoting it, slag with some remarks 08 the policy of sur Emigration Department, We bespeak 8 careful perusal of the letter In question, and shall be glad to see it extensively cepted by other papers.The letter supplies à very good description of how Oanada contrives te repel à splendid class of emigrants, whe are doing mighty work among our neighbors tu building ap the republic, It is uesless, oven fiticulondj de lament the pea.city of immigration to (be Dominion whea such elaborate plans amp laid by those la power to 16.In thle respect, as in others, the Ottawa Government seems $0 be & machine rus in the Interests of the Remish hierarchy.Its whole immigration polloy looks pitifully contemptible.Taurszaxcs Asp TuB Cuoncmes.\u2014 The temperance men of this city and country will be sincerely rejoiced to learn that the Weslcysu Conference, at its Annual Session, is about to hold in the St.James st.Church of thls city, a great public meeting in favor of Total Abstinence.This meeting will be directly under the patronage and control of the Conference, and is believed to be tho frst of the kind beld Ly any of the leading denomins- tions of this country, 1t is to be hoped, however, that all the other denominations wiil speedily follow this noble example.Indeed, it is almost certain that the timo is not far distant, when the church that will not avow its principles on this question, sod beartily labor for their advancement, will be left far bebfud in the glorious achiovements of truth, ** For teutb te truth, £0d is od, And (ruth Lhe day, wig, \u2018To doubt would be distoysity, To falter would be sin \u2014 The Ottawa Citizen understands that neither of the candidates in the Marquette election matter will be allowed to take the seat, though both have bewun returned, and both will be given the svesiousl sllowance with travelling expenses, LITERARY NOTICES.Lirn axp Tixns or Wasier.\u2014Now York : Harper Bro's, Dawson Bro's, Montreal.The third volume of Tycrman's life of the distinguished founder of the Methodists is now ready.It completes the work which we have aiready favorably noticed.The frontispiece is » portrait of oy in his 35th year.Seanous.\u2014Dy the Rev.De Witt Talmage Same publishers.The readers of the Wrrunss are already familiar with the style and interest of the sermons delivered by the popular preachee of the Brooklyn Tabernacle to a weekly audience of about three thousand persons.Of this volume it issufficient to say that it is well edited, and it will be read with interest by those who are sre bot, as a general thing, fond of sermon literature.Bawr Part su Roux \u2014New York : Carter Bro\u2019s\u2014F, E.Grafton, Montreal.\u2018This volume consists of a series of sermons preached in Rome last spring by J.B.Mac.duff, D.D., the well-known author of \u201c Memories of Uennesarct,\u201d &c., on the teachings, fellowships, and dying testimony of the great Apostle in the city of the Cresars.The intro- ducu «y chapter, which occupivs about une third of the book, contains much Information bearing upon the subj ct, gleaned by person obeervation and enquiry on the spot.DOMINION PARLIAMENT.SENATE.Orrawa, May 18.INK BINTH NONTTEAL JUDGE, Senator Buicau inquired winther the Government will during the present session appoint 8 sixth Puisne Judge of the Superior Court of Montreal, conformably with an Act of the Legislature of Quebec passed at ite last tesaion, Second, Whether resolutions wlll be introduced during the present session providing for the payment of the salary of the tixtb Judge, or whether & sum for the salary ofrixth Judge has been placed in the estimates for the year 1873.Third, Whether the Government intend to increase the salaries of Fuisne Judges of the Superior Const for Quebec, seeing these salarics are insufficient, considering the importaut dutien those Judges bave to fulfil, and the qualifications their bigh and responsible position requires them to possess, Senator Campbell replied that before the appropriation could be made m bill would have to be passed to legalize the action, aud the Government intended to fntroduce « meésatre including such provision, Second\u2014 Provision wonld be made for the salaries of all Judges, Third.\u2014I¢t is probable that the Government will revise the eslarica of all the Judges, as stated iu answer to the firat ingniry.The Ft, Francis and Megantic Railway Bill was read a third time and passed.HOUSE OF COMMONS.Orrawa, May 18 Mr.Cameron (Peel) presented the third report of the Standing Committee on Privileges aud Elections, showing that both the parties in the double return for the electoral district of Marquette were present and re.quented the Commitice to adjoura for aix weeka in order to allow them to produce their lists of electors, The Committee thereupoa adjourned.MISCELLANEOUS BILLS.Mr.Cameron moved to introduce a bill to amend the actrespecting the datos of promissory notes and bills of exchange, Mr.Morrison (Niagara) introduced a bill to incorporate the Sault Ste.Marie Railway and Bridge Company.The bill to amend the law relating to the fraudulent marking of merchandise ; the bill to make provision for the continuation and rxtension of the geological survey of Canada aud for the malntenance of the Geological Museum; the bill to amend the act respecting the Government Bavings Banks; the bl reapecting the public debt and the raising of loans authcrised by Parliament ; the bill fur the avoidance of doubla re apecting the larceny of stamps ; the bill to smend the Immigration Act of 1869; and the act to «xtend the Jaw relating to the inspection of produce were advanced a stage, he Lill to smend the act respecting the mail scrvice of Canads, and the act respecting the statutcs of Canada were read & third time and passed.PATUXTS.Hon.Mr.Pope moved the second reading of the bill respecting patents of inventions.\u2014 Cartied, Hon, Mr.Pope explained that the principal change was to do away with the one year's residence.There was another change.By the 28th section, it was made obligatory upon the party taking out a patent to manufacture within one year, but he proposed to extead the period.1i had been contended by a great many parties, with great reason, that ome year was insufficient to allow a patentee to prepare to manufacture and particalariy in cases where large capital was required, snd he therefore proposed to extend the time to two rare, Mr.Mills asked if the bill would allow a person to take out a patent for an article which bad been manufactured in the country before the patent had been taken ont, Mr.Pope replied that the bill allowed a tent to be taken out if an article had not en manufactured in this country for more than & year.Mr.Mackensie said be would move an amcndment If the hon, member did not consent to amend bis measure, which would protect manufactures already ostablished.Me.Pope was quite willing to amend his measure 50 as bo protect any manufactures established in the country before the passing of the act.The bill was amended in this sense, and with several other amendments was reported by the Committee.MANITODA.The act to indemuity the Execati ve Coun.ofl and others for the unavoidable expenditure of public money without any Parliemen- tary t occasioned the sending of sa expeditionary force to Manitobe in 1871, was possed through Commiites and was rend à third time.Orrawa, May 30.A number of petitions, were th ted nom were then presented, Among them were one from J.Rattray & Oo, and 3 others fo Montreal praying for sa in orepde te on Foreign cigare, r John A.Unison presented correspondence snd returde relative to the Ceughne- wags Indians es to enforcing the residence of Judges in thelr districts tn the Province of Qucbec, and as to judicial districts in the mmo noe, Mr.Introduced 8 bill to incorporate the Board of Trade of Chatham.Head a first time, \u2018The bill to natoralise A.C.P.Dodge was read a third time and passed.In Committee on the bill to incorporate the Dominion Water Works Company, Me, Blake said there was objection bo the bill in so far as it recognised the validity of a nt.He Lelieved that a clause should be nscrted to prevent such r ition.Mis 1m- ression was that such bills should be granted n the Local Legislature, Mr.Woud said there was sn error In the statement Just made.The Company was to be incorporated to supply water works to cities and towns in the bomiulon.There had been a clause giving power to expropriste land for the purpose of the act, regarding which he hed doubts, and ha track it out, Asto the l\u2019atent clause he had nv objection to strike it out.1lon.Mr.Blake maintaluod that the clause Le proposed was necessary.Sir John A.Macdonald agreed to this and suggested that such clause should be pro.pred.that the committee report and ask ; (ave to sit again.The act amending the act incorporating the British American Assurance Cu.; the act to incorporate the London and Canadian loan and Agency Company, limited ; the bill re.2pcting the Toronto Savinge Bank ; the bill to fucorporate the Bt, Catherines Bourd of Trude, snd the bill to incorporate the Mutual Life Assurance of Canads, were cead a third time and passed.WEST INDIA TRAUR.Mr.Gray asked whether it is the intention of the Government to include In the estimates for the ensuing year auy provision for subsidizing a line of steamers to the British West Indice, «8 recommended by tho commis sion to the British and Foreign West Tudies, Brasil and Mexico in the rrport'to the Government in 1866, Hon.Mr.Langevin stated that the Government fully appreciated the importance of such a course, Difficultics had been found, however, in the way of cstablishing such a line of steamers in 1809, A proposal was made from une of the Governments of the West Indie, Eu the attempt fell through.1t would te seen from the report of the Com- missicners that the trade of the British West Indies amounted to fifty millions, both imports and exports, while tbe trade with the Spanish West Indies amounted to three hun.dnd millions, so that it wes ituportant not to overlook the trade with the Spanish West lu- dive, The Government had been communi.ented with hy arveral Boards of Trade through on toe Dominion wifh regacd to this, and dutine iL voces they would take up the question, aud open communication with the British end Spanish West Indies, with the view {0 obtaining a portion of the subsidy required fur the purpose.He miso stated that Sir Hugh Ailan bad offered, when the nego- tistions were going on formerly, to put a line of steamers on this line, and to make à trip ounce fa fifteen daya for 10004 a trip, KATURALIZATION.Ms, Young moved for a return of all enrros.pordence «nu the recognition by Great Britain of German and other naturalized citizens as British rulijects.He remarked that under the luw which formerly existed, the naturslized 1itizen wan only considered à subject so long a8 he remained in the country, aud they were, on returning to their own country, liable to be firedd to serve in the armies of the country trem which they ocizinally came.This was fult to be & preut burdahip among many of var fellow-citizens, Wiunt Le most practically t wanted to point out van that by a recent Bo.tisk law, the subject of à country might be- i come properly naturalized when the country of Lite bisth had passed a Jaw enabling him to transfer his allepisnce to another canntry, sad when à country bad entercd into a treaty with Great Liitain to effect.What he desired was that an address should be presented to the Jumaiinl Parhament asking for such ao are rangement with the several German states.Sir J.A.Macdonald repli-d that thers was no correspondence of & recent date, What they would require to do wae to ask the lm.perial Parlisment to pass an act that any pur- son made a British subject by the Canadiana Parliament rhould be held to be a British subject for all purposes whatsoever, The Go- veinment of Canada tried to do this years sgo, end the difticulty then was not to prevent naturalization, Lut England having & multi- plicity of colonies feared some colonies might confer the righta of British sulyjects upon bar.lwriane.The Guvernment thought the matter important, and in the event of their failure to otfaiu the deaired end, the course proposed | by bis hon.friend might be resorted to \u2014The wotion was withdrawn, Several motions for addroases were carried.| WELLAND CANAL, Mr.McCallum\u2014 An address for teodurs for the excavation of Port Colborne harbor last year; also for tha reports made by the Ea- gineer in charge of the survey of the Welland Cana) in 1871.He mivorated changing the route of the canal and making the terminus : at Post Maitland, instead of Port Colborne, as at present.He contended that the nuw canal cuuld be made st loss cost than the present crnal could be enlarged for.Hon.Mr.Langevin suggested that it would be better that the House should have the | reports on the table before making any explanations.He was sorry to tell the hou.gentleman that the Department of Public Works did not agree with him, and he would find when the reports and estimates came down, that the line recommended by the Du- riment was the shortest aud would cost less tu construct= Motion carried.DUTIES ON SRBADATUZPS.Mr.Ross (Dundas) moved for n Committes of the Whole, for Wednesday next, for the purpose of imposing a duty on barley, wheat, osts and Indian corn, imported into the country.He complained that while cvery other industry was protected, the agricultural inter.esta, the most important of all, were entirely fected.be Speaker announced that apoint of order had teen taken that it did not rest with auy private member to introduce such a measure, muss.Mr.Btephenson moved for a return of the co uderco ug the selsure and retention by the United States officials of the stean tug and barge, property of Iiram Little, in the St, Clair Flats Canal, Mr, Mackenste wished 90 hear whis the First Miotster bad to say on this subject.He wished to call the sttention of the hon member who bad made this motion to the fact that according to the Treaty of Washington the water of which he had spoken, and which every ote who knew anything about the ne vigation of the Lakes knew had formerly been Canadian waters, had been admitted by the British Commissioners to be in American territory.If this canal was recognised as being in American territory, then these seizures spoken of must be recognised as le- ml selauren, as every ship which went into this channel and performed any act of light- erage, which it was frequently necessary to do, would subject itself to the very aggross- Ive customs regulations of the United titates, He wished to know from the First Minister of the Crown in what position vessels would te when navigating the channel, and whether In instances similar to this they would be absolutely without redress.\u2014Mr, Stephenson's wotlon was, after soms discussion, carried.METROROLOGIVAL ORVRRY ATIONS, Mr.Jones (Halifax) moved for correspondence on the suhject of moteorolngical obaer.vations and weather reports, Buch a system would be of incalculable advantage to a maritime conntry like our own, He hoped the Government would appropriate the necessary amount for the Introduction of such system, We would bave the advantage of the Unlted States re| by giving them our own, Hon Mr Tupper was glad to have an opportunity of stating that 18 was the intention of the Government to extend the system of cbesrvations aiready commenced, and he was siruck with the evidence of the great value of the United States storm signals, in an soono- mical point of view, which appeared is the debates In Congress.* Mr, Workman knew that thees reports in the United States bad been of immense ser.vios, He bad been cestrod by his ebte and the Montreal Bosrd of Trade press this subject upon the attention of t } = | | TrursoAy, May 88, 1673, Government, The expense of the systom would roon be repald.\u2014 Motion carried.YEN NEW BRUNSWICK SOHOOL LAW, Mr.Costigan moved an address on the sub.Ject of the Now Brunswick School Law, sud that the samo may be disallowed.He re- resented the dissatisfaction of the people of ew liranswick wiih the School Law, aud contended that it should not be allowed, Tho debate was continued up to 13 30, when the continuation of the debate was deferred and the House adjouraud.FUBLIC ALCOUNTS COMMITTEE.Orrawa, May 20.Mr, Mackensie akud it any revenue was derived from the Dominion steamers, and how (bey wore employed.He noticed there was an e3xpruditure upon the steamers of $72,000, and this did uot include the umount apont on gunboats proper.He alo saw an {lem of $660 for mullltary stores for the \u201c Druld\u201d For the guns ats thote was à acparste expenditure of $22,000, Tf tlie stiuur ra were cou- startly employed for supplying fichthouses he thou Lit they could yet the «rie: much more tamed Ly & contract, sy edd the stents were employed tr wrecke, Lr Tupper said powerful vesscls were re.quinn for {le able Eilat service, fa which tau Government virn ts Lui been wrecked within the Joel few yous, cue of them with alt Lunds, Latusue ofnervice ex, urliture and revenue wore vided to be Lac.bt down, srion ares as ty the reason of no Habe ty lic soi.being derlved from nits Oatarle gave $5,309, New jhunswick $t,012.gave Lobice that Le would vetous for issuing licene seb lu kdoptod.ivved that in Ontario inland revenue of could collect hicense fern = Details of bcos wud expenditure or- dite to bo bought down, A sal un ut of Judge Jolinson's ex penditury in Mnuitols, was hers admitted.It was as follows a 1870, Reptember 14, expenses to Fort Guiry to organize judiciary, $1,000; 1873, Apail 13, do, $400; July 18, to defray xjenres of the reveral commissioners of which be has charge, $1,000; October 19, snlasy ne hecorder from the did of September to the 30th of September 1871, at 4800 sterling por anoum, [leadquarters at Foit Gaity to the 31st December 1871, £073; do, to the 1st of March 1872, $645; as Quel ee ¢ Mr.Mache weve that 8 va Judge of the Suprem»> Court to the 31ut of Masih 187), ene year $4,800 Total, $13,019.COMMITTEE AGIUCCLEURE, The Sect Committers on Agih-ultural Tua tercals, met this morning, and adopted s series of questions to bu printed and sent to leading apticulturalistu, millers, &e.The following are the quertions:\u2014 1.What was the effect où the farming in- tercste of the operation cf the dutika on foreign produce imposed in April, 1870, and repeul: & in March, ER71?Z.What dutiee, if any, would you impose on flour apd on the various grains respectively, or what geneml guiding rule as to the fmperition of such duties would you recom- wend ?3.Mas the admission of American Indian Ceru RUY oflect ou the prices of coarse grain in your section of the country, aod if so, what het?4.Do you advise legislation with a view to oetablicbivg aad promotiog in Canada the cultivation of the sugar beet, and the manufacture of rugar theretrom ; also, the cultiva- tiun of tobacco and ux, aud what legislation would best conduce to the end In view ?5.From what sections of the country in Canada or the United States do you ubtain Jour supplics of grain, and what is your average aunual quantity received, and fur what purposes teed ?8.Where is the most of your flour or meal actually cousumed, and what market is it most to your advantage to sell in\u2014the home market of the Dominion, the Lritish, oc the American mart?7.Slate whusher the free importation of American flou: without reciprocity puts you to a disadvas t1ge a8 compared with American cotsprtitors, «od if so, state reasons.8.Have y u found grinding in bond convenient an practicable and fair to all concerned, and would you recommend it in case of the imposition of a duty on foreign wheat ?9.As the ad ralorem duty of 20 per cent, Imposed in the United States on our against the fixed specific duty of 20 per cent, tushel on wheat generally operates as a discriminatory tariff against the Canadian miller, would the establishing of discriminatory duties hy the l\u2019erliament of Canada, in your opiuion, Le advisable ?MONTREAL NEWS, Corunen or Puxaiciaxe ax Sunasons.\u2014The semi-annual meeting of the College of Phy- siciaus aud Surgeons was held in this city on the 14th inetant.The following officers and governors were preseut :W.Ë.Scott, M.D, President, in the chair; Drs.Wellbrenoer and Russell, Vice.Presidents; Drs.Rotiot and Tessier, Becretarion; Dr, H.Blanchet, Treasurer ; Drs, Jackson, Howard, Pelletier, Fen.wick, J.B.Blanchet, Smallwood, Robillard, Masmette, Michaud, Dube, Bodrean, Brighaw, Duchesneau, Gibson, Worthington, Gilbert, Hamilton, A.G.Feuwick and Landr?, Coun.cll.letters of apology were received from Drs, Bewell and Landry of Quebec stating thelr ipability to attend the meeting.A wacancy baving been occasioned in the district of Quebec by the death of Dr.T.Charest, a motion of condolence was passed, which the Sccretary was instructed to forward to bis bereaved family.\u201cThe vacancy in the Board caused by the death of Dr.Charest was filled by the election of Dr.Peltier, residing in the same district.After the ordinary business of the College had been disposed of, & number of graduates presented themselves for degrees in medicine who after the usual oath had been ndministered by the President, received the license of the College, Twenty-seven gentlemen passed the preliminary examination to enable them to commence the stady of medicine in this Province, and three were rejected.The members of the Board lunched together, as usual, at the Carlton.Emiaration rrom BcotLann \u2014An address on the above-named subject was delivered by the Rev Dr, Masson, of Ediaburgh, after the conclusion of the usual week-night service ia Bt, Paul's Church Int night.are Rev.Garia ve a Len tree ln ucing the lectarer.Dr.Masson took for his text the words in Joshua (chap.xiii.v.1): \u201cThere remaineth rei very much land to be pos- He remarked that the text had a special interest when taken in the light of his experience and observation during the last three months, and more especially during the time he had spent amongst the districts peopled by Beotchmen speaking the Gaelic language in this Dominien.He bad observed with pleasure a large number of Bootchmen, wko, if they bad remained at homo, would have led @ life of trials and penury, and would have had nothing to leave their children; yet they fa this Dominion riren to some of the foremos places in enciety, and everywhere, where they conducted themselves aa Christiane, they prose red greatly and were able to give a helping Le to those who bad newly come to the country.He said sll his lifetime had beed spent In a narrow island, where the weil wee poor, and where unless 8 man had @ large capital to begin on be could never attain to inde joe.He could not but feel that whilet there were thouranda of acres of land capableof Improvement in Ontario thers ware thousands lo land in sore need for the nse of that land.From bis own experience he knew that the land was rich and would give an immense yleld, while the iaad 14 Bootland te bare snd unfralttul ; and he would ro back snd ony to those at home, in the Words of the text, «\u201c remaineth much land to be possess.od.\u201d He also said that, from whatever point of view we fooked at it, we must acknowledge that the subject of migration bad à sou religions aspect, Many of the Inhabitants Bcetland were suffering great deprivations, whereas emigrating here they might live comfortably, and besides benefiting them- soi: would be Jsormaing the prospect.Wolf tnion, to which urged (he Beoemi ty of promoting & Protestant immigra. Tuypanyy, Mev 98, xs, Riss Association \u2014T'he fourth anaual meeting of the \u2018Guebec Provincial Bifle As- pocistion was held on the 16th inst, at the Mechanios\u2019 Institute.There were present : \u2014Lieutesant-Colonels Brydges, McKay, Flot.cher, Bacon, McFachorn, Miller, Rowe, Haa- son, DeEellefeuile, Bethune, and Grant ; Majors Wonley, Qilmour, Baudors, Mair aud Labranche ; Captuing Baynes, Esdaile, Atkin.pou, Aylmer, Harder, Amyrauld, Wall, Mc.Dougall, sud Lr, Contes ; Lieutenaut-Uolunet Brydges in the chair, The Becretary's and Tremrtirer's reports were read, showing that the operations of (he past year were very suc.ecssfui.\u2018The Treasurer's statemout show- «à @ baudsome balance on band.It wos unanimously resolved that Montreal should Le the permanent place for the Avuuui Matches.It was decided to hold the bext annual prise meeting soinetime in the fcrepart of August, the day of opening to be decided by tue Council.Tae action siready taken by the Council to sond & team to the competition at Ottawa, for the nelccton of a team for Wimbledon, was fully endured by the meeting, Tae Exvoutive Committee wire œuthurixed to carry out the picliminary competition here, ani to send the men chosen to Ottawa ut the expose of tue Assuxintion, the competition to take pluce at Point St, Charles on the 4ib und 5th ot June, under the superintendence of Licut.Col Fletcher.thanks were passed to the retiring office-b rar.ers.The election of officers then took place, and the following were lected for the enn.ug year: \u2014To be Presideut-=\u2014Livut-Col, C J.Beydgee, GTR Brigade, elected, Vice-Prosl- dentr-Andrew Allan, Esq; Lt-Col King; 14.Cuol McEsmbern, CMG; Lt Col Grant; Lt Col McKay; Robert Hamilton, Esq; Allan Gilmour, Eeq; Major Alleys; 11 Col Bailey; Lt-Col Hikson, Bre- retery\u2014Lt-Col Fletcher, C M G; re-loct- od, Trasurer\u2014Capt T Fraser, Moutreal Ganlson Artill-ry Executive Oilicors\u2014Me jor Worsley, Capt the Hon M Ajlmer.Audi- torr\u2014Bt-Coloncta McEachern, Bacon aud D'Orsapnens, Executive Cummittee\u2014Lt- Cals Deydges, Fletcher, Grant, McKay, Bacon, Bethan, Bond, Manson, 1YOrsonnens, and Rowe, Major Alleyn, C À Costes, Esq, M D, Cnptaine Julinson, Atkinson, Edaile and Alymer.Burgeon\u2014C A Costes, M D, 51t Batt.From the spirit shown at the mecting by the members, the next matches bid fair to surpass iu interest any of the previous ones.COMMERGEAL Guprasay Wirszsa Orwoa May 21.Uresasaoks bought st 124 @ 00 dis, and sod a4 MT dis.American silver bought at 3 800 Qa; Brium aoe 8 00 dis; small do ot 6 © OF diag Let 21D: muawwn, sanker and Broker, 131 Great EL.James street.HooT AND Fitos «L A purpose of manufuctarlux bouts and rhues ut Mian.Iuld.inthe Kastern T .washipa.The principu abject {nfo Imig It vus Lo prevent emvgration from the p rishto1