The Quebec gazette = La gazette de Québec, 21 juin 1864, mardi 21 juin 1864

[" ET, LS Rte 1m A hey.xn, oF 3u- iA LM les dhig the set lesi- the ers, Dis aud Sit and fa: 3, uve Wh oil 5 se T hes?that o the + is ZINE is HE EBUVST ERREUR ERDAREODN.VOLUME 102.HERE DIED WoLFE, VICTORIOUS RT a À first Vico of Quebec.- - __ Birch iu the morning fair, Bright through the summer air, t:ilded with sunshine rare, Quebec was seen.Flowted urd curled in light \u2018The erested wavelets bright, Around her guardian might\u2014 The Fortress Queen.I knew her\u2014far away, Before we reached the bay, Mine cyes could mark the sway Of rampart-towers ; Before her wulls I knew, Some instinct told me true, How near | was to view Those ancient powers! Near\u2014 nearer yet we came, Rose dark her heights of fame Against that field of flame, The morning sky; Frowned down embrasures deep, Gleamed cannon on the steep, Flew stern above her Keep One flag on high! Nor for the eye alone These radiant pictures shone\u2014 The lore of cycles flown Seemed garnered here ; The Present and the Past \u2018Together smiled at last\u2014 Spells round these walls were cast \u2018That yet are near! * .+ » » + - Dark years have rushed between Me and that radiant scene,\u2014 Old memories, quick and keen Are quenched in night ; Yet, with Hope\u2019s wakening thrill, Before my vision still That City on the hill Arises bright! Let but a stranger\u2019s praise, And long remembrance raise Some sign upon the ways,\u2014 At least,\u2014tis true ; And stand thou firm in power, Braced for the darkest hour\u2014 May none around thee lower! Quebec,\u2014adieu! MONTREAL, 1864, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Ue Publishers of the Quebec Gagette to the Public.This twenty-first day of June, in the year of our | ord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, we | \u201commemorate the introduction of the art of printing he Canada, one hundred years ago, by the issue of \u201cis Centenary Extra of the Quesgc Gazerrr, which Paper, we have reason to believe, was not only the first Hewspaper, but the first thing over printed in the vince, During the century whieh has lapsed ; Way since the first number of the GazeTTE Was; ied, scores, if not hundreds, of other public jour- Tals have entered the field, and after a few months, ome cases, and in a few years in others, have 1 One of the parties immediately proceeded to carry it one, for since then the paper has never been interrupted, but has punctually kept its engagemeuts with its subscribers, who, on their part, with the usual ¢x- ceptions, have supported it with a steady constancy, for which, as the representatives of our predecessors, hearty thanks.For more than ten years the GAZETTE Wus the ouly newspaper in the country, and for forty years, we believe, the only one in Quebec.I wus no easy thing, in those early days, to invest a news-sheet with interest, since it often happened that there was no news to give.Stearn and Electricity, these great innovators upon propulsion by wind and locomotion by stages, had not been put in the harness, unl the patient plodders who did us the favor of being our great grandfathers, were delighted when they got European intelligence in sixty days, and American news in a fortnight.Indeed, we need hardly go back to our honored ancestors to prove this, for within our own recollection three months have expired between one budget of news from home and that which sue- ceeded it.What a contrast the present day affords, and we record it not so much to call forth thé admiration of our readers, who know all about it just as well as we do, but to let our great-grand-children, who will read this extra onc hundred years from to-day, understand that we have already attained to a very respeci- (able rate of locomotion, and to challenge then to produce anything to beat the Atlantic telegrapl, which we have already had\u2014though now in suspense \u2014and which we shall have again in a few months, \"us well as another line by wuy of Russian America, now fast approaching completion.We may, however, state that, by means of our magnificent steanships, English news hus been published in this country just six days old, and there is a fair prospect that before long passengers will leave the British American shores on the Monday, and be landed in British Muther land on Saturday.In the preparation of this number, we have spared neither trouble nor expense, as our readers will readily discover.As the Gazerre has lived a hundred years, we thought it had a right 10 call up; some of its reminiscences, and we judged that a few glances at the condition in which it found the colony, | then passing from French to British rule, would not | be uninteresting to the public.This-has heen done | to our satisfaction, and as, we will hope, to the! satisfaction of our readers, in the sketch or essay which follows.This sketch was prepared in answer to an advertisement which appeared a short time ago in our columns, though, as we have cause to} i know, not because of the premium offered, but as a; tribute of friendship.The writer, we are, however, | bound to say, in extenuation of any faults or: laches which may be discovered in his work, hud not all the opportunities necessary for the pleasurable | performance of his task.We had provided for him a | complete fyle of the GAzETTE, but the period of the loan was so limited that it was absolutely impossible forone person todo more than dip here and there into the voluminous mass.Several other gentlemen had | previously undertaken the task, but lost courage in view of the formidable amount of reading it entailed.Together with this Extra, we give a far simile; copy of the first number of the Gazerre.We had no little trouble to get all the varieties of the old type used in its production, and, indeed, were obliged to have some of the letters cut expressly for it.We | present it now as a strictly exact transcript of that ! number, even to the errors it contained, and we may add, its creditable appearance will show that, from {the first, the GazETTE Was in the hands of men who thoroughly understood their business, and were careful in 11s performance.On the last page, we supply a copy of the Prospectus of the Gazerre, which was issued by Messrs Brown & Gilmore, in 1763, and which, no doubt, was printed in Philadelphia, where these gentlemen had been following \u201cthe art and mystery of printing\u201d for some time.The American spirit of speculation and experiment, as that document shows, was already developing, for Canada had hardly been ceded by treaty to England, when our printers conceived the bright idea of entering the new and untried field.out, and brought with him the prospectus, which happily found favour in the eyes of the requisite number of subseribers, and according to promise, in the ensuing spring, the Quesec Gazrrre Printing Office rolled away the stain which had so long been attached to Canada, of being without a public press.In regard to the pictorial illustrations of this sheet, we are not prepared to say that they do fnil justice to the subject.Quebec stands confessedly among the first cities in the world for its picturesque scenery, and there are not wanting,among persons of extensive travel and impartial judgment, those who pronounce it positively uncqualled in this particular.But the task of adequately representing ifs exuberant scenic beauty, was one which we could not propose to\u2018 ourselves, in connection with a newspaper extra., The illustrations are truthful copies of photographs, recently taken, and as the views were sélected by\u2019 Artists of acknowledged taste and ability, we apprehend they will add value and interest to the letter press.Quebec boast: many handsome public: buildings, displaying great architectural excellence, and we might have made a better selection if time had permitted, but when we commenced the work the city was covered with its usual winter mantle of | amie to the many nnd great difficulties which Ariably beset enterprises of this character.The verre exhibits, in one of its earlier numbers, a cou of ane month, when, as it seems, it was dis-® Mined for want of adequate support, but it had! ad the R necensity which the publie could not forego, ir i\u201d publishes - Were no doubt encouraged to renew a eful lubors.\u2018I'he resurrection, as the re-issue termed in the revived number, was a permanent superincumbent snow, and we had to take whatever: we could most conveniently get.| { At the end of this extra will be found three pages of: advertisernents from our prominent business houses, and from an intimate connection of many years with the commercial classes of Quebec, we venture to state thai the houses so advertising are names of the first respectabiily.Quebec is net QUE as well as on onr awn behalf, we tender them our! TIRE CO mmm me = BEC.TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1864.PRICE 15 CENTS.\u2014\u2014 TE specially celebrated for its putiery any more than for reckless and baseless speculations, Its business men are generally men with capital adequate to the in-| terests they manage, and our advertising patrons are | among the most steady wd substantial people of their class It is now our duty fo return our grateful acknow- | |ledgments to our helpers in this endertnking, and ; we beg first to assure our principad contributor, who | declines to be numed, that we deeply Teel our obliga) ition for his kindness.We owe thauk= next to 1he | Hon.Mr.Chauvern, Superintendent of Education in Lower Canada, for the cuts of the five gates which he had the courtesy to put at our disposal ; also to T.l'Fradeau, Esq., for u photograph of ihe Valley of the St.Charles; to 8.Mclaughlin, Esq., lor a similar view of the Timber Coves ; to the Rev.James Douglas, for one of the Beauport Lunutie Asylum ; to W.Notman, Esg., ef Montreal, for the photograph view of Quebec jrom the Partament Houst ; to \u201cAnnie R.Gale,\u201d of Moatreal, for her beautiful verses jon \u201cA First View of Quevec ;* and to the Rev, E.II, Dewart, author of *¢ Selections from the Canadian \u2018outs, ?for the Ceutenc:ry Sons, un - | Centenaen Sono vf tbe CMueber Gazette, | i | Like the harbinger «tir shat gilmiers nose And herulds the rory won, | À rpirit of light, in the durksome night | Of ihe uygoue yours J was born, The Gest of my race in this happy place, Wher Freedom and Peace abide, Yor a bundred years, amid hopes and fears.} bare breasted both wind and tide es = - cer TT : | 1.It is a fact which we note with pride, that we have, on our list of subscribers many persons who have, taken the Gazerre for twenty, thirty, and some forty years, and further, that in one or two instances we supply the descendants of gentlemen who were original subscribers a hundred years ago.This steady.patronage, we think, we have a right to regard as indicative of satisfaction with the editorial course, pursued by our predecessors, and not the less so with | our own.This land so fair, which may now cumpaiv With the brightest beneath the sun, Was a wilderness wild, whee the forest child Roamed iu pride, When my race begun, But the light has brohe\u2014\"ucuth the woodman 's stroke The forests have melted away : The golden grain waves cet bill and pluiu Where the wolf nid th bear then lay : Where the wigwam rude of ihe Indian stocd.Beneath the sheltering pines, The stately spire, like a beacou-tire, Iu the sunset radiance shines, ni Like the zephyr that blows o'er the frozen enows And tells of the coming spring.Fre the winter had fled, I silently sped On eager and buoyant wing, To each peaceful spot where the vmigrant\u2019s cot Was built in the forest graud.\u2014 Like a messenger-bird, I brought Lim word From his loved and native land, IV.l have tuiled to illume the ments] gloom.Which clonded the virgin soil 3 The tidinga I brought aud the truths I tangh: Have lightened the woes of toil : 1 have echoed around whatever was found By the seekers in mines of truth, And tirelessly sought with the light of thought To quicken the mind ¢f youth.x.Thro\u2019 Time's long flight, I saw with delight The growth of our national tree ; Till it spreads with pride its branches wide.And shelters the brave and free, The progress of truth with the joy of youth I have watched since the day of my birth ; As like dawniog light, which expels the night.It scattered the mists of earth.vi.Thro the slient tread of the years that have flud, I have witnessad the birth and decay Of many a peer, whose transient oareer Shone with brilliant and meteor-like ray : I have seen the fair\u2014and the fortunate helr Ot royalty, riches and fame,\u2014 The noblest of birth, the greatest on earth, Pasa away like the lowllest name.var { have chronicled things both of peasants and kings\u2014 The fortunes of rich and of poor ; For beauty and power may die in au hour\u2014 There are sorrows for all to endare.1 have gathered with care, the strains most rare That from poct and minstrel bave flown ; And have soothed and Llessed many a weary breast With their tender aud mystical tone.vuir.1 have told of the birth that brought joy to the hearth\u2014 Of the bliss of the nuptial day,~ Of the icy breath of relentless death Laying hopeful hearts in the clay.1 carried the fame of Britain's name To the bearts of her children true, When over the deep came with thrilling sweep The echoes of Waterloo.1x.The frieuds, ouce my pride.bave faded and died \u2014 The hearts that I gladdened are atiil,\u2014 Yet [ sweep on my way without puuee or delny.Like a marmuring forest rill, Well knowing that those, whether friends or foes, Who may hear my centennial song, Like those whom 1 weep, shall soon sink to sleep With the silent undreatring throng.x.Though a hundred years with their hopes and fears Have vanished with surging roar, The {arrows of age do not wrinkle a page, And my cys is as keen as of yore : Then one hearty cheer for my hundredth year! Truth, Freedom, and Peace are my toast ! If my friends prove true, as ail friends shonld do.I shall never desert my post.Though over my head a century\u2019s fled, With jte wearisome toll and strife, 1 feel strongly foolined, if the world be Mind.{ withhold it altogether, or to present it to his friends - Fourth Estate, as the Newspaper Press is not inap- To take à new lease of my life.ENARY QUEBEC GAZETTE, INTRODUCTORY.CENT A few years ago, some person, fond of rumuging old commercial records, took the trouble to trace, un fuithfully as the data at command allowed, edie fortunes of the principal business houses in one of the large American cities, for forty or filly years back, and found that 96 per cent of the number had failed, \u2014 some of them several Smes\u2014had broken down, or, hal abandoned their pursuits fron inability to nuke tiem remuünerative ; and we apprehend that the, results are not very different any where else.Itis at! least certain that in the matter of newspaper printing Se failures are much more numerous than the sue-! cesses and Mit were possible to write a strietly | accurate history of our provincial press, we think it; would be found that, for every surviving paper aj quarter of a century old, a full score have gone down with loss to their proprietors.Within our own brief! experience in this eity, we have marked this startling mortality 5 aud at this day, our contemporary the Mercury is the only English journal, besides our own, which has outlived twenty-five vears of trial.But it ix now our boast (and we conceive there is ground for a measure of congratulation) that the Quebec (Gazette has this day attained the patriarchal age of ONE HENDRED YEARS: during which time it hus, no doubt, encountered ihe vicissitudes and dungers which have so often proved fatal to other sheets.That it has escaped their fate must be duc, we ussutne, to its own inherent vitality, | and its consequent hold upon the contidence of the publie.lt imny not Le denied) that under the management of its Tae lamented proprietors and editors, the Messrs.Neilson, father and son, the Quebec (Guzute took and maintained, for many long and nolitically troublous years, a foremost, if not the foremost rank among Canadian nevspapers ; and we trust that its prestige is not altogether lost.As it has fullen to the lot of the present proprietors\u2014one of LL TTI TIE Ri A SRS SEIT NIT ; to the Police Court for beiug drunk and kicking vpn row; that Titus Lanius was fined for giving shor ! weight, und that certain butchers were simile ly {mulet for selling ineat which had not been inspec'ec -by the uverseers of the markets.During the s n- i guinary reions of Cæsars successors, these publi a- tions were abandoned, and indeed they never \u201cwere of much account, for, being under authority, hey | were ullowed to embrace only sucli things as weic lugrecable to the ruling powers, and it may faisly L> supposed that the statements were \u2018 cooked\u201d lu cuit ;1hetr interests\u2014very much as journals of a later dey, «under similar patronage, or tutorage, are understood to serve up their contents.Venice claims the honor «{ havin: revived the news-sheet, which was cot- muenced in manuscript about the year 1536, fur (Le purpose of furnishing intelligence of the war then waging with Turkey.Some thirty volumes cof this journal are still preserved at Florence, and it wus not until 1570 that it was issued in a printed form.The paper came to be called a Gazelle, as some \u2018The next cause of trouble to Parliament in connection with the press, was a new system of regular reporting, which commenced about this time, under the management of Edward Cave.The modus oper.andi is described as follows: \u201cTaking with Lim à friend or two, he found means to procure for they, and himself admission into the gallery of the House of Commons, or to sume concealed station in the other House, and then they privately took down notes of the speeches and the general tendency und sub.stunce of the arguments.\u201d They then adjourned to a neighboring tavern to compose and adjust the said notes, which, with the aid of their memories, enabled them to fix the substance, at least, of what they had just heard.The reducing of this crude water jy form was done by an abler hand\u2014Guthrie, the historian, whom Cave had retained lor ihe purpose\u2014gng published in the Geallemar\u2019s Magazine.Fur two years the reports were not challenged, but suddenly the House of Commons awoke 10 all the horrors of its situation, \u201cYou will have,\u201d cried Sir Thomas Winnington, with bis hair on an end, \u201c you will Luv every word that is spoken herve by gentlemen wise.presented by fellows who thrust themselves ing oy gallery: you will have the speeches of the House every day printed, even during the session, and we shall be looked wpon as the most couleiglible ussembly on the face of the earth!\u201d The whole House followed Williain Wyndham, who had the hardihood to say\u2014 \u201c1 don\u2019t know but what the people have a right tu know what their representatives aie doing.\u201d + The result was another absurd resolution, threatening awful things against any printer who would presume to offend in this manner again.But Master Cave wis nol to be snufled out so summarily, so instead of giving the reports as those of the British Parliament, he headed then, * Debates in the Senate of Lilliput.\u201d The Dukes he called \u201c Nardaes,\u201d the Lords \u201c Hurgoes,\u201d and the Commons \u201c Clinabs.\u201d Then as to the identification of the speakers, the change of a letter or two in the name did not prevent it.\u2018The Duke of Bedford appeared in the transparent disguise of \u201cthe Nardae Bedford,\u201d Lord Talbot as \u201cthe Hurgo Tablat,\u201d Walpole as ** Sir Rubs Wal- elop,\u201d and so on of the rest.In this way, from 1738 to 1752, were the reports of the British Parliament given to the public! Can anything more absurd be conceived than the position the Houses had put them - selves in, by their assumption of the suppositious right lo suppress information which the people demanded and were determined to get.As the debates grew in importance, Cave feit the need ol a more efficient helper than Guthrie, and engaged Di.Johnson, then a young man of about thirty.The same system was pursued, and Johnson, from the scant material sup: plied, manufactured those elognent speeches for the members which gave character to the Gentleman's Magazine, and made the fortune of its publisher Voltaire is said to have put down the debates with the exclamation : ¢ The eloquence of Greece and Rome is revived in the British Senate.\u201d Johnson was thus wielding an immense power, and in fact shaping the public opinion of the Empire, and giving immense advantage to the party enjoying his sympæ thies.That he used this power to some extent, a least, in an unjustifiable manner, is but too easily proved, for we have his own admission that ¢ he (ook care the Whig dogs should never have the best of the argument.\u201d Then again, towards the end of his life, the deceptions he had practiced on the nation seem to have caused him very great remorse, for only sb days before his death he told Dr.Nicholl\u2019s \u201c that the only part of his writings that gave him compunctict was his account of the debates in the Genllena Magazine, but that at the time he wrote them he di not think he was imposing upon the world.\u201d No withstanding Cave\u2019s ingenious evasion of the order of Parliament, the House of Lords brought him up together with the publisher of the London Magazin who had copied his, and after being repriman ed, paying the fees, and promising not to do soany they were discharged.Every school-boy has by heart the celebrated speech of Pitt, in reply to oH Robert Walpole, who had attempted to disparage en opinions on the ground that he was but a young \u2019 Well, at a dinner given by Foote to a pur io literary celebrities, that speech became the su y en conversation, and Dr.Francis observed that i Le the best speech he had ever read.He ha in dl employed, he added, during several years bi study of Demosthenes, and had finished a trans er of that celebrated orator, with all the decoration.| style and language within the reach of his or i Many of the company remembered the debalts i i eecli, with several passages were cited from the sp Daring approbation and applause of all present.à sien ardour of the conversation, Johnson remaine ed wi When the warmth of praise subsided, he ope el these words :\u2014\u201c That speech I wrote in #5 k ui Exeter street.\u201d The company were struc: oi astonishment.After staring at each other th time in silent amaze, Dr.Francis aske( aid dot speech could be written by him?\u201cSir, vas in! son, \u201cI wrote it in Exeter.street.I never : llery of the House of Commons but onc hep fad interest with the door-keepers: he and sons employed under him had admittance: brought away the subject of discussion, the order the speakers, the side they took, an otes 0 which they arose, together with the ne cours various arguments they adduced in th munie debate.The whole was afterwards com's.the names pe re profits, but it soon failed.The first purely literary every newspaper of half a sheet, and so on in pro- article in the British Journal) as a most insolent, ; m to me, and 1 composed the speeches in the for hat lth, i nd ives \u2018org he Pp Vilh e nil mort nsti heer pape \u2018idin with seen sang rep tried ibs] la heed was lestin a be soli that £50 od 1 ed | wi our] the pres Lon £4 She and T othe red nist £30 War Ent mor anot mes Ll, got the § wary gero they and subj TH with the Writ Mor dece lurig ge and pois mms \u2014\u2014 con ved ted pale ress 30V- out, ded who inst Le \u2014 l all eral the en, tom lors, hers hon.the {of 16s., ers, ters, be.741.vhat leer, Tan ines ned jour med nec- ular nder per ma hem Ouse the otes sub- toa said bled had into isto- and two nly 5 of mas uve sTe- ur Ise we ÿ un wed Sir y\u2014 l 16 The ling me ave lead rlia- e of the bs.\u201d the vent rent t as Wal- 1738 ment d be hem- - right nded grew cient then | Was sup r the man's sher.with and 1nsoll 1 fact iving par ni, al easily e took of the s life, seem y 3 at the netiod oman! e dil Not: orders m up raziity nded, more, learnt to Si ge his 7 man ber ject 0 it wa | bee in th slatio jons ¢ pacilf e, a sith ing sien ed wi arret k wi or sol?wth j Jot sin! Ce the P OT ames yrdes o pursé nic rm * THE QUEBEC GAZETTE, in the Parliamentary debates.\u201d To this is made answer: \u201cThen, Sir, you have \"ed Demosthenes himself, for to say that you yopedt celled Francis Demosthencs would be noth- ave So much for the classical eloquence of the Senators in the days of William Pitt; and is h to add, that now, as then, the world hing to the reporters, if not for actually \"25 spceches, and putting them in the mouths of poking Tors at least for the discretion they exercise en theta of their weak and vapid repetitions, ie halting sentences, and condensing the rng as to make the argument tell upon the \u2019 er with vastly more effect than it does upon the eat é jaleners.Cave, arion Ty bowled fem, ane itl co ave now - Franc \u201c noh paishh tv0 mue xes sommet notwithstanding his promise of goud be- continued to report, and although Parliament occasionally at the printers, it could not stop 1to Cave we are thus indebted for the right ceded of knowing how far our Representa.os act up to their proses and principles.We je ver the courmotions consequent upon the os f the Pretender to regainthe throne forfeited \u201chis family, during which various Jacobite papers yw ost inflnnnittory character were sown broad- i fe out the country, but which did not result provient that we are aware of in regurd .ppt press.After this we have Smo] 11.ing the Critical Review, and involving himself in awls by his intemperate writings.Among others, \" racked Admiral Knowles, whom he characterized pute admiral without conduct, an engineer with- \" knowledge, an officer without resolution, and a p! without veracity.\u201d Of course the printer was na {ox libel, the proscentor, however, declaring that y only adopted this node of redress for want of, rowing the writer, of whom, if he were a gentleman, | he would scek satisfaction ina different manner.\u201cmollett was too high-minded to let the printer sufier, Ld coming forward, avowed himself the author, en the Admiral coolly asked for judgment, which he court allowed, namnely, damages £100 and three ponths imprisonment, which Smollett suffered in 1559.Smoliett then got into a snarl with John Wilkes, who proved more than a match for him; but © have nether time nor space fo give lo the contro- av.It ix enough that the clever novelist was most mercifully beaten by the arch agitator and dema- bogie, and retired compictely discomfited, ; Fhe next cnarkuble phase in British journalism is in connee- pass tempts O | mask of political literature.me SUNIUS ! We pass over various incidents of comparativel ; small iinportance,until we are arrested by the nom « { plume which heads this sentence, the terrible Junius ! Of him, Burke, in the debate of November 23th, 1770, ton the power of the Attorney General to file ex officio \"informations, said, addressing that functionary, * he \u2018made youn his quarry, and you still bleed from the \"wounds of his talons.You crouched and still crouch \u2018beneath his rage.Nor,\u201d to the Speaker, \u201chas he ! dreaded the terrors of your brow, sir ; he has attacked ! even you-\u2014he has\u2014and | believe you have no reason to triumph in the encounter.* * * Kings, Lords and Commons are but the sport of his fury.\u201d We {quote further: « Who this famons writer was will be -a question asked by generations that follow us ; what | he wus his own writingstell us, Violent and personal he no doubt was; but then all newspaper writers | were violent and personal.We must all admit that he started from the carth ever and anon to stand in j the way of encroachments upon the constitution, \u2014 that he, by sone inysterions means, knew and frustrated projected jobs,\u2014that he drove back trespassing footsteps, und drew his pen in defence of rights which were in danger of being trampled down.But mure than this he did not choose that we should know ; his vizor was impenetrable,\u2014he was more than the iron Of all newspaper writings his were the mest popular; they have become standard ; they are quoted as authorities on matters political : they have passed through numerous editions from the original Woodfall to the recent Bohn; yet no love of adiniration or of fame, no desire of applause, no vanity could tempt him to throw ofl his disguise.We do not believe that so bold a spirit felt the smallest fear of a prosecution ; but even if he had, the time when it was to be dreaded passed by, and yet Junius was wrapped in his impenetrable cloak.Woodlall, if he ever knew the secret, was faithful to his confidence: he only shook his head and shrugged his shoulders in reply to searching inquirers.The letters were delivered by an unknown Land, or were dropped into his letter box.They CENTENARY NUMBER, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1864, 3 offence.An attempt was aiso made by amendment In one case\u2014as an experiment we suppose\u2014to include the \u201c compositors, pressmen, correctors, blackers and devils;\u201d but this was too ridiculous, and it miscarried.The printers, however, were ordered to attend at the bar, and five of them in one way or another made their eubmission, and upon promising not to offend in future, were discharged ; but Miller, of the Evening Fost, still held out, and was commanded to be brought up by the Sergeant.It was also resolved, that as a personal service of the notice was not practicable, the leaving it athis house would be sufficient.On the 18th, the Sergeant-at- arms made the startling announceiuent to the House that his messenger had succeeded in arresting Miller, but was immediately given into custody by him for the assault and carried before the Lord Mayor ; that although the Deputy-Sergeant-at-Arms attended and (Brass Crosby, Esq., himself a member of the House) had declared the Speaker's warrant illegal, had discharged Diller frum custody, and committed the messenger for assault! There was a pretty state of things tu be sure ! Coald insulence go any further ?It was quite clear that a grand blow must be struck, and an example of severity put upon record which would teach all future delinquents that the privileges of Parliament could not be trampled upon with impunity.The Lord Mayor was the next party to be taken in hand, since he was the abetior and encourager of the contumacious printers, and accordingly he was commanded 10 attend in his place and explain his conduct.Wieble, of the Middlesex Journal, one of the two printers first attacked, and who had recently been arrested and carried before Alderman Wilkes, (the notorious John, whilom of the Public Advertiser,) by whom he was discharged, had been bound over by that worthy to prosecute, and his captor to answer, for the assault, and a similar arrangement had been made by Alderman Oliver in the case of Thompson, of the Gazetteer.Besides all this, these two Aldermen had joined the Lord Mayor in signing the warrants of commitment in regard of the messenger could get no wore out of him.\u201d The letters of Junius, as everybody knows, were published in the Public Advertiser, commencing with 28th April; 1767, and ending January 21st, 1772, sixty-nine having appeared in this interval.The favour with which they were received fired the ambition of a host of patriots, who imagined them- on with the Nosth Briton, in which Wilkes now ommenced those assaults upon the Government shich procured him «a lodging in the Tower, trom which, however, he was discharged by the judges, ! fier receiving a very severe reprimand for his inso- ent and abusive language.But this did not cure im, and continuing 10 write, he got into various | ciapes which compelled him 10 \u201c go out,\u201d as fighting | was then styled.Besides this, he insulted the! scotch so grievously, that he was held in universal } ktestation by them.As a proof, he was stopped in | paris, where he had taken refuge, by a gentleman who asked Lim if his name was Wilkes.On being hswered in the affirmative, the inquirer said lie must ht him for insulting his conntry\u2014Scotland.Wilkes | ad he could not then do so, as he was under engage- | eat to fight Lord Egremont, whereupon the irate aptain Forbes,for this was the bellicose Scotchman\u2019s | ame, promised him an unmercifal endgciling when ist they met, and called hiin \u201c an eternal scoundrel | nd rascal; but they never met afterwards, though ! Vilkes, like a man of honour, (?) offered him the! hance, Both Houses, on the 8th November, (1762), | wk up the libels in the North Brilon, No.45, and | ved them \u201c false, scandalous, and seditious,\u201d &e., | ke.They also resolved that the obnoxious paper { i selves inspired with the energies adequate to emulate or demolish the * great unknown.\u201d Clothing ther- sclves in the impersonal garb of noble-souled Romans, they came to the fray as Marcus, Antonius, Scipio, | Brutus, Cato, Valerius, Virginius, &c., and played oft the most absurd articles under the full conviction, no doubt, that they were eclipsing Junius! Crabbe, the poet, seems to have fully appreciated the efforts of these valorous champions, for he takes them off in this style :\u2014 \u201cThese Roman souls, like Rome's great sons, are known To live in cells on labours of their own ; Thus Milo, could we see the noble chief, Feeds for his country\u2019s good, on legs of beef; Camillus copies deeds for sordid pay, Yet fights the public battles twice a day ! K'en now, the god-like Brutus views his score Scroll\u2019d ou the bar-board, swinging with the door ; Where tippling punch, grave Cato\u2019s self yon'll see, And Amor Patriæ vending smuggled tea.\u201d Half a dozen papers were prosecuted for publishing the letters of Junius, and John Almon, of the London Museum, who had given other cause of offence which: could not very well afford ground for legal prosecution, was specially marked as a victim.He was; fined £6 13s.4d., and had to pay £130 0s.11d.of, who had arrested Miller.The association of Wilkes in these ptoceedings was of itself a notice to the House that the strife would be carried to the bitter end, and for fear it should not fully understand the challenge, he wrote to Lord Halifax, announcing the course he had taken, and declaring the arrests illegal and subversive of the liberties of the city of London, inasmuch as a Speaker\u2019s warrant could not be executed within its boundaries without the endorsement of one of its mugistrates, But the House had got a surfeit of Wilkes already, ard did not vouchsafe him the honour of persecution so it merely ordered the Lord Mayor and Alderman Oliver to appear.They did so in their places, both being members, and defended themselves bravely.The Lord Mayor produced the charter granted to the city of London by Edward III, which he contended exempted the citizens from any law process being served upon them but by their own officers; he also explained the oaths taken by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, which in his opinion bound them to defend the liberties granted by the charter, and recognized by aets of Parliament.Alderman Oliver echoed the defence, and expressed his determination to inaintain his ground.The House then proceeded to review its various orders, prohibiting the printers from publishing its proceedings, or cven the meinbers from making their speeches public without permission.But while it was solemnly engaged with this retrospect, a mes- senaer announced that there was a tumultuous mob outside insulting and impeding the members.This did not tend to improve the temper of the Assembly, and it came to the resolution that the acts of the ; .« i ine .\u2014\u2014he 3 a + hould be burned by the hands of the common hang.costs ; but the others got oft with an accommodating | Mayor and Aldermen\u2014before recited\u2014were each ma, which was done the next day, in front of the, wal Exchange.But Wilkes had so fired the mob hat they pelted the executioner and constables with.ih, broke the windows of the Sherifl\u2019s carriage, nd obliged him and his assistants to run for their: ies, This riot occasioned another debate in the | ommons, in the course of which Mr.Martin charged | le North Brilon with stabbing him in the dark, and pressed a wish to know who the writer was, when | Vilkes immediately avowed himself io be the man, he consequence was a duel, and Wilkes was shot, fn the belly ; but though the wound was considered aortal, he survived to brew more mischief.He then! isituted an action against Robert Wood, the Under | Mcretary of State, for an nnlawful seiznre of his; ! papers, and recovered £1,000, Mr.Justice Pratt de- iling against the validity of general warrants.Thus, | vilhout intending it, Wilkes was instrumental ini securing to the subject the liberty of person and the : sanctity of home.Encouraged by his success, he republished the offensive No.45, for which he was ried before Lord Mansfield, and also for printing an eheene \u201c Essay on Woman,\u201d upon both of which larges he was found guilty.The place having! become too hot for him, he fled to the continent and vas outlawed.The rest of his career, deeply inter- cling as it is, we cannot trace, as it ceases to have à bearing upon our subject ; but we may add that he solicited a pardon from the king, which was refused, that hie returned and gave himself up, paid a fine of £500, was imprisoned for twelve months, was return- cd member for Middlesex and expelled, was re-elect- ed hy acclamation and again expelled, was again iwice elected and twice refused the seat, which, on the ourih occasion, was given to Colonel Luttrell.That he supporters of the Bill of Rights made him a present of £300, that he brought an action against Lord Halifax for false imprisonment, and obtained 44,000 damages, that he was subsequently elected Sheriff, Lord Mayor, and Chamberlain of London, wd that he died in 1792, at the age of 70.The decision of Chief Justice Pratt encouraged | her printers who had been persecuted to seek ; redress.Dryden Leach, who had been arrested by mistake as the printer of the North Briton, recovered 8500.Arthur Beardmore, also arrested on a general wamant for writings in the Monitor, got £1500.Entick, another, got £20 ; Meredith, clerk to Beard- More, £200; Fell, a printer, £18; and Wilson, another printer, £40.Beardmore then sued the Messengers who had arrested him, and obtained £1,000, while Fell and Wilson, on a similar action, o £600, all of which damages fell on Lord Halifax, © Secretary of State, who had signed the general | Varrants, and found thera rather costly as well as dangerous playthings.\u2018 After this, the Government thought it wiser, when *f were assailed, to appeal to the Courts of Justice, hj de by the decisions of a jury, like all other The next person of note whom we find connected | offenders, and it further required all custom-house and vith the newspapers was poor Chatterton, who, at vitrée of fifteen, was attracting attention by his monte 22) And.who, we may observe, secured an im- Mality of disgrace by his literary forgeries and wig jon.For two or three years he blazed with a ond light in half a dozen different papers, and at the 48 of eighteen was already so disgusted with himself «td the world th ief à poisomed imac] at he sought relief in the grave.He | lic Ledger, established January 12th, 1760.This verdict, which amounted to an acquittal.We imay here mention that the oldest British newspaper existing at the present day is a small commercial sheet which confines its attention to the prices of indigo, tea, cotton and cochineal, and | to advertisements of \u201csales by the candle, rummage sales,\u201d &c., which sheet is all that is left of the Pub- little paper was, however, at one time, of some account ; and among others who contributed to render Îts columns attractive, was the afterwards celebrated Oliver Goldsmith who, in the fifth number, commenced | his satirical and amusing letters from * a citizen of the world,\u201d so often since reprinted.At this time there was in the Upper House a noble Lord\u2014Lord Marchmoni\u2014who seems to have been ; possessed with a newspaper-persecuting devil, which prompied him to watch every opportunity of giving them trouble.The fine usually imposed for what was ! absurdly termed a breach of the privileges of the House\u2014the mentioning of a nobleman, by name, in the reports or otherwise\u2014was £100, and this titled monomaniac had succeeded on several occasions in having it imposed ; but the time had come for a pitched battle between Parliament and the press.The House of Commons, in imitation of the bad example of the Lords, smarting under the provocation (!) of seeing its speeches daily reported, ordered the Resolution of 26th February, 1728, to be read, which declared the printing of the debates, or proceedings, a high breach of privilege, and after confirming it added, that \u201cupon discovery of the authors, printers or publishers of any such written or printed newspapers, this House will proceed against the offenders with the utmost severity I\u201d a notable resolution certainly for so enlightened a body, but the threat was not an idle one, for it was promptly succeeded by violentaction.On the 8th February, (1771,) complaint was made to the House against the Gazetleer and New Daily Advertiser, and also against the Middlesex Journal, for offending in the way forbidden, when it was \u201c ordered that the said papers be delivered at the table,\u201d and the motion passed 90 to 565, The House then ordered the attendance of the two printers, but their blood was up and they ignored five such orders.This contumacy, as may be supposed, incensed the House awfully, so by a vote of 160 to 17, they were ordered to be taken into the custody of the sergeant- at-arms, for contempt.But it was easierto command than to catch the delinquents, and the poor Sergeant made report that he had made diligent search but could not find the parties.In for a penny, in fora pound.The House had moved, and could not consistently with its dignity retrace its steps, so it passed an address to the King, praying him to issue a proclamation offering a reward for their apprehension, and His Majesty seems to have shown a wonderful alacrity in complying.The proclamation charged all justices of the peace, and all other faithful subjects, to use their utmost diligence in arrestin, them, it cautioned all persons not to harbour suc coast-guard officers to keep watch that they did not escape by sea, concluding with offering a reward of £50 for their apprehension.Well, at any rate, the price was not very flattering to the pride of the printers.On the 12th March, although the recusants were still at large, the House proceeded to harry the Morning Chronicle, the St.James Chronicle, the London Packet, the Whitehall Evening Post, the General and severally breaches of privilege.The Lord Mayor being in infirm health, was excused from further aticndance that day ; but Alderman Oliver was committed to the tower by a majority of 170 to 38.Carried away by fury, it then proceeded to order the attendance of Wilkes on the 8th April ; bat as il not daring to meet the consequences of its own acts, and not a little apprehensive probably of the issues of a contest with that successful mob-maker, it sneaked out of the scrape by, on the 7th adjourning to the 9th.Here was a let down with a vengeance, but the depth of humiliation had not yet been reached.The Lord Mayoi\u2019s conduct was yet to be adjudicated upon, and on the 27th April he attended in his place, when ! another struggle ensued.From alleged consideration for his health, which, as we have already said, was infirm, a majority of 202 over 39 were for placing him in the custody of the Sergeani-at-arms, which, of course, the reader knows, simply means that he was to consider himself under arrest; but he bravely refused any such favour, and elected 10 go to the tower a prisoner.What was next to be done?Why, there was the \u201cmob\u201d to deal with, and the House gravely appointed a committee to inquire into the causes of the disorderly proceedings of that institution on the 25th March.The city of London, meanwhile, was not in the highest degree delighted with the course pursued towards its chief magistrate and the two aldermen, and we may easily conceive that it had ways of its own of showing its temper.But the dissatisfaction was not confined to the city, the whole couniry was moved, and the press was not slow in avenging itself, Parliament was at a discount, and knew it, but what could it do?It could not exactly back out, so it had to look on and hope that time would allay the public excitement ; but there can be no doubt that the finale was miserably damaging to its dignity.On the 23rd July, Parliament was prorogued, and its power expiring, the two prisoners marched out of the tower, amid the acclamations of the exulting multitude, who regarded them as the champions of liberty.Then the law, to cap the climax, quietly ignored the assumptions of the House of Commons, for when Carpenter, who had arrested Wheble, was tried at Guildhall, he was found guilty, was fined one shilling, and was imprisoned for two months.The moral effect of these events has lasted nntil our day, and although the right of the people to learn through the press what their representatives are doin in Parliament has never been formally acknowledged, it has never since been questioned, and we presume never will be while the British constitution lasts.We must now hurry to a cunclusion our notices of the British press, and will do so by picking up a few items which we think onr readers will regard as interesting.The cost of transmitting the London papers into the country at this time was very great, and may account perhaps for the establishment of a great many in the provinces.They were forwarded through the agency of the clerks of the roads, under the Post Office, whose charges were, for a daily paper, £5, and for an evening paper, £2 10s.In 1770, an enterprising bookseller, J.Hamilton, of Shoe Lane, Fleet Street, advertised the following reduced prices: \u201cFor a daily paper, £4 ; for an evening paper, £2,\u201d which was yet about twice as much as the newspapers themsclves cost.The numbers circulated continued, however, to increase, as appears from the records of Evening Post and the London Evening Posl, for a like the stamp office.In 1753, the number of sheets issued was 7,411,757 ; in 1760 it had inereased to 9,464,790 ; in 1774, to 12,300,000, and in 1776 to 12,630,000, and this notwithstanding that in May of this year the stamp was raised frpm 1d.to 14d.In 1777, there were 17 newspapers published in London, seven of which were daily in the morning, eight 1ri-weekly, one twice, and the other once a week.In 1778 the fist Sunday paper appeared, viz, Johuson\u2019s Sunday Monitor.On Ist January, 1778, THE TIMES was ushered into existence.For a quarter of a century it made no great headway, for in 1803, when old John Walter, its founder, yielded up its management to his son, its circulation is supposed not to have exceeded 1,000 copies; but even this was a most respectable number, for the most popular publications of the day did not exceed 4,500, The oldest English Provincial newspaper which has explained the facts of the case to him, his lordship | continued down to our day, seems to be Burrow's e Worcester Journal, established in 1709, and Mr.Andrews enumerates some twenty others, all established before 1748.In 1792, there were 70 papers published in the provinces, and the stamp duty paid to the Government was £142,230 3s.7d., or over $600,000 ! The first newspaper published in Scotland was the Mercurius Politicus, which appeared 26th October, 1653, but it was only a temporary affair got up by Cromwell, who sent up a printer to Leith for the purpose, and the object was to inform the English troops of what was going on in the army in other parts of the kingdom.The first legitimate journal issued in Scotland was the Mercurius Caledonius, a small weekly quarto, commenced in 1660, which speedily made way for dom\u2019s Intelligencer.Several others were started, lived a few years, and demised.In 1699, the Edinburgh Gazelle, then followed the Edinburgh Courant, which soon merged into the Scols Courant; but it is not necessary that we should pursue the progress of the Scotch press, and will therefore merely say that it had troubles of its own to contend with, iike the English press, all of which were happily overcome in due time.The first Trish newspaper seems to have been started in 1690, and was called the Pues Occurrences.The next, Falkener\u2019s Journal, was in 1728 ; the third, the Waterford Flying Posl, came out the next year.The Belfast News Letter was commenced in 1737, and continues to this day.As may be supposed, in Ireland as elsewhere, a goud many sheets were commenced, contended with difliculties, exerted a certain amount of influence, and subsided into oblivion ; but the number of newspapers in that country was very much larger in proportion than in Scotland.In 1782, there were only three published ; in 1790 there were twenty-seven; and in 1795 there were thirty-five.We must now say a few words respecting the Colonial Press, which sprang up very soon after the first complete newspaper had been established in Eng- Boston News Letter, founded by John Campbell, bookseller and Postmaster, on the 241th April, 1704, and which lasted till 1774.It was printed on a half a sheet of pot paper, folio, with small pica type.Thirty years before, Sir Wm.Berkeley, Governor vf | Virginia, had said in an address to the colonists :\u2014 | \u201cThanks be to God, we have here neither {ree schools ! into the world doubt, heresy and sectarianism, and the printing press has propagated, in addition to all these evils, attacks against governments!\u201d How ho must have been disgusted, if still living, to find John Campbell venturing to dispute his dicta.Boston again led the way, for in 1719 the Boston Gazette was then, in 1721, James Franklin, elder brother of Benjamin, started the New England Courant, and like the early printers in England, got into a variety of scrapes for his outspokenness.In 1727, he removed his establishment to Rhode Island, where he commenced the Rhode Island Gazette.In the same year, the New England Journal was started at Boston by Whitfield and Edwards, and in 1731 another paper appeared, also at Boston, called the Weekly Rehearsal.In 1748, a group of ardent young patriots projected and brought out the Independent Advertiser, which taking ground against the Governor, got into considerable trouble.It fought its way bravely, however, and numbered among its contributors some of the great men of the day.Philadelphia was not far behind Boston, for in 1719 the American Weekly Miscellany was commenced there, and in 1728 the Pennsylvania Gazette followed.Benjamin Franklin, who had left his brother's employment, was engaged upon this paper, and manœu- vred to engineer the proprietor, Keimer, out, and to put himself in his place.Even lis own account of the means he employed does not redound to his honour.New York was rather slow at first in the newspaper line, for it was not till 1728 that the New York Gazelle appeared.The next paper was the Weekly Journal, cstablished in 1738, and as it soon commenced to altack the Government, it fared precisely like all other journals given to fearless criticism.It was prosecuted, and immense efforts were made to crush it, but the jury acquitted the printer.The trial had excited extraordinary interest, and the verdict was hailed as a national victory.The chief advocate for the defendant, Zenzer, was Andrew Hamilton, from New York, and he so ably discharged the duty that the Municipal Council voted him thanks, which were enclosed in a gold box, engraved with the most flattering testimonies.But the fickleness of the multitude, anon so excited on behalf of the freedom of the press, was promptly evidenced in the difficulties which poor\u2019 Zenzer had to contend with, and under which he finally succumbed.The paper died | out, not so much for want of a subscription list as for the subscribers never thinking it necessary to pay up.The poor man appealed to them, and offered to take flour, hams, butter, or anything else, if they had no cash ; but though many owed him for seven.years, after the piteous appeal, the Weekly Journal died o starvation.In 1743, another paper, the Weekly Postboy, commenced its career; but it got into tribulation by its attacks on the Episcopal Church, and died a violent death, In various other places in the Colonies attempts \u2018were made to establish newspapers, but the failures were much mere numerous than the successes, and on the whole, it may be said that before the revolution and uncertain, \u201cThe next few years were\" distinguished by the venture 2 glance into the history of t the Mercurius Publicus, and that again for the Aing-| nor printing presses, and I hope that we may not! the wealthier and higher classes.have any for a hundred years; for education has sent | enclosure, even at that day, there were no less than want of the money due the establishment, many of convulsions which wrested the thirteen colonies from chiefly of a coarse grey woollen st Great Britain, and during the struggles the press did their own wheels and looms.At the forges, at St.good service to the * rebels ;\u201d but it is.clearly impos- Maurice, near Three Rivers, indeed, iron works were sible, in a rapid sketch like the present, to even | carried on with some skill and profit to tire employed, at period, so we | if not to the employers.\u201d ppp shall conclude the retrospect with a few words in relation to the newspapers in the other British North American dependencies.The first paper published in the Colonies of British North America, which continued faithful to the mother country, was the Barbadoes Gazette, commenced in 1731, by Samuel Keimer.The next was established in Grenada, in 1742, but its name is not given; then we have the St.Kitts Gazette, in 1748.Nova Scotia followed with the Halifax Gazette, in 1751, but it did not appear regularly till 1760.After this came the QUEBEC GAZETTE, established in 1764, by Brown and Gilmore, and which, with a suspension of a few months only, continues to our day, as everybody knows.Indeed, so far as we are aware, it is the oldest paper on the continent, though we admit having heard that there is somewhere in New England a journal claiming to be one or two Years its senior.At any rate, it is the patriarch of the press in the present British.North American Provinces; and on the celebration of its hundredih anniversary, may justly claim, we think, the historical retrospect we now propose to give it.Dominica had a newspaper in 1765, and next in order we have the Montreal Gazelle, commenced in 1775.New Brunswick owned newspapers in 1782, the Bahamas in | 1783, the Bermudas in 1784, and Prince Edward : Island in 1795, though in 1802 it had not any\u2014they had no doubt come to grief.The first paper published in the British Oriental empire was Hicking\u2019s Gazelle, started at Calcutta in 1781, since which time a considerable crop has sprung up throughout that vast dominion.With these hasty notices, we must close the review, and direct our attention to another branch of the subject, CANADA IN 1759.Canada may be said to have been formally acquired by France in the year 1607, for though several times before visited by its navigators, it was only in that year that a permanent lodgment was made ; and this was done by Champlain, who at once commenced to erect a fort and to lay the foundation of a city, so that the country remained subject to the French Crown until 1759, when the battle of Quebec transferred it to that of England.France then had full play in Canada for 152 years, and what it was when Wolle purchased it with the blood of his brave squadrons ment of the French Court and Government.At this time the population of Canada was in round nuinbers 60,000 souls, having somewhat decrcased during the twenty preceding years of war and want.Of these 6,700 lived in Quebec, 4,000 in Montreal, 1,500 in Three Rivers, and the remainder led a rural life on the banks of the St.Lawrence and its tributaries, with the exception of a few who had fallen into wandering habits, copied from the roving Indians, and who picked up a precarious subsistence with the | gun and rod.The condition of the peasantry was not very greatly different from what it is to-day in the remoter parishes, where education has not yet made land.The first Colonial journal, and we believe the much progress, and where city notions and fashions very first paper printed on the continent, was the | are entirely unknown and uncared for, i Quebec was then in every sense the metropolis.Here was the \"seat of Government, and here were held the supreme tribunals of justice.Here were deposited the public records, with the stores of arms and ammunition, and here, too, were found the principal establishments of religion and education.The Upper Town then, even more so than now, was the favorite dwelling place of In this small nine ecclesiastical edifices, whose lofty spires gave to the city a very imposing aspect from the offing.Here, too, was the Governor\u2019s palace and that of the Bishop, together with several hospitals, and a large college under the charge of the Jesuit fathers\u2014now known as the Jesuit barracks.St.Roch\u2019s was commenced by William Brooker, a director of posts ; ; already a considerable suburb, and the country in the vicinity of Quebec could boast of some very well built houses and well cultivated gardens and farms.The villages of Charlesbourg, Lorette and Beauport were already conspicuous objcets, giving life and animation fo a landscape, which, seen from the city heights, is perhaps unequalled in beauty on the continent.We are now quoting, or condensing, from Warburton, whose ¢ Conquest of Canada\u201d seems to us to be characterized by an evident desire to present a faithful portrait of the country, as well as a cotrect narrative of the events which brought about | its transfer to the British Crown.Referring to the occupations and habits of the common people, our | author says :\u2014\u201c The cultivation of the fertile Canadian soil was of a very rude description ;\u2019\u2014a remark which applies with a great deal too much force, even in our day, to a large part of the country\u2014* but even the feeble industry of\u201d the \u2018habitant\u2019 was generally repaid by rich and plentiful crops.The animals of i the chase, and the inexhaustible supplies of fish in their lakes and rivers, were resources that better suited the thriftless and scanty population, than the toilsome produce of the field.Tillage was neglected ; they cared not to raise more grain than their own immediate wants demanded.The unparalleled monopolies of the colonial government deprived labor lof the best stimulant\u2014the certain enjoyment of its \u2018fruits.The farmer hardly ceased to store up his superabundant harvest, when his hangard was exposed to the licensed plunder of cruel and avaricious officials, or served but as a sign where the domineering soldiery of Old France might find free quarters.He that sowed the seed knew not who might reap the crop.Often, when the golden fields were almost ripe : for the sickle, the war summons sounded in the Ca- | nadian hamlets, and the whole male population were hurried away to stem some distant Indian onslaught, or to inflict on some British settlement, a ruin scarcely more complete than their own.* * * * Butas year after year, the vain strife continued, and despite their valour, and even success, the British power hemmed them more closely in, their bearts sickened at the hopeless quarrel, and they longed for peace even under a stranger\u2019s sway.\u201d Their fields desolate, their villages deserted, their ships driven from the seas, what cared they for the pride of France, when its fruit to them was ruin, oppression and contempt.What cared they for the Bourbon lily, when known but as the symbol of avarice and wrong.\u201d From a the provisions were not sent, and the very next Jeary letter of the Marquis of Montcalm, referred to in a foot note in corroboration of the text, we translate as follows: As to the natives of the country, it is better to leave them to their erratic and laborious life in the woods with the Indians and to their military | exercises ; they may be less opulent but more robust, ; more brave and more virtuous, that is, more adapted {to serve the state and more disposed to do so.\u201d Passing on to notice the mechanical industry of the | country, the writer says : \u201cthe manufactures of this | neglected though splendid colony, scarcely merit even or rebellion, the progress of the press was both slow | a passing notice.Flax and hemp were worked only sufficiently to show how much was lost in their neglect, and the clothing of this simple peasantry was , the produce of and with his own, that it was made by the manage- rg TS J RIN RY LAR EL CL Omer pea one SR HET WI Sea mes 5 THE QUEBEC GAZE TTE, CENT ENARY NUMBER, TUESDAY.JUNE 21, 1864.A \u2014\u2014\u2014 Re \u2018The commercial spirit of the French, such as it was, the fur trade almost wholly engrossed ; the fisheries were never carried on with any vigeur by the colonists ; some adventurers, indeed, from the home ports, bore the produce of the northern waters, with Canadian timber and provisions, to the tropical islands ; but even this limited trade was monopolized by a privileged few, through the corrupt connivance of the authorities.In the official returns of the colonial customs, there appears every year an enormous surplus of imports over exports, which can only be accounted for by the clandestine shipment of great quantities of furs and other goods, to restore in some measure the necessary balance of exchange.The sole view of the local officials, was rapidly to accumulate wealth at the expense of the State or of their Canadian fellow-subjects.Such of their books and acconnts as fell into the hands of the English were so confused and irregular, that it was difficult or impossible to discover the exact nature of their undoubted dishonesty.\u201d \u201c Although the Canadian population was at this ume poor, rude and dispersed, it presented, in some respects, features usually characteristic of older and more prosperous com:nunities.The emigration from whence it mainly sprung contained within itself the embryo forms of organization ; nobility, clergy, merchants and peasants, were sent out from the fatherland, and commissioned especially for their several offices.No voluntary influx of ambitions, truculent but energetic men swelled the population or disturbed the fatal repose of the young nation ; no free develop- arent was permitted to its infant form ; but clothed | in the elaborate garments of maturer years, the limbs | vere cramped, and the goodly proportions of nature were dwarled into a ferble frame.No safety valve offered itself to the quick spirit of the young Canadian ; military rank was limited to the favourites of the powers at home ; mercantile success was debarred | by vile and stupid monopolies ; territorial possessions | were unattainable but by interest and wealth ; here the proud man, for a time, chafed and murmured, and at length strode away to the far West and sought the irresistible attractions of free and savage life.\u201d \u201c No colony was ever governed by a succession of more able and excellent men than that of New France, perhaps none (except Algiers) has been apparently so much indebted to the nother country in tender infancy ; none ever exhibited a nore thorough failure.* * The fatal error of despotic restraint cost France Canada by conquest, and cost England the noblest tind God ever gave tu man (the present United States) Ly the deeper disgrace of a deserved and violent divorce.\u201d - \u201cThe favourites of power (the Canadian nobility) \u2018for mustering all the forces then within call, After nearly a whole summer spent in feints, ma-1 Hardly had the ba tle been foi neuvres, and desultory conflicts in the neighbourhood | gainville, with 1,500 men, chiefly : of Quebec, Wolfe formed the desperate resolution of | light infantry, and 350 cavalry, were seen coming to | scaling the heights, since immortalized us the Plains the rescue, whereupon Col.l'ownshend, who w as of Abraham, and by consummate skill and almost how in command, recalled his disordered battalions, inconceivable exertion, accomplished the task during und forming them in a line, prepared to meet this | the night which preceded the 13th September, 1759.| new attack.He also despatched the 35th and 48h, Great was the consternation of the French General with two field pieces, to meet De Bougainville und when he heard, at early morn, that his unsleeping foe | check his advance ; but the demonstration was had gained so advantageous a position.But his, enough.He recoiled before the victorious ary, and courage did not fail him, und indeed, all things, retreated with precipitation up the left Lank of the rationally considered, his ground was yet as much { St.Lawrence, not stopping until he reached Cape the best as his forces were the most numerous.He | Rouge.must have felt that such was the case, or he would | The loss of the English in this memorable battle hardly have adventured to meet the English soi was 55 killed and 607 wounded ; that of the French, n fought, when De Bou- grenadiers und and with abundant means of sustaining a siege, he been under 1,500 in killed, wounded and prisoners.chose to fight; and we have therclore the right 10] While the British troops were carrying ull before conclude he regarded himself as fully equal 10 the } them, the life of their young commander was fast conflict.In view of the result, the French writers ebbing away.Some one near, speidiing ol the have severely censured his decision, and sought, by French, called out, \u201c See, they run.\u201d The words depreciating his character, 10 show that he was not | canght the ears of the dying soidier ; he raised hinu- fit for his post; but the only error he fell into, in our! sell like one aroused from sleep, and usked eagerly, opinion, was that of underrating or not adeqautely © Who runs 2 \u201cThe cnemy, sir,\u2019 answered un appreciating the valour aud prowess of the troops hie | officer: «They give way everywhere,\u201d Go one ol was guing 10 oppose.\u201cIf we must fight,\u201d said he, yon to Colonel Burton,\u201d then said Wolfe, and tell \u201c| will erush them,\u201d and forthwith he gave orders him to much Webb\u2019s (48th) regiment with all speed A1 8, down to the St.Charles River tv eut off the retreat.\u201d | o\u2019elock his columns began to appxar, and formed into : These were his last words of command; he then (three separate masses.Montcahn commanded the \u2018added, fvebly : \u201c Now, God be praised, I die happy.\u201d centre in person, which consisted of the regiments of\u2019, His eyes closed, and afier a few convulsive move- Berne and Guienne, together 720 bayonets, supported, | 1nents, he became still ! Through the mortal shades however, by 1200 of the Canadian Militia, men not by any means unused to warfure or destitute of fighting qualities.On the riglit were the regiments of La Sarre and Languedoc, and a battalion of the Marine or Colony troups, in all 1600 veterans.They, too, were accompanied by 400 of the Militia, with one light field piece.On the left, the Royal Roussillon and a battalion of the Marine mustered together 1300 p eternal morning.: We drop the tale here.There was vne more conflict and many endurances; many negociations, «and at last a capitulation; shen a treaty of peace, by which Cunada passed from the dominion of France \"to the happier rule of constitutional England ; and we \u201cbelieve that even our French Canadian fellow-sub- proinptly as he did.Entrenched behind the ramparts, though never ascertained with precision, cannot have | That feH upon his soul there rose the dawn of an.jand the :Jtu of April, which, all things considered, [caps and hose, kerseys, cades, shalloons, molletons, | anno be said « have been very old.There are ; also items oi intelligence from Philadelphia of the | soap, starch, indigo, hair powder, 3rd, and {rem New York of the Tth May, frum which : cottons, gun we incidentally learn that land truvel in those tines! was à pretty slow business\u2014say 45 days to New York ! From the Foreign News, we extract the following : \u2014 Vienna, March 21.* The prelate of the Couvent of | Moeleck presented 6000 ducats to the Arch Duke \u201cJoseph when he passed on his way to Frankfori.At, { Ens, where the Court lay the second night, the States! \u2018presented that Prince with 15,000 ducats.The 1 Kingdom of Hungary have granted to his Royal Highness for his journey a free gift of 500,000 florins, The rest of the linperial States and Towns through which he passes, are obliged to contribute in pro- | portion to their ability.\u201d ( ; | This was certainly a nice way of travelling, and the * free gifts\u201d might as well be made with a good grace, since the localities were ¢ obliged\u201d 10 make | them.; s Another item is lo this effect :\u2014 i |\u201c His Holiness the Pope has caused bread to be dis- | tributed 10 the poor in the country and to other pour people who by the continual rains were prevented from working, and has issued an ordinance cuacting \u2018 the penalty of the gallows on any person that shall | ste] or forcibly seize bread or Hower in town or on! the roads.\u201d From the London items, under March 10, we make ! the following extracts : We have here the beginning of troubles, \u201cIt is said that a scheme of taxation of our; American Colonies has for some time been in agitation, that it had been previously debated in Par- liument ; whether they had power to lay a tax on, colonies which had no representative in parliainent,, and determined in the affirmative.\u2018That on 91h March Mr\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 made a long harangue on the me-, jects, who cannot be blumed for cherishing prod recollections of their lineage, are generally prepared \u201cto adinit that under the benign sway of the British \u2018Crown und Sceptre, they have enjoyed, aud naw bayonets, and they had with them no less than 2,300 of the Canadian levies.The total force of Montcalum consisted, then, of 7,520, besides Indians,~how many we are not told.Of these, as just stated, 3620 were the best troops of France, und 3900 Canadian Militia.\u2018enjoy, all the rights and liberties which are consisient Wolfe's army was just 4,528 strong, including men | In our description of the social condition, habits the valley of St.Charles, who opened fire upon the ! .TV, A y ; P p le, it was incidentally stated that no printing press | had ever been allowed in Canada.This first skivmish sufficiently shows that | ; ; ! ; colonists might be to do without a newspaper, the in- { custom were generally vain and indolent men ; they disdained with social order and assured protection.of all ranks ; but every man was a soldier, ~ of oll samka ; y aman was soldier The Quetvez Gazette.l'he French attacked at abom 10 o'clock, by sending « a mass of Canadians and Indians up the slopes from! © | und manners of the people of Canada under French extreme left, and being all good marksmen, inflicted : \"\" The st t considerable injury, driving in the picquets upon their! .\\e stalemen 4 ; appears almost incredible, for however willing the «supports.3 the militia were well up to their work, and that they | ; .were no despicable foe.The French veterans per.| Convenience of having to write all the legal forms, ceived the advantage already gained, and by a swift | house entries, public notices, und other | muncrous blanks and bills entering into the ordinary trade and agriculture alike, as being beneath their: movement, turned the flank of Murray\u2019s \u201cbrigade.hih-born dignity; but they did not scruple to grasp | They then fell upon Howe\u2019s light infantry, which at every convenient opportunity of easy profit, whether formed almost a right angle with the British front.la vful or contraband ; and they exacted, frequently He was hardly pressed and his men fell fast; but! ; ! i ata mere tithe of the trouble aud expense.with uneqnal justice, a large portion of the fruits of \u2018Townshend with the 15th came to his aid, and soon ! the earth from their peasant vassals.From the expe- | afierwards the two battalions of the 60th joined the «mul favour enjoyed by the Canadian gentry under tiie line and turned the tide of battle.; ar en) i rule of France, they were staunch to the last to her\u2019 In the mean time, swarms of skirmishers advanced | and to their own interests, and as far as they went, against the right and centre of the British army, and : WW Z 1 1 1 s ro.> .> 1 were the most effective garrison in the colony: to j,i; winging fire dislodged the light infantry posted | them the prospect of British conquest was hateful and in front, forcing it back upon the main body,\u201d Wolfe : ruinous; with i must end their reign of corruption perceived that the troops in rear became alarmed at and monopoly.221 .{ these retrograde movements, but he passed on to the! \u201c Every territorial possession in New France was front, and hurrying along the line, by his voice and! held under the iron feudal laws ; but as the country | presence cheered und Ye-assured them.He also! becaine more populous and of increasing importance, | admonished the whole line on no account to iire | variety of modifications was gradually introduced, without orders.tending to curb the exorbitant power of the seigneurs,i The spirited advance of the French skirmishers was and proportion:lly to elevate the condition of their! but the inask of a moe formidable movement, for ., ; ., vassals, ; [ their centre and left now bore down with loud shouts .\" : .¥ es \" .' Fhe favoured classes of the Canadians were.and with arms at the recover, as if they were about devoted to social amusements; excursions by day, 10 sweep away the whole British force.parties for gaming and the dauce at night, occupied their summer ; and in winter, skating, sleighing, ' yoke cleared off, the long unbroken ranks of veterans snow-shoeing and evening re-unions turned that dreary | were seen advancing in oblique lines upon the British time into a season of enjoyment.Lively, free and! 5.4 .vo.A 1 TSUL graceful in manners, their vanity and want of educa-.rolled out a murderous fire, and the 35th Grenadiers tion were little noticeable in the intercourse of daily ' [oj] ast.Wolfe himself, who was at the head of the life.They were inclined to ostentation and extrava-| 26th, was struck in the wrist, but wrapping a haud- gance ; the means, \u2018often unscrupulously precured, i kerchiefl about the wound, he hastened from one rank were squandered with careless profusion, und they | 10 another, again exhorting the men to be steady and generally endeavoured to keep an appearance of! to reserve their fire.Nota trigger was pulled, not a wealth beyond that which they really possessed.The | company wavered, and the only perceptible movement Bishop of Quebec, Monsieur de Pont Brian, draws a! was the closing up of the ghasily gaps ; but there ark pleure of the religious and moral condition of they stood obediently awaiting the word of command the inhabitants at that time, and attribules the threat- ; > Frene , ht ened danger (the English invasion) to the especial When the French had reached within forty yards, \u20ac g \u201cng ) pec | Wolle gave the word, \u201cFe!\u201d At once, the long wrath of Heaven for the ubsence of pious zeal, \u2014for! ; \u201celled.: 1 ., .; row of muskets was levelled, and a volley, distinct as the profane diversions, \u2014the insufferable excesses of | a) > For a inoment, .2 {a single shot, flashed from the line 1 yar » \u201chi vO \u2014 .Y = j- ! B > : .- .he games of chance,\u2014the contempt of religious ordi the advancing columns pressed on shivering like in the fatul storm, but numbers of them reeled nances,\u2014open robberies,\u2014heinous acts of injustice, | and tiie shameful rapines which were practised.\u201d Peron 1 .- Lo ; .pin , .i and fell, while others rushed out of the rankd shrieking in agony.The Brigadier de Si.Qurs was struck dead, and De Senczergues, the second in command, was left morally wounded on the field.When the breeze carried away the dense clouds of smoke, the assailing battalions stood reduced to mere groups among the bodies of the slain, Never before, or since has u deadlier volley burst from British infantry.Not fifteen minutes had elapsed since Montcalm * The Canadian peasantry were generally a healthy, simple and virtuous race, but they were also extremely ignorant; indeed, the jealousy of their! rulers would never suffer a printing press to be erected in the country!\u201d As we have alrendy said, France had full play in Canada froin its earliest colonization, | in 1607, 10 the conquest in 1759, and may therelure | be said to have cominenced the erection of this new .re transatlantic nation at the very time that the press | had first moved on his line of battle, and already all was beginning, through the newspapers, to influence | pas lost, Most of the militia broke and fled.The European society ; so that il may be concluded that ; T8ht wing, checked us we have seen by Townshend : i and Howe, was overpowered by a counter attack of the prohibition -to print in Canada must have had a | : , definite object, and that object it does seem hard toi \u2018he 58th and 78th.The veteran battalions of Bere divine.It must have been the perpetuation of igno- | and Guienne were shattered before his eyes under the rance under the mistaken apprehension that, as Sir Wm.Berkeley told the Virginians, education was the parent of innumerable evils; or if not, then with the criminal motive of keeping the people in a state of abject dependence ?\u2018 Few could read or write, and they were remarkably credulous of even the grossest fabrications which emanated from their superiors.They were obnoxious also to the charge of being exceedingly freedy of gain, and no enterprise was thought too difficult or dangerous which offered a rich reward.\u201d .¢ The Provincial revenues, the year of the conquest, by customs dues on exports and imports, by charges on the sales of land, by duties on spirituous liquors, &c., &c., amounted to £14,000 sterling, to which France had added, lor the support of the clergy, the civil and military authorities, £4,700.\u201d Such were the Canadians, according to Warburton, in 1759, and we apprehend the portraiture is fairly drawn; for notwithstanding the powerfully disturbing elements which have been at work since then, the vast body of the people retain the leading characteristics atiributed to them to an extent sufficient to prove its faithfulness.THE BATTLE OF QUEBEC.As the Province, and especially the district of Quebec, has of late been faithfully and elaborately reminded of the battle of St.Foy, the latest conflict upon, Canadian soil, in which the arms of France gained an advantage over the enfeebled English garrison, left in charge of the city after the battle of the Plains of Abraham, we think it will not be amiss to ive a page to the latter event before we commence to Ip into columane of tbe old @ .I skeleton and could scarcely retain the semblance of a formation ; but still the gallant Frenchman refused to believe he was beaten, and riding through his broken ranks encouraged them by his dauntless bearing to re-form and make another attempt.fully appreciating the state of matters, ordered the whole line to advance, which they did in majestic regularity, receiving and paying back the French fire with deadly interest.But the ardour of the troops | could no longer brook marching, they quickened their pace to a run, and then to a rush, trampling ever the dying and the dead, and sweeping the living enemy off their path.Right, centre and left vied with each other in their onward career.The French wavered under the carnage, and the columns which death had disordered at last broke and fled.Montcalm did all he could to rally them, but in vain ; for no sooner was there the appearance of a formation than it was destroyed by the terrible fire which was immediately poured in.All was lost; and just at this moment the brave general himself received his mortal wound.Wolfe also had received a shot in the body, but he had dissembled his sufferings, when a third ball struck him in the breast, which made him reel en one side, though at the moment this was not generally observed.He knew, however, that he was seriously hur, for he said to a grenadier officer : \u201c Support me, that my brave fellows may not see me fall.\u201d In a few moments he sank and was borne to the rear.We pass over the pursuit and the havoc which continued until the pursuers were arrested by the s from the ramparts, after the flying foe had got within the city gates.= 4 Their light .troops ceased firing and fell to the rear ; and as the | In rapid succession, the assailing battalions: | British fire ; the Royal Roussillon was shrunk to a! Meanwhile the British had re-loaded, and Wolfe | i transactions of a civilized community, inust have been \u2018intolerable, expecially with the knowledge that such things were thrown eff by thousands in otlier countries, Still we have no alternative but belief, and must only suppose that a good deal of printed matter was brought from France, The Province had hardly been secured to the British Crown, by treaty, before the business enterprise of the conquering race was evidenced in a thousand different ways, and among them, in the projection of a newspaper and job office.The parties who undertook to break ground were Messrs.Brown & Gilmore, two printers residing at Philadelphia, where the craft had long been carried on.We have before us a Prospectus without date, which inust have bec: issued in the fall of 1763, for after enumerating the advantages to the public of a newspaper, they say : succeed, early in this spring to settle in this City, in the capacity of Printers, und forthwith to publish a weekly newspaper in French and English,\u201d providing always that \u2018 the inhabitants of this place\" would encourage them by guaranteeing 300 subscribers, and after the paper had been fairly started, paying haif-a- car's subscription in advance.[ As THE QUEBEC GAZETTE was commenced Fon Thursday, the 21st of Tune, 1764, We may presume {that the conditions were agreed to by the requisite { number of patrons.The first article of the first number is an address from \u201cThe Printers to the Public,\u201d in which 1he benefits of a public newspaper are again clearly set { forth, and the principles upon which the Gazette was !to be conducted are as clearly explained.It is not I necessary that we should give the whole article, but tthe following extract may be deemed worthy of : perusal, showing, as it does, the opinions then prevalent in regard ol what a newspaper ought 10 be \u2014 .\u201cThe rigour of winter preventing the arrival of ; ships from Europe, and in a great measure interrupl- ing the ordinary intercourse with the southern prov- .inces (late the American United States) during that ; season, it will be necessary, in a paper designed for ; general perusal, and publick utility, to provide some \u2018things of general entertainment, independent of for- \"eign intelligence : we shall therefore on such occasions .present our readers with such originals, both in prose | and verse, as will please the rancy and instruet the lJUDGMENT.And here we beg leave to observe that | we shall have nothing so much at heart, as the sup- | port of vIRTUF and MoRALITY, and the noble cause of {LIBERTY : The refined amusements of LITRRATURE and the pleasing veins of well pointed wrr, shall also he considered as necessary to this collection ; inter- sperred with chosen pieces, and eurious essays, textracted from the test celebrated authors; So that ; blending PHiLosoPuy with Pourriexs, History, &c., , the youth of both sexes will be improved and persons I ranks agreeably and usefully entertained.And of a | upon the whole we will labour lo attain to all the ; exactness that so much variety will pennir; and give as uch variety as will consist with a reasonable exactness.(Well balanced, certainly.) And as this i part of our project cannot be carried into execution without the correspondence of the InaeNIoUs, we shall take all opportunities of acknowledging our obligations, to those who take the trouble of furnishing any matter which shall tend to entertainment or instruction Then, to conclude, they say: \u201cOur intentions to please the hole, without offence to any Individual, will be better evinced by eur practice, than by writing volumes on this subject.This one thing we beg may be believed, That Panry Presunice, or Privare Scanpar.will never find a place in this Paper.\u201d (A large promise, which, hewever, has been reasonably fulfilled se far.) And #0 the frail bark was Inunched upon this untried sea.How it weathered the many storms it had to cncounter may possibly enter into our subsequent explorations of its long continued \u201clog.\u201d The paper so projected was published in on a folio page, 18 inches by 12.Beyond the address of the \u201c Printers to the Publick\u201d there was no editn- rial, the rest of the sheet being taken up with two columns of forcign news and three advertisements.The paper, as we | June, and the fereign news, which is from Riga, Petersburgh, Remc, Îlermanstadt, Dantzick, Vienna, } Florence, and Utrecht, date, between tbe Sth Mareh alternate English and French columns, two columns 1ave stated, was issued on the 21st lancholy state of the nation overloaded with Taxes aud a debt of 147 millions (how marvellously increased : alnce) 25 millions of which had arisen in the last four years.That by a computation which he laid before.ithe House £360,000 per annum was expended on North America ; and therefore it was but reasonable they should support the troops sent out for their defence, and all the other expenses of the nation on that account.To raise this smn, he proposed that! the drawbacks on re-exportation of particular goods, should be discontinued ; that a duty should be laid on East India goods ; a duty of £7 sierling per ton on all wines from Madeira, the Western and Canary Isles ; a duty of 3d.per gallon on fereign molasses, | of 10s.per hundred on sugars ; a high duty on coffee, cocoa, &c., and that rum should be wholly prohibited ; .(the first glimpse of a Prohibitory Liquor Law) the wine ! of Spain, Portugal, &c., should be first landed in; England before it might be sent to America, which | seems to make it liable to a double duty.Besides that an internal tax was proposed, a stamp duty, &e., but many members opposing it, this was deferred till ! next session ; but it was feared that the tax on foreign goods would pass into a law this sessien.That these | Colonies are under great disadvantages in not having sufficient interest in Parliament ; from the want of which the West Indians have been able 10 carry uny | point against them\u2014and their interests are almost | totally disregarded.\u201d ; \u201cThat Mr.Jackson, agent for Connecticut, a | member of the House, exerted himself nobly, and thar it was chiefly owing to him that the stamp act did not take place, likewise that Mr.Allen, of Philadel-: phia, was indefatigable in remonstrating to many of; the members with whom he was acquainted, on the { influence in preventing it.\u201d April 10.\u201c Yesterday morning several thousand | journeymen silk weavers went in procession from! Spital-fields, and waited on His Majesty at the Queen\u2019s Palace in St.James Park, with a petition, representing the miserable condition themselves and | families are reduced to, by the clandestine importation of French silks.They waited before the Court yard, and two Gentlemen belonging to the said manufactory, had the honor to be intreduced to His Majesty's presence and present their petition ; which His Ma- Jesty received in the most gracious manner, and gave for answer, That he would send immediate orders to put an entire stop to the importation of French silks ; that an affair of such consequence to the kingdom should be properly laid before his Parliament and ! that they might depend on his care and protection.\u201d \u2018 \u201c On the 22nd ult.the Parliament of Rouen issued an arret, enjoining all Jesuits within their jurisdiction, ; | te depart the kingdom of France within the space of! one month, unless they could prove having abandoned the Society before the 12th of February 1762, or their having taken the oaths prescribed before the 22nd | March 1764, even if they should offer to take them ! now.In case of old age or infirmity, application\u2019 shall be made to the Clerk of the Parliament.\u201d As the Society of Jesus was for some time in very: bad odour in Europe, we may note, as we proceed, some of the steps taken by the several governments in .i relation to them.; | Besides the items above given, there are some twenty others in the paper, which were only of temporary interest.i The Home news, if we may so term the Philadel- | phia and New York intelligence, had respect only to troubles with the Indians; and these, we find, take up a considerable space in every succeeding number, The first advertisement in the Guzelle is a caution! by Thomas Ainslie, His Majesty\u2019s Collector of Cus-| toms at the Port of Quebec, against the practice on | i the part of some collectors in the Ports of America, of accepting \u2018* compositions\u201d from Importers in lieu | of the duties imposed by the Act of 6 Geo II.; and | a reward of one-third of the duties recovered from the | parlies guilty ol such practices is offered.- The next advertisement is in these words : * Notice is hereby given, that on Sunday, the 24th, being the festival of St.John, such strange BRETHREN who may have a desire of joining the Merchants\u2019 Lodge, No.1,Quebec, nay obtain liberty by applying to Miles Prentiss, at the Sun, in St.Jobn\u2019s Street, who has tickets, price five shillings for that day.\u201d Query, what were the brethren of St.John's Lodge goin to do on Sunday, the 24th June, a hundred years ago, for participation in which tickets at 5s.were necessary ?The other advertisement, and the first of a commercial character given te the Province, was by \u201c John Baird,\u201d who had \u201c just imported from London, and to be sold nt the lowest prices, in the upper part of Mr.Henry Morin\u2019s lHeuse, at the entry to the Cul de Sac, an assortment of goods, consisting of inost articles suitable for this market, such as : CALEMANCOES, and camblets, striped and plain, everlastings, durants and tammies of different colours, printed cotions and nankeens, rilk, cotton and linen handkerchiefs, romals, paper hangings, window glass, hats, a variety of linens, men\u2019s and «women\u2019s shoes and pumps, lace, gloves, leather breeches, ribbons, Persian taffeties, checks, ticks, i 1 t ratteens, cloths, strouds and blankets, vinegar, caatile earthenware, striped 1 1 y of other articles,\u201d Mr.Baird had evidently a pretty well stocke] store ; but we must say that it was not situated in : very fashionable part of the city\u2014at least, not accor L ing to our present notions of things, ) As the advertisements of the days of our very op : 0 grandfathers are probably tbe best indices we 041.have of their modes of life, we shall reproduce a fn more before we proceed to other ntatlers ; and 1.next we copy is from the second number of the pare.viz., June 28th, which, by the way, had six new où \u2018 Mr.Henry Taylor, apothecary und druggist, is i.Judicious man who had already suspected the Sy which some trades people, in our own day, as ver ignore, viz., that advertising is the life of busine.« He, tou, had \u201cjust imported\u201d in the Nancy, Captain Smith, from London, which le was, like Mr, Joh Baird, ready to sell at the lowest prices, at his sor, near Palace Gate, not a bad stand we dare adventure \u201c A Inrge assortment of Drnggs, Chymical and Gale.nical, among which are :\u2014 \u201c SURGEON°S pocket instruments, lancets cup ping and breast glasses, instruments for the tet) hom and pewter syringes, marble and bell metal morters, sponges, lint, tow, red and white skins, court sticking-plaster, shop drawers, with pots, boules, &e ALSO isingglass, honey, pearl and Scotch barley.Ugo and salop, shavings of harts-horn, potash, bio] line, essences of lavender, jessamine, orange, lemons and burgamotte, Dully\u2019s and Squire\u2019s elixirs, Fup.lington\u2019s balsam, Stoughton\u2019s bitters, Anderson\u2019s and Jockyer\u2019s pills, lavender, honey and Hungary waters cau-de-Juce, smelling bottles of all sorts, gold leaf and Dutch anetal, anieed-water and sundry kinds of cordials, cinnamon, natimegs, cloves, mace, alspice pepper, ginger, jarr raisins, earrants, prunes, figgs, chesnuts, double and single refined sugar, Hyson, wder, and a variet \u2018green and Bohea teas, sweet and bitter almonds in \u201cthe shell, confecied almonds, orange and lemon peels \"4 marmalade, barley sugar and sugar candy, wih comfits of all sorts, Poland starch, stone and \u2018powder blue, powder for the hair, soft and hard pomatum I shaving powder, wash-hand-balls, teeth-brushes, laurel leaves, sage, baume and penny-royal, olive, Florence, turpentine, prepared and cold-drawn oils, hogs lard, white wine vinegar, copperas, galls, allun, lamp black, rosin, rolled and flour brimstone, basket-sal; 1 red and yellow coker, litharge, white and red lead, with different kinds of paint.\u201d We cannot say we admire very enthusiastically the classification of Mr.Henry Taylor's \u201c Drugs, Chymi- cal and Galenical,\u201d but must confess that the assortment was tolerably extensive, and that then as now money could purchase not only the necessaries but most of the luxuries and fanciful whimsies which we ure_ too apt to regard as modern inventions.The belles of those days must have required, as \"ours do, a considerable variety of toilet articles, or Mr.Taylor would hardly have invested his capital in them; and that certainly goes 10 corroborate the allegations we have found in the authors we have consulied, that the Canadian ladies were extremely fond of dress and decoration.Following the above, we have a modest man, who withholds his vame from posterity, but then he tells us where he may be found, viz., at the \u201cThree Cannon.\u201d Who can tell ns where the Three Cannons had planted themselves?He, too, had to sell, \u201cat the lowest prices\u201d :\u2014 \u201cYORKSHIRE hams, Hereford cyder in bottles, claret, white and red wine in botiles, by the dozen or botile, two or three hundred gallons of strong beer, \u201cQur design is, in case we are fortunate enough to illegality of an internal tax and had considerable : aligar, best vinegar by the quart or gallon, ard a new calash with a set of English harness.\u201d Evidently we are fast completing the list of real and fancied necessaries; but it would be an advantage to know at what prices these good things might be bought.If we go on perhaps we may be satisfied on that point too.We hud not far to go, for in the very next number, \u201c Mr.Samuoe! Sills, at his cellars near the landing place, in Lower Town,\u201d is pleased 10 offer us, \u201con the lowest terms, à parcel of exceeding good wines in bottles, viz.:\u2014 Fine Old Red Port, at 17s.| Ditto Claret.* 12s, Ditto Priniae.* 17s.Ditto Vin Muscat.* 24s \"1 Per Dozen, Ditto Modena.¢¢ 27s.Ditto Malaga.* 17s.Ditto Lisbon.¢ 17s.Ditto Fyall.\u201c 15s.* N.B.\u2014The bottles to be paid for or returned.\u201d Mr.Sills was also ready to supply \u201c French And British brandies, shrub, rum, vinegar, bottled porter, capers, anchovies, pickled walouts, salt, sali-peter, loaf and muscovado sugars, tea, molasses, glue, linseed oil, paint of all sorts, carthen-ware, with « great variety of most kinds of English manufactories.\u2019 We are thankful for the prices of the wines, even though we are left in the dark about those ef the \u201c Manufactories,\u201d and can casily conceive how the bon-vivants of our days must envy the jolly old fellows of a hundred years ago, who could gn to Mr.Sills cellars any day and choose wines, which would shame the primest of modern vintages, su called, at from 17¢ to 27s.per dozen, though the bottles were to bere turned.Questionless, we begin to suspect that ou very great grandfathers knew a thing or two, an especially that they were capital judges of wine.Mr.John Mooring, from London, throws a litt light on the price of linens, for he informs us that (after enumerating a number of other articles) ho has \u201cIrish linnes from 18d.to Ts.per yard, also Irish sheeting from 18d.to 2s.6d.per yard, to be sold cheap at lis store in Lower Town.\u201d We proceed to fill up the picture, and our readers : must.understand that we merely give one advertise ment of each kind, always awarding the preference to the party who was the first in his line to proclaim his wares, like a sensible man, or to offer his services to the public ; and upon this principle, we must nov introduce to them a respected fashioner, who me have plied his calling before the Gazette had gv him the opportunity of handing down his name foo generation, for he commences in the most approv of grateful hearts.\u201cWILLIAM LAING, Taylor from Year evidently a gentleman in his way, for he \u201c Bros CN to inform the GenTLEMEN of this City that he js 1atel returned and thinks it his duty to take this met y returning thanks to his customers for their othe favours, and likewise 10 acquaint the Publick vous now carries on his Trade, at the sign of the i (loyal subject that) in the back street that leads \"A the Wall of the Seminary to St.John\u2019s Street.\"og LonpoN # who favour him with their employ hay depend ow having their cloaths made compleatly anc y ' i bedient serva reasonable Rate by their most obec ent ser Lue.\u201c N.B.\u2014His wife carries on her Business of man, making in allits Branches, and the newest fas Lo : If we could dive into the history of this ro à couple, we have little doubt we would find they .nails, frying pans, iron plate, buckles, buttons, knives, cotton-week, hose and mins, scarlet and buff mill\u2019d, s plum. of 5, mn in Is th er i u- or- gs np ll, d, ni- rt- Ww, ut we y nd | rte, ter, lue, th a es.\u201d ven \u201cthe the ows ills\u201d ame ls, e re our and Jule that 3 has Irish heap ders rtisé- rence Jaim vices now must give! o ov rovel u i) least tatels od ¢ ormé pat hé \u201crow ; fro Thos?ap at * ING.anit ns.prio gi \"our next candidate for public favour is JAMES H A N N A, 4 Watch ax McCorD, wear the palace, Quebec, AKES and M &c., with the | ¢ Jeafe to honour him with faving them executed punctually, on the moit reafonable terms.N.B \u2014 Re gives the highe#t prices for old gold and filver.James Hanna, whose clocks we have seen in Que- pec mot very long ago, was clearly a man up to aving no doubt learnt the value of punctuality in business from the habit of compelling his watches time, h and clocks to keep a faithful account ot every minute We hope Mr Hanna kept himself going well until a ate hour, and that when his chain bad run out it was woun.| up again in a better clime.© Among other sales by auction, or \u201c vendues,\u201d we save evening sales of books, \u201cper best English authors, on divinity, law, geography, poetry, 1:avels, voyages, history, novels, &e., &e.Fhe sale tu begin at six v\u2019clock,\u201d name not given.The printers themselves advertise school books for sale, and also, © A genteel omrcan, with five stops, fit for a small church or a chamber.\u201d One Germain Langlois notifies the public also that he has opened a circulating library of \u201c several hundred volumes in French and English, upon the most useful and entertaining subjects.\u201d The conditions do not differ materially from those of similar libraries in our day, and the price was \u201cSix pence a week, Halifax currency.\u201d Not a few houses are advertised as for sale or to let, and a good deal of landed estate was put into the market by the same means.Among the latter, we find the Seigniory of Point Levi yielding an annual income of 10,000 livres, the Barony of Longueuil returning 12,224,12 sols, part of the revenue being made up of 1000 minots of wheat, rated at 40 sols or 1s.8d.; but which the advertisers state is worth 3 livres or 2s.6d.the minot, which certainly was a very moderate price ; and the Seig- niory of Saurel, the precise annual value not stated.They were not without amusements or divertissements in those days, for among other alluring notices of re-unions, we find the following :\u2014 THE SONS OF ST.ANDREW, In the Tonen of Quebec, URPOSE to meet at the Concert Hall and have a DANCE, on the joth inltint, at 6 o'clock at night, (30th Nov.) where they will be glad to fee all the other Gentlemen of the place.They certainly seemed to mect betimes, and no doubt went home at reasonable hours, but we do not hear of the ladies being invited.Surely the homos did not keep the dance all to themselves.We copy also the following curious ¢ avis\u201d as it appears in the French columns, though we strongly suspect it is a burlesque.But whether or no, it indicates with equal eflect that the native ladies de- | served the reputation which writers on the social lock Maker from Dublin, at the houfe of Mr.Joun MENDS ail forts of Watches and Clocks, Jewels, greateft care and expedition.All thofe who their commands, may depend upon THE QUEBEC GAZETTE,- We have read gomowhere that it used to custorn in Russia, in \u201cthe best society,\u201d to get helplessly drunk at all great entertainments, and that it any of his guests retired in the conscious possession of his wits.That whether or not the guests managed to escape making beasts of themselves, it was expected they would pretend they had got so thoroughly Intoxicated that they did not remember how they got home.The highest compliment, therefore, to the lady of the house when a return visit was paid, and she inquired if the party had got comfortably home, was to say, \u201c Indeed, your ladyship made me so drunk that L really have no recollection how I got home at all.\u201d Well, a hundred years ago, in Quebec, it seems that hogpitalities were carried to a very great extent in the same direction, for we find one GroreE Acasto, who seems to be a gentleman and a scholar, remonstrating through the columns of the Gazette, upon the extreme indulgence at the parties to which he had frequently been invited.After paying the Society of Quebec the highest compliment for their politeness and the liberality-of their entertainments, he says: \u201cIn order to add to the pleasure, men are excited and provoked | by healihs and rounds of toasts oft repeated, to fuddle themselves in hs indecent a manner as if they were in a Tavern or in the most unpolished company ; this is proved by the effects, as, withont mentioning certain words which are not allowable when sober, men do not hesitate to create a needless expense to themselves by breaking and destroying furniture often valuable, and what is extraordinary, this is done through gaiety.I will even say that some affect wit in so doing.Pray gentlemen, (addressing the printers) let them know that there is no wit where reason is wanting, and that thinking men are much disconcerted when they happen in the company of persons, who gaily and with all their hearts, take most effectual means to deprive themselves of the noble advantage which all Societies have of thinking and conversing like reasonable beings,\u201d We have scen from the allusions in the advertisement of \u201c Les Bergéres,\u201d that theatrical performances and concerts were not unknown among the native French, and although the English were only just coming to the Province, they had already drawn a company of actors to the city, who solicit public patronage to a series of Dramatic entertainments we need not further describe.+ They had horse races, and before long a circus is advertised ; and we observe that a purse of Forty dollars was to be run for on the Plains of Abraham; also that the celebrated horse \u201c Vandango\u201d was killed by stumbling over a dog while running.This animal appears to have been a grear favourite, for there are two Odes on his death ! At the sign of the Swan, in St.Roclis, there is offered for sale, \u2018* A good billiard table, fully equipped, with all necessaries thereto belonging,\u201d very cheap, be the was a sort of reproach to the hospitality of the host, if | CENTENARY TO.BE SOLD AT PRESENT, By Mr.FONBLANCHE, Citizen, living at the Market Place at Montreal, the Lot and Houfes following, all Atuate in faid City, viz.IRET, A vacant Lot on a Level with ic St.Francis Xaviers-Street, containin, 20 Ja] Wa] Feet Front, by 7e Feet 6 Mches it Depth, at Gite) the End of which is a Shed built with Polls, Ca Ci \u2014Svcondiy, Joining faid Let, a Log Houle, one Story high, with a Cellar, 34 Foct 4 Jnch- es, on the Level of St.Francis Xavieis-Street, by 23 Feet in Depth, befides a Kitchen joining faid Houfe, 16 Feet in Length, and 13 in Breadth.Alfo a Paflage of 6 Feet 4 Inches, for the Ule of faid Houte and vacant Lot.Alfo behind faid Houfe is a Yard, gg Fret Heep, by 41 in Breadth, with a Well therein.\u2014 Thirdly, a Houfe built with Stone, 3 Stories high, with a CeHar, on the Level of St.Paul's-Street, near the Market Place, in Dimenfion 15 Feet clear, by 34 Feet in Breadth.\u2014 Fourthly, A Hoult built with Stone, 2 Stories high, with a Cellar, fronting St.Paul's-Street and the Market Place, viz.27 Feet fronting St.Paul's-Street, and jo fronting the Market Place.\u2014Fifthly, A Stone House, 2 Stories high, with a Vault under the whole, containing, fronting the Market Place, 26 Feet 6 Inches, by 32 Feet 6 Inches in Breadth, - Alfoa Yard the whole Length of the Building, with a Paffage to.the main Stréet ;, the faid Yard containing 14 Feet ai one End, 13 at the other, by: 41 Feet 6 Inches broad, including the Paffage.TO BE SOLD, Da HE Scigniory of Grand Riwiere, two Leagues i from Éatpé, fituate on the Bay called /& Baie des Chalears, with One League dnd a Half of Land in Front, by Two Leagues in Di th, com- 2 mencing from the Seigniory of Grand Fue and running on the Side of Cape Hope or Ca Efron = towards l'Isle Percée, with the Privileges of fith- ing and hunting, and alfo of trading with the Savages, This Seigniory is well fettled, and has on it all Kinds of Wood, and Timber fit for Ship-building: And the better to accommodate the Purchafer, it will be fold payable in Dry Goods or Liquors.Application to be made to HENRY Mom, in the Lower-Town of Quebec, in whofe Hands the Title Deeds are depofited.The lively horse which follows seems to have wanted to leave, whether out of love to.his former owner and corresponding dislike io Mr.Matthew Wade, we do not of course know, and it is not likely | the interesting cause will ever be discovered ; bul it seems clear enough that Mr.Wade was not a man to waste his money upon extravagant rewards :\u2014 YTRAYED-AWAY, about the latter End of lait October, out of a Pafture be- to Mr.William Grant, at the lower 1 longin, LIT Vn End the Quebec Suburbs, a black Englith CE A 2 GELDI NE about Fourteen Hands and = _.\u20ac\"« an Half high, remarkable fmail Legs, with SRS Three or Faur white Spots on one side, a fhort bob Tail.Whoever finds faid Gelding, and brings him to the Subferiber, living near the Market-Place, in Montreal, fhall have THREE DOLLARS Reward, and all Reafonable Charges, paid by MATTHEW WADE.N.B.All Perfons me forbid detaining the above mentioned Gelding, as they ihall anfwer at their Peril, Montreal, January oth, 1767.The enterprising contraband who figures in our next engraving was apparently inoculated with the going propensity too, for he also took French leave ; but as in the case of the lively gelding, Mr.McCord, whose Chattel he was, did not intend to rin himself by the extravagance of his liberality, and poor Drum- of course.Then Robert Welch, at the sign of General Wolfe, | condition of Canada at this time have agreed to give them\u2014extreme devotion to gaiety, show and pleasure : Spectacle Nouvel et Divertiffement Public.ES VILLAGEOISES Canadiennes, Nouvelles Sujettes de Sa | Majefté Britannique d'un certain canton de la Province de | Québec, donneront une Fête, et feront repréfenter en l'honneur de | leur Seigneur, le Lundi dix huit de Novembre prochain, une pièce | nouvelle intitulée Les Fetes Villageoifes, Comedie en an Acte, qui fera fuivie d\u2019un Balet de Bergers ct de Bergères, ct precedée d\u2019un compliment au Seigneur leur Patron et Protecteur; entra la Com- edie et le Balet il y aura une Cantate et un Duo qui feront chantés par le Sieur Colin et la Demoifelle Nina, fameux Muficiens, du Canada; cette dernière chantera feule un morceau choifi des | Amouts de Venus ; enfuite il y aura trois danfes de caractère, le | Sieur Dominique danfera I'Harliquinade, le Sieur Silva la Matelote i Hollandaife, et le Sieur Grivois la Chinoile, tous trois grands dan- ; feurs qui ont toujours été applaudis dans cette partie de l'Amerique i Septentrionale ! L'Orqueftra et la Symphonie feront compofes de toute fortes d\u2019initruments très harmonieux jufqu'a une Comemeufe ; le tout fera terminé par un grand Bal dans le meilleur Ordre on | faire fe pourra.On y trouvera toutes fortes de rafraichiffements ; pour que tout le monde foit content ; on fera en forte que Bacchus et Venus l'accordent enfemble, afin que les plaifirs ne foient pas troublés.Le zèle avec lequel les Bergères de cette côte fe prètent pour rendre cette Fete brilliante, leur a fait mettre toute leur induftrie à : l'imitation des Bourgeois de Québec, à rassembler et prendre ensemble quatre granges en peu de tems, pour faire une jolie falle de Comedie et de Bal, et des Cabinets pour la commodité ; et afin de ! contribuer à la dépenfe de cette fête gallante, les Bergères ont bien | voulu abandonner les revenus d'une année de leurs fuperflus.Les, paroles de la Comédie funt compofées par le Sieur Lanoux, célèbre oete du Canada, et la mufique de la Cantate et du Duo par 'e | Sieur Zeliot, grand muficien.Le fpectacle commencera à cing | heures du foir; le Public fera averti trois jours avant de l\u2019endroit | ou la fête fe donnera, qui fera dans la côte; pour prevenir les ; désordres, on entrera dans la maifon de divertifTement, à l'enseigne edes plaifirs, par la porte de devant, et on cn fortira par la porte de dernière.Perfonne n\u2019y fcra admife fans un billet qui coutera 24 livres, qu\u2019il faudra payer au receveur des confignations des menus plaifirs ; le nombre des billets fera de cent ; on est prié de souscrire 48 plutôt pour faire les arrangements de la fête, à moins qu'on aime deux donner l'argent aux pauvres; on diftribuera gratis vingt billets pour les Demoifelles qui n'ont pas le moyen de fe divertir et qui en ont envie.\u2018The substance in English is, that the young ladies of n certain locality called La Côte, who take the ap-: pellation of Shepherdesses, proposed to give a magni- fcent composite entertainment, consisting of a Comedy in one Act called the Village Festivals, sundry dances in character, a Cantata, a Duett and a Solo; and afterwards a grand Ball.To provide ample ac- commedation, four barns had been joined together and , Hnternally fitted up in proper style.Then, the refresh- | ments were to be uf the most unexceptionable kind, and in generous abundance.The Shepherdesses had put aside the pin money of oue year, for the purpose of contributing 10 make the Féte one of the grandest ever given ; and the Tickets which were to be $4 a piece, were limited to 100, though 20 were to be distributed gratis to ladies, unable to pay, but desirous! of taking part in the amusements.This entertain- | ment was intended to be equal to auy given by the Merchants tn the City, and every necessary precaution would be taken 10 preserve the utinost order and decorum, If this affair really came off, and was a specimen of the gaieties of the times, then the very great grand-mothers of our French Canadian ladies, must indeed have been lively girls.| .As a further proof of the undue hilarity of the times { In the estimation of the quiet living people, we give | the following note from a pment tradesman which will tell its own tale :\u2014 January 19.| G To the Printers of the QUEBEC GAZETTE.ENTLEMEN,\u2014 iving the following a place in your paper, you will oblig eal of vour Cuftomersi\u2014 ! P tisa pevailin cuftom in this Garrifon of inviting one another to Balls, Dances, foufe-warmin , &c.1am onc of thefe unhapp Men that is often favoured (as they pleafe to call it) with a card, and as I ath a married man, it occafions a great many difputes between me and my wife ; fhe blames me as fullen, dull and infipid, Aving no tafte for gaicty.On the other hand I remonttrate on SF extravagance, finding that if I fpend Two or Three dollars one 6 twice a week, (this being but a fmall reckoning at fuch) it ts fot tally with my income.I am not the lcaft of opinion that rois entlem®n that honor me with fuch Cards regard my welfare, hore ore I caution them, as they love my peace, prosperity, and the welfare of my.wife and family, that they would dei, o as I wy not be brought to difmal want through\u201d fuch pra&tices, which, \u201c® doubt, would be very difagresable to thofe who: otiof: geod-: TMiure had invited me fo my Ruin.rr Lam, « which the people of Quebec enjoyed a century ago, \u2018l'atré, oflers \u201c All sorts of Pastries, Jeilies, Custards, &e.,! &c., and he will likewise dress Dinners or Suppers, : either in the house or out, if bespoke ; where also | may be had any thing cold from Ten till Two.\u201d Again we have a Billiard Table at the sign of the Scotch Arms, in the Market Place, Upper Town, so that it was pretty evident the game was well patronised.i As we are selecting items intended to show the course cf the social recreations and creature comforts we take the liberty of copying the Carioling Song which seems to have been a great favourite in those days: \u2014 SONG.Of ail the feafons in the Year, For love and mirth and jovial cheer, \u2018There's none with winter can compare, When all go Carioling.When ladies fairer than the fnow, Wrapt hip in furs from top to toe, With fprightly men confent to go A party Carioling.Not all the fragrance of the Spring, Nor all the tuneful birds that fing, Can to the Plains the ladies bring So foon as Carioling.Nor Venus with the winged Loves Drawn by her Sparrows or her Doves, So gracefully or {wiftly moves As ladies Carioling.The Sun himfelf gives up the race, And often hides for fhame his face, But well fupphes his place When fhe is Carioling.Then get your Carioles, ye Smarts! And in your driving fhow your parts, For ableit drivers win the hearts Of ladies Carioling.It will, perhaps, be thought that we have quoted sutficiently to show that in 1764 the citizens of Quebec were supplied with every conceivable comfort and luxury, and were in no way behind the present generation in their devotion to social recreations.Indeed, our impression, after scanning the two or three first volumes of the Gazette, is, that the love of fun, frolie, the pleasures of the table, dress, music, and the other means of enjoyment, was even more marked than it is now; but we must confess at the same time that the external regard for moral propriety -was not so apparent, for in those volumes there are burlesque songs, and other verses, as well as prose compositions, which no respeciable paper of our times would insert.We shall now give a few Miscellaneous Advertisements and ilems, which will still further unfold the social condition of the country at the time of which we write.Several Almanacs competed for favour then, and lowing notice witnesseth :\u2014 \u2018 JUST PUBLISHED, And to be Sold at the Printing Office, ATHER ABRAHAM'S ALMANAC, (on an entirely new Plan) for the year 1765, being the firft after Leap Year, in ! which is contained (after the ufual things found in fuch publications.) Judgment of the weather.Interelt from One Pound to L500 or under, at § per cent.Receipts on Phyfic\u2014Be merry and wile, or, a Guide to all Mankind.\u2014An entertaining Dialogue between a City Termagant and her diftruftful fpoufe on gofliping, &c.Obfervations on the changes of the weather, as may be difcovered by the aétions of the Animal Creation.Mahomet's Night Journey to Heaven, faithfully extraéted from the Alcoran, the Batchelor's Guide in the choice of a wife, an effectual cure for Love, Verfas en the death of the Author's much lamented Monkey, an epitaph on Captain Flath, &c., &c.Price, gd.each.We have already alluded to the real estate offered for sale, and here give two advertisements.These \u2018sales were due, we presume, to the desire of the proprietors to return to France, and no doubt great Hori fires must have been submitted to, though, to be ipflux of Énglish people did much to coun- among others that of \u201c\u201c Father Abraham,\u201d as the fol- | mend must have felt he was a cheap article when he spied the amount of the recompense offered for his capture :\u2014 UN-AWAY from the Subfcriber, on Tuef- day,the 25th Ult, a Negro Man, named Drummond, near fix Feet high, walks heavily: Had on when he went away, a dark coloured Cloth Coat and Leather Breeches.Whoevertakes up, and fecures the faid Negro, fo that his Matter may have him again, fhall have FOUR DOLLARS Reward, and all Reafonable Charges, paid JOHN M\u2018CORD.Speaks very bad Englifh, and next to no French.a ~ There are quite a number of similar notices in the early volumes of the Gazette.Here is a stray specimen of the \u201csum of all villanies\u201d :\u2014 TO BE SOLD, HEALTHY NEGRO BOY, about fifteen years of age, well qualified to wait on a Gentleman as a Body Servant.For further particulars enquire of the Printers.There is something very determined\u201d as well as quaint in the following ship advertisement :\u2014 For LONDON, The Snow PETERS, THomas WODER, Commander, T° determined to fail early in July, in Order to give every Holder of Paper Money an Opportunity of a fpeedy Conveyance.GENTLEMEN who have Goods to fhip, &c.may hear of Particulars at Mr.Harrifon's or Mr.Boone's, Merchants in Quebec, Mr.Pom- ss mereau, in Trois-Rivieres, and Mr.Folin Liv- =~ ingston, in Montreal.N.B.Gentlemen poffeffed of the above Property, may affure themfelves of his failing at Three or Four Days Notice, on eafy Terms.QUEBEC, June 16, 1766.Herz is a man who talks to the Governor in plain English :\u2014 QUEBEC, 2414 June, 1765.HEREAS, there was an Advertifement in the Quebec Gazette of laft week, publithed by His Excellency the Governor's command, and figned by the Secretary, fetting forth that I had committed abufes, and.taken unreafonable fees for, permits granted to perfons to carry Fuzees, (people it feems were not allowed to carry fire arms without permiffion).His Excellency has been impofed on by fuch information, the fame being infamous and groundlefs ; and do here declare that I never demanded more than a Dollar for fuch permits; at the fame time acquainting fuch per- fons that I thought it but reafonable they fhould allow me fome- thing for my trouble, the faid Dollar being the Secretary's fees; and have received for sixteen out of eighteen which I have delivered one fhilling and sixpence more than the dollar.EDWARD CHINN.Mr.Franck, who follows, was a rather strange joker :\u2014 Wanted, between this and January next, Sx or Eight Hundred Dollars upon intereft and good fecurity ; OR, a good Woman for a Wife, of about 3 or 4 ewt., French weight.If the has Two or Three Hundred Louis d\u2019Ors Portugeefe ot Doubloons, it matters not if- fhe weighs but 25 or 30 lbs.; OR a enteel Englith, Scotch, Dutch or French girl, of middle fize and age, fit for the care of a Houfe and Shop, ufed to confinement and keeping of her tongue.Or any Gentleman willing to fettle himfelf, may, with the advance of One Hundred Pounds, and a proportion- able Stock of Goods, enter into Partnerfhip.Or Merchants and Captains having goods to lodge or to leave on Terms or Commif- fions, may have the neceffary room.Failing any of the above nicities, the Advertifer has no objeétion \u2018againft the offer of a good place in this Town's Government ; but thinks it an honour to ferve and fell Tobacco and Ax handles, &c.JUSTIN FRANCK, Lower Town Market Place.This gentleman frequently appears after this in similarly ludicrous advertisements, but they do not seem to have taken much with the public, for by and by we find him in the clutches of the law, where we lose sight of him.POST OFFICE NOTICE.\u2019 Post OFFICE, Quebec, Auguft 1f, 1764.HE POST for New York fets out on the firft and third Monday of every month, All perfons are intreated to put their Letters into the Office before 10 o'clock, as the Bag is fhut at that liour precifely, and Letters cannot poflibly be taken in ® Moment after.NUMBER, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1864 \u2014 a me ES Montreal wus made up on Monday, and reached on Wednesday, that it left Montreal on Thursday and arrived in Quebec on Satarday, so that there was just one service per week each way.TEA AND SUGAR.EW YORK SUGAR by the Leaf or greater quantity of the bett quality, 1s.por Pound.Single Green Tea at 13s.A few Pounds of the beft Hyfon at 25s.Bahea at 6s.6d.To Be had ef Simon Fraser, in the Lower Town.TICKET OF LEAVE.From frequenily recurring notices to the same effect, we find that for many years no one was allowed to leave.the Province without permission, wouched for by a ticket or pass, which was precurable at the \u2018Secretary\u2019s Office, and when the party was a Merchant ot trader; he had to give sceurily that failing bis return, Lis debts would be paid-not à very bad arrangement that.ASSIZE.Here is & notice of the results of an Assize and Court of Oyer ani Terminer, held for the whole Province af, Quebec, terminating 6th August, 1766 :\u2014 Jofkph Butterfield, foldier, sand Regiment, convicted of Man- flaughter, to be burnt in the hand.John May, for ftéaling a pair of plufh breeches and a pair of filk ftockings, to be whipped at thé Cart tail from the Court Houfe to ! St.Johirs Gate.i Louis Bruffeau, for ftealing a Hatchet, Pitch-pot, Axe and Adze | out of a Sthooner, to be whipt from the Court Houfe to St, Roch, | and back to Palace Gate.Several other parties were acquitted.Another paragraph informs us, that, * On Friduy last about 10 o'clock, Join May was whipt asreably to his sentence by Louis\u2019 Brusseau, and next day about the same time May flogged Brusgeau in his turn.\u201d This was an economical arrangement for all concerned, since the Province was saved the expense of the executioner or whipster, and for the parties to be whipped, who no doubt laid it on each other's backs as lightly as they were permitted.From time to time we find the sentence of death pronounced and executed for offences which our more merciful modern code only visits with two or three years penitentiary, such as assault, stealing in private houses and on the public highway.' Among.other cases we have that of a grave assault oni Mr Jacob Rowe, D.P.M., (Deputy Provost Marshal) at 8 o\u2019clock in the evening, opposite the Bishap\u2019s Palace, where the House of Assembly now stands, by three soldiers, who were found guilty and hanged ** aceopdingly ;\u201d yet within less than a month Mr.Rowe was pursuing his professional avocations.TRADE.Incidentally we learn\u2014{rom a letter on the trade of 1he Province after the conquest\u2014that the imports and exports from 1749 to 1755, both years inclusive, had been\u2014 Imports, (in Frenck livres.) (Exports, in the same.) In1749 .5,682,090 1,414,900 | « 1750.5154861 1,337,000 | \u201c 1751.4,489,400 1,615,932 & 1752.\u2026.\u2026.6047,820 1,654,400 \u201c 1753.5,195,738 1,706,130 « P754.\u2026.5,147,621 1,576,616 \u201c 1755.5203,272 1,315,780 In round numbers, about £240,000.stg.of imports, and £80,000 stg.of exports.This left a large balance against the Colony ; but of this, from £20,000 to £25,000, were imports on Government acçount, and the deficit was in part made up by-the Bills of Exchange drawn in France for the expenses of the Civil and Military services.Very soon after the conquest, however, the: outlays; for these purposes.were greatly reduced, and the imports fell; off to.about; £160,000, while the exports continued at nearly the same figure.Still, there was great stringeney in the money market, and many of the impodrters: became embarrassed.The letter from which we derive the above statement complains that, while the means of ine¢eting the imports had been greatly reduced, the prices of foreign goods had largely inareased ; and the: writer goes on to advocate home manufactures of hats (from the beaver, then largely exported), and of brandy, of which there was too great a consumption, The ex- orted articles were chiefly futs; but we find that rom One Million to One and a -quazter Million minots of wheat and * some planks\u201d formed -part of the surplussage available for shipping to other markets.It was in the nature of things that a change of allegiance should throw the course of trade somewhat out of gear, and that years should élapse before business became comfortably and profitably settled ; but with the exception of the complaints we are now considering, we do not find evidences of a change for the worse in the commercial circumstances of the country.On the contrary, the celumns of the Gazette display a regularly increasing.commerce, and in a few years the timber trade had.assamed large proportions.It is worthy of remark, that in these early times when the population.of the Province was only some 60,000, of which probably 16,000 inhabited the three towns, Quebec, Three Rivers and Montreal, the remaining 45,000 should have raised; over and above the wants of the whole number, from One to One and a quarter Million minots of wheat for export, or about 1,350,000 bushels.At the same rate of excess, Lower Canada would now produce from 25 to 30 millions bushels aver its-own wants, instead of being a large consumer of .Upper \u20acanada wheat and other cereals.The change is unquestionably a startling one, and if it be due exclusively, as some assert, to the defective modes of agriculture practised by the French Cauadians, and to their inveterate propensity to huddle together on the river banks, their leading men, who ought to have given a better direction to their industry, are fairly chargeable.with.want of regard for the welfare of their compatriots.It is proper, however, to.observe bere that the error we are deploring has, within some years past, been partially remedied, or at any rate, thatefforts have beer thade an continue to be made to open.otit- the ecuntry for colonization, as the term ie ; but the effects of a hundred years\u2019 mistakes, are not to be overcome in a decade ; and as agriculture, in the dehsely.populetis portions of Lower Canada has not yet greatly ¢h for the better, the prospect of good wheat crepe is not very promising.Allusion has been made to the large consumption of brandy, but after the conquest, tam seems to have come more into use ; and wheéthet Brandy, or mm, or wine, it is in evidence that the propeition, of taverns was unreasonably great, no less than \u201c126 being licensed in 176 : SHIPPING.The following veasels head iartived at.Quebec between the middle of May and thw d@th Jude, 1766 :\u2014 Sloop Elizabeth.Fram Boston.te ; Brig \u2018Union.soccu0nsoe Schooner Angelique: 4: Ship Lrtle Wit ah ass cnn \u2018wl y don.Y -_ TRAE DISTRESSED, | foe th \u2018depattyre of the old inbabitants =m - The Poft returns from Mantreal avery Saturday at 11 o'clock, st] | which hour the Letters will be delive ais and.afréngance iven |.- Tilt two, when thofé remaining wi delivered ta the enny Pont.Co Ser.wb i A1 hon CL a Ciaran ma ofl From other similar notices, we find the Mail for | .5 Ship Orangefield.\u2026.45.we from Glasgow.Brig Anne.ceeccese # Len Ship Canada.0.0 \u201c do Brig Din.© do Snow Peters.\u201c do Brig Nance s00000 000000000 \u201c do Ship Royal George.\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.¥: do Schooner Rainbow.*\u201c Boston, Snow Jane and Betsey.\u201c London, Brig Industry.\u201c do se Buxton .se.\u201c do Sloop Two Brothers.¢ Penryn, Besides the above, 41 other trading vessels arrived later, which would give 58 for the season.His Ma- Jesty\u2019s sloops Challeur and Mermaid are also reported as having visited the harbour.TARIFF.By a Proclamation of the Hon.Paulus Emilius Irving, then Commander-in-Chief, dated at the Court of St.James, 28nd November, 1765, and at Quebec 5th July, 1766, the following dntics were ordered to be levied upon imported articles :\u2014 Wine, per Hogshead, stg., £0 10 0 Ram, « \u201c 1 00 Brandy per Velt (2 gallons) 0 1 0 Wine {ordinary) per boitle.0 0 0} Do.Sweet \u201c 0 0 1} Liqueurs per gallon.0 0 5 Dry Goods on value, 8 percent.Do.on exportation do.do.As this is the whole.Tariff, it is to be presumed, that all articles not in liquid form were classed as Dry Goods; and certainly the taxes eould not be complained of as excessive, our friend the grumbler, from whose letter we have quoted, to the contrary notwithstanding ; vet for some reason or other they were not immediately collected, for, by an advertisement immediately following the proclamation, the Receiver General informs the publie, that \u2018 for the present His Majesty has been graciously pleased to dispense with the duties on Dry Goods\u201d both ways, and also to accept 4d.sterling per gallon on Brandy, in lieu of 6d.sterling.EDUCATION.The want of English School Teachers was early felt at Quebec, and efforts having been made to induce a competent person to come from England, the Rev.Mr.Brooke, Chaplain to the Forces, advertises that a gentleman every way qualified had arrived.He says he has come recommended by persons eminent for their learning, and vouches for his ability to in- struet in \u2018* Latin, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish and Low Dutch,\u201d besides the ordinary branches of an English education This must\u2019 be admitted to have heen a good beginning.Atthis time the * Seminaire\u201d of Quebec was in successful operation, and the French Canadian inhabitants in this city, at least, had the option of providing their children wAth good instruction.How the rest of the country was supplied with teachers, the Gazette (at this early time) does not afford us the opportunity of judging.PROTESTANT WORSHIP.In the earlier volumes of this old record of passing ; events, we do not mect with anything indicative of efforts to provide places of public worship for the Protestant inhabitants.It may be that some building had been erected before the Gazelle was commenced \u2014which was nearly four years after the battle of the Plains of Abraham\u2014but this does not seem very probable.From several letters in the first volume (1764-5) complaining of the desecration of the Sabbath, we find that the day was spent by a great many Protestants in pleasure excursions to the country, and there are accounts of several casualties in connection with the practice.Among others, a Sergeant was drowned while crossing the St.Charles in the Ferry Boat, which shows of course that there was no briäge over the river at that time.FIRES.Fires seem to have been of frequent occurrence, and an Association called the Amicable Society, supported by private subscriptions, was formed for the purpose of mutual protection.They imported two Fire Engines, got hose and leather buckets, ard before long an Ordinance was issued by the Government, imposing certain duties upon the citizens in connection with such accidents.From these facts we may fairly infer, that, until the conquest no regular means of combatting the devouring element had been provided.JAIL.The prison which (by the inscription on the slab on its front) was built in 1710, seems to have been so decayed in 1770, as to be whoily insecure, for quite a number of its occupiers found little difficulty in liberating themselves, and this led to the calling of tenders for its thorough repair.Other public buildings seem also to have been in a similar state of dilapidation, and though the fact is not stated, it was probably due to the bombardment, which from the prints still extant, of the condition of the city after the siege, had evidently done a large amount of damage.BREAD, &c.Bread was about as cheap as wine, and its price was regulated by Commissioners, who authorized the changes consequent upon the fluctuation of the value of flour.The loaves were always sold for 6d., both white and brown, the difference being in the weight, The highest price for seven years was 4lbs.white bread for 6d., and 6lbs.of brown for the same money ; the lowest 6 lbs.white, also for 6d., and 9 lbs.brown for a similar sum; the average being about 50 per cent.less than our present prices.The average value of wheat was 2s.6d.per minot, and we may presume that other agricultural products were equaily low., The value of labour does not appear from any statement coming under our notice, except in regard to sailors\u2019 wages, which seem to have been about $10 a month.Enough has now been stated, perhaps, to give something of an idea of the state of society in Canada, and especially in Quebec, from 1764 to 1772, and as it is not possible within the compass of a paper like the present, to trace the changes which time has since introduced, we must bring those remarks to a close, at least, of the modes of life of the Canadians.If we may judge of the temper with which the French population accepted the ch in their litical relations, viz.: from French to British rule, by their professions of gratitude for the kind and eonciliating conduct of the British Government and the several Governors towards them, they did net excessively mourn the loss of the old regime.On the contrary, it would not be hard to find evidences.in their congratulatory addresses to the Representativés of the British Crow, as they sucoessively waslt and Ce i ave Si.Brig Rebodon sun sonsaspe loin, ta hey pi he mov coin, of biog A hl Sei SAN, Na ll Cd a aa a a si si \u201cI EE ye © ms A Eee AM BY 8 TEE it A ASE 1 Sie Wo tie gi pe 0 at tr te © pg EA 8) A tr OO BE 6 RA above that which had passed away.tar such extracts, we could casi!y show that the people were either very well conicuted or very insincere, 1hough we certainly belive that they accounted themselves happy to have fallen into such good hands.\u2018I he Roman Catholic clergy seein to have submitted tu the altered state, not only without murmuring, but If we had room | out extracts from foreign papers, and giving accounts 0 I \u2014 I SE _ re - ° .sefused to proceed to business, and remained idl unt:! the 24th of the same month, when the official { of accidents, reviews, amusements and other passing ! n inteiligence of the death of the King arriving, another occurrences, the Gazelle was, and continued 10 Le, ! until 1818, what we have already described it, an d.ssolution took place.A general election followed official paper without so much as the expresston of a in June and July, and it is but justice to Mr.Papineau, political opinion.Aud, as we do not pretend to who was returned by acclamation for the West Ward narrate the progress of political ideas but the progress of Montreal, 10 give extracts from the speech he made of the Gazette, we inst pass over the interval without to the clectors from the hustings, since il will show with hearty good grace, and to have sought to infuse the same cheerful feelings into the minds of their flocks, From among several French poetic odes in praise of the times, we copy the following :\u2014 remark, other than that in 1808 the paper was enlarged from the small form in which we first presented it 1o our readers, 10 a respectable sheet, 21 by 14 j inches, divided inte four colamns, part English and ODE ; part French, ihe former preponderating, as we suppose Chanté au Chateau St.Louis par les Etudiants du Petit Seminaire | \\he contributions required the space.de Quebec, à l'honorable Guy CARLETON, Gouverneur General From the time of the granting of the ** Constitutional tu Canada, à la Fefle que Son Excellence a donné le 18 de ce Act\u201d in 1791, giving à l coislature in three branches mais, (January 1770) l'occafion de la Naiffance de la Reine : 6 121, SIVINS à LES1E § \"Queer Charlotte, Confort of George the 3rd.) i 10 Lower Canada\u2014then also separated from Upper Canada\u2014to the year 1818, the Guzetle gave a concise, though at times rather meagre, synopsis of the pro- | ecedings in Parliament, with here and there a notice ! of some special speech, and in one or two instances .a full report, furnished no doubt by the parties who Que chacun affis à fon ombre, had delivered il In 3818.Mr.Neils Goûtant les douceurs de la paix, ad delivered them.In :818, Mr, Neilson was re- Chafle de fon cœur à jamais | quested to become a candidate for the representation Regrets, ct chagrins aux airs fombre.| of the county of Quebec, he being then 42 years of If not then a political writer, he must have been La Difcorde éteint son Flambeau, Pallas, au jour de fa naiffance, Nous offre à tous fa bienveillance Et fon pacifique Rameau.Affreux compagnons de Vulcain, | age.Ceffez, Cyclopes deteftables Par vos foudres trop redoutables, È alleged political abuses of the times, for in his answer De confterner le genre humain.(10 the requisition asking him 10 come forward, he Ce Roi favori de Neptune, expresses himself in the following nervous terms :\u2014 Qui règne et (ur terre et fur mer ! D'un pays dompté par le fer, | I\" «1f some late proceedings are the effect of intrigue, Défire affurer la fortune.~ i they are part of the system of corruption that I have ;engaged to combat: * * * * * Gentlemen, | \u201chave uniformly maintained that the Elections are the business of the Electors and not of the Candidates.[ should be ashamned to sit in the House of Assembly, without I were assured that | sat there by no other ; means than by the free and uncorrupted choice of my fellow subjects, founded on their opinion cf my char- j acter and fitness for a situation placing at my disposal , their rights and liberties, their persons and property, and the general interests and character of the country.; My actions, the only test by which men can be safely |judged, prove this.lt would have been an easy , matter for me to be returned at the late election, C'eft ce qu'annonce ces éclairs Ces feux, ces éclats de tonnerre, Ces aftres partis de la terre, Qui vont d perdre dans les airs.Apprends donc en ce jour de Fête A ne plus deplorer ton fort, Peuple aux juites lois plus fort, Soumis par le droit de conquête.Déjà les Arts en liberté, Paroiffant avec allegreife, Dans le palais de la fageffe, Y font reçus avec bonté.À ces traits reconnais l'ouvrage De ce Gouverneur généreux, an active, out-spoken and decided objector to the, ! that, however much the Assembly inight be disposed to resist what they regarded as unconstitutionit en- \u2018 croachments on the part of the Executive, they well knew how to prize the liberties they enjoyed under British rule.The speech was published by the Gazette.He compares the condition of the country as it was under French rule with its then condition, and says :\u2014\u201c In its estimation,\u201d speaking of France, \u201cCanada seems not to have been considered as à country which, from fertility of soil, salubrity of climate, and extent of 4erritory, might then have been the peaceful abode of a numerous and happy population ; but as a military post whose feeble garnson was condetned to live in a state of perpetual warfare and insceurity\u2014frequently suflering from famine\u2014 without trade, or with a trade monopolized by privileged companies\u2014public and private property oflen pillaged, and personal liberty daily violated\u2014when year after year the handful of inhabitants settled in i this Province were dragged from their homes and | families, to shed their blood, and carry murder and {havoc from the shores of the great lakes, the Mississippi and Ohio, to those of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Hudson\u2019s Bay.Such was the situation of our fathers ; behold the change.George the Third, a | Sovereign revered for his moral character, attention i to his kingly duties and love of his subjects, succeeds 10 Louis 15th, a prince then deservedly despised for his debauchery, his inattention to the wants of the ! people, and his lavish profusion of his public moneys upon favourites and mistresses.Irom that day the reign of law succeeded to that of violence ; from that {day the treasures, the navy and the armies of Great | | Britain are mustered to afford us an invincible pro-, tection against external danger ; from that day the ! better part of her laws becaimne ours, while our re- | ligion, property, and the laws by which they were governed, remained unaltered ; soon after are granted to us the privileges of its free constitution\u2014an infalli- THE QUEBEC GAZETTE, CENTENARY NUMBER, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1864.space clearly forbids entering upon the theme.Asa remedy for the misunderstandings between the Executive and the Assembly in Lower Canada, it was proposed at home to re-unite the Provinces, and a clause was introduced in the Canada Trade Act for | this purpose, but being strongly ahjected to in the | House of Commons, it was taken out with the view of giving un opportunity to the people of Canada | of expressing their opinion thereon.The proposition was the occasion of immense excitement in the Pro-! vince, and of course met the most determined opposition on the part of the Freuch Canadians, and of à ; portion of the English-speaking inhabitants.Petitions | to the Imperial Governtnent, pro and con were circu- | lated in every part of the country, but those against the proposed Union were signed by an overwhelming majority, and Messrs.Neilson and Papineau were delegated to carry them (the latter) home.Their remonstrances prevailed, and the project was uban- doned or hung up in abeyance.Mr.Neilson about ! this time must have felt that his attitude in respect of the questions at issue between the Assembly and the Government placed him as the publisher of the Gazelle in a very awkward position, for on 2nd May, (1822) be transferred the paper to his son Samuel and sold out the Printing Office, and his extensive stationery establishment, to the firm of Neilson and Cowan.From this time forward, the debates in \u2019arliament were reported in substance, and at times wilh some degrec of fulness.The Gazette was not liowever to be yet quite a free press, for the new pub- | lisher and editor accepted a Commission as King\u2019s printer, which placed him pretty much in the same relation to the publie, as hiz father had been for thirty years\u2014that of a mere recorder of official documents.; In 1823, the Commission was revoked, and from that) time the paper became nominally independent ; but it did not for all that take any decided political stand.| Mr.John Neilson meanwhile continued the active | reformer he had professed himself at entering Par-! | Hament, but we find him nevertheless endeavouring to soothe the excitement in the Assembly, and recommending moderate counsels.In 1825 the financial difficulties were adjusted to the satisfaction of the three branches, and a bill was passed acknowledging the right of the Crown to dispose of the revenues | arising from the Act.14, Geo.Il.and certain others, _ EE vince,\u201d has lawfully the disposal of the the benefit of the colony, instead of its being dj of by His Majesty, through the Lords of the frere on information or *udvice\u2019 of the Colonial Exe ; tive: that their \u2018entire property\u2019 was guarant oo them by the capitulations of Canada, in 1760+ x they became \u201c British subjects ;\u2019 they say that tha came to Canada and settled therein, and ac the property in it by their labour, under the fash British laws and the express promise in His Majes of proclamation of 1763, that their property a.: should be held sacred, unless disposed of by ¢ cast of a Representative Assembly, as in the other Nom American Colonies.That the declaratory 4, orth 1778, and the Constitutional Act of 1791 were oi mentary securities for these sacred engagement | oi promises : and they think so.\u201cand \u201cTheir rights have, however, been badly maintai by their first Assemblies ; they consente 10 per ined Acts, levying duties, increasing deposits which he been since augmented, (not without the interference of some persons living in the colony on ita ob revenue) by Acts of the British Parliament 'c those deposits have perhaps, not always, been A ously respected.Every Administration in e 5 country is fond of power and patronage, all of wha must be drawn from the property and industr of the people, and every farthing of it disposed of the où their consent, gives the means of drawine more from the country.\u2018There may be Administrations ander vhich the doctrine may be rigorously enforced that \u2018every measure of every Administration\u2019 jg to he blindly supported by every one of its officers, par; A larly if he holds an office of profit; that suc) st the qualification of all who expect office : these off must be in the gift of tbe Administration (consis.ing of only one person effectually reaponsible.and that out of the Province), and\u2019 held « urine pleasure.\u201d It is possible that several of the measures of the Administration so to be supported may have the effect of drawing more money from the subieci.making the service of its officers as easy in poil » duty and as lucrative in point of emolument as possible: all of which must Le supported as increasing the power and patronage of the Executive.The main security of the property and all the other rights of the subject is therefore the vote of their representativeg \u201cSy money for Qui corifacre à te rendre heureux | * Gentlemen, whatever may be the determination the produce of which was already appropriated by freely chosen, for all moneys drawn or to be drawn Ses foins, fes biens, fes avantages jof any considerable number of the electors, after, ble pledge, when acted upon, of our internal prosperity.; ch | ) c law.The appropriation bill passed alinost unani-! from that property.It is a check without which the Son nom, ainfi que fes bienfaits, | Seront à jamais pour fa gloire | Dedies au temple de memoire, | Ciel! comble pour lui nos fouhaits.; The first cause of uneasiness, which was felt by: the French Canadians, had regard to the laws under ; which property was to be administered.The English | who were flocking to the Province, and who, as judge it necessary, cheerfully support any gentleman \u2018the privileges attached to the writ of Habeas Corpus ; seeing and consulting with one another, as neigh-, Now religious toleration ; trial by jury\u2014that wisest bours and fricnds, I will submit to their decision, the .of safeguards ever devised for the protection of inno- moment it is signified to me ; and 1 shall, if they cence ;\u2014security against arbitrary imprisonment, by in whose character and filness they may think they {legal and equal security afforded to all, in their can safely confide.! person, honor and properly ; the right to obey no other \u201c Fam, Centlemen, | laws than those of our own making and choice, ex- * Your nost obedient servant, pressed through our own representatives ;\u2014all these \u201c JouN NEILsox.| advantages have become our birthright, and shall, 1 mously in both Houses, and the session was represented by the Lieutenant Governor Sir Francis Burton, as the most quiet for twenty-five years.The Gazetle on this occasion, gives a sununary of the opinions of the then leading journals in regard to the settlement, which was generally hoped would set at rest all cases of disquietude between the Executive and the Legislature, in respect of the Civil List; but) public expenditure will rapidly increase, and hq, rapidly increased.In 1795, it was not £20,000; {he same expenditures are now upwards of £60,000, and the consent of the Assembly to raise them at once a fourth more was asked in 1319.Without this check no abuse of power would be corrected, for every abuse is profitable to some person in power, and according to some, ought to be supported as givin, was natural enough under the circumstances, filled .PE ; ; all the offices in the civil service, were desirons that{ =\u201c Quebec, 121h March, 1818.\u201d hope, be the lasting inheritance of our posterity.To unfortunately, the anticipations were over sanguine power and patronage to Government : abuses woul : the English laws should supersede the French Code : i ._|'sccure them, let us only act as British subjects and and not destined 10 be realized.The very next increase ; there would be other encroachments on the ! but afr.a while they them=elves seem 10 \u2018have rool On the 30th of the same month we find the follow-| fre men.\u201d session the trouble was renewed, for, as the supplies rights of the subject on the one hand; resistance op { cognized the superiority of the latter in so far as the ; ing Hem :\u2014 oo It is hardly out of place here to commend the pre- had only been granted for one year, and the Assembly the other; hatred, complaints, and discontents des- : related to real estate : and as the French inhabitar 7 \u201c County of Quebec \u2014The clection for this County | «eding extract to the serious consideration of the insisted upon holding the Receiver General account- i tructive of the happinessof the people and the security 3 could not and did not obiect to the introduction f he | was held near the Chureh at Charlesbourg, on Wed.| discontented among us\u2014happily few\u2014who yet sigh able for all moneys coming into his hands, and fur all} of the Government.Every wise Government has : Enslish criminal laws Lens were soon arranted ; nesday the 251h instant, and closed on Saturday about |, French advantages or an American connection.payments made without their sanction, the prospects provided for this check, and invites it; the selfish The English also appeared desirous of proscribing | 3 oclock, when Mr.Lee retired, protesting against the he session which followed, and which commenced, ©f future harmony were again beclonded.The esti passions and interests of those who govern, some.! I : host: 8 election for corrupti : [ partiz Mr.© is ve ; ; es of the Gover rere obje imes ; ï : i the interes the French language, but that was not an easy matter | retion for corruption an the part of partizans of Mr on 14th Deccinber of this year (1829), must have been | macs of the Gotcinment were objected lo, and the times, how ever, make them blind to the interests of : where the rural population was altogether French, | ; >, : la stirring one ; but the Gazdlle furnished no reports ne ay Lord Ls ° ] ; à Je: : a| « overmnent.\u201c and the inhabitants of the cities were probably about STATE OF THE POLL AT THE CLOSE, of the debates ; and we cannot but conclude that the | speech anything but ca culatec 10 ead to a better The members ofthe Representative body can never i ten French tc one English speaking peison.The | \u201cMr, Neilson.\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026.Cees .\u2026\u2026.404; | lact of its being the medium through which the Gov-j understanding.During this Session a good deal of abandon this check without shamefully\u201d betraying ¥ Government took the matter in hand, and issued an; \u201cMr Lee.Caen 303.\u201d lerament communicated officially with the public\u2014to ; other important legislution Wig nevertheless Be thelr constituents from amidst whom they are chosen, ; Ordinance to determine the modes of proceeding in| Mr.Neilson returns thanks in the same number, in / le great pecuniary advantage of the proprieior\u2014was P thoriz \\Wesieyan Meul I ts.in o Sa ue room Vacy must return fo share their lot the Courts of law.When the suit or tial ane |a short, pithy.address, in which this passage oom\" the precluding cause.We nevertheless find Mr.authorize the esleyan Methodists, in connection F'his is the security of the people and really the safety , tween two Englishmen, or had respect to one Enalish- 6 Integrity of srivate eharacler is the py y scourit for Neilson, at this time among the most active members, : with the British Conference, to marry, baptize and i of the Government.The Assembly of this colony man only, fie Jury were to be all English; when | integrity in the discharge of public duites.Li in resolutely bent upon reforming existing abuses, and: bury, and to keep registers of these acts, in conformity; has made frequent sacrifices to peace and future i + between an Englishman and a French Canadian, the this point of view I sartieulariy value the expression ©Sablisbing upon a firm basis the rights and privileges with the lavrs of the Province ; but the measure though [ harmony ; they have been rendered unavailing and I Jury were to be half English and half French and of their favourable obinion founded on ac œnintance lof the Assembly of wbich he had again been elected cheerfully granted by the Roman Catholies, was not | attempted to be turned against themselves.If the ! when the varties int | were Frencl lv.the as f AVOUT prion, : qui C1 member.i regarded with a very favorable eye by other parties, home Government, upon more correct information un parties interested were French only, the as fellow citizens and friends, during a period of up- \u201ca .Land it was therefore deemed necessary lu reserve it still bstacle in th ; Si nse wa: ducted altogether in their own language els nf ie five + SN Mr.Papineau was again Speaker, and as we have | \u20ac ë r necessary to reserve it! still see an obstacle in the Revenue Act of 1774, they case was conducled altogetherin theirown language., wards of twenty-five years.I shall rely on their = 75 for the Roval sane Mr.Neils or ; ; ; * This could not fail to give satisfaction, and the judi- liberal construction of ny public conduct.\u201d | already shown, the Speaker was a person who spoke | lor the Royal sanction.Ar.-Aciison (pére), though ' have the remedy in their own hands, they cannot = cious arrangement was found to work well.These, The very next number oi the Gazette contains a | !pon the topies of debate\u2014a practice since fallen into 10 longer publisher or editor of the Gazette, was well javail themselves of their own wrong; they may N pactielars are fully stated in the Gazette, which at | soimewhat claborate report of the debates in the ! desuetude, and better so perhaps, as during the pre- paderstood to pit i nee and to NA buie redeem their pledge, the conditions of which they have I | that time and for long years alter, continued to be the | Assembly, on the Civil List demanded by the Govern- | vious session, the appropriations for defrayirg the | Tom US pété pen the oo ing articles on the critical once at least acknowledged 10 have been performed ; t organ of the Government, being in fact generally | ment, in the course of which Messrs.Taschercau | expenses of the Civil Service occupied, and in fact, Subjects w hich occupied public attention.Thoush by the Province, and repeal the Revenue Act of j taken up, in half its extent, with Ordinances, Procla- Vanielson and Cuvillier,strongly objected to the salury almost engrossed the attention of the House, and se-, 2 devoted partizan of reform and a faithful worker lor! 1774.This will bring the Provincial Act 39, Geo.; A ! 1 nances : son à >r, strong lok \u201cval layer ; core olin ; : its attainment, he never allowe 22 ILL, Ce i i ; 0 i mations, Orders in Council, Laws, Sheriffs\u2019 Adver- | appropriated 10 the Governor General, and incidentally Ève ral large items were eliminated therefrom, such as better of his judement, and his a3 ma to get : HL, Sap.3, into full force and remove the difficulty.2 ; tisements, and a multitude of other official notices in | lo the assumed authority on the part of the Executive 1,500 à year to a Licutenant Governor who had bicets in i J > verte Hv ch teriz } Quebec, 15th January, 1827.| both 1 To this has b ascri : < ; ; ; never been in the Province, and apparently never Subjects in issue were generally \u20ac aracterized by at.; ; ; ; fn anguages.To this patronage has been ascribed | to suspend the operation of certain laws, relating 10 : .> : digni 1 ity of ime ieti This article was written in reply to one of thirteen i the ab f editorial from.1 ' ! aung thought of coming ; £300 a year toa Lieutenant Gov- dignity and generosity of sentiment and dietion .reply In te absence of editorial comments from the columns | the customs.Mr.Davidson took the other side, and | VOUS f Gaspé, als b 1 £400 which ensured for them the most respectful considera- columns in the Mercury, which, for over two years, of the paper; and though the Printers, at the beginning the Spealker of the House himself discussed the mat- | (7/07 © Gasp, ho ana pentes an a year fo ion.It would be well for the political writers of our ; had been the organ of the Government ; and we learn N of the 2nd volume, repudiate and deny the fact oljler at considerable length, contending for a liberal | the Secretary, who was in the same category\u2014his, + stud ] Je ; ht ex [from a postscript of Mr.Neilson\u2019s, that five more i beir bei à ; Li er lc! 8 lending deputy receiving the fees of the office.After a good | day to study such models, for then we might expect; ; 3 Im tReir being under controul, inspection or sfipervision, allowance to the Governor, but objecting very strongly | Puy he pur _ 4 onl be .© led | to have less of pretence, sneering and evasion, and | columns had appeared in the same paper, after he me the utter want of such editorial discussions at times | to several of the other items.Mr.Borgia and Mr.Pruning, od 12 Was Poil bu yo c again rejected |e of that frank and honest argument.without | had completed his answer, but that nothing therein Pr when political questions of a vital character agitated | Stuart also spoke, the former recommending that | by the Legislative Council ; but the Assembly, appa hich 1l d real its of eu eo advanced had at all influenced his opinions or made an th blic mind t be 1al indicative at | ; > rently desirous of preventing the embarrassment which Which the true and real ments ol po itical topics and © pl 1c public mind, must be taken as indicative at least | the List, such as 11 was, should be swallowed ex gros, | yo ! = i i iv it necessary 1hat he should add to his remarks.Ii { implied understandi .; : ; > \"I would follow the non-appropriation of means for the | theories can never be determined.We here give a y \u2018 \u2018 ea of an implied understanding between the proprietors | without delay, lest a more onerous one should be ?non-approp § : imen of hi qi , a à ; : was well for 1he cause of constitutional government co fl d the Gov he Il Lo.ih > i .avment ofthe salaries, voted a sum of £46,060 10s.2d.specimen of his wrilings at this juncture, it being = 8 ; of the paper and the Government, that all political |asked, and Mr.Stuart contending for further time | PAYT ou sidered sufficient.about all we can aflord to embrace in a memoir of that the Gazette had been freed from the influence of es criticism\u2019 would be eschewed.Occasionally, con- to consider the subject.He also objected 10 several i \u201cerling\u2014the amount they considered sufficient\u2014 his kind.The extract is tak ; official patronage, and it speaks very strongly for the b ben in the «! fl eins r | C .| which they promised to make good by bill at their this kind.1e extract is taken from an article of ue BC, speaks very gly y (ibutions in the shape of letters animadverting upon of the particulars, and especially to the salaries of a, * y pro hi d hed .several colnmns in the Gazettes of 18th and 23rd Patriotism of its conductors that they should have ex the conrse of the Government, were inserted, but they proposed Board of Audit, composed of members of | next meeting.This the Governor leclined accepting, aiv.1827.inti \u201cra » made the sacrifice of the large emoluments derived fai : ; fv d it} ! i ich he ! his opinion being that it would be ineffectual without ; January, 1827, intituled, Tne RExewep DispuTes., 8 ; ia were of very moderate tone, and oun the whole, it is the Executive, which he regarded as a monstrous ; MS OP 15 sta et .| AÏ ani i i ; from the connection which had now lasted for up- be : ery clear that th horities had oe LTE ; ; = the concurrence of the Legislative Conneil | Aîter recapitulating with great minuteness and , 5 | very clear that the authorities had no great difficulties innovation.This counsel prevailed, and the farther ; 5 : perspicuity the causes of the inisunderstandings wards of sixty years.From a statement of the ce.to contend with in conneciion with the press.We consideration of the matter was adjourned.i The Assembly had not forgotten the lecture of the between de causes and ihe Assembly.he con- reasons which led to the transference of the patronage we shall not stop to describe the ahsolutism-\u2014though very At the next sitting of the House, viz., Thursday ; Duke of Richmond at the close of the previous ses-; Cludes in the following nervous terms i 1 to the Mercury establishment, we learn that Mesers.va moderate \u2014of the early Governors, the establishment the 26th, the sum of £40,283 8s.9d.was voted for | sion, and towards the endfof this, Mr.Neilson moved i or =o 5 { Neilson & Cowan were desired by the Governor to re] of a Council, exercising the functions ofa Legislature, defraying ihe expenses of the Civil Government, to | and carried two resolutions on the: subject: the first! «This article has unintentionally ran 10 a greater | accept the services of an editor whom he named, and ho or the agitation set on foot, chiefly by the English be taken out of the unappropriated moneys of the affirming such censure \u201c to be: an assumption of pow- length than was expected.It has already been] which they were to pay, and that they were disposed ] a residents, for a political Constitution conformable to, Province ; the matter of the Civil List to be reserved | er contrary to law, and a breach of the privileges of observed that every part of the existing revenues! at first to consent to the arrangement; but the further ser 2 the British model, since all these facts, though suc- | for settlement at the ensuing Session, together with | the House,\u201d &c.; and the second declaring that \u201cthet for the support of Government (levied within the stipulation that he should have half of the profits of the Ht cinetly detailed in the columns of the G zelle in the several complaints against the exercise of illegal House had the undoubted right in voting aids or Province, and paid by iis inhabitants in the prices|the concern staggered them; and as the Gazelle had ang + form of petitions, sometimes savouring very much powers, on the part of the Judge of Vice Admiraliy \u2018 supplies, or offeriug money bills, to adopt such order} of dutiable articles which they use), applied tolalready given offence by the admission of articles and les A of remonstrance, are fully stated by the several | and the Officers of the Customs, | or mode of proceedings as in its judgnient would | annecessary expenditures, occasion so much more! extracts deemed too favourable to the popular senti- his : authors who have undertaken to record the history of Monday the 301h, Mr.Neilson took his seat, and seem fittest,\u201d &e., &c.- Many very important maîlers|to be drawn from the property and industry of \u2018ment of the day, the official negociators were not bor A the Province.We may say, however, that from the at the saine time a petition was presented against his | had been suggested in the Governor's opening speech, the country, for the necessary expenditures.The! disposed to soften their demands.It is also presum- \u201c, } nature of the extracts given to the public from Biitish | return, the ailegations of which the House resolved | but there seemed 10 be but little disposition 10 proceed moneys collected are deposited in the hands of His Ma- | able that Mr.Neilson did not like the prospect of | an orei papers, Ii is mot at al dif cult to deter to be sufficient to render his election void, if such: wit en an 1 2 grievanacs they complained of | jesty\u2019s Receiver General for the Province, to be applied | seeing the paper he had so long superintended, com- ; Mess Ve im o d > rs anac ian newspaper.a legations were found true.oo were rat pind ax ! \u20ac a en as ts they conformably to the 471h section of the Constitutional { mitted to the defence and advocacy of views which # Mesers, i more an rown were unquestionably From quotations in the Gazette at this time, we find | assorte and claimed were fully couceded.Act, \u201cin such a manner only as shall be directed by | he regarded as ruinously inimical to the public Cg adicals or Reformers.They sympathized with that other journals were not so chary as it was of! The next session commenced like the previous any law or laws which may be made by His Majesty, welfare ; and that he therefore used his influence 3 the Wilkes faction or party, then so active in England, comments on the politics of the day, but the paper! onc, on 1lih December, and ended ou 18th February, His heirs or successors, by and with the advice and with his son and with his old servant, Mr.Cowan, lv v à end a few years after, presented a view of the was still the official organ, and we suppose could not 1822 ; but though there was abundance of squabbling consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of cause the final rejection of the propositions.Be that cide ; American struggle with the nother country largely well find fault.on the standing financial question of the time\u2014the the Provinee.! Has this fu 7 - i sacri one who ove î ble to 1l Jutionisis Je qu | : | .1 lhe | ! q indamental law been com- as it may, the sacrifice was made, and any a avorable to the revolutionisis.It is, however, 10 thetr| The Session of 1819, was consumed in great part| Civil List which Government demanded for the term plied with by the power entrusted with the execution will take the trouble to look over the fyles of the tury of credit, that they appeared to utterly detest the pro- in debates upon the estimates for the Civil Govern- of the King\u2019s life, and which the Assembly were of the laws?It is not necessary here to enter upon Gazette, prior to this period, will see that it was no wri Ty ceedings of the French National Assembly ; and from ment, which was anticipated by Mr.Borgia, when the determined not to grant\u2014we have no report of the|the incrits of that question.It is certain that the small pecuniary loss.It must not, however, be dia ; their columns, a history of the frightful scenes then Civil List was under discussion the previous Session, |debates; but this we find, that no supplie resentative b y : is.| i , .irate exe 2 ë | J ; ! \u2019 ; s pplies were represertative body has long, by humble addresses, imagined that the paper thenceforth became an ira being enacted, could be written, which would harrow had increased over £15,000, but we find none of the |granted.There was also an ugly snarl between the by bill, by petition, by votes, complained that the iti int ; h hough expressing long the souls of the readers Indeed, the Gazette, all speeches in the Gazette.We merely learn that tl ly and islati il, i | money so collected fron: conatiaonte has boon von definin and decided opinions, it oaimed v have ) 7azetle, all speeches in the Gazette We merely learn that the Assembly and the Legislative Council, in consequence! money so collected from their constituents has been very definite and decided opinions, it aimed at the test; 4 through, seems to have been a carefully compiled amount asked for was considerably reduced, and that [of the former taking exception to some remarks of the applied without an Act of the Legislature to which the utmost fairness of discussion, and as the foregoing by | 5 digest of passing events, as well asa repertory of very the Bill was rejected by the Legisiative Council.Hon.Mr.Richardson, and voting an address to His! consent of the Assembly is indispensable : it has even quotation proves, was more careful of reaching the Wh in many quaint, ouous, and interesting facts, for the The Session was closed on the 24th April, when the Excellency, demanding his removal, which was flatly long and humbly addressed the Executive and the truth than silencing ils adversaries., dat culling of which the publishers seem to have had a Duke of Richmond read a rather smart lecture to the |refused, as it deserved to be.In this matter the other Branch by bill, for stricter, more certain and| Several causes of uneasiness immediately super patr sort instinctive genius.be Nes .Commons for their contumacy, hoping they would do Assembly unquestionably made a very shabby exhi- speedy accountability: it has repeatedly refused its| vened upon the dissolution of Parliament, which We À Symptoms of disagreement between Messrs.Gilinore better next Session.; bition of themselves, and their own after proceedings consent to expenditures asked, and which it deemed immediately followed its prorogation ; amon others Spee 1 and Brown, the proprietors and publishers of the| In August of this year, the Duke of Richmond, wha show they felt the absurd position in which they had unnecessary : it is toid now that its consent heretofore the expiration of the Militia faws ; which eft the ed, ; A zetle, are apparent in some of the earlier volumes, was then on a tour in the Ottawa country, died at |placed themselves.* asked for the application of a grant of these moneys Government at liberty to fall back upon the old Ordi- Mag i and in 1772 they separated.the latter retaining the Richmond, after a few hours of great suffering, con-| Then there was trouble between the two Provinces, is no longer necessary : that it lawfully appertains to nances utterly unsuited to the times, Then ther: Reg ii aper.le continued at the head of the establishment sequent, as was believed, upon a bite from a tame Upper Canada claiming a greater portion of the cus- the King, and my Lord Bathurst will dispose of it as was of course a gencral election ; and the po ular Nei '§ uatil 1790, when he relinquished jt in favour of his| fox at Sorel some days before.The Government then |toms revenue collected\u2014and of which, by agreement, His Majesty shall direct for the benefit of the Colony | feeling being largely in favour of \u2018the policy of the one 4 nephew, Mr.Samuel Neilson, who had come from devolved upon Mr, Monk, the senior member of the [they were to have their proper proportion\u2014than and it would be strange indeed if His Lordship were Assembly the Sew House was, if possible, more lent Fy Scotland for that purpose, with his younger brother Executive, and in February, 1820, he dissolved Pur- Lower Canada believed it was entitled to.Commis- 10 say it were not for the benefit of the Colony.Bat | thorou hly imbued with the spirit of resistance 10 txte ; John, afterwards the Hon.John Neilson, then a lad liameat.A general clection was held, but the cormn-|sioners were appointed to determine the amount the Colony which pays the money differs in opinion unconsiitutional encroachments than that which ba fron 3 about 14 years old.Mr.S.Neilson dying in 1793, plexion of the new House was, if possible, more [appertaining to each Province ; and among those for with Ilis Lordship.receded it.They re-elected Mr.Papineau as their, ly the concern devolved upon John, who being too young | opposed 10 the pretensions of the Government.than Lower Canada, we find John Neilson, which is! «The inhabitants of Canada say that certain ex- § eaker, by 89 to 8 for Mr.Vallidres; but the Govemor pror to manage it by himsell, was assisted by the Rev.Mr.{the former.Parliament was opened onthe 1hih April, [another proof of the estimation in which that gentle penses heretofore asked of them humbly represented refused to acknowled e him.The Assembly main- can 3 Sparks, who took the editorial charge of the paper|and Mr.Papineau was re-elected speaker of the |man was held.The Commissioners failed, however, against, refused, and still paid \u2018are unnecessary, and tained that the custons of submitting their choice fof ad and kept it uatil 1796, when ihe young man coniing to Assembly ; but as no member had been returned for|to agrce, and Upper Canada appealed to England, not for the \u2018benefit\u2019 of the Province.That His the approbation of the Crown was a mere formality take Lis seniority, assu the duty.* It ual be said that Gaspé, (the writ for [Lat county, on account of its|when it obtained what it sought ; but the means must Maszery, \u2018by and with the advice and consent of which did not involve the right of refusal, so they êpee onerous, for beyond scissor iscance, allowi urn \u2018 i « ) islati' i task was not very onerous, for beyond scissoring distance, allowing 100 days for the return) [douse sought forin the histories of the Province, as our the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Pro-| voted the Speaker into the chair.» The Goveroof pe ud THE QUEBEC GAZETTE, CENTENARY WUMBER, TUESDAY, JUNE 121, 1864.CR A - SEE ge Rawiament.\"There féllowed, of course, anuah + Slar tumilt: \u2018the Government had unany 5 shi «the English-speaking'|wwalls of the Legislature.pr mipartizans,hidily raunong ghishi-gpe op! = g t \u2018a few British, were with uke Petitions ontbotl sides were \u2018again \u2018ud- \u2018felt the mmeed of extreme «caution, sand by this .con- \u201cto sthe \u2018Imperial \u2018Government, «and \u2018Messrs.\u201cIson, Viger-and \u2018Cuvillier were sent to England as Neilson, { those of their party,'signed by over Meanwhile, prosecutions were .com- Government against several of the rs, and no less than four actions were When the Canadian brought before the Imperial Parliament, tenor of the debates ehowed that the vinced of the improper use of his speakers were aor al and a Committee was ed to examine into the matter.They reported, nded concessions which would have tisfied the popular party in Canada, d the then Government promised to attend to the an With these promises the delegates were be satisfied, as they had reason to fear that if d matters further they would not be sus- ord Dalhousie was recalled, and upon England, combatted the report of the Sir James Kempt was sent out lo re- Dalhousie, and great hopes were enter- ilation,; butfihelimmense majority of \u2018the LU ! encluding wlso no \u2018Assembly dressed the tbearers 0 ' mes.ow pb \u2018the menced \u2018by ape \u201csion ; oppos against the Gazette.roubles were the general - ower \u2018by Lord Dalhousie, point AE recomme very nearly sa suggestions.fain to they presse tamed.arriving 10 Committee.1 TES pact on favourable issue.At the end of 1828, the Parliament was called together, and Mr.Papineau acknowledged by the new Governor as Speaker.These facts are reported at great length in the Gazelle, where the merits of the pros.and cons.are elaborately d ably argued ; but the very fulness of the discus- iy s imperatively bars anything like an attempt Me itomization.We cannot, however, avoid notic- rap article on the Post Office, from which we learn incidentally that there were at that time (1827) but jen newspapers in the Province, part published twice and the rest once a week ; that the weeklies paid an annual postage of 4s., and the bi-weeklies, 5s.(which was a huge advance upon former rates) ; that 25 years before the rate for weeklies (there being probably none others at that time) was 1s.3d.; then Is.6d.; hen 1s.8d.; then 2s.; then 2s.6d.; and finally, as stated above, 4s.; that these changes were made at the will and for the benefit of the Postmaster General, who pocketed them as his own perquisites.; The article further contends that the mode of disposing of the Post Office revenues was unconstitutional and an mvasion of the rights granted to the Province by the Act giving it a Legislature whose sole business it ras to levy imposis upon the people and to apply mem.As is well known, the Post Office system in \u201canada at that day and for a long time afterwards, viz, till 1851, was managed by and for the behoof of \u2018he Imperial Government ; and this remonstrance of Mr, Neilson, acted upon a quarter of a century afterwards, but not until he bud been three years in his stave, nay be taken as another proof of the clearness and soundness of his views upon the subjects which >ngaged his attention.( uring the session of 1827-8 the Governor submit- ¢d a proposal, emanating from the Colonial office, \u2018or à settlement of the financial difficulties, to the sffect that a sum of £88,000 should be permanently ranted to the Crown, for the payment of the salaries, tc, to which the Imperial Government regarded 1self as committed, and that the rest of the revenue would be left at the disposition of the Legislature ; ot the scheme did not find favour, the Assembly seing determined not to recede from its asserted right sf unlimited control over the whole expenditure.They voted, however, a sufic ont sm to cover the yutlays already made, and various other amounts for provements, &c., making a grand total of £200,000.Six bills, out of 79 passed at this meeting, were re- erved for the Royal sanction ; and among these, we gain find that which gave a legal existence to the Methodist body\u2014its enemies having again succeeded mn hanging it up in suspense.As an evidence of the timation in which the services of the Canadian lelegates to London was held by the Assembly, a vote of thanks was presented to them, and a similar acknowledgment was made to Sir James Macintosh and Mr.Labouchére for their exertions in its behalf in the Imperial Parliament.In acknowledging the thanks of the Assembly, Mr.Neilson spoke as follows : \u2014 In performing a duty imposed upon me by my fellow citizens, I did.nothing more than was incumbent on any inhabitant of the Province who might be honored with their confidence ; and whose means might allow of those sacrifices of ease and individnal interest, which we all owe to the common welfare, and of which so many of my most esteemed friends, both in and out of the Committee by which 1 was delegated, have set such an honorable example.Next, after the consciousness of having faithfully endeavoured to discharge a public duty, the best reward is the certainty that we have been so successful as to obtain the approbation of those for whom we have acted; it is in this respect that I set the highest value on the testimony of approbation with which the representatives of the people have been pleased to honor ma.\u201d In addition to this acknowledgment, he was presented, at a dinner given him by a large number of the citizens, with a silver vase which cost one hundred and fifty guineas, (raised by public subseription) in testimony, as the donors alleged, of their gratitude for his services in England in 1823 and 1828.The vase hore this inscription :\u2014 \u201c 4 Youn Newson, écuyer, M.P.P., député deux fois auprès du Parlement Impérial pour défendre les droits des Canadiens ; ce léger tribut de reconnaissance lui est offert en mémoire des services qu\u2019il a rendus au pays, et comme un hommage à ses vertus civiques.\u201d We were in danger of leaving out this pleasing incident from the narrative, and had actually passed over the period in the Gazette by some years, when tring incidentally to Mr.Neilson\u2019s brief and well Written memoir in Mr.Morgan\u2019s \u201c Celebrated Canadians\u201d it met oureye, with the remark that this excellent man\u2019s modesty had been carried to the length of excluding all notice of the dinner and the lestimonial from the paper, which, though published y his son, he was nevertheless known to control.Vhen we contrast this fact with the itch for lau- dation, which not unfrequently leads some of the Patriots ot our day to report their own speeches, or as We would be more correct in saying, to report speeches in a form in which they never were deliver- » We gain some conceptions of patriotism and de- Magoguism which we might not otherwise so easily Squire.And here we may add, that though Mr.eilson was a frequent speaker in the Assembly, and oe who not only always commanded a respectful at- *ention but who influenced a large party, even to the extent of withdrawing them, on several occasions, tom Mr.Papineau\u2019s control, his speeches are general- J rendered in mere skeletons, while those of other Pominent members appear tolerably full.This, we \u2018Annot but regard as done designedly, but we must en Je at occasions when he had very special pains to argue the subject, his *peeches Were given with minute fidelity and care ; ad this with the view, no doubt, of making them admit than o ak n a few wéllwpon the public anind more extensivelyathantahey.micould be expected so «do, :if ionly sheard, within sthe 2 ; SThe next session, though a critical:one, was passed \u2018in «comparative quiet.+Sir James Kempt evidently ciliatory manners, averted the renewal of ithe quarrel about the Civil List.The supplies were voted under protest, us it were for upon the expressed condition that a sutisfactory arrangement of the still pending difficulties should be come 10 at an carly day, which condition simply meant, of course, that the Assembly\u2019s views must be assented to.They also stipulated that the other grievances complained of should be redressed\u2014 among which was the defective constitution of the Legislative Council.This item was near wrecking the supply bill in that Chamber, the votes being 7 to 7, the President, Judge Sewell, voting content as Councillor, afier which, claiming and exerting the right to vote as President, it went through with this fiction of a one majority.This bill, though not granting all that was asked by the Government, made several very liberal appropriations for jails, light-houses, hospitals, roads and education ; and in this way, the Assembly showed that it was not averse to raise and spend money for the public good, so long as they were permitted to exercise an absolute controul over such imposts and expenditures.At this time the Legislative Council was composed of 23 meinbers, 12 of whom were men holding offices of emolument under the Crown, and as to religion, 16 were Protestants and 7 Catholics.Of the 9 Executive Councillors, there was only one without office, and only one Roman Catholic.The people, through their representatives, insisted upon a change in these bodies which would render therm more deserving of confidence, and the Governor admitted in his correspondence with the home Government, that some independent members might with advantage be introduced in both, but he was nevertheless averse to any such organic chanfes as were contended for.\"This timid policy lost him his popularity, and finding troubles thickening around him, he solicited and obtained his recall.Lord Aylmer succeeded Sir James Kempt, and arrived at Quebec in the fall of 1830, In January, 1831, he convoked Parliament, and excused the delay of the British Government in disposing of the financial em- broglio upon the score of the change of Ministry, consequent on the deuth of the King, George 1V., which had occurred June 26th of the previous year, but promised that the matter would be immediately attended to.One of the first proceedings of the Assembly was the passage of a bill making it unlawful for Judges to sit in Parliament and to act as Executive Councillors, but it was promptly thrown out by the Legislative Council.They then impeacked the Attorney General, Mr., afterwards Sir James Stuart, for fraud at his last election, extortion, and the improper exercise of his position in taking up the cause of the Hudson\u2019s Bay against the lessce of the King\u2019s Posts, whom they alleged, he was bound, in his capacity as Crown lawyer, to defend.Mr.Stuart was suspended, and after some time, dismissed.A new proposal for settling the finances was soon after submitted to the Assembly, to the effect that a Civil List of £19,000 should be granted for the life of His Majesty, which, besides some £7,000 derivable Legislature.that its rejection was \u201ca great fault.\u201d But the differences between the Executive and the Assembly had been exacerbated by delay, and with each refusal or evasion of the popular demands the difficulties increased, and the disposition to accommodate matters was superseded by a stubborn determination to insist upon the redress of everything which could be construed into a grievance.The next session, which conimenced November 15, (1831), was only prolific of further discontent; and although the Government manifested an inclination to meet the wishes of the Assembly, and actually recommended the passage of a bill to render the judges independent of the Crown, no judge in future to be appointed Councillor, except the Chief Justice, (who, however, was to be debarred from political intermeddling) which bill was passed, they refused to vote the small remnant of the Civil List, embracing the salary of the Governor himself, and the salaries of the Provincial Secretary, the Attorney General, and the Solicitor General.This obstinacy has been very severely condemned, and by none more than by Mr.Garneau, who, with his Franco-Canadian preferences, naturally enough breaking out all through his narrative, admits that * a malign influence carried it (the Assembly) beyond prudential limits.\u201d It is true that a few of the more aged, staid and reflecting members regretted this course ; but the House then embraced a number of young, hot-blooded lawyers, who seemed to imagine that they could carry every thing with a rush, and they certainly did rush on so recklessly as to convert their own good cause into an engine of discord, hatred and treason\u2014but we must not anticipate.The Gazette at this time, though still advocating the necded reforms, avoided all occasions of strife ; and we are persuaded that if the party had been governed by its counsels, it would have reached all its aims by a shorter and more pleasant road than the rough one it was eventually obliged to travel.Mr.Neilson, in reviewing the session, writes :\u2014% We are also in this Province in the situation which in England is styled, \u2018being without a Government ;\u2019 a body of men having the confidence of the Legislature and the Sovereign, devising all the most important measures to be brought before the Legislature, responsible for their character and for the execution of them, and firmly and decidedly supported in every such measure, by the majority of both Housgs, so long as they retain the confidence of the Sovereign and the country, with the advantage of commanding the services of all the Public Departments and Offices in preparing everything to be submitted to the Legislature.Without some such system, no Constitutional Government can be effective; the public cannot be well served, although in the confusion, individual views, interest and intrigue may.In the United States, for a ministry they have been obliged to substitute a party.\u201cThe only matter of surprise is, that our Legislature has done so much good, and apparently so little evil : under such a system the good must diminish and the¥ evil increase.- * The business of the late session has been retarded by differences of opinion on measures deemed by some ill-timed, or not likely to have any proximate beneficial result, or as being connected with a state of things which no longer exists, and cannot exist, under the proper exercise of the constitutional powers conceded to the Assembly, &ec., &c.\u201d Evidently Mr.Neilson saw that the furious wrangling kept up about grievances which no longer existed, and could not thenceforth exist, was a most mischievous course, as the sequel proved.The interval between this session and the next was marked by a fearful election riot in Montreal, which the troops were called out to quell, when three {Rhis ymelancholy «affair only added fresh ifusl sto \u2018the fires of revenge and hatred already buming so fiercely,and thenceforth there seemed but too much reason to believe that the quarrels would end in some great convulsion, 'In June of the same yegr, 1832, the Asiatic cholera broke out at Quebec and Montreal simultaneously, and in an incredibly short space of time, carried its awful devastations throughout the Provinces and the United States.In Quebec alone, 8,200 persons died of it, or about one in every eight, and the proportion was not much smaller in Montreal.During the prevalence of this dread visitation, the most heroic devotion to the then really dangerous duty of aiding the sufferers was manifested by the clergy generally and by many of the laity, and very large sums were subscribed to meet the necessities of hundreds of orphans left wholly destilate.In presence of the destroyer, the political animosities were forfa moment subdued ; but as soon as the public health was reestablished, they broke out again with little or no hope of accommodation.The session of 1832-3 was in great part taken up with an enquiry into the Montreal election riot, with the evident view of fixing the responsibility of its disastrous results upon the Government.The temper of the Legislative Council was not much, if at all, better than that of the Assembly, and it was almost enough for one House to adopt a principle of public policy to render it certain that the other would oppose it.In this strait the popular chamber conceived, or rather revived the idea of an elective Legislative Council, and petitioned the King to alter its constitution accordingly.Of course, the Council regarded this as a gross insult, and in their turn memorialized the Home Government against the assumptions and pretensions of the other House.In neither of these two special movements did Mr.Neil- son sympathize, and it soon became evident that he could not, and would not follow in the track of the inconsiderate leaders, who, with a sublime disregard of consequences, were hurrying the country into the ruinous whirlpool of rebellion.Mr.Garneau very honestly laments the loss to the French Canadian party of his ripe experience and solemn counsels, and says :(\u2014* For some time past, Mr.Neilson, noting the railway speed with which a majority of the representatives were pushing their opposition career, seceded from Mr, Papineau\u2019sparty.Several influential French Canadians, such as Messrs.Quesnel and Cuvillier, along with some others, had before done the like.\u201d Again, ¢ Mr.Bedard, senr., Mr.Neilson, and Mr.Papineau, were three of the most eminent statesmen (constitutional) Canada had yet known; and the political separation of the two latter was a real misfortune for the country.The eloquence and fervour of the one was happily tempered by the coolness, the calculating temperament of the other.Both had been intimate almost from childhood upwards ; and both had hitherto fought, side by side, for the common cause.Messrs.Cuvillier and Quesnel again were liberals, but of a moderate stamp, both lovers of their country, and enjoying a reputation amon their fellows which reflected honor on all parties.\u201d It was during the next session, which commenced on the 7th January, 1834, that Mr.Bedard introduced the notorious NivErr-Two RzsoLuTi1ons, in which all the grievances, real and imaginary, past and present, from the Crown domain, would have put £26,000 at were recapitulated with an extravagance of diction the disposal of the Government, uncontrolled by the worthy of the party to which he belonged.The Mr.Garneau, in his history, admits debates were like the resolutions, and when read at this reservation to have been very moderate, and adds this distance of time, give a painful impression of the ill-conditioned tempers of those who engaged in them.Before their passage, Mr.Neilson cleared his skirts of any participation in the proceeding, in a speech which would well merit to be handed down to posterity in a more accessible record than the columns of an isolated fyle of the newspaper he directed; but its length and our space absolutely preclude its insertion.We find, however, a short article in the Gazeite, which we presume gives his opinion of the elaborate performance, without waste of compliment ; and it seems rather strange that his outspokenness did not cost him the opportunity of inspecting the interior of the jail, to which Mr.Taylor, a member from the Eastern Townships, had been sent the year before for a much lighter offence in the same line.The article is to the following effect \u2014\u201c The resolutions on the state of the Province now before the Assembly are characterized by many truths, many errors, much folly, a good portion of madness; but we really think that their distinctive character is ridiculousness with which it is difficult successfully to grapple.We defy any one to show in any history, ancient or modern, that such a medley under the name of resolutions was ever presented to a deliberative body.Resolutions are the enunciations of principles\u2014clear and succinct.The resolutions in question form a long, declamatory and inflammatory speech, scarcely readable from its length, alleging many facts uninves tigated by the House\u2014strangely introducing conventions under our existing form of Government, against the declared opinion of the home authorities,\u2014and more strangely menacing by foreign aid, and by this fact appealing to foreign aid against the Sovereign power of the State.In this Province everybody will understand the thing.A good part is mere verbiage, or a pitiful attempt at bullying; and out of the House is empty, unmeaning, unfelt, and will perhaps remain unknown.The resolutions in the latter respect are again distinctively characterized by ridiculousness.The word inconsiderateness is no longer the appropriate one.\u201cThe rule has passed into an axiom of Government ; that those who are not fit to govern themselves soon find such as do the work for them, at a greater or less cost to all parties concerned, according to circumstances.\u201d Besides the Ninety-two Resolutions, the Montreal election riot absorbed a good deal of time, and the investigation was not closed when the session ended.The financial question still remained unsettled, and at this time was under the consideration of the Imperial Parliament.In closing the session, (March 18,) which, in fact, had almost ceased to have a legal existence, owing to the withdrawal of a large number of the members, His Excellency (Lord Aylmer) alluding to the resolutions, said :\u2014* It will, I think, be found a difficult task to make a whole people believe in the existence of evils which no individual member of the community is sensible of as regards himself personally.\u201d Mr.Garneau, without denying the assumption of the Governor as to the quietude of the country, says that the assertion was imprudent, and that it provoked the supporters of the resolutions \u201c to give it a practical denial by moving the masses to make a demonstration which was not slow to take the form of a partial rebellion.\u201d It would be hard to conceive of a more bitter censure upon the leaders of the party than is here administered, since it amounts to an admission that these patriots had to resort to a seditious agitation in order to make the people believe that they were oppressed, and this for the mere sake of giving the colour of popular sanction to their own unreasonable and dictatorial proceedings.° This being the last session of that parliament, new elections followed, and the success of the agitators 'r- sons were shot dead and several others were Wounded, was commensurate with their numbers apd their zeal.7 Mr.\u2018Neilson, who, if only to save appearances, they should have retained among them, was sacrificed, and Dr.Blanchet, a man unknown to political life, was returned for the County of Quebec, by a majority of 240 over their old and faithful representative.Thus was the man rewarded who had given lustre, strength and dignity to the deliberations of the Assembly, and whose noble devotion to their cause the people of Lower Canada had but a few years before deerned worthy of the highest honors and most unbounded applause.But he dared to be conscientious and independent, he darcd to see into the future, and the furious men who refused to note the darkling shadows of the events they were shaping, doomed him to\u2014obseurity?No, but to an enviable fame, a fame which time can never dim, but which will continue to increase as the passions and prejudices which brought about the crisis of 1837 die out and cease 10 cloud the judgment of posterity.It may be as well to mention here that in this and the preceding two years, the Gazette was published daily, viz., three times in French and three times in English, each week, and that the reports of Parliament and of the many public meetings, then frequently held by the Constitutional party (as the moderate men, of which Mr.Neilson was a supporter, called themselves) were given at great length.At this time also the Gazette was chiefly, perhaps wholly, edited by Mr.Samuel Neilson, the proprietor, who had inherited much of his father\u2019s ability, without, however, possessing that power of self-control which had always prevented the parent, even under the greatest provocations, from giving way in his polemics to the bitter invective which began to characterize the paper as they characterized in a still larger degree all the papers of the time.Although Mr, Neilson was defeated, he manifested no dissatisfaction and made no remark implying the least censure of the electors who had deserted him.On the contrary, in a short valedictory published in the Gazelle, he bore testimony to the quiet and orderly manner in which the contest of four days had been carried on ; gave thanks for the confidence reposed in him in past times, and expressed his best wishes for the future welfare of the electors and that of the country generally.During the interval which preceded the meeting of Parliament, the country was in a great ferment, the people organizing themselves into political associations for and against the party of the 92 Resolutions.Of course, the majority in favour of that party was very large, but yet not by any means so large as was represented, and the constitutionals made up in great measure by their social posstion what they lacked in nuinbers.The next Session opened on the 23rd February, 1835, when Mr.Papineau was almost unanimously re-clected Speaker.Almost the first act of the Assembly was a motion to censure the speech of His Excellency in closing the former Session, and to expunge it from their journals.On this occasion, the 8g speeches of Mr.Papineau, Dr.O\u2019Callaghan and others, were apparently intended, as they were certainly calculated, to prevent the possibility of accommodation, and it really seemed asif a collision with the Government was desired and sought for.Mr.Gar- neau has given extracts from Mr.Papineau\u2019s speech, (in answer to Mr.Gugy who opposed the motion) and they certainly present him to us as a sufficiently pretentious person ; but the Gazelte\u2019s report invests the oration with other qualities : for instance (and we quote but a few words which might be duplicated from almost all his deliverances) he says: ¢ One of the first (measures) and which ought to occupy its attention (Parliament,) was the insolent and misplaced remarks which the Governor in Chief thought proper to introduce in his speech on proroguing the last session.A speech delivered by a person representing his Sovereign ought to be replete with dignity and not full of low abuse.\u201d From Dr.O\u2019Callaghan\u2019s observations we take also a few words.He said: \u2018The time is now come to put an end to this by-game of insulting language at the close of each session.That hon.House was insulted in 1810 by one of these insolent speeches, and passed resolutions declaring that it was contrary to the constitutional privileges of that House.Notwithstanding those protestations that hon.House received another lecture in 1827, and in 1832 it likewise protested against similar language.Yet all these protestations have had no effect, and that House was again called upon to make new protestations against such insults, but which would have no effect if that House was to be guided by the past.\u201d These are brief specimens of the self-respect evinced by the leaders, and we presume that no act of theirs thenceforth was likely to excite much surprise.Onl one bill was passed this Session, viz.: The felons counsel bill, and that was reserved for the Royal Sanction.The Assembly, after a few days\u2019 discussion of their grievances, began to disperse, and for a week before the prorogation on 18th March, there was no quorum.When the Governor went down there were only 18 members present, and he evidently felt at a loss what to say to them.He, however, expressed his regrets at the condition of things, and added he was in daily expectation of important despatches the greater part of the members, and the insufficiency the country, left him no alternative but closing the session.Meanwhile the state of matters in Canada had occupied the anxious attention of the Imperial Government and Parliament, and many schemes and propositions were suggested for meeting the difficulties, which ended in nothing.At last Lord Gosford, as Governor, accompanied by Sir Charles Grey and Sir James Gibb as Commissioners, were sent out and arrived late in August.Hopes were entertained that means of effectually dealing with the chronic diseases of the Province would be found, and this feeling seemed to prevail when Parliament wascalled together on the 27th October.In the spring of this year the Constitutional Association, despairing of seeing the difficulties adjusted by the instrumentality of the Governor and the two Legislative Chambers, resolved upon sending a deputation to the Imperial Government, and Messrs.Neil- son and Walker\u2014the latter an eminent advocate in Montreal\u2014were chosen to represent their views ; but on arrival they found the scheme of a Commission settled, and they returned without cflecting anything.The fact, however, of the selection of Mr.Neilson, sufficiently shows the estimation in which he was held, and also that the Association were not averse to many of the reforms desired by the Assembly, since old fricnds being, that he believed the ber, besides other equally organic changes.is well known that when the ch mr from home which would require the consideration of the Legislature ; but that the continued absence of of the remaining few to proceed with the business of that gentleman, although separated from his party, was still, as he had always been, a strong advocate of those reforms, the difference between him and his could be accomplished without an infringement of the constitution, whereas they wanted to root out the Legislative Council and to substitute therefor an elective Cham- To be sure the Council has since been made elective, but it was made there seemed to be but little , necessity for it, as the eu \u2014 \u2014 antagonism between the .two Houses had entirely subsided ; and we may add that at this very moment an elective Upper House is regarded by many persons as an anomaly not unlikely hereafter to issue in unpleasant collisions, The health of Mr.Neilson, junr., having given way under the arduous toils of a daily publication of his paper, he was obliged to seek restoration in travel; ut he never returned to his charge, for he died in New York on his way home, and his afflicted father was obliged, at the age of sixty, to re-assume the direction and control of the Gazette.A good deal of business was done this session ; but the Supply bill having been voted for six monthe only, was rejected by the Legislative Council.In the Assembly, too, it had met a vigorous opposition ; for instead of the Papineau party carrying it as they had carried everything for years, 8 or 9 to 1, it was passed with only a majority of 13, a circumstance which indicated that a powerful reaction was taking place adverse to the pretensions of the extremists.The failure of the bill, however, occasioned the immediate prorogation of Parliament, and Lord Gosford, who had been earnestly endeavouring to conciliate the French Canadians, and who had already appointed Mr.Bedard, the father of the 92 Resolutions, to a judgeship, was greatly disheartened if not disgusted.At this time the malcontents in both Upper and Lower Canada were drawing into close alliance, and words savouring of physical resistance had more than once been seen in their newspapers.In Upper Canada, however, a newly-elected Assembly sustained the Government, which was a severe blow to the French Lower Canadians, who had been counting upon active sympathy from that quarter.New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, also excited by the example of Canada to demand sudden and radical changes, thought better of it, and determined to trust to nego- ciations, meanwhile accepting such reforms as their Governments were willing to concede.The Commissioners finding the Lower Canada Assembly alone disposed to maintain an extreme attitude, reported unfavorably to its pretensions, and recommended changes in the franchise, which would have the effect of ensuring a British majority.They also advised that a Civil List of £19,000 a year for a special term, should be insisted upon, &e.The report was taken up and debated for three days in the House of Commons, when one of the oldest and best friends of the French party, wearied no doubt with their stifiness and haughty disregard of the important concessions already made to their demands, turned against them\u2014we mean Mr.Labouchère.The result was unfavorable to the Assembly, and when this became evident, inflammatory writings teemed in the \u201cliberal\u201d press.Public meetings, having apparenily -no other object than to arouse the passions, were encouraged and held all over the Province ; but it is worthy of remark, that not a few respectable citizens who had hitherto worked zealously with the party, withdrew from it, and discountenanced the agitation.The Imperial Government, evidently averse to employ coercive measures, and probably feeling that the French Canadians had, with respect to the past, at least, many just causes of complaint, determined to make another attempt to arrange the difficulties, and instructed Lord Gosford accordingly.The Governor on his part was glad of the opportunity, for he was a benevolent and pacific man, and it was not without hope of a comfortable settlement, that he summoned Parliament to meet on the 18th August.In his speech he recommended the Assembly to reconsider the course they had pursued during the four previous years, and to make themselves such provision for the payment of the arrears due for the Civil Service, as would obviate the necessity of an Imperial enactment.The speech was eminently conciliatory, though firm and dignified, but it failed of effecting its object.And to show the temper in which Mr.Papineau was disposed to meet the overtures of the Governor, we need, only quote an answer of his to the Civil Secre- lary, printed in the very Gazette which gives an account of the opening of Parliament.A meeting had been held at St.Laurent, which Mr.Papineau had attended, and where resolutions were passed which were regarded as \u201c distinctly recommending a viola- \u201ction of the law.\u201d Mr.Papineau then holding a commission in the Militia, His Excellency desired to know if he had really been present at that meeting, and had concurred in the resolutions.His answer was as follows :\u2014 \u201c MonTREAL, 14th August, 1837.\u201c Sir,\u2014The pretension of the Governor to interrogate me, respecting my conduct at St.Laurent on the 15th of May last, is an impertinence which I Y |repel with contempt and silence.\u201cI, however, take the pen merely to tell the Governor, that it is false that any of the Resolutions adopted at the meeting of the County of Montreal, held at St.Laurent on the 15th of May last, recommended a violation of the laws, as in his ignorance he may believe, or as he, at least, asserts.\u201cYour obedient servant, \u201cL.J.PAPINEAU.« SAMUEL WALCOTT, \u201c Secretary.\u201d To deal successfully with a person labouring under such exacerbation of mind as this note discloses, was not a very easy matter, and it may be remarked, that at this time Mr.Papineau probably entertained a dislike of the Governor, becanse of his having managed by his kind and courteous demeanor as well as his very evident desire to restore peace and harmony to the country to make many friends.Be that as it may, good kind Lord Gosford found the Assembly as wn- impressible as the deaf adder, for as Mr, Garnean says, instead of addressing themselves to the consideration of the financial question, they ¢ with a fatal obstinacy voted an address protesting against the suggestions contained in the Report of the Commissioners.\u201d Now this they might have done afterwards if they had chosen ; but no, it must be their first act, and it must have all the air of a wrathy defiance.This address they presented on the 26th of the month, after alternately dawdling or violently spouting away a week of their time on the interminable grievances which they appeared unwilling to part with.The Governor seems to have anticipated this result, (and the wrangling in the House was quite enough to show that its members were resolved not vo Le pacified), for upon returning to the hall, after presenting the Address, Mr.Papineau found a proclamation on his table proroguing Parliament.As it is not possible, or indeed necessary to narrate the miserable attempt at rebellion which followed, we shall simply state the fact that the relentless agitators immediately returned to their unhallowed trade, and that from violent and treasonable ha es, chiefly from the lips of small lawyers and other hot- brained youth, the patriots proceeded to active resistance of the law officers, until they consummated what is known as the unnatural REBELLION OF 1887.Let it not be supposed, that we characterize these roceedings in over hasty terms for the Canadian Ristorian, r.Gameau, employs | age even more severe, and maintains what we believe to be true, oy a 0 wn + rman sich a = + vr mop © 8 THE QUEBEC GAZETTE, CENTENARY NUMBER.TUESDAY.JUNE 21, 1864.ee that the bulk of the people remained unsympathizing spectators of the brief though sanguinary struggle.The autbur of the sketch of Mr.Neilson\u2019s memoirs in the \u201c Celebrated Canadians,\u201d notices the course of that gentleman during these stormy days in the following terms :\u2014\u2018\u201c Amouget the events of 1837 and 1888, Mr.Neilson was found true to those loyal principles which he had always inculeated\u2014recom- mending order and obedience to the laws, and respect to the constituted authoritics.Notwithstanding the deplorable revolt of a portion of the population, he still showed himse!f the firm and constant friend of the French Canadians, and maintained that the mass of the people were untainted by disloyalty or disailee- tion.He was in truth atiached to then as a people\u2014 he loved to talk of their primitive manners and customs, their simple character and habits, and the pecaliar changes and occurrences of their history ; for their clergy too he entertained a high respect, which was returned by equal respect aud regard, on their part, which followed him, it is believed, to the last moments of his life, and stil] attends his memory.\u201d We cannot enter into the particulars of the rebellion, and it is the less necessary, as there is scarcely an adult person in the country who is not familiar with the narrative.Suflice itto say that after a short stmggle, which from the very first, the disaffected leaders felt to be hopeless, absurd and criminal, the insurrection was crushed and its promoters dispersed.Some of the inferior dupes were apprehended, brought to trial and executed, and the country again had rest.A Special Council, temporarily superseding the Lc- gislature, was embodied, and to this Council Mr.Neilson was called by Sir John Colborne, who had assumed the functions of Administrator of the Government on the departure of Lord Gosford, and there seemed to be a prospect of quietude.In the Imperial Parliament the re-union of the two Canadas was determined upon, as the only means of ensuring an abiding peace, and Ford Durham was sent oul to manage matters.One of his first acts was to set aside the Special Council of Sir John Colborne and to establish one in its stead, composed of members of his suite, and one or two naval and military officers then in Quebec ; but this proceeding was strongly censured in England.He also instituted an inquiry into the state of the Province, which was published and is now known as \u2018 Lord Durham\u2019 Report.\u201d Though an execedingly haughty man, he did not disdain to ue a variety of arts tg gain the confidence of the people, and he is said to have had different modes ot dealing with the different political parties ; in fact, to have attempted to wheedle cach alternately with intimations of special favour for their opinions.But, so soon as the news reached Canada ol the disfavour his conduct had inspired in the Imperial Parliament, and particularly of the official condemnation his Council Ordinance and other of his measures had received, he abandoned his charge and, without permission, returned home, where his escapade brought him into disgrace.The Government again devolved upon Sir John Colborne, and shortly afterwards, (in the spring of 1839) reports of another out-break became rife, and not without fonndation, for a number of the disaffected and self-excited Canadians, who had taken refuge in the border States, made an incursion into the Province and compelled many unfortunate and unwilling habitants 10 join them ; but hearing that Sir John Col- borne was coming upon them apace, the whole crew fled across the frontier or retired to their homes.It is sad, however, to record that the troops sent out revenged themselves for the absence of the foe, by burning and ravaging thicir houses and lands, and not theirs only but those of many innocent and perfectly loyal persons.Many of the French Ganadians were taken up and imprisoned, and as Martial law had heen before proclaimed, those against whom there was direct evidence of complicity in the movement, were tried, condemned and executed.Thirteen persons thus suffered at Montreal.Shortly after this Mr.Poulett Thompson\u2014afterwards Lord Sydenham\u2014was sent to take the distracted country in hand.He arrived in October, 1839, and immediately summoned the members of the first Special Conncil.They met in conference at Montreal on the 11th November, and without much ado accepted the project of a Union of the Provinces\u2014 only three members dissenting, viz: Messrs.Neilson, De Rocheblave and Quesnel.The Legislature of Upper Canada immediately afterwards approved also of the plan, and upon the facts being communicated to the home authorities, they proceeded to pass the necessary bill.This was not done, however, without much opposition, especially in the Lords, where the Earl of Gosford, late Governor General of the Province, reprobaled the measure as in the last degree unjust to the French population ; and so ended the strife, which for thirty years had kept the country in a state of constant ferment.It is not for us to pronounce upon the justice or injustice of the Union, but we think we do no violence to the sentiment of our own times, when we say, that the evils which were expected to flow from it, have happily not been experienced, but that on the contrary, under the arrangement the Province has progressed and prospered, in a ratio which could hardly have resulted from the division of interests previously existing between the two sections.Afiler the consumination of the Union, a general clection followed, and Mr.Neilson being solicited to offer himself again for his old county, the electors, who, but six years before had misjudged and rejected him, made the amende honorable by returning him without opposition! Surely he ust have felt proud of this revulsion of feeling and opinion, indicating as it did an admission that his course during the troubles had merited the entire approbation of the country.In 1843, he was strongly urged to accept the office of Speaker of the Legislative Council, but firmly declined, as he -always had declined the acceptance of places accompanied with emolument.In 1844, Mr.Neilson was again doomed to experience the fickleness of popular favour, for not being so thorough a partizan as the French party needed\u2014the French as a body being in Opposition\u2014he was beaten by M.Chauveau, who had already, though a young man, established his claims as an able and determined supporter of the party.Immediately after this, he was called to the Legislative Council and accepted the duty, and there as in the Assembly maintained the principles be had so long and so honestly professed.All this time too he was editor and principal writer of the Gazette, and the paper in his hands continued to hold an honorable place in the front ranks of the Provincial press.\"In October 1847, the Hon.Mr.Neilson was appointed by the St.Andrew\u2019s Society, of which he was a member, to present their address of congratulation to Lord Elgin, on his first visit to Quebec; and having being exposed to a chilling rain on- his way there, laid the foundation of the disease, which on the 1st day of the eneuing February ended in death.Though for several days previous.to the sad event Le had remained at home, such was his habit of application that he continued steadily to write for the r, and on the S1st January, the very day before is death, wrote the 1wo atticleswhioh appear in that day\u2019s paper.The annexation project was then in agitation, and ihe very last words Mr.Neilson penned were in ccndemnation of the proceedings.As they are but brief, we reproduce them :\u2014\u201c It is almost needless to observe, that any British subject, not au- ; thorized by.the Crown, who would ¢ attempt\u2019 to annex any portion of the British dominions to a foreign state, would be guilty of high treason; and any in- dividaal who by publishing that such annexation is inevitable, would be guilty of seditious and treasonable practices, tending to dissuade or prevent the subject from performing the duties of his natural and sworn allegiance, \u201c As to the destinies of this continent, and particularly of the North American Union, there is no means of predicting them, except by reference to the fate of other ambitious Republics.There are men, however, who see nothing in the future but through the passions and feelings of the moinent, and the forgetfulness of those principles an adherence to which is the safest guide for the wise and the foolish.\u201d So passed away one of the most eminent (if not tie most eminent man) of the country; and the public of that day, who had known his toils in the service of tiie Province, who had marked his noble and almost obstinate integrity, who had noted his ready self- abnegation and his uncomplaining acceptance of personal injury and misrepresentation, felt they had suffered a loss which words could not sufliciently describe.On the occasion of his funeral, which was attended by a great concourse of citizens, both French and English, the Rev.Dr.Cook pronounced an oration which deeply affected the audience, and which the reader may find in the Gazette of Tth February, 1845, from which it has been copied by Mr.Morgan, in the work to which we have already several times referred.From this time wntil the month of May in the following year, Mr.John Neilson, third son of the deceased editor, assumed the management of the Gazette, with the printing and stationery establishment eonnccted therewith\u2014aided in the editorial department by Mr.Ronald McDonald and other writers for the press.At this period, Mr.Middleton, (who had been for about sixteen years attached to the Gazette, and had left it in 1847 along with Mr.St, Michel, to establish the Morning Chronicle,) was induced to retire from the latter journal and enter into partnership with Mr.John Neilson, This arrangement continued for a short period, when Mr.Neilson withdrew, and Mr.Middleton became sole proprietor.In 1856, the latter entered into partnership with Mr.Dawson, and the concern still continues in their hands.During the last eight years the Gazette has been principally edited by the senior partner, who still discharges that duty.And it may not be out of place here to say, that throughont his course it has been his aim to make the paper as faithful a record of public occurrences and as impartial a censor of the political measures of the times as the muchi-valued and lamented patriot who so long occupied a similar relation wonld have desired, had lie still been at hand to advise and direct.That he has succeeded in giving the Gazette the vigour it possessed under the management and control of that eminent man lie does not pretend, and it would be Messrs.Ferres and Milne out in November, 1853.The Montreal Gazette throughout all its changes of proprietorship has steadily maintained the position of u leading organ of the conservative party in Lower Canada.! Quebec Mercury, 1805.The Mercury was founded in January, 1805, by Mr.Thomas Cary, grandfather of the present proprietor, a member of the bar of Nova Scotia, and who, until his death, iu 1823, continued to be the editor.The loud and incessant complaints of the paucity of the existing provincial newspapers in pont of information, were assigned as one of the chief reasons for establishing this journal, the general principles of which were stated in the prospectus to be \u201c a veneration fur the British Constitution in all its branches, a perfect submission to and a respect for the local Jaws and government under which we live ; a love of social order ; and a sympathetic sense of and regard for the feelings of every individual, public and private.\u201d It started as a weekly paper, ata guinea a year, was published tri-weekly in 1832, and became a daily morning newspaper in January, 1863 ; like the specially, or perhaps ultra conservative press in other cities than Quebec, it was much given to fashionable intelligence andereading for the family circle, which did not, however, prevent its treating politics in a vigorous and sometimes too acrimonious style.The first editor of the Mercury was several times under the displeasure of the House of Assembly, for alleged libels on the leader of the opposition, at that time almost the entire house ; he, however, enjoyed the friendship of several Governors, and the Legislative Council were his warm supporters.Under his son, Mr.Thomas Cary's rule, the Mercury was at the service of Lord Metcalf and his friends, wus the bitter and daring opponent of Lord Elgin, and the constant enemy of the Hincks, Baldwin, Lafontaine and Morrin Ministries.Mr.Kemble, Dr.Fisher, Rubert Christie, the member for Gaspé and historian of Canada, the Honorable Mr.Cochrane, und a host of other gentlemen of literary ability, have beeu among the writers for the Mercury.The paper in question being also the special organ of the Anglican Clergy, and especially those called \u201c The High Church Party,\u201d is said to have received contributions from the pen of the late Bishop Mountain,and at times we believe, of his father also.About two years ago, it was leased to Mr.Blackburn, a gentleman long and respectably connected with the press of Upper Canada, who has just retired from it, leaving it again in the hands of its proprietor, Mr.George T.Cary, who purchased the establishment and a copyright from his futher in 1855.We deal only with the past, the future of tlie Mercury will speak for itself.It is now a daily evening paper, and has been successfully enlarged from a weekly demy quarto in 1805, and as a semi-weekly in 1816, 10 a demy folio in 1832, when it became a tri-weekly.Montreal Herald, 1811.The Montreal Herald was first published by Mr.Mungo Kay, in the year 1811.He had previously been a merchant in Montreal, and a partner with the father of Judge Smith, who died in 1815, when William Gray became proprietor, and died in 1822 ; his widow carried on the establishment alout two years, when she died, and the property was purchased by Archibald Ferguson, at present resident at Montreal, on 1st May, 1824, and sold to Robert Weir on the 1st November, 1833.On the death of Robert Weir, junior, which occurred in the year 1842, Robert Weir, senior, father of the deceased, folly in him to promise that it will hereafter exhibit abilities of the same order; but he may, and does | promise, that so long as he shapes its utterances, it, will be found on the side of truth, honesty and virtue, ' in social as well as in political life.' Notices of some of the principal Canadian Newspapers.| Being desirous of affording the leading Journals of the ; province the opportunity of putting on record some account of their career, we addressed them an invitation to furnish us, for appearance in this extra, such notices as they might feel disposed to place before the public, and we here subjoin those that were supplied to us for that purpose.We regret that the list is not more complete ; but the fault does not lie with us, as we would cheerfully have given insertion to twice the number.Montreal Gazette, 1778.The Montreal Gazette, if not the oldest newspaper in the province, may, at least, claim to be the oldest in Montreal and all the country west of Quebec, It was established in 1778, by one Mesplet, a Frenchman evidently, and was then published in the French langnage, but being soon discontinued, was revived in or about the year 1794, by Mr.Lewis Roy, who appears to have learned the ar: of printing in the Quebec Gazette office.After his death the establishment was assumed by Mr.E.Edwards, who also appears to have come from the Quebec Gazette office, and by him was extended and published in French and English, the French edition appearing as La Gazette de Montréal and the English as the Montreal Gazette.At this early period of its existence the Montreal Gazette uppeared weekly, and sometimes bi-monthly and monthly, accordingly as the mails came in from Quebec, Halifax and the United States, and was published on a sheet of demy with type and ink which were imported from the mother country, like its predecessors in the 17th century, the London Postman, Postboy, Courter, News, Intelligencer, and other English newspapers which sprung into existence after the expiration of the censorship Act.The Montreal Gazette contained little editorial or other original matter.The pen had almost nothing to do with its composition.It consisted of extracts of news from the English, New York and Philadelphia newspapers, taken from the English newspapers during the season of navigation and from the American in winter.The French Revolution\u2014 Pitt\u2019s advent to power\u2014the Siege of Toulon\u2014the first Italian campaign, Arcola, Lodi, Mantna\u2014the expedition to Egypt, Walcheren, Austerlitz\u2014the disastrous Spanish and Russian campaigns\u2014the abdication at ¥on: tainebleau\u2014the Hundred Days, and the last great and| final struggle on the plains of Waterloo, are described in its columns.The paper was then issued at No.135, St.Paul street, in those days the fashionable portion of the city.Mr.Edwards appears to have carried it on until about the year 1804, but long previous to that year he discontinued his two editions and combined them into one, the French portion being a mere translation of the English, the matter contained in both appearing in parallel columns.The advertisements also were nearl all translated.In or about the year before mentioned, Mr.James Brown took charge of the Gazette and removed it to No.20, St.François Xavier street, where he appears to have published it until the year 1825.Lon before that period, as late as 1810, editorials had appeared in its columns and it had put cn a more business air.Mr.Jas.Andrew Turner appears to have purchased it in 1825, and published it at the corner of Notre Dame and St.Jean Baptiste street.He was succeeded by Armour and Ramsay, a well known bookselling firm, who carried on business in St.François Xavier street, and sold it in turn in 1843 or 44to Mr.Robert Abraham, a gentleman who deservedly had the reputation of being one of the most vigorous and able writers in the province.Another flit then took place, the establishment returning to the vicinity of its old locale in St.Pau) street,and yet again it removed to Hospital street.In 1848, it was pure by Messrs.Fèrres and Milne, who shortly afterwards took possession of the building in Great St.James street, now occupied by the Gazette establishment.The pre- and David Kinnear, became proprietors of the Montreal to Charles Rice, Esy., who conducted the paper until 1862, when he was appointed Clerk of the County Court, and at the close of the year he sold out to George Walker, Esq., the present proprietor of the journal.When the which Perth was the capital, was called the Bathurst | district, aud the paper was called the \u201c Bathurst Courier,\u201d which title it retained up to 1857, when the old district having been abolished some years previous, and counties substituted, the proprietor, Mr.Rice, deemed it advisable, as the word Bathurst had lost its significance, to substitute the word Perth,\u201d the name of the county town, and the paper has since that time been called the « Perth Courier\u201d.When first started, the paper was about half of its present size, and was printed on an old fashioned French press ; this wus replaced by a Washington hand press 1n 1846, and in 1857 a steam power press was procured, on which it is now printed.The Courier is une of the largest local papers in Upper Canada, and with the exception of the ¢ Brockville Recorder\u201d, is the | oldest journal between Kingston and Montreal.It was, started as a reform journal, and through all the various vicissitudes of thirty years, it has ever remained a staunch advocate and defender of reform principles.The Guelph Advertiser, 1845.Previous to 1845 there were two separate eflorts made to start a newspaper in Guelph, after it became a county town, but each failed after a trial of a few weeks.In that year the \u201c Guelph and Galt Advertiser\u201d was commenced as a weekly paper by Mr.John Smith, who in addition to the ordinary duties of editor, publisher and printer, was his own pressman, nnd on more than one occasion had to make his own delivery in the town.The subscription list did not number more than 250 names, and the size of the sheet was only double erown, but the typographical execution was equal if not superior to that of any journal in Upper Canada: its circulation rapidly extended, and 1t was several times enlarged, until it became the largest sheet published west of \u201cLo- ronto.In 1854, the proprietor commenced a tri-weekly Isheet in addition to the weekly issue, but at the end of two years the opening up of the Grand Trunk Railway brought the Toronto dailies so directly into competition with his smaller sheet, that the publisher ceased issuing the Advertiser oftener than once a week.In February, 1857, the originator of this enterprise sold out to Mr.Patrick Clerihue, and after a brief period it was purchased by its present proprietor, Mr.Jonathan Wilkinson.In July, 1860, the \u201c Semi-Weekly Advertiser\u201d was issued as well as the weckly edition.The size of the sheet being \u2018\u201c double royal,\u201d it continued for two years, when it was discontinued to make way for a daily issue.1n 1862 the Evening Advertiser wascommenced.printed on a double demy sheet of twenty-eight columns, being a little larger than the Hamilton Evening Times.In 1863, the daily issue was discontinued, the amouut of and faithfully catered to the wants of its readers strongest opponents have not been slow to acknowled the value und importance of its columns as a information for the public generally, and more thun on ! paper was first started, the section of the country, of | leading enterprise in the country has had its assitaus.and co-operation.° mean or unimportant position,und is looked the many fait) sentiment, while it does not shrink to declare its inde.It was | Ita medium of As a publie journal it uccupies 10 to ns : ful and trustworthy exponents of publie pendence, and is always ready to defend the right.The lnquirer, 1854.The Inquirer, à semi-weekly paper, published at ty; dollars per annum, was established in the town of Three Rivers by George and Richard Lannigan, in tha enr 1854 : the first number appeared on 3rd June.After the first of June 1855, George Lannigan continued to be the sole proprietor and editor, until the 22nd October 1859 when the paper and printing materials were sold to Frederick Stobbs, and George Lanoigan removed to Sherbrooke and established the Leader.Mr, Stobbs continues to publish the Inquirer up to the present, It was started in the interest of the liberal conservative party, and continues faithful to its first line.It has however, paid more attention to the settlement of the country and the advancement of Three Rivers through the Arthabaska railway, and the lumber trade of the St.Maurice, than to general polities.The Ottawa Citizen, 1855.This journal, known prior to 1855 as The Packet, js published semi-weekly and weekly.Wlien The Ottawa Citizen was first published, the present city of Ottawa, was only a very small town on the banks of the river of that name.Bytown was then its designation, and way co called from Col.By, the able Enginecr who pling and superintended the construction of the Rideau Canal, At that time, the means of communication with the outer world were only of the most primitive charueter\u2014 either by stage, the Ottawa River or the Rideau Canal.Wonderful changes in this respect have, however, been effected ina few years, Ottawa has now all the modes of communication enjoyed by older cities.\u2018The railway and the telegraph have now been some years in operation ; and the central and commanding position of the city, added to these valuable facilities, led some years ago to its being selected, as the most suitable place for the permanent seat of Government.The buildings for the accommodation of the Legislature, now in course of construction, are superior to any of the kind on the continent, During this time, The Ottawa Citizen has participated in the general advancement of the place, having been changed from n weekly in à small town to a semi-weekly lina large and rapidly rising city.Steadily and finnly has it at all times advocated every measure having for its object the advancement of Ottawa, The name, % The support it received being insufficient to warrant the continuance of so expensive an undertaking.Tn April, 1864, the Daily Advertiser was again commenced, with the hope that it may ultimately become a permanent institution in Guelph.The Weekly Advertiser is now firmly established, and has a circulation and influence unequalled in this section of the province.The Montreal Witness, 1845-6.The Montreal Witness was commenced in the winter of 1845-6, by John Dougall, merchant, Montreal, as a religious, literary and commercial non-sectarian, non- Herald, and remmined so until the year 1846, when Mr.Weir retired from the business.David Kinnear tlien formed a partnership with James Potts, Tt.Goff Penuy .and Andrew Wilson, under the firm of D.Kinnear & Co.James Potts retired from the business, which was continued by the remaining members of the firm, until the death of David Kinnear, which occurred on 20th Novr., 1862.After this period the business was and is at pre- ! sent carried on by Edwd.Goff Penny and Andrew Wilsou, under the firm of Penny, Wilson & Co.N.B.\u2014Our contemporary claims, and rightfully we believe, to have succeeded in securing an advertising patronage very largely in advance of the other Montreal dailies.In proof of the claim, he has furnished us a sheet giving the number of new advertisements in seven English morning papers, commencing, in three cases, with 1845, aud ending with 1863, viz: the llerald, Gazette and Transcript, the four others for broken periods.The aggregate for the Herald during these 19 years, was 97,141 ; Gazette, 58,126 ; Transcript, 59,003 ; the others it is hardly necessary to enumerate, as in no one year did they obtain half the patronage of the Herald, or even approach very closely that of the other journals named.We think this summary sufficient, and fear we may even be charged with lending ourselves to publishing a comparison of a somewhat invidious character.Brockville Recorder, 1820.This paper, the oldest except the Kingston Chronicle, in central Canada, was established by Mr.Beach in 1820.Mr.Beach came from Kingston, where he had been engaged printing the Upper Canada Herald, a paper not now in existence.About two years after the inauguration of the Recorder, the late William Buell, Esquire, purchased the paper and became its proprietor and editor ; the paper continued to be the property of Mr.Buell until the month of June, 1848, when it was purchased by its present editor and proprictor, D.Wylie, Esq., a gentleman who used to be favourably known to the press and public of Montreal, on account of his literary and poetic contributions under the signature of W-le.Mr.Wylie is a practical printer, having been indentured in 1826 to the late Mr.Stephen Young, Paisley, Scotland.The Recorder has ever been a reliable and consistent Reform Journal, never having swerved in its duty during the early and stormy days of Canada until the present day.It is a leading country reform journal, and has a good circulation throughout the counties of Leeds and Grenville.Daily British Whig, Kingston, 1834.The British Whig was first publisked in January 1834, as a semi-weekly newspaper in .the Bidwell and Perry interest (the Old Reform) ; but after a couple of years it became a weekly sheet.In April 1842, it became tri- weekly.In January 1849, it was daily, the first in the province ; for though the Montreal Herald and Gazette were issued daily in summer much earlier, yet in winter time they were tri-weekly.The British Whig remained steady to the reform cause until after the seat of Government removed to Montreal from Kingston in 1845, when it became wholly independent of any party.It so remained until 1860, when it took sides with the Hon.John A.Macdonald, in whose interest it still is, During the whole of these thirty years, it was printed, published and edited by Dr.Edward John Barker,n Londen praétitioner, who emigrated to Canada in the fall of 1832; at that time Mr.oble Palmer, a druggist, of Kiugston, was about publishing the Spectator, engaged Dr.Barker as editor, who forthwith abandoned his profession and took up that of a newspaper man.Perth Courier, 1834.The Perth Courier is published in the town of Perth, the county town of ths united counties of Lanark and Renfrew; Canada West.It isnow in its thirtieth year.It was styrted in 1834 by John Cameron, elder brother of the Hon.Malcolm Cameron ; but ere it had been d two years in existence Joh Cameron died, and Malcolm conducted the paper for about another year, when he sold oùt to James Thompson, Esq., who is now Sheriff of the united connties of Lanark and Renfrew.In 1852, sent proprietors, Messrs.Low and Chamberlin, bonght Mr.Thompson was appointed Sherif, when he sold out political journal, a character which it has since striven to sustain.The Witness took strong ground against drinking, sabbath-breaking, gambling and all the ordinary avenues to ruin, as well as against the encroachments of the Church of Rome, whilst it at the same time paid special attention to secular mews and commercial matters.It was welcomed from the first by religious persons in almost every quarter, and its subscription list, beginning with about 1,500, rose gradually to 8,000, scattered over the entire united Province.It was then found so difficult to collect arrears, that in order to introduce a rigid cash system, two papers a week were given for the same price, viz : $2, that had been charged for one.Even with this inducement, however, less than 6,000 subscribers remitted in advance, the rest being of necessity stopped.A short time after a weekly was commenced at a dollar and a half per annum, the list of | which \u2018began and continued small.Three years ago a daily edition was commenced, at a halfpenny, which gradually extended in circulation till it réached an average of about 6,000, chiefly in the city of Montreal.The aggregate circulation of the Witness, in all its editions, is at present nearly 11,000, and the number of sheets turned out weekly, about 45,000, or 90 reauns of paper.The Witness office was the first in Lower Canada to introduce Spencer\u2019s addressing machine, Taylor\u2019s double cylinder press, and Buckley\u2019s folding machine.The business is now conducted by John Dougall & Son.> The Ilamilton Spectator, 1846.Mr.Robert Reid Smiley,a practical printer, originally of Kingston, founded the Spectator in 1846.There avere few conservative journals in Upper Canada at that time, and a favourable field presenting itself, Mr.Smiley, at the instance of the late Sir Allan MacNab and Mr.H.B.Wilson, was induced to establish a new paper at Hamilton, the first number of which was issued ns a bi-weekly on the 15th July, 1846 ; it was the only semni- by six others, all published in Hamilton, but which ouly had a short existence.The Spectator at once becune the recognized organ of the conservative party in the west ; but with its advent dawned a new era in the histosy of the party whose cause it had espoused ; the vexed question of the Clergy Reserves had for many years agitated the country, and became a stalking horse for party purposes ; but there were a few who refusing to be any longer the slaves of political exclusiveness, were ready to resign all pretensions to the further advocacy of what had proved a bone of contention so long, and accordingly proclaimed themselves in favor of the abolition of the Clergy Reserves.The Spectator announced itself the exponent of thus small section, and at once cane out boldly and manfully, demanding a change.For years, however, the agitation was kept up ; and it was only when Sir Allan McNab and his conservative friends took power, that there was the least disposition manifested to get rid of the troublesome question of the Cler, Reserves.It was with the greatest difficulty that the new Ministers were induced to adopt the course so strongly advocated by their organ ; yet without doing so their rule would have been brief indeed.The first session they were inoffice witnessed the desired change, and the final settlement of the question was effected.Itis well perhaps to show the influence the Spectator exercised in this respect.On the 23rd May, 1850, the first number of a weekly edition of the Spectator was issued, and on the 10th May, 1852, a daily edition was added : all these editions continue to be issued.Mr.Smiley died in the spring.of 1854, and was succeeded by his brother John and Mr.W.Gillespy, as proprietors; in 1857 a change took place, Mr.Smiley leaving the firm and Mr.Alexander obertson taking his place ; this partnership was dissolved in 1861, since which time Mr.W.Gillespy has continned the sole editor and publisher.The Spectator is now the second oldest conservative paper west of Kingston, und may be said to maintain its reputation well, It started with a declaration of principles to which it has faithfully adhered ; and as the organ of the liberal conservative or constitutional party in Canada West, has won for itselt thé respect and esteem of the party generally.Asa ne per it has not been deficient in .Ottawa Citizen,\u201d was adopted before the city was incor porated.Tt is worthy of remark that only thirty-five years ngo the spot on-which the city now stands was « i wilderness.The construction of the Rideau Canal was i the first public work that gave it a start.Other public works were conceived and carried out in rapid succession.In 1850, the first telegraphic message was sent to and ! from the city ; and after a hard struggle and amidst many 3 2 CILY 5 : n difficulties, on the 20th of December, 1854, the first railway train reached the city.In view of the speedy ! removal of the Seat of Government to Ottawa, it is not {improbable that The Ottawa Citizen will soon be issued as a daily paper.| \u2014 i List of French newspapers established in Lower Ca- | nada during the last 100 years, with date of first appearance, and, as will be seen, in the large majority of cases, ofdisappearance.The large mortality among our French co-labourers will suggest some iden of the precariousness of newspaper business ; and we have little doult that if a similar list of Upper Canada English papers were made out, the results would not he much more satistactory.| It will be seen that the Quebec Gazette and the Montreal Gazette appear in the list, and it is therefore proper to say that both these papers were for many years : printed in both languages.We give the list as it wa courteously furnished to us by a gentleman who tock the trouble to prepare it, but do not voueli for its rigid faccurucy ; indeed we have reason to suspect that he has overlooked some of the papers in existence at the present | day, for we do not find Le Pays, L'Ordre, La Presse, La Reforme, La Tribune, La Courrier de St.Hyacinthe, and others, ° Liste des Journaux Français publiés en Canada Jusqu'au ler Janvier, 1951.weekly paper in Canada West, but was soon followed | ; té NOMS DES 31 F TEURE a |o% JOURNAUX.[OU PUBLIÉS! 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Marconay.\u2026\u2026\u2026.I ve eo Québec.| Bouchette et Hunter» « 7180 eT IITING Aubin soe GY .\u2026.F.luMaitre.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.5 Le Libéml .Le Fantaægque.\u2026.\u2026 .La Quotidienne.Montréal.\u201c Le Temps.+.0,F LeMuitre «0.11938, 163 L'Etoile du BrsCanada| < + » » (+, H, Cherrier.1 Le Courrier Canadien.\u201c \u201cee Houlée et Géra uses L\u2019Aurore des Canadas.\u201c ++.!T.Cing Mars.1540 1540 J.A.Planquet.Dre Gann si Parent et Frechette.ea Messire J, C.Prince + ai Le Jean Baptiste.Le Vrai Canadien.Le Coin du Feu.Mélunges Religieux La Canadienne .| Journal des Etudiants.Québec.!V.Delormes + +.01 1e AE GA L\u2019institut.0.\u20ac 4 +0 Ve Delonte.eee + ++ lug 1848 Le Phænix.+ «.« \u2026 .Montréai \u2026.ha J.Williaa, ooo oe BH Encyclopédie Cana- | i eeresesend .|M Bibadiooo Lo Sour du Peuple .8.1J,J.Williams.\u2014 - | 84 L\u2019Artizan .\u2026 » » + +» » Québec.[Huston et Bertrand.+ +21 Journal de Québec.& ++.{Uauchon et Coté.wee vo gl Castor.\u201c N.Aubin.à ++ + «+ ve ADI 154 Le Diable Bleu This Company was the first to indemnify Losses caused by the late Laboratory Explosion.FORSYTH, BELL & CO, THE CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.HEAD OFFICE, HAMILTON, C.W.PRESIDENT: JOHN YOUNG, Esq.VICE-PRESIDENT : JOHN FERRIE, Esq.BANKERS : COMMERCIAL BANK.MANAGER: A.G.RAMSAY.MEDICAL ADVISER : J.D.MACDONALD, M.D.GENERAL AGENT: T.W.MEDLEY.ESTABLISHED 1847.INCORPORATED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARLIAMENT.1 < CAPITAL: - - - $1,000,000.Assurances in foree.\u2026.\u2026.over $4,000,000 Number of Policies in force, over 2,500 \u2019 Premium Income.en 00 over $106,000 ASBELE.sconosesssarsaucauses.reasce0uss « 630,000 Claims Paid for Deaths since commencement ' Of COMPANY.tc vanes isenerineinnennn \u201c 310,000 Examples of Bonuses added to Policies.Na of Leeucd Original Bonus Present Puliey.lao April.Assurance Added.Assurance.35 1848 $2000 630.41 2630.41 481 1850 4000 1064.81 5064.81 907 1852 400 55.98 455.98 1423 1854 1000 102.38 1102.38 1937 1856 | 2400 209.10 2609.10 3195 1858 2500 172.79 2672.79 7024 1860 4000 183.88 4183.88 3916 1862 5000 76.45 5076.45 VERY security, advantage, and facility which pru- L dence or liberality can suggest, are offered by this Company, The rates, which are founded on the higher interest obtainable in this country than in Great Britain, are lower than those of British offices.\u2019 The Company hus agentsin all towns throughout Cana- ds, und a correspondent in London, (England) authorized to accept premiums when that may be convenient to the assured.Agent at Quebec : H.W.WELCH.Medical Adviser : DR.WOLFF.INSURANCE COMPANY.HEAD OFFICES : LIVERPOOL, LONDON, MONTREAL.1, Dale Street.20 & 21, Poultry.Place D\u2019Armes.CAPITAL, - - - - $10,000,000.FUNDS IN HAND.over $12,000,000.Funds invested in Canads, $300,000.ESTIMATED ANNUAL REVENUE, (1864) $4,000,000.HE business of the CANADA BRANCH is under the sole control of the following DIRECTORS : HENRY CHAPMAN, Esq., Merchdnt.HENRY STARNES, Esq., (Manager Ontario Bank.) EDWARD J.8.MAITLAND, Eaq., Merchant.E.H.KING, Esq., (General Manager Bank of Montreal.) T.B.ANDERSON, Eeq., Chairman, (President Bauk of Montreal.) ALEX.SIMPSON, Eeq.,, Deputy-Chairman, (Chairman Ontario Bank.) G.F.C.SMITH, Resident Secretary.The Fire Premiums received by tbe LIVERPOOL AND LONDON INSURANCE;COMPANY, during the year 1863, EXCEEDED those of any other Company in Great Britain by £200,000 Sterling.TOTAL LOSSES PAID FROM 1836 TO 1863.FIRE.eeeerernsoncosseccsasavsesssnen $11,331,697.98 3,362,085.52 Total.Cemsreiienanneeans $14,694,383.50 FIRE DEPARTMENT.The Premiums received during 1863 amounted Onn ote eee aaa $2,610,610 t Whilst those of 1862were.2,180,326 The Increase in the year is therefore.$430,185 The Increase in 1862 over 1861 was.379,673 So that in two years there have been.$809,857 added to the Revenue of the Fire Department alone.All kinds of FIRE INSURANCE business transacted on the most favorable terms.THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON NORTH BRITISH & MERC BRITISH & MERCANTILE | INSURANCE COMPANY, OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH.BSTABLISHED 1809.à Annus) Revenue Accumulated Fuidd $ Ç A PITAL, £2.000.000 516 {A es £2,122,/833 ts.Sig.{ CANADA BRANCH ESTABLISHMENT.HEAD OFFICE\u2014MONTREAL.OFFICERS, ALL OP WHOM ARE STOCKHOLDERS : MANAGING DIRECTORS.D.Loan Macpoveate, Ev; | Tuosas Davinson, Esq.ORDINAEY DIRECTORS.\u2018I'he Hon.Lovis Rexavn, M I.C.The Hon.Tuomas Ryan, M.L.C.The Hun.Joux Rosz, M.P.i* James Law, Esq.Merchant.C.J.Bryne es, Exg.Manager Grand Trunk Railway.H.J.Jounson.Local Becretary.MACDOUGALL & DAVIDSON, General Agents for Canada.FIRE DEPARTMENT.SSURANCES are cffected at the LOWEST RATES of PREMIUM, corresponding to the risk.LOSSES by FIRE from LIGHTNING made good, and CLAIMS adjusted and settled in Canada.THH LIFE DEPARTMENT Combines the advantages of Mutual Assurance, with the safety of à large Protecting Capital.Nine-tentbs of the Profits are divided amongst those Insured under the Participation Class.Policies, doubling the original amount in 20 years, are granted upon most favourable terms.Certificates of Indisputability granted upen certain conditions.Agents at Quebec, FORSYTH & PEMBERTON, W.G.SHEPPAPD.Sub-Ageuts at Quebec, S.BENOIT, LOUIS LESSARD.QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY LIVERPOOL AND LONDON.£1,000,000 Sig.CAPITAL: - - - = HOME AND FOREIGN FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE Of every description at moderate rates.Losses settled Promptly and Liberally.BEN.PRIOR, Agent, Victoria Chambers, QUEBEC.HENDERSON, RENFREW & CO.20, BUADE STREET, QUEBEC, IMPORTERS OF HATS.OMPRISING all that is new and fashionable, received weekly from LONDON, PARIS, and NEW YORK : Scotch Caps, Highland Bonnets, Travelling Caps, Hat Cases, Waterproof Clothing.H., R.& Co., received the CLASSE = EU mms, Including the skins of the Arctic Silver Fox, Hudson TALLGRING ESTABLISHMENT.W.B.VALLEAU & \u20ac0., TAILORS, 9, BUADE STRERT, QUEBEC.W.B.VALLEAU.G.THOMPSON.ESTABLISHED IN 1775.29% GIBB & CO., MERCHANT TAILORS, Gentlemen\u2019s Haberdashers, 18, Great St.\u2018fames Street, MON TISB BAIL.MOUNT'AIN HILL W.WRIGHT, MERCHANT TAILOR, NO 2, MOUNTAIN HILL, Bay Sable, Minx, Otter, Beaver, Wolf, Buffalo, Bear, &c.&c., manufactured on the premises into all the artic! Novelties in shape and finish, and which has secured to this establishment the first position in the Province in their particular line.Particular attention paid to Short Period Risks on Country Produce, Dry Goods or other Merchandise.Ships on Stocks insured at moderate rates.G.F.C.SMITH, Resident Secretary, Canada Branch, Montreal.DANIEL McGIE, Agent, Quebec.EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.BSTABLISHED IN 1807.HE INCOME of the COMPANY is about £390,000 Sterling.The realized asects about TWO MILLION Sterling.The Company has already puid to the public upwards of Two Million Seven Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling, on decease of Lives assured.BONUSES are declared every FIVE YEARS, and in case of the decease of the Life assared between any two periods of division, the policy will be entitled to a shure of the forthcoming Bonus.LOANS will be granted upon security of policies effected with the Company, to the extent of their value, as soon às five Annual Premiums shall have been paid thereon.W.& W.C.HENDERSON, Agents.WALTER C.HENDERSON, General Mercbant.THIS IS THE BONUS YEAR.l'ioposals should be lodged with the Agents on or before the 25th May, 1864, when the Bouks Close for the third investigation and Division of Profits.All persons who may effect Policies before that date will be entitled to share in the Division to be then made.THE COLONIAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.HEAD OFFICE-EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND.HEAD OFFICE IN CANADA\u2014MONTREAL.CAPITAL, REVENUE (1863) - - - - MANAGER FOR CANADA : W.M.RAMSAY.ACCUMULATED FUND.coveeseosassnssasanss - - - - - One Million Pounds Sterling.£133,000 STERLING.INBPECTOR OF AGENCIES © RICHARD BULL.£481,690 STERLING.SUBSISTING ASSURANCE.» .\u2026+00+0000000 Æ3,051,656 STERLING.EXAMPLES OF PREMIUMS REQUIRED WIT Acs.Acs.25.$10.52 85.00.$13.76 30.12.00 40.16.94 TO ASUSE, £100 STERLING.$486.67 PAYABLE AT DEATH a Acs.Aan.45,.$ 18.80 bb.$28.22 50.22.36 60,.35.79 May be paid half yearly or quarterly.Loans advanced on Mortgage or Policies, and Surrender Values allowed.A Policy opened in 1847 ain increased this year.or £1,000 was increased in 1859 to £1,235, and it will be Risks accepted and Claims settled without reference to Head Office.Ageat for Quebee, + W.M.RAMSA Y, Manager for Canada.A.J.MAXHAM, Bt.Peter Street.JAB Agents In ail Towns in Canade.\u201cSR B.S.PRIOR, NOTARY PUBLIC, \u2018 INSURANCE & ESTATE AGENT.AVERAGES ADJUSTED.OFFICE, VICTORIA CHAMBERS.| ASSURANCE COMPANY.ESTABLISHED IN 1825.Incorporated by Act of Parliament.CAPITAL, - - ONE MILLION PDUNDS STERLING.CANADA HEAD OFFICE\u2014MONTREAL.A.DAVIDSON PARKER, Sccretary.Assurances under Current Life Policies.£2,500,000 Stg.Accumulated Fund.000000v0r 442 446 © Annun] Revenue.\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u20260.0 120,190 + Assurances proposed in 1862.406,744 ~ SPECIAL ADVANTAGES, VERY moderate rates of Premium.Large Bonuses under à new and advantageous system.Guaranteed surrender Value under Policies relinquished by Assured.Liberal conditions as to Residence and Travelling.Quebec : LANGLOIS & GLASS, Agents.A.ROWAND, M.D.H.BLANCHET, M.D.Life Association of Scotland.FOUNDED 1838, AND INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER AND IMPERIAL ACT OF PARLIAMENT.} Medical Advisers.QURBHC BRANOH.HONORARY DIRKCTORS.D.D.YOUNG, Esq., Merchant.VITAL TETU, Esq., Merchant.J.B.RENAUD, Esq., Merchant.J.GREAVES CLAPHAM, Enq., Notary Public.AA Oy Fae MD.Medical Advisers., Esq, M.D)., Agent.: A.\u2019D.RIVERIN.LL information on the subject of LIFE ASSURANCE will be given by me on application.A.D.RIVBRIN, Agent.W.H.ASHWORTH, HATTER AND FURRIER, Fabrique Street, Upper Town Market Place, QUEBEC.AS constantly on hand a large amortment of Gents\u2019 and Youth's HATS, CAPS and STRAW GOODS of the newest styles.\u2014ALSO,\u2014 Ladies\u2019 and Gentlemen\u2019a Fars, Sicigh Robes, For Coats, Mocoasing, Snow-Shoes, &0., &0.\u2014AND\u2014 Constantiy receiving the novelties of the ecason in both of the above branches, AB Orders promptly executed, and on reasonable terms.INVESTED IN CANADA, - - $500.000.Sleigh Robes, Indian Curiosities, Snowshoes, Moccasins, Decer\u2019s Antlers, Bark Work, £c., &c.#æ#- Every article warranted as represented.THE SEOTISH PRONNCHLOLEWYER COTE, | FURRIER, i AND DEALER IN SHIPPING FURS, Bark Work, AND INDIAN CURIOSITIES, GENERAL WOLFE'S CORNER, ST.JOHN STREET, QUEBEC.HAS CONSTANTLY ON HAND A large and varied assortment oF GENTLEMEN'S AND LADIES\u2019 FURS, VIZ.: Ladies\u2019 Victorines, Boas, Muffs, Cuffs and Gauntlets, in Canada and Russia Minks, \u2018Siberian Squirrel, Russia and Persian Lamb.Astracan Capes, Gentlemen\u2019s Fur Caps, in all variety of i ~ furs and shapes.Buffalo Coats and Robes, Lynx ce « Wolff \u201c« « Beaver and Astracan Bearskin Robes and Aprons, Snow Shoes and Moccasins, Lorette make, Cariboo and Buckskin Mits, Foot Mats and Boots for Travellers.\u2014ALSO\u2014 An assortment of Gent\u2019s Hats, Caps, and Straw Goods.Furs made and repaired to order, and on reasonable terms.0@& Raw Furs Bought and Sold.required for Ladies\u2019 and Gentlemen's wear.Our con ! stant attention being devoted to the production of | QUEBEC.WW A9 DEGS respectfully to inform lle | W .W.B friends, and the public in general, that he bas always on hand a large aod varied slock of the very newest styles for Gentlemen's wear, all of which are made up in the beet workmanship style.and warranted a perfect fit.ALEQ ON HAND: GENTLEMEN'S UNDER CLOTIIING, b.& H GIESONE À & 1, General Commission Merchants and AUCTIONEERS, Petor Streoot, Quebec.ADVANCES MADE ON CONSIGNMENTS, An extensive assortment o Dry Goods, Cloths, Hats, Caps an Furs, wholesale, always on hand.A.J.MAXHAM & CO.AUCTIONEERS, BROKERS, AND GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, PETER STREET, QUEBEC.\u2014AL80,\u2014 AGENTS FOR THE COLONIAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.See Advertisemeat in another column.KF.II.ITALL, AUCTIONEER, BROKER & VALUATOR, JOIIN STREET, UPPER TOWN, QUEBEC.Proceeds of Sales und Consignments promptly returned, and all orders and commissions punctually attended to.ROBERT MORGAN, (Late of the Royal Italian Opera, LONDON, ENGLAND,) SHIRTS, COLLARS, CRAVATS, BRACES, GLOVES, &c., &e.22 REMEMBER No.2, MOUNTAIN HILL.MERCHANT TAILOR, Corner of Buade and Dufort Streets, UPPER TOWN, QUEBEC, 1 AS always on hand a large supply of West of England Cloths, Cassimeres, Doeskins, Cheviots and Meltons, imported direct from the best London Houses, ALSO, A VARIETY OF: Fancy Vestings, Gents\u2019 Under Clothing, Fancy, Dress, and Regatta Shirts, Gloves, Braces, Scarfs, Neckties, &c., &ec.Ladies\u2019 Riding Habits, and Clergymen\u2019s and Lawyer\u2019s Robes.OFFICER'S UNIFORMS made to order, and accoutre- meats imported at shortest notice.Accurate fit and good workmanship guaranteed.J.D.would beg to state that every novelty in the above articles is constantly received by steamers.EVERY ARTICLE MADE UP CHEAP FOR CASI £ 8 JOHN LILLY, MERCHANT TAILOR, Habit Maker, and Gentlemen\u2019s General OUTFITTER, AS always on hand, and constantly receiving the newest patterns in English and Scotch Tweeds, West of England Broadcloths, Docskins, and every other article in his Line, Garments made to order on the most reasonable terms, and an accurate fit warranted.None but first class cutters being employed, parties requiring Liveries will find it to their advantage to patronise his Establishment.J.L.always has on hand a well selected stock of Gentlemen\u2019s Collars, in all their varieties and styles, Neckties, Suspenders, inspection.4 and a stock of Underclothing well worth4 Dealer and Importer of English, French and | American Music, Flutes, Violins, | Concertinas, Guitars, &c.| NO.21, ST.JOHN STREET.XOLE DEPOT in Quebec of A.& T.NORDHEIMER, for the sale of STEINWAY, CHICRERING, and DUNHAM\u2019S Magnificent American Pianos, (for which a guarantee of five years will be given).73 Beware of Impostors who offer the above Piance.\u2019 \u2014ALS0,\u2014 PIANOS of other good makers, from $250 upwards.Second-hand Pianos taken in exchange for new ones, on liberal terms.Always on hand, a large supply of the cheap English Musical Publications, viz.:\u2014 Boosey\u2019s Musical Cabinet, Chappell\u2019s Musi- | cal Magazine, &c., &c.\u2014ALSO,\u2014 Continually receiving by mail, the latest new Dance Music from England.Orders by Post, containing a Remittance, will be punctually attended to.D.MORGAN, MERCHANT TAILOR, MOUITTAIN ZILLI; QUEBEC.IMPORTANT \u2018TO FARMERS COE'S SUPER-PHOSPHATE OF LIME A SUPERIOR PREPARATION or GROUND BONES.A STANDARD MANURE FOR ALL FIELD AND GARDEN CROPS.It matures Crops from ten to twenty days earlier, avonderfully increases the yield.MANUFACTURED AND FOR SALE BY ANDREW COE, Propristar, At Montreal\u2014OfSio, 88 St.Fraveols Xavier Street.At Toronto\u2014Offige, Masonlo Hall, Toronto Street: 2.L SNOW, Gensenl Ageût and EL A Feu 43 4 mn me ea \u2014 BP wt £3 £5 pt nl =m X Te THE QUEBEC LUNATIC ASYLUM.recent building was erected in 1848, prs, Douglas, Morrin and Fremont.three or fieul practisioners itr Quebec.It is situated med wo miles from the vity, of whieh, ns well abet Le Bay of the St.Charles aud the River à o arence, it communds à magnificent view, nn snrronnded by 150 neres of land, which «ds healthy employment to many ot the sf ts.It possesses an unlimited supply oi patte water from a gmall nil stream which ihe Pd thie property, a branch of which is = ed ander ground ihirough the yards and wo ain building, for the purposes ot thorough fan The mouths of the soil pipes from ferent parts of the establishment empty to his underrround stream.he whole of the Asylum is heated Ly steam, supplied by three hoileis.It is lighted by gas oon ibe premises.The kitchen arraunge- Dis are admirable.Tho cooking is doue me ively by steam and gus.The tailor\u2019s, maker's, \"carpenter's, engineers, black.Fe painter's and glaziers, and cooper's Shops afford employment to a number of the patients./ The Aavlum possesses 8 horscs and 25 head of cattle, of which 22 are cows of the best English Lreed, that supply the inmates with nik.All the vegetables for the tables, and fodder for the cattle, are supplied from the farm.; ; The building contains 540 patients, of whom 238 pre maies and 302 are females.Of this pamher 450 are Roman Catholies, and 90 are Protestants.I'he Catholics nre under the spiritual care of the Rev.A.Bolduc, and the Prot.stants have during the Inst 19 yenrs enjeved the teaching of à Local Preacher of the Wesleyan Church.Within the last three years two of the origi notera and proprietors have divd.J he asvlam is now owned by Drs.Douglas and Landry, who exercise the general snperintend- ue snd control.The internal management ar] moral treatment of the patients have, since 1546, been cstrasted to and judiciously carried ont Ly Mr, om Mrs, Wakeham, who have been lela tign! + in their exertions for the welfare and comfort of the inmates.Dr.Catillier, a iighly edncated graduate of the Laval Univer- ste, is the Resident Physician.The svstem of treatment has since the first wen emphatically that of kindness and nor THE | nal prot YEW OF QUEBEC, FROM PARLIAMENT 11OUSE.[ss Pat: 15.] Te large view on page 15 was taken by Mr.Not man, the justly celebrated photographie artist of Mou- seal, from the roof of the Iouses of Parliament, and although it docs not em- Lace a very large area, :mbodies several ef the objects for whica Quebce.is extensively known, Ttalso gives some iden of the relative situations of the Upper and Lower Town, an idea it would have been diffenlt to present ko well from any ether point.The line of balustrade which divides the picture from right to Wt, is placed at the edge of tic magnificent platform ksown as Durham Terrace, aplinked promenade some a9 feet front, Ly 200 or more in depth, the prospect from which is tie most charming that can be imagined.This terrace oceu- ries the site of the Chateau St.Louis, formerly the residence of the Canadian Gov- emors General, which was destroyed by fre in the NOTES ON QUEBEC.By the last Provincial Census, (1861,) Quebce, withim the Citv limits, contained 51,109 inhabitants, of whom 41,477 were Roman Catholics ; but the City limits do not by anv means tabrace the whole population of the place, for most of the Merchants live beyond them, as do some thousands of the working people, who car.their living in connection with the ship-building, tie lumberiug coves and the general commerce of Quebec.The City and its immediate vicinity, together witb the Town of Levis wir the opposite shore of the St.Lawrence, the Coves east and west, where all the business dona is on Quebee account, cannot wmber many less than 80,000 souls, and may exceed that gure, The chief article of export is lumber, or, to be more precise, tmber in ail forms, from the square log down through deals, \u201cboards, staves, scantling, ours, &e, to lathwood.This lumber comes to market chicfly from the Ottawa country, but a good deal is contributed Ly the St, Maurice and other districts in Lower Canada, and various places in Canada West.In 1863 tho arrivals from sea were 1398 sailing vessels, mensuring 742,431 tons, and 46 steamships of 56,425 tons, The number of timber laden vessels which cleared for British and Foreign ports was 1262, with 1 aggregate tonnage of 753,735 tons.In 1863 there were 63 Vessels built at Quebee, measuring 53,306 tous ; oud the number tis year will probably be greater.Of recent years, a largo tuber trade has sprung up with the Continent of Europe, and there is every prospect of its inerease.We are also building ships on foreign account, and, from the greater attention now given to this branch of our industry, it is not probable that it will ever be subject to the fluctuations which made it so hazardous n business in former years.Besides the shipping from sea, there is a very large flect of schooners and other craft trading between Quebec and the Lower Parishes ; the nnmber eSceeding probably that of the Britsh and Foreign vessels.There are plying between Quebec and Montreal, Quebec and the Parishes, within a few honrs rench of the market, and engaged inthe towage Lusiness, some 50 steamers.The Montreal Pas- fenger and Muil boats are of the largest proportions, of very ligh speed and fitted up with every conceivable luxury ; while the smaller of the Tug boats are high pressure puffers of the smallest class, Of the imports wo need hardly speak, as they éonsist of every thing the most advanced communities consume, aud, of course, they are in proportion to the wants of the com.Manity.Quebce docs not possess the advantage of a large and densely populous back country, like Montreal and the Western lies, hence its domestic trade is not very extensive ; but as a feuerul thing, à steady and profitable business is carried on, and there nyo comparatively fuw commercial break-dowus to disturb 8 general comfort, or two or three yonrs past, there has been a good deal of sreculution in Copper Mining lands, several very valuable mines of that and other ores having been found on the South Fhore ; U the more recent discovery of gold in large quantities over à tery extensive tract of country, has attracted n considerablo Wiber of diggers, miners and searchers, who are flocking to the told fields, and, from present appearances, we are Likely to havo à large access of population on gold account.We believe thero \"0 room whatever to doubt that our auriferous regions are al to the richest in the world, and that consequently, they | handsomely repay the labour bestowed upon them.QUEBEC GAZETTE, CENTENARY MUMDER, TULESD.$v a :, JUNE 21, 1864.on ASYLUM VIEW OF QUEBEC FROM THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY, 80UTII QUIBIC.winter of 1833-1, we believe, It almost overhangs part of the Lower Town, at n heiglit of some 250 feet above water level, Here at all scasons, but especially on fine days, hundreds of visitors and citizens resort for the cujoyment of pure air, a fine walk, and a lovely landscape.From this spot, at this very moment, may be scen the hundreds of ships, sailing aud steam eralt of all kinds and sizes, of which we have spoken clsewhere, together with an affluence of natural objects, of so varied and picturesque a character, that by strangers especially, the prospect is frequently said to be \u201cperfectly enchanting.\u201d \u2014 The obelisk which rises at quarter distance on the right is the monument crected in commémoration of the two Generals who fell at tho taking of Quebee in 1759\u2014 Wolfe and Montcalm, At half distance, and crowning tho view, is seen part of the citadel, the outermost portion being the flag bastion, olevated over 330 fect abovo the river.The houses in restraint ; and it has here, as well as everywhere se, demonstrated the incfliciency and oruclty of the barbareus system which it has generally superseded.The subject of restraint has had tho most cureiul cous.detation of the managers of this institution, from its origin to the present time ; und they state that they are wore and more fully impressed with the conviction that by increasing the number of the atteudauts\u2014by holding them personally responsible for their charge\u2014and by unremitting care, kindness and attention, mechanical restraint may be, in a great nasure done away with, Judeed, so cffretuan! lus the ruls of Kondaess proved, that we fad by a late report, the average of patients under restraint, or temporar, seclusion, is stated as being only a half of one per cent.The \\eslum is mainly supported by a yearly grant from Goverumeut, who arc represouted Ly the Prison Inspectors und by a Board of Commissioners, appointed to sce that tho iutou- tiou of Goverument is carried out.= VIEW FROM TIE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY DEPOT Travellers arriving in Quebee by the Grand Trauk Raulway get the fivst elimpse of thie city from the spot rejeesented in the foreground, and no doubt many of our visitors will at 0:co recognize the scene.The picture dees uot embrace a very large part of tho town, but gives n good idea of tir bold perch it orcupics A portion of Lower Town, where the wholesale business is chiefly transacted, the ships at the wharves and in tac oThg, the Citadel crowning Cape Diamond, and conmaniitrz the werld- fame! Plains of Abraham, conspire together to cudow it with interest, and we have no doubt it will be valued accordingly.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 AC eee TIME CUSTOM HOUSE.This is a haudsome and very substantial building.lc is situate] at thz extreme verge of the Lower Town, castward, nnd npon the very marsin of tic t, Lawrence, so that it may be cas.x reached by the Masters of vessels in their boats, without the necessity of passing throng the crowdel and noisy streets.It was with difieulty that a s~cure foundation was obtained, and a large sum was spent in making it 80.Tie whole cost of the buildi~g was not much under $200,000.the lower part of the view arc in the street leading from Prescott gate to Lower Town, and at thie extreme leit there is a glimpse of the St.Lawrence, with a small section of the Pojut Levi shore.The view isa fair sampl: oË the whole city, au! will aid persons at a distance to understand what ix meant by the Upper and Lower Towas of Quebec.-\u2014=>==\u2014 MOUNTAIN LHLL IN 1761.This view is copied from one of a series of 12 draw- inzrs, taken on the spot by RR.Short, a gentleman be- loasing to the flzet then in port.lv is the ouly old picture which we have ir serted in this paper, and we Have been led to do so espo- cially from a desire tv shew the contrast in appearance of the particalar locality this day, from what it was one hundred yearaago This picture was drawn just after the bewbardment, and shows the ruins of the THE CUSTOM HOUSE Bishop's Mouse and tho oll wicket, now replaced by Prescott Gate, a cat of which is given on page 9.The cirenmference of Quehee is reckoned at 53 miles, including the Citadel, which encloses 43 arpents, Tho Dishest point of this celebrated stronghold\u2014the Gibraltar of Americn\u2014is 336 feet abuve the level of the viver, which is a goo.deal higher than any other spot within many miles of the City, so that it commands the avennes thereto on all sides, \u2018The Upper Tow, as the watled iu portion of the City is called though it is not so high in many places as £t.Louis and St.John suburbs, contains a population of about 8000 souls, and it is within that area tat the principal Churches snd other public buildings, the fashionable shops nud Lotels, are located.It is hardly necessary to reeapitnlate the varions monetary, commercial, educational, Lterary, benevolent and charitable ine stitutions of the City, fur Que bee has unquestionably a full proportion.Of travelling facilities, there isno lack.As we liave already stated, we have excellent passenger steamboats to Montreal and the Parishes adjoining our City, hut in addition to these we havo others plying to the Saguenay, Cacomna and the Gulf Ports\u2014 all of them first class sea-going vessels, Then from Point Levi the Grand Trunk Railway runs cast to Rivière du Loup, 120 miles, and sunth-castward to Portland, nid westward throughont Upper Canada to Sarnia, a distance trom Riv.ére dn Loup\u2014the casternmost terininus\u2014of somo cight hundred miles.Thea, for direct travel to Europe, wo have the Montrea! Ocean Steamship Company, being the l\u2019rovincial Mail Line of Oce: n Steamers, which iu respect of size, nppointments and speed leave nothing to desire.These vessels arrive and depart once a week in summer froin Qucbee, and in winter from Portland.The last built of these vessels is the Peruvian, whose first trip wns made this spring, when she made our port in a little over 10 days from Liverpool and 9 days from Moville, including a detention of one day in theice.She is described ns follows :\u2014In general n pearance she resembles the Hibernian, the upper part of her hull being constructed on the same general plan, with full decks, and the same arrangements ol gangways, houses, &e.er internal arrangements cluss her as one of the most elegant Trans-A tlantie steamers afloat.ler saloons, state rooms and cabins are fitted and furnished in a splendid style, and the owners have availed themselves of all the improvements for the comfort and safety of passengers.The Peruvian was launched last fall from the works of Messrs.R.Steel & Co, Greenock, She is 320 feet long, 38 feet in width, and 32 feet deep.ller gross tonnage is 2,600, registered toannge 1,900, and she is calculated to carry 1,500 tons, and comfortably nvcemmo late, in cabin anid steerngo, 700 pos engers.Her engines are rated at 550 horse power, with cylinders 70 inches in diameter, and 3 feet 9 juches stroke.The speed of the vessel is 14 kuots per hour, and her total cost £90, 000 sterling.The Peravian is commanded by Capt.Ballantine formerly of the Hibernian, and is the flag-ship of the feet, ' Quebec is now, and has been for nearly five years the Scat of Government, but is about to lose that distinction, together with the udvantires which tie residence of the Officiuls and the Mectings ot Parliament confer.It is generally expected that, pursuant to the decision of Her Majesty in favour of Ottawa, the final flitting wilt be wade this full, when, after having been knocked about for 23 years, the poor nomadic employés will Sud rest, many o! them we trust und.r their own rool-tree, We might have extended these notes almost indefnitely, bud our spase aad our time forbid further enlargemeat. me - \u2014\u2014_ 2 12 AGENT IN QUEBEC FOR McEWAN'S (OF PORTLAND! FINNAN HAGDIES, BLOATERS.MACKEREL.HALIBUT, SALMON, &c.|| B® AGENT FOR ; W.R.LEWIS & BROS.| (BOSTON) HERMETICALLY SEALED MEATS, SOUPS, FISH, &c.AGEN: IN QUEBIC FUR PARSONS\u2019 (OF GUFLPH, CW.) SUPERIDR HAMS, BACON, STILTON CHEESE, &c.AGENT FOR BUCHANAN'S (OF MONTREAL.) BEEF.HAMS, TONGUES, BACON AND SAUSAGES, ADAM WATTERS, IMPORTER OF, AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Teas, Coffees.Wines, Lriots, Condiments, Maud 10S.Joti sireet.(Opp Stock at all times vxithstc ue aipirte, The Subscriber will be constuniv applied English.American Delicacies, Provisions, and Fine Ciroveries, osite Palace Street.) Upper Town.Every article warranted to give satisfaction.1 with Fresh Goods, as they appear in the and Foreign Markets.eee Goods carefally packed and detiverud +27 LS city limits, at the Railway Station.und on boned of Steamers, Free of charge.TERMS LIBERAL, / PRICE x MODERATE.) E.POSTON & (0.NOTRE-DAME STREET, LOWER TOWN, WHOLESALE DUALERS, IMPORTERS Of ail Deseriptovns of GROCERIES, TEAS, SUGARS, WINES, WHISKIES, BRANDIES, GIN, Ne Dow & Co's High Wines, TODDY WHISKEY, and SUPERIOR PALE ALE, PEPPER, CLOVES, PIMENTO.RICE, SODA, ALUM.Ysasi & Co.\u2019s Port and Sherry Wines, Graham\u2019s Port.Crown, Port and Sherry.« Chaloupin,\u201d * Jules Robin,\u201d and « Henessey\u201d Brandies in Wood and Boule.2500 Packages Fresh Teas, CONSISTING OF: YOUNG HYSON, OLD HYSON, JAPAN, TWANKAY, SOUCHONG, CONGO, OOLONG, In Chests, Half Chests, or Caddies.CEOICT TCEASSCS, And a Large and Varied Assortment of CEG ABE NN.CC a\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 em JOHN PATERSON, WHOLESLE GROCER, No.87, QUEBEC, Has always in Stock an assortment of : Teas, Sugars, Coffees, Wines, Liquors, |\u2019 Syrups, &c., &c.Peter Street, ADAM WATTERS, FINNAN HADDIE DEPOT.«17 >, John Street, opposite Palace Street.Quebec, Nuns\u2019 Buildings, St.Peter St.QUEBEC, toperter of Groceries, Wines and Liquors, | | | [ | | (GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT.Agent for Messrs, Offley, Cramp & Co.\u2019s PORT WINES, haporter of Messrs, Ysasi & Co's i SHERRIES.[fas Constantly on Hand, A full assortment of Choice Teas, Comprising Finest Moyune Hyson, Imperial Gunpowder, Young Hyson, Finest Oolong, Colored and Uncolored Japan Java, Finest New Seu- son Souchong & English Breakfast, Congou, Hy- son.Twankay, &e., Ke.Coffees, FINEST JAVA, LAGUAYRA, AND JAMAICA.Brandies, MARTEL, IENNESSEY, JULES ROBIN, AND VINE GROWER.Dry Saltries, BICARB SODA, -SODA CRYSTALS, EPSOM SALTS, COPPERAS, ALUM, &c., &e.Ales and Porter, Bass & Co.\u2019s and Allsopp & Son's Finest India Pale Ale, Hibber\u2019s Stout Porter.Pickles and Sauces, Cross & Blackwell's acssorted Pickles, San- ces, Marmaludes, &e., &c.French Goods, Almonds, Walnnts, Filberts, Sardines in ; Oil, Castile Soap, &c., &c.French Wines, CHAMPAGNE, CLARET, Ke, &e, ARCHER, LEDUC & CO, GILLESPI}?S WHARF, QUEBEC, ARCHER, LABBLLE & (0., LIBERAL ADVANCES MADE ON CONSIGNMENTS, Ronenr Ancuer.Hospice LaBrinr.Ovioe Lepuc, REFERENCES : Hox.L.RExaun, Montreal.H.Starnes, Esq.Manager Ontario Bank.D.D.Youxa & Co.Quebec.F.VEzINa.Esq., Cashier La Banque Nationale.Messrs, A.C.Baporr & Co., Bankers, Chicago.Morrre WuerLer, LEoNarD & Co., Chieago.C.D.Nasr, Eeq., President Bank of Milwaukee, Mesers.Nioners, Burr & Co., Milwaukee, Opposite St.Annw\u2019s Market, Montreal.| LEMESURIER, GRANT & CO.33, PETER STREET, QUEBEC, WHOLESALE GROCERS, GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS.SNUUFXrr, SPICES, TOBACCO MANUFACTURERS, Have always on sale an assortment of : GREEN, BLACK, and UNCOLOURED JAPAN TEAS.COI\"'FEES, Of the finest qualities Fresh Roasted and Ground.À great variety of Pickles, Sauces, &e., with a complete assortinent of STAPLE GROCERIES.Hhds.and Bris, Choice Perto Rico and Cuba Sugars.\u201c * Yellow Refined do.Syrups.Molasses, Bris and Half Bris.Choice No.1 Herringe.Table Cod Fish and Salmon.Cod and North Seal Oil.b \u2026 4 - i\u201c \u201c entirely free from disagreeable odour, giving a brilliant light, without smoking the glass, or wasting the wick.T.B.Pipes,\u201d Brown Windsor, x Liverpool and Fancy Soaps.Belmont, Sperm and Tallow Candles, RICE, CLOVES, PEPPER, ALUM, | SODA, BORAX, RAISINS, and CURRANTS.Also, à Large and Varied supply of : WINES, BRANDIES, WHISKEYS, GIN, and CORDIALS, Which they ofter to the trade at very low prices.LEMESURIER.GRANT & OO have alwaya on hand a large arsortment of Mannfactured and Cut Tobaccos, Leaf, in Hhds.and Bales, Souffs of various qualities, and Spices of every description.These articles are manufactured by themselves, at their Factory, end are unsurpassed for cheapness andgoodness of quality.\u201cJAMES HOSSICK & 10, STEAM BISCUIT BAKERY MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS OF STAPLE & FANCY CONFECTIONERY, Proprietors of M'GREGOR'S WORM LOZENGES, AND Hossack\u2019s Pulmonic Troches.ALWAYS on hand a large variety of FANCY BISCUITS and CRACKERS, with every style of FINE and STAPLE CONFECTIONERY, Steam made, and sold at lowest prices wholesale.COUNTRY MERCHANTS and DEALERS will do well to send for price lists.22, Notre Dame Street, Lower Town, Quebec.W.MWILLIAM, CONFECTIONER, MANUFAGTURER, YMPORTER | DEALER IN ALL KINDS FINE CONFECTIONERY, ST.JOHN STREET, QUEBEC.C.& W.AURTELE, 'ST.PAUL STREET, IMPORTERS OF ENGLISH AND BFST BAR IRON, RCOTCH BAR AND PIG 1RON, T Benes : PLATES, : ie A fi 5 ORS.ALL'S PATENT WIRBROPE, \u201cPAINTR, LRAD.AND Oil, WINDOW GLASS, SPADES AND SHOVELS, SCYTHES AND SICKLES, \u2014AL80,\u2014 Manufacturers of CUT NAILS sud SPIKES, at the PORTNEUF MILLS.Coal Oil which stands the highest test of safety, and ! THE QUEBEC GAZETTE, CENTENARY NUMBER.FU ESDAY, JUNE ZL THOS.ANDREWS, IMPORTEIL DEALER IN AL HARDWARE, 4 PLUMBER, GASFITTER, COPPER AND TiNSMITH, AI BELL-TIANG LL.No.1, St.Jory SStroet, QUEBEC, Constantiy on hand, à Choice Assortment of : J.Rodgers & Son's Cutlery.Tin Ware, every description, Bronzed and Wire Fenders, Cocon Matting & Door Mute, Brushes aud Brooms, Britunnix Metal Goods, Holloware, Enami'd & Tio'd, Iron, Brass, & Copper Wire.Fire Irons, Steeland Tron, Block Tin Dish-Covers, Cooking Ranges awl Stoves, Spades, Shovels, Rakes, fron Jiedrteatls.Ships\u201d igual Lanterns, Batter Churns, Japanned Ware.all kinds.Sponge and Hip Bathe | + Fishing Baskets, Hooks, Flies, dnd Tackle of all Descriptions, i Best Electro Plated Ware, JOSEPH RODGERS & SON'S PLATED KNIVES, Cul & Ground Glass Globes.Patent Water Closets, Lift and Force Pumps.Baths and Washstand Basins.| Crystal Gasseliers, Bronzed and Lackered do.Gas Brackets and Pillars.Tubing Block Tir & Composition, Malleable Iron Gas Pipes.GUNS, PISTOLS, CAPS, GAME BAGS, SHOT, GUN LOCKS, NIPPLES, WADS, &e., &c.{rz Orders for Work in any of the above Branches of Business promptly attended to.Beer Pumps, Cocks.Brass and Plated.SIMUEL J.SHIWS HARDWARE STORES, ST.JOHN STREET, UPPER TOWN, SOUS LE FORT STREET, LOWER TOWN, QUEBEC, IMPORTER OF Ï Heavy and shelf Mardware from the best markets of Great Britain, France, Germany and the States of America; all contributing to form the most complete stock in the Province.a House Building.This part of the Stock is complete in every detail.An examination on the part of those engaged in building solicited.English and American grates from $5.00.- .qe House Furmshine.Particular attention i= given to this branch.The best Wolverhampton, Japanned, plan- ished, and Bleck Tin ware constantly on hand and at a low figure.Cooking Stoves, doing their work, will be found here, and are strongly recommended.The assortment of Table and Pocket Cutlery, 1bm Joseph Rodgers & Sons, Sheffield, and other noted manufacturers, cannot be surpassed for variety, quality and price Mechanics\u2019 Tools of every description from the best makers.PAINTS, COLOURS, OILS, TURPENTINE, VARNISH, GLASS, &c.SPORTMAN'S DEPARTMENT.SINGLE AND DOUBLE GUNS, PISTOLS, REVOLVERS, POWDER, SHOT, ELY\u2019S GREEN CARTRIDGES, BALL DO.MILITARY AMMUNITION, &c., &ec.\u20ac 4 e r Fishing Tackle.SALMON AND TROUT RODS, (best London make.) SILK, HAIR, IIEMP AND GUT LINES, ARTIFICIAL FLIES, FISHING BASKETS, FLY HOOKS, MINNOWS, TROLLING SPOON BAITS & HOOKS, KiLlL DEVILS, LANDING NETTS, &c., &c.FLIES MADE TO PATTERN.ESTABLISHED 1841, CHAS.M'DONALD & SON, HOUSE.FURNISHING GOODS, COIL OIL MD LiMP DEPOT.Nautical Instruments.Watches, Clocks, Jewellery &c.which lor economy in fuel, and thoroughly | - 1864.UPPER TOWN MARKET.i p Rec 5151 eT A i .ae = ! 1 > p anne : pese MA _ PAINTS 0ILS.GL TEAS RAL 2.CON.+ ASS.PUTTY kek J.BROWN & (0, MANUFACTURERS CORDAGE WORKS AT LA CANARDIERR OFFICE AND STORE, NO.18, ST.PETER STRERp QUEBEC.DALY & 60, zo mn Pe = DEEE TEAR AS = PAINTERS, GLAZIERS, AXD DECORATORS\u2019 DEPOT, Paints, Oils, Glass, Varnish, &c., PAPER HANGINGS, DECORATIONS, BORDERS, &C., &C,, ARTISTS\u2019 COLOURMEN, WINSOR & NEWTON'S, REEVES & ~ONver 25,- 400 inhabitants, & large roportion ot whom are puployed most a.! ictime ja \u201cbe chipyards.From the spot our artist select cd for this view, -he eye takes in an \u2018inmense yeep of country diver- « sified in the most charming manner, with bills, sallevs, wood, water and the residences i 1 peace- i wi sud contented peo- |; ple, 8 people remarkable \u2018 fr simplicity 0! inanners, | | ps is built, f it is Reen haracter cheerfulness oY temper, À cintleness and courtes.This view, like the Cove view, was copied from a photograph, aud may nerefore be regarded a8 | \u201cthfully correet.The | terest of the: picture | tie attractive nhjects em- iraced in the foreground, «in the beautiful ex- janse of country which | :xes fron the shore of the St, Charle: towards the mountain range that encloses the whole, and shuts out the gloomy for- este stretching te the far worth.Without any historical associations io recommend it to the notice of visitors, the valley of toe 8t, Charles, for natural beauty and romantic grandeur would fa- worably compare with gay similar description of country in the old world \u2014not excepting the far famed vale of the Tweed, with its ruined border keeps and crumbling abbeys, rendered so famous in Beottish song, The river St, Charles, Bou- chette tells us, was call- el by the Indians Caber Coubat on account of its windings and meanderings, and is formed by the union of several streams that rise in the southern section of the township of Stoneham, in the county of Quebec.It then descends into the fief Bt.Ignace, where it expands into a beautiful lake, to which it lends itsname.Soon after it has issued from this luke, it receives the united wae ters of two small streams that run from lakes Sa- gamité and Sebastian ; viththis addition it bends suddenly to the south, und takes in the tributary stream of Nelson River, It passes the Indian Village and rolls over a Steep and irregular rock, thirty feet high, forming 4 beautiful and romantic cataract, In passing a mill which is under the fall, the current becomes extremely narrow, and for the spuce of three wiles is bounded 'b woody banks, on whic | are frequent openings cut through the trees, disclosing the rushing waters, The rapidity of the stream, opposed by rocks, produces a quan- uty of white foam upon is gloomy surfuce, ac- Companied by murmur- og sounds.Che waterfall with the smaller cas- cales above it, the mil, the bridge, the village, sud the distant hills, form in agreeable landscape.\u2018Tom this cataract the Tiver descends in numerus and graceful curva- lures to the St.Law- Tence, into which it falls à little below the city of Quebec, forming an os- taary which is almost dry M low water, with the \\ THE QUEBEC GAZETTE.CENTENARY NUMBER, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1864.This cut, representing two or three 0: the l'hnber Coyes above Quebec on the North side ot the St, Lawrence, will ; give some idea to persone at w distance of the mugpuitude of ; the trade in the products of Ganadian forests, especially | when they take into account, that the quantity of timber ex- | hibited in the picture, is hardly a tithe of what may he seen any day in summer in the immediate vicinity of Quebec.The following table showing the quantity of timber in square fect, exported from this city for the five years, beginning with 1859, will not fail to be interesting to the reader.The total quantity of square wood so exported in 1863, was 32,392,400, and if to this be added the Deals, Staves aud Lathwood, the gross amount will not be short of FIFTY MILLIONS of square fect of timber shipped in that one year.TIMBER.| 1889.| 1860.18351.isez 1863 j ! i Oak.\u2026\u2026Peet.| 1.008 280) 1,185.4001 1.925.166.1.463.680\u2019 2 085.950 Ely.J do 1.050.760 LOUL5600 (26.320 1.099200 2.125810 Ash.! do 170.160 S410, 29,540; 306.760 Bren ooo du 222001 162160 165.480 \u2018au 320 Tana Civienes Goo 60.260) 58.240; 57.120, 243.050 | J \u201d \u2018 .White Pins.square {do 1482220018,252.000 10.447.02015.493.080 23.1476 | Ree Pine.LL.4e 1,733.560; 2.602850 2.855.240° 2.491.120 1.049.500 t ; er man | STAVES ! 32.392 400 EST RSA edie, 1331 1681! 1.353 132 20 Paurvheon.de 2.624 3.163 } 4 4e .Barrel.do 0 uy 74800 7181 4664 | } i DEALS : | bane ue Standard!) 4 \" 4 568 8 4.921 941 3.493.209 5.207185 | Sprice.do $| ve | sus 860 =! \u201c| IESE 9.2 | LATHWoOOL.! ' ! Red Pine and Hemlock.Cards.4 ssl 6.013 6865 4.296 5.616 Tu will be seen Ly the preceding table, that the timber | LiMbisit COVES which is most extensively exported is that of the white pine tree, a species of wood of which Canada possesses inexhaustible quantities.It is easily wrought, comparatively free \u2018rom knots, and very durable, It is much used for the decks of vessels, and also for their lower masts.It is exported to Britain in the shape of masts, deals, laths, and squared timber.The value of this description of pine for masts of large ships : is very great.In Murray's Bricish America,\u201d mention is made of two masts for T4-gun ships in the dockyards at Plymouth, which measured 108 feet in length, and a roller that was everywhere 3 feet in diameter.Suck a tree must have been 200 feet long, with a diameter of 5 or 6 feet.Next, in point of quantity exported, it will be observed, is red pine, which is largely exported to Britain, and is chiefly obtained from the Ottawa country.The subject of this engraving having reference to the products of our Canadian forests, it may not be inappropriate in this place to notice a little further the different descriptions of woods, additional to those already mentioued, which are exported from this country.Large quantities of * black spruce\u201d are shipped from Quebec, principally for the Irish market.From the balsami, a species of spruce, a valuable gum is obtained, known as *\u201c the Canadian balsam,\u201d used for medical purposes, and also as an ingredient in the preparation of several kinds of varnish.Hemlock, one of the spruce tribe, is a very common tree, attaining a large size.Its bark is used as a substitute for oak bark for tanning, and planks made from it are coming insc cxtensive use for plank roads, owing to their being more permanent than pine.The red cedar, for which the Bermudas were long celebrated, is common.The white cedar is also plentiful, aud is much used for the coustruction 13 NYA QUEBEC.of fenees.Lurch of excellent quality is abundant also, and is valuable for railway tics, &e.Of the hard woods, consi derabie quantities of elm are exported.The ash is a common tree, and oue variety, the black ash, is used for railway pur- pusus, and possesses the uncommon quality of such peculiar fitness for the purposes of the turner that pillars may be turned from the solid wood, which will neither split nor warp.Maple is a very valuable tree.Its wood is a favorite article of fuel, aud from its sap, in early spring, large quantities of excellent sugar are made, so that a sugar bush\u201d is regarded as a uscful appendage to a farm.Varieties of the maple, curled and bird-eye, make beautiful furniture.birch are also plentiful : the wood of the latter tree is well adapted to the purposes of the cabinet maker.That also of the butternut tree makes very excellent furniture, resembling somewhat that made from the black walnut tree.This last tree is abundant in the western portion of Canada West, and affords incontestably the most valuable material for the making of cabinet wares of any of the woods of Canada.The wood is beautifully veined, of a rich dark brown colour, and is quite equal to mahogany.It has only to be introduced into use in Britain, to be valued there, and no doubt will be in demand.Or the quality of Canada oak it is useless to enlarge, it being second only to English, aud it Las long formed a very important article of export.There is a great variety of minor woods to be found among the dense forests of some of the unsettled portions of Canada.The forests on the Ottawa contribute an annually increasing supply of timber for our markets ; and in order to facilitate its transit, and avert the danger attendant on passing the rapids of that river, government has constructed \u2018¢ slides\u201d over several of Beech and \u201clet down the slides, or shut off instantly.EE the principal falls.Those over the Chaudiére are thus described by Mr.Barker.He says :\u2014* \u2018hey are four in number, three about 100 feet long each, aud one 200 feet long ; all 26 feet wide (which is the genera! width of all crib slides,) overcovering a fall averaging generally 35 feet.Ln the first, or upper slide, an ingenious arrangement to regulate the pitch of water ou the slides has been introduced, consisting of two largo gates (as strong as oak and iron can wake thew) si- wilar to lock gates, only laid flat, the upper one overlapping the under oue, and forming a part of the slide.Now, the water being let in under these gates by the level above, lifts them up by hydraulic pressure; and by menns of another wicket to let the water out below, the level is regulated to any required pitch, or shut off altogether by simply turning a wrench, thus showing how easily a tremendous power can be controlled\u2014a volume of water equal to 150 feet arca can be These slides cost upwards of £5,000.The Chute slido is the best on the river ; it is 350 feet long, which, with the head gates, overcover a fall of nearly 40 feet.This slide is built in the form of a neversed curve instead of an inclined plane ; the advantages of this shape are, that the timber is prevented running out of the cribs when it is of unequal size.To illustrate this more fully\u2014when cribs are passing down a slide, the largest picces drag upon the bottom or floor of the slide, and the water floats out the smaller pieces, leaving the crib a wreck, whicn has generally to be pulled to pieces, and caught below and rafted over again, causing much delay and danger to the men, \u2018Lhis slide in 46 and 47, passed about 22,000 cribs, at 5s.each, thus more than paying the first cost in two years, which was less than £5,000.\u201d STE THERS Tu nie NN MU ar f VALLEY OF THE ST.CHARLES.exception of the bed of the river, and offers a convenient strand \u2018or river craft and posts.Laze Sr.Cuanues, bout thir teen miles -om the city of Quebec, and nearly six miles from Lorette, is a sweetly -etired spot and an enchanting picture, and theugh lying in a low flat country, is surrounded by mountainous forests, highly pictures que and romantic : as it abounds in fish it is doubly inviting.Its outline is very irregular ; its length is rather more than four miles, and its grest- est breadth does not ex- coed one mile : a narrow strait projects nearly across, dividing its waters into almost equal parts.This lake affords one of the most exquisitely picturesque scenes in the province.The margin presents an appearance at once wild, ro mantic and delightful ; the devious course of the low banks forms numerous little bays and headlands, where the trees to the waters edge complete, by the variety of their foliage and gradation of size, as they rise upon the different slopes, oue of the richest views that can delight an admirer who prefers a prospect adorned only by the hand of nature.\u2018This charming panorama, during the spring and summer, is frequently visited on account of its arcadian beauty : tho road leading to it from Quebec passes all the way by the side of the river St.Charles, and by its embellishments greatly heightens the satisfaction of those who make the excursion, and wlience no one returns withont ample gratification.\u2018The Indian village ol La Jeune Lorette, above alluded to, is between eight and nine miles from Quebec, situated on the eastern side of the River St, Charles, upon an eminence that commands a most inter- cating, varied and extensive view.Theinhabitants are about 250, descendants of the tribe of the Hurons, once so formida ble even to the powerful Iroquois, until by stratagem, in which consists much of the glory and seli-applause of the sa vage, the latter, under the specious pretence of alliance, obtained the confidence of their opponents ; when, by an indiscriminate massacre, their whole race was nearly extirpated.The few who escaped with life, fled towards the habitations of civilized man, and established themselves in the forests in the rear of Quebec, many hundred miles dis tance from the land of their ancient tribe, on the borders of Lake Huron.By the efforts of the Jesuits they were gradually drawn nearer to Quebec, and every exertion made to reclaim them from savage lifo.This poor remnant of a race once so powerful, now derive a precarious subsistence from hunting, fishing, and some trifling articles made by their females.It would, however, require a much larger amount ofspace than we can ahord, to des cribe the many points of interest embraced with in the scope of the pic ture to which these remarks have reference.Enough, we trust, has been said to prove the truthfulness of our assertion as to the exceeding beauty and picturesqueness of this tract of country ; and yet the appearance of the River St.Charles as it nears its confluence with the St, Lawrence, is perhaps the most interesting feature in the subject ; Inasmuch ns there we have an illustration of the progress which Quebec is making in industrial pursuits, It is on the banks of the 8t.Charles, principally, where our numerous shipyards are located ; and to strangers, we are sure, it must be often a puzzle how the bearnt'fai Mens of naval architeo- ture which are construct od a little distance up the stream, can ever be safely launched into ita parrow channel, or when launched, safely extricated from ita tortuous windings.Woe look forward to the improve ments contemplated by the Harbour Commis sion, &8 the means of rendering this part of the river still more serviceable than it now is for the general interests of the bachour of Quebes. me ART aa TITE QUEBEC GAZETTE.CENTENARY NUMBER.TUESDAY.JA i pay 14 ©, AIBA & 88.|B) X TELFER.IMPORTERS OF STAPLE AND FARCY DRY GOODS, | 23, SF.JOHN STREET, | UPPER TOWN.QUEBEC.IMPORTERS UF BRITISH AND FOREIGN | DRY GOODS®, WHOLIS ALE AND RETAIL.UPPER TOWN MARKET PLACE, | ; TEREAIAN .2600 Tons.Capt.Busaxmise.a .vi \u20ac -eltv fr : TERNIAN 2138 * LL Capt.DerroN., Constantly receiving every novelty from CT HARARE qu Berton ; , | Ql EDE( : Wi! LGEAN M Bic the English and Foreign markets, from the best Manufacturers.CLOTHS, TWEEDS.VESTINGS, HOSIERY, SHIRTS, COLLARS, NECKTIES, BRACES.Ladies\u2019 Dress Goods.Black Silks.Black Moire Antiques.Coloured Silks, Colored Moire Antiques, | Fancy Silks.| NORWICH AND BRADFORD DRESS GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.SITAWLS, MANTLES, JACKETS, MANTLE \u20ac LOTHS, STRAW BONNETS.STRAW HATS.RIBBONS, FLOWERS, FEATHERS, GLOVES, LACES, HAIR NEUFS.PARASOLS, UMBKELLAS, A large Stock alway- on hand of Funey Dress Silks, Black Glacé Silks, Moire Antiques, Ladies\u2019 Mantles, Bonnets, Hats, : Flowers, Feathers, Underclothing, &e.Gent's Department Is always heavily assorted with the best English and French Cloths and Casshineres.\u2014 ALSU i | seotelt and German Pweeds, Shirts, | Neckties, &e.| Ladies and Gent's Alexander Gloves.Gent\u2019s Clothing made to order on reasonable terms, and a perfect fit guaranteed.URMER FASHIONS SPRING & SUMMER FASHIONS AND i FABRICS FOI 1561, moe { > m7 0 GC'OORERTY & CO Have Just Received Large: Dediverios of NEW GOODS, In all the Depariments, comprising : Silks, Faney Dresses and Dre ss Goods, Shawls, Mantles, Millinery, Bounets, and flats, Ribbons, Flowers, Feuthers, Laces, Ties, Ho- BELTS, sterv, Gloves, NECKTIES, Neo.se.&e., &e.CARPETS, \u2014ALSO,- - Ç DAMASKS, MOREENS, FLOOR OI.CLOTHS, TABLE OIL CLOTIS.MATTINGS.MATTS, HEARTH RUGH, ITAIR CLOTH.CORNICES, GILT POLES x ENDS.FOUSE FURNISHINGS.Cloths, Tweeds, Cassheres, Cloak- ings, Shirtings, Sheetings, Table Linen, Towellines, Diapers, Grass Cloths, Hollands, &c., &e., Gents White and Fancy Shirts, Collars, Scarfs, Handkerchieis, Ke, &e.All marked at a stand! advance on Manufacturers\u2019 prices.ODOHERTY & CO.16, Fabrique Street, Importers of English, Freneh, and German Drv Goods, HOME, BLAIS WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ORY GOODY MERCHANTS IMPORTERS, GATE, i AND LADIES\u201d AND CIIILDREN\u2019S MARRIAGE OUTFITS, Made np of the best Styles and on the Nbor e Means of the Prefs we can fit at Home and acquaint ourfelves \u201ctoute notre Vie ce que notre Memoire auroit perdu en peu de Sn nd NEWSPAYERS, Foglio aaf su Sova =e M en er \u2018with what is done in all the diftant Parts of the World, and find \u201cjours, et nous amaffons un riche Trefor de Science pour ceux qui \u2019 ¥ be hud as their off Et Cee man \u2018 what our Fathers did long ago, in the firft Ages of Mankind: By \u2018\u201c viendront après nous ; Par le Moyen de l\u2019Imprimerie nous pou | oo wy bap \u201c this Means a Ariton holds Correfpondence with his Friend in Ame- ot vons demeurer tranquilement à la maifon, ct pourtant nous br _ ec patates! Cu av au \u2018rica or Japan, and manages all his Bufinefs: \"Tis this, which \u201c ftruire de ce qui fe pafle dans toutes les Parties cloignécs du MIDDLETON & DAWS Auryaia wo Cr en brings all the patt Ages of Men at once upon the Stage, and \u201c\u201c Monde, et trouver a lire ce que nos Peres ont fait longtems ci- ; 8; 0 Tago.pp.tis 10 \u201cmakes the moft diftant Nations and Ages converfe together, and \u2018\u201c devant dans les premiers Ages du Genre humain : Par ce Moy.1 Printers DAWSON BROTHFP*.Publishers, \u201cgrow into Acquaintance.\u201d Wherefore, a well regulated Printing \u201cun Briten tient Corrcfpondence avec fon Ami en Amerique, où à : MONLRE RE Office has always been confidered as a publick Benefit, infomuch \u201c Fapon, ct menage toutes fos À ffures : C'eft ce qui fait paroitre tous \u2014 .that no Place of Note in the Æng/i/h Dominions is at this dav defti \u201cles Ages paflés des Hommes en méme tems fur le Théatre, c'e y M eee ce PRINTING in al, | Tir FIBRDRY tute of the Advantages arising therefrom.\u201cce qui fait converfer enfemble les Nations et les Ages les plus prices ; and all orders which may be fente MONTRE irk Ü I ; Co \u201c éloignés, et leur procure de la Connoiffance.\u201d-\u2014Ccft pour quoi Bite on © oral autre, Croom \u201cSTAR tj 34 Much might be here faid in enumerating the peculiar Advantages qu'une Imprimerie bien reglée a toujours été regardé comme urn every other description uf Letter-Press Print ESTABLISTHD 1 54 2.Rn .= ] pri î , 2 ) we 13 will receive immediate attention.that mutt in a more particular Manner refult from the Eftablifhment Benefice public, deforte qu'aucune Place confidehBle dans les Du- [ T PASSANT PIRELIETOR of a Printing-Office in Queberk, whether we confider it as the moitt | minations .fngloifes préfentement oft deftituée des Avantages qui cn _ .1 Thteubu es, Thiol .effeétual Means of bringing about a thorough Knowledge of the An- refultent.CET lifh and French |-nguage to thofe of the two Nations now happils On pourroit ici beaucoup dire en faifant l'Enumeration des Avan SAN an sMontreal.*.Pt, ion Ste united in one in this Part of the W orld ; by which Means they will he tages precicux qul doivent particulierement refulter de l'Erablir, MIDDLETON & Al SON enabled to converfe with, and communicate their Sentiments to each ment d\u2019une Imprimerie a Quebeck 5; fi nous le confiderons comme k Stati Toronto, 0, Cüdarne otre other as Brethren, and carry on their different Transactions in Lif- Moyen le plus efficace à faire retifir une entiere Connoiffance de L StAtloners.; FrcneNi F ces of Book and with Eafe and Satisfaction : Or, as the Means only of bringing to Langue Angloïf« et Francoife parmi ces deux Nations, qui à pres: _ Ne RE an deb Tyme their Knowledge the Transactions of the different and mott diftan: fe font jointe heureufement dans cette Partie du Monde, ils fcron: HEIR stock ol STATIONERY ill Printing Inks, Printing Prosses nd Nations of the World, of which they muit otherwife remain almoit rendus capables de converfer enfemble, de se communiquer leurs dlaidon to what they Lave on ba, fo Printers Materials rencraliy.entirely ignorant :\u2014But as thefe important Advantages, will ap- Sentiments comme des l\u2018reres, et de conduire leurs differents Negoces constantly receiving additional supplies inclu eo ; ; | 5 .! ; A A ; _ ox Parkks, in every variety, Wrimixa Pare _.pear at firft View to every one capable of the leaft Reflection, it will avec Aife et Satisfaction : Ou feulement comme un Moyen de les menc Coryixa Parën, Tiesuk Parys., ENVELOPES, Cun § IEE fi ag Q tl he needlefs in us here to enlarge.a la Connoiffance de ce qu fe pafe chez les Nations differentes et plus Quicts Pexcus, Stekr Pas, Pespanns, Pa Juki HE ERT Wl *, Co eloignees du Monde y Connoiffance dont ils refteroient autrement Our Defign is, in Cafe we are fortunate enough to fucceed, carly prefque toujours ignorants: -\u2014- Mais comme ces Avantages im- ; HVTTFRS ov Bibi, in the Spring to fettle in this City, in the Capacity of Printers, and portants paroitront a premiere Viie a chaqu'un qui eft capable de fa pv D1 OCK forthwith to publith a Weekly News- Paper ; which, as the prefent moindre Reflexion, il ferait inutile de s'étendre davantage fur ce Sujet.MIDDLETON & DAWSON i CRYSTAL BL EX Condition of the Country renders it in a great Meafure neceflary, we En cas que nous ferons \u2018affez heureux d\u2019avoir bon Succez, notre - + ARNO.! MOMTREAL.purpofe to publish in Freuch and Fuglifh: This Method will afford Deffein eff de nous établir au Printems prochain dans cette Ville Bookbinders a Weekly lesson for Improvement, to every Inhabirant willing to comme Imprimeurs, et de publier auffitôt chaque Semaine une Ga- \u2018 - ACTA DIT Tar ETI attain to a thorough Knowledge in the Language of the Place, dit- zette, laquelle, comme la prefente Condition du Pays le rend beau- 4 ESTABLISHED.A Do isan terent trom that of his Mother Tongue, whether French or Ænglifh.And coup neceffaire, nous propofons de publier en François ct en Anglois : S they have a BOOK BINDERY eu 7 .as in a Paper defign'd for gencral Perufal, it will be neceflary ro adil Cette Methode fournira une Leçon toutes les Semaines pour l\u2019Avance- Age prepared (heir establishment, they LWVAYS on mel BARGE \\>- fome Things of general Entertainment, therefore, as we have Op- ment de chaque Habitant porte pour aquerir une parfaite Connoiffance BLask Booxs of every description Lars + SORTAES | vl Hudson > Bay portunity, fhall prefent our Readers with fuch Originals, both in de la Langue de I'Endroit, differente de celle de fa Mere-Langue, don EO an Bans a dian ENS PORT \u2019rofe and in Verfe, as may at once pleafe the Fancy and initruét the foit un François ou un Anglois.Et comme dans un Papier deftine D murmbers of i Judgment: In this Refpect, our Paper will be confidered as the pour une Lecture generaic, 11 fera neceffaire d'ajouter des Chofes wood.and the four Reviews, &e.con have tk Channel of Amufement, as well as of real [mprox ement and IntelH- d\u2019un Amufement general, nous prefenterons a nos Lecteurs occafion- bound in th« hest style.and at a low charge.TAROUSAG HOTEL gence :-\u2014But as our coming hither, and ferting up a complete nellement ces Sortes d\u2019Originaux en Profe et en Vers, qui plairont AU AA ; Printing-Office, will be attended with à much greater Fxpence than auffi bienal Imagination qu'ils inffruiront le Jugement.Dans cet l'gard T0 IN TADOUSAC BAT.our prefent Circumitances will admit of, we offer the following Pro- notre Gazette fera confideré comme un Canal d\u2019Amufement, de la AT THE OUNETL VUE TL SSGRENIN SIC IE pofals to the Inhabitants of this Place, their encouraging of which veritable Formation de I'lifprit, et d'Intelligence.Mais, comme MIDDLETON & DAWSON TLTAWE will determine our fettling among them.notre Tranfport pour ici, et l'Etabliffement d\u2019une complete Imprime- ; STEAMER TWICE A WEEK FROM QUEREC i .| oo ; rie, nous caufera de plus grandes Depenfes que nos prefentes Circon- Paper Rulers.And Daily in Conbeetion with 1 RST, That as foon a Three Hundred Subferiptions tor the ftances nous permettent, nous offrons les Propofitions fuivantes aux GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY FROM News-Paper above Propofed, can he procur'd, we will engage Habitans \u2018de cette Ville, leur Fncouragement determinera notre HEY have also a frat-class PATES ; to fet up a genteel Printing-Office, in {ome convenient Part of Etabliffement parmi eux.RULING MACHINE.and for some t RIVER DU LOT.Quebeck; confifting of a good Affortment of new Types, a good ; = Troi past have given special attention to she rol ; Splendid ~cn-Bathing, Sr nud Sen Trou Fishing Pref nd il the Material farv for carmvine p Raid B i} Premièrement, D'abord qu on nous procurera I'rois Cents Subfcrip- of paper.in Proximity to the Hotel.ean he fe cer necetlary lor carrying on faid Bu tions pour la Gazette ci-deflus propofée, nous engageons d\u2019éta- : This new and Fire Cres Hotel, with Biltind finefs in the moft extenfive Manner, and with Expedition, blir une belle Imprimerie dans une Place convenable à Quebeck, mt em Roam, Bowlin, Miley is under the manage\u201d SECONDLT.That the Pri Subferibers fhall b qui confiftera d'un bon Affortiffement des nouvelles Characteres, ment af Mr.Lori my of the SE , That the Price to Subferibers fhall be ; \u2018une bonne Preffe, et de tous les autres Materiaux neceffaires Middleton & Dawsol # 2 Co per Year, current Money of Canada.our conduire cette Affaire dans la plus parfaite Maniere et avec Expedition.\u2019 PE ¥ 16 v a.waa INAR2TR OTE A o À \u20ac Den di \u201cit ets + he AUCTIONEER, OTTAWA CITY.V OULD call th attention of the public to the fnet that he will atieud to the Sale of City and Country Property ; and will give ail information on any matter concerning Lands at bis Oftice free of charg.Sales Effected on Good Terms.Parties at a distarce would do well to make arrangements with him concerning the Auction of Lands or any Kind of Croods that parties want to sell.All business well attended to.ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL, OTTAWA, C.W.{Patronized by IE RH.the Pree of Wales and IE RL HL Prince Alfred.) r YOOLE having RECENTLY LEASED.TI.R.FOR A TERM OF YEARS, THE above FIRST CLASS HOTLL respectfully adicitn a shure of the public patronage : and, having secured the services of a thoroughly competent staff of assistants, will «pare no effort to cnaure the comiurt of his gues.Since the change in its management, the Hotel has une dergone & thorough renovation.and Will now be found second to none 11 Canada in accommodation-\u2014situate on the highest ground in tbe rente of 1he city, oppostte to the PARIJAMENT AND DEPARTMENTAL BUILDINGS.It is also in the immediate vicinity of the Post Office, Te.le h Office.Banks, Theatre.and principal Business Es.wblishments : und contains a well appointed BILLIARD M.and & fine Oiservatory, commanding views of the Chaudière Falis and scenery of the Onawa.AN EXTEN.BIVE LIVERY STABLE.in connection with the Establishment.offers every facility in that department to Visitors.OMNIBUSES are despaiched to and from the Steambos®s and Trains : and Stages for the Upper Otawa Country pass the House twice a day.P.B\u2014For the CoMMERCTAL TRAVELLERS a Splendid Sample Roum will be furnished.T.R.TOOLE, Proprietor, Formerly of lake George Hotal THIRDL), Such of the Subfcribers as may chufe, are at full Liberty to withdraw their Subfcriptions at the end of the firft Year, and at the End of ever fucceeding Half Year, as they may chufe.HFOURTHLY, No Money will be required, till fuch Time as the Paper is actually fet on Foot, when it is expected, that each Subfcriber will advance one Half of the firft Year's Subfcription : Money, the better to enable the Printers to profecute the Work.FIFTHLI, Our beft Endeavours fhall be ufed to convey our Papers to fuch Subfcribers as may refide in Montreal, and even .in the remoteft Part of the Country, till fuch Time as there can i be regular Meffengers procured for thefe Places.~ G.W.EDMONDSON\u2019S Ahotographic & Art Studio.JOHN STREET.NEAR STANISLAS STREET, QUEBEC.OLORED PHOTOGRAPHS of the City and environs, Cavadian Scenery, &c., Xe.Cartes de Visites, taken with backgrounds formed with resl plauta and flowers, thereby avoidiog that samences of view uencrally to be seen in oll enrd Photographe.Old Portraits carefully copied to suy size and worked np with ludian Tok, thereby covering sny defects which may exist in the original picture.New styles of pletures cou- stantly being produced, MERCANTILE RESTAURANT SAULT-AT-MATELOT STREET, Spposite Views, TESMIER & LEDROTU'S Store.HE Subscriber becs te retoru his sincere thanks in the .mercumiie public and to bir nnraerous friends for tha very liberul encotirugensent bie has received doring the pa-i year, und bags 1a intoria theo: that be Lue thurou hy repainted and refitted bis Saloon, sn ne tn make nt the most compact und Convenicnt in the bower Town, The Har will be constantly supplies! with the Lat quality of WINES, LIQUORS.ENGLISH ALES.DOW MONTREAL PALE ALE.&¢., de.Abo.CIGARS of the chuicest and best brands, NAY D.WICHEN.PASTRY.&c.He Batters bimosels that the Banner in which wis Ssr.008 has heretofore been onnducted.will afford a sufficient puaranice that hie utmost efore will, in future be directed owns the promotion of the wishes and comfort of hit pasos, \u2018PHOS.CARR, Paormizren En Second Lieu, Le Prix de ceux qui foufcriront fera par Année Argent courant de Canada.En Troisième Lieu, Les Soufcrivants pourront à leur Choix avec toute la Liberté ôter leurs Soufcriptions à la fin de la premiere Année, et à la fin de chaque demie Année fuivante, comme il leur plaira.En Quatrième Lieu, L'Argent ne fera pas demandé jufqu\u2019à ce que la Gazette fera actuellement etablie, alors on s\u2019y attend que chaque Soufcrivant avancera la moitié de I'Argent foufcrit pour la premiere Année, pour rendre les Imprimeurs plus capables de continuer l'Ouvrage.En Cinquième Lieu, ndus ferons des Efforts pour envoyer ces Gazcttes aux Soufcrivants qui demeurent à Montreal, et par-tout méme dans des Places les plus reculées du Pays, efperant qu\u2019en peu il feront établis des M effagers reguliers pour ces Places.Brown and Gilmore.JOEN WRISEE, W.A LEGGO & CO, SADDLERY, DARNESS AND TRUNK MANUFACTORY, NO.8, FABRIQUE STREET, QUEBEC, - HA constantly on hand and to order, Saddles, Bridles, Wbips, Horse Clothing, Har- nee, Trunks, &c., &c.FIRE ENGINE HOSE MANUFACTURER TO THE CORPORATION.All orders executed with noatness and despatch.ENGRAVERS, LITHOGRAPHERS & ELECTROTYPISTS, 12, BUADE STREET, QUEBEC.prscons requiring any work In the above branches of industry, may depend upon being served In a manner satisfactory in every point of view.W.A.L.& (0.would expecially point to this present CENTEXARY NUMBER oi the QUEBEC GAZETTE as baving been electroty pod throughout by them.| \"TAVE been appointed hy the Adrolralty # H Agents for the sale of their Charts.la which may be had on application, inclu British and American lights and the Nova 50 and St.Lawrence Pilot, which comprised \\ directions for the Gulf and River, by Resr / i miral H.W.Bayfield, F.R.8.,\u2014beiog oa of à survey made by order of the Lords Co De sioners of the Admiraly\u2014fourth edition volumes.\"SEC ME QUEBEC GAZET A POLITICAL.COMMERCIAL.ADVERTISING JOURNA HE GAZETTE is the oldost PHP à Canada, having been first public ng 21st June.1764, (five years after a jours Quebec).Considering tbe num degree nf avery shade of politics, and ere Y ing pretension, that have lived and a de ex time, the very fact of its lengthe te, Wi speaks volumes in favor of The Ba nn wl in overy respect, a thorough British # ry od as an advertising medium, it posse il establieh advaniages, consequent on Îta ne or character and extensive alrealatio h of aubéeription are $4 per vds + Fride published every Monday.Vednesday by N «D AWS0) J MIDDL cn of Mountain BU Quebec, June, 1864.-\u2014 Em oe.Qa "]