Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 29 janvier 1850, mardi 29 janvier 1850

[" d' Ai \\ WkHvX JW^vVuv^vi______\\j W^vüy tUù c AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.VOLUME XLII.TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29,\t1850.NUMBER 13.FOR SALE.s OLA.R SPERM OIL 25 qr casks finest quality For Sale by JAMES GORDON &\"\u20ac0.December G.\t225 PATENT SPERM CANDLES 25 boxes Judd\u2019s best, in Gib.parcels For Sale by JAMES GORDON & CO.December 6.\t225 A RICH AT HERRINGS Best No.1, in Barrels and Half Barrels For Sale by JAMES GORDON & CO.December 6.\t225 FOR SALE.B LACK LEAD 100 boxes In 2 uz.Packages For Sale by JAMES GORDON & CO.December G.\t225 | mUEUKS: \u2014 Curacoa, Ginger ami Orange, pints and qts, Cases of 4 dozen eacli For Sale by JAMES GORDON & CO.December 6.\t225 HOCOLATE, COCOA, &c.: \u2014 150 boxes Mott\u2019s Henshaw\u2019 and Thomas\u2019 No.1 50 do Mott\u2019s Broma For Sale by JAMES GORDON & CO.December G.\t225 rpOBACCO :\u201450 Boxes Cavendish Tobacco.JL For Sale by D.BUSTEED.November 10.\t2l4 Fg^IlE Subscriber respectfully offers for Sale JL to Families, by the Dozen or in Larger Onainiiies, an assortment of SUPERIOR BOT-i LED WINES, among which are\u2014 Blai k barn\u2019s, Park\u2019s, Welche\u2019s, and / n.^r,Tr, , Wood\u2019s.\\ MADEIRA Sandeman & Co., and Hunt\u2019s No.I .PORT Do Very Superior Pale.SHERRY.Snvtll & Co.,\tde\tdo Duff, Gordon &.Co., Gold.do \u2018\u2019e'riear;,d0pnHtG.Ü.'\u2019.^!Q!!: ( CHAMPAGNE S* Julien and Medoc.CLARET FOR SALE.Cape Medeira, Brown Sherry, Lachryma Christie, Sautern, Barsac, Medoc, Curagoa, Cha-olie, and a variety of Cordials, in cases.\u2014also,\u2014 Bale, Dark, and Cherry Brandies, Scheidam, uiid very fine Old Jamaica, Fenner\u2019s Cider, and L -ndon Porter, in Quarts and Pints.-TOGETHER WITH,\u2014 A General Assortment of GROCE RIES, 1 EAS, &c., at very Low Prices.NEIL McINTOSH, No.27, St.François Xavier Street.Montreal, Dec.21, 1848.\t231 Bottled Wines* CHAMPAGNE\u2014Moet\u2019s, Vin de Napoleon, &c.&.C.CLARET.Chateau Liifiite, Leovi le, Barton, Guestier & Co., &.c.&c.SHERRY .Pemartin & Co, Domecq, Amontillado, Pale, Gold and Crown PORT.Sandeman & Co, Q.Harris &.Co, Cockburn &.Co, Ofli.-y, Webber & Co MADEIRA.Burnett, Houghton & Co.Leaycoek\u2019s, &c.\t&.C., E and W India.With a large assortment of Wines in Wood.Fur Sale by J.B.TORRY, No.9, St.Sacrament Street.January 19.\t9 T^ONDON PORTER\u2014 T Boxes While\u2019s Tobacco Pipes D.BUSTEED.November 10.\t214 TMNE OLD HIGHLAND WHISKEY:\u2014 puns of the For Sale by T Bond.November G.JOHN WHYTE, No.2, St.Sacrament Street.212 OLIVE OIL\u2014 Fine Lucca Salad Oil, in half jars (10 galls; Salad Oil, in baskets (1 dozen each) Olive Lamp Oil, in hhds and quarter casks For Sale by JOHN CARTER Sc CO., St.Paul Street.November 22.\t219 too BOXES CASTILE SOAP.WILLIAM LYMAN & CO., 194 & 19G, St.Paul Street.December 4.\t224 u LTRAMARINE Blue Fine Chrome Yellow Do Chrome Green Du Paris do Patent Drier, &e.&c.&c WILLIAM LYMAN & CO., 194 & 196, St.Paul Street.December 4.\t294 ÂTENT CANDLES:\u2014 20 boxes Judd's Patent Cand'es WILLIAM LYMAN Sc CO , 194 Sc 19G, St.Paul Street.December 4.224 D UTCH BULBS AND H Y AC Y N TH GLASSES.WILLIAM LYMAN & CO., 194 &.19G, St.Paul Street.December 4.\t224 JUST RECEIVED ex \u201c Dunbrody\u201d and for Sale by the Subscribers\u2014 500 hf chests Superior TWANKAY TEA LeMESURIER, ROUTH & CO.October 15.\t195 FOR SALE by the Subscribers :\u2014 PRIME MESS BEEF, free and in bond, in Tierces and Barrels LEMESURIER, ROUTH &.CO.October 10.\t191 ^OR SALE by the Subscribers :\u2014 Jt?Navy Bailed, ) Bleached,\t> CANVAS, Nos.1 & 6 and Bailed Tow S LEMESURIER.ROUTH & CO.June 12.\t88 1*71 OR SALE by the Subsciibers\u2014 .New Lambton Mills\u201d extra Superfine FLOUR, in lots to suit purchasers.LEMESURIER, ROUTH &, CO.May 14.________________________63 IG~ IRON\u2014 50 Tons No.1 PIG IRON lowforcas/r.CHARLES BOCKUS.October 31.\t184 FOR SALE by ibe Subscribers :\u2014 Muscovado, Refined and Bastard Sugars Twankay, Young Hyson, Souchong and Pouchong Teas Brandy, \u201c Hennessy\u2019s\u201d, \u201c Martel\u2019s\u201d and \u201c Rizat\u2019s\u201d Hollands, \u201c DeKuyper\u2019s\u201d Geneva in cases Port, Sherry and Madeira Wines, in wood and bottle London Porter and Edinburgh Ale, pints and quarts Boiled and Raw Linseed Oil Seal, Cod and Olive Oil Pepper, Pimento, Paints, Putty Glass, Cassia, Cloves, Nutmegs Pearl Barley, Carraway Seeds Ginger, Liquorice, Mustard Tobacco Pipes.Starch, Rice, &c.&,c.Powder\u2014Blasting, F, FF, FFF, H FF Can.FFF do, Iba and ^Ibs T P do T S do With their usual extensive assortment of DRY GOODS, SHELF and HEAVY HARDWARE.GILLESPIE, MOFFATT & CO.Montreal, May 21, 1849.\t69 s 150 casks Hibbert\u2019s London Porter, in pints and quarts.J.B.TORRY.January 19.\t9 PARKLING WINES\u2014 5 cases, each 3 dozen, choicest SPARK-LING BURGUNDY, the finest Wine imported 25 cases, each 3 dozen, choicest Spaikling MOSELLE, HOCK, JOHANNISBERG &c.&c.&c.For Sale by J.B.TORRY.January 19.\t9 MLaciiuie Belting.Steam Packing ami il ose.fFtllE Subscribers having been recently ap.JL pointed by the \u201c Boston Belling Company \u201d their AGENTS, for the sale of their VULGA.NISED RUBBER FABRICS in Canada, beg to offer the same to Steam Boat Proprietors, Machinists, &c.The superiority ol the STEAM PACKING, BELTING and HOSE of the Company\u2019s make, over any other material for above purposes, being so well known it is unnecessary to say anything in their favour.Certificates signed by extensive consumers attesting their superiority can be seen on application to the Agents.An assortment constantly on hand.HIBBARD & CO , St.Paul Street, Moffireal.January 10.\t5 NOTICES.Dissolution.fg^HE CO-PARTNERSHIP between the tin.a dersigned under the firms of HOOKER, HENDERSON Sc Co., in Kingston, and HOOK.ER, HOLTON Sc Co., in Montreal, expired by limitation on the 3ist day of December last.The affairs of the Co-Partnership will be closed up by the undersigned, who will use the names of the Firms in liquidation only.ALFRED HOOKER, FRANCIS HENDERSON; L.H.HOLTON.Kingston, Jan.10, 1850.\t7 T T EARTHENWARE, Cliiim, suul ci i ass ware.A Choice assortment in the above line is now on hand, at 82, St.Paul Street.The assortment is well suited for the Upper Canada, Trade, and will be Sold at very low prices.Merchants would do well to call and view the stock before purchasing.JOHN SPROSTON.N.B.\u2014Assorted Crates always on hand.September 29.\t178 Firewood.HE Subscriber has on hand a quantity of TAMARAC, HEMLOCK, SOFT MA-PLE, &c., as well as the BEST HARD FIRE WOOD, which he will dispose of in lots to suit purchasers at low prices.0=- Charitable Institutions supplied on reasonable terms.WILLIAM RODDEN.December 14.\t228 To Printers, Engravers, &c.fTHHE undersigned has just received a supply JL of PERKINS\u2019 PORCELAIN or PEARL SURFACE CARDS, different sizes, of excellent quality, well adapted for Letter Press, Copperplate or Lithogiaphic Printing.- \u2014BESIDES\u2014 A general assortment ol CARDS, White and Coloied.\u2014ALSO\u2014 Printing Ink, common, fine and best Colored Ink of different qualities Tympan or Parchment Skins, various sizes ROBERT WEIR, 7, Great St.James Street.June 13.\t89 War ranted Scyfiios.IrkfhH D0ZEN SCYTHES, Moore\u2019s Pattern, of the celebrated make of J.T.Farwell &, Co., each one warranted, will be received by the undersigned on the opening of Navigaiion, and will be disposed of at Manufacturers prices.These SCYTHES were introduced to the Canada market last season by the Subscribers, and ¦proved superior in quality and finish to any heretofore used.Lists of prices can be obtained on application to the undersigned, Agents for the makers.HIBBARD & CO.St.Paul Street, Montreal.January 10.\t5 \"HIE Undersigned will CONTINUE the FORWARDING and COMMISSION BUSINESS under the Firm of HOOKEÏ & HOLTON.They have appointed MR.E.HOOKER Agent for their FORWARDING BUSINESS at KINGSTON, who has rented from them the Stores occupied by their late Firm, and to »Sto.m any communications relating to their Business.that place may he addressed.ALFRED HOOKER, L.H.HOLTON.Montreal, January 14,1850.\t7 NOTICE.rpiIE CO-PARTNERSHIP hitherto existing JL between the Subscribers, under the Firm oi HOLMES, YOUNG Sc KNAPP, is this day DISSOLVED by mutual consent,\u2014Mr.Young retiring from the same.Benjamin Holmes and Joseph Knapp being duly authorized to settle up the Accounts and liquidate the Business of the late Firm.JOHN YOUNG, BENJ.HO.MES, JOSEPH KNAPP.M on : teal, 3isl Dec., 1849.\t3 ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP NIAGARA.FOURTEEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.NOTICE.rpiIE Subscribers will henceforward CONTI-A NUE BUSINESS under the Firm of HOLMES, KNAPP & Co.BENJ.HOLMES, JOSEPH KNAPP.Montreal, 1st Jan., 1850.\t3 T NOTICE.HE Subscriber will CONTINUE BUSK NESS in his own name for his own ac^ count.JOHN YOUNG.Montreal, 1st Jan., 1850.\t3 Dissolution of Partnership.rjnHE business carried on by the Subscribers, JL under the Firms of JOHN ROY & CO., in Montreal, and WILLIAM ROY, Jr.& CO., in Glasgow, was this day DISSOLVED by mutual consent.All DEBTS due to and by the late Firms in Canada, will be settled by the SubscrL ber JAMES MOIR.WILLIAM ROY, Jr., JAMES MOIR.Montreal, Dec.], 1849.\tdu\u20142 8 P ON SALE:\u2014 100 hhds Muscovado Sugars 100 puns Molasses 250 casks Seal, Cod and Whale Oils With a oenerul assortment of Groceries by JOSEPH TIFFIN, 95, St.Paul Street.September 28.\t181 'IIAOR SALE by the Subscribers :\u2014 JT MOLASSES\u2014100 Puncheons SUGAR\u201450 Hhds Bright Muscovado TEAS\u2014Fine Young Hyson and Souchong, Twankay, Old Hyson and Congo COFFEE\u201450 Bags Green CHOCOLATE\u2014Boxes and Half Boxes RICE\u2014EAST INDIA and CAROLINA HERRINGS \u2014100 Boxes Smoked Digby 50 Brls No 1 CODFISH\u2014100 Brls Green BUTTER\u2014300 Kegs and Firkins JOHN TORRANCE & CO.December 11.\t227 D UNDEE LINENS :\u2014 Bagging 30 bales Sheeting 10 do Hessians 5 do For Sale by G.D.May 8.SWAN\u2019S COPY BOOKS.rîlHE Subscriber begs to call attention to these » very superior COP Y BOOKS, with Engraved Head Lines, for every kind of writing.\u2022\u2014ALSO,- Ornamental Copy Books, and Mercantile Copy Book containing the most ap.proved forms used in business.ROBERT WEIR, No.7, Great St.James Street.June 19.\t94 «est JEuglisli CoUe.A FEW Chaldrons for Sale by the Subscriber.WILLIAM RODDEtN, December 14.\t2 Kor saie.WO HIGH PRESSURE ENGINES, one about 8 Horse Power, the other about 25 Horse Power, with Boilers, Cranks, Shafts, &c., in complete Working order.Prices Low, and Terms reasonable.Apply to WILLIAM RODDEN, 191, St.Paul Street.Jan.3, 1850.\t2 T WATSON.58 JUST Received, and for Sale :\u2014 FINE OLIVE OIL In hhds and qr-casks JOHN CARTER Sc Co., St.Paul Street.Oct.Iff____________________________191 JUST RECEIVED, ex \u201cToronto:\u201d\u2014 5 sacks Turkey Blue Galls JOHN CARTER & CO., St.Paul Street.September 7.103 Chemical Stove Polish.rj'MIIS article for polishingSTOVES, G RATES I and IRON WORK ol every description, is found to be superior to ony thing before invented for this purpose.A beautiful lustre is produced, with hall the usual labour, and no dust is made in its application.For Sale Wholesale and Retail by G.HAGAR, 103, St.Paul Street.Montreal, Dec.25.\t233 Mocassins, Neips and «now «iioes.|MIE Subscriber calls the attention of the JL Public to his Stock of the above Goods, all of which are of the best quality, being manufac-tured by PAUL of LO RETT 13, and will be Sold at Manufacturer\u2019s prices.JOHN HENDERSON, Late Henderson, Brother & Co., 93, Notre Dame Street.December 20.\t231 blOR SALE : \u2014 Muscovado Sugar Heavy Muscovado Molasses, in puncheons, hhds, and brls Muscatel Raisins Currants, in barrels Twankay, Old and Young Hyson, and Gunpowder Teas Cavendish Tobacco, 5\u2019s and IG\u2019e DeKuyper\u2019s Gin Madeira Wine Lescher\u2019s Starch Rice, Cassia, Pepper, Dry Red Lead Soda Ash, &,c.&,c JOHN MOLSON, Jr.January 17.\tr\u20148 J TOYED SALT.\t\" Smoked Hams Cod Oil Palm Oil Soda Ash Candlewick Brandy, in hhds Scotch Whiskey, in puns Benecarlo, in qr casks Black Tea And his usual superior assortment of BOTTLED WINES.For Sale by CEO.D.WATSON, St.Sacrament Street.Montreal, January 12, 1850.\t6 fi,>OR SALE by the Subscribers :\u2014 X?1000 brls Extra and Superfine Flour 50 half brls Pastry\tdo 150 brls Oatmeal, 224 lbs each 300 do Mess and Prime Mess Pork 350 kegs Dairy Butter 25 brls North Shore Salmon 60 do Green Codfish 45 drafts Large do 50 cwt Dry Codfish 500 bags Liverpool and Stoved Salt \u2014ALSO\u2014 Cheese, Lard, Bacon, Hams, Apples, Pot Barley, Fish Oils, Wrapping Paper, Buffalo Robes, &,c WATSON & WILLIAMS, Eastcorner of St.Paul and McGill Sts.January 17.\t8 ^OR SALE \u201c Martoll\u2019s\u201d, \u201cllennessy\u2019s\u201d, and \u201c Otard\u2019s\u201d, Pale and Brown Brandy \u201c DeKuyper\u2019s\u201d Gin Medeira Wine in hhds and qr casks Congou, GunpowjJer, Old and Young Hyson Teas \u2014also,\u2014 40 kegs Superior U.C.Butter HUGH FRASER, 11, St.Sacrament Street.December 27.\t234 SPR1NGBANK IRON WORKS, GLASGOW.rpiIE Subscriber has been appointed AGENT S for the above IRON WORKS, and is now prepared to receive and execute orders for GAS and WATER PIPES, RAILWAY CHAIRS POT ASH KETTLES, and every other descrip-lion of IRON CASTINGS.JAMES MOIR, 57, Commissioner Street.Montreal, January 3, 1850.\tdu\u20142 NOTICE.Pg^IIE Subscriber begs to intimate to the pub-.bL lie, that he has appointed Mr.ANDREVV MANN, No.12, St.François Xavier Street, Agent, for the sale of the PLANTAGENEP WATERS, in Montreal.E.LAROCQUE.October 4, 1849.\t187 NOTICE.PARTIES INDEBTED to the Firm of J.M.FERRES & CO., Printers and Publishers of the MONTREAL GAZETTE, are hereby notified, that NO RECEIPTS, for Monies due to the said firm, are VALID, unless signed by the Subscriber.TIIOS.McKAY.Montreal, Oct.9, 1849.\t192 WITH reference to an advertisement of MR.THOMAS McKAY\u2019S relative to our affairs, drawn up by a declared enemy to the Press, and published at his instigation, we have only to say, that we hold ourselves individually, and as a Company, responsible for all dents due by the Firm, and for all settlements effected with it.Our customers vve know will require no farther guarantee.J.M.FERRES & CO.J.M.Fermes, John Milne.Montreal, llth October, 1849.\t193 The steamer Niagara arrived at Halifax, on Thursday at 2 o\u2019clock, and reached Boston on Friday morning.Her mail arrived in Montreal on Sunday afternoon.She brings advices two weeks later.ENGLAND.Cotton had advanced fully one fourth penny.Price of Flour has suffered a slight decline, about 6J.The highest closing price of consols was ninety, seven.United States six per cent, stocks, highest price quoted, one hundred and six.The Niagara brings no political news of importance.The steamer Niagara, Capt.Ryrie, arrived this morning at 2 o\u2019clock, bringing about 80 passengers, and a full freight ol French and other goods; and advices two weeks later from all parts of Eu-rope.She sailed from Liverpool on the morning of the 12th inst., and has had an unusually plea» sent passage.We are under especial obligations to ibe gentlemanly purser of the Niagara, for the prompt delivery of our packages.The Hibernia arrived at Liverpool on the 9th and her news from New York creaied a good deal of excitement in the Cotton market.Early in the week, preceding the departure of the Niagara, it was discovered that the committee of brokers had made a serious mistake in underestimating the stock ol Cotton to the extent of 80,000 bales ; yet, notwithstanding;the fact, the market during the past week has been extremely buoyant, and prices have advanced 1-4 per pound all round.Total sales of the week 69^000 bales, of which speculators look 49,000.The committee\u2019s quotations are fair Orleans, 6 7-8 ; Mobile, 9 3-4 ; Uplands, do.The Corn market has been dull throughout the kingdom during the week.Indian Corn has declined 6d per quarter, and now sells , at 3Js for prime white, and 29s for yellow.Best brands of Phila.and Balti.Flour commands 25s to 25s Gd.Western Canal i;3s.American Provisions.Beef continues depress sod, and there is but little demand fur Pork.Bacon and Lard, however, are in lively request, at improved rates, the latter to the extent of Is per cwt.Rice, more inquiry, and Carolina commands 19s 6J.Coffee, good demand at advanced prices, Sugar, prices have advanced.6d to Is, and holders are looking for still higher rates.Tobacco, full prices and firm market\u2014Turpentine in better demand, and prices 6d higher.Metals\u2014 Tin has advanced £2 per ton and a good business going forward.The market lor British Iron and Scotch Pig has increased firmness, with a good business.Freights\u2014Passengers continue scarce, and rates to most ports have a downward tendency.The Money market continues, to increase in buoyancy.The bullion in the Banks has slightly decreased Consols are still going up.The Bank rate of discount it is expected will soon be reduced.American slocks continue firm and in fair request.New York State 95 : City 93; Pennsylvania Fives 83 ; Massachusetts Fives 103 to 104; Maryland Fives 89.Parliament meets for despatch of business on the 1st of February, when it is expected that some important change in the monetary system will be laid before the legislature.President Taylor\u2019s message, which reached England by the Hibernia, has been extensively published and largely commented upon by the English press.The general expression of public sentiment is very favourable.The London Times says :\u2014\u201c The tenor of the message is pacific and we learn with pleasure, that there is no dis position on the part of the American cabinet to magnify the differences which were supposed at one moment tx> threaten, its-relathms with the most liberal of the European powers.\u201d The contention with France had originated in the impatience of M.Poussin, and the irregular vehemence of Mr.Clayton\u2014that with England has taken its rise from some misconception with reference to the views of this country of the Mos-quitto coast and the Nicaragua canal.There is every reason to anticipate that Sir Henry Buhver\u2019s mission will have the effect of uniting both countries in the prosecution of a common object of so much importance to the com merce of the world.The more recent occurrences which are said to have taken place on the Pacific coast of the isthmus, by the alleged seizure of the Island of Tigre in the buy of Fonseca, by the order of Mr.Ghat-field, the British Consul General in Guatemala, are still very imperfectly known in this country, and vve are satisfied that if any unseemly altercation has occurred between British and American agents in Central Africa, it will not disturb the friendly relations of the two governments.It seems that whilst a treaty has been concluded between tho United States and the republic of Nicaragua, for the promotion of the Canal, all j of imports is now 2991 barrels, or fully one third larger, the receipts for the year being 9893 barrels against 6898 barrels, nearly the whole of which has gone into the hands of consumers and speculators, very few being left on hand by importers.In these circumstances it is difficult to ascertain the real state of the stock on hand, but, as the consumers arc known to he well supplied, the best information that can be collected shows that the stock in hands of dealers, speculators and importers must he about 3UÜ0 barrels, comprising 2UU barrels Pot and 10UÜ barrels Pearl against only 5UU barrels ol both at the close of 1848.{From the London Annual Timber Report ) Timber.\u2014 From Canada the importation has been very large ; in Deals exceeding the supply ol 1848, in Timber the same, in Staves double.The quantity of bright Pine Deals suited to_ the London demand lias, however, been smaller than usual, a preponderance of fi >ated Pine giving the excess.The prices have been unremune-rative throughout the year, retrograding since January, when quoted at .£14 to XI6 for first quality ; the floated have, before, the close of the your, matte i;iîi only, and the bright £13 for St.Pieters burgh standard hn'idt {.Sooumd quality, from £10 to £11 at the beginning of the year, have by gradual steps been reduced to £10 for good bright, and £8 is for common floated, with lower instances ; and of third quality, £7 is a quotation, and £6 lOs has been seen when forced \u2014both which, being prices insufficient to pay the freight and charges, must be assumed to close the trade in that quality.Quebec Spruce realised high comparative rates early in the season, and consequent thereon there has been a full supply in the fall fleet\u2014a diminution A the New Brunswick shipments favoured them ; the first rates were £17 for T20 of 12 inch 2 by 9 inch ; the present £15 10s and £16, with the proportionate abatement of £2 oh seconds, and further of £1 to £2 on third quality.Regular sizes of 3 inch and 9 inch have answered best, for the advantage of the thin or 2 inch first quality is setiously affected by the greater reduction in the value of thin of lower quality.Red Pine Deals have formed an unimportant branch of the Canada trade in the past season ; their sale is almost neutralized by the low rates of Redwood Baltic Deals; a selection almost clear of knots suits the market, and in this requisite those now imported are deficient.Quebec Red Tine Timber has had again to contend with lower priced from the Baltic ; its import cost was loo high, and not realised here lor a single cargo, the highest sale being 75s per load ; the supply in the fall fleet has been sufficient to leave a considerable stock, and 70s is the reduced value, with moderate sizes at Gôs, and small and inferior at 57s.Of colonics from the great evil of being ruled in local matters, by a department of the administration in London, instead of beiig incompatible with allegiance to the Crown (V England, is really ealeu lated to substitute for growing disaffection, and for the present danger of dismemberment of the British Empire, a Lyal and devoted attachment on the part of the colonies towards the mother country; and also to promote the advantage of both colonies and mother country, by removing the worst impediment, and affording a new and powerful encouragement to Ct.lonization proceeding from the United Kingdom.\u201c It will be a main object of the society\u2019s endeavours to relieve the mother country from the whole expense ol the local government of colonies, except only that of the defence of the colony from aggression by foreign powers at war with tiie empire.\u201c The means by which the society will endeavor to accomplish its objects are, \u201c First\u2014An organised association, in the United Kingdom, of those who hold the above opinions, with a view to general communication aud discussion, as well as co-operative and concentrated exertion ; and more especially with a View to û ready and constant preparation for proceedings in parliament, as circumstances may require.\u201d Secondly\u2014An organized co-operation with the colonies.Every colony which desires to obtain the co-operation of tins society, in order to acquire seiLgovernment in its local affairs, is invited to select an agent in England, who may he the organ of its wishes in accredited communidation withthesociety ; and, in the meantime, the best arrangement possible for temporary correspondence with the colonies will be immediately made.The society will he composed of all persons who shall contribute to the fund which will be required for the expenses of the first year.The proceedings of the society will be conducted by a council elected by a general meeting of its members ; and the council will assemble a least once a week during the session of parliament, \u2018\u2018 The following gentlemen have already consented to form the council :\u2014 Hon.Francis Baring, M.P., Chairman.The Lord Lytielto.i.The Right lion.M.Gibson, M.P.SirVV.Molesworth, Brt.M.P.Augustus Stafford; Esq.M.P.S.II.Walpole, Esq.M.P.J.Hume, Esq., M.P.R.Cobden, Esq , M.P.E.\tHorsman, Esq., M.P.J.Napier, Esq., M.P.J.Simeon, Esq., M.P.G.\tB.Adderlcy, Esq., M.P.H.\tKer Seymer, Esq, M.P.VI.J.Higgins, Esq.F.\tA.M\u2019Geachy, Esq.\u201c Detailed regulations for the management of WANTED.Jb rsnilli ST.LAWRENCE AND ATLANTIC JL RAILROAD COMPANY, art.desirous ol procuring the immediate services of a BOOKKEEPER, who will hold the Office of Secretary and Treasurer.Salary, Æ200 per annum with House Rent and Fuel, alter the 1st May next.Security for £2,099 required.Applications with relerences to be addressed to the President, until 4th February next.A.T.GALT, President.Office, St.Lawrence Sc Atlantic i Railroad Company,\t^ Montreal, 21st January, 1850.)\t10 w ANTED.\u2014A B O O K - K E E P E R and SALESMAN to the Wholesale Dry Address to D.&.E.M., Box, 10 Goods Business 237.January 22.\u2019ANTED.\u2014A SITUATION Mer- F OR SALE :\u2014 Hennessy\u2019s and Martell\u2019s BRANDY, Pale and Brown, in bond or free BUTTON BLUE and BUT TER in kegs THOS KAY & CO , Wharf, near Sr.Joseph Street.Jauuary 5.\t3 STEEL PLATED SLEIGH SHOES, American manufacture, lor Sale by GEORGE HAGAR, 103, St.Paul Street.December 29.\t235 HITE FISH Herrings No.2, and Labrador Pickled Green God Large Table do For Sale by L.RENAUD & FRERE.December 18.\t2 m 230 1EAS:\u2014 Twankay, Old and Young Hyson For Sale by\t\u201e \u201e\u201e JAMES GORDON & CO.December 6.\t225 w T C1AVGNDISH TOBACCO:\u2014 / 180 boxes 16\u2019s, Prime Quality For Sale by JAMES GORDON & CO.December 6.\t^25 American Scytltes for Sale.-g\tDOZENS CANADA PATTERN i wt I\\ F SCYTHES, of American Manufacture, each one Warranted.Being made from better material, they are superior in quality and appearance to those made in England, and can be sold at lower prices.Apply to ANDERSON, AULDJO, EVANS & Co.Jan.3, J850.PrClm\u20142 ENGLISH CONGOU AND SOUCHONG TEAS- 1 /i PACKAGES bought before the late extraordinary advance in convenient sizes\u2014Caitics, Boxes, Half Chests, and Chests, original packages, and admirably suited for Families laying in their Winter Stock, Twenty per Cent, cheaper than any other House in Town.Terms Cash.SAMUEL COCHRANE, Proprietor.P.S.\u2014Will close at Seven until the 1st of April next, after which at Eight o\u2019clock except Saturday nights open uniil Ten o\u2019clock.Canton House,\t) 109, Notre Dame Street, > Dec.20, 1849.\t>\t231 E' f «TOOTH BRUSHES \u2014The Subscribers have 5 just received a Large Assurtrnont ol ENGLISH Sc FRENCH TOOTH BRUSHES S.J.LYMAN & Co.Place d\u2019Arrnes.December 11.\t227 c AN DIED CITRON PEEL Do\tOrange Peel Do\tLemon Peel WILLIAM LYMAN & CO., 194 & 196, St.Paul Street.December 4.\t224 NEW AND ECONOMICAL NIGHT LAMP, Te Burn without either Wick or Cotton, rilHE Subscriber has much pleasure to inform JL his Friends and Customers, that he has been appointed SOLE AGEN T, for Canady, for the sale of BERRIDGE & SONS NEW SAFETY LAMP to burn without Wick or Cotton, merely by placing one of the Lamps upon some Oil in a Tumbler, and applying a light to the Tube, a most beautiful and brilliant light can be had at a cost of one penny per week.These Lamps are strongly recommended by the Medical Profession in England, to be used in sick chambers, as they leave no unpleasant smell from smoke or otherwise.They can be seen in use at the Subscrib.er\u2019s Store, where they may be had at 6d.each Lamp.Montreal, Nov.6.JOHN LEVEY.212 FREDERICK FENNEY\u2019S WARRANTED TALLYHO RAZORS.TtVERY ONE WARRANTED TO SUAVE.Be wise, and try them! Ordinary Razors | any one can make ; these are extraordinary ! and : warranted to cut a hair.Sold Wholesale and Retail by all Hardware J Merchants in Canada\u2014each one being warranted.Agent for the Manufacturer, JAMES HUTTON, Montreal.December 15, 1849.\t229 WR ÏTÏN G A ND OTHER PA PER.^ÏIHE Undersigned have now on hand and are JL constantly receiving from the 44 Sherbrooke Paper Mills,\u201d an assortment of the PAPER there manufactured, comprising\u2014 Letter, Pot and Note Writing, various sizes, ruled and otherwise.Newspaper Printing, various sizes and weights.Envelope, Tissue, and Wrapping, various sizes, and weights, white and colored.And are prepared to sell or take orders lor early delivery at prices considerably below the ordinary.SCOTT & GLASSFORD, Agents for Sherbrooke Paper Mills, 204, St.Paul Street, Montreal.December 20.\t231 H BROWN & CHILDS AVE just received another Lot of Ladies* Fine FRENCH SLIPPERS, BUSKINS, SHOE TIES, PRUNELLA BOOTS, Misses and Infants\u2019 SHOES, from Boston.The above lot, with what we can now gel made here, makes our Stock complete.We shall continue to Sell our Goods at leis prices than any of our competitors who keep throe-pence per week of their men for waiching ua : we believe it to be now comparatively safe for Journeymen to work for us, as the Watch is not on more than two-thirds of the time ; and there has not been, to our knowledge, a man or child waylaid or beaten for the last three days.June 30.\t104 ~\"to be sold.\\ PAIR of Handsome CARRIAGE tm_ HORSES, quiet in Double and Single Harness, the Owner having no further use for them.Apply at the Herald Office.November 1.\t210 Yellow tine limber ihere is not a large stock, j Society\u2019s proceedings, and the stops which but sufficient, being equal to last year\u2019s ; it was | should he immediately taken at the opening of held firmly during the spring, and realized from\t~ 60s to 67s 6J per load.Since the season began it has fluctuated slightly, but recently forced sales have brought inlerior as low as 52s, and 62s 6d is the highest quotation.Quebec Oak Timber has made but liuie way during the importation : the full rates were 95s per load, wi,h occasional se- i lections above this, and inferior as low as 1 70s.The consurnp ion seems reduced to 500 loads against 3.000 in 1848, 1,100 in 1847, and 1,900 in 1846 : its use for railway carriages seems now discontinued.For Elm Timber vve had a bare maikot, and 70s to 75s was the first quotation, with a fair sale, even advancing as high as 80s, until ihe late arrivals brought a copious supply, which leaves the present value uncertain, \u2014probably lower when sales are desired.Some very choice birch Timber has been again brought in short large.squared logs, and obtains favour : 80s to 85s was the value.A small quantity of large sizes in Ash Timber will always sell ; oilier sorts attract no notice ; ibe prices are 60s to 70s, according to size.Quebec Staves almost stand alone as a remunerative article ; the market being clear of stock when the season opened, £70 lor Standard and £18 lor Puncheon were the mean prices, with an advance and a reduction ol 50s on the former and 20s on the latter, as the coopers\u2019 work was active or the contrary and although there is a considerable item of Staves in the dock stock the quantity of unsold Quebec is moderate and with some concession may be realised.The stock is swollen by a large import from the United which, being similar thin Staves, are classified this session, will he arranged by the first council early in January ; and their resolutions will be acted upon, until they can be submitted to a general nneting of the society for approval or alteration.\u201d COLONIAL AFFAIRS.{From the London Times.) The present turn of colonial affairs has thrown all political parties out of their reckoning.When a quick sand has shifted to a new position, or volcanic agency has suddenly heaved up to the shore, the old charts can no longer he trusted» and new bearings are necessary.In the present instance these natural phenomena have just taken place, but the future channel remains to be indicated.A deep impression pervades all classes ol politicians that the ground has shifted under us, and that the mother country must adapt her policy to the new state of things\u2014Hie new state being, in fact, a spontaneous development of the colonies themselves.Indeed, no subject, since the happy settlement of the food question, has elicited so great a variety, and such earnestness of opinion.Yet among the multitude ol preachers we have vainly looked for one so bold as to take more than one siep, so tej speak, into the future.Those who cross a flood on stepping stones, or descend a sleep ctifi', find il necessary to look several steps ; in advance.What next, and what next ?iiui i even the boldest colonial philosophers are now brought lo a stand still, for they disguise their perplexity by recommending some course which with Quebec Puncheon.The supply affects the\tj\treally leads to\tnothing.Such\tis the utter want consumption of Punlieon, although holier suited\t:\t«¦rdefiniie and\twell considered\tpropositions, of a to dry.cask making from toe prevalence of so .son lo hold water more than a twelvemonth, that much worm-eaten wood.A small supply of Can.\t'\t've must regard the public as\tstill in a state of ada masts inis sufficed for our demand.Of Yel-\tamazement at\tthe rude shocks\twhich its colonial low Fine there is still old stock; of Red Pine, ! ffemy has lately received.One ol the most characteristic symptoms of the reigning confusion is a singular coalition just an-nounced.No body ol arbitrators tor contending none.{From the London Times, 1th January.) The quarterly statement of the revenue made up to Saturday more than justifies the favourable anticipations we had been enabled to make.Compared with the corresponding quarter of the previous year, the quarter just ending shows a total increase of ordinary revenue to the amount of £470,003.This is made up by a decided increase under six heads out of the eight.On the quarter\u2019s Customs the increase is £33,235 , notwithstanding the two great reductions ot duty in the interval since January 5, 1849.The increase other Slates are invited to enter into the same J on the Excise, which, through a clerical error, was w chant\u2019s Office, by a Young Man of 18 years of age, who is desirous of learning business ; he is acquainted with Book-keeping by Single and Double Entry, and can speak the French and English languages fluently.Good references will be given as to character.Any communication left at the Herald Office for C.D.G., will be attended to.January 22.\t10 CÜT U AT ION W ANTED.\u2014A Perso if wou lü be happy to obtain a Situation in Canada ; has been a Book-Keeper in one of the largest Iron Foundries and Machine Building Establishments in North Britain.He is a business character, has a general knowledge of Mechanics and Mechanical Charges, can work at the Lathe and Vice, and will make himself generally useful.Please apply by letter to S., care of Andrew Hunterson, Worcester, Massachusetts.N.B.Can produce testimonials as to character and qualifications., January 17.\t__________________n\u20148 A YOUNG GENTLEMAN, perfectly understanding the English and French languages, and who writes an unexceptionable hand, is desirous of obtaining Employment as a Copyist or Translator.Apply at this Office.October 24.\t203 CAST STEEL SAWS.fgHIE Subscribers manufacture from the BEST JL CAST STEEL, CIRCULAR SAWS from two inches to sixty inches in diameter; also, CAST STEEL MILL, PIT, CROSS-CUT and other SAWS, all of superior quality.They also state that these Saws are ground by their patent Machinery, which enables them to claim exclu» sively for their Saws the advantages derived from the use of these Machines, which are highly important, as the Saws are thereby made perfectly true and regular in thickness, or thick or thin at any part\u2014thus strengthening Circular Saws by gradually increasing them in thickness, from the cutting edge to the.r centre.The truth and uniformity of their surface renders less set in the saw teeth necessary, and on this account less power is required to drive the saws ; besides they will not need so frequent sharpening, be less liable to become heated, and also produce a saving of tim-ber.These Saws may be had of the subscribers, or of the principal Hardware Merchants throughout the United States.R.HOE & CO., 29 and 31 Gold Street, New York.October 19.\t199 treaty and stipulations\u2014and as President Taylor observes, the work constructed under these guarantees, will become a bond of peace instead of a cause of contention and strife between the nations of the earth.In other respects the relations of America with Great Britain are of the most friendly character, and the removal of all restrictions on the daws of navigation by both countries, is justly commemorated as an era in their common commercial interests.Upon the whole this message is creditable to tho American government, and should prove satisfactory to the country, for if the state of the finances is encumbered with outstanding liabilities, that evil is the result of former excesses, and the price of their late victories.\u201d Mr.Hudson.\u2014 Mr.Hudson, having pretty well settled his accounts with the York and Berwick Railway, has now to arrange with the York and North Midland.We hear he refuses to refund the excess (about £l8,00U) of the money be obtained, while chairman, for tho Londesborough property, unless it be allowed to close afl claims.That, it is supposed, the shareholders will never consent to, and it is therefore expected that all the claims against him will be got up and made at once.The 44 suspense account,\u201d £33,000.will form an awkward item, which, it is believed, if any of the shareholders insist on having refunded, neither the directors nor other shareholdsrs will he aille legally to forgive.\u2014 Herapalh's Railway Journal.Arrival of a Chinese at Nantes.\u2014A young Chinese from Nankin, named Lo, arrived a few days since at Nantes.On landing he went to the house of the bishop, who received him with the greatest kindness.This young man, who is 22 years ot age, belongs lo a family who have professed the Catholic religion for the last six generations.One of its members is now acting as a missionary in his native country.This young Lo speakes Latin with the greatest fluency.He is about to proceed to Naples, to enter the coL lege of the Propaganda, where eight of his countrymen are already established.Remarkable Incident in Banking.\u2014The directors of the Sheffield Banking Company have addressed a circular to the Shareholders, containing the following notice:\u201444 In pursuance of the powers given in the 13th section of the deed of settlement, the Sheffield Banking Company, finding that in the present state ol commercial and monetary affairs, they cannot profitably employ so large a capital as heretofore, have concluded lo return to the shareho ders the sum ol £10 per share, which will he paid at the bank on and alter the 21st January instant.\u201d The Talked of Army Reduction.\u2014Wr have good reason for stating that the manner in which the contemplated reduction in the army is to take place has not yet been determined on, Earl Grey the Colonial Secretary, on the one hand, urging the withdrawal of troops from the colonies as the most effectual mode, but which is strongly opposed by his grace, the Comm inder-in-Chief.{From the Liver pool Annual Trade Report.) * Ashes.\u2014This article has undergone extraordinary fluctuations in value this season, more particularly Pot Ashes.This description continued to maintain the unsually high price of 5Us attained in December last year until April this year, when ih3 anticipations ol heavy supplies caused a reaction in June, and the value declined to 29s lo 3Us for both Pot and Pearl.The now arrivals opened at 31 s to 32s for Pot, and these supplies being much wan ed were soon bought up, and prices again advanced to 42s in August, since which, from the heavy arrivals of the lall shipments, the value has gradually receded, with the exception of some alight rally in October, to the presçnl quotation of 33s to 33s 6d for Por, and 36s to 36s 6d for Pearl.The high rates current at the beginning of ihe season, and the great want of stocks, stimulated shipments from Canada, and the excess printed in mir Sa'urday\u2019s number £36,000 instead of £360,000, appears to be 371,899.This increase arises principally under the heads of malt and spirits, and in some degree from all ihe duties with the.single exception ol hops.On the stamps there is an increase of £37,262, which occurs chiefly in the legacy duties.A decrease of £23, 052 in the assessed taxes is owing to their having been less promptly paid than in the last year ; while the increase of £24,960 in the property and income tax, as vve observed on Saturday, has arisen from improved assessments under schedule A.The Post Office exhibits a decrease of £46,000 ; the Crown lands and miscellaneous items an increase respectively of £30,000 and £36,699.In ihe comparison of the two yeais, ihe total difference in favour of the year just ended is £219,755.A decrease of £233,562 on the Customs of the whole year need give no alarm now that the return lor the quarter prove that vve are fast recovering fiom the immediate effect of reduced duties.The decrease of £78,325 on the Excise is caused entirely by the postponement ol ibe second instalment of hop duty, in amount about £180,000 but lor which circumstance there would have been an increase on the year\u2019s Excise to ihe amount of more than £100,000.Thé year\u2019s revenue under the head of Stamps, shows an increase ol £254.627., arising from an improvement in all the heads ol duty, but especially Deeds and Legacy duties.'The Property Tax, Post, office, Crown Lands, and 44 Miscellaneous,\u201d ail exhibit a considerable increase on the year, especially the last item, where the difference in favour of the year j ist ended is no less than £148,076.Taking China Money, Advances, and other extraordinary items into account, the increase on the quarter is £371,125.; the decrease on the year £30,131.{From the London Daily News.) If there be one thing on which vve may speak with more confidence than another, in relation to political affairs, it is this\u2014that n thorough change isuboul to take place in our colonial policy.We will not say by.whom this change will be effected, or its precise nature; but that it must take place, and that speedily, if Great Britain is not to 44 shrink into its own shell,\u201d denuded of its moral as well as physical grandeur and power, is obvious to the most superficial observer.The reign of the Greys is rapidly drawing to a close\u2014a reign which will he chronicled by the future historian as die most disastrous in the whole period of our colonial rule.We have been led to make these remarks by a document which has just been placed in our hands, and from which vve learn that a Society for the Relorm ol Colonial Government has just.been established.'This society has-been pr' jectcd and is supported by men entertaining the most opposite views on political subjects generally, but whose sentiments are in unison on this particular point, and whose united exertions cannot tail to produce a powerful effect.Without offering any direct opinion upon the So ciety, either in its constitution or designs, we feel that we should be wanting in our duty, especially to the colonies, if we did not give to the doeumeni now before us, the utmost publicity in our power, that those who arc most deeply intere.-ied in ihe question may be informed of what is being done, and shape their own course accordingly.The following is the document in question :\u2014 44 SOCIETY FUR THE REFORM OF COLONIAL GOVERNMENT.44 'The general object of the society to aid in obtaining for every dependency, which is a true colony of England, the real management of all local affairs by ihe colony itself, including the disposal ol the waste lands, and the right to frame and alter its local constitution at pleasure.According to the views of the society, this municipal or local independence, this entire relief of distaj complications, or they deceive it now, in telling it that the application made by them, ot their great principles have changed nothing in the views and abuses of the monarchial regime.We defy them to gel out of this dilemma.But j the truth is, ihat, of many, the republic was not an end, but a means.How, without that, can they explain their conduct since Lee.lûih ?I he I Republican opposition to the old Bourbons, their living types of divine right, or to Louis Philippe, that representative of royal and parliamentary ; usurpation, may be conceived but it cannot be i comprehended, with respect to Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, elected, proclaimed, and recognized as the head and president of the republic.The reason is, that the Repuolicans of tho ; canaille, not very consistent with their former con-' viciions, are so with rancour, and it is not without ! bitterness that they behold authority again in the ascendant.They who after having seized on i power by insurrection to insurrection, and only I laid it down with orders absolutely to do so, by the nation consulted.The acts of anger of the j ambitious Republicans against the press, are so ! many political faults.They coniolain of the rea i action which they created by their acts of ye.uer-i day, and their acts of to-day would call for a monarchial restoration of some sort or other.Louis Napoleon Bonaparte could alone protect them against old remembrances and recent tears, but such is the passion of exclusive parties, that they want to gam or lose all- Washington, and the first Consul Bonaparte, met with the same in* terested enmity\u2014the vmue of the first disdained them\u2014the glory of the second crushed them.The difference between the United States and France resulted from the different conduct of the two great men, equally undervalued.Will Louis Napoleon he free to choose between the two models ?'The republicans will decide, it is confidently expected ihat the above and other articles which have appeared m the first numbers of the Napoleon, were written by the President himself, and that the re establishment 01 the empire ts clearly indicated by the movement.The correspondent of he London Herald, writing from Paris on Wednesday evening, says\u2014 44 There is a rumour whispered about, to which, from its very serious character, 1 would not even make an allusion, did I not know ihat it has made an impression on persons not disposed to swallow idle stories.It is said that a treaty has actually been concluded between the Emperor of Russia and the President of the Republic., the particulars of which will yet be found to be anything bui desirable, so tar as England\u2019s interests are concerned.General De Lamonciere arrived this morning from St.Petersburg, and M.Gustave de Beaumont, had arrived at the same time from Vienna.As the gallant General left his family on the road, and hurried on before them, it is conjectured that something of importance determined him to hasten his journey.An aid-de-camp of Gen.Baraguay D\u2019HiIJiers, has just reached Paris, with important despatches, the nature of which has in part transpired.It would seem that there is little likelihood of an understanding being come to between illegal» lant general and the government of the Cardinals, owing to the manifest jealousy of French influence entertained by the latter.While the Cardinals are for placing the Pope under the protection ot a mixed garrison of Austrians and Italians, General D\u2019lliliiers insists upon leaving a French force of 12,000 men in the city of Boise.This proposition has been met by the Cardinals, with a decided refusal, and matters are as far as ever from being arranged.The French Funds continue to rise.The five \"per cents have reached 94f 55c.AUSTRIA.The public mind in Vienna is much taken up with reports of a coup d\u2019etat ; which reports are even cuirentin military circles.The day named for putting it into effect, is the 6lh or 7th instant.The military measures are really formidable.\u2014 Within a circle of six miles round Vienna, the houses are lull of soldiers.'There are at least 50,000 men in Vienna, and 50,000 could be poured in by the railways in the course of three or four days.The reply of the Austrian Cabinet to a note from Prussia on the subject of the Erfurth is as follows:\u2014'The Austrian cabinet is very sorry to find that its former communications, instead of producing the desired effect upon Ptussia, have elicited replies, which, though evasive, are full of significance.In its former remonstrances, the Austrian cabinet fully stated its view of the operation, and of the consequences of the step which Prussia was taking.Since these remonstrances were unheeded, Austria will not condescend lo wage a war of words with the Prussian cabinet, but reserving all her objections, protests, and rights, till a further opportunity, she wishes it to be understood that her silence is not to be cowsimed into an acquiescence with the Prussian project, nor into a ther i doreliciion ot her rights.The report that an alliance offensive and defen» sive had been concluded between Prussia, France and England, was circulated at Berlin on the 3Uth ultimo.General Count Urbana, who commanded the Imperialists when they were defeated at Raab, by the Hungarians, has committed suicide at Verona.The typhus fever was raging fearfully at Vienna on the 20th ult.No less than 30 medical men had been seized with it from visiting their patients.PRUSSIA.Bolin, Jan.7.\u2014It is understood that the mi» nisterial crisis was over, and that on this day the Chambers would receive a royal message, proposing the oath lo be taken to the constitution, and accepting the same, with some amendments.TURKEY.The correspondent of the London Times, under date ol Constaminople, Dec.19, says :\u2014\u201c A courrier has arrived here from St.Petersburg, with the Emperor\u2019s answer to the last communication made to ins Imperial Highness by the Sublime Porte, with regard lo the question of the Polish and Hungarian Refugees.In a former letter I told you that the Turkish ministers were willing to consent to the expulsion parties, no jury 44 de medietaie lingua\u201d was ever composed of such heterogeneous materials as a council of political economists and Protectionists now deliberating on the reform of Colonial Government.A sudden danger or the common horror ol an awful catastrophe will bring to; those who might otherwise have kept their distance through life, and it is hardly possible to account otherwise for the association of persons who must disagree, and can hardly fail to separate, as soon as they begin to reason and converse.We Will not inquire whether 44 Radicals\u201d desire noth-ing more than economy or independence, or whether Tories have uniformly preferred a democracy on the spot to a more exclusive, though \\ central, administration.It is quite enough for the present purpose if the excellent Conservative gentlemen now sitting 44 cheek by jowl\u201d with Molse-worth, Cobden, and Hume hold the views ascribed to them.'They wish to see the colonies who!» ly independent, and the mother country wholly relieved of expense, 44 except only that of the defence of the colony from aggression by foreign powers at war with the empire.\u201d While the lions and the lambs of our Legislature are thus lying down together in paradisiacal harmony as to the government of ou:- colonies, the greatest part of the British world expresses its colonial sympathies by abusing the Colonial office, Downing Street, and Lord Grey.Perhaps there are no paints on which men are more generally agreed.There is disappointed monopoly and a war of races at Canada, border wars and anticonvict agitation at the Cape, insurrection of ua- .\t0 .lives at Ceylon, general bankruptcy at the West | ^ alllihose' 1 oles vvho had been concerned in toe Indies, and the same story with variations through- | *alc \u201cJin*aiian \u2018\u2018^Uf^ction, but that they object-out most of the Australian colonies.It is an easy | ed 10 lbe expulsion ol Polish Refugees who were and obvious hypothesis to assign all these troubles | re3,donl 111 ItuUey previous to that event, and to one source, either to the temper of the Colonial ' wbo weie provided with breach or other pass-Secretary or to the genius of red tape, and that I Porta mixture of rashness and delay which is conceiva ble enough where less than thirty officials have to govern fifty dependencies scattered over the globe, the opinion receives a wide and efficient support from a cloud of witnesses in the colonies themselves.When every colonial city, from Toronto to Wellington, writes home that its energies are blighted by the Colonial Office, vve must have more than common obstinacy and perverseness to slight the undesigned coincidence of so many independent authorities.While the public mind is in that feverish condition which the mere hubbub of so many murmurs is sure to create, it suddenly dawns upon us that the matter might be arranged to the satisfaction of all parties at a computed saving of £10,090,000 a year to ourselves, with the prospect uf unbounded prosperity to tho colonies, and the most delightful harmony for the future between the mother country and her numerous ofLpring.To cement so glorious a reconciliation a sacrifice is necessary.Somebody must be found on whose head all our sins must be poured, and with whose ashes all our animosities must be buried.We need not go far.Let Lord Grey and Mr.Hawes be bound in red tape, and laid on a vast pile of colonial reports and corrcs* pondence ; let the Council of the new Colonial Society, each in the single garment of the Cinga-les martyr, apply the expiatory torch, and abolish tho last vestiges of the colonial oppression.FRANCE.The Assembly has been occupied during the pist week in debating the policy of sending out more troops to the River Plate, and also with the provisions of a new education bill.It.Inis been decided that no more troops shall be sent to the Plate.Vjrious'proclarnalions have been issued against all kinds ol clubs and secret and political ass >eia» lions.The National announces, that 25,000 men of the army employed in restoring the Pope lo his throne are to remain at Rome, the Government having concluded contracts lor the maintenance of that force in the Pontifical dominions during the firs quarter of 1850.A new piper, called the Napoleon, and said to be the organ of the President of the Republic, has just been started at Paris The following ar~ tides from its pages, is supposed lo indicate the inclinations of the President.Of two things\u2014one, cither the Republicans have deceived the people in preaching to it lor forty years that the application of their principles would lead to the cessation of all evils, and of all political The Caar has agreed to the terms proposed by the Porte, and Detnbmski, and the other Poles who served in Hungary, are to be expelled, and their countrymen resident in 'Turkey, who were not concerned in taat insurrection, are to remain unmolested.It, however, wiihout reference to the country under whose protection he may be, any shall, whilst resident in the Ottoman Empire, be guilty of any act hostile to the government ot the Emperor Nicholas, he shall at the demand of the Prussian Envoy, be cancelled from the Sultan\u2019s dominions.Kossuth and the Hungarian refugees are to be confined in a fortified town in the interior.They are not to be close prisoners, but their place of residence will bo under the constant surveillance of the Turkish authorities.The Correspondent of the Morning Herald, however, writing on the same day, asserts that the Emperor of Russia has refused to accept the Sultan\u2019s guarantee for the conduct of the Polos, and that the matter is as far from being settled aa ever.Printer and Printing.\u2014J.T.Buckingham, Esq., m his series of reminiscences, in course of publication in the Boston Courier, speaks of the importance of the printer to the author, as foU I lows:\u2014Many who condescend to illuminate the world with the fire of their genius, through the columns of a newspaper, lit ie think ol the lot of the printer, who, almost suffocated by the smoke ol a lamp, sits up till midnight to cor-rectHiis false grammar, bad orthography, and punctuation.1 have seen the arguments ol lawyers, in high repute as scholars, seat to the printer in their own hand writing, many words, and especially technical and foreign tetins, abbreviated, misspelled, and entirely out of place.I have seen the sermons of eminent divines, sent to ihe pre>a without points or capitals to designate the division, of sentences; sermons, which if published with the imperfections ol the manuscr pi, would disgrace the printer\u2019s devil, if he were the author, suppose they had been so printed.The primer would have been treated with scorn and cont mpt, as an illiterate blockhead\u2014as a fellow better fitted to be a wood sawyer than a printer.Nobody would have believed that such gross and palpable faults were owing to the ignorance or carelessness of the author.And no one but the practical printer knows how many hours a compositor, and after him a proof-reader, is compelled to spend in reducing to a readable condition, manuscripts that the writers themselves would be pu place on record in our columns :\u2014 Oshawa, Dec.27, 1849.Sut, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letierff the 26th instant, informing me that His Lxcelleicy the Governor General, had commanded you t> request me to inform you whether, with my cornent, my name was placed among the signers of ui address lo the people of Canada, published in several of the Montreal newspapers in October last, in which separation from the British Empire,and annexation to the U.States of America are reiominended as a remedy lor certain evils, under which the Province is therein alleged to be laboring : To which I have the horor to reply, for the information of His Exccliencj, that the address to which you refer, having been presented for my signature, 1 gave the same a careful examination and finding it clearly expressed therein, that the idea of separaiion from the British Empire would not be entertained without the consent of the mother country, believing it to be the primary object of the signers to that address to obtain such consent, and being of opinion that a peaceable separaiion from the British Empire would promote the best interests of Canada, I willingly affixed my name to said address.Permit me lo remark in conclusion, that the more the subject is investigated, the more are my convictions strengthened, that with England\u2019s consent such a change would be beneficial lo Canada.I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, A.Farewell.Oshawa, January 1st, 1850.Sir,\u2014I have the honor to acknowledge the re-ceipt of your letter of the 29th instant, informing me that His Excellency feels bound to maintain the connexion between this Province and Parent State by all the constitutional means in his power, and that, because I signed an address recommend, ing a peaceable separation from the British Ehi-n pire, Her Majesty has no lunher occasion for my services as a Justice of the Peace for the Home District.To whichl have the honor to reply, that the sign, era to that address have no desire to sever the con-nection existing between this colony and the parent state without the consent of the mother country, and their efforts are only directed to the diffusion of such information throughout the couru try, as may induce the offspring to ask the parent to permit a separation deemed advantageous to both.Should the parent consent\u2014well : if not, paternal sympathy forbids the punishment of the offspring merely for asking the question.If the authority of the parent were contemned, then the punishment of the offender would be called for, and the dismissals which have taken place be well-timed.Permit me to remark in conclusion, that if the dismissal of an humble individual from the magistracy he calculated to strengthen the connection between Canada and the parent slate, depriving that same person of the commission which he holds in the Militia will, in all probability, promote the same object ; and that the administration may be relieved from the anomalous position in which they have placed themselves by dismissing me from the magistracy, professedly to strengthen the tie which hinds the colony to the patent state, and at the same time permitting me to retain the more important trust of Captain of the Militia, I desire that you will inform His Excellency that I resign that trust.I am.Sir, Your obedient servi., A.Farewell.The following is published in the Sherbrooke Gazette, of the 26th instant :\u2014 Compton, January 19th, 1850.Sir,\u2014We beg leave to acknowledge the re.ceipt of Letters dated the 10th January 1850, purporting to hear your signature, staling that you are commanded by the Governor General to en* quire whether our names had been affixed with our consent to the requesition to A.T.Galt, Esq., M.P.P.published in the Sherbrooke Gazette, the signers of which allege that they agree with the sentiments expressed in the Address to the People of Canada, on the subject of separation from the British Empire and Annexation to the United Slates of America.In reply, we have the honor to say that the above enjuiry is so impertinent in its nature, so decidedly indicative of childish imbecility, and above all so utleily subversive ol the constitutional liberty of Her Majesty\u2019s subjects, that it would seem impossible it could come, a's it purports to do, from u member of the Provincial Government.We w ould therefore beg to be informed, at your earliest convenience, whether your signature is real, or whether, as we are in duty bound to believe to be the case, it has been forged by some evil disposed person, who wishes to bring Her Most Gracious Majesty\u2019s benignant and consti-tutiona! Government into contempt.As it may possibly aid you in detecting the person, as you will doubtless feel it incumbent on you to attempt to do, '.ho has been guilty of so grievous an offence, we herewith enclose the let-ters to which we refer.We have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obd\u2019t serv\u2019ts, B.POMROY, J.P.J* LOUCHE, \u201c A.STIMSON, \u201c J.SMITH, To Hon.J.Leslie, Prov.Sec\u2019y.On Dit.\u2014It was currently reported yesterday afternoon, on tho authority of a private letter, that My wife\u2019s uncle\u2019\u2019 has at last re-' signed, ami that the keys of the Colonial Office have been entrusted to Fox Maule.To Correspondents.\u2014lt A resilient in St.Antoine Ward\u201d is, we think a little loo severe upon our officious friend\u2014if he he \u201c out of pocket,\u201d he is sufficiently punished.Suppressions \u2014Mr.Hincks at Wood-stock.\u2014 Mr.Vansittart and the Globe.\u2014The Pilot having accused us of suppressing something which to the best of our knowledge never existed, we now return the compliment by asking why he suppressed Mr.Hincks\u2019 speech at Woodstock.Take us at the worst, we don\u2019t suppress the speeches of our own friends, yet our ministerial contemporaries who are so anxious for publicity keep us in the dark as to the exposition of the ministerial views given by the Inspector General himself to his own constituents.The Globe has done the same thing, though he alleges the public reports are incorrect.But the following may afford a clue to the spirit of this latter journal, and the reason his friend in Montreal has followed suit.The Woodstock British American says :\u2014 We tell the Globe once for nil that our report oj Mr.flnicks' speech is perfectly correct in every particular, and were il necessary, we could fur.nish lhe tes imony ofthe majority of ihose present on that occasion in support of what we now state.In tact several of Mr.Hindis\u2019 wannest friends have expressed, to the writer, their admiration ol the correctness and impartiality of the report.\u2019I\u2019lie Globe has a correspondent in Woodstock, who is well known to be an active partizan of the ministry, and a warmly attached friend ol Mr.Hincks.This gentlemen was present at the meeting, and was busily engaged during rhe time reporting, ns he afterwards informed the writer, (or tfie Globe.That report was sent to Toronto, to tlie Editor of the Globe, but it never was published ! \u2019 It was not convenient to give it under the ministerial sanction, that the Retrenchment Ministry would make no retrenchment.In connection with the Woodstock Meeting, we may also observe that Mr.Hincks took upon himself to justify the continuance of Mr.Vansittart on the list of Magistrates, while the Globe, on the same day that it noticed the Woodstock Meeting, alleged that it was undoubtedly true that Mr Vansittart had been guilty of embezzlement of monies which came into his hands officially, and censured the Grand Jury for throwing out a bill against that gentlemen, charging him with the alleged offence.Thus we have the Minister assuming the responsibility of appointing a magistrate, whom the ministerial organ declares ought to be in the Penitentiary.The British American has a letter on this subject from the firm, whose license money Mr.Van-sit tart is said lo have appropriated.They say : \u2014 We have always taken out a Shop License for the sale of Wines and Spirits\u2014and prior to 1847 have received ilfrom the hands of Mr, Vansillart\u2019s Clerk, or Deputy ; making the payment of the duty as a transaction quite distinct from Mr.Vansiltart\u2019s private account.In the year 1847 however, our License was not asked for; we did not apply for it, or notice the fact that it had not been issued, till after the close of the year; and Mr.Vansittarl\u2019s account, (in which wo were not in the habit of charging the License,) was handed to him without the credit of this License appearing in it at all.This omission being afterwards observed, our clerk gave credit for the License (1847) in the day book, on the 2nd March, 1849,\u2014but it was not posted as a separate entry in the Ledger.Mr.Vansittart was then absent ui Montreal, and we afterwards inadvertantly neglected to inform him of it.The License lor 1848 was credited to Mr.Vansittart in our Ledger of that year, and consequently did appear in the accouut rendered to him, but upon settling this bill he merely took the gross amount from the entry in our books, and observed at the time, that he had not look, ed at the account sent him, but would take our words for it, and rely upon us to correct any error he should subsequently find.Wo did not then, or at any time previously, cull Mr.Vansittart\u2019s attention lo these credits; they hud been made without his knowledge or consent, and no observation on the subject passed from him to us until after tlie charge tor embezzlement had been preferred by Mr.Hincks.The matter had been known to Mr.Charles, the present Inspector of Licenses, by reference to our bouks, more than six months ago, and as no sort of nonce was token of it we supposed it had been regarded in the light of an oversight, and were thunderstruck when after so long an interval it was charged against Mr.Vansittart as a criminal transaction.La réponse da Lord John Russeii a é'é brève et directe ; le Herald aurait pu trouver de l\u2019espace pour le publier.\u2014Z« Canadien.The Pilot\u2019s Mare\u2019s Nest.\u2014On Tuesday last, th,e \u201c organ\u201d said :\u2014 But we will add, that a deputation did wait on Lord John Russell ou the subject of tho Annexation trovemèht ; that his answer was such as we hinted at ; and that the answer has been carefully suppressed by the parly to whom it was addressed, at all events it has not appeared in print.The reason we leave our readers to judge.If the Herald be not aware of these facts he is more ignorant than we believed him to be\u2014of what is going on.On Thursday we replied:\u2014 We don\u2019t believe one word of all this ; but, as the Pilot knows that Lord John's \u201c answer has been received and carefully suppressed\u201d, he muât know by whom it has been thusscurvily treated\u2014 out with it, then,\u2014let the public know who it is, who thus seeks to deceivo them.And on Saturday, the \u201c organ\u201d responds :\u2014 Our information is from an undoubted source, and is correct in every particular.Since the Herald is kept so well informed on such mat.ters, he must also be aware that our statement is true.Wo could not dosire a better or a more concise specimen of the Pilot\u2019s facts and arguments.In the first instance, he gulps down a most preposterous flam of some waggish quidnunc, about a deputation of Annexationists waiting upon Lord John Russell, and the \u201c careful suppression\u201d (it must have been \u201c careful\u201d indeed, considering the organ\u2019s affected knowledge of it,) of his Lordship\u2019s reply.In this lie only manifested the soft and simple quality of his brains.He could not, of course, on such a subject, be long in discovering that he had been hoaxed ; but, rather than own \u201c the soft impeachment\u201d, he converts his error into a falsehood.Our contemporary should furbish-up his logic, and, with this object, vve should recommend to his attention, Watts\u2019 celebrated treatise on that science.He says: \u2014 When I hear my neighbour speak that which is not true, and I say to him, \u201d this is not true, or this is false\u201d, I only convey to him the naked idea of his error; this is the primary idea, (as was our\u2019s, on first discovering the \u201c nest\u201d) ; but if I say \u201cit is a lie\u201d, the word \u201c lie\u201d carries also a secondary idea, (that with which we are now fully impressed) ; for it implies both the falsehood of the speech, and my reproach and censure of the speaker.Annexation Meetino at St.Edodard.\u2014 A Meeting of the County of Huntingdon was held yesterday at St.Edouard, at which over 800 persons were present, to consider the subject of Annexation.A letter was read from L J.Papineau, Esq., excusing himself from attending according to invitation, after which several resolutions were passed \u2014in favor of Annexation, of the abolition of tythes, of the abolition of the Seigniorial Tenure, andin favor of payment of petit jurors.The resolutions were carried unanimously The Meeting was addressed by Messrs.Lane-lot, Bureau, Dorion, Hon.R.Jones, and Jacob Dewitt, Esq., M.P.P.Quebec Election.\u2014The telegraph wires between this and Quebec being down, we are without information as to the result of the election.On Saturday, at the close of the polling, the numbers were :\u2014 For Chabot .1340 For Legaré .\t660 The office which the Editor of the Transcript ia to receive from tlie present Government is a Judgeship, and the first use he intends to make of it is to appoint the Editor of the Herald Crier of the Court, that being a situation which requires for its efficient discharge more lungs than brains.\u2014 Transcript.Joe Millar\u2014page I.\u2014Poor fellow ! We gave, on Saturday last, omlibcral ministry an Algerine authority for their attempts to pad-lock the lips of their follow citizens; and we now, as cheerfully, present their amiable Inspector General, Hadgee Hincks,\u2014in the following article from the N.Y.Tribune \u2014with an equally sound authority for his conduct, during his late pilgrimage to his political Mecca, in joining the mob in hooting-down Mr.Vansittart, when leplying to the said Hadgee\u2019s attacks npon him.\u201c Princo John\u201d is, assuredly, a perfect specimen of a mob-worshipef\u2014the meanest, the most dangerous and base of the whole courtier tribe.He is, evidently, as ignorant of what constitutes \u201ctrue liberty\u201d as any \u201c Dignified Neutral\u201d, or Colonial \u201cchiseller\u201d in existence\u2014and that, Goodness knows, gives him \u201cample verge and room enough\u201d for any amount of cowardly and tyrannical abuse of power :\u2014 The Prince's Idea of Liberty.\u2014Mr.John Van Buren, summing up in defence of Captain Isaiah Rynders & Co., on the trial for inciting the deplorable and fatal riot of the Astor Place Opera House on the lUth of May last, was impelled to propound such doctrines as these : \u201c Mr.Mneready\u2019a position is probably known to you : lie associates with the higher circles over the water, and many here, who think of going there, and of the reception they might have there, showed a great regard for Mr.Macready here.\u2014 It became, therefore, a great question with them of law and order what the public i pinion should be.Macready, who had been driven away, was therefore told that he should be sustained, and should have another trial.Now, gentlemen, I say, this was unwarrantable and was calculated to excite a disturbance.#\t*\t*\t* The danger in this country is not from a mob.\u2014 It is not a permanent institution.I speak from long and close observation.It has been my duty and my desire lo see a great number assemble during tfie past twelve months.I have seen two great parties highly infuriated against each oilier, and high excitement, in tlie open air, in the Park, where thousands have met togetlier, and I agree that I have never been treated worse by a mob than I deserved.\" \u2014We shall enter into no controversy with Mr.VanBureu on tiie subject of his deserviugs, us on that subject he would certainly have the advantage of us.But his law and logic are legitimate themes of criticism, and as such we shall treat them.And when he gravely propounds the doctrine that, because two or three hundred persons, who went or were sent there for the purpose, interrupted and prevented Mr.Macready\u2019s playing on the-7th May, therefore he had no right to play on the lUh of May or at any lime subsequent to tlie first riot, so that whoever invited or encouraged him to piay here after the 7th was the inciting and culpable fomenter of a riot, we tell Mr.VanBuren lhat he is a baser and blacker tyrant at heart than any Autocrat Nicholas or Butcher Haynau in exislenee.Even if five successive theatres full of peop'e had chosen not to hear Mr.Macready, that fact could give them or others no right at all to prevent any other thousand or even hundred of our Half Million of People hearing Mr.M.whenever it might please him to play and them lo be in attendance.Words are inadequate to express our detestation of the infernal ruffianism and cowardly tyranny whereof Mr.VanBuren appears as the eulogist and champion.Mr.V.B.lakes his own case to illustrate his doctrine, and we accept it.Mr.VanBuren was the leading orator of tlie Special Free Soil party in the struggle of 1848, and in that capacity spoke in Boston, Buffalo, and dozens of places, where there was a great numerical preponderance against his views and his party.Many things he said were inevitably distasteful to a large portion of the people among whom he canvassed, and in their judgment totally unwarranted by facts\u2014for instance, his strictures on Mr.Webster at Boston.Now suppose Mr.Webster\u2019s legions of friends in that city had seen fit lo raise a tumult in Funeuil Hall when Mr.V.B.was speaking there, and so prevent all intelligible utterance, would 1 the Prince\u2019 have considered that a good reason for keeping his mouth shut thereafter in Boston?And if his friends had made a second and more resolute attempt to secure a hearing for him, would he have considered this attempi \u201c unwarrantable\u201d, and those engaged in it the culpable instigators of \u201c a disturbance\u201d ?He couldn\u2019t think anything else in accordance with the logic ol his, Rynders speech.Let that Logic become law, ami there is an end to all true liberty of speech or of aeiion.Let all lovers of Freedom unile in deiesling and exe.rating it.Majority for Chabot 680 Those persons who take pleasure in the discussion of scientific subjects, must have enjoyed a rich treat in listening to the lecture delivered by T.S.Hunt, Esq., before the Mechanics\u2019 Institute, on Tuesday evening of last week.The subject,\u2014\u201c Light\u201d,\u2014was treated in a very luminous manner, profound, yet brilliant, sufficiently abstruse to please the learned, and rendered attractive to a popular audience by an agreeable analysis of theories, and by graceful illustrations.Grand Bonspeil.\u2014Tlie Committee of management are making active preparations for this grand match, it will come off some day tiuring next week.We understand that at least sixty players will be on the iee, and first rate sport may be expected.At the match of the Royal Caledonia Club of Scotland, held a short time since, near Glasgow, upwards of 1200 persons participated in the sport.Amongst whom were our late townsmen, Mr.Montgomerie,Mr.David Mair, Mr.Wm.Muir, and Mr.Hutchinson.Sands\u2019 Minstrels.\u2014This well organized band entertained a large audience last night.The \u201c corn husking jig,\u201d by Mr.Reid, créât-ed much merriment, and Mr.Murray\u2019s \u201cBanjo So'.o\u201d gave evidence of considerable taste and skill in the performer.The troupe give another perlormance on Wednesday evening; The Treasurer of the Ladies\u2019 Benevolent Society bags to acknowledge with many thanks the receipt of one pound, being the reward received, for restoring to its owner, some property which had been lost.Natural History Society.\u2014Dr.Barber will deliver a second lecture on Phrenology, in the Lecture Room of this Institution, on Wednesday, the 30th inst.The Late Mr.Denholm.\u2014 We extract from the Roshm Mthierfiser the following particulars relating to the deatli of this gentleman :\u2014 A correspondent of the Evening Journal, writ, ing from Great Falls.N.H., under daieoi21si inst., says:\u2014\u201cThe body of Mr.Denholm was found yesterday, in u grove on the Northerly side of i\u2019rospect Hill.\u2014It appears that he was on his way from Quebec to Boston, to take the last steamer fur Europe, and got out of the cars at the Somersworth station, and came up to this place where he stopped over night at the Great Falls Hotel.The next day, a short time before tho starting of the second train for Boston, ho paid Ids bill at the bar, and left, but instead ol taking tho cars, wandered about the village, went over into Berwick, and subsequently relumed to the New Hampshire side, and finally entered tlie grove above niontioned, in a state of mental derangement, where he crept and dragged himself along, as the tracts in the siurvv indicate, until he finally perished by the cold.The Selectmen ordered an inquest before Coroner Brashridge, who summoned a Jury, consisting of I.G.Jordan, G.E.Bartlett, and T.B.Parks, Esquires, who returned a verdict in accordance with the above statement.Mr.Denholm had been missing nearly two weeks His father-in law, who arrived in town a few days since, had offered a reward of $100 for the recovery of his body.Garrison Ball.\u2014Tlie first Garrison Ball (for we understand that it is intended to give another before Lem) came off with the greatest eclat in the Masonic Hall, on Thursday evening last.It is impossible lhat Mr.flays\u2019 splendid ball room, should he seen under more favourable cireumstan-ces than were afforded on this occasion, almost the whole of the loveliness of Montreal Society being present.We should imagine that there were about 300 who availed themselves of the kindness of iheir gallant hosts ; and never, we are sure, was the unwearied attentions of the Stewards of the evening, more cordially acknowledged than by ihose who did so.The arrangements were perfect in every respect, and so by by the way was our friend Compain\u2019s Supper, and as might be expected from the 19th Band, the Orchestra was superb.Nothing iherefore being wanting which could contribute to the enjoyment of the guests a complete success was achieved, and the parly separaied about four o\u2019clock, hop.ing that at an early day, they would be again permitted to participate in so delightful a re-uniun.Sherbrooke County.\u2014 We understand that the Ministry have commenced their inquisition in this Couniy; the Magistrates, Mililia Officers, and others, who signed the Annexation Manifeslo, having been interrogated in regard to the matter, preparatory to the interesting operation of cutting off their (official) heads.The Sherbrooke Gazelle declares that this step will be equivalent lo disbanding the Militia, inasmnch as the document in question was generally signed by both officers and privates.Stanstead Couxtt.\u2014The Journal publishes an additional list of signatures to the Annexation Address.The total number is now fourteen hundred and thirteen.George Gurnet, Esquire, has been re-elected Mayor of Toronto.John Counter, Esq., lias been elected (for the fifth time) Mayor uf Kingston.Robert Peden, Esq., has been elected Mayor of Brockville.Ogle R.Gowan, Esq., was elected Town Reeve of Elizabeth Town for tho same year, during the last week.The Provincial Parliament is still farther prorogued to thc27th February, and then not for dispatch of business.The Charity Ball.\u2014This .evening, the Grand Bail in aid of the Montreal Lying-in-Hospital, will take place.We recommend the charitable, whether they are dancers or not, to encourage this hall by purchasing tickets.Accident.\u2014We understand lhat on Saturday, a man emp\u2019oyed to clear the snow from the roof of the Commissariat Buildings fell, and so injured himself that his life is despaired of.From our Quebec Correspondent.Quebec, January 24, 1850.The nomination took place on Saturday.Mr.Chabot came first lo the pull ; the lion, gentleman was supported by Messrs.Methor and Maguite-and followed by a large concourse uf lawyers, tradesmen, &.C.Mr.Lègaré arrived a few minutes afterwards at the head of a band of Irishmen and Frem h Canadians, from rhe suburbs.1 hu ministerialists allowed their opponents to take more than their share of the ground, and proved themselves to bo above the puerile weakness ol taking offence at the menacing language or Hibernian accoutrement of Lègaté\u2019s body guard.Aa aoon as die gun fired, the writs were read, and the candidates nominated.The crowd having called for a speech, Mr.Chabot pleaded custom, and required his adversary to lead the way ; Mr.Lègaré seemed equally averse to break the iee.In iruth, -the poll was surrounded by a set ol Irishmen, who, it might lairly bo supposed, would not listen patiently to a dull French harrangue, whether in favour ol annexation or ugainsi it.So the rosirum was cleared for Charles Alleyn, Esq, who delivered an aduress on Lègaré\u2019s side, full of Irish wit and sarcasm; the grins of the ministerialists, when Mr.Alleyn held iheir faults up to ridicule, were beautiful to behold.After Mr.Alleyn, Mr.Chabot, who loll that some ex.planuiiou was necessary, made an attempt to in_ stal himself in the speaker\u2019s chair; hut Mr.Cau.chon, who seemed to he acting in the capacity of Adjutant General, disapproved ol Ids principal\u2019s idea, and restrained him, and Mr.Maguire, future M.P.P.for Megantic, was thrust for.ward to refute Mr- Alleyn.This the learn*.ed gentleman emphatically determined to do ; lor he took up a firm position on tlie chair, stroked Ids chin, and opened Ids mouth.What heBa'id, or whether he said anything at all, will be subjects for future investigation ; for in die twinkling of an eye, as soon as ids obnoxious physiognomy was visible to the crowd beneath, a charge like a huge wave swept the polls ot speakers, returning officer, candidates, houle-holders, &c.The luiter were brought bock by the reflux ; but where, and oh ! where had our Irish speaker gone ?This was the last of the oratory ; the crowd separaied quietly afterwards.The schemes to which die ministry have resorted to weaken the Annexationists and gain a vote, are both ridiculous and shameful.I would avoid personalities; else\t«\t* * * of course a sharp look out has been kept over ihose who are in Government pay; every man of them is to he brought to the polls by the whipper-in, hound id let the Ministers have the worth of their money out of him.If any unwary wight demur, quick the finger uf the Journal dc Quebec is down on him, and a dirly finger it is.I admire the discipline, hut, as in oil things, I have a weakness fur method, I think this part of the duty of public officers should be stipulated and enjoined in their commissions; thus Q.C.\u2019s should not only be bound to speak for H.M.in Court, but for II.M.\u2019s ministry at canvas meetings; and merchants, who are in grace at Court, should (though they swear privately \u201c\u2019pon their suuls, this is a wretched ministry\u201d) be under heavy recognizances to record their votes and their clerks\u2019 in its favour.Many of die very men who have been most noisy in their condemnalion of [he minisiry are going to vote for Chabot\u2014men, who stepped out of the way to stamp their abhorrence of LaFontaine\u2019s policy\u2014who, were they believed, were ready to sacrifice everything soon-er than endure his rule.Their excuse is their disapproval ol annexation.Prudent men look suspiciously on ihose, who preiend lo fancy they are injuring ihe cause of annexation by voting for Chabol ; and think, that the next time our Upper Ten raise an outcry against a ministry or a measure, we, simple citizens, will recollect the cry of Wolf ! Wolf ! Pantagreuel.The Fortins.\u2014On Thursday evening, ahoul half-past eight o\u2019clock, a man named Auguste Roule, one ofthe Mounted Police, was assaulted without provocation, by three individuals, while walking in the Quebec Suburbs.Two of tlie party were identified and brought before the Police Tribunal, prt sided over by Major Johnson.\u2014 They were convicted, and fined £1 each and cosis.Mr.Cuursol conducted the prosecution, and Mr.Mack the defence.To the Editor of ihe Montreal Herald.Sir,\u2014The tone and siyle of year correspondent \u201c II.W.A.\u201d makes it a pleasure lo read and ans-wer his article.He seems to me to err in supposing lhat the 12 Vic., c.33, was not in force until the 24th December last.The Act was in lurce from tlie time it received the Royal assent, hut with a proviso that certain of the things it directed, and among others the repeal of the 9 Vic., c.29, were not to take place until a day lo bo np.pointed by Proclamation ; the enactment that such repeal should lake place on lhat day and not before, was positive and in force from the time when the Act was sanctioned ; and lids enactment being conlrary lo any provision in a former Act that the 9 Vic., c.29, should cease to be in force on the 30lIi May, was an implied repeal of such provision.I believe all the rules of interprctaiion forbid our arguing upon lire supposition that the Legislature forgot that one of its own Acls was temporary ; but even if, this argument were allowable the result would be the same, for it admits lhat the will of the Legislature was that the Act in question should he continued, and if tins will can be fairly inferred Irom the later Act, it matters not by what train of reasoning this conclusion is attained.If, however, a dcciaralory Act be required lu remove any apprehension of danger, there can he no objection to it, inasmuch as it will he consistent with the intention of the Legis.lure, the action of the Courts after the 30th May last, the laic decision ai Quebec, and ihe opinion of your very obedient seivant.1 agree with \u201cH.W.A.\u201d in approving ihe changes made by ihe laie Acls, and I believe nine-tenths uf tlie Bar,at least, think with us.The plan adopted in Upper Canada of making all die Judges (including those appealed from) the Court of Appeals, being ex* trcnie:y inconvenient when the Judges reside permanently at difl'ereiil and distant places, and the plan ol having all to r»-ide at one place, with nisi prias and trials by Jury in all civil cases, being impracticable in Lower Canada, it docs not seem that a much better system could bo adopted than that now i i operation.The changes made by die iate Acts are greater than have ever belore been attempted in Lower Canada, and to suppose thal real difficulties will not arise in carrying them out w ould be to claim lor our Legislature atiribu.tes which no body of mortal legislators con pretend to ; and when such difficulties shall occur it will be only riglif that each advocate should support that viirSy-which will best support his clients inter est.But the Judges cun Lave no such motive to bias them and will obey tlie law (12 Vie., c.10), which hinds them lo give lo \u201cevery Act and cv.ry provision or enactment thereof,\u201d \u201c such fair, large \u201c and liberal construction and interpretation, as \u201c will best ensure the attainment uf the object of \u201c tlie Act and of sucli provision or enactment, ac.\" cording lo iheir true intent, meaning and epi-\" rii ;\u201d and by so doing I feel confident that they will have no difficulty in so carrying out the Acts as effectually to attain their great object of ena.tiling every one to enloree his legal rights with as little trouble, expense and delay as may be consistent with a lair and suflicieni hearing of all parties concerned.I am, &.C., X.January 28, 1850.LAW INTELLIGENCE.Weekly Sittings of Superior Court.Monday, January 28, 1850.Present :\u2014Honorable Mr.Justic.es Smilh, VanfeH.-on, and Monde\u2019e!.The Honorable Mr.Ju.-tice Smith, in the case ot Clark vs.Sluart, said, lhat the Détendant had taken exception lo the jurisdiction ol tho Court, the case being one over £20, and under £50; that there was a gieat difference of opinion among the Judges on this most important question, and that therefore, it would be necessary that the case should he re-heard before Mr.Justice Day, who had not been present when the case was argued before.It had been argued before Mr.Justice Vanfelson and himself, and before Mr.Justice Vanfelson and Mr.Justice Mondelet, butin consequence of the difference of opinion which he belore remarked, a re-hearing before Mr.Justice Day would be necessary, in order to have his views on the subject.Rodden vs.Rounds.This was an action on a Promissory Note, by an endorsee against the maker.There was a variation, which the Court declared fatal, between the nameot one of the endorsers on the note and the name of the same endorser in the declaration.It was Doré on the note, and Doran in the déclarai ion : but the Plaintiff claimed judgment on the money counts.This the Court could not grant, because they did not deem the present case a commercial one, to bring it under the English Rules of Evidence ; it was true that° the Plaintiff alleged that he was a Merchant, and that the Defendant was a Trader, but there was no proof of record that they were such Merchant and Trader when ihenotewas made.Proof by one witness thereof was insufficient.Ibbotson vs.Egan.Case sent down, with directions for rehearing,\u2018the learned Judges differing in opinion.McQuaig vs.British North America Insurance Company.The Defendint had moved that the.summons and all proceedings in the case be quashed, on the ground of want of service, the 5th seclion of the Act incorporating, the Defendant required service to be made at the chef lieu ofthe Corporation, which was at To» ronto, and the service made was at their Office, Mon! real.All hough it was the opinion of the Bench lhat the chef lieu was wherever the Corporation had an Eslablishment for the purpose of carrying on the Corporate business; yet that the question could not be decided on a motion, it should have been urged by exception.The Solicitor General, seeing Mr.Rose, Q.C., and Mr.Johnson, Q C., hab.ted as such, and at the usual Q.C.Beard, and having in his hand the Letters Patent of the Governor General cancelling their Commissions as such Q.C., arose and moved, that Ihe said Letters Patent,eancellinglhe Commissions as Queen\u2019s Counsel of John Rose and Francis G.Johnson, be fyled of record in that Courl, and en-registered.In making this motion, he (the Solicitor General) had to remark that there was an error in the first Letters Patent, which were revoked, and thereupon new Letiers Patent were made out; that these latter were now also revoked ; but the first, nevertheless, were never enregisleretl in Court ; that he then handed up for registration the last two revocations.Mr.Rose inquired whether he should not have had notice of this motion, m order that he might have opposed it ?Mr.Justice Smith remarked, in reply, that the Letters Patent, now produced, were so produced solely fur the purpose of being registered.Mr.Rose, however, urged that they should not be registered until he was heard\u2014or that a day be fixed for hearing, and until then the case be left open.M r.Johnson arose and said, that it made no difference lo him what he wore ; lhat he had a right to be heard, and would riot be condemned unheard ; he asked fora day on which lie might be heard, as his right.Mr.Drummondopposed this.asarequest that should not be complied with ; and inquired, at the same time, whether tlie hearing would be as to the right of registration ?Mr.Rose replied, that if the Court allowed of the production of those papers, it was absolutely taking cogniztnce of them, and how could an issue be raised on the production of certain pieces of parchment on a verbal motion ?Mr.Justice Mondelet enquired, was there no motion ?Mr.Drummond.\u2014No, that he had followed the ordinary course.Mr.Rose asked, was there a precedent to be found for seeking to render void a Queen\u2019s Counsel\u2019s Patent ?\u2022\u2014lhat the present was an extraordinary case\u2014that in urging objections he contended for the principle, and in support of that principle he would go.io the last tribunal.Mr.Juslice Smilh observed, that Mr.Rose was going on to the merits\u2014that when heard on the merits, it would be time enough for his present observations ; that the question was as to the sufficiency of the presentment for enregistration.Mr.Rose.\u2014What line of argument was there then to follow ?on what issue or fact could we go lo appeal, and where was any evidence to produce in appeal that such an application had been made as the present one ?Mr.Justice Smith said that that was only a matter of form, on which they might agree themselves.Mr.Drummond then said that he was willing to put in a motion.Mr.Rose then enquired whether it was distinctly understood that his rights were not all to be perilled by the motion.Mr.Justice Smilh replied, of course not, and ordered that Mr.Solicitor General should put in a mere motion.Mr.Drummond then staled that he would arrange with the learned gentlemen, and fix a day for hearing ; in the meantime, that he would contorm lo the order of the Court, and put in a mere motion.\u2014 Courier.\u201cOFF WITH HIS HEAD.\u201d Ihese \u201cclear grit\u201d papers assume with a degree of assurance that is sufficiently amusing, that they are the real exponents of the opinions ol the \u201c old Reformers;\u201d but if we are to judge by the unanimous votes of confidence In Mr.Hincks at ihe several inociinga held m Oxford, by the election nf the 8ojici.?r General by acclam ition, and other passing events, public opinion must besought lor in oilier quarters.One thing is very clear,that,f the Upper Canada Ministers had just reason to suppose that the prints in question were true exponents of the opinion oj the Reform unify, they could not consistently hold office one hour but should leave Mr Lafontaine ;o seek und find tho e who would he better able to command support.We believe ihere is not a single member uf the Administration who has the slightest desire to remain in office on personal grounds, and more than one ol them we know io be most anxious to leave it when consistent with public duty.And were tho views of the liberal parly truly represented by the present-tone of the malcontent reform papers, the lime for their retirement would have already arrived.But there is unmisiakeable evidence that the journals referred to do not represent public opinion, hut merely the waspish spirit of their conductors, and that the Ministers command as large a share of public confidence as any body of men could desire.\" We have^ clipped the above from last Tuesday\u2019s Globe, in which it roust.tu'es a portion of an article, headed \u201c The Oxford Demonstration.\" It has long been our belief, lhat the Globe was playing a deep game.We knew well that he never served the present Ministry from love : but we could hardly have suspected, that, \u201c waspish\" as he is, there was so much of old hookey in him, as to prompt him logo, with so much calculating perseverance, about the work of destroying them.We really had our doubts on the matter ; ami of course we gave the prisoner the benefit of them : and we should have coniinued to treat the Globe with charity, had he not, like a fool as he is, started the bung ofthe cask in which we.had it so carefully stored up for future use.He told us the beggarly curs allowed him only £20 a-year for Ills services ! Eureka ! By the beard of Jupiter, said we, that solves the riddle.The Globe is no fool ; though we said he was, just a moment ago : and so is, too, we say still ; for he had not sense enough to keep his seeret.In Paris, it is, we think, where horse flesh dealing is an extensive branch of trade,\u2014if not there, it must he somewhere else ; but, wherever it is, we have been informed, that it is a pitiful sigh I, to see Ihe bodies of the butchered animals dragged from the killing sheds lo the dressing shops, by their livin» brethren, which are themselves to be des-pa'ched, as soon as they are found pa-t work.This is the very poetry of brutalism,\u2014the un-surpassatile in polilical economy.Well, just look at that Globe ! If that hookbilled thing he not the very twin brother of a Paris horse flesh establishment, then what on earth is it ?Ho says the Ministry cannot \u201c consistently hold office one hour.\u201d Yes, reader \u201c nut one hour.\u201d O! the varmirvidid you ever 7 No never did hear the like of lhat.\u201c Were the views of the liberal party truly represented by the lone of the malcontent Reform papers, the time of their retirement would have already arrived.\" Is not lhat pretty cool Observe, too, the delicate hint to Mr.Lafou taine.The Globe asks him to step into liar ness, and drag off the carrion ! Does any one suppose the Globe is serious when he says the \u201c malcontent journals referred to do not represent public opinion ?He knows well that the men to whom he gives the hint understand him aright.They know whether the \u201c malcontent journals,\u201d (which are no other than the entire liberal press of Canada,) represent public opinion : they know that it can be no trifling matter which has placed these journals in their present painful position.It is not our desire to aggravate existing evils: far rather would we heal the breach, than widen it : but we see whither things are tending.VVe ate convinced the Globe is, at this moment, exulting in the ruin which he has wrought.****».you shan mark Many a duteous and knee-crooked knave.That, doting on hts own obsequious bondage, Wears out his time, much like his master\u2019s at For nought but provender ; und when he\u2019s old cashiered : Whip me such honest knaves.Others tliere are, Who trimmed in forms, und visages of duty.Keep yel their hearts attending on themselves , And throwing but shows of service on their lords, Do well thrive by them; und when they have lin ed their coats, Do themselves homage ; these fellows have some soul.\u201d Did it require any powers of witchcraft, lo detect the object ot the Globe, in so sedulously labouring to alienate from the Ministry the liberal press of Canada ?The purpose could be dictated by but one motive ; and that motive begins now to be apparent.His policy, in this case, has been exactly the same as it will be in the Annexation movement.\u201cJust let the other radical papers keep to it ; and when it wants only one hitch of the top ofthe bill, ihe Globe will not fail.\u201d Who made that promise.1\u2014Toronto Mirror.and out VVl lov At the Annual Election of the Toronto Board of Trade, the following officers were chosen by ballot for the ensuing year :\u2014 President\u2014George Perceval Ridout, Esq.Vice-President\u2014Peter Patterson, Esq.Treasurer\u2014R fl Brett, Esq.Council\u2014Messrs.E F Whittemore, Wm McMaster, R Kneeshuw, D Macdonell, S Thompson, W M Gorrie, L> Patterson, John Shaw, J Harrington, VV L Perrin, M P Hayes, and R Brewer.Board of Arbitration\u2014Messrs.Peter Freeland, J D Ridout, Wm Henderson, J McMurrich, J Mitchell, J Leslie, E II Rutherford, George Milchie, James Shaw, Henry Roswell, R Beek* man, and il Scobie.Secretary\u2014J W Brent.Messrs.R.& C.Chalmers have received a new work, by the popular authoress of \u201c The Jilt\u201d , &c., styled the \u201c Match Maker.\u201d 'Ihe same profound knowledge of the female heart, in its faults, foibles and èxcellencies, which is so glowingly displayed in the Jilt, is exhibited in the present work, interwoven with exciting and brilliant fiction.Fire at Niagara.\u2014A destructive fire occured at Niagara on the 11th, very early in the morning, whereby the British Hotel and several other buildings were consumed, together with five 'valuable horses, 10U0 bushels of corn, 12 or 13 sleighs, and other property.It is suspected that some villain stole a horse, which is missing, and then set fire to the premises.The London Gas Companies have reduced \u2018heir charges to 4s per 1,000.In the meantime, we would go for the strictest economy in all matters connected with Imperial expenditure in the Colony, und lhat because we feel thal the people of England are entitled to demand it, and will never cease to complain till tin y get it.The only way in which ihe Colonial nexus can he maintained is by making both parties satisfied ^ith their bargain (by depriving the Colony of the Imperial expenditure, within its limits, and burdening the Colonists with the cost of the defence of their portion of the Empire !) At present the people ofthe mother country, do \u2014there can be no doubt\u2014pay an extravagant price for their Colonies ; but this is not a necessary pan of Colonial Government, and the sooner it is reformed the better.We feel saiislied Irom what we see every day, lhat there is no part of the Imperial system in v\\ Inch there are more abuses than in the Colonial Department Everything connecied with the Imperial system in ihe Colonies is conducted on the most extravagant scale, and in such a manner too as to be a perfect mystery, except to the favoured few who profit by the abuses.We could ourselves relate ins.ances in which offers made by private individuals, by which large savings would have been effected, have been refused even a \u201c hearing,\u201d and everything else is pretty much in the same way.Let Mr.Cobden only go thoroughly into the subject, and he will find out that, if the Colonies do cost England a \u201cpretty penny,\u201d it is the fault of England herself, and not a necessary part of the Colonial system.\u2014 Transcript.LIST OF LETTERS Remaining in the Post Office at Whitehall, with Postage unpaid, up to the 16th January, 185o =- Belli.ge Madame Elinn, Montreal, 30c ; Cleary Mrs Eliza, do, 10c ; Cochran S, Notre Dame Sircet, do, 10c ; Doyle Thomas, do, 10c ; Dorr Mr Stephen, Granby, G E, 30c ; DeFay Francois, Quebec, 10c ; Edward Way &, Co, Montreal, 10c \u2022 '1 etu J L Col, Tetu\u2019a Hotel, do, 40 ; Felson G Van, Quebec, 10c; Flower Elizabeth, St Hyacin.the, 10c ; Gordon John Quebec, 10c; Higgins Mrs Lieut Col, do, 10c ; [league Charles, Mont, real, 10c: Irwin Miss Jane C, St Antoine Street, do, 10c ; Joseph Jones, do 5c ; Kernick Geo w| do, 30c ; Kelly Juliii, River Du Loop, 5c; La ' roeque Mrs Kuse.be, St Jerome Street, Montreal.10c ; Lowe, Gazette Office, do, 10c ; Laflamc Monseur, Ottawa Hotel, Lachine, 10c ; Magnia Geo, St Francis Street, Montreal, 12c ; Nelson Geo, Little St James Street, do, 40c ; O\u2019Connell, Quebec, 10c ; Perry Baxter E, Bedford, 10c \u2019; Rolland Hon Chief Juslice, Montreal, 30c ; Russell Azro, Albion Hotel, Quebec, 10c ; Shelton Mrs, Montreal, 10c ; Shepherd George, do, 12 ; Selby Miss, do, 30c ; Selby Miss, do, 30e ; Simp! sun Geo, Lachine, near Montreal, 10c ; Simpson Geo, from California, do, do, 280c ; Simpson Geo, from California, do, do, 80c ; Watson Geo, Montreal, 10c ; White James, St Patrick Settle-' ment, 10c; Stevenson Wm, Quebec, lüc; Ful.ham, Racket Court, Montreal, 10c; Tine Caiho.l ine, Quebec, 5c ; Holt Charles A, do, 10c ; Haynes Tbos A, Montreal, 10c, ure in recounting their unkindness.He was the poor man\u2019s friend and many a tearful eye will corroborate the statement, He knew no distinc» lion of creed, nation or colour, in his sympathies vith the distressed, or his commiseration with ihe iuffering.The large assemblage of his fellow ct.iz ns by whom Ins remains were anended io the trave, attested the high estimation in wh.ch ho .vas lie d, In religion he was sincere, without atgotry\u2014& zealous without sectarian asperity.In ilitics he was honest, without partizan hostility, d bold in the advocacy of his principles, with\u2014 t offence in the assaiiment of his opponents, ould that his example were more generally foL wed !\u2014Toronto Mirror.We are glad lo learn lhat ihe Old \u201927\u2019s\u2014the faihersuf tins city of the Ottawa\u2014the men who laid the foundation of ali its greatness, and who 22 ¦ear» since cleared the spot where Bytown now tands,\u2014intend to celebrate the good old times by .t ublic Dinner at some approaching day.This is ¦gin, and we know ol no occasion which would be more rapidly hailed by the citizens generally, and we wish ihe good lathers success.\u2014£i/?oten Packet.\t* Corruption.\u2014The wholesale corruption of the present Government, is almost beyond belief.Let us give an instance.A Radical paper was pub\u2014 islied at Kingston, by a Mr.Green, called the Herald pits tendencies were towards Annexation.¦Mr.Green\u2019s interest has been purchased by a Mr.DeL\u2019Armitage, who comes out violently against Auuexatioii, abuses the Yankees and their \"institutions, und predicts the speedy dissolution ofthe American Union; and winds up by high eulogies upon the Provincial Administration and Provincial Reformers, (so called.) The key to all this tirade of Reform Loyalty, may be found in another column of tlie same issue ! In the preceding publication, the new proprietor stated that he had strong claims on the Government for its patronage and support, und that the Government odvertis-mg should be coming forthwith ! This gentle hint was not lost on the Ministry, for in the very next publication (being only the second number !) out comes the Goverment pap in the shape of Advertisements from the \u201cRevenue Inspector\u201d; from the \u201c Secretary of the Board 01 Works,\u201d from ihe Glerk Assistant of the Legislative Council,\u201d Irom the \u201c Clerk of Assembly,\u201d and from \u201d the Sheriff.\u201d Il this is not a system of public corruption equal to anything that can be found in \u201c the political social and sectional troubles ofthe Great Republic,\u201d then is there no juice in a squash Î But perhaps the worst feature in the business is, to witnesssuch outrageous squandering of the pub.lie money, as the advertising for Tenders for the Montreal Court House and Gaol at Kingston ! What precious reform und Retrenchment ! Would the Government build a Court House or Gaol out ol the Public Revenues, if one was needed at Brockville, or in any part of Upper Canada ?If not, why do they do so in Lower Canada.\u2014 Brockville Statesman.Mutder, An affray, attended with fatal consequences, took place in a house kept by one Bever-idge, m ihe vicinity of the Theatre, on Saturday last the 5th instant.It arose from a dispute, in which James Ritchie, a private of the XXth Regiment, announced his determination to accompany Home females who were m the house with them.One of those present said that she should not go out without her husband.Ritchie then seized a knife and brandishing it, swore that be would rip up any one that would prevent him Irom accompanying her.One of the bystanders then attempted to disarm Ritchie, and in the struggle that ensued both fell.On rising Ritchie rushed upon another soldier named Fuuey., swearing that he would \u201c do for him.\u201d After some grappling, und when both were down, Fouey being undermost, cried out that he was wounded.On raising him up, it was found to be too true\u2014-Fouey died in about 3(J hours afterwards.On Saturday evening an inquest was held before Dr.Wanlass, Coroner, which adjourned till the following day, to allow time for a post mortem examination ;\u2014when the Jury, after hearing the evidence, returned a verdict of wilful murder against Ritchie, who was then consigned to Jail on the warrant of the Coroner.\u2014London (C.IF.) I'ree Press.UPPER CANADA.We hear that the Indian Chiefs left this place yesterday morning for the Sault Ste.Marie, with the understanding that they are to appear and answer to any charge brought against them next summer.Many of the witnesses reside in that remote region, and can only be brought here at great expense and inconvenience during the season of navigation.We understand the Chiefs we'e assured before starting, that a settlement would be made with them early next summer, and thal they departed satisfied with this assurance\u2014the Government having also supplied them wi h the means of returning to their homes.\u2014 Toronto Colonist.It is expected thal the parties charged with the effigy burning in this city, in October lust, on the occasion of the Governor General\u2019s visit, will bo put on their trials to-day for riot, at the Assizes now sitting.\u2014lb.Astounding Admission.\u2014The Globe, referring to the Examiner, the Journal and Express, the Dundas Warden, and oilier journals lhat have condemned the course ol the Administration, says :\u2014 \u201c One thing is very clear, that if the Upper Canada Ministers hud just reason lo suppose that the prints in question were true exponents of the opinions of the Reform party, ihey could not consistently hold office one hour, but should leave Mr.LaFontaine to seek and find those who would be better able to command support\u201d.We undertake to assert that the journals jn question do speak the opinions of the Reform party, and that ihe semimen's of ihe Globe are not those of the Reform party ! And if the ministry be ignorant of tho lact\u2014if they know\u2019 so little about public opinion in Western Canada, and are determined to resist the measures so strenuously advocaied by these journals', the sooner they retire the better ; but we may tell them that they will retire with imperishable disgrace\u2014as the betrayers of their country.They have been raised to power by a long oppressed and misgoverned people ; they have hi casnstained by the strongest legislative majorities; they have been generously upheld by the country in a season of unparalelled party reaction and violence; and the people look for, and claim from them, a generous and manly return in the shape of fidelity to their best interests.The Reformers ask for simple juslice ; they claim an equality of rights and privileges long de.nied them ; they demand a generous and noble effort to efface from the Statutes of ihe realm an Act which involves political proscription on account of religious opinion.No Ministry can EXIST, OR OUGHT TO EXIST, WHO ARE PREPARED TO SLIGHT SUCH A DEMAND.Besides, we would whisper in the ear of ministers\u2014that if they do not carry out the reforms advocated by these journals, notone of them can by returned to Parliament at the next election.\u2014 If they be opposed to these reforms, they ought at once to retire, and make way for those who are prepared to carry them into effect.\u2014Eximi.ner.Death of Doctor Bradley.\u2014It is our painful duly to record the death ol the above named gen.tleman, which took place on the morning of 14th inst., at his residence in this city, after a lingering i\u2019lness, brought on* by undue exertions, and fatigue, during the prevalence ofthe Cholera.In the summer of 1847 Dr.B.contracted Typhus Fever, from professional intercourse with his fellow countrymen, to whose calls for medical aid he ever responded wiih promptitude, and with most selj-sacrificing philanihrophy.His case was one of the worst which occurred in that mournful year; and though he recovered afier a very tedious convalescence, he never regained his previous bodily vigour.In the c irly part of 1849 he suffered from a similar attack, and his medical attendants, for many days regarded his case as hopeless ; but such was the elasticity of his constitu* lion, that he once more escaped, and was found, when the dreadful scourge reached ns in Ju:y last, ot his post, ready to succour the afflicted, and to soothe the s arrowing.Few men have passed a more eventful life than Dr.Bradley ; he has seen more of human nature in ihe short span of existence allotted to him, than probably any other person in Canada.He had many friends\u2014if he had enemies, he never found pleas.METEOROLOGICAL TABLE.Daté.\tThermome- ter.\t\t| B AROME- TER.\t\tWeather.\t 1S5U.\t7 A M.3 P.ft\t\t.j7 A.ftl.\t3 p at\t7 A.M.\t Jan.19\t22\t21 x\t29,77\t29,96\tFair.\tFair.2»\t17 \u2018\t25 \u201c\t!30,17\t30,10\tFair.\t 21,\t7 \u2018\t19 \u201c\t30,05\t29,75\tFair.\t 22\t26 \u2022\t38 \u201c\t29,42\t29,42\tSnow.\t 23\t29 \u2018\t35 \u201c\t29,76\t30,08\tFair.\t 24\t19 \u2018\t23 \u201c\t30,25\t30,13\tFair.\tFair.25\t34\t\u2018 ,43 \u201c\t29,62\t29,63\tRain.\tFair.Mean Term).25.° 6x.\u2014Bar.29.865 inches.BIRTH.On the 18th instant, the lady of Robert HamiN ton, Esq., of Hawkcsbury Mills, of a son.MARRIED.On the 2nd instant, by the Rev.Mr.Young, William Woodwark, Juur., Esq., of St.Rose, to Sophia, only daughter of James Heron, Esq , of Heron\u2019s Isles, and grand-daughter of Georgo Keiih, Esq., ol the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company.DIED.In this city, on the 26th instant, Elizabeth Saul, widow of the late Jonathan Barker, aged 48 years, alter a lingering illness which she boro with Christian fortitude.SANDS5 AMERICAN MINSTRELS.BY particular request MR.SANDS\u2019 has been induced to remain in Montreal a few days longer, and will give TWO CONCERTS, thia week, at the ODD FELLOWS\u2019 HALL, Great Saint James Street, on WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY EVENINGS, 30ih instant, and Isi February next, on which occasions choice programmes will be brought out.Mr.Sands begs to tender his sincere thanks to the Citizens of Montreal for their liberal patronage, and assures the Public that no exertion will be wanting on his part, or that of the Troupe, to merit the approbation of those attending his en-tertainments.Admission, Is 3d.Doors open at SEVEN o\u2019clock ; performance to commence at Eight o\u2019clock.Front Seats positively reserved for Ladies.For particulars, see Programmes ol the day.January 29.\t13 GRAND CURLING BONSPEIL- PARTIES not Members of the MONTREE and THISTLE CURLING CLUBS, w esire to PLAY at the GRAND bONSPEI _e requested to leave their names at Mr.Ti lor's Office, Cuyillier\u2019s Buildings, St.John Stre Aat the Office of Messrs.Edmonstone, All & C