Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 13 avril 1850, samedi 13 avril 1850

[" AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.VOLUME XLII.SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 13, 1850.NUMBER 45.¦ Bpi NDÔ^ q E R C ! A llti m 17 10 0 .12 10 0 THE EOMISOM COMMERCIAL HOTEL, OPPOSITE THE QUEBEC AND LAPRA1R1E STEAMBOAT WHARVES, (Formerly Known as » English\u2019s Belfast Hotel\u201d,) MONTREAL.ESTABLISHED 40 YEARS.ISAAC MOFFATT, from the \u201cLondon Tavern\u2019% Proprietor, offering unusual accommodation to Travellers, respectfully invites their patronage.STRANGERS May be informed that the LONDON COMMERCIAL HOTEL is situated in sight of every landing place'in the Port, and at the same time in a central situation with respect to the City in general : it commands a panoramic view of more than 30 miles of the RIVER ST.LAWRENCE, from Varennes, celebrated for its Mineral Springs, to the foot of the LACHINE RAPIDS, embracing Boucherville,-with its clustered Islands; Longueuil, the terminus of the ST.LAWRENCE AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD; the fortified and romantic ISLAND OF ST.HELEN ; Laprairie, the present port en route to LAKE CHAMPLAIN, by the St.John\u2019s Railway; and the verdant and fertile Island of St.Pierre, called the NUNS\u2019 ISLAND.The distance is bounded by the Mountains of BELŒIL AND ROUVILLE.Immediately in front of the Hotel is seen every Vessel in Port, from the Batteaux of LOWER CANADA to the Steam Packets lying in the Canal Basin, for the conveyance of Immigrants to the FAR WEST; while the eye rests on the arriving and departing Vessels of THE OLD COUNTRY, and, from the operation of the new Navigation Act, THE FLAGS OF ALL NATIONS may be expected to wave under its windows.To casual Travellers or to NEWLY-ARRIVED IMMIGRANTS, I.MOFFATT offers alike a hearty welcome, with the intention of doing all in his power to supply their wants and add to their comforts.In addition to the established Meals for Residents at the LONDON COMMERCIAL HOTEL, he provides separate Entertainment at all hours.BREAKFAST READY on the arrival of the Quebec Steamboats.TWO SEPARATE TABLES are spread to suit the purposes and pockets of his guests, and DINNERS are provided in the same manner.To those whose means are more limited than their families, he has OPENED a STORE for the supply of such necessary Provisions as may be required, which will thus be immediately at hand without subjecting the wearied voyager to the necessity of a land cruize through the streets of a strange city, to discover and procure his several requisites.It is unnecessary to boast of the fare to be found on Moffatt\u2019s Tables.The Markets are open to all, and while he avails himself of procuring the best they afford at all seasons he confidently relies that CUT AND COME AGAIN will be the intention of his guests.GRAND LOTTERY.TBYIIE Subscribers beg to submit to the public the following SPLENDID ASSORTMENT of VALUABLE PRIZES, to be Drawn by LOTTERY, on account of Mr.J.GAR-RATT, Great St.lames Sireet, for which 210 Tickets of 4 Dollars each will be issued, the Prizes in number will include\u2014 £ s.d.1\u2014\tGold Lever Watch, heavy case.20\t0\t0 2\u2014\tLadies\u2019 Gold Watch, beautifully enamelled.3\u2014\tLadies\u2019 Gold Watch, enamelled 4\u2014\tGems\u2019 Gold (Anchor Escapement) Watch, 13 holes, Jewelled.12 10\t0 5\u2014\tDo.do.do.do.12 10 O\u2019 6\u2014\tDiamond Ring (Large Stone), Solid Gold.12 10 0 7\u2014\tDiamond Ring (Largo Stone), Solid Gold.10 0 0 8\u2014\tDiamond Ring (3 Stones), Solid Gold.10 0 0 9 \u2014Diamond Ring (3 Stones), Solid Gold.8 10 10\u2014 Elegant Gold Cable Chain .11 10 11\u2014\tDo.do.Chain Fancy Pattern.G\t0 12\u2014\tGold Albert Chain.6\t0 13\u2014\tGold Albert Chain.6\t0 14\u2014\tLadies\u2019 Gold Brooch, Madonna &.Child, beautifully painted.G00 I 15\u2014Ladies\u2019 Gold Brooch, Real Topaz Stones, Pendant Drop.G00 16\u2014\tLadies\u2019Gold Bracelet.G00 17\u2014\tElegant Eighudsy Clock, with Glass Shade.G\t10\t0 18\u2014\tElegant Pair Vases, with Flowers and Glass Shades.4\t0\t0 19\u2014\tElegant do.do.do.do.\t3 0\t0 20\u2014\tElegqjtt Gill Time Piece.2\t10\t0 21\u2014\tElegant do.2 10 0 22\u2014\tElegant Pair China Vases, beau* tifully painted.2\t10\t0 23\u2014\tElegant Pair China Vases.\t2\t10\t0 24\u2014\tLadies\u2019 Gold Bracelet.3\t10\t0 25\u2014\tElegant Pair China Vases.2\t5\t0 26\u2014\tPair of China Vases.1\t10\t0 27\u2014\tGents\u2019 Solid Gold Signet Ring.\t2 0\t0 28\u2014\tLadies Ring Set with Turquois.110 0 29\u2014\tGents Gold Scarf Pin.1\t10\t0 30\u2014\tGents Gold Scarf Pin.1\t10\t0 31\u2014\tLadies Gold Broach .1\t10\t0 32\u2014\tLadies Gold Regard Ring.\t10\t0 33\u2014\t1 Sett enamelled Studs.10\t0 34\u2014\t1 Gold Scarf Pin, real topaz Stone 10 0 35\u2014\t1 Sett of enamelled Studs.10\t0 36\u2014\t1 Gold Scarf Pin.1\t10\t0 37\u2014\t1 Gold Hunting Locket.15 0 38\u2014\t1 Solid Gold London made Pencil Case.10 0 39 to 105\u201467 prizes consisting of a Diamond Pointed Gold Pen, with Silver Case at 10s.each.33 5 0 S.LINDENBERG.(Late Baud Sergeant lOtii Rcgt.) RESPECTFULLY informs the Public, that, having taken up his residence in this city, he tenders his services as Teacher of the \u201cFLUTE\u201d and \u201cVIOLIN.\u201d Having been up.wards of THIRTY YEARS in the above celebrated Band, he flatters himself that he will give satisfaction to those who may honour him with their patronage.Parties furnished with a QUADRILLE BAN D, aud MUSIC ARRANGED for Amateur Bands, &.e., by applying to S.L., at Kirkup\u2019s Buildings, St.Mary Street.opposite VisilaiionStreet, Quebec Suburbs, Montreal, March 26, 1850.\t37-2trt For sale, rjpwo MILLS\u2014one Saw and the other Gr: t, JL with a Furnace or Kiln for drying Grain .a HOUSE and about One Hundred Acres of LAKD all situated in the Township of Kilkenny.For conditions of Sale, apply to FRANCOIS RENAUD, Notary, St.Lin, or to the undersigned, proprietors, in Montreal.F.RENUAD & CO.March 19.\t34 210 Subscribers at $4 each is.£243 .210 In favour of Subscribers.£33 5 0 Catalogues are now ready for delivery, and the Goods are on view at the Office of the Subscribers.D.FISHER & CO., 22, St.François Xavier Street.O\" Prizes to be drawn as soon as the List is filled up.Montreal, March 21, 1850.\t35 ROYAL SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION.FOR THE Promotion of the Fine Arts.T HE Subscribers have received instructions Year, till the 3lst May next.Parlies who have forgotten to send their Subscriptions, or who may wish to contribute for the first time, may theie-fore send the amount (26s 3d) on or before the above day.ARMOUR & RAMSAY, Hon.Secys.March 30,1850.\t39 T RU DUCT ION IN PRICK OF SCHOOL BOOKS- UK bubsuribera have this day, made impor.taut reductions in the price of the grcaict portion of the SCHOOL.BOOKS published by them.In particular they invite attention to the new issue of THE NATIONAL SCHOOL BOOKS, now so extensively used throughout the Province.WALKER\u2019S SCHOOL DICTIONARY, a large and superior edition.CANADIAN SCHOOL ATLAS.MURRAY\u2019S LARGE GRAMMAR.MURRAY\u2019S SMALL GRAMMAR.THE CHILD\u2019S OWN PRAYER BOOK, &c.&>C.&.C.ARMOUR & RAMSAY.March 30.\t39 T IN THE PRESS, IABLES OF ADVANCE, to facilitate the calculation of the price of imported goods.\u2014ALSO,- A NEW edition of FESSENDEN\u2019S EXCHANGE TABLES, to which is added, a Table for calculating the relative value of Com missariat Exchange to the current rate.ARMOUR & RAMSAY.March 30.\t39 I AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS- FROM the 1st of May, 1850, the undersigned, as AGENT, proposes to furnish every i facility to the citizens of Montreal, for securing j the STANDARD WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS\"', ' that is now given in most of the large towns of the | United States, thus saving at least one-hal f of the present cost of obtaining American Papers in Ca-i nada.| It is p.esumed subscribers to American papers ; do not generally realise, in many instances, that ! the Subscription Price is only about one.thtrd | of the cost of obtaining them.For example, a paper published at $1,00 per | annum in the Stales, costs delivered in Montreal,a : fraction less tht^n $3,00.including American and j Canadian postage.A p per published at $2,00 , amounts to $4,00, and in either case where she j paper is delivered at the feat deuce of subscribe!^, an additional penny is requ*red, thereby increaa.ing tho expense nearly one dollar.The Agent proposes, if a sufficient number of Subscribers can be obtained, toany paper of merit i published at $2 00 per annum and upwards, to deliver it at the Depot iu Montreal, at the publishers\u2019 prices, or at the residence of the subscribers, with one half-penny each time to be paid to the distributor.If sufficient encouragement is given, a good Daily paper will be supplied upon nearly the same advantageous terms.Orders for the present will be received for the following, which are among the most esteemed and \u201c time honoured\u201d Weekly Newspapers pub-ished in the United States, viz : \u2014 THE NEW YORK EVANGELIST, embracing Religious, Domestic, Foreign and xMiscellane-ous Intelligence.Price, $2,50 per annum.MORRIS & WILLIS\u2019 HOME JOURNAL, of pure Literature and Science and Art.Price, $2,00.SATURDAY EVENING POST, devoted to Literature, Foreign and Domestic News, Agriculture, Commerce, Science, Art, and Amusement.Price, $2,00.THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE, at $2,00 per annum.THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE is printed on a large double medium sheet, making eight pages ol six columns each, and contains the choicest matter of the daily issue.The publishers in their prospectus state ; they are \u201c resolved that no American journal shall exceed the Tribune in the variety, extent, or accuracy ot its Intelligence, while to Literature, Poetry and Art, they devote all the space that can be spared from the topics of the day.\u201d Lists for Subscription are open at the UNITED STATES BOOK AND PERIODICAL DEPOT.197, Notre Dame Street.R.W.LAY, Agent.April 4.\t41 & Bankers\u2019 Books.GRAND LOTTERY.Pin HE Subscribers beg to submit to the Public, JL the following splendid assortment of VALUABLE PRIZES, to be drawn by LOTTERY, on account of Messrs.M.ROSSIN & CO., 133, Notre Dame Street, for which 250 TICKETS of $4 EACH will be issued.The Prizes to be 75 in number, and will include :\u2014 An elegant Fine Toned Rosewood Pianoforte, value.£35\t0\t0 A splendid Set, comprising a 2L~Day Clock, and pair ol Vases, all of the finest Porcelain and artistic finish, with Glass Shades,.30\t0\t0 A Set Solid Silver Desert Knives and Forks, English make Guildhall Work,Pearl Handles,in Rosewood case.20\t0\t0 A large Electro Silver Salver, modern pattern.15\t0\t0 A Gold Hunting Lever Watch, 13 holes Jewelled.15\t0\t0 npi A Gold Geneva Watch best make.11 I.MOFFATT continues to receive by the Spring and Autumn fleets, his usual importations of BARCLAY\u2019S LONDON PORTER, so strongly recommended by the Faculty as a wholesome beverage during the Summer season ; and he will fully maintain the acknowledged excellence of his stock of WINES and SPIRITS.Montreal, April 13, 1850.\t45 NEW CITY GAS COMPANY OF MONTREAL.I NOTICE.N consequence of the LOSSES sustained by the NEW CITY GAS COMPANY, from delay and non-payment of their Accounts during the past year, they have determined upon adopting the following TARIFF of PRICES for GAS, from the 1st May, 1850, to 1st May, 1851.By this TARIFF it will be seen that a Discount of 25 PER CENT, or ONE.FOURTH will be allowed to such parties, as make payment of their Accounts, within fourteen days of the end of each Quarter, thereby reducing the price to the PRESENT RATE to those who PAY PROMPTLY.REGULATIONS.TARIFF OF PRICES PER ANNUM FOR CONTRACT BURNERS FROM 1st May, 1850, to 1st May, 1851.Description of Burners.Patent Flat Jet.Batwing or 12 hole Argand.Dusk\tDusk\tDusk\t\tDusk\tDusk [ Dusk\tDusk\tExtra for to\tto\t\tto\tto\tto\tto\tto\tduring 8, P.M.\t9, P.M.\t10,\tP.M.\t11, P.M\t12 o\u2019clock .j 1, A.M.\t2, A.M.\tDay.£ s.d\t£ s.d.\t£\ts.d\t£ s.d.\t£ s.d.£ s.d\t\u20ac s.d\t£ s.d.2 13 4\t3 6 8\t4\t3 4\t4 16 8\t5 10 0\t6 5 0\t7 0 0\t3 6 8 4 0 0\t5 13 4\t7\t0 0\t8 6 8\t9 13 4 10 14 0\t11 15 f\t5 13 4 A do do do do .11 10 0 A Superior English Leve Silver Watch, with Gold Key.8\t0 0 A Handsome and Complete Gentlemen\u2019s Dressing Case, large size, with Finest Fittings.G 10 0 A Rich Electro Silver Bread-Basket, best quality and neatest style.5 10\t0 One Dozen Best Electro Silver Table Spoons, Threaded Pattern.5 A Silver Hunting Geneva Watch.\t4 A do do do do .4 A Bread-Basket, best Sheffieid Plate.3 A Butter Cooler, best Electro Silver.3 A\tdo\tdo Sheffield Plate.2 A Lady\u2019s^ Dressing Case, complete.2 A Pair Electro Silver Candlesticks.\t3 \u2014also,\u2014 57 Minor Prizes, value.62 15\t0 A LARGE STOCK of LEDGERS, JOURNALS, DAY, CASH, and other BOOKS always on hand, or RULED and BOUND to any pattern, in the best style.PRINTING.Having lately made a considerable addition to their Stock of Type, the Subscribers are prepared to execute such orders as they may be favoured with for Printing BOOKS, PAMPHLETS.BLANK FORMS, &c., &c.ARMOUR & RAMSAY.March 30.\t39 NEW BOCKS RECEIVED THIS DAY BY EXPRESS.LAKE SUPERIOR, its Physical Character, Vetegation and Animals, by Agisis and Cabot, beautifully illustrated Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Dr.Chalmers, by his Son-in-law, Dr.Hanna White Jacket ; or the World in a Man of War, by Herman Melville, author of \u201c Typee,\u201d &c.Edinburgh Review (London Edition) for Jan.United States Official Register for 1849 The Poultry Book, by Dr.J.C.Bennett, with numerous illustrations The Boston Melodian, a choice collection of Songs, Glees, Rounds, &.C., 2 vols Noel and Chapsali\u2019s French Grammar, by Seaman Ollendorff\u2019s Primary Lessons in French With a complete assortment of the latest and best Works, in cheap form.For Sale by R.& C.CHALMERS.April 2.\t40 COOKING STOVES.HE SubscriV>er would call the attention of the oublie to his large assortment of IMPROVED COOKING STOVES, selected with great care and adapted for summer, as well as Winter use.These Stoves are constructed with a strict regard to economy and convenience.The Ovens are large and bake even, and the Fire-place is made smaller for summer use, aud the fire brought nearer to the Boilers, so that but little fuel is required for ordinary purposes.Purchasers are requested to call and examine the various patterns at the Stove Warehouse of GEO.HAGAR, 103, St.Paul Street.April 2.\t40 STANLEY\u2019S PATENT HOISTING MACHINES, SINGLE & DOUBLE POWER, ARE Superior to any other wheel for hoisting Goods, &.C., they occupy but a small space, and move so easy, that one man will be quite sufficient to work it for ordinary purposes.For Sale by the Agent, GEO.HAGAR, 103, St.Paul Street, Montreal.April 2.\t40 One-Sixth additional on the above to parties using Gas on Sunday.Charge by Meter 16s.8d.per 1000 cubic feet.The Gas Rent whether by Meter or Burner, is to be paid Quarterly, and will be due, upon the 1st day of, August, November, February, and May.All parties who shall call at the Gas Office, Gabriel Street, Griffintown, on or before the FOURTEENTH day of August, November, February, and Mayt a»d shall there make payment in full of their Gas Rent, due upon the first day of these months, respectively, shall be allowed a discount ol 25 PER CENT on all the above rates.Persons making payment after the Fourteenth day of the month, will be charged the full rate.To cover the expense of repair attending the use of Meters, the following Quarterly Rent, for the hire of each Meter according to size has been established.2 and 3\tLt Meter 2s.Od.per Quarter.\t\t\t45\tLt Meter 8s.\t\tOd.per\tQuarter.5\tdo\t2s.6d.\tdo.\t50\tdo\t9s.\tOd.\tdo.10\tdo\t3s.Od.\tdo.\t60\tdo\t11s.\tOd.\tdo.20\tdo\t4a.Od.\tdo.\t80\tdo\t14s.\tOd.\tdo.30\tdo\t5s.6d.\tdo.\t100\tdo\t17s.\t6d.\tdo.The proportion of tube to number of Burners, in order to ensure a sufficient supply of Light, is given in the following table, and parties who either have, or may have, their places fitted up, with smaller pipes, or greater lengths of tube, to the number of Burners, cannot have a proper supply of Gas.SIZE OF TUBING, INSIDE MEASURE.' GREATEST LENGTH ALLOWED.GREATEST NUMBER OF BURNERS.In all 75 Prize.£250 0 0 Catalogues will be prepared, and the Goods^on view at the Stores ol the Subscribers, on TUESDAY, the 5ih inst.The Drawing will take place on or about the 25th of this month.Tickets may be had, either from Messrs.ROSSIN & CO., or SCOTT & GLASSFORD, 27\t204, St.Paul Street, p.S.\u2014Parties in the country, desiring tickets by addressing S.& G.enclosing remittance and paying postage, will meet prompt attention.i Inch.\t20 Feet.\t\t2\tBurners.i do\t30\tdo\t4\tdo f do\t40\tdo\t8\tdo do\t50\tdo\t12\tdo 1 do\t70\tdo\t20\tdo li do\t100\tdo\t40\tdo 1^ do\t150\tdo\t60\tdo 2 do\t200\tdo\t100\tdo Particular attention is requested to the following Clause of the Gas Company\u2019s Charter:\u2014 XIX.\u2014And be it enacted, That if any person or persons, whether principal or workman or party employing such, shall join or connect any pipe to the main or service pipes of the said Company, or shall in any way lay, join, or connect any pipe for the supply of any new light or burner, to any pipe whatsoever, containing Gas, without having first received the consent of the Company or their Agent in writing, then such person or persons or party employing such, shall for every offence forfeit and pay to the said Company the sum of twenty-five pounds currency, and also a further sum of one pound lor each day such pipe shall so remain, or be imprisoned for the term of one calender month in the Common Gaol.By order of the Directors, W.R.FALCONER, Manager.' New City Gas Company\u2019s Office, ) Gabriel Street, Griffintown,\t> Montreal, April 3,1850.\t'\tr\u201441 T.S.SUTHERLAND, Wiiolcsaïe ami Retaii Grocer ami Wine ftleroJiasif, No.108, Notre Dame Street, BEGS leave to call the attention of his Friends, and the Public generally, to his Stock of GROCERIES, one of the most extensive and complete ever offered in the market.His Goods are all of the very best quality, and having been purchased previous to the great rise that has lately taken place on almost every article in the line, he will continue to sell at extremely low prices.Those laying in a Winter Stock will do well to call and examine for themselves : \u2014 Fresh Fruits of all kinds, (crop 1849) 25 cases English Cheese, and positively the only English Cheese in the market 180 cases English Patent Sperm Candles, do do 15 cases Fresh Citron, Orange, and Lemon Peel 5 bales Soft Shelled Almonds, (fresh) 12 hhds Martelleid Hennessy\u2019s Brandy, Pale and Brown 2 pipes ditto, (superior to any in market) 10000 lbs Double Refined Loal Sugar \u2014ALSO,\u2014 Champagne, London Porter, East India Pale Ale, Port, Sherry, and Madeira Wines, in wood ; Liqueurs, ol all kinds ; Scotch and Irish Whiskey : Teas, Coffee, Chocolate, Cocoa Paste, Broma, Confectionery, all fresh, and unsurpassed in quality ; Sugars all kinds; fresh ground Spices, Pic- of M.TRAMLY, COACH MAKER?St.Mary\u2019s Street, 13EGS to inform the Nobility and Gentry of -fi3 Montreal, that he continues his BUSINESS at his Old Stand, where he is prepared to execute all orders entrusted to his care at modertte rates 1 and with all despatch.MarchS.\t3m ts\u201428 F 300 OR SAL^l by the Subscribers : \u2014 130 boxes T D PIPES LEMESUR1ER, ROUTE! & CO.June 12.Seed Wlieat.MINOTS of SPRING WHEAT (produced at the rate of 27 minois per arpent) and weighing 70 pounds per minot.For Samples and Price, apply to GEORGE SAVAGE & SON.March 16.\t33 kies, Sauces, &c.&c v\t\u2014AND,- 500 cases Superior Old Bottled Wines Which will be sold at extremely low prices to close an account.Those laying in a stock for Christmas should call and examine these Wines.They are principally put up in one dozen cases, and as to quality, will speak for themselves.Montreal.Dec.13, 1849.\t228 HARDWARE.rglHE Subscribers being disposed to relinquish the RETAIL DEPARTMENT of their business, are prepared to treat with parties, for the sale of the STOCK and GOOD WILL.The present assortment is principally new, and in good condition, and is, in every respect, the best Retail Stock in the city.Their usual importation will he received by the first spring vessels, and such portions of it as were intended for their Retail would be included in the sale.The business has increased rapidly, every year, since us commencement, and notwithstanding the general depression in the Retail Trade, for some lime back, the present year forms no exception.The Subscribers have no hesitation in saying, that the Establishment is the most flourishing and extensive one of its kind in Canada, and that it offers inducements to parties desirous of embarking or extending!» the RETAIL HARDWARE LINE that are rarely to be met with.A LEASE of the STORE and such other parts of the PREMISES ns would be required, can be obtained from the advertisers, for three years, from the first of May next, and they have no doubt but that a favorable arrangement could be, immediately made for a further Lease, if required.The Subscribers take this opportunity of gratefully acknowledging the patronage of their numerous Retail Customers, and beg to inform them, that as with their assistance, they have been enabled to establish a business which is too good to close, they will carry it on as heretofore, unless they meet with a desirable successor, for whom, or themselves, as the case may be, they beg respectfully to solicit a continuance of the valuable support hitherto extended.BRYSON & FERRIERS.March 7.29 PLANTAGENET WATER.Montreal, February 12, 1850.Sir,\u2014It is now nearly ten months since I commenced using the Plantagenet Waters in my practice : and I have now to state, that the high expectations I then formed of them, from the publication of Hunt\u2019s Analysis, have been fully confirmed by my experience of their beneficial effects.I have found them a most agreeable and effica cious antacid laxative, and their continued use seems to answer the purposes of a tonic, by improving the d.gestive powers, and increasing the appetite.I remain, Sir, Your obedient servant, George W.Campbell, M.D., Lecturer of Surgery, McGill College, Montreal.To Mr.Larocque.Sold by A.Mann, Agent, 12, St.François Xavier Street.Montreal, April 9, 1850.\t43 fjOHE Subscriber having been appointed AT-JL TORNEY to the Estate of the late Mr.JOHN LUCK1N, requests those persons who have Demands against the said Estate to present them, duly authenticated ; and those who owe to the Estate, to pay their Accounts\u2014otherwise they will be put into the hands of a Lawyer for Collection.LOUIS MARCHAND, Atty.to the Estate of John Luckin.St.Johns, 25th March, 1850.m t\u201438 CA£,XFOKNXA BISKS.NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFia ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF LONDON.OFFICE : (So.17, Great Si.Jasjies Street.AUTHORITY has been granted, at a Meeting of the Local Board held this day, to ac.cept Proposals (or ASSURANCE on PARTIES GOlN\u2019i TO CALIFORNIA, via Panama or Cope Horn, or Overland.Amount not to exceed £1,000 Sterling on any one life.Extra Premium, 3J per cent per annum, (including the Sea Risk for going out and returning from, lor residence arid travelling in any part ol Upper Cali, fornia, or at 2 per cent premium,extra, per annum, for residence (only) in San Francisco, St.Diego, or Monterey.Persons already assured by the Society, for an emoiint exceeding £1,000 Sterling, (for \u201c Whole Te'iit of Life,\u201d) and going to Celitorniia, may cancel their present Policies, nro get NEW POLICIES granted, for £ljO0 Sterling, with leave fo proceed to and from Califorma, and to reside and travel in Upper California, as above.F.CAMPION, Agent for Montreal.March 19, 1850.\t35 MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.A special meeting of this Society was held pursuant to notice on Monday evening last, to take into consideration the conduct of the Board of Directors relative to the expulsion of the Christian Inquirer (Unitarian) newspaper from their reading room.J he President (Theo.Lyman, Esq.,) having opened the business of the evening, Mr.Lester Taylor desired that the minutes of the Board of Directors relative to the Christian Inquirer should be read.The Secretary stated that the Board had prepared a report containing a brief history of every thing relating to the conduct of the Board with respect to the Christian Inquirer, ?ud proposed that this report should be reiul.\t_ After some opposition to this proposition from gentlemen, who desired to have the minutes read, without comment.The Secretary read the minutes.The first was dated in October : it acknowledged the gratuitous offer and authorized the temporary reception of the paper till further order ; the second determined that it should be continued ; the third which bore date in December directed the discontinuance of the paper on account of its insidious doctrines ; and the fourth bearing date in January, after the new Board had been chosen, declared it inexpedient to receive the paper again.Mr.L.Taylor then proceeded to move the first resolution.He regretted that any act of the Board of Directors should have induced the members of the Association to take such notice of it, as was implied by the requisition, which had led to the calling of that special meeting ; for his own wish, and he believed that of every member of the institution, was to support the Board in any course they determined upon.The Board indeed had in general shown that they were actuated by a sincere desire to benefit the institution ; and it was the conviction of this that had induced him to draw his resolution so as to avoid any censure on the Board\u2014no such censure was intended\u2014but at the same time to condemn certain resolutions.These resolutions were past, as he understood not by the whole Board ; but by a bare majority of a fractional part of them., He was informed that this resolution which expelled a paper for insidious ddfitrines, was carried at a meeting of five, the entire number being fifteen.Now he would go over a history of this affair froni the beginning.In October last, Mr.Cord-ner, in accordance with the wishes of some persons who were not subscribers to the ChrislSan Inquirer, but who desired to see it, offered to present that paper to the Association.Its reception was firsts permitted provisionally, and then confirmed.In December, however, at a meeting when no action on the subject was expected\u2014not a minute before the Board then in being ceased to exist\u2014the affair was again brought forward, and as a result, this troublesome legacy was bequeathed to the new Board.As he was informed the members were importuned to allow their successors to determine the question ; but to this they would not consent.The paper was expelled by a bare majority of a fractional part of the Board, by a resolution, of which he doubted the legality because he thought the deliberate resolution of the Board could not be reversed at an extraordinary meeting.It was said that this resolution was proper, because there had been an attempt to force this paper on the Association.\u2014 But who made this charge : was it not individuals deeply interested in the success of the French Canadian Missionary Society\u2014who were engaged in forcing\u2014 Here the speaker was called to order, and the Chairman expressed an opinion that he was going beyond the fair limits of the argument.Well, all he desired was to show that this charge of forcing was made with an ill grace as well as that it was untrue.Those who wished for the paper had not forced it on the Association, and since its expulsion had behaved with so much consideratior, that the expulsion had not been publicly known, till the agent wrote to the proprietors of the paper, not expressly, but in the ordinary course of business, and tae proprietors published the facts.For his own part he believed religious newspapers wère little read in the Association, but if any were taken all should be.The Christian Inquirer con\u2019d not be more offensive than the Church or the Melanges were, respectively, to different classes.None were offensive to him ; he believed all were carried on by good men anxious in their own way to spread abroad that knowledge which in the end would prove the most valuable knowledge.Now let gentlemen glance back at the history of the Association.They would find that the majority of the original members belonged to the sect now proscribed ; that the meeting was called by a member of the same nroscribed sect ; that Unitarians were always fast friends of the Association ; that one of them had been acknowledged on the records as its founder, and that the same gentleman had given to it an entire library.\u2014 Among the life members would be found many Unitarians; the Associrtion had delighted to place Unitarians in positions of honour and trust j it had always been most anxious to take the 3rd of December last, and the resolution pas- ' sed by the existing Board of Direction on the 7th ed by what had taken place to entertain any -\t«\t, but Christian feelings towards the members of of January last\u2014both having reference to the this corporation.\u201c Christian Enquirer\u201d newspaper, disapprove of ; Mr.You* the sentiments contained therein, conceivifig that differences of religious opinion should not be recognized in the Association, which is purely un-sectarian in its foundation and aim.Mr.Murray seconded the resolution, and confirmed Mr.Taylor\u2019s assertion, that there had been nothing like forcing of this paper on the Association.A gentleman had met him and asked why the Association did not take an Unitarian paper ?He replied they could not afford it.On which he wras asked, if it would be received if it were presented to the Rooms.He replied that he could not tell ; but that for himself lie should desire to receive it.The paper Was afterwards sent and the Board had taken uppy jt; r-.1;: ?b\tin.t.V.v minutes.Mr.T.J.Roe said that in view of the great advantages of the Mercantile Library Association, it was plain that the business that evening was to throw oil on the troubled waters, and so save the Institution from the dissolution, which threatened it.For this purpose he would move in amendment that :\u2014 We deeply regret that a resolution of the late Direction Board, hastily drawn up, not intended for publication, nor designed to have been sent to any one, should by inadvertent transmission have given cause of offence to some of the members and friends of the Association, oung remarked that how ever that question might be decided, he should still stand by the Association, and he trusted all would do the same.Allusion had been made to him as the foùnder of the Association, and he might therefore be permitted to remark that it was in November, 1839, that he first called on those friendly to the formation of such an Association to meet together and take steps for so doing so.Seven persons met, and that was the commencement of the Society, which had since grown to its present height.It must not be forgotten that the progress of this country would necessarily depend on the mental culture of the mercantile classes, and therefore no one could fail to feel* strong]v on a subject^ inch concerned the very existeiico \\j£ rhe àCi-urf: Tile Unitarians it w'ere true were a small body, and as one of them he declared that he acted from no spirit of opposition or hostility ; but he felt there was an important question of religious liberty involved in this discussion, and though the resolution were not carried that night, he should bring it forward at each general meeting, not to injure the Association ; but in a spirit which he believed would do good to the Association.It was plain that four fifths of those present were opposed to the doctrines of the paper in question ; but he trusted all would look on the question as one on which persons in this city and on this continent would form an opinion, and he could not believe that and for the offence thus unintentionally given wre they\u2014the young men of Montreal would sanction sincerely apologise.That we concur in the opinion of the present Directors, that it is not expedient to add the \u201c Christian Inquirer\u201d to the number of the newspapers received into our Rooms.Mr.Wjnn said he came forward after a long period, during which he had not appeared before the Association, to take part in warding a blow, which, if it took effect, might destroy the Institution.The feeling already excited was sufficient to convince any one, that unless this unfortunate business were gently handled, the Association might be expected to dwindle till it perhaps became extinct.It was not necessary to say anything to increase the warmth of feeling and cordiality entertained by every member of this body for the Institution.Nor was it necessary to dwell on the fact of its being highly calculated to build up and form an enlightened taste among the young men of the Library Association.The literary character of the city in fact depended upon this Institution.Those who moved that amendment, came forward with a desire to suppress all unkind feelings ; not to advocate any intolerant views of their own ; but to make peace between those who differed, and he would desire all to recollect, as religion had been spoken of, that the religion in which they all believed, pronounced a special blessing on the peacemakers.He would say nothing in disparagement of the excellent Mr.Perkins, on whom the mover had passed, he had no doubt, a well deserved eulogy ; nor would he attempt to diminish the respect, which all felt for commercial pursuits.But he desired the Association to adopt such a view of this case as would end all hostility, and with this object, he came forward.What did the Board allege ?They said that on the expulsion of a newspaper, merely because it contained doctrinal views opposed to theirs.To show that he had no prejudices in this matter, he would mention, that fre had urged the Board, when it was proposed to take another religious newspaper, (the Bible Christian,) not to bring in any religious papers, saying at the same time that if any were brought in, he should insist on that being brought in also.So much for the charge of forcing.Mr.John Leeming said he was happy to hear the determination of all parties, to stand by the Association, whatever might be the result of that night\u2019s meeting.The meeting had heard that if the resolution was not carried, it would be brought forward again and again, until what the first speaker called \u201cperfect mental freedom\u201d was obtained.Now he thought that as the Association had got 'wrong, the sooner it retracted its steps the better, and by so doing it might set itself right.He did not think that the interests of the Society could be advanced by delay and postponement; and there certainly was no shame or reproach in retracing a false step.They had heard from the gentleman who had preceded him that there was a resolution in the books adopted some years ago, to the effect that it was not desirable to take any religious newspaper at all\u2014 and therefore he (Mr.L.) thought the best way to throw oil on the troubled waters would be to resolve that at the expiration of the present periods of subscriptions all religious newspapers should be banished from the Rooms of the Association.When he advocated that course he spoke merely for himself; but it did appear to him that the only path of safety and of peace for the interest of the Mercantile Library Association was that which went back to the step where it got wrong\u2014that the spur of the moment, individual members of was where they began to take religious news-the board had drawn up the minute relative to papers\u2014by so doing, he believed every thing this paper, which was never meant to be made might be made right.He did not think that public, and which, as gentlemen, they would taking these religious newspapers was necessary have cut off their heads rather than have sent to | or would eventuate in the benefit of the Associa wound the feelings of any professor of the Unitarian faith.The resolution, however, by mistake was sent to a gentleman holding that creed, who was the agent for the \u201c Christian Inquirer,\u2019 and he confessed, that that gentleman could not help considering it as a studied insult.But this having been done, should they now shirk the responsibility of the act, or cast the entire blame on others.No, they came forward as men, as gentlemen, as Christians, to bear their full share of the burden, and to tender an apology, such as must be satisfactory to any gentleman.They tendered the olive branch of peace ; and in that tion.They were little read.People read or ought to read these religious newspapers at home.This Institution was not established for that purpose.But this he would say that in the case before the meeting, that of excluding the Christian Enquirer, a degree of injustice was practised towards the Unitarian members of the Association, and that were he one of them he would take the view they took ; that it was unjust to refuse their paper, while others, representing other religious opinions were admitted.He would therefore move an amendment,\u2014 \u201c That talcing into consideration the action of same spirit they went on to the second part of the Board in reference to the Christian Enquir the amendment.But it would perhaps be said, er, it is the opinion of this meeting that inasmuch h\t\u201e\t,.n\ti.\u201e\t_.i.as the Association is one of a strictly mercantile character, and not founded for the purpose of B1 CHAMPLAIN AND ST.LAWRENCE RAILROAD.NOTICE is hereby given, that Three Calls ot FIVE FOUNDS each, per Share, on the New Capital Stock of the CHAMPLAIN and ST LAWRENCE RAILROAD COMPANY, have been made and will become payable at the Office of the Company, in Montreal, one on the First day of April, one on the First day ol May, and the last Instalment on the First June next ensuing.W.A.MERRY, Secretary.Montreal, February 12, 1850.\t19 RAVEN DES R, MERCHANT & MILITARY TAILOR, Notre Dame Street, EGS respectfully to return thanks to his Friends and the Public, for the liberal patronage he has so long received, and to announce that henceforth he will do business for READY MONEY ONLY.H.L.will early receive his Stock of SPRING and SUMMER GOODS, of the best quality and most Fashionable Styles.The strictest attention and economy wiil be devoted to tiie Making.up, and a first rale article produced at the lowest possible price.Tu make room lorNew Goods, until the end of April, he will SELL at COST PRICE, his READY-MADE STOCK, consisting of beat Frock and Dress Coats, Chesterfields, Shooting Coats, Vests, Trowsers, &c., FOR READY MO.xEY ONLY.March 2G.\tly\u201437 To Masons ami Sioao cutters.PROPOSALS arc dedired by H.CORSE, for CUTTING OUT the ARCHES in front of his House, in Great St.James Street, that now 30 greatly disfigure it, and replace them by TRUE ELIPT1C outs, according to the original design.\u2014AI.SO,\u2014 For putting the REAR FRONT, on Fortification Lane (as tar as it can be done), equal in execution of Workmanship to that agreed upon with Mr.Brown.\u2014also,\u2014 For UNDER.PINNING, in an efficient manner, a portion of the WALLS of the House, where there lias been an extraordinary deficiency.Any information respecting the work will be given by Mk.CORSE, and the proposals may be given in any time in the ensuing April.March 23, 1850.\t36 Em re-t March 21.ïîsSî Cuits Foot Kock &.C.just ALFRED SAVAGE & CO.Chemists, next the Court House.For coughs, colds, &c ceived via New York.35 REGISTRY OFFICE, COUNTY OF MONTREAL.nnilE REGISTRAR for the COUNTY OF JL MONTREAL informs the public, that from this date DOCUMENTS fyled in this OFFICE, will be ready lor delivery 15 days after de.posit.G.H.RYLAND, Registrar.March 20, 1850.\tts 3m\u201435 PAINTING, PAPER-HANGING AND GLAZING.FRANCIS CLARKE wishes to return thanks to his friends and the public generally, for the large share of patronage bestowed on him for the last ten years ; and, at the same time, to say, he is still to be lound at his old stand, No.10, Alexander Street, where he intends to pursue his usual system of punctuality and despatch, as he is now carrying on business solely on his own account.February 28.\tdde\u201426 their money : now what had it given in return They asked to have a paper advocating their yiews received gratuitously, and were told it must be rejected for its insidious tendencies.Mr.Taylor then proceeded to contrast this conduct of the Mercantile Library Association, with that of a similar institution at Cincin-» nati, where, on the death of an Unitarian Minister, the Mercantile Library Association had passed a vote of eulogy on their deceased friend.In Montreal, he continued, the population was made up of all classes and all sects.Therefore, in this city, above all others, charity should prevail.If all were of one class, or nearly so, there would seem some greater reason why a very small class should be ridden over.If this practice should be continued, he would ask where the Association wouM stop ?They had expelled an Unitarian newspaper obtained gratuitously : would they pay for Trinitarian papers ?Would they appoint an ecclesiastical commission to revise the Library.\u2014 Should Channing, Gibbon, Hume, Bolingbroke, and Rousseau, be longer continued in the Library ?Should Emile, or the Mes Confessions, a book burnt even in Paris, be longer kept on the shelves of the Library ?Should the works of Frederick the 2nd, the patron of Voltaire\u2014should Voltaire himself be tolerated after the Christian Enquirer was expelled ?He hoped that at least one of that writer\u2019s works would remain and be read by every member of the Assocr\u2019ation : he meant the Essay on Toleration.He asked again where they would.stop- and whether they would not end by imitating our patriotic ministers ?(Laughter.) They would soon get to politics.The Witness, as the first advocate of Annexation, would be discarded ; then the Herald.The Tory papers would come next, then the radicals, and they would finish by having no papers at all.He always understood that there was but one church that claimed infallibility, and that the claim was denied by all others.It appeared, however, that there was little difference : one never could be wrong ; and the other never was wrong.Of the two, the latter had the advantage : their principle was less open to attack, while its effect was as useful.He knew that those who advocated the expulsion of this paper did not think so ; but he believed they adopted a principle which was at the bottom of qjl religious persecution.In another capacity, as a lecturer, he had tried to establish before the Association that commerce infused a spirit which was opposed to all intolerance.He hoped it would appear that the young men of Montreal engaged in Mercantile pursuits, were not behind their profession.It was said, however, that the present Board of Directors was embarrassed by the action of their predecessors, and feared to lose subscribers by continuing to receive this paper.This was putting the question on the ground of expediency, and, therefore, he could not doubt, that on tiie slightest hint from their constituents, the Board would be willing to retrace their steps.For his own part, he should be horrified, if he thought that young men, yet new to the world and its hardening influences, could prefer that which was expedient to that which was just.Was there not enough confidence in the precepts of that book in which all believed,.to prevent such a choice ?He would conclude by reminding the Association of one circumstance : it was but a few years ago, that none but clergymen of the Church of Rome or the Church of England could marry the living or bury the dead in Lower Canada.That restriction had been done away with by a legislature of which the large majority belonged to that Roman Catholic Church, which was so frequently accused of intolerance : ho hoped that different creeds would not be placed on an unequal footing by an Association composed principally qf men professing to holdstedfast-ly^to the right of private judgment.He moved That this Association having considered the resolution passed by the Board of Direction, on well, if you are willing to make peace, why not undo what you have done ?That involved different question.It was the introduction of this paper, which was the occasion of strife, and a large number of persons entertained the opinion that its continued reception Would diminish the number of subscribers to the Association and be a continual source of ill feeling.It was replied, however, that on every principle of fair play, as other religious journals were taken, this should be taken also.But there were in Canada a considerable number of religious newspapers, and though some more generally sought for were taken, about three fourths of them were not taken.Why then should the smallest body of all make this bitter complaint ?If these local papers were not taken, why should any one feel annoyed that a foreign journal was excluded ?A Voice\u2014Are they presented gratuitously ?Mr.Winn continued :\u2014The question of the paper being given certainly ought not to be taken into consideration.If its reception would lose subscribers, the Association would be the loser though they paid nothing to have the paper.But, as he was observing, as there was no local Unitarian organ there could be no cause of complaint.There were thirty or forty religious newspapers published in the United States, of which only one, which was the organ of several Christian bodies was received ; it was therefore most unreasonable to expect that a paper, the or gan of the very smallest body should be taken, while the rest were excluded.He would appeal to the kindly feelings of gentlemen of the Unitarian faith\u2014lie would ask themselves\u2014when the Board was ready to unsay what it had said to give offence, would they ask us to receive a paper the receiving of which would do mischief to the Institution ?Much had been said about intolerance; but he had long learned to appreciate loud talking of that kind at its worth.The more loudly the lion roared, the more certain was it that he was\u2014you know what a lion\u2019s skin.Therefore he did not feel much hurt at imputations of bigotry and intolerance.If to do all he could to sustain the society was to be illiberal, he was illiberal; if to love peace were intolerant, he was intolerant; if to cherish a warm sense of the benefits of that Association were bigotry, he was a bigot.Mr.Morris confessed that he felt pleasure in seeing so large a number of members of the Association present on that occasion, though he re- propagating religious opinions, that it is necessary for its peace and future welfare that all religious newspapers be now and henceforth refused admittance to its reading room.H.Allan Fsq., had come prepared to propose a similar resolution, and the onl}r change he would suggest would be to exclude all religious papers from the present time.Mr.Boyd said that when the Board met for the first time to consider the propriety of taking this paper, a resolution was proposed by Mr.Chamberlin, seconded by himself, that this paper should be received.It was, however, resolved that it should for that time lie on the table for further consideration.At a subsequent meeting the matter came up again.Mr.Chamberlin was then absent; but he (Mr.B.) advocated the principles just laid down by Mr.Leeming and Mr.Young, that as the Association was not a religious body, no religious paper should be received except as a matter of courtesy.A resolution was then brought forward to the effect that it was expedient to allow this paper to be introduced.A resolution was, at last, carried to the effect that it was inexpedient to receive this paper, and it was said that forty or fifty persons would leave if it were taken, while four or five only would leave if it were rejected.Under those circumstances he asked if they were not acting for the good of the Association in rejecting it ?If the board were desired by the society to receive the paper, he should be most happy to do so, for, a dissenter himself, he wished all parties\u2014Roman Catholics, Church of England men, or Unitarians, to have the same privileges he enjoyed himself.The Gentleman who spoke first seemed to wish to make the present board responsible for the act of their predecessors.That he denied : he dissent-' ed from the minute resolved on by the former board.After some conversation between several gentlemen on the question, whether the amendment could be put, as it embraced a topic not mentioned in the notices, Mr.Cantwell remarked that he did not desire to have religious newspapers excluded.As a member of the Association he wished to see those papers there ; for he could not afford to pay for all these papers, and yet if an interesting point were discussed in them, he wished to see that gretted the circumstances which had given rise to discussion\u2014whether a purely religious subject or the meeting, and especially regretted their oc- 1-1:*:-!\tj a.-,î :- - currence at a time when the Association was about to appeal to the public for pecuniary aid.Whatever, the decision might be tha.t night, it seemed too probable that that appeal would be injured by the present discussion.He was as much in favour of toleration as any man could be ; but he felt that the directors were elected to carry on the business of the Association, according to their best discretion, and that they ought to be supported in their measures by their constituents.The Board felt they were responsible for the effect of their proceedings, and that -while prejudices existed in this community, opposed to the reception of this paper, it was necessary that it should be excluded.There was an unconscious mistake, however, in the remarks of the gentleman who moved this resolution.The second Board found the paper excluded, and declined to receive it; believing it not to be for ihe interests of the Association to do so.He was a political subject treated from a religious point of view.He could see no reason why the \u201cChristian Inquirer\u201d should not come before the members of the Association as well as the rest ; and for the reasons ho had mentioned, should reject Mr.Leeming\u2019s motion, which moreover seemed to him quite out of order.The President decided that the amendment was not in order.Mr.Evans said that the gentleman who moved this resolution, had stated that the paper had been originally received by the deliberate opinion of the board : now the fact was it had been received only by the casting vote of the Chairman, at a meeting called an hour, before the usual time.The gentleman seemed to think that the Cincinnatti Association was much more liberal than the Association of Montreal, because they had given praise to an Unitarian minister.But it appeared that the Montreal Association were not behind the others in liberality, since also mistaken in saying that the first minute for re- their reports showed that they likewise had bes jecting-the resolution was forced through the Board towed praise on Unitarians The p-entlemai jeetm^ a minute before the Board was dissolved.The first intention was to recommend the following Board to consider the subject, and it was only when the chairman refused to put this vote, because it would embarrass their successors that the minute was adopted.Mr.Murray did not refuse to put the resolution referred to.He merely stated that a recommendation would fetter the succeeding Board.Mr.McDonald said he was present at the meeting in question, and in his opinion, Mr.Morris was nearest the truth.Mr.Morris continued :\u2014It was an unfortunate mistake that the resolution was sent by the Secretary of the Association to the a^ent of the newspaper, because it was plain that that might wound the feelings of Mr.Workman.The true question to be decided was, whether it were expedient to take this paper in the interest of the Association\u2014whether it would contribute to the interests of the Institution.He believed it could not conduce to the harmony of the Association.The first religious papers came into the room when it was joined by the late religious Library.The question now mooted was nqt a new one.It had been brought forward on the occasion when the Bible Christian was sought to be introduced ; and then as now it seemed to be the general, and as he thought the correct opinion, that those \u2022papers should be alone selected which were agreeable to the majority.Mr.B.Workman said he had no wounded feeling in this business, and should not be induc- praise on Unitarians.The gentleman who had moved the resolution would lead the meeting to believe that he knew the hearts of the entire community and yet he wanted to make it appear that there had been a great deal of secresy.Now one of those two things must be wrong, there was an inconsistency between them.He felt pleasure now in standing there to give his reasons for his vote at the Board of Direction.He was not of those who thought persons should not acton the ground of expediency.His votes were given on that ground from the first, for though his feeling of opposition to the Christian Inquirer were as strong as those of any man could be, they did not influence his conduct.At the time when the last annual report was read for his approval, he suggested that its reception should not be mentioned in the report, because he feared that it would disturb the harmonious working of the Association \\ and his suggestion was carried unanimously.Afterwards it was thought that as they were ashamed to acknowledge its reception, they had better not receive it.As the question really stood, it amounted to this, whether one, two, or half a dozen members should force on the rest of the Association a paper they did not want.The Board thought not : the Board had been elected on account of their past character for o-ood management in other affairs, and in order that they should use their best discretion in this.They were all Trinitarians ; and if Unitarian papers were wanted, some Unitarians would have been, he supposed, placed among them.He repeated, it was a question whether one or two MONTREAL HERALD AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.members should rule the Board, or whether the Board should rule for the interests of the Society.Like a former speaker, he should stand by the Society whatever the decision might be.Mr.J.Lowe thought the question on which they were called upon to vote, was not of the conduct of the Board.The gentleman who had opened the debate had stated, that he meant no offence to it.Nor did he (Mr.Lowe) want to discuss its conduct.He had confidence in the gentlemen who composed it.A different issue had now arisen.They, the supreme legislators had assembled to take the matter into their own hands.There was no doubt about their right to turn out any or all the papers they had, and there was no use in taking up time to discuss that.The question was, should they not give their Institution a sectarian character, by excluding the \" paper in question, as it was asked to be admitted.He believed the exclusion would have that effect ; on that principle he would vote against its exclusion, and trusted the majority of the meeting would support the same principle.The only ground on which a paper could be proscribed by their Institution, without sectarianism, was on that of infidelity and immorality.He was not an Unitarian, but he did not believe the Unitarians infidels.He thought that giving the institution a sectarian character would be an event much to be deplored, and he would implore gentlemen to pause before they did so.Mr.H.Lyman thought the point very simple.If this paper had been taken in the ordinary course and had been discontinued, it struck him that no complaint would have been raised ; because the Association did not take all the religious papers that were published.But in writing to the agent of the newspaper, the Secretary had stated reasons which seemed to have given cause of complaint.Now when the Board were ready to apologize for that mistake they were not to be allowed to do so simply ; but he must take back the paper also.One point mentioned by the mover was a capital one, that the Society were very ready to take the money of the Unitarians ; but that their paper was refused.But it must strike anx one.that a» Asaoovvtioaioigbt take the\ti-persons favourable to the general objects of the institution, without being obliged to take any papers they might wish to send.Was it because they took subscriptions that therefore they were also to receive publications opposed to that which was rifht ?He was sure that gentlemen who gava their money did not do so with any hope of being entitled on that ground to propagate then-religious opinions through the medium of the Association.\t\u201e ,\t, Mr.L.Taylor in reply, would first allude to the speech of the opposition, that of Mr.Winn.That gentleman said the minute relative to the insidious doctrines of the Christian Inquirer was not intended for publication.He asked whether this thing was done in a corner, whether the Board passed resolutions they were ashamed to publish?The reflection cast on the Recording Secretary in this matter should not be thrown on him.The Corresponding Secretary was bound to communicate to correspondents the resolutions passed on the subject of their business, and on this occasion the recording Secretary did the duty of the corresponding Secretary.He put it again, whether the Board should in secret describe a publication as insidious, and yet refuse in public to give a reason for its refusal ?It ivas said, however, that this wasja foreign ; not a local paper, but while this was said it was carefully kept back, that many English religious papers were taken.And there was this reason in favour of foreign papers that instead of being calculated to stir up strife, they could excite no ill feeling because they discussed subjects which had only the interest of general questions and not of partizan feeling, such as attached to the Witness or the Church or other similar papers.But the meeting was told by some gentlemen that if the resolution passed the destruction of the Society was un fait accompli.Were these gentlemen then going to leave the Association ?\u2014 On his side, the several speakers had declared they would not leave ; would they be forced to believe their neighbours less liberal than themselves ?Religious papers had been in the room from its commencement, he did not see why they should now be excluded, nor why this particular one should be excluded.An injustice had been done, and its reproach would rest on the young men of Montreal, if they allowed that injustice to be justified by expediency.He called on them to show that there was as great a sense of justice, and as much liberality among them, as among any body of young men on the continent, The vote was then taken, when there appeared\u2014 For the amendment.72 Against.71 Majority for amendment.1 The meeting adjourned without transacting further business.POST OFFICE NOTICE./f COMMENCING on the 9th instant, the O MAILS FOR ENGLAND, via the UNITED STATES, will be DESPATCHED from Montreal, EVERY SUNDAY MORNING during the PRESENT MONTH, up to SUNDAY, 23rd instant, inclusive, and every ALTERNATE SUNDAY during the Months of .)ANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH and APRIL, 1850, commencing on SUNDAY, Gth JANUARY.The Boxes will be closed for PAID LETTERS on the previous Saturday, at FIVE o\u2019clock, P.M.UNPAID LETTERS may he dropped into the Box during SATURDAY NIGHT.NEWSPAPERS must be posted before Four o\u2019clock, P.M., on SATURDAY.General Post Office, / Montreal.19th Djc., 1849.v\t231 tenebo N-EaL BE SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 13, 1850.First Page.\u2014Report of a Meeting of the Mercantile Library Association.Socialism and Science.\u2014The last French revolution by its explosion scattered through the continent of Europe a new element of disorder and destruction.A sect, previously almost unknown beyond the obscure neighborhood where its apostles recruited its disciples, suddenly stood before the world in gigantic proportions capable of overturning monarchies, and spreading bloodshed through the best ordered cities of the world.But we shall cease to wonder at tile phenomenon, if we consider with attention the character of this redoubted doctrine.Appealing to the millions who are poor, and of whom many are miserable, it points its finger to the superfluities of the rich.It declares that these superfluities ought justly to be divided among those who want ; and it proposes to effect this division on equitable principles.It will deprive none of anything really for his good ; but it will allow none to want any of those necessities or even enjoyments, which nature intended for all.Those are the pretension of this flattering dogma.That in short is Socialism.No wonder it should be greedily seized on as a\u201cnew evangel.\u201d\u2014No wonder, it should fill Legislatures with affright, and appal the wisest and boldest statesmen.In their impotence and terror these statesmen seize on any plank which promises to save them from the threatening shipwreck ; and, like the Marquis de Valdegama in the Spanish Cortes, rather than relinquish all hope, will rely on the efficacy of standing armies, or of the Catholic religion.They forget that Europe\u2019s darkest day, was that when, before the dissolution of the Roman Empire, civil commotion had made standing armies the arbiters of destiny; and that the Roman Catholic religion was as powerless as other religions would have been, to roll back that terrible flood which overran France half a century ago.Meantime, while those who claim to be leaders of the nations hesitate and doubt, the millions press on to attain that happy state, in which each will have to labour so much as is desireable for his health ; and each will receive, as his reward, as much of (he material of existence and enjoyment, as is compatible with his animal and intellectual well-being.The object which socialism sets before the world is most desirable, if it be possible ; and though not absolutely possible, is perhaps hereafter to be realized, by other means than theirs, to a degree which seems, at present, beyond all hope.But they fall into two errors, which appear to be at the bottom of their entire system.They suppose the world would produce as many necessaries and conveniences though they removed that spur of selfishness which constantly pricks us on to create and to accumulate ; and they believe that the wealth of the rich man is abstracted from the share of goods, which ought, by a just proportiohment, to fall to the lot of his poorer neighbour.They therefore look on every capitalist as a robber, and adopt the idea of Proudhon that property is theft.A truer philosophy would teach them, that, putting aside all artificial advantages conferred by law on favored individuals, capital is created by each man for himself, and that the poor would be no richer, though the rich had toiled fewer hours, or spent more of the earnings gained by toil, which he has spared with the intention of increasing his store.It would teach them, moreover, that this very capital which they abhor, is the fertilizer, by which science is made fruitful to accomplish, slowly, and perhaps imperfectly, those ameliorations, which they desiderate ; but which can never be completed while we live in an imperfect world.It is capital, applied by science, which has given to the masses that knowledge on which rests the political power, which makes acts of open injustice or spoliation no Iom-cjoi» j>®ejoiV*]x> \"Rut | f or»ifxnf\u2019f1 H been a leveller, politically, it is much more so socially.From the period when the first stage coaches stirred the dust on the highways to the present period of steam boats and railways, every improvement in travelling has brought the masses more near the enjoyment of the conveniences of the richer few.The engine does not toil for the half hundred, but for the million.The former may add some luxuries to the ordinary scale of accommodation ; but the essential improvements they enjoy in common with the average run of mankind.They must cease to be exclusive, if they would be comfortable.The postchaise no longer rolls the nobleman at the rate of ten miles an hour, while the mechanic travels in a waggon.It is the large number alone who can pay for the vast enterprizes of science, and the single grandee must adopt the carriage of the thousands, or decline its advantages.\u2014 Let any one compare a River Steamboat with the best vessels formerly engaged in passenger traffic.He will find an immeasurable improvement, on the most costly modes of aquatic conveyance, which prevailed only fifteen or twenty years ago.But he will find, too, that while the rich traveller enjoys these luxuries, at a fraction of the expense of bygone days, he does\u2019so, only on condition that he associates himself with men, who would formerly have been excluded from his worshipful presence.Compare the similarity of dress among all classes of the present day, with the finery and rags, which formerly marked the distinction of ranks, and you have another proof that in essential comfort science has done much to abolish the disparity which socialism abhors.Books, formerly the possession of the few alone, have now, in like manner, become the intellectual luxury of the many, so that he who can pay a quarter dollar may acquire a volume of Macauley\u2019s history, or any similar work, within a short period of its being laid on the table of Her Majesty, or the Duke of Wellington.The magnetic telegraph is another of those productions of science which most strongly exert the kind of influence we have noticed.Probably of all the inventions of the day there is none which will tend so much to deprive capital of its factitious, or what may perhaps be considered, its less honorable privileges.Since the days when morals were first discussed as a science, it has been demanded, whether a merchant could honestlyjmake use of superior informa' tion, to buy up commodities, whose price in the world\u2019s market had risen, without the knowledge of those holders with whom he came in contact.The electric Telegraph has almost destroyed all interest in this question, by rendering it impossible for the rich speculator to obtain information in advance of the needy producer.A few years ago the passage of every packet across the Atlantic furnished the occasion for speculators, whose business was sufficiently extensive to repay the cost, to run expresses to markets distant from the seaboard.Even after the regularity of the steamers had rendered this practice less profitable by making holders of stock cautious at the periods when news was expected, there was still sufficient inducement to tempt men to enterprizes of this kind.At present the arrival of the steamer and the leading character of transactions at the time she left Europe, are known throughout the entire continent.sometimes within a few minutes of the time when she reaches Halifax, and the farmer with his waggon load knows as much as the merchant with his shipload.The capitalist may still gain the turn of the market by judicious combinations, the result of a wise and long foresight and calculation ; but he can no longer reduce his operations to the proportions of a safe bet.Stockjobbing, especially, must submit-to the curtailment of its operations.We might go through a number of other illustrations to show, that the good which Socialism proposes as its object, is being gradually and surely brought about by science without the experimental mischief,' through which Soeialism would gain it.Science limits the legitimate enterprize of no individual ; it takes from none to give to another; but it destroys many of the inequalities of material happiness which wealth has hitherto created.It enables refinement of intellect and of behaviour to be extended through portions of society heretofore condemned to comparative ignorance and barbarity.It prevents riches from taking unfair advantage of poverty.The leading ideas of the Socialists have been so far alone alluded to; but the manner in which science has practically anticipated them, in one of the remedies, which they mostaffect, is too remarkable to be overlooked.Most; of the advocates of Socialist doctrines have affixed great weight to the principle of combination, or as they call it association.A good deal of nonsense has been talked and written about the manner in which this principle was to be carried out in the \u201c paralle lograms,\u201d to which Robert Owen proposes to reduce all assemblages of human habitations, or in the phalansterès of the Fourierites.Perhaps almost an equal amount of nonsense has been talked and written to ridicule a theory, which admits of most useful application, however it may be disfigured by its advocates.At any rate, the advantages of association are to be seen in the every day operations of our Tontines, Life and Fire Assurances, Clubs, Reading Rooms, and other public institutions, many of them founded on the nicest mathematical computations.What is more to the purpose of this article, the more applicable and the more useful does the principle appear the lower we descend in the scale of society.The English noble has his magnificent Club, it is true, at an expense trifling when compared with, that which his father paid\" in the Hotels of his day.But he has had little accession of solid enjoyment\u2014 that has been reserved for the mechanic or labourer, who has carried out the system of the Club in the model lodging house, or the public baths and wash-houses, which are now to be seen in every part of London\u2014the one taking the place of hideous dens\u2014the olhersupply ing the means, formerly absolutely wanting, for the cultivation of that virtue, cleanliness, which we are told comes next after godliness.Science then is the great antidote for Socialism, because it will effect by legitimate means, those objects which Socialism seeks, and which the masses of Enrope will constantly aim to obtain, because they feel the daily pinching of necessity prompting them to do so.Universjty of McGill College.Honors for Lent Term, which closed on the 23rd ult., have been awarded by the Caput as follows : In Classical Literature, to students of the second year:-lst Honor to Charles Bowman ; 2nd to Charles Bockns and Iv- G Ste-tham, equal ; and to students of the first year, the first prize to T.W.Mussen, and the second to G.F.Stehelin and Charles Phillips, equal.In Mathematics, to students of the second year 1st Honor, Charles Bowman, and the 2nd W.G.Stetham and Charles Bockus, equal ; and to the students of the first year, the 1st honor to T.W; Mussen.There is a class of newspapers, as well as of men, which seek to gain notoriety by falsifying their neighbours\u2014preferring the reputation which slander and detraction give to the insignificance to which their other qualifications assign them.It is rumoured in town\u2014and we believe not without good grounds\u2014that our worthy fellow-citizen, and late Mayor, the Hon.Joseph Bourret, will be the fortunate successor of the unfortunate Mr.Chabot, as Chief Commissioner of the Board of Works.This is a compliment to Montreal we little expected, and is, we greatly fear, to be attributed solely to the fact that no single member of the House of Assembly could be found bold enough to risk a re-election.Go on, gentlemen, the rope is rapidly elongating, and you know the rest.THE MONTREAL WEEKL.Y IIEKAIiO WILL BE READY FOR DELIVERY At Eight o\u2019clock This Morning.To be had at the Book Store of Messrs.R.& C.Chalmers, Great St.James Street, or at our Office, done up in covers, ready for mailing : Price 2d.THE ENGLISH MAIL.Paid Letters must be posted by 5 o\u2019clock, this evening ; Unpaid Letters may be dropped into the box duiing Saturday night.Newspapers must be posted by 4, P.M., this afternoon.The Bytoum Gazette recommends the making of wine in Canada.\u2014A writer in that paper says, that he lately drank wine on the Ottawa which was made in this country, and was not inferior to much of the Sherry and Madeira now imported into Canada.This wine was made from the currant, and an acre of currants will, the writer says, give ten pipes of wine the third year, and will yearly increase for many years : and the wine, if well made, will be better than any now selling here for ten shillings per gallon.Customs Department\u2014Reduction of Sa-tbiis laries.\u2014We learn that letters have been received from Toronto, intimating to the officers of Customs here, that their salaries will, forthwith, be reduced\u2014and this with no very delicate hand.The Collector\u2019s salary is in future, instead of £1000, to be £600 a year, and all the other officers salaries are to be reduced in proportion.We shall offer no opinion upon this (in itself, no doubt, a good beginning,) economical, fit of our precious Chabot Ministry, until we are in possession of the particulars.We would only remark that there is abroad margin between economy and niggardliness, that economy like charity, should, in common decency, begin at home\u2014 at head quarters\u2014and that so long as Lord Elgin draws his enormous salary of £7777 per annum, it is neither fair nor just that any reduction should be made hy him in the salaries of the non-political permanent servants of the public ; and that there is neither wisdom nor justice in applying the scissors to those salaries which are already not more than remunerative for the duties performed.The Council are also most anxious for the repeal or modificaiion or the pêwer given die Montreal Trinity House to exact the onerous charge of 3d per ton on steamers and other craft each voyage they make between Quebec and Montreal, which produces annually about £6000 ; a sum far exceeding all needful disbursements for the maintenance of Lights, &c., and forming a grievous burthen on the owners of steamboats and other coasting craft.The above paragraph we extract from the annual Report of the Quebec Board of Trades published in the Herald of Saturday last.Wo have only one remark to make upon it, and that is, that the authors of the Report, must have been misled by false information, as we have it, upon the best authority, that, instead of £6000, the total revenue derived by the Montreal Trinity House, from the tonnage dues referred to, during the season of 1849, did not exceed £1,900 currency.Mr.Garatt\u2019s Lottery.\u2014We direct attention again to Mr.Garatt\u2019s Lottery, and will only say, that parties wishing to win a first rate article, should put down their names at once.The goods may be inspected at D.Fisher & Co\u2019s., St.Frangois Xavier Street.CIRCULARS, CARRS, &c.We take the liberty respectfully to remind our mercantile friends and others that we are accustomed to execute all descriptions of JOB PRINTING with neatness and dispatch, and at unusually low rates.We would particularly call attention to our Professional and Business CARDS, which will be found of superior quality, style and workmanship, and which we furnish at a very low rate.In addition to Merchants\u2019 Circulars, Cards, &c., we also print Bills of Exchange, Bills of Lading, Receipts, Bank Checks, Bill Heads, Books, Pamphlets, Custom-House, Law, and Notarial Blanks ; in short every description of Job Printing, plain or ornamental, at the present reduced prices.Statement of Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, in the District of Montreal, for the year 1849 : [Compiled for the Montreal Herald.] Strange Delusion.\u2014The editor of the Transcript insists that there are two Ci Original Grey Asses\u201d in Montreal.He has been deceived by the lC old one\u201d\u2014no community could bear the infliction of two such *c creatures.5* Besides, although the name was the name of \u201c An Old Header,\u201d the voice was the voice of \u201c Alborak,5\u2019 the \u201c Original Grey\u201d of the Board of Works, beyond the possibility of mistake.Meeting of Parliament.\u2014We observe by the Upper Canada Gazette of the 6th instant, that the Provincial Parliament is called to meet for dispatch of business, on the 14th proximo.It will be seen by reference to our advertising columns, that the Montreal and Lachine Railroad will be opened for the season on Monday next, the 15th instant.We understand that yesterday a party of the directors went over the road, which is reported to be in excellent order.The London Commercial Hotel.\u2014It will be seen, by our advertising columns, that, as we sometime ago noticed, this long established Hotel has been opened by our old friend Moffatt,\u2014so well known a& the liberal and attentive host, at the London Tavern.Mr.Moffatt himself so ably and fully describes the many advantages of situation his new Hotel offers to the temporary sojourner in Montreal, that we feel it would be a work of supererogation, on our part, to take up the theme\u2014no doubt, Montreal offers none superior.And as to the accommodation and treatment provided by him for his guests\u2014all we can say is, that whatever Mr.Moffatt promises,\u2014and his promises are not, 4e like angels visits, few and far between\u201d\u2014we feel confident he will perform to the lettei ; and that no host in Canada is better entitled than he, to place Shenstone\u2019s lines over the lintel of his door :\u2014 Whoe\u2019er has travel\u2019d life\u2019s dull round, Whate\u2019er his stages may have been.Will sigh to think how oft\u2019 he found His kindest welcome in an Inn.We are requested to give notice, that on Monday evening next, W.Gordon Mack, Esq., will deliver a lecture before the Shak-speare Club, \u2018\u2018 On the Writings of Charles Dickens Boz5\u2019, at 8 o\u2019clock precisely.The popularity of the subject, and the great abilities of the lecturer, will, we doubt not, lead a great number of our citizens to avail themselves of the general invitation extended by the Club.We are requested to slate that there will be no public service to-morrow forenoon, in the Free Church, Cote Street ; but instead of it devotional exercises in the School Rocm.Public service as usual in the evening.Is the True Church to be looked foras \u201can Historical Fact\u201d 7 It is proposed to answer this question in a discourse in the Unitarian Church to-morrow evening.Seats free to all.Megantic Election.\u2014The Sheriff has fixed the 19th instant for the nomination, and the 2Bth for the Poll.His Excellency the Governor General has informed the Mayor of Montreal, by the Hon.Col.Bruce, his Secretary, of his intention to contribute £100 sterling to the fund for the Industrial Exhibition, to be awarded in one sum or several, as His Excellency may here' after direct.Mortality at Sea.\u2014The packet ship Siddons, from Liverpool to New York* lost thirty of her steerage passengers during the passage, probably by ship fever.The Siddons left Liverpool on the 13th of February.Providing for Widows and Orphans.\u2014 A law passed the Georgia Legislature, at its last session, giving to the widow and child, or children, of any person dying insolvent, $100 worth of the property of said insolvent, free arid clear of all claims for debts due by him.Counties.\tBirths.\tMarriages.\tDeaths Montreal\t\t3,355\t684\t2,922 Ottawa\t\t643\t99\tJIG Vaudreuil\t\t961\t131\t458 Two Mountains\t1,066\t210\t532 Terrebonne\t\t1,342\t214\t821 Leinster\t\t1,337\t232\t659 Berthier\t\t1,584\t243\t699 Richelieu\t\t845\t151\t392 St.Hyacinthe.\t1,620\t253\t857 Rouville \t\t1,065\t198\t488 Vercheres\t\t673\t132\t349 Chambly\t\t871\t142\t480 Huntingdon\t\t2,193\t298\t968 Beauharnois\t\t1,345\t199\t570 Missisquoi\t\t199\t75\t79 Stanstead \t\t85\t39\t33 Shefford \t\t345\t89\t92 Total\t\t19,529\t3,389\t10,515 CORPORATION OF MONTREAL.PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL.(Reported for the Montreal Herald.) Thursday, April 11.Present\u2014Elis Worship the Mayor ; Mhssrs.Bourret, Lamarche, LecJair, Whitlaw, Hall, McGrath, McDonald, Atwater, Beaudry, La-rouque, Wilson, Lyman, McFariane and Lynch.Several petitions were presented and referred to the appropriate Committee.Some conversation took place relative to the state of the streets, and it was understood that the Road Committee would have at least a portion of the snow removed from some of the streets, so as to free them from their present encumbrance.It was also stated by the Chairman ot the Po lice Committee, that for the future the names of bakers detected in selling loaves of short weight would be furnished to the newspapers for publi cation.A report was brought up from the Road Committee recommending a grant of upwards of £400 for completing the iron ratling in the Place d\u2019Armes.Alter a short conversation in which it was star ed by Mr.Whitlow that the Messrs.Redmond\u2019s, were the gentlemen who had made the lowest tender, and that the proposals had been made with the same fairness to all the parties who had tendered, the vote was agreed to.The order of the day for considering the report of the Light Committe was then read.Mr.Atwater said that he had at first supposed the Company were right in this business and the city wrong ; but he had seen reason to alter his mind.He had been surprized to see the state-ment that tho city of Liverpool paid £4 per lamp, and at the same time that the price of gas in the city was only 5s per 1,000 foot.But the price paid per lamp must be taken in consideration together with the other fact, that in Liverpool each lamp consumed twice as much gas as in Montreal.He found^too that at the price which the Montreal Company charged for their gas per thousand feet they were asking too much per lamp.The quantity of gas which he understood was consumed annually by each lamp at their prices should cost only £3 3s.0d., and £ l for cleaning made £4 3s.He thought the city ought not to submit to the prices which the Company now desired to charge, because it was evident that they had prevented the city from getting cheap light, when it could have been had from the other Company.Mr.McFari.ane said that though interested in this Company he thought he could have an opinion on it without being influncéd in prosperity, If a gentleman carne into his shop to buy he did not ask the cost of the article.He heard the price and took them at ihat, or declined them.He thought the city should proceed in the same way.However, it was useless to talk about paying even £4, because the ciiy had no money to pay even that, fie thought the only way to get on would be to light every other lamp or every third lamp, so as to prevent the city from being in total darkness.Before concluding he would with all respect advise the Light Committee to adopt a different siyle for their reports.This, except that is was not on electioneering one, was as bad as the last.It was for the committee to digest the facts themselves, and then report not the facts but the result.The report should be tor the Council, this one by repeated references showed that it was intended for the public.Dr.Hall did not agree with Mr.McFariane as to the report; but he did agree vviih him as to the main features of the case.The question with him was whether the city could do better than take the Company\u2019s offer.Now he understood that the cost of this gas et the gasometer to the Company was 5s 8d per thousand feet ; but immediately it left the gasometer a loss was incurred of GO per cent; so that the gas actually cost the Company 9s Id.Now, he understood that the lamps at the £4 10s came to 9s lOd per thousand cubic feet, which was a profit of 9d per thousand ; and that £4 pei lamp came to 8s 2d per thousand cubic feet, or a loss of lid.The following was a list of the charge for gas in several cities of the North American Provinces : at Quebec £5 per lamp ; Kingston £6 ; Toronto £6 ; Halifax £5 ; St.Johns\u2019 Newfoundland £5 ; St (Johns N.B.£(>.\u2014 A proposal had been read at the last meeting which he understood was a hoax ; but a serious proposition had been made to use oil.Now oil would cost £4 1 Is fid per lamp, which would add to the expense, without giving so much light.Mr.Larocque said that as to the looking at the cost of making this gas, there was an illustrious example in the case of the parties who had formed this very Company, and who had compelled Mr Furniss to submit all his affairs to the Light Committee.At that lime he showed that he was not making moie than 12 per cent from which had to be deducted all the bad debts.Now 8 per cent was a good investment, and if £5 would give 12 per cent, surely £4 would would give 8 per cent ; so that the present Company could not complain ot £4, especially as they professed to be established, not to make a profit, but to give cheap gas.Mr Lyman was opposed to acceeding to the demands of the company, because it was entirely through their proceedings that the city had failed to get the gas at £4 per lamp.There was no reason now, why the company should charge more than Mr.Furniss did.Labour was at least 25 per cent, and coal could be obtained almost for nothing\u2014at least he had bought some for 20s the chaldron.Mr.McGrath hardly thought the citizens could continue to live in the state of darkness in which they now were.Representing one of the constituencies; not the most favored in the city, he still did not like to see the streets in so dangerous a condition as they now were.The adoption of the report was carried, 9 to 6, and the Council adjourned.LAW INTELLIGENCE.School Commissioners (St.Malachie d\u2019Orms-town) versus Liggett and Others.This, case, which excited considerable interest in the neighborhood, and is of some importance to the working of the School Act for Canada East, was argued at the last Circuit court, Beauharnois.The Plaintiffs, (English and Scotch,) for some time past, have had their onerous labors materially impeded by a combination of Episcopalians, with other Sectarisis, to resist payment of School Assessment and Fees, as dis sentients.Thereby, to a certain extent, crippling the resources to pay their Teachers, a body of men that will not suffer by comparison with those of any other District.Men, whose character and ability have repelled the oftirepeated insinuations about ** Catechisms\u2019 and other calumnious annoyances.The case came before the Court, in the form of action, to obtain payment of School Assessment Fees, &c., Defendants pleading not liable, as dissentients, andas a distinct,separate,corporate body, assessing, collecting, and supporting their own Schools.After several technical objections, illegal forms, delay, &c., &.C., were quashed, the case was argued at great length, whether or not sections of Protestants could legally dissent from one another.The Court, paying the most minute attention to all the important bearings thereof, observing as this was a case involving the fate of the School Act for the whole of Canada East, and the law admitting of no appeal, it would take until next day to consider.Next morning the judgedelivered judgment in favor of the Plaintiffs in a most luminous and able manner, occupying above an hour, and without a single doubt or hesiution, for, said the Hon.J.McCord, the Law never contemplated the idea of various sections of Protsrtants dissenting among themselves, as this might render nugatory the most essential provisions of the Act, from the infiniti-simal divisions ihat would arise.Thus confirming the opinion previously given by,Dr.Meilleur, that \u201c all the inhabitants of one Scholastic Municipality can be divided into two classes only, that is Roman Catholic and Protes-tan;, and these, taken collectively only, can dissent without regard to any variance that may exist among them as to mattera of faith.\u201d As no appeal by certionari is allowed, we sin-cerely hope both hahitans and settlers of St.Grégoire, Three Rivers, and St.Malachie, Beauharnois, acquiescing cheerfully in this decision, will from henceforth, cordially unite in giving effect to this liberal and benevolent enactment, strengthening the hands of those unpaid functionaries, who spend their time and money, risk their persons and property, in promoting the cause of Education \u2014of whose benefits their opponents and children arc equally the recipients.But should there still remain among them a Papineau in disguise\u2014an Achan in the camp, whose element is discord\u2014they will now find \u201c Othello\u2019s occupation gone !\u201d and their learned, but more honest and deluded dupes, from henceforth resolve to follow the purer dictates of their own hearts and consciences.It would be injustice to Mr.Lighthall, Ji1., to omit noticing the clear, correct, and perspicuous manner in which the pleadings were got up, eliciting the approbation of both Court and Bar.CORRESPONDENCE.Secretary\u2019s Office, Toronto, April 6, 1850.His Excellency the Governor General has been pleased to gram Licenses to John Cronyn, of To* ronto, Gentleman, and James McMahon, of Dundas, Gentleman, to practice Physic, Surgery, and Midwifery, in that part of the Province formerly Upper Canada.Secretary\u2019s Office, Toronto, April 6, 1850.His Excellency the Governor General has been pleased to make the following appointments, viz :\u2014 Joseph Dèry, of I\u2019Ancienne Lorette, and Joseph Falardeau, Jr., of St.Ambrose, Esquires, to be Justices of the Peace, in and for the District of Quebec.Messieurs Joseph Bistodeau, Eusébe Cartier, Pierre Boucher de la Bruére, Venant Lemaire St.Germain, and Chas.Beauregard, to be Commis, sioners of Small Causes for the Parish of Saint Hyacinthe.(Commission dated 17th Jan., 1848, revoked.) Adjutant General\u2019s Office, Toronto, April 5, 1850.General Order : His Excellency the Governor General has been pleased to make the following promotions and ap-appointments in the Militia Force of Canada, viz :\u2014 REGIMENT OF BERTHIER.First Battalion.To be Major : Captain Albert Farlie, vice Faries, promoted.REGIMENT OF LOTBINIERE.First Battalion.To be Ensigns : Aihanase Beaudet, Gentleman, Henri Gustave Joli \u201d REGIMENT OF PORTNEUF.Third Battalion.To be Captain : Lt.Pierre Plamondon.To be Lieutenants : Ensign Jos.Beer, Michel Dèry, Gentleman.To be Ensigns : Robert Nurtrm, Gentleman, J.B.Jobin,\t\u201c REGIMENT OF LEINSTER.Third Battalion.To be Major : Captain Philip Mount.To be Captains : Lt.François Pauzé, \u201c Felix Villeneuve To be Lieutenants : Ensign Chus.Migneron, Môlane Delfausse.To be Ensigns :\t* Wm.Mount, Gentleman, Jos.Brouillet, \u201c REGIMENT OF NJCOLET.Second Battalion.To be Captains: Lt.Jos.Valérie Genest, \u201c F.X.Turcotte.To be Lt ; Ensign J.B.Guillaume Descormiers.To be Ensign : Laurent Genest, Gentleman.By Command, A.DeSalaberry, Lt.Col.Deputy Adjt.Gen.of Militia.TRADE & COMMERCE.WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.S HERALD OFFICE, l Montreal, April 12, 1850.ARTICLES.PRICES.DUTIES.ASHES\u2014Pols, pr cwt27 Pearls,\tdo 27 BLUE, Fig, per lb.0 BRIMSTONE,in rolls 20 BISCUIT\u2014Pilot, cwt.00 Ship,.00 COFFEE\u2014Laguyra ) per lb.$\t0 Cuba,\tdo\t0 Jamaica,\tdo\t0 Green per cwt .4 Roasted or Gr\u2019d, do.0 CANDLES, per lb.Eng.Moulds, wax ) wicks .$ Spermaceti.Wax.Montreal, mould .CORDAGE\u2014 Montreal Tarred .Do Kent\u2019ky Hemp,p lb Russian,\tdo Miniila,\tdo COALS, Scotch, dial Newcastle, grate,do Smiths\u2019\tdo CORKS, Ists, pr gross d s 0 a 27 9-28 U -\t0 0-00 0-00 0-00 9 -0 -0 -8 -0 - 0 2 2 5f 0 - 9 -4 -4 - 2nds.3ids.DRUGS, Alum.do.j 0 do.0 cwt.17 To the Editor of the Montreal Herald.Sir,\u2014The interpretation of the Editor of the Gazette\u2019s insinuated opinion of himself, as expressed in the opening of his pop.gun battery on yourself and your correspondent in his paper of 10th instant, (which, however, 1 did n t see till this morning, or I would have taken an earlier opportuniiy of replying to his amiable criticisms,) seems to be that, \u201c he is Sir Oracle, and when he speaks, let no dog bark.\u201d As to his being the \u201d pink of perfection,\u201d com-mer\u2019tally and politically, and always 44 seeking the advancement of everything Canadian,\u201d I would just inquire ofhim how much he thinks the country has been advanced commercially, by the circulation, through the province, with scarcely an explanatory word, of detailed, reports of Auc~ tion Sales, held at the dullest season of the year, and where litile else but first lots of goods were sold, and they generally at a loss?And, politically, does the Editor think his famous Extra of 25lh April last and its consequence, tended very greatly to elevate Canada and Canadians in the estimation of the world ?But to business\u2014It appears then that since \u201d Fair Play\u2019s\u201d letter appeared in the Herald of9th instant, the Board of Trade have published a revised tariff of dues, giving to the purchaser of sugar, &c.in this market, almost os much tare as is allowed by the CuMom House Department ; but I think some explanation is necessary to show why, if this alteration in tares was 4\u2018 made and passed on the 1st instant,\u201d when the 44 Report\u201d was adopted, the revised tariff svas not published with that report ; as there is no doubt that the tariff\u2019 is of much greater importance than many other subjects treated of in the report.The public having thus been kept in ignorance of the important changes in the tariff some eight days after the publication of the report, not even our enterprising friend of the Gazette having been furnished with a copy, until after the publication of the \u201cfads\u201d in Fair Play\u2019s letter.In the 44 comprehensive\u201d report of the Board, there is a reference to the liberal concession in tares by the Custom House, and also a reference to a Tariff of Charges\u201d ; but I by no means can see by it, 44 comprehensive\u201d as it is on other points, a disiinct mention of its having been found necessary to make a complete change in the tariff of lures ; nor do I see any particulars of what such changes may be.There is, to be sure, a sen* tence bearing on the subject ; but without even the Gazette\u2019s twisting it may readily be understood lo relate to Custom House tares and to the advantage of purchasing in bond.There is not, nor can there be, a denial of the facts as to losses in tares stated in my letter, and there is not a Member of the present or former Boards of Trade, at all conversant with the subject, who does not know how well founded and long continued have been the complaints of insufficient tares.And though justice has at last been obtained, it has been very tardy.The Gazette somewhat Jesuilically asserts thaï I seek for the purchaser 44 the Custom House allowance\u201d, referring to the tares formerly allowed by the Custom House\u2014and then he goes on to say that, \u2022'* by the present tariff of the Board, the purchaser is placed on a better footing than he would be by that allowance\u201d.Does the Editor of the Gazette imagine I was seeking to obtain for the trade a tariff they already fcad, and were most anxious to get rid of?No, the fact is, I sought for ihe present Custom House tariff of tares.'That, after all, the Board is not as liberal as the C istom House is evident, for while the Board allots but 12 on all hhds and tierces, the Custom House allows 14 per cent on tierces under 1U00 lbs., being a difference in favor of Custom House ta;es ol nearly 20 lbs.each on tierces weighing say 980 lbs.Though in this and some other respects the ariff of the Board might be amended, yet I feel persuaded it will satisfy the trade generally.\u2014 But before distressing the subject there is one fact I must allude to, that is, that though through the representatives of the Board of Trade, the 12 per cent on packages of sugar weighing 1000 lbs., and the 14 per cent on those under 1000 lbs.were'allowed by the Custom House 44 as a mat-ter of justice\u201d during ihe best part of the business season of last year \\ yet it is only now alier a lapse of seven months that this concession is recommended to be extended to purchasers in this market.The Gazette, whines 44 considerably\u201d, because complaint on the subject of this communication was made, and rates you in his choicest style, because you had the independence to notice the subject and to suggest reform.You are, for so doing, accused of lack ol patriotism, and of en* deavouring to blacken everything Canadian ; but you well know, Mr.Editor, that in the words of the wisest of men, it is 44 righteousness\u2014that is, uprightness\u2014alone that exalteth a nation\u201d.And that Canada never can be elevated, if her press is to be silenced in the cause of reform, and evil in the mildest form be allowed to continue unchecked.I wonder the Editor of the Gazette, who knows everyihing, did not see a notice in the Boston papers oi the 4th' instant, calling a meeting of the trade there on that day, to lake measures respecting the \u20184 inadequate tores allowed on sugar and other articles in that city\u201d.Now, will any one say the Boston Editors should have refused to in-sert such a notice, because it might be construed into a 44 blackening of the prospects of tho country\u201d in general, 44 and of the characters of the men of high standing in the community\u201d in particular ?Fair Play.Montreal, April 11, 1850, The Honorable Jean Chabot reached town yesterday afternoon, on his return from Toronto, being, it is said, much fatigued and something the worse of his long journey down.His entry into town was unaccompanied by any public demonstration on the part of the citizens, and strictly private.We understand he has abdicated t|?e cares of public life and resigned his seat in the Assembly.The Globe mentions the resignation of the hon.gentleman, but alludes so enigmatically to 44 the painful circumstances which ren dered this step a duty on the part of Mr.Chabot,\u201d that we scarcely know what to make of them, nor to what precise cause his retirement from office, so soon, is attributable.There seems, however, to have been compulsion in the matter, and we have a right to know the why and wherefore.If to intemperance, it should, for example\u2019s sake, be stated ; for, in that case we mean to call Lord Elgin to account for certain appointments of certain gents, far more notorious on that head than Mr.Chabot, and to much higher offic\u2019 than that from which he has just ejected Mr.Chabot, or forced him to resign, for a pecadillo, in comparison to theirs, but which it would seem, far from marring, really contributed to their elevation.It was very natural, that Mr.Chabot, on the joyful occasion of his advent to office, and, moreover, to a seat in His Ex :el-lency\u2019s Council, should indulge, on his arrival at the Seat of Government, in a 44 horn\u201d or two extra (and which, by-the-by, in an Anglais would only have been laughed at, as an excellent joke) ; and, if on that account, he has had his conge, he certainly, has not experienced 44 droits égaux et justice égalé,\u201d at His Excellency\u2019s hands.We cannot understand why a mere frolic, almost characteristic of an Anglais, and, indeed, of some of our most eminent personages, including one or two we might name, even on the Bench, erst of celebrity on that score, should be criminal in a well-meaning Jean Baptiste.We think there must be something unlair at bottom of this matter, and shall, perhaps, enquire further into it by Commission appointing Mr.Peuitentiairy Commissioner Brown our chief inquisitor on the occasion, with instruciions to \"report from time to time.\u2014Quebec Mercury.o 9 o 10 o il IMAGINARY EVILS.[By Charles Swain.] Let to-morrow take care of to-morrow ; Leave things of the future to fate : What\u2019s the use to anticipate sorrow ; Life\u2019s troubles come never loo late ! If to hope over-much be an error, \u2019Tis one that the wise have preferred ; And how often have hearts been in terror Of evils that never occurred ! Have faith\u2014and thy faith shall sustain thee\u2014 Permit not suspicion and care With invisible bonds to enchain thee, But bear what God gives thee to bear.By His spirit supported and gladdened, Be ne\u2019er by 44 forebodings\u201d deterred ; But think how oft hearts have been saddened By fear\u2014of what never occurred ! Let to-morrow take care of to-morrow ; Short and dark as our life may appear, We may make it still darker by sorrow\u2014 Still shorter by folly and fear ! Half our troubles are half our invention ; And often from blessings conferred Have we shrunk in the wild apprehension Of evils\u2014that never occurred ! 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