Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 12 janvier 1854, jeudi 12 janvier 1854

[" THE MONTREAL HERALD And Daily Commercial Gazette Is Published Daily during the six business months of the year, viz : from 1st of May to the 31st of October ; and on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, during the Winter months, * hen the Navigation is closed.r» tr TER^^ OF SUBSCRIPTION.Imily Herald, XI 10s., payable hall-yearly, in advance Wfükly Herald, 111 Clubs of Seven, Five Shillings p* Months\u2019\tSubscribers, Five Shillings for Te No Letter aKen out of the Post Office, unless it is pre-paid.c?.,\tADVERTISING.Six lines and unJer, 1st insertion, 2s 6d, and 7id for each subsequent insertion.Ten lines and under, 1st insertion, 3s 4d, and lOd for each subsequent insertion.Over ten lines 4d per line for the 1st insertion, and Id per line for each subsequent insertion.YEARLY RATES.One Square not to exceed 26 lines X12 10s, with the privi lege of changing it occasionally.Halt Square not to exceed 12 lines X6 16s, with the same privileges.Professional and other Cards not exceeding, seven lines, X3 per annum.No Advertisement to be considered by the year unless it is previously agreed upon between the parties.The privilege of Yearly Advertisers will be confined to their regular business, and all other Advertisements such us Auction Sales., Houses to Let, Dissolution of Puruier-ships, Legal Notices, Ships, &c., will be charged extra.Notices of Deaths, containing an invitation to attend the Funeral, to be charged 2s.6d.All Notices of Births and Marriages, Is.3d.each.Regular Advertisers, and all others sending communications, or requiring Notices designed to call attention to Lectures, Soirees, Concerts, or any public entertainments, all Notices of Private Associations\u2014every Notice designed to call attention to private enterprise, calculated or intended m promote individual interest, can only be inserted in the Editorial columns, with the understanding that it is to be paid for.N.B.\u2014All Orders for ihe insertion or discontinuance of Advertisements, must be in writing, a Book being kept in the Office for parties, calling personally, in which to enter their orders\u2014verbal orders cannot be recognized.NOTICES.DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.THE CO-PARTNERSHIP of the Undersigned, under the Finn of M A O P H E R S O N, CRANE & CO., at Montreal, and of MACPHER-SON à CRANE, at Kingston, Prescott, Hamilton, Port Stanley, and Bytown, has this day been DISSOLVED, by mutual consent\u2014D.L.Macpherson retiring therefrom.All Debts due to, and by the late concern, to be settled with John Hacphkbson and Samuel Crane.JOHN MACPHERSON, SAMUEL CRANE, D.L.MACPHERSON.Kingston, 23d July, 1853.\t183 THE Business will be CONTINUED as heretofore, by the Undersigned, under the Names and Firms above mentioned.JOHN MACPHERSON.SAMUEL CRANE, Kingston, July 23, 1853.\t183 NOTICE- APPLICATION will be made to the Provincial Parliament at its next Session, to obtain a CIRCUIT COURT and a REGISTRY OFFICE at the Village of INDUSTRY, Parish of St.Charles Borromée, District of Montreal, in Lower Canada.A.HAGNAN.Industry, November 9, 1853.\t220 NOTICE ALL PESONS having Claims againstthe Estate of the late JOHN STEPHENSON, Esq., M.D., or of his Widow, ISABELLA TORRANCE, lately deceased, are notified to present the same, duly attested, to the undersigned, who has been appointed Tutor to the Minor.WILLIAM WHITEFORD, Tutor.St.Joseph Street.August 26.\t153 THE Undersigned is prepared to make CASH ADVANCES on all kinds of Produce consigned to EDWARD WAY & CO., of Liverpool.RICHARD T.WAY, St.John Street.May 23.\tIl REMOVALS.REMOVAL.WM.STEPHEN & CO.have REMOVED to their New Stores, No.274 St.Paul Street, next door to Messrs.Jos.Mackay & Bro., where they are RECEIVING a large assortment of FANCY and STAPLE DRY GOODS, suitable for the Fall Trade.Sept.8.\t164 eft S1 AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.VOLUME XLVI.MONTREAL.THURSDAY MORNING.JANUARY 12.1854.NUMBER 5 xuuaovAij OP THB Montreal Herald Printing Office, THE Proprietors of this Establishment have .REMOVED their PRINTING OFFICE to_ those large, central and commodious premises, in Notre Dame Street, formerly known as Bradbury\u2019s Buildings, near St.François Xavier Street, and immediately in rear of the New Post Office.ADVERTISEMENTS and Orders lor every description ofBOOKand JOB PRINTING, will be received on the above premises, or, as formerly, at the Herald Office, No.23 St.Gabriel Street, where the Editors and Clerks\u2019 Offices will remain until May, 1854.S^Entrance, Gateway.April 9.to the Printing Office, by the 43 FOR SALE.CHAMPAGNE ! THE Celebrated \u201cLONDON CLUB\u201d Brands.\u2014ALSO,\u2014 MAY SUTAINE & CO., ofRbeims, Superior FLEUR de CHAMPAGNE, which obtained the ireference over all others at the Banquet given jy the Legislative Corps to His Imperial Majesty Louis Napoleon.TORRY & CO.October 15.\t196 Kingston City Brewen Ale.THE Subscribers have this morning received a Fresh Supply of the above Celebrated ALE TORRY & CO.October 24.\t203 L^OR SALE\u2014 J?54 qr casks] 40 octaves j November 15.SHERRY WINE G.KINGAN.221 Anchors and Chain Cables.FOR SALE by the Subscribers\u2014 A good assortment, of best proved quality.FROTHINGHAM & WORKMAN.March 12\t31 Bolting Cloth & Mill Stones.FOR SALE by the Subscribers\u2014 Bolting Cloth (branded Anchor) Patent Bolting Cloth, assorted numbers Frencù Mill Stones French Burr Blocks E à V.HUDON.lept.28.\t181 r N STORE and for Sale\u2014 JAMAICA GINGER, finest REFINED SALTPETRE, 1 cwt kegs BLACK PEPPER, double sifted PIMENTO, CASSIA DeKUYPER\u2019S GIN, in hhds LIVERPOOL SOAP, W.0.à G.Casey Now landing ex \u201c St.Lawrence,\u201d 500 sacks Liverpool COARSE SALT D.TORRANCE & CO.May 4.___ 55 PATEKT SODA ASH.TIERCES \u201c Steele\u2019s \u201d Strength, 50 o.p\u2014 50 September 2.A.CUVILLIER & CO.159 GRATE COAL.For sale\u2014 English GRATE COAL Sydney and Pictou do American Anthrieite do In quantities to suit Families.H.E.SCOTT, Mullin\u2019s Buildings.'; December 1, 1853.\t228 \u2019 CO AIMS.CARGO of WALLSEND SCREENED COALS afloat, in lots to suit purchasers.THEODORE HART.September 21.\t179 A ^RATE COALS\u2014Best Newcastle Wallsend \u2022JT Grate Coals For Sale by THEODORE HART.October 31.\t209 RXHYEOVAXi.HM.BOWKER, Dentist, has REMOVED to \u2022 the Residence of Mademoiselle Duperez, 60 No.7 Little St.James Street.May 10.H.W.KIEff©, Custom House, Forwarding and General Shipping Agent, HAS REMOVED his Office to MULLIN\u2019S BUILDINGS, No.60 Commissioners Street, Opposite the Quebec Steamboat Wharf.May 14.\t64 © S&.¥\t\u20ac1 ® © © £ , WHOLESALE.A COMPLETE Assortment of BRITISH and FOREIGN DRY GOODS, consisting in part of\u2014 Flannels, Blankets Beaver, Witney,_and Melton Cloths Grey Cottons, White Shirtings Silks and Stuff Goods Gloves and Hosiery Sheetings and Table Linen \u2014and\u2014 A very Superior Lot of SEWED MUSLIN WORK, for Sale on the most favorable terms.R.CAMPBELL & CO.October 17.\t197 3S.CASSPSSE.I.& CO.HAVE now Received in part their usual Extensive Supply of CARPETINGS, DRUGGETS, OIL CLOTHS, &c., which they will Sell at the lowest possible price for CASH, or approved credit.October 17.\t197 ©f&Y G®©©i.FADE, 1853.JL Warehouse,'10 St.Joseph Street, a large and varied assortment of FANCY and STAPLE DRY GOODS, comprising in part\u2014 Cloths, Venetians, Mohairs, Mixed Witneys, Tweeds, Cassimeres and Doeskins Vestings in endless variety Vecuna and Ermine Cloakings, New Styles Long and Square Woollen Shawls and Hkfs 3-4, 6-4 and 7-4 Gala Plaids 7-8 and 6-4 Printed Delaines and Cashmeres 6-4 Brocaded Lustres, Black and Cold Orleans and Coburgs Plushes, Silk Velvets & Bonnet Satins Velvet, and a complete assortment of Bonnet, Cap & Sarsnet Ribbons, and their usual make of White Shirtings, 7-2 & 5-4 Prints Wifli a full Assortment of Hosiery, Haberdashery & Gloves Flannels Medium & Mackinaw Blankets Hemp, Dutch & Sco.Carpetings Forfar Baggings, Hessian & Striped Bedding 10,000 2-Bushel Twilled Bags 5,000 2-Miuot Wheat do OGILVY, WOOD & CO.September 26.\t179 SMITHS' COALS\u2014Best Double and Single Screened Smith Coals October 31.For Sale by THEODORE HART.209 SUGAR\u201450 hhds Bright Porto Rico Sugar .\tFor Sale by October 31.by THEODORE HART.209 Q/Xn SUPERIOR SWEET HAMS, caretully Cured.For Sale CAMPBELL & WILLIAMSON.October 14.\t195 FOR Sale by the Subscribers\u2014 20 casks Very Superior SMOKED HAMS LtsMESURIER, ROUTH & CO.July 6.\t109 JpOR SALE by the Subscribers\u2014 Bleached and Brown Sheeting, 32, 33,36 and 40 inch Fine Canada Bagging, 35, 36,38 and 40 inch Improved Canvas for Tailors, different qualities Brown Towelling, Two Bushel Bags, Seaming Twine, &c.&c.&c.LmMESURIER.ROUTH Hr.nniUi, o A'i'MEAL\u20145Ü0 Barrrls, Fresh Ground POT BARLEY\u2014100 do SPLIT PEAS\u201425 do \u2014ALSO,\u2014 FLOUR\u2014Superfine and Extra F or Sale by JAMES TORRANCE.November 12.\t220 PORK\u2014500 Barrels, Mess, Thin Mess and Prime BUTTER\u2014100 Kegs, Prime U 0 50 do Eastern Townships 'For Sale by JAMES TORRANCE.November 12.\t220 CIGARS ex \u201c Standard,\u201d from Cuba :\u2014 CUBREY, OPERA, NICÛTIANA, and other Celebrated Brands For Sale by STEPHENS & MILLS.September 16.\t171 SPAULDING PROLIFIC SPRING WHEAT,\u2014 a superior variety for sowing, yield 27 minots per arpent.Seed imported from Scotland.WILLIAM LYMAN & CO., St.Paul Street.May 7\t58 W.G.TO llipoms & JOBIIEBS BEY GOODS.THE undersigned, AGENTS FOR MANUFACTURERS, are prepared to Sell, by the package, the following articles, a( prices (in Currency) equivalent to the Sterling Cost, with charges of importation :\u2014 ROBERT ASHTON\u2019S well known CAMBRIC PRINTS.J.RADCLIFFE & CO.\u2019s, Rochdale, FLANNELS and BLANKETS.YORKSHIRE WOOLLENS, CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, TWEEDS, DOESKINS, WITNEYS, BEAVERS.GERMAN GALAS, from (< Saalfield Gebruder,\u201d Hamburg.GERMAN COTTON VELVETS, for Ladies\u2019 Dresses\u2014a perfect imitation of Silk.FRENCH MADAPOLLAMS, from Durkas, Deft Co., Lisle.HOBBS ft^CO., Vale-House Mills: LONG CLOTHS, of the finish known here as Horrock\u2019s.F.ROBINSON, Spring-Bank, Stochport :\u2014 GREY and WHITE SHIRTINGS.BURY ft GO., Manchester : MOLESKINS.JOHN DICK ft SONS, Bridgetown, Glasgow SPOOL COTTON.FARQUHARSONS, Lisburn : FAMILY HOLLAND.CLOAKINGS.(V.WHITEFORD ft CO.September 7,\t163 FALL mPOltriTlONS.THE Subscriber has now in Stock, an Extensive and complete assortment of DRY GOODS, selected with great care by himself in the British and American Markets,\"the whole of which he offers at a SMALL ADVANCE on COST\u2014 Red, White, Pink, Blue and Yellow Flannels Macinaw and Witney Blankets Colored and Horse Blankets Serges, Kerseys, Pilots, Mohair Shaded and Plain Witneys Wool Dyed Cloths, Cassimeres and Doeskins TweedsfrAmerican Satinetts French Merinoes, Cobourgs, Orleans Shirtings, Regattas, Ticking 5-4 and 7-8 Fancy Prints \u2014and,\u2014 An extensive variety of Small Wares \u2014also\u2014 A large and cheap assortment Ready Made Clothing.N.S.WHITNEY.October 10, 1853.\t191 THE Subscriber offers for Sale\u2014 2 Cases Patent LINEN THREAD on SPOOLS Mach^0rte^ exPressly f°r th0 u3e Sewing r, 4 u\tN.S.WHITNEY.October 10,1853.\t'\tjgj ^TuHE^SiTbscrioers have received, ex \u201c Andes \u201d PRlNT^f \u2018uV000 Piece3 ASHTON\u2019S BEST PRINTS, Which they offer to the Trade low.FRENCH BURR STONES.JUST LANDED, ex Ship CARRON, from Havre, J (France) a fine lot of FRENCH MILL STONES and BURR STONES of various sizes RENAUD ft FRERE.^August 4.\t134 \"Window Glass.BOXES and OASES GERMAN SHEET GLASS, from 6j^ x 7^, up For Sale by THOMAS WILLIAMS.September 12.\t157 Brandy\u2014\t; 75 hhds ) \u201cDumas\u2019\u201d just landed, ex 20 qr-casks )\t\u201c Chase,\u201d from Glasgow.For sale by G.D.WATSON.June 15.\t9j 2500 to 44 x 30._______FOR SALE.DIAMONDS, GOLD AND SILVER, IN ANY QUANTITY, AT RAXVISAV &.IVTARTHUR'S OIL, PAINT, AND GLASS STORES, ML G ILL STREET, MONTREAL.ROUGH AND POLISHED PLATE GLASS, from % to % inch thick Silvered, and every description of Window Glass Boiled and Raw Linseed Oil Dry and Ground Paints, of all kinds Patent Dryers, Varnishes, &c Artists, Gilders, and Graining Tools Pallet, Stone, and Glazing Knives, &c.&c.December 20.\t236 Stained Glass.I'pHE Subscribers, having made arrangements J_ with MR.SPENCE, (a Celebrated Glass Stainer, from England), are now ready to receive Orders in the above Line.CHURCH WINDOWS, in every Style, Figures, Landscapes, Coats of Arms, Borders, Rosettes, Stained Glass for Public Buildings, Steam Boats, Hotels, ftp.&c.Orunmcmal Qiiuing, Emuusslng, and Enamelling on Glass, for Signs, Name Plates, Druggists\u2019 Show Glasses, Lamps, &c.&c.Specimens may be seen at the premises.RAMSAY ft MoARTHUR, McGill Street, Montreal.P.S.\u2014Estimates and Designs forwarded on application.December 20.\t236 FOR SALE.NEW GOODS NEW DEAR'S PRESENTS.THE Subscriber begs to inform bis friends and the public generally, that be has just received a few cases of Fancy Articles, expressly adapted for NEW YEAR\u2019S GIFTS, consisting of Ladies' Papier Mâché Work Boxes, Companions, Portfolios, Jewel Gases, Dressing Cases, Work Baskets, Coral Bracelets, Mounted with Paris Brilliants, Ladies\u2019 and Gentlemen's Gold Watch Chains, Brooches, of various Patterns, Silver Goblets, of all descriptions, with his usual assortment of Gold and Silver Watches Jewellery, &c., &c.All kinds of Repairs done with ne atnesss and despatch.H.PEACOCK, 961^, Notre Dame Street.December 27.\t~\t239 CEOGKEEY, &c.ripHE Subscriber has just received by the 1\t\u201c SARAH MARY,\u201d an Extensive and Well Selected Assortment of CROCKERY, and expects in a few days, a further and larger supply by the \u201cWHITE CLOUD,\u201d \u201cWATER LILLY,\u201d and other vessels, all of which he intends to offer at Low Prices, and particularly encourages the Country Merchants to give him a call and judge for themselves.ADOLPHUS BOURNE, 120 St.Paul Street.May 17.\t66 CHINA, GLASS & EARTHENWARE.THE Subscribers have on hand a large and complete assortment of DINNER, DESSERT, TEA, BREAKFAST, and TOILET SETS, in all the new flown Colours, and in superior White Stoneware.Plain, Prest and Cut Glassware, Decanters, Tumblers, Wines, Water Oaraffs, Dishes on Stand, Covered Preserve Dishes, Sugars, Jugs, &c.\u2014also,\u2014 A complete assortment of WARE, for Wholesale Trade, all of which will be sold at Low Prices.CHARLES HAGAR ft CO., No.293, cor.St.Paul ft St.Peter Streets.December 22.\t237 TWENTY CASES 7-4 LLAMA CLOTHS, COBOURGS *1 BjBa,lC*IS, EX STEiLIVIES.\u201cSARAH SANDS\u201d, Just arrived, and for Bale by CLAftK, THOMSON & CO.THESE Goods have all been Manufactured expressly for G.T.ft CO., dyed and finished under their own inspection, and for beauty of texture and finish, are not to be surpassed.The COLORS are all INGRAINED, so that no ordinary exposure will cause the most delicate shades to fade.OVER 1,000 PIECES Will be offered to the Trade at the smallest remunerating profit on MANUFACTURERS PRICES.CLARK, THOMSON ft CO, 168, St.Paul Street.October 14.\t195 FOR SALE.LiaüJÊUMS^INES, &C.rHE SUBSCRIBER offers for Sale the following LIQUEURS, WINES, &c.Very Finest Brown and White Curaçao Do\tdo\tCreme d'Noyan\t Do\tdo\tdo\tVanille Do\tdo\tdo\tThé Do\tdo\tdo\tAbsinthe Dantzic Gold Water Haile d\u2019Venus Parfait Amour Extract d\u2019Absinthe Very Superior Maraschino Do\tdo\tAnesette Do\tdo\tGinger Brandy Do\tdo\tApricot Brandy Real Tokay, in pints, \u201c Princesse\u201d Genuine Copenhagen Cherry Brandy \u2014also,\u2014 Ports, Sherries, Maderias, Champagnes, Brandies, &c., &c.The above are the very finest German and Dutch Liqueurs ever offered in this country.E.HAMILTON, 184 Notre Dame Street.December 31.\t241 CHINA, GLASS, & EARTHENWARE, AT LOW PRICES.THE Subscriber has just received by the Barque \u201c UNIVERSE, from Liverpool, a select assortment, of Gilt and Plain Table, Desert, Tea, Breakfast and Toilet Services, with a great variety of useful articles for Housekeepers ; also, an assortment of Cut and Pressed Glassware.A large assortment of Goods for Town and Country Merchants, either by the Package, or packed to order by the dozen.ROBT.ANDERSON, 171 St.Paul Street.November 29.\t227 THE KINGSEY SLATE WORKS COlVIPANISr.THE undersigned having acquired the QUARRY and STOCK belonging to the above Company,, the Business in future will be carried on on his own and Sole Account.He will only be answerable for the Dehii?marU tw R.A.M.HUBERT, Montreal, 21st May, 1853.\t183 iGr1 The Sherbrooke Gazette will please give three insertions to the above.DM GOODS.FOR SALE by the Subscribers, at their New Warehouse, No.274 St.Paul Street :\u2014 2300 Wool Long Shawls 500 do Square do 300 pieces Gala Plaids 950 do Colored Cobourgs 1200 do French and English Ribbons \u2014also,\u2014 A General and well assorted Stock of all kinds of Fancy and Staple Dry Goods.WM.STEPHEN ft CO.October 12.\t193 TO TAILORS A CLOTHIERS FANCY Scotch Tweeds (New), West and Yorkshire Fancy Tweeds and Doeskins, Beavers, Witneys, Pilots, Réversibles, &c., black Broads, black Doeskins and Cassimeres, black and colored Mohairs, &c., ftc., For Sale by WM.STEPHEN ft CO.October 12\".\t193 TO FURRIERS\u2014 480 Mink Riding Boas, For Sale by October 12.WM.STEPHEN ft CO.193 ROBERT MITCHELL, Plumber, Gas Eitter & Brass Eouudei, GAS LUSTRE WAREHOUSE, Hay Market Square.(2nd Door from Ramsay ft M\u2018Arthur\u2019s.) WORKSHOP, St.Henry Street, opposite Grant\u2019s Hotel.EVERY Description of GAS LUSTRES, BRACKETS, PENDANTS, &c., constantly on hand.Orders for GAS FITTING, PLUMBING, ftc., left at either of the above places, will meet with prompt attention.July 27-\t127 Glassware and Earthenware JN EVERY VARIETY, and of the Newest X Styles of Common, Medium, and superior kinds on hand and to arrive, for sale by package JAMES DOUGALL, 210 St.Paul Street June 17\t183 FALL GOODS.THE Subscribers have now received from Britain, via Boston and the St.Lawrence, a large and well assorted Stock of STAPLE ant; FANCY DRY GOODS, comprising in part :\u2014 Blankets and Flannels Cloths and Shawls Domestics, Shirtings Prints, Cashmeres and Stuffs Linens, Silks and Ribbons Hosiery, Gloves and Laces Small Wares, ftc.ftc.ftc.GILMOUR ft CO., 9, St.Sacrament Street.October 5.\t187 NEW _G00DS.rpHE; Subscriber\tü» Extensive Assortment of every variety of MERCHANDISE in his line.L.MARCHAND, St.Paul Street.May 6.\t57 F WINTER WOOLLENS.OR SALEBLANKETS FLANNELS KERSEYS CLOTH BEAVER WITNEYS CASSIMERES SATTINETS LION SKINS DOESKINS CARPETING JEAN BRUNEAÜ.November 29.\t227 Scotch Linen Goods.Bleached sheeting and damask Loomed Huckaback Tick Military and other Drills Blue Bordered Towels \u2014and,\u2014 One, Two and Three Bushel Bags Receiving and to arrive, for sal?by package JAMES DOUGALL, 210 St.Paul Street.June 17.\t93 GRATE COALS.NOW in Port, for Sale, and ready for delivery in lots to suit purchasers, a small quantity of Superior CANNEL COAL.Apply to October 26.R.McNAUGHT.205 TO CONTRACTORS.¦poR sale- 20 tons Blasting Powder, \u201cCurtiss ft Harvey\u2019s\u201d 50000 feet Safety Fuse ANDERSON, EVANS & CO.July28.\t183 L'OR SAL%- I.20(5\u2019dozen Railway Shovels 3 tons Crow Bars 2 do Pickaxes 2 do Sledges ANDERSON, EVANS & CO.July 28.\t183 pOR SALE- 8 tons Octagon Cast Steel 10 do Plug and Feather Iron ANDERSON, EVANS ft CO.July 28.\t183 FOR SALE\u2014\t\" LARGE GRATE COAL, delivered from ship\u2019s side, to-day and to-morrow, to suit famille CAMPBELL ft WILLIAMSON.October 24.\t203 1 OpC BARRELS OATMEAL, manutactured 1\tfrom last year\u2019s Oats.F or Sale by CAMPBELL ft WILLIAMSON.December 1.\t228 TOBACCO AND SEGADS.For sale by the subscriber :\u2014 300 half boxes 5\u2019s, 10\u2019s, 16\u2019s and ^ lb Superior CHEWING TOBACCOS \u2014ALSO\u2014 100 Thousand Genuine CRUZ PRINCIPE SEGARS 100 Thousand Genuine do do 2nd quality 200 do Havanna Segars OP THE FOLLOWING CHOICE BRANDS : Crystal Palace Irving House Floras Pettaccas Superiors Rioudas Golden Hon Sultanas November 17.Cabbanas Wood ville Londres Mensegards Ambrosias Elegantas Cubreys Très Marias JOHN LEVEY.222 300 FISH.OIL, &c.BARRELS No.1 Split Herrings 250 do\tRound do 50 Half barrels No.1 Split do 275 Cwt Large Table Codfish 75 do Small do do 50 do Pollock 60 Bris Pale Seal Oil 40 do Gaspe Cod Oil 100 Brls White Fish to arrive 50 do and Tierces Salmon 20 Half brls Salmon Trout WATSON ft WILLIAMS.October 5.\t187 TIN PLATES\u2014Just received and lor Sale by the Subscriber\u2014 500 boxes IC c ?350 boxes IX l 0harcoal Tin Plates JOSEPH N.HALL, 105 St.Paul Street.August 27,\t183 MUSCATEL RAISINS\u2014300 Boxes 200 Half Boxes \u2014ALSO,\u2014 SYRUP\u2014\t25 barrels \u201c Stewart's\u201d TREACLE\u201450 do For Sale by JAMES TORRANCE.December 20.\t236 GLENFIELD STARCH\u2014100 Boxes For Sale by December 20.r pHE Subscribers have received per Steamer JL \u201c Canada\u201d\u2014 A SILVER TEA and COFFEE SET do CUPS and GOBLETS do SALVERS do DESSERT KNIVES and FORKS in cases And cases of SILVER KNIFE, FORK, and SPOON SAVAGE ft LYMAN, 100 Notre Dame Street.December 10.\t232 JAMES TORRANCE.236 RANDY\u2014Martell\u2019s\u2014 do\tPinet, Castillion ft Co Do\tUnited Vineyard Proprietors, Pale and Dark.For Sale by PHILIP HOLLAND.November 29.\t227 LIVERPOOL SALT, in bulk, barrels ft bags\u2014 Do\tdo, Fine Stored, in bags November 29.PHILIP HOLLAND.227 October 13, GILLESPIE, MOFFATT ft CO.194 L IV E R P O O L SOAP\u2014\u201c Steele\u2019s\u2019\u2019\u2014Just re- ceived ex November 29.; Volant\u201d PHILIP HOLLAND.227 THE Subscribers have received, per Steamer \u201c Canada\u201d and Ship \u201c Daniel Webster,\u201d a large addition to their Stock, in part of\u2014 PLATED DISH COVERS do CAKE BASKETS do CASTORS and SALVERS, ftc., ftc.\u2014ALSO\u2014 An assortment of PAPIER MACHE WARE Ladies\u2019 and Gent\u2019s ROSEWOOD and LEATHER DRESSING CASES \u2014AND,\u2014 A variety of fine PARIAN STATUETES SAVAGE ft LYMAN, 400 Notre Dame Street.December 10.___________________232 FOR SALE- 30 hhds \u201c Hennessy\u2019s\u201d Brandy 21 hhds ?DeKuyper\u2019s Gin 90 cases)\t^ r 7 puns Old Jamaica Rum 2 do Islay Whiskey 15 qr casks \u201cSuperior\u201d Pale Sherry Wine 75 do Boiled Oil 100 brls London Crushed Sugar 250 hf chests Tea, Congou, Souchong, Twan-kay, Hyson, ftc., ftc.\u2014also,\u2014 Madras Indigo, Belmont Sperm Candles, Cassia, Nutmegs, Pepper, ftc., ftc.HUGH FRASER, II St.Sacrament Street.November 1.\t210 BAGS.FOR SALE\u2014CANADIAN LINEN DUNDEE TWILLED FORFAR, Best OSNABURGH AMERICAN, Best JEAN BRUNEAU.November 29.227 1DOR SALE- CANADIEN GREY ETOFFE, Best ENGLISH KERSEY, Assorted IRISH FRISE STUFF GOODS JEAN BRUNEAU.November 29.\t227 ON SALE\u2014 G Grey and Bleached Cottons Stays, Umbrellas, Stay Bone Tailors\u2019 Canvas and Linings Bonnet Shapes, Bonnet Wire and Cane Cotton, Merino, and Woollen Hosiery Sashes, Gloves, Braces Lace Goods, Muslins Lastings, Baize, Hard Tartans Woollen and Cotton Shawls and Hdfs Batting, Striped Cottons, Ticks Flannels, Blankets Threads, assorted Small Wares Lately received per \u201cAchilles\u201d Dress Buttons, Gimps And Children\u2019s Woollen Hoods ROBERT ADAMS, 301 St.Paul Street, December 1.\t228 To Rail Car Builders and Furniture 4Vf fikers JUST RECEIVED, ex \u201c Sarah Sands,\u201d ONE CASE UTRECHT VELVET, for Covering Oar Seats, Sofas, Chairs, ftc.This article is quite new, and exceedingly elegant in pattern and styles.F or Sale by MILLAR, GLASSFORD ft CO., 14 and 16, St.Sacrament Street.October 27.\t206 FOR SALE by the Subscribers, in Original Packages :\u2014 Whitney, Beaver and Pilot Cloths W E and German S F\tdo Fancy Cassimeres ft Doeskins Blankets and Flannels Marbled Coatings and Verona Cords Black Cadet, Mixed and Fancy Printed Satinetts Printed and Drab Moleskins and Cords Velvet and Velveteen, Plain and Printed Wool and Cotton Fancy Linings Grey Sheetings, 33 and 36 inch, English and American White Shirting, do Regatta Shirting, 5-4 and 7-8, Two-Blue, Blue and Orange, and other Prints Sheeting, Stripes and Ticking Eagle and Columbian Denims Chicopee Blue Drills, ftc.ftc.MILLAR, GLASSFORD ft CO., 5, St.Sacrament Street.October 3,\t135 For sale by the subscribers\u2014 Porto Rico Molasses Do Sugars Fresh Muscatel Raisins Lexia Raisins Teas, Tobaccos Sperm Candles And a general assortment of Groceries A.CUVILLIER ft CO.November 19.\t223 Anthracite Coat.FOR SALE by Cargo, or in Lots to suit pur-chasers LEHIGH and LACKAWANA COAL\u2014Lump, Grate, Egg and Nut Sizes, of Best Quality (Screened).Persons wishing a Wint er Supply, will consult their interest by sending their Orders early to JOHN M.GILBERT, No.31 St.François Xavier Street Coal Yard at Campbell ft Williamson\u2019s Stores, Logan\u2019s Buildings, near entrance to Lachine Canal.July 14.\tlie FOR SALE by the Subscribers\u2014 Whiting, Lamp Black Bi-earbonate of Soda Victoria Lustre, Black Lead Brandy, in hhds, Bottle Wax Dry White Lead, Stoyed Salt, in bags: GORDON; ft CO.November 3.\tgu J. r> q 50 brls ) Exlra\tP- R' Sugar 20 puns Choice Retailing Molasses 120 W-brls3 ( Ghoice No.1 Split Herrings 200 barrels Green Codfish 2p barrels No.2 Mackerel 50 casks Pale Seal ?n., 50 do Cod ) uu 300 boxes Smoked Herrings, No.1 20 pipes Hollands Gin Brooms, Ginger, Arrowroot, ftc.ftc.December 31.\t241 Fruit 1 Fruit ! ! Fruit ! ! ! JUST RECEIVED\u2014CHOP 1353 EX \u201c GLEANER,\u201d PROM MALAGA.LAYER RAISINS, boxes, half-boxes and quar ter-boxes lib Bunch Muscatel do, do do do Muscatel Raisins, barrels and frails Prunes, in fancy boxes and glass jars Turkey Figs, in 21b and 31b drums, and boxes Soft Shelled Almonds Valencia and Jordan Almonds, in boxes Oranges and Lemons Olive Oil, in cases 1 doz each ALSO ON HAND, Double Glo\u2019ster Cheese Chedder Loaf Queen\u2019s Arms North Wiltshire Cheese \u2014and,\u2014 Best American Cheese Abbott\u2019s Loudon and Whitebread Porter and Ale Champagne Brandy, in cases, vintage 1848 French Liqueurs Stilton CHEESE, from Parsons, of Guelph Upper Canada 130 boxes of Candles, expressly made to order for Family use, With a first-rate assortment of Groceries, Wines & Brandies, From first class houses iu the Trade.DANIEL LA NIG AN, 178, Notre Dame Street, Sign Three Sugar Loaves.December 24.\t238 G-.D.STUART, 154>£, SAINT PAUL STREET, Opposite the Church of the Hotel Dieu JpOR SALE- BRANDY\u2014\u201c Martel\u2019s,\u201d Sazerac, Dark Do Pale, Vintage 1838 GIN\u2014\u201cDeKuyper\u2019s\u201d and \u201cBritish\u201d,in hogsheads and cases CHERRY BRANDY, PORTER and ALE, in bottle, and very old in hogsheads WINES\u2014Port, Sherry and Madeira, in wood and bottle ^AYDKW-^-Blac^ ties October 5.I 187 No, 3S NOTRE DAME STREET, No.Opposite Old Donegana Hotel.JUST RECEIVED and for Sale, the following 0 Articles, which we can recommend :\u2014 Gruvere Cheese, first quality Pâtés Foie Gras Trufles Suessisen de Boulogne French Mustard in small pots Superfine Olive Oil in large bottles Absente Suisse, first quality Small Green Pease Preserved\u2014natural Tomatoes\tdo\tdo Asparagus\tdo\tdo Truflés\tdo\tdo \u2014and\u2014 The usual assortment of REAL CHATEAU LAF1TE, other CLARETS, LIQUORS ft OUIL de PERDRIX (Champagne Rosé) DkLAGRAVE ft CO N.B.\u2014Shortly expected, the CHAMPAGNE Mouet and Chandon.December 13, 1853.\t233 SODA ASH.30 Per Cent.OAKUM.For Sale by G.D.WATSON.December 31.\t241 CORPORATION MONTREAL.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Sections Nos.3, and 4, of By-Law No.57, passed on the 7tb January, 1842, regulating Winter Roads, will be strictly enforced during the present winter.Section 3.That whenever during the winter season, snow or ice shall accumulate on any of the side walks in the said city, or any portion of them, it shall be the duty of the person or persons owning, occupying, or having charge of the house, building, or lot of ground, before which such accumulation as aforesaid shall be, to cut the said snow or ice down to a depth of four inches above the surface of the said side-walks, so that the same shall be uniform with that of the adjoining property, unless otherwise ordered, or permitted by the Surveyor of the said city, under a penalty not exceeding fifteen shillings for each offence.Section 4.That whenever the snow will become so congealed, or ice formed, on any of the side-walks, or portions thereof, in the said city, as to prove dangerous to passengers, it shall be the duty of the person or persons owning, occupying, or having charge of the hôuse, building, or lot of ground, before which the side-walks shall be in such state as aforesaid, to cause ashes to be strewed thereon, or the ice or congealed snow to be made rough, by cutting the same, under a penalty not exceeding ten shillings for each offence.By order, JAMES A.B.McGILL City Surveyor.City Hall,\t?Montreal, Dec.27, 1853.S 240 NOTICE.TO s if 11* o sr .v i] it s.Freight Wanted, The corporation of Montreal win have nearly Two Thousand tons of CAST IRON WATER PIPE, at GLASGOW, for Shipment, in the months of April, May and June next.The greater part of these Pipes will be Two feet bore, and weigh from 20 to 22 cwt.each.Also, about 250 tons of Machinery and Castings for Shipment from LIVERPOOL, on 1st of April next, the heaviest of which will be a Shaft about 23 feet in length, and weighing about 7 tons.This lot to be divided for greater security between two ships: SEALED TENDERS, marked \u201cTenders for Freight,\u201d and addressed to the undersigned, will be received until the 15th of February next, for the delivery of the above either at Quebec or Montreal.The Freight from Liverpool must be delivered not later than 15th of May next.The delivery of the Pipes must be at the rate of 750 tons in the month of May, 750 in the month of June, and the remainder in July.Tenders to state the price per ton, delivered on the Wharf at Montreal, or on board Barges alongside of Ship at Quebec, and whether the Tender is based on payment of the Freight in London or Montreal, as either mode will be at the option of the Contractor.Foreign Vessels coming into the St.Lawrence can always count upon good Freights outward from Quebec, in Deals or Timber, should they not come up as high as Montreal for other cargo.J.P.SEXTON, City Clerk.Montreal, December 22\t237 AUCTION SALES.______________________ BY J.D.BZ23.NAB.D & CO.EXTENSIVE SALE OP VALUABLE PROPERTIES.THE Subscribers hereby give notice, that they will Sell, by Auction, at their Stores, (lately occupied by Messrs.Frothingham ft Workman,) on MONDAY, the 16th January next, all the IMMOVABLE PROPERTIES hereinafter described, to wit : 1st.\u2014A LOT OF GROUND commuted en/rune aleu ro/jner, situated in the St.Lawrence Suburb, bounded in front by St.Germain Street, on one side by James Reddle, on the other side by J.Daly, and in rear by the first Lot hereinafter described, containing 44 feet in width by 78 feet in depth, without any warranty of precise measure, with a Brick House, (pretty little Cottage,) one story high, a Shed and other Buildings thereon erected 2nd.\u2014A LOT OF GROUND commuted en franc uleu roturier, situated in the St.Lawrence Suburb, bounded iu front by St.Bernard Street, on one side by one Sutherland, on the other side partly by one Clarke and partly by one Lauzon, and in rear by the Lot above described, containing 50 feet in width by 79 ni\ton one stue, and 78 Co leet on the other side, without any warranty of precise measure, with a Brick House, two stories high, (containing four distiuct Dwellings,) and Sheds thereon erected.3rd.\u2014A LOT OF GROUND, situated in this City, of an irregultr form, containing 105 leet iu front on Craig Street by 66 feet in depth on one side and 68 feet on the other side, bounded in front by Craig Street, in rear by a passage belonging to Rohr, Campbell, on one side by St.Peter Street, off St.James Street, and on the other side by said Robt.Campbell, with a Brick Building, a Coach Factory, and other Buildings thereon erected.Sard Lot is also commuted.4th.\u2014A LOT OF GROUND commuted en franc aleu roturier, situated in the St.Joseph Suburb, bounded in front by St.Joseph Street, in rear by David Torrance, on one side by the representatives of N.P.M.N.Kurczyn, and on the other side by Doctor Charlebois and partly by the representatives of Pierre Malo, containing 144 feet in depth by 37 feet 10 inches in width on St.Joseph Street, and widening to the depth of 92 feet 3 inches, where it measures 39 feet 7 inches wide, and thence diminishing in breadth up to the rear line, where it measures only 33 feet 4 inches wide, with Two one Story Wooden Houses, and a two story Wooden House thereon erected.The said Lot is subject to some charges servitudes, which will be made known and explained before the sale.5th.\u2014A LOT OF GROUND also commuted, situated in the St.Joseph Suburbs, containing 51 feet S inches in front by 145 feet in depth, more or less, and without any warranty of precise measure, bounded in frdnt by St.Joseph Street, in rear by the representatives of Maranda, on one side by the representatives of P.B.Merritt, and on the other side by the first Lot hereinafter described, with a House partly of Brick and partly of Wood, and other Buildings thereon erected.6th.\u2014A LOT OF GROUND also commuted, situated in the St.Joseph Suburbs, containing 34 feet 9 inches in front by 145 feet in depth, more or less, and without any warranty of precise measure, bounded in front by St.Joseph Street, in rear by\t, on one side by the last Lot above described, and on the other side by the first Lot hereinafter described, with a cut Stone House, three stories high,and other Buildings thereon erected.The purchaser of this Lot will have tlie right of mitoyenneté, up to the depth of 72 feet, in the passage existing between the said Lot and the first Lot herein- oftpr flpcsprihpfl 7th.\u2014A LOT OF GROUND also commuted, situated in the St.Joseph Suburbs, containing 51 feet 8 inches in width by 145 feetiu depth, the whole more or less, and without any warranty of precise measure, bounded in front by St.Joseph Street, in rear by one Curran or representatives, and by the representatives ot one Caldwell, on one side by the last Lot above described, and on the rraser, vvjxn a Stone House, two stories high, a Coach House, Stables, and Sheds thereon erected.The passage existing between this Lot and the 38, last Lot above described shall be common or mitoyen up to the depth of 72 feet between the said two Lots.The last three described Lots, fronting St.George\u2019s Chapel, and measuring altogether 145 feet or thereabout in front by about 145 feet in depth, will be Sold in one Block or separately, to suit the purchasers.8th.'\u2014A LOT OF GROUND, also commuted, situated in the St.Antoine Suburbs, containing 97 feet in width by 192 feet in depth, without any warranty of precise measure ; bounded in front by.Genevieve Street, on one side by the prolongation of Lagauche-tiere Street, on the other side by Mrs.Mills, and in rear by Benjamin Lyman, with a Wooden House, two stories high, and other Building thereon.The said Lot is planted with Apple and other Fruit Trees, 9th.\u2014A LOT OF GROUND, also commuted, situated in the St.Lawrence Suburbs, containing 60 feet in width by 92 feet in depth, without any warranty of precise measure ; bounded in front by Bleury Street, near Craig Street, and on both sides by Wm.Kennedy, without any building thereon erected.10th.\u2014A LOT OF GROUND, also commuted, situated in the St.Lawrence Suburb, containing 73 or 75 feet in front by 110 or 114 feet in depth, more or less, and without any warranty of precise measure ; bounded in front by Jure Street, in rear and on one side byWm.Kennedy, and on the other side by the last Lot above described, without any building thereon erected.11th.\u2014A LOT OF GROUND, also commuted, situated in the St.Lawrence Suburb, bounded in front by St.Dominique Street, on one side by Theodore Hart, on the other side by the Hon.D.B.Viger, and in rear by a projected Street, containing 342 feet in front by 160 feet in depth, the whole more or less, and without any warranty of precise measure, without any building thereon erected.12th.\u2014A LOT OF GROUND, also commuted, situated in the St.Marie Suburb, containing 72 feet in front by 60 feet in depth, the whole more or less, and without any warranty of precise measure, bounded in front by St.Catherine Street, on one side by Montcalm Street, on the other side by Jos.Banton, and in rear by P.Beaudry, or representatives, with a Wooden House, two stories high, and other buildings thereon erected.13th.\u2014A LOT OF GROUND, also commuted, situated in the St.Lawrence Suburbs, containing 160 feetiu front by 106 feet in depth, without any warranty as to precise measure, bounded in front by St.Catherine Street, in rear by Jean Dubois, on one side by St.André Street, and on the other side by Lous Boyer, with a two story Wooden House and other buildings thereon erected\u2014 The said Lot is known under the name of the Mateinity Azilur, and is near the Convent of La Providence.14th.\u2014A LOT OF GROUND, also commuted, situated in the St.Antoine Suburb, at the entrance thereof, containing 33 feet in width by 70 feet in depth, without any warranty of precise measure, bounded in front by St Bonaventure Street, on one side by one Laugelier, on the other side by the heirs Delisle, and in rear by Mrs.Jules Quesnel, with a Wooden House and other Buildings tlipi\u2019pnn prppt.pfl 15th.\u2014A LOT OF GROUND, also commuted, situated in the St.Mary Suburb, coutainiug 60 feetiu front by 170 feat in depth, without any warranty of precise measure, bounded iu front by Amherst Street, in rear by Wm.Garish, on one side by Mrs.Godfroy Pay fer, and on the other side by the representatives of Mrs.Remi Courcelle Chevalier, with a Wooden two story House, containing three fine comfortable dwellings, Stables, Sheds and other Buildings thereon erected ; a garden is holding of each of the said dwellings.16th\u2014A LOT OF GROUND, not commuted, situated in thé St.Lawrence Suburb, containing 107 feet in front by 105 feet in depth, wirhoutany warranty as to precise measure, bounded in front by St.Constant Street, on one\u2019side by Vitre Street, on the other side by one Moore, and in rear by the représenta! ivus of Theodore Seere dit St.Jean, without any building thereon erected.I7tb.\u2014A LuT OF GROUND, vacant, situated in the St.Lawrence Suburb, making the corner of Yitre and St.Constant Streets, bounded in front by Vitre Street, in.rear by the heirs Fortier, and on one side by St.Constant Street, and on the other side by Hupert Setttenne, containing 118 feet in front by 90 feet in depth, without any warranty of precise measure.18th.A LOT OF GROUND vacant, situated at the extremity of St.Antoiue Suburbs containing 55 feet in front by 121 feet in depth, without any warranty as to precise measure, bounded iu front by St Antoine street, in rear by Thomas Pingland or representatives, on one side by the heirs Phinis, and on the other side by C.S.Rodier.Said Lot is adjoining Richmond Square.19th.A LOT OF GROUND situated at the extremity of the St.Antoine Suburb, containing 45 feet in front by 124 feet in depth, without any warranty as to precise measure, bounded in front by Canning Street, in rear by L.Bucbannan, on one side by Francois Decari, AUCTION SALES.and on the other side by the heirs of D.Arnoldi, without any building thereon erected.Said Lot makes part of La Bour-gogne.20th.A LOT OF GROUND vacant, situated in the St Lawrence Suburb, containing 80 leet in front by 80 feet in depth without any warranty as to precise measure, bounded in iront by St.Ignace Street, on one side by Lngau-chetieré Street, on the other side by one Belleck, and in the rear by the heirs Busby.21st.A LOT OF GROUND situated in the St.Mary Suburb, containing 90 feet in front by 80 ft iu depth, bounded in front by Mountain Street, on one side by Dorchester Street, on the other side by Pierre Dupuis, and in rear by the heirs of Pierre Beaudry, without any warranty as to precise measure, with a house containing 5 distinct dwellings and other buildidgs thereon erected.22.\tA LOT OF GROUND vacant, situated in the St.Lawrence Suburb, containing 94 feet in front by 143 feet in depth, without any warranty as to precise measure, bounded in front by St.George's Street, on one side by the heirs Barron, on the other side by the heirs Ross.23.\t\u2014A LOT OF GROUND vacant, situated in the city of Montreal, containing 450 feet in front by 138 feet iu depth, without any warranty as to precise measure, bounded'in front Vr at.ijawrence Street, in rear by a 'projected street, on one side by a street projected between this Lot and another belonging to Miss Simpson, and on the other side by a Lot of ground lately belonging to Dr.Beaubien, and now the property of 24th.\u2014TWO LOTS OF GROUND, contiguous to each other, situated in the St.Ann Suburb, near Wellington Bridge and the new Catholic St.Ann\u2019s Church, bounded in front by McCord Street, in rear by Murray Street, on one side by Lot No.117 of fief Nazareth, and on the other side by the basin of the Lachine Canal, containing altogether, 220 feet in width in front, 233 feet in width in rear by 80 feet in depth on one side, the said depth diminishing gradually until the front line and the rear line meet together on the said basin of Lachine Canal,without any buildings thereon erected.25th\u2014TWO LOTS OF GROUND contiguous to each other, situated in the said fief Nazareth, in the St.Ann\u2019s Suburb, containing each 4 feet in width by 90 feet in depth, without any werranty as to precise measure, bound ed in front by William Street, in rear by Lot-No.97 hereinafter described, on one side by a street projected to communicate from St.Gabriel Street to William Street, and on the other side by Lot No.103 belonging to John Tully, oi representative, witout auy build ings thereon erected.A small part of the said Lots, viz.:\u201418 feet in depth on the whole width of\u2014 the said Lots is depending and holding of the Seigniory of Montreal, 26th.\u2014A LOT UF GROUND vacant, situated in the said fief Nazareth, being Lot No.97, containing 50 feet in width by 122 feet in depth on one side and 140 feet in depth on the other side, without any warranty of precise measure, bounded in front by Eleonor Street, in rear by Lot No.98, on one side by Lot No.95, and on the other side by Lots No.101, 102 and 103.27th.\u2014A LOT OF GROUND situated in the St Joseph Suburb, making the corner of St.Joseph and Henry Streets, containing 45 feet three inches in width, in front 48 feet six inches in width, in rear by 109 feet three inches in depth on one side and 115 feet inches on the other side ; bounded in.front by St.Joseph Street, on one side by St.Henry Street on the other side by John Mathewson, and in rear by the Lot hereinafter described, with a first class cut stone house, three stories high and other buildings thereon erected without any warranty as to precise measure.28th.\u2014A LOT OF GROUND situated in the St.Joseph Suburb, bounded in front by St.Henry Street, in rear partly by J.Mathewson and partly by Longueuil Lane, containing 161 feet 6 inches in width in front, 157 feet 6 inches in width in rear by 112 feet 9 inches in depth on St.Maurice Street, 49 feet inches in depth on the other side, and at the end of said depth of 49 feet 6 inches the said Lot measures on that side 5 feet 6 inches more in width by 48 feet 6 inches in depth the whole more or less, and without any warranty of precise measure, with a House of stone, three stories high, known under the name of GRANT\u2019S HOTEL and other Buildings thereon erected.The above Lot will be sold in one block, as before described, or, if it is more suitable to the purchasers, it will be sold in two three different Lots, as follows : one of the said will be composed of Grant\u2019s Hotel, with W all the ground adjoining the same in rear up to Longueuil Lape, and the two other Lots will be composed with all the vacant ground making the corners of St.Henry, St.Maurice and Longueuil Streets, agreeably with the plans to be exhibited to bidders before the Sale.Unquestionable titles will be furnished to the purchasers and liberal terms will be granted to them.The conditions of the Sales will he explained immediately before the Sale.The Sale will begin at TEN o\u2019clock in the morning.J.D.BERNARD ft CO.239\tAuctioneers.TO COUNTRY BUYERS.Ready-Made C/lotlimg LAVENDER\u2019S Wholesale and Retail Clothing Store 80, McGILL STREET, (Corner of Saint Maurice Street,') A WELL ASSORTED STOCK of READYMADE CLOTHING of Superior Quality, is offered to COUNTRY BUYERS very Cheap for Cash, or approved Credit.September 24, 1853.\tjçg WHOLESALE AMS &.SÏÏA2X, Fur Warehouse, S3 NOTRE DAME STREET.THE Subscriber\u2019s Stock of Valuable FURS now being complete in every Department, and having been carefully manufactured from the raw material, under his own superintendence, is ready for inspection; he can offer to his nu merous customers superior advantages both in price and workmanship.Wholesale Buyers in Eastern and Western Canada will find it their advantage to examine this Stock before purchasing elsewhere.JNO.HENDERSON.October 7.\tjgg WILDER\u2019S PATENT SALAMANDER SAFE, MANUK AC TUltED BY S.C.HERRING, NEW YORK.THE Superior Manufacture of HERRING\u2019S SAFES, has always given them a decided preference over all other makers, at the World\u2019s Fair, London.Mr.Herring received the First Prize for the \u201c Best Fire and Burglar Proof Safe\u201d exhibited.Since then, no pains or expense has been saved to render his Safes still more perfect, \u2014among the latest testimonials received we select the following from Messrs.Salisbury ft Aurowsmith, Jewellers, Fulton Street, N.Ÿ.whose Stock, Books, and Papers, contained in thé Safe are estimated at One Hundred Thousand Dollars, all of which was preserved safe and without injury.The Great Eire in Fulton and Nassau Streets\u2014 The burning of Fowler\u2019s Buildings.New York, Nov.2nd.1853.MR.S.C.HERRING.\u2014Sir : It affords me pleasure to say, that the Safe we purchased of you and which was in our office, in Fowler\u2019s Build-\u2019 ings, corner of Nassau and Fulton streets, at the time of its destruction by Fire on Sunday morning iajt, has this day being taken from the ruins where it has laid tor more than Seventy Two Hours, and on opening it we find all our books papers, jewlery, and a considerable sum of money in bank bills, in a state of preservation that gives us an entire satisfaction.We have the utmost confidence in your Safes, and shall want another as soon as we can arrange the plan, , \u201e SALISBURY ft ARROWSMITH.A Good Assortment of the above SAFES may be examined at the Store of the Agent, GEO.HAGAR, -\t,\t145 St.Paul Street.December 39,\t240 and othek wire.I 'ilL undersigned, Sole Agent in Canada for Messrs.Richard Johnson ft Brother, Wire Manufacturers, Manchester, is prepared to take orders tor every description of WIRE, Galvanized urio1^6^186'\t1116\tMessrs.Johnson's WIRE is recognized in England and elsewhere as unsurpassed, if equalled, by any other.It is preferred by the Telegraph Companies wtiich have used.rt, and was chosen from a number of tested samples lor the construction of the Gables for the Railway Suspension Bridge, at Niagara Falls.Price lists will be forwarded on application.\u201e\tPETER REDPATH.Montreal, April 14, 1853.\t45 nxosrxsir.WANTED to PURCHASE BAILLEURS DE FONDS, CLAIMS, and CONSTI-TU1S, in not less sums than -£250.I.W.AUSTIN, Advocate, St, James Place.November 19,\t\u2019\t223 MUNICIPALITY OF SIIEFFGRD.By-I.aw for taking Stock in the Stanstead, Shef-ford and Chambhj, Railroad Company, in behalf of the Township of Shefford.WHEREAS, by an Act of the Legislature of the Province of Canada, the 16th Victoria Chapter 138, certain County Municipalities are { authorized to take Stock in auy Railways passing -through said.Counties ; and whereas, by another Act of the Legislature, the 16th Victoria, Chapter 213, the provisions of the said first cited Act have been extended to all Counties, Towns and Vilages in Lower Canada; and whereas; by the last cited Act, County Municipalities are authorized to take Stock in any such Railway, to be held by the County, on behalf of certain Townships, providing the Councillors representing such Townships shall vote for the same ; and whereas, the Councillors representing the Township of Shefford, in the Comity of Shefford, viz:\u2014 Edmund Longiey and Westley O.Lawrence, are willing to vote for and do vote for the following By-Law :\u2014 Therefore, he it ordained, and enacted by the Municipal Council of the county of Shefford, that the Mayor of the Municipality of the county of Shefford, is hereby authorized to subscribe, on behalf of the Township of Shefford, to the capital Stock of the Stanstead, Shefford and Chambly Railroad Company, and take Shares in it to any amount not exceeding Twelve Thousand and Five Hundred Pounds, currency.2Ù- That tire'Mayor, or any other person who may be hereafter specially appointed by this Council, is authorized to issue Bonds or Debentures, signed by himself, and the Secretary Treasurer of this Municipality to pay the instalments on said Stock or to borrow money on the credit of such Debentures, or iu any other way to aid the construction of the Stanstead, Shefford and Chambly Railroad, not inconsistent with the pro visions of the above cited Acts, which Bonds or Debentures shall bear interest from their date, at six per centum, and shall not be issued for less than one Hundred Pounds, currency, each.3rd.That the said Bonds or Debentures shall not be made payable at any time less than twenty-five years from the date thereof.Enacted at ShefPord, ( this, 13th day of Dec., 1853 ) (Signed.)\tEDMOND LONGLEY.Mayor, M.S.A.B.PARME LEE, Sec\u2019y Trees., M.S.I hereby certify the foregoing to be a_true copy, the original whereof remains of Record in my office, singed as above.A.B.PARMELEE, Sec\u2019y, Treas., M.S.Shefford, December 14, 1853.\tr 241 Municipality of Shefford.A By-Law for taking Stock in the Stanstead, Shefford, and Chambly Railroad Company, on behalf of the Parish of South Stukely.AT a REGULAR SESSION of the MUNICIPAL COUNCIL of the MUNICIPALITY of SHEFFORD, regularly convened at Shefford on the 12th day of December 1853.It was moved by Councillor GODDARD, of said PARISH of SOUTH STUKELY, and seconded by Councillor KNOWLTON, of .said PARISH of SOUTH STUKELY, it was resolved : That Whereas, by an Act of the Provincial Parliament, IGth, Vic.Cap.138, certain Municipalities in Lower Canada, are authorized to take Stock in any Railway Company formed for the construction of any passing through their respective Counties; and whereas, by a certain other Act, I6Ü1 Vic., Cap.23, the said authorization is extended to all County Town and Village Municipalities in Lower Canada, and by the 2nd Section of the said last named Act, it was provided that a County may take Stock on behalf of one or more Townships or Parishes more especially interested in auy such Railway than the other Townships or Parishes within said County, the County to hold said Stock for and on behalf of said Townships or Parishes, and the sum orsums necessary for paying such Stock, or the instalments thereon, and the principal and interest of any Debentures issued for raising money to pay for any such Stock or instalments, shall be raised by assessments on the rateable property of such Township or Parish only, and not upon the other Towuships or Parishes of the County ; and whereas, the construction of the Stanstead\", Shefford and Chambly Railroad, is an enterprise in which the Parish of South Stukely is especially interested, and the Municipal Councillors for the said Parish this day present, at a regular Session of the Municipal Council of the County of Shefford, to wit :\u2014 George Anson Goddard, and Luke Holland Knowlton having duly and legally voted for the passing of this By-Law, be it therefore enacted by the Municipal Council of the Municipality of Shefford, that the Mayor of this Municipality is hereby authorized to subscribe to the Capital Stock ol the Stanstead, Shefford and Chambly Railroad Company, on behalf of the said Parish of South Stukely, the sum of Six Thou.and Two Hundred and Fifty Pounds currency, said Stock so subscribed to be held by the Municipality of Shefford, on behalf of said Parish of South ètuke-ly, as by Law provided.2d.The Mayor is ainhorised to borrow the necessary sums to pay the instalments required and to issue for that purpose Bonds or Debentures, signed by himself and the Secretary Treasurer for the paymeut of such loans, or to pay any calls or instalments with the said Bonds or Debentures.3rd.The said Bonds or Debentures shall bear interest at six per centum per annum from the da(e thereof, and shall not be issued fdr less than one Hundred Pounds currency, each.4th.The Bonds or Debentures shall not he made payable at auy time less thau twenty-five years from the date thereof.Enacted at Shefford, ) this, 13th day of Dec., 1853.) (Signed.)\tEDMUND LONGLEY, Mayor.A.B.PARMELEE, Sec\u2019y., Treasurer, M.S.I hereby certify the foregoing, to be a true copy the original whereof, remains of Record in my office, signed as above.A.B.PARMELEE, Secy\u2019y., Treas., M.S, Shefford, December 14, 1853.\tr 241 HERALD Steam, Book & Job Printing Office, 157 Notre Dame Street, (Near St.François Xavier Street.) THE Proprietors of this Establishment beg to inform their friends and the public, that, having enlarged their Stock of PRINTING MATERIALS, STEAM PRESSES, ftc., they will be prepared to undertake every description of ISooSi.5o5j and Card Ps-lnting, IN THEIR NEW PREMISES.Having recently added one of HOE\u2019S NEW CYLINDER PRESSES, for Job Printing, to their Stock, they hope to be able to execute every description of JOB PRINTING at moderate rates, and with great despatch.Their present stock of STEAM PRESSES will enable them to throw off upwards of 70,000 IMPRESSIONS PER DAY.May 4.\t54 COUNT! OF OTTAWA.MUNICIPALITY No.2.MONTREAL AND NEW YORK Printing Telegraph Oo\u2019y Established under Provincial Statute 16 Vie.c.10, for the Incorporation of Electric Telegraph Companies.PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.Hon.W.Badgley, Chairman.J.Ogilvy Moffatt, Esq.W.C.Evans, Esq.Sec.Treasurer\u2014I J.C.Abbott, Esq.Broker.A.Reward, Esq.Architects.G.S.Thompson ft Co.CALLS OF STOCK ARE PAYABLE AS UNDER: 5s.in £\u2014now due.5s.in £\u2014on 1st of October, November and December.PROVISIONAL OFFICE of the COMPANY 44 Little St.James Street, Montreal, OPERATING OFFICE\u2014Union Buildings, St.François Xavier Street.I.J.C.ABBOTT, Sec.Treas.September 7, 1853.\tmwf-163 THE WORLD\u2019S HAIR RESTORER, Warranted not to contain any delitenom substances.AN unfailing Restorer and Preserver of the HAIR and SIGHT.It is not a Dye.The Hair and Whiskers, however grey, are restored to and preserved in their original Life Color! By its use, Wigs, Spectacles, and Grey Hairs will soon become extinct.\u2014also\u2014 THE WORUD\u2019S HAIR SJRESSER, OR XYLOBALSAMUM.A superior article for Dressing Children\u2019s Hair.It will also remove inflammation and pains from cuts, burns, bruises, bites, or stings of insects, ftc.ftc.Sold by WM.LYMAN ft CO., St.Paul Street.Dec.17.\t235 NOVELTY, UTILITY, DURABILITY.08NELL\u2019S last and greaiest addition to the \\JT Toilet Table, a most complete HAIR'BRUSH, THE PATENT TRI CMOS ARON.The mechanical arrangements of the \u201c Triohos-arou,\u201d are surprisingly beneficial, superseding in great measure, the necessity of washing, as re uired by other Brushes; its peculiar construction also enables it to perform simultaneously the two operations of drawing forth the most obstinate accumulation of Dandriff, and bringing the hole thoroughly away, leaving the hair beau-tifiilly soft and glossy.WM.LYMAN ft CO.St.Paul Street.Dec.17.\t235 dumber for Sale.QA AAA PIECES of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and DlijUUU Cull PINE DEALS.75,000 Pieces of well seasoned 2 inch, l^é, iLj, and 1 inch PINE, 1st and 2nd .qualities.\u2014also,\u2014 An Assortment of CHERRY and BLACK WALNUT LUMBER, at the Yards, Notre Dame and St.Louis Streets.J.G.SIMS.November 11.\t2ra 219 F OR SALE\u2014\t: \u2014 A CARGO SMITHS\u2019 COALS, afloat, by GORDON ft CO.November 9,\t217 BY-LAW AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OF THIS MUNICIPALITY TO TAKE STOCK IN THE MONTREAL AND BYTOWN RAILWAY COMPANY.A4 a SPIjCIAL MEETING of the Municipal Council, off he Municipality No.2, County ol Ottawa, Province of Canud.-i, held at O-ai!:-pots Hotel, in the Township of-Lochaber, on thé Twenty-second day of December, 1853, in virtue of the Provincial Statute.10 and ll'vic.cap.7, and of the amendments made to .the same, at which said meeting a quorum of the members of the said Council were present, to wit : the following members, His Honor Asa Cook, Mayor of * the said Municipality, and Councillors the Hon.* Denis Benjamin Papineau, Hugh Gorman, Robert D.Ackeri, George W.Cameron, Michael Corrigan, Charles Beautron dit Major, Patrick Malony, Angus McDonald and Samuel Dawson.Esqrs.\" It is ordained and enacted by the said Council, and the.said Council do hereby ordain and enact, subject to the consent ot the majority of the qualified eleciors of the said Municipality first had and obtained on the 16th and 17th days of January next, in the manner prescribed by the Provincial Acts 16th Vic.cap.138 and 213.1st.That upon the conditions and terms hereinafter stipulated and provided tor, the Mayor of the said Municipality shall be, and he is hereby authorized and required for and on behalf of the said Municipality to subscribe for and take One Thousand Shares in the Capital Stock of the said Montreal and Bytown Railway Company, incorporated under the Act 16th Vic.cap.103., equal to twenty-five thousand pounds currency.2nd.That the said Mayor and Council, of the said Municipality are hereby authorized aud empowered to borrow Thirty-three thousand two hundred and twenty-five pounds, to pay the said Subscription in the Chartered Stock of the said Montreal and By town Railway Company, and the interest thereon, as the same may be required to be paid from time to time by instalments or otherwise, as the construction of the said Railway shall proceed towards completion.The said Mayor and Council shall be, aud they are hereby authorized and required, from time to time, as may become necessary, to issue, sell, and dispose ot bonds or debentures of this Municipality, signed by the Mayor of the said Municipality, and countersigned by the Secretary-Treasurer thereof, tor a sum or sums not exceeding'in all the said sum of thirty-three thousand two hundred and twenty-five pounds currency ; the said bonds to bear interest at six per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually, and to be payable not less thau twenty-five years after date, and to be issued in sums not less than One Hundred pounds each ; the interest on the said sum so subscribed being reckon-ed only from the day on which the said Railway shall be complete and in operation inits whole extent, of which notice shall be given by the said Company in the Canada Gazette, or any other journal published under the authority of tiro Government.3rd.That the said Mayor and Council shall not be authorized to borrow money, or issue bonds or debentures therefor, in the manner provided for, except on the following conditions\u2014to wit :\u2014 1st.That the whole amount of the Chartered Stock shall be first subscribed for, and taken up by bona fide and responsible Stockholders, and that the said Company shall have agreed to locate the said Road on the North Shore of the River Ottawa, so as to run through this Municipality, and further to erect one depot in eaclr Parish and Township through which it will run, lor the accommodation of traffic aud passengers.2nd.That a bona fide Contractor Contracts shall be made for the construction of the whole of the said Railway from Montreal to Bytown.3rd.That this Municipality shall not be called upon to pay or contribute for the Stock so subscribed for, except in proportion ^ro rata with all other Stockholders, aud that the Stock so subscribed shall be payable in Bonds or Debentures ot the Municipality, which, in all cases, shall bo tasen at a par value, the said Municipality reserving to itself the right to pay up, at once, the whole amount of the said Capital Stock subscribed, with the interest thereon.4tli.That in the event of the whole of the said Capital Stock and interest being paid up at once the sard Municipality shall have the power after the said Railway shall have been made,\u2019 completed, and delivered over to the Company by the Contractors either to subscribe for an addi Honal number of shares equal to the amount so paid for interest on the said Bonds or Debentures, or to claim that the said sum so paid for interest be applied by the said Company towards the payment of the interest which may become due by this Municipality on the Bonds or Debentures so issued, after the said Railway shall have been so made, completed, and delivered to the Company as aforesaid.5th.that in the event of its being necessary at any time hereafter to augment the Capital otock of the said Company, or of any event or contingency whatsoever, shall any privilege preference, or advantage attach or be given to any new or additional Stock over the Stock now subscribed for or held by this Municipality ; nor shall any privilege, preference, or advantage be a.lowed or given to the Subscribers or to holders of the said new additional Stock, in preference or to the prejudice of this Municipality.(Signed,)\tASA COOKE, Mayor.(Signed,)\tJOHN STARRS, n-i\t,\tSec.-Treas.(Certified to be a true copy from the register of proceedings of the said Municipality ] JOHN STARRS, t at.-,\tSec.-Treas.Lochaber, 22nd Dec., 1853.PUBLIC ÏTOT2CT FS.HEREBY GIVEN, that the loregoing By-L Law will be submitted to the approval or disapproval of the Municipal Electors of the Municipality No.2, of the County of Ottawa, and that the Voting upon the same will take place on the 16th and 17th days of JANUARY neat\u2019cî>v W?e.n\t0\u2019ul°ck iu the Forenoon, and SIX o clock in 1he Afternoon, on the first a\u201cdrwfro\u201d N,INE °\u20190l°0k in the Forenoon until FIVE 0clock in the Afternoon on the second day, and shall be received at the places here-matter mentioned, and by the persons hereafter appointed, who are authorized, by law, to name 11 ^wworTro1 their plaCe if Deed bei t0 wit : SCHOm\tBPÜKING H A il at the HI0ÜSEi ln VILLAGE of BUCK-1\tAndre Sac™, Esq., M.D.TOWNSHIP of LOCHABER, at the VIOTO-mr,,V JoHN Archibald Cameron, Esq.G2RE °f L0charER, at the SCHOOL auUSB\u2014Henry Wellings, Esq.NOTRE DAME de BONSECOURS, PETITE NATION, at the SCHOOL HOUSE, ne?;r\u2018^oPAHIEH CHURCH\u2014Lodis Fortin, Esq! PARISH of Si\u2019E.ANGELIQUE, the SCHOOL HOUSE, near Mr.Tucker\u2019s\u2014Edward Cole, Esq.PARISH of ST.ANDRE, AVELLIN, at the SCHOOL HOUSE, in the VILLAGE\u2014Joseph Alfred Levis, Esq.By order, (Signed,) JOHN STARRS, Sec.-Treas.of 2d Municipality of Ottawa.(True Copy,) JOHN STARRS, Sec.-Treas.Municipality No.2, Ottawa.Lochaber, 22d Dec., 1853.\t239 CHEAP STATIONERY WA3S.ESÎOUS23, on/x r,ARRIVAI' 0F UPWARDS OF düOïCases and Bales Cheap Papers, &c.for THH fall traoe \u2019 __ WEIB à BUMET TJAVE JUST RECEIVED a fresh suddIv of Xi WHITTING, PRINTING, Grey and Brown vpuUr-RP^Gn,PAPERS' and other MISCELLANEOUS STATIONARY, which they are sellino-at very low prices.\t\u201c Great St.James Street, ) Montreal, 26th August, 1853.)\t153 ; lîsjteüi Fluivei* Hoots for Sale.THErVu^rn3i?llfd ofïer3 for Sa,e a collection ^\t* BOWER ROOTS, comprising Th»tseh«BU-h0\u201c8 Rn°tS- in general cultivation^ Ihe Subscr.ber\u2019s collection 13 put up to order in Hoi and , and the best proof of their superior néAvP \u2018f\u2019 tl!aLaU.the premiums obtained1 from the Montreal Horticultural Society, either from 30 2ÿotre Dame Street.GEORGE SHEPHERD, Nursery and Seedsman to the Vv t MONTREAL HERALD AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.THURSDAY.JANUARY 12, 1864 TO COEKESPONDENTS.No notice can be taken of anonymous communications.Whatever is intended for insertion mast be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of his good faith, We cannot undertake to return rejected communications.Notices of marriages, births and deaths, can only be inserted when authenticated by some party known to the publishers.j3\"TAKE NOTICE.\u2014We take no letters out of the Post Office unless they are prk-paid.NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.ALL ADVERTISERS by the Year or Agreement are charged extra at the usual rates of ad-vertisingj when they exceed the limits of their agreements.Ter* THURSDAY MORNING, JAN.12,'1854.53= TO ADVERTISERS.\u2014Our Advertising Friends will oblige us by letting us have their favors on the evenings previous to publication not later than Stx o\u2019clock.Advertisements re ceived later than that hour cannot receive so prominent a position in the paper.Protectiok.\u2014Being unwilling to close our columns to fair discussion, we publish \u201c a Manufacturing Firm\u2019s\u201d letter\u2019to Mr.Hincks\u2014although we must be excused in saying that, in our humble opinion, in theory as well as in practice, the problem which Mr.Hincks\u2019 correspondents seek to resuscitate has been, conclusively and convincingly, set at rest, by the reasoning as well as the experience of later years, as well in the United States as in Great Britain.The political economist who still maintains that the wealth of acoun-try depends upon the variety, and not the amount and value of its productions in the markets of the world, who still contends that the price of living, and not the supply and demand, regulates the price of labour in any country under the sun, may consistently believe that it is better to manufacture dear than to buy cheap ; and that, as our Firm\u201d supposes, tradesmen who mutually purchase from each other at rates above the market value, can mutually benefit by such a traffic, or that the aggregate wealth of a community can be increased by taxing the consumer for the benefit of the producer\u2014and this, in an age when the facilities of communication and transport are daily obliterating all, save political, distinctions between civilized nations.Such a political economist is, again in our humble opinion, ignorant of the first and most simple principles of the science he professes, and may be compared to the mathematician who has failed in surmounting the difficulties of the Pons assinor-um\u2014and he must excuse us if, in his case, we should recommend prolonged application in the study, ere making any attempt to explain to others the simple, but for ages undiscovered, causes of the wealth of nations.Montreal, 9th Jan., 1854.To the Honorable Francis Hincks, Quebec.Sir,\u2014It having been recommended by some of our newspapers, and generally believed, that a reduction of duties on our imports will be a subject for consideration when Parliament meets in February, we have taken the liberty of addressing you on this subject, being practical manufacturers, we have opportunities of knowing the respective advantages of high and low duties.We think that to reduce the duties on goods manufactured in this country will have the certain effect of reducing the products of the country, and lower the price of labor so much that our mechanics will emigrate to the neighbouring States, where all kinds of mechanical industry is so protected that the journeyman mechanic is well remunerated for his hard labor.By their tariff', they give every encouragement to the producer, and fortify themselves against all foreignproductions that they can manufacture, the consequence of their laws is an uninterrupted prosperity.The farmer gets a good price for the fruits of his industry, the mechanic is so remunerated that he enjoys all the comforts of life, all this gives the people a liberal, charitable feeling towards the unfortunates who go there to better themselves, and thus the nation is made as happy as it is in the power of human laws to make them.The great reason why manufacturers ought to be well protected is on account of our proximity to the United States, and the great difference in the size of the two markets ; then they have a population of twenty-five millions, while ours is only two millions, besides for their mechanical productions they have foreign markets for about half as much as their own population, whereas in Canada, on account of the high tariff of the United States, we are confined to only two millions.Thus the American manufacturer, on account of the great demand for his goods, sells a great quantity at small profits, and when the duty is low our poor Canada manufacturer is devoured, body and bones, by his great competitor.This is a subject of vast importance, and deserves most serious consideration both by the people and Parliament.If we admit that the wealth of our country depends upon its productions, we must admit that whatever has a tendency to diminish those productions inqioverishes the country.We congratulate ourselves on the present prosperity of our manufactures.Politicians and Editors, comment upon it, and we see these same gentlemen advocate a repeal of the very Laws which are now building up our manufactures (though yet in their infancy).What is it that has given an impetus to our manufactures but the raising of the duty to 12)4 Per cent i lhat is some protection, but not enough to increase the mechanical products of the country and protect them from the overplus stock of American Manufactures and such as do, through indiscretion, manage their affairs in such a manner that they are obliged to send goods to this market and sell them at any price.That such is the case we know well, the Custom House statement shows it, and we who attend auctions have the practical experience of it.The great hue and cry is with some people, give us low duties, we want cheap goods, now I want cheap goods, and like every man, woman and child, I go where I can get the most for my money, but in doing so, I would use my common sense : for instance, 1 am in business, I have a customer who buys largely from mp every year, and pays me well, he is engaged in the clothing line, I want to purchase a suit of clothes, I go to another tailor, enquire his prices, find them low, I go to my customer, ask his prices, find them_a little higher.I say to myself, the other man gives me the best bargain, I will go to him.I go, order my clothes, they come home, I wear them, my customer finds out that I have gone to another place to buy my elothes, he immediately leaves me and goes to some one else in my line for his supply, so by losing my customer I lose twenty times as much as if I had paid a little piore to my customer for his clothes.I have been penny wise and found foolish.Now, I say, that is exactly the effect when the duties are so low on our manufactures.The country is filled with foreign goods, the consumer by supporting the foreign manufacturer, loses his best friend and customer, the producer, and I contend, that if the consumer will give his consent to such laws as will give the manufacturer a start, he will find that competition will soon bring the Home article below the foreign manufactured article.In every country the price of living regulates the price of labour, it must come to that level.For example, go to the United States all kinds of manufactures are higher than in England, but wages are good and in proportion to the cost of living ; go to England, ail kinds are lower there and so is wages.But it is acknowledged by the \u2019 wisest statesmen that a good price for manufactures and good wages to the mechanic is far more advantageous to the country, causes a far greater circulation of money, and a healthier state of things ; so that, if cheap goods makes cheap wages\u2014which they must\u2014and higher goods make higher wages\u2014and the latter is from the examples of other countries far the best\u2014let us have the latter.The idea of saying that we cannot manufacture cheap in this country is preposterous.We have water-power in abundance ; we have railroads, steamboats, and steamships to bring the raw material from every country under the sun; we have a population naturally industrious, intelligent, and willing to learn anything : all we want is the same advantages that have built up other conn:ries, and then, and only then, will we enjoy uninterrupted prosperity.From your exertions to raise the credit of the country, and make railroad communications from one end of the Province to the other\u2014to establish a liberal and profitable Banking system, that gives security to the public and the stockholders, and all the liberal measures that have become laws through your influence for the improvement of the country and the happiness of the people, it is hoped that one of such vast importance to the country, as the increase of its mechanical products, will receive that consideration which it deserves We have the honor to be, Your obedient servants, A Mandfactdrino Firm.A copy of the above, with the real name, has been sent to Mr.H.Union is Strength.\u2014We are happy to learn that an arrangement is about being perfected, by which the Champlain and St.Lawrence and the Montreal and New York Railroad Companies will be united under one interest.This will do away with the unprofitable rivalry which has heretofore existed between these two competing roads ; and, with the increased traffic over them, both in passengers and goods, which may confidently be looked for, should render the stock of these Companies worthy the notice of Capitalists peeking good investments.Harbour Police.\u2014In connection with main-tenance of this force during the winter months we have had the following letter handed to us for publication : \u2014 ( Harbor Commissioners\u2019 Office, d Montreal, Jany.5, 1854.have the honor to acknowledge the re-ce.pt of your letter of the 28th ultimo, from the tenor ot which it is apparent that there is a misunderstanding between the Harbor Commissioners and the Government with respect to the Har-J!\u2019r F0'loe- 1\u201c reply, I am accordingly instructed to develope the views of the Commissioners fully upon the points of importance which seem to be involved in doubt, in order that a better and clearer understanding may be arrived at for their future guidance.In the first place, the Government seem to have been misinformed as to an alleged desire on the part of the Commissioners to make regulations for the Harbor Police, and to give orders as to its general government on the contrary, the Commissioners have never had or manifested any desire whatever to meddle with such details What they have hitherto required from the officer iu charge of the force was, a daily report, showing the nature and extent of the delinquencies deal t with from day to day within his jurisdiction; and their object in requiring this report was to enable them, if necessary, to check undue severity of conduct ou the one hand, or neglect ofdutv on Ue other.To this report the Commissioners have felt themselves entitled, and if the Govern ment see fit to object to it for the future, they would respectfully request to be informed of the fact, and of the grounds on which the objection is founded.But passing over all other minor matters, the main point of difference between the Commissioners and the Government seems to lie in the question of the lime during which the Harbor Police, as such, may be kept enrolled at the expense of the Harbor funds.By the tenor of your letter, it appears that Government interpret the Act 14 & 15 Vic.Cap.24, as giving them an indefinite power of keeping up such a force at the expense of the Harbour Revenue.Against this interprétation of the Act, the Commissioners authorise me respectfully to remonstrate in the most positive terms, as they consider that neither the letter nor the spirit of the Act, nor the well-known inien tions of its framers, warrants such a construction ; and in support of this view of the case, they would refer to the practice of both the Government and themselves under it since it came into force.That practice has been to enroll the Force on the opening of navigation, and to discontinue its services on the 30th of November.This was done in 1851, when it was under the command of Major Johnson, (who, by the way, was ordered to place himself in communication with the Commissioners) ; it was again done in 1852, when the force was under the command of Chief Constable Bryan ; and the same course precisely was followed in 1853, so far as the Harbor Commissioners are concerned.But, at this juncture, it seems a new view was suggested to Government by Mr.Ermatinger, Inspector and Superintendent of Police, viz : to keep the Force on pay after its Harbor duties had literally ceased.With this project the Commissioners have of course nothing whatever to do, except in so far as the Funds under their charge are concerned ; and upon this point I am to remark, that they entertain very strong convictions.In the first place, they cannot admit that the Harbor Funds can be justly charged with-tiie expenses of the Force after the business of the Harbor and the necessity for the Force cease.In the second place, they cannot admit that even the letter of the Act 14 and 15 Vic., Cap.24\u2014waiving its spirit, and the intention of its framers altogether\u2014authorises the wide and absolute interpretation which the Government seem to put upon it.The gist of the Act appears to the Commissioners to lie in these words : \u201c It shall be lawful for the Governor to direct \u201c the Commissioners to pay over to such person \u201c as he may designate, such sum as may be re-\u201c quired to defray the expenses attending the em-\u201c ployment of such additional members of said Po-\u201c lice Force as it may have been found necessary to \u201c employ during such year to act more especially \u201c as Constables in the Harbour and Port afore-\u201c said.\u201d The condition here presented as a limit to the authority of the Government over the Harbour Funds, for the payment of a Police Force, is, it seems to them, that the Force must be \u201c necessary\" to act as Constables in the Harbour and Port ; and it is on this condition, taken in connexion with all previous practice, that the Harbour Commissioners rest their case, viz.: the decision which they communicated to Chief Constable Bryan on the 19th November last with reference to the pay of the Force, and the determination which they hare since adopted of disbursing nothing more on account of it,\u2014except under the most positive orders from the Government, In adopting this resolution the Commissioners, I am to remark, have been moved by a sense of duty alone ; and if the Government should, notwithstanding their convictions, overrule this decision and order them to make further payments, they wish it to be distinctly understood that such payments will be made under compulsion and under the sole responsibility of the Government.I am to add in conclusion, that so far indeed from their considering themselves bound to pay such expenses out of the Harbour Funds, they on the contrary consider that that they have a substantial claim upon the Government for a half or more of all that they have hitherto expended iu keeping up the Force, inasmuch as more than half its strength has always been employed in maintaining order around the Canal Locks and Basins, from which the Harbour Funds derive no direct benefit.This view of the matter of expease has already been more than once brought under the notice of the Government, but without reply.I am, therefore, instructed again to draw the attention of Government to it, and to request the favor of an answer.I have the honor to be, &c., &c., McGill College.\u2014The Christmas holidays having terminated, the alumni of this institution resumed their studies on Monday last, when the various classes re-assembled.We are much pleased to learn, by their increased numbers, that the College is acquiring a fair position among the educational institutions of the country, and is securing to itself so respectable a share of public support.We are indebted to onr contemporary, the Gazette, for the following information and remarks, with reference to the present condition and prospects of the College in its various departments :\u2014 The Faculty of Law consists of one Professor and two Lecturers, and the number of Students is at present about 15.A considerable addition to the number of the latter may be looked for in future Sessions, and besides young gentlemen studying for the Bar, it is probable that Notaries and even many of our young Merchants may avail themselves of the benefit to be derived from attending the excellent and comprehensive Course of Lectures.The Medical Faculty consists of a staff of nine Professors and a Demonstrator of Anatomy, whose Lectures are attended by 80 Students, a much greater number than in any previous Session.Considering that these are drawn from every quarter of Canada, it shows the high estimation in which our Medical School is universally held.In the faculty of Arts there are five Professors and one Lecture, whoes Classes are attended by SIJStudents.Besides the regularly maticulated Students, it was expected that a considerable number of youig gentlemen would, during the winter months, attend one or more of the classes in this Faculty, so as to carry on their education beyond the point at which they stopped when they embarked in commercial pursuits.Possibly the circumstance that such a provision exists, needs only to be known to ensure a good attendance of many of the youth of the City, by whom an hour or two daily, during the long and com-paritively idle winter, could not bi more usefully or agreeably employed.The Mercantile Class in Europe is as highly educated as any other, and apart from the higher and nobler object of acquiring knowledge for its own sake, the more selfish one of not being left behind in the race of worldly success ought to be sufficient to induce our young men to devote their time to study.The present is a favorable time for juiuiug ona or more of the Classes.It remains for us only to notice the High School Department of the College.From this nursery the future supplies of our Professional and Mercantile men are to be derived, and the different Faculties of the College filled with Students.It is gratifying to be able to state that there are one hundred and sixty pupils in attendance, whose studies are guided by a Rector and six teachers.Three of the Governors visit the school at stated periods, to examine the progress made in the different Classes, and to attend generally to its interests.Miranda [For the Montreal Hereld.) THE SPIRITS.What is\u2019t ?a spirit ?(Signed,) Honble.P.J.O.Chauveau, I Provincial Secretary, Quebec.John Glass, Secretayy.Meeting in Griffintown.\u2014The following\u2014 in our opinion, absurd and groundless\u2014resolutions were passed at a meeting recently held in Griffintown ; Messrs.Bristow, Doherty and Ryan addressed the meeting :\u2014 Moved by J.Daly, seconded by Thomas Hanly : That it is the first and most sacred duty of every citizen and Christian to relieve the wants of his fellow-man, whenever circumstances render such aid necessary, irrespective of religious, national, or political predilections.Moved by Thomas Battle, seconded by J.Hanly : That an inundation such as has lately submerged a large portion of the St.Anne\u2019s Ward, of city, inflicting great suffering, is a proper this subject for the immediate action of a City Council, upon which devolves the duty of Civic protection.Moved by M.P.Ryan, seconded by Bryan MacShane : That a refusal of a majority of the City Council to discuss the necessity of enquiring into the wants of the citizens during the late calamity as well as the insulting manner in which that refusal was expressed, betrays such a recklessness of hutnan.suffering, such an utter disregard of their Civic duties, as in the opinion of this meeting, shews them not only to be unworthy of their present position, but of any place involving the guardianship of the rights and interests of others.Moved by B.Devlin, seconded by James Prendergast : That it is notorious that the majority of the City Councillors who left abruptly and who refused to entertain an application having for its object the relief of the sufferers, (principally Irish) was composed of Canadians, men representing extreme views, subversive of order and calculated to foster the last offspring of Social-lism\u2014Rouÿdsm\u2014are avowedly opposed to the commnnity of sentiment which exists between the Canadians and the Irish, it is incumbent on the former to declare their disapprobation of such proceedings, in order that a well defined line be drawn between the old bonds of fraterity and the present interruption caused by a new and unholy brotherhood, originating in the rouge of the Canadians, in the annexation of the Anglo-Saxon.The North Shore and Montreal and Bytown Railways.\u2014A Deputation from Quebec, in the persons of Joseph Cauchon, Esq, and François Evantruel, Esq., Directors of the former Company, arrived here on Saturday last, to confer with the Directors of the Montreal and Bytown Railway Company.The Directors met those gentlemen on Tuesday last, and the result of their conference led to the adoption by both Companies, in Montreal, of a common terminus, and of the same gnage\u2014the five feet six inch guage.The Montreal and Bytown Company have fixed their terminus near the Bishop\u2019s Church, and have purchased twelve acres of ground for that purpose, from the heirs Guy\u2014 one half of which is to be paid by the Quebec Company.It was also settled, at the same time, that the North Shore road would be brought into this city by the Parishes of Pointe aux Trembles and' Longue Pointe : and not by the County of Terrebonne, as stated by Mr.Hamel, of Quebec, a short time since.We hear that Messrs.Canchon and Evantruel left town on Tuesday, well pleased with the arrangement effected, and the friendly spirit in which they were received.Colonial Life Assurance Company\u2014We have to thank Mr.Davidson Parker for copies of this Company\u2019s Almanac for the current year.Like its predecessors, it is a most beautiful specimen of ornamental typography, is adorned with views of the principal towns and cities in the Colonies, and contains a vast amount of useful statistical information, besides the calendar and astronomical facts for the year\u2014it is at once useful and ornamental, and is alike adapted for the drawingroom, the library, and the office table.The Great Western Railroad will be opened from Niagara Falls to opposite Detroit on the 16th instant.A train on that day will leave Niagara for Detroit and return on the llth.On the 18th regular passenger trains will commence running.The earnings of the Road to London for the week ending Dec.30, were ?4,500, which were entirely from local traffic.Rewards for Distinguished Services.\u2014We believe there is no portion of our population which will not feel pleasure at the following testimony to an old and esteemed fellow-citizen, as well as officer of Her Majesty, we mean Town Major McDonald, who is the Ensign McDonald of the following paragraph cut from the Naval and Military Gazette:\u2014 \u201c W'e have noticed with great satisfaction that the exclusive system is no longer followed, by which * officers receiving rewards for distinguished services\u201d were selected from among general officers only The army has seen with great satisfaction that Colonels Lovell, Colin Campbell, Closte, Markham and Eyrd ; Lieut.Colonels Simmons, Michel, and Franks; Major Wright, Ensign McDonald, and Quarter Masters Murray and Edwards, share in some small degree in the rewards, which were so long conferred on generals only with two solitary exceptions.It is undoubted that in the junior grades of the army, there have been, and are officers, who have most highly distinguished themselves ; but whose services hitherto have received nothing more than empty praises, and sometimes not even that.There are distinguished services which call forth all the energies of mind and body, and try the qualities of a true soldier to the uttermost.Major Wright\u2019s is a case in doint, and few will deny that the moral and physical courage of the officer, and all the high qualities of presence of mind, and cool collected centrating command in danger and difficulty, were eminently displayed by him at the wreck in Simon\u2019s Bay.While the decorations of the Bath are most properly reserved for services under fire, there ought to be means for rewarding services out of the field.\u201d Adjutant Generalship of H.M.Troops.\u2014 Our readers will all take an interest in anything that concerns General Wetherall.It appears that this distinguished officer, who has been lately serving at the Horse Guards as Deputy Adjutant General, has resigned, simultaneously with his Chief, Adjutant General Sir G.Brown.The place of the Adjutant General was offered to Gen.Wetherall, but he declined, it is said, from very worthy motives.General Brown is therefore to be succeeded by Col.Torrens, and it is stated that Gen.Wetherall is likely to succeed General Rowan as Commander in Chief in Canada.The N.Y.Times learns from private sources entitled to credit, that Gov.Kossuth left London for Constantinople on the 23d of December, The Montreal Early Closing Association \u2014 This Association gave a Soirée on Tuesday evening, to which they invited the Hon.John Young, to act as Patron, together with several other gentlemen of standing, who were to deliver Addresses on the occasion.When the time came these gentlemen were present; but no sufficient representation of the Society to receive them was oa hand ; and after waiting long, they retired.This is not the proper way to behave to guests, especially to guests who have probably given up other and more important engagements.If the Early Closing Association desired to have simply a dance, that would have been all very well ; but then they should not have put gentlemen to the trouble of preparing addresses, and sacrificing their engagements for the sake of speaking at their Soirée in favour of the object of the Association.The conservatory attached to the cottage of E.Muir, Esq., St.Antoine Suburbs, took fire on Friday morning about four o\u2019clock, when the large and excellent collection of plants were destroyed: The cottage was in great danger ; but by the exertions of the family, the fire was subdued, after having burnt part of the wood work around the door leading into the drawing room.The premises were not insured.Gale at Halifax.\u2014A violent gale prevailed a,t Halifax on ihe 22nd and morning of the 23rd ultimo, sinking and destroying a number of vessels at their wharves in the harbor.The loss is computed at about £20,000.Dreadful Mortality at Sea.\u2014The ship New England has arrived at New Orleans from Bre-merhaven, having had seventy deaths on board during the passage, ont of 500 emigrants.From Australia.\u2014From the Panama Herald of Dec.22d, we learn that the dates are from Melbourne to the 11th, and Sydney to the 19th October.During the week ending October Ith, 53 vessels, of an aggregate of 12,750 tons, with 1469 passengers, arrived at the port of Melbourne.Gold is quoted at £3 16s per ounce.Trade is reported as generally dull, owing to bad weather.Few goods were on offer by first hands.The arrivals of colonial flour, brandy, sugar and building materials had been large.The flour trade is dull.At one of the town mills a reduction of £5 per ton is announced.The sale of Crown lands for the week reached £139,620, varying from £2 11s to £9 6s per acre.Flour is quoted at from £33 to £30 per ton.In the Legislature Colonel Anderson brought up the address to Her Majesty, prepared by the select committee, to accompany home the Prevention of Convicts\u2019 bill.On motion it was ordered to be printed, by an overwhelming majority.The Auditor General has presented the estimates for the ensuing year.The income is calculated at £3,322,323 13s 6d, and the expenditure at £3,077,761 Is 9d, of which £1,106,625 is for public works.A silver medal has been purchased for Charles Plummer, the man who so gallantly swam ashore with a rope from the wreck of the Monumental City.A nugget weighing 136 lbs.has been taken out of Sailor\u2019s Gully.The famous monster nugget is thus eclipsed by about 12 lbs.The mines are reported as yielding most favor, ably, considering the state of the weather.There was no news of particular importance from the colonies.New Music.\u2014 We have received from Mr.Prince, of the London Music Store, the following new pieces:\u2014The St.Lawrence Tubular Bridge Polka.This is a very spirited composition, and possesses a great deal of merit.It has a beautiful Yignette title page, which gives a faithful representation of the \u201c Great Bridge,\u201d in contemplation, and shows that no expense has been spared to make it especially attractive.We predict a great sale for this piece.Also, The Lass O\u2019Gowrie Polka, composed by one of the talented members of the splendid band now in garrison, which reflects great credit on him as a musician.The Montreal Tune Book, by G.F.Graham, price 6d.This is a collection of the most aproved Chorales and Standard Psalm and Hymn Tunes, arranged for four voices, intended for Churches and for family devotion.The Tunes have been carefully selected, and are all remarkably well arranged.\u2014See Mr.Prince's Advertisement, Prospéra.No, wench; it eats and sleeps, and hath such senses As we have.Tempest.It is somewhat remarkable that the age in which we live should be distingaished by two directly opposite tendencies.This is a golden age, in the sense that gold is now sought after with unusual avidity : it is a spiritual one, inasmuch as almost every body is now holding communications, real or imaginary, with those who have gone to the shadowy land, erstwhile called, the silent.The spiritual manifestations, as they are called, were at first naturally regarded with general suspicion.People were determined that the spirits should earn their position in the world, as mortals have to do.This, let us confess, they have, in some sort, accomplished.At the outset, it is true, they kept rather low company\u2014but novf thetables a re turned, and their companionship is sought by the \u201c best society.Grave divines, learned judges, private gentlemen of intelligence and integrity have made the acquaintance of these ghostly visitors.The first are fain to ascribe the rappings to the Old Enemy,\u2014thinking that the old fellow is trying to repay the hard knocks they have been wont to give him,\u2014the second take the spirits at their word, and turn to good account the lore ot Bacon and Webster, received direct from the sixih sphere ; the last are filled with astonishment, and only trust themselves to tell the wondrous story, as it was told to them.People are beginning to have an awe of tables.Time was when the innocent mahogany only called up pleasing recollections of the circulation of other spirits, or brought to mind some Yorick \u2014wont, to \u201c set the table on a roar.\" \u2018\u2018 The spirits\u201d may well say \u201c nous avons changé tout cela.\" Let one of a company of jolly bachelors, assembled around some table\u2014long guiltless of intimacy with unearthly spirits\u2014chance to exclaim \u201c Are there any spirits present?\u201d\u2014and instantly a dozen raps thunder an affirmative, to the destruction of decanters and wine-glasses, and to the consternation of the waiters, who thought \u201c the gentleman only wanted another bowl of punch.\u201d\tr-,\t,________________ Seriously, we can no longer ignore the spirits.We must prapple with them and try to find out who and \"what they are\u2014without credulity and without obstinate unbelief.To this inquiry many acute intellects have been turned.To discover the imposition\u2014if imposition their be\u2014 men not easily imposed upon have taxed their utmost ingenuity and been convinced that there was something besides humbug in these spiritual manifestations.For my own part, I have never had the pleasure of an introduction to the spirits.I know them only through the medium of the newspapers.But, so far as I have had an opportunity, I have watched their disclosures with interest.The most observable thing about their communications\u2014for the matter is often common-; lace enough\u2014is their correspondence with the characters and opinions of the questioning circle.The spirits seem even to make the wish in the minds of their questioners the father to their answers.From this simple but suggestive fact, I am inclined to think that the spirit-rappings may be referred to mesmeric agency, and that we have not yet been favored with visits from The undiscovered country from whose bourne No traveller returns.Beyond the knowledge and ideas existing in the minds of the members of the circle, the answers of the spirits cannot go.Albeit that knowledge may remain, so to speak, latent.The spirits, too, seem to be wholly under the control of the interrogators, or of some strong will among them, as to whether they will answer or not.To illustrate my meaning, let me refer to the colloquy with the ghost of the French Canadian lad from the Quebec Suburbs.{Herald, 17th Deer, last.) The answers of this young spirit seem to have been, almost all of them, in perfect rapport with the minds of M.Ricard and his friends.He was a good Catholic, so were they; he thought a mass would do his soul good, they doubtless thought so too ; be could name the principal questioner, so could any of the rest.Observe, too, how sympathetic was this poor ghost, how completely under the influence of the persons assembled.He is asked to give his Christian name.There can be no harm in that : all present assent to it, and he gave it.\u201c What was your Surname ?\u201d The ladies grow nervous\u2014an electric thrill passes around the circle\u2014they cannot trust themselves to hear the answer, and the shade politely declines answering.There are other answers, it is true, which appear more difficult of reference to this mesmeric influence or sympathy.But, it seems to me, all similar responses may yet be capable of some such explanation.The human mind is a tablet trom which no impression once made is ever wholly effaced.The most trifling occurrences are indelible_/«cfs\u2014they may be forgotten, but they are eternal as truth itself.We have often read the narrations of persons rescued from drowning\u2014how, while they were sinking, a panorama of their past lives passes instantaneously across their minds, upon which trifling facts (as they supposed long forgotten) are pictured with minutest fidelity.Do not such experiences tend to establish the theory that no impressiuu iimuo and no knowledge acquired, however trifling in importance, is ever lost?To apply this to the case before us.Those answers of the supposed spirit which the auditors thought to be new and stariling, may have had some relation to knowledge existing in a latent state in the mind of some one of them.In a majority of cases, no doubt, the minds ot the experimenters are so filled with wonder that, once inclined to conviction, they are ready to believe every answer unaccountable, and that it bears no relation to any knowledge of their own.What I have said about the mesmeric sympathy of the pretended spirits with, and the correspondence of their answers to the characters and opinions of those who invoke them\u2014will be confirmed by a comparison, or rather contrast, of the disclosures of spirits to different persons.The spiritual friends of Judge Edmonds are strongly Calvinistic ; the Universalist finds all the spirits he summons quite happy and contented in the other world ; while the boy from Visitation Street is a devout Catholic, (although I cannot forgive him tor his libel upon Old Mother Earth,) and so on through the whole list of creeds and opinions.If I have succeeded in making myself understood, the reader will perceive that the theory I have suggested is, that all these spiritual manifestations are the result of electric or mesmeric agency\u2014that is to say, the effects of natural causes, however supernatural they may now appear.But there is little room to doubt that, upon a foundation of truth, and making use of natural causes, unprincipled men have raised a superstructure of falsehood and imposition.* There is every inducement and opportunity for deception.The very idea of conversing with disembodied spirits, acts powerfully upon the mind and nerves.Under the influence of this idea, those weak in mind and body can do nothing but wonder.But the strong and resolute man, with his mind upon the alert, and his will in active exercise would, probably, find the great majority of spirits disinclined to communicate freely\u2014and his experiments would be likely to prove somewhat unsatisfactory.Before bringing this already too long paper to a close let me mention a few tests and experiments which\u2014if opportunity offered\u2014I should like to try with the spirits.Perhaps they may serve as suggestions to others.In the first place, I soould insist upon something positive, some information which could not by any posibility exist in the mind of any person present.Persuade some Russian, Prussian or Turkish ghost to dictate to a medium who knows not a single word in any of those languages, and see if he prove what he pretends to be.Call the spirit of some Mathematician and give him a problem, the solution of which is unknown to any one present\u2014and if he answers correctly, he shall have the credit of it.Ask some spirit the question, Who lives at No.100 of some street unknown, except .by name to all present, in some distant City which no one in the circle has ever visited\u2014if he can tell we will acknowledge him to be a clever ghost.When several spirits acknowledge their presence, try and get them to converse with each other (why can\u2019t they do it?J and report their conference.These, and many similar tests, will effectually \u201ctry the spirits ;\u201d if they are not found wanting, count me from thenceforth, a spiritualist.Another experiment which it would be curious to try would be to arrange two circles in different houses, composed of people of different habits, education, and religious opinions\u2014then endeavour to obtain the presence of the same spirit before each company at the same time, and let each circle put the same questions.Untrammeled spirits ought to have the privilege, surely, of being in two places at the same time\u2014but it is extremely doubtful whether this last experiment would succeed.Reader, if up to this point your spirits have not flagged, I will tax them no longer.Let me rap out my name (for you must know that I, too, am a spirit) and betake myself to tne land of dreams.Ariel.Montreal, January 10,1853.The new paper started by Mitcheland Meagher seems to be very unpopular with the established organs of Irish religio-politics, notwithstanding Bishop Hughes\u2019 warm welcome of the first named \u201c Patriot.\u201d The Celt openly condemns the enterprise, and the True Witness of this city in his ecclesiastical capacity, knowing more about the kingdom of Satan than any merely secular journal, declares at once that the politics of the Citizen are those most popular in a place which it better becomes religious than secular papers to talk about.The Citizen will, we suppose, be a little rouge, and \u201c the principles,\u201d says our contemporary, \u201c it will advocate will be those of 1 Universal Democracy,\u2019 or in other words \u2019Red Republicanism,\u2019 a pleasant Utopian form of Government, which will never be fully realized on this side of Hell, and which the devil alone can enjoy in perfection.\u201d Tlie Lecture of the Lord BULop of VI outrent.On Monday evening, His Lordship delivered the first Lecture of the Winter Course, at the National Schoolroom, to a crowded andience : his subject was\u2014\u201c Some Recollections of a Recent Visit to England.\u201d His Lordship began by a brief reference to the recent military encampment at Chobham and the naval review at Spithead, which led him to remark, that while all other countries in Europe had been more or less desolated by war, for the last 300 years no foe had invaded Britain's shores, and that, consequently, but few had before that encampment witnessed an army in all the pomp and circumstance of war.It was to her wooden walls England owed her pre-eminence, and to her glory it was to be said, that, while her fleets carried destruction to her foes, they carried also the means of spiritual enlightenment to every quarter of the globe.Instead, however, of dilating upon events which every one had read and heard of before, he would rather lay before his hearers his own observations with respect to the growth and progress of the Church, aod a lew-particulars of his own personal proceedings while in England.He arrived in Liverpool on the 1st of May, and forthwith proceeded to London, where he immediately received an invitation to dine with the Archbishop of Canterburv at Lambeth Palace.There were present on that occasion, 3 archbishops and 24 bishops, 6 or 7 of the English bishops being unavoidably absent.Notwithstanding the broad differences of opinion on some important subjects that existed in the minds of the bishops generally, the greatest harmony and Christian fellowship always seemed to prevail at meetings of the prelates ; and it was a gratifying circumstance to see that it was thus possible firmly to maintain their owa individual opinions without losing their charity.Having attended several of these Episcopal meetings, his Lordship, anxious to visit his family, proceeded to Devonshire, and, while there, was present at the-ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a new college for the training of schoolmasters of the Church of England, originated by tbe Bishop of Exeter.Here he was happy again to observe the improved Christian feeling prevailing in society.' Sir John Kennaway, who had been one of the Bishop of Exeter\u2019s firmest opponents with regard to the proceedings at.Miss Sellon\u2019s academy at Plymouth and on other subjects, accepted the invitation to lay the foundation stone, and, taking the trowel from His Lordship\u2019s hand, uttered sentiments which the Bishop of Exeter declared, at the banquet in the evening, were the sentiments of his own heart.From this place His Lordship proceeded to Cudstone the residence of the Bishop of Oxford.The latter had been his cotemporary at Oxford, and was in age his junior by a few ytars.They studied in different Colleges, the Biskop of Oxford at Oriel and he at Exeter.This reminiscence led his Lord-ship to give a glowing description of the talents of Wilberfbrce when at College\u2014as a speaker he was indeed eloquent, and was considered, perhaps, »the second best debater in the House of Lords, Lord Derby being the first.But he particularly dwelt upon the unwearied attention the Bishop of Oxford paid to the duties of his high office.-He was coatinually active : in fact, work seemed to be a necessary part of his existence.Early and late he was always to be found engaged in the various pursuits of his calling.Apart from the attention to the Church and the State, his Lordship was also a philosopher, and takes an active part in scientific associations.The time when he visited him was a busy one\u2014it was the day preceding Trinity Sunday, and his Lordship was engaged examining candidates for Holy Orders, this he did, assisted by his chaplains ; and after that came the more trying part, of pronouncing his opinion upon the different exercises of the candidates.In the evening, after a supper which was quite plain and simple, at his Lordship\u2019s request he addressed a few words to the young men.He was quite unprepared when the request was made\u2014but it required no studied eloquence to give expression to the feelings of the heart The next day the Bishop of Oxford, at the afternoon service, preached the annual sermon on the Mis sions of the Church of England before the Uoi versity, with that force and eloquence which so peculiarly belongs to him.It was during the service that he (the lecturer) had the opportunity of seeing the Rev.Dr.Pusey, who occupied the stall next to him.He was informed, upon making enquiry, that as the representative of a party in Oxford, Dr.Pusey\u2019s position was much less influential than formerly.Still when it came to his turn to preach he ennunciated the same views and crowds still assembled to hear him.On the 24th May, (the Queen\u2019s Birth Day) the Lecturer dined at the Duke of Newcastle\u2019s (the Secretary for the Colonies) with many of the principal Ministers of Stat :, Lord Hardinge, Lord Ragland.Mr.Sydney Herbert and many others, but there was one whose presence was missed, who since the last anniversary of that day, had finished his earthly career, the Duke of Wellington.He had never been personally acquainted with his Grace, though he had seen him frequently, but there were others at the table, some ot his companions in arms, who felt bis absence deeply.\u2014 His Lordship then gavé some interesting details of the exertions now being made throughout England, in constructing new and repairing old churches\u2014of the formation of Parish Schools\u2014 his visit to the Society for the Propogation of the Gospel\u2014the number ot Sermons he preached during his stay, and the places he visited, bringing the audience at last to the Paddington Railway Station, where, on account of the lateness of Bp?enTM'&£w,tfbi!kV,,'récentIy ereclecP,n!aiP.*n *'^e fitting opportunity prebented itself again, when he would resume the journey.At the end of the lecture, which was much applauded during its delivery, the next letîture by the Bishop of Vermont was announced.We beg to call the.attention of Capitalists and the public generally, to the sale of valuable Real Estate which is to take place at the Stores of Messrs.J.D.Bernard & Co., on Monday next 16th iust., (full particulars in our advertising columns); and considering the improvements being made in the immediate vicinity of the several lots, we do not think there has ever been a better opportunity offered to persons desirous of investing their capital to advantage than the present.The plans are now ready, and can be seen at the office of J.D, B.& Co.CORRESPONDENCE.To the Editor of the Montreal Herald.StR,\u2014I observe a letter in your paper of this day, signed \u201c A Farmer \u201d, complaining of the use of the traîne on the turnpike roads, and I suppose he also includes the roads within the city limits.Now, Sir, I would inform \u201c A Farmer \u201d that the City Surveyor has taken every precaution to prevent the trainee coming into the city.Policemen have been specially employed the last eight days in notifying the different parties that if any come into the city after this day, that the law will be strictly enforced.Two or three persons have been already brought up, but let off' with a caution.If the trustees of the turnpike road will but assist the officer of the Corporation, depend on it that you will not have to complain again of the traines, nor will A Farmer \u201d have the trouble of writing to you.I am, dear Sir; Your very obdt.servt., Observer.Montr al, Jan.10,1854.LAW INTELLIGENCE.{Reported for the Montreal Herald.) COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS.Tuesday, January 10.present: His Honor Mr.Justice J.S.McCord.The Grand Jury returned the following True Bills, viz :\u2014Dennis Sullivan, larceny; Joseph Vineé, do; Joseph Deschamps, do; James Mac-Namara,do; Ann Feehan, do; Ann Plnnket, do ; Adelaide Marta, do [on two indictments]; Alvia Diana Spencer, do ; John Cashan and Wm.Hunter, do; Jean Bte.Morrette, do; Margaret Mac-Gill, receiving stolen goods, &c.No Bill against Michael Cusson, larceny.Dennis Sullivan, larceny, pleaded guilty; Joseph A\u2019ineé, do, do; James MacNamara, do, do; John .Oashan, do, do.Archibald Macfarlane, on indictment for levelling a pistol at a person with intent to murder, was put on his trial and acquitted.Mr.Baker, of Counsel for prisoner.Jean Bte.Morrette, on indictment for larceny, was put on his trial and found guilty.Judgment, eight day\u2019s imprisonment in the common gaol at hard labor.Messrs.Ramsay and Morin, of Counsel, for prisoner.Wednesday, 11th Jany.1854.Tlte Grand Jury returned the following \u201c true bills,\u2019\u2019 viz: Eiiza Brady, larceny ; Bridget Cogan, larceny; Jean Baptiste Allard, larceny; Léon Charboneau, larceny ; Patrick McGinnis Val, larceny; James Smith Val, larceny; Joseph Petit, larceny; Eli Hebert, larceny; Félicité Thebqrt, larceny ; William McCaffrey, larceny ; (on 4 indictments) ; Joseph Lefort, assault with intent to murder; and no bills against Joseph Antoine Edouard Généreux, larceny ; Margaret Culleton, receiving stolen goods, &c.; André Vandandaigne dit Gadbois, assault.Bridget Cogan, larceny from ber master, pleaded guilty.\u2014Judgment, 6 months imprisonment hard labor in the common jail.Jdsesh Deschamps, on conviction of larceny.\u2014Judgment, 3months imprisonment at hard labor in the common jail.James Campbell, on conviction of assaulting a bailili'in the execution of his duty.\u2014Judgment : The defendant was condemned to pay to our Sovereign Lady the Queen a penalty of 50s, and to stand committed to the common jail until paid.Ann Plnnket, larceny from her master, was put on her trial and found guilty.\u2014Judgment, 6 months imprisonment at hard labor in the common lail.Mr.Smyth of counsel for prisoner.Patrick Mohan, larceny, was put on his trial and acquitted.Mr.Devlin, of Counsel for prisoner.Ann Feehan, larceny, was put on her trial and found guilty.The Jury recommended the prisoner to the mercy of the Court.Adelaide Mareta, larceny, was put on her trial and found guilty.Judgment, one month imprisonment at hard labor in the Common Gaol.Adelaide Mareta, larceny, was put on her trial and found guilty.Judgment, two years imprisonment in the Provincial Penitentiary, to be computed and reckoned trom and after the expi-, ration of her former sentence.Denis Sullivan, on conviction of larceny.Judgment 2 years imprisonment in the Provincial Penitentiary.James McNamara, on conviction ot larceny.Judgment 2 years imprisonment in the Provincial Penitentiary, Joseph Vince, on conviction of larceny.Judgment 2 years imprisonment in the Provincial Penitentiary.The prisoners sentenced to be imprisoned in the Provincial Penitentiary, were all old and incorrigible offenders, who liad frequently before been convicted of petty thefts.Charles, as it widens into the harbor and the north channel.Many plans have been thought of and talked of, and there is ample room for variety of design and ingenuity of device; to particularize any, in this onr first diatribe, might be deemed invidious and presumptuous.But the time has arrived for action, it will bear no longer delay ; the vital interests of out commerce and trade are at stake, and Quebeec must have a suitable harbor, and must have wharves and docks worthy of her present and her future condition.Montreal will soon be, is almost now, the centre of a net of railways, which will connect her with every portion of the Provinces above and below, and with the adjoining States, South, East and West; she is provided with wharves which are the admiration of all who use them or see them.If these have even before now enticed from us ships that would have gladly remained at Quebec, had it not been for the destructively inferior accommodation, what may be expected on the completion of the expensive projects now in progress there?We do not make these remarks in a spirit of jealousy or envy at the prospects of the sister city ; far from it, we believe the prosperity of either , city will be accelerated not retarded by the success of the other.But we wish to see Quebec keep pace in the onward course, and especially in those respects in which she is best qualified to do so by her site, position and circumstances.There are many public spirited merchants among her citizens ; yes, many with generous hearts and hands too, notwithstanding the taunts of illiberal malignity; and there are many of these who have risen in Quebec from a state of comparative poverty to wealth and respectability.All owe something to a city, iu which they have lived and prospered, and they should unite to forward an object so necessary to her welfare, her credit and her reputation.And in thus serving the city, they will most assuredly serve themselves, and in all probability the future best interests of their families and their descendants Let ns then, without delay, commence the good work ; let the city possess docks, wharves, and quays, worthy of her commerce, worthy of her enterprising merchants.\u2014 Quebec Curonicle.ish Isles can produce more instances of longevity iu proportion to their population and extent, than any other country in the world.The following is a list of those individals who are known to have lived in modern days to an age of 150 years and upwards : Peter Tortin, aged 185, born in Hungary, died 1724.Gilmour McCrain, aged 180, Isle of Jura.Louisa Truxo, aged 175, South America, died 1780.Henry Jenkins, aged 169, Yorkshire, England, died 1670.Thomas Parr, aged 152, Shropshire, England, died 1634.James Bowles, aged 152, Warwickshire, England, died 1655.Francis Carsist, aged 150, Yorkshire, England died 1680.SPECIAL NOTICES.CARD.Hr* We, the Undersigned, certify that the Drawing of Mr.H.Peacock\u2019s Lottery, which took place on Saturday afternoon last, was conducted in a fair and honorable manner.Members of Committee : (Signed by) Henry Bulmer, President.T.E.O.D\u2019Orsonneus, M.D., Alfred Nelson, M.D., L.U.A.Genest, S.FrancheBe, Jr., F.Palmer, John McDonald, Geo.Me Iyer, \u2014 Sutherland, J.Barsàlou, John Short, Archd.Donnolly, H.Kollmyer.Montreal, Jan.7th, 1854.\t5 B^T TBÏ.E&K.AFH {Reported for the Montreal Herald.) UNITED STATES.Munificent Bequests.\u2014We are informed that the late Anson G.Phelps, after providing amply for his widow, one hundred thousand dollars for each of his children, ten thousand dollars to each of his grand-children, and an additional five thousand to each of them, to be paid by the executors, with tile injunction from him to uee the increase of his fund sacredly for benevolent purposes and transmit to their heirs with the same injunction, and after making several bequests to relations, has left the following sums to various benevolent objects and provided for their payment in instalments during a term of years :\u2014 To the American Bible Society.$100,000 To the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.100,000 American Home Missionary Society_____ 100,000 To literary and theological education in Liberia, Africa, subject to the control of the Executors.50,000 Union Theological Seminary, N.Y.\t5,000 Institution for the Blind.5,000 New York State Colonization Society.\t5,000 Auburn Theological Seminary.3,000 Half Orphan Society, 4th avenue.\t1,000 Colored Orphan Society.1,000 Congregational Church, Simsbury,Conn, for the use of the poor.1,000 $371,000 In addition to the above, Mr.Phelps, just previous to his death, placed in the hands of his son $100,000, the interest to bo used at his discretion for the spread of the Gospel, and the principal eventually to be invested equally for the benefit of the American Bible Societies, the A.B.of C.for Foreign Missions.This disposition of Mr.Phelps\u2019s property, including the amount given to each of his twenty-two grandchildren, makes the munificent bequest of $581,000 for religious and benevolent purposes.\u2014iY.Y.Com.Advertiser.One of the strange sights that will be seen in the coming Congress will be the presence of Don Jose Manuel Gallegos, the delegate from the territory of New Mexico.He is a Spanish gentleman\u2014speaks the Spanish language, and does not understand the English language at all.We have seen the inquiry made, whether Congress will appoint an interpreter to keep this Spanish Don posted upon what is said in the House.Enviable man I He will not be bored to death by the eight months\u2019 incessant talk which is to set in to-day, nor will he be responsible for boring others.He will lounge about at his pleasure, smoke the best imported brands, and vote either at random, or alternately yea and nay.We wish some of his noisy fellow members, as the next best thing to being condemned to 11 walk Spanish,\u201d could be made to talk it.\u2014Portland Advertiser.LYON\u2019S KATIIAIItON, For Preserving, Restoring, Cleansing, and Beautifying the Hair, alleviating Nervous Headache, and Curing Eruptive Diseases of the Skin.Its reputation, co-extensive with the civilization of the globe, makes all praise superfluous, all exaggeration impossible ; and since its discovery has found no substitute to compete its incoptested\u2014 its incontestable superiority.Physicians and Chemists,\u2014honorable citizens from all professions of life,\u2014the leading Journals of Europe and America,\u2014Ladies who have used it upon their dressing-tables, and Mothers in their Nurseries,\u2014 in fact, its million patrons everywhere, from ffe-beians to kings, pronounce it the most pleasing and effective article either as a Medicinal or Toilet preparation ever produced.Do not fail to give it a trial.Price but 25 cents.D.S.BARNES, Proprietor, 161 Broadway, N.Y.Sold by every Druggist in Montreal and Canada.\tlm 2 Revd.Mr* Cordner\u2019s Lecture\u2014Meelianïc\u2019s Institution* On Tuesday evening, the Rev.Mr.Cordner delivered a lecture before the Mechanics Institute upon tbe 11 local position and rights of women.\u2019\u2019 He commenced by stating that after he had cbo:en his subject, he received a copy of the last annual report, in which he observed that the same subject had been handled before by another lecturer.However, it was too late to change, and as he had had no opportunity of hearing the lecture in question, he would not be accused of following it.It proved, nevertheless, that the subject was one of importance, and the late prominent position taken by the women at their late convention\u2014 and the interest displayed in other quarters, made it a subject of great importance.They found them at conventions making speeches and proposing resolutions\u2014this was objected to by men who considered this as a usurpation\u2014men attended these conventions as they would a farce.Women asked for natural rights, springing from natural causes\u2014men objected to it for conventional reasons springing from conventionalcauses.He was not there to advocate woman\u2019s rights, but to demand for them a more extended sphere of activity.They complained that men monopolized all offices.They were to be found iu the Professional Office, in the Banking House, at the compositors desks, and behind the counters measuring laces, as much as to say, \u201cyou are not fit to be here\u2014you must teach little children and cook the dinner, and then, perhaps, you\u2019ll get married.)\u2019 Women, in years gone by, had made some stir in the world.Queen Elizabeth ruled with a high hand ; Isabella of Castile had left some marks upon the world; and many Queens had ruled with an administrative capacity equal to men.There had been female professors of classics in Spain.Pope Benedict had raised a female professor to the principalship of tbe college at Bologna ; at Padua.30,000 volumes had been collected, the work of a female.In modern times, also, they bad received some reputation.\u2014 Miss Mitchell, undoubtedly, is the best mathematician in America ; Mrs.Stowe has written the best work ; Miss Dix is the greatest philantbro-phist, and a few years ago, when the Hungarian cause was assailed by a writer in the \u201c North American Review,\u201d Miss Lowell defended the cause of that country, and she had the best of the argument.Nor did the prosecution of such objects as he had just noticed interfered with their usual avocations\u2014Mrs.Stowe wrote her book with her children playing around her, and Miss Mitchell, it is said, can make a cup of tea as well as she can turn the telescope, \u2014 and certainly if they are fitted to strike balances and measure the stars, he thought they were capable of measuring cloths and laces.When at school girls paid no attention to account books or arithmetic, because they had no use of them in the future.Undoubtedly society was greatly to blame for this.Even at the present day the system of female training is sadly deficient.We acknowledge that she has a soul to be saved, but never think she has a mind to be enlarged.\u2014 They have a right to a larger sphere of activity \u2014they have a right to more comprehensive system of education- Society owes it to itself to give woman a better education.They should remember the answer of Madame de Staël to Napoleon when asked what was the best means of ameliorating their condition.\u201c Educate the women.\u201d Then when they have received a suitable training let them have the same opportunities of advancing\u2014let them try the same tasks and whatever they fail to succeed in, there let the decision be made.The above is only a short outline of the Revd.gentleman\u2019s remarks which were listened to attentively by a numerous audience.We have received what appear to be the first and second volumes of a vindication of the rights of a worthy who calls himself Alexander Earl of Stirling and Doran\u2014and, hear it ye unthinking farmers East and West, who suppose your own property belongs to you\u2014\u201c Lord Proprietor ot Canada and Nova Scotia.\u201d We believe that the rights of His Lordship have been estimated at the same rate as a dog belonging to a hunter we once met in the West, who said the animal was worth too much to belong to one man\u2014that he ought to be owned by a Company.So the rights of this nobleman have been made over to a Yankee association, which we have no doubt will obtain the enjoyment of them about the same time as the Rev.Mr.Williams of Caughnawaga comes to throne of France, as Louis 17th.Mercantile Library Association Lectures.We would remind our readers that the first of this course of lectures will be delivered, in the Odd Fellows\u2019 Hall, this evening, by the Rev.W.T.Leach, D.C.L.Signor Gavazzi has left for Liverpool by the last Cunard Steamer.Imposts via Grand Trunk Railway.\u2014Morrison, Cameron & Empey, 15 cases and 18 bales, UPPER CANADA.Toronto Assizes.\u2014The Assizes opened yesterday in the Court House before Mr.Jnstice Draper.In his charge to the Grand Jury Mr.Justice Draper expressed an opinion in favor of the Legislature making drunkenness a nuisance.There were 87 civil cases for trial.\u2014Globe.The Rowdies in Toronto.\u2014George Irvine, driver of one of the city cabs, and well known, it is vM J^.^r.ban't.Qfhjg.maaners, died yester-a party of rowdies in Adelaide street, on Saturday night Among otiierinjuries his leg was broken, but the internal contusions, we presume, were the immediate cause\u2019ofhis death.An inquest on the body will be held at the hospital at 4 to-day, when we trust the whole circumstances of a case touching so nearly the character of the city will be developed.The Clerry Reserves.\u2014The Examiner,\u2014the last ministerial paper except the Leader, and the Catholic paper, the Mirror, in Toronto,\u2014thus writes : \u201c What, then, can be said on reading the letters of Messrs.Hincks and Rolph, after the toil, the agony and bloodshed which has marked the warfare of the last thirty years\u2014a warfare to secure simple justice, the recognition of a natural right, the political equaliiy which should belong to all rebgionists in lha eye of the law ?There is no dissembling the tact; it is clear as noonday : we are betrayed !\u2014sold to the enemy in hope of a renewed lease of power for four years, the price being the liberty and peace of the country.If Baldwin and his colleagues were hurled from their seats with indignation for their detection upon this exasperating subject, Hincks and his colleagues deserve to be driven from power with one universal shout of execration and contempt.The former Administration had to contend with Imperial difficulties ; the present Cabinet have none whatever, but such as they themselves have created as a mere theoretical evasion of the duties of their high trust.Nor do we believe that the purpose to delay action upon the question is of recent formation; circumstances which were to ns mysterious and inexplicable lead us to believe that this is but the mere consummation of a device formed upwards of a year ago, if hot at the formation of the present coalition Government.We were unwilling to judge uncharitably of men whose pledges were so apparently sincere\u2014and ofDr.Rolph especially, whose whole public life had been identified with the popular cause.There is, however, no dissembling \u2019he fact, that be has now lent himself to a policy which the judgment of every intelligent and honest man must pronounce to be perilous, if not ruinous ; he has done it with hts eyes open, and in the teeth of the known wishes of his triends, and he must bear the consequences.\u201c A change in the ministerial policy is perhaps now hopeless, and the friends of religious liberty have no alternative but to prepare for the contest which is approaching, and to mark their abhorrence of the treachery of their leaders by driving every one of them ignominionsly from power.\u201d LOWER CANADA.Tug Boats.\u2014We will not be deterred by dread of captious malignity from giving credit where credit is due, even when by so doing we are obliged to commend the Ministry.We have not much cause to fear opposition or disapproval on the present occasion, however, for the act which we approve and commend must not only result in benefit to the whole of Canada, but prove of immediate local advantage to Quebec, the ancient and present capital, the chief sea-port of this rapidly advancing Province.We allude to the determination of establishing Tug Boats to tow vessels between Quebec and Bic, and intermediate places\u2014the service of towing to commence on ths first day of the opening of the navigation in spring, or as soon after as may be required.This is the initiative ot a most important series of measures tending to draw more closely, and to unite more firmly this Colony with the\u2019Mother Country and the Lower Provinces.It will serve to counteract the difficulties of the navigation of our npble river, and to facilitate the inward and outward transit of the vast and numerous vessels that yearly crowd our harbors.We hope to see the day when the assistance of towing, when required, shall be extended, however gradually, to the Island of St.Paul\u2019s; and then, indeed, the dangers of the Gulf will in a manner be overcome as well as the difficulties of the river.We question whether two tow boats in operation will be sufficient to give the measure a fair trial ; but the contractors must have at least two others in reserve, which they will doubtlessly use, should the speculation answer.Well, then at least Quebec will be made an accessible port in whatsoever direction the wind may blow.And though we have spoken especially of the advantages resulting to Quebec, yet it is evident that these advantages extend to Montreal, indeed, this reminds us of a remark Eeriousiyjmade by the commander of a London ship which twice a year frequents the two ports : \u201cTpe additional costand expenses of having my ship towed to and from Montreal amounts to at least £70 a voyage, and this I would much rather pay to unload and load quietly at the wharves of that city, than to stop at Quebec exposed to wind and current, and to be knocked about and shaken, as we are in this harbor, inconvenient and unprotected.\u201d This is in reality a serious Consideration, a subject that ought to engage the immediate attention of the merchants of Quebec.Are railways to be brought to the very edge of our quays ?Is our harbor to be made accessible by steam-tugs at all times ?And shall no exertion be at length made to improve the security and convenience of our motley wharves ?To extend the harborage ?And in a word to accomplish the long-desired improvements at the mouth of the Saint Charles, and get those wet docks constructed near the said river and harbor, which figure on maps of our city published long years ago.There is not a spot on the face of earth or the water, that possesses greater capabilities for the improvements, required to bring this port into a condition adequate to its rising importance, worthy of its commerce and its position, than the space alluded to at the mouth of the river Saint Amui'ican Railways.The American Railway Times of the 5th inst.i contains a list of all the railways in the United States, compiled by a gentleman of Boston, from which it appears that the number of miles of railway now in operation upon the surface of the globe is 35,254, of which 16,180 are in the eastern hemisphere, and 19,084 are in the western ; and which are distributed as follows :\u2014In the United States 17,811 miles; in the British provinces 823 miles ; in South America 60 miles ; in Great Britain 6976 miles; in Germany 5340 miles ; in France 2480 miles ; in Belgium 532 rniles^in Russia 422 miles ; in Sweden 75 miles ; 25 miles; and in India 100 miles.The longest railway in the world in the New York Central, which, with its branches, is 621 miles in length.The number of miles of railway in the United States exceeds the rest of the world by 358 miles.The total number of railways completed in the United States is 264; number in course of construction 134 ; number of miles in operation 17,-811, constructed at a cost of $508,588,038 ; number of miles in course of construction 12,898.: The state of Massachusetts has one mile of railway to each seven square miles of its geographical surface; Essex county, in this state, with a geographical surface of 400 miles, has 145 miles of railway facility, which is a rate of one mile of railway to each three square miles of its geographical surface.The number of miles in each state, with their length, cost, &c., may be learned from the following recapitulation: \u2014 Number of Miles in Miles in n.Cost.$12,662.645 16,185.254 13,866,195 65,602,637 2,614,484 20,857,357 94,361,262 12,736.505 63,494,675 600,000 26,024.620 12.720.421 6,947.213 23,287.093 16,084,872 3,636,208 3,070,600 1,661,000 S4atcs.Railways.\t\topepationr const!\t Maine\t\t\t417\t90 New Hampshire.\t.16\t612\t34 Vermont\t\t.7\t410\t59 Massachusetts.\t.43\tJ283\t48 Rhode Island\t\t\t60\t Connecticut\t\t.15\t669\t83 New York\t\t.31\t2362\t564 New Jersey\t\t.11\t437\t Pennsylvania\t\t.64\t1464\t987 Delaware\t\t.2\t716\t43 Maryland\t\t\t697\t30 Virginia\t\t\t.23\t673\t1180 North Carolina.\t.4\t359\t242 South Carolina.\t.9\t661\t288 Georgia\t\t.15\t884\t445 Alabama\t\t.6\t221\tA56 Mississippi\t\t.4\t155\t436 Louis ana\t\t\t.8\t170\t239 Texas\t\t\t\t.1\t\t72 Tennessee\t\t.9\t388\t695 Kentucky\t\t.9\t233\t652 Ohio\t\t\t2609\t1582 Indiana\t\t.19\t1127\t868 Illinois\t\t.26\t1262\t2017 Michigan\t\t.3\t510\t.41 Wisconsin\t\t.4\t178\t200 Iowa\t\t.2\t\t4S0 Florida\t\t.2\t54\t Missouri\t\t\t60\t963 Total\t\t398\t17,811\t12,898 7.800.000 4,909.999 60,775,344 22,400.000 29,681^204 16.659,009 3.800.000 250.000 1,000,000 $503,688,038 The report of the comptroller of the state of New York shows the total debt of this state, at the close of the fiscal year ending 30th September, 1853, to be $24,288,508 3G.Balance in the treasury on the 30th Sept., 1853, $74,025 16.There is also a balance of $71,025 16 in the treasury belonging to specific funds, which cannot be taken into the account of available means for the expenses of the current year.The comptroller has called the attention of the legislature to the proper regulation by statute of the method of taxation on railways.The Jews a Power in Europe.The persecuted sons of Israel, scattered over Europe, may prove themselves a power in the approaching struggle between despotism and the friends ot popular liberty.They hold to a great extent, the purse, while the despots hold the sword.But, without the purse the sword is weak; and the Jewish bankers of Europe could, if they would but act with spirit, paralyze the hand of every tyrant on the European Continent.The recent despotic decree of the Emperor of Austria depriving the Jews in his dominions of the rights granted to them by the Constitutional Authority in 1848, has greatly agitated all classes of them, and led to spirited demonstrations on the part of the Jewish bankers in London, Messrs.Adam Spielman & Co., Baum & Co., Monteau Brothers, and Abraham Bauer & Co., have agreed not to deal in Austrian state stocks ; and a Jewish member of the Stock Exchange has also thrown a large quantity of Austrian stock on the market \u201c as not worth keeping.\" Our Jewish citizens have very emphatically expressed their approbation of this sacrifice of interest to manly feeling, on the part of their London brethren; and we shall not be surprised to hear of a general coifibination among the Jews to weaken and overthrow a Power which revives prescription and persecution with an audacity almost unaccountable.Until tyranny is overthrown in Europe, the dream of the Jews of a restoration to their own land cannot be realized.Restoration is only possible through Ihe triumph of universal liberty.The gigantic tyranny of ancient Babylon drove the Jews from their cities and land ; and with the overthrow of that despotism they were restored to their beloved Canaan.Again, Imperial Rome dispersed them among the nations, destroyed the Holy City, and burned their Temple ; and despotism has ever since been their relentless enemy.If the Jews, in all countries, will but follow the course which reason, duty and policy point out, they may perform an important part in the future destinies of the old world.\u2014 N.Y.Su n.Longevity.\u2014The Boston Journal, in an article on long life, says : \u201c Cases of remarkable longevity are not confined to any particular nation or country.The majority of instances, however, occur in cold and temperate climates.Heat seems to relax and enfeeble the body.In proof of this, it is stated that when an order was issued by Kien Long, the Emperor of China, in the year 1784, that all the old men of the Empire should be assembled before him out of the whole population of his vast dominion, exceeding 200,000,000 individuals, only four could be found whose ages exceeded 100 [years.In tbe colder country of Norway, of 6,929 persons who were buried in 1761, sixty-three had attained the age of 100 ; and in Russia, ont of 726,000 who died in 1801, 210 were 100 years ot age, and 220 above it.Temperate climates, however, are the most favorable for longevity ; and the climate ot the Brit_ Ï3\u201d \"How many bright eyes grow dim,\u2014how many soft cheeks grow pale, * * * and none can tell the cause that blighted their loveliness.\" Grief, in many instances, has been knwon to produce the greatest changes in the growth and color of the hair.Baldness and gray hair is often the consequence of severe and deep affliction, and whilst nature causes these results, art has invented successful and beneficial restoratives.The best of these are Bogle\u2019s Hyperion Fluid, for stimulating the growth and beauty, and Bogle\u2019s Premium Electric Hair Dye, for dyeing the hair a jet black or dark brown color.Those in need may obtain these articles at the store of Wm.Lyman & Co., Wholesale Agents for C.E.and sold by A.Savage & Co., Alex.Urquhart and S.J.Lyman k Co., Druggists, Montreal.I.Quebec,of Joseph Bowles, and Dr.Musson, Druggists.\tC Tts\u20144 MONTREAL LINE, Office, Great St James Street Washington, January 10.The Naval Committee of the House, advocate the abolishment of the several Navy Yards.New York, January 10.No signs of the Baltic at sun down.New York, January 11.A man who had been employed as a day watchman at Metropolitan Hali, was arrested yesterday, on suspicion of having fired that edifice on Saturday night.He was seen running from the Hall a short time before the fire was discovered.The iron railing factory of Rolfield & McFar-ren, in Brooklyn, was burned yesterday morning, together with its contents.A fireman, named P?G.Callaghan, was fatally injured by the falling of a piece of timber.A portion of the premises was occupied by James Seymour, manufacturer of sewing machines.Total loss $22,000.A lawyer named William Hayes, having an office at No.1 Nassau Street, has been arrested on suspicion of having shot Dr.Lutenor.He had previously threatened to shoot the Dr.Jealousy is at the bottom of the affair.The Africa is still detained at her dock\u2014 Weather quite thick.The Cambria now overdue nt Halifax, had not arrived thereat 1 o\u2019clock.No signs of the Baltic yet.Washington, Jan.11.Col.Ward, the P.O.Agent at Panama, reports to the Department, that there were 90 bags of mail matter on board the \u201c Winfield Scott,\u201d of which 82 were saved ; and of these 69 had been received at Panama, 31 of which were forwarded, and tbe others kept back to dry the letters.EJ^Madame de Staël.\u2014This lady observes that love occupies the whole life of woman.That portion of time not occupied in loving is devoted to loveliness ; and such assistants as the Hyperion Fluid, for the beautifying the hair, and Habeaiona for the.complexion, are not forgotten.Every lady who taste is unexceptionable, patronizes these elegant toilet articles invented and sold by Wm.Bogle, 277 Washington Street.To be had of Wm.Lyman k Co., Wholesale Agents for C.E.; and sold by A.Savage k Co., Alex.Urquhart, and S.J.Lyman & Co , Druggists, Montreal.In Quebec, of Joseph Bowles and Dr.Musson, Druggists.\tmwf C\u20144 METEOROLOGICAL TABLE.Mean.Temp.20.°6x.\u2014Barometer 29,08 inches.MARRIED, At Rose Bank, Chambly, on the 7th January, by the Rev.J.P.White, of Chambly, Mr.John Naismith,eldest son of George Naismith, Esq., Sh.Jfli1 SiOînîftfiWffS'.t danorhter nf DIED.On the 11th inst., Georgianna Amelia, fourth daughter of Mr.George J.Stanley, aged 10 years and 8 months.Idr\u2019 Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend her Funeral, without further notice, from her Father\u2019s residence, Durham Street, Quebec Suburbs, To-morrow Afternoon, at 3 o\u2019clock, to the place of interment.At.Philadelphia, on the 4th instant, Mr.Richd.Stillman, late of Quebec, in the 66th year of his age.On the 7th instant, A.William Reade, infant child of William Sache, Esq., aged four months and twelve days.On the 19th ultimo, at the residence of John Campbell, Esq., W.S., Edinburgh, Edward T.Renaud, Esq, of this city.At Terrebonne, on the 29th ultimo, Mary Anne Corinne, youngest daughter of Mr.Edward Ran-son, aged 18 years.On the 7th instant, William, infant son of Mr.Thos.Peck, aged 6 months and 3 days.On the 19th ultimo, at the residence of John Campbell, Esq, Wr.S., Edinburgh, Edward T.Renaud, Esq , of this City.Mercantile Library Association.COBKSE OB?LECTURES.THE INTRODUCTORY LECTURE of this Course, will be delivered by the Rev.W.T.LEACH, D.C.L., THIS EVENING, Thursday, January 12th, at EIGHT o\u2019clock, in the ODD FELLOWS' HALL, Great St.James Street.Admission 7)jjd.Ladies and Members free.Members Tickets to be had on application to the Superintendent.JAMES McLEAN, Rec.Sec.January 12,1854.\t5 LADIES\u2019 E&EfiTlJH CANADIAN MIS-SIONARY SOCIETY.THE ANNUAL MEETING of the LADIES\u2019 FRENCH CANADIAN.MISSIONARY SOCIETY, will be held in connection with a Soiree, on THURSDAY EVENING, Jan.12, in the LECTURE ROOM of ZION CHURCH.Doors open at half-past SIX.Chair to be taken at half-past SEVEN o\u2019clock.The Annual Reports will be read, and Addresses delivered.Tickets Is.3d.each.To be had of Mr.Dougall, St.Paul Street, and Mr.Lyman, Druggist, Place d\u2019Armes, and at the door.January 7, 1854.\tm 3 MONTREAL PROTESTANT ORPHAN ASYLUM.IT having been impossible to hold the Annnal General Meeting of this Corporation on the day appointed by Law, we, the undersigned, do hereby call a GENERAL MEETING of the MEMBERS of the said Corporation, to be held in the HOUSE ot the INSTITUTION, St.Catherine Street, on THURSDAY, the TWELFTH day of JANUARY, next, at TWO o\u2019clock, P.M., for the purpose of receiving the Annual Reports of the Secretary and Treasurer, and electing Office-Bearers for the year.JANE ROSS, SOPHIA MOFFATT, RACHEL FERRIE, - M.R.FRASER, LUCY BARRETT.December 31.\t^ MONTREAL TELEGRAPH COMPANY.Notice is hereby given that, a dividend of FIVE PER CENT on the Capital Stock, will be payable at the Office of the Company, on and after FRIDAY, 13th instant.The Transfer Book will be closed from this date, till after the General Meeting.By order of the Board, JAMES DAKERS, Secretary.Montreal, January 12, 1854^______5^ MONTREAL AND TROY TELEGRAPH COMPANY.ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, the AN-lN NUAL GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS wil be held at the COMPANY\u2019S OFFICE, in MONTREAL, on TUESDAY, the 17th instant, at ONE o\u2019clock, P.M., to ELECT DIRECTORS, and generally to transact the business of the.Company.A DIVIDEND at the rate of SIX PER CENT for tbe year, will be payable at tbe Office of the Company on and after TUESDAY, the 17th instant; and tbe Transfer Books will be closed from this date, till after the General Meeting.By order of the Board, JAMES DAKERS.Secretary.Montreal, Jannary 12, 1854.\t5 NEW YORK MARKETS.\u2014January 11.Flour\u2014Market better for Western and State with good eastern demand and light arrivals ; Canadian held at $7,75 ; sales Western Canal, 7000 bbls ; private terms, to arrive at $7,75i@7,81 for State ; S7,68 feb 7,81 for Western.Grain\u2014Demand good for wheat, but little here ; prices nominal ; sales 4000 bushels, mostly Canadian at $1,75 ; and 700 bushels Red, Long Island, at $1,78.Corn\u2014Again better and in demand for export with light arrivals.Sales 20,000 bushels at 82i© 83c for Souther, 85c for Western mixed, 86c for round yellow.Provisions\u2014Limited demand for Pork, $13.25 for old mess, $14.37 for new.Lard steady, b'jjtib 10.Stocks rather easier, change steady.Money unchanged.Ex- B3- S3 W CARRIAGE MAKING ESTABLISHMENT, SAINT MARY STREET, QUEBEC SUBURBS, MONTREAL.THE Undersigned have the honor of announcing to the Public of Montreal and its vicinity, that they have recently arrived from New York, and that they have Opened an Establishment for Carriages, where every kind of CARRIAGE may betound of the most beautiful and modern character.They invite all who may be in want of Car.riages to visit their New Establishment, and they hope, by the moderation of their prices and the elegance of thoir Vehicles, to merit a share of the public patronage.F.& M.RITCHOT, St.Mary Street.Jannary 12.\tlm 5 Datf 1 Thekmome- TER.\t\tBarome- ter.\t\tWeather.\t Dee.31 7 a.m.\t3 P.M.\t7 A.M.\t3 P.M*\t7 A.M.\t3 p.it.1854 j 4 X\t13 x\t29,48\t29,53\tCloudy.\tCloudy.Jany.112 \u201c\t23 \u201c\t29,61\t29,52\tCloudy.\tFair.2 15 \u201c\t24 \u201c\t29,57\t29,66\tSnow.\tFair.3 13 \u201c\t22 \u201c\t30,00\t29,96\tSnow.\tSnow.4 27 \u201c\t44 \u201c\t29,56\t29,50\tCloudy.\tFair.5 32 \u201c\t21 \u201c\t29,89\t29,98\tFair.\tOv\u2019cst.6 21 \u201c\t18 \u201c\t29,53\t29,75\tCloudy.\tFair.ROYAL FIRE AND LIFE INSUEANCE COMPANY OF LIVERPOOL AND LONDON, PROPERTY of all descriptions INSURED against loss or damage by FIRE, and LIFE Insurance effected on advantageous terms.LOSSES promptly settled without reference to England.LkMESURIER, ROUTE & CO., Agent.January 12.\t5 .\tK.BRESSE\u2019AK\u2019eES TO ENGLAND, IRELAND & SCOTLAND.SHORT Sight Bills/ma One Pound, upwards, and negotiable in any part of the United Kingdom, are drawn on the UNION BANK OF LONDON.London.BANK OF IRELAND.Dublin.NATIONAL BANK OF SCOTLAND.Edinbuhgh.By HENRY CHAPMAN & CO., St.Sacrament Street.January 12.\t5 PROVINCIAL INSURANCE COMPANY r I iHK Snbscnners neg to acknowledge receipt JL of payment in full, from the PROVINCIAL MUTUAL k GENERAL INSURANCE CO., of Toronto, by the hands of their obliging Agent in this City, A.HEWARD, Esq, ot ihe claims arising out of the loss of the Ship \u201c Ballingeich,\u201d amounting to £2,700.They have also great pleasure in bearing testimony to the promptitude displayed by this Company in settling their losses, and which justly entitles it to the support of the Mercantile commu.nity generally.LeMESURIER, ROUTE & CO.Montreal, Janurry 12, 1854.\tc 5 Notice of Tiiaraks.THE undersigned feel it a pleasant duty to thank the Provincial Insurance Company of Toronto, for the handsome manner which the Company\u2019s Agent, A.Hewabd, Esq., has adjusted and paid our claim for losses by fire which recently occurred at our Oil Mill, Lachine Canal.WILLIAM LYMAN & CO.January 12.\tc 5 A CAMS.GEORGE McIYER begs leave to tender his sincere thanks to J.H.Maitland, Esq., Agent for the London and Liverpool Insurance Company, for the prompt manner in which he discharged his claim for damage his Stock sustained, occasioned by the fire that occurred adjoining his premises on the morning of the 25th ultimo.Montreal, 12 th January, 1854.\tc5 THE NEW MUSIC.TUBULAR BRIDGE ! ! JUST PUBLISHED by the Subscriber\u2014 St.Lawrence Tubular Bridge Polka, beauti fully illustrated, by W.H.\u2014and,\u2014 Received a splendid assortment of NEW FASHIONABLE MUSIC.January 12.\tm 5 TO BE LENT, ON very Favorable Terms, on any good bailleur de fonds Security, within the City, about £630 Currency.F.GRIFFIN, 43 St.Gabriel Street.Jannary 12.\tu 5 ISS MALCOLM\u2019S SEMINA RY, 123 Craig M DAY, 16th inst.Jannary 12.Street, will be RE-OPENED on MON- RAILR0AD IRON.THE Subscribers,'Agents for the highly respectable and extensive House of GUEST & CO., of Liverpool, are prepared to receive ordeis for RAILWAY IRON of all descriptions, which will be executed on the most favorable terms.LeMESURIER, ROUTE & CO.January 12.\t5 S.AFPÎÙE.THE RAFFLE of TEN PRIZES (comprising 3 Gold Watches, 2 Silver Watches, 3 Gold Chains, 1 Gold Pencil Case, and 1 Music Box), will take place at the ADELPHI HOTEL, on THURSDAY EVENING, the 12th instant, at SEVEN o\u2019clock.January 10.\tu 4 FRESH TURKEY FIGS, OF The Very Best Quality, JUST RECEIVED BY EXPRESS FROM iroHK, BY R.THOMAS, 35, St.James Street.January 10.\t4 NOTICE.THOMAS MACKAY having left our employment, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that he is no longer authorised to grant receipts on our account after this date.WEIR & DUNN.January 9,1854.\t4 SUGAR CURED\" HASSS.WARRANTED IN ANY CLIMATE.MERCHANTS in the Pork and Provision Trade are respectfully informed that they can have HAMS CURED as above.Apply in writing day or evening, and personally from 8 to 9 A.M., and from 1 to 2, 5 to 7 P.M.JAMES CLARKE, St.Bernard Street, id\u201d A small lot of Hams as samples for Sale.December 17.\tlm 2fc> THE Subscriber, being about to proceed to Europe, begs to inform his Friends and Customers, that any articles they may require matched,or specially made to order, will receive his best attention.\t, \u201e\u201e\u201e T ALEXR.LEVA.January 5.______ ______ _____e 2__ WANTED, on the 1st May, in a Dry Goods Establishment, an Active YOUNG MAN, who has a thorough knowledge of Book-Keeping and General Business.He inquires to possess a knowledge of Shipping and Custom-House Business and be well acquainted with the Upper Province Trade.None but those who distinctly have those qualifications, and furnishing good testimonials to character, kc., need apply.Address M., Post Office.January 12.\tb 5 ANTED\u2014A BOOK-KEEPER to take charge of a set of Books in a Milling Establishment in the Country.Apply to Box No.35, Post Office.January 12.\t§ w- "]