Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 24 janvier 1856, jeudi 24 janvier 1856

[" HERALD SteaiH, Book & Job Printing Office, No.209 Notre Dame Street, (Near St Frs.Xavier Street.) ; t'SHtS Proprietor of this Eetohlistiment tia(.B to I inform his friends and the public, thr.having enlarged hia Stock of PRINTING MATERIALS, STEAM PRESSES, Ac,, he ia now prepared to undertake every description of BOOK, JOB AND CARD PRINTING, In his premises, \u201cHerald\u201d Buildings.Having recently added one of HOE\u2019S NEW CYLINDER PRESSES, for Job Printing, to hia Stock, he hopea to be able to execute every description RETAHL OXaO'T-IBCXKrO- AND OUTFITTING WAREHOUSE No.66 McGill Street.McM.& C.beg to intimate to their numerous customers that they have on hand their usual supply of OVERCOATINGS.Also, Superfine West of England BROAD CLOTHS, CAS-SIMERES, DOE and DEER SKINS, VESTINGS, kc.GARMENTS of all descriptions made to measure in a manner that cannot be surpassed, either as regards fit, style, or workmanship, and at very moderate prices for cash.From the success they have had in cutting, that most difficult and important item of Gentlemen\u2019s dress, namely, PANTALOONS, they feel warranted in saying to those who desire a good fitting Pant, made from the best fabrics, that they can be supplied at their Establishment.Terms Cash, and one Price only.Dec.29.\trts 308 PROTWfflT POOR RELIEF ROOMS, Old High School.f|tHESE ROOMS are now open DAILY, ex-J.cept FRIDAY, from 9 to 4 o\u2019clock.Applications for relief will be received on TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS, and after the applicants shall have been visited at their dwellings, relief will be given out on WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS.A MEAL will he supplied, to be taken at the Rooms, by those needing it and worthy, DAILY, from 12 to 1 o\u2019clock.Tickets to be given to the poor at the doors, and which serve as a direction to the place, are obtainable at the Rooms, and at Mr.Pickup's, at 2s 6d per dozen.To give success to the object for which these Rooms are opened, the Protestant public are respectfully and earnestly requested, 1st,\u2014To refuse relief to street and door beggars.2nd.\u2014To aid, by contributions of money, which will be received on behalf of the Committee by John Greenshields, Esq., Treasurer; and of cast-off-Clothing, material for making up Clothing, Flour, Meal, &c., which will be received at tbe Rooms.3rd.\u2014To enter upon the Register at the Rooms their names and residences, as having work to give to men or women.4th.\u2014To visit the Rooms, and to examine the Registers, which will be at all times open for inspection.For the Committee, THOS.M.TAYLOR, Chairman, A.N.RENNIE, Secretary.Montreal, Dec.24,1855.\t304 GOODS FORJHE SEASON.Snow Boots, Shoes and Hose Ladies\u2019, Gent\u2019s and Children\u2019s Hosiery Do do\tdo Gloves Ladies\u2019 and Children\u2019s Wool Polkas Wool Gaiters, Boots, Bootakins, &c.Gent\u2019s Fancy Flannel Shirts, Ties, Mufflers, ke Scarfs, Stocks, Collars, Bandanas, Lamb\u2019e-wooi Shirts and Drawers, &c.EMALLWARE3 IN GREAT VARIETY At\tRINGLAND k EWART\u2019S, 270 Notre Dame Street.Terms Cash.No Second Price.Montreal, Dec.21, 1855.\t302 CHRISTMAS DINNERS.XN providing all the necessities for the festivities of the season, there is one article which must not be forgotten.The beat thing to take after spending the evening out, or after a Christmas Dinner, is our CELEBRATED PLANTAGENET WATER.Be sure and got in a supply of it, to be taken iu the morning as you rise, if you desire to improve your digestion, and keep your system well regulated, and fit to bear all the change of weather and the variety of food partaken of.DEPOT, No.4 PLACE d'ARMES.Dec.24.\t304 THE BEST, MOST DESIRABLE, AND BY FAR THE CHEAPEST SELECTION OF FINE GOLD JEWELLERY, Watches, Clocks, ELECTRO-PLATED WARE, PAPIEES, MACHE, AND EVKRY DHS0RIPT10N OW FANCY GOODS, TOYS, PERFUMERY, &c.&C., MAY BE POUND AT A.HOFFIW^C\u2019S New JeweHesy & KTatscy Kïctpot 274 Notre Dame Street, One door from the corner of Saint Peter Street.Jan.5.\t4 XaOOK _HERES \u2019 Greatest Attraetîoi» of «lie Way.ALL PRIZES AND NO BLANKS AT mvm O.BROWWS, 185 HTotre S5amc Street, And corner of Notre Dame k St.Lambert Sts., WHO KS SSULMHC «FE, AT UNPRECEDENTED LOW PRICES, HIS STOCK OF FAIL AND WINTER DRY GOODS.HAVING purchased a \u201c Bankrupt Stock\", and being desirous to reduce his own, will SELL OFF his large and varied assortment of Dry Goods.Every \u201c Ticket marked in plain figures,\u201d for which the holder will receive more than the value of his money.IF YOU WISH TO SECURE aKHiL® B A 3S, G- Æ.S KT S , lose no time in calling at ttS\u201d 135 Notre Dame Street, and corner of Notre Dame and St.Lambert Streets.Jan.5.\t4 WISHES.HUNT\u2019S and SANDEMAN\u2019S PORT ; HOWARD & MARCH\u2019S MADEIRA, and choice brands of CHAMPAGNE, on hand and for sale by L.SHARING, Family Grocery, Corner of Place d'Armes and Notre Dame St.AflKMÜt 25.\t301 MONTREAL HERALD AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GÂ2ETTE, THURSDAY* JANUARY 24.1856.TO CORRESPONDENTS.ÏCr\u2019We would remind our friends in the Country that all UNPAID LETTERS are refused by us.UtllMOSNo ATt TI-NEBO.¦afefegE MOff THURSDAY MORNING, JAN.24, 1856.Later from England.\u2014The R.M.Steamer Africa, which left Lirorpool on the 9th instant, arrived at New York yesterday morning.The news, brought by her, which is unimportant, will be found under our telegraphic head.Petsreoroügh Election.\u2014We learn by telegraph, last night, that Mr.Conger has been elected to represent this county in Parliament \u2014 majority 280.The Commutation of the Chuech of Scotland\u2019s Claims on the Clergy Reserves Fund.\u2014 That the Toronto Globe should not hesitate to slander the characters and falsify the conduct of any body or class of men, in the hope of thereby securing another step on the political ladder, does not surprise us ; but, we confess, we are sorry to see a city contemporary, notwithstanding what wo thought and siill think the perfectly satisfactory and candid explanation of Dr.Cook and Mr.Allan\u2014in so far at least as the Clergy of the Church of Scotland are concerned\u2014, still \u201charping\" on the G/ofte\u2019s pretended \u201crevelations,\u201d in connexion with this matter.We have no desire, nor, we feel satisfied, have the Reverend gentlemen accused any desire to conceal anything connected with the modus opemndi\u2014tbe manner in which the actual, bona fide amount of their stipends for the year 1853, was ascertained and made the basis of the commutation complained of, and we, therefore, republish the documents, from the Globe, of which the Argus says, yesterday morning, \u201c they appear to establish the truth of every word in the Rev.Mr.Maonaughton\u2019a letter.\u201d These documents are as follows : (1.) Montreal, 2fth Feb, 1855.Reversed Sir,\u2014I beg to enclose herewith the following documents, to which I solicit your special and immediate attention :\u2014 1st.A letter and draft from the Commissioners of ihe Clergy Reserves Fund, making you another payment of £37 10s.2nd.A minute of the proceedings of the Synod at the pro re nata meeting, held in Montreal on the 10th of January last.3rd.Two powers of attorney relative to commutation.4tb.A circular letter explaining the same.You will please execute the two powers of attorney in the manner directed ; that is, by signing your name and acknowledging the seal adjoining the signature to be yours in presence of two witnesses, who must sign their names as such witnesses,and add their profession or occupation.It is essential that you execute these powers, and return them to me by mail without delay, in order that the object aimed at by them may be attained.I am, sir, Your obedient servant, HUGH ALLAN, Seo\u2019y Clergy Reserve Com.All these papers are to be considered strictly private and confidential.(2.) The Synod having heard the Report of the Committee appointed by the Synod to watch over the interests of the Church in as far as these might be effected by the action of the Legislature on the Clergy Reserves,\u2014and, also, the verbal reports of such members of the committee as had been in communication with members of the Government on the subject,\u2014and,having seriously and maturely considered that clause of the Clergy Reserves Act, lately passed by the Provincial Parliament at its present session, by which His Excellency the Governor in Council, is authorized, with the consent of the parties; interested to commute the salaries or allowances, of Ministers chargeable for life or during their incumbencies on the Clergy Reserves Fund, for tbeir value in money,\u2014Resolved.\u201c 1 1st.That it is desirable that such commute tion, if upon fair and liberal terms, should be effected: and that the Rev.Alexander Mathiesen, D D., of Montreal, John Cook, D.D., of Quebec, Hugh Allan, Esq, of Montreal, John Thompson, Esq., of Quebec, and the Hon.Thomas McKay, of Ottawa City, be the Synod\u2019s Commissioners with full power to give the formal sanctiou of the Synod to such commutation as they shall approve, the said commissioners being hereby instructed to use their best exertions to obtain as liberal terms os possible ;the Rev.Dr.Cook to be Convener: three to be a quorum ; the decision of the majority to be final, and their formal acts valid, but that such formal sanction of the Synod shall not be given except in the case of Ministers who have also individually given them,the said Commissioners, power and authority to act for them in the matter, to grant acquittance to the government for their claims to salary to which the faith of the Crown is pledged ; and to join all sums so obtained into one Fund, which shall be held by them till next Meeting of Synod, by which all further regulations shall be made ; the following, however, to be a fundamental principle which it shall not be competent for the Synod at any time to alter, unless with the consent of the Ministers granting such power and au-rhority ; that the interest of the Fund shall be devoted, in the first instance, to the payment of £.112 10s.each, and that the next claim to bo settled, if the lund shall admit and as soon as it shall admit of it, to lire £112 10s, be that of the Ministers now on the Synod\u2019s Roll, and who have been put on the Synod\u2019s Roll, since the 9th May, 1853 ; und also Uiat it shall be considered a fundamental principal that all persons who have a claim to such benefits shall be Ministers of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, in Canada, in connection with the Church of Scotland and tbat they shall cease to have any claim on, or be entitled to any share ot the said Commutation Fund, whenever they shall cease to be Ministers in connection with the said Church.\u201d \"(3) Quebec, 24th February, 1855 Rev.Sir,\u2014l am instructed by the commutation Committee, appointed at the last meeting of Synod, to enclose to you two Powers of Attorney, approved by the Government, and by the Synod, which it is neccessary you should sign and forward to Hugh Allan, Esq., Monireal,,with-out delay\u2014 in order to our obtaining a commutation of Clergy Reserve money, as will be advantageous to the Church.All the Ministers present at the Meeting of Synod in January, agreed to commute\u2014and the Ministers of the Church of England have unanimously signed similar Powers to those now forwarded to you.The fundamental conditions contained in the Minut s of the Synod, held at Montreal on the ' iîh January, 1855, which are alluded to in one of these Powers, and which by the terms of the said Minutes, \u201c it shall not be competent for the Synod at any time to alter, unless with the con-rent of tiro Ministers granting such power and authority,\u201d are First, \u201c That the interest of the Fund shall be devoted in the first instance, to the payment of salaries of £112 10s.each,\u201d to such Ministers on the Roll of the synod, and who have been put on the Synod\u2019s Roll, since the 9th May, 1853\u201d and, Second, \u201c That all persons who have claim to such benefits, shall be Ministers of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, in connection with the Church of Scotland, and shall cease to have any claim, when they cease to be Ministers in connection with the said Church.\u201d Of these conditions, it is presumed, you will approve, and I have the satisfaction to inform you thaï, ou the terms proposed by the Goveru-ment,and to which the Commutation Committee are prepared to agree, as soon as these powers are received from the ministers of the Church, it will he certainly possible to comply with the tirst, conditions, in so far as respects ministers settied before the 9th May, 1853, and, preserving the capita), to secure to them, from the interest salaries of £112 10s.for life, or incumbency.\u2014 And it is, therefore, earnestly entreated that there may be no hesitation or delay in signing and forwarding these powers.I am further instructed to call your attention to the following resolution, passed unanimously at the last meeting of the Synod :\u2014 \u201cThat all ministers be, and they are hereby enjoined and entreated\u2014(as to a measure, by which, under Providence, not only their own private interests will be secured, but a permanent endowment for the maintenance and extension of raiigioos ordinances in the Church,\u2014to grant such authority as is necessary to eftect a commutation, in the fullest manner, thankful to Almighty God that a way so easy is open to them for conferring so important a benefit on the Church.\u201d Not doubting that you will concur in the view of the Synod, I am, Reverend Sir, Your obedient servant, John Cook, Convener.Be eme to sign and seal, or acknowledge your seal before two witnesses, whose signatures must be appended.Make affidavit of age, also, before a magistrate.The age is to be counted from last birth' day.\tJ, C.To Poe Reyerned- Know all men by these presents : that I of , a minister ot the Presbyterian Church of Canada, iu connection with .the Church of Scotland, being of the age of years, and now in receipt of an annual stipend or allowance of one hundred and fifty pounds currency from the Clergy Reserves Fund, by and with the consent Of the Religious body to which I belong, testified by the signature of the Rev.John Cook, D.D., of Quebec, a delegate duly empowered and authorised by the Synod of the said Church, under and by virtue of a\u2019 Resolution, of the said Synod, passed on the 11th January, 1855, to give the assent of the said Presbyterian Church of Canada, do hereby nominate and appoint the Rev.John Cook, D, D., of Quebec, my attorney and in my name, and on my behalf to commute my said stipend or allowance with the Government of this Province, in accordance with the provision of an Act of the Parliament of this Province, intituled, \u201c An Act to make better provision for the appropriation of monies arising from the lands heretofore known as the Clergy Reserves, by rendering them available for Municipal purposes,\u201d and for me, and in my behalf to receive the amount of such commutation money, and to sign, seal, execute, and as my act and deed, deliver all such surrenders, releases, acquitances, and discharges of the said annual stipend or allowance, and of the said commutation money, as may be required by 'the Government, as fully and effectually as if I were personally present, and noting in the premises.In witness whereof, I have hereunto fixed my hand and seal, and the said, the Reverned John Cook, D.D.hath set his hand the\tday of A.D.1855.Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of The Reverend-, within named maketh oath and saith, that at his last birth day he become and was\u2014\u2014-\u2014\u2014years of age, and no more.Sworn before me, at-, this-day of-, A.D.1855.(5) Know all men by these Presents.That I,-, a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, in connection with the Church of Scotland, having already, by another power of Attorney, made, nominated, and appointed, the Rev.John (look, D,D.of Quebec, my true and lawful Attorney for me, and in my name, to receive from the Government of Canada, all and every, the sum or sums of money, that I shall or may be entitled to as the commutation money, of my annual allowance from the Clergy-Reserves Fund, as a minister of the aforesaid Church, do hereby authorize and appoint my said Attorney to pay over my said commutation money into the hands of the Rev.Alexander Mathiesou, D D.the Rev.John Cook D D.Hugh Allan, Esq.ofMontreal, JohnThom-son, of Quebec, and the Hon.Thomas Mackay, of Ottawa, Commissioners appointed by the Synod to effect a commutation, to be joined with other similar sums into one Fund, and to be regulated by the Synod, subject always to the fundamental constitution contained in the minutes of the Synod held at Montreal cn the 11th day of January 1855.In witness whereof, I have hereunto fixed my hand and Seal the-day of^-, A.D.Signed, Sealed and delivered ( In presence of-,\t$ Now, from the very necessity of the case -from the fact, that the commutation was to be based upon the amount of legal stipend, due to and the property of the incumbents, for the year 1853, and not upon the mere portion of the stipend actually received by them during that year\u2014 from the calculations necessary to ascertain what was the actual amount of stipend for that year, and from the unavoidable complication of the problem to be solved, a careless and superficial reader of these documents might, without evii iutention, fail to see how perfectly fairly and candidly its solution bad been conducted and effected.And this, we rake it, must have been Mr.Allan\u2019s reason for marking his corres-pendence with the clergy, \u201c strictly private and confidential,\u2019\u2019 for although \u201call who run may read\u201d such legitimately public documents, all who read may not \u201c mark, inwardly digest\" and understand their true character and bearings.To us, at all events, it appears clear lhat, so far, as the Argus maintains, from their establishing the truth of Mr.MacNaughton\u2019s charges against his former brethren of the Scottish ministry, they most effectually and conclusively prove, if not their bad faith, at all events, their sandy foundation.What were these charges?First, that their stipends, in the, year-1853, were not £150, but only £112 10s.Now, it appears, that Mr.Macnaughton himself received, and of course gave a receipt for, the the balance of £37 10s., due him for his stipend (ov the year 1853, over and above the sum of £112 10s , paid him during that year.He was in no other respect entitled to pocket that money and, having pocketed it, he himself acknowledged, as well as his brethren, that his stipend for that year was £150 and not, as he now assertsi £112 10s.\u2014Q.E.D.Secondly, Mr.Macnaughton accuses his brethren of having, without exception, perjured, themselves in stating that they had, one and all, received a stipend of £150\u2014for the year 1853.Now, we cannot see how they could have truthfully stated otherwise.They had received, and from the proper source, that amount, as stipend for that year, and were bound, in law and conscience, to state the truth.What would Mr.Maenaughton\u2019s conduct have been, had bo stated upon oath that his stipend for 1853, was only £112 10s., when lie admits he had received £150 for that year ?The Rev.gentlemen in question, then, we maintain, must be held entirely blameless from ihe shameful charges made against them by their \u201c separated brother\u201d; nor can we see that the Commiaeioners of the Clergy Reserves Fund were in any way blamable in paying this stipend of £150, under the circumstances stated by Mr.Allan ; or that, under the law, the Government would have been warranted in assuming any less amount, as the basis upon which the commutation of the share of the Church of Scotland ia the Clergy Reserves Fund should be ascertained.As to the, merely incidental, fact, that although before commutation, the clergy had stipends of £150, they agreed, in future, to be content with £112 10s.\u2014we cannot see that it has any legitimate bearing on the subject.The reason for their consenting to relinquish one-fourth of their incomes, is perfectly plain and intelligible : a certain number of their brethren in the ministry were not entitled to any portion of the funds arising from the Clergy Reserves, and, in their favor, they were willing to submit to the reduction.It is very easy to sneer at such an \u201cact of magnanimity and abnegation of self,\u201d as our contemporary calls it\u2014much more so than to \u201c go and do likewise\u2019\u2019\u2014but it can add nothing to the force either of his facts or-his arguments.Fires and their Causes.\u2014Some days ago we were favoured by Mr.Lunn, National Insurance Company, with two very neatly and correctly executed plans of the portions of the buildings in which the two recent fires in the city took place, namely the Nuns\u2019 building and the stores of Messrs.White, Ross, & Co.These plans exhibit the exact spots in the buildings where the fires originated, and also show that they were caused by carelessness, or a want of necessary foresight in the construction of the buildings.\u2014 It is shown, in the case of the Nuns\u2019 building, that the fire was caused by a rafter projecting into the chimney of Mr.Holland\u2019s shop, this latter building having been erected partly against the wall of the Nuns\u2019 building ; the fire in the stores of Messrs.White and Co., is shown to have arisen from a similar cause\u2014the projection of one of the beams or rafters into a chimney or flue, which, becoming heated, and ultimately igniting, communicated the fire to the rest of the premises.That there should be some way of putting a check to this careless style of building, is surely highly desirable.In referring to the \u201cMetropolitan Buildings\u201d Act, 18 and 19, Vic , Chap.122, we find it laid down that, \u201c The inside of every flue, and the back or outside,'unless forming part of the outer face of an external wall, must be rendered, pargeted, or lined with fire-proof piping.\u201d Now bad the builders of the two buildings in question acted according to this law, the fires would not have taken place.Again, further on, the same act says :\u2014 No Timber or woodwork shall be placed, iu any Wall or Chimney breast nearer than twelve inches to the inside of any Flue or Chimney opening ; under any Chimney opening within eighteen inches from the upper Surface of the Hearth of suph Chimnney opening ; within two inches from the face of the Brickwork or Stonework about any chimney or flue, where the Substance of such Brickwork or Stonework is less than Eight and a half inches thick, unless the face ot such Brickwork or Stonework is rendered : and no Wooden Plugs shall be driven nearer than six inches 1o the inside of any Flue or chimney opening, nor any iron holdfast or other iron fastening nearer than Two inches thereto.To see that these precautionary rules are strictly carried out, in London, very particular directions are laid down, both to the district surveyor and to builders.It, is enacted that,\u2014 Two days before any building, or any work to in, or upon any Building, ia commenced, and also, if the Progress of any such Building or work is after the Commencement thereof, suspended for any period exceeding three months, two days before such Building or work is resumed ami also if during the progress of such Building or work the builder employed thereon is changed, then two days before any new builder enters upon the continuance of such building or work, it shall be the duty of the builder engaged in building or rebuilding such building, or in executing such work, or in continuing such building or work, to give to the District Surveyor Notice in writing stating the situation, area, and height, and intended use of the building or buildings about to be commenced, or to, in, or upon which any work is to be done, and the number of such buildings if more than oue, and also the particulars of any snch proposed work, and stating also his own name and Address, but any Works to in, or upon the same Building that are in progress at the same time may be included in one notice.Every district Surveyor shall, upon the receipt of any such notice as aforesaid, and also upon any work affected by the rules of this Act, but in respect of which no notice has been given, being observed by or made known to him, and also from time to time during the progress of any works affected by the rules and Directions of this Act, as often as may be necessary for securing the due observance of such rules, survey any building or work hereby placed under their Supervision, and cause all the rules of this act to be duly observed.If any builder neglects to give Notice in any of the Cases aforesaid, or executes any works of which he is hereby required to give notice before doing the same, or having given due notice of any works executes the same, before the expiration of two days from the time of giving such notice, such builder shall for every such offence incur a Penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, to be recovered before a Justice of the peace.Suchare afewof thepieaautions laid down in the Metropolitan Buildings Act.\u201d for the prevention of fires in London.It would be well if they were copied and followed up on this continent, both in.Canada and the neighbouring States ; for the alarming frequency of fires in these countries, in comparison with the densely peopled cities of the old country, is notorious.If London, in proportion to its extent and population, had fires as numerous as many of the cities on this continent, the metropolitan fire-engines would never be at rest, and the cry of fire would be heard in its streets every hour of the twenty-four.It is true we have vigilant fire-brigades, who fake a pleasure in doing their duty; and some cities on this side of the Atlantic have reason to be proud of the energy and self-sacrificing spirit of their fire companies ; but prevention, as the proverb says, is better than cure; and it would undoubtedly be well to copy some of the precautionary measures laid down in the Act from which we have taken the above extracts.ANNIVERSARY MEETINGS.Trouble in the Coalition Wigwam.\u2014La Patrie \u2014the organ, pur eæcc/fence, of the Lower Canadian section of the ministry\u2014contains, yesterday, a furious diatribe against Mr.Attorney General Drummond in re, its amiable and accomplished Editor\u2019s fidus Achates, M.Archam-bault\u2019s destitution.Vraiment, Mans, de la Patrie est diablement en colère, and we have rarely witnessed anything, at once so ludicrous and so exhilarating as the gusto, with which he pours out the phials of his wrath upon the head of his so recent patron.Well, well, \u2019tis a mad world, my masters : Urs whole affair is too -ridiculous for serious discussion\u2014but, as the old adage says, when rogues fall out, hoaest men have at least a (chance of obtaining their rights.The abuse of La Patrie is, certainly, u feather in Mr.Drummond\u2019s cap, which he may well be proud of ; at the sametime, wbeu even the vermin begin to quit the Coalition,\u2014Mr.Drummond knows the rest and had better lose as little time as possible\u2014verb, sap.The TJayoralty.\u2014We publish ibis morning the requisition received by Henry Starnes, Erq., inviting him to come forward as a candidate to succeed our present worthy Mayor, in (he high office, which he has so ably filled for two successive years.The numerous signatures attached to the requisition, evidencing, as they do, the almost unanimous desire of his fellow-citizens, as Mr.Starnes says in his reply to it, leaves him no option.He, accordingly, yields to fbeir request and, we trust, bis election will be, not almost but entirely unanimous.We have already expressed our opinion that we know of no gentleman, from his social position and past public services, in the City Council, more entirely deserving of the confidence of his fellow-citizens and of the distinguished honor they seek to confer upon him, than Mr.Alderman Starnes; and we feel equally satisfied that, as their Chief Magislrate, he will prove by his conducttliit their confidence has been rightly place,d, and thaï he will spare no labor and grudge no sacrilice, which the interests of the city may demand from him.We have, as yet, heard of no opposition to Mr.Starnes\u2019 eleciioa, and we apaiu venture to hope tbat, as ho enjoys the support of so very numerous a body of oar citizens, without distinction of politics, race or religion, be will, like bis universally retpecled and esteemed predecessor, be enabled to iissEume the civic chair by the unanimous vrte of the electors.To Correspondents.\u2014We have received Mr.Loranger\u2019s letter, on the subject of the proposed Société Nationale, but too late for this morning\u2019s publication.We shall have much pleasure in publishing it to-morrow, and consider it only just, in the meantime, to say that we are assured, by Mr.Loranger, that it .was not intended that the Society in question should be based upon any peculiar nationality in its'members, but should embrace among them Canadians of every national origin.The Governor, cf Ohio\u2019s Address to the Legislature.\u2014We invite the attention of our reader to this, in our opinion, admirable and eloquent address, which will be found elsewhere.Gov-Chase was long a member of the U.S.Senate, and is justly looked upon by bis countrymen as one of the ablest of their free-soil statesmen.Recorder's Court.\u2014A case of some importance to the city was tried at this Court yesterday, relating to the assessment of vacant lots.The property in this particular case was a vacant lot belonging to the Hon.Denis Viger, in St.Denis street, running up to Fcrtier street.The question was, has the Corporation the power to assess these vacant lots according to their real value, or according to the actual income derived from them?The case was decided against the Corporation, such lots beiug only liable to assessment for the amount of actual rent received for them.Two persons were fined §5 each for neglecting to sweep their chimneys ; and three individuals were fined Is.and costs for neglecting the sidewalks in front of their premises.A Mr.A.R.Brown was fined 20s.and costs for impeding the side-walk in St Catherine street with his sleigh.On Tuesday, a carter named Patrick Ravey was fined 20s., and sentenced to 24 hours imprisonment, for furious driving.The sentence of imprisonment was remitted.Sale of Buildings.\u2014The Exchange Coffee House buildings, and the premises occupied by Ross, Neild, & Co , on St Paul Street, were sold, according to advertisement, yesterday morning, at the Sheriff\u2019s office.They were sold for £5300, to Jane Davidson, widow of the late David Ross, Esq.St.Jambs Ward.\u2014We understand that the candidates for this ward are Janvier Terroux, G.Reinhardt, Francois Contant, and John Greaves, Esqs.There is much talk cf Wilfred Dorion, Esq., also coming forward.Music Hath Charms.\u2014It is certainly gratifying to see, by our recent Concerts, that the mu-sical talent of Montreal is so great, and the attendance of large audiences gives pleasing evidence of improvement in musical teste.In these given at the Mechanics' Hail, the performers and performances were necessarily limited; but at the City Concert Hall, for the benefit of the Protestant Orphan Asylum, there will be an extension, for, in addition to all that has been given before.Prince\u2019s and Nunns\u2019 Band will both be in attendance, Mrs.Bell has again kindly consented to sing, Mr.Bastien\u2019s powerful voice will riug through the long room, and the \u201c Septette,\u201d whose execution drew down such plaudits on Friday evening last, will again^perform two overtures.Really, this isjgiving tho\u2019.pubiic too much for their money; but,since it will serve to identify an admirable institution with the pleasant remembrance of an agreeably spent evening, there may be no loss in the end.The opportunities of listening to classic music ia Montreal\u2014 that music which commands the admiration of the world elsewhere\u2014have been so few, that onr people have much to learn before they can appreciate ils excellence ; but the ear is a quick learner, and these popular concerts give admirable lessons.Mrs.Unsworth\u2019s Concert.\u2014This concert was given at the Mechanics\u2019 Hall on Tuesday evening.The house was an excellent one, and Mrs.Uns worth seemed in fine spirits,and went through her part of the evening\u2019s bill of fare with even more than her usual excellence.Those who were ^assisting on the platform for the evening, acquitted themselves equally well.We cannot select any one of the pieces for particular praise, as everything went off admirably; these indefatigable musicians, Messrs.Maffre, Prince, and Fowler, were again hailed with deafening applause.The programme was finished at an early hour, and the audience dispersed highly delighted with an evening\u2019s innocent and elevating entertainment.Sunday Sclioof Union.Tuesday, Jan.22, 1856.Hon.James Ferrieb in the Chair.The opening devotional exercises of the evening were conducted by the Rev.Dr.Wilkes.\u2014 On the platform we observed J.C.Becket, Esq.R.S., T.A.Gibson Esq.C.S., Revs.Dr.Wilkes, D.Fraser, J.McLoud, Mr.Jeffres, Mr.Jones, G.Young, Mr.Scudder ; and J.Wenham, Benjamin Lyman, A.Adams, Robt.Campbell, Esquires.The Chairman opened the proceedings with a few observations.Although the transretions of the Society for the past year have not been so extensive as could be wished, they have yet been highly satisfactory ; and we have every encouragement to persevere in the good work.We]cuuid not attract too much importance to this union.We find in almost every case of benevolence and Christian charity, that it took its rise from early trianing in Sunday Schools.The youth meeting there with their teachers every Sunday, learn lessons of Christian charity and benevolence they can learn no where else ; they also learn there an amount of information they could get no where else.In this district alone, during the past year, I learn that fifty thousand four hundred verses of scripture have been learned by heart and repeated.When we think of that amount of scripture truth committed to memory in youth, and know that what is learned in youth is never forgotten, we may congratulate ourselves on the success of our labours.I will not detain you longer.Mr.T.A.Gibson will now read the Report.Mr.T.A.Gibson, then read the annual report of the Union, from which it appears that the schools are in a highly flourishing condition.\u2014 The different agents have sold within tnelast year 2244 books from the Depository, valued at £47 10s.The donations transmitted from schools amount to £5 6s.6d., of which £3 11s.4d, is to the London Religious Tract Society.During the past year the issues from the Depository were as follows: Library Books 7605, Elementary Books 7,020, Bibles 13, New Testaments 18, Hymn Books 905, Tracts 7,100, Union Questions 411 Maps 14, making a total of 23,086.Tolal issue since establishmentof Union 338,483.There have been issued 72 libiaries for Sunday Schools, of which 33 were from the London Tract Society, and 39 from the American Sunday School Union.The Depository is still under the efficient man-gemeutofMr.Milne.The treasurer\u2019s account shows the expenses of the year to have been £405 8s.2d.leaving a balance due to the Treasurer of 19s.6d.The Rev.G.Young followed, reading the first resolution, to this effect, 1.Resolved,\u2014That the Report now read be adopted and printed under the direction of the Committee.The success tbat has attended the efforts of this society during the year, in the joint agency effort, with the Religious Tract Society, while it calls for our grateful acknowledgement of the Divine favor, suggests also the importance of continued attention on the part of the Committee, to this imporlant means of extending the usefulness of this Union.After reading the motion, Mr.Young said, Mr.Chairman:\u2014The chief reason I conceive for the existence of Sunday Schools is to be found in the d esireableness of early implanting the great truths of religion on the youthful mind ; as the neglect of many parents in overlooking this duty is too common.It is a truth that should be impressed both on the minds of parents and Sabbath School teachers, that early piety is both practical and desirable.Does not the Scripture say, \u201c Train up a child in the way he should go ?\u201d And then with reference to the mode of our salvation\u2014will not ihe blood of Christ be as efficacious in washing away the sins of the young as those of the old ?And then, Sir, the achievements of the past prove most satisfactorily that there are no limits to the good that may be achieved through the instrumentality of such institutions.And I think it not merely probable tbat there may be early conversions, but that youthful conversions are more probable, and likely to be more lasting, than conversions made in later years.During the period of youth the mind is in a state of comparative goodness.But wait till the world has worked upon it with its cares, pleasures, pursuits and temptations, then it is little less hard than adamant.It was made the duty of parents in the Old Testament history that they should teach their children the truths of religion ; and this duty is no less binding upon parents under the New Testament dispensation.It is all important that every parent should remember that this is a duty which he or she cannot shake off, or leave to the hands of another.\u2014 Nevertheless, there are many who do neglect this important duty.Look over this city\u2014every city iu the world\u2014and you will see thousands who are in a state of spirital orphanage ; they are cared for temporarily, but not spiritually.And if it is the duty of the Church to go over the world and teach those who bow down to idols, it is much more her duty to look after the youth of her own land : to go out into the highways and byways and bring them into the fold cf Christ.There is no better way of carrying out this great work than by Sunday Schools.These institutions bear the impress of a seal tbat is divine \u2014 Let any one go into a Sabbath School and listen to the exercises there, and then let him ask himself the question, is this not in accordance with the will of that Being who said, when on earth, \u201c Suffer little children to come unto me I\u201d Then let him think of the many thousands who have been brought through the instrumentality of these schools, and think how many more might have been if these efforts had been put forth at an earlier period in the ^Church\u2019s history.Many a sturdy infidel that has labored hard against the Church, bad he been brought up in a Sabbath School, might have been a useful member of that Church\u2014might have been a powerful preacher of the gospel.Seeing all this, does it not behove all those who fear God to become interested ia the Sabbath School cause, and do all in their power to promote its interests ?He then concluded his address by bringing in the husbandman as an illustration\u2014showing the care he bestowed on his nursery, selecting the best part of his grounds for it, attending it with care morning- and evening\u2014and said, let the managers of Sunday Schools follow his example in caring for the nurseries under their charge.Let them by their contributions ; let them by their labors ; let them by their prayers ; strive to further the cause of Sunday Schools.He then begged to move the resolution with which he had been intrusted.The Rev.N.L Scudder rose to second the resolution.He said,\u2014after the able address to which we have just listened, and from the names on the programme, which I see are to follow, I must be as brief as possible.It has been well said tbat this is not an experimental institution.Over the whole of this continent there is ecarcely a town or city of any extent without its Sunday Schools.And wa do not come here to say that it is a good mstitution.Who dares to question that ?But we come to speak of the magnitude of its worth.And one of its greatest advantages is that it contributes more than any other institution to the advancement of Biblical knowledge.You tell me that fifty thousand four hundred passages of scripture have been committed to memory here in the course of the past year ; if this has been the case in one district how many millions may we suppose to have been learned in all the Sunday Schools throughout the world.And what is the value of Biblical knowledge ?We can scarcely estimate it at its true worth, it is so great ; and children will acquire more Biblical knowledge in the Sabbath School than they will all their after lives from the pulpit.I apprehend that there is far more knowledge of tae Word of God acquired in the Sunday School than from the sacred desk.Nothing in this world can contribute more to the preservation and spread of orthodoxy in Protestant countries than this piling up of scripture truths upon the ycuthfnl mind.What makes Scotland so Protestant and truly religious ?What saved her in the day of temptations, struggles and dangers ?Nothing but the Bible.Last night we considered the value of the Tract Society one of the best advantages of the Sabbath School, is that it is a complete sanctifying library.I regret to know that on the other side' of the line the trashy yellow-covered romance is too much read; but I am happy to learn that in Canada the reading appetite is more healthy, and that the Sabbath School is doing so much for a sanctified literature.X have often when passing by a seminary or common school, said to myself, How much importance does this country attach to a secular eoucation ! But every time that an individual passes a Sunday school, let him be reminded of the incalculable value of a religious education.And let the members of the Church continue to come forward on occasions like this, and they will preach to the world the value of the Sabbath school.It is the obligatory duty, both of Parents and the Church to care for the religious education of the young.I hear much of the loyalty and attachment of British subjects to their Queen ; but if there is anything I admire more than another in Queen Victoria, it is that she cares for her children, and sets an example in this respect to every mother in her empire.\u2014 Sunday school instructions have already given to the Church ten years of religious experience in the average of all her members ; through this agency, persons are found united to God ten years younger than was the case before Sabbath schools were established.If any one were to invent something that would add ten years to the life of the human race, he would be hailed as a benefactor and monuments would be erected to his honor; but how much more important is it to add ten years to our spiritual life ?The Siinday school does not bring in the old man when his habits are formed and his heart perhaps hardened, but it brings in the child when its heart and feelings are yet tender, and thus is brought into the Church, power that otherwise it would have lost.\u2014One more thought and I have done.What does a Sabbath school teacher do when he takes a child to tri in him up for heaven ?What is it that teacher has in hand\u2014a jewel?a precious stone?something of more worth than these\u2014it is an immortal soul\u2014a star that may shine in the diadem of heaven forever and ever I Let himpoliihit well and it shall be a jewel in his own diadem of priceless worth O, Sir, this is a great work, ami he that is.in it may well rejoice ; and I trust God will prosper you in it, and that multitudes at the last day will come up and return thanks to you for the good works done by this society.The Rev.gentleman concluded by seconding the motion ; which was adopted.The Rev.D.Fraser now read the second resolution, «9 follows :\u2014 Resolved,\u2014That in view of the present mural and religious state of Canada there exists aloud and imperative call for the Christian education cf youth ; and this meeting favourably regards the multiplication of well conducted'Sabbath-Sclioola and Bible Classes, as opening doors of usefulness for private members of the Church, and as fitted to bo of eminent service to future generations.He said, I must be very brief.There is a time for everything.But for the vexed question of the religious and secular education of the cjuu-try this is not the time to discuss.But I must say lhat religious education is essential to the welfare of the rising generation, and to the very safety and existence of the state itself.A system of purely secular education will always have the effect of raising up a shallow, conceited and unprincipled population.The resolutions speak about Canada ; there is perhaps no country where a religious education is more required than in this same Canada.It has been called a great country, but it is not a great country yet, though it promises and possesses the elements to become so.So likewise its churches are not gieat as yet, but they contain the seeds of greatness ; and w e are now sowing the seeds of that fntiire greatness ; and as of old, there are enemies amongst ns who are also sowing tares.I trust, the day is not far distant when more heed shall be given to the moral and religious character of those who have the charge of youth.In this country, and not far from this city, men are employed as teachers of dissipated and unprincipled characters ; and I appeal to school trustees to look more to the moral character ot those they employ as school teachers.So long as tbe present system of overloading ministers with work is followed up, it is impossible that they can look properly after and superintend the education of the young.This want is partly supplied by ihe Sunday school.If yon look over the world, there is not to be found a more disinterested, self-sacrificing class of persons than Sunday school teachers ; and at tbe judgment day many will come to thank them for being' the cause of bringing them to a knowledge of the truth, end to the Lamb of God.The first place for the religious education ot youth is undoubtedly by the family hearth, and shame on those parents who shift off this responsibility on to the Sabbath school teacher.Sweet is the sight of a Sunday school, but sweeter s ill is the sight of a religious family circle ; wo say of every such house, it is a blessing to the country.From such circles as these the troops of the Lamb go forth ready to fight the battles of the Church, and of their Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.The motion was seconded by J.Wknha m, Esq.who spoke at considerable length, but in so low a tone that we could not catch properly tbe thread of bis remarks.The Rev.John MoLoud rose to move the third resolution.But, before proceeding, he said, as the house had now been sitting listening to speeches and reports for a long time, he thought it would bo a relief to the audience to sing a hymn.He, therefore, proposed that we sing \u201c From all that dwell beneath tbe skies,\u201d to the tune of11 Old Hundred \u201d Two verses of the hymn, were accordingly sung, and the Rev.Gentleman proceeded with his resolution :\u2014 Resolved.That we now tender our thanks to tlie Religious Tract Society and Sunday School Union of London, also to the American Sunday School Union of New York, for the efficient aid afforded this Society ; and that we now most re-pectfully solicit a continuance of their countenance and support.He continued\u2014Mr.President, this resolution speaks for itself; it enables one to go into any subject.During the evening the importance of Sunday Schools had been brought prominently forward.We have seen the defects of what is called secular education, and the necessity for the education imparted in the Sunday School.\u2014 For carrying out the objects of .'-unday Schools, there are, strictly speaking, three agencies : First the parents ; Second\u2014the Church ; and Third\u2014 the Sunday School teachers.Religious instruction is not to be expected at wbat are called Common Schools.I know that for the other side of the line all that is required of a teacher is that he be of a good moral character.But, if you do not give a good salary you can scarcely expect to get a man of ability and good moral character; and I am sorry that in Canada the salaries are not sufficiently high to command these qualifications.To remedy these evils wo mustfall back upon the agencies I have just mentioned.To make our Sunday Schools more attractive, I think we ought to have better singing iu them and more of it, and let our hymns be better selected.I wish that one half of the hymns we have in use were blotted out altogether, they have neither poetry nor anything else to recommend them.There should a4so be more care in selecting teachers.I would not have them selected for intellectual acquirements alone ; but would select those who are earnest and sincere, and who will labour incessantly in their good work.There is a great importance to be attached to the selection of teachers.If you require wise teachers to teach the old, they should be doubly so to teach the young.I believe that the minister should always be in the Sabbath School.Let tiie Minister preach only once on a Sunday, and in the atterpart of the day let him be in school.I say, if the Churches understood the best way of furthering the cause of Christ they would say to their Ministers, \u201cBe in the Sunday School more.\u201d And 1 say that one seimon in the day, to a congregation is enough.Nobody can well digest two sermon?, any more than they can digest two dinners.[At the close of the proceedings, the Rev.gentleman arose and alluded to this part of his address, saying that he did not wish it to be understood that people were just to go and hear one sermon on Sunday, and then to consider their duties over for the day.They should employ the whole day in religious labours or exercises of some kind ] There is another thing I wish to touch upon.Many young people imagine that, when they grow up, they are too old to attend Sunday School, and leave them.Now, Isay they should never leave the Sabbath School ; they should go on from scholars to teachers, and meet and mingle, in religious exercises, with the young and tbe old.This is the way the primitive Christians did ; and this is the proper way to observe the Sabbath.The Speaker then stated the amount of the collection\u2014£15 2s 6d,\u2014and said it ought to have been much larger.He thought there must have been a great many in the meeting who bad given nothing at all.After some more remarks, on the same subject, he begged leave to move the resolution.It was seconded by Benj.Lyman, Esq.A collection was then taken up, after which the following gentlemen were elected officebearers for the present year:\u2014 President.\u2014Hon.James Ferrier.Vice-Presidents.\u2014J.H.Maitland, John Red-path, John Dougall, and Joseph Wenham, Esqs Treasurer.\u2014Mr.James Court.Corresponding Secretary.\u2014Mr.T.A.Gibson.Recording Secretary.\u2014Mr.J.C.Becket.Depositary.\u2014Mr.James Milne.Committee\u2014The resident Ministers of the Gospel and Superintendents of Sabbath Schools.\u2014 George Hagar, David McKay, George Rogers, R.Birks, H.A.Nelson, W.Ross, A.Adams, Benjamin Lyman, S.J.Lyman, W.Rowan, A.Milloy, W.C.Hyatt, S.B.Scott, James W.Taylor, Jas.Baylis, W.C.Evans, R.Hicks, B.S.Curry, and W.Robertson.oued two Portuguese subjects charged With buying Chinese girls, chiefly at Ningpo, for the purpose of exporting them to Havana\u2014in short, with slave-dealing.New Music.\u2014We have just received, from Mr.Prince, two pieces of piano music.\u201cThe Ariel Polka\u201d and the \u201c Mazurka Pastorale.\u201d They are both from well known authors, whose names upon [the title pages guarantee their excellence.The melodies are very pretty, and the accompaniments easy of execution.The Treasurer of the Protestant Poor Relief Fund begs to acknowledge, with thanks, the re' ceipt of £2 10s from \u201cA Friend.\" The Tragedy on Board Ship Waverly.\u2014The China Mail contains the following particulars of this affair, under the heading of \u201c wholesale massacre:\u201d \u201c The atrocities of the Coolie trade from China have excited universal indignation, both among those who know they are generally the result of ignorant or brutal management, and others who understand nothing about the trade, and make no distinction between hired coolies who are treated as slaves, and voluntary emigrants who pay for their own passages.But all former instances have been outdone by a wholesale massacre, of which accounts have just been received.The horrible tale may be briefly told.The Waverly, an American ship of 750 tons,recently, sailed from Amoy with 442 coolies for Havana or Callao.The captain having died shortly after her departure, the first mate in command of the vessel brought her to Manila for the purpose of procuring another officer to take his place.On anchoring at Cavité, it would appear the mate had alarmed the captain of the port about the sanitary condition of the ship, which prevented free intercourse with her ; and as, besides the captain, one of the Coolies had died, the prejudices of the Chinese were offended at the mode in which the burial was about to be conducted, or at some other unexplained treatment of the dead bodies.But the only explanation accorded to them was, the mate\u2019s lifting a revolver and shooting down one or more of their number, the rest being driven without difficulty below ; and made secure under hatches, without any precaution, or apparently any thought, about ventilation.The Mato thereafter attended the Captain\u2019s funeral, and spent the day on shore ; and it was not until after midnight that the Agents of the ship, who may till then have been unaware how the matter stood, took alarm, and insisted that the Mate should then ascertain the state of his human freight ; and so, at 2 o\u2019clock next morning twelve hours after the hatches had been put on, they were removed, to discover that 241 of the Coolies were lifeless corpses.Forty-five more are missing, leaving only 146, of whom several are not likely to survive.The mate and crew have been imprisoned by the Spanish authorities; and it is said tbat the United States Consul declines to take any cognizance of the matter.Other Coolie ships have recently left China under circumstances that afford ground for apprehension that they may not complete their voyages without disaster.Iu connection with this subject (which has not been hitherto treated as slave-dealing), we may mention, that the governor of Macao has iaapris- A Crimean Appointaient.\u2014We are pleased to learn that Dr.Willivn Canniffj son of Jonas Canniff, Esq., of this county, has, after passing a creditable examination, and obtaining a diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons in London, received an appointment upon the Medical Staff in the Crimea.May his course of usefulness be a long and successful one.\u2014Belleville Int.Busy Times.\u2014Receipts of Cotton \u2014The receipts of cotton are now daily so great\u2014labor is so scarce, even at seventy-five cents per hour, that drays cannot be had in sufficient numbers to relieve the wharves,even at twenty-five cents per bale\u2014that the whole wharf frontage of the city from the highest to the lowest point, presents to view only one mass of the staple, with scarcely a single passage way to get from the street to a steamer.TTesterday morning the Daiman.from the Bigbee, and Magnolia, from Montgomery, peiformed a regular minuet, up'ami down from wharf to wharf, trying to find an opening for a landing for their cargoes, but finally gave up the hunt, and took an outside berth, until room could be made for them, by the removal of cotton already landed.\u2014Mobile Tribune.Jan.1.CORBESPOHDENCE.To Ihe Editor of the Montreal Hbhald.Sir,\u2014Having observed in this morning\u2019s issue your correspondent \u201c East-End\u2019s \u201d letter with reference to the Mayoralty and the Hochelaga Wharf, and your own remarks on tbe same subject, permit me to enquire whether the interests of the east end or of the west end, or these of the city of Montreal and of Canada generally, are sought to be promoted by the new line of steamships, and whether the question ofloeaiion dees not materially affect those interests?Let me ask, where is the business ir.-tnsacted which is to give employment to these steam vessels\u2014at Hochelaga, or at the west end ?Where are the stores and warehouses which are to receive the goods, and the boats which are to convey a portion of them directly to their ultimate destination\u2014at Hochelaga, or at the west end?Pray, why cannot these vessels come up to our present wharves, as others have done before them, where every facility exists, or can be easily and at small expense provided, for loading and unloading; and whence goods, especially such as are liable to damage from the weather, can be removed in a few moments to the Stores which are to receive them ?In a word, does any sensible man believe that our merchants are going to cart their goods three miles, at great expense and risk of damage, when they can have them delivered at their very doors ?If any one doubts it, the experiment, if tried, will convince him of bis error.If Hochelaga is to be the terminus, the enterprise will be a failure, and Montreal will again suffer as she has already suffered by similar half-way operations As to the proprietors, they bad much better make tbeir terminus at Quebec than at Hochelaga.Goods can be delivered at Montreal cheaper and more safely by the former than the latter plan.Therefore, if the progress of the West-End is too rapid and must bi checked whether or no, I give my vote for a Queftec Itfayor rather than a Hochelaga one, and propose as a subject of serious consideration the propriety of transferring this Borough to tho West-End of the City of Quebec.Yours, ha., A Montrealer.Montreal, Jan.26, 1856.OHIO.GOVERNOR CHASE\u2019S INAUGURAL.After adverting at length to local topics, Governor Chase proceeds as fallows : Your first and most earnest attention, gentlemen, will doubtless be directed to the important matters within the immediate sphere of your legislative powers ; but you cannot forget that you represent a sovereign State of the American Union, third of the thirty-one in wealth, and power, and population, and second to none in patriotic devolves to the welfare of the whole country.The appointment of a Senator to represent the State in one branch of the American Congress devotion upon yon, and in making this appointment you will necessarily be required to consider the interests of Ohio as a Member of the Union.Foremost among these interests is the preservation of the Union itself.Established by the wisdom of our fathers for the sublimest and noblest political ends, it descends to us a sacred trust.Under its benign influence our country has steadily advanced from strength to strength, and from greatness to greatness, extending her borders, enlarging her resources, and augmenting her bower, until the name of American citizen has become a nobler distinction than was the name of Roman citizen in the proudest days of the mightiest republic of antiquity.To maintain the integrity of this Union; to defend the Constitution which is its bond; and to guard against all invasion from whatever quarter, those American Institutions which the Union and the Constitution secure to us, have ever been, and I trust will ever be, acknowledged us sacred obligations by the people of Ohio.Cherishing these sentiments and ever prepared to give full proof of unwavering fidelity to them, it is not only our right but our duty to insist that the interests of Ohio shall de duly regarded in the administration of tbe General Government.Few States contribute so largely to the national revenues as our own.Tbe people of Ohio have paid to the Federal Government or to its grantees, for the soil which they occupy and cultivate, more than $30,000,000.Of the revenues derived from duties, we contribute necessarily in proportion to our numbers.As the population of our State is about one tenth ofthe entire population of the Union, we pay about one tenth of that revenue.Its entire amount for the last year exceeded $60,000,000.The proportion of Ohio was of course six million.While we have thus paid for the very soil we live on, an amount which no other people has ever paid under like circumstances or tinder any circumstances, and while we still contribute thus amply and freely to the annual revenue, it is not an agreeable reflection that, of all the States in which the General Government has asserted a proprietary right to the soil, Ohio has received the least in grants of lands for education, improvement, and other like purposes ; and that while millions are expended tor the protection and benefit of Commerce on the Ocean Coasts of the Republic, the property and lives of our.own^eople are exposed to contioual peril and enormous loss upon our Rivers and our Lakes for the want of comparatively insignificant appropriations for the improvement of their channels and harbors.The injaslice of unequal grants of lands is perhaps beyond remdey ; but it will be our own fault if onr Rivers and Harbors continue to be thus neglected.While in these and many other important details of administration the interests of our own State are deeply affected by the action of the National Government, we are even more vitally concerned in the great principle by which that action and the progressive development of our country are regulated and controlled.As man is more than his circumstances, as Freedom is better than wealth, as rights are more important than institutions, it becomes us to look well to the fundamental ideas which determine the character of government and the course of its practical operation.The basis of American institutions is the democratic principle of equality among men.\u2014 They rest upon the solid foundation of popular consent.The primary objects of their establishment are the defence and protection of personal rights.If they fail to secure these ends, it is the duty of the people who established to amend or change them, To organize and administer Government upon these principles is the true work of a republican people.While the Democratic idea thus constitutes the basis of American Institutions, various exceptions, under the pressure of real or supposed exigencies, have been admitted to its universal application.Among these, Slavery, the creature of Despotism and the deadly opposite of Democracy, claims hateful preeminence.When our country asserted her independence, Slavery existed in all tbe States.Its evil influences, social and political, were, however, well understood, and its irreconcilable antagonism to the rights of human nature and the principles of just government, was universally acknowledged.The founders of the Republic, iu framing our institutions, were careful to give no national sanction to this portentous anomaly, but they attempted no interference with its existence in the States.Outside of State limits they allowed it no shelter.Within State limits they left it to the exclusive disposition of States immediately concerned.No fact is better established by the records of the past than the prevalence, during the earlier period of our history, of an almost universal expectation that Slavery, excluded by positive prohibition from all national territory, would gradually but certainly, and at no distant day, under tbe operation of the principles of the Declaration of Independence, and through the action of the State authorities, disappear wholly from every State of the Union.The foremost champions of Freedom were citizens of Slave States, and occupied the highest stations in the State and National Governments.In 1784, immediately after the partial adjustment of the conflict between the claims of the Union and the pretensions of the States in respect to the territory between the Alleghanies, and the Mississippi, through the cession, by Virginia, of the territory north-west of the Ohio, Jefferson proposed to provide forever against the extension of Slavery, by a positive prohibition of its existence after 1800, in any territory ceded or to be ceded, or in any State to be created out of such territory.This proposed prohibition received the votes of sixteen out of twenty-three Delegates, and of six out of nine States in the Congress of the Confederation.It failed to become a law by reason of that provision of the Articles of Confederation which made the concurrence of at least seven States necessary to an affirmative decision of any question.The great majority in its favor indicates, however, tbe prevalent sentiment of the time.Three years later, the Ordinance of 1787 impressed upon the soil of the territory north-west of the Ohio an indelible prohibition of Slavery.That Ordinance was adopted by the unanimous votes of all the States in Congress.It covered every inch of territory subject to the exclusive regulation of the General Government.In the same year the National Constitution was framed.Mr.Madison declared it \u201c wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in man.\u201d No such word as Slave or Slavery found place in any of its provisions.All recognition of the rightfulness of slaveholding, and all national sanction of the practice, was carfully excluded from the instrument.in every clause which has been, or can be construed as referring to Slavery, it is regarded as the creature of State legislation, and dependant wholly upon State legislation for its existence and continuance.There is no trace in the Constitution itself, or in the debates of its farmers, of any expectation or apprehension of the institution or maintenance of Slavery by national law, or national territory.No one anticipated its extension beyond the limits of the existing States.But the people required additional security.\u2014 When, therefore, Virginia suggested an amend-meut.of the Constitntien, that \u201cno freeman ought to be deprived of his life liberty or property but by the law ofthe land,\" Congress refused to sanction this restricted guaranty, but proposed for the_ adoption of the States, an amendment embracing a comprehensive and express interdict against all invasion of personal rights by the General Government.That interdict, made part of the Constitution by the consent of the States, is in these words : \u201c No person * * * * shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.\u201d So long as this provision remains unaltered, it is not easy to see how Slavery can be constitutionally introduced anywhere or continued anywhere by national legislation or in national territory.This brief statement will suffice to show what was the policy and what was the anticipation of the founders of this Republic in respect to Slavery.Their policy was one of repression, limitation, discouragement; they anticipated with confidence the auspicious result of universal Freedom.Persistent adherence to their policy would doubtless have realized their anticipations.I need not say to you that this policy has not been adhered to ; nor need I trace the gradual process by which the Constitution has been wrested from its original purposes, and the Government has been converted into an instrument for the maintenance and extension of Slavery.By cessions from Slave States, and by treaties with Foreign Governments, vast territories have been acquired, in all of which the original policy of the Government required prohibition, and to none of which was prohibition actually applied, until resistance to the further increase of Slavery and the Slave power in the Republic by the admission of Missouri as a Slave State, led to the great contest between the Extentionists and the Restrictionist, which, in 1820, terminated in the adjustment generally known as the Missouri Compromise.The terms of that compromise were these :\u2014 That Missouri should be admitted with Slavery ; that Slavery should be.forever prohibited in the Territory acquired from France, north of 36 deg.30 min., except Missouri ; and lhat Congress should refrain, for the present at least, from legislative prohibition of Slavery south of 36 deg.36 min, This last term was only implied; it was not expressed.This compromise, in substance and effect, was a compact between tbe slaveholding and nonslaveholding sections of the country, and was universally so regarded.It yielded to Slavery absolutely the territory occupied by Missouri, and it left without the protection of prohibition all the residue of territory acquired under the French Treaty, south of 30 deg.30 min.As the original policy of the country, and the true principles of the Constitution required the exclusion of Slavery from the whole of this territory, it was to be expected that this adjustment would be received with much dissatisfaction in the Free Slates.It was so received; but after a time, for the sake cf peace, and in the full belief that its stipulations in respect tc the territory north of 30 deg.30 min.would be faithfully observed, the people generally acquiesced in it.Concession invites aggression.Having succeeded in establishing Slavery in Missouri, the slave power.soon insisted upon the implied terms of the Compromise as a positive stipulation for the allowance of Slavery south of 30 degrees 30 minutes ; not only in the territory acquired from France, but in all other territory, whenever and however acquired, in which Slavery might exist at the time of acquisition.The interpretation was tacitly admitted ; and under the Compromise, thus interpreted, Arkansas, Texas, and Florida, came into the Union as Slave States, and tho small remainder of the territory south of 30 degrees 30 minutes was allotted to slavehold-ing Indian tribes.All the territory south ofthe Missouri line\u2014 whether acquired before or after the date of the Compromise\u2014was thus incorporated into Slave States, or otherwise appropriated to Slavery, under the slaveholding interpretation of the Compact.Nothing was left to Freedom or settlement by non-slave holding freemen except the territory north of the Missouri line.The freedom of this territory, it was thought, was firmly secured.Guaranteed by the Constitution, protected by original policy, guarded by a compact inlthe fulfilment of which so much had been yielded that it seemed impossible for Slavery itself to ask more, the people of the Free States never dreamed that it could be invaded or en-/ dangered.But this anticipation proved illusory.When the time arrived for the organization of Government for this territory, with a view to open it for settlement and cultivation, the country was astounded by the demand of the Slave Power for the abrogation ofthe Missouri Prohibition.At first the demand was heard with incredulous amazement, and then with unavailing indignation.It availed nothing to appeal to plighted faith\u2014nothing to appeal to ancient policy or Constitutional guaranties.The great dominant power of Slavery demanded the sacrifice of Freedom, and the oblation must be made.The Missouri Prohibition was repealed ; tho Compromise of 1820\u2014performed to the letter, and far beyond the letter, by the Free States was broken up and destroyed by the Slave States, to avoid the fulfilment of its only stipulation in favor of Freedom.The pretenses under which this wrong was perpetrated, give additional keenness to the sense of injury.It was boldly asserted that the prohibition was unconstitutional.The power to prohibit Territorial Slavery had been exercised by the first Congress under the Constitution in the act providing for continuing in iull effect the Ordinance of 1787.The Constitution in express terms, had conferred on Congress the power to make all needful rules and regulations concerning the territory ot the United States.This prevision had been uniformly regarded as authorizing all neccessary Territorial legislation.Almost every Congress had exercised the power, and almost every President had approved its exercise.The very persons who denied the power to prohibit Slavery asserted the power to establish Territorial Governments, and to define their departments and powers, and therefore, in denying tho power of prohibition, were reduced to the necessity of denying that the greater includes the less.Under these circumstances, after the prohibition had remained unquestioned for more than the third of a century, the denial of its constitutionality rather provoked indignation than excited doubt.It was also insisted that the doctrine of popular sovereignly required the repeal of the prohibition.This was a mere abuse of terms.The true idea of popular sovereignty demands as a primary essential condition the recognition of inalienable personal rights.There can be no genuine popular sovereignty where a portion of tbe population is enslaved.The prohibition of Slavery is therefore a neccessary prerequisite to a real sovereignty of the people.In the sense of tbe apologists for repeal, popular sovereignty signifies nothing but the right of a portion of the community to enslave the rest.It begins by the denial of the natural rights ot man.It must end in the total subversion of the fundamental principles of American institutions.For a free and independent people, it would substitute a community of masters, dependents, and slave.Such is the répulsive theory.In practical operation it has not proved more attractive.As embodied in the Nebraska-Kansas bill, it has been fruitful of nothing but evil.It has not conferred a single substantial benefit upon tho settlers of either Territory.In no respect are they distinguished from the settlers cf Minnesota, where Slavery is prohibited, except by exposure to its evils.The sole special effect of the Nabra-ska-Kansas act upon the Territories organized under it is to open them to the introduction of slaves.In one of them it has led to desperate at-temps to effect that object\u2014to invasion, usurpation, violence, bloodshed\u2014almost to civil war Crimea like these are not the legitimate fruits of that doctrine of popular self-government to the maintenance of which our fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes and their honor.In all these things our own State has a deep and peculiar interest.Our own history furnishes the most complete vindication of the policy of Slavery prohibition.We occupy the soil protected from the blight of Slavery by the Ordinance of 1787 For more than half a century the people of Ohio have been aeenstomed to regard that ordinance with miugltd emotions of gratitude and pride.Conspicuous among its provisions and in fit companionship with its sacred guarantees of religious freedom, of liberality toward immigrants, of the inviolability of private contracts, of the security of private property, and of universal education, stands the great interdict against Slavery, acknowledging and impartially protecting the rights of man as man.The words to which we always recur when seekihg in the ordinance the peculiar springs of our wonderful prosperity and progress are those which embody this prohibition.Never did the noble pioneers who laid the foundations on which we now joyfully build, coamplain of that interdict as an abridgment of any rights, personal or political.On the contrary they have ever spoken of it as the pillar of fire by night and the cloud by day which guided and protected them in the wilderness, More than any other State, Ohio, as the first-born of the Ordinance, and indebted to the Ordinance for her proud position as the third State of the Confederacy, and first among the new States, is bound to cherish and defend its great and beneficent principles.In so doing, we shall be fellow-workers with its illustrious framers in their own declared policy and purpose of \u201c extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty whereon these Republics, their laws and constitutions are erected, and fixing and establishing those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments which forever hereafter shall be formed in\u201d American 11 territory.\u201d No political duty appears to be more urgent than this.The question of Slavery, it is almostuniversally conceded, transcends in present importance all other political questions of a national character.The repeal of the Missouri Prohibition, abrogating the Missouri Compromise, opens anew the whole subject of the relations of Slavery to the Union, to ihe States, and to the Territories.In determining the true line of duty, under these circumstances, it seems to be the part of wisdom to recur to the acts of the Founders of the Republic, and to the principles of the Constitution.To me these guides seem to indicate a plain path.It leads back to the original national policy.That policy, I have already remarked, while it sanctioned no outside interference with Slavery within Slave States, contemplated no extensien of it beyond State limits.It regarded Slavery in all its relations as subject, exclusively, to State legislation, and absolved tbe General Government from all responsibility for its extension or continuance.Our return to that policy should be signalized by the restoration of the guaranty of Freedom to the Territories which have been deprived of it by the retrograde legislation of Congress.Had the policy originally adopted been persistently pursued, the question of Slavery would have ceased long since to vex our repose and disturb our councils.Should that policy be restored, may we not confidently expect the restoration also of those relations of harmony and good will which characterized the era of its adoption, and that, through repeal of all national legislation in support of Slavery and the constitutional action of State Governments, the ardent desire of our fathers for the deliverance of the whole country from the great evil may at length be fulfilled ?No worthier objects than these, in my judgment, can engage the united efforts of freemen.\u2014 Frank and cordial co-operation for these noble ends excludes all invidious and unjust discrimination on account of birth or creed, endangers no right of any individual or any State, but promises the happy result of a more perfect Union, established upon the solid foundations of Exact Jus-tics and Equal Rights.I have thus submitted to you, gentlemen, my general views upon several topics of public interest.Other important matters will doubtless engage your attention.You need no farther assurance of my disposition to co-operate faithfully with you in whatever may promote the common welfare.Let us proceed then to the discharg# of our respective duties.With hearts full of gratitude to God for the liberty which we enjoy, and the prosperity which has attended us hitherto, let it be onr constant endeavor, looking reverently to Him for guidance and direction, to insure the transmission to those who are to come after us, of the noble heritage of free institutions which we have received from our fathers, not only unimpaired, but augmented and improved.MIT TJEJlsSJCff&APSI.Reported for the Montreal Herald.BY MONTREAL LINE.Office Merchants' Exchange, St.Sacrament St.ARRIVAL OF THE \u201cAFRICA,\u201d New York, Jan.22.The Africa arrived at her dock at 9 o\u2019clock.Nothing of importance.\t\u201e Peace question unchanged.Wheat\u2014good demand 2d higher.Flour\u2014better demand, 6d to 9d dearer.Holders of Corn demand an advance\u2014but not ceded to.Buyers at 42s.Beef in rather more request.Pork still neglected.Consols 86% to 865.The news by the \u201c Africa\u201d consists mainly of the extension of the peace rumours by previous steamers.Russia\u2019s answer cannot arrive till the 10th, and it is expected will contain neither absolute assent nor refusal, but will make counter propositions.Feeling in England continues warlike, and in France is again becoming so.Prussia continues in active preparation.Nothing latter from the Crimea.The French blew up one of Sebastopol docks.Affairs in Asia unchanged.British News unimportant.A Grand Council of the Allied Generals is ere now open at Paris.The Conference on the Danish Sound Dues is postponed indefinitely.Rumours revived of Naples joining tho alliance.Sweden was making active warlike preparations when the America sailed.The Baltic arrived at Liverpool on the morning of the 8th.Late Berlin papers speak not unfavorably of tbe disposition of Russia to consider the Allied propositions.London, Wednesday, Jan.9.English funds, yesterday morning, advanced nearly 3-8ths at opening, but a relapse subsequently took place, closing at yesterday\u2019s prices.Money easy and in good demand at 5 per cent.ASIA.The Russian army took possession of Kars the 3d December, the troops being quartered in town, the Russians had collected large stores of provisions.The Russian general is apprehensive of an attack upon Kars by Selem Pacha and consequently has concentrated all his available forces at that point.CORPORATION OP MONTREAL.PUBLIC MEETING.THE CITIZENS of MONTREAL are invited to ASSEMBLE, in PUBLIC MEETING, in the CONCERT ROOM of the CITY HALL, on TUESDAY next, the 29th instant, at ELEVEN o\u2019clock, A.M., to consider the expediency of PETITIONING the LEGISLATURE TO ASSUME THE DEBT INCURRED BY THE HARBOUR COMMISSIONERS for DEEPENING THE CHANNEL THROUGH LAKE ST.PETER, so soon as the same may be completed at a uniform depth of TWENTY FEET.WFD.NELSON, Mayor.Mayor's Office,\t) City Hall,\t>\t20 Montreal, Jan.23, 1856.; NOT1CK.THE undersigned having been appointed Curator to the vacant ESTATE of ELIE SAUMEUR dit MARS, formerly Merchant of the Parish of St.Hennas, County of Two Mountains, hereby notifies all Persons Indebted to the said Estate to make immediate payment to him, and all Persons having Claims against the said Estate to present the same at the Office of Messrs.MASSON, BRUYERE, THOMAS & GO.E.A GÉNÉREUX, Curator.Montreal, Jan.23, 1856.\tddb 20 NOTICE.AGREEABLY with Clause XXI.of the Act Incorporating LA BANQUE DU PEUPLE, public notice is hereby given, that JOSEPH F.ALLARD, Esqüibe, of Chambly, a Member of the Corporation of La Banque du Peuple, DIED on the SEVENTEENTH JANUARY, instant.By order, B.H, LeMOINE, Cashier.La Banque du Peuple, ?Montreal, Jan.23rd, 1856.5 FURTHER BY THE \u201cAFRICA.\u201d The Russian attack on Erzeroum is not considered probable, at present, in consequence of the exhaustion of the troops and the state of the roads.Nothing definite is yet known from St.Poters-burgh.Speculations were very contradictory.Interviews had taken place between Nesselrode and Esterhazy ; but the main question had not been discussed.The most that may be expected from Russia is a modified counter proposition, such as may ensure further negotiations and delay.In the meantime, the tone of the French Government has been more warlike, while Russian preparations for continuing the contest are larger than ever.Bavaria is sending an envoy to St.Petersburg to support the Saxon ambassador.It is again confidently asserted that Austria will submit three propositions to the German Diet, and call on the Diet to support them.Dates from the Crimea are to the 25th ult.The Russians are increasing their fortifications over against Inkermann.Pelissier remains in the Crimea.Gen.Marlinpre will act as his proxy in the Council of War at Paris.No injury had been done to the fleet by the late storm.Omar Pacha's army had suffered so much from lack of provisions that he had been compelled to fall back.The Council of War, at Constantinople, were directing all their energies to the defence of Erzeroum.Advices from Okhotish state that the allied fleets have united in the gulf, without finding the cannon buried by the Russians.The Grand War Council at St.Petersburg was principally engaged in questions relating to fortifying the strategic points of the empire.The fortifications at Keow will be finished before the close of the winter.The railroad from Moscow to St.Petersburg is to be protected by redoubts placed at intervals along the line, each redoubt to be occupied by a battalion of militia.There is nothing important from England.A Paris letter, alluding to the rumor that the United States had made a treaty with the Shah of Persia, guaranteeing bis territory on the Persian gulf, says, \u201c that though no such treaty has been made, it is certain that the most friendly advices have been made, and it is unfortunate that at this moment Russia and America are intriguing with the Shah.\u201d A suspension of Persian diplomatie relations with England has taken place.Considerable excitement exists at Rome, caused by the report that Mexico had suppressed its legation in Rome and withdrawn its minister.The Archives of the office are already packed up.The Africa brings 50 passengers.She passed on the 12th the steamer Asia.LIVERPOOL MARKETS\u2014Jan.8.Western canal flour 40s(5>42s ; Ohio 42sW44s ; southern 41s(3)43s.Red and mixed wheat 11s 2df®lls 9d.Yellow corn 42s 6d/@42s 9d ; white do 46a(® 48s ; mixed do 42s/®42s 6d.NEW YORK MARKETS\u2014Jan.23, Flour 6-l(5)12%c higher ; demand moderate.Shippers not in market to any extent.Sales 3000 bris at $8,12(5)8,15 for State; $8,25(5)8,62 for Western ; 500 brls Canadian Flour sold at $8,37/5)8,75.Wheat firmly held without sales of moment.Corn market unsettled ; prices are no better ; sales 10,000 bus at 84(5)88cfornew Southern and Jersey ; 90(5)93 for old mixed Western.Pork sales limited and market easier ; 150 brls sold at $16,50 for Mess ; $14,50 for Prime.Lard steady ; sales 200 brls at 10%c.Ashes ; small sales at yesterday\u2019s prices.Stocks are easier, without much activity.Exchange at 108(6)108% for best bills.BIRTH.On the 23rd inst., Mrs.Thomas Stephens, No.5 Richmond Square, of a son.DIED.In this city, on tbe 20th inst., Lawrence, eldest son of Mr.Thomas Rawley, aged 7 years and 28 days.DIOCESAN LECTUEES.THE LECTURE on MONDAY next will be given by the YEN.ARCHDEACON LOWER.Subject, \u201c The Poet Gray,\u201d Jan.24.20 BANK OF UPPER CANADA.Subscription books for the allotment of a LIMITED AMOUNT of the NEW STOCK of this Institution, are now OPEN at their OFFICE here ; and parties wishing to subscribe can obtain information on making application, Montreal, Jan.23, 1856.\t1m 20 Lost, ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON, the 22d inst, between Mrs.Renaud's School, St.Joseph Street, and St.Antoine Suburbs, a yonng Ladies' MINK FUR GAUNTLET.The finder will oblige by leaving it with Anthony Walsh, Grocer, St.Antoine Suburbs Jan.24.\tm 20 1m 20 TO LET, FOUR FIRST CLASS STORES, two Is:s:a with DWELLINGS, in NOTRE DAME STREET, WEST END.Enquire of E.E.SHELTON.Jan.24, 1856.\tits 20 TO LET, CENTRAI.WAREHOUSES In \u201c Cuvillier\u2019s Block.\" STORE iu ST.PETER STREET, occupied by A.Ukqdhakt, Esq Do ST.SACRAMENT STREET, occupied by A.Cuvillier & Co Do\tdo\toccupied by J.Leeming, Esq Do ST.NICHOLAS STREET, occupied by J.Leeming, Esq \u2014also,\u2014 Do COMMISSIONERS STREET, occupied by W.& J.Smith & Go The above have all excellent Offices, and are in good repair.A M.DELISLE.Montreal, Jan.24, 1856.\tdddn 20 F Just Published, THE MERMAID POLKA, as played by Maffre and Prince\u2019s Quadrille Band at all the Fashionable Balls, Parties, &c.&c.The WEEKLY SUPPLY of NEW POPULAR MUSIC also received.HENRY PRINCE.Jan.24,\t20 OR SALE- 20 bags Languedoc Almonds 30 barrels Prime Currants J.B.SMITH & CO.Jan.24.\t20 ALEXUIDER'S JŒSTÂUKAflT ! A RAFFLE of TWO SPLENDID GOLD WATCHES will take place at ALEXANDER\u2019S RESTAURANT, on SATURDAY EVENING, 26th instant.Drawing to take place at NINE o\u2019clock.A FREE SUPPER will be provided.January 23.\tu 19 JUST RECEIVED, DIRECT FROIVZ LUBIN l A SUPPLY of SPECIALITIES for the TOILETTE, among which is the NEW PERFUME, \u201cBOUQUET DE MONTREAL,\u201d MADE BY LUBIN, expressly for the Subscribers, and is justly regarded as the MOST EXQUISITE OF ALL LUBIN\u2019S PERFUMES.£3\u201c Every Bottle has the City Arms, with the name of the Subscribers.\u2014also,\u2014 POMADES, SOAPS PASTILLES, OPIATES, &c., &c.S.J.LYMAN & CO., 19\tPlace d\u2019Armea NOTICE OF CO-PARTNERSHIP.THE UNDERSIGNED gives notice that he has this day formed a CO-PARTNERSHIP with ALEXANDER F.COCKBURN, and that the business will, in future, be conducted under the name of \u201cROBERT MITCHELL & CO.\u201d ROBERT MITCHELL, 76 Great St.James\u2019 St.Montreal, January 1st, 1856.1m 19 McCREADY, MOTT & BRUNDAGE, 151 MAIDEN DANE, Corner of Front Street, New York, DISTILLERS OF TRIPIÆ REFINED CAMPHENE, 80 & 95 pr ct.Alcohol & N.E, Rum, Also Manufacturers and Dealers in the following articles of the best quality, and offered at the lowest market prices : BURNING FLUID, Spirits Turpentine, Tar, Pitch, Rosin, Soft and Hard Turpentine, Bright Varnish, Coal Tar Naval Stores, of every description.THOS.BETTS, Distiller.S.JENNEY, Jb.Jan.8.\t3m laf 6 LOST\u2014Yesterday, at the Post-Office or between the Bank of Montreal and the new High School, a SMALL BLACK SHEEPSKIN POCKET-BOOK containing £16 in Bank Notes, a School-fee Receipt, and one or more other papers.The undersigned, by whom it was lost, would feel grateful if the Finder would return it to him, as he is a poor man and utterly unable to make up so great a loss.WILLIAM COOPER, Porter, High School.New High School, Beaver Hall, ( January 15, 1856.\t5\t12 Drawing Class.MR.DUNCAN begs to inform his friends and the public, that he will COMMENCE, on the FOURTH FEBRUARY next, a CLASS for YOUNG LADIES in DRAWING.For terms, &c., apply to Mr.D., 74 St.Louis Street.Montreal, Jan.21.\tdu IT NOW READY\u2014PART I.The Art Jonrnal\u20141856.NEW SERIES.Montlily Journal of tlie Arts anti Art Manufactures.WITH ENGRAVINGS FROM PICTURES IN THE ROYAL GALLERIES AT WINDSOR CASTLE, BUCKINGHAM PALACE AND OSBORNE.HNSKAVED BY PERMISSION OF QUEEN VICTORIA AND PRINCE ALBERT.ALSO, ENGRAVINGS OF THE WORKS IN SCULPTURE IN THEIR POSSESSION.Each Part will contain two large engravings on steel, in the line manner, of pictures in the royal collections, and of a work in sculpture, together with a large number of designs on wood, illustrative of ART and art manufactures.Sold by all Booksellers.VIRTUE, EMMINS & CO., 26 John Street New York.Jan.22.\tu 18 IN STORE\u2014Hhds and Pipes \u201c JOHN DE KUYPER'S & SONS\u201d Double-Berried «iu.Puns Fine Flavored JAMAICA RUM Hhds \u201c HENNESSY\u2019S\u201d BRANDY, Pale & Brown Puns and hhds ISLAY WHISKEY Hhds, qr-casks and octaves SHERRY WINE TEAS, INDIGO, &c.&c.For Sale by HUGH FRASER, 30 St.Sacrament Street.Jan 22,\tdu 18 Macaulay\u2019s History of England.B DAWSON has just received\u2014 \u2022 Vols 3 and 4 Macaulay\u2019s History of England, Harper\u2019s Edition, 12mo, musliu.Price for the two volumes, 6s 3d, For Sale at No.23 Great St.James Street.Jan.22.\t18 JUST received at the West End Book Store- 200 volumes Macaulay\u2019s History of England, bound in cloth, Harper\u2019s Edition.Price, 6s 3d for tbe two volumes \u2014also,\u2014 Chambers' Journal for January.JOHN ARMOUR, 275 Notre Dame Street, (Opposite Recollet Church,) Jan.22.\t18 BORDEAUX VINEGAR, in hhds and qr-casks For Sale by JAMES TORRANCE.Jan.21.\t17 LOAF SUGAR, in hhds, très and barrels \u2014Also,\u2014 CRUSHED WHITE, YELLOW, and SYRUP, best Refined For Sale by JAMES TORRANCE.Jan.21:\tif MONTKEAL HERALD AND DAILY COMMKKUIAL GAZETTE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24 1856.To ALDERMAN STARNES, At.Ac, WE, the undersigned, Municipal Electors of the City of Montreal, having confidence in your ability and judgment, beg leave respectfully, to invite you to become a CANDIDATE for the Office of MAYOR of this City; and we pledge ourselves, in the event of your eo doing, to use our best exertions to secure your return, feeling satisfied, from your valuable services in the Corporation, and your public spirit, that Edouard Chabotte Cyprien JIageau \u2022 Francois Marcotte Grégoire Ste.Louis Elie Chassé Amable Dufond J B Masse F H Bourgeau Joseph Bureau Charles Sivestre J B Tison your election will contribute to the advantage of Frs Racette the City.Louis Renaud 0 Fitzpatrick J 0 Lafreniere J H Henderson James McDougall Gédéon Husseau Louis Dodelin Edwd Mackay Wm Stephen N S Whitney A T Gault Edwd Wright Robert MacIntyre S Jas Hingston Mathew Barton R Hutchins Hugh McLennan Clark Fitts J B Clifford Jno Kingan James Gilmour James Foley John Elliott J Ferrier David Torrance T Cramp James Mitchell James A Glassford G M Millar John Turner Benjamin Parent Samuel Young William Hood H Craig H B Tracy Charles Hood H Seymour John Pratt P Delorme Edwd Pratt Henry Lyman Walter Macfarlano Alex M oison Duncan McIntyre Thomas A Evans Henry Thomas Thomas Douglas Gordon Mackenzie J B Cusineau Jno Farrow E L Holt E McLennan George Dowker John Kershaw Thos Kershaw Ant Levesque H L Routh David Kinnear J Whyte Foster Donaldson Henry Carleton Robert Miller Adam Miller David Smillie G A Holland H Ansley Richard J Morgan George Wilson W Bickert J G Seebold S English Geo VanDeusen A Hoffnung Geo Childs W Armstrong John Gardner William Jackson Jno Empey James Creighton John Cameron J Henry Evans H Hutchins Charles H Letonrneux Wm Carter G Kingan Otis Warner S Foster Robert Adams John Louson T E Woodbury S Compain J E Major T J Green E K Green John M Gillies S Ogden John Sinclair C G Hanning Alfred A Barber Jno Ostell James Ferrier Jr W S Macfarlano William Tate E C Tuttle Jno Campbell D Russ Wood G E Jaques J D Hall T Maxwell Bryson Pierre Gagnon Patrick Mahon SSP Tilton M H Seymour C E Seymour OAF Pratt James Roy Thomas M Thomson R Taylor Benjamin Lyman W R Clare M 0 Seibold J D Bernard CRD Roy L H Galarneau John Plimsoll Jas Brown John Brown Pierre Lefevre J M Allen George McNamee H Meikleham John Young L H Holton R S Tylee James Burns James Banning H H Whitney John Brennan James Moore Wm Harrington Geo W Warner Geo Lulham Samuel Cochran G M Gritten William Weston A Oontin Thos Jenkins Patrick Britt A S Holland James Robertson G Ringland J Ewart James Austin Ira Gould A A Dorion S Milligan J M Young Jas Wright Adam Stevenson Francis Hunter J B Davidson\tJames Boyd James Morison\tE Neill John Clarke\tE Ouimet Job 0 Thompson\tRomeo H Stephens Fred Bennett\tP T Masson Francis Dolan\tP Robertson Jas Blundell\tT Masson Jos Ant Brault\tE St Jean A Rambedu\tHenry Engelke Campbell Bryson\tChas A Low A Davidson Parker\tJ Torrance Joseph N Thompson\tO C Abbott Robt Muir\tA J Koester Edward Sharpe\tGeorge Anderson O Breadon\tMartin Graves Gèrimi Cadaret\tJ E Mullin James Campbell\tRobert Seath J Oadaret\tJas Johnston Geo Armstrong\tEdward Fegau Charles Robertson\tRobt Graham Alex Arthur\tGerhard Lomer Samuel Browning\tThomas May Thos Morland\tT Fisher John Campbell\tRobt Kerr James Bowes\tOarl Dunikely John Cockburn\tS H May John McArthur\tCh Kratzsch G S Prouse\tW R Seaver J W McGlasban\tJ Behrans John Galbraith\tR Hall John McGlashan\tA Macpherson George Brown\tN B Corse Richard Seale\tJohn Harris Geo Markes\tWilliam Hall David Tees\tP Ronayne R Skinner\tR W Campbell James Scott\tR P Isaacson John Birks\tJ W Herbert Frederic Penn\tJ Hilton J Wurteie\tW Hilton Chas J Coursol\tJames Parkin Charles Williams\tFreedom Hill R Latham\tW Cunningham Thos Walter Jones, M\tDJames Arless W Whitaker\tHenri Blache Theod Hart\tDavid Keely Jean Bruneau\tT Lecompte John Bethune jr\tGilbert Scott W Garth\tHugh Allan John Owen\tThos Wily Alex Campbell\tT M Bryson Hugh Thompson\tJohn Greenshields John Thompson\tW G Stethem John A Leclero\tRobt Irwiu Louis Boyer dit Garir\t- Ama Blancbamp reze\tWm Ewan Geo Smith\tJohn Newth Maximo Rucre\tJohn Enard Richard Birks\tGeorge Barrington Emile Jaost\tWilliam Smith A Ramsay\tHugh Mathewsoa William King\tJohn Harold E Biron\tF Grane Wm Smyth\tJohn Sproston Alex Milloy\tJ D Dresser Samuel Evans\tDavid Bobinson W R Clarke\tA Gemmell J P Cowan\tH A Nelson Henry Lavender\tJames Carson James McMillan\tChas Atkinson E Hudon\tCapt O Lepage L Marchand\tJ B Rolland A.Jodoin, junior\tP Mathieu Victor Hudon\tL P Boivin Amable Prévost\tY Chapeleau U Malherbe\tD Pelletier N B Desmarteau\tA Paradis A Mousseau\tH Peacock P Plamondon\tJ Barsalou A L P.acicot\tF Brais A Pelland\tPeter Shulty L Plamoudon\tGeo Hagar R Carmirant\tJ B Herard F Leclaire\tJohn Levy Jean Leclaire\tE H Merrill Isidore Leclaire\tJohnLeeming Louis Lazure\tWilliam Benjamin B Levine\tJ Piddian J B Franchero\tW H Merrill F Perrin\tL F Berthelot O Quevillon\tB W Warner O A Weilbronner\tG J Ascher H Busse au\tLouis Beaudry W L Haldimand\tJanvier Terroux F X Brazeau\tSimon Harts F X Lamarche\tJ O Brown A Ouellette\tDavid Mann J B Germain\tJ B Lafrtcain Louis Monat\tEd Mercier F Turgeon\tLouis Delagrave Ls Turgeon\tF McKay Narcisse Marien\tJ Levy C O Beauchemin\tP Gervais H Payette\tChas Gariepy W J Holmes\tJ B Beaudry G Leblanc\tJohn Hutchins J Grenier\tP E Picault K Grenier\tR Coquerelle John Murphy\tP B Badeaux P P Martin\tIgnace Renaud DDupont\tAmable Dorval O G Lazure\tAntonie St Jean J O Leelere\tD Nault Chs Marchand\tJ H Dorval L C Bathean\tT Lafrtcain Joseph Leblanc T Tiffin Jules Lavine Hospice Chaput _ W B Desmartonu J O Mercier John Elliott R St Joan L J Beliveau O B Dupont P Roy E Roy Joseph Christin Louis Rivet A Doray A Dubord J W Haldimand L J Fauteux J HJabiu A Tellier John Thompson John McDonald O Melançon A Mercier Chas Hebert T B Duclos Edouard Coetilliord Etienne Lagrenade, fils Louis Prudhomme J B Oyo Leandre Vican Hypolyte Poyé V H Proux Baptiste Thomas T B Degagne Total Morin Joseph Sigouin Guillame Leolaire Fabion Guilbault _,eon Perrault Conjoint Brouillet Leon Lamoureux Jean Morie, fargette André Withe Francois Rousseau Louis Gibeau Etienne Lapierre Joseph Crepeau Auguste LailamBM Antoine Racet Antoine Racet L J Rathé Joseph Houle Etienne Perrault Joseph Seney Pierre Montmarquet Antoine Dougon Joseph Laurent Joseph Duclos Louis Payette G Guilbault Casimir Dubuc Edouard Perrault Adolphe Gibeau Moyes Lavigne Timolion Ducharme Joseph Bertrand Joseph Bertrand Edouard Villemer Alexis Dubreuil James Lyman Adolphus Lemienne Isidore Leclaire Joseph Jolisf Joseph Yon Thomas Poitras Michel Felton Charles Racet Francois Labranche Etienne Vincent James Haynes Ceril Blais Spriftogh Krutsch Paul Ste Louis Narcisse Gibeau Laurent Dufrèsne Alex Ménard Charles Labelle Charles Labelle Antoine Moreau Pierre Frigon Adolphe Tromier G L Rolland J Bte Trudel Joseph Lafontaine Ambroise Boleau Joseph Dubois J Bte Desjardins Michael Jovanetti Joseph Parent Antoine Gougeon L E Morin Gedeon Forêt Yanance Ladurantait Thos Battle P J Fogarty Thos D Quinn P Brown Alex McCambridge Michael Farner Wm Ennis J O\u2019Conor Tho Hanley Denis Loehlan Michael Griffin Bartholomie McGrath Wm Ryan James Noad John O\u2019Connor Morgan O\u2019Connell John Farrell Patrick Larkin Francis Malone Michael McDonell Daniel Farrell Michael Farrell James Spiers James McShane Wm Brennan John McPherson Thos Patton John Patton John O\u2019Meara Bernard Fitzsimons W V Courtney T J Cartwright Peter McNeice A M Hay Nestor Turgeon Andrew Hamilton Hy Jordan Daniel Ford John Garraghan John Scanlon Martin Brennan William Wilson Hy Samuels E Gorman Hy Irish John Borders M P Ryan Olivier Lafontaine Charles Laurin Joseph Neau John Tees Benjamin Lamb Charles Laurin, fils Joseph Trudelle Charles Boyt Andre Milotte D Sauvageau H Duchesreau Frs Basinet A Walker M Ramsay S Cloutier Pierre Allard Thomas Allard Donald Shearer George Cloves A Papineau Louis Champeaux 'Gabriel Hurtubise J Bte Labelle Joseph Lafond Augustin Dupuis Louis Leduo Joa Veune Cleophaa Leduo F Leblanc Louis Aubertin Joseph Gauthier Leandre Chaput T McGuire Séraphin St Auge John Curran Pierre Raze Leon Larue W S Walker Chas Thomas L Piché Louis Guenette Stanislas Corbraille Paul Létondal Louis Lepère Thos Byrne W D McLaren E C Longley D Donaz Thos Kent T R Deschamp Pierre Lacroix Charles Berger Charles Dugrotte Charles Dubeau Pierre Gaignon Thomas Giguerè Chas Aubry Joseph Tessier Francois Codier Antoine Lavoie Louis Dion Jacque Dessautel Jos R Giroux John Gordon Bonnatue Janot F X Lapointe Francois Lapointe John Orr James Close Joseph T Thérien Charles Berland Léon Bruneau Leon Larue Père Theodore Giroux Narcisse Jervais Benjamin Amesse Octave Bourgouin R Logan Robert Greenlees Felix Gosselin William Davis Charles Laporte Solomon Lecomte Louis Casavon Aimé Lecomte F X Gangnon Joseph Mélonson François Dépatie Ceophib Belbyorde Jerémie Rochoni Joseph Bourgouin Nicolas Fournier Antoine Poulin Johens Beauchamp François Lafleure Benjamin Fortin François Labranch Maedairique Rivais Joseph Goulais Joseph Liard Andrew Watson Michel Dodelin Joseph Jacques B Dodelin Pierre Amesse P Amesse Louis Richard Joseph Martial Pierre Parent Louis Larose Benjamin Euberot dit Lajeunnesse William White John Driscoll J Bte Bignon Amable Menard N Valois Louis Lacroix Joseph Dubé Frs Boulé A P Ricard William Douglas Joseph Martel André Bone Jos Dufaud Alex Murphy Robt Dean Andrew Owler George Wallace Timothy O\u2019Brien Robert Patten Gesrge Seebold Wm Foolner Hugh Derragh B Devlin Thomas Rice Fennelly P Muldoon Daniel Lanigan William Warren Abraham Wilson F Maguire Thomas Dodnam L Grantmyn J Sadlier Thos Battle Chas W Sharpley James Brown E Lyman Mills R Malcolm Donald Fraser James Foster P Ronayne Neil Shannon J Malion Stauise Cusson Hermoine Carrière Toussaint Vaucille Alfred Senecal Joseph Bourasa A W Oglevy Joseph Versaelle GENTLEMEN,\u2014I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your requisition in-I viting me to become a Candidate for the office of I Mayor of this City.Coming, as your requisition does, from all classes of the Electors, without distinction of party, creed or origin, it leaves me no alternative but to accept the invitation and, if elected, the Citizens of Montreal may rely on no pains or exertions being spared on my part to fulfil, with fidelity, the duties appertain, ing to the office of Chief Magistrate of the com.mercial emporium of Canada.It is gratifying indeed to me, to find that my conduct, so far, as a member of the Corporation, meets with your approval ; and I trust by my future exertions to I continue to be worthy of your confidence.I remain, Gentlemen, Your very obedient servant, HENRY STARNES.Montreal, January 23, 1856.\t20 PRINTERS ANNUAL FESTIVAL.HOUSES, &c.FOR SALE OR TO LET.IHE Committee of Management have great pleasure in announcing to their Friends and the Public, that their ANNUAL FESTIVAL WILL BE HELD (THIS TEAK) IN THE THEATRE ROYAL, COTE STREET, Ë TUESDAY MEM6, JAN, 29,1856, Chair to be taken at Half-past Eight o\u2019clock.Short Addresses will be delivered hy several eminent gentlemen.Songs, &c., during the evening.Liston\u2019s Quadrille Band has been engaged for the occasion.Refreshments of a superior description will be supplied by Messrs.Isaacson & Balchin.TICKETS\u2014Gentlemen\u2019s, Gs 3d ; Ladies\u2019, 3s 9d : to be had at Herbert\u2019s and Prince\u2019s Music Stores, the Bookstores of Messrs.Armour and Dawson, Pickup\u2019s News Office, Dolly\u2019s Chop House, O\u2019Meara\u2019s Restaurant, Balchin\u2019s Hotel, opposite St.Ann\u2019s Market, of the Members of the Committee, and at the Door of the Theatre on the evening of the Festival.January 22.\t18 Under the Patronage of His Honor the Mayor, A GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC WILL BE GIVEN AT THE CITY CONCERT HAT.C, On Tuesday Evening, Jany.29, FOR THB BENEFIT OF THE MONTREAL PROTESTANT ORPHAN ASYLUM.Particulars will be published hereafter.Tickets, at Is 3d each, may be had at Pickup\u2019s News Office, Messrs.S.J.Lyman & Go\u2019s, H.Prince\u2019s Music Store, Medical Hall, Alexander\u2019s Confectionery, Armour\u2019s and Dawson\u2019s Book Stores, and at J.Gardner\u2019s, Chemist, west end.Jan.10.\tdeltas A GRAND\tBALL, Under the superintendence and management of the R.W.the Deputy Grand Master of the G.L.of Canada, and the Masters, Officers and Brethren of different Lodges in this City, WILL BE HELD AT THE Mechanics\u2019 Hall, Great St.James Street, ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 31st.Tickets five dollars each\u2014admitting a gentleman and one or two ladies, can be had at Dawson\u2019s Book Store, Great St.James Street ; Herbert\u2019s Prince\u2019s and Seebold\u2019s Music Stores, Notre Dame Street ; Browning\u2019s Ottawa Hotel, and from Members of the Committee.Brethren and others, non-residents of the city, desiring tickets, will please communicate with the Secretary.The Committee have secured the use of the entire building, which will be elegantly furnished and decorated for the occasion.The proceeds will be distributed amongst the different charities of the city.Members of the craft will appear in regalia.Messrs.Prince and Maffre\u2019s Military and Quadrille Bands.A.N.RENNIE, Secretary, Jan.14.\tTts II ANNIVERSARY MEETINGS.rpHE ANNUAL MEETINGS of the following A SOCIETIES will be held this year in the WESLEYAN CHORCH, Great St.James Street, in the following order :\u2014 French Canadian Missionary Society, ON THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24.Montreal Temperance Society, ON FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25; and on SATURDAY EVENING will be held a Union Missionary Meeting.The Chair will be taken each evening at Half-past SIX o\u2019clock, and Collections taken up on behalf of each of the several objects.Admission by Tickets, gratis, to be obtained of the members of the Committees ; at the Stores of Messrs.Armour, Dawson, and Pickup ; at the Depository, 43 Great St.James Street.One ticket will serve for the week, which, after being presented at the inner door, may be retained to bs used at future meetings.The Churches in the City are respectiully requested to give up, for that week, any of their ordinary Meetings usually held on either of the above evenings, that the attendance on these celebrations may be the more general.In connection with the Anniversary Meetings a series of Prayer Meetings will be held, in the Lecture Room of the American Presbyterian Church, at Nino o\u2019clock, A.M., on the morning of the day of each Meeting.There will be a meeting for prayer in the same place at half-past seven o\u2019clock, on Saturday evening, the 19th inst.\u2014and,\u2014 The Anniversary Social Meeting of the City Tract Distributing Association on THURSDAY EVENING, 31st instant.Montreal, Jan.15, 1856.\tdc 12 TO ADVERTISERS.I MONTREAL WEEKLY HERALD Has now a Country Circulation of upwards of 6,000 Copies, | Being the Largest Circulation of any Paper published in Eastern Canada, I It therefore offers inducemenls to persons who I may wish to CIRCULATE THEIR ADVERTISEMENTS, superior to any other medium I offered for such purpose.Terms for Advertising in the Weekly Herald, | 4d per line for each insertion.Dec.10.\t292 M1 TO LET.FROM the first May next, TWO SHOPS and DWELLINGS in the House corner of Notre Dame & St.Gabriel Streets.One of the Shops can be fitted up to suit a tenant.For particulars enquire of ARCH.FERGUSON, Dorchester Street, near Beaver Hall.Jan.23.\t19 TO LET.ONE OF THOSE EXTENSIVE WAREHOUSES, Lemoine Street.ONE STORE, St.Paul Street West.THREE OFFICES in St.Paul Street W est.The NORTH WEST STORE, Queen Street.EXTENSIVE SHEDS and YARDS in Lemoine Street.JESSE JOSEPH.Jan.23.\tdm 19 TO LET, AN ATTIC about 90 feet in length, situated in a central part of the city, well adapted lor certain descriptions of manufacturing.Apply at the \u201c Herald \u201d Office.Dec.6.\t289 TO LET, The COTTAGE and GARDEN at COTE ST.ANTOINE, formerly occupied by M.J.Hays, Esquire.There is now a board-walk from the house to town.Apply at 43 Little St.James Street.January 23.\tTts 19 NOTICE.Mr.LAFOND, leaving Montreal, offers to LET, from this to 1st May next, the fine store he actually occupies as a Dry Goods Store, with Counters and Shelves ready to receive merchandize.Rent very low.\u2014Also\u2014 HIS DWELLING HOUSE, No.10 Dorchester Street.J.E.LAFOND, 151 Notre Dame Street.Oct.12.\t242 TO LET.THB DWELLING HOUSE AND SHOP in Notre Dame Street, known as the A 'etropolitcm Salami, well adapted for a Store of any kind.The fixtures can be taken at a valuation.TWO NEW CUT STONE HOUSES in Amherst Street, Quebec Suburbs.A NEW CUT STONE HOUSE, on the corner of Craig & Nicholas Tolentine Streets, containing Nine Rooms, Cellar Kitchen, &c., finished in the best style, with large yard or Garden.Apply to J.G.SIMS, Champ de Mars Street.Jan.22.\t18 oi Hlii Xi BAflSl TO LET, THE UNDERSIGNED is prepared to LEASE TWO of his STONE STORES, situated on the CANAL BASIN and WELLINGTON STREET.Also, the VACANT LOTS adjoining, which are admirably adapted for COAL YARDS.JOHN YOUNG.Montreal, Jan.22, 1856.\t1m 18 THE Subscriber has been instructed to sell FOUR LOTS OF LAND at RIVER ST.PIERRE, two miles from town, fronting upon the Lower Lachine Road, and abutting upon the Montreal Acqueduct, Three of these Lots are about ten arpents each, and the fourth about sixteen arpents.Nearly the whole of the purchase money may remain in the hands of the purchasers for a term of years, and should it be considered necessary ratification of title will be given.For beauty of situation and quality of soil these lands cannot be surpassed.JOHN HELDER ISAACSON, Notary Public.Montreal, Oct.31, \u201955.\t258 TO LET, In Grey Nun Street, near the Steam-heat Basin, that well-known stand, occupied as the VICTORIA HOUSE, by Mr.John M orison.\u2014also,\u2014 The Thiee-Story House adjoining, occupied for some years past as a GROCERY and PROVISION STORE, the upper part as a Boarding House.DAVID & RAMSAY.Jan.22.\t18 Aia.AaKat IMT TO LET, THE HOUSE No.33 Little St.James Street, the RESIDENCE of the late DR.CRAWFORD.Apply on tho Premises.Jan.18.\tr 15 FOE SALE OE TO LET.a THAT HOUSE AND PROPERTY of the late Postmaster, JAMES POR-TEOUS, Esq., No.327 Lagauchetiere Street.The House is substantially built, and newly repaired, with every convenience ; 62 feet frontage by 220 feet in depth.\u2014also\u2014 A LARGE BUILDING LOT, Nos.39 & 41 St.Urbain Street, 60 feet frontage by 80 feet in depth.The property is commuted, and will be sold separately or together to suit purchasers.\u2014 An undisputed title will be given.Apply on the premises, to JANE PORTEOUS.Jan.16.\t3m 13 FOR SALE, THAT pleasantly situated property at Cote des Neiges, known as CHESTNUT GROVE, formerly the residence of John Molson, Jr., Esquire, containing about eleven acres of Land, with a first-rate Two-Story Stone Dwelling, Stables, Coach-house, Greenhouse, Ice-house, Root-house, Well, &c.Also, a young Orchard, coming into bearing.The above would he disposed of at a reasonable price.A portion of the purchase morie> may remain on the property.Apply at Molsons Bank.Sept.11.\tif 232 Valuable Building Lots FOR SALE in separate Lots, or two blocks of six Lots each, fronting on Anne, Saint Gabriel and Catherine Streets, St.Ann\u2019s Ward.Terms liberal.Apply at No.91 William Street.HOUSES TO LET.TWO IN UNION AVENUE, Beaver Hall.ONE IN PRES de VILLE PLACE.ONE, with SHOP, in St.Mary Street.H.JOSEPH & CO.January 12.\tTts 10 Jan.21.TO LET, FROM 1st MAY next, that Commodious House, No.2 Richmond Square.Apply on the premises.b 17 Valuable Mill Property FOB.SA&B mfSt IPort Hope.VTVHE Undersigned offer for Sale their VALU-1 ABLE MILL PROPERTY and STORES at PORT HOPE, together with the LAND therewith connected.The situation of this Property is unsurpassed for facilities of purchasing Wheat and Milling purposes.A plan of the whole can be seen at the Subscribers\u2019 Office, with all further particulars and terms of Sale.GILMOUR & CO., St.Sacrament Street.Jan.16,\t3m 13 Wild Lands In Upper Uanada.MERCHANTS and others desirous of c posing or making purchases of Wild Lauds in Upper Canada, will find it to their advantage to communicate with the Subscriber.MAITLAND FISHER, Land Agent.Hamilton, 2nd January, 1856.Refehenok: MESSRS.DAVID TORRANCE & CO., Montreal.Jan.7.\t5 A: HARBOUR DEBENTURES.to Jos Beaudry A Levy F H D Montigny Chas Lablerge O J N DeMontigny Jos Doutre Alexi Cusson Narcisse Pigeon Tancrede Sauvageau A Garriepy J M Papineau R Lafiamme Simeon Valois J Beaupre J Grenier L Benoit S Geraldi J O Lantier William Molson John Molson Nazaire Villeneuve Frs Contant Louis Vadeboucosur Magloir Desnoyer John Graig Louis Lapointe Louis Quintin | For Deepening the Ship Channe Twenty Feet fat Low Water.THE HARBOUR COMMISSIONERS OF MONTREAL will receive TENDERS until I FRIDAY, the FIRST OF FEBRUARY NEXT, at NOON, for DEBENTURES, to be issued under the authority of Vic.18, cap.143, sec.23, to the amount of TEN THOUSAND POUNDS j CURRENCY.Applicants are requested to state the amount I applied for, and the rate of interest required for Debentures at par\u2014not, however, to exceed eight per cent, per annum.Tenders, endorsed \u201c Tender for Debentures,\u201d to be addressed to the undersigned, who will supply any further information on application j being made.By Order, ALEX.CLERK, Secretary.j Harbour Commissioners\u2019 Office, ?Montreal, 19th Jan., 1856.\t> dc 16 MONEY TO LEND.SEVERAL sums of Money, from £200 to £600, to be Lent on good security.Apply to I Mr.Griffin, Notary, Union Buildings, or Box 230, | Post Office.Montreal, January 19, 1856.\tr 16 St.Andrew\u2019s Society.EMBERS who have not yet paid their Annual SUBSCRIPTIONS, are respectfully notified they will save the Society the expense of collection, by sending same on or before 1st proximo, to Treasurer\u2019s Office, 38 St.Francois Xavier Street.Montreal, Jan.18, 1856.\tr 16 Direct Importation.NOW LANDING via U.S.Ports,\u2014 Pale Seal Oil in barrels, a genuine article Pure Cod Oil No.1 Herrings, in barrels and halves J.A.& H MATHEWSON, McGill Street.Montreal, Jan.22.\tm 18 NO.SEVEN of FRANK LESLIE\u2019S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER contains a beautiful Engraving of The New England Dinner at Montreal Portrait of the Honble.N.P.Banks Accident on the Hudson River Railroad The Printers\u2019 Festival N.Y.Portrait of Franklin New Reading Room, Boston Mercantile Library And numerous other splendid Engravings Also, commences in this Number : \u2014 The Thrilling Romance of \u201c The Last of his Race,\u201d by G.F.Smytb.And all the News of the Week.January 22.\tu 18 INHALEES.JUST RECEIVED, a further supply of HALERS of the most improved patterns.IN- Jan.9,1856.S.J.LYMAN A CO.JUST RECEIVED\u2014 Lead and Composition Pipe, of various calibre HENRY CHAPMAN & CO.Jan.3.\t2 FOB SA&IS, FARM in the Township of COMPTON.The Farm contains 300 acres of Land, of which 150 acres are well cleared and fenced\u2014 Portland Railroad passes through it.The remaining 150 acres are well wooded with maple wood of splendid growth.It joins the Village of Richardson, where there are grist and saw mills.The Coaticot River passes through the middle of the property.It is considered the best farm in that vicinity,\u2014better known as the \u201c Cochran Farm.\u201d Apply at this office or by letter (post-paid) to P.W.DBASE.Oct.31.\t258 HOUSES, &e.FOR SALE OR TO LET TO LET.THE Building Nos.53, 65, & 67, St.Francois Xavier Street, 66 feet front, with Wine Vaults.The Upper Flat may rented separate, containing 10 offices.Apply to W.& H.F.ADAMS.Jan.19.\t10 TO LET, TWO or THREE OFFICES in MnuuM\u2019 Buildings.Possession given on 1st April next.Apply to F.F.MULLINS, 89 Commissioner Street March 6.\t232 AUCTION SALES bit croHBf THIS MORNING.SUGARS AND SYRUP.On Thursday next, January 24th, AT THE STORES OF MESSRS, , STARNES & 'l\u201e WILL BE SOLD Barrels |Porto ®\u2018oo Sugar Barrels Syrup Sale at ELEVEN o\u2019clock.JOHN LEEMING, 18\tAuctioneer.UNION SALES ROOM.TEAS, SUGARS, WINES, Brandies, Gin, Groceries^ &c.Ac.&c.On SATURDAY Text, Jan, 26th, AT THE UNION SALES ROOM, Will be Sold, AN EXTENSIVE AND GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF TEAS, SHEARS, WINES, RRANDIES, GIN, GE0CESÜËS.iCr- Particulars in future advertisement.Sale at TWO o\u2019clock.JOHN LEEMING, Auctioneer.17 Deo.8.291 TO MILLERS AND MACHINISTS.TO BE SOLD, by Private Contract, that VALUABLE WATER PRIVILEGE, on Smith\u2019s Creek, situated about two and a half miles from the thriving town of Port Hope, County of Durham, and known by the name of GROVE MILLS together with FIFTEEN ACRES OF LAND, On which is a thriving ORCHARD of choice Fruit Trees.The above Property is well worth the attention of Capitalists, as the stream is unsurpassed, and capable of driving the machinery of a very extensive estpblishment.And it is now generally supposed that the GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY will pass within a few Rods of the place.For terms and further particulars, apply to Messrs.FOSTER & CARSON, Port Hope, or to the Subscriber.GEO.COULSON.Port Hope, Dec.24, 1855,\t1m 304 THEATRE ROYAL.J.W.BUCKLAND.Lessee.W.HERBERT.Aoent.This ELEGANT ESTABLISHMENT, with all the DECORATIONS, as arranged and executed for the HISTRIONIC ASSEMBLIES! FORMING the MOST SPLENDID and UNIQUE BALL ROOM IN CANADA, May be Engaged on REASONABLE TERMS for Balls, Soirees, Concerts, &c.REAL ESTATE, VERY VALUABLE BUILDING LOTS FOR SALE BY AUCTION.t'pHE Subscriber has received instructions to JL offer for Sale that exceedingly valuable PROPERTY forming the Corner of ST.ANTOINE and GUY STREETS, immediately adjoining SYDENHAM PLACE.Lithographed Plans will shortly be issued showing that the Property is divided into SIX MOST VALUABLE BUILDING LOTS, 29 feet front by 143 feet deep, in a line with Sydenham Place ; TWO EXCELLENT BUILDING LOTS, same frontage, and 173 feet deep on Guy Street.This property is commuted, and is situate in the most desirable part of the City of Montreal for first class residences, being immediately contiguous to Portland Place, St.Antoine Place, Sydenham Place, Richmond Square, Bellevue and Mountain Terraces, and the beautiful detached Villa residences of the Right Rev.the Anglican Bishop of Montreal, Sir L.II.Lafontaine, Bart., Jno.Torrance, Esq., Chas.Philips, Esq., and many other wealthy citizens.The Sale will take place on WEDNESDAY, January 30th, at ELEVEN o\u2019clock.JOHN LEEMING, Auctioneer.January 10.\tTts 8 Montreal,.fan.16.J.W.HERBERT, 131 & 133 Notre Dame St.13 JOHN CLARKE, Auctioneer and Commission Merchant, 39 & 41 St.Francois Xavier Street, Montreal.B OHN CLARKE respectfully informs the 9 Merchants and Public of Montreal that he has commenced business in the above well-known prewises, as AUCTIONEER AND GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT.In soliciting a share of public patronage, J.C.begs to say that lie will endeavor, by punctuality and attention, to give satisfaction to those who may require his services.Consignments of Merchandise of every description, either for public or private sale, will meet with prompt attention.References kindly permitted to Hon.John Molson, Messrs.Andbrson, Evans & Co., 11 Thomas & Wm.Molson & Co., \u201c J.G.Mackenzie & Co., and Wm.Workman, Esq.Montreal, Jan.17.\t14 N.B.\u2014Large and excellent FIRE-PROOF VAULTS for Storage.There is also an extensive FIRE-PROOF SAFE on the premises for tho security of Plate, Jewellery or Valuables.The Mountain House, ST.HILAIRE DeROUVILLE.THIS commodious, newly built, and delightfully situated HOTEL, may be leased on advantageous terms for the ensuing season, or for a term of years.Application to MAJOR CAMPBELL, St.Hilaire de Rouville; Or\tJOHN LEEMING, Montreal.Jan.10.\t2m mt 8 CAUTION.Blundell, Spence & Co.\u2019s Boiled & Raw Linseed Oils.HAVING information that a considerable quantity of ADULTERATED OIL has been sold in the Canadian Markets, labeled with B.S.& Co.\u2019s brand, and purporting to be of their manufacture, 1 beg to caution buyers to make their purchases only from responsible and respectable houses.EDWARD HILL, Agent.72 Broad Street, New York, ( Jan.17, 1856.\t)\t1m 14 LOTTERY ! JL0TTERY7r THE DRAWING OF J.T.PEACOCK\u2019S LOTTERY Will taKe place