Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 11 février 1859, vendredi 11 février 1859

[" îiOd'HtKl» BiSKAM) STM1 SOUK â JOB PB1TIS !S®.al©» ia®tre S>ame ftreat, (Wear St.Francois Xavier St.,) MONTREAL.t riHE Proprietor of this Establishment begs to B inform his friends and the public in general, that having ENLARGED h iSTOCK of PRINTING MATERIALS, STEAM PRESSES, &c., he is now prepared to undertake every description of Printing, such as Books, Pamphlets, Magazines, Insurance Policies, Programmes, Catalogues, Posting Bills, Hand Bills, Railway Bills, Steamboat Bills, Circulars, Invitation and Funeral Letters, Druggists and other Labels Military Forms of every description, &c., with despatch, and at the LOWEST CITY PRICES.83\u201d Business Cards neatly and promptly executed.JAMES POTTS Jan.26.\t22 IM P O li T A N T TO ALL WHO» IT m COHCEBH.rpHOSE who are desirous, in these hard times of Saving Money, should visit the S T CI B, B in Notre Dame Street.To Persons having large Families and heavy expenses, one shilling, or even sixpence'S.aved in a yard of goods, makes a very important economical item at the end of the year, particularly in the following articles :\u2014 Black Cloth, for Ladies\u2019 Cloaks and Gent\u2019s Dress Suits Black Doeskin Fancy Doeskin VELVETS of all colours, suitable for linery and other purposes Petershams ) Mohairs\t|\tAH first rate material Witneys\t) warm Overcoats.Pilots Sealskin, Deerskin, &c.Together with a large assortment of SILK VESTINGS, each article being marked in plain figures, and at prices unequalled in Montreal.The main object which induces the Proprietors to sell at these very low rates is, simply, to carry out a large business, and give full and ample satisfaction to those who, once having purchased, may not only repeat their visit, but have the satisfaction of knowing that they obtain articles worth their money, which at once proves that this is no common puff got up for the purpose of enticing the public to lay out their money on worthless articles.To get all you can out of the purses of the public is bad policy\u2014because it not only causes them to purchase rarely, but actually deprives them of making purchases as often as they would wish ; consequently the goods herein advertised are open to the inspection of all, who, without purchasing, are invited to visit the establishment and satisfy themselves as to the truth of the above statements.183 NOTEE MME STREET Nov.30.\t284 Mil- for AND DALLY i t > s .* GAZETTE.VOLUME LI.MONTREAL, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 1859.v .\t.\t.\t.\t7.\t,\t'\t7 mm ORATORIO.IN order to increase the Public taste for the sublime works of HANDEL, HAYDN and MOZART, the subscriber will in future supply all the popular 0 EAT (Hues, [Both Novello\u2019s and Cooks\u2019 Editions,] AT COST PRICE.N.B.\u2014A large supply of the MESSIAH and CREATION just received.HENRY PRINCE, 145 Notre Dame Street.January 18.\t14 PIANOS.COTTAGE PIANO-FORTES, from Allison\u2019s, London.Also, A complete Assortment of the celebrated Instruments manufactured by Nunns & Clark, New York.At S.T.PEARCE\u2019S, 19 Great St.James Stieet.N.B.\u2014Orders for TONING, &c., attended to in the city and country.Jan.20.\t20 PEOVLMIAL PARLiAMMT.HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.9, three Perfect Substitute for SILYER.ELEOTEO-PLATE ON NICKEL SILVER, ORIGINALLY introduced by R.SHAR-PLEY into Canada, over fifteen years since, and has been found to give general satisfaction, at the following REDUCED PRICES : Fiddle or plain Pattern.Thread PâU'rn.Kings Pattern: 1st 2nd 3rd Isi 12 Table Forks.12 Do.Spoons.12 Desert Forks.12 Do.Spoons .12 Tea Spoons.2 Egg Spoons [Gilt BowlJ.2 Sauçe Ladles 1\tGravy Spoon.2\tSalt Spoons [Gill Bowl] .1 Mustard do.[Gilt Bowl] .1 pair Sugar Tongs 1 pair P\u2019ish Carversi [in Case].1 Butter Knife .1 Soup Ladle .( 1 Sugar Sifter .Qlty Qlty $ 10,00 \u201c \" 10,00 7.50 8;oo 6.60i 6^00 6.50 3.50 5,60 2,50 2,40 1,50 1.80 1.10 2,501 2; 00 0,80 0,50 0,40 0.25 0,75 0,60 TOO! 6,00 0.90, 0,75 4jô0 2,50 Discount for Cash 6 per cent .58,45 43,70 2,92 2,18 65.83 41,62 Qlty 1 Qlty $ $ 4,80 10.50 4,80 12:00 3.50 3.50 1,75 1,60 1.10 1,25 0,25 0,50 5.00 0.50 1,25 8,00 8.50 4.50 3.00 2.00 2.50 0,50 1,25 6.00 1,00 4 00 0,90 30,20 65,65 1,51 3,28 ,28,69 62,37 Qlty $ 13.00 15.00 9.00 10,60 6,60 4.50 2.50 3;oo 1.50 0,75 1,25 7.00 1,50 5.00 1,25 82,25 4,11 2nd Qlty $ 10.50 12,00 8,00 8.50 4,60 3,30 2,00 2.50 1,10 0,55 1,00 6.50 1,25 4.00 1.00 66,70 3rd Qiy $ LOo Wo 5.00 5.00 Wo MES FORCHRISTIAS.TVEIFS.^a.3Sr'mOKTY, GREAT ST.JAMES STREET, Would direct the attention of the Public to his present stock of Cakes, Fancy Confectionery and Hoildiy Presents, now an exhibition at his Store.Dec.21.\t302 ft I À lM.IIS & CO.Wholesale Importers OF iliffo Fancy and Staple DRY GOODS, Mos._70.71, 72, & 73 Boyer's Buildings, Custoji-Hoüsb Square, INVITE the attention of Buyers to the very attractive display they are now making having received and opened up the contents 0 600 Gases and Bales of F AIL B GOODS.Comprising all the Novelties of the Season, selected with care in the French, English and Scotch Markets by our Mr.Clark, who remains in Britain this winter for the purpose of selecting and for forwarding by each steamer the various Novelties as they are produced, for the Fall-Winter Trade.Our Stock is now complete, in all the Denart-ments.TERMS LIBERAL.December 1.\t309 Toronto, Tuesday, Feb The SPEAKER took the chair at o\u2019olock.KEGUSTR ATI ON OB' DEBENTURES.Mr.ROBLIN presented a petition from the Municipal CouncU of the Counties of Frontenac, Lennox and Addington, praying for the repeal of the Act for registering debentures.POST OFFICE REPORT.Hon.Mr.ALLEYN laid on the table the report of the Postmaster General for the year 1858.THE DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.On the order being called for resuming the debate on the Address.Hon.Mr.CAMERON addressed the House.He said the debate had already been protracted but considering its importance not too much so.Notwithstanding what fell from the lips of the member for South Oxford last evening, he still thought that the honor and character of the country were involved in the decision which would be come to with respect to the Seat of Government.It was pleasant to enter into this debate after the manner in which the subject had been treated.He congratulated the House and the country upon the altered tone, so different from that which they were accustomed to twelve monttis ago, and the freeness from personality ; for although there had been some hard talking, some recriminations, some reminiscences which many would rather not have heard, yet they were all legitimate in debate : they were all from the speeches of gentlemen who had taken an interest in legislation\u2014from the writings of gentlemen who had written for |.y Hon.Mr.CAMERON, could understand a de- moerat SDealdng-in-tha.t way.lhut no one who the purpose of influencing the public mind-which gentlemen ought always to be prepared to meet.It was somewhat cool for gentlemen on the other other side, after eating and drinking the Ministry to destruction, and amusing their followers by humorously representing the head of the Government as guilty of something incomprehensibly wicked\u2014endeavoring to bring what little semblance we had of royalty into contempt \u2014 charging the Ministry generally with everything that was disgraceful, even with wilful and corrupt perjury, to complain that hese gentlemen and their friends should attack hem.titrange that these gentlemen should not only not plead guilty, should actually carry the war into the enemy\u2019s camp, and retort upon them the charge of corruption in the formation of their Administration\u2014 an Administration composed of such heterogeneous materials\u2014such opposite elements\u2014of gentlemen holding such extreme and diversified .opinions\u2014that it was a matter of impossibility they could have agreed on anything like a broad, comprehensive and defined policy.After referring to the views and opinions held by the different members of the Brown-Dorion Administration at different times in illustration of this remark, Mr.Cameron went on to say that, as a matter ot course, there had not been any desire manifested to go into explanations.The late member for Grenville was instructed to say that Ead a, respect for the institullonsland the inter-ests jpf this country.IHThese' gentlemen, how-ever, in their al'ter-dmner speeches, study more the interests of party warfare than those of their country.The position taken by the hon.member for South Oxford would be best illustrated by a quotation from a small work he held in his hand.[Here the hon.member read\u2014 from one of the Biglow papers\u2014a portion of a letter from a candidate for the Presidency to certain questions proposed to him\u2014concluding with the lines :\u2014 \u201cTell \u2019em that on the slavery question I\u2019m right, Although to speak I\u2019m loath.This gives you a safe pint to rest on an\u2019 And leaves me frontin\u2019 South by North.\u201d He thought that quite apropos.The difficulty in getting an answer to the questions from these hou.gentlemen not only leaves them \u201cfrontin\u2019 South by North,\u201d but East and West and all round as this gentleman says.Mr.MACDOUGALL\u2014What is the authority from which the hon.gentleman has just quoted ?A MEMBER\u2014Puffendorf.Hon.Mr.CAMERON\u2014The Biglow papers\u2014 the hon.member referred to the inconsistency of the hon.member for South Ontario\u2014in stating the readiness and ability of the Brown-Dorion Administration to settle the question of the Seat of Government, and yet the absurdity of speaking of settling it now, when the question of a Federation of the Provinces was talked of, although that hon.gentleman considered the settlement of that question a long way distant.The hon.member said he would not pursue the subject further at present, although .he might have done so\u2014he would simply say we are bound to obey the decision which we PER STEAMER \"ANGLO-SAXON.\u201d J.BUN B1 n8,14l 63,31 The above GooUs are Warranted to be of British Manufacture.R.Sharpley begs to call the attention of the public to the advertised prices iu London of the above Goods, of the same quality : LONDON PRICES l Thread Pattern.Kings Pat\u2019rn 6 stg.£1T 14 6 stg MONTREAL PRICES 1 £10\t7\t7 cy.£15 11 10 cy.£15 16 10 cy.R.SHARPLEY, .Crystal Block, Notre Dame Street.CKISEE EGS to inform the Public that he has received, per above Steamer, a mw & vmi ed mmmm OF GOLD AND SILVER W A T C M E 8, B.ÏNÊ-S, STUDS.£3- O X.3 AUD EIsECTBlM-l\u2019IsJlTE, WHOLESALE ASB BETAIL 214, NOTRE DAME STREET.July 5.\t__ given.[Hear, hear.] This conduct had been compared to that of Mr.Baldwin here or Earl Derby in England, who, it was said, after forming their Ministries, only gave indications of what their policy would be.But in those cases indications as to the direction of their political course had been given.Here, however, nothing of that nature had been let out.The basis on which Representation by Population was to be granted, was kept concealed, as well as the checks and guarantees which Lower Canada was to receive.Who had asked for details ?No one.But all rational men had expected to hear something of general principles.\u2014Hear, hear.\u2014The member for South Oxford had said the House had good reason to believe that the Government at their formation had abandoned their previous policy on the Seat of Government question.He could understand how such a statement could be made by one who only read one class of newspapers, but after hearing Iourselves invented, for our honour ^and our credit.U/We are bound to do so, becàuseht is tfae~de*eision of-pur Queen-La, woman 1 of tb highest character and mainaniLUHv-/fand to whom we owe all honor.r7 /\t' '\t7 A call was made tor a division, and the members having been called in, Mr.Hogan\u2019s motion was put to the vote and lost on a division.The votes were not taken.Hon.Mr.CARTIER then said, that when he last addressed the Honse he had reserved to himself the right of replying to certain remarks of the senior member for Montreal.He [Mr.Dorion] had wished to say that the Government had been formed without a policy, whereas the late ministry of 48 hours had a fixed policy, calculated to cement the union between the two provinces.He read the declarations of the Government at its formation, to show that the Government ted the same policy as the one which existed last session.That policy, he argued, was sufficiently extensive.Moreover, they had said, \u201c the operation of the tariff would be closely watched,\u201d &c., &c.That was no unimportant point of policy.\u2014 (The principle of ad valorem duties was to be carried out more extensively.The senior member for Montreal had said that the Government had not last session any policy on the Seat of Government,but the explanations of his hon.friend [Mr.Sicotte] had proved the at the next session of Parliament they would be Ireverse, and indeed he would now assert that the Government had never for one.JikaTEafnieen promisee! session jeasAhat ithe money voted would not be expended until) fbjCanew- Ithe^qtiestiuu was bnytfS[ Hodsei-And\u2014mjw moment in-.All of the censitaires that the public chest should bear the expense of redeeming the droifs casuels.[Hear, hear.] He had the pleasure of stating that the entire sum representing the annual.I value of the lods et ventes was.only from £36,-1 000 to £42,000\u2014representing a capital of from £600,000 to £700,000.[Hear.] All the ac-| counts had been made up, excepting a few belonging to seigniories in the District of Montreal.[Hear, hear.] This figure was far less than that with which they had been frightened, and towards the payment of this.sum -we had the grant made by Parliament ot £150,000, the revenue from the seigniory of Lauzon and other sources, which, when capitalized, would \u2022 be worth about £200,000, and the Crown had relinquished its rights to the fifth in the commutation, so that there was in all nearly £400,000 available.(Hear.) The sum which the commission to investigate these affairs had cost badI also been very much exaggerated.It would not exceed L5ÛJL00.[Hear, hear.] Each censitaire.woufd obtain bis commutation for from 7s 6d to 10s.The income due to each seiguior had been paid, and if some £300,000 or £400,-000 more were required fully to free the censi taire, the benefit would be purchased at a moderate price.It was the intention of the Government to do more for the censitaires, for they would embrace in ti^j^ plan the seigniories not included in the act of 1854, viz., the seigniories of Montreal and St.Sulpice, and that of the Two Mountains.He knew that the censi-1 taires of Montreal City would complain, but they were favored by the fact that all that was paid to the Seminary had, by the terms of the tenure, to be expended in Montreal, and in accordance theiewith some 6,000 or 7,000 children were educated gratuitously out of these fuuds.Again, the Seminary were bound to support a mission to the Indians at St.Regis, so that all the income was expended for public objects in Montreal itself and vicinity.Again i great portion of the lods et ventes due to that .eigniory had been remitted, so the censitaires aad really little to complain of.He was now happy to say that two-thirds of the property of that seigniory had already been commuted, and if the rest were embraced iu the proposal of the Government to assist the rural seigniories, those who had commuted would apply to be refunded their outlays.The people of Montreal did not covet very earnestlythe Seat of Government, for they did not need the expenditure consequent upon the residence there of the Ministers and Clerks.Indeed, Montreal was so interested in the City of Ottawa, that what would benefit that place would necessarily benefit Montreal also.f' Mr.LABERGE asked if the Hon.Attorney General knew the capitalized value of all the Seignorial dues yet to be met ?Hon.Mr.CARTIER\u2014The attention of the Government had been especially directed to the lods et venles, but he was not prepared to say the precise amount due.Hon.Mr.DRUMMOND said that the Cadastres (schedules) would show this.Hou.Mr.CAUOHONsaid that his hou.friend had not named any figure as tho probable value all the dues in question.A conversation ensued, in which several French members took pat-f, relative to appeals to England from the decisions of the Se ignorial Tenure Cemmissioners, which, however, did not lead to any result, r- Hon.Mr.CARTIER proceeded.By the Act hfifore 'hfij And\u2014initV~~tFey had redeemed their» 'pledge- by allowing the renewed consideration of the matter in all its bearings : but at the same time they had announced a policy on it, which, he was happy to say, had met the approbation of even some members on the other side.The hon.member for Montreal had accused the Government of dealing with the subject of federation without the aariu.inn nf the House ; but in this his hon, friend was wrong, for the House had~more than once sanctioned.the intention of commencing neiromations upon In 181*4 the Duke of Kent had taken the subject into his consideration, and so had Lord Durham, who merely put it aside-from want'd! .\tq time.'The Question w a s^înTLaiej-v.dilhciL hereto r , \u201e _\t_ the explanation of the hon.member for St.Hya-, in KnateiraTT\"Trar-Tesicles this Goverîi'mÊht He had not proceeded ointne, no one count seriously entertain the f t-Tnfknh.a- -\u2014\t-\u2014^ -.'a ., c-\u2014 \u2014 -¦ and inves State Fiddle Pattern.£11 14 6 stg.£14 11 December 7.290 NOTICE.157 JUST RECEIVED, direct from HAVANA, the undermentioned favourite Brands of CIGARS : ACIERTO LONDRES, J.M.VICHOT LONDRES, JENNY LIND REGALIAS, LUZ.DE AMERICA COQUETAS, ACIERTO CONCHAS, ANTIGUIDAD PANATELLAS, NAPOLEON LONDRES, WOODYILLE LONDRES, CABANA LONDRES, PERLA CUBANA REGALIAS, MIMDO NUEVO COQUETAS, ACIERTO OPERAS, ANTIGUIDAD GALENAS, NAPOLEON CONCHAS.-ALSO,\u2014 50,000 of FINE FLAVOURED CIGARS, of different brands and superior quality.\u2014ALSO,\u2014 Just received ex Steamer \u201c NORTH BRITON,\u201d A fresh supply of the CELEBRATED CRYSTAL TUBE and the MAGIC or WASHED MEERSCHAUM pipe, to colour in one smoking ; CIGAR CASES, FUZEE BOXES, MEERSCHAUM BOWLS, plain and silver mounted ; and numerous other articles suitable for presents for the APPROACHING HOLIDAYS, At G.LEVEY\u2019S, Crystal Block, Notre Dame Street.Dec.7.\t290 fJIMBTMB AID 1£W YEAR.First Prize Exhibition for Uakes and Confectionery.J.A^TO^IY, 33 GREAT ST.JAMES STREET, RETURNS his thanks to the Montreal Pub _ lie for their patronage since he has opened business, and now begs to inform them that he is receiving daily from New York An Endless variet / of eveiy Article in M Line.comprising Confectionery of every description CORNUCAPIAS, FANCY JOUJOUX, &c., suitable for presents for the coming Holidays.The public will please take notice, that Mr Antony will give his personal attention to all orders intrusted to him, and will be executed carefully, promptly and on the shortest possible notice.Particular attention will be given to all orders for Balls and Private Parties.The public are politely requested to inspect his Stock before purchasing elsewhere November 2 7.282 PROSSER\u2019S PATENT ORIGINAL LAP-WELDED IRON and STEEL BOILER TUBES, Safe from end to end.A full supply in Bond and Afloat.Paris Patent Enamelled Iron Pipe's and Pumps, for water supply, acids, &c.\u2014Sole Importers.PROSSER\u2019S PATENT Surface Condensers, for High-Pressure Steam, with Sea or other Bad Boiler Water.Gauges, 3-Cutter Drills, Countersinks, Tube-end Cutting Bars, Expanders, Tube Scalers, Steel Wire and : Whalebone Brushes, Pall Lever Wrenches, Tubes, Plain or Enamelled, Screwed together for Artesian Wells, Steel for Rollers.THOMAS PROSSER & SON, 28 PlattStreet, New York.January 7.\t5 CHÂS.ROBERTSON EPiiOLSTMER AND DAMN ET MAKER, HAS REMOVED FROM NOTRE DAME STREET TO DIS MBW BUIIaiPIMG- No.56 CRâKi STREET, Where he has in his Capacious Show-Rooms a Large Assortment of FURMITUIIE I FOR SALE CHEAP, COMPRISING : Sets of COTTAGE FURNITURE, DRAWING-ROOM FURNITURE, DINING-ROOM FURNITURE, BED-ROOM SETS, &c.&c.&c.Parties should call and see his Stock before purchasing.They will find it for their advantage to do so.His prices are suitable for the HARD TIMES, and offer great chances to persons with money, which they should not neglect if they are wise.Remember Charles Robertson\u2019s, Bo 56 Craig1 Street-November 19.\t27 W.BOUGEAS, BOOT ê SHOE MAKER, wo.ai m:\u2019sias ssass®, BEGS respectfully to call tho attention of the public to hia present assortment of BOOTS & SHOES of every kind.They are manufactured from the best of material and made by the best of workmen that can be had in Canada; for utility, finish and style, he is justified in saying his work cannot be equalled in this city.N.B.\u2014Strict attention will be paid to all work made to order on the shortest notice.\u2014 Good fits on reasonable terms.First Prize for best display of Boots and Shoes Do\tdo\tGent\u2019s\tDress Boots Do\tdo\tGent\u2019s\tWalking Boots\tand Shoes Do\tdo\tGent\u2019s\tDress Shoes First Prize for\tLadies\u2019\tDress Shoes Do\tdo\tLadies\u2019\tWalking Boots\tand Shoes Do do Strong Working Boots.November 30.\t3m-284 ¦ smiomi r B 1HE Subscribers are receiving per Steam-X ship NOVA-SCOTIAN, CITY UF QUEBEC, and other Ships now in port, a Choice and Extensive Assortment of STAPLE and FANCY STATIONERY, bought in the best Markets of Europe and priced low.Wrapping Papers of an improved quality, and a large Stock of Canadian Manufactured Writing Papers at reduced prices.Printing Paper, of any size and weight, made to order on the shortest notice.CHALMERS & ROBERTSON, 224 St.Paul Street.October Î.\t238 idea.Both that gentleman on one side, and tne hon.Commissioner of Crown Lands and the hon.Attorney-General West on the other hand adopted, from the commencement, a fair and manly course\u2014Hear, hear.\u2014 The Government had lost the service of the hon.member for St.Hyacinthe, and had come down to the House resolved to carry out the Queen\u2019s award.And here he\u2014Mr.Cameron\u2014difiered from Mr.Sicotte.They were agreed that the measures taken to secure the law were incorrect.But when it became an enactment, surely they were bound to obey.\u2014Hear, hear.\u2014It was removed from the arena of discussion as to its propriety.__Hear, hear.\u2014He would now refer to the words of the despatch from the Colonial Secretary.They were not hastily written.He was willing to state his belief that Her Majesty and her Ministers had considered the subject (carefully iu Council, and he had no doubt that military men who had been here had been consulted, and the information considered which had been received from the various cities.The despatch said \u201caward\u201d It had so been considered, in spite of what hon.and legal gentlemen might say ; for there were contending parties, rival cities.\u2014Hear, hear.\u2014Well the award had been made in favour of Ottawa.To that we were bound, bound by every tie of honor, bound by the ties of our own interests, if we desired to stand fair before the Mother Country and the world i^-Hear, hear.\u2014If, instead of the Queen, we had asked the Emperor of the French to decide the question for us, and had refused to adopt his decision, would it not have been a casus ?\\\\Would not the Emperor have been justified in sending his fleets to invade our waters ?\\.[Hear, ate\u2014laughter.] Hon.gentlemen might laugh, but there had been great wars for less reasons^] [Hear, hear.] WEat was war but a great court ?and the hon.member for South Ontario would tell the House that if the people who had legally agreed to an arbitration would not accept the award, that the high court would come down and compel them to do so.[Hear.] But because our own just, kind, ate too lenientlSovereign, had made the -Wiginii1^\"we were rejecting itl Had we any excuse?Were we in a better position now than then to settle the matter ourselves?Certainly not; the present debate had proved it.[Hear, hear.] He might go on to shotv the wisdom of the United States in placing their capital away from the centres of population and trade,, away from mob influences and commercial influences too.He might proceed to prove that Ottawa was the best place for the Seat of Government for Canada, and that the location of the.capital there would be more advantageous for Montreal than even if Montreal itself was chosen.But this was not the ground he would argue upon.If Ottawa were not the best place it woald-'hV air'the'^âae.lHrgëarTEêàfri Tbebon.-member for-SoutlT Oxford had said he considered the reference to the Queen an abro.but Besides this iPgaffiftif \"fliM\tm\u2019-tsrjJt&hirw while speaking of the new colony to be termed on the coast of the Bacific had alluded to it as follows :\u2014\u201c This is the district offered to Canada ; and I think my hon.friend has good reason to presume that Cauada will decline the task of forming it into a colony at her own responsibility and charge.It the answer from Canada be unfavorable we have two options\u2014either to leave the district, as now,under tne jurisdiction of the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company, which nothing but absolute necessity should justiiy, or to take into our own hands ate form a colony which will no doubt'one daylconsii-tute a coniederate part of a grëâTtjanadian (lid all they could against them, and the former called the convents of Lower Cauada houses of prostitution.Happily, an ex-Graud Master of the Orangemen had taken the part of these institutions and refuted the base slander.(Hear, hear.) Mr.GOULD\u2014asked for an explanation\u2014die jid not understand French.(Laughter.) Mr.CARTIER said it was due to both himself and Mr.Gould to repeat the expressions in English.(Hear.) He then repeated.Mr.GOULD\u2014craved permission to explain.(Laughter.) He had been at a meeting, where he had opposed the religious incorporations of all kinds, whjle Mr.Gowan had said people might do as they choose with their own.He (Mr.Gould) had demurred, saying, it a man built a house oi prostitution he could be prosecuted, adding, perhaps imprudently, and he had often been sorry for it since, that \u201c many persons considered convents and nunneries no better than houses of ill-fame,\u201d and, of course, if they had read works\u2014(luteruption.) Mr.GOWAN said the statement was, in the main, correct.The words were used by Mr.Gould to him, as follows\u2014\u201c you know Gowan, the nunneries are houses of ill-fame, and.nothing better.\u201d [Confusion.] Hon.Mr.CARTIER would leave the hon.gentlemen to settle this among themselves., yet-it was quite clear even from w.hat both of them' had said that the hon.member'for North Onta-rio had slandered the most respectable institutions in Lower Canada, and that they had'befen defended by au ex-Graud Master of Orangemen.There were other subjects alluded to in his Excellency\u2019s speech, but he had perhaps sufficiently dwelt upon the most important.The municipal institutions of Lower Canada demand; however, some remark.These institutions were just in their infancy and as in Upper Canada at the beginning of their municipal system some modifications would require to be made.The subject would receive attention and be dealt with during the session and a revised law on the subject would be presented to the House, in which he would ask the aid of members of both sides of the House.\t\u2014, Hon.Mr.BROWN asked if he had understood his hon.friend the Attorney General East to say that he intended to devote some £450,-000 to the final extinction of the Casual and other rights still due the Seigniors under the Seigniorial Tenure.Hon.Mr.CARTIER repeated in English what he had said before in French on the subject as reported above.Hon.Mr.BROWN\u2014Would the sum be £450,000.Hon.Mr.CARTIER said he did not know the precise amount, but had stated that if it were even £400,000, it wuuld be a moderate amount considering the end to be accomplished.Hon.Mr.LORANGER would expound his position as an opponent of tbe policy of the Government with respect to Ottawa as the future capital.He proposed to show that the id-a of those casual rights; and'no government could refuse to do so.It was not a promiseYt\u2019 the present Lover nment, and he would assert lhat no governvent :eould last 24 hours which did not redeem this pledge.He approved of the Government for having enunciated its intention of atAoce paying off these dhes ; biit'that was no reason for voting in favor ' of Ottawa.The House coitld approve of the redemption of the] casute rights: and at the same time-vgl'e~dUwnl Ottawa,.Then, as to.the~threat of dissolution, it was nqt in the power of any Government; to do it without the consent of the Governor.Rut hè did not say the Government had made his threat, yet he knew that the friends of the Government made use of it'out of doors.The Governor might or might not grant a dissolution, and it was well ; known that recently hn hati refused the request to tTcerfrnm tjovernmect.Thin be would ask- whether it would not be desirims in going to the country to have a good reason f0r~doing so Ï and he would ask with what bohe of anccess any Lower Uanaïïa member coultTask re-élection who ' had voted for OttawB?Only two counties in Lower Canada would approve of such a vote-they -were Pontiac and Lower Ottawa.Mr.DUB0RD asked Mr.Loranger whether ht would-hava voted as he was going to do if': he had been still in the Ministry.Mr.LORANGER asked, in answer, whether his hon.friend expected to become a Minister?He (Mr.Loranger) contertded that, even in view Of the elections, it would be politic to vote against the address.The argument war with'two edges.Such a threat sbonld never ebangn the vote of a House! In July last, he bad voted Êrÿültmi, and-wtuch might, meanwhile, perhaps, beaMministered by a Government in concurrence with Canada.\u201d Besides her Majesty herself last July, at the prorogation of parliament, had spoken thus \u201c But her Majesty hopes that this new colony on the Pacific may be but one step in the career of steady progress by which her Majesty\u2019s dominions Ut_ North America may ultimately be peopled Tu an unbroken cïïâin from the .Atlantic to thR Pacific, hv ajoval andlndttstrious popula.tion subjects ot the British\u2014wowa.In thi TO FLORISTS.JUST OPENED at the NEW WEST END FANCY STORE, Osie Case Terra-Cotta Flower Pots Of all Sizes.July ?\t160 w m.BSSSUNGBB, 205 NOTRE DAME STREET, Over the Store of Mr, Thomas Jenking, EGS to call the attention of parties, desirous of purchasing\tI OIL PAI1TIIGS,\t1 to visit his Gallery, where there will be found an EXCELLENT COLLECTION OF .WORKS, By Artists of merit and celebrity.M.BESSUNGüR would also intimate chat he is prepared to way her Majesty üaa given her opinion the future connection t)f Canada with the tar west, anothei proof that tederation was a sub-j ject deeply emra^ing the attention of^the Im-j* pèrial Government.The Colonial Secretary had also spoken in this way :in addressing the Governor General\u2014The question ot the Federation of the Colonies is one which Canada has no doubt a very deep interest, and in which any representations proceeding from the Legislature of that province will be received with great attention.\u201d Tg_giye effect to this policy, ^|if> rrovp.rnment Eacfaddressed the Imperial of 1854 it was provided that if the cens to be paid to the seigniors exceeded the sum then set apart an equal sum would be expended for local objects in Upper Canada, and in the eastern townships not held under the seignorial tenure.The Government intended to carry out that provision.Before reading a certain part of the programme of the Brown-Dorion Administration, he would allude to the fact that certain ill-intentioned writers had given to the project of law, he had introduced last session, a meaning it really had not.That law was merely to pay to the seigniors what was provided by the Act of 1854, but it did not change the original condition.It only provided the way to proceed in making a distribution of the funds among the seigniories that had been valued.because it would have required a four month j \u2019notice in the Gazette by Dorion Administrauo'ju uc wuma lane n us given by the member fbr Berthier, and of which the House had said it was not satisfactory.It might be alleged that those Ministers did not wish to trust to others to interpret their views, but they had a Minister in the other House who could have done all that was needed.All that \\was done then by Parliament was above board, and be [Cartier] could well afford to disregard the accusations brought against him.As to himself personally, he had no pecuniary interest in remaining in the Government, and he would make bold to say that he tully devoted whatever powers he had been gifted with to the public service.[The hon.gentleman then read the explanations given to the Legislative Council by Hon.Mr.Morris, to the effect that at the next session the Brown-Dorion Government would announce their policy.He went on to remark on Hon.Mr.Drummond\u2019s assertion of ten years ot falsehood on the part of Mr.Brown.Hon.Mr.DRUMMOND objected to this mode of warfare, and contended that he had not applied these words to Mr.Brown, but to the system of misrepresentation which had prevailed in Upper Canada for ten years.Hon.Mr.CARTIER said be could not leave his seat to hunt up the speech in question, but would be glad to read it to the House if he [Mr.sustaining the Queen\u2019s decision was an after- thought.He approved of the address on all but this point.The principle on which the Goveru-ment bad resigned was subrnTssidfi to the voftToi the House, ami the abandemment ot the Queen\u2019s decision.The Government bad not been beaten on a vote of want of confidence, for after that on the Seat of Government another vote bad assured that Government of full confidence by a large majority.The re-organization was notf based on resolution to abide by the Queen\u2019s decision, for u it had it would baveTtien an- ncninced to thé House when they resumed tfiëîr places! On the contrary tbev faaTsaid they abandoned tEi\"decision for tHëTlmc being,'trfiîcf] meant, of course, that they gave it up altoilëraëf: Else why did they not commence to bmld'at once f LoSTUltg at u question in all its uSp'ecTfs as the\" Premier had said they would allow thL question to be considered, was tantamount tc \u2022~He~held it was making it an open question-r\t_______ and that no other construction could be nut upon against tne majority, and now he maintained that be was consistent with that vote in reversing it.He would do so, because he respected the will of the majority.In July he had felt bound to honor the decision of the Queen, but now its felt equally bouud to bow to the decision of~the pecipTel would asTi from those whqhad voted aga nst the Queen\u2019s decision, but who now proposed to vote the other way, on what conceivable grounds they could so act ?Their only-reason was that they wished to suppôt tThe Government.'W eUTif they chose to ïïô so VoTtbe extent ot closing their eyes, hoof course could not prevent them.He had always been true as a party man when his reason approved of their policy.When he ceased to do so, he did the other thing.He was now ready to keep faith the Government, but the Government had changed its position, and be.did not feel called upon to follow them.But.Ottawa was presented as the very b;st place for tbe permanent Seat of Government, aud its great advantages bad been well presented by its friends.Its climate, its water power, aud its manufactures (one of matches) were grandly described, and he had no disposition to deny any of these things.On the contrary, he believed the place was a very thriving one, and likely to progress with greater strides than many others in Canada.Would the course of the river be changed if Ottawa were not to be made the Seat of Goveru-mdnt?Would not the lumber be got out, and Quebec be the mart for it, and all its natural advantages be the same if the Seat of Government were placed elsewhere?(Hear.) This would certainly be.But to say that Montreal would benefit more by the location of the Seat of Government at Ottawa than within its own limits, was absurd I Montreal, some said, did not want to be the Seat of Government! Absurd again.The location of the capital could do it nothing but good.And if Montreal had been selected for the Seat ol Government, a majority would have voted for it, which might not be the case with Ottawa.(Hear.) He then reverted to the question of the actual decision.The prerogative had not been exercised.Her Majesty had^ been asked to exercise it, but she had not done* so.She had merely expressad her predilections.The prerogative was exercised by proclamation.Her Majesty\u2019s predilections in the case had been expressed through the Colonial Secretary.[(Hear.) They ought not to be more royalist a course.According to tbe explanations ofThe late Commissioner of Public Works the question was to be left open.Hnn.Mr.SICOTTE\u2014No, it was an abeyance.(Maxle-d)\u2014.Hon.Mr.LORANGER\u2014Well, the hon.memberhad made the condition thin it the questton of Ottawa were revived, ne wcutu retire, while two others had said that if it were not they aies in ttie iutuiartv ou .v-c.-j \u2014, \u2014:\t.,\u201e the explanations had not been saiisfactory.Yet it.was dear, at least to his mind, that the Seat [than the sovereign, *g5y~more than they should^ wi V\\T'/X i l*i\"t Krtl 1 f* tHofl 1 Vt Q P VX T\\ £1\t( T-ToQ 1* X \u2019P Ko FRIE PICT superior in a very terms.Dec.30.style, and on moaera G .I -'1 OOD STORAGE and OELLERAGE, trt Bond or Free.HAVILLAND ROÜTH & CO.Juiy 10,\t162 COAL FOR SALE.American, welsh, and smiti coals.Apply to the Richelieu Company, Offic« corner CommiSuioners and.St.Joseph Streets^ January 14.\tdu-mwf-l- gation of our rights.If it were so, then we no longer had any rights in the subject, amimust obey.A [Hear.] Tbe member for South Oxford hadnotread the last paragraph of the address, nor had it been yet read in the House by any member of the Opposition, although it had been quoted by them out of doors with some satisfaction.They knew through the press and through the people of England, the strong feeling in England upon this matter.l,\\They know from commercial men who have written to their friends here the fear that is entertained that the course which had been pursued on the question of the Seat of Government would be most damaging to this country, while all the time the by-play has been going on merely for party purposes.,.But tbe credit and the character of the country were more than he was willing to risk in any mere party strife.Not only were members denounced as immoral and corrupt, simply because they differed {from a certain political party ; but the judges of our country, of whom we have all along been proud, because they differed with this same political party, are charged with being corrupt, and as leagued together with the Governor-General, for the purpose of turning out a certain political party .Such opinions were expected from people thoroughly tmbtictl with democratic priniâjfieâ-'l'.But who would have thoughTItetthe hon.member for South Oxford woud pander to that democratic.feeling?/ That gentleman had his cristnodoubt as old as Brian Boroihme\u2019s, and yet he thus strives to bring our institutionsfinto disrepute.At a dinner given to tbSThcm.gentleman at Oxford he said, \u201c he did not like to speak in disrespectful terms of a man who represented her beloved Majesty amongst us, but he felt convinced that the hou.gentleman who had lived in the Go Jvernment House at Toronto, who wore on cer-jtain occasions a cocked hat, with a feather in it, and was supplied with a blue coat with silver buttons on it, and a sword by his side, had aided\u2014be would not say planned\u2014the trick that drove Mr.Brown and his colleagues from office.[Hear, hear.] He would tell the Governor-General this to his face in the Government House just as freely as he said it iu that meeting.It was a most solemn ceremony that of swearing in a cabinet.\u201d (Hear, hear.) He understood that hear, hear, as an assent to what he had read.Hon.Mr.DRUMMOND\u2014It is a facL referlo the k \u201cHonTTCTOAMERON\u2014Do you cocked hat and the feathers, and so on ?Hon.Mr.DRUMMOND \u2014 These are extras in the matter.mere.authorities, but had compromised no political political party in Canada.Here it could be seen that tbe Imperial Government bad perceived that the Canadian Government had understood its true position in relation to the Canadian Legislature.The Canadian Government had taken no decsive action, but their conduct had been approvte-Pf b.V that of Great Britain, forjhe Colonial Secretary, bysaying that he could not act until delegates should havelteenappomted by the Lower Provinces, had clearly shewn that he would take further, measures when such a course should haveTjien adopted./(([Hear, hear.] The Lower Provinces were naturally apprehensive ot\"embarktng~in nëgoTiations'otTKtnytraînmpôrtant subject, _as_ thevwere_smaller and lessjopulous than Ca-nalda, but when they agreed to consider the subject, the Imperial Government would consent to their doing so.[Hear, hear.] But the delegates, after being appointed, would have to deliberate, and their deliberations would after all be subject to the Parliament of each country, go thar./the conduct of the Government here had \"not been precipitate.1 (Hear, hear)\u2014Some badly mi'orinéffTîntFIislL-Iournals had indeeiTattacked some of the Canadian ministers for their course on the subject of the change of offices.But the most distinguished men in the Houses of Lords aud Commons had expressed themselves at one time in favor of a similar act to the one which existed here, and Lord John Russell had actually introduced a bill for the purpose of making similar dispositions, and providing that members who changed their offices should not necessarily require re-election.Hon.Mr.DORION\u2014The application here was novel.Hon.Mr.CARTIER said no\u2014as he would presently show.It was affirmed that the law here was absolutely something new, that nothing like it was known in England.He was proving that the first minds in England had, at least, thought upou the subject.[Hear.] In EuglandTlford JôSnlRüssel bad desired that a member might E~ecome ammisier~witllg5I::tSi necessity of re-election- The Canadian Parlia-ment~5Td not go so faTTand only asserted that a member, already a minister, might changehis o'ttice without going agaiff1 before hisPcoiititu-énts.[Hear, Hear.] It might be asked why the Government availed themselves of the act in question.Was the country to remain for thirty days without any Governmeffr~at all 7 ^The case was perfectly analogous to the change of Ministry iu 1854, when Sir Allan McNab, after the defeat of the Hincks-Morin Administration, came into power, and the Lower Canadian part of the Cabinet reaccepted office, without going to their constituents.The hon.member for Montreal had tried to enlarge the programme ot policy which the Ministry of which he had been a part professed.He could not have been serious 1 Neither could the member for Toronto have beeu so 1 There was the question of Representation by Population, that of Separate Schools,and that of the Seat of Government.What determination had they come to respecting these ?None, but that ot \u201c grappling with them.\u201d The Globe said the member for Toronto had given up nothing.The member for Portneuf had guarantees, the member for Lotoiniere had assurances.It seemed as if the hon.member for Toronto had been the dispenser of favors to all.(Laughter.) It seemed as if he had been the only intelligence in the Government which he called \u201cmine.\u201d (Hear, hear.) He (Mr.Cartier) then proceeded to the consideration of the affairs of the censitaires of Lower Canada.He said the Government intended to grant the just demands Drummond] would kindly supply it.He did not allude to this speech from enmity to his hon.friend, but he was obliged to do so because of the political position he now occupied.[Having been furnished by some one near him with the speech of Mr.Drummond alluded to, he proceeded to read it, but it has been so often reprinted that we omit it.] Hon.Mr, DRUMMOND explained that the speech in question was part of an expostulation in which he recommended Mr.Brown to return to the old doctrines of the early Reformers.After the recess Mr.CARTIER continued.He said he regretted not to see tbe hon.member for Lotbi-niere in his seat, for he wished to reply to that gentleman\u2019s denial of his assertion that the phrase \u201c ten years of falsehood\u201d as applied to the senior member for Toronto was unqualified.He had turned up the report of the newspaper which had been quoted from, and found no qualification there expressed.Either Mr.Drummond or the Globe was therefore incorrect, and as the latter had often been found to be so he would drop the subject.[Hear.]\u2014 He proceeded to say that, without doubt, tbe Brown-Dorion Government had compromised Lower Canada.Every one knew tbe leader of the Government was alone its soul, its life.He had more capacity aud energy than all the rest of his Cabinet put together.[Hear, and Oh 1 oh 1] Then the hon.member for Lotbiniere with his assurances, the hon.member for Portneuf with his guarantees, the hon.member for Montreal with his checks, coaid have availed but little.He next adverted to the statement of the junior member for Montreal,that the hon.Commissioner of Public Works should have resigned, rather than worked against the local interests of his constituents.The hon.member had already defended his position satisfactorily, so he need merely say that his duty as a member and a minister to the country as a whole was paramount to that which be owed to any one city.And it must be recollected, when the senior and junior member for Montreal had joined their fortunes to those of the senior member for Toronto, they had done so against the wishes and the interests of their electors.[Hear, hear.] The True Witness, of Montreal, which, by the way, was not the organ of the Montrea.clergy, had declared that they were opposed to Representation by Population and to the abolition of Separate Schools.They had secured the election, yet they never avowed themselves in favor of both these themselves\u2014at least if their acts iu joining Mr.Brown might be allowed to speak for tbeir opinions.(Hear, hear.) The junior member for Montreal put himself forward as a champion of liberty for Roman Catholics.As if they wanted a champion, or had not full liberty already ! He (Mr.Cartier) then quoted from the Montreal press to show that his statements were correct.The good faith of the Montreal electors had been (abused by these means ! Who were the real champions of liberty ?Tlti Government to whicn Ee ,.r rtnvpi-nment was to be left an open question As the Government had~charged their position, he had felt obliged to withdraw the support be had promised them, and he asserted that he had not left them but that they had deserted the majority nf the House.\"Referring to tne reterence to the Queen, he contended that we had asked tbe exercise of the rojal prerogative, which was be more UatïïoîTc than the Pope.(Hear.) The idea ot want of reTtfSCITto the Queen was only an after-thought, andjmly expressed bv the G~ov, eminent after the recent decision of its head.The British UovernnfeTft had expressed their regret, but said they f It sure there was no disres-l pect intended.(Hear.) He opposed the Guv-' ernment on this occasion conscientiously.He thought Lower Canada had a right to the Seat of Government.Hir ideas were confined by the \u2022 with îfia1 SdflcuTitetreet1te\"itfl[)en\u2019aT authority.(Henr.) He was loyal to the empire, hut he lis-teued first to the voice of the people, and in doing NUMBER 35 ty of that Heus was as binding upon the Honse as the vote of last session.They all agreed that the majority should rule.That bon.gentleman might as well have brought in a resolntion proclaiming to this House that the election of the Speaker at the-next session of Parliament shall be carried by the majority of this House.They all admitted tha', but that does not bring up a discussion upon the principle.And he 'had no doubt that her Majesty took exactly the same view of this principle as the hpn.member, jfor St.Hyacinthe, and took it for granted that when the majority of this House seul, this reference that tbe majority of the House would rule.:The hon.member for Grey had brought in an amendment to the effect that this House should not vote any shm of ino ey for the e ection of buildings in tbe permanent capital until the question of the federation of the provinces was settled.He thought at the timelthere was a good deal in this resolution ; but when he reflected that this question, although, it had been introduced to tbe notice of the Imperial Government, 'did not seem very palatable to them\u2014and that the Lower Prbvinces had not yét b gun to con-: sider the subject.He thought thet this eternal Seat of Government question .might, in the meantime, be settled among themselves.And j if in a few years, they g> t two, or three Provinces from the Saskatchewan territory to the west of them, Ottawa wotild be the very best : place for the Seat of Government.For these : reasons hè was opposed to the amendment of the ; hon.member for Grey.There was one portion nf the Address he did not.'Tmvvever.agree with \u2014that is that tnere should be a move made to' Q.nebee until thetttrtl'driigs are~ërëiTtëa at OfltU wa.There was no doubt .that, although the buildings might not be completed in two years, they would be EO'far ready for the accommodation of the members.And when that move would be attended with such an expense, he did not see the necessity of ca tying it out in the depressed state of the conntry.Could any man consistently say that the removal bo Quebec would iu the remotest: degree expedite the business of this country?At the time the assent, which was supposed to.be given by the Attorney General West, to the proposition of Mr.Alleyn, two years ago, the country was in as flomtshing fiibited a.tittle of indeyence but had always: been ready at the call of the bell on the back of the Îhipper-in to do all that was required of him.ut the motion was contradictory, and those bo voted for it would stiltufy themselves.Hon.Mr.SICOTTE\u2014The motion in amendment now proposed affirmed that the choice of Ottawa was bad, and he accepted it so far,; for jvhile it sustained the Gbvernment iu onc'sence t defeated them iu another.He would assume Chat the mover, had acted iu good faith and with a desire to serve Montfèàl, but he would try to ^how him that he Was in errpr.The hon.member commenced by saying that the decision was \"\u201cnry.on Government.If so it must bo \", j on the country.It seemed to imply that members had a double duty, to govern the c untry ànd'tb comply with the will of the majority.This was manifestly wrong.He placed jthes6 two duties in antagonism.There was an-other reason.- In the interest of Montreal the non.member ought either to withdraw his preposition or to submit in a form simply affirming that Montreal was the best place.For, whatev-jer might be the form taken by the debate, Montreal having been once voted against, could not be again brought up, and this could not be the design of the hon.member for L\u2019Assomption.Mr.'Archambault declared phatlcilly that he had not made thé motion at the iastiga-tion of the Government.He did noc think the proposition illogical.He sincerely believed that ibe position of tha Government in declar ng the decision of the Queen obligatory was correct, and he thought the only proper means ot having t altered was to réquést her Majesty to change t> Mr.COUTLEE said he thought the great mg.iority ought to vote for Montreal.If the and prosperous a cnnriitinn «3 any country in the world.But things were now changed, and they ought to pause before resolving to incur so great an outlay as the removal to Quebec would entail, especially as it was so unnecessary and must fall ou the backs of the farmers, who at present are not able~iô~T)ëâr1înT-additional taxatiou.He WOuld'rather see the sum which this removal would coat\u2014say £100,000' or £200,000\u2014expended in laying a double track on the Northern Railroad.(Hear, hear.) It was clear there was no existing fund from which the amount could be takeu.He did not doubt that it was of some consequence to the city where the Seat of Government might be located.Still he did not think it of that vast consequ-nee which the never-ending discussions in that House on the subject would imply.Tbe City of Washington had not prospered by having the seat of the Federal Government.Much prophecy had been indulged in as to the great future beiore the City of Toronto, in having the Seat of Government under the alternate syetem.But it was a fact lhat on the removal from Toronto the circumstance seemed to infuse new life into the city.So, let the Seat qf- Government go to the place chosen by her Majesty, be had no fear for Toronto.Our back country had made us the first commercial city in Canada West, and in the ab .ence of the Seat of Government we should retain our position.F.or tbe rejtsons'.he had given, he should vo efor the City ofltttawa being the permanentgeat ot Government.anïïTTe hoped the Qllfeen\u2019sHecision would ____________ it.they [did-apt, he~Ueclgr?a be would~vote' fur (Tïtawar HtrTemcmBered that the fion.the senior mem- jber for Montreal had moved an amendment to ;the supply bill fqr fixing the Seat of Gove nmept jto Montreal.Why did he not support this ameudmeut ?Did he wish to overturu the Government rather than to have an honest expression of opinion ?If he wished Montreal to be the Seat of Government, why could he not vote for.Montreal ?He was iiot in favor of the perambulaiing system.He should vote for fixity, lie did not go for spending £125,000 every tour jyears.He desired the Seat-oL Government, to be at Montreal, but the next best thing lor the c un try Tie bad tinttionor to represent would be |for Ottawa to be chosen._fHear.) Members were then called -in, and the foliowing division ,taken :\u2014 Yeas:\u2014Archambault, Campbell.Coutlee Daoust, Duffêstie, Foster, Guïï/'BfGeile.Morin iHiucennes.Terrill, Turcotte and Whitney.\u201413.I Nays Aisms, AlIeyu7\"Baby, Beaubien, \u2018BeFf, Bellingham, Benjamin, Biggar, Buurasaa, Brown, Buchanan, Bureau, Burton, M.Cameron, Carling, Caron, Cayley, Atty.Gen.Cartier, Caucbott, Chapais, Cimon, Clark, Connor, Cook, Daly, De-saulniers, Dionne, Dorion, Dorland, Drummond, Dnbord, Dunktn, Feliowes, Fergusson, Ferres, Finlayson, Foley, Fournier, Galt, Ghudet, Gould, Gowan, Harcourt, Harwood, Heath, Hebert, Hogan, Holmes, Howland, Jubtn, Laberge, Lacoste, Lafra'mboise, Laugevin, Lemieux, Loranger, Macbeth, Atty.Gen.Macdonald, D.A.Macdonald, J.S Macdonald, MacLeod, Mattice, McCann, A.P.McDonald, McDougall, McGee, McKe lar, McMicken, Meagüer, Morrison, Mowat, Munro, Notman, Panel, Papineau.Pa rick, Piche, Playfair, W.Powell, Price, Robinson, Roblin, Rose, Ross, Rymall, R.W.Scott, W.Scott, Sherwood, Short, Sicotte, Simpson, Sidni-y Smith, Sommerville, Starnes, Stirton, Talbot, Tasse, Tett, Thibaudeau, Wallbridge, Webb, White and Wright.\u2014102.Mr.PICHE then proposed that, instead of Ottawa, Montreal be tbe capital of Canada.Ae did not know if he was iu order.Mr.SPEAKER\u2014The amendment in its present state is not in order.Hon.Mr.CAUCHON then moved that tho House do now acijourn.This being carried, the House adjourned at a few minutes before twelve.So he thought he was not disloyal toThe aqye-TTtTwould not push his loyalty to seryility- used not so much for the benefit of tbe Sovereign as for the benefit ôT'the ~pëôplë! The preroga-n,7p~nraS\u201dTrr~tïa pTprnisea with advice from the .\" '\t'\two astrad the Queen to exercise her prerogative as a Con-stitutional S jvereign, not as an iteivmual or an ibsolute Monarch.(Hear, h.ar ) 'then it was iafd\u2014and not vvHhu'ut certain plausibility\u2014that the Act of Union g.ve the G vernor General cower to fix tbe Seat of Government where he chose.That, however, was a right which existed before the Act of Union ; it was a part of the British Constitution.(Hear, hear.) This was 30 true that all the despatches which related to the subject so treated it.He had thought the decision ought to be upheld.He had upheld it by his vote.But tbe Legislature baying acted, the case was different.(Hear.) The Legislative Council bad not yet beeu considered responsible to the people.It might, hereafter, be so considered.But tbe Governor had always acted in tbe matter of the Seat of Government as he pleased.The Legislative Council often voted against the Government, yet the Government did not resign.So that the concurrence of the Legislative CouncU was by no means necessary, even in the first place, to refer the Seat of Government question to Her Majesty.It was the vote of this House alone, and this House alone had to do with the maintaining or rejecting the decision.People too need not be so sensitive.In England the vote (would Inrrgtiëëh treated a3~a light matter! (Hear.) Ate so it had been here, for even the Government had not talked or thouglîtlïo much abouTtbeir new invention\u2014the royal prerogative\u2014when they said thëÿ'wouia~refer it to Legislative action.No, they had onlv hmugnt the prerogative to_ the rescue when the Ottawa memharategivn to make thêmhreàt3~dgSgêt5ïïs.their influence felt.(Hear, hear! Uh, oh.) TEëy were asked to bow heliflven ttmt in being loVâT to thtTpeople, be I w~à3~~Tn~rSrity most loyal to the Sovereign.[(Hear, near.)\t\u2014-Y- Mr.ROBINSON said he would confine himself to tbe question before the House, whether Ottawa should be the permanent Seat of the Government of this Province, and whether the Queen\u2019s decision in that respect should be maintained- It would be easy for him to follow the example of some honorable members, and wander off\u2019into other more interesting subjects, and discuss the merits and demerits of what is called tbe double shuffle.He might follow the example set by the hon.the junior member for Montreal, and bring Ids own private grievances before the House.He might complain that in some newspaper he had been upon some occasion hardly dealtb with.In his (Mr.Robinson\u2019.-,) opinion the hon.member, considering the position he has achieved with his 300,000 good men and true at his back, had little to complain of He has not seen his name figuring in tbe columns of the Globe holding him up to t e scorn ot his constituents, yet he (Mr.Robinson) had had that pleasure.Although he was no political prophet.Yet he would say that the time is fast coming when that hon.member will have a real grievance to complain, they all know that the course of true love never did run smooth, particularly ihat kind of love which has been exhibited between the hon.member for Toronto and the junior member for Montreal.Therefore these lovers must quarrel, and the very moment tbey do so he (McG.) will find himself posted up in the newspaper of his political love, and will then have a real grievance to complain of, and to come to this nouse and ask for its protection.It has only been his fortune hitherto to be criticised in tbe dull columns of the Leader, and the Colonist, but he would tell that hon.member that the time is not far distant when he wou.d get a thorough dressing in the columns of the Globe.Try-reference 10 the question before the Hnnap he'ivnuUlàSÿ that tni» he TTgcTthe honor GILLS 1 the head, now, and recognise authority, .ghstlast no such argument had been usedT -tawa might, perEapsTbefixed as tbe Capital.InAu- TTt- _______=\t_\t.it was a right\u2019wb.ob'might, perhaps, be exercised Bat it would be in opposition to the wilLni-tlie people! ( Hear.) If the royalprerogative was WSTnot in its decline, if it was yet powerful, wlTvwas the Capital not fixed without a valg-Of the Honse?Hit was a date letter, wtiTdid the Governments' use it a3jm_argumfiaLa£aiiaUilsir oITpônenîs! (HëârTbëar!) He might pat a ques-tidn to thèTHouse.If the Ministry had resigned because of the vote against Ottawa, üiil~îrnôt sïïnw acmething like caballing to- accept the res ïgSvgan and yet reform on the same principle.' (HearThêâT)\u2014ffirdtiînôrMïSngeEis opinions\u2014 be did not change hia party, and if he opposed the Ministry now it was because they deserted the principles of their party.(Hear.) It had been argued that according to the terms of the reference, the £225,000 could not be expended anywhere but at Ottawa.He denied this;- tbe money could be spent at Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, Hamilton or Toronto.It could be spent at five, ten, or twenty years hence.(Hear.) Tbe house bad only to ask the Governor General to secure the exercise of Her Majesty\u2019s prerogative iu tavor .of some other pi tee than Ottawa.(Hear.) It had been said that the vote of last session was iff no weight, because it was negative.) Was not half the legislation of the world negative?Was not the vote \u201c want of rmnflnence\u201d in the MTStsffv a negsisiwôtfirând - - \u2022\"\tIt thel rnTMinisters hadToTtow to iff?(Hear.) majority had beënâble to affirm that Ot awawas the best place for the Capital, well and good.They affirmed the rever.e.Was not that affirmative and positive enough?(Hear and laughter.) But was it sure if the Address was carrL ed.\" that'\"Ottawa Would be thiTSeat of Govern^ mëntTTIdW\u201dtheiTcôuld members.insmuatejto thimèmberrffôF QuèBèclEat Ottawa must be carried iu the house, TmtonlyTorffua! .(Mr, Cartier) hâu belonged,^ which ^had allowed the Catholics in upper Canada and Protestants in Lower Canada to establish their Separate Schools.(Hear, hear.) How then could any journal in a Catholic Lower Canada constituency honestly support the members who had joined the enemy of Separate Schools and nr the advocate of Representation by Population ?Igovernmeut.(Hear, hear.) The Catholic Irish of Montreal, \\would OUaw.as well as the few Canadians who had voted for the two members for Montreal, would eventual-ly open their eyes.How could they have confidence iu a man who was but a stranger here, yet dared to say that he was in favor of Representation by Population, which Lower Canada has opposed from principle for so long 7 He (Mr.Carder) had been sorry, the other day, to find the hon.member for Berthier attacking the Orangemen so fiercely.Lower Canadians should not forget that it was due to the votes of liberal Orangemeu that Separate Schools had been granted to Catholics iu Upper Canada, while the members for North and South Ontario ~ Attirney General 'CARTIER\u2014Does the hon.member say that the members of ths_fiâ£fi,rn-ment bad insinuated that?Mr.LORANGLR\u2014No\u2014but it was tho language of journalism, and was used to tickle the ears of the Quebec members.As to tbe question nf confer!-rati.in- he would not say muen about iOmtif ahpreseut we could not pay the expenses of our own local gorerument.bow coild we meet those of tbe general govemmeat_baMde He aicl notThoweverjdeny that there were possibly some advantages donnected with the system which might be sufficient to counterbalance all objec-\u2022 dons.If it should soon take p ace, would it be [prudent to expend £225,000 ou the local seat of 1\t' Thee, it tbe federation took place ____________a be a proper locality for the seat [of government for Uppea Canada l He thought not.But he doubted whether they were really any iuteutiou alter all of golaYto Ottawa.He be snsiained bv the HouseJlThua.ami thus only, would an end be put toTïïtfse discussions, which were a sheer waste of valuable time which ought to be devoted to practical legislation.For the reasons\\whicb he had given, he should also ieet called upon to support any motion which affirmed that it was unnecessary to go to Queb.-c.If no such motion were submitted, he should reserve to himself the right, if he chose., of proposing one himself.-\t- Mr, ARCHAMBAULT believed that Montreal would secure the sympathies of by far the largest yet I as the House had referred the question of the Seat of Government to the Queen,\\he believed we were hound by that vbtp.M!Ïru.aAl;iëiB.pfaa.a-SubsuiuènLvote.lwlïïcir place.He had then voted against that motion, because he did not wiah to giv» nffunca to Her M jeaty, who, at our request, had condeacenried to accept the reference.J However,! he did not think mat it was impossible tcTgeFthe Queen to change her decision it we could manage to agree upou a place, ana he would therefore move in amendment as follows : \u2014 \u201cThat all the words after \u2018that\u2019 be struck out, and the following substituted instead thereof:\u2014The Legislature ol Canada having resolved that a fixed Seat of Government should be selected, aud having solicited our Gracious Queen by an address et either House, to exercise Her prerogative in making such selecti.in, and an act, moreover, having been passed before tbe decision of Her Majesty, and appropriating the necessary funds, we agree with His Excel lency, that the act of the Canadian Parliament and the decision of the Queen are binding on the Executive Government ot tbe Province, but lhat we regret that Her Majesty has not been advised to select the city of Montreal rather than the city of Ottawa, and lhat we, therefore, respectfully take the liberty to submit to your Excellency, that it is the opinion of this House that an address be presented to Her Majesty to represent that this House humbly prays Her Majesty to reconsider tbe selection she has been advised to make of a future capital of Canada, and to make Montreal such future capital.\u201d He had concluded to adopt the course he now proposed, because he believed that it would promote a final and satisfactory settlement of a long vexed and difficult question.Montreal bad a population almost equally balanced between French and English, and had various other advantages not found elsewhere.If his motion were not accepted it would be seen that the object of the Opposition was not to settle the question but to defeat the Government.\\\\\\ Hon.Mr.DORIUN said that the Gôvenrment fearing tbe coming vote had got one of its most faithiul supporters to move an amendment to give it the go-by through a side win i.Mr.ARCHAMBAULT\u2014That\u2019s false.1 [[ Hon.Mr.DORIUN said iTïut ft was a'resump-tion of the tatics of last session when the msm- ofâTseat in thëHo\u2019use m laon he should have odnojeii the reterence of thi3-qïïêstion_tqTin£-iancü Tbey were eitaer capable of mânagiüit tEëTTown aff.tirs or they were incapable of car-rvTngum the priirglpTe of Responsible Govern- ment/ and be looked upon it that tbe reference t.rTHÜw Maiestÿ-was an expression ot theirinca-.iti ,.i ri, fn ATpl i- o n y e r n m e Q t - But [who that lias looked into the discussion ofthirquestion canfail to see that it has been discusseü hitherto upon selfish grounds, and upon local prejudices.Why then ask the Queen to decide these local prejudices which we could not do ourselves?Why ask Her to decide a question which was sure to give offence to some poitions of the country?The Hon Post.Master General had told them of the difficulties the Americans had io overcome, 'in selecting their'capital?But they did over-: nnmfi these difficulties aud we~shoul3tmVg\"tried\u2018 to overcome ours.There was nothing upon which the people of thè^old coTomes were so particular as the avoidance ol any refef^ ppc.R to the king m regaru of any of their dWn local matters.Two hundred years ago a mat- teTofsome importance to the State of Massachusetts came up for discussion ana some of the parties thought the question could be better decided by a reference to the King, and a resolution was moved to that effect ; but an amend-ment to the effect that it would~5e perjury as well as treason to think oT~ippealing to the King was moved amt carried, and no apj^al was made ¦ That was done Bÿ à colony whioh had co-operated most cordially with the crown of Great Britain in more than one instance, we could have done.But it was useless to say anything more about that part of the question at this time.The reference had been mae aud a decision given.The question therefore occupies a different position this year from what it did last, when the resolution was brought in that Ottawa should not be the Seat of Government.He voted for that amendment and would vote for it again, if the question were presented in the same way, because he looked upon it that Toronto was at least as good a place as Ottawa.1 But since'then the matter had assumed another.shapcTY We have here a despatch'stating to us that The vote was looked upodJ as a slight to lprëw~that some members who would TotejTor the address were opposed to Ottawa, and he had Pgiri-TrTnYtrtwojp.asonajSiti .led them to the de- termination to do so.Ist, The payment of the cftauTl'rïghts under the Seigniorial Tenure_pate 2nd, The fear nf di.-solutton.Well if it were right to pay the Seigniorial dues, TEëy shouffTbe paid without condîtiônrand he saidtEat those who would on that account vote for Ottawa who did not believe in it, would falsify their so emu engagements.Tbe pubTicffaith had been long \"pledged to Lowër~Oânada to discharge her for Arthakaska proposed a motion of relief to the Government which he knew would not carry.The amendment now proposed was a similar one.\t - -\u2014-«-«remy Taylor, as they are with Bossuet or Bourda-lone, or even with the Protestants Saurin and Jaricu.And if this want of popularity is to be found in the sermons of the Church of England, considered as a piece of literature, it has apparently attached to them still more as viva voce exhortations, addressed to largo assemblies of men.Since the time of Latimer and the other reformers, we do not know of any Angli can divines whom tradition even has handed down to us, as habitually attracting large numbers to listen to their discourses.In modern times indeed several men educated in her communion have become celebrated as preachers ; but Whitfield and Wesley were not within her fold, when they addressed their monstrous congregations ; and Rowland Hill, if he considered himself a clergyman of the Anglican Church, which we do not recollect, was at least an irregular one.It cannot indeed be doubted that in the Church of England there has been a tendency to check that sort of enthusiasm,which is necessary to hold the attention of large assemblies.Of late years, however, an entirely new spirit has arisen, and it has been felt that, if the Church is to maintain herself as a national institution, it must be by doing real work among the masses to be found in the lower strata of society.Preaching has, therefore, in England, come to be regarded as more than a function\u2014 as something, the value of which is to be estimated by the effect it produces ; and while a new, more fervid, and more impressive style of pulpit oratory is in fashion, congregations are invited\u2014and what is more, larger congrega-ti ms come\u2014than could be accomodated in an ordinary church.The sermon has not only been made into an intellectual and moral exercise, capable of drawing people who will not go to the best thing in the world if it bores them ; but it is also being offered in places where people will be likely to go.The London Times, which reached us by the last mail, brings regular notices of three services of the previous Sunday, preached by Anglican clergymen in the immense areas of Exeter Hail, Westminster Abbey, and St.Pauls, in the last two of which nothing hut the small parts known as the choirs have been used for divine worship for many generations.These discourses are attended by large crowds, some of whom may, perhaps, be attracted from other churches, but most of whom are, no doubt, strangers to church, brought together by the appropriateness of the means employed.The Church of England has found that she could do what she set herself at work to do ; and having determined to win her way with the people, she has begun with a success proportioned to the energy and judgment with which she has acted.It is probable, however, that this spirit may lead to farther innovations.Those who have seen the effect produced on large congregations in other churches\u2014Catholic and Protestant\u2014by extemporaneous addresses, will doubt whether a discourse read from a book\u2014however well read\u2014can ever create the same sympathetic movement between preacher and hearer.Again, if the taste of the people at large are to be regarded, there must probably be some retrenchment in the matter, as well as the length of some of ]the liturgical services, so as to make them truly consonant to the feelings of the worshippers.This we think has been already done in practice, in some of the Exeter Hall services, and we see that the Queen has taken a step in the same direction, by the issuing of a proclamation, directing the discontinuance of the ridiculous and blasphemous services for the day of Charles the Martyr, and other political events.Every sound hearted man, no matter what his form of religious belief, must wish success to these efforts of the British clergy to civilize and Christianize the people.It is the true way of combatting indifference and irréligion.Toronto, Feb.9, 1859.To-night, it is anticipated that the debate on the Address may possibly be brought to a close and the vote taken, inasmuch as, the ministerial persuasions having prevailed with certain members from the District of Montreal and the Eastern Townships, the object of \u201cspeaking against time\u201d on the Government side of the House, has been attained.As Messrs.John A.Macdonald and George Brown have still to speak, I think the decision of the House will scarcely be reached before Thursday night.The debate last night, although sufficiently tedious, in consequence so far as Messrs.Cameron and Cartier\u2019s lengthened reiterations of all the stale attacks upon the members, and supposed policy of the Brown-Dorion Ministry was involved, had some interesting features, to which I would invite the attention ot your readers.As if to put the ministerial policy of delay beyond the possibility of doubt, you will observe that, although he had already spoken\u2014 and when he rose, after the decision on Mr.Hogan\u2019s amendment, was greeted with cries of \u201cspoke,\u2014spoke,\u201d\u2014Mr.Cartier occupied the time of rhe House and the country for upwards of an hour with a hnew\u2014and certainly uncorrected\u2014edition of bis previous harangue.He indulged in the same gross misrepresentations, the same vulgar personalities, the same virulent vituperation and vile attempts to excite the passions and prejudices of Catholics against Protestants, and Protestants against Catholics, which formed the staple of his iLst speech.It would almost appear that the ministry are incapable of originating any policy, good or bad ; for while such measures as they do carry bear the indelible stamp of the Opposition, from whom they were stolen, if a tittle of what Messrs.Rose, Cartier, Alleyn, and Smith accuse .the Globe of be true, it is evident that they have equally stolen from that much-abused journal their policy of blowing the embers of religious, bigotry and fanaticism and prostituting the most sacred feelings and convictions of hu manity on the polluted altar of party and personal ambition.Mr.Loranger replied to his late colleague and applied the lash, amid the cheers of the House, not only \u201cwith a will but with a degree of force and effect that was almost painful to witness.His speech is pretty well reported in the Globe, but, of course, it loses much of its flavour and aroma by the double process of translation and condensation.It was, really, a brilliant effort, sound in argu ment, happy in illustration and correct and graceful in language, and the speaker, when he closed his oration with the thoroughly constitutional dictum, \u201c Be loyal to the people and you will be loyal to the Queen,\u201d was greeted with a continued round of \u201c hear, hear,\u201d and clapping of hands.An interesting interlude in the nights\u2019 performances was the short debate on Mr.Archambault\u2019s amendment, by which he and his patrons, sought to ruin the prospects of as Mr.D unkin attempted to do last Montreal- session\u2014by forcing a vote upon her pretensions, previous to the acceptance or rejection of the Imperial decision, The paltry trick was as complete a failure in Mr.Arcbambanlt\u2019s as m Mr.Dunkin\u2019s hands.The last-named honorable gentleman, you will observe, winced painfully under Mr.Dorion\u2019s exposure of his servility towards the powers that be, and attempted to wriggle himself free from the charge of having, last session, done his petit possible to save the Ministry at the expense of Montreal, from their defeat on Mr.Piche\u2019s motion against Ot-tawa.7The whole argument is in a nutshell and although there may be men, among the thirteen who voted for Mr.Archambault\u2019s motion, so purblind and stupid as not to discover the trap laid for them, assuredly Mr.Christopher Dun-kin knew as well, last year, when he laid the trap, as he does now, when he declined entering it, that no such motion could possibly be carried until the pretensions of Otawa were disposed of, and consequently, that no reasonable being could give him credit for acting in good faith, in proposing what he perfectly well knew could not be carried.Let Mr.Piche\u2019s motion be sustained, and it is plain, Montreal would secure the natural and legitimate support, in the Cabinet and out of the Cabinet, of which she is now deprived by the Ottawa selection.\u2014 Under the circumstances, Mr.Dunkin would have done better to have kept silence ; but it is difficult to control nature, and the cacœthes of the honorable member for Arthabaska is too well known in Montreal to admit of any surprise, on the part of Mentrealers, that he should give Mr.Archambault the benefit of his voice, although constrained to refuse him that of his vote\u2014 x,B wao uttio uisomotautB rmasmngnrrs _________-so,-out 1 cannot close this letter without correcting an error into which I see I have fallen, in reference to the absence of all originality of thought or expression on the part of the shuffle-born ministry.I have forgotten.There is one department\u2014that of language, which two of its members are great inventors, coining new words for their respective mother-tongues with the most startling facility.The hon.Premier for example, last night, freely presented his Franco-Canadien listeners with a magnificent new adjective.He explained to them that, \u201cto speak municipally11\u2014municipale-ment parler\"\u2014so and so was tho case ; and few days ago, his learned colleague, the Postmaster-General, was equally ingenious and liberal to his Anglo-Saxon hearers, when he stated that the Hon.George Brown not only Edited but propriëtored the journal he was so bitterly denouncing.What can be expected from men who thus ruthlessly seek to degrade and corrupt their very mother-tongues ?lady appeared, and in pure desperation he told his sad condition- He was asked in, and food and wine in profusion were provided\u2014more than that\u2014servants were despatched to the barn with blankets and a carriage to convey them to more comfortable quarters.But, so far as one of the helpless wanderers was concerned, relief arrived too late\u2014the infant was dead.They soon resumed their long journey\u2014and now the wife showed symptoms of breaking down : nor was it long before she joined her dead child in \u201c the Land of the Leal.\u201d It was after this event that Thom wrote that exquisite bit of poetry\u2014\u201c The Mitherless Bairn.\u201d Well, in time they reached London, and the poet called on the patron.How do you think Dives served Lazarus?Why, he took him down to his mansion in the country to \u201c make sport for the Philistines\u201d\u2014and, after Thom had delighted the company by his great conversational talents, he sent him to dine with the servants.There\u2019s patronage for you, with a vengeance.By a lucky chance, Thom managed to attract public attention, and a London publisher brought out his verses and narrative.Immediately he became a small London lion.His portrait was published in the Illustrated London News, and a banquet was given in his honor 1 What a change.More than this, one ot his books found its way to India, and there (all honor to them) some Scottish gentlemen, touched by his story, subscribed and sent him six hundred pounds, in order that he might set up at his weaving trade in London.The intention was kind\u2014but most men can bear adversity better than prosperity.That money proved bis ruin.He now married again\u2014took a house at Islington, London ; dressed well, and purchased a loom at which he never wrought.While his money lasted he had \u201c troops of friends ;\u201d but as soon as it grew short, they, as usual, fell off.The rest of his story may soon be told.He fell into helpless poverty, and symptoms of consumption set in.The last time I saw him he was endeavoring to dispose of one of his own books.In order to procure food for his family he had pawned his flute.Not long afterwards, a few friends subscribed enough to enable him to return to Scotland.He travelled to Dundee, and there (what a farce 1) a dinner was given to him.A short time afterwards he died in Croft Lane.His second wife, in attending his funeral, caught cold, and perished ot typhus fever.Six weeks after her husband\u2019s death she was laid beside him.What became of the orphans I know not.Thom was short and stoutly built, with a very broad chest and a most expressive face.As I have intimated, he was lame, like many another son of song.D.Wheat, iq this country, bids fair soon to reach the prices which prevailed a few years ago; and there seems every probability that flour may reach ten dollars before next harvest.In Kincardine, one of the townships of Bruce, the population is said to be on the point of starvation, owing to the failure of the crops.All throughout Upper Canada the harvests have been short, during the last two years ; occasioned chiefly by the ravages of the fly and rust, rible devastations in Egypt.Over a considerable portion of the old Newcastle district, grasshoppers, coming from the south, passed, literally eating almost every green thing\u2014grass, wheat, turnips, oats and every other crop.They cropped off the wild rice in Rice Lake, on their way.They appeared in myriads, completely covering the surface of Lake Ontario, in some places, with the dead,which at some points were washed ashore in heaps.Some of the farmers set all their hands to work to drive the enemy back with bushes.One farmer of Hamilton township sometimes had over halt a hundred men at war with the invader.It was possible by this means to drive them back.A curious and unique action has been instituted by a farmer in West Northumberland, to claim damages from his neighbor for driving grasshoppers upon his farm.This cause of the failure of the crops was only local ; but it was sufficiently extensive and threatening to merit more notice than it obtained.The wheat fly is the great enemy to that crop ; and for sometimes past, every year its ravages, in Upper Canada, have extended over a wider area.And it is not certain that the worst of these causes of the failure of the wheat crop has been seen.We know but too well that, in Lower SKETCHES OF REMARKABLE EMINENT SCOTCHMEN.No.II.[.For the Montreal Herald.] Reader : did you ever hear of William Thom, the weaver Poet of Inverary ?If not, let me narrate one of the saddest of .modern literary histories.Poor fellow, I knew him well, and am convinced that he was \u201c more sinned against than sinning.\u201d But let me tell the story of his life, so far as I am acquainted with Some fifteen years ago, a Boston (Mass.) publisher placed in my hands a thin volume of poems, to which was prefixed an autobiographical sketch of the author, with a request that my opinion should be given as to whether its re-publication would be remunerative.I strongly recommended that it should be published in America, but Mr.R-g decided otherwise, he fancying that the Scottish dialect would not be comprehended by Yankee readers.Perhaps he was right.The said autobiographical narrative was one of the most touching ] ever perused.It told, in simple but forcible language, bow the author had been a weaver at Inverary,\u2014how be had been incapacitated from most other employments by a lameness brought on by an accident when a boy\u2014how he sent some scraps of poetry to a local journal ( I think the Inverness Courier)\u2014how people of taste recognized the hand of genius in them\u2014and how be found a patron.Poor fellow, that same patron proved his ruin 1 as patrons have often turned out to be before.It is not every writer who can afford to scorn them.Samuel Johnson\u2019s letter to.the Earl of Chesterfield will recur to the minds of most readers.Both poet and patron are now in their graves but the memory of the former \u201c smells sweet and blossoms in the dust,\u201d while that of the latter would be entirely forgotten but for the \u201c sordid dross\u201d he left behind him.His name was James Adam Gordon.He it was who patted poor Thom on the bead, and, by ptomises of the great things he would do for him it he would go to London induced the poor weaver to quit his loom_pack up bag and baggages, and travel to the metropolis.I afterwards learned that he gave him a five pound note ; but how could a man and wife and three-young children travel about five hundred miles on so small a sum.But Poets are always sanguine ; Thom played beautifully on the flute, and, perhaps, having Goldsmith in mind, determined to trust partly to it as a means of support on his way.We shall presently see how the \u201ctuneful pipe\u201d helped him on\u2014what a tragedy was connected with that musical instrument, and the fate ot the flute itself.MR.CARPENTER\u2019S LECTURES.The second lecture of the course for the Sons of Temperance was delivered to a large audience, in the Mechanics Hall, on Wednesday evening, on \u201c Alcohol as compared with other kinds of fuel for maintaining animal heat \u201d Mr.C.said that the opponents of temperance, being driven from the old ground that alcohol is nourishing, now sometimes maintained that it was good for fuel.That it would burn, there was no doubt; but, as for our stoves, so for our bodies, we must choose between good and bad kinds of fuel.In our food, as nature provides it, there are always two classes of substances ; the one to form blood, and repair the waste of the system, the other to burn.In milk, the cheese is the nourishment, the butter and sugar the fuel.All kinds of vegetable food contain sugar, gum, starch or oil, which are burnt up through the body ; the lungs providing the oxygen, the iron in the blood-corpuscules carrying it to the remotest capillaries, and conveying back the carbonic a cid.Alcohol, containing no nitrogen, can never nourish.It cannot be good for fuel for the following reasons:\u20141.Nature never provides it as food in a single living substance ; it is only one stage in the putrefaction process, and is no more a \u201cgood creature of God\u201d than mouldy fruit or rotten eggs ; nor are even its materials provided in cold climates, but only in hot countries, where its use is known to be most injurious.2.Even if ever so good, it is a most expensive fuel ; the people of Great Britain spending at least £04,000,000 a-year it, and the people of Montreal in proportion.3.At best it is soon exhausted.No fuel is good which makes a momentary blaze, and then goes out.Alcoholic heat not only soon goes out, but afterwards generates depressing cold in proportion to the previous heat, making its use especially dangerous in severe weather.4.It is never digested, like nature\u2019s fuel food : all of which, in the liver and other organs, is changed into a peculiar form ot hydro-carbon, best adopted for combustion in the blood.Alcohol is rapidly absorbed, never digested, and if burnt at all, drains off from the system an unnatural amount of oxygen for its consumption.5.Alcohol differs from fuel-food, and agrees with other JITStfl\"*], jfi,eaneciallv attaçkin g one portion of but under some circumstances you can set fire to it with a match.6.The very best fuel, if it wears out the stove, is unfit for use.Now, alcohol is not only the worst fuel, but in burning it injures eveiy portion of our body, This is true even of very moderate drinkers ; though the derangement is long before it is felt, and rarely attributed to its right cause.It damages the stomach [as was shown in the young Canadian who, from a gunshot wound, had a trap door through which the process of digestion could be seen,] the bowels, the liver, the blood, all the tissues of the body, more or less, and especially the brain.Now, if your house-stove is burnt up, you can buy a new one.But when alcohol burns up the body-stove, you are obliged to suffer all sorts ot diseases, and then die.7.Even if there were no arguments, the facts go against the drinking theory.All the expeditions to the polar seas, from the time of Sir J.Ross onwards, were obliged to go on temperance principles, even under the auspices of the slow-moving British government; and it was proved by long and varied experience, and the most careful experiments, in Labrador and Greenland, that the very best fuel, for maintaining heat in the coldest climates, is Indian meal and molasses.After the lecture, a most beautiful series of dissolving views, Astronomical views, and Chromatropes were exhibited.The Chroma-tropes are an entire novelty here, and were wonderfully beautiful.This exhibition drew repeated and long-continued applause from the audience ; and an equally beautiful and fresh exhibition was promised for the concluding lecture this [Friday] evening, the subject of which is the \u201c Best Means of Maintaining Health.\u201d Canada, they went so far as almost to put an entire stop to the cultivation of wheat.It is not likely, however that with equal cultivation, wheat could not be just as free from the ravages of the fly in Canada as in another country.It is a well ascertained fact that since cultivation was carried to the high point it has now reached, in England, the depredations of the wheat fly have almost ceased.Would not a similar course of cultivation produce a similar effect here ?Circumstances are investing this question with an omnious importance.If the price of breadstuff\u2019s continue to rise, and employment remain as scarce as at present, there is a gloomy prospect for the poor between this and next harvest.Luring the inflated prices of 1855 and 1856, employment was plentiful and wages partook of the same infla-taion as every thing else.But a scarcity of employment co-exists with a high and constantly advancing price of breadstuff's ; the worst possible condition of things for the poor.The number of laborers who have left the cities and their families, to seek work in the country, appears to be alarmingly great.Mendicancy swarms in the streets ; and committees of relief have been established in places where no such thing ever existed before.In the lower stratum of society there is a worse pressure than the money-pressure* felt by those above them ; the pressure of hunger.Nothing short of a good harvest can bring the needful remedy.\u2014Toronto Paper.* Hon Mr.Young has contradicted this statement.OBITUARY.Montreal and Champlain Company.Kailroad St.Lotus Ward.\u2014J.B.Homier, Esq., now a member of the City Council, and who has represented for many yearns this Ward, and mainly unopposed, will have to contest the same this year, against Mr.Raphael Bellemare, a requisition to whom appeared, yesterday morning, in La Minerve, with Mr.Bellçmare\u2019s acceptance.the great man had gone on to London \u2019in a first class railway car, leaving the poor \u2018poet and his family to trudge on on foot, and trudge on they did, \u201c God and the angels,\u201d as Thom said to me, only knowing what they suffered.Fancy, reader, what a weary journey thatmust have been ; but Thom had a stout heart, and \u2018 bated not one jot of heart and hope.\u201d Now and then he got a lodging for \u201c Jeannie and the bairns\u201d by the aid of the flute ; but at last, after one long day\u2019s dragging along the miry roads, the wife broke down\u2014she had for hours been carrying the youngest child, who was very sick m her arms, and no place of lodging appeared in sight\u2014indeed, had there been they had no means of paying for it.At length, just after nightfall, they reached a barn, the door of which was luckily open.Here Thom left his wife and children, while as a forlorn hope he went out with his flute\u2014his now last re-source.After _ some time, he descried a gentleman\u2019s house in the distance, the windows of which showed that the inhabitants had not retired for the night.Soon he heard the sound of a piano and his heart grew hopeful, for he thought, if they like music they may appreciate a Scottish air.So he went under the window AM c°mmence