Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 18 février 1859, vendredi 18 février 1859

[" aeiTKKiL HKKILII STMiiOOK & JOS PBII1T1IIG OFFICE Wo.«g ?3©tre Warn® Street, (%i St.Francois Xavier St.,) MONTREAL.f piHE Proctor of this Establishment begs to inform i3 friends and the public in general, that haw ENLARGED h (STOCK of PRINTING ivTERIALS, STEAM PRESSES, Ac., he is noworepared to undertake every description of Prying, such as Books, Pamphlets, Magazines, In^rance Policies, Programmes, Catalogues, Posing Bills, Hand Bills, Railway Bills, SteamboatfSills, Circulars, Invitation and Funeral Letters, Druggists and other Labels Military Forms ofwery description, &c., with despatch, and at t® LOWEST CITY PRICES.S3\u201d Business Ceds neatly and promptly executed.JAMES POTTS Jan.26.\t22 IMPOUTANT TO ILL WHOM IT MA] OOHOERN.THOSE who are desirous, in these hard times of Saving Monej, should visit the .S T ££ H H m Notre Dajne Street.To Persons having large Families and heavy expenses, one shilling, or even sixpence saved 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 V itt,V i''.V.V oA\\ «-.eAo'lv-, avi\",V,vV,l I.Cl,' MU- linery and other purposes Petershams 1 Mohairs | All first rate material for Witneys }- 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 hem 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 he establishment and satisfy themselves as to the truth of the above statements.18-3 NOTEE MME STREET Nov.30.\t284 LA ^v\\vuW\\ 1 AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.VOLUME LI.MONTREAL, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 1859.NUMBER 41 Perfect Substitute for SILVER.ELEBTEO-PLATE ON NICKEL SILVER, ORIGINALLY introduced bÿ R.SHAR-PLEY into Canada, over fifteen years since, and has been found to give general satisfaction, at the following REDUCED PRICES : Fiddle\t\tor plain\t\tThread\t\tKings\t \tPattern.\t\tPat\u2019rn.\tPattern!\t\t\t\t \t1st\t2nd\t3rd\t1st\t1st\t2nd\t3rd \tQlty\tQ'ty\tQlty IQIty\t\tQln\tQlty\tQiy \t«\t$\t$\t$\t$\t8\t¥ 12 Table Forks\t\t10,0(\t7.5C\t4,80:10.50\t\t13,00\t10.50\t7,0|) 12 Do.Spoons.\t10,00\t8,00\t4,80\t12.00\t15,00\t12,00\t7,0, 3 2 Desert Forks.\t6.50\t6,00\t3,50\t8,00\t9,00\t8,00\tOVll 12 Do.Spoons .\t6.50\t5.50\t3.50\t8,50\t10,50\t8,50\t0,0,) 12 Tea Spoons\t\t3,50\t2,50\t1,75\t4,50\t6,60\t4,50\t3,60 2 Dgs: Spoons [edit DowJJ\t\t2,40\t1,50\t1,60\t3.00\t4,50\t3,30\t 2 Sauce Ladles .\t1.80\t1.10\t1.10\t2,00\t2.50\t2,00\t 1 Gravy Spoon.\t2,50\t2,00\t1,25\t2,50\t3,00\t2,50\t 2 Salt Spoons [Gill\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Bowl] \t\t0.80\t0,50\t0,50\t1,00\t1,50\t1,10\t 1 Musiard do.[Gilt\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Bowl] \t\t0.40\t0.25\t0,25\t0,50\t0,75\t0,55\t 1 pair Sugar Tongs\t0,75\t0,60\t0,50\t1,25\t1,25\t1,00\t 1 pair Fish Carvers\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t7.00\t6,00\t5.00\t6,00\t7,00\t6,50\t \t0.90\t0.75\t0.50'\t1,00\t1,50\t1.25\t 1 Soup Ladle .\t4,50'\t2,50\t1.25\t4 00\t5,00\t4,00\t 1 Sugar Sifter .\t0,90\t\t.\t0,90\t1,25\t1,00\t \t58,45,43,70\t\t30,20 65,65\t\t82,25\t66,70\t Discount for Cash\t\t\t\t\t\t\t 5 per cent .\t2,92\t2,18\t1,61\t3,28\t4,11\t3.33\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t65,53 41.62\t\t28,69 62,37\t\t78,14163,37'\t\t Tin Foil and Metallic Cap Manufactory, NO.38 CROSBY STREET, NEW YORK.JOHP* J.CRQOtCE & CO., Are manufacturing under the t Patent, ROLLED TIN FOIL, PLAIN, PRINTED OR EMBOSSED, Suitable for wrapping Fine Cut & Cavendish Tobaccos, Cheese Spices, &c.Thin Beaten Foil, all sizes, superior in brilliancy and strengt/ to the imported article.META LIC C1PS, For sealing Bottles, Jars, fyc., stamped with any name, or design required.Also, Music Plates, Solder, Type and Britauia Metals.June 21, 1858-\tlv-145 CAKES rOKCHBISTIAS.:svir:r~t.\t^ -asciktst , GREAT ST.JAMES STREET, Would direct the attention of the Public to his present stock of Cakes, Fancy Confectionery and Holiday Presents, now an exhibition at his Store.Dec.21.\t302 Jiii Wholesa CO.e Importers OF The above Goods are Warranted to be of British Manufacture.R.Shabplev begs to call the attention of the public to the advertised prices in London of the above Goods, of the same quality : LONDON prices : Fiddle Pattern.Thread Pattern.Kings Pat\u2019rn £11 14 6 stg.£14 11\t6 stg.£17 14\t6 stg MONTREAL PRICES : £10\t7\t7 cy.£15 11 10 cy.£15 16 10 cy.R.SHARPLEY, Crystal Block, Notre Dame Street.December 7.\t290 NOTICE.JUST RECEIVED, direct from HAVANA the undermentioned favourite Brands of CIGARS : ACIERTO LONDRES, J.M.VICHOT LONDRES, JENNY LIND REGALIAS, LUZ.DE AMERICA OOQUETAS, ACIERTO CONCHAS, ANTIGUIDAD PANATELLAS, NAPOLEON LONDRES, WOODVILLE LONDRES, CABANA LONDRES, PERLA CUBANA REGALIAS, MIMDO NUEVO OOQUETAS, ACIERTO OPERAS, ANTIGUIDAD GALENAS, NAPOLEON CONCHAS -ALSO,- 50,000 of FINE FLAVOURED CIGARS, of different brands and superior quality.\u2014also,\u2014 Just received ex Steamer 11 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 j and numerous other articles suitable for presents for the APPROACHING HOLIDAYS, At G.LEVEY\u2019S, Crystal Block, Notre Dame Street.Dec.7.\t290 Rich Fancy and Staple DRY GOODS, Hbs.§70, 71, 72, & 73 Boyer\u2019s Buildings, Custom-Hodse Square, INVITE the attention of Buyers to the very attractive display they are now making having received and opened up the contents of 600 Cases and Bales of F AX* Ju G10ODS.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 Deoart-ments.TERMS LIBERAL.December 1.\t309 PER STEAMER \"ANGLO-SAXON.\u201d J.BLlCfflSEE BEGS to inform the Public that he has received, per above Steamer, a NEW « (AMI! ASS08TIBNT OF GOLD AND SILVER W A T C H E S, RINCriS, STUBS, G5- \u20ac3 Xu id» oxar^xisras, AND E E ECTJfS «f- Œ*Æ;JE TE, WHOLESALE AND BETAIL 214, NOTRE DAME STREET.July 5.\t157 CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR.First Prize Exhibition for Uakes and Confectionery.J.ÂMTOŒY, 33 GREAT ST.JAMES STREET, RETURNS his thanks to the Montreal Public for their patronage since he has opened business, and now begs to inform them that he is receiving daily from New York Au Eudless variet of every Article in hi Line.comprising Confectionery of every description, OORNUCAPIAS, 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 dotice.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 27.\t282 CHAS.ROBERTSOIM UPHOLSTERER AND CABINET MAKER, HAS REMOVED FROM NOTRE DAME STREET TO HIS NEW B U X No.56 CRAIG STREET, Where he has in his Capacious Show-Rooms a Large Assortment of FUBMITUBE I FOR SALE CHEAP, COMPRISING : Sets of COTTAGE FURNITURE, DRAWING-ROOM FURNITURE, DINING-ROOM FURNITURE, BED-ROOM SETS, &c.&c.ko.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, Ho 56 Craig Street, November 19.\t27 W, BOUGX.AS, FIRST PRIZE ROOT & SHOE MAKEH, Iff©.81 Effi\u2019iSSM, STHEST, BEGS respectfully to call the attention of the public to his 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 j ustified 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 Dress Boots Do\tdo\tGent\u2019s Walking Boots\tand Shoes Do\tdo\tGent\u2019s Dress Shoes First Prize for Ladies\u2019 Dress Shoes Do\tdo Ladies\u2019 Walking Boots and Shoes Do\tdo Strong Working Boots.November Ï0.\t3m-284 G JaiylO.STORAGE.OOD STORAGE and CELLERAGE, in Bond or Free.HAVILLAND ROUTE & GO.?162 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 Pipes 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, Countersiuks, 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 Platt Street, New York.January 7.\t5 M.BESSUMG-BB, 205 NOTRE DAME STREET, Over the Store of Mr, Thomas Jenking, BEGS to call the attention of parties, desirous of purchasing OIL PAINTIIGS, to visit his Gallery, where there will be found an EXCELLENT COLLECTION OF LWOmKB, By Artists of merit and celebrity.M.BESSUNGeR wouldj^also intimate chat he is prepared to IP\tDU1\t1/Î\tF\tPT\tii\tpill 1\t\t[111\tHi\trl\tj.\till] mùj in a very superior style, and on moderate terms.Dee.30.\t309 GRAY BROTHERS\u2019 NEWLY INVENTED GRADUATING DOOR AND GATE SPRING j S the most simple, cheap and efficient Door I Closer in the world.It is an improvement upon all Springs that have ever been introduced to the public.The trade supplied upon liberal terms by Messrs.FERRIER k CO., 298 Notre Dame Street, and Oor.St.Paul.GRAY BROS., 69 SEEKÏTAH SIKEET, NEW-YORK, SOLE PROPRIETORS OP HYDE'S GRIPPING AND ECCEN1R1C SCREW WRENCH.IIHIS WRENCH combines the Pipe, Tongs and Screw Wrench in one Tool.No Gas Fitter or Iron Founder, or, in fact, any establishment where machinery is in use, should be without one.Messrs.FERRIER k CO., Sole Agents for Montreal.THE OLD EMPIRE COFFEE POT, the sue cessor to the Old Dominion, is Manufactured by GRAY BROS., 69 Beekman Street, New York.Agents\u2014Messrs FERRIER k CO., Montreal WHO would be without the NEW OR LEANS.ROTARY EGG-WHIP ?Manufactured by GRAY BROS., 69 Beekman Street, New York.Agents\u2014Messrs.FERRIER & 00., Montreal Dec.29.\t308 COSMERCIAL POINT FORGE DORCHESTER, MASS.ÜEAKB0EH, KOBIHSQN & CO., Successors to RANSTEAD, DEARBORN & CO., Manufacturers of R A L i?© A B WO.R K.Cranks, Truck, Engine & Car Axles, Frog Steel, Connecting Rods, Frames, &c.STEAMBOAT WO^IC, Shafting, Beam Straps, Wheel Arms, Cranks, Cross-Heads, Connecting Rods, Piston Rods, &XlS£i OF CQBT, PREVIOUS TO CLOSING THE BUSINESS, During the progress of Extensive Alterations in the Premises.The Public may, therefore, positively rely on obtaining REAM BARGAINS THAN EVER BEFOEE OFFERED IN MONTREAL, AT A.HOFFNUNG\u2019S, 170 Notre Dame Street, Opposite Mr.T.Mussen\u2019s.Dec.20.\t301 THE SOLE AGENCY FOR CANADA Has been given to A.HOFFNUSMC For the Sale of the Celebrated SMEOSCOPIC Ï OF THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING 3.2 VIEWS OF THE TALES 0E NIAGARA.A large assortment of which have just been opened, and well worthy of public attention,' at A.HOFFNUNG\u2019S, 170 Notre Dame Street, Opposite Mr.T.Mussen\u2019s.December 30.\t307 aSHARPLEY has now on hand^a few .Cases of ASSORTED TOYS, varying i prices from $12 to $100.\u2014Also,\u2014 Several Hundred Dozen of WAX DOLLS.CRYSTAL BLOCK, Notre Dame Street.December 23.\t304 tyi\u2019MlLLAB*! & ©AÜSOÜ, WBI01L.ESA3L.E AHSS i&ETAIlL OXiO ® jaZXiKTGr AND OUTFITTING WAREHOUSE N®, 66 McGill Sjtréflï* McM.k 0.beg to intimate to their Customers that they have just received, direct from London, per SS NOVA-SCOTIAN and A N G L O-SAXON, a very complete Stock of FALL and WINTER GOODS, consisting of some of the Best Goods manufactured and very Newest Styles.From the facilities they possess for the purchase of Goods, they are satisfied they can please all who may favour them with a call, both in Price and Style.GARMENTS of all descriptions made to measure in a manner that cannot be surpassed either as regards fit, style or workmanship, and at very moderate prices for cash.From the success they have had in cutting that most difficult and important item of Gentlemen\u2019s Dress, namely, PANTALOONS, they feel warranted in saying to those who desire a good fitting Pant, made from the best fabrics, that they can he supplied at their Establishment.McM.k O.oeg to say to the Country portion of their Customers that they have on hand a large Stock of READY-MADE CLOTHING, very carefully made up from good material.Merchants would do well to examine before making their purchases.Scott\u2019s, Clay\u2019s, and Chappell\u2019s FASHIONS on hand and for s-.e.N.B.\u2014ONE PRICE ONLY ! Sept.20.\tmwf-223 COOK1MC STOVES.THE \u201c SUPERIOR\u201d and \u201c VICTOR,\u201d the two best Stoves in the market.They are sure bakers.These Stoves are recommended with confidence of their success, and are easily managed.The Tins are of the very best description, and have copper bottoms.The \u201c Black Diamond,\u201d \u201c Morning Star,\u201d and \u201c The Annexation\u201d still continue to be very popular.For baking and cooking purposes they give general satisfaction.The above Stoves for beauty and workmanship surpass any now before the public.Parties would do well to examine these Stoves before purchasing elsewhere.Also on hand, HOUSE FURNISHINGS, &c.Stove Depot, 167 St.Paul Street.THOMAS COUILLARD.April 19th.\tmwf 91 SALE BY ÂÜTHÛIUÎY Of JUSTICE, aXTILL BE SOLD, to the highest offerer and YY last bidder, at the Office of the undersigned, No.20 Little St.James Street, on MONDAY, the 7th MARCH next, at ELEVEN o\u2019clock in the FORENOON, that SPLENDID PIECE ot LAND, heretofore the property of the late DOMINIQUE LAMBERT ST.OMER, Esquire, Notary, situate at the Cote St.Antoine, in the Parish of Montreal, about two miles from the City of Montreal :\u2014 It contains three arpents in front by thirty arpents in depth, the whole more or less ; bounded in front partly by the Ladies of the Hotel Dieu St.Joseph of Montreal and partly by the representatives Miller, at the other end, in rear, by William Foster Coffin, Esq., on one side by Joseph St.Germain, and on the other side by Isaie Hur-tubisej with a STONE HOUSE and other Buildings thereon constructed.This Land, by its proximity to the City of Montreal, is very fit to be divided into Lots for building Villas or Cottages.Its site is charming, having an extensive view over the City and the River St.Lawrence.An undoubted Title will be given to the purchaser.The conditions will be made known on the day of Sale ; or may be known beforehand on application to the undersigned, J.A.LABADIE, N.P., J.E.O.LABADIE, N.P.February 15, 1859.\tTin r 40 PHOTOGRAPHY.w .K3 o T a m., ARTIST.11 BLEURY STREET.First Prize for Photographs First Prize for Ambrotypes PHOTOGRAPHS, untouched or colored, in OIL, WATER COLORS, or CRAYONS, From Fall Ejength JLife Mze to the smallest produced.AMBROTYPES Colored for Frames or Oases.MINIATURES of every description for Lockets, Brooches, or Rings.Daguerreotypes and Paintings Copied in all the various styles, and increased or reduced to any size required.Stereoscopic Portraits and Groups, in Cases or Paper Slides.Views Stereoscoped and otherwise to order.Portraits taken and finished in Oils or Water Color withoit» he aid of the Camera, if required.Artists ana Amateurs supplied with Stock and Apparatus, and the Art taught.Specimens to be seen at Mr.Notman\u2019s Studio, 11 De Bleury Street.Observe the address ; no specimens exhibited outside.November 5\t266 MR.NOTMAN, Artist, 11 Bleury Street begs to intimate that the portion of his Studio lately destroyed by fire is now re-built and is being fitted with everything past experience can suggest, that will add to the comfort of those visiting the establishment, and that on MONDAY, the 9 th current, the business will again be resumed ; and he hopes from his own attention and the ability of the various Artists in his employ, to merit a continuance of the very liberal support he has hitherto received.August 3.\t182 FIRE IEE1IEAMCE.WEW YORK Board of Rive Insurance Companies, New York, October 12, 1858.New York Steam-Heating Company : Gentlemen,\u2014In accordance with your request, I would state that the Fire Insurance Companies of this City, make a deduction of Ten Per Cent, on the Premiums on all risks where Gold\u2019s Patent Steam-Heating Apparatus is adopted.The Board adopted a rule to that effect in consideration of the greater safety as regards the happening of fire, and deem this apparatus much safer than the nsual modes of heating.Respectfully yours, W.F.UNDERHILL.New York, September 29, 1858.To the New York Steam-Heating Company: Gents :\u2014Three years ago last Winter I used in my dwelling-house, a Hot-Air Furnace of the most approved pattern, but in consequence of the unpleasant and chocking kind of heat I took on the Hot-Air Furnace and put in its place Gold s Patent Steam-Heating Apparatus.I have used it for two Winters, and most cheerfully recommend it as being superior to anything I have yet seen.The health of my family has been much benefited by the pleasant soft heat produced by it.J.B.PECK, 299, West 22d Street.The Radiators can be suited to almost an endless variety of adaptions.Clusters of them of any desired dimentions, may be hid within an ornamental network of iron, with a handsome Marble Top, or as a Marble Mantel, or some elegant article of furniture.EXTRACT FROM A LETTER.Yet another advantage is the small consumption of fuel, which amounts to less than half the quantity required by the ordinary Furnaces.J.V.D.STEWART, M.D., Baltimore, Maryland.The Subscribers are prepared to receive orders for HtartrUjvhy ITioliS1-: Pate'\"* Steam-Heating Appartus Dwelling-Houses, Schools, Churches, Stores, or PublicHalls of any Fmen-tions.ROBT.MITCHELL & CO.Sole Agents for Canada, Corner of Craig and St.P< ter Streets, Montreal.November 5.\t263 METALLIC BUjriAL CASKETS.Representation of ?newly invented BURIAL CASE, finished in imitation of polished Rosewood with one or three pannels of French Plate Glass inserted in the Cover and elaborately ornamented Iron Caps to cover them.Much that is repulsive has been discarded in the arrangement and shape of this Case, and whatever rends to soften the poignancy of our grief, commends itself to our consideration.\u2014 Besides this, the Case being air-tight, contagion is prevented and the process of decomposition is often arrested for a long time.We, therefore, do not hesitate to avere that there has never been in use any recepticle for the dead so entirely chaste, appropriate, and withall, con venient as this invention.For Sale only by RODDEN k MEILLEUR, 71 Great St.James\u2019 Street.December 1.\t285 PUBS AT The Subscribers are Selling their Stock of RICH FURS at reduced prices\u2014for one Mouth only \u2014comprising a Fine Assortment of Ladies\u2019, Gentlemen\u2019s and Children\u2019s Furs of every description.GREENE & [SONS, 305 & 307 St, Paul St.Near McGill St.December 6.\t289 \u201cBALLS; IfflBLIES.C.HËALY BEGS respectfully to remind LADIES participating in the festivities of the Season, that he continues to sell, at an IMMENSE REDUCTION in price, hia large and beautiful assortment of LACES and EMBROIDERIES.Ball Dresses from 10s.to 80s.Real Lace Sets from 7s.6d.*o 30s.\u2014 And,\u2014 A great variety of Black and White Lace Flounces, Jackets, Berthes, Capes, Lace and Embroidered Handkerchiefs, Real and Imitation Trimming Laces, kc., kc.C.HEALY, Laceman, 219 Notre Dame Street.Jan.19.\t16 iiittglish Chemicals, Drugs, &c.EaYiis, Sons & \u20aco., LIVERPOOL.EVANS, LESCMER & EVANS, LONDON.Wholesale and Export Druggists, Manufactur ingand Pharmaceutical Chemists, Drug Grinders, kc., HAVING appointed an Agent in Canada, are prepared to receive Orders for English Chemicals, Pharmaceutical preparations and Drugs, at prices current in England.Orders aan be executed either in Liverpool or London, opply to\tF.0 UNDILL, St.Andrew\u2019s Buildings St.Peter Street.Montreal, March 10, 1858.\tly-58 Steam«r aud General Shipping Agency.AN active person, acquainted with this Business, is now open for an engagement as Freight and Passenger Agent for upper Lake Steamers, or other General Shipping Agency requiring energy and attention.Best city references.Early application desirable Address \u201c B \u201d Herald Office.January 12.\t9 TO IRCHAfJTS.THE SUBSCRIBER having been engaged in the HARDWARE TRADE of CANADA for Twelve years past, wishes to procure a Situation as Traveller or Salesman in a Wholesale Establishment.Can give satisfactory references.Apply by lettetM post paid, to Box 734, To ronto.Nov 22^\tmf 2 PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT.LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.Tuesday, February 15.The SPEAKER took the Chair at three o\u2019clock.A number of petitions were presented by various members.THE PRESIDENT OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.Hon.Mr.FERGUSSON moved \u201cThat an humble address be presented to his Excellency, calling the attention of his Excellency to the fact, that a member of his Excellency\u2019s Executive Council holds a high official position in the Grand Trunk Railroad, and suggesting to his Excellency the inconveniences which may attend such conjunction and its incompatibility with exercising a confidential position in his Excellency\u2019s Government.\u201d The bon.gentleman said he was sure the House would concur with him when he called their attention to the extreme delicacy of the position in which he had placed himself in moving this resolution.But he could assure the House that in doing so he had been actuated with a desire to advance the interests of the country, and he was convinced hon.gentlemen would acquit him of any pitiful partizan motive in bringing the matter before the notice of the House in this manner.He had made a similar motion in reference to the then Speaker of this House some years ago in Montreal ; and on that occasion members of the House had acquitted him of any intention to serve a partizan purpose.We live in extraordinary times ; and when we see the other branch of the Legislature passing an address such as the one they had passed in answer to the speech from the throne, they should pause before placing entire confidence in his Excellency\u2019s present advisers.That address had been passed by a majority of five members ; and of what did that majority consist ?Four of them were tied neck and heels to the Government, and the other was a gentleman who had lately, he found, been received by her Majesty at Windsor, and who was insincere in all his professions.But,as regarded the motion,the holding of the two offices by the same gentleman might be attended, not with danger, but with extremely bad results to the people at large, among whom suspicions were now aroused as to the evil effect of the connexion.With regard to the benefits of the Grand Trunk Railway, there was not a man in Canada who believed more in the blessings that that road would confer on the country if properly carried on than himself.He was not, however, satisfied with the manner in which the road had been and was conducted.The country had been led on step by step to make large advances of money, until the province was now placed in a very precarious position.The public were of this opinion, too, and fears were entertained of the evils likely to arise in this matter.It was quite clear to his mind, quite conclusive, that a man who held two situations of such responsibility is inadequate to the proper discharge of the duties ot both, and unfit for either the one or the other.If he was of that nature, he might avail himself of his position as Executive Councillor to advance the interest of the Company to the injury of the country\u2014he might also avail himself of the means he possessed of gaining early knowledge of the state of the money markets, and using such information adverse to the public good.There were a thousand different ways which, if he chose, he could adopt to benefit the company or himself at the expense of province.Taking it all together, the holding of the two offices is incompatible and should no longer be permitted.He would earnestly implore, he might say demand, every member of this House to give his vote tor the motion ;and if he did not agree with him he should state clearly and distinctly his reasions for acting otherwise.He left the case in their hands, and he did think it was a case which his Excellency should well consider before he allowed one of his advisers to hold another and highly important office.Hon.Mr.DESSAULLES seconded the motion and pressed upon the House the advisability of passing it.Hon.Mr.VANKOUGHNET said he quite understood, and he thought the House would un-derstaud, the delicacy of the position of the hon.mover of the resolution.His hon.friend had told them that, of course, lie would not be suspected of partizan motives, but that he had acted with a profound sense of duty.He would not endeavor to show that his conduct was of a partizan character ; he would leave it to the conscience of the hon.gentleman to say whether there was any political object to serve ill making this motion.He would not take it upon himselt to say so ; but he would say, that during the time he had sat in the House he had never heard a word of complaint against his hon.friend (Ross) who had in that period, and since 1852, held both the office of a member of the Executive Council and that of President of the Grand Trunk Railway Company.The House had been told that the occupancy of the latter office was incompatible witu his duties to the Crown, pit was very singular that while the road was laboring under embarrassments, and requiring the assistance of the Government to enable it to proceed with its works, during which time his hon.triend had held the office ot President of the Company\u2014it was very strange, he would say, that the hon.gentleman had not then considered it his duty to make the motion.When the company had now become disconnected with the Government, when it rested now simply as a commercial enterprise, when it was in a fair way of becoming successful and when it had been expressly declared that no further Government aid would be extended to it\u2014it was remarkable that at this lime the motion should be made, and that the hon.gentleman had waited so long to make it.The hon.gentleman had on various occasions stood up aud proclaimed his manliness, his tory principles, fiis loyalty, and his sense of right and wrong ; and who would have supposed that he was the man to make this attacK upon the Government in the manner he had done ?Certainly he (Mr.V.) did not.The honorable and manly course would have been to bring up an immediate vote ot want of confidence, instead of directing au unmanly attack against a particu-iar member of the Government.He desired to say that he considered this motion against his hon.friend involved equally himself.The whole Government were responsible for the position he held ; and this motion if passed would affect them as a whole.The hon.gentleman should not, either for personal reasons or otherwise, endeavor to entrap votes in this way ; and he would not shrink from characterising the procteding as unmanly.(Hear, hear,) His hon.friend held the position of a member of the Executive Council not because it was a matter of profit or because he desired to occupy that position, but at the earnest request of his colleagues pmd at the desire of his Excellency the Governor General.Then, why had not this motion, if it was so necessary for the interests of the country, been introduced before?His hon.friend had been allowed to sit in the House last session; and when a bill had passed the other House aud received the sanciiou of this, giving independent powers to the Grand Trunk Railway, had any attempt been made to deprive his hon.friend of the office of .President, to which he had been elected by the Directors?if the hon.gentleman had felt last year that the holding of the office of President of the Company was antagonistic to good government, if he had felt that it was contrary to the true interests of the country, then was the time to have made this motion.The hon.gentleman had told .the House that the Grand Trunk Company was a corrupt concern ; that chiselling and jobbery had characterized all its doings, and that people were altogether disappointed with regard to it.Now, ail he could say was, that the only people who had been disappointed in the road were those who failed, as all failed who attempted to make money by speculating in connection with it.(Hear, hear.) He could assure the House that unlike many other enterprises, the Grand Trank was in a prosperous condition and ahead of ali its engagements, and he could confidently assert that in no single instance had any influence been brought to bear by the Company upon the Government, no aid extended to it, and no operation in reference to it conducted, with which Parliament had not been made acquainted.Why, then, after his hon.friend had succeeded so well as President of the road in bringing it up to its present position, should he be made the subject of this motion?Had he merited the reproacn of this House or ot tne other House l (Hear, hear.) No; the boa.gentleman, the mover, could not point to a single act which would merit disapprobation.(Hear, hear.) Then he, [Mr.V.] would agaiu say it was unmanly to act thus towards him.ft there were any charges to be made against hia hon triend, let them be made openly, and not insinuatingly, for partizan purposes.Hon.Mr.DEdriAULES\u2014I hope my hon.friend does not attribute any such motives to me.Hon.Mr.VANKOUGHNET said he did not ; but he did maintain that it was most unworthy to make such insinuations as had been thrown out.(Hear, hear.) It was the only fair and manly way to make the charges and prove them, and not indulge in mere inuendoes which were calculated to injure,and could not be met.Now, what was the House called upon to do?His hon.friend held the office ot President of the Grand Trunk Railway, an undert king in the success of which Canada was deeply interested.In the year 1852 he was first made President, and he then occupied the position of Solicitor General.Subsequently, in the year 1854, his hon.friend had held the offices of Attorney General and Speaker of the Legislative Council.While he was thus the confidential adviser of his Excellency he was also the President of the Company, and so he remained until he (Mr.V.) entered the House in 1856.And now when the Company had no connection with the Government he still held the same office ; and it was alleged that this rendered him disqualified as a member of the Government.Why, it might with equal truth be.said that his lion, friend opposite, who was President of the Bank of Montreal, was incapable of having a seat in the Cabinet.Sir Allan MaeNab was a member of the Government, and at the same time a director of the Great Western Railway, which was financially connected with the Government, and at the present time was in arrears.Mr.Morrison, also, was President of the Northern Railway, a road which had probably given the Government more trouble than any other undertaking in the country.They had not heard his hon.friend (Mr.Fergusson) say anything then about the incompatibility of the gentlemen holding these offices.Then, again, would the hon.gentleman opposite [Mr.Des- ur h» furn'3b saulles] consider himself disqualified because he happened to be a seignor?Yet the question of seignorial rights might come up, and would objection be made to a member of the Government because he was a seignor and had to deal with a question relating to them ?Then, if the House went so far as this motion would have it go, it would ultimately go farther, and say that no person was capable of holding a seat in the Government if he owned municipal debentures, because these debentures were the common property of the country.If the House recognized that principle, it would go farther, and.say that no person who held an influential position in mercantile affairs, or in a commercial undertaking, was qualified to accept an office in the Government.Again, it his hon.friend was unworthy of a seat in the Cabinet, he.was also unworthy of a seat in the House.Then, the House owed it to themselves to say whether a man who was declared unworthy to be an adviser of His Excellency, was unworthy of being a member of the House.Why, what would his Excellency probably say if this motion were carried : \u201cI find certain members in the Legislature, and from them I select my Government.If you permit the persons I select to sit in the House, how can it be said that they are unworthy to sit beside me.\u201d [Hear, hear.] Although the House allowed them to sit and vote there as members\u2014and as members to use their influence with other members,\u2014he [Mr.V.J would ask, would the House tell those members that they were unfit to be advisers of his Excellency ?The two things were inconsistent, and the principle shouli not be recognized by the House.Then, as to the Grand Trunk, he would again say that there was no more connection between it and the Government than there was between the administration and any institution that happened to owe money to the Government.Hon.Mr.FERGUSSON said he did not say there was a connection, but that there was a universal suspicion that evils would arise.Hon.Mr.VANKOUGHNET asked if the House were to acton suspicions.Many things done in the House were likely to lead to inconvenience, but in view of the benefits, was it right to assume that inconvenience must follow.As long as the Government was sustained in their aeis by the country, as long as they possessed the constitutional majority in the other House to carry their measures, this House had no right to disqualify any particular man from a seat in that Government, unless the law of the land disqualified him.He would ask hon.gentlemen to look, in the first place, at the unfairness of attacking a member in this way ; in the second place, at the absurdity of excluding a man from the Government who held a high position in commercial life ; and at the unreasonableness of telling his Excellency in detail of whom his Government is to be composed.If the principle of the motion was to be recognized, let the House and the country know it; aud let them alter the constitution so as to provide for it.Bat do not let them put themselves iffthe position of telling his Excellency that what they had sanctioned for years was now wrong.[Hear, hear.] He (Mr.V.) would prefer that the hon.gentleman had moved a direct vote of want of confidence.Hon.Mr.CAMPBELL asked what connection existed between the Grand Trunk and the Government, and what were the liabilities of the Company to the Government?Hon.Mr.VANKOUGHNET said the Company had obtained power to issue preferential bonds to the extent of $2,000,000 ; and until the shareholders obtained six per cent, on their investments, the Government lien was suspended.With regard to the motion, he hoped it would be withdrawn.Hon.Col.PRINCE said he did not rise to defend the hon.member to whom this motion related, because there was no charge against him.He [Col.Prince] was of opinion that the motion had been conceived in error and brought forth in absurdity.Why, what would his Excellency say if this address were passed ?He would tell the House that he would remove the hon.gentleman from neither one office nor the other.Then ne [Col.Princej would like to know in what consisted the incompatibility of holding the two offices ?It had been said that the President of the Company might obtain early knowledge of the state ot the money market.Now, this was insinuating that he would turn that knowledge to his own profit ; and he [Col.P.] could hardly think that the hon.and venerable mover of the motion could say that the hon.gentleman would be guilty of acting in that manner.He was sorry to see the spirit which prompted this motion had been adopted in the other house, aud in this country, where, if a man held a seat in the Government, he could not accept even of a brief in a law court on the part of the Crown.He could accept of no engagement under the Crown while he held the position of adviser to his Excellency.Why, this law had been laughed at in England ; aud he considered it a miserable, narrow-minded, un-British policy, and one that, he hoped would soon be abolished.He trusted this resolution would be ignominously rejected, as it deserved to be.Hon.ADAM FERRIER said that he was convinced of the incompatibility of a member of the Government holding at the same time the office of President of the Grand Trunk Railway Company, and he would therefore vote for the motion.Sir E.P.TACHE said that he really could not see the incompatibility which was said to exist in this matter.If his hon.friend had been appointed by the Government to the office of President of the Grand Trunk Railway, then it might be said that, in view of the Act passed in 1857, securing the independence of members of the Legislature, it was improper, and that the Government were debarred from making the appointment.But such was not the case.The office of President of the Grand Trunk Railway was independent of the Government.(The hon.gentleman read from the journals the result of a somewhat similar motion which came before the House in Montreal.) He concluded by saying that this resolution should not .be adopted by the House, and expressed his intention of voting against it.Hon.Mr.SIMPSON said that he would vote tor the ^motion\u2014not jbecause he thought the hon.gentleman in question was unfit to hold either office, but because he thought it was incompatible with the true interests of the country that any connection between the Company and the Government should longer continue.Hon.Mr.ALLAN thought it was hardly the time and hardly the form in which this motion should be brought forward.The proper form, if he might venture to say so, would be the introduction of a bill setting forth that it was desirable that any connection between the Government and the Company should cease, and rendering it impossible that such connectiou could continue.There was sufficient time to prepare such a bill and have it passed, if the House concurred in it.Hon.Mr.CAMPBELL agreed with his hon.friend (Vankoughnet) that it was too late now to deal with this subject.If such a motion had been made some years ago, when there was a close connection between the Government and the Grand Trunk Railway, it might have been proper to pass it, but the case was altered now.True, the influence of the Grand ! rank was very great, and it might be considered an exceptional institution.He hardly thought the head of such a corporation in England would be regarded as a proper person to occupy the office of Minister of thé Crown ; for instance, the Governor of the Bank of England would uot accept such au office.Hou.Mr.VANKOUGHNET\u2014A member of the great Barings\u2019 banking house had been in the Government.Hon.Mr.CAMPBELL was just about to cite the refusal of office under Government by a member of that very firm.Hon.Mr.VANKOUGHNET\u2014Yet the same gentleman had subsequently accepted such an office.Hon.Mr.CAMPBELL would not dispute the point, as doubtless the knowledge of his honbie.friend on the subject was more extensive than his own.He had the greatest respect for the President of the Grand Trunk, who deserved credit for the very able manner in which he had conducted the affairs of that great institution.It might be that the principles which obtained in England, respecting the holding of office as members of the Government by panic s engaged in large commercial or monetary enterprises, were not applicable in this country\u2014indeed, from the paucity of these men here, be thought those principles were hardly applicable.Therefore, as there was no connection between the Grand Trunk and the Government at present, he would vote against the motion.Hon.Mr.FERGUSSON said he had neither personal nor party ends to serve by the action he had taken, and would beg to withdraw his motion, reserving to himself the right to bring it up again in some other shape, if he thought it expedient.The motion was then withdrawn.COURT HOUSES IN LOWER CANADA.Hon.Mr DESSAULLES moved for an address to His Excellency, praying that a statement of the tenders for the erection of Court Houses in Lower Canada be prepared for the information ot the House, to contain the names of the parties tendering, the proposed sureties, the prices asked, and the parties to whom the works had been given.\t-v Hon.Mr.VANKOUGHNET had no other ob'-lection save the expense which such copious returns would entail, unless it were to give the names of the sureties, which it was not usual to Hon.Mr.DESSAULLES would do without the names of the sureties, and if a similar request had been made by the other House, he would be willing to accept the papers furnished to that House, rather than that unnecessary expense should be incurred.Hon.Mr.VANKOUGHNET said more ample information was being given to the Assembly on the subject, and it was agreed to accept the same documents.FIFTH JODOE OF QUEEN\u2019S BENCH IN L.0 .Hon.Mr.DESSAULLES inquired why a fifth fudge of this Court had not been appointed, as required by law ?Hon.Mr.VANKOUGHNET\u2014The appointment of one was under consideration, and when it was made it would be communicated to the House.SOLICITORS GENERAL Hon.Mr.DESSAULLES inquired also why the offices of Solicitor General for both Upper and Lower Canada are kept vacant.Hon Mr.VANKOUGHNET replied that the Government had not deemed it desirable hitherto to fill these offices ; that the subject was under consideration, and if appointments were made they would be reported to the House.LAW OF WILLS.Hon.Mr.VANKOUGHNET moved the second reading of the bill to amend the law relating to Wills in Upper Canada, and briefly explained its provision.Hon.Mr- CAMPBELL had not had time to examine the bill, and would desire to have its second reading postponed, to which the mover consented.Deferred for a week.,\tIRREGUAAKITY-ELECTION LAW.Hon.Mr.MORRIS said that the law relating to contested elections declared that the lists of committees to try them should be prepared on the 15th day of thé first session of Parliament, and that therefore it was illegul, since the present was the second session, to probeed to make such a list.Hon.Mr.CAMPBELL thought that as this was the first session ot this Parliament at which newly elected members sat, it might be taken to be the first session for the purposes of the act.Hon.Mr.VANKOUGHNET would examine into the matter.The House then adjourned.of Government to introduoe the o:d Militia Bill with some amendments.THE BOUNDARY LINE.Hon.Mr.HARDWOOD enquired of the Ministry whether the Commissioners appointed by them to establish the boundary separating Lower from Upper Canada have made any report, and if so, to state the nature of that report, and what probability there is of this long-standing and vexed dispute having any early settlement.The question was allowed to stand over till to-morrow.CUSTOM HOUSES.Mr.Wm.SCOTT enquired whether it was the intention ot the Ministry to reduce the number of Custom Houses, with the view of economizing the public revenue, and if so to what extent.Hon.Mr.GALT\u2014It is the intention of the Government to do so.MUNICIPAL LOAN FUND.Mr.BUREAU presented an address for returns of the moneys paid out of the Consolidated Municipal Loan Fund.\t, Hon.Mr.GALT said the Public Accounts will / be brought down to the 31st Dec., and the hon.I gen tleman would fiod therein the information he desired.These accounts would be ready for distribution in the course of another day.COURT HOUSES AND JAILS.Mr.BOURASSA moved that an address be presented to His Excellency tor a return of tbe names of all parties, with their sureties, who had sent in Tenderrs tor the construction of Court Houses and Jails in the Judicial districts of Lower Canada.Hon.Mr.ROSE said there was no objection to give the names of all the parties whose Tenders had been accepted with the names of their sureties\u2014-but he did not think it would be right to give the names of those sureties\u2014given to Tenders to Tenders which had not been no epted.The contracts were not yet d awn out, but they would be sent down shortly.PRESENTATION OB THE ADDRESS.It being now four o\u2019clock, the House proceeded to present the Address to his Excellency.They were received by his Excellency in the reception room, aud, after the Speaker bad read the Address, in both languages, his Excellency was pleased to return the following answer\u2014 Gentlemen of the Legislative Assemb y :\u2014 \u201c I am happy to learn that iha wiaues and sen-timentsofthe representative~a~0T tlie people of Canada coincide so com|)!etelÿ)tvittrTlTÔ3è which I expressed at the 'opening of the Session, and I thank you sincerely for your dutiful and loya/ address\u201d\t'¦\u2014 - -f- The House then returned to their Chamber, and Mr.Speaker read the reply of his Excellency to the address.BEDFORD JAIL.Mr.FERRES inquired of tbe Ministry whether any tender for the construction of the courthouse and jail for the district of Bedford, had been accepted; whether the contract had been signed ; if not, why not ; and if so, when the work would be commenced ?Hon, Mr.ROSE\u2014I may inform the hon.gentleman that a tender for that and other courthouses has been accepted, and the contract will be signed shortly, The constiuction \"f ihe courthouses and jails will bo proceeded with as rapidly as the state of the pubic fiianc-s will admit, after tbe sites and the titles to the property have been approved of.NIAGARA RIVER.Mr.SIMPSON inquired of the Ministiy, whether, in accordance with the assurance given by the Commissioner of Public W.rks during the last Session, an examination h s ht en made into the state of the bank of the Niagara river beiw en Chippewa and Fort Erie, with a view 'o check tbe eucroachment of the river, and provide a guarantee to the proprietors of the adjacent lands for protection in future.(Hear, bear.) Hon.Mr.ROSE\u2014I must ask the hon.gentleman to postpone the q icstion for afewd'ys.The department is now engaged in grappling with the subject.(Much laughter ) Sundry other inquiries were addressed to the Government by various number, but the answers to them were deferred until a more convenient season.There being no further business on the paper, the House adjourned at twenty minutes to five.LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.Tuesday, February 15.The SPEAKER took the chair at three o clock.ELECTION COSTS.The SPEAKER informed the House that in the matter of the petition of Mr.Arthur Rankin, complaining of the undue return of John McLeod, Esq., for the County of Essex, he had taxed the costs of the sitting member in opposing the petition at $407 75, which sum he adjudged to be paid by Mr.McLeod.He had also taxed the costs of it.W.Scott, Esq., in opposing the petition of Mr.Robert Bell against bis return for the Ci'y of Ottawa, at $524 24, which sum he had directed to be paid to Mr.Scott.STANDING COMMITTEES Atty.Gen.CARTIER moved that a select committee of thirteen members be appointed to prepare and report with ail convenient speed, lists of numbers to compose the select standing committees ordered by this House.Messis.J.A.Macdonald, J.S.Macdonald, Lemieux, Doiion, Foley, Turcotte, Bureau, Buchanan, Morrison, Simard, Ferres, Carling, and the moier.NORFOLK SHRIEVALITY.Mr.SIMPSON presented a petition from Mr.William Mercer praying to be relieved of a disqualification for an office.(Hear, hear.) The motion was carried.REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.Hon.Mr.MERRITT moved fora return of the revenue and expenditure from 1856 to 1858 inclusive.The INSPECTOR GENERAL said he thought the information sought for would be obtained in the statement of the public accounts, when it was brought down.Hon.Mr.MERRITT said the accounts had not heretofore contained so full and clear a statement as he could wist).The INSPECTOR GENERAL said the public accounts would this year be in a more extended form than hitherto.(Hear, hear.) The motion was withdrawn.RECEIPTS FROM PUBLIC LANDS.Hon.Mr.MERRITT moved for a return of the receipts from public lands.Such a statement as this had never yet appeared in the public accounts.Atty.General MACDONALD asked that the motion might stand over until the report of the Commissioner of Public Lands would come down, which would be to-day or to-morrow, and would probably bo found to contain the information asked for.The motion was withdrawn.POSTAL SUBSIDY.Hon.Mr.MERRITT moved a resolution for a joint address to tbe Queen, praying that Her Majesty may be pleased to recommend to her Imperial Parliament to grant the same amount of postal subsidy to a line of steamers between Liverpool and Quebec direct, or between Galway, Newfoundland and Quebec, as is now paid to other lines terminating at the port of New York.The POSTMASTER GENERAL said that, during the recess, the Government had taken energetic action with reference to this subject, and the Government intended to ask this House o strengthen their hands in the course which they had taken.(Hear, hear.) Tbe motion of tbe hon.gentleman would not have the eftect he desired ; it did not meet tbe views of the Government ; and he would ask tbe hon.gentleman to postpone it and confer with him (Mr.cmith) in regard to the shape which the resolutien of the Government on the subject should assume.(Hear, hear ) Mr.MERRITT acceded to the request.RECIPROCITY TREATY.Hon.Mr.MERRITT moved that an humble petition be pri-sented to his Excellency, praying for copies of all correspondence with the Imperial Government, the British Ambassador at Washington, or the American Government, (not confidential,) on the subject of the Reciprocity Treaty, under which flour manufactured or produced in Canada, out of wheat grown in the Western States, was admitted free for consumption in any port iu the Eastern States of the Union, during 1855, \u201956 and\u201961, and vice versa, up to the present moment In Canada, while from a recent construction of the said treaty, by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, the same article was made subject to duty on entry intolAmerican ports during 1858.Carried.ST.LAWRENCE CANALS.Hon.Mr.MERRITT moved that an humble address be presented to his Excellency, praying him to cause the proper officer to lay before the House an estimate of the expenses of deepening each lock and level on the Cornwall, Beauhar-nois, and Lachine Canals to the same depth as through the Welland Canal\u2014ten feet six inches.Hon.Mr.ROSE asked tne hon.gentleman not to press the motion at present, because it would lead to no practical result.An estimate of such a character depended very much upon the time the work was intended to be carried out.The Government were extremely anxious to do all they could to improve the internal means of navigation ; but he really thought that an estimate of the cost of deepening this canal at the present time, Unless they were prepared to enter upon the work, would not lead to any practical benefit.He hoped the hon.member would, for the present, withdraw his motion.Hon Mr.MERRITT said he would not withdraw his motion, but would leave it to be rejected it the House thought proper.Hou.Mr.ROSE requested the hon.gentleman to postpone his motion for a few days, which he acceded to.GOVERNMENT PRINTING.Mr.McKELLAR moved that an Address be presented to His Excellency praying him to send down a retumof all moneys paid by each department of the Government for printing andadver Using for 1857 and 18'8.Mr.FERRES said, if the hon.gentleman would apply to the clerk of the Printing Committee he would find the whole matter brought down to a very late date, he would not say the exact month, but the subject was fully gone into last session.Mr.BENIAMIN moved in amendment that the returns be made from 1848 to 1853, both inclusive.The amendment was carried.THE MILITIA.fMajorCAMPBELL enquired whether the min-4try intended to introduce a measure relative to ,be militia, during this session.Hon.Mr.CARTIER said it was the intention cate shall be filled up subscribing witnesses.City Clerk\u2019s Office, City Hall, Montreal, Feb.12, 1859.in the presence of two J.P.SEXTON, City Clerk.r-tTs 38 CORPORATION OF MONTREAL.Kesult of tlie Nominatioa for Mayor of the City, and C jULcilbrs in the several Waids thereof.PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, in conformity with the provisions of the Act 18 Vic., cap.162, that the nomination of candidates for the offices of MAYOR of this City, and of COUNCILLORS for the several Wards thereof,was held THIS DAY (SATURDAY),the 12th day of February instant, at the hour and places, and before the Members of the Council of this City, named in the notices previously given of the said nominations.MAYOR, Come Séraphin Cherrier and Charles Séraphin Rodier, Esquires, having both been nominated candidates for the Mayoralty, a poll was granted.COUMCÎLLORS.EAST WARD\u2014Frangois Leclaire and J.H.Daley, Esquires, having both been nominated Candidates in the East Ward, a poll has been granted.CENTRE WARD\u2014Daniel Gorrie, Esquire, being the only Candidate nominated, was proclaimed duly elected Councillor for the Centre Ward.WEST WARD\u2014Henry Lyman, Esquire, being the only Candidate nominated, was proclaimed duly elected Councillor for the West Ward.ST.ANN\u2019S WARD\u2014Alexander McCam-bridge and G.W.Weaver, Esquires, having both been nominated Candidates in the St.Ann\u2019s Ward, a Poll has been granted.ST.ANTOINE WARD\u2014 Henry Bulmer, Esquire, being the only Candidate nominated, was proclaimed duly elected Councillor for the St.Antoine Ward.ST.LAWRENCE WARD\u2014William Bristow, Esquire, being the only candidate nomina-ed, was proclaimed duly elected Councillor for the St.Lawrence Ward.ST.LEWIS WARD\u2014Jean Bte.Homier, R.Bellemare and F.Cassidy, having all three been nominated candidates in the St.Lewis Ward, a Poll has been granted.ST.JAMES WARD\u2014 Joseph Simard, Francois Contant and John Greaves, Esquires, having all three been nominated candidates, a Poll has been granted.ST.MARY\u2019S WARD \u2014 Joseph Duhamel, Austin Adams and John Greaves, Esquires, having all three boen nominated candidates in the St.Mary\u2019s Ward, a Poll has been granted.The Election in the several Wards, where there is a contest, will be held in the CITY HALL, from the 22d to the 28th instant, inclusive i,n the manner prescribed by law.All persons whose names are on the Voter\u2019s Lists for any of the said Wards may obtain Certificates of Qualification to vote at the said Election, by applying peisonally at the Office of t,he undersigned, in the City Hall, betwixt tbe hours of TEN o\u2019clock, A.M , aud FOUR o\u2019clock P.M., from Tuesday the 22d, until Monday the 28th day of February instant, both days exclusive ; and all such persons may vote at the said election by writing, or causing to be written, on the inner page of said Certificates, the Christian and Surname in full of the persons for whom they intend to vote as Mayor or Councillor, and by depositing said Certificates, so filled up, in tlie Box of the Ward in which said voter may have a vote, in the Office of the undersigned, at any time between tne hours aforesaid, from Tuesday the 22nd until Monday the 28th day of February instant, both days inclusive.In all cases of parties who are unable to write, the law requires that the blanks in the Certifi- GIBB & CO.BEG to acquaint tbe Public that they have just received by Steamer \u201cNorth American,\u201d a large supply of the Celebrated EMPE ROR SHIRTS, in all sizes.Also, the latest productions in DRESS and UNDRESS CRAVATS, SHIRT COLLARS, POCKET HANDKERCHIEFS, GLOVES, ko., kc.N.B.\u2014Gibb k Co.have made arrangements by which they will be supp.ied with every NOVELTY in their line, as they appear in the London and Paris Markets.Januarv 22.\t18 LIGHT! 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PARLIAMENT.LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.Toronto, February 17, 1859.After the routine business the Hon.Mr.Des-saulles rose and addressed the House at some length on what he characterized as the partial composition of the general committee on elections appointed by the Speaker.He stated that in England and Canada, from the time of the Union until the present Parliament,the members of this commiuee, in the House of Commons and Legislative Assembly, had invariably been selected in equal proportions from each side, Ministerial and Opposition, of the House, whereas the committee now appointed was composed of four Ministerialists and only two Oppositionists.He concluded by moving that this House disapproves of the warrant of the Hou.the Speaker appointing the Hon.Messrs.Knowlton, Patton, Perry, Prince, Masson and Simpson as members ot the general election committee of this branch ol the Legislature.Mr.Desaulles\u2019 motion was seconded by the Hon.Mr.DeBlaquiere, who argued that the nominated members of the House should not be held as eligible to sit on such a committee.The Hon.Mr.Prince opposed the motion on the ground that no such division existed in the Legislative Council, as Ministerial and Opposition\u2014the hon.members b ing independent of all mere party ties and leanings.Sir E.Tacbe agreed with the principles ol Mr.Desaulles, but insisted that, as a maiter of fact, these principles ot impartiality had been carried out in the formation of the committe.The Hon.Mr.Vankoughnet opposed the motion, and insisted that there was no such thing as an organized opposition to the Government in the House.The Hou.Messrs.Ferrier and Fergusson spoke iu support.The Hon.Mr Simpson spoke on the same side, as did the Hon.Mr.Kierskowski, who was speaking when the report left.how should they have, when half the Executive Council has been absent from the country, almost the whole time since the conclusion of last session.It will depend now upon the character of the legislation, which is to be attempted, whether the session is long or short.If there is anything unpopular proposed, there will be a great many intimations from Ministerial members that they cannot possibly, with all their regard for the Ministry, carry so had a measure.Then there will be consultation among Ministers on the case of each recalcitrant and his \u201c particular vanity,\u201d as Samuel Weller denominated Mr.Stiggin\u2019s spiritual preference ; then counts of the bets to see how many must be gained ; and at last the negotiations for that end.The Grand Trunk Bill of 1856 took several weeks before the tender consciences of the members of the majority could be appeased, and the Usury Bill of last session had to be suspended tor months, and finally dropped ; the Government adopting another Bill, which, while their own was hanging up, had been slowly making its way through the Legislative Council.These are the dodges which really cause the delays.Let a Government have its measures ready and be willing to take the honest vote of the House upon them on the day that they are called on for each stage of progress, and the session will be short.But let them take three days a week under pretence ot pressure of business, but really to shorten the hours, during which unpleasant motions and independent business can be brought on, and let them dawddle away these three days, and give them up to oblige their political friends, who could not, but for such favoritism, get their bills forward\u2014let them do this, and the session will be a long one.Feeble people cannot go very fast.Upper Canadian Railroads.\u2014We leam'tBat the Port Hope and Peterboro\u2019 Railroad has town where he proposed to lecture, we know what would be the kind of outcry, and the just outcry against the act.But there is no reason why what are rights in the case of one man should not be rights also in the case of anther.Editorial Correspondence of the Montreal Herald.A LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLYu Toronto, February 17, 1859.After the report left, last night, Attorney General Cartier gave notice that, on Friday, he would introduce a bill to amend the acts relating to the abolition ot feudal rights and duties in Lower Canada ; also, a bill to consolidate the Lower Canada Municipal and Road Act ; also, a bill to facilitate the constituting ot sections of the Bar of Lower Canada, and the establishment of Boards of Notaries in the new judicial district of Lower Canada.Mr.Galt gave notice that, on Friday,he would move the House into committee on certain resolutions to amend the Act to make more advantageous provision for the redemption of provincial debentures, and the consolidation of the public debt, and the Act to facilitate the issue of debentures.Mr.Galt gave notice that, on Friday, be would move the House into a Committee of the Whole on Tuesday, to consider the following resolutions :\u2014 \u201c That notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Act to make more advantageous provision for the redemption of Provincial Debentures, and the consolidation of the public debt and for other purposes, the Canadian consolidated stock therein mentioned shall bear such rate of interest, not exceeding 5 per cent, per annum, as the Governor iu Council shall deem most advantageous for the Province, and such stock shall not be paid off in less than 20 years from 1st July, 1859, but may be paid off at or alter the expiration of that term, at the option of the Provincial Government, provided previous notice, of not less that 3 nor more than 6 months, shall have been given to that effect in the London Gazette in England.\u201d \u201c That for any purpose for which the stock may, under the 2nd Act, be disposed of or issued to any party, the Governor in Council may, instead of such stock, cause Provincial bonds to be issued bearing interest payable half-yearly, at a rate not exceeding 5 per cent, per annum ; but the principal whereof shall not be paid off iu less than twenty years from their respective dates, but may be paid off on or after the expiration of that term, at the option oi the Provincial Government, provided previous notice of not less than three, nor more than six, months shall have been given to that effect iu the London Gazette ; and the holder of any such bond shall always be entitled to have it exchanged for an equal amount, at par., of the said Provincial stock, allowing for interest then accrued on either.\u201cThat the Governor in Council may authorise the Minister of Finance to determine, from time to time, the terms upon which the Provincial stock may be disposed of or exchanged for outstanding Provincial debentures, and the periods at which they are respectively redeemable.\u201d \u201c That the Governor in Council shall set apart yearly, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fuud, a sum equal to one half of one per cent, on the amount ot Provincial stock and bonds issued, aud shall cause such sum to be invested in the Provincial stock, or in such other manner as he may deem most advisable, as a sinking tund for the redemption of the stock.\u201d \u2018 That so much of the 3rd section ot the Act as requires that the purchase of Municipal Loan Fund Debentures be made by tender be repealed and the Governor in Council may authorize the Minister of Finance to accept Municipal Loan Fund Debentures in exchange for such stock, and to determine the terms upon which such debentures shall be purchased or accepted in exchange for such stock or bonds.\u201d Mr.Galt also gave notice that he would, on Friday, move the House into a Committee of the whole on Tuesday, to consider the following resolutions :\u2014 That, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Act to facilitate the issue of Debentures, the sum to be set apart, by the Governor in Council, out of the Consolidated Revenue of this Provincej yearly and every year, untii the whole amount of the debt shall be paid off, and to be applied as a Sinking Fund for paying off the debt, should, in the opinion of this House, be such sum as will be equal to 2 per cent, on the amount of the debt, instead of 4 per cent, on the amount as provided by the Act, the other provisions whereof should apply to such reduced percentage as they have heretofore applied to the said rate of 4 per cent.That it, upon any of the Debentures forming part of the debt which may hereeiler be received, with the guarantee of the Imperial Government for such term as may be necessary for their redemption by the operation ot the Sinking Fund, any premium shall be received by the Province, by reason of such renewal, such premium should be paid to the said Sinking Fund.That it should be provided that, as the Debentures are from time to time reduced by the redemption of Debentures, forming part thereof, the Governor in Council may agree with the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty\u2019s Treasury for the payment into the Sinking Fund of such increased percentage on the portion of the debt then unpaid as will, after allowing for renewal, ensure the efficiency of the Sinking Fund to pay off the debt when due, and such increased percentage shall be paid accordingly out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province.\u201d stopped working, its rolling stock having been seized by the Sheriff.The Ontario and Lake Huron Road has not been exactly stopped, but it has been \u201c slowed,\u201d according to the old term on the English steamships.In short, the road had become so dangerous that the Government inspectors found it necessary to interdict it ; but sufficient influence was exerted to induce a relaxation of this order, and the injunction in its new shape is that the road should run only at very moderate rates, and never after dark.The history of this road is one that should be better understood than it is.Its construction was the occasion of that debenture affair which culminated in the £10,000 job, respecting which the Courts declared that the Mayor of the third city in the country had defrauded his fellow-citizens ; aud the Prime Minister of the country was known to be an accessary in the fraud, aud a partaker in the plunder.But that is not all.The road was built under the first act passed by the Canadian Legislature iu aid of the construction of railways, and accordingly, having completed the works, a claim was made by the Company for a large sum of money\u2014between a quarter and half a million of pounds, if we recollect rightly.But, in order to claim this advance, it was necessary that the road should be properly constructed, and to ascertain that tact an engineer, who was at that time, but who has ceased to be, in the Government employment\u2014ceased, probably, parti; for his stubbornness on this very occasion\u2014was sent along the line.He reported decidedly against the road.There was, of course, great commotion among the parties .interested, especially among the American gentlemen who had condescended to take the contract, aud their friends.They sent a deputation to Quebec, where the Government then was, to whom was adjoined anolhei great contractor, Mr.Zimmerman, who it was well known, had never failed to get anything, however extravagant, that he required.Whether it was the effect of the arguments of these gentlemen or not\u2014or what kiad of arguments were used we caunot pretend to say.But another engineer was sent to see the road\u2014no other, we think, than Mr.Killaly him-self_and the result of this new survey was that the road was found to be in such excellent order by Mr.Killaly\u2019s department, that the required bonds were at once issued.The road has been in operation some three or four jears, and its unsafe character has been notorious for more than a twelvemonth ; whe'n a feed was given to the Legislature at Collingwood last session, in order to procure more money, the state of the rolling-stock was so bad as to require frequent stoppages on the return trip ; and now, as we have mentioned, the road has been first condemned by the Government, and then allowed to run at slow rates, by daylight only, for a time, till it shall be seen whether Parliament will come down with more debentures.Thus the Province has been led to incur an immense debt Tor a public work, of which it is hardly safe to allow the farther operation.Such is our mode of government ; and the professional head of the department charged with the duty of preventing the public from being swindled, is still maintained in his post, though it is notorious that he has either fraudulently connived at, or ignorantly permitted, this shameful imposition.Toronto Feb.16, 1859.The House of Assembly\u2019s Address to the Governor General was presented to His Excellency yesterday afternoon, at his residence.\u2014 |The attendance of members on the occasion) Iwas, I understand, unusually scanty.Tliej Government being unprepared with any measures, the House adjourned immediately after the presentation.As it is expected little business will be done for ten days or a fortnight, quite a number of honorable gentlemen are off to-day to visit their homes.Apropos of the Speech and the Address, I /mentioned in my last that a warm and animated altercation had occurred in the House, immediately previous to the adoption of the Ad-|dress.Its subject was the intimation contain-\u2019ed in the Speech regarding the intention of the Government to relieve the censitaires from the payment of the seigniorial casual rights, valued tor commutation by the Commissioners.The words of the Speech\u2014echoed in the Address\u2014 were, \u201cthat a moderate outlay beyond the appropriation of 1854 will satisfy all reasonable expectations on the part of the censitaires.\u2014 This, so-called, moderate outlay, it had been explained by Mr.Cartier in the course of the jdebate, would involve a draft upon the impov-/erished Exchequer of the Country, to the tune of some Sour millions of dollars,\u2014thus\u2014the estimated value of the casual rights, beyond the present appropriation of $1,000,000, $1,-600,000, a like sum to be given to Upper Canada and the balance to the Eastern Townships, .as the consideration money for their consenting )to the measure.Now, whatever may be thought of the proposed relief to the censitaires, it does seem most preposterous, especially in the present state of the public finances, that it should be accompanied by a proportionate, but entirely uncalled-tor, grantof the public money to Upper Canada and the Eastern Townships, which sections of the country never suffered from the evil of the feudal land-tenure, to remedy which the appropriation is required.\u2014 If the measure is not iu the interest of the whole country, it should not have been a part of its legislation ; aud it does appear to me most unreasonable, because the aid of the State is required to remedy an evil in one section of the country that,therefor|lhe costofthat remedy should be more than doubled, by the claims of other sections, which neither have nor ever have had any such evil to complain of.It is exactly as if the strong and healthy members of a family should claim, from its head, guinea for guinea paid to the doctor, for attendance on their sick brothers and sisters.However this may be, Mr.Cartier\u2019s explanation of this precious specimens of what he and his colleagues considered a moderate outlay, was only given in the French language, and was, of course, but very imperfectly understood by the English-speaking members.He was accordingly called upon to repeat, or get some of his colleagues to repeat his explanation in English.Not a word could be got from any of them Mr.Cartier rudely, I might .say fiercely, refused to speak English, and Mr.f Galt insisted\u2014not, I admit, without some show .of reason\u2014that the time was not opportune for explaining the details of their measure, all that they asked from the House being its approbation of the principle that the burden of the casual rights, should assumed by the state.When this noisy ruction had terminated, Mr.Brown rose and pointed out two or three not very creditable grammatical errors in the wording of the Address, some of which were corrected, but one, in deference to his Excellency\u2014as it had been used in the speech\u2014was left for the benefit of the schoolmaster.His Excellency, you will remember, speaks of the reference having ob-/toined the assent of \u201ceither house,\u201d meaning,, of course, of both houses.Mr.McGee wittily had] suggested that the whole address should be submitted, for correction, to Dr.Ryerson, before its final adoption.treating his subject, as marked out, the lecturer pointed out the three distinct products of the coal kingdom\u2014namely, the common bituminous coal, anthracite coal, and plumbago or black lead.He explained in what respect the three classes differed, their peculiar properties, and how they were produced.In speaking of the strata in which coal is found, he alluded to the geological formations in Canada, referring first to the azotic, which is at the bottom, and is, as well, the oldest species ; next to the Silurian rook, which is of marine origin, and, as far as is known, contains no remains of land plants\u2014a fact, which, from past experience, shows that we may expect no coal; then,the Devonian is the next system which occurs in Canada.In this system are to be found the earliest indications of land plants, but they are very few and in a bad state of preservation.Nor in the Devonian period is coal to be discovered.He held, indeed, in his hand, a little piece of real Canadian coal, taken from a seam in Gaspe, which is about an inch in thickness.This, probably, is the oldest specimen of coal in the world, and, if Canada cannot boast of much coal, she has the credit of having begun the manufacture before any other nation.[Laughter.] If we can find strata belonging to the carboniferous system, we may look for coal ; we cannot assert the negative, but all past experience speaks in favour of this conclusion.The lecturer proceeded to speak of the distribution of coal in the different parts of the globe.The coal area of the United States comprised 133 to 150,000 square miles ; British America 18,000 square miles ; Great Britain 11,860 square miles; Spain 3408; France 1719; Belgium 578.Though the figures he had givea showed the coal area of those countries, it could not be affirmed all this was workable coal.The quantities of coal obtained annually were as follows : Great Britain, 31,500,000 tons ; and it was estimated this amount could be furnished annually for five hundred years to come ; Belgium 4,900,-000 tons ; the United States, 4,400,000 tons; France, 4,141,000 tons; Austria, 700,000 tons; and British America, 300,000 tons.In conclusion the lecturer said, that in the United States and British America the full extent of the coal production could not yet be properly estimated but time would develope their resources.It was to be remarked that the great allotment of coal was in the northern temperate zone, just where the greatest necessity existed, and where iron ore was found in the greatest abun dance.Though Canada was thrown out of the coal area she had no right to complain; for when the adjacent coal fields are developed, she can procure fuel in plenty ; in fact, at the present time ccal can be purchased iu our cities at a cheaper rate than the wood which the country produces.\u2014 Canada ought not to murmur, because she had no coal ; in the neighbouring republic places similarly inconvenienced never grieved, but always said they could depend upon the coal fields of the Union.Let Canada imitate this example, and when disposed to regret the want of this fuel, console herself that she can fall back upon the British American coal fields, the second coal area in the world.[Principal Dawson retired amid applause.] ji The Select Committee reported the list of Select Standing Committees.A number of private Bills were introduced!\u2014 One to prevent corrupt practices at election s, in regard to which a number of suggestions were offered.\u2014Read a first time.The introducer, Mr.Gowan, intimating his intention to move its reference to a Select Committee onjthe second reading.The House rose at 6 o\u2019clock.Waste of Time in Parliament.\u2014We also have pointed out the absurdity of the attempt made, session after session, to fix upon the Opposition the blame of wasting time in Parliament.Whenever time is wasted it is necessarily the fault of those who, having the majority, have the control of the business.Look at the present session.The House met on Saturday and heard the speech from the throne.The address iu answer was but an echo of this speech ; at three o\u2019clock on Monday it was not ready.The printer got a hint to keep back the copy, because the Ministry had not arranged a mover and seconder to their mind.On Tuesday they got through this little job, and the debate began, kept up almost wholly by the Ministerial side of the House, in order to obtain time for negotiation.At last, when the bargains are struck and the small majority secure, the address passes, after a fortnight\u2019s debate.And the very next day the House assemble3 Lynch Law in Canada\u2014Father Chiniquy Expelled from Quebec.\u2014We regret to have it, as part of our duty, to record another shameful outrage dictated by religious feeling at Quebec The particulars will be found elsewhere, copied from the Journal de Quebec, which has not a word of reprehension ; but rather seems to applaud the act of a mob, who, without form of law, pursued a single individual to his lodgings, and forced him to leave them and the city, under threats of violence.It is well that no violence was done ; but that is a very small consolation for such a palpable violation of individual rights ; such a deposition of all legal authority ; and such an elevation over that authority of the will of a sell-constituted mob.Is it still necessary to point out to people who act thus, that they are, while pretending to be friends of bon principes, placing themselves exactly in the same category with those, who have in all ages resorted to mere brute force to maintain ignorant prejudice or profitable wickedness.Let them read the New Testament, and see which party of those whose histories are therein recorded, they most ^resembled when they mobbed a man, who came with no other arms than such persuasion as his words might produce.Were they like the few friends whom the Apostles had, when, as Father Chiniquy did, they went alone into strange cities or were they like the mobs, who resented their attempts to instruct them by blows and ignominy?Such mode of warfare ought to be left to the man-stealers of the Southern States, whose property being founded in an unscrupulous violation of all the right ot their fellow-men, is appropriately maintained by like brutality.Lynch law well becomes a slaveholding community for the support of slavery ; but it is wholly unfit for the vindication of any religious or human argument whatever.What has been proved by Father Chiniquy\u2019s forced departure from Quebec, except that it was judged much easier to collect a crowd of ignorant men, and termagant women to prevent him from being heard, than to give such an answer as would have convinced the judgment of reasonable men.So far as anything is to be gathered from such a proceeding, it is that this poor priest, standing alone among his enemies, and discredited by authority, was yet unanswerable in argument.It is well known that this is not our opinion.So far as Mr.Chiniquy developed his views in Montreal\u2014and we suppose that he only repeated the same statement in Quebec\u2014we think that he proved himself, in the dispute with his Bishop, to have been in the wrong\u2014that he showed, while claiming to belong to an Episcopal Church, that he wished to be governed by Congregational rules of discipline\u2014that his true course was, if he had found the Episcopal rule contrary to religious truth, or to wise expediency to leave that communion, making such necessary sacrifices as men do who have embarked in an unsound bottom, and leave it on finding out their error.But it is not on account of a man\u2019s being right or wrong that we claim for him the protection of the laws\u2014the right to invite his fellow-citizens to hear him and to judge him by what they hear.And in this we only claim for others what we demand for ourselves, and what all parties are in the habit of claiming.If a clergyman, who had left 'the | There was quite a lively debate in the Legis-jlative Council, yesterday afternoon, on the Hon I Mr.Fergusson\u2019s motion, regarding the incompatibility of the Hon.John Boss\u2019 acting, at the same time, as a Minister of the Crown and as President of the Grand Trunk Company.The' Hon.Mr.Dessaulles seconded the motion and [adduced many and conclusive arguments in [proof of the incompatibility of any honorable Igentleman\u2019s, thus, attempting to serve two (masters, whose interests might be antagonistic.He was answered by the Hon.Mr.Vankoughnet.It was the first time 1 had heard the great Van-o\u2019-tbe-weavil\u2014 as friend Chaudière was wont to call him\u2014speak at any lenghth.He is fluent and forcible, but bi^ond that \u201c deponent saith not.\u201d Nothing, in fact, could well be weaker than the transparent and palpable sophistry of his argument that, if the President of such an institution as the Grand Trunk Company should be excluded from the Cabinet, then Mr.Dessaulles as a seignior and Mr.Any-one-eise as a Censitaire should be equally excluded because the interests of Seigniors and Censitaires might clash with those ot the people at large.': Then, both he and the gallant knight of Kamouraska, showed a deplorable ignorance, not only of British but of Canadian practice, iu connection with the subject under discussion.The Hon.Commissioner of Crown Lands insisted ^that no such principle of exclusion from the Cabinet prevailed in England while Sir Etienne adduced the case of the Hon.John Young, as of a man holding a seat in the Cabinet, performing the functions of a Minister, and being, at the same^ time, largely engaged in commercial pursuits., 1 need not tell you\u2014although there was apparently no member of the Council capable of correcting the mistake\u2014that these honorable gentlemen were entirely wrong in their tacts.Un accepting office the Hon.John Young\u2014as also did the Hon.Mr.Lesley, under similar circumstances\u2014abandoned commercial pursuits, and was gazetted out of the firm in which he was a partner.So, in England, two gentlemen well known in Canada\u2014the Right Hon.Edward Ellice and the iate Lord Sydenham\u2014both at the time of their appointment to the Cabinet, eminent London merchants, were gazetted out of their respective firms on accepting office, i am not at all satisfied of the wisdom or expediency of any such rule, for l can see nothing more incompatible in a great merchant, banker, or manufacturer acting as a minister, than in a large landed-proprietor or wealthy fund-holder, but that the rule oftheir exclusion from the Cabinet does hold both in England and iu Canada is beyond a doubt, and surely the ignorance of 'such a rule iu leading members of the Legislature is hardly excusable.Even did it not hold however, I cannot consider the President of the Grand Trunk Railway Company as offering any parallel to the cases ot either merchants, seigniors or ceusitares and I trust that the anomaly of Mr.Ross\u2019 position in the cabinet will be got rid of, as the Hou.Mr; Allan suggested it should be, by means of an Act of Parliament.You will observe that Mr.Fergusson withdrew his motion, not, as he intimated, from any change in his opinion as to the incompatibility of the holding the offices iu question, but from a conviction that the object sought could be better secured by means of a bill than by an address to his Excellency.The weather here is mild and delightful.It rained a good deal yesterday but to-day the sun shines brightly and one is almost tempted to throw aside one\u2019s winter clothing\u2014a dauge-ous experimeut, howeverj at this season, on any portion of this continent North of Baltimore.\u2014 The Torontonians have a great treat in prospect The Piccolomini will maae her \u201cfirst aud only appearance\u201d in Toronto to-morrow night, have secured a seat and, as in duty bound, will do my possible to enlighten your readers as to the merits of this latest queen of song.Rumours are rife as to approaching replat (rages in the Ministry, but I suspect, to a great extent at ill events, they are the offspring of the wishes of those by whom they are circulated.The impression, however, is stroug, and in what I consider reliable quarters, that the Hon.John A., having killed off such a host of his' colleagues\u201426 in 4 years !\u2014is suffering from a smitten conscience ; and that he has shown repeated symptoms of resignation lately.Nous verrons, but it is easy enough to predict the dispersion of the troupe, should the leading jugglar leave them.V \u2018i Geology of Coal.\u201d\u2014A lecture on this sub-ect was delivered, in the Mechanics\u2019 Hall, on Wednesday evening, by Principal Dawson, who appeared in connection with the Mercantile Library Association.The lecturer began by saying that, in the 13th century, a Venetian /traveller, Marco Polo, who had journeyed over Central and Western Asia, astonished the people of Europe when he informed them that, in the Northern part of China the inhabitants dug out of the earth certain black stones, which they used for the purposes of fuel.At the period in question, nothing was known in Europe concerning coal, except from a few vague hints in the classical writers, and except among the peasantry in the North.But, at the present day, coal was deservedly recognized as one of the most important of minerals ; and was indispensable to the progress of manufactures and industry.The lecturer went on to say that he would divide his discourse into the following heads :\u20141st, What is Coal ; 2nd, How is the substance produced ; 3rd, Where does it occur ; 4th, How is it obtained ; 5 th, The condition of the earth and its plants at the period when the great accumulation of coal took place.In CORRESPONDENCE.To the Editor of the Montreal Herald.Sir,\u2014While grateful for the, in some respects, favorable notice which you have taken of me, in your issue this morning, I must, in justice to myseltj correct a misstatement, and dissent from an opinion, contained in it.The misstatement is, that one of my decisions, while I was senior assistant Judge, was reversed.Such was not the case ; not one of my decisions was reversed.The reversal judgment was rendered while I was absent, at Three Rivers, on duty.The opinion, from which I dissent, is that which is conveyed in your imputation, to me, of an \u201cunfortunate levity of disposition.\u201d\u2014 Whatever be that which you have so characterized, it did not prevent me from being tolerably successful at the Bar and was not in the least exhibited while I presided on the Bench.Is it a fault that, with the solid qualifications you acknowledge me to possess, I sometimes vent the exuberant gaiety of a lively temperament in joke, pun and epigram?I am grave enough when occasion requires.\u2014\u201c Parvum componere maximis ;\u201d Napoleon playfully pulled ears,\u2014 Cromwell sportively daubed faces with ink,\u2014 Doctor Clarke friskily jumped over chairs and tables,\u2014yet, those eccentricities did not prevent the two former from commanding successfully and governing well, nor the last from being the most celebrated editor of Homer.I haxe the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, H.DRISCOLL, Advocate.Montreal, Feb.17, 1859.To the Editor of the Montreal Herald.Montreal, Feb.17, 1859.Sir,\u2014The defective and inconvenient arrangement by the Post-Office Department in this city, for the delivery of the mails by the letter-carriers\u2014to which I called attention through your columns early in January\u2014still continues, with every prospect of its being prolonged ad infinitum, much to the dissatisfaction and annoyance of a large portion of the community.There is still but the one delivery daily, at the same irregular and unsettled hours, varying from about 11 A.M.to 4 P.M., and recently\u2014as if to add to the trouble\u2014as late as 5 P.M.City letters deposited in the receiving box, and the letters and newspapers arriving by mails during the day, after the letter-carriers have been sent out\u2014instead of being distributed to their owners in the afternoon or evening of the day they are received\u2014 are detained in the Post-Uffice till late in the following day.The letter-carriers are smart and obliging, but the system is incomplete and unsatisfactory, and there seems likewise to be a disposition in the department to serve the outside public as poorly as possible in the delivery of the mails.1 have already called attention to the lemedy for the the present bad arrangement, and on behalf of the many sufferers under it, once more urge the necessity of establishing, at the very least, two deliveries daily, at fixed hours, with certainty and regularity.This, besides being not only a rational and popular improvement, would, in my opinion, if rightly managed, be profitable to the Department, without one dollar of additional cost to it.It is probable that these complaints and suggestions will meet with no response from the Post-Office Department, but the time will soon come, I trust, when the pressure of public opinion will convince it of the justice and importance of my propsal.Again thanking you for your courtesy I am, Sir, Yours respectfully, J.S.HAROLDS CROSS.REV.MR.CHINIQUY IN QUEBEC.Wé give, from the last number of the Journal de Quebec, an account of the manner in which this gentleman was treated during the latter part of his stay in that city.It says :\u2014 \u201c He has gone away, but not in triumph.\u201d The part is played, bui its termination has not been favorable to the author.Eight days have elapsed since the unfortunate Mr.Chiniquy made his appearance in this city, and already the immense popularity with which he flattered himself, has vanished like a dream.Confiding too much in the good faith of his adherents, he believed himself able, with impunity, to raise the veil that still concealed him a little from intelligent observation.But the evil of this attempt overtook him ; for scarcely had he pronounced a few words against the faith of his fathers, when a voluntary movement took place in the midst of the audience, and all his partisans abandoned him.This change of opinion operated during the delivery of his lecture, last Sunday, at the reading-room in St.Ann street ; and yesterday morning, between half-past nine and ten o\u2019clock, two respectable persons, appointed by the citizens of St.Roch on account of their coolness and prudence, entered the house where the apostate Chiniquy from time to time withdrew himself since his arrival in Quebec, situated in Crown street, St.Roch.These two gentlemen warned him, in terms very polite, but yet energetic, to leave the house immediately, and quit the parish forthwith.They informed him that the entire population were indignant at his scandalous conduct, and that they looked on his presence among them as a disgrace.Mr.Chiniquy then, raising his hand, wished to impose silence on the person who had conveyed the intelligence.\u201c 1 Gently, my friend,\u2019 said the former.\u201d \u201c No, sir\u2014quickly, there is not a moment to lose.\u201d \u201c But, at least, give me time to eat a little !\u201d \u201c No, sir, it is a long time, perhaps, since you wanted breakfast ; you will be compelled to do without it this morning.\u201d Mr.Chiniquy then rose trembling, and having looked into the street observed a crowd of about 400 persons surrounding the house.He then remarked\u2014 \u201c I dare not go out, these people will attempt my life.\u201d \u201cNo Sir, I give you my word of honour that no person will raise his hand against you.A carriage awaits you at the door, if you have any baggage to bring, do so without delay.\u201d He then found it necessary to comply.Mr.Chiniquy descended into the street escorted by the two messengers who had given him their word of honour.He passed, trembling, with his traveliing-bag under his arm, through a crowd, peaceable, but irritated.The crowd, fortunately did not behave violently, but they manifested their indignation, in epithets not very flattering, such as\u2014\u201c Get away, yon apostate\u2014enemy of your countrymen,\u201d &c.\u2014 There were none, not even the women, who had not some approach to launch at him.Thie is the man who a few days ago, thought he could draw after his chariot the mass of the French Canadians.Where is now this popularity of which he had been boasting in his pride ?It has vanished like smoke.It did not appear ; it was already gone.Mr.Chiniquy intended to surprise the good faith of the citizens ; but he was greatly deceived.He looked upon St.Roch as the theatre of his glory ; it was there he was preparing for a triumph, and it was there precisely he encountered his most shameful defeat.MONTHLY RETURN OF IMPORTS IT THE PORT OF MONTREAL.STATEMENT of the Quantity and Value of Imports of the Principal Articles of Merchandise, and of the Quantity and Value of such Articles Entered for Consumption with the Dutv collected thereon, at this Port, during the Month ending 31st January, 1859, compared with the corresponding period of the previous year :\t\u2019\t1 ARTICLES Cigars.\u2022_.\" Chicory\u2014Raw and Kiln-dried.It Roasted and Ground.it Coffee\u2014Green.B Boasted or Ground.It Dried Fruits, including Currants, Figs, Almonds, Walnuts and Filberts.11 Ginger, Pimento and Pepper, Unground.11 Do do\tdo Ground.It Gin.gi Rum.g; Whisky.g; Spirits and Strong Waters, including Spirits of Wine and Alcohol, and not being Brandy, Spices, not otherwise named, Unground.Do \u2019 do\tdo, Ground.Soap, i White Clayed or Fellow Bastard, not Tea\u2019 exceeding\tdo\tdo\tdo -^ Tobacco\u2014Manufactured, not exceeding in value Snuff.Do, do, over $40 aud not exceet Do, do, over $60 do do Do,\tdo, over $100.Wine, in Bottles, Qts., not exeeding Do, Do, Do, Do, Do, Do, Do, and not exceeding S do do $ do,\tover ij do,\tover 3 do,\tover\t$12.do,\tPints,\tnot exceeding\t$2\tin\tvalue, do,\tover\t$2 and\tnot exceeding\t$4\t.do, over $4 do\tdo $6 .do,\tover $6.Total Articles paying Specific Duty.Goods paying 25 W cent.20\tcent.15 ÿ1 cent.5\tcent.2] ^ cent.Total Dutiable Goods.Free Goods.Copyright Works.Total.1858.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1859.\t\t\t\t\t\t Goods Imported.\t\tGoods Entered for Conumption.\t\t\t\t\tGoods Imported.\t\tGoods Entered for Consumption.\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\tFx bmp.\t\tLx Warehouse:.\t\tDuty.\t\t\tEx Ship.\t\tEx Warehouse.\t\tDuty.Qnty.\tValue.\tQnty.\tValue,\tQnty.\tValue.\t\tQnty.\tValue.?\tQnty.\tValue.\tQnly.\tValue.\t \t\t\t%\t\t$\t$ ct\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t$\t\t$\t$ cts.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t80\t70\t20 00 \t\t\t\t\t\t\ti\t1\ti\ti\t\t\t0 25 43\t\t48\t48\t120\t590\t100 80\t12\t26\t12\t26\t\t\t9 60 2039\t241\t2039\t241\t15921\t1819\t224 49\t28558\t3465\t28558\t34651\t1200\t150\t297 58 1006 4958\t113 434\t1006\t113\t12475 600\t1342 48\t280 85 20 00\t49654 3316\t4354 308\t9988 3316\t1160 308\t15360 1204\t1482 97\t760 44 180 8i) \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t1029 127 165 330 36437 18\t97 66 86 11 6733 37\t4\t1\t1025\t96\t30 87 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t165 330 29487 18\t86 11 5043 37\t383\t200\t137 00 3 30 1378 92 375 00 1809 10 134 50 286 20 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t 46747\t5951\t1358\t240\t22347 135 3869 566 2077\t4868 269 2026 341 920\t988 88 108 00 2708 30 254 70 292 88\t\t\t\t\t4986 357 2261 269 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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t383 66 510 1125 838\t151 21 251 726 1265\t \t\t\t\t618 68 1533\t123 32 2398\t123 60 20 40 613 20\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t 9\t30\t9\t30\t79 50 8\t79 290 99\t132 00 100 00 20 00\t3\tn\t3\t11\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t100\t584\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t 32\t167\t32\t167\t\t\t32 00\t\t\t\t\t20 20\t71 104\t20 00 25 Oo \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t14325\t575\t14325\t575\t\t\t143 25 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t45263 1435 87453 114840 24436\t\t\t\t\t \t24509\t\t6005\t\t127949\t25300 98\t\t\t\t21059 1435 73729 osae\u2019 2433\u2019'\t\t114597\t32918 59 358 75 17680 40 16705 65 1221 80 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t1418\t\t948 51473 1468 24048\t\t188 11515\t227 20 9448 16 73 40 700 44\t\t\t\t\t\t14675 17404 99\t \t55529 1468 26270\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t.\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t!\t\t\t3959\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\u2014\t\t\u2014\t\t\t\t\t\t21452t\t\t14677E 2666\t \t109254 64530\t\t82942 64530\t\t143611\t35750 18\t\t27342\u2019' 82952 11' 35649\u2019\t\t\t\t\t68885 19 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t82951 11\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t17 55 \t173784\t\t\t\t143611\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t147472\t\t\t\t35750 18\t\t\t\t29759Î\t\t149441 1\t68902 74 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t MS gEsieflraflfi, Reported for the Montreal Herald BY MONTREAL LINE.Office.St.Sacrament Stree New York, 3b.17.The Propeller Lebanon, from Liv'P00^ Jan.29th, will be up about 2 o\u2019clock, Pa- From Webington.The impression is very generalhat the President will veto the Agricultural°Bege lan(l Bill.The evidence before the priiyng investigation Committee shows a settled/sfem by which officers of the Government costantly collect 10 to 20 per cent on every copract.The witnesses testified that they cold not f?6*' these contracts unless by submit