Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 21 février 1859, lundi 21 février 1859

[" vu l l fv MOITIIIL MEEILB SIMM MS JOB PRINTING OFFICE Ko.£09 Slotre Uassie Street, (Near St.François Xavier St.,) MONTREAL.fï^HE Proprietor of this Establishment begs to I inform his friends and the public in general, that having ENLARGED h iSTOCK of PRINTING MATERIALS, STEAM PRESSES, &c., he is now prepared to undertake every description of Printing, such ns Books, Pamphlets, Magazines, Insurance Policies, Programmes, Catalogues, Posting Bills, Hand Bills, Railway Bills, Steamboat Bills, Circulars, Invitation and Funeral Letters, Druggists and other Labels Military Forms of every description, &c., with despatch, and at the LOWEST CITY PRICES.Ef Business Cards neatly and promptly executed.JAMES POTTS Jan.26.\t22 IMPORTANT TO ALL WHOM IT MAY G01t0£RH.T IHOSE who are desirous, in these hard times of Saving Money, should visit the S T 0 R B 1E3 Notre Dame 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 VELVETS of all colours, suitable for Millinery and other purposes Petershams 1 Mohairs\t| All first rate material for Witneys\t}\u2022 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 oh' tain 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.183 NOTEE DAME STREET Nov.30.284 Perfect Substitute for SILYER.ELECTRO-PLATE ON NICKEL SILVER,, ORIGINALLY introduced by R.SHAR-PLEY into Canada, over fifteen years since, and has been found to give general satisfaction, at the following Is#\t- V \u2022\t\u2022 \\v\\ \"> r.- tv V' : !\\ /-V' J\\\\V ,\t0 - y y - V CAy \\.-tA \\ { .oVr\\Nv, Kill IE§ VkkAvcy AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.VOLUME LI.MONTREAL, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1859.Tia Foil and Metallic Cap llauu-factory, NO.38 CROSBY STREET, NEW YORK.JOHi'S J.CROOKE & CO., Are manufacturing under their Patent, ROLLED Til 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.ME'ii LIC CAPS, For sealing Bottles, Jars, Arc., stamped with any name, or design required.Also, Music Plates, Solder, Type and Biitacia Metals.June 21, 1858.lv-145 OuSlIFSID.OAKES FORCHRISTMAS.GREAT ST.JAMES STREET, Would direct the attention of the Public to his present stock of Cakes, Fancy Confectianery and Holiday Preseats, now an exhibition at his Store.Dec.21.\t302 IT JUi Liffi.WHS S CO.Wholesale Importers OF REDUCED PRICES : 12 Table Forks.12 Do.Spoons.12 Desert Forks.12 Do.Spoons .12 Tea Spoons.2 Egff Spoons [Gilt Bowl].2 Sauce Ladles .1\tGravy Spoon.2\tSalt Spoons [Gilt Bowl] .1 Mustard do* [Gilt Bowl] .1 pair Sugar Tongs 1 pair Fish Carvers [in Case] .1 Butter Knife .1 Soup Ladle .1 Sugar Siller .Discount for CaMi 5 percent .Fiddle or pli Pattern.1st 2nd IQIty.Qlty 10,00' 7.50 io,oo; 8,00 6^50 5.00 6.50\t5.50 3.50\t2.50 mi 2,40 1.80 2,50 0.40 0,75 1,50 1.10 2,00 0,50 0.25 0,60 0.90 0,75 4,60; 2,50 0,90 i- 68rAaU3.70 2,92 2,18 ]65,53 41.62 Thread Pat\u2019rn.3rd Isi Kings Pattern: 3.50 3.50 1,75 1.60 1.10 2,00 1,25 2,50 0*50 0.25 0,50 1,00 0.60 1,25 5.00' 6.00 0.50 1.00 1,25 400 ____! 0,90 1,61 3,28 1st\t2nd Qhy\tQitv $\t$ 13.(X\t10.50 15,00\t12,00 9,00\t8.00 10.5C\t8,60 6,60\t4,50 4.50\t3,30 2.50\t2.00 3,00\t2,50 1,50\t1,10 0,75\t0,55 1,25\t1,00 7,00\t6.50 1,60\t1.25 5,00\t4.00 1,26\t1,00 82,\tno, no 4,11\t3.33 78,14\t63,37' 3rd 5,00 5,50 3^0 Rich Fancy and Staple DRY GOODS, Nos.|70, 71, 72, & 73 Boyer\u2019s Buildings, Custom-House 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 Filial* G- O0 B S .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 Deuart-ments.TERMS LIBERAL.December 1.\t309 The above Goods are Warranted to be of British Manufacture.R.Sharpley begs to call the attention of the public to the advertised prices in London of the above Goods, of the same quality : LONDON PRICES 1 Fiddle Pattern.Thread Pattern.Kings Pat\u2019rn £11 14 6 stg.£14 11\t6 stg, £17 14 6 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__ A 0 T10 E.JUST RECEIVED, direct from HAVANA, the undermentioned favourite Brands of CIGARS : ACIERTO LONDRES, J.M.YICHOT LONDRES, JENNY LIND REGALIAS, LUZ.DE AMERICA COQUETAS, ACIERTO CONCHAS, ANTIGCJIDAD PANATELLAS, NAPOLEON LONDRES, WOODVILLE LONDRES, CABANA LONDRhiS, PERLA CUBANA REGALIAS, MIMDO NUEVO COQUETAS, ACIERTO OPERAS, ANTIGUIDAÛ GALENAS, NAPOLEON CONCHAS.-ALSO,\u2014 50,000 of FINE FLAVOURED CIGARS, of different brands and superior quality.\u2014also,\u2014 Just received ex Steamer \u201c NORTH BRITON,\u201d Afresh supply of the CELEBRATED CRYSTAL TUBE and the MAGIC or WASHED MEERSCHAUM pipe, to colour in one smoking ; CIGAR OASES, FUZEE BOXES, MEERSCHAUM BOWLS, plain and silver mounted ; and numerous other articles suitable for presents for the APPROACHING HOLIDAYS, At\t: r G.LEVEY\u2019S, Crystal Block, Notre Dame Street.Dec.7.\t290 PER.STEAMER \"AHGLO SAXON.\" j.iSSÉÉi BEGS to inform the Public that he has received, per above Steamer, a MW & VARIE» ASSORBMT OF GOLD AND SILVER Vf A T C H E S, RÏNÔS, STUDS, es- o Xjs 33 AND BSjE\u20acT£S.iP-SBÆ,JlTE, WHOLESALE A8D RETAIL 214, NOTRE DAME STREET.July 5.\t15^ CHRISTIAS AID SEW YEAS.Pii-fi1* IVia» fixhÜMtio» fa» Gôlkes aud Coisfectioaery.J.AMTOPIY, 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 An Endless variet of every Article in hi Line.comprising Confectionery of every description, OORNUOAPIAS, 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 carsfully, promptly and on the shortest possible notice.Particular attention will be given to all orders for Balls and Private Parties.The public are politely requested to inspect his Stock before purchasing elsewhere.November 27.\t282 CHÂS.ROBERTSON [PHOLSTMEB AND (MBIMT MAKER, HAS REMOVED FROM NOTRE DAME STREET TO HIS N 13 W BU:IIàDï'NG No.56 mm STREET, Where he has in his Capacious Show-Rooms a Large Assortment of,, FURMjlTURE l FOR SALE CHEAP, coiiPRiBtN.n.: , Sets of COTTAGE FURNITURE, DRAWING-ROOM FURNITURE, 'DINING-ROOM FURNITURE, BÉD-ROOM SETS, &c.&c.&c.Parties should call and see his Stock before purphasing.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.llemeniber Charks Itobertsoss\u2019s, Ho.56 Craig Street,-November 19.\t^\t27 W.BOUGiilSj FIRST PRIZE ROOT ê 101 MAKER, K©.81 BŒ\u2019alEÆ STRSSSST, BEGS respectfully to call tha attention of the public to his present assortment of BOOTS & SHOES of every kind.They are manufactured from the best of material aud made by the best of workmen that can be had in Canada ; for utility, finish and style, he is justified in saying his work cannot be equalled in this city, N.B.\u2014Strict attention will be paid to all work made to order on the shortest notice.\u2014 Good fits on reasonable terms.First Prize for best display of Boots and Shoes Do\tdo Gent\u2019s Dress Boots Do\tdo Gent\u2019s Walking Boots\tand Shoes Do\tdo Gent\u2019s Dress Shoes First Prize for Ladies\u2019 Dress Shoes Do\tdo Ladies\u2019 Walking Boots\tand Shoes Do do Strong Working Boots.November 30.\t3m-284 STOMG ORAGE and C 1 OELLERAGE, Good storage Bond or Free.HAVILLAND ROÜTH & CO.Jpu .10.\t162 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, Countersinks, Tube-end Cutting Bars, Expanders, Tube Scalers, Steel Wire, and Whalebone Brushes, Pall Lever Wrenches, Tubes, Plain or Enamelled, Screwed together for Artesian Wells, Steel for Rollers.THOMAS PROSSER & SON, 28 Platt Street, New York.January .7.\t5 M.BESSUlfO-BR, 205 NOTRE DAME STREET, Over the Store of Mr, Thomas Jenking, BEGS to call the attention of parties, desirous of purchasing oil mmi to visit his Gallery, where there will be found an EXCELLENT C0LLEOTM OF \u201eWORKS, By Artists of merit and celebrity.M.BESSUNGL'R would_Lalso iutimate chat he is prepared to im j in a very superior style, and on moderate terms.Dec.30.\t309 FBAIE PICTllS RS ÂT RM] LI.The Subscribers are Selling their Stock of Ki\u20acH FUltS at reduced prices\u2014for one Mouth only \u2014comprising a Fine Assortment of Ladies\u2019, txentlemen\u2019s and Children\u2019s Furs of every description.GREENE & ISONS» 305 à 307 ôt.Faul St.Near McGill St.December 6.\t289 Steamer and «tentrai Shipping Agency.AN active person, acquainted with this Business, is now open for an engagement as Freight and Passenger Agent for upper Lake Steamers, ijr other General Shipping Agency requiring energy and attention.Best city references.Early application desirable Address \u201c B \u201d Herald Office.January 12.\t9 10IRGHMIS.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 letter*! post paid, to Box 734, To ronto.Nov 22\tml 2 COMIEBCIiL FOIST FORGE DORCHESTER, MASS.OEAEBORH, E0BIHS0H & CO., Successors to RANSTEAD, DEARBORN & CO., Manufacturers of RALROÂO W O.RJC, Cranks, Truck, Engine & Car Axles, Frog Steel, .Connecting Rods, Frames, &c.STEAMBOAT W O K i\u20ac , Shafting, Beam Straps, Wheel Arms, Cranks, Cross-Heads, Connecting Rods, Piston Rods, &c.\u2014also,\u2014 Sugar Mills and Stationery Engine Shafts, Ship Work, and all kinds of Hammered Shapes, for Machinists.OFFICE,\u201414 KILBY STREET.WWï.MEIKLEHAM, Montreal, A.gent for the Canadas.October 14.\t244 agsoumt b o o ks AT HALF PRICE.SL.WHIR & SO, Respectfully intimate to the THADE AND OTHERS.In order to clear out their Stock of BL.ANK BOOKS, RULED FOR PRESENT CURRENCY, They will dispose of them at HALF THEIR USUAL RATES.Books Euled for Dollars and Gen\u2019s.On hand a large Stock of First Class BLANK BOOKS, all sizes and bindings, ruled for Dollars and Cents.The cheapest House in Canada for purchasing the best English Stationery Wholesale.On hand, 10 casks No.1 English Glue.\u201c\t20\t\u201c Stephen\u2019s Fluid inks 15 Great St.James Street, ) Montreal.\ti\t271 IW STÂÏI r 11HE Subscribers are receiving per Steam-ship NOVA-SCOTIAN, CITY UF QUEBEC, and other Ships now in port, a Choice and Extensive Assortment of STAPLE and FANCY STATIONERY, bought in the best Markets of Europe and priced low.Wrapping Papers of an improved quality, and a large Stock of Canadian Manufactured Writing Papers at reduced prices.Printing Paper, of any size aud weight, made to order on the shortest notice.CHALMERS & ROBERTSON, 224 St.Paul Street.October 7.\t238 PAGE!) ACCOUNT BOOMS, EPol l m r s and Cents.rglHE Subscriber has now on hand, from his Manufactory, a large assortment of ACCOUNT BOOKS of the best Hand-made Papers and Workmanship, paged, shewing Twenty-four Sheets to the Quire.A large and well selected Stock of Stationary, Gold Pens, Rodgers\u2019 Cutlery, &c,, &e., &c.R.GRAHAM, General Stationer and Manufacturer of Account Books, 252 St.Paul Street.September 30.\t232 IflUW FOM TABLET FOB 1M The Best Catholic Family Paper Published.WILL be COMMENCED, in the \u201cNEW YORK TABLET,\u201d on the first Saturday of January, an Original Tale, entitled, THE CONFEDERATE CHIEFTAINS ; a Tale of Ireland in 1641.By Mrs.J.Sadlibb.We are also happy to be able to announce that we have arranged with T.D.McGee, Esq., M.P.P , to write for the \u201cTablet\u201d A POPULAR HISTORY OF IRELAND, from the earliest period to the present time.The First Chapter will appear on the 1st January, and will be continued every week.We also continue to give a page of MUSIC containing a POPULAR SONG, arranged for the Pianoforte, in every number.Many of the Songs we publish cost 2s.6d.Sterling.Besides Editorials on various subjects, we give News from all parts of the World, and Correspondence from Dublin, London, Paris and Washington every week, and occasional correspondence from Canada and other places.The \u201cTablet\u201d is a folio of 16 pages, closely printed, containing more reading matter than any Paper of its class published in America.\u2014 Single copies, 3d, ; by mail, $2,50 per annum ; served by carriers, $3,00.D.à J.SADLEIR & CO.The \u201cTablet\u201d for this week contaips a Full Report of Rev.Mr.O'Ferrall\u2019s Lecture on the Irish Ghurch, occupying 2 pages of the Paper ; Archbishop Hughes\u2019 Lecture, &c.Price 3d.Dec.18.\t300 Brady\u2019s PuMlshhig House.NEW BOOKS.CTS» \u20ac7ANONBURY HOUSE, by G.W.M.y Reynolds, price.i.50 ADA ARUNDEL, by do.50 OLIVIA ; or the Maid of Honor, by do 50 CHARLEY FOX\u2019S Ethiopian Song Book.13 GEORGE CHRISTY\u2019S Joke Book, No.2.13 THE PATRIOT CRUISER, by Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.25 THE MANIAC\u2019S SECRET, by do .25 THE MAID OF THE RANCHE, by Dr.J.H.Robinson-.25 Sent free of Postage on receipt of Price.FREDERIC A.BRADY, 126 Nassau Street, N.Y, Agents wanted.October 2.\t234 M ©MEY IL B T E-> ««sj » « © » » -* ?*> -Tî © 121 Notre Dame Street.121 PRIVATE OFFICE, Corner of St.Gabrie1 Street.MHART & CO.begs respectfully to \u2022 notify their friends and the Public in général, that preparations are made to advance money in amounts from25 cents to $500 on any kind of property such as Watches, Jewellery, Clothing, Furs, Stoves, Furniture, Books, &c., &c.; also on Real Estate.N.B.\u2014No business transacted on SATURDAY until 5 o\u2019clock P.M.to 11 o\u2019clock P.M.Make no mistake, M.HART & 00., Pawnbrokers\u2019 Store.February 1.\t26 Coughs, Colds, aud Consumptiout THE late Rev.Dr.LÉONARD WOODS, Abbott Professor of Theology in Andover, Mass., wrote,\u2014\tt \u201c Gentlemen,\u2014From a long use of the Vegetable Pulmonary Balsam in my family circle, and among theological students, -I regard it as a safe and efficacious medicine.\u201d Also, Rev.Dr.LYMAN BEECHER, New York, (late Boston,) formerly President Lane Theological Seminary, Ohio,\u2014 \u201cGentlemen,\u2014I have used the Vegetable Pulmonary Balsam myself with benefit, in Oat-ai-rha, Coughs and Colds, and have known it to be used with good effect in the early stages of Pulmonary Affections in families around me.\u201d Owing to an unprecedented sale and popularity of over thirty years\u2019 standing, there are many counterfeits and imitations, against which the public are cautioned.Enquire for the article by its whole name, \u201c VEGETABLE PULMONARY BALSAM.\u201d Prepared only by REED, CUTLER & CO., Druggists, 33 India Street, Boston, Mass., and sold by A othecaries and Country Merchants ge nerally.Price, large size, $1,00 ; small size 50c.\u2019.Jan.25.\t1m 20 SMALL STEAM W&WM ! I l IJtj ^ l i.l: f; ll i)0 w n .A.J SMITH C \u2019'ew HrunBWlck.CHAS.TUPPER, ) W.A.HENRY, > Nova Scotia.R.B.DICKEY, S (Copy, No.103.) Government House, \u201e Toronto, C.W., Aug.14th, 1858.Sir,\u2014I have the.honor to transmit h-rewitha joint Address from the Legislative Assem dy of Canada to Her Majesty the Queen on the subject of an Inter-colonial Radway, aud to request that it may be laid at the foot of the Throne.I have, &c., (Signed)\tEDMUND HEAD.The Right Honorable Sir E.B.Lytton, Bart., &c., &c., &c.(Copy, No.Ill.) Quebec, September 6, 1858.Sir,\u2014I have the honor to enc ose a copy of a Minute of my Executive Council, approved by myself, respecting the Intei-colonial Railway to connect Canada and tbe Lower Provinces.I have, Ac., (Signed)\tEDMTND HEAD.The Right Honorable SirE.B.Lytton, Bart., &c., &c.,&c.difficult thing the hon.gentleman will see for the.Government to answer an inquiry put in that prompt way.Let the hon.gentleman put his question, upon tbs paper and it would be answered.;\":!;, ,.b THE RIDEAU CANAL.Mr.GO WAN nioved that the House do on Wednesday, the 23rd instant, resolve into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration certain resolutions on the subject of the Rideau Canal.Mr.BROWN said he thought the hon.gentleman iu tended this as a vote of censure upon the Government for neglecting this part of the public dom-.in.Mr.J.S.MACDONALD said if the House agreed to this motion it was a direct censure upon the Administration.Hon.Mr.GALT\u2014We are not giving our assent to it.Mr.BROWN contended at some length that this was not a question in which .any private member should iuterfere.B it the Government were so weak that they dare not redist any thing that one, of the supporters proposed.\t,\u2014.Atty.Geq.MACDONALD said the Govern-' ment bad no right to prevent hou.members introducing any measure into the House.If they assented to it when it came up for second reading the case was different.Hon.Mr.BROWN\u2014Does the Government Imean to deny that they are responsible for the business of the session ?\u2019 Hon.Mr.GALT\u2014They were undoubtedly res-ponrible for the result of the legislation.But surely .they could not be called upon to resist the introduction of every measure.The Govern- \u2022\t.\tj .i \u2022\t.\t,\tuuucu lu uuuiuete tue nue num a-Lama, a.lw wuc- lent consider th:s motion as one merely pro gec may now 'be made at a cost of three millions forma.But wnen the question came up that the -\t-\t- -\t- - ipeaker do leave the chair\u2014if that was assented lo by the House then tbe Government were res-, ponsible.-\u2014_____\u2014\u2014- -\tHon.J.S.MACDONALD\u2014The Government ought to ask the hon.member to postpone his motion until they had time to consider this question in council.After some farther discussion the motion was granted.-\tMODEL SCHOOL, L., 0.Mr.CIMON enquired of Ministry whether it is their intention to amend the School Acts of Luwei Canada, so as to provide for each local Municipality a Model School or Academy, according as each Municipality may require ; such schools to be under the exclusive cbutrol of the Superintendent of Education or School Inspector.Hon.Mr.CARTIER replied that it was not tbe intention of Ministers to alter the present law.\t¦ ,ii; The House the uadjourned at 6 p.m.penditures, New Brunswick will now provide a free right of way and contribute £20,000 sterling annually to aid in rising the necessary capital for the completion of the Intercolonial Railway.Nova Scotia before the close of this year, will have opened for traffic sixty-one miles of the Trunk line from Halifax to Truro, and a branch line of 31 miles connecting the main line with Windsor, and the fertile counties of the western portion of the Province, on the basin of Mines has been in operation since June last.This portion of the Trunk line has cost about £500,000 sterling,', and the Windsor branch £300,000 sterling)\u201ethe inters! of which is chargeable upon the resources of the Province, the capital having been raised upon Provincial debentures, bearing six per cent interest.'» To complete the Trunk line from Truro to the borders of New Bruswick there remains about 69 miles.Unless it be in connection with the Intercolonial Railway, it forms no part of the policy of Nova Scotia to carry the line from Truro to the New Brunswick fromtier, as unaided it is entirely beyond her resources, and a line is now being located from Truro to Pictou by which communication will be opened with the Gulf of St.Lawrence, Prince Edward\u2019s Island and the eastern counties, including Gape Breton.In the event, therefore, of the present effort failing to enlist the sympathy and co-operation of the Imperial Government in completing the Intercolonial Railway, in which the generali interests of the Empire are so largely invoivirdl \u2014!ÏNova Scotia must turn her resources to the' construction of the line to Pictou, and no hope, can be entertained, that she will afterwards be able to contribute to the Quebec and Halifax line, as all her means will have been expended upon the loeal lines already indicated.So deeply impressed is she, however, with the im-mense importance of this great Imperial and! Colonial Railway undertaking, that although nearly one-half of the line through Nova Scotia has been made and completed since the action of her Legislature iu 1849, she is now willing to renew the pledge then given to grant a free right of way and provide and pay twenty thousand pounds sterling annually,\\so long as it may be required to aid iu meeting the interest of the additional capital to be expended in making the line from Truro to Riviere du Loup.Referring then to the action of.the Home Government and to the pledges of Earl Grey in 1851, to the adoption of those pledges in effect by Sir John Pakingtoh in 1852, and to the repeated admissions on the part of the Imperial authorities that the interests and jntegrityW the Empire'are involved in the speedy construction' of tbe tfiis Railway, the undersigned respectfully submits that the period has arrived whenjt is essential that the Imperial assistance necessary be granted- It is estimated that the different sections required to compete the line from Halifax to Que- (Copy, No.105.) t Downing Street, ( 24tb December, 1858.Sir,\u2014You are doubtless aware that frequent commuuicaiioua have passed between meahd the Delegates who visited this country from the British Provinces in North America, relative to the proposal that some Imderial aid should be granted towards the completion of an Inter-colonial Railway from Halifax to Quebec.The subjeat has not fail\u2019 d to receive the anxious consideration of myself and my colleagues.I need scarcely say that the object is one which Her Majesty\u2019s Government cannot regard otherwise than with the best wishes.Even were no national object ebneerned, ir\u2019would be highly gratifying to them that the British Provinces m North America should reap the local advantages which would be denvetf froirthë'cbmpletion of this great line of railway.Those adVantageaJJ.isjrhe, would not justify an outlay of British fands, inasmuch as it is evident that tor an im-pefial expenditure there must be an Imperial object, but I readily admit that the plan does likewise embrace interests of a general and national character.Independently of any military advantages which might attend the ex\u2019stence of an uninter- rupted communication by rail over British Territory in the event of any dismrbance of the existing frienn ly rfipuinna nt I4reat Britain .with alP other countries, soma be.etlt3 ot an Imperial kind would\"at once accrue from the completion of the Inter-colonial Railway, the letters from England would pass oyer a shorter and cheaper route, and the movement of troops would gain in point of conveience and economy.As to the probable amount of such financial benefits to the mother country there would probably be some difference between'tne c.ncmaticrns\u2019gUgw\u2019stccniV the delegates and those formed by the official departments in the Imperial service to which the consideration of matters affecting the conveyance of troops or the carriage of le ters would specially belong.It is unnecessary, however, at present to raise that question, and ! readily-giant that it involves others both of kindly feeling towards Provinces, so loyal and of general policy in the increased strength and compactness by rapid communication, whicii it would be impossi-ble to reduce to figures and specify in estimates.BuLAtjU the national expenditure must be regulated by~thTnational resources! And how- , / ever important may be'the \"foregoing advan- 4» tageSjiit has been found that objects of interest to,GreaHTriUlll vet more All'Jë'u'rmaSt yieliT'tO tfrs necessity of not unduly increasing afTtio present moment thi public biacthena.~ \"For this reas 1117T caiUonly express my deep regret that while doing full lustice t5 the_ab lily\" of the arguments advanced by thT\u201dgentlemen ' \"who visiteu uns country as delegates upon the subject, and while far from undervaluing the benefits of an In.ter-coloniàl communication by railway, Her Majesty\u2019s Government have not found themselves at liberty to auce le to the proposal of ijT.rîting imnenal am towards tnecom-pletion of the line between Halifax and Quebec.I have, &c.(Signed,) E.B.LYTTON.The Right Honourable Sir Edmund Head, Baronet, &c., &c., &c.candidates was acquired hy nerjurv.( Hear.l~He remembered that not more than 10 or 15 yea s ago it would have been almost impossible to induce any man to receive money for his voce.He believed that ehepuragement to corrupt practices had been given by members who ought to be ashamed to have done so.(Hear.) He thought means to check them could be adopted, but he would not attempt to detail them now.He thought a committee should be appointed.(Hear.) Constituencies which used not to cost the members they returned a single sixpence] were very much altered now for the worse,.He aliudcdiinparticular to an Upper Canada 'constituency.His firm belief was, that the reason which rendered corruption possible was the law Wnleh prevented a complaint binfimmathrafter thé expiration,of 14days after the election.He thougETcoigpiamts shonfiTbe heard at any time, aKcithe member against whom corruption was clearly \"proved turned out^yEOSïSALyfSré alterfataëléction¦ Unless this could be done, it would be imnossible to find proof.\"~THear.) \u2018Hon.J.ri.MACDONALD considered that] since, the principle of tbe bill had been conceded, the beat method of proceeding would be to have the bill 6f Mr.Gowan pass its second\u2019reading, when it could be r.' ferred to à spehial committee.He was not altogether in favor of having measures originated by committees ; the practice was so productive of delay.(Hear.) Hon.Mr.CARTIER was-glad to hear the member for Lotbiniere express himself so strongly.(Heai-.) For his part, he had to say that the committhi on privileges and electious contained the members for Lotbiniere, Cornwall, Montreal, :St, Hyacinthe, Ac.The bill of: the member for Leeds could be submitted to.that.committee, on its second reading.Hon.J-.S.MACDONALD thought that was not a good committee.Its original objects were very different.Hon.Mr.CARTIER dissented, and adhered to his original opinion.Hon.Mr, MERRiTT said that committee had senj, round a series qf questions last year, which every mepaber.had .been requested to, answer.He had done so,land had-said he did hot believe non.A Tin (the a jibe in on the table his warrant tor the appoin tment df j a dollar had been paid in the old Niagara district CORRESPONDENCE ON THE SUBJECT OF THE INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY LAID BEFORE THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.[Con-.] 3, Charles Street, St; James Square, London, 26ih October, 1858.Sir,\u2014The subject of an Inter-colonial Railway from Halifax to Quebec has been so frequently and so fully discussed both as between the colonies interested and between those Colonies and the Home- Government that the undersigned do not noyv propose to reproduce at length the arguments which have been from time to time urged in favor of its construction.The late Earl-of Durham in hi3,report upon, affairs ot British North America suggested importance outliis.Rail way.The first practical step, however, was taken in the organization of a Survey, by Mr.Gladstone, when Secretary ot State for the Colonies.in.1846, which Survey occupied a considerable, period of time, involving a large amount of expense, ami to which expense Canada, 17ew.Jlrunawick and Nova ScotigrCüntrjbhted.: '\t\u20187 EarT\"Gràÿ]~whlùrSècretary of State for the Colonies in 1851, distinctly pledged the lmpe-rial Government to aid in making the line by affording the Imperial guarantee to the payment of the Interest on the capital required for the work, aud this pledge would doubtless have been carried out at the time, had not a ,1 jffinnlty arisen as to a branch line from the main line into the State of Maine, for the cost 'ot which Mr.Howe of Nova Scotia also claimed the Imperial guarantee.Subsequently in 1831, Mr.Hincks on behalf of Canada, and Mr.Chandler acting for New Brunswick, brought the matter under themqtiee of Sir John Pakington,.the then Secretary off 8tkte< far.-the Colonies,: who in!.xjHecrirepeated the\" pledge of Earl.Grey, but a difficulty arose as to the route.-\t\"\t\u2019 ¦ His-iGé&ce the Duke of Newcastle, as Secretary of State for the Colonies in the ensuing and a-half of pounds sterling.If the million and a-half.of pounds which Canada owes to aud proposes to raise and pay off at once to the Imperial Government be appropriated, there remain but two millions more to be provided, and to meet the interest on this sum each Province here proposes to contribute to the extent of £20,000 sterling in each year.The British North American Pfovinces would thus be brought together and consolidated.'.The postal communicationjbéîween Engl'anflYmd all North America would be conducted through Halifax, and that for the United States would thus pass first through British territory, inasmuch as letters for Boston and New York and other American cities would reach their destination sooner through Halifax and over the rail than in any other way.When the Inter-colonial Rail\u2019vay is completed\u2019 there will be an unbroken communication by railirom Halifax in Nova,Scptia to tbe western part of Canada at Sarnia, extending over a distance of about 1,400 miles in the direction of British Columbia and Vancouver\u2019s Jéland, the whole being in the dominions of the QueenancT from Sarnia there is now an unbroken w'ater communication for steamers and vessels of the largest class to the.head of Lake Superior at Fort William, a further distance of nearly one thousand miles.\t^\t.'t The military objects'.are now-so thoroughly.understood.\u2019aud have been so fully dwelt upou in funner memorandums on the subject of this railway, that they are not here miejted.* Trusting that this important matter may receive the.early and favourable consideration of Her Majisty\u2019s Government, We have ihe honor to be, - Sir, Your most obedient and humble servants, (Signed,) G.E.CARTIER,\t) JOHN ROSS,\t>\tCanada ; A.T GALT,\tS\t.\tI CHARLES FISHER, A.J.SMITH,\t^\tNewB.uuswK-k, CHARLES TUPPER,) ¥/.A.HENRY,\tS Nova Scotia.R?li.DICKEY,\t) The Right Honorable Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., Secretary of State for the Colouies, Ac.London, 13th November, 1-838.The Right Honorable B.Disraeli, Chancellor of ihe Exchequer, Ac , Ac., Ac, : Sir,\u2014In.tbe interview with which we were honored-by the Sécri tary ot State for thé Colonies oh the subject of the Railway from Halifax to Quebec, Sir E.Lytton stated that -yvhjle the construction of this work unquestionably entered into the Imperial policy, it involved questions more peculiarly financial, and that he therefore: wished 11s to address y.on\u2014and .in submitting pur united application to add pur views of the manner in which the British Exchequer would be affected by yohr assent to our proposal-.A reference to .tpeuenciosed.copy of oujhjftiutj letter to Sir B.Lyiton will show yp\\i, (hat es-j timating the capital required to Tie £3,5uO,00(>; \u2014the Imperial Government are asked to apply £1,500,060, now payable by Canada\u2014aud to riE 10 tiilf ici LeJcrnha IIoff vlaoiôshpzs 9î«I' cm & mm A.HOFFNUlfG\u2019S MAGNIFICENT STOCK OF; JEWELLERY, ELECTRO PLATE, S IL Y E11 -WAR E ^ CABINET WORK, PAPIER MACHE GOODS.TOYS, MAGIC LANTERNS, Crames, Puzzles, - \u2014And,\u2014j A Most Complete Assortment of n 1\\1\tMi1\tpa\tfPV\t\"T\tO V \\\tMV]\tLii'\tlil\tJ.\tV_J i\u2014< s 'V BEFORE PURCHASING Cliristims Presents OR lo a: lew Year\u2019s Gifts, AND OBSERVE-THE ENOBMODS SEDUCTION IN THE PRICES.THE WHOLE OF THE STOCK WILL BE SOLD OLE, 33 & A]?*.» Ï.HSS OI* COS'S?.PREVIOUS TO CLOSING THE BUSINESS, During the progress of Extensive Alterations in the Premises.; .laua The Public may, therefore, positively¦ rely on obtaining .GBKM BARG* THAN EVER BEFORE OFFERED IN MONTREAL, AT 4.HOFFNUNG\u2019S, 170 Notre Dame Street, Opposite Mr.T.Mussen\u2019s.Dec.20.\t301 E SHARPLEY has how on hand a few .Cases of ASSORTED TOYS, varying in prices from $12 to $i00.01 < \u2014Also,\u2014' .]\t;¦ ab Several Hundred Dozen of WAX -DOLLS CRYSTAL BLOCK; '\t1 1 - : -1 adi -\tNotre Dame Street:11 December 23\t\u2018\t\u2019'304 MONTREAL HERALD AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1859.Every description of BOOK AND JOB PRINTING executed by JAMES POTTS, at the Herald Buildings, Notre Dame Street.-'ïfiAL BE .MONDAY MORNING, FEB.21, 1859.53= SEE FIRST Debates, &c.PAGE for Parliamentary [BY TELEGRAPH.] PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT.LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.Toronto, Feb.19.When the report left last night, the House was engaged in a livelydiscussion on the amendment of Mr.Foley to place Mr.Brown\u2019s name on the Committee of Public Accounts Messrs.Brown, Drummond, Cartier, J.A.Macdonald, Dr.Connor and others took part in it.It was contended, on the part of the Government, that the conduct of Mr.Brown on the Committee last year, was such as to render it evident that his object bad been throughout, not to accomplish any benefit to the country by his investigations, but simply to injure the creditand ruin the character of the late Inspector General.On the other hand, it was maintained that the labors of the Opposition, and especially of Mr.Brown, on the Committee of Public Ac-counnts, had had the eifect of exposing many abases, and that it was only right that the country should continue to have the benefit of their services.Upon a division the motion was lost.Yeas-\u2014Bell, Biggar, Bourassa, Bureau, Bur-well, Clark, Connor, Cook, Dessaulniers, Dorion, Dorland, Drummond, Finlayson, Foley, Foster, Gould, Harcourt, Hartman, Hebert, Hogan, Howland, Jobin, Langevin, Lemieux, J.S.Macdonald, Mattice, McDougall, McGee, Mc-Kellar, Mowat, Munro, Notman, Papineau, Patrick, Walker, Powell, Ross, Rymal, Sommer-ville, Terrill, Thibaudeau, Walbridge, White, and Wright,\u201443.Nays\u2014Alleyn, Archambault, Baby, Beau-bien, Bellingham, Benjamin, Burton, Cameron, Carling, Caron, Cayley, Cartier, Chapais, Cimon, Ooutlee, Daly, Daoust, Dionne, Dubord, Dufresne, Dunkin, Fellowes, Fergusson, Ferres, Fortier, Foamier, Galt, Gaudet, Gill, Gowan, Harwood, Heath, Lacoste, LeBoutillier, Atty Genl Macdonald, McCann, Meagher, Morin, Morrison, Ouimet, Panel, Playfair, Pope, Price, Robinson, Roblin, Rose, R W Scott, W Scott, Sherwood, Simard, Simpson, Sincennes, Sydney Smith, Talbot, Tasse, Tett, Turcotte, Webb and Whitney,\u201460.Mr.McDougall then moved to add the names of Air.Hogan and Mr.Sommerville to the Committee, they having been formerly members of the Committee.A discussion of a similar nature took place upon this motion, Mr.Ferres maintaining that Mr.Brown, personally, and through the columns of the Globe, last year, had misrepresented the evidence given before the Committee, and taken up the time of the Committee entirely with matters entirely beyond the scope of the business.This motion was also lost.Yeas 36, and Nays 57.The main motion was then carried.Several Government measures were fixed for Tuesday.After an explanation from Mr.Terrill, with regard to his vote, The House adjourned, These are the only important parts of the papers in question, and our readers will probably thank us for not troubling them with the husk as well as the kernel.The position of the Company seems to be the one ordinarily taken by men in their position.When partners have a difference about property, in which they have mutual rights, an arbitration is the proper remedy.The Company, in like manner, do not deny that there, are legitimate claims which may compete with theirs, and on these they will arbitrate.But if a man has owned a house for twenty years, by what he esteems an unquestionable title, he is not very likely to appoint an arbitrator to please some person who may say that the House belongs to him.Just so Mr.Barens refuses any arbitration upon the Company\u2019s Charter.It is, however, well that the Home Government aïe taking this subject up seriously, for it is one the definitive settlement of which is not desirable.similar purpose.It is spacious, lofty, and the floor being covered with tan makes a capital place for marching and countermarching.Mr.Brown\u2019s Exclusion prom the Finance Committee.\u2014It will be seen tbat-lhis impolitic and unjust measure was carried last night.The ministry have therefore shown that though they could not answer anyone of the charges which arose out oi Mr.Brown\u2019s examination of the public accounts that they could find a majority willing if possible to keep him from examining these accounts again.Such conduct reminds one of the blacksmith\u2019s apprentice who, at tempting to show his proficiency, and one after another spoiling several kinds of work, each one of an inferior description to the previous essay, at length thrust a hot iron into the cistern, and exclaimed triumphantly \u201c I can make a hiss.\u201d This is about the extent of the capacity of the gentlemen who havej excluded Mr Brown from the Committee.They have shown themselves incapable of making any correc t financial statement ; but they can make a hiss, whenever they like to call on their followers.Mr.Brown, however, cannot bo thus easily got rid of, and it would have been well before taking the step, for those who had done so to recollect that there are still men, who like the images of the illustrious Romans kept by a tyrant over the public procession, are only more remarkable for their absence in places where they ought to be.No one who knows Mr.Galt can believe that this trumpery,juseless and weak act, is an emanation .of his own mind.He ought, however, to_be above lending himself to the meannesses of others ; has he so soon forgotten with what contempt he used to regard the dirty slander directed against himself by the men,of whose malignity he has now condescended to be the tool, and does he think such acts more dignified when done by him, than when directed against him ?We who have defended Mr.Galt when he was the object of slander have some right to expect that at least, he will justify what we have said of his personal character by proving that he possesses none of those qualities which his present friends once so freely imparted to him._____________________ .^we\\ / The International Railway.\u2014To-day, we publish the Despatches, laid before Parliament, on the subject of the Intercolonial Railway\u2014 that great scheme, by which the Ministry| honed to restore the era of ~thë~~7?râ~id Trunk, when everybody was getting rich, by borrow-ing and speculating, at The expense of heapin] up public and private debt, to come down witl accumulated force at some future time, Liki Mr.Range\u2019s Concert.\u2014We have received the programme of Mr.Range\u2019s Grand Concert to be given on Wednesday evening, at the Mechanics\u2019 Hall, under the patronage of Col Cole and the Officers of the 17th Regiment.\u2014 It comprises several Songs by Miss Sutherland, a Solo Cornet-a-Piston by Mr.Range, a Quartette by Messrs.Torrington, Prince, Fowler and Pyle ; besides a Cornet Duet by Messrs.Range and Prince.The readiness of the 17th Band to render their assistance on all public occasions, as well as the gratification they afforded our citizens by the weekly performance on the Champ de Mars during the summer, gives them a strong claim upon the patronage of the public.We trust the obligations the community are under to the excellent Band of the 17th will be duly acknowledged by a full house on Wednesday evening.East Ward.\u2014We are authorised to state that Mr.J.H.Daley will not contest this Ward against Mr.Leclaire, the Councillor who represented it last year.Mr.Daley was brought forward by his friends under the impression that Mr.Leclaire would object to sit in the Council if Mr.Rodier should be again chosen for Mayor ; but finding that not to be the case, Mr.Daley declines to offer any opposition to Mr.Leclaire\u2019s return.Fatal Result of the Late Railway Accident at Arthabasca.\u2014We regret exceedingly to have to announce the death of Mr.Alexander McKenzie, one of the sufferers by the recent accident at Arthabasca.This unfortunate gentleman, was severely wounded in one of his legs and was removed to town for the purpose of amputation.The operation was performed immediately on his arrival at the St.Patrick\u2019s Hospital, apparently successfully, and everything promised a speedy recovery till early on Saturday morning, when he died.St.Jeeome.\u2014We understand that Mr.A.M.Delisle has returned from investigating the recent outrage at St.Jerome, and that the consequence of his labours has been \u2018the arrest and imprisonment of the principal offenders.Despatches on the North West Territory.\u2014Among the papers submitted to Parliament since the opening, are a series of despatches relating to the North West Territory.From these, it appears that the Colonial Secretary has proposed to the Hudson Bay Company the submission of the whole question of their rights to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, with the concurrence of Canada and of the Hudson Bay Company.Such a step, he tells the Company, would afford a tribunal pre-eminently fitted for the dispassionate consideration of the question at issue : it would secure a decision which would probably be rather of the nature of an arbitration than of a judgment, and it would furnish a basis of negotiation on which reciprocal concession and the claims for compensation could be most successfully discussed.At the same time, he informs the Company, that in case of their declining, he will take steps to test all their claims in the Courts of law.If, on the one hand, the Company will meet Sir E.Lytton in finding the solution fora recognized difficulty, and will undertake to give all reasonable facilities for trying the validity of their disputed charter, they may be assured that they will meet with fair and liberal treatment, so far as Her Majesty\u2019s Government are concerned; but if, on the other band, the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company persist in declining these terms, and can suggest no other practicable mode of agreement, Sir E.Lytton must hold himself acquitted of further responsibility to the interests of the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company, and will take the necessary steps for closing a controversy too long open, and for securing a definitive decision which is due to the material I the existing railroad through that part of the developement of British North America, and the j country so ably represented by Sir Etiennej requirements of an advancing civilization.I Taebé ; but, whatever explanations he solicited the rest of the schemes of the three Minister8 errant, it nas met with its death in Downing Street.Sir.E.B.Lytton tells Messrs.Ross,j Galt, and Cartier, through Sir Edmund Head, ! that their plan is a remarkably fine one\u2014that he is deeply sensible of itS-jnHriotism^ and all that ; but decidedly he shall spend no money upon it.In short, like the clergyman in that irreverent story, he refuses to part with a halfpenny ; but, with great cheerfulness, presents his blessing.We suspect that Sir E.Bulwer Lytton is very right in all this.Politeness costs nothing; he would have been very wrong to be rude ; besides the fact of his belonging to the sect of \u201cEuphemists.\u201d But the International Railway could be nothing but a sink for money,I which, whatever assistance was given it ini England, must also add greatly to our publiol debt here ; and cause fresh disappointment to the! [individual subscribers of capital, who would,j (of course come to the Provincial Legislature ito make up the cost of their disappointments.[Sir Edward B.Lytton very justly doubts whe-' tber the calculations of the promoters of this scheme will stand the test of examination.Perhaps he had in his mind\u2019seye another Canadian Railway Prospectus, in which were largely concerned all three of the gentleman who were before him with this new statement of adVantages.We do not know whether he asked Mr.John Ross, before he wrote his despatches, whether the anticipated gain to the British nation, by investing in the Interna- Itional, would come to anything like 11 per cent., which was the lowest rate pf dividend fixed upon for Mr.Ross\u2019 own railway ; or whether he inquired anything about the working of RACES 0E THE MONTREAL SNOW SHOE CLUB.Pursuant to announcement, the race of the Montreal Snow Shoe Club for the Silver Cup presented by Lieutenant-General Sir William Eyre, took place at the Mile End course on Saturday afternoon, at three o\u2019clock.A considerable time before the hour named for the race, a number of ladies and gentlemen had taken their place on the grand stand, and at three o\u2019clock the course might be said to be crowded.Great interest seemed to be taken in the race, judging by the number present, and the curiosity evinced in all the details.A few minutes after three o\u2019clock, His Excellency Sir Wm.Eyre, lady, and Staff; Colonel Thackwell, Major Whitmore and ladies, took up their position on the Stewards\u2019 stand.The members of the Club about to compete for the cup shortly afterwards made their appearance, ready and eager for the struggle ; their names are as follow :\u2014 Mr.Hughes, Mr.M\u2018Cullocb, Mr.Coffin, Mr.Dougall, Mr.W.Stanley, Mr.Mack, Mr.Dowd, Mr.M\u2019Oord, Mr.Macfarlane, Mr.H.Maodougall, Mr.Murray, Mr.Hardisty.The above twelve gentlemen having been ranged abreast, at 25 minutes past 3, order to start was given ; the race being five miles, three times round a course a mile and two-thirds in length.The twelve dashed away in tine style.For the first quarter of a mile they seemed to be abreast, then, owing to the nature of the ground, were hidden from the observation of the spectators.When next seen they were in Indian file, Stanley leading, Hughes second.When they had nearly finished the first mile one of the twelve droped off ; the distance between the others now began to increase, and on reaching the stand the first time, they came up in the following order :\u2014 -\t17m.40s.-\t18m.10s.'\u2018r It is only fair to add that in such case the renewal of the exclusive license to trade in any part of the Indian Territory\u2014a renewal which could only be justified to Parliament as part of a general agreement, adjusted on the principles of mutual concession\u2014must become impossible.The Hudson Bay Company, through its Deputy-Governor, Mr.Barens, not unnaturally object to admit arbiliation on a point, about which they allege that there can be no dispute.Mr.Barens says that in 1850, without any consent being asked from his Company, the Law-Officers of the Crown recommended the complainants against them to embody their statement ot grievances in a petition to the Queen, and these officers further advised that this petition should, by the Queen, be referred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.No petition, nowever, was then presented ; and it was distinctly stated by the Law-Officers of the Crbwn, that if the proceedings recommended by them were taken, they must relate only to ihe subjects mentioned in the petitions to Parliament, which were questions as to rights under the Hudson Bay charter, and not to questions respecting the validity of the charter itself.The reply proceeds thus :\u2014 In the month of July, 1857, a communication was made to this company by Air.Labouchere, the then Secretary of State for the Colonies, calling the attention of the company to a statement received from the Law Officers of the Crown, having reference solely to the question of the geopraphical extent of the territory claimed by this company, as included in the grant by their charter, recommending that the subject should be leferred to the Privy Council, and stating that this could not be done, except by the consent of both parties, namely, Canada and this Company.In reply to this communication, the Governor of the Company informed Mr.Labouchere, under date 18th July, 1857, that the Directors of this Company would be prepared to recommend to their Shareholders to concur in the course suggested.The suggestion now made to the Company, as set forth in the address to Her Majesty, from the Canadian Legislature, and to which my letter of the 12th ultimo had reference, is that they should give their consent to an inquirjJ before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which inquiry is to involve not merely the question of the Geographical boundary of the territories claimed by them, but to challenge also the validity of the Charter, and as a consequence, all the rights and privileges which it professes to grant, and which have been exercised by the Company for a period of nearly 200 years.If such an inquiry should be gone into in the manner suggested by the Law Officers of the Crown, in 1850, the Company will now, as it was then, be prepared to appear on that inquiry in support of their rights, but in that event no consent on their part will be necessary, nor as I have already observed, was any consent asked for or suggested when the former enquiry was contemplated.But if the validity of their Charter itself is to be called in question, the Committee feel that in justice to their Shareholders it would be impossible for them to be consenting parties to proceedings instituted with such an object.The Company has at all times been willing to entertain any proposal that might be made to them for the surrender of any of their rights, or of any portion nf their territory ; but it is one thing to consent for a consideration to be agreed upon to the surrender of admitted rights, and another to volunteer a consent to an inquiry to cail these rights in question.While, therefore, I and my colleagues in the direction of the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company, are anxious to do all th^t we can, consistently with our duty to our Shareholders, to meet the wishes of Her Majesty\u2019s Goverment and of the Canadian Legislature, we feel that we cannot return any answer to your letter of the 3rd instant, than that which is conveyed by the letter on the same subject, which 1 bad the honor of addressing to you on the 12 th ultimo, -\t18m.18m.-\t20m.20s.25s.25s.Stanley, * McDougall, Coffin, -Hughes, Hardisty, McCulloch.Dowd, McCord.On going round the second time, and when about half way, it was observed that Stanley was still leading, followed by Coffin and Hughes.On approaching the stand t hey came up : (time,) do do do do do ¦ do CROWN LANDS REPORT FOR 1858.The Report of the Commissioner of Crown Landrfor 1858 has been laid before the House.In Lower Canada during the year 183,345 acres of land were surveyed, of which 49,153 acres were sold, and 1,100 granted gratuitously.The amount of purchase money is $22,-249.The surveys have been divided over thirteen counties.In Bouchette, Ottawa county, 4,200 acres have been surveyed, in DeSala-bery on the river Rouge, 22,000 acres.In Ka-mouraska county, 76,000 acres, In the township of Maria on the Bay of Chaleur, 21,940 acres.In Chicoutimi to the west of Lake St.John, 21,540 acres.In the township of Ashburton, Montmagny county, 31,263 acres.Of the Lower Canada Clergy lands, 4,116 acres were sold, the purchase money for which amounts to $3,809.The net proceeds last year including instalments, rents, interest, inspectors\u2019 fees and timber dues was $7,036, 54.Besides this, the Jesuits\u2019 estates yielded $20,057, and the Seigniory of Lauzon, $6,019.The gross receipts from the Crown Domain in Lower Canada for 1858 were $7,811, the expenses $2,148, leaving a net revenue of $,5663.In Upper Canada the sales of Crown Lands during the year amounted to 121,603 acres, the Durchase money to $138,693 6c.The gratutious grants to 55,700 acres.307,559| acres were surveyed ; and 1,193,057| acres, sub-divided into farm, park and town lots are now disposable.The gross amount of collections was $100,819 10c, from which deducting $118 25c refunded, there remains a balance of $100,700 85.The surveys were principally in the townships on the Mississippi, Frontenac, Addington, Hastings, Bobcaygeon, and Mos-koka roads and to the north of the Sault Ste.Marie, and south of Lake Nippissing.On the Mississippi road,leading from the Rideau Canal by the town of Perth into the interior of the Ottawa country: 105,763 acres have been laid out into farm lots, and 126,000 acres are in progress of survey.In the townships of Anglesea and Denebigh, on the Addington road, 15,000 have been laid out in 100 acre lots, and the survey of Abinger is being proceeded with.In the vicinity of the Bobcaygeon road, 52,000 have been laid out in farm lots, and four townships in a fertile tract of country to the north of Sault Ste.Marie, having been subdivided, will soon be offered for sale en bloc.Upon the Opeongo it is reported that there is a population of 784 souls ; 800 acres of land were under crop last year, the value of which, together with the potash manufactured, is estimated at $96,696.Upon the Addington road there are 149 actual locatees ; 189 acres were under crop last year ; the value of which is estimated at $10,990.On the Hastings road the population is 683 ; 598 acres under cultivation, value $21,808 ; and on the Bodcaygeon road, population 538 ; 404 acres cleared, and 91 houses built.In Upper Canada 25,812| ares of Clergy Lands were sold, the purchase money for which amounts to $53,761.The gross amount collected during the year amounted to $110,320 ; the expenses were $7,985, making the net receipts $102,335.Of Grammar School Lands 5,644 acres were sold for $11,469.The gross receipts $14,184 ; the net, deducting expenses, $13,333.Of the million acres of land appropriated for creating a Common School Fund, only 25,588^ acres remain unsold.Last year, 3,571 acres were disposed of, the purchase money for which amounted to $9,930.The gross receipts were $24,916, expenses $1,746 ; net revenue, $23,169.The amount of revenue accruing from ground rents and timber dues during the year, was $202,942 34, and from the Government Slides $29,682,08 making a total of $232,624,42.The gross amount of ground rents and timber dues collected, was $276,166,27, and from the Government Slides $32,664, including payment of outstanding tolls making a total ot $308,830 27.The amount paid for collecting ground rents and timber dues, [the salaries of the staff at head-quarters not included, nor $745,18 refunds] was $24,868,-49.The charges against the slides were $1,000, and making a total of $29,863 49.No annual returns have yet been received from the Saguenay and Madawaska territories.They would have added about $19,000 to the revenue accrued.$1000 only was received on account of Mines, that sum being the fee of a license on the westerly shore of Lake Superior.The Ordnance Lands transferred to the Province have an area of 90,000 acres, scattered through the Province from Temisco uta, in the east of Lower Canada to Amherstburg, and Penetanguishene in the north and west of Upper Canada By order of Council, lands at Amherstburg, Chatham, Lyons\u2019 Creek, Chippewa.Queeuston Heights, Town ot Niagara, Pelham Farm, Shorthills, Burlington Heights, Prescott, and Cornwall, in Canada West ; and lands at Three Rivers, Laprairie, St.Johns, South River, Chambly, Chateauguay, and Coteau du Lae, in Canada East, have been order-ered to be surveyed and set off, to be offered at public competition, so soon as the improved tone of the market may render it expedient.Surveys have also been made of town lots at Three\u2019Rivers, St.Johns and Niagara, which will be placed in the market.A portion of the Toronto Garrison Reserve or Common was offered to public competition, on the 15th of December last past ; twenty-two lots were disposed of, realising a sum of $14,327 50 to be paid in ten instalments, with interest, equal to an average value of $13 per foot, or $1,250 per acre.The total revenue from the Ordnance Lands of 1858 was $15,127 50, apart from a sum of $788,54, received after the close of the above account, bnt which ought to be credited as receipts of past year.The expenditure amounted to $8,310 45, with a refund to the War Department of $7,362 65, for arrears erroneously collected for that Department in 1857.father and grandfather the mo^t dissolute and irreligious Prince ever known in this country, who happily extinguished nearly all the remnants of superstitious loyalty felt for his race.To give him a Saint\u2019s Day was bad enough.We ended, however, by returning to the first of the series, and patching up the Gunpowder Service to fit it for the \u201c Glorious Revolution.\u201d There were two diliverances to be celebrated,\u2014one from a vulgar attempt at assassination, theother from a deeper conspiracy, which for more than a century a weak and vain race had fostered against the liberties and faith of this country.iBut the practice of commemoration is reduced to an absurdity when in one and the same Service we commemorate the preservation of the Stuarts and their final expulsion.It must occasionally suggest itself to historical minds that England would have been spared not only these Services, but a great deal of trouble and lost time, if the first attempt to get rid of the Stuarts bad been as succsesful as the last.The Postmaster General\u2019s Report.\u2014The Postmaster General\u2019s Report for 1858, shows the revenue to be £135,208 5s 8]d and the expenditure £161,169 18s.lljd.The revenue from the Parcels\u2019 Post will probably amount to £600 in the first year ; £2,000 has been received from the sale of half-penny stamps and from postage stamps generally\u2014£19,103 6s.3d.or £4,041 8s 9d.more than last year; 500,000 letters were registered.There were 202,034 dead letters.Sixty new offices have been added to the list ; that 350 miles of new routes have been organized ; that 9.800,000 letters and 13,-500,990 newspapers have passed through the post during the year 1858\u2014the newspaper circulation having somewhat diminished.Stanley,\t\t- (time,) 32m.173.\t McDougall, -\t-\tdo\t32m.38s.Hughes,\t\tdo\t34m.10s.Coffin,\t- .\tdo\t34m.58s.McCord.\t-\tdo\t35m.30s.The last turn round the Course\t\t\twas witness- or comparisons he drew, he expressed a very decided scepticism as to the railway arithmetic of the prospectus writers, who had asked him for his money.City Taxation.\u2014Elsewhere will be found, in our usual report of the proceedings of the City Council, a statement of the alterations which it is proposed to make in the draft of the law, which will be submitted to the Legislature for the amendment of our Act of Incorporation in respect to taxation.There are some decided improvements in it, especially the striking out of those clauses which were inimical to Banks and Insurance Companies.We doubt, however, the advisability of balancing this-by raising the-,tax-whigh.it is proposed to levy on income.^However, we shall discuss this matter more fully hereafter.Inspection and Drill of No.4 and 5 Companies of Volunteer Militia Rifles.\u2014These two Companies, under the command of Major Devlin, were inspected on Friday evening last, at the close of their ten days drill, by Lieutenant Colonel Ermatinger, Inspecting Field Officer for Lower Canada, at the new Riding School in Coté Street.The Inspecting Officer accompanied by Lieutenant Colonels David, Wily*and other Officers of the Active Force, having been received in the usual manner, inspected the Companies minutely, after which they were put through the manual and platoon exercise by Major Devlin.These were performed with a steadiness and correctness worthy of the regular service.After this they were wheeled into open column of sub-divisions, and told off for battalion drill in four divisions, under the command respectively of Captain Mul\" lins and Serjeant Gillies of No.4 Company and Serjeant Donnelly and Ensign Roaney of No.5 Company, and put through a variety of complex manoeuvres, adapted to the locale ol the drill by the Major commanding\u2014such as firing and retiring by alternative divisions\u2014 changing front by the countermarch of ranks\u2014 also by the wheel and countermarch of sub-divisions round the centre\u2014forming square and receiving Cavalry\u2014Charging bayonets with a wild war cry like the celebrated \u201cFaugh a bal-lagh of the Connaught Rangers, that was wont to chill the blood of their enemies on many a deadly field.The inspection was closed by an advance in review, order and salute.The Inspecting Field Officer complimented Major Devlin on the high state of efficiency and soldierly appearance of the body under his command, than which he was satisfied none more efficient nor in better discipline was to be found in the Actiye Force.The gallery of the riding school was filled with spectators, amongst whom we observed a number of ladies, for whose delectation, during the intervals of the drill, Prince\u2019s band discoursed some martial strains in their usual effective manner.Though a little out of place, perhaps, we may add here that we understand this band is to give a concert on ;the 7th proximo, and it is to be hoped that the citizens will show their sense of its merits by giving them hearty encouragement.A good band is really a great public advantage.The drill took place, as we have^already mentioned, in the Coté Street Riding School\u2014a place exceedingly -well adapted for this or any 46\tm.28 s.47\tm.58 s.50 m.15 s.50 m.18 s.55 m.00 s.ed by the spectators with intense interest.When about half way Stanley was observed to be about 300 yards ahead.As they neared the stand the excitement increased, but when within about 700 yards, Stanley appeared far ahead of all the others, or, as it seemed, some 300 yards in advance ; it was now evident that this gentlemen had the race to himself.In the course of two or two and a halt minutes he passed the stand, and came in winner about 200 yards before the second competitor, amid thé cheers of the spectators.The result was\u2014 Stanley,\t-\t-\t(time) McDougall,\t-\t-\t(do) Coffin,\t-\t-\t(do) Hughes,\t-\t-\t(do) McCord,\t-\t-\t(do) A little after the race had finished, Mr.Stan, ley was brought to the Stewards\u2019 stand, and received at the hands of Lady Eyre the silver cup, which Sir William presented to the Club.The cup was of beautiful workmanship ; richly chased, and on the outside, in frosted silver, the figure of two snow-shoe runners.The bottom of the cup was also ornamented with snow-shoes, etc.Mr.Stanley received the cup in a becoming manner, and, after it had been pre sented, the spectators gave three hearty cheers for General and Lady Eyre.Where all deserve equal praise it is difficult to particularize ; but still it may not he out of place to mention that the running of Mr.Me' Dougall, who came in second, was the theme of general admiration, when it was remembered that he was, perhaps, the youngest of the party not being much over 18 years of age.Altogether, the race passed off to the satisfaction of every one ; and though the snow, account of the recent thaw, was scarcely in the best condition, still the running was excellent and the competition spirited.All present seemed to think highly of the spirit of those engaged in the race, and the efforts made indl vidually by the different runners.The best of order was preserved, and, owing to the exertions of the Stewards and Secretary, and Air.Emoud, the proprietor, the course was kept clear during the entire race.CITY HALL IMPROVEMENTS.The Finance Committee recommended an appropriation of £636 7s.8d., to be handed to the City Hall Committee for repairs and improvements recently made ; but at the same time suggested that a rule be established that no committee, in future be allowed to order or execute repairs without having, beforehand, obtained the consent of the Council.The report passed.A report from the Road Committee against granting any indemnity to Air.Jas.Halpin, for damages alleged to have suffered by him from delay in repairing a tunnel in Cemetery street, was read and adopted.The Council then adjourned.Bacon Says\u2014\u201c A Few Words go to Prove a Fact.\u201d\u2014It is so, for Bogle\u2019s Hyperion Fluid for the hair, his Prize Medal Electric Hair Dye and his Balm of Cytheria for beautifying the complexion, are, in truth, unsurpassed in their virtues.Sold by all Druggists.c-DC-43 Asthma.\u2014This most disheartening complaint has been cured in many instances by the use of Wistar\u2019s Balsam of Wild Cherry.Surely any thing that will afford relief from this painful disease will be hailed as a real blessing.c-DC-43 POLITICAL SERVICE OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH ABOLISHED.CORRESPONDENCE.To the Editor of .the Montreal Herald.Montreal, 19th Feb., 1859.Sir,\u2014 The letter of your correspondent \u201c J.S.Harolds Cross,\u201d in yesterday\u2019s Herald well deserving the attention of the Post Office Department.None have a fuller experience of the insufficiency of the Postal Delivery by the Letter-Carriers than the residents ot McGill Street and College Street ; they have a good reason to be dissatisfied with the way in which it is conducted.The mails are not distributed in jihese streets\u2014although within a few minutes\u2019 walk of the Post Office\u2014till late in the day; and judging by the post-marks, some of the letters have been in the possession of the Letter-Carriers for two days.Whatever is the cause, the fact is certain, that those who do not keep boxes at the Post Office are badly treated, not, it is to be hoped, from any dehbe-rate wish to this effect, but probably from love of ease.Progress is the order of the day, and the Post Office Department is expected to keep up with the times.It is doubtless owing to the suggestions of \u201c J.S, Harolds Cross\u201d that we have the improved postage stamp now in use, and I earnestly trust that he will continue per-severingly to' urge the peculiar claims of .the \u201coutside public\u201d to a more frequent and\u2019regular delivery of the mails.Two deliveries daily, as proposed, would conduce materially to the public convenience and ^rove, .a source of income to the Depaitment as well.Yours, Ate.J.G.Any one whose misfortune or whose folly it has been to move very often, knows what it is to come upon the relics of long bygone days.There is this flower from that meacow, this sugar ornament from that Twelfth-night ; this worstedwork, those nursery rhymes; this child\u2019s broken coral ; those crystals and 4sea shells ; that invitation-card ; the faded roses and broken coronets of those acted charades ; and other tokens more mournful, yet not so heartrending.Would that they had gone the way of earthly vanities long ago ! But now it costs a greater effort to destroy them than to return them to the battered old lockless, handless trunk, in which they ha-ve fitly lain these twenty or thirty years.Take a man even at five-and-twenty, when regrets are beginning to accumulate, \u2014what had he best do with mere memorials?Destroy them.Keep them no longer than you would wear your hatband.You have to live for some other purpose than to collect a museum ot life-relics.The Royal Proclamation, therefore, forbidding the performance of the three historical Services is a matter not so much of wisdom as of nature and necessity.If we think it worth a congratulation, it is because the retention of obsolete forms is an evil, and not a slight one.The English Prayerbook already contains much that is never read by more than one in a hundred, and if it be an object to invite attention to its contents, it is best to discharge first that which is not only antiquated in tone and style, but is actually out of use.Only a small part of our population know anything about the unfortunate Stuarts, and they who do happen to know something generally take a very different view from that in the Services \u2014 Hardly is there here and there an enthusiast who goes with the Services for the Alartyrdom of Charles I.and the Restoration of Charles II.; and, if he does, he must anathematize the existing, or lately existing, Service for November 5, brought up as it has been to the year 1688.It is impossible to the modern historical student, unless he be a Quixote, to read the Caroline Services without an under-current of criticism and protest strong enough to make his devotion ridiculous.The theories of Divine Right, of the Prerogative, of the taxing power; and of inherent absolute authority in the Church and State, implied in the Services, and necessary to make Charles I.a Martyr, have not only been long renounced by the nation ; but, what is more, they have been found to be modern inventions.Not only the British Constitution, but British history itself, is better understood in these days than it was by the Court prelates and favourites ot the seventeenth century.Charles I.had no better title to a place in the martyrology than Richard IL, possibly than some other Kings, whose ends were violent, or hastened by the labours and anxi-ties of an unconstitutional career.Whatever the aggravations of the quarrel, the real question between Charles and his subjects was that between absolute and constitutional government.It was the question all over Europe ; determined in other States, to their terrible cost, against the -nation ; here in its favour.Whether decapitation was exactly the right way to close accounts with the principal advocate and representative of despotism may be doubted.But those were days for summary measures, and the feeling against capital punishment was not quite so strong as it is now.The Services, it is rather remarkable, increase in absurdity as they proceed.The deliverance of James I., the Royal Family, the Court, and the Parliament from the Gunpowder Plot was to be remembered and commemorated, particularly as James I.\u2019s mother is a very ill-used woman if she did not blow up his father.Of course this Service hits right and left, wherever it finds an opening, against the Papists, in language that would now never be heard except at a late hour in a convivial meeting of Irish Orangemen.Charles I.\u2019s antipathies lay in another direction ; his antagonists were Puritans and Independents\u2014the Free Church, as Mr.Bright would call them.They took care that all their deeds, including the last act at Whitehall, were well seen of men.When they got into power, like other religious tyrants, they CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.{Reported for the Montreal Herald.) Friday, February 18, 1859.Gn; Friday evening the City Council held their last meeting for the Civic Year, 1858.\u2014 There were PRESENT : In the Chair, Acting-Mayor Grenier; Aldermen Leclaire, Homier, Alarchand, Valois, Bul-mer ; Councillors Simard, Grenier, Penn, Bronscfon, Terroux, Cusson, Gorrie, Jo-doin, Bernard, Rennie, Smith, Goyette, Thompson.IMPROVEMENT OF PLACE D\u2019ARMES.The Special Committee appointed to report on the feasibility of extending the Place d\u2019Armes to St.Francois Xavier Street, submitted the following report \u201c Your Committee have ascertained, after much negotiation, with the proprietors of the property in question, and also with the parties interested in, and most immediately to be bene-fitted by, the important improvements which the Council had in view, on the one hand that the lowest price that will be excepted for the property required is £41,000 currency ;jand, on the other hand, that the Conncil may not rely upon any contribution towards the expense of the improvements from the parties interested exceeding £4350,\\leaving a balance of £36,650 currency to be provided for by the Council for the purchase of the land necessary for the im-provents, independently of all other expenses that would necessarily attach to such an important and extensive work\\,However much your Committee regret that the city may now lose, perhaps for ever, all opportunity of carrying into effect so magnificent and valuable an improvement, they are, nevertheless, compelled to advise the Council to abandon the project, under the adverse and disheartening circumstances above narrated.\u201d A.BERNARD, F.PENN, L.A1ARCHAND, N.VALOIS, ED.THOMPSON, A.N.RENNIE.The report was held over till next meeting.THE AQUEDUCT.A report from the Water Committee, recommending the engagement of Mr.Cliff, for another year, as Superintendent of the Aqueduct, was held over till next meeting.APPEAL IN A LAW SUIT.The Finance Committee handed in a report, in which it was mentioned that the Messrs.Shuler had obtained, on the 31st December last, a judgment against the Corporation for £8672 10s.currency ; and that, in the opinion of Mr.Papin, the judgment is wholly untenable as regards the two items included in the amount for which it has been rendered, amounting, together, to the sum of £1966 10s.; for which reason Mr.Papin advises that he may be authorized to appeal, in which request the Committee would coincide.The report was held over till next meeting.THE NEW TAXATION SCHEME.A report, from the Finance Committe, recommending the subjoined alterations and amendments to the Bill about to be submitted to the legislature, was then read.It said : \u201c The Bill which the C ouncil put forward last year has been withdrawn, on account ot the (opposition made by a large portion of the mercantile community.The following amend-imentsTav?been made in a spirit of conciliation, and with a regard for the wishes of the citizens and the mercantile community, and, after frequent deliberations with the Committee of the Board of Trade, specially appointed to confer with the Finance Committee on this subject.The Finance Committee hopes that their labours will be considered in a corresponding ispirit of conciliation and good will by the ci_tix zens, Board of Trade, and merchants of this City ; and that, after examining tins Bill, they may pronounce it free from the objections offered to the measure of last year ; and that they will unite with the Council in praying the Legislature to pass it into law with all reasonable expedition.G\tAlterations.1.\tThe 8th clause of the 11th section, at page 7,\texplanatory of the law respecting Insurance Agents, be struck out.2.\tIn reference to the taxation scheme, the 3rd clause of the 12th section ot the Bill, page 8,\thas been amended by striking out Irom the objects enumerated in it, as liable to taxation, under the head of personal estate\u2014\u201c Debts due from solvent debtors, whether on account, contract, note, bond er mortgage, more than indebted for ;\u201d and abo\u2014\u201c Ships, vessels, shares in ships and vessels of every kind.\u201d f 3.The 13th section of the Bill, page 8, has been amended, by augmenting the limit of taxation from one-half to three-fourth per cent, on real, and from one-quarter .±n-OB£rhaIf per cent.on pexspnal~Bstate££^- - 4.The 1.6th and 17th sections of the Bill, at page 9, have both been struck out ; and others substituted in their place, imposing a tax not to exceed one-half per cent, on the revenue of all Insurance Companies and Agencies in this city, and on the revenue and salary of all Actuaries, Managers or Agents of such Companies, and on all Brokers, Agents, and Commission Merchants in the city.[By striking out the 17th section, it will he observed that the tax upon Banks and Bank Agencies has been abandoned.] 5.The 19 th section has been so amended as to impose a tax not exceeding one-half per cent, on all incomes over $300 per annum.This I am at some loss in my own mind what to say in relation to Perry Davis\u2019 Pain Killer.It really seems to be possessed of the power of magic beyond the comprehension of the human mind.The increased sales in this State are truly astonishing.\t* A.W.HATCH, Druggist, Milwaukie.c-DC-43 ©rsese aiïü Commerce.MONTREAL MARKETS.Arranged by a Committee of Brokers expressly for the \u201cMontreal Herald\u201d\u2014John G.Dinning, Secretary.MONTREAL., Feb.19, 1859.PRODUCE.$ $ ASHES\u2014Pot.F cwt.6 00 6 50 FLOUR\u2014Canada Fine.F bbl.196 lbs.6 00 (S> 6 25 Superfine No.2.6 60\t6 00 .6 00 6z> 6 25 .6 00\t6\t50 .0 50 6 75 .7 00 (a> 7 25 .7 25\t8\t00 .4 '50\t5\t00 .None.Superfine No.1 United Slates Superfine No.1 Canadian .Fancy .Extra Super .Double Extra.Rye Flour.INDIAN MEAL.P 196 li»v.WHEAT\u2014T 60 lb.Wheat (U.C.and U.S.While).U.C.Spring.Red Winter .Milwaukie Club.Chicago Spring.BARLEY.^\tmi not.OATS.\u2022IP'\tminot.PEAS\u2014White.\u2022IP'\tminot.INDIAN CORN.-T\t66 lbs PROVISIONS\u2014Beef, Mess.V bbl.00 00 (3) 00 00 Prime Mess.10\t00\t10\t50 Prime.8\t00\t00\t00 Cargo.0\t00\t(3)\t0\t00 PORK\u2014Mess.F bbl.20 50 (3) 21 00 Prime\tMess.14 00\t(3>\t14\t60 Prime.13 00\t(g)\t13\t60 Cargo.None.BUTTER\u2014Inspected No.1.-Tib.None.Inspected No.2.None.Uninspected.0 14^(®0 20 EXCHANGE.0 00 (3/0 00 .0 00'(^0 00 .0 00 (3)0 00 .0 00 0 00 ,.0 00 3 3\tS-sv c » weg-g\u2019s O\tg-tS : ; o (£1! 3 g1?: s\u2019acgogS.t.Bfos-sg; 3 c 3a § §.oS S'i SS\u2019S : S \u201c\"ils:-e f* § 2 Jo's ; o \u2022\to : s .7 \u2022 2\u201c\u2018 g.- 1: :\t: £.1 a- O * p, p : o .p ¦.CL- to-' .O P \u2022 .pv< \u2022 .o.^\t\u2022 : o: \u2022 .© : .\u2022\t3 \u2022 : \u2022\t*3 :\t.: p3 î ¦ O c/f \u2022 2 : : o| : : 3% o o td5 5 05 - E 3 ; ?o : Mg Reported for the Montreal Herald.BY MONTREAL LINE.Office, St.Sacrament Street.New York, Feb.19, 1859.The Barque \u201c O.J.Hayes\u201d brings dates from Buenos Ayre?to the 30th Dec.The Frigate \u201cSabine,\u201d with Commissioner Bowling, had arrived at Montevadeo.The Commissioner was preparing to go up to Asuncion in Fulton, if any attempt to prevent him hostilities would ensue, but general impression was that ail difficulties would be amicably arranged with Lopez.A despatch from Washington says Government has been informed of intention of England to carry out the Clayton Bulwer treaty according to American understanding of its provisions\u2014this fact obviates the necessity for abrogating the treaty, as England withdraws from her central American possessions and relinquishes all jurisdiction.New York, February 19.New counterfeit fives on Rollstone Bank of Fitchburgh were put in circulation here last evening.St.John\u2019s, N.F., Feb.19.The tenor of private advice received per \u201cPrince Albert\u201d rendered it certain that the British Government will grant a subsidy of $150,000 to the Galway Steam Company.Mr.Henley, chief electrician of the Atlantic Cable Company, has arrived here with batteries and instruments to commence operations with them on this end of the cable.New York, Feb.19: The steamship \u201cEdinburgh\u201d left the Clyde on the morning of the 31st January, but her dates from Glasgow papers are of Saturday 29 th, and Liverpool and London of the 27th.NEW YORK MARKETS\u2014Feb.19.Flour\u2014Receipts light.State and Western dull and unchanged ; sales of Western 6,500 bbls ; Superfine State $5,35/©5,50 ; Extra State $5,90l@6 ; Round Hoop Ohio $6,40 18) 6,50 ; common to good extra Western $6,05/®$6,30.Southern unchanged; sales 1,800 bbls ; $5,90® 6,15 jfor common to good, and $6,25®7,75 for fancy and extra.Canadian Flour\u2014Superfine nominal ; Extra $G,50®7,25.Wheat quiet; sales of 10,000 bushels; Chicago spring $1,00 ; Western red $1,37J ; and white $1,48.Corn quiet ; sales of 10,000 bushels; mixed Western at 84c®86c; white 80e®83c; yellow 80c®82c.Oats dull; Southern and Jersey at 50c®54c; Northern and Western 54c®64c.Pork dull ; sales small; -mess $17,50 for old and $18,00 for new ; prime $13,25®13,30.Lard firm ; sales 200 kegs.Stocks are better, but not very active.Money is in good demand, at previous rates.Exchange is selling at 109J.Groceries are quiet, but unchanged.SÏ\u2019SCI.&Ii MOTXCiES.We have much pleasure in recommending the use of DuBarrï\u2019s Revalenta Arabica Food as an axceedingly valuable and nutritious diet for Infants, Children, and Invalids.Several amongst our own Customers who have made use of it, have personally testified to its great value, in cases where other light articles of food as Sago, Arrow Root, Corn Starch, &c., had been rejected from, or found to disagree with the stomach ; and have urged upon us the propriety of giving it our strongest recommendation.LAMPLOUGH & CAMPBELL, Chemists.February 4.\t29 Fo.the information of the public, we will publish some notes of eminent Physicians on the Plantagenet Water, which will be followed, from time to time,by the certificates of its merit in many cases of disease.\u201c With regard to Rheumatism, there appears to be a very general concurrence, as regards the value of the Plantagenet Water, among medical men in this Province.\u201d \u201c Gouty Affections.\u2014The allied nature of this disease to the former, points to an anala-gous mode of management ; and there can be no question, that Gouty as well as Rheumatic affections have derived great benefit from the use of the Plantagenet Water.\u201d ils* g s 3 £ £ < £ £\t'a sJ ' 3* s* ~ ~ o o o rfL ot 2 cl ^ 2 cl o-2 * 2.2.2.2.2-kû co-j - \u2014 ^ 0 \u2014 o o o, cna-aictccoiootOOc?\t?ch c&2 05 GO O \u20143\t0\t*3-3-rj X3 a>a>a>acD^rea> 222^^222 \u20141\t\u2022*\u2014\t00 ir-\u2014' O 05'-*0 O O S3 Ot 5 3 5 j et o 2 2 2°' ?-**»»- co © \u2014* -a -3 \"Ss\u2018''SgSifgSfz^tasS tZ\tM S O \"T O O 3 Q \u2022OOO^O ) \u2014 \u2014 E E 2 2 2 o ^ ^E E t>) 2 CD a> e all the male inhabitants of the city between the ages of 21 and 60 years, without any reservation or exception whatever.\t-y 7.The exemption clause in the 10th page of the bill, has been struck out, and a new one substituted.By this latter the exemption from taxation is limited to the four following heads : \u20141st, wearing apparel; 2nd, household furniture ; 3rd, farming utensils, and lastly, mechanical tools contradistinguished from machinery, which latter will not be exempted from taxation ; and only $200 in value of the household furniture, farming utensils and mechanical tools of any person will be so exempted.- In connexion with the part of the bill relating to the revenue and finance, your committee have introduced into the law, as submitted, provisions to enable the Council to effect a new and additional loan of £100,000 sterling to tax will, in all dases whereit is imposed, be levied noon the full amount of the income.without any draw-back or restriction, hqt.it ffijl at all upon any income not ç: nff S:UHi ner annum.*~\tV1, .\t______ r___\tv A \\\t^ 6.By the 20th section, as amended, a poll tax nf one dollar per annum is imposed upon off all existing deb.tsTfo meeralTengagementa B.nrl evecnle such works and improvements as are of urgent necessity, and may not be postponed without loss or damage.'.Provision is also madëlorthe certain but gradnal'payment of this debFhv a^hking~Fu~nd.V.It\u2019 is, moreover, recommendidfmtnsr'bill, now submitted, to establish a permanent Board of Assessors, and provision is made for the manner ot assessing, which, it is confidently believed, will be found to be as little embarrassing or vexatious as possible, to the parties assessed, especially so in matters of personal estate and income.The law as it now stands, excludes all parties from voting, who may be in arrears, to the city on the 1st January, in each year.Your committee have submitted a provision, which will virtually extend the delay up to thé date of the revision of the voters' list, in each ward.They have also provided to allow a discount on prompt payment of taxes ; and to authorise interest to be charged on all arrears after a reasonable delay, to be fixed by the Council.The qualification of an elector has been extended to all persons, not householders, who may be assessed not less than four dollars on their personal estate or income, the Corpora-tien tax included, and the right to be elected Mayor or Councillor has been extended to all persons resident within the parish of Montreal, if such persons be assessed on real or personal estate in the city, and be, in every other respect, duly qualified.Other unimportant alterations have been most of them merely verbal made, most of them merely verbal ones, to which your Committee will solicit the attention Ah xntu puwcx,\txoxxgxvjuo bj 1 a