Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 25 août 1863, mardi 25 août 1863

[" £»«**** PÔ§T OFfICE, Montreal, June 29,1863.Arrivais and Departures of ÎŒails at XYIontreal- MAILS.Quebec by Steamboat, iucluding ) Sorel, Three Rivers, Batiscan,&c f Quebec by Railroad.North Shore Land Route.*\t\u2019 Canada West Express Train.[ii Canada West Night Train____\t[21 Laprairie.St.Johns, C.E., Napiervilie and ( Clartnceville.r N.^York, Boston, Buffalo, Troy, / St.Hyacinthe, Meiboume, and I Island Pond.[31 Portland.[.Chateauguay, Beauharnois and Huntingdon.Lachine.St.Remi, Hemmingford&Plattsbur Chambly, St.Cesaire, &c.Longueuil and Contrecœur.St.Laurent, St.Eustache.Ste.Rose, Ste.Therese &St.Jerome Way to Ottawa, including Offices ) in Two Mountains.j Terrebonne, New Glasgow ______ St.John, N.B , Halifax, and P.E.1 Island, via Portland, Wednes- V days and Saturdays.) Ditto fortnightly from Boston.DUE.8.00 a m 10.15 p m 8.00\tam 10.30 p m 9.20 a m 10.30 am 10.30\tam 9.30\ta m 11.00 pm 7.3U a m 2.15 p m 7.30\ta m 6 30p m 9 15 a m G.15p m 11.00\tam 11.00 am 10.30\tam 6.30\tart 2.00\tpm 6.30\tpm 5.00pm 7.30\ta m 8.00\tam CLOSE 6.15 p m 7.00\tpm 4.00\tp m 6.00\ta m 5.00\tp m 2.30 p m 7 15 a m 2.30\tp m 3.00\tpm 7.45 a m 3.30\tpm 3.30\tp m 6.00\tam ,.00 am 2 00pm 2.00\tpm 4.00\tpm 30 am 2.30\tp m 7.30\tam 7.30\ta m 6.00\tam 6.30\tam 4.00\tpm 2.30\tp m Conductors Bag open till 7.10 a.m.do\tdo\t6.10\tp.m.do\tdo\t8.10 a.m.&\t3.55 P.M.do\tdo\t3.55\tp.m.n AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.VOLUME XV.MONTREAL, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, 1863.Registered Letters must be posted 15 minutes before the closing of each Mail.All the above Mails (exclusive of the St.John, N.B., &c.,) are daily, except Sunday.PUBLIC ISTICi.THE Undersigned respectfully informs ALL INSURANCE COMPANIES and the Public in general, that he is ready to execute all orders at a moment\u2019s notice, (having the Telegraph Office at hand,) as Agent or otherwise, in giving due assistance towards SAVING CARGOES and VESSELS WRECKED in the RIVER ST, LAWRENCE.DAVID HARROWER, Riviere du Loup, En Bas.Ooiu'oei 31.\t261 SOM OtMGWl, THE Subscriber begs to return thanks to bis numerous Customers and the Public in general for the past kind patronage bestowed on him, and cakes this opportunity of informing them that, on account of the increase in his business, he has REMOVED to those SPACIOUS PREMISES, 169 Cathedra! Block, E6TRE DAME STREET.Where he hopes, by strict attention to business, to merit a continuance of the liberal patronage formerly bestowed on him.Just received, a large assortment of first-class HAVANA CIGARS.S.BRAHADI, Tobacconist.June 4.\t132 PRIÏIIIL BILLS.PARTIES in Canada East intending to make application to the Legislature for Private or Local Bills, either for granting exclusive privileges, or conferring corporate powers for commercial or other pu'poses oi profit, for regulating surveys or boundaries,or for doing anything tending to affect the rights or property of other parties, are hereby notified that they are required by the 53rd and following Rules of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly respectively (which are published in full iu the Canada Gazette)^ to give TWO MONTHS NOTICE of the application (clearly and distinctly specifying its nature and o' jectj, in the Canada Gazette, in English and French, and also in a newspaper published in each language in the Distric* affected, sending copies of the first and last of such notices to the Private Bill Office of ea^h House.All Petitions for Private Bills must be presented within the first three weeks of the Session.J.E.DOUCET,\tA.TODD, Clk of Pi ivate Bills, C/tf.Clk.Private Bill Office L.Council.\tL.Assembly.Quebec, July 6, 1883.\t161 THE Subscribers make LIBERAL CASH ADVANCES or authorize DRAFTS on their Correspondents in France, England and the United States, against Consignments of all descriptions of Produce.OFFER FOR SALE : 2000 boxes WINDOW GLASS, assorted sizes 75 eases CHICORY CHEAP CLARET in cases And all kinds of WINES and FRENCH GOODS COURCHET & CO., No.7 St.John Street, July 8.\tI6* Notice to Advertisers.CANADA Bailia; Advertising Compan; THE SECOND TERM for ADVERTISING in the CARS and STATIONS of the GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY, commences on the 1st JULY next.As most of the space in the Cars running between MONTREAL, TORONTO and ISLAND POND is taken up, all who desire to Advertise in these Sections are requested to make early application at the OFFICE OF THE COMPANY, No.71 Great St.James Street.June 26.\t151 TO THE CANADIAN LIQUOR TRADE, JN conformity v»Titb their engagements^ taken towards the CANADIAN LIQUJR TRADE in the advertisements which have appeared in the Canadian papers during the whole Winter, Messrs.A.HÔUTMAN & CO., of Delfshaven, near Schiedam, noW have the pleasure of informing the Public that they have despatched, on the 5th March, from Rotterdam, per the Prussian vessel \u2018Summer I,1\u2019 Captain H.Broksch, to Quebec, and further to Montreal, a considerable number of Invoices of \u20acrowu Double Anchor Gin, In half and quarter pipes, red and green cases.On the arrival of the vessel in the aforesaid Ports, these invoices, containing various quantities to suit the larger or smaller wants of the different Importing Houses, will be offered for Sale, separately, at auction, under the immediate supervision of our General Manager, Mr.W.P.Razoüx, and of our Agents in Canada, Messrs.Henry Chapman & Co., at very favour-aide conditions, which will be made known in due time previous to each Sale.The Gin composing this venture has been nianufaciused under the personal direction of Mr.W.P.Razoux.who possesses a thorough knowledge of the quality and strength of Gin requ-site for the Can dian marke-s, and as, on the other hand, we have spared no efforts nor expense in the distillation of this Gin, we confidently assert that it will prove superior to any other Gin ever before imported into Canada.Having done everything in our power to give full satisfaction to Canadian importers, we beg of them, after an impartial examination of our Goods, to give ns as large a share of their patronage as they can, and thereby enable us to keep up a competition with others, which cannot '-.it prove favourable to Canadian commerce.'\tAl gOUTMAN 2c CO.Delfshaven, h?ar Schiedam, ( March 26, lbu5./ HENRY CHAPMAN & CO., Agents fob Canada.April 28.\t100 HE.fT\\EE Undersigned have formed a\"CO-PART-I NEKSH1P, under the Firm of OUMMING & FARISH, to carry on the (¦RAIN MiYINtt BUSINESS, Under Sdtton\u2019s Patent.They are now prepared to DRY Heated and Wet GRAIN by that improved process, at their MEW WORKS, No.2 Mill Street, Canal Basin.Jas.W.Cümming.\tJas.Farish.Montreal, August 1, 1863.\t1m 182 TOBACCO.Proride Against tlie Excise Duty.THE Provincial Parliament meets on the 13th instant, and money being wanted, the long-agi ated question of an Excise or Tax upon the Manufacture of Tobacco will be settled.Purchasers will find, at the Stores of the Subscriber, some of the best brands ever offered in the market, viz :\u2014 Boxes EXCELSIOR Boxes WASHINGTON These Tobaccos, having been specially reserved that the purchaser may reap the benefit of the Excise, are now offered at No.9 Common Street.\u2014also,\u2014 KENTUCKY LEAP TOBACCO Barrels CHOICE CIDER VINEGAR NELSON DAVIS.August 13.\t1m 192 Aie Tou FqhD of Fruit?AT this season of the year, hundreds of people suffer from indulging too freely in Fruit and Vegetables Now, there is nothing belter for preventing any disagreeable consequences than a glass or two of the celebrated Leon Mineral Water, Which regulates the Stomach and Bowels, thereby effecting a saving in the way of some nasty doctor\u2019s stuff.Principal Depot : GLASGOW DRUG HALL, 268 Notre Dame Street.August 14.\t193 Dixon\u2019s Aromatic Blackberry Carminative, THE surest, safest, pleasantest and most effectual remedy known for Diarrhtaa, Dysentery, Cholera Morbus, Cholera, Colic, Flatulency, &c, &«.For Sale by A.G.DAVIDSON, Drcogist, 194\tCentral Drug Hall.W.H.SMITH, Manufacturers\u2019 & Commission Agent, 10 ST.NICHOLAS STREET, (One door from St.Paul Street, formerly Messrs.Smith & Cochrane\u2019s Store), HKOOTHBAl.SOLE AGENT FOR CANADA AND THE B.N.A.PROVINCES FOR J.W.Pankhorst, Hanley, Staffordshire, England, Manufacturer of Granite, C.C., and Dipt Ware.Wm.Brownfield, Cobridge, Staffordshire, Manufacturer of Stone China and Earthenware.T.rr.T»Lwi L]r r ir.T A: SnN /late T.J.& J.Mayer,) Dalehau Pottery, Longport, StattoruBUire, Manufacturers of Earthen ware °and Porcelain Fittings connected with Plumbers\u2019 and Brass Founders' Work, Bath and Washhouse Furniture, Door Furniture, Chemists\u2019, Apothecaries\u2019, and Photographists\u2019 Ware, &c.Hawley & Co., Foley Potteries, Longton, Staffordshire, Manufacturers of China, &c.George Jones, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, Manufacturer of Parian Ornaments, Statuary, &c.Wm.Stubbs, Eastwood Pottery,Hanley, Staffordshire, Manufacturer of Egyptian Black Lustre, Figures, Ac.T.& R.Boote, Waterloo Potteries, Burslem, Staff jrdsbire, Manufacturer of Patented Encaustic Tiles for Churches, Entrance Halls, &c., and White Glaze Tiles for in and outdoor purposes, which will resist the severest weather TheIWokcester Royal Porcelain Co, (limited), Manufacturers of China, Royal Vitrified Ware, Cut and Engraved Table Glass, Glass Lustres and Chandeliers.Chas.Pjllivuit & Cie., Manufacturers de Porcelaines, a Mehun Foecy & Noirlae, et Rue Paradis Poissoniere, 46 and 50, Paris.France, Manufacturers of White, Gilt, and Decorated Obisa.Franz Steiserwalq, Munich, Bavaria, and 77 Newgate Street, London, gpgland, Manufacturer of Bohemian and Bavariag.Colored and Enamelled Glass Vases, Lustres, and German Out Flint Glass Table Ware.Hekky Loveridse & Oe., ftlerridale Works, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, Manufacturers of Papier Maehie and Japanned VtUfS, JaPan' ned and Copper Goal Scoops, Coal ÿ&#cs and a variety of Japanned, Iron and Tin Pl-te Goods.Lewis Wiley, Stafford Street, Wplverbampton, Manufacturer of Corkscrews, and General Steel Toys.The Wolverhampton Electho-Plath Co., Peel Street Works, Manufacturers of Electro Silver Plated and Britannia Metal Tea Sets, Forks, Spoons, Ac.W.P.Apshead, Derby House, Belper, England, Manufacturing Chemist.W.Chillingwort^ & Son, London, Wine Merchants to Her Majesty, The Trade are respectfully invited to cal\u2019 and inspect the ext nsive collection of Samples of the newestshapes and designs at the Warehouse, 10 ST.NICHOLAS STREET, MONTREAL.April 30.\t102.To MercHaiits, Skippers, AND DEALERS 1» CANADIAN PETROLEUM.Effervescing Citrale of Magnesia, SUPERIOR to the most popular Mineral Waters, making a delightfully refreshing -drink, or by a larger quantity acting as a cool-iing laxative.Prepared only by A.G.DAVIDSON, Chemist, 294 Central Drug Hall, Cor.Place d\u2019Ames.The Vinegar of Flowers.THIS refreshing preparation far surpasses the best Cologne in its sanitary properties.It is especially adapted for the Toilet, the Bath and the Sick Room.It cleanses and whitens the skin, rendering it beautifully Suft and satin-like.It cleanses the mouth, sweetens the breath, whitens the teeth and strengthens the gums.Price 25 cents.Try it.A.G.DAVIDSON, Central Drug Hall, Corner Place d\u2019Armes.August 15.\t194 IN BOND or FREE, in FIRST-CLASS WAREHOUSES.\u2014ALSO,\u2014 Excellent CELLARAGE for Butter, Lard, Liquors, &c.Covered by Insurance if required.Apply to FREER, BOYD & CO, 10 St Sacrament Street.NB\u2014ADYANCES MADE on GOODS in (STORAGE, on Cons:gnment for Sale, or on Shipments to PEN1STON & CO., Liverpool.August 6,\t186 COTTON Jim.FOR SALE, 100 PIECES 8-4 AND 12-4 TiiM anl Hain White Shee ng, September 25, alexh walker, St, Pbtbb Stkkkt, 230 THE Subscriber, baring established himself in London, C.W., and at thp Oil Springs of Enniskillen, is now extensively engaged Manufacturing COAL OIL of the very best quality, which he warrants equal in test to American, and of superior Burning power.Having a personal and practical knowledge of all Oils manufactured, ne offers his services to buyers as Commission Agent for the purchase and forwarding of Oil.Charges, and all information can be had by post, and samples sent if required H.BENJAMIN, Albion Buildings, London, C.W.August 13.\t1m 192 ADAMS S COT lets and importa, HAVE FOR SALE CORN BROOMS (our own Manufacture) TELEGRAPH MATCHES (do do do) VIENNA MATCHES WASH-BOaRDS PAINTED TUBS, in Nests(3)(8)&(5)(9) CLOTHES PINS, Round and Square SKIRT CANE, Round and Flat CHAIR C a NE PAINTED PAILS PAPEgHANGINGS WINDOW SHADgS \u2014also,\u2014 À General Assortment of WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE CLOCKS AND FANCY GOODS.The attention of the Trade is invite^ fp pur Stock of the above, and other items in .our line.ADAMS & OO., No.45 Great St.James Street, David\u2019s Block.August 8.\t^§8 ICE JUGS'^ OF THE BEST ELECTE0-PLATE.4 LARGE ASSORTMENT JUST REGEIV-/jL ED at R.SHARPLEY\u2019S, Crystal Block, Notre Dame Street July 1,\t155 ProvincialJParliament.From the Quebec Mercury, LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.Quebec, Aug.21, 1863.The Speaker took the chair at 3 o\u2019clock.THE ADDRESS\u2014NON-CONFIDENCE.Mr.COiNGKR resumed the adjourned debate upon the twelfth paragraph of the Address.He remarked that the House was about to enter upon the discussion of a great constitutional question, but he wished first to call the attention of the House, or rather of the Government, to the total omission of any reference to the questions of encouraging immigration, and the rapid settlement of the country, in the Speech from the Throne.If we desired that the country should bj relieved of the heavy burthens of taxation pressing upon them, and if we were really desirous of retrenchment, we should place ourselves in at least as good a position as other countries with regard to facilitating emigration.He very much regretted to see in the report of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, remarks in reference to the exhaustion of good land in Upper Canada for settlement, which would do the country great injury abroad.Any man who slated there were no more large tracts of good wild land in Upper Canada unclaimed, he said, only expressed his ignorance of the country.He had spent a great deal of time in investigating the unsettled lands in rear of his county, and had in 1845 found thirteen millions acres of land there, of which only about 4 millions were unfit for settlement.He said he would give his support to no Government for one single hour that did not do something worthy of the country in the way of facilitating Immigration and Colonization.Hon.Mr.MACDOUGALL asked the hon.gentleman to be good enough to state a little more clearly the matters which he desired to bring to the attention of the Government.Mr.COJNGER said he desired that such encouragement should be given to immigrants as to place them among older settlers, wnere they m'ght obtain employment.As it was, the immigration from the British Islands for the most part lound its way to the United States.Something more ought to have been done in the way of co|.nization roads through portions of the country susceptible of cultivation.Instead of that bring the policy pursued, roads were made at a great expense through sections of the conn try which were too barren to be capable of settlement.He instanced the road iront Parry Sound eastward as an illustration of his meaning.Gn that road $10,000 had been expended in 1862, though it passed through an inferior section of the country.He had no desire needlessly to embarass the Government, but he would not support them for a single hour if a more liberal and enlightened immigrant system was not inaugurated.Hon.Mr.MACDOUGALL\u2014Did the hon.member for Peterborough the justice to acknowledge that for many years past he bad shown a zeatous desire to open the new sections of the .country in rear of the neigbourhood in which he resided ; and he (Mr.McDougall) believed it was true, as the bon.'gentleman ha,d stated, tnat it Was on tbe representations made by him chiefly that the Grows Land Department, some few years ago, ordered a survey (q bo ipade of the large sections of territory between the Ottawa River and the Georgian Bay, and which previously was almost a terra incognita.He understood the honorable gentleman to say in the early part of his address that some remarks in the Crown Lands Report of last year led to the belief that tberp were no lands in Western Canada fit for settlefnenf.IJe thought the hon.gentleman had not read, with snob s-ftenfiqp as he ought to have reau .\u2019t- the report he referred'toHe\u2014Mr- ¥c-Dougail held \u2018t was better m dealiog with questions of this kind that the heads of public departments SbofiJd state the truth.He was afraid that there bad been a great deal of misapprehension as to the character qf lande in the newly-settled portions of the country.He was afraid that many emigrants from the Old World had been induced to go into these sections, and had been disappointed, having been obliged, after struggling for years to make homes f >r themselves, to give up their locations, and seek homes elsewhere.If the hoa.gentleman would slep into the Crown Lands Department and examine the reports made by the Agents of the Colonization Boards, and by Surveyors, and read the\t-.ti.onü made by intelligent settlers, he would be persua4nd of the difficulties and the hardships which had to be bqrqp by the settlers on the Opeongo Road, on the Hastings Road, and on other portions of the Huron Territory.If he took the trouble thus to inquire for himself, he would see that the statements he (Mr.Macdou-gall) had made in his annual report were amply borne out by the facts.As to the Opeongo Road, the immigrants from tfis old country had gone up that road, and he believed that instances of tbe greatest privation, amounting even to starvation, could be shown to have resulted.Settlers ou the Opeongo Road had actually died for want of the necessaries of life.Hon.Mr.McGEE\u2014More shame for tbe mismanagement.Hon Mr.MACDOUGALL\u2014More shame for the mismanagement ?What mismanagement ?Did the hon.gentleman mean to say that the Government were to exercise a control over the settlers coming into the country\u2014that they were to provide them with the means of subsistence \u2014to watch over them, and to see that they did not suffer by their want of success in clearing their farms\u2014that they were to afford them the means of subsistence ?It was surely not con-tepded that the Government ought to exercise functions likp these.All that could be expected from the Govefnmejit was that they should open up roads into the unsettled l^nds of the Crown, and to offer these lands at a reasonable price, so that the poor settler might not be har-ra^ed or distressed for want of anything being done which fell within the scope of the operations of tbe .government.He gave instances of the privations suffered hj settlers who had been induced by Government Agents to settle og portions of territory so sandy that it was exhausted after yielding a first crop, and went on to say that (be gupyeys, and reports of surveys, of the Crown Lands DePaF?3len?presented this fact, that, as stated in thé Report'of t^e Commissioner of last year, a belt of country, measuring 16 or 20 iji'Jes, stretching from the Ottawa to Lake Huron, yas so broken and rocky\u2014was of that geological character, t^t\ttflsre were spots of sufficient ri,chn,éss to justify a pleasing, it was impossible to expect continuous settlement, He was sure bis hgn frienj from Peterborough (Mr.Conger) would agree with }jim in the statement that it was bad policy, and that it would be injurious to the country\u2019s best interests to induce settlers to come here on false representations.Tee fact was, and he ought not to correct it\u2014ye gad ÏJO longer unsettled any considerable portion of that ricb prairie like soil of which the Western Peninsu(a wa§ composed.As to the colonization roads, about wbjch the bon.gentleman had expressed regret that some of them should have been stopped, all he had to say was that the appropriation of $100,000 made in j||2 had been expended in opening up such roads ifi those sections of the country where they were most nqedc'd.fhe hon.gentleman objected to the expenditure of §1.Q,QÇ0 on the Parry Sound uCH11- We'li he\u2014Mr.Macdougall\u2014coiild only tell \u201chim that previous Administration had given out a contract for the conb!r'Jctr°n a road alopg the north shore of Lake Huron, and looking to the large sum required to complete that road and the fact that but few had shewn a disposition to settle in that portion of the country, he\u2014Mr.Macdougall\u2014gave notice that it was not the intention of the Government to proceed with the w.qrk at present, and the road was accordingly stopped.Bgt there was a large tract of land, some two or three millions of acres in extent, lying along the north shore of Georgian Bay, which would be found to be one of the most valuable tracts which remained for disposal by the Government of this country.Such was the character of this land that an ex-Minister of the Crown had endeavored to purchase it en bloc, but the Government, after duly considering the matter, came to the conclusion that it was not desirable to sell large tracts of land in this way, but that it was belter to give it to the settler at first price.With a view to the opening up of this tract and the extension of the country in that direction, as well as at the same time to secure the advantage of a winter road towards the Great North-West, in accordance with the policy best adapted to the interestg of the country, he felt it impor ant to extend the Peterson line to Parry Sound.That road passed through this jargÿ tract of valuable land, and could be made for Running, too, through the rear country, >( $r?.s an important road in a military point of view, and formed (fie /jQnjisunication between the Ottawa River s,nm|daint, and he (Mr.Sicotte) felt the force of it.Hence it was that the doctrine of the Doable Majority was adopts-! with the uudcrstâhdihg, liowever, that if here was a majority of the whole againsi the Qoyerntfient they vfOfilff fiR resign and appeal to the counlry, Tfie Premier would remember that there was some difficulty in briug-iug him to these views.Hon.J.S.MACDONALD\u2014I beg your pardon.1 never so understood it.Hon.Mr.SICOT.E\u2014Well, he believed that his colleagues in both sections would corroborate what he said.Now when the Government was defeated, the question was put, shall we resign or appeal to the country, and the decision was tu do tbe latter Tbe course pursued, however, was quite different and the organisation was ipaffe entirely at tno dictation of Up er Canada! A VOICE\u2014We don't want it.Hon.Mr.C AUOHON\u2014But you have done it.Hon.Mr.SICOTTE\u2014And was it not true that the Postmtster General refused to jrip the Government unless Messrs.Holton and Do/km were taken in ?^ Hon, Mr.BRQWN\u2014Did you nof want (hem?Hon.Mr.SICOTTE\u2014Yes, but was it not your your own doing?Hon.Mr.BROWN\u2014Ihad nothingto do with it.Hon.Mr.SICOTTE believed he had.His complaint was that in all the transactions re-latiug to the new organization, the conduct of the Premier and his Lower Canada colleague was not such as the country had a right to expect.Would it not be admitted that if he (Mr.Sicotte) had accepted office under the hon.member for Hocdelaga, he would have lost caste, besides enabling the Government to carry the elections in Lower Canada.Hon J.S.MACDONALD\u2014was it notequally abandoning Lower C nada for ihe hon.member to ask the Hon.Dorion and Holton to join aà if he had accepted office under Mr Dorion.Who were the hon.member's followers?Hon.Mr.FOLEY\u2014Who are your follower\u2019s?Hon.Mr.SIOuTTE (after very great noise and confusion) said he never was a Rouge and had always said he never would be one.Resuming, the hoa.member said that at the time of the re organization, he had condemned the dictation ot Upper Canada as having a tendency to create more animosity between the two sec ions ihau ever yet existed.For that reason he had condemned the action of the Premier and held that rather thnn submit to such dictation be should have résigné i.This was the principal f ct, and he would now ask wheth r the Upper Canadians would be willing to allow, in case of a large majority of Lower Canadians in Parliament, that they should dictate as to who should be the Ministers for that section and he would propose the reverse question to the Lower Canadians?Hon.Mr.CAUCtiON\u2014Never! never! H n.xMr.SICOTTE said it was one of the means adopted to strengthen the Government in Upper Canada to bring in men in Lowe»* Canada more su table to the views of Upper Canada on the Represeutaton question.One reason which might oe fairly adduced for con-demuing this intervention was the fair which would be created iu the minds of every Lower Canadian that the institutions of their section would be interfered with.If Upper Canadians, led by the member for South Oxford were right in contending against the governing of Upper Canada by a Lower Canada majority, had not Lower Canada now the same reason for opposing this Government that they the (Upper Canadians) had for opposing the Government of that day.Whao was done by both Premiers in the formation of the present Government to make a strong Government, had proved a total iailure, and he took some credit for having foretold this fact at the time it was projected.Surely, the Lower Canadians had no reason to have confidence in the present Government.He had no difficulty iu deciding as to whether he ought to side with Lower Canada, or with the Liberal party, as it was called.He must prefer his own section of the Province to the interests of any party.So long as it was attempted to rule the country by a majority of Upper Canada ajone, there would be a disunion ot sent'ment iu the ranks of both partie.As to the School questioa, he entered the Government of 1862 wit-, the understanding that a separate School Bid for Upper Canada wouid be passed by that Governmentj but he did not consider tüaÇ a local question.He knew, however, that this view of it was not acknowledged m Upper Canada.Had not Lower Canadians good reason to fear that the Government, as now organized, would make an attempt to repeal the Separate School Bill ?Hp had always, he said, to complain that the Premier had never seated his mind to him as freely as he ought to have done.Hou, J.S, MACDONALD said the hon.gentleman wouid not take the hint that the friends of the member for Hochelaga were desirous of a change of leaders.Hon.Mr.SICOTTE said the \u201c sick man\u2019 was the Premier himself.What need had he (Mr.Sicotte) to take the hint?It was the Premier that ought to have taken tbe hint instead.The Lower Canada section was strong.He thought they were all too much addicted to speaking of personal following.For himself he did not belong to either the Reds (Rouges) or the Blues.If he (Hon.Mr.Siçotte) could not be the leader of the rqember for Hochelaga, how could that gentleman expect him to join the Government of which he (Mr.Qorion) was tbe Hop.Mr.ALLEYN\u2014\u2014Murdher l\t(Great làinzht.flr.) Hon.Mr.SICOTTE, continuing, said the Lower Canada Leader pretended to ba1 ^ ^ ihe Rouge party and so got.6 8!ipp personally he heM- 0 nigher position than him-e ; .uemg the leader of that party, of course the member for Hochelaga qjulff not seriously have expeçteff tq work under his leadership hcpayjse tfiat would be making a rouge of himself.He had always, however, been inclined lo liberal views, but his liberality consisted in upholding the constitution as it was at present.When tue Liberal pany proposed to put his s.ecUQfi qf tfie country in a minority he could C&t go with them.He contludeff by moving the resolution.Hon.Mr.HOLTON said that some observations had fallen from the hon member for St.Hyacinthe that called for a reply from him.He (Mr.Holton) thought the Premier ought not to have let the idea piss without contradiction that the member for Hochelaga or himself had stipulated for the resignation of the Low-r Canada leader as a condition of their taking office.For himself, he had never rested his refusal of office upon any such g ound, for he had felt no repugnance whatever to co-operati.g with the member for St.Hyacinthe, in the ; government or elsewhere.Owing to his past relations with the present leader fur Lower Canada having been of a most satisfactory kind, he would of course, prefer him as leader to any other member in the House.They agreed, perhaps, more cordially than any ojhar two public men in Lower Qaiiada.When the hon member for St.Hyacinthe made him the offer to j rin the Government in connection with the hon member for Hochelaga, ne stated to him the unwillingness he felt, personally, to take office in the then condition of public affairs.Not fiaying a seat in the House of Assembly, qqd fiaving taken no part in bringing about the crisis, he did not feel himself under the same obligations to meet the oonsequences of the crisis as he might have done had he been o member of this House.But the public ground on which he declined office when the first proposal was made tpi hifii was, that in his judgment no çe-çonstrqc'ticm oftbe Gayerntpen-t afiofild take plrce in anticipation of an appeal to the country.(Hear, hear.) He expressed that opinion to the hon member as well as to other friends, in the most explicit terms.He told the member for St.Hyacinthe that hi must take tne apperi on the issue created.^ The hon gentleman, howeyer,\" to'ofe a very different yievy\u2019 of the ipattey.Hé urged him (Mi-.Hoiton) to accept the office tendered, and said that although it might somewhat unusual and there might not be many precedents found fur such a course, yet it was impossible for them to go to the country as they then stood.Both the present leader of the Government for Lower Canada and himself, tfijff (hé lion gentleman that he pugnt'iO'go to the country as he stood, and'change afterwards it necessary.But he again replied that he could not, and must make some change.The offer of office was made to him, aim, most Qistjautly on the ground tnar ihe pQjiUQn of' the Representation question aud the policy of the Government on the uouble Majority had undergone a change.The hon memb r for St.Hyacinthe\tMr> Si_ cotte) stale! \u2014 ulm at t[,e iaterîieWi thal the vote that had taken place in the f^ofise relieved him, and renffereff fit necessary that the Representation question should bo mane an open question, as it had been by the Cartier Macdonald Administration.It was well known that he (Mr.Holton) entertained strog opinions upon the Double majority, and the hon member for 8t.Hyacinthe could not haye entertained the idea of ashing film f° 30*a him oa question, and (Tiff not.'He (Mr.Holton) did dot ask him to change'his policy as a condition of joiuing him, but he broached tae question oi ihe change first.He was, therefore, the House wouid clearly see, asked to join the hon member for St.Hyacinthe on the1 vary same basis, on these questions, as He subsequently joined ihe Government when under the1 leadership o> his friend and colleague/ (he rptiI?)5er for Hochelaga, aud on the very same basis as the preseat Government appealed to the country upon.(Hear, hear.) In urging upon himself and his new colleague the necessity of thair making sacrifices, the then leader of the Lower i anada section said he was prepared to make any sacrifices that he might be called, qpftu Us make for the purpose &i getting\u2019their assi»tance (Hear, hear.) Aud yet, \u201ct'ter he (Mr Sicotte; «ad his colleagues had resign d, he was unwilling to make the little sacrifice of ca^te which he thought would be the result of his taking a less prominent position in the Government under the leadership of the present leader of the Lower Qanada section.[Hon.Mr.Holton tl}ei} referred tQ several instances iu England in \\^ich premiers accepted inferior positions in subsequent Governments that were formed.] There was one pther point, and onl; one other point, wsich he desired now to refer to, as he hoped to have an opportunity beiore the debate concluded of going more fully into tbe subject.It was in reference to the complaint made by tne hon member for St.Hyacinthe that he thought the pressure had bee.brought from Upper O^u^ida td displace him If such was the fact, all he (Mr.polton; coulu say was that he was quite iguorant of it.Tht proposition for introducing into the Administration the Postmaster General, for the purpo.e of strengthening the party atjthe elections theii pending, emanated from himself (Mr .Holton), without any prompting from any quarter whatever, aud it was proposed in the presence oi the hon member fqr SJ.Hyacinthe, ihe tv/o present Attorneys General being also at the interview, at the secured meeting he (Mr.Holton; bad the honor qf holding with him, Hon.Mr.FOLEY said the hon gentleman had made to him, within the last few days, a statement of a somewhat contrary character, having given him (Mr.Foley) the assurance that so far as the Upper Canada section of the Cabinet was concerned, he had offered no interference whatever.Hon.Mr.HOLTON said he would reply to this observation presently.The suggestion that it was desirable to strengthen the party by the introduction of the Postmaster General, came either from his hon friend on his left (Mr Dorion) or himself, and the hon member for St.Hyacinthe was not at that time at all shocked, but thought, on the contrary, that it was a capital idea.(Laughter.) He told the bon m'^m-tberfor St Hyacinthe that as they were making bhei r arrangements for the elections they nhouid endeavor to secure the strongest possi-|le vote in Upp r Canada, particularly in view i the threatened schisms which appeared in ofreh ot the aksLiberal party from that section in the couise of the Session.As to the observation of the hon member for North Waterloo (Mr.Foley) what passed be'ween them in the course of a private conversation the other day was entirely consistent with what he (Mr.Holton.) had last stated On that occasion he undestood the hon gentleman ab disposed to complain that according to his iniormation the present Attorney General had mad* his (Mr.Foley's) displacement a condition of his (Mr.Dorion's) entering tne oamnet.wnat lie tnen assured the hon gentleman was that he (Mr.Dorion) had taken no such step\u2014that he had made no conditions as to who should go out.It had been previous y stated that Mr.Wilson would go ou the Beach, and thus a vacancy wou d occur such a* to render unnecessary the displacement of the hon member f r Norto Waterloo.Further ihau that the officer then held by the present R-ceiver General (Mr.Howland) was offered to him (Mr.Holton), and he was justified in supposing that that hon gentleman also intended to withdraw.He had thus gone through all the points connected with his (Mr.Holton\u2019s) personal relations which required notice at his hands, but before resuming his seat he would state, by a reference to days, how it was that, disapproving of the reconstructions before the elections, he (Mr.Holton) at last found himself in the Government.The vote of non-confidence was given on Friday morning.The first proposition to him from the hon.member for St.Hyacinthe reached him on the afternoon of Friday, as he was preparing to leave for Montreal.He went to Montreal on Saturday and retusned on Tuesday, when the events which had led to these s omewhat serious complications between honorable gentleman had all taken place.The deiermination of the Lower Canada section of the Cabinet to resign had then been agreed upon, if the resignation had not actually come to pass.On Wednesday, he understood that his hon friend (Mr.Dorion) was charged with the formation of the Lower Canada section of the Government, and on the evening of that day he did him (Lr.Holton) the hunor to invite him to accept the office he then held.He felt it to be consistent with bis duty to decline.This was on Wednesday evening.On Thursday they went to Montreal to hold a conference with their friends on the subject, and he persisted in his determination to remain out of the Qovern-ment until Saturday morning;, ^hen he reversed his decision, and for reasons which were quite satisfactory to himself, bnt which it was uonecessary he should enlarge upon, he agreed to accept offi e.This, therefore, was the dia-?tinction he wished 10 draw\u2014he refused office in the first instance because the Government of Lower Canada was then disorganized, and he wrs willing to assist in its reconstruction.As to the conversation about the dissolution, he (Mr Holton) was told at the first interview he had with the hon member for St.Hyacinthe that a dissolution wquld take place, and the assurance o,f a dissolution was one of the bases on which the offer of office to him (î^r, Hohon) was founded.(Hear, hear.) While he was on his feet, he desired to bring under the attention of ehe House a letter which had been placed in his bunds this evening, having i eferençe tQ tbe conversation he had had with My.XhQodore Hart.The letter he yyqqld reqd.Qnd not trouble the Huqse a$y comment npcm H : \u2014 £* Q-ÜEBEO, \u20182 1st August, 1^3> \u201c Pear Holton You may iraai/;-e my BJir.prise and mortification on\tup ibis m rn- ings newspaper lo »nd lhat Mr McGee had dragged A.\u2019;.jSsward, Mr.Grinnell, and my \u2018BUne Defore the public in his speech last nigut relative to militia effairs.As his version ot the conversation, as coming from me to you, is not correct, but the reverse of what I state i of my interview with Mr.Seward, I wishyou to trite the earliest moment to place them right.I did not state to you that Mr.Grinnell was with me at Washington.I took a letter of introduction from Mr.Grinnell to Mr.Seward I did not state to you, nor did Mr.Seward to me, of any thought on his part, or that of the United States\u2019 Government, of invading Canada, but the reverse.Mr.Seward spoke confidently of amicable relations, an! in the highest terms of our present position and form of Government.You will thus see how wrong has been the use of Mr.Seward\u2019s name.I did tell yon of a communication a high military man had with me in Washington, about the tactics that aould probably be followed in the event of a war with England\u2014that 100,000 men could, at short noli, e, be concentrated and thrown across the St.L awrence, about or below the Island of Montreal, Ac., &c., and you may possibly have ooo-sonffoed his remarks with Mr.Seward\u2019s.Some sunducon of names and circumstances, in respect of a casual conversation fielcj more than a year, and to which no particdl-r importance was attached by either of ns, is no to be wondered at.But tfie reference to Mr.Sawaid and Mr.Gria-nell, as well as myself, having been made, I deem it my duty to these gentlemen to give a true statement of the facts \u201c Yours, truly, \u2018\u2019Theodoee Hart.\u201d Hoq.Mr.SJOOTTE, resuming, said that when he spoke to Mr.Holton the Government had taken no action in the matter of the reconstruction.The sick man was the leader of Upper Canada, and the question was flow to strengthen him.Hon.Mr.McGee said (ho,t the House must be m uch relieved to hear that the conversation which had occupied them, relative to the purposes of the United States toward Canai \u2022 was not with a hlg i civil hut with a high military authority at Washington.Hon.Mr.DURION said the House had before it the resolution of the hon, member for St.Hyacinthe, raising an important constitutional question, a ltd fie (Mr.Dorion) exp-cted he wou(d have produced precedents'to show bow the constitution had been invaded.But he had not taken this course, and the first point he had, made was that the new Lower Canada section had sacrificed the interests of Lotyer Qanada, The second was that he had confidence in the Government beoay,se b-\u2019 was neither a Red nor a Blue, anff thé third, that his own personal dignity had been assailed.This last he (Mr.Dorion) believed was the most potent in th,?.hon member\u2019s mind.He would novtr ça! the hon member\u2019s letter of resign,atian,'and the first point was lhat the interests of Lower Canada had been sacrificed.What interests?Double Majority, and an agreement that no Cabinet would be formed which would not rule out Representation by Population ?Why did h» (iQit say so if these were his reasons?If (hase were ihe rights abandoned hç o/iovjd state it.Hon.Mr SiOO\u2019fU\u2019E\u2014These were modes of protecting (he jQower Canada interests.Hon.Mr.DORION\u2014Well, as the Government was rml.crcujxa trx -i-^ \u2014y-\u2014«.mg\tTO Representation by Population, he diff u&S \u201csee how the interests of Lower Canada were going to be sacrificed.Tj(e Government had been carried oq for seven years by the hon.member for Kingston and his colleagues when the hon.member for 8t.Hyacinthe was for some part of the time a member, and yc( ffuying that time Representation by population was an open questioq.Kow the bon.ge itlçman, according to his own account, had no partizans iu the House, he was alone, and yet he o\\aimed to represent the g-eat Libera party of Lower Canada.The hou.member asked how it was that he (Mr Dorion) had qome back from the general election weak ?He had come back weak because of the desertion of an hon.member whose support he had reason to expect.Hon.J.A.vl AODUNALD\u2014We 1, th^t gen\" tleman was but a unit, and cuvjd not, therefore, affect him rp.uob Hon, MÇ.MOar0.V-_(uher units had fol-j owed, (tîear] bear.) Proceeding with Mr 'lootte\u2019s letter oi resignation, the hon.member said, the sp-ech of that hon.member this evening had enabled him to understand a portion of that djeument which he had never made out before, viz , that there were in effect two Governments, but if the Upper Canada leader had selected all Conservatives for the Upper Canada section, how could he (Mr.S.) as a Liberal have worked with them ?Hon.Mr.SI JOTTE\u2014Why, the lists would, course, have been compelled by the two leaders, and if they could not agree upon the men, thjre would have been an end of the compact.Hon.Mr DORION maintained that such a system could not work, and proceeded to say that when the Double Majority had been abandoned and Representation by Population made an open question, be felt quite at liberty to accept office.No dictation had been used or suggested, and if it were tried he would at once resign.If there hnd been so gross a violation of the rights of Lower Canada, how came it to pass that the hon.member never was known to be in opdosition until tfie day of eieciion.Hon.Mr.S^COTTE \u2014Why, my address indi eating the views i held was out tea days before ther election.Hon.Mr.DORION\u2014Th© bon.member said that he had no confidence in .he Administration because \\\\ was altogether of a Rouge co.u-plexion* Well, for his part, he did not know wfiat these terms meant.One thing was sure, v z , that when strength was wanted, the hon.member was quite willing to accept help from the Red party, for office had been offered to and accepted by some of them.Hon.Mr.EVANTUREL said he never was a Rei, though at one time he thought they exhibited signs of moderation, but had soon found them out.Hon.Mr.DORION\u2014Well, the hon.member for Montreal West had for seme time acted with .\u2019hat party, and then the hon.member (Mr.Si-fcotte) had been glad enough to accept the support of the Hon.Mr.Bvrcau and to take him mto the Cabinet.He could not really see «\u2022hat tbe hon.member had to complain of.He (Mr.Dorion) had offered to support the hon.member if he remained in offic-, but when ho bad 'eft did he wish the Government to go into the hands of the Opposition ?He fully admitted that he believe ! the Lo«er Canada section as composed would have had a majority.Hon.Mr.HOLTON\u2014Because they would havo had our support.Hon.Mr uURl N said he did not see what amount of humiliation there could be \u2018or either of them to work under the other.He took it to be tbe duty of public men to make personal sacrifices to aecu e the public go d.Rut passing over these puerile questions, he maintained that if the Crown chose to change its advisers at any time, with or without cause, and th y were sustained by the people, there would bo no breach of the constitu ion.It had been said that there never had been a pre edent to justify uch changes, and there had been similar changes in countries governed like Canada.'¦ The hon.member instanced a case in Bdgtum.) He admi\u2019ted ihtt if the Government had not be^n sustained by the country they would have had to resign, but not because the changes were unconstitutional But in \u2019his country Admin-ts\u2019rations, knowing that they had not the confidence of the people, had reconstructed, then dissolved the House and appealed.Hon.Mr.CARTIER\u2014Yes, they dissolved after reconstruction, not bef re.Hon.Mr DORI N said that if the Government had suffered in Lower s'anada, it was because he and bis party had never tried to excite the people.He claimed to be an ad-van ed liberal, and to have a strong desire to promote union and wished to make the union of the two sections work beneficially.If every man who went out of the Government must make his personal f elings a cause of opposition, Government wou d soon become impossible.He did not so understand his duty, and h- had shown and would show, that it wijs DQt it desire to lean which umi pia'Ceff fiTm in mg present position, but a desire to serve the country.He knew that the public finances were in a bad state and needed careful attention.Large additional expenses, especially for the Militia, were required, and tin position w s an exceedingly difficult one but the Government would endeavor to do their best.If they were defeated they would resign, and leave the Government in stronger hands, giving aid to the men whom they believed to be best able to meet the exigencies of the tirais.He certainly thought it very strange that the hon member ior St.Hyacinthe should try to co tdema him (Mr.Doriou) for having been a party to changes which he himself had proposed, and was apparently very desirous of effecting.Hon.Mr.SICOTTE said the hon.gentleman was willing to join a Government under bis leadership in 1857.Hon.Mr.DORION replied that was on the condition that he would work in some kind of harmony with the Liberal party of Upper Canada.The hon.member for Cornwall w s also to have been a member of that Adminis ration.Hon.Mr.SICOTTE said the hon.member for Kingston, too, was to have been a member of that Government, and the hon.member for HocbeUga agreed t > work with him.He admitted that he was put into the Speaker\u2019s chair by the Liberal party, largely composed of the Rouges.But he said tho Liberal party of Upper Canada was not republi an enough for the Rouges at that time.He read largely f om his late address to the electors to sho what his opinions were before the late election, and that they were publicly expressed Hon.Mr DORION said the address of the hon.member was not issued until a few days before the election took place, or he might have met with opposition.Hon.Mr.EVANTUREL said he always claimed to be a member of tbe Moderate party, and as he wished to make a speech in French, he would gjvp a proof of his moderation by moving that the debate be adjourned until Monday next.The pr position was assented to, and the House adjourned at twenty minutes past eleven.FlteSH FJX Skips \u201c Great Britain \u201d and \u201c Trebizond, 5j direct from Shangkae\u2014 Finest, Gunpowder, Old Hyson, Young Hyson, Imperial, Souchong, Congou., Japan, Flowery Pekoe, Orange Pekoe, In chests, half-ches s and catties.ALEX.MoGIBBON.August 15.\t194 ' OMiOMT I ROM THH VINEYARDS Off Kohler & Frohling, Samsevaiii Broliierst Foi.' 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IffiAL PRESS DESPATCHES, Now York, 22nd Aug.A questionable despatch from Philadelphia says Fort Sumter has been captured and our fleets are above the Forts.New York, 22i;d Aug.The London Spectator says that the friends of the rebels have lately paid four million dollars for their friendship.The rebel loan has tumbled to such a deptn as to be almost out of sight.New York, dugust 22.\u2014The Post says of the draft :\u2014No names were drawn to-day in this city, but preparations are going on for Monday and on that day the wheels in the 4th district, comprising ibe 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4tb, 5th, Gth and Sib Wards, and in the 9th district, the Hth and ïîth W^rds will begiu their revolutions.The police and military are making their arrangements, and inasmuch as the 4th and Gth Wards, \u2022which have a bad reputation, and a part of Mackerelville, not less noted, will constitute some of the area of the draft.Particular care ¦will be taken for contingencies and to preserve the public peace.Philadelphia,'Aug.23.\u2014The U.S.supply steamer AruansaS arrived at the Navy Yard today from the South Atlantia blockading squadron with 170 prisoners passengers.She left Ctarleston on Wednesday morning and reports that the navy and army shore batteries have dolte tremendous destruction on Fort Sumter.The south and east face looks like honey comb, and a complete demoiishment cf the walls is looked for it?a week.The Arkansas experienced very heavy weather from Charleston to the Canes of Virginia, Phhiladelphia 23.The following accuunt Is from Mr.Chas.0-Fulton, Editor of the Baltimore American Flag Ship Dinsmore, 18th, The attack on Sumter commenced at day break yesterday morning, by the siege batteries of Gen.Gilmore, and the Naval battery on shore.At 6 o\u2019clock Admiral Dalilgren proceeded on board the Weehawk,-n and with the Ironsides and entire Monitor licet, attacked the batteries Wagner and Gtegg with gnat fury c mpletely silencing Wagner and aliacgt-silencing Gregg.The wooden gunboats seven in number also joined in the assault and enabled all of the shore batteries to pour their shot and shell into Sumter.At 10 o\u2019clock the Admiral changed his flag to the Passaic and with the Patapsco proceeded to \u2022within about 1400 yards of Sumter and shelled the sea wall with the rifled gums of those vessels for about an hour with marked effect.SuBter fired about 50 return shots d ing no damage to the vessels whilst the wall of Sumter was badly scar red.Fleet-Captain Geo.W.Rodgers took command of his old vessel.TBs Monitor Oatskill went up into the fight, goiug within 150 yards of the beach front of battery Wagner.After firing a number of shot, a shot from Fort Wagner broke a piece of the interior lining, which struck on the bead of Commander Rodgers, instantly killing him, as well as Paymaster Woodbury, who was standing at his side\u2014both of their heads were split open.Those were the only persons injured on land or water, during the six hours\u2019 engagement.The damage done to Sumter by the siege batteries of Gen.Gilmore is visible without the aid of a glass.The rebels had erected a false wail against the wall exposed to our batteries ; it extended to within ten feet of the top of the wall, over forty feet high, and ten feet thick, and this wall is now a mass of ruins, whilst the old wail is bored full of deep holes, the parapet crushed and ragged, and the north-west corner gashed and .crushed down almost to the water\u2019s edge.The harbour and Stono River are filled with torpedoes.About a dozen of them have been picked up in the Stono River, and one was exploded under the Patapsco, raising her a foot out of the wafer, but doing her no harm.None of the vessels wef£ injured in the least, and the Admiral and bis officers are confident in the ability of the monitors bp batter down Sumter.He is, however, anxious to save the vessels for the heavy work required of them after Sumter is taken, and to let the army reduce Sumter if possible.The fleet, except the Weeliawken and Nahant, all retired before 2 o\u2019clock, but they remained to l.eep Wagner silent during the afternoon and to prevent the remounting of guns.The shore batteries continued firing all the afternoon and stigbt on the wall of Sumter with good effect.This morning rs cool and clear, and the batteries are steadily at work- The Weebawken aud Passaic are keeping batteries Wagner and Gregg silent, and up to noon when the A' kansas sailed, the remainder of the fleet islyingat the moorings General Gilwour announces that the work thus far has been entirely satis'actory, that the fort is greatly damaged apd the work progres-bg finely.Admirnl Dahlgren Is much depressed by the loss cf fleet of Captain Rodgers, but is highly gratfied with the operations of the fleet aud to the moment ofSaMg^11,^ SUCCPSS; _.Uf; since morning have been hurling about five shells per minute at'Sumtei with marked effect.Two Monitors, the Ironsides aud some gunboats are shelling batteries Wagnei' and liregg.Philadelphia, 23.The Arkansas left the fleet at 7 o'clock Wednesday morning, at that time huge volumes of smoke' were seen issuing from Sumter, as it from the burning of cotton, and the officers of the Ar-Itansas beUtve that the Fort would be captured and entirely destroyed by noon, her guns were replying feebly to our shot.Fort Gregg had been entirely silenced.Wagner still held out.The bombardment continued without cessation (during Tuesday night, and was renewed Wednesday morning, and when the Arkansas left the Bring was furious, the Ironsides, .five .monitors, and the shore batteries being aü engagea.Two refugees from Savannah nan.ed J os H.Oaiiff and uno.C.Galium ere passengers on the Arkansas They report that there is nearly a famine in Savannah.Memphis, Aug.20, via Louisville, Aug.23.\u2014 About two weeks since Major Gen.Rurlburt ascertained that there was a large amount of R»il-rosd stock at Grenada which the rebels were endeavoring to get off South by making temporary repairs on the railroad.With tis usual energy add promptness Gen, Huilburt arranged an expedition to destroy this stock, first sending a request to Ge.\"1- Grant to make a diversion from the south to aid the enterprise.The expedition atfifled from Lagrange, Tenn., on the 13tb, under Col.Phillips of the 19th 111., mounted infantry, and j-eaÀtc-4 Grenada on the The Mobile Tribune copies approvingly an ar- ] tide from Charleston Mercury, which \"says:____ Since the Federal successes, Beauregard bad\u2019 better lay aside engineering and artillery, I duelling, which are now played out and take to the bayonet, and advises the authorities to reinforce Morris Island, or else abandon Charleston to the flames.Gen.Pemberton issued an order calling upen his troops to assemble within thirty days at De-mopolis, Ala.The great event of this department was the opening on the 14th of the N.O., Upelousas and Great Western Railroad through to Brashear City.The Rebels bad sent a flag of truce into Brashear city to get permission for Mrs.Gardner, wife of General Gardner, commander of Port Hudson, to go to New Orleans to be with her husband.hvcrythiug wss quiet at that place.Leavenworth, 22nd \u2014 From cilizens at Lawrence, who have arrived here for supplies and medicices, I have gathered the following particulars respectiug the burning of that city by Quan-trel\u2019s guerillas.The list of killed and wounded, as far as ascertained, numbers about a hundred and eighty, the majority of whom were killed.The houses that remain are filled with the killed and wounded, who belong to all classes of society.From the mins of the burned houses the cha'cd remains of victims are constantly being found, but one hotel is left standing in the place, and Quantrel spared this in consequence of his having made his home there some years since without expense, but the proprietor was shot by his men.Ainung the prominent citizens known to be killed aie Geu.C.Allaner, Mayor of the city, and his son ; Col Stone and bis two brothers ; J.G.Low, Josiah Frask, P.T.Griswald, J.Eld-ridge, James Perrin, Frederick Kimball and others.These were killed instantly, mostofi them in their own houses, with their w\u2019ives and children clinging to them, while the murderers pointed pistols to their breasts and shot them down.25 negro recruits were shot fleafl.The guerillas took all the money that could, be found in the pockets or houses of the citizens.They stole all the jewelry of the ladies, even to the rings on their fingers.Gen.Jim Lane managed to escape on horsebaplt and rallied about.20 meu fully armed followed and overtook Quantrel when 12 miles from Lawrence.The result of this fight is not as yet ascertained.Quantrel is now retreatine towards Missouri burning and laying waste everything on his route, H,e will probably get away without loss.No resistance' was made at Lawrence to the Guerillas.The people were shot down Sts they ran through the streets in their night clothes, and their bodies thrown into wells and cisterns.The feeling among ad classes of the citizens hero is very bitter against the commanders of this department, and distrust for being so wholly unprepared to meet such an emergency.Our State authorities are now taking the matter into their own hands.Col.Jamieson has been re-enstalled in command of a new Regt and is about starting down the b.rder with sufficient troops to overcome any force the enemy can bring against him.The loss at Lawrence is not less than 2 million dollars and will fall heavily on N.Y and Leavenworth merchants.New York, August 24th.\u2014The Richmond papers eoptaiu the following despatch :\u2014Charleston, August ipth.\u2014The enemy\u2019s land batteries kept poundjng away at Fort Sumter throughout yesterday with their heayy Paprott guns.There was comparatively little firing against Fort Wagner, on which the enemy can make no impression whatever.Last night was dark and windy, and no firing took place ; but at daylig.it this morning ihe enemy\u2019s Parrott guns reopened on Fort Sumter, firing quite rapidly.The firing still continuas, pur James Island batteries replying briskly.New Loudon, August 24th,\u2014The gteamer Great Eastern, from Liverpool at 10 a.m.on the 12tb, passed here this moring at 11:35, for New York.News anticipated.Fort Moproe, August 23rd.\u2014The steamer Maple Leaf arrived tfiip morning from Charleston, and reports having left gtonp Inlet last Thursday, at which time the guns of Fort Smutcr were silenced, and several breaches made in its wails.JJp doubt was entertained that the rebels would seen surrender Fort Sumter.At the same time our monitors were ciose SK-tJer the guns of Foit Wagner, and, by the aid of our \"sharpshooters, Lad nearly silenced the enemy.Volunteer Rifle Tourniment.\u2014Our readers ' will find in our advertising columns the rules to bo observed in the coming grand Rifle Match, given in minute detail.Prizes bave been contributed amounting to about §2000, and a very fine affair muy be anticipated.Died in the Station House.\u2014A drunken character, named John Drennun, was found by the police on Saturday, at the corner of St.John and Notre Dame street, in a fit and was taken to the station.It was then discovered that he was labouring under an attack of delerium tremens, the result of a continued course of drinking.Dr.Picault was sent for on Monday, as Drennan complained more than usual, and the physician ordered him to be sent to the hospital.He soon afterwards grew worse, and a priest was sent for, but it was too late, as he died before Ihe clergyman arrived.An inquest was held soon afterwards, and a verdict returned of death from congestion of the brain, the result of intemperance.Deceasd leaves a wife and one child, with whom hs had not Hvad for some time past.Joseph Bonneville was sentenced to gaol for 6 months for stealing carpenters tools.In the Recorder\u2019s Court there were 44 prisoners on Monday.Messrs.Macdonald and Sicolte\u2014that that be settled in two weeks afterwards\u2014the price Government gave certain directions to agreed Mr- Horion, in the presence of Mr.a,\t^,i,\u201e \u201e\u201e tiie «,h or July ^ Io0>4 tne (jovernment broke up the arbitra- entirely neutral in the present elections, and A man named J.B.Thcmas was fined $8 and .tion and expressed their intention to settle that as so many previous premises, very dis-_\tj-r-.-i* r\u201e_\tmatter themselves without delay\u2014that the costs or two months in default, for an assault committed on his wife.The Recorder very pro-1 .Upv p;ii .\t, .e n perly expressed by so large a fine his abhorrence i lalled to tllls> ,, .a / ProPosedl.t° of so unmanly an act.\t! have .* \u201ce'v arbitration\u2014that to accomplish A man named Charles McElroy was fined §8 for pushing a Mrs.Dillon down stairs.She was not injured but might have been.Adolphe Delseau, a shoemaker, got drunk and assaulted a woman named Ambrosia Poitras.The man was Cued $1.50c or 10 days.Patrick McCann for keeping his tavern open on Sunday was fined §5 and costs.A trader from Laprairie, was fined §2 for cruelty |to animals.He had 11 sheep and two calves tied in a cart.\t\u2014v (BY TELEGRAPH.NEW YORK MARKETS\u2014August 24 Flour-Receipts 18,043 brls ; market dull and heavy and five cents lower ; sales of 6,500 barrels'; $3,90 to $4 50 for Superfine State ; tinctly made, had been broken, we could be ;\t_ t0\tf°r extra State; $4 95 to satisfied now with nothing short of an absolute , 5,15 for choice State ; $3,90^ to 4,55 for 1 Superfine Western; $4,30 to 4,95 for common Sick in the Station House.\u2014A man named Joseph Boucher was arrested for drunkenness on Saturday.He was evidently in a critical condition and was sent to the hospital.Fell Overboard.\u2014A colored man named John Williams a steward on board the barque \u201c Lizzie lying at the Wellingt m Pier fell overboard into the river about one o\u2019clock on Sunday morning, and was savadby constable Parent and John McCallum watchman on board the Ship Lephen stradt.LETTER FROM THE HON.JAMES FERRlER.this, they introduced a bill into Parliament last Session, which was read a first time\u2014 that that bill was not proceeded with\u2014and that the House was dissolved without the bill reaching a second reading.With this general summary of the proceedings up to the time the arbitration bill was introduced last session, I will now proceed to speak in greater detail of the negotiations from the date when the Government announced their inability to carry their bill.Rescued.\u2014On Friday night between 9 or 10 o\u2019clock a man named John Patterson an emigrant fell into the Queen\u2019s Basion and was rescued by a stevedore named Patrick Dwyer and some work-ipea in the employment of the Montreal Ocean S3.Company.City Mortality.\u2014There were 75 interments last week ; 5 men 8 women, 29 male children 33 female children.The diseases are disease of the spine 1 ; drowned/2 ; apoplexy 1 ; diabetes 1 ; still born 2 ; diptheria 1 ; teething 5 ; infantile debility 45 ; billious fever 1 ; diarrhoea 1 ; febrisi-tertia 1 ; inflammation 4 ; croupe 3 ; child birth 1 ; dropsy 1 j sun stroke L ; consumption 2 ; debility 1 ; typhoid fever 1.The lacalities are, St.Louis Ward 9, St.Ann\u2019s Ward, 15, West Ward) 1, St.Antoine Ward, 7, Centre Ward, 1 St.Lawrence Ward, 2, Tillage of St Henry, 4.General Hospital 2 , St.Mary\u2019s Ward, 6, East Ward, 3( St, James Ward 12, gaol l, Tillage of St Jean BaptisteS, Sœurs Grises 7, Hotel Dieu 1.contract.I am sure that the history of the negotiations on the Postal matter precluded the possibility of my making any other reply.What are the facts ?The Postal question was raised about two years aeo, and it is nearly as long since the Government referred it to arbitration.The ' matter went on for several months, various steps being taken in it, both by the Government which appointed the arbitration, and by the succeeding one formed by yourse'f and Mr.Sicotte.The latter Government in July last broke up : the arbitration, on the ground that the Gov-.ernment itself should settle the question, and In consequence or tfic violent storm which prevailed last night we were uuab'm to procure onr usual midnight despatches.TgE Ministers and G.T.S.PosiiL Subsidy, \u2014The attention of the Government was yesterday afternoon called to fha alleged offer, by members of the Cabinet, of a large postal subsidy to the G.T.Railway Company, fur their support in the lagt election.ïhe Hon.Messrs.Holton, Dorion, and J.S.Macdpnald made state ^uents in which they denied the truth of the allegation.The derangement of the wires,by tire storm of last mg£î prevented the receipt of our detailed report of the repiu-J Qf the honourable gentlemen.We reproduce the letters of Ferrkr and Brydges in relation to this matter, which appeared in yesterday\u2019s Gazette.Lonoueuil Young Canada Crikst Club \u2014 These clubs played a game on Saturday afternoon upon the ground of the former.The game being decided by the 1st innings.Young Canada.\tj Longueuil.1st innings 44\tI 1st innings 82 2nd do 32 5 wickets down This is but the second match, the Longueuil have pleayed this season in both of which they have been victorious, the first trial of their gtfepgth being against the St.John\u2019s club.Mr.Siootte\u2019s Amendment to the Address.\u2014 Never, was a more forcible illustration of the truth of the saying that language is given to enable us to conceal our thoughts than ihe amendment, concocted by Mr.Sicotte and acquiesced in by Mr.Foley, to the answer to the Speech from the Throne.Its entire burthen is comprehended in the single aphonism that it is unconstitutional for any one else to do what he is fully entitled to attempt.Mr.Sicotte used every means to strengthen his late Administration by introducing two additional members into his section prior to going to the elections; failing to effect his object, he resigned, and his successor, perfectly concurring in the opinion that an infusion of new strength was necessary, accomplished the task that Mr.Sicotte could not achieve, Mr.Foley supports the absurd dictum of Mr.Sicotte, and enlarges on the injury inflicted on himself by his late chief in causing his retirement; whilst he, singularly enough, relieves from blame his late chief who concurred in his removal.Both concur in an attempt to oust the present Ministry, their former friends ; to replace them by men who, but a few months since they stigmatised as thoroughly corrupt and dishonest guardians of our public affairs.Such a bundle of inconsistencies\u2014such a violation of principle \u2014 it is impossible to instance in the political warfare of this or any other country whose statesmen are conversant with those principles of Government designated Constitutional.Let our readeis peruse the resolution of Mr.Sicotte with his remarks, and then say whether or not our strictures on them are overcharged.There are other vital principles of Government equally ignorantly dealt with in the resolution.First, he asserts that \u201c an essential change of Admin, istration, alter the votes of the Commons, and after the dissolution granted by the Crcwn on the Ministry, as then constituted,\u201d was unconstitutional, on the ground that it involved 11 the withdrawal of two-thirds of the members of the Government, apd the formation of an entirely new Ministry for Lower Canada,\u201d This is mere assumption without any proof whatever.'Where, we ask, is there any limit to the exercise by the Crown of the right of appointment of its Ministers ?Ha invited it to the extent of two members of the Lower Canadian Section, and acquiesced in it as regarded a portion of the Upper Canadian Section ; surely, if it was constitutional to the extent of one-thiid, it was equally so to lue cALcii.op n to the Premier of the Administration to make changes at any time whatever, prior or subsequent to an election, withoutany infraction of ConstUntjpnal rule.Neither is there any violation of principle in the Premier in modifying his policy, at any time that he deems it expedient to do so.It is the essence of our British practice to make such changes from time to time ; they are of frequent occurrence, and British history teems with them especially during the last half century.As to Canada, we all remember the modifications made generally on the eve ot elections.Convenience dictates them when requisite, in order that none of that delay, conse-qscncupo ike installation into office of new members of the Cabinet.intervene to pervert the perfirmance of their duties.Tne .^-yLsion by Mr.Sicotte of his intention to make partial charges establishes the constitutionality of making still greater changes, as it docs of the folly of the idea mystically broached that the vote of tie Assembly (we presume of censure) rendered such changes improper.Whatever vote the members of the Macdonald-Cartier Opposition might give on that question, Mr.Sicotte, if he have a proper feeling of respect for his own character as a consistent statesman, cannot vote Theatre Royal.\u2014The French Company apt-peared last night, for the first time after their reengagement, in the comedy of \u201c Nos Intimes \u201d The plot may be thus briefly described :\u2014\u201cCaus-sade\u201d (itounseau), a widower, with a young wife, has made a fortune in Algeria, and expends his income on that most charming of ideals\u2014a pleasant country house ; and being of an exuberantly genia' temperament, jnvites his friends\u2014or, what is very often the case in actual life, those who pass as such\u2014to spend a few weeks at h!s place, extending his invitations with a hand more free than wise.He gathers thus around him several tpierabjy intimate associates, who feel bound to make him dissaiistjed with his house, his grounds, their situation, his daily existence, and eventually with his wife.Their criticism, however, in the latter respect is not wholly unjust, for one friend finds the lady very charming and somewhat weak, and he reconciles with his ideas of right feeling and delicate honor the pursuit of the deliberate plan to seduce her.But we have another .character, who stands forth to vindicate the marriage relatipn, and thg particular cause of a Uaiissade,\u201d in the person of Tholosan (E.Gravier), an amateur physician, a man of a certain age whose tendre for \u201c Benjamine\u201d (Mille.Hamburgh), the daugmêr T'f \u201c Caussade\u201d by a fermer wife, gives him more than an abSuffRt interest in the result.We thus have all these varied motives developed, and very pleasantly brought out.The lady is taught wisdom as much by returning principle as by ber fears.The young roue learns that while his effort was to break up bis friend\u2019s home, the latter was energetically pushing his fortunes ; and the prosperous owner of the mansion discovers that we do better to be guided by the quality rather than the quantity of our friends, as indeed most of us do, after a few severe lessons in life ; and we cf the avant scene are led to think that the events which the drama affects to tell, make all those concerned happier and wiser.There is in this comedy all the pleasant writing which appertains to its school.Its wit does not merely lie in the surface, and we give the credit to.the author, that he possesses the desire to do more than be gay and sprightly.The play has its moral\u2014lightly told and delicately conveyed, it is true, but it is there to teach the inexperienced, that our most intimate acquaintances are not always our friends.The play was put on the stage with great care, M.Gravier, as the sententious, practical-minded man of experience, whose intercom sc with the world had developed, not blunted, his sympathies, gave to the authority he claimed much weight.At.Ed-gard, as Marecat, an embodiment of selfishness, which in a friendly way he felt bound to exhibit, made us recollect the very disagreeable persons we come shoulder against day by day.Madame Lauretti, who is always pleasing, was no excep.tion in this instance, while Madame Deligne, ever cheerful and careful, gave us an excellent idea of a soubrette.Two ladies appeared last night for the first time\u2014Madame Pelletier and Mdlle.Berthe Morel.Both are possessed of great personal attractions, and are valuable additions to the troupe.The house was crowded, many of the most distinguished French families being present.Ç Grand Trunk Railway, ^ Montreal, Aug.22, 1863.To the Editor of the Montreal Gazette: Sir,\u2014Having seen in your paper on Friday an article referring to the negotiations which have taken place between the Government and the Grand Trunk Railway Company, about the Postal question, and in which article my name is used, it becomes my duty to the public to make a statement of the facts.I\twish it to be, in the first place, understood, that the article in question was written without any communication with me, and that its appearance was not either dictated, or suggested, by me.My knowledge of the facts are derived from my position as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Grand Trunk Railway Company in Canada, and to the negotiations as they progressed, I have necessarily been a party.Much, however, of the details of the negotiation were with Mr.Brydges, the Managing Director, who, at my request, has written me a letter, which I have appended to this statement.About the time that the late Parliament was dissolved, and when it had been announced that the Government could not carry their Arbitration Bill, it had been treated as a settled matter, from the promises of support made by Mr.Dorion and others, that $150 a mile, would be the price to be paid.Although the Company considered this sum entirely insufficient, I looked upon it as better to accept that sum than to continue a discussion, which, from delay, had already caused so much loss to the Grand Trunk Company.I urged Mr.Brydges, on these grounds, to accept that figure, and agreed to join him in the responsibility of doing so.At the time the House broke up, it was, therefore, understood that a settlement, if come to, would be at the rate of $150 a mile.Subsequently Mr.Holton joined the Ministry, and he informed Mr.Brydges that he had concurred with Mr.Dorion in naming $15Q a mile to the Premier, Mr.Macdonald.On the day that Mr.Brydges had the interview, which he describes, with Mr.Holton, on the 23rd May, he told me what had passed, and we both concurred in the opinion that the object was to get the Grand Trunk Company to interfere in the elections in favor of the Ministry, and we also both concurred that the policy determined upon by the Board, of entire neutrality, was the only one to pursue.Mr.Brydges left for the West before the nomination for Montreal, and on that day (1st June) Mr.Macdonald was in town, and came to ask my support and that of the Grand Trunk Company in favor of Mr.Young, who had beep brought out to oppose Mr.McGee.My interview with him will best be described by my giving the exact wTords of my telegram upon the subject to Mr.Brydges, which I wrote and sent off directly after I had seen Mr.Mapdongld, It was as follows :\u2014 \u201c Montreal, June 1, 1863.\u201c O.J.Brydges, Detroit: \u201cSandfield requested me to influence votes \u2018| in favor of Young, who will oppose 11c-\u201c Gee.I expressed my surprise at his re-\u201c quest, and said, ail he could expect of us was II\tneutrality,he not having fulfilled his promises.\u201cHe said he wished me to meet himself, Holton \u201c and Dorion this evening, to convince me that B~ - i:u 1 \u2014o*\u2014 \u201cment.**** (Signsd,) J.Furrier.\u201d Acccordingly, by appointment, at seven o\u2019clock in the evening, I met, at Mr.Macdonald\u2019s lodgings, himself, Mr.Holton and tvlr.jjorion, when I was solemnly promised that the matter snCulil be settled within two weeks after the pieetion wqs over, and the Ministerial candidates returned for Montreal but the condition was to be, that the Grand Trunk Company agisted Mr.Young against Mr, McGee, they stating that Mr.V oung would support the Ministry in settling with the question, ! with a distinct promise that a settlement should It was suggested lo us, as you are aware, he made at once, that a sum fo( the Postal service should, if , SIonth3 passed away without that promise possible he agreed upon between the Gov- eminent and the Company, so as to avoid pass a Bill to authorise a new arbitration.That the necessity for arbitration.Our reply was, that we preferred a settlement by arbitration, but that if that was impossible, we would endeavour to come to an agreement if the terms of the Government were at all such as we could accept.This occurred towards the close of last Bill, after a delay which proved fatal to its success, was at length introduced.It hung for many weeks on the Orders of the Day without being proceeded with, and at length it was announced that it could not be carried.We were then promised that the matter should without delay be settled by the Government themselves, and steps were taken to ascertain the views of ,\t.\t;\tyour supporters.One of your\tpresent\tCabinet cession, and\tI\thad\tmany interviews with Mr.\tI\ttold you in my presence that your party would Sandfield Macdonald\tupon the subject.\tHe\t|\tsupport a settlement at $150\ta mile.\tAir.Do- ¦ -\t-\trion told you the same.Mr.\tHolton\ttold me subsequently that he had been consulted by ;Alr.Dorion be'ore he named that figure to you, ¦ and that he quite concurred in it.Air.Brown Theatre Royal \u2014This evening our playgoers have an excellent programme offered them, the superb play of \u201c A Little Treasure,\u201d and an entirely new piece entitled, \u201c Lord Dundreary\u2019s Brother, or Sam\u2019s Arrival.\u201d In the former Mrs.Buckland will appear, together with Miss Effie Germon, Barton Hill and others.In the latter Mr.Hill will personate Lord Dundreary, Mr.Walcot sustaining a prominent part.Cricket,\u2014A match will be played this day, on the grounds of the Montrpal Qlub, between tne Elevens of the Royal Artillery and Engineers and the Victoria Volunteer Rifles.Play to commence at 10 am.mounieu lUIUUUJj UJIU\tuu tuc / I7th, driving Gen, Slemmer wi;tb 3300 men and tor his own motion, .ndeed the vote of censure, 3 pieces of artillery from the place, fbey then destroyed 57 locomotives, upwards of 40.0 care, the Depot building, machine and blacksmith\u2019s shops, and a large quantity of ordnance and commksary stores.They captured about 50 Railroad men, and a large miaiber of other prisoners A hand of guerillas drovein the pickets at La^ fayetie at miduight.Our boys rallied and foL lowed them a few mile^i killing four and capturing seven, and returned well satisfied with their midnight adventure.The intelligence of the movement of our forces Mow is contraband.The weather is very hot.New York, August 23.\u2014The steamer Cromwell, front New ftrleejis p.n tfie J.5Ü1, arrived to-$ay.according to his own shewing, does not attach to the present Administration which he regards as pew j it was expressly limited to the Administration Alacdonasd-Sicotte \u201c as then composed\" whom it pronounced pot to possess, the confidence of that House.An .Administration totallv .different in jts composition \u2014 although under the game head\u2014fro,m that against which a small majority had pronounced itself, was conptitu.tionally appointed and immediately made its appeal to the people, the source of ail power.\u2014 Tfee verdict pronounced at this Court of last resort, its newly elected representatives are now called on to ratify, Police Intelligence.\u2014A woman named Honore Sanderson, residing at Vaudreuil, was prose cuted by the Revenue Inspector for selling liquor without license, and was fined $50 and costs Norbert Leclaire was also prosecuted for the same offence, and a similar fine was imposed Captain Parow of the Emma Kreig was brought up on a charge, preferred by one of his sailors named JJassefelt, of having struck him on the cheek twice with his fist on the 4th or 5th Aug , while the ship was between the Gulf andQuebe.c in the River.The anchor was being catted and Hsssefelt was hauling in the slack of the rope and making it fast over a belaying pin when the strain being too much for him the rope slipped from his hanu\t*-'aPtal\u20181 who bad been at t'e wheel with the\" Pjlot ran ar «.Z and Struck him as alleged.This was the sum of the eviqeqC.6 *or the prosecution.Only one witness was examined for the defence, his testimony consisting of a statement that he was present and saw no blow given.Mr.Devlin in the course of the examination raised the objection that the Court had no jurisdiction in tjie case.The case was taken en délibéré until Wednesday.The examinations in these .cases have been conducted through Mr.Dettmers, who has a perfect knowledge of a number of the German dialects.A woman named Mary Ryan a noted vagrant aud pilferer, was arrested on a charge of stealing a shawl, valued at $9, the property of g, Mrs McLennan.The shawl was hanging on a line in rear of the house, and the old vagrant who is professionally a beggar, finding her way to the locality cf the clothes line, prigged the shawl, which hung lower than other articles on the line.She was committed for trial at the next Ljuarter Sessions.4 mgn named Michael Brown was sentenced to gaol for 1 month for larceny.Ann AlcMahon was sent to gaoj for or e month for a theft, the particulars of which were\" published last week.the Grand Trunk as suggested, It will he best to give again the exact words of my telegram to Mr.Brydges, written directly after this last interview and whilst the whole matter was perfectly fresh on my mind.It was as follows \u201c Bonaventure Station, June 1, 1863.11 C.J.Brydges, Detroit s 11 Sandfield sent for me to meet Dorion and \u201c Holton\u2014they have solemnly pledged them-11 selves to settle the Postal question in two weeks \u201caftertheir election, should they be returned \u201c for Montreal, and they declare that every mem-\u201c her of the Cabinet has agreed to at least one \u201c hundred and fifty dollars, but they expect our \u201c influence in behalf of Yonng, as member for \u201c West Ward.It is impossible to say what the result of the elections will be.Please reply.I \u201c wish you were here.(Signed,) J.Ferrier.\u201d I have now to repeat that the promise was solemnly made that the matter should be settled in two weeks after the elections.That all three of the gentlemen named urged me strongly to secure the Grand Trunk influence in favor of Mr.Young, who would support the Government on the policy they had determined upon as regards the settlement of the Postal question\u2014and that upon my saying to Mr.Dorion that I had understood he had promised to support the late Government in paying $150 a mile, he replied, \u201c certainly, that he had agreed to sup-\u201c port a setlierqeqt to the extent of $150.\u201d This was said in the presence of tfle others who had, as is explained in Mr.Brydges\u2019 letter, already assented to the rate of $150 a mile, I left them with the distinct understanding that $150 a mile was the sum which the Cabinet would settle the postal matter at after the elections were over, if they were successful in Montreal, and if the Grand Trunk Company supported Mr.Young.I told them that I could not give my consent to what they wanted, but that I would again telegraph Mr, Brydges, and inform them, if, upon consultation, we decided to change the policy of neutrality which had been determined upon.I communicated Mr.Brydges\u2019 reply to Mr.Macdonald.These are the simple facts of the case, upon which I wish it to be understood that I do not make any charge against any person, I am, Sir, your obedient servant, J.FERRIER, Chairman, Grand Trunk Railway Gp.(Enclosure\u2014Letter of Mr.Brydges to Hon.Mr.Perrier.') f Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, jj\tManaging Director\u2019s Office, Montreal, 22nd August, 18fl3.My Dear Mr.Ferrier\u2014As our negotiations with the Gpvernment on the Postal question have become the subject of discussion in the public press, it is proper that I should state in writing to you, as the Chairman of the Canadian Directors of this Company, the facts as far as they are within my hp.C'yledge.\u2018 \u201cIf Ts right at once to say that any publication of thhse matters was pop from any act of yours.It was begun by the Government organs commenting on the Order in Council lately passed.The manner in which (he Ooi ernment has acted towards this Company lilts, since the negotiations were closed, been freely spoken tiod, ps far as J am, concerned, I have not hesitated fo pipiq the facts.I shall endeavour in this letter to confine myself to a statement of facts, leaving those who read ft to dra>y their own inferences.I must be understood as neifher making, nor supporting, charges against any one.I need not dwell at length on the early negotiations.It will be sufficient briefly to allude tp the facts\u2014that in October 1861 .the question was referred Jjy the then Government to arbitration\u2014that the umpire in that arbitratipn was on the 9th June 1862 appointed by the succeeding Government of stated to me that he was endeavouring to ascertain the views of his supporters as to the rate which they would agree to support.On one occasion when we were I talking upon the matter we met Mr.Wallbridge, and the Premier asked him what they were to do with 'the Grand Trunk now that the arbitration bill was objected to.Mr.YVallbridge\u2019s reply was to the effect that he knew more of the feeling of the Ministerial party than Mr.Macdonald did, and that they would agree to a settlement of the Postal question at $150 a mile, biit that they would not vote for the Arbitration Bill.The same figure was subsequently named to me in the course of con-versalion by other supporters ot the Ministry.I was also informed before the prorogation that Mr.Dorion had consulted his supporters upon (he subject and that they had authorised him to inform the Government that they would support a settlement at $150 a mile.You and I at this time had frequent consultation upon the subject, and my opinion was strong that$lo0 a mile was quite inadequate ; but whilst I felt indisposed to take the responsibility of accepting that sum, you urged me to agree to it as the best thing that could be got under the circumstances, and that it was better to have the question settled even on such low terms, than to continue a discussion which had already been protracted so long and with so much injury to us.I was at this time assured by the Premier that the matter should be settled without delay ; but the debate on the vote of want of confidence arising, that was stated as the reason why no actual settlement could at that moment be made.1 remained in Quebec till the day after the dissolution, and at an interview with Mr.Macdonald he again assured me that tne matter should be disposed of as soon as his Cabinet was completed.He promised to telegraph to me as soon as the new Government was formed, when I was to go to Quebec and get the matter finally settled before the elections.I had the very strongest promises to this effect.I did not receife any sutamons to go to Qqelec as promised, but after an unoflicial discussion with a party who was not a member of the Cabinet, was at length requested by Mr.Macdonald to see Mr.Holton, who had become Finance Minister, which I did in Montreal on the 18lh May.At that interview Mr.Holton expressed himself as roost desirous and determined to have the question settled\u2014that in his opinion the only ground on which the breaking up of the arbitration could have been defended was an immediate settlement of the matter upon satisfactory terms\u2014that in his opinion the Postal money, whatever it might be, ought to be paid to the Company m cash from the date of our ar- ponoromianfo A r.fi\t« OF that otherwise a fraud would be perpetrated upon the creditors of the Company\u2014and that he had been consulted by Mr.Dorion before that gentleman named $150 a mile to the Government, and had concurred with him in that sum being named.Mr.Holton at the same time stated the impossibility, in his opinion, of the Government doing anything before the elections, but that it should be settled the very first ?kJwnr aflPr thpv VYPTP.(lYPT.The day after my interview with Mr.Holfon I addressed a private letter to Mr.Macdonald pointing out the breach of faith towards us by the failure to carry cut the solemn promises which he had made.I received a telegram from Mr.Macdonald saying that he had received my letter and would see me in Montreal.I accordingly met him at the Club on the 23rd of May.He then, in effect, told me that the changes in his Cabinet prevented his carrying out the pledges which he had made to me, but that the question should be disposed of as soon as the members of the Government got back to Quebec after the elections.Mr.Holton, who with some others had joined us at the Club, was then asked by Mr.Macdonald if he did not take the same view.Mr.Holton replied not, unless the result of the elections was to give the Ministry a clear majority.He then lyeqt on tq speak in a very diflerent tone to the one he had assumed at my previous interview with him on the 18th May.He expressed an opinion that you should not have signed Mr.Rose\u2019s requisition\u2014that it was in our power to preyent Mr.Rose contesting the City of Montreal, and thus allow him (Mr.Hoiton), the Finance Minister, to be elected without opposition\u2014and spoke of the influence which we could exercise through those parties in the city with whom we had dealings.Y\u2019ou will remember my telling you of this at the time, and I need not here dwell upon the discussion which I then informed you I had had at much length with Mr.Holton.I could come to no other conclusion at the time, but that it was desired to make me understand that the settlement of the Grand Trunk postal question was to be made dependent upon our supporting Mr.Holton in the contest for Montreal, which it had then become evident would be very keen.I left Montreal for the \"West two or three days after the interview, to which I have here referred, aqd.was absent more than a week.On the 30th May, whilst I was at Sarnia, Mr.Macdonald telegraphed me from Kingston to know when he could see me.I replied that I should not be back for several days.Subsequently, I received the telegrams from you dated 1st June, which it is, I understand, your intention to publish.My repiy to tliose tej.egrapis jsras to tfle effect, that we must in no way interfere in the Montreal West election\u2014that vve had been humbugged too long\u2014and that under any circumstances we could not depart from our position of neutrality.A day or tiyo afterwards I returned to Montreal, and rnet Mr.Mapdqijaid qt thg Club on the 6th June, when he expressed surprise at the terms of my telegram\" to you, you having sent him a popy.We had some discussion about the elections, when I again told him that we had determined to be neutral, and after reflecting over our conversation I determined to write Mr.Macdonald a letter, to show him how much we had to complain of in the way in which we had been treated.Accordingly, on the 8th June, Ï wrote to Mr.Macdonald the following letter.You will remember it was written whilst thé Board was silting\u2014that you read it over p.qd concurred in its contents.It was as follows to medijim extra \"Western ;\t$5,00 to 5,40 for common to good shipping brands extra round hoop Ohio.Canadian Flour dull and 5c lower ; sales 450 brls at $4,70 to 4,90 for common; $4,95 to 7,00 for good to choice extra.' Rye Flour steady at $3,60 to 5,20.Wheat\u2014Receipts 128,339 bushels ; market dull, and common grades 1 to 2c lower ; sales of 60,000 bus ; 72c to $1,06 for Chicago spring ; 87c to 1,15 for ililwaukie Club; $1,17 to 1,23 for Amber Iowa ; $1,13 to 1,21 for Winter Red Western ; $1,22 to 1,27 for Amber Michigan.Rye dull at 80 c to 90 c.Barley dull and nominal.Corn\u2014Receipts 14,433 bushels ; market 1 to 2 cents better ; sales of 38,000 bushels ; 71 cents to 72c for shipping Mixed Western ; 69j to 71c for Eastern.Oats lower at 4Sc to 50 cents for Canada; 50c to 54c for Western.Pork quiet ; sales of 200 barrels ; $11,62J to 11,871 for old mess ; $13,62 to 13,75 for new do; $10,50 to 10,75 for new prime.Beef quiet.Stocks very strong.Money and Exchange 1361.Gold 124.THEATRE, B0 Y AL Lessee and Manager.Mr.J.W.Buckland.Stage Manager.J* Moose.Scenic Artist.O.Evans.This Evening, Tuesday.Aug.25, Will be presented the beautiful play, entitled A LITTLE TREASURE.To conclude with the capital piece, called LORD DUNDREARY\u2019S BROTHER.Price of Admission : Private Boxes, $3 ; Family Circle, 37J cts ; Dress Circle, 50 cts ; Pit, 25 cts.Seats can be secured at Prince\u2019s Music Store.Doors open at 7J ; performance to commence at S; o\u2019clock.August 25.\t202 .h ree shots at each range, with any rifles earry-aZ Government \u2019577 bore ammunition, as supplied on the ground.Minimum pnll of trigger, G hs.Any position.Open to all comers, eora-fee ^ preVi0US match eïcepted.Entrance also told me that Mr.Dorion had consulted him upon the subject.You know that I consider such a sum quite inadequate.Nutwithstaudiog, however, the promise to settle at ouce after it became clear that the Arbitration Bill could not be carried, the House broke up without anything being done.You then promised me that as soon as your Ministry was completely formed, the question should be disposed of before the elections.This promise has resulted like all the previous ones.Now you and some of the leading members of your present Cabinet differ as to what you will do, and it looks very much as if it was intended to make any action at all dependent upon our taking part in the elections in support of the Ministerial candidates.To do so would be to take the very course which you and your party have so vehemently denounced in the past, and I am quite clear that our course of entire neutrality is the only correct one.Now, afteç this history, am I not perfectly justified in saying, that I should be neglecting my duty if I were content to be satisfied with any more promises?I should be unfit to hold my present position if I could be so weak as to be satisfied now with anything short of an actual contract.I know that personally you are most anxious to get this matter settled, and that if it hid depended solely on you, I should not now have to catalogue so long a list of broken pledges.Bat ifyou are surrounded by colleagues who will not allow you to act in the way you yourself wish, 1 can of course only deal with the acts of your Government as such, whilst most fully believing and knowing that your personal wishes are to do what you have so often told me it is right should be dune and that without delay.Believe me, Yours very truly, (Signed,) C.J.BRYDGE3.Hon.J.S.Macdonald, &c, &c., &c.To the foregoing letter I never received any reply.Since then we have, until very lately, had but little discussion with the Government Mr.Holton, I was informed, raised some difficulty about iurther negotiation, but that not being pressed I was placed in communication with the Postmaster General, After several interviews he informed me of the views entertained by the Government, but told mo at the same time that if we did not concur in the figures he named, no order in Council would be passed upon the subject.I declined the proposed terms, which were so widely different from the promises repeatedly and distinctly made before the elections.A few days afterwards I found that the Government had changed their minds, as I receivefl an official letter, enclosing a copy of the Order in Council, which had been passed, setting forth the terms proposed to, and declined by, me.I need not trouble you with the details of the correspondence between Mr.Watkin and Mr.Holton, where the lalter declined to hold any further communication with the former, because all the documents upon that question win, no doubt, shortly come before the public.I will merely say that we were all of opinion that the quarrel, if such it may be called, was purposely brought about by the Government, as a part of their policy, after thgy had decided nqt ta carry out 'their offers, made both to you and myself, before the elections, to settle the rate at $150 a mile.Yours very truly, C.J.BRYDGES, Managing Director.Hon.J.Ferrier, Chairman, $ Grand Trunk Railway Company, ij DAILY HSSS'OKT of STOCK MARKET (Reported exclusively for the \u201cMontreal Herald,\u201d) BOARD OF STOCK BROKERS.Finns composing the Board\u2014Chas.Ceddes,C.G.Ged-des, James Hempsted, J.E.Malhiot, MacDou-gall