Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 22 décembre 1863, mardi 22 décembre 1863

[" PO JT CFflûE, Mostrsal, Dec.14,1883, ArriTsis and Bepartnres of Hîails at Montreal- ?MAILS.Quebec by Bailroad., Canada West Day Train.[T Canada West Night Train.[2\u2019 Laprairie.St.Johns, C.E., Napierville and ) Clarenceville.f N.York, Boston, Buffalo, Troy, I &c.f St.Hyacinthe, Melbourne, and I Island Pond.[31 f Portland.14 Chateauguay, Beauharnois a n d I Huntingdon.t Lachine.| St.Remi, Hemmingford&Plattsburo Chambly,.Longueuil and Contrecœur.( St.Laurent, St.Eustache, St.j Scholastique &c.j Ste.Rose, Ste.Therese & St.Jerome Rigaud.Carillon, Grenville, and ) Yay Offices to Ottawa.j Terrebonne, New Glasgow.St.John, N.B., Halifax, and P.E.) Islar d, via Portland, Saturd- > ay.j Ditto fortnightly from Boston.DUB.\tCLOSE.7.00 am\t7.00 pm 8.00 a m\t2.30 pm 12.15 a m\t6.45 am 10.45 a m\t5.30 p m 9.30 a m\t2.00 pm 9.30 a m\t7 00 a m 2.00 pm 9.30 a m 11.00p m\t2.00 pm 7.C0am\t7.00 am 2.45 p m\t2.15 p m 7.00 a m\t2.15 p m 6.30 pm\t6.00 a m 9.15 am\t6.00 am 6.15 p m\t2 00 pm 10.45 a m\t2.00 p m 11.00 a m\t7.00 a m 2 15 pm 10.30 a m\t7.30 am 2.45 p m 6.30 a n\t7,00 am 2.00 pm\t7.00 a m 12.15 am\t6.45 a m 5.00 p m\t7.00 am 7.00 a m\t2.15 p m 2.45 p m J\t AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.{1] Conductor\u2019s Bag open till 7.25 a.m.2]\tdo\tdo\t6.10 p.m.3]\tdo\tdo\t7.40 a.m.& 2.55 P.M.[4]\tdo\tdo\t2.55 p.m.Registered Letters must be posted 15 minutes before he closir.of each Mail.All the oove Mails (exclusive of the St.John, N.B., #c.,) are daily except Sunday.VOLUME XV.MONTREAL, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1863.NUMBER 804 tie iiiïi iiEüciü mmw mmi LIMITED.To be Established under the Limited Liability Act, WHICH SPECIALLY LIMITS THE LIABILITY OF EACH SHAREHOLDER TO THE AMOUNT OF HIS SHARES.FIS I FOBS! FOBS I THE SUBSCRIBERS desire to call SPECIAL ATTENTION to their FALL STOCK, WHICH Will, BE FOUND UMUSU&.Ii&ï' LAKGE, AND TO COMPRISE] ALL TEE NOVELTIES AND IsÆTUBT BTT\u2019LBQ IN EVERY DESCRIPTION OF FOUS* The GOODS have all been made up in their Well Euewa Superior Manser, AND WILI# BS OFFERED A T L M W MATES.ALSO ON HAND, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF S.WWSS0ËS, MOCCASINS, AND Indian Curiosities* John Henderson & Co., CRYSTAL October 26.BLOCK.3m 255 ' ADIES\u2019 complete MARRIAGE OUTFITS J can be had at JOHN AITKEN & GO\u2019S 211 & 213 Notre Dame Street.Uctober 30 259 For Sale, ROSIN, Fi e and medium Y 3LLOW ME TAL IS IN.in Bars O .NYASS M 4.1ILL â.aud WIRE ROPE Thi luhscribers make LIBERAL ADVANCES oi au lorize DRAFTS on their Correspondents in Fr ace, England and the United States, Consignments of all kinds of Produce, iuioort on Commission all kinds of Goods.COURCHET A CO., No.7 St.John Street.eNovmber 16.\t27 F0ft SALE,\t' THE SUBSCRIBER OFFERS FOR SALE : Chsfee Labrador Herrings Eouad asd Split do, Varions brands Table Codfish fereeu Codfish Ced Oil &C., &C.f &c C-.E.SEYMOUR & CO, October 15.\t246 MIFF'S SIU PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the undermentioned LANDS and TENEMENTS will be Sold at the time and place as mentioned below.All persons having claims on the same, which the Registrar is not bound to include in hir Certificate, under Chapter thirty-six of the Consolidated Statutes for Lower Canada, are hereby required to make them known according to law.All oppositions afin fie comei-ver may be fyled at any time within two days next after the return of the writ : VEHWITIOM EXPONAS DE TERRIS.From the District of Montreal.Montreal, to wit : ?TT'DOUARD ST.DENIS, of No.1474.\t^ J22 the Parish of St.Ig- nace du Coteau du Lac.in the District of Montreal, yeoman, plaintiff, against tbe lands and tenements of JULIEN GIRARD, yeoman, of the Parish of St.Poly carpe, in the said District, defendant.The said Lands and Tenements mentioned and \u2022described in the Scheldule annexed tp the said Writ, marked A, as follows, to wit : \u2014 A land lying and situate on the north-east of Rivlere-a-Delisie, in the parish of St.Poly-carpe, in the District of Montreal, in the seigniory of Nouvelle, Longueuil, designated under number forty-one and as follows.to wit :\u2014 Firstly.\u2014About two arpents in front by the depth that there may be between the said Riviere-a-Delisle and the Queen\u2019s highway ; joining on one side to Orton Pease and on the other side to a fence situate between the said defendant and Stanislas Lalonde.Secondly.\u2014Three arpents and a half in front by sixteen arpeas m depth ; bounded in front by the Qneen\u2019s highway ; in rear by a ground hereinafter described ; joining on one side to Orton Pease, and on the other side to Pierre Lacombe.Thirdly.\u2014Three arpeuts in front by four arpents in dep h ; bounded in front by the aforesaid sixteen arpents, and in rear by the twelve argents hereinafter described ; joining on one «ide to Orton Pease and on the other side to Romain D\u2019eforge.Fourthly.\u2014Three arpeuts in front by about twelve arpents in depth ; joining in front to the above four arpents in front, in rear to Romain Deforge, joining on one side to the aforesaid Romain Deforge, and on the other side to Laurent GiranJ with a house, two bains and other buildings thpreon erected.Subject that part of the said immoveable which is secondly and thiraly described in the Opposition afiin de charge, fried in this cause by Dame Ontherine Unmet, Opposant, as follows, to writ; \u201c A land lying and situate on tire North of the the contrary in the laws of the separate Citâtes.; aüd while he does not swear to support them, they sw^af to support him.When Joseph saw the sheaves of his brethren fall down and make obeisance to hi.s sheaf, if it ever happened it must have beep a straege humiliation for the sheaves which made obeisance; and when be saw the sun and rnpcm bow down before him, if it ever happened,it must have been a strange humiliation for the sun and ¦moonr, but even these humiliations would not he morestrange than that which would befall the Fe- ! .deral Govrrnmept of the United States, if it had Cheers.\u2014Well in the third place do Britons sympathize with the rebels because, th?y are tree traders, and opposed by the high tariff of the North.If so, you must remember that if we have now a high tariff it is justified, if it such a thing ever can be justified, by the necessity imposed upon the North by the rebellion.The tariff was comparatively a low one when the South oegan to rebel ; for it is a remarkable fact, that we have never had befoie any tariff which so nearly approached to a free trade policy.Then fourthly I ask you whether this lack of sympathy with the North proceeds from the tact that slavery is to be kept out of the territories\u2014Is that it?\u2014Here Mr.Smith paused sometime in the midst of profound silence, and then continued :\u2014Uh I knew that it was not.i knew that you as well as myself are opposed to slavery, (loud and repeated cheering from all parts of the room.) 1 knew that here at least there would be no dissenting voice.A Voicm\u2014Yes there is Akothbu Voice\u2014Its no Briton\u2019s.A notukk Voice.\u2014He is a Southern skedaddler, (Loud cheers.) Mr.Smith.\u2014Well then does this want of sympathy with the North arise because they elected Mr.Lincoln?A Voice.\u2014Yes.Mr.Smith.\u2014I admit that it was a hard trial of patience for the South\u2014a very hard trial of patience, when they saw a man elected, who had spent his life in opposing the extension of slavery into the territories.But it was constitu-cional 1 It was according to law ; aud the South should have submitted as the North has frequently submitted before.For eighty years they have had it nearly ail their own way ; yet did the North ever rebel ?A Voice in 1812 and 1813.Mr.Smith.I say if the North did not rebel, when the South had a majority, why should the South rebel now ?But, iu .eed, these people were ijlad that Mr.Lincoln was elected ; for it was j'ust the excuse they wanted to break up the ua-don ; to get away ftom the constitution of liberty, and to establish a new constitution of which, as they themselves boast, slavery will be the corner stone.Sixthly, do you fail to sympathize with the North, because Northerners have talked and legislated so much against slavery ?If we have done so, all I can say, is that we in the United States, are very like yourselves, and the people of England.We think what we like and say what we think.This right is guaranteed to us by the constitution ; and if we have spoken and legislated against slavery, the South has exercised its right of speaking and legislating in its favour.The Southeruers thought some of the «hingssaid iu the North were hard ; so thought the people of the North of some things said in the South.We thought some of their legislation in favour of slavery unconstitutiou.l.T\u2019ney thought some of our legislation against it unconstitutional ; but the doors of the Supreme Court were open to either ot us to try the question, and the difference between us iu this respect is that we nave always been ready to submit to a legal decision by a constitutionally appointed tribunal, while they have reiused to abide by such decision.We sent commissioners to the South\u2014Mr.doare, and another eminent counsel, to plead our cause in the Supreme Court.Were they permit-led to speak ?No, they were denied the right to speak on a legal subject ip a Law Court,and were torced by violence and threat of murder, to leave that part of the country.And finally I ask whether the North lacks British sympathy be cause the rebel government is founded on slav- it not time for you all to cease this jealousy, to chimeras, flowers, .Sic , are most beautiful in their s'and by one another, and to keep your symps\" way.Unfortunately, Barbedienne\u2019s prices are so for something better than piracy and slave- i enormous that only, the richest customers can holding ambition.\u2014Tremendous cheering, min- ; buy of him.The greater number of the visitors pled with faint hisses.\u2014Remember, the rebellion ' who crowd his rooms, go there for the sake of is neither moie nor less than Blavn-ry in arms.' getting their ideas enlightened on the subject of Having failed in the ballot-box aud in intrigue, j poriour ornaments ; and betake themselves, it has taken up arms; but, thank God, it will ! afterwards, to the showrooms, of other dealers fall.Rebellion will soon be down, and then j in the same line, whose pretentions in the way of Slavery will, have to fall with it ; for it is not possible that a shred of Slavery may survive the extinction of this rebellion.And then, when, wa have washed ou.in tears and in b ood our crime against the black man, and healed the deep gashes in his spirit ; when we have opened the door for his bodily', mental, and moral improvement, then we shall be built up as a nation grander than any that the world has ever seen, \u2014not because we are better than any other men, for weare not but because nature has done so much for us.And when this is achieved,\u2014when we bave doue justice to men of all colors and complexions,\u2014then my nation will be relied on all the world over Having done justice to herself, she will be trusted to do justice towards all other nations.Then shall the words of the poet \u2014 our greatest poet\u2014perhaps the greatest poet of the vVorld\u2014speaking of an individual, become applicable to her as a people,\u2014 -\u201c To thyself be true : Thou canst not then be false to any man.\u201d Mr.Smith resumed his seat, amidst an overwhelming and protracted burst of applauee.(BV TELEGRAPH) ery ' Thai was the boast of the rebels.They felt that slavery was becoming unsafe in the old Union\u2014they knew that they could not, while the Union lasted, get away from our free speech iu favor of freedom, and so they broke away from it to establish a new nation iu which slavery should be the paramo,tint interest.\u2014 Loud cheers.\u2014 Their Constitution went nakedly for ibe principle upholding slave labour anti putting down free labour.They called honest farmers and mechanics \u201c mudsills \u201d and \u201c greasy fists ; \u201d and formedja nation and a Constitution in which tnese principles should be paramount, and for that did t ey rebel.(Cheers ) Well, they have got\u2014so long as it lasts-just such a nation, and fust such a Constitution ; but do you Britons, anti-slayery men, approve of such 'a Gocstitu-tion?Yoii do pot love to see the lengthening of the cords and strengthening of the stakes of slavery.You do not wish success t,o the first nation which the earth as yet has seen, founded upon the principle tnat man can be made an article of property like cattle.(Loud cheers ) Well, then, if for none of these reasons you sympathize with the South, for what reason can you do so ?A Voioa - We object to being ruled by a sectional majority.(Cheers, hisses, and groans.) Anotes.h Voice\u2014The Southerners want to govern themselyes.Me.Smith\u2014(After a pause.)~You object to being ruled by a sectional majority.\u2014(Another pause,)\u2014That\u2019s well said.YuU object to being ruled by a.sectional majority.Then why did your fathers come into the Constitution at all ?X will tell you why,\u2014Because they wished to be ruled by law, and that in making that law ihe will of the majority should prevail.(Great cheering.) Now having shown you why I think you should not sympathize with the South, I will say some thing of the reasons why yon should çtmpathize with the North.But first, I must mention to you some grounds upon which .r.ur sympathy is commonly claimed, but upon which I Ih>uk it is not due.In the first place, sympathy is flfked for the North On the ground that we are prosecuting ÎÎB war mr the overthrow of slavery.We are not- It is u\"?slavery has been greatly dainaged in this war ; it is true that slavery will lose its life in this war.[A voice.T he slaves will at least.) Mr Smith.\u2014 But in truth the war is neither being urged to uphold slavery, nor to overthrow it.We have no right to claim such to bp the issue\u2014 but it is being prosecuted to save the Union and the nation.Many in the North,\u2014 oh shame, shame upon the assertion ! \u2014 many will have it that the government should carry on the war to uphold slavery.Some few aho, unwise abolitionists desire that the war should he parried on for the destruction of Slavery ; but that could not be.The war is to suppress the rebellion, and save the nation.Another ground for demanding your pympathy is this.It is said by some advocates of the Northern cause that whilst the South is all proslavery, the North is all abolitionist.That also is false.We have no right to your sympathy on that ground.The fact is, that this evil, British inheritance of slavery has so corrupted both North and South, that even yet the mi.st odious title which can be given by way of reproach is that cf abolitionist.At the North, as a genera), thing, as well as at the South, they will not sit at table with a black man.At the North, as well as at the South, my poor filack brother\u2014 whom 1 would press to my bosom with all the delight that I would any other brother\u2014is still an outcast pariah, an unclean leper.It is in deed sad, very sad.In the North the bible is quoted in favor of slavery as if there could be any use in appealng to that book, or any book to prove tjyat two and two make five.But yet s , rooted is this liberality as it is called towards the South, that this blessed word of jd-od is made the sanction for the werst of crimes, and recently Northern men desired to make your neighbour Bishop Hopkins of Vermont Chapl in, to one of the Houses of Congress, because he could prove the just cc'ot slavery fropi the bible.So too iüjthe North there is a geuerj.1 acquies-eence in the pro-siavery interpretation of the constitution of the United States, as if it favoured slavery, whereas uo woid in favour of Slavery is to be found iu ail that document, hut on the other hand the plain declaration ifeat no one shall be held to involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime Yet it is held in the North to he liberal and magnanimous to take this Southern view, and this to such an extent that recently a gentloman distinguished for bis eloquence a man of most versatile powers, who can speak in a manner calculated to adorn almost any subject on which he touches,\u2014I say recently this gentleman in London boasted of our accepting this iaterpretation as if it were right to t»ke this view of the law.Law ! There can be law for slavery ; for law y.e all know is to protect jjs in our rights, whereas slavery admits no right at dll.Can there be a law for murder ?And yet a law for murder would be less unreasonable than a law for slavery, for what right-minded parent would not rather see his child in murders grave than in that living grave to which slavery would consign him?Here Mr.Smith quoted an eloquent passage froii; Lord Brougham, to the effect that there was à 'aw aiWffi a'l human codes engraved by the hand of {r0(1 0H 'he hesrt of man, and which taught that that wherever fraud was held in detestation, or rapine abhorred, there slavery must be regarded aç the worst of crimes He went on\u20141 will now state the ground apd the only greun-i on which I believe that w.e can ciajm your sympathy for the north.It is that yc are fighting for the sacred cause of nationality.A Voice\u2014For Empire.Mr.Sin h\u2014Lord John Russel has said that we are fighting for Empire, and the South for indépendance.He has been greatly blamed for saying eç, but I think he was right.I cheerfully accept that state ment, ft is true that the South is fighting for independence\u2014an independence that they havei no right to.ft is equally true that the North is fighting for Empire,\u2014that is fo.r the .Government by the nation of the whole nation.Human So- ' ciety consists of families and of nations.I hold ' the family to be inviolate and not to be broken up, except by consent ; and so in like manner I hold tt)B nation to be.As all the families of the earth should §ljow all the other families live, so all the nations shouid lei all the nations live, for on these two institutions, the family .and the nation, all society founded.How sad, how pain-ful it is, when I think that the Poles have now been ninety years yitjiput a nationality 1 Italy gjjU bleeds under dismemberment ; and would you wring the heart of my country with the grief caused by a broken up nation ?If some of the counties in England wer.@ to revolt, I should sympathise with her, and 1 aupposo that you would also sympathise with her ,in her attempt to maintain her .nationality.I am sure that she would not permit her nationality to be broken up.But that would be fighting for Empire ijypuld it not ?A.Voice.\u2014She is a monarchy not a republic.Mr.SifITE.\u2014Monarchy or republic, they are alike sacred tome.jf they are founded on law, and the instruments for the protection of nationality.ff it is not right in England to reduqe tq loyalty a revolted county, it is not right in my counts)' to reduce rebellion to submission.\u2014A voice, \u2018'A .county is not state/\u2019\u2014A state bas greater lights than an English county, but a state ia no more the nation than an English county.And MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES, Special to the Post.\u2014Washington, Dee.21.\u2014 Congress will adjourn by the middle of the week for the holidays, and the draft will be postponed for 20 days.The Russian fleet leaves for Port Monroe during the present week.Mr.Line.In will visit the Admiral in his flag ship Tuesday or Wednesday.Boston, Dtc.21.\u2014Home, months since, Mr.James Monroe, lawyer, was fatally stabbed in the street by Edward Owens, while walking with a young married woman named Etta Stanley jealously being the cause.Owens pleaded, guilty of murder in the 2nd degree, aud was today sentenced to State prison for life, he is 22 years old and very respectably connected.The Philadelphia N orth American of this morning says :\u2014The Ram Atlanta refitted and put in order is likely to be only less formidable t tan the Ironsides.The talk at the Navy Yard is that she will go down to Charleston to take the place of the VVeehawker that sunk at he.-anchorage The Atlanta is more like the Ironsides than any of the Monitors.She is again in the water and before mmy days will be at sea.She cost a mi\u2019iion dollars.St.Louis Dec.21st.\u2014A special to the Democrat, dated Fort Smith, Aik., Dec.20th,says :-An attack was made on the outposts of Fort Gibson by Standwait, with a force stated at 1600.He was repulsed and fell b .ck, taking part of his force acre ss the Arkansas, below Fort Gibson, moving north east.The 3rd Wisconsin cavalry has just reiurned from a successful reconnoisance southward.They were within 15 miles of the Red River.Finding the enemy had changed their position since t'ne last advices, they were unable to proceed further.Their return was a constant skirmish for over 100 miles, string bodies of the enemy being posted at all the cross roads to intercept them.They cut thejr way-through in some places, and waded others by taking blind mountain passes.Their loss is trifling.Among the prisoners taken is the notorious Handy Lane, who boasts h-.ving killed over 100 Union men with his own hands Information was received that two-thirds of Kirby Smiths forces were preparing to attack Little Rock.The balance, anticipating that McNeill\u2019s forces would be drawn away to reinforcs Steel, art to fall on Fort Smith.\t, \u201e A communication of the Gocktaw Obier Mc-Ourtain, says the Ohockawas will rejoin Cooper.He desires an interview with McNeill, and says the tribe is disposed for peace.Our advance headquarters at Waldon, 55 miles south, say they frequently push down toward Washington, constantly annoytug Gen, Prices\u2019 left flank.Cairo, Dec.21sth\u2014The steamer Sultana from Vicksburg, arrived last night.' Washington, Dec.21\u2014The Government, it is said, has received information of a rebel plot to rescue the rebel prisoners now at Point Lookout, under charge of General Marston, of the New Hampshire Brigade.It is said, however, that the prisoners deny all knowledge of the affair, and that many of them who are very comfortably quartered would not join in an insurrection even if an armed force of rebels made their appearance.Precautionary measures, however, have been tajs.en ot the Point, aud if any such attempt were undertaken the attacking party would surely receive a warm'reception.\u2022 The Western Virginia Legislature, in session at Alexandria, this morning passed a bill calling a convention for the abolition of sjafepy in hat State.It is to assemble on the ]3th February next.Cincinnatti, Dec.21st\u2014A report from Louisville says that a force of eiget hundred guerrillas are preparing to move to Pound Gap for a raid through the eastern portion of hhe State.The rebels are concentrating for the purpose cf making a raid on the Louisville and Nashville Hail-fhad.Our forces are prepared fop them.Coi.ittuiiuD, commander of the Eastern District cf \u201d-,\t80 guerrillas.The Kenrecky.recenriy cap.a.\t» 9th jjentueky attacked and routed some guei.G las posted at a gap The time for the enlistment of Indians has been extended to the 5th January.About 7000 volunteers have been raised for the army.The Commercial's despath, dated Dec.10th says advices from Knoxville represent every thing quiet in that direction.Longstreet has returned to Bull Gap, it is supposed for the purpose of winteriug in Watuga Valley, or with the view of moving into North Carolina.The railroad is in operation South of Knoxville to London.The River is open for navigation from London to Chattanooga.Gen.Foster has established his Head .Quarters at Knoxville.San Francisco, liée.21st,\u2014Dates from the city of Mexico, via Acapulco, are re the 24th cf Nov-Great suffering for provisions prevailed among the poorer classes.The fortifications are constantly being strengthened The French had advanced no further inla d since occupying Quere-taro.The recent killing of Comonfort had aroused a feeling of intense bitterness among the native population.Accounts from Sau Luis Po\u2018ossi, state that Mexican officers have returned from the United States, where they had been sent v)ith commission for purchasing and outfitting vessels of war under letters ot marque to prey bn French commerce.It is reported their mission was successful.make obeisance to tfie several States.\u2014Loud now, America, France, England, all nations, is Paris Correspondence of the Montreal Herald.Paris, December S, 1863.One of the most charming of peeejit innovations in the way of ornamental furniture, is the use of the beautiful Algerian Onyx, now beginning to enter so largely into the 11 creations\u201d of the garb.ediermees, Tahans, Susses, and other arbiters of fashion in the pama line.This new stone, somewhat resembling the substance commonly called \u201c petrified water,\u201d but much paler wd clearer, more transparent, and exquisitely veined, is cut into iiPU§ tazze, boxes, goblets, flower-holders, paper-knives, and a host pf oth«r small objects for the adornment of boudoirs am.drawing-rooms ; aud is also greatly employed, in conjunction with gilded bronze and Byzantine enameis, for mantel-clocks, candelabra and lamps.The prevailing hue of this Onyx is a pile straw colour; but it is found occasionally, of a rich red, very similar to the peculiar shade of that rarest of the old Roman marbles known as the rosso antico, oecai.onally, also, of a white almost as pure as that of ala.baster or tfie white pornelian,irom both of which it differs by its beautiful clouding.Barbadicnne, first of the French makers of ornamental bronzes, was the first to petceive the value of this newly-discovered product o' the pet colony of France, in regard to ornamentation ; and his show-rooms now contain, in anticipation of the approaching New-Years, demand for elegant novelties, a collection of beautiful things that may rank with the most interesting and artistic of the many traps that are being laid for catching gold-pieces from the pockets of the inhabitants of the metropohs.The eminent\u2019maker just alluded to, besides displayiug jqjuieüSe numbers.ot\tarticles made from the onyx in question, all displaying the bewitching grace and neatneB|i ot fancy iu which fhe Frénph fire so far ahead\" of all other nations, has' intruduced tips onyx in to \"the large statues and groups of figures wfiicb are degtjned to bold lights, or baskets of flowers, in (ihe magnificent halls and r eeption-rooms pf modern Paris; imitating thus the ancients, who so -re-quentiy, mingled marbles and aUbas-ter with bronze in their artistic, creations.The draperies, in these groups arc of onyx ; and the heads, necks, and limbs of bronze.In sonie of these, stripes, pr patterns, of gold and silver, are introduced upon the\" onyx, produçiug the effect of Oriental tissues.Glided and silyefed Ornaments are introduced in the way of headdress, rings, necklaces, &e.; and even jewels are imitated by the use of coloured s ones.The purists, who recognize no colour except white as jit for statuary, are making, as a matter of course fi great opt.ery against this style, as an abuse, and a horror, While, Ibp innovator pleads, in its defence, not only the example of the great artists of antiquity, but also the richness\" of'éffect produced thereby.As an embodiment of the very highest ideals of grace, majesty, and beauty in the human figure, the calm wuiteness of marble renders that substance evidently the fittest of all materials yet discovered j huf for tfla \u201cmixed uses\u201d which the artistic industry o' Paris aims ai supplying this mixture of materials is certainly vfiry charming.The groups in question produce a very agreeable effect in the centre of large and elegant vestibules, and in the corners of richly furnished rooms.Large vases and tazze 6( onyx, with bands, rims, and handles of gilded bronze, qrg extremely beautiful ; while the fine mantel-clocks',\" wire candelabra, and s ' aller vases, forming complete sets, and into whose ornamentation are introduced the most elegant and charming accessories in gilt bronze\u2014chains, scrolls, foliage, birds, animals, cupids, graces prices, are a little less exorbitant.The new onyx, however, is still very dear, even at the shops of the dealers most in favour with the public.The rival establishment just opened, near Barbedienne\u2019s for the sale of ornaments in ouyx ; though much more moderate than his, cannot be called cheap.For instance, the simplest pair of candelabra, for the chimney, of three lights each, would cost twelve guineas ; with the clock the entire set would be about thirty.In this set, the gilding being extremely rich, and the finish of details\u2014birds, foliage, Ac , extremely delicate, the onyx is only introduced in small portions ; but its effect, thus used, is excellent.As to the larger and more ambitious sets, the great va «es tazze, &e., in which large pieces of onyx are employed, their prices run up to scores and even hundreds of guineas.The French makers have, in fact, no notion of what \u201ccheapness \u2019 means.Their favourite idea is to get the highest possible price for their wares ; and they would greatly prefer to sell a few articles at enormous prices, than to sell a hundred times as many at, a lower rate.It never enters their heads that, in the latter case, their yearly profits would be vastly greater.In the case of their manufacturers, as in that of the landlords, they think much less of totals than of separate items.At this moment, a vast number of new houses are standing completely empty, because their owners have determined thjt the apartments into whicn they are divided shall be let at certain exorbitant rates, which no body can he found to pay.On applying to concierge or landlord for a diminution in the rent of these apartments, many of which have remained untenanted ever since they were built, the answer to would-be tenants is invariably a declaration that \u201cMonsieur So and So has made up his mind that the apartment in ques.ion shall be rented at the price named, or not at all ; and that he will let it remain empty for ever, rather than lower his price \u201d There is one of these obstinate owners, who-e house, (a very large one, in a very aristocratic street, opening into the Champs Elysees,) has been kept entirely empty in this way, for the last fifteen years ! These good people never seem 10 count the loss resulting from allowing their houses to stand empty ; or to perceive that the receipt of a more moderate rent, during a greater number of years, may bring them, in a given period, a larger total reiurn than would be yielded by the receipt of a higher annual \u2019rent during a shorter number of yeats.The exorbitant rates of prices now prevailing in this city, and which furnish an ever-fresb source of annoyance to English residents, (who recall, with idle regrets, the palmy days when a five pound note purchased\u2014and not so very long ago\u2014as much as ten or twelve pounds will buy at this present writing), do not seem to exercise any effect on the luxurious living, and lavish display, of the vainglorious Parisians, and of the foreigners, with fabulous fortunes, who still make their appearance here from time to time, though the visits of this class of \u201c Birds cf Passage\u201d seems to ba growing rarer every year.One of the latest arrivals among the happy strangers, who come here to raise the envy of the natives, by the lavish syle of display popularly characterized here as \u201c throwing away gold by the shovelful,\u201d is a great magnate from Chili, of Irish descent, and rt juicing in the appropriate style and tike of Don Diego Higgins, who appears to be possessed of fabulous wealth, and who, being supposed to have visited, the Old VVorld with matrimonial designs, has been the object of all those charming and dirinterested attentions so generally bestowed on such people by the papas and mammas of marriageable daugh-tere, Don Diego (Diego is Spanish for Dominic) is the son and heir of one of the ill advised patriots of the last generation, who left their country to avoid a worse fate.He went first to Gibraltar, where his political antecedents caused him to \u201ce received with such slight hospitality, that he went thence to Spain, where he led a precarious existence for a year or two, and whence he sai\u2019.ed for South America, a \u201c citizen of the world,\u201d wkh the world before him, and his fortune to make.After màfiy wa.derings and adventures, trying first one thing and then another, he made his way to Chili, where he soon became busily and profitably occupied both as a trader in the delicate chinchilla furs, and a leader iu Chilian politics.The exile had married early, and had taken his family with him in all his wanderings, and his seven sons, who were deeply imbued with their father\u2019s principles,took great interest in the struggle then pending between Spain and her revolted colonies, in which their father took a leading and iifluential part.The seven sons were all clever, active, and fiery republicans.All fougfit bravely in the Chilian army, in which they held important coipmands, and all died in Cflili, wflfi the exception o( Diego, his falhei\u2019t?namgsake and sole survivor.The old mao, who amassed a fortune of many millions in the for trade, lived very simpiy, and as long as he lived, only allowed the sum of £50 a year to bis son and heir.On bis death, the younger Diego found himself in possession of a a fonune whose exact amount is not known, but which is believed here to be \u201c something fabulous\u201d ; and determined to mak3 a visit to Europe.He is not young (his father lived to a very advanced age,) and he is described as being the colour ol Cil! foahnnany, with busby hair and whiskers already gray.But so colossal is the reputation of bis fortune that he might have had the pick of nine-tenths of the girls \"in Ffi1\"*9- ll seems that he is very courageous, and showed such galiantry in saving the crew of a Spanish vetsel that .as wrecked some yearn ago, near Valparaiso; that the Queen ot Spain sent him the Order of Isabella the Catholic, and thus conferred on him his title of \u201c Don.\u201d But though the charms of his wealth and his title would enable him to obtain the hand of almost any one of the unmarried Parisiennes, Don Diego seems to have remained insensible to these chances oi matrimonial felicity The few persons who have been admitted to his intimacy seem to have come to the conclusion that he has reserved his choice for some {iloomiog daughter of Erin, to which land of showers and sunshine he has betaken himself.Before leaving Paris, Don Diego gave one of the most magnificent banquets that have ever been contrived by the comb.nation of foreign wealth and indigenous talent in the upholstery and culinary lines.The dining room 'was a marvel of splendour and brilliancy, and the bill of fare was printed in gold upon white satin, with an ornamented herder ; the Chilian National Hymn being primed also ip gold, and with a splendid border, on the other side.The Chilian Legation was present, en masse, at this splendid entertainment, with a large company of French and foreign grandees, and two or three persons bearing tne name of Higgins, in no a ay related to the amphytrion of the feast, but specially invited by him as bearers of his own euphonious patronymic.The affair went off with ihe utmost eduf ¦ toasts to Chili, to France, to Ireland, to the host, to the guests, and to the world in general, were drunk with equal enthusiasm by all present.The happy party did not break up until a rather late hour.But the success of this grand dinner-party was not fated to end within the circumference of Paris.It so happened that a notice of the brilliant fete given by Don Diego Higgins was given by the Paris correspondent ot one of the London dailies, with a short sketch of the history of the Hibemu-Ghilian grandee, and his late father.It so happened, moreover, that this notice was copied from the columns of the London naper into certain Irish papers ; and it so happened) yet farther, that one of the latter found its way into the hands of a wretchedly poor o.d widow, also a Higgins, living in a hov el in the Smithy, Skibber.een, who, when he eyes rested upon the paragraph, suddenly re memberëd that some relation of hers, a priest, had gone out to Chili fortyyears ago, and had written home telling his tamily that he had been very ill, and in great distress, and how he owed his life to the kindne.-s of a settler named Higgins, who took him to hi} house, and helped him through his illuess and troublts, for the sake of his name.\"The widow, having spelled out the account of the Chilian Don, his grant] banquet, and his history, wrote to Don Diego, asking him if fie kpew\u2019anything about this priest.Judge of the old woman\u2019s amazement and delight when she received an answer from that gentleman, informing her that the priest in question had died many Years ago, leaving a considerable sum of money invested at seven per tent in the Spanish funds, which he bequeathed to his relatives in Ireland , and that he, Don Diego, had been charged hy the executors of the defunct, to look up the heirs to this property which, having been kccumnlating ever since the priest\u2019s decease, now amounts to no less a sum than £40,000 sterling i to which handsome fortune the old woman in the Smiihy turns out through the deaths oj\u2019 other parties, to be the sole heifesi, and of which 'she will be speedily put into absolute and unflivijed possession.SSo true it is that, \u201c Truth\u201d is sometimes \u201c stranger than fiction.\u201d THE PIONEER BANQUET Ç.W.AT LONDON, London, C.W., has-'mken the lead in doing honor tp thp men who first entered the unbroken forest, aud to whose industry, perseverance and enterprise 'he present inhabitants of Upper Canada are so deeply indebted.In view of the fact that the old settlers are fast passing away, we have several times sug.gested that some one individual in each township or county endeavor to gather up the foci-dputs pefo'iug t0 tbe early settlement of ihe district.The'best thing of the tiini is a History of Shipton, published by the Rev.Mr.Cleveland, ten or twelve years ago Mr.OroiTs history of Dundas is a much more extensive work.If the local historian cannot be found, perhaps the best thing that can be done is to hold a banonetaim.jlar to that at London, and there let the* old settlers' give' their experience of hnsh-liife and the history of the groWth of the setfiement into à village of tuTn; or iuto a large and prosperous farming community.On Thursday last, about 300 guests sat down to dinner in\u2019the City Hall, undpr ibe presidency of Col.J.B.Askin.After dioner the Bishop of Huron returned thanks.Several of the guests then gave addresses, abounding with reminiscences of the early settlement of the country, As these recollections form part of Canadian histoiy we condense the addresses, retaining the more important facts, and most interesting incidents.Col.Askin spoke in substance as follows :\u2014 On the 5th of Feb, 1793, Gov.Simcoe journeyed from Navy Hall to Detroit, and from there back.About 1793, Oapt Ryerse came to Long Point, and settled at what is now Port Ryerse.There was only one settler at Nanticoke Creek, Peter Walker at Patterson\u2019s Creek, and at Long Point Bay, D.Sawyer.At that time there was a partial settlement at Niagara.In or about 1802, Col.Talbot, Col.Salmon and D.Rolph\u2019a families subsequently settled in Long Point county, and in consequence of the Proclamation issued hy Governor Simcoe, inviting the United Empire loyalists to come to Canada Captain Walsh, Cantain Hutchins, and Captain Miller, availed themselves of the opportunity.About ihe year 1803 a large number of settlers came to this Province under the auspices of the proclamation of Gov.Simcoe, inviting the U.E.Loyalists to come to Canada and they would receive grants of land.Many, came through the wilderness than existing between the Mohawk River and the lakes, wending their way by boats up the Mohawk and toWood Creek, then down the stream till they came to the waters of the Lakes to the Niagara ; thence over to the Chippewa, and thence by boats and other craft to the places of settlement also by water, to other puices along the shores to Lake Ontario, wending their way interiorly, to Burlington, and Other places.A Mr.Beasly was at Hamilton between 1793 and 1803, a period of ten years.\u2014 We find several settlements were formed.We find them in Oxford, on the River Thames.\u2014 These settlements would seem to be under the auspices of Major Ingersoll, the late Mr.Putnam, Mr.Bostwick and Major A atson.At Dnndas we find the late Richard Hale and his brother oamuel Hale.As late as the year 1812-13 there was a vast space of the country s'ill unoccupied and unsettled; and yet, in tne year 1803,or 1804, the Hon.Col, Talbot, was authorised to form a settlement of the waste lands of the Crown, and he, with great wisdom and forethought, laid out and located the emigrants seekirg a home in Canada in the townships of Middleton, Houghton, Bayham, Malahide, Yarmouth, Houthwoid, Ounwieh, Aldboro\u2019, the present township of London, Oxford, Tilbury, East and West Dawn, as well as in Westminster, estaolishing thereby a prosperous and happy hmue for thousands of those who are now independent whose industry is an example to all settlers in any country ; and let me add that this very city of London was located by him lo actual settlers, himself setting the example by going into the wools and cutring down the first t ees.Between the years 1804, and 1830, we find the settlement progress not very rapid, yet going on favorably.In 1832, a new impetus was given to the settlement of Cannda by farther invitation made to the people iu England ; then came the emigration to the set.lemtnt north of the river Thames, The officers aud soldiers who fought the battles of the Peninsular campaign, came and among them I may name the Talbots, the McIntosh\u2019s,the Radclitte\u2019s, the Johnston\u2019s, our worthy friend Oapt.Beer, Oapt.Bagly, Major McKenzie, Col.Thompson, and with \"them the late Chancellor, and our Revd.guest the Bishop of Huron.Shortly after this, Air.Wilson Mills and many other valuable settlers, who are still with us, prepared to overcome the difficulties Of Pioneer life I Col.McRae said his father came to the Province in 1788, and in i790 he Came to the Upper province.The only mode of communication then was the bateaux.They went about subduing the wilderness till the war broke out.On the 5th of Dec.1812, near where he then lived, a battle was fought.He was himself then a boy, but he remembered the battle of Ra-ventown, where Tecumseth was killed.After this the country improved very slowly ; only one log tavern was in London then.He, Col.McRae, had the honor to be the first pioneer who started a line of stages in the town of London.He would now come down to the rebellion.A flag here to-night, purpofting to be the flag of the volunteers of Kent ; that company, he could say, were composed of robust gentlemen like himself.In 1837 they marched down to meet the American sympathisers, up to their middle in a swamp and repulsed the invaders, and they would do so again.Jas.Ferguson, Esq., Registrar of Middlesex, had resided in the county of Middlesex for over 40 years.Ho had come into the county when it was an unbroken wilderness ; he h%d passed through this section pf the cityT-the very spot where they were seen holding their festivilies.-when there was scarcely a white man near it, when there was no blacksmith or othertrade, when, in a word, the country was a forest.In lb24 the population of what was called the London District, comprising the present counties ot Niddlesex, together with East and West Elgin, numheroU [\"i610 ;n_ '\u2019\u201cb\u2019/.Tnte.In 1861, what was it?No less than 166,930.In 1824 Middlesex proper con tainod 8,060 inhabitants; by the census of 1861 it had increased to 84,413.In the early day he (Mr.F.) was speaking cf, there were only five grist mills, each with one run of stock stones, and four saw mills in the entire district.The number of frame houees was 17, and the number of square log house» but four, Oapt.Doty, who came to Westminster in 1812, next spoke.There were only sixteen families in the united townships cf Delaware, Dorchester and Westminster.At that time war was declared.There came a company of dragoons along, who forced me to go to Windsor.1 was absent for thirteen days, leaving Mrs.Doty to the mercy of the wild beasts of the forest, no inhabitants being within three miles.She had her own wood to cut, aud the cow to hunt after over the forest, whilst, at the same time she carried h«p babe in her anus ; and the circumstances oi my being taken away occqrrefl very often ; and 1 leave you, gentlemen, to judge for yourselves as to the hardships the pioneers had to go through when there were no doctors nor midwives to be found within the space af twenty-five miles.We had to go to St.Catherines for our salt ; in faot, I was gone seven days for six bushels of that substance.The American troops came through in 1813, and burned uli the mills from Windsor to the Grand River at Brantford.We had then to pound our grain, boil it whole, or go 60 miles to a mill in Blenheim.In the midst of such a delightful country, exhibiting such signs of wealth,-happiness anu prosperhy, \u2022 i -t./.annnurse of well-to do people full TYllU 11IX) - , _ of health, activity and spirited enterprise before us, ue can scarcely bring ourselves to contemplate this place as a wilderness 38 years ago, but such it was.Much as we may be surprised aud delighied with the contrast that now presents itself to us in the township in so short a space of time, we must remember that the other townships of this Riding present an equally remarkable contrast.In 1812, only fifty-one years since, there were no stores or licensed [tins, in this whole County of Middlesex, extending from Lougpoint to Brantford, and from Lake Erie to Goderich ; and the assessment roll, which may be said to embrace almost the whole of the inhabitants of the country, contained only seventy names \u2014 the whole assessment could have been taken upon a single sheet of foolscap.What would be the size of the sheet upon which it would be taken today ?Thus have we advanced-fine cultivated farms, good substantial buildings, many cf them cohspicious for their architectural beauty,as well as convenience and utility good roads, thriving towns, busy villages, much frequented churches, school-houses, and mills occupying the ground where forty years ago, stood the mighty unbroken forest.The hum of civilized life salutes the ear here to-day of numbers who trod this then wilderness, with few sounds fal ing upon the ear save those of Nature in her wildest state\u2014the howl of the wolf, the screech of the owl, and the snort of the deer, as, wild and free, he bounded away at the sight of man, who had just begun to intrude upon his hitherto unmolested pasture grounds and the pioneer has now enclosed those, his pasture grounds, for agricultural purposes.Let us never allow the farmer to he looked down upon, or be condemned as such, but let us make better use of our privileges, and thereby elevate our calling\u2014intreasing our own knowledge an disseminating intelligence upon scientific and profitable agriculture ; and let us endeavor to make oar profession attractive to our sons and daughters, and let us educate them with a view to employment therein in future life, anfi let no grade o'f ejass tiare to look down upon us on account of our lack ofin-telligence, enterprise and integrity.Mr.President, having witnessed all this under the protection of the most enlightened, and at the present moment, most poweiful and best government in the world, under ihe folds of that flag that has \u2022\u2018Braved, a thous-nd years, The battle and the breeze.\u201d That man must be ignorant, indeed, if his heart does not glow with emotions of deepest gratitude to the Almighty Dispenserof every good, for the blessings of peace and prosperity in \u201cCanada, onr hothe.\u201d Lieutenant-Colonel Henry, o£ Elgin, said,\u2014 When a boy, I left my mother, brothers and sisters, on the Ist' of January, 1816, and came 150 miles west to foe township of Dunwich, now a part of West Elgin, but in 1816 it was one district, and it has been divided into a number of districts.When I got so far west as Dunwich I found nine settlers, andin that settlement I stopped and made it my home for 14 years.My former home, Alderborough, had not a single white man a set Jer in it, south of the river Thames, and many of the townships west and north were not surveyed at that time.Whep Oxford was surveyed, I drew the first, or occupied the the first Jot that was occupied in the township, aud did what were called the settlement-duties at that tine, and carried the provisions on my back 20 miles, and thought it no hardship at that ; and when I had done the settlement-duties on my lotjin Oxford, I went to work again in Dunwich.Borne time in the month of March, 1831, I came to the River Thames here near Lon-eon, and crossed the river a liUle above where the oldest bridge now stands, upon an elm tree that had fallen across the fiver where the city stands.Mr.Jaaiei* Johnson, President of the Upper Canada Agricultural Association, made some capital remarks.He said The agricultural interest, of Canada is vast.The progress made in that branch of industry must strike every one with wonder and admiration, and reflects great credit on those engaged in that noble pur.-uit.If we but glance at the average returns fif 1851, and compare thpm with taose of 1861, we find that id 1851 there were but lie,686 horses in all Canada, and in 1861, 626,196, an increase of 509,000 ; again, if we look at horped cattle at the same period, we have 379,706 against 1,832,300, an increase of over 1,400,000 ; again, at sheep, 543 343 against 1,853,054, an increase of 1 300,00 ; and here I would remark that 900,000 of that increase took place in Upper Canada alone in the ten years from 1851 to 1861.If we turn to hogs, we have an increase from 205,137 to 1,062,401; or to wheat, from 3 208,075 bushels to 27,274,779 ; and h re I may say that the whole increase of 24,000,000 bushels goes to foe credit of U.C.alone, L.C.having grown in 1861 but 2,854,354 bushels ; peas, an important, increases from 984,198 to 12,250.173; oats from 3,153,597 to 38,772,170; and barley from 393,352 to 4,563,636.I will not take up your time, Mr.Chairman and gentlemen in showing what has been done in rye, Indian corn, potatoes, pork, beef, butter, cheese, &c , all of them important articles, and showing like favorable results ; but I cannot pass over turnips, mangel wurtzel and carrots, for I am glad to see that our farmers are year after year turning their attention more and more to the culture of these valuable roots, for where good roots are grown you can grow any other crop.And it is remarkable that in foe early statistics of the Province no mention is made of them, as if they were net then grown.I find, however, that in foe last ten years, or more properly speaking, between 1851 and 1861, the increase in these esculents was over 18,000,000 bushels.And let us take a glance at our exports, and here we find that they amounted as $36,614,-195 in 1861\u2014one half, or $18,244,631, was in agricultural products.Such facts az these should cheer on the farmer of Canada in his noble c riling and make him thankful that his lot has been cast in such a favoured land, and the young should look up with veneration to the hardy pioneers who led the way into the forest, and laid the foundation of their prosper-perity and the greatness of this country.TRADE AND 0QMM£BÜË.Montreal, Dec.21st, 1863.The weather yesterday to-day has been gloomy and cold, with every threatening of a fall of snow ; sleighing in foe city is very good, but in the country we have not snow enough, especially as we have had high winds whieü caused it to drifi considerably.A further fall wouid be very acceptable.We give to-days receipts of Produce.Ashes per Railroad, brls.\t\t116 Flour per do, brls\t\t Wheat per do, bus\t\t Dressed Hogs per do\t\t Butter per do, kegs\t\t Leather, per do, rolls\t Highwines per do, cks\t\t \t\t51 As to be expected, a very small amount of business was done on the Corn Exchange.For Superfine Flour, the market was dull-and drooping, some 800 brls was placed at $4.20.A sale was also made at $4.22], and an exceptional lot at the Point brought $4.25.A lot of 200 brls Superior Extra brought $5 60.A lot of sour Superfine sold at $3.62], No.2 Superfine brought $3.77], Bag Fionr $2 20 to $2 39.Nothing doing in Grain.Piovisions-Dresssd Hogs, a lot of 50, averaging 190 lbs, was sold $4 70 per 100 lbs.and a lotuf 40 averaging 210 lbs, brought $5, whilst a small lot averaging 250 lbs brought $5 37].The following is received by telegram ; Milwaukie, Dec.18.\u2014Wheat buoyant $1,19] in store.Receipts 12,000 bushels.Chicago, Dec.10.\u2014Flour active Wheat $1 13 to!.18} iu store.Corn higher, quiet.Groceries.\u2014-The ouly event to-day was an auction sale by Messrs.Mitchell, Kinnear & Co of a cargo of 219 hhds Cuba sugar.There was a (air audinece, but no spirit in bidding, a small lot of 5 hhds fair brought $4.70 and 15 more of same qualiiy was placed at $9.55, the banlance withdrawn.Nothing doing in other articles.Financial.\u2014Little or nothing doing in Sterling Exchange, bank drafts 10 to 10[ per cent prem.Bank drafts pn New York 33J to 34] per cent dis ; according to foe fluctuations in gold in New York.American bank notes buying rate 35 gelling 34 per cent dis.Silver buying 3 to 3] per cent dis.; selling 3 per cent dis.By telegram from New York Sterling Exchange is 166 to 167 ; gold 152] ; silver 147.We quote from foe London Economist of 5th inst : \u2014 Discount and Monet Maiû-vkt.\u2014After a short pefioct of quiet\u2014quiet that resulted rather from foe preparations that had been made to meet the apprehended danger than from the idea it had actually passed by\u2014the money market has been startled by the advance of 2 per cent, within forty -eight hours in the Bank minimum rate of discount.The immediate cause of, the measures adopted hy the Bank wa3 further rise reported ip.the Indian exchanges by the last mail.The continued shipments of ^oid to the Brazils and to Egypt havfe'also exercised great influence, as foe engagements entered into with the latter country were for a considerable amount of specie, which has now nearly been despatched.The greatest effect produced by the recent changes has been upon the cotton market, where a rapid decline is noted.The produce market i are also in some measure acted upon by the dearer rate of money.It is probable enough that a reduction in the price of stocks, and especially of cotton, will followfrom a sfoingent money-market ; but it is evident tflat the permanence of the fall mast depend upon the arrivals, since the present stock is scarcely sufficient for a month\u2019s consumption at the increasing extent of onr manufactures.With regard to purchases effected for later delivery, speculation has in this, as it does in all such cases, most likely gone ahead.Still, however merchants may have been tempted to stifflulate production by the hope of securing foe earliest supply for delivery in the market here, the energetic measures taken will greatly tend to reduce such speculation within reasonable limits and to avert disaster.The current quotations for paper of various dates are subjoined, but they must be regarded as little more than nominal, discounts being generally made a matter of negotiation for the present : \u2014 30 to 60 days.8 9 per cent.3\tmoaths.89 per cent.4\tmoüths.)\tSpecial 6 months\u2014Bank\tbills.k\tarrrngfi- \u2014 Trade\tditto .)\tments.Money ip the Stock Exchange Jz from 0 to 8 per cent, for short periods.There are moderate sums offered from day to day on Government securities, aud these result in some sort from the fact that, in several instances, individuals have oversupplied their present wants in anticipation of further pressure, as is evidenced by the Bank return, where^ nothwithstanding the considerable increase in discounts, the private deposits, ftlso, have increasgd.We give receipts at the Custom House.19 Dec.$ 3682 32.21 Dec.3850,32.[BY TEbEGKAPH.J NEW YORK MARKETS\u2014Deo 20.Flour\u2014Receipts 9,878 bbls ; market steady with moderate demand, and 5 to 10 cents better for shipping brands; sales 73,200 brls; $6,20 to 6,35 for Super State ; $3,60 to 6,70 for Extra State; $6,75 to 6,85 for choice do; $6,20 to 6,40 for super Western; $7,14 to 7,65 for common to medium Extra Western ; $7,50 to 7,U5 for common to good shipping brands Extra Round Hoop Ohio.Canadian Flour quiet, and a shade firmer ; sales 3pp.bbls ; $6,40 to 6,55 for common ; 6,60 to 9,00 for good to choice Extra.Rye Flour steady at $5,75 to 6,80.Wheat-\u2014Receipts none ; market quiet and firm; sales41,000 bushels ; $1,46 t® $1,50 for Chicago Spring; $1.47 to 1,51 for Milwaukee Club ; $1,50 to 1,53 for Amber Milwaukie; $1.65 to l.tO for Winter Red Western ; $1,60 to 1,62} for Amber Michigan.Rye quiet aud nominal.Barley quoted steady.Corn heavy and 1 cent lower ; sales 35,000 bushels, at $1.2p to 1.29 for Shipping Mixed Western in store, chiefly $1.29,.Oats about 2 cents better, at 91c to 91}c for Canada; 91}c to 93}c for State ; and 9,2c to 94c for Western.Pork firmer.B.eef steady.Stocks lower.Money and Exchange quiet.American (j-ald 152j.AdAHHlBD- At Soulanges, Cedars.C.E., on the 17th inst.by the Rev.Moris Rour, Philiip Hooffstaller, native of Essex, England, to Thorsille Bissonnette, second naughter of Mr.Francois BissonnetiÆ, farmer, all of that place.mss.Suddenly, on the 19th instant, Mrs.James, Young (mother oi Mr.John M.Young), a- ed 59 years, ' 83= Friends and acquaintances are; invited to attend her funerai, which >vill take place to-day (Tuesday,) free, Z'ind, at Three o\u2019clock, from the residence of her son, 176 Sherbrooke Street.In tins city, on the 19th instant, after a long and painful il.ness.Horace Nelson, Esq., M.D., aged 42 years, eldest son of the late Or.Wolfred Nelson, üàkf Relative!, and friends are respe tlillly requested to attend the funeral, frern his late residence 27 Little St.James forpet, this (Tuesday) morning, the 22ufl\"inst;, à] 8)4 o\u2019clock, without further invitation.Hi this city, p,u the 18th inst., George Henry, eldest son of Win.H, Jones, aged 16 years.In this city, on the 19th instant, William Skakel, late Clerk in the Ordnance Depai tment, aged 84 years.{2@\"Frienas are requested to attend his funeral this (Tuesday) afternoon, at Three o\u2019clock, from the residence ot Archibald Ferguson, Bsq., Mansfield Street.No cards.In this City, on Monday, the 21st inst., James Moore, aged 77 years.Friends and acquaintances are respectfully re-ouested to attend his funerai, on Thursday afternoon, foe 34th ins\u2019ant.at half-past Two o\u2019clock, frota ni-late rpsjdeuce.iNp.16 Nbtfç liante Street, to the place of interment, Mount Royal Cemetery.ADAMS & CO., lllamiiacturei's «fc Importers HAYE FOR SALE, ;\t2.tx- \u2018*4 torn Brooms, Telegraph latches, Fails, Tubs, Was-Boards, Clothes-Pins, \u2014Together with a complete Stock of\u2014 Wooden Ware, Fancy Goods, &c, 45 GREAT ST.JAMES STREET.December 22.\t394 Hew Eoglaod Societj, THS NEW ENGL&ND SOCIETY JWILL CELEBRATE THE 243rd Anniversary * OF THE mmm of the pilgrims, ON Tuesday, the 22nd instant, BY AN (Address by the Chaplain, Rev.J.IS.BONiAfS, IN THE Amelia Piesbyteiian Clwcii, AT HALF-PAST THREE, P.M.The Members of the Society will meet in the Basement of the Church at THREE o\u2019clock, with their Badges.The public are invited to attend.(By Order,) C.K.ADAMS, Reo.Secretary.December 22.\t304 EGS to solicit the attention of his customers to his Stock of «ECHtncmiiL LECTUfiE BY FEOFESBOE A.O\u2019LEAEY Tuesday Evening, Dec.22, ON IF5 DEE HZ\u2019 ® X O SLi «O G»- \"ST, OR TBH LAWS OF LIFE AND HEALTH.Admission Fans.No Boys admitted except with their Parents or Guardians.WHEN the Professor was here last Winter many of the leading Citizens of Montreal invited and urged him to repeat the Course.His engagements were such that he could not ; but he promised to come within a year and do it.He now fulfils that promise, hoping to meet his old friends, and to be received, as he was then, by large, intelligent, and enthusiastie audiences, to whom he also hopes to be able to say and show much of interest that he has gleaned and gathered in the year ibat has gone.G.E.MoGILL, Agent.December 22.\t304 umm ransi! Christmas Presents ! JAMES PARKIN B LACE AND MMIÜ GOODS, Suitable fpr the present Season, and in inviting foe Ladles and Gentlemen of Montreal and neighbourhood to an inspection of the same, would remind them that there are few more useful or acceptable PRESENTS at this Season of the Year.The LATE ARRIVALS include ARTICLES worn for Morning, Dinner, Ball, \u2014AND\u2014 EVENINS BBESS.ie# Lace and Muslin Gais, COLLARS AND SLEEVE?, IN HONITON, MALTESE, GUIPURE, BRUSSELS, AND THS EMBROIDERED VALENCIENNES LACES, Mew iLace, ÎELWJ SU SASHES Mmoniers, lew Si and Velvet Goddices, MILtmERY, Beautiful Collection LACE AND BLONDE CAPS, Of the most recent designs, and new Trimmings, Hew Head Dresses, WREATHS, CORONETS, &c\u201e Velvet, Gïcth, §Hli & Lace Jackets HEW LACE CAPES.Berthes, Garibaldis, &c.,\t&c.,\t&c.LiCE, MUSLIN, AND GRENADINE DRESSES, Plain and Dress Handkerchiefs IN LACK AND EMBROIDERY; AN EXTENSIVE VARIETY.A FRESH ASSORTMENT OF THH NEW TRIMMING LACES, 300 Lace Collars, 30 cents to f 3, 200 do do, sets, $1 to $5, and upwards, 1 Lot of 230 Embroidered Mnslin Collars, at Is l|d, worth Is 9d, \u2014ALSO,\u2014 ji Consignment of Beautiful Articles FRENCH FANCV GOODS, \u2014 CONSISTING OF\u2014 Ornaments for the Hair, Tiaras, Combs, &c.As worn this Season in London and Paris.The remainder of foe GOODS frem the Exhibition will be offered VERY CHEAP, in order to dispose of the whole this season.Mil 168 Notre Dame Street.ESTABLISHED 184-9.December 19.\t30fl ESTABLISHED 1818.HMmels Laite Union White Fish (FALL CATCH), JUST RECEIVED.W m.Klvin & Co.December 22.\t304 OLD BSUBBOI VBISKT WARRANTED PURE AND FIFTEEN YEARS OLD.In Wood and Bottle.For sale by December 22.C.E.Seymour.304 HOLIDAY GIFTS! HOLIDAY GIFTS! savageTlii TAKE pleasure in announcing, for the information of their numerous friends and the public, that they HAVE RECEIVED BY RECENT ARRIVALS THE WHOLE OF THEIR IMPORTATIONS, selected with great care, with special reference to the approaching Holidays, and which will be found on inspection to surpass in VARIETY, NOVELTY and DESIGN, that of any previous season, consisting in part of :\u2014 COLD AND SILVER WATCHES, Gold RraceMs, Ruches and Ear-Wiifs, k, {TOUT ENSUITE), GOLD BROOCHES AND EAR-RINGS, ALBERT AN® GUARD CHAINS, Keys and Seals, DRESS AND SEAL RINGS, k FEW CHOICE DIAMOND RINGS, Solitaires, Sleeve Buttons and Studs, CfOXtB Ams 8ÏXVEEI \u2019T\u2019HIMBJLEi.SCARF PKiS Pen and Pencil Cases, OBMOIiU AMD\tGLÛOICS, Bk aud Parian Groups, STATUETTE I AND ORNAMENTS, A GREAT VARIETY OF Parisian Novelties, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS, Pearl and Ivory Fans, ELECTRO-PLATED WARE IN ALL ITS VARIETIES OF MANUFACTURE OF THEIR USUAL GOOD QUALITIES.Ladles' aud Gents' Dressing Cases aud Rags, FINE TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY, SCISSORS, Cases of Table and Dessert Kmves and Forks IN SILVEK, PLATS» PN» BTEEi.BRONZE URNS AND KRTTLRS* Papier-Mache Work Tables, BOXES AND DESKS, CADI-SES, GL0YE BOXES, &c., Microscopes, Barometers, Thermometers, Telescopes and Opera Glasses.\u2014ALSO,\u2014 LONDON AND HOME MADE SILVER TEA AMD COFFEE SETS, Water and Claret Jugs, Goblets, Cups, FISH KNIYFS AND FORKS, INK STANDS.SALT STANDS» Napkin Kings, Pie Knives, Ladles, &c., &C.1 Cathedral Block,.December 17.umi & ifiii, .Notre Dame Street, Montreal, 300 CUifOBHIl SHIS.ALL the VARIETIES of the above FINE and PURE WINBS as follows: \u2014 Anglica, Muscatel, Port, Hock.Aliso, Wine Bitters.For Sale by C.E.Seymour, Çaiiada Asbnt.December 22.\t304 FRUIT, FRUIT, FRUIT, \u2014AND OTHER\u2014 mmi RiQOiiim.THE Subscriber\u2019s STOCK, at present, is unusually large, and well assorted in every department, and, being of [recent importation, direct from places of growth and manufacture, will be found of superior quality, and at his usual LOW PRICES.WINES.LIQUORS» Ales, PorteJ, FRENCH LIQUEURS, SYRUPS, Champagne, Claret, Ac., &c.,\t&C., ALL OF THE CHOICEST BRANDS AND VINTAGES.GREEN CORN, GREEN PEAS, GREEN BEANS, MUSHROOMS, TRUFFLES, peaches, CRYSTALIZED fruits.Wes! End Raisins, Plums, MALAGA GRAPES, Tart.Fruits, Fruits in Syrnp, Sweet Oranges» Ac., &c.,\t&c.Prlees of Game during Holidays : PRAIRIE HENS, per brace .\t2a.QUAILS,\tper dozen .6s 3d.received every day, (PEB EXPRESS.) Finnan Baddies & Fresh Oysters, DAILY SUPPLIES.Ï3- Purchasers will oblige by leaving their ORDERS early, to prevent disappointment.ALEX.McGIBBON, Corker or Notre Dame A St, Gabriel Streets.December 22.\t30\u20181\u2019 ciisTms i in ran PRESENTS.THE LARGEST AND MOST SELECT STOCK IN THE CITY OF Gent\u2019s Fancy Fuanneh fehirts, Gent\u2019s Dress ants Regatta Shirts, Gent\u2019s Cardigan Jackets, scarfe and dollars, Gent\u2019s Shetland Lambs\u2019 Wool Shirts and Drawers, Gent\u2019s Hamt Knitted Shirts, Pants and Socks, All suitable for Christmas and New Years Presents, WILL BE FODND AT RINGLAND & EWART\u2019S, 272 Notre Dame Street,, December 16.\tdn 299 Christmas\taud\t1%\tTears PRESENTS.Balmoral Skirts, Hoop Skirls Garibaldi Jackets, ^ontagSc, Woollen fcarft, Boas, ^ratfets Balmoral Hosiery, Knitted Hosiery A MAGNIFICENT ASSORTMENT AT RINGLAND & EWART\u2019S, 272 Notre Dame Street.December 16.\tdu 299 Christmas\tand\tNew\tYear\u2019s PaESBNTS.Woollen Hoods, their own make Fingering, Fleecy and Berlin Wools, of the finest qualities Blankets and Flannels, of the most superb material ALL OF KECEN1 IMPORTATION, TO BE FOUND AT RI^GLAND & EWART\u2019S, 272 Notre Dame Street.December 16.\tdu 299 Just in Time ! GHILDREK'S SLEIGHS IN G R is AT VARIETY, -AND- Very Many Useful Articles, SUITABLE FOR THE HOLIDAYS', ADAMS & CO., 45 Great St.Jambs Street.December 22.\t304 m ClfECÏlOÜBY.Î'HE Subscriber begs to intimate that in addition to his present place of Business, he has leased and fitted up in the most approved style those central and convenient premises No.oo mtcGILL STKEET, (Next Door to Dr.Bowman), Which he will open on WEDNESDAY, the 23rd instant, with a large and varied Stock of Pastry and Confectionery Also, CaKES of all kinds for the coming Holidays, consisting of:\u2014Iced Plum Cake, Seed Cake, Currant Cake, Sultana Cake, Citron Cake s Plain Cake, kc., &0.SCOTCH CASS S3, Genuine Scotch Buns (the Fruit all Sfcmed), Short Bread, Pitkethly Bannocks, Petticoat Tails.Wedding Cakes made to order, and Parties supplied with Boar\u2019s Head, Jellied Turkey, Jollied Fowls, Jellied Tongues, Ornamented Dams, Raised Game Pie, Italian Salad, Onarlotte Russe,, Pyramids of Macarones, Orange, &a.; Italian, Cream, Calf\u2019s Foot Jelly, Blanc Mange, Ice-Cream, Water Ices, ko., Ac, made from the, best material and in tflq newest style.Orders purtsfoally executed and carefully de^ livered in al: parts of the city.ALEX.ROUGH, 110 Mountain Street,.Deeomber 22.\tdu 304 "]