Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 14 février 1867, jeudi 14 février 1867

[" POST OFFICE.MontreAii, January 12,1867.5fff>grua^TÎ,®ï-0fiî Ô0 âlÆiM®\t^©S3 Ssn9**JL ÜCB.7.45\ta m 8.00\ta m 10.45 p m 12 Noon.b.45 a m 9.45\ta m 9.45\ta m 6.45\ta m 1.45\tp m 6.45\ta rn 11.fM) am 5.00\tp m 9.15 tt in 5.00 pm 11.00 a m 11.00 a m 10.30 a m 6.30 a m 2.00\tp m 5.00\tpm 5.00 p m MaHjS.(Jueliec by Railroad.North Shore Land Route.Canada West Day Train.[1] Canada West Night Train.[2] Laprairie.St.Johns, C.E., Napierville ) and Clarence ville.S New York, Boston, Buffalo, j Troy, TOTIsÆ^k.3Sr jU3t completed a n«w arrangement for Portraits in Winter Costume.This style is verv effective, and has the addi tional a i vantage of affording to friends at a dis lancoau excellent idea of our Canadian winte s and of the f llowing Canadian sports and outdoor amusements : \u2014 SNOW-SHOEING TABOGGANING SLEIGHING SHOOTING WALKING SKATING Giving a charming variety In an Album.W.NGTMAN, Photographek to the Queen, 17 Bieury Street Montre a January?.\t5 IF OH THAI TITHE A Few Fsarge Vignettes FINISHED IN WATER CONORS, ARE NOW ON VIEW AT ' W.NOTMAN\u2019S Aa the style Is somewhat NEW, the puM are invited to call and see them.Belne painted to order, can only detain them lor exhibition for a FEW DAYS JNovemberS,\t297 PUBTilO NOTICE.THE MAYOR, AT.DERMEN and CITIZENS of the City of Montreal, by their undersigned Attorney and Counsel, hereby give PUBLIC NOTICE that on THURSDAY, the TWENTY-EIGHTH day of MARCH next, at half-past TEN o\u2019clock In the forenoon, at the COURT HOUSE in this City, they will, by and through their said Attorney and Counsel, present to one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Dower Canada, in and for the District of Montreal, in Chambers, a Petition calling upon the said Judge to choose and nominate, in virtue of the Actof the Legislature, 27th and 23th Vic chap 611, three competent and disinterested persons, to act as Commissioneks, to fix and determine, in conformity with the said Act, the price or compensation to he a1 lowed fertile lots or pieces of ground or real properly hereinafter mentioned and described, which the said Corporation of the City of Montreal have, by a Resolution adopted on the Sixteenth day of January, one thousand eight and sixty-seven, determined to acquire for the purpose of EXTENDING STANLEY and DRUMMOND STREETS, and of WIDENING ST.JANVIER STREET, in the' St.Antoine Ward of the said City, and to perform such other duties as are imposed upon the said Com missioners in and by the Act 29 and 30 Vic , cap.56, viz:\u2014 EXTENSION OF STANLEY STREET.1.A piece of ground, without buildings, fifty feet wide, Eng ish measure, and extending from Dorchester Street to St.Janvier Street, bounded on the north-west by Dorchester Street, on the north-east partly by Miss Lydia St Hoyle\u2019s property and partly by James L.Mathewson\u2019s property, on the south east by St.Janvier Street, and on the south-west partly by the property of the Trustees of the American Presbyterian Church and partly by the remainder of the property of Miss Lydia S.Hoyle, of which the said piece forms part, and as is shewn on the p'an of said improvement deposited in the City Surveyor\u2019s Office.EXTENSION of DR UMMOND STREET.2.A piece of ground, without buildings, sixty feet wide, English measure, bounded on tbe north-west by Dorchester Street, on the north-east partly by the property of the Trustees of the American Presbyterian Church and partly by the property of Miss Lydia S.Hoyle.on the south-east by the property of the Corporation of Montrea1, and on the south-west by the property of the said Miss Lydia S.Hojle, of which the said piece forms a part, and as is shewn on the plan of said improvement deposited in the City Surveyor\u2019s Office.WIDENING OF ST.JANVIER STREET.3.A piece of ground, with [buildings or parts of buildings thereon, bounded on the north-east by t he property of A.M.Foster, or his representatives, on the south-east and south-west by St.Janvier Street, and on the north-west by the remainder of the property of the Estate De Beau jeu, as divided by the new line of St.Janvier Street, and as Is shewn on the plan of the said improvement deposited in the office cf the City Surveyor.4.A piece of ground, bounded on the northeast and south-west by the property of the Estate De Beaujeu, on the south-east by St.Janvier Street, and on the north-west by the remainder of tbe property of A.M.Foster, or his representatives, as divided by the new line of St, Janvier Street, and as is shewn on the plan of thj said improvement deposited in tne City Surveyor\u2019s office.5, A piece of ground, without buildings thereon; bounded on tbe north-easi by the property of Matthew Lockhead, on.the south-east by St.Janvier Street, on Dm south-west by the property of A.M.Foster, or his representatives, and on the north-west by tbe remainder or me property of the Estate De Beaujeu, as divided by the new line of St.Janvier {street, and as is shewn on the plan of tbe said improvement deposited in the City Surveyor\u2019s Office.6.A piece of ground with buildings, or parts of buildings thereon, hounded on the north-east by the property of ihe Corporation of Montreal ; on the south-east by St.Janvier streetf on the south-west by tbe property of the estate DeBeaujeu, and on the north-west by the remainder of tbe property of Mathew Lockhead, as divided by the new line of St.Janvier street, and as is shewn on the plan of the said improvement deposited in the office of the City Surveyor.7.A piece of ground, without buildings, bounded on the south-west by the property of the Corporation of Montreal, on the south-east by St.Janvier Street, and on the north-west and north-eavt by the remainder of the property of Miss Lydia S.Hoy le j as divided by the new lines of St.Janvier and Stanley Streets, and as ^s shewn on the plan of said improvement deposited in the City Surveyor\u2019s Office.8.A piece of ground with buildings or parts of buildings thereon, bounded on tbe northeast by the property of Thomas Watson or his representatives, on the south-east by St.Janvier Street, and on the south-west and north-west sides by the remainder of the property of Miss LydiaS.Hoyle, as divided by the new line of Stanley and St.Janvier Streets, and as is shewn on the p an of said improvement deposited in the City Surveyor\u2019s Office.9.Apiece of ground, without buildings, bounded on the north-east by the property of the Corporation of Montreal, on the south-east by St.Janvier Street, on the south-west by the property of Miss Lydia S.Hoyle, and on the north-west by the property of Thomas Watson, or his representatives, as divided by the new line of St.Jaavier Street, and as is shewn on the plan of said improvement, deposited in the City Surveyor\u2019s office.10.A piece of ground without buildings, bounded on the north-west by St.Janvier Street ; on thé south-west by Mountain Street; on the north-east by the property of the estate Trim (or representatives), and on the south-east by the remainder of the property of James Baylis, as divided by the new line of St.Janvier Street, and is shewn on the plan ol said improvement deposited in the City Surveyor\u2019s Office.11.A piece of ground, without buildings, bounded on the north-east partly by St.Janvier Street, and partly by the property of Mrs.Hubert Adams; on tne nortn-wcao oy at.Janvier Street; on the south-west by the property of James Baylis, and on the southeast by the remainder of the property of the estate Trim (or representatives), as divided by the new Hue of St.Janvier Street, and as is shewn on the plan of said improvement deposited in the City Surveyor\u2019s Office.12.A piece of ground, without buildings, bounded on the north-west by St.Janvier Street ; on the south-west by the property of the estate Trim (or represen oatives), and on the south-east by the remainder of the property of Mrs.Robert Adams, as divided by the new line of St.Janvier Street, and as is shewn on the plan of said improvement deposited in the office of the City Surveyor.13.A piece of ground, without buildings, bounded on the north-west by St.Janvier Street > and on the north-east and souih east by the remainder of the property of James Russell, as divided by the new lines of St.Francois de Salles and St.Janvier Streets, and as is shewn on the plan of said improvement deposited in the City Surveyor\u2019s Office.HLNRY STUART, ROUER ROY, Atty.Corporation of Montreal.City Haut,,\t?Montreal, 12th Feb., 186T \\\t36 [To 6e inserted in the Montreal Herald and Montreal Gazette oa the 12th and 14th of February instant.] Montreal,City and District Savings Bank.NOTICE.ON AND AFTER the SECOND DAY of JAN-UARï next, this Institution will allow INTEREST AT THE RATE OF FIVE PER CENT,PER ANNUM ON DEPOSITS.By order of the Board.E.J.BARBEAU, Actuary.NOTICES.SUM RINK AT INSURANCE.isr o t m .a.isr \u2019 s.AV.NOTMAX HAS I N V N T L, D AN âRTIPICIiL R1I AT HIS STUDIO ENABLING HIM TO PHOTOGRAPH PERSOIS ,A- G X' O Y S IK A.T X XV Gr.THE RINK WILL BE O PEHSTED To-Daj, Wednesday, 3H Jan, affording an excellent opportunity for those about to appear In FANCY COSTUME SKATING CARNIVAL, PH0T0ÜR4PÏIED IN CMAMCTER As Mr.Hetman has Patented this In vention, as also that of Portraits on and in snow, produced by Artificial means, PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE HEREBY WARNED AGAINST THE USING OF SAID INVENTION UNLESS BY APPLICATION TO THE PATENTEE.January 30.1m 25 FOR SALE.THE \u201cPLASTIQUE\u201d HO OP JUUEUT.latest Paris, New York and London Fashion.No Steels at the Waist.UTMAil M.GUTMAN & CO., 16 LEMOINE A RE now manufacturing tbe JA.ftnahignoble Skirt in sizes irom two to three December 31, 1866.OH VIEW FOE A FEW DAYS, IV.NetmaiJs Selection ol Photo-grapns FOR THE PARIS EXHIBITION.The public are Invited to oall and see them.December H.STREET, MONTREAL, above named _________m two to lb: yards round, of tbe various widths of Tape, WHITE, GREY AND SCARLET.As heretofore they continue to manufacture Sloop Skirts of every description.Liberal Inducements offered to Wholesale Dealers and Jobbers.January 21\t17 OK hhds Missouri LEAF TOBACCO 4iO 100 firkins LOCHFINE HERRINGS 10 cases LING FISH 100 mats BEER BOTTLES 150 bales WADDING and BATTING 50 brls SPIRITS TURPENTINE lOObrls ROSIN Foe Sale by HELLIWELL & MACPHIE.December 28.\t310 GUBB\tCO.HAVE RECEIVED, per last Steamer, à Choice Assortment of SOUTH-SEA SEALSKIN COATS and WAISTCOATS; also a small assortment of EMBROIDERED DRESS WAISTCOATS, now so much in vogue in Europe.January 14.\t11 YOinSTG\u2019S STORES AND Elevator Ware&ouse, CANAL BASIN, WELLINGTON Street The Rails of the Grand Trunk are now connected with these Stores for the Winter.Produce can now be received from, and shipped direct to the cars, saving cartage and handlins of property.First-class Storage for Drain, Flour, Trovi-sions, Sugar, Molasses, Highwines and General Merchandize,\u2014Bonded or Free (Bond, No.87;.Every facility for the handling of property.JAMES INGLIS.January 7.\tg Tfee Lherpooi à Loadon à Iriofte INSURANCJHOMPANY.FIKE AND LIFE.CAPITAL, £2,000,000 ISTERLING, 1SQ5, Fire Premium.£739,333 Reserved surplus Fund.971,408 Life Premiums.250,104 Life Reserve Fund.1,775.059 Invested in Canada.250,000 CANADA BOARD OF DIRECTORS.T.B.Audert-on, Esq., Chairman, (President Bank of Montreal) Henry Starnes, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, (Manat er Onta/io Bank ) E.H.King, Esq., (General Manager Bank of Montreal.) Henry Chapman, Esq., (Merchant).G.F.C.smith, Resident Secretary.Medical Referee: D C.Maccallum, Esq., M.D, Inspector : F.A.Ball, C.W.; James Spier, C.E.FIRE DEPARTMENT.During the past 16 years the Fire business of this Branch of the Company has steadily increased.until it now stands in the front rank of Insurance Companies.The Company is represented in all the cities, towns and villages throughout the land, by active business men, whose efforts have secured for it a large share of lirst-class cus .om in their several localities.In the administration of this business and 1n the settlement of claims, the Directors have endeavoured to act with liberality and promptitude, and in all doubtful questions (saving frau.duiem ones; to give the benefit of the doubt to the assured, so that no delay might occur in arriving at the amount of a toss or in settling it when ascertained.LIFE DEPARTMENT.The Directors would call attention to the moderate rates at which they are prepared to grant Life Policies and Annuities, and respectfully solicit a comparison of their terms with other first-class English Companies.Persons assuring under Table No.2, with Guaranteed Bonus, (a form of assurance peculiar to this Company), should they reach a certain specified age, may leave to their heirs, in addition to the original sum assured, all Premiums paid during their lifetime, (including a certain amount of interest?, the whole not exceeding an amount double the sum originally assured.N o extra charge for military service in defence of the Country.All Claims are payable thirty after admission of same.'ihe Campany\u2019s Life Tables and Prospectus, will be gladly furnished by the Company\u2019s Agents throughout Canada, and also by \u201e ,,\tG.F.C.SMITH, Resident Secretary, Canada Branch.October 9.\t241 INSURANCE.marine insurance.BRITISH UERICA ASSURANCE 00 MPA NT.INCORPORATE» 18S3.EISKS TAKEN ON HULLS OF SAILING i VESSELS aud STEAMERS, Also, on Merchandize in Transitu between the Ports of tbe Maritime Provinces and Chicago, and vies vena at lowest curren t Rates.MARINE INSPECTORS: Captain Alexander Davidson.Captain Roderick Courneen.M.H, GAULT, Agent.Y7 GreatSt.James Street, October 12.\t(LIP)\t245 Ill\u2019ll in j ASSÜMN0E_0 OMPANY.FIRE ASSURANCE.11HE Subscriber continues to grant INSUR-.ANCE AGAINST FIRE, on ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF PROPERTY at MODERATE RATES OF PREMIUM.M.H.GAULT, Agent, 77 Great St.James Street.October 12.\t(UP)\t245 SCOTTISH IMFFiHIAL IN SURAN 0E COMPANY.CAPITAL, £1 000,000 STERLIM.Head Office, 330 Buchanan St., Glasgow.BOARD OF DIRECTORS.Chairman\u2014Alexander Ronaldson, Esq., Merchant.Vice-Chairman\u2014James Nicol Fleming, Esq., Kilk' n-an House, Ayrshire.G.Stewart Anderson, \u201c sq , Merchant.Hugh Baird, Esq., Merchant.John BoaG, E-q , Iron Merchant.James Couder, senr., Esq., City Flint Glass W< rk*.James Graham Esq., Builder.Walter Grieve, Esq.Marchant, Greenock.Robert Kerr, Esq ,of Cruikston Ha'i, Paisley James Mackenzie,Esq,ofGlontore,Merchant John James Muirhead,Esq., Goldsmith.Lewis Potter, Esq., Merchant Adam Pringle, Esq , Dowanhill Gardens.James {Salmon, Esq., Architect.Alexander Stronach, Esq., Banker.William Taylor, Esq., Gram Merchant.Consulting Pko^ician\u2014Du.M\u2018Calj.Anlbrso £ Solicitors\u2014M essrs burn-, Maclean A Alison Bankers\u2014This City oe\" Glasgow Bank.Manager\u2014A.Gordon Brown.Secretary -A.Ij.Whitecross.MONTREAL.Consultina Physician\u2014K.Craik, M.D.McCUJL^OCH BROS,, AGENTS FOR LIFE DEPARTMENT, Offices, 10 and 12 Corn Exchange Building.September *1.\t226 Tfie SCasiâard Lite âssnrance Co\u2019y» ESTABLISH.K I> 183S.WITH V HIGH IS NOW UNITED The Colonial Life Assurance Company, COLONIAL AND FOREIGN ASSURANCES.An Amalgamation having been formed between the Standard Life assurace Company and the Colonial Lie^e Assurance Company, the business of the United Companies will henceforth be conducted under tbe title of the STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY'.The Annual Revenue of the Standard Company is now upwards of £650,000, and the Accumulated Pounds amount to upwards of £3,500,000 Sterling.The New Business transacted during the past year amounted to the large sum o £1,375,000 Sterling, the corresponding Premium amounting to £45,3*7 per annum.MODERATE RATES charged for residence in the Colonies, India, and other places abroad.LOCAL BOARDS AND AGENCIES in all the British Colonies, where every facility will be afforded in the transaction of business ,and where Premiums may be received and Claims paid, PROFITS divided every five years.WIL.u.THUS.THOMSON, Manager and Actuary.D.CLUNIE GREGOR, Colonial and Foreign Secretary.G ANAL) AIJK ANC U.Head office, Montreal NO.47 GREAT ST.JAMES STREET.BOARD OF DIRECTORS : B.H.LeMoine, Esq., Cashier La Banque du Peuple.John Greenshields, Esq,, Merchant.Andrew Robertson, Esq., Advocate, H.COTTE, Esq., Banker.George Stephen, Esq., Merchant.manager for.canada: W.M Ramsay.INSPECTOR OF AGENCIES : Richard Bull.Every information on the subject of Life Assurance will be given at tho Head Office, Montreal, or at any of the Agencies throughout Canada.January 2.\t1 jRQürAX.Firs and Life Insurance Company.CAPITAL,.£2,000,000 Stg.AMUAL INCOME, over £700,000 Stg.BUILDINGS and all descriptions of PROPERTY IN SURE!) against LOSS or DAMAGE by FIRE on avourable terms.POLICIES on LIVES Issued on very advantageous terms, and no extra premium charged for Military Services In defence of the Provinces or for crossing the Atlantic.^^.Clalms promptly settled.H.L.ROUTU, AGENT October 17.\t248 THE EUROPEAN iSSOBilB SIMM OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH, Empowered by British and Canadan Parliaments for LIFE ASSURANCE, ANNUIÏIFS, EN DO WMLJSTS, \u2014AND\u2014 FIDELITY GUARANTEE.Capital £1,000,000 Sterling.Annual Income over.£300,000 Sterling.Hkad Office in Canaea : 71 GREAT ST.JAMES STREET, EDWARD RAWLINGS.Manager for Canada.July 2e,\tass THE EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY ESTABLISHED A.D.1849.INCORPORATED A.D.1854.Empowered by British and Canadian Parliaments for LIFE ASSURANCE, Annuities, Endowments, and FIDELITY GUARANTEE.CAPITAL, £1 000,000 Sterling.Inniial Income over £330 000 Sterling, LIFE DEPARTMENT.Policies issued to meet every emergency ; Special advantage to Assurers ; Morlerate rates of Premium, combined with perfect security.During tbe 15 years of this Society\u2019s existence, it has met with an unsurpassed degree of public support and confidence, and is now ONE OF the largest life assurance societies IN GREAT BRITAIN.THE NEW ASSURANCES EFFECTED IN 1865 yielded the large Premium revenue of £43,000.THE LIFE CLAIMS and BONUSES paid by the Society since its commencement exceed a MILLION AND A QUARTER STERLING.No Claim has ever been contested.INSURANCE.THE ROYAL NAVAL AND MILITARY LIFE DEPARTMENT Is under Special Patronage of HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.VICE-PATRONS : Field-Marshal His Royal Highness ;the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., K.P., G.C.B.G.C.M.G., General Commander in Chief.His Grace the Duke of Richmond.The Right Hon.Earl Grey.The Right Hon.sir Stafford Northccte, Bart., M.P,, President of the Boird of Trade Viscount Eversley, a.l.u., to the Queen.Admiral Sir James Alex.Gordon, G.C.B., General Sir John f.burgoyne, Bart.G.C.B.Inspector-Geneial of Engineers.General Sir Hew D.Ross, G.C.B., R.A.Major-General Lord William Pallet, K.C.B., Adjutant-General.Lieut -Gen.Sir James Hope Grant, G.C.B., Quartermaster-General.Lieot.-Gen.William Fred.Forster, K.H., Military Secretary.Chairman of Directors : SIR FREDERIC SMITH, K.H., F.R.S.LIFE POLICIES are issued to Naval and Military Officers, whether in active Service or not on the most favorable terms-Persons residing or about to reside in tropical climates, as also Invalid Lives, are treated with at very liberal rates.Cx uar a si tee H&epartmeiit, The EUROPEAN is the only SOCIETY whose Bonds of Guarantee are accepted by the BRI flSH GOVERNMENT, by wnom the Society\u2019s affairs and position are subject to annual scrutiny\u2014thus affording ample proof of its stability and responsibility.Head Office in Canada: 71 GREAT ST.JAMES ST., MONTREAL.Directors in Canada : ( All of whom are fully qualified Shareholders.) HENRY THOMAS, Esq., Chairman.HUGH ALLAN.Esq.C, J.BRYDGHs.Esq, WILLIAM WORKMAN, Esq.The Hon.CHAS.ALLEY'N, Q.C., M.P.P.Quebec.Manager for Canada, EDWARD RAWLINGS.From whom all information may be obtained.F bruary 4.\t29 CITY 01 GLASGOW Life Æ ssnrsaisee \u20ac o mi p » n y.Established 1838.CAPITAL, .\t~~ SUM ASSUKED, £600,000 Sterling, BONUS, EXCLUSIVE OF EXCEEDS THREE MIIiliIOJNS STERLING.ANNUAL REVENUE: One Hundred & Twenty Thousand Pounds.Agents : KINTOUU BKOTHFRS, 87 ST.FRANCOIS XAVIER STREET.October 15.PSæiîIx Fire Insurance Companj OF LONDON Established in.1782.f PHIS COMPANY having invested, In conlormi- jg + TT XÏT+ 1 I-, J U\tViQ 1 A ni I AT TP\t.r-.VNW ty wtih the Provincial Act, ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS for the SPECIAL SECURITY of POLICY HOLDERS IN CANADA, is prepared to accept RISKS on DWELLING HOUSES, Household Goods and Furniture, and General Merchandise, at the lowest current Kates.JAMES DAVISON,Manager.GILLESPIE, MOFFATT & CO., Asents fob Canada , February Office of tfie Orient Mutual insurance Company.New York, 2Gth Jan., 1867 The following Statement of the Affairs of this Company, on the 31st day of December 1866.is published m conformity with the provisions of its Charter : Premiums unearned 31st Dec., 1865.$140486.63 Premiums received during the year ending 3lst December, 186S.781992.65 Total Premiums.$922479.28 Earned Premiums of the year.$734712.85 Losses and Expenses;.$421859.67 Re-insurance and Return Premiums.$174002.02 ASSKTS: 31st December, 1866.Cash in Banks.$1066 )3.31 United States Stock.226713.75 Stocks of States.Cities, & Corporations, Bonds and Mortgages, and Loans on demand.152623.75 ¦ 485845.81 Subscription Notes and other Bills Receivable.Uncollect-ed Premiums and Accrued Interest.$683242.30 Salvages*Unsettled Accounts 26875 92 710118.22 Total amount of Assets.$1195961.( 3 The Board of Trustees have resolved to pay Six percent.Interest on the outstanding Scrip Certificates, to tbe holders thereof, or their legal representatives, on or after 1st March next.After allowing for probable losses in the case of vessels out of time, and unse tied claims, they have also declared a Dividend, free from Government Tax, of Twelve and one-half per cent, on the net amount of Earned Premiums of the year ending 31st December, 1866, for v hich Certificates wjll be issued on or after 1st of March next.The Profits of the Company for which Certificates have been issued,am\u2019tto$7u3200.00 Additional Profits from 1st January, 1366, to 1st January, 1867.138851.16 Total Profits.$842061.16 Redeemed in Cash.146420.00 Amount remaining with the Co\u2019y.$fc966il.l6 (By order of the Board) CHARLES IRVING.Sec.TRUSTEES: Joseph Gaillard, Jr., Edward F.Davison, >J.H.R.Lyman, John Auchincioss, Francis Cotteiiet, Alex\u2019r Hamilton, Jr., C.H.Sand, Cornelius K.Sutton, Leopold Bierwir h, John S.Williams, Fred\u2019k G.Foster, Richard P.Runclle, James Brown, William Shall, Wm.S.Wusou, Gustav Schawb, George Mosle, A.LeMovne, Jr., Wm.E.A.Mackintosh, Lawrence Wells, Charles Luling, Ueorge F.Thomas, W.F.Cary, Jr., Pdward Haight, Simon de Visser, Alex M.Lawrence, George Christ, John A.RalÜ, N.D.Carlisle, Leopold H u fier, F.Coucinery, John F.Schepeler.EUGENE DUTILH, Près.ALFRED OGDEN, V.-Pres.CHARLES JRVING, Sec.NOTICE.This Company have made arrangements to issue, when desired, Policies and Certificates gayable in London and diverpoob, at the ounting Rooms of Messrs.Drake, Kleinwort & Cohen.'J he undersigne t continues to receive applica tions lor Open and Special Policies and to effect Insurances on Ships.Cargoes and Freights, with above well known Company, payable in Gold or Canadian Funds.HENRY MCKAY, No.18 St, Sacrament St.Montreal, 1st Feb, 1867\t3m-27 North British and Mercantile INSURANCE COMPANY.Financial Return of the Company\u2019s Business in Canada for the Year Ending 30th 3Mov., 1866, FURNISHED TO GOVERNMENT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE ACT.Name of the Company\u2014North British and Mercantile Insurance Company.Chief place of business\u2014Edinburgh\u2014London.Chief Agents in Canada \u2014 MacDougall & Davidson.\t( Act under which Licensed\u201423 Vic., Chap.33.Date of Licensing-17th June, 186?.CANADIAN BUSINESS.Amount of Deposit.$100.253 33 Consisting of Canadian Government Sterling 6 p.c.Debentures.Amount of Capital Stock_£2.000,COO Stg.Amount thereof paid up.£250,000 \u201c Invested in Real Estate in the City of Montreal.$00,424 41 Losses paid during the year.80,855 50 Losses due and unpaid.Nil.Losses adjusted not due.Nil, Losses in suspense and awaiting further proof (approximately).\t2 000 00 Losses of which payment resisted.Nil, Amount of Premiums ea: ned during the past year.,,,.!.$70,819 18 Amount of Premiums unearned during the last year.27)111\t00 All other claims against the Company.Nil.Montreal, 31st January, 1837.THUS.DAVIDSON, One of the Managing Directors for Canada.Sworn before me, at Montreal, this Second day of February, A.D.186T.29\tT.DOUCET, J.P.NOTICES.INSOL\u2019VUNT_A0T OF 1864.In the Matter of JOHN McOWANand DANIEL DRUMMONi», of Montreal, Trading under the firm of JOHN McOWAN and COMPANY, Insolvents.A DIVIDEND SHEET has been prepared, subject to objection until Saturday, the Twenty-third day of February, 1867.T.S.BROWN, Official Assignee.Montreal, 31st Jan., 1867.\tdu 28 INS0LVENTACT OF 1864.In the Matter of ALEXIS B.BERNARD, Trader Berthier, O.E., Insolvent.THE Creditors of the Insolvent are notified to meet at theofflee of tbe under.-igned Assignee, No.1 Bt.Bnipice street, in the City of Montreal, on WEDNESDAY, the Twenty-Seventh day of February, at Three o\u2019clock P M., for the publicexaminatlonof the Insolvent, and for the oidering of the affairs of th« estate generally.The Insolvent is hereby requested to attend.T.SAUVAGEAU, Ofliclal Assignee.Montreal, Feb.1, 1867.\tdu 33 \u201cGO IT ALONE,\u201d There\u2019s a game much in fashion, I think it\u2019s called Euchre, Though I\u2019ve never played it for pleasure or lucre, In which when the cards are in certain conditions, The players appear to have changed their positions, And one of them cries in a confident tone\u2014 \u201c I think I might venture to go it alone !\u201d While watching the game, \u2018 tis a whim of the bards\u2019s, A moral to draw from the skirmish in cards, And to fancy he finds in the trivial strife, Some excellent hints for the battle of Life, Where, whether the prize be a ribbon or throne, The winner is he who can \u201c go it alone I\u201d When great Galileo proclaimed that the world In a regular orbit was ceaselessly whirled, And got\u2014not a convert for all of his pains, But only derision, and prison, and chains\u2014 \u201c It moves, for all that,\u201d was his answering tone, For he knew, like the earth, he could go it alone !\u201d INSOLVENT_AGT OF 1864.lu the Matter of GEORGE BURY, of Montreal, Trader, individually, and as having been a partner in the firm of Bury & Hayes, of said cit y of Montreal, An Insolvent.THE Creditors of the Insolvent are notified that he has made an assignment of his estate and effects, under the above Act, to me, the undersigned Assignee, and they are required to furnith me, within two months from this date with their claims specify ing the security they hold, if auy, and the value of it; and if none, stating the fact; the whole attested under oath with the vouchers in support of such claims.A.B.STEWART, Assignee.Montreal, Feb.7, 1867.u-W 0 du D 31 INSOLVENT _ACT OF 1864.In the Matter of JEREMIE AUBEBTIN, Trader, of the Parish of St.Jean da Baptiste de Rou ville, insolvent.THE Creditors of the Insolvent rjr notified that he has made an assignment of his estate and effects, under the above act, to me the undersigned Assignee, and the?are required to furnish me, within two months from this date, with their claims, specifying the security they hold, if any, and the value of it; and if none, stating the fact; the whole attested under oath, with the vouchers in 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ENGLISH NEWS OF THE WEEK.ENDINQ JAN.26th.The weather broke in London on Tuesday night, after a scene which suggested that Nature was having a quiet laugh to herself at man\u2019s imbecility.A fine rain began to descend, which froze, till in a few minutes all London was covered with a sheet of ice, which as the rain still fell became as slippery as a slide.All locomotion was suspended.Horses could not move even at a foot pace, the sturdiest pedestrians crawled and rolled, and men and women were tumbling about in all directions: Had the frost continued, every dinner-giver in London would have had to keep his party for the night, but a thaw set in, which has continued to the present time.It is reported, that on Friday the sun was seen by a policeman in the Strand, but this requires confirmation.Frost is pleasant, to some people in some places, but to Londoners in London it is simply , a nuisance, equal in cost to a new tax, and in discomfort to a short sea voyage- The distress particularly iu Deptford, Greenwich, and Poplar, is so great that the Bishop has asked the public for aid, the Mansion House Cholera Committee has been re-established, the clergy are begging for suberip-tions, and the rates are rising till a petition is talked of praying for equalization.In Poplar the guardians are giving out-door relief to 8,319 persons, in Bethnal Green the rates have riren to 8s and 20,000 dock labourers are out of employ.It wa,s stated at a meeting presided over by Lord Townshend, that the usual wages of this class were 6s.4d.a week, so that they can save nothing.Subscriptions amounting to .£1,200 a day are being sent to the Lord Mayor\u2019s Fund, buta rate in aid of the exhausted parishes, to be laid on the whole of London, is urgently required.At Deptford there was a bread riot on Wednesday, during which some shops were pillaged, the work, as we are carefully informed, of \u201c roughs,\u201d who had been refused relief.Very likeiy; roughs being people with a distinct prejudice against starv ing to death, either because the relieving officer happens to be ill, or because their application for leave to live is made after hours.A letter and a decree signed by the Emperor of the French on the 19th inst.were published in the Moniteur of Sunday last.The Emperor, according to the Times' correspondent, immediately after reading the decree to his Council, \u201cinvited\u201d his Ministers to resign in a body.They did so expecting to be reappointed, but the Emperor took advantage of the vacancies to leave out M Fould, Minister of Finance, Marshal Randon, Minister at War, M.Chasseloup Labat, 'Minister of Marine, and M.Behic, Minister of Public Works.The generai;drift of the appointments is not peaceful, and they seem to have been settled chiefly with an eye to the scheme for military organization.The Ministers thus edged out, are of course not well pleased, but tho Emperor will probably find places for all except M.Fould.He does not want anything, except to be Minister of Finance.The Reform League and Trades\u2019 Unions have finally decided upon a grand United-Demonstration iu favour of Reform, to he made upon the 11th prox.After much discussion and some bitterness, the question of entrance into the Parks has been postponed for a legal decision, and a plan drawn up by Colonel Dickson accepted on all hands.Under this scheme, four great armies will converge at one o\u2019clock on Trafalgar Square, and thence march by Pall Mall, St, James\u2019 Street, Piccadilly, and Regent Street, to the Agricultural Hall, Islington.They had very much better go up Regent Street only, and disperse by Oxford Street.The Clubs have had enough teaching, and what on earth is the use of accumulating two hundred thousand men in dreary Islington, or creating a crush which may cost hundreds of lives at the doors of the Agricultural Hall Î It is a display of numbers, which is wanted.Schleswig-Holstein was finally incorporated in Prussia on Thursday, the 24th inst., by proclamation.Prince Hohenlohe, Prime Minister of Bavaria, has formally announced to the Chambers that the King\u2019s Government, in the event of any attack being made on Germany, will place its army at the disposal of Prussia.He added that he should consider an Austrian war on Prussia, a war by foreigners on Germany.This declaration ends the last chance of a Southern Confederacy, and immensely improves the prospect of a union of all Germany as one State, It compels Hesse, Wurtemberg, and Baden to make a similar declaration.On the other hand, the Liberals in Prussia are inclined to break once more with Count Bismarck.They suspect him of using the Federal Parliament to overthrow the German one, and believe that his demand for a German military Budget, to be voted either in perpetuity or for a long period, will terminate their own powers over finance.It is not, however clear that the temper of the Prussian Deputies in the German Parliament will be qjite so servile as expected, and the Prussian Liberals therefore wait, only announcing that if the Budget is taken out of their hands they will resume their opposition.Sir C.Bright made a speech to his constituents at Greenwich on Thursday.He did not say anything worth noticing, but one of his constituents did, \u201c wanting to know\u201d if Sir Charles would support measures for \u201c the equalization of poor-rates, the reform of the Court of Bankruptcy, the reform of the licensing system, the abolition of Church-rates, the appointment of a public prosecutor, for a compulsory Education Bill, the reform of tho Irish Churcn, the reform of the Army and Navy, the amendment of the law of master and seivant, the laws regulating capital and labour, a Bill to compel railway proprietors and speculators to build proper houses in lieu of those which they caused to be pulled down, a Bill providing a court of criminal appeal, and, last of all.a Bill for the due punithment of our daring hordes of swindlers.\u201d Not a bad list, and last Sunday delegates from the cotton hands assembled at Accrington added to them an Eight Hours\u2019 Bill, and the establishment of Courts of Arbitration between masters and men.These Courts are to be compulsory.What with the famine in Orissa, the cry for irrigation, and the break-down in Bombay, where Sir Bartle Frere, believing in the bubble, plunged Government into all manner of expenses, the Indian Government has been obliged to raise a loan of £600,000.It was taken at 1 per cent, premium.The Court of Queen's Bench delivered a judgment on Wednesday which will have a curious effect on the law.A suit was brought against the Rector of Horton, to compel him to perform a marriage, and the point submitted was whether the rector had prescriptive right to demand 13s.as a marriage fee.It was held by three judges out of four that he had not, Sir A.Cockburn observing that to establish the right it was necessary to show prescription beyond legal memory, and legal memory extended to Richard 1.Now in Richard\u2019s time, regard being had to the value of money, the priest could not charge 13s.fora marriage, and the usage therefore was not proved.The Chief Justice condemned the law of prescription as bad, and it will therefore, in all probability be altered.The project of S.Scialoja for rea'izing the Church Domain of Italy seems to be this.The Church is to sell its lands, hand over one-third to the States, and keep the remaining two-thirds, investing the money iu the Funds.The States will thus obtain £20,000,000 in five years, while the immense purchases in the Funds will help to send them up to the French level, or to 75 It is said that both the Papalini and Reds intend to resist this porposal but the scheme enables the Government to tide over the deficit of five years and it leaves CBurch j5roperty well within the grasp of the State.\u2019 Otherwise the Italian clergy, like the Belgian, might purchase foreign stocks, and be out of the reach of taxation altogether.A Conference on the lieensing tor public-houses is to be held, under the presidency of Lord Shaftesbury.Dr.Manning, the Roman Catholic Archbishop, is to attend ; and the vicepresidents, are very great and influential persons indeed,\u2014earls, !barons, deans, eloquent clergymen, and more eloquent politicians, and most eloquent poets, including the poet Laureate.The object is to discuss the best means of diminishing drunkenness and kindred vices, by regulating the sale of liquor.It is intended to propose that the grant of licences shall be vested only in stipendiary magistrates.Mr.Hume, the impetuous Secretary to the Eyre Defence Committee, has ratner come to grief in a correspondence with the solicitors of the Jamaica Committee.Mr.Hume, in his advertisements, drew upon puDÜc compassion on the ground that lour actions had been brought against Colonel Nelson and Mr.Eyre \u201cby Messrs.Shaen and Roscoe, the solicitors to the Jamaica dommktee, for alleged illegal arrest and imprisonment.\u201d The solicitors pointed out that the Eyre prosecu ions had not commenced ; and that the lour actions were private actions by Dr.Bruce and Mr.Phillips, with which the Jamaica Committee had no concern, though the same solicitors were employed.The Government are themselves going to defend Colonel Nelson, so that those actions commenced at private expense form no ground of appeal to the public's generosity.Mr.Hume, ho wever, will not be convinced.He intimates, that he does not believe what the solicitors to the Jamaica Committee say about the actions being at private expense, and generally conducts his correspondence very angrily and foolishly.He declines to alter his advertisement \u201cto suit the tastes of your clients or yourselves,\u201d which, as the taste in question appeared to be only a taste for accuracy, was not very wise.Tne Regent\u2019s Park catastrophe seems to have been a signal for persons who were not, hut might have been,drowned, to abscond.In eight or nine cases there have been disappearances.The unanimitv with which,\u2014of course without conceit,\u2014so many persons unknown to each other out of a comparatively small group seized simultaneously on the idea that it would be an advantage to be supposed dead, suggests a terrible sort of suspicion as to the woith of a number of family ties.When the eight gentlemen, each of whom had refused the last peach on the plate, found, when the lamp went out, their eight hands meeting accidentally on the peach, there was a certain humour iu the transaction which prepared them for a hearty laugh.But if the eight gentlemen who gras [Hid simultaneous! /, at the opportunity of being supposed dead could have a sudden light thrown on their motives, we supseet that they would not, on the whole, feel proud of their new acquaintances.THE WEATHER, few days were most formidable.For two hours before, and during a like period after high ¦water, the broken ice completely covered tho water, and the whole fleet of shipping T ing between London Bridge and Greenwich was locked fast.At about five o\u2019clock (two hours\u2019 ebb) the mass began to separate, and .-oon afterwards an alarm was raised that the tier of vessels off the Custom House, had broken adrift.The City of Hamburg (s) was iyiug outside j her chain cables were the first to go.Immediately afterwards sue dragged with her two or three schooners lying in the tier.These soon drifted on to the next tier, off the Tower, where the Waterloo, Berlin, Moselle, and other st a-mers were moored, with four coasting vessels.For a few moments there appeared hopes that the cable, and chains of these vessels would resist, hut as the ice bore down the v, hole of this tier of large steamers was carried away.The City of Hamburg was fortunate enough to escape out of the crush, for she got under weigh and shot across to Horsleydown.All tbe oilier vessels, however, were swept down by great fields of ice, which as they struck a ship, surged up over the bulwarks and almost bore it down under water.The excitement among the crews was fearful, and Ihe destruction among the shipping could be heard on both sides.There seemed to be crash upon crash, mingled wiih shouts and cries, ofdistress from those on bo id, All the vessels on the north side of ihe Thames trom the Custom House to the Tunnel Fier were thus swept away.The exact number or vessels is not known.They were not numerous a great many having .put into dock to escape injury; but of those which were forced fiom their moorings not one escaped damage, home were dismasted, some stove and o berwise damaged, while others were driven ashore.In one instance the masts crushed a seaman to d.alb, Most of the Dublin steamers were carried adrift.The Dodo went ashore at Alderman\u2019s Stairs, where she formed a kind of barrier against tbe ice, and was the means of shunting ic'out inio mid channel.Tbe Lady Eglinton lost some of her boats.But the most serious destruction was among the lighters and barges moored in Joyce\u2019s Roads.One of them was weighted with propel ty to the extent of £3,000.As they were carried away the ice shot over them and bore them down.Several were sunk.Three were in charge of their crews, who it is feared have perished.Numerous efforts were mad - to save these men, and watermen were offered largo sums to put off but tbe danger was too gre t.Some of the steamers dropped their best Lower anchors to brimr them up, hut even these could not resist the pressure.One steamer lost both anchors and cables in this way, and was finally driven ashore.This was the fate of most of the other steamers, and during the night great anxiety was entertained for their safety ; the next flood, however, floated them clear.The Custom House shif), off the Tower, met w th the same fate.An occurrence similar to the present happened in theTham.es some 15 years ago, but the extent of damage was not then so heavy.Several vessels in the Thames were dismasted, and some were driven ashore, on the 22nd, in consequence of the large blocks of ice brought down the river.An enormous amount of damage was done, and some of tbe floating blocks were twelve feet thick.There are two cases in the north of Scotland of individuals who have perished in the enow.Individual hardships were multitudinous.On the night of the 22nd the streets of the metropolis witnessed a fall of rain which froze immediately.At mid night the streets were full of skaters.The Danish vessel Rebekke Abrahamsen, arrived at Hull a day or two ago from Randers The captain reports that in a gale on the 11th inst.three out of five men were lost, the vessel being subsequently navigated by the captain and mate who declined the repeated offer of fisherman to assist them.Such a quantity of ice as there is now in the Humber has not been known for many years.A telegram received from Rotterdam states that the navigation there is frozen up ; and the Baltic, Danish, and German ports, including Hamburg, will soon be closed.The screw steamer which left Hull a fortnight ago for Dantzic, has returned in consequence of the large masses of ice in the Cattegat.The Border Union section of the North British Railway, between Hawick and Riccarton, has been snowed up.Five goods trains have been brought to a stand still in the midst of it, and ail traffic between Edinburgh and Carlisle has been suspended for twenty hours.The.evening train from Carlisle on the 22 nd was all right ; but when the nine o\u2019clock goods train from Edinburgh reached a point between Hawick and Riccarton; its progress was intercepted by snow, and the driver was at length compelled to bring his train to a standstill.Other goods trains came after the first, each having to pull up.Had any of them been passenger trains, it must have been a tearful night for the travellers.Before morning 13 miles were rendered.impassable.An incumbent in the Isle of Man writes :\u2014 \u201c On Sunday last we awoke to find a snow-drift between the parsonage.and the church from 7 feet to 12ft.high, the church porch filled to the roof, and all traffic stopped.To add to our comforts, the drift had penetrated the house\u2014 our entrance within doors two feet deep.We were engaged ail the forenoon in getting the snow out of bedrooms and sitting-rooms in pailfuls.It had got between the slates and ceiling of the upper rooms, whence it could not be dislodged, but came down with the thaw like great shower-baths.We had to cover the beds with waterproofs, and picket ourselves down stairs.I have not had a crumb of bread in the bouse since Saturday.No water to be had, except snow melted.The Lancet says \u201c We should be overlooking a fact of great interest if we omitted to note the severity of the cold and its effects on life.Despite the tendency in comfortable people to regard cold as the right thing, the community generally were feeling thattnere was an enemy in the air.Even the young and the strong saw tne frost yielding with a feeling of thankfulness.Those who have seen large numbers of the sick poor doubtless got the most vivid impression of the weak resistance that humanity in poverty can offer to such cold.The pale, cold, pinched, stony look of out-patients, and of those who are confined to beds in fireless rooms, made hospital and dispensary duties more urgent and painful than usual.How terrible the delusion that weather likec his is beneficial.It is dangerous to the brain, and lets paralyzed .patients in for second attacks.It is still more deadly to the chest, and he is a healthy man who does not feel touched in the respiratory apparatus.It drives the poor into overcrowded houses, and so favours fever and other epiaemic disease.J t takes the life out of the body, and reduces it to the condition of surrounding things.Tne Registrar-General shows us that we have in frost a cause of death more like plague than anything else.Cold can run a sharp race with cholera.In one week it has raised tbe number of deaths by 445 in London alone.Last week 1,891 deaths were registered.In Glasgow the mortality in last week was at the rate of 73 per 1,000 1 Y'Tois turn;-: out to be a mistake of the Registrar General, arising from a transposition of tUe figures which should have been 37 per 1,000.\u2014Eo.M.H.] Can not-thing more be done to enable medical men to see the sick poor to relieve them more efficiently and more directly, than by present arrange ments.EXTRAORDINARY SCENES ON THE THAJIES.The break up of the frost was attended by some extraordinary scenes on the Thames below the Bridge.The ice, coming down in a heavy floe on the shipping, and the large steamers moored on the north side of the river, torced them from their moorings, and great damage was done.There were many collisions.Several small crafts were sunk, with their crews, who were either crushed to death among the ice or perished by diowning.The fields of ice that had been accumulating during the last MERCHANT SEAMEN.fFrom the London Times ] The interesting letter from Dr.Stone, which we yesterday published, relates to a subj-ct of great public interest.The diminut on in the supply of merchant sesmen has occasioned considerable anxiety, and for the last two years has engaged the serious attention of the Board ot- Trade.There is no dou bt that the service is becoming more and more unpopular.It is frequently difficult to obtain the proper complement of hands, and when the crew is adequate in number it is lamentably inferior in quality.Masters are compelled to supplement the deficiency with foreigners.Tho causes of this diminution and the m-ans for remedying it have been actively discussed ; and the favourite conclusion is to lay tho blame on the Government.We have expressed an opinion that the agency of the Government must be an extremely subordinate one.If labour is deficient in any department there can be but one reason.The attractions of such a service must be inferior to those offered by other employments, and if the deficiency is to be supplied the service must be rendered sufficiently attractive to compete witn the rival occupations.The last twenty years have furnished numerous attractive openings to the working population.Wages have .ri-en considerably, and the comforts of labourers have greatly increased.A sailor\u2019s life, wiih its iu-evitable hardships and perils, could not but contrast disadvantageous^ with these employments; and its conditions require to be greatly improved if it tvas to compete with them successfully.There has been no such imirove-ment; and nothing further would be necessary to explain the difficulty or to indicate, the remedy.It has been notorious that the dis advantages of the service are far more serious than a mere absence of improvement Its conditions have been actually deteriorating; and some of its privations and most cruel sufferings have been aggravated by neglect.The letter of Dr.Stone, wiih a series of pap rs now appearing in the Lancet, will enable our readers to appreciate the extent of these abuses.Dr.Stone describes the results of a person'll inspection of almost all classes of ships in the London Docks.The first point is it-elf sufficiently discreditable.Whenever he compares English with foreign ships ho finds the latter far superior in the accommodation for the crew.More especially is this the case in Ameiican vessels.The' personal treatment of their men by American officers is said to l o tyrannical, but \u201c the g neral condition of the American seaman is far better than that of the sailor of any other nation.\u201d We ate iuh-rior ia this respect to Sweden, Norway, and Russia.In ships belonging to these countries the provisions are abundant and good, the tnc-n\u2019s quarters are roomy, ana there is nearly always a house upon deck in which there is lair space and good ventilation.\u201d.In English ships the mere housing of the men is most .(eplora'-ie.Even in the best ships in the East Indian trade, \u201c when the cables are bent, it is not uncouaiou for tne forecastles to be deluged with water through the hawse holes.It would be scarcely an exaggeration to say that the men have sometimes to wade through water to their bunks.'1 In the large ships on this line, however, the forecastles are, in other respects, large oud comfortable ; but it is very different on less im portant lines.The majority of ships in the West India Docks possess \u201c wretched accommodation, and provisions indifferent in quality and deficient in quantity.\u201d But in the smaller classes especially in the colliers, the misery of the men\u2019s berths is inconceivable.A house on deck is almost unknown.The foreca-riles are narrow, dark, dirty holes, in which no man will willingly remain for any length of time, except from sickness ; and the crew have to choose between constant exposure on deck and breathing apoisonousjatmosphere.Moreover,in almost all vessels of this class the men have not enough to eat; the food is of the coarsest quality, the crew are insufficient, and as a consequence, they are subjected to almost continuous labour.In short, in ail but the bestclass of ships, the men are miserably housed, badly fed, and exposed to excessive labour.But a source of still worse suffering remains, forms the principal subject of the papers iu the Lancet.The great scourge of a sailor's life is scurvy.It is a disease thoroughly well known, and may be infallibly prevented.It arises from a lack of vegetable food, and good Urn- juce affords an unfailing substitute.It is unknown where good limejuice is constantly drunk by the crew.So far, however, from tnis diseass having been banished from the merchant service it appears to be actually on the in.rease.The number of cases admitted into the Dread \u2022 nought, during th first quarter of last year, was 39, while for the three previous years the number had been 22, 29, and 15.It is similarly on the increase in other ports.The number of cases in the hospital would be sufficiently serious, but hundreds of others are more cursorily treated, which, nevertheless occasion permanent injury to the constitution.Scurvy is one of the most terrible diseases.Few mala lies are equally painful or dangerous.Yet us the merchant service is now managed, any seaman may be exposed to its ravages.Masters of ships constantly omit to provide their men with good limejuice.For the sake of a paltry economy, they buy a miserable substitute in some nauseous compound of citric aeid.The men cisliko it.If they drink it, they find it ineffectual, aud they learn to distrust all limejuice.The remedy is disused, and it is probably oniy brea iso the voyages of the present day are more rapid than formerly that scurvy does not prevail as much as it did a hundred years a*-o.Beurvy prostrates on an average 20 per cent of a ship\u2019s strength ; the number attacked has som.times risen to 90 per cent.If our second rate ships were oftener employed on long voyages, the disease would probably be feaifui.The only reason for which the Government should interfere is for the sake of protecting tUe inferior class of seamen.To expose men to scurvy amounts to a crime, and the Lr^U-lature may justly enact laws to prevent it.It is as just to insist on a supply of iiun j uco ns to require vaccination.Limejuice is m minaiiy supplied in almost all ships.It is urged, however, that it ought to be inspected.It would seem a simplerprecaulion to investigate the condition of every ship in which scurvy was discovered.If.as is pretty certain, tiro limejuice should be found of inferior quality, the master should be subject to some severe penalty.It seems, however, that tiicre arc other minor points in which the Act of 1851 might be advantageously modifi d.The di.t prescribed though sufficient, if the quality wero uniformly good, is monotonous, auu unnecessarily simple.Means have been fount for preserving vegetables, and fresh meat, aud a few preserved vegetables would be of great benefit.However scurvy may rage iu the' forecastle, it rarely attacks the cabin, and the cause is t > be found in the few extra luxuries which tire officers enjoy.It may be possible to intro luce a few plain improvements of this character ; but the great object must be to punish such cruel and wanton neglect as that to wni h tne prevalence of scurvy is to be attributed la other respects shipowners must leurn to look after their own interests.Dur shipping ti oda' had never a greater opportunity than at present, and if we lose the opportunity lor lack of men the shipowners will have only themselves tq tlwne; Montréal herald and daily commercial gazette: Thursday, February u, jsct.tenebo THURSDAY MORNING, FEB.14, 1867.SEE FIRST PACE For English News of the Weelc; The Weather in England; Merchant Seamen, &c.APPOINTMENTS THIS DAY.Annual Meeting of the Richelieu Navigation Co.at 2 p.m.Exhibition of the Art Association inthe'Mer-canti'6 Library buiMingthis evening.Lecture at the Natural History Society\u2019s rooms at 8 p.m.Festival ofthe Young Men\u2019s Christian Association, in Nordoeimer\u2019s Hall at 1.30 P.M.Bazaar and sacred Concert in the Lecture Room of the St.Andrew\u2019s Church at 7 p.m.TEMPERATURE In the shade by Standard Thermometer, observed at C.Hkakn\u2019s, Optician,\t»t-\u2014- Dame Street ,3 a.in,\tX P.M.28.5 0\t43.0 Recorded by Patent Register.Max.\tMin.45.0\t33.0 Montreal, Feb.13, 1867.LOX, uuaci V\u201c 242 Notre 6 P.M.42.50 Mkan.39.0 SPECIAL TELEGRAMS {Specially reported for the Montreal Herald.) LATEST F ROWS TORONTO.Toronto, Feb.13.A letter from Niagara to the Leader says that on Monday the table rock at Niagara Falls fell and was carried over the Falls ; it was several thousand tons in weight and was 12 feet in length by from 60 to 70 in breadth.The annual meeting of the Northern Railroad Company was held to-day.The Secretary read a shoit report prefacing that on account of the absence of the Managing Director, figures of only a general character could now be laid before the.meeting.The report showed that the affairs of the Company were in a most favourable aud prosperous condition.The earnings of the year were $512,872.60 ; the expenditure $337,012.42 ; showing a balance on hand of $175,862.24, which had been applied in the ordinary way in paying interest and dividend.The earnings in 1866 show an increase of $19,096 over those of 1865, while the expenditures also showed an increase of $9,651.A number of counterfeit greenbacks have been sold in this city during the last few days, they are 5\u2019s 25\u2019s 50\u2019s.They are very good imitations of the genuine and unless closely exa-mined cannot he dectected.LATEST! FROM OTTAWA- Ottawa, Feb.13, 1866.It is reported that the 100th Regiment will change Headquarter\u2019s before June next.The Bali given by the citzens to the officers of the 100th Regiment last night, was a magnificent affair.About 200 ladies and gentlemen were present.Guests present were : Col.Campbell, Major Cook, 7 Captains, 11 Lieutenants, 8 Ensigns, Surgeon, Assistant-Surgeon, and Quarter-Master.'the Bali was held in the spacious new Dinning Hall of the Russell House, which was tastefully decorated under the Superintendence of the Gentleman Usher of Black Rod, Mr.Cameron, and the Secretary of the Committee, Mr.Fraser, the Clerk of the County Court.Refreshments by Mr.Gouin were in good style The thaw has set in to-day.C3Y TELEGRAPH.J MIDNIGHT DESPATCHES.(BY ATLANTIC CABLE.) London, Feb.13.\u2014The liberal organs generally denounce the plan of Reform announced by D\u2019Israeli on Monday afternoon in tne House of Commons.An American ship has left a Spanish port hound to Candia for the purpose of removing suffering families of the Christians from the Island.Berlin, Feb.13.\u2014In the election which took place yesterday for the member of the North German Parliament the Liberals carried this city.Florence, Feb.13.\u2014By a decree of King Victor Emmanuel, the existing Italian Parliament which had been previously prorogued is dissolved, and the elections for a new Parliament are ordered to take place on the 10th of March next.London, Feb 13.\u2014It is reported that Ismael Pasha, lire Viceroy of Egypt, demands that he he made virtually independent of the Sublime Porte.Chester, England, Feb.13.\u2014The Fenian demonstration here amounted to nothing.The city is full of troops.The Fenians have gone.No arrests were made.There was was no fighting nor any disturbance of any kind.The Fenians could have taken the town on Monday, but they waited for co operative movements in other quarters which failed.The , affair was much like the Canada raid.London, Feb.13\u2014More trouble is expected at Liverpool.Sympathisers with the Fenian movement say the docks are to be blown up there.Dublin, Feb.13\u2014Seventy supposed Fenians were arrested yesterday on the arrival of the mail boat from Holyhead.The newspapers ridicule the Fenian scare at Chester, aud say the crowd of strangers there only went to see a prize fight.In the Parliament last evening the fact was stated by the Government that Lord Elcho had received a telegram from Lord Grosvenor commanding the Chester Volunteers, saying that the affair was serious, which timely information it was thought had saved the town.Everything is quiet now at Chester.London, Feb.13, evening\u2014Consols closed at 91 for money; 5-20\u2019s 731; IC81J; Erie39j.Liverpool, Feb.13, evening\u2014Cotton has a downward tendency to-day, and Middling Uplands were last quoted at 14jil per lb.Breadstuff's generally quiet ; Corn 39s 6d per quarter for mixed western.Tallow sold to-day at 44s per cwt.for American; Lard 50sjper cwt; Bacon 43s per cwt.for middles ; Linseed oil 37s lOd per ton; Spirits Turpentine 38s per 100.Petroleum : refined Pennsylvania and Canada white Is 6d per gallon.New York, Feb.13.\u2014Governments quiet but firm.New Vobk, Feb.13.\u2014Henry Ward Beecher delivered to-night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, an address on Universal Sufferage.He took strong grounds in favor of Woman Sufferage.New Orleans, Feb.13.\u2014The steamer Tabasco 8 days from Vera Cruz, has arrived.It was reported that Maxmillan would abdicate after the French depart.A contrary report says, he would remain and fight it out.the constitution gives it, and will create conflicts between bodies.who suppose, themselves to be possessed of authority, and that other body by which they find themselves checkmated.And this brings us to the point suggested by the remarks of Mr.McGee.It is the utterly deceptiye and sandy foundation upon which this whole house of confederation is built.It is warranted to have qualities directly opposite to each other\u2014 functions and tendencies which can never be reconciled.Mr.McGee\u2019s was a very popular speech in Halifax, and so it would have been before any English speaking audience in Lower Canada, who could shut their eyes to facts while their ears were tickled with words.But Mr.Cartier with all his boasted courage would never have ventured to deliver it before an audience of his own supporters in this part of the World, nor we believe would Mr.McGee before a company composed largely of French Canadians.The reason is perfectly obvious.The great objection to a Legislative union notoriously, and we may add naturally, even if mistakenly, comes from the French Canadian population.We are not sure indeed that such a union would be popular even in Upper Canada, where the people are taught to consider that they will hereafter have uncontrolled management of their own affairs.At any rate the majority in this part of Canada are utterly opposed to it, and are certainly under the impression that whatever other effect Confederation may have, it will make French Canadians masters in Lower Canada, They fear\u2014we admit, naturally\u2014fear, to he swamped by political relations with an overwhelming majority of another race, and they would not accept any extension of these relations unless they had guarantees in a system which Mr.McGee, speak ing to persons of another race, declares to be the mere stepping stone to the very danger against which they suppose themselves effectually secured.Here is revealed, to our minds, the weakness and the evil of the entire scheme.Concocted by persons whose interests and opinions have always been utterly adverse, it is put forward by each party as having a tendency the direct opposite of that which is claimed for it by the other.Mr.Brown, who has for years professed to struggle against Lower Canadian domination, tells his readers in the Globe that he has at last triumphed over Mr.Cartier, and obtained the constitutional reform for which he has contended.Mr.Cartier will certainly not admit that Mr.Brown has been the victor, or that the influence of his countrymen has been diminished in his hands.A reform carried in this way is none : it is a mere provision of materials for further conflict to be begun when one or the other of the two parties which both think themselves successful shall find itself disappointed.It is as if the Imperial Ministry should attempt a juggle with the popular feeling about a reform bill, and should profess in meetings of workingmen to give the workingmen an increase of influence in the representation of the country, and at the same time should assure their hearers in meetings of another class that the influence of the present body of electors would not be diminished.There can be no real comprehensible improvement when all parties adhere to their old views, and each one believes that the change will promote interests and tendencies the opposite of those which the other party seeks to strengthen.The Beform Question in England.\u2014The opinion which we expressed as to the value of the indications of the policy of Lord Derby\u2019s Government, contained in the Speech from the Throne, are not belied by the annouce-ment which to-day reaches us from the other side of the Atlantic.The invitation to the House to consider the question of Beform does not mean the introduction of a Beform hill, but merely some unmeaning discussion, which will end in nothing at all, unless it shall end in such a consolidation of the present opposition as shall enable it to regain possession of the Government, and assume with a firm hand, the business of closing this long disputed question.It is not easy to understand how Lord Derby and his friends can introduce a reform bill which will he satisfactory to those who desire reform\u2014and as to those who do not, any such bill must he bitterness to them.There are but the comparatively small party known as Adullamit-es, who can be suited by trimming.We think there must be some mistake in the telegraphic statement that Mr.Gladstone accepted the course laid down by the Government, but deprecated delay.The deprecation of delay is plainly a condemnation, not an acceptance, of the course adopted by the Government, and Mr.Gladstone could certainly not have accepted that course in any reasonable sense of the word accepted, without abdicating his leadership of the party who act under him.Mr.McGee\u2019s Speech at Halifax.\u2014The speech of the Hon.member for Montreal to his friends at Halifax, appears to us to make manifest one of the great evils of the scheme which it was intended to applaud.Mr.McGee stated, no doubt with a full conviction that he carried his audience with him, that he would himself greatly prefer a Legislative union to the plan, which though so utterly opposed to the form of a really united Government, distinguished as a Legislative Union, he nevertheless esteems as excellent.But that was net all.If he had contented himself with the profession of his preference for one mode of government, but his willingness to take the next best and be contented with it, his remarks would have been from one point of view statesmanlike enough.We have in our every day life constantly to take the course of choosing between two evils, or between two goods ; hut choosing frankly and definitively, with the determination to carry out without subsequent hesitations the choice which we have made.Not such was the prospect held out by Mr.McGee to his friends at Halifax.He spoke of accepting Confederation only because without taking that first step it would he impossible to take the second, and he plainly intimated his opinion that the first step was to he legitimately followed up and succeeded, by another.The era of revolution, therefore, as the French say, is not to be.closed.So soon as\u2019we have attained this blessed measure of pacification and prosperity we are to have demonstrations of its blunders, inconveniences and shortcomings, and con ¦ sequent agitation for another movement, or step the second.That is the only meaning that can he attached to Mr.McGee\u2019s speech.We shall riot here discuss the difference between a Legislative Union and Confederation.Both have certain advantages, if the leading idea which respectively underlies each of them be honestly and thoroughly carried out.The hoteh potch between the two, compounded in our Quebec constitution, on the contrary has no consistency in itself and sets up an expensive machinery of local governments which will have no real utility if the Central Government shall exercise the control which Parks.\u2014The great public benefit ot a large park, in or near this city, has frequently been urged, and enquiries have been made at various times in regard to the feasibility of the undertaking.No result, however, has yet been attained.A recent report of the New York Central Park Commissioners, shows some of the advantages to be derived from such an improvement.The total cost of the park up to this time, including the cost of land and improvements, has been ten million dollars, while the increased valuation of property in the three surrounding wards, consequent upon the construction of the park, is nearly fifty-four millions.The increased tax secured by this important rise in the value of adjacent property is nearly double the amount required to pay the interest on the gross cost of the park and its improvements.The total length of the park drive now in use is 9,485 miles; total length of bridle road, 5,503 miles; total length of walk in use, 26,553 miles, The following table shows the number of visitors for five years past, estimating three persons with each vehicle: 1862, 4,195,515; 1863,4,327,-409; 1864,5,740,079; 1865,7,593,139; 1866, 8,239,073.The arrests made in the park during the past year for disorderly conduct, only averaged one in every seventy-five thousand visitors.The Duties of Hospitality.\u2014Some revelations of the accounts of the Superintendent of a poor house in Erie County, show a charge of $897 for whiskey and cigars ; |317 for \u201cbest coffee\u201d; $3,103 for tea; 9,769 for dry gods, and $131 for beef tongues, at 50c.each.It was pretended that the item for whiskey and cigars was run up by.the annual visit of the supervisors of the county.The Invasion of Chester.\u2014Of course our readers will perfectly understand that the invasion of Chester by Fenians is a story wholly mystical.NEW BOOKS.We have received from Messrs.Dawson Bros the latest novel entitled \u201c The Claverings,\u201d by Anthony Trollope, with illustiations, author of \u201c Can you Forgive Her,\u201d \u201c The Small House at Allington,\u201d \u201c Orley Farm,\u201d \u201cThe Belton Estate,\u2019\u201d \u201cDr.Thorne,\u201d \u201cThe last Chronicle of Barset, See.Ex-Goveriior Eyre .\u2014In the Court of Queen\u2019s B :ncb, the Middlesex Grand Jury attended to be sworn in.Mr.Justice Blackburn said that as it was possible, that a bill might be preferred before them against ex-Governor Eyre, if any of them had suberibed to the fund for the prosecution or for the defence they had better not serve\u2014One of the gentlemen said he believed his firm had suberibed to the defence.Mr.Justice Blackburn said then, in that case, he bad-better not serve.\u2014The gentleman having then retired, the jury were sworn.An application was made on the 19th to Mr.Baron Bram-well, by -Mr.Rose, solicitor for ex-Governor Eyre, in respect of the indictments to be pre- ferred against him, the nature of his application being that all further proceedings in the actions brought by Mr.Phillips and Dr.Bruce, of Jamaica, to recover damages for false imprisonment, flogging, and other injuries, might be stayed until the plaintiffs had given security.Mr.Baron Bramwell decided that the application was premature and irregular, and ordered it to he adjourned sine die.VICTORIA SKATING RINK.Brilliant as were many of the Fancy Dress Entertainments that have taken place on the Victoria Rink, all who were present last night, acknowledged that this last has fairly eclipsed its predecessors The decorations had been altered and beautiful gas devices substituted for those to which the eye had become accustomed, the charm of novelty in this respect adding to the scene.When the first strains of the music were heard and as if answering to the signal call troops of the Montreal \u201cLight Infantry,\u201d began to deploy upon the scene of their triumph, the effect was such as to elicit cries of admiration from every si.de.The tasteful beauty of the dresses, bright colours predominating, the graceful movements of the juvenile skaters gliding onwards with the sedateness of mature years, with here and there a young grotesque rushing in erratic course among the quieter portion of the throng, the array of Flowei Girls, Red Riding Hoods, hut with brave defenders enough to keep the Wolf from the door, although at a later period of the evening a lion and a bear gained admission.Vivandieres,' Miss McFiimsey, with \u201c Nothing to Wear,\u201d yet by no means looking in despair at the circumstance, made the scene, if not fairy like, as was remarked by some, at al 1 events one of great beauty.The cry Is still they come, and as the hour sounded when the children of a larger growth were admitted, the rink was filled with a variety of costume such as could with difficulty be matched anywhere.The easy gliding motion of the skaters produces an effect which no masked ball, however gorgeous its appointments, can ever attain to.The incessant whirl, the graceful movements, the ever shifting kaleidoscopic views of the motley throng dazzled the eye and preclude even the attempt at giving an idea of the costumes, a list of which will be found at the end.A new feature introduced last night was dancing, which was kept up at intervals throughout the evening, the various sets forming centres of attraction for admiring groupes.St.Valentine appeared to have anticipated his festival day as he shone in all the glories of a pure fresh robe, flaxen hair and golden crown, with rather more than a soupçon of rouge about his cheeks, and horribile dictu, a nose rather redder than I would like, as Bayly Junior remarked about his heard.Theie was an old man capitally got up, with a veneiable tile on his head, a flowing white beard and hair, and whose politeness was excessive, with an impassive face that was a treat to behold.There was a young skater who was if not learned, at least deep red, from top to toe, intensely rouge, but only a \u201csmall party,\" a lion, who roared you \u201cas gently as any sucking dove\u201d but who at one part of the evening got hold of an unfortunate African and seemed as if he would tear him limb from limb.Ofthe costumes intended to represent artistically the characters chosen,there were many of great beauty both among the gentlemen and ladies, to particularize which would be to repeat nearly half the list of characters.The music was supplied by the band and pipers of the 25 th K.O.B\u2019s, and by the band of ofthe 23rd R.W.F.and was kept up with the utmost sprit to the end of the entertainment.Refreshments for the juvenile skaters had been provided by the ladies, and by the admirable arrangements of the Committee of management the whole afforded so much pleasure that we understand another will be given shortly.GENTLEMEN\u2019S LIST.Alma, Habitant.James Alexander, Scientific gentleman.C J A'lloway, Tyrolean.E Busby, Bugler.T Brown, do.Mr.Barnes, 30tb, Highlander.H Badgley, Touchstone.J Badgley, Spanish Courtier.C Bell, Valentine Boy.W Barnston, Indian Hunter.W Barrett, Highlander.Mr.Benyon, 23rd R W F, Chinese.Mr.Blythe, do Jockey.E S Blackwell.North West Trapoer.\u2014 Bailey, Dress of Charles I\u2019s time.J H Cowan, Chimney Sweep.R Clouston, Esquimaux.G Cowan, Chimney Sweep.Mr.Christian, 25Ih, Blanket Dress.Major Cook, Pierrot.C Clouston, Greek.C Clare, Sweep.Mr.Curzon, Rifles, Chinese.Capt.Coke, 2t5h, Irregular Madras Cavalry, Capt.Coleridge, 25th, Blanket Dress.S Bethune, Tyrolese.E Brewster, Grecian.T L Barlow, Zouave.H Buchanan, Habitant.Fred Childs, Greek.H Doucet, Page.H Dowker, Habitant.W Empey, Makolo Hunter.S Empey, Turk.A Frank, Newsboy.L Foley, Tyrolese.G M Fox, Pierrot.E C Graham, A Gemman of colour.A H Glassfcrd, Court dress.Gregory Glassford,- W Gear, Turk.G Glass, Sailor.G Geddes,- J Gardner, Zouave.W Hubbell, Turb.A G Hoseason, Garibaldi.F Hart, Pastry Cook.Ross Huntingdon, Turk.Fred, \u2014 Page.C Hutchins, Sailor, S Hubbell, French Post Boy.F Hill, Neptune.Capt.Hood, 25th, Dress time of Charles I.Capt.Hallowes, 25th, Austrian Uniform.Mr.Hayward, 25ih, Hungarian Gipsy.Mr.Heamege, R E, Albanian.E Glassford, African Boy.Sir Robert H Graham, Australian Savage.G Gillespie, Sailor.Geo Gardner, Nigger.C H Gould, One ofthe Babes in the Wood.H Joseph, Harlequin.J Johnston,-\u2014 C Jones, Page.H Jones, Turk.M Jones, Greek.O Kerr, Sailor.F W Kay, Domino.E Kimber, Paul Pry.W J Kueeshaw, High School Cadet.W G Lloyd, Sailor.George Lovell, Peasant.Charles Lovell, Sailor.R Lindsay, Lady Russell\u2019s Cadet.G Lloyd, Contraband.Mr Luxford, Sailor.Jas Lewis,- David Lewis, Cariboo Islander.Joseph Lovell, Zouave.Mr Leadbetter, 25th, Zouave.\u2014 McNaughtou.Highlander.H McDuff, Bellario.T W McKedie, Nigger.D B McPherson, Midshipman.T Mussen, Highlander.M, Greek.Ebenezer Muir, Spanish Youth.J M, Page.H MulhoIIaud, Sailor.S Mitchell, Chinese.D Moir, Zulu Chief.R F McFarlane, Page.S Massey, Tyrolese.A McGoun, Zouave.W B Moore, Wawe Snake.James Mills, Turk.F Massey, Black Bear.J W Nichols, Turk.T Nichols, Do.C Nelson, Count.F Nelson, Turk.Capt O\u2019Connor, Mexican Gentleman.H Baton, Sweep, A Paton, Cadet.Edward Penny, Norwegian Peasant.A Perkins, Lara.Major Pears, 25th.an Old Man.J Roger, Gymnast.J Robertson, Robin Hood.W Redpath, Highlander.J J Russel Turk.A Robertson, Habitant.F Smith, Zouave.H Sache, Sailor.W Scott, Sailor.G J Scott, Zouave.Louis Sutherland, Greek.T Tiffin, Louis XV.T C Thomson, School Boy.H Thomas, Spanish Muleteer.Mr Turnbull, 25th, Indian Syce.Philip Reaves,Uncle Sam.A Ross, Old Gentlemen time of Charles II.A Stevenson, Tartar.J A Stevenson, Greek.John Shuler, Yorkshire Farmer.C L Shorey, An Old Salt.Clarence Steel, Hindoo Messenger.R Scott, Sailor.II Stanway, Gymnast.F Torrance, Zouave.E T Taylor Zouave.A D Taylor Gymnast.Clarence Vass, Highlander.A Wheeler, Indian.M Watson, Pirate J Weir, Highlander.F 0 Wood, Arab.G A Winks, Highlander.H Whitney, Darkness, D Whitney, Clown.J M Warner, Moldavian.S Weir, Zouave.LADIES\u2019 LIST.0 Bushy, Flower Girl.E Busby, Fatima, A Bell, Red Riding Hood.0 Bigelow, Photography.K Bell, Gipsy.A B, Red Riding Hood, C M Bendwell, - Lola Chaves, Red Riding Hood.E C Childs, E Clare, Fairy.C Clare, Italian Peasant.Miss Cranwell.Misses Dewit.J Dow, Swiss Gleaner.L Dougall, Swiss Peasant.Julia Dyde, Starlight Bess.C.Elliott, Grandma.Miss Finlay,- Miss Frost, Vivandiere.M Findlay, Turkish lady.Miss Glassford, Grecian girl.Miss Gardner, Gleaner.F.Glassford.Soubrette.Fanny Godfrey, Italian peasant.E.Gailetly, Poudree.Jessie Gilmour, Red Riding Hood.E.Gillespie, Highland lassie.E.Glassford, German peasant.M.Gordon, Gipsy.B.\tGordon, Russian peasant.C.\tGlassford, Red Riding Hood.A.Gordon, Lady of the Lake.L.Gilmour, Queen of May.E.Graham, Tambomine girl.Alice Gailetly, Vivandiere.\u2014.Gordon, Spanish lady.H.Hutchin, Turkish girl.Miss Hodge, Scotch girl.S.Hodge, Quakeress.E.Hubbell, Peasant'girl.J.O.Howard, Sultana.Miss Jarvis, Village Belle.J Kneeshaw, Red Riding Hood.Annie King, Night.A Kerr, Bo Peep.A Kerr, Gleaner.J Kohl, Bavarian Bfoom Girl.O Kinlocb, Highland Girl.Minnie Kirkpatrick, Fairy.A Lewis, Italian Minstrel.E L Lewis, Welsh Woman.C Mathewson, Lady of the 18 th century.C McArthur, Mary Queen of Scots.Minnie Massey, Red Riding Hood.F McArthur, Highland Lassie.L Marier, Dutch Broom Girl.Miss McFarlane, Morning.M McFarlane, Highland Lassie.M Mathewsen, Peasant Girl, J Moir, Red Riding Hood.E Mitchell, Çlower Girl.C Mitchell, Highland Lassie.J Nichols, Scotch Girl.M Nelson, Fortune Teller.E Nichols, Gleaner.C Nixon, Russian.C Plimsoli, -r- , P G Plimsoli, Squaw.C Robertson, Red Riding Rood.A Robertson, Highland Girl.M Robertson, Flora.L Rodger, Highland Lassie.Jessie Rhynas, Nothing to Wear.Mary Rhynas, Indian Girl R Robinson,\u2019 Bohemian Girl.\u2014Sache, Rainbow.H Smith, Swiss Peasant.A Taylpf, Polonaise.A Taylor, Rusgian Peasant.Lilly Torrance,- Eva Thomas, Fille du Regiment.Anny Thomas, Polish Girl.E Vass, Spanish Lady.L Warren, Vivandiere.Jt Wood, Peasant Girl.J Wheeler, Gleaner, J M Winks, Red Riding TJood.\u2014Wheeler, Night.D Wheeler Indian Princess.F Whitney, Swiss Peasant.CITY ITEMS.Annie Alexander, Red Riding Hood.Miss Badgley, Spanish Lady.Miss Easton, Little Bopeep.Miss Betts, Red White and Blue, The Drill Shed.\u2014A meeting of the special committee of the Corporation on Drill Shed and Armouries was held on Tuesday evening, when the minutes ofthe meeting of the 5 th inst.of the committee appointed at the public meeting and the chairman\u2019s letter, dated the 7th, were read.The Committee, however, having remitted the matter to the Council, can take no further action till the report is disposed of on Friday evening.It is understood that the report recommends that the drill shed be built of such dimensions as will occupy all the ground expropriated, less six feet, which it is proposed to throw into St.Constant.Vitre and German Streets, and fifteen feet on Craig street.This increase to the width of these streets the Committee believe to be necessary for the convenience of the public, as on the days when musters take place, there must be groups of volunteers about the building and crowds going in and out.The arrangement recommended by tbe committee will to a great extent lessen the trouble that this would occasion.Child Lost.\u2014About six weeks ago Mrs.Har-rison, a soldier\u2019s wife living in Woodyard lane, allowed her daughter, Sarah Maria, to go to attend on the child of Mr.Ashworth, in Hoche laga barracks.Mrs.Ashworth having had occasion on the 6 th of the month to find fault with the girl, she left the house and has not since been heard from.The girl is 10 years of age, stout, fair-hair and complexion, and full faced.It supposed that she must have jumped into a farmer\u2019s sleigh in passing.The Lower Canada Jurist.\u2014The numbers of this monthly legal publication for October and November of last year have just been issued.They contain reports of several cases of much interest to legal and mercantile men.House of Refuub, Fee.13.\u2014The United Board of Oufodoor Relief, beg to acknowledge with thanks the following donations :\u2014Mr.Alex.Smith, 170 St.Maurice St., 50 large loaves bread ; Mrs C.G.Hill, a bundle of clothing; Jno.Henderson & Co., a parcel of winter caps; Hines Millard 4c Co., 43 pairs of boots; Mr.J.F.Scripture, 87 large white loaves of bread ; a friend a parcel of clothing ; a friend a parcel do ; Ira Gould & Sons, 5 bags corn meal ; Mr.Edward Shaw, a parcel of clothing ; Mr.Wm.Reid, Craig St., $10 ; J.F., $5.Police Court.\u2014Nicholas Saucier and Francois Xavier Boileau, for being drunk and fighting in Common street, were fieed $2 or 15 days each.Harriet Ralph, larceny, 15 days.Margaret Butler, for having in her possession soldiers clothing was fined JE5 stg.aud treble the value of the clothing or 3 months imprisonment.John Lee and Helen Lemay for assault and battery were fined $15 or 3 months and $5 or 1 month respectively.Recorder\u2019s Court.\u2014Pierre Deschamps, for vagrancy, $10 or two months.A number of disorderly and idle women were fined $10 or two months or $5 or one month, according to the circumstances of the cases.Francois Mercier and Olivier Leblanc were fined $2 each for fighting in Panet Street.There 24 cases in all.The Committee of management of St.Andrew\u2019s Home acknowledge with thanksthe receipt of a quantity of beef and mutton from Messrs.Boyd and Shirly.The Treasurer of the Montreal General Hospital begs to acknowledge with thanks the very liberal donations, from Doctor Craik of ~ and Mr.Benjamin Dawson $100, for the nefit of the Institution.of its proceedings, and that they do\u2019 not flatter themselves that they will fare any better from Government interference in this Trust or Commission than in the Turnpike Trust.Moreover, as the town of Levis becomes of more importance, they may consider they have the right to some say in the matter of the Quebec Harbour arrangement and dues.\u2014Quebec Daily News.THE SEDUCTION CASES AT TORONTO.curious adventures of one of the accused parties.In the afternoon, Mrs.Holmes alias Marshall, was brought up, aud for the defence her alleged husband.Frederick Paton Marshall was called.He deposed that he was a clerk in the commissariat department ; that Mrs.Marshall was not his wife.He recollected when she came to live on Boulton street, but knew Mary Jane Charles two months prior to that time.He was in the habit of seeing her frequently, and met her at the time of her visit at Mrs.Hogarty\u2019s, 'on Strachan street.He also met her at his quarters, where he stated that she asked him to take a house for her and leave the prisoner.He did not know Harris.The girl came on several occasions to Mr.Holmes\u2019, and frequently brought persons with her.^This i was in the evening.On one occasion she left I A STRANGE PHENOMENON.A Y0UN8 LADY IN A YEAR\u2019a TRANCE.NOTICES.I Natural History Society.THE FOURTH LECTURE of the SOMERVILLE COURSE will be delivered in the (From the New York Evening Gazette Feb.5.) i In Brooklyn has long lesided a highly re-\t______________ spectable family, well known for their social Society\u2019s Lecture Room on THURSDAY EVEN-position, which if it is not one of wealth, is that ING, February 14th,at Eight o\u2019clock.Subject: of competence.\u2014, a daughter of a widowed 1 mother, a young lady whose amiable qualities ) the sitting room with a gentleman.On the cross-examination bj Mr.John McNab he stated that he had been a Major in the army, but was no w a clerk in the Purveyor\u2019s Department.He first met the woman in the Crimea, and had lived with her for about 12 J years.He had known her about 13 years.The children were called by the name of Holmes.Mr.McMichael contended that such evidence was not admissible.Mr.McNab held that he had a right to enquire into the circumstances of their acquaintance in order that it could he seen whether there was a legal contract or not.The Magistrate agreed with this view and the witness continued to state that he met the woman in Constantinople.She was governess to the daughter of General Boatson, and the witness was secretary to the General.She quarrelled with General Boatson\u2019s family, and asked him to accompany her on board a seventy gun ship, when they formed an attachment, They were married the best way they could get in Constantinople.She was afterwards on the strength of the Regiment, and accompanied him to Scutari, Aboukir, and other places through the Crimean war, was in camp with him before Sebastepol, and accompanied him to this country.Mr.McMichael contended that a marriage such as that alleged to have taken place was legal.Qn a subsequent examination it-transpired that he was inarried to another woman now living, fl\u2019his was considered sufficient proof that he was not legally married fo the prisoner, and the examination in the case was continued but elicited no new facts.The case was fhen adjourned till to-morrow (Wednesday,) Mrs, Holmes in tfie mcant-inie giving bail.THE SANFORD CONOVER PERJURY CASE.Sanford Conover, alias Charles A.Dunham, was to-day convicted of perjury in the Criminal Cumt of the District.It will be remembered that he is the person who represented that he could procure religable testimony to prove Jefferson Davis guilty of complicity in the assassination conspiracy, and that he brought forward a number of bogus witnesses who testified with great minuteness that they were present at interviews between Davis, Benjamin Surratt and others, when the pl§n of assassination was agreed upon.Two of these witnesses, being brought before the House judiciary committee last Spring, confessed that the evidence previously given by them was false and was fabricated byCqnaver and learned by them previously to their going before the judge-advocate-general.Conover, upon being confronted by these witnesses, boldly swore that their statements were false, and that he had no reason to doubt the truth of the evidence they gave before Mr.Holt.Upon this the charge of perjury was based.The proceedings against Conover were instituted by Mr.Holt, and his conviction gives general satisfaction.Sentence has not been pronounced have endeared her fo her companions and friends, and now tt the age of twenty she has become one of the most remarkable invalids that have excited the medical faculty.About a year ago,-was thrown from a horse, and for some time suffered severely from the injuries thus received.Her case, however at that time, called for no more than the ordinary attention due to one whose nervous and physical system had become shocked by a sudden and unexpected fall.Subsequently another in jury was sustained by the unfortunate young lady, whose case is now about to command the attention of the entire world of physical and mental science.The second injury was caused by having her skirt caught by a street car, through which misfortune she was dragged a considerable distance The nature of the injuries received has never been fully determined, but it is conjectured that some injury was sustained at the base of the brain, or to the spinal column.The patient has remained now about twelve months, undoubtedly a great sufferer, but yet losing nothing of her youthful color and beauty.She reclines on her right side.Her right hand rests under the right ear.The fore-finger and thumb of this hand can be moved at will.The left hand and arm are free, but the thumb of the left hand rigidly adheres to the palm, and is not of use in the various employments of the invalid.Her limbs are intertwisted.The eyes are closed, and the teeth firmly set, so that food pr drink cannot be conveyed to the palate.The face of the body has all the appearance of complete health, and increases in beauty, notwithstanding the remarkable combination of diseases which afflict the patient.The mind, though deprived of the ordinary senses, is just as active, the feelings as flesh, warm and playful as when the invalid was in the enjoyment of perfect health.Though without the qse of her mouth, eyes or teeth\u2014though she neither eats nor drinks, nor sleeps for weeks together, yet she lives cheerful and comparatively happy.For four months preceding last September she has not tasted food of any kind and had not slept.Since then experiments have been made to feed her, as she has conveyed a message occasionally in these words : \u201c I feel hun-gry.u Food, however, when forced upon her seems to produce trances and catalepsy, and for twenty days together she has remained in a trance.Occasionally the patient is affected by spasms.At these times the right hand is thrown rigidly out, the leg unwinds and a convulsion takes place ; but soon the limbs fly back, like springs to their wonted places, and the mind ofthe sufferer becomes cheerful again She writes to her friends and sch< olmates warm and affectionate letters, but she does this with her left hand.While writing she does not use her eyes.The lids are closed.AVhen a book is given to her she holds it, but it is kept closed, and she soon becomes entirely cognizant of its contents.Thus is it with letters.She reads them entirely by clairvoyance.Hitherto the family have guarded the invalid from intrusion and experiment, and though they are willing that men of science may profit by observation in her case, they are unwilling to subject her to trials which may as well be avoided.The trance into which the patient fell commenced at Christmas, and continued for twenty days.During the time she w-is, to all appearance, dead ; hut she came to horself somewhat improved, so far as can be judged.Tbe eminent physician in attendance on her says that she may be considered as receiving some food, although it is his opinion that for nine months she has existed totally without nourishment.On the Anatomy of the Common Sea Urchin, By Principal Dawson, L.L.D,, F.L.S., &c.Admission free.February 13.\tu 37 THE AXJ8EAÏ, FESTIVAL OF THE Montreal Young Men\u2019s Christian Association Will (1).V.) be held in Nordheimeh\u2019s Hall, on THURSDAY, 14th February.Doors open at 7 o\u2019clock.Chair to be taken at 7.30.Refreshments (by Alexander) in the adjoining Hall, which will be tastefully decorated.ADDRESSES will be delivered by REVS.DR.JENKINS, GEO.DOUGLASS AND J.E.SULLIYIN.VOuAL MUSIC BY V CHOIR.Prof.Torrington will preside at the Organ.By the kind permission of the Officers the STRING BAND of the 25th K.O.B.\u2019s will be in attendance and will perform a programme of choice Music.Tickets 50 cents, (including Refreshments) to be had at Dawson\u2019s, Grafton\u2019s, Pickup\u2019s, Messrs.Bishop & Co., (Herald Building\u2019s) aud at the Rooms of the Association.February 9.\t34 Imprairie Mission.A BAZAAR AND SACRED CONCERT will be given in the Lecture Room of St.^.n-Montreal, on the Evening of I HUR^DA , the 14th inst., at seven o\u2019clock.Proceeds to be given in aid ofthe building fund of St.Andrew\u2019s Church, Laprairie.Addresses will be given by the Rev.Mr.Paton, Bev.a^r Jenkins, Rev.Joshua Fraser, Rev.Robert Campbell, and others.Arrangements have been made by tbe ladies to furnish refreshments during the evening.As this is the only permanent Protestant Mission in Laprairie, the henehts of which are participated iu by all Protestants there, it is believed that every one will support the effort now being made to place the Mission on a proper basis.Tickets of admission 25c.each.February 12.\tge ¦ rfY-'.-S- be- PRuVINOlAL NEWS.Gold at Port Hope.\u2014A special despatch from Port Hope says that a rich specimen of gold was shown there recently by a gentleman ot undoubted respectability who discovered it while his men were excavating some rock in the township of Harvey, east of Bobcaygeon, and it is his belief that as soon as the snow melts, gold will be found in paying quantities.Niaoara Falls.\u2014The Government has, in consequence of the numerous complaints made relative to outrages at Mr.Davis\u2019 establishment at Niagara Falls, decided to station a coupla of policemen at that place, in order to protect the travelling public against imposition.The men are to be under the charge of Mr.McMicken, Stipendiary Magistrate.\u2014Globe.Mr.Cassels in and out of Chancery.\u2014The Toronto Telegraph says : In Thursday\u2019s issue of this journal we announced, to the suprise of a great many, that Mr.Cassels had sneaked into Chancery to compel the payment of $24,000, his salary for two years to come.To-day we have the pleasure of stating that Mr.Cassels has sneaked out of Chancery, having obtained the dismissal of his own bill.Quebec Harbour Commissioners.\u2014His Worship the Mayor with the laudable enterprise for which he is now celebrated of rooting or grubbing, or poking his nose into all matters, however stupid he may show himself to be upon the subject, has made an attack in his paper on the Board of Trade, where an enquiry was very properly made into the doings of the Harbour Commission; we say very properly, for the simple reason that'our ships are taxed to support this concern, and a large number of their bonds, all that have been issued, we believe, are held in Quebec.Wo have had warning by the mismanagement of the Turnpike Commission, another concern who never published their affairs, of what may happen in the Harbour Commission, like causes invariably producing like results, and if in the one instance unproductive roads led to the non-payment of the interest on their Bonds until the Bonds decreased to 50 per cent of their face value, may not the same thing occur in the other case.It is only too well known that the revenue from our wharf property has materially decreased within the past few years, in view of that fact we have yet to learn that making additional wharf room wiil be of any advantage except to those proprietors on the \u201c St.Charles,\u201d who may benefit by the job.Where is the revenue to come from on the Piers, built at the mouth of that river, at a cost of £60,000 to £70,000.Debentures for which beiug issued at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum, equal to from £4,000 or £5,000 a year ?If let as deal or coal wharves, their probable destination, these piers might yield £400 to £500 per annum ; it is therefore high time that the public, who are so vitally interested in this concern, do take some notice WHY WORKING MEN DO NOT ATTEND CHURCH.(From the Glasgow Herald.) Among all the singular conferences winch have been held for some time past perhaps the most singular is that between clergymen and workmen, to discuss in a friendly way the objections that the latter have to the Church, and the reasons that induce them to stay away The first of these parliaments was held in Leeds and another took place in the Metropolis.It would appear that there is a great amount of indifference and opposition to the Churches of all denominations amongst the industrious classes in the large towns of England\u2014that the working men look upon cknrch-goers as a class apart with whom they have lew sympathies.We have, comparatively speaking, little of this in Scotland, where the semi-democratic form of Church Government has sprung from, and has been warmly' cherished by the common people, and where, in consequence, working men form the large proportion of almost every congregation.In England the Established Church has made little progress with the most intelligent of the operatives\u2014those who are active members of trades\u2019 unions and zealous Reformers, aud who, with all their faults, must be set down as tbe elite of their class.Non-Conforming Churches, like tbe Independents, draw their main support from the lower middle class, while the Methodists sink deeper into the social crust, and have struck a vein of sympathy in the lowest strata of all.Between the lower middle and the lowest class we have in England a large body of our best avtizans, intelligent men, political students, persons who can discuss tbe rights and wrongs of society with considerable acumen, who are either strongly opposed to or apathetic rtgard-ing religion.The Westminster Review stated two or three years ago, that Secular or anti-theological literature was read most extensively by English workmen, many of whom had lost all belief in Christianity.We can scarcely wonder that English clergy men should deplore this and show some anxiety to remedy it.It seems to have struck them that the first thing was to hear the objections which the working men had to urge against the churches ; and at the conferences at Leeds and London, these objections have been stated with the utmost frankness\u2019 They are mostly of a pactical character\u2014that is, they relate to the conduct of clergymen, to the distinction between rich and poor in the church, and other questions of a similar nature; there were few speculative objections urged against the doctrines of religion.One Working man denied that his fellow-workmen - were \u201c inffdels and atheists,\u2019\u2019 but contended that they believed in \u201c pure Christianity,\u201d and would go where they could get it.Another workingman stated that they had heard something of science, and might be excused if they were not able to reconcile the teachings of Professor Huxley with those of the Rev.Newman Hall.A philosophic engineer too, thought that religion had nothing to do with forms and ceremonies.His experience was that professions of religious belief and conversion only made men\u2019s faces a little longer, but did not change their character.These, however, were exceptional objections.It seems to be the general belief of the operative speakers that religion and church-going were the luxuries of the masters ; that clergymen in all disputes between capital and labour always decided against them ; and that churches, in fact, were all very well for the well to do, but could only be supported by working men who bad lost their independence of spirit.The two great leaders\u2014Potter and Beales\u2014deplored the indifference towards religion which prevailed amongst their constituents, and the lat ter was magninimous enough to say that he would make ten thousand more sacrifices than he had made\u2014that he would give ten thousand lives if he had tnem to make the working classes perfect Christians.If this result should come, we submit that the first sacrifiée Mr.Beales would have to make would be his position as leader and political demigod of the working men.\t, It was admitted by some of the clergymen present that one or two of the objections were not without weight.The Rev.Dr.Miller, of Greenwich, denounced the sale of livings, but contended that clergymen deserved to lose their influence if they became political pratizans.Dean Stanley offered to make any reasonable alterations in the services at Westminister Abbey which wonld prove attractive.Tbe objections urged must have left the impression that the English working men are as Democratic in their ideas of religious as of political institutions.It is quite true that in the highest sense the Church ought to be Democratic, and it really is so to all pure minded worshippers.It ought to level all distinctions between the low bom and the high horn, between workmen and capitalists, who can only appear as true worshippers when they appear as erring human beings, seeking the consolations of religion, which are for all without respect to persons.Whatever hinders this must retard the work of the Church ; but it will not remedy any evil of this kind to attempt a reform like that indicated by the London working men, and which seems to consist simply in making the Church the Church of the working classes.Tories have souls to be saved as well as Advanced Liberals, capitalists as well as operatives, peers aa well as peasants.The clergyman who does his work faithfully and earnestly knows no dit tinctions among his flock where religion is concerned.Its seems to us, however, that English workmen are raising the distinction themselves when they sulkily refuse to attend religious services because they will mingle with the upper and middle classes.A Bih Tree.\u2014Mr.Mueller gives the following note to the Australasian, of Melbourne.Lately a treeof Eucalyptus amygdalina (the peppermint, and also the drooping gum-tree of Tasmania) was measured in the deep recesses of Dandenong by Mi.D.Boyle, who found the length from the base ofthe stem to where the upper part of the branches had broken to be 392ft.Comparing trees uninjured, he assumes that about thirty feet have to be added as a fair estimate to tbe length of tree before it dropped giving thus the stupendous height of about 420ft.for this colossal species, while 450ft.is the greatest and exceptional height on record of the Californian Wellingtonia.The spire of the cathedral of Strasbourg, tbe highest in the globe, reaches to 466ft.A Frank Act \u2014Gen.Sheridan sent, a few days ago, to Miss Rebecca Wright, of Winchester, Va.an elegant gold watch, an exquisitely wrought chain, a brooch and charms.The brooch is of gold, beautifully wrought into a gauntlet, and set with pearls.Accompanying this gift was an autograph letter from Gen.Sheridan acknowledging Miss Wright\u2019s services which ied to the General\u2019s success at Winchester, in the battle of tbe 19th Sep.1864.Miss Wright was young Quakeress,well known for her faith in a united nationality, and understood to be willing to aid the cause at any sacrifice.When Gen Sheridan was in great doubt how to act he sent to the lady, who, writing upon a slip of paper, which she inclosed in tin foil, directed it to be placed in the mouth that it might escape the enemy\u2019s search, and thus furnished the information that enabled the Gen.to achieve his victory.A Man living at Jaga was very much annoyed because his wife had for four years in succession presented him with a daughter.He told her that he should regard the birth of another daughter as a good ground for divorce.The next month (November) the poor woman gave birth to four daughters at once, upon which tbe husband paralyzed with amazement and regarding the \u201cvisitation\u201d as a judgement of God upon him for his harshness to his wife, told her that he would forgive her in spite of all, and not carry out his threat of putting her away.RICHELIEU COMPANY.The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the STOCKHOLDERS In the RICHELIEU COMPANY will be held at the Comrany\u2019s Office, in this City, on THURSDAY, the Fourteenth of February next, at TWO o\u2019clock P.M,.to receive the Report of the Directors on the past year\u2019s affairs of the Campany, for the Election of a new Board of Directors for the current year, and for the transaction of other business concerning the Company.The Transfer Books will be closed from the first to tbe fourteenth day of February next both days inclusive.By order.J.N.BEAUDRY, Secretary.Office of the Richelieu Company, Montreal, 25th January, 1867.\t21 ART ASSOCIAI IDN.Exhibition to Close on Saturday* THE EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS now being held at the MERCANT/LE LIBRARY BUILDING, will be closed on SATURDAY EVENING next In order to afford to all an opportunity of visiting the Exhibition, the Council have decided that on SATURDAY the price of admission shal* be reduced to lO Cents, and they hope that the large number of artizans and others, who find it difficult to leave their business during the rest of the week, will aval themselves of that opportunity.A l\u2019T TJNTIOIV.On FRIDAY EVENING at EIGHT o\u2019clock, the Drawing of the ART UNION will take place, and Members are invited to attend.S.E.DAWSON, \u201e ,\tnon.See.February 13.\t37 Union Forwarding and Kailway iompany.DIED, At Montreal, on the 12th February, 1867, at the age of 37, Edouard Doutre, Esq.LA BANQUE DU PEUPLE.DIVIDEND NO.63.THE SHAREHOLDERS of LA BANQUE DU PEUPLE are hereby notified that a SEMIANNUAL DIVIDEND of FOUR PER CENT (4 p.-c.) has been declared on the paid-up Capital Stock of the Bank, payable on and after MONDAY, the FOURTH day of MARCH next.The Transfer Book will be closed from the 16th to the 28th day of February instant, both days inclusive.By order of the Board.B.H.LeMOINF, Cashier.Montreal, 12th February, 1867.\tb t 37 THE GENERAL ANNUAL MEETING ofthe STOCKHOLDERS of this Company will be held at the Office of the undersigned, in Montreal, on FRIDAY NEXT, 15th inst., at Twelve o\u2019clock, Noon, in conformity with the Bye-Laws of the Company.By order.HENRY McKAY, Secretary.16 St.Sacrament Street, Montreal, 13th Feb., 1867.\t\u2022 38 INSOLVENT jACT OF 1864.In the Matter of MARCELINE BOUCHER.Boarding-Honse Keeper, of Montreal, an Insolvent.THE Creditors of the above-named Insolvent are notified to meet at the Office of the undersigned, No.12 Place d\u2019Armes, Montreal, on Wednesday, 27th February instant, at Eleven o\u2019clock in the forenoon, for the examination of the Insolvent, and tne ordering of the affairs ofthe estate generally.JOHN PLIMSOLL, Official Assignee.Montreal, 11th Feb., 1867.\tdu 38 GOITIL33 & H ILL, Importers of the Celebrated STEINWAY & C NICKERING PIANOFORTES.for sa lu;: NO.1 MACKEREL (inspected), in half and qr-brls LOBSTERS, Star and Regular brand, ini and 2 lb tins JOHN RHYNAS, No.11 St.Helkn Stkeet.February 14.\tr 38 The sensation artists are already at work.The following advertisement appears in Thursday\u2019s Times :\u2014\u201cThe Ice Tragedy.\u2014Those who were immersed, and those who took an active part in saving life, are respectfully requested to communicate with Mr.Nathan Hughes, at his Gallery, in the Pantheon.Also the professional tragic models.A large picture \u2019 will shortly appear,\u201d\t< JFOD SALE : 500 boxes No.1 SCALED HERRINGS 300 brls ROUND and SPLIT No.1 NORTH SHORE HERRINGS JOHN RHSATAS, No.11 St.Helen Stbeet.February 14.\tr 38 To Wholesale Merchants ana Manufacturers.THE advertiser baling had considerable experience as BOOK-KEEPER, SALESMAN and TKAUELLEk.and possessing a good connection in Canada West, is desirous of obtaining a Situation in either of the above named capacities, or would act as Manufacturers\u2019 Agent East and West of Toronto.Satisfactory references given.Address (post-paid) \u201cAgent,\u201d P.O.Box 1192, Toronto.February 14.\tm 38 TRAVELLER.WANTEDj\u2014By a Yonng Man of good address and considerable experience, who is thoroughly acquainted witn the Western Province, a situation as TRAVELLER for a Montreal House.Best references.Address M, Lefroy, Co.Slmcoe, C.W.February 14.\tm 38 FOR SALE: 150 brls PORTLAND SYRUP 25 puns TRINIDAD SYRUP Brls PALE SEAL OIL Bris STRAW SEAL OIL Brls COD OIL Boxes PARAFINE CANDLES Boxes ADAMANTINE do KegsBI GARB.SODA \u2014And\u2014 500 cases STEEL\u2019S LIVERPOOL SOAP By GEO.CHILDS & CO.February 14.\t36 NEW FRUIT: Boxes LATER and VALENTIA RAISINS Drums SULTANA\tdo Brls CURRANTS Boxes CHOICE FIGS and SHELLED ALMONDS Boxes ENGLISH CANDIED PEELS, CITRON, lemon and orange GEO.CHILDS & CO.February 14.\t38 FISH.FISH.150 cwt TABLE CODFISH 100 half-brls No 1 HERRINGS 1000 boxes genuine DIGBY HERRINGS Daily supplies \u201cMcEwan\u2019s\u201d FINNAN HAD-DIES ALEX.McGIBBON, 38\tItalian Warehouse.REFINED SUGARS.200 barrels various kinds For Sale.ALEX.McGIBBON.February 14,\t38 \u2014ALSO\u2014 Sole Agents for the well known Mason 4& Mamlin Cabinet Organs And general dealers In Foreign and American Sheet ana Book Music and Musical Instruments.NEW AND SECOND-HAND PIANOS for hire.Old Pianos received jn\t.,o>r- ones at their full value, PIANOS TUNED and REPAIRED by thorough and eflicient workmen.A large assortment of PIANO STOOLS and OTTOMANS, finished in Hair Cloth, Leather and Plush, just recceived and for sale at low rates, GOULD & HILL, 115 Great St.James Street.February 13.\t37 Tu» LET.% TRAFALGAR C OT TAGE, Cote des if) N eiges Road, two miles from tbe city 15I Post Office.Has good Out-buildings, fine large Garden and Grounds, and a Spring of excellent Water.This is one ot tbe most healthy and delightfully situated plaeeswithinthevicimtyofMontreal.Rent low.Inquire of W.F.GERVIS & CO., \u201e\t84 St.Peter Street.February 14.\tsg Homs, &c\u201e FOR SALE OR TO LET.FOR SALlff OR TO LET, Tbe Cbambly Ilrewcry, Situated in the Village ofthe Canton of Chambly.The building is nearly new, and in good condition, and lias all tne modern improvements.The _______ building is heated by steam.Possession will be given immediately if desired.Apply to JOHN YULE, Esq., Chambly Canton.Febiuarv 13.\t37 h ?.TO LÆT.The SHO P, No.lôl Wellington Street, nowin the occupation of Mr.Cullen.E.G.PENJN Y, Herald Office.\u2014ARSO\u2014 The HOUSE, No.130 Amherst Street, north of Dorchester Street.Kent £26 per annum, with assessments, to a respectable tenant.This house nas seven rooms, good yard, sheds, cellar, and water closets, and is in g-*< d order.E.G.PENNY, lif raid Office.February 12.\t36 COTTAGPVTO TjKT.TO LET, at Cote St.CaUierines, an excellent Cottage, containing tearooms, with water in the house, together with four and a half arpents of ground attached.Arplyto MK.LANGUEDOC, Sheriff\u2019s Office.February 12.\t36 XO JLiïüTi r The premises corner of Notre Dame ^ and Jonn Streeis, presently occupied by Messrs.Archibald Ferrie & Co.The Office No.33St.Nicholas Street, presently occupied by Messrs.W.P.Nolan & Co.Apply to THEODORE HART, 33 Si.Nicholas Street.February 12.\tr 36 TO LET.A first-class CUT-STONE HOUSE, §3 inrTf corner of Seigneu s and st.Antoine a e Streets.fitted up with all modern con-17 Ê \u2022\" / veniences, extensive Stubllng, Coach __üsHssè House, &c., In rear, and «mail Garden in front.Rent moderate The LARGE STORE and YARD on Canal Basin, opposite the Government Flour Sheds, known as Murray\u2019s Store.Tbe LARGE YARD, HOUSE, and STABLING on Wellington Street, lately occupied by Messrs.Grant, Hall & Co.Apply to W.WATSON, Or W.W.OGILVIE, Commissioners Street.February 12.\t36 TO LET.A two-story CUT-STONE DWELLING No.26 Monique Street.Possession 1st May.,Apply to ____\t^\tWM.MUIR.February 11.\tuu 35 TO LET, .e A first-class three-story CUT-STONE DWELI ING, No.243 St.Antoine Street, fitted up with all the modern conveniences; deep lot.Extensive Shed and Stabling in rear and small Garden in front.Rent modérât*.Apply to WM.MUIR.February 11.\tdu 35 TO LKT, Those extensive STORES, Nos.19 and 20 Com mon Street, Possession immediately.Also, No.13 Common Street, and ___\tnow occupied by Messrs.Freer, Boyd