Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 26 février 1867, mardi 26 février 1867

[" l^OST?OFFICE.Moktheal, January 19,18flf.Ae-s'*'»'^4* AMtô\tMaIIü A» CïaOBB.ÜÜJB.7.45\ta m 8.00\ta m 10 45 p m 12 Noon.0.45 a m 9.45\ta tn 9.45\ta tn 6.45\ta m 1.45\tp m 6.45\ta m 11.00 a m 5.00\tp m 9.15 a m \u20226.00 p m 11.00 a m 11.00 a m 10.30 a m 6.30 a m 2.00\tp m 5.00\tp m 5.00 p m MaIIaB.Quebec by Railroad.N ortb Shore Land Route.Canada West Day Train.[1] - \u201c\t.\u2022n.[2J Canada West Night Train Laprairie.Ht.Johns, C.E., Napierville j and Clarence ville.S Sew York, Boston, Buffalo, J Troy, &e.j Ht.Hyacinthe, Richmond | and Island Pona.[3] $ Portland.hateauguay, Beauhamois j and Huntingdon.S uachlne.! 3t.Reml, Hemmingford & j Jhambly.| .ongueail.Contrecœur, Varennes and j Vercheres.S 3t.Laurent, St.Eustache,.Hte.Rose, Ste.Therese, & j Ste.Jerome.S R giiud, Cari lion, Grenville ) and Way Offices to Ottawa $ Terrebonne, New Glasgow.3t.Johns, N.B., Halilax, & ' m.k;.Island, m« Danville Junction & B tngor, every Monaday, Tuesday and Wednesday.Do, via Port'and every Saturday .Ditto every Friday (must be prepaid 121 cents per 1 oz).Di t \u2022 vU Boston, fortnightly, f'unard mail.7.00 p m 1.30\tp m 8.15\ta m 7.00\tp m 2.15\tp m 7.45 a m 2.15 p m 2.15\tp m 6.00\ta m 1.15\tp m 1.15\tp m 7.00\ta m 7.00\ta m 2.00\tp m 2.00\tp m 6.00\ta m 2.30\tp m 2.00\tp m 2.00\tp m 7.00\ta m 7.00 a m 8.15\ta m 7.00 a m 1.15 p m 1.15 pm 7.00 p m fll Conductor's Bag open till 9.15 a.m.[2]\tdo\tdo\t9.15 p.m.[3]\tdo\tdo\t1.40 P.M.Registered letters must be posted 15 minutes before the closing of each Mail.All the aoove Mails are daily, except Sunday.Street Letter Boxes visited at 10.30 a.m., 1.30, 6 and 9 p.m.on Sunday, at 9 p.m.NOTICES.INSOLVENT ACT OF 1864.PROVIN '*E C-F CANADA, ) District of St r rancis.) IN THR SUPERIOR COURT.In the Matter of PaINoHAUD & CO,, Insolvents.ON the 25th day of April next, the under-sig ied Will petit on ihe said Ccurt for their discharge, in virtue of the said Act.PaINCH \\UD & CO., Per Jettk & archambatjlt, Attorneys ad litem.Montreal, 18th February, 1S67.2m 142 INSOLVENi ACT OF 1864, In the Matter of ANTOINE MAYER, of Montreal, Contractor, an Insolvent.PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that,by virtue of the power vested in me, as Assignee of the Estate of tne above named Insolvent, there will be offered for Sale by Public Auction, on the | remises hereinafter described, on WEDNESDAY, the 17th day of April, 1867.at Eleven o'clock a.m., the Uudermentioned REAL EST \\TE, viz.1st.The half of the north side of a lot of land, situated in the St.James Ward, on Jacques Cartier Street, iq the City of Montreal, con-tainiiiü 40 feet in front by 75 in depth, the whole more or -ess?bounded in front by Jacques Cartier Street, in rear by the property of one named Lalonde, on one side by the pron* rty of one Chas.Allard, and on the \u2022other side by one Joseph Versailles, with the valuable and commo »ious Brick House, containing fou® tenements, pa\u2019enttin roof, with the other outbuildings thereon erected.\u2014ALSO\u2014 2nd.A Lot of Land, situated in the aforesaid Ward, Street and City, known as Lot B, number 102, containing 28 feet front by 75 fe*-t in d pth, the wh le more or less ; bounded m front by Jacques Cartier Street, in roar by the property of one John Hanna, on the north-west side by one Valiqnette, and on the soutb-easo side by a passage 9 feet wide with the woll built unfinished frame house, ready to be bricked, there on erected.All hypothecary Creditors are notified to fyle their claims at my office, six days before the dat e of -ale.Terms Cash.For funher particulars, apply to the undersigned, No.17 st.Sacrume.t Street, Montreal.JOHN WHYTE, Assignee.Montreal, 18th Feb., 1867,\tt 42 N OTIC .ft TO IMPORTERS.~ NEW LINE OF SAILING VESSELS BETWEEN Marseilles Quebec and Montreal.We bsg leave to call the attention ol jmp< rte»s, in a special manner, to this New Line, at present established between Marseilles, Quebec and Montreal, consisting of TWO fei 1^.xN U.D N r.W Î3H1PÏ8 of 4(10 and 650 tons quoted fii>t class at Lloyd\u2019s, English and French, well rieged and fast, which will leave Marseilles ab ut the 15th of March, or tne let of April, at or Freight and Conditions, address to Messrs.Cbaix, Bryant & C .t.arseilles; Mr.Jules Fournier, Montreal, anu to Mr.L.Lieutand, Ship owner aud Lumber Merchant, Toulon {France).JULES FOURNIER, A January 19.\t(281)\t16 NOTICE TO 131 POUTERS.m ( ^ « AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.VOL.L1X.IMONTREAL.TUESDAY MufMNG, FEBKUAKY 26, 1867.IN U MB Ell 48.NOTICES.INSOLVENT _ACT OF 1864.In the Matter of EI.IE BEDARD, of St.Anne de la Terade, O.E., Trader, an Insolvent.THE Oreditors of the Insolvent pro notified that he has made an assignment of his estate and effects, under the above Act, to me, the undersigned Assignee, and thep 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 support of such claims.A.B.STEWART, Assignee.Montreal, 23rd February, 1867.\tdu 47 INSOLVENT_A0T OF 1864.rpHE Creditors of the undersigned are notified 1 to meet at the Offick of John Whyte, in the City of Montreal, on Tuesday, the 5th day of March next, at Three o\u2019clock p.m., for the purpose of receiving a statement of his affairs »nd of naming an Assignee to whom be may make an assignment under the above Act.JAMES GLASSFORD.Morrisburgb, C.W., Feb.15tb, 1867.du 40 INSULVLNT ACT OF 1864.inthe Matter of LOUIS LARIVEE, Trader, of Montreal 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 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 support of such claims.T.SAUVAGEAU, Official Assignee, Montreal, 14th Feb., 1867.\tdu 39 INSOLVENT ACT OF 1864.In the Matter of ALEXANDER GORDON, Mer chant, of Pakenham, C.W., An Insolvent.A SECOND and FINAL DIVIDEND SHEET has been prepared, subject to inspection and objection until MONDAY, the Fourth day of March proximo.JOHN WHYTE, Official Assignee.Montreal, February 13, 1867.\tdu 39 Frenoli and Canadian Lino of Sailing Veatsfcls CONNECTING MARSEILLES, BORDEAUX, HAVRE, CHA-RENTE AND LONDON WITH QUEBEC AND MONTREAL,.We beg le° ve to call the special at-temiun of Importers to this New Line 1 oi The Chairman appointed as Committee on business and nominations, Rev\u2019d.Messrs.Duff and Mallory, and Mr.W.R.Doak.Mr.W.É.Jordan consented to act as Assistant Minute Secretary ; aud the names of fourteen ladies and gent\u2019emeu were put on the roll.The President made a statement concerning the offer of prizes by J.II.Pope, Esq , M.P.P., for Essays on \u201c The Greatness of Little Things.\u201d Only one essay, bad been sent into the Committee of adjudication.No prize would he given, but new arrangements would probably be made.The President also made explanation of the reasons for the appointment of these days for meeting.He also gave some account of the course which had been pursued, with reference to the Book order of the Council of Public Instruction, and of the result in the postponement of its enforcement.The Committee on nominations presented their report, that the officers of last year be re-elscted, with the exception of the Executive Committee, this committee to be appointed after the place of next meeting be chosen.The officers of 1987, are :'President\u2014Principal J.A Graham, M.A ; Vice-Presidents\u2014 Prof.H.H.Mifoe, D.L D., andS.H.Shonyo, Esq., M.A.; Secretary-Treasurer, Prof.Arch.Duff.Jr., B.A.The Business Committee reported the Annual Address of the Pressident as the fuvt order of businesss.Tbe President accordingly proceeded to address the Association on \u201c A Graded System of Schools for the Province,\u201d referring in the course of remark to the need of the establishment of Model Schools, and of the encouragement of Canadian School Books.The Inspector of Schools for the District, H.Hubbard, Esq, M.A., was then asked to give some account of his work.The increase during the past year had been as favourable as at any time.Some serious disadvantages were found still to exisit in the poorer districts.Mr.A.Duff, Jr., read a paper on 11 Teaching Arithmetic \u201d After the reading of the paper, Inspector Hubbard made some remarks thereupon, and on other matters connected with tbe subject ; as - the amount of help the teacher should give to his Scholars, and text hooks other than those mentioned by the essayist.Key\u2019d A.Duff addressed the meeting, expressing desire tor common schools in which youth might receive r thorough education for the duties of life, and hoping that we might have among our Teachers more men, willing to devote their lives to the work.EVENING SESSION.The evening session was opened shortly after 7 p, m., by prayer by Rev.C.P.Mallory.A pieceof Music was sung.The minutes were read and confirmed.The Committee on the Secretary-Treasurer\u2019s Report reported,\u2014\u201c That the accounts are correct.The Committee suggest the following resolutions :\u2014 Resolved,\u2014That the expense incurred by the Committee appointed by the Association at Huntragville, to present to the Senate its view\u2019s in regard to the School Book order,- be shared by the Association, aud that the matter he re furred to the Executive Committee.Rtsolved, That at each-meeting, the place be selected for the next meeting, and also that as far as practicable, the Executive Committee should consist of persons residing -within short distance of each other, and near the place of next meeting.Thc Sttt\u2019ject \u201cInstruction in Arithmetic\u201d was again taken up, and in the discussion of it, Mr.Inspector Hubbard, the President, Mr Shonyo, of Hatley Academy, and the Secretary took part.Special attention was callad to the examples given in some books as not suffieien.ly connected with the principles taught, and the method of using such examples was spoken of.The difficulty of publishing Canadian Text Books, and the need of such as wou\u2019d suit all the Provinces; thenseofthe blackboa.d by scholars and teachers was touched upon, as were also the care to be exercised in giving to scholars work in copying ; the need of accurate committal to memory ; and tho duty of training the scholar to think for himself; also the imporlance of doing work so thoroughly that a second study should hardly he needed.Mr.H.C.Wilson varied the exercises very pleasantly by giving some excellent music.The President then introduced the question of A Memorial to tho British Government on the provisions needed in our Educational Law betore the Confederation of the Provinces the snow and immediately expired.His little girl of ten years old, was with him at the time, and tried to persuade him to come into the house, hut to no effect.He said, \u201c tell mamma, she will never see me again,\u201d aud almost immediately died.His wife, who was not at home, thought he had been poisoned, but a post mortem examination showed that he died from disease of the heart.The Town Debentures\u2014A transaction which occurred on Wednesday affords evidence of the credit of the town Mr.Bigelow, of Hamilton, held old debentures to the amount of §10,400, which, with the low rate at which they were purchased, bore interest at about ten per cent.These he exchanged on Wednesday for tho new eight per cent, debentures at par.Many of the other eight per cent, issue have been subscribed for, aud only a small amount now remains undisposed of.-Stratford Deacon.PROVINCIAL NEWS.Judge Polette.\u2014Has been obliged to adjourn the term of the Superior Court.District of Atthasbaki iu consequence of serious andisposi-tion.His Honor intends to ask for leave of a absence for tome months,and in consequence of this decision he has discharged the délibérés in 21 cases after having given to the parties the advantage of having promptly a judgement before another judge.Church of England, Diocese of Quebec.\u2014 The Lord Bishop ot Quebec returned on Wed-ndsday, from visiting a portion of the diocese, for the purpose of holding confirmations.His loidship has been absent on his tour more than a month.At Drummqndville the handsome stone church, which was burnt three years ago, and which Las been rebuilt and freed from debt through the generosity and exertions of Mr.Sheppard, Mr.Wafts, Mr.Henning, and other inhabitants of the locality, was consecrated on the occasion of the Bishop\u2019s vhit.The number confirmed at the different missions visited were as follows :\u2014Yalcartier, 24 ; Upper Ireland, 42 ; Lower Ireland, 28 ; Lambic's Mills, 32 ; Inverness, 42 ; Leeds, 8 ; Harvy Hill, 2 ; Broughton, 9 ; St.Sylvester, 30 ; St.\" Giles, 6 ; Acton, 8 ; Drummondvilie, 12 ; Durham, 1; Sherbrooke, 36 ; Cookshire, 9 : Bury, 20 ; Compton, 14 ; Coaticook, 26 ; Hatley, If ; Water-ville, 5 ; Lennoxville, 5?; do.in summer, 17 ; Melbourne, 32.\u2014Total, 477.Meeting of Quebec Coal Buyers.\u2014At the meeting of coal buyers held on Monday last, a Committee of five was appointed to make inquiries in Canada, the United States, and England, with the view to obtain weighing machines, and it is intended to have a sufficient num! er cf these in readiness on the opening of navigation, to weigh every cargo that comes into port.Illness of Mr.T.C.Street.\u2014The St.Catharines Journal of Tuesday evening says.Mr.T.C.Street, M P.P., for Welland, is suffering from illness.His nervous system has been somewhat unstrung by the suspension of the Bank of Upper Canada, while the heavy losses he has sustained have produced most serious effects.Not only is his nervous system unstrung, hut his eyesight has been affected, and in addition to the restlessness and hideous dreams at- night, produced by nervous prostration, the unfortunate gentleman has to suffer partial deprivation of sight in day-light.We trust that lus illness will be of short duration.\u201d Suicide at Sandwich.\u2014An old citizen at Sandwich named Green, committed suicide on Wednesday morning by taking poison.He went into a store at Sandwich about half-past nine and asked for strychnine.He said he wanted it to kill rats.After receiving directions how to use it he went home, and a few minutes after was a corpse.He had taken the poison immediately after getting home.Tiie deceased was a shoemaker, 54 years of age, and has left a wife and one child in comfortable circumstances.The cause of the act was not known, but it is supposed he was laboring under temporary insanity caused by drinking.The Toronto Street Railway Diffculty \u2014 An adjourned meeting of citizens who feel aggrieved by the Street Railway Companv, was held on Friday.The object was to receive the reports of the collectors and executive committee.The former reported that they had been guaranteed the sum of $1,181,75 in furtheranes of the object.The executive committee reported the receipt of a letter from Mr.English, President of the Company, asking permission to attend the meeting on behalf of the Company, and offer explanations in the matter.The Committee stated that the Secretary had written Mr English that the meeting heirg a business one, was not for discussion.The meeting then by resolution instructed 1 the executive committee to employ counsel and proceed at once with a suit in Chancery, and to call meetings of the subscribers whenever it might be thought necessary to advise with them.There need not have been any \u201cdiscussion,\u201d and it is possible that explanations offered in a proper spirit and a friendly interchange of views would have some favourable result.Illness of Mr.Street.\u2014Mr.Street has been unwell ; but his friends will he glad to learn that he is now much better.It is also true that he has felt deeply the suspension of the Bank of Upper Canada, not on his own account, but on account of those who unlike him had their all in that bank ; that is why he has been troubled ; and not on account of his own losses, heavy as they have been.A street railway is on foot in St.John, N.B.Mr John White, the present member for Hal-ton, was nominated at a reform convention on Wednesday last as a representative in the Confederate Parliament.The Tory candidate is Mr.Chisholm._ UJ- Richard Homes, farmer, of Hereford, was killed by the fall of a tree, in Remington, Vt.He was brought to Hereford for interment.A drove of cattle numbering nearly sixty head passed over the ice at Kingston on Thursday afternoon, en route for Cape Vincent, having been purchased for the American market.Attempted Suicide\u2014Mr.Henry Saunders formerly an mn-keeper in Kingston, hut who now lives m Invernay, Storrington, attempted to commit suicide on Tuesday morning by cutting his throat, while in a state of delirium tremens.The unfortunate man\u2019s throat was cut from ear to ear, his windpipe cut through aud some of the small arteries severed.There is very little hope of his recovery.Died in the Snow.\u2014Mr.John Brown, of Hereford, went out to cut some fire wood on the 14th inst, and after cutting one stick complained of faintness, and cast himself down on proving to their satisfaction that it accounted for the abundance oi loose gold in the soil by a much more probable theory than that of a drift from some distant region Should this theory piove correct, so free is the metal from base combinations, and so small, in Canada, are all the necessary expenses, that profitable working will follow almost as a matter of course.Our mining community should attentively watch the developments which the new mill and steady efforts of this pioneer company are likely to make during the coming season, and determine for themselves whether Canada is a more inviting field than California or Colorado.FOR THREE PEOPLE LIVE ON MICE several days.{From the Peterborough Examiner.) A melancholy tale is related to us by Mr.P.H.Clark, of the sad end of an old hunter, who lived in the township 0f McLintock, about 50 miles from Haliburton.The man\u2019s name was Isaac Hunter ; he Jived about eight miles from any settler\u2014it being his custom to move back as settlers moved in.Mr Hunter, his wife and two children, lived together, but not being very thrifty, he had neglected to lay by provisions against the winter, not even woou.About the I6th Jan., they all betook themselves to the same bed, to keep horn freezing, and remained there eleven days without fire.Tueir food then gave way, when tqey were forced to take the hair off some deer skins, and then they ate the skins aud then the cords of a pair of snow shoes.At this stage the old man died, aud the others were so far spent that the corpse lay in the bed with them for three days, taey not being able to remove it.They at last made an effort and got it into a corner of the shanty, where some mice came,and nibbled the face and eyes, The survivors endeavored to frighten them off, but they would not go away.One of the survivors 4 length succeeded in killing the mice, and on these mice they lived until they weBjgSfcovered by two brothers named Cole, of Tfibrborn, who by chance passed that way.One of these men stopped with the survivors while the other went to the nearest settlement and brought food, and by careful treatmeu t had them restored to sufficient strongth to be removed to a more comfortable place.They were perfect skeletons when found.This is a sad tale of a backwoods life.But it must be reinembtved that Hunter had it in his power to procure firewood enough to keep the place warm, and we are also informed that he might have had a nice crop of potatoes and corn, as he had a small \u201cclearing\u201d but he neglected this,as also to lay by some venison, and the result of his carelessness pqr venders have above.VALUE OF RAILWAY SECURITIES.Even the opening of an eventful Session can hardly he expected to divert the public mind from those ominous controversies in which the nature and value of railway securities have recently been debated.Of an aggregate capital of nearly £300,000,000 more than one-half represents borrowed money,\u2014raised by the various Companies, in addition to the original capital, upon tne security of preferential dividends or debentures.The amount of loans on debentures alone exceeds £65,000,000 and this immense mass of property has been subjected to an ordeal of analysis which its owners could little have anticipated.We have published a letter from a correspondent, communicating the lessons of colonial experience a.Insolvent railways have been long known in Australia, and haye been conducted through every phase of bankruptcy, compromise, and resuscitation.But even our correspondent was unacquainted with the true status of a debenture-holder as legally defined, and the judgemem; in which only a day or two since this definition was given deserves the most careful consideration.The case originated in the affairs of that lino which has presented us with eveiy variety of emhrarassment and legal complication.Certain debenture-holders of the London, Chatham, and Dover had claimed an order as mortgagees for the attachment of a puculiar kind ot property known as the surplus lands.Most Companies acquire more lands than they ultimately find necessary and these lands, are resold.There was an impression that the surplus lands of the London, Chatham, and Dover were worth neaily a million of money, so that the debenture-holders naturally enough desired to establish their claims upon this property and applied to Chancery for a receiver to hold for their benefit the sale moneys when sold and the vents in the meantime.This was the claim on which judgment was delivered by Lord Justice Cairns and Turner.To keep the reader no longer in suspense, it has besn held that the debenture-holders are not only not entitled to the rents or proceeds of surplus land] hut are without any igjmediate hold on the general property of the undertaking as distinguishable, froth its income.The question turned upon the interpretation to he given to the word \u201c undertaking,\u201d in the security which the debenture-holders received for their money.They had claiipedthat under this term they were \u201c mortgagees of the \u201c whole property and effects of the Company,\u201d and this \u201c Where there is a great smoke there must indeed we presume, was the idea generally entertained.It was in this capacity that they alleged a title to the proceeds of the surplus lands constituted by a mortgage of the undertaking in the assumed acceptation oi tbe words.But Lord Justice Cairns laid down with great perspicuity a law of the case which entirely \u201c A railway,\u201d he Force, le Marquis de Gaux, le Prince de Sagon le Duc de Rivoli, Nigra Ambassador of Italy, lé Marquis de Mornay, le Due d\u2019Acquavia,\u2019 le Vicomte de la Ferriere, le Comte de Colobiano de Gontaut-Biron, Pietri, Hallez Claparede, dé Maurgues, de Kergolay, de Castlebajac, Saint-Priest, Ernest Anjre Garcia, Antonio de Ezpeleta, George et Maurice Fresson-Raimbaud de Merlemont, Henri Cartier, le Marquis de Modem, le Vicomte Davillier, Régnault de Saint-Jean d\u2019Angely, le Marquis de Renuepont, le Comte Ed.de Viel-Castle, le Vicomte de Brimout, le Vicomte de Tureune, le Comte de Montsaulmin, le Vicomte de Cosse Brissac, de Laureston, Blount, Emile Augier, Camille Doucet, Auber, Brista, Auguste Vacqueiie, Khalil-Bey, &e , and all the representatives of the Paris press.\u201c The performance appears to have been below contempt.The debutante, as might have been expected, had not any artistic qualities whatever.She unfortunately, says one critic, had not only to show her physique, but to speak, sing, walk, and even, pauvre fille, to try to be espiegle ; and all these attempts were such ridiculous failures, that it was impossible for a French audience to appear even to admire them.The demi-monde alone was visibly delighted at the discomfiture of one of its envied rivals.The Opinion National says that all wives ought to send their husbands to the Bouftes,as a sure means to get them disenchanted, and to make them say when they see Mabille ladies, j\u2019ai mieux que ça à la maison.I think this is a good saying with which to close an unwilling notice of a very disgusting subject.CANADA GOLD MINES.{From the New-York Daily Tribune.) \u201c bi some fire,\u201d says the old adage ; and telegrams and letters from Canada,' so plentiful of Ute, announcing new discoveries of gold iu both Provinces, leave no room to doubt its presence in greater or less abundance.The question of its extent is one of importance to our own public, as likely to affect our markets for many things, including money.For, if it should prove, as numbers believe, that we have upon our immediate border, and with in two day\u2019s ride of New-Yfork, gold fields equal in importance to those of California aud Australia, it will certainly have a decisive effect on many branches of trade, and draw thither large amounts of capital for investment, from thuse oi our citizens who covet the princely profits of productive mines, without daring to incur the risks entailed by remote ventures on lhe Pacific Coast.The question is important, too, for another reason ; and that is, the bearing its solution will have on the value of the gold formation of the Eastern shore of our continent That this formation exists, extending from the Çu.lf of St.Lawrence to that of Mexico, is as certain as any geolcgica! fact can be ; and, if it should prove that the deposits in Canada are of such magnitude and character as to wairant the investment of money for theiy development (as already has.been proven in regard to those of Nova Scotia), the presumption will be greatly increased of the practical value of those mines which are already the subject of experiments iu the Atlantic States of the South.Passing by the meager data furnished by the recent alleged discoveries at Madoc, Canada West, for the reason that they are as yet insufficient for any conclusive opinion, we shall briefly notice the claims of the Chaudière Valley, near Quebec, where we have intelligence ot results that would be startling even in Colorado or Montana.'The finding of a nugget worth $800 in the Seigniory of Rigaud-Vaudreuil, announced by telegraph, is confirmed by the Government Inspector and the Commissioner of Crown Lands\u2014the latter offering to purchase it for exhibition next Summer in Paris and we haye subsequent reports of discoyeries pf pieces-still larger\u2014one dispatch affirming the iindjug of a nugget weighing thirty pounds 1 Whatever may be the exact size and value of those pieces which are considered best worth telegraphic notice, there seems to be no doubt that the local population\u2014nevpr rcpiarkahle for enterprise \u2014 has at last been visited by an incipient mining fever, and that the imperfect appliances they are using are already rewarded by results far beyond their most sanguine hopes.^The Seignisry of Rigaud-Vaudreuil, which seems the acknowledged focus of the Canadian Gold Mining System, is a tract lying on both sides of the Chaudière River, about fifty miles south of Quebec, and containing 105 square miles of laud.We find, by official evidence, that gold was ditcovered there over twenty years ago ; and that, soon afterwards, a Royal Patent was issued, by gwhich the Seignisr, Charles De Lery, became invested with a right to all the minerals for himself and his heirs forever, This grant, however, was burdened with a roylty tax so onerous as quite to discourage all efforts toward systematic development ; and, under the various embarrassing and stupefying influences which prevailed, the property has, till lately, been allowed to remain unimproved.But something over a year since some American gentlemen, who had examined the tract and satisfied themselves of its real value, bought the mineral right of the present Seignior, Alexander De Lery, and organized a company under the laws of Canada for the purpose of working the mines.A necessary preliminary was a reduction of the royalty tax, which was accomplished with some difficulty ; and, during thc past year, the Company (which is named after the Seignior) has built a first-class, quartz crushingmill, and begun measures which already are giving evidences of the Soundness of judgment which perceives value where others could see only illusion and risk.This indifference on the part of the Canadian public is the more extraordinary, from incidents which have drawn to this region, so much of public notice.In 1865, a Parliamentary Commission was raised to investigate the subject ; and the results of their inquiries, which seem to have been made with conscientious care, fill a pamphlet ot 126 pages.A great number of witnesses were examined, and the sworn testimony of these\u2014many of them practical miners, who had prospected extensively on the tract\u2014revealed facts which would have created txfurore about any goldfield two or V reo thousand miles away.This pamphlet it before us, and, in view of the evidence it c ntains; we confess to a feeling of surprise that ; he French Canadians, unenterprising as they confessedly are, should have resisted the ojflaics which so generally inspires people in presence of trasu-res within their power to grasp.The deliberate judgement of this Committee is very concisely expressed in a paragraph on the sixth page of the Report, as foilows : \u201clour Committee, desirous of obtaining such evidence as would admit of a comparison being made with the golds fields of California and Australia, examined several witnesses, who had long been engaged in mining operations in those countries, and the result warrants the Committee in expressieg the opinion that the Canadian Gold Fields exhibit at least as fan-indications as were in the first instance observa-bl : either in California or Australia.\u201d Nor have the opinions ot scientific men been wanting to sustain the judgments formed by practical miners.Several American experts, including Professors Wurtz and Blake, have expressed their belief in the richness of these mines; and Sir Wm.Logan and his subordinates, on the part of the Canadian Government, have pautiously but positively affirmed the same convictions.In the face of all these facts, it seems impossible that the repute these mines are acquiring should be destitute of some real foundation.And, if it should prove that they have positive practical value, it will not be a matter of entire indifference tbatthis value was proved by American enterprise, and that American capital is to reap the earliest of its fruits.The courage and g'ood faith of the De Lery Company in going to work quietly with its own money in development, instead of seeking its profits iu the stock market, at least deserves our respect ; and it should in no way detract from that respect that, since its heaviest investments have been made, its ranks have been recruited by some of tho leading Business men of Canada, who seem at last to be awaking to the sense of advantages which the supineness of their public has greatly endangered.The discoveriesjjraade in Canada have included gold iu alluvium and in rock.At first, as is always the case tho deposits4n (he soil were supposed to lirait the sqppiv ; and only within about a year has it become known that the bijis betweep the streams are literally tilled with quartz.Those ledges, on being uncovered, proved to he of great thickness - sometimes not less than 30 feet, Shafts were sqnk upon these ; and the assays made showed a prevalence of gold in condition to he worked \"without much expanse.Some of these assays were made by mineralogists of high repute, including the Government experts of Canada aud the state Geologist of Massachusetts.This uniform presence of gold iu the rock gave the prospectors great confidence in the value of the mines subverted these assumptions, said, \u201c was maintained by means of its capital, by means of its borrowed money, of its land, of its proceeds of sale of surplus land, of its permanent way, of its rolling stock, and if the claims of debenture-holders were good against any one of them they were good against all.But were these claims good against any one of the ingredients singly or severally?If so, debenture-holders \u201c might ffam the first lave asserted their rights as mortgagees by impounding not merely the proceeds of surplus lands, but the capital, the cash balances, the rolling stock, and even their own money advanced, so that the moment a Company borrowed money on debentures it would d'epend upon the debenture-holders whether the railway authorized in the interests of the public could be made at all.It would follow, that any rights possessed by bondholders or judgment créditais against property so absolutely mortgaged would be entirely illusory.The debenture-holders would sweep off everything ; the public would get no railway, and the other claimants would get no payment.But this could not be the end contemplated by the Acts of Parliament authorizing the construction of the line.Un the contrary, the object of the Legislature was to create a railway \u20181 which was to be made and maintained, by whiçh tolls aud profits were to be earned, aud which was to be worked and managed by a Company under ceriain rules, and a certain responsibility.\u201d \u201cThe whole of this,\u201d \u201c when in operation, is the woik contemplated by the Legislature, and it is to this that, in my opinion the name of 1 undertaking\u2019 is given.Moneys are provided for, aed various ingredients go to make up the undertaking, but the te.m \u2022 undertaking\u2019 is the proper style, not for the ingredients, but for tho completed work, and it is from the completed wovk that any return of moneys or earnings.;cap arise.\u201d It is easy to follow the argument of this lucid decision, but it is equally easy to see how effectually it destroys the popular impressions on the subject.The cun cut beliet was that a man lending money upon a debenture lent it upon a mortgage cf the pioperty of a Railway Company, and though we have already seen that many obstacles weie in the way of foreclosure, few people doubted that this proceeding entered, at least theoretically, into the mortgagee\u2019s rights.Our correspondent who communicated his Australian experience dpaeribed a debenture-holder as a mortgagee with a pie-.Burned power of (oreciosqre.hut with no legal meaqs of enforcing it.But, according to this decision the debenture-holder can hardly be regarded as a mortgagee at all, while as to fore, closure, the proceeding is simply out of the question.The debenture conveys a hold not on the property but only on the earnings of the line, so that a debenture-holder is really little more than a shareholder with a first preference.It is just as if a mau who imagined that he had advanced money upon mortgage oi an orchard were to find that his security was only the apple crop, and not the land. railway must be regarded as \u201ca fruit-bearing tree, the produce of whick is the fund dedicated by the contract to secure and to, pay the debt.\u201d Consequently, to bring the whole history to its practical issue, the people who took London, Chatham, and Dover debentmes lent their money, not upon 7,000,0001.worth of property, but upon 200,000?.worth of income.We can^ but echo the regret which Lord Justice Cairns was considerate enough to express, that tbe legal operation of these securities should come to be defined, not at the time when the w'ere first devised and employed,but \u201c after difficulties had arisen in their repayment\u201d No doubt, the available security of a debenture is little diminished, inasmvich as foreclosure would always have been virtually impracticable, and tho true source of payment would ultimately have been looked for in the tolls.No doubt, also, as Lord Justice Turner remarked, with an obvious desire to allay an alarm which he could not but forsee, any Railway Company \u201ccarrying on business at a profit\u201d must be good security enough for its debentures, inasmuch as the hoid-rs have the first charge on the profits ; 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For some years past she has been what is called a célébrité in Paris.It is said that she keeps twelve horses in her stables.She is a good whip, and her \u201csuccess\u201d is in great part attributable to her frequent appearances in the Bois ne Boul ogne, nnving herself in variously constructed carriages and in infinite varieties of fast costumes.The management of the Theatre des Bouffes, which has bee ft in difficulties, .was as rçuch sqrpnsed as rejoiced a short time ago to receive no.offer from Miss C!ora Jrsail to app ar as \u201cLove1,, in a costume as neir app o coing to the i^alistic notion of the character as the inspecteur des moeurs could be persuaded to allow.It would apnear that this functionary cjkf not ghow himself severe cm the occasion, for the reports say fhat Mdlle.Cora Peail was dressed m a diaphane costume, \u201c qui commence bien an dessus du genou pour se terminer bien au desspqs qe la poitrine ef se prete dans i\u2019in* tervaîle aux exüloraüons les plus audacieuses.\u201d The attraction was to see by strong gaslight and the aid of opera-glasses, on vulgar stage-boards, the real form and features of a personage whom the non-privileged public had ouiy been wont to admire in the manifold amplifications of sauts nnd crinoline.This attraction\u2014sut]} are the manners of modern Paris- raised the prices of the most uncomfortable single seats to two Napoleons, of certain boxes\u2014and the boxes m tne Lilliputian Bouffes Theatre are all very small\u2014to 20/., and of stalls to §i A frisson a attente,^ we are told, awaited the appearance oi (-he debutante, who came forward with her stays and slippers\u2014almost her only clofhiug \u2014 glittering with diamonds.The fine fieuf of Fiench grisfopracy attended the performance, fiUÏ 80 Pudour yet remains in Parts that the ladies in the audience belonged exclusively to the demi-memdp, 4mo$g the princes, ambassadors, efukes, marquises, &c., belonging to the fine fleur aforesaid, the reporters remarked,\t\u2022\t\u2018 Pi ince Napoleon, who sat concealed in a privatf box, le Duc de Mouchy, le Pi jnçe Veille, Murat, le Prince d\u2019Arenberg,le Prince Mustapha-Pacha, le Marquis de Spepeau, le Vicomte Daru, the Duke of Hamilton, le Duc de Caumout ln TO\tAN1® FAMfI,:IF.8.BURNETT\u2019S STANDARD FLAVORING EXTItACTS The trade will be glad to learn that these choice essences of Joseph Burnett