Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 19 avril 1869, lundi 19 avril 1869

[" 1 ' HOUSES, brant of cannon ball, \u2019 though none of us participated in the profit of ihe transaction which will form the casus belli, nor in the anger which that transaction has excited.We trust may make a new treaty which will at last-close up this irritating and perhaps, in the future, dangerous dispute between two nations, who cannot fight out their battles without making us pay the chief share of all the costs of the terrible game.Important to Landlords and Tenants.\u2014Persons letting or hiring property in this City and executing new leases, must remember that under the new School law the ordinary clause imposing on the tenant the duty of paying \u201call taxes\u201d will not cover the school tax, however broadly it is stated, unless the school tax is specially mentioned thus\u2014\u201call taxes, especially the school tax,\u201d or \u201c all taxes, including the school tax.\u201d - OTTAWA CORRESPONDANCE.April 10, 1969.AFFAIRS .AT OTTAWA.Everything is very quiet here.The bustle of the opening of the House, and the general excitement that prevailed thereupon passed quickly, and Ottawa lapsed suddenly into its usual quiescent state, only the Chaudière Falls seeming to be in a state of progress.The streets there is no need to spread upon ; it would be rather a hazardous subject to make a slip on.Even rumours are wanting, and no one seems to know what to look for or expect.The members are gathering together, but have not yet all arrived, and it will probably be some days before the tale is completed.The Ministry is giving out for the gratification of its friends, particularly those of the rural districts whose agricultural pursuits may suffer from their absence, that the session will be very short.Their cards they fancy are all trumps, and they seem to think they hold the four honours, but there may be a considerable amount of shuffling before the game is over.-Another talk is that a short session is to be held just now, to allow of the members attending to their urgent affairs, and that a second session will be held after harvest.The last is as yet a mere whisper, but it is whispered, although received with little satiafaction.The opening of the House yesterday, I have already telegraphed to you, and little further need be said on the subject.m\u2019gee\u2019s assassination.The Buckley trial ended to day in a wretchedyîosco.The opening speech of the Crown prosecutor was excessively weak and unavoidably so, if he had no more evidence to bring forward than he did.Mr.J.H.Cameron took the matter very coolly.He suggested at the.close of the opening of the case that the Crown prosecutor should abandon the charge, and Judge Morrison agreed with him, that unless there w .more e ence than the speech indicated there Was no case, but presumed there were additional facts to be brought forward.Buckley seemed to wince when the question of his sanity was brought up, but he had no appearance of insanity as he sat in the dock.He has fallen off very much since his confinement.He looks dejected and all the stamina taken out of him, and he has a blotched, scorbutic-looking face.His behaviour was much more decorous and seemly than that of Whelan.The details of the trial are uninteresting, and I sent the result, which is as much now as the public probably care about.I saw Doyle yesterday.He was very down-hearted, but felt that there was little doubt of his acquittal, or at least said so.His health has not suffered ; on the contrary he looks much better than he did at first.Lacroix with nothing to do, and doing it faithfully, was sitting in the kitchen, to be near his day's work\u2014the moving of his jaws\u2014and with his wife and children round him they formed a quiet family party, withdrawn from the cares of life, and living such a quiet animal existence as I have no doubt he looks on as the summum bonum.THE HOUSE.At the opening of the House this afternoon Sir John A.Macdonald and Mr.Tilley were the only members of the\u2019 Government present.Mr.J.S.Macdonald, Mr.Holton and Mr.MacKenzie occupied the front seats of the Opposition.While the routine business was proceeding, Sir George E.Cartier, Minister of War, entered, and was received with applause by the members on the Government side.He looked much as usual, bland and smiling, hut with a canine tooth visible, as if he would bite if necessary.Mr.Galt was also in the House, but not being a Baronet, nor a C.B., he entered unnoticed, and sat down unnoticed near the far off end of the front row on the Ministerial side.Mr.Rose also entered shortly and took his seat.Mr.Simpson, who has travelled great part of the way from Algoma on snow-shoes, moved the Address.He is a fresh coloured healthy-looking man, with little hair on his head, a light beard, and pleasant expression of face.He read the Reply very indistinctly, but his voice cleared as he began to speak.His speech foreshadowed some of the costs of the North West acquisition.There are to he new railways, heavy works for improvement of Lakes Huron and Superior, Harbour of Refuge in the latter, highways to the interior, provision for the discarded servants of the Hudson Bay Co., and several other trifles of a similar kind.The other topics he passed over very lightly.The friends of the Ministry appeared to feel that when he opened his mouth upon some of the expenditures he had put his foot in it.Mr.Bolton (Chatham, N.B.) seconded the resolution very briefly.It appeared to have been settled that the Opposition would interpose no delay to the passing of the Address, in order that the House might proceed to business as expeditiously as possible.Mr.Holton briefly called attention to the vacancies in the Ministry, and to the little injury to the public service caused by these, hut declined to enter into any special discussion at present relating to the topics touched on in reply, although he animadverted in very severe terms upon the great constitutional changes that had been made unauthorised since last Session ; touched on Mr.Howe\u2019s conduct, and said the deputation which haa been entrusted with the negotiations respecting the North West Territory had been completely out-generalled by the able men who represented the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company, so that the result hs.d been utterly disgraceful to the Ministry by which they had been delegated and of which they formed a portion.Sir John A.Macdonald entered into a long explanation of the conduct of Mr.Howe and of the negotiations with him, and promised that the documents relating to these and to those of the North West Territory, would be brought down shortly.Mr.MacKenzie made an excursive speech; congratulated the country that the Minister of War had no doubt secured the peace of Europe in the intervals of his labours regarding the North West ; that he had in all probability seen Napoleon and Bismarck, and assured them of the pacific intentions of the Dominion towards these Empires, and that probably now the necessity for expending $5,-000;000 oay.foi*fciHoa.Goxis! Bad.passed, tliat sum would be soient on more peaceful objects.Sandfield Macdonald did not l:ul t° como in lor a cut in nassing for his proceedings during the \u2019pugrlmago with Sir John.Mr.McKenzie denounced in no measured terms, the unworthy trickery by which office-holders like Mr.Walsh, the Railway Commissioner, the arbitrator of the Province, &c., held seats in the House, while they were receiving pay from the Government.Notices ot motion on the subject have already been given and it will no doubt that another and wiser Reverdy Johnson be sufficiently aired.Mr.McKenzie con-.% eluded by- expressing his general approval of the acquisition of the North-West, the Union of Newfoundland apd of such measures as would tend to build up the Dominion,while he yet hoped to see them put off the name of Canada, and receive the name of British America, a mark of attachment they had for the glorious country under whose flag they lived.The address was passed about half-past five, the formal notices as to presenting it, &c, were given, apd the House adjourned till Monday.There has been some talk of Mr.McKenzie being a not improbable addition to the Government, taking the department of Public Works, for which lie is said to be well fitted.I do not know what weight attaches to such a report.It looks highly improbable in the meantime, but time works wonders, and McKenzie\u2019s speech contained a very hitter attack on the Ministry for not having taken more Reformers into the Coalition, thereby, cheating them out of their rights, and depriving them of the spoils of office, leaving the whole prey to the Tories, only saved from drowning by poor George Brown, whose case is another fulfilment of the superstitious belief, that the man who saves a drowning person is to sure to suffer from the rescued, either in purse or person.Now Sir John rules triumphant; Sir George makes treaties and acquires provinces, while plain Mr.Brown has to help them to carry out their policy, like a mustang which has been broken and bitted, which shows a few kicks now and then, but does not do much harm.The Intercolonial extravagance may gall and the North-West dollars and reserves may chafe, but the umquhile leader of the opposition was committed to both in the Coalition, and so must eat the leek mildly and humbly, no matter how had odour it puts him in with his former followers.\t\\ Mr.Morris has given notice of motion regarding private executions, and Mr.Stephenson one for a harbour of refuge in Lake Erie: nothing else is mentioned yet.The Committees will, I suppose, he struck on Monday.During the sitting very few were present, and those few were mostlv laches.CORRESPONDENCE.-\u2014©- SHERBROOKE STREET.To the Editor of the Montreal Herald : Sir,-It is to he hoped that you will take pity on the residents in Sherbrooke street and vicinity, and persuade our City Fathers into repairing that portion ot it lying between St.Urbain and Blemy streets, which is utterly disgraceful and altogether impassable at the present time.Yours, Ac., A RESIDENT.April 16, 1869.lous.All this will work its own cure, and we shall then return to legitimate business.Caution and system will be found to have been strongly exemplified in most men who have been commercially successful, and these qualities I would recommend to the consideration of the Montreal importers.Yours respectfully, AN OLD MERCHANT.Montreal, 17th April, 1869.PREVENTION OF CRUELTY ANIMALS.TO The operations of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals were inaugurated on Saturday at the Police Court, before Mr.Justice Coursol, by an action taken by the Society, through one John Lewis, against Colonel Williams and Riding-Master Donald, both of Her Majesty's Royal Artillery, for that they, on the 10th April, did unlawfully heat and ill-treat one grey mare in the Riding School, Cote street.The Court was crowded with people, many advocates and other, curious to see how the \u201c glorious uncertainty of the law \u201d would decide the case.Mr.W.H.Kerr appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.Austin for the defence.Messrs.Prentice and Mackenzie, office-bearers of ihe Society, were also present.JOHN LEWIS, groom, in the employ of Mr.Henry Hogan, was at the Riding School on the 10th April, and heard Col.Williams order Donald to make the mare jump a pole.She jumped very well for a few' times, and then refused, on which Donald beat her till she fell on her knees.As many as twenty blows were given her, and the lash was put on so heavily as t.o draw blood.Afterwards a man got a bucket of water to wash the wounds.By Mr.AUSTIN.\u2014No one was on the mare's back when she was beaten.Saw through a window the proceedings.Knew the public wore not allowed in the school.Was ordered out a few days before by Colonel Williams, who called him (witness) a dirty, ugly brute.WILLIAM DUFF\u2014Was present and heard Col.Williams order Donald to make the mare jump ; and he (Donald) made her jump by thrashing her.She was beaten for ten minutes and was completely wearied out.The bloocT was running down her legs.PETER GIBBONS, groom to Mr.Allo-way, saw a man sponging the wounds of the mare in the stable yard.They were on the flanks and appeared to have been done with a whip.Mr.AUSTIN said that Colonel Williams contended that the punishment was no more than was necessary, and was administered properly.He called on JOHN CHAPMAN, who said the mare was fat and lazy, and showed temper.She was hut slightly whipped.She was also encouraged by petting.He had seen many horses whipped much more severely.No more blows were used than were necessary.He did not think half a dozen blows had been given.There was just blood enough to stain the hair on the mare\u2019s belly.; WILLIAM BARKER, rough rider, said the mare was beaten while he was on her back, hut no more than was necessary.Afterward she did what was required of her.It was usual to sponge horses after much exercise.Robert Clarke, driver, was at the Riding School ; the mare was required to jump two and a half feet, hut refused, and she was made to do it.Had been under Donald eighteen months, and never sawhhn ill-use a horse.By Mr.IÇERR.\u2014-The mare was beaten that day more than usual.The Colonel and Riding Master were present the whole time.HENRY BATH, veterinary surgeon, said that there was a slight irritation on the marc's belly.There was a little broken skin, hut nothing further.Several other witnesses, some of them soldiers, were examined as to the extent of the injuries the mare had sustained, and as to the discipline troop horses were subject-'-'O.' ' I'D en- ove.l ^,e.e eeiroijorated the u:, ii-mony already given for the defence.Mr.KERR said the Society for the prevention of cruelty to anfinals had brought this action upon information furnished by the press, and they could therefore have no improper motive in bringing it.The case was taken en délibéré.Judgment on Monday at eleven o\u2019clock.NEW BOOKS.Tub IIakdy Volume Series.\u2014 Messrs.Roberts Bros., of Boston, propose to issue, under the above heading, a series of Handy Volumes, which shall he at once various, valuable and popular,\u2014their size a most convenient one, their typography of the .very best, and the price low.They will entertain the reader with poetry as well as with prose ; now with fiction, then with fact ; here with narration, there with inquiry ; ¦ in some cases with the works of living authors, in others with the works of those long since dead.Each volume will, as a rule, form a work complete in itself.The first of these is out, F.E.Grafton, Montreal.CITYp\"DrEMB.THEATRE ROYAL.\u2014To-night the amateurs of the GOth Rifles again appear on the hoards.The bill contains the drama of the \u201cWreck Ashore,\u2019! the amusing farce of the \u201cIrish Tiger,\u201d together with some of Mr.Putnam\u2019s comic songs.Mrs.Hill and Miss Browning will assist in the performance.The fine hand of the regiment will be in attendance.TEMPERANCE.\u2014On Friday night a temperance meeting was held in the basement of the Lagauchetiere street Wesleyan Church.The Rev.S.J, Hunter presided.A number of addresses were delivered, and recitations given by the juveniles.Several of persons at the close of the meeting took upon themselves the pledge of total abstinence.THE WEATHER.\u2014The ice still holds on the fiver, though it seems likely to begin a decided move after two or three more days of warm weather.Saturday was during the afternoon and evening very cold portending another night of frost, which would no doubt retard the movement towards Spring.REMOVAL.\u2014Lieut.-Colonel Lyons, A.A.G., proceeds to England this week.Owing to the reduction of the Garrison, his office will not be continued.PUGILISTIC.\u2014 On Friday night two young men, accompanied by two or three hundred rowdies went from Griffintown to the sheds in rear of Young\u2019s warehouse, Wellington street, to fight.The fight lasted for an hour, and the combatants at the close were scarcely recognisable.The Secretary of the Protestant House of Industry and Refuge acknowledges with thanks a donation of $2 from a friend by the hands of Mr.M.Burns.\tt To the Editor of the Montreal Herald : Sir,\u2014I am always glad to see matters of commercial interest ventilated in the newspapers, and I was therefore pleased to see the letter of \u201ca trader of years\u2019 standing,\u201d in the Gazette oî this morning.This gentleman, though dating from Brockville, is currently reported to be connected with one of the largest wholesale dry goods houses here, and should hardly have been surprised at the number of commercial travellers he has been meeting in the West.This trade, above all others, has done much to produce the present state of affairs, and to bring disaster on themselves and others.I do not say.that Hardware and Grocery houses are blameless, but the Dry Goods trade has most to learn.A large yearly turn over has been the height of ambition, and several houses strained every nerve to excel their neighbours in this respect.loo many goods have made cheap credit, and goods have been sold to parties of little responsibility, to an amount, in some instances, almost fabu- CONTRACTS FOR THE WATER DE-PARTMENT.\u2014The contracts for supplying this department, during the ensuing year, with iron lead piping, &c., have been award-ed as follows Brass work, to R.Mitchell & 9°;j I,ron work.to W.P.Bartly & Co., and tholead piping work, to Messrs.Mor-iand & W atson and Jas.Robertson THE RIVER.\u2014On Sunday, the river rose to within about six inches of the parapet wall, and largo quantities of ice were de-tached and floated into the current.Some parts of Griffintown were flooded, and the dwellers in that locality were navigating the streets in canoes and boats.LORD ADELBERT CECIL.\u2014Yesterday Lord Cecil preached two sermons, one in the afternoon in St.George\u2019s Hall, and the other m the evening in the Hall of the Mechanics\u2019 Institute.The buildings, on both occa-sions, were crowded to excess, many persons having to turn away.said that the siding in Great St.James Street, which has been a perfect nuisance since it was laid, is to he taken up\u2014all using vehicles will he thankful\u2014carriage-makers excepted.if-»- RECORDER\u2019S COURT.\u2014John Djiggan assaulted fifs father, and left his marls upon him.Tiiafiither came to the court,and, declining to prosecute,the lad was discharged.Patrick Blackstead assaulted a travelling watch and ^qckeiakor whilst under the influence ofliquor.Ho was fined $2.50 or 10 days.A ipslnbainM Le Chat was fined $1.50 for drunkenness.Joseph Roussel could bring persons to testify tliat he was as sober as a judge, .But he did not do so, and therefore hadko meet the inevitable dollar.Julia Ray \u201c one pf them\u201d-was fined $5 or a month.Joseph ghrtrin pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace whilst in a wrong plaçe.He also assaultod^the police.For the double offence he was fined $4 or a month.Joseph Rozand was with the last in one of the escapades and was fined $2.Joseph Parent disturbed the peace in a house of ill-fame, and assaulted one of the inmates, Louise Fournier.He was fined $10 or two months.Joseph Des Rochers, for a similar offence, hut without the aggravating circumstance was fined $5.Thomas Blackball, an old soldier, got drunk and left a dollar behind him.Charles Robil-lard, carter, for blocking up the Grand Trunk entrance was fined §2.Eusebe Lafrenier, wife of Joseph Mayhall was, fined $25 and costs for keeping a house of ill-fame.Pierre Dupont, an habitue was fined $10 or two months.Joseph Mayball, 10 or two months.Marcello Lacroix and Joseph Paquette were brought up by a policeman for careless driving.During the examination the evidence turned upon a dead animal, which one described as a dog and the other a \u201ccalf.\" There was much contradiction on this point.The prisoners got their discharge.A hoy was brought up for impeding on Mountain street and with a caution was discharged.Number of persons tried before the Recorder\u2019s Court during the week, ending 17 th April,-173.B?Ilf ™ ËUSSOPEAft! TELEee&I¥iS.Latest from Spain.Msdrjd, April 1G.\u2014The National Cortes has agreed to the first article of the Constitution, after amending it by a substitution of the words \u201c people of the nation\u201d for \u201cpeople of the monarchy,\u201d in the fourth section.The Committee on the Constitution has postponed its decision as to the form of Government, Arrival.London, April 17.\u2014The steamer Nevada, from Now York, has arrived.AMERICAN TELEGRAMS.Latest from Cuba.New York, April 17.\u2014The Herald\u2019s Havana special says : An extensive campaign in the central department is inaugurating.Troops are hurrying forward.Advices from Nuevitas report the insurgents in the eastern department as having concentrated their forces, and are advancing upon Holguin, which they are sanguine of capturing.Indicted for Murder.Sullivan, the keeper-at Sing Sing prison, who shot and killed Lockwood the convict, has been indicted for murder in the first degree.Minister Motley\u2019s Instructions.The Tribune\u2019s special says :\u2014-The instructions to Minister Motley are being prepared at the State Department.He is expected to take his departure in a few days.It is understood that his instructions will he in keeping with the opinions promulgated by General Grant relative to the liabilities of England for all the property destroyed by the Alabama.In this respect they will differ entirely from the instructions given to ex-ministers Adams and Johnson.Mr.Motley is having frequent conferences with Evarts, in regard to international law, and it is thought he will he given a wide range in negotiating future treaties.of $11,500 per mile.They will meet again on Wednesday.Political.There is no political news.Militia Appointments, &c, The Canada Gazette to-day contains nothing important, except Militia appointments and certificates for commissions from military schools.The list embraces several second class certificates.Lawful and Unlawful Fishing.An Order in Council, dated Ofh inst,, regulates that speckled or brook trout shall uot he caught in Ontario between the thirtieth of September and the first of May each jear.I he salmon trout shall be caught in Lake Simcoe during October.November and December, nor white fish between the 9th November and 1st December, nor masken-onge during April and May, nor bass between 19th May and 21st June; that no bass pickerel, or maskinonge be caught between 15th April and 24th May, in Ontario, nor during the same period in the Province of Quebec ; that trout or .lunge shall not be fished for in- the Province of Quebec between the 30tli of September and the 1st December.Sai 1:105 may he caught on the coast of Labrador, cast of and including the River Kegashka, in the Province of Quebec, between the 30th April and the 16th of Au-gust.Huntingdon and Port Louis Eoad.A proclamation has besn issued declaring the Huntingdon and Port Louis Road a public work.Bailway Traffic Beturas.Total railway traffic returns for March 1868, $854,821 ; for 1869, $758,868.Discount, Discount on States invoices for the week 24 per cent.BUIS.t s1 n1 p liLMi Latest Prices of Gold at New Yor! New York, April 17\u2014Midnight.Opening, 1331.Closing, 1321 8* SPE ÂL mF RAIS.DOMINION TELEGRAMS, (From Our Own Correspondent.) Latest from SoreL Sorel, April 17.Eichelieu Eiver Clear of Ice.This evening, at seven o\u2019clock, the ice in the Richelieu River passed out.Latest from Hamilton.Hamilton, April 17.Burlington Bay Clear of Ice.The ice in Burlington Bay broke up last night.Vessels can now come up to the wharves.Latest From Seaforth.Seafouth, Ont., April 17.Destructive Fire.A fire broke out this morning about four o\u2019clock, consuming the store house of Mr Rutledge, of Bayfield, with its contents, 1,400 bushels of wheat and.1,200 bushels of pease.No insurance on the pease.The building is insured for $600.THE CITY PASSENGER RAILWAY COMPANY expect to have their cars running this afternoon, from Hochelaga to Chaboil-lez Square, and before the end of the week to resume traffic on all their lines.Their horses have improved in appearance from their rest during the few days past.It is Latest from Ottawa Ottawa, April 17.Election Petition.Bagot election\u2014Laframhois against Gen\" dron.The petition charges the sitting member with bribery and corruption, hut principally intimidation through priestly threats of future punishments and of excommunication and denial of the rights of the Church.The Committee met to-day, the Hon.E.B.Wood.Chairman.It was decided that as the petitioners had not filled the list of voters objected to by the-22d May last, the time limited for filling, nor since, and had offered no reason, they should stand precluded from the -lists.The Committee resolved to give the petitioners till Wednesday to fyle their answers to preliminary objections made yesterday by the sitting member.The \u201c Irish Canadian\u201d Libel Case.In the Assizes a true bill was returned against Boyle of the Irish Canadian, for malicious libel against Mr.Powell, gaoler.An objection to the jury is to come up on Monday.Doyle was not brought up.Charge of Coining.It is expected that on Monday the jury will he empannelled to acquit the Tiernay family, of Nepean, for coining.An objection was raised that the coin was current here, and therefore the indictment tliat it is not current must fail.It is referred to the full Bench for decision.Mr.Snowden, chief coiner United States mint, sent on by the Secretary-Treasurer on requisition of the Attorney-General of Ontario, sa.ys the tools were the most ingenious he ever saw, and coins fit to deceive the public readily.Two other dangerous gangs, one at Brockville and one at Stratford, have been broken up by his assistance.\u2022 Intercolonial Tenders.The Intercolonial Commissioners have met, and awarded section six to Jaques Jobin, whose tender is $241,500, at the rate EUSSOPEAEa TELEGRAMS.Irish Church Disendowment Bill\u2014Ministerial Victory.London, April 17.\u2014The debate in the House of Commons on the Irish Church hill was resumed last night.Mr.DTsraeli moved to omit the following clause from the hill :\u2014\u201cOn and after the 1st January, 1871, the said union created by Act of Parliament between the Church of England and Ireland shall he dissolved, and the said ©lurch of Ireland hereinafter referred to as the said Church shall cease to bo established by law.Mr.D\u2019lsraeli supported his proposition in a speech of great length contending that the above clause dustroyed the supremacy of the Crown, and placed tire Church at a disadvantage.Sir Robert P.Collier and Sir Roundel Palmer spoke in opposition to the amendment.Mr.Gladstone also made a speech against the amendment.Ha traversed the statement made by' Mr.Disraeli.He thought that notwithstanding this clause the supremacy of the Crown would continue to exist, hut in an altered form ; if this amendment were successful it would absolutely destroy the hill.The union of the Churches would continue, hut that union must not he enforced Parliamehtary bonds.Mr.Disraeli then replied.He admitted that his intention was to aim a mortal blow at the hill ; but if the matter were accepted the Government could still continue their endowment policy.At length the House divided on Mr.Disraeli\u2019s amendment as follows : for, 221 ; against, 344 ; Government majority,123.The result was received with tremendous cheers by the Liberals.Ministerial Domination, Vienna, April 17.\u2014The Emperor Francis Joseph has by an autograph decree named Count Edward de Taafo President of the Council of the Empire.Formation of Directory.Madrid, April 17.\u2014A Directory is said to have been formed, the members of which are Senator Prim andOlosaga.Eosponsibility of Ministers, Berlin, April 17.\u2014Count Bismarck has accepted the interpretation of the Responsibility of Ministers\u2019 hill whicli lias just been passed by the North German Parliament.The design of the measure is to check the opposition to the actual management of business.Miners' Strike- Brussells, April 17.\u2014A strike among the miners near Mons occurred yesterday.The latest despatch from there, state that there was rioting in that region, and that much alarm prevailed.dommereial Policy of France\u2014Exciting Debate in Corps Legislatif.Paris, April 17.\u2014The Corps Legislatif was to-day the scene of wild excitement.M.Thiers, in a speech, denounced what is called the commercial liberty of France'as, like the political liberties of the French people, a farce.These words occasioned a heated dispute been the President and M.Thiers, which lasted some time, and threatened to break up the session, hut was finally appeased.It was demanded that the regulation of commercial treaties he vested in the Corps Legislatif instead of the .Crown.Apprehended Disturbance in Lisbon.Lisbon, April 17\u2014A military rising is feared in Oporto, and the strictest precautions have been taken by the Government.Proposed Evacuation of Borne, Rome, April 17\u2014It is rumoured that the Emperor Napoleon has ordered the evacuation of Rome, by the French troops, in June.British naturalization Treaty, Washington, April 17\u2014The Senate this afternoon in Executive Session spent some time in debating a motion which had been entered to reconsider the British Naturalization Treaty.Committal Jor Forgery.New York, April 17.\u2014The person arrested.on suspicion of having passed one of the forged Jay, Cook & Co.has been committed.He has been identified by the latter as the man to whom they paid the $9,000 check.Davy ordered for Active Service-New York, April 17\u2014The Daily News Boston Special says that orders were received here yesterday from ?he Secretary of the Navy directing that all the war vessels at the Portsmouth and Charleston Navy Yards are to he got ready for active service immediately.Arrived, New York, Apil 17\u2014The steamer United Kingdom, from Europe, arrived this morning.Proposed Annexation of Cuba, The World\u2019s-special says ; A Pacific coast Senator says an extra session of Congress will he called within sixty days to fix issues on the Cuban business, and reports vaguely a programme of annexation, if needbe by force.If by force a reconstruction of the Cabinet will be necessary, as Secretary Fish is opposed to all designs calculated to embroil the United States in war with Spain.List of Cabin passengers per S.S.MORAVIAN, from Portland, April 17, 1869 :\u2014J R W Fothergill, Portland; Z A Anderson, Toronto ; Mrs Ardagh, do ; Mrs Hilyard, Portland ; Miss de Pennissit, Montreal ; Mr Spencely, do ; Mrs Crockett and daughter Portland ; Frank Redpath, Montreal ; Mrs A Campbell, 2 children, infant and nurse do ; Mrs Henderson, Portland ; Mr de Beau-jen, Madame do, Miss do, Miss L do.and Miss de Gasp«, Montreal.: We pr.ykor meat,\u201d as the foxes remark ed when they jumped into the poultry\" yard.Theatres and balls are often the mere embroidery on the tattered clothes of civilized life. MONTREAL HERALD AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE : MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1868.GENERAL ITEMS.Freuoli democrats call the Prince Imperial \u201c Velocipede IV.\u201d Indcstrial Assessments.\u2014The assessments for iuccme-tax purposes in 1866-7 of railways showed an increase (as compared witli 1865-6) of £323,000 in England and £111,000 in Scotland.A similar assessment of mines showed an increase of £411,000 in England and £138,000 in Scotland.A similar asses-ment of ironworks showed an increase of £449,000 in Scotland.A similar assessment of gasworks showed an increase of £260 000 in England.It may be remembered that a transfer from Schedule A to Schedule D of the assessments on profits arising from railways, mines, ironworks, gasworks, A-c.iinaer the provisions of the Act 29th took effect as from April j, 1866 Something of the increase generally observable in the assessments is probably attributable to the general progress of trade, and something also to the increased stringency with which the income-tax has been collected of late years.Strange Accident.\u2014 On Monday Mr.Ingram s hounds met at Eggington.On returning the huntsmen began cantering across the grass land, Mr.West being in the rear of the others.The party pulled up in fiont of the hall, and Captain Levett shout-ect out, \u201c I am sure there is a man killed.\" ir eTEar*Y, t*1™ turned and saw the body of Mr.\\\\ eat lying at the foot of a tree.I appears that there were only two trees in this pait of the park, and the impression is that he was riding his horse along the park w ithout taking notice where he was going, and that he then struck the trunk of the tree with such force as to cause his instantaneous death.The head of the horse was also much bruised.French Bulls, \u2014 When the Abbe de Matignon was at his uncle\u2019s, the Bishop of Lisieux, lie was shown the cathedral, and his guide told him it was built by the English.\u2018 \" Ah,\" said he, with an air of contempt.\u201c I could easily tell it was not made here.\u201d \u2014\u201cHow old are you?\u201d said Madame de Pronlay to the abhe.\u2014\u201cWhy, I am only thirty-two,\u201d said he ; but I count myself thirty-three, because a little brother was born a year before I was, and died, evidently keeping me back a whole year by accident.\u201d Prince Napoleon began to write a history of his uncle seven years ago, but the Emperor heard of it and dissuaded his cousin, W» have been informed that the other evening the Siamese Twins were taken to the House of Commons to see the proceedings of the English Parliament.They unfortunately arrived just at the end of a de bate and were thrown into a state of alarm by the cries of \u2018Divide ?Divide i\u2019 They of course beat a precipitate retreat_ Fun.Sir George Rodney Mundy, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty\u2019s North American and West Indian squadrons, is expected to arrive at New York on the 25th inst., in the flagship Boyal Alfred, an iron-plated vessel of 4,068 tons and 800-horse power, carrying 18 guns of heavy calibre.She will be accompanied by the steam sloop Niobe, of 1,083 tuns, 300-liorse power, and carrying four guns.The Vice-Admiral is the grandson of the famous Lord Rodney.He became a Captain in 1837, a Rear Ad-mnal m 1857, and attained his present rank in 1863.He is now the senior officer of his grade.Chinamen who have been receiving instruction at the Five Points House of Im dustry during the last four or five months nela a reunion at their class-room on Wednesday evening last.These celestials have made rapid progress in acquiring a knowledge of the English language.^le servants of favourite actresses and singeis in Paris are said to do quite a lucrative business in selling to the flower-girls the bouquets which their mistresses receive at j A.of tlleir enthusiastic admirers : and the flower-girls sell, them over again.Speculation in real estate in Chicago is very active.Land in the vicinity of the proposed park is worth twelve times as much as a few months since.Scientific discovery lias destroyed another ot our most popular theories.Hemlock, to which Socrates and Phocion were said to owe their death, is pronounced by Mr.Harley and other eminent toxicologists, to be ne poison at all.Sixty grains of tincture ol hemlock were administered to a young woman without any apparent effects, and Mi.Harley, after a dose of 24 grains of the pure juice of the leaves of the hemlock, only experienced a slight muscular numb-ness, which passed off after an hour.From further experiments it appears that the common hemlock is neither a poison nor even a medicinal remedy.The Fall Mall Gazette thinks that the facts relating to Socrates and Phocion may be reasonably explained in another way.\u201cHitherto dictionaries have always translated the Greek and the Latin cicuta by our word \u201chemlock,\u201d Some change of classification has no doubt - taken place.What the ancients called hemlock was perhaps the cicuta vivosa, L., which is, in fact, a mest poisonous plant.\u201d The Zoological Gardens of Paris are going to set the example, not only of writing the name of animals in the cages and enclosures, hut of appending to each name a colored portrait.In the Jardins d\u2019Acclimatation, where nearly all the quadrupeds are ruminant and harmless, a goodly number are congregated together, and people with no zoology in their soul are sorely puzzled to know which is the yak and which is the lam.In the cages filled with tropical birds, most of us require an illustrated dictionary, and we humbly venture to thank the authorities for coming to our rescue.Lord Aberdeen once confessed to M.Guizot, in passing by the house of one of ids tenants, that the cottage reminded him of a great shame of bis political life ; and explained it by saying that the tenant always annoyed him by big opposition at every election, until at last Lord Aberdeen revenged himself by lowering his rent one guinea.This took the independent elector from the list of the enfranchised and Lord Aberdeen was annoyed no more.After twenty-five years\u2019 service as Grand Master of tlie Freemasons of England, the Earl of Zetland is about to retire from that position.A testimonial to him on the occasion of ids retirement his nearly reached the amount of five thousand pounds, and his lordship announces ids intention of making it a fund for the relief of distressed masons and their families, to be dispensed by himself du ring ids life and afterwards by the Grand Master for the time being.A plan for cutting a canal through the valley of the Garonne, France, to unite the Mediterranean and the Bay of Biscay, is receiving much attention.The Emperor Napoleon, and all the Imperial family will pay a visit in August next, to Corsica, to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Napoleon I.Hans Breitmann\u2019s Ballads have had a great success in England, where of late years American humor has found its warmest admirers.Messrs.Trubner & Co., of London, have just brought out a second and third series of the famous \u201cpoems,\u201d and have arranged with Mr.Leland, who is about to visit England, for a fourth collection of the ballads.These will be printed from the author\u2019s MS.and will constitute a copyright in England, thus rendering it impossible for any other English firm to issue a complete edition of Hans Breitmann's delightful lyrics.Messrs.Trubner & Co.have issued a sixpenny edition of the first series in order to protect themselves against an unauthorized reprint.The new constitution submitted to the Cortes at Madrid on the 30th ult.is written with approved Spanish dignity, and is composed about equally of liberal and illiberal elements.It is presented in the name of \u201c the Spanish nation and the constituent \u201c Cortes elected by universal suffrage, desir-\u201c ing to establish justice, to affiance liberty \u201c and security, and to develop the good and \u201c security of so many as live in Spain.\u201d The first chapter treats of Spaniards and their rights, and provides that the quality of Spaniard is to he acquired, preserved, and lost in conformity with law.The house of a Spaniard is ids castle ; only a competent magistrate can decree the entering of a domicile, and he only by day, never by night.The right of petition and of public assembly, and freedom of speech are guaranteed.The Catholic is to be the established religion ; but Spaniards and foreigners are protected in the exercise of any other worship, limited \u201conly by the universal rules of morals and of right.\u201d The form prescribed for the government is monarchy, but the limitations are numerous, and the ministerial and legislative powers are in the direction of popular rights.Snappishxess.\u2014Married couples that coo harmoniously as ringdoves in public are sometimes mere snapping turtles behind the scenes.Mrs.Caudle, according to her own account, was as mild as a zephyr in society, but she was a white squall in a night-gown when she \u201c turned in.\u201d Her lectures were all \u201csnap,\u201d aud it is surmised that the wide celebrity they acquired when printed was mainly attributable to the force and accuracy with which they illustrated the experiences of thousands of married men.Unfortunately for the peace of families, all husbands are not Caudles.Some of the persecuted\u2014perhaps the majority of them\u2014instead of taking refuge in assumed deafness, retort violently, and hence domestic -tempests, fierce and frequent.This is had.A mild answer turneth away wrath, and absolute silence generally cools, if it does not extinguish it.We suggest the former as the best remedy.Husbands should be considerate.Their helpmates have much to try their tempers.The home department is not an elysium, as the \u201c man of the house\u201d would find to his sorrow if he were to try it for a single day.UNITED STATES NEWS.THE TWITCHELL CASE.MURDER OF MRS.HILL BY HER IN-LAW.SON- English newspapers recently discussed the question whether or not Gibraltar ought to be ceded to Spain, and the subject will now probably form the text for a debate for the Spanish Cortes, as on Monday, the 29th ult., the leader of the republican party, Senor Orense, gave notice that lie would put a question to the Ministry with ' reference, to it.In England since the first of April, companies that run trains more than twenty miles without stopping, and omit to provide some means of communication between the passenger and the guard, are subject to a fine not exceeding ten pounds for each offence.In a few years perhaps they will rise to the level of checking baggage through on connecting lines.Very Green.\u2014\u201c As soon as you get there, my boy,\u201d said a countrywoman to lier son, as he was leaving her for London, \u201c you must send me a letter.\u201d When the youngster reached London, lie said to his master, \u201c Sir, if you\u2019ve got an old letter that\u2019s good for nothing, I wish you\u2019d give '\te.\u201d \u201c What for ?\u201d asked his master.\u201c For my mother, sir ; she told me to send her a letter as soon as I\u2019d got to London.\u201d The New Back-gammon.\u2014The ladies\u2019 Grecian bend.When Drexelius was asked by ids friend Faustinus how he could do so much as lie had done ?he answered, \u201c The year has three hundred and sixty-five days, or eight thousand seven hundred and sixty hours' ; in so many hours great things may bo done.The slow tortoise made a long journey by losing no time.\u201d Anecdote op Lamartine.\u2014Madame Aud-ouard tells this story of Lamartine, and his visit to the cedars of Lebanon : \u201c These cedars,\u201d says Lamartine, \u201c are grand and impressive ; they towôr above the centuries ; they know history better than history knows herself ; they astonish the people of Lebanon.\u201d On reaching the spot, Madame Audou-ard saw what seemed a group of dwarfed and worn-out trees, of no beauty or majesty whatever.Her guide asked lier if be should carve her name with that of Lamartine.She asked if lie had accompanied the poet on his visit to the spot.\u201cAccompanied him ! no, for he never came here.He sent me to carve his name, while he remained in Beyrout, as everybody else does.\u201d Thackeray\u2019s novels were drawn from life, No one can have forgotten Mr.Morgan, Major Pendemiis\u2019s own man, and his thrifty speculations ; or the lucky strokes of Mr.James de la Plushe in the stock-market.One of the English courts is now examining the affairs of the \u201c National and Provisional Union Assurance and Loan Society,\u201d which seems to have been made up of the prototypes of these fictitious personages.The first two directors, \u201c H.Broomham, 116 Eaton square,\u201d and \u201c W.Taylor, 65 Eaton square,\u201d were found not to be the occupants of those aristocratic houses, but the butlers of the tenants.The- secretary was lately sub-warder in the Coldbath-fields prison and was discharged for suspicions conduct.The directors sometimes attended the board meetings injlivery.The capital stock of this company was advertised at £10,006, Our readers will remember that Mrs.Hill the deceased in this ease, was found lying in the yard of the house where she had lived, and where she had been, left with no other persons than her daughter and son-in-law, Mr.and Mrs.Twitchell.Suspicion of course fell upon these persons, and both of them were imprisoned on the charge of parricide.Mrs.Twitchell was tried and acquitted, her husband was convicted and sentenced to be execut ed; as usual in cases of this kind, where the criminal is a person of any respectable position, great efforts were made to obtain his pardon ; but without success.However he was treated with the greatest forbearance in gaol, and it is reported held almost what is called a levee in his cell.The end of it was that he cheated the gallows by taking poison.This, however, he did not do till after, he had exhausted all efforts to induce his wife, who, having been acquitted was safe in any event, to make a confession which would have exculpated him from all blame except that of an accessory after the fact.He appears to have believed that with that such a confession from her his pardon would be secured, and he made continued applications to her in the most piteously beseeching strain for the required acknowledgment.This, however, seems to have been an after thought caused, perhaps, by some intimation to which he frequently alludes that his life might thus be spared.Previously to his having acquired this hope his mind was in that agreeable state of ecstatic contemplation of eternity in Heaven, which seems to be the common frame of mind with men who arc to die for the most abominable crimes.The change of tone in bis correspondence with his wife from the moment when the idea of the possibility of pardon reached him is very remarkable, and may be held to furnish a tolerably reliable test of the sincerity of his first penitential and pious communications.The letters would accupy, if published in their entire, probably seven or eight columns of the Herald ; but they are mere repetitions of the same statements and appeals, the two first of them of celestial hopes, and all the rest of earthly longing for life purchased at the cost of a lie by wife, for though it is probable enough that she was a party to the murder, no one can read her husband\u2019s letters without feeling that he was seeking to impose a falsehood upon her as to their respective rank in the Crime.As a piece of criminal psychology the correspondence lias a dismal sort of interest about it, and we make some excerpta which exhibit its character as completely as if we printed the whole.We should add that having failed to induce his wife to yield to bis supplications Twitchell made a so-called confession himself, in which he made her the principal and himself the accessory after the fact.MRS.TWITCHELL\u2019S STATEMENT.On Sunday afternoon, about half-past one, George and I went to take a ride, leaving at home mother and the girl.George appeared low spirited.We returned about four o\u2019clock.I found my mother agreeable.George came in shortly afterwards and remained in the dining room until called to tea, reading a paper.IIeLwas very thoughtful.After tea he left the table and went to the dining room.In a few moments I was with him, leaving my mother in the kitchen.In a few moments my mother came in the dining room.Mother said to me, \u201c I had better go to bed ; she did not wish lire to wait up ; she would wait for the girl herself.\u201d I went to my room, saying, at the same time.\u201c George, I am going to bed,\u201d to which he replied, \u201c Very well.\u201d My mother went with me to my room, remaining and conversing pleasantly with me until I went to bed, when she passed out of the room and in a short time (how long I cannot say) George came to bed.I was soon asleep and knew nothing more until awakened by the girl ringing the door bell.I said \u201c George, that must be the girl.\u201d He replied he supposed it was.He made no attempt at that time to get up.I came out of my room and called my mother twice, to which I received no reply, I returned with ithe intention of finding something to throw over my shoulders, when George got up and said, \u201c You go to bed and I will let the girl in.\u201d I remained waiting for George to come up, thinking my mo-tlrei- was down stairs.I heard Sarah call him, heard what he said when he went into the yard.I flew down stairs and saw my mother lying on the settee in the kitchen\u2014a dead woman.This is all I know about the murder.I deny that I ever deserted my husband, but repeatedly offered every dollar I possessed to save his life if possible.After my acquittal I treated him kindly ; visited him three times every week ; never referred to the murder ; never spoke an unkind word to him.On Wednesday morning, March 24, he conveyed to me a letter of instruction.On Good Friday morning, March 26, during my conversation with him, he conveyed to me a written confession, which he wished me to commit to memory, and come to prison prepared upon Monday morning.From this I saw that it was arranged for me to go there and become a party to the falsehood.I was to accuse myself of having taken my mother\u2019s life, and commit perjury by swearing to such a statement.Much as I desired to aid my husband I could not do this thing ; and fearing from the arrangements made I might be entrapped, I went no more to the prison.Finding I did not come on the Monday as he desired he sent me, on Wednesday morning two other confessions, from which I was to make a choice.On Thursday morning, April 1, I re ceived the fourth aud last one.CAMILLA E.TWITCHELL.GEORGES.TWITCHELL\u2019S.LETTERS TO HIS WIFE.First Letter.Sunday Morning, March 7, 1869.My Dear Wife.' I have just listened to an exhortation upon the first chapter of James, and though it was not very elaborate, yet it was sufficiently plain to make it evident to an attentive hearer the great need we have of a Saviour.The situation that I am in makes me feel that great blessing ; for oh, dear Camilla, no earthly help can afford me the consolation that I can receive from an all-wise aad ever merciful God, through the righteousness of His Divine Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.I am aware of the fearful doom which awaits me by the eondeumnation of the law.No hand can stay it except guided by God I feel that my time on earth is shortibut, blessed be God, there is a better land above, where, by faith in the great atonement, the trials, sufferings and awful death of that Being, sinless in Himself, yet who, in obedience to the will of His Divine Father, took upon himself the signs of the world and endured the punishment in order that we poor sinners might escape the righteous law of God, and yet that law be vindicated by sacrifice, that we might have a home above throughout the countless ages of eternity.Oh, Camilla, think of this great love for us, and then think how it is repaid by us ! Dear Camilla, please don\u2019t neglect the salvation of your soul, though we must soon part here.Oh, let me feel before I go that you will try to live so that you will meet me above,where there will he no more sorrow nor parting\u2014 where man cannot intrude his will or power to make his fellow mourn.Dear Camilla, I want to feel before I go that' when your time shall come that I can stand and meet you on the pearly shores of heaven, and sing, as I see you ou your wav, \u201c Welcome home.\" Go when the morning shinetli, Go when the moon is bright, Go when the eve declineth, Go in the shades of night, Go with pure mind and feeling, Fling earthly thoughts away, And in thy chamber kneeling, Do thou in secret pray.Dear Camilla, seek the mercy seat alone and often, and there pour out your sorrows and trouble, aud Ho will answer your prayers, perhaps not as you wish, but in a way which will be best for you.There, before His all-pervading eye, lay bore your heart ; roll your sins on to Jesus.He can and will bear them, if you will only believe it ; and He is your \u201c Adocate with the Father.\u201d What a blessed thought that we can individualize the Saviour, that we can say, \u201cMy Saviour, He bore my sins on the cross, Ho died to save me 1\u201d and, dear Camilla, when evil thoughts and doubts and fears come over you, go and pray to.Him for help to overcome them and for strongth and faith.If you will do this He will enable you to endure all that you may be called upon to bear with patience.I am right well, and I expect Charles Perkins to spend the evening with me.Please give my respects to Miss Kate.Please don\u2019t forget me at six o\u2019clock in the evening.Keep this letter and often look at it.This will probably he the last one that I will be able to send you, and when I am gone please read it very often.I am, as ever, yours, with love unto death, GEORGE.The next letter is dated Monday, March 8th, and is in precisely tlie same strain.Third Letter.[Received Wednesday before Good Friday.] Dear, dear Camilla.\u2014I know that you think that you would not be believed if you made a confession ; but I know that if you will make such a one as I tell you to, and do exactly as I tell, you, it will be believed.If I were acquitted, and you were convicted, I would make one to save you, if it would be death for me.Now, I ask you to do the same thing, Camilla.You have my life in your hand.If you do as I direct, you will save it ; and if you do not, no power under Heaven can save me.A friend of mine who talked a long time with the Governor, said that he told him that he had to carry out the law, but if any.mitigating circumstances should arise he would spare me.I am pledged not to tell who he is.The Governor told John McCully that the sentence would have to be carried out unless somebody says they did it.Camilla, I hear that while you were in prison you said some very injudicious things.Mr.Bringhurst says you have done the same thing when talking with him at his house.I hope for the sake of charity and mercy that you will do so no more.You must never say to him anything about this, for he tells me in confidence and I only tell you to show how careful you ought to be, and if he should know that 1 told you it would do me a great deal of harm.I want to tell you plainly that he thinks you know something about it, and a great many others think so, too.This is one reason why you will be believed.Some of the leading lawyers of Philadelphia have told him that if you made a confession it would save me.Among them is a man who used to be Governor of this State and also one who has known Governor Geary all his life.Now I [will tell you what steps I have taken to prepare the way.I have been urged to ask you here, in the presence of somebody, whether you know anything about it.Mr.Bringhurst thinks I ought to do this, and many other prominent men.So to-day I sent for Mr.Perkins, the superintendent of the prison, and asked him about it.He said I ought to do it.He said it was probable that you would say no ; but if you should admit it, it would save me, and it was the only thing that would.I also asked Mr.Chandler.He said the same thing.I told them that^I expect you would deny it, f l t kouyl.I don\u2019t \"believe Lllat you know anything.This sets their minds at rest about me.You must never say anything to Mr.Bringhurst, for that would ruin it all.I will write out a confession for you, and give it to you on Friday, and you must learn it thoroughly.I will also give you all tlie directions how to act and when you will do it.Mr.O\u2019Byme told me that he did not want you to know anything about it.You must not say anything at all about this, not even to father.It must he kept perfectly secret, or it will do no good.Camilla, spare me this horrible, awful death.Y\u2019ou, and you alone, can do it.Oh do not disappoint me ; it would be more than 1 could bear.Oh 1 Camilla, I hav tried to be kind to you ; you cannot forget the days and nights that I have nursed you when you were sick\u2014the nights I walked the road with you in the country when you had the asthma, and I did not complain And, dear Camilla, you have been a good wife to me.Do not, oh ! do not, I pray you.desert me now.-Save ! oh ! save me 1 You have got a noble hart, and I know you will do this.Camilla, you would be awful lonely without any one,andin your present position.Oh, if you will save me, or at least make the effort you know that if you don\u2019t make the effort you can\u2019t do it but, oh, for my sake'make this last effort\u2014 it\u2019s all you can do; and if it saves me I will starve if it is necessary to give you comforts, and in another State and under another name we may yet be happy.Dear Camilla, if you really intend to do this you must have a trunk packed all ready to leave the city at the shortest notice.I think I would go to Baltimore and stop at a second class hotel.Of course you will\u2019have to change your name.Please urge Mr.O\u2019Byrne to come down this afternoon, and get here as soon after four o\u2019clock as he can.Goodbye ; don\u2019t let any one see this.Burn it as soon as you have read it.It is an awful thing to ask you to do this, but dear Camilla, it is for my life.If it was for anythin,\u2019 else I would not ask you to do it.Please, oh ! please spare my life.Save me, oh ! save me.Y'ou are the only one who.can.Camilla, think of this, I am young, aud in the full flush of health, and it is not too late yet to try and make you happy.I would go in rags to do it, if you will save me.Oh! remember this, and save me if you can.Oil! don\u2019t let your courage fail you ; remember that you cannot give me life after I am dead ; and oh ! dear Camilla, do as I ask you to in this case.Don\u2019t forget it is for my life.Hero follows the confession which he desired his wife to make : CONFESSION.One afternoon last spring my mother and I were, walking up Chestnut street, and, as we passed the Continental, Mr.Gilbert came out and a gentleman with him.He came up and spoke to us and introduced his friend to us\u2014his name was Lee\u2014Mr.Lee.They walked up Chestnut street to Tenth-st.with us, they went up Chestnut-st.and we took the Tenth-st.cars and came home.A few days after I met Mr.Gilbert in Ninth-st.; he came over and walked with me to Chestnut street ; he went into the Continental ; he asked me how my mother was ; he always did whenever I saw him, and asked me if she was any better natured yet ; lie spoke about his friend, Mr.Lee, and said he was a very elegant gentleman, and worth a great deal of money ; flhat he always had plenty of money.I asked where Mr.Lee lived, and Mr, Gilbert said that when he was in the ciry be stopped at the Girard House, but be was a great traveller.I saw Mr.Lee as I was going down Chestnut street ; he bowed to mo ; he was a fine looking man, rather tall with a mustache and military side-whiskers, , and dressed in the top of the fashion.I often saw him after this, sometimes on Chestnut street and sometimes on Eighth street ; occasionally he would join me ; he was a splendid talker, and I got to like him very much.After I got right well acquainted with him I found out that he was a gambler.He always asked me how my mother was.After we got well acquainted I told him how my mother treated me when my husband was away ; how cross she was.He asked me why I did not put her out of tlie way, and I said I could not do that.He then said, j.\u201c Get your husband to do it.\u201d I told him that my husband would leave me if I ever hinted such a thing to him, and lie replied, \u201c That would he no great loss, for you could get another one as good as him any day.\u201d I then told him that my husband was very kind tome.The conversation took place in Arch street, between Seventh and Ninth streets.I was looking at the pictures in Gutykunst\u2019s window, when he came up and spoke to me, and from there we walked up to Ninth street, where he took a car.I made an appointment with him to meet me that day one week, which was Tuesday, at three o clock in the afternoon, in Franklin square.I told him I would be standing around the fountain.He came at the time appointed, aud we took seats aud talked matters over.He asked me a great many questions about my mother\u2014what her habits were ; when the servant was out ; what time she came in ; if my husband stayed up to let her in ; how much money my mother carried about her, and where she carried it ; if my husband slept soundly, &c.He then said he would fix it for me, but he must have all the money and I must let him see the house.I told him to come to the house about halfpast four o\u2019clock on Thursday afternoon ; that the girl would be out and that I would get mother to go out, so that nobody would be home but me.He came and I showed him ail over the house and the yard.We then fixed the time for the next Sunday week ; he said Sunday night was the best time, because there would not be so many people about and this would he the girl\u2019s night out.He told me to unbolt the gate on Tenth street as soon as it got dark, and that he would bring somebody with him, that I mnst have the dogs fed as much as they could eat, and put away where they would make no noise, and that then they would come in and hide themselves.I told him to go into the hack privy ; that no one ever went in there, and that when mother was up stairs I would get them into the cellar.Our plan was that I was to come out of the kitchen singing if the way was clear, and if he was there he was to give a slight cough.This was to be done before I went to bed ; then after my husband was fast asleep I was to come down and tell them.This was our plan, and everything seemed to favour it that night.I asked him when I would see him again, and he said we must not see each other again till the night we had fixed on, for if we were seen together it might look suspicious.He stayed at the house about half an hour, and this was the last time I saw him till that Sunday night.Everything passed off as we had expected.After my husband was fast asleep I got up and went down stairs very quietly in my bare feet and looked in the dining room.Tlie door was partly open and tlie gas was turned low, but I saw mother lying down on the sofa.I went up to her and found she was asleep.I went right down stairs as quietly as I could, opened the cellar door and told them to come as quickly and as quietly as they could ; that she was asleep in the dining room, and now was their time.Mr.Lee told the man who was with him to go out in the yard.He-then went up stairs into the dining-room, and I shut the door and stayed outside.I heard several blows given, but do not know how many, and then all was quiet.I waited a moment and then went in.He said he guessed that would do.When I went in I did not see any blood, and I said to him, \u201cLet us throw her out the window aud when the girl comes she will think she fell out.\u201d I went and pulled up the blind and raised the window.He then came and gave a kind of low hiss, which the man in the yard answered.His wished to see if anybody was about.The man in the yark got on the ash barrel, and in a minute he gave a kind of low whistle.Mr.Leo told me to take hold of the feet, and he caught hold of her body and carried her and threw her out.Then I turned up the gas and for the first time saw blood on the floor.I said I would wipe it up.We went down stairs, and the man in the yard came in, and Mr.Lee took his overcoat from the man.I think he called him John.I opened the front door and let them out, and then shut it very quietly.I don\u2019t know whether I locked it or not ; I don\u2019t think I did.Then I went out to the hydrant and got a towel that was there, and went up stairs to wipe up the blood.When I saw it was splashed around the room I knew it was no use, so I went down stairs again with, the bloody towel and washed it under the hydrant, and let the hydrant run a minute or two.I thought I saw mother move, and was afraid that she was not dead, so I went and got the poker from beside the range and struck her on the side of the head with the point, laid it down there, washed my hands and went to bed,where I found my husband fast asleep.In about fifteen or twenty minutes the bell rang, and I knew it was the girl ; but I was afraid to go down and let .her in,so I waited,thinking that may be she would wake George, but after she rang several times woke him and asked him if he would not go down and let herin.He asked where mother was.I said.\u201c I guess she is asleep ; I will look in her room.\u201d He put on his pants, his coat and hoots and went down to let her in.What happened after that is already known.Mr.Lee is rather tall and spare, broad shoulders, dark eyes and straight dark hair ; he has fair and dark military side whiskers and moustache.The night of the murder ho had whiskers on his chin, so that I hardly knew him.I never saw him have them there before.The man he had with him he called John.I would not know him if I was to see him again, for I took no notice of him except to see that he was not so tall as Mr.Lee.Mr.Lee was low, fluent talker, and laughed a great deal, which showed his teeth, which were very pretty.There were three other letters containing elaborate instructions how she should act, bow reply to provable questions, «See., wltn a second form of confession if she preterred it to the first.mented the Medical departments of the Array, and which were managed by women, nor could any answer to the charge of incapacity for administration be so complete as the fact that throughout New England the work of education is in their hands.DOMINION NEWS.MISS BURDETT COUTTS AS A PARISH OFFICER.Miss Burdett Courts is trying to do a very bold, disinterested, and beneficial tiling.She has put up her own name among the candidates for the office of Guardian in Bethnal Green.She could have seated an agent with the greatest ease, and so exerted her influence without any of the worry and loss of time attendant upon personal responsibility.But she wishes, apparently, for the practical acquaintance witli the management of the poor which can only be obtained by actual contact with the machinery for relieving them, and we heartily hope the electors will return her.The largest single owner in the district, long noted for successful philanthropy, and gifted, it is said, with the talents for business which Englishmen are accustomed to deny to women,_____ though women manage half the business of the Continent,\u2014the ratepayers of Bethnal Green could have no better representative, and the poor no more efficient friend.Already Miss Coutts\u2019s property is the best managed in the district, and although this may be due to the competent agency which wealth can always secure, still, tho agents of a proprietor are sure to reflect pretty accurately his motives.It is not, however, for the sake of one wealthy woman, or one district, that we notice this election.It will, we hope, set an invaluable precedent.There is no public function to which women are so adapted, none in which their influence would be so beneficial, as that of Guardians of the Poor.They would bring au entirely new and highly civilizing influence into th» administration of the Poor-Rates.The parishes want Guardians who will be at once mean and humane, impulsive and troublesome ; who will get five farthings\u2019 worth for a penny, yet never close their hearts to distress ; who will set political economy at defiance, hut will always go rummaging and ferreting about,\u201d and women, by their enemies\u2019 testimony, will do all these things.Thousand of men must have seen that the bedridden incurables in workhouse hospitals were left without pillows, yet that cruelty was remedied by a woman who devised a pillow stuffing almost without cost.Years ago we pointed out how greatly the House of Commons needed a wife, to do that minute work which is so necessary and so wearisome, but it docs not need one nearly as much as an average Board of Guardians.Half the waste of these committees is caused by minute plunder such as a woman would instantly detect, half their \u201c cruelties\u201d are owing to the absence of that microscopic supervision which a woman alone will be at the pains to give.Imagine a guardian with an eye for dirt, who could not be snubbed upon the subject of bedding, and who would be a match for the matron and tho nurses at their own trade.\"VVe do not expect that of Miss Burdett Courts, whose work in life is of a different kind, but we should expect it if the clergyman\u2019s wife were a guardian as well as her husband.The benefits which the great hospitals have derived from the introduction of lady nurses would be extended to the workhouses, and their mere right of comment in an official capacity would remedy many of the most glaring abuses, more especially in those horrible dens, ill-managed workhouse infirmaries.Their mere power of entry without asking permission would keep all in the workhouse on the ç^ui vive while their representations at the Board would be sure of attention, if only from the certainty that they must be disinterested The housewifely instinct is the very thing' wanting to Boards of Guardians, and it would be communicated by the presence of lady members, who would have a relation such as men can never establish with the majority of the recipients of relief,\u2014the women and the children.We believe that women would, when once weighted with responsibility, increase the business capacity of the Boards, and prove as efficient as in the administration of great societies like that of St.Vincent de Paul ; but if not, they would certainly introduce the influence which is of all others ihost required,\u2014that of civilization\u2014an influence, not always unneeded in Guardians\u2019 meetings.The practice once established, there will be no lack of- candidates.In every parish there are women longing for work, frittering away great energies in what they call helping\u201d the clergyman, who would be willing to exchange their scarcely beneficial gurdianship of the poor for defined effort on their behalf.Regulating a workhouse school or infirmary is as attractive as regulating a Protestant nunnery,and far more profitable to the mind, while it need not involve the exhausting labour and the devotion of the whole time which are the drawbacks to hospital work,\u2014an advantage which brings the office within the reach of married women.None of the female lecturers in America have bad half the power over opinion exercised by the success of the Sanitary and Christian Associations_which tsuppis= IMPORTANT KAILWAY CASE IN UPPER CANADA.HORSJIAN VS.THE GRAND TRUNK.At the Spring Assizes in Guelph, an action was brought by Mr.Horsman, to recover damages from the G.T.R.Company for loss in the non-delivery of a quantity of iron put in their charge in October, 1867, to carry from Montreal to Guelph.The facts, as are that\u2014in October, 1867, Mr.Horsman received notice that the Ruby from Glasgow, had arrived at Montreal with 2,330 bars of iron on board.This weighed a little over 39 tens.The bill of lading was handed to the Railway Company, who received a receipt from Shedden & Co., agents of the G\u2019 T.R.Company.The number of b*is were delivered to the Company or their agents, less 34 bars short, which the agents paid for.When the iron was delivered it was found that though the full number of bars had boon delivered, yet the weight foil short by 24,741 lbs ; also that a considerable quantity had a different mark than that which should have been delivered to Mr.Horsman.The company, nevertheless, exacted [full freight, and would not give satisfaction, or take any means to find out where the mistake occurred.Mr.Horsman shortly after found out that part of his iron had been sent to Chatham to Hyslop & Ronald, and it was agreed that tlie iron which he received and which had not his mark should b« sent to that firm, while they sent the iron which was not for them to Mr.Horsman.By tho negligence of the Company, by having to pay an excess of freight in exchanging the iron, and by other expenses, the plaintiff was put to to an actual loss of §576 which counsel claimed he had a right to recover.For the defence it was contented by Mr.M.C.Cameron that the defendants had not neglected their duty by failing to deliver a certain quantity of iron entrusted to them.They had carried all the iron given them ; and because the clerk of Shedden & Co.had given a receipt, in which the number of bars and a certain weight were marked, they were not to be held responsible.The plaintiff had not tried to show that it came into their possession.Davis, one of the witnesses, said he did not see the iron delivered but gave the order to the agent of the Grand Trunk railway to get the iron.The defendants acknowledge that they got the iron\u2014 the 2,330 bare, less the 34 bars short\u2014but there was nothing to show that that quantity was of the weight alleged.The error, if error there was, lay with tho owners of the vessel, not with the Grand Trunk railway.Every bar delivered to the company came to Guelpb.Tho question for the jury to consider was, did the company carry all tho iron delivered them ?If they were satisfied with this, then they would find a verdict for the détendant.He trusted they would not be influenced by the fact that the.defendant in this case was a corporation, but that they would give an impartial decision.His Lordship said this case involved an important principle.If the views held by the counsel for tho defendant were to prevail there would be nothing like confidence in the carrying of goods by public companies.For instance, if a merchant sells one thousand barrels of flour, and gives an order for its delivery to the person to whom he sells it, and if that parson gives a receipt for it to another, and the buyer then turns round and says there must be some mistake in the number of barrels, it stands to reason that the person who gave the receipt must be held accountable for it.The plaintiff gave an order for the iron on the vessel.The defendants gave a receipt for it, but they claim now that the receipt applies not to what was on the order but to what was actually delivered The receipt covers 39 tons\u2014which the defendant admits\u2014but only 27 tons were delivered.The defendants gave a receipt for more goods than the plaintiff received, and if they were satisfied on that point they had only to consider the question of damages.If the principle sought to be established by defendant\u2019s counsel was carried out it would entirely destroy confidence, If the company had taken the same pains to recover the iron as they did to marshal their officers to-day to give evidence, it would he better for the plaintiff and the company also.If the jury thought the receipt had not been complied with, they would find a verdict for the plaintiff.Mr.Cameron su bmitted that the defendants were answerable for the quantity but not for the weight.Shedden & Co.were agents for the company, but they were not brokers to exnrnrae flw, - goods.They merely carried what they received.The Judge\u2014This is the only receipt given.Mr.Cameron\u2014Yres, The Judge\u2014Then it binds them.Mr.Cameron\u2014They are only responsible as common carriers, and in that light are not responsible for more than they receiv ed.The Judge\u2014Teey gave the receipt as common carriers, and are responsible as such.When parties give invoices or bills of lading into the hands of a company they have a right to expect that it covess the property they ought to hrve received.Mr.Cameron held thbt His Lordships charge was incorrect.The jury came into court with a verdi ct for plaintiff in $540.Health is strength.\u2014To prevent or conquer disease is one of the grandest attainments ever aimed at by man ; and Bryant\u2019s Pulmonic Wafers will assure cure coughs, colds, tickling in the throat and pulmonary complaints, as war and pestilence will destroy.Severe colds if not attended to sooner or later lead to incurable consumption, and tire strength of the strongest soon fails if neglected.The readiest and best means known for the cure of these complaints is Bryant\u2019s Pulmonic Wafers, which have been thoroughly tried for the last twenty years, and nave never been known to fail.Singers and public speakers will also derive great benefit from the use of them.Sold by all medeeine dealers at 25 cents per box.\tr DSW 1)2 We beg to call attention to Mr.Booker\u2019s advertisement in another column, of sale of furniture at No.52Perthius street.It will bo observed the sale has been postponed from Monday to Tuesday next, at 10 o\u2019clock.Household Furniture.\u2014Mr.Amton will sell, by auction, this morning (Monday,) at the residence No.51 McGill College Avenue, the whole of the household furniture, consisting of parlour, dining-room, hall, kitchen and bedroom furniture.Sale at ten o\u2019clock.This Monday morning, Messrs.Devany & Co.sell, at their rooms, 139 Great St.James Street, the balance of their late consignments of Jacques & Hay's furniture, comprising elegant Neo-Grecian drawing-room sets of the most modern designs and upholstered in very rich silk terry, handsome marble-top and plain walnut bedroom sets, dining tables, centre and fancy tables, sofas, parlour, dining and bed room chairs, wardrobes, carved panel sideboards, &c., &e., &c.We understand that furniture purchased at this sale will be stored free of charge until required by the purchaser.Tlie hour is ten o\u2019clock.Catalogues now ready of Mr.Leeming\u2019s auction sale of fine English hooks on Wednesday next.AVe are glad to see that Mr.Shaw, auctioneer, has returned from his long and hard fought battle with the Government officials at Cincinnati and elsewhers.We learn that Collector Neff, of Cincinnati, who boasted that he would make $50,000 out of the hook seizure, has been dismissed by order of the President.It appears that, instead of making the $50,000, he has put the Government to about $20,000 expense in tlie transaction.Cra&e & Conumro.HERALD OFFICE,\tj Montreal, Saturday, April 17, 1869.j Customs' Revenue.\u2014.For week ending 17th April, $78,438 11.NEW YOKE MAKKETS.{By Magnetic Telegraph.) New York, April 17.COTTON quiet at 28fc.FLOUR dull and heavy ; receipts 8,300 brls ; sales 3,700 bris at $5.25 (@ $5.80 for Super State and AVestern ; $5.10fS>$6.25 for Common to Choice Extra State ; $5.53 /â) $6.75 for common to choice Extra AVestern, RYE FLOUR dull at $5.10 fa) $6.75.AVHEAÏ dull and drooping ; receipts 3,-700 bus.RYEquiet and drooping ; sales of AArest-ern at $1.35.CORN dull ; receipts 18,000 bas ; sales 32,000 bus at 83jc (a) 85c for new mixed Western ; 84c /a 87c for old do in store and afloat.BARLEY\" dull and drooping.OATS dull and heavy; receipts 13,000 bush ; sales 42,000 bus at 76c for Western in store ; 77-Jc do afloat.PORK lower at $30.75 fa) $30.81 for new Mess ; $30.62 fa) $30.75 for old.LARD lower at 17JÆHSJc for steam ; 18fc fS19Jc for kettle rendered.BUTTER quiet at 30f®38c for Ohio; 40® 46c for State.CHEESE firm at 18/S22je.\t1 0HI0AGO MAEKETS- By Telegraph, Chicago, April 17.in fair demand ; Spring Extra \"sl.os1, ¦52}c.at $1.14® CONSUMPTION.Letter from Capt.Coffill, Master of the Brig \u201cPotosi,\u201d of AVindsor, N.S.St.John, N.B., 22nd May, 1868.Mr.James I.Fellows, Chemist : Dear Sir.\u2014In May, 1866, I was attacked with a severe dry Cough, which continued in harshness for some time, when I commenced expectorating a thick whiteish substance, then I raised a greenish yellow and slate coloured matter, then bleeding of the lungs set in, and other symptoms of a very alarming character showed themselves, consulted the leading Physicians in Philadelphia and other cities, who gave me no encouragement, as my disease was Consumption.I spared no expense to obtain relief, but found none.In August I had fallen in flesh from 155 to 136 lbs.andsink-ing rapidly every day.My friends in Philadelphia advised me to leave the ship and go home.At home they considered my case hopeless, and wished me to remain there and not die in a foreign country.I visited St.John in October of the same year on my way to Philadelphia to join my ship, and was advised by a stranger who noticed my shrunken form and racking Cough, to try your COMPOUND SYMUP OF HYPOPHOS-pmrm, and, as a drowning man will grasp at straws, I saw a ray of hope in the suggestion, and procured a bottle.The effect warranted a further trial, and I bought a dozen bottles and left St.John, and have been knocking about the Atlantic ever since.As this is the first time I have visited your city since, I feel under an obligation to let you know the effects produced by this Syrup.I continued taking the remedy regularly.At first my appetite improved,\u2014I regained strength\u2014then my sough gradually left me, and finally tho expectoration ceased ; and although the benefit was gradual, I could note the change for the better every day, so that after having taken ten bottles I considered myself well.This was about five months from the time I commenced taking the Syrup.A short time after I had considerable trouble with a Charter party, and ieeling some of the old symptoms returning, I finished the other two bottles ; and now I consider myself as well as ever I was in my life.My present \u2018 weight is 162, seven pounds above my usual healthy standard.My nerves are good, my appetite good, and general health excellent.I heartily recommend your Syrup to all persons troubled with any difficulties or Disease of the Lungs or Nervous system, firmly believing that had I not used it, I would not now be living.Hoping this letter may meet the eyes of others similarly affected,, and induce them to use the same means of cure, I remain, yours very truly, Harris Coffill, Master of tho Brig \u201cPotosi,\u201d Of AVindsor, N.S.Sold by Apothecaries.Price $1.50 bottle, or 6 for $7.50.JAMES I.FELLOAVS, Chemist, St.John, N.B.FRANCIS CUNDILL k Co., AVholesale Agents du DSAV 86\tMontreal.FLOUR $4.50®$?.- AVHEAT active and unsettled ; No- -i\u2014-.- i.1 o ti çr.rt ; iso.2 at since \u2019Change $1.021.CORN unchanged ; new 45Jc.OATS active am! declined |c\u2014 \u2014RYE dull ; buyers for No.1 $1.15.AVHISKEY 87c.PORK nominal at $30.50.LABD quiet at l7J®18c.DRY SALTED BELLIES.\u2014Packed 13c; loose 13JC.SWEET PICKLED HAMS steady at 15£ ®16c.LIVE HOGS active and firmer at $9.50® $10.00.CATTLE steady at $4.40®$7.50.RECEIPTS\u20148,500 hhls.flour; 18,000 bus wheat; 69,000 do com; 11,000 do oats; 1,900 do rye ; 2,600 do barley ; 1,200 hogs.SHIPMENTS\u20149,500 brls flour ; 15,000 bus.wheat ; 3.500 do barley.EUE0PEAN MAEKETS {By Atlantic Gable.) Liverpool, April 16.\u2014Advices from Manchester state that the market for yarns and fabrics are quiet and firmer.Breadstuffs dull.Corn, No.2 Mixed quoted at 28s 3d., a decline of 3d.Flour has a declining tendency, L-ard is firmer.London, April 17.\u2014Closiog prices : Bonds 8If; Erie 24.Liverpool, April 17, p.m.\u2014Breadstuffs dull and unchanged , new Corn 28s ; Cheese 79s.Frankfort, April 17\u2014Bonds steady at an advance of If the closing quotation being 87ff.Paris, April 17.\u2014Tho Bourse is firmer to-day with an advance on Rentes to 7lf 37c.London, April 17.-^\u2014Sugar afloat is easier, but not quotably lower.Tallow 45s Cd.Antwerp, April 17.-\u2014Petroleum is a shade firmer, closing at 53Jf for Standard White.Havre, April 17.\u2014Cotton closed unchanged both tor transactions on the spot and te arrive.MONEY REPORT.Montreal, 17th April, 1869.Gold opened this morning in New York at 133f, and closed at the same rate.Greenbacks have been bought at 25§ dis.for current funds, and 78 cents for Silver.They have been sold at 25 dis.Bank Exchange on New York sold at 24} dis.Silver has been bought at 41 dis.for large, and 5 for small ; sold at 4} and 4} dis.Nichols, Robinson & Co., Brokers.DAILY STOCK REPORT.North Britisli and Mercantile Insurance Company\u2019s Buildings, Montreal, Saturday, April 17,1S69.p p p p p p p ooSp ; P P P P I 2 to LC tc -j ~\u2014o o §\tg o^-1^ 3 -p = ^2 o ; xPo-S?\ta p ?: 5o- cor-.ÆaSo^g?!».H; -.;