Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 28 octobre 1869, jeudi 28 octobre 1869

[" ___INSURANCE.___ I COMPLETE LIÏE POLICÏ Xi < V V A I .INSURANCE COMPANY.Important Improvement in life Assurance.A new system has been adopte»l l'y this Compan3T, b3' which Assurers will secure the following undoubted advantages:\u2014 1st.No Poiic3- effected under this system can be entiiel3\u2019 forfeited by the non-payment of the Premiums; consequently, no P0ÜC3 -nolder will lose the benefit of the Premiums he has paid if he become unable to continue his payments.fc£2nd.The Assured can calculate for hxnùelf the maximum amount of Premium that can possibl3r be payable under his Policy.3rd.The Assured w ll be relieved from the\\ necessity of paying Premiums during old age.when failing health may compel him to! retire from business and curtail his expenditure.4th.The Assured has the option, at any \\ time, of surrendering his PoliC3T, and obtain-1 ing in lieu another for a certain guaranteed 1 amount, in proportion to the number of Premiums paid, which will be free from tfiei payment of any further ordinary Premium.EXPLANATION OF THE TABLES.\\ 33y referring to Table 1 it will be found that at Age 25 next birthday a person can insure for .£101), payable at Death, for five! annual payments of £8 3s.llkl.The total amount, therelore, he will have to pay will be £40 19s.2d.If at the end (let it be supposed) of the third 3'ear he wishes to discontinue his pa3-ments, he will receive a \u201c Paid-up Policy\u201d for three-fifths of the £100, or £60.Or, by Table IY.his payments would be \u2018.0 annual Premiums of £2 17s.2d., and at the e nd of the third year, should he then cease payment of the Premiums stipulated, his \u2018 \u2018Paid-up Policy \u2019 would be three-twentietl s or £15.Table I.\u2014Without Participation in Profits.Premiums limited to Fl VE Annual Payments.Should the Assured wish to discontinue the payment of Premiums before the FI VE stipulated have been discharged, he will be entitled to receive, in lieu of his original Policy, a \u201cPaid-up Policy \u201d for as many FIFTHS of the sum first assured as there % ^CjPiNlM vtate ten Es mm* SSIIS'ff I AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.% YOL.LX1.INSURANCE.ON MONTREAL\u2019 slin.ll\thave bean ml\t1 Annual Premiums\t paît!.\t\t\t Ago.\tAnnual Premium.\tAgr.\tAnnual Premium.15\t£6 Li 2\t\u2022 H.\t£10 6 10 16\t6 18 0\t3 i\tin 10\t7 17\t7\t0 ID\t40\t10 14\t6 IS\t7\t8\t\u202211\tU> IS 5 19\t7\t6\t7\t12\t112\t5 20\t7\t9\t6\t43\t11 r, 8 2!\t7 12\t4\t44\t11 11 2 22\t7 15\t0\t!\t45\tIL 14 M 23\t7 17 l!\tj\t\u201846\t12\t0\t7 21\tS 0 10\t47\t12\t5\t6 2D\tK 3 10\tIS\t12 10\t5 U5\t8\t7\t0\t49\t12 J5 4 27\t8 ]0\t3\t50\t13\t0\t3 28\t\t51\t14\t5\t5 29\t8 l'i 10\t52\t13 .10\t8 30\t!)\t» n\t53\t13 10\t0 31\t9\t3\t3\ti\t54\t14\t1\t5 ;}2\t9\t6\t6\t55\t14\t7\t0 ;33\t9\t9\t9\t!\t56\t14 1>\t9 ;34\t9\t0\t;\t57\t14 18 10 .35\t9 16\t4\t58\t15\t5\t3 .36\t9 1»\t9\t59\t15 12\t0 ::»7\t10\t3\t3\t1\t60\t15 19\t0 Table IL\u2014Without Pakticipation In\t\t\t Profits.j?rf miums limited to TEN Annual Payments.tSho'Hd.the Assured wish to discontinue the pa vin.cnt of Premiums before the TEN stipulated tiave been discharged, he will be entitled Tej^eive, in lieu of his original Policy a u Paid-up Policy \u201d for as many TENTjIB of ttiq sum first assured as there shall have c'CGii full Annual Premiums paid.\t \\\t, ü .j Age.lAnnual PreniiWïi\\\\Age.\\Anmial Premium.15 16 n IS .19 '20 21 22 26 27 58 29 30 31 32 33 31 35 36 R7 10 6 Hi 6 9 6 3 0 10 8 6 5 4 9 11 13 15 39 40 41 42 43 41 .45 49 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 51 55 56 58 59 60 £5 5 6 6 0 0 6 0 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 8 8 8 8 8 9 9 9 FOR SALE FRl ü 1 1ÏOX7SKS», &r Sale or to Jj THURSDAY SPECIAL e t.IISUEASCE CBIÏAHY, FUIE and LIFE, Capital) -\t-\t\u201c\t\" £2,000,000 Stg.Annual Income over -\t-\t800,000\t\u2018 Accumulated Punas Invested) l,c 00,000 ** LARGE BOS USES, EQUAL to 2 PER CERT- ?ER_AMUM.Liberal settlement of claims and security to Assured AliL FEES PAID BY THE COMPANY.W.E.Scott, Esq., M.D., Medical Examiner.INSURANCES AGAINST FIRE, on al descriptions of property, taken at moderate rates.ALFRED PERRY, Inspector.II.L.HOUTH, AG ENT.(Oct.l:î- mwTf)\tI9l August IS.TKEE A-iiierioa tYIlî KS and 3Ï A1JIINK ASSURAEE COMPANY.JRstatoPlsl.Pcl 1833.ill descriptions ©i' Insurances Elfected at fiirrent Hates.M.TI.G-AIJI/r, Agent, 77 St.JAMES STREET.Februar WESTERN ! StSJ! sAt! CE CO' Y.FIRE ANO BIARTNE- CAPITAL.$1'J0,00U SURPLUS.$200,000 AS NU AL IN COME.$300,000 SIMPSON BETHUNE, Agents.FlOffi\u2014102 ST.FKA.NCOIB XAVIER STKEET.ay 1.(inn powder, Impérial, Hyson, Yonng Hysons and Twaiilmy, Uncolored Japans, Con BUCHAI AU, LECKIB & GO sou & BoucHong October 6 237 Y Ü !m ioo ilk «H es Éî Rûoda,'\u201d Eotterdatn» RUOHAIAI, LEGUE October 6.from DO.238 3TOT-1 BA.X£E.A FIRST-CLASS HOTEL BUSINESS ire one of tlie most flourishing pities of Canada.The Hotel is doing a thriving and daily increasing trade, and is in complete running order, with Furniture and fittings, which will he sold ata valuation with the business.The finest STABLING in Ontario attaclied to the Hotel, sufficient for SOD horses.The present proprietor wishes to retire, on account of sickness in his family.Address .1.T.A , London, P.O., Ontario, Canada.October S2.\ti 232 MORNING, OCTOBER 28, 1869.fQTICES.«YEi, NUMBER 257 UNITED STATES NEWS.TO 13X6 XjET, With immediate possession, :- 'I'll AT First-Class Cut St,-no Resi- (31 ijrA\u2014A tlpnce, Corner of liniversity ami Si a r, a 1 Cathcart Streets, fitted op with ?| s ë slllath, Water Closet, Mantel Grates pdgLin Drawing Rooms, Bed-Rooms, &c,, anu handsomely decorated throughout.JOHN JAMES BROWN E., Architect, Office ; 231 McGill;.Street Oelobei\t\u201c32 \u201c James Heiinessy-\u2019s\u201d\u2019 C O GrM A.C IlhdS) Qr-clcsy Octaves and Cases HSUS, AND OLD EH VINTAGES?» PEISR IeCO'S u CHOICE ' TO L3UT, \u20144L The SHOP and DWELLING, five stories high, forming the corner ol y H e i J Notre Dame and St.Gabriel streets, 1 5! m « now occupied by .John Garunki:, illyelDruggist.Possession givemlst November.The dwelling lias all modern improvements.Rent cheap to 1st May next.Apply to the proprietor.ARCH\u2019D.FERGUSON.October ID.\t249 TO RET of jj a Î s ES, ïUixïs h stîS «Ir-eâslis.-¦?No 3, Shamrock Place, corner * St.Antoine and Guy streets, containing 15 apartments and the modern Improvements.Rent low., Apply to OWEN McGARVEY, No.7, 9 and 11 St.Joseph street.October 7.\t_____239 TOILET.\u201e The house now occupied by the undersigned, 1048 Dorchester Street West.It is semi-detache'*, perfectly rat proof, and with Garden »\tin front planted with apple and 1 >ther trees.Inqnire of EDVYD.GOFF PENNY j\tHerald Office, i August 14.\t193 H ii « BUCHAN AN, LECIQE & C0.ctober 6.238 !03 IP re m in ms 0 m it cd t o ¦TABi/h'.III.\u2014Without Pabticivation In PjtOFITS II PTE EN Annual Payments.Should the Assured wish to discontinue time payment of Premiums before the FIFTEEN stipulated have teen discharged, he \u2022til he entitled to receive, in lieu of his ',re;,l noiiey, a 11 Paid-up Policy \u201d lor as >1'1\u2018 \\v FIFTEENTHS of I lie sum first as-na\u2018 ' as, there shall have been full annual NA \u2019>»>« PhUL .\t_________________ 15 16 17 18 14 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 31 35 36 37 Ann nul Pt 1 ' 17 18 0 1 2 5 6 y o 3 6 9 0 4 5 0 4 8 0 6 11 4 9 8 2 8 Age.Annual Premium, 38 89 40 41 42 48 44 45 16 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 I 4 5;/' 56 57 58 59 60 £1 4 4 \u20221 i 4 4 5 5 8 9 U 13 15 J7 VJ 1 1 6 9 12 14 18 l 4 7 11 15 19 3 7 12 The Liverpool & London & (fiobe INSURANCE COMPOT.CAPITAL,.$10,000,000 vested Funds,.$16,271,075 octal Reserve for payment of Life Claims.$9,282,408 DIRECTORS I» CANADA.T.B.Andersôn, Esq., Chairman, (President Bank of Montreal.) Henry Starnes, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, (Manager Ontario Bank.) F\u201e k.King, Esq., (General Manager Bank of Montreal.) Henry Chapman, Esq., Merchant.THOMAS Cramp, Esq., Merchant.O.F.C.Smith, Resident Secretary, F, A.Base, Hamilton, C.W., l inspectors.James Spier, Montreal, t Frederick Grikein, Esq., Q.C., Standing Counsel.Fire Insurance & Life Assurance POLICIES Issued at Moderate Rates G.F.C.SM1TJ1, Resident Secretary Montreal.YaMie Property lor Sale, Those extensive premises, the property of j A.Furniss, Esq., situated, on CRAIG and f \\VrOLEE STREETS, receiatly occupied by | iqd the Imperial Government as a Military Hospital.The buildings thereon are of Brick, three storeys high,, with basements.Attached to the two end Shops are wing extending 90 feet in depth.The whole is well lighted, strongly built, and heated with steam ; W.C.\u2019s on each fla t, and the whole thoroughly ventilated.Where is a large open space in the rear., with several de* tached buildings.For :a large Manufacturing Establishment, tixis property is unequalled in Montreal.Occupation could be given 1st November.Titles perfect and terms easjT.For farther iufovznati on, &c., apply to DTJNCA.N ROBERTSON, 3!& Great St.James Street.October 15\t216 TO IÆT, For the Summer months, TWO excellent COTTAGES at St.Lamberts, situate near the Railway B rid ge, having com m od i ou s room s, neatly papered, and in good condi- ion.May 10.Apply to JOHN LEEMING & CO.110 FOR SALE, That magnificent first-class COTTAGE situated upon the highroad to Laehine, two\u2019 minutes walk from that Station, containing 11 ._j apartments, with Storehouse, Biable, and Ice-house, a large Garden, with two large flower beds in front of the House.Title perfect.For conditions, apply to Hie undersigned Proprietor upon the premises.FRANCOIS CUSSON.L&chine, 5th February, 1869.\t31 FOE SALE.TON IN Table IV.\u2014Without Far ncra-A Frofits.Premiums limited to TWENT P Annual t ay-ments.Should the Assured wish to discontin.ue the payment of Premiums be/ore the Tioem \u2018 stipulated have been discharged, lie will he entitled to receive, in lieu of his original policy, a \u201c Paid-up Policy \u201d for as many TWENTIETHS of the sam first assured, as there shall have been full Annual Premiums paid._____ January 16 COBPOBATION NOTICES Age.15 ! 17\" 18 19 2) :2l -22 23 21 25 26 27 :28 \u2018.29 30 31 32 33 34 35 30 37 Annual Premium.£1 2 5 5 6 .6 6 8 9 10 11 0 4 6 8 10 0 i» 9 I) 5 10 3 Age.\tAnnual Premium.38\t£3 13\t9 ! 39\t3 15\t3 | 40\t3 16 10 41\t3 IS 6 42\t4\t0\t3 43\t4\t2\t2 44\t4\t4\t2 45\t4\t6\t4 46\t4\t8\t7 47\t4 10 10 48\t4 13\t3 49\t4 15 10 50\t4 18\t7 51\t5\t1\t5 52\t5\t1\t4 53\t5\t7\t5 !\t54\t5 10 .8 i 5»\t5 14\t2 56\t5 18\t0 \t6 2 » ! 58\t6 6 8 59\t0 10\t9 \u2022| GO\t« 15 G CbTMMf MûETREâL Siliei in PatiMii of lases, STAPLE & MCY PRY GOODS I>I)FK3ESWF^ CiKAr & \u20ac0.1>UFI^!ESJ ilFi, GKAY \u20ac0.CwK-AIT or ÏSVTY FREE, AT Those Qonvenient and Central Warehouses IN REAR 01 No.17 & 19 St.Sacrament Street, ON THE MOST LIBERAL TF.RM.fj.Ceplanil, Ptipistei S Ce,, 19 ST.SAOKAME.KT STREET.September 20.TAKU TSTOTIGE.The Parties that have secured Building Lots in Guilbault\u2019s Garden will please call and sign the agreement ; and those that wish to secure First Rate Lots had better call soon, as there arc very few left.The terms are very easy, the greater part of the money remaining in the hands of the purchaser, payable 2 years after my death, at 6 per cent.The Stock of ANIMALS and MUSEUM, BIRDS, &c., &c., will be Sold on the FIRST ol NOVEMBER, or soon after.J.E.GUILBAULT.October 15.\t2Hi Intending purchasers can see the plan y applying to J.E.G.subject.whatever cause.TO MARRIED LADIEtt it is particularly suited.It will in a short time bring on the monthly period with regularity, and, although very poweiful, contains nothing hurtful to the constitution.In all cases of Nervous and Spinal Affections, PaWis in the Back and Limbs, Fatigue on slight exertion, Palpitation of the Heart, Mysteries and Whites, it will effect a cure when all other means have failed.The pamphlet around each package has full directions and advice, or will be sent free to all writing for it, sealed from observation.JOB MOSES, New York, \u201e Sole Proprietor.$1.00 and 1H cents for postage, enclosed to Northrop&Lyoian, Newcastle, Ont., general agents fo1\u2019 the Dominion, will insure a bottle containing over 60 pills, by return mail.For Sale by Northrop & Lyman, Newcastle, General Agents for Canada.Sold by all the Druggists in Montreal, and medicine dealers everywhere.August 31.\tCBSW iy30)\tsoy Batchelor\u2019s Hair Dye.This splendid Hair Dye is the best in the world.The only true and perfect Dye\u2014 Harmless, Reliable, Instantaneous.Nodis-appointment.No ridiculous tints.Remedies the ill effects of bad dyes.Invigorates and leaves the Hair soft and beautiful black or brown.Sold by all Druggists ant Perfumers; and properly applied atllatchel-or\u2019s YtUg Factory, No.15 Bond Street, New York.April 9.\tDW 84 [Extracts from James Parton's article in the Atlantic- Monthly.] The reader has perhaps wondered why Congress should have selected for the execution ol the national statue of Abraham Lincoln a person of no standing or expeii-ence as an artist.Miss Vinnie Ream is a young lady of perfect respectability, and, no doubt, highly estimable in lier private relations.No one can blame her for her good fortune.8he has done littie more than open her mouth and let the plum fall into it.But what hasi Congress done ?Here was a piece of work to he given out,\u2014the statue of a man as little statuesque as any we can imagine.\u2014which required in the artist a combination of artistic skill and judgment, love of the many and love of truth.The work was to be seen by hundreds who had been familiar witli the subject, and by tens of thousands who would take a kind of affectionate interest- in the artist\u2019s management of its difficulties.The Abraham Lincoln of future generations was to be created.In the selection of the artist a national fame was either to be conferred or enhanced.Congress assigned this work to a girl who had the rudiments of her art still to learn, and who had given no proof of lier capa-ty to acquire those rudiments.She exhibited a model.It was about to be overlooked; She burst into tears.The results to her were, a ten-thousand-dollar commission, a universal celebrity, and two years in urope,\u2014three immense boons,/ either of which hnd been a fit requital for long-tried excellence.And, as if this were not enough, a room was given her in the Capitol itself in which to execute and exhibit her work.Congress bestowed upon this unknown and untried child honours which has persistently withheld from artists who have conferred upon the country whatever name it has in the world of art, but who ardly know what the word \u201c lobbying\u201d means.Recognition one tenth as distinct and emphatic as this, how it would have cheered the early years of [the excellent sculptors of whom the country is proud 1 Such Caprice does not harm them ; for when Congress confers distinction thus, it parts with its power to confer honour, and sensibly lessens its owa.Five minutes\u2019 conversation with Miss innie Ream explains this ridiculous behaviour of Congress.She is one of those graceful, animated, bright-eyed, picturesque, undaunted, twinkling little women, who can make men say Yes to anything they ask.She also wore a pretty blue turban-like covering for her hair, which was killing at five paces ; and there is that in her manner which puts men in the humour of uttering badinage, and at the same time gives them the idea that she is a helpless little body who would cry if she could not.have her own way.The visitor to her oom in the Capitol had but to stand apart and see the modest audacity of her demeanour, and observe the assured, lively manner in which she held a circle of men in conversation, in order to comprehend why Congress, in its easy, thoughtless good-nature, should have granted to her .the most signal honours it ever bestowed upon an artist.Men are naturally susceptible to the picturesque in women.It is natural also to feel like caressing and protecting whatever reminds us of tender, graceful childhood.Members had done well to give a private commission to this agreeable young lady by way of encouraging her to attempt acqulr-ng some skill in modelling.But they were false to their trust when they gave her an important public work to execute.Men who are charged by their fellow-citizens with tiie adornment of national edifices and the bestowal of national honours are much to blame in allowing a blue turban, a pair of speaking eyes, a trim waist, and a fluent tongue to carry off prizes due only to tried merit.Members can form little idea of the dishonour, nay, the contempt, which they bring upon Congress by indulging a whim of this kind.Millions witness the result; only a few individuals see the bright excuse ; and of those few only one sex admits that it is any excuse at all.There is an impression in Washington that a great deal of legislation is influenced by female lobbyists ; and the easy success of this young lady gives countenance to the idea.A woman of attractive presence and of a certain audacity of manner, who should be able to live and entertain in handsome style, could no doubt win favour and votes for some measures.Many members come from homely homes, the ladies of which have'expended their vivacity and beauty in that American phase of \u201c the struggle for life \u201d which Fanny Fern styles, \u201cgrappling with Erin.\u201d Such members, when they find themselves in a drawing-room next to a lady who expends her vivacity in entertaining them, and arrays her beauty in all the charms of novel.costume and bewitching decoration, are only too apt to surrender to the fascinating influence.But such women cannot bo hired to go to lobbying.It occasionally happens that a circle interested in a scheme contains one such who will render the service required.Generally speaking, however, the female lobby is small and insignificant.A lady informed me last winter that she had defeated international copyright; and, indeed, she was the Washington agent ol the weak opposing influence.But a pebble can stop a six-horse coach when it is going up a steep hill, and the horses are tired, the driver indifferent, and the passengers asleep.It is to he hoped that none but men in sound health will be sent to Congress, for it costs a great deal to get a member home it he should happen to die in Washington.The following is the bill paid to the Sergeant-at-arms of the House for transporting the body of a deceased member from Washington to Easton in Pennsylvania :\u2014 Hack hire, in assistance in care of remains, and arranging for tiie funeral in Lire House of Representatives\t $50.00 18 white silk sashes for officers of House and Senate.\t 254.00 black silk sashes for committee of arrangements.90.00 10]dozen kid gloves.,.6 5.i0 dozen kid gloves.tiii.OO dozen kid gloves.33.0» 200 black crape scarfs.800.00 ravel of messenger to New York and return.Hacks to carry escort and friends to depot.Fare and expenses of escort and remains from Washington, D.C., to Easton, Pa.\u2019\t.Hotel biti and hacks at Baston.Fare and expenseson return to Washington.Travel of assistant sergeant-at-arms and 2 messengers, Washington to Easton and return, 40j miles each.wild and woundrous waste of stationery, the pocketing of French inkstands and costly pen-holders, the lugging home ofhalf reams of paper, and all the small stealings ofcom-mittce-roonis, have been,-by turns, the theme of ridicule and the object of legislation.Some leaks have been stopped ; hut others have been immediately opened, and the same thieves who pilfered under the old law have plundered under the new.We ought to know by this time that a privilege is a thing which is always aid everywhere abused.We ought to know that a perquisite is always and everywhere a means of corruption.We ought to know that nearly every one in the world who is compensated by fees gets much too much or much too little, or riots in abundance now, to be starved to-morrow.Let Congressmen simply abolish fees, perquisites, and privileges, and accept in lieu thereof a proper increase to their salaries,\u2014say, double what they now receive.Let members pay their own postage, charge no mileage, subscribe for their own newspapers, buy their own envelopes and writing paper, and compensate all their officers by salaries.- Nothing short of this will ever answer the purpose.If Congress should permit only so much as a bottle of ink to be furnished to each committee-room, once a week, and charged to Contingent Expenses, a widening crevice would bo established through which a torrent of coloured fluids would continually pour.Add pens to the ink, and you would see exquisite pen-holders, fitted with the most costly diamond-pointed gold pens, and huge cases of the finest products of Gillot, heaped high in the store-rooms of the Capitol.Complete the list with paper, and you have a thick volume of wonderful items, and run up a stationery hill the mere clippings and extras of which build houses and found estates.The sole remedy is to pay each member a decent compensation,\u2014not less than ten thousand dollars a year,\u2014and allow neither to members nor to committees so much as a sheet of foolscap or a penny pen-holder.THE ONONDAGA GIANT.NATURE OF THE STONE DETERMINED.JDSÏ ARM, Per S.S.\u201c Cleopatra,\u201d 100,000 PRIME MANILLA CHEROOTS Holloway'S Ointment and Pills.\u2014Pifeo, - uo not suppose that every form of this complaint is incurable.The worst hc-morrhoidal cases are not beyond the reach of Holloway\u2019s Ointment.It gives tone to the relaxed integuments and acts as a safe styptic in the bleeding type of the disorder Notunfrequently constipation is an acoom-paniment of tiie disease, and when tilts happens it should be relieved with small doses of Hnllowav\u2019s Fills.of Holloway Sold by all Dm; gists.rDSW 251 ALEX, Cptober 13, McGIBBON, 244 July 30, JOHN HOPE, Corn Exchange Buildings.186 POT BARLEY Received regularly from the Mills, AND FOR SALE BY ALLAN BOWMAN & \u20ac0.20, FOUNDWJSa Strkkv, AllEtwW 47.00 it) 00 299.00 42.85 194.00 138.00 $2,114.65 The fee system, it appears, is still employed to compensate some of the officers of Congress.If there is a \u201c call of the House,\u201d e.a general hunting up of absent members, the Sergeant-at-arms is permitted to charge five dollars and twenty cents for \u201carresting bringing before the House, and discharging\u201d each absentee.If a hundred members are absent, which is not unfre-quently the case, a call of the House costs the country five hundred and twenty dollars.If witnesses are summoned to testify before a committee, the Sergeant-at-arms charges a lee and mileage for each.Thus every person summoned from New Orleans to testify with regard to the negro massacre cost us three hundred and seventeen dollars, and the cost of merely summoning the witnesses in that affair was $2 392.It «St three hundred and seventeen dollars to summon \u201c General Hamlin\u201d to testify before a committee.The object of the committee could no doubt have been accomplished for three cents and a half,\u2014 half a cent for stationery and three cents for postage.Now, if money is to bo thrown away in this reckless manner, if the Capitol is to remain the scene of waste and profusion we find it now, then I say the people have a choice with regard to tiie persons who shall be benefited by it.They do not see any justice or any propriety in Henry Wilson's being compelled to pinch on five thousand dollars a year, while servants of the body to which he belongs retire rich after four years\u2019 service.It brings a blush to the cheek of espry properly constituted person to think that a justice of the Supreme Court should be compelled to expend his whole salary for two rooms and the hoard ot his family, while a man who gets stationery contracts sets up his carriage and buys pictures.If the government is to be plundered at every point by every hand, it is time the spoils were more fairly divided.There is only one remedy for this profusion at the Capitol.Congress has honestly attempted to cut off the opportunities for | petty larceny.It has attempted it many times, hut never with much success.The Dr.J.H.Boynton, the geologist, has written to Professor Morton, of the Pennsylvania University, a description of the.discovery in Onondaga county, N.Y.He says :\u2014 \u201c I spent most of yesterday and to-day at the location of the so-called \u201c fossil man,\u201d and made a survey of the surroundings of the place where this wdnde-ful curiosity was found.On a careful examination, I am convinced that it is not a fossil, but was cut from a piece of stratified sulphate of lime (known as the Onondaga gyysum.) If it were pulverized or ground, a farmer would call it plaster.It was quarried, probably, somewhere in this country, from our gypsum beds.The layers are of different colours\u2014dark and light.The statue was evidently designed to lie on its back or partially so, and represents a dead person in a position he would naturally assume when dying.The body lies nearly upon the back, the right side a little lower ; the head leaning a littl\u2019e to the right.The legs lie nearly one above the other ; the feet partially across one another.The toe of the right foot, a little lower, showing plainly that the statue ivas never designed to stand erect upon its feet.The left arm lies down by the left side of the body, the fore-arm and hand being partially covered by the body.The right hand rests a short distance below the umbilicus, the little finger spreading liom the others, reaching nearly to the pubes.The whole statue evidently represents tiie position that a body would naturally take at the departure of life.\u201c There is perfect harmony in the proportions of the uiiferent parts of the statue.The features are strictly Caucasian, having not the high cheek bones of tin; Indian type, nor the outlines of the Negro race, and being entirely unlike any statuary yet discovered of Aztec or Indian origin.The chin is magnificent and generous ; the eyebrow, or supercilliary ridge, is well arched; the mouth is pleasant ; the brow and forehead are noble, and tire 1 Adam\u2019s apple\u2019 has a full development, \u201c The statue being colossal and massive, strikes the beholder with a feeling of awe.Some portions of the features would remind one of the bust of DeWitt Clinton, and others of the Napoleonic type.My opinion is that this piece of statuary was made to represent some person of Caucasian origin, and designed by the artist to perpetuate the memory of a great mind and nobl e deeds.It would serve to impress inferior minds or races witli the great and noble, and for this purpose only, was sculptured of colossal dimensions.This block of gypsum is stratified, and a dark stratum passes just below the outer portion of the left eyebrow, appears again on the left breast, having Been chiseled out between the eyebrow and chest and makes its appearance again in a portion of the left hip.Some portions ol the strata are dissolved more than others by the action of water, leaving a bolder outcropping along the descent of the breast toward the neck ; the same may, less distinctly, he seen on the other side of the face and head.I think that this'piece, of reclining statuary is not three hundred years old, but is the work of the early Jesuit fathers in this country, who are known to have frequented tiie Onondaga valley from two hundred and twenty to two hundred and fifty years ago ; and that it would probably bear a date in history corresponding with the monumental stone which was found at Pompey Hill, in this country, and now deposited in the Academy at Albany.There are no marks of violence upon the work ; had it been an image or idol worshipped by the Indians, it could have been easily destroyed or mutilated with a slight blow by a small stone, and the toes and fingers could have been eaeily broken off.It lay in quicksand, which, in turn, rested upon compact clay.My conclusion regarding the object of the deposit of the statue in this place, is as follows :\u2014It was -for the purpose of hiding and protecting it from an enemy who would have destroyed it, had it been discovered.It must have been carefully laid down, and as carefully covered with boughs and twigs of trees which prevented it from being discovered.Traces of this now decomposed vegetable covering can be seen on every side of the trench, and it is quite evident, this vegetable matter extended across and above the statue.Above this stratum of decayed matter, there is a deposit of very recent date, from eighteen inches to two feet in thickness which may have been washed in, and like wise turned on by ploughing.A farmer who had worked the land told me that he had \u2018 back-furrowed\u2019 around it, for the purpose of filling up the sloughs where the statue now lies.\u201c It is positively absurd to consider this a [fossil man.' It has none of the indications that would designate it as such, when examined by a practical chemist, geologist or naturalist.The underside is somewhat dissolved, and presents, a very rough surface, and it is probable that all the back and lower portion was never chiselled into form ; and may have been designed to rest on a tablet.However, as the statue has not been raised, the correct appearance of the under surface has not been determined, save by feeling as I passed my hand as far as I could reach under different portions of the body, while its lower half lay beneath the water.I6EIÎ WIVJER lÆTTJEK.Red River Settlement, B.N.A., Oct.2nd, 1369.The isolation of Rupert\u2019s Land with respect to Canada renders a system of through communication between the latter place and Red River a subject of primary, importance.Ever since the commencement of trading operations in the Indian Country the Hudson's Bay Company has been in the habit of sending ships annually to one of their great coast depots, Churchill, York and Moose Factories.Tire North West Company ot Montreal and the other Canadian Fur Companies adopted the route by Fort William and Winnipeg River.On commcncingjthe system of establishing'Inland Posts for the purpose of opposing their Canadian rivals, the Hudson\u2019s Bay people continued to import by the Bay and to supply their outposts by navigating tiie streams between Hudson\u2019s Bay and Lake Winnipeg.On the coalition between the rival Companies taking effect in 1821, the Lake Superior route was practically abandoned asa freight route, and the whole supplies for the country were imported By the Bay.After a lapse of about forty years the requirements of the Indian trade and the necessities of the Red River Settlement had so far outstripped any thing , which could command on the York route that the Company took advantage of the advance of the American Settlements in Minnesota to import largo quantities of goods through the United States, and encouraged the Settlers to do likewise by refusing to ship property belonging to any one notin their service from London to York.The result has been the formation of a well travelled route between St.Paul and Fort Garry, over which quantities' of goods, steadily increasing from year to year, are imported, while a considerable number of Furs, more especially of Robes for the Canadian and the American markets, are exported by the same road.The old canoe route has for several years been abandoned even as a means for introducing and talcing out servants of the Company engaged in Canada, and the heavier packets.The immediate agents in opening up the Saint Paul route were an American firm, Messrs.J.Cand, H.C.Burbank, Company, who were largely engaged in contracts for the Postal Department of the United States Government.These gentlemen recommended that the menus of communication between St.Paul and Fort Garry should be of a two fold character\u2014 transport by waggon and by steamboat.The freight was to be carried overland from St.Paul at the head of Mississippi navigation to a point at the head of that, of the Red River of the North, .where a cattle station was constiucted, and named Georgetown, whence a steamboat should transport the goods down stream to Fort Garry, the centre of the Red River Settlement.This arrangement was, for several seasons, successfully carried out.A series of dry summers, however, subsequently interfered with the running of the boat, which of late years has been able to make but a very limited number of trips above a spot called Frog Point, between which and Georgetown occur the Goose Rapids, which, alter the Spring floods have subsided, become very shallow.Frog Point may, .therefore, be regarded at present as tiie virtual head of Red River navigation.Alight steamer might ply between it and Fort Garry throughout the season.With reference to that portion of thé route between St.Paul and Georgetown, or Frog Point,\u2014a railroad has for some years past been in working'order as far as St.Cloud,, a village about eighty miles west from St.Paul ; and St.Cloud is, therefore, considered by the freighters as the limit of prairie travel.Between it and the Settlement a train of freight cars can travel both ways in about six weeks.The present mode of passenger conveyance over the present route is therefore as follows.Between St.Paul and St.Cloud railroad is in working order.Between St, Cloud and the United States frontier military station of Fort Abercrombie, a coach runs three times a week carrying the Mails and Passengers.The distance between St.Cloud and Fort Abercrombie is about 160 miles and is performed in three days, the stage t topping in the interval at Sauk Centre and Pomme de Terre where wayside houses exist, the accommodation at which cannot I believe be truthfully extolled.All along, the route, at intervals varying from fifteen to twenty-five tuiles, stations are erected in connection with the line of coaches, and horses are changed.Settlements are gradually and rapidly extending west and a considerable population lives along the track.The Red Ri ver of the North is the boundary between the State of Minnesota and the Territory of Dakotah.Fort Abercrombie being built on the western bank of the stream, is therefore in Dakotah.It was a prominent point in the operations of the American troops during the Sioux campaign of 1862 and 1863.Situated on the elevated bank of the river the vast prairies stretch away west from it as far as the horizon.A considerable number of settlers are already located on the eastern or Minnesota side.Between Fort Abercrombie and Fort Garry, when the steamboat is running, it is necessary only to procure a passage in a waggon or cart as far as Georgetown or Troy Point, which is a considerable distance further down stream, and the journey thence can he undertaken in the steamboat.But when the latter is not running, horses, mules or oxen with carts and servants must be procured at Fort Abercrombie and individual parties must make their own arrangements for reaching the settlement.The distance overland between Forts Abercrombie and Garry is about 250 or 300 miles.In consequence of the intricate sinusities of the stream the distance by water is very much greater indeed.The mail runs between the two places in six days running time.Two of these days are occupied in traversing the seventy miles over which the line runs through British Territory between Pembina and Fort Garry.The above is a description of the Mail and Passenger mode of travel by which the whole distance between St.Paul and Fort Garry may be accomplished in ten days running time.I shall now attempt a description of the Freight traffic between the two places.Two thousand Red River Carts, of which perhaps fifteen hundred make a second trip, arc employed on this road.They now go only as far as St.Cloud to which point goods are brought to meet them by rail The track is a mere line formed by the passing vehicles.On that portion of it traversed by the stage coaches between St.Cloud and Abercrombie the worst parts of the road are \u201c corduroyed\u201d or improved by having a roadway of faggots placed transversely by across them.The jolting over these parts is tremendous.Between Fort Abercombie and Fort Garry no attempt has been made to improye the ground, which in wet seasons, is so bad as to compel vehicles to keep far out on the prairie from the river where the ground is on a higher level.This system compels the traveller to carry his own wood and water over long traversés of country.It is practised however only in very wet springs The ordinary track is provided with rude bridges across the more difficult streams and creeks, tributaries of the Red River which it crosses.Between Fort Abercrombi and Georgetown the track runs along ; the Eastern bank of the Red River.At the latter place there is a Ferry boat which takes the traffic across the stream and th routethence forward to Fort Garry runs along, the western bank.The Red River and its tributaries are skirted with a belting of wood, but on th prairie there are no trees.Nothing is to be seen save a sea of plains stretching away to the remote horizon.The whole country is luxuriantly covered with grass, and over a great part of it, the scenery is so fine as to have obtained for it the name of \u201cPark Region\u2019\u2019 This is in Minnesota.The Laud scape in Dakotas is less picturesque.The Red River cart is a vehicle peculiar to the counify\u201d and well adapted to meet the exigencies of a journey over the Plains It is entirely formed of wood without any iron about it.Should any part ot it giv way it can be at once repaired with a piece of wood from the nearest grove.A hatchet, an auger, a knife and a handsaw are the tools necessary for its formation and repai With these, so far as breakages are concerned the driver is independent of the accidents of the road.The most difficult part of the structure to make are the wheels which are composed of wooden segments.The cart, apart from these is a mere light box balanced on the axle.It is drawn by a horse or an ox, the former generally in the case of a party travelling \u201clight,\u201d the latter in the transport of heavy freights.The load is about eight hundred pounds in weight, and is drawn by only one animal.Twenty or twenty-five miles per day is considered a fair journey for heavy ox carts.These vehicles generally travel in large brigades, and are managed by three men to each party of ten carts.The duties of the drivers comprehend harnessing and unharnessing the animals, hoppling them, and seeing them properly fed and watered.Considerable dexterity is also occasionally required to guide them through the miry swamps, and unbridged water courses on the way.The night camp is a feature in Prairie travel, with its blazing circles of fires, its rows of carts arranged so as to serve the purposes of tents, and its groups of oxen and horses grazing round its site.Each ox is provided with a bell attached to its neck, the tinkling of which proclaims its whereabouts, and prevents losses irom straying or wandering among the thickets and bushes.The foregoing is a description of the distinctive vehicle of heavy traffic used in the Settlement.The Americans use waggons drawn by mules or oxen, which can be purchased by incomers at St.Paul.The cart can of course only he obtained here.The question of future freight and passenger traffic between this country and Canada being an important one, and containing much of a suggestive nature m its caston.Of current events there is but little to relate.Colonel Dennis has laid down his \u201c Meridian Line,\u201d so far as the Settlement, and is carrying it north I believe as far as Shoal Lake.Having finished that operation he will run a line westward from Fort Garry to a place called Portage La Prairie, about sixty miles up the Assiniboine, the soil round which is particularly favour-abh: for agricultural Townships and lots will there he laid off Immigrants still drop in, a few at a time.Reports of a well founded character speaks of the advent of another newspaper to Be named the \u201c Red River Pioneer\u201d to he conducted by Mr.William Caldwell who for a number of years conducted the \u201c Nor\u2019 Wester.\u201d For various reasons this paper is welcomed as likely to be useful.Reports have just reached the Settlement of an unfortunate occurrence among the people employed in making the Fort Garry section of the Red River and Thunder Bay road.A number of the labourers employed on the works, it appears, demanded payment from Mr.Snow, the Superintendent, on account of lime during which that gentleman considered they had been \u201coff work.\u201d On bis refusal they are said to have attacked him, and after having undergone very severe treatment, carried so far as blows, he acceded to their demands under protest, lie came to head-quarters, and demanded assistance.Irom the authorities, who have sent constables to 1 he spot to apprehend the offenders.They are said to he twenty in number, chiefly deserters from the American army, some of them very reckless characters.We have as yet, of course, only the.one side of the story ; hut it is said Mr.Snow\u2019s life was threatened, pistols being pointed at him, and measures taken after tying him, to have him thrown into a stream.The result of the investigation I shall record in my next.Meanwhile you will please remember it has not.yet taken place, and the above is merely the version currently believed.G ENTERAL YEWS.Lillies, UUL JJeVtH YYJDU\tA UO\t.\t1 ,\tr .1.\t1\t\u2022 i \u201e \u201e ftifnl\u2019A no, mileage system, the f'mnkiiig-più'ilege, the be supplied by the boating facilities at then 1 details, I shall recuv to it 9u a tutme ot \u2014Junius has been discovered figum.\u2014Napoleon lias ceased smoking, to the great grief of his tobacconist.\u2014Corn sells at a higher price than wheat in somè parts of Indiana.\u2014Ituvbide of Mexico is the latest candidate for the Spanish throne.¦\u2014\"Honey eatings\u201d are a new species of Missouri entertainment.\u2014California has \u201csharps\u201d who makes tfieir living by predicting earthquakes.\u2014Madame Rattazzi is nicknamed \u201cLa Demi-Imperatrice\u201d in Paris.\u2014Five publishers of Paris proposed to reproduce Wilkie Collins\u2019s new novel.¦\u2014Colorado sportsmen propose to import quails, and are in correspondence with persons \u201cChicago and other eastern cities\u201d on the subject.\u2014An Omaha firm in the wholesale liquor trade began business with $600 capital four years ago and now has $100,-000.¦\u2014\u201cSanctum Sanctorum\u2014Leaves from an Editor\u2019s Table,\u201d is the title of a new book by Mr.Theodore Tilton, to be published in New York.\u2014A California 'German congratulated ou his fine crop of Bartlett pears,\u2014\u201cOh, ja, de.y makes such good food for de cows.\u201d \u2014Paris photographers,not having portraits of Jean Kihck on hand, supplied the, demand with kilrtes'-de-visite of the Hungarian Deak.\u2014The secretary of a temperance organization in Hartford,Conn.,has been caught stealing cigars from a billiard saloon.\u2014Big verdicts are multiplying, the latest being one of $27,819 against the Hudson River Railroad for overcharging a passenger.\u2014Ka-besh co-da-way advertises for a wife in a Minnesota paper.He already lias three;, but says his \u201cwigwam and heart, very big.\u201d \u2014Upholsterers in nobby New York have invented a new drawing room door.It is in the form of a gate, with gold bars across blue satin.\u2014\u201cCincinnatti man murdered\u2014Suspicion of Foul Play,\u201d is the heading of a local article in a paper of that city.\u2014When her lover hugged her,a Detroit girl screamed \u201cmurder,\u201d and has been lined twenty live dollars therefor.The \u201cfeller\u201d paid the mulct.\u2022\u2014It is believed by the most disinterested observer of cotton movements in New Orleans that the receipts of the staple at that port will exceed those of last year by at least half a million bales.\u2022\u2014A well authenticated case of aman living to the age of one hundred and thirteen years, and still able to take his gruel regularly, is reported from Austra-\u2019ia.-\u2014A Minnesotian lately shot and killed seventeen ducks at one shot.The editor who tells the story knows it is true be-ause he made a meal of the seventeen ducks.Miss Harriett Martineau denies that she began life as a music teacher, or as any sort of teacher , or that she ever aught music or made music, or even heard music\u2014having been deaf from infancy.\u2014Panification is the name given to a new process of bread making in France, \"\u2019he wheat is not ground, but the bread made from a given quantity of wheat is 'argely increased,the quality is improved, and the bread is much whiter than that made from fiour.\u2014It is suggested by the London Athenaeum that the recollections of her husband, M.de Boissy, by the Countess Guiccioli, would be an interesting work.That gentleman was a very frank man and used to introduce Jus wif e as \u201cLa Marquise de Boissy, ma femme, ancienne maîtresse de Byr on.\u2014A lady told a western editor that she was engaged to a certain gentleman.A.week or two afterwards the editor heard that the gentleman was married and inserted a notice in the paper.But he had married another than the lady who had boasted of the engagement, and a correc-ion was necessary in the following issue.Such is life in the west.\u2018Malbone\u201d is noticed at some length in the Pall Mall Gazette, and the criticism is on the whole very favourable.The lack of pretense in the story and in the style of writing is high lypraised, and the faults pointed out are such as, in the opinion of the Gazette, would naturally correct themselves as the author gained experience in this department of composition.\u2014Few probably are aware of the fate of Byron\u2019s heart.After his death at Mis-solonghi in 1822 his body was embalmed and sent to England, but the heart was begged and obtained by the Greeks, who enclosed it in a silver case.Four years later, after the protracted siege of Mis-solonghi, a sallying party, carrying the relic with them, cut away with great sacrifice of life through the Turkish lines; but the heart was lost in crossing the marshes.\u2014\u201cMusical gymnastics\u201d is a term not unfreqUently used in a figurative sense, but i t is an accomplished fact in a London music hall.One Mr.Forrest and his sons performed on a tight rope while playing on violins, and they wound up by a series of somersets, each playing a fiddle, without missing a note, during thd performance.The' spectacle of an orchestra per \u2022 forming a symphony Beethoven, keeping time with the conductor\u2019s baton, in a series of jumps and somersets, would be sure to attract a great crowd.\u2014The readers of the Paris Gaulois and Figaro are much amused at ihe skilful hypocrisy of those papers, which unite in praising and professing extreme friendliness to the Empire, andyetpublish such details, true or false, in regard to the imperial family as must make the members of it extremely uncomfortably.Two years ago the government would have suppressed both the papers summarily, but at the present time a different policy is pursued from some motive which no one appears able to fathom.-\u2014\u201cProfessor Wild\u201d compresses into the limits of a single lecture on the subject of \u201cBabel,\u201d a treatise on the dispersion of the human race, showing that the Indians were not the first inhabitants of this continent, explaining who they are and from whence they came, how the different types of man were formed, the origin of freemasonry and a number of other interesting points,\u2014all for the benefit of Chicago.He has another equ -ally comprehensive lecture on the subject.\u201cWhat will the world come to ?\u201d \u2014The proprietor of a Cincinnati hotel recently engaged a gorgeous specimen of a hotel clerk.The young man remained behind the counter four hours and then loft with $400 fron the safe.\u201cPat's Confession.\u2014 \u2018 Patrick,\u201d said a priest to an Irishman, \u201chow much hay did you steal ?\u201d \u201cWell,\u201d Aaid Pat, \u201cI may as well confess to your rivirence for the whole stack for my wife and I are going to take th§ jest on the fh>t dark night,\u201d 9270 MOKT&ML BMÀLD AND DA IL Y COMMERCIAL ÜAZETTË: THU R S DA f, OCTOBER 28, 1869.A»* OSfc-p ïïEAh B® 'IHUKSDAY MORNING, OCT.28 vPPOINTMEIfTS THIS DAT.at at 10 Performance of the French Company, the Theatre Royal this evening, atSp.m AUOTICH SALES THIS DAT- BY JOHN J.ARNTON.Four Brick Houses, &c., at Ins Rooms, Two\u2019medlum-sizeil.Houses, at Ills Rooms, at Magnificent '^new'but-stone Residence, at Tiis Rooms, at 10 a.m.\t\u201e ^'aluable Vacant Lots, at his Rooms, at hall-past 10 a.m.\u201e\u201e\u201e BY A.BOOKER.Handsomely Furnished House, Ac., at the ' Residence, 100 St.German Street a.m.Books, at hls^RooniSj atY p.in.Furniture, &c., at his rooms, at 10 a.m.1 nrmture, coj IN OAMERON * CO.Stoves.Ac., at his Rooms, at 2 n.m.at 10 temperatokk In the Snaue, cy Standard Tnermometer, observed at C.Hearn\u2019s Optical Estab-lishmeut, 212 & 214 Notre Dame Street, 8 a.m.\tIP-M.3105\t81^ Recorded by Patent, Register : MAX.\tMin.\tMean.350\t250\t30 c 2 October 20, 1869.Colokial Policy.\u2014We give to-day from the London Times an article in which the present Colonial policy of the Imperia] Government is very well set forth, in' its practical application to the case of New Zealand.It has been already known that the Government of that Colony, pressed by the present Maori war, has demanded from the Imperial Government some assistance\u2014 it is acknowledged to be but small assistance \u2014in the way of a further loan of troops.If nothing more could be granted, at least the Colonists begged, through their Governor, that the one Regiment which still remained in New Zealand might he allowed to continue there, only to do garrison duty, in order that the Maori enemy might not he encouraged by the manifest abandonment of the Colony, nor the colonists discouraged by being made to feel that they stood alone Even this small boon has been peremptorily refused, though, as the Times no doubt, justly says, refused with pain by Lord Gran-ville, to whom it would have been agreeable to comply if he could have complied consistently with the policy, which his G overnment lias deliberately adopted.We believe that this decision has a colonial interest lar more extensive than that which applies to the colony at the Antipodes ; for though there are of course special circumstances present in this case, the reasoning of the Imperial Minister appears to us to go very much beyond the limits of those ci rcumstancer, and to contain in it the germs of a policy which would in very different circumstance3 still lead to precisely the same conclu si on.I,et us say at once that we have had never any sympathy with those groans of the Britons which come to us from the Antipodes, because we cannot imagine the case of an Anglo Saxon population, which should any where be unable to cope even with an equal number of a semi-barbarian race.There is a look of degeneracy which is anything hut pleasant in representations made by colonists from the British Isles that they cannot cope with Maories in very inferior numbeis to their own.The history of the struggles by which our forefathers, French and English, maintained their ground on this Continent against each other as well as against the red skinned aborigines of the forest, shows none of that feebleness for which the New Zealanders are asking consideration.If, therefore, Lord Granville had said that the case before him was not one in which the Colonists could fairly look for Metropolitan assistance, it seems to us that he would have made a conclusive reply that would have raised no more general question; in fact, however, he lias gone- very much farther than that, and first of all he seems to have been led into the consideration and the refutation of a vague and mischievous notion which has been floating among English publicists, that Great Brittain can have some part in a Colonial war without sustaining its main weight and responsibility.His Lordship properly holds the impossibility of British troops being engaged anywhere, except in accordance with what we may call the international as well as the mere military policy of the Imperial Government.The cause of the war and the interests of the parties to it, have indeed to ho considered as well as the mere movements of the troops.Therefore, if the Imperial Government lends even a regiment, it will assume, and we are hound to say properly assume, to revise the method in which the Colonists have dealt with the land question, which is the cause of the war, and perhaps to reverse their proceed, ings in that respect.But this it is acknowledged that the Colonists could not permit ; for to do so would make them bear their share of the sacrifice involved in hostilities, not for themselves, hut for the Imperial Government\u2014in order to save that Government, we may suppose, from the loss of men and money involved in the maintenance of Colonial pretensions in which it is evident that Lord Granville does not share.It is easy to conceive of cases in which very much such a complication as this might arise, with an enemy not inferior in numbers and resources to the Colonists who would be assailed, hut inferior to them in both of these particulars.Let us, for example, take the perfectly imaginable, though we hope not probable example of a quarrel with our neighbours, brought on by the defence of our fishery rights.It might very well be, while we thought oui-course in the matter as justifiable as the New Zealanders think their course in the dispute with the Maories, that the British Government differing in opinion from us, as parties with diverse interests do differ, might hold that we were straining our rights, or insisting upon war about a matter far too insignificant to he subjected to such high arbitrament.Then, when we asked bread, we might, upon\tthe principle Lord Granville\thas\tlaid down, obtain nothing hut a stone, in the shape of a despatch, warning us that the Imperial Government intended to settle by negotiation and concession a controversy which would seem to several of our Provinces to be of vital consequence.That the Imperial Government would be not unlikely to reason in some such manner in cases of the kind just suggested may, we think, he gathered from another of Loid Granville\u2019s propositions that any Imperial troops once engaged, the nation would bo pledged to embark in the contest to whatever extent might become necessary to secure success.Nothing can he more certain ; for if the flag borne by one regiment should he dishonoured, the disgrace would lie upon the whole nation until it should be retrieved.But Lord Granville -does not seem to have perceived, or his (.subject did not lead him to notice, that this -principle ^as a much wider scope.The Colonists also bear the British flag, and it is manifest that if tilings should ever come to a pass in which they could no longer make head against their enemies, the Imperial Government must take up their cause or suffer the reproach of having its ensigrs carried off in undisputed triumph by an inferior race.Could the British Government permit a colony, still acknowledged as part of the Empire, to be wiped out ?Could any weakness\u2014could any fault, even on the part of the colonists save Great Britain from the disgrace before the civilized world of such a disaster ?If not, Lord Granville's reasoning as to the engagement of the honour of the army and of the Empire by the interference in the war of a single regular regiment, applies equally in degree, though the application may be more re- mote, to the engagement which must result to the Empire from a disastrous war waged by any of her dependencies.The flag in the eyes of the world will he equally imperilled, whether it be borne by Colonial or a regular regiment.The Queen will suffer equally in her dignity, whether she is defeated under the advice of a Cabinet sitting at London or under that of one sitting at the Antipodes.The true position of a Colony while it remains a part cf the Empire I is that of the advanced post of an army holding an essential position.The chief military authority may require that the troops whom he has stationed there, and whom he judges to he sufficient, should hold their ground ; tut if they either cannot or do not, he mutt send sufficient succours to heat off the enemy.Just as certain is it that no small number of regular regiments\u2014 no nucleus, as it is sometimes called\u2014could remain In a Colony in tiaio of hostilities without taking an active part in the field.Wo need not remark upon the discredit to themselves and the ill feeling on the part of the Colonists which would arise out of such a state of tilings.In short the whole argument of Lord Granville\u2019s letter is conclusive on this head, that the Imperial Government cannot make any show of the military occupation of a colony without active defence of it when occasion requires ; and the natural extension of the proposition is that there is no escape from the responsibility of defence since civil occupation caTies with it a contingent military occupation.This, to oui mind, leaves to the Imperial authorities substantially this alternative\u2014either to cmry out consistently their present piaotical policy, by official!}- withdrawing from the Colonies ; or else, in such Colonies are exposed to serious and dangerous enemies, to reverse their recent acts, and to adopt the ancient maxim which teaches that peace should ho taken advantage of to pre -pare for war.We are well known to he no alarmists ; hut if war is, as some think, a contingency to be seriously calculated upon and prepared for, then it is obvious that the national disgrace of a military disaster in this country, should it come, could not he recovered, by an after declaration, such as is now made with respect to New Zealand, that it was the business of the Colonists to provide for their defence, and that they failed so to provide.investment of capital in such enterprizes, particularly where the aid of the Government is liberally given in granting subsidies in lands and guaranteeing the interest of money expended in their construction.Having been requested to address this respectable audience, I beg to place before them certain documents that may throw light upon the subjects under discussion.These documents should be referred to a committee to report thereon for the information of the people of the country.The first is Mr.Keefer\u2019s Philosophy cf Railroads; the second is the charter of the North West I Transportation Navigation and Railway I Company, of which Mr.Wm.McDawson.M.P.P.was President, and Mr.Allan Me Doncll* of Toronto one of the Directors, to which is appended his other communication on the subject of the Railway from Lake Superior to the Pacific, which I hear have been republished by Mr.Lylle of the Advertiser of this place who is entitled to the best thanks of the Canada Central Railway for publishing this able paper as well as such able letters from Mr.Allan G.Grant, and others in favour of the undertaking.The thii-d is the first report of the Canada Central Railway Company, by Mr.Abbott and Mr.Stark.The fourth is the report of the Montreal Northern Colonization Railway from Hqchelaga to St.Jerome, by Mr.Charles Legge, C.! The'fifth is A Railway from Lake Superior to the Red River Settlement, considered in a Vital Statistics.\u2014The deductions from the mortality returns of the city of Montreal drawn by Dr.Carpenter, have led to a somewhat important contribution to the discussion of this important subject.The writer is a gentleman who from his know ¦ ledge of figures and the attention he lias given for some years to the consideration of the laws which regulate the growth of the population, is entitled to ho heard with respect and his statements carefully examined.His object, in the first place, is to rebut the very serious charge that Montreal, as compared with Liverpool, for instance, \u201cthe plague spot of the Mersey,\u201dsliows a mortality twice as great as that of the latter city.The foundation for the statements of Mr.Carpenter are the figures given in the Year Book, from the census returns of 18611 which arc vouched for by the publishers as correct, \u201c no errors in any of the past editions having been discovered.\u201d It is notorious that the census returns were utterly untrustworthy, and this fact is not now for the first time brought out.By a series of calculations, based on the Carlisle tables, and compared with the ascertained rates here, the writer shows that the figures relied upon for the death-rate of Ontario, give number 1,507 in excess of the total number recorded in that Province.\u201c In fact,\u201d he writes, \u201cthe deaths in Ontario must have been equal to the entire numher returned hy the whole population of the Dominion.\u201d The theory of the writer of the article now before us is, \u201c That the birth rate is the certain controlling element of the death rate ; that whenever ihc ratio of the births to population is the highest, then also the mortality is greatest, and, things being equal, will he in proportion to the birth rate.\u201d From this, hy a series of very ingeniously constructed tables, he shows that Montreal, instead of being the \u201c plague spot\u201d described by Dr.Carpenter, in reality enjoys fully more than an average exemption from infant mortality.As tlie numhet of deaths of children is positively very large in Montreal, whatever it may be relatively to other cities, it is evident that the subject possesses much more than a merely theoretical interest.It has, undoubtedly, been the aim ol the Sanitary Association represented hy Dr.Carpenter, to urge the authorities to adopt the most stringent means for ensuring the cleanliness of the city, and thus securing a higher state of health and efficiency in the adult population, and the preservation of the lives of the children.And no mere questions as to the technical correctness of tables, or tlie manipulation of statistics to show a greater or less average can relieve the Corporation and individuals from performing their duty in this respect.But it is not only not necessary to exaggerate the evils which exist, but it is very far from being desirable to do so.The exaggeration may arise from a wish to enforce more strongly the necessity of attending to the health of the city, or it may he caused hy an erroneous system of calculation.It is difficult to deal briefly with the mass of figures and calculations contained in the statement so as to make them easily intelligible.The proposition with which the writer starts\u2014 that the birth rate is the controlling element of the death rate\u2014is illustrated hy supposing that on an island in the St.Lawrence, the number of births is double that on an island in the Thames.In a generation twice the number must have dieu on the one than on the other, not because they were more unhealthy, hut because they were more numerous.With our want of a registration system, it is impossible to arrive with the slightest degree of accuracy at the number of births during the year ; only the baptisms are recorded, a very large proportion of the children born not being, consequently, registered at all.Taking even the imperfect returns, however, the figures sho v that while, even with these returns, the number of deaths of children under one year should have been by the London tables.7,358 in five years, they were only 6,756 or 602 less than the London average.Other tables show, according to the writer\u2019s figures, that Montreal is more healthy than London and Glasgow, and much more healthy than Manchester.Should these statements he correct, and from the very cursory examination we have yet been able to make of them, it seems difficult to disprove them, it is of the utmost importance they should he known, so as to remove the charge always brought against Montreal in this respect.Until we have carefully gone over the very interesting ta-hies to he found iir the writer\u2019s statement, which we may mention will he published in pamphlet form in a few days, we content ourselves with briefly indicating the line of argument rather than entering upon a detailed examination.Canada Central Railway Meetins at L\u2019Orignal.\u2014As already reported hy telegraph, the public meeting of the United Counties of I\u2019rescott and Russell, was held at L\u2019Orignal on Monda} last.The chair was taken by tne Warden, Mr.N.D.McLeod, of West Hawkesbnry, who conducted the proceedings with great judgment.The meeting was very largo, and as would he seen hy the list of names which we published on Tuesday morning, was attended by men of considerable influence and energy.Mr.Sheriff Treadwell,1 who has taken a very active interest in the various schemes for the opening up of the country, moved for a committee in these terms :\u2014 \u201c Having taken a deep interest in the principal' Railroads in the Dominion, I hope that tl}e time has arrived for the safe letter from Mr.John Foster, to the Hon William McDougall, C.B., M.P., then Minister of Public Works, hut now Governor of all the North West Territories.I also beg to submit several newspapers, No.G, a French paper from the Rev.A.Labelle, of St.Jerome; the \u201cLe Nouveau Monde,\" containing the translation of my letter to the \u201cAdvertiser\u201d of this place of the 20th August last, indicating the route that the Canada Central should tak j in constructing the Railway from Ottawa City to Montreal.This letter lias been published in several English papers, and I believe in nearly all the French papers published in the Province of Quebec.Numher seven is a copy of the Montreal \u201c Witness\u201d of the 7th Oct., containing my letter to the Right Hon.Sir Stafford Nortlicotc, M.P., Governor of the Hudson Bay Company, London, and suggesting the manner in which the means could bo secured to complete the Railway to the Pacific, through British Territory which line is nearly similar to the route I pointed out nearly thirty years since.Numbers eight, nine, and ten, are number of the \u201c L\u2019Orignal Advertize!', \u2019\u2019 containing part of Mr.McDonald\u2019s remarks on the Railway from Lake Superior to the Pacific, and some, other remarks relating to the same subject.I hope that these documents will he returned to me when the Committee shall have passed upon them.My correspondence, while it has touched occasionally on the Canada Central Railway, lias been very extensive on the Railway to the Pacific, extending to London, Quebec, Montreal, St, Jerome, Chatham, Ottawa, Rrockville, and Toronto, to the whole of British America and to the Pacific coast, as well as to New York, and all the answers that I have received have been most satisfactory.Different, Railway lines as well as Steamship lines have been addressed.The points in discussion before this most numerous and respectable meeting, are, shall the United counties of Prescott and Russell take stock in the Canada Central Railway and what amount?Can the Railway ho constructed so as to save the Government grant of land.After considerable discussion the motion for a Committee was negatived, the meeting being of opinion that sufficient information was already obtained to warrant those present in coming to a decision.A resolution that it was expedient to grant a bonus of $200,000 to the line when completed, instead of taking stock, was agreed to, and it was resolved that steps should be taken to have the undertaking pressed to a conclusion.Some difficulty was apprehended as to obtaining the grant-of land, which expires next year ; hut a hope w.as expressed, that, if necessary, a short extension of time would he given.This, however, could not he expected unless a determination to pro ceed, with the work was shown hy the promoters of the railway.-:- The Representation of IlDHTisaDOu.-^-We were in error in our designation of the meeting held at Huntingdon on Tuesday.Instead of being the nomination of candidates for the representation of that County, it was a meeting called hy the Warden of Ihe County, at the request of some of the electors, for the purpose of bringing out a candidate.The nomination for both Houses takes place to-morrow, Friday, his name as John O\u2019Brien, and on being searched one of the coats was found wrapped up in his carpet hag.He was brought before the Police Magistrate, and not being able satisfactorily to account for himself or for the way in which he came hy the coat was sent down for fifteen days.City Mortality.\u2014In the\u2019 Protestant Cemetery there were 13 interments during the week.Men 5, women 3, boys 3, girls 2.Wards\u2014St.Anne 4, St.Antoine 1, St.Lawrence 1, St.Mary 1, General Hospital 1, outside city -5.\tDiseases\u2014Paralysis 1, ty- pus fever 1, still horn 1, infantile debility 1, accident 1, scarlet fever 1, consumption 2, intermittent fever 1, liver complaint 1, bronchitis 2, teething 1.In the Catholic Cemetery there were 48 interments.Men 8, women 8, hoys 14, girls 18.Wards\u2014St.Anne 5, St.James 7, St.Lawrence 5, St, Louis 2, St.Mary 7, Soeurs Grises 11, Hotel Dieu 2, Suburbs 7.Diseases\u2014Old age 4, inflammation of lungs 2, diarrhoea 2, dropsy 2, phthisis 4, infantile debility 18, softening of the brain 1, inflammation of do 2, mesenteric fevers 2, inflammation of bowels 2, convulsions 2, paralysis 1, cramp 1, abscess 1, dysentery 1, enlargement ofheart 1, gravel 1, spinal complaint 1.Police Court.\u2014 Andrew McDonald, a boatman on the steamer Kingston, was found drunk on Common street.The authorities sent him hack to his vessel.Patrick Whelan was sent to common gaol for protection, he being insane.Recorder\u2019s Coigit.\u2014Something or other made the amount of business to come before the Recorder of little or no importance, and the visitors seemed annoyed that they had mounted the \u201c hen-roost\u201d simply to hear sixteen cases, and twelve of them drunks.\u201c Shure we want some 'sault case, or a Fanyen shindy, and a lot o' heads broke, and then there\u2019d 'be some fun,\" said one\u2014a wild Irishman.\u201c Have a care\u201d said another or you\u2019ll he arrested as an Irish rebel, and if you dont sing slow I\u2019ll tell the sergeant.\u201c Would you, ye white livered Sassenach ?By the powers I\u2019ll ring yer head off if yez open your mouth again.\u201d A policeman here interfered or a row would have resulted.The Court continued to turn the wheel unconscious of the trouble aloft, and one by one ground the dollars out of the victims A professor of statics who had lost his centre of gravity had to pay before he was again allowed to essay again upon the streets.A drunken barber was shaved clean out of a dollar, and a carter who had been driven up to the station not only had to pay his fine, but had to lose his fare, a proceeding which he thought far from fair.The keeper of a, shebeen in paying his evening devotions to his god\u2014whiskey^-got rather too deep a draught and became noisy.His faith in his guardian \u201cspirit\u201d could not save him; he was brought hi and condemned to owe Her Majesty a sum of \u2014 dollars.\u201c Sold again\u201d said a salesmen whom the Recorder charged $2 for a night's accommodation.\u201c I won\u2019t come to this shop again.\u201d Six labourers under the mountain weight of liqueur found themselves in a \u201c nasty ridiculous muss,\u201d having to plank down more than a day\u2019s wages.A farmer had inhibed too much forty rod while \u201c coinin\u2019 thro the rye,\u201d hut to him the sequences were not quite as pleasurable as in the song.A mechanic found to his sorrow that his drinking machinery was out of order, and for an indulgence had to suffer what he only knew himself, and in addition to pay the fee.Two tavern keepers anxious to make money by late hours found themselves in the wrong box.In trying to bite others they were themselves bitten.him of being the person who gave formation that led to their house being searched for concealed soldiers\u2019 clothing.It is reported this morning that the man Stewart is dead.Weather very cold.Indications of snow.JPhIOïvU OTTYA-'W-A-.Ottawa, Oct.27.Ministerial.Mr.McLellan and Hon.Mr.Chandler, left town this morning- Mr.Walsh, the chairman of the Board, will remain at Ottawa for some weeks.Capture of Desorters-The three soldiers of the GOth who on Saturday night last deserted, were captured, hy Sergeant Davis of the city police.Sentence on a Burglar- Judge Armstrong yesterday tried Pierre Lavois for burglariously entering the store of Mr.Booth at the Chaudière, and sentenced him to 3 years penal servitude in the Provincial Penitentiary.Lavois had taken advantage of the new law.Feeling on tlie Burning of St- Andrew's Oliurch- The loss of the St.Andrew's church causes much regret here.There was a complete run for Montreal papers containing the particulars.Postponement of tlie Arbitration- The Arbitrators adjourned this afternoon until the sitting of Parliament next February.The accounts, it is said, are so backward, that they are unable to do anything.Loss to the Eevenue Department The Inland Revenue Department will lose something like §16,000 a month by the destruction of Messrs.Gooderham & Co.\u2019s distillery at Toronto this morning.Arrival.Mr.Sandford Fleming and family arrived by boat this evening.Hon.'Mr.Carling and Hon.Mr.Chauveau arrived to-night.Inspection of tbe 60tli Eifles.The 60th Rifles/passed a semi-annual inspection this morning at eleven o'clock in the yard of the George Street Barracks before Gen.Windham.A large number of recruits for the regiment arrived hy the \u201c Queen Viet oria Parade of the Police Force.Yesterday at one o\u2019clock the Police Force were put through their monthly inspection hy the Chief.They parade this evening in their Winter habiliments.FTboivr oroiboisr'xo.lo-ijur miMius.EIKT G-S-iA-TsTlD- Death of a Foreign Minister-London, Oct.27.\u2014Jean de Francisco Molten, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for Honduras, died in this city yesterday.Paris, CITY ITEMS.Terrapin.\u2014Received this day per Express, a fresh supply of Shrewsbury Sounds, and East River Oysters,\u2014those celebrated large Count oysters and little neck clams always on hand.Clam Chowder for lunch this day.Police Court.\u2014The matting in the Court Room badly wants taking up for repairs as well as the removal of large quantities of dust.Professor Stone.\u2014 Professor Stone's seances still continue to he well attended.The Professor's feats are most astonishing, and his delineations of character very striking.Hallowe\u2019en.\u2014Sir A.T.Gait is expected to deliver an address in the Theatre on Saturday night.Tlie Band of the Rifle Brigade wlil be in attendance, and Messrs.Andrews, Lamothe, Boucher, Hurst, and R.P.Niven have tendered their services for the occasion.New School.\u2014The Reverend Beres de St.Croix, in connection with the College of St.Laurent, are about to found a school for children between five and ten years of age, on the site lately occupied by the Bellevue Hotel.Government Appointments.\u2014The Minerve hints at the appointment of Mr.Schiller as joint Clerk of the Peace, and Mr.Andrews to replace Mr.Dumas in the oflico of Crown Timbers.Tobacco Manufacture.\u2014We understand that Mr.Lockman of this City is at present in St.John N.B ,endeavouring to establish a company to enter into the manufacture of tobacco.A public meeting is about to be held at which tlie project will have full discussion.Found Dead.\u2014S.-C.Armour reports that a woman named Ellen McAIeck wife of John Adger, St.Constant Street, was found dead in her bed at, noon Tuesday.An inquest was held and a verdict of \u201c found dead\u201d returned.Working Men\u2019s Mutual Benefit and Widows and Orphan\u2019s Provident Society.\u2014On Friday another of the Lectures and Musical entertainments, under the auspices of this Society will he held in Mechanics\u2019Hall.The Rev.G.MeRitclne is to deliver a lecture on \u201c Self Control \u201d to he followed by a choice selection of vocal and instrumental music.The Montreal Hunt .-\u2014There was a large meeting of the members of the Montreal Fox Hunt yesterday morning at, Elmwood, the residence of Miss Byrnes.H.Ji.H.Prince Arthur, Col.Elphinstone, Lieut, Picard, Sir George Cartier, and several officers of the Rifle Brigade were present.Mr.John Crawford, Master of the Hunt, presided.After breakfast, and a little interval, the bugle sounded and the huntsmen mounted.The dogs soon gave tongue and away the huntsmen went over Longue Point meadow.After they had got out of sight, the Prince and party returned to the city.Military Orders.\u2014- Garrison and regimental orders have been issued, prohibiting any soldier of the Rifle Brigade from walking in Barrack or St?Francis street, or visiting any place or house in the same, except on duty, on pain of arrest and punishment.Any soldier of the Royal Artillery found in Barrack St.or in St.Paul St., between Dal-liousie and Jacques Cartier Square, will be similarly treated.The military police are charged with seeing that these orders are obeyed.Halloween.\u2014The grand annual festival of the Caledonian Society takes place in the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening next The entertainment comes off under the distinguished patronage of Prince Arthur, General IV indkanr, &c.A programme of unusual attraction lias been prepared in the performance of which Mrs.Weston of the Boston Quintette Club, Mrs.J.F.Kedslie of Edinburgh, &c., &c., will take part.We expect that the celebration of Halloween 1869 will be far ahead of anything previous! and such being the case the attendance is sure to be very great.Tickets had better he obtained early.\u201c Grinchuckle.\u201d\u2014On Saturday this spicy comic makes its re-appearance in a much improved form under a new management, and we trust with every prospect of a successful career.The good, things brought out in former numbers may be taken as a foretaste of still better things in the future.It is manifest to all that periodicals of this class not only exercise a healthy influence upon writers and speakers, but they go still further, and if well conducted, leave; an impress for good upon life itself.Grin-ehuckle will be ably conducted, and as a comic journal will take first rank in Canada and compare favourably with the best publication of its class.Theft of Coats.\u2014On Tuesday afternoon Alexander Tremblay, a cartel', reported that he had lost two over coats from his conveyance at the Bonaventure Station.An hour after he heard that a man was seen in Chaboillez Square with a, coat like the one lost.He then put the police on the track, and had him arrested.Prisoner gave Tranquility in Paris-Oct.27.\u2014The city is tranquil ; there have been no disturbances whatever.The Emperor attended the Theatre Français last evening.The Emperor returned to Compeigne today.The city continues tranquil and all apprehensions of disturbance have vanished.TTTJrtiSIE^, Ocnspiraoy- Paris, Oct.27.\u2014The Patrie in its issue to-day, asserts that a wide spread conspiracy has been discovered in the Turkish Provinces of Alhani.i and Hersegovina in connection with the revolt at Catearo in the Austrian Province of Damatia.Several arrests of persons implicated have been made by the authorities, and a large amount of arms and ammunition seized.It js reported that, the Governments of Austria apd Turkey have come to an understanding, whereby they will act jointly ip the suppression of the insurrection.The Emperor of Austria- Constantinople, Oct.27.\u2014Extensive preparations are making here for the reception of the Emperor of Austria.YnsriTEID STATES.Storm\u2014Stranding of Schooners-Oswego, Oct.27.-4 snow storm, with high winds, prevailed here last night.The schooner Australia, laden with barley from Toronto, went ashore one and a half miles below the city ; tlie cargo is damaged.The vessel will probably he got off.The schr.Acorn, with lumber from Port Hope, went ashore under Fort Ontario and will he a total wreck.The schr.Iowa, with barley from Port Nelson, is ashore, high and dry, about one mile above the city.Biots\u2014Negroes and D-S- Soldiers-Goldsroro, Oct.27.\u2014Our town was thrown into a state ot the wildest excitement last night by a riot which commenced early in the evening, and lasted until ten o\u2019clock, between United States troops stationed here and negroes.About 75 guns were fired.One soldier and one negro were wounded, ft is now twenty-four hours since tlie riot and our authorities have not made or attempted to make the first arrest.There were three fights, the negroes retreating in the last.Destructive Fire- New York, Oct.27.\u2014The fire in Fulton street was much more serious than was at first reported and the losses probably will aggregate nearly half a million dollars.It originated In the six storey building, No.116 Fulton.street, and owing to the high wind soon spread in spite of the energetic efforts of the firemen, to No.114 and the old Dutch Church.Nos.114 and 116 were entirely destroyed and the Church is still burning.The old and beautiful organ is saved.Nos.114 and 116 were valued at $100.000 each.TIio Eocent Earthquake-Pokeepsie, N.Y., Oct.27\u2014Farmers from the interior report having distinctly felt the recent sliock of Earthquake in the eastern part of Dutchess county.There was a fall of snow here this morning.Failure of the Tobacco Orop.Washington, Oct.27.\u2014Information received at the Dept of Agriculture,shows falling off of one third of tobacco crop in Virgin Maryland, and throughout New York and the West about one tenth, It is reported the frost last night in the West will cause a further deficiency.FIRES.Destruction of Gooderliam and 'Wort's Distillery- Toronto, Oct 27.The main building of Messrs.Gooderham and Worts\u2019 distillery was destroyed hy fire last night, caused hy the explosion of a lamp in the paint shop.A cask of benzine was instantly ignited, qjid the fire spread with fearful rapidity in spite of strenous efforts to keep it m check.\t400,000 gallons of spirit in process of manufacture was consumed.Streams of burning liquor were running in all directions, and it was at one time feared that, the conflagration would extend to the adjoining building, occupied as rectifying-house, malt-house and storerooms, where a quantity of high-wines are kept, the result of which would he an explosion of a destructive character: By the exertions of the firemen the fire was prevented from spreading, and the loss confined to the main portion of the distillery, the fermenting and flour-mill, fronting on the Espalanade.Loss estimated at §100,-000.No insurance.200 men will be temporarily thrown out of employment.This is the largest fire which has occurred for many years.2,000 head of cattle depended pi; the distillery swill for food, and will he thrown on the market in consequence.Gooderham and Worts will probably proceed at once to rebuild.A meeting to give public expression of sympathy will he held this afternoon.Another Destructive Fire, Another fire broke out at 2 o\u2019clock this morning at the corner of Queen and Brock sereets, and destroyed 12 houses, mostly frame buildings.The engines being at Goodcrham\u2019s distillery, tlie flames made rapid headway.The following are the sufferers :\u2014Mrs.Berry, milliner, Mrs.Shuster, tobacconist, Messrs.Dodds & Osgood, butchers, Mr.Bartlett, carpenter, Mr.D.B.Johnston, saloon, Mr.Perrin, dwelling, Mr.Cooper, dwelling.Loss $10,000, insurance small.Koyal Canadian Bank- At a meeting of the Canadian Bank of Commerce yesterday, the .shareholders voted in lavour of amalgamation with the Gore Bank.Arrival.Hon.Mr.Tilley, of New Brunswick, is here.The Late Fire.Tlie niéêtlng announced for this afternoon, to express sympathy with Messrs.Gooderham k Worts, was adjourned until to-morrow.Whiskey Mason out on Bail.Whiskey Mason has been released from custody on his own bail to appear to receive sentence wheq tlje points of law reserved at hoy insensible, in which condition he remained until a surgical operator removed the pressure on the brain in a skillful manner by performing the operation of trepanning and removing several pieces of splintered bones.The injury being very' serious, the operation was necessarily a grave and delicate due, and the hoy is doing well.Death of Ex-Sheriff Moodie._______We re- gret to learn of the death of John Wedder-burn Dunbar Moodie, formerly Sheriff of this county, and one of the oldest residents of this section of Country.Mr.Moodie was the fourth son of Major James Moodie, of Mel setter, in the Orkney Islands, was horn September 7, 179! ; he entered* the armv as Second Lieutenant of the 21st Regiment of Foot, in 1813, was present at the night attack on Bergen-op-Zoom on the 8th of March, 1814, where he was wounded hy a musket ball in his left wrist ; in 1819 he emigrated to South Africa, returning to England in 1829.In 1832 he emigrated to Canada, served in the rebellion of 1837 ; in 1838 was appointed dap tain Paymaster to sixteen companies of Militia .distributed along the shores of Lake Ontario and Bay ot Quinte.In 1839 he was appointed Sheriff of the county of Hastings, which office he held until the year 1863, when he resigned.In 1861, Mr.Moodie had a severe fall by which he broke his left knee pan, which produced paralysis, from which he never fully recovered.He died this morning suddenly, though from the low state of hi.health for some time past his death was not unexpected.Mr.Moodie was a man of warm social affections, had a great many personal friends, and died very generally regretted.\u2014Belleville Intelligencer.\u2014There is a prospect that the mystery of the dead body found in the woods near Mount Brydges lately will soon he cleared up\u2014by the identification of the unfortunate man by his relatives The following paragraph appears in the Detroit Free Press of Saturday : \u201c A gentleman named Davis.e.n route from the east to Galesburg, Illinois, quitted tlie train at Thamesville, on the Great Western Railway, while labouring under temporary aberration, about a week ago, and has not since been heard from, brother was in town yesterday in search of the gentleman.\u201d In all likelihood this refers to the body found \u2014A about fifty years old, left Kingston about eighteen months ago, and settled in Burford Township, upon some land he had purchased.The Princeton Review says he was joined shortly after by a young woman, whom he represented as his wife.A few waeks after another woman appeared, who also claimed to he his wife, with two children.This awakened enquiry,, and it was ascertained that the old reprobate had three women living with whom he had gone through the marriage ceremony.His first and lawful wife, with seven children, is living near Kingston.A warrant was issued, but Singleton, by some means, gained delay, sold his farm, and left the neighbourhood for parts unknown.ment.There are, in fact, Lord Granville observes, three alternative principles on which the relations between the Colony and the Home Government might be settled were the loan of troops to he prolonged.The Home Government might manage the war according to its own views of justice and expediency ; hut to Ibis the Colony would not consent.Or, the Home Government might lend its name and let the Colony drag it through whatever doubtful by-roads it pleased jlhutto this the Home Government could not agree.Or, there might bo Imperial troops subject to orders from the Horse Guards, and Colonial troops subject to Mr.Fox and Sir G.Bowen ; hut the probable effects of this division of authority may he conjectured from the experiences of the former Maori war.Even if authority could be so divided, and the distinction of the two forces preserved, the Home Government could not save itself from responsibility fur the acts of the Colonial Government.This policy, however, it believes to he radically wrong and foolish, and if it thinks so Mr.Fox and his cil-leagues can scarcely be surprised that it should refuse to support such policy by its authority.Lord Granville does not disguise his suspicions that the Colonists have been impolitic\u2014not to say even unjust\u2014in their dealings with Maori rights.He deems the Maories entitled to have had their native jurisdiction, within its proper limits, more fully recognized.He considers 3,310 squn're per square foot road, corner of Bridge street, feet for twenty-three cents pL fo Mrs.C! el land ; lot No.23, ndioining.Yzoo ¦quare feet foi m cents to Mrs.Cleliand : lots 32 and 33, ou the Lachine road, corner .McGill street, each 2,640 square feet, to Mr.Martin O\u2019Neil for 21 cents; lot No.24 about 3,300 square feet to Mr.Thos.Muir for 17 cents; lot No.1, do to Mr.David Stewart for 17J cents ; lot No.27, do to Mr.David Stewart for \u2019 7 cents ; lot No.21 do corner of Bridge street to Mr.David Stewart for 21 cents ; lot No.11, do to Mr.Narcisse Moreau for 19 cents ; two dock blocks, Nos.24 and 25, containing about 50,000 square feet for 12J cents per square foot to the Ottawa and Rideau Forwarding Company.An offer approximating to §40,000 was made for the saw mill [and dock mid canal lots surrounding the Brewster Basin en bloc.quo tetl U\u2019pebsf, ^ lb;\u2014Q,uiet.12c.ia> I3ir accordiiu o < >i Ashes «fc$0,5O for Spring Ex- WHEATeaster and lower ; salesof No.1 at 99.791.00 ; No.2.94:}77944\u2014in the afternoon irregular ; sales No.2 at\u201c93, buyer,\u201d October and sellers November.CORN quiet and firm ; sales of No.1 at 67( : No,J65La66c\u2014in the afternoon dull; No.\u20182 64s®65c sellers October, and 654c buyers October.OATS\u2014No.2 39\u2018 to 39*.RYE: declining and less active; No.2 70e.BARLEY declining but more aeUve ; sellers at 95c cash.^HT^HWINES steady and less active at PORK steady; $30 for new; $31 ® $32 for old cash ; $27.75#$27 sellers January.LARD quiet at 184^16ic.RECEIPTS.\u20147,500 brls flour; 81,000 bush wheat ; 59,000 do corn ; 60,000 do oati ; 7,000 do rye;'f>,400 do barley; 1 \\000-hogs.SHIPMENTS.\u20142,000 brls 11 onr ; 18,000 bus H & A-Allan Glasgow, TI 0 ^3 5^-d-3-Ü rj \"3 r*-r*Trt(3k~ -rttrl'cfl'trfc+e'+e-t-r-fc-f- I ^ r/i «T ctf w '\toT \u2019k aj* r* ChC-w O p\tp\t\u2022\u2018W a\tÏSt!»\tSap Ïl r: o r.u.^ co ?: rs ^ r\" ^ fD ^ m m in ; 3 a >¦ 2.O -yO 3 » ceocatosicd o mo^so g\tg O JVA > © Orf X P *\t\u2022 \u2022\t\u2022 : ©\t££«3 * / ; ^ : : -o ?: * : : : i_.- pp © »cig £ \u201e ^*3 w Q wÿab J?o ^\t^ ra.: ^ ^ 53 : K \u201c A Slight Cold,\u201d Coughs,-«Few are aware of the importance qf Recking a cough or \u201cslight oqld\u201d in its first stage ; that whicli iq the beginning would yield to a ypilq reniedv, \\t neglected, soon attacks trié lungs, \u201c Brown's Bronchial Troches\" give sure and almost immediate relief.\u201c The Troche*\" have proved their efficacy by a test of many years, and Lave receive/}\t.moniais from eminent m en yû!'// ipiye used * K.; lin Crt\tO CO 2 Si r-Ti\t^ AI AC D O UG LL Æ DAVIDSON, Brokers, NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.Schr Flying Fish, R Pye, Gaspe, Thomas: Fraser, provisions, 36:.Barque Morning ïstak, J Roue, Cork, Rim-* mer,G&co, wheat.ISO.RIVFR CRAFT.Barges, Cultivator 61 cords wood\u2019; FelicitV '5 tons sand; Bell route 70 cords wood* St François 50 do; Canada Maid 80\t* St An- toine 69 do ; Alma 50 do ; Carol!90 do.JEUX IPO JR'T'Sj _ Per s s Flamborough for PU/tou, N.S._Trn Gould it son 5Uo brls flour; R Oliver 2* >0 *d< J Mitchell 45 tu ^s butter; Per/vy Davis & Sou 3 cs drugs; .1 H R Molson Bros I t brls sugar J Greaves 9 hies 4 cs paper H Shorey&co 2 brls flour 2 do apples; A McGibbon 3 dô 1 keg whiskey 1 bx; roulds&McC 1 cs dry goods; J G Hearle 2 do soap; McMullen, A &co 45 pkgs tobacco; K Campbell & co 11 cs drugs; j s Evaps&co 2 do dry go dsr.l Hope 2 do wine; 1 Intun&co 1 do boots; J McKav & Bros 2 do-dry .goods; N Davis 12cs dry goods; DeB Me-Donald&co Ido; J Chamard 2 do furniture; .J A Leclaire 8 bgs shoe pecs 1 bx lasts; u Shaw 906 brls flour; Gillespie,M&co 60 do; Crane &1Ï 1618 do 5 bxs tobacco 8 do cheese; J A Adams 4 brls apples 1 keg whiskey; BiaokAL 2 cases: leather 80 brls flour; J Red path & Son 13 do-sugar; Anu s, M&co 73 cs bools; Evans & E ?.do Id ware; Hauetgen&G 10 do slates; Fanre& G 1 cs boots; Pillow, U&cOv3o3 bxs nails; Green & sons 7 cs furs: T Fuller & co 2 bxs cheese 14i tbs butter; Kirkwood, L&co 583 brls flour; W H Smith 25o $015 bxs cheese; J Bongall & co 433 brls £uur 51 do apples 15 bxs cheese 5 bga maj*.IlSÆIPOIRTîb».Per S S NOVA SCOTIAN, R S Watts;.Master, from Liverpool to Montreal\u2014«I Preston 11 cses: Order 3 b!e«; Can Rub Co 4 Dkgs;,, G Childs & co 45 bxs; J Hutton & co 60 bdlos£ J I andsberg 1 c.; .J Çarruthers & co \u2018'76 bars;; IT G Gear 77 hf -c; A Doutre 1 cs; N Davies i tmss; Lt Col Bolton 3 csks; Hon J Young cses; A Hope & co 2 csks; \u2018 rathern & O t cs;-DeHsle Bro & M G 3 pkgs; Order 30 kgs; Gibb* & co 1 cs; A Mi Hoy 1 do; Darling & J 2 csks;; Stirling, McC & co 3 pkgs; McIntyre, D & co> 3 do 2 hies; E M Doig 4 bles; Gordon, McK &.co 6 peks; Dawson Bro 2 do; G & J W Cox It do; T Ti ompeon & Sons! do; E Nield & co 7; do; .1 O\u2019Brien & co 1 do; Garland, M & co 2 dc ;; A Milloy 21 do; J Hutton & co 5 cses; Gilmatu & C g csks; W Eaves 1 cs; P Rooney 1 es; II W Ireland I osk 12 bxs; Order 24 csks; Orter $ css; Orderl do: VV Hobbs 10 cse?;, A ifYiDyvn.5t8 tbes; T T; ibandeau & co 3cses; J McMaster & co 3 do; J Rankin 1 de;L MeCon -key4 do; R Miller 1 do; A.\t3 do- t Grif.tiths & co 5 do; A MoGibbotftzè boT^es; S Gel.Unas 1 ble; Rafter & Kennedy 2 cses; T M sen 1 do; F Dolan 1 bl*; J Cottïs-'clne & c-.y t MacNee & Waddell 5>es; 'v hiteUoad & O I di>: Hauesgen &_(i1 ble:, 'j 8 Evabs & oo -lo; I) Rees & co » Dkgs', ,r H utton & co 4 do-Dufresno, G A oo * O'.cs; Martin & M 1 do-l5£o.ues\u2019 ;:o- 1 hto; Hurlon & P 1 do; N S Whitney SO.pkgs; J.ewis, K & co 2fto\u2019 J McKay | 6-2118 of '62.120} .&0s4|Sl.& &t.Paul.1 i (Sterling Ex.101'} 105} Interest.3.M0IEI EEP0ET, Montreal, Oct.27.Gold opened at 13»}, and closed at 130.Greenbacks have been bought, at 234 to 23S, and have been sold at 23* ; bought \u201cfor silver at 77^.Bank Exchange on New York sold at 231.Gold Drafts from par to | dis.Silver buying at TV and selling at li.Small bought at 2.L.MARCHAND & RON.Brokers, M OoVT -K, Al Xa PRODUCE, PROVISION., AND OTJHCEIR, Furnished Exclusively to \u201c Montreal Herald.\u2019* the Brewster Property.\u2014The following lois were disposed of at the sale at Johr J.Arnton\u2019s Rooms yesterday (Wednesday) morning :\u2014 Lot No.22, fronting on the upper Lachine MRU EKMefBAM SMT' Montreal, October 27, 1869.Flour ^ brl.of 196 lbs_wnnerior Extra nominal; Extra $5.oO c3> $5.10; Fancy £4.85* $9.( 0; Supers, from Canada Wheat $4.65^' $4-07^; Western States\u2019Superfine $4.65fi>$4.tj7^; Strong Supers, from Canada Wheat $4.90* $5; Medium strong Supers.$4.70 v© $4.80; Supers from Western Wheat (Well and Can ai) $4.674® $4.70 nominal; Cit y-brands of Superfine (from Western Wheat) $1.70 nominal ; Canada Su peril ne No.2 $ 1.40&$0.0f; Western States No.2 $4.40 $1.8 , and Strong up to$5.00 ; a3u0 brl.lot at outside rate.Around lot (1000 brls.in sL re) of Western States\u2019 Flour sold at $1674 inspected and in shipping order.Lower grades quiet, Bag Flour dull.Receipts by G.T.Railway, 1,900 brls.: by Lachine Canal, 750 brls.O ATWrtAL, per brl.of 2X) lbs.\u2014Latest sales of 100 brl.lots at $4.70.Wheat.#v bushel of 60 lbs.\u2014Market very dull ; no cargo sales reported.Pkas.^ ho l hH.~ Nominal at 77^0 (8> 80c; about 14,0 0 bushels sold since\u2019Change hour yesterday, in three parcels, at 85c., 86c., and 874e.per 66 lbs., t he latter rate exceptional.Corn, ^ bushel of 56 lbs.\u2014No transactions.lbs.\u2014Nominal at 30c© Hall, K & co 7 cses; G Winks & co 1 ci-; A R McMaster & Bro i do; Ascher & co 5 do; G Stephens & eo 106 bales; Frothingham & W 11 pkgs 20 kegs t ble; 8 H Thompson 1 case: L J Be I i veau 3 pkgs; S K Thompson 9 cs ! pkgs; T & F Ross & co 30 pkgs; Agent Grand T R Co 49 brls; A Mathews Son & co 5 cses;, M & L, Samuel 41 cs; Sir John Your g 4 pkgs; M&L Samuel 18 cs; JG Joseph&col do; W &¦ Leggatt.12 bcjls; B Moore& co 80 bxs; T Lnilev Aeo 2 es; J W Gale 1 do; O\u2019Keefe & co k pkgs; T Beaumont 1 es; J Campbell & son f>.do; N&F Roonev 1 do; J Wa'ker 3 pkgs; F A; Hodgson 1 do; S TreesAco 8 do; Order 360 brs; T WallsAco ft pkgs; R Hal l&co 1 do; ,j H Rogers 1 do; WB Hamilton 1 do; McCallum&sort 1 do; R&.T Gardiner 1 do; G Robertson 252 do; RW Laird 1 do; Howell, G &.co 3 do; A Graham 2 jars; J Fisher 4 pkgs; W Davidson .son 1 do; W Artbur&eo 2do; Lieut Johnston Ido; Page & P 3 do; Wilson & H 31 csks; Y ^Oakley 1 do; Smith&C 3 do; Villiers& McC k do; Rico, L & co 60 bdls; H Rowsell 1 cs; J & \u2019 Hay 6 pkgs; Rice,L*co 11 do; He welt & co i; ; do; C 1* Reid A co ft cs; Huntington &B 8 erts; M Thwaite ftS pkgs; MS Smith & co 1 do; .1 K Jacques 1 hi 2 cs 11 pkgs; Morland,W &.co Ki : do; F R Johnston 1 do; A Ramsay&son 1 do; Elliott,S&co Ido; M Kortosk&co 2 do; Dar- .ling&.T 5 do; C Dawbarn&co 6 do; T May &co 3 do; LS Rlack&T3do; D Mas* on & co 10 cs; Morland,\\V & co 286 bdls; M McCormack 2Ü pkgs; J Lawson 1 co; TJ Claxton li do; W & Woods 9 do; Ogilvey&co 8 d< ; A Buntin&cos do; A Brow n 1793 bars; Robertson, S & co .5 pkgs; Thompson&B 10 do; SC u\u2019sly Sdo; Mt\u2019l Tel Co 1 do; PLimsol,W&co 1 do; M Trester do; Schwab Freves 1 do; M Chapeloau 1 do: NS W1 itney 1 do; A&K Amos 2 do; Munder-ioh,S&eb 14 do; A Rouet 1 do; Hua & It 4 do*' H D.obeB&co 17 bis; J B Hollar'd 2 es; T May\u2019\u2022 &CO 4 do; Fdul\u2019ds&H 5 pkgs; FW Goring 24dry J Meyer&col cs; C Galibert & sons 1 osk; It \u2022 Wolff 20 pkgs; T Labass ICO cs; Ogilvey & co\u2019> .230 do; Order 22 bis; F Smith & co 200 bxs 150 1 « brs 313 brls; Neil.O&eo 178 pits 3 brs 63 bdls; F \u2022 ÆGeorge 1 csk; wThom4cs; PM Clarke Ido; order 2 bxs i csk ; Miss J Withy comb 3 cs \u2022 Hunt, B&co 3 bis; Simons &F 1 cs; M Moodie.&sons 7 pkgs; McCall, S &co 10 do; S Wordlev 1 do; A Waters 50 brls ; A Hamel & Frere fl pkgs;Thibaudeau, T&co 3 do; \\1 Millar 4 cs ; J \\V Bray & co 1 case ; Gerant &T 14 os; F & J Morgan 4 pcs ; V G Clayton 1 bx; J Ross &coA .7 bis; Ross &oo 3 coils; J W Goodwin .1 cri: W H Baldwin 27 pkgs; J Whitehead &co 24 i; Ross &co 3 anchors 3 sacks- Oats ^ bus bel of 82 32c.Hart rv, r 48 lbs.\u2014Nominal for L.C.samples.Ry f.U 56 lbs.\u2014Norn innl.JjARD 4?lb.\u2014May be quoted at 15$c.HP lOc.Pork, U brl.of 2)0 lbs.\u2014Mess Thin nor Prime Mess in $24.0;).HI'TTkb e ib.-8tei.ly ; Goo-! to choice W est «-i n 1 Je '.a> 2'c., a lot or medium sold 'it tote.; Choice Dairy.ïOjc ® ïljc.0 d at G5c to 70c .$28.50.; no market; Prime, es; D Mo iren 1 co; 8 cio; r isner karî Miin, !, Eenny, 6\tcsks 28 bars; W&B Fram-to Æ\u2019ti