Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 7 avril 1870, jeudi 7 avril 1870

[" ADDRESS HEPOOS & DEBILITllIEO Whose sufferings have been protracted from hidden causes, and whose cases re* quire prompt treatment to render existence desirable : If you are suffering, or hare suffered, from involuntary discharges, what effect does it produce upon your general health ?Do you feel weak, debilitated, easily tired ?Does a little extra exertion produce palpitation of the heart ?Does your liver, or urinary organs, or your kidneys, frequently get out of order ?Do you have spells of short breathing or dyspepsia?Are your bowels constipated ?Do you have spells of fainting, or rushes of blood to the bead ?Is your memory impaired ?Is your mind constantly dwelling on this subject?Do you feel dull, listless, moping, tired of company, of life ?Doyou wish to be left alone, to get away from everybody?Does any little thing make you start or jump ?Is your sleep broken or restless ?Is the lustre of your eye as brilliant ?The bloom on your cheek as bright ?Do you enjoy wl imitate \u2022AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.VOL.LXII.MONTREAL, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, 1870.7^ THUBSDAY MORNING, APBIL 7, 1870.APPOINTMENTS THIS DAY.Meeting of Citizens, in Mechanies\u2019Institute, at 7.30 p.m.AUCTION SALES THIS DAY- yourself in society as well ?Do you pursue your business with the same energy ?L>o you feel as much confidence ia yourself?Are your spirits dull and flagging, given to fits of melancholy?If so, do not lay it to your liver or dyspepsia.Have you restless nights ?Your baek'weak, your knees weak, and have but little appetite, and you attri bute this to.dyspepsia or liver-complaint ?Now, reader, diseases badly cured, are all capable of producing a Weakness©!* (hetieiieral Organs which, when in perfect health, make the naan.Did you ever think that those bold, defiant, energetic, persevering, successful business-men are alway s; those whose or-k gans are in Perfect Health ?You never hear such men complain of be ing melancholy, of nervousness, of palpitation of theheart.They are never afraid they cannot succeed in business ; they don\u2019t become Sad and Discouraged ; they are always polite and pleasant in the company of ladies, and look you and them right in the face\u2014none of your downcast looks or any other meanness about them.I do not mean those who keep their organs inflated.These will not only ruin their constitution, but also those they do business with or for.How many men, from badly eared dis «eases, have brought about that state of weakness that has reduced the general system so much as to induce almost every other disease,\u2014idiocy, lunacy, paralysis, spinal affections, suicide, and almost BY COLIN CAMERON Æ CO.Boots and Shoes, at their stores, at 10 a m.BY DEVANY & CO.Jacques & Hay\u2019s Furniture, at their Stores at 2 p.m.Evening Sale of Furniture, at their Stores, at 7 p.m.BY JOHN J.ARNTON.Household Furniture, &e , al 99 University Street, at 10 a.m.BY ALFRED BOOKER.Household Furniture, at 5i4 Craig Street, at 10 am.BY HENRY J.SHAW.Furniture, &c., at his Stores, at 10 a.m.Book Auction at Toupin\u2019s Block, McGill street, at 7 p.m.BY G.MCGREGOR.Dry Goods, at their Stores, at 2 p.m.an TEMFERATUKE In tlie fcnaae,\tby Standard xnermometer.\t observed\tat Hearn,\tHarrison & Co., Opticians\tand Mathematical Instru-\t ment Makers, 242 & 244 Notre Dame\t\t Street.8 A.M.\t1 P.M.\t6 p.w.37- 5\t400\t89-5 Max.\tMin.\tMean 40C5\t310\t37®2 By Standard Barometer:\t\t 9 A.M.\t1 P M.\t6 P.M.3t)OiO\t300 (J\t2909s April 6, 1870.ST.LAWRENCE HALL.W FBowman, Newport, Vt; T D Shipman, wife and daughter, Q,uebec; J F Dore, do; J Bradshaw, Mooers, N Y; J Davis, Toronto; J Henderson.Penh, J McGillivray, Smiths Falls; E Bronson, Ottawa; J Stevenson, Peterboro ; G E Lyndsay, (Quebec; Miss Lyndsay, do; Mrs Harris; R MacLeary, Danville; Capt Nagle, Isle aux Noix; C F Smith.Newhaven, Con; Miss A E Morin, W H Patton, Sherbrooke ; A Kerr; Toronto; W H O Kerr,Brantford; W T Benson.Edvvardsburg; W Spence, Hespeler; J B McLennan, Cornwall; Mr and Mrs De Beaujeu, Coteau du Lac; J Perrault, Varennes; G C Mony, Cornwall.ST.JAMES HOTEL.H Thompson, New Zealand; G Aa.nold, Ottawa; Mrs Gilbert, Stirling; J Lockhart, Clarke; K White, Kingston; W Colquhoun, Dickenson\u2019s Landim; C R Chisholm, City; B Empsey, City; J P Bostwick, Bout de Lisle; D Brewster and wife, City.ALBION HOTEL.J H Warren, Burlington; G McDowell, Cornwall; D F Stewart, Renfrew; F Emight, Perth; J H Cassels.jr, Kenmore; T J Chambers, Ottawa; T Howe, Russell; A Coad, Toledo; T W allace, Alexandria; R W Rea, Almonte; I5 Gallagher, Prescott; P McCrea, de; W Hazelton, Waverley Junction; T Bowey, Napanee; J .Halliday, Lyn; Miss Courtney, KemptvilU; Mrs Stickles, Stirling; H Donohoe, Point Levis; J A Leamp-iug', jr* Hogansburg; Mrs Connolly, Ottawa: Mrs J Murphy, do; S Murphy, do; W D Parkins, New Yoik; J Smart, Brock ville; P Solmau, Stanstead; A B Frost, do; T Cooli-can, Quebec; J S Coolican, do; W Chamberlin, Sherbrooke; W S Gamerly.Lennoxville; E N Henderson, ffptpn ; M N Bessey, Cowansville; R A Ellis, Waterloo; G A Ware Northampton; R Rix.San bridge J W W Smith, Philips burg; W H Robjnson, Waterloo; H P Iness, Cornwall; O Gillespie, up; P MacKenzie, Richmond; J C Marble, Maine; S Andrews, Windsor; Miss E Andrews, do; C S Ryan, Dickenson\u2019s Landing; T Hunt, Renfrew; T Molloy, Napanee; j Wenger, Elmira; N Wenger, do; A M Cockburn Berwick; E McDearmid, Brownsville; C W Keyar, Mille Roches; R sm, Jarvis; J Fitzgerald.Bailleboro; J A WUnamscm.Frank-lord; \\V H Turner, Cornwall; H P Grange, do.Every other form of Disease Which humanity is heir to, and the real cause of the trouble scarcely ever suspected, and have doctored for all But the Bight Cue, Diseases of these organs require the use ¦of a Diuretic.BOLIDES FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU IS THE GREAT DIURETIC, and is a certain cure for Diseases of the Bladder, Kidney?', Gravel, DEOPS Y, 0EGANI0 WEAKNESS, FEMALE COMPLAINTS, GENERAL DEBILITY, And all Diseases of the URINARY ORGrANS, whether existing in Male or Female, from whatever cause originating and no matter of how long standing, If no treatment is submitted to, Consumption or Insanity may ensue.Our flesh and blood are supported from these sources, and the health and happiness, and that of posterity, depends upon prompt use of a reliable remedy.Helmhold\u2019s Extract Buchu, established upward of 19 3rears, prepared by H.T.HELMBOLD, Druggist, 594 Broadway, New York, and 104 South 10th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.PRICE\u2014$1.75 per bottle, or 6 bottles for $6.50, delivered to any address.Druggists everywhere.NONE ARE GENUINE UNLESS DONE tip in Steel Engraved Wrapper, with facsimile of my Chemical Warehouse, and signed March 2?.H.T.HELMBOLD.tTS 2m 68.RED RIVER Bigitalo XI o 1) e s- We have received Invoices of few hundred Buflalo Rohes from Fort Gai y, to arrive about 15th instant.Will be sold low Mo A.HT 11 ITTt & MA-HTIN, 459 St.Paijx.Street, Agents in Canada for the Red River Traders December From Constantinople, Will arrive as soon as Navigation opens.REJOICE, LADIES and GENTLEMEN, AT THE HAPPY INTELLIGENCE ! piarcb 18,\t60 The Crawford Case.\u2014There are perhaps few questions of public interest in connection with criminal j urisprudence which have been more debated and yet left in a more unsettled condition than that of the duty of a Coroner.It is his duty to ascertain the facts in all suspicious cases ; generally in all cases of sudden death.It is not his duty needlessly to probe wounds of the affections which are still bleeding, for the sake of satisfying idle curiosity or heartless malice.But what circumstances are so suspicious as to demand or to justify investigation\u2014 how long must illness have preceded death in order to take the death out of the category of those which are so sudden as to require the inquest of a Coroner ?These are questions which, though often asked in prac tice, can never be decided in theory.In the end everything must be left to the officers charged with the administration of justice, and whether in any particular case they will have a post mortem examination, and hold an inquest or not, must depend upon their personal view of such facts as are known in advance of scientific and legal inquiry.Events which one man may think suspicious may seem to another wholly unimportant, and hence each case must ho decided not only objectively, accord-to the circumstances, hut subjectively according to the mind of the person who has to deal with them.The exercise of so delicate a discretion, in matters of such vast concern to the public as the detection of murder, is naturally to he judged of with great indulgence.On the other hand he that exercises it should feel that he does so under a heavy responsibility, which obliges him before h( takes steps that may torture the hearts of innocent persons, already wrung by sorrow, at least to know something of the on w'hich he is about to We are bound to appears to us that a regard to considerations such as these would have pre vented the recent inquest upon the late Mr.Crawford, and the unnecessary pain which it must have inflicted on a lady of unblemished ?oM by an cp aracter, young in years, and to whom, if possible, we owe more than ordinary tenderness, because coming among us as a wdfe, she also comes, in some sense, as a stranger from her home in England.It is difficult to measure, much less exaggerate, the agony which must have been created in the mind of a woman almost at the threshold of her married life, when exposed before the public to such accusation, however groundless, as that made against Mrs.Crawford.That it was without the shadow of a shade of foundation, beyond the fact that in carefully tending the unfortunate deceased in the paroxysms of his disease, it was sometimes necessary to force herself to the hard duty of applying physical restraint, of course no one can now doubt.But the question is whether there ever was such a doubt vasion of the domestic life of honorable family, and the putting on her trial of an innocent woman, whose misfortune, not fault, it was to have au onerous and afflicting office fall to her share.We think there was not, or at least need not to have been any such doubt.The family involved in the ridiculous charge made by an insane woman was well known and respectable ; the supposed criminal was one whose age, sex, and education all made it to the last degree improbable that she should become a murderess; and there was no adequate motive to lead to the commission of such a crime even by a person of equivocal reputation.If the dead of such a family can he unceremoniously exhumed, and the relatives of the dead arraigned as murderers, who of us is safe when visited by bereavement ?Moreover, there was nothing in the circumstances of the death which indicated anything but the most natural causes for it.Medical men of eminence were attending at the time it occurred\u2014there was no mystery, and no suddenness.Only one thing was present to suggest the course which was adopted\u2014 the information of a servant who had quarrelled with her mistress ; and this, after all, went no farther than an act which the accused would at once have admitted, and which explained itself whenever the nature of the fatal disease was known.\\Ye do not mean to say that a coherent charge of murder, brought by a person of sound mind and good repute, might not, in some cases, make an investigation necessary even in circumstances which would otherwise to contradict suspicion.But this instance, the slightest preliminary inquiry would have dissipated the whole fabric of the charge by showing the malicious insanity of the informer.Upon the whole hardly imagine any which there was less justification for intruding an odious inquiry upon a bereaved family.In Upper Canada where they have a multiplicity of Coroners, it has been thought that inquests have sometimes been multiplied in order that every Coroner should make something out of his office.We are sure that no one who knows our Coroner will for one moment impute to him any such motive as.that.Indeed, we do not know whether his measures were not more or less forced upon him by action taken by the Police Magistrate and Attorney General.In any case, we have no doubt that he acted from the best of motives ; but we cannot help feeling that somewhere there has been a grave error of judgment, and that this error has occasioned great suffering to persons and especially to one person, who merited very different treatment.seem in we case in The York Roads Job.\u2014Nothing can show the character of the Finance Minister better than his reopening this rascally transaction for the benefit of Ms friend Mr.Beaty within only a few weeks of his return to office.After years of robbery, which Mr, Ilincks enabled Mr.Beaty to commit, a few months possession of office by a reform government deprived the latter of any further op.portunity of illicit gain in that direction.Yret the scandal of the whole transaction has been a by-word during all the fifteen years of Sir Francis\u2019 absence from the country.The first thing he does on his return is to make Mr.Beaty a present, in the guise of a payment which the colleagues of Sir Francis and all other Ministers had hitherto efused to pay as utterly unjust.We need say no more about it ; the mere statement speaks for itself.But we print the speech of Mr.Wood, Treasurer of Ontario, in the Committee of Public Accounts, when the question was before that body.Mr.Wood is not unfriendly to the Ministry ; hut his exposure of the downright robbery of the Treasury perpetrated by Sir Francis for the behoof of Mr, Beaty, admits of no reply.so abominably abused them, as in the case of the Central Park, which in the midst of the corrupt practices of the city in general, has become known throughout the world as an example of good management and refined taste.Another and more comprehensive attempt is now once more being made to put a stop to the swindling under which the population of this great city has so long groaned.Whether it will he possible to effect any complete reform while the Government is in the hands of the present class of voters is exceedingly doubtful.It is this doubt which has given direction to the legislation that is now under consideration ; for the object of its authors is to restrain, as far as possible, the more flagrant wrongs of which the tax payers have had to complain, by putting a very tight rein upon the power of the Common Council to repeat them.The authors of the proposed law have decidedly very little confidence that the city will obtain a government that can be implicitly trusted, and they therefore seek to check improper proceedings by force of law.The new Charter for the city proposes to prevent the imposition of any taxes, the borrowing of any money, or the contracting of any debts for the city without the special authority of the State Legislature in each case ; and all powers of the Common Council are to be exercised in subordination to the rules prescribed by the said Legislature.The precise object ot these two clauses is not very clear to us : but the second appears to be intended to dispose of some impression that the Common Council has an inherent right of legislation irrespective of the provisions of the Charter.The first has, we believe, been already acted upon by the enactment that a ratification by the State Legislature is requisite in order to render valid the tax levies of the Common Council.Such an enactment appears to be embarrassing in itself, and opposed to ail sound principle ; that it should ever have been thought of, among a people so used to local self-government as the Americans, shows to what a low condition of discredit the City Government of New York has fallen.There are some other clauses for giving to the Mayor more power and responsibility, and for a new organization of various departments of the city management, the aim and tendency of which are not very intelligible to strangers ; but the following restraints which it is intended to impose upon the Council, indicate very plainly the kind of evils for which a remedy is sought, and the extreme remedy which is thought to be required.No expenditure is to be made, nor any liability incurred by the departments, whether ordered by tire Common Council or not, unless an appropriation shall have been previously made ; no ordinance of the Council involving the expenditure of money, shall be passed except by a three-fourths vote ; no such vote for the purposes of celebrations, processions, or entertainments shall be passed except upon a four-fifths vote ; and no additional allowance beyond the legal claim of any party except by a unanimous vote.We suppose, in fact, that all votes such as are included in the last two categories are absolutely illegal iu New York ss they certainly are here, as cprporations are capable of doing only such things as they are constituted for the purpose of doing, and we presume that the New York charter fjoes not, any ipore than our own, contemplate the taxation of a whole population in order that a select body may gratuitously and vicariously exhibit tbeir liberality, whether in the giving of feasts or of cash.But the invocation of i;he Courts in such cases is a tedious and expensive process, and falls too often hardly upon individuals to be really very effective.As these grants have become customary the most effective manner of putting a check upon them is probably that adopted, to permit them, but under conditions which can only he complied with when their propriety is all but unanimously agreed upon.Auger Onezime, Bastien Alfred, Beaudoin Moise, Brunet Leonidas, Duprat Stanislas, Gilbert J, Lamarche Adolphe, Leblanc Edouard, Moreau Ulric, Munro Henry, Perrault Gilbert, Richer Euclide, Schiller L.W.Charles.The total number of men who returned was 92.They were accompanied by Rev.Mr.Doherty, of the Seminary of Quebec, who acted as their chaplain.As a whole the Zouaves seem to be a hard}' body of men, and appear none the worse for a sojourn in Italy.Some of them were in uniform, whilst by far, the greater number were in plain dress.THE PROCESSION formed in front of the Bonaventure Railway Station, and was headed by the Frere\u2019s schools preceded by tbeir band.Then came the Zouave committee, consisting of long to the Company, and sold by the Sher- depositors has suggested this means to avert iff .under the Writ, the proceeds of which | dangerous haste and avoid confusion.the Government got.If this were, as alleged, the inquisition would, in so far as the legal title is concerned, be conclusive But it is claimed that these poor men, not knowing how to vindicate their rights, notwithstanding\tthe\tverdict, were in fact owners\tof\tthe stone,\tand, in equity, should be paid.He had concluded that this might be the ease ; but where was the evidence of it ?The contrary was distinctly proved by the papers brought betore the Committee by Mr.Langevin (the Minister of Public Works).He had matje a long statement, and read long letters from Mr.Baillarge, relating this payment, but irrelevant to the point.Would the Committee believe it, when he told them that all this discussion about Mr.Olivier Berthelet, chairman, wearing i whether the stone belonged to the Company grounds proceed, say it proper Municipal Affairs in New York.\u2014New York city has long been in bad odour all over the Continent on account of the famous mismanagement of its Corporation.Various measures have been tried from time to time to put a stop to the abuses of the clique who have had possession of the wealth of the city, through their hold upon the City Hall.Unfortunately, however, there has been too great a separation between the intelligent classes who own property and pay taxes, and the mass of ignorant persons, many of them strangers whose numbers give them the control of the city, and who as they do not pay taxes directly, freely exercise their personal.choice of representatives without any sense of the cost of choosing bad ones.In truth, none are more interested, probably none are so much interested, as the poorer classes in good government ; for even if the landlords pay the taxes directly, they must in some shape contrive to get them out of even ihe most wretched tenants.In addition to this a government of jobbery is certain to be a government careless of those duties by which the health and comfort of the people are most promo! ed, and in which the poorest inhabitants have the most concern, inasmuch as they are more helpless than their richer neighbours.But this reasoning is too intricate for the great mass of the voters; and hence we have seen a steady and rapid augmentation of the plunder ol the people of New York to a degree which would have been insupportable had it not been for that unexampled prosperity which has for some years made the revenues of individuals derived from property and trade increase even more rapidly than the iniquitous imposts upon them.All that has hitherto been accomplished in the way of reform has been to take particular departments of the administration of the The Collision Between the \u201cBombay\u201d id tue \u201c Pn@jba.\u201d\u2014The New York Tribune publishes a diagram of the accident between these two vessels, which it says shows that the \u201c Bombay \u201d was in fault from the first.We think that is a comparatively trifling matter, for he must have a strangely constituted mind who can suppose that the officers of either ship wantonly caused the collision.We are not sure, however, admitting the English rule of the road to be the true one, that this diagram shows the \u201c Bombay ! to have been ia fault.Even if it did, have we not heard the fable of the man and the lion ?When Captain Eyre makes his diagram, we may be sure it will not show him to have been wrong.Diagrams are only another way of telling a story already told byword of mouth, and prove neither less nor more.The two stories differ ; but there is this in favour of the English story that it was consistent throughout, while that of the Aim ericans was more or less inconsistent in the months of different witnesses, and also with the patent facts.We are sorry to discuss such a question from an apparently national point of view, and are far from taking strong ground as to which side should bear the blame of an affair which, in the common sense of the word, wai an accident, and nothing more ; but we are bound to say that ill as Captain Eyre behaved after the collision, the evidence, such as it is, is favourable to his conduct before it occurred.the order conferred upon him by the Pope; with the Attorney Genera], Messrs.C., A.Leblanc, L mis Beaudry, A.Rivard, J.Royal, F.X.A.Trudel, Raphael Benoit, Chevalier Lnracque, wearing his Papal decoration, Dr.Beaubien, M.P.P., Dr.Trudel, &c., &o.After a short interval came Major Belle followed by the Zouaves, some of them in uniform, but by far the greater number in plain clothes.Several flags and banners were carried and a large crowd followed in the procession.THE STREETS were lined with spectators who heartily welcomed back to Montreal the Canadian Papal Zouaves.It seemed as if almost every one had turned out to see them, and not a few wore rosettes and favours.The bells of the different churches pealed out, and to the sound of the music of the hands the returned Canadians marched to the PARISH CHURCH.Here busy hands had been at work decorating, and flags of several nations bung gracefully from the galleries.The lauds played the procession into the church, the Zouaves taking up their position in front of the altar, one of them holding their colours.After all who could had obtained seats, and there were many who could not get them the service was opened by a \u201c welcome\u201d on the organ after which the Rev.11.L\u2019Abbe Collin ascended the pulpit and delivered an ADDRESS.He said that the city of Montreal gladly received her returning sons.This large crowd,\u2014this enthusiastic welcome, represented the great heart of the religion of the city and the country, rejoiced that those who had gone had returned home safe and sound.This was a joyous day in the city, for it witnessed the coming back to the city of the soldiers of the Church and the soldiers of right and justice.Canada bad been made glorious by her Zouaves.They were her children, and they had gone from home and from their families, and had made, great sacrifices to do battle for their Church.In spite of difficulties and opposition they never loitered, but had gone forth on their holy mission - the protection of the Vatican, to protect the majesty of their Church and the Church of their fathers.They are surely heroes who have made their debut in the world in the path of principle and duty.They are soldiers of Christ, who have never deserted their colours\u2014\u201c Aimez Dieu et va ton ehan\\in.\" The Pontiff whom they have beqefjtted an4 protected thanks them anfl you.These are our glpri-fied countrymen, and they haye received the thanks of the great father of the Church for their valour.THE SERVIOE.was then proceeded with, the organ playing the \u201c Call of the Zouaves.\u201d The \u201c Magnificat\u201d having been sung, Grand.Vicar Truteau with Rev.Messrs.Villeneuve and Verrauit celebrated the Benediction of tbs Holy Sacrament.The \u201c Te Deum \u201d .and \u201c Tantum Ergo\u201d were then sung, under the direction of Rev.Father Barharin, as also the \u201c Landate Dominum.\u201d After service the Zouaves retired to the Seminary where they were served with refreshments.CITY ITEMS.\u2014The Treasurer of the Montreal General Hospital acknowledges with (hanks the receipt of $25 from Mr.M.P.Grant of Boston U.S.by the hands of Mr.John Macintosh.Fire.\u2014About two o\u2019clock on Wednesday morning the workshop of Mr.Noel Pratt St.Lawrence Main street was nearly destroyed by fire.The lofs amounts to more than $1,000, but is covered with insurance.A Vicious doq.\u2014Complaint is made of aw vicious dog the property' of James McCrory, which troubles Ottawa and Duke streets.Burned to Death.\u2014Mrs.Wilkens who was so severely burnt a few days ago in Cplbourne Avenqe has since died of tke effects of the burning.The Military.\u2014In spite of what has been said to the contrary preparations for the removal of the military head quarters are being prosecuted vigorously.The Guibord Case.\u2014The hearing of this case has been closed.Mr.Justice Mondelet gives his decisipn on the 12th inst.\u2014 The Treasurer of the Ladies\u2019 Benevolent Society acknowledges with sincere thanks, the receipt of one hundred dollars from Sir.Joseph MacKay as a donation to the Building Fund.The ladies intend adding a wing to the Institution, which is now too crowded.Subscriptions are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully received by Isabella C.Gordon, Treasurer, Post office drawer No.297.Indignation SIeetinp.\u2014We call attention to the meeting to be held thii evening in the Mechanics' Hall to take into consideration the circumstances attending the recent murder of a British subject in the Red River Territory, and to give expression of opinion in regard thereto.Shamrock Lacrosse Clur.\u2014The following were elected officers for IgfO ;\u2014President; P.J.Curran ; Vice President, W.Hughes, Treasurer, T.McMahon ; Secretary, J.K.Flannery ; Assistant Secretary, T.Foy Field captain, M.O\u2019Connell ; Committee ; J Hoobin, Chairman ; Jos.Madigan, A Flynn, Jas.Tracey, J.Brown.Police Court.\u2014Peter Larkin, for stealing from bis master, was fined $2 or three months.Louis Masson, for assaulting Emily Leduc, was fined $2 or three weeks.Edward Bertrand, for stealing photographic pictures, was sent to goal for six weeks.Jean Rochon, for stealing money from Flavien Dubois, was sent to gaol for six months.THE YORK ROADS JOB, Indignation Meeting\u2014We remind our readers of the meeting convened by the Mayor for the purpose of giving expression to the public sentiment on the subject of the murder of Mr.Scott at Red River.We have no doubt that the meeting, which will be held in the Mechanics\u2019 Hall will be very numerously attended.Commercial Temperance Club of Montreal.\u2014Regular weekl.vl meeting this evening, Thursday, at eight o\u2019clock, in Committee Room of Mechanics\u2019 Institute Building.Reùirn of the Papal ^ouavesi as to justify or even excuse the iq- city out of the hands of the body, which has On Monday, the steamer \u201c Ville de Paris,\u201d after a splendid run of eight days and twenty-two hours, arrived at New York, bringing with her ninety-two of the Canadian Papal Zouaves, w lose term of service had expired.Mr.Royal, of the Nouveau Monde, chairman of the enlistment committee, was in New York to receive them They left New York on Tuesday for home, and at many placed on the route were warmly received.At St.Johns many of the inhabitants turned out, and Mr.Marchand, M.P.P., Mayc r, on behalf of the Corporation, congratulated them ou their safe return.They then continued their homeward journey, reaching the bonaventurb station at about half-past ten.Here were assembled a very large portion of the R.C.population of this city, including French and Irish societies, volunteer officers in undiess uniform, &c., &c.The Chasseurs and Mount Royal Rifles were not allowed to attend as had been expected, but the majority of the members of these corps attended in civilian dress.The Zouaves were received on the platform with much enthusiasim, and all seemed glad once more to bo at home.Among THE ZOUAVES we noticed the following Montrealers ;\u2014 HON.E.B.WOOD S SPEECH IN COMMITTEE.Hon.Mr.Wood said he tound it almost necessary to come forward in defence of the Government after the censure heaped upon it by its professed supporters, for delay iu adjusting honest claims.These rebukes were certainly unmerited since the Government had adopted the principle of paying all kinds of claims however often rejected or disallowed by the Government of the late Province of Canadi, without so much as previously asking authority of Parliament \u2014as all it had to do was simply to charge them over on to the debt of the late Province.Since 1st July, 1867, it had paid away for alleged arrears of the late Province, previously disallowed claims, little short of $2,000,000.This was very convenient.It enabled political heads, nay, even subordinate in any of the departments to conciliate a political opponent, or reward a political partizan, and escape the unpleasantness of having the matter brought under the scrutiny of Parliament.The Minister cf Finance seems to think the Committee of Public Accounts has no functions except to approve every thing that a Government may do in the way of paying away the public money.The Chairman regards with disfavour every at-empt to investigate the grounds upon which payments have been made.The opposite course is taken in England.There the Government court investigatiou, and receive with attention every suggestion tending to the more perfect management of the public money.He (Mr.Wood) should therefore feel free to exercise his own judgment on the payment under consideration.The question divides itself into two.The first were the claims in respect of the York Roads on the Government good, either on legal or equitable grounds ?and, secondly, granting that the claim; ought to be paid were they such as should have been paid without the prior sanction of Parliament, and charged To the appropriation for un foreseen items ?In respect to the first proposition, he (Mr.Wood) would remark : \u2014 From the papers produced every one was compelled to say that the payment was wholly unjustifiable.It had been stated that the claims were made by poor people, who had furnished stones, which had not been delivered to the York Roads Com or to certain other persons, and, therefore, having been used by the Government, Sught to be paid for, had nothing whatever to do with the question.This item of pay-meLt-is made up chiefly of the \u201c paysheets\u201d of theWork Roads Company \" (Hear, hear.) It consists of numerous small items due to the ordinary employes of the York Roads Company for work before the Government seized the Roads.[Heai, hear.] He [Mr.Wood] had just put his hands upon two of these \u201c pay sheets\u201d among the papers brought hero by the Minister of Public Works.He could not understand, with these papers before him, how the Minister of Public Works could have made the statement he has.He (Mr.Wood) would read a couple of these \u201c pay sheets\u201d as a sample os the items which made up the payment under consideration :\u2014 Having done so Mr.Wood continued :\u2014 Let the Committee observe the heading of these pay sheets.They first commence with \u201cpayroll of claims forwarded on the 8th of Nov., 1867,/or stone, gravel and labour on the York Roads, upon ivhich payments were due by James Beaty at the time of the seizure of these Roads by the Government\" and the second says it is \u201cfor stone delivered, for breaking of stone, labour and lumber furnished to James Beaty, Esquire, on the York Roads, upon ivhich payments were due by him at the time of the seizure of those Roads by the Government.\" Let them also remark the items \u201c Supplies for teams, &c.\u201d \u201c Blacksnith work,\" \u201c Breaking stone and labour,\" \u201c Labour, drawing stone for J.Beaty,\" \u201c Screened gravel and stone for J.Beaty,\" and let them not overlook who it was who, even on the very face of the pay rolls, actually received the money from Government, \u201c Screened gravel and stone for J.Beaty, $180\u201d\u2014received by \u201c J.Reatg,\" \u201c Labour drawing stone for J.Beatg $60\u201d\u2014received by \u201c J.Beaty,\" \u201c Breaking stone $5\u201d\u2014received by \u201c J.Beaty,\" \u201c Stone f urnished from farm of J.Beaty, $60\u201d\u2014received by.\u201c J.Beaty and then let them say whether or not there has not hitherto been an entire misconception of the whole matter.[Hear, hear.] Why, Sir this payment has been made for debts due for the ordinaij management of the York Roads, before the seizure by the Government from the Company, thatii, from Mr.James Beaty, and iu making the payment the Government has simply paid what Mr.Beaty owed, and was bound to \u201cpay.There is no use disguising the transaction.The payment might just as well have been made directly to Mr.Beaty.The indirect way (Joes not phapge the truth of the case, and it is an insult to any gentleman\u2019s understanding to pretend that this payment was made to poor people wfio, had equitable claims on the Government.(Rear, hear.) In so far as any claims for stone, or for breaking stone, or broken stone is concerned, permit me to read the report to the Board of Works, made by Mr.Bailllarge, the Government Engineer ; EXTRACTS.Ottawa, Feb'y 19, 1866.\u201c Sir\u2014I beg to enclose you herewith a memorandum of the amounts due to various parties for the delivery and breaking of stone on the York Roads, by James Beaty, Esq., up to the time of the seizure and sale of the said stone by the Sheriff.\u201c Mr.Beaty declines making those payments, on the plea that the Government are liable, they having purchased the said stone from the Sheriff, and used them or sold (hem.\u201c It is no doubt a great hardship for the parties who furnished and broke the stone taken possession of by the Government, to be refused the payment.\u201c The Government, however, do not appear to be legally responsible, \u201c It is a question whether or not the G overnment are willing to assume such responsibility.Here then is the officer of the Government declaring that \u201c the amounts v:e,-e due to various pqrties for the delivery and breakimg of \u201c stones on the York Roads by James Beaty, \u201c Esq., the original lessee, up to the time of the seizure and sale of the said stone by the \u201c Sheriff under instructions from the Gov-\u201c eminent,\" and that the Government do \u201c not appear to be legally responsible \u201cfor their pay ment.\" Yet in defiance of all this, it is mafie.Would not every one say it was wrong, and wholly without justification?He (Mr.Wood) would now turn to the second point ;\u2014 Granting that the claims ought to be paid, were they such as should have been pa!d without the prior sanction of Parliament and charged to the appropriation for unforeseen items.As he [Mr.Wood] understood it those were just such claims as should not be paid without first taking the sense of Parliament.They had been a long time pending, were connected with a transaction not very creditable to the then Government of the 1 ite Provinces, or to Mr.Beaty, and from what has been shown as contained in the papers of the Department, more than questionable in their character.Was it to meet such claims the appropriation for unforeseen items was made ?Was it intended items of expenditure, clear and unquestionable, it was necessary to have a appiopriation, hut for those which were doubtful it was not?But such is not the rule which, under responsible Government, governs thi expenditure under the item of appropriation for uafoveseen objects.Would there have been any Injury to the public service to defer payment to the meeting of Parliament?If it had been postponed for five years what great injury could have happened to any one it it had been further left over for six months ?The payment was neither just nor constitutional, and he would be obliged to vote for the resolution proposed, especially as he should object to this item being charged into the debt of the late Province of Canada, as no doubt the Minister of Finance intended to do.You are now called upon to elect an Honorary Director to replace N.Dumas, Esq., an old and esteemed friend of the Bank now deceased.Messrs.Mulholland, Judah and Starnes\u2019 term of office as Managing Directors, and that of Messrs.Bristow and Palsgrave as Auditors, expires this year.These gentlemen are eligible for re-election.The whole respectfully submitted.HENPU\" STARNES, President.April 5, 1870.Bï TS mi Statement of the Affairs of the Montreal City and District Savings Bank} the 3li2 Dec., 1869.* Dr!\t\"\t\u2019 To Amt.due Depositors To Amt.due to Minors and others on the property of the Bank.To Amt.due to sundry persons, not Depositors .To Amt.of Reserve .Fund, after paying all expenses,and making the annual donations toCharitàble Societies $2,295,555 20 5,399 14 179 18 177,669 75 Or, By City of Provincial $ >,486,013 22 Montreal, & Cham- èlain, & St.Lawrence -ai* '\t\u2018 *\t' siilroad, 1st Mort.Bonds.$ 480,351 66 By Bank Stocks, viz,., Ontario Bank & City Bank.27,252 16 By loans on short dates, with the Collateral Security of Bank Slocks & Bonds, such as required bylaw .1,077,361 80 By property occupied by the Rank, and OL flee Furniture .25,267\t4 5 By Amt.due on sale of portion of the abeve.i ! 2,453.3.3 By property corner of St.James & St.John Street-*, for new building.29,126\t48 By Deposits on call and interest in tUe Banka of the City.841,197\t35 $2,486,018 22 E.J.BARBEAU, Actuary.The total number of Accounts open on the 31st Dec., 1869, was.Classed as as follows \u2014 Of 6760 $50and upwards\t\t\t 2247 DO \u201c\t20.1\t\t\t 200\t400\t\t\t 972 410 \u2018\u2018\t800\t\t 8 0 \u2018\u2018 1200\t\t 120) \u201c 1600\t\t\t 172 1600 anti upwards\t\t 6766 d CiTYkDisTRicT Savings Bane; Montreal, Jan.21 1870.j Gentlemen,\u2014We, the undersigned Auditors of the City and District Saving\u2019s Bank appointed at the General Annual Meeting, of the Bank,held there at on the 6th of April 1869, pursuant to the provisions of Act 25 Vie cap 66, Respectfully ; REPORT.That we have in execution of the duties prescribed to us under our appointment made a careful revision of the Books of account of the transactions of the Bank during the year terminating on the 31st December last.The balance sheet made up to that date, forming the basis of our verifications has been carefully compared with the Books of the Institution, found accurate, and is so certified in the \u201cStatement Rook.\u201d The Bonds, Stocks, Rills Receivable and other collateral securities for loans by the Bank have been submitted to our inspection, collated with care, and found to be in exact accordance with the recorded Bank Statement of that day.A very close examination of the respective vouchers and Statements enables us to bear emphatic testimony to the care and dis-cremination exercised by your Board in the disposition of the very large sums lodged in the Rank with the safe investment of which you are charged.When it is considered that the deposits in this Savings Bank have augmented in so rapid a ratio as to swell the aggregate at the close of 1869 to $2,295,565.\u2014^yex-y nearly four times the sum at the close of Ï859, $632,770\u2014it is manifest that the necessity for vigilance in the disposition of these funds is proportionally enhanced.Not.withstanding this increase of liability, the records of the past year add another to numerous instances that have preceded it in the annals of the Bank of its affairs being so administered that the loss of a single cent has not occurred in any branch of it.Nor is there in the large amount of securities of various kinds field by the Bank a single item which promises to form an exception to the principle of indubitable security exacted in the disposition of the Bank funds.A highly gratifying feature iu the transactions of the past year is the proof they furnish of the industry and frugality of that large class of our population, who form the customers of this Bank.The comparative comfort they enjoy is also strongly indicated.The amount of their deposits is, perhaps, less the criterion of their condition than is the number of the depositors ; but in both respects there is evidence of healthful progress afforded In this Bank\u2019s records.In 1859 the number of open accounts was 2,530 ; at the close of 1869 that number was augmented to 6,766 ; the average amount at the credit of each depositer in the Bank at each of the above dates being in 1859 $250, andin 1869 $339.Inclosing this Report we must pay a just tribute to the unintermitting care and arrangement by the Actuary of the internal economy ol the Bank.The Books are kept with an amount of regularity rarely equalled, and there is a lucidity in the details of book-keeping scarcely possible to be exceeded.The Statements connected with the entire progress of the Bank from Us inception in 1846 to the present time form a valuable history, and the lessons to be drawn from its management might with advantage be applied in the conduct of other public Institutions of a monetary character.We are, Gentlemen, Your very obedient servants, W.BRISTOW, CHAS.T.PALSGRAVE, Auditors.EjNT OJLYXJSnZ).London, April 6.\u2014The House of Commons last night gave Mr.Taylor leave to bring in his bill to provide for payment of members of Parliament, by a majority of 187.London, April 6.\u2014The Cambridge crew won the boat race by one length ; time, 19J minutes ; length of race, 4] miles.Paris, April 6.\u2014In the Corps Legislatif yesterday Jerome David opened the discussion on the interpellation of M.Greevy on the constituent power.He praised the Emperor\u2019s administration of the Government during the past 18 years.(Exclamations of dissent from Members of the Left.) The orator continued, declaring that when the nation had spoken, all plots would be defeated.He was proud ol the fact that he had always supported the present Goverumett.Here he was interrupted with cries of \u201c shame\u201d and \u201c crime\u201d from M.Pelleton and others.Mr.Pelleton, on being called to account for these expressions, repeated and justified them by saying that to praise the coup d\u2019etat by which men now Ministers of France were imprisoned was a shame and a crime.(Applause from the Left.) Mr.David declared that the plebiscitum would be sustained by all who desired to ensure to France empire and liberty.M.Gambetta objected to the blebiscitum, because it left too much power in the hands of the Sovereign.Universal suffrage was incompatible with monarchy.The Chambers alone had right to interrogate the nation.M.Olliver refuted the nrguments of M.Gambetta, and warned members against the spectre rouge: and conjured members to side with a Government which could effect progress without revolution.He declared that Government would only accept as the order of the day a vote of confidence in the Government.The members of the Right Centre, and Jules Favre and M.Thiers asked for postponement of the debate until tomorrow.The Chamber refused a postponement by vote of 173 to 81.The order of the day declaring confidence in the Ministry was then adopted by a vote of 227 to 43.It is asserted Deputy Montpayroux has quarrelled with and challenged the Marquis de Talhouet, the Minister of Public Works.A rumour also prevails that M.Buffett Minister of Finance, will resign.Count de Stackelberg, Prussian Ambassador to France, is dangerously ill.XTISTIT-EID STATES.New York, April 6.\u2014Arrived steamer \u201c Allemania\u201d from Hamburg, NUMBER 82 DOMINION PARLIAMENT.Specially Reported and Telegrapned for the Montreal Herald.FIROIVC TOK-OINTTO.Toronto, April 5.A pensioner of intemperate habits living at Todmorden committed suicide yesterday by blowing out his brains with a gun.The building of the new emigrant sheds has commenced to-day.T\u2019H.OIVC GITTIELBIEC.Quebec, April 5.The Chambers of the Judge of Quarter Sessions are besieged by applicants for admission into the Police force.The Trustees of the Peabody Fund in England have consulted the Quebec Government as to the propriety of founding a village and building farm-houses, shops, churches, and public buildings for English emigrants.moivc st.\tb.St.John, N.B.April 5.A bill has passed the House ot Assembly giving 10,000 acres of land to the Wood-stock and Riviere du Loup RailwayCompany for every mile of road it may build.Supply closed.The House will probably rise on Thursday.Flour market quiet with veiy limited demand; ordinary superfine, $5 to $5.10; fancy brands, $5 15 to $5 20.SEX ATE, Ottawa, April 6.The Speaker took the chair at the usual hour.After routine business, ADVERTISING PATRONAGE.Hon.LETELLIER de ST.JUST moved an address for a statement of the number of advertisements iu Canadian and other papers, and amounts paid or due for the same.PROTECTION OF FISHERIES.Hon.Mr.HAZEN enquired if any steps had been taken for the protection ot the fisheries in waters adjacent to Campo Bello and the lower parts of the bay in the immediate neighbourhood of the United States.Hon.Mr.MITCHELL said that one of the veseele which the Goyerumentproposed to charter would be placed in the locality referred to.WEIRS.Hon.Mr.HAZEN enquired it instructions had been issued by the Department of Marine for the erection of weirs on the shores of any part of the Dominion, or as to the protection of the proprietary rights on such shores.Hon.Mr.MITCHELL was understood to say that such instructions had been issued RULES AND USAGE OF DEBATE.A debate then arose with reference to the rules of the House, and the practice of the House of Lords in respect to discussions on notices ot motion and questions.JUVENILE OFFENDERS.The Halifax Juvenile Offenders Detention bill was read a third time.PRINTING.The fifth report of the joint committee on Printing was adopted.QUEBEC HARBOUR.Hon.Mr.CAMPBELL moved the second reading of the Quebec Harbour Management bill.\u2014Carried.PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES.Hon.Mr.McPHERSON moved the discharge for two weeks of the order respecting the consideration of the report of the joint committee on reporting and publishing the debates of Parliament.PRINTING.The sixth report of the joint committee on Printing was adopted.The House then adjourned.HOUSE OF COIVnVSONS.Montreal City roarings\u2019 and District Bank.The Annual Meeting of the Honorary Directors of this Bank was held at its office on Tuesday the fifth instant.Wm.Macdonald, Esq., being called to the Chair, and Mr.Barbeau acting as Secretary, the following Reports and Statements were read :\u2014 To the Honorary Directors of the Montreal City and District Savings Bank.Gentlemen, \u2014 The Managing Directors have again the pleasure of meeting you on this, the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Bank, to submit a Statement which they trust you will not find less gratifying than any of those they have previously had the honour of communicating.The large icciease of business mentioned in our last Statement has continued during the past year, and you will observe by the figures contained in the accompanying Statement that the Institution is steadily growing in importance.To shew the magnitude of the transactions of the Bank we may mention that our Cash Book adds up over a million and a half of dollars every month.The profits this year, after paying all expenses, amount to $20,608.86.Out of this sum we have again appropriated to various city charities the sum of $6,035, forming, with previous donations, a total of $62,610.We beg to call your particular attention to the full and able Report of your Auditors.We will add nothing more to the various items of interest which these gentlemen mention ; but it is a pleasure for us to advert to them as being of a very gratifying nature.The contracts for our New Building are signed, and we hope to be able to avail ourselves early next year of the extra space it will afford, and of which we are so much in need.We trust it will be considered as credit to the Institution and an ornament to the City.We have to submit for your approval Bye-Law passed by the Board on the 31st January last, to allow of the closing of the Bank on the last day of tne year.The en-oimous labour now required to make up The following resolutions were then carried ;-\u2014 Moved by N.B.CORSE, Esq .seconded by E.HUDON, Esq.: \u201c(That the Reports and Statements of the Affairs of the Montreal City and District Saving\u2019s Bank just now read and submitted, arc very satisfactory, and that they be received and published.\u201d Moved by Dr.HINGSTON, seconded by P.LAMOTHE, Esq.: \u201c That the thanks of the Meeting are due and are hereby tendered to the Board of Managing Directors and the Actuary for their services and attention iu conducting the affairs of the Institution during the past year.Moved by W.BRISTOW, Esq., seconded by C.T.PALSGRAVE, Esq.: \u201c That the following Bye-Law, passed by the Board of Directors, the 31st January last, be now confirmed by this meeting.BY-LAW.To enable the officers of the Bank to complete the interest accounts of depositors, the Bank will be closed on the thirty-first day of December each year; and whenever the 31st falls on Sunday the Bank will be closed on the thirtieth.Messrs.C.A.Leblanc and N.B.Corse having consented to act as Scrutineers, the elections were then proceeded with, when the following gentlemen were declared unanimously elected : As Managing Directors for the term of office required by law :\u2014 Messrs.Henry Starnes, Henry Mulholland, and Henry Judah.As auditors for the ensuing year Messrs.W.Bristow and C.T.Palsgrave.As Honorary Director ; \u2014F.P.Pomin-Yille, Esq.The meeting termenated after voting on motion of A.M.Delisle, Esq., seconded by Q.A.Leblanc, Esq., the usual thanks to the Chairman.E.J.BARBEAU, Secretary.FK.OISÆ OXTT.AY'W-A-.FISHERY FROTECTIOX.mai» XM VX2T5 The Government and the Bank of Montreal- Ottawa, April G.The \u201c Water Lily,\u201d \u201c England,\" \u201c Stella-maria,\u201d \u201c Sweepstakes,\u201d \u201cIda,\u201d and \u201cElla G.McLean\u201d have been chosen for marine police purposes, and for the protectiou of our sea coast fisheries.They will be commissioned and despatched to their respective cruising grounds at an early date, together with the \u201c Druid,\u201d and \u201c La Canadienne.\u201d They will act in concert with the vessels of the Imperial fleet guarding our waters.It is stated that a large body of troops will be sent from Canria to the Red River early in the Spring.The force will consist ot regular troops with a large body of Canadian militia.Gen.Lindsay has despatches relating to the Red River affairs, and it is rumoured he will he the new Governor of Red River.Col.Wily, of the Militia Department, has entered into contracts for supplies for the troops, including blankets and provisions.A city tailoring film has been awarded the contract for clothing.Col.Robertson Ross, Adjutant-General of Militia, arrived last night, and Gen.Lindsay will arrive here to-day.A council will be\u2019 held immediately on the arrival of these geentlemen to concert measures and make preparations for the force to be sent to He'd River.The excitement over the Red River murder here is intense.The Public Accounts Committee met to-day, and had a long discussion respectiug the arrangements with the Bank of Mon-| treat and some minor matters.The information brought down was not sufficiently definite, and the Committee adjourned to Monday, when further returns will be laid before it.pany, but which were afterwards seized by tha Sheriff, and declared by the jury to be- j the interest accounts of over seven thousand At a meeting held immediately after, the Board of Driectorg, unanimously elected President, and the Hon.H.Starnes Hon.L.H.Holton, Vice-President for the current year.THE FINANCE OF THE UNITED STATES.The receipts from Internal Reveuve, to the present date for this month, amount to $11,090,888.The receipts from Cus toms, Public Lands, &c are $9,000,000.The tota 1 income of the Government for March will amount to about $25,000,000 The reduction on the public debt this month will be unusally large.The Pnince Imperial\u2014The French Prince Imperial has been practising his prospective duties as sovereign by giving private dramatic entertainments in a theatre built out of the drawing-room of his own apartments in the Tuileries, after the fashion of that at Compiegne.A select party of about eighty was invited to witness the prince\u2019s \u201cfirst appeAr-ance,\u201dthe Emperor and Empress occupying arm-chairs in front and having near them Prince Napoleon, the princess Clotilda, the princess Mathilde, the Princess Lucien Murat, the Duchess de Mouchy,and the princess Julia Bonaparte The other guests, among whom were the Prince and Princess deMetternich, G eneral Froissard,the ladies of the Palace and all the members of the Prince\u2019s household were seated on velvet-covered benches behind.When the idea of giving the representation was first thought of, and the vaudeville \u201cLa Grammaire,\u201d selected (probably becasue there are only five personages in the piece), the question arose\u2014Who was to take the part of Blanche, the young lady?About the male characters there was no hesitation, but no one liked to appear m petticoats.At last the Prince, tired of the hesitation evinced, exclaimed, \u201cWell then,I will play the part myself!\u201d \u201cO Monseigneur!\u201d was the general exclamation of his young friends, \u201cthat is impossible.We could never permit such a thing.No,\u201d said resolutely young Froissard,the general s son,\u201d it is I that will be Blanche!\u201d and so it was.AGITATION IN SALT LAKE POLYGAMY BILL.ON THE Salt Lake, March 27.\u2014A meeting was held in Masonic Hall last night, to adopt a memorial to the Senate of the United States praying for the expurgation of those sections of Mr.Cullom\u2019s bill.which punish the continunnce of the Patriarchi al family relations.The interest on this subject here is intense.If the Senate pass the House bill in its present shape, the Territory of Utah, it is claimed, will become \u201ca desolation.\u201d Ottawa, April 6.The Speaker took the chair at 3 o\u2019clock.BANQUE DU PEUPLE.The Committee on Banking and Commerce reported the bill respecting the Banque du Peuple with amendments.THE BROOK MONUMENT.Mr.MORRISON [Niagara] then moved the appointment of a select committee on the subject of the monument on Queenstown heights to the memory of the late Major General Brock.Mr.McKENZIE asked for explanations.Mr.MORRISON said the monument had fallen into a state of decay.He referred to the action of previous Parliaments with respect to it.It had been suggested that it should be handed over to the Ontario Government, but ihe Dominion Government had no right to do so without the sanction of the House, as the monument was a national one.Mr STREET seconded the motion.For the purpose of Repairing the monument, the Ontario Government had voted $1,000, hut that was not enough to do all that was required in the way of protecting the grounds and repairing the fences round the monument.These grounds commanded one of the finest views in the country and thould be.kept in proper order.The structure was a noble one, and was erected to the memory of one of whom Canada was justly proud, and it was a shame to allow it to go into decay.Mr.J.S.MCDONALD said the best way to get at this question would be for Government to bring down the correspondence on the subject with the Ontario Government.His very able colleague in the Ontario Government, the Commissioner of Crown Lands and the member for Niagara, had called the attention of Government to the decayed state of the monument and had suggested that steps be taken to have repaired and the ground taken care of.Money was required for that purpose, and before bringing down his estimates he (Mr.McDonald) telegraphed to the Minister of Justice stating that if the monument was put under the control of his Government they would ask for a vote of$\u2019,000 to repair it.The reply was that the Ontario Government might have the control of the land and monument provided they kept them in repair.The $1,000 was cheerfully voted by the Ontario Legislature, and if more had been asked 'for it would have been cheerfully granted.But before that, the Government architect, Mr.Tully, had been instructed to enquire into the subject and report, and it was on his report that the $1,000 was asked for.The reason why the hon.member for Niagara brought up the matter now was that he was jealous of his colleague the Commissioner of Crown Lands.The Ontario Government were prepared to take proper care of the monument, but if the Dominion Government desired to take the matter out of their hands he had no objection to it.Mr.MORRISON replied to the charge of the member for Cornwall, and said there was a general impression in his district that not one cent of the $\u2019.,000 would be expended on the proposed repairs.Mr.McKENZIE saw no need for this commiteee.He believed the matter was practically settled, and he was willing to trust the member for Cornwall that he would spend the $1,000 which was voted.After some further debate, Mr.MORRISON said that $1,000 was not enough, but if the member for Cornwall would pledge his honour\u2014[Mr.Mackenzie\u2014 Pledge his what ?]\u2014to supplement that amount by an additional grant next session he would not press his motion.Mr.MILLS asked whether, if an item of that kind were in the Supply bill of Ontario, the Minister of Justice would not, in order to be consistent with himself, have to advise its disallowance.(Laughter.) The motion was then withdrawn.GOVERNMENT OFFICES IN MONTREAL.Mr.RYAN moved for statement of the persons appointed to and now employed in the Montreal Post Office, the Excise Office, and the Custom House, with the amount of their salaries and the dates of their appointment.He said that the expenses of the Custom House had increased immensely for the last several years, and though he could fully suppor t the Minister of Customs iu his attempt to make reductions in this great expense, he heard that these reductions were being carried on unfairly, that old servants were being discharged, while those who had been recently employed were retained, because it suited the gentleman in charge of the Custom House to keep them.Sir J.A.MACDONALD said the return would be brought down, and then discussion could take place on the subject.SEIGNIORIAL COMPENSATION ACT, 1869.Mr.WOOD moved certain resolutions on the subject of the sum payable under the Municipal Loan Fund and Seigniorial Compensation Act of 1859, for the benefit of the townships of Lower Canada.He said that in 1859 an appropriation had been made to abolish the seigniorial tenure in Lower Canada.Compensation had, as allowed, been given to Upper Canada by what was called the Compensation Fund.But there were other portions of Lower Canada not in the seigniories, which, while contributing to the general iund of the country, received no part of the compensation.It was therefore provided by an Act of 1859, that as the population of Ihe townships should be ascertained by the census of 1861, so should be the proportion of the compenation to the townships as compared with that to the seigniories.By that Act the compensation was fixed at $756,710.But the Legislature gave a reserved right to discharge the capital by an immediate payment of 75 cents on the dollar.If the Governor in Council did not choose to do so, there was then to be made an annual payment at six per cent on the capital.That did very well till Confederation took place, but now came the question of the debt of the old Province.debt This amount had been placed in the public accounts at 100 cents on the dollar, while they had the power to discharge the at 75 cents on the dollar.Sir G.E.CARTIER said they could.Mr.WOOD said the matter was left in no doubt whatever.It might be said that the townships must pass by-laws, but this was enacted so that the by-laws might be approved of by the Governor in Council to secure that the money was used for public purposes.No one except he had the ingenuity of the Minister of Militia could say otherwise, and no one could rest on arguments to show that absolute power did not rest with the Governor in Council.The question involved a matter of $200,000, and he had tried to bring up the matter in committee, but the member for Cbateauguay, because he happened to belong to the othei \u2022 side from Ontario\u2014[Order, Order]\u2014Weil, some one said that it was a legal argument, and therefore should be decided by the House.He sought to disabuse the mind of members that he wished to raise anyclaims against the Dominion.It mattered not \u2022 whether the amount was $500,#00 or $700,-000, but it was the duty of the House to fix what it should be.Two Acts,, bad been passed at the same time,,1 lie the Municipal Loan Fund Act an the other the Seigniorial ' V< One of these Acts had bei passed to extinguish the seignior\u2019 right, and a fund had been created for purpose, but it had not been sufficie .r.a an additional Act had been passed i.1859.It was considered that these seignioral .claims were mere local matters,\u2014a question between landlords and tenants\u2014and that therefore it was not right to take 7 money out of the general funds to settld* differences between private individuals.Having read the clause of the Act which h died on for his argument as to the payment of the capital at the rate of 75 per cent, he said that when the Act established the powers of the Governmenttosettle with the seigniors it provided that that should on! be done with the consent of th \u2022 seigniors.But no such provision was made in the case of the townships, although it hod been expressly provided in the case of the seigniors.The plain meaning of the Act was that the Governors was 4o approve of the by-laws passed by the Council for the appropriation of the money.Of course by-laws had to be passed for the appropriation of the interest which must be expended for public purposes, but these did not require the approval of the -Governor in Ct-imeil, although he ft.is told the words of the Act applied to such payment, and it was stated that a legal opinion had even been obtained to that -effect.He thought it must be a curiosity in its way, and wondered how it would get over the clause authorizing him to intimate that he was ready to pay the capital to the townships.They might leave the capital lying et six per cent, hut when it was to be paid up the qeestion arose as to the amount then payable.It was desirable to get quite rid of the whole difficulty, and he thought his Province would have no objection to lend the money to nay off the obligations at 75 cents on .the dollar.Sir G E.CARTIER objected to the proposition of the hon.member.It was not a matter to be submitted to the decision of this House, for the Confederation Act had provided for the settlement by arbitration of all matters between the late Provinces of Canada and the Dominion.He considered that the hon.gentleman was entirely wrong with regard to the legal aspect of the question.The Act of 1859 provided for the indemnity to the seigniors, and Government were authorized to pay the seigniors capital for their ground rent, provided they would consent to the deduction of 25 per cent, and the same provision was extended to townships if they choose by by-law to make 25 per cent discount of the yearly sum Government had to pay them in proportion to their population by the census of 1861 ; but the townships could not be forced, as the hon.member [Mr.Wood] maintained, to accept 75 percent in the dollar.The clause was merely directory and authorized Government to pay the capital at the reduction of 25 per centif tlie Municipalties passed a by-law to that effect.To have forced this reduction would have been dishonest on the part of Government.It would be remembered that Upper Canada was paid at the rate of 100 cents on the dollar ; but now the hon.member for Brant wants 25 per cent reduction from the amount paid to the townships of Lower Canada.This would not be legal, nor would it be just.Sir A.T.GALT entirely agreed with the remarks of the Hon Minister of Militia.It would be in the highest degree unjust to attempt to reduce the compensation without consent of the seigniors or the townships who were entitled to receire an annual sum, and it could not be contended that after Government had given its consent to the obligation to pay 100 cents, it would be an equivalent to pay at a reduction of 25 per cent.The Act was passed to indemnify different persons who had seigniories, and Upper Canada got its indemnity at 100 cents to the dollar.By the first Act the townships got no indemnity whatever, but by the second Act their rights were recognized, and they were to receive an annual sum, equal in proportion to their population, to that paid for the redemption of Seigniories.It was true the clause was put into the Act allowing the payment to seigniories and townships by their own consent at 75 cents on the dollar, if they desired it.It would be most unjust to deprive the English population in Lower Canada of the indemnity to which they wero entitled, and he would not accept the decision of the House if it were against the principles of justice.Mr.WEBB considered that the clause which reduced the amount to 75 cents on the dollar was itself very unjust, and he had never heard any arguments in favour of it.The question was, can Government compel the townships to accept 75 cents on the dollar ?Sir G.E.CARTIER.\u2014No ! no.Mr.CaSAULT said it would he most unjust to the townships of Lower Canada to make this reduction when Upper Canada received 100 cents on the dollar.Even as a principle of law he did not approve of the course taken by the Treasurer of Ontario, and it would not be fair to submit tire question to the House not altogether composed of men versed in the law.He thought it was rather late tor the Hon.Treasurer of Ontario to question the indemnity made by Parliament for the rights of seigniors .while Upper Canada received the indemnity as well as Lower Canada.Mr.WOOD said there was no equivalent given to Upper Canada for $75,600 for seigniorial indemnity.Sir A.T.GALT said most undoubtedly it bad been given.Mr.WOOD maintained it only got $215,000.Sir A.T.GALT contended that both Provinces were placed on precisely the same looting, and in fact,Upper Canada got a great deal more than Lower Canada, and at first the townships got no indemnity at all.Mr.WOOD was prepared to discuss the merits of the case, though he had purposely avoided doing so.Mr.CASSAULT -said the clause in the Act peremptorily declared that the interest should be paid to townships, hut when it came to speak of the redemption of the principal,5it was simply permissive.Uctil a by-law was passed by the townships agreeing to accept the reduction, Government had no right to enforce those terms.He contended that the amount ought to be put in the Public Accounts at 100 cents on the dollar, as there had been no Order in Council for a reduction of 25 per cent.He then referred to a return made to the flouse on the 30th March last, respecting the state-ment ot the debt of the late Province of Canada, a copy of one of the statements of which had been sent to the Hon.Treasmer of Ontario.He did not like the way in which some of the figures were put, and he made another statement in which he admitted that the first statement was correct, except some small amounts, and in his own figures the seigniorial indemnity was pîaeed at $750,710 [hear.]_ He admitted point blank, speaking for his Government and not expressing his own political opinion, that this sum was due, that it was correctly stated in accouxt as against the hon.member, and the House would not hesitate in voting against his motion.Mr.SCATCHERD said that in 1859, when the Act was passed, a portion of Lower Canada was held on seigniorial tenure, hut as a large portion of the inhabitants held their lands direct from the Crown ho considered it unfair, after they who were contributing to the revenue of the country had been granted compensation, they should attempt to pay off their claim with 75 cents on the dollar.The Act states that it shall be lawful to pay off these claims at 75 per cent, but does not state that it shall be necessary to have the consent of the townships.The Minister ot Militia said the townships were entitled to receive the full amount, but by tho Act of 1859 the proportion to which they were entitled could not be ascertained till 1861, and till that time they were to receive six per cent on the capital.The member for Belle-chasse said that the payment was not to ba made without the consent of the County Councils, but that only applied to the counties in which there were seigniories ; but comities in which there were no seigniories, if the County Council did not pass a by-law in the twelve months, then the Local Councils could do so to obtain the money.The Government did not elect to make an immediate payment at 75 per cent, and he thought it most unjust now to say they must pay at that rate, if they did not avail themselves at that provision at the time, and it was altogether beside the question to sav that whether they had acted rightly or wrongly they could not fall back on it now.No doubt the difference in the provision as to the payment was that in regard to private right the consent of both parties was necessary, while the township rights not being private, it was considered that they could be paid off at the smaller rate : without obtaining tbeir consent.He be^ MOMÎÈËÂL ûMknti Kith liÜLÏ bOMMEECUL ëlMïTE.ÏHlTKSüAf, APRIL 7 iSfÔ.ijevcd they were entitled to the whole amount, and he thought it most improper that they should now be called on to decide whether the Government ought to have paid at the time or not If there were any question respecting the debt, that was a matter tor the hoard of arbitrators which was proper tribunal.This was not the legal tribunal to decide the matter, one way or the other, for if they could decide on reducing the amount they might as well decide to wipe the claim off altogether.Mr.DOPJON said that what was owing was the interest on the amount at six per cent not on 75 per cent but on the total capital.The statute evidently put the townships on the same footing as the seigniors.l^ie clause was merely one to enable the Government to effect a compromise, but there was no wording to compel the townshins to accept less than the -whole miiu E-'.~ if any township applied for th ¦ immediate payment of the capital the Government were enabled to settle the claim at 75 per cent.It would be perfectly unjust to maintain otherwise, when the object of the Act had been to place the townships on the same footing as the seigniors and other inhabitants of Lower Canada.He agreed with the preceding speaker [Mr.Scatcherd] that the matter could not he decided here.The amount of debt was a matter b fore the arbitrators, and he did not know if any decision here would be binding on that body.Mr.CHAUVEAU said it -was refreshing to see that the members generally agreed that such a question ought not to be brought before this House.It was a wise provision that secured this, as it was bad enough that at the time of the union any question should have been left unsettled.It was judicious therefore that the settlement, of them should he left to another tribunal, as tending better to secure union among the several Provinces.As to the clause relied on it was merely permissive, and had not been put in force in any township for the redemption of the claims ; in fact all received the amouut as an annual indemnity, net one of them was prepared to ask payment of the capital at 75 per cent.As to the plea that G overnment should force them to receive this, he thought it was for the interest of the country that the money should he spent annually in local improvements, as it vras very dangerous to allow a small knot of men to organize attempts to obtain possession of the capital at the reduced rate to be squandered away without effecting any good results.Mr.DU NIC IN said that they had in this House no kind of authority to decide to cut down the amount.The question might come up before the arbitrators as to the equity of the claim, hut as to any danger arising from that Lower Canada need not be frightened.The fifth section of the Act stated that there shall he yearly payments in certain proportions to the townships, and that the capital may he paid at 75 per cent.The consent of the seigniors was clearly required to this, and the Act showed that the consent of the townships through tire County Councils was also necessary.Each of the townships hr.d to determine to appropriate the yearly sum, the capital or a portion of it to public improvements.The consent of the Governor in Council was to he given to the appropriations, but that must be done equitably.Nearly a1! the County Councils had decided to appropriate the yearly sum, and that had been done certainly for a term of years.The amount of the claim arising from this had not been set down in the settlement of debts at 75 per cent, hut at the fall amount, and it was so stated at every meeting held on the subject by the members of the two Local Governments.His hon.friend had been present and he [Mr.Dunkiu] together with the respective Premiers, and no one doubted then as to the amount or dissented from what had been c\u2019oae.Mr.WEBB said that the member for Quebec objected to the principal being paid lest it should be wasted ; but if any public improvements were contemplated the sum was so small that it was impossible to do any thing with the interest, and they would be compelled to apply for the capital.Mr.WARD contended that this was a question for the Dominion Parliament to deal with, and not the arbitrators ; their duty was to divide the excess of debt.If this matter was within their jurisdiction, then they would have it in their power to increase cr decrease that excess of debt by some $200,000.All the Acts of the late Province of Canada not repealed since Confederation were still in force as regards the Dominion.No one would deny that , the Government of the late Province of Canada had the right to pay the Eastern Townshi[ s 80 cents on the dollar at any time they pleased, and the Dominion Government succeeded to that right.The House rose at six o'clock.AFTER RECESS.THIRD READINOS.The following- bills were read a third time and passed ; A Bill to provide for the amalgamation of the Canadian Bank ol Commerce, and the President, Directors and Company of the Gore Bank ; hill to incorporate the Society of Canadian Artists.Mr.BODWELL moved an amendment to strike out the clause ol the latter 1111 entorcing the Society to dispose of works of art by lottery.The amendment was lost on a division.SECOND READINGS.The following bills were read a second time :\u2014 A Bill to incorporate the Ontario fand Erie Ship Canal Company ; hill to revive the charter of the Grand Junction Railway Company.Mr.ABBOTT moved the second reading of the Canada Central Railway.Mr.SANDFIELD MACDONALD said he would propose certain amendments when the bill wont into committee, and would then take occasion to express his views on that kind of legislation which did not insist upon any security that work should be done.These schemes prevented honest companies from building railways.He did not expect to succeed in his opposition, as no doubt the Government would support this scheme as all Governments did railway schemes.Mr.ABBOTT said he would he prepared to answer the hon.gentleman whentho bill went into committee.RED RIVER.Mr.CAMERON (Peel) I am exceedingly anxious to know from Government whether they have had any additional intelligence from Fort Garry, and whether they are in a position to give to the House any further information in respect to the barbarous murder which has so short a time since taken place there.I am also desirous of knowing whether the First Minister is in a position to inform the House what Government intend to do in reference to that matter, as there has been no subject since Confederation, or for many years before, which has so agitated the whole of the Dominion, and more particularly that portion of it from which I come, than the whole question of the North \"West, particularly that connected with the great tragedy so recently enacted.I am quite aware that the Government of the Dominion must necessarily have certain difficulties in reference to the question, and that there must probably be a certain amount of reticence connected with it.That we can all understand and appreciate, but there are certain things which Government must he enabled to tell this House, and which I shall expect, and the country will expect they will tell this House It is clear the territory still belongs to Great Britain in an imperial sense, and has not been ceded to us in the manner in which at one time it was supposed it would he ceded.It is, therefore, clear that the British Government are in the first instance the parties who are interested in bringing to a close any revolutionary movement which may have taken place there, and therefore we can naturally understand why it should he that ibis Government should desire the Imperial Government would in the first place explain very clearly and distinctly what it Intends to do before the Dominion Government should state in the most explicit manner what its views should be in reference to the question.But althoughjthat is the case, and although we know that the territory belong to the Imperial Government there are certain responsibilities which attach to our Government, which our Government cannot by any possibility ignore, and which we, the representatives of the people of the Dominion, demand that they shall not ignore,\u2014in which we are all interested as Canadians, and which require that we should adopt a certain and determined course (Hear, hear.) There can be no doubt whatever,\u2014there can he but one feeling, not merely amongst all the members of this House, but amongst all the inhabitants of this country\u2014that a barbarous murder has taken place in the territory, (hear, hear,)\u2014 that a man, who has gone from here under the belief, no doubt, that he would he as protected there as in any other part of Her Majesty\u2019s Dominion, has suffered with his life because he has been loyal and true to the flag of his country, and we cannot help feeling that whatever connection there may he between the British Government and the Dominion Government in relation to the manner in which what has taken place there shall he accounted for, we * ourselves and the Government have resting upon us a responsibility which the people of this country must require at our hands, irrespective of any action of the Imperial Government.Not that I would fora moment interfer; with the Imperial authority ; hut we must all recollect the position that our Government has taken.We must remember that we sent a gentleman out to that Western territory with all preparations, and with a commission to take the place of Guvernor of that territory.We must remember that large numbers of persons, knowing perfectly well that that territory was soon to come under our own jurisdiction, went there with the full belief that they would he as safe out in that Western territory as they would he in the City of Ottawa, or in Montreal or Toronto, and that therefore our Government and we ourselves did assume to these people certain responsibilities which by no possibility can we get rid of.(Hear, hear.) Now, Sir, what one desires to know is this : what are the views of our Government in respect to this matter.If the British Government are still the possessors of the territory, because we have not paid over the £300,000 that we contracted to pay, if they arc still responsible for the due administration of the law and for the protection of life in that country, if they are the parties to put down the insurrectionary movement,\u2014then, of course, it is quite right that we should have an opportunity of understanding and knowing that.If they require that we should pay £300,000, and that we should take upon ourselves the responsibility, I say, for one, that in the birth of this new Dominion the life of one of our people is worth £300,-000.(Cheers.) ft had become necessary to assert our authority, and if any question arose with reference to our position with regard to that, and as to whether the expenses were to be borne by the Imperial Government or hj ourselves we should he prepared to show that we are prepared that as a people,\u2014and as we know in the opinion of some people, almost an independent people\u2014-we are ready to take our part in defending not merely the property, hut, what is of more importance, the lives of our people against any attempt which may be made by any insurrectionary party which may spring up in any part of the country.[Hear, hear.] What I think we ought to have, and what I think we may fairly ask for is to know whether when these people have gone to that territory under the idea that they were to be protected\u2014whether when these insurrectionists have taken up arms in the manner that they have done,\u2014whether when difficulties have arisen that have culminât ed in the barbarous murder of this man\u2014when all these things have taken place, we would desire to know whether Government are determined, whatever may occur, to endeavour so far as is in the! power to meet the emergencies of the case, and to exercise whatever influence and power the Dominion may have in order that they may be so met.And we would desire to know very clearly and distinctly, whatever is to be apprehended in reference to that, whether these people who have gone out there are to consider themselves as protected ; whether the Government, if they are in a position to assume the responsibility which may be cast upon them, are prepared to follow up what must necessarily take place in reference to this matter ; and whether, if these self- styled deputies should come down here to treat as if they were ambassadors of a civilized country\u2014they are to be treated after the manner of turbulent rebels, who have not merely demanded what they call a bill of rights, which we as their fellow-countrymen points upon which I would like further nformation.When I asked Government two days ago the question that has just been more fully asked by the member for Peel, I said I was led to believe from letters received and from information in the newspapers, that there were still more prisoners confined there, and that I had some apprehension for the safety of these prisoners in the hands of such desperate men as seem to have the control of affairs (here at present.I have seen it since stated that this unfortunate gentleman who was murdered, asked leave before his murder to take afarewellofhisfellow-prisoners, and that at that time there were forty-seven persons in prison.Nowr, the hon.gentleman has not stated whether he has any desired to know what he proposed to be done with the ferry opposite Ottawa, and with such ferries as those as Detroit, Barnia and Ogdensburg.After some further discussion the re solutions were agreed to, and the committee rose and reported.Mr.MORRIS introduced a bill founded on the resolutions.NOTES OP NOVA SCOTIA BANKS.Sir F.HINCKS moved that the House go into committee on the resolutions to empower Banks in Nova Scotia to issue notes between $20 and $4 they being at present prevented from issuing any under $20.The resolutions were reported.SUPREME COURT.Sir J.A.MACDONALD said that to-mor- jMi TSUGRAK TME \u201cOflEIDA\u201d DISASTER.BE0IPR031TY BETWEEN UNITED STATES AND P, E.ISLAND.turther information as to the fate of the forty-seven who were undoubtedly in prison Srow lie would move the House into com-when this man was murdered I asked /mittec on the Supreme-Court Bill.that question two days ago.Sir J.A, MACDONALD.\u2014It was my impression that I had answered.Mr.MACKENZIE.\u2014The answer given was that there would not he any definite information until they bad a report from Mr.Donald A.Smith.1 am very glad to bear that this Government and the Imperial Government are in accord in the determination to assert the supremacy of British law in that territory.But I have noticed a statement in the telegraphic reports this morning that Mr.M'nsell, the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, stated in his place in the English House of Commons on Monday night, that demands made upon the Imperial Government for Imperial troops to go to Red River were then under the consideration of the Government.(Hear, hear.) So that it is quite evident that there is some discrepancy between Mr.Monsell\u2019s statement and the one the hon.gentleman opposite has just made.Of course I accept the statement just made, but I mention this to show there is some misunderstanding.Sir J.A.MACDONALD.\u2014No, no.[Hear hear.] Mr.McKENZIE.\u2014Very well ; I am very glad to hear it.\\Y ith reference to the delegates, I am hound to take the statement of the hon.gentleman that Judge Black is coming, as I have no information from the papers or otherwise, hut I fully endorse the sentiment of the hon.member for Peel regarding the two other persons who are coming here, and who were so intimately connected with the persons in rebellion ; and I tbink they ought not to he received.We have first to vindicate British law and supremacy ir.that country before we can hold communication with the people in rebellion I have seen it stated that Riel has been issuing decrees and assuming supreme power,\u2014not assuming the functions of a Provisional Government, but the functions of a permanent Government, and acting as if no election of delegates had taken place.I have seen it stated that two of the delegates were appointed actually by force, that the inhabitants present were overawed by those who had American Kail roads ansi 'Warelionse Monopoly.Use Si» Patrick\u2019s Focidy.The adjourned meeting for the election of officers was held last night ia the St.Patrick\u2019s Hall, under the presidency of Mr.F.B.McNamee.Mr.O\u2019Brien having r< \u2022 tired from the contest, Mr.B.Devlin was elected President without opposition.The following gentlemen were also elected officers ior the ensuing year :\u2014 1st Vice President\u2014Mr.John Cutler.2nd Vice President\u2014Mr.J.E.Mullin.Corresponding Secretary\u2014Mr.P.O\u2019Meara.Recording Secretary\u2014Mr.M.O\u2019Connor.Assistant do., do.\u2014Mr.j.Coghlan.Street would be perfectly willing to give them, if.power at the moment, and that the whole they have any grievances under which they a proceeding was merely to gam time 11 mil suffer hut who have dared to steep their | they could obtain assistance from the filli-hands in the blood of an unoffend-1busters and others in the United States, ing man, who came from this i «'itb whom we know they have been m ac-counfry.Sir, these men up there fancy Stive communication since the beginning of they have a right, in short, that they are en- j the insurrection.I wish to know, farther, titled to have ah that property, that they | from the non.gentlemen, whether any de-have aiight to do with it as they please, |,lay is to take place ia iorwanhug the pie-that we are not to go there, and that we parafions that must be made,\u2014for there have no right in it whatever, and they are must be no squeamishness in this mattei sending down people to treat with us as i i\u2019 -, until these delegates should they had a right to treat with us in a man-[j until Sir Stafford Northcote ner in which we might say they would have if they were fairly coming before us with claims which we might meet.But if these men are delegates from those who, with a self-styled Court martial, have dared to doom a man to death, and thereby murder him, I say, I hope that our Government will be in a position to say that although prepared to concede, as we all hope they will concede, everything honourable and just to the people ol that territory, they will take care not to treat with men who come here with their hands red with the blood of an unoffending fellow-citizen, a man who went there with the guarantee ot the Government, under the belief that af-iairs would be rightly and properly conducted, and who has laid down his life because he believed that the same power which protected the poor captives in Abyssinia would protect the free man in Red River.Now, I hope that the lion.Minis-tor will give us an answer that will set the fueling of the people at rest, knowing, as we do, that the feeling of the people is excited to a red hot heat (Cheers ) Sir J.A.MACDONALD\u2014My hon.Iriend commenced Lis remarks by asking Government whether we had any later news to give relating to this deplorable event,\u2014the mur dew of this man,\u2014than we had when I addressed the House last on the subject.I simply state that we have no further intelligence, but our intelligence is complete as tc the fact of the man having been shet by a party of men calling themselves a Court-martial.That the man was murdered there can he no doubt.I stated that I would have full information from the Commissioner who was sent on behalf of the Government on a mission of conciliation and for the purpose of assisting Governor McTavish to restore order.That gentleman is now in this city, and is preparing a report, and so much of it as can he properly laid before the House will be laid on the table.I supposa that will be in very short period.So much for the information we have received.The hon.gentleman asks me to give further information as to the course Government is about to pursue.I can only say to my hon.friend and to the House,-and both will fully understand the reticence which I feel it my duty to observe in the matter\u2014I can only say that the Government are fully aware of and appreciate the gravity of their position, and have been so through the whole of this winter, and ever since the events which o- curred about the end of October.They understand and fully appreciate the responsibility that rests upon them.They have been in constant communication with Her Majesty\u2019s Government on the subject, and I may say that the two Governments are acting in unison\u2014[hear, hear]\u2014and with one object in view, that of retaining that country as a portion of Her Majesty\u2019s Dominions, and of restoring law and order therein.We are acting in complete unison with Her Majesty\u2019s Government and a line of conduct lias been settled upou.What that line of conduct may be must for the present be withheld from the House.It would simply be giviog information at an improper time, and it would soon arrive at improper quarters.But I am glad to say that Her Majesty\u2019s Government are acting in accord with us, and have adopted our suggestions and approved of the course we have advised, and that course, I am sure, will be carried out to a successful completion at no distant day.Further I cannot say\u2014it would be improper for me to say any more,and I am quite sure the House will not ask or expect me to say any more.With respect to the delegation the hon.gentleman has spoken of, I can only say that if they arrive here they will be received and heard, and there will be attentive consideration given to what they may say in the matter.The hon.gentleman has spoken, and I see the press has spoken in the same sense, as if tnis delegation were coming from pei sons who were instigators and accessories of the murder t > th\u2019s man, and therefore should not be received.Sir, I do not understand that there are any such persons coining here.[Hoar, hear ] There was a meeting held, as the House and the country know, months ago, composed of representatives elected by resident inhah taits both English and French.That meeting was held for the purpose of conferring\u2014you may-call it a conference in fact,\u2014as to the state of the country, and what their claims should ho before assenting to come into the union.That body, I believe, was elected by the people and was composed of a respectable body of men as a whole.The delegates, I understand, were selected by the meeting.You will at once see there ian be no assassins among them when I tell you that Judge Black is at their head\u2014 a gentleman who has presicel at the Court there, of the largest criminal and civil jurisdiction, and who enjoys the confidence and respect ofall parties, even of the persons who are now insurgents.He is at the head of the deputation, and any imputation or insinuation that he could in any way countenance any such outrage as that spoken of is of course out of the question.I might say further in order to show the character of the delegation, and how it is esteemed by the people there, that when Judge Black thought, at first, that he could notccme herein consequence of irivate and personal matters, it was settled that the Anglican Bishop of Rupert\u2019s Land.Bishop MacKae, should came in his place.Of corpse Irom his position it would l e understood that he is a gentleman of the highest character, and I believe he is regarded as an honour to his Church and ids profession.However, Judge Black found it possible to come, and I believe he will be here with the rest.They will he heard and so much importance 1 may say is attached to the fact that this body is coming here\u2014this body of giiast ambassadors,\u2014 that Sir Stafford Northcote, who is Governor of the Hudson Bay Company, is coming out here for the very purpose of meeting them.They will be heard, and their representations will receive every consideration and possibly the result of the conference may be a subject of discussion in this House before the end of the present session.I do not know that it it necessary or that it woifld be proper or expedient for me to say anything more in answer to ray hon.friend.If there is anything I have omitted.I shall be very glad to sup-plemmt mv resent statement, Mr.MACKENZIE\u2014There are one op two come here, should come here, until there should be ample time to discuss these matters with these people, such delay as would prevent the departure of the forces necessary in order to enforce order there It is known now, sir, that navigation whl soon open in the upper I akes, and within three or four weeks it will be possible for vessels to traverse Lake Superior to Thunder Bay, and 1 trust nothing will prevent the execution by the Government of everything necessary to forward forces at the earliest possible moment.[Hear, hear.] This is, of course, a matter in which I am aware Government have difficulties to contend with, and I am quite disposed to make ever}' allowance for those difficulties ; and I hope nothing will prevent Government adopting an energetic course.Sir J.A.MACDONALD.\u2014With regard to the statement in the telegraphic news respecting the statement of Mr.Monsell, I can merely say that the telegraph is not usually very accurate.I do net know what explanations he may have made in the House of Commons, and can only repeat what I have said, that the two Governments are quite in accord as to the policy to he pursued, and that policy is one of action.(Hear.) Mr.MACKENZIE\u2014I am very glad to llGcLT tllcit Sir J.A.MACDONALD\u2014With regard to the prisoners, 1 can only repeat the statement 1 made before.Mr.Smith understood that half of them had been discharged, or were to be discharged as soon as he left, and the remainder in a day or two.Mr.MACKENZIE\u2014Haye you any posi-tive information that they were discharged.Sir J.A.MACDONALD\u2014I am sure they are all discharged by this time.Mr.MACKENZIE\u2014Docs Government intend to delay active proceedings in the meantime ?Sir J.A.MACDONALD\u2014I have told my hon.friend that the two Governments aie quite in accord, and that our policy is one of action\u2014(cheers.)\u2014and I think my hon.friend ought to be satisfied with that.Judge Black was coming down at once, and asked Mr.Smith to make arrangements for him, and Mr.Smith did make arrangements for him, securing conveyances for him en route.Mr.Smith left on the 9th March, and Judge Black was shortly to follow him, but he did net make any arrangements for the others as they did not ask him.He had made arrangements for conveyance to St.Paul, and from St.Paul still further this way.Sir A.T.GALT\u2014Has any information been received of Judge Black\u2019s arrival at St.Paul ?Mr.Smith left St.Paul a number of days ago, and it is possible that these gentlemen, hearing of this deplorable event, will not now come at all.I think now, while this House is in session, it is absolutely necessary that Government should, before the House rises, put the House in full possession of the course it proposes to take.I can quite understand that a certain amount of reticence is absolutely necessary and desirable, but at tlid*same time, when the representatives of the people are here assembled, I think Government cannot with any propriety ask that this question should remain over until Parliament rises ; for we are told Parliament may rise shortly, and that Government iutend to bring it to a close as speedily as possible.I think we should have the assurance that whatever course is pursued this House shall be informed of it.I think there can be no doubt whatever that the Rubicon has been passed by the execution\u2014the homicide\u2014of Scott ; and as these individuals have appealed to force, my conviction is that force must bo resorted to.For my own part there is no one more willing to meet any reasonable complaint or remove aoy reasonable misapprehension that these people may be labouring under, but I do think that when, without any provocation.as far as we can judge from the information before us, they have slain men, the responsibility now rests with our Government, wilh tlie Imperial Government, and with us (hear), and that we cannot divest ourselves of that responsibility by simple acquiescence with what Government may consider right.[Hear.] I think Government should give the House an opportunity of affirming or disapproving the policy they may see fit to adopt.[Hear], Sir JOHN A.MACDONALD\u2014Of course the Government is in the hands of the House, and any hon.member can bring this subject up whenever he pleases.We can only make such efforts as wre think it our duty to do.We must take such a course and abide the consequences of approbation or disapprobation.Sir A T.GALT\u2014I hope the hon.gentleman does not misunderstand me; X ouiy wish to know if the Government will announce their policy before the House rises Sir JOHN A.MACDONALD\u2014I really hope and believe that befoiethis Parliament rises matters will be in such a state that Government can, without injury to the public iuteiests, but rather in promotion of them, take as it were the House into our confidence, if I may use such an expression, and show what the policy of the Government is.[Hear.] Of course, events changing every day may change the course Government now think fit to pursue.I think that Government do not make full a statement to the House before the prorogation they are bound to make such a statement as will meet with the approbation of the House.[Hear] The matter then dropped .FERRIES.Mr.MORRIS moved that the House go into committee to consider a resolution on the subject of Ferries.He explained that there was no statute regulating the granting of licenses to ferries between any two Provinces, or between any of the Provinces and the adjoining country.What ho desired was a law providing certain regulations to be obst rved by all parties applying for such licenses, and the result would be to do away with existing evils and promote the public interest.Mr.McKENZIE advocated as little interference as possible with the ferries He called attention to the policy with regard to the American ferry steamers which was attended with great practical inconvenience both to their own citizens and ours, as from the restrictions placed on our steamers iu their ports, their ferryboats, knowing that they could obtain ail the traffic, [undercook towing other work.Mr.HOLTON thought the mover should have been a litJe more explicit.He INTEREST RESOLUTIONS.Sir F.HINCKS moved concurrence in the Interest Resolutions.The first resolution passed.On the sicond resolution, Mr.YOUNG moved that no corporate body be allowed to charge a higher rate than private individuals.He was opposed to a restriction on money, but as the House had affirmed a contrary principle he believed they were hound to carry out the principle so as to secure uniformity.Mr.CAMERON (Huron) was opposed to the Government measure which was not only unnecessary but impolitic.Petitions had been received from various leading bodies against any change, and all experience of usury laws showed how thorough a failure they had been.Mr.JOLI' pointed out the distinction between commercial and non-commercial loans, to the latter of which he believed the law might properly apply.Mr.MILLS said that in England there were many cases in which the rights of individuals were restricted, but there were no good reasons in the present case why corporations should have rights not enjoyed by individuals.He could understand a pressure for usury laws in an unenlightened state of society, but in our case we had for many years enjoyed the benefit of having no usury law's, and he could not see any reason |for Government proposing a measure, which could only be justified by requirements of a less advanced state of society.\tHe believed experience would show that since the abolition of the usury\tlaws in this country more people had been shaved by the two high prices charged by shop-keepers more than by the high rates of interest charged by moneylenders.It was said this measure w'as for the protection of artless persons against sharpers.If that was so it ought to go further, and protect tin m against the injudicious use of money, for more persons suffered in this way than by being obliged to pay a high rate of interest.There was as much propriety in Government interfering with the private judgment of persons in regard to the management of their business as with regard to the rate of interest they shall pay for money to invest in their business.In every business there must be risk, and the money borrower must bear his share of the risk.He believed the tendency of the measure would be to drive scrupulous men from the field, and leave the money lending business in the hands of unscrupulous men who would find means of evading the law.Mr.ROSS [Dundas] supported the bill.Mr.McGILL said there never was a lime when money was more easily obtained than now, and therefore he argued there was no necessity for such a measure, even supposing it would effect what was claimed for it.He believ ed the measure was an impertinent interference with the private judgment of individuals.Mr.HOLTON thought Government should announce whether they would consent to the suggestions of so many membeis to put corporations and individuals on the same tooting.Sir.J.A.MACDONALD said the pol\u2019cy of the Government could be found in the resolutions.Mr.HOLTON said it seemed to him preposterous to legislate to restrict private individuals in their contracts, while the corporations that did by far the largest amount of money lending, were lelt practically unrestricted.Sir J.A.MACDONALD said the Trust and Loan Companies which he was acquainted witli only charged eight per cent, payable half yearly.Mr.HOLTON said that the borrower had to pay the preliminary enquiry expenses, which were always very great.Sir J.A.MACDONALD raid that the expenses were not less than if the money were borrowed from and the mortgage drawn up by a irivate individual.The only Corporation that could bo said to be excepted by the resolutions from the genera! rule were the Building Societies.The House should remember that not only were borrowers to be considered, but it should consider the case of those persons interested in these Societies, which, no doubt, would, under the general rule ,proposed, have to he wound up if these resolutions were now put into an Act.The Building Societies would, no doubt, consider this discussion an ample warning that next session they would be included in the general working of the Act.Mr.CAMERON (Feci) said that hanks could not, under the present law, charge more than seven per cent.If they did so any person charged more than that rate could recover the difference.The.Banks would not be in any better position under the resolutions than they were now.The remarks of the Minister of Justice respecting the closing of the Building Societies could not be upheld, because the resolutions proposed only to apply to future cases, and agreements now made would still remain good.The resolutions offered a premium to Building Societies to put up their stock to the highest figure, and charge the highest rate of interest.The resolutions were a delusion and a snare.It was giving exceptional legislation in favour of a class in regard to which no pro vision should be made.Mr.J.S.MACDONALD was in favour of a fixed rate of interest, which would apply to all institutions as well as to private nelsons.He was iu favour of the sense of the amendment proposed,but would vote against it, because he was in favour of the first five resolutions.He moved an amendment that the resolutions be referred back to the Committee with instrutions to strike out the sixth clause.After some remarks this amendment was put and carried,\u2014Yeas, 103 ; nays, 21.The House then went into Committee and adopted the amendment striking out the sixth clause, and rose and reported.The 1st and 2nd resolutions were concurred in.On the 3rd resolution Mr.CAMERON (Peel) moved that it be not concurred in, but be referred back to committee of the whole to consider amend ments, as follows : 1st.\u201cThat the rate of interest recoverable by suit on contracts where no rate of interest is agreed on, or in cases where interest is recoverable by law, shall be six per cent per annum, unless by an agreement the rate of interest is to be greater than six per cent, when such greater rate of interest, but to the extent of eight per cent only, shall be recoverable by a law.2nd.That on any contract where a rate of interest greater that six per cent per annum is agreed to be paid a id is actually paid, no part of sucli interest shall be recoverable by the party paying the same.\u2019' Mr.JOLY moved in amendment to the amendment,\u2014\u201c That when the parties stipulated for a higher rate of interest than eight per cent, they shall forfeit the whole of the interest as penalty, and if any higher rate than eight per cent be paid the whole ot the amount so paid for interest shall be recoverable by the parties paying it, provided the action for recovery be brought within six months of the payment.\u201d After a few remarks Mr.Joly withdrew his amendment, and.Mr.Cameron\u2019s amendment was put and lost.\u2014Yeas, 44 ; Nays, 78.Mr.CAMERON (Peel) moved in ainen\"'-ment that no person or corporation shall take or receive more than eight per cent per annum, by way of interest, on any contract, and no such rate of interest shall be pa}able in advance either in whole or in part.Lost\u2014Yeas 37, nays 82.The 3rd and 4th resolutions were concurred in.On the 5th resolution Mr.MACKENZIE moved in amendment, l- That the Province of Ontario should bo exempted from the proposed restrictions on the rate of interest.\" Lost\u2014Yeas 40, nays 74.Mr.GIBBS moved the adjournment.\u2014 Lost.The 6th resolution was concurred in.Sir F.HINCKS moved for leave to introduce a hill founded on these resolutions.Mr.HOLTON objected to the reading of the hill, as only the title was laid before the House.After some further objeciiou on the part of Mr.Mackenzie, The bill was read a first time.The House adjourned at ten minutes past two.righting at Barcelona\u2014Growing Uisoc-ntent, A VESSEL BOUftSD FOR QUESEC FOUNDERED.Sail >e lace Factories at Nottingham destroyed by Fire.C li TJ G H SITE® American Fishing in Canadian Waters.FULL PAETI0ULAES OF THE UII-VEESITY BOAT EA0E- His PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES.Mr.Metcalfe\u2014Monday\u2014Address to Excellency the Governor General for a return slipwing the names of the shareholders, and the amount of stock held by each, in all the ba\"ks of (he Dominion.Mr.Joues (North Leeds and Grenville) \u2014Friday\u2014That in the opinion of this House the construction and management of the intercolonial Railway ou^ht to be placed under the control of the Government, and that so much of the Act respecting the Intercolonial Railway as provides for the appointment of Commissioners ought to be repealed.e jxr g il-A.isr id \u201e London, April 0.\u2014The ship \u201c Carloton,\u2019 from Greenock for Quebec, foundered at sea.Two of her three boats, containing the crew, have reached the north coast of Iieland, but the third boat has not yet been heard of.A fire occurred among the lace factories at Nottingham last night.The damage to property is heavy.Mr.Â.Adams, a large proprietor, is the principal loser.In the House of Commons to-day the hill relating to sites for places of worship gave rise to animated discussion.Mr.Newdgate and others opposed the bill, but it passed to a second reading, and the House adjourned.A deputation interested in Colonial trade have united in a protest to the Postmaster-General against the new postal regulations so far as they apply to the forwarding of printed matter through mails.Notwithstanding the great pressure brought to bear upon the conservanev of the Thames to allow private steamers to follow the boats none but the official steamers were permitted to do so.London poured out its hundrds of thousands to witness the contest, and the numbers were increased by excursion parties from the country brought by trains from all directions.Among the spectators were the Prince of Wales, Prince Teck, the son of the Pasha of Egypt, and many Peers and members of the House of Commons.Bets which at one time were 11 to 8 on Oxford were so eagerly taken by the friends of Cambridge that shortly before the start odds had receded to 5 to 4 on Oxford.The excitement of the waiting multitudes became intense as the hour for starting approached.At exact!v five o'clock tne Oxonians shot out from their b lat-house at Putney, and received an ovation from the spectators almost equal to that given the Oxford four when they came out against the Harvards last year.The men rested on their oars in the middle of the stream nearly eight minutes, when the Cantabs made their appearance and took up a position on the Middlesex side of the river.They also had a most enthusiastic reception from the muttitudes and seemed in splendid cordition.An even start was effected, and the boats went off with a strong tide in tlieir favour.At the Aqueduct\u201450 yards\u2014Can-tabs began to gain, and.when they reached Craven Cottage,\u2014three quarters of a mile\u2014 they were half a length ahead.Here the Oxford spurted and kept it up for some distance, their triends on shore wildly cheering them, but without effect.The momentary struggle turned in favour ot the Cantabs, though the latter were evidently rowing within their strengh, aud at Hammersmith Bridge, Cambridge was clear of Oxford.Under the arch the Oxonians again spurted, and succeeded iu reducing the gain of their opponents to half a length.A sharp struggle followed in the Reach, but as they passed the Isle of Ait\u2014 3] miles\u2014the Oxonians began to fail and the Cantabs, who were still fresh, rapidly drew in front and won the race.The astonishment and enthusiasm of the spectators found expiession in a storm of screams and.cheers, as Cambridge reached the stake boat.The time of the race has been variously reported, but it is now authon-tively stated at 20 minutes and 30 seconds.FK.ofYJNrCS.Paris, April 6.\u2014The Ecole de Medicin has been closed until ths 1st of May, on account of the disturbances created by the students, aud the insults offered to Dr.Tardien.Ulric do Fouville, before his departure from Tours, was tendered a banquet by the Radicals, but declined it.He is now in Lyons where strong efforts are being made to secure his election to the Corps -Legislatif.SIF-A-IIlXr.Paris April G.\u2014The Madrid \u201c Gazette\u201d says that order has been restored at BaiT-e-Iona, but not without considerable loss of life.The barricades were attacked by the soldiers and taken without much difficulty.Many rioters were killed or wounded.The whole Province of Barcelona has been declared in a state of serge.The Governor of the Province has been displaced and the city occupied by the military.There are rumours of serious disorders elsewhere, particularly at Valencia and Cadiz, growing out of the popular opposition to the conscription law lately passed.Madrid, April G.\u2014The slight disturbances growing out of the enforcement ot conscription arc reported djt Malaga and Salamanca, but with the exception of the fighting in Barcelona and the vicinity there has been no serious resistance to the iaw.TTISri-ir'jBID STaSlTES.Washington, April 6.\u2014A jo\u2019nt resolution instructing the Secretary of the Navy to institute an enquiry into the circumstance's of the Oneida disaster, was passed unanimously, aud it is evident trom the tone ol Congress that nothing short, of a most searching investigation will he satisfactory.General Butler made an argument yesterday before the Ways and Means committee in favour of a reciprocity treaty with Prince Edwa d Island.It is understood that at the request of the committee Geu.Butler will draw up a bill embodying his Ideas on the subject.The following message was sent to the House of Representatives to-day by the President :\u2014In answer to a resolution of the House of Ib pivseiitatives of the 7th of March, relating to the fisheries in Britisn waters, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, and th ; papers which accompanied it, and I have to state that the commanding officer of the naval steamer ordered to the fishing g oimds will he instructed to give his attention should circumstances require it to cases which may arise under any change which may he made in the British laws affecting the fisheries within British jurisdiction, with a view to preventing, so far as it may be in his power, infractions by citizens of the United States offlie first article of the treaty between tire Unit-'d States and Great Britain of 1818, the laws in force relating to the fisheries within British jurisdiction, or any illegal interference with the pursuits of the fishermen of the United States.(Signed)\tU.S.GRANT.Milwaukee, April G.\u2014Reports from Minneapolis says that the ice in the river went out yesterday, carrying away two million feet of logs and a portion of a copper dam on the St.Anthony side, but no further damage is expected.Chicago, April 6.\u2014There is evidence that there will be a general breaking up of the warehouse monopoly, which lias controlled the railroads for soin : time past, and that railroads will hereafter deliver grain to whomsoever consigned It is understood that the Rock Island and Pacific Railway has to-day declared its freedom from the mcno| oly.New York, April 6\u2014The steamer \u201c The Queen\u201d from Liverpool went ashore at Sandy Hook this morning, but has been got off and arrived out.¦The steamer \u201cCity of Liverpool arrived at THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH.\u2014The Duke of Edinburgh is doing In dia in style.Sad experience and much scandal has taught him a lesson in the matter of receiving presents which have to he met with gifts in return, and he shirks the responsibilityand the expense by refusing to take anything except tri lies which represent the industry and resources of the Colonies which he visits.But what ho misses in gifts of gold and jewels and chances of nice investments he makes up in loyal attentions.Not less than a dozen elephants sufficed to carry him and his attendants, when he went out tiger-shooting by invitation of the Rajah of Senates.And rare sport it was.The Rajah keeps his jungles as strictly preserved as the private park of an English nobleman, and the keeper know the run of the tigers so well that the beaters can always drive the game along any of the paths where the platforms are built in the trees for the hunters.The Prince was given the best-place.with the Rajah\u2019s sons and a f< w friends, and six hundred beaters set to work with shrieks and shouts and tomtoms.They did their work well, and under good direction, for after about half an hour's suspense the brushwood in front of the Prince was seen to move and immediately after out came a noble tiger, crouching stealthily, and pausing to listen.The duke got a fair shot at him, and a sent shell between his shoulders.The animal: with loud groans,rolled over into a small nuBa-h, griping his leg between his teeth in his agony.Th Duke thought he was done for, and withheld his second barrel ; but the young Rajah discharged a very small rifle with little effect.The tiger though badly wounded, had in these few seconds recov ered from the first shock.Making one spring from where he had fallen, and looking round with a defiant grin and roar, he plunged into jungle, the duke this time sent a second bullet into him The Duke and his companions were out of the tree in a moment, and started off to trace the animal, but were restrained by lord Mayo who has been long enough m India to understand that following a wounded tiger is an unsafe sport for royalty as well as any one else.There was also pig sticking, or hunting the wild boar now and then, and nautch girls every evening for the Prince's amusement; but the most excessively loyal scene was an examination of the scholars of the native schools in the Rajah's palace.The examiner gave as dictation in Hindustani words to this effect: \u2014 \u201cHere are come to visit you the son of the great Queen, the Empress of Ilin-dostan, and the Viceroy, the Lord Mayo.See how great and noble they are, and yet how plainly they are dressed.What do you think of them ?\u201d The one reply that was translated was:\u2014\u201cwe are glad to behold these great men.The British are our Gods.There are no rulers like British ; and happy are the people who are governed by thein.\u201d Boston, April 6.-Baltimore\u201d from Halifax last night.BOMiSIOM STOflC, [Special to the \u2018 Montreal Herald.\u201d Ottawa, April 6.In the Public Accounts Committee today the payments to the Bauk of Montreal were saken up.Messrs.Young, Holton, Anglin, aud McKenzie showed that that Bank had been paid 2\\ per cent, commission for floating Dominion Stock, although Parliament was assured that it was to be done at par at the time Mr.Holton moved for the names of the applicants for the stock.Mr.Holton pointed out that if interest was accruing on the stock at the time of sale probably the cost had been between.3 and 4 per cent, to float it.Sir F.Hindis contended that at the lime the stock could not have been floated without the aid of the Bank of Montreal.He admitted the payment ot commission to be large.The consideration of the matter was postponed.Why Should these Britishers be able to eep up their army at a cost of $600 per man, while the United States maintains their little standing force at the enormous rest of $1,250 per man ?I leave this question to be answered by gentlemen in Washington.Mr.Crhvell explained that the policy which the government foreshadowed last year would be fully carried into ffect this year.The army would be concentrated at home, and withdrawn from the colonies.There would be at home 86,225 troops and 23,000 in the co\u2019onies.The home army would consist ot 19 regiments of cavalry, 105 batteries of artillery, and 68 bat allons of infantry.These regiments and lattalicns-would be reduced in size\u2014 a regiment of cavalry, consisting of 24 officers, 51 non-commissioned officers, and 407 privates, in ail 482.The infantry regiments would consist of 30 officers aiid 500 mm.The total force provided for the defence of the country would be 37G,G02 men - regulars, 109,225 ; army reserve, 20,000 ; militia, G3,G00 ; yeom.nry, 15,330 ; and the uniformed volunteers, 168,477.This was exclusive of the Irish militia.The kingdom is to be divided into nine military iistricts, each commanded by a general, who is to have command ofall the military forces, regular and auxiliary, within his district ; and, having thus consolidated the whole of the military establishments of the country, having a sianding army of 109.000\tmen and a reserve of all kinds of 267.000\tmen.Mr.Caldwell indulged the hope that \u201c the country will be prepared to stand forward as one man in defence of our ight and libeities.\u201d of the London Advertiser^ is in town with a view to offering oiir Montreal merchants an opportunity to Use the Advertisera means of placing their names before the Western public.The Advertiser is, we believe, becoming a popular pape r in the West.Sale of Real Estate.\u2014At the sale of^ real estate, at Mr.A.Booker\u2019s rooms, 361 Notre Dame Street, the Dwelling House, 23 Hanover Street, went for $3,050, and three Building Lots, in St.Hypolite Street, each 30x74, at $530 each.es; J C Gordon 10 bxs; TDavis 2 do; B Cutter 1 do ; M Reindeau 2 do ; T Cawthorn 1 do; L Lariue 1 da; Lyman C &co 2 cs.1'ER MONTREAL & CHAMPLAIN.1 Mareau 5 bxs; M Velcon t lot h goods ; Mulhollaud &B 4 bxs ; W Evans 1 do ; E C & co 2 es; J Duncan 52 bf cks; J Murphy 60 bxs; Kerry Bros & co I cs ; Quebec C Works 24 empty carboys ; Pillow H & co 13 bgs; Pillow H &co 125 rolls paper ; W P Bartley &co 4 iron pins; D Masson&eo 18 hf ebs ; M Cuddy 200 bxs; S HMay &co 8 do; M Cuddy 200 do.FOS SALE.HEW YGKK MOSEY MASXET.(By Magnetic Ve.legraph.) W KW Yoke, April 7.Money steady at 5 to 6 per cent for call loans; Sterling Exchange firmer at tq to8| for first class bills ; Gold 11} to 12.Be Venoge Extra CSiampague Quarts Pints and Half-pints, For Sale by 0HA8.J.BAIRD, 125 Great St.James Street.April i.\t77 SUFFERERS FROM ASTHMA OR ANY OPPRESSION OF THE CHEST Should remember that great specific, Jonas Whitcomb\u2019s Asthma Remedy, prepared by Joseph Burnett & Co., Boston, and for sale by all Druggists.April 5.\ttrs D eowW 80 THE CASH PLAN OF INSURANCE.The Traveller's Tiecord Insurance Journal says :\u2014 The Ætna Life, of this city, and New England Mutual Life, of Boston, following the example of the Connecticut Mutual, have abandoned the note plan and adopted the cash principle.All new business since January 1, vve are informed, is for all cash premiums.The Connecticut Mutual allows a credit of twenty to .thirty per cent, of premium on some of its policies, for the first year only.The St.Louis Mutual, a prominent Western company, has followed suit, and it is announced that all new business on and after March 1 must bu for casli only.We understand that the Charter Oak Life, çf this city, takes no more notes from April 1st, and that interest on old notes will be collected in advance.The John Hancock Mutual Life, of Boston, has decided to reduce the note part of their premiums in future, aud collect interest in advance.The old note system, the source of infinite trouble and dissatisfaction, has been or is being dropped by many prominent \u201c Mutual \u201d Companies.The next improvement will be to abandon the delusive and fictitious \u201c dividend \u201d system, and deal only in insurance.The Low Rate Cash Plan is the most sensible plan, after ail.HEW Y 0 S K_ M A K K B T S ¦ By Telegraph.N cw York, April 6.COTTON «3c.FIjOUR Leavy ; receipts, 10,000 brls ; sales, 6.0\t)0 br s.it $4.50 to 4.60 for Super.State and West* :n ; 4.05 to 5 30 for Common to choice Extra State and Western.RYE FLOUR quiet at 4.25 to 5.10.WHEAT firm ; receipts 2-2,000 bush; sales 26.000\tbush, at SLOO* to ].oi£ for No 3 Spring; 1.06 to J.l \u2022 for No.2 Chicago; 1.12forNo.2 Milwaukee.RYE quiet.\t~ COR ^ scarce ; receipts, 2,000 bush ; sales, 24.(00 bush at $107j to 1.08 for old mixed Western.BARLEY quiet.OATS firmer; receipts 3 000 bus; sales 2°,000 bus at 58c for Western in store.PORK steaJy at 26 10 to 29 Oo for New Mesf.LARD firmer at to 15|c for steam, and »5^ to 16c for kettle rendered.BUTTER quiet at 14c to 20c for Ohio, ; 20c to 38c for state.CHEESE firmer at 13c to 16c for common to prime.0HIÜÀG0 MAKKETS (By Telegraph.') Chicago, April 6.FLOUR dull aud unchanged.WHEAT\u2014No.1 quiet at 87c; No.2 active, ciosing at 75ic ; in the afternoon irregular at 75 p*.to 7r|c.CORN dull, and declined 1c to 2c ; No.2 72c ; no grade 70c to 71c ; in the afternoon du 1 at 771c to 78c cash ; 80c to 80£e seller May for No.'T.OATS firm at 89jc for No 2.RYE quiet at 7ic to 73c for regular and fresh receipts of No.2.BARLEY nominal at 50c to 60c for No.9.BIRTHS.Cn Sunday, 3rd instant, at Montreal, the wiie of Mr.John Colquhoun, of a son.Jn this city, on the 4th in&tant, Mrs.William Grant, of a son.MARRIED.At the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Point St Charles, on the 4th instant, by the Rev.A.Chapman, Abel Champman, of Montreal, to Miss Mary McDowd, second daughter of Air.Alexander McDowd, of Hemmingford, DIED.At Three Rivers, on the 4th inst, William Angus Wynn Ward, youngest son of J.K.Ward, of that city, aged 3 years, 7 months ai d 2() days.On Wednesday, 6th instant, Robt.Griffith, infant son of Mr, Geo.W.Liddell (Mercantile Agency), aged 7 months and 3 days The funeral will take place fivm his father\u2019s residen-e, No.2si St.Charles Bor rome street, on Friday, 8th inst., at 3 p.m.In his city, on the 5th April, John, infant son of Thomas Murray, aged 3 months and 3 days.Friends and acquaintances are re spectfully invited to attend the funeral irom his father\u2019s residence, 26 St.Margaret street, at 2 p.m.to-day.At his residence, in Bolivar, Tenn., on the 'th of March, 1870, Charles H.Dcrion, Sr., aged (;9 years.Quebec papers please oop3r.SHOP FIXTURES FORM.FOR SALE, the Counters, Shelving and Show Cases in Stores Nos.233 and 387 Notre Dame Street respectively, admirably suited for either a Dry Goods, Boot and Shoe, or Jewellery Store.Apply to A.B.STEWART, Official Assignee.Merchants\u2019 Exchange.Montreal, 28tli March,, 1870.\t74 notices! 1 ~ Importers' Fxcess Issociaiioo, YORK.Information respecting the Stock of British and Foreign Goods in Bond at this Port, and Pattern Cards, can be had by addressing the Agent, L.L.LEVEY, 10 Walker Street, New York.April 7.\tS2 MEETINGS.8 \tr\t\tHI\t¦ r\tr\t¦\tHi \t\t\tiu.\t.\t\t.\tis A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF Cartwright & Warner\u2019s CELEBRATED and Hosier} s.s.Milifijr, RECEIVED EX Nestor ian \u201d 12a àI>ay9 AT LATEST EÜE0PEAIT ;MAEKETS- (By Atlantic Cable.) London, April 5, 1.30 p.m.\u2014Consols\u201493Î for both.American Securities steady ; Bonds \u201962, 9i£; \u20196-3 old, 90$ ; \u201967, 89| ; 10-4t)\u2019s, SFJ.Stocks quiet; Erie, 21'j ; I.C., 114| ; A.& G.W., 28.Liverpool, April 6, p.m.\u2014Cotton steady ; Uplands, ilpd tolled; Orleans, llgd to lUd.Red Western Wheat, 7s lid to 8s.London, April 6.\u2014Consols closed at 932 for boih.American Securities heavy; Bond of\u201962, 91J ; \u201965, 9Ci{ ; \u201967, 89?Î 10-40\u2019s, 87.Stocks firm ; Ei w, 21} ; I C 1145 ; A & G W 28*.Liverpool, April 6.\u2014Cotton quiet and steady; Uplands 1J£ to llj- Orleans 11| to 111 ; sales 12,(00 bales; including 3,000 for speculation and export.Breadstufl\u2019s quiet.Naval Stores quiet.Bacon 55s 6d.DAILY Sa OClil REPORT.North British and Mercantile Insurance, i Company\u2019s Buildings Montreal Wednesday, April 6, 1870.\t\\ To Wiliiam Workman, Esq., Mayor of Montreal.The Undersigned, citizens ol Montreal, mosc respectfully request that you will he pleased to convene a general meeting of the citizens, for the purpose of taking into consideration the circumstances attending the recent murder of a British subject in the Red River Territory, and to give an exprès sion of opinion in regard thereto.We are, your obed\u2019t Servants, Foreign Service.\u2014Only four regiments\u2014 the 63rd, 89th, 65th, and 22nd\u2014will he sent on foreign service next year.THE COMPARATIVE COST OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ARMY AND NAVY.THE N.r.(From the Lowdon Correspondent of the World.) London, March 21.I commend to earn\u2019est attention the fact that while the navy of the Republic last-year cost the country $21,500,000, and will not cost much less this year, the British navy last year cost $55,785,000, and this year will cost $46,250,000.The American navy, including all its vessels, in and out of commission, old hulks, and even torpedo boats and yachts, consists of 188 vessels; the British navy consists of 763 ships, of which 240 ax-e in commission.The number of men and boys, including marines, in the American navy, is only 8,000 ; the number in the British navy is 61,000.The building of ships in the American navy has ceased ; hut in the $46,259,000 which the British navy is to cost this year is included the expense of completing a number of vessels : of building a first-class turret ship able to cross distant seas, currying guns of the largest size, an unmasted ship of the Thunderer class, a frigate of the Inconstant class, one of a smaller size, and two small ships for service in the Persian Gulf; aud of commencing six other vessels.In order to make it plainer I place the figures in the following tabular form : \u2014 British of Navy.763 American Navy.249 61,000 6 Whole number ships.Ships in commission .Seamen, boys, arid marines.Ships to be built this year.Ships to be commenced this year.Whole cost for this year, including the new ships.$46,250,000 $21,000,000 Average cost per each vessel in commission .Average cost per each man in the service.188 80 8,000 None None 185,742\t262,500 758 1,625 figures.I have by Mr.There is no mistake about the Those relating to the British navy taken irom the statement made Childers, the First Lord of the Admiralty.The figures relating to the American navy I have taken from the report of the Secretary of the Navy and the \u201c Naval Register.\u201d It is scarcely necessary to add a single word as to the comparative strength of the two navies.You have seen the Monarch, and she is only one of the many.Judge of the British navy ly that, ship, and you will not be wrong in the belief that in case of a conflict between the two nations your ships would be swept from the seas like leaves before a gale, and your coasts ravaged from Fort-land to Ban Francisco.Happily there is no danger of a row, unless the United States provokes one ; but it may in the event of war i! would not be this couniry th\\t would get the worst of it.This, however, is not the point to which I am anxious to direct the attention.The point is the amazing fact that the British navy is proportionately so very much cheaper than the American navy, and incomparably more efficient.How does this happen ?It does not arise from the fact that tiie ctmpensation paid to officers and men in the British service is less than tl.at in the American navy.The pay of the British officers is as high as that of the American line, and there is not a great différence in the pay of the men.For the pay of (he 01,000 men and hoys in the Brit'-'-h navy this year, the sum of £2,692, 731 has been voted.This is an average of a little more than £44 ($220) for each man and boy.A first-class seamen in the American navy gets $240 per year; first-class fireman receive $360; ordinary seamen, $168 ; landsmen, boys from $144 to $96 per yea1'.The average can scarcely he made than is paid in the British navy, and w hen the superior purchasing power of the money in wliich the British sailor is paid, and the gr, ater cheapness of ids clothing are taken into account, it will be found that he is better paid than his American fellow.How is it, then, that your ships, miserable as they are, cost $262,500 for each one in commission, while the British ships, magnificent as they are, are kept in commission for an average cost of $186,00 each ?Where are the leaks?There must bo men in Washington who can answer tins questisn.Sir.Cardwell, the Secretary for War, has made his annual exposition of the army estimates, and a rewiéw of his statement will also be found deeply interesting.For the last fiscal year the American army, con-sist\u2019ng of certainly not more than 55,000 men.cost $87,000,000 in round numbers; while for the same year the British aimy, consisting of more than twice as many troops, cost only $70,000,000 (£14,111,900.) The American army is now reduced to 40,-000 men, and tha estimates of its coast for the fiscal year is 50,000,000.The British army is also reduced to 109,225 men, and Mr.Cardwell stated that the total charge for the army tor the next fiscal year would be only £12,975,009 ($64,875,000.) It should be understood, also, that in the British estimate the sums paid for pensions are included, while form a separate charge.Here is another amazing contrast.Look at the figures again : Mr.Shaw sells at ids rooms this morning, at 10 o\u2019clock, a large quantity of excellent household furniture, about 200 dozens of table cutlery, and 97 pairs of men\u2019s strong boots.The attention of officers aud gentlemen who have horses and carriages to dispose of is directed to Mr.Shaw\u2019s large sale at Allc-way\u2019s Stables, on Saturday, 9th instant.See advertisement.fD gs p g: se 00S&5 pgx-isgapjusûpÿg: -j -OOOOOOCJOOOOOOC For the convenience of those who cannot attend auction sales during the day Messrs.Devany & Co., will hold a sale of Jacques & Hay\u2019s celebrated furniture and furnishing goods at their Rooms, 139 Great St.James Street, this Thursday evening, at 7 o\u2019clock.The stock will he found to comprise almost everything requisite for house-keeping.Parties about to furnish will find this a good opportunity to make their selections.Messrs.Devany & Co.will sell tc-morow afternoon, the 7th inst., at two o\u2019clock, a large lot of Messrs.Jacques & Hay\u2019s Furniture, comprising several handsome Draw, ingroom Sets, Marble Top Bedroom Sets, Sideboards, bookcases, Dining Tables and Chairs, Whatnots, Bookshelves, Wardrobes, Centre Tables, Sewing Tables, Writing Desks, &o., &c.Parties furnishing should not fail to attend.Bnowx\u2019s BnoNOJiiAi, Tnocmss \u2014 \u201c Your Troches are too well and favorably known to need commendation.\u201d \u2014Hon.chad.A.Phelps, Pres.Mass.Senate.\u201cMy communication with the world has been very much enlarged by the Lozenge which I now carry always in mv pocket; that trouble in ray Throat (for which the Troches are a specific) having made me often a mere whisperer.\u201d\u2014N.P.Willis m trs.DSW 80 &1ÂRÀVILLA COCOA.Maravilla Cocoa.\u2014Breakfast.-The Globe says \u201cVarious importers and manufacturers have attempted to attain a reputation for their prepared Cocoas, but we doubt whether any thorough success had been achieved until Messrs.Taylor Brotheis discovered the extraordinary qualities of \u2018Maravilla\u2019 Coooa.Adapting their perfect system of preparation to this finest of all species of the Theobroma, they have produced an article which supersedes every other Cocoa in the market.Entire solubility, a delicate tiro ma, and a.rare concentration of the purest elements of nutrition, distinguish the Maravilla Coooa above all others.For homeopaths and invalids we could not recommend a mtoré agreeable or valuable beverage.\u201d Sold iu packets only by all Grocers, or whom also may be had Taylor Brothers\u2019 Original Homoeopathic Cocoa and Soluble Chocolate.Steam Mills \u2014Brick Lane, London.\tTts 14 The efficacy ot Bryans Pulmonic wafers in curing Coughs, Colds, and all Bronchial affections, and cheering Hie afllietcd.has passed into a proverb.In the United States, where these marvellous Wafers are known, they bear down all opposition and eclipse all rivalry; the demand for them has steadily increased for the last twenty years, until now the sales average over one hundred thousand boxes a year.Eminent members of the medical profession without number admit that they know of no prepa ration producing such beneficial results as these wafers.When taken in season they efiect a permanent cure.Sold by every druggist and most of the respectable stores throughout the Province, at 25 cents per box.\tr DSW 79 Nothing Known equals to Dr.J.Briggs Modern Curative for Corns, Bunions, Bad Nails, Frosted Feet, Chilblains, ifcc.Many have tried it and rejoice in its beneficial use.If you would enjoy a rural walk or fashionable promenade, treat your feet kindly, and cure your corns with Dr.J.Briggs \u2019Modern Curative.Sold by Druggists and Country Dealers Great Suffering.\u2014How many thousand adies, both young and old, have passed through great suffering from that terrible demon, Neuralgia, some passing a sleepless night tossing about in great agony, but succeed in getting relief after a few hours of misery, only to be renewed again in a short ti mewith the same unrelenting excrutiating pain.Others have endured this terrible torture for weeks, both day and night, until exhausted with such continual suffering, and al most wishing far the angel of death to relieve them ; but hope dawns ; a cure has been discovered, a rapid and radical cure ; Briggs\u2019 Allevantor is the remedy.Sold bv Druggists.Piles are frequently preceded by a sense of weight in tne back, loins and lower part of the abdomen, causing the patient to suppose lie has some affection of the kidneys or neighboring organs; at times, symptoms of indigestion are present, as flatulency, uneasiness of the stomach, Ac.A disagreeable itching is a common attendant.At certain times a slinging or burning pam is exneri-enced, being often very severe; and ifte the Leal aischarge, there is more or les bearing down or tenesmus.For this painful disease, Dr.Briggs\u2019 unrivalled File Remedy is a specific cure; used according to directions, the greatest sufferer will feel the benefit of its virtues.Sold by Druggists and Country Dealers.Dr.J.Briggs\u2019Throat and Lung Healer can, without any exaggeration, safely be said to be the best Remedy for the throat and Lungs that is manufactured.It heals the diseased mucous surface, restores the lungs, purifies the blot d, acts upon the livei and kidneys, and strengthens the system throughout.To the poor Consumptives no greater boon can be offered.Sold bv Druggists and Country Dealers.Sold in Montreal by Kenneth Campbell & Co.; Pi caul t & Son; Rodgers; Spencer; Birks ; Tait \u2019-t?- 0 o OEJOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ©®©©0©©©©©©®O©©© 3 B 3 3 B 3 O P P O 3 d 3 3 tJ q\u2014 e* CD K a>\t^ ^ ô o 3 ® : : : o^§; \u2022 \u2022 o Oj13iG, Buttes ¥ lb.\u2014Quiet; Choice Dairy 18c ®20c; good to choice Western 16c® 18c; Ordinary to fair Western 14c ® 15c.Cheese ^ lb.\u2014Unchanged ; Choice Factory 13ic ® 14ic.Ashes, per 100 lbs.\u2014Firm ; sales of First Pots at $5.62^2?$5.724, according to tares; Seconds, $4.80; Thirds, $4.00 0 $1.05.First Pearls nominal at $6.75.Latest Western advices.\u2014The follow ing are the latest Western advices recelYe by telegraph, at the Corn Exchange:\u2014 Milwaukee, April 6th\u2014No.1 Wheat 84£c in store; No.2, 77^0 in store; do do 81c seders May Receipts, 4,000 bushels ; shipments, 3,100 bush.Flour unchanged.Pork $26 50.Chicago, April 6.\u2014No.2 Wheat 75|c in store.Receipts, 2,C00 bushels ; shipments, 11,000 bushels.No.2 Corn 76c in store.Receipts, 15,000 busn; shipments, 4,000 bush.Pork firm at $26.50 to 26.75.fltfAIVC/AL.A.PRIL 6 Gold, 10 a.m.lllf Exchange, \u2019.8$ Noon.112 Do.Si RECEIPTS BY G.T.R.April 6.Wheat, tush.Pork, brls.Flour, bris.1300\tTallow, brls.Ashes, bri.6\tPetroleum, brls.Butter, kegs.33\tLeather, rolls.Whiskey, csks.10 Hams.hhds.Feas, bush.\tTobacco,nhds ^ High Wines csks., 22 Cornmeal, bria.Oats, bush.Cheese, bxs.Beef, brls .Bacon, bxs.Lard, brls.| Corn, bush.Hides.| Barley, bush___ 400 Oatmeal, brls.! DrestedHogs.five, bus .j Shipments to Liverpool per S.S.u Prussian.\u201d on 2nd inst.:\u2014Flour, 700 brls; lard, 125 brls; hops, 26 bales; bacon, 180 cases.Western Provisions\u2014Wheat, 12250 bush; flour, 2000 brls; butter, 111 kegs; pork, 280 brls; lard, 959 brls; beef, 95 brls; leather, 8 rolls; bacon, 1480 cases.A.W.Ogilvie, M,P.P.Alex.McGibbon Hugh McKay A A.Stevenson H.Hogan J as.Pnymister Geo.Stan way Robert Watson David Sinclair Geo.S.Scott J.G.Buriows Wm.Lindsay Henry McKay Edward Rawlings James Grant Chas.Simms John Cowan Thos, Wilson H.W.Stuart L.S.Black Henry Dobell D.B.Macpherson Thos.Macduff John L.Craig J.H.Wilkins James Mitchell Reford & Dillon Jonath-n Findlay Geo.CruickshanK J.S.Reed Hugh Boyd Alex.By miners David Crawford JOHN AIT KEN & CO.\u2019S* 377 Notre Dame Street, April 6.\t81 J.EALZTEL, Wm.Brown In compliance with the above requisition, I hereby call a public meeting of citizens, to be held at the Mechanics' institute, on THURSDAY Evening next, the 7th inst., at Half-past Seven o\u2019clock.WILLIAM WORKMAN, City Hall,\ti\tMayor.Montreal, April 6th, 1870.I\t8i Mint royal cerietejîy COMPANY.MEETINGS of the MEMBERS of the various PROTESTANT RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS (being Proprietors of this Corporation), for the purpose of electing by a majority of votes the number of Trustees to which eachjdonominaticm is by law entitled, Will be holden in the Office of the MONTREAL ASSURANCE COMPANY, on TUESDAY, the Twelfth dai7- of April inst.in the following order : 1.\tMembers of the Church of England, to elect Seven Trustees, at 2 p.m.2.\tMembers ol the Presbytarian Church, to elect Nine Trustees, at 2;15 p.m.3.\tMembers of the Methodist Church, to elect Two Trustees, at 2:30 p m.4.\tMembers of the Congregational Church, to elect One Trustee, at 2:45 p.m.5.\tMembers of the Baptist Church, to elect One Trustee, at 3 p.m.6.\tMembers of the Unitarian Church, to elect One Trustee, at 3:15 p.m.Total 2i Trustees.WILLIAM TURNER, Secretary.Montreal, A uril 6, K70.\t81 Branghtsssium\tEisgs-aver sm WoeiÜ, HAS REMOVED From 83 St.Urbain Street, And until trie 1st of May he may be found aî 83 Little St, James Street.February 8.\t3m IMSUUEMT SCT OF 1869- IN THE MATTER OF I>am© .Talie Vincent, Widow Antoine Vincent, \"of the Parisii of St.JTiseqnes de 1\u2019Achigan, County of Montcalm, 5M|., AN INSOLVENT.The undsrsigued As-ignee to the Estate ard Effects of the above Insolvent hereby gives notice that he will offer for Sale at the Church door of St.Jacques, on the TWENTY-SEVENTH day of APRIL next, at TWO o\u2019clock, P.M., the following property, to Wit : A Land situate in the said Parish of St.Jacques, County of Montcalm, containing two arpents and a half in.width, by thirty arpents in depth, more or less; joining in front to the base, in rear to the lands of St.Alexis ; on one side to Phillippe LeBlanc, anefc on the other side to Louis Lemay dit Delorme, with house and other buildings thereon erected, subject, however,, to such charges of rent and pension viagère as are stipulated in a certain D -ed ot Donation, passed at St.Jacques before Messrs.Dugas & Colleague, Notaries, the 29th August, 1851, besides half of the annual payment of ono hundred dollars, mentioned in said Deed of Donation.1 he claims of the Hypothecary Créditera against the said property are required to be fyled with the Assignee at his Office, in Montreal, within six days after the day of the sale.L.JOS.LAJOIE, Official Assignee.Montreal, April 6, 1870.\tu 81 BOARD OF TRADE.pe dal («esiera! Mediug.A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Corporation of the MONTREAL BOARD OF TRADE will be held in the Board Room, at the Corn Exchange, on TUESDAY, 12th instant, at THREE o\u2019clock P.M., for the election of Members, and the transaction of general business.By Order.WM.J, PATTERSON, Secretary.Office of the Board of Trade, ?ivi ontreal, 4th April, 1870.i A5,7,9,11,12-80 NOTICES.STflEAG 1 The undersigned having commenced business in the above line, in those first-class Stores, formerly known as Bryson\u2019s Storks, Corner of King and Wellington Streets, is prepared to receive all kinds of Merchandise on Storage, either in Bond or otherwise, on reasonable terms, and solicit a share of public potronage.Insurance on these Stores is 7s per £100, being lowest rate.W.MCLAUGHLIN.References : Messrs.Shearer, Mackedie & Co., McClure & Telfer, Daniel Shannon, Esq.I beg to say, with reference to the above, that having transferred my Storage business to Mr.WM.McLAUGHLIN, I would respectfully solicit for him a continuance ol the patronage of my former customers, as I know him to be well worthy of their support.T.MAXWELL BRYSON.April 7.\tu 82 Oissoluta of Co partnership, The Co-partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned, under the firm name of GOULD & HILL, is tliis day dissolved by mutual consent.All accounts and debts due to and by the late firm will be settled by JOSJ3PH GOULD, w ° will continue the business in his own na and for his owu account.JOSEPH GOULD, FREEDOM HILL.Montreal, 2nd April, 187.MECHANICS\u2019 BANK.The SHAREHOLDERS of the MECHANICS\u2019 BANK are hereby notified that a DIVIDEND of FOUR PER CENT, upon the paid-up Capital Stock has been declared for the current half year, and that the same will be payable at the Office of the Bank in this City on and after the SECOND day of MAY next.The Transfer Books will be closed from the 10th to the 31st instant, inclusive.ALEX.MOLSON, V.P.Monlreal, Dt April, 187\t1m Its 78 smilT ACT OF 1869 IN THE MATTER OF Siamssel Clearest, of Montreal, INSOLVENT.A first and final Dividend Sheet has been prepared, subject to objection until the fourteenth day of April next, after which, dividend will be paid.L.JOS.LAJOIE, Official Assignee.Montreal, 30th March, 1870.\tdu 76 LEGAL JIDER.DOWN WITHSHSNFLASTERS A TWENTY-FIV5 CENT Shinplaster taken for a Pound Package of COOK\u2019S FRIEND BAKING POWDER, at the Italian Warehouse.SILVER AT PAR, as usual.Alex.McGibbon.March 52.\t68 ÏL, iST.DBMS HOT Broadway and Eleventh Street, NEW YORK.A.Ï.MOSHER.April 4.38 10 IlISÆIPOiFlTiS.PER G T R EAST.Cratheru & co 4 cs ; Crathern & co 1 bdl ; McMullen A & co 10 hbds ; C C Snowdon 5 pkgc; A Logan &co 2 cs ; McMullen A & co il hlids; X) Bell 25 bxs : J Caudhill & co 60 Referring lo the above, the Subscriber begs to say that the importations ol the establishment whl consist, a« formerly, of Instruments from the most celebrated makers in the United States, including the PIANOFORTES of Steinway, C'hioker-ing, Gabler, Emerson and other favorite Manufacturers, and the well known Mason * Hamlin CABINET ORGANS; and he respectfully solicits a continuance of the favoursso generously accorded to his predecessors.JOSEPH GOULD, Successor to Gould & Hill, 115 Great St.James Street.Montreal, 2nd Acril, 1870.\tdu 79 J>10 IN TWIO-A X.JT TOBiCCO WOIyKS, ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF Coiijsiao*» Cut gniohiiig, Caventlïsïi, Fine Cus! Cliewii! g, KilHclfiisicks Ami Turkish gitaoking:, &c., Kt.John Street.March 29.\tly 74 BK0., WANTS.An Experienced Book-keeper Is desirous of getting employment in the evenings, at writing up Books, making up accounts, &c.,