Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 21 mars 1876, mardi 21 mars 1876

[" __ ^tcitmslitp Notices.WHITE STAR LINE.Calling at Cork Harbour, Ireland.CARRYING TUE U.S.MAIL.\\-r'i^A W$t - TTlie Finest Steamsliips Afloat.provided with every modern improvement.hpnnTtw-an NEW YoliK aud LIVEE-ma Queenstown, are appointed a i fî\\r ?,V0 as Allows :\u2014 EEPmn Vo.Feb-\t2G>\tat\t(i\t00\tA-M- (IeRM A Vta.Mar.\t4,\tat\t12\t00\tNoon PRrrm IG.Mar-\tH»\tat\t3\t00\tP.M.ADR I ItrV.Mar- 18> atfn 00 A.M.B-AT 'Pm10.Mar.\t25, at\t3\t00\tP.M.REPTTKt'ta.fpril\t1> at 11\t00\tA-M.GERMA An-.April\t8.\ta*\t3\t00\tP.M.CE Tr^1C.Apri!\t15,\tat\t10\t00\tA.M.ADETATTa.APrîJ\t22- at-\t3\t00\tP.M.vatRaR.Al)rl1\t20.at\t, 3p.m.\u2022.ilynf Ajitw.uii .Satiu-l.i.v, M.ir.t.No-.m.Liez of.Brooklyn.SatTtV\u2018lay, Ivlar.11,3 p.m.City of MontrfflÜÏY.teCufàay, Mari 18,11 a.m City of New YorkrSivftfriliiy, Mar.25, 3 p.m.City of RicbinondtSatUrday, April 1,11, a.m ,, Rates of cabin pass age\u2014«o&T.v-m From Now YoiTc ï .i* ' to Liverpool or Queenstown, $60,580 * $100 ; to London, $65, $85 and $105 ; to Hamburg, Jian'e-rAd Antweriy$7.0r$20 and,$11(1-, to iaris, Bremen, SwedenpNwway.and IKai-inark, $80, $100 and $12l>, ¦, Childroni, bei T?1«nT^ and 12 years.Half Servants; Half Fare ; Infants, fre5,^;V.1 *G-Round Trip to Liverpool or Queenstown, $120, $145 and Çl^.G\ti m \\ Outward & prepaid SfauragdPassage,T 1JW P.M.¦ Montana .a.V;.May ;9, 3.00 P.M.Wyoming.\t.May H5, 11.00 A.M.VUbO.May 23, 3.00 P.M.Nevada.May 80,11.00 A.M.Cabin, $65, $70 and $80 eurreney.Intermediate, $40.; Stee-rage.at lowest rates.Passengers boéJtbduto-, and.from.Paris,.Hamburg, Norway:, Sweden, fee; Drafts on Ireland, England, France and Germany at lowest rates, WILLIAMS & GIIÎ0X, ¦ G, .- .:.\t.29 Broadway,:New.York, G-:-;' -Qr.to- -, HAUT, EROS.& Co., Cdr.st: John and Hospital Streets,Montreal January 28\t2t ^taUway îlot ices BOSTON A^D MONTREAL AIR LIRE Shortest Route via Central Vermont R.R.Line.kiiMl LINE, E.\" P ' /-À Kv©:- -aÆ-üg., ____ Under Contract with the Government of Canada for the conveyance of the CANADIAN and UNITED STATES MAILS.0UNAR0_ LINE.NOTICE.\u2014With the view of diminishing the chances of collision, the Steamers of this Line take a specified course for all seasons of the year.\tn On The Outward Passage from Queens-trwn to New York or Boston, crossing Meridian of 50 at 43 Lat., or nothing to the ^Onthe Homeward Passage, crossing the Meridian of 50 at 42 Lat., or nothing to the North of 42.,4 isll lS75-\u201978.Winter Arrangements.1875-76.This Company\u2019s Lines are composed of the undernoted First-class, Full-powered Clyde-built, Double-Engine, Iron Steamships ;\u2014\t\u2022 \u2019 Tons.Sardinian.4100 Lt.J.E.Dutton,R.N.R, Circassian .3400\tCapt.\tJ.Wylie Polynesian .4100\tCapt.\tBrown Sarmatian.3600 Capt.\tA.D.Aird Hibernian .3434\tLt.F.\tArcher, R.N.R.Caspian.3200\tCapt.\tTroeks Scandinavian .3000 Lt.W.IT.Smith,R.N.R Prussian.3000 Capt.\tJ.Ritchie Austrian.2700 Capt.\tUrquhart Nestorian.2700 Capt.\tBarclay Moravian.2650 Capt.\tGraham Peruvian .2600\tCapt.\tR.S.Watts Manitoban.3150 Capt.H.Wylie Nova Scotian.3200 Capt.\tRichardson Canadian.2600 Capt.\tMiller Corinthian.2400 Capt.\tJas.Scott Acadian.1350\tCapt.\tCabel Waldonsian.2800 Capt.J.G.Stephens Phoenician.2800 Capt.Meuzies Newfoundland.1500 Capt.Mylins I 'rom TAortlllim.Sarmatian.11th\tMarch Moravian .18th\t\u201c Circassian.25 th\t\u201c Polynesian.1st\tApril.Scandinavian.8th\t\u201c\t- Caspian.15th\t\u2022\u2019 Sarmatian.22nd\t\u201c Moravian .29th\t\u201c Circassian.6th\tMay.Special Reduction in Rates of Passage During Winter Months from Montreal.Cabin.$87, $77, and $57.According to accommodation.Intermediate.$40 00 Steerage.26 50 The Steamers of the Glasgow Line are intended to sail between GLASGOW and PORTLAND at intervals during Season Winter Navigation.BATES OF PASSADE FROM PORTLAND.Cabin.$60 Intermediate.40 Steerage.25 An experienced Surgeon carried on each Vessel.Berths not secured until paid for.¦ Corkage will be charged at the rate of 2s, per bottle to Cabin Passengers supplying their own Wines or Liquors.For Freight or other particulars, apply ii Portland to H.& A.Allan, or J.L.FarFier; in Quebec to Allans, Rae & Co.; in Havre to John M.Çup.rie, 21 Quai d\u2019Or-leans; in Paris to Gustave Bossange, Rue du Quatre Septembre ; in Antwerp to Aug.Schmitz & Co., or Richard Burns; in Rotterdam to G.P.ItTmann & Son, or Ruts &é Co.; in Hamburg to W.Gibson & Hugo ; in Bordeaux to Lafitte & Vander-crijyce, or E.Depas & Go.; in Belfast to Charley & Malcolm ; in London to Montgomerie & Greenhorn®, 17 Gracechurch Street; in Glasgow to James & Alex.Allan, 70 Great Clyde Street ; in Liverpool to Allan Brothers, James Street ; in Chicago to Allan & Co.', 72 La Salle Street.H.& A.ALLAN, Corner of Youville and Common Street.December, 1875.\t99 ~m\\nm line/ .This Line is composed of the following first-class full-powered Clyde-built Steamships, and is intended to perform a regular service between LIVERPOOL, QUEBEC and MONTREAL in Summer, and LIVERPOOL and BOSTON in Whiter :\u2014 Montreal.3250 Tons (Building) Dominion .3200\t\u201c\tCapt.Roberts Ontario .3200\t\u201c\tCapt.Bouehette Memphis.2500\t\u201c\tCa.pt.Mellon Texas .2350\t\u201c\tCapt.Laurenson Mississippi.2200\t\u201c\tCapt.Lindall Quebec.2200\t\u201c\tCapt.Thearle St.Louis.1824-\t\u201c\tCapt.Reid These vessels have very superior accommodation for Cabin and Steerage Passengers, and Prepaid Tickets are issued at reduced prices to those desirous of bringing out their friends.Sailing from Liverpool every Wednesday, ca'Hng at Belfast Lough to take in Cargo and Passengers.Rates of Passage:\u2014Cabin.$60 Steerage .24 Through Tickets can be had at all the principal Grand Trunk Railway Ticket Offices in Canada.For Freight and Passage, apply in Havre to H.Genestal & Dolzous, or C.Brown ; in Paris to II.Genestal & Dolzous, 55 Rue d\u2019Hautville; in Hamburg to August Behrens ; in Bordeaux to Messrs.Faure Frères ; in Copenhagen to P.M.Kolle, 18 Sanctan-næplads; in Bergen to Michael Kronn, Consul; in London to Bowring & Jamieson, Langbourne Chambers, 17 Frenchchurch Street ; in Beilastto Henry Gowan, Queen\u2019s Square; in Liverpool to Flinn, Main & Montgomery, Harvey Buildings, 24 James Street; in Quebec to W.M.Macpherson; in Boston to Thayer & Lincoln; and in Montreal to DAVID TORRANCE & CO., \u2018.Exchange Court.March 20\t.\t284 -i.WINTER ARRANGEMENTS, COM-MENCING NOV.22nd, 1875.Day Express leaves Montreal at 9.05 a.m.for Boston, via Lowell, Arriving in Boston at 9.45 p.m.\tI Train for Waterloo leaves Montreal at 2.45 p.m.iSfight Express leaves .Montreal at 2.45 p.m.for Boston, via Lowell, Lawrence or Fitchburg ; also for New York, via Spring-field or Troy, arriving in Boston at 7.15.a.u>., and New York, via Troy, 7.00 a.m., and via Springfield at 12.30 p.m.TRAINS GOING NORTH AND WEST.Day Express leaves Boston, via Lowell, at 8.00 a.m., Troy at 8.00 a.m., arriving in Montreal at 9.20 p.m.Express leaves Troy at 8.30 a.m., arriving in Montreal at 7 p.m.This Train connects at Troy with the Post Mail Train leaving New York at 4 o'clock same morning.Night Express leaves Boston at 6 p.m., via Lowell, and New York at 3 p.m., via Springfield, and via T) oy at 4 p.m., arriving in Montrer 1 at 9 e m Pull nar Sleeping Cars *re attach; d to thé Night Express Trains u.uriirig bet* een Montreal ana Boston, and Montréal and Sprti gfield, a.u Wagner s SI i-ping Cars between St.Albans and New York, vii Troy.Pullman Dra wing Room Cars on Day Express Trams between Montreal and Boston.For Tickets and Freight Rates, apply at Central Vermont Railroad Office, 136 St.James Street.J.W.HOBART, «encrai Siipt, .tM.Albans, November 20,1875\t277 i! vof east o ml '£h-vxte.MACMAHON, GIBBONS 8l IViCNAB, Barristers, Attorneys, Solicitors, &c., I . A.F.M\u2019INTYRE.November 9\t267 HusiiTces (Cards.PARIS, (France.) Grnstave Bossange, General Commission Merchant and Shipping Agent.Branches :\u2014HAVRE and BORDEAUX.MONTREAL : VÏOSSAJVOJÜ & OAKIMNMP.i, 30 HOSPITAL STREET.February 9\tly 34 JOSEPH SMITH, Civil Engineer and Land Surveyor, Ho.194 ST.JAMES STREET.Examinations, Surveys andReports made, and Plans and Estimates furnished for Rail and Common Roads, Drainage Works, Water and Gas Supply, and other Engineering works and structures.March 11\tly «1 PERCEVAL TIBBS, AccouiitaTit an cl Auditor, 58 ST.FRANCOIS XAVIER ST.March 9\tly 5G \u201cJAMES TYRE, I\tIO;fii!cli!a 1! A süs i e'e, JOHN FULTON; Accountant, UNION BUILDINGS, 43 St.FrancoisIXavieii Street, Montreal January 30\t25 EVANS & RIDDELL, ^Public Accountants, EDWARD EVANS, Official Assignee WesterH Chambers, rVo.23 HT.aoirv (sTILRIKT.September 2\tly 213 WILLIAM RHIND, Official Assignee, 58 ST.FRANCOIS XAVIER STREET.September?\tly 213 GRAIG & MOFFAT, .gVecoYintanls mid Assignees, North British Chambers, II\tHOSPITAL STREET, MONTREAL.DAVID .1.CRAIG, Official Assignee, Commissioner for taking Affidavits.ALEX.MOFFAT, Assignee, Commissioner for taking Affidavits.January 29\tly 24 I\\iiner*al Land.Oflice.A.GARRETT, Agent and T>ealer In Mines and Minerals, Ores of Iron, Copper, Phosphate, Plumbago, Silver, Gold, Coal, Miea, Ac., Ac.OFFICE, B BELL\u2019S BLOCK, ELGIN ST.,OTTAWA (Opposite Russell House.) ©Jp\u201d Correspondence attended to.May 8___________________109 TO INVENTORS.* do not carry \u201e -Rritish and North American Royal T1ir -i steamships, between NEW YORK MiUind LIVERPOOL, calling at CORK harbour: New York.From New York.Wed Mar.22 Abyssinia,Wecl,April 2C AW891 wed March 29 \u2019Russia, Wed., May S Java.V'em- A,1vU 5 Scythia, Wed., May 10 AKSa Wed.\u2019.April 12 Scotia, Wed., May IT China.'v\u20185 d April 19 every\u2019following Wednesday and Sa- \u2022fcsss*.S80.«00 and «120 gold, Paccording to accommodation.Tickets to Paris, $15 gold, additional.Re-r h Tickets on favourable terms.Steerage Tickets to and from all pi ts of btetx o\tjc w j\u2019ates.ETrbrorgb Eills of Laclilf sivenfoi Btl-n i C'loavnw Havre, Antwerp and other ^r\u2019Oontnmr, and for Mcditor- ^orÆgbt and Cabin Passage, apply at unuv\u2019s Office, No.4 Bowling Green ; for ^Steerage Passage, No.Ill Broadway, Trinity Bni'dmg^_ ]\u2019KANKLIN, Agent: C\tTIIOS.WILSON, 01\t58 St.François Xavier Street.Jannaïïcti - THE MITCHELL LINE STEAMSHIP CO.(I^IMITEr».) HON.P.MITCHELL^ - - President.OFFICE,\u2014181 ST.JAMES STREET, MONTREAL.November 5\t264, Havocs fov ®-aU\\ BARGES FOR SALE TWELVE OR MCRE BARGES Well adapted to carry Dressed f Stones for the Canal works.Can be bought Cheap for Cash Apply \u201c J'he Sincennes-Mc Naughton Line.D.SINCENNES, Secretary.December 28\t30 GIBBS & C0ÜRS0LLE, Solicitors of Patents of Invention, HAVE REMOVED TO VICTOKIA.CIIA.MIÎ EUS, (Opposite Westebn Block) OTTAWA.Patent business of every kind attended to; Trado and Timber Marks, &c., registered.September 8\tly 213 JOHN MCDONALD, A.OOOTj:iNrT,V:N',T, No.230 St.James Street, Montreal.November 1\t^\t6m 260 JRiELLE X.ancl ISurvoyor, No.146 ST.JAMES STREET.July\tly 169 BELL â WITHERS, (Members of the Open Stock Exchange) Stock ami Exchange Brokers and General Financial .Agents, 82 ST.FRANCOIS XAVIER STREET.Business Paper negotiated.January 1\t3m 1 gcmkvs Mlautcd.I\u2019Umos for Sffilc.JOSEPH 000ID\u2019S Piano Warerooms, 211 ST.JAMES STREET.m Road Department.TENEEES FOE SUPPLIES.SEALED TENDERS, addressed to the undersigned, and endorsed \u201c Tenders for Supplies,\u201d will be received at the Office of the City Clerk, until NOON, on THURSDAY, THE 23*1) INSTANT, for the immediate delivery of 250,000 hard, burnt Square Bricks, and 100 barrels Portland Cement.A sample of the brick to be furnished must accompany each tender.Tenders will also bo received at the same date, for the delivery of such of the following articles as may be required by the Road Department during the ensuing season :\u2014 HARDWARE.Spikes, 6 x ^\tCast Steel, Picks,\tRound Iron, Round Shovels,\tSquare Iron, Square Shovels, Coal Tar (per bbl) Pick Handles,\t¦ Smith Coal, Cut Nails,\tCoal Oil.The delivery of the Bricks to be made, as required ou the Craig Street Tunnel ; the other articles to be delivered in the Corporation Yards.The lowest, or any tender, will not necessarily be accepted.: By Order, .GEO.D.ANSLEY, Deputy City Surveyor: City Surveyor's ;it hok, Y City Hall,\t[¦ Montreal V8th March, 1876.)\tb 67 Money Wanted on Respondentia.TENDERS will be received by the undersigned at the Office ol OAKBRAY.& ROITTII, Quebec, or Montreal, up to NOON THURSDAY.NEXT, 23rd MARCH, for the Loan of a sum not exceeding $10,000, which is required to defray the disbursements of the Barque \u201c N.Churchill,\u201d now at Cantin\u2019s Shipyard, Montreal.As security a Respondentia Bond on the Cargo will be given.AUG.O.W.ROUTCH, Master Barque \u201c N.Churchill.\u201d March 17\tr CS INSOLVENT ACT OF 1875.In the matter of THE JOSEPH HALL MANUFACTURING CO., Insolvents.Sealed Tenders, marked \u201cTenders for the Estate of The Joseph Hall Manufacturing Company,\u201d will bo received by W.F.Cowan, Assignee, at thé office of the Insolvents, at Oshawa, Ont., up to, but not later than TWELVE o\u2019clock.Noon, of Wednesday, the Eighth Day of March [Next, for the purchase of the Estate of the Insolvents, cn Hoc.The Estate consists of the following Real Estate in the Village of Oshawa, in the County of Ontario.vizi^-Lots Nos.One, Two, Three and Seven on the South side of Duke Street, and One, Two and Three on the North side of Duke Street, Oshawa, Mortgaged to the extent of Fourteen Thousand Dollars.The Buildings thereon are-of Brick, and comprise : General Machine Shop, 365 feet long, with two wings 100 x 50 feet ; Foundry, 120 x 60 feet ; Blacksmith andBoiler Shops Storehouses, &c., &c., representing, with Machinery and Tools contained therein, an outlay of.$125,976.16 The Stock of Raw Material, Reaping, MowingandThresh-ing Machines, &c., &c., aspor Stock Book.99,6*43.05 Agricultural Machines jji hands of Agents, estimated.58,000.00 Notes and Bills held in office about.6,000.00 Notes and Bills in bands of Agents for collection about.\t6,000.00 Outstanding accounts, estimated Good .100,000.00 Outstanding accounts, estimated Bad and Doubtful.52,520.46 $448,139.61 Ful linformation and particulars can be had on application to the undersigned.The Creditors will not be bound to accept the highest or any other Tender.W.F.COWAN, Assignee, Oshawa, 17th February, 1876.\t45 maUXs.BELMONT HOTEL, 621 623 AND 625 WASHINGTON ST\u201e BOSTON (Opposite Globe Theatre.) Located in the centre of the city, and easily reached by street cars and stages.Elevator, steam and all modern improvements.Rooms (European plan) $1 per day upward.A first-class Restaurant and Private Dining Rooms, if preferred, at moderate rates.The most convenient location, a quiet and comfortable home, and first-class accommodations at prices adapted to the stringency of the times, are the special advantages afforded at the \u201c Belmont.\u201d HARDY & CO., Proprietors.January 17\u2022D 14 W 3 Bossmoi*e Hotel, JUNCTION OF BROADWAY, \"111 AVENUE AND 42d STREET, NEW YORK CITY, Three Blocks west of Grand Central Depot, near the Elevated Railroad, and but twenty minutes from Wall Street.Anew and elegantly furnished Hotel.All modern improvements.Rates $1 per day.Libera] terms to families.Free omnibus from Grand Central Depot.CHAS.E.LELAND, Proprietor of Delevan House, Albany, N.Y.and Clarendon Hotel, Saratoga.February 18\tly D W 42 GRAWEOIÎH HOUSE, WINDSOR, ONT., Beautifully situated on the Detroit River IS NOW OPEN.D.McDONALD, Manager.January 7\t3m 6 'Westminster Hotel, On the European Plan, corner Irving Place and iGth Street, New York, one Block from Union Square and Broadway.The most central, and yet quietest location in the city.Convenient to the great stores, theatres and churches.Elevator, and all modern improvements.Easy access to all parts of the city by street cars and stages.C.B.FERRIN, Proprietor.October!\tly 234 Jtotices.The Subscriber offers his usual variety of PIANOS AIBCiBDSETORGANS, Art RecUided Kates for Cash.All the different styles of the Steinway, Chickering, Dunham, Gabier and Emerson Pianos, and the Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs, may be seen at tins Establishment, and will be sold on most reasonable terms.Prices for Pianos range from $300 TO $1,400, and the purchaser has not only the guarantee of the undersigned, but the additional security of the established reputation of an old and well-known maker.Pianos Tuned and repaired by competent workmen.A large assortment of Plano Stools anil Cloth anti Rubber Covers [always In Stock.JOSEPH GOULD.March 4\t55 Montreal Open Sleek Exchange 82 St.Francois Xavier Street, The Board Meets DAILY at 12.15 P.M., and 4 P.M.; Saturdays at 11 A.M.J.PHILIP WITHERS, Secretary February 19\tly trs 43 Lft BANQUE DU PEUPLE, NOTICE.NOTICE is hereoy given that JACQUES FELIX SINCENNES, in bis lifetime of the City of Montreal, Esquire, Gentleman, having departed this life on the Twentieth of February Last, has ceased to be a Member or Principal Partner of the Corporation of La Banque du Peuple.JOHN PRATT, President.A.A.TROTTIER, Cashier.Montreal, March 1,1876 Tst 2m 53 ffish, (Oil, jsttlt, Sec.500 Brls.Labrador Herrings \u201cJOYCE\u2019S\u201d Brand.100 Brls.No.2 Codfish.50 T\u2019rcs Cincinnati Hams \u201c DAVIS\u201d Diamond Brand.FOR SALE BY CHAS.FRASER & CO.March\tly 56 MONTREAL HERALD Printing and Publishing Co., Publishers and General Job Printers TKADE AND COMMERCE MAIL STEAMERS SAILED.Polynesian, 5th March, for Portland, 12 days out.DEPARTURE OF OCEAN\tS.S.Abyssinia.New\tYork,22nd\tMarch.Circassian.Portland,\t25th\tMarch.Adriatic.New York, 35th March.City of New York.\u201c\t25th March.Java .\u201c\t29th\tMarch.Baltic.\u201c\t1st\tApril.Polynesian .Portland, 1st April.City of Richmond .New York 1st April.Labrador .\u201c\t1st\tApril.Wyoming.\u201c\t4th\tApril.Algeria .\u201c\t5th\tApril.Republic .\u201c\t8th\tApril.Scandinavian .Portland 8th April.Idaho.New \\ (irk 11th April.China.\u201c\t12th\tApril.Germanic.\u201c\t15th\tApril.Amérique.\u201c\t15th\tApril.Caspian .Portland\t15th\tApril.Nevada .New York 18th\tApril.Bothnia.\u201c\t19th\tApril.Celtic.22nd April.France .\u201c\t22nd\tApril.Sarmatian .Portland\t22nd\tApril.Dakota .New York 25th\tApril.Abyssinia.\u201c\t26th\tApril.Adriatic .-.\u201c\t29th\tApril.Moravian.Portland\t29th\tApril.Montreal, Monday Evening.\u2014The receipts at the Custonj IIpuse today wore'$3,705,45.\u2014Tho amount of bullion gone into the Bank of England on balance to-day is ,£64,000.-\t, , ' \u2014Chàrles Kehule, merchant; doing busit.ness at 34 Mark Lane, London, has failed.The cause of the collapse is sâid to be extensive operations in stock.His liabilities are heavy.\t.\u2014A meeting of the '-creditors of Delisle Bros.& Co.was held to-dav.Mr.James Darling, who was appointed by the creditors to examine the affairs of the concern, submitted his report.The Produce and Provision Trades.\u2014 The flour market was more active to-day, and prices upon the whole were somewhat higher, This wag caused by tho favourable tone of the English and Western advices.The total sales amounted to 1,200 barrels.Superior Extra sold up to $5.15 ; Extca at $5.00 ; Spring Extra at $1.G2-J @ $4.65; and Strong Bakers at $4.70 @ $4.80.Spring Extra for May delivery, was enquired for, but the enhanced prices asked by holders restricted operations.City Rags sold freely at $2.45 @ $2.50.Wheat, coarse grains and provisiqns, were quiet, with no material change in quotations.The Chicago wheat market was stronger at $1.04f @ $1.01}, for April, and $1.08J @ $1.09 for May.Wheat at Milwaukee was strong at $1.13 for No 1 ; $1.05} for No.2 ; $1.05} for April ; and $1.10} for May.The New York market was strong at an advance of 2c.@ 3o.on Saturday\u2019s quotations.Our latest cable advices from Liverpool, report : Flqating cargoes of wheat strong ; corn steady.Cargoes on passage and for sldpment\u2014 Wheat improving ; corn firmer.Mark Lane wheat and com a turn dearer.California wheat, off coast, 60s.; com, off coast, 27s.Corn, for prompt shipment\u2019 25s.6d.Arrivals of wheat and c2.15 ; Butter, per lb.Fresh, 35o.to 30c.; in tubs, 12}c.to j§c.j in roll, 18c.to 20c.; Cheese, Itfc.to 12c.; Eggs.14c.to 15c.\u2022 Onions, per bushel, 30c.to 40e.; Potatoes 35c.to 40c.; Apples, 50c.to 55c.; Beef; by the quarter, $4 to $7 per 100 lbs.; Mutton 814rt fli\u20197 Dressed Hogs, $8 to $8.50; Hay, EUROPEAN.LONDON, March 20,18:30 p.m.\u2014Monetary\u2014Ü.S.Bonds, \u201905\u2019s, old, 105} ; new fives, 106.Erie, 18; do pfd, 39.\u2022\tPd}1-\u2014The amount of bullion gone into tne Rank of England on balance to-day is £65,000.LIVERPOOL, March 20, 12:30 p.-m.\u2014 Cotton\u2014Active and firmer.Uplands, 6 7-16d.; Orleans, 6}d.UNITED STATES.CHICAGO, Ill., March 20.\u2014Flour\u2014 Demand good at ful} prices, Uh.un - Wheat; opene d strong and higher, weak; No.2 Chicago Spring at spot ^LOl} for Apri!; $1.08} @ tor May; rejected, 88}c.@ 89c.; No.3 Chicago Spring at 90}c.@91c.Com irregular, but in the main higher ; No 2 Mixed at 44c.@ 44}c.for spot; fresh at 45c.for spot : 44}c.bid for April ; 47f bid for May ; new rejected, 37c.Oats, demand fair, market firm; No.2 at 331c.@ 33}c.for spot; 34c.for April; 34|c.@ 34jc.for May.Barley, dull art.5Uc.fbr April ; 59c.for May.' Rye, demand good at full prices: sales at 65c.caU of tho Board\u2014Wheat, 81.04} @ $1.04} for April ; $1.08} for May.Corn firmer at 47}c.@ 47} for May.Corn unchanged.Pork, higher at $22.50 for cmffi; $22.75 @ $22.77} for May.Lard her at §13.65 @ $13.70 for cash ; $13.90 @ $13.92} for May.Receipts\u2014Flour, 60,000 barrels ; Wheat 18,000 bushels; Com, 40,000 bushels ; Oats! 14,000 bushels; Barley, 4,000 bushels ; Rye none.Shipments\u2014Flour, 10,000 brls.; Wheat ?6J^0Abus,K- \u2019 Corn.«,000 bushels ; Oats! 6,000 bushels ; Barley, 6,000 bushels ; Rye none.\tJ * Pork\u2014Strong and higher at $22.40 Lard\u2014Strong and higher at $13.60, Bulkmeats \u2014 Firmer, held highnr \u2022 shoulders, 83c.: short rib middles, 121c.\u2022 short clear middles, 12}c.Whiskey\u2014Higher ; $1.05 bid.1 980OS' Receipts, 2,429 ; shipments, NEW YORK March 20.\u2014Monetary.\u2014 Pacific Mail, 20 ; Telegraph, 68 \u2022 N IV Roek Island, 110}'; St.P 42} ; do nfd.,803 ; Erie, 20} ; St.Joe 18} ; do pid 28} ; Hail., 142} ; Shore, 64} ; w ?' ?\u2022>'\u2019 W\u2019t,0' & M'> 2°S; Pan., 136; Wab., 3 j ; U.Pac., 65.Gold, 14}.3:30 p.m \u2014Money easy at 3 @ 4.Sterling dun steady at 486} and 489}.Gold opened at 14$ and closed at 14^.Governments dull and lower State Bonds quiet and steady.K.K.s active, and in some cases lower.Stocks dull and in the main weak with few exceptions ; fluctuations were slight, I, Mail was the feature, declining 1} per cent.The Bank of the State of New York was to-day paying certified checks and depositors whose books had been balanced.Cotton \u2014 Firm ;\t1\t1.1G0 advance \u2022 12 l-16c.for Middling Uplands.aClvJ-nce \u2019 Flour A shade firmer; moderate demand ; receipts, 12,000 barrels ; sales, 16.-000 barrels, at $4.80 for Common to Choice ?5'G5 Common; $5 10 @ *5.65 for Common to Choice Extra State ; $5.10 @ $5.75 for Spring; $5.75 for Superior State and Western.Rye Flour steady at $4.25 @ $5.10.Grain Wheat 1c.better; moderate demand; receipts, 85,000 bushels; sales, 75,000 bushels at $1.14 @ $1.16 f0r No 3 Chicago ; $1.17 @ $1.19 for No.3 Mil-*1-28for No- 2 Chicago; $1.30 @ $1.32 for No.2 Millwaukee ; $1.37 ® for No- 1 Spring ; $1.25 @ $1.38 lor Winter Red Western ; $1.30 @ $1 48 for Amber do ; $1.40 ® $1,50 for White Western.Rye, quiet.Com firmer ; receipts, 70,000 bushels; sales, 41,000 do.at 62}c.@ 63c.for New Western Mixed ; 68c.nominal for Old do Star.Barley, dull and declining ; receipts, 5,000 bushels.GatS\u2019 steady; receipts, 23,000 bushels; sales, 34,000 do.at 44c.@ 48}c.for Mixed Western and State ; 47c.@ 52c.for White do.Provisions\u2014Pork, firm at $23.00 for new mess Lard, firm at $13.90 for steam.Butter, 20c.@ 36c.Petroleum\u2014Crude, 8}o.; Refined, 143c.@ 143.BOSTON, March 17\u2014Flour\u2014Good demand.Supers, $4 @ $4.50 ; low Western extras, $4.50 @ $4.75 ; good Wisconsin and Minnesota spring wheats, $5.50 @ $6.25 ; Michigan, $6.25 @ $7.Oats Firmer feeling.No.2 mixed have boen sold at 43}c.@ 433c., and No.1 mixed are nominally 47}c.There is no change in prices on track, and prices range from 43c.@ 53c.for mixed and white.Butter Considerable inquiry.Fine New York and Vermont, 32c.@ 35c.; best longdairies, 27c.@ 30c.; fair to good lots, 28c.@ 29c.; common and bakers\u2019, 18c.@ 22c.; fine Western, 28c.@ 30c.; fair to good do, 22o.@ 26c.; Western roll, 18c.@ 22c.Cheese\u2014Market steady.Fine factory, 13}c.@14c.; good do,, 12c.@ 13c.; farm and medium, 11c.@ 12c.Eggs\u2014Quiet.Eastern, 19c.@\t20c.Western and Southern, 17c.@ 18c.Hay and Straw\u2014Fair demand, and steady; $16 @ $17 for line, and $18 @ $19 for medium.Straw, unaltered and in moderate request, $23 @ $24.\u2014Boston Advertiser.-«.- LMPORTS.GRAND TRUNK WEST.Holmes, R and co 1 car lumber; Prowse Bros 1 bbl g ware.MONTREAL AND CHAMPLAIN.B McPherson 60 bdls iron; A Holden & co3 cs shoes; Jas Johnson and co 2 bales mdse; Gault Bros and co 1 cs do; Mackay Bros 4 do cottons; L H Packard and co 1 bx h ware; S Perry 4cs r shoes; E Chante-loup 1 crate g ware do 1 bx mdse; Mackay Bros 1 cs; H Mathewson and co 80 bbls sugar; Rice Bros 9 rolls pa; G and N Clark 1 cs paper; A Belanger 6 bxs c stock; J C Gough 14 bbls lime stone 31 pcs brick; Lovell P and P Coy 2 cs paper ; N.A.Pkg Coy 1 cs 1 pee castgs; Lyman, C and co 3 bales boots; A M Poster 1 piano; J Walker and co 1 cs h ware do 1 bdle; Lyman, C and co 4 bags berries 1 bbl roots 1 cs 1 bale 1 bx drugs; A Laflamme 3 bxs 1 bbl 1 keg h ware do 5 rolls pa; Hodgson, M and S 1 bale hoops 2 cs mdse; A Walker 1 cs; J W Lester and co 2 cs candy 25 bbls nuts; Thibaudeau and G 1 es d g; J L Johnson 3 bbls mdse; Canadian R Coy 30 cs rubbers; J E Mullin and co 639 hf ch tea; Adams Tobo Coy 27 hhds tobo 1 bx do.MA PANE INTELLIGENCE.By Telegraph\u2014March 20th.LONDON\u2014Arrived out\u2014SS.Germany and China, from New York.NEW Y\u2019ORK\u2014Arrived\u2014SS.State of Virginia, from Glasgow, Italy, from Liverpool, and Moselle, from Bremen.QUEENSTOWN\u2014Arrived out\u2014SS.City of New York, from New York ; former announcement an error.PORTLAND\u2014The SS.Circassian, from Liverpool, March 2nd, arrived here this morning.She had heavy weather; lostfive boats, bead stays, fore top gallant mast, and stove bridge and skylights, and had her wheel and steering apparatus disabled.HALIFAX, N.S.\u2014The steamers Nova Scotia, from Baltimore, and Bermuda,from Portland, arrived to-day.The Sardinian, for Baltimore, and Beta, for Bermuda, and St.Thomas, sailed.George Schattuck,for THE BRITISH GRAIN TRADE.The Mark Lane Repress in its review of the grain trade for the past week says :\u2014 Since our last weekly report no change of weather for the better has occurred.Advices from France and Germany concur in stating that the floods have been general; anxiety for the future is daily increasing.At the end of last week an unusually gréa» barometric depression occurred.Violent storms of wind, rain and snow followed and have prevailed since, consequently farmers at the present moment arc nearly at a stand still as regards agricultural operations.Since the present condition of land stops both sowing and threshing, it is only natural that this should bo a serious source of auxiety to growers, though it by no means follows that a late seedtime is altogether objectionable, indeed it has often resulted in satisfactory crops.Hitherto tho wheat plant has not been complained of, except in some inundated districts in France ; still fine weather is greatly needed to enable farmers to get up arrears of field work and' vegetation to recover from its temporary check.The general aspect of the wheat trade evinced a greater amount of confidence on the part of buyero a^d iv mease, active business witjt an jinpraying tendency in prices tfian for, some time past, owing to a falling off in supplies on passage and the small shipments from Southern Europe, also to the firmer tone of the American and Continental markets.THE SKATING CARNIVAL.The last carnival ftf the season, under the auspices of1 the management of the Victoria Skating Rink, took place in the spacious building on Drummond street last évëuing, and besides the large number of elegantly costumed ladies and gentlemen, the promenade was crowded with guests.When the costumed were admitted on the ice, and when the carnival was in full blast the sight was one of grandeur.From the subjoined list a very good idea of the extent of the fun can easily bo imagined, and the mixing up qf the mass of skaters in ludicrous companionship may also be imagined by those who have ever seen any of these interesting gatherings.The list does not by any means represent the numbet of those who appeared in costume on the ice, many having neglected to register before tho books were closed.The management are to be congratulated upon tho success which have attended the carnivals this season, no trouble whatever having occurred at any of the carnivals this season.LADIES\u2019 LIST.A.Aird, Annie, Italian Peasant, Almour, Ella, Evening Star.B.Allan, Emmie, Evening Star.Almour, Maggie, Domino.Barber, Minnie, Spanish Lady.Donnell, Annie, Fishwife from New Haven.Black, Dora, Mary Queen of Soots.Black, Charlotte, Turkish Lady.Black, Carrie; Ulrl of the Period.Cuthers, Marlon, Erin.Barlow, Lillie, Fortune Teller.Bfenson, Florence, Hindoo Girl.Benson, Jessie, Folly.Bethune, Louise, Fish Girl.Bethune Geraldine, Norman Peasant.Barnes, Nellie, Danish Lady.Barlow, A., Spanish Princess.C.Coultby, Grace, Daily Witness.D.Davidson, Tina,\tDavidson, M., Reaper.\tNormandy Peasant.E.Edson, Mamie Eugene, Sublime Giraffe.G.Green, S.,\tGrey Maggie, Fortune Teller.\tNormandy Peasant.Green, Rosa, Evening stay.H.Hodgson, Cute,\tHoughton, L., As the Mocking Bird.\tVlvandiere.Healy, Nellie,\tHadrM, Emily, Orphan Boy.Daughter of the Regiment.Hannaford, Miss Bessie, Union Jack.I.Irwin Lizzie, Midnight.L.Levin Lottie,\tLogan, Miss M, Cute Hodgson\tOld Grandma.La Mothe Charlotte.\tLogan, Miss L, Queen of Hearts.\tKnight Lister, Miss A, Gypsey.M.Morriss, Pussy\tMcConochy, Miss Kate, Indian Girl.\tMorning star.Màmo, Miss c,\tMcGregor, Miss C, Stars and Stripes.\tSpanish Lady, Macfarlane Mrs C, McDiariald.Miss J C, Brigand\u2019s wife.\tDarkness.Mitchell Alice, Swiss Peasant.o.O\u2019Grady, Miss Minnie,\tOgilvie,jMiss Maud, Fairy Queen.\tDolly Varden.O\u2019Brien, Mias L, Queen Elizabeth.jP.Payne, Miss Lilly, Ponvery, Sarah v., Andlne.\tGranmama.H.Rithle, Maye,\tEingland, S M, Berntse Peasant\tKnight.Ringland, Ida E,\tRice, Miss Jennie J.Erin.\tSpanish\tLady.S.St.Marie, Miss Esther, Scott, Emma Jane, Represents Gold.\tOld\tIreland.Soott, Miss Annie,\tScott, Dora Belle, Swiss Peasant, Goddess of Liberty.Stewart, Miss Jennie.\tSelby.Miss A, Bohemian Girl.\tSpanish\tLady.Stinson, Miss A,\tStone, Eveline, Fairy.\tAmerican Flag.Stone, C., Daughter of the Regiment.T.Turner, Miss Minnie,\tTylor, Miss Lizzie, Savoyard.\tEvening Star.Thom, Miss Flora,\tTarbin, Lebby, ^.Daughter of the\tJockey.Regiment.W.Wood, Anna,\tWise, Miss Marla, Fancy.\tSpanish Lady.Watt, Miss Ida,\tWalt, Miss Alice, Polish Princess.\tSnowflake.Whelan, Miss Lizzie, Wray Hattie, Grandmama.\tOrphan Boy.GENTLEMEN\u2019S LIST.A.Anderson, Win.,\tAird, Win., Courtier of 16th Cen.Wild Man of the West.Atkinson, Chas.,\tAllan, Arthur, Puhchluella.^Spanish Cavalier.B.Brodle, Robt.,\tBelle, F.W., Umbrella Man.\tShaughraun.Beauchamp, Wm.P., Flying Dutchman.C.Childs, Henry M.,\tCleghorn, W., Punch.Brigand.Clendinneng, Wm., jr., Cotn, Alex., Sailor.\tArtillery Officers Wife.Craig, Frank,\tCrane, Frank, Indian Chief.French Drum.Boy.Charters, Frank,\tCooley, Frank A., Aristophles.\tCountry Cousin.Cameron, A.G., Clown.Cameron, L.F\u201e Chinese.D.Doucet, H.G.,\tDobbs, J., \u201c Here you are.\u201d\tSmall Boy on Ice.E.Evans, J., Harlequin.Evans, S., Old Man.F.Ferguson, \u2014\tFeeney, John, Glpsey.Chinese Pirate.G.Griffin, Richard,I Gillespie,'P., Brigand.Cracksman.Gurd, Jos.L., Gauthier, S.,\tCourtier of Charles II.LaMajesti Satanique.Gwltt, Chas.A., H.Heuback, F.W.,\tHadrlll, Arthur, Clown.Eastern Magician.Harris, Arthur, Domino.Heffer, E.W., Brigand.Hone, E., Hendrill, Chas., Hindoo.\tDouble faced Man.Hawkins, Ed.,\tHanniford, Mart., Sick Tallredemus.Gymnasium Boy.I.Isaacson, John, Clown.J.Jones, F., Sir Wm.Wallace.L.Lamothe, R.N.,\tLaing, J., Kalkoncanlnscotch.Sailor W.Star Line.Lamontaffne, \u2014,\tLamothe, Chas., Hamlet.\t\u201c Wacousta.\u201d Lord, A.G.,\tLancaster, J.E., Orphe Aux Enfers.\tBoss Tweed.Leltchard, Ed.,\tLeprohon, Claude de B.,.Confectioner.\tCrusader.Leslie, Jas.B., Squire.M.Myers, S., Harlequin, McIntyre, Snow-shoer.Mitchell, A.,\tMcGowan, Snow-shoer.King Henry III.McGravll, M.J.Mann, R.E.,\tBrigand.Spanish Pirate.McGowan, S., Sailor.Macfarlane, Wm., MeCuIlock, F., Geneva Cross.\tNewsboy.Miller, II.S.,\tMcDlarmtd, Goodnight, y Gentleman.Macfarlane, W.F.Country\t,,., Macrae, W.,\tBrigand.Escaped from Slng-Slng.N.Noyes, Ed., London Swell Thief.o.Ogilvie, A., Soldier.\tOgilvie, J., Highlander.Odell, F.W.,\tOlivier, E.! Gypsey King.Country Gentleman.P.Parker, A.H.,\tPrentice, C., Irish Emigrant.\tHighland Chief Pringle, Alex., Page.R.Ross, Frank,\tRobertson, J., Checked Harlequin.\tPoverty Stricken Ross, Frank,\tReinhardt, E.The Bear-\tCupid.Ramsey, R.E.,\tRaymond.H., Gentleman of the\tSpaniard, lïth century.Richards, T.w., Ross, L.D.,\tYankee Doodle.A Page.\tRoss.Frank.Robertson, W.G.,\tChecked Harlequin on Fireman.\tthe Warpath.Richards, Joseph M\u201e\tRobertson, H.Yankee Doodle,\tPoverty Stricken.St.Pierre, also sailed to-day, but after getting outside the harbour her machinery broke down.A tug was sent to her assistance and she was towed back to port.Stephenson, Russell, Stark, w., Sailor.\tOld Man Skalsey, J.W.,\tStewart, A.m\u201e Pantomime Clown.The Man in the Slaker, E.,\tiron\tMask.Artful Dodger.Stroud, D., Schmidt, Edwd.,\tNegro.Union Jack.Stewart, Andrew, Smith, H.,\tFiji Islander.Count of Parts.Stewart, Alex., Seale, G.,\tBall Tosser to Ills Old Country gentleman.Majesty the Shah Stephenson, D.,\tof\tPersia.King of the Cannibal Stewart, R.M., Islands.\tKnight.Samuel, J.H.,\tStewart., S.D.Cricketeer.\tBendolph.Stark, Geo.R.,\tStark, Jno., Indian.\tWhite Gentlema».T.Tache, IL,\tTabhas, A.B., Have you not.\tCharles II.Skelsey, Jno.4V\u201e\tClifford, Jno.W., Southern Snowball.Vondondererapplnk-Stetson, Fred.O.,\teuser Snuglefrity.Earl of Sussex.Tabb, A.B., Shearer, J.F.,\tA rider of Flying m\tLaertes.\tScud.Thompson, W.J\u201e\tThomas, Ware.m\tNegro.Australian Bushhunter.Taylor, E.A., Timmey O\u2019Toole.W.Walker, D., Nothing in Particular, THE ROYAL ALBERT BRIDGE.To the Editor of the Montreal Herald.Sie,\u2014In my letter of the 17th inst.I promised that 1 would give \u201c further reasons, why the Board of Trade should aid as far as possible the building of the lioyal Albert Bridge.\u201d Let me first point out the amounts which have heon paid up to the 30th June of last year, by the Government of Canada, in aid of railways : Grand Trunk- Debenture Account.$15,142.633.54 Interest \u201c\t 10,451,105.25 Special \u201c\t 7,302.ts Northern Railway\u2014 Debenture Account.$ 2,311.666.61 Interest «\t.1,433.160.23 Intercolonial.$17,931,635.16 Add expenditure for y\u2019ar ending 30th Juno, \u201975.2,645,400.92 -*25,601,040.11 $ 8,745,420.83 -$20,083,190.68 Pacific Railway.$ 1,361,471.48 Add expenditure for y\u2019ar ending 30th June, \u201915.1,626,836.57 -:-$ 2,8S1,308.5T $52,823,912.4.» _ The annual interest on this vast expenditure for railways at 5 per cent, amounts to $2,641,198,62, which is raised by duties on imports, to which the whole .people of the Dominion equally contribute.These works are unproductive.None of them pay any part of the interest.Indirectly they are of great benefit.Transport has been cheapened by the Grand Trunk and other railways.A greater value has been given to lands through which they pass.Facilities have been created for coiameree» and people have become far wealthier than before their construction.Even the \u201cIntercolonial,\u201d badly located as it is, will not prove a total failure, but will tend to deve-lope thé surrounding country through which it passes, I refer to these railways and their cost to show that the people of the Ottawa val» hjy, on the north shore of that river, and.the people on the north shore of the St.Lawrence, above and below Quebec to.Montreal, have, and do now), equally con-; tribute with the people, of the Maritime Provinces and Ontario in paying the, interest on this $52,823,973 ; yet today those nothern people have not any müe of railway.The habitant or farmer are now as dependent on the transport of his: produce to market, by his cart or eleigb, as he was fifty years ago, although, as stated, he pays his equal shore of the interest of the $52,823,972.It is true ho is poor, but how can it be otherwise, under such circumstances?Take ten cents off every bushel of grain he produces in taking it to market, and in proportion off everything he consumes, his struggle for existence becomes apparent.This $52,823,972 has been granted by the Dominion Government.The people of thé North havo given over hoping for help from the Federal Government, but the Quebec, Government, City corporations and Municipalities have come to their aid, and they-are willing to he taxed to cheapen transport.They ask nothing from the Federal Government.Now look at their position.lit negociating to borrow money, they are met in London by the Grand Trunk Company, or their influential agents there, and they are defeated in their endeavours.Here in Canada, because they ask that their system of railways should he connected by a bridge across the St.Lawrence, at the only point where such a bridge is practicable, so as to give a value to their railways by connecting them with those of the United States-, the Grand Trunk influence, is again felt\u2014 the Council of the Board of Trado and of the Com Exchange opposed it last year, and this year the Harbour Commissioners, by a majority of one, also opposed the bridge on the ground that it would obstruct navigation.I have only time to see one of tho most experienced pilots, who declares that the bridge will not obstruct navigation.How indeed is that possible with sufficient altitude and with a span of 550 feet in water from 40 to 50 feet deep in a Straight line up and down for three-quarters of a mile ; and when the channel into the harbour for the same distance is from 285 to 300 feet and also crooked\u2014yet this channel has been used by the largest steamers for the last ten years without accident.In the original suggestion for the Victoria Bridge, made in 184S, it is stated that \u201c it would afford the means by which the country people could cross ii with their horses, cattle, fyc., and a large revenue could be obtained from foot passengers.\u201d This suggestion is as good to-day as it was thirty years ago.Tho Victoria Bridge has only a single track for railways, and X think it is for tho highest interests of the city, and of the citizens, that a means of connection between both sides of the river should bo obtained, both by railway and for ordinary traffic, at all seasons of the year.A connection of these northern railways \u2014-from Quebec and from the Ottawa\u2014with the Victoria Bridge is impossible, except under conditions which would utterly destroy their value.On coming from Quebec the through trains for the United States, from the levels, would be compelled to go to the north of the mountain and near to Lachine before a grade could be found to descend on to Victoria Bridge.This, as the plans will show, involves an extra distance of 17} miles.Waiving the cost of construction\u2014only fifteen trains each day\u2014up and down would bé thirty, or 518 miles unnecessary transport.Take again, the trade of the Northern Ottawa, as the line is located, the extra distance to get on to the Victoria Bridge, would bo 6} miles, or for thirty trains per day, 195 miles.There is no doubt tho number of trains per day, will in a few years be doubled ; but can any one looking into the matter, deny the facts presented.Looking at the interests of Montreal, and believing that this is a natural depot for trade, at to6 foot of inland navigation, and at the head of ocean navigation, why should we not have perfect faith, that whatever tends to the interest of all parts - of the country will also best s ab-serve individual interests.And would it not be more in the spirit of the enlightened merchant, for the Board of Trade, the Com Exchange, and the Harbour Commissioners, to aid, in every possible way, this Royal Albert Bridge, when such vast interests are dependent en its construction, especially as it will be shown \u2014no injury will be done to navigation.It will cost a large sum of money\u2014and the funds for its construction may not be obtained, hut without a Charter, there is no use in trying to raise the funds necessary for its constmetion.1 am.Sir, Your obedient servant, A Subscriber.Montreal, 20th March, 1876.A \u201cSNATCHED\u201d BODY RECOVERED.At the solicitation of Mr.Lacoste, Q.C., M.P., the Provincial Government consented to allow their special detective, Cinq-Mars, to hunt up the body of the poor pauper, Audichon, which was sold by the barber St.Jacques to a certain medical man, in liquidation of a debt conb acted by the deceased, while living, for hoard.Cinq-Mars commenced the case with his accustomed promptitude, directing his attention at first to the barber, who proved a wily \u201c shaver,\u201d but Cinq \u201clathered\u201d him lavishly with choice eulogisms, and finally he produced the following receipt :\u2014 Montreal, March 5th, 1876.\u201cI, the undersigned, promise to have the body of Ouesime Aubichon taken charge of and buried.(Signed) Theogine Faeakd.\u201d Directly he obtained possession of this important document he bid good-bye to the barber and went on his way rejoicing.Fafard is a chemist, carrying on business in the outskirts of the city, and has for a, partner Mr.Olivier Daoust, a clerk in the prothonotary\u2019s office.The latter person received Cinq-Mars yesterday morning, at the store, in the- coolest possible manner.Subsequently be found the body in the dissecting room, hacked up to nieces, but not beyond identification, as the deceased had his name tatooed on his right arm, and the identical arm with the identical name was part and parcel of the human joints.Cinq-Mars seized the body and has handed them over to the friends of the deceased.Dr.Fafard is being investigate!.He should get liis just deserts. MONTREAL HERALD AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE, TÜËYDAlTT YTARCH 21, 1876.MORNING, MARCH TÜRSDAY appointments.Ailiih-.f il (.>'.Vk.w\u2014P< rforraaiw-o at 8 p.m.-'Theatre\tPtfrforniaiicn at 8 p.m.\u2022 _ \u2014 auction SALES THIS DAY.\t' ÉY HENr.Y j.SHAW.ÉMWiiww\u2014At-ISei 650 Craig-'Street, at 10 o\u2019clock, a.m.\t*\t¦ ' BY IVAViD FRASER.\u2022: .rnrdwood\u2014A-t his Rooms, at 2'o\u2019clock p.m.PEMPEBATUEB.-In the shàcte hy Stan-:\t: «lard Thermometer observed by Heam, : -garrison & Co., Opticians and.Mathematical Instrument Makers, 242 & 244 Notre Dame Street.SA.ir,\"\tlE-M.7 ?\t20 ® 6 P.m.19° .Max 23° Min.\tMean.6°\t14 e 5 BY STANDARD BAROMKTSR.8 A.M.\t1 P.M.\"\t'\t« P.M 30.48\t30.4?\t30,26 ^ March 20th, 1876.-\t.- - - See First Wid Fourth Fages for FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.\u2022\tLOCAL NEWS.THE SKATING CARNIVAL.THE ROYAL ALBERT BRIDGE.PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES.A \u201cSNYDE\u201d TRACED TO MONTREAL.\u2022\tTHE ACADEMY (TEIMES1C.\t¦ SUMMARY.\u2014There are 1,409,448 slaves in Brazil.\u2014Coal oil is being freely smuggled into Kingston, \u2014Sir John A.Macdonald left Toronto .for Ottawa yesterday.\u2014The SS.\u201cSarmatian,\u201d from Portland, arrived at Moville last night.-dAlfonso\u2019e triumphal entry into Madrid; yesterday was a brilliant affair, \u2014Négociations for the cession of Gambia to Ënglahd'hiæel'een abandoned.-\u2014The s.s.\u201cMoselle,\u201d from Bremen, arrived at New York last night.\u2014The \u201cLake Nepigon,\u201d from Baltimore, arrived at\" Queensto>vn last night.-\tjpCTfhe Royal titles bill was^ passed in tive Brifisli House of Commons last night.' \u2018\t\u2014Musjip.h, the.-notad/ Insurgent leader has bbetf>tie3.ted by the' Austrian authori-\u2022 ties.\t'.-v.\u2014\t\u2014Ca4eK-E.Mai'sh Inft.hara .yesterday for Washington, to testify in the Belknap jBcandahl____.t._____ -\u2014.The warrant for Winslow\u2019s siarrender-ias not yet.been.rdcéivèd from the British authoritjos, - \u2014Tliere are 2,445 widows in ; Montreal, exolnejva of those residing in the family of\" \"their children.' \"\t- ¦ \u2022 .\t' \u2014a; Native Greek deolined :.the ¦ post of Minister to England because the salary \u2014$10,000\u2014was too small.- ____The SS.\u201c Circassian \u201d arrived at Boston yesterday morning.The mail will be distributed here this morning.\u2014In the Southern States great damage to property by storms is reported.The ¦loss of-life-has also been considerable.____telegram from Paris states that intelligence has been received there that twelve days armistibe between the Turks and the Herzegovinian chiefs has been concluded, and was to commence yesterday.\u2014Moses S.Marshall, a Bostonian who has been residing here for some days back was yesterday arrested on a charge of forgery committed, at Boston: He willingly returned with the officers sent- here after him.\u2014Another death under suspicious circumstances has occurred at Toronto.A young woman, named Sarah Maria Berry, who lived with her father, an hotelkeeper,_ died very suddenly, and was buried on the following day.The Coroner has caused, the body to be exhumed, and an inquest will be held to-day.' A boarder at the hotel has been arrested in connection with the affair.\tid?who, r clad in his magie robe,.and with a \u2019beard .white as the snow from which we are now suffering, stands upon the pinnacle of bis tower and reads the secrets of the stars.What a golden harvest the Sage might reap> were he to- extend to the ordinary relations of life the science of prophesy that he has' displayed in respect to the climate ?If, for instance, he were to drop a hint, confidentially, to some one, about the probable variations, of the stock market, he would be likely to receive a more solid reward for the i\u2018 point\u201d than anything to be.obtained from.the weather business.Or, were.be to turn bis attention to politics, bow Sir John would be delighted if be could know the exact duration of the winter of his discontent P and would not smiles beam again upon the face of each Conservative, as be -dreamed of the prospect .of \u201c an early spring ?\u201d -Upon second thoughts, though, however powerful maybe Mr.Vennor\u2019s resou}-çes> they might not enable him to look so far ahead.as all that.He had better stick to the planning out.of the seasons, which he is fast reducing bo an exact science, and not attempt to grapple so hazardous a subject.He; has attained an enviable reputation for prescience in his own particular line, and if; he tells us\u2014as he seems quite capable of.doing \u2014that we will celebrate Dominion Day by a sleigh drive, and eat our Christmas plum puddings in the open air,every one will say, \u201c Well, that's just like Vennor, \u201c but if he says1 so, there\u2019s nothing more \u201c to be said.\u201d the revolt in turret.While there concerning the SPRING, GENTLE.SPRING.Not only is winter still \u201clingering in the lap of spring,\u201d but, judging from the present outlook, he has every intention\u2019of prolonging, his stay/ Afi-bhe risk of plagiarizing a remark that has been in the mouth of everybody for three months past, we will repeat the time-honoured statement that, this is an .extraordinary winter.Whether, to ordinary people, this reversal of all that might naturally be expected from the season has been profitable or not, we will not venture to say.But there is at.least one class, the weather prophets, who have met with an unwonted, success, As long as the mind of man desires to gaze forward into the mysteries of futurity, so long will there ;be those who profess ahil by tO'gratify that desire, and especially is this true when it is upon the subject of the weather that the wished-for knowledge is ' te-fee imparted.Each year gives birth.,.to a,.goodly number of prophecies concerning -\tbhe-probable variations .of the climate, and this year in particular has afforded , r ample scope to the seer of the seasons.Everything has been put into requisition, from- the most obtruse, researches of science bo the vaticinations, of the turkey-hone, from the habits of the.woodchuck, bo the speculations Of the meteorologist.\u2014 All classes have tried thfliiijahance at divination from the scientist to the snvâjge.When we learned the Other day from ân evening con-\u2019 temporary that an Indian had electrified the brokers by prophesying eight feet of .snow- upon' St.Patrick\u2019s.May, we were : not astonished at the prediction, though1.; we might haya been sceptical as to the .resell, \u2019.Ï£'.'çèï|;ainly was not clear why/ ithemohlfided man hadieKosen tOrCcaifide; the cohyififtons Of his /untutored mind to the.brokers AÏonêj they : are: not, as'a i;iild\"a vnry crec^alous set of gentlemen.Son hre-they lively to hay^ that absorb-.ingvinterest in the subjeot' which would render them à willing prey to any soothsayer who choose to hold forth upon it.; B.-ars there am among them, it-'.is true, 'hut bears who observe no stated period of hibernation ; bulls, but bulls whose prospects of fresh fields and pastures new does 'not.at all depend -'-upon -.-theseason* Still as long as XfO.sucseeded -irk creating a sensation he was not particular at whose expense it.was ¦ created.As it has^ turned out-the-.gentle savags, though deficient, like bbc\u2019men,.Of m&fiÿuncivilized,races,in an exacf \u2022appreciation of the value of min-erafc» was right in the main.We-did .not get eight\u2019 feet; hut we were blessed with two, and there seems every chance that'the other six will be forthcoming before July.There is but one drop \u2022wantirig fo complete our cup of sorrow, \u2019 we may be unfortunate, enough, to re-ceîvé'atï assurancebo that effect, from Mr.Yennor.We believe, indeed\" tKaf' he also said .something about a snowstorm upon the Seventeenth of Ireland, \u2022- and if he did mot say so, it was only'-bn aceount of his tender feelings,-for those who desired to walk in the procession.It would he a useless task to attempt to persuade any one -id this city that Mr.Yennor could not foretell the freaks of the elements, or even bend their wan-, ing to his will, if he were so minded.The popular , impression is that the _ gentleman in question has , some secret control over bhe actions of the weather clerk, and that it is merely bin accordance with his personal love of ¦variety\u2014that the ; weather changes so from day tn day.We do not do Mr.Yefinor the injustice to share this suspicion.: 'we have no, intention of holding him responsible 'for these climatic vagaries ; he is not an CÈolus, letting loose the four winds of heaven upon the world, hut a Gassandra, compelled by an irresistible fate to sing the direful calamitiesthat he is powerless to avert./Nor is the comparison with Cassandra altogether a just one ; that unfortunate prophetess was doomed to meet with.-\tincredulity from all sides, while, as we have remarked, ah entire city stands breathless with expectation to hear the fiat of our Canadian Zadkiel, , no lack of reports progress .of the.rebellion in.Eastern Europe, the difficulty in arriving at any correct , appreciation of the state of affairs arises from the unreliable nature of the intelligence obtained.The ftowa which we receive is filtered through so many countries, it reaches us from so many and/different sources, that it is no easy task to distinguish the false from- the true, and to weigh justly the value of any movement which may be taking place.The spread of the revolt, how-evar/ s\u2019eemsTo be 'constantly increasing, and there is every probability that the flame of insurrection first kindled in Herzegovina .will burn until it.setsbhe entire Serb race in a blaze.Bosnia has testified in a most marked manner her sympathy with the longings -for freedom of her sister state, and though Prince Milan awed by foreign powers, may for a rime continue to hold down Servia, sooner or later she will piake a spring in the face of the Turkish oppressor.Among other indications of the state of popular feeling; Belgrade, the Servian capital, and one ofthe most important cities upon the Lower Danube, was illuminated on the 13th in honour of the victory gained by the insurgents at Muratovissa.There seems hut little doubt that, unless Russia contrives to keep the peace by extraordinary efforts Servia will revolt immediately.Whether Russia can do this or not remains to he seen.In Roumanie, too, there is trouble, hrewing, and a dispatch from London the other , day stated that Greece had offered to Become a party to an offensive and defensive treaty with Ser-.via, and RoumaJiia.-.Albania, the territory lying between Greece and the rebellious provinces, .has yet given no indication of the course which she would pursue in event of such an alliance, but there can be little reason to doubt that the circumstances of her position, if nothing1 else, would oblige her also to enter the confederation Should a league of ail these countries he formed against the Ottoman Empire, and should the great powers decline to interfere, Turkey in Europe would have to fall.Perhaps in such a case we -inighi ska again; a Servian Empire, as powerful and glorious as it was before /the fatal/field of.Cano va.On the oilier hand.tha customary policy of the surrounding countries would point - to \u2019a parcelling out among them of all the Revolting/provinces.In.ahy case, they will soon slip from the nerveless grasp 'of Turkey.-\"\t- 3rd.The preamble of the bill sets forth that the erection of said bridge has become an absolute necessity, hut your petitioners are satisfied that such a necessity cannot he proven by a reference to traffic returns ; the hill itself (sect.26.) moreover providing that the work need not be commenced for four years nor be completed sooner than within ten years ; that the question involved in the proposal to erect such a bridge, as the aforesaid hill contemplates, is not simply one of local interests, but is really one of importance to the whole Dominion, and ought, therefore, to he dealt with in relation to the present mercantile and shipping interests of Canada, which would he seriously imperilled by the work contemplated by the bill referred to by your petitioners.That there is a most serious, hut different objection to bills which are sometimes submitted to Parliament, including the bill now in question, which does not seem hei\u2019etofore to have been sufficiently, if at all, considered ; and which your petitioners believe ought to he pressed upon the attention of Govemment and Parliament, viz., the inexpediency of conferring corporate powers and valuable franchises upon persons or companies, for the construction of works (sometimes partaking in whole or in part of a character which should keep them entirely under the control of Government), of which there is no early, if any, reasonable prospect that they will ever be proceeded with.Wherefore, and for other reasons that might be advanced, your petitioners do most earnestly urge that your Honourable House will be pleased not to allow the bill herein referred to, to become law, inasmuch as to permit its enactment would be detrimental to commercial, shipping, and .other interests of the Dominion.And your petitioners, as in duty bound will ever pray, &c._;Sigaed on behalf of_ the Council of the Montreal Board of ¦Trade.Andrew Robehtson, 1\tPresident.Wm.J.Patterson, Secretary.-Montreal, 11th March, 1876.Hon, Mr: LETËLLIER said in 1874\u201475 its revenue was only $464,000, and the first half of the last year $275,000.Hon.Mr, CAERALL said the Provincial missioners, or by the Department of 'Public Works.He feared that otherwise it.might be built in such a way as would not he to the advantage of the Dominion.On Treasurer had told him the revenue would the 17th of April, 187-8, hersubmitted a ROYAL ALBERT BRIDGE.DOMINION PARLIAMENT.TH E SENATE.To the Honour able,the House of Commons of Canada, in Parliament assembled : The petition of the Committee of Management of the Montreal Corn Exchange Association, Humbly Sheweth That your petitioners-have ascertained from the reported proceedings in Parliament, that a bill is now before yonr Honourable House, asking for a Charter 'tVa vhen1 years.to live down, it would\thari- developed a The present Gove.*'\t^ ^ weak and vaccillating pon.jv shown a want of capacity for the po\u201e.HOUSE OF COMMONS.Ottawa, March 20.The SPEAKER took' the chair at.three o\u2019clock.PETITIONS.\t¦- »\u2014-» Dr.BROUSE presented' pèt.'tferis\u2019 Jfôiià tlïë Board -of Trade of Detrditj' Produce Exchange, Toledo, Board of .Trade, Milwaukee, Board of Trade,\u201d Chieftgfe; North-': era Transportation do.; - and - Board of Trade, Cleveland,'pray ing for an .al-teratiop in the Sunday law, so to allow vessels-to pass through the canals:on Sunday without being detained.' - Y\t.reports.*\t.Hon-Mr.-HOBTON presentedthe fourth report of-the Committee on Banking and Commerce.'\t\u201d\t'\t.\" -\t' - Mr.RYMAL presented the ninth report of the Committee on Standing Orders.Mr.CAMERON, (Cardwell), presented the first report of the Joint Committee charged with the management of the Library! Mr.MoDOUGALL, (Elgin), moved that the petitions of certain stockholders in the Hail Printing and Publishing Co., praying that the bill now before.Parliament to enable the Company, to fssqe preference stock-might not becorrie law.issr.:ferred-to the Committee on Private' Bills.* Carried.BILLS INTRODUCE»'.\"' ' The following bills were introfuced and read the first time s\u2014Mr.Bowel 1 : To incorporate the British' Canadian: Loan and Trust Company.Mr.Cameron) Cardwell : To amend the London and Canada Bank and the acts amending the same.Mr.Crooks : Respecting Loans by the British American Land Company.Hon.Mr.CARTWRIGHT presented the report of tin: Department .of Agriculture.-\u2014v-Hon./Mr.VAIL presented a return showing the names and residences of the THE PACIFIC RAILWAY.On the orders of the.day being called, i Hon.Dr.TÜPPER asked at what finjié and in what way the First Minister in/ tended to bring forward the matters in connection with the Canadian Pacific railway.Hon.Mr.MACKENZIE \u2014 Which matters ?Hon.Dr.TUPPER said he supposed a statement would be made as to the present position of the work as to the Georgian Bay Branch, the contract for which they had been informed by the Premier had been cancelled, -and as to the proposal of this-House.to construct the Esquimault and Nanaimo Railway, in reference to which important correspondence had taken place between the Government and British Columbia™ Hon.- Mr.MACKENZIE said he thought in.regard to that particular matter the papers before the House were very full indeed, arid cènv'eyed the fullest possible information.Hon.Dr.TUPPER said he supposed the hon.gentleman hardly expected the House to rise without some discussion, and: he merely desired to know in what way the discussion could most conveniently take\u2019 place.Hon.Mr.MACKENZIE said when the vote for the Pacific jRailway came up, he should give every information in his power as to the state of the works of construction and the surveys, and in reference to all the subjects which would come up under that vote.-He did not know exactly when that might be.It might he the next Government day, but it.depended.on the action of the hon.gentlemen opposite.He had been quite willing to go on with the item on Friday night, hut the hon.gentleman was not then willing to go on with any item.(Hear, hear.) PRIVATE BILLS.On the motion of Mr.THOMPSON, Haldimand, the hill to incorporate the Canada Fire and Marine, Insurance Company passed through Committee, On motion of Mr.CAMERON, Cardwell, the hill to confirm|the amalgamation of the City Bank-and the Royal Canadian/Bank, and to incorporate the Consolidated Bank -of Canada, was read a second time.Mr.KOBUiJiARl) asked, whether Ath'anase rShiricliard, advocate, of Montreal, has ever paid into the hands of the Receiver General $619.68, which he received from the Sheriff of Beauharnois on the 4th of January, 1868, being the amount for.which Her Majesty was collocated in a case numbered 269 in the Superior Court, Beauhamois,-m which the Right Honourable Edward Ellice was prosecutor and W.A.Noel Duguay, et al., defendants, under-a power of attorney |to him dated 1st July, 1867.What steps have been taken to compel the said Branchard' to reimburse the said snm, and if the said sum has not yet been reimbursed what is the reasori of the delay.Hon.Mr.BLAKE replied that there was no record in the office of the Receiver General of any such sum having been paid to his Department, and -there was no record in the Department of Justice to show that any proceedings had been taken in regard to that sum.CLAIMS OF THE SEIGNIORS.Mr.CARON asked whether the Government have wholly paid off the indemnity to the seigniors of the Province of Quebec, and in case the whole has not been paid, whether the balance is to Repaid so soon as tho claims of the seigniors have been approved.Finally, whether the Government intend paying tutors unconditionally.\t- - \u2014 : Hon.Mr.BLAKE replied that /on the claims arising out of 470 seignoirs $2,018,-000 had been paid up to the present time, the balance of the original capital remaining in the hands of the Government, being about half a million dollars.A considerable .number pf those entitled to moneys had riot yet made application.BANK STATEMENTS.Mr YGUNG asked-whether the Gqvern-ment iîàve considered * ànd intend : to propose any.more stringent measures for tho inspe'ition Of the monthly statements of Our chartered banks published in the Official Gazette.Hon.Mr.CARTWRIGHT said the Govemment had not considered any proposal such as that indicated.The making of a false statement was, at the present time, a misdemeanour.had not gone into blind expend!turen,'' and\u201d-veterans oi 18)2 who havo .rocorted grata!\u2014 hence surveys haJ tp he made.For Over ties.p ; HPp Y £\t/\u2022 two years surveyors had been continually\t1 Tefc 'libra»*#»h.e.,.CT.i_' Mr.CAMERON, Cardwell, i« moving the adoption of the report of the Joint Committee on the Library-of Parliament,'», pointed out that there were several evils now existing.The\u2014Library slumld , be principally a library of reference, hut Hie public had access to.it, and many hooks , \u201e were re.moyèd an* kept foreb Mg\t^ without the knowledge of the officials.No\t.,,,.,.l,,Y : Jess than 800 boobs had .been issued to blip public in one.d&ÿ/b soma had disappeared altogether, and others had been mutilated in a serious manner.A .more active and efficient staff was clearly necessary, and, therefore, the Joint Coifmiitteé had recommended' aji increased staff and m-w arrangements.:'He.thought some of the hooks selected-were not those which they .should expect to see on the shelves of a Parliamentary libîâry, - arid,- : therefore) it was suggested that a small committee of three members of each House should assist the Librarian in the selection of books.Hon.Mr.MACKENZIE said the committee ¦ appeared to recommend an increased vote for -works of history and French literature, and for some legal, hooks.He believed the last had been pro'/' Tided for already.In Ont&ri^-the Government.had taken steps to\" exclude light literature, as 'hqt ^ngee^gapr»; lie-did not think it \\yas yiHrtsabM' tiïaî\u2019thi^ fibraiy ' should be a gene}h4}jibr%rysauch .fts that of the .British.Museum\"; neither did he believe it; would,be practicable.The present, nujnber of.yolrimeiSfwbe-ibYer'/80)000, and/he : did not- believe the new library would .bpid'-more1'than : three tif&'és -tHat: .quantity; ' 'The Government had not deemetl it adyfsahlo to propose a change in the presenirtaff until the removal \u2018of bbè hooks to the pgw building took place, which he hoped would he somewhere about July next.It would, of course, be neces-\u201cary.to obtain such assistance as would be /sufficient to manage the Ijbrary -, thoroughly, and algo f,o have.ir^ Y?^ ing up tho succession b'i ! staff «f men ot\u201c| :\t^ VETERANS OF 1812.Mi-.BROUSE asked, among the applicants for pensions for services in the war of 1812 and 1815, how many already were in possession of a pension, given either by the.British or Canadian Governments also on what basis has a pension been denied-our veterans who were in receipt of one for injuries received during the Canadian rebellion of 1837 and 1838.lion.Mr.YAIL replied that those who claimed the gratuity were 18 men, 4 of whom were-at present in receipt of pensions from the Dominion arid 14 in receipt of pensions from the Imperial Govemment.He had followed the English practice in paying pensions, viz., not to pay a second pension to any one.1 THE NOTH WEST.TERRITORIES.Mr.SCHULTZ moved for copies.of all Acts passed by the .Council of the North West Council, He, referred tq the fact that this Council was about to give place to aimthter governing body differently constituted, and, after quoting from an editorial appearing in the Globe on February 25,prb-ceeded to defend the Acts of the North West Council, He called the attention of the-.Gaverament ,tD the danger which threatened Canada if the present wholesale destruction of buffaloes was allowed to he continued in the North West, whereby the Indians would he deprived of their food supply.Since the completion of theJUnion Pacific and the establishment of military and other settlements on the Missouri the greater number of buffaloes existing are to be found on the British side of jfhe-.boun estimated numRer killed 000 in winter and the number, in summer.Their, .present feeding .ground is.bounded on the west-by the Rocky Mountains, on/ the -east by the Qu\u2019Appelle Lakes, on the (south by the Missouri) and bn the- north by- the north branch of the Saskatchewan,- and this limit is ever decreasing by thp destruction caused by the hunters of ; the Saskatchewan on the north, those from the Missouri on the south, and the Red River hunters qn the east, to an extent and wiRh a rapidity so alarming that the Rev, Father) to whom, we are indebted for this information and these suggestions, estimated that in ten years they will be extinct! Such a result is not at all improbable, since it is only a few years since the last of the wood buffalo, an animal, of the sanle .species, but of Isrger size, which grazed between the North Saskatchewan and the Slave Lakes, was killed, and their species is now totally, extinct., The use of the revolving pistols arid the repeating rifles, instead of the ordinary gun, has helped to Iq-ing- this about, aided by the: .destruction caused \u2019 \u2019 by wolves, sickness, accidents of various sorts, and Hm wasteful destruction of the .buffalo \u2018 pound.Unfortunately, too, it .rf the rob^of the female which is the most Valuable, and when killed for it she is alwayS'.with naif, it is her flesh-which' makes thh' best' méat, and being more easily hunted down than thé bulls, it has caused a destitution which has resulted in many of the bands seen Tost summer being composed of a proportion of half-a-dozen bulls to-i one cow.The district where :t>uff?do: are found has narrowed With start- which they were«ealled upon to fulfil.In regard to the Nanaimo bill, rejected, in this House, he charged that the Goveramérit had not loyally supported it, having practically left it to take care of itself, while two of its most prominent and consistent supporters had voted against it.Hon.Ml.PENNY\"said he had beè'ri convinced by the arguments of the leader of thé hota: gentieriian.Hon.Mr; CORNWALL hold that if\u2019they desired it, the Government might readily have carried it.As to the Minute of September: last,, it might have been the-qmo-duction of a second class, solicitor audit was 'so obscure that even the Globe /had been led to interpreting it in one way one day and in another way the next.The precious document which had last .been -issued by the Privy.Council was.nothing more than a piece of special pleading with no promise to build the road; Had the Government desired to carry out the bargain with British Columbia they would have acted differently.British Columbia would have met them half way and none, of the present.difficulties would have 'occurred.He did not believe, that the result would be secession, but that the people of Canada would themselves insist u.pon the.carrying out of the contract.Canadians had reason to be proud of this country, which extended from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and he did- not think a Canadian would be found aoîûéttn and contemptible as not to desire to-keep inviolable the country which was his own, and which he hoped to bequeath as the heritage of his children.Hon.Mr.READ, held that the Government had endeavoured to carry out, its pledges, and there was np reason for British Columbia to believe that faith was not being kept with her.He cited' Mr.Fleming\u2019s reports, and said that the most exhaustive surveys must, be, made before auy-thing was - attempted.If the Government attempted to locate without them the result would be disastrous.- 1 Hon.Mr:.MACPHERSON said it was quite evident that the Government had made very long delays in the work.Ho bad tavoured the construction of the road by the Govemment, either through com- bigh literary âttaiùniënts\u2018?îSG''a5' the gre-,6ri I aefct \" bbyarian, the necessity\u201d fot whom ai Sgiau futiijt; day, whether must ai»™., '\t.*\t- that was\tdistapt-or\tnear.;»\tt.,)\ti ivlr.MACDOTîGA>I/L -(Eîgiir) sugg-bJi/.' that gentlemen interested ' in- speéi&F .hranches -of \u2022 knowledge ; conjd assist librarian\tin making a\tproper* selection of books.\t.,/4\t^ Thè\tç^ijci^d.\u2022\ti?2n\tintroduced\ta bill to amend apd consolidate the Acts res-pecting Insurance.' He-explained that the object of the Act was to extend to -Life In-siminsç the .provisions ^already exist- *\tFir® IhsiiVahce The rates Yï\t/pli- which.- thevaluation .of: the liabilities of the company should be based they proposed to place at 4£ per cent., the maximum rate laid down in most of the neighbouring ?Statea and con-siderably in excess of thë rate ut which policies are valued in England.The measure contained provisions in regard to the possible contingency of companies becoming insolvent and defining how the assets should be distributed.The object of/the Government-was to -prrovide for- the security of policy holders, and at the same time to pay due regard to existing- insurance interests.All parties interested in the question would, however, be allowed the opportunity in Committee of stating any ohjeefionarthey might hold, against the bill, and while the Govemment wooAd adhere to the general principle oÎL-Jhe measure, they were not wedded to the details.\t\u2022 '\t.\t/\"I-._ 3 Mr.I a, 24,000 feet ; on St.Patrick and Farm Streets, area, 36,000 feet.Plans can be seen.Apply to A.PREVOST & CO., 266 and 268 St.Paul Street.February 14\t3m 38 IMPORTANT SAlE CE COSTLY nlaid HouseM Fumituie, By Thomson, Pictures, Carpets, Curtains, Hanasome Gilu Frame Mirrors, Valuable riano.Bronze four-light Gasaliers, Dessert.Dining and Tea Services, &c, I am instructed to sell by catalogue, at the residence of Edmund Cathels, Esq., who is declining housekeeping, No.34 Beni street, on Wednesday, 23nd Instant, the whole of his costly furniture, compris-uig richly carved and inlaid Drawing Room Suite with Divan, very fine-toned Piano (seven octaves), handsome Ebony Inlaid Cabinet (cost §400), Inlaid Table, handsome Bimss Bedsteads with canopy.Bookcase with Secretary, Bedroom Suites in six bedrooms, Morocco-covered Couches and Chairs.Brussels and Tapestry Carpets, valuable Pictures, fine Mangle, Kitchen Requisites, &c.The furniture of this residence has been only two years in use, all made by Thomson, and of the best description.Catalogues ¦will be ready on Monday, the 20th, Sale at TEN o\u2019clock.^7 ____HENRY J.SHAW, Auctioneer.1876\u2014FURNITÜRE.\u20141876\t' About $80,000 wortli on Sale \u2022 c5nse\t65 (&xocckUs, W&Lincst Set* MESS MACKEREL; IN KITTS, Codfish Steaks, Extra Tabte Codfish, and Finnan Haddies.FOR SALE.McGIUBOiV & IÏ.VT Ft I >.March 15\tly 64 SHAKEE_APPLl_SAUCE.APPLE BUTTER.e w IVtaple Sug-ai*, From Col.iWestover, Frelighsburg.McGIBBOIV «fc IÎA im>.March 15\tly 64 SHERBROOKE SAUSAGES, Savoury Tongues, Soups, POTTED MEATS, Ac.Daily Supplies.McGIBBOIV & I5ATTtT>.,,\tAgents for the Company: March 16\tly 64 JUST RECEIVED, RUSSIAN CAVIARE,at 50c.por lb.DAVIS\u2019 GINGINNATTI SUGAR-CURED HAMS AND BACON.IP ARSON\u2019S HAMS AND BACON.ALSO Canned Fruit & Vegetables, For Sale at low figures.DUFRESNE &MONGENAÏS, Successor.to Dufresne & McGarity 221 Notre Dame Street.March 13\tly 62 FOR SaAIAE, DUTY DYID, APPLY TO .ebruary 17 J.McSHANE, Jr., .94 Foundling Street-41 ASTI(Italian) WINES Moscato, Maivasia, Passito FOR SALE BY FREDERICK KINGSTON, Wine Merchant, 25 Hospital Street, Montreal February 1\t.\tly 27 ¦Stemcm-il JXcticcs.roue r\u201droyT^ o7 CITY ATTORNEY; HAS Emm LAW OFFICES TO THE CITY HALl.Entrance !by Portico, centre of the build ing on St.Paul Street.¦Wowh a\t5g\u201c* iitoofhig pXateyials.FOB S A.ItF.200 BALES SUPERIOR OAKUM.20 TONS ROOFING FELT.150 BARRE!S PITGH.W.REED, 84 McGill Street.%vczticu titles.BY JOHN J.ASHTON.INSOLVENT 10T OF 1875 S A.UE OP' , The undersigned will Sell by Auction On Wednesday, the - 22nd Instant, within the premises.No.22 Hospital Street, Montreal, the entire Stock and Fittings of a first-class Restaurant, belonging to the Estate of the deceased H.T.Prjvett, Insolvent, The Stock consists of a large and varied assortment, in cask and bottle, of Brandy, Sherry, Scotch and Irish Whiskey, Gin, Bass and Dow\u2019s Ales, and a great variety of light Wines ; also Cigars, Sauces, &c., amounting per Inventory, including fixtures, to upwards of 86,000.The.whole to be sold in lots to suit purchasers.The lease of the premises, up to May, 1877, will be sold.Terms liberal.Further particulars may be had from the Assignee.Sale at TEN a.m.JOHN FULTON, \" \" J.Ji.ARNTON, Assignee.\tAuctioneer.Montreal, 18th March, 1876.\tm 67 wiiiin On behalf of the Protestant Board of School Commissioners, Situate on Metcalf and Peel Streets, Eaclx 33 x 135.0, a little north of St.Catherine Street and immediately adjoining the High School to be erected in three stories of stone.Situation for private dwellings all that is desirable; vicinity of numerous Churches, Skating Rink, new Windsor Hotel, McGill College Grounds, Sec.Commuted.Perfect title.Liberal terms.Lithographic plans now ready.Sale at my Rooms, 79 St.James Street, on THURSDAY, 23rd MARCH INST., At Half-past TEN o\u2019clock.JOHN J.ARNTGN, 65: -\t:: - -\t.: ¦ \u2022 Auctioneer.-.i mm yin! 0f, jhe 1!t9 JOHN' A.PERKINS, Esq., Advocate\u2014a large collection, comprising many valuable works in LAW, SCIENCE AND LITERATURE, Will be sold at the Subscriber\u2019s Rooms, 79 St, James Street, by order of the executors of the estate, ~1 On Thursday and Friday.March 23bd and' 24th inet* The catalogue of- over 700.Lots Is now ready,\t.\t., Sale eacH afternoon at TWO o\u2019clock.' JOHN X.ABNTON, ' j,-, ' \u201e\t,\t,\t.Auctioneer.SsilTrhe books will he on view from Tuesday morning.\t67 HOUSES\u201dON BLEURY STREET.The Cu t-Stone Front House, No.205.and Brick House, No.209, above St.Catherine Street, will be sold at my rooms On FRIDAY, 24th Inst.They are each jwo story, with basement and finished attics\u2014brick outbuildings.The situation of this property must commend itself to business men or others aesirous of acquiring a residence convenient to the centre of the city, j Possession 1st May.Permits as usual.Sale at Half-past TEN o'clock.-\t.\t- JOHN J.ARNTON, Auctioneer.- March 14\t^ |Utctiûit jixtljes.LÏ BENNING & BARSAL0U.ïerj Fine HèsÉnce b j Auction The Subscribers have been instructed by Mrs.SINCENNES ttr sc-U by Public Auction at their Rooms, Nos.126 and 128 St.Peter Street, on TUESDAY, THE 28th INSTANT, that very fine Property, No.71 DUBORD STREET, facing the Viger Garden, with very fine Cut-stone front, with wing.This is certainly one of the finest residences in the East End, and it-xs situated in a charming locality, having that beautiful Viger Garden in front.Size of Ground 57 x 140 feet ,r \" House 50 x 48 feet \u201c \u201c Wing 26 x 20 feet\u20142 Stories The Gasaliers and several pieces of furniture built expressly to fit placée in the house,_ will be sold to the purchaser on favorable terms, if required.The drainage is unexceptional.The Coach House and Stables are large and commodious.Permits to view from Auctioneers.Terms liberal.Sale at ELEVEN o\u2019clock,' BENNING A BARSALOU, ^\t Auctioneers.jFt.^*50 TO jassoo invested in Wall Street often leads to for i-iiiie.A 72-page Book explaining every-thing, and copy of Wall Street Review SB?TT free.JOHN SICKLING ' & CO Bankers and Brokers, 72 Broadway, New x ork City.November 11\ttrs 26 Safe and Profitable Investment STOCK PEI7ILE0ES.One per Cent, from the market, at low rates will pay large profits the next Thirty fiays In large or small Investments.GOLD, STOCKS, COTTON AND TOBACCO BOUGHT AND SOLD; on the most favourable terms.Liberal advances on Consignments.PRICE LISTS ANeëÎRCULARS FREE.I*.O.BOX 3T74.CHARLES SMEDLE'J- & CO IBankers and Brokers, \u201e\t, 40 Bs&ad Street , Near Gold and Stock Exchan T oa NEW YORK.January 20\t3m Dw \u201e Tlis MacM Stons Cottage -AIVT» a rt o v TV I > Si, Of about 10,000 sq.feet, No.45 Durocher Street, lot 80 by 120, will ha Sold at the' Subscriber\u2019s Rooms, ON FRIDAY, 24th INSTANT, The above delightful Residence, recently renovated and improved for the proprietor\u2019s occupation, is replete with everything necessary for comfort and Convenience ; tne whole premises being in - splendid order ; metal roof ; brick cpach-house and stables ; new ornamental fence and handsome shade trees in front.Immediate possession.Further particulars and permits on application, Sal® at ELEVEN o\u2019clock.JOHN J.ARNTON, ^\tAuctioneer.March 14\t63 BeÉaile Hestface & Broils UPPER ST.URBAIN STREET.The Subscriber will sell at his Rooms, cn WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28th lîfêT.the splendid family Residence, No.97 Upper St.Urbain Street, corner Bagg Street, 40x40\"with extension 40x25,' Coach Houses and Stables, &c, Fine grounds, 120x250 (area 30,000 feet), with sljade and fruit trees, vines and plants in profusion.House roomy and comfortable ; heated by steam.Situation always noted as most pleasant ' and beautiful, with fine view of the mountain ; is now much improved by the erection of new churches and handsome detached residences; Possession Immediately r urther information and permits osj application.Sale at Half .past TEN o\u2019clock.JOHN J, ARNTON, rts _\tAuctioneer.i«4S*This advertisement will appear -on alternate days.____ (CavcXr &jc.Oca! For BaTâ,TS7©~ belt® ar6 prepared to sel1' at low rates, our STEAM COAT.F.O.B.in Pictou Harbor, from the Drummond Colliery.INTERCOLONIAL GOAL LINING COT, 4 and 5 Union Buildings, St.Francois Xavier Street, IÆCÎTTRSAL.Mar ch 7\t2m trs 57 Goal! _GWn AMEmOAMw LEHIGH, PITTSTQB, LACKAWAÏÏM.All Sizes House & Steam.&c., &c., &C.H VERY LOW PRICES QUALITY FIRST-CLASS S.W.BEARQ&GI Foot of McGill Street.January 15\tjy jg March 15 r M DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Ordnance and Admiralty lands Branch.\"^ OrfoancB Lands, St.John\u2019s, (L PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that, on WEDNESDAY, the 29th March, inst., will be sold, at the hour of NOON, at the Auction Rooms of J.J.Arnton, Auctioneer.St.James Street, Montreal, three blocks of ORDNANCE, LAND, being at the TOWN OF ST.JOHN\u2019S, QUEBEC, fronting on the River Richelieu, and contiguous to the Railway?, as shown upon apian by Rielle, P.L.S., on view at the salesroom of the above auctioneer.: Teems :\u201420 per cent, cash down, at the place and time of sale ; the balance to be paid in four annual instalments at 6 per.cent, interest.Further conditions at the time of sale.By order, E.A.MEREDITH, Deputy of the Minister of the Interior.WILLIAM f.coffin, Commissioner of Ordnance apd j Admiralty Lands.\tj Marchs\t.tj The Witness, Le National, Le Bien Public, Courrier do Montreal, Evening Star, and Le Eranco-Oanadkn.l St:.Johns, Quebec, please-copy.- \u2018 : uemets £ JHsttllcrs.IlLSlMS, ALE AND PORTER BREWERS, 286 St.MARY STREET, MONTREAL, Have always op hand the various of Ale and Porté?in wood aÿd,anas FAMJHKS $Ç5ll\u2018'lT SCpP1IEDi turn-6 ^h.-nng Bottlers only are supplied with our labels, and have liberty to use them :\u2014 Patrick Hogan .Y isitation Street.Telesphore Hogue.Ontario\t\" Jas; McIntyre.Lagauchetiere\t\" J.Maisonneuve.Ontario\t\" C.H.Beckett.Wolfe\t\u201d Wm.Bourdeau*.Ontario\t\u201c J.Guilbault Go.;.Logan February 17\tly 41 wïluânTdow & GO.Brewers &, Maltsters,.Superior Pale.and.Brown Malt ; India Pale and other Ales, Extra double and single Stout, in wood and bottle.FAMILIES SCFPUED.The following Bottlers only are authorized to Use our labels, viz : Thos.J.Howard.173 St Péter Street Jas.Virtue.39 St.Vincent \u201c Geo-H.Alio.158Fortification Lane Thos, Ferguson.289 St.Constant Street Jas.Rowan.152 St.Urbain \u201c Wm.Bishop 6971 St.Catherine \u201c A; McGinn.300 Craig \u201c February 23.\t46 ÎCOAL f 61 OLD SYDNEY MINE, AND LUSTG-Aisr MIISTE.HENRY DOBELL & GO.October 26 ISOLE AGENTS.\" 255 Moxtifi.t.ANTHONY FORCE WAREHOUSEMAN & COMMISSION MERCHAM, Storage for BonileW Free Goois AT Wellington Stores, Wellington Street, Bond 69.Brick Stores, Wellington Street, Bond 113 Ccai Gil Stores, Tanneries desTvollands Bond 84 July\ttrs 173 !pgn?\tn s.ISTEW BOOKS .HIS NATURAL LIFE, by Marcus Clarke.\u2014The English system of transpor-tation with all its revolting horrors is the chief subject-of this novel.Its hero is a.young man, brought up in affluence, who to hide the supposed crime of- his father,, allows himself to be unjuëtly convicted and\u2019 transported.His tragic sufferings in hia-condition of a felon are heart-rending, aud the gradual hardening they effect in hi#-moral nature is very powerfully described.An episode soméwbat similar to the Tich-borne case adds to the interest of the storv.THE CURATE IN CHARGE, by Mrs.Ouphant.\u2014One of her favourite stories of 'English country life, but related with more force than she ordinarily shows, and imbued with a tender pathos and sentiment which a 1 meet move to tears.Paper, 50> cents.JONATHAN, by C.Ç, Fraser-Tytl/fr.^ This, like '* Mistress Judith,\u201d is a story of English rural life, the characters being mostly from the working classes.Th© sketches -of characters are wonderful\u2014indeed, the whole novel presents a most re=-markaole transcript of an unfamiliar aspect JT)R^ALE6BA*6 0l1^\tcominou-^ DAWSON BROS.^f March 30\tly 60 A NEW MAGAZINE, &EO0RDOFTHEYEAR Just Publishecb\u2014Tliv first uuralrrf of a capital pew Monthly Magazine, or so;c.ot Reference Scrap-Book.Being tire monthly record of every Important event In any part of the world, together with a selection of the choicest misceUany of the month, carefully indexed.' and edited by Fk.cnb l.fooRE, of the \u201c Rebellion Record.\u201d Beautifully printed, with an elegant steel portrait of the late millionaire, Wm.B.Astor.The most attractive, interesting and readable monthly magazine ever issued.Sold by all booï and news dealers, and sent free by mail, on receipt of price, 50c., by G.W, C ARLE70V P CO., Publishers, Madison Square.Mew York.March 9 _______________1m trs 59 THE INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY AND STEAK NAVIGATION cttjide:.Published so ui-monthly, .containing the Tim® Tables all Canadian qnd the Prlnelpa American Railway and Steam Kavlgatiau Lines.For sale by Newsdealers and Booksellers and by our-News Agents on Trains and Steamers.¦Price, 20 Cents.C.B.CHISHOLM & BROS., .r.Publishers and Proprietors 162 St.James Street, Montreal.July 23\tiy J?* Jiaïc or ter 3£et.FOR SAFE OR TO LI «Those Extensive Premises about.82ft front by 93ft in d.; being.Nos.69 and 73 St.Ma .\u2014iatroet, containing a wooden b brick house, a stable of 13 stalls, sheds a large stone store in rear.For par lars, apply to J.B.HOULE, N.P., No.23, Bonaventnre Street, Moni March 17\tdu TO LET or FOR SAL e Those Three eplendid first Houses, Marble Êronts, being .^,489,491 and 493 St, Denis Sti with ali modern conveniences, neated by hot water.JOSEPH BRUNET _ ,\t,\t499 Mignonne St Ï ebruary 5 MONTREAL HERALD AND EAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1876.finding the sunset.Oh.the beautiful home of the sunset.Hung out on the western sky.Where the days lay down their brightness, ^And bathing in splendor die !\t.'.Sweet friends in the home of our child- The gentle and loving one, stand Gasdng out as we enter Life s Wildwood In sôtirch.of tilio SuDsof Lund.Wall soon do the meadows grow broader.And rougher the path where we stray, L(*s frequent the cold, gushing fountains.And the sunset seems farther away.And the friends who have journeyed with WeS| av with the mouldering dead ; Thev have reached the bright sunset before Anu lonely the pathway we tread.But the floods of molten glory Which beam from the Sunset liana Pill our hearts with a restless longing On those beautiful shores to stand.Our locks, once sunny and golden, We white as the drifting snow ;\t.ur eyes have grown dim with their And oui-footsteps are feeble and slow.Ar.we near the eternal splendor * Wo pause at a swelling stream ; Wo most cross it ere reaching the hilltops Which glow in the sunset\u2019s beam.So closing our eyes for a moment [n the sun\u2019s last dazzling ray, We awake where glory dwelleth.In a land of perpetual day.LOCAL, NEWS.Personal.\u2014We regret to state that the Bov.Mr.Thorne, of St.Luke\u2019s Church, is seriously ill.Visiting Governors.\u2014Messrs.L.H.May and Janies Popham, are the Visiting Governors at the Protestant House of Industry and Befuge this week.The Number of out-door patients treated in the Montreal General Hospital for the week ending 20th March, 1876, were : Protestants, 53 ; Roman Catholios, 255 ; total, 309.Will he Take a \u201cChair\u201d?\u2014It is rumoured in Chureh circles that the Bev.Charles Chapman, of Zion Church, has been offered the Chair of Theology in the Western College, Plymouth, England.Police Court.\u2014There were several cases before Mr.Brehaut yesterday, but not one of any importance, except to the parties immediately concerned.Leon Plessis B claire, grocer, Ontario street, is under arrest on a charge of defrauding his credi-rors- Recorder\u2019s Court.\u2014It is a sure sign of spring\u2019s near approach, when the \u201cdrunks\u201d at this compulsory retreat commence to increase.Yesterday there were 33 on the list.Some fellows connected with the Black Horse gang, were sent down for two months for assaulting a citizen on St.Paul street.WE BEG TO CALL ATTENTION to the Sale of Privett's stock of first-class wines, sjilrits, &c., with all the requisites for a restaurant business, as advertised in our columns of to-day.The sale will be conducted by Mr.Arnton, and commences tomorrow, (Wednesday), at 10 o\u2019clock, a.m., at 22 Hospital street.Sneax Thieves Around.\u2014On Sunday evening the residence of Mrs.Cushing, 50 City Councillor street, was broken into while the family was at Church.A small sum of money was stolen.An entrance was effected through the window at the rear of the house.Joseph Baudette and Alfred Bertrand have been arrested for stealing articles out of different furniture stores.Civility\u2014If our police officers were to consider that civility does not cost as much as a half pint of pea nuts, their : terconrso with reporters might be more agreeable.Before a few of the Court House officers got \u201c hemmed,\u201d civility was scarce, but things have changed since Hemming came and went.Will it last ?Industrial Booms Bazaar.\u2014The ladies of the Industrial Booms beg to offer their most cordial thanks to the kind friends who assisted them at their recent Bazaar.To J.Gould, Esq., for lending a piano ; the ladies who assisted at the tables ; to the collectors in the various churches ; the Stewards, and to the public for their liberal patronage- The proceeds of the Bazaar amount to about 82,000.Protestant House of Industry and Befuge.\u2014Statement for week ending 18th March, 1876 :\u2014No, of inmates\u2014Males, 117 ; Eemales, 36; Total, 153.No.of nights\u2019 lodgings given in Night Befuge\u2014Males, 380 ; Females, 53 .Boys, 0 ; Girls, 0.Total, 433.Number of quarts of soup and extra meals distributed\u2014Night refuge poor, 1,202; Out-door poor, 2.361; Total, 3,563.United Board of Out Door Belief.\u2014 r\u201870 -families, comprising 2,280 persons, feW- ' Llieyed with provisions, wood, &c., ^C-lCv,\"eok.coding 18th March, 1876.Each th'3 -jjeeived 4 lbs.oatmeal and flour, al\u2019P1\u2019 \\b.,a8a;r> 3 ounces of tea and i of a % \u2018p oc> ; where there were more than lh-°oj-family, 6 lbs.bread.Number of two o cords of firewood given by the qvv.u' Number of quarter cords of fire-given by the I.P.B.Society, 28; vi, 98.The Fourth Concert of the Boyal usileers is to be the consert of the season./Vc hear that Mr.Hecker, the talented bandmaster, is sparing no pains to ensure complete success.The officers and men will sing several glees, duetts and solos during the.evening; among the number we are promised \u201c How sweet ! How fresh !\u201d by Paxton ; \u201c Crabbed Age and Youth,\u201d by Stevens ; the famous duett, \u201c Could a man ho secure,\u201d and \u201c The Death of Nelson.\u201d Look out for tho programme.^ Small Pox in St.Martin Street.\u2014 Yesterday morning two police officers reported to His Honour Judge Coursol that this loathsome disease had broken out with great virulence in a block of houses contiguous to the railway track in St.Martin street.The officers said that on Saturday some bodies were buried and more wore then ready.In the whole block there are over 150 persons, the greater part of whom are effected with the disease.The attention of the Health Department has been called to the matter.Not one individual in the building is vaccinated.The War on Wickedness.\u2014Last night the orchestra chairs, parquette, and dress circle of the Theatre Boyal was filled by citizens anxious to-hear the word of the Lord expounded by the evangelists of the Young Men\u2019s Christian Association.\u2018 Mr.Crombie occupied the chair, and was supported on the platform by the Bev.Gavin Lang, Bev.Mr.Campbell, of Toronto, and several laymen.The last mentioned oloigynijm delivered a very earnest appeal to smners to accept the Word of God as their guide through life.The service was a very successful one, many remaining behind to \u201c enquire.\u201d The services will he held every evening the coming week.St.Joseph\u2019s Day.\u2014Stores and private residences in various parts of the city were gaily decorated with hunting yesterday, the display being in honour of St.Joseph.In the morning the Union Sfc.Joseph assembled at their rooms in St.Catherine street, and headed by the band- of the Christian Brothers and the City Band, marched in procession to St.James ChuTch, where solemn High Mass was sung.His Lordship Bishop Fabre officiating.- The sermon was, preached by the Bev.Father Caisse.The Union St.Joseph has been in - existence for a quarter of a century, and now has a membership of 350.Mr.Pascal Leclair is President.The society is a benevolent one, and during the winter has distributed relief in the most liberal manner.Acknowledgments.\u2014The United Board of Out Door Belief acknowledge with thanks the following donations :\u2014From \u201cC,\u201d second donation, $10; Archibald B.Scott, $5 ; Wm.S.Scott, of Lavaltrie, $5 ; Miss Hall, second donation, $10; Bev.W.Norman, second donation, $5 ; A Friend, per N.B.Corse, $10.The Treasurer (Mr.Andrew Bobertson) of the Montreal General Hospital, acknowledges with thanks the receipt of the following sums, viz : $24 from Mrs.Bachel Duport, and $1 from Mr.N.Loverin, M.D.The Trea- surer of the St.Andrew\u2019s Society (Mr.C.J.Baird)^ acknowledges with thanks the receipt of $500 from Mr.Bobert Esdaile, executor to the estate of the late Mr.Wm.Edmonstone, being amount of legacy left to the Sfc.Andrew\u2019s Home.The Alleged Social Scandal.\u2014Initiative proceedings were taken yesterday by Messrs.Abbott, Tait, Wortherspoon & Abbott, against the proprietors of The Evening Star, at the instance of a gentleman and lady, who have been grossly defame! by the publication of two articles in that sheet.The writ is issued from the Prothenotary\u2019s office, and togetherwith the declaration of the plaintiff, will be served to-day ; $100,000 damages will bo claimed.Besides this suit, it is understood that an nliefcment will be presented to the grand jury, when the Court opens on Friday.Mr.W.H.Kerr is associate counsel with he Hon.Mr.Abbott.The prompt action of the gentleman against the parties who have fulminated the calumnies against him was generally applauded by lawyers and others who discussed the matter around the Court House yesterday.Boarding House Frauds.\u2014There are few cities with the commercial reputa- tion of Montreal that are so infested with men\u2014principally young men \u2014 living on then- wits, so far as delicacies in the shape of rum and tobacco are concerned, and getting a gooi square meal regularly by defrauding boardinghouse keepers.Last Friday a \u201cswell cove,\u201d who mocks nature by painting his moustache, applied for and obtained board-and lodging at a respectable mechanics\u2019 boarding houso.kept by a widOw.His baggage consisted of a paper collar box, which he : carried in his coat pocket, and an immense amount of impudence, which he carried in his face.Another boarder in the house did not like his appearance, his ready manner of cultivating an acquaintance with the remainder of the hoarders arousing his suspicions.He met Detective Murphy and told him of the matter, and this obliging officer called at the hoarding house and had an interview.The two easily recognized each other.Tho correct name of tho \u201cfraud\u201d is Horan, but he has a name for every house he honours (?) After Murphy\u2019s visit Mr.Horan left.A short time ago a very amusing case occurred.A widow lady who keeps a mechanics\u2019 hoarding house was applied to by a handsomely-dressed young man who had a friend for a double room.He was accommodated with the best room in the house, and the parties who were then occupying.it at the time had to move to the garret to make room for \u201cthe young gentlemen.\u201d In the evening of the same day the young gentleman with his friend presented themselves with a huge Saratoga trunk, and by the way they held on with both hands and puffed in getting it up stairs lead the unsuspecting widow to the conclusion that it was stocked with valuables and she desired to call \u201c the men\u201d to help \u201c the gentlemen,\u201d but the latter knew a trick worth two of that and positively refused assistance from \u201c the great unwashed.\u201d Every morning.\u201c the gentlemen\u201d went to the post office\u2014they were expecting \u201c a draft from home.\u201d Three weeks passed without paying any hoard, but the widow was completely taken off her guard by \u201cthe gentlemen,\u201d and they might have stopped on.One day, however, a draft for ten thousand dollars arrived and there was joy in the household of Uni n-idov,-The next day the young gentlemen went to Quebec to get the draft cashed and they are on the \u201c went\u201d yet.They left the Saratoga trunk behind them.When they did not return the landlady became alarmed and felt at the trunk, but it was too heavy for her to lift and she summoned \u201c the men\u201d to help her.The.men, however, strong as they were could not lift it.The lock was then picked, the box was found empty but screwed down to the floor with two inch screws.Boarding house keepers to prevent these frauds should collect board in advance and put no trust in fine clothes, handsome looks, or ugly men who are expecting drafts from home.PARLIAMENTARY.COMMITTEES, Depression in Trade.~ 0 f[awa, March 20.The Committee on the Depression in our Industrial Interests met this morning, The Chairman submitted a long -letter from Mr.Dustan, of Halifax, N.S., asking for protection to the sugar refining interests, and justice to this branch of industry, which was much depressed, owing to the American bounty system.Mr.M.C.Mullarky, of Montreal, hoot and shoe manufacturer, stated that he had been in business between nineteen and twenty years ; commenced business, not as a capitalist in 1857 ; when he started business there was a general depression in the United States.He was traveller for Danvers, Massachusetts .boot and shoe houses, and at the instance of one of his employees opened a branch store in Montreal.Goods were sold by his firm in Montreal at a loss of from five to fifteen per cent on their cost in the United States, but the cash receipts enabled bis employer and partner to continue on his business at Danvers, while almost all the other houses in Danvers had to suspend.At the end of a year, in 1858, he purchased tho business entirely.Subsequently he began manufacturing on his own account in Montreal, in a small way.He had at the present time about $108,000 capital invested in his own business, though he' had interests in other concerns.Two years he employed about four hundred hands, whose wages averaged $350 to $400.To-day ho had about 300, whose wages now averaged $250 to $300.Two years ago he paid for wages nearly $150,000, while last year these only amounted to about $75,000.Three years ago his sales amounted to about $460,000, and last year but about $300,000.The \"goods he manufactured were ordinary staple goods, men\u2019s, women\u2019s, and children\u2019s.He had hut little foreign competition in these staple goods.The American goods were more tasteful in appearance, and were finer, but not so serviceable ; and for himself he did not want protection.He in certain instances west of Toronto.had to reduce his prices owing to American competition.This American competition, though small, seriously at times affected the market.He thought a reciprocity tariff between ourselves and the United States would be advisable.If the Americans enacted a' 35 per cent tariff, we want 35 par cent imposed.If they removed all duty he would do the same.The cost of raw material was now from five to tenper cent, less than it was three years ago.With the few exceptions hehad mentioned,he had not been personally prejudiced by American importations.A ten per cent, duty on elastic had increased the price to him, but had been tho moans of opening up a manufactory in the country.He was satisfied to pay extra cost, believing that ultimately Canadian elastic might he purchased at the same cost as the English, by increasing competition, in which event the duty would give the Canadian manufacturer the advantage of ten per cent, in addition to the freightage, and he would, therefore, be able to sell for less than the English manufacturer.He had exported goods to South America, once at a profit and once at a loss.He would recommend the Committee to obtain a statement of the leathers exported from Canada to England and Germany between the 1st June, 1875, and 1st March, 1876.This would show the immense amount of tanning that was done in this country.In 1857 and \u201958 Canada imported the most of its leathers from the U.S., paying, he believed, a duty of 5 per cent., and soon after that duty was increased to 20 per cent.This caused several manufactories of leather to spring up, and at present pebble, buff, split, uppers, patent and enamelled leathers could be purchased in Montreal at from 5 to 10 per cent, less than New York or Boston.Canada was now in a position, as would be shown by the returns he had mentioned, to export to Great Britain and Germany.At present there was a prejudice against Canadian leather, which he was satisfied would soon be removed.In one establishment in England, he had been shown staple goods made from Canadian leather, and considered that if English manufacturers could import our leather and profitably work it up, the Canada boot and shoe manufacturer should be able to manufacture boots and shoes, and compete with English manufacturers in that line.Though the wages i.ere were higher, he was satisfied in tl;ie end the Canadian manufacturers could manufacture goods more cheaply than the manufacturer of England.In certain lines his experience had been that Canada could compete with England and the U.S.With reciprocity in trade, or reciprocity in tariff, he should be highly delighted.The introduction of machinery had _ tended to equalize the cost of production in different countries.Much of the machinery came from the United States.A large quantity, too, was made in Canada from American patterns.In his own business he had no royalty to pay for the use of machinery.In his own concern the making up of different sizes and classes of shoes enabled him to use up.his sole leather and other material without waste.The large amount of leather now made and sold in Canada was owing to the protection given a few years ago to the tanning industry.In his opinion, if we had reciprocity in tariffs for five years, it would open to uadhe markets of the United States.There were about twenty small and large boot and shoe manufacturers, wholesale, in Montreal, whose product he averaged at $150,000 to $200,000 per annum each.This did not inciude the retail boot and shoe men.He did not think he sold over $2,000 worth of shoes in Montreal itself.He had at considerable expense sought a foreign market for his goods.He had not yet succeeded, but had hopes of doing so.Mr.Carmichael\u2014According to tho figures given as to amount of product and wages paid in Mr.Mullarky\u2019s business he practically made more money in 1874-5 last by the cost of than in 1873-4.Mr.Mullarky\u2014Such was apparent, but the amount of had debts and other expenses had to be taken into account.Besides, the reduction in wages and material had only taken place within the month._ The increase of duties last tariff did not increase the goods in his line to the consumers.In 1858 he paid a duty of 10 per uent.A few years after it was increased to 25 per cent., and ho sold boots cheaper at the latter period than at the former.This was owino-to increased competition.He could not say that since 1873 the boot and shoe trade of Canada had been more depressed than in the United States.The small importation of fine goods from the United States was not an advantage to the consumer, inasmuch as expenses brought up the seliino-piice to more thau the selling price of Canadian boots of the same quality.If the duty was increased to 50 per cent, it would not' advance the cost to the consumer who would not have to pay an addition even so small as a sixteenth of a mill.In cheap goods the Canadian hoot was a better wearing article than that made in the United States.To a very ¦n'eat extent the Canadian manufactarer had the home market to himself He had in his place $10,000 invested in his plant, his remaining capital being avail-ible for running the business.Annually he wrote off 10 per cent, for wear and tear.Most of the men in business that lie knew had commenced in a small way, and had nnassed the great part of their increased capital during the few years there was a protective duty of 25 per cent.Until the patent died the American manufacturer had to pay a royalty on his machinery, which Canada had not to do.He knew of several importers in different branches of business in Canada out of which persons who commenced with a small capital had amassed large fortunes.He did not know of any farmers who had done the same, they not having access to hanking capital.Since 1865 he believed leather houses would on the whole have been enabled to declare equal to a dividend of 10 per cent.There had, he must own, been many losses made in the trade of late.To-day $3 was the average wholesale price of hoots and shoes used annually by every man, woman and child in Canada.The boots and shoes worn would cost about twelve millions.At the present moment the hoot and shoe trade was as prosperous as almost any other in Canada.He would urge that the Government endeavour to ojien up a trade with the West Indies and South America, which bought a great many leather goods from England and Europe.Ho was having a statement prepared on this subject, and was also endeavouring again to open up a trade with the.countries mentioned.WINTER NAVIGATION OF THE ST.LAWRENCE.At the meeting of the committee on the winter navigation of the St.Lawrence Mr.Sewell of Quebec said he had had experience of the navigation of the St.Lawrence off and on for the last twenty-five years from Quebec to Bivier du Loup and had studied the subject.since 1852, taking advantage of telegraph reports from Cape Eosier and from navigating those waters late in the fall and early in the spring.The result of his experience is that he is confident that the scheme which he recommended was practicable.Qaptain Fortier, sea-captain, deposed that he.-was perfectly acquainted with the navigation of the Gulf.In 1858, he left Quebec en-December 4, with the sailing vessel \u201c Phantom,\u201d 50 tons, for Prinoe Edward Island ; encountered a terrible gale at the Brandy Pots, with extreme cold and heavy fall of snow.Made Prince Edward Island on the LOth, six days afterwards, without accident.The schooner was coated with ice.Mr.Vachon had also made the trip in his schooner on the 13th or 14th Dec., 1862, from Magdalen oyer to Bimouski in safety.For seven consecutive years witness had been in Quebec from thé 26th to the 28th November, when he left for the ports along the Straits of Belle Isle, whore he laid up about Christmas.Experienced very heavy storms, but never met with any serious accident.The schooner was an ordinary craft, with planking from 2^ to 24 inches.Had made eleven voyages from Labrador to the Straits of Belle - Isle for the seal fisheries, leaving Labrador from the.11th to the 20th March.Had encountered the équinoxial gales, but had never met with an.accident.Had sailed from Quebec threë times on the same voyage.The seal fisheries are ve*y remunerative; on one occasion when he had left Quebec ;on the 17th March he caught seals to the value of $3,070 in four hours.Schooners often leave as early as the 1st of March.In 1866 he took a detachment of soldiers to York Factory, Hudson\u2019s Bay, going through Hudson\u2019s Straits, in latitude 63.92.26.Passed through 700 miles of ice from the coast of Greenland to Hudson\u2019s Strait, the passage through it occupying one month, with favourable winds.Mr.McDougall, of Elgin, then submitted to the witness, in writing, a question to he answered at next meeting as to the practicability of navigating the Gulf in winter with steam vessels, and to the desirability of incurring the expense.The Committee then adjourned.AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS.; At the meeting of the Agricultural Committee this morning, Mr.McClymont, miller, was examined.He said that the bakers preferred flour from Canadian wheat for some purposes, but flour from Chicago wheat would keep longer.Millers made no difference in price between Canadian and Chicago wheat, although the latter was preferable, because it would keep longer and was cheaper to the consumer.The only depression he noticed in his business was the falling off in the lumber demand ; did not think tho importation of American wheat affected prices in Canada, as our market was regulated by the British market.Supposed a duty upon American flour would increase the price of flour.Mr.Scott, miller, obtained his supplies from Western Canada, with an occasional cargo from the Western States.The flour he manufactured was consumed in Canada and oatmeal and peas went to Liverpool.Did not think the importation of Indian corn affected the price of coarse grains.American flour did not compete, to any extent, with Canadian flour in the local market.After taking some further evidence the Committee adjourned.A \u201cSNYDE \u201d TRACED MONTREAL.TO He Consents to Extradition.For tho last few days Detective Murphy has been \u201c shadowing \u201d a lean, consumptive looking Bostonian whom he suspected was wanted in the States for a little sharp practice he had succeeded in.He dined at the same table with the forger and perjurer several times until he got definite information, which came to hand early yesterday morning by the appearance of Detectives Philbrick and Pinkham, of the United States detective service.The criminal is Moses S.Marshall, once a Massachusetts weaver in flourishing business, a nice old man to talk to \u201d as the detectives from the States remarked, \u201c but for the last two years he has been carrying on a \u2018 snyde \u2019 game.\u201d He is wanted in Boston for perjury and also for personating another party for the purpose of committing a fraud.For the first offence he was out on hail, but the presentment had not been made in the last mentioned.He jumped his bail, was traced to Providence, and from there to New York.Here all trace of the fugitive was lost by the detectives, but after waiting patiently, decoy letters put them on the track again and they came on to Montreal, where they found him lingering in the shadow of Detective Murphy\u2019s gaze.Besides the offences mentioned Marshall appears to have forged the name of a Bostonian to a note for $5,000 in the year 1872.The detectives took out a warrant against him for forging this note in order to get possession of his body.The prisoner, when arrested,, offered no resistance, hut consented to return with the officers.Yesterday at noon he was taken before Judge Ramsay.Mr.W.H.Kerr, Q.G., represented the American Government.Mr.Schiller, the Clerk of the Crown, presented a declaration made by the prisoner in which he expressed his willingness to return.The Judge\u2014Well, what do you want me to do ?Mr.Kerr\u2014The ordinary way is for the constable who arrests the party to he authorized to go with him to the borders and then hand him over.The Judge\u2014Is-there any precedent ?Mr.Schiller\u2014Yes, sir., The Judge, to prisoner\u2014Is that signature giving your consent ?The Prisoner\u2014Yes, sir.The Judge\u2014You give it without Constraint ?The Prisoner\u2014Certainly.The Judge\u2014Where has this been done before ?Mr.Schiller produced the documents in a previous case.Mr.Kerr, Q.C.\u2014It was done in two or three cases before.The Judge\u2014Yes, hut I don\u2019t understand there is any statute under which it is done.Mr.Kerr, Q.C.\u2014There is no statute ; but the way it is done is this\u2014the man consents, and the constable who arrested him takes him to the border and hands him over.The Judge.\u2014Has it been done in England ?Mr.Kerr, Q.C.\u2014I don\u2019t know.The Judge.\u2014The regular way is to draw up a committment upon the declaration, and then apply for a writ of extradition.Mr.Kerr, Q.C.\u2014Still at the same time _ would add to the expense and immensely necessary for the systematic working of his admirably managed department are at times of great assistance to him and the civic Government.His last novelty is a list of every widow householder in the city giving her name and address, amount of property she possessed, how much water tax is levied on the said property and whether she has paid it or not.The following is the number in each ward:-St.Mary\u2019s, 359; St.Louis Ward, 354 ; St.Lawrence Ward, 419 ; St.Antoine Ward, 502 ; St.James Ward, 386 ; East Ward, 45 ; Centre Ward, 22 ; Westward, 14 ; and St.Ann\u2019s Ward.344 ; total 2,445 exclusive of those residing in the family of their children.The number who have paid the water tax in St.Mary\u2019s Ward is 151, St.Louis 230, St.Lawrence 277, St.Antoine 336, St.James 185, East 35, Centre 10, West 9, and St.Ann\u2019s 159 ; total 1,392.The amount of money paid by the -widows this year is $30,261, and the amount outstanding due from widows is $7,665 which said Mr.Lapierre \u201cis not worth 30 per cent.\u201d For the information of bachelors we may state that Mr.Lapierre has not put on record the age or merits of the ladies ; not a single word or figure about their beauty, wealth, social standing or nationality.THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC.\u201c Ours\u201d\u2014-The Hit op the Season.\u201c It is the best play they have put on,\u201d said a prominent Q.C., of this city to the writer last evening, after witnessing T.W.Robertson\u2019s beautiful military drama, \u201c Ours,\u201d at this popular resort, and though it is hardly to our opinion the best play ever produced here, yet it certainly created more enthusiasm than any other, the manifestation of approval being so marked that there is little doubt but that the piece will command a long run.It is some years since it was produced in this city, hut those representations will not hear contrast with that of last evening.\u201c Ours\u201d sparkles with wit and interest by the amusing situations in which the actors are placed.The plot is too well known to require retailing, further than to say it is a military drama, said to be founded on certain events which really happened in a certain military centre in England when the Crimean war broke out.The soldier boys to the war did go, and they were shortly after followed by two amiable lovers, who appear suddenly in the encampment in the trenches j ust before peace is declared.The cast was as follows :\u2014\u201cPrince Perovsky.\u201d M E.A McDowell; \u201cSir Alexander Shendryn Bart.,\u201d Mr.Charles Loveday ; \u201c Hugh Chalcote,\u201d Mr.Neil Warner; \u201cAngus MacAllister,\u201d Mr.M.M.Holmes ; \u201cSergeant Jones,\u201d Mr.Welsh Edwards ;\t\u201c Major Samprey,\u201d Mr.Charles Arnold; \u201cGame-keeper,\u201d Mr.W.H.Yondersmith ; \u201c Lady Shendryn,\u201d Miss Victoria Cameron \"Blanche Haye,\u201d Miss Aflio Weaver \u201cMary Netley,\u201d Miss Fanny Reeves.With one exception\u2014Mr.M.M.Holmes\u2014(he parts were admirably presented, but with Mr.Holmes it will be different when overcomes a certain amount of nervousness which he exhibits every time he has to declaim.Mr.Neil Warner certainly as tonished everyone, for no one coul imagine, good actor though he that so heavy a \u201c card \u201d as possessed so much of the humourous.His acting was really grand and\" often brought down the house.Mr.Loveday wets very good, though he had to appeal to Ifif prompter once or twice, and Mr.HcDowa made the most of a part that does not amount to much.The ladies in the east cannot he praised too much for their admirable acting, each gaining another victory with theatre goers, particularly Miss Weaver, who exhibited in a marked manner the.improvement she making in her acting.As the serjeant Mr.Edwards was remarkably tunny and provoked much laughter.The great feature of the piece was the representation of the embarkation of the troops for the Crimea.\u201c To give true effect to this\u201d say tho play hills, a company of the 6th Fusiliers had been engaged and we can imagine no better effect that could be given to the incident of the plot.The men were the pick of the regiment, and when in th second scene the plot reach the enibarki tion incident, the company preceded their band and the drum and fife corps commenced their journey.to the.-ship passing the window of a drawing room in which the girls they left behind them were sitting thinking of the past and future, At the head of the men rode Mr.Loveday on a charger.The effect of this seen?upon the audience was beyond description They stamped and whistled, and whistled and stamped, and clapped and stamped\tuntil what with the tune by\tthe band,\u2014 \u201c The girl I .left behind me,\u201d and the stamping and clapping and whistling, tho place became a perfect Babel.The scene was called four times, and if the company had had time to keep on responding, it would have been \u201ccalled\u201d four or forty times more.In the last act the band of the regiment\u2014\u201c Ours\u201d\u2014is introduced into tho final scene on the proclamation of peace, and march on the stage amid a blaze of lime light.This scene, too, elicited the most rapturous applause.The piece really worth seeing, and as we have above stated, it is one which cannot fail to have a protracted run.la- ky THE TRUE CUSTODIAN.your any When a father of a family, whose labours and earnings have boon devoted to the support and education of his children, sits down calmly to reflect that the time is coming, and perhaps very soon, when he can no longer stand between these loved ones and their financial foes ; when poverty, like an armed man, and temptation in myriad forms will come into a home which he has thus far protected, it is not surpris ing that the prospect should be gloomy.And if there was no such beneficent pro vision as that which life insurance affords for exigencies of this very kind, tho situation would, indeed, be hopeless.For, benevolent as may be the impulses of a certain portion of every community, it is none the less true that no one desires to put himself in the place of ahnoner to widows and children whose natural protectors have neglected to provide for them.It is as the guardians of unprotected families that our life insurance companies appear in their most attractive and honourable aspect.That which the father can no longer do for his loved ones, by his daily toil, these institutions are able to do.The competence which could not he saved during his life, the father may easily leave behind him in a policy securing comfort and plenty, and happiness to his family Life insurance is thus one of the most complete and trustworthy of earthly comforters, supplying consolation of that practical sort which sorrow and distress best appreciate.It is the friend in deed, because it becomes a friend in time of need.Its promises relieve the anxieties and solicitudes of the living ; its acts assuage the grief and guard the future of those whom- death has bereaved of support.Those who flippantly decry life insurance companies and their industrious agents, little know how they decry the utility and public benefit of a system which, by the disbursement of twenty-five million dollars in a single year, has certainly eleVated itself far above the most successful institutions of public or private benevolence that the world has ever known.They forget, too, that, independently of what life insurance is to the families of its patrons, it cultivates in the community sentiments of prudence and the practice of economy.It is the.great school for thrift and hank for savings ; the bonded custodian of nearly four hundred millions dollars of trust funds, which sum, with its gains from compound interest, is a legacy held instore for thousands of families.All that is needed, then, is that those proposing to insure their lives shall exercise common prudence in the selection of the company to whose guardianship they are about to entrust the future comfort of their families.This duty is as important as any other that belongs to our daily life, for mistake here means disappointment hereafter.The business condition of such companies as the Equitable Life Assurance Society is intelligible to all persons, and there is no reason why, where the path is so plain, the.wayfarer should err in select-mg such an institution to be the custodian of the future welfare of his family.Canadian Branch Office\u2014198 St.James street.R.W.GALE, Genl.-Manager.tue ?Dr.Pierce, however, does not wish to place his Golden Medical Discovery in the catalogue of quack patent nostrums by recommending it to cure every disease, nor does he so recommend it ; hut what ho does claim is this, that there is hut one form of blood disease that it will not cure, and that disease is cancer.He does not recommend his Discovery for that disease, yet he knows it to be tho most searching blood cleanser yet discovered and that it will free the blood and system of all other known blood poisons be they animal, vegetable or mineral.The Golden Discovery is warranted by him to cure the worst forms of Skin Diseases, as all forms of Blotches, Pimples and Eruptions, also all Glandular swellings, and the worst forms of Scrofulous and Ulcerated Sores of Neck, Legs or other parts, and all Scrofulous Diseases of the Bones, as White Swellings, Fever Sores, Hip Joint and Spinal Diseases, all of which belong to Scrofulous diseases.\ttis It is no Wonder that invalids lose faith in all specifics, when so many worthless medicines are advertised for the cure of various diseases ; but which, when tried, are \u201c found wanting.\u201d AVe have yet to learn, however, of the first failure of Dr.Wistafs Balsam of Wild Cherry, to cure coughs, colds, and pulmonary diseases.tTS ,inS\\XVdll:CC lloticcs.AtlanticBntualLifelnsuranceCo ALBANY, N.Y, RITSTG Xa A iNT I) &.EVANS, GENERAL AGENTS, No.229 ST.JAMES STREET.December 8\t6m 290 CANADA LIFE ASSME COMPAHT.ÏOSTAlil-TSirEr» 1847.POST OFFiCE TiME TABLE.Post Office, Montreal, 22nd November, 1ST5.Delivery, i MAIL.8 00 8 00 11 50 & 8 00! 10 00 00 10 00 11 00 President\u2014A.G.RAMSAY, Esq.Vlce-Presldegt\u2014JAMES HAMILTON, Esq., M.D.The large Bonus of per cent, per s,n-num upon Assurances on the Life SysjÿçJ^ *.;h \u2018w \\ having again been declared by this 11 00 10 30 10 30 9 30 10 0Ô 8 30 8 00 8&10 delay the matter.The Judge.\u2014Well then you know, as a matter of fact, this document is simply signed before me, and you take your own course.It is not an order, but an acknow-ledgmont that it is done.I have no doubt it will save considerable time and expense A few minutes after tho prisoner was taking his last Canadian sleigh ride at least for some time to come.Detective Murphy accompanies the prisoner to St Albans, where he will hand him over to the tender mercy of his countrymen.Phil-brick and Pinkham.THE CITY OF WIDOWS.Mr.Lapierre the able head of the water tax bureau has a mania for compiling statistics which though not absolutely \u201cA DROP OF JOY IN EVERY WORD.\" Flemington, Hunterdon Co., N.J., June 26, 1874.Dr.R.V.Pierce, Buffalo, N.Y.: Dear Sir\u2014It is with a happy heart that I pen these lines to acknowledge that you and your Golden Medical Discovery and Purgative Pellets are blessings to the World.These medicines cannot be too highly praised, for they have almost brought me out of the grave.Three months ago I was broken out with large ulcers and sores on my body, limbs and face.I procured your Golden Medical Discovery and Purgative Pellets, and have taken six bottles, and today I am in good health, all those ugly ulcers having healed and left my skin in a natural, health condition.I thought at one time I could not be cured.Although I can but poorly express my gratitude to you yet there is a drop of joy in every word I write.God\u2019s blessing rest on you and your wonderful medicines is the humble prayer Yours truly, w,\tJAMES O.BELLIS.When a medicine will promptly cure LWI 'TFL1'10.e:1ltlng ulcers and free the blood of the virulent poison causing them, who can longer doubt of its wonderful vir- pany, PBOFri CERTIFICATES bave now been issued for each policyholder, and copies of the recent, reports, showing the profits on other classes of Assurances, may be had on application at the Head Office or Agencies.r.THE ADVANTAGES of joining an old and successful Company like the CANADA LIFE may bo judged of by the folio v,ring facts :\u2014 > 1st\u2014The Profit Bonuses added to Life Poli-[ des are larger than given by any other Com-' joany in jCdnada.2nd\u2014~ït has j occurred , lhat Profits not only altogether extmguish /a>U\\ premium payments, but in addition yietd fhe Jiblâ^r an annual surplus.\t.E.HILLS, Secretary.Offices in Montreal\u2014182 ST JAMES ST.It.I\u2019OWX.YIYI Greiieral-Agent.February 25\t.fiOA 48 NOBTHBRITISH AND MEHC^TTILE Fire and Life Insurance Company, ESTABLISHED 1809 subswubed capital, PAID-UP 0GITAL, - ¦ RETENUE POU 18«9, -ACCUMULATED FUNDS, H0Ï4 OF RE AMD £'2,000,000.00 Stg.¦\t250,000.00 -\t901,561.01 \u201c ¦\t3,914,317.00 \u201c Insurances against Fire accepted at the ordinary rates of premium.In the_ Life Department moderate rates of premium, and large addition to sums insured bv wav of Bonus.HACD0ÜGALL & DAVIDS AX, ^\t_\tGeneral Agents WM.EWING, Inspbgt&b, -\t\u2022\"\t\u2019 ; No.72 St.François Xavier Street.\u2019 ' , ,\tMontreal.July 19___________________ly 17° £E EOT LIVERPOOL.__ LIFE.Capital, .\t810,000,000 IPunds Invested, - 13,000,000 Ajinnal Income, .\t5,000,000 LIABILITY OF SHAREHOLDERS UNLIMITED.FIEE DEPARTMENT.All classes of Risks insured at favourable rates.LIFE DEPARTMENT.Security should be the primary consideration, which is afforded by the large accumulated funds and the unlimited liability of Shareholders.Accounts kept distinct from those of Fire Department.W.E.SCOTT, M.D., J.KENNEDY, Medical Referee.\tInspector.II.L.ROUTH, >V.TATLEY, Chief Agents.For the convenience of the Mercantile Community, recent London and Liverpool Directories can be seen at this Office.Montreal, 12th February, 1874 ly 38 8 00 8&11 8 01 8&11 I Ontario.a) Ottawa by Railway.{«) Province of Ontario.Ottawa River Route.Quebec.Quebec by Steamer.b) Quebec by Railway.Eastern Townships, Three Rivers, Artha-baska and Riviere du Loup R.R.St.Remi and Hemming- ford R.R.St.Hyacinthe, Sherbrooke, &e.St.Johns (&) and Vermont Junction R.R.Shefford and the S.E.C.Railways.5 45 2 00 5 15 5 00 1\t30 2\t30 Close.7 45 7 45 Local Mails.Peauharnols Route.Chambly and St.Cesalre Contrecœur, Varennes and Vercheres.Cote St.Paul.Tannery West.Huntingdon.Laehine.Lon^ueuil.St.Lambert.Lapralrie.New Glasgow, Sault- aux-Recollcts.Terrebonne and St.Vincent .Point St.Charles.St.Laurent, St.Eusta che, St.Scholastique and Belle Riviere.St.Jerome, St.Rose and St.Therese.St.Johns & St.Armand Station.Three Rivers, by North Shore Land Route.Maritime Provinces.New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and P.E.I.Newfoundland forwarded daily on Halifax, whence despatch is on alternate Tuesdays, counting from 30th November.United States.Boston and New England States, except Maine,.New York ana southern States, .P< Island Pond, Portland and Maine,.a) Western and Pacific States and Manitoba.; Vest Indies.Letters, &c., prepaid via New York'\") are forwarded daily on New York whence Malls are despatched ; For Havana and West Indies vea Havana every Thursday P.M.; For St.Thomas, the West Indies and Brazil, on the 23rd of every month.Or eat Britain.By Canadian Line (Friday).By New York on Mondays and Tues-dajs.6 00 8 00 7 00 7 00 0 00 6 00 6 00 7 00 7 00 3 30 7 00 }\u2022\u2022} 7 00 7 45 3 00 8 00 1 15 1 15 1\t30 * 2* 00 2\t00 2 00 2 00 1 15 1 15 2 30 2 00 3 00 8 00 8 00 1 15 1 15 3 & 8 1 15 7 00 1 45 (fîuoccvu's,