Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 6 décembre 1878, vendredi 6 décembre 1878

[" < .V>: 3jU.p t}u Ml 10k the GoYernment ®f Oder Co\u201c\u201ctte oonYeyance of the CAKA- C^andUNITED STATES MAILS.^fwiHTEB àgâ'NGElESTS.1878-9.\u201e\u201ev\u2019a Line' are composed of Thi» CoI\u201c?fpd Pirst,-class, Full-powereo ^^If^oubie-Ensine, Iron Steam- rifde-DU \u2019 Tons.,\t^ %s .4100 Oapt.3.E.Dutton .4300 Capt.las.Wylie ^iVZ) DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.Not.Dec.Dec.Dec.Dec Jan.Jdioi?0 ____________ S-nssia».410o Capt.Brown .SyBesraf - ,360o Capt.A.D.Aird Lpoatiao .\u2022\u2022\u2022 3iSi Lt.P.Archer,E.N.E.ffijerwaa.3200 Capt.Tracks ospi»11 \u2018 30OO Capt.Richardson.Sdirra^» \"\u2018Jooo Capt.R.S.Watts Ptussii11.gi^o Cant.H.Wylie Utrian.2730\tCapt.Barclay Ltoria».\u2019.\u2019.SOSO Capt.Graham coravia11.3000 Lt.W.H.Smith R.N.LariaB.2700 Cant McDougall.(jcitehsn \u2022\u201c\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u20228a00 Capt.J.Ritchie Ira Scotian.3|00 Capt.Keil McLean.Madia®.24oo Capt.Menzies.Stman.\u201d^0 c^i.Cabcl.icadiao .egoO Capt.J.G.Stephen.Walden.613,11 .2800\tCapt.James Scott fhic,a«\u2018^ld\u201c'l500 Capt.Mylins ,i6'?f the\" steamers of the T)iv8rpool Mail Line'.Liverpool every ^HUB.SDAY, 8^°/^ Halifax o^ery SATURDAY »«d\tLough Foyle to receive on i.jlling a/, n,j Mails and Passengers to bo»rd a\u201cdTre\u201cand and Scotland), are in md rr, v.\u201e 3psT>atched jjjdedt^ jigoM HALIFAX.\t Saturday, Polynesian.- jojin.B) Saturday, CispiaIlTia .Saturday, jjrinatian.gaiurday, jlorarian.\u2022\u2022\u2022 ^ .Saturday, Peruvian.\u2022\u2022\u2022'.Saturday, Ssrdinlnan.\u201e' l AgsAGE Ï'EOM MONTRÏAL.5iTïE .|67, $77 and$87 t',^n According to acco mmodation.[jterffcdiat® \u2022\u2022\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"'\"\"\"\"\"ülllsi 00 jteera?®\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\"¦\tHalifax\tLine\twill TteSSaTfor St.John\u2019s, N.F.,and &\u201cl as follows: Caspian.jjova Scouan.Hibernian.or passage between Halifax and ST.JOHNS: $20 00\t| Steerage.$6 00 inexperienced Surgeon carried on each 1 Berths not secured until naid for.mlLah Bills Lading granted in Liverpool, Af Continental Ports, to all points in fLl.ondm Western States Freight or other particulars, apply ^ toH.& A.Allan, or J.L.to\tQuebec to Allans, Rae â Co.; VSvréto John M.Cubïue, 21 Quai d\u2019Or-uraavio paris to Gustave Boss ange.Rut fônat» Septembre ; in Antwerp tc.Aug Lïm &(\u2019c-> or Richabd Herns ; in Sdam to Buts A Co.; m Hamburg to rffr80\u2022 in Bordeaux to James Moss & r .inBremen to HeirnRuppel & Sons; \u2022 felfast to Ohablet & Malcolm; m L/on to MontqvMEWE 4 Greenhokne.n draceohurch Street ; m iMjs à Alex.Allan ,0 ^cgamsivtj) llgtlcjcs.Mice to Shippers & Importers IRctihuait ÏTDticRs.WINTER ST*A ÇSHIP SERVICE, Vlî PORTLAND, IN CONNECTIfiN WITH TNE GRAND 1RUNR RAILWAY CO.OF CANADA Arrangements have been completed hy Tie Dominion Steamship Co.I The Canada Shinninv'Co DOMINION LINE.I BEAVER UNE.' To pei form a WEEKLY SERTICE between Liverpool and Portland during the en omg WiNT«R, with the following r IRST-CLASS v L YDtl BuiLT STEAMSHIPS leaving Liverpool on Thursdays, i.nd Pork laud on Saturdays in each week :\u2014 Dominion Line.Tons Mississippi.2,250 Quebec.2,sou Domini-n.3,2u0 Beayek Line.Tons Lake Champlain.2,20» Lake Neplgon,.2.200 Stale ol Alabama.2,300 LJÏÏÏi, MONTREAL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6.1878.TUDE iRD COMMERCE ilTX6 7 th Dee.24th Dec.7th Jan.Glasgow to I\tGreat Clyde S-in Liverpool to Allan Brothers, toes Street; in Chic «go to Allan & Co., !8 La Salle Street ^ & A ALLAN> Corner of Youville and Common Streets.November 19 ly .14 WHITE STM LINE.Bailing at Cork Harbour, îrslacd, » lEYING BBIUSE ihD AMERICAN 4\tMAILS.Appointed Sailings\u2014Portland to Liverpool.Mississippi\u2014\tState of Alabama\u2014 Nov.30\tDec.\t7 Quebec\u2014\tLake Champlain\u2014 Dec.14\tDec.\t21 Dominion\u2014\tLake Nepigon\u2014 Dec.28\tJan.\t4 These Steamships are all of large carrying capacity, will insure at the Lowest Rates, and have superior accommodation for Passengers.Through Bill» of Lading issued by all Gra d Trunk Railway Agents in Canada.A pply m Liverpool to FLINN, MAIN & MONTGOMERY, Dominion Line.B J.SELKIRK, Manager Canada Slopping Co\u2019y., Beaver Line.And in Montreal to\u2014 DAYID TORRANCE & CO., Exch nge Court, Agents Dominion Steamship Company.AND THOMPSON, ¦iURRAY&CO., 1 Custom House Square, Agents Canada Snipping Company.Montreal, 27th Nov., 1878\t283 _____RAILWAY.9-MJ.ilH SHORTEST & MOST DIRECT ROUTE TO OTTAWA, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, Trains ^U l-ve HOCHELAGA DEPOT as fol- Express Trains for Hull at 9.3(3 and 4 JH) Arrive at Hull at 2.00 p.m.and 9.00 Jixpress Trains from Hull at 9.10 and 4.10 Arrive at Hochelaga at 1.40 p.m.and 8.40 i.rain tor St.Jerome at.4.00 p.m.- ram trom St.Jerome at.7.00 a.m.I rams leave Mile-End Station ten minutes later £ or Tickets and other information, apply at the General Office, 13 Place d Armes Square.-C.A.SCOTT GenT Superintendent.Gen 1 Freight and Passeng r Agent.September 1____ iy 225 Mail Stsamees Sailed.Moravian, Nov.28, for Halifax, out.Algeria, Nov.30, for New York, 6 out S days days Peruvian, Dec.5, for H ilifax, 1 day out.Depabtuki of Ocean Steamers.City of Brussels.New York, Dec.5 Germanic .New York, Dec.7 Bothnia.New York, Dec.\t11 .New\tYork,\tDec.\t12 Algeria.New York, Dec.\t18 Adriatic.New York, Dec.\t21 OOliHSON LIE Oil' SSX-K./VM.SSHilF\u2019feS ol Running m connection with the Gri*aiicS Trois k liailway .Ca-aada.Tons\tTons.Ontario,.3,200 Memphis,.2,500 Mississippi,.2,250 Teutonia .2,150 St.Louis .2,000 DATE OF Dominion,.8,200 Texas .2,350 Quebec.2,250 Borossia.2,150 Brooklyn.3,500 Sailing.PROVIDED WITH EVE?.ï M0DEEIS IMPEOVEMENT.Blilmg between NEW YORK and LIVER POOL, via Queenstown ire appointed to leave as follows :\u2014 Bbitannic .Sat., Oct.19, at 11.00 a.m.Ciltic.Thurs., Oct.24, ah 3.00 p.m.fiiEHANic.S t.Nov.2, at 11.00 a.m.Bii/nc.Thurs., Ncv.7, at 3.00 p.m.\u2022Ideiatig .Sat., Nov.14, at 8.00 a.m.Bbitannic.Sat., Nov.23, at 3 00 p.m.»Ceitic.Thurs., Nov.28, at 8.00 a.m.Ojbmanic .Sat.,\t\u2014ec.7, at 2,30 p.m.\u2022BiLTic .Thurs., I ec.12.at 7 On a.m.Adriatic .Sat,, Dec 21, at 2.00 p.m.\u2022Britannic, Sat., Dtc.28, at 8.30 a.m.Ciltic .Thurs., Jan.2, at Noon.\u2022Passengers goon board the night before.WINTER RATES.SALOON PASSAGE.New York to Liverpool and Queenstown, ÎW, {80 A $100 gold.Return Tickets, $145 iid{175gold.\"Tickets to London, $8, and to Paris $20, gold, additional.Children bttween one and twelve years, and ser-vaits.$50.00 Infants fiee.lor the Winter Season, this Company Ihtc decided to make an additional Saloon nteof passage of $60 Gold, from New York to Liverpool.Special Excursion Tickets will be issued until Alarch 31st, 1879, at Î120 Gold.These Steamers do not carry Cattle, Steeper Pigs.SIEERAGE PASSAGE Montreal, to or fr; m Liverpoo1, London, Londo.derry, Queenstown, G asgow, Bel-last, Bristol or Cardin, $31 Gold.Pseseogers taking tne \u201c White Star Stumers,\u201d as a rule, p.rrive in London t'Jj days from New York.Passengers booked, via Liverpool, to all puts of.Europe at moderate rates, lor farther information and passage, \u2022PjlytoB.J.CORTIS, Agent, 37 Broad-W.Hew Yo-k.Onto B.J.GOO-MEIN, Sole Agent, 26 St.Suipice Street, Montre» «Mil 11\tyl 244 Steamers will sail as follows :\u2014 FROM PORTLAND, MAJNE.MISSISSIPPI.8Uth\tNov.QUEBEC.14th\tDec.DOMINION.28th\tDec- ONTARIO.11th\tJan.Rates of Passage tor the 'WinierM mbs cabin\u2014Montreal to Liverpool $50 and $60 ; Return do, $90 and $110.No Steerage taken.Through rickets can ho had at all the principal Grand Trunk Railway Ticket Offices in Canada, and Through Bilis of Lading are granted to and from all parts of Canada.For Freight or Passage, apply, in London, to Bowring.Jamieson & Co., 17 East India Avenue ; m Liverpool, to Flinn, Main & Montgomery, 24 James Street; in Quebec, to W.M.Macpherson ; at all Grand Trunk ailway Offices ; or to DAVID TORRANCE & CO., Eiehange Court.April 15\tW 89 bosïon âhd^omtsieâl mim Shortest Hoste via Central Verigoat B.R, tlæe.Leave Mont.n al at 4 p.m.for New York, and 9.15 a.m., and 6 p.m.for Boston.,1 w0 Express Piams daily, equipped with lamer Platform and Westinghouse Air 'Brake.Sleeping Cars are attached to ^\u2022fjht Prams hi tweenMontreal and Boston and Springfield, and New York via Troy also, between St.Albans and Boston via Fitehburgh, and Pari r O- rs t > Day Ex press bet «en Montreal and Boston.TRAINS LEAVE MONTREAL.9.15 a.m., Gay Express for Boston via Lowell.4 p.m.Mail for Waterloo, 4 p.m.Night.Express for New York.ma Troy, and New York 7.15 a.m, next morning.6 p.m,.Night Express for Boston via Lowell, and New York via Springfield, GOING NORTH.Dav Express leaves Boston, via Lowell, at 8.00 a.m, via Fitehburgh 7.30a.m,Troy it 7.40 a.m, arriving m Montreal at 8.45 p.m.NightEs$iesslea.vesBostcnat 5.35 p.m, via Lowell, via Fitehburgh 6 p.m, and New Yorx at 3 p.m, via Springneid, r riving in Montreal 9.00 e.m.Night.Express leaves New York via Troy at 8.30 p.m, arriving in Montreal 11.05 ?.\tm, excepting Saturday nights, when it will leave New York at 4 p.m.arriving in M- ntreal at 9 a.m.Sunday morning.For Tickets and Freight Rates, apply at Central Vermont Railroad Office, 136 St.J araes Street- Boston O .fice, 822 Washington street.?.\tW.BKUTIAY\t4.V), HOBâET, ^Genl.Manager\tGeneral Supt.8- W.CEMMffleS, Genl.Passenger Agent.St.Albans.Vt, Nov.11, 1878.\tIy277 Iglglgglpg Delaware and Hudson Canal Co\u2019s K.ÆÏL,K,OA.I>S \u2014TO\u2014 Saratoga, Troy, Albany, Boston, Hew York, Philadelphia, AND ALL POINTS EAST AND SOUTH iMaiasüü sCij de Line oi Lteamers OaxiadLlan Service.COLIN A.2,000\tTons\tRegister EIRENS .2,000\t\u201c\t\u201c CYBELK.2,000\t\u201c ERL KING.,,,.2,2'0\t\u201c The splendid new first-class tul.power screw Steamer ERL king, A IDS (Highest Glass a Lloyd\u2019s), Is Intended to sahïrom Montreal for Glasgow, On Monday, the 28th October, taking Goods at lowest througn rates trom al parts ot Canada itid the Western States of America.Special facilities for Putter, cheese.Boxed Meats, Sc, and also for a limited number of Horses and Sheep.\t\u201e \u201e Will he followed hy one of the above First-class Steamers every alternate week from Montreal and Glasgow thereafter duiing the season.Splendid accommodation for a limited number of Cabin passengers.For Rates of Freight and Passage, apply to^rt eeford & ^ 23 and 25 St.Sacrament Street, Montreal.Or\tDONALDSON BROTHERS, 67 Great Clyde Street Glasgow Trains Leave Montreal : 9.15 a.m.\u2014Day Express fer Saratoga, Troy, and Albany, with Wagner\u2019s Elegant Drawing Room Car attached, connects at Albany with N.Y.C.and H.R.R.il, and at Troy and Albany with Night Steamers for New York, arriving early the following morning 4.00 p.m.\u2014Night Express \u2014 Wagner\u2019s Elegant Sleeping Car runs through to New York without change.ISSS\" This Train makes close connection at Troy and Albany with Sleeping Oar Train for Boston, ar-riving at 9.00 a.m.New York Through Mails and Express carried ma this line, Information given and Tickets sold at all Grand Trunk Railway Offices, and at the Company\u2019s Office, 143 St.James Street, Montreal.JOSEPH ANGELL,\tC.C.McFALL, General Pass.Agent,\tGeneral Agent, Albany, N.Y.\tMontreal.Sept.23\tly 227 in* 11 m nee iMulxjcjes.m an OAT EUM CGA-iAIMÏA.Montreal, December 5.\u2014The water ie being let out of the La-chine Canal to-day.\u2014The SS.\u201c Hibernian,\u201d from Halifax, via St.Johns, N.F, arrived out on Thursday.\u2014Two firms of grain dealers, at Belleville, are loading cars of barley for Boston.\u2014H.Bowles, shoe dealer, of St.John, N.B, has suspended.Some Montreal houses are slightly interested.\u2014A Washington despatch announces that the Treasury Department has discontinued the issue of gold certificates.\u2014Hebert Brothers, contractors, of St.John, N.B., have cleared out, after victimizing a number of dealers in lumber, their mechanics, etc.\u2014A demand of assignment has been made upon Messrs.George Horne & Sons: stationers, St.Francois Xavier street ; Mr.A.M.Perkins assignee.\u2014The SS.\u201c Nova Scotian,\u201d from Liverpool on 28th ult, arrived at St.Johns, N.F, at 7 p.m.on Wednesday, and left for Halifax at 8 a.m.Thursday.\u2014The directors of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway to-day declared a dividend of 3^ per cent on the preferred, and 2 per cent on the common stock for the past six months.\u2014A quantity of iron ore, which has been got out of the Moore Mine, in Madoc, is to be shipped, part to Buffalo and part to Three Rivers, a few days hence, to be tested.\u2014Writs of attachment against Rousseau & Tremblay, flour merchants, and A.Gag non, grocer, of Quebec, have been issuedt The liabilities of the former firm are stated at $30,000.\u2014A New York despatch says the troubles between the Pacific Mail and American Pacific Companies are reported in a fair way of settlement.Probably a new freight and passenger contract will be agreed upon.\u2014Large shipments of turkeys are being made from Belleville to England.Within the last fews days Mr.Coe has shipped 1,400 from Madoc via the North Hastings Railway, and Mr.Lingham has forwarded 450 from Belleville.\u2014A Chicago despatch says the scrapers and gutters of the Chicago Packing and Provision Company, a concern comprising several of the most important firms doing business at the Stock Yards, struck to the number of about 150 for an increase in wages ; the company refuses to accede ; 2,000 other employes are idle.\u2014A London despatch says the steamer \u201c Brazilian,\u201d which left Boston, November 16th, yesterday landed at Birkenhead with a large consignment of American cattle and sheep in so satisfactory a condition as to seem to set at rest the question whether the trans-Atlantic trade in live stock can be carried on safely during the winter.\u2014The exports from New York (exclusive of specie) for the week ended December 3, were $412,446 above those of the previous week.The following table enables comparisons to be made with the totals at corresponding periods in previous years :\u2014 1ST6.\t\u2019.877.\t1878.Total for W\u2019k.$6,934,616\t$6,889,561\t$7.195,710 Prev.r-.p\u2019fi .2l2,4f:7,l'22 263,776,583 814.166,184 HORNING BOARD.Bank of Montreal.2, 2 ® 145 5, 5,\t13, 25\t®\t144J Consolidated.25,\t®\t68 Merchants.3\t,'S>\t85} 2,\t40, 16\tt3>\t85 4® 84| Commerce.100\t®\t110 Montreal Telegraph.25, 25 ® 109^ 200, 25 ® 110 650, 50 ® 111 25 ® HOJ 25,\t25,25\t®\t1101 25, 25\t®\t1101 Richelieu & Ont.Nav.\tCo.100\ti®\t53J City Gas Co.25\t®\t1101 AFTERNOON BOARD.Bank of Montreal.3, 2 ® 1441 75, 5 ® 144 30, 20 ® 1441 Ontario.1 ® Consolidated.11 ® Peoples.20, 30 ® 10 ® Merchants .2, 10 ® 25, 25 ® 25, 25 ® 711 68 58 571 85 841 85 1 25 ® 110 10, 70 ® 1101 25 ® 1101 City Gas Co.50 ® 110 At New York the Stock Market was weak and irregular ; the fluctuations during the day were as follows :\u2014 Mon.Telegraph.25, 25, 50, 30, 20 ® 110j CAPITAL, $10,000,000 Liability of Stockholders Unlimited.FUNDS INVESTED, \u2022 Jit.eiimlwat HLotix.es, GUNSRlf LINE, sOTiCE.\u2014With the view of dimmishing tki.î- 068 collision, the Steamers o! \u201c\u2019cs ttdie a specified course for all sea-,(®» of the year.8Outward Passage from Queens->aL , ew York or boston, crossing Me-^ o°/43° al1 43 LaX or mfflMS to the Homeward Passage, crossing the Wh 0F42 50\t42 ka-t., or nothing to the panard Steamship Company (Limit-M), between NEW YORK and Liverpool, calling at ^ CORK HARBOUR.(Æ?.n.e,w York From Nbw Yobk Scythia, Wedl., Nov.27 AhyssinlqWea., Doc.4 Bothnia, Wed., Dec.11 .\t.Algeria, Wed., Dec.18 following Wednesday irom 0I\u2019 Passage.\u2014By steamers carry-,:wmttodatio8ü aai4 S°' atcording to aecommo- 1^ 'SsueJ p.c.Bds Mil.Harbor 6 p.c.Bds G.T.R.7 p.c.stg.Bonds.C.® St.L.R.6 p.c.Bonds do s p.c.cy.do Montreal 6 p.c.Bonds.Montreal w.W.Bonds.Montreal7 p.c.Stock.Montreal 6 p.c.Stock EXCHANGE.Bank, so days.3.Y.Gold Drafts- Gold at noon.Sterling gx.U) N.Y.-\u201co i|2 ;U3P.£ c U 3> p.c _ p.c 2^p.C p.c 3 p.C 3 p.C 3#p.C 3tfp.e 4 p.C 3%, P*c 3x;p.c \u2022i p.c 4 p.< 3* p.e p.c 100 IU0 80 50 \".00 100 100 600 144 71 *69 53 06 120 37* 85 m « Cj O) '«V 70 68 57,V 84 118 3GM 84% p.e U.0% \\C- 54 109% gun in a small way ; years ago, Mr.William\u2019s of Oneida County, N.Y.found that being a skilful farmer, he could buy milk from surrounding neighbours, make it into cheese and sell it for more than they could get.In this wav the first large factory was built, and it has been followed by the establishment of thousands in the United States and Canada, and thus has a large export trade been raised up and general intelligence and business methods been developed among the farmers.The prize list contains premiums for both Creamery and Dairy butter.Class A, Creamery, is subdivided into four sections, for June, September, October, and November makes, and in each section prizes for the first and second, and a diploma for the third is offered.Class B.for Dairy butter is the counterpart of Class A.these two classes are open to all comers.Class C, Creamery butter, is subdivided into 13 sections with two prizes and a diploma in each ; the first twelve sections are confined to various States of the Union, while section 13 is for the best creamery butter made in Canada.Class D is a facsimile of class C, except that it is for Dairy butter, and section 13 is for the best Dairy butter from Canada.Class E is for Foreign butter, two sections, one for the British Isles and one for the Continent of Europe.Class F is a Sweepstakes for the best butter of any kind, made at any time or place and Class G, for the handsomest ornamental specimen of butter.Of Canadian butter, the display is small and the quality might be improved upon ; five lots only are exhibited, all by Messrs.A.A.Ayer & Co., of Montreal.At the time of writing, the award in this department has not been made.In cheese class H contains 11 sections for the various States, and the twelfth for the best cheese made in Canada, first prize $50, second $25, thirddiploma.As Ihare already telegraphed you the first and second prizes in this section have been taken by the Hon.Thomas Ballantyne M.P., of Stratford, with cheese from the Honey-grove and Black Creek factories in the order named, the Honeygrove being awarded the highest possible number of marks, fifty, and the Black Creek only one point behind.It will be remembered that it was with Black Creek cheese that Mr.Ballantyne carried off first honours at the Centennial Exhibition.The judges divided their marks as follows:\u2014Make, 10 ; Flavor, 10 ; Texture, 10 ; Color, 10 ; Keeping properties, 10\u2014total, 50 ; and it speaks very highly for Mr.Ballantyne\u2019s exhibits that they should have in the one case been fully up to the standard in every particular, and in the other but one point behind, and this I believe only in Color.Class I is for Foreign and Fancy cheese, and class J a sweepstakes for the best cheese made anywhere.This has not yet been decided, but there are some who think the Honey-grove and Black Creek cheese won\u2019t be far out of it.Class K is for the best display of cheese.Class L contains special premiums offered by the rival salt men, Higgins and Ashton, for the best butter and cheese salted with their particular salt, and also prizes offered by the publisher of the American Dairyman for the best firkin of butter and the best single box of cheese, made in America, neither to be less than 50 lbs in weight.The awards in all these classes are anxiously looked for.Class M is for Dairy Implements.&c.; class N for Dairy Cows, and class O for miscellaneous articles, rennets, colouring matter, condensed milk, &c.On the whole the exhibition is a marvellous illustration of progress in the science of Dairy management, and the variety of cheese is astonishing.In my next communication I shall be able to send you further particulars as to the prizes, as the Judges will by that time, I expect, have concluded their labours in the |butter and cheese departments.THE BRITISH CORN TRADE.The Marie Lane Express, of December 3rd, in its review of the British com trade for the past week, says :\u2014 Trade is still overweighted by heavy supplies, the quantity of wheat and flour at present on passage to the Kingdom being 326,000 quarters more than at the corresponding time last year.The imports of foreign wheat into London have been liberal, last Monday\u2019s return showing the arrival of nearly 86,000 quarters, more than half of which came from Cronstadt and St.Petersburg.Much of the foreign wheat arriving goes direct to the millers, who now buy largely, cost, freight and insurance ; and the amount of business done off stands is considerably affected thereby.The stocks, consequently, are not materially increased, and there is no scarcity of granary room.WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT Montreal, December 5.BLUE.\u2014Duty: 17 y, $ cent.Button .0 06\t@ 0 07 Ball.oil\t.0 14 BOTTLES.0 00\t.5 50 CHICORY\u2014Duty : Raw01 Green, Sc'gpound Roasted or Ground, 4e .n lova 0 11V COFFEE\u2014Duty: Green, 2c ¥ pound: Ground or roasted, 3c Laxuayra, Green, per a.0\t19)4 4 Maracaibo.020\t.Jamaica.0 19\t.Java [Govt].0 29\t.Rio.0 19\t.Ceylon.0 0Ô\t.Singapore.o 20\t.Mocba.0 so\t.CANDLES\u2014Duty : 17J4 ij cent.Belmont Sperm.0\t19 Mould, Montreal.0 00 ParaflB,12s\u2019 & 6s.0 13 COAL Scotch Steam.4 ro Plctou Do .8 50 Cape Breton.0 00 smiths\u2019.0 00 Welsh Anthracite.0 no English Cote.0 00 Am.Anthracite, ex barge.Lump, Lehigh.0 00 Stove.0 00 Egg.oto Grate.0 00 Chestnut .0\t00 CORKS\u2014Duty: 17M 12 cent.sts to Bros, per gross .0 60 DRUGS\u2014Duty: Free.Those marted @ 0 20 0 22 0 21 0 30 0 20 0 00 0 22 0 33 0 20* 0 10 0 20 4\t75 3 75 0 00 0 00 0 01 0 00 C 60 6 25 6 00 5\t55 5 76 SPICES\u2014Duty : Ground, 25 : Unground, 1734 per cent, ad valorem.Cassia, 19 a.nifft 0 16 ] Cloves.0\t37J4.\t0\t42}t Nutmegs.0\t65\t.\t0\t25 Ginger,\tJamaica.0\t21\t.\t0\t26 j\tDo\tAlrlcan.0\t00\t.\t0\t69 Pimento.0\t15\t.\t0\t00 I\tPepper,\tBlack.0\t09\t.\t0\tuy Do\tWhite.0\t13\t.\t0\t19 Mace.0\t75\t.\to\tso SUGAR\u2014 Demerara, V.P.0 00\t.\t0\tro Porto Rico, $ a.coo\t.\t0\tuo Trinidad do .0\t00\t.\t0\t00 Bar Undoes.0\t00\t.\t0\t00 Dry Crushed, in Oris 200 as.0 09y.\t0\t10 CutLoai.0 10\t.\t0\tioi£ Scotch Refined,ft ayeinw.0\t06y.\t0\tosy American Granutnied.0\t99\t.\t0\t09>£ Do.Yellow.0 06X.0'èt Extra C.Yellow.0\t08\t.\t0\t08 C.\u201c\t.0\t00\t.\t0\t00 TEAS\u2014Duty: Green.6\u2019 » a; Black, 6c.Uncoloured Jauans, 12 a cht Icost 0\t45\ta\t0\t50 0o do fine o, .0 40 @ de\tdo\tgood medium 0 35 @ do\tdo good common < 25 @ Japan Pekoe.1\t25\t@ Imperial.0\t22\t.Gunpowder.u 26 .Young Hysons, Firsts.\t0 60 \u2022Bicarb soda.Soda Ash.Iodide ot Potash per lb.\u2022Arrow rooV$ a.Borax, Refined ' 17 3\t05 1 30 4\t75 U 11 0 00 Cream Tartar, Crystals.0 24#.Do Do Ground.o\too' Caustic soda.2\t45 'Sugar of Load .0\t11 Bleacmng Powder,\t^ lb.i\t25 \u2022Alum,.o\too Copperas, ^ lb.i>\too Sulphur.o\too Roll Sulphur.o\too Epsom Salts, ^ loo\tlbs.1\t75 Sal Soda ^ luo tb.i\t20 Saltoetre.oer kf!.: .g\tis FISH\u2014From U.S of all Jimis.exeeot that preserved in OIL free ; Salted or SoaoKed trom other countries, 1c per poand; packages, 17# ; preserved, from other countries, 17#.® 2 oo ' \u201c# pc 3 25 1\t40 5 00 0 15 0 10 0 20 0 00 2\t50# 0 12 1 37 1\t65 0 \u201c1 0 03 0 02 2\t00 1 39 7 00 do\tdo Seconda\t\t.u ir.do\tdo Thirds \t\t\t 0 A ' do\tdo Common.\t\t 0 22 Hyson.\t\t.0 26 @ (3 @ Twankay.o\tIS Hyson Twankay.o\t22 Congou, fine.o\t63 do Good Medium.o\teo do Common\tMedium.o\t32 do Commun.u\t24 Souchong.n\t25 Oolong.0\t20\t.Hyson.Skin.o\t29\t.TOBACCOS\u2014In Bond, Excise, 20c # lb.British Consols.o\too\t@\t0\t39 Bright\u2014Solace.o\t15\t.\to\t23 Rough and Ready,\t5s and 6s.o 3 i\t.\to\t33 Bright\u20143\u2019s.o\t21\t.\t32 Cod, Dry Taoie, ^ 112 n>s.\t.4\t50\t&\t5\t25 Con.Green, is Bbl\t\t.8\t25\t\t4\t25 Drafts\t\t.Ü\t¦JO\t\t4\t25 Salmon, In barrels\t\t.9\t00\t\t11\t00 Do do tierces\t\t.0\tUO\t\t0\t00 Mackerel\t\t.5\t00\t\t10\t00 Herrings, Labrador\t Sea Trout \t\t.5\t06\t\t5\t25 \t.7\t00\t\t\t50 CANNED FISH-\t\t\t\t\t boosters,\t\t\t.1\t40\t@\t1\t75 Salmon\t\t.1\t75\t\t2\t10 Mackerel\t\t.i\t65\t.\t1\t80 FRUIT\u2014Duty: 17# # ont.Layers, per box.1\t50 Loose Muscatels.1\t67#.London Laye.s.2\t15 .Black Basket.2\t65 .Blue do .2 85 .Black Crown.4\tfi0 .Valencia Raisins 3?lb.u\t04#.sultana Raisins.0\tou .Seei less Raisins $ lb.o\t06 .Currants.o\t04#.Figs, Elme .0\t12,*.Do Layers.0\t08#.Do Malaga.0\t05#.Primes .o\t05#.Almonds, Languedoc\t\t\t 0 00 Do Tarragona\t\t\t0 1G Do Provence\t\t,.0 GO Do Ivica\t\t\t 0 14 .Pauer Shell\t\t\t0 00 Jordan \t\t\t0 00 .Filberts\t\t\t 0 07 .Brazil Nuts\t\t\t\t 0 00 Walnuts\t\t\t\t0 00 Sardines, quarters.\t\t 0 09#., Do halves\t\t\t 0 16)4.GLASS\u2014Duty.i7#, ^ cent.English and German, 6#x7# W} half box.I 7# X 8#, 7X9, 8 X 10 .V\t1\t50 10 X 12 .10 X 14.J 12 x 16.1 14\tX 20./ 15\tX 24.1 90 INDIGO - Free.,.0 65 IRON AND HARD WARE.Pig Ikon.ton\u2014 1 60 1 60 1\t75 2\t25 2 75 8 Oo 5 00 0 U5 0 08# 0 06^ 0 05# 0 14 0 i) 0 06 0 t)6 0 00 0 17 0 00 0 15 0 00 0 75 Ü 10 0 00 0 00 0 10 0 17# 1 60 1\t70 2\t00 0 72# Gartsneme\t\t.CO 00\t@ 00 Oo Summeriee \t\t.16 50\t.17 50 Langloan.\t\t.15 50\t.16 50 Eglinton\t\t.16 00\t.17 00 Glengarnock\t\t.15 50\t.16 50 Calder, No.1\t\t.16 00\t.17 00 Carnoroe\t\t\t.16 00\t.iTgOO Clyde \t\t.15 00\t.16 00 Hematite\t\t.20 00\t.22 00 Bak, $ 100 its\u2014 Scotch and Staffordshire.\t.1 65\t.1 75 Best\tdo\t.\t.2 09\t.2 25 Swedes and Norway\t\t.3 T5\t.4 50 Lowmoor and Bowling\t\t.5 50\t.6 00 i anada Plates, 33 oox\u2014 Glamorgan and Badd.a\t00 Arrow, Penn & Garth.3\too Hatton.2\t90 Tin Plates, ^ oox- 3 10 3 20 3 00 0 45 04i 0 30 0 37# 0 35 0 50 0 70# 5 35 023 0 45 0 25 0 27 0 75 0 61 0 3S 0 39 0 60 0 35 0 25 i M POt GRAND TRUNK WEST.J Kerr 35Ü bush oats; A W Ogilvie & eo 200 bris fluur; J E Huusicker l.lou do; Howland & Son 100 do; J W Raphael 300 do; Crane & B 100 do; T Fuller & co 100 do; Oliver G & eo 200 do; A G MoBean 100 do; J Greenshields Son Aeo 3 brls ashes; W T Benson 5 do; Bell S & co 18 kegs butter; T Shaw 15 do; R J Armstrong 6 do; A Shannon Aco 26 do; Dah-ymple A R 8 do; J A Mathewson 6 do; M Laing 51 do; A A Ayer & eo 78 do; J J Hannan Aco 243 do; R Miller 4 do; Leggat A J 2 do; J D Westgate 1 do; M Laing 22 do; R Miller 1 box cheese; A Keroack 5 rolls leather; Cassils S Aco 2 do; Martin A A 20 do; Adams Tobacco Co 7 hhds tobacco; W C McDonald 4 do; Adams Tobacco Co 8 do; W C Mi» Donald 7 do; J E Mullen A co 40 cast* spirits; J E Mullen Aco 10 casks whiskey; STEAMSHIP THE DISASTERS ATLANTIC.ON LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET.Liverpool\t^p.m.Flour \t\ts.19\td.0 \u2014 Louis Koeaerer.carte Blanche 20 60 Pomery & Greno.20\t60 Ayala & Co.18\too Moet & Chaudon\u2019s.Extra Sup.20 60 Do\tdo No.1\t.18 60 Do\tdo No.2\t.16 00 Theo.Roederer, Carte Blanclie IS oo Do.\tGladiateur.20\t00 Jules Mumm\u2019s Dry Verzenay.17 60 Do .xtra Dry.20\too Do Private Stock.\t21\t50 G.H.Mumm\u2019a Dry Ver/.enay.22 00 Do do Extra Dry.23 00 Duc de Montebello.is\too De St.Marceaux & Cie.Carte Blanche.16 oo Do Carte d\u2019Or.18 oo Max Sauteras.oo\too L.Dehnonlco.H\t00 L.Jaunay .18\t00 Perrier.Touet&Co.18\t50 Heidtick's Dry Monopole.20 00 Piper Heldsics.17\t60 B.Mercier & Co.oo\too MOLASSES\u2014Duty : 73c $1 100 tbs when tor refining, and when not so used, 26 ?cent, ad valorem, Including value, of _ packages.sugar Mouse.o\t24 Cencritugal.0\too Muscovado, y gal.o\too Barbadoes.0\t87 Demerara.0\t00 Porto Rico .0\t35 Trinidad.6\too SyruD.-.o 6b naval STORES\u2014Duty: Turpentine, 17x cent.Turpentine, $gal.o\t42\t@\to\t45 Tar, Coal, y bn.0\t0')\t.\t2\t50 Tar, Pine.3\t50\t.\t4\too Pitch, Pine.0\t00\t.\t3\t50 Pitch.Coal Tar.\t 2\t60\t.\t2\t75 OILS\u2014Duty : Crude Petroleum, oc ^ g lion Linseed n Vo on all.22 oo 2 2 oo 19\t60 22 00 20\t00 17 SO 19 00 21 60 10 00 21 60 22 50 21 60 24 50 19 60 17\t50 19 60 00 00 18\t60 19\t60 20\t00 21 00 9 50 19 00 0 28 0 00 0 00 0 33 0 00 0 36 0 00 0 00 BOSTON, Dec.4.\u2014Flour \u2014The market is quiet.We quote Supers at $3 00 @ $3 Z5 per bbl ; low extras from $3 75 @ $4; medium and choi;e Wisconsin and Minnesota spring wheats, $4 25 @ $5 75; Ohio and Michigan flours, $4 62* @$5 00.and one or two favourite brands sell a little better.St.Louis, Illinois and Indiana flours range from §5 00 @ $5 75 ; Winter wheat patents, $0 00 @ $7 75 fancy Minnesotas, $6 25 @ $8 50, with one or two brands at a higher figure.Oats\u2014There has been a moderate inquiry to-day, and the market is steady at unchanged prices.Prices range from 32*c for No 2 mixed ; 33*e tor No 3 white ; 34c for No 2 do, to 38c @ 40c per bush for No 1 and extra white.Butter\u2014The weather is more favourable to trade to-day, and there is some in-quii-y for choice butter which is selling at full prices.Choice Western creameries sell at 26c @ 27c, and choice Northern at 25o @ 27c ; choice New York and Yermont dairy butter sells at 21c @ 23c, and selections wid command 24c @ 26c ; fair to good Northern butter sells at 12c @ 17c, and common down as low as 10c.Western ladle-packed butter ranges from 10c (q) 14c, and store-packed from 7c @ 10c per lb.CHSiSE\u2014ih re is no improvement to note, and buyers purchase only to supply immediate wants.Prices a e weak, and on the lower gradts of early cheese are nearly nominal.We quote fine factory at 8*e @ 9c ; fair to good at 5c @ 8c.Eaus\u2014Prices remain unaltered, and there is a steady but moderate demand at quotations.We quote Eastern at 25c @ 26c; Northern and P E I a» 24c @ 25c ; Western at 23c @ 24c, and limad eggs are dull at 14c @ 17c per doz.Potatoes and Onions\u2014There are no receipts of Potatoes from the Provinces today and only two cargoes from Bangor.The market is dull at 7oo @ 75c per bush for Ualicoes ; 85c @ 90c for Proliffcs ; Rose sell at 85c @ 90c, with some choice stock selling a trifle better ; Jacksons at 8uc.Onions are dull, and there have been sales of Western at $1 75 @ $2 25 per bbi, and $2 50 @ $f DAJ1*Î COMMÎ^OTAL GAZETTE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1878 rr h e WEEKLYHERALD OF THIS WEEK MOST Contains THE FULLEST and COMPLETE ACCOUNT of tie Visit of THE VICE-REGAL PARTY THE ST/AHBREW\u2019S BALL THE EECEPTION GrIVEN BY HIS EXCELLEiSCY themabquisoflorne And HER ROYAL HIOHNESS THE PRINCESS LOOISE \"With a Fall Description of the DRESSES WORN ON EACH OCCASION.THE VISITS TO Ville Marie AND McGill University.THE SERMONS BY THE REV.J.B.GREEN, VERY REV.DEAN BOND (Bishop Elect), and REV.GAVIN LANG, &c.,\t&c.,\t¦S'c.Foe Sale at risher\u2019s TVcws Depot.PRICE, FIVE CENTS December 3 288 JJfeniKi! ïïralil FRIDAY MORNING, DEC.6.APPOINTMENTS.Academy of Music\u2014Complimentary Benefit-, at 8 p.m,____________________ AUCTION SALES THIS DAY.BX HENRY J.SHAW.Sleighs and Cutters\u2014At the corner of McGill and St.James streets, at 9 30 a.m.HEWS SUMMARY DOMINION.\u2014Small-pox seems to be spreading in London, Ont.\u2014Large quantities of counterfeit quarter-dollars are in circulation at Quebec.\u2014Large quantities of turkeys are being shipped from Belleville to England, \u2014The Quebec Harbour revenue for November was $1,100 less than in the same month last year.\u2014His Excellency the Governor-General held a levee in the Senate Chamber at Ottawa yesterday.\u2014The Middlesex County Council has voted against a proposal to establish a poor-house, on the score of its first cost.\u2014Too Ontario Government is threatening the city of London, Ont., with legal proceedings if some arrears of interest are not paid at once.\u2014A mandamus has been issued by the Queen\u2019s Bench of Ontario ordering the County Judge to make a recount in the Centre Welington election case.\u2014There is much comment at Ottawa upon the snubbing of the United States and Canadian newspaper correspondents by the invitation of the English ones only t® Rideau Hall.\u2014In the Dugal manslaughter case the Court of Appeals has decided that frightening a person to death is a constructive assault, and that the facts having been left to the jury, the Court could not interfere.The Chief Justice and Judge Cross dissented.\t« UNITED STATES.\u2014As usual, he wasn\u2019t Charlie Ross.\u2014A bill has been introduced to out down the salaries of United States Ministers to foreign countries.\u2014The citizens of New Orleans have, at a mass meeting, passed resolutions of thanks for the generous aid given them from all parts of the country.\u2014A.meeting of railway managers, at New York, yesterday, decided to continue the freight pool for five years, and to give Commissioner Fink absolute control of the apportionment of percentages.This is expected to stop the rate cutting effectually.GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.\u2014The Bishop of Durham has resigned on account of ill-health.\u2014It is said that on Tuesday Viscount Halifax and Mr.Whitebrod will introduce resolutions condemning the Government\u2019s Afghanistan policy.\u2014Captain Whyte Melville, the celebrated sporting novelist, has died the death of more than one of his own heroes.He fell from his horse while hunting and broke his neck.He was not only the novelist but the poet-laureate of fox hunters.\u2014The Irish question came up in the House of Commons in the shape of a complaint that no mention had been mads in the Queen\u2019s speech of redress for Ireland\u2019s grievances.Mr.Cross, however, said the list of measures, when brought down, would show that Ireland had not been forgotten.\u2014The debate in the House of Lords ou the address in reply to the Queen\u2019s speech, was, for that august body, a stormy one yesterday.Lord Granville said that the prerogative would be weakened by a repetition of such surprises as we have had of late, and was vigorously replied to by Lord Cranbrooke and the Duke\" of Somerset-Lord Beaconsfield defied his oppouents, praised Cyprus, had great hopes with regard to Afghanistan, and thought American energy would re-act favourably on English trade.The speeches of Lurd Har-tington and Gladstone in the Commons merely re-eehoed the expression of Lord Granville, that the Opposition would not hamper the Government, The address was passed in both houses without a division.FOREIGN.\u2014The Czarevna of Russia has been delivered of a son.\u2014The Emperor of Germany has resumed the government.\u2014 Garibaldi believes the future of the world is Republican.\u2014The debate in the Italian Chamber was continued yesterday without any noteworthy result.\u2014Internationalist documents emanating from a centre in New York have been found on three Spanish Socialists.\u2014The Golos and Journal de St.Petersburgh ridicule the idea of General Kauffmann being recalled, and say Russia might as well demand Lord Lytton\u2019s recall.\u2014Six companies of every regiment in Berlin were ready last night to repress any disturbance on the occasion of the Emperor\u2019s return, but there was no trouble.The illuminations were very good.as it is euphemistically phrased, out of the concern, but really out of the pockets of their creditors, no less than £198,000 The drawing of the senior partner during this period ran from £41,500 in the first year of it down to £300 in the last; and the two junior partners, whose annual drawings are not mentioned, took in the eight years the one £21,400, the other £21,500, As to capital this is the way the thing stands : In 1869 Mr.Balfour died, and his executors got out £300,000 as his capital ; and then began the downward course.In 1870 the capital was only £40,000; in 1873 it had fallen to £252; in 1875 this vast sum of £252 disappeared, and the capital\u2014that is to say, the firm\u2014was deficient no less than £87,000; and that deficiency increased to £139,000 in 1876, to £149,000 iu 1877, and to £205,000 in 1878.It is very justly said that if the law cannot find some adequate punishment for conduct like this there need be no law at all on tbe subject.But the truth we believe to be this, that the law will find no adequate punishment, until the object and basis of the bankruptcy laws of England and of Canada are changed.Every one acquainted with French liter\u2019 ature is aware that the necessity \u201c de deposer son hilun\u201d is the one great calamity and disgrace which the French trader dreads, and in comparison with which it is always assumed that he will prefer death itself.Is there any such feeling noticeable in the trading personages of the innumerable society novels in English, with respect to a passage through the bankruptcy courts ?Certainly not; for such a sentiment i would he utterly opposed to life as it is everywhere seen.It would he too baseless, too unnatural to serve as any motive of the tale.Now, we take it that the reason is simply this: that the ideal of she systems of bankruptcy of the two nations is essentially different.The English system regards as the essential thing arrangements for making the biggest dividend out of the wrecked estate ; and that fails, and often fails ignominiously, because it permits> facilitates, and encourages com.positions and accommodations of various kinds, of which the least objectionable are those which simply condone misconduct, though without, any bribery to influence creditors.In this system the punishment of actual or constructive fraud is incident to tbe main object of procuring the largest dividend ; and the incidental object fails of success, if possible, even more completely than the other.In France, as we understand it, the order is reversed.The law seeks first to punish the fraudulent bankrupt, or even the bankrupt who has become so by gross misconduct which does not amount to fraud.The dividend in this ideal is the secondary consideration ; hut we are not aware that the honest creditor loses anything by that, even on particular estates.On the other hand the creditor body gains greatly on the aggregate of business by the repression of those habits of carelessness and worse which make bankruptcies of every day occurrence, and which gradually draw the honest and able man into the abyss created by the reckless trading of unworthy competitors.We confess that we look for no great change for the better, until it is made jU the somewhat severe direction which has been suggested by our comparison.A correspondent of the London Times thus closes his letter : \u2014\u201c Unhappily, and I speak with tbeex-\u201c perience of many years\u2019 acquaintaace \u201c with creditors\u2019 meetings, both bankers \u201c and traders are hopelessly apathetic, \u201c and need the sharp goad of a more \u201c stringent bankruptcy law to bring \u201c about reform in the control of failed es-,l tates.\u201d We fear that the apathy will continue so long as the management of bankrupt estates rests in the bands of the creditors for the purpose which is at present uppermost in their idea, as well as that of their lawgivers, which, however, no bankrupt law has hitherto realized.tem offers a tolerably effective remedy for that one of the diseases which are now affecting the mercantile and financial community.MISTAKES.Even in the fountains of sweet water there are some bitter drops, and while no one who saw anything of our new Governor-General and the Princess, can have any doubt that they desired to reciprocate the heartiness of the welcome with which they were received, few will deny that some things have occurred since their : rrival, which, in order to reconcile them with the conviction already formed, must he set down to misconception.Not to mention less obvious, though, perhaps, in some res pects larger mistakes, we may signalize three which are on the surfac ;.The order respecting the carriagesatHalifax, which assumed that no one was to; pay his respects to the Governor-General and Princess, except that small number who could procure, at least for the occasion, the use of a pair of horses and something like a liveried coachman ; the order which excluded from the Montreal reception ladies, who did not choose, for whatever reason of health, habit, age, or notions of propriety, to appear in public decolletees ; and finally the invitations to Rideau Hall, which established a disagreeable difference between English journalists and those of this Continent.We have hesitated to perform the not very gracious task of formulating complaints at a moment when they are less than usually in order.But we should hardly be doing our duty, now that some of our contemporaries have spoken on these subjects, if we did not show our entire concurrence in their expressions of regret at those occurrences.Mistakes such as the two first mentioned will not restrain those who desire to procure some splendour for themselves by obtaining a temporary contact with royalty and its representatives, but they have a serious effect on many estimable people, who have no wish nor need for any illustration of that kind ; but who will avail themselves of all opportunities which are left open, consistent with self respect, to offer their homage to those who stand to them personally and offi dally in tbe place of tbe Sovereign.what they loill take for it, but what the consuming country will give ; and soi'is with any country h ring a surplus of any one ar icle, they have to go to the markets of the world to sell it, and take what they can get, or keep it to rot.Then they turn to the Canadian and say, \u2018\u2018England \u201c wants to make a mere farm of your \u201c country.\u201d That \u201c Canada wants to \u201c become a great manufacturing coun-\u201c try and nof an agricultural one.\u201d They either forget, or do not know, that the first principle of a new country is to get the land settled and under cultivation, thereby make population, and \u201c then \u201d the manufactories will follow as a natural consequence.They want to put the cart before the horse\u2014build factories first, and trust to God knows what to get population afterwards ! There are upwards of 750 millions of acres of the best agricultural lands in the world in the British domain on this Continent that the plough has never yet entered, or an ox or a sheep fed on ; an expensive railway is now being built to begin the opening up of these lands ; are they to be left unoccupied and waste, the Canadian farmers to continue emigratirg to the Western States cf America, and tbe railway to become a burden ; or are those lands to be rapidly taken up, populated, afford food and a competence to millions, enrich the land, aud make a market for manufactures ?With a Oommereial Free-Trade Union between Britain and the Dominion .here would not be any doubt as to tbe latter result, and the moment the measure was adopted, an immigrttion to those lands would commence unprecedented in the world\u2019s history.It has taken the United States one hundred years to make a population of forty millions, the British Demin.on on this continent, if this policy is inaugurated could do it in fifty Tnere would be continually growing market for all gation up to the 1st December, in the following years ,\u2014 \tVessels.\tTonnage.1875 \t\t\t384.800 1876 \t\t\t\t 602\t391.180 1877 \t\t\t 513\t376,869 1878 \t\t\t 516\t397,266 CLASSIFICATION.THE LADIES.Among the changes which the pre.sent Ministry is about to inaugurate in the Civil Service is the dismissal of the female clerks ; reason, that these ladies have not yet learned to he electioneers.But on the other hand none of them have disgraced the service by drunkenness, and though many of them live very hardly and have much difficulty in maintaining their half-orphaned children or other helpless relatives, we have never yet heard of them as amongsi those people whose creditors attempt to seize their salaries and who plead in opposition that the salaries of the Gov.ernment officials are privileged.This is of course another example of economy ; but every one who is acquainted with the state of things in Ottawa is well aware that the places vacated by these ladies must, as a rule, be filled up, and that they cannot be filled by anybody more deserving, or more entitled to sympathy, than are the majority of the female clerks.Mr.Mackenzie\u2019s Government did a wis*», as weil as a kind thing, when it offered employment to a number of women, whose poverty very rarely arose from faults of their own and whose earnings were generally employed in a conscientious manner, with out beer or cigars.We think this exercise of the authority of the new Minis, ters is one of the meanest of which we have yet heard.Ontario and Quebec could manufacture besides all tbe manufactures England would send, after supplying India.Australia and her other customers.Canada has a large percentage of advantage as a manufacturing country over England or any other country.Her water powers, wood, coal, iron, &c., cheap living, therefore, cheap labour.So the cry of injury to manufacturers is merely another part of the throw dust in the eye policy of the before-mentioned small party.To look at the geographical position of the British possessions on this continent, their richness in agricultural and grazing lands, woods, minerals, coal, fisheries, &c., and fine climate with oeean east, west and north, and lying south of them a country c >n-taining forty millions of inhabitants, md to contemplate that by a policy of Free Trade with Britain (asexplained in an article in the Herald of 5ch inst.) Canada would handle three-fourths of the produce of the west and south-west, as well as three-fourths of the imports, and ha well paid forjdoing it ; become the greatest flour manufacturer in the world and n ot behind other countries in her other manufactures ; that she would overtake the United States iu popula-ion before a century would look almost incredible, but it would nevertheless prove to ha the case.Should England adopt a high tariff she could in time force the whole world to adopt \u201c Free Irade,\u201d simply by saying to other countries, \u201c put on a tariff \u201c similar to mine and with you I will make a free trade treaty.\u201d One by one they would all come in, hut at present it would be England'spolicy to refuse all except her own possessions and colonies.After they have all agreed to adopt the policy, it will he time enough to think of overtures from other countries.To make Free Trade a success it must be universal over the whole commercial world, or not at all.Commerce is the best diplomatist.M.Chicago, 30th November, 1878.ELECTION LAW.BANKING SECURITY.BANKRÜPTCY LA WS.The call upon the British Government for the pas-ing of the bankruptcy law which has been announced session after session, hut always withdrawn, for several years past, is strengthened by the many dishonest bankruptcies which have ocf urred during the autumn of this year.Among these take the typical case of Heugh, Balfour & Co.Tables have been published showing the annual profits or losses of this concern during the eight years preceding their bankruptcy, with the drawings of the partners, and the deficits in capital.Taking the whole eight years of the table, there were but four in which any profits were made.These amounted only to £59,600, while the losses in the other four years amounted to £109,900.That is to say the losses exceeded\u2019 the profits by £50,300 during this period of eight years.Well, with such à state of affairs how were the partners living; or at ali events what were the sums they were withdrawing from the business ?Why, these three gentlemen, who were in fact worse than beggars, were taking; The failure of the Glasgow Bank has furnished a theme, still unexhausted, for English writers on banking subjects ; and among these subjects we notice that the question of the liability of shareholders is attracting a good deal of attention.Among other observations it has brought out a correspondence in the Economist, in which is related the mode of securing this liability adopted in Sweden.There the end is atiained by granting all the bank charters for a period of ten years only, renewable after that for asimilar term ; and by the rule that, during the ten years, no shareholder can divest himself of his stock without the consent of all his partners.We do not know whether that means consent given individual^ or whether by vote of a majority.At the end of the ten years any one may go out ; but that is rarely done, and when any one chooses to do so, there is never any difficulty in finding a successor for him\u2014we suppose by the ordinary sale of stock.The account thus given is but a sketch ; but from what we can see of it, we are inclined to think that the operation of such a law for the constitution of banks, if it has inconveniences, which it probably has, must possess one great advantage.This is, that it must make the shareholding body of a bank more consistent, stable, and interested in the permanent prosperity of the concern than it can ever be when, as under the present system, a large number of holders of stock are utterly uninterested about that future of the institution which lies six months off.It is obvious that nothing can be more unhealthy, whether for hanks or for other joint stock companies, than the custom which makes the chief interest in them c-ntre, not in the legitimate profits which are to he divided among permanent partners, hut in the gains which may be made in a few weeks or a few days by tossing the stock about on the Exchange.That mode of business has only to continue a little longer to make all sensible persons absolutely refuse to embark their means in joint stock concerns.It is only too evident that the ordinary stockholders\u2019 property is entirely at the mercy of a few persons, sometimes of strangers to all genuine interest in it, who at a given moment may find their profit iu depressing its value nomin-ally, and sometimes really, and in surrounding the perm ment holder with a fog of doubt as to what he really owns We believe there can be no genuine prosperity in joint stock enterprizes, taken in the gross, until they cease to be the shuttlecocks of the jobbers, and become, as they once were, the property of men who buy the stocks to hold for the dividends, and who sell only on comparatively rare occasions, which they do not look forward to at the time of purchase.That may now seem to be Utopian, but let anyone consider what the present system really means, and he will see that it must eventually work itself out by universal discredit.So far as we can see, the Swedish bank sys- Mr.'Justice Sicotte, in the St.Hyacinthe Election case, has disallowed the objection to the jurisdiction of the Pro vindal Courts which has been ;,recently pleaded, inso many cases, as a bar to the reception of election petitions by these tribunals.Mr.Justice Sicotte hi Id, as the Judges in this Province have provided for the forms to be oh served in these cases by the Rules of Practice, that they must be presumed to have considered themselves bound and authorized by law to adjudicate upon them.The other preliminary ob jections were also dismissed, and proof is now to be taken on the allegations in Mr.Mercier\u2019s petition.Diplomatic.\u2014It is stated that the Porte is about to withdraw its Minister from Washington, and to abolish the office.THE ST.ANDREW\u2019S BA LL.SOCIETY\u2019S To tlie EJltor ol the Montreal Herald.Sir,\u2014Your comments upon my letter of the 3rd instant, (the date of which was omitted from your publication) opeii\u201da que tion of tam siry and leave every original question unanswered, While it is perfectly true that the President in office on the 29 ;h ult.appeared as described you at the ball, it is no less by true that the President office at the date of my letter appeared in Highland costume with his bead cov.ered, so that the possibility of his being a Quaker is the only inference which can with any degree of courtesy be drawn unless his appearance was warranted by a medical certificate.A Highlander who was not at the St.Andrew\u2019s Society\u2019s Bali,.Montreal, 5th Dec.1878.\tis CO a\tCQ\tm A) a\t\t« .5 a\t03 H e Breton, an indispensable agent is the HALIFAX MORNING CHRONICLE The Chronicle is the pioneer daily of Nova Scotia, and has *or many years held an unrivalled position as a political, commercial and general newspaper.It is an independent Liberal journal.No other pap- r in the Province has had *o largea siaff, spent 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