Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 19 mars 1879, mercredi 19 mars 1879

[" .(g78-9 j-H- »I,T\t«e compo^.A NI) DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.___of wered VOL.LXXI.\u2014NO 66 ?\t.tin*', \u201cT FuU-P°werea - s\u201c\u2018\u201c' %-r- ^îr-iSgS^jÆf K;:'S,S:j,£lÆ\u201d \" Jjôo w- ?\u2022 4 Tr°cks K!t>3 ¦'\u2022\u2022's20CC»P\u2018-g-s Wa-te.*2*5-¦'1700 C»Pt- J-0 Stephen.Ifenzies.*2^5\u2014'«OOC»pt- IVei.gfeæsî-ss», ^\u2019¦\u201c.\u201cMaaWno BrAiS?^scoüttBd),a Feb.Mar.?, ¦ Tuesday, March 18.wiieai in Chicago fluctuate-! higher, bu quoted.11 resterda^'* dyeing price* wer«x Beerbohm\u2019* Advices.\u2014Floating cargoes -Wheat, New York advice, caute depression ; da.Corn slow.Cargoes on passage and for shipment\u2014Wheat and Corn verv he ivy.Arrivals oft' coast, f.o.\u2014Wh-at and Corn «mail.Liverpool Wheat, ipet.Reds are firmly held, but Whites are vety dull.Liverpool Corn, spot, rather worse.California ClubWheat, 9s.3d.IS 9s.7d.; dc.White, 9s.fi» 9s.3d.Corn, 4*.6d.Canadian Peas, 6s.4d.Flour.\u2014Market quiet ; the few sale* that were made shew no change in valaes, which are quoted unchanged.Transactions reported are 60 brl*.Extra Superfine at $4.50 ; 300 do Spring Extra at $4.25 ; 50 do Superfine at $4 ; 60 do Strong Bakers\u2019 at $4.58 ; 50 Choice do.at $4.60 ; 208 Ontario Bags at $2.20.Superior Extra.$4\t70 Extra Superfine.4\t50 Fancy.4\t30 Spring Extra.4\t22! 1 Superfine .3\t95 Strong Bakers\u2019 .4\t35 Fine.3\t40 Middlings.3\tCO Pollards.2\t69 Ontario Bags.1\t00 City Bags (delivered).0 00 \u201e Oatmeal\u2014Ontario, about $4.00.Cornmeal\u2014Kiln-dried, yellow, $2.45.Corn\u2014Nominal.Canada Wheat\u2014Nominal.Peas\u2014Nominal.Oats\u2014Nominal.Barley\u2014Nominal.Buttes\u2014Western, store-packed, 7c.IS 10c.; Dairy Western, fair to good, 9c.IS 13c ; Morrisburg, good to choice, 15c.IS 18c.; Eastern Townships, good to choice, 17c.IS 19c.Cheese\u20148c.fi» 10c., according to make.Lard\u20149!c.IS 10c.for tubs and pails.Pork\u2014Mess, $13.50 IS $14.00, according to brand.Ashes\u2014Per 100 lbs\u2014Pots, $3.90 IS $3.95.Seeds\u2014Timothy, $1.60 IS $1.70 per 45 lbs.Clover, 6!e.IS 7!c.per lb.New York, March 18, 12.10 p.in.\u2014 Wheat, quiet ; Chicago.$1.04 @ $1.05 ; Milwaukee, $1.06; No.2 Red, $1.16 @ $1.161.Corn, quiet; steamer, 44c ; No.2, 441c; No.3, 43|c, Oats, quiet.Receipts\u2014Wheat, 101,000 bushels ; Corn, 59 000 do ; Oats, 67,000 do ; Rye, 8,000 do , Barley, 3,850 do.Chmago, March 18.\u2014Wheat \u2014 Receipts, 74,000 bush ; shipments, 89,000 do.9.30 a.m.\u2014Opens at 901c bid for April.11.28 a.m.\u201490ic for April; 95c asked for May.Com\u2014Receipts, 92,000 bushels ; shipments, 108,000 do.9.33 a.m.\u2014Opens at 361c (tu 36ic for May ; 36ic bid tor June.11.30 a.m.\u201436c bid for May; 36!c bid for June.Oats \u2014Receipts.62,000 bushels ; shipments, 58,-000 do.11.22 a.m.\u2014251c asked for May; 251c hid for June.Barley\u2014Receipts, 13,000 bush; shipments, 16,000do.Pork\u20149.45a.m.\u2014Opens at $10.10,bid for April ; $10.20 bid for May.11.28 a.m.\u2014$10.07! bid for April j $10 20 for May.; Lard\u20149.45 a.m.\u2014Opens at $6.57! for April ; $6.65 asked for May.11.28 a.m.\u2014$6.57! for April ; $8.65 asked for May.Milwaukee,March 18\u2014Wheat\u2014Receipt*.41,000 bushels ; shipments, 24,000 do.9.33 a m.\u2014Opens at 90Jc for April.11.48a.m.\u2014 90ic for March ; 90|c for April ; 95ic for May.Receipts of Produce\u2014March 18.G.T.R.Q.M.O.&O.Wheat.339\t.Flour, bris.1,220 Ashes.11 Butter, kegs.95 Leather, rolls.Dressed Hogs.139 MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.TO THE MONTREAL HERALD.877 Correspondence conducted in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.December 16\t299 Valuable Pianos anil tligans, Great inducements are now offered to arties wanting Pianos.TheNEWYORK >IANO COMPANY, 183 ST.JAMES STREET, who are the Wholesale Agents for the celebrated ALBERT WEBER, HALLET, DA VIES k CO., HALE.VOSE, and other well-known makers, also for the GEORGE WOODS & CO., and NEW ENGLAND ORGANS, all of which are guaranteed fine instruments and are sold at a large discount from the usual prices.Send for descriptive catalogues and reduced price lists, and purchase before the advance in the tariff takes place.App'y to NEW YORK PIANO COMPANY, '\t183 ST.JAMES STREET January 17\t14 JOHN FRASER, Accountant and.Auditor For the Inspection, Auditing or Adjustment of Books and Accounts, Settlement of Partnerships, making up of Statements, Reports, &c.Will attend at the Offices, or elsewhere, of parties requiring such services.Present Address :\u2014347 P.O.Box.Or, at the office of Hugh Brodie, N.P., 344 Notre Dame street.January 11\t3m 9 john McDonald, ACCOUNTANT & AUDITOR! 230 St.James Street, MO IN Tit ifi-AJL;, ESTABIVISHEr» 1807.Legitimate Accountant business punctually and effectually performed.No business undertaken in connection w ith the operation or results of the Insolvent Acts, except the elucidation of dubious dealing.Montreal, 4th January, 1879\t6 82! 87! 38! 115 46! 40 15! 104! 71! 12! 25! 11 57! 86| 39! 83 87! 38 114! 104! 71! 12! 25 40 15! 131! 131! °8 193 4873 5! 19! 73! 37 86! 38{ 82! 87! 37f 114! 46 39! 15! 131! Montreal, March 18 STOCKS.J.o.19 73! 487 X>Elï*OT OF \u2019A\u2019Sill Improved Icgersoll Rock Drill The Best aud Cheapest Steam Drill in Canada.We ha ve on hand all sizes Rock Drills from 5-inch down to 2J-inch Cylinder.Plug and Feather Drills are also being manufactured especially for Quarry Work Mich.Central.Jersey Central.38! N.Ÿ.Central.114! Del.Lack.&West.47! Del.& Hudson.40! St.Joseph.15| Rock Island.132 C.C.&I.C.5! Tol.& Wabash.19! Union Pacific.73! A.P.& Tel.37 Exchange.487 ! Money .The sales were Pacific Mail, 900; Western Union, 3,800 ; Nor\u2019-West, 19,-200 ; do.preferred, 9,800 ; Rock Island, 200 ; St.Paul, 9,800 ; do.preferred, 4,200 ; Erie, 12,600; St.Joseph, 1,400 ; do.preferred, 2,800; Lake Shore, 3,900 ; New York Central, 306 ; Ohio & Mis* 1,300 ; Wabash, 6,400 ; Union Pacific, 1,400; Michigan Central, 1,700 ; Delaware and Hudson, 400 ; Jersey Central, 10,700; Delaware & Lackawanna, 35,100 ; Illinois Central, 400.FINANCIAL AFFAIRS IN GREA T BRITAIN.JOHN M.M.DUFF Official Assignee & Accountant, Commissioner for Ontario and Quebec, AND ISSUER OF MARRIAGE LICENSES, SIT' St.Jaxaes street.P.O.Box 527.February 7 MONTREAL.32 EVANS & RIDDELL, Fufolic Accountants AND OFFICIAL ASSIGNEES, SS S5T.JOJIJN Ss'X'Xt.IRlRX MONTREAL.December 11\t_____\u2022___2 5 tti festoolc: GRANITE DRILL STEEL, DYNAMITE (Canadian),1 VOLNEY BLASTING POWDER, BLACK POWDER, BATTERIES, FUSES, EXPLODERS, LEADING WIRE, &c COOPER.FAIRMAN & CO.October 18\tmf 6m 224 No.July J.RiELLE, Surveyer, 146 ST.JAMES STREET.169 WHERE TO FURNISH.The most Durable, Elegant and Comfortable Setts of Modern :EPUÎ*:i>ï ITTJTfcE!, from our own extensive factory in this city, are retailed at very lew rates by OK-A.ICS- He OO., 463 NOTRE DAME STREET.February 11\tta» 85 Bv cable we learn that the Economist of Saturday last says :\u2014\u201c Bank bills, sixty days to three months, are quoted at 2!, and trade bills, three months, at 2! (3> 2! per cent, discount.The following are the bank and open market rates of discount respectively in the chief Continental cities : Paris, 3 and 2 ; Berlin, 4 and 2 ; Frankfort.4 and 2! ; Amsterdam, 3! and 3! ; Brussels, 3 and 2f ; Vienna, 4! and 3Î, and St.Petersburg, 6 and 4!- On tbe stock exchange business has been very slack.Neither the reduction of the Bank of England rate of discount, nor the withdrawal of the fleet from Constantinople exercised any beneficial effect.British railway and bank shares are lower.Turkish and Egyptian bonds fell considerably on the declaration in the House of Commons that the interference of the Government in the affairs of those countries is purely political, and it could not assume any obligations or responsibilities in connection with their finances.The movements in the mortgage issues of American railroad securities have been decidedly upward.Erie bonds have risen largely, and Atlantic and Great Western mortgages are (k'mer.LONDON GROCERY MARKET.A Cable despatch states that busines* in the Mincing Lane markets continues quiet, and the extent of the transactions very moderate.There is more\u2019 demand for plantation Ceylon coffee at some further decline.The first considerable supplies of Bank of Montreal.Ontario Bank.Bank of B.N.America.Consolidate!.Banque du Peuple.Molsons\u2019 Bank.Bank ot Toronto.Bank Jae.Cartier.Mereùants\u2019 Bank.Sast\u2019n Townships Bank.Quebec Bank.Banque Nationale.Onion Bank .Mechanlcs\u2019Bank.oan.Bank of Commerce.Metropolitan Bank.Dominion Bank.Bank ot Hamilton.Maritime Bank.Exchange Bank.Ville Marie.Standard Bank.general Bank.Imperial.MISCELLANEOUS.Intercolonial Coal Co.Huron Copper Bay Co.Montreal Telegraph Co.Dominion Telegraph Co.Rich.& Ont.Nav.Co .City Paisenger R.R.City Oas Co.Merchants\u2019 Exchange.Cle.Pret et C\u2019dlt Poncter Quebec Pire Assurance Montreal Invest.Ass\u2019n.Cotton Manufactur\u2019g Co Cornwall Mfg.Co.Mont.Warehouslng Co, North Am.car Co.Mont, Loan «Morte Co.Montreal Buiid\u2019g ass\u2019u.sealing and Pishing.Academy of Music.Royal Canadian Ins.Co.Can.Landed Credit Co.Qlohe Printing Co.Dominion Stock 6 p-c.Dominion Stock 6 p.c.Dominion Bonds.Dom.Tel.6 p.c.stg Bde Gov.Deh 6 p.c.stg Gov.Deb.s p.c.cy.Gov.Den.6 p.c.stg Gov.Deh.6p.e.cy.Mtl.Harbor 6% p.c.Bds Mtl.Harbor 6 p.c.Bds G.T.R.* P-c.stg.Bonds.C.& 8t.L, K.6 p.c.Bonds do S p.c.cy.do Montrealsp.c.Bonds.Montreal w.W.Bonds.MontrealT p.c.Stock.Montreal6p.c.Stock.EXCHANGE.Bank, so days.N.Y.Gold Drafts.sterling Ex.m N.Y $S00 6 p.cj 40 3 P-t-i .\u20ac50 ZMP-Oj.-$100 13 p.c ¦ 60 Î2 p.c 60 fS p.c 100 8)4 p.c 85 .loo s^p.e - 4 p.c 3)4 p.c SXP.C p.c 60 100 50 50 30 60 100 60 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 4 40 50 100 50 40 100 4 p.e 55 102 P-C p.c p.c p.c p.e 3XP.C, 4 p.c P-0 I l.c ; pc 5 p.C i p.C I p.c 4 p.C .00 100 100 500 «0 62* EUROPEAN.LIVERPOOL, March 18.\u2014Cotton\u2014Unchanged.LONDON.March 18,11.30 a.m.\u2014Consols, 96 13-16 ; 4!\u2019s, 107! ; fives, 106! ; Erie, 25!; pfd, 46 ; Ill.C.83.5 p.m.\u2014 Consols, 96 13-16; 4!\u2019s, 107!; 5\u2019s, 1C6Î; Erie, 25! ; pfd, 46; Ill.C, 83.PARIS, March 18, 5 p.m.\u2014Rentes, 113f.32ic.ANTWERP, March 18\u2014Petroleum, 22!f, UNITED STATES.CHICAGO, March 18.\u2014Flouh\u2014Steady and unchanged.Wheat\u2014A shade higher ; No.2 Spring, 90 jejfor cash; 90|c for April Corn, good demand, at 32c for cash and April.Oats quiet and firm; 21je @ 22c for oash and April.Rye, firmer, at 45c @ 47c.Barley, easier, at 75c @ 78c.Pokk\u2014Strong and higher, at $10 15 @ $10 20 for eajn; $10 17! @ $10.20 for April.Lake\u2014In good demand, and shade higher; $6 60 tor cash and April.Bulk Meats\u2014In good demand and shade higher; shoulders, $3 95; short ribs, $5 15 short clear, $5 35.Whiskey\u2014Steady at $1 04.Receipts\u2014Flour, 13,000 barrels; Wheat, 74,000 bushelp; Corn, 92,000 bushels; Oats, 62,000 ru hels ; Rye, 1,000 bushels ; Barley, 13,000 bushels.Shipments\u2014Flour, 12,000 brls; Wheat, 89,000 bushels; Corn, 10,000 bushels ; Oats, 58,000 bushels; Rye, 7,000bushels; Barley, 8,000 bushels.3.30 p.m.\u2014Grain\u2014 Wheat, 90!c @ 90!c for April ; 94|c @ 94|c for May.Corn, 32!c asked for April; 36!c @ 36!e for May ; 38!e @ 36f c f or J une.Oats, 25!c for May ; 25ic for June.Pork\u2014$10.20 @$10.22!for April; $10.32! @ $10.35 for May.Lard.\u2014$6.57! bid for April; $6,65 bid for May.Hogs \u2014 Receipts, 7,900; light grades, $3.80 @ $3.95; mixed packers, $3.65 (§) $4.10.NEW YORK.March 18,1.30 p.m.\u2014Cotton \u2014Dull and unchanged.Flour\u2014Very moderate demand ; receipts, 10,000 barrels; sales, 13,000 do at $3.25 (g $3.65 for Sup.:.r State and Western.Rye Flour, unchanged.Grain\u2014Wheat, Spring dull ; Winter ie @ !c better ; fairly active ; receipts, 101,000 bushels; sales, 32,000 bushels ; No.2 Red, for March, $1.16 @ $1.16!.Rye, dull; State, 60e @ 62c.Corn, fairly active ; receipts, 59,000 bushels ; sales, 175,000 do at 43ic @ 46c.Barley, dull.Oats, dull ; receipts, 67,000 bushels ; sales, 24,000 do at 82c @ 33c for Mixed Western and State ; 32îe @ 35ic for White do.Pork\u2014Firm at $10.50.Lard\u2014Firmer at $6 67!.3.30 p.m\u2014Railroads, dull ; Stocks Irregular.2.05 p.m.\u2014Grain\u2014Wheat\u2014Dull; sales, 90,000 bushels; No 2 Red.$1.15! @ $1.16.Corn, dull ; sales, 75,000 bush; steamer, 43!c; No 2, 44!c @ 44!c.Oats, dull.Barley, quiet ; Canada, 80c @$110; State, 55c @ 85c.Tallow\u20146!c.Dressed Hogs\u2014$4.75 @ $5.50.¦Whiskey\u2014Sales 200 brls at $1.06! @ $1.06!.MILWAUKEE, March 18, 9.33 a.m \u2014 Grain\u2014Wheat, 90!c bid fer April.Receipts, 41,000 bush ; shipments, 24,000 do.3.30 p.m.\u2014 Grain\u2014 Wheat \u2014 Hard at $1.004 ; No 1,98c; No 2, 91!c for cash.'; 90ic for March; 904c for April; 98!c for May ; No 3, 80e.DETROIT, March 18, 1 p.m.\u2014Grain \u2014Wheat\u2014Easier ; Extra, held at $1.05!; White, $1.04! for cash; $1.06! @ $1.06! for May.Receipts, 20,000 bush; shipments, 65.000 do.TOLEDO, March 18, 12 noon.\u2014Wheat, weak ; Extra White, §1.07 ; No.2 Red, $1.07! for March; $1.07! for April; $1.08! for May.Corn, steady; high mixed, 36c ; No 2,37ic for May.Oats, nominal.106* ni* 4D.C sp.c-i 4* P.C 106 n no 5 per ciac tor 2 years, tex dlv.MACDOUGALL & DAVIDSON Biokers- LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET.MARINE INTELLIGENCE B Y T E X, E G K A l\u2019 II.HALIFAX, N.S., March 18.\u2014Arrived, the steamer Quebec, of the Dominion Line, from Liverpool, and, after discharging freight here, will proceed to Portland, The steamer Newfoundland, for St.Johns, Nfld.; Beta, for Bermuda, and St.Thomas have sailed.ST JOHH, N B, March 18\u2014Owing to the stormy weather, the steamer Minia has been unable to continue operations in connection with the repairing of the break in the Direct Cable.TORONTO, March 18\u2014Tho schooner Mary Ann, Captain Smith, arrived yesterday from Oakville, with stone, being the first arrival of the season.She was also the first last season.Navigation is expected to open for good about the 1st prox.A large part of the harbour is now clear of ice, and that remaining shows signs of a speedy dissolution.Vessel owners regard the prospects of tie coming season as far ahead of the last two or three years.The gross tonnage on steamboats for tbe season of 1879 is 118,588 tons for the Dominion, being an increase of 6,600 tons over the previous year.NEW YORK, March 18.\u2014Arrived, S,S.Pheola from Cardiff, and Burgos fiota Hull.Arrived S.S.Wyoming from Liverpool.NAGASAKI, March 18\u2014The American barque Annie S Hal!, from Hong Kong, is on tire ; part of oargo saved.Soring Wheat Red Winter Club- Corn Barle; Oats.Pork .Lard.Ç March 17, l 5.00 p.m, s.d.\ts.d.\t\t\tS.\tMarch 18, 5.00 p.m.d.s.d.\t 8\t6 @ 10\tC\t8\t6 @ 10\tn 7\t9 @ 8\t3\t7\t9 @ 8\t3 9\t0 @ 9\t4\t9\t0 @ 9\t4 .8 11 @ 9\t\t4\t8 11 @ 9\t\t4 .9\t3 @ 9\t8\t9\t3 @ 9\t8 .4\t6 @ 00\t0\t4\t6 @ 00\t0 .5\t3 @ 00\t0\t5\t3 @ 00\t0 .5\t6 @ 00\t0\t5\t6 @ 00\t0 .6\t4 @ 00\t0\t6\t4 @ 00\t0 \t0 @ 00\t0\t50\t0 @ 00\t0 .33\t6 @ 00\tt\t33\t9 @ 00\t0 .71\t0 @ 00\t(\t71\t6 @ 00\t0 .26\t9 @ 27\t9\t27\t0 @ 23\t0 .35\t9 @ 00\t0\t35\t9 @ 00\t0 .48\t0 @ 00\t0\t18\t0 @ 00\t0 Breadstuffs q.riet and unchanged.The receipts of Wheat the past three days have been 114,000 centals, of which 107,000 were American.IMPORTS, GRAND TRUNK WEST.Bank of Toronto 226 bags wheat; Order Standard Bank 20Q bags flour; Order Bank of Toronto 200 do; Ontario Bank 200 do; N Renaud & co 100 brls do; Kirkpatrick & C 100 do; Keith C & co 100 do; Bank cf Montreal 100 do; W F Johnston 100 do; Order Dominion Bank 200 bags do; J E Hunsicker200 brls; Merchants Bank 120 do; H Dobell & co 3 brls ashes; McKay Bros 2 do; A Shannon & co 2 do; Craig & M 1 do; E M Sedley 3 do; J Jack & co 12 kegs butter; Viau & Frere 4 do; G Wait 50 do; Bill S & eo 14 do; Vipond McB & co 14 do; Bell S & co 1 do; F J Donovan & Son 9 rolls leather; Black & Lock 50 do; Shaw Bros & co 1 car do.I I P * f'i I « ir pi; i|*L S ftp III pi ft Hi*' à ! |!u : f5 ; -, pll r,.' I 1442 14 C$C ^ MONTREAL HERALD AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY, MARGÎ 19, 1879.Q.M.O.& O.R.R.Mile-End\u2014J Michaud 16 cords wood; Rev P Campeau 8 do; James Ray 2 bags poultry; J Lamarche 2 do; B Maroelais 2 barrels eggs 1 bx do.Hocbelaga\u2014Jas S Dixon 1 car load hay; J H Morney 4 rolls leather; J Dougall 4 ^ \u2018GRAND TRUNK EAST.Jas Johnston&co 1 cse; T J Claxtomfccol do; J G McKenxie&co 2 do; Wilson,Pico 22 cars coal; J H Converse 83 bles hemp.VERMONT JUNCTION.G Herbert 87 boxes; J McArthnr&S 150 bris; J Redpath&S 1 gear; C Sonne 20 bis; Hodgson.M&S^l do; McGibbon&B 2 oses 1 bx; Montreal C&P co 2 case; C W Williams mfg eo 2 do; R T Gibb&co 1 ble; R Wilkes 1\tble 7 bxe; Craig&co 1 bell; Canada P co 2\tcs; Washburn M co 276 bis.ROUSE\u2019S POINT.A Darling 1 cask; Goodyear R co 1 case; F R Cole 5 brls; Rolland&fils 20 bdles; W Walter 1 cse; Lyman,Sico 1 do; J Rankin 2\ttrunks; H Haswell 12 cs 2 bis; D Ritchie 3\thhds; D A Cassevreaux 1 cse 2 crates; T May 15 cs; Lyman,S&co 1 box; A L C Merrill 1 cse; Hodgson,M&S 1 do; J Gilmour 2 horses; R McClary 1 s machine 2 bacskets 3 bxs 1 w tub 1 stove 1 boiler 2 s beds; W Evans 6 bags corn.7,543.342 2,436.841 2,491.049 452,000 3,987,600 8,569,243 1,065,757 4,791,245 310,853 Tottie Patronsofthe Herald, Mk.G.A.McGREGOR is at present in Brome County, in the interest ot The Hebald.He is authorized to receive subscriptions to our Daily and W eekly Editions.JAMES STEWART, Managing Director.^gdutal HraliL taking our figures from the Trade and Navigation tables, just laid before Parliament.Here they are, viz Imports.Exports.Barley, bush.302,082 O&Çs, bush.2,162,216 Peas and Beans, bush.9,589 Rye, buflh.146,823 Indian Corn, bush.7,387,507 Wheat, bush.5,635,411 Potatoes, bush.none Flour, brls.314,520 Animals of all kinds.31,913 Meats, lbs.65,095\t13,337,653 Wool, lbs.6,230,084\t2,445,893 Hides, pelts, etc.1,207,300\t372,490 Now, among otters, the farmer is said to be protected by the imposition of duties upon all these articles, but it will be observed that, except three of them, we export more than we import.Now, we certainly do not want protection on articles which we can send abroad, for, if we can compete in foreign markets, we can, assuredly, do so better in our own.The three articles of farm produce of which we import largely in excess of our exports are Indian corn, weol and hides.Now, the Indian corn is much used by farmers for feeding'purposes, so that, if the tax upon that grain augments, the price to those who grow it, and so favours them, the money must come out of the pockets of other farmers.It is like dog biting dog, which is said to be unnatural.As to the distillers, they, of course, use a great deal, but the duty might have been very easily levied upon what they use alone.However, there is some duty imposed on Indian corn, whomsoever it may hurt or advantage, But look at the two other articles, of which we are much larger importers WEDNESBA Y MORNING, MARCH19 APPOINTMENTS.Academy of Music.- p.m.-Performance at 3 and 8 whole Constitution made law by the votes of the \u201c hoodlum \u201d elemeut.By it the natives of China are explicitly denied the right of suffrage, though that clause, save as showing the animus of its framers, amounts to nothing.The ] laws of the United States, as at present interpreted, does not permit the natu- | ralization of Chinamen, and, unless the ! law be changed, there is no possibility of their ever exercising the right of suffrage.Should a change in the law be made, however, the prohibition in the Constitution would be worthless, for the Federal authority over-rides that of the States.There are other measures, though, which will probably be more effective against the Chinese, and which bear a striking resemblance to the enactments of the British Columbian sages last year.The employment of China-men in any State, County or Municipal public work is forbidden, as is also their employment by any corporation created under State laws, and this under penalties.No doubt, as long as the' Chinese are excluded from citizenship, this prohibition can be enforced, for, although the capitalists of the Pacific slope are not in any sense hostile to Chinese labour, depending largely as they do upon it for their profits, no corporation would risk the loss of its charter by the violation of even so unjust alaw.Should the Chinese at some future time be admitted to citizenship, however, its provisions will become null and void, for the Constitution of the United States declares that \u201c No State shall make or enforce any law which'shall abridge the OTTAWA CORRESPONDENCE.than exporters.Upon which, therefore, a 1 \u201c privileges or immunities of any citizen AUCTION SALES THIS DAY.BX DENNING & BABSABOU.New Spring Dry- Goods, tfc.\u2014At their stores, at 10 a.m.Damaged Goods\u2014At their stores, at 1 p.m.BT WM, E.SHAW.Cloths, Tweeds, dfc.\u2014At No.11 Bleury St., at 2 p.m.NEWS SUMMARY.DOMINION.__X very disastrous fire has devasteted the greater part of the village of Min-den, rendering homeless hundreds of families.\u2014Maple sugar cutting has been commenced in the vicinity of Quebec, but the weather is not very favourable fer the business.\u2014The Inns of Court in connection with the new Court House at Quebec have been abandoned in consequence of a difference of opinion among the members of the Bar.\u2014A case of small-pox has occurred in Yorkville, and the residents of the village are in terror.The patient has been removed to the small-pox hospital in Toronto.\u2014The Royal Standard and other flags were hoisted yesterday on all the Government buildings in the Dominion, in honour of the 31st birthday of H.R.H.Princess Louise.\u2014The Governor-General and the Princess Louise attended the concert given in the Ottawa Canadian Institute, on Monday night, under the auspices of St.Patrick\u2019s Society.\u2014The Toronto cigar manufacturers premised their employees a rise in wages as soon as the N.P.elephant was trotted out, but finding that they are out m the cold, and unable to fulfil their promise,] have sent a deputation to Ottawa to see Mr.Tilley on the matter.UNITED STATES.\u2014Intense excitement exists among the Tammany and anti-Tammany politicians over the removal of the County Clerk Gumbleton, and the retention of Registrar Loew.\u2014The King\u2019s County refinery, at Green-point, L.I., engaged in the manufacture of sugar syrup from Indian corn, has removed to Freeport, Ill., nearer the corn market.\u2014San Francisco reports say Alaska troubles are greatly exaggerated.A gentleman, from Sitka, ascribes the troubles to whiskey and the mixing of white men with squaws.\u2014Thos.Stanley, wife and six children, of Terre Haute, Ind., were all, yesterday, poisoned by eating Jamestown weed.Stanley is dead and the rest of the family are net expected to live.\u2014The men who rescued the distillers from Hartsville jail, on Sunday last, took complete possession of the town, taking everybody on the streets into custody until they had effected their purpose.GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND \u2014London \u2014 Arrived out Assyria and Wezer.\u2014Tha Manchester mill masters have ermpromised with their employees as regards the 5 per cent, reduction.FOREIGN.\u2014The modification of the French Cabinet is denied.\u2014A great fire is reported raging in Ran goon.East Indies.\u2014Gen.Grant has left Calcutta for Ran goon and Singapore.\u2014The Pope has sent five thousand lire to Szegedin for the relief of the sufferers- -\u2014The Belgian explorer Wauthier is reported to have died of dysentery in Cen tral Africa.\u2014The Reichstag\u2019s Committee on Standing Orders has decided not to alter the ex isting rules of the House.duty would augment the price received by tbe producer, we mean hides and wool, and it will be seen fhat they are perfectly free.Mr.Tilley found a small factory of very cheap clocks at Hamilton, and, though he thought clocks should not be taxed, he put a duty on them for the sake perhaps, of fifteen er twenty men.Yet, while he has raised the duty on everything the masses use, he has left hides and wool |absolutely free of duty, though these are the only two articles, a duty on which can help the agriculturalist at all.That, at all events, is not the American Tariff.We will be very much pleased if the policy of the Government gives us the promised prosperity, but we have very grave doubts.of Sir John\u2019s accidental call to the Treasury benches doing us any good.Mr.Tilley\u2019s Budget, in the course of a few weeks, will, we think, hardly be recognized, and we may add that Lower Canada, which includes Montreal (though some British correspondents place us in Upper Canada), will suffer more than any other portion of the Dominion.There are, however, so many obnoxious changes in the tariff, which we cannot believe the Government will give effect to, we deem it better to explain, in tbe meantime, what we anticipate the effect must be on special branches of eommerce.UNITED STATES POLITICS.\u201c of the United States.\u201d The result of this ingenious scheme, if, as is to be supposed, it is to be accepted iu May as the fundamental law of the State, will be to increase taxation heavily through-oat California.The exclusion of cheap labour from all public works must necessarily compel more liberal estimates for tbeir construction, and it would be some com-pensation for tbe mistaken action of California if the people, who have designed this unjust law, were those upon whose backs the burden of increased taxation were likely to rest.As a matter of fact, however, the people who pay the bulk of the taxes are not those who are anxious to drive the Chinese from the country.They may be prevented by the for ce of their surroundings, from offering any serious opposition to.tha; snort-sighted policy, but all men of sense and property mist realize that, in the cheapness of Chinese labour, California possesses the most powerful servant in the development of her resources.We are, so far, more fortunate than the people of th® United States, that, though our anti-Chinese wiseacres in British Columbia are disposed to go quite as far as the Ca'ifornians in their hostility to cheap labour, the Dominion Government, which, in a matter of this kind, can be relied upon to take the sensible course, possesses some control over British Columbian legislation.THE TARIFF.The present tariff looks, at first sight; very much like a fulfilment of the promises of Sir John A.Macdonald, to give everybody everything they desired ; but, upon analysis, it will easily be seen that it has been made solely in the interest of a very few, and not at all in that of the farmers, lumbermen) general consumers, and, we may add, the fishermen.To begin with the last, inasmuch as their only competitors, if they have any, are the Americans, and inasmuch as fish imported from the United States are ' free, it is obvious that no duty upon fish can be of the slightest avail to help any one.Therefore, as to the fishermen, the whole weight of the increase in the tariff falls upon them, without any advantage whatever to countervail the increased cost ©f living.They are great consumers of clothes and boots on account of their frequent exposure to the weather ; but, to say nothing of other articles, the tariff will make every thing of that kind, which has hitherto cost twenty-five cents, cost not less than thirty.We say nothing here about the articles of food which will be enhanced in price.The ^lumbermen are just in the same predicament.Practically, we import no lumber.Therefore, to put a duty of 20 per cent, on it makes no difference whatever.It is exactly what is called \u201c chip in porridge\u201d so far as it can do any good to the producers, whether masters or workmen.But the masters use large quantities of iron for chains, tools, &c.; and the men, like tha fishermen, require many woollen clothes and boots.Here, again.lis a very large class, both of employers and workmen, for whom the tariff does nothing, but who will be made to pay, the men an extra five cents in every quarter dollar, their employers something like an extra ten cents in every dollar.But, jperhaps, the most remarkable facts of the new tariff are to be found in the impost* npon farm produce ; hut to understand them we must first give a statement of the articles coming under that head which we export and import, The last session of Congress came to an end on the 4th of this month, and the extra session, called by the President, is to commence very shortly.In the meantime, snoh interest as may be felt in politics in the United States tarns principally upon the election of the next Speaker of the .House of Re.presentatives, who is a much more important official than the Speaker is with us, among the powers which he possesses is that of forming the various Congressional Committees, which enables him to exercise a strong influence upon legislation.The present House is Democratic, as were its two latesc predecessors, and consequently the struggle for the coveted office is to take place in caucus and not on the floor of the House.This makes no difference in the strength of the feeling which it is arousing, however, and the differences between Mr.Randall, of Pennsylvania, and Mr.Blackburn, of Kentucky, two opposing candidates, are as serious as they could be if the gentlemen belonged to different political parties.Mr.Randall served as Speaker of the Forty-Fourth Copgress.After the death of Mr.Kerr, he was re-elected to the position in the Forty-Fifth Con.gress, which has just expired, and his, chances of election by the House about to assemble certainly seem better than those of his competitor.His record for fairness and ability in the eon-duet of public business is said to be unimpeachable, a statement which those who remember his dignified and sensible attitude at the time of the passing of the Electoral Commission Bill will not be inclined to dispute.Besides, he is a hard-money man, and has proved himself an enemy to jobbery of all kinds, which should go far in his favour.There seems hardly as much good to be said for Mr.Blackburn, who is the candidate of Mr.Randall\u2019s enemies, and of the irreconcilable Southern element.He is, apparently, an able man, but a very strong partizan.He has been endeavouring to catch the Greenback vote in the House, and he is believed to incline strongly towards the \u2018\u2018Ohio idea,\u201d which means an irredeemable currency and the destruction of the National banks.In consequence, the interests of the country would be in great danger of suffering injury, were the nomination of such important Committees as those upon banking and currency confided to a soft money \u201d man.Mr.Blackburn has, however, one advantage, he is a Free-Trader, and thus in sympathy with the general sentiment of his party, while Mr.Randall, like most Pennsylvanians, is an advanced Protectionist.The more conservative Southern leaders, and the bulk of the Northern Democratic party, in spite of Uiis; are supporting Mr.Randall.The New York World, however, which is the leading Democratic newspaper, does not accept this view of the case, and advocates the candidature of Mr.Blackburn, employing the somewhat singular argument that, as the .Democratic party depends mainly upon the South for its strength) it is necessary to put Southern men in the highest positions, in order that tbe nation may see how they conduct themselves therein.Whatever weight this opinion may have, however, it would scarcely seem just were it to acf to the exclusion of a gentleman whose previous experience has given every evidence of his integrity and capacity as Speaker.Since the above was written, our midnight dispatches inform us that Mr.Randall has been elected Speaker by 142 votes, just one more than reqaired to carry.His opponent, Blackburn, was was not nominated.SUGAR.England has been beaten on the sugar question to some extent.What we mean is that great difficulty has been experienced in determining the line of duties to suit importers and manufacturers in that country, but Mr.Tilley has undertaken to put us all right, and, for the sake of commerce, we venture to hope he is not wrong.Commerce, very much like water, finds its level, and we presume, in the course of a few months, we will have had suffioient experience to pronounce an opinion ; but we think it is very probable that Mr.Tilley will ask Sir John to make some changes.THE DUTY OR WINES.A meeting of the leading wine merchants was held to-day, to consider the duties which the Government propose to plaop upon wines, and the expression of opinion was so decided that it was resolved to present a memorial to the Finance Minister, saying that there should be some modification.The deputation, we understand, will leave today.__________________________ THE CHIN ESS QUESTION AGAIN.The Chinese question in California has come up in a somewhat new form.The Constitutional Convention .of that State, after a session of 157 days, has framed a new Constitution, which is to he submitted to the vets of the people in May.It is, perhaps, needless to say, bitterly anti-Chinese, and it is suggested that, as were other provisions of the scheme, are deciidedly objectionable, the part relating to the Chinese was made purposely strong, in order to have the \u2014In the discussion in the House of Commons on the Toronto Postmastership, Mr.Hay, M.P.for Centre Toronto, stated that Mr.Sweetnam, Post office Inspector, had told him that the services of Mr.Spry, also Post office Inspector-appointed by the late Government, were not required, and that the appointment was a job.The Globe now says that it is informed \u201c on the best possible authority,\u2019\u2019 that Mr.Sweet nam never made any such state, ment to Mr.Hay, and that Mr.Hay has been asked to correct his er ror, but has not yet done so.Probably the member for Centre Toronto is so delighted with the protection that he has secured for his furniture factory, that he is unable to bring himself down to the consideration of minor matters.\u2014The recent death of Professor W K- Clifford, at the early age of thirty-four, removes one of the brightest lights among the younger generation of British scientists.He was eminent for mathemathical genius of the highest order, and, although the ultra-Radical nature of his writings brought upon him a certain degree of odium, no man had a wider circle of personal friends.His disease was consumption, and it is only the other day that we saw in the Athenaeum the announcement that he had resolved npon a residence in Made-ria for the benefit of his health.He went there, bat only to die.His wife and children are Ipft utterly unprovided for, but a subscription is being raised for their benefit by Sir John Lubbock, Messrs.Tyndall, Huxley, and other leading scientific men.\u2014A letter from the Cape says :\u2022 \u201c Cetewayo, the Zulu King, is as merciless as he is bloodthirsty.I have known him to kill fifty women and children to feed his golden eagles.As brave as a lion, he will fight until he dies ; and if he only sees a scratch on one of his warriors\u2019 backs when they return home he is put te death, as Cetewayo thinks he must have turned from the enemy and have thus received the wound.\u201d \u2014\u201c Either Mr.Macdougall has no strong convictions of principle at all, or they cling very loosely about him/ is the way in which the Mail speaks of tbs member for Halton, who was so admired by tbe Conservative party but a few short months ago.\u2014The N.Y.World, usually accurate, says that \u201c Major Worsley, Kingston \u201d is to be second in command of the Cana-dian Wimbleton team this year.Not being, ue believe, a Scotchman, Major Worsley has probably not assumed a territorial designation.\u2014The fact that bread has risen in price two cents a loaf must bring the advantages of Protection home to the workingmen of Quebec.Industrial Bazaar.\u2014All lovers of good music will be glad to hear that, pn Thursday and Friday, 20th and 22nd inst., a we treat will be provided for them, on the eygning of those days, at the Mechanics\u2019 Hall, by the Ladies O?the Industrial Bazaar, w&ojhay.e been generously offered the gratuitous services of Hecker\u2019s orchestra and the Garrison Artillery band.The students in Arts of McGill College, anxious to help so good a cause, have kindly consented to sing on Thursday evening.From our Special Correspondent.Ottawa, March 18.Among the articles on which the duty does not satisfy the parties concerned, one is salt.There is to be no duty on salt from any British possession, nor on any used for the fisheries.Now, out of two million and three quarter bushels, only five hundred and fifty came, last year, from any other place than the British possessions, all of which was most likely used for the fisheries, except less than 200 bushels'from the United States.The duty, therefore, will touch hardly anything at all, while Canadian salt owners are said to be ruined by the importation of 188,000 bushels from the United States, Ontario sends to the United States nearly seven hundred thousand bushels of her own production.It is thought that Mr.Letellier\u2019s affair will come up in the Senate, though no notice has yet been given.The object would seem to be to gain time for Sir John.The Paint and glue men are amongst the un whhed-for deputations to complain of the tariff.They come from Montreal, but there are several on all kinds of subjects, and from all kinds of places, In the meantime, Hon.Mr.Alexander, in the Senate, has given notice of a Com mittee to inquire into the best way of promoting manufactures.The tariff is not enough for him.What we may ex peot, however, is that, in every Muni, cipality in the rural districts; bonuses will be offered for the starting of .concerns of this kind which, many cases being started mainly for the bonus, will fail.All the flags are flying on account of this being tbe birthday of the Princess Louise.On Monday night, by way of a little dirty clap-trap, Mr.Bunster, when the adjournment had been moved, on ac count of the St.Patrick\u2019s celebration said that last year Hon.Mr.Mackenzie had refused to allow an adjournment, Mr.Mackenzie immediately sent for the Journals, and showed that he, seconded by , Mr.Laflamme, had been the mover of the adjournment.He added that he had asked Sir John to second him, but had been refused.The Nova Scotians have been busily interviewing the Ministers, and they now boast that they are going to get another 25 cents on coal.The Bill to amend the law relating to the North-West Territory provides for an additional force of 200 men.One of the heaviest expenses, in pro portion to the work which the country will shortly have to bear, is that for the Census.In 1872 it cost half a million d .liars.The Bill introduced this year for the Census of 1882 will apparently render the charge even more considéra- J ble than it wjs ten years before.It provides for a more numerous staff, who are, it would seem, to be engaged almost immediately : yet it does appear that the people of the country ought to be numbered at a less charge than some 16 cents a head, man, woman and child.The Lower Canadian Senators are, to-morrow, to have a caucus on Hon.Mr.Reade\u2019s motion to declare that the Georgian Bay branch should be discontinued.It is understood the reduction of the duty on wheat, from 15 to 10 cents, was only made after threats of open rebellion from tbe Maritime Province Conservatives, and that some soreness exists between some members of the Cabinet in regard to it, Mr.Tilley\u2019s alacrity in making the reduction not being at all agreeable to the leader of the Government.Hon.Mr.Mills has given notice of a motion regarding the appointment and dismissal of Indian agents and superintendents.Several changes have been made by the new Government since sue' ceeding to office, and it will be interest ing to find out what they are.Mr.Nixon\u2019s uffice, as purveyor for Manitoba, has been abolished, and it is desirable to know how the work is now being done.The Minister of Marine and Fisheries laid before the House, yesterday after noon, copies of all correspondence relating to the dismissal of Captain Purdy, of the Government steamer \u201c Newfield.There is a statement of the manner in which the vessel had grounded, and an estimate of Johnson, the Marine agent at Halifax, of the damage to the vessel, which is placed at §3,470 27.The Minister of Marine and Fisheries wrote to Mr.Johnson, stating that two Government steamers had been stranded or lost through carelessness or mismanagement, and that, unless those in charge were severely dealt with, the Department might expect to lose all the vessels under its management.Every master of a vessel going on the rocks, unless arising from extraordinary circumstances, would consequently be dismissed.The master of the \u201cLady Head\u201d had been thus treated, and no exception could be made in Capt.Purdy\u2019s case.The latter gentleman is consequently dismissed, and Capt.O\u2019Brien appointed.Capt.Purdy writes, on the 17th of February last, asking to be given another situation, or else be superannuated, as he is satisfied that no charge could honestly be brought against him.To this the Minister replies that Captain Purdy is dismissed for having grounded his vessel, that there is no other situation vacant, and that, as sailing masters were not included in the superannuation, no allowance could be given.The members of the Opposition, who are dissatisfied with the tariff, claim to make no bones about asserting that the Government have promised several amendments to mollify some of their more recalcitrant adherents.The Opposition will, probably, divide the House on two or three specific amendments to the details of the tariff, and it is likely that a resolution, setting forth their policy generally, will be introduced by their, leader.Mr.Flynn\u2019s able speech, which I send you in full, embodies fully the views of the people of the Maritime Provinces on the tariff introduced by the Finance Minister, and indicates not only the false pretences under which theNatkraal Policy party secured tbeir majority in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward\u2019s Island, but also shows how the very men who, by a specific pledge that there would be no increase of the duties then in force, secured the success of Confederation, are now violating the Federal compact by the introduction of a Protective tariff.Mr.Trow, M.P., to-day, received a telegram from Walter Thompson, a large oatmeal manufacturer of Mitchell, Ont., stating that if the proposed duty on oats were carried out he would close up his factory and remove to tne Western States.Mr.Thompson, I believe, is a Conservative.Tbe Prince of Wales has sent to each ot the Canadian Commissioners at Paris a copy of his photograph, accompanied by an autograph letter.They will be presented at Rideau Hall to-morrow by H.R.H.the Princess Louise.Hon.Mr.Mackenzie, to-day, received a package of pictorial papers published in England and circulated free among Sabbath school children, with a request to use his influence to secure their free entry into the country.These useful and beneficial publications, circulated by benevolent people in foreign countries, gratuitously, in this and other countries, would, under the operation .of Mr.Tilley\u2019s tariff, be taxed 20 per cent, on their actual value, and thus practically excluded them from our Sabbath Schools and from those whose mural welfare they are designed to improve.difficulties to contend with in making desirable a change, but surely that is no reason why they should be accepted s an excuse for contiauing a system that entails so leng and unnecessary a .T Touching excursion trains : \u2014 in August last, your correspondent happened to be a passenger from Montreal to Toronto, the train, a very long one, leaving here between 7 and 8 a.m., and reaching Toronto between 3 and 4 the following morning, or about 7 hours behind time.Now, there are many people! who think that, because these cheap trains are patronized, they must necessarily endure the delays and other inconvenience! supposed to be attached to them.Bat this is surely quite a mistake.Excursion trains, besid-s being a great boon to the public, should pay, and pay well, otherwise railway companies would not run them, and it is precisely on this ground that an excursion train, especially in long distances, should be treated with as much care and attention as an ordinary express train.Advertised as they are, long before the date of departure, the necessary preparations should be made all along the line for their safety and quick deopatch, the more so, freighted as they are with hundreds of valuable lives anxious to see their friends in a sister city.If the train is too long, then make two of it, and thus avoid the risk of one half going on ahead whilst the other half is left standing on the road.When the cheap fast-train system gets into better working order in this country, the public will no; be slow to support itthese hard times, and, satisfactory as it is to observe the increasing popularity and growth of excursion trains in general, it will be still more so when our railway companies treat their patrons with a little more attention to their eomfert in keeping these trains, as far as possible, strictly \u201c on time.\u201d Yours, &c., Montreal, March 17,1879.W.OBIT.Our obituary notices to-day contains the announcement of the death of Mr.Henry Meyer, a retired merchant, at the advanced age of 93 years.Mr.Meyei was bora in Luneburg, Hanover.He, with his two brothers, left his native land during its ten years\u2019 occupation by the French troops under Bernadotte.After residing in Paris and London for a couple of years, be finally settled in Montreal in 1816, and carried on a successful business in the fur line up to 1855.In those days it was considered an immense undertaking to enter upon what would now be considered comparatively small building enterprises.But, as an evidence of his business foresight and thorough appreciation of the future that lay before Montreal, we may remark that Mr.David David having, in 1823, put up a three-storey cut-stone building in Notre Dame street, Mr.Meyer followed the succeeding year with a similar erection on the same street, which, at that early period, contained but few stores, being composed principally of one-storey wooden dwellings.Mr.Meyer was one of the, first assessors appointed by the city, having been named in 1821 and again in 1824, along with Messrs.White and Phillips.He was President of the German Society for several years, being a member at the time of its formation, when he was made Yice-President.The deceased was a man of vigorous constitution, and enjoyed good health up to the time of his death.Many of his old friends will, we are sure, learn of his death with regret.His long career was an exemplary one, and he has left to his family the best fortune that a father could bequeath\u2014the record of a regular and well-spent life, of undoubted honour in his dealings and duty, honestly and well performed.Hen.Mr.MILLS sail the Government had no right whatever to deal with any article of private property.They had only the'right to deal with articles ot commerce.Sn-JOHN MACDONALD said an animal did not cease to be an article of commerce simply because it happened to be private property.The Government must have full power to deal with all matters affecting quarantine.The Bill was then reported and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.On the motion of Hon.Mr.TILLEY to receive the Rsport of the Committee of Ways and Means, Sir JOHN MACDONALD snggested that the motion should be allowed to pass, taking up discussion on the details.After ome remarks by Hon.Mr.HOLTON, to elicit assurance that full discussion should be assured, Hon.Mr TUPPER referred to a question of accuracy between himself and the leader of the Opposition.He had claimed that a telegram had been sent to a paper owned by a then Cabinet Minister, anticipating a change of tariff.This had been disputed by the late Premier.He read from the Patriot to prove his statement.Hon.Mr.MACKENZIE said his statement had been made on the authority of the editor of that paper, and he had made the statement, presuming it to be correct.Hon.Mr.TUPPER had no doubt the leader of the Opposition had made the statement in perfectly good faith.Hon.Mr.CARTWRIGHT said that it was desirable, before they proceeded further with the debate, that the Minister of Finance should give a detailed statement of the manner in which he proposed to make up the $2,000,000 of increased revenue.All that he could make out of the brief reference to the subject in the Budget Speech was that we expected to obtain a surplus of $750,000.He thought it was the duty of the Hon.Minister to vive explicit information aa to the details of the tariff on which the $2,000,000 \u2014\" to be made up.Hon.Mr.TILLEY said, at an early period of the debate, he would take the opportunity to give fully the information asked for.Hon.Mr.CARTWRIGHT said the Finance Minister should be able to state exactly how much was expected from each item on which a surplus was expected.He hoped the Hon.Minister would take the earliest opportunity to supply this information.Hon.Mr.TILLEY said he would make the statement under each item as it came up.Hen.Mr.MACKENZIE said it would be convenient that it should be done at an early period of the debate.He com plained that not enough copies of the tariff statement had been distributed among members.He, himself, had only been able to get ton copies, and it was most advisable that the business men of the country in the various constituencies should have the earliest opportunity of being made acquainted with the changes proposed.Hon.Mr.ANGLIN asked that the Finaice Minister should lose no time in explaining how much he expected to gain from certain of the ad valorem duties, hether 30, 40 or 50 per cent ?Mr.FLYNN said that no more im portant question could engage the attem tien of this House than the question of increased taxation.It was one of vital moment to the people of the Dominion, pai-ticularly at the present period of general depression, and when so many people had been thrown out of employment.So great had been the depression, and so many per sons had been thrown out of employment, that the private and public charities had been insufficient to meet the wants of starving people in every village and town in the Dominion.Under these circumstances the question of increased taxation became one of THE DOMINION PARLIAMENT^ FIRST SESSION-FOURTH PARLIAMENT ¦ CA NADIA N RA IL WA Y S Y ST EM.To the Editor of the Montreal Herald.Sir,\u2014Most of your readers are aware that correspondents in daily communication with Hamilton, a distance of 372 miles from this city, have to wait until the third day from the date of posting, before receiving replies to their letters.It is well known that the 400 miles journey between London and Edinburgh is run daily in ten hours, without being required to change carriages, as is the case at Toronto for Hamilton, because another line of railway starts from Toronto.This is, however, a small matter, compared with the valuable time and inconvenience the public ar,e at present put to iu being compelled to Whit îjntil the third day for answers toilettera, which, by new mail arrangements, could be reduced to the second.Therè may, of course, be THE SENATE.In the Senate to-day, Hon.Mr.BELLEROSE gave notice that he would move that, when the House adjourned on Friday next, it do stand adjourned until Wednesday, the 26th inst.His reason for doing so was that Tuesday would be a legal holiday, and many of he members would like to take the advantage of it to visit their homes.The Quebec Fire Insurance Company\u2019s Bill passed its second reading on mo.tisn of Hon.Mr.Armand, and waa referred to Committee.The North-West Mounted Police Bill waa considered in Committee of the Whole.On clause three, empowering the Government to increase the medical staff of the force, Hon.Mr.SCOTT said his experience in this matter was that, at the station where the veterinary surgeon was, there was always the largest number of sick horses, and in the same way wherever the medical officer was stationed, there were always a greater number of men in hospital, for that reason the late Government had abolished the office of Veterinary Surgeon.He hoped that the Government were not going to appoint another surgeon assistant.Hon.Mr.GIRARD contended that the headquarters of the Police should be at Winnipeg.Hon.Mr.MILLAR considered that Manitoba should look after her own police matters the same as the other Provinces of the Dominion.Battleford was the proper place for the headquarters of the force, where a system of Government had been established and authority was maintained, Hon.Mr.SCOTT said it was perfectly idle to talk of having the headquarters of the force at Winnipeg, as it was over 800 miles from the place where their services were required.Hon.Mr.GIRARD contended that Winnipeg was the centre of communication for the Territories, and he considered that the administration of the affairs of the Territories should be centred at Winnipeg.He believed it would be found quite as difficult to communicate with the force from one fort to another as from Winnipeg to any one of the forts in the North-West, The clause was adopted.On the 5th clause, providing for the appointment of supernumerary constables and scouts, and giving power to the Gc vernment, in case of an emergency, to increase the force to 500 men, Hon.Mr.CAMPBELL explained that there were 25,000 Indians on this side of the Rocky Mountains, and the Govern ment thought it expedient to provide for any emergency that might arise in the North West.The clause was adopted.Clause 9 extends the term of on gagement in the force from three years to five.Hon.Mr.CAMPBELL explained that; owing to the expense of getting men into that district, it was considered that a three years\u2019 engagement was teo short.There were already 700 applications for appoint monts in the force.The clause was adopted.fêThe 10th clause, providing free grants of land for good service, extends the period of such service from three to five years.The clause waa adopted.After some slight discussion the remaining clauses were adopted.The Bill was reported from Committee without amendment, and third reading was ordered for to-morrow.The House adjourned at 4,27.HOUSE OF COMMONS.The SPEAKER took the Chair at 3.2 p.m.After rout ire, Hen.Mr.POPE moved that the House resolve itself ipto Committee of the Whole ,to consider resolutions to make strict prevision for preventing the introduction spread of contagious or infectious diseases The House went into Committee, Mr, Jones in the Chair, on the Bil1, whicb was to prevent the introduction of cattle or fodder from infected districts apross the frontier or the exportation of such animals or produce from the country.Hon.Mr.MACKENZIE had no objection to any measure to prevent the spread of such contagious diseases, hut questioned the authority of the Government to deal with the subject, so far as local matters were concerned.Ha suggested that prevision should be made to enable the Local Governments to deal with their lecalitier, the Dominion Government assuming the responsibility as far as the frontier was concerned.Sir JOHN A.MACDONALD thought the suggestion of the leader of the Opposition a good one.Hon.Mr.MILLS concluded that, until cattle became an article of merchandsr, this Government had no right to interfere.While cattle, even suspected of being diseased, were private property or property of companies, it was proper that, aa a matter of local concern, the Local Governments only had the power to deal with the matter.Hon.Mr.POPE disagreed with the view of Hon.Mr.Mills.He contended that, if Local Governments neglected to deal with such subjects, the Dominion Government should have the power to do so.the utmost importance, and one to which they must give their careful consideration This was a question which would affect the Maritime Provinces more than any other part of the Dominion.In the Maritime Provinces they were essentially consumers.They possessed no manufacturing industries, and, therefore, the burdens of this increased ; axation would fall very heavily on the people of that Province.The impost tion of a tariff of this character was foreshadowed, ten to eleven years ago, by tha people of Nova Scotia, and by those who were opposed to Confederation.This was the most prominent object of the scheme of Confederation.In an address to Lord Carnarvon, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, one of the petitions was that, under a ten per cent, tariff, Nova Scotia was making strides in the direction of prosperity.The waa also clearly shown by the Hon.Finance Minister, who was Minister of Justice of the present Government of the Dominion.In a communication from Mr.Allan, to Lord Carnavon, there was the following statement : \u201cA protective policy, once abandoned in any Legislature, is not likely, ever again, to be reinacted.If fiee trade be, as its friends and advocates imagine, not only the more national but the more prosperous policy, how does any one expect that any legislature, with such an intusion of free traders as the Maritime Provinces supply, that the country will ever fall back to protection, nothing is more unlikely and absurd.This was the declaration of one of the delegates of Nova Scotia who was, at the time, in England for tbe purpose of arranging the scheme of Confederation.The tariff proposed in this resolution, according to these views, was a violation of the federal compact by which Nova Scotia entered the Union.He might be t.ld, in reply, that Nova.Scotia herself had violate! it by returning a majority to this House to the support of the present Administration in their national policy ; but what were the facts.Nova Scotia had not pronounced any more than the other Maritime Provinces in favour of the tariff submitted by the hon.tha Finance Minister.When those who opposed the National Policy, as foreshadowed by the speeches of hon.gentlemen here last session, and pointed out in Nova Scotia to the probabilty that a high protective Tariff would be introduced to benefit tbe manufacturers of Ontario, they were met by the assertion that there was no idea of largely protecting the industries of the country, but merely a readjustment of the Tariff.The following telegram from Mr, Boyd, ©f St.John, and the reply, would carry out his statement.Mr.Boyd tele-graphed to the right hon.the Premier, on July 22nd, \u201cThe Government press state you propose to raise the Tariff generally to 35 per cent.Can you contradict this ?\u201d To which the right hon.gentleman replied, \u201cIt is an absurd falsehood; neither in London or elsewhere have I gone beyond my motion in Parliament, and have never proposed an increase, but only a readjustment of the Tariff.\u201d This increase of the Tariff was a violation ef the compact, and he felt bound to protest against it.The people had been deceived by it.They had been led to believe that the Tariff would not be raised, but that only such a readjustment would be made as would benefit all, and foster and encourage our native industries without increasing the burdens of taxation.This tariff bore more heavily on the Maritime than the other Provinces.In the Maritime Provinces the manufacturing industries were mere trifles compared with Ontario, and in those Provinces the principal articles of consumption were bread-stuffs, which included flour, corn, cornmeal, rye, etc., and in addition, cotton, twills, duck lines, earthenware, prints, hardware, etc.With regard to breadstuffs, every legislature since Confederation was opposed to anything like a duty on those articles.It was a most unfair duty, one which taxed one class of the community to build up another section.The Maritime Provinces raise no wheat, ground no flour, and therefore must pay, under this tariff, tribute to the amount of 50c.a bushel to the Ontario producers.It was well-known that, during rase session, an hon.member had corresponded, on the question of free trade and protection, with several of the leading manufacturers of this Dominion, and their replies were on record among the papers of this Heuse.These replies abundantly proved that wherever a man gave his business that attention which it deserved, it prospered under the 17J per cent tariff.It was proved by other hon.gentlemen, even from Ontario, that where these industries had failed it was owing to want of capacity and energy, and that where both were given, those investing capital were amply rewarded.If, under 17i per cent, these manufacturing industries were paying, every dollar got beyond that was a tribute paid by the people to those engaged in manufactures\u2019.If per cent was sufficient for revenue purposes to build our public works, every extra dollar imposed was a tribute from the consumer to the producer.The present tariff ranged from 25 per cent to 40 per cent, and bore heavily on the poorer classes the cheaper articles, those which were manufactured in this country,were the most protected, the cheap woollens and cottons, while the most expensive articles were not so heavily taxed.He noticed a drawback of 10 per cent was given to ship-builders on all materials used in the building of ships.He did not see why the fishermen should not get a drawback on nails and other articles used in building their boats.They were equally entitled to protection as the Halifax people who were engaged in shipping, while all these articles he had enumerated, our meal hardware, cottons, &c., had increased nearly 100 per cent.All they had got in exchange was a slight reduction in molasses, and a reduction of, perhaps, not half a cent on tea, the former duty on which had never been complained of.While he most strenously objected to the duty, the imposition he could not help thinking was due to some mistake, that : was the duty on cornmeal, as every one ] knows cornmeal was about half the value of flour, and, thereiore, should only have been charged at half the rate of duty.But there was no principle to warrant tbe imposition of any duty on cornmeal.Ontatio did not produce this article in sufficient quantity for her own consumption.With the exception of a stretch of land along Lake Erie, there was no place in Ontario where corn, in any quantity worth mentioning, can be grown.In the Maritime Provinces the poorer classes were forced to buy cornmeal instead of flour.This tax would, therefore, fall heavily on them without benefiting Ontario, as the people would have to import their cornmeal from the United States at an additional cost of 40 cents per barrel.He was borne cut in this fact by Mr.Noonan, a commercial gentleman from Pictou, and of whose veracity, no one acquainted with him, could doubt.Mr.Noonan, in his evidence before I ho Coal Committee in 1877, said : \u2014 \u201c In reference to cornmeal, we import it from the United States, we get it cheaper there, and\teven with a duty of 50 cents would still have to import it from there, because it is cheaper.\u201d This proved the absurdity of the tax.It had been said that the duty on flour would not increase its price.True, the price in England regulated the price here, but there were some peculiarities connected with our trade; owing to which it must be paid by the consumers.If all the good time piedicted to follow the advent of the hon.gentlemen opposite to office were to come, if the Maritime Provinces were also to prosper, their trade must be with the United States, which was the great purchaser of all their articles of export.Even the exports of Nova Scotia to the Upper Provinces had not increased in the slightest degree since 1868.In 1868 the exports were $43.800, and the imports $500.000.In 1876 the imports were about three and a half millions from On-was | tarie and Quebec, while the exports did not exceed the amount of ] 865-6, thus showing that the exports from Nova Scotia to the Upper Provinces had not increased, while their imports from those provinces had gone up to three and a half millions between 1865 and 1876.If this prosperity were brought about, our natural consumers were the United States.It was well known that while the freight on flour from Toronto to Halifax was at a fixed rate, about 80 cents, rarely, if ever, varying, it was quite different on the east coast.Nova Scotia had a large foreign trade with the West Indies in the export of fish from Halifax.The vessels bringing out cargoes very often from the.United States, and coming home would take flour at a very low rate of freight in preference to ballast\u2014often as low as 10 to 12 cents per barrel.Taking the article of flour, presuming it was of the same quality in Toronto as in New York, the freight from Toronto to Halifax was 80 cents per bushel, while from New York to Halifax it was from 10 to 12 cents.Therefore, there was a difference of fiom 68 to 70 cents in favour of the flour of the United States.Under these circumstances, flour would be imported from the United States, and tbe people of the lower Provinces would have to pay the duty.He was told that flour could be brought in bond, but he ventured to say that, for one barrel brought in bond, ten would come in the other way.Trading vessels laden with lower Province products would go where^, they could get return freights from men with whom they dealt.It had been stated, two or three years ago, at a meeting of the Millers Association or of the Board of Trade, he did not remember whicb, that they could not then compete with the Americans in the same grade of flours into the Maritime Provinces without the imposition of a duty.This meant that they could not send the same grade of flour at the same prices from the Maritime Provinces as He conclude! an protest against .fa, b, and mo8p©rityof\u201c8\t- utur,i .lae eri.k- * la* mitttee as regards the transportation were based on the low freights that ruled at that period.Freights were never lower than they were since 1874, but the moment times get better,as was expected to b) tbe case before long, freights would increase, while they were not likely to increase in the United States.This item would bean additional advantage to An edcan coal in ; iB~' fPwi.'\u2018t firs ptTF?\t** its competition with Nova Scotia coal.He aQq .°?er*ei,T desired, before closing his rorunrk threatened by tL.;?® «runt, Minister of Fir.M**P«*U*,*5 Mr.BOBXTBe\u2019rV \u201e the factories of tu\tcAi i r_e2l *®p>ea it th, ®l,:-er® t*:s* 1 ce Ci8Es-L'üi^-rjo>s c*° r0l\t, .yaETlN or ^\tf ^-A comber of jure1* 18;_ with soma of «0*fj »a >\u201cwr.r\u2018t Government on the «o f a new t0 be ï1 \u2018 «> i m - ^naki and Cbi- \u201e Councils of ad-% p^jSibt ^' Kavepassed re*o-^V^^'ttX^forthe sale +* *.« ^r»nt l\u2018^bin their juris- 1\tUangeTin, this ¦'i# faorr»1 '¦' |arge one, the Pre-1* \u2018» very \u2018\u201cJB of the Local the Mj^Kes, and most of J^sst.tb*tizems bein« present -\u2022\u2022\"T- tent cit^;\u201cut B,neVolent So- Protfheîr anniversary ser-iekBogl^ Cathedral this even- 0, the Portneuf Local *t,\t\u2018 Ca.e has been closed.PERSONAL.tnRlVEB^SP0ETATI°N lg£S£D ^COMPANY' tHecbowkuands- f 18\u2014Yesterday even-OrTi^-rtngton.late Auditor-; Sir.\tRented, by a number \u2018\tCtlemen, with a testi- fur deposited ye^'of the recent this iter dayi ¦«^n^tation .taeJ narticnlarly anxious to secure the Ger-Lan industry against American compe-tion it has imposed heavy duties upon aosi articles now imported from Arne-^,,8, 1rs last decision is in favour of a dutv of two marks per bundled weight on leather goods.It is now constder.ng \u201d proposal to tax foreign rags.A proposed duty on woollen yarns, however, provoked tho opposition of the German Loi spinners.Protectionists are now attacking the present coinage system and recommend the issue of plenty of Berlin^ correspondent hears the Tariff Commission finished its labours sud presented the scheme of the new tariff to the Federal Oouncü.Herr Liebknecht\u2019s speech has sadly iniured the Socialist cause.The Emperor is still obliged to keep his room, in consequence of his recent fall, hufis improving.Prince Frederic Charles, brother Emperor William, is seriously ill.of * i \u2022 .vice geawei iï says Min.d/ a:m8 at the 3Ucatlon Bl11 the BE MADE.B PiiOTE^ox Tariff.S>ch,S.a8^8^fihec7mk?National s'andiL \u201cmmee of the the Qll^ertake * 0rdei8 resolved Rris,rulea of the Hon SIeiîerat revision C, ^^enfs ?ekGUt to \u2018 ''h ^8l^Sc7m\\,se-r0^ des' \u201c\u201cMission stems Specially reported for the Hbrau).Lindsay, March 18.\u2014The news of a most disastrous fire in Minden, received this morning, is confirmed.The entire business portion, together with dwellings, was consumed yesterday afternoon.A clean sweep was made of Wismer\u2019s Hotel to the Stone Hotel on one side of Main street, and from Buck s Hotel to the foot of the hill on the other side, the hotels alone escaping.It originated in Pearce\u2019s storehouse about four o\u2019clock.The following is a list of the places destroyed W.Gainer, shop, unoccupied ; B.Eastman, general store, dwelling, storehouse and stock ; A.McIntosh, store and tin shop ; J.R.Yonng, general store, dwelling and storehouse; J.H.Delamere, double general store, storehouse and stock ; M.Scott, cabinet shop; James Wright, grocery, dwelling and stock ; Mr.Fitzgerald, Crown Land Office ; Dr.Curry\u2019s store and post-office ; F.R.Curry, drug stock and Montreal Telegraph Office ; John Pearce\u2019s general store, dwelling, tin shop and ware house ; T.Dumont, watchmaker.Later.\u2014The following are the losses at the fire of yesterday afternoon ; \u2014John Pearce, general store, dwelling, tinshop, storehouse and stables ; value, $2,500 ; insurance about $1,000 on stock ; $6,000 insurance; $1,000 in Union Insurance Co.; stock partially saved, but badly damaged ; household effects partly saved ; no insurance on furniture.T.R.Curry, drugs and stock badly damaged ; insured in Lancashire, $300.Dr.Curry, building used as a drug shop ; loss $1,000 ; no insurance.T.Dumont, watchmaker ; loss trifling.W.Gainer, shop used as an office by Gainer Quebec, 14th March, 1879.J 18A 61 N.B.\u2014No reproduction unless by special written order.£i HXisccIUmcuus.REMOVAL.B.BOAS & CO.Have 12 e move cl j TO THEIR NEW PREMISES, Ko.23D McGILL STEEET, Three doors from St.James street.March 13\tr 01 SPARKLING _APPLE CIDER.UX«OE» OF isrs.Thio is how in Bottle, and surpasses the production of previous years.FREDERICK KINGSTON, WHOLESALE AND FAMILY WINE MERCHANT, 35 Hospital Street.March 13\t61 Montreal Collegiate School, 31 Victoria Street.A NEW TERM WILL BEGIN On Tuesday, 18th Instant.CHARLES NICHOLS, L.R.C.P., March 13 Principal.r 61 WILSON,\t,:eluson âCO.SHEiTFIEDD.L E HI T CELEBRATED STEEL GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY OF CANADA.STEEL TIEE3 FOE LOCOMOTIVES.TENDERS are invited for the supply of 150 STEEL TIRES FOR LOCOMOTIVES.Parties tendering are requested to give the price per ton of 2,240 lbs., for the Tires, delivered on the Company\u2019s premises, at Point St.Charles, and also name of maker and process of manufacture.Further particulars, if required, can be had on application at the Office of the General Storekeeper.Tenders, endorsed \u2018\u2018Tender for Tires,\u201d will be received by the undersigned on or before THURSDAY, APRIL 3rd.JOSEPH HICKSON, General Manager.March 19\t\u201c 60 Total Undivided Surplus .*6,893,824.36 OI which belongs (as computed) to Policies In general class .$3,741,362: 01 wlilcH belongs (as computed) to Policies In Tontine class.3,152,462.00 Bisks Assumed In 1878, 6,115 Policies, assuring $21,440,213.00.From the undivided surplus, reversionary dividends will be declared available on settlement of next annual premium, to participating poll- ClTHe valuation of the policies outstanding has been made oa the American Experience Table, tbe legal standard oi the State of xew York.G.W.PHILLIPS, PS, l J.G.VANClSB, / Actuaries.We, the undersigned bave.In person, carefully examined tne accounts, and counted, and examined in detail, the assets of the Society, and ceitify that the foregoing statement thereof is correct.Bennington F.Bandolph.James M.Halsted,\tHenry S.Terbellj# Thomas A.Cummins,\tEgbert Bliss, Special Committee of the Board of Directors, appointed October 23,1878, to examine tbe assets and accounts at the close ot tne year.JAMES W.ALEXANDER, Vice-President.SAMUEL BOKROWE, Secretary.Medical Examiners, E.W.LAMBERT, M.D.EDWARD CURTIS, M.D E.W.Scott, Superintendent of Agencies.It- \\v.AAJXJ-J, General Manager for Dominion of Canada.198 St.Ja'iks Street, Montreal.March 5\tr 54 TO IÆT, One large Room in the front part of the Herald Building, and an -&Ul °ther well suited for light manufac-ûSSa taring, in rear.Steam power if neceseary- Apply at the Office, 155 St.James Street.J anuary________________________ TO DET.To let together or separately, for a term of years if desired, those two large cut-stone front stores, ^\t__Nos.86 and 88 Grey Nuns street, suitable for wholesale stores, light ' or heavy manufacturing business of any kind.Possession immediate.Size 30 x 100 each.Connection with iron doors.B.FURNISS & CO.25 N ormand Street.February 10_______ 34 .TO DET.Æïjâi The premises.No.8 St.Helen gj g g p \u2019 Street, at present occupied by H g a ü ! Messrs.Mullarky & Co.as a boot SteJsWand shoe factory.Also: The premises.Nos.297 and 299 St.Paul street, lately occupied by Messrs.L.J.Beliveau & Co.Possession of tbe latter may be had immediately.Apply to \u201e MACDOUGALL & DAVIDSON.February 10\t34 TO LET, Several large Offices, in the Union \u201c 1 Building 1 ; single and double, with @ !i i vaults, well suited for Insurance Jf-lACompanies or Law firms ; and, on the Upper Flats, well-lighted, spacious Offices, suitable for Architects, Surveyors, &c.Examination invited.\u201e ,\tTAYLOR BROS.February G\t31 TO LET, The Half or Whole of the Shop, No.157 St.James street.As the St.Lawrence Hall Hotel is to be \u2014-\u2018Opened on tho 1st of April next, this will be found a very desirable location.Apply at the Herald Office.January 28\tgg Bris.\u201cOlioloe\u201d JLiîibraclors Do.Di'inie IMaclserel, Split and Round Do.Sea Troat airtl Salmon Hi.-brls.Wliiteasli and Trout.\u2014ALSO,\u2014 Coarse and T\u2019actory Salt.For Sale by VERRET, STEWART & CO.February 24\t46 NEWJBOOKS.Bismarck in tkb Franco-German War, by Dr.Busch ; 2 vols.\u2014$4.Voices trou Babylon, or The Vision or Daniel the Propeet, by Rev.Dr.Seiss\u2014$1.50.A New Departure in the Domain of Political Economy, by Arthur Crump.Part I \u2014$3.75.Daniel Defoe, by William Mento, (English Men of Letters)\u201475c.The Commentaries of Gains and the Rules of Ulpian the Text, with translation and Notes, by Abdy and Walker; new Edition\u2014$4.75.The House of Commons, by Rigwald F.D.Palgrave\u201475c.The Endless Future of the Human Race, by Rev.Dr.Henry\u201475c.Habitual Drunkenness and Insane Drunkards, by Dr.Bucknill\u201475c.The New Puritan\u2014New England Two Hundred Years Ago,\u2014by James Pike\u2014 $1.00.Fairy Tales\u2014Their Origin and Meaning\u2014by John T.Bunce\u2014Paper, 25c ; English Edition, Cloth, $1.Thomas Carlyle\u2014His Life and Works, by A.H.Guernsey\u201430o.The Statesman\u2019s Year-Book for 1879\u2014 $3.25 Education as a Science, by Dr.Alex.Bain\u2014$1.75.From Kulja Across the Tian Shan to Lob-Nob, by Col.Pregevalsky\u2014$4 50.Aids to Family Government, or From the Cradle to tbb School, aocord-' ing to Froebel, by Bertha Mayer\u2014 $1.00.Gwen\u2014A Drama in Monologue, in Six Acts, by the Author of \u2018\u2018The Epic of Hades.\u201d Meg\u2014A Pastoral and other Poems, by Todd Barnes Gustavsou\u2014§1.50.For Sale by DAWSON BBOTHERS, ST.JAMES STREET.March 15\t63 PRIZES AWARDED THEM AT Vienna, Paris and Philadelphia Exhibitions.for Cast Steel, Tool Steel, Spring Steel Sheet Steel and Steel Wire.M.HUNTER & SON, SHEFFIELD.Extra Fine Table Cutlery.JOHN ROUND & SOS (UIWITED) SHEFFIELD Electro-Plated Ware, Spoons and Forks, Orders solicited.to import or from Stock.B.J.COGHLIN, 26 St.Sulpice Street, Montreal Sole Agent.July 3\t157 TENDERS addressed to the undersigned, in a sealed envelope, marked Tenders for Printing, Paper or Binding (as the case may be), will be received until THURS DAY, the 10th day of APRIL Next, after which day no Tender will be received, for tbe Printing, furnishing the Printing Paper, and the Binding required for the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada.No tender will be received except on the blank form, which can be had on application to the undersigned, and from whom all information can be obtained.The Committee do not bind themselves to accept the lowest or any tender.By order, HENRY HARTNEY, Clerk Joint Committee of bo h Houses on Printing.Department of Printing of Parliament, 7 Ottawa, 13th March, 1879\t5 r mwf 64 INSOLYEST ACT OF 1876.AND AMENDING ACTS.) In the Matter of FRANCŒUR & GIROUX, of the City of Montreal, Insolvents.The undersigned Assignee will sell, by Public Auction, at so much in the dollar, as per Inventory valuation, at the Ins'll vents\u2019 place of business.Nos.37 and 371 St Lawrence Main Street, Montreal, on Thursday, the £0th day of March.A.D.1879, at 11 o\u2019clock A.M., The following Assets belonging to the above Estate, viz.:\u2014 Stock of Dry-goods, amounting to $15,811.90 Store F xtures, &c\u201e\t\u2018\u2018 .512 65 Book Debts,\t\u201c .9,695.89 $26,020.44 Stock and Book Debts to be sold separ» ately.Terms made known day of sale.\u2018 The Store will be kept open for Inspec tion of Stock on Tuesday, the 18th, Wednesday, the 19th, and hursday, the 20th, till hour of sale.- All further information given on application at the office of Perkins, Fulton & Perkifis, No.60 St.James street, Montreal.ARTHUR M.PERKINS, Assignee.BENNING & BARSALOU?Auctioneers.Montreal, March 4th, 1879\t54 SADJER OIT BOOTS AMD SHOES.The Subscribers will sell at their Stores, Nos.126 and 128 St.Peter street, on Thursday, 30th March, 450 Cases BOOTS AND SHOES.Being a well assorted Wholesale Stock, and suited for either City or Country Trade.All in good order.\u2014also,\u2014 450 Gross Boot Webb and Shoe Binding.Sale at T WO o\u2019clock.BENNING & BARSALOU, 60\tAuctioneers.MESTLE FOOD.JUST RECEIVED A FRESH SUPPLY, Direct from the Manufactory.Single Tins, 315 c., or #4 I»ei- Dozen.CAUTION.Unprincipled vendors of the OLD, STALE, MUSTY ard LUMPY FOOD, have imitated our Buff Wrappers, hut each Tin of our fresh importations is branded 7' Darhican, Dondon, E.O., AND IS ONLY TO BS HAD AT THE ITALIAN WAREHOUSE, 331 St.James Street, OR AT THE BRANCH ITALIAN WAREHOUSE, ST.CATHERINE STREET.McGIBB0H~& BAIRD.BARROW IMITE STEEL £0T [LIMITED], BARROW-IN-FURNESS, England.COX & GREEN, Montreal, Agents for Ike Dominion of Canada, SPEGIAJ.NOTICE The Cable Conchas ARE THE FINEST FrVJEi OKIXX CIGrAtC in America.When you call for them be sure you get them, as some Shopkeepers would recommend other brands, because it pays them a larger profit.s.hdX-vts, Is, 14,16 & 18 Hospital St, (Wee Government Railways.Chaudière Bridge and Auproachet.Tenders Wanted, TENDERS, addressed to the Hon.H.G.Jolt, Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works, and endorsed \u201c Tender for Chaudière Bridge and Approaches,\u201d will be received at 16 ST.JAMES STREET, MONTREAL, up to NOON of MONDAY, 31st MARCH, for tbe construction of all the MASONRY required in connection with the Bridge accross the Ottawa River, which will consist of Eleven Piers and Four Abutments, together with all the Earth and Rock Excavation and Embankment required to make the connection be.tween the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway, in the City of Hull, -n the Province of Quebec, and the Canada Central Railway, in the City of Ottawa, in the Province of Ontario.Contractors will be shown soundings positions of the Abutments and Piers of the Bridge, and of the line generally, on application at the Government Engineer\u2019s Office, 16 St.James street, Montreal, at any time after this date, hut detailed plans and specifications can only be seen on and after THURSDAY, the 20th MARCH, at the same place.No tenierwill he received unless made upon the printed form attached to the specification, nor unless accompanied with certified cheque for one thousand dollars, which sum shall be forfeited if the party tendering declines entering into contract for the works at the rates and on the terms stated in his tender.The Government does not hind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.P.ALEX.PETERSON, Government Engineer.Montreal, March 8th.1879 October 31 300 iFOAS.SÆDIQ.A Buggies\u2019 Ctrd and Bill Hsad Press, Chases, Fountain »ad Roller*\u2019 complete.\u2019Apply this Office.May 21\t120 HEW SEASON TEAS\u2019 To Arrive, per Steamships \u201c Glamorgan \u2019 and \u201c Braemer Castle,\u201d FROM YOKOHAMA, Half-Chests Uncoloured JAPAN TEA?* COX & GREEN.December 28\t309 March 15 63 DISTRIGT OF MONTREAL PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 7 District of Montreal.) A Session of the COURT OF QUEEN\u2019S BENCH, holding Criminal Jurisdiction in and for the District of Montreal, will be held in the Court House, in the City and District of Montreal, on MONDAY, the TWENTY - FOURTH day of MARCH Instant, at TEN of the clock in the forenoon.In consequence, I give public notice to all who intend to proceed against any prisoner now in the Common Gaol of the said District,! and all others, that they must be present then and there ; and I also give notice to all Justices of the Peace, Coroners and Peace Officers, in and for the said District, that they must be present then and there with their Records, Rolls, Indictments and other documents, in order to do those things which belong to each of them in their respective capacities.PIERRE J.O.CHAUVEAU, Sheriff.Sheriff\u2019s Office, > Montreal, 12tb March, 1879 $\t63 58 ffiruTOCxitl- ©ifl Tfl nflf! Unvp.sted In Wall St.Stocka Q>lu IU vDlUUUI ra Xes lortunes every montn Book sent free explaining everytntng, Address BAXTER & CO., Bankers, f.l7;wau Sty N.Y./ November 2?\tSWDW232 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRO VISIONS of the QUEBEC LICENSE ACT QF 1878- P1JBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, the 17th, 19th and 21st MARCH Next, respectively, and on each subsequent Monday, Wednesday and Friday, until further notice, the BOARD OF LICENSE .COMMISSIONERS for ths City of Montreal, will meet at their Office, ITS St.James Street, At half-past TEN in theforenoon, for the consideration of Applications for Licenses.WILLIAM AHEEN, Sec.Board Lie, Commissioners.February 27, 1879\t50 GrlHJB & CO.Beg to inform their Friends and Patrons that they have received their SPRING AND SUMMER STOCKS IN TAILORING AND HABERDASHERY.\u2014ALSO,\u2014 Pattern Suit» irom Poole, And respectfully invite inspection.March 14\t62 THE ATTENTION of the Public is requested to the following facts:\u2014 First.O.McGARVF-Y & SON have now on hand, and in course of completion, one of the finest, best assorted and best finished Stocks of Household Furniture to he seen in the Dominion, comprising every article belonging to the line.Second.This Stock has been provided during the winter months at prices so low for cash, that they will be enabled to sell at prices lower than any ever approa'ched, even during the last few years of har\u2019d times.Third.Parties who will be in want of such goods could not better consult their intereste than by giving a call to the oldest established Furniture Warehouse in the city, where they can depend upon being shown every courtesy, even if merely inspecting goods.A call from the public wanting goods m their line is most respectfully requested.OWEN MGGARVEY & SON, 7, 9 and 11 ST.JOSEPH STREET.March 10 3367 1 \u2014 I \u2014 ¦ Il MONTREAL HEKALD AWD DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1679.ISSAL HEWS.Thb \"Weather contimies frosty.ÜAsgoiBADBS were téld last evening at the 3t.Danis Street and Crystal Palace Skating Elnks.Flags were hoisted on many of our public buildings yesterday in honour of the birthday of H.E.H.the Princess Louise.The Citt Ccttncil ineietè tc-morr®w at 3 p.m , when the questions of the appointment of a Chief of Police, and of a Clerk for the St.Antoine Market will come up.Montréal General Hospital.\u2014 ber of patients treated for week ending Monday, 18th inst.\u2014Out-door patients re-lieved, 267; In door patiente, average daily, 113.Settled.\u2014 The charge of peijury brought against Mr.T.S.O\u2019Bner, pork and butter merchant, St.Mary street, by his late clerk, Mr.Harry Laurie, has been withdrawn.In Town.\u2014Mr.Boyd, special correspondent of the Times, London, England, is staying at the Ottawa.He leaves this evening for Halifax, en route for England.His many friends in Canada wish him a ten voyqge.The City Clerk learns that the representatives of the city at Ottawa are closely watching the Coteau Landing Eailway Bridge Bill.They will communicate with the Mayor immediately, should they deem it necessary for a deputation to wait on the Government.The Fresh Fish Trade.\u2014It is rumoured that, on account of the numerous prosecutions made before the Eecorder against dealers for selling fresh fish without license, a petition will shortly be presented to the City Council praying for an amendment of the law.A Large Marine Boiler, weighing twelve tons, was slowly drawn through the city yesterday to the Q., M.O.& O.E., on n mammoth* sleigh, by ten strong horses, who had all they could do to get it along.It was made by Messrs.John McDougall & Co., of this city, and is intended for a boat under cons'ruction for the carrying trade, by Mr.John McEae, of Ottawa.Statement op Out-door Eeliep given at the Protestant House of Industry and Eefuga-for week ending 15th March, 1879.The number of families relieved was 226, of which 61 were English, 76 French, 19 Germans, 7 Norwegians and Swedes, 11 Italians and Poles, 8 Americans, 7 Irish, 2 Scotch, 35 nationality uncertain ; total, 226.75 quarter cords of firewood were given.Acknowledgments.\u2014The Principal of the Mackay Institution for Protestant Deaf Mutes acknowledges with sincere thanks a donaton of Kindergarten blocks from Mr.Grafton ; an excellent fret saw, complete, and materials, from Mrs.Benny, per Mise H.Gordon.Thanks are also tendered to Hearn & Harrison for giving the pupils a magic lantern entertainment.The Board of Out-door Belief acknowledge®, with thanks, the following donations :\u2014JamesDakers, §10; Bev.W.H., $5.Accident.\u2014Damase Tailard, a farmer of L\u2019Assomption, was struck and thrown senseless to the ground by a passing sleigh at the Bsnsecours Market yesterday.In a few seconds he recovered consciousness, and found that the cash pre-ceeds of his produce had been thrown'from his pocket, and was picked up by two lads, one of whom hastened away with his booty, while the other, Alphonse Dube, promptly returned what he had secured.The police were notified.Suddenly Taken Sick.\u2014The friends and confreres of Mr.A.M.Hart, advocate/ of this city, will learn with regret that that gentleman is confined to his residence, Durocher street, by sickness.Mr.Hart was pleading a case in the Court of Appeals, yesterday morning, and was in the aot of reaching out his hand for a book of reference, when he suddenly fainted.A physician was summoned and ordered his removal to his residence, where he now lies suffering from general debility.St.Patrick\u2019s Day.\u2014The President of the Irish Protestant Benevolent Society, of Montreal, received the following telegram from the President of the sister Society at Kingston on Monday evening:\u2014Kingston, 17th March, 1879.The Irish Protestant Benevolent Society, at its annual dinner, sends greeting to its sister Societies at Montreal and Toronto.H.Cunningham, President.The President of the Montreal Society replied, thanking the Kingston brethren for their kind and fraternal greeting.Church oe the Messiah.\u2014The Eev.Dr.Cordner, senior pastor of this Church, has tendered his resignation, after a course of 30 years uninterrupted labour, on account of the increasing weight of years.His resignation has been accepted, and be has been appointed Honorary Pastor.The Eev.J.B.Green, the assistant pastor of the Church, has also sent in his resignation.Mr.Green has made many friends during his three years pastorate in this city, and his departure will be felt with regret by all denominations.It is said that he intends to make Boston his future home.The Corporation Address to the Marquis op Lorne and the Princess Louise.\u2014The following letter speaks for itself: Government House, Ottawa, March 15, 1879.\u2014Sir,\u2014I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the engrossed address, which I have placed before His Excellency and Her Eoyal Highness, who desire me to express their admiration of the work, and their thanks to the Mayor and Corporation of Montreal for such a beautiful present of congratulation.I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, T' DeWinton, Major E.A., Col\u2019s.Sec.Chas.Glackmeyer, Esq., City Clerk, Montreal.Burial Ebturns.\u2014During the past week 17 interments were made in the City Cemeteries.Catholics, 67.Estate\u2014 Boys, 24; married men, 6; widower, 1; bachelors, 2; girls, 24; married women, 7; widows, 3 ; spinsters, 3.Nativity\u2014English-speaking Canadians, 8; French-Canadians, 51; Irish, 3.Of contagious diseases 12 died of small-pox, and 1 of typhoid fever.Protestants, 11.Estate\u2014Boys, 3 ; bachelors, 2; girls, t; married women, 4; widow, 1.Nativity\u2014Scotch, 2 ; Irish, 2; Canada, 7.No deaths from contagious diseases either inside or outside the city.Of Catholics dying outside the limits 2 died of small-pox and 1 of diptheria.An Ill-Fortuned Fortune-Teller.\u2014 Theodore Eochon, an idler, of 40, was sent to gaol by the Eecorder yesterday for three months, on a charge of assaulting Eugene Manthier, with whom he resides as her husband.A physician\u2019s certificate was produced, testifying that the woman was unable to leave her bed on account of the injuries he had inflicted upon her.The evidence given was to the effect that the prisoner lives at the expense of the woman who gains a precarious livelihood by \u201c telling fortunes.\u201d He has previously been imprisoned for assaulting her.On Monday he got drunk, struck her several times about tl e head and kicked her with his boots.The police arrested him in the midst of his brutality, and he resisted them so violently that he had to be carried to the Station.THB LA IF STUDENTS\u2019 DINNER.There are few more enjoyable reunions than those held by students at the termination of their College work Apart altogether from the traditional jollity which characterises students, and more especially law students, the occasion is of such a nalute as to allow them to gc in for a good time with thorough abandon.The hard work of the year is over.The codes Pothier, et alu innumerabiles ai e thrown aside for the nonce ; in fact, examinations are finished, and the excitement ever, the results only adds a zest to the keen relish of an evening\u2019s social enjoyment.To the number of about fifty, the law students of McGill University assembled Monday evening at \u201c The Queen\u2019s.\u201d A few old graduates were also present, and the attendance of several representative gentlemen from the other faculties of the University, and from the University of Laval, was also noticeable.Mr.Charles J.R.Fleet, B.A., a member of the graduating class, occupied the chair, while the vicechair was filled by Mr.Bouthillier Trudel.The menu was a capital one, and mine host McNally had done his best.For two hours the viands*were appearing and disappe iring, and then the Chairman called on Mr.George E.Bampton to read an \u201c Original Prologue,\u201d full of wit and humour, which was loudly applauded.Messrs.Sharpe, Nicalls and Lafleur sang \u201c The Boar\u2019s Head,\u201d the company all standing.After \u201cThe Queen\u201d came the \u201c Alma Mater,\u201d proposed by the Vice-Chairman in an eloquent speech in French, in which he referred to the obligations which the students were under to \u201cOld McGill,\u201d and to the harmony and good feeling existing amongst the French and English stu dents.Mr.O\u2019Hara Baynes then sang \u201cA Health to Old McGill.\u201d Dr.Nicholls, M.D., B.C.L., rose next and gave \u201cThe Professors \u201d in a witty speech, and was followed by Mr.Ethier with a song.Mr.Bamnton then proposed \u201c The Bench and Bar,\u201d to which Mr.Lafleur sang an original song \u201c The Great Q.B.,\u201d a la Pinafore.\u201cOur Guests \u201d came next, being proposed by Mr.R.D.Mo-Gibbon.Mr.Trudel sang \u201c Hioupe, Hioupe sur la riviere.\u201d Mr.Descarries, of Laval, Mr.McCulley, of Medicine, and Mr.Lightall, of Arts, replied.\u201c The Graduates of \u201979 \u201d was the toast entrusted to Mr.Sharpe, who spoke very eloquently on the subject.Mr.Carter singing another original song, and Mr.Busteed answering for the future B.0.L.\u2019s.\u201c The Medallistand Valedictarian\u201d was the next toast, proposed by Mr.Atwater.Owing to the uncertainty existing as to the \u201c Medallists.\u201d identity, the only reply was from Mr.Fleet, the Valedictarian, who also sang another original song, entitled \u201c The Students of McGill.\u201d Mr.Armine D.Nicalls, of the Graduating Class, gave \u201c The men v e leave behind us \u201d in an able speech.Mr.Trudel sang \u201cLe Brigadier\u201d in splendid style, after which Mr.Weir, of the second year, and Mr.A.L.de Martigny, of the Freshman class, replied.Mr.McGibbon then proposed the health of \u201c The Dinner Committee,\u201d to which Messrs.McLennan and Trudel responded.The Chairman toasted \u201c The Ladies,\u201d and Mr.Sharp, sang \u201c Here\u2019s to the Maiden,\u201d after which, Mr.Charles Baynes answered, on behalf of \u201c The Sex,\u201d in a witty speech, which was loudly applauded.After \u201c Auld Lang Syne,\u201d the company dispersed, each pronouncing the dinner to have been \u201c the best yet.\u201d paid to you by said Hubert and Ouimet, and how and in what manner it was uaid 7 Mr.C.P.Davimos, Q.C., presented c motion asking that the second and fifth questions about to be asked the witness be declared illegal and irrelevant; the first being as to the bona fide price paid by him to McLaren and Blackburn for the mine in question, and tjie other as ta the price received from Messrs Hubert and Ouimet for the portion of the share in the mine sold to them, the questions not being properly joined to the issue.After discussion between Mr.Kerr, Q C., and Mr.Carter, Q.C., as to the relevancy of the questions.His Honour ordered the witness to answerer refuse to answer as he saw fit, reserving the right of his counsel to file his objection as to the relevancy of the questions.To the first question witness answered in the affirmative.To the second he declined to answer at that stage of the proceedings, by advice of his counsel.To the third he replied:\u2014\u201c $39,000 were paid witness by Paquet ; one-eighth of the property he bought first for $5,600, and he paid $33,400 for the second purchase, being the remaining four-eighths of the property ; that is to say, the first amount under the first deed, and the second amount under the second deed referred to in this question.The amount mentioned in the first deed was paid on the 19th August last\u2014it was the item mentioned at said date in witness\u2019 pass - book with the Hochelaga Bank.The second amount was paid by instalments as follows : A cheque for $10,000, on the 21st of October; a draft on Quebec for $8,000 on 22nd October ; ditto for $7,950 on 25th October; ditto for $6,000 on 2ni November.These drafts are credited to me at Quebec at the dates mentioned, so that they must have been given a day or two earlier.\u201d Witness was informed that a discrepancy existed, to which he replied that these items were all that he received, and that the amount named, $39,000, was therefore a mistake.To the fourth inter-ragatory witness replied : \u201cYes, three different shipments to England and Scotland of phosphate of lime were made for joint account, and I have no returns yet,\u201d and to the fifth \u201c I sold two-eighths of the said property to Mr.Hubert, and one-eighth to Mr.Ouimet at the same time, and at the same price as the first one-eighth sold to Mr.Paquet.\u201d In reply to supplementary questions by Mr.W.H.Kerr, Q.C., witness replied the three drafts on Quebec were, he believed, on the Bank of Montreal in Quebec, and were made by Paquet, but witness could not say whether in Paquet\u2019s capacity of cashier of the Hochelaga Bank or not.Four drafts were identified by the witness as those referred to in his answers, and admitted that the en-dorsations on the back of them were his own.The question, \u201c was not the price paid by you to Messrs.McLaren and Blackburn for the mine $10,000 7\u201d was not allowed by His Honour on the ground that it was substantially the same as interrogatory No.2, which the witness had refused to answer.The Court took recess.Sailor Boy; Davidson Geo, Reginald, Negro, £ Esoott Ar'hur, Highlander ; H, Yankee Doodle.Escott, W Farquharson W, Patchwork.Gardner A W, E*d Chief of the Mountain ; Griffith A S, Clown ; Gardener T H, Drummer Boy; Grady Burnc, \u2014; Greenberg Isaac, Clown ; Goldberg, Indian Chief ; Gwitt, J D.Snow Flake ; Gwitt A B, Negro.H Haldiman George, Clown ; Hunter J P, Brigand ; Hunter W S, Hunter ; Hersey A rthur H, Clown ; Hersey Milton L, Sailor Boy ; Hodgson IY J, Lerd Lovell; Houghton F, Turk ; Hopkins Frank, Base BallPlayer; Haldimand Edward, King\u2019s Jester ; Harris Arthur, Domino.K Kohl A, Chinese.li Liethead E, Man in the Moon; Lang G, Cricketer ; Lancaster E, Fireman ; Lyman Arthur, Sailor ; Lindsay S Y, Prince Cheri.\t>- M Mitchell A, King of the Carnival ; Myers M.Jester; Moss Albert E, Czar of Russia; Martin YT, Uncle Sam; Mitchell F, Fairy King ; Maile F, Rowell Champion Walker; Mercer Geo, Sir Eoger do Cover-ley; Morton W, Pedlar; Myers Samuel, Harlequin ; McIntyre D S, Chippewa Chief ; McGillivray J, Cricketer ; McIntyre D, Prince Mercinel ; McDougall A, Handy Andy; McGillivray A, Football.N Noival Wm, Page.P Patterson John, Sailor ; Patterson Henry, Tuque Blue; Philbin Thomas, Clown; Pringle E, Newsboy; Plow J, Patchwork.E Eankin Archie, Hungarian Page ; Eobin-son George, Sepoy; Eubenstein M, Little Dutchman; Raymond G, Sea-Side Swell; Robertson W, Page of the 15th Century ; Eobertson A, Clown ; Eubenstein L, Kag-Pieker from Paris; Ehynas Master S, i Snow-Shoer ; Eubenstein A Elephant ; Eubenstein Louis, Keeper of Elephant.S Shaw William, Naval Officer ; St Pierre W, Young Prince.T Thomson C M, Officer Eoyal Artillery ; Thomson Gee, Jolly Dutchman.W Walker Geo, Chinaman; Walker D, Indian ; Whitney A, Sailor ; Waters Henry Officer H M 100th Eegiment; Wheeler C E, Devilshoof; Walker Jos, Spooner; Wray Alex, English Poet ; Wray Chas, Clown.VICTORIA SKATING RINK.FANCY DREES ENTERTAINMENT.THE GOLDRING CASE.Police Court \u2014 Yesterday.\u2014 Henry Kehoe, Patrick Monday, Wm.Wren, Michael Cronaa, and Austin Eowan, charged with stealing a barrel of varnish from the factory of Messrs.John Jamieson & Co., were fully committed for trial before the Court of Queen\u2019s Bench.Joseph Gauthier and Octave Cerie were remanded on a charge of having, on the 3rd inst., with one Stanislas Renaud now in gaol, committed an assault on one Joseph Brault, on Susanne street.Renaud is now serving a term of three months for assaulting a collector named Bouchard on Mignonne street.Moses Teisch and Leo Nehmer, second-hand dealers, charged, conjointly with Edward Abbey and John O\u2019Brien, with the larceny of boots and shoes from Messrs.Arnee, Holden & Go.and Forbes, Stephenson & Co., were further remanded in the absence of Wm.Lawson, High Constable, and Robert Horsman, agent, both of Cornwall, who were subpoenaed to give evidence, and made default.Warrants were issued for their arrest.Sir Rowland Hill is to he honoured at this late day by being tendered the freedom of London in the traditional gold box, in recognition of his services in connection with the establishment of penny postage.\u2014Four Boston girls, ranging from eight to twelve years of age, have been caught picking pockets.They have worked mainly in Methodist revival meetings, where the crowding and the fervour made the women careless as to their valuables.Ninety handkerchiefs were found in the little thieves\u2019 room, besides many emotied pocketbooks and articles of jewellery! \u2014One of Charles Dicken\u2019s daughters-in-law, Mrs.Alfred Tennyson Dickens, has just met a terrible death in Australia, where her husband has for several years been living and prospering.Mrs.Dickens was driving cut with her little daughter, when the horse became frightened, and, running away, finally overturned the carriage.The child was killed, and theyoung wife was so dreadfully injured that she died in a few hours.\u2014N.Y.Tribune.Latest Atrocity.\u2014 Scene\u2014Railway-arch, Maxwell street, Glasgow ; two street Arabs are quarrelling over agameofpitch-and-toss ; an old gent, interposes.\u201c Come, come, you shouldn\u2019t quarrel in that way ; it\u2019s very wrong.What have you done, my lad, that he should strike you !\u201d First street Arab : \u201c Naething, sir.\u201d Second street Arab : \u201cYer a lie p Ye ca\u2019d me a bank director !\u201d In this case, Mr.F.X.St.Charles, President of the Hochelaga Bank, continued his evidence Monday atternoon as follows, in cross-examination by Mr.Edward Carter, Q.C.:\u2014Witness saw, from Goldring\u2019s deeds to Paquet, that he had received money ; saw Goldring for the first time at the bank in July or August last; asked Paquet who Goldring was ; Paquet replied : \u201c He is a London millionaire, whose acquaintance I made on the road between Montreal and Quebec ; he is to become one of our depositors and will be a good customer ; \u201d Goldring\u2019s pass-book was produced, showing that he was a depositor at the Hochelaga Bank ; this witness admitted; on the 26th September, $12,500, and 19th October $65,600 were paid to Goldring ; defendant must have known that Paquet was but a salaried bank cashier; when Paquet told Goldring he would be short in his cash, the latter must have known Paquet was using the bank\u2019s funds.Witness knew this from what Paquet had told him, and also from the fact that Paquet had asked witness for a loan of $50,-000 from the bank ; on the 26th September Goldring sold Paquet one-eighth of the land, and five-eighths on the I9th October ; to the best of witness\u2019 knowledge, Goldring delivered up only four-eighths of the land ; could not swear to this personally; thought such was the case from the deeds he had seen ; to the best of his knowledge.Paquet had told him he had only received one-eighth of the land in all ; Paquet had made these admissions after witness had discovered that Paquet was a defaulter to the extent of $77,000 and more ; Paquet never told witness that Goldring owed him $13,000 ; it was on the 26th February last that witness learnt that Paquet had acquired shares in the phosphate mine ; on learning this, the directors counted the money in the vault, took away the keys from him and examined the books, which showed that several transactions had taken place between Goldring and Paquet ; by March 4th, the cash was counted by witness and two directors ; the accountant conducted the investigation as to the transactions and drafts that had passed between Goldring and Paquet ; Paquet told witness privately he had paid away $77,500, perhaps more ; the money had last been counted on the 31st December, and so the directors knew how much there ought to be ; on that date there was $830,-000 in the bank ; on the 4th March there was a deficit of $87,950 ; some of the books belonging to the bank were inspected on the 31st of December, but not all.Witness supposed, but could not affirm positively that Paquet had transferred to Mr.Leduc, a director of the bank, the land he had bought ; could not say whether Leduc accepted this transfer in his own interest, or in that of the bank ; supposed Mr.Leduc had acted in the interests of the bank ; besides recouping themselves for their loss by land acquired by Mr.Leduc there was a guarantee policy of the Canada Guarantee Company, and Paquet held fifty-six shares in the Hochelaga Bank, which the bank had taken possession of; Paquet told witness he had given Goldring authority to sell the property for $200,000 ; according to Paquet, the property was of no inconsiderable value ; the directors of the bank advised Mr.Leduc to visit the mine and make a report thereon.This he did.Yesterday morning the case was resumed before the Hon.Mr.Justice Mackay.Mr.St.Charles continued the evidence by stating that between the issuing of the first and the second writ of capias, he had received no additional information respecting Goldring\u2019s alleged intention to leave the country ; knew Goldring and Paquet had been intimate friends ; is not aware that the bank lias control of the mining property.To the best of witness\u2019 belief had not Goldring conspired with Paquet to defraud the bank, witness would not have had any other grounds of action against defendant for damages.To Mr.Beique\u2014Had often complained to Paquet of his intimacy with Goldring at the bank, and warned him that it might end in injury to the bank.In examining Paquet\u2019s accounts of the affairs of the bank on 31st December, the directors had accepted Paquet\u2019s memo, of the state of the circulation and securities held by the hank, the legal tenders short having been made good by Paquet\u2019s borrowing for the occasion.Henry William Goldring, the defendant, who had been brought up from gaol on a vixiiotliabeas corpus ad testificandum, was sworn in accordance with the Hebrew formula, and examined by Messrs.W.H.Kerr, Q.C., andBeique.The following interrogatories were submitted : \u2014 1.\tAre you the defendant petitioner in this cause?2.\tWhat was the price actually and bona-fide paid by you to McLaren & Blackburn for the property purchased by you from them by deed of 21st August last \"?3.\tWhat was the actual price received by you from Jean Salem Paquet, for the shares of-properties and running rights! sold by you to him by the deeds of 26th September and 19th October last, and state at what dates and in what manners said payments of price were made?4.\tHad you any transactions on joint accounts or otherwise with the said J.B.Paquet in the year 1878 relative to phosphate despatched to England or Scotland, and state particulars ?5.\tDid you not sell to Mr.Richard A.R.Hubert two-eighths, and to Mr.Adolphe Ouimet one-eighth of the properties and mines mentioned in the said deeds of sale by you to said Paquet, and please state when, and what was the bona fide price The anniversary of the birth of H.R.H.the Princess Louise was celebrated at the Yictoria Rink, in right loyal fashion, by a fancy dress entertainment in which some 300 young people took part, and afforded amusement to themselves and to a far greater number of spectators.The Bands of the Yictoria and the P.W.R.Rifles supplied the music.The Rink was gaily decorated, and the characters donned by the skaters embraced many new features, including the \u201c spooners,\u201d a species of animal indigenous to coal yard corners and other sunny resorts, and was first discovered by some members of the Montreal Lacrosse Club; the N.P.elephant, labouring under the weight of its own responsibility, was compelled, periodically, to withdraw for rest and refreshment, or, as some observed, for revision, and finally collapsed.The \u201c Heathen Chinee,\u201d the warlike Russ and other nationalities, now commanding a place on the arena of European or American politics, were faithfully represented, as also all phases of both the grave and gay side of human nature; and the historic, poetic, imaginative and beautiful, martial and ridiculous passed in kaleodoscopic rotation before the eye of the spectator.Pressure on our space will not permit of further reference of what was a brilliant and healthful scene\u2014and one which, in all probability, will be the last of its kind for the present winter season.Appended are as many of the names of those who contributed to the entertainment as it was possible to obtain:\u2014 LADIES\u2019 LIST.A Atwater Miss E.Archer ; Atwater Miss Hattie, Spanish Lady ; Atwater Miss Lucy, Tambourine Girl; Abbott Miss A E A, Lady of the time of Queen Anne.B Brown Miss Lizzie, Swiss Peasant; Bay-lis Miss W, Shepherdess ; Baylis Miss Flora, Gymnast ; Bethune Miss, Lady of the Olden Time ; Bethnne Miss Louise, Gipsy ; Bethune Miss Geraldine, Fishwife.C Cox Miss Mary, Gymnast ; Cox Miss Maggie, Polish Princess ; Clarke Miss Annie, Swiss Peasant; Collis Mise, French Peasant; Cook Miss E, Charity Girl; Craig Miss Annie, Highland Lassie ; Craig Miss Lilly, Little Red Riding Hood ; Craig Miss Nellie, Brigand\u2019s Wife ; Cahill Hattie, Queen of the Night.G Gwilt Miss Violet, the Montreal Herald.H Hersey Laura B, Swiss Lace Maker ; Hodgson Miss Gertrud®, Mrs Partington; Hodgson Miss Gertie May, Mother Beoket of 1570; Hawkset Ida, Spanish Lady; Han-naford Miss Mary, Butterfly; Hogan Miss, Gipsy Queen; Hodgson Miss Annie, Washerwoman.I James Mrs I, Stars and Stripes; James Miss Ada, Swiss Peasant.Leslie Miss M,The Widow Bedotte; Lang Annie J, Hindoo Rahanee.g M Mitchell Miss A, Peasant; Mitchell Miss Alice, Highland Lassie; Macdougall Miss Dors, Folly.N .Nelson Mias Bella, Peasant.O Ogilvy Miss M, Maid of Honour reign of Louis XYI.; Ogilvy Miss Dagmar, La Fille du Regiment ; Ogilvy Miss, Milkmaid.P Patterson Miss, Martha Washington; Patterson Miss Grace, Old Mother Hubbard ; Payne Miss, Maid of Athens ; Phillips Mias, Horentine Peasant.R Reay Miss I, Grandmother of 40 years ago ; Rubenstein Miss W, Popcorn ; Raymond Miss, Highland Lassie ; Raymond Miss T, Soubrette Elicnlief ; Raymond Miss A, Red, White and Blue ; Rhynas Miss M, Lady of the Olden Time ; Rhynas Miss A, Lady Betty ; Robb Miss A, House Maid.S Slater Miss, Archness ; Stafford Miss Alice, Snow ; Stafford Miss Gertie, Genevieve ; Stafford Miss Mollie, Old Woman ; Spencer Miss Clara, Old Woman.T Thomson Miss May, a Fleet of Yacht?, W Wait Miss A, English Gypsy; Wheeler Miss Annie, Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe; Whitney Miss Alice, Red Riding Hood; Wray Miss Nellie, Fisherman\u2019s Daughter; Wallace Miss Minnie, Swiss Peasant; Whitney Miss Ruth, Algerian Duss; White Miss Florence H, Gypsy-Queen ; Wardiow Miss, Maid of Honour; Wardlow Miss L, Polish Princess; Whitney Miss L, Dolly Varden.Y Young Miss M, Nothing in Particular.GENTLEMEN\u2019S LIST.A Aird Wm D, Spooner No 2; Atkinson G, Prince Azor ; Arnton S G, Gnome ; Allan Arthur, Macbeth.B Barlow Walter, Highland Boy; Barlow E, Peasant; Blumenthal J, bnowshoer; Brodie, R H Knight of .the Red Cross of Malta; Barlow Joseph, Turk; Bowles C, Brigand ; Bernard C A, Fireman ; Baylis C A, Fireman ; Baylis, Master J A, Turk ; Barlow T L, N P Elephant.C Crathern John C, Hanlan; Crispo Frank, Turk ; Crowell F, ank C, USA Midshipman ; Cocbenthaler Robert, Stars and Stripes ; Woodcock W, Snowshoer.D Dube W A, Prince of Wales ; Dyer EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.OUR PARIS LETTER.IN DE Mardi Gras\u2014Political\u2014Gambetta as Speaker\u2014How He Maintains Order \u2014Gossip about His Personal Habiis \u2014His Opinions\u2014An Article Girardin\u2019s \u2014 Inundations \u2014 Their Scientific Aspect \u2014 Interesting Facts reoardine them\u2014What Prevents Them \u2014 Census Returns\u2014 Scientific Explorations\u2014A State Ball\u2014Other Festivities\u2014Fires Switzerland\u2014The New Hotel Ville\u2014Obit.Paris, Feb.28, 1879.Thî attempt to revive the ancient glories (!) of Shrovetide has not been very sue cessful.The resuscitation of the old \u201cProcession of Fat Oxen,\u201d with its chariots lictors, Olympian deities, washerwomen in book-musiin and tinsel, carpenters infancy-classic accoutrement?, and miscellaneous incongruities in paper foliage and flowers; \u201c attributes \u201d of trade?, and masks of various ugliness, was found impracticable, and the compact crowds on the Boulevards had little else to repay their observation than a few scores of masks and costumed figures principally children, and some half-dozen fanciful vehicles filled with youths in caricature costume?, more or less success ful.But the making and eating of crepes (the French pancake) has gone on with zeal that tells well for the vitality of the custom, as well as for that of the stomachs that may have digested, without inconvenience, the loads of fried batter thus in flioted upon them.The French people always make these pancakes of water instead of milk so ; that they are lighterjand less leathery than their English eongluers In the making of them, at this season the whole family\toften takes part;\tcoat-sleeves are rolled\tup, aprons are put\ton, and\tparents,\tchildren, and\tfriends go into the kitchen (which has been specially prepared for the occasion), and all take part in beating up the egg?, measuring the sugar, grating the spice, mixing the butter, ladling the same on to the fryingpan, turning the pancake?, and piling them on the dish whence they will be conveyed in triumph to the dining-room when not devoured standing then and there, as is often their fate, amidst tbe jokes and laughter of the party.Among the lower classés, in this country, especially in the rural districts, it is considered \u201cunlucky\u201d to let Shrovetide pass without having eaten these pancakes; and any one who, having omitted this observance, should experience any marked misfortune in the course of the year, would be pretty sure to conclude, in common with all his, or her, acquaintances, that the \u201cill-luck \u201d was due to having failed to eat crepes during the three \u201c Fat Days\u201d that precede Ash-Wednesday.No official announcement has yet been made in regard to the RETURN OF THE GOVERNMENT TO PARIS; but it is believed that the measure has been determined upon, and that it will be put into execution immediately after Easter.The grave dignity with which the new President of the Legislative Chamber holds sway among the discordant elements submitted to the ringing of his official bell is still exciting surprised commentaries on the part of the Parisian?, who, know ing his passionate and impulsive temperament, and the chronic irrepressi-bility of his habitual deportment as a De pnty, have not been without apprehension as to the manner in which he would probably discharge the duties of his present post.The new President hap, moreover, shown himself even more rigid in the application of Parliamentary rules to the members of tbe Left than to those of the Right.The defeat of the Extreme Left, on Friday, in the vote of the Amnesty, has been still further embittered for the losing faction of the Chamber by the truly Draconian severity with which he called hia angry and unruly friends to order, in the violent episodes that marked the progress of the sitting; the Extreme Right, however, being equally angry and coming in for a good share of reprimand and calls to older.One of the victims of the Presidential severities, Mr.Huon de Penanster, attempted to revenge himself by a memento quia addressed to the implacable occupant of the Chair: \u201cI thought,\u201d said this gentleman, who was called to order for repeated interruption?, \u201cthat M.Gambetta might have had more indulgence for me, especially when I re collect that a ee! ebrated speaker on this side (referring to Gambetta himself) has has been in the habit of interrupting, and that, at a sitting not very remote (that of the 1st February, 1878,) he was allowed to interrupt the debates eighteen times without being once called to order.\u201d To this home-thrust M.Gambetta instantly replied, in the following words, which will doubtless become historical :\u2014\u201c Whatever may have been my shortcomings as De\u2014 puty,\u201d he observed, with his mist dignified air, \u201c the mission confided to me by the Chamber will be fulfilled regularly and correctly.And, to speak plainly, I beg my colleagues to consider that these reflections on my past cannot affect me, ior they only refer the to Deputy Gambetta, while thetoccupant of this chair is the President of the Chamber.\u201d The curiosity of the public being naturally excited in regard to the personality of a man who, from the OBSCURE POSITION which he occupied before the war, has risen, in so short a time (for the good or evil of his country), to the pre-eminence of influence and power he now enjoys, and has become, for the time being, the \u201c Master of the Situation,\u201d which seems to be a necessity for the people who, of all others, declaims most loudly against \u201c personal rule.\u201d The inquisitive scrutiny of many eyes has ascertained that the son of the naturalized Italian is particularly fond of flowers and likes to wear a red rose in his button-hole, is taking lessons in fencing of Arnauld, and is rapidly acquiring a degree of skill in the various arts of self-defence that will render him an undesirable vis-a-vis in a duel ; swears by his three favourite physicians, who dine with him every Sunday ; is an ardent admirer of Victor Hugo, and is fond of declaiming, after dinner, the poems of that writer, of which he is proud of possessing an immense stock in his memory; amuses himself with an ingenious little apparatus for lighting a cigar, extinguishing his \u201c weed\u201d twenty times a day for the pleasure of re-lighting it; is fond of walking and rowing, and likes to talk of the Lake of Geneva, on which, says Gossip, he used to row four or five hours at a time;-\"Whether always alone in his \u201c light canoe\u201d Gossip declines to as severate ; is fond of showing off his prowess in the wielding of a pair of heavy dumb-beUs tba\u2019 are always to be found on the ground, in a corner of his \u201c den ;\u201d is a thorough match for Prince Bismarck in the way of eating ; is an habitual lounger, and is never so happy as when lying at full length on a sofa, hia favourite position for thinking, reading, or talking.\u201c The popular Tribune,\" as it has been the fashion te style M.Gambetta, is believed to he OPPOSED TO PROTECTION in matters of trade ; he is also believed to bo desirous of continuing the entente cordiale, between France and England, which the regime of the Second Empire did so much to make a reality.If he obtains the highest place in the Third French Republic, as it is tolerably certain that he will do, it seems probable that he will disappoint alike his friends and his enemies, by adopting a policy as nearly reassembling that of a constitutional Monarch as may be possible under the circumstances ; in which case it might net unnaturally become a question with his friends and the public, whether it was worth while to upset three dynasties simply to put M.Gambetta in the place of a Bourbon, a scion of the House of Orleans, or a Mapoleon ?The Republican papers, meantime, have naturally, for the most part, been chaunt-ing tho praises of the \u201cthree glorious days\u201d of February, 1348; one notable exception to this Concert, however, is the murmur of discouragement exhaled by M.Emile de Girardin, one of the many who have acclaimed every political reigme that has established in France since the fall of the First Empire, has first profited by each in succession, and has then helped to overturn them all, one after the other.\u201c In placing the date of February 24, 1848, at the head of an article,\u201d says M.de Girardin, \u201c it is impossible to withstand the invasion of a feeling of deep disooui-agement.\u201d Between February 24, 1848, to February 24, 1879, thirty years have gone by.What have they left behind them ?\u201c Is France larger than she was before that, date ?\u201d \u201c She is smaller ; for, though she has gained Nice and Savoy, she has lost Alsace and Lorraine.The side of her territory where she has neither sea nor rivers, nor mountains for ramparts, is just the side where she has grown weaker than she was then.\u201c Is France freer than she was before that date ?\u201c Of all the laws whith have been passed in regard to the press, the law of 1819 is still the most liberal ; and up to the present time, the right of meeting, and the right of association, have never ceased to be subjicted to the regime which requires the obtaining of a permit before either can be exercised.\t.O Revolution of 1 848,\u201d commonly styled the \u2018 glorious !\u2019 continues M.de Girardin, \u201c to what, and to whom, have you been of any use during these last thirty years ?What have you changed ?What have you improved ?And how is it psssible cot to be saddened in asking this most afflicting question ?: It would be a happy thing for France if M.de Girardin were not the only frenchman to arrive at the conclusion that violent revolutionary upheavingsand over-throwings.may perhaps not be, after all, the most effectual methods for ensuring nation-al progress and well-being.The disasters occasioned by the INUNDATIONS of tho great rivers are attaining formidable proportions ; the south-west of France especially having suffered from the terrible tornado cf a few days ago, as well as from the overflow of all the rivers.From Boi-deaux to Toulouse, the country is covered with ruin?.Whole villages have been swept away bodily; all the low lying, riverside towns are underwater, the people going about in boats.The greater part of the telegraph wires lave been destroyed ; railways being under water, have been swept away ; many lives lost, and thousands of industrious people have been ruined by the combined action of flood and storm, which have swept away buildings of all kind?, torn up tree?, devastated vineyard?, orchard?, and gardens; and turned one of the richest portions of France into a scene of ruin and desolation.No suoh floods have been seen in this country for sixty years past ; and almost every other country is in the same predicament.It is to he hoped that the severity of the suffering thus inflicted on tho world will induce a general recourse to the planting of hills with trees, \u2022/which is the sole means of preventing inundations.Messrs.Agenor de Gasparin, Becquerel, and other savants who have studied this highly important subject, are unanimous in declaring that the flooding of the rivers is due to the cutting down of forests, whereby the sides of mountains and bills and the neighbourhood of rivers have been denuded of their natural and necessary covering, and urge on the Government the duty of re-planting, in order to keep the rivers and streams within their respective channels.\u201cA well-wooded soil,\u201d SAY THESE AUTHORITIES, \u201c is like a sponge, which allows no water to escape until it is completely saturated ; consequently, instead of allowing the rain water to flew off as it falls, as does a soil bare of trees, it holds the rain, and gives the moisture free play for permeating the ground on which it falls.We may compare two pieces of ground, one wooded and the other bare, to a roof of slate and a roof of thatch ; from the first, the rain, from the very beginningof a shower, flows off simultaneously, and rushes in torrents from the gutters, which become dry almost as soon as the shower has passed.The thatched roof, on the contrary, receives the rain, lets none of it escape until it has become saturated, and, long after the sky has cleared, continues to send off the superfluous moisture gently, drop by drop.\u201c Woode 1 soil acts as does the thatched roof.It retains the rain until thoroughly saturated, and retains its moisture long after the treeless soil has become parched and dry.\u201c Moreover, the rain does not, in wooded regions, fall to the ground in its totality ; a considerable quantity is caught and held by the leaves and branches, and the asperities of the bark, and is restored to the atmosphere by evaporation.The melting of the snow, also, proceeds much more slowly in wooded regions, as the ground is heated less rapidly under trees than where exposed to the full rays of the sun Nor is this all,\" say the authorities referred to, \u201c for forests destroy miasmata and purify the plains.A plantation,\u201d says M.Becquerel, \u201c opposes the pas-saee of a current of damp air, laden with pestilential miasmata, and pieserves from its action the country which lies behind it, while the region traversed by the pestilential current, being devoid of trees, becomes the seat of resulting diseases, as is the case in regard to the treeless mars hes ot the Salogue and the equally treeless Roueaa Campagna.Trees act as a sieve, and purifies from putrescent particles the air that passes through them.\u201d After the terrible inundations of 1860 and 1864, excellent laws were passed by the Federal Chambers for enforcing tbe planting of trees, with a view to destroying the evil in its source; but these laws have been allowed to remain inactive, and the danger has consequently remained unabated, notwithstanding the excellent results which have followed the planting of the hills with trees, wherever this operation has been carried on.For instance:\u2014In the department of the Taru bed of the LITTLE RIVER CAUNAU was overflowed one-half the year and dry the other ; since the old forest of Montout, destroyed for the sake of its timber, has been re-planted, the Caunau has regained its ancient proportions, never overflows, and is never dry.The great Company of the Mines of Grand Combe, which, since 1838, has planted with pines 780 acres of the banks of the River Gardou, has thereby entirely freed that region from the terrible inundations with which it was visited every year.The favourite watering place of Bareges was formerly ravaged every year by tempests of snow.Since the Committee,summoned and presided over by the late Emperor.has re-wooded the sides of the surrounding hills, the little town has enjoyed a perfect immunity from its former disasters The village of Audermatt, in Switzerland, owes its existence to the forest of pine that clothe the surrounding hills, and that intercept the avalanches that are constantly falling around it every Winter and Spring.The results of the last Census (1876) have recently been made public, and show that France now possesses 802,867 more inhabitants than she had in 1872.The population of this country in 1876 was 36,905,788 souls.Of these, the population of the towns was 11,971,454 ; that of the rural districts was 24,934,334, of whom 19,000,000 live by agriculture, 10,600,000 persons cultivating their own land.French commerce employs 3,837.000 persons; arts and trade?, 6, 40,000 persons ; the liberal professions, 1,500,000 persons; 2,000,000 of persons live on their incomes, without working for money or gain.There are 150,000 priests, pastors and rabbis ; 165 -000 public functionaries; 20,000 physicians; 28,000 barristers, solicitors, notaries and bailiffs; bankers and business agents number 9,000; literary men, 4,000.It appears, froimreceut news in regard to the matter, that the progress of the frigate \u201cJunou,\u201d whose VOYAGE BOUND THE WORLD, with a company of savants and 8tudentB,was supposed to have come to an untimely end iu Siuth America, owing to quarrels on board, has proceeded on her way, the Dassengers having successfully opposed the attempt of the owners of the vessel to regain possession of the same.Another scientific traveller, M.Pinart, Commander of the Seignelay, has made a curious and interesting discovery in the Ile des Pâques, an island lost in the immensity of the Pacific Ocean, where he and the officers of his ship have visited the 80 colossal statutes which have been vaguely alluded to by other travellers, but which have now been seen, examined, measured, with an exactness that settles affirmatively the question cf their existence.These statutes are all monoliths, they range from ten te twelve metres in height, and resemble, in style and workmanship, the Colossi of Assyria and Ancient Egypt.By whom, when, how, and why! these enormous stones were quarried, hewn, and raised on the sites where they have evidently been standing for many thousands of years, are points that may possibly be elucidated in course of time, but that are shrouded in deepest obscurity at present.It is decided that a State Ball will be given at the Elysee in the early part of the coming month ; the \u201c receptions \" ef the new President of the Republic are to be free to all who like to attend them ; no invitations will be issued ; those who present themselves will be received on the signing of their names and addresses in the register in the vestibule.The Foreign Ministers have given some splendid evening parties ; the return of Lent, however, will make a pause in the rush of fashionable gaieties.It appears that the Emperor of Russia has made a change in his style of addressing the Chief Magistrate of the French people.He has been accustomed to address the Presidents of Switzerland and the United States as \u201c Dear and Good Friend ;\u201d but to the bead of the French nation he write?, \u201c Monsieur the President of the Republic ;\u201d the Monsieur (Sir) is supposed to be intended to convey the salutation ot Monseigneur (My Lord) understood.SWITZERLAND, by the way, is trying to organize relief for the sufferers by the terrible fire which has totally destroyed the little town of Meyringen and several of the neighbouring villages.The number of heavy casualities that have occurred this year, all over Europe, is as exceptionally large as is the area of the present disastrous inundations.The works for re-building the Hotel de Ville are proceeding rapidly, though, from the immense size of the edifice, which covers nearly four acres of ground, the progress made is not very apparent.Between the 1st of April and the 9th of December, of last year, over twelve thousand cubic yards of stone were laid, and the great cornice, which runs along the coping stone, will be finished before the end of this spring.A great part of the models for the sculpture will be executed this year ; 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