Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette, 28 décembre 1883, vendredi 28 décembre 1883

[" EE FO Ty «AF SE = iv NN em 1 * TR * TF es Ww 33 a , st 3 } T.wividends-~~Zideeiings, Banque d'Hochelaga DIVIDEND No.15, Notice is hereby given that a Dividend of THREE PER CENT.upon the paid- up Capital of this Institution has been declared for the current half-year, and that the same will be payable at its Banking House in this city, and at its branches, on and after Wednesday, the Second day of January next, The Transfer Books will be closed from the 16th to the 31st of December next, both days inclusive.y order of the Board J.E.BRAIS, Cashierfuw 31D 286 Banque d'Hochelaga ANNUAL MEETING.Montreal, 24th Nov., 1883.The General Annual Meeting of the Shareholders of the Bank will be held at its Bauking House, in Montreal, on e Tuesday, the 1ôth day of Jan'y.next, At THREE o\u2019clock P.M.By order of the Board.J.E.BRAIS, @ashier.Montreal, 11th Dec, 1883.fmw 31D 297 BELL TELEPHONE CO.OF CANADA DIVIDEND No.5.A Dividend of THREE AND A HALF PER CENT., making seven per cent.for the current ycar, has been declared payable to Shareholders of record December Slat, at the Company\u2019s Uffice, in Montreal, On and after the 15th JANUARY NEXT.CHAS.P.SCLATER, Sec.-Treas.wim 14J 308 Montreal, Dec.24, 1883.Rliscellaneous.NOTICE.THE ROYAL CANADIAN INSURANCE COMPANY will apply to Parliament, at its approaching session, for power to allow the Shareholders, at any meeting called for that purpose, to reduce the number of Directors to not less than five.ARTHUR GAGNON, Secretary.Montreal, 14th December, 1883.2m 299 CHRISTMAS PRESENTS AND HOLIDAY CIFTS.G: W.CLARKE, 238 and 240 ST.JAMES STREET, Invites inspection oj his immense stock of new FANCY GOODS AND NOVELTIES Imported for the Holidays.The Largest Assortment in Canada of New Goods.Also, New Christmas Cards, December 15 du 299 GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.CHEAP HOLIDAY TICKETS To all Points on the Line; also to Ottawa and Midland Railway points.Xmas and New Year Return Tickets will be issued at SINGLE FARE On FRIDAY to TUESDAY December 21st to 25th inclusive, Good to return up to December 31st, 1853.Also, from FRIDAY to MONDAY, December 28th to 3lst and TUESDAY, January let.1884.Good to Return up to January 7th, 1884.vu JOSEPH HICKSON, General Manager.December.11 .r tf 295 ONTARIO PULMONARY INSTITUTE, in AND H ALTH RESORT.Located at 274, 276, and 278 Jarvis Street, (Corner Gerard,) Toronto Ont.M.HILTON WILLIAMS, M.DM.C.P.S.O., Proprietor.Permanently established for the cure of Catarrh, Throat Diseases, Bronchitis Asthma, and Consumption, together with diseases of the Eye, Ear and Heart, all Chronic, Nervous, Skin and Blood Diseases; also diseases of women and children.; All diseases of the respiratory organs treated by the most improved Medical Inhalations,\u201d with the addition of tne Steam Atomonization, cold compressed air spray, etc., when required.The above appliances are in every case combined with proper constitutional remedies for the nervous, circulatory, and disgestive systems, aided by electricity, and the various forms of baths, such as the electric sitz, hot and cold water, shower, and the famous medicated baths.The only institute of the kind in the Dominion where patients can remain during treatment.Nearly 50,000.cases treated by us from almost every part of the civilized world.CONSULTATION FREE.If possible, call gersonally for consulta tion and examination, butif possible to do se, write for lista of question and me dical Treatise.Addross, Ontario Pulmonary Institute and Health Resort, Corner Jarvis and Gerard Streets, Toronto, Ontario.Weemploy no travelling doctors.Mention Montreal HERALD.; P.S.\u2014Dr.Williams is also proprieor of the Detroit Throat and Lung Institute, the oldest institute of the kind in America.October 29 DW 258 Mo i D, ted GAZETTE i8 prin! A DA aed.BF the MONTREAL HERALD RINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY (Limited).AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE [pn poesie ES count; 4}'e, 1171 ; 5\u2019s, 104 ; Erie, 2j; ; Illinois Central, 157; Canadian Pacitic, 5è5.UNITED STATES- CHICAGO, December 77.LOOSE MEATS\u2014S C, $730: 8 R, 8707; L C.$690; shoulders, $600: G Hans, $925; boxed meats, SC, $759; SR, 8725; LU, $715 shoulders, #6 25 ; S PH, $10 00.NEW YORK, December 27.GRAIN~-1010 a m\u2014Wheat, No 2 Red, 3112 January; $114 February: $1 1; March; $1 20 May.Corn, 68Jc asked May.10 45 a m\u2014Wheal, No 2 Red, $1 ):] January; $1 18{ February ; $l 157 March ; $1 195 May.Coru, 644c January ; tic February ; t6je May.1145 a m\u2014Wheat, No 2 Red, $1 1:3} January; $1187 February ; 5114; March ; $11%94 May.Corn, t4ic January ; 63:¢ February ; tic May.12 noon\u2014W heat, irregular ; No 2 Red, $111§ @$1 113 January; $1 13; 28113) February; @$1 15% March; 81 19; 81 188 May.Corn, irre- VOL.LXXV.\u2014310.MONTREAL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1883.gular; 6tc@64;6 January ; 6be @ 6516 F'ebruary ; ésis bid March ; 88ic@6Sic May.Oats, quiet.225 p m\u2014Wheat, Noz Red, $11.7 January; $1 13% February: $1 15: March; $117] April, $1184 May Corn, sic January ; ¢33e Febru- PRICE, ONE CENT (From the HErarD of November 26.) A NEW DEPARTURE.We commence tu-day the publication of 'Tuz MonTREAL HerazD, daily edition, as a ONE Cexr ParEr.That is to say, we offer the public an eight page paper, of fifty-six columns\u2014in- cluding about thirty columns of reading matter\u2014for one cent per day.As the subscription price of the paper, delivered at city residences or mailed to any address, will be Turez DOLLARS per annum, the cost to the subscriber will be slightly under one cent per day.This change is due to a desire on the part of the proprietors of Tae HERALD to keep pace with the steadily growing demand for cheap newspaper literature, and also to a determination to extend to the utmost limit possible the influence of a journal of which we may in all modesty say that its past has been neither uneventful nor un- influential.Tae HEraLp has had positive opinions on all the great questions which have agitated the public mind in old Canada or the new Dominion during the past seventy-five years, and it is altogether likely that it will continue to have a voice and influence in public controversies for very many years to come.It is important, therefore, that what it has te say should be addressed to as large an audience as possible ; and with this object in view, neither time, labor, nor money will be spared in the future to make THE HeraLp worthy of its past and the leading newspaper of Canada.In publishing Tue HERALD as a One Cent journal, and thus placing iv within the reach of everybody, we are travelling in the same direction as the great New York dailies, whose price had been three and four cents per copy, but who find their profit in reducing their rate to two cents per copy, with, we should suppose, a reasonably fair prospect of ultimately dropping to ene cent.The tendency of the daily press of Canada to-day is to male little or no profit out of circulation, in order that everybody may possess himself of a copy of a newspaper at the lowest possible price.This, at all events, is the policy of THE HERALD, and we now propose to give the people of Canada the largest and the best One Cent newspaper that they are ever likely to receive.Without indulging further in promises we will leave THE HERALD Of the future to speak for itself, merely remarking that nothing will be left undone by Tae HERALD to strengthen the commercial, financial and industrial interests of the Dominion in general and of Montreal in particular.BUSINESS INTEGRITY, The business of every highly developod country like our own is necesearily based on the theory that men can safely trust one another.Not only does every trader work more or less with borrowed money, but every commercial house has to repose confidence in one or more of those it employs to such an ex tent that he or they could at any moment ruin it.Take, for example, a great joint stock bank.It borrows deposits from the public many times the amount of its own capital, and as its share holders cannot themeelves work it, they elect as their representatives a board of directors, who can, if so disposed, make ducks and drakes of all this money.Some of those directors are without skill or experience, and are chosen because they are supposed to possess influence.\u2018The rest are generally merchants, who have large private concerns to look after, and little time to give to the affairs of the bank.Practically, therefore, the directors are unable to control the bank which they are supposed to manage ; and in'any case they have but a small interest in its success.Yet they are absolute over its whole business, and may ruin it by neglect, recklessness, or dishonest.Under them, again, are paid managers and assistant managers, secretaries, and heads of departments ; and under these clerks of various degrees, How great are the facilities for fraud possessed by several of these poid agents the public\u201d fully realises only when it becomes acquainted with such a crime as has received exemplary punishment the week before last.But what is true of a great joint-stock bank is more or less true of every other kind of business.When we consider the magnitude of the home and foreign trade of this country, amounting every year to several thousands of millions; and when we take into account the vast numbers of persons engaged in places of trust in this trade, we see how diffused is honesty, and how very rare is dishonesty.No doubt there are many and great precautions taken to ensure honesty, but recent experience proves that where men are willing to break trust, they can easily overcome the precautions taken.Dishonesty, then, in all ranks of society 18 exceptional.And it is extremely rare amongst the higher classes of the mercantile world.Where boards of directors have ordinary insight into buman character, and where they are willing to pay salaries adequate to the trust reposed in those employed by them, they need have little fear of dishonesty.The best safeguard, then, is to choose competent men of character, and to pay them sufficiently.Even then, of course, precautions ought not to be dispensed with.Common prudence will suggest such regulations as will make it extremely difficult to perpetrate successful frauds.But mere mechanical rules will have little effect if judgmentis not displayed in the selection of managers, secretaries, and clerks, and if adequate salaries are not paid to them.\u2014Saturday Review, TRADE & COMMERCE DEFARNTURE UF GULAN SIEAMERS, Steamer.Date.From.To.C of Beriin .Dec 29.New York.Liverpool Salier .«Dec 29, New York .Bremen Waldensian .Dee 29.Portland.Glasgow Helvetia.Dee 29.New York.Glasgow Furnessia .,.Dec 20 .New York.Glasgow Abyssinia.Jan 1 .New York.Liverpool Pavonia.Jan 2.New York, .Liverpool Toronto.Jan 3.Portland.Liverpool Pe uvian.Jan 8.Portland.Liveryool Brittanie.Jan 5 New York .Liverpool Belgravia .Jan 5.New York.,.Glasgow Wyoming .Jan 8.New York, Liverpool L -\u2018anitena.Jan 9.New York.Liverpool Gallia.Jan 9.New York.Liverpool Dominion.Jan 10.Portland.Liverpool Republic.Jan 10.New York.Liverpool FINANCIAL, Tae HeraLp OFFICE, Montreal, December 27.| Montreal Stock Market.The stock market to-day was dull and weaker, with the drift of values to a lower level.The volume of business was light, and there was no feature in the market calling for special notice.Montreal was weaker, closing dull at 175}@175%.Peoples changed hands at 60.Molsons was weaker, selling down to 1113, with a little better inquiry.Merchants declined } per cent to 1074, and Commerce sold offto 118.Other bank stocks were neglected.During the morning session the miscellaneous list was dull, Montreal Telegraph selling at 1184.In the afternoon Gas was dealt in at lower prices, closing 4 below yesterday at 1753.$10,000 of Land Graats soid at 96.In railway stocks Canadian Pacific was strong, and sold up to 54, closing at 53@552.St.Paul & Minn.changed handsat96.Other stocks were nominally as quoted.The following are the day\u2019s transactions :\u2014 MORNING BOARD.Montreal.1@175}, 1@1754, 23@176, 250 @ 175 Merchants.\u2026.5@108, 15 @ 1072 Commerce.10@1184, 10@1184, 60 @ 118 Montreal Telegraph.40 @ Lis} st.Paul & Minn.ies Canadian Pacific.AFTERNOON BOARD.MONLreal.\u2026.\u2026.0ucsensec ce sens 000000 10 @ 175} People\u2019s.PTE 2% @ MOISORS.00.000000 .15@112, 75 @ 1113 Merchants.a.3) @ Wit Commerce.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u20260\u20261ssecsec rene 50 @ 118 GAS Luce scennanes ce 000000 175@1754, 50 @ 175% Land Grants.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.$10,000 @ 96 The following are the quotations of the stock market as réported by Mr.D.Lorn MacDougall to-day :\u2014 ' STOCKS.ue Bank of Montreal.320 Outario Bank.Bank B.N.A.Banque du Peuple.Molsons Bank.Bank of Toronto.Bauk Jacques Cartier.Merchant's ~ank.Bauk d\u2019Hochelagu.East'n Township B\u2019k.Quebec B nk anque Nationale.U-ion Bank.C«n.B'k of \u2018ommerce Dominion Bank Bank of Hamilto Exchange Bank.Ville Marie.Standard Bank Federal Bank.i.Imperial Bank.MISCELLANEOUS.Intercolonial Coal Co| 100 j.401 32 do bonds.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.[\u2026.coven] 100 9) Montreal Telgr\u2019ph Col 40 |4 p.c.1* 119 | 118 Dominion Tel\u2019gr\u2019phCo| 5 |8 P.C.j.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.Rich & Ont Nav.Co.| 100 (8 p.c.j 563! 55} City PassengerRR.| 50 [7 & 1j 117 { 115 City Gas CO.40 {8 p.c.| 1753] 175} Cornwall Gas Co.Canada Cotton Co.Canada Paper Co.Canada Sh pping Co.Dundas Cotton Co.Graphic Printing Codo bonds.Mont.Loan&Mort\u2019eCo, Mont.Invest&Bldg.Co Royal Can.Ins, Co.Montreal Cotton Co.Hudon Cotton Co-.Stormont Cotton Co.Burland Lith.Co.Bell Telephone Co.Guarantee Co of N.A.Accident Ins.C,0f{N.A L.Ch'n&St.Law J\u2019n B Canada Cent\u2019l RY Bds St.Paul, M&M.Ry.Canadian Pacific Ry.Mont.5 p.c.S8tock.Canada N W Land Co *Can.Pacific L.G.B.Ex-dividend.Loans and Discounts.Money remains quiet at about former rates of interest.Call loans on stock col- laterals are at about 54, and time loans at about 64 @ 7 per cent.Prime commer cial paper is discounted at 7 per cent.Money in New York this afternoon was at 3 per cent.for call loans on stocks.Foreign Exchange.The market for sterling exchange cou- tinues dull.The rates for sixties are 8 3-16 between banks and 83 over the counter.Demand drafts are quoted at 8% between, banks and 9 over the counter.The New York market for sterling to-day was unchanged, the posted rates being 482 and 485.Yesterday\u2019s rates for actual business were: Sixty days, 481 @ 481}.Demand, 484 @ 484}.Cables, 484 @ 484$, Commercial bills sold at 479} @ 480- Continental bills were: Francs, 522} @ 5234 and 520 @ 520$; reichemarks, 944 @ 94 and 95% @ 95} ; guilders, 394 and 403.The following are the posted rates of the leading drawers of foreign exchange: Sterting.\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Paris, francs.Antwerp, francs.Zurich,francs.Berlin, reichsmarks.Bremen, reichsmarks.Hamburg, relchsmarks.Frankfort, reichsmarks.Amsterdam, guilders.48 40, London Financial Markets.Consols in London to-day were firmer and moved up §, closing at 100 11-16 for money, and 100 13-16 for the! account.United States bonds were unchanged at 117} tor 44\u2019, and 104 for 5s.In railway securities Canadian Pacific advanced $ to 55%, and Erie à to 297.Illinois Central remained at 137.New York Stock Market.Stocks to-day were generally weaker, especially the Northern Pacifics, St.Paul, St.Paul & Omaha, North-West, and C.B.crease of $1,392,000 compared with last & Q.Oregon Trans.declined 1 from the opening.The Gould stocks were weaker and irregular.Compared with yesterday\u2019s closing, the following changes appear :\u2014 Advanced \u2014Canada South., 4; Den.& Ria G., #; Kansas & Tex, $ ; N.Y.Cent, $ ; Ohio Cent , à ; Pac, Mail §; Reading, § ; Wabash, &.Declined\u2014C.B.& Q., 1§ ; Can.Pac, §; Cent.Pac., 1; Del, Lack.& West., }; Erie, à ; Lake Shore, $ ; Lou.& Nash, 14 ; Missouri Pac, 1; N.Pac.1}; do.pref., 24 ; North-West, 13 ; Ont.& West, 3; St.Paul, 1}; St.Paul & M, #; St Paul 1 ; do.pfd,, 1 ; Tex.Pac, #; Union Pac., §; Wabash prfd,, }; Western Union, #.Unchanged\u2014N.J.Central.The New York Post says:\u2014An analysis of Speaker Carlisle\u2019s committees foreshadows that at the least, there will be a change in the attitude of Congress on the question of banking, currency, coinage, tariff, andjlandgrant subsidies 10 railroads.How far this may take shape in actual legislation, and whether for better or for worse, i8 impossible yet to foresee.But the mere fact that there are likely to be some radical changes made by the present Congress is an unsettling, and, on the whole, a depressing element in the markets for all securities.Turning to the special influence affecting particular groups of railway stocks, it is not improbable that the disposition to attack the land-grant railroads in Congress will at least be made use of by the bears to attack all the stocks of subsidized roads, though they are in fact very few to which much harm ein be done, as their lands and subsidies have been secured.The anthracite coal trade seems to be improving.A few weeks ago the excess of stocks over last year was estimated at about 3,000,000 tons.It is now estimated that by the end of the year the excess will not be above 2,000,000 tons.The anthracite coal tonnage of the railroads has been increasing.In November it was 3,198,093 tons, against 2,797,372 tons in November, 1882, and in she week to December 22nd was 485,870 ons, against 317.352 tons in the same week ast year.The earnings of the Southern Iroads are all unusually good, and business of every kind in the Southern States is active.The earnings of all the North-West- ern railroads are Jarge and in most cases show an increase over last year.But there is as yet no prospect of a settlement of the ending war among the Granger roads in owa and Nebraska.With cheap iron and cheap labor as inducements, the Burlington, and also probably some of the other roads, will continue to encroach on 8ach other\u2019s territory, and increase competition, until there is some new adjustinent of rights, and also of the values of their stocks.The following were the fluctuations in New York to-day :\u2014 wa) 5 BE STOCKS.EH 8 Col 8 1.40 Ce] o C.B.& Q., .- 121 -1204 120 Canada Southern.of O28: 634).Canadian Pacific.| 52} 63f) 53 Cent.PaciÂc.Gif: 64£|.Chesh & O.cereal LL) CCC &1I Cees 0.C.&LC.Chic.& Alton.Del.,Lack& Wes Del.& Hudson.Denver & Rio G.Lou.& Nash.Michigan Central.Mob.& Ohlo.Missouri Pac.241 92 | 914] OLY) 7200 N, J.Central.8341 8331 .833 100 N.Y.Central zn 112 112g| 5700 N Pacific.26 | 254 24) 5600 Do.Pref.55 | 534) 13200 North, West, Ceres 1164 115, Do.Pre Oregon Trans .Ont.& Western Ohio South.Ohiv & Miss.Ohio Central.Pacific Mail.Reading .Rock Island St.Paul.2 Do.Pref.Leib .St.P., M.& M 4! 06} ; St.P.& Omah 34} 34 | 383 331| 700 Do.Pref.955) 954 94}] 944 900 San Francisco.snaclssoofessaferoofenra0s Tex.Pacific.18% 183| 18 | 18 | 1000 Union Pacific.oon.wl 75° 742 74 23800 Wabagh.\u2026.\u2026.000.0.18H 19 | 19\u201c 18#/ 1400 Do.Pref.\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026vsuce 314) 314 3 31 | 2500 Western Union.| 744] 743] 733 737) 17200 Exchange.sevoc.0000 482 (48X |.482 |.MONEY .\u202600.u0c00-c0000 241 21 24 81) .RAILWAY NEWS.\u2014The Boston Hoosac Tunnel and Western railroad earnings for the past year were $368,000, and expenses $388,000.-_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 GENERAL NOTES.\u2014 The latest commercial news by tele graph will be found on our eighth page.\u2014C.P.Crawford, banker,of Silver City, New Mexico, who was recently attached in New York, has assigned.Liabilities, $300,000 ; aseets nominally $400,000.\u2014A petition requesting Congress to prevent the importation of foreign laborers under contracts made abroad, 1s receiving many signatures of workingmen in Pennsylvania.\u2014The Maine ship building industry was more satisfactory this year than expected, on account of the prevailing low freight.\u2018There were 174 vessels built, against 168 last year, comprising 9 steamers, 13 ships, 4 barks, 6 barkentines, 2 brigs, 133 schooners and 7 sloops.Work was more evenly divided than last year.\u2014À steamer sailed from New York yesterday with 10,000 barrels of petroleum for Italy.Heretofore sailing craft have monopolised this trade.The dullness off the export trade in grain is causing \u2018\u201ctramp\u201d steamers to seek cargoes in other branches of commerce.It is estimated there are 100 steamers for sale in British ports now, the building of them having been greatly overdone on the Clyde, and petroleum merchants think some of them may be utilized in their business, especially as New York is greatly absorbing the petroleum traffic of the United States.\u2014The value of the merchandise shipped from Sheffield to the United States for the ast year wae $3,947,000, or a decrease of $2,269,000 compared with \u2018the previous year.The decrease was principally in steel and Bessemer rails, The value of merchandise exported from Nottingham to the United States was $8,381,000, a de- ear.There was a decrease of exports of ace goods amounting to $2,037,000, but an increase in almost every other article.In consequence of the large business with the United States the lace trade of Nottinghas had five years of such prosperity as never before known.The reason for the falling off of that trade is aftributed to various causes, such as a change of fashion, an overstocked market and sharp competition.\u2014\u2014\u2014>\u2014\u2014\u2014\"\"\" THE BRITISH GRAIN TRADE.Loxpox, Dec.23.\u2014The Mark Lane Express in its weekly review of the British grain trade says : All the young crops maintain a strong, healthy appearance.Trade is overcome By the check that the mild season has given to consumption, and there is but little business, with a tendency to lower rates.Barley is unchanged.The off-coast trade is restricted from lack of supply, which, however, is quite equal to necessities.Four wheat cargoes arrived ; three were sold, one was withdrawn, and one remained.Cargoes on passage are in no demand and prices are nominal.The salesof lnglish wheat for the week were 67,653 \u2019quarters at 393 2d per quarter, against 45,178 quarters at 41s 6d per quarter for the corresponding week last year.The London Miller says :-\u2014The English farmer is discouraged with the rates obtainable for his wheat and hopes for more money after New Year.The New Year is not, however, encouraging since it offers new supplies at the prices which the old year has fixed.In the past week offers of new Australian crop have been made for early shipment at 45s, aud when it is considered that the quality is expected to be superior, the probability of getting 45s for fine white wheat in the spring months is not reassuring to our farmers.Again, Russia is willing to sell excellent wheat at 418 during the springand summer months, thus giving buyers the chance of securing stocks without the expense of storing them.Accordingly, present low rates lose much of the temptation they might otherwise have.PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS.MoxrrEar, Dez.27.Frovr\u2014In flour there is nothing interesting, and the market continues very quiet.The demand for all grades is light and easily filled.We quote: \u2014 Superior Extra, per brl.$5.55 @ $5.6) Extra SUperfine.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.640 @ 5.45 Fancy.PAR .0.00 @ 0.00 Spring Extra.nas sauce 5.00 @ 5.15 Superfine.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026secsssseuse 4.50 @ 4.70 Strong Bakers\u2019 (anne our cerns 5.25 @ 5.50 Strong Bakers\u2019 [American].545 @ 5.85 Fin@.\u2026assussscenesaac ces sn 000 3.75 @ 3.85 Middlings.25 @ 3.65 Pollards.\u2026.1100 0stensencens .8,0 @ 3.40 Ontario bags [medium].-b.i.250 @ 2.60 \u201c + spring extra] bi.2.25 @ 2.45 \u2018 be superfine].bi.215 @ 2.25 Clty bags [delivered].95 & SW Graiv\u2014Iu this market there is no change to report, with hardly any business.We quote :\u2014 Canada red winter wheat, $1.20 @ $1.22; Canada white winter, $1.18 @ $1.19; Canada spring, $1.20 @ $1.21; peas, 8c.@ 90c.; oats, 35c.@36c.; corn, T5c.; rye, 60c., and barley 60c.@65c.for Lower Canada and 67e.@ Täc.for Ontario.Wheat in Chicago opened weak and further declined lec @ 14e below yesterday.Later, however, it rallied jc@ge, closing at 96c December, 963c January, $1.044 May.Coin was weak and fell hack lc, then recovered te@tc, and closed at 603c December, 6lc January-February.Oats closed jc@ic lower, at 33}1c December, 33ic January, 38%c May.Rye was about steady at 60c December-January, 663c May.Barley was steady at 66c cash-December, 67c January, 68c February.The estimated receipts for to-morrow were 243 cars spring wheat, 13 winter, 581 corn, 82 oats, 50 barley, and 24 rye.The New York wheat market was excited and weak, closing §c@lc lower at $1.11§ January, $1.19} May.Corn was fairly active and weaker, closing j#c@ÿc lower, at 643c January, 683c May.Oats closed at 403c January, 444c May.The sales on the last call were 3,000,000 bushels wheat, and 750,000 corn.Ocean grain freights were again weak and reached the lowest oint for a long period, being depressed to Pa per bushel by steam to iverpool.Wheat in Toledo opened weak and §c/@ 14c lower, at $1 004 December, $1 01 January, $1 093 May.Corn opened at 53c January, 614c May ; and oats at 33}c cash- December, 384c May.Wheat in Detroit was weak, and declined 3c@l}c, No.1 white closing at $1 03} December, $1 033 January, $1 10% May.No.2 was fc lower at 95c.Wheat in Milwaukee this morning was noted at 948 January, 95$c February, $l 035 May.Beerbohm\u2019s cable advices of to-day\u2019s date report the British markets as follows: Cargoes off coast\u2014 Wheat, inactive.Corn, nothing offering, Cargoes on passage and for shipment\u2014 Wheat aud corn, very little demand.Arrivals off coast for wheat small; corn, nil.Liverpool wheat and corn, spot, slow.Liverpool, 3.30 p.m.\u2014 Prime western lard, 36s.\"The following were the amounts of grain on passage to the Continent on the dates named :\u2014 Dec.22, Dec.15, Dec.8, 1883.1883.1883.Wheat, grs.340,000 330,000 390,000 Corn, grs.40,000 50,000 50,000 The following were the amounts of grain on passage to the United Kingdom on the dates mentioned:\u2014 Dec.22, Dec.15, Dec.28, 1883.1883, 1882.9,175,000 2,175,000 2,375,000 .320,000 260, 170,000 3 A.The following table shows the amounts of grain in sight in the United States and Canada on the dates mentioned :\u2014 Dec.2, Dec.15, Dec.3, 1883.1888.1882.Wheat, bush.35,531,239 35,118,221 20,814,537 Corn, bush.9,164,25 8,815,376 §,233,1056 Oats, bush.1 6,197,271 5,804,551 8,262,885 Barley, bush.,.3,460,858 3,612,956 3,021,416 Rye, bush.2,712,178 2,754,634 1,307,170 Dec.24, Dec.25, Dec.27, 1881.1880.1879.Wheat,ibush.17,924,617 30,007.000 28,634,000 Corn, bush.17,382,227 16,921,000 10,175,000 Oats, bush.2,754,109 3,860,000 2,795, Barley, bush.2,800,201 3,185,000 4,529,000 Rye, bush.1,317,978 873,000 1,091,000 Provisions\u2014A moderate trade in pork has taken place at steady prices.Lard is quiet and steady.In dressed hogs there is little doing.We quote :\u2014 Western Mess.$17 50 @ 18 00 Lard, western, pe .00113 @ 0 12 Do.Canadian.- \u2026 0000 @ 00 114 Hams, uncogered, per .0014 @ 0000 Hams, canviksed, perlb .0000 @ 00 00 Bacon, per Ib .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.0000 @ 0e Ou Tallow, per 1b.,.wees 0000 @ 00 084 Dressed ogs, per 100 Tbs.60 @ 70 ary; 6sic May.12 45 p m\u2014Wheat, No 2 Red, S1 1°; January; $1134 February; $115; March; $119 May.Corn, lc January ; 65§¢ February ; ésie May.1 00 p m\u2014Wheat, steady : No 1 Red, §! 114 January; $1 15; February; $1 15} March ; $l 194 May.Corn, sicady ; 64c January ; 63:e February; 683c May.Oat, quiet ; 401c January: 41h February; 42/8 March ; 44ic May.200 p m\u2014 Me, Por BLAIKLOCK BROS\u2019, No.17 COMMON STREKY.November 33 299 4 NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS, Subseribers to the DAILY HERALD will, in the course of a few days, receive their Accounts up to the 3lst of December, and also their bill for the year commencing 1st January, 1884, at the reduc- tjon from SIX dollars to THREE dollars.Payment for the fusure must absolutely be made IN ADVANCE.@he Flonireal Herald, FRIDAY MORNING, DEC.28.28 \\1! correspondence for THE HERALD (except business letters) should be addressed à the Editor, MR.JOHN LIVINGSTON.Béiness correspondence to be addressed to MR.General Manager of and Publisking Co.\u201d JAMES STEWART, \u201cHerald Printing Limited).Z®~Ths offices of THE HERALD are in Victoria Block, corner of Victoria Square and St.James St.West.\u2014Editorial Rooms, up one flight ef stairs.APPOINTMENTS.Academy of Music\u2014Performance at 8 p.m.Mechanica\u2019 Hall\u2014Performances at 2.30 and 8 p.m.RECIPROCAL TRADE.In another column will be found some interesting editorial remarks from the New York Journal of Commerce on reciprocal trade with Canada.No exception whatever can be taken to the tone of the article\u2014as coming from a prominent United States Free Trade organ\u2014 unless it be to the statement that Canadians are \u201c jumping at President Arthur\u2019s proposi- \u201ction to readjust the fishery business, \u201cand suggesting, of their own accord, a \u201c new reciprocity treaty as the best means \u201cof doing it.\u201d It is not correct to say that Canadians are showing an eagerness to \u201creadjust the fishery business,\u201d nor are they showing undue anxiety for reciprocity.Canadians remember that they were weil enough satisfied with the old reciprocity treaty, and did nothing to abrogate it.That treaty was terminated by the act of the United States Coagress, moved thereto by the people of that country.Nearly everything which the United States imported from Canada, free of duty, under that treaty they have been importing since its abrogation, and have been paying high duties on all the various articles, especially articles of food, lumber, ete.The people of Canala have done nothing to abrogate or to prevent a renewal of the fishery clauses of the Washington Treaty ; they were and are satisfied with the operation of these clauses ; but again the United States authorities declare the working of this portion of the treaty unsatisfactory and give notice of a desire to terminate it.Well, if the fishery clauses be ailowed to drop and gothing new be offered in their place, tie results which followed the abrogation of the old Teciprocity treaty will be repeated.The people of the United States will have to pay the higher for what they need from the Canadian fisheries.So there is no necessity for Canadians \u2018\u2018 jumping \u201d at President Arthur's proposition to securs the adjustment of fishery matters, Canada can better afford to Keep quiet on the subject than the United States can.The public of the United States need not only the fish which are taken in their own waters but those which they have been taking in Canadian waters, and it would certainly be more to Canada\u2019s advantage for them to buy from Canadians than to catch them themselves, It is true that the Journal of Commerce augyests that President Arthur\u2019s notice to terminate the operation of the fishery clauses of the Washington Treaty is a step whicl \u201c\u201c must not be interpreted as \u201c a wish or willingness to give up fishing \u201cin Canadian waters; on the con- \u201ctrary \u2018our Government is ready to \u201cmake any reasonable or honorable \u201c concession to regain that right in the \u201c proper form,\u201d and that the agency of a Congressional Commission is the best form that the President can think of.The large payment awarded to Canada by the Halifax Coznmission has been a sore point with the people of the United States who, for the first time in their history, were beaten at a game in which they believed themselves to be unapproachable.They never parted with money so reluctantly, and especially with five millions of dollars.It is tolerably clear that they do not wish to pay a money indemnity for the use of the Canadian fisheries, and as they have no fisheries to offer us who need nothing of the kind from them, it is difficult to understand in what manner they propose \u201cto compensate us unless they offer trade advantages in other directions.But whatever their object may be, or whatever scheme theirstatesmen may be forming in their minds, it is well our friends across the border should understand that we can afford to have the United States use and pay for our fisheries, or we can afford to fish them exclusively ourselves; that we are open to extend our trade with them in natural products, or to refrain from doing so ; and that as regards an extension of trade with the United States the policy of the Dominion was expressed by its Parliament when in 1879 \u2018it placed in the statutes of Canada provision for reciprocal trade, and has kept the offer open until this hour.This deliberate policy was adopted years before TIIE MONTREAL HERALD, AND DAILY (COMMERCIAL there was any of this nonsensical Manitoba agitation or any prospect of our cotton mills running on short time.The present condition of this country could have nothing whatever to do with a policy adopted in 1879.CONCERNING OPERA.Opera occupies in music a parallel position to the place taken by poetry in literature.It is the highest form of emotional expression and deals essentially with the finer feelings of humanity.It appeals to the sentiment and elevates the moral tone of the man or woman.It is a translation of crude realties into their relative chords of idealism.It invests the ordinary actions and common passions of mankind with a significance of motive and meaning that calls into actual existence the spiritual essence underlying all things material.Take the story of Faust.To the person, who has only read that beautiful legend, the dramatic representation will be a new version entirely ; lines that he has not pondered much over will suddenly seem full of meaning, and the action of the performers will throw a new charm upon the play ; but let him see the operatic performance and then the full interpretation of the drama will be revealed to him, so far as all the arts can speak to the soul through the senses.Then he will know all the lessons of which Le has only learned a part before.With reference to the present performance of operain this city, we quote from a valued correspondent who writes as follows :\u2014 \u201c\u2018 As the opera isthe highest form of musical language, combining all the various vocal and instrumental means of rendering emotion audible, it is therefore necessary for the full appreciation and enjoyment of 1ts purifying power upon the mind that persons shall have attained a certain degree of culture, or its grand lessons will never be learned.It may truly be said not only that the music of Canada has yet to be bora, but that the love of music has yet to be learned by Canadians\u2014I mean the love of music in its highest forms.If a proof were required of this assertion, a visit to the opera on Mouday last would have furnished complete evidence.One would have naturally thought that the opportunity of hearing an opera in Montreal being so rare, the little Academy would have been filled to the overflowing with anxious lovers of music, eager to see and hear the interpretation of a great musical genius by some of the most highly gifted and cultured singers of the day.Yet this was not the case, and the house was rot comparatively so well filled as a Paris house would have been at a repre- seutation of a very moderate composer's work.What is the reason?Is it the incapability of our citizens to appreciate opera, or their indifference to music generally?Were the singers unknowu or the prices too dear?From what I have seen in this city, I am led to believe the reason that opera does not excite the people here as in the older countries in the world is chiefly from a lack of culture in musical appreciation, Music in Montreal is partly in the ballad stage and partly in the colored chorus period of deveiopment; and which will ultimately predominate in our drawing- rooms is an open question.How seldom are the beautiful romances and airs from the numerous great operas heard in our private musical parties compared with the humorous selections from Huverly\u2019s latest programmes.This shows a pitiful lack of culture which extends farther in the society of tis city than is pleas:nt to contemplate.Though not talking of ail, I am speaking with certainty of the majority of amateur musicians.At the time wlien a revival of music is imminent in England, when Ler young composers are receiving the homage of large audiences in foreign lands, when the old and new schools of opera are attracting their numberless crowds of votaries all over Europe, the leading city in Canada cannot tauster a full house for its small Academy to listen to a worl of the finest order of music.It is a reproach to our city and its people.It would not be too much to say that Patti filled the house on Wednesday night, aud had she only sung one song in a concert, she would have probably had as large an audience.Ifit were possible to learn how many of the persons, who attended the opera, went for the sake of the prima- donna, the fashion, or the opera, I fear the last would have been the reason given by a very small number.It is so seldom great operas and good singers come to Montreal, that it is a pity our people miss the chance of hearing both, and it is to be hoped Madame Gerster on her second appearance will be greeted by a larger audience than listened to her ou Monday evening.\u201d With all respect to our correspondent we do not agree with his conclusions, for we do not think them altogether fair.It cannot be expected that Montreal shall occupy as prominent a place in the musical world as Paris, Vienna, Berlin, or the many other great art-centes of the old world ; but there is no lack of genuine love of music or of that finer culture that is necessary for the thorough appreciation of the opera.Our correspondent mentioned the high prices charged for admission as a probable reason, and here we are inclined to think he touched more solid ground.There is no doubt that our citizens are not educated to such a high scale of prices as was originally announced for the operatic performances at the Academy.It was openly said by many that, whereas they would have liked to hear the operas, they did not care to pay so dearly for the transient pleasure.The prices announced were said to be proportionate to those charged in other cities; but during the opera season in London musical people may be seen, score\u2019 in hand, listening to Patti or Gerster perhaps, in seats which cost less than a dollar each ;\u2014of course they were not stalls, The mistake has been partially rectified, for the prices for to-night have been considerably reduced, whilst for the extra night on\u2019 Saturday popular prices are advontised, We will predict an overflowing house for Verdi's opera.With popular prices and a reasonable ram, opera would pay well in | Montreal ; but it cannot be expected that two or three evenings with double and treble prices will attraet the .citizens so well.Moreover, the most musically cultured people, are not usually the most wealthy, and \u2018however much a person would care to hear a good opera well rendered, there may be an extravagance apparent in paying several dollars for a few hours\u2019 pleasure, even though it is of a highly cultured kind.STARTLING IF TRUE.The so-called \u201c Fenians \u201d and \u201c Dynamiters\u201d\u2019 are attempting to \u201cscare Canada\u201d once more.There appears to be a necessity for raising a fresh supply of funds for the sustenance and support of certain patriotic gentlemen who have no other means of living; so the world is told that a raid is to be made into Canada and it is hoped the dollars will tumble into the Fenian treasury by the thousand.It is in accordance with Fenian and Dynamite tactics that Canada should be forewarned, so we are assured that ome \u201cMcBride,\u201d an eccentric fraud, \u201ccan go to Toronto \u201d from Buffalo in a few hours \u201cand return unnoticed,\u201d and that \u201can \u201cattack could be made in Ottawa simul- \u201ctaneously.\u201d Of course, it is proposed \u201cto blow up Government buildings \"in the night time ; and the kindness of this advance notice should be appreciated by all who admire eccentricity, especially as \u201c McBride \u201d declares that \u201c we shall cover up our tracks very carefully !\u201d Another Buffalo Fenian declares that \u201chundreds of Irishmen here are ripe for another invasion of Canada, and only want a leader like McBride,\u201d\u2014which is rather hard on the hundreds!\u2014and all on account of O'Donnell.Captain Dan.Moran, a Buffalo saloon keeper, who invaded Canada in 1866, said that \u201c invasions have been organized here, and we know how to do the work; \u201d and Captain Bill Smith, also a Buffalonian and a Ridgeway raider, declared that © we shall make ourselves felt.\u201d That solid man, James J.Muldoon, a prominent Buffalo lawyer and an invincible, added his mite to the murderous programme.His notice to Canada was special and particular.He denounced McBride for telling so much, and then remarked :\u2014 \u201c We are going to capture the new Gov- \u201c ernor-General of Canada.He used to \u201cbe an Irish landlord and isa subject * for us to wreak our vengeance upon.\u201cWe have selected nine men Pho are \u201csworn to secrecy, and will do the work \u201c when the order is given from New \u201c York.Most of the men will cross the \u20ac St.Lawrence River at Caughnawaga, \u201c opposite Lachine, where they will not \u201c be observed.Further than that I can- \u201cnot tell you.\u201d Further information was unnecessary.The Canadian beaver is now expected to shiver in his winter haunts.The British lion is counted upon to send forth lamentation over the danger that is coming to his Canadian whelp.As for the Governor-General, he will probably deem it necessary to add one policeman to the safeguards which surround him in Rideau Hall.When McBride and Dan Moran and Muldoon and the rest of the \u201cboys\u201d come over with their dynamite, it is impossible to say what will happen.Perhaps they may get hanged, who knows ?THE GAS CONTRACT.Last night, in the course of a prolonged session of the City Conneil, the offer of the Montreal Gas Company for lighting the streets of Montreal for another period of ten years\u2014 from May 1, 1885\u2014was accepted and the proposed contract practically ratified.Our report of the proceedings shows that all the amendments offered by members of the Council acting in the interests of the Citizens\u2019 Gas Company, were voted down by a two-thirds majority of the Council.There was a good deal of speaking by the opposition members in the hope of postponing action, but the overwhelming majority of the Council stood solid and the meeting did not separate until, at the end of a five hours\u2019 session, the powerlessness of the minority to change the views or action of the majority had been demonstrated time and again.The contract, the conditions of which are well understood by our readers, is more favorable to the Corporation than the old one, besides providing cheaper gas for all private consumers after lst May, 1885.It is stated that further legal proceedings, with a view of preventing the contract going into operation, will be taken, but there will be time enough for such a step at any date within the next sixteen months, Meantime the Citizens\u2019 Gas Company can move for permission to open the streets, and test in the Courts the power of the Corporation to grant a monopoly.If they succeed, they can proceed at once with their works, The fact that another company has been contracted with for the street lamps need not make any difference when there is such profit in gas making.TEE Newfoundland telegrams throw new light on the religious disturbances in Newfoundland.It appears to require a considerable display of force to suppress the disturbances.Ordinary police were despatched from St.John\u2019s to Harbor Grace on Wednesday, reaching the scene of the disturbance the same night.Mounted police reached there from St.John\u2019s yesterday morning.Owing to the country in the vicinity\u2014especially the town of Carbonnear\u2014being in an excited condition, and to the fact that large bodies of men, with fire arms, were preparing to march to Harbor Grace, the Colonial authorities have telegraphed to Halifax for naval and military assistance.It turns out that two Orangemen and two Roman Catholics were killed at Harbor Grace on Wednesday ; eight men are reported mortally wounded and about twenty others slightly.The Inspector of Police, Mr.Doyle, is said to have been severely in- jured in the riot, The circumstances of GAZETTE.FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28 the outrages are very sad and exceedingly discouraging to all who hoped that an end had come to \u201cOrange and Catholic\u201d disturbances in the British North Amer can Colonies.It is evident that the News foundland authorities have a very painful duty to perform in the premises.\u2014œ Or tar English sparrow\u2014whom we know so well in Montreal\u2014a learned Boston contemporary remarks \u2014\u201cIt seems strangely contrary to the amenities of the feathered kingdom for English spartows to be flapping about in these winter snow-drifts In the summer their habits are not dissimilar from those ofthe gentler species with whom they mingle and over whom they hold such noisy lordship.the departure of the aborigines for the glades and everglades of the sunny South, when the chills of evening creep into the sky, as arout and abandonment of the soil in their favor, It would seem, however, that as years passed by, and the rigors of winter were suffered over and over again, that the force of example would tell on the obstinate and quarrel some little aliens.If they persist in their present arrangement, and stay with us through cold and sleet, one or two things must happen ; either they will decrease in numbers and become ia time extinct, or through the survival of the toughest they will wax stronger and fiercer, and become more and more the dominant and intolerant faction in the feathered kingdom.\u2014\u2014 YESTERDAY an application was made to Justice Papineau, on behalf of the North Shore Railway Company, for a Writ of I Mandamus ordering the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to open the switch between their line and that of the Union Jacques Cartier Railway Company.so that the traffic from the North Shore Railway to the Jacques Cartier Railway should be uninterrupted.The writ was ordered to be issued.It is expected that the writ will be served to-day, and the case will be argued immediately.The dispute arises out of the terms of the agreement of sale by the Quebec Government, of the western section of the Quebee, Montreal, Ottawa & Occidental Railway to the Canadiap Pacific Railway Company, and turns upon the legal interpretation of the agreement between the Government and the Canadian Pacific.BIRTHS.FoLev\u2014At 45 Belmont street, on the 27th instant, the wife of M.S.Foley, of a daughter.DEATHS, BARNsUM\u2014On the 27th December, at 32 Burnside Place, fell asleep in Jesus, Sarah Guild, widow of Thomas Barnjum, and beloved mother of Frederic and Helen Barnjum.The funeral will take place from her late residence, on Saturday afternoon, at 2.30 o\u2019clock.u Davisox\u2014At No.30 Mark street, on Tuesday afternoon, the 25th inst, James Davison, Manager Roval Canadian Iusurance Company, aged 69 years and 7 months.The funeral will take place from his late residence ou Friday afternoon, 28th inst., at 2 o'clock, to Crescent Street Church.Friends and acquaintances will please accept this intimation, Glasgow papers please copy.Fit lo 2 aeriisements, REPORTER WANTED, _A good Local Reporter will hear of a Situation by apolying, in writing, to the Editor of Tur HeraLb, December 28 310 CREAT ENCOURAGEMENT | Visit our Establishment during the Holidays, and see whether you cannot byy cheaper from us than at any other place.Your ¢all will cost you nothing, and it please us greatly to know that our advertisements are read by the intelligent portion of our population.For Your New Years Gifts CAIIL ON UE.You can get something of great utility, and at the same time so cheap that our prices will astofiish you.Think of it ! ONE OVERCOAT AND Sum, For Children, for $2.75.That is, $1.50 for the Overcoat and $1.23 for the Suit.But it must be ever undegstood that these Suits are not for Children #12 years old, but for those varying from & to 7 years of age.Other sizes have been equally reduced.1.A.BEAUVAIS, 186 and 188 ST.JOSEPH STRERT.Or NOTRE DAME ST., WEST.December 28 28,31D 310 H.J.SHAW & CO., 726 Craig Street, Have on hand the largest assortment of Bedroom Suits in Ash, Mahogany, Walnut and Elm, in prices from $20 to $300.Also a large assortment of Parlor Suits in Gold, \u2018Ebony, Walnut and Wire Back, éovered in Haircloth, Raw Silk, Jute, Spun Silk, Remove and Plush, in prices from $35 to $500.Hall and Library Suits, Dining-room Suits, Fancy Chairs, Tables, Music Stands, Ottomans, Ladies\u2019 Desks, &e.Parties wishing to furnish should call and examine the Stock before purchasing.December 28 e 310 YSTERIOUS.\u2014A Mysterious cloek in window No.27 St.Lawrence Main street.Fresh stock just received, old stock Shearing out at a sacrifice.W.A.J.Lo HITEFO D, Practical * Watchmaker.December 24 306 But they seem to regard ! | Flew Aduertisements.HAZELTO and examine their artistic qualities.Few Adneriiscmirnis NPIANOS OF NEW YORK.i fect Upright Pianos ever 1 à received last week two of the finest and most perfect ght, importa a Montreal.Artiste and intending purchasers are cordially invited to come Bice 2 Philadelphia, 1876, DIPLOMA OF HU Montreal, all competitors without exception.Sec.Extra, 1SS0.Montreal, Province of Quebec.DOMINION EXHIBITION, DIPLOMA awarded by the Permanent Exhibition Committee of the Province of Quebec to Messrs.HAZELTON BROS, N.Y, for BEST TRICHORD GRAND SQUARI PLANO for general superiorit of tone, action and workinansnip, OVI ALL COMPETITORS.L.H.MASSUE, President.GEORGES LECLERE, 8S.C.STEVENSON, | Joint Secretaries.No Grand Pianos on Exhibition.competitors, same group, same section.Montreal Exhibitions in 1881 and 1882.Visitors welcome.SOLE AGENT FOR 260 NOTRE DAME December 27 HOLIDAY STANDAR In Sets, neatly Lound, and very suitable for BOYS?The newest and best.FAMILY BIBLES, and New Year cards.Call and eee.232 Branch Store : December 24 1423 ST.NT New York, 1883, FIRST PRIZE (Exhibition of the industry of all nations).NOR and Medal of Merit.1880, TWO DIPLOMAS OF HONOR and FIRST PRIZE EXTRA over OFFICIAL.Dominion Exhibition, Montreal, 1880, FIRST PR1ZE EXTRA.Class X, Group Grand Square Trichord Pinno.HAZELTON BROS., N.Y.18380.Montreal, Province of Quebec.DOMINION EXIIIBITION.DIPLOMA awarded by the Permanent Exhibition Committee of the Province of Quebec to Messrs.HAZELTON BROS, N.Y, for UPRIGHT PIANOFORTE, for richness, purity, singing quality, delicacy and power of tone, with elastic touch and excellence of workmanship, ; I.H, MASSUE, President.| GEORGES LECLERE, S.C.STEVENSON, Joint Secretaries.The above have been awarded upon the unanimous recommendation of the five Judges in Class X.The ALBERT WEBER piano, of New York, was amongst the The Hazelton pianos were not exhibit at the A splendid assortment of Grand, Square and Upright Pianos in stock just now.LF._IN.PRATTH, TRE DOMINION, STREET CENTRE.u 309 ; 15, Toronto-St., Toronto Canada, - 0.Orders payable to Stewart Dawson & Co.at the General Post Office, Toronto.oO P NOTICE.\u2014Don\u2019t fail to write for Ste wart Dawson & Co.\u2019s Iliustrated Pamphlet containing full particulars of all their Watches.100 pages of valuable and interesting information, 60 pages of most wonderful testimonials from all parts of the world,and illustrations of Gold Silver Alberts, Chains, &c., ail at strict] wholesale prices.Sent free by mail for cents in stamps, to cover postage.Address all letters and orders to STEWART DAWSON & CO.15, TORONTO ST., TORONTO, CANADA, WEST January 4 Wl.GEN'TS~TO CANVASS FOR OUR BRIGHT and pleasant paper.¢ The Canadian Band of Hope.\u201d \u201cTwenty-five cents a year.Address T.MADDOCKS, Publisher, London, Out.GENTS \u2014 EVERYWHERE \u2014 FOR OUR new monthly publication, Happ Hours; 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also to Ottawa and Midland Railway points.Xmas and New Year Return Tickets will be issued at SINGLE FARE On FRIDAY to TUESDAY December 21st to 25th inclusive, Good to return up to December 31st, 1853.Also, from FRIDAY to MONDAY, December 28th to 3lst and TUESDAY, January let.1884.Good to Return up to January 7th, 1884.vu JOSEPH HICKSON, General Manager.December.11 .r tf 295 ONTARIO PULMONARY INSTITUTE, in AND H ALTH RESORT.Located at 274, 276, and 278 Jarvis Street, (Corner Gerard,) Toronto Ont.M.HILTON WILLIAMS, M.DM.C.P.S.O., Proprietor.Permanently established for the cure of Catarrh, Throat Diseases, Bronchitis Asthma, and Consumption, together with diseases of the Eye, Ear and Heart, all Chronic, Nervous, Skin and Blood Diseases; also diseases of women and children.; All diseases of the respiratory organs treated by the most improved Medical Inhalations,\u201d with the addition of tne Steam Atomonization, cold compressed air spray, etc., when required.The above appliances are in every case combined with proper constitutional remedies for the nervous, circulatory, and disgestive systems, aided by electricity, and the various forms of baths, such as the electric sitz, hot and cold water, shower, and the famous medicated baths.The only institute of the kind in the Dominion where patients can remain during treatment.Nearly 50,000.cases treated by us from almost every part of the civilized world.CONSULTATION FREE.If possible, call gersonally for consulta tion and examination, butif possible to do se, write for lista of question and me dical Treatise.Addross, Ontario Pulmonary Institute and Health Resort, Corner Jarvis and Gerard Streets, Toronto, Ontario.Weemploy no travelling doctors.Mention Montreal HERALD.; P.S.\u2014Dr.Williams is also proprieor of the Detroit Throat and Lung Institute, the oldest institute of the kind in America.October 29 DW 258 Mo i D, ted GAZETTE i8 prin! A DA aed.BF the MONTREAL HERALD RINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY (Limited).AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE [pn poesie ES count; 4}'e, 1171 ; 5\u2019s, 104 ; Erie, 2j; ; Illinois Central, 157; Canadian Pacitic, 5è5.UNITED STATES- CHICAGO, December 77.LOOSE MEATS\u2014S C, $730: 8 R, 8707; L C.$690; shoulders, $600: G Hans, $925; boxed meats, SC, $759; SR, 8725; LU, $715 shoulders, #6 25 ; S PH, $10 00.NEW YORK, December 27.GRAIN~-1010 a m\u2014Wheat, No 2 Red, 3112 January; $114 February: $1 1; March; $1 20 May.Corn, 68Jc asked May.10 45 a m\u2014Wheal, No 2 Red, $1 ):] January; $1 18{ February ; $l 157 March ; $1 195 May.Coru, 644c January ; tic February ; t6je May.1145 a m\u2014Wheat, No 2 Red, $1 1:3} January; $1187 February ; 5114; March ; $11%94 May.Corn, t4ic January ; 63:¢ February ; tic May.12 noon\u2014W heat, irregular ; No 2 Red, $111§ @$1 113 January; $1 13; 28113) February; @$1 15% March; 81 19; 81 188 May.Corn, irre- VOL.LXXV.\u2014310.MONTREAL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1883.gular; 6tc@64;6 January ; 6be @ 6516 F'ebruary ; ésis bid March ; 88ic@6Sic May.Oats, quiet.225 p m\u2014Wheat, Noz Red, $11.7 January; $1 13% February: $1 15: March; $117] April, $1184 May Corn, sic January ; ¢33e Febru- PRICE, ONE CENT (From the HErarD of November 26.) A NEW DEPARTURE.We commence tu-day the publication of 'Tuz MonTREAL HerazD, daily edition, as a ONE Cexr ParEr.That is to say, we offer the public an eight page paper, of fifty-six columns\u2014in- cluding about thirty columns of reading matter\u2014for one cent per day.As the subscription price of the paper, delivered at city residences or mailed to any address, will be Turez DOLLARS per annum, the cost to the subscriber will be slightly under one cent per day.This change is due to a desire on the part of the proprietors of Tae HERALD to keep pace with the steadily growing demand for cheap newspaper literature, and also to a determination to extend to the utmost limit possible the influence of a journal of which we may in all modesty say that its past has been neither uneventful nor un- influential.Tae HEraLp has had positive opinions on all the great questions which have agitated the public mind in old Canada or the new Dominion during the past seventy-five years, and it is altogether likely that it will continue to have a voice and influence in public controversies for very many years to come.It is important, therefore, that what it has te say should be addressed to as large an audience as possible ; and with this object in view, neither time, labor, nor money will be spared in the future to make THE HeraLp worthy of its past and the leading newspaper of Canada.In publishing Tue HERALD as a One Cent journal, and thus placing iv within the reach of everybody, we are travelling in the same direction as the great New York dailies, whose price had been three and four cents per copy, but who find their profit in reducing their rate to two cents per copy, with, we should suppose, a reasonably fair prospect of ultimately dropping to ene cent.The tendency of the daily press of Canada to-day is to male little or no profit out of circulation, in order that everybody may possess himself of a copy of a newspaper at the lowest possible price.This, at all events, is the policy of THE HERALD, and we now propose to give the people of Canada the largest and the best One Cent newspaper that they are ever likely to receive.Without indulging further in promises we will leave THE HERALD Of the future to speak for itself, merely remarking that nothing will be left undone by Tae HERALD to strengthen the commercial, financial and industrial interests of the Dominion in general and of Montreal in particular.BUSINESS INTEGRITY, The business of every highly developod country like our own is necesearily based on the theory that men can safely trust one another.Not only does every trader work more or less with borrowed money, but every commercial house has to repose confidence in one or more of those it employs to such an ex tent that he or they could at any moment ruin it.Take, for example, a great joint stock bank.It borrows deposits from the public many times the amount of its own capital, and as its share holders cannot themeelves work it, they elect as their representatives a board of directors, who can, if so disposed, make ducks and drakes of all this money.Some of those directors are without skill or experience, and are chosen because they are supposed to possess influence.\u2018The rest are generally merchants, who have large private concerns to look after, and little time to give to the affairs of the bank.Practically, therefore, the directors are unable to control the bank which they are supposed to manage ; and in'any case they have but a small interest in its success.Yet they are absolute over its whole business, and may ruin it by neglect, recklessness, or dishonest.Under them, again, are paid managers and assistant managers, secretaries, and heads of departments ; and under these clerks of various degrees, How great are the facilities for fraud possessed by several of these poid agents the public\u201d fully realises only when it becomes acquainted with such a crime as has received exemplary punishment the week before last.But what is true of a great joint-stock bank is more or less true of every other kind of business.When we consider the magnitude of the home and foreign trade of this country, amounting every year to several thousands of millions; and when we take into account the vast numbers of persons engaged in places of trust in this trade, we see how diffused is honesty, and how very rare is dishonesty.No doubt there are many and great precautions taken to ensure honesty, but recent experience proves that where men are willing to break trust, they can easily overcome the precautions taken.Dishonesty, then, in all ranks of society 18 exceptional.And it is extremely rare amongst the higher classes of the mercantile world.Where boards of directors have ordinary insight into buman character, and where they are willing to pay salaries adequate to the trust reposed in those employed by them, they need have little fear of dishonesty.The best safeguard, then, is to choose competent men of character, and to pay them sufficiently.Even then, of course, precautions ought not to be dispensed with.Common prudence will suggest such regulations as will make it extremely difficult to perpetrate successful frauds.But mere mechanical rules will have little effect if judgmentis not displayed in the selection of managers, secretaries, and clerks, and if adequate salaries are not paid to them.\u2014Saturday Review, TRADE & COMMERCE DEFARNTURE UF GULAN SIEAMERS, Steamer.Date.From.To.C of Beriin .Dec 29.New York.Liverpool Salier .«Dec 29, New York .Bremen Waldensian .Dee 29.Portland.Glasgow Helvetia.Dee 29.New York.Glasgow Furnessia .,.Dec 20 .New York.Glasgow Abyssinia.Jan 1 .New York.Liverpool Pavonia.Jan 2.New York, .Liverpool Toronto.Jan 3.Portland.Liverpool Pe uvian.Jan 8.Portland.Liveryool Brittanie.Jan 5 New York .Liverpool Belgravia .Jan 5.New York.,.Glasgow Wyoming .Jan 8.New York, Liverpool L -\u2018anitena.Jan 9.New York.Liverpool Gallia.Jan 9.New York.Liverpool Dominion.Jan 10.Portland.Liverpool Republic.Jan 10.New York.Liverpool FINANCIAL, Tae HeraLp OFFICE, Montreal, December 27.| Montreal Stock Market.The stock market to-day was dull and weaker, with the drift of values to a lower level.The volume of business was light, and there was no feature in the market calling for special notice.Montreal was weaker, closing dull at 175}@175%.Peoples changed hands at 60.Molsons was weaker, selling down to 1113, with a little better inquiry.Merchants declined } per cent to 1074, and Commerce sold offto 118.Other bank stocks were neglected.During the morning session the miscellaneous list was dull, Montreal Telegraph selling at 1184.In the afternoon Gas was dealt in at lower prices, closing 4 below yesterday at 1753.$10,000 of Land Graats soid at 96.In railway stocks Canadian Pacific was strong, and sold up to 54, closing at 53@552.St.Paul & Minn.changed handsat96.Other stocks were nominally as quoted.The following are the day\u2019s transactions :\u2014 MORNING BOARD.Montreal.1@175}, 1@1754, 23@176, 250 @ 175 Merchants.\u2026.5@108, 15 @ 1072 Commerce.10@1184, 10@1184, 60 @ 118 Montreal Telegraph.40 @ Lis} st.Paul & Minn.ies Canadian Pacific.AFTERNOON BOARD.MONLreal.\u2026.\u2026.0ucsensec ce sens 000000 10 @ 175} People\u2019s.PTE 2% @ MOISORS.00.000000 .15@112, 75 @ 1113 Merchants.a.3) @ Wit Commerce.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u20260\u20261ssecsec rene 50 @ 118 GAS Luce scennanes ce 000000 175@1754, 50 @ 175% Land Grants.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.$10,000 @ 96 The following are the quotations of the stock market as réported by Mr.D.Lorn MacDougall to-day :\u2014 ' STOCKS.ue Bank of Montreal.320 Outario Bank.Bank B.N.A.Banque du Peuple.Molsons Bank.Bank of Toronto.Bauk Jacques Cartier.Merchant's ~ank.Bauk d\u2019Hochelagu.East'n Township B\u2019k.Quebec B nk anque Nationale.U-ion Bank.C«n.B'k of \u2018ommerce Dominion Bank Bank of Hamilto Exchange Bank.Ville Marie.Standard Bank Federal Bank.i.Imperial Bank.MISCELLANEOUS.Intercolonial Coal Co| 100 j.401 32 do bonds.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.[\u2026.coven] 100 9) Montreal Telgr\u2019ph Col 40 |4 p.c.1* 119 | 118 Dominion Tel\u2019gr\u2019phCo| 5 |8 P.C.j.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.Rich & Ont Nav.Co.| 100 (8 p.c.j 563! 55} City PassengerRR.| 50 [7 & 1j 117 { 115 City Gas CO.40 {8 p.c.| 1753] 175} Cornwall Gas Co.Canada Cotton Co.Canada Paper Co.Canada Sh pping Co.Dundas Cotton Co.Graphic Printing Codo bonds.Mont.Loan&Mort\u2019eCo, Mont.Invest&Bldg.Co Royal Can.Ins, Co.Montreal Cotton Co.Hudon Cotton Co-.Stormont Cotton Co.Burland Lith.Co.Bell Telephone Co.Guarantee Co of N.A.Accident Ins.C,0f{N.A L.Ch'n&St.Law J\u2019n B Canada Cent\u2019l RY Bds St.Paul, M&M.Ry.Canadian Pacific Ry.Mont.5 p.c.S8tock.Canada N W Land Co *Can.Pacific L.G.B.Ex-dividend.Loans and Discounts.Money remains quiet at about former rates of interest.Call loans on stock col- laterals are at about 54, and time loans at about 64 @ 7 per cent.Prime commer cial paper is discounted at 7 per cent.Money in New York this afternoon was at 3 per cent.for call loans on stocks.Foreign Exchange.The market for sterling exchange cou- tinues dull.The rates for sixties are 8 3-16 between banks and 83 over the counter.Demand drafts are quoted at 8% between, banks and 9 over the counter.The New York market for sterling to-day was unchanged, the posted rates being 482 and 485.Yesterday\u2019s rates for actual business were: Sixty days, 481 @ 481}.Demand, 484 @ 484}.Cables, 484 @ 484$, Commercial bills sold at 479} @ 480- Continental bills were: Francs, 522} @ 5234 and 520 @ 520$; reichemarks, 944 @ 94 and 95% @ 95} ; guilders, 394 and 403.The following are the posted rates of the leading drawers of foreign exchange: Sterting.\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Paris, francs.Antwerp, francs.Zurich,francs.Berlin, reichsmarks.Bremen, reichsmarks.Hamburg, relchsmarks.Frankfort, reichsmarks.Amsterdam, guilders.48 40, London Financial Markets.Consols in London to-day were firmer and moved up §, closing at 100 11-16 for money, and 100 13-16 for the! account.United States bonds were unchanged at 117} tor 44\u2019, and 104 for 5s.In railway securities Canadian Pacific advanced $ to 55%, and Erie à to 297.Illinois Central remained at 137.New York Stock Market.Stocks to-day were generally weaker, especially the Northern Pacifics, St.Paul, St.Paul & Omaha, North-West, and C.B.crease of $1,392,000 compared with last & Q.Oregon Trans.declined 1 from the opening.The Gould stocks were weaker and irregular.Compared with yesterday\u2019s closing, the following changes appear :\u2014 Advanced \u2014Canada South., 4; Den.& Ria G., #; Kansas & Tex, $ ; N.Y.Cent, $ ; Ohio Cent , à ; Pac, Mail §; Reading, § ; Wabash, &.Declined\u2014C.B.& Q., 1§ ; Can.Pac, §; Cent.Pac., 1; Del, Lack.& West., }; Erie, à ; Lake Shore, $ ; Lou.& Nash, 14 ; Missouri Pac, 1; N.Pac.1}; do.pref., 24 ; North-West, 13 ; Ont.& West, 3; St.Paul, 1}; St.Paul & M, #; St Paul 1 ; do.pfd,, 1 ; Tex.Pac, #; Union Pac., §; Wabash prfd,, }; Western Union, #.Unchanged\u2014N.J.Central.The New York Post says:\u2014An analysis of Speaker Carlisle\u2019s committees foreshadows that at the least, there will be a change in the attitude of Congress on the question of banking, currency, coinage, tariff, andjlandgrant subsidies 10 railroads.How far this may take shape in actual legislation, and whether for better or for worse, i8 impossible yet to foresee.But the mere fact that there are likely to be some radical changes made by the present Congress is an unsettling, and, on the whole, a depressing element in the markets for all securities.Turning to the special influence affecting particular groups of railway stocks, it is not improbable that the disposition to attack the land-grant railroads in Congress will at least be made use of by the bears to attack all the stocks of subsidized roads, though they are in fact very few to which much harm ein be done, as their lands and subsidies have been secured.The anthracite coal trade seems to be improving.A few weeks ago the excess of stocks over last year was estimated at about 3,000,000 tons.It is now estimated that by the end of the year the excess will not be above 2,000,000 tons.The anthracite coal tonnage of the railroads has been increasing.In November it was 3,198,093 tons, against 2,797,372 tons in November, 1882, and in she week to December 22nd was 485,870 ons, against 317.352 tons in the same week ast year.The earnings of the Southern Iroads are all unusually good, and business of every kind in the Southern States is active.The earnings of all the North-West- ern railroads are Jarge and in most cases show an increase over last year.But there is as yet no prospect of a settlement of the ending war among the Granger roads in owa and Nebraska.With cheap iron and cheap labor as inducements, the Burlington, and also probably some of the other roads, will continue to encroach on 8ach other\u2019s territory, and increase competition, until there is some new adjustinent of rights, and also of the values of their stocks.The following were the fluctuations in New York to-day :\u2014 wa) 5 BE STOCKS.EH 8 Col 8 1.40 Ce] o C.B.& Q., .- 121 -1204 120 Canada Southern.of O28: 634).Canadian Pacific.| 52} 63f) 53 Cent.PaciÂc.Gif: 64£|.Chesh & O.cereal LL) CCC &1I Cees 0.C.&LC.Chic.& Alton.Del.,Lack& Wes Del.& Hudson.Denver & Rio G.Lou.& Nash.Michigan Central.Mob.& Ohlo.Missouri Pac.241 92 | 914] OLY) 7200 N, J.Central.8341 8331 .833 100 N.Y.Central zn 112 112g| 5700 N Pacific.26 | 254 24) 5600 Do.Pref.55 | 534) 13200 North, West, Ceres 1164 115, Do.Pre Oregon Trans .Ont.& Western Ohio South.Ohiv & Miss.Ohio Central.Pacific Mail.Reading .Rock Island St.Paul.2 Do.Pref.Leib .St.P., M.& M 4! 06} ; St.P.& Omah 34} 34 | 383 331| 700 Do.Pref.955) 954 94}] 944 900 San Francisco.snaclssoofessaferoofenra0s Tex.Pacific.18% 183| 18 | 18 | 1000 Union Pacific.oon.wl 75° 742 74 23800 Wabagh.\u2026.\u2026.000.0.18H 19 | 19\u201c 18#/ 1400 Do.Pref.\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026vsuce 314) 314 3 31 | 2500 Western Union.| 744] 743] 733 737) 17200 Exchange.sevoc.0000 482 (48X |.482 |.MONEY .\u202600.u0c00-c0000 241 21 24 81) .RAILWAY NEWS.\u2014The Boston Hoosac Tunnel and Western railroad earnings for the past year were $368,000, and expenses $388,000.-_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 GENERAL NOTES.\u2014 The latest commercial news by tele graph will be found on our eighth page.\u2014C.P.Crawford, banker,of Silver City, New Mexico, who was recently attached in New York, has assigned.Liabilities, $300,000 ; aseets nominally $400,000.\u2014A petition requesting Congress to prevent the importation of foreign laborers under contracts made abroad, 1s receiving many signatures of workingmen in Pennsylvania.\u2014The Maine ship building industry was more satisfactory this year than expected, on account of the prevailing low freight.\u2018There were 174 vessels built, against 168 last year, comprising 9 steamers, 13 ships, 4 barks, 6 barkentines, 2 brigs, 133 schooners and 7 sloops.Work was more evenly divided than last year.\u2014À steamer sailed from New York yesterday with 10,000 barrels of petroleum for Italy.Heretofore sailing craft have monopolised this trade.The dullness off the export trade in grain is causing \u2018\u201ctramp\u201d steamers to seek cargoes in other branches of commerce.It is estimated there are 100 steamers for sale in British ports now, the building of them having been greatly overdone on the Clyde, and petroleum merchants think some of them may be utilized in their business, especially as New York is greatly absorbing the petroleum traffic of the United States.\u2014The value of the merchandise shipped from Sheffield to the United States for the ast year wae $3,947,000, or a decrease of $2,269,000 compared with \u2018the previous year.The decrease was principally in steel and Bessemer rails, The value of merchandise exported from Nottingham to the United States was $8,381,000, a de- ear.There was a decrease of exports of ace goods amounting to $2,037,000, but an increase in almost every other article.In consequence of the large business with the United States the lace trade of Nottinghas had five years of such prosperity as never before known.The reason for the falling off of that trade is aftributed to various causes, such as a change of fashion, an overstocked market and sharp competition.\u2014\u2014\u2014>\u2014\u2014\u2014\"\"\" THE BRITISH GRAIN TRADE.Loxpox, Dec.23.\u2014The Mark Lane Express in its weekly review of the British grain trade says : All the young crops maintain a strong, healthy appearance.Trade is overcome By the check that the mild season has given to consumption, and there is but little business, with a tendency to lower rates.Barley is unchanged.The off-coast trade is restricted from lack of supply, which, however, is quite equal to necessities.Four wheat cargoes arrived ; three were sold, one was withdrawn, and one remained.Cargoes on passage are in no demand and prices are nominal.The salesof lnglish wheat for the week were 67,653 \u2019quarters at 393 2d per quarter, against 45,178 quarters at 41s 6d per quarter for the corresponding week last year.The London Miller says :-\u2014The English farmer is discouraged with the rates obtainable for his wheat and hopes for more money after New Year.The New Year is not, however, encouraging since it offers new supplies at the prices which the old year has fixed.In the past week offers of new Australian crop have been made for early shipment at 45s, aud when it is considered that the quality is expected to be superior, the probability of getting 45s for fine white wheat in the spring months is not reassuring to our farmers.Again, Russia is willing to sell excellent wheat at 418 during the springand summer months, thus giving buyers the chance of securing stocks without the expense of storing them.Accordingly, present low rates lose much of the temptation they might otherwise have.PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS.MoxrrEar, Dez.27.Frovr\u2014In flour there is nothing interesting, and the market continues very quiet.The demand for all grades is light and easily filled.We quote: \u2014 Superior Extra, per brl.$5.55 @ $5.6) Extra SUperfine.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.640 @ 5.45 Fancy.PAR .0.00 @ 0.00 Spring Extra.nas sauce 5.00 @ 5.15 Superfine.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026secsssseuse 4.50 @ 4.70 Strong Bakers\u2019 (anne our cerns 5.25 @ 5.50 Strong Bakers\u2019 [American].545 @ 5.85 Fin@.\u2026assussscenesaac ces sn 000 3.75 @ 3.85 Middlings.25 @ 3.65 Pollards.\u2026.1100 0stensencens .8,0 @ 3.40 Ontario bags [medium].-b.i.250 @ 2.60 \u201c + spring extra] bi.2.25 @ 2.45 \u2018 be superfine].bi.215 @ 2.25 Clty bags [delivered].95 & SW Graiv\u2014Iu this market there is no change to report, with hardly any business.We quote :\u2014 Canada red winter wheat, $1.20 @ $1.22; Canada white winter, $1.18 @ $1.19; Canada spring, $1.20 @ $1.21; peas, 8c.@ 90c.; oats, 35c.@36c.; corn, T5c.; rye, 60c., and barley 60c.@65c.for Lower Canada and 67e.@ Täc.for Ontario.Wheat in Chicago opened weak and further declined lec @ 14e below yesterday.Later, however, it rallied jc@ge, closing at 96c December, 963c January, $1.044 May.Coin was weak and fell hack lc, then recovered te@tc, and closed at 603c December, 6lc January-February.Oats closed jc@ic lower, at 33}1c December, 33ic January, 38%c May.Rye was about steady at 60c December-January, 663c May.Barley was steady at 66c cash-December, 67c January, 68c February.The estimated receipts for to-morrow were 243 cars spring wheat, 13 winter, 581 corn, 82 oats, 50 barley, and 24 rye.The New York wheat market was excited and weak, closing §c@lc lower at $1.11§ January, $1.19} May.Corn was fairly active and weaker, closing j#c@ÿc lower, at 643c January, 683c May.Oats closed at 403c January, 444c May.The sales on the last call were 3,000,000 bushels wheat, and 750,000 corn.Ocean grain freights were again weak and reached the lowest oint for a long period, being depressed to Pa per bushel by steam to iverpool.Wheat in Toledo opened weak and §c/@ 14c lower, at $1 004 December, $1 01 January, $1 093 May.Corn opened at 53c January, 614c May ; and oats at 33}c cash- December, 384c May.Wheat in Detroit was weak, and declined 3c@l}c, No.1 white closing at $1 03} December, $1 033 January, $1 10% May.No.2 was fc lower at 95c.Wheat in Milwaukee this morning was noted at 948 January, 95$c February, $l 035 May.Beerbohm\u2019s cable advices of to-day\u2019s date report the British markets as follows: Cargoes off coast\u2014 Wheat, inactive.Corn, nothing offering, Cargoes on passage and for shipment\u2014 Wheat aud corn, very little demand.Arrivals off coast for wheat small; corn, nil.Liverpool wheat and corn, spot, slow.Liverpool, 3.30 p.m.\u2014 Prime western lard, 36s.\"The following were the amounts of grain on passage to the Continent on the dates named :\u2014 Dec.22, Dec.15, Dec.8, 1883.1883.1883.Wheat, grs.340,000 330,000 390,000 Corn, grs.40,000 50,000 50,000 The following were the amounts of grain on passage to the United Kingdom on the dates mentioned:\u2014 Dec.22, Dec.15, Dec.28, 1883.1883, 1882.9,175,000 2,175,000 2,375,000 .320,000 260, 170,000 3 A.The following table shows the amounts of grain in sight in the United States and Canada on the dates mentioned :\u2014 Dec.2, Dec.15, Dec.3, 1883.1888.1882.Wheat, bush.35,531,239 35,118,221 20,814,537 Corn, bush.9,164,25 8,815,376 §,233,1056 Oats, bush.1 6,197,271 5,804,551 8,262,885 Barley, bush.,.3,460,858 3,612,956 3,021,416 Rye, bush.2,712,178 2,754,634 1,307,170 Dec.24, Dec.25, Dec.27, 1881.1880.1879.Wheat,ibush.17,924,617 30,007.000 28,634,000 Corn, bush.17,382,227 16,921,000 10,175,000 Oats, bush.2,754,109 3,860,000 2,795, Barley, bush.2,800,201 3,185,000 4,529,000 Rye, bush.1,317,978 873,000 1,091,000 Provisions\u2014A moderate trade in pork has taken place at steady prices.Lard is quiet and steady.In dressed hogs there is little doing.We quote :\u2014 Western Mess.$17 50 @ 18 00 Lard, western, pe .00113 @ 0 12 Do.Canadian.- \u2026 0000 @ 00 114 Hams, uncogered, per .0014 @ 0000 Hams, canviksed, perlb .0000 @ 00 00 Bacon, per Ib .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.0000 @ 0e Ou Tallow, per 1b.,.wees 0000 @ 00 084 Dressed ogs, per 100 Tbs.60 @ 70 ary; 6sic May.12 45 p m\u2014Wheat, No 2 Red, S1 1°; January; $1134 February; $115; March; $119 May.Corn, lc January ; 65§¢ February ; ésie May.1 00 p m\u2014Wheat, steady : No 1 Red, §! 114 January; $1 15; February; $1 15} March ; $l 194 May.Corn, sicady ; 64c January ; 63:e February; 683c May.Oat, quiet ; 401c January: 41h February; 42/8 March ; 44ic May.200 p m\u2014 Me, Por BLAIKLOCK BROS\u2019, No.17 COMMON STREKY.November 33 299 4 NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS, Subseribers to the DAILY HERALD will, in the course of a few days, receive their Accounts up to the 3lst of December, and also their bill for the year commencing 1st January, 1884, at the reduc- tjon from SIX dollars to THREE dollars.Payment for the fusure must absolutely be made IN ADVANCE.@he Flonireal Herald, FRIDAY MORNING, DEC.28.28 \\1! correspondence for THE HERALD (except business letters) should be addressed à the Editor, MR.JOHN LIVINGSTON.Béiness correspondence to be addressed to MR.General Manager of and Publisking Co.\u201d JAMES STEWART, \u201cHerald Printing Limited).Z®~Ths offices of THE HERALD are in Victoria Block, corner of Victoria Square and St.James St.West.\u2014Editorial Rooms, up one flight ef stairs.APPOINTMENTS.Academy of Music\u2014Performance at 8 p.m.Mechanica\u2019 Hall\u2014Performances at 2.30 and 8 p.m.RECIPROCAL TRADE.In another column will be found some interesting editorial remarks from the New York Journal of Commerce on reciprocal trade with Canada.No exception whatever can be taken to the tone of the article\u2014as coming from a prominent United States Free Trade organ\u2014 unless it be to the statement that Canadians are \u201c jumping at President Arthur\u2019s proposi- \u201ction to readjust the fishery business, \u201cand suggesting, of their own accord, a \u201c new reciprocity treaty as the best means \u201cof doing it.\u201d It is not correct to say that Canadians are showing an eagerness to \u201creadjust the fishery business,\u201d nor are they showing undue anxiety for reciprocity.Canadians remember that they were weil enough satisfied with the old reciprocity treaty, and did nothing to abrogate it.That treaty was terminated by the act of the United States Coagress, moved thereto by the people of that country.Nearly everything which the United States imported from Canada, free of duty, under that treaty they have been importing since its abrogation, and have been paying high duties on all the various articles, especially articles of food, lumber, ete.The people of Canala have done nothing to abrogate or to prevent a renewal of the fishery clauses of the Washington Treaty ; they were and are satisfied with the operation of these clauses ; but again the United States authorities declare the working of this portion of the treaty unsatisfactory and give notice of a desire to terminate it.Well, if the fishery clauses be ailowed to drop and gothing new be offered in their place, tie results which followed the abrogation of the old Teciprocity treaty will be repeated.The people of the United States will have to pay the higher for what they need from the Canadian fisheries.So there is no necessity for Canadians \u2018\u2018 jumping \u201d at President Arthur's proposition to securs the adjustment of fishery matters, Canada can better afford to Keep quiet on the subject than the United States can.The public of the United States need not only the fish which are taken in their own waters but those which they have been taking in Canadian waters, and it would certainly be more to Canada\u2019s advantage for them to buy from Canadians than to catch them themselves, It is true that the Journal of Commerce augyests that President Arthur\u2019s notice to terminate the operation of the fishery clauses of the Washington Treaty is a step whicl \u201c\u201c must not be interpreted as \u201c a wish or willingness to give up fishing \u201cin Canadian waters; on the con- \u201ctrary \u2018our Government is ready to \u201cmake any reasonable or honorable \u201c concession to regain that right in the \u201c proper form,\u201d and that the agency of a Congressional Commission is the best form that the President can think of.The large payment awarded to Canada by the Halifax Coznmission has been a sore point with the people of the United States who, for the first time in their history, were beaten at a game in which they believed themselves to be unapproachable.They never parted with money so reluctantly, and especially with five millions of dollars.It is tolerably clear that they do not wish to pay a money indemnity for the use of the Canadian fisheries, and as they have no fisheries to offer us who need nothing of the kind from them, it is difficult to understand in what manner they propose \u201cto compensate us unless they offer trade advantages in other directions.But whatever their object may be, or whatever scheme theirstatesmen may be forming in their minds, it is well our friends across the border should understand that we can afford to have the United States use and pay for our fisheries, or we can afford to fish them exclusively ourselves; that we are open to extend our trade with them in natural products, or to refrain from doing so ; and that as regards an extension of trade with the United States the policy of the Dominion was expressed by its Parliament when in 1879 \u2018it placed in the statutes of Canada provision for reciprocal trade, and has kept the offer open until this hour.This deliberate policy was adopted years before TIIE MONTREAL HERALD, AND DAILY (COMMERCIAL there was any of this nonsensical Manitoba agitation or any prospect of our cotton mills running on short time.The present condition of this country could have nothing whatever to do with a policy adopted in 1879.CONCERNING OPERA.Opera occupies in music a parallel position to the place taken by poetry in literature.It is the highest form of emotional expression and deals essentially with the finer feelings of humanity.It appeals to the sentiment and elevates the moral tone of the man or woman.It is a translation of crude realties into their relative chords of idealism.It invests the ordinary actions and common passions of mankind with a significance of motive and meaning that calls into actual existence the spiritual essence underlying all things material.Take the story of Faust.To the person, who has only read that beautiful legend, the dramatic representation will be a new version entirely ; lines that he has not pondered much over will suddenly seem full of meaning, and the action of the performers will throw a new charm upon the play ; but let him see the operatic performance and then the full interpretation of the drama will be revealed to him, so far as all the arts can speak to the soul through the senses.Then he will know all the lessons of which Le has only learned a part before.With reference to the present performance of operain this city, we quote from a valued correspondent who writes as follows :\u2014 \u201c\u2018 As the opera isthe highest form of musical language, combining all the various vocal and instrumental means of rendering emotion audible, it is therefore necessary for the full appreciation and enjoyment of 1ts purifying power upon the mind that persons shall have attained a certain degree of culture, or its grand lessons will never be learned.It may truly be said not only that the music of Canada has yet to be bora, but that the love of music has yet to be learned by Canadians\u2014I mean the love of music in its highest forms.If a proof were required of this assertion, a visit to the opera on Mouday last would have furnished complete evidence.One would have naturally thought that the opportunity of hearing an opera in Montreal being so rare, the little Academy would have been filled to the overflowing with anxious lovers of music, eager to see and hear the interpretation of a great musical genius by some of the most highly gifted and cultured singers of the day.Yet this was not the case, and the house was rot comparatively so well filled as a Paris house would have been at a repre- seutation of a very moderate composer's work.What is the reason?Is it the incapability of our citizens to appreciate opera, or their indifference to music generally?Were the singers unknowu or the prices too dear?From what I have seen in this city, I am led to believe the reason that opera does not excite the people here as in the older countries in the world is chiefly from a lack of culture in musical appreciation, Music in Montreal is partly in the ballad stage and partly in the colored chorus period of deveiopment; and which will ultimately predominate in our drawing- rooms is an open question.How seldom are the beautiful romances and airs from the numerous great operas heard in our private musical parties compared with the humorous selections from Huverly\u2019s latest programmes.This shows a pitiful lack of culture which extends farther in the society of tis city than is pleas:nt to contemplate.Though not talking of ail, I am speaking with certainty of the majority of amateur musicians.At the time wlien a revival of music is imminent in England, when Ler young composers are receiving the homage of large audiences in foreign lands, when the old and new schools of opera are attracting their numberless crowds of votaries all over Europe, the leading city in Canada cannot tauster a full house for its small Academy to listen to a worl of the finest order of music.It is a reproach to our city and its people.It would not be too much to say that Patti filled the house on Wednesday night, aud had she only sung one song in a concert, she would have probably had as large an audience.Ifit were possible to learn how many of the persons, who attended the opera, went for the sake of the prima- donna, the fashion, or the opera, I fear the last would have been the reason given by a very small number.It is so seldom great operas and good singers come to Montreal, that it is a pity our people miss the chance of hearing both, and it is to be hoped Madame Gerster on her second appearance will be greeted by a larger audience than listened to her ou Monday evening.\u201d With all respect to our correspondent we do not agree with his conclusions, for we do not think them altogether fair.It cannot be expected that Montreal shall occupy as prominent a place in the musical world as Paris, Vienna, Berlin, or the many other great art-centes of the old world ; but there is no lack of genuine love of music or of that finer culture that is necessary for the thorough appreciation of the opera.Our correspondent mentioned the high prices charged for admission as a probable reason, and here we are inclined to think he touched more solid ground.There is no doubt that our citizens are not educated to such a high scale of prices as was originally announced for the operatic performances at the Academy.It was openly said by many that, whereas they would have liked to hear the operas, they did not care to pay so dearly for the transient pleasure.The prices announced were said to be proportionate to those charged in other cities; but during the opera season in London musical people may be seen, score\u2019 in hand, listening to Patti or Gerster perhaps, in seats which cost less than a dollar each ;\u2014of course they were not stalls, The mistake has been partially rectified, for the prices for to-night have been considerably reduced, whilst for the extra night on\u2019 Saturday popular prices are advontised, We will predict an overflowing house for Verdi's opera.With popular prices and a reasonable ram, opera would pay well in | Montreal ; but it cannot be expected that two or three evenings with double and treble prices will attraet the .citizens so well.Moreover, the most musically cultured people, are not usually the most wealthy, and \u2018however much a person would care to hear a good opera well rendered, there may be an extravagance apparent in paying several dollars for a few hours\u2019 pleasure, even though it is of a highly cultured kind.STARTLING IF TRUE.The so-called \u201c Fenians \u201d and \u201c Dynamiters\u201d\u2019 are attempting to \u201cscare Canada\u201d once more.There appears to be a necessity for raising a fresh supply of funds for the sustenance and support of certain patriotic gentlemen who have no other means of living; so the world is told that a raid is to be made into Canada and it is hoped the dollars will tumble into the Fenian treasury by the thousand.It is in accordance with Fenian and Dynamite tactics that Canada should be forewarned, so we are assured that ome \u201cMcBride,\u201d an eccentric fraud, \u201ccan go to Toronto \u201d from Buffalo in a few hours \u201cand return unnoticed,\u201d and that \u201can \u201cattack could be made in Ottawa simul- \u201ctaneously.\u201d Of course, it is proposed \u201cto blow up Government buildings \"in the night time ; and the kindness of this advance notice should be appreciated by all who admire eccentricity, especially as \u201c McBride \u201d declares that \u201c we shall cover up our tracks very carefully !\u201d Another Buffalo Fenian declares that \u201chundreds of Irishmen here are ripe for another invasion of Canada, and only want a leader like McBride,\u201d\u2014which is rather hard on the hundreds!\u2014and all on account of O'Donnell.Captain Dan.Moran, a Buffalo saloon keeper, who invaded Canada in 1866, said that \u201c invasions have been organized here, and we know how to do the work; \u201d and Captain Bill Smith, also a Buffalonian and a Ridgeway raider, declared that © we shall make ourselves felt.\u201d That solid man, James J.Muldoon, a prominent Buffalo lawyer and an invincible, added his mite to the murderous programme.His notice to Canada was special and particular.He denounced McBride for telling so much, and then remarked :\u2014 \u201c We are going to capture the new Gov- \u201c ernor-General of Canada.He used to \u201cbe an Irish landlord and isa subject * for us to wreak our vengeance upon.\u201cWe have selected nine men Pho are \u201csworn to secrecy, and will do the work \u201c when the order is given from New \u201c York.Most of the men will cross the \u20ac St.Lawrence River at Caughnawaga, \u201c opposite Lachine, where they will not \u201c be observed.Further than that I can- \u201cnot tell you.\u201d Further information was unnecessary.The Canadian beaver is now expected to shiver in his winter haunts.The British lion is counted upon to send forth lamentation over the danger that is coming to his Canadian whelp.As for the Governor-General, he will probably deem it necessary to add one policeman to the safeguards which surround him in Rideau Hall.When McBride and Dan Moran and Muldoon and the rest of the \u201cboys\u201d come over with their dynamite, it is impossible to say what will happen.Perhaps they may get hanged, who knows ?THE GAS CONTRACT.Last night, in the course of a prolonged session of the City Conneil, the offer of the Montreal Gas Company for lighting the streets of Montreal for another period of ten years\u2014 from May 1, 1885\u2014was accepted and the proposed contract practically ratified.Our report of the proceedings shows that all the amendments offered by members of the Council acting in the interests of the Citizens\u2019 Gas Company, were voted down by a two-thirds majority of the Council.There was a good deal of speaking by the opposition members in the hope of postponing action, but the overwhelming majority of the Council stood solid and the meeting did not separate until, at the end of a five hours\u2019 session, the powerlessness of the minority to change the views or action of the majority had been demonstrated time and again.The contract, the conditions of which are well understood by our readers, is more favorable to the Corporation than the old one, besides providing cheaper gas for all private consumers after lst May, 1885.It is stated that further legal proceedings, with a view of preventing the contract going into operation, will be taken, but there will be time enough for such a step at any date within the next sixteen months, Meantime the Citizens\u2019 Gas Company can move for permission to open the streets, and test in the Courts the power of the Corporation to grant a monopoly.If they succeed, they can proceed at once with their works, The fact that another company has been contracted with for the street lamps need not make any difference when there is such profit in gas making.TEE Newfoundland telegrams throw new light on the religious disturbances in Newfoundland.It appears to require a considerable display of force to suppress the disturbances.Ordinary police were despatched from St.John\u2019s to Harbor Grace on Wednesday, reaching the scene of the disturbance the same night.Mounted police reached there from St.John\u2019s yesterday morning.Owing to the country in the vicinity\u2014especially the town of Carbonnear\u2014being in an excited condition, and to the fact that large bodies of men, with fire arms, were preparing to march to Harbor Grace, the Colonial authorities have telegraphed to Halifax for naval and military assistance.It turns out that two Orangemen and two Roman Catholics were killed at Harbor Grace on Wednesday ; eight men are reported mortally wounded and about twenty others slightly.The Inspector of Police, Mr.Doyle, is said to have been severely in- jured in the riot, The circumstances of GAZETTE.FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28 the outrages are very sad and exceedingly discouraging to all who hoped that an end had come to \u201cOrange and Catholic\u201d disturbances in the British North Amer can Colonies.It is evident that the News foundland authorities have a very painful duty to perform in the premises.\u2014œ Or tar English sparrow\u2014whom we know so well in Montreal\u2014a learned Boston contemporary remarks \u2014\u201cIt seems strangely contrary to the amenities of the feathered kingdom for English spartows to be flapping about in these winter snow-drifts In the summer their habits are not dissimilar from those ofthe gentler species with whom they mingle and over whom they hold such noisy lordship.the departure of the aborigines for the glades and everglades of the sunny South, when the chills of evening creep into the sky, as arout and abandonment of the soil in their favor, It would seem, however, that as years passed by, and the rigors of winter were suffered over and over again, that the force of example would tell on the obstinate and quarrel some little aliens.If they persist in their present arrangement, and stay with us through cold and sleet, one or two things must happen ; either they will decrease in numbers and become ia time extinct, or through the survival of the toughest they will wax stronger and fiercer, and become more and more the dominant and intolerant faction in the feathered kingdom.\u2014\u2014 YESTERDAY an application was made to Justice Papineau, on behalf of the North Shore Railway Company, for a Writ of I Mandamus ordering the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to open the switch between their line and that of the Union Jacques Cartier Railway Company.so that the traffic from the North Shore Railway to the Jacques Cartier Railway should be uninterrupted.The writ was ordered to be issued.It is expected that the writ will be served to-day, and the case will be argued immediately.The dispute arises out of the terms of the agreement of sale by the Quebec Government, of the western section of the Quebee, Montreal, Ottawa & Occidental Railway to the Canadiap Pacific Railway Company, and turns upon the legal interpretation of the agreement between the Government and the Canadian Pacific.BIRTHS.FoLev\u2014At 45 Belmont street, on the 27th instant, the wife of M.S.Foley, of a daughter.DEATHS, BARNsUM\u2014On the 27th December, at 32 Burnside Place, fell asleep in Jesus, Sarah Guild, widow of Thomas Barnjum, and beloved mother of Frederic and Helen Barnjum.The funeral will take place from her late residence, on Saturday afternoon, at 2.30 o\u2019clock.u Davisox\u2014At No.30 Mark street, on Tuesday afternoon, the 25th inst, James Davison, Manager Roval Canadian Iusurance Company, aged 69 years and 7 months.The funeral will take place from his late residence ou Friday afternoon, 28th inst., at 2 o'clock, to Crescent Street Church.Friends and acquaintances will please accept this intimation, Glasgow papers please copy.Fit lo 2 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