The Montreal witness, 12 janvier 1861, samedi 12 janvier 1861

[" VOL.XVI.MONTREAL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1861.No.4.Arrival of the \u2018 PALESTINE.\u201d Naw Yosk, 8th Jan, 1561 The \u201cPalestine\u201d arrived at 5 p.m.Business was suspended since © Australasion\u201d sailed.No markets.Italian affairs unchanged.It is reported that the French ficet was about to gait Gaeta.Itis rumored on the contrary in Paria that Russia and France have agreed to support Francis II.in resistance until the Spring.Great demoralization is reported in the besieged army at Gaeta.Itis stated a decree was preparing at Naples ordering an extraordinary levy of men between 18 and 55 years.The City of Naples is about to give a grand ball to the army.The Circular of M.Schmerling, detailing the new Austrian reforms, is published.Its provisions are generally very liberal.LATEST.Advices from China state that the ratification of the treaty bad been exchanged.The Convention was sigoed at Pekin on the 24th of October.The English and French Ambassadors took up their residence at Pekin, and were to remain till November oth.The French army retired from Pekin on the 1st of November.The English will remain tili the Ambas- sadora leave.À large force will remain at Tein Tain till the treaty conditions are fuifilted.The principal clauses of the treaty are: the Emperor apologises for the Peiho affair lagL year.Miuisters to reside at Pekin.The indemnity tired to be doubled.Tein -Tsin to be opened for trade immediately.Emigration allowed.Cowloon conceded to Britaie.Treaty to be promulgated throughout China.Chusan to be evacuated by the British forces.The allied armies to leave Pekin on the 8th.The Emperor's summer palace had been eatirely burned.The bodies of the prisoners who died in the bands of the Chinese were brought to Pekin and buried.Capt.Brabazon and Abbé Luc were beheaded about the 31st September ; bodies not recovered.The Emperor is still in Tartary.One buudred thousand pounds were exacted fur the families of the British officers murdered.The insurgents are menacing Ningpo.MAYORALTY ELECTIONS.Lonpow, Jan.8, 1861.\u2014The vote for Cornish is 702; for Daniels, 626.Cornish's majority 76.Braxtrorp, Jan.8, 1861.\u2014 Mr.Clement is elected by a majority of 120, Toronto, Jan.8, 1861.\u2014)r.Bowes is elected Mayor by a majority of 341.SKETCH OF THE METHOD TAKEN FOR AIDING THB POOR OF TIIE QUEBEC SUBURBS.The work was commenced in June by the engagement on the part of the Ladies\u2019 Auxiliary Bible Socivty Committee, of A \u201c Bible woman,\u201d (Mra.Scott) who was instructed to find out and enter on her list fur visitation, for their spiritual good, the fallen, the drunken, the poor uf ull kinds who were not reached by other means, aud to induce them to buy aud read the Scriptures, for which they could pay by weekly instalments It was soon found that mauy of the families visited were in want of temporal relief; and as winter approached, the number of urgent cases of distress multiplied, ao that private help could do little fur them.It was then determined to collect clothing and money ; the latter was expended on serviceable materials for dress and bedding.Tho women of the most necessitous families were invited to attend an evening meeting at the British and Canadian School-room, kindly grauted by the Committee for this use, and under the advice and superintendence of Mra.Scout, who by this time had acquired à good knowledge of the families, their character end circumstances, the new roaterials are cul up into the garments most wanted by them, aud each makes up her own articles of clothing, aud ays about one-half or one-third their value, \u2014almost without exception by small instalments.Ag soon as paid up, they take the article home.The old clothing we have caused them to mend or adapt tc lite munbers of their famliiea for whom they may be intended.Werk has been entrusted to a few, and clothing given for It.Ticks for straw, and comforts,\u201d made up by the poor women themselves, Lave also been supplied at halfof their value or less.In many cases it was necessary to give gratuitously, and even amall sums of money in cases of sickness or urgent wan ; but in all cases with a knowledge of the parties supplied.These evening meetings were commenced in Novem- ter, and up to the first of January were kept up for four evenings in each week, attended by the Bible woman, (whose (ime, during the day, is occupied in visiting among (ho poor) and by ladies of the Com- tmitteo in rotation, who, while the women are al work sewing, read a portion of the llible and some suitable religious book, and pray with them at the close.Their most pressing neccssities are now supplied, and the meetings have been reduced to twice weekly.From twenty to thirty, mostly mothers of families, attend these meetings, and alout ninety families bave been more or less benefitted.Twelve famili s have been supplied with soup tickets.About one hundred dol- tars have Leen collected, and about twenty dollars have been received from the women, by small instalments, fur clothing.Situations have been found for two females, on leaving the jail, who are going on very to Four girls have been i to fe to the Magdafene ; work has been obtained for two lestitute boys; two destitute children bave been re- selved, one by the Ladies Benevolent Society, the other by tbe\u2019 Home and Schoo! of Industry.Whea first the Bible women bazan her viaiia, she was reorived coldly and whi suspicion that she came as à spy amoug them, and nearly all were sby to admit her or speak of their affuirs.Now, she says, she can truthfully say, in every room slic is received civilly, in many kindly, and even warmly.Some houses that were dirty and untidy, have greatly improved.Some arc earnest in Ueir invitations that she should return and read more to them ; and since this kindly interest has been shown ia their temporal affair, more than ever their hearts seem open to her spiritual teachings.The work, although thus far successful, is but a step forward in the right direction.Drunkenness and improvident lubits are the cause of two-thirds of the extreme destitution that our severe winter forces upon our notice ; and it does not appear that an effectual remedy can be provided except by the establishment of a louse of Itefuge or Reformatory, managed on Christian principles, and specially intended for the benefit of drunkarde, the more degraded poor, and of persona discharged from the hospital and jail.In the meantime, an extension of the present effort would be of great value, and merits the attention an contributions of the public.There is scope for the exertions of several more Dible-women, as well as for the co-opers- tion of ladics disposed to aid in the work, both in giving more minute attention to individual cases already knowo, and extending to other parts of the city that blessed influence which Christian women can best carry to the homes of the poor.[We are very happy to receive and publish the above statement, which, we think, will fully satisfy tbe writer of a letter which appeared in a recent number of the Witness, concerning the possible abuse of the funds subscribed for the Bible-woman effort.We are fully convinced that material aid should not be divorced from spiritual aid, but that both should be afforded in a way to draw out exertion and self-reliance on the part of those aided, as is evidently dose in this excet- lent effort, for which the ladies of the Bible Society deserve great credit.\u2014Ep.Wir.] MorTaLiry or 1860.\u2014The Herald gives a table of deaths in Montreal during the past year, with a classification of the diseases upon which death ensued.The following are the totals :\u2014 Number of interments in tbe IR.C.Cemetery.25\u20ac\" Do in the Protestant Cemetery.Gil Do in the Jewish do : Total.3174 Number of Males.1628 do Females.» 1546 From the 16th July, 1854, to the end of the year, there occurred 2,198\" deaths, 793 being ascribed to epidemic disease.During the year 1855, the number of deaths was 2,456.During tbe year 1856, the number wag 2,394, oF, 62 fewer than in the preceding year.During the first seven months of the year 1857, the number of deaths was 1,527.Tim Governor (iesgRaL~The Priot says: \u2014 The London Gazette of December 11th contains the official record of the honars conferred on Lord Lyons and Sir Edmuad Head, which reads as follows :\u2014 Wan Ormcr, Dee.11th.The Queen haa been graciously pleased to make and ordiin a special statute of the Most Hon.Order of the Bath, for appointing Lord Lyons, Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, and the Right Ion.Sir Edmund Walker Head, Captain-General aad Governor-in-Chicf in and over the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scolis, New Brans- wick, and the Island of Prince Edward, and the Gover- nor-General-in-Chicf of all her Majesty's Provinces in British North America and of the island of Prince Edward, to be extra Members of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the said Most Hon.Order.A MODEL MAGISTRATE.The Three Rivers Inquirer says :\u2014We are indebted to the Brantford Courier for the following graphie picture of one who has enmed for himeclf an unenviable notoriety of Inte.l'ass it on, let the country know who and what the man is.who would disgrace his country by turning it into a bantinz- ground for the blood-hounds of the Southern States.\u201cBrantford is à pretty fast place, no doubt ; enter prise and go-a-beaditiven-as are our characteristics, u machinery, solid improvements, material wealth, and municipal solvency aud economy, our gocd town may be looked upon with envy.We can show our fastness and enterprise in more ways, however, than these.We can challenge the whole I'rovince for an equal to William Mathews ne n° fast\u201d magistrate\u2014 tu use the parlance of our American cousins he is à regular snorter\u2014a smashing \u201coff ox I\u201d and if any town or Somuunity can start out \u2018nigh\u2019 one to match him, we shall then have a sake that could brat all creation, not excepting Kansus and California.This man is always on hand for any dirty job where by he can figure up * bill of coste;* na for the tines, they can take care of themselves if not to be had eantly.He la especially expert in his transactions with the colores people ; and ao notorious is thin that the lev.W.F.Clarke, in his lecture on the \u201c Negro pew difliculty\u201d in Vancouver's Island doliv.ered at the Congregational church here on Wednes- dny evening, said he believed thant he (De, Clarke) was in the neighliorhood of & slave catching agency.Among loafers, unfortunate strangers, and United States detective officers, this model magistrate also drives n gnod business.Most Justices of the Pence allow people to find them out through enquiry; this man goes right into the business, and hangs out bis \u201c\u2018ebingle\u201d thus: \u201c W Matihows, Justice of the Peace,\u201d for customers.Always on hand and ever on the alert, he bunts up every case whereby he can display bis power, pocket a fee and stir up the bile of i the litigious.Nor is he less tyrannical than perse- | vering in hunting up business.to him ss the anvil to the blacksmith, As word spoken in opposition to this modern + Nero\u201d bolted, and a general melee ensues, in which sometimes, as in the case of the late trial of one geant, * Vinegar,\" comes to the rescue of bis pupil.all other men in town, very evil consequences, hecause he so dreadfully ex.| B asperates the pour ignorant creatures who are brought reaker.It is to be regretted that to plain terms |S should be expressed towards any magistrate, but so disreputable are Mathews\u2019 proceedings in that capa.on any case.expression to their disapprobation of bis tyrancy.petition to head quarters for his removal.onte more prevail among them.us by a subscriber in Branford, which we published a real petition, signed by upwasds of 2,500 of tbe most influential men in this city\u2014Ep.Wir.) likely to be ended for the present.clerical party, has capitulated, and Mexico City re represents the conquering party.The civil war in that Miramon has held Mexico City.Miramon's vileges, (which were those of the Catholic Clergy of a trial before the ordinary tribunals was to be suppress to be brought into the market.appear to have acted upon, so far as Iny in their power, a scrupulous regard to the right of the nation- States, for some reason, probably because Miramon held the capital, had viven to that General and his party the sanction of their recognition.h ful crueltics, massacres, and rapine which they wit.ly followed hy the theft by Miramon of a large trea.ie probable that the British forces would bave been | Ui shortly employed to call Miramon to account : but mary, President will know how to make his_hardly-earned position a blessing to his country.\u2014 Montreal Her st ald, Jan.10.cantankerous and ill-natured person may vet lead to w sarcasm on our policy.p- HIGHLY IMPORTANT NEWS FROM MEXICO.| United Stax we 3 .the must sa The long strife in this unhappy country seems! fihe Isth 9 À AUTAMON, |hy tLe Chinese nuthorities.as appears by telegraphic news received last night.by a rrudent course of action, have attsined what we bas been thoroughly routed and has fled.Puebla, the have \u2018only Leen able to realize by a large effusion of only city except the capital, which remained to the human blood, and à display of great physical prowess There ie wiedom in the examp-le, if our rulers will