The Montreal witness, 9 juillet 1864, samedi 9 juillet 1864

[" ttes cl ¢ COMMERCIAL REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER._ \u2014 vo xx MONTREAL SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1864.No.53.INVESTIGATION INTO THE LATE EAIL- WAY ACCIDENT.JULY FOURTE\u2014FOURTE DAY.pes that the cars are provided with lamps, and 1 am obliged to trim them.The co-duotor gets them from the sgent.There were about 135 passengers in the van car, and the second The jary assembled at 2 pm.The gentiemen | class car was filed.I saw seats in the grain resent on the part of the Grand Traok at the rmer sittings were io attendance.The Grand Truck Railway, Esstern District, Private Time Table and Bpecial Rules, for the exclusive use and guidance of employees, commencing Moo day, June 27:b, 1864, Montreal Time, wore distributed smongst the jury.The latter baviog answered to their names, tbe enquiry was resumed.Gipsox Ganovx sworn, lam a brakesmas io the employ of the Grand Truck Oompany, | shall have been in their employ B years next Spring, 1 year of which I have been brakesmaa.1'was the only brakeeman oo the train.I got on at Richmood.Thomas Phin was the conductor, Nicholas Flyno the firemen, and Wm.Burney the driver.Finn took cbarge of the train at Ricbmond, Fly on and Burney also came on board at Richmond, They left Richmond between 10 & 11 o'clock on the night of tbe 8th.I think there were 11 cars, couatipg tbe van.The train was so filled with passengers, that we were obliged to pnt some of them into the van.We stopped at Acton, Bi.Hyecinthe and St Hilsire.When we stopped at St, Hilaire the engine-driver was on board, as well as the others As they stopped at St, Hilaire, be went and threw wood into tbe tender, along with the conductor and Fiyon, Flyon was then oo the leftside of the engine, as well as the driver ; I did not eee them before we started.The conductor told witness to go on the last car and trim tbe lemp, and that be, the conductor, would teke his piace as brakesmsn ; I went to trim the lamp, sud the train started.When I loft the conductor, I do not koow where the latter went to, Tbe cam were in charge of the conductor then, and I fel perfectly satisfied.The train left St.Hilaire lowly, as traios generally do.The train did not stop as it came to the bridge, but went jor- ward.Ido pot know whether there were any signals at Be'wil when we left St.Hilaire ; I did notlock.Ido not know whether tbe signale can be seen from there.I did not hear any whistle before the train came to the bridge.» was inside of the train with the door ebut.I closed the door because the wind had blown out my lamp.I thik tbat the train went with a greater speed as we came near the bridge, so I thought thas ail was right.When I went out of the van with my lamp, I think I heard a whistle, but I am not sure, it might bave been imagioa- tion.About a mioute elapsed from the train entering upon the bridge until the occurrence of the accident.I saw no one, but the condus- tor might have been there without my seeing of him, it was eo dark.I supposed the conductor \u2018Was on the crn acting as brakesman, because be had told me be would take my place.I beard the crash of the engine going down into the river, and I bad just time tojump out.I jumped on to the bridge, and caught by one of the side chains.To the best of my knowledge it was the last chain, As I jumped, the last car fell into the abyss, I saw Lo lighton the front of the engine.Had there been ope, I think F should bave seen it When I wae on the bridge I saw no signals.T wan on the wood, or right side, and the signals are on the Jeft.1 was so lrightened when the accident occurred that I could not leave go of the chain for some minutes.I then looked into the abyss, and saw people with lamps, I think it was the people belonging to the barges.Ism tive that I was the only man on tbe bridge then went to the St, Hilaire Station, [ thougbe I should bave fallen down, I was so frightened.\u2018When I arrived att.Hilaire, I saw Mr.Valll- quette; I told him about the accident.I often osme from Richmond to Montresl aa brakes.man.To the beat of my knowledge we never came to a dead stop as we oame to the bridge.I generally act as brakesman on freight trains, sme on eitber freight or passenger trains.Between two and three in the morning after ! bad been at St.Hilaire Bte- tion, I went to Belœil andsaw Burney.Burney wag thea io the kitchen of the 8'ation-boure, pear the stove, and warming himself.He complained of beivg chilly.Barney naked ms to §?Up stairs to get hid clothes from the ladies\u2019 waiting-room.brought Burney bis clothes, and be then told me, be bad been in the river with the engine.He had braces, pants, blue overcoat, another coat, stockings snd ta.1 think there was aloo a vest.these clotbes \u2018were excessively wot, and Burney sbowed me send In his stockings.Burney told me that that sand bad coms from tbe bottom of the river.I tben left Burney and went to the beldge.At the time I was speaking to Burney ip the kitchen, there was 6 woman sod s wan thers, who appeared to be German passengers At that time Barney bud got dry plothes on, I think that I was once esman on tbe ssme train with Borney down at Quebec.I am sure thes Burney was sober that night.One men could not bave stopped the train at the speed at which it was golng across the bridge.The couduetor often aids the brakesman.He breaks the van, but on this occasion the con- dustor took my place.To Mr.Hoon.\u2014I tbink the conductor must have been on tbe top of the oars, for that was my place, and the conductor bad told me thet be would take my place.To Mr.BaLran.\u2014Besides the van there was à second class onr and the others were box cars.I think there were seats in those cars.The engine was numbered 148.Mr.Martin engaged me.It was tbe conductor who told me at Richmond to be brakesm-n on that train, To Mr.Wienss.\u2014There was a lamp on the second cinss car and a lamp on the van, I did æot pes à lemp on the other and bad there been any I should bave seen m.Itls the brakesiman's daty to light those lamps, but when we left Richmond we had only a lamp lighted oo the second class cer.Every oar shoald bave s lamp, It Is the condactos's business to osre.I went back frum tbe bridge aud found Mr.Valliquette in bis office, To Mr, Ruimsannr \u2014Wben I jumped from the train I was on the platform of the last car, and I hurt my leg.! bad before been brakes man to a special train to Island Pond, To Mr.J.Baavuonv.\u2014 The train Was going at abont 40 miles an hour wben I jomped off the car.I aeized the first and second chains of the bridge, but could not hold on by them; I grasped the third and last chain, and held fast by at, To Mr.L Bnavorr.\u2014During part of the year 1 have been eset and part went of Island Pond on the road, The trains generally go slack at the bridge, but they do not stop, except when they have business at the Belœil Station.When tbe green, or caution light, is exbibited we only slacken speed, but do not stop.Fiom the time we left Richmond we stopped only at Acton where we took water and wood.The conductor told me at Richmond, that I was to bave another man to assist me from Richmond.There I got no help, but the conductor told me I should bave some one to belp me from train No.11 at 8t Hyacinthe.To the Ooroner.\u2014 Wm.Buroey asked me at Acton to show bim the road, for be (Burney) did not know the road.When we came to Station 80 Burney ssked me if that wap the station.Barney asked me where were the up grad d where were the down grades.I showed him the up grades, but I do not remember where.I told bim that there was a station as we were approaching St, Hilaire, because it wes 8 downgrade, and we bad to atop at St.Hilaire to take water.About a mile from St Hilaire station I got oa the top of the train and put on all tke breaks except those of the two last cars.Before coming to 8: Hyscintbe Burney asked me where we were.Burney did pot sek me for any information as te the bridge, at Bt Hilaire.To Mr.PuxLan.\u2014I did not pars any examioa- tion when 1 was appointed brakeeman.I tolé Mr.Bailey and Mr.Martin that I bad ?ad education therein.! read English and French.My Mnstruciions as brakesmen are to understand the æhistiss, and tbe ascending to the top of the cars take charge of the brakes when the train is going too rapidly, and to attend to the lamps.We have printed instructions.The witness bere pulled out a copy of them.My reason for leaving my place when the train was in motion was because the conductor bad told me to look do (he larops sud he would take my place at the brakes, To Mr.McOsaapy.\u2014The train ran st about 8or9 miles an bour from St.Hilaire to the ourve, from the curve to the bridge it went at about 12 miles an boar, but when the engine went over the bridge it drew the train at the rate of 40 miles an bour.I did not enter avy car exoept tbe second-class one.I consider the passengers would be nearly as comfortable in those grain cars with temporary seats, as they would bave bee in tecond-class cars themselves.When the gratings of those cars are drawn aside, the cars sre ventilated pretty nearly aa effaotually na are the second elese cars.The conductor might have put the brakes ou tbe vau whilst upon the bridge without my hesring.To the Conoxuz.\u2014I bave beer four times along with that conductor on & freight train some time ago.The conductor knew the road well.To Mr.BoLuze.\u2014The conductor appeared to think that a\u2018l was right on the train.Both the driver and tbe fireman were quite aober \u2014 The conductor was in charge of the train, to [ stop it, whilst on the top of tbe cars ; aod if the signal were there, the conductor could bave seen it.If the conductor and the driver had seen the signal whilst they were in the curve, and if they bad taken every precaution, I think they could bsve stopped the train.Burney remained on the engine from .Acton to St.Hilaire, and the witoess with bim.The conductor knew that I waz on the engine along with the driver; but the former did not know for what purpose, til I informed bim at St Hilaire, I bed no conversation with the driver about tbe bridge.There wan a light on the front of the engine when it left Richmond, but I did not see ic afterwards.It la the business of the fireman to keep the light srimmed, I think it is the fireman\u2019s business, because I bave seon bim do it always The conductor was sober tbat night, and I did Dot gee any band ou the train driok that night.The conductor did not go through the graio-cars thas pight,\u2014at least not to my knowledge.If any of the passen io the grain cars bad been taken sick they might bave communicated with the conductor at the stoppage at tbe stations, To Mr.Srsrussson.\u2014A brakesman's place is on the top of the cars about the middle of the train or at the end\u2014wben there is but one brakeeman.The rules are for them to keep at » distance from each other when thers are more *ban one-just according to the length of the train.I took the position when I went on board oftbe train et Kiobmond, and retained it until tbe driver asked me at Acton to come to bim oo the engine, to show bim the road.Nobody took my place, only I told the conductor both at St.Hyscinthe and St Hilaire, thet I had been obliged to leave my place.1 was ss bandy to proceed to and apply the brakes when at the engines as if I had been on the top of the cars.The witness reiterated this statement, and said that by bis being on the engine be could Inform the driver respecting the road.The fireman did not know the road, I have been à brakesman before on 8 mixed train.The fireman bimselt told me he did not know the road.Passengers sometimes go In the grain cars a4 she me of plo-oles, To Mr.Beoxwr.\u20141 do not keow why tbe dri.ver was ludebted to the brakesmman for bls kaon}.edge of the road instead of the conductor.The latter was on the van at the end of tbe train, where there are two brakes, I can bear at St.Hilaire the whistle of the steamboat through the Belceil Bridge, but I did nu such whistle that night.We were in & grost hurry.Being inside the train at bis work, the witness saw no signal at che bridge, To Mr, Coaspiamtxa \u2014I bave been acting as brakesman oo that section of the road during two or three months, when Burney was at Acton be asked me to shew him the road to Montreal, Itold him that I did aot know it to Moutres], but I shewed it him as far as Sc.Iilaice, I uudertook that he should be shewn to Moutreal, because I knew that Thomas Finn,the conductor, knew the road snd would do as well es myself.1 was never before on a locomotive when acting «a a brakesman, To tbe Conowza.\u2014Tho driver and the fireman both asked me frequenily, between St Hyacinthe and St, Hilaire, where they were, To the Paisoner.\u2014At St, Hilaire the conductor told witness that he, conductor, would take witness\u2019 place and shew the road to the driver.The witness considered that Fion was « good conductor, The evidence was then read over to the wit ness, and the court then adjourned, ti thie morning.FIFTE DAY\u2014PIPTE JULY.The jury reassembled at 8 o'clock this morning, and baviog answered to their pames the esamination of witnesses was resumed, Tuomas Kine sworn, \u20141 am locomotive fore- mao in Richmond, in the employ of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada.Itis my duty to appoint engine men and firemen and ace \\bat they do their duty.I have been nine years in the employ of the Grand Trunk.About eight years and a dalf as locomotive fore wan at Richmond, I shall have knowa Bur ney eight years next November.He has been with me the most of the time.He has been a fireman between three and four years He came to me as an engine cleaner, He has 8is0 been a watchman, in charge of the engines at night, After be bad been a watchman he again became a fireman, ARer that I geve bim tte charge of au engine.I put him steadily in charge ot ao engine on the 18th of last month, but he had been lu charge of an engice prior to that dats.He temporarily drove an en- give between Durbam and Acton.It is within the last four months that Burney took charge of an engine, to drive it.\u2014 He bad to go wherever hi: services were required, after he was given permanently the charge of an engine.He was on a pilotengine, which means a spare engine, which moves to wherever its services are required, Barney was fully competent to perform the duties with which be was entrusted on the eighteenth of last month, ! considered bim to be m sober* steady man.On the 38th of June last past, « train with passengers on boerd arrived at Rich mond from Qasbec.It was not tbe driver who brought the train fiom Quebec that continued with the same to Montreal.At Richmond Station I put the engioe of that train jo charge of William Burney,\u2014 Nicholas Plynn was fireman of that train, and wes put on at Richmend.! do not koow whether the same conductor and brakeman contioued with the train from Quebec ; it ie not my duty to put theux to 6 train.It ismy daty tosee that ali is in good order round the engine, which ! did on the occesion io question ceme cf when tbe train left Richmond, tbe usuel light in front of the train was burning, I oanoot say whether the red light was burniog on thaextreme end of the van, I did not ses tbe train depart.Isaw Burney about two hours à during tbe afternoon lractions to take charge of the traio, which knew was coming up.The fore man at Poiot Levi would inform the previous driver of the engine that be would be relieved st Ricbmond, snd I, knowing this, had Wm.Burney prepared at Quebec.I was not precent when the traio arrived at Rickmond, end I did not see itat all, To Tan Poasmar.\u2014The drivers seldom get more thes aa bour's notice.Prom two to three driver on thet road.We would certainly not sllow a driver that did not kuow the road run a trafo, [ would pot let a driver go at all un.les kuew tho rosd.Iam satisfied that Bur- ney knew the road.He may bave been to St.Hilaire, but not to my knowledge, To Mr.Hoop \u2014I koew from other parties that the sigoal-light was ou the train.[can bring a driver named Wm.Higgart, aud Horan.ger, tho woodman, who saw the bremen light the lamp to prove this, To Mr.Baurer.\u2014Burney's duty as fireman would not hinder him soquiriog à knowledge of the road.It is a Breman's daty to riog the bell st all crossings avd particnlar places.To Ma.lsascson.\u2014The engine given to Bur- uey was not the one that had come from Qae- bec.Wm.Burney went on the engine that afternoon to ascertain whether it was in gocd order.The flange of the wheel of the locomotive was worn to gome extent, but not dangerously; pot sufficiently to gendema it.Inever knew the driver tosay that that engine bad the whooping-cough.We have no such disesse amongst tbe engives.The engine did not run off the track more frequently than did otbers.To Mz.Wianzn.\u2014The test of sp engioe driver's competsuoy to drive, is his long sec- vice, bis stesdy habits, and hig general efficiency ag driver.We judge of a man's knowledge of tbe road by tbenumberof times that he has gone over it.It is the engine driver's duty to teach the fireman the rosd.The driver of a pilot engine ia there to take any train that comes along, and be is cousiiered to be competeat to do so.If there had been & train full of directors the same plan es to takiog à driver would have been followed.(Laughter.) To Me.L.Braoney.\u2014The duty of « fireman is to mend the fires, and pay attention to the driver's instructions.Flyno, the fireman, bad been three or four years in the employ of the company.We keep a record of the parties in charge of engioes.I cannot say that Flynn bad ever been as far ns Montresl as fireman, Mr.Heaton, locomotive superintendent, has to approve of my appointments to engineerships.\u2014 There is no Board of Exeminers for the purpose of ascertainiog the competency of engineers.\u2014 Burney could not but bave a knowledge of the eignals of the road, from having gone over it so often.I bave no other mode of knowing his knowledge of the signals.\u2014 I knew that be wns acquainted with the signale, by bis baving been with another driver, aod baviog stopped at the siguals.When I appointed him as driver, I did not ask bim whether he had & knowledge of the signals, particularly of those at the bridge.I give a driver the charge of a train for the first time without putting a euperiotendent over bim.We judge a firemaa to be competent to become s driver, by his bariog a knowledge of bis work and the engice in general.If an engineer should be taken sick on the journey, there is only bis ficemsn to take his place en tbe train.He cao apply at the next station.We do not consider every fireman capable of managing an engine, We bare no competent person (0 take charge of the train should both the driver and the firemen fall sick.When I gave the engine to Burney at Richmond, I went round it with bim to see it, and ask him if be found it sll right.He did not then teil me that be had no knowledge of the road, To Me, McCrmanr.\u2014It is the duty of « fireman, as well as of a driver, to watch all the signale.A fireman Is supposed to know the diBerence in the colors of the semaphores and the lights all along the line, I consider that Burney was iBoronghly vested in a knowledge of these lights from his having passed over this road about twenty times.The white light signifies all right ; the green, caution and danger; the red, to stop.1t is the daty of all in the train to look out for those lights.It might, and it might not, be possible for the driver and fireman to stop the engine golog at the rate of ten or eleven miles an bour along the curve, before it coms to the draw- copies of their rules.They bave sometimes to refer to them twenty imes a day; if a trsin gets bebiod time they bave nothiog else to guide themselves by, I bave never found ons unable to produce his copy of she rules.I am aware of a rule requiring cars to stop before they are rive at a bridge.Itisrule 24.I am not aware of its haviog been violated.If ic were violated the report would not come to me, but would go to she Saperiotendent.The penalty for violating the rule to stop at a bridge, would be suspension, or dismissal altogether.Dismissalg are not of frequent occurrence, byt I tbiok I do know of case or two of men having been dismissed, for à violation of the rules.No report agatnet Burney bas ever been made to me, either whilst be was fireman or engine-driver, To Mr.QuiLvim \u2014Tbe eogiceer, Geo.Hopkins, under whom Burney bad been, told me Burney was perfectly competent, To Mr.Bacxsr.\u20141It is usual to look forward to promotion.It is the uuiversal rule in the old country to advance men from tbe post of firemen to that of drivers.Au engine may be reversed at any time, To Mr.Buiwsz.\u2014~I have heard that the engine that west into (he river bad been reversed.Those who took it out would be able to say.To the Coroner.\u2014 Burney was a cleaner dur ing about two years, To the Patsonse.\u2014I never told you that the engine was not fit to be tsken cut.Yon did make some mention of the pistons blowing, but it ie & natural consequence that they will blow when they want examining.I had not time then to examine them, and I did not examine them.I did not think they required to be etamined, for they were not blowing that bad as to be la- jurious to the engine.Ido think the engine was fit to run tender fint.I know she got off the track, but there waa sufficient couse for it, that cause was the efcct of track.I cannot say bow it was that she got cff the track whilst other engines went safely.Burpey's fireman bad been firing to him ever since be had charge of sn engioe ; but, I cannot say bow long that was.The fireman was nise days with Burney when the latter was drivice.Burney wes priocipally between Acton and Durbam and Brittenis Mills.Tas Paisoxsn.\u2014 Do you consider that I sbould know the road between Richmond and Montreal hy fring between Acton and Darbam ?Answer.\u2014 You must know that portion of the road which lies between Acton and Durham.Tae Prisonux \u2014Do you think that s fireman going fiom Acton to Montreal once or twice a month, or even once in six months, is capable of thereby knowing the road?Answer.\u2014I think he is, from the times he has gone over it.+ Question.\u2014Are you aware that I bad to go tender first with an engine coupled on in front, when the smoke and the steam came on so, that we could not ses one snotber ?Un such an occasion do you think a fireman bas à chance of aecing the road?Answer.\u2014 I tbiok he has every chance to see the road, aod know everything about the road, Question \u2014 Was there not & similar traio to this, which eame to Richmond before à Anuwer.\u2014I do not remember.Question.\u2014Do you remember telling me a couple of days before, that J should bave to go to Montreal with a special?Who took that train?Anewer.\u2014I do not know wbo took that ape- cisl train to Montreal after lt arrived at Rioh- mond, Question.\u20141s it not your place to know when these specials come in ?Anawer.\u2014If a special train comes ia on a dey où which it 1a known to be due, I teke obarre of It.Ifit comes at night, a person whom à nn- point takes it in charge.Question \u2014 Did I not tell you, when you told me that I had to go with chat epecial, that I did not know the road, and you replied, that I must go, for there was no one © Answer \u2014I never asked that man, Burney, to bridge, supposing it was twelve hundred feet from it.I have driven a train myself, but I will not undertake to say whether they could have stopped or not.A reversal of the engine and years is quite sufficient for & driver to learn bis profession.I sm satisfied \u2018that Barney wss competent, sod I never saw bim otherwise than sober.He hed gone over the road from Rich: mond to Montres] several times, I could atate nesrly bow many times be has gone over the road during (be last 2 or 3 years as fire men.He bas not been sent before to Montreal ag driver, because his services bave not bees required, To Ma Cranpinnime.\u2014I bave charge of 'the hande ia tbe locomotive sbop.Burney was promoted in the ususi wey.The wbole of tbe drivers graduate from Bremen.I have promoted several firemen to be engineers or drivers.The condition of Gremen is a sort of apprentios- bip to the becoming anengineer, I bave been ever since I left school in Eogland.I consider & man who ie capable of taking charge of à pilot engine, le also capable of taking cbarge of any other engine.I considered that Burney know the , from the times be bad gons over it The witness bere produced doenments sbew- ing when Burney bad gone over the road: I produce, be said, eogioe-meo\u2019s daily tickets, and from them I prove that the men whose nsmes are on these tickets brought the trains meationed herein.Io these documents Wm Barney's psme is mentioned aa to the number of times he bas been over tbe road, as fireman These documents show that he has been over the road at least twenty times es fireman, I do not thick that he has been from Richmond to Montresl as driver.He hes been at polats on the road, such as Darbam sod Acton, To Mr.CLexpinnme \u2014lf « fremen ceme to me from spotber road! would sot put bim on se ongine driver.A koowldge of the road is 83 essential qualification to the becoming a the brakes which they were able to put on might perbaps bave atopped the train, but not Yuowhog all the circumstances of che train, I cannot say, I would call a driver a reckless man who should drive at the rate of 13 or 14 miles an hour over that bridge.I should suspend such a driver and report him.The reversal of an engine is a momentary sot, To Mr.Dawsow.\u2014The reversing Is independent of the break.The breaks are applied first, sud the reversing is applied if that does not snswer, I had other drivers besides, but I would bave taken it myself, if necessary.Every Breman has printed fasteuocions, certain tbat Burney could read.To Mr.Bouuas.\u2014It Le the engine-men's duty to see that the fremen pate light on the front of the epgloe st night.There is no doubt but that there was & lamp borolog there when the train lofs Richmond, Had there been no light ine when it was at St Hilaire, it might bave been reported to me, bat I received so such report.gave Burney ths printed rules, but I am not aware if he read them or not Drivers are ordered to read 1be rules.I have aotepokea to tbe driver since the accident.I cannot swear thet say simple driver on 1be rosd bas read the rules.The employers do oocs- sionally ask tbe meaning of the rules.There 1e no one appointed to see that the rules are read and understood.I do not consider it to be necessary.I never appoint a man as driver unless be can read well To Me, Srzrusnsor.\u2014We do notoften take receipt for coples of the rules when they have been given.The em; 00 by thelr eu.alteration fa me Umes of trai engineers and firemen are \\aformed of not come Up lo time, ne.aud best cleaner is sent out as Breman for that ployés are required to pro- (trip During tbe winter time when the wack aad duce their copy of the rules when seked to do tbe wesiber press very hard upon tbe we officer.As soon ag an very often require the services of the pre dti &c, the |ers as Éremen, aud 1t Is by such means (hat tbesame / are iniuated Into being appointed as regular go with a special train previous to this, and when be was told to go with this one, he never made the slightest objection or refusal.This closed the publie proceedings, and the court adjourned till à p m.to morrow.FIFTH DAY\u2014PIPTH JOLY, \u2014KVANING SITTING.The Jury re-sssembled shortiy after seven o'clock, bat it was nearly eight o\u2019elock before all the Jury were present.Richard Raton, ewaru\u2014I am locomotive Su- parintendent on the Grand Trunk Ratlway of anads.I have been two years as such in the Grand Trunk, and four years in the Great Western.My beadquarters are at Point Bt, Charles.I empioy the greater part of the drivers and others, who have charge of trains.The others are engaged pon the recommenda- tlon of tbe foremen of tbe several districts.I sm Buperintendent of the whole line of the Grand Truck.We Lave two different engagements with drivers, one being of men brought up among curselves, the otber of men from other railroads.In the Intter cas, we take good care to ha food characters from their former employers.In the case of our mec, it is » very gradual process; ninety per cent of our own drivers have commenced their career a3 cleaners and wipers of the engines ip thestesm abeds.Whilst In this oocupation they acquire experience and familiarity vith be engloes, sad the; fo to assiet fn 9g up steam, an wd mectarics fr the repairs which are done in the enginesbed, Afiee a time le mav's conduct bes been good and he bas showa bimself smart and active it may haps pen ia tbe course of a night that a freman dote in that case the oldest 1! bave had occasion to ask emplogees for thelr (Continued on last pags.) in \u2018 + ns 426 THE MONTREAL WITNES®s.- Jury 9, 1864, Contemporary Press.RESIGNATION OF SEC.CHASE.Salmon P.Chase bas resigned the post of Secretary of the Treasury.If the event sball prove that the country oan dispense with bis serrices as easily as he can dispense with office, we shall beartily rejoice.Mr.Chase is one of the very few great men left in public life since the almost simultaneous decease of Messrs.Olay, Webeter snd Calhoun.He has been deemed ambitions; but there was never 8 day when he would not gladly have re- nounoed all prospect or hope of power or distinction if bs might thereby have rendered oars truly snd witbout exception a land of Liberty.To sccure equsl rights, equal opportuni: ties, snd impartial justice, to the humblest and most despited, as well as to the proudest and most envied of our race, such ia bls idea of the chief end of statesmanship, euch his conception of the purpose and destiny of a Christina Re- pablic.And £o man blesses God more prc- foundly than be thet, throngh convalsion and peril, throazh eufleriog and sacrifice, that end is being approached, that conception is about to be realized, by our country.Mr.Chase was mmoag the foremost of our eminent men to 1ake the ground of uacompro- mising hostility to Slaver: the bane and the peril of the American Republic.He participated in tbe call and the organization in 1841 cf the \u201cLiberty party\u201d in Ohlo, having long before ably maintained aa Iswyer tbe proposition that the Fugitive Slave act 1793 was unconsii- tutionsi sud void.He presided over the Free Soil National Convention at Buff.lo in 1848 which nominated Martin Vas Buren for President and Obarles Francis Adams for Vice- President.Elected ic 1849 n U.8.Senator, through a coalition of D-mocrata and Abolitionists, be opposed the Slave Power throughout his term, especially in its Nebraska-Ksnsas licy, and, refusiog to support Pierce and King use of their Pro-Slavery platform, he was supplanted in 1854 by George KE, Pagh, He \u2018was thersupon elected and re-elected Governor of Ohio by the Republicans, and bad just entered upon a pew term of six years as U.8 Senator, when he was required, and most reluctantly consented, to accept the Sscretaryship of tbe Treasury on tbe aceession of Mr, Lincoln to the Presidency.Since then, his career is a part of oor Nations! history.Mr.Chase has acted from the firat où a profound conviction that the Slavebolders\u2019 Rebellion required for its suppression grenier sacrifi- ses and s more gelf-forgetting devotion on the part of the loyal S'ates and people than were generally anticipated \u2014move ban many of them seemed willing to accord.His personal eve- mies aavert that he was willing, in March, 1661, to let the seceding Cotton States go in peace if they would but await the indispensable assembling of a Convention; and be hes never deigoed 10 contradict thew.But, from tbe wanton irauguration of civil war by the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter, Mr, Chase bas been ons of the moat strenuous upholders of \u201cLe National integrity, and was one of the esr liest to perceive acd to proclaim that the Rebellion cold bs most readily and vitally ss- sailed through Îts fbcitiog cause, Slavery; and this eonviction bas never wavered for an in- gan, io the rear of Sbermen\u2019s army, bad inter rupted, to s great extent, tbe communications of the latter, and were causing him great inconvenience.Long wsggon teains, loaded with supplies for Shermau's army, were being captured by Forrest almost daily, and the non-atri- val of these supplies was severely felt in the Union army.In à word, the position of affaire in General Sherman's front considered here to be the reverse of favorable, and it would really seem that there is far less prospect of the captare of Atlanta vow than there was a month ago.The Navy Department is in receipt of late In- telllgenoe from the naval equadrons off Charleston and Wilmington, which the department officers say ia anything bat creditable to the blockading flseta there.Thess accounts state that the arrivals and departures of foreign steamers at both these ports were never more lively and frequent than they have been during the last monta or six weeks.At both places steamers arrive snd depart almost daily, Oc casionally ons is cap*ured, but puch an event is of rare occurrence, The cargoes « xported from tbe South in this way consist chicfly of cotton, are made by tbe blockadiry flzeta to Intercept sod cepiure them.These cfforts, however, are eeldom attended with success, owing to the great speed of the vessels used, and the Intimate knowledge of the various intricate cbuopels, which the pilots possess, The cargoes brought over in these vessels consist of the articles most needed at the South, namely, dry goods of various kinds, refined sugar, wines, coffee and\u2019tes, boots and shoes, etc.Very little ammunition and infantry arms are imported vow, as the South seema to be well supplied with these, Occasionally, however, a cargo of muskets is received, and also of steel rified cannon.The latter are said to be the most terribly destructive weapon now in wee.Twelve batteries of this kind of artillery, eix guns io each, aregaid to have been recently put together st the arsenal in Charleston, and sent to Richmond.It is said that an officer from Gen.Hunters corps has arrived io this city, with despatch: from Gen.Hunter which fully confirm the news of hin disastrous defeat and rout.Nothing is said about any damage be inflicted on the railroads, or about his having destroyed any bridges, except some that be blew up after bim in order to retard the pureuit of the enemy.He wus making bis way north; and there can be little doubt that his whole expedition bas been one grand failure, The crops throughout the whale region wherever his troops have passed, are represented to be abundant and luxurious beyond description.\u2014 Cor.of New York Zimes, A POLICEMAN TRIED FOR EJECTING A COLOURED WOMAN FROM THE CITY CARS.4A policeman was tried yesterday on a charge of essaulting a colored woman snd putting ber out of a car on the Eighth Avenue Railroad.\u2014 The case js that to which we bave previously referred.We cannot better state tbe result eaid : \u201c He was very sorry such a good officer as stant, Believing that taxation should be promptly aud largely increased, aod that the entire paper currency of the country sbould be directly and avowediy based on the National Oredit, he necessarily came into collision with members who feared that to vote for heavy taxes would defeat their own re-election, and baukers who could not see the beauty of betog required to redeem their notes in order that they should give place to a currency based on the faith and credit of the Nation.Required to provide several hundreds of millions of dollars annually, in addition to the accruing revenue, constantly pressed by the necessity of providing the ever-in- creasiog amonuts required by tbe gigautic ex- penditares of the War, provokiog the maledictions of all those whose avarice he was compelled to resist if not Laffis, and tbe target of malevolent, unceasing abuse from the Oopper- heads whose real impulse of hostility was his marvelous success, he has filed the most difficult and thankless post in America.Now thst be hag left it, we marvel that he consented to bold is so long.Pomibly, anotber may be more sucosssful : but no man lives who can bring larger powers to the work, or devote them more uareservedly, unselfishly, to the welfare of hig country.\u2014 Tribune lst July, SERIOUS DISASTER TO GEN.SHERMAN, Wassimeron, Juve 90, 1864.\u2014An intense of anxiety is felt here in rd to the disaster which has befallen General Sberman\u2019s army io The War Department bas ouly farnished the most meagre detalls, and the eonvietion is general that the extent of the disaster js much grester than at present appears It is even supposed that ita «fect will be to check, for the present, Gen.Sherman's further advance toward Atlante, The affair only took place on the 37tb, and there Las scarcely been time therefore to obtain the eccurste details The accounts that bare reached here represent that an attack was made Gen.Johnaton's position on that day by al Sherman's wbole semy; that à hard- & batils eosned ; and that the Federal troops were finally repulsed with very heavy lose.A telegraphic despatch from Gen, Bherman himself 8 that his luse was particoluly heavy in gene- nl field officers, Gen.Bberman states that the Ions of the enemy was inconsiderable, aa they were iutrenched, and under cover.The be havior of our troops was eplendid, but the position was entirely too strong to be carried, Is 1s reported that the War Department bas received intelligence in regard to Johusion\u2019s army, which, if true, will lead the Qonfederates io Georgia, encoursged by th's affair, to srsume the offensive.It la étated that Gen.Johnston has recently received large re-inforeements from the country west of tbe Mississippi, and from Lovisians and Tezxss, the addition to his forces Reiog stated at 25,000 men ; and, indeed, that he bas felt bimselt to be so strovg that he bas detached 10,000 troops, formerly ln the corps of the late Gen.Polk, and seat them to Virginia * 1 re-inforos Gen.Lee.This Is, doubtless, the origin of tbe story that Polk's whole corpa hes Joined Lee at Richmond, At all events, positive intelligence baa reached this city to the ef- foot that General Jobnston bas been certalnly re-inforeed very largely from some quarter, sud thet bebed, ou the 28th, over 80,000 troops present with bim, The operations of Gea.Perrest nad Gen.Mor- the defendant had got himself into such a serape.Ti was his duly to preserve the peace, and there was no breach of the peace until he broke it, It waa rather big duty to bave arrested tbe conductor than the woman, if he was breakitig the posce, He didu\u2019t care what he supposed ; be ought to exhibit some common sense in these mutters There was Do law against these people riding in the cars, and they bad no right to make such 8 law, por wag there any order requiring policemen to do the work of these conductors,\u201d The objecte of the prosecution were completely effected, for the Superintendent of the Eighth Avepue road has rescinded bis order for the exclusion of colored people, and they now have equal rights with white people in all the cars.The police, moreover, have learned from Mr.Acton that they are no longer to sustain con- dactors in outrages upon peaceable passengers, of whatever color.The latter point is of special importance, because there is one road\u2014the 8ixth Avenue\u2014which still persists in its barbarous distinction.\u2014N.F.Tribune, 30th June, REMARKS, The superserviceablenezs of our police in the matter of processions in the streets must, if it go on, receive some lesson like the above.\u2014 There is no law to prevent any one from crossing the streets, the offenders belog those who block upa thorougbfare\u2014and there ly no breach of the peace till the procession folks make it, and then it is the duty of the polios to arrest, not the individual attacked, but thoss who attack bim.Io the cogent language of the Now York Commissioner : \u201cIt1s no matter what policemen ma; they ought to exhibit pe common.perd thess matters.\u201d No policeman would have erred 80 far from his duty in New York except in the interests of slavery, aod no policeman Lere would make such à glaring wistakd as was recently done except fa the interests of an institution, which is similarly exacting.Ia so spesking, we mere- Iy follow the True Fitness, who avers that Roman Ostholics in Lower Qanads bold to Protestants in Upper Oavada » relation similar te tbat of the elave-holdiog South to the free North, RESUME OF THE INSOLVENOY AUT.Tt is provided that a person unable to meet bis engagements may call a meeilog of bis creditors, and subrit to them, under osth, n complete atate- ment of bis affaire.The creditors\u2014each one representing În bis vote tbe amount of direct Ils bilities of the fnsolvent to him and the amount of direct liabilities then overdue\u2014may elect an sesig- vee to whom the insolvent must make assignment of bis estate, Including books, accounts and busi.oes papers gearely.Such deed of assigument must be forthwith regietered.A debtor may be deemed Insolvent by com.mittiog à variety of acte ; as by absconding or prepsring to abecond ; by secretiog or being about to secrete, or by asigning or by disposirg of any part of bls estate with latent to defraud 1 limits for more tban thirty days in à ofvil action founded ou coutraot for the sum of $310 snd upwards, or by procuriog with Intens to defined, tha in the words of Commissioner Acton, who judge, who may annul ir, suspend i, or confirm ot by remaining imprisoned or opon the oity| the seisure of bis money, goods, &c., by any process, where be resides or Las property, founded on a demand in its nature provable under the Act ; or by neglecting or refusing to appear on any rule requisiog his appearance to be exsmined as to bis debta, &e.£e, Should a trader cease to meet his lisbilities as they become due, two more creditors, for sums in the agare- gate exceeding $500, may demand the au-ign- ment of his eetate.If be esteams bimself to be really solvent, or tbat the creditors who bave made the demand do not represent the $500, the trader may take his case before a judge, who, after investigation will have power, id be sees fit, to stay further proceedings, Ia the event of a debtor neglecting to calla meeting of his creditora after a demand for an assignisent of bis estate has been made, any creditor for not less thap $200 may makeaffida- vit of the facts before a judge, Tbe judge, Ifit sppears to him fit, will issue a writ of aitach- ment\u2014to be executed by the sheriff \u2014aguinst che estate of the debtor, and a summons for bim to appear to answer the allegations of the sfida- vit The sheriff will give up possession to the «ficial agsigoees appointed by the Board of tobacco, turpentine snd resin.At the bigb Tride, snd upon the application of a creditor, the price which these articles sll command, the|judge will issue a writ calling a meeting of ere- cargoes are of immense value, and great effor's ditors to be held before him, If the c:editore are uognimous in nominatiog a person (0 the office, the judge will appoint that person assignee, If they disagree, be will appoint either one of the persons proposed by the creditors or one of tbe official assignees vamed by tbe Board of Trade.Buch assignee will notify all creditors to appear before bim to prove their claims, and his mode of disposing of the estate will be according to the deeires of the creditors, except wherein his course is laid down by law, All gratuitous contracts or conveyances made by a debtor, eficrwards becoming an insolvent, within three months preceding the assignment or writ of attachment, to the injury of his creditors, are predamed to be made with the intent to defraud.Apy contractor conveyance for a consideration, by which creditors are ipjured or obetructed, made by a debtor to a person igoor- aut of his inability to meet his engagements, withim thirty daye before the execation of & deed of assigoment, is voidable.Any sale, de- poeit, pledge or transfer made by a debtor thirty days before a deed of assignment or the isane of a writ of attachment, shall be void and recoverable by action.Every peyment made by à debtor within the said thirty dsys to a person knowing the condition of his affaire will also be recoverable.Any person in Upper Canada purchasing goods on credit, or procurin; advances in money, or wbo, by false pretencee obtalns a term of credit for the payment of any advance or loan of money, or of the price of any wer- chandize, at the game time knowing he will not be able to meet bis engagements, shall be held to be guilty of fraud, and shall be liable to imprisooment for any term not exceeding two years, unless the debt ba sooner paid.\u2018Tbe majority in number of thoss who are the creditors of an insolvent, each in the sum of $100 and upwards, may execute a deed of com: position and give bim a clear discharge.Baid deed must be lodged with the sesignee.An opposing creditor may appeal [rom it to the it absolutely or conditionally.But if, after the expiration of one year from tbe date of the deed of assignment or writ of attachment, the creditors have not discharged the iceolvent, he may bimself appeal to the judge, who, after hearing both sides, \u201cmay grant the discharge abmo- lately, conditionally or suspensively, or refuse it absolutely.\u201d The insolvent is made lisble to full examinations, on oath, before the assignee and the judge, on all matters touching his estate, at every stage of the proceedings.He must also attend all meetings of bis creditors, and answer the questions put to him, Moreover all persons believed information respectiog the estate or effects of en insolvent, may from time to time be examined before the judge on oath.All questions discussed &t meetings of creditors eball be decided by the mejority in number of all the creditors for sums above $100 but, if the majority in numbers do not agree with the ms rity in value, the question of difference shail be left to the judge tor solution, \u201cThe judge\u201d signifies in Upper Canada the judge of any County Court.In Lower Canada the judge of any Superior Court.The Act comes into effect on the lat of September.\u2014 Globe.MURDER IN BOWMANVILLE.About nine years ago a young man named Wm.Luxmore came to this Provinos from Plymouth, Bogland, in company with a fow relstives, and settled in Bowmanville He was then abont 25 years of age, snd in good health.He bad been engaged on omnibus lines in tbe old coun- 8 was very successful in his business, and esteemed by those who employed him.The associsiions by which he was suerounded eventually led him astray, avd he contracted an appetite for strong drink.At times be would get ona * spree,\u201d and has squandered #3 much ag thirty pounds sterling io ope of these drunken revels; which amount he bad previously saved from bis earn- fogs.Thinking that ableoce from bis old aseo- cistes snd customs might prove beneficiel in working reformation, be was induced by parties interested to sell out his life interest in some property to which he was likely soon to fall heir.In a drunken spree he sacrificed this property prospect, and came to this country with about 150 British gold sovereigns jo his pocket.Sloce the time he landed bore he bas dove nothing worth noting for a livelihood.Shortly after his arrival io Bowmanville he became acquainted with a lot of miserable \u2018\u2018suckers\u201d\u2014sucb as curse every community where a tavern is to be fouod\u2014and wes a \u201caplendid fellow\u201d with all the landlords and their crews while the cash lasted.\u2014From the prodigal use of bis gold, he was nickvamed \u201csovereigns,\u201d by which title he hes been moet exclusively kpown for some years.Île could then associate with our * hioods,\u201d who bad no objection whatever, to help to rob him of bis gold.We are informed, too, that when Luxmore would be pretty drunk, the honorable (7) personeges who dealt out the liquor to bim would quite forget to retura the change.In this manner the sovereigns were soon gone, and it then became, lnstead of Mr, Luzmore, * Bill, the drunken brute.\u201d Por a fow years past he bas been round doing little \u201cchores\u201d at the taverns and elsewhere, anytbing by which he could ralse s penny 100 two to lovest ja whiskey.Two or three times bo has besm at death's door through the agency of ligues ; 411] at lat bis relatives, baviog \\ try, and from his obliging aad courteous mancer | P| spent all they possibly could in trying to reclaim bim, but unsuccessfully, were compelled to cast bit On the chafitles of tbe town, by whose agents he had been brggared aod hopelessly lost.Poor Williem was « guodebearted sort of person, and several times tried to become temperate, by joiuiog societies and otherwise: but all to no avail, the tempter had him in bis power.It bas for some time been evident that poor Bill could not last much longer, and on Saturday tbe closing econe was enucted.He bad been drinkiog heavily for à few days, and on that morniog went lnto the open brick building opposite the market square, formerly used as à carrisge shop, and there in great spparent agony breathed bis last, about noon.When be went there first in the morning be ssid to a peraou who saw him that bis head sched badly, He then lay down to bave a eleep, and never epuke more.Ooroner Christie baviog been notified of the death, immediately empaneiled a jury, who met atthe Council Chamber, and efter bearing all the evidence that could be adduced in rforence to the case, returned the following verdict: \u2014 \u201cWe, the jury, convened to investigate the cause by which the deceased, Wm.Luxmore, came to bis death, find, from the evidence adduced, (bat the desth of deceased, Wm, Lux- more, was causes, directiy, by the immoderate ue of intoxicating liquor, We would further preset, 1bat we caunot condemn in too atroog terms the conduct of those persona who, knowing the babia of deceazed, fornished bim with 1 quor, by which death wea produced.\u201d This verdict ia truthful, but not as strong sa it could in justice have been presented.We believe that ii would have been quite ia accordance with justice had the tavern-keepers of Bowman.ville b-en presested as accomplices in the murder.When bodies of jurymen wll have the candor and mavlivess to bring io true verdicts against those who commit murder by 1quor, wen will the traffic be placed in its proper yosi- tion.The corporation provided a coffin, &c., and the deceased was laid out in tbe engine room, where the body remained till Sunday afternoon at4 o'clock; at which hour ths funeral took place, which was attended by a considerable oumber of the inhabitants of the place.And tbue ended the closing scene in the life of a poor unfortunate, Now the liquor sellers of this town koew that Wm.Luxmore hed an uncontrollable appetite for strong drink ; tbat he had beggared him- sell in satisfying the craviogs of thac appetite ; that be was surely killing himself by drinking whiskey, and that he would drink all he could get of the poisonous stuff; and yet for the sake of getting a penny or two they would let him have that whick was destroying bim, soul and body.Ths liquor seliers of Bowmanville mur- dercd William Luxmorel Had each one of them been constantly piercing him with a dagger, though not in a {ital part to immediately cauze death they could not have murdered him more surely.We wish each of them could have been forced to stand by the side of the dying mau on Saturday forenoon lust, sud while witnessing bis dying struggles uve beard the words tioging in their ears, * you helped to murder that man.\u201d This lenguage may appear strong, but it is the truth.This is not the first instanpe of death through the influence of alcoholic beverages that has occurred in Bowmanville, Bome of those who have been engeged in the traffic were wardered by liquor, and even now there are those, who, it is quite apparent, cannot live much longer as they now live.Without they sbolish the use of alcoholic liquors as a beverage, they oust econ fall victims to tbe cup\u2014murder- ed by liquor.Too long bas this unholy traffic beex made respectable (1) by the protection of the law.Oui it by its right nsme\u2014Murder! Let those who issue licenses be made to feel that they are, by a mere pretence, making it right to take away life; end let those who procure licenses congratulate tbemeelves that they are licensed to commit murder.Inatead of the long eign-lettering\u2014* licensed to sell wine, beer, and other spirituous and fermented liquors,\u201d let them prosecute their business under a true title, and on their pigus state the truth, the whole truth, and nothicg'but the truth, ia (bree words, \u201clicensed to murder.\u201d Who is there in the community that will say 4 probibitory law is not required in Canada, or an Act eimiler to that introduced into Parliament by Mr.Duokin?Every dey, in some part of the Province, lives are lost through the yse of liquor, and yet it would not be right to abolish ita sale as a beverage | We believe à large majority of the inbabitants of this and neighboring municipalities deem it right to prohibit murder by liquor, and we notify the liquor sellers of this neighborhood that if they wish to contioue in their murderous business they will have to more from Bowmanvilte before long.We much mistake the temper of the pec- if they will stand silently by and eee their triends and pelgbbors murdered one after another by tbis ucholy trafic, We must bave 6 prohibitory law, sand Bowmanviile and Darlington stand ready to vote \u201cyea for one at any time.\u2014 Bowmanville Statesman.re OORRESPONDENCE.THE RAILWAY DiSASTER.(To the Editor of the Montreal Witness.) Sin,\u2014Is your paper of yesterday's date you ark some questious bearing upon the cause of the lamentable accident at Belwil bridge, sud ait Isa matter in which the whole public sre interested, allow me to state à few facts which may throw additional light upon it.I desire tbe more to da 80, ae cerisin statements, written evidently by persons in the interests of the Railway Company bave appesred in some of the city papers, which may tend to prejadice the public miod agaiost theuvfortunate driver.Special rule No.24 on the Company's time bill saye:\u2014\u201c Ail trains and siogle engines must come (o a stop before crossing the Richelieu Bridge.\u201d Has this rule bees complied with?Kividence is not wanting to show that à strict compliance wlth it has been the exception apd not the rule, It is true, bo generally alscken speed on bridge, but it is equally true that they seldom or ever coms to & alup sa required by the rule.The man, Buroey, who bad cbsrge of the englue on his occasion, bas been in the employ of the G.T.Company for about seven years.\u2014 The last three or four yearsin the capecity of Greman oa the pilot engine, stationed at Acton, and being so stationed, rarely had oocasion to pass over tbe road to Montresl.This I under stand was his first trip to Montreal in charge of an engine and I am aloo told, It was his first trip over that portion of the road in any cepa.elty whatever for tbree or tour months, fie is a man of very steady exemplary babite, and enjoyed the fullest confidence of the Locomotive duperintendent at Richmond, both às to capacity and judgment, There are one or two thiogs in ccunection with this ead affair which demsnd an explanation, snd for which the Company must be held strictly responsible.How is it, mey I ask, that upon à train of eleven cars loaded with human beloge, there was but one brakesman?How is it that these poor unfortunates were deprived of their fight to a second-class passage, and were buddled together, almost to suffucation, like so many beasts in dlthy cattle care, without accommodation of any kind, with the grated doors closed and fastened on the outside ?\u2014for such, I am told, was really the case.Those are matters of serious import; they demand, and doubtless will receive, a full investigation at the bande of the jury now in session.Had there been the proper number of brakesmen upou the train, and proper cars fumished, it ie more than pro.babls that the accident would not have occurred, as the brakes upon the second-cluss cars could bare been applied much soocer and are more effective ; as it was, tbe brakeeman would have to climb upon the top of the catue cars, before he could reach the brakes atall, \u2018The semsphore signal at the bridge is not, I take it, a suflicient safeguard for trains, Instead of one signel-post, and it right at the draw-bridge, there should be two, One on either side at a proper distance from the bridge, aod eo ar ranged that the rigoal could be raised and the draw opened at the same moment.As it is the sigosl-post can be seen from St.Hilaire Station iu clesr weatber, butafter the train passes that station, it is hidden by Intervenlag trees, and cannot be again seen until the train arrives withic a few rods of the bridge, duting which time the signale must\u2018be changed a dozen times, July 1.Brcœir.G.T.R, NEGLIGENCE AGAIN, (To the Editor of the Daily Witness.) Sre, \u2014Touching the late sad catsstrophe at the St.Hilaire bridge~\u2014 having been one of those appointed by the G:rman Society to see to the dead at the bridge, and attend to the identifying by surrounding relatives, and the preparing of the corpses for their coffins, ete., on the mor- ping of the 30th ult, we started with about 32 men and 7 women of the emigrants for the sbove mentioned purposes, by s special train, conveying Coroner Jones aud jury, for the ecene of the acoident, baviog oun board 44 coffics.On arriving at the bridge these coffics were speedily filled, and it was found that thare were still 39 bodies requiring coffins.Mr.Wray, who supplied them, assured the writer that the full number required were at the Montreal Station at 4 o'clock pm.; but no movemen; was made on the part of the (.T R.to forward them until 8.15 o'clock, by which means they did not arrive at the bridge before 7 o'clock, or later.When night eet in, and the bodies very lust decompozing, nearly half of the bodies bad to be idendfed and coffiaed by lamp-light, causiog & deal ol ivconvenience and difliculty {wbich would'not bave occurred bad the coffins been sent on in proper time), to the poor emi grants, who were more or less wounded, by keeping them there from early morning till 104 at night, and to their frieada and relations av Point st.Charlee.Mr.A, Bailey, Assistant Manager of G.T.R.,\u2019 (who could not be found after 7 o'clock, baving probably gone to the 7 o'clock train), promised the writer, in the course of the day, to send a passenger car for their return, insteat of which a baggage car was all that was offered them, not balt large enough to seat the poor, worn out men and women.The writer was also informed by several of the emigrants tbat the uofortunate train to which the accident occurred, consisted of a number of cat- te cars, both dirty and filthy, fitted up with temporary seats for the purpose, anything being considered good enough for the poor creatures, slthough there is no doubt, they paid full eecond class fare at least.They all agree, and with reason, that bad they been ia regular passenger cars with fixcures etc., the reeult of the accident would not bave been half eo bad; for the moment the cars fell, all the temporary seats gave way, and with nothing to cling to, they were precipitated to the end of the car, and packed 80 tight, that itis not to bs wondered at that the greater number of them came to their death by being emothered, which was very evident from the appesrance of the corpses afier they were removed.No pains should be spared to investl- gate this matter, and it is to be hoped that the coroner and jury will take notice the fact as belng one of the causes of the large amount of casualties, Should the G.T.people or any one else have any doubts about the tuth of thé foregoing remarks, thers are numbers who are ablo and willing to prove it Hoping that this will be a warning to the company, and that the poor emigrants will In future be treated in a better manner, Iam, your obd't servant, Ouu or yen CoMNITTRR .KILLING SMALL BIRD3 AT QUEBEO.(Tb the Editor of the Witness ) Bia, \u20141 have often read, and certaloly approved of the remarks appeatiog ju your columns from time to time, condemning the oe of killing tbe email birds in the neigh.rÈood of your flourishing city.The same cruelty bas long been perpetrated in this Dis- triot ; \u2014but thanks to the humanity and perse- veranoe of the Secretary of our Fish aud Game Protection Club, a bill bas just passed both Houses of Parliament bere, which will effec- tuslly arrest the pernicious habit.It was tended to have made an amelioration to the bill ia committee by protectiog all kinds of birds, but owing to the necessity of avoiding one mo- mont'a delay at the ead the session, this could not be done witbout jeopardising the whole bill.Ooe or two clerical errors Lave also crept in sluce the manusoript left Mr.Austin\u2019s hands.The only birds not protected are eagles, falcons, rice-birds, {or ertor,) king.fisharn, crows end ravens, us, however, be thankful that the first step has been gaine: towards arresting this really destructive snd oruel practios, Tours, &e, Quæssom.Quebeo, 29th Jone, 1864.Honors v0 4 C.tan Drviys \u2014We_00e by aptes of Tork Bert Aris tbe Bev.Lachlin or, bovorary degres of D.D.ester spon biss by tbe University of Now York. | Jury 9, 1864.THE MONTREAL WITNESS.427 BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.\u2014 M.Bessamer, the inventor of the process of converting fron quickly Into steel, now eays he can produce & block of it, twenty tous in weighs, from flint cast iron, in twenty minutes.Aunsican Excierusnrs\u2014The Emigration Oommissioners\u2019 report seems to dispose of the idea that the very large emigration from Ireland last year to the United States was dye in any appreciable degree to Federal enlistments, The number was not so large ns in 1854 (the last Fear of the beavy emigrations), nor so large a roportion of the people of Ireland; apd what 9 more to the pola\u2019, of that umber precisely the same proportion were \u2018single men\u201d as in 1860 before the war In 1860, 38 per cent, of the Irish emigracts to the Usited States were single men.In 1863, 38-1 per cent.were single men.Ia tbe ficst three months of 1864, 44-3 per cent.of the I:ish emigrants to the United States were single men; in the first].three months of 1859 and 1860, 47-2 per cent.respectively were \u2018single men.\u201d \u201cOf those who went out,\u201d say the Comtiseioners, \u2018 many no doubt enlisted\u201d but their number could have had but little effect in keeping up the strength of the Federal armies.\u201d There were, they think, bat 20,000 to 26,000 at mast who were at ali\u2019 likely to be recruits; and they attribute in general thesincreased emigration of 1864 to tbe same causes as that from 1847-1854 \u2014& succession of bsd barvests and & great consequent distress.\u2014 English Paper, Discuaroise Souniges.\u2014It is stated that the ten years enlietment rule will this year cost the army about 12,000 wen, and the Commander-iu- Chief han iraved a circular calling on all recruiting officers 10 be active.The Inlian papere add that 7,000 men will require passages this year, ad the eoldiers when they re-eulist at all prefer to come home and eee their friends for a few weeks, The recruiting, moreover, is falling off, and letters upista.\u20181 the papers calling on the country to in- cress t.e pay of the privates, while the Timer suggests that the time of service must be still further shortened.The latter suggestion is, we fear, inapplicable to sn Empire some of whose colonies take six months to reach by sea.Suppose onesfourth of all commission were distributed ag of right among non-commissioned officers.\u2014 Eng.Paper.Aereurran Wire Moupez ar Prestox.\u2014At the Preston Police-court, on the 81h, 4 wheelwright, named Richard Myerscough, was cha ged with attemptiog to murder his wife, Ellen Myers- cough.\u2014 Mra.Myerscough said: We have been married about nine mouths, Last Sunday but one he beat me and threatened to take my life.In consequence of bia I left him, and went to reside with my aunt in Jemmet atreet.I have been there ever since.Shortly before one o'clock yesterday afternoon the prisoner came to me at my aunt's.He was rather tipsy, and asked me if I was pot going home again.I said, \u201c No, not while you are drinkiog.\u201d He put his arms round my shoulders, threw me down, and pulled a large knife out of bis pocket, and said be was going to kill me.I screamed and held up my ands.Ile attempted to cuf my throat, but I seized the knife, Ie drew it through my hand and cut two of my fingers badly, Whit I was oo the floor be struck me twice on the bresst and once on the sida of the head.I screamed and some one came to tbe window.1 got the knife from the prisoner, and afterwards tried to open the door ; but I found it was locked.The women who came to the window shouted, and the prisoner got off me.The prisoner went out of the house afterwards.\u2014 A labourer, named William Ne'ann, seid -he met the prisoner coming out of the house where bis wife lived.When the prisoner had walked a ehort distance he said, Y've missed floisbing that job; T wish I bad done it\u201d His wife was bleeding from the hands.\u2014 Detective Bmith deposed that he spprebended the prisoner at a neighbouring public house.In bis defence, the prisover said :\u2014'* I was nine months teetotal till last Whitsuntide ; since then, I have been drinking brandy.\u201d\u2014The Bench committed him for trial, \u2014The prisoner whilst io the dock was at times extremely nervous, and trembled from head to foot.He is 46 years of age.Ris wife is only 28.Granp Tausk xp Burraro.\u2014It appears that the two Companies bave sanctioned the working agreement, which is for 21 years, to be rendered perpetual b act of Parliament, and the two con- Cer:S may now beregarded as one in interest, but not one Company.Mr.Watkin showed, at the Grand Trunk mesting the fairness of the a ent, and at the Buffalo it wae stated the Gand Trunk bad reserved an option to purchase tbe Buffalo £304 shares at £11 each, an option which may be valuable to the Grand Trunk bere.after.We imagine that when the Buffalo bridge is op the Grand Trunk will bave a flow of through o that will be delightful to the senses of the 4th preference sod ordinary Shareholders, and not without interest to the Government of Canada.At Buffilo the Grand Trunk will unite not only with the Erie but the New York Central railway, the two greatest railways in America, and both leading direct to New Yoik, saying notbing of numerous other important cities in America served by tbe two American lines \u2014 Herapath's Journal, Tus Yscventon Casn.\u2014 Oa Fri the sp- peal of Mejor Yelverton agsliost the decision of the Oourt of Session in Sootland declaring Mre.Yelverton to be his wite was opened the House of Lords.The triel is otill prooseding, \u2014The reports from Iceland of the flax orop are most favorable.\u2014 À Roman Catholic priest in Michelstown a week Or wo ago with 8 young woman from that town.\u2014 The Postmaster-General has, in complisnce with the urgent entreaties of a deputation, Inti- matod his wiliiogness to abstain for a moutb from taking messures to cancel the Gilway postal contract, with à view to enable the company to submit à proposition for the re organisation of the service.==Mr, Guinness, who is restoring the National Oatbedral of Leland at bie own expense, bas ordered a very lergs clock to be constructed for the bulldiog.The boure will be struck oa a bell weighing one ton and à half, and four tunes and ghlasee played on nine other bells from 5 owt to \u2014 Emigration to America proceeds with ss much vigour at Quesnstown ss it had only just begun.© ships, says the Cork Reporter, are iovariably ue ed lea: Sehnd numbers of sager 8 ts passages.\u201cCity of ey received threes hundred on the 91h Men Were all youog sod stalwart, wiih two exceptions.There were many women on bosrd, and among them were seven puns of the Order \u2014 The nt to Col.I.Grevi le, M.P.for the eounty of Westmeath, and a supporter of tenant right, bas been threstened in a fetter sent to him sndsigned \u201c Your Colin.\" The agent, with the sscction of the Colonel has forbidden the cuttiog of turf on Caddzb Bog.Ia consequence, he lisa been threatened with & \u201c donce of lead.\u201d Col.ovel Greville bas, therefore published an sddress to Lis tenants eaying (hat if & hair of hie head is touched be will evict every family in the lend of Caddugb, and level their houses with the ground.\u2014 The directors of tbe Dublin exhibition Palace and-Winter-Garden Company have resoly- ed to iosugurate their building, now approsch- ing completion, by boldiog * an ILuternationsl Exthinition of Arta snd manufactures\u201d next year.The Exhibition will be opened in May, and will retain open for à period of aix montbs.AMERICAN NEWS, Qurra3s ox Baivinm Suaszors sx van STATES.\u2014To those who believe that Sl.very is de aud tbat no further cffirts are required for its total extirpation, we commend a consideration of tbe following incident which recently took place io Delaware: The Rev.Thomas W.Kia- vard, of (he British Metbodist Episcopal Obarch Jf Cacads, and a delegate from Canada to the Genersi Conference of tbe African Methodist Episccpal Oborcb, which tbis year held its quadrennial session in Philadelphia, visited his birth-place in Delaware recently.While at Uamdep, be wasarrested early in the morning under one of the laws which still disgrace the statate-books of Delaware, probibiting colored Feraons from enteriog it.He was fined $50 aud cots, Not having the money to psy, he was fold, and purchased by a brother of the mea who had emancipated bim some years ago.This man took Mr, Kionard'e due bill for the amount he paid, and gave $50 security that Mr.Kinnard would leave the State fo five days.Mr.Kionard immediately went to Washington to seek redress, bringing with bim & transcript from the record of legal proceedings, doly certified, and copies of due bills, &c; also letters to the representative of Delaware in the House.Being a British subject, sud baviog proviacisl papers to show that he was under tbe Queen's protection, be naturally made the facta of the case known to Lord Lyons, the British Minister at Waabiegton, who assured bim that :atisfac- tion should be sought.\u2014N.¥.Zribune.Tax Cawaoun Corrapexation \u2014 The proposed confederation of the British North Ameri- ean Provioces contemplates giviog to each Province a separate Legislature, for the manage.went of purely local matiers\u2014n federal legislative body being created for regulating the more general business of the country, ruch ss tbe tariff, the capale, tbe common public debt (about $75,000,000) already crested, the inland post-oflice, the ocean mail service, and the volunteer system alresdy eetablished.This proposed contederstion it is intended, with the assent of the communities concerned, to ex'end #0 a0 to include tbe maritime colonies of New Brunswick, Nova 8cotis, Prince Edward [sland end Newfoundland, all ot which have already taken an initistory step toward crestiog \u20ac lederative union among themoelves.\u2014 Boston Journal, Tus Crces.\u2014Letters received by tbe Commis- foundry and machine shop of Mr.John Herzinge, will of J.W, Berry, and the dwelling bouse of Mr.Davis.[tia said there was no Insurance on any of the property,\u2014 Kingston Daily News.Maaxcoory Loss or Liss sv Fis, \u2014 Ua Tusidsy morning last, between four snd five o'clock, & palofal accident occurred in the township of Tratalgar, Co, of Halton, whereby four children were burned to death.It appesrs that on the morning above named a Isboring man vamed Egzin, who lived in a shanty with bis family on the 41h concession, about a mile and 8 quarter nartb of Dendas street, left home in company with his wife for the purpose of milking the cows fn the adjacent moods, and that the shanty baving caught five iu their absence, their four children, who were in bed at the time, perished in the flames.= The Mayor of Ottawa has been in: tracted by Government to inform the Ottawa community \u201cThat nothing detrimental fo their interests could possibly arise from the present position of political parties, aud in the event of the succes of the contemplated confederation the Interests of our locality would be rather advanced beyond former expectations, and that the determination of the Government in regard to its removal during the present season would be carried out.\u201d \u2014 The Guelph Advertiser says, a young man named Tbomss McOlyment died suddenly nt Platta Hotel on the eveving oftbe 29th.He bad walked from Hespeler during the afternoon, and arrived at the hotel about three o'clock, \u2014 Feeling very warm, be drank freely of water.Hethen went to bed and expired soon after.Deceased had only been some nine days out from Scotland, \u2014 The Smith's Falls Review states that on the 97th inst.while Mr.James Marrow, Elmsley, was chopping in the woods, a falling branch struck bim in the forehead, fracturing bis skull eo seriously, that after lingering for twenty-six hours, |.death put an end to his sufferings.\u2014 The Port Hope Canadian states that on the 24th the hat factory of Messrs, Davis, Petrie & Oo., vear Perrytown, was destroyed by fice.The loes to the firm, independent of insurance, is sbout $6,000, \u2014 His Excellency the Governor General has been pleased to appoint Athanase Moise Martin, Esq., of Bt.Jacques le Mineur, to the Commision of the Peace in and fer the district of Montreal.\u2014 A youog msn named Mclnnes was ac cidentally drowned at Owen Sound on the 28ed whilst bathing.TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.ARRIVAL OF THE \u201cCITY OF BAL- TIMURE.*\u201d New Yonk, July 5.\u2014By * City of Baltimore,\u2019 which bas arrived, we have pews that the \u201c Alabama\u201d was sunk by the *\u2018 Kearsage.\"\u2014 Nine rebels killed and twenty wounded.The steamer ** Saranac starts this evening in search of * Golden Age.\u201d Later news says, the « Golden Age,\u201d arrived ou the 29th, in tow of the 4 Golden City,\u201d she having broken her shaft.The * City of Baltimore brings more news of the ticking of Lhe \u201cAlabama\u201d by the \u201cKearsage.\u201d the sawmill of Mr.John Stevenson, the plaster promised to meke enquiries.Eul Russell knew nothing of the case, but .In ibe House of Commons Berkely's annual motion fur to vote by baliot w The Dauo (German Conference yesterday accomplished nothing.The proporitiou for arbitration was rejected.The Conference is regarded as a failure, but will meet again on the 28th for the completion of merely formlly business.It is supposed hostilites will re-coninence on the 27th of June.Theo Morning Herald rays the \u201cAlabama\u201d was terribly in want of repair.Har copper wag strengthened to such an extent sg to deprive her of ber only advantage\u2014guperlority of port, and kept purposely in order for the con- lngency of an enconnter with the \u201c Alabama.\u201d The *\u2018 Alabsma™ wis from the firet over- matched, The crew of tha * Kesrsags,\u201d con- eisting of 150 to the \u201c Alebame's\u201d 120 men; snd 1he \u2018\u201c Kesrsage \u201d carryiog 3 100.poucders; the \u2018 Alabama\u201d carrying no guns of that calibre.It isetated that a formsl chballengs was given by the \u201cKearssge\u201d and accepted by Bemmes.ADVANCE OF THE CONFEDERATRS NORTHWARD.Batriuorn, July 5.\u2014It was reported and be lioved yestordsy morning that Hugerstown was in possession of the rebels, the operators baving left their post under an rm ; the operators however returned about one o'clock in the afte.noon and reported that all wae quiet, and th: there were no rebels nearer than Falling Waters and Williemeport, from six to ten miles distance from the Potomao where it was said fighting was going on yesterday p.m, The same account also says, the fighting was going où at or near Bharpsbarg, the Federal forces being commanded by Gen.Sigel, previously reported from Barper\u2019s Farry, aud bad located Geo.Sigel dur- Ing Sanday night at Shephardatown, to which point be had falle back from Martinsburg where a junotion waa formed with bim by Mulligan.This joint force it was thought would move to the Maryland side of the Potomac to succor Maryland heights if attacked by the rebels.Anattack was fade on Herper's Ferry about 2 or 10 o\u2019clock yesterday morning by a force estimated at some 2000 cavalry with more than as maay iofantry.Gen.Weber, however, set about making a vigorous defence and up to the latest accounts was holding bis own.Nothing bad been heard up to two o'clock in the afternoon at Marper's Ferry, from eitber Sigel's or Mulligan's forces, which is accounted for, perhaps, by the Hagerstown story, of their being sgsin engaged opporite Sheppardstown, to which point they must have been followed by the rebels.After two o'clock in the p.m., the wires were interrupted pear Harper's Ferry on the east side and the operator at the Point of Rocke wes understood to report that a body of rebel cavalry had crossed the Potomac there, and interrupted the telegraph, In the meantime the excitement st Frederick, Pa., continuing, all the sick from the hoepitals with the Provost guard of the town were removed, the former going to Annapolis, The Government stores were also removed from Frederick as they had previously been successfully removed from Harper's Ferry, No reason is given for this The wbereabouts of the \u201c Kearsage\u201d is doubt- sioner of Agriculture show that the growing crops io the Eestern and Middle States promise well.The bay, it is thought, will amount to third more than asusl.\u2014 Miss Nandana Tileston, daughter of the late Oarnelins Tileston of Wilismeburg, wes warried, a fow weeks since, at Ozford, 0, to Rev.Calvin Fairbank, after an engagement of thirteen years.Preparations for thelr weddiog were belog made twelve and a belf years ago, when Mr.Fairbank wag imprisoved ia Kentucky for assisting slaves to escape, and be bas just been telessed.During sll tbis time Mim \u2018Tileston did not relax her efforts to secure his relense, \u2014 The Lake Superior region gives promise of lively work ibis summer.The bigh price of copper stimula wining enterprises.One map bss entered over one buodred thousand acres for bimself and others, privcipally New York men.80 anxious have persons been to secure mineral locations thet whole towasbips have been entered without the least examine tior, simply from & probability or perhsps a possibility of profitable returns.CANADIAN NEWS.Crors iw C, W.\u2014The weather the past week has been very trying to the growing crops, and from ali sections of the Upper Province we learn that the grain and bay bave svffered very much from the excevei snd the absence of rain.Serious fe beginning to be entertained, that there be a sad falling off in the amount of grain barvested this year.For the lust few years the wheat crop bas not come up to the expectations of these moet Interested, and the yield this year was looked forward to with much anxiety.A series of misfortunes bas attended the present crop; Brat, there was pot suffictent snow on the ground io winter to cover it, thus leaving the tender blades at the mercy of the extreme cold at New Year's; next came tbe rainy season accompanied by cold weather, and now we have the drought snd excessive beat.The prospect for farmers thie year is not by any means Batrering.A short crop and the low prices which prevail, are not 1kely to lead the farmer to be sanguine as to his being able to make both ends mote than meet.\u2014 Globe 29, June, Fara Ocovangxes \u2014A person of the name ot Jobn Carmichael stands charged with baviog caused the death of on David Fisgersld of the Village of O«ceolu in the Tuwaship of Bromley, in the County of Reofrew.We bave not, as yet, learned the pariiculars connected with the lamentable event, further than Is appesrs that on the evenivg of Tussdey last, deceased and Oarmichael aud others, were diinking, and after leaving the tn Went a short distance and sat down on d side, when eubsequenily Fits.gerald met with three severe blows with & steke pulled out of a feos, one blow on the neck entirely dislocating It, and the otbers on the head, causing lostant desth.Aa inquest baving been beld by Coroner Olendinping, of Pem! sulted inthe committal of Carmichael to Perth Geol.Deceased was in rather destitute circumstances, and bas left à wife and large family of small children to lement bis untimely end.\u2014 Perth Courier, July 1.Fins 4?Naranzs.«A disastrous fire ocowrred on Tuesday morning es Napenee, which te earl mated to bave destroyed some $50.000 worth of property, The propefty d.stroyed conslated of the Good Shepherd who embarked at Liver pool.of the cabinet factory of Me.John Gibbard, che broke, re- X ful.One rumor places her at Ostend, snotber at Ohorbourg.Is is confirmed that no one is kiled on the \u201cKearsage,\u201d only 3 seamen slightly wounded.Vessel very little injured.Semmes has gone to Paris to report to the Confederate Commissioner.Three of the + Alabama's\u201d cfficers, snd 6 of the crew, landed at Oherbourg from the French pilot boat, and severs! from the British abip * Acton.\" +The \u201c Ainbams \u201d left Oberbourg on the 18th to engage the * Kearsage,\u201d and attacked her 10 miles from Oherbourg.The engagement lasted l bour and \u201840 mioutes.Both vessels made V complete circles in marœuvering, at a distance of from à toj mile.Semmes and crew were nearly all saved by the Eogliab yacht * Deer- hound.\u201d Bemwes was slightly woonded in the band.Before goiog out, be left all bis chronometers, 60 in number, specie and ransom bonds, at Cberbourg.Semmes, ia his oficial report, says that \u201cIn en bour aod 10 minutes the ** Alabama\u201d wae found in a sioking condition, the enemy's shells having exploded on her sides and between decks.For à few moments I bad hopes of reaching the French coast, but the ship filled rapidly, and the fires were extinguished.\u201d Semmes further says: * [ now hauled down eolors to prevent further destruction of life, and despatched n boat to inform the enemy of our condition.Although we were now but 400 yards from esch other, tbe enemy fired at me 5 times after colors had been struck, Fires had been extinguished, and abip belog on point of sinking, every man, in obedience to a previous order, jumped overboard and endeavored to save bim- eelf, PARTIOULARS OF THE FIGHT BETWEEN THE * ALABAMA ™ AND \u201cKEARSAGE\" Nsw Yoax, July 5.\u2014The following details of the fight were furnisbed by the British steamer * Deerbound,\u201d which witnessed the fight: \u2014 Oa Bunday, the 19th ult, at 10 80 am., the \u201c Alsbams\u201d wes seen coming out of Cherbourg barbor towards the * Kearssge,\u201d 9 miles from the land.At 11.15 tbe ** Alabama\u201d commenced fring with ber starboard battery.The * Kear sage\u201d replied also with ber starboard battery, showing 1bat the vessels were ranging bead and stern at tbe distance of about 2 miles, À very ebarp engagement ensued in which round sbot and shell were freely used by both vessels.They were both under steam manmver- ing In & circle gradually nearing each other sill withio balf à mile.At soon the * Alabama\u201d observed to slacken ber fire sod make anil e fa barque tigged end beaded for tbe land mucb disabled, The pirates took to thelr boats sad the * Deer Hound\u201d ran down and picked up Oapt Semmes and 47 of bis crew, The\u201c Eearsege\u2019 8 to be also disabled, dat ber boats picked up the rest of the pirate's crew, The! Desrbound\u201d started at once and landed the crewof tbe # Alabems\u201d at Cowes The Alsbeme\u201d oeok balfen bouraîter.Her loss reported by tbe pirates was one officer and six men killed.and sixtesn wounded, The loss on board the \u2018\u201cKearsage\u201d or the damage sustained by ber is not reported, Bostos, July 5.\u2014The Britlsh prise steamer Jupiter,\u201d from Nassau, N.P., for Wildington, N.C, arrived here to-day, beviog been capt t ejected.on June 27, lat.25:47, long.74:30, by the U8.Latest via Queenstown.\u2014London, June 23.\u2014 stesmer * Proves.\u201d She ia In charge of Acting Guoucr W.Piérce and a prize crew.All her oargu was tbrown overbosrd during tha chase.She is a side-wheo! ateamer of about 400 tone, Aussnr, July 5.\u2014The President informs Gov.Beymour that the rebel forces, estimated at from 10,000 to 15,000 strorg, have invaded Maryland, and tskes Martinabarg and Harper's Ferry, an ere threatening other points, and the public safety requires a call upon the State Executives for a militia force to repel the invasion ; and he calla upon the State of New York for twelve speed\u2014while the \u2018\u201c Keareage\u201d was fresh trom thousand militia, a» its quota for one bundred days, Osweao, N.Y., July 5,\u2014About10,000 persons wère present at tbe ratification meeting bere yesterday.Resolutions endorsing the nominations of Lincoln and Jobnson, and approving the Baltimore peor, were vnsnimously adopted, Hon.D.S.Dickineon delivered an address, New Yonx, July 5th.\u2014The Southampton correspondent of tte London Daily News says tbat Mr.Lancaster of the Eogtiah pacat ing,\" was requested to save from drowning che A bawa's\u201d men in the water, He proceeded to do so.Passiog near one of the men nearly exhausted, ope of the men in the boat cried cut\u2018 That's 5-mmes,\u201d snd the drowning man responded, \u2018I em tbe captain ; save me ; I cannotkeep np y longer.\u201d Ile was dragged up, when be : For God'a sake den\u2019t put me on board tbe \u201c Kearsage,\u201d bot put me on board your yacht.\u201d This was promised, and Semmes was stowed away io the bottom of the boat, and covered with a gail, to conceal bim from those in the \u201c Kearssge'\u2019 boat, which was evidently anxiously searching for him.He was then taken to the yacht and placed below.Mr.Lancaster soon afterwards bastened away, fearful that he would be overbauled and his vessel searched.Thus was Semmes saved from the gallows by a contemptible trick plaged by » friendly Englisbman.New Yonx, July 5tb.\u2014Tbhe Commercial's Paris correspondent says that Semmes was ordered to leave Cherbourg by the French Government om demand of Mr.Dayton, who based bis demand that the \u201c Alabama\u201d did pot come in through stress of weather, bat for repairs, which would take montha to complete, Hemmer, finding it impossible for him to stay, and knowing that the \u201c Kearsage' \" was waiting for Lim, sent ber commander a challenge, which was accepted.There was not the ghost of a chance for the \u2018\u201c Alabama\u201d at any time.Men engaged in privateeriog are not apt to stand up well before trained marines in a deadly fight.The * Alabama\u201d after being injured in ber machicery, was sunk by a brosd- sido which tore through ber water live, The + Keareage\u201d was not seriously dameged.A demand will bemsde upon the British Gov ernment for the rendition of those picked up by the yacht ** Deerhoued.\u201d Wasminarox, July Sth.\u2014At 11 o'clock to-day, Fessenden entered upon bis duties as Secretary of the Treasary.Wasumwaron, July 5.\u2014Admiral Lee in a despatch to the Navy Department dated July let, states that since July 24th, 1863, forty-three movement from Frederick, as no hostile forces were known to be within 20 miles of the place, except a cavalry detachment near Point of Rocke 12 miles off.General Tyler remained at Monocacy in command of General Wallace's forces, that point being the extreme western limit of bis department, He is protecting the great railroad bridge of Monocacy river, tbree miles from Fred- erickebarg.No signs of the enemy had appesr- ed up to lastnight.The trues objecta and extent of the movement are as yet a mystery.It isknown from refugees from Martinsburgh, Winchester, and other places in that the rebels are remorselesely and ruthlessly enforcing the conseription, taking all tbe males between 16 and 60 who have left their homes, Every borse is taken on the line of march, sud scout ing parties visitthe country ronde and steal them ail, whether owned by friend or fos.The cap ture of supplies, and the division of the reio- forcements going to Grant, are, very probably, the ressons for the ruid.?Early 1a reported tobe Bwell's successor.General Ranson is belioved have charge of be cavalry, and as be is said té be Stuarts suc- ceesor, the object of the enerny may be inferred to be an important one on the part of General ce The infantry force is said to be under the command of (feveral Early bimsell.Ewells Inte corps probably now numbers not less than 12,000 men.Other reports nsme Breckeuridge, Imboden, Jeukiue, and even Wheeler, 84 leaders, but both the Southern Jenkinses are dead.Wheeler is known to bein Tenn., and Breckenridge\u2019s presence in the Vailey very doubiful, General Sigel's and General Mulligan's forces reached the Md.heights about 9 o'clock last night, and no doubt Is entertained of our forces being able to successfally resist any attack of the rebelsat that point.Reinforoements are on their way to Md.heights.General Max Weber, who commande that post, has given notice to the people of Harper's Ferry to leave, as be intended opening bis guns on the town to drive the rebeis oat.The rebels are all on the Vs.side of the town, basily engéged in their work of plander, and occs- stouslly sending a shell over to this side.The pootoon bridge which crossed the river at the Ferry, hss been snooessfully removed, snd the span of the railroad bridge on the Va.side has been destroyed 10 prevent the rebels from crossing.On Monday Moseby, who bas ble force of cavalry and artillery opposite the Point of Rocke, fired lato s train passing that point, osusiog great excitement among the psssengers, No one wss injured except tbe freman of the engine, who wasshot lathe leg, The train was run back ae far as Bandy Hook, and the employees of the Rellroad Company this morning ¥ o'clock.Tbers was considerable excitement there ot that hour, bat no aigus of the rebels.out spperent eause.He wished to the American Government.In the House of Lords, Derby made enquiries as \u2018trains.A nu to tbe arrest and impiisonment iu Boston for 10 Frederick, o! duye of » Montreal merchant, named , with-| Heavy firing was heard in the direction of w if Harper's Perey this morning, and [tls supposed Hunter, with bis whole force, iv in reparation had been demanded of or tendered by thet Genera! Weber was sbelting the rebels in dition, and is movin, Ithe town from Maryland Heights.him.Gen.Bigel su od lo securiog hie of his wagons passed through terdey morning, 4tb, No rebels sre known to be north of the Poto- and iofantry, meso or east of Bberpsburg, unless the force was mak Bemmes declined s publio dinner at Bouthamp- that Gen.Sigel was engaged with hes followed the rebels on their steamers have been captured aud destroyed by the blockaders of bis equadron.Taking the sversge tonnage of these vessels at 300 tons, and assuming tbe Capacity of an army Wagon at ono ton, there has been a Jom inflicted on the rebel supply system equivalant to the capture or destruction of a train of 12,600 wagons.The Department bas received communics- tions from Admiral Dablgren, annouccing tbe capture of the sloop \u2018\u2018 Julia,\u201d by the steamer \u201c Nipeic\u201d on the 27:h Jane.Her cargo consisted of 90 bags of salt.Bavrimors, July 5,\u2014The following is the last aud most authentic lotelligonce received up to 9 o'clock from the Upper Potomac :\u2014About 8 o'clock this evening, an attack was about being made vp the Maryland Belghts, where General Sigel's whole force is concentrated, and war then formed In line of battle for defence.V.little information of tbe progress of the siege Harper's Ferry and Maryland Heights, conld be obtained, owing to thers being no trains running that far up the road, and the telegraph operator not beiug able to understand tbe real condition of affairs, other than that the defence was obviously successful, in view of the Leights being still in Bigel\u2019s possession.Whatever damage the enemy may undertake in their present movement, it must be quickly «fected, or they will meet with such opposition in the forces now moving upon them from the west, sa to relieve all apprebensions about the result.Harnisouæo, July 5th.\u2014 PROCLAMATION, = Whereas the President of the United States ban this day made a call upon the commonweallb of Pennsylvania for 12,04 0 militia or volunteer infantry, to serve at Washington and its vicinity for 100 days, unless sooner discharged.I, A.G.Curtin, Governor of the said commonwealth, do make this my proclamation in response thereto, and do hereby call on the freemen of Penney) vanis to come promptly forward, as \\bey bare heretofore dons, and 8il the requisition this important service, (Signed,} Eux Scutrna, Secy.of the Commonwealth, by the Goverument, Of Gen.Conch's movement it Is improper to \u201d He will be lo consultation with the vernment, and will bave sole tpanagement.Ample preparations are belog made for 8 warm reception of the enemy at their appual visit, The old guard are ready to respond and are on thelr way to their posts.Some excitement snd apprehension are felt bere, but In oficial circles there Is no fear but thet General Couch will ane.coed adinirably.New Yorx, July 8 The Paris correspondent of the London Giode 8934, the * Alabama\u201d made two attempts to board the © Keersage,\u201d bat ber commander out marmuavred Sem sud floally sent s prejectile right through the \u201c Alsbame\u2019s\u201d boller ; then seeing what bed occurred, he brought sii bis guos to bear on the pirate in a concentrated brosdeide from were endeavoring to bring it to this elty, À etarboard, and made s breach 4 yards in Length large number of citissus of Prcderick were tn under the train which left plane No.4 this morniog at rapid! A water mark, when ehs began to © ack was made on Harper's Perry yoo by some 4,000 cavalry and at last accounts Gen.Weber abborn defence.Late pe advices from Port Hadson re- orted tbst Dick Taylor bad cressed at Obafay- tirez, on Sth Juve, and an engagement nsued, No partioulsre, The Baltimore special to the Tyibune sys to thwart the asigue 0 thwar ing excursion.A A.fay pe ps lh ae tT se 436 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.Jury 9, 1864, BUSINESS NOTICE.The figures after the subscriber's name, on papers sent by mail, indicate the month of the year with which their subscription closes, and when it will, of course, require tobe renewed.For instance, those marked 6 expire at the end of June ; those marked 7 with July; and so on to those marked 12, which expire with the end of the year.Those marked 1 expire with January, 2 with February, and 3 with March, of next year.All that are marked 7 should remit this month, if they wish to continue; and the continued receipt of the paper, after the close of the month, will be a receipt for the amount.When 12 months\u2019 subscription is sent, the figures are not changed, but merely indicate next year.WITNESS.MONTREAL, SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1864.NOTICE.Wo beg leave to suggest to subscribers who have a daily mai) that the Jiaily Witness possesses many advantages over the S.mi.Weekly.In the first place it has a good deal of local reading matter snd a great many advertisements which do not appear in the Semi- Weekly at all.Secondly, It is fully as cheap at $8 per annum a8 the Semi Weekly is at $2.In the third place the D ::/y gives the newe and market quotations * fresh sud fresh\u201d instead of three day's news and markets at a time as jo she Semi.Wacky.In the last place, every one who has made the change is, we believe, well satisfied with it, NEWS OF THE DAY.\u2014 Bon.Mr.Buchanan has been nominated w conteat the Burlington Division iu the coming election.The Hamilton Evening Times anys that though he bas not yet accepted the nomination there can be little doubt that be will do so.\u2014 The New York Time: has an article advocating direct taxation, An income tex ie perhaps the beat kind thst can be devised.AH other forms of taxation besr more ou lem heavily upon the classes which are least able to bear taxation, \u2014The President calls upon New York to fur- .nish 12,000 bundred-day men, to repulse the Confederates, who, he eays 20,000 strong, have invaded Maryland, avd taken Martinsburg and Harper's Ferry.\u2014Toe officers and resmen of the \u201c Alabama,\u201d captured by the \u201cEearssge,\u201d have been liberated on parole.\u2014 Bemmes says that on the 15th Aogust be will embark on à new \u201c Alabama\u201d \u2014The * Deerhound,\u201d the yacht which picked up Semmes, was sctiog as bis consort.\u2014 The * Royal Sovereign,\u201d tarret ship, bas been officially tried and proves a great succes; she is claimed 10 be the moat powerful iron-clad afloat.\u2014 Earl Russell says negotiations by the Qon- ference will probably be broken off and hoetili.des resumed.War appesrs very probable, and it Is possible, that Britain will take sides with Denmark.= A small force of Confederates made a raid into Maryland, but there are very few particulars.\u2014 All absentees from the channel fleet have been ordered to rejoin their abips; England will no longer content berself with mere protest against the arbitrary acts of Germany.\u2014 À ®mi-officisl Berlin paper says, Great Britain has declered that upon the breaking out of hostilities she will place herself and fleet oa the side of Denmark.=A new steamer, the \u2018\u201c\u201cJeddo,\u201d has left Prance for Hollsad ; she is believed to be for the Con- | = The King of Wurtemborg is dead.\u2014 Maximilien the Firat is said to bave bad a grand and enthusiastio reception nt Mexioo.\u2014 TheBteamahip \u2018 Peravian\u201d met with an ace oléent to her machinery ou her way out, and was obliged to retarn to Liverpool, ==The Confederates have captured Hegors- town ; they made a quisition for fiteen hundred outfits and twemiy thousand dollars, under threats of burning the town ; the iudem- nity was paid.\u2014It io said tbat the President will jmmediate- 1y call for 300,100 more men, =A eulvert on the Oswego Canal has given way.\u2014Tbere ls no longer any doubt hat Lee bas sent 8 lar; tion of bis army North.They Jory the Se over the Shenandoah, Sandy \u2014 A man gamed Bchosider, residing io QGriffintown, hes been ccmmitted to take his trial for eausing the deatd of bis wife, à woman of very Istemperate babits.The evidence brought ont at tbe inquest was of a palafal character.Uoheppy filthy homes, wretobed- sess and violence, destitution snd crime, thepe are the legitimate points of the liquor trofBo Whes will the whole Obristisn community eet itself against tbe borrible evil! Sasauas's Posiriow.\u2014The letters published about three weeks ago in the New York Tribune from its correspondent with Sherman's army io Georgia convinced us that that army was io an exceedingly precarious position.The letter weiter showed that owing to its great distance from its base, its communications wers interrupted ; that it was harassed by continual attacks, real or feigned, by night and day oz all sides; that the men got no proper reat, and that their condition, moral and physical, was fast deteriorating; that a retreat would be as bad as Napoleon's from Moscow, and their only hope Iny in takiog Atlants, which was a very difficult task.Fincethen the telegraphic intelligence bas all gone to confirm the estimates of this writer; aoû the battle which Sbermen risked on the 27th of June, doubtless to extricate himself, went against him; but bis subsequent flank movement, by which be was enabled to occupy Marietts, appears to have been success: ful.Carr.Sexugs\u2019 Lerten, \u2014This Confederate naval officer has addressed a letter to the London Times in defence of his procedure io destroyivg i Federal vessels that came into hie hands.Ile commanded the first vessel of war commissioned by the Confederate Government, and found it difficult 10 diepose of his prizes owing to the strict blockude of the Confederate ports, He, therefore, hoped that the European Governments would permit bim to take his prizes into their ports.Where the cargo wus owned by Englieh- men into British ports, where owned by Frenchmen iato French ports, and B0 on; and, after delivering the cargoes to the right owners, to be at liberty to sell the vessel.But Eogland, in a very unfair and ungenerous way, set herself against this; and her examp'e and influence led Spain, France, and ultimately all the smalier commercial nations to act in the same way.\u2018What, then, was he to do with bis prises?He could not Jake them into Confederate ports to be adjudged.He was not allowed to take them iato neutral ports; and, therefore, he burned them.\u201cWhy then,\u201d he appeals to the English people, \u201cdo you complain of the course pursued ?Was it just Lo force that course upon me, and then to exclaim against it in pious horror?Is thia the kind of fair play upon which Englisb- men pride themselves 1\" Capt.Semmes then proceeds to atiude to the relative positions of the belligerents at the commencement of the war, and to show that the British Government bas shown an unmistakeable partiality for the Federals.He characterizes the British orders in council, probibiting the belligerents from bringing their prizes into British ports, ag * unjust, oppressive avd uupatural,\u201d\"\u2014 He desires ihat the orders be revcked, and that tbe Government show sigus of ** returning toa sense of justice.\u201d There is one inference to be drawn from this letter, and It is this, wheo both belligerenta charge the British Government with partiality, it is probable that there has been consistent neutrality.ANTHRAOITE Coar.\u2014The embargo laid upon the export of sntbracite coal from the United States, occasions great inconvegience to many manufacturers and others, who have built their furnaces expressly for this kind of fuel.The reason assigned for this embargo is, that the coal is exported from Osnads to the West Indies to supply blockade-runners.We under stand that only one cargo of this coal has been sent from here, and that not by Canadisu merchants.We can see no good reason why this embargo should be continued, certainly, if the exposters from the United States give the same bonds for coal that are giron in New York for every package shipped to Nassau and other rendesvous of blockade runners, We believe the difficulty may be removed by & single order in Oouncil forbidding the export of anthracite coal from Canada.We print below a petition to His Exoellency the Governor General, from residents of Montreal, praying for His Exoel- 1ency's consideration of the clroumstasces.We would saggest that petitions be sent te His Exosllency from the principal cities of Canada: \u2014 To Bis Excellency tbe Right Honorable Obarles Stanley Viscount Monck, Baron Monck of Ballytrammon, in tbe County of Wez- ford, Governor-General of British North Auerica, and Captain-General and Go- vernor-iu-Ubief in and over the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick sud the Island of Prince Edward, and Vioe-Admiral of the same, &o., &c., &0., in Council, The Petition of the undersigned, re- sidenta of Housty Ssawers :\u2014 That for many years past your petitioners bave been accustomed to employ as fuel a certain kind of coal, called Anthracite, imported from the United Brates, That your petiioners have procured furnaces, boil nd stoves suitable for burning this coal, \u2018at no other sort is eo well adapted for cere tain purposes of manufacture.That by a recent enactment of the United Brates Government the ex portaticn of Anthracite Coal to Canads bs forvidden, \u2018Wherefore, your petitioners humbly pray that your Excellency will be plessed to adopt such messures a4 will secure supply of this coal for consumption in Canada; and, 1s in daty bound, your petitioners will ever pray, (Data) _ ANTHRAOITR CoaL \u2014We understand the Go vernment bavealready given attention to tbe fmportszoe of the Anthracite Coal Trade.The question at lasse respectiog ibe embargo on col being parely international, was referred to the Home Government, who immodistely gare à carte blanche to the Canadian Govern: meat to ¢ fot such arrangements as thoy deemed best.Our Government bave offared to probibit the export of coal from Canada, provided tbe U.8.Government will remove the embargo.\u2014 The matter now rests in the hands of the US.Government, who, were it not for the complication with the French and Mexicen Governments, would very readily accord to Oanada a release from the embargo, Perhaps we shall be obliged to wait until winter, when natare places a more «fficient barrier to the export of coal than an order in Counefl, \u2014_\u2014 GorsG ro THX STATES.\u2014The following is the purport of a letter received by bis former employer from a young man of this city, who was induced to go to the States last spring by letters which be received from a relative there: \u201c BroozLYN, July 2.\u2014I am sorry for coming to the States.I have hed enough of them already and wish myself back again, which Intend soon.I see here more drinking, and I see the good of belog a sober man, and thank God for keeplog me from that awful evil, I; is tbe greatest evil about here, Times are not 80 good a¢ I thought, but I have gota good lesson.The evils of drinking avd other evils which [ Bee here every day have Jed me to seek after my future state.I look to Him to help me, T.M.\u201d The writer of the above was told that the wages in the States were not really more than be was getting bere; but he could nut uader- stand why fifteen dollars a month there should not be more than ten here, and consequently determined to Bee for himself.He has done so.American money bas otill further depreciated since then, so that twenty-five dollars & month there would not be more than ten here, and this paragraph may make some others who contemplate emigrating contented with Canada.TRANSATLANTIC AFFAIRS.Looking at the world beyond the ses, it is most natural that our first thoughts should be of Britain, As individuals, the interest of many people in this country is more with their friends at home than their friends here, and tbe arrival of the English mail ig looked for with infinitely more interest than that of a mere local one, How can it be otherwise with those who have left perhaps both parents there, or a circle of brothers and sisters, or it may be even wife and children?Even though one may bave lived eo long in Canada 8s to have become Canadian in thought and feelings, it is im possible not to cherish the tender associations of by-gone days, to take a lively interest in the town or district where we wera born ; where early years were passed; where we were initiated into the mysteries of business; and so paseed on taking a deeper hold of life antil from boya we became men.How the local newspaper interests us still, \u2014ioteresting nobody bere besides ;\u2014how we still can look over the record of marrisges and deaths, avd start when we read some once familiar name! It is true there are thousands smongst our population who know nothing of this.Dritain is to them Httie more than any other country: for their home is B:1gium, Bavaria, Prussis or Norway, \u2014or it may be the United Btates, \u2014or it may be Oanada ; for, not to speak of our French population, we have a constantly increasing number of those born in this country, all of whose associations and habits, \u2014not merely those of recent years, \u2014are with this country.Apart, however, from our interest in Britain asindiridusie, we bave the interest of Canads, as 8 whole bound up with that of the empire of, which it forms a part, aud of which Britain is the centre, the seat, and the soul.To England, then, as we said, we first turn our eyes in looking across the sen, and the first thing that must strike us in\u2019the remarkable continuance of prosperity in every part of the country aud every interest in it save one.Weatill hear the same story of expanding trade, of increasing exports, and of lessaning taxation.Unprecedented a8 was the volume of exporta for 1868 as compared with former years, it lis almost certain that that of 1864 will far exceed it.All this means, of course, more work, more wages, and more contentment, better demmad for every kind of] labor either low or high, à greater consumption of comforts aud luxuries, and a general rising of the mass of the people to comfort, intelligence, aud prosperity.The subject of education is just now excitiog an extraordinary amount of attention, particular- iy that given in the famous public schools, so thoroughly cliardcteristio of English life, and of which many have become'proud, These schools, most of them very ancient: and wealthy, and occupying a position only just removed from the Universities, bave just been made the object of examination by a Royal Commission composed of very able and distinguished men.\u2014 After wking ingpumersble questions from the school authorities, and everybody who really knew avytbiog of the matter, the Commissioners obtained auch a mase of information se has never been possessed before, and have given it to the world In s \u201c Blue Book.\u201d Some of it ls not a litle curious, more particularly with respect to Bron, the most famous of the s, and which bas at thie moment about eight hundred scholars of all ages, from seven to nineteen.It ja a fact that @ large majority of these boys, who bave money lavished oa them without stint, and the very ablest men gathered out of the three kingdoms for their tators, leave the sebool in à condition of gros ignoeancs.Thongh all the energies of the school \u2018are, and have bees, bent on tbe classical languages, most of them oa.entering the University are found unable to translate even a simple and easy Latin author, | without a dictionsry, They know very litile mathematics, and scarcely anything of modern ang usges,\u2014or even, critically speaking, of their own ; but they are magnificent cricketers, and they cen beat the world at boating.Every pointin these interesting exercises bas been most carefully studied under experienced and well paid tutors.Ap enormous proportion of time\u2014which in Eton teems pretty much at the dieposal of the young gentlemen themselves\u2014is given to practice,\u2014 and we are told, on the very highest authority, that in the cricketing season, it amounts to as much as twenty-seven hours s-week, or nearly five hours s-day.This \u2018 takes out of\u2019 tbe young man pretty nearly ali tbe energy be bas in bim, and he consequently becomes a miserable dunce in intellectual attainments.Sipgulur to say, moat of the Eton masters, all moat able schelars and every way worthy of thelr pesition, eeem to acqulesce in this atate of things, and point out with sort of pride, that an Eton boy is generally, in poiot of manners, courtesy, and general conduct, not to easy capacity\u2014fully on a level with, and rather superior so tbe scholars of other schools.There isa certain air of diguified re- Pose about the school, as one of the masters points out, which soon becomes reflected in the character of the boys ; who coms to look down upon the struggling and emulation of other schools as sometbing quite beneath them.Intellectual distinction, in fact, ia rather at s die- count in Fton, and a young man who reads ie voted \u2018slow\u2019 The men who have infitence in school aré not the best scholars, but the captains of the cricket club, or boating tquad, and while the honors of the school are lavishly bestowed on the victors in matches and races, nobody seems either to know or care who wins the prizea in Greek and Latin.Itis an odd state of things, yet not diffieult to be accounted for on the part of boys, when it is remembered how strong a re-action has get.in of late years in favor of physical development, and so much so, as to make sucha bsrbariem as * muscular christianity\u2019 a popular phrase; but that masters of undoubted Intellectual eminence should be 20 far carried away with it, is something strange.The whole field of ipetruction is surveyed in the report of the commiseion, and a thoroughand hearty concurrence expressed in the system of making tbe classics the basis,\u2014and the only basis of a liberal education.At the same time, the ides ia strongly insisted op, that after laying such a foundation, the school course should include some instruction in modern languagea\u2014 one or more, and in natural science.The masters however, almost unanimously, protest against this; alleging that the school course will not admit of the time, The twenty-seven hours a week of cricket, it seems, cannot be curtailed even for the purpose of learning French ! There can be no doubt the Commissioners are right in their recommendations.Long experience bas proved the classical languages and pure mathematics to be the true foundation of education.They furnish the best discipline for the memory, judgment, snd reflegtive faculties, generally ; they refine the taste and quicken the imagination, besides storiug the mind with a vest tressure of information as to the eayiogs aod doinga of the master epirits of the world, In fact, proficiency in them, ia one of the best tests of general intellectual capacity.We need to remember such things in this country, Theadege \u2018tesch your sons what they will have to practise when they become men,'\u2014tbough it sounds uncommonly sensible, is really arrant nonsense io nine cases out of ten.Boye camnof learn auch things, any more than babies could learn sigebra, There is one poiat nsmed by the Commissioners that touches the foundation of tte whole matter.They say they have had no difficulty la finding out what was taught In the public schools; \u2014the real trouble was to ascertain what had been lsarned,\u2014that is the whole secret, Long ego, old Socrates told the people of Athens he could teach nothing (though it was known be was the most efficlent pablic insteactor of the time,) it was the young mea that must lars, Knowledge cannot be scquired without effort; aud tha best tutors aud appliances are thrown away, If boys will not work, From Eogland to France is but an bour or two's gail ; but in what a different world we Bud ourselves, If regulated liberty seems natural to the one, despotlam seems the only form of government that can attain teength lo the other.The last suite France'e material la terest at any rate, though there are not want.log indications tbat luxary may develop into recklessness, profusion into extr ance, and expenditure grow more and more lavish, until a state of thinge is brought about, which history bas too often seen repeated in the period previous to the fall of monarchies and states.So long ns the sstute Emperor lives, there may be uo fear, but sfier him\u2014what?Anctber war lo A'geris is now ocoupylog the French artoy, but the work of chasing flying bodies of Arabe acrcas deserts je found to be a tedious busi- pese.France fiode it hard work to colonise the country, and the Arabs are now, as they alwaye bave been, a people impatient of subjection\u2014 They will be subdued, of ooures,\u2014nobody doubts that; bat there will be s large expendi.tare of blood and treasure, and vaey little glocy The Conference sbout Danish affairs drage along with bat very little result so far, and there is every reason to fear the dispute is one that a conference cannot settle.Then we go back to the arbitrament of war, and how tbat will end is not difficult to foresee.It is impossible, bowever, that the grest powers of ths Weat can see Denmark blotted out of the map of Europe as Poland was.In the latter case there was the excuse of perpetusl internal dissensions, in this there would be none: besides, it 1s better for both England and France that the entrance to the Baltic sboald be in the bands of Defmark than either Prussia or Austria, In other pagts of Earope, there is nothing to disturb the ordinary current of affairs,\u2014the bappiest condition, on the whole, for a people to be found in.There bas been, it is true, a small attempt on the part of some petty poten tate or cther, in the Danubian Prinsipalities, to imitate the rule of the Emperor Napoleon in effceting & coup d'état.It hen excited very little attention, not more in fact than the cessation of the protectorate of Britain over the Island of Corfa, Egypt continues to prosper, and the face of the country is repidly undergoing transformation.Busy manufacturing houses, with tall, smoky chimueys, and the Pyramide, bring the old and the uew into startling contiguity ; bat they may be seen even now almost slong-side eachotber.Trading companice, baviog their centre in Eogland, are declariog good dividends, and there is @ preject for an Egyptian \u201c Crédit Foncier,\u201d which will, doubtless, meet with favor, The same remarks apply to India.The coun try is ao vast, however, that the atmosphere is rarely free from disturbance in some quarter or other.Just now the remarkable attempt on the part of the chief of some warlike tribes in the Himalayan Mountains to extort, by menace, a grant of territory now held by Britain, has excited much attention, A British embasey tind visited the country, aud the principal officer was compelled, on pain of being shot, to put his pen to a ridiculous treaty, conveying away aheolutely a large tract of country at the foot of the moun.taina.It comes, of coarse, to nothing, any more than if seme E:quimaux had compelled Sir John Franklin tocedethem the Hudson Bay Territory.NECESSITY FOR WATOHFULNESS, When th\u2018 Bald win-Lafontaine administration went inio power, it was to settle cert: tant questions that the Upper Canada liberal party bad l>og set its beart upon, und had at Saut acquired tbe necessary mojority to carry, It was also to settle certain qaestions which the Lower Canada Roman Ostholic majority bad set its heart upon, and the only question was which set of questions should come firat.The prieste, perceiviog their opportucity, as they are always sharp-sighted enough to do, pushed throngh a great number of ecclesiastical corporation bills, with large powers to bold property in mortmaio, sud some * Corporations Sole\u201d consisting of single Bishop with uplim- ited powers of thesame kind.The Upper Can- ads Protestant Liberals saw these measures passing with deep regret, but had to swallow their chagrin axd bumiliation in the best way they could, rather than offend such excellent friends as Mr.Lafontaine and bis French followers, Not content with thus stealing march, as it were, vpon Upper Canada, the French wiog of the party bad address enough, as it always bas, to get its graat measure put through first, nemely, the Rebellion Losses bill,\u2014leaving the Upper Canada measures, such as seculsrisation of che clergy reserves, and the throwing open of Toronto University, to come afterwards.What was the result?The whole strength of Upper Canada Liberals and Lower Canada French Roman iste was united to carry the L.0.Rebellion Lose Bill; and upon that measure, which was obnoxious to all men of British feelings, the strength of the great party was broken and it could do notbing for Upper Canada.What ls tbe moral to be deduced from all this?Clearly that in any new coalition with the French, Upper Canada should, in fairness, get her ends served firat this time, Is it to be vo in the Cartier-Brown Ministry now formed ?j Represeutation by population is the great point soaght by the Upper Canada Liberals.It 1s, 40 far a9 wo can see, the only one stipulated for by Mr.Brown ; but, even supposing It to have the transcendent importance which be seems to attach to it, 30 as tot only to eclipse bnt extinguish all other questions, \u2014is ft to be obtained first; or are any number of French measures and Grand Trunk messures to be pushed through, en attendant, letting it takoits chanoe afterwards?If this is to be the result of the union between the Grits and the Bleus we are not sanguice that It will be more satisfactory than the past unio of the same kind which we bave described.It may be replied, that tbese are unjust suspicions ; we have dif, ferent men to deal with now, and doubtless all will come out right.We have indeed different men, but we would greatly prefer Lafontaine to Cartier; and it remains to be seen whether Brown will be mors watchful or more powerful thas Baldwin, Oertalnly, he bss not to many seats in the Cabloet st his disposal.Mr.Baldwin went in even-haoded and made notbiog of it; and can Mr.Brown be expected at the end fit, te do better with oly three to nine ? - 120 FN co = Jury 9, 1864.THE MONTREAL WITNESS, 437 \u2014\u2014 Now the point that specially requires watch-] THE CORONER AND THB JURY.[wo anenquiry sald that the Admiraliy did uot [some time since that the \u201c Alabama \u201d was so\u2019 COMMERCIAL.falpess is this: \u2014The Grand Trunk beingas sharp-gighted to perceive an opening, se the Ohurch of Rome was at the time of Baldwin.Lafontaine, wsy, snd doubtless will, pushin for all it wants, where 50 many of its friends and advocates are in power, and where & majority Is secured to them by the adberemce of Mr.Brown.Aud if it obtains its objects it will be seated about as securely on the noek of Canada as the Old Man of the sea was on the neck of Siobad the sailor, a position in which any remonstrance of the ridden party will only be rewarded by kicks on the part of the rider.Another similarity ia the two cases, to which we allude with pain, may be briefly stated as follows :\u2014 Ali the time the ecclesiastical Corporation bille were being pushed through under the Bald- win-Lafontaine administration, the Globe was unacconntably and persistently ellent, It left the whole battle with those most pernicious bills to be fought by the Witness single handed, only taking the right ground years after the mischief was dose.Now we may be mistaken, and we hope its future course will prove that we are so; but the strange reticence of «be Globe on Grand Trunk pretensions, makes us fear that the Witness is again to be left alone to contend for the interests of the people as contradistin- guished from the interests of great corporations and political parties, If the Upper Canada Liberals consent again to do evil tbat good may come, the evil will be certain and permanent, but the good may probably not be forthcoming.THE FUTURE.The coalition ministry has now been formed, and its attention will, no doubt, be earnestly turned to the reconetruction of our Canadian Government, in a way that willavoid the dead: lock to which we have been brought by Lord Bydenham\u2019s copstitution.In à country where more than one-third of the whole people are a solid mass of French, cherishing their national distinctions with peculiar tenacity, and the rest, though speaking English, very much diversified in origia and opinion, this will be no easy task.And it will be rendered much more difficalt by the great fact that about one-half of the entire population is Roman Catholic, and consequently under one head ; whilst the other half, though composed almost wholly of evangelical Protestants, je yet Cut tp into several denominations, with but little intercourse between themseives.In such a state of things, we would be apt to say, surely the united bsif will carry the day against the divided half, and this bes been the case to a very considerable extent, especially ag some of the Protestant denominations have from time to time, in order to compass their own denominations! objects, given their support to a greater or less extent to the Church of Rome, And yet, with all these difficulties, so great is the love of liberty in this age sud country, sod eo dificult is it to Impose any absolute ecclesiastical domination, even upen Roman Ostholics ; and so much are the people disposed to live togetber as friends and neighbours, and to co-operate in measures for the general good, that there is no cauge for despair, even in our very anomalous situstion, Indeed, the very coalition that has now taken place, is à proof that the interests of the country at large are felt to be paramount to thore of sy patiopality or church.We use the word coalition because, although offensive to many ears, it is the best to express the existing state of things, and there is nothing necessarily offensive in it.There may be coalitions for good purposes or bad purposes ; but sc far ne the mere fact of union and co-opers- tion goes, itehould rathez be regarded with favor tban dislike, and if the object be good and tbe means unobjeutionable, there can be no valid objection to coalitions ia politics.The object of the present combination is » legitimate one, namely, to carry on the presen business of tbe countey, and put things on à satisfactory footing for the fature; end the parties making it are exosedingly clever, and thoroughly versed in Canadian politics, both theoretically and practically.Several of them labour under the dissdvantage of very bad political antecedents, but they may reform or be keptin order by their colleagues.Me.Brown bas @ character at stake as a politician and journalist, which should guarantee bis watobfal- ness, that no ala full upon the administration of which be forms a part, gud Mr.Mowat's integrity will, we have no doubt, be proof egainst sll political temptations.This coslition then, though we do not like its mode of construction, nor the great mejority of its per:onsl, may do good servios, and at all events, It is deserving of © fair and candid trisl to ses what will come out of it, not however, to the exclusion of much watehfuiness.\u2014 Ought not the Coroner to call before the jury some practical Reilroa) men, unconnected with che Grand Tronk Company, sey Me, Shanly and some others, to obtaln Information upon many points of great consequence to the pre-ent invostigetion ! Ie appears to us thes all the practical men examined are iz the employ of that Ootapauy, sod consequently dependent upon it, Should not the jury require such witnesses as we have indicated to be aummoned, and esk them to state the important points oo which informstion should be had ; also the rules and cestoms of It is always with great reloctance that we criticise the conduct of a Judge, but sometimes we bave no alternative, and tbe Coroner's per sistent refusal to allow any one to appear as counsel for the prisoner Buraey, is ons of those cases.Weare informed tbat s Coroner in Eog- land could not maintain such an exclusion.Indeed, it is so evident, that all the evidence should be elucidated on all sides, that the more help can be obtained the better, uoless it be of that frivolous and vexatious kind which would uselosly consume the precious time of the Court.With regard to the jury we used the phrase independent members of it, which we sce has been complained of by one of the gentlemen apos it, ag If all were in this respect beyond euspicion.That gentleman being the son of a bluff honest old Koglishman was doubtless brought up in a way which would render him proof as a jurymsu against all outside influences ; but is he sure that every one else is 80% Are there no men upon the jury for instance who ars employed by the Grand Trunk is one way or another, or are cre ditora of it, or debtbrs to it?All such.if there sre uny, would bave been challenged in England, and ought to have been chellenged here.We do not for a moment think that all such wiald be ivfluenced by any cousideration of pecusiary interest, but sone might.We have, therefore, again to ask the reliable members of the jury to watch tbe proceedings carefully, and to insist upon puttiog all necessary questions, and obtaining all procurable evidence.We bare one other matter to notice, Why should Mr.Brydges with çounsel, be in attendance at the inquest?Ia it to prompt questions in the interestu of the company, or to take cognizance of the condact of the coroner and jury, in à way likely to influence any of them ?Iu recent committee of the Assembly on a railroad bill, we understand that Mr.Brydges was persistently present, and continually making suggestions to Mr.Cartier, till at last «o Upper Oansde member of the committee proposed that be, Mr.B, should be put upon it.It would not perbsps, do in the present case, to propose that be be put on the jury, but we trust be will be put in the witnees box, and asked how often the train came to a full stop at the Richelieu bridge in the course of bis many trips to Quebec, and generally as to the practice of engine-drivers in that respect, aloo why box or cattle cers were used, snd where were the second-class cars of the Company ?jp TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.ARRIVAL OF THE ¢ ASIAN Hauivax, July 6.\u2014The 8.8.\u201c Asia\" from Liverpool on the 25th via Queenstown on the 261h has errived.The \u201c Tuetonis\u201d arrived out on the 23rd, the \u2018\u2018Australasisn\u201d on\u2019 the 25:b, and * Kan- Enroo\u201d on tbe 26(h, Great anxiety was manifested fora ministerial announcement of the result of the Conference, and the policy of Eugland ou the Dano.German question.The yacht \u201c Deerbound\" is charged with being a mere tender or consort of the pirate \u2018\u201c Alabama.\u201d It is rnmored that Semmes will bave another pirate ateamer by August, It is stated that orders have been issued by the English Government to bave ready all equipment necessary for 30,000 troops The Kiog of Wurtemburg is dead, Loxnon, June 28 \u2014Favorable peace rumors yesterday ceured genersl improvement in stock market, and consol closed at an advance of one- baif per cent.The Builion in the Bank of Eogland bas in- cressed £18,000.Latest.\u2014 Livarroo., June 36.\u2014 The steamship \u201c Peruvian,\u201d from Loudonderry for Qui bec, re- furned to-day, ith bers ser broken.The 8.8, ova-Scotian\u201d wi e her | i &c., on the STth.Praseogers, mails, Panama dates of the 27th state that Chili is taking steps to fortify Vaiparaiso, purchase war steamers, &c.A Spaulsh gua boat visited Cal- loa under fae of truce, on the 3:d, to treat with Peru order that in the event of the scarcity of provisions on board the Spanish squadron, hostilities will be suspended long enough to obtain them without resort to compulsion.Peru has refused to hold further communication with the Spaniards.À revolution has broken out in Sante Martha, The Governor of Magdalena bas been arrested.The 8.8.\u201cTeutonia \" arrived at Southampton on the eve of the 23rd, The U.B.frigate * Constitution\u201d was at Alexandria in the middle of June.The officers and seamen of the * Alabams,\u201d captured by the ** Ksarsage,\u201d bad been liberated on parole at Cherbourg.À committee headed by Admiral Anson bes been formed In Loudon to raise, by guines sub.ecriptions, a fund for the purchase of a had.some sword to replace that which Opt.Semmes sunk with bis ship, It is reported that a consi- detable rum has also been raised ia Liverpool for the same object.The Daily News publishes a letter from Mr, Stoddsrd, master of the ** Kearsage,\u201d complain- log that the * Deerhound\u201d was the consort of the * Alabama \u201d The Paris Temps and Siscle denounce the ox- aggerated aud pro-Southern accounts given by the semi-officlei papers of Paris of the destruction of tbe * Alabama.\u201d In tbe House of Commons on the 23rd, Sir Jobn By wsked if the attention of the Government been called to the action between the * Kearange\u201d and the \u2018Alabama \u201d He alo inquired whether, in ylew of the experience gained by that action, the Government would continue buitotog ebips wbich could nefther fight nor vi owim, Lord O.Paget said that the attention of tbe Admirelt; been drawn to the fight in ques- ton but it had notbing to do with question of Rallwaye respectiog signals, brakesmen, &o., ko.the vesssie to which enguiry referred, Os the following evening Lord Paget in reply think necessary to send av officer to Cherbourg to strengthen the sides of the * Kearange,\u201d Io order to resist shell, that information having been ob\u2018ained whyp the vessel was ia dock is England, Ata levee held by the Prince of Wales in the nsme of the Queen, Mr.Adams presented Mr, Chas, Hale, of the Boston Advertiser, Consul General to Egypt.The first Englisb turret sbip, the \u201c Royal Sovereign,\u201d bas been officielly tried and proved to be a great success.She is claimed to be the most formidable irou- clad afloat.In the British Purlisment on 23rd, enquiries were made of Ministers ae to the proceedicgs of tbe Contereuce, but Russell and Lord Palmerston gave no information beyord ihe fact that the laa sistiog of the Conference would take place on the 7th, sod thet ou the 27th they would present to Parliament all documents relating to the Oonterenc) and make a statement on the subject.Earl Russell admitted that negotiations would probably be broken of and hostilities resumed, The Aforning Post empbatically tells the German Powers, tuat if they are under the impression ttat Great Britain will content berself with the utterance of a protest, they will probably find themacives grievously in error.The same journal gives the report that ali sbazotees frou the Ohacnel Fleet have been ordeted to rajuin their ships forthwith, The Morniog Star says Deomark decidedly repeiled with indiguation Biitaiu's last proposition in the interest of peace, and considers that tniig absolres Britain from acting asthe armed ebumpion of Denmark, À semi-oflicial Berlin paper representa that Britain bas detlared that ou the renewal of hos- tiliiea Bsitain will place herself with her fleet at the eide of Denmark.The Loudon Herald concludes that the failure of the Conference ought to unquestionably involve the resignation of the British Ministry.The weekly returns of the bank of France show a decrease in cash on band to the amouat of 8,500,000 france.Tbe Paria Bourse was dull and declining, aud the Rentes were quoted at 851.to 70c.LIVERPOOL, June 25,\u2014The New steamer \u201c Jeddo\u201d believed to bave been built for the Confederates at Bordeaux, left that port for Amsterdam.Everything about the * Jeddo\u201d was perfectly correct, More confidence in London to-day for the preservation of peace, least ag far as England is concerued, and eonsols advanced, A telegram from Frankfort asserts that atto-day's cunfereuce the German powers will still be prepared to treat upon a llae of demarkation, and to conclude an armistice for two montba.Should Denmark accept these terms, peace may be yet regtored.LivspooL, Juve 26.\u2014Breadatuffs firmer, and all qualities have plightly advanced.Fiour firm with an advance of 61 per bbl.Extra Htate 298 to 245.Wheat firm and advanced 2d.Pod Western 8+ 5d to 8s 8d, White Western 846d 1c 92.White Southern 816d to 8434.Curn active an advance of 6d.Loxpox, F \u2014Cousols closed at 89; to 894 for money.The weekly return of the Bank of England shuws an increase in the bullion of £15,000, Livarroos, June 26.\u2014Cotton sales to-day .| stopped by mutual consent, the rebels keep up worn out that she would have to be ubandoned aod would not go oa theoceaa again, she msde a trip from the East to Oherbourg io auch short ume that she was thought to be the \u201c Florida,\u201d and so telegrapbed no arrival, Capt.Wioslow, then iu Holland, was imme diately sent for by Mr.Dayton.He arrived just in time, as by protest of Mr.Dayton the French suthoritien were obliged to order the '¢ Alabama\" out of port.Bemimes put the best face on the matter be could, tough it is evident he did like to face à war sbip of the United States \u2014 He sent word to commander Wivsiow that be intended to drive him off, and Winslow replied \u201c Lot him try it.\u201d Thu fight was go short aud decisive that one would have tbougbt the \u201cAlabsma\u201d bad changed places with one of her unarmed merchanimen victims, Though over ove bour elapsed alter the meeting, the greater portion of the time was ocoupied in macœuveriog; and when the * Keareage\" fired, it wus merely & signal for the surrendering aud sinking of the pirate, It is pot true that the \u2018* Alabama\u201d atany time attempted to bontd the \u201c Kearsuge \u201d When the ** Alabama \u201d was disabled in her machinery the \u201c Kearsage \u201d was up close to lier, aud poured « destructive converging broadeide, which tore away a whole section of the * Alabama's\u201d side at the water line, snd let the water through.The * Alabama\u201d then turued sud made for the shore.Commacder Wiosiow hoisted bia flsg of victory, Finding that the *' Alabama\u201d was sicking he lowered bis boate to pick up the crew, Mr.Dayton informed Commander Winslow that the prisoners could not be paroled, but wight be transferred to the Si.Louis\u201d when she arrived and cooveyed to the United States Commauder Wiusiow claims Capt.Semmes, aud others, taken to Boulbampton, ws bis prisoners.He bad ample meaus to pick them up, but the Eoglieh yacht actually etols them as if by a presrranged plan, thus coostitating a clear case of intervention.New York, July 6.\u2014The Tribune's Washington special says a despatch bas been sent to New York for speculative purposes announcing the capture of Petersburg.The Tribune's Head Quarters\u2019 correspondent saye, the existing monotony is big with portentous preparations.À movement will soon be executed which wlll eclipse all former ones.The World's Washington special says, the fright iu Maryland is the result more of sppre- bended danger than a realisation of It, A epecial corespondent to the Times, dated Balumore, 8th, says, I went up to Monocacy, where I found Brig.-Gen.Tyler, and command Scou!s liad reported that a party at Point Rocks, consisted of 125 of Mosby's men, on 8 robbing expedition.By a great blunder Tressel's iron bridge over the Potomac was turned by our own people, Dariog the day of the 5'h, the rebe's made preparations to aasault Sigel'e position on Mory- isnd Heigbis.There Were only 2 companies of infantry and 2 companies of cavalry ut H «rper's Ferry, belonging to tbe Potomac Home Brigade, and they disgracefully ran, Waenisaton, July sth.\u2014Little from army of the Potomac, The practice of picketfiring is mutual intercourse with our men, and sup wich 6,000 bules.Market closing quiet, Breadstufls quiet but Erm.SanaToGa, July 4th, 4 p.m.\u2014Oongress Hall, Union Hall, Clarendon Hotel, snd Water Cure establishment are ia flames.Nuw Yurk, July 8 \u2014Scwore sbip * Courier,\u201d from Boston for Orleans, was totally lost on the 141h Jane, on Leonard's Keys, Bahamas; officers snd crew saved.- Fosrstss Mowzos, July 3.\u2014Batler aad Staff returned up the James River to-day.Pu aveipnia, July 4tb.\u2014Kumors brre that rebels are crossing the Potomac at Falling Waters.Faunorsco, July 2.\u2014Usen, McDowell assumed command of the Pacific Department to-day.Gen.Wright remaius in command of the Cali- tornia District, Sr.Louss, July 5 \u2014Dates from Duval's Bluff, Azk,, let inst, say that oa the 30ch uit, Shelby had bot returned to Clarendon, Gen.Carr reached Daval's Bluff on the 30th, Marmaduke was still South of the Arkansas River, ten miles below Napoleon.His force numbers about 8,000 men, with 6 or 8 pieces of arti:lery.There was no rebel artillery between the Arkansas and White Rivere, and but 3 companies of guerillas.The apprehensions as to the siege of Little Rock are much dimioished.There are but four brigades of rebels on the Babine river, The design of the rebels evidently is to cut Steelss communicetlonson White River, which will be very dificult to do; but if it ie done Daval's Bluffand Little Rock have provisions for 3 montbe.White River is patrolled by tin-clads, enp- ported by a large force, Wasainaros, Jaly S5tb.\u2014Passengers from Qity Polat say that Gen.Grant sent à demand for the unconditional surrender of Potersbarg.An nntwer bad not been received at latest dates.Nsw Yoox, July 6.\u2014The Tribunes Washington specisl of the 5th says : \u2014~Commander Win- slow.of the ** Kearsage,\u201d wat to-day recommended by the Secretary of the Navy to be a Commodore.It ls already anid here that the value of the \u201c Alshams\u201d will be distributed among the officers and men of the * Kearsage\u201d by the next Congress, World's epecial :\u2014Washington, Jaly 5.\u2014 Intelligence from the Upper Potomac is confused The ciiigens of Upoer Maryland are terribly frightened, aod are flseing with thelr property in all directions.The danger thus far seema apprehended more than real, for Frederick even le not occupled as reported ; and the rebel commsad bas not occapied permausntiy any town on the Maryland side of the Potomac, The enemy is rupponed to be part of Ransom'e (late Stauct\u2019s) cavalry, with fofantry fom Ewells corps.I special despatch to tbe Tribune dated Wasblogton, July 8th, 1120 pm, says, re~ fogees trom Hagerstown, Boonsboro and Mid.dletown, sre arriving at Baltimore in considerable pumbers, many of them walked the whole way.They report much excitement tbrough- out the western eouaties, more on account of previous invasions than from suy thing eerivusty threatening now.The turnpike leading from Hagerstown to Baltimore ie filled with wagons aud trains belonging to tenified farmers, who are endeavouiing torau off.- Naw Yosx, July 6.\u2014The 7¥mes\u2019 Parls corres.pondest says that potwithstandiog the report them on every opportunity.Naw Yosk, July 6.\u2014The Tribune's dispatch states that & considerable number ot refugees sre arriving in Bal'imore from the Western Cuuaties of Murylsud, where great excitement existe, owing tu tho rebel raid.The turnpike lesding to Baltimore is filled with wagons and teams endeuroring to scare Tbere Bre frequent fices Peteraburg.The 8th, 5th, and 9h corpsare so near the enemy that constant skirmisbing occurs.Refugees and deserters report great suffering in Richmond for want of feod, tiace thelr com munications were cut.Baurinors, Joly 6.\u2014The Evening American bas the following view of the eltustion : Ac intelligent gentlemen arrived this morning from the vicinity of Harper's Ferry, sud otatss tbat it is now definitely ascertained that the whole force of the enemy does not exoeed 5,000, of whom leas then one-fourth are cavalry.They are concentrating lo and around Harper's Ferry, aud are sending out parties to forsgs on the people, robbing them even of their watches and money, Havawa, July 2.-By the \u2018Hayti' we bave papers from the city of Mazico to the 18th, and from Vers Orus to the 33rd of June.The Emperor Maximilien and suite arrived in the city of Mexico, and it grand and enthusiastic reception ; tblog was esid on bie arrival et Vers Cros, and it is known whet a cold sad French sflair thet was.Of course 101 REVIEW OF THB MONTREAL MONET MARKET, Montara, Friday, July 8, 1864.The drawing rate at the ks for S:ertin Exchange is now 94 per cent.prem., thou, some cash transactions are reported at 94, at which Istter rate mont of the business on the street is done, There are sales of New York drawn Bank Exchange reported at ©$.The market is not as brisk ne it was last week.The range for Private paper, including Produce sad documentary bills is 82 to 94 prem.There are salts of a small amount of Commissariat bills reported at «4 minimum price of ¥§ There is but litle demand for United States funds, the valus of which fluctuates, of course, as rapidly and to as great au extent «8 tbat of Gold.Back de tuavd-draits on New York mag be quoted to-day nt 6} dis, American Bank notes have been bougbt by brokers at as high a rate of discount as 4, or even 63 per cent.;\u2014the buying price 10-day {8 G4, selling figures being 63 dis.Silver hus remain: d steady during the week ; the buying price 33} dis, and brokers sell at #4 dis \u2014 Toe range tor Gold in New ia from 315 to 370, and duriog the wet kit baa been at any and every point between these two fi sures, notwithstanding the repent of the Gold Bul but little improvement hs takeu pluve in the market for that article, and again it is es higha4ever.The price this moruiug was 278 prem.WEEKLY REVIEW OF THE MONTREAL STUCK MARKET.Friday, July 8, 1884.Very little bu-inessdoing.Bank of Montreal \u2014No sales to report; ssked for at 110%, bat there ie no stock in market.Ontario Bank\u2014 Sales at 102} to 1024; buyers (fering 102, and sellers asking 1024.Bank of British North America\u2014Par offered for a limited emount,\u2014 City Bank\u2014No stock it market.Asked for as 99.Commercial Bunk of Canada\u2014Has been sold at 8ÿ, which price is now offered ; sellers aking 40.Bank of Upper Canada\u2014Buyers at 50, aud sellers at 55.E Banque du Peuple\u2014 Nosales.Asked for at 105} Afolsons\u2019 Bank.\u2014Io demand at 1124.No stock in warket.\u2014 Bank of Turonto\u2014Par offered.La Bi Jacquez Cartier\u2014No sales, Bayers offering 104, sellers, asking 105.Gore Bank\u2014No stock in warket.Fastern Townships Bank\u2014Buyers at 88.Quebec Bank and La Banque Nationale\u2014 Nothing doing, No stock in market, Montreal Mining Cianpany Comsols\u2014Sellers asking 86, buyers offering $3.Huron Copper Bay Co\u2014 Asked for and in demand at 65 cents.Cham plan and St.Lawrence Railroad \u2014No tiansso- tons, Buyers offering 13.The preferential®0 per cent.slock procueabie at ul.Grand Trunk Railroad\u2014Nuatock in matket.Montreal Tole- graph Company Stock\u2014Acked for at 130\u2014 hichelies Navigation Company\u2014In demand at 124, Lut no stock offering.Afuntreal City Par- senger Kailway Company\u2014Vales dusiag the week of bth old\u201d aud * new\u201d at 181 3 buyers tn-day cffering 130 for both Linds.Montreal City Gas Company\u2014In demand at 122.Guv- remment Debentures\u201464 per cent bonds (due 1872)\u20141\"14 ashed, and par offered.Montreal Harbor Bonds\u2014None in market.Quebec Harbor Bouds.\u2014T per ceots procurable at jar, Montreal Curporation Bonds and Montreal Water Works Bunds\u2014There are buyers of Corporativa and WeterWorks at 96, but there is noue in market, du other Stocks\u2014Nosbiog doing.Ezchange\u2014 Sales riuce our last at 5} to 9} Bauk Bills, the Intter being the street rate of to-day.Merchants\u2019 Bills 8} toÿ \u2014From Brokers\u2019 Circular in Herald this morning.OORN EXCHANGE REPORTS.EFurnished by the Corn Kzchangs exclusinly to the Witness, WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES.Mosrrsar Coss Excuazez, July 8, 1884, F1ous.\u2014Buperior Extra, $4.76 w $5.00.nomi mal; Extra, $4.40 to $4.80; Fancy, $4.35 nominal; Buperfine from Csoads Wheat, (old grovud) $1.85 co $t; D», (freab-grouud) $4 05 to $4.10; Super.from Western Wheat, $4 15 to #425; Super.No.2, $370 to $315; Fine, $350 to 83.60; Middlings, $325 to $8.45; Pollards, $380 to $3 00; Beg-Flour $1.20 to $3.28 per 113 Ibe, Market buoyant; mules yesterday p.m.at higher figures than were quoted on 'Chunge,\u2014 10U0 barrels of old-ground Buper.bringing $3 92), snd 2,800 barrels of Super, from Western Wheat changing hands on Pt, understood to beat over $4.30.The trans actions reported this forenoon were at $3.90 to $4 00 for old-ground Superfine, \u2014 the letter price for lu0-barrel lots.Holders of fresh-ground' were demandiog a further advance, and some lots Quas were fired, 8 Te Deum performed at the Oatbedral, Domine salvum fac imperatorem chented by the archbishops, and s grand ball given.The getters up of the ball, remembering the lack of ladies mt the receptions at Vers Cruz, determined to bave « fall attendance of the fair sex on tbe preseat occasion, and consequently tbreatened aod coaxed and used every means to get them to go, snd in this way only \u2018were they enabled to get up a dance, General Dousi reports that he bas captured 200 horses belonglog to the advance of Urega.Bacurimore, July 6.\u2014There was some ekir- miabing going on betweta our troops and the rebels across the river, and occasionally shot aod shell were being (hrown et them from the Maryland leighte, The fight of General Mulligan with the ad vance of the rebels at Leetown, Is spoken of as most gi t.He successfully repulsed them several times, Gen.Sigel moved towards Shepardstown with bie immense waggou trais in front, the protection of which fs deemed of wore importance than the risking of à general engagement, The principal okjsot of this reid hes proved unsuccepsfal, ualess it be the demage they have done to the railway and canal, the collection of conscripts and plunder of the lnbablants, They have not atte zpted to leave the line of the Po.ftomao except to rob stores at the peat of Racks, aod destroying some canal boats near Hancock.There is po t:uth in the statement that a rebel force bas been to Boonsboro aud Hagerstown, A nid Las been made on the railway weet of Cumberlsnl, Gen, Wilcox iv 0o-operating with 8egil, avd has secured the entire protection of the road se far aa Frederick, wbich is now safe.The Govercor will issue n ca!l for mors troops in addition to the 13,000 called far yesterday.Naw You, July 6th.\u2014A wall street ramor that Bin bed declared qe against Germany, nye press, Seut gold up a peg or two.It touched 3604 but oloeed 2684.day drafts on nosday at 95 and 10 pram.; all tenders at lower rates were re , York, unsettled.of selected and choice city brands, for local com- sumption, were sold st extreme pri $4.20 being paid io two instances, and $4 40 for a fa vorite brand.Fancy nominal.Good Extra was sold $4 50 for a 200-barrel lot.Home business dove In Coarse Grades,\u2014 Middliogs brin $38 40 and $8.45.Sour Superfive wea soid at $360.No esles of Bag Fiour reported, OaruBac, per barrel of 200 lbs \u2014Rates for , about $1.70 t0 $4.80 ; some choice held at Wurat, per bushel of 80 Ibs.\u2014A cargo of U, 0.Spring was sold at v24c, and a sale of Mil waukee mentioned as made yesterday p m.at 950, Holders now asking mote money.Faas, per 60 lbs.\u2014A small lut sold at 695 per 66 log, \u2014equivaleut to about 63c per 60 Ibs, Oars, 82 lba.\u2014A few thousacd bushels wete aold at 36c.BARLET, per 48 lba\u2014No trans\u201d \u2014\u2018ons, Asmcs, per 100 1be.\u2014Bales of Pote reported to-dey were at $5 45.Pong, per brl of 200 Ibs,\u2014Market firm,\u2014~no large transactions reported this forengon.Fa.pee 1b.\u2014Kegs 9jc to 230 per Ib ; bris, end tierces 540 to 8c.Oueuse, per |b\u2014OCurrent prices for new are 8c to 90.Burrea, per Ib.\u2014MNaiket contivues quiet ; prices nomivally unchanged; Causdisn Oho'cs Dairy, 13c to tic; Medium, 180 to 120; Etore- packed, 11¢ to lic.Fariours \u2014Wheat engaged to Liverpool this forenoon at Se.pscraxcs,-\u2014 Unsettled ; Counter-rate for 60- day dierilog bills on London 10 prem , (reduced by bapks this forencon to 94 prem) transec- tions io the street have been at Yj avd 9 pres.for cash, Range for Private ÿu and 60-day paper 8 to SFr quiet.Commissar at $0- KX.Treasury was sold on Wed- fie où New 430 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.JeLy 9, (864.Family Reading.THE YOUNG GARDENER OR ANNIE'S HUSBAND.\u201cTo marry à common garcener, when she might have made such a good settlement in life.Well, weil, Annie would live to re- at not taking advice.\u201d So said Mra Barina Halliday, as sho bewaiied her young sister's folly.A gardener lad, with less than a pound a week \u2014it was a sad blow to the family pride \u2014and Annie might have done so much better, 7 for Mr.Alfred Symiogton, a traveller in the wine and spirit trade, bad asked her to be his wife.No advice, however, would perverse Annie take; and so, without tbe consent of ber i she took ber journeyman gardener.To be sure they bad known each otber from childhood, and he loved her, and she loved him ; but what wasabout that when Aonie oculd have done 80 very much better, Mrs.Martha Halliday was » practical person, and having berself married with a sen sible aim, she bad no patience with Annie.\u2014 Neither bad her two other sisters, who bad likewise wedded to advantage.i The young couple removed tos distant town shortly after heir warriage, and it was understood tbat there was to beno communis cation with Annie's family unless Jobn Henderson got a windfall.Full two years passed in blank silence, 4] expect, John spends the balf of bis miserable pittance ia drink,\u2019\u2019 said Mra, Halli- day to her second sister, Matilds, who was the ino-keeper\u2019s lady, as they bewailed poor Annie.\u201c Well, I wouldn\u2019t be astonished,\u201d responded Mre.Parkison; \u201cand considering the temptation of large towns, it's likely enough, 1 thiok.\u201d \u201c How is Parkison at present?\u201d put in Mrs.Halliday.\u201cHe was * on\u2019 again last week, that\u2019s why I wasn't across.1'm sure I don\u2019t know what to do,\u201d sighed Mrs, Parkison.\u201cSophy writes me, Harland is dreadfully unsteady turned,\u201d guid ber sister, \u2018\u2018 and be is losiog his business with his intemperate habits,\u201d she says further.41 thiok drink is to be the curse of our family,\u201d sighed Matilda.\u201cYou can't include the Hallidays,\u201d said Der sister, bridling.* I bave reason to be thankful, though liquor is our business, Peter Halliday is as temperate a man as you'll find in Houghton.\u201d % Oh, be can take his glass a3 weil as his neighbours,\u201d retorted her sister.\u201cIn moderation,\u201d threw in Mrs.Halliday pointedly.# You can't tell what may be yet, though,\u201d said Matilda; ** my busband began with mo- derstion 28 gentle as any, and it was by adding 8 linle and a little he overran the re.\u201cBut it Jobn Henderson bas fallen into the snare what will Annie do?\u201d said Mra Halliday, returning to the subject upper- mos «Of course she bas herself to blame,\u201d said Mra.Parkison; \u2018sbe didn't need to fling herself away.\u201d That was the sore point with the sisters.\u201c Alfred is married now,\u201d said Mre.Halli- day, ruefully; *and I bear he bas set up shop on bus own account.\u201d Anbie might have been a lady,\u201d sighed Mrs.Parkison.\u201c Yes, Alfred is sure to make money if he takes care,\u201d responded Mrs, Halliday.* He has got a nice central situation, I understand, close on two public \u2018works\u2019 and à large surgery, and all tbe men drink freely.\u201d \u201cWell, he ie out of our family now,\u201d aid Mrs.Parkison, \u201c and it can\u2019t bo helped.\u201d One solitary second cousin was the only relative who countenanced Annie: he ba pened to be in the same town, and had ample opportunity of seeing how she fared with the gardener.Evidently, however, he bad Ro good news to tell, for be never named the Haendersons in bis letters.In course of time he went to Houghton to visit bis friends, but Be continued silent on the cast-out sister, # Haven't you seen the Hendersons said Mrs.Halliday, carelessly, when Robert Drow was running over the family pedigree.\u201cAh! the Hendersons,\u201d said Robert, ing grave; he stopped and shovk his | } | ! | ; \u201cIn misery and trouble, I suppose,\u201d\u201d said Mrs.Halliday.* Are you prepared for it?\u201d said Robert.# 1 knew tuat was before Annie when she married Jobn Heuderson,\u201d returned Mrs.Halliday.\u201c It's \u2018the old story of drink 1 expect.\u201cAnd a sad one it is,\u201d said Robert.Mrs.Halliday was rather pleased than otherwise.Annie could expect no better when the went against her friends \u201cle Henderson always in the nursery ?\u201d she # \u201c1 think not regularly now,\u201d answered Robert ; but it would be a charity if you could makes ruatbrough.Iam certain it ban would cbeer Annie to see ber friends.\u201d \u2018 She doesn't deserve it,\u201d returned Mrs.Halliday, \u2018 but if she is very badly off I wiil send ber a little money.\u201d \u201c You must go yourself,\u201d sald Robert, \u201cif you would like to do ber any god.\u201d \u201c Mrs, Parkison can go if sbe chooses, said Mere, Halliday, shifting the duty off her own shoulders.* Go togetber ;\u201d said Robert, ** it will take both to comfort Annis.\u201d \u201c 1s a bad season for either of us leaving home,\u201d said Mrs.Halliday, \u2018snd poor Ma tilds is in trouble berself with ber bosband.\u201d \u201cThe old story again,\u201d said Robert * Isn't it deplorable that le can't all keep to 8 moderate glass,\u201d Mrs.Halli 3 shrugged bis shoulders.\u2018 Ad drunkenness is such an ebomine- tion,\" continued Meo.Halliday, \u201cas I toll \u2014 -\u2014 the fools who come bers to disgrace them: selves.\u201d \u201c Bach are weak through temptation,\u201d ssid Robert, \u201cand are drawn into same unawares,\u201d Ive their own fault, however,\u201d put in Mrs.Halliday, * Drunkerds walk into misery with their eyes open.\u201d ; #1'thiek Joba Rendèrson will agres with you, there ;*?laughed Robert.\u201cI can\u2019 think of him with patience!\u201d seid Mrs.Halliday.* Annie might bave done so much better, and msrried as geo teelly as ber sisters.\u2019 ; * Would she have been happier with Mr.Parkison or Mr.Harland\u201d said Robert.\u201cThey are two precious idiots, with the chances they bad to begin life with; but Alfred Symington bad sense.\u201d \u201cHe bas lost it all now, then ;\" laughed Robert, \u201cfor be hes turned bis own best customer, and he is posting on to ruin as hard as bo can\u2014his wife is back to ber friends.\u2019 Mrs.Halliday held up her bands.\u201c\u201c Bat our Annie seems to bave a spirit above troubling her friends.\u201d \u2018 Ayel she is too gentle to tbrost herself in where she iso\u2019t wanted,\u201d said Robert.\u2014 \u201c And bowever bad ber husband was, she would keep by bim like à true wife, I am ersusded,\u201d 6 Well, anyway, we are preity certain of Sophy bick on our bands,\u201d sigked Mra.Harland.4 Are accounts 80 bad 2% asked Robert.\u201cWhen ] was seeing the Harlaude in spring things couldn\u2019t be much worse with them,\u201d said the nister, * There wasn't a remeant of their former gentility left them.1 don°t think Annie can be much worse.\u201d \u201c1f you'll teke a trip to see her, I will stay to keep Mr, Halliday company until you come back,\u201d said Robert.1 sm sure you would torgive Annie if you saw ber now.A family cousultation was held and it was agreed that Mrs, Halliday should see Annie, and give ber a little assistance, snd, fornished with ber acdress, she started for Edinburgh, while Robert was at Houghton.He saw her off in the train very gravely, but when the engine snorted ont of sight, be laughed lood and long.We mast, however, follow Mrs, Halliday.No accident took place on tbe line, and she reached Edinburgh in safety, at mid-day.\u2014 As the was to stay & night in town, she let it be almost dark before she eet out in search of Annie's homes.She expected the Hender- eons lived io à wretched hole, if they had à roof to shelter them, but, to her consterua- tion, she found she bad lost the address Robert gave her.It must bave been when she was shopping.\u2018It was pear the ¢ Nursery,\u201d she remembered, snd, drawing her veil over her face, she eet out on trial, The gates were shut, and she saw no gardener hanging about.She crossed the street to a spirit-shop on the opposite side; Henderson would be known there, no doubt.Yes, he lived round by tbe nursery, snd be bad goue bome drunk from the \u2018 Turk's Head\u201d about half-an-bour ago.With a heavy heart, Mrs.Halliday gathered ap her ample skirts again Henderson\u2019s bouse poor, dirty, swoky, 7 was; but the elattern litt Annie! | Qa further inquiry, too, Mrs.Halliday found Henderson's Christian name was Joseph.As she was turning away, her eye fell on a little white cottage standieg on so eminence at 6 short distance.Ii evidently belonged to a gardeper, for the porch was luxuriant with boney-suckle and sweet briar, sud the plot of ground in front was most tastefully laid out.The pretty little wicket gate was open, end she passed in, thinking if it were the foreman\u2019s house, she might ob tain some information of the Hendersons.Theo setting sun's pattiog beams seemed to love to linger on that peaceful home.Before tapping at the porch, Mrs.Halliday shook out ber dress, aud arranged the folds of her shawl, and pat on ber most genteel air, A smart, stout, tidy girl opened and asked her to walk in.The parloar door stood balf open, end, secing ten was set, Mrs.Halliday drew back, but a elight figure in mourning came forward, with a smile on her pale fuce; and who was that bandsome, stalwart fellow at the window ?It conldn\u2019t be John Header son.; + Why not, Mrs.Hallidey?It's not time for his bair to be gray yet, or his aboulders le wife was not bent.\u201d \u201c Jobn, Jobo, it's Martha, my sister,\u201d cried the figure mourning, running to his side.+s Hope you are weil, ma'am,\u201d said John, with a suff bow.There's some mistake, surely,\u201d said Mrs.Halliday, gesing roand the comfortable parlour in amauement, and at s soft white nest.wherein sat a blue-eyed cherub, crowing sud shouting in iofantive glee.Ob, Martha, I sm so gisd to see you,\u201d said Annie, \u2018and I hope we are going to be friends now,\u2019 she added, holding out her d, * Is this your house, Annie?\u201d amaksd Mra.Hallidey, bewildered beyond expression, ** Yes, isn't it @ pretty cottage ; I shall be sorry to leave it,\u201d said Annie.Well, Robert Drew bas given me à start,\u201d said Mee.Halliday, \u2018bat | am very glad you have found a pores, John.\u201d \u201c1 wean\u2019t aware of it, ma'sm,\u2019\u2019 said Jobn Henderson stooping down to tbe cradle, \u201cOh, keep your own secret,\u201d said Mrs, Halliday ; heh Tem truly delighted to see both looking 60 well, and s0 prosperous ; and all tbe more that I was led to expect a different late of offairs.\u201d\u201d \u201c4Ob, indeed, we are very, very happy,\u201d said Acnis, bursting into tears.id i SAB fo, ma'am,\u2019 said Jo] ing ep from tbe oradle ho, P | beard that Asvie was in grief, snd, I Mrs, Hallidsy, ¢*It'snot needed I see, and I will not trouble her with my presence, if it's not agreeable.\u201d \u201cOh, Martha! ob, Porn, don't1\u201d cried Annie, \u2018let us forgive and forget while we wre smarting onder the rod.\u201d % I've no wish to keep up animosity with anybody,\u201d said Mr.Henderson.\u201cWell, John, you have made Annie a8 comfortable as we could desire, and I will own I was wrong in opposing ber choice,\u201d frankiy owned Mrs.Hullidsy.¢ That will do, ma'am,\u201d said Jobn, nobly holding ost his hand, \u2014*\u2018 let bygones be bygone.\u201d * But tell me, Annie, bow bas Jobn prospered to weilt\u201d asked Mrs.Halliday, an the two sisters sat talking by themselves.\u201c By bis own steadiness ard industry,\u201d enswered Annie.\u201c Wa both became total abatainers, and there's never a bottle in our house.We saved our money, and we saved our health, sud Jobn's clear head did the rest.\u201d ¢¢ I always knew he wana clever lad,\u201d said Mra, Halliday.John bas à fine taste, you know,\u201d said Annie, \u2018\u2018and he has been etudying herd since we were married; he is reckoned the best gardener in the nursery, I believe.\u201d \u201c Well, ho bas got oo amazingly,\u201d put in Mrs.Halliday.* Bat I have more news,\u2019 said Annie, with a smile.\u2018 Bome time ago an English nobleman wanted plans for laying out his gardens in a splendid syle, Johe's drawings were chosen, sud bis lordsbip was so much pleased with John when be saw bim, that he has appointed him tuperintendent of his maguificent grounds, and we are to remove to Rochdale Caatle next month.\u201d Well, well; to be sure, we have all been mistaken,\u201d esid ber sister.\u2018 But who are you in mourning for, Annie?\" Qur boy\u2014thavs bis drum, Marths, and his little shoes, and he was just beginning to prattle at my knee.\u201d \u201cAb! Robert Drew! I see now what yon were bt,\u201d muttered Mrs.Halliday.\u2014 Scottish Temperance League Journal.SUGGESTIONS IN CASE OF FIRE.FOR INMATES.1.Every bouseholder should make esch person in bis house acquainted with the best means of escape, whether the fire breaks out atthe top or at the bottom ; provide fire: guards for use in every room where there is à fire, and let it be a rule for the household not to rake out a fire before retiring for the night, but to leave the guard on.ln secur ing the street-door and lower windowa for the night, avoid complicated fastenings, or impediments to an imwediate outlet in case of fire.2.Inmates at the first alarm should en- desvour calmly, to reflect what means of es- eape there are 4 the house : if in bed at the tims, wrap themselves in a blanket or bed: side carpet; open neither windows nor doors more than mo ; sbut every door after them, This is most important to observe.3.In the midst of smoke it is compara tively clear towards the ground, consequently progress through smoke can be made on the ands and knees.A silk handkerchief, worsted stocking, or other flannel substance, wetted and drawn over the face, permits free breathing, and excludes, to a great extent, the smoke from the lungs.A wet spooge is slike efficacious.4.In the event of being unable to escape either by ihe street-door or roof the persons in danger should immediately make their way to à front room window, taking care to close the door after them, and those who have the charge of the household should as certain that every individual is there assembled, 5.Persons thus circumatanced are entreated not to precipitate themselves from the window while there remains the least probs.bility of assistance; and even in the last extremity, & plain rope is invaluable, or recourse may be bad to joining sheets or blanketa together, fastening one end round s bedpost, or other furniture,\u2014this will enable one person to lower all the others separately, and the last may let himself down with comparatively little risk : select a window over the doorway rather than over the area.6.Do not give vent to the fire by breaking into the house unnecessarily from without, or, if an inmate, by opening doors or windows ; make a poiot of shutting every door after you as you go through the house.For this purpose doors enclosiog the staircase are very useful.ACCIDENTS TO TES PERSON.1, Upon discoverivg yourself on fire, reflect that your greatest denger arises from draught to the flames snd from their ring apwards\u2014throw yourself on the ground, an roll over on the flame, if possible on the rog, or loose drugget, which drag round you; the table cover, a man\u2019s coat, or anythisg of the kind at bend, will serve your parpose: tcreatmiog for nesistunce, ring the bell, bat do not run out of the room, or remain in ao upright position, ; 2, Persons especially exposed to & risk of their dresses taking fire should adopt 1e pre caution of having sll light fabrics washed in a weak solution of chloride of sinc.\u201d TRRATMENY OF INJURIDS.1, Send for medical sid,\u2014let the sufferer be put to bed as quickly as.possible, \u2014re- move all remains of clothing about the in- jared paris enttiog wish extreme caution, ss it is of the most importance to avoid tearing the skin or breaking a blister.If thisis not attended to, the future danger will be greatly aggravated, It possible to avoid it, (be water must not be let out of the blister, * 2.As the readiest thing at band, cover all the injored parts tenderly with clean cotton wool, or what is commonly known ss wad ding, the cleaner and purer the better; (the best for the ie kopt by draggis'a) : it relieves by exciudiog tbe air.Linen rag, came to offer ber à sister's sympatby,'* said soaked in a mixture of equal parts of lime dressing.sponge.suffering.cold water freely spplied is not unattended by danger \u2014 rom Rules for Fire Brigades.THE FIRST LESSON AT SCHOOL \u201cI bave s distinet- remembrance of the: firat lesson I learned in the school,\u201d said Mr, Walton to bis neighbor, Mr, Galway.+ What was it?\" ssid Mr, Galway.It was a lesson in falsehood.\u201d You don\u2019t mean that you learned to lie the first day you went to school 1\" \u201cNo, but Ilesrned that there was such a thing as falsehood in others.\u201d \u201cThat was a lesson that you could not learn too soon.\u201d \u201cIcan\u2019tssy that I agree with you.1 count it a great blessing that I never saw any instance of duplicity in my father\u2019s family.I did not know t there ne such » thing among growd-up people, till went to school.I thik I was all the better for my ignorance.\u201d What was the lesson ?\u201d \u201c As I was on my way to the school-house 1 passed the teacher and a lady who inquired bow her son was doing.The teacher told ber \u2018ber son was doing well, very well indeed.\u2019 In course of tbe day, the teacher ssidto one of the boys, as he failed to speli the word put to him, \u2018 John Ellis, you are the most indolent and worat-behaved boy in school.I saw your mother this morning, and I had a great mind to tell her what kind of a boy you are.I will do so if you don\u2019t do better.\u2019 The lesson bad 8 very deep impression on me.\u2014 I never trusted tbat teacher.When be told me about lessons, 1 never felt aure that I could trust bim.I koow that we must learn to distrust, but it is a lesson which it is not at all desirable for the young mind to learn 80 soon.\u201d How careful should alt be not to give the young lessons of distrust1\u2014S, 8, Times.ADVICE TO HOUSEKEEPERS.1{ you are subject to uninvited company, and your means do not allow you to set be fore your guests as good a table 2s they keep at home, do not distress yourself or them with apologies.If they are real friends they will cheerfully sit down with you to such a table as is appropriate to your circumstances, snd would be uncomfortable by an effort on your part to provide a better one [than you cao afford.If your resources are ample, live in such a way that an unexpected visitor shall occasion ro difference.Theless alteration made in family arrangements on account of visitore, the happier for tbem as well as you.Never treat the subject of having compan: a8 if it were a great affuir, Your doing this will excite your domestics, and lead them to imagine the addition to their ususl work much greater than it is; your own cares, too, will be greatly magnified.A calm and quiet way of meeting ail sorts of domestic vicissitudes, and of doing the work of each day, be it more or lesa, equalizes the pressure of care and prevents it becoming oppressive.Be composed when accidents Lappen to your furniture.The most careful band is sometimes unsteady, Angry words will not mend broken glass or china, but they will teach your domestics to conceal such occurrences from you, and the only explanation given you will be that they came apart.Encourage every one whom you employ to come immediately and tell you, when they have been so unfortunate #8 to bresk or injure anything belonging to you.The cases are very rare, io which it is best to deduct the value from their wages.In the best regulated families thers will be some laborious, perplexing days.Adverse and inconvenient circumstances will cluster together.At those times guard against two thinge\u2014discouragement and irritability.If) others look on (he dark side, find something cheering to say ; if they fret, aympatbize in their share of the trial, while you set them the example of bearing your part in it well, \u2014Ez.paper.Tos Reticovs Neweraren-\u2014Many of our Christian Instructors bave yet much to learn in respect of the value of the weekly newspaper for the propagation and enforcement of religious truth, If the pulpit in these days basa popular rival, it is the newspaper ; and surely this ocressingly polent instrument ought to be employed by the Church, for sacred and educational purposes, as freely a it is used for the advancement of purely secular obj ots, and the propagation of specu- Istive theories.It has come to be the very beat form in which to furnish religious reading for the masses of the people.We entirely agree in the opinion of an American doctor of divinity, that \u201cits general circulation is better ecoromy than the most systematic tract distribution ; for, well conducted, it brings into a family esch week far more Gos pel truth than any tract contains, with the additional gain of ecclesiastion), religious, and general intelligence from every part of the world.\u201d A newspaper in full sympathy with the church, coming into every family of congregation, would prove à most admirable auxiliary to the minister in à multitude of ho that might be readily mamed.\u2014 Happily this is begioning to be far better understood than fo merly, and we once more earnestly commend the subject to our mm nisterial readers and all others concerned in giving » right.direction to the thoughts and babits of the people How tos Cxepriovs ans Swhnmuep.\u2014 The attention and often the copidity of cre-| du'ous readers are attracted by sosiog flaming; advertisements in the papers, offering gol water and linseed oil, alro forms a good \u2018and silver watches and various articles of Common whiting is very good jewelry, valued from $2 to $100, * to be sold applied wet, aud continually damped with à for one dollar each, witliout regard to value, and not to be paid for till zou koow what 3.It is better to avoid cold application.:you get.\u201d The advertisements state that They certainly allay pain; but, uoless the certilicales at twenty-five cents each, or five cold be maintained, the momentary relief is for $1, of all the articles are placed in sealed followed by a considerable aggravation of the cnvelopes, and sent by mail as ordered, with- In extensive burns, moreover, [out regard to choice; and on the receipt \u201cyou will ree what vou can bave, and can then send $1 and take the article or not.\u201d A gentleman ia New York bas recently been at the pains and expense of investigating this system, which, a8 might be expected, be finds a gross swindle.He sent letters to five separate firms who advertise in this way, ordering certificates, and enclosing $20 in each letter.In reply he received for bis $100, 388 certificates, which on the further payment of $1 each, would entitle bim to receive oods valaeG at $2,168, He now invested 100 more to test the representative value of these certificates.Ie presented at the business places of these firma a bundred certificates, selecting those of the highest nominal value, paid the money, and received 211 sets of jewelry and five watches, the aggregate nominal value of which was $509.He saw that the watches and jewelry were nearly worthless ; but to asertain beyond question their value, they were all sent to the United States Assay Office, when it was found that the actuel value of these articles, sold by these five firms for gold and silver, was nine dollars and sixty-two cents, By doubling the value of the gold and silver to include the cost of workmanship, for the $200 in- veated $19,24 were received, These swindling firms have done a Jarge business among the soldiers.\u2014N.¥.Evangelist.\u2018Tue RE£BELLION IN America\u201d \u2014Peace without emancipation and reunion would be worte than war.Peace without reunion would perpetusts the slavery of the negroes, and establish the despotism of the slave bolders, it would be the triumph of rebellion sod tyranny, and it would inflict upon the United States irreparable evils.Dishonorable and dissatrous, it would suspend the miseries of the conflict only to double them; and leading to worse wara hereafter, it would be worse then the war which it ends, Peace with reunion, but without emsucipation, would be also worse than war.For iu this case it wonld likewise prolong the miseries of the slaves; and, as have already shown, would lead to such discussions, both in the conyrces and in the nation, &s would end in à fiercer rebellion, and in & more ssuguinsry strife.A peace, therefore, without emancipation and reunion, ie such as noze but fools accept ; but peace with emancipation sod reunion, under wbich all will enjoy their rights, and all will bs contented, will be solid, henefionnt aud durable.\u2014 Rev.Baptist W.vel, RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN IRELAND.Dupuis, May, 1864, The Ultramontane press continues to ridicule Y the miesionary proceedings in Western Con- naught, es schools upon paper\u201d and \u201cChurches in nubibus ;\u201d but the Christian public believe the reports of noblemen and clergymen who bave travelled over the scenes, and found schools and congregations comparatively poor, and few, sud #wall, because in a thinly-peopled region and in widely scattered population, and are determined to make provisions foe tbe permanent enjoyment of Christian ordivances, At late meeting in Liverpool the Rev.Canon McNellle and friends pledged themselves to raise £5,000 for this purpose.The Fres Press of Glasgow, the organ of the independent and Roman Catholic thinkers there, bas long been at war with the Ultramontane hierarchs and their minio-s.The former editor, Mr.Harpur, when threatened with a ** pastoral\u201d from Bisbop Murdock, to be read in all the churches, denouncing hit as an enemy to the Church, withdrew ; but the present editor, Mr.Kesne, is determined to stand up for the popular righte coufe que coute, Ultramontaniem claims 0 dictate, 1,0t only in spirituals, dut in ail political,and social maiters, and the Free Press takes ite stand upon the icdependent rights of the people in these matters.Ite supporters are kim dred epirite of the Feniaos, or \u2018\u2018 Fighting Nations- Liste,\u201d of this country, end the Connaught Pairiot and tbe Tipperary Advocate, under the inspira tion furnished by Fetber Lavelle,\u2014and ellently and pecretly, it believed, favored by the ** great Archbishop of the West,\u201d in whom Nationalism prevails over Uliramontanism,\u2014take the same stand-point, \u2018They insist that there is nothing in the Canons of the Church, or Bulls of the Pontiffs, tbat probibits organizationa for national ine dependence, or & recourse to arms, if necessary, for this purpose.Tbe * Tulkiog Nationalists\u201d profess submiseion to the Church, when claiming, as Ultramontanism does, to dictate in all matters whatever; and their organs the News and the Nation, wriübg most bitterly against the others, are loud in their calls to the * Hierarchy \u201d to take away the \u201cban\u201d under whoh the clergy had been lsid sgainst meddling in politics, and to insugurate a political agitation for national in dependence.This would not exactly sult Dr.Cullen, bat to sgitatesguinet landlordism and the Church Establishment mey do fe a in and accordisgly Dr.Butler, Bisbop of Li and bis archdencon, Dr.O*Brien, bave commenced.The latter is the founder of tbe Roman Catholic Young Men's Societies, and tbey will be so many nuclet for agitation every #hore ; AUd, as prepars-\" tions on « migbty scale are Lo progress for an onslaugbt on the Church Establishment, and a8 the slarming emigration gives an uoueus! interest to the Laud Question, petitions without number will be poured into the House of Com- wous, std stirring events may be expected 0 break the stillness that bas chbarsoterized the prevent session.I look upon all these more ments, however, as to their probable bearings upon the cause of religious freedom for our Roman Catbolia country men sud the provable facilities for diffusing smoog them tbe Gospel of salvation, The multiplication of ** Orders, and female, and their diffusion over tbe whole country, throw no slight pa bo the rd of gettiag access to the pasagl'edon producss inquisy.and the amertion ,prayer.\u2014 Correspondent N, F.of the right of judgment co ove set of subjects Phciliases ht où others.The friends of Truth must persevere lo faith, and hope, sod Jory 9, 1864 The Miscellany.THE DREAM AT BEA.'T was night, and our sbip lay helmed on the ses, \u2018While reposing, asleep on my pillow, -J dreamt, dearest sister, of home and of thee, Gently rocked to my rest by the billow.I dreamt, and O! long may that vision remain, For it came as & balm to my feeling, Fhat I prest thy loved form to my bosom egain, And 1 heard thy soft voice o'er me stealing.We roved once again to dear *Jarula\u2019s shore, Where the wild waves in fury were spluhing, And the rocks madly echoed their desfuiog roar, While the foam o'er their hosr tops came dash- iog.\u2018We rambled once more to the Bay Moulin-Tluet, Our hearts beating Hight as a feather ; Aud gained those steep heights, which few cau forget, * If climbed, 8s we've climbed them together.And when on the top of those cloud-piercing e, Uow sweet broke the vision around us; Each bosom with wonder and awe quickly fills, But love with bia * Halo\u201d here crowned us.Enraptured, sweet sister, we frzed on that Bay, Aud watched the curled billows retreating, As they dashed on the gande like dolphios at play, Thelr light feathered spray o'er us beating.In sweet visions like these, the night pasced away, Tilt the run through my cabin came gleaming, And the captain's rough call, (bear a band, sir, \"tis day,) Told too plaloly, that I had been dreaming.Manx B.V.«Jaro, the eaciect name of Guernsey, one of the Chaneel islands.THE SECRET FOE.PART I.\u201cI'll find him oat,\u201d said Arthur Austin, as he dashed down his pen, and took up his hat; \u201cI have an enemy that's clear, and it seems he dodges my steps too, but lil track him.\u201d He drew up his magnificent (igure to its full height, aud walked out of the office with a royal air, * Stupid fellow,\u201d remarked his master as he caught a glimpse of Austin in passing; \u201cif he doesn't mind what he is about we wil lose all confidence in him.\u201d Some enemy had been slandering him to Mr.Mortimer, and all the way home be was trying to make out which of bis friends bad turned traitor.Austib's home was in a back street in St, George's, but it was the neatest, cosiest little home you ever saw, and it was always bright with loving smiles.When he opened the parlour door a general glow met bim ; but the children looked up amazed, as if it were unusual {0 see paps so early, and their mother, who was playing a merry tune on the piano, changed colour, and rose hastily from the instrument.\u201cWe have had tes, Arthur;\u201d she said, * but L will soon make a cup.\u201d \u2018 Thank you, but I don\u2019t care much for tea you know,\u201d laughed ber husband, taking his youngest child oa his knee.« Are you going out again, papa 1\u201d asked little Clara.\u201cNo; fetch my slippers, and I'll take a game of rompe with you.\u201d « Ab,\" thought Emmeline Austin, * if be would always come home like this.\u201d It was a happy night.Playing with bis children he almost forgot the annoyance of the day.When they were sent off to bed, a remark of Emmeline's brought up the sore subject.\u201cWell, I never did any anill turn, Emm but I've found out that have a secret foe,\u201d said Arthur Austin, looking in the fire solemnly, ¢ You, Arthur,\u201d said his wife, with an incredible look.\u201cSomebody or another bas been telling the governor a lot of lies.\u201d \u201cWhat bas put that into your bead?\u201d doar Arthur.\u201cI know it Old Mortimer watches me as il I were s pick-pocket.\u201d It must be imagination,\u201d said Emmeline with a smile.« Mortimer\u2019s 8 narrow-minded old fool,\u201d resumed Austin ; sud if he hears that a fel: low has been known to be slightly mistaken once in o life-time, he concl is on the rosd to rain.\u201d \u201cDoes Mr.Mortimer know that\u2014that you sometimes go to drinking places Arthur?\u201d asked his wife, timidly.\u201c Well be bas no business with what I do on my own time, snd I shan't allow any man to interfere with my freedom.I can get fifty situations as good as the one I hold at pre- sont any day,\u201d answered her husband eva sively.\u201c(Ob Arthur!\u201d don't quarrel with Mr.Mortimer,\u201d pleaded Emmeline; \u2018\u2019be bas been so liberal snd so induigent, and you are 80 comfortable in your present situation,\u201d \u201c1 won't stand any nonsense however,\u201d said Austin, with » determined shake of the The happy vight was a sleepless one to Emmeline.It was 50 dreadful to think Mr.Mortimer bad discovered Arthur's failing.I he lost his situation, what would become of them ?She was frightened to think of bim beings week out of employment, for they were in debt.Ob! the misery, the misery of Sriak | at the summer passed ove! d the little {iff between Austin and Mr, Mortimer seemed to have blown over.He was in better spirits, aod the warning sesmed to have had effec À Winter set in, cold, bard, and pitiless, but the old piano kept the ?childben Sheers when all the sunshine was driven out of the : rast, It was near Christmas, and Emmeline was decking up the litte parlour with a bunchor THE MONTREAL WITNESS two of mistletoe when Arthur came homme, mi Drow: preity the red berries \u201c pa w ty the shine under the eat erisd Olara, running up to him, 4 Tan\u2019 it 80 nice, pape,\u201d lisped little Kate.\u201c Bepd them away to bed, Emmeline,\u201d said Austin, moodily.The shining leaves fell from Emmeline's band.There was something wrong when Arthur could pot be troubled with bis child: ren, Yes, the enemy had been at work agaio, and old Mortimer bad become intolerably suspicious thet\u2014in fact Le bad hinted he would like to make & change.* But don\u2019t look 0 terrified, Emmy,\u201d said Austin; \u201cI can \u2018get on without Mortimer.\u201d Tae poor wife smiled, but her heart stood still with fear.They bad nothing to fait back upon if Arthur \u2018was unsuccessful ; he spent 60 much on brandy.Ob, the cruel enemy! But Artbur Austin was a clever accountant, sad he expected to fall in immediately, and perhaps be would if there had not been à stagnation 15 that department of business when be fell out with Mr.Mortimer.Be this as it may, for every vacant situation there were 8 hundred applicants, and every new day closed with a fresh dissppointment.From week to week they lived on hope, but Spring, with her glad smile, seemed to wock the Austins.0 these dreary months of dearth and sorrow, 1 think Emweline's brave heart would have failed ber had she known all she was to pass through; but for her strong courage in tbe dark hour of remorse and sbawe, Arthur Austin would have lifted his desperate band against bis miserable life.That fair, fragile, delicately-reared girl, how she struggled, bow she stood firm to the last, in the face of black misery, let those tell who this day call ber blessed.At last, when Austin bad given up makiog application in despair, a friend heard of a splendid situation, which Austin might stand 8 good chance for.A personal interview was recommended, and hope revived.Em- meline was up early next morning to get breakiast in good time, and wben he went away, looking so bandsowe, so gentlemanly in his dress suit, she felt certain Arthur would be the successful applicant.She had him off 80 early that he was at the office before Mr.Roberts, and be bad to saunter through the city for an tour and a half.No matter, he came home in high glee.It was sll but settled that he was to get the situa- tiop\u2014Mr.Roberts was quite satisfied with bis testimonials, and be had pressed his hand warmly at parting.\u201cTaree hundred! there's a rise for you old woman, fling away that old shabby bonnet.Here, Clara and Kate, papa is going to buy you new siik frocks, and you shall have pudding every day now, and everything that's nice.\u201d The little things danced for joy, and the old piano rattled out its merriest music, as if it rejoiced too, Punctual to his word, Mr.Roberts\u2019 letter came with the next afternoon's post, às they THR CELEBRATED DEAD, [From Prof.Fatrfald's letters in Morning Star.) Lonvoy, England, Mey 18, 1864.Among the churchen of London, St.Paul's Catbecral aud Westaivater Abbey are by far the most noted, and the most wortby of be ing 80.The latter is scarcely inferior in interest to any other church that I have seen.My first vioit to it was last Ssptember ; but it was a short one, and one that affected me too deeply to fit me for a dispassionate des- eription.The bour that I then spent in walk ing through it, was one of tears; it seemed like tbe funeral of some dear friend, as [ walked among the monuments of the grest aud good who sleep within those walla.looked upon the memorials of the mighty dead; und the perisbableness of esrthly greatness and glory was written upon every marble.Here is Pitt, the first Earl of Chat.ham; he stands in an attitude of speaking, as he was wont in the House of Commons le was bora in 1708, and passed away two years after the Declaration of American Independence.Over there is his diatinguished son, robed in the style of the Chancelior of the Exchequer.He: was born in 1759, 1 believe, and acted an important yart in our Revolutionary struggle.In 1860 he ended his glorious career, and Parliament erected | to him this splendid monument, in which History is represented recording bis speeches, and Anarchy as lying subdued at bis feet, and writhing in chaios, Here is the statue of the distioguished jurist, Lord Mansfeld ; at the age of 89 he was gathered to bis fathers in 1703 ; having been made Solicitor General in 1742, At- torney-Genersl in 54, Lord Chief Justice and Baron in \u201856, and Earl ia '76.Here in marble he sits on the bench, with bis official wig; and Justice on the one side holds the equally poised scales, while Wisdom on the other opens the book of the law.Not far away is the bust of Warren Has tings.A highly eulogistic epitaph recounts the ** wisdom\" of his administration in India, the \u201c mild and equitable away *\" with which he ruled Bengal, sud that he was \u201cnot more distinguished by the highest qualities of a statesman and a patriot, than by the exercise uf every Christian virtue.\" This memorial was erected by his wife, and if she was not misteken in her estimate of bis character, the terrible spesch of Edmund Burke in his impeachment was wide of the truth, We leave bim to the righteous judgment of the great day.Close at hand, however, is & monument to one whom we love to bonor.It is written upon it: \u201cTo the memory of William Wiiberforce, born in Hull, August 24, 1795, died in London, July 29, 1833.\" For mearly half a century « member of the House of Commons, snd in an age and country fertile in great hand good tnen, he was among the foremost of those who fixed the character of their first, and in the House of Lords ufterwards.|\" 431 # Died in the 48:h year of bis age, the honor burial ground mill be long remembered.The sad delight of the British nation.\u201d mosuments are simple, durable.That to Oliver Goldsmith is herein profile~\u2014with Bunyss has been renewed within à few worde of bigb eulogy for his wit, good nature, [and is the most conapicuous of them ui.2 raceful conversaticn, elegant style and true recambent status of the old prisener of Bed- riendship.\u2018His death occurred in 1774, be-| ford Jail lies upon the top of the tomb ; and fore be had attained even the moderate age of is the only piece of statesry in the comotery.forty-three.he laughing poet, Gay, is close by; but few will spprove the levity of his epitaph, written by bimeelf: \u201cLife Is u jest, endall things show it; 1 thought so once, but now I koow it.\u201d James Thompeon, the author of the Seasons has a worthy place in this corner, and William Sbakespesre is not left out.[lis 1] monument is admirable, avd bis own words are copied upon the sceoli : TO PREVENT A DONKEY FROM BRAYING.In 1840, ssys Mr.Huc, we were once making 8 journey in & wagon in the province of Pekio.Our equipsge was under the guidance of an oll schoolmaster, mounted upon a maguifieent ass, wo full of srdor and agility, that the two mules that completed our team bad sll tbe difficulty in the world to keep ce with him.This ass, however, was so fill \u201c The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, with the sense of bis own superiority, snd so The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yes, all which is isherits, shall dissolve, And, like the Dieelers fabric of a virion, Leave not & wreck behind.\u201d Robert Soutbey -aod Taomes Campbell come next.The beautiful lines of the latter are most appropriately engraved upon the pedeatal of Lia statue: + This spirit shall rewurn to Him Who gave ita heavenly epask ; Yet thick not, sure, it shall bs dim When thou thyself art dark | No\u2014it shall live again, and shine 1a bliss, uvknown to beams of thine, By Him recalled to breath, Who captive led captivity, Who robbed the grave of victory, And took the eting from Deatia1\u201d Aad whose memorial is tbis?A poet\u2019s?t\u2014 Aye, more than a poet.Granville Sharp rests here.** Write me as one that loves his fellowmen!\u201d Glorious warriors sleep in Westminster Abbey, but few that did battle longer or more gloriously than this great: hearted philanthropist.It was Lord Mane- fisld over there who pronounced final sen: tence in the case of the slave Somerset, and declared that no alave could live under the British flag; bat it was a decision wrung out only efter a contest of many years, and the leader io thet contest for freedom and buman- ity wasthe noble man who rests here.Somer- ect was his own elave, and he made bis case the test of the nefarious systems that was doomed to fall under the heavy blows of right eous Law, administered by a court sworn to maintain justiee aud right.Surely There is a weapon firmer set, And truer thao the bayonet.\u201d Fortuuate had it been for us had only the South been willing to yield Lo the smitings of that wespon, iusiead of compelling us to the other | And hero are Milton, aud Gray, and Butler and Spencer, aud * Rute Ben Jubason,\u201d and Chaucer, and that master of pulpit invective snd sarcasm, Dr.lobert South, snd not long since was laid here the eloquent historian, Thomas Babiogton Macaulay, who conferrcd dignity upon the title of Buron, instead of Da you wonder time; because, tohigh and varicus talents, to! receiving honor from it, warm benevolence and to universal candor, that oue should walk through the midst of he added the abiding eloquence of a Chris-| such a Court of Daath with deep emotion ?\u2014 were sitting down to an early tea.Open it you little unbeliever,\u201d said Austin, tossing the blue missive across to his wife, «0b! I couldn't indeed, Arthur,\u201d said Emmeline, beginning to tremble ail over, He laughed at her, for'a nervous little coward, and gaily tore open the envelope.Ab! why turns his check so pale; and what makes Austin tremble like a weak woman, as be reads.Let us look at these brief lines his eye reéts upon so despairingly.+ had decided in your favour, but when shaking hands with you, the odour of brandy came unmistakably through your breath, I confess 1 was disappointed, but the gentleman, between whom and yourself [ was wavering, beirg a total abstainer, I feit safe in giving my trust to a clear head.\u201d * And it was only halfa- fase groaned Austin, \u201chalf à glass of brandy has lost three hundred a year.\u201d our enemy;\u201d wed her pale \u201cAb, Arthur! that is whispered Emmeline, as'she face on his shoulder.* The secret foo is the invisible spirit of strong drink.It is he that bas kept us from prospering.He has taken the bread from our children, and riven us of all our comforts, and he would steal your good name, to bring us to ruin,\u201d Yes, he could not deny it.The flend bad shown himself in his true colours at last.\u2014 What a fool he had been! how blinded! He cursed himself for being deceived.\u201cButit's too Iste, now,\u201d he cried, a8 bia eye fell again on the letter; \u201cI am done for.\u201d * No, no,\" pleaded Emmeline; \u201cyou can cast out the enemy, Arthur, he has no power over you against your own will ; you can Le foe 10 you would, and we may be bappy t \u201cAb! noble wife, it was bravely mid, when your poor beart was breaking with à cruel \u2018disappointment; but when did love miss her reward.\u201d There waa no answer ; butshe waited, and whispered such words of hope into bis ear, that he arose like & now man, invigorated and strengthened and befors night closed he had taken thespledge, and banished for ever from Artbur Austin's home the Secret Fos.He began life agaio, on & new principle, and be is now in partnership with tbe gentle: msn who su Mr.Roberts in business, the same who stepped in before him ten years ago.\u2014 Es.Paper.How ro Susovs Huanrs.\u2014The sternest hearts are melted by the gentienees of woman; and in no other capacity oan she more effectually develop this delightful power than in that ofa wife.By her persuasive man.pers she solicits sod commands obedience, apd it should be ber highest aim not to im- alr this power.To enable her to do this, tie necessary that sbe should know how to govern her temper; this she must effect by striving to adapt herself to the exigencies incidental to ber altered position, tian lite.Eminent as be was in every de-! And yet I have mentioned the names of ouly partment of public labor, and a leader ina small part of thoss whose monuments are every work of charity, bis name will over be| here, specially identifled with those exertions] And besides these, which are open to the which, by Eagland the guilt of the African Slave Trade, which access is had ouly by psyiag the guide and prepared the way for the abolition of! who conducts yon, and Tones off \u20ac you the slavery in every colony in the Empire.\u201d Tho nawes of the honored dead who are laid marble represents bim in a sitting posture, \u2018away in these more retired apartments.\u2014 with a thoughtful expression and the wrinkles Kings and Bishops, Estla and Lorde, Queens of « beauteous old age.We drop a tesr|and Couvtesses, Kuights and Ladies, sleep at the recollection of his noble life, and bere.thank God for tbe assurance that be has| Mary, Queen of Scots, who was beheaded only passed away to the mausions of the|in 1687, is bere; her remains having been blest.Lo removed to che chapel of Heary VIE in 1612, I.the same north aisle is n grand monu-j And Queen Elizibetb, by whose command ment to the memory of Isaac Newton.The! Mary was beheaded, has ber monument bere devicea are expressive, especially that which |also\u2014both royally magnificent, aud, carious represents him as weighing the sun with 810 say, both erected by the ssme king, Jumes pair of steelyards.Tue sculptured figure is|I., who was himssif the son of the later! \u2014 recumbent, with the right arm leaning on| He himself is also buried in the same chapel, four folio volumes.Happy man, iu that be| but without a monument.blended the profoundest science with the| In the chapel of St.Paul, with Kaigbts, bumblest piety.; and Estls, and Admirals, and Countesses, is The remains of the distinguished soato-|a colosss] monument to James Watt, whose mist, Dr, Jobn Hunter, lie not far off.The|improvements of the eteam engine so \u201cen- Royal Col'zge of Surgeons of England placed larged the resources of bis country\u201d as to en the tablet over the spot.title bim to be buried with nobles.To the south aisle lies the Poet Words-| Sir Homphrey Davy bas a like honor in worth, in 8 quiet spot, consonant with the another chapel.serenity of his nature, and the calm, summer| Here may be seen alsothe old coronation evening tone of bis songs.On the same| chair in which all the kings ead queens bare side, à little mohument to our * swee} singer sat to receive the crown since Edward I, à of Israel,\u201d Dr, Watts.Tue doctor sita on a| period of almost six centaries.It is & p stool, attitude of deep contemplation, but substantisl aod venerable looking cba while an angel opens to him the wocders of| For some years past the royal burial place creation, y of bis sweet verses occur to] bas been transferred from the Abbey to Wind- us as we stand for a moment by the side of sor Castle.this silent marble.81, Pauls Cathedral is scarcely less interest.In the same is the record of another |ing then the Abbey itself, ers, among name\u2014somewbat less familiar to us, and far many others, are monuments to Hallam, Dr.leas revered \u20141bat of Major Andre.Weread|Samuel Jobnsou, Lard Cornwallis, Nelson, and stop to copy the inacription : \u2018Sacred to|Jobn Howard, Bir Christopher Wren, Bishop the memory of Xisjoe Jobn Andre, who|Heber, Admiral Howe, Sir Astley Cooper, the blessing of God, removed from ipspaction of ell visitors, are nine chapels to life, to the rank of AdjotantUeneral of the British forces in America, aod employed in sn important but basardous enterprise, fell a sacrifice to his zeal for his king and country, on the 2d of October, 1780, aged 29, universally beloved snd esteemed the army in which be served, and lamented even by bis foes.lis Gracious Sovereign, George I, has caused this monument to be erect ed.\u201d By the laws of war Msjor Andre died as a 8py; but even America respects him as » gallant officer; which is mors than can be said of Arnold, who was despised even in England, whither be escaped the death of a thoes in the poet's corner touch us most deep ig.Hore is Addison, with a native insorip tion: *¢ Whoever thou art, venerate the memory of Joseph Addison, in whom Christian faith, virta and ood ome found « contant petron;\u201d thus it begins, in, high tribute to bia genius and Tera > phe peace, both in prose and , and to his pure and soued ings, it closes trailor, But of all the monuments in the Abbey lof raised by bis merit, st an early period of his|Sir Joshua Reynolds and Napier i end here also is the tomb of the Duke of Wellington.There are not many grander buildings in Europe tban this cathedral, of which Chris topher Wren was the architect.Formerly attached to his statye were these words * Si quæris monumentam, cireumepice ;\" \u201c If you week my monument, look srouod yoa.\u201d For some resson, this iusoription has beea re moved, With the exception of these two, the Protestant churches of London, snd even Bt George's Cathedral, where Cardinal Wisemsn presides, are wisely constructed more with reference to the accommodation of audiences, than aa receptacles of monuments or worke art, Baubiil Fielda is tbe name of an old cemetery pear the centre of Loodon, wbich bas long since been dieused.Ta this are buried John Banyan, John Gill, the author of * Gill'é Commentary,\u201d Fos.the distinguished Qasker, Dr.Watis\u2014 whose motument ia Westminster.Abbey has been referred to\u2014aud many otber ne of emioenos, particularly among tbe issenters.My visit to that interesting old \u201cproud of it, that whenever he became aware of the presence of any of bis bretbren be never failed 10 commence beastiog of it in such loud aud sonorous tones, that his folly became quite insupportable.When he got to ao ion, instead of trying to rest bimaeli, the beast passed the whole night in practisiag ibis music, setting ull the donkeys io the neighborhuod Lo vinging the same tune, «0 that it was impossible to eleep.Une evening we £did tu the schoolmaster, * Your dome key is an sbomicable brate\u2014it prevents my geting 8 wink of sleep \u2014' Why did you not teil me so b fore 1\u2019 said the schoolmsster; +I would soon bave stopped his siugiog.\"\u2014 As the old pedsgogus was somewhat of & wag, and indulged sometimes in o emsll joke, we took little notice of bis reply, but that night we slept quite soundly.+ Well did the ass make a poise last night?\" he asked when we met in the morning.\u201c Perbape rot,\u201d seid we, \u2018 Atall eveuts, we did not hear bim.\"\u201d \u201cNo, I think not,\u2019 ssid be: \u201cI saw tot before I went to bed.You must bive ticed, be continued,\u201d * tbat when an ses is going to bier, be always begins by ruising is tail, sud he keeps it extended horizontally as long as his song lasts, To ensure his the end of bis tail, 80 that be cannot raise it.\u201d We smiled without reply, thinking that this was only soother piece of pleasantry ; but be cried\u2014'! Come, now, and see ; you can easily convince yourselves.\u201d And accordingly we followed him to the court yard, where we beheld, sure enough, the poor ass with a large\u2019 stone attacbed to bis tail, end with the air of baving entirely lost bis accustomed apiritæ His eyes were xed on the ground, his ears bung down; his whole sppesrance denoted bomility and dejection.We felt quite compassionate towards him, and begged his mss- ter to uptie the stoue directly; and os soon as ever he felt his musical appendage at liberty, the creature raised first bis head, then his ears, then his tail, and at Inst begau to bray with all hia wonted emerzy.\u2014N.¥.Evangelist, SHave Essextiar To tas Erect or Lioor.\u2014It is recorded of Quesz Elixabelh, that, ignorant of the laws of painting, she com- (ee her portrait to be taken without a shadow upou the canvas.With an ignorance {of the laws of moral painting equally as profound, and infinitely more serious, how often would we have gbliterated from our, history those sombre pencilings of life's picture\u2014the dark background aud blended shagows\u2014 which the Divine Artist knew to be ebsential tothe fidelity, harmony, and perfection of the whole! We would have life without its moral discipline.Wo would efface from the portrait all tbe shadioga of sorrow and sick.(peus, suffering, poverty, and bereavement; {leaving nothing but the bright and suony hues of unmingled, unclouded happiness |\u2014 But when we gaz3 upon the carvings, the paintings, and frescoes of our whole life, each epoch, eveat, and iucident\u2014the lights snd ' shadows beautifully nud exquisitely blended | \u2014we shall then see the infinite rectitude of our heavenly Father in His present dealings with us, both of sorrow and of joy.With what vividness shall we then see the neces sity, ps much for the cold, dark pencilings, as for the warm roseate tints of the pictars; and for both the lights and shadows, the joys and sorrows of life, we shall laud and ore His great and glorious name \u2014 Winslow.Ax Igxoraxr Mimsrea.\u2014The author of \u201cLight in Darkness,\u201d lntely & unitarian miniater, gives the following pictars of his own iguorance on entering the ministry :\u2014 + Of the vast weslth of practical righteousness which is open by the reception of the doctrine of the Deity of Chnist, knew nothing; of sin as an entailed possession of the race, I knew notbing; of forgiveness gain through the passion of Cbrist, I knew noth ing; of a regeneration through a changed will, under the work of the or Spirit, I know notbing ; of the great remedial achome by which God isexpalling sin from the world and séttiog up the kingdom of Christ, I knew nothings of the life which rests in feith in Corist, knew nothing, What bed were the outlying principles of practical etbics, amd à rudimentary acquaintance with Chris tian morality.\u201d Musarexe Tiue.\u2014How wretched itis to hear people complain that the day hangs heavy upon them\u2014that they do nqt krow what to do with themseives! How mon strous aro such expressions among creatures who can spply themselves to the duties of religion ft} meJitation, to the reading of eedful books ; who may exercise themselves In the pursuite of knowledge and virtue, and every hour of their lives make themselves wiserand better than they were before { \u2014 When the moon is overhaad, it is difficult for us to conceive that, ifw cannon ball wes fred at us from the central portion of the woon's disk, it would rush down toward us & short distsoce,sud then turn backward and fall up to the moon ag in, bat it would.\u2014 Most of the shadows that cross our path through life are caused by us standing in our own Light, silence, you have only to tie a large stone to \u2014\u2014 =.È 440 (Continued from first page) firemen, Afterwards ifaot serving \\be important post of watchman, this experienced cleaner is pont as & freman upon wood or freight traine, the fireman in all ca,es being tle judge of the fitness of à man for that work, he Lariog contro) and knowledge of them.Ît ia of course done with my knowledge, but upon the foreman\u2019a recommendation.1 bave à staff book which shows tbe promotion of each man through the varions grades After serving a sufficient time as fireman, if bis conduct bas been good, and bis efficiency unquestioned, he bas opportunities of commencing 88 driver,\\brough precisely the same | reason ap be commenced as fireman, from sickn 85 or other cause of absence of the driver.This generally goes on from oue to two years, during which be is sometimes firing and at other times driving, acd then if there is no cause to the contrary, be is promoted to be a driver, upon No.1 pay.We bave tbree scales of pay for the drivers.After this be works bimself up to the highest scale of pay by good conduct and; efficient macagement of bis engine.We have| two scales of pay for the fireman, tbe bigheet being an sdditional fifteen cents per day beyond | or when about to descend the any strange engine frem tbe Great Western \u2018When runs upon the Grand Trunk we invariably send a Grand Trunk fireman as pilot to point out to the strange engine men tbe pecuilsrities of the read and the sigosis.1 may menticn a fact daily i which occurred long before my connection with the Grand Trunk.The Great Western engives ran from Toronto to Portland ope continuous journey by the aid of Gand Trunk firemen actibg as pilots upon the vations divisions of the road to which they belong.I have myself riddez one contiou- ous journey from Toronto to Portland, and we ever bad the sligbiest d'ffculty or accident, and 1 found the Grand Trupk firemen at that time to be thoroughly acquainted with the road, and I felt myself perfectly at ease, Mr, Clendioniog teing about to put some other questions, Mr.McCready interrupted, saying that be thought Mr.Eaton's explanations were sufficient, without further croes-questioniog.The Coroner said every gentleman had 8 right to put any questions he liked Witness contisued : Wuen I crossed tbe bridge, the traine rtopped.1 have seen emigrants travelling ic Western Un- what had been paid to the men defore 1 enter-|nada\u2014sometimes in second-class cars, but also ed into the service of the Grand Trunk Railway.This was done to encourage tbe good men and them upon the road.We bave no exami-, nation, The firemen are well acquainted with the men, sud I myself am eo well acquainted with the faults of every man, and the long pro-: 00es of growing into a driver is 80 sure of briog- ing out any defects, that neither upon lhe Grand ! Trunk or upon any other railway, during my; thirty years\u2019 experience has anything like s of examiners been found neces- q 1 beg to mention, however, that I bave & higbly qualified travelling iospec- tor, a thorough engine driver, Wbcse duty it is to continually travel over the whole road, rid- upon (he engines with the men in order to see whether they are really efficient as engine- men or firemen, and whetber they attend to tue rules as to signale and other important reguls- tions of the Company.Aud in order to do this more effectualiy, be frequently gets upon a train unknown to the driver and the fireman, by which be is better able to detect apy irregularity as to the rules.Iam conversant with the signal There ere red and green flags and lamps, and semaphore signels.The rel signifies danger, the green caution.The arms of the semrphore On the Grand Trunk we take the second-class care first for this purpose, then the firat-ciass , and I think in two instances I have seen box-cars used.We have just finished a train of cars to-day, to bold 400 passengers, expressly for the emigrants, We have ten more in band.They have been built very strong in the framing; they are provided with double water-closets and double water.cans, and are much better ventilated than any of our recund- class cars.By Me.Isaatson\u2014The engine Buraey was on has not been often to Point Bt.Cbarles for repair.1 selected it and another, put them in repair and sent them to Ricbmoud, so that they could pick up apy disabled train, ke.By Mr.Wagner~\u2014A driver going over the road & few times, once in three moaths or so, would be sufficiently acquainted with the road.An engineer is first tried with a wood or freight train.(Witness here produced documents showing rewards, &c., to drivers or firemen.Whenever a reward is made or fine im- in box-ca .lposed, a copy of the paper is sent to each locomotive station.Also: produced specimens of the characters received with persons applying for employment, who bad been in the service of extended at right angles denote danger.The! other companies.He produced these to show arms halt lowered means caution.Couductors are not under my control, nor arethe braker- men.They are selected by tbe lucal Superin- teadents of the districts upon which they run, 1 have little personal knowledge of the prisoner \u2018Wm.Burney ; he bas rever been brought before me for any offence whatever.He bas always been particularly recommended to me by bis foreman.No later than three weeks ago, Mr King came by express to Montreal to recommend Burney to run tbe Rictm:od pilot engine.Upon Mr.King's recommendation I consented that Barney should go as driver, I never saw him in charge of an engine, but I have seen him on as fireman-st Acton aud at Montreal.driver on being appointed to take charge of à tzaln, told his superior officer that be did not know the road, be would not be permitted to rum it if I knew it.But I would like to mention that in my consultation with Mr.King, if I bad mot been aware that Burney was one of the oldest men we had in that district, and thst in the natural course of things he must be thoroughly scquainted with the road, I certainly should not have consented to his promotion.I bave often been over the Belail bridge both ways, long be- tore 1 was connected wlib the Grand Trunk, I have run over it with Great Western engines, coming in from St.Hilaire Station across the bridge to Belœil Station.There ls Do distinction made in the speed from that starting from any other station.They go at the usual rate-about 18 miles an bour-from the station to the bridge.There is a rule in every new time table which is printed, that each train shall stop before entering the bridge.Bo far as my own observation goes, 1 do not remember any infraction of the rule, and I have had no complaint from either the present or former local Buperinten- dent of that district.The local superintendent M heevar beardofsuch & thing Would be sure to Peport it tome.À proper speed to carry tbe train over the bridge Is from 16 to 20 miles an hour, although the bridge is so mirong, you might carry à train over It at any speed.If upon entering the ridge at tbe rate of 15 miles an hour, the driver promptly applied bis own brake and reversed the engine, and bad 1he assistance of the brakes- man upon tbe train, be would be able to stop io 300 yaids, wbich forme the main boëy of the bridge.1 bave been riding on the engine across the bridge sometimes for the purpose of cbeerving the actions of the men.Ihave crossed the bridge during tbe pight frem the Esat, but I have not been ppon tbe en gice at that time, as when there Ît was generally at tbe close of a Joug days\u2019 trav.ol, a0d T woud be inside.On a train of eleven Inden cars, which has got to ran fast, aud in \u2018weather, one brakesman is sufficient, brakesman Is under the Conductor, and the driver also whilst running tbe train, that is as to stopping and startiog at certain stations, If tbe conductor orders the driver te go at & more rapid rate, the driver would not do s0 unless bo thought it was safe.The engine wbich fell into the Richelien was taken out of the river ou Sunday last.I saw it taken out.The engine was reversed, from which I would infer that the driver was desirous of stop- it.What ls meant by reversing, is revers- tbe motion of tte valves which admit the steam 10 the pistons of the engine, and when the walves are 90 reversed the power of the steam tends to prevent the revolution of the wheels, but does not really turn the wheels backwards.Turning the wheels backwards is only effected when tbe engine is running very slowly and the ralls rather greasy.By Mr.Hd do not believe it possible tbat the wheels could bave been reversed on the Dridge\u2014] never saw it done ; but tbe effect is the same: as far ae retarding the speed of the engine le ocopoerued, the full power being thrown agslust the pletons.By Mr, Olendioniog\u2014A fireman cannot help becoming scqualated with the rond.The sotual firlog of the eoxine cauly forms part of his duty.14 is bis dutyto keep a lookout when oot fir.that all such matters came to his knowledge.He also produced a book showing the fines and rewards to every man.) By Mr.Reinbardt\u2014The cars in which the emigrants in question came were priocipally in box cars.There are no closets in those cars.There were pails of water, us I understand.They have two large doors, oue on each side.Some bave also end doors.We bave used the rame cars in taking some 1500 of our own men, with their fam'lies, cut for a pic-nic.They are not quite #0 convenient ay second-class cars.A passenger train with two brakesmen, going at the rate of 40 miles an bour, might bs stopped at about 900 If 8) ards.It is usual to slacken speed où ali long bridges.: The coroner here announced that a child (one of the emigrants) lay dead atthe Mont St.Fam.ile Hospital, and the jury then at 10 pm.ad- jourued until two o'clock, then to meet at the Oourt House and to view this body.BEVENTH DAY\u2014JULY 6.The jury reassembled yesierday afternoon at two o'clock in tbe Erquete Room at the Court House.The same cficials were present on the pares of the Grand Trunk Company ae had been at former sittings.The names of the jury baving been answered to, Mr.R.Baron was resworn, To Me.L.B84UDRY \u2014I ax.superintendent of locomotives, and I bave at different stations foremen, who appoint engine drivers, subject to my approval.I do not in all cases examine such drivers before I approve of their appointment.These men grow so gradually from fice- men to drivers that the live can scarcely be drawn between them.Iamacquainted so with the men, previously, that I generally find it sufficient mmply to caution « newly appointed driver to pay the etrictest attention to the rules.If a msn is at a road station, I take the first opportunity of my visiting it to ask his foreman 88 to bis conduct and abilities, and repeat the same caution to the man himself, vo advise bim to do cveryihing to malnisin the position which be has sttained.A man may bave been on the road as driver during & month before I see him and give the advice necessary, but I may bave seen the game man a dox-n times previously and spoken to bim about these things, the men are po clamorous for promotion.Iam in frequent communication with all the men upon the road, aud there is scarcely ever s man promoted who bas applied to me, but I have advised bim what to do, in case his permission came, Should one of my foremen give me the name of a candidate whom I don\u2019 know 1 should certaioly approye of the appoiniment before bringing the candidate before me for examination se to bis capacity and knowledge of sie, providing thers have been no complaints lodged againet him in my book, and if be bad served eufficient time with the Company, because 1 consider each of my foremen to be fully qualified for his duties; and If be bas to exercice his judgment In sending men out on emergenci; the eame judgment is sufficient to recommen \u2018Whether a men is capable of sctiog as fireman or driver ; st the rame time, such cases are very tare in our experience.My approval ie practically Boal, cousequently, I\" am the.responsible officer for the appointment of evginesrs to the Oompany.Io some rare cases I rely on the judgment of my foreman to appoint men of whom I have no knowledge.No man upon the \u2018road could teach s newly appointed diiverou a passenger train anything.Question.\u2014 Wheo a newly appointed driver la first placed oo & passenger train, do jou, for à few days, pla experienced driver over bim ?Answer \u2014 e, properly apesking, no new men as drivers, but when \u20ac driver who bas been tuoning 6 lower grade of train, ie put to run a passenger train, we never send an additional men with bin, aod ï bave never known it to be dous, in the coarse of my experience anywhere.Ifawanls not capable of taking & passenger trelo, be le quite utfit for any otber, except tng and 10 riog the bell at all crossioge and to #9 out opon the ergine when about to descend & gree lo order to oil the oylloders.He fur- thor bas toknow the Toad in this wise, that be prepare an extrs gu © fn preparln; to ascend tbe heavy grades, and oo\u201d the oon- trary bas to slacken the fire and close the damp- wb.switching io tbe yard.Three-fourths of the firemen are capable of taking charge of the ea- | mine in case of anyibiog beppening to the driver.In any case wbers tbe freman was pot compe tent to take charge of be engine, the condue- \u20ac tor would tnterfure.In any oase, any freman could stop an cogine I would not say tbat every freman could take charge of an engine.~ THE MONTREAL WITNESS, As far es we can ascertain, Burpey has been to Montres! as fireman, between twenty and tbirty times.Previous to my appointing of Burney, I did mot examine bim ; I took Mr.King's statement; the more particularly, as tbe sppolot- ment wes temporarily given.The Érrmeo are educeted into englne-men by bring fiom time to time sent out as drivers, I appointed him because there had been no complaiut against bim, sod be had been a lung time ia the sere vice of the Company.I should-bave been doing bim 8 great injustice 5 1 had aot sanctioped bis appointment.I particularly ecqnired of Mr.King wheiber Burnes wes capable of doing that work ; whether he wap a steady, good men, to be relied upon.I did not enquire of Mr.King whetber Burney knew specially tbe road and signals between Richmond and Montreal, My direct question as to bis being à fit man, related to the whole district upon which the Richmond pilot le table at any moment to be run; and as I knew that the Acton pilot on which Burney was then engaged was frequently ruantog over the whole of the same district, I could bave no possible doubt but that Barney was tborcugbly acquainted with the road.The duties of à pilot engine are to assiat the heavy freight trains on the road, and 0 to their rescue on the road wherever found.be travelling Inspector bas to make frequent reporté.It ie bie most particular duty to report on engiceers and fremen.In the majority of cases, the appointments of engloeers hive been under discnssion between tie Inspector and wyvelf as well a9 with the foreman; generally the appointments have been beld back until I bave been sstiefied, My travelling Inspector véver made me any report perticulariy as to Borney's qualification, but he bas never reported at him.I bavein my experience ridge witbout signals on each side.-bridge over the river Erol, between Brighton and Chichester, England, had a signal on the bridge, There were other signals put upon tbe bridge, but for ail that, they rua a train into the river.I should consider a bridge of more than a thousand feet across, with but one sigoal, sate, on account of its very length; for ifs person did make a mistake he would have room, Question \u2014Do you think thst had there been a s\u2018gusl, and a gate, witha guardian placed at the South end of Belœil bridge, and the car obliged to stop previously to entering ou the bridge, that the late accident would have bappeced ?Answer.\u2014I do not tbiok it would bare made are a great evil.No signal or gate can stop à driver unless he sees, and obeys it.To Ma.Puxraw.\u2014There are no printed instructions for the working of ao engine; the men grow into the knowledge.We are careful not to overburden the men witb printed ic- stroctions.We have three grades of pay for drivers, and two for firemen.Tbe lowest is $1.15; the highest, $2.36.To Me, Srarasuson.\u2014 There Are no special inetructions given to drivers to instruct fremeu in the duties of drivers; but, as I stated before, tbe ficemen grow natu into the knowledge requisite for s driver, A fireman is expected to do exsctiy as he hi been in the habit of seeing the driver do, If a fireman siways had travelled by nigbtor always by day, he would not be competent to drive by night and day; but that is en imposible case.When s driver sees a red signal exhibited, be is te stop, and no circumstances jastity him in passing it.There is no red sigoal at tbe south end of the bridge, but the signal at tbe bridge iteelf ja seen far beyond the south end of tbe bridge.A driver is obliged to stop at this eide of ared light.When you are stopping & train the last fifty feet msy be of great consequence, for when a train is nearly at a standstill any greasiness upon the rails bas more effect upon the last fifty feet than Buch gressiness would bave had over the previous distance ; or, on tbe contrary, any extra power exeried to retard the train bas a more beneficial effect over those fifty feet.On the time tables the Belee | bridge is stated to be n draw-bridge.In the engine men's rules, printed by tbe Company for the goidance of drivers snd other of its servants, the 14th by-aw, These documents, viz, the by-laws and the time-table, are furnished to sll driversand firemen on the line.Both the time tatle and the rule-book are furnished to the eu- perior officers.I have had oceasion to call for them, and bave nearly always found them\u2014not always I do not remember an instance of 1he time-table being missing.Io by-law 141h of those rules, the Richelieu is distinetiy described us a drawbridge.There is a draw-bridge close to Montreal, across the canal.In the time-table for the Eastern division it is ordered that the train stop at the Richelieu bridge, and not proceed till permission is granted by a eigoal.I em not aware, from personal observation, as to whether Burney knew whether the eigoal was on the north or the south side of the bridge, Question \u2014Would you as Locomotive Superintendent, hold a driver responsible for not stopping an engine, unless you were aware that the brakesmen were at their posts, and had perform.od their duty by assisting bim to stop the train ?Avewer.\u2014Wealwaye hold the driver strictly responsible, because the driver would be able to excuse himself in every case, unless we adhered strictly to this rule.The travelling lospector bas never reported to me any violation of the rule at the bridge.There ie n register of complaints.All complaints are fled when they are worthy of serious notice.It would bave been just possible, by most prompt sod energetic means, for the driver to have stopped the train before the arrival at the draw, without the assistance of brakesmen, bad be reversed the engine es soon a8 he heard the whistle on entering at (be south end of the bridge.To Mn, Dawson.\u2014The box cars are stron, than the second-class care.la a severe colli vion the transverse moveable seats become very dangerous to the limbs of the passengers, In the case of box cars with seats placed longitud- ivally, passengere do not suffer the same injuries they would do from cross seats.As far ae tos mere fireman belong competent to d ao engine Ï will not say, but as regarde the men on these pilot engines, we consider tbe Acton pilot & very important part of our Working, because the men bave to run in and out to relieve traine, and take bold of any kind of train, whether pessenger or freight, and take it to soy point in communication with Acton, Nine months ago, 1 selected the best engine men we had\u2014exoepting those on express trainp\u2014 to rao the Acton pliot.I consider such pilot engloe-drivers capable of drivibg a beavy b passenger train.now produce a list of all tbe firemen who have been promoted to engine men for the last three and a half Joars, toventy- one fn all; forty previous to my connection with the Company, and thirty previous thereto To Mr.BucusR\u2014I know notbing personaly.sud po report bas been made to me, to the ¢ feo that there was no light on tbe front of the engine ; if such should be tbe case, of an engine going slopg tbe road without @ light burn ng brightly, 1 ehonld consider it a very serious in | fraction of the ru'es of tbe Company.Th engine-man is always beld by us responsible for a light being on tha frout of the train.In case) of such ao infraction, if the man's conduet had : previously been good, a severe reprimand would ; be administered, but if be had been habitually | negligent, he would be dismissed, that ia as far aa my experience is concerned.1 wasat the scene of tbe accident on tbe day of its occurrence.Tbe conductor bas nothing to do with the conduct of 1be engive, excepting to give, the driver telegraph orders for crossiog, or to, consult on some emergency not provided for in the rules.Question\u20141If the conductor was on the engine with tbe driver on approaching the bridge, would you still hold the driver, not the conductor, responsible for not sttendiog to the signal ?Aoswer\u2014As far as | am concerned, I can only look to the d To Mr.Waourr \u2014The box cars can contain between thirty and forty persons, according to arrangement of seats; but to give passengers comfortable room, they would bold twenty-five passengers each.I have seen upwards of forty of our own people sitting in a box car, bat I should not think Bfty-two passengers could sit comfortably in one.If I were condemned to fall over tbe bridge, I should prefer ite being in box car, euch are the strongest.Question by the prisoner\u2014 Have you any proof in writing to show that I acted as engine- driver befors the 18th of June last past.Answer.\u2014I bave no proof in writing, Question.\u2014Do you koow what pay I received since I came on as fireman ?Answer,\u2014$1.15 per day as fireman, Question.\u2014Do you kuow whether I ever received any pay as a driver 7 : Avswer \u2014 No, beesuse the pay rolls bave not yet been made out for your time asdriver, The pay rolls ate made out once à month.Question.\u2014 Will sn engine with 80 pounds of steam stop a train of eleven or twelve cars as quickly as one that bas got 120 or 130 ?Avswer \u2014Decidedly not.The examination of Mr.Eston being ended, he eigoified his wish tonpeskafew words.He then said :\u2014 From the position of the parts of the engine when taken out of the river, I am quite sstia- fied that ween Baroey did see the red signal, he took the best means to stop his train.\u201d Trrmas KixG was then resworn, and produced several daily reports of the running of traios on the eastern section of the road, The first one was dated 27th June and the last one the 5th of July, These reports were examined by tbe jury, ond bad been produced at the instance of Mr.A.Siephenson, one of the jurymen ; and were for the purpose of either verifyiog or disproving an implied assertion by Burney, who, the other day, whilst Kipg was under examination, asserted, in the form of a question, thet King had told him, two days before be, Burned, took charge of the ill-fated emigrant traio, that be, Burney, must on tb+ current day drive à train from Richmond to Montreal, to do wbicb Burney made objection, on account of feeling bimself incompetent from want of knowledge of ibe road.King denied this statement before the jury, and to settle the point these papers were called for.They were, however, not found to reach quite far enough beck in date, apd were ordered to be supplemented to-morrow, which could be done from Point St.Charles.Bæssauim VALLIQUETTS, sworn.\u2014I was pre sent at St Hilaire Station when the traio arrived there from Quebec, on the morning of tbe Jury 9, 1864.BIRTEL In this city, on éth inst, the wife of Mr.8.£.Bazzow, of a daughier, DIED.At Geneva, Stale of New York, on 17th ult , Wiriasx, son of Rov.{ Vuaip Motineaor Mauiila, C W., of Congestion of tho lungs, aged 28 years and 8 months On tbe 3rd July, al (rma own, Parsa Revessrosp Torr, pon of James Wwigar, Contraclor, Montreal, aged Un tbe morning of the Oth last, wd 33 years, 6sonca Jous#rax, native of the Parish of Killlade, County An- trim, Ireland, (father of Me.Wiliam Jobuston, of the firm of Moss! boston.Thompson & Co } and for the Inst 37 years a resident of Lower Canada.ADVERTISEMENTS._ LAWS.Nomica is hereby given that it is illegal to kill, or have in pussezsion any of the undermentioned Birds, until the dates named, via im Woodox k or Fhipe.Dacks or Partridge, .And tbe MONTREAL FISH and GAME PI ION CLUB well pay a REWARD of TEN DOLLARS to soy one giviog such information as wili secure n conviction, BEMRY MCKAY, President.Sth July, 1884.A MURRAY, Becrelary.N oT ¢ E .The Fleamer \u2018\u2018 ADVancE, pt.Manuey, will zail om WEDNESDAY (he 181b inst., at TEN o\u2019clock À.M , from Quetsec for KIMOUSK( and MÉTIS, and will return Enme- diately to Qu: bec, taking pamengers and freigbé, bosh gomgand comivg.Fate $6 to Metis, including Meals, \u2018and to retoru by steamer bow $11.Quebec, July 8ih, 1864.MITH'S IMPROVED AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.UNIVERSAL MOWER, COMBINED MOWERS AND REAPIRS, ONE and TWO HORSE 1HRESHING MACHINES.The Fubecribse begs to inform Agriculturists and Farmers, that he bas now on band an assortmeLt of the above celebrated Mechines, which he offers for sale at the lowest possible prices, and cn the most favorable Lerms of psy- ment.These Machines bave the latest improvements, and are so constructed as to give greater ease in draught, and do more work tban bitberto accomplisbed by any other Machine.They are of the beat material and work- mansbip, arc simple in mansgement, snd extremely light and durable.They are recommended Lo parties in want of Machines with fuli confidence of their giving every sstisfaction.> 1am aiso manafecturiog s Universal Mowing Machine which will cut wet grase as weil as dry ; is of very light draught ; sod T will warrant it as a Mower to be altogether superior in overy respect to any ibing made in ese Machines took Three First Prizes at the last Pro- vibctal Fxhibition held in Montreal.Toreshiog Machines.Straw Cutters, Cultivators, and Wood-sa wing Machines of all descripions constantly oa hand.The above Machines are all warranted to be the very Test manufscture in Canada.Farmre.before bus ing elicwhbere, are invited to examine these Machines.Orders seut by mall prompuly attended to, JUBN SMITH, ex Et, Gabriel Locks, Montreal, ELRY DAVIS\" VEGETABLE PAIN EILLER.THE GREAT FAMILY MEDICINE OF IHE AGE.Torre ta probably ro amlly M-dicine so favorably, snd #0 widely known as DAVIS\u2019 PAIN KILLER.For the past twenty yearsit hus bern extersively used by Mission- arien in Tudis, Coons, Turkey, indecd, in nesrly all ibe Missionary Stations, not oniy\u2019 to counteract the climate influeuces on (be families of Msionaries, bot for tbe caro of Cholera and Fevers prevaient in the East, Tim used internally for a'l diseases of bowels, and externally for wounds, burws, bruiess, Ac.Sold everywhere in the dus.swhw Can: JREOQBTANT TO MANUFAC- comprisiop : GRIST MILL, BAW MITL CiRDING MILL, DWELLING Ht U-E and OUT-BI'ILDING, with six Acres of LAND, ko.Also, two BRICK BOUSES in the Town of Iberville, with four BUILDING LOTS, &o.The Eob- seribers have received justructicns to sell, without reserve, at our Store, 8t.Francois Xavier Sireet, On WEDNESDAY, the 3rd of ACQUST, That valusble Mill Property sitasted at the base of Mount Johnson 6 miles Kast of 84.Johrs, avd 3 miles from the Dvpot of the Chambly, Flanstesd and Granhy R R, comprising trast Mill, with four run of Stones, Pmut Mill, Carding Wachive, witli Picker, f bears, Prem, ke.Tbe Mill is built of Sione, and fa propelled by A 46 Horse-Power Kngine.Attached is à Saw Miil with a & 29th of June, There was an engine and several cars, but [ do not know bow many.I tock my brother's place that night as switchmsn.am not eure thet I eaw a light on front of the engine.Had thers been one I thivk I would bave seen it, It fs customary for me to see them when the train arrives.I cannot say positively whether there was a light or not I beard the train whistle when it was on the bridge, but I do not know how far it was then upon the bridge.The trains sometimes arrive without light, when it is eatly in the evening.As soon en the train came in, I went to provide water for the engine, and so I paid no attention to the light.To Mr.Waouræ\u2014I did not look to see whether thers were any lights in the oars, To Mr.Bruen.\u2014I might have seen Burney, but ! paid no attention.The conductor was there, for be assisted me to throw wood on to the train.The enquiry was then adjourned uatil tomorrow, at 7 P.M, Tas Goveawor-GewsniL ir Mowxtisp's.\u2014 The annual distribution of prises to the pupils at the Monklsnd\u2019s institution took place there on Tuesday afternoon in presence of the Governor General snd Buff, Viscountess Monck, Miss Moock, Miss Louisa Monck, Gen.Williams and Majir-Gen.Lindsay, with their staffs, several officers of the garrison, the Mayor, the Hon, Messrs.Cartier, McGes, Dorion, Hon, J.Young, the Roman Ostbotic Bishop of Montreal, mavy of his elergy of this city, and relatives and friends of the pupils, chieBy ladies.Tbe opening proceedings consisted oblefiy of music by the pupils, s poetic welcome, in English, to Lord and Lady Monck, dialogue In Preoch, end « semi-musical dialogue, In which one young tion of prizse then touk place, bis Excellency and Lady Monck ascisting, Gold wedals and white crowns were given for excellent couducs, and gold medals aud diplomas conferred on the gra- duatiog clase.Prizes were also distributed for domestic economy, &o.More music followed, sud a farewell address in verse to Lady Monck, lis Excellency then rose snd addressed the school in bebalf of bimeell and Lady Monck, regretting that he could only return weak prose for the verse which had been offered.The proceed: ings wound up with the national sntbem, and * Vive la Canadienne,\u201d when the greater part of those present partook of a collation of fruits, confections, &c , and after Taking be rooms, io which was a display of needle-woik, departed.[lady appeared in the costume of one of the R ¢ aboriginal tribes of this country.The distribu.feet Cyr cular Faw propelled by a 20 Horse Power Engine.The Mill, Machmery, Engines, Boilers, &c , are in fine working order, baving been run up to the lst of May.À large two story Dwelling, Fheds, Stables, Bongore, &¢., and 8 acres of Laid under a fine state of cultivation.In onse 1be abnve Property should not be sold tn one loi, it will be sold in dewil.\u201d The Meam Kogioes, Machioery, Buildipge and 1and will be sold separat¢ly.Also, a4 ibe same time will be sold two Brick Cotiages, sit uats d in the ceotrs of tbe Town of Iberville, oppostte BL.Jobns, in Lote 101 feet front by 144 deep, wiih Btables, Loach- Houses, #beds, and a never-failng Well of water ; aleo, sdjoiving four Village Lois.The Property is all commuted, nbd Title perfect.Terms made known at he time of 2alo.Pale at TWEI VE o'clock., Auctioncers.tHA (COUNTRY MERCHANTS visiti Mobtreai will find st the WITNESS BOOK STO] Les, assortment of STATIONERY, and tha NATIONAL 01, B OKS at Publishers\u2019 Prices.The STATIONERY will be noid chesp lor casb.WITNESS BOOR STORE, 247 Notre Damo Street.BUSINES8 CARDS.SEWING MACHINES, MADE IN MONTREAL $2 \" \u20ac.W.WILLIAMS «4 CU, Better Machines for Family wae, and Drese-making have never been made.More than one bundred Families and Dress-makers im this city, have our Machines lo daily use, and they give entire satisfaction.Each Machine warranted, and kept in repair one your (res of charge.Ornca asp Baum-room, 20 Qrest St.James Street.8ilk, Thread, Needles, and the best Machine Oil for snes Family Bowing done to order, Agote wanted In all parts of Canada.Descriptive Circulars seat by mail free.CW.WILLIAMS & CO.Oras axm Hass 200M, 29 Great BL.James Strest.ADAMEB, ® DRY GOODS 4 COMMISSION MERCHANT.No.258 awp 987 Sr.Pacs frauet, Momma, foticits Cove: te of Canada Manufactures add Prote nids be will make advances of Casd when re- Fr and will give prompt and careful attention to apd remitianos.swkfh DPR.A.J, BABIN, SURGEON DBNTIST, 9 GREAT BT.JANES BYRERY, MONTREAL.ER M 8.\u201cDany Wowms\" $3 per sanem, oe $4 delivered D town, \u2014 gd.each.o Novus Wena\u201d (Suni-weskly), $8 por mme \u201c WesmLy Wives,\u201d ready om Tersday, $1.80 por aonom 84.each.\u2014 His Excellency the Governor General yes.serday visited the Museum of ihe Geologiesl Survey, appearing staying during upwards of sn hour, Sir Wm, Logan was present.rate of 7 couta per Hine Ares insertion, sad 334 cents en oh: subosquent faserthol.to be much interested, and oe Me CELE Ve) TURERS \u2014Sale of VALUABLE MILL PROPERTY, "]