The daily witness, 14 août 1860, mardi 14 août 1860

[" 43 COMMERCIAL REVIEW & FAMILY NEWSPAPER.No.2.MONTREAL, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 14.1860.Price ONE HALF-PENNY.i ; i ide.; ine | i f th her, and the busy Canadian Press.DO ee bork damn ds members of Spndd ou shoss caluted shes of the year a Inrge number of parents, children, and MOVEMENTS OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.CHARLOTTETOWN, August 10.The Prince of Wales landed here from steamer ¢ Hero,\u201d at two o'clock yesterday.The Admiral\u2019s ship, the \u201cNile,\u201d and the ¢ Ariadne,\u201d ¢ Cossack,\u201d « Valorous,\u201d ¢ Flying Fish,\u2019\u201d and the French Commodore\u2019s ship, the \u2018\u2018 Pomene,\u201d\u2019 formed the fleet that accompanied the Prince.~The day was stormy and wet, but notwithstanding this there was a large number of visitors from abroad to witness the disembarlk- ation of the Prince.The steamer \u2018\u2018Arabian\u2019\u2019 brought 600 passengers from Quebec, and the \u2018 Westmore- land\u201d 400 from New Brunswick.Some were obliged to camp out.The preparations for the Prince\u2019s reception were good.The royal squadron was met and welcomed by the Micmac Indian canoe fleet.The Prince, who wore a Colonel's uniform, landed under the firing of eight royal salutes from the squadron, including the French ship, and was received on Queen\u2019s wharf by the Government officials, public bodies, the clergy, bar, and a deputation of officers and prominent citizens.The Prince was conveyed in the Governor's carriage to the Government House, escorted by a procession.The streets were lined by volunteer military companies, and ornamented by numerous tasteful arches.The balconies were filled with ladies and children, forming a fine display.A large number of children sang the national anthem.A guard of honor, composed of regular troops sent from Halifax, accompanied the Prince.The public buildings were handsomely decorated.The market house, surrounded by a temporary grove, was converted into an Indian wigwam.The Prince rode out in the afternoon in plain clothes.In the evening there were illuminations and fireworks.A large number of Colonial and other celebrities are here.The reception is considered a complete success.THE POST OFFICE MONOPOLY.(From the Herald.) The last number of the Westminster Review contains an interesting article on the Post Office monopoly, considered in relation to the political power over private correspondence which it vests in the government, and in relation to its effect in facilitating or retarding the conveyance of correspondence.It shows, first of all, that though from the circumstances of other times the carriage of letters fell naturally into the hands of governments, yet that there is nothing in the nature of government abstractedly considered, to make it the necessary mail carrier for the people governed.In'a well developed society, it holds government cannot usefully undertake this business, for which its machinery is necessarily inappropriate.In fact, therefore, the Post Office, instead of being essentially a service remunerated in proportion to its utility\u2014like other services which one man renders to another\u2014has been a fiscal agent for collecting a tax, and a secret inquisition for ascertaining men\u2019s thoughts and designs.The writer admits that with these, as the fundamental conditions of its existence, the government monopoly of the Post Office has been administered in modern times so as to produce a very great amount-of public convenience, and with little prying.\u201d Nevertheless, it holds that in a free country no inquisition should be allowed into \u2018sealed correspondence j and that if the modern governmental monopoly has done tolerably well\u2014at least in comparison with other institutions out of the legitimate sphere, but .under the control of govern- ment\u2014it would have dos miich'\"better if managed like'other departments of business#by private individuals, In support of these views, the reviewer |.furnishes a number of interesting facts.He shows that while government refuses to permit other channels of communication than its own to be used, it yet shields itself under the legal rules that the crown can- \u2018not be impleaded in order to avoid any responsibility.The sender or receiver of a letter may suffer great pecuniary loss from the neglect ofthe Post Office to falfil its part of the contract, which it insists upon making ; and yet he has no legal recourse, however ross the fault by which his damage has accrued.he writer also mentions that Walpole spent £45,- 675 in the inspection of private correspondence and that no less than 372 warrants were issued during the first forty-four years of this century for the opening of letters.The causes for the issue of most of these warrants was the detection of crimes, or of foreign \u201cintrigues ; but- eighty-nine were issued for uncertain reasons, and eight of them were for a particular purpose but were not restricted to the letters of any given number of persons.Among them were warrants issued for, cases of an entirely private nature\u2014as for instance the detection of a love affair.In one case\u2014 that in which Sir James Grabam was implicated, and which excited so much indignation as probably to have very much restrained the practice, the information derived by these infamous means by the British Government was as infamously handed to the Austrian Government, and led to the execution of two \u2018Italian patriots/of noble rank\u2014the predecessors of these men whom we all delight to honour, though, if less powerful, some of our rulers would perhaps have sold them, as they did the Bandeiras.Then as to the facilities for communication afforded by the mo- _nopoly, the reviewer shows that no considerable improvements has ever originated with the:Govern- meant, all the postal reforms having heen forced \u2018last over ninety seconds from first to last.at the rate -of three or four miles an hour, Mr.Palmer, of Bath, originated the system of conveying them in the coaches, which being managed for private interests, had far outstripped the lazy Government messengers.But so far from the Government officials aiding the reform, one of them considered the existing arrangements almost as perfect as they could be, and another said of the proposed scheme, ¢ Tt will fling the whole commercial correspondence \u2018 of the country into confusion, and will justly raise \u2018such a clamour as the postmaster will not be able to appease.\u201d\u201d So with regard to Rowland Hill's scheme of a penny postage.Lord Lichfield, the then Postmaster General said: ¢ Of all the wild \u201cand visionary schemes I have ever heard of, it is \u2018\u201cthe most extravagant.\u2019 And in 1843 Colonel Maberly told a postage Committee: ¢ My constant \u2018language to the heads of the Departments was :\u2014 ¢ this plan we know will fail.\u201d Hence the reviewer argues that instead of the Governmental element being of service in rendering the Post Office more efficient, it is really the element which keeps back improvements that would be effected quietly and frequently, if it were in the hands of private individuals having their own interests to consult, and doing so without the obstructions offered by the red tape gentry.THE METEOR.(From Letter in Ottawa Banner, dated Osgoode, July 21.) When first seen the meteor appeared in the N.W.by W.about the position above the horizon indicated by the point in the sky occupied by the Sun at this season, about 6 o'clock in the evening.Its course parrallel with the horizon, was described without the slightest apparent deviation until its terminal point was attained, when with a slightly decreased altitude it became invisible in S.S.E.; its path in the heavens therefore, being over one fourth of the sensible horizon, or about 110.The first phase was that of an irregular bar of intensely bright white light, having what may be termed a head, the remainder constituting, so to speak, a tail, these terms indicating the relative position of the parts so named.To the plain matter of fact observer, the apparent dimensions were about fifteen inches long, the breadth being one third of the length, (the real dimensions of the body must of course have been widely different.- The first change was observed to be that of two comparatively large particles, (large compared with the body) being thrown off into space.Another phase was that of the head being separated into two parts, though still maintaining their counection by an unbroken hand of the same luminous substance ; the next phase immediately succeeding the last was a change of colour from white to red, with a still more transitory shade of green ; then white again, and last of all it assumed a deeper tinge of red, and so vanished from the astonished gaze of those who saw it with myself : all these varying phases transpiring in far less time that will be occupied in reading this account.To be definite in regard to time, I believe it may safely be said, that thewhole grand spectacle did not Under such circumstances calculations as to time vary much, but let it be remembered that in one minute, sixty can be counted deliberately, five times that number rapidly, and at the lowest calculation four hundred flashes of lightning can be seen following each other in the same space of time.PRESBYTERIAN UNION IN NOVA SCOTIA (From the London (C.W.) Free Press.) For several vears, negotiations have been going on for uniting the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, holding the same principles as the United Presbyterian in this country and Scotland, with the Free Church of Nova Scotia, just as measures for the same important object have been proceeding, slowly, for a junction of the two co-relative sections of Preshy- terians in Canada ; though in the latter case there has been something more of difficulty in coming to an understanding satisfactory on both sides.ow- ever, it is hoped that this dicisive point hasbeen nearly gained.But it appears that the\u2019 Nova Scotian brethren are to be a-head of those in Canada, for at the Synodical meetings of the two first mentioned bodies in June, steps were taken for a speedy coalescence and it was indeed agreed that this should be realize in October, at Pictou.the Presbyterian Church convened on the 20th June, and a cordial invitation was sent to the Free Church Synod, then in session at New Glasgow, affectionately asking them to come and hold a fraternal Con- ferenee, not for discussing points, but for arranging the consummation of the ripened union.This call met with a frank compliance; the members of the Free Church Synod hastened in a steamer to talk with their Christian brethren and future associates facé to face; \u2018and the following extracts from the Missionary Record of the Nova Scotia Presbyterian Church, for July, depicts a scene very honourable to both parties :\u2014 \u2018The members of Synod proceeded in a body to the wharf at which the steamer \u2018\u2018 George M\u2018Kenzie\u2019\u2019 was to land the members of the Free Church Synod, when they arrived from New Glasgow.The time spent on the wharf, while the steamer approached, was à most interesting and delightful period.Gladness filled every heart, and joy was depicted on every In that city the Synod of} Free Church brethren on board, to which a ready response was returned.On landing, the members of the Free Church Synod were cordially received by their brethren of the other Synod.The members of both Synods then marched in procession to Prince Street Church, in front of which they formed a circle, and made arrangements for the meeting in the evening.The members of the Free Church Synod were then escorted by their brethren of the Presbyterian Synod, to their respective lodging houses, to be entertained till the hour of meeting arrived.\u2018 Accordingly, in the evening, a most happy meeting was held, the pleasing result of which was the adopting of a resolution to meet again at Pictou on the 4th October, then and there to become one, and henceforth to labor together in the Gospel of their Common Lord and Saviour.That day will be a joyful and momentous occasion, connected with such a great and interesting event.Let the two Synods in Canada, now brought within a short distance of a similar issue, soon after have a special meeting for Union.That accomplished, from the shores of Nova Scotia to the western limits of Canada, strong thrills of rejoicing will vibrate electrically ; yea, will extend over the United States, and across the Atlantic, and the various branches of the great Presbyterian family will feel that, \u2018\u2018 the repairing of the branches\u201d if progressing with a persuasive influence, saying to those still apart, ¢ Go and do likewise.\u201d CANADIAN NEWS.Ciry IMPROVEMENTS.\u2014In every part of the city \u201c the work goes bravely on.\u201d The triumphal arches are rapidly approaching completion, and all our public, as well as most of our private buildings, are preparing for the illumination in honor of the Prince of Wales.The roads, streets, and squares are all being put into proper order, and the statue of the immortal Nelson bas been renovated for that oceasion.\u2014 Montreal Trans- crip.PreparaTIONs.\u2014In addition to the arches rapidly approaching completion, designed io add to the appearance of the city during the approaching festivities, preparations are also being made for a fine display of gas light on the Banks in Place d\u2019Armes.Workmen are busily employed in entwining gas pipe round the pillars, which will be illuminated with numerous jets of flame.Preparations are being made to illuminate the front of the Court House.THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AND THE OELEBRATION.\u2014À meeting of Clergymen and Teachers of the various Protestant Sabbath Schools in the city, summoned in accordance with a proposal of His Lordship the Bishop of Montreal, was held in the Natural History Society Rooms last evening.On motion of Henry Bancroft, Esq., seconded by M.Vennor, Esq., the Lord Bishop of Montreal was called to the Chair, and Mr.Alexander Morris was appointed Secretary.The Bishop stated the object of the meeting, and that there had been for some time a desire to have a Sunday School assemblage of all the Protestant children of the city in honor -of the Prince of Wales, in a suitable place, and the meeting had been called for that purpose.The Celebration Committee of the City Council had, hqwever, he stated, since proposed that there should be two large assemblages of the children of the city, and he was prepared, if it was thought desirable, to unite in a national celebration, on this auspicious occasion, if it was found practicable.Rev.Canon Bancroft, the Very Rev.the Dean, Rev.W.Snodgrass, Mr.Ferrier, Mr.Mills, and several other gentlemen having expressed their views, the Chairman in accordance with the general feeling of the meeting nominated the Rev.H.Bancroft, the Rev.W.Snodgrass, Mr.Morris, Mr.Ferrier and Mr.Vennor a Committee to negotiate with the Celebration Committee of the Corporation, on the subject of a Juvenile National Demonstration in honor of the Prince of Wales, with full power to make all necessary arrangements.The meeting then adjourned to meet on Friday evening next, at 7 o'clock.There were present at this meeting representatives of the Sunday Schools of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Free Church, Congregationalists, United Presbyterian, Wesleyan Methodist, and American Presbyterian.The schools whose officers were actually present numbered upwards of 3000 children, but 5000 children at least would be comprehended in the Schools of the Protestant bodies represented at this meeting.\u2014 Montreal Gazette, Aug.11.Mepais or THE BOARD OF ArTs.\u2014 These medals are of gold, silver and bronze, and a little lighter than a penny piece.They are beautifully executed in high relief, and as works of art, worthy of the highest commendation.They bear on one side the arms of the Board of Arts and Manufactures, with the legend in French and English, Lower Canada Board of Arts and Manufactures ; and on the other ¢ Exhibition of Canadian Industry.Opening of Victoria Bridge, by H.R.H.Prince of Wales, Montreal, 1860\u201d\u2014surmounted by the Prince's Crest and Motto, and encircled by two branches of Maple, united at the bottom by a ribband.\u2014.2d- vertiser.Coau.\u2014The proprietors of the Albion Coal Mines, Picton, have cut-out a column of coal from the main seam, thirty-three feet high and two feet in diameter, to be sent to the Exhibition here.It is in blocks about three feet in length, and is all pure coal.\u2014Advertiser.Smameru CoNDUCT.\u2014A man, named Edmund Murphy, was prosecuted for swimming bis large Newfoundland dog in the Reservoir.\u2014Advertiser.\u2014 The steamer * Bowmanville\u201d will leave Toronto to-morrow for the Lower St.Lawrence, to meet the royal fleet at Cacouna.All the state-rooms and berths have been secured, with only two exceptions, and the excursion will, no doubt, be a most pleasant one.SABRATH SCHOOL ORLEBRATION.\u2014The annual celebration of the Balaklava Union Sabbath School, under the superintendence of Mr.A.J.Campbell, took place in a grove on the grounds of Mr.McNiven, near Carlisle, Flamboro\u2019 East, on Wednesday.Notwithstanding the visitors assembled to a plentiful repast of tea, cakes, &ec., &c., after the partaking of which Mr.Thos.Win- grove, of English Settlement, was called to the chair.Addresses were delivered by Rev.Messrs.Crossfield, (Methodist,) Caldwell, (Baptist,) and a Mr.Adamson, recently from England.Prizes of Bibles, Testaments, and other book, were distributed among the most deserving of the scholars, and a collection was taken up to meet the expense of purchasing the same.The refreshments were gratuitously provided by the ladies, who know how to get up tea and cakes in excellent style.Mr.Campbells report showed a total of 14,000 verses of Scripture committed to memory during the year, 3,060 of which were committed and repeated by one young lad.\u2014 Canadian Baptist.A Sap OccurreNce.\u2014On the 2nd inst.a man named Edward Ward, residing on the first Line of Drummond, was returning from Smith\u2019s Falls in a waggon.Some distance East of Pike Falls, he was overtaken by some men on horse-back, between one of whom, named Richard Stevens, and Ward, some bantering took place, which resulted in Stevens taking hold of one\u2019s of Ward's horses by the bridle.Ward told him to let the horses go, which he refused to do, and he (Ward) then pulled the horses away from Stevens, and one of them being a young colt, they started forward, when Stevens was thrown down and the waggon passed over him.On Monday night Stevens died from the injuries he had received.Dr.Burritt, Coroner, held an inquest on the body, and the jury returned a verdict of \u201c Wilful Murder\u201d against Ward, who is now in custody awaiting trial at the Fall Assizes.The general impression is that the verdict is a hard one, and not warranted by the circumstances.\u2014 Perth Courier.BLONDIN ALMOST RoAsTED\u2014We find the following paragraph in the Cincinnati Gazeite, of Friday, Aug.10 :\u2014Mons.Blondin, the celebrated tight rope performer, met with a serious accident the night before last during his exhibition at Chillicothe.After dusk he gave a performance of trundling a wheelbarrow across a rope, and to make the feat more terrific, he encircled himself in a blaze of fire works, which were ignited simultaneously with his starting.Before he had accomplished half his task, one of the pieces prematurely exploded and set fire to his clothing.The peril of his situation could not be seen by the thousands of spectators below, in consequence of the continued emissions of sparks, and the adventurous Blondin had nothing to do but walk the rope and suffer the torture of being slowly roasted.Having accomplished the distance, he \u2018lames, but not before his back was very badly burned.EmaNciraTIoN Dar.\u2014 The Colored people turned out yesterday morning in great numbers, dressed in their gayest apparel, and marched in procession through the principal streets of Windsor, accompanied by a band of musie.À special train having been engaged for their conveyance to Chatham, to celebrate the anniversary of the Emancipation of the Slaves in the British West India Islands, about 700 left for that Town, in the greatest possible state of excitement.We have no doubt the \u201c Queen and the British Constitution\u201d will be remembered with outbursts of enthusiasm, and that they will enjoy themselves to their heart's content.\u2014 Windsor Herald.ProGreEss oF Sarnia.\u2014One of the most satisfactory evidences of the progress made by any community, is to call up the records of the past, and contrast the position of matters in bygone times, with those which at present exist ; and we will now do so in reference to the position of Sarnia twenty-three years ago.Robert Skilbeck, Esq., of this town, and one of its early settlers, informs us that, while engaged in looking over a package ofdocuments of past years, he accidentally stumbled upon & copy of the Assessment Roll of the Township of Sarnia, for 1837,\u2014twenty-three years ago.Mr.S, was Assessor for that year, and hag furnished us with a few statistics collected from the Roll, which may prove interesting to our readers.In 1837, therefore, the total number of names on the Assessment Roll, was forty- two, thirteen residing within the present limits of the village, and twenty-nine in the township.Of the twenty- nine assessed within the present bounds of the Township, ten have removed or are dead, twelve are now living in it, and the residence of seven is not known.Of the ébirteen then living in the Town, and assessed on thewdol), as all householders had to be, five have died, six have removed, and only fwo remain among its present inhabitants.The Town then contained two square log houses of one story; four frame houses of one story ; three frame houses of two stories ; three merchants\u2019 shops; and one storehouse, The quantity of uncultivated land assessed to the resident inhabitants of the Township, was 7050 acres; quantity cultivated, 192 acres.In the whole Township there were then only seven horses, over three years old ; six young cat~ tle from two to four years old ; twenty-three oxen; and thirty-seven milch cows.\u2014 Sarnia Observer, More Oi SeriNGs.\u2014The London Free Press says great discoveries of oil are being made near a village called Cashmere, in the Township of Mosa, West Mid- dlesex, distant from London forty miles, and.three miles from Bothwell.Men of capital are sinking wells and expect to realize fortunes of the oil.The country roughly saturated with the oil, which comes to the surface spontaneously, and is carried off with the stream which passes through the village.It is thought by men of experience, that when the Cashmere wells \u2018are properly opened, they will drain the Enniskillen Springs, on account of the country being lower; hut when the deposit of oil is so extensive as to permeate the country to so large a tract, we presume it will be some time ere the wells of Cashmere have any effect on those of Enniskillen.\u2014Sernia -Observer.in this city intend trying what can be done to-furnish employment to the surplus hands in this city, particularly youthful females.The object would be the erection of a small mill for manufacturing staple-cotton.The design is most laudable, and will meet with .approbation, and support.It has our best wishbes.fAree Rivers Inquirer.CL by bis own efforts succeeded in extinguishing the for a considerable distance round Cashmere, seems tho- * ASS \u2014 We understand that some infinéntial indtridonls ERE AREAS ST La Py, >.1 PROSPECTUS OF THE \u201c DAILY WITNESS.\u201d The ideas commonly entertained of the power of the press, however extended or exalted, fall, we are convinced, far short of the reality, and this power is only beginning to be developed and understood.Books and periodicals have their appropriate sphere of influence, and it is a singularly important one; but in the newspaper lies the great modern development of the power of the press.Here we find not only tidings from all parts of the world, but every question of interest discussed, and every iniquity or injustice exposed.Governments themselves, however strong, bave to bow before the general voice of the press, or rather before the public opinion which that voice elicits and concentrates.But if the press be potent for good, it is also potent, though to a less degree, for evil.It has too often spread abroad infidel and licentious sentiments, tending to the ruin of individuals, families and communities.But these evil influences may be met and overcome ; for it is only the truth that will prevail.The power of wrong words is great, but the power of right words is greater ; and a true idea once lodged in the mind is never lost.With these views the Montreal Witness was commenced fifteen years ago, and first as a weekly paper, then as § semi-weekly, obtained an extensive circulation in this city and throughout Canada.The idea of publishing a daily edition has often been entertained, for, after all, the daily press is that which will ultimately, we have no doubt, surpass all other mcdes of publication in vitality and importance.Various reasons, however, have prevented the attainment of this object till the present time, when such a frequent issue appears to be called for by the public interest in the visit of the Prince of Wales to this country, and the momentous events which are transpiring in Europe and Asia.It is hoped that the reception of this daily edition may be such as to encourage a continuance of it even after the Prince shall have left our shores, but we make no pledge to carry it on beyond that time, as the very low price at which it is published will entail considerable loss unless the circulation be large and the advertising patronage good.Our reason for putting the price at one half-penny is, that every one, however poor, may buy it, and also in order that Montreal may not be altogether distanced in the race of cheap literature.In London a daily paper,\u2014tke Star\u2014as large as the great Times itself, is published for one penny.In New York, the World is published daily for one cent, though it contains as much matter as the Tribune, Times or Herald, which are two cents.The paper will be sold over the counter at one half-penny per copy.News-boys will be supplied at 4d.per dozen, or two dozen for 123 cents.News-agents throughout the Province will be supplied at 50 cents per hundred, exclusive of Express charges.Advertisements not inconsistent with the character of the paper, will be inserted in the Daily Witness at seven cents per line for first insertion, and three cents for each subsequent insertion.Advertisements of individuals wanting places, not exceeding three lines, will be inserted for 121 cents the first time, and half price for each subsequent insertion, payable in advance.No advertisement can be inserted connected with intoxicating drinks, tobacco, quack medicines, theatres, races, balls, circuses, Sabbath travelling, or anything else that is injurious to society.THE WITNESS.MONTREAL, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 14 THE PRINCE'S PROGRESS.We learn from special correspondents of various papers that the progress of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales from St.John to Frederickton was a very delightful journey.He was accompanied on the « Forest Queen\u201d by \u201cmany members of the New Brunswick Legislature, who bad been in St.John, His Excellency Sir T.B.Manners Sutton, the Mayors of Boston, Halifax and Montreal, and the members of the fourth estate.The Prince occupied the after deck, and the upper cabins of the steamer were reserved for himself and suite.\u201d The scenery of the River St.John will not rauk with that of the Hudson or of the St.Lawrence, yet it has many of the advantages of both for the first 30 miles.The river is surrounded with hills covered with dark woods and bulwarked with rocks ; farther up the intervals are more flat and rich, and present a more hospitable appearance.t Ag the \u201c Forest Queen,\u201d with the Royal flag flying, passed up the river, people hurried down to the banks to catch a sight of their future monarch.Sometimes |.one man alone came ; at others his wife and children came with him, and when the proximity of a few houses allowed it, a small crowd gathered and bade the Prince welcome.In several places companies of Militia ap- peard, and fired salutes; arches were erecled, church bells rung, flags hoisted, and everything done to express the joy the people felt at the visit of the Heir Apparent.When there were no big guns available, the farmers frequently assembled, in knots -of ten or twelve, and ficod off their muskets, as the vessel got near them ; but ~ more frequently a military settler came running from his house, and made what noise he could with the aid of his rifle.Each salute was acknowledged by a shriek of the steam whistle, which, during the latter portion of the journey, was kept going nearly all the time.Onarriving at Frederickton, about seven o'clock, p.m., the Prince was saluted by the Volunteer Artillery, and @, drove to the Government House through stred® deco- \u2018 THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.rated with flags, and lined by soldiers and citizens.Further on in the evening there was an illumination of a considerable number of houses.On the next morning (Sunday) the Prince attended Divine Service in the Cathedral.We quote from the Globe's reporter :\u2014- ** At balf-past ten o\u2019clock the miain doors were thrown open, and every avaiiable inch of space, save that reserved for His Royal Highness and suite, was speedily occupied.A few minutes before eleven o'clock the Prince arrived.The Bishop, bearing the pastoral crook, met him at the door and conducted him to his pew, the organ meanwhile playing \u201c God Save the Queen,\u201d and all the congregation rising to their feet\u2014more out -of curiosity than respect, as was evidenced by the fact that many of them stood upon the seats.The Fredericton people say that these ill-mannered ones are their \u201ccountry cousins.\u201d A telegram from Rimouski states that the Prince arrived at Gaspe on Sunday afternoon, and remained there over night.He was met by the Governor-General and the Canadian Cabinet, and was to proceed westward next day.THANKSGIVING.For two years past earnest prayer has been offered for good crops in Canada, and for these two years prayer has been heard and answered.For many years previously crops had been so uniformly good, upon the whole, that a fair return for the husbandman\u2019s labor and outlay was looked upon as a matter of course, and scarcely more to be specially prayed for than the rising of next day's sun.But two years of almost total failure dispelled the delusion, and showed the farmers, aye and the merchants and mechanics too,\u2014 for all suffered\u2014that plowing and sowing and cultivating, however industriously, carefully, and scientifically performed, were utterly impotent to secure a harvest without the blessing of God.A third bad year would have produced universal bankruptcy and ruin in the trading classes, and destitution and death among the working classes.All saw and felt this, and united in prayer in the spring of last year for a crop, as if they were praying for their lives, which was, indeed, the case.A good harvest was granted, and the thanksgiving was general and deep.This year, again, there was earnest prayer for propitious seasons, for it was felt that one good crop was not enough to recover the country, but rather only served to make the darkness of its depressed condition visible.And that prayer has been more abundantly answered than any one ventured to hope.Shall this gracious answer be taken as a matter of course, and the Lord's interposition on our behalf, as a country, be overlooked and forgotten?Surely #ot.There will, there must, be public, united, general and fervent thanksgivings for the blessing which there is scarcely * room enough to receive.\u201d And having thanked the Giver of every good gift for his great mercy to us in sending \u2018seed to the sower, and bread to the eater,\u201d shall man in his perverseness take a large portion of that food and convert it into a subtle, fiery, insidious, poisonous beverage, to pollute and brutify and destroy the very people it is sent to feed! Could such perversity be believed possible did we not see it exemplified on the most gigantic scale before our eyes?And if men were found to do this great wrong against the community, could we believe it possible that the laws which are made for the protection of society should remain passive\u2014nay, actually license them ?Surely we may exclaim with the poet, \u201c Oh reason thou hast fled to brutish beasts!\" THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS IN ITALY.From papers received by last mail we make the following deeply interesting extracts.The first is from a Dublin paper :\u2014 THE Irisa Bricane\u2014Tre RETURN Tipe.\u2014\u201c Yesterday, 69 young men, who, a few weeks since, filled with martial fervor, left this country for the purpose of uniting with other foreign mercenaries to protect the Roman shephard against his sheep, were landed at the Northwall, having been conveyed from Liverpool by one of the City of Dublin Company\u2019s steamers.They immediately proceeded in a body to Lower Abby-street, and.took up their station opposite to the office of the\u2019 Morning News.\"Their number and toil-worn aspect, their cadaverous faces and general appearance of wretchedness, attracted public attention, and in a few minutes they were surrounded by an inquiring and sympathising crowd.The great majority of them maintained a -sulleri silence : some only noticed questions put to them by shaking their heads or shrugging tive, and spoke without reserve and with indignation.These were soon the centres of groups of people, whom they informed that they had been misled and deceived, that all had been ill-treated, and many of them almost starved.The greater part had reached the Eternal City, the remainder turned back on the way; all were rejoiced to reach their native land, even in the destitute condition in which they were.They had come to Abby- street, they said, in the hope of secing \u2018 the agent,\u2019 and Were greviously dissappointed on finding that the house was locked up, and that \u2018 the agent\u2019 was not to be seen.They had no money to take them to the places from whence they came.150 other emigrants,\u2019 they said were \u2018about the docks\u2019 in Liverpool in the same unfortunate plight as themselves.\u201d The Times, commenting on the statements of the disappointed soldiers of the Pope, says: \u201c Punisliment, in the case of the Pope's Irish Brigade, has not hobbled up with her proverbial pulling steps.The old beldame, for once, has come upon her victims swift and straight.The wretched creatures who were kidnapped by the recruiting agents of the Roman Pontiff have learned to their cost that there are worse creatures on the world than the much-abused Anglo- Saxons; and, oh! but it is great to hear the Pope taken in hand by \u201cHis Own,\"\u2014there is a sketch from life for you.* Rome is a small place, and the streets are so narrow and so filthy, that every one is like a stench hole, while the beggars who follow you everywhere look so miserable and wretched that they nearly break your heart to hear them cry for * Bread, bread, while the priests are seen everywhere eating, drinking, and smoking, as if they had nothing else in the world to do.Oh! how my heart panted for Old Ireland, and how their shoulders; some were disposed to be eommunica- |.I prayed to be away from this accursed place.\u201d Many the Pope's Irish recruit; but they were heretics, and, of course, their testimony did not go for much.One hundred and sixteen of these unfortunates turned up last week at the office of the Nution, bent upon having an interview with Mr.Sullivan, who had led them to believe that if they would join the Pope's army they would receive 2s.a day and the ¢ height of treatment.\u2019 Mr.Sullivan, however, most judiciously, would have nothing to say to them.\u2019 \u201cTHE EMPIRE IS PEACE.\u201d (From the London Times, August 1.) We are requested to publish the follpwing important letter from the Emperor Napoleon to the Ambassador of France, to which Lord John Russell last night referred in the House of Commons : * \u201c Sr.-CLoup, July 25, 1860.\u201c My DEAR PERSIGNY :\u2014Affairs appear to me to be so complicated \u2014thanks to the mistrust excited everywhere since the war in Italy\u2014that I write to you in the hope that a conversation in perfect frankness, with Lord Palmerston wil] remedy the existing evil.Lord Palmerston knows me, and when I affirm a thing he will believe me.Well, you can tell him from me, in the most explicit manner, that since the peace of Villa- franca I bave had but one thought, one object\u2014to inaugurate a new era\u2019of peace, and to live on the best terms with all.my neighbors, and especially with England.I had renbunced Savoy and Nice ; the extraordinary additions to Piedmont alone caused me to resume the desire to see re-united to France provinces essentially French.But.it will be objected, \u2018 You wish for peace, and you increase immoderately the military forces of France.\u2019 I deny the fact in every sense.My army and iny fleet have in them nothing of a threatening character.My steam navy is even far from being adequate to our requirements, and the number of steamers does not nearly equal that of sailing ships deemed necessary in the time of King Louis Philippe.I have 400,000 men under arms ; but deduct from this amount 60,000 in Algeria, 60,000 at Rome, 8,000 in China, 20,000 gendarmes ; the sick, and the new conscripts, you will see\u2014what is the truth\u2014that my regiments are of smaller effective-strength than during the preceding reign.The only addition to the army list has been made by the creation of the Imperial Guard.Moreover, wishing\u2019 for peace, I desire also to organize the forces of the country on the best possible footing, for, if foreigners have only seen the bright side of the last war, I myself, close at hand, have witnessed the defects, and I wish te remedy them.Having said thus much, I have, since Villafrarica, neither done, nor even thought, anything which could alarm any one.When Lavalette started for.Constantinople, the instructions which I gave him were.confined to this :\u2014* Use every effort to maintain the status quo ; the interest of France is that Tarkey should live as long as possible.\u2019 \u201c Now, then, occur the massacres of Syria, and, it is asserted that I am very glad to find a new occasion of making a little war, or of playing a new part.Really people give me credit for very little common sense.If I instantly proposed an expedition, it was because my feelings were those of the people which has put me at its head and the intelligence from Syria transported me with indignation, My first thought, nevertheless, was to come to an understanding with England.What other interest than that of humanity could induce me to send troops into that country?Couldjt be that the possession of it would increase my strength?Can I conceal from myself that Algeria, notwithstanding its future advantages, is a source of weakness to France, which for thirty years has devoted to it the purest of its blood and its gold ?I said it in 1852 at Bordeaux and my opinion is still the same\u2014I have great conquests to make, but only in France.Her interior organization, her moral development, the increase of her resources have still immense progress to make.There a field exists vast enough for my ambition and sufficient to satisfy it.\u201cIt was difficult for me to come to an understanding with England on the subject of Central Italy, because I was bound by the peace of Villafranca.As to Southern Italy, I am free from engagements, and I ask no better than a concert with England on this point, as on others; but, in Heaven's name, let the English government lay aside petty jealousies and unjust mistrusts.\u201cLet us understand one another in good faith, like honest men as we are, and not like theives who desire to cheat each other.To sum up, this is my innermost thought : I desire that Italy should obtain peace, fno matter how, but without foreign intervention, and that my trcops should be able to quit Rome without compromising the security of the Pope.I could very much wish not to be obliged to undertake the Syrian expedition, and, in any case, not to.undertake it alone ; first, because it will be a great expense, and secondly, because I fear that this intervention may involve the Eastern question ; but on the other hand, I do not see how to resist public opinion in my country, which will never understand that we can leave unpunished not only the massacre of Christians, but the burning of our consulates, the insult to our flag, and the pillage of our monasteries which were under our protection.I have told you all I taink, without disguising or omitting anything.Make what use you may think advisable of my letter.é Believe in my sincere friendship, .% NAPOLEON.\u201d TRIP TO LAKE SUPERIOR.SaurT Sr.Mari, 26th July.As we arrived here, six days ago, and stopped at a wharf on the American side, a vision of grandeur floated past.The American steamers which run between Detroit and the various places on Lake Superior, pass this place up and down at the rate of five or six per week.They are mostly of tbe largest size, have generally a goodly number of passengers, who are made very comfortable, and during seasons of competition are carried at a merely nominal fare.These steamers also keep up large freight business with the various Mines on the South Shore of Lake Superior, which traffic is perhaps one of the .most important results of the Mining operations on that Lake.The North Star,\u201d which now passed us, though not by any means the largest of the steamers, presented a beautiful appearance, with its passengers on deck, its flag flying, and a band of music in full play,\u2014the usual manner of entering port.The \u201cNorth Star\u201d passed on, and our Oanadian other travellers have arrived at the same conclusion as\u2018 14, 1860.ppm AveusT a boat, \u201cRescue,\u201d remained, to take on coal, instead Of wood, which they had hitherto used.By day-light in the morning we were passing through the Sault St.Marie Canfl, composed of three of the finest locks in the world.And such théy should be, connecting as they do the greatest of Lakes with the finest of inland water systems.Hundreds of tons of various ores aro daily passed through this thoroughfare, and the profits of the Oanal must be large.But why is this great work on the American side, when the other offers natural advantages for it immensely superior?Enquire why is it that vessels bearing the British flag must pass up the Ste.Marie river, free of charge, through a channel cut by the industry of their neighbors, while à better one might have been cut at less expense on the British side ?\u2014or (anticipating a little) why is it that the Southern shore of the Lake is fringed with Mines, many of them paying well, while the Northern shore is but now being surveyed ?\u2014or why is it that so little effort has been made to complete that all-important road from Fort William to the Red River, while the large trade of the interior is finding a channel through à more enterprizing and more provident nation ?These reflect discredit on Canadian Governments, past and present, and especially on certain individuals connected therewith.However, we must hurry over such matters as these, and proceed with our journey.Leaving the river, wetake a North-west course for Michipicoten Island, passing Parisien Island on N.E., and Whitefish Point, a large sandy head on the opposite side.About noon we reached the Island, and found our way into a large and exceedingly beautiful harbor.The fine foliage on its shores betoken good land.The harbor is deep and capacious, and well protected by a few rocky islands at the mouth.Still, Michipicoten is a wilderness, inhabited by rabits and frequented by sea-gulls, and two or three men who keep a fishing station belonging to the captain of the \u201c Rescue.\u201d When the steamer anchored, some of us took a boat and rowed out a mile or two to Agate Island, one of the small islands at the mouth of the harbor, so called from the numerous specimens of agate found in the gravel; and after searching for them for some time, the steamer took us up, and took a straight course for Thunder Bay.Next morning shone bright and fair, with Isle Royale lying off to the South, and Pie Island and Thunder Cape yet ahead.We stood on with the fine bold rocks of Pie Island to the South-west, and the still more noble bluff which terminates Thunder Cape, to the North-west, which seemed well suited to withstand even the bolts of the celestial artillery, from which it has been named.A little farther, and we passed the Welcome Islands which complete the breakwaters of the spacious harbor of Thunder Bay.During the forenoon we anchored over against that part of the shore whereon is erected the Post Office on the line to Red River.The prospect before us was of a small and very new-looking clearing, with two or three shanties erected among the unremoved logs.(To be Continued.) EDITORIAL ITEMS.\u2014 Old men and young boys might earn 1s.8d.each every afternoon by selling 100 copies of the Daily Witness at a half-penny each.\u2018Smart youths or active men might easily sell 200 copies, and thus clear 3s.4d.every afternoon./ _\u2014 News venders are requested to send their orders for the \u201cDay Witness\u201d at once, at 50 cents per 100 copies.There might be a large sale in every city and own of Canada.\u2014 A telegram from Father Point states that the \u201c An- glo-Saxon\u201d passed at 11 a.m., with 71 cabin and 127 steerage passengers.The \u201c Palestine\u201d arrived out on the 31stult.Passed the \u201c John Bell\u201d at the west entrance of the Straits of Belisle at noon on the 12th, the © Bohemian\u201d off Cape Whittle at 6 a.m.on the 13th.Detained by fog 15 hours.\u2014 Mr.Woodbury, of the New England Temperance House, writes to us, that he fears the high prices announced by the leading Hotels, namely, $4 a-day, will keep strangers away from Montreal, and wishes us to say, that so far as his accommodations go, namely, for 70 to 80 guests, he will charge from $1.50 to $2 a-day, according to rooms, &c.\u2014 The Mayor has refused to call a meeting of the Council on account of the excited state of feeling caused by the language of Messrs, Homier, Cusson and others, at last meeting.The first named individual has been served with notice of an action for slander by Alderman Bulmer.-\u2014 We have several letters on both sides of the University Question on hand, but think it better to defer the farther discussion of this subject till after the Prince's Visit.Indeed, enough has been published, we hope, to convince those who seek grants and endowments for denominational institutions, that the injury to the public, including themselves, will be incalculable, if the agitation be continued.\u2014 We learn from Nova Scotia papers, that two little girls, the daughters of one Henry Foote, of Halifax, a Protestant and sexton of St.George's Church there, have left their father\u2019s residence at the instigation of a Roman Catholic Priest, and are now under concealment.The children were baptised and brought up protestants with the consent of their mother, who was a Catholic.\u2014 The Mayor of Quebec is resolved not to be caught en deshabille,\u2014in \u2018\u2018 Jamie Forrest\u201d fashion.The Prince of Wales was to have been received at Quebec on Friday; 17th inst, but as preparations by the good citizens had not been completed, His Worship tele- questions are to be variously answered, but all of thern ¥ EE\u2019 Hb) , \u2018Ç iy ; PY\u201d.3 p.700 576 RD.Fi CT oA we oo J graphed that it would not be, ggnvenient , + the royal Phrty until the following! day, Satgrday.04 it ~\u2014 The steamer \u201c Kingston,\u201d of the opel Msil Tj 4H 4 7 is chartered to bring the Prince from Quebec to'Mfat- 4x Teal; and after he has gone Æhrough He programe \"laid out for him here, he wil proceed by railyay to Prescoit or Brockville, where the \u201cKingstonÿ Will be in waiting to carry him down the\u2019 Rapides./ After he \u2018has been at Ottawa and \u2018Brockyille, the ¢Kingston\u201d.\u2026 Will receive him\u2019 again at: Broÿ cyill and, fail up the \u201cBay of Quinte.From Whithf, oF some\u201c êther North : © Shore port, he will again ¢fnbark for{Toronto, and .© \u2018subsequently for Niagara Fyls.This fyrourite steambr \u201c passed up this morning og her last.tip until after the Yl 2; line, going down 0.Québec on Friday evening next; 31 2 \u2014 It appears ray ae swell-mgb are now infesting ¥ the places wheze the Prince is lo visit, and consider- h je able ofa \u201cOhh of Pa of that gang have been here.\u201cdthink that fs French Canadian police substitutes, : 1 aid at Bg.4-day, will do ghy good in such an emer- 4 gency as may be expected] If the police authorities ¥ do nothiag to quell the bfacklegs and swell-mob, the \"Reception Committee and citizens generally will have to do something immedidtely in self-defence.The aid vof thé chief detectives/from Boston, New York and $ Chicago is imperativelÿ necessary.fA recent number of the Semeur Canadien con- ; tains two letters of abjuration, addressed to the Priest of St.Athanase, signed X.Busiere and N.Patendaude.These Jetters state that the writers have decided to renounce the :Church of Rome and follow the Gospel, ; and ong éf-their:temporal consequences will be to free the signers from.paying tythes.SAFETY OF THE EXHIBITION BurzpiNe.\u2014It is not unusual to hear expressions of apprehension respecting the safety of this building at the time of its inauguration, on account of the crowd then expected Tn its galleries, but we trust all fears have been allayed by the decisive tests employed.In addition to the presure of 20 tons ; on twenty square yards of gallery tried some days ago, : \u2018the test of the moving weight was applied yesterday.; Seventy men of the R.C.Rifles were marched at .various rates of {ime over the different galleries without any noticeable -deflection from their level.We understand \u2018the building is to be open to the public for the last time on Thursday night, after which \u201cA it will be closed for the arrangement of ths articles for ® ' Exhibition, many of which have already arrived.3; Houicioe.\u2014A shocking affair has just taken place in + ei Philadelphia.Two men accidentally met at a tavern, and after leéving the place separately, one- of them, named Burke; repeatedly crossed and sought to irritate shaken his fist in the face of Hayes, received a blow from him, which resulted in a quarrel.Hayes seized him by the throat and did not let go his hold till he had, on bis knees, twice cried \u201c enough.\u201d Burke was picked up and carried into a drug-store near, where he expired in a few minutes.Tee Pouce Force.\u2014The Chief of Police advertizes for 75 men to act as supernumary constables during the Prince\u2019s visit.The proposed addition would need to be a permanent one, without any extra \u201csensation, for positively the existing force is miserably } : inefficient.For instance, in Kempt, Murray, William 8 - and Colborne Streets, Griffintown, we are told, drunk- À E enness and fighting are notoriously frequent, and never \u2014 #.policeman to be seen.On last Sabbath evening, be- - tween 6 and 7 o'clock, quite a disturbance occurred, EB as usual, in the neighborhood referred to, and our in- 4 fad or declares if he were known to have made any { \u2018kind of complaint, he would be a marked man.A a , / / RecoroEw\u2019s Courr.\u2014Bafore J.P.Sexton, Esq., there were 10 cases, 6 for drunkenness, 1 vagrant, 1 carter i loitering off his stand, 1 driving public cart without a { number, and 1 for assault.The fines imposed by the Recorder yesterday amounted to $122, of which $82 were paid.Number of persons tried during the week ending 11th inst, 173 ; fines imposed $566.95 ; do paid $285.Porice Recorp.\u2014No business before the Police Magistrate this morning.ogra a, J or ras à fog COMMERCIAL.MonTrEaL, 14th August, 1860, The weather continued wet and cold till this morn- 8) when the sun is breaking through.A great deal Pan festivities, The \u201c Jenny\u2019 Lind\u201d takes her, plégé in the | § Does the Chiéf of Police, or/the Police Committee, |- the other, whose name was Hayes: Burke having |- + .» * f | / LÀ er AT ANS ] té receive] firsts, and 28s.9d.to 29s.for inferiors ; Pearls, 28s.3d.- Pork is held at $32 for Mess, $15 for P.M., and $1375, for Prime, at which prices there are transactions for consumption, : \u2018The demand for the lower grades is good, Cut Meats, if in good condition, continue in active demand, but we Lear of no parcels offering.Larp is unchanged.= Co ;__Burrae.\u2014~The supply, is fair for the time of year, and all that, comes in of a good quality goes off readily at 13 to' 14 cents,\u2014the bulk of the sales being 134 to -14 cents.Dairy Butter, if really good and in hand- -some small tipnèts, \u2018would bring 15 to 16 cents, according to quality; \u2018wholesale.The retail price is about 2 cents higher.= .: 151 - : Luuser.\u2014The Lumber trade-at Quebec is quiet.A fine raft of White Pine, 70 \u2018feet average, was sold at 73d., the owner being told that the demand this year chiefly ran upon smaller or larger averages.A large fall fleet is expected.The advices from Britain are rather discouraging.0.\u2014 Mr.McConnell has furnished us with the following memorandum of receipts of produce per Royal Mail Through Line, from the opening of navigation to date :\u2014Flour, 3,467.barrels ; Pork, 142 barrels ; Butter, 416 kegs ; Peas, 419 barrels and- 87 bags ; Ashes, 536 barrels.: a .Recrrrrs or Propucz by Lachine Canal yesterday : Vessels downwards, 34,\u2014viz.: steamers, 7; barges, &c., 27.\u2018The imports were :\u2014Wheat, 50,024 bushels ; Flour, 1,125 harrels; Peas, 1,000 bushels; Ashes, 43 barrels ; Lumber, boards, 1,463,000 feet; Laths, 68,000 ; Butter, 98 kegs; Apples, 1,350 barrels; Beef Cattle, 21; Sheep, 25 ; Pork, 5 barrels ; Hides, 1 ton} Bark, 90 tons; W.I.Staves, 17,500; Pipe Staves, 8,500; Cord Wood, 289 cords.404 JOHN DOUGALL,.COMMISSION MERCHANT.MONTREAL MARKET REPORT.(Corrected by Clerks of Bonsecours and St.Ann\u2019s.Markets, Tuesday, August 14.) _ Oats, 25.1d.to 2s.3d.; Peas; 3s.9d.to 4s.; Bag Flour, 16s.to 16s.6d.; Oatmeal, 11s.3d.to 11s.6d.; Dressed Hogs, $7 to $7.50 ; Fresh Butter, 1s.2d.to 1s.3d.; Salt do., 10d.to 11d.; Eggs, 8d.to 9d.; Apples, $2.75 to $3.Remarks.\u2014Very few farmers attended to-day, and the quantity of produce was limited, Sales are brisk and prices are rising.À good many Quebec traders are purchasing poultry, eggs, &c.LIVERPOOL MARKETS.Market generally steady, without much change in value.Flour\u2014Fair request; prices steady; Western Canal, 25s.6d.to 26s.\u20acd.; Phil.and Balt., 27s.6d.to 28s.Wheat\u2014Good demand; same rates as last week ; White'11s.3d.to 12s.94.; Red 9s.94.to 11s.6d.Corn steady; White 333.9d.to 35s.; Yellow 31s.; Mixed 30s.3d.10 30s.6d.Lard\u2014Good demand.Ashes\u2014Only retail ; Pots and Pearls at former quotations.Sugar quiet and inactive ; prices rather easier.\u2018Tea quiet.Coffee steady.Consols 93} to 933.BIRTHS, MARRIAGES & DEATHS.BIRTHS.Keene\u201428th ult., the wife of Dr.A.McCrea, of a daughter.Millbrook\u20144th inst., Mrs.S.J.Howell, of a son.Ottawa\u20145th inst., Mrs.Robert Grant, of Goulburn, of a son.6th inst., Mrs.S.H.Waggonner, of a son.Peterboro\u20141st inst., Mrs, John Clifford, of a daugh- ter.Toronto\u201410th inst., Mrs.J, McBurnett of a son.MARRIAGES.Montreal\u201426th ult., by the Rev.J.P.Howard, O.Stimpson, of St.Pie, to Annie Taylor, only daughter of Geo.Mann, Esq.> Brampton\u201410th inst., by the Rev.James Pringle, Mr.Walter Marshall, Chinguacousy, to Miss Margaret Murray.Dundas\u20148th inst., by the Rev.F.L.Osler, Mr.H.A.Ely, to Ellen, eldest daughter of the late Mr.Richard att.Melbourne\u201425th ult., by the Rev.Wm.Snodgrass, Mr.Colin Maclvor, to Jessie Thompson.Quebec\u20148th inst, by the Rev.John Gemley, Mr, Gale, to Margaret, second daughter of Mr.Robert Middleton.DEATHS.Montreal\u201411th inst., Ellen Elizabeth, infant daughter of the Rev.John Douglas, aged 10 months.13th inst, Adelaide, daughter of the late Deputy Commissary-Gceneral Price, aged 20 years.Coaticook\u201429th ult., Orange, eldest son of the late Capt.Wood, aged 43 ytars.Granby\u20142nd inst., Mr.John Taylor, aged 87 years.Lennoxville\u201429th ult., Aaron B.Mallory, Esq., aged 39 years.ADVERTISE M ENTS.GEORGE VAN BUSKIRK, SURGEON DENTIST, 35 GREAT ST.JAMES STREET, With twenty years\u2019 practical knowledge of the profession.Office Hours from 9 till 6.rain has.fallen, which is all needed for vegetation, t; of course, it will not benefit the crops, which have x tured, but are not yet secured.There is, however, 4/great breadth of grain already carried in Lower génada.The season has been a very early one, upon Gp whole, notwithstanding the long drought and com- Bratively low temperature, A ry MONTREAL MARKETS.@VEEAT.~A forced sale of 2,000 bushels afloat was kde at $1,15.C oo HF LOUR is quite inactive, the transaction being only of sretail character.The wholesale price is $5.45 to $5150 for fresh ground.There is no great supply in mérket, but the demand is equally light.Fancy is $6.50 to $5.60.Extras and lower grades are still dull.OArMBAL is dull, on account of increased freight and a slight fall in Britain.The price is $4.40 to $4.45.(CANADA CORN STARCH.\u2014The Canada Cora Starch Company\u2019s Works at Edwardsburgh, C.W., are now in full operation.: .ALEX.WALXER, St.Peter Street, Sole Agent.INK NAMED TULIPS.\u2014The undersigned having delivered the Tulips sold by auction, when the Flowers were exhibited, finds that he has a few surplas Bulbs remaining, of kinds equally good, and hereby offers a small collection of 12 Fine named sorts, Six Bulbs of each, at an average price of 12% cents per Bulb ; and a few fine mixtures at an average price of 6} cents perBulb, these being about the auction rates.Directions for planting and cultivation will be given with the roots, which can be delivered at a day\u2019s notice.This is a good opportunity for obtaining a fine Show-bed of Tulips at a very moderate expense.A small collection of very fine Hyacinths of assorted colors, mostly double, still remains for sale.Apply at the Witness\u201d Office, 36 Great St.James Street.JOHN DOUGALL.AsHES are very dull.Pots, 28s.3d, to 28s, 6d.for August 14, 1860.ROPRIETARY COLLEGE, DURHAM HOUSE, ST.LAWRENCE MAIN STREET, (a short distance from Sherbrooke Street) Montreal.\u2014The proprietors have satisfaction in stating that they have taken Durbam House as a Collegiate Institute for the Education of Young Ladies and Gentlemen.The Revd.Alfred Stone, (for the last two years Rector of the Thos.Molson College) is appointed Head Master.The English and Commercial branches will be under the direction of Mr.John Goodwin, Professor of Mathematics and Landsurveying ; French Master, Mr.Lacroix.The Young Ladies\u2019 Department will be superintended by Mrs.Stone.Instrumental and Vocal Music will be taught by Mr.William Powell, Professor of Music, (from England) and by Mrs.Richard Goodwin, for several years a student of Music in Germany.The Course of Study will include the Greek, Latin, French and English Languages, Mathematics, History, Geograpby, Natural Philosophy, Arithmetic,\" Drawing, Writing and Voeal and Instrumental Music.The Ladies will likewise be taught plain and ornamental needlework.\u2019 FEES FOR GENTLEMEN.-1st Class per term, $8; 2nd do $7; 3rd do $6; 4th do $5; sth do $4; 6th do 83.FEES FOR LADIES.\u201418t Class per term $6; 2nd do $5; 3rd do $3; 4th do $2; all fees to be paid in advance.Fifty cents additional per term for Stationery, and fifty cents for fuel.There will not be any extra charges.The Autumnal term will commence Monday, 27th August, and end the 9th November.Pupils will be received as Boarders by the Rev.Alfred Stone and by the Professors.For fur ther particulars apply to the REV.ALFRED STONE, Durham House, St.Lawrence Main Street, Montreal.RELIGIOUS BOOK AND TRACT SOCIETY,\u2014 The attention of the religious public is respectfully called to the stock of the publications, of this truly Catholic Society, on sale at the Depository, No.43 Great St.James Street.\"Subscriptions received for its Periodicals,\u2014the ¢ Leigure Hour,\u201d the \u2018Sunday at Home,\u201d * Child\u2019s Companion,\u201d &c., &c.These are now delivered monthly, and the sub- \u2018seriptions for 1860 are respectfully requested to be left at the Depository before the 1st of December.IBLE SOCIETY.\u2014The usual assortment of BIBLES and TESTAMENTS, in great variety of languages, on sale at the Depository, at the Society\u2019s Cost PRICES.Also, Bibles and Testaments in the languages of Europe, say French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, &c.Montreal, 14th August, 1860.ANADA SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.\u2014Superin- tendents and Teachers of Sunday Schools are respectfully reminded that the usual assortment of Elementary and Library Books, Hymn Books and Sunday School requisites, and made-up Libraries, are constantly on hand at the UNION DEPOSITORY, Great St.James Street, at the low prices at which they are sold by the Union.- : JAMES MILNE, Montreal, 14th August, 1860.Depositary.ANADA TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE.\u2014The 4d- vocate is the oldest and the cheapest Temperance periodical in the North American Provinces ; and has received the endorsement of the prominent Temperance men in and out of Canada.It is the organ of no particular organization ; but aims at recording whatever of interest may transpire in the progress of the Temperance Reformation.Under the exemption clause of the new Postage Act, it nasses through the Mails Free of Charge.na TERMS:\u2014 Single Copy .50centsperanaum.Five Copies, and all over that number, to one address.= .- 40 cents each.- Letters and communieations for the paper should be addressed to JOHN C.BECKET, 38 Great St.James Street, * Montreal, Canada East.A UcTION SALE.\u2014By BENNING & BARSALOU.Splendid Collection of Marble and Alabaster Vases Alabaster Statuary & Ornaments.The Subscribers have received instructions from SIG.G.B.PANDOFFINI & Co., -to sell, at the Stores, No.76 Great St.James Street, (Next Door to the Ottawa Hotel,) on Tuesday evening, 14th August, and following Evenings, the whole of their magnificent collection of Marble and Alabaster Statuary, &c., &c.This Collection consists of a large Assortment of Etruscan, Medici, Hebe and Roman Vases of Bardiglio, Agate, Yellow Sienna, and other different kinds of Italian Marble, suited for the docoration of Parlors, Halls, Niches, Drawing rooms Mantel Pieces, Libraries, &e.Splendid Marble Fountains, elaborately wrought with Grape Leaves, Vines, &c.Open Work Vases for Flowers, Vestal Temples, Card Receivers, Florentine Open Work Baskets, Candlesticks, Paper Weights, &e.Catalogues will be ready, and the Goods on view, the morning of the day of Sale.-.The Sales will be conducted by Sig.L.Topis, who will pack all Goods purchased for transit at a small cost.Sale EACH ÉVENING at SEVEN o\u2019clock.: BENNING & BARSALOU.OTICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS.-\u2014The Subscriber has just received a large consignmént of the following Goons, which will be-sold low, for Cash, and at the Auc tions every Thursday :\u2014 oo 10° 200 Turned Post hard wood Bedsteads, at $1.75 to $2, 250 Polished Walnut and Oak Cane Seat Arm Chairs, 150 Cottage Arm Chairs\u2014wood seat, ! 50 Mahogany and B.W.Sofas, 300 Walnut Cane Seat Bedroom Chairs, A large consignment of new Carpet and Oil Cloth New and Second-hand Cooking Stoves, - = A large quantity of Cut and Pressed Tumblers, Ivory-handled Knives and Forks, LT Table Furniture, Bed-room Furniture, Mattrasses, and General Household Goods.The whole Stock must be closed off by the 20th August.HENRY J.SHAW, Auctioneer, .St.Francois Xavier Street.August 6.VY ARIE GATED LANTERNS ror EFFECTIVE ILLUMINATION.\u2014The Fluid used for these LAN TERNS is COAL OIL, requiring no Glass Chimneys, and the Burner, a new invention, ensures complete Combustion, and is free from smoke or smell.Ls In point of economy, these LANTERNS defy competition.Parties wishing to leave their houses during the Illumination, can hang them outside of the windows'where they will burn until the Oil is all consumed.They require no attention after being lit up, and are well adapted for hanging on trees in front of houses, and for Lighting up Avenues, as they are not affected by rain or wind.a great improvement, as the guttering and falling of grease on the Carpets is avoided, the risk from Fire is diminished, no snuffing is required, and Lamps are at all times useful.For Sale, Wholesale and Retail, at the HARDWARE STORE, CATHEDRAL BLOCK, THOMAS DAVIDSON.August 13.| detached Feed Pump.Also, LAMPS for inside of Windows, instead of Candles\u2014 GALE OF VALUABLE FURNITURH, \u2014 Square and Cottage Pianos, Brussels, Tapestry, Velvet and Imperial Carpets, Wardrobes, Sideboards, Drawing-Room Sets, Dining-BEoom Furniture, Beds and Bedding, Table Cutlery, Curtains, Gaseliers, and general Household goods.On THURSDAY, the 16th AUGUST, the Subscriber will sell at his Stores, St.François Xavier Street, a large collection of the above deseription of goods; also, Mirrors, Dinner and Tea Sets, and Glassware.Sale at Ten o\u2019clock.- HENRY J.SHAW., EA AND COFFEE.\u2014We have received via New York several lots of very choice Coffee, which we shall supply to families at 1s 3d per 1b.TEA.\u2014The following are our prices for good family Teas : Souchong\u2014best quality, Rich Pekoe flavor, 3s 4d per Ib.Do Pekoe flavor - - - - 88 0g « Do do = - = = 280d $, Young Hyson\u2014first class Tea - - - - 384d ¢ Do Fine quality = - = 380d + Hyson\u2014Small Leaf, recommended- - - 33 0d Do Strong do - - - 2894 « Other description of Teas, from 1s 6d to 2s 6d ¢ To purchasers of 61b.weight of Tea we make an allowance of two pence per 1b.EDWARD GEE & CO., - Coffee Roasters and Manufacturers: of Chocolate, Broma and Cocoa.27 Great St.James Street.Montreal, August 13th, 1860.© : OUNDRY,\u2014KING & QUEEN STREETS, MONTREAL.\u2014 The Subscriber is constantly Manufacturing and solicits orders for Steam Engines, Steam Boilers, Mill Work, Bark Mills, Power Presses, &c., &c.; and is prepared to furnish designs and execute orders for all kinds of Machinery, in the usual substantial and workmanlike manner of this Establishment.- Architectural and Machine Castings, Iron or Brass, from an unequelled Stock of Patterns, Best Fire Clay, best Fire Bricks, Ground Charcoal and Sea Coal, in barrels, always on hand.GEORGE BRUSH, Proprietor.Montreal, August 13.RINCE OF WALES & VICTORIA BRIDGE MEDALS.\u2014SAVAGE & LYMAN have received a further supply of the above, and will be enabled fo meet the increasing demand.Medal Metal : .25 cents each Bronze and Leather Cases $150 « Solid Silverindo do 500 « Solid Silver, gilt, in do .700 « VY ICTORIA BRIDGE PERFUME, distilled ex- presgly in honor of the inauguration by Piesse & Lubin of London.Supply just received per S.S.* Canadian.\u201d\u2019 S.J.LYMAN, & CO., Place D\u2019Armes.EW NURSE OTTLE.\u2014Just received, à supply of LaForme\u2019s new Nursery Bottle.S.J.LYMAN & CO., Place d\u2019Armes.RAND TEMPERANCE DEMONSTRATION.~The different Temperance Societies and Bands of Hope will assemble on Craig Street and Champ de Mars on the morning of the 25th inst., preparatory to their escorting H.R.H.the Prince of Wales to open the Crystal Palace.A full attendance of all friends of the cause is earnestly requested.J.S.HALL, Rec.-See.HE TEMPERANCE DEMONSTRATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE will meet this evening, at eight o\u2019clock, in J.C.Becket\u2019s Hall, Great St.James Street, to make preparations for the 25th inst.JAMES STEWART, Secretary.NOTICE.\u2014The Public is hereby notified that a Registry Book is now open at the Office of the Chief of Police, City Hall, for persons who may have suitable Apartments, Board,, &e., &c., for Visitors during the Visit of the.Prince of Wales and Provincial Exhibition.M.J.HAYS.Office of the Chief of Police, Montreal, August 13.ROCESSION OF CHILDREN.\u2014The City Council Celebration Committee having decided upon organizing the Children of various Schools in this city, so as to include them in the Procession fo take place on the arrival of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the teachers of the different schools or other parties interested are hereby invited to put themselves in communication with the undersigned, on or before Tuesday next the 14th instant, with the view of making the necessary arangements.It is intended to place the children on the Haymarket Square and in front of the Court House, with suitable flags and.banners, and to furnish them with instrumental music, as an accompaniment to singing the National Anthem, &e.(By Order,) CHAS.GLACKMYER, City Clerk.City Clerk\u2019s Office, City Hall.Montreal, 9th August, 1860.ae CIRCULAR published by the Undersigned on every Friday, for the English Steamer, is obtainable at their Office.: \u2018Arrangements are made for-the printing of the names of Merchants on such number of Circulars as may be specially and in quantity subscribed for.7 > TAYLOR BROS., Brokers.Union Building, Aug.13, 1860.\" - 4, Cream ENGINE.\u2014For Sale, very cheap, a SECONDHAND HORIZONTAL STEAM ENGINE, in excellent order ; has Planed Cast Iron Bed Plate, 8} inch Cylinder; 18 inch stroke, 5} feet Pulley Fly Wheel with 10 inch face, and ALEX.BRYSON & CO - August 13.ve .(GEORGE WATSON, City Bill-Poster, No.9 Hermine Street, near Craig Street.Le JLLUMINATION.\u2014DANIEL McDONALD, Gasfitter, 106 St.Antoine Street, near Mountain Street, is prepared to fit up Iron or Composition pipes for out or inside fittinge, transparences, &c.Charges Moderate, Montreal, August 13, 1860.v ADDING AND BATTING.\u2014The Undersigned of- VV fers for Sale on manufacturers\u2019 account\u2014 1700 Bales Batting, of four different qualities.100 Bales Wadding, of twg different qualities.The attention of Wholesale Merchants and Manufacturers is specially invited to the above Goods.- JOHN DOUGALL, A COMMISSION MEROHANT, - Montreal, August 13, 1860.8 N AsuITIOS BISCUITS.\u2014A consignment of these well-know and celebrated Biscuits has been received, for sale to the trade by JOHN DOUGALE, \\ Commission Merchant.-Mdntreal, Aug.13, 1860.oe er 270 and 2/2 St.Paul Street.a 5 wT EF en.i i \"= Ÿ me ope esses mp ab 14+ exte détérioré THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.r The Miscellany.DANESBURY HOUSE.\u2014CuarrER II.(Continued.) THE NIGHT JOURNEY.Mrs.Danesbury remembered to have smelt peppermint and camphor when the nurse had been talking ; and she also remembered that Glis- son had occasionally seemed stupid\u2014bewildered \u2014and she had wondered ; but she had never suspected the cause now hinted at.\u201cI wish Jessy had said this to me,\u201d she observed.\u201cI should not have quitted home and left the child in her charge.\u201d \u201cI wish she had, ma'am, as things have turned out,\u201d responded Thomas Harding.¢ But very few young women, going fresh into a house would venture to bring such a charge against an old and valued servant.\u201d \u201cVery true.And my perfect confidence in Glisson may have tended to blind me.The puzzle is, where can she get the gin ?\u201d Qh, ma'am, people who give way to drink are never at a fault to get it.\u201d Mrs.Danesbury gathered herself into her corner of the chaise, buried in an unpleasant reverie.She was casting blame to herself.Not for having failed to detect Glisson\u2019s fault ; no, blame lay not with herself there ; but for having suffered the laudanum bottle to be without a label.Several times had she thought of placing a label on it, but the time had gone on, and on, and this was the result.Had there been a label, Glisson was certainly not so far gone but she might have read it.\u2018 Have you, or Mrs.Harding, mentioned this doubt of Glisson to any one ?\u201d suddenly asked Mrs.Danesbury.Certainly not,\u201d was his reply.\u201c And we cautioned Jessy not to let it escape her lips again.\u201d \u201cI am glad of that.I scarcely see my way clear, with regard to Glisson.Mr.Danesbury thinks highly of her, and she served his mother faithfully for many years, so that I feel it would not be kind or just, to turn her way, as I might a less valued servant.I think I must bury this in silence, even to Mr.Danesbury, and keep her oz for a while, and be watchful over her, and try and recall her to what she used to be.I am convinced she cannot have taken to it long.I must question Jessy: perhaps she will tell me more than she told you.\u201d ' They had been travelling at a high rate of speed all the way, and had changed horses several times, though it has not been necessary to mark their progress, step by step.Now they were nearing Eastborough ; and soon the lights in the town began to be visible.Had it been day, Mrs.Danesbury would have seen her husband's factory, rising on the opposite hill.It was, however, nearly midnight, a cold, frosty, starlight night.\u2014\u2014 À steep hill descended to the hollow, and at the top of the hill was the turnpike gate.The gate was closed.The post-boy stopped his horses and hallooed; and the door opened, and the keeper came out.Mrs.Danesbury, who was on that side, leaned forward.\u201c Do you happen to know, Giles, whether the child is saved.\u201d She received no answer.The man had gone forward, with a stumble, to open the gate; Mrs.Danesbury supposed he had tripped over a stone.He opened the gate ; ke did not fling it back, but kept it in his hand, and went stumbling across the road with it.The postboy urged on his horses ; but Giles somehow loosed his hold of the gate, and, though he went on himself, he let the gate swing-to again.It struck the nearest horse.The horse, a nasty-tempered animal at all times, as the post-boy phrased it afterwards, began to plunge and kick ; that startled his fellow, and in spite of the efforts of the post-boy, they sprang forward, and dashed madly down the hill.Mrs.Danesbury shrieked, and rose up.\u201c Ma\u2019am, ma'am, don\u2019t get up, don\u2019t lean out!\u201d implored Thowas Harding; \u201c be still, for the love of life ! Lie you down at the bottom of the chaise.\u201d \u201c This is certain death,\u201d she wailed.¢ They will inevitably dash against the bridge ; and it will be certain death.Oh, my children! My Saviour, I can but commend them to Thee! Do Thou make them Thine, and keep them from the \u20ac * |\u201d Had it been his own wife, or one with whom he could put himself upon an equality, Thomas Harding would have forced her to the bottom of the chaise and held her there.But he did not like to act so to Mrs.Danesbury.She had leaned from the side window as she spoke the last words, probably not knowing that she did so, in her agitation and terror, and certainly not aware that they were already at the foot of the hill.But they had, as it were, flown down it; the chaise, in that same moment, struck against the lower stone abutment of the narrow, awkward bridge, (which every body in Eastborough had long said was a disgrace and a danger to the town, but which none had béstirred themselves to have altered) and the chaise was overturned.Mrs.Danesbury\u2019s head fell on the ground, and the chaise settled upon it.ia (To be Continued.) MANNER.\u2014There is no policy like politeness ; and a good manner is the best thing in the world to get a good name or to supply the want of it.| BE THOUGHTFUL OF MOTHER.There, Lucy, or Mary, or Jane, do not let that pout come, and spoil all the dimples, that a moment ago were nestling around your pretty mouth, just because your mother said, \u201c Child don\u2019t muss up that drawer so,\u201d or called you back to straighten out the mat, that you in your haste sent flying round to a right-angle with the door.What if you do have to tarry a moment, before you get out into the bright sunshine, beneath the shadow of the great oak, in the heart of the dim old forest! What if you could not go out at all, girls ?There, think of that! Suppose you change places with your mother, let her throw on her cape-bonnet, and pass out through the garden gate, and you don her checked apron\u2014turn housekeeper and tend the baby! Willie is as sweet as a rosebud, fresh from his morning bath\u2014but you can only stop to toss him once\u2014give him a kiss, and turn him off to little sister Fannie, and go out into the kitchen to see about the puddings and meat for dinner! The flies are buzzing around, and the sun is pouring in through an unclosed door, and the air seems most suffocating\u2014but there you must stay, for it would never do to go into the nice, cool parlor or hall, with eggs, butter, and milk, to concoct dishes, to say nothing of the fatigue of running down stairs for added portions of salt, spice, and flour that will be sure to be needed.Whipping the eggs is quite an arm- aching process\u2014and basting the meat gives you the headache ; and just as you think of sitting down, Willie's loud cry calls you to the nursery ! The tears have run down his cheeks and mingled with the stains of cherry-jam, with which little Fannie had seen fit to feed him, and his white sack and dress are in a deplorable plight, and tired, cross, ready for his daily nap, he has to go into his bath again.Aimid screamings and shoutings that show plainly Nature has fitted him for a stump speaker, he is re-dressed, and Nellie Bly, in your loudest key, is struck up for his particular benefit.After a weary half-hour of singing, coaxing, and rocking, his winking eyes close, and you consign him to his crib, and darkening the room, and rubbing your aching arms\u2014for Willie is a plump baby\u2014you hasten to the kitchen.If the sun is hot\u2014the fire is cool, and the puddings ditto, and it wants a little over an hour to the noontide meal, and in a perfect fever\u2014for papa is a precise man\u2014you kindle the coals! There is no rest, much less romance, as you flit hither and thither\u2014heating your face as you hurry the sauces, and wearying your feet as you step busily over the hard, uncarpeted floor.Amid all this bustle and preparation, pictures of the cool, shadowy woods, with a mound of moss, and a little brook that slowly ripples along, mirroring the ferns that din their plumes into the waters\u2014steal into your mind, and you wonder how any one can bear to be shit up in the house working all day! A pang of remorse strikes you, as you think of your poor mother, prisoned from year to year; but you drive it away by saying, \u201c O! mother don\u2019t care for the woods and the meadows\u2014she had rather be busy in the house!\u201d How do you know mother don't care for the woods and the meadows?Did you not find some mosses bright and green, on the window-sill\u2014that you brought home from a ramble weeks ago, and threw carelessly down by the kitehen door?Who watched over and watered them, that she might see daily a bit of the green wood ?You must not think that because mother patiently and uncomplainingly walks her weary round at home, because it is her duty, that she has no longings for the ease and freedom of life : but there is one thing you may think, and be both the happier for the thinking, if you will only act accordingly.Not to pout if your mother only asks you to replace what you have misplaced, but cheerfully to deny yourself some of your pleasures, that she may have more ; and the memory of those acts will be dear to you, as the haunts of childhood\u2014when the birds sing and the lillies wave above her, you now call mother.\u2014 Arthur\u2019s Home Magazine.SLEEPY PREACHING.Sydney Smith thus comments on the dead and formal style of preaching common in English pulpits, and not altogether unknown on this side of the water : \u201c Why are we natural everywhere but, in the pulpit?No man expresses warm and animated feelings anywhere else with his mouth alone, but with his whole body; he articulates with every limb, and talks from head to foot with a thousand voices.Why this holoplexia, on sacred occasions alone?Why call in the: aid of paralysis: to piety?Is it a rule of oratory to balance the style against the subject, ahd to handle the most sublime truths in the dullest language and \u201cdriest manner ?* Is sin to be taken from men as Eve was from Adam; by casting them into a deep slumber ?Or front what possible perversion of common sense are §é:all to look like field-preach- ers in Zembla, holy-lamps of ice numbed into uiescence, and stageation, and mumbling ?\u2014 here is, I grant, something discouraging at present to a man of sense in the sarcastic phrase of \u2018 popular preacher ;\u2019 but I am not entirely without hope that the time may come when energy in the pulpit may be no longer considered as a mark of cease (as Swift says) to be public dormitories ; and sleep be no longer looked upon as the most convenient vehicle of good sense.\u201d : THE ECLIPSE IN SPAIN.At about 2h.56m.the last limb of the sun disappeared, but though the total eclipse was camputed to last here for 3 minutes and 30 seconds, the time seemed too short to notice all the wonderful effects, and my attention was chiefly directed to the disc of the sun, which presented a magnificient spectacle.The instant the sun was shut out a\u2019most beautiful bright white corona appeared round-the moon\u2019s circumference, which presented an orb \u201cof jet black, and almost immediately rose-coloured éxcrescences seemed to shoot out like small pyramids of fire from the rim of the sun.These were not constant, but seemed to keep changing; but this, probably, was the effect of the moon\u2019s disc passing over them.Two of thesun\u2019s vertex were visible all the time, but one on the eastern limb soon disappeared, and was succeeded by one on the north west limb of the sun, the most conspicuous of them all.The colour of the sky was a very deep blue, but not black, as it was clearly relieved against the moon\u2019s disc ; and at least three or.four stars were visible to the naked eye \u2014Jupiter and Venus, the two nearest to the sun, shining almost as brightly as on a summer night.Our position was near the central line, and we could distinctly mark this heavy black pall as it passed over us from the north-west to the south-east; but its course was very rapid, and it seemed to sweep past us like the legendary chase of the wild-hunts- man.For three minutes it certainly was very dark,\u2014much too dark to read, though I could just distinguish the figures on my watch; but the moment the last limb of the sun reappeared it was astonishing how instantly the light returned, and I can now well understand how comparatively smallis the diminution of light during a partial eclipse, even when the sun is almost completely hidden.J It was altogether a most wonderful sight, and well worth the labour of the ascent, and even the very rough quarters I have been obliged to put up with during the last week.I understand, also, that M, Leverrier made a most'satisfactory observation from the high ground above Tarragona, but I cannot help thinking that the contrast of the intensity of the:light, and other phenomena, must have been more striking from such a height as jhe summit of Moncayo.In descending we had a fine view of the high Pyrenees, stretching from the north to the north-east, among which I could mark the serrated summit of the Pic du Midi d\u2019Oiseau.\u2014 Letter from Mr.Packe in the Times.Who IS THE PRINCE 0F WALES.\u2014He is the eldest son of Victoria, Queen of England, and heir apparent to the Throne of Great Britain.If he outlives his mother, he will be King of England.His mother is the daughter of the Duke of Kent, who was son of George the Third, who was grandson of George the Second, who was the son of Princess Sophia, who was the cousin of Anne, who was the sister of William and Mary.Mary was the daughter, and William the son-in-law, of James the Second, who was the son of James the First, who was the son of Mary, who was the grand-daughter of Margaret, who was the sister of Henry the Eighth, who was the son of Henry the Seventh, who was the son of the Earl of Richmond, who was the son of Catherine, the widow of Henry the Fifth, who was the son of Henry the Fourth, who was the cousin of Richard the Second, who was the grandson of Edward the Third, who was the son of Edward the Second, who was the son of Henry the Third, who was the son of John, who was the son of Henry the Second, who wasthe son of Matilda, who was \u2018the daughter of Henry the First, who was the brother of William Rufus, who was the son of William the Conqueror.How MEN GET ON IN LonDoN.\u2014The late Lord Mayor was but an office boy in the firm of which he is now the head.Mr.Herbert Ingram, M.P.for Boston, and proprietor of the lllus- trated News, blackened the shoes of one of his constituents.Mr.Anderson, one of the Oriental Steam Navigation Company, and M.P., for the Orkneys, rose in a similar manner.Sir P.Laurie was originally in a humble position in life ; so was Mr.Dillon, of the house of Dillon & Co.Our great Lord Chancellor, when employment was scarce and money ditto, held a post as reporter and theatrical critic on the Morning \u2018Chronicle newspaper.Mr.Chaplin, the late Salisbury M.P., was an extraordinary instance of a man rising from the humblest rank.Before railways were in operation Mr.Chaplin had succeeded in making himself one of the largest coach proprietors in the kingdom.His establishment from small beginnings, grew till, just.before the opening of the London and North-western line, he was proprietor of sixty-four stage coaches, worked by fifteen hundred horses, and giving yedrly returns of more than half a million sterling.Mr.Cobden began life in a very subordinate position in a London warehouse.Sir William Cubitt, when a lad, worked at his father\u2019s flour mill.Michael Faraday, England's mosteminent chemist, was the son of a poor blacksmith.Sir Samue] Morton Peto worked for seven years as a oar.superficial understanding; when suimation, dad penter, bricklayer, and mason, under his uncle, \u201cLes Jations should be to remove impurities withoï, Mr.Peto.The well-known Mr.Lindsay, M.P.for Sunderland, was a cabin-boy.The editor of | ope morping paper rose from the ranks, and the editor of another well-known journal used\u2019 to he an errand-boy in the office before, by gigantic industry and perseverance, he attained his present high position.\u2014 About London.By J.Ewing Ritchie, THE SANITARY STATE OF D'WELLINGS.\u2014AI] preventive means of disease in excess (says Mr.Rawlinson) do not reside in sewerage, drainage, and a water supply.There must be surface cleansing and ventilation, both of streets and of houses.The interior of all houses must not only be well ventilated, but they must be preserved clean and sweet.Wall papers, carpets, window-hangings, and bedcurtains bave much to answer for.Fever of which have been newly papered, when bad or sour paste hasbeen used.A floor entirely covered with carpet, unremoved, accumulates dirt, and heavy curtains impede ventilation.' Many pe} 4 sons persist in maintaining a fever apparatr, ° about or near their houses\u2014pigsties, cowshecs * à.stables, fowl-pens, or refuse heaps of one sort \u2026.another : sinks and water-closets drain ini\u2019 covered cesspools: water is drawn from wells only?.a few feet deep, the water being contaminated !;; À surface infiltration ; or rain water, stored in lei: #4 cisterns and collected from lead gutters, is use.\" New sewers and drains may be faulty, Soc struction, and so they will become a causob mise: chief.The end of all sanitary works aud regu-: atmospheric or terrestrial contamination, and tai \u2018 preserve the subsoil, water, and air pute withou ~ and within dwelling-houses.house must be water and air tight.At junetic with the sewers there must be means to preve any indraft of air from the sewers.Water-closeus must, in all cases, be in situations of easy access, against an external wall, and having full means of permanent ventilation to the open air.Sinks, slop-stones, and waste water-pipes should communicate with drains\u2019 formed outside the walls, rather than with drains within the house.Cisterns to contain water for domestic use should not be placed over water-closets, nor over or near dust bins.The waste or overflow .pipe should not communicate direct with sewers and drains, but should have such means of connection as to render any back drought of sewer gases to water imposible.Lead should not be used for cisterns, nor for conduit or service pipes, - if the water acts on it.Soft waters generally, by lead is far more common than the public imagine.Wrought iron tubing with screw joints may be used from house service pipes to the exclusion of lead.Halls, corridors, and staircases should be fresh-air chambers, or reservoirs to any house.There should be means of full, free, ang constant ventilation at all times during all seasons, communicating with the external air, and letting in fresh air.\u2014 Builder.\u2014 The Buffalo Republic says: \u2018It is a fact not generally known, but most creditable to Mrs.Douglas, that prior to her marriage she supported and educated her brother with means acquired by her pen.The word \u2018 pen\u2019 being indefinite, 1t may not be improper to explain that Mrs.Douglas\u2019s father being an guditor, she was for years, whilst a girl, rated as a $1000 clerk of the Treasury Department at Washington.\u201d?{ toad [| has been known to break out in houses the rooms : -À/# Drains within \u2018he % }- and some hard waters, act on lead, and poisoning 7 .Aveust 14, 8160.| y\" | affectation will be separated ; when churches will SEARCH For DR.VoGEL.\u2014A letter from Gotha Saxe-Coburg\u2019s, to send an expedition to Africa to ascertain With certainty the fate of Dr.Vogel, the states it was decided two days back, at the Duke of .traveller.Baron Steuglin of Wurtemburg will un À CHRISTIAN TREASURY.« Many are the afflictions of the righteous ; but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.\u201d\u2019\u2014Psalm xxxiv.19.Tue Commox Lor.\u2014The Lord\u2019s people are all righteous.70 them the gloriousness of Jesus is imputed.In them the righteous work of the Holy .- Sprit is wrought.By them the righteous preeepts of God\u2019s word are observed.The obedience of Jesus is their title to heaven.The work of the Holy Spirit prepares them for glory.Their practical conformity to the moral requirements of the Gospel proves them to be justified before God, and sanctifie by his grace.All the righteous are afflicted.\u2014 Some more, some less, but none are exempt.Nor have theymerely one source of affliction ; for ¢ many are the afflictions of the righteous.\u201d There has been more than one Job, or one Lazarus, in God\u2019s family ; though all suffer not as they did.Every son is scourged.But however numerous, however great, their afflictions may be, they are more than a match for them.Astheir day, so in their strength ; and they ever find that the grace of Jesus is sufficient for them.¢ The Lord delivereth him out of them all.\u201d God hus undertaken to.sustain us in, to bring us through, and deliver us out of all our troubles.\u2014 God\u2019s deliverances are always perfect.He delivers every one.of his children, and he delivers every one completely and for ever.the Lord, with an everlasting salvation, they shall .: No believer ever perished in his affliction.No Christian ever found his burden greater than his .strength.We have often doubted, often feared, often questioned our safety; but we, even we, can testify that God is faithful, that bis promise is true, and therefore we have persevered until now.« Thou, which has shewed me great and sore troubles, ° shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from .* the depths of the earth.\u201d \u2014Psalm Ixxi.20.; 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