The daily witness, 27 août 1860, lundi 27 août 1860

[" shed À à « Prince of Wales.THE DAILY WITNESS, COMMERCIAL REVIEW & FAMILY NEWSPAPER.No 11.MONTREAL, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27.1860., Price ONE HALF-PENNY.ADVERTISEMENTS.HINA, GLASS, AND EARTHENWARE.\u2014The Subscribers are now receiving their Fall Stocks, to which they invite the attention of Country Merchants.In addition to a Good General Assortment, they have also a large variety of Assorted Crates, suitable for both sections of the Province.In GLASSWARE their Stock of Tumblers is very complete, with eyery other article of Glassware in household use.Prices Low, and terms Liberal.JOHN WATSON & CO.11 Lemoine Street.August 17, 1860.; ORK.\u2014Mess, Thin Mess, Rump, Prime Mess, and Prime Pork GILMOUR & CO., 43 St.Peter Street, Montreal., August 17, 1860.ESS PORK.\u2014100 Barrels Mess and Heavy Mess, of a very Superior Brand, daily expected from Chicago.For Sale by JOHN DOUGALL, Commission Merchant, - 270 and 272 St Paul Street.August 17, 1860.OARD OF ARTS AND MANUFACTURES FOR LOWER CANADA.\u2014Inauguration of the Exhibition Building by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.\u2014Subscribers to the Fund in aid of the erection of the Exhibition Building are hereby notified that Plans of the Reserved Seats, on the Main Floor and First Gallery, are now prepared, and they are requested to call at the Office of the Board, Mechanics\u2019 Hall, to select their Seats, from Thursday, at 10 A.M., till Saturday, the 18th inst., after which date Subscribers will select places in the order oftheir subscription.« The tickets issued will be limited to the number of seats exhibited on the plan.Subscribers of $20 are entitled to Reserved Seats for a Gentleman and two Ladies.Subscribers of $10 to a Reserved Seat for a Gentleman only.Subscribers of $5 to admission to the Inauguration Cere- | mony, but without a seat.The above Subscriptions also entitle the parties to admission to the present Exhibition at any time while it is open.JF None but Subscribers will be privileged to be present at the Inauguration.Parties intending to subscribe are requested to do 80 as early as possible.{\u2014A Daily Edition of the MONTREAL WITNESS is published on a half sheet, at a half-penny, every afternoon at two o\u2019clock, containing the latest news, telegrams, market reports, &e.News-Venders will be supplied at 50 cents per 100 copies.\u2018The number of this day will contain a fine portrait of the Orders for it should be left before 2 o\u2019clock.Any smart boy might easily sell 200 copies every afternoon, thus clearing 3s.4d., being a good day\u2019s wages.OFFICE : 36 Great St.James Street.ORPORATION OF MONTREAL.\u2014Strangers and other Persons visiting Montreal during the Festivities in honor of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, are hereby informed and notified that arrangements have been made by the Joint Committees of the City Council and of the Citizens\u2019 Reception Fund by which suitableaccommoda- tion will be afforded to all strangers who may visit this City during the approaching Celebration.An Office has been opened in the City Hall, where a Register will be kept of all the Hotel and Boarding accommodation to be had in the City, and where Visitors may, on their arrival here, obtain the necessary directions.CHAS.GLACKMEYER, City Clerk.ALEX.CLERK, Sec\u2019y Ex.Com.C.R.Fund.CITY CLERK°s Office, City Hall, - Montreal, 15th Aug., 1860.GEORGE VAN BUSKIRK, SURGEON DENTIST, 36 GREAT ST.JAMES STREET, With twenty years\u2019 practical knowledge of the profession.° Office Hours from 9 till 6.not 2 OARD OF ARTS & MANUFACTURES FOR LOWER CANADA.\u2014The Adjourned Quarterly Meeting of the Board will be held at the Board Rooms, Mechanics\u2019 Hall, Montreal, on Friday Evening, the Seventeenth of August, at SEVEN o\u2019clock.(By Order,) B.CHAMBERLIN, Seeretary.Montreal, August 15.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 Durham 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, Geography, Natural Philosophy, Arithmetie, Drawing, Writing and Vocal and Instrumental Music.The Ladies will likewise be taught plain and ornamental needlework.FEES FOR GENTLEMEN.\u2014I1st Clags per term, $8; 2nd do $7 ; 3rd do $6; 4th do $5; 5th do $1; 6th do 83.FEES FOR LADIES.\u20141st 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 further particulars apply to the REV.ALFRED STONE, Durham House, St.Lawrence Main Street, Montreal.ELIGIOUS 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 ¢ Leisure Hour,\u201d the ¢ Sunday at Home,\u201d ¢ Child\u2019s Companion,\u201d &c., &c.These are now delivered monthly, and the subscriptions 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 Sireet, 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 18 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 passes through the Mails Free of Charge.TERMS :\u2014 Single Copy, .«+ .\u2026 bôcentsperannum.Five Copies, and all over that number, to one address.vs +.40 cents each.Letters and communications for the paper should be addressed to JOHN C.BECKET, 38 Great St.James Street, Montreal, Canada East.ADDING AND BATTIN G.\u2014The Undersigned of fers for Sale on manufacturers\u2019 account\u2014 1700 Bales Batting, of four different qualities.100 Bales Wadding, of two different qualities.The attention of Wholesale Merchants and Manufacturers is specially invited to the above Goods.JOHN DOUGALL, COMMISSION MERCHANT, 270 and 272 St.Paul Street.N°TICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS.\u2014The Subscriber has just received a large consignment of the following Goons, which will be sold low, for Cash, and at the Auctions every Thursday :\u2014 200 Turned Post hard wood Bedsteads, at $1.75 to #2, 250 Polished Walnut and Oak Cane Seat Arm Chairs, 150 Cottage Arm Chairé\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 ani Forks, 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.JN ASMITIL'S BISCUITS.\u2014A consignment of these well-know and celebrated Biscuits has been received, for sale to the trade by JOHN DOUGALL, Commission Merchant, Montreal, Aug.13, 1860.INE: NAMED TULIPS.\u2014The undersigned having delivered the Tulips sold by auction, when the Flowers were exhibited, finds that he has a few surplus 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 123 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\u2019\u2019 Office, 36 Great St.James Street.JOHN DOUGALL.August 14, 1860.ARIEGATED LANTERNS ror EFFECTIVE ILLUMINATION.\u2014The Fluid used for these LANTERNS is COAL OIL, requiring no Glass Chimneys, and the Burner, a new invention, ensures complete Combustion, and is free from smoke or smell.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.Also, LAMPS for inside of Windows, instead of Candles\u2014 a great improvement, as fhe 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.TEAM ENGINE.\u2014For Sale, very cheap, a SECONDHAND HORIZONTAL STEAM ENGINE, in excellent order ; has Planed Cast Iron Bed Plate, 8} inch Cyiinder, 18 inch stroke, 51 feet Pulley Fly Wheel with 10 inch face, and detached Feed Pump.August 13.ALEX.BRYSON & CO.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 - - - - 280d }¢ Do do = = = = = 280d « Young Hyson\u2014first class Tea - - - - 38 4d \u201c Do Fine quality - = - 8804 # Hyson\u2014Small Leaf, recommended - - - 38 0d « Do Strong do - = - 289d « 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 lb.EDWARD GEE & CO., Coffee Roasters and Manufacturers of Chocolate, Broma and Cocoa.27 Great St.James Street.Montreal, August 13th, 1860.AGLE FOUNDRY.\u2014King & Queen Sts., Montreal.\u2014 The Subscriber is constantly Manufacturing and solicits orders for Steam Engines, Steam Boilers, Mill Work, Bark Mllls, 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 to meet the increasing demand.Medal Metal cL .25 cents each Bronze and Leather Cases .« .$150 « Solid Silverindo do .500 « Solid Silver, gilt, in do 4 + 6 700 « LLUMINATION.\u2014DANIEL McDONALD, Gasfitter, 106 St.Antoine Street, near Mountain Street, is prepared to fit up Iron or Composition pipes for out or inside fittings, transparences, &c.Charges Moderate.Montreal, August 13, 1860.ANADA CORN STAROCH.\u2014The Canada Corn Starch Company\u2019s Works at Edwardsburgh, C.W., are now in full operation.ALEX.WALKER, 39 Peter Street, ASoe lgent.ROCESSION OF CHILDREN.\u2014The City CounË cil Celebration Committee having decided upon organizing the Children of various Schools in this city, so_as to include them in the Procession to 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.Itis intended to place the children on the [Haymarket Square and in front ofthe Court House, with suitable flags and banners, and to furnish them with instrumental music, as an accompaniment to singing the National Anthem, &c.(By Order,) CHAS.GLACKMYER, City Clerk.City Clerk\u2019s Office, City Hall.ontreal, 9th August, 1860.ue CIRCULAR published by the Undersigned on every Friday, for the English Steamer, is obtainable at their Office.Arrangements are made for the printing of the namesjof Merchants on such number of Circulars as may be specially and in quantity subscribed for.TAYLOR BROS., Brokers.Union Building, Aug.13, 1860.EORGE WATSON, City Bill-Poster, No.9 Hermine Street, near Craig Street.ICTORIA BRIDGE PERFUME, distilled expressly in honor of the inauguration by Piesse & Lubin of London.Supply just received per S.S.\u201c\u2018 Canadian.\u201d\u2019 S.J.LYMAN, & CO., Place D\u2019Armes.NEW NURSERY BOTTLE.\u2014Just received, a supply of LaForme\u2019s new Nursery Bottle.S.J.LYMAN & CO., Place d\u2019Armes.DR.W.E.BOWMAN, MCGILL STREET, MONTREAL.BOOKS &c.FOR SALE AT WITNESS OFFICE OOKS FOR THE PEOPLE.\u2014Sent free by mail on receipt of the price.Inquire Within for Anything you want to know ; or, over 3,500 Facts for the People.Illustrated, 12 mo., 436 large pages, price - - - - - $1.00 The Reason Why.A careful collection of some thousands of reasons for things which, though generally known, are imperfectly understood.book of condensed scientific knowledge for the million, price - - - - - - - $1.00 PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES.\u2014MR.MILNE, Photographie Artist, of Hamilton, Canada West, has con- signed a few copies of his Photographic Picture of the Free Church Synod recently assembled in Hamilton.The Picture is large and beautifully got up.The price is $4 without frame, or $5} with frame and glass.Six copies, unframed, wiil be sold for $20.EBSTER UNABRIDGED PICTORIAL EDITION.\u2014A new edition of Webster\u2019s Unabridged Dictionary, containing fifteen hundred pictorial illustrations, beautifully executed ; 9,000 to 10,000 new words in the Vocabulary; Table of Synonyms, by Prof.Goodrich, in which more than 2,000 words are carefully discriminated, forming a fuller work on English Synonyms, of itself, than any other issued, beside Crabb, and believed in advance of that ; Table giving Pronunciation of Names of 8,000 distinguished persons of modern times ; peculiar use of words and terms in the Bible; with other new features, together with all the matter of previous editions, comprised in a Volume of 1750 pages.CHOOL BOOKS AND GENERAL STATIONERY at the Book and Stationery Warehouse, 36 Great St.James Street, Montreal.The Stock of Stationery, comprising the various sizes and qualities of Writing Papers, Account Books, Day Books, Journals and Ledgers, &c., is very complete, and will be sold at the most moderate prices.Counting-House Stationery on the most reasonable terms.Bibles, Hestaments, Psalm-Books, Prayer-Books, Hymn- Books, in plain and ornamental binding, at low prices.Wholesale and Retail.CCOUNT BOOKS of all sizes, ruled for Dollars and Cents, and £ s.d., for sale cheap.Country buyers are invited to call.HE CORNER CUPBOARD ; or, Facts for Everybody about the Food we Consume, the Clothes we Wear, the House we Live in ; and Facts about the Arts, Sciences, Literature, the Garden and the Field.Illustrated with over 1000 engravings.Price $1.Tee DRUNKARD\u2019S_ PROGRESS in a series of Thirteen Views,\u2014with descriptions.By John Bunyan.Sent by mail on receipt of 1s.3d.mee TWO BRIDGES : a Tract, designed for circulation during the visit of the Prince of Wales to Inaugurate the Victoria Bridge, obtainable for gratuitous circulation at the Witness Office.A BOOK FOR TEACHERS.\u2014Lectures on Educational topics by some of the leading educationalists of England.Price 1s.104d.By mail, post paid, 2s.3d.® ABBATH-SCHOOL LIBRARIES at $2}, 83, 85 and $10 each.Also Library Roll-Books, Receiving- Books, Superintendent\u2019s Roll-Book, Minute-Book, T er\u2019s Class-Book, and other Sunday-School requisites.HEAP TRACTS.\u2014One page Religious or Temperance Tracts, assorted, at 74d.per 100.Sent by mail, post-paid, at 1s.per 100.UBLISHED.\u2014THOUGHTS ON CHRIST'S CLAIM ai and the Claims of His Cause.A few copies may be or ained- HAPEL AND CHURCH ARCHITECTURE, with Designs for Parsonages.\u2014Just received.a few gopios of this valuable work.Price, 87s.Gd.; published at 8.ORTABLE COPYING-PRESS.\u2014Every business man should keep copies of the letters he sends.The PORTABLE PRESS is the best and the cheapest ever offered.It copies letters perfectly.Common writing-ink can be used.This Press will be sent by post (carriage paid) on receipt of 7s.6d.UIDE-BOOKS to Canada, the Lakes and the United ates.: \u2019 HE ROSE OF CANADA, containing views of the principal cities, buildings, and places of interest in Canada.The engravings are very correct and finely executed.Sent free by mail on receipt of 1s.8d.PHOTOGRAPH of the Prince of Wales sent free by mail on receipt of 1s.3d.For sale at the « WITNESS\u201d OFFICE.Now READY,\u2014Two magnificent Lithographic Views N of Victoria Bridge, Summer and Winter, by Hunter & Pickup, neatly tinted, accompanied with & hand-book, containing a full and accurate description of the Bridge, &e., &e.Price $1.For Sale by E.Pickup, adjoinin Post Office ; B.Dawson A.Miller; C.& Son ; \u2018 Montreal tness\u201d Office; R.Hill ; and by Pickup\u2019a News Boys on the Cars.: 22 tay SEE acc re rosy SIE PTET Pr pp 42 THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.* Avcavst 27 1860.PREMIUM OF\" S20.PREMIUM OF TWENTY DOLLARS will be paid to NEws Boys for Selling the Darry WirNess during the Prince's visit, as follows : \u2014 The man or boy who buys the greatest number of DaiLy WirNEssEs at the Office, for the week beginning with Monday, 27th, and ending with Saturday, Sept.1st, both days inclusive, will receive on Monday morning, 3rd September, A PREMIUM OF TEN DOLLARS.The boy who buys the second largest number will receive A PREMIUM OF FIVE DOLLARS; The Third $3, and the Fourth $2; MAKING IN ALL TWENTY DOLLARS.Boys will come a little before Two o'clock each day (except Sunday) when their names and the quantity they take will be entered, and any desired explanations given.ANY MAN OR BOY MAY COME On Monday Morning, when a Morning Edition will be published.THE WITNESS.MONTREAL, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27.\u2014 We owe an apology to the readers of the Daily Witness for missing both Friday and Saturday.Friday was to be a holiday by common consent, and indeed it would have been impossible to find boys to distribute the paper on that day ; but, as our readers are aware, it proved so wet that the Prince's landing was deferred till Saturday forenoon, and, of course, our whole establishment, editors, printers and all, had to be at the procession, so that no work could be done till the afternoon.The best we could do under the circumstances, therefore, is to issue this morning edition on Monday, and a second edition will appear at the usual hour, viz., 2 o'clock.Free Crurch ITeMs\u2014Condensed from Ecclesiastical Record.\u2014A call has been given by the congregation at Ingersoll to Rev.J.Straith of Tilbury.\u2014\u2014A call has been given by the congregation at Mornington to the Rev.D.Beattie, of St.Mary\u2019s\u2014\u2014Two churches were opened by the Rev.Principal Willis on Sabbath the 15th July, viz.: Avon cburch, Downie, and the church at Carlingford.\u2014\u2014The Rev.T.Kirkland has been ordained ag assistant and successor to Rev.A.Henderson, of St.Andrews, who was received as a Minister of the Church, in accordance with resolution of the Synod.\u2014\u2014We are glad to hear of the progress of things in Percy.A bazaar lately held produced £60, a previous effort having yielded £50 towards the erection of a church.\u2014\u2014The Church at Seymour is in course of erection.A new church was opened in Mono, on Sabbath 22nd ult., by Rev.J.A.Thomson, of Erin.CuurcH oF ScoTLAND.\u2014We gather the following from the Presbyterian.The Presbytery of Bathurst bas ordained to the Ministry Messrs.R.Campbell, A.M., and George Porteous.In noticing this ordination, the Presbyterian asks if there are not in connection with various congregations, young men of talent and piety, who are willing to consecrate themselves to the work of the Ministry.The congregrtion at Vaughan has given substantial proofs of its interest in the comfort of its Minister.Last winter, the young men presented the Pastor with a handsome sleigh; a gentleman gave a fine horse, and recently the people have spent $400 in improvements on the manse.Rev.Mr.Epstim writes from Salonica that there is not much to encourage a mission alone to the Jews.The most promising field of labor is among the Bulgarians.We will endeavor to find room for what he says about Salonica in a future number.The Prince\u2019s Progress.DEPARTURE OF THE PRINCE FROM QUEBEC.QuEsrc, August 23.The Prince's departure this morning was very prettily arranged.He left the Parliament House at half-past 10, with his suit, in carriages.On the Champlain Market wharf was a guard of honor forming a hollow square, in which were the Corporation of the city in full dress and several members of the Government, proceeded by the national societies with banners.He entered the square at a quarter to 11, and immediately went on board the Kingston.This steamer had been specially fitted up for his accommodation.The berths have been taken out of the staterooms and a comfortable bed placed in each.She has been thoroughly overhauled, and in addition to other ornaments, a beautiful Prince of Wales feather had been painted on each paddle box.Fresh carpets and furniture of all kinds have been supplied.The sailors are all dressed in uniform, similar to that of the Royal navy.As soon as the Prince went on board, his standard was hoisted at the fore, and saluted by all the men-of-war in port, as well as by the citadel, The yards of the ships were manned, and their crews, as also the soldiery and the crowd assembled, cheered lustily.The Royal party, who are the only passengers, after going to see their rooms, went on the hurricane deck to enjoy the beautiful scene.They remained close by the walking beam while the steamer moved away, which she did about a few minutes to 11 o'clock.The Kingston returned in half an hour, having left all provisions behind.She again started.Among the last persons whom we saw with the Royal party here, was Mr.Thompson, secretary to Mayor Wood of New the proposed programme.Mr.Thompson was much pleased with the courtesy of all the high personages of the suit.It is well to warn authorities against persons who are representing themselves falsely to be connected with the leading English and New York papers, and obtaining under false pretences those facilities which are so sparingly dealt out here to those who are entitled to receive them.The members of Parliament leave this p.m.at 4 o'clock by the \u2018\u2018 Quebec,\u201d for Three Rivers and Montreal.THE PRINCE AT THREE RIVERS.° TrrEp RiVERs, AUGUST 23.The Prince and suite reached this city at 6.30 p.min the \u201c Kingston.\u201d On landing at the wharf H.R.H.was saluted by a corps of Royal artillery, and a company of Montreal light infantry, commanded by Capt.Hunt.He was then received on a raised platform by his Worship the Mayor, Jos.Ed.Turcotte, the Corporation, Clergy, public officers and citizens, who presented to him an address, to which he made a short and suitable reply, after which three hearty cheers were given for the Prince, when he withdraw to the steamer.The crowd, numbering about 25,000, then dispersed.The wharf was beautifully decorated with evergreens, &c.In the centre was a large arch covered with paintings, suitable devices, &c.The Boulevard Turcotte was also beautifully decorated.The streets of the city bave also been ornamented with trees and arches.There will be a grand illumination this evening.RACE FROM VERCHERES AND ARRIVAL AT MONTREAL.(From Report in Montreal Gazette.) The fleet of steamers which went down to meet His Royal Highness, was stationed at Vercheres, and there the banks of the river were bristling with flags.But, although this had been known as the rendezvous for a fortnight, by some mismanagement the Prince\u2019s steamer was piloted through the channel north of the island which there divide the river into two, and thus the complete go-by was given to the river craft, as well as the population on shore.The fleet did their best to retrieve the misfortune\u2014they got up steam with speed, and dashed after the Prince\u2019s standard, It was a singular spectacle to look over the low island to see their funnels, emitting clouds of smoke.Some of the fastest of the vessels reached Bout de 1'Isle, where the channel meets, in advance of the Prince, and stayed for him to pass, wheeling into line immediately after.The rest were late, for this, and had to follow as best they could.The sight was, however, in spite of the mishap, and even in spite of the drizzle, very, very picturesque\u2014the artist of the Jllustrated News being especially delighted with it\u2014and the racing character fortuitously given to it rendered it perhaps all the more exciting.The list of steamboats noticed is as follows :\u2014¢J.McKenzie,\u201d \u2018\u201cSalaberry,\u201d \u201cPassport,\u201d \u2018\u2019Mayflower,\u201d \u201c Hochelaga,\u201d\u201d ¢ L\u2019Etoile,\u201d\u201d ¢ Kingston,\u201d ¢ Victoria,\u201d ¢*Castor,\u201d \u201cL\u2019Aigle,\u201d\u201d \u201cCaledonia,\u2019\u2019 \u201cTopsy,\u201d \u201cL\u2019 Assomption,\u201d\u201d ¢\u2018 St.Lawrence,\u201d ¢ Bowmanville,\u201d \u2018 Chambly,\u201d ¢ St.Helens,\u201d\u2019 ¢ Yamaska,\u201d * Atlas,\u201d \u201cTerrebonne,\u201d St.Marie\u2019\u2019 and \u2018 Montreal.\u201d The Prince\u2019s steamer led the van.The rest were constantly interchanging positions, and the floating houses, dressed in flags, and covered with green boughs, were a sight of so novel a character, that His Royal Highness, who stood on deck a long time, an attentive, delighted observer, will likely never forget it.Nor was the ear left without occupation any more than the eye.The Prince\u2019s band was playing ; the people on the steamers cheering, in spite of the weather ; their whistles creaming every now and then and the church bells on shore pealing from their iron throats the heartiest welcome they could give.The \u2018Kingston\u2019 anchored below St.Helen's Island, under a salute from the batteries, and the other steamers, after forming in line abreast, all started for the shore.THE PRINCE'S RECEPTION AT MONTREAL.Any one inclined to be superstitions would find abundant material for painful foreboding in the bad weather which everywhere attends the reception of the Prince of Wales.So long as this was confined to the Lower Ports, whose foggy, wecping weather is proverbial, it excited little remark ; but when the sky in Canada, which is usually so bright and clear and sunshiny, becomes exceedingly thick and dark, and pours down torrents of rain for days together, and those just the most important reception days at Quebec and Montreal, the first cities of Canada, the coincidence attracts attention.Perhaps such weather is sent at this particular time to say to our population, so carried away by excitement and gay anticipation: \u201cYou have left God out of your thoughts and plans, and this frustration of them, by means so simple, will remind you of the necessity of seeking, in all things, His guida, md blessing.\u201d - On Friday morning, the citizens of Montreal an crowds of strangers awoke with high hopes of a great day of enjoyment.Preparations had been made previously for notes falling due,\u2014 newspapers had been so arranged as to let printers enjoy a holiday,\u2014every kind of work was to be suspended except the work of decoration, which was to go on actively in the morning by such as could not complete it beforehand.All was excitement and hope\u2014when, behold ! the rain was pouring down in torrents, and continued so to pour for hours.The streets were swept by little rivers gushing down each side \u2014newly-made drains subsided, leaving great holes,\u2014the forests of flags which being nailed to their masts had to hang out night and day, fair weather or foul, were drooping and dripping; and altogether it became obvious, by a little after midday, that the Reception Procession, set down for the afternoon, could not take place with any degree of comfort or eclat, even though the rain should cease, which did not then appear likely.It was, accordingly, announced verbally by those in charge of the arrangements, that everything had been postponed for that day, although this intimation reached but a very small portion of the people.Ng York.The Duke informed him of the greater part of Be public-spirited people walked dry-shod on the side- the weather was still thick, the people turned out in great numbers to see the landing of the Prince, not now to take place.The wharves and streets having a view of them were thronged by perhaps the greatest crowd ever assembled here, and they were rewarded by the sight of the fleet of steamboats, which had gone down to meet the Prince, returning into harbour.So many steamboats were certainly never seen together in our waters.Eachboat, as itdrew near, if at all bandsome, was pronounced by the expectant multitude to be the \u201cKingston ;\" and it was not till the Companies of Volunteers in attendance struck up their music and left the ground, that the people began to suspect some change in the advertised programme.The landing was postponed till next morning, i.e., the public landing, for the knowing ones whispered that the Prince went to his residence ina close carriage to return next morning for a public reception.However this might be the city was left to enjoy peace and quiet on Friday evening, except so far as those iu the vicinity of the Ball Room were concerned, who were enlivened by sprightly music till far in the night.THE LANDING.About eight o'clock the rain ceased, and the people began to turn out in earnest, to occupy every available window, balcony, door-step and gateway in the line of procession.A great crowd also poured down towards the Bonsecours Wharf, where the Prince was to land.This wharf presented a very animated appearance, on account of the crowd of steamboats lying at and near it ; the fine triumphal arch and the dense multitude of people occupying every available point for seeing; whilst the \u201cStyx,\u201d Valorous\u201d and \u2018Flying Fish,\u201d lying off in the river, covered with flags, added greatly to the effect of the scene.A little before 10 o'clock, the * Kingston,\u201d bearing the Royal Flag, came to the wharf, and ihe Prince made bis public landing, being received by the Mayor, Corporation, and other bodies.THE RECEPTION.When the \u201c Kingston\u201d was at last brought to the wharf, wbich was decidedly a slow process, the gangway was discovered to be some distance from the point where the flannel pathway indicated it should have been.This, of course, necessitated a new disposition of the said flannel, lest the Prince\u2019s feet should touch the planks.This being accomplished, His Royal Highness left the steamer and proceeded to the throne which stood prepared for his reception under a most magnificent canopy.Tbis pavillion, like the other arrangements of our city, does great honor to Montreal.Indeed, the bower of spruce erected by our brethren of Quebec might easily have gone under its archways en bloc.It had not, however, escaped the effects of the continued rains, which, however, in robbing it of a portion of its richness, had imparted a certain air of antiquity to its appearance.The same effect may have been noticed upon many of the arches throughout the city.The Prince was attended to the dais in the manner usual on previous occasions, and immediately another of the splendid sights prepared for him in Montreal presented itself before him.Clad in long robes of scarlet, trimmed with mink, the Mayor of Montreal read, first in English, then in French, an address of loyalty from the city.In putting English first, our Mayor shewed better taste and judgment than him of Quebec.The Prince answered in his usual pleasing manner, and after three cheers entered his carriage, to take his place in the procession.When the \u201c Kingston\u201d touched the wharf, the * Styx\u201d and \u201c Valorous\u201d fired a royal salute of 21 guns each, in which a number of the merchant vessels lying higher up the harbor, joined.The \u201c Flying Fish\u201d did not fire à gun, on account, we suppose, of the very melancholy accident which occurred in that vessel when firing a salute the previous afternoon on the \u201c Kingston\u201d comin g in sight.Owing to some inadvertence, the nature of which we could not learn, a gun either went off at the wrong time or burst, killing one man and severely wounding three or four others.THE PROCESSION.The line of procession was formed as announced in the programme, and the weather having brightened up, everything went on well, but for the mud in the streets, which must have been something of a new spectacle to His Royal Highness and suite, and which was anything but favorable to the new suits and bright boots of those who walked in the procession.Notwithstanding this drawback, the turn-out was very numerous and highly respectable ; and some of our best citizens were seen trudging through the dirty pools of the street, whilst less paths.In fact, the depth of a man's loyalty might be pretty accurately guaged by the depth of the mud on his boots.The procession was preceded, like the European settlers of America, by a long train of Indians, fancifully dressed.Then came guards of soldiers and bands of music, followed by the Prince's carriage, in which he sat bare-headed, gracefully bowing right and left, the admired of all admirers.In the same carriage were the Duke of Newcastle, a hearty-looking old gentleman, not unlike Sir Allan MacNab, and two other high officials.The Anglican Bishop and Chaplains came in unostentatious guise after; and the Roman Catholic Bishop and clergy, in the most antiquated-looking and unassuming carriages imaginable.The Moderator of the Church of Scotland Synod followed, looking, in his cocked hat and flowing robes, much grander than the prelates.Then came the most superb person in the whole cavalcade, namely, Mayor Rodier,\u2014our own Rodier\u2014who, for magnificence of costume, made all others hide their diminished heads.In passing through Great St.James Street, the Prince was greeted with silent respect; but when our Mayor hove in full Rodier !\u201d\u2014and small blame to them, for it was a difficult matter for any one to refrain from joining in the cry.After many and varied changes in the moving diorama of the procession, came the Ministers of the Wesleyan, Free Church, Congregational, American, Presbyterian, and other bodies, being the first foot men in the procession.After them the Bar, and we know not what all.In the National Societies the most striking features, as usual, ere the kilts and the bagpipes.Piper McDonald, from Cornwall, with a suit of Tartans,\u2014presented to him by Her Most Gracious Majesty\u2014was a conspicuous object of admiration.It was also remarked that one of the Indians quitted his own nationality to fraternize with the kilted men,\u2014probably because he recognized some close affinity.The St.Jean Baptiste Society was specially deserving of remark on account of their large numbers and fine appearance.The Irish Protestant Benevolent Society also turned out strong.The Horticultural Society presented, perhaps, the most beautiful spectacle of any Society in the procession, bearing, as it did, aloft on poles several crowns and bunches of Prince of Wales\u2019 feathers beautifully made of flowers.When passing the three churches on Beaver Hall hill the Prince was enthusiastically cheered by the thousands assembled in that vicinity ; but before the end of the procession reached the Haymarket the head was arrested by the Prince's arrival at the Exhibition build- Lg.\u2014 INAUGURATION OF THE EXHIBITION BUILDING AND OPENING OF THE PROVINCIAL EXHIBITION.\u2018 A little after 11 o'clock, the hour as well as the day originally intended, the Prince entered the Exhibition building, taking his place on a throne or elevated dais, baving for its back a magnificent obelisk column, arranged like a trophy of victory, but bearing instead of the weapons of war, those of peaceful industry, Every kind of axe and edge tool manufactured in Canada adorned tbis column in rich profusion, and it was really a beautiful and appropriate object.The Prince was supported by the Duke of Newcastle on one side and the Governor-General on the other, each having one foot on the same level with the Prince, and the other foot on the next step of the throne.On the step below and the floor around, stood the Commander of the Forces and various other high officers in brilliant uniforms, and the members of the Provincial Government in scarcely less showy apparel.The Provincial Ministerial uniform is a very handsome blue snit, ornamented with gold and set off by a small sword.The National Anthem was sung in very fine style by a large amateur choir, under excellent leadership, and then a short address was presented by the Governor- General to the Prince, to which he briefly replied in his usual fine clear voice.The Anglican Bishop of Montreal then read prayers in a full and distinct voice, which was beard through the whole building, and the Prince descended to make the tour of the Exhibition building, under the guidance of Principal Dawson, Mr.Chamberlain, and Mr.Perry, who had before showed the products of Canada to the Prince of Wales at the World's Exhibition.After a cursory examination of the building and its contents, the distinguished company again resumed their places, and the choir sung the ¢ Hallelujah Chorus with great taste and power.The building was not so crowded as we expected to see it, but the area was very great, and the audience, in a smaller place would have been very large.Inthe course of the proceedings every one had a fine view of the Prince, who looks even younger than his years, and whose simple, unaffected, gentlemanly, and in some cases almost boyish manners prepossess every one at once in his favor.In his tour round the building, he, with great good nature, stepped out on a balcony to receive the salutations of an immense crowd who could not, or would not, pay five dollars for a seat within the building.The Prince left the Palace of Arts and Industry through the wing which contained machinery and agricultural implements, and very considerately, though his destination was Victoria Bridge, continued his journey to his residence in Simpson Street, as laid out in the programme for the previous day, so that no one might be disappointed.The great distance through which the Prince had to pass afforded the immense crowd of spectators ample opportunities of seeing him, without paying for seats on the temporary stands which had been erected on vacant lots at various points, and which were very poorly filled.Indeed,though the streets were crowded, we doubt if the namber of strangers in town were anything like so great as was anticipated.THE BISHOP'S SERMON.The Prince of Wales attended divine service at the Cathedral on Sabbath morning, when the Bishop of Montreal preached from the text, 1 Cor.9, 25.: \u201c And every one that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.\u201d This was a most appropriate subject, and it was most appropriately handled.Without having at all the tone of tutoring the Prince, it was a faithful series of counsel drawn from the Word of God, delivered in an affectionate, fatherly way, and by no means unneeded in the Prince's trying circumstances.We shall endeavor to make room for this sermon as one likely to be specially beneficial to young men.The church, to which admittance was only obtained by ticket, was quite fall.\u2014 A second edition of the Daily Witness will be A little after one o'clock the rain ceased, and though view, the people instinctively cried out, \u201c Hurrah for published this afternoon.on 25 em om Pee bo] Pred mde emer hante AS An ee AA e+r5spu Br ee ment publisher, La Syrie et l'Alliance Russe has, Avevst 27, 1860.THE MONTREAL DAILY W1TNESS.43 \u2018GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.(From Commercial Advertiser.) It is pretty generally known that for some time ast Mr.Henry Cleaver Chapman, a large share- older in the Grand Trunk Railway Company, and the representative of the Liverpool Shareholders generally, has been in Canada engaged in an investigation of the line, its management, and the pros- ects of the enterprise, From their report to the Liverpool Shareholders, founded on this investigation, we are allowed to publish the following extracts.At last the Shareholders will obtain some knowledge of the management of the Grand Trunk Railway ; and if the proposed Committee of Enquiry is formed will be convinced that the disastrous condition of the enterprise is not so much the result of delusive promises and hopes held out at its initiation, as\u2019 of corruption, extravagance, fraud, peculation and gross mismanagement.0, But the enquiry called for must stand on its own merits, and cannot form a prelude to any further assistance from the Province.No Ministry dare, no matter how much inclined, to propose any additional aid to an undertaking for which the country has been so grievously burdened, and whose officers have in return for its great sacrifices lost no opportunity to insult its people, to damage its commerce, and to convey away from it the stream of immigration :\u2014 * Certain statements having been made to me regarding the working of the chartered steamers, I determined to proceed on board the \u2018 Magnet,\u201d a steamer which runs between Quebec, Riviere du Loup and the Saguenay in opposition to the Railway to Riviere du Loup.¢ I found-the steamer crowded with passengers from the United States, Upper Canada, and to my surprise I also fourid passengers with through tickets issued by the Ticket Clerks of the'Grand Trunk chartered stéamers, thusactually supporting a steam competition: against the Riviere-du \u2018Loup section of the Grand Trunk, S Ce R M tte \u201cOn going the Saguenay, River Margueritte was pointed oul to me as leased Last year by Mr.Blackwell for salmon fishing, a fishing lodge had also been run up by the Engineer of the Riviere du Loup section of the Grand Trunk, and it is now given out it was only taken by the Grand Trunk for the amusement of the Prince of Wales, so that I presume the expenses incurred will be shunted on to the Government, as the Montreal entertainment has been, which saves the Grand Trunk, acqordiog to the mean of rough estimates, some $60,000.This apparently trifling fishing affair, coupled with the almost regal splendour of the furniture of the apartments provided at the Sarnia Station for the Directors, serves more fully to confirm my previous impressions\u2014that money and time have been recklessly and criminally spent on non-essentials, while essential, terminal wants have been entirely neglected at more important points.\u201c1 have placed the heads of a memorial in the hands of an eminent Barrister, to be drawn up formally for presentation to the Governor General, raying for an enquiry by a committee of Share- Holders (appointed by the English Shareholders) into the past and present management of the Grand Trunk, before the Canadian Government entertains any proposal for pecuniary aid, as I am satisfied that under the present Directors and Managers in Canada it would not benefit, but be detrimental, to the Bondholders and Shareholders.#¢ Unless I had visited Canada, and ascertained the truth of some of the current reports throughout Canada, I could not have brought myself to believe that such a system of speculation, extravagance and mendacity could have solong been permitted to exist ; the wonder, also, to me, is how the people of Canada remained so quiescent.The explanation that I receive is, ¢\u2018 The.Grand Trunk has been used for political purposes, and that the Provincial Grand Trunk aid money has been spent in bribery and corruption.\u201d Be this as it may, I am quite satisfied that the Grand Trunk has not begun to be managed as a commercial carrying company, and itis the general opinion in Canada, that as the Executive is at present constituted, it never will be worked, either honestly or purely, as a commercial company.\u2018\u2018 My reports, when published by the Liverpool Shareholders, will unite the criticism of the people of Canada as to the correctness of my previous con clusions.\u201d Quebec, August 10, 1860.MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.Mr.J.B.Govex's FarEwELL OraTION\u2014On Wednesday evening this celebrated temperance orator delivered his farewell oration in Exeter Hall, which was crowded.Mr.George Cruickshank presided, and having made a few remarks, Mr.Gough rose and spoke with great animation for an hour and a-half.Mr.Tweedie then stated that Mr.Gough had that night concluded his three years\u2019 engagement with the National Temperance League, having besides spent a period equal to one year under the direction of the Scottish Temperance League, for whom he visited nearly every town in Scotland and several of the more important towns of Ireland, holding large meetings in each.He had delivered in England three hundred and-ninety addresses, averaging four orations a-week, and addressed to at least 500,000 hearers, of whom about twelve thousand have signed the pledge of total abstinence.A larger number, there was reason to believe, have 2150 been led by his appeals to become abstainers, who have not identified themselves with the movement.Those who have signed the pledge have been chiefly of the middle class, although many of the upper have also joined, besides numbers of the working classes.Mr, Samuel Bowly presented an address to Mr.Gough, in which he was highly eulogised, and in which a hope was expressed that he would return to England.The address was signed by Sir Fitzroy Kelly, M,P., Mr.Gurney, M.P., Mr.Padmore, M.P., Mr.Crossley, M.P., Sir G.Strickland, and 280 other gentlemen, My.Deputy Judge Payne then presented Mr.Gough with an elegantly bound Bible, the gift of the persons who had signed the pledge after hearing him in Exeter Hall.\u2014English Paper, 11th Aug.ANOTHER FRENCH PAMPHLET.\u2014À sequel to M.Ædiñoñd About\u2019s pamphlet, La Prusse en 1860, mâde:its appearance in Paris at Dentu\u2019s, the Govern- fr like M.About's work, the merit of frankness, and, as it is understood to proceed from the Government workshop, where such productions are manufactured, it has naturally produced great sensation.It candidly avows that the two great empires of the Continent \u2014that of France and Russia\u2014have, among man other points of contact, a \u2018\u2018 want of expansion,\u2019 the satisfaction of which must be the aim of an * intelligent system of policy,\u201d and it proceeds to make out: that this \u2018\u2018 want of expansion\u2019 can be legitimately satisfied by sundry compensations to the Powers concerned, with two exceptions\u2014Austria and England.Russia is to be bribed by the offer of Constantinople, to assist France in the revendication of the Rhine frontier.Prussia is to receive a portion of Austria by way of compensation, and Syria is to be turned into a fief for Abd-el-Kader.If England should object, Malta, Gibraltar, and the Ionian Islands are to be taken from her as securities for her good behaviour, and then the legitimate ¢ wants of expansion being satisfied,\u201d\u201d Europe may be allowed to enjoy the blessings of peace.\u2014Herald's Paris Correspondent.EE SUPPRESSION OF A PAPAL SoCIETY.\u2014A circular issued by the French Minister 6f Public Instruction shows that the Emperor Napoleon is a little likely as Count Cavour to tolerate clerical meddling in lay affairs.A society has been formed in Lyons to aid the Pope \u201cin all his rights, spiritual and temporal ;\u201d\u2019 its rule of conduct is \u2018\u201centire\u2018submission to the Chief of the Church; its means ¢ prayer,\u2019\u2019 publications advocating the rights of the Pope, and the collection of Peter's pence ; it corresponds with a commission of Cardinals and with General Lamoriciére.This body\u2014so secular in its designs\u2014with its Budget, and Secretary at War to correspond with the Comman- der-in-Chief in Rome\u2014is proclaimed illegal by M.Rouland in the circular to which we refer.\u201cIt .openly denies,\u201d says the Minister, ¢ the rights of the State and the obligations of the citizen, by imposing on its members entire submission to the Sovereign Pontiff, without distinguishing temporal order from the spiritual.\u201d ¢ The society usurps a Sovereign part which only belongs to the Government of France, and it assumes completely the attitude ofa secret and prohibited society.\u201d \u2018\u2018 Such an association, which endeavours to organize an accult power in the midst of the State, which enrols citizens in political enterprises, and the means of execution of which are undefined, may inspire just distrust in the country and disquietude to the Government.The Government will not hesitate to dissolve a society the mere existence of which is an infraction of our penal lays.\u201d \u2014 Paris Cor.English Paper.Tae Pore AND THE Irisu Porrce.\u2014The Cork Re- Porter gives the following brief history of the fate of a dozen enthusiastic members of the constabulary force who recently resigned their posts to take precarious service in the Pope's Irish Brigade.\u2014¢¢ All of them were duly conveyed to Rome, but only one enlisted finally.The rest refused to do so after five day\u2019s experience or reflection on their position, and demanded their passports.One of them has returned to Cork.Of the others, some it is stated, have enlisted in the line in Dublin, and some are seeking employment in the London and Dublin police force.\u201d To those who desired to withdraw their resignations and join the force again, it was answered from head-quar- ters, that \u2018 they did not regret having got rid of discontented servants at their own request.\u2019\u2019\u2019 All credit be given to the gentlemen at head-quarters.With this answer staring them in the face, it is likely that in future warlike policemen will think twice before they throw away the substance for a shadow.MrssIoN INCIDENTS IN InprA.\u2014Tke Rev.J.Vaughan relates the following incidents of a missionary tour near Burdwan :\u2014One of the last places I visited was the least hopeful of all.I began to preach by the gide of a Siva temple.Presently crowds of Brahmins came together, and the impression of Satan seemed to rest on their countenances.They first tried to argue, but not succeeding in this, they began to abuse and blaspheme.Some of the elder Brahmins stamped with rage, and almost foamed at the mouth.Still I went on, and was enabled to keep calm.Then they got up deafening shouts of ¢\u2018 Hori bol! hori bol ! They hoped I would retire, but I did not ; then they tried to drive the people away, but the people were loth to give up the fun ; next they dragged an idiot before me, and pushed him forth to make hideous grimaces ; next a Brahmin snatched a tract and tore itto pieces.Such was the scene, in this village very different to the picture sent in my former letter.It truly seemed like casting pearls before swine to stand so long, but yet, I thought, it is no wonder they are so swinish, and do not value the pearls, for perhaps they have never seen them before.It turned out, however, that, several years ago, some missionary had visited that same spot.This I learned, in the following way :\u2014During the whole of that scene of confusion I observed one man, a goldsmith, standing at my side, perfectly silent: he never took hiseyes off me, and appears to be drinking in every word.When I finished, he came up to me and whispered, ¢ Sahib, will you please give me a book?Some years ago a Sahib came and preached as you have done to-day; he gave me a little book : that I read and after reading it I could no longer worship the idols.Sahib, I am not Hindu ; I never go to the temple, but I worship and pray to the one true God in my own house, as well as I can; but I dare not tell the people, for they would all persecute me.\u2019 This was cheering; and, I thought, who knows but the Lord has reserved to himself many such hidden ones in the villages of Bengal, who refuse to bow the knee to Baal ?Curar LITERATURE IN ENGLAND.\u2014The Messrs.Chambers, of Edinburgh, say :\u2014The changes produced in the English book trade by the cheap press are nôt more remarkable than that improvement in taste which has subdued the traffic in books of a politically objectionable and of a demoralizing character.The sale of books of a grossly demoralizing tendency has heen driven into obscurity.On this subject we offer the following statement, the result of careful inquiry into the cheap periodical trade in 1859-1860 : Religious but not sectarian periodicals at 4d, 1d, and 14d each, 20 in number, aggregate issue per month, 1,436,600.Two periodicals of the Religious Tract Society of London, one sold at 1d, and ths other at 3d, aggregate issue per month, 804,000.Temperance, at 4d and 1d each, nine in number, aggregate issue per month, 203,000.Useful, educational, and entertaining literature at 4d, \u20181d, and 2d each, seven in number, aggregate issue per month, 3,200,000.Romances and tales to excite th> sentiment of wonder and horror, mostly at 1d each, 60 in number ; the issue of these could not be ascertained, but it is believed to reach the monthly aggregate of 1,500,000- Stories and memoirs of an immoral nature at 1d each, four in num- y ber, aggregate issue per month, 52,500.Freethinking and irreligious, two in number, with, it is believed, a comparatively limited circulation.According to this view, the cheap periodical literature may be classed and summed up in amount as follows : \u20141.Works of an improving tendency, circulation per month, 8,043,500.2.Works of an exciting nature, but not yositively immoral, circulation per month, 1,500,000.3.Works immoral, and opposed to the religion of the country, circulation per month, probably under 80,000.From tHE SANDWICH IsLAND.\u2014The Missionary brig ¢ Morning Star\u2019\u2019 sailed from Honolulu on the 8th of June, for the Micronesian and Ralick Islands.Three hundred thousand acres of land on Hawaii, one-twelfth of the whole area of the kingdom, was sold recently for $3100.It contains a half a dozen good sized volcanoes, four or five large sheep farms, and an immense quantity:of pulu in the rough.The purchaser was C.C.Harris, who has been dubbed, since the auction-sale, the Duke of Kahuhu, which is the name of the land in question.The report of the Chief Justice of the Islands gives a synopsis of crime for the five past years, and shows that a better state of morals now exists in the Islands than during any of the preceding years.Nevertheless, it is said there were received from the Bureau of Fines and Penal ties, during thetwo years past, the large sum of 50,564, and it is estimated that these taxes on crime will be increased to 65,000 during the next two years.The Polynesian says that the Japanese rape-seed oil is nearly if not fully equal to sperm for burning, though its cost is less than one-half.ADVERTISAMENTS.MILLER & Co., WHOLESALE LEATHER WAREHOUSE, DEPOT OF \u2018ST.PIE TANNERY,\u201d 17 St.Peter Street.OFFER FOR SALE :\u2014 Spanish Sole Leaiher, Slaughter and Kip Sole, City Slaughter Selected Kips, (their own manufacture,) ALSO, THE FOLLOWING IMPORTED LEATHERS: English Butts Sole.French Patent Calf.Enamelled Horse and Seal.English Roans of all colors, suitable for Upholsterers and Boot Makers.Montreal, August 27th, 1860.HE TWO BRIDGES.\u2014A further supply of this Tract having been called for, the Second Edition (adapted to the Inauguration of the Victoria Bridge as past) will be obtainable at the WITNESS Office to-day.August 27.y ANTED, for a Store in Almonte, C.W., à young man accustomed to the business of a General Store.Apply, post-paid, to this Office.O LET,\u2014TWO BED-ROOMS and a SITTING ROOM, furnished or unfurnished.Apply at No.112 St.Lawrence Main Street.\u2018 Montreal, August 22, 1860.(GILL NORMAL AND MODEL SCHOOL.\u2014 The next Session of these Schools will commence on Saturday, September 1st.For farther information, application may be made to the Principal or to the undersigned.W.C.BAYNES, B.A., Secretary.Montreal, August 22, 1860.HAPMAN\u2019S MAMMOTH FALL BARLEY.\u2014 Too much has been said by nearly every leading journal in Canada, to need any further proof of its vast superiority to any other variety.On the receipt of Two Dollars the Proprietor will send Free by Express, as far as Hamilton, C.W., and Montreal, C.E., Grain enough to sow an Acre, with full Directions and Particulars.It must not be sown later than the 1st of September.AGENTS.\u2014Messrs.LYMAN, CLARE & Co., Montreal.CHAS.CHAPMAN.Ottawa, August 23, 1860.OMMISSION BUSINESS.\u2014PRODUCE DEPARTMENT.\u2014The Undersigned is receiving almost daily consignments of\u2014 FLOUR, of all grades, from several mills in Upper Canada.OATMEAL, fresh ground, and of superior quality, in shipping parcels.PEASE, WHEAT and other Grains.BUTTER, in lots suitable for shippers and retail dealers.WHITE FISH, fresh caught, in barrels and half barrels.Pork\u2014Mess and Heavy Mess, from some of the most celebrated packers in the West; also, a quantity of Rump Pork, equal to Thin Mess.HAMS, SHOULDERS and BACON, of excellent quality.EGGS, LARD, and various other articles, at current rates.Also, just received, 40 boxes of Nasmith\u2019s Celebrated Biscuits.DEPARTMENT OF DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES.The undersigned, as Agent for the Manufacturers, offers or sale the following goods :\u2014 : Canadian Woollen Cloths, Satinets, &c.Batting, of various qualities, 1,700 bales.Leather\u2014Sole, Upper, Kip, Calf and Harness.Potash Kettles and Coolers.Platform Scales and Flour-packers.Oatmeal Millstones.Pails, Tubs, Wrapping Paper, and other articles.JOHN DOUGALL, COMMISSION MERCHANT, 270 and 272 St.Paul Street MR.BARNBY, ORGANIST CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, Teacher of the Pianoforte, Organ and Singing, will resume his professional duties on Monday, 3rd September, next.Terms can be ascertained by applying to Mr.Barnby, 2 Wellington Terrace, St.Catharine Street.Montreal, August 23rd, 1860.ANADA CORN STARCH.\u2014Corn Starch, for Laundry purposes, is the best in the world, and that made by the Canada Starch Company at Edwardsburgh, C.W., is superior to anything made on this continent.Sold wholesale only by ALEX.WALKER, Montreal, August 21.St.Peter Street.\u2018\u201c Danesbury House,\u201d COMPLETE! 12mo., Muslin, 75 Cents.| PUBLISHED BY .HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK.FOR SALE BY B.Dawson & Son, MONTREAL, AGENCY LA VIEILLE MONTAGNE ZINC COMPANY, No 12 St.Sacrament Street.ON HAND: SHEET ZINC, Nos.8, 9, 10, 11, 12; PLATE ZINC, Nos.19, 20, 21, suitable for manufacture of Nails and Sprigs ; SPELTER, in Plates.For sale by ADAM BURNS, AGENT.Montreal, August 22nd, 1860.GUNPOWDER.Ce BLASTING, in quarter barrels.For sale by ADAM BURNS, Aug.22.12 St.Sacrament St.Grand Procession.PARTIES who have not obtained places to witness the Grand Procession, can secure seats on the Spacious Gallery now being erected on Beaver Hall Square, by applying immediately to the CITY EXPRESS OFFICE, No.5 Place d\u2019Armes.Montreal, August 22, 1860.; New Goods.GAVAGE & LYMAN take great pleasure in announcing that they have now received their full assortment of Goods, most of which have been made with special reference to the requirements of the public for the approaching festivities.As it is quite impossible to enumerate all the varieties in an advertisement, they merely mention a few of the leading articles, and solicit a call to inspect their Stock, which will be found to be the most select, rich and varied in Canada, and in prices defy all competition.Special attention is called to the Gold and Silver Prince of Wales Plume, Brooches and Bracelets.Full Sets of Bracelet, Brooch and Ear-rings.Sets of Bracelet and Brooch.Sets of Brooches and Ear-rings.Necklaces, a large assortment.Bracelets, Brooches, Rings.Hair Pins, Fans, Scent Bottles, Bouquet Holders, &e.Studs, Sleeve Buttons, Rings and Opera Glasses.GOLD & SILVER WATCHES.Gold Chains in every variety and style.CATHEDRAL BLOCK, NOTRE DAME STREET.MEDALS! MEDALS!! THE ONLY REAL Prince of Wales \u2014AND\u2014 VICTORIA BRIDGE MEDALS PUBLISHED.For sale at the low price of 25 cents.SAVAGE & LYMAN, CATHEDRAL BLOCK, Montreal, August 21.Notre Dame Street.ARD, PORK & HAMS.\u2014The Subscriber offers for sale\u2014 .Lard, in tinnets and kegs, Fresh and Salt Pork and Beef, Corned Beef and Tongues, Smoked Hams, At his Stalls, Nos.26 and 27 St.Ann\u2019s Market and No.3 .Guy Street.Montreal JAugust 21.WILLIAM BAUDEN.Oil for Sale.ALBERTINE COAL OIL 5 BARRELS 10 ¢ W.B.Whale * ss \u2018 10 \u201c - Burning Fluid 60 es Spirits Turpentine 200 ss Rosine, assorted qualities.ALFREDA SVAGE* J | Montreal, 21 August, 1860.22 Lemoine Bt.8\u201d ora pe rep eR WS YE PPO RE - WE) SIRE _ A A Tas TE ry WPT Rr Tar Crm ALIEN AAT.aE wy EY Ct BEE re I a: reer Lu ee ECO pence tire eee pA ad vr or Sot Tre nv fe pn qe va ¥ ear bi si h PUI Er Or PA AS Inrange att a SRE EEE = \u2019 pren POP Ce P ., 2 v * EE res EE tT nd JE EEE EE er re ry Er er SST VY Ys 4.to weléome the hew.\u201d 44 THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.Aveust 27, 1860.DANESBURY HOUSE.\u2014Cuarrer IV.(Continued.) THE GAME PLAYED OUT.\u201cYou will persuade me next, you are out of your senses,\u201d was the retort of Mrs.Philip.\u201cIf you prefer Miss Roper, why do you marry Miss St.George ?\u201d \u201cTo tell you the truth,\u201d he answered, \u201cin a low tone, \u201c I was, in a manner, drawn into the marriage.But of course this must never go beyond you.\u201d \u201c Drawn into it! I do not understand.\u201d ¢ It seems the neighborhood got talking about my attention to Miss St.George, which appears to me to be very strange, for I declare that I never paid ber any particular attention, I certainly used to drive them out in the open carriage most evenings, herself and the two children, and she sat in the front seat with me.I could not put her in the back, you know, a relation of Isabel; and I used to give her my arm to church, and there my attention ended.\u201d \u201c And who says the neighborhood made remarks,\u201d interrupted Mrs.Philip Danesbury.\u201c Listen.One day Mrs.Serle arrived here in a desperate bustle.She sought an interview with me, and said Eliza had written to her that she was miserable ; that after what the neighborhood had been pleased to say, she should never hold up her head again in happiness, and that of course she must leave Danesbury House, and they might as well tear her life from her as tear her from me and the children.\u201d \u201c What did you say to all this rhapsody ?\u201d \u201cGave the neighbourhood a blessing, or something equivalent to it\u2014though no rumours had reached my ears; and told Mrs.Serle that it was a mistake to suppose I had paid any particular attentions: I had paid none whatever.Mrs.Serle assured me things had been said, and asked what I could do in the dilemma; hinting that for a reproach to have been cast to Isabel's cousin J! \u2018 About forty times removed,\u201d contemptuously interrupted Mrs.Philip Danesbury.Mr.Danesbury smiled, as he continued.\u2014 ¢ That for a reproach to have been cast on Isabel\u2019s cousin, would have proved a bitter grief to her, had she been in life.Then I began to think that, as I had almost determined to marry again, I might as well take Miss St.George as anybody else, and settle the neighbourhood that way.\u2014 So, without giving myself time for consideration, I acknowledge that\u2014I told Mrs.Serle that the matter had better be ended in that manner.\u201d ¢ And they snapped at it!\u201d \u201c They accepted it,\u201d said Mr.Danesbury.\u201cIt was all a planned trap !\u201d\u2019 vehemently spoke Mrs.Philip.\u201cMrs.Serle\u2019s coming down, and saying what she did, was a planned trap to draw you in, planned between her and Miss St.George.I wish I was as sure of heaven! She has played out her game.\u201d Mr.Danesbury stood, his tall form drawn to its full height.He began pushing, with his boots, some starting bits of coal into the fire, between the bars of the grate.¢\u201c John!\u201d said Mrs.Philip.\u201cWell ?\u201d \u201c Do not carry it out.Let her bring an action for Breach of Promise.She is just the one to doit.\u201d \u201cBut, indeed, I mean to carry it out.You must not think I repent, Maria.I believe in Miss St.George's amiability, if you do not, and I think she will make me a suitable wife.\u201d \u201c Well\u2014if you are satisfied.I only hope you will always find cause to be so,\u201d added Mrs.Philip earnestly.\u201c Believe me, no one would rejoice more than I to find that I am wrong.When is it to be?I hear Miss St.George is in London.\u201d \u201c She returned with her sister.lace immediately.\u201d And it did so.And Eliza St.Geooge became the second Mrs.Danesbury, to her own unequivocal self-gratulation and delight.It was on Tuesday afternoon, and just a week after the wedding.Glisson and Jessy were seated in their old room, the nursery; Glisson, not rocking herself in idleness, but pacing about angrily, in what Jessy called a \u201ctemper.\u201d On the carpet sat William, playing with some toys; and Jessy was trimming a cap for herself with white satin ribbon.The work seemed somewhat to puzzle her, for she pinned the ribbon, and unpinned it, in indecision.¢ Nurse, see here,\u201d cried she, holding the cap towards the view of Mrs.Glisson, as the latter approached her in her restless wanderings.\u2014 \u201cWould this look better quilled round the crown, or put in Bows at the sides?Just tell me what you think ; I want it to be smart.\u201d \u201cTt would look best this way,\u201d returned the _nurse ; and taking the ¢ap and ribbon from Jessy\u2019s hand, she dashed them to the ground.The reader, however, must not take a wrong view of Mrs.Glisson\u2019s strange action : she was perfectly sober.\u201c Now, then!\u201d uttered Jessy, * what's that for 7\u201d .: \u201cI have no patience with you!\u201d she burst forth.¢ Decking.yourself off for a woman that\u2019s It is to take mot fit to stard \u2018in \"ybur poor \u2018dead mistress\u2019s shoes ; not fit to tie \u2019em for her, or to buckle on her garters! You are as bad as she is.Let her come and see you with the black bows in your cap, as she will me; it may show her that we sorrow ufter the old mistress, more than we care TOR Lens ei craie REA Aidit ¢ Black or white won't alter it,\u201d rejoined Jessy, intent on her cap again.\u201cIt is done, and it cannot be undone ; and if the rest of the maids put on white ribbons, there\u2019s no reason why I should not.You are as cranky as you can be to-day.\u201d \u201c Cranky, ay!\u201d ejaculated Mrs.Glisson, flinging herself on a chair with a groan, \u201cand you'd be cranky too, if you had.the feelings of an owl.I wonder you can reconcile yourself to stop in the house, after such a change! I wonder the servants down stairs can do it!\u201d \u201c You are stopping, yourself.\u201d \u201cBecause I am forced to it.Could I go and leave that baby\u2019\u2014pointing to the unconscious little fellow on the carpet\u2014\u201c to her mercies ?\u2014 When T meet my poor dear mistress face to face in heaven, what would she say to me, if I had abandoned her child to the dislike of a deceitful step-mother ?No: if master goes and makes a fool of himself, and brings home twenty wives with two faces, one for him, and t'other for other folks, 7 must stop on, and put up with it, till William's beyond my care.I told master so.\u201d \u201c You never did |\u201d uttered Jessy.\u2018When ?\u201d ¢ That don\u2019t matter to you.Get on with your fine wedding-cap.\u201d There was a pause.Jessy, who was then standing at the window, broke it.\u2018 Here comes Mrs.Philip Danesbury.I suppose her cold\u2019s better, then.She bas not got the children with her: I wonder how long she intends to keep them ?\u201d \u201cT hope she'll keep them till they are dragged from her with cords,\u201d fired Glisson.She would, if she was of my mind.Her home will be better for them than their own, now.\u201d Mrs.Philip Danesbury came into the nursery.\u201c Well, Glisson; well, Jessy,\u201d cried she, as the servants rose.\u2018 You have thought me lost, no doubt, but it is nine days since I stepped outside the door.Willie, what has aunt Philip got ?\u201d The child had risen and run to her.Next to Glisson, whom he dearly loved, he was fondest of Mrs.Philip Danesbury.¢ There,\u201d she said, giving him a pretty little toy in sugar, \u201c Sister Isabel sent that for Willie.\u201d \u201cWhen are the children coming home, ma'am ?\u201d\u2019 put in Jessy.\u201c When their father asks for them; not before,\u201d replied Mrs.Philip, with a sharpness in her accent that seemed akin to that of Glisson.\u201c He, and\u2014and\u2014his wife\u2014will not be here before Friday.\u201d \u201cOh, won\u2019t they though!\u201d retorted Glisson, forgetting her respect in her mind\u2019s annoyance.¢ They are coming to-day, ma'am.\u201d \u201cTo-day!\u201d \u201c This very blessed Tuesday,\u201d returned Glis- son * Master's wanted in a hurry for some business ab the works, and some of them wrote to him, and he wrote word back he would be home today.They got the letter at the factory this morning, and sent in and told us, by his orders.It's a black day for me, I know that.\u201d « Jessy,\u201d said Mrs.Philip, not immediately replying to Glisson, \u2018\u201c Miss Isabel requires a clean tucker or two: will you put them up.\u201d Jessy left the room.\u2018 You must try and make the best of it, Glisson,\u201d Mrs.Philip continued, when they were alone.\u201c It would never do, you know, for you to leave William.\u201d \u201c That's the only thing that's keeping me; nothing else in the world.If she begins to treat him badly, I'll step between them, and ask master to uphold me for his late wife\u2019s sake.\u201d \u201c Hush, Glisson ! she will not do that.She appears to be so very fond of him.\u201d \u201c Just as acertain gentleman is of holy water,\u201d irreverently snapped Glisson.\u2018\u201c From the very first hour she set foot in this house, she has been plotting how best to catch master : I saw through her, if nobody else did.He had no more chance against her than a fly has with a spider, but just walked into the web, like a blindfolded simpleton.It's of no good, ma\u2019am, I must speak! I am fit this day to take and hang myself.Oh, my poor dead mistress!\u201d (To be Continued.) HIGHLY INTERESTING LETTER FROM JAPAN.We find in the New York Evening Post a long and very interesting letter from -Japan, written by our distinguished townsman, R.H.Dana, Jr., from which we make liberal extracts.The skilful manner in which Mr.Dana treats of Japanese industry and civilization, renders the letter one of the most intelligent and valuable papers on Japan which has yet been published.Mr.Dana says : EFFECT OF FOREIGN TRADE AND INTERCOURSE.\u201cJ was so fortunate as to be able to visit all the ports now open to foreigners\u2014Nagasaki, Kanagawa (which includes Yokuhama) \u2018and Hakodadi\u2014thus visiting each of the three islands and circumnavigating the group.The effect of foreign trade and intercourse is already obvious.Kanagawa, the port of Yeddo, and now the chief port for foreign trade, was opened to foreigners in July, 1859.I was there nine months afterward.I found a town grown up at Yokuhäma with almost the fabulous growth of a California city.What in June, 1859, was a little collection of Japanese cottages, with a few rural temples, farm-houses, and groves on the \u2018hill-side, is now a town of some fiveior six thousand Japan- ese inhabitants, with streets broad and straight, a strong police, a fire department, street barriers and gates, fire-proof storehouses, two moles of solid masonry jutting into the harbor, and innumerable shops for the sale of lacquer work, porcelain copper-cnamel, and engravings and cuttings in ivory, wood, stone and crystal, books, maps and pictures, and all kinds of Japanese curiosities, as well as of the necessaries of daily life, and the solid staples of commerce.All this is the work of Japanese capital and skill, Nor have the foreigners been inactive.They have built, and are building, their lodging-houses and fire-proof go-downs (storehouses, planting trees and shrubs in their little enclosures, and gathering about them all they can command of Western, or are willlng to adopt from the Eastern, civilization.NO FRENCH MERCHANTS IN JAPAN.The French Emperor has taken part in the English war in China, made treaties and established showy embassies and consulates with staffs of urbane, and cultivated men, both in China and Japan; but as far as I -can learn, there is not a French merchant in China or Japan, or a French colonist or householder.JAPANESE EXPORTS\u2014NO IMPORTS.Rice is the staff of life in Japan, and its exportation, as well as that of wheat, is prohibited.The most promising articles of foreign trade are tea and silk; but they are not yet developed, and their fate, in competition with the silks and teas of China, fis not decided.But I find the best informed merchants confident of their success.The rape seed is largely cultivated, and its oil has been exported with success to Shanghai and a little to England.The vegetable wax is a minor article, but has attracted attention in Europe.To China the exports are drugs and medicines, fish, flour, rape-seed oil, seaweed, and various small articles of food and cookery, passing under the general name of chow chow.The amount of tea exported from Japan the last year is about one million of pounds, and of silk, four thousand bales; and the prices of these articles have risen fifty per cent in the markets of Japan since July, 1859, to the great advantage of the Japanese producer and merchant.But the trade of Japan is solely a trade of exports.As yet they buy nothing.Lowell and Lawrence, Lyons and Manchester and Leeds are spread before them in vain.Silks and furs and cottons they have of their own, though of their cottons we know but little, and a fabric resembling flannel, but no woolen or linen, and their cotton fabrics bear no comparison with ours.But they are cheaper.The prices alone seem to stand in the way.Gold, which was so plentiful at the opening of the trade as to be valued but little above silver, giving great profits to the foreign traders, who bought gold kobangs for a dollar apiece and sold them in China for four dollars\u2014the gold has now risen to its European value, and the confusion and mistakes of the Government as to coinage and currency are coming to an end\u2014 confusion and mistakes increased by the unreasonable and fraudulent demands of many of the foreign merchants, and natural enough in a people who had lived by themselves for twenty centuries, trading in oval and square coins of gold aud silver, and suddenly found themselves beset by strange round coins, belonging to all nations, with unknown images and superscriptions, and varying weights and values.Such are some of the material aspects of this newly admitted commerce.\u201d Its moral effects, more interesting, lie hid in deeper causes.THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEM.It is true, indeed, that Japan is virtually a sealed book.The cover, the preface, and a few uninterdicted chapters alone are open to us.But some things we do know.The world knows that Japan is under a feudal system of the straitest sort and most powerful character; that this is surmounted by a monarchical power, vested in the Tycoon, and somewhat controlled by a Council of State; and that the Mikado, or spiritual Emperor, believed to be of divine ancestry, has now no secular power.The Tycoon and the great feudatories, the Daimios, own the land which is held under them, in strict feudal service, by subinfeudation\u2014the eighteen greater Daimios moving through the country with trains of soldiers, civil officers and servants, to the number of three, five and ten thousand each, and living in state at Yeddo in three, five or ten palaces at a time.These princes are the civil and military chiefs, the judicial magistrates, as well as the land owners of the empire.Great as their power is, extending to life and death, while they have tenants, soldiers, subjeots and servants, they have.no slaves.There are -universities, academies, common schools, degrees in belles-letters and the natural sciences ; yet, a military and feudal people, they do not rank in learning so high as do the Chinese.The greater nobles, the lesser nobles or gentry, and the civil and military officers and priests, rank first in the order and state there.The doctors of science, medicine and belles-letters rank next, if they have no office; and last of all come the merchants and artisans, forming an inferior order.Having had no foreign commerce, they have had no class of powerful merchants or manufacturers, and they do not distinguish between these and the retail traders and artisans.Even the common soldier and the common soldier's son with his two little swords outranks them.The merchant is not sof fe.What will be the effect of an extended commerce on this system ?Will it be the old story of cities and burghers and guilds against castles and coronets ?Already the effect of the infant commerce is felt in the ir- crease of prices, the demand for products, and the rise in the value of labor.- \u2018Will this raise tbe dignity of the merchant, and diminish the retinues of the nobles?It is said that the quick- sighted Japanese are suspecting this, and that a party is forming among the nobles to counteract it.And some suppose that the assassination of the Prince Regent by the emissaries of the Prince of Mito (vowels to be sounded as in the Italian) was something more than private revenge.Will the aristocratic institutions fall before these in- ,.novations, as in France, or accommodate them- \u2018selves to them, as in England ?SOCIAL AND MORAL CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.The social and moral conditions of the Japanese present curious problems, and what seem to us to be anomalies.That sense of propriety which suggests neatness in the pefson and the house, the table and the bed, is to be reconciled with an absence or ignorance of modesty unequalled among any people who have made the first steps in civilization.We are to understand how it is that a people who in all classes punish adultery in the wife by death or perpetual ignominy, and in the upper classes guard the honor of a danghter with the sword, should take their wives\u2014yes, even the gentry and nobles\u2014from the jorogas.No people are more neat in their persons, bathing daily\u2014 the poorest of them\u2014in winter as well as summer, and warm baths are as frequent here as drinking shops in England or America.Yet the sexes bathe together, and the baths and the platforms on which they dry and dress themselves are as open to the sight of every passer-by as our butchers\u2019 shop.Not only is the veil between the sexes rent, but the veil>which protects other decencies of life.The maximum seems to be that whatever is necessary to be done, or is known to exist, there need be no attempt to conceal.Again, while you are relieved from the offensive sights of abandoned women who beset the streets of English and American cities, the jorogas are legalized and made as respectable as possible.UNIVERSALITY OF INSTRUCTION.Though a military, feudal people, yet common schools are provided everywhere and for all.The coolie, hammering stone in the quarries or carrying bales on his back, can read and write, and carries a piece of paper in his bosom and an ink- stone and pencil at his side, THE LEARNED CLASSES.The profession of the law and the science of jurisprudence they have not.No intellects trained to forensic life compete with the hereditary or military officials.The magistrate is the political or military officer, and has only the parties before him, and finds the law in a written code, and if not there, in his own breast.The only learned class, except the priests, (who are never politicians,) are the doctors of medicine, science and belles-lettres.They are two-sworded men, and have a respectable social position.RURAL CHARACTERISTICS.Of the tea and silk culture, we see nothing on the seaboard.But the rice fields, the wheat fields, and the fields of the rape seed are everywhere before the eyes.Of the birds, I can only say that they are numerous and that the Japanese pheasant is the most exquisite thing I ever set eyes upon.Japan is the most fruitful in evergreens, of any land I have ever seen or heard of.LIMITED FIELD FOR MISSIONARY EFFORT.Missionaries, strictly speaking, there are none.Since the utter extermination of Christianity in blood and fire, in the seventeenth century, missionaries have been prohibited.By the late treaties they allow foreigners to build churches and practice their worship within the limits assigned for their residence ; but they tolerate no preaching or teaching to the natives, nor the circulation of religious books.Two Roman Cathe- lic clergymen, the Abbe Girard and the Abbe Wernet, are residing in Japan, sent by the society \u201c Les Missions Etrangeres,\u201d but confine themselves to learning the language and religious habits of the people, to the removing of prejudices and the gaining of personal influence, in the hope of better days.Two of Bishop Boon\u2019s clergy, for the American Episcopal Church Mission at Shanghai, are at Nagasaki, and there two missionaries of the Dutch Reformed Church of the United States.All these confine themselves within -the limits I have named, and-so-strictly that they-'do rot explain their faith even to a Japanese who comes voluntarily for inquiry, knowing that such an act might peril the Japanese and end their own residence here, or render it useless.The people at home must not delude themselves into the belief that any strictly missionary work is doing or can be done in Japan.No clergymen are of any service here, but scholars and.gentlemen\u2014men who can master the language and literature of Japan, get an insight into the genius of its institutions, gain personal influence, remove prejudices, and prepare the way for the future.The « MONTREAL WITNESS\u201d is printed and published by JOEN DOUGALL, Proprietor, at 36 Great St.James Blreet.House, head of \u2018 AR REN rammond Street, Montreal."]