The daily witness, 9 mars 1861, samedi 9 mars 1861

[" re al gE Febrawd 171801.v7 5 0 lKn _ COMMERCIAL REY) EW & FAMILY NEWSPAPER.4 \u20ac \u201cVou.IL, No.58.i i) TO LET, at St.Catharine's, a Cottage opposite the \u201cI 4 March 7th, 1861.fi AE.sent occupied by Mr.A.Murray, Stationer.Apply to \u2018 ; ! March 8.fir | Hl Grounds occupied by the Subscribers in Summer, sit- nate on the summit of the Mountain, adjoining Mr.Davidson of the Bank of Montreal, and next to Mr.Ross\u2019 property.The view has been repeatedly acknowledged the finest in the Island, and everything about the Cottage is complete for a country gentleman.Terms for sale would be very liberal.For Lease $200 per annum.8 .: - JOHN LEEMING & CO.Mareh 6.- \u2018 .H.ENNIS No.71 McGill Street.1 06-02 6,W1-W | TO LET,\u2014The DWELLING above SHOP,-où Cor- COURT & MACINTOSH.12d,3ta Ww.| TO LET ON A LEASE OF THREE YEARS, FOR SALE, a most desirable detached family residence recently erected on McGill College propery.\u2014 il The House is substantially built, newly papered and painted, and in first rate order throughout; has excellent Stables and Outbuildings, and a never failing well of water.Yor terms and further particulars apply to LAWYORD & NELSON, Architects, Corner Place d\u2019Armes and Notre Dame Street.March 6, 1861, .os, FOR SALE,\u2014The TWO-STORY BRICK DWEL- Ii LING HOUSE, No.2 Brunswick Street.The Lot is ICY 55 feet front, by 88 feet deep, and now occupied by James Hutton, Esq.Terms easy.C.TUGGEY.Apply to March 5.24 TO RENT, IN GREAT ST.JAMES ST., iii the Dwelling over the Store No.66, now undergoing SM, alterations, well adapted for Offices, having a spacious entrance from Great St.James Streef.Also, TWO ROOMS in adjoining Building, one of them havin 2 very large Sky-Light, well adapted for a Daguer- rean 8 And FOUR SMALL DWELLINGS in Alexander Street, \u2014from 4 to 5 minutes\u2019 walk from the Post Office,\u2014built last summer.Out-Houses, &c., &c., to each.Also,the Upper Flat of a Dwelling in Busby Lane, off Craig Street.Apply to PROWSE & McFARLANE, No.66 Great St.James Street.March 4.1md.VALUABLE WHARF PROPERTY FOR SALE.Those well known premises, the STEAM LA BOAT WHARF at BROCKVILLE, C.W.; with new STONE WAREHOUSE thereon, admirably adapted for Shipping or Wholesale Produce Business.Possession given first of April.Terms reasonable.Title indisputable.For particulars, address, (by letter post-paid,) ; SHERWOOD & STEELE, Brockville ; C.T.PALSGRAVE, St.Helen St., Montreal ; W.J.MACDONELT,, Toronto.February 21, 1861.; was TO RENT.\u2014That comfortable Two STORY BRICK ii DWELLING, No 74 St.Charles Baromme Street, ps- LAY, pered and painted throughout, attic and basement well tinished ; Rent £40 and taxes.Apply to JOHN J.ARNTON, Auctioneer.March 1st.0.Or ph TO RENT, for a term of years to a suitable tenant, 3 ii .the ground Story, floor and Basement, if required, (RAR.for.Shop or Public Offices, No.83 Great Si.James Stré et., The plans for shop front and dll .other information can\u2019 be obtained.by making éarly applicationto - \u20ac.ts: * io Ho MUNRO.ce so, k February 26, 1861.d.t-£.b.ss HOUSES TO LET,\u2014Nos.1 and 3 METCALFE HA TERRACE, with Gardens and good Stabling.7 CE H.JOSEPH & CO.~ February 23.ass PO LBT, at POINT ST.CHARLES a HOUSE, \u2018containing 16 Rooms and Kitchen, wit Cellars, JUIL Sheds, \u2018Stables, and Garden\u2014well adapted for a re- -spectabld Boarding House, - © = += VTL 6 Tens Pa © > \u2014ALSO\u2014 .Several neat COTTAGES, with GARDENS, and a COR- \" NER BUSINESS STAND, with Shop.and Gas Fixtures completé*;; \"UT EE : ' Apply to FRANCIS MULLINS ° - 70} McGill Street.Febuary 21.1-mo post WAREHOUSE TO LET, From the First of Ma fii] next, that Commodious THREE-STORY STONE JA WAREHOUSE, No.20 Grey Nun Street, belonging to the Estate of the late Wm.Lyman.Apply to JOHN CARTER.Montreal, Feb.16, 1861.80-d, i TO LET, the Residence, No.1 VICTORIA TER- Li RACE, Sherbrooke Street, at present occupied by 31 , Mra, Cormack.Apply at No.2, or to eon EE TTT \u201cJOSEPH N.HALL & CO., Corner of St.Gabriel and St.Paul Streets.¢ Feb.7, 1861.Watér run, within 25 minutes walk of the city.Apply | 0.\u2019 ; ner of Notre Dame and St.Lambert Streets, at pre- | 475 OR FOR SALE, THE COTTAGE: residence and | MONTREAL, SATURDAY TO LET, The Residence No.1 HAVELOCK TERRACE, Mountain Street, at presenti occupied by Thos.Macduff; Esq.Apply to .C.TUGGEY.Montreal, Feb.5, 1860.4 si STORE TO LET\u2014Specially suitable for the Whole- \u2018sale Dry Goods business, with early possession if re pall quired.JApplyat Lo Te ot 272 ST.PAUL STREET.+ 2 TO RENT, for a term of years, TWO SHOPS in i L\u2019Orignal, suitable for Carpenters, Chair Makers, or JMS, Cabinet Makers, together with a Turning Lathe.For urther particulars apply to C.P.TREADWELL, Proprie- \u2018| tor of the village of Treadwell, or to GREENSHIELDS & JOHNSON, Montreal.; Feb: 13: 3 d&1-m-s-w Fe ing Lot No.Block C., Pembroke, C.W., situatéd at JEU, the Junction of Main and Commercial Streets, the lat \u2018ter Street Icading directly down to the Steamboat Landing add expected-Terminus of the Brockville and Ottawa Railway.There is a neat Dwelling House and good Garden on the premises.Offerers will please apply (if by letter prepaid,) to Rev.G.B.Bucher, Granby, C.E swt A VALUABLE BUSINESS SITE\u2014For Sale, be- FOR SALE OR TO LET.{HE LARGE YARD on Craig and George Streets, and Fortification Lane, now in possession cf the Richeliéu Steamboat Company.Possession given on the 1st May next.Apply to C.TUGGEY.Montreal, Jan.28, 1861.C0 dstw.OR SALE,\u2014Three First Class Building Lots.No purchase-money required, but seven per cent interest.\"Property commuted.Enquire at this Office.January 7.3m-d ROWN\u2019S BRONCHIAL TROCHES.\u2014COUGHS, COLDS, HOARSENESS, and INFLUENZA, IRRITATION, SORENESS, or any affection of the Throat CURED, the HACKING COUGH in CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, WHOOPING COUGH, ASTHMA, CATARRH, relieved by BROWN\u2019S BRONCHIAL TROCHES, or CouGH LOZENGES.A simple and elegant combination for CouGHS, &¢.Dr.G.F.BIGELOW, Boston.\u2018 Have proved extremely serviceable for HOARSENESS.\u201d ev.HENRY WARD BEECHER.¢ I recommend their use to PUBLIC SPEAKERS.\u201d Rev.E.H.CHAPIN, New York.« Effectual in removing Hoarseness and Irritation of the Throat, so common with SPEAKERS and SINGERS.\u201d Prof.M.STACY JOHNSON, LaGrange, Ga.Teacher of Music, Southern Female College.\u201cTwo or three times I have been attacked by BRONCHITIS, 50 as to make me fear that I should be compelled to desist from ministerial labor, through disorder of the Throat.But from a moderate use of the \u2018\u2019 roches\u201d I now find myself able to preach nightly, for weeks together, without the alightest inconvenience.\u201d Rev.E.B.RYCKMAN, A.B., Montreal, - \u2018Wesleyan Minister.Sold by S.J.LYMAN & Co., LYMAN, CLARE & Co., J os N GARDNER, and all Druggists in Canada, at 25 cents per box.Montreal, Feb.18, 1861.3mo.d 3mo.s.w 3mo.w.\\LLIOTT\u2019S DENTIFRICE, the best m use for placaning, Preserving, and Beautifying the TEETH For recommendations from Dignitaries of the Church, the Bar, M\u2019s.P.P., M.D.\u2019s, and Dentists, see wrapper.Take only Elliott\u2019s Dentifrice, with the signature.For sale by all the Druggists.February 5.d\u2014t.f.MOCHRIE'S CONFECTIONERY, 130 NOTRE DAME STREET.FE the Young Folks, a rich assortment of packages of Sweets, and other fine things ; and, to meet the demand of the'most moderate, a full supply \u2018of EERE = CANDIES IN WRAPPERS, assorted, viz.: Almond, Fig, Raisins, Cocoa Nut, Honey, Cream, &c., &c.1s.3d.PER POUND, which has been a saleable article all the year round.That the social circle might enjoy themselves, A VAREITY OF ORNAMENTED CAKES, Plumb, Citron, Sultana, Sponge, Norwich and Scotch Bunn, Short Bread and Fancy Cakes, with a.variety of Fruits.Montreal, Feb.23, 1861.ES 2m.d ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES 'OF MAILS AT MONTREAL.* gti =\" MAILS.DUE.Quebec, Danville, &c.,(except Sundays) .+.North Shore (except Tuesday! 8: 8883 a 22H » 3 td & U.8 (except Portland) .| 10: M.1:30 P.M St.Hyacinthe, Melbourne, | 8 M 7:15 A.M Portland, Island Pond, &c.1:00 P.M., sue St.Remi, Hemmingford, = ' Plattsburg .| 11-30 A.M.2:00 P.M.Canada West and Upper Ot-| 12:30 P.M.6:00 A.M.tawWa .+ + + + - af 9:00 PM | 13:45 PM.Lower Provinces, Wednesday/ 12:00 P.M.3:00 P.M.Registered letters rhust be posted 16 minutes before the closing of each mail.; 24 TO LET, TWO Two-Story BRICK HOUSES in Poplar Place, Mountain Street, with water and Gas.Rent low.Possession on first May noxtd Apply to te T.- + C TU 3GE Le = \u201cMontréal, Feb, ss.TO LEA, that first-class DWELLING HOUSE, { No.3 Benny\u2019s Buildings, now occupied by H.Mathie- i.son, Esq.TL wAPTER BENNY.January 28, 1861.A _dtfb pan TO LET, One of those First, Class Two-Sto y cut | STONE HOUSES, No, 4 Portland Place, wit every Li convenienoe=Water Closet, : Bath,\" hot and cold vater, dc, Posskesion on First May next, or sooner -ifire- .afar ; Apply to.- Cat \u2018- Montreal; Feb.5, 1861.Naa \" 'c.TUGGEY.sa.0 LET, the SHOP & BACK STORE 154 Notre Dame, Sireet (opposite Herbert's Music Store), atpre- ML sent Gonipied BY Ar.D.MdlIni rè, Grocer.Jatp ® , ~~ Apply to\u201d.PTs TS LR LHD 0° \u201c JOSEPH:N; HALL & CO.«February 4, 1861 yo Da SU + tfb MO LÉT,\u2014That LARGE STONE H \u2018Mal {Street Quebec Suburbs, with Gérdén'ih pa Man eJgociekoellont Out houdes\u2014formert the Enginéer\u2019s : Fog aize and airy situation ds well, s .spectable Boarding Mouse or School, we ¢ united for ore : COURT & MACINTOSH, oR, 4:3 aw tÈb 5er sande fa op rise ; \u2018 Matt Ah ; ny \"BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND.DEATHS.- + BIRTHS.At 222 Dorchester Street, this day, Saturday, 9th inst.Mrs.William Kinloch, of a daughter.In Blenheim, on the 27th ultimo, the wife of Mr.Benjamin D.Snydér, farmer, of a son., ; : Eramosa\u2014Feb.12, Mrs.Samuel Ridgeway, Woodstock, of a son.MARRIAGES.Ottawa\u201427th Feb., by Rev.John Quincy Adams, Mr.Peter Fairbairn, to Jane Williams.Princeton, Blenheim\u20142S8th Feb, by Rev.Geo.Murray, Mr.Emery Greenwood, to Mary Ann, daughter of Mr.John Law, Camden.; : : Mainprize, Albion tp Miss Mary Witherspoon.\u201cNewmarkèt-March 5th by Rev.G a Meacham, Mr.Robt.Alexander, to Miss Margares Davison,\u201d | Sham, Br nt © \"DEATHS.© \" Montreal\u2014March 7th, Mr.Péter Reilly, son-in-law of the late John Loughry, Painter, aged 41; - nT a MT ato) the Gath yeas SEB gee oe e of Argenteu ;year 0 Co W odatock, , W.\u2014March 5th, OF apopl y, Fanny C.Murray, wife of A: Murray, Bsq., Assistant Provinelal Geo- loglst, and first cousin to Ir Wim, Murray, Bürt.; of Auch- © : ths cotiand.a 2 \u2018 \u2026 Balle Vere, Armheretburg\u201422nd Feb.; Mra.Reynolds, wife of Robt Reynolds, Esq.aged 83.Lo CT \u201c Ul dreb., Mr t 20th Rh ! haotef 24h00 Bilary Clarksony J.P., aged 5.ÉHAPT RE © 13 and were not met.\u2018Vaughan\u2014Maroh 1st, by Rev.Peter Glassford, Mr.George | TRUE = EVENING, MARCH 9, 1864._ News by Telegraph.Arrival of the \u201cNORTH BRITON.\u201d PorTLAND, March 8th.\u2014The \u201cNorth Briton,\u201d from\u2019 Liverpool at 9 p.m., on the 21st, and Londonderry on the 22nd, arrived at 6 p.m.GREAT BriTAIN.\u2014The Army estimates issued show a net decrease of £185,000 notwithstanding the number of land forces (140,000) is slightly in excesss of last year.The total sum required is £14,606,000.Franck.\u2014Reinforcements \u2018for the French army at Rome are continually leaving Marseilles.: Eugene Scribe, the celebrated dramatist, is dead.Several persons in Paris connected wilh the transactions of M.Moses have been arrested.The payment of the * caisgse des chemins de fer\u2018of Mires\u201d \u2018suspended until inventory of the state of the Bank was completed.Constantinople bills on Mires falling due on the 20th and 21st reached £280,000 stg.Bourse dull 68.10.IraLy.\u2014Gen.Cialdini and Persano had left Gaeta with troops for Messina.The fortress bas been summoned to surrender under pain of immediate attack, but Gen.Fergolla is reported to have declared his in- \u2018tention to resist 1ill the last extremity.The Sardinian Gen.Nessacopa bad likewise proceeded with troops toward the Neapolitan fortress of Civitella, and would commence an immediate attack unless it surrendered.SPAIN.\u2014 Spain agreed with Morocco that the payment of indemnity of 200,000,000 reals shall be completed immediately.The custom duties of Tangiers and Mo- gagore are to be hypothecated to Spain for remaining indemnity.| AusTria \u2014It is reported vie Hamburg, that orders bave been sent to Trieste to arm at once all the sailing vessels of the Austrian navy.They are to be stationed at Zara, Cattoro, Fuim, Ragusa, &c.32 gunboats are to be sent to the Gulf of Guarrero to watch the coast.: Turkevy.\u2014The Levant Herald says the Hasne Turilis are to be renewed 15 years ; it also says that a general suspension of the Galata Bankers is threatened.Inp1a.\u2014The Bombay mail of the 26th January reached England.News unimportant.Import markets weak and lower; Exports steady.Bank rate again advanced 1 per cent.making it 11 on Government and 13 on private paper.The money crisis was ascribed to recent large opium speculations.Larrsr via LoxpoxneRRY.\u2014The violent gale which swept over the country on Wednesday continued.The Crystal Palace was seriously damaged.Part of the north wing is in ruins.Several vessels went ashore, including the American vessel * Hiawatha.\u201d The Times\u2019 city article of Thursday evening says: \u2014 There has been more general business in the stock market than for some time past.It is reported the Bank of England contemplates a rise to 9 or 10 per cent in their rate of discount.Panis, Thursday Evening.\u2014A telegram from Vienna announces the state of affairs in Hungary is becoming very serious.Several districts will be declared in a state of siege.The French occupation of Syria is to be prolonged 2 or 3 months beyond the time originally fixed.Turin, 220d.\u2014The inauguration of the Italian Parliament was celebrated in several towns.Pesta, 220d\u2014The Royal Rescript convokes the diet to meet at Buda, on 2nd April, to make arrangements for thè coronation of the Emperor, as King of Hungary, and to receive communication of the inauguring diploma, and to elect a Palatine of Hungary.The report of the Committee of Investigation of the Great Western Railway of Canada is now ready for issue.It is a striking document, and from the nature of the accusations it contains, is likely to excite much public discussion.~~ \u2019 The ship \u201cKing Philip,\u201d of London for Calcutta, has been out 165 days and not been heard off.COMMERCIAL.Loxpox Moxey Marker.\u2014Fands continued drooping, mainly on account of the higli price of money \u2018and unfavorable American advices.Consols declined } on the 20th, and opened on the 21st at a further reduction.Discount\u2018quiet at 73 to 8 for best bills, Demañd at the Bank on 20th slight.Gold arrivals from Australia to £112,500 are reported.French Exchanges are very firm, and the slightest further movement would cause gold to be sent from Paris to London.: Livarpooz, Feb.21.\u2014Flour in moderate demand at a reduction of 9d per sack since this day week ; Western Canal 29s to 29s 6d, Philadelphia and Baltimore 30s 6d to 32s.Wheat\u2014White and Mixed 13s 4d to lds, Red 11s 2d to 12310d.Corn declined 9d since Tuesday last; White 38s to 39s 6d; Yellow 37s 6d to 38s; Mixed 36s 9d to 37s.Ashes\u2014Pots 29s, Pearls 29s'3d 107295 6d.\u201d Sugar quiet and prices rather in favor-of buyer.Consols 913 914.Co ., The * North Briton\u201d has $35,000 in specie.° \u2018The \u201c Bohemian\u201d arrived at Londonderry on the 22d.Gold shipments to America are expected to be resumed on a considerable scalé by the ensuing steamers.The.City of Manchester,\u201d from Liverpcol on the 20th, took £51,000.sferling.oo soc ee TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.Coxcorp, N.H., March 8-\u2014Geo: Minot, President of the Mechanics\u2019 Bank; and Treasarer of thé Boston, Concord .and Montreal Railway, died: suddenly \u2018this morning of disease of the heart, - i npc eu Bostox, March 8, 1861.\u2014The schooner \u201cSt.Cloud,\u201d from New York for Salem, wentashoré at Wellfleet and bilged.The vessel and cargo \u2018is a total loss.\u201cThe créw are saved., wo D New Orcuans, March 7, 1861.\u2014An opinion is rapidly, settling down in political circles that President Lin- | coln\u2019s Inangural means War, Cond The Legislature has passed a resolution approving of| the conduct of Gen.Twiggs.= i It is reported that Fort Brown, Texas, has been surrendered by Captain Hill to the forges of Texas.Price ONE HaLF-PENNY.quarter of a mile east of Fort Pickens, and that the work on the land batteries-on the beach; opposite War- rington, is being continued.- ~~~.Wasarverox, March 7, 1861.\u2014Mr.Crittenden was serenaded by the citizens: of Washington.- There was an immense concourse of people, who mést enthusiastically responded to his utterance of fervid Union sentiments.He expressed his\u2019cenfidence in the intelligence of the people, who now alone can settle the distracting question.The troubles were fomented-and kept alive by petty cross-road politicians for selfish purposes.\u2014 Preserve the Union, and Union will preserve us.The Roman veteran was permitted to retire at the end of 30 years, but he had been in public service 40 years.He expected his friends to uphold the Union and the Constitution, which bave conferred unnumbered blessings on us all.Gen.Scott, Senator Johnston and others, were afterwards serenaded, and responded to the compliment, : The Commissioners from the Southern Confederacy are this evening dining with Mr.Wigfall.They held a Conference this morning in Mr.Wigfall's rooms, where it was agreed to postpone for a few days their communication to President Lincoln until Senator Seward has an opportunity to develope his programme of policy towards the Seceding States.Mr, Wigfall urged them to act immediately, and bring their mission to a close, in order to allow President Davis an opportunity to capture Forts Sumpter and Pickens before reinforcements can reach there.Mr.Forsyth ignored the proposition, and some high words occurred.At the Diplomatic visit, President Lincoln made the following reply to an address made by Mr.Tiganiere, in behalf of the Diplomatic Corps :\u2014 Gentlemen of the Diplomatic Body,\u2014It affords me pleasure to confirm the confidence you so generously express in the friendly disposition of the United States; through me, towards the Sovereigns and Governments you respectively represent.With equal satisfaction I accept the assurance you are pleased to give, that the same disposition is reciprocated by your Sovereigns, your Governments and yourselves.Allow me to express the hope that these friendly relations may remain undisturbed ; and, also, my fervent wishes for the health and happiness of yourselves personally.: Tt seems pretty geperally understood that Cassius M.Clay will receive the mission to Mexico.Thisisre- garded by the Administration as being, at the present juncture of affairs in that country and our own, as the most important mission in the Government.- Emerson Etheridge, of Tennessee, is strongly urged for the mission to Spain.Several removals occurred to-day.MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.SOUTHERN DISSATISFACTION WITH THE PREsi- DENT'S INAUGTURAL.\u2014RIcHMOND, Va, 5th.\u2014The Whig (conservative) says: The policy indicated toward the seceding stated will meet the stern and unyielding resistance of the united south.The Enquirer (secessionist) says: No action of our convention can now maintain peace.Virginia must fight.The dispatch remarks: ¢ Every border State ought togo out of the Union in- twenty-four hours.\u201d Dispatches from Staunton state that the Inaugural was received with universal dissatisfaction.Resistance to coercion is the feeling of all parties.The inaugural creates intense excitement.The secessionists regard it as equivalent to.a declaration of war.The Union men say but little, but evidently are disappointed.: KNOxVILLE, Tenn., March 5.\u2014Mr.Lincoln's inaugural, if reported correctly, is universally condemned.Tennessee will fight bim to the bitter end.Tue CANADIAN FuGITIVE SLAVE CASE\u2014MTr.Dallas, American Minister in England, has communicated to the State Department at Washington fall information relative to the proceedings in the Auderson fugitive slave case.He says that the amount of legal acumen and astuteness brought to bear in support -of the British interpretation of the 10th article of the Extradition treaty was astonishing, but not on account of the peculiar opinion .held by Great Britain concerning the social condition of slavery.The correspondence will be submitted to the Senate.The matter will be a subject: for the consideration of the incoming Administration.curious facts revealed by the publication of custom house tables is, that there were 300,000 pounds of opium imported.Ofthis amount it is estimated, from reliable data, that not more than one-tenth is used for medicinal purposes, The habit of eating opium is known to be spreading rapidly among lawyers, doctors, clergymen, and.literary men, and enormous quantities.are used by the manufacturers of these poisonous liquids which are dealt out in drinks in; the saloons and groceries that infest every city and village in the coûntiy.\u2014N.Y.World.LS Tae Book TrADE.\u2014The annual statement of the Englith Board of Trade shows that in the year 1859, 6,520 ewt.of books were imported into that country from abroad\u2014for at.their custom house \u2018books are weighed, not numbered\u2014and 33,543 cwt.of \u2018books, of, the declared value of £478,198, were exported from, that country, besides 872 cwt.of foreign hooks of the declared value of £5,201, The exports, there fore, were five times as large as the imports.Agmivity, oF THE SHOE BusiNEss.\u2014Our Haverkill, Mass, correspondent says {hat the sale ofshoes here is a sweeping bte, sud everythib g will be 'cléaned out, but at prices very 1ow'indeed.\u2018 Large dealers'are here from the South and West and are buying freely.- Xwo large concerns from Charleston \u2018are purchasing freely: here, their purchases here, .and elsewhere amounting to 1,762 cases within three weeks, Qunmannfactuyers.say the demand\u2019 was never more active and fiever lower, - \u2018Otie pleasart featie in the \u2018trade\u2019, that it is Toore for -éash than fornteily Boston Tras Latest \u2018advices from Pensatola state that Lieut.| | 8lemmer ig exigaged in raising a sand batlery about-à ; Coal or rap eet i - EL welley, Join bord sd ooo adi ani uk Cain mo bad op Ya ¥ ; OpvItM-EATING ON TBE INCREASE.\u2014One of the 7 créa FES Hen Pescara 234 THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.MarcH 9, 1861.ONTREAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.\u2014 OPENING OF TWO GREENHOUSES.\u2014The Greenhouses of Messrs.James Ferrier, Jr., and Harrison Stephens, Esq., will be open to members on Saturday afternoon, 9th March The Collections are the finest in the Province, and the Azaleas, Camelias, Roses, Cincrarias, Hyacinths, &e., are in full bloom, and present a fine show of flowers.Admission to both Greenhouses 12ke.Proceeds in aid of the funds of the Society.J.THAYER, Jr., Secre March 8.tary.TEE BW ITN EPS.EMONTREAL, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 9.NEW ADVERTISEMENTS THIS DAY.Wanted, a large Counter Show Case.\u2014W, Dalton.Situation Wanted as Storeman.\u2014W.R.S., at this office.Pew for sale in the American Presbyterian Church.Finnan Haddies for sale by R.Thomas.Fresh Teas for sale by Rr.Thomas.\u2018White Fish for sale at 270 St.Paul Street.New Carpetings for sale by R.Campbell & Co.Drain Tiles for sale.\u2014C.P.Treadwell.Grand Trunk Railway.\u2014Freight Notice.Missionary Anniversaries.The Echo.\u2014Thos.Sellars, Pablisher.Books for Mechanics at 36 Great St.James Street.AUCTION SALE.) Sale of Township Land.\u2014John Leemind & Co.EDITORIAL ITEMS.\u2014 The Church of England free seat Church, Dor- chester Street, is now completed, and is to be opened (D.V.) for Divine Service to-morrow at 11 o'clock, when a sermon will be preached by the Bishop.\u2014 Remember the Union Prayer-Maeting to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, to be held at the Rooms of the Young Men\u2019s Christian Association, 90 McGill Street.\u2014 The weekly Religious Temperance Meeting will be held to-morrow afternoon in Bonaventure Hall, commencing precisely at 4 o'clock.All are cordially invited to attend.Strangers sojourning in the city, and Christian friends of the cause from a distance are requested to assist in the exercises.\u2014 Our readers should not forget that two greenhouses are on exhibition this afternoon, as will be seen by advertisement.\u2014 The Meeting of Parliament being near at hand, we would suggest that prayer should be offered publicly and privately on its behalf.What a blessing it would be, if all our Legislators and Statesmen were upright and honorable men ! \u2014and such a blessing is earnestly to be sought of the Lord.\u2014 The Gazette says :\u2014We very much regret to announce that the Venerable Archdeacon Gilson has resigned his place, and intends to leave this Diocese for England.It will add to the regrets of his many friends to know, that the health of his family has rendered this step imperatively necessary.We believe he remains here until July.\u2014 Yesterday morning, a car ran off the track between the Victoria Bridge and St.Lambert.A portion of the track was torn up and the car broken, but nobody was injured ; the damage to the track was repaired in a few hours.\u2014 In the Police Court yesterday, Cyrille Champagne was fined $50, or to be imprisoned three months, for selling liquor without a license.\u2014 There were 15 prisoners tried before the Recorder on Thursday, 7 of them for drunkenness; and there were 10 cases yesterday, 8 chrged with drunkenness.\u2014 Before Mr.Justice Mondelet, in chambers, Mr.Gi- rouard moved yesterday, that a writ of habeas corpus do issue in the case of Philippe Boudreau, of Acton, in the district of St.Hyacinthe, who was convicted before Mr.Jobhu Ronala, J.P., on 7th October last, for having sold spirituous liquors without license, and condemned to pay a fine of $50, or in default, to be imprisoned three months.The fine not having been paid, defendant had been imprisoned, and bad remained in prison ever since, a period of five months.The application was based upon alleged want of jurisdiction, illegal commitment, false imprisonment, &c.The Court granted the application.\u2014 The Great Western Railway Company have eom- pleted a new and commodious depot at Windsor, C.W, \u2014 A Boston paper, speaks of a public meeting in that city, to take measures to prevent the running of the horse-cars on Sunday, a practice just inaugurated there to the great annoyance of the Christian public.Application is about to be made to the Canadian Legislature for an Act to charter a horse-railroad company in this city ; we trust that it will contain a clause restricting the running of the cars to the week-days, \u2014 We understand that the week of prayer was observed by the various denominations at the Red River.Itis pleasing to learn that so much union exists among the Protestant Churches of that distant settlement.\u2014 An American paper advertises for \u2018\u2018 an editor who can please everybody ; also, a foreman who can so arrange the paper as to allow every man\u2019s advertisement to head a column.\u201d Foreian News.\u2014In our telegraphic column to-day will be found an interesting abstract of the foreign news brought by the ¢ Bremen\u201d and the \u201c North Briton.\u201d The decline in Breadstuffs is confirmed; it was understood that considerable shipments of specie would be made to the United States, and it was reported that the Bank of England contemplated a further advance in the rate of interest.A report has been made by the Committee of Investigation relative to the management of the Great Western Railway, which is said to be very severe.The * Australasian\u201d from Liverpool for New York on 16th ult., has not yet been heard from ; Mr.Cunard says, that unless she arrives in time, there will no mail steamer leave New York on Wednesday.Tae Anson Case.\u2014In the case of Barsalou et al., the prisoners in the St.Scholastique Arson case, on whose behalf a motion for a writ of habeas corpus was made on Wednesday in the Court of Appeals\u2014on the ground that the Coroner acted ultra vires in committing the parties\u2014the Court yesterday refused the application, stating that as Coroner of Terrebonne, that official had no authority to issue and sign a warrant of commitment ; but being by virtue of the common law of Eng-, A._' * 1and ez officio Justice of the Peace, he had such power.DiptuERIA.\u2014Dr.Peterson, of St.John, New Brunswick, states, in a medical journal, that this prostrating and rapidly.fatal disease has raged for two years past with fearful violence in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, carrying off, in many instances, entire families.The earlier symploms of this disease appearing so like ordinary gore throat, many lives have been lost, in consequence of medical aid not being called in till too late.The writer under notice states that he has successfully treated every case in his practice with Bin- iodide of Mercury, Heper-Sulph, Iodium and Veratrum.As we staged the other day, a physician should be called in on the first appearance of throat disease.The epidemic is supposed to have been prevalent several times during the past three centuries.In 1610 in Italy and in Spain, and in 1734 in New Hampshire, epidemics were prevalent, which, from all that is known of them, appear to have been diptheria.' SIGNING CERTIFICATES FOR TAVERN LICENSES.There is a point to which we specially desire to draw the attention of all honest and well-meaning citizens at this season of the year.If there be any who have no regard for the public good, nor for their own truthfulness, we do not address them.The law requires of each applicant for a license that he produce a certificate from 50 voters of the ward in which he retails intoxicating drinks ; and the signers of this certificate, each for himself, thereby declares solemnly in a legal document that he is acquainted with the applicant, that he is of honest, sober and good repute.The signing of such a document is a matter involving much responsibility, and yet every gambling and rowdy house licensed in the city has such a certificate.The signers of certificates for such establishments will doubtless say that they know nothing of the character of the applicant; but surely they should refrain from signing until they do know something about it.If they do not inform\u2019 themselves concerning what they do, their responsibility will not be diminished by their ignorance, and any one who signs a certificate for any such establishment makes himself morally responsible for all the drunkenness, gambling, fights, and other iniquities committed in it.This is a serious matter, which we wish to press home on the consciences of all who are in the habit of signing these certificates.Let each ask himself, \u201c Would I be willing to have my name published before my fellow- citizens as being acquainted with this establishment, and vouching for its respectability ?\u201d Some respectable hotel-keepers and restaurants (for though we disapprove strongly of all liquor-selling, we are far from believing all liquor-selling establishments alike bad) go round with their own petitions, and get voters with whom they are personally acquainted to sign them, if they see fit, and this is, doubtless, the true intent of the law; but the tippling and gambling- house class employ a runner to take their petitions round for four or five dollars a piece.In this way a batch of such petitions are ali signed together by parties who scarcely, perhaps, look at the names of the applicants for whom they are signing.Or what is even worse, a string of names are written down in the same hand, and sworn to as being the genuine signatures of qualified voters, and the license is grauted.Can any greater abuse or sham exist! Were these applications published, many would be ashamed to see their names to them; whilst many would be alike surprised and indignant.Is there, then, no way of reaching these frauds?We trust our able and public-spirited Recorder will look into this matter.THE COLLEGE QUESTION.(To the Editor of the Montreal Witness.) Allow me to say, through the medium of your valuable paper, that you are giving great satisfaction in this section of country, relative to your unflinching principle in standing out with your opposition relative to the endowment of Victoria College from the national grant.I observe that important efforts are being made to solicit the various Townships to oppose such measures, by canvassing.I trust a large list of names will be sent to the proper authorities, and that this sordid measure will soon die a natural death.Go on with your battering-ram, until the walls of this anti-Christian measure be overthrown.Your paper ranks as one of the best in Canada, because it possesses no sectarian spirit.May it be increased an hundred-fold.Yours, &c., REMARKS.We have received & number of letters on the above subject, for which we have not room ; but the above, just received from a back part of Canada, is worthy of publication, as it indicates that something is being done.Some weeks ago, we received a letter from a Wesleyan Minister, not intended for publication, in which he said he believed the battle had been nearly fought and won\u2014underlining the last word, to give it emphasis ; and we coincide with him in opinion, if the people do nothing on the other side.Petitions, such as are spoken of in the above letter, are all very well, but public meetings are ten times better as means of eliciting public opinion.This was made go strikingly manifest in the Fugitive Slave case, that no one could doubt it.Petitions, however numerously signed, are only the expression of.the signers, and seldom or never include a majority of the people ; but a real, genuine public meeting, called by the Chief Magistrate of the Municipality on requisition, expresses the opinion of the whole community, or, at the very least, of the majority, if the question be one of sufficient interest to draw péople out.Besides, both sides can be heard at it, and conflicting views discussed and compared.If .În that capacity.then, the opponents of State grants to denominations in Canada send a requisition in each locality to the Mayor, Warden, or Reeve of the place, to call a public meeting on this question, the Wesleyan Ministers will have as much right and opportunity to attend it as anybody else; and if they can carry resolutions, guch as they have done in their denominational conventions, no Government will hesitate to grant their wishes.If, however, they are found to be in a helpless and hopeless minority, as we believe would be the case, no Government could accede to their petitions.TILE DRAINING.The greatest modern improvement in agriculture is undoubtedly tile draining.It has been known from the earliest times, that warm, dry soils, as they were called, were much easier wrought, eatlier, surer, and more productive than cold, we! soils; but it is only recently that the truth has been fully recognized, that the former were merely naturally drained soils, and that the latter could, in almost all cases, be drained artificially.It is true that surface-draining has been practised from time immemorial, and drains have often been made under ground where they appeared most wanted, but these were only very partial in their effects, and the truth was reserved for modern discovery, that in order to the highest degree of success, it was neces- gary not only to have main drains at considerable depth, but to have a complete system of lateral drains, as feeders for them, placed at no great distance from each other and nearer the surface, all having, of course, a sufficient fall to carry off the water.It was, we believe, in Scotland, a moist and cold climate, which rendered itspecially necessary, that this system of thorough drainage began, and the effects were so extraordinary, that good agriculturists everywhere wondered and imitated.At a cost which was nothing like the value of another acre of land, one acre was made worth two\u2019 in capacity of production, and the quantity of land that has been thus drained since this discovery was made, is very great.Nor was thorough-draining, as it was called, confined to damp or wet soils ; it was found to produce the most beneficial effects upon all soils, even those whieh had been supposed sufficiently dry.Neither is it only in cold, damp climates that thorough drainindtis useful, as will be seen from the following considérations :\u2014It would be impossible to state all the good effects of draining, inasmuch as agricultural science has not yet fully ascertained them ; but the following are among the more obvious: \u2014 1st.It permits air, heat, healthful moisture, and perhaps some other atmospheric iofluences, to enter the soil much more freely, and penetrate to a greater depth.Rain and snow-water, being impregnated with ammonia, are very fertilizing.If the earth be saturated with water, whatever falls upon it must either run off the surface or lie stagnant upon it until evaporated, but if it be under-drained, the rain sinks through, leaving all its beneficial influences in the soil.2.It makes the soil dry, and, consequently, warm.Evaporation is a process which withdraws heat rapidly ; hence damp soils are always cold, and frost takes much greater effect upon them than on dry soils.In new clearings among.the woods, where the moisture is neither carried off by drains nor by free admission of sunshine and circulation of winds, the crops aie much more liable to injury from frost than in open country.In any wet soil fruit trees will not grow, on account of their roots being killed by frost.3rd.Drainage promotes the rise of moisture from below, in time of drought.The heat of the atmosphere penetrates to a greater depth, evaporates the moistore below, and raises it through the soil, to the great comfort of the wilting crops; or the earth being more open and porous on account of drainage, draws up the moisture by capillary attraction.Drainage thus acts like some self-adjusting valve: it lets off the moisture wher an over supply comes from above, and, when that supply fails, it draws up from the deep stores below whatever is necessary.It removes surplus moisture without evaporation, and consequently without causing cold.Draining is peculiarly valuable, and, indeed, necessary, in a country where the season for ploughing and sowing is short; because if the land be not dry enough to work early, the favorable time is lost for the crops to get a good start before the heat and drought of summer set in; and where special dangers are to be gpprehended from late sowing, the necessity for draining becomes even more absolute.If early planted potatoes, for instance, produce a sound crop, whilst late planted ones rot, drainage is of primary importance ; and the same holds good with respect to Wheat, which only escapes the fly if it mature early.There is, therefore, no country in the world, probably, where drainage is of more importance than in Canada ; and the attention, not only of farmers, but of all classes, cannot be too strongly turned to the subject, for all classes depend for their prosperity, not to say their existence, upon the crops.n We shall revert to this important topic in another article.SMALL POX.! (To the Editor of the Witness.) Sir,\u2014Small Pox is in our midst to a fearful and alarming extent; in the house I live in no less than three cages exist.My object in writing to yon is to ask you whether there is a place where those having the disease can be removed to, so as to give others a chance to escape.In the United States a person suffering from the above is removed to some place far from others away in the country.Tell me through your excellent paper what & poor person should do in case his children be afflicted with the above disease, and he not able to pay for a doctor, &c.This Small Pox question is a serious one, and should be enquired into ; for if the poor is allowed to keep together during the time this disease is in one of the family\u2019s blood, there is no knowing to what extent it will reach in this city.Trusting you will favor me with a reply, I am, Sir, Yours respectfully, ' A Citizen, [The Montreal General Hospital, we believe, receives small pox cases.\u2014Ep.\u2018Wir.] Rumorep CHANGES.\u2014A Western Ministerial paper gives publicity to the fpllowing rumours :\u2014That the Hon.Sir Allan McNab \u2018will be appointed Governor of Barbadoes, vice the Hon.Francis Hincks to be promoted to the Governorship of Jamaica.That the Hon.P.M.Vankoughnet will accept the office of Chancellor, vice the Hon William Hume Blake, resigned.That the Hon.Alexander Campbell, Legislative Councillor for Cataraqui Division, will fill Mr.Vankonghnet's place in the Government.That there is a probability of the Hon.John Ross going out of the Government, and that the Hon.Mr.Sherwood has signified his intention of retiring from public life at the close of the approaching Session of Parliament.St.Patrick's Day,\u2014The True Witness says :\u2014 In consequence of this religious and national festival falling this year on Passion Sunday, its celebration will be postponed to Wednesday, the 20th instant, on which day tbe usual Procession will take place, and the customary High Mass will be sung at St.Patrick\u2019s Church by His Lordsbip the Bishop of Montresl.The Societies are making the necessary preparations to honor \u2018 The Day\u2019 in a manner becoming Irishmen and Catholics.\u201d GarT AND GueLPH RaiLway.\u2014For two months past, the traffic over the Galt and Guelph Railway, says the Dumfries Reformer, has been unusually large.Three trains now run daily, up and down, while * specials\u201d have also to be called into requisition.\"As many as 18 to 20 freight cars attached to à single train, is getting to be a common occurrence.Nothing could better indicate returning prosperity to this section of Canada than this gratifying increase of Railway traffic.\u2014 The Methodist mission in Norway is accomplishing much good.A recent report states that twenty-three persons have been converted at Fred- erickshald.The marked rellgious awakening in Sweden continues.A Swedish pastor writes that wherever he goes to preach there are hungry souls, and often many thousands are assembled, some having walked or run as far as twenty, and some even thirty miles.\u2014 A new Protestant church is in course of construction in Paris.When this is completed Paris will have 20 Protestant churches and 104 clergymen.The number of children regularly attending Protestant Sunday Schools in Paris is 2,600.\u2014 Chief Justice Taney of the United States Supreme Court has administered the oath of office to eight Presidents : Van Buren, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan and Lincoln.COMMERCIAL.MonTiEaL, Saturday, March 9, 1861.The weather bas suddenly changed ; some snow fell during the night, followed by a heavy warm rain, which has continued throughout the morning and forenoon ; temperature at 73 a.m., 40 © above zero; at noon, 42 © above.At Hochelaga, in course of the night, 27° above ; at 7 a.m., 34 above ; barometer, at same hour, 29:85, The wholesale market this morning is as dull as the weather; nothing whatever doing in Flour or Wheat.RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE.March 8.\u2014By G.T.Railway.\u2014Ashes, 13 barrels; Flour, 1,156 barrels ; Wheat, 2,896 bushels ; Pork, 100 barrels ; Peas, 700 bushels; Butter, 53 kegs; Lard, 5 barrels; Oatmeal, 22 barrels, MONTREAL RETAIL MARKET PRICES, FOR MARKET-DAY, 8TH MARCH.(Corrected by the Clerk of the Bonsecours Market.) A great many teams, with all kinds of produce, have been in the city this week, and markets are over-supplied.Farmers have been grumbling about low prices ; but, really, some of the Beef and Pork offered was nearly unfit for market purposes, having become discolored by being thawed and frozen again.A good deal of Butter and Poultry sold low in lots.The prices to-day are: Flour, country, per quintal, 14s to 14s 3d ; Olatmeal, do, 108 9d to 11s; Indian Meal, do, 8s 6d to 9s ; Barley, per minot, 3s 3d to 3s 6d; Peas, do, 3s 6d to 3s 9d; Oats, do, 1s 7d to 1s 8d; Buckwheat, do, 28 to 28 6d; Indian Corn, do, 4s to 486d ; Flax Seed, do, 6s 6d to 7s ; Timothy, do, 148 9d to 15s ; Turkeys per couple, 786d to 8s ; Geese, do, 58 to 6s; Ducks, do, 38 4d to 38 9d; Fowls, do, 28 io 28 6d ; Chickens, do, 28 to 28 6d; Pizeons, tame, do, 18 to 18 3d ; Hares, do, 7d to 9d; Beef, per 1b, extra, 3d to 73d; Pork, do, 5d to 6d; Mutton, per qr., 3s 9d to 7s 6d ; Veal, do, 5s to 108; Butter, fresh, per , 18 3d to 18 6d; Do, salt, do, 74d to 8d; Canadian Beans, per minot, 7s 6d to 8s ; Potatoes, per bag, 28 6d to 3s; Sugar, .aple, per lb 5id to 6d; Lard, per lb, 8d to 9d; Eggs, fresh, er doz., 18 3d to 186d; Halibug, per 1b, 6d to 7d; Haddock, 0, 2d to 2id; Apples perbarrel, 10s to 15s.= CATTLE MARKETS.MONTREAL CATTLE MARKET.\u2014for Week Ending, March 7.The market is fairly supplied with Beef Cattle, but rates are low, as is usual at this season.Pork, Poultry and Beef in quarters, are crowding upon the retail market.Priccs are therefore depressed.We quote as follows :\u2014First quality Cattle, $6 to 64; Second and Third, $5} to 4; Milk Cows, $20.25 to 40 per Extra, dull of sale ; Sheep in demand, $5} to 8 each; Hogs, supply abundant, over demand, $5.50 to 6 ; Hides, $5}; Pelts $1.25 to 1.50, scarce ; Tallow, rough, 7c.NEW YORK, March 6.\u2014Market sustained tolerably well during the past week, but declines this p.m.in consequence of large supplies : Prices are, {estimated dressed weight,) Frat Quality Cattle, 84 to 94c.; Ordinary,7à to Se.The market has not been lively owing to the warm weather.The prices for Frst Quality Corn-ted, $7 to 7.25 per 1001bs, dressed weight: for still fed $6 to 6.25.CAMBRMDGE, March 6.\u2014There were some fat Western offering to-day, but they were rather coarse.Sheep were 25¢.er head lower than for several weeks.The prices of market cef were :(\u2014Extra, $6.75 to 7; first quality, $6.62; second quality, $5.50 ; third quality, $3.50 ; ordinary, $2.75.NEW YORK MARKETS\u2014[By Telegraph]\u2014March 8.Flour\u2014Receipts 4,707 bbls ; sales 7,500 bbls; State and Western in moderate demand ; super State $5.05 to $5.15; extra $5.20 to $5.25.Canadian quiet and steady ; sales 400 bbls.at $5.20 to $6.15 for extra.Grain\u2014Wheat without important change in prices, with fair demand for France; sales 50,000 bush ; Ohi- cago spring $1.16 ; Milwaukee club $1.23 delivered.\u2014 Corn dull, and scarcely so firm ; sales 25,000 bush\u2019; mixed Wesfern 66c.in store ; 58c.to 60c.for new do.at depot ; new white Western 65¢; new yellow Southern 65c.Oats dull; Southern and Jersey 80c.to 320, Northern and Western 32}c.to 856.Provisions\u2014Pork dull and drooping; mess $17 to $17 12}, prime $12.50 to $12.75.Lard steady; sales small at 9c.to 104c.; Groceries\u2014Ooffee quiet, but firm pending auction sale of Rio to-morrow.Sugars steady and quiet.Mo- | lasses dull add heavy.Money and Exchange without any new feature, - Stocks active and better, Co ¥ | ! 2 - mr nn CEE ce PRE.tenue 4 \u201c0 - privately.Church.\u201d , .confusion approaches to riot, and from that MarcH 9, 1861.NEW BOOKS.DiagsT oF THE Mrvvres of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, with a Historical Introduction and an Appendix of Forms and Procedures.By the Rev.À, F.Kemp, of St.Gabriel\u2019 Street Church.Montreal : Printed and published by John Lovell, This volume forms the history, up to the present time, of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, and is, we believe, the first contribution towards Canadian Church history.The, Digest * embraces every document and transaction of importance pertaining to the Church,\u201d from its formation.To the ministers and members of the Presbyterian Church, the volume must be of special value, whilst it is not without deep interest to members of other churches.The volume contains a very full and carefully compiled Index.The typography and binding are, we think, the best that Mr.Lovell has yet issued.It is pleasing to note the great improvement which \u2018has been made in publishing in this Province.We gather from Mr.Kemp's work that the first Presbyterian congregation in Canada was organized at Quebec about 1787, and that St.Andrew's Church in that city was erected in 1809.About 1790 the Presbyterians of Montreal formed themselves into a congregation, and became connected with the Presbytery of Albany.This congregation, for a time, was permitted to worship in the Recollet (Roman Catholic) Church.In a year or two after, the St.Gabriel Street Church was built, and is now the oldest Protestant Church edifice in Canada.In 1793 the first Canadian Presbytery of Montreal was formed, but apparently unconnected with any Church.It was not till 1831 that a permanent organization existed which claimed connection with the Church of Scotland, though many Ministers of that Church had come to the Province.A\u201d COMPLETE TREATISE ON ARTIFICIAL FisH-BREED- : ne.By W.H,Fry.\"5 cents.\u201cThis volume contains- a translation of the reports presented to the French Government on this subject, and particulars of the discovery as pursued in England.The work claims to show how, with little care and cost, streams may be plentifully stocked with the rarest and most valuable breeds of fish, from eggs artificially procured.A Society to encourage artificial breeding of fish was, a few years ago, formed in the Eastern Townships.It would be interesting to know how it succeeded.EXTRACT FROM A LETTER FROM DARCY .McGEE.(To the Editor of the Montreal True Witness.) Mgr.CLerk,~You did a foolish thing on Friday last.You violently attacked a man who has not attacked you, on the barest summary statement of a newspaper, well known to be a ministerial party organ.You, Mr.Clerk, though an older resident of this country, know far less about it than I do.You know little of the temper or opinions of any class in Montreal, and even less of the English speaking portions of Canada.Ihave made it my duty, formerly asa journalist, more recently as a member of the Provincial Parliament, to understand the people \u2018among whom I live, to respect their prejudices, to examine their opinions, to promote the general well-being by voice and vote, so far as I could.When I resided in the neighbouring republic I was a constait reader of the True Witness.I admired the dexterity of your load and the promptness of your fire, without seeing clearly the objects or the distances.When I came to live in the country I measured the ground more accurately than you ever took the trouble to do, and I found to my astonishment, that what Baron Jomimi asserts of the rude musket of the last century, when used in actual battle\u2014that only one shot out of 800 prove fatal, \u2014may be literally repeated of the True Witness : that is to say, that once in the course of every two or three years, you may have effected a real gain for your cause\u2014but not much oftener.1 found it out in this way : when I went to Toronto in February, 1858, I became one of an Assembly composed of 130 gentlemen of more than average information and influence, about 55 of whom were Catholics, and 75 Protestant.Of the latter 75, about 60 were Upper Canadians.Your paper was + regularly fyled in our reading-room, was, besides, received by perhaps ten or twelve of us, and borrowed by as many more.In the hotel in which I lodged, from 20 to 30 of these *\u2018 representative men\u2019\u2019 of various Protestant denominations lodged also, so that I had every opportunity of meeting them, publicly and he season ot \u201958 lasted nearly six \u2018months, and that of °59 nearly four months, and thus I was obliged to spend half my time in Upper and half in Lower Canada.Would you believe it, Mr.Clerk, I found among these Protestant gentlemen, with many educational prejudices of course, (aye, even for the special rights of Lower Canada;) I found among them great natural virtue, very acute religious susceptibilities, and a settled tolerance of temper, which made them deplore and condemn everything like theological rancour.You assumed, in those days, that when I went to \u2018 Parliament I would be the echo ofthe True Wit- \u2018mess in the House of Assembly.If I had spoken your leading articles, we might still be friends, but having a perverse habit of thinking for myself, you have resorted to the process commonly called \u201c putting down.\u201d You should see, my good sir, that the thing of talking True Witness-wise in the - House of Assembly, could not be done even by yourself, if you were present there.We will supposè you elected, and on your legs: you indulge in your favorite comparison-¢ brothels and meeting houses,\u201d \u2014and are at once, yourself, \u2018 put down.\u2019 The members, Catholic and Protestant, hiss you.Mr.Speaker calls you to order, and you vanish under an avalanche of reproaches.Some good natured per- «gon rises, and begs you off; you are allowed to go on again till warming with your subject, you next declare \u201cProtestantism the common sewer of the This outrage is worse than the first ; the our you might be far better at Whatever you ome.personally favor will be defeated, whatever you per- - Bonally oppose will gain friends by that very reason.\u201c «if advance, ms rebuke Mr.George Clerk, and quite another th The Speaker, desirous to avoid such scenes will not sèe you when you rise, no one will ask your opinion no one will sit with you, on\" Committee.So you see, Sir, it is one thing to be ruthlessly uncompromising and rude in speech, seated\\at your own desk, with-no one but Mr.George | to x ; .\\, { , * PE \u2018graded of our community.T THE MONTREAL AGEL: Abs A.DAILY WITNESS.RA talk Zrue Witness-wise (as you wished to have me do), in the House of Assembly.You are never done denouncing me for calling the Protestant Reformers of Upper Canada, ¢ the natural allies,\u201d of Catholics who also desire reformation in the government.Let me tell you a fey traits of the leaders of that party.I have been the guests of some of the most influential among them, who, when they were about to join in their family prayers, have with, an inexpressible delicacy, provided me with a book, and withdrawn from the room; I have sometimes been driven two or three miles on a Sunday morning by my kind Protestant host, at the risk of being late for his own service, to the nearest Catholic Church.I have uttered, (whenever they came in my way, not otherwise,) Catholic truths and views of history, to fifty audiences, two-thirds Protestants, as fearlessly as ever you did in your sanctum, clothed, however, in decent and unexceptionable language\u2014and no Protestant ever interrupted my discourse.To these let me add one more illus | tration : about six weeks ago I was in Port Perry on Lake Scugog, the guest of a Protestant friend.The day being Friday, my host with the greatest consideration provided me\u2014though it must have been at some inconvenience, considering the season\u2014with a fish dinner.A young Priest, a native of old France, who has charge of almost the.entire of the North Riding of Ontario, passing through the village, shared the hospitality of my host, and I am sure felt as Isdid on the occasion.Yet just one week before, the lead ing article of your \u2018\u2018organ\u2019\u201d\u2019 could compare ¢ the meeting house\u2019 at which our liberal-minded entertainer worshipped God according to the manner of his fathers, to nothing betier than \u201c à brothel,\u201d\u201d and the system taught there to nothing purer than \u201ca common sewer I\u2019 Now, Mr.Clerk, I am about to close this letter, which I did not intend to make so long.It is far from containing all that might be said, but I am content with the minimum.You have attacked me without evidence, and exhorted me without charity.Let me say a few words to you before I close.Re- member\u2014do remember\u2014that if you have had a personal quarrel with your former religion, we have had none.Catholics of English, Irish, and Scottish origin, when not inflamed by such articles as yours, are desirous to live on the best terms with their Protestant neighbours.Let us do so, we beg of you.I speak now for a far greater number of that body, whom I know and who agree with me in opinion, both laymen and clergymen, than ever read or ever will read your paper.You declare that to receive the praise of a Protestant is, of itself, sufficient condemnation for a Catholic.10 Catholics in Montreal, nor 100 in the whole Province, so besottedly bigoted as to subscribe to that atrocious sentiment.You say you have devoted yourself to hostility to the Hon.George Brown ; let me ask you what paper in Canada, next after the Globe, has been most useful to Mr.Brown ?I will tell you\u2014it is that very paper, from whose columns the editor will carefully exclude this letter ; it is the paper which bears for its imprint\u2014 \u201c Printed and Published every Friday by the Proprietors, GEoree E.CLErRk AND JOHN GILLIES, .* * + * * + .* * * PRISON GOVERNMENT.(Communication in the Guelph Herald.) As much is about to be done in the enlargement and general improvement of the buildings of our gaols, I cannot but think this a fitting opportunity for a few remarks on the working of the present system, as regards the prisoners themselves ; and it \u2018may not be without advantage to accept, for consideration, the views of one who has a practical knowledge of its working.I fear that many take a too ultra view of the generally depraved condition of the minds of those confined in our gaols, and at once place them among those who are irretrievably lost to society ; but if we look at the cause of the incarceration of nine-tenths of the inmates of our gaols (and I say it without the least fear of contradiction) we find it arises from drunkenness.Such being the case, we have to discover what is most likely to removethe primary cause of this great evil, and as much as lies in our power to introduce measures that may tend to over rule it.In the use of means, there is, unquestionably, much tbat we cannot accomplish, as the grace of God can alone reform the drunkard; but the evil is, that we too often make this an excuse for neglecting to employ those very means which may lead to an acceptance of the mercy of God.Lct us now consider what we are at the present time doing to bring about 80 desirable an end.| We find men and women shut up for a season like so many unintellectual creatures; confined, and rightly so, as being dangerous to society.Now, however, just as it may be that such offenders should be punished, it ought certainly to be with a view to their reformation.But how can we expect such a result under the present system, when prisoners are let loose again upon society, after a period of con finement, without any fresh idea in their minds or a better way having been shown to them, and frequently with their morals more corrupted, from association with others more hardened than themselves ?Classification, you may say, is one of the subjects for the consideration of the prison authorities.True it is, but a reformation, you do not suppose, is to arise solely from classification ; for although that will be a grand step towards preventing evil by contamination, yet much more remains to be done.In the first place, to whose judgment is the classification to be left?It is to men who probably themselves but too little see this crying evil, for I look upon the generality of our gaolers as men, who, although quite competent by physical means to retain in custody those persons\u2019committed to their care, as but little qualified for the responsible office they hold, being one that offers to a Christian man one of the very best fields for the religious and moral improvement of a large class of the most de- e very habits of a drunkard place him not only far beyond the means of grace, but beyond the means of obtaining anything like moral improvement ; now you have him in his right state of mind, and if ever an influence is to be exert ed on him for good, now is the time, when the lei- to suré\u2018afforded by imprisonment may, by your assist- I believe that there are not\u2019 ance, bring him to see the deplorable condition of both body and soul.I would therefore suggest that a proper accommodation be established in gaols where meetings could be held for religions and general information.I say religious, for to impart instruction, without at the time instilling the principles of religion, is but placing a powerful engine for mischief at the disposal of the naturally corrupt heart.A library also, consisting only of books of a religious and moral tenor, being afforded, who can say that a reformation may not take place ?Ignorance at all times is the parent of many vices, and I feel confident that in many cases atotal ignorance of right, and not the disposition to oppose it, prevails.But all this must and will be governed for good or not, just according to the interest the governor of such institution takes in it, and I hold that those in such an office should be men of religious and moral worth, filling their position with the desire of making the improvement of their fellow creatures their great end and aim.AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION\u2019 AND PROGRESS.(From the Monireal Commercial Advertiser.) There is no more honorable or aristocratic oceu- pation in Britain than the cultivation of the soil ; and it can attain the same dignity here.But to do so it must lay hold of the aids of science, it must cease to be a calling, and become a profession.The Canadian farmer must set himself to unravel the problems, how he can grow the largest amount of crop on the smallest amount of land, and how he can make the largest weight of flesh in the shortest time, with the least value of food.Instead of ploughing, sowing and harvesting four acres of land to obtain fifty bushels of wheat which the majority do, he must strive to obtain that product from the thorough cul: tivation of one ; and carry the same principle into all his other operations.With a better average soil, and an incomparably finer climate, he needs only his British rival\u2019s system of cultivation to beat him in results.While he calls to his aid machinery to lighten manual toil and to diminish expense, he must cease to be a machine himself.To be master of his profession, he must be something of a surveyor and engineer, that his drains may be laid with accuracy and effect, something of a chemist that he may compound and apply his manures with economy and advantage ; and the larger his knowledge in the whole range of science the greater will be his success.A Lower Canada farmer lately informed the writer that attention to a barometer which he had purchased at the sale of the effects of a deceased surgeon, more because it was cheap than from any decided idea of its utility, had on one day saved him upwards of two hundred dollars.He had a large field of wheat cut and ready to carry ; the weather was extremely fine, and be was anxious to cut and save a field of oats, that the grain might be put undermost in the barn.Casually looking at the barometer as he went to his work, he saw the mercury was falling fast, and knew in spite of the fine appearance of the weather that a storm was imminent.He put all hands to his wheat, and saved it in good order, before one of the severest and most continued storms of the season set in, which would have rendered the cut\u2019 grain all but useless.That man row works by the barometer; and so successful is he in getting the best of weather for his operations, that his neighbours time themselves by his motions.Tile draining is yet in its infancy in Canada, but its necessity and immense utility are making themselves felt, and very soon the system will acquire general acceptation ; with it will come deep ploughing, rendered doubly easy in the heaviest of soils, and a war of extermination against the forests of weeds which now choke the crop and impoverish the soil.To work out the needed revolution we want upon the farm the education, intelligence and energy which overcrowd trade and professions, which are frittered away at home, inoccupations popularly considered as bestowing extra respectability on those they barely feed, and which send our youth in a lamentable want of appreciation of true dignity and profitableness of scientific agriculture, self-exiled to struggle and too frequently to fail in foreign lands.THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE FRENCH EMPEROR FOR THE SIEGE.(From the London Times, Feb, 14.) The siege of Gaeta has been a useless and senseless conflict.Every man who has fallen during these five weary months has been murdered for the vainest of reasons- to satisfy the point of honour.We in England saw this from the first, and the Prince who has more than any one else helped to prolong the struggle must have seen it also.Those who watched the affairs of Italy froin a distance knew how impossible it was that the Royal power, once overthrown in the Two Sicillies, could ever be rehabilitated by the successes at Gaeta.When at Palermo 18,000 Neapolitan troops surrendered to 1,400 Garibaldians, the Government of the Bourbons crumbled to the ground in the eyes of Europe.Such an army, it was justly thought, must argue a political system and a ruler whom nothing could save.Ever since, the same spectacle has been continually repeated.The army, the fleet, the civil departments, the church, even a part of the Royal family, deserted to or endeavoured to make terms with the enemy.The Bourbons could never be restored, for there was nothing left through which they could rule.\u2018Some priests in the country districts with the peasantry they taught, were the only Bourbon partizans left in the kingdom.Had no foreign power interfered all would have been at peace in a few weeks.But the French Emperor saw fit to show his sympathy with the Royal cause.We have been told by the Moniteur\u2014and the statement has been repeated from Imperial lips\u2014that Napoleon was actuated only by pity for one who at an early age had'met with a great calamity, and that he desired only to insure the personal safety of Francis and his devoted Queen.But, with all respect for the Emperor\u2019s talents, we must take leave to say that if these were his only motives his conduct was singularly ill- judged.There can be no doubt that every man in Italy, Constitutionalist, Republican, Ultramontane or Royalist, has interpreted the presence of Admiral Barbier de Tinan at Gaeta as a support to the cause of the Bourbon monarchy.As soon às it was known that the French were interfering, back came some of the European diplomatic corps who had previously abandëned the fallen King.The Pope openly 235° A thanked Napoleon for his pious resistance to revolution.In Naples itself signs of formidable Bourbon conspiracy soon appeared.There was everywhere a belief that the French were, perbaps, about to reinstate the King, aud the Churchills and Danbys of Southern Italy began to reflect that it would ve as well to be on the winning side.Hence treasonable movements began in the capital, headed by officers in the Neapolitan service, and summary arrest and punishment were necessarily resorted to by the an- thorities.The insurrections in the Abruzzi were planned and carried out by the assistance of politicians high in office in the Papai States, and the whole power of the Church in France was employed to confirm the Emperor in his supposed design of protecting the Bourbon Sovereign.Francis himself was mainly encouraged to persist by the hope that the Emperor meant ultimately to save him.He is, indeed, to be excused ; for, shut up in a fortress, he knew but little of what was going forward, and perhaps thought that there was a sincere and general wish for his restoration.The loss of life and misery which have been caused by this long struggle will stain his reputation less than that of the monarch who permitted them, knowing them to be useless.A PLAN TO CONCILIATE THE Pore.\u2014There is a scheme on foot, we fear, in which each party hopes to overreach the\u2019 other, but which, if carried out, will end in disappointment and disaster to both.Lord John Russell paved the way for it by the eulogium he pronounced on the Pope in thz House the other evening.Pius IX., he was sure, had the welfare of his country at heart, and had only to take a certain step, to place himself in the foremost rank of Italian patriots.We should like to see how this eulogium will be responded to in Rome ; but passing this, Lord John counselled the Pope to demit his temporal sovereignty, and content himself with the rank of sovereign prince and spiritual monarch of two hundred millions of subjects.This supposes a great many things, and the consent of several parties.It implies that the French shall leave Rome, which Louis Napoleon, we suspect, has no mind to do.It implies that Victor Emmanuel will make it his capital, and that the Pope shall be the first primate of his realm.There must be large concessions indeed before the college of cardinals consent to the scheme,\u2014conces- sions which will enable them to get back speedily all that they are now giving away, and a good deal more.But how would such a scheme work, were it effectuated?It would vastly diminish the prestige of the Papacy in foreign countries ; it would give umbrage to Austria and France, who would affect to regard the Pontiff as but the tool of the Italian Monarch; but it would greatly strengthen the spiritual power of the Papacy in Italy.It would remove what has been the great scandal and offence in the eyes of Italians for ages,\u2014the temporal sovereignty ; and in the fond delusion that all had been gained, they would sit down contentedly under the spiritual yoke.Cavour would find it a hard task to serve two masters, \u2014li- berty and the Papacy.The Bible would be excluded ; the workings of constitutional liberty would, in every possible way, be withstood; and Victor Emmanuel would find that his vast acquisitions were but frost work; and between the Revolution and the Papacy, Lis throne would speedily come to the ground.No ; Rome divides her empire with no one.\u2014 London Letter in Edinburgh Witness.Russia ADYANCES UPON IxpIA.\u2014A letter in The Daily News dated Odessa, Jan.5th, received at Liverpool, states :\u2014¢ We have just received news from Oremberg to the effect that a large force fof 15,000 Turcomans had left the Kokands, having with them eight pieces of artillery.After a march of some distance, they encountered the advanced posts of the Russians between the forts of Kasbeg and Vimaja.Colonel Kowpakowski commanded the Russians, whose force consisted of a regiment of cavalry, two regiments of infantry, and a company of sappers.The Turcomans were utterly defeated, with a loss of 1,800 killed and wounded, and a large number of prisoners, and all their cannon, ammunition, etc., were left in the hands of the Russians.The victory is an important one, as it opens through the Kokands a direct route to Affghanistan\u2014this route completely outflanking Persia, and clearing the way for the Russians to India, in accordance with the plans laid down by Peter the Great and Catherine II.The Russian Government have also taken important- steps to encourage emigration from Bulgaria.General Fant de Veyron has already been, sent to the frontier to superintend the movement, and through his exertions itis expected that a very large propor- tiou of the population will proceed to fill up the space vacated by the Tartars.Already 600 Bulgarians have arrived at Kudai, and, from the information received, I believe the number will shortly be much increased.\u201d \u2019 \u2019 Pasror CHINIQUY AT THE EARL oF GAINSBOROUGH'S.\u2014 On Saturday evening the Earl and Countess of Gainsborough received a large number of the nobility and gentry at their mansion in Portman-square, to bear an address from Pastor Chiniquy.The Rev.Mesac Thomas, in introducing the Pastor, briefly referred to the reliable statements which, as secretary of the Colonial church and School Society, he had officially received from influential friends in Canada.Several of these had visited Mr.Chiniquy\u2019s colony.They all bore decided testimony in favour of Mr.Chiniquy and the new converts.Pastor Chiniquy, in the course of an address which occupied an hour, touched upon the salient points of his eventful history, and explained {he special object of his appeal, viz., to raise a fund for the establishment of a college for the training of thirty .young French Canadians who had offered themselves for the work of the ministry.There were seven congregations waiting for ministers.The Hon.A.Kinnaird warmly.supported the appeal made by Mr.Chiniduy, and, after drawing attention to the subscription-list which \" was lying on the table, called upon the Rev.H.T.Lumsden to close with prayer.Subscriptions amounting t0-£90 were entered upon the list.T4 \u2014 Bible-barrows are about to traverse the streets of the Metropolis.They will each be accompañied by two Christian men, one of whom will read aloud, in suitable spots, portions of God\u2019s Word, while the other will supermtend the sale of the Bibles with which their portable depository will be stocked.The chief prompter in the movement is,.we-beliève, - Mr.Bewlay, of Dublin, who has offered a very liber sum towards the expenses.Te avy aii Pre i sn re CE me V1] HR ONLY CR GLENFIELD PATENT 236 \"THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS, Insur ance.oo Coal, Coal Oil, & ; March 9, 1861.| Stationery, Books, &c.| THE COLONIAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.ESTABLISAED 1846-CONSTITUFED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT.EDINBURGH (HEAD OFFICE) 5 GEORGE STREET; LONDON, 81 LOMBARD ST.BOARD OF DIRECTORS IN MONTREAL.Hon.Jus.McCord, Chairman.Beni.H.LeMoine, Cashier of \u2018\u2018 La Banque du Peuple,\u201d H.Starnes, Esq., M.P.P.: A.Simpson, Esq.Medical Adviser.\u2026\u2026.George W.Campbell, M.D.cks MANAGEr.se 0000 se sous saou0e » Inspector of AGenciese.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.UNCONDITIONA HE Directors of the Colonial Life ales ditions as to residence in such cases af the ordinary Rate 3 0 The Colonial Company lately introduced this system pleasure of extending it to British North America.The form of the policy ofthe Company has also been altered in other important respects, so as to make the Contract of Assurance a perfect security.Cases from the Books showing the Benefits of Life Assurance : B., aged 35, died, having effected an Assurance of his life, on 26th December, 1856, for £500, at Annual Premium of £12138.Only four Premiums were paid to the Company.On 1st March, 1859, C.D., aged 32,died, having affected an Assurance on his Life, on 24th March, 1858, for £300, at an An- remium of £7 11s.9d.He paid only one Premium to the Company.The following cases will illustrate the benefits of Assurance, in reference more particularly to Participation in the On 4th March, 1860, A.an nual Profits of the Company :\u2014 +On 2nd September, 1859, G.I.died, aged 60, having effected an Assurance on his Life, in 1549, for.£1000 And there was added by the Company, from the Profits.ees 175 Making the sum paid.On 26th August, 1859, M.L.died, aged 49, having effected And there was added by the Company, from Making the sum paiîd.\u2026.\u2026.smessrsenrrnsersonues Many more such examples might be quoted, but the above cases are sufficient to illustrate the perfect and satisfactory nature of an Assurance Provision from the date of the Policy being effected.By Order of the Directors.JAMES G.DICKSON, 19 Great February 23.NO RESTRICTIONAS TO RESIDENCE.Assurance Company bein 1 opened in British North Ameriea, to place a restriction on the residence of persons.assured Ww and have no intention of proceeding to an unhealthy climate, are prepared to issue Policies without the usual Con- R.S.Tice, Ess Merchant.- H, H.itney, Sq MLP.DP.D.Davidson, Esq., Cashier of ¢ Bank \u2018 Montreal.\u201d .James Gilchrist on.William Miller Ramsay.L ASSURANCE.satisfied that it is unnecessary, in the casc of Policies who are settled in life, Life Ausurance practice in Great Britain, and have now the 60 PRE sorventsessene ec Æ1175 0 O an Assurance on his Life, in 1849, for.£400 0 0 the profits.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.ssrersesassc0s vee 0 00 rss.£470 0 0 aveceuve St.James Street, Manager for Canada.1mo-d.FIRE INSURANCE.SCOTTISH PROVINCIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY.PULLC NOTICE is hereby given, that the Scottish Provincial Assurance Company has obtained from the Minister of Finance of this Province a LICENSE fo carry on Business under the Provincial Statute 23 Vie., Chap.33, and has complied with all the requirements of said Act.A.DAVIDSON PARKER, Secretary, Canada, OFFICE, No.9 Great St.James Street, | Montreal, 16th January, 1861.d-2-m HŒNIX FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY, Lombard street and Charing Cross, London.ESTABLISHED IN 1782.GILLESPIE, MOFFATT & Co., Agents for Canada.\u2019 JAMES DAVISON, Manager.Insurances against Loss by Fire are effected on the most favorable Terms, and Losses paid without reference to the Board in London.No charge made for Policies.Head Agency office, | Dry Goods, &c.Montreal, 12th May, 1859.Carpeting.Press GOODS.\u2014Go t0 LAZARE\u2019S for cheap Spring and Summer Dress Goods; an immense variety at 73d a yard, worth double.CATHEDRAL BLOCK, next Door to Savage & Lyman.PRING AND SUMMER MANTLES.\u2014At La- ZARE\u2019S you will find Cloth and Silk Mantles for less than half-price.CATHEDRAL BLOCK.ARASOLS.\u2014Last year\u2019s Parasols at a great sarcifice, at LAZARE\u2019s Bankrupt Stock.\u2019 CATHEDRAL BLOCK.March 6, 1861.6-d EW SPRING GOODS ARE CONSTANTLY ARRIVING at the CLOTH HALL, next to Messrs.J.Morrison & Co.The Merchants and Young Gentlemen of the city, will find the same moderate scale of prices.\u2014 Fine Black Pants to order, $4 to $5 ; the entire suit of Spring Tweeds or Black Cloth, $12 to $18.Best West of England Black;Cloths, Cassimeres, Doeskins and Tweeds ; Shirts, Collars, Vests, Drawers, Half Hose, Kid and Silk \"Gloves; Ladies\u2019 and Gents\u2019 Rubbers, &ec., &c.CLOTH HALL, 292 Notre Dame Street, West, next to Messrs.J.Morrison & Co\u2019s.Montreal, March 6, 1861.BLACK CHENILLE NETS, BEST QUALITY CHENILLE NETS, CLOSELY NETTED CHENILLE NETS.BLACK LACE VEILS, BLACK MALTESE LACE VEILS, BLACK SPRING VEILS, In Great Variety, Ar J.PARKIN\u2019S, Ar J.PARKIN\u2019S, AT J.PARKIN°S, 168 Notre Dame Street, Montreal.March 5.6d.STRAW BONNETS.AN IMMENSE ASSORTMENT OF STRAW BONNETS, LEFT FROM LAZARE\u2019S BANKRUPT STOCK, - MUST BE CLEARED OFF.SELLING AT TWENTY-FIVE CENTS EACH.CATHEDRAL BLOCK, NOTRE DAME STREET.Montreal, March 2, 1861.RUBBERS! RUBBERS!! J & T.BELL beg to inform their friends and the publie e thatthey have now received a full assortment of the eelebrated - : \u2018 : FORD & CO\u2019S GOSSAMER RUBBERS \u201c.FROM NEW YORK.\u2014ALSO,\u2014 - LADIES), MISSES\u2019 AND CHILDREN'S ©.LONG RUBBER BOOTS, Suitable for the season, at LOW PRICES.CA EU 2» CATHEDEAL BLOCK, Ch Ndtre Dame Street.March 6, 1861.12-d 6-8.W.' TET FEET.~Not the slightest use in sabmitting to , such an infliction, when you can easily and cheaply fetice yourself against the chief discomfort of the season, by selecting a pair of Rubber Boots or Overshoes from the very complete-agsortment now opened out at our store.> EE G.GRINTON & Co, , 258 Notre Dame: Street, nearly opposite Alexanders, : d-6 sf OH March 16}, 1861.JAMES BAYLIS, 74 GREAT ST.JAMES STREET, IMPORTER OF CARPETING, FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, RUGS, MATS, &C., &C., Offers to purchasers of the above, advantages unsurpassed by any House in the Province.WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, MONTREAL : 74 Great St.James Street.TORONTO : 2 Commercial Buildings, Yonge Street.February 19, 1861.ARPETING.\u2014-The Subscriber has on hand and is constantly receiving large supplies of NEW DESIGNS from the MOST CELEBRATED Manufacturers.AY February 19, 1861.FL005 OIL CLOTHS of superior style and qualities cut to any dimensions.J.BAYLIS.February 19, 1861.MONTREAL CARPET WAREHOUSE, 31 and 33 St.FRANCOIS XAVIER STREET.A Large Assortment of New Patterns in TAPESTRY CARPETS, «JOHN CROSSLEY & SON'S\" MAKE; \u2014AND ALSO,\u2014 NEW PATERNS IN FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, # John Hare & Co's\u201d and \u201cMichael Nairn & Co's\u201d Makes, Just RECEIVED AT THE MONTREAL CARPET WAREHOUSE, 31 & 33 St.Francois Xavier Street, R.CAMPBELL & Co.Montreal, Nov.15, 1860.Business Cards.Ss.& H.FILER, MANUFACTURERS OF WAX, GRAIN & BUFF LEATHER, SPLITS, CALFSKINS, &c., ST.MARY\u2019S TANNERY, (COLBORNE AVENUE,) Montreal Feb.27.d-t-f-b ROBERT MITCHELL, Produce, Stock and Exchan.7e Broker, and Commission Merchant, oT 32 ST.FRANCOIS XAVIER STREET, MONTREAL.February 19, 1861.\u2018à-1-mo.DR.W.E.BOWMAN, * MCGILL STREET, MONTREAL.d-1y {OMMISSION BUSINESS.\u2014The Subscriber has on J: had, idié constantiy receiving Fresh Consignments ALL KINDS OF COUNTRY PRODUCE, Which he offers for sale at Current rates.JOHN DOUGALL, Commission Merchant.' 270 St.Pau Street.of OAL OIL LAMPS, &C.\u2014Very cheap.JAMES FAIRIE.Genuine Coal Oil & Lamp Depot, 55 St.Francois Xavier Street, a few doors below Notre Dame je -1-mo Montreal, Feb.21.: 7 OAL! COAL! COAL |\u2014J.G.BEARD & CO., dealers - in ALL KINDS OF COAL.\u2014YARDS\u2014Corner of Me- Gill and Wellington Streets and Grey Nun Street.The subscribers beg to inform the Public that they have now on hand, at their Coal yards, a full supply of LEHIGH, SCRANTON, and LACKAWANNA COAL, of all sizes.\u2014ALSO,\u2014 A large quantity of GRATE COAL, of a very superior quality, which they offer for sale at Low PRICES.J.G.BEARD & CO.A ÉENCY PORTLAND KEROSENE OIL.\u2014The Subscribers (sole Agents in Canada for the Company) continue to receive the above Oil in 5, 20 and 40 gallon packages.This Oil is admitted by all who have used it to be superior to any other Coal Oil in use.\u2014ALSO,\u2014 A few hhds Superior Rape Lubricating Oil And a quantity of Rosin Oil in barrels Paraffine Candles in cases \u2014AND,\u2014 A large assortment of Kerosene Oil Lamps COAL.Newcastlie-Wallsend House Coal, (warranted the best quality imported) .Wallsend Blacksmiths\u2019 Nut Coal Scotch and English Steam Coal Sydney House Coal A small quantity very fine Kendal Coal And 200 to 300 tons Chestnut sized Lehigh Coals for Railway Coal Burners English and American Fireclay Ramsay and Grangemouth Firebricks - JANES & Co 236 St.Paul Street.Montreal, Jan.14, 1860, d-1-yr.N 9ETCR\u2014The Subscriber does not pretend to sell his COAL OIL Lamps for Cost Price, nor yet at an IMMENSE REDUCTION, but he is selling them at present cheaper than any other heuse in the city.Also, Chimneys, Wicks, &ec., &c., &e.: W.MCCONNELL, PrOPLE\u2019S COAL OIL AND LAMP DEPOT, 24 Great St.James Street.February 27th, 1861.MONTREAL OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY .\u2014 WINTER ARRANGEMENTS.\u2014Passengers Booked fo Londonderry, Glas- EE Tee gow or Liyerpool.\u2014Return Tickets granted at Reduced Rates.This Company\u2019s LINE is composed of the following First- Class Steamships :\u2014 NOV A-SCOTIAN, 2,200 tons, - - - Capt.MCMASTER.BOHEMIAN, 2,200 tons, - - - - - Capt.GRANGE.NORTH-BRITON, 2,200 tons, - - - Capt.BORLAND.CANADIAN, 2,100 tons, NORTH-AMERICAN, 1800 tons, - ANGLO-SAXON, 1,800 tons, - - - HIBERNIAN, 2,500 tons, - NORWEGIAN, 2,500 tons, - - - - _ Carrying the Canadian and United States Mails.One of the above Steamships will sail from LIVERPOOL every Thursday for and from Portland (Maine) every SATURDAY, calling at Loch Foyle.Glasgow Passengers are furnished with Free Passage Tickets to and from London- erry.The following are the dates of Sailing from PORTLAND: NORTH BRITON, - - Saturday, 16th March, 1861.- cc 2 rd \u201c sc Capt.GRAHAM.Capt.AITON.Capt.BALLANTINE.BOHEMIAN, - - - 3 HIBERNIAN, (new,) - ss 30th © i NORTH AMERICAN, - \u201c6 6th April « NOVA SCOTIAN, - - (6 13th « of CANADIAN, - - - - \u201cs 20th « s NORTH BRITON, - - \u201c 27th < \u201c PASSAGE FROM MONTREAL: CABIN.STEERAGE.(According de Jccommoda- (Including Cooked Provi- ion sions To Glasgow, -872.50 to $86.50 To Glasgow, - - ) - - -$35.50 To Lon\u2019derry,872.50 to $86.50 To Londonderry, - - $35.50 To Liverpool-$72,60 to $86.50 To Liverpool, 35.50 Berths not secured until paid for.An experienced Surgeon is carried on each Steamer.For farther particulars, apply to EDMONSTONE, ALLAN & CO., Corner of Youville and Common Streets.December 14.RATES OF THROUGH ~-8 ANADA AND EUROPEAN EXPRESS.\u2014 The British and American Express Co.have opened an Office.in Tower Buildings, 22 Water Street, Liverpool, for the forwarding of Parcels, Freights and Valuables of every description, by the Montr Ocean Steamship Company\u2019s Steamers.Consignments solicited.Orders promptly attended to.AGENTS: Liverpool, A.Blackwood, Jr., Tower Buildings, 22 Water St.London, Hill Son & Meadows, 35 Milk Street, Cheapside.« G.W.Wheatly & Co., 150 Leadenhall Street, E C Manchester, Globe Express Co., Market Street.Glasgow, do do Miller Street.Dublin, ' do do Eden Quay.Edinburgh, \u2018Wm.Crouch, North Bridge Street.Montreal, D.T.Irish, Place D\u2019Arms.Toronto, M.H.Irish, Toronto Strcet.Hamilton, J.D.Irwin, 1 West-King Street.Quebec, W.C.Scott, St.Peters Street.Kingston, J.C.Clarke, King Street, Portland, J.E.Prindle, 90 Exchange Street.And in all the Principal Towns in Canada of whom any information may be obtaîhed.PACKAGES delivered to any Railway Company in the United Kingdom, addressed care of B.& A.EXPRESS CoM- PANY, 22 Water Street, Liverpool, will be promptly forwarded.Pre-payment optiona J.W.HOWES, .Montreal, Nov.15,1860.Manager.LONDON, 23rd August, 1860.Messrs.R.WOTHERSPOON & Co.,\u201d iE 46 Dunlop Street, Glasgow.DEAR SIRS,\u2014I have, as requested, to-day visited the Royal Laundry, with reference fo the Advertisement of the Nottingham firm, who state that their Starch has been used for many years in the Royal Laundry, and have been assured by Mr.Thomson, the Superintendent, that none but yourselves have any right to state that they supply (Starch to Her Majesty\u2019s Laundry, as no other Starch is there used, nor has been used for some years, but the Glenfield Patent Starch.Ihave been further agsured that your Starch continues to give complete satisfaction, and that though trial has been made of samples of various Starches, none of these hae been found nearly equal in quality fo the Glenfield.I ain, Dear Sirs, » ent Servan Sous ob PTA Montreal, Oct.23, 1860.we which} is exclusively used ih the Royal WA STARCH, gary.\u2018Public, Land and General:Agent, No: 82, King Stfeet East, Toronto.Ag \u201d 0: 8% King 8 Eke MORTIMER, Sroox Siroxir, Notaty | cp: OOD ENVELOPES.\u2014Only Ninety Cents Thou- G sand! Fine Large Letter Ynvelopes, Stanip and .Gummed, only 90 cents a thousand\u2014a Box of for 45 cel Good Note Paper, Large Size, Ruled, 90 cents a ream.Ietter Paper, uled, only $1 a ream, 19 GREAT ST.JAMES STREET, J.A.GRAHAM.BEATTIE UL STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS.\u2014Only Ninety Cents a Dozen.Interesting Groups, &o., pres a Dozen ; Coloured and Ilumivated : Views :at equally Low Prices.Views in Canada, $3 a Dozen.Stereoscopes, from 50 cents upwards.19 GREAT ST.JAMES STREET.J.A.GRAHAM.\u2018Montreal, Feb.14.4-t-w-for-10 ins.(LEAP STATIONERY.Foolsoap, 76 04 per Ream Small Cap, 58 per Ream; Fine quality 10s per Ream; Note Paper, 3s 9d per Ream.BOOK AND STATIONERY WAREHOUSE, 36 Great St.James Street, opposite Wesleyan Church.COINTINE HOUSE STATIONERY, including~ \u201cBills of Lading, Cheque Books, Blank Note.Forms, Date Boxes, Bill Head Boxes, Pen Racks, Letter Files, Rulers, &c., &c., at lowest prices, at the BOOK & STATIONERY WAREHOUSE, \u2019 * 36 GREAT 8T.JAMES STREET.A CGOUNT BOOKS ruled for Dollars and Cents, or £ 8.d., all sizes, very cheap, at the BOOK AND STATIONERY WAREHOUSE, 36 Great St.James Street, opposite Wesleyan Church.NEW BOOKS for sale at the BOOK & STATIONERY WAREHOUSE, 36 Great St.James Street, opposite the Wesleyan Church :\u2014 The Straight Path ; or, Hope Conroy.Ready Work for Willing ands.\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026.A Happy World.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.s\u2026.1osovecereregarennuse The Irish Pedlar.ccevesesseeereiiesearnsionssnnes The Circus Girl.A true BtOIY.cecertaeeernons cones Thoughts on Preaching ; by Dr.J.W.Alexander Tom Brown at OXfOrd.eereeeevrs ovscrvenacnesrs Scottish Life and Character; by Dean Ramsay ; from the 7th Edinburgh edition.Bruin ; or, The Grand Bear Hunt.By Capt.Mayne e