The daily witness, 25 avril 1899, mardi 25 avril 1899

[" ilar the and of uta ne,\u2019 Was use Me- hed was me- wer vho \u2018ord cry.1 in ob- ply tto.PWR rain onle we de- fir| were 85 steamers in all to arrive êt the -|port Mr.W.C.Walker, who for the past five years has had charge of the delivery of Grand Trunk freight to the steamers, will succeed Mr.Gleason as whart manager of the line.Many of the steamship clerks are returning to their homes in Montreal.STEAMER MURCIA FOUNDERED.Hamilton, Bermuda, April 24,\u2014The 88.Murcia, belorging to the Englisb-American Shipping Company, Limited, of Loudon, which left Huelva, Spain, on April 8,bound for Philadelphia.ran ashore this morning, off this coast, and bas since founderod.She had on board a cargo of iron ore, and was in charge of a native pilot.AH ou board were saved.WRECKS\u2014HASTE VS.CARELESSNESS.In an editorial on the judgment in the Labrador wreck, the Glasgow \u2018Herald\u2019 says: \u2018It will, we imagine, be pretty generally admitted that the Board of Trade Cour: wtich inquired into the caises of the wreck of the Labrador, have not erred in the direction of undue severity.In suspending the master's certificate for no more than three months, they have given due weight to previous good character, and to their belief that.taking his carcer as a whole, Captain Erskine was a careful and judi- clous navigator.It is much to be feared, however, that there ls à growing temptation «mcng the most tristed shipmasters, whose reputations have been built up ou these very qualities of carefulpess and judiciousness, to cut things too fine at crucial moments, and to run great risks for the purpose of maintaining their cbaracter for promptitude in the eyes of owners and the public.The wreck of the Labrador has been followed within a month by the much greater disaster which befell the Stella,and both vessols have been lost from exactly the same cause.Had these two sufficiently dens» to justify that course, they might both bave been intact te-lay, apd many valuable lives would have been saved, and much suffering avoided.But had they done so, they would have lost reputation as good timekeepers, and that apparently is not a thing to be thought of among men whore reputations (which Mm- clude bread and butter and all else), de- rend so entirely upon the continued support of an exacting public chronically in a hurry.\u2019 ANOTHER CANAL OPEN.Port Colborne, Ont, April 24.\u2014The canal men were busily engaged this morning getting the locks and bridg»s into working cider for the season, The steamer P.J.Ralph, and consort Harold locked down at eleven o\u2019clovk tu-day, bound to Prescott with corn.This is scmething unusual, as a larger fleet of boats hava arrived here in cther seasons waiting for the canal openir g.The steamer Inia passed out into the harbor to reship her new rudder, which arrived from Detroit this morning.She will depart to-morrow afternoon if the ice conditions are favorable.The strong north-easterly winds of yesterday moved the ice off this shore about half a mile.but it appears to be anchored and quite solid, and may be driven back again by tke chifting of the wind.The weather con- tinves mild and warm.The twn large and powerful Iron steamers Rosemont and Bannockburn in the up-bound fleet, will probably give the ice a test on arriving here.RIVER CLEARING OF ICE, Berthier, April 25.\u2014The water is going down slowly, and the ice is fioating down the river.Screl, April 25 \u2014The river is clear of ice or.re¢site here.The water is going down rapidly.Three Rivers, April 25.\u2014The lake ice passed down all day yesterday, and last right.The river is clear this morning.Batiscan.April 25\u2014The river is all clear here.and the water is going down rapidly.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 GULF REPORT.L'islet\u2014Clcudy, west wind; anchbred off here.River du Loup\u2014Cloudy, west wind.Father Point\u2014Raiuing, weet wind; inward at 3 a.m., Rydal Holme, Martin River\u2014Raining, west wind.ore stzèamer Fame Point \u2014 Coudy, south-west wind ; inward at 6 a.m., Ipishow:n lead; 7 a.m, Montenegro.Cape Rosicr\u2014Cloudy, calm.Anticosti\u2014Cloudy, south wind, Heath Point\u2014Light open ice everywhere, moving cast.Meat Cove\u2014Clear, variable wind, no ice.St.Paul's Island\u2014No ice.Cepe Ray\u2014Clear, calm, ,.o icz; inwa~d at 6.30 a.m,, one Allan ilne~; 9.30 a.m.Glen- arm Head, \u2014 IN AID OF MISSIONS.Toronto, April 25\u2014Bond Street Congregational Church devoted both services list Sunday to the interests of the Cana- cian Congregational Home Missionary Society, the pastor, the Rev.Morgan Wood, preaching appropriate sermons and making an earnest appeal for liberal financial support of this work.The congreg- ships lain to till daylight, and the fog was tion responded with its characteristic { hberality and five hundred dollars was raised, TurspAy, APriL 25, 1890, LORD PROTECTOR.I THREE HUNDREDTH ANNIVLI- ARY OF CROMWELL BIRTH THE Oliver Cromwell, Tord Protector Irish Commonwealth, wos Huntmgdon, April 25, 1598, Robert Croinwell, was tre » - Ne Henry Hoenn and his mother, Elizabeth Steen {the daughter ot 2 gentlenun oo «wo perty in the caiv of El Coe Cromwell, of educated at Huntingdon granunar set.under Dr.Thomas Beard, ana en A 22, 1616, he was adrotted aie w moner 6! Sidnev, Stsse a Cones 0 bridge, which university, bowen: the following vear on the dents father, Soon after tins he went 5 1e aon to study law but very Ltn of Lis residence there or oven Le studied av ab.He was mare 1620 at St, thless Church, Crppo to Elizabeth, daughter «io si 1.Bourchier, of Felsted, on Essux, 221 turned to Huntungdon for the purpuse looking after the management of lis pu trimonial estates.On March 17, 162%, Cromwell took his scat in the House vi Commons as member for Huntingder and on Feb.11, 16820, he made rs 0 recorded spevch\u2014calling the the House to the scamdalous ci Dr.Aliblaster had preached flat at Paul's Cross.\u2019 As time went on the relations Lee pe King and partiament became ever more strained and signs 61 the ney rupture were everywhere append, 1 was no doubt as to which direc oe ver Cromwell's sentiments leaned.10 his first cousin, John Hampden, + fused to pay his \u2018ship-mones\u2019 3n Inst 1635 Cromwell actively opposed the terference of rovul commiseroners 2 à matter of the draining o1 the Fens so much was the stand he tock upon © occasion appreciated by the people, © he gained thereby the title of \u2018Lor: the Fens.\u201d Cromwell, after this sot parliament as member for Cambridge Events proceeded rapidly.Neots King on the one side nor parhament the other would yield, and in 1642 : crisis arrived, and war began.(Mie threw himself into the turmail o: with zest, although he was now three vears oi age, and in Septembr: this vear received his first commiussir:.as captain of a troop of cavalry.i result of the first campaign, which + + generally favorable to the royalist arms, determined Cromwell on à line of auction which he at once proceeded to adopt.and he forthwith raised the \u2018Tronxides.\u201d hut famous regiment of a thousand sober, God-fearing men, who were never beaten in action.At Atherton Moor, in 1643, b | Cromwell was able to show what stuff he and his new regiment were male oi, for at that place he totally defeated a force three times his own number under General Cavendish, And thus it vis throughout the civil war.Wherever (Cromwell was present with his \u2018Ironside there was nought but defeat and disastet for those who opposed him.If Cromwv was under command of any other geu- eral, he always successfully carried out the work he had to do; when he was in supreme command, whether on the open field or at sieges, he was invariably Vic torious.In Scotland, and also in Ire land.it was as it had been in Fnglanid He defeated Leslie, his quondum colleague in the bloody fight at Duabar, previous to which he had, as Lor]-Lieutenin: of Ireland, put down insurrection in that country with a stern and masterful} hand.crowning his career as a soldier by In: last victory at the battle at Worcester, on Sept.3, 1654.Cromwell had been a member nf ti» High Court of Justice, which had trdd and sentenced the King.It was in December, 1653, that he was formerly in vested with the powers of government n° the British Commonwealth as Lord Iie tector.Cromwell was as strong and vigorous a ruler as he had been a match: Jess soldier, and under the Commonwealth England's name was feared and respected abroad as it had never been hefore.In domestic government, too, the Lord Pro tector made his influence felt everywhore and peace and justice prevailed through- cut the country.Cromwell's energy and individuality, however, made him many eremies and these helned to embitter his last davs and to shorten his life.In the summer of 1658 his health began to decline, he grew worse, and on Sept, 3 of that vear he died.leaving his son Richard as Lord Protector.e\u2014\u2014 SOME POLICE CHANGER, Some changes ir the police department will take effect on May 1, as follows :-\u2014 Captain Beatty, of No.1 station, will Ie removed to No.2; Captain E.Berriau, «! No.8, will succeed him at No.1, an! 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I J in di +++++0+0+0+4+0+01+01+0 ++ 010140 +0 +0 THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.EMPLOYEES HONORED.Messrs Peck, Benny & Co, Tender Them an « At Home.\u2019 OVER FOUR HUNDRFD PRESENT\u2014 ADDRESSES READ.An \u2018at home\u2019 was held to-day at the works of Messrs, Peck, Benny & Co., in honor of the employees.It was scene of old-time merrymaking, and open-hand- ed good-heartedress, Over four hundred men and women employees were at the works dressed in their best, and a pleas: ant time wus passed from eleven o'clock urtil six.Refreshments were served continuously throughout the day, and the good feeling between employer and employee would surely be cemented by such a gathering.An address of welcome was delivered at the opening hour by Mr.James H.Peck.He said: \u2018It is a great pleasure to welcome you all here to-day, in acknowledgment of the servicés of the men that have been in our efiploy from twea- ty-five to fifty-two years, \u2018same of whom are present on this occasion, and many of you are the sons of parents who worked for the concern in the first generation of its existence.Coupled with this, I wish to convey our sincere gratitude for the services rendered us on Aug.3 last, when that severe conflagration took place, which destroyed our rolling mills.The efforts of those employees who were on the premises on that occasion did good work in the saving of a considerable portion of our buildings.We were in an unfortunate position at that time, owing to Black's Bridge being broken down about ten to fifteen days prior to our fire.The fire brigade thought that the shortest way to reach our works was over this bridge, but, on arriving there, found that their horses could not \u2018span\u2019 the canal.They had to turn from there and take the Wellington street route, but they were again unfortunate in finding the Wellington bridge open, and ten barges passing through, and it was fully thirty-five minutes to three-quarters of an hour before they arrived at our prem- ives.This gave the fire a serious headway, and, if it had not been for the water appliances we possessed and the energies of our employees, would have meant the destruction, not only of our mills, but of the whole of Mill street, which would have destroyed millions of Li | | Un 0 dollars worth of property, in which our i Taken while burning on the night of April 25, 1845 »>st no time in getting our engine ready tor work.We saw that the mob was angry, and that mob law was uppermost.The fire had not then made much eadway.It was the days of the old hand engines, and we had to depend for water on water-carts, which carned it to >.The first water-cart on the scenel 1 a fire then reccived a special reward; and this Induced rivalry amongst the water-cart men.We were waiting for he water-carts, and the man who would we earned his reward was hurrying vards us, when he was seized by the moh, knocked down, and the engine was nragged by the crowd to the foot of St.Peter street, where it could not be of \u201cirl service as at the other end of the nilding, Had the water-cart man been allowed \u2018\\ vome to us, we could then have put \u201cne fire out with ease.As it was, we Prdeavored to do such duty as we could, \u201cistantly threatened by people who had revented us from working our engine ul the Parliament building was past Pemption, We were permitted to play n the surrounding buildings to save nem, Meanwhile the troops had been called tv protect us.One of the sentries \u201cts placed near nur engine, and while I was standing upon the engine directing mv men towards saving the Parliament \u201crldings, à bullet whistled past my left | mroand seemed just to graze it.The CIMPInE waz stopped, and one of the \"remen charged the sentry placed there \u201cvr protect us with having fired the ve The sergeant in charge oi the \u201card tank the sentry's musket and ex- \u201caed it He found that it had just 3 discharged, and the sentry was: ea v prisoner at once.In the turmoil | \u201cnÉusion vaused by the fire nothing y and Eighty-fith.The instruments num- Tered nearly two hundred, and the practice gave promise of a magnificent performance on the evening for which preparation 13 being made.The items taken j up last night were the Prince Albert Vic tor slow march, a very pretty piece, and national airs.The next practice will be that of the buglers and trumpeters.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMITTEES.Ottawa, April 25.\u2014The Public Accounts Committee has been organized, and has elected Mr.D.C.Fraser (Guysboro) chairman, in succession to Mr.James McMullen, who resigned owing to ill health.Mr.Fielding expressed the deep regret of the committee at Mr.Me- Mullen\u2019s withdrawal.Mr.Archie Campbell was chosen chairman of the Committee on Banking and Commerce, vice Mr.James Lister, who is no longer a member of the House.Mr.Thomas Bain (Wentworth) was reelected chairman of the Agriculture Committee.\u2014_ THE SHAW ESTATE.Toronto, April 25.\u2014Application was made vesterday in the Surrogate Court \u2018by Mrs.Maria Amelia Shaw, for pro- \"hate of the will of the late Samuel John Shaw, hardware merchant, of the city of Quebec, who died on June 29, 1897.The Ontario estate is valued at $7.230, and consists of shares of the Ontario Bank, Northern Life Insurance Company, Con- | sumers\u2019 Cas Company, Birkbeck Investment Necurity and Savings Company, and Dominion Telegraph Company.The widow is the sole beneficiary.reighbors and ourselves were vitally interested.1 thank you personally and en behalf of my firm for your presence here to-day.\u2019 Lunch was served from 12 to 2 o'clock.During the luncheon the following toasts were proposed: \"The Queen,\u2019 \u2018The Pres:- dent of the United States,\u201d \u2018Our French Workmen.\u201d Speeches were delivered and \u2018La Marseillaise\u2019 and \u2018The Star-Spangled Banner\u2019 were sung.An address was presented to Mrs.Jas.H.Peck by the French-Canadian em- pioyees, some of whom were girls.The other todsts were \u2018 Our Neighbors,\u201d responded to by Mr.William McMaster; \u2018The City of Montreal,\u2019 by Mayor Prefontaine, and \u2018Peck, Benny & Co.\u2019 by Mr.W.G.Howell, manager of the works.A programme of music was carried out during the afternoon.The following is a list of invited guests: Mr.John Dyer, of John McDougall's Iron Works; Mr.and Mrs.Wm.McMas- ter, Mr.and Mrs.John Hersey, Mr.and Mrs.James Meldrum, Mr.and Mrs.R.Meldrum, Mr.and Mrs.Allan Gentles, Mr.and Mrs.Willlam Starke, Mr.and Mrs.Robert Starke, Mr.and Mrs.Paul Rose, St.Vincent de Paul; Mr.and Mrs.W.W.Near, Mr, H.G.Dartnell, of R.& T.Jenkins, Toronto; Mr.and Mrs, W.H.Kelson, Mr.and Mrs.A.lp.Henry, Mr.and Mrs.IL.H.Hebert, Mr.Jean- otte, Mr.and Mrs.Gordon Macpherson, Col.and Mrs.Caverhill, Mr.and Mrs.AM.St.Arnaud, Mr.and Mrs.Wm.Torrance, Mr.and Mrs.E.Panneton, Mr.David Walker, Mr.and Mrs.Moses Davis, Mr.and Mrs.A.Jeffrey, Mezsrs.M, A.Irwin, Emile Delorme, Thos.How, Jeffrey Penfold.Mr.aad Mrs.Mumford, Mr.and Mrs.E.M.Bender, Mr.and Mrs.T.L.Lafleur, Mr.and Mrs.L.Gravel, Mr.and Mrs.David Madore, Mr.and Mrs.Joseph Letourneux, Mr.and Mrs.Lariault, Mr.and Mrs.B.J.Cogh- hin, Messrs.James Ross, of Jas.Walker Hardware Company; Percy Gault, J.A.Bacon, of H.Lamontagne & Co.; Nap.Tetrault, E, Thompson, of the Thomp- pon Shoe Company; C.¥.Smith, of Jas.McCready & Co.; Wm.Ryan, of H.R.Ives & Co.; J.M.Roberteon, of Thomas Robertson & Co.; J.Lang, of St.Law rence Sugar Refining Company; Alex.Lindsay, David Cameron, Thomas Dunn.of Vancouver, B.C., now in town at the Windsor Hotel; John A.Pillow, William Abbott, Alfred Trudel, Mr.and Mrs.James Law, Messrs, Jas.F.Mundle, G.M.Bosworth, W.R.Bulling, jr., M.J.F.Quinn, Q.C., M.P., Mayor Prefontaine \u2014__ McGILL CLASS DAY.INTERESTING PROGRAMME PREPARED FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.The following programme has been adopted for the \u2019'99 class day exercises at Mc- Gill University.Three o'clock on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 26, in the Willlam Molson Hall\u2014 Chairman, Mr.W.F.Carter, Q.C., Law, \u201898; Arts valedictory, Mr.H.J.Keith; song, Mr.E.A.Burke, Law, 00; Science valedictory, Mr.W.W.Colpitts; banio solo, Mr.M.Siewart; Donalda valedictery, Miss L_ McDougall; violin solo, Dr.Saunders; Law valedictory, Mr.V.Mclvir, \u2018God Save the Queea.Reception in the Engloeering Building, 3.30 p.m.Exhibition of lantern slides, linglish Abbeys, Prof.Capper, 9.30.Dancing, 10 o'clock, Three o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday, April 27, on campus: \u2014Planting '99 class tree, Mr.W.C.Ives, Law, \u201999; tree oration, Mr.W.B.Heency, Arts, 99, Wililam Molson Hall\u2014Cbairman, Mr.J.\u2018R.Goodall, Arts, '09; class prophecy, Mr.W.Ball, Law, '99; song, Mr.N.N.Evans; class poem, Miss L.E.Potter,.Donalda, \u201c9; song, Mr.P.T, Moore, Medicine, 01; clags history, Mr.A.A, Bowman, Sclence, \u201899, \u2018God Save the Queen.\u2019 Following is the committee:\u2014Law\u2014W.F.Carter, W.C.Ives, W.G.Robertson, F.C.Suundars.Science\u2014W.W.Colpitts, A.G.Grier, J.5.Whyte, R., E.Burgess, Arts\u2014H.Ells L.Robertson, E.H.Henderson, R.K, McClung.Donalda\u2014M!ss M.Brodie, Miss C.King, Miss K.Finley, Miss L.Reid.\u2014\u2014 BLACK CROOK CASE.\u2014\u2014 THE RECORDER DECLARED TO HAVE NO JURISDICTION, Judge Curran rendered judgment yesterday in the case of Herbert Ashley, petitioner, and De Montigny, respondent, and the city of Montreal, which judgment dis- pases of the balance of the actions taken against members of the Black Crook Ex- travaganzs Cofipany, on the charge of tak- [ing peft In an indecent show at the Theatre Royal; «in this city, in February, 1808.The present proceedings were in the form of a writ of certiorari questioning the jur- ledictior \"of the Recorder's Court, before which the cases were brought up, fo try tbem, on the ground that the by-law, under which the arrests were .nade, were ultra vires, inasmuch as it deals with a subject under the control of the Dominion Parliament, as a matter of criminal law upon which legislation has been passed.The petitioner claimed that the authority of the Dominion Parliament is exclusive in this matter, under section 91, of the B.N.Act, 8.8.27.He contended thit under the provisions of the Criminal Code, article 179, he would be entitled to a trial by jury, which the by-law deprives him of, and if fornd gullty under the by-law there is no alternative but Imprisonment, whilst under the Criminal Code he might be fined with- cut \u2018incarceration, He urged that there is conflict between.this bylaw and the Criminal Code in mattrrs essential.For the respondent, 1t was urged that the Superior Court bas no jurisdiction in the matter at issue, the contention being that an application of this nature should have been made before the Court of Queen's Bench, criminal side, In this province: that the Criminal Code constitutes the Recnrder a magistrate; that under article 2793 of the R 8.Q., Title 7, \u2018Police and good order,\u2019 petitioner had a right of appeal to the General Sessions of the Peace, and that this includes the writ of certisrari; that under article 879, of the Criminal Code, permission is also made for an appeal with a like effect; that there is concurrent jurisdiction cn this subject, {in the Parliament of Canada,and in the legislation of the province, and tbat the city of Moatreal, under its charter was within its jurisdiction in passing the by-law 119; finally, that this petition was presented after the expiry of six months from the decision of the Recorder; asserting his jurisdiction.In rendering his judgment yesterday.the learned judge held that it &ppeared to the Court that the applicetioon did not fall under the Criminal Code.The question was a conetitutional one, although incidentally, the criminal law had to be discussed.The provincial legislation under the B.N.A.Act, has power to constitute the Courts.By section 2329 of the R.8.Q., it is enacted \u2018excepting the Court of Queen\u2019s Bench, all Courts and magistrates, and all persons, and bodies politic and corporate, within the province, shall be subject to the superintending and reforming jower, order and control of the Superior Court, and of the judges therof, in such sort, mauner and form as by-law provided.\u2018 Quoting two previous decisions of \u201che Superior Court, in the cases of Greaves and Larry Smith, ip which the same by-law was attacked, the learned judge held that, In thcse cases, the Superior Court acted under the powers of control with which it is vested by the above cited section, 2329, of the R.S.Q.,and not as a tribunal cf criminal Jurizdiction.On the question of concurrent jurisdiction, after again quoting previous judgments and other suthorities, the Court held that there is no concurrent jurisdiction in the matter of crimiual law.There may be, and no doubt there is in the Provincial Legislature, jurisdiction to enact snpple- mertary legislation, when the local needs call for it, but this cannot bz called concurrent, properly speaking.In the present instance by-law 119, deals with a subject which has slready been legislated upon by the Parliament of Canada, and which has been incorporate?in the Criminal Code; us regards this offence it is ultra vires, As regards the question of expired delay, the Court held that tke petitioner not bav- ing yet been tried, he was still within his right to present his petiticn.On the whole, the Court came to the conclusion that the writ of certiorari must be maintained with costs.The same judgment will be entered in fifteen similar cases.Mountain plants, named and mounted, upwards of 200 in number, the gift of the Rev.Dr.Campbell, who was forthwith tendered a special vote of thanks for the same.At the conclusion of business matters, an interesting paper was read by Mr.J.B.Williams on \u2018The color of birds, its relation to age, sex, season and inheritance.\u201d The changes of color of birds at different seasons of the year were commented upon at length, some birds turning white when within the Arctic circle, brown in desert regions, and green in forests, these changes either facilitating their acquisition of prey or proving à defence from their enemies.Natural selection and natura] inheritance were two causes that worked in unison to hand down colors from one generation of birds to another.This the speaker strikingly exemplified by producing some fine stuffed birds frem the museum.Mr.Williams went through family after family of birds that had some distinguinshing color affecting either the whole or perhaps but a part of their plumage.Whatever the part of the world and however different the environment the distinguishing color was to be noted, although the parts of the plumage marked with it might be different.For instance, gay that a bird marked with a particular shade of red would have a red patch on its head if found in Brazil, in South Africa the same kind of bird might have the same.patch on the back, and in New Zealand, on the tail.Again, the great differences in color in sume families of birds between the young and adult birds and between the male and female were noted.As a rule, it was the male that was by far the most brilliantly colored.Much interest was evinced in the address and Mr.Williams received a cordial vote of thanks at its close.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 ILLEGAL KILLING OF MOOSE.Toronto, April 25.\u2014The illegal killing of moose in the Sturgeon Falls district will likely be stopped for a while at least.Mr.Joseph Rogers, government inspector assisted by the local authorities there, had many law-breakers fined 3 tete rt decrtatet otre dudes tata acte ee Ë Ë 3 OLONIAL.HOUSE, : + = y = $ Phillips Square.* i a MONTREAL.* x * : H : Household Drapery Dept * 0 .x & + i BLANKETS & & % The COLONIAL HOUSE Blankets are manufactured $ + apecially for us in light textures.They are very cheap, and A Ky - just what is required for Summer use.T K FLANNELETTE BLANKETS in sizes 10-4, 11-4, 12.4, 3 $ with a variety of Pretty Borders.+ $ ENGLISH, SCOTCH and CANADIAN WOOL BLANKETS & = in all the leading makes.= * CRIB and COT BLANKETS always en hand in 54, 64, I $ 7-4, Pink and Blue Borders.+ 3 \u2019 © 3 : FLANNELS ; Ï | â = The ORLWOOLA is the leading Flannel for Wrappers, Z + Blouses and Shirt Waists.It is Pure Wool and unshrinkable.+ + In a variety of colors and patterns and in light texture.x = The GLEN CLOTH is also an Unshrinkable Flannel, is 3 + .Pure Wool, thoroughly shrunk.We have now a largo stock of < * these goods.& 3 The CASHMERE is a light Flannel, is manufactured from 3 + the tinest wool and cotton, is unshrinkable.Tu small and large & $ patterns, for Children\u2019s Dresses, Ladies\u2019 Blouses, Shirt Waists, 4 etc.Ka EX $ An unusually large variety of CEYLON FLANNELS on hand, + from 20c to 40c.+ + °° : x 4 + + SEWING MACHINE DEPT.£ > = Large stock, full range of prices, from $12.50 to 845.00.* + Mail Orders Receive Prompt and Careful Attention in Every Dépt +: oe eee eee ® * ¥ Ë : HENRY MORGAN & CO.: 1 i «3 & St Catherine and Union Ave.+ or Qi RS A AA CE ES A SCSI SOA ICO NS SE ee SEEN \u2014 THE COLOR OF BIRDS, _ UT GLASS was never ADDRESS BY MR.J.B.WILLIaMs| in as great demand as BEFORE THE NATURAL HIS- itisnow, We have many TORY SOCIETY.new aesigns, surpassing in _ richness and brilliancy any- The regular monthly \u2018meeting of the thing heretofore shown.Natural History Society took place last Cut Glass mounted with evening at the society\u2019s building on Uni- Sterling Silver is now versity street.The chair was occupied greatly in vogue, and pos- by Professor Wesley Mills, who, at the sesses a peculiar beauty commencement of the meeting, stated .not otherwi - that Lord Minto had consented to accept tained wise to be ob the position of honorary patron of the , society, which office it had been the custom for some years past for the Gover- nors-General to occupy.lt was also given HENRY BIRKS & SONS, out that, in consequence of the latenees Phillips Square, Montreal.of the season, the annual field day would take place one week later than usual, namely, on June 10, the second Saturday - in the month.Amongst the many dona- N ONTREAL tions to the sociely\u2019s museum which were announced was a fine collection of Rocky WEEKLY \u2018WITNESS READY NOW FOR MAILING ABROAD.TWENTY-FOUR PAGES OF NEWS OF THE WORLD.DOMINION PARLIAMENTARY\u201cPROCEED INGS.THE ALLIANCE AND THE PLEBISCITE.A DEBATE ON THE LEGISLATION DESIRED.MANILLA BAY TROUBLE GERMANS.MR.COMSTOCK'S ELECTION IN BHOCK.VILLE.Other Articles of Izterest:\u2014A Nezro\u2019s Awftul End\u2014Rhcdes in a New Roïe\u2014Boun- dary of Alaska-\u2014Trmmany's Ifethboëds\u2014Joe Smilies Changes Shops-Tommy's Lesson- Literary Revlew\u2014The Boyn\u2019 Pagc-Marbies and their Lingo\u2014The Gift cf Sprirg\u2014Cause of Cancer\u2014Chess Games\u2014Homs Dopartment \u2014A Wonderful Revival\u2014Surday-schoo! Les.son\u2014The All-British Pacific Cable\u2014The Jag- er#\u2014Letters from Readers\u2014A Jovouz Anni.versary-What is Caricature\u2019-Tae Corbin Raflway\u2014Killed by an Elephant-Bible Society\u2019s.Column\u2014China\u2019's Millions-Britich News\u2014Farm Gleanings\u2014Questlons and An.swers\u2014Medical, Legal, Agricultural ard Horticultural, and Veterinary Dcepartmcnis \u2014Dreyfus Revision \u2014 Anticosti Troublo\u2014 Primrose-Crewe \u2014 Firancial, Commercisl, ete.AND THE PRICE IN WRAPPERS, READY FOR MAILING, FIVE CENTS.fined 810 for buying and having in their possession moose.Another was fined $50 for hunting and killing moose, and another old offender paid a fine of #40.\u2014 NOTES AND NOTICES.All orders given to us fur moving Pianos arc promplly and caretully attended to.Pianos tuned.repajred and stored at moderato prices.The D.W.Karn Co., Ltd.Karn Hall Bldg.Nt.Catherine St.Tele- last week.About a dozen were each phone Up 1174.RAPT omen > anit.\u2014 .me M E eEETSE \" ve cal A MT - or PE SE ane ; epee SSE ai ng mtr pan ET ES ga UU Still Continues This Week.4 \u2014_ Weekly Calendar, Turspay, APRIL 25.The Wonderful Moving.Pictures of POPE LEO XIII.Reproduced by the American Biograph with a change of Miscellanecus Viows.Three performances each day, WINDSOR HALL.Prices: Admission, 2560: Reserved geats, 50c.Can be secured at '\u2018Star\u2019 Branch Office.Children (Matinee only), 10c.Performance will be omitted on Tuesday Bvening (to-uight), Friday afternoon end urday night, 25 ROYAL CANADIAN ACADE/MY.Last Week of the 20th Annuel Exbfbition.In the Gal- leriee of the Art Association, Philips square.Opes dally 9 am.to 6 p.m.Wed nesday evening, $ to 10.Admission, 25 cents.Music Saturday afternoon.2% Closing Exercises sa connection with the Boys\u2019 Home Night School will take place in the hall of tha Boys\u2019 Home, Mountain street, on TUESDAY EVENING, April 2th, at 8 o'clock.A short programme has been prepared,and Mies Marie Hollinshead has kindly consented to sing and glve some readings.Friends of the boys are cordialiy invited to be present.J.R.DICK, Supt 1st PRINCEof WALES REGIMENT, FUSILIERS, ANNUAL DRILL.The Regimert will parade at the Armory the week beginning MONDAY, the 24th inst, as foliows :\u2014 Monday\u2014Companies D ond F.Tuesday\u2014Battalion parade.Wednesday\u2014Officers and N.C.O's.clase.Thursday\u2014Companies A, B and C.Friday\u2014Companies E, G and H.Saturday\u2014Buglers\u2019 practice.Unitorm\u2014Drill order, except on Wednes.day.The Brass and Drum and Fife Bands, Pioneers and Buglers will attend on Tuesday.All parades will be formed at 8.15 p.m.By order, W.L.BOND, Capt., Adjutant, WEDNESDAY.APRIL 26.Local Council of Women.Hon.President, The Countess of Aberdeen ANNUAL MEETING WEDNESDAY, April 26th, at 3 o\u2019clock, in \u2019 the Y.M.C.A.Bullding.PROGRAMME: Annual Reports.Reports of Sub-Committees.Election of Officers.Addresses.HER EXCELLENCY LADY MINTO will be present on this occasion as the guest of the Council.All members of affiliated socleties are requested to attend.The meeting is open to the public.3 THURSDAY, APRIL 27.Weekly Calendar, SATURDAY, APRIL 29.[cGILL UNIVERSITY.LECTURE BY M.EDOUARD ROD, On * Les Caracteres du Roman Francals,\u2019 In the WINDSOR HALL, On Saturday, April 29th, 1398, at 8.15 p.m.A limited number of tickets may be had by applying personally at the Secretary's Office, Fast Wing, McGill College.25 Future MEETINGS.FAREWELL CONCERT GIVEN BY MR.J.R.WILKES, Assisted by some of our Leading Amateur and Professional Talent.Le IN.KARN HALL.Tuesday, May 9th, 1899 Previous to his leaving for London, Eng.ALL SEATS RESERVED, TICKETS 15 & 50¢ Tickets on sale at Shaw's Music Store.SUBSCRIPTION RATES.Dally Witness, $3.00; Weekly Witness, $1.00: with reductions to clubs: Northern Messenger, 20c ; 10 copies to one address, $2.25; 20, $440; 50 $10.50; 100, $20.For Gregt Britain add $1.04 per annum for postage on Weekly Witness: 52c on Northern Messenger ; $3.60 on Daily Witness.The last edition of the DAILY WITHESS is de- lvered in thereity every evening of publication ab $4.00 per annum, * Sfp.ADVERTISING RATES.DAILY WITNES& Five lines and upwards, 10¢ per lina, Contract on favorable terma WITNESS WEEKLY With large type \u2018or cuts, 2o lie.One-third reduction set in our usual small advertising types.Bpecial contract rates All business communications should be addressed * John Dougal & Son, ' Witness\u2019 Office, Montreal,\u2019 and sll Jetters to the Editor should be addressed Editor of the * Witziess,\u201d MontresL\u2019 The Baily IWituess.TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1899.Her Majesty\u2019s Theatre, THURSDAY, ?7th APRIL, A Grand Concert will be given by the Montreal Philharmonic Society assisted by the PATR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA of New York.PROGRAMME: Orerture\u2014Sakurtala .Goldmark Symphony\u2014C miner .Beethoven Piano Concerto\u2014G minor .Mendelssobn Cantata\u2014A Hymn où Praise .Mondelssoba SOLOISTS: ANITA RIO, Soprano.GEORGE LEON MOORE, Tenor.SMIL PAUR, Pianist.\u2018Chorus of One Hundred and Fifty Votces.Conductors\u2014EMIL PAUR (formerly Conductor Boston Symphony Orchestra), HY.SCHMIDT, G.COUTURE.Recerved Seats from Ho to $2.00, at the Sta Uptown Branch Office, and at 213 St.James street, on and after Tuesday, 18th April.Genera! admission, Z5c, .F.C.WARD-WHATE, Sec.- Treas.Notice is Hereby Given that 2 Spectal General Meeting of the ghare- tolders of the VICTORIA-MONTREAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.will be held at the Company's Office, i@ St.Janies si, Montreal, ,on THURSDAY, April 27th, at 1.30 p.m., for the purpose of organizing the Company erd the clectice of Directors.i Ry order\u2018of the Board of Provisional Dir- eutora.FDWARD L.TEMPLE, Secrstary.Montrest.Apri! 14th, 1839.\u2014 Ten.Abr.CIRE FriDAY.APRiL 28.YOUNG WOMEN\u2019S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 893 Dorchester Street.EXHIBITION DAY.Specimens ci work donc by the Puplls ef | the Educational Classes and the School of i Cookery will te exhibited cn FRIDAY, April 23th, frcm 3 to 6.30 p.m.THE PUBLIC CORDIALLY INVITED.An Informal Reception and Closing Social will be held the same evening, from $ to 10 o'clock, to which Assoclate and Class \u201cfembers with their friends are most cordially invited.22 HILIPSBURG RAILWAY AND QUARRY COMPANY.-Notice 1a here- bw given that, in accordance with the provisions of tie Company's by-laws, the Annual General Meeling of the Shareholdera will be held on Monday, let May To-day, the twenty-fifth of April, ia the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Oliver Cromwell.Arrangements have been under way for some time past in England to celebrate the occasion.as an offset probably to the somewhat gushing observances carried out not long ago to the memory of Charles I.by the latter day Jacobite admirers of that unhappy king.It is not necessary to revive the controversies which long raged about the character and conduct of Cromwell.Impartial historical investigation has done justice to his memory.But no matter how Englishmen may have quarrelled among themselves abopt him, Scotchmen abused him and Irishmen execrated him, he loome gigantic in history as the greatest ruler England ever had.Just and liberal to the mass of the people, he made Great Britain prosperous at home, feared and respected abroad.As Macaulay said of him, swift retribution followed any indignity or injury to an Englishman, no matter by whom or where perpetrated, and religious persecutors on the Continent in terror stayed their bloody swords on the stern summons of the Lord Protector.His methods were savage as judged by to-day, but for a man living in so uncompromising an age he was singularly tolerant.He would never allow any one to be persecuted for religious opinion.This was shown when he delivered Biddle, the founder of Unitarianism, out of the hands of the Westminster divines, and by his willingness to admit the then despised and persecuted Jews to full citizenship.He promoted the prosperity, happiness and glory of his native land, and deserves the gratitude of all lovers of civil and religious freedom.\u2014___ THE NEXT BEST.Far from objecting to plebiscites or referendums on the question of prohibition, roximo, in the Committee Room of the Mechanics\u2019 nstitute, at 3 p.m., for the purpose of the reception of Reports, Flection of Directors, and Transaction of General Business.HENRY TIMMIE.Sco.-Tress.Montreal, 15th April, 1 - ot .e a\u2018 we welcome every one of them as educationally well worth all it costs.While we sympathize with those who are sulky THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.about being called to the polls to vote and then getting nothing, we are very far from admitting that there is in that any excuse for not voting or for not working when there is so good a chance to influence the people on so important a subject.Indeed, we do not believe that any who acted on that excuse cared much for prohibition.We are in favor of any and every method that will keep the question before the people and will keep alive their sense of responsibility on the subject.What we want far more than a prohibition law is a prohibition people that will fight the infamous traffic when it has \u2018a law to fight it with.We may rely upon it that, except in exceptional cases, no public official will enforce a prohibitory law unless there is enough of active public opinion on the side of its enforcement to make it more.comfortable for him to enforce the law than not to enforce it.If the public prosecutor can count for certain on the enmity of the friends of the law-breaker ; if he learns, as he soon does, that among the obstruc- tors are sure to be some who have voted for, and even shouted for, prohibition ; if he realizes that in the matter of individual prosecutions even the tempernnce public is inert, he will act accordingly.In no community will a prohibition law become effective unless that community has interest enough in the matter to organize itself to see to it that such law is made effective.The best method of securing enforcement, we believe.would he that which exists in Brome to-day, namely, the handing over of the fines obtained from law-breakers to a volunteer law er- forcement organization.This can, under the Scott Act, be done by the county council.Where the Scott Act has given disappointment and has been soon dropped as a failure it would probably have been quite otherwise had this been done.The action of the Alliance legislative committee at Ottawa was to acknowiedge the fact that, rightly or wrongly, the government had refused to give national prohibition as the result of the plebiscite, and to demand that it should at least give provincial prohibition as the result of provincial referendums.It appointed a committee to construct a law which should carry out this idea, such law when adopted by parliament to be submitted in complete form to the people of apy province who should duly ask for it, coneur- rently with the next federg] \u2018êlee- tion.The committee was, however, given liberty to vary the method thus suggested if by any méans it could obtain legislation that would bring about the result aimed at, namely, provincial prohibition for any province that may wish it, as full as the constitution would admit of, or could be made by amendment to admit of.Our correspondent, the Rev.W.K.Shortt, whose letter was written before the Alliance\u2019s proposal was published, suggests that the provinces be empowered to enact prohibition in a more effective way than is at present open to them.This would probably be the next alternative should the national government refuse to do itself what it certainly has power to do, and what is the logical and righteous sequel to what it has already done.It certainly was not for the Alliance to ask parliament to lay off any of its powers and duties or to absolve it of direct responsibility in the premises.There were some at the Alli ance caucus who thought the right course was to ask of the Federal Government national legislation exempting Quebec.They held that there were precedents for such sectional legislation.This would be an interesting inquiry.We think that the sectional legislation in the past has been based chiefly on tbe difference of the systems of law prevailing in different parts, and not on differences of opinion or sentiment.The prohibitionists would be quite ready to take prohibition in that way if they could get it in that way.The trouble is this is as nearly as possible what the government has refused ; for the government was very careful to say that it would only look at the country as a whole.The prohibitionists of Quebec are certainly very loth to have their own province left out, but some who spoke for this province said that.believing as they did, that the principle of prohibition would vindicate itself in action, they thought the most hopeful way of converting Quebec to prohibition was to set prohibition in motion in all the surrounding provinces.\u2014\u2014\u2014 NICARAGUA AND SKAGUAY.A side light has been cast on the underlying character of American diplomacy in relation to this Dominion by a passage in a despatch from Washington having reference to the proposed abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty.United States officials, the despatch says, are convinced that Great Britain proposes to use this proposition to further her own aims in connection with the settlement of the Alaskan boundary and reciprocity questions.And why not?If Great Britain should be prepared to forego the advantages she possesses by treaty right, is it not just and proper that she should receive a quid pro quo ?Do our neighbors imagine that the doll-house diplomacy of their nursling statesmanship which, like a spoiled child, demands everything simply because it wants to have it, is to be the rule forever in their dealings with other nations ?But the side light to which we refer comes in what follows : \u2018Great Britain is determined,\u201d says the despatch, \u2018to make every | \u2018 effort to secure an outlet for the North- | \u2018 West Territory through Alaska, and the \u2018United States is not willing to give it \u2018to her.Precisely.It might as well be said at once that the United States | wants Great Britain to resign her rights with regard to the Nicaragua canal, but is unwilling to make a corresponding concession in Alaska, because such concession, though it would cost her nothing and do her no sort of harm, would be a benefit to Canada.We may regret, but we cannot conceal from ourselves the fact that the un- neighborly spirit which has animated the rulers at Washington from the beginning is still in control.The territory of Alaska was acquired by the United States, not so much on account, of its value in iteelf, as because it shut British territory from the sea and made Great Britain's position on this continent less tenable, and it would seem, if this Washington story correctly represents the sentiment there, that it is for this pin-prick- ing feature that it is chiefly valued still, now that Canada has come into possession.The time has been when Britain's American interests were secondary in her view to an entente with the United States, and concession after concession was made of Canada\u2019s existing and prospective rights.That time is, however, gone.Great Britain desires, above all things outside of the empire, a cordial understanding with the United States, but she is not going to purchase peace with the servitude of her children.If the United States in any measure reciprocates this desire for cordial good-will, the first thing for her to do is to abandon at once and forever the notion that this Dominion can be worried into becom- | ing a part of the republié.No people could be more fixed in their determination to work out their own destiny than the people of Canada, and unfriendly action by.the United States only serves to deepen and confirm that determination.\u2014_\u2014 CAPTAIN COGHLAN'\u2019S JUSTIFICATION.No one doubts the substantial correctness of Captain Coghlan\u2019s account of the | unpleasant passage between Admiral Dewey and the German admiral in Manilla Bay during the blockade of Manilla.Germany has long coveted the Philippines, and hed through a dispute established a sort of reversionary right to them in case Spain for any reason abandoned At the beginning of the Spanish- American war, before it was supposed that the United States would take possession of the islands, Germany, with a view partly to make manifest her supposed interest in the Philippines and probably also with the idea of ingratiating herself with Spain, In case of the necessity of the latter selling the islands to some other nation, kept her war vessels in Philippine waters busy making a sort of fussy show of morally supporting the them.bles, but owing to the greater excitemen of the incidents of the fighting with th pression at the time, though of cours it was generally known and resented tha friendly.ling friendship for Spain was not likely to the City Uounal au the mee to profit her, while the good will of th States.tained that they were inventions by th many and the United States.The however, both officers and men, arg 1 stories.ought to be told.Hence he declares Admiral Dewey is as anxiou as any one shall be made generally known fair simply for the purpose of gratuitous nations which have shaken hands over it the United States.Coghlan may be justified in his course making the whole affair still more irri tating, as, for instance, by worrying con suls, who are national guests, with an ir no sort of knowledge.POPULAR M.D.TO WED, 'BERAL HOSPITAL COMMITTEE.superintendent of the Montreal Genera management of the Montreal eve of his marriage, April 30, 1899.other members of the committee presen S.H.Ewing, Harry Stikeman, Charles occupying the same position who had lef immediately married.They all felt tha tal was second to none on the continen Spanish.A German vessel tried by a sort of demonstration at one fort to prevent its capture from the Spanish by the Filipino allies of the United States, and only sailed away when an American cruiser appeared on the scene.The German vessels chose anchorage in Manilla Bay which interfered with Admiral Dewey's operations at times, and ignored polite requests to move out of the way.They took on board the Spanish governor- general, thus enabling him to avoid surrendering all the islands, though it must \u2018 be admitted that the Americans, not foreseeing the inconvenience which would en-: sue, acquiesced in the affair.In fact, the foreign vessels in Manilla Bay were divided into American and Spanish sympathizers, the former giving no trouble and the latter giving much to the Amer- jeans.The earlier accounts of these troubles between the German admiral and the American admiral came from Hong Kong by way of Great Britain over British cables, and were ascribed by the German press of Berlin and the German- American press of the United States to the desire of the British to make trouble between Germany and the United States.The American correspondents at Manilla of America.The public, by their liberality, had shown their recognition of thi fact.Taggart as one of the coming men.The medical superintendent in reply «x- pressed pleasure at the kindness with which he had been treated, and said that it would please him very much if at som future day he should receive an appointment as assistant in the hospital.Germany was showing herself very un- When the war ended, and the United States took possession of the Philippines, Germany, finding that the policy of show- Sincerely desirous that the Ma- Hospital of Montreal, sbowcth - nilla troubles should be consigned to ob- h livion, Germany began denying that they | the, children born at the Maternity 1.EH ever occurred, and has ever since main- i British to make bad blood between Ger- The American Government, wisely desirous of arriving at a good understanding with Germany, and probably depending upon the real truth being known in the United States, took no notice of the German assertions as to the British origin of the United States sailors, seems, highly indignant at these misrepresentations, and think that the truth Captain Coghlan\u2019s statements of the truth, which It would have been unpardonable for Captain Coghlan to recount the whole af- ly irritating a sore between two great But such is not the intention of Captain Coghlan ; rather was it to prevent the reopening of the old sore, now happily healed over, between Great Britain and While Germany has herself provoked this affair, and Captain yet there is no excuse for the newspapers ritating matter of which they can have A PRESENTATION FROM THE GEN- Dr.MacTaggart, the retiring medical Hospital, was the recipient yesterday afternoon of a very handsome clock, inscribed: \u2018A token of appreciation and esteem from members of the committee of General Hospital to D.Donald MacTaggart, M.D., C.M., upon his retirement from the position as medical superintendent, on the The presentation was made by the president, Mr.F.Wolferstan Thomas, and were Messrs.Charles Alexander, Thomas Davidson, Samuel Finley, John Stirling, 8.C.Smith, Richard White, Dr.Craik, Garth and J.B.Learmont.The president voiced the appreciation of the committee of the way that Dr.MacTaggart had performed his duties.They also did not forget that he was the only person the hospital with the intention of being he had done his best in the hospital, ard hoped that in his private practice he would be very successful; and some time or other be appointed to a surgical or medical position in the hopital.- A more | worthy ambition he could hardly have, | because they.recognized that that hospi- The president's expression of esteem was heartily seconded by Dr.Craik, who said that be looked upon Dr.Mac- TuEsDAY, APRIL 25, 1899.t ei CIVIC AID WANTED.Spaniards these accounts made little 1m- | Sisters of Mercy Send a Peti.e | ; tion to the City Council.United States was valuable, reverted to | mutlee:\u2014 her former attitude of friendliness and patched up matters with the United : THEY SAY THAT WITHOUT | THEIR MATERNITY HOSPITAL | MUST BE CLOSED.| | The following petition was sibs 7 e lérday and rersrred te the Futian 1 To His Worship the Mayor and Aidrrn.oo | the City of Montreal \u2014 The humble petition of the Sisters Mercy for the management of thy Mai: That since the year 1ss9, or ave forced the Sisters of Mery hat, not having proper au ummud for this new work.they have rected | buildings, contracting for this pur; \u20ac debt pf $81,231.80, on which sum tury joo.anpually $4,047.00 interest; That.besides the buildings they huve }o.5 to great expense for heatiug, ventilaur | agvice of instruments.etc, following tu Ur advice of the physicians in charge of the institution and the direction of the members of the Board of Health, wbich have been scrupulously observed; That, in order to complete the work and render it efficacious, an immediate expend! ture of several thousand dollars would bn necessary, and that the Sisters of Mery are absolutely incapable of furnishing tae required funds; That, besides the expenditure for building t furnishing, eic., the daily expenses havr been more than trebled by the operation ! the new system; That, to meet these expenditures and pro vide for these new burdens the Sisters have no other resources than industry acd publ.\u201d charity; That, if the city does not come ta the\u2018 s help, they will be obliged to suspend 4 work begun and deprive it of its necessary .complement; | That, in spite of what is wanting (0 bring the new system to perfection, the su.rs obtained through its use, has surpassed (\u2018np the physician's expectations; That, it would be useless to insist uj a the obligation incumbeat on the city of 7 tecting this class of unfortunates whv .do nothing for themselves.The statis:!s of all nations, which you are better a- quainted with than we are, show that three poor children are everywhere provided [-r by cities or governments.In consequence, the undersigned Sistrre beg of you to kindly consider their reques: and to generously grant them whatever help you may judge reasonable, And your petitioners will ever pray.THE SISTERS OF MERCY per the Superioress General., Montreal, April 21, 189$.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 7 ANGLICANISM HAS A HOPEFUL OUTLOOK IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.The Rev.C.E.Cooper, of Wellington, British Columbia, on his way to England for a six months\u2019 holiday, spoke hopetul ly to-day of the growth of Anglicanism on.the Pacific evast.He noted, however, a\u2019cutions indifference to doctrine or Titu al\u2014n marked contrast with the eugerne:s of the English people in connection wilh ] such matters.They had high churchizm in British Columbia, but not extreme 1.- tualism, except perhaps, in one Instance.\u201cThe tact is, we might practice or preacn what we liked, apparently, for all tue people care about such matters.In England at present there 1s great tension ou this subject; which shows, at least, that the people are thinking upos religious subjects.1 do pot myself ap: prove of all the practices which have been going on in the Church.I am a high churchman, but pot an extremist.¢|1 hail the determination of the bishop?to deal with cases of lawlessness.\u2019 \u2018I suppose you would take the views of Viscount Halifax that the State has no right to interfere with doctrine or prac tice?\u201d \u2018Of course.The Church was before the State.Why should the State interfere?\u2019 \u2018Because, 1 suppose, the Church is a le gal establishment, sustained, in a mev ç Bure, by the State.\u2019 \u2018That is a common mistake, but then; + |said Mr.Cooper, indulgently, as he conversed to-day at the Windsor Hotel, \u2018but then the man on the street does not know history.The Church owes nothing to the State.Methodism is a legal es tablishment.The Church was endowed, not \u2018by ths State, but by private gift.The only reeord of the State giving any: tl thing to the Church occurs in the reign of George I, when a million pounds, | ink, were given for church extension in the city of London.Tithes, endow ments, all that the Church enjoys, came, not from the State, but from private De ty and devotion.Why, then, should the Church recognize the right of the state to interfere 7?At the same time, while I agree with Viscount Halifax on w hat may be called the political point, | am certainly not at one with him in mans matters of ritual.Certain extremes hive 8 8 e Dr: F.M.Von Eberts, M.R.C&., Eng.| been gone to, which are quite pernicious will succeed Dr.MacTaggart in the posi-j tion of medical superintendent.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 CONTRIBUTION TOR ST.JAMES Woodstock, Ont., April 25\u2014At congregation contributed to the St James Church, Montreal, fund.that.subscription was for a hundred dollars._\u2014 WESTWARD TIDE OF IMMIGRATION.Winnipeg, April 25\u2014A big train of castern colonists arrived yesterday, bringing 23 cars of stock and effects, and th same \u2018number of families.\u2018gave their papers accounts of their trou- * a of the atrivals settle in the province.the Central Methodist Church on Sunday the The corigregation was asked to give $360, and the amount they raised nearly covers The full\u201d amount will probably be raised before the money is sent.One These col- oniists\u2019 trains are arriving daily and most 1 do hot believe in compulsory confession I do not believe in anything with a It: manizing tendency.[ could not approse of the request preferred to Rome in .lation to the pronouncement as to Angi can orders.Of course, the Pope \u201cas bound to refuse such recognition, or con fess his church an intruder, which he would be unwilling to do.That me\u201c ment was a mistake: practices clearly © bidden by the prayer book should n°t °° tolerated.1 quite admit that there = many eminent men among the cxtrone ritualists, but 1 am in favor of moder.tion, believing that extreme practices «Tr incompatible with church Jovalty Mr.Cooper spoke of a great coal depot at a place called Extension, on the elar of Vancouver, which was being opéra ! and which, he should think.would e for over a century.Private entermr >?was working and sinking shafte.and °° vield, it was believed, would be hog! profitable.AID! + LL ee et tL mae tie \\ ID red yes vm a of of nity nues keep tral; (don arge e a pay been: tion, the the nem- have and endl.d be [ercy the ding, hava on of pro have ublic thelr | tha ssary bring cress even upon pro.) can istics r ac- these d for isters quest help y neral.1gron, gland petui- anism wever, p Titu- ernesy with chism me r:- tance.preach Il the In t ten- vs, at upon lf ap: have am a \u2018emist.ishop3 views has no r prac- re tha rfere?s a le , mel then; 1e con: 1, \u2018but es not othing gal es- dowed, e gift.1 any- 2 reign nds, 1 tension endow- , came, ite pie uld the e State », while n what , lam 1 many es have nicious.fessinn .1 a Ro approve > in re ; Angle pe wad or von ich he t mover rly for | not be ere are ex Lrenie modera- 1ces are y.deposit e island perated.uld last terprise and the » high'y I A x563,480.TurspAy, AvriL 25, 1899.ESTIMATES BROUGHT DOWN.Forty-six Million Dollars Required For Next Year\u2019s Current Expenses.MILITIA IMMIGRATION, YUKON AND ST.LAWRENCE SHIP CANAL VOTES LARGELY INCREASED, (ittawa, April 25\u2014The estimates for rae fiscal year beginning July 1, next «ere presented to Parliament last night .Elmo .\u2026.+ 6e ae LL, 8 4 Burley .\u2026 20 17 Decca | 30 25% Morrison .18 16 lulden Star .\u2026 .67 £51 MORNING SALBS.Fern\u2014200 at 47, 200 at 47.Monte Christo\u20141,000 at 12%, 10,000 at 1213, Shoat 13.Montreal Gold Fields\u2014500 at 23.Montreal & London\u2014100 at 70, 400 at 70%, oar 70, ffolden Star\u20142,000 at 65%, 1,000 at 66%, 15e ) at 6614, 0% at 66, 1,000 at 66, 1,000 at 8312, 1,000 at 66.acphite=s0d at $1.23%.500 at $1.24, 500 a: P:g Three\u2014500 at 27, War Eagle\u2014250 at $3.65 Novelty\u20142,500 at 4.l\u2019ayne\u20141,500 at $3.90%.Viriue\u2014500 at 73.Tron Colt\u20141,000 at 11, 1,000 at 10 Burley\u20141,000 at 17%.FINANCIAL CABLE.vw York, April 24\u2014The \u2018Commercial +rtiser's\u2019 financial cable from London, \u2014The markets here were idle to-day, Pt for mines anu coppers.The tendency the dulness.The Philippine news vised realizing sales by recent American ur TX e - (© THERE 18 NO Store Like It IN MONTREAL.Since we have separated our x rash business from the old way oe of relling cash and credit in the same store, we have more than doubled our sales, Cash apd credit customers understand that they are buying Furniture from 10 to 25 percent chegper than at any other first.class Furniture Store.Until our new stock is ready, credit buyers will piease call on Mr.F.Guibord.1551 St.Catherine ° à oe! ol * * tre *, % tra er a £ street, who wiil be pleased to re.& ES ceive old or new customers + who wlil be treated In a very + E> liberal manner.a o » Store wii! be kept open unti! 10 o'clock every night.F.LAPOINTE, 1551 St.Catherine St.{Old Store.) 1447 & 1449 St, Catherine St (New Store) Oates REID os, ere de ore, * - *, TE ne 3 do 2 tate stes teria tsateate meatier eel, Sate 8 at TAT a QUEEN'S CONVOCATION.(LOSING EXERCISES TOOK PLACE YESTERDAY.King-ton.Omt., April 25\u2014Yesterday citernoon at three o'clock Convocation Hail, Queen's University, was crowded .vr the closing exercises, which consisted the reading of the valedictory ad- crosses by Messrs, J.F.Miller, in Le- nul of the graduating class in Arts, and t HK.Low, in behalf of the divinity cluss.Prof.Dyde gave a short address iu behalf of the Nenate.the pass lists were also issued and the bulletin boards sere constantly surrounded.The scholarships in theology and -cience were announced :\u2014Jumes Wal save, M.A., Renfrew; WW.McDonald, B.A, Blakeney ; J.3.Shortt, M.A, Calgary, N.W.T.; W.A.Gus, B.A, tamden East; T.F.Heeney, B.A, Woodstock; W.H.Cram, B.A., Curle- ven Place; H.L.MeKinnon, B.A, Lake Ainslie, C.B.; A.W.McIntosh, Deser- tuto; James Anthony, Owen Sound; D.I.Gordon, B.A., Stellarton, N.B.; W.T Prittie, B.A., Kingston; and M.A.McKinnon, M.A., Lake Ainslie, C.B., are winners in theology.In science the scholarships go to E.Dwyer, Kingston; W.G.Dunkley, Pic- \u2018on; Cowan prize in botany, Annie Boyd, MA, Kingston.Su Charles Tupper will arrive th's xiternoon and proceed to the City Hall, where he will inaugurate the Nir John A.Macdonald chair in political science n Queen's University, and receive the Lunorary degree of LL.D.Afterwards \u201che students will march to the monument + the late Sir John A.Macdonald, on which a wreath will be placed.The de- ree of LL.D.will also be conferred on itis Excelency the Governor-General, and ve Rev.W.H.Fritchett, Melbourne, Australia, editor of the \u2018 Australian Re- \u201cew of Reviews,\u2019 and author of \u2018 Deeds \u201chat Won the Empire,\u2019 and other standard works, and the degree of D.D.ten the Rev.W.(i.Jordan, Strathroy, te The Rev.Mr.Fritchett will be \u2018resented by Principal Grant, and the Nev.Mr.Jordan by the Rev.Dr.Milli- zan, Toronto.Lord and Tady Minto will spend to- corrow morning at the Royal Military Cnllege.The Cadets will be put through \u201coTIAUS exercises for the benefit of the vireregal party.KETTLE RIVER RAILWAY.REASON WHY MR.CORBIN WITHDREW HIS APPLICATION.Spokane, Wash., April 25.\u2014Mr.D.C.Corbin has announced his intention to withdraw the application pending before rliament for the Kettle Valley Rail- wav charter.He said : \u2018There are sev- «ral reasons for my action.Neither Mr.Bedwell, my solicitor, nor myself is aise to go to Ottawa to press the applica- \u2018on.Mr.Bodwell is engaged at Ross- wd on the trial of the Iron Mask vs.\u2018ke Centre Star case.I am personally \u201cupied in establishing a beet sugar fac- cory at Waverly, involving an expendi ire of $350,000 to complete the plan.Be- \u201cles, Mr.Hewitt Bostock, a strong sup- vorter of the charter, has written me ad- v«ing withdrawal of the application.Un.or all the cireumstances, 1 have thought - best to follow his advice.This does not mean that I shall not renew the ap- pliiation at some future time, possibly next vear, and hope eventually to secure.à charter! \u2014_ FALL WHEAT A FAILURE Milverton, Ont., April 24.\u2014The {fall \u201cheat in this vicinity is almost destroy- +1.except in a few favored spots, where \u2018~ snow covered it until lately.It + thought a week ago that it had cred well, but when the frost came © of the ground it was found to be #1 at the root and many farmers are \u201cughing up fields that looked very pro- HUSIN ten days ago.THE LUMBER QUESTION, NOTHING DONE AT WASHINGTON TOWARD RETALIATING UPON ONTARIO.Detroit, Mich., April 25\u2014A Washington special to the Detroit \u2018Evening News\u2019 says :\u2014Nothing has been done as yet regarding steps to retaliate on Ontario for preventing Americans from bringing their saw-logs from that province to Michigan.The question of getting at it appears to be a pretty big one and it may be some time before this government makes up its mind what to do.\u2018Ontario's step amounts to hostile legislation,\u201d said Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Spalding to the \u2018News\u2019 \u2018and If we can find a way to offset it, we will do it.At present, however, the matter is under consideration and that 1s the most to be said about it\u201d A Washington special to the Detroit \u2018 Evening Journal\u2019 says :\u2014 \u2018 An effort is being made to take the American-Ca- nadian lumber question out of the hands of the Canadian High Joint Commission, and settle it by itself.It begins to look as though the Canadian Government is beginning to look at one phase of the matter from an American standpoint.The act of the province of Ontario in placing manufacturing restrictions on timber cut within the Georgian Bay limits, 1s operating contrary to the interests of the Canadian Government.This act, so far as American investors in Canadian pine are concerned, amounts to confiscation.Formerly (Canadian capitalists could purchase the right to cut timber from the Georgian Bay limits at a very low figure.When the Michigan sawmill men and others saw the profits being made from this timber, they, with other American capitalists, began making investments up there.This ran the price for these lands up to an unheard of figure.The Canadian Government thereby profited greatly.The Canadian lumbermen were disgusted.They brought great influence to bear on the provincial government and secured the enactment of what is known as the manufacturing restrictive act, which provides that all lumber cut from these limits must be manufactured in Canada.Inasmuch as the Americans were purchasing the timber to manufacture in American mills, and could not handle it profitably otber- wise, this act amounted to a confiscation of American investments, for the moncy had been paid over.It has prevented the Americans from reaping their pro- [ fits; it has also put the value of these timber limits back to where they were before the attention of American.investors wae attracted.This is a deeided loss to the Canadian government.\u2018The Dingley bill had a provision which enabled this government to add at any time to the lumber import duty the same amount that might be added as a Canadian export duy.The fear of this reprisal prevented the Canadian Government from placing an export duty on lumber, and the Ontario manufacturers\u2019 restrictive \"act was substituted.This being an internal act it hes been considered as being out of the meaning of the Dingley provision, and therefore the United States could inflict no reprisals.Now the Canadian Government, seeing a large loss of revenue, dissatistied generally with the conditions of the lumber trade, has let the Washington Treasury officials know that it is willing that the American Government should look upon the Ontario restrictive act as in effect an export duty.If the Treasury officials will so consider this act, and notify the Canadian Government of an intention to retaliate, the Canadian will take prompt action to secure the repeal of the objectionable legislation.This would relieve all Ontario timber, in which Americans have such large investments, of the burdens of the restrictive act and permit the export of these logs for manufacture in American mills.The \u2018Canadian communication will not be made officially, but tentatively.The Americans think this would be a fair solution of the question, as it leaves the American lumber schedule as it is, and wipes out the objectionable laws.The repeal of the Ontario manufacturers\u2019 restrictive Jaw would be a boon to many Michigan mills, and would be money in pocket to a large number of Michigan capitalists.\u201d \u2019 Ottawa, April 25\u2014Private advices from authentic sburces in Washington are to the effect that the Attorney-General of the United States has given his opinion that it is not possible under the present Dingley law to prohibit the importation of Canadian lumber into the United States.Hence, so far as the present season is concerned, the Canadian lumber trade need not be alarmed at any prospective interference.Before the United States could prohibit the importation of Canadian lumber it would be necessary to amend the Dingley Tariff Act In some quarters, however, the belief is entertained that under a strained interpretation of the Dingley tariff the duty on Canadian lumber may be increased consequent upon the manufacturing clause in the Ontario timber license, although it is difficult to see how this would be possible.The Dingley tariff provides that when any country imposes an export duty upon logs, there shall be added to the duty upon sawn lumber en- ftering the United States an amount equivalent to such export duty.The manufacturing condition.although held by the Americans to be practically an export duty, can hardly be reduced to a basis of dollars and cents, so that it is pot an easy matter for the United States to decide what amount to add to the duty upon Canadian lumber.THE MONTREAL THE ANCIENT CAPITAL.Quebec, April 25.\u2014Mr.E.Pacaud de pies that he is about to start a Liberal paper at Three Rivers.He says that he merely went there to give his advice to the Liberals of the Trifluvian City on the subject of the founding of a Libera] organ for that district.A sad accident occurred at the station of St.Henri de Levis, on the Quebec Central yesterday.A passenger named Meads got off at the station and, in trying to board the cars again, slipped and fell, when the wheels passed over one of his legs, cutting it off a little below the knee.Fortunately there was a doctor on the train, who gave him immediate care.The unfortunate man is now in hospital here.; A seven-vear-old lad named Noel was drowned at St.Laurent, Island of Or lesns, on Sunday.He was playing on the ice on the shore of the river when it gave way underneath him.The Hon.P.Garneau is reported to be dangerously ill.Mr.Black, a Montreal shirt manufacturer, and a Montreal manufacturer of shoe findings, have been interviewing Mayor Parent ns to the possibility of their being exempted from taxation for a number of years if they started branches of their business here.Mr.Black would employ four hundred hands.Alphonse Charlebois, contractor, who was condemned bv Judge Caron to pay $150,000 to the Union Bank, has taken the case into Review.Elzear Marois, toy dealer, assigned yesterday at the demand of the Banque Na- tinnale, with liabilities of $8,800.Fire vesterday, caused by the upæt- ting of a coal oil lamp, did nearly 23,000 worth of damage to Mrs.M.A.Fletcher's property on St.Joachim street, and its contents.\u2014 SUNDAY CARS IN OTTAWA.PROTEST OF THE LORD'S DAY ALLIANCE THROWN OUT BY THE RAILWAY COMMITTEE.Ottawa, April 25.\u2014When the Railway Committee met this morning, Major James Sutherland, chief Liberal whip, was by unanimous consent chosen chairman.A bill to empower the Ottawa Electric Railway to extend its line to Hintonburgh and Bell's Corners, and to sanction the running of electric cars on this extension and in Ottawa on Sunday, was introduced.The latter provision of the application was vigorously opposed on behalf of the Ottawa and Ontario Lord's Day Alliances.The gojection of the Lord's Day Al liance Was fot sustained, in view of the fact that the people of Ottawa by a large majority expressed their desire; at the last municipal elections for the Fun ning of Sunday.cars.| À bill to confirm the -eale of the Hull and Aylmer branch of the C.P.R.to the Hull Electric Compahy was agreed to by unanimous consent.A bill respecting the Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway to allow of certain extension of their line to Sault Ste.Marie and easterly to Ottawa was reported favorably.elise NEW FIRE STATION, FINE BUILDING AT THE CORNER OF NOTRE DAME AND BEAU: DRY STREETS COMPLETED.The capacious new No.7 fire station at the corner of Notre Dame and Beaudry streets was completed to-day and will be turned over to the city by the contractor, Mr.Louis Beaudry, to-morrow.Captaia Doolan moved his family in to-day, but the men and apparatus cannot be moved in until one of the street railway poles in front of the main door has been re moved and new sidewalks put down.Ohief Benoit is very much pleased with the new building, which cost £18,500.There is plenty of room, air and light, and the dormitories are the best of any station im the city.mt NEW STREET CAR ROUTE, The Street Railway Company's new route, Guy and St.Catherine street, has proved so acceptable to the company's patrons that it has been decided to extend it as a further accommodation to them.Commencing to-morrow (Wed: nesday) the cars of this route, instead of turning, as at present, at the corner of Greene avenue and St.Catherine street, will proceed along St.Catherine street as far as the Glen, and the Windsor and St.Lawrence \u2018Extra\u2019 cars will then turn back of Greene avenue.The object of the inauguration of this new line is to relieve the very congested traffic on the Windsor and St.Lawrence \u2018line, and it will no doubt be very much appreciated by the large section of the community living west of Guy street, to whom it affords a more direct and a quicker means of communication with the business centre.The service is a five-minute one, and is performed between the hours of 7.30 and 9.30 aan.12.30 and 2.30 p.m.and 5 and 7 p.m.reel NOTES AND NOTICES.To Cure a Cold in One Day.\u2014Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.Al druggists refund the money if it fails to cure.25c.DAILY WITNESS: ADVANCING ON CALUMPIT,] AMERICAN FORCES PREPARING TO ATTACK THE FILIPINO STRONGHOLD.Manilla, April 25, 10.30 a.m.\u2014Aithough the sticky condition of the ground, due to a rainstorm, seriously impeded the progress, General Lawton\u2019s column left San Jose to-day, and is expected to reach Norzagary this evening.Colonel Summers is marching across from Bocave, with two battalions, each from the Oregon and Minnesota rezi- ments, three troops of cavalry and two In the meantime, General Mac- Arthur's division is in front of Calumpit preparing to attack the rebels\u2019 strong- with several guns.hold, and General Hale, guns, is threatening the enemy\u2019s flank.A few rebels between Novaliches and La Loma, have persistenty interiercl but the signal corps has repaired the breaks with telegraphic communication, and captured several prisoners.A small body of rebels at Taktay was discovered this morning by the armored\u2019 A few shots ecat- tered the rebels and drove them inland launch \u2018 Napidan?from the lake.All is quiet along General Hall's and General Ovenshine\u2019s lines.New York, April 25\u2014A special to the \u2018 Herald\u2019 from Manilla, says :\u2014The movement of American troops on Calumpit has begun, General Hale's brigade crossing the river at Quingua, and moving down the bank of the river towards Calumpit.Many insurgents were driven from in Fifty of the enemy were killed while the Ameri- It is re- MacArthur, with Wheaton\u2019s brigade and an armored train, is waiting at Malalos for the strategic movement for an advance on Calumpit.This advance from Malalos is momen- The town of Malalos will be evacuated, only the rail- The natives are returnig there in great numbers.All are professed non-combatants.The army gun boats, being unable to ascend the river to co-operate in the movement on front of the line of march.can loss was only one killed.ported that General tarily expected to begin.way station being held.Calumpit, have returned to Manilla.CALUMPIT INVESTED.Washington, April 25.\u2014The following has been received at the War Department from General Otis : i Manilla, April 25.Adjutant-General, Washington : Hale\u2019s brigade, MacArthur's division, moved down right bank Quingua river veaferday to vicinity of Calumpit ; now joinëd by Wheaton\u2019s brigade on left bank, f fierce opposition, déving y, with heavy loss, taking his en- trepchments in flank.Hale's casualties, The division has now invested Calumpit, which > Lawton, with part of his command, reached Norzagar this evening, where he will be joined by cen- Extreme heat, rain, high streams, bad roads; made He has not met leaving Novaliches; South of and near Manilla enemy has a force of four thousand, making demonstrations daily ; can bc easily taken care of.It lp \u2018met six killed, thirteen wounded.will be taken to-day.tre column from Bocave.march very difficult.opposition since enemy retreating in his front.cannot communicate with north.cabled to-day.THAT MANILLA INCIDENT.DISCUSSION BRINGS UP SOME UNSAVORY PORTIONS OF COGH- LAN'S PAST HISTORY.Washington, April 25.\u2014The Coghlan case is exciting more interest than any- The German ambassador had an interview with the Secretary of State yesterday, which, in conversation later, he described as in the highest degree satisfactory, from which many persons drew the inference that our government had made an apology to From a more trustworthy source, however, comes another version of the incident, to the effect that Secretary Hay requested Dr.Von Holleben to inform his government that\u2019 the alleged utterances of Captain Coghlan represent\u2019 ed the sentiments of nobody but himself ; that no international ingult was intended, and that the friendly feeling of eur government for Germany wag unchanged ; but under our system the captain\u2019s offence of talking in a silly manner at a private dinner after the wine had been flowing pretty freely, fell within the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, which would certainly call him to acocunt and discipline him according to thing else in Washington.Germany.the measure of his proved indiscretion.Captain Coghlan\u2019s record leads some of his superiors to believe that he did not really know what he was saying when It is recalled that some years ago he took offence for some imaginary cause against an old and faithful chief clerk of the department, and wrote him a letter which for abusiveness was quite on a level with some of General Egan's recent productions, and that he was court-martialed and punished with suspension at a- time when promotions wer rapid in his grade, so that he lost more than a dozen numbers while under this cloud.He regained six of these numbers by his share in the battle of Manilla Bay, and has applied he poured forth his gibberish.PEOPLE'S MUTUAL The 46th Appropriation will Full particulars at the Soclety's 201 St.James street.TFRASER, Trustee; RAPHAEL, D.ANDERSON, A.WATT © \u2014 ADVERTISEMENTS.BUILDING SOCIETY\u2014Class B.Commenced business 3rd July, 1893.Amount invested on Mortgage at this date, $102,261.00, | APPROPRIATION NOTICE, | be awarded hy SALE at the Long Room, Mecbanics\u2019 Institute, No.204 St.James street, on TUESDAY, 2nd May, 1899, at 8 p.m., sharp.IF Shares 8200 cach Weekly Payments Only.t# 10 CENTS PER SHARE.FT\" Join now and you will have an opportunity of Participating in the above sale.offices, second floor, DIRECTORS ; C, B.CARTER, Q.C., President; J.WIDMER NELLES, Vice-President : DAVID GUTHRIE, W.GERAGHTY, Merhaunics' institute Building, ALEX.D.JOYCE.H.Ww.J.MoG IEE, Secretary-Treasurer.ALFRED doubtediy have another chanre to face a court-martial.This time.if found guilty, he will pay for his childishness more sorely than before.When he vented his abuse on the chief clerk it was merely a quarrel between himself and that functionary, of incidental interest to the public service.This time there is another and a very serious phase to the affair, wholly apart from the question of a possible international complication.For Captain Cogh- lan did not content himsel{ with airing his own views, but represented his superior officer, Admiral Dewey, in an unbecoming light.Admiral Dewey, while a man of firmness and force, is noted for his knowledge of how to hold his tongue, and his friends declare that nothing could be further from his habit of speech, even under considerable provocation, than the remarks put into his mouth by Coghlan.If Admiral Dewey fails to come to Cogh- lan\u2019s defence by avowing his alleged insulting references to the German flag, the chances are that Coghlan will have to ac: dering his commanding officer ; if the slander shall appear to have been only constructive, the charge would come down to a mere question of conduct subversive of discipline ; but if there were reason to regard the stories of Admiral Dewey's performances as made out of whole cloth, the offence would be visited with the punishment for lying.and the fact that the offender was of explosive temperament and had been dining freely would not be regarded as a palliation.A NEW SERIAL To Start in Next Saturday\u2019s + Witness.\u2019 HIGHLY PRAISED BY \u2018BLACK AND WHITE.\u201d \u2018And yet another tale of the forest.This time it is \u201cThe Forest of Bourg- Marie,\u201d (Arnold), and Mrs.Harrison writes it.There is nothing light in Mrs.Harrison's narrative, but there two of the best bits of character-drawing we have met for a long time.Mikel, the old forest- ranger, the descendant of a noble French family, living alone, and caring for nothing but his forest of Bourg-Marie and the Manor-House, which had once been kept up in great state by his ancestors, is a splendid figure\u2014grim, lonely, and full of love for the grandson, Magloire, 1 List | who has deserted him and gone to make of casualties of day before yesterday his fortune in the States.And this Magloire\u2014a boaster, a brainless fool, who wanted nothing but money, and who was ashamed of his French origin \u2014 is drawn with skilful art.Mrs.Harrison makes the fascination of the forest clear to us.We understand and sympathize with the loving pride which made Mikel adorn the Manor, the Louse of his sncestors, in so magnificent and secret a manner, and we are thrilled with horror at the terrible tragedy of Mikel's life.We have not seen any of Mrs.Harrison's work before, hut if she follows up \u2018The Forest of Bourg-Marie\u2019 with equally good work, she will take a good place in those ranks which are always ready to admit a good writer.\u2014_ SERIOUS STREET FIGHT.Belween five and six o'clock this morn- irg a fight occurred in front of Mr.L.Glauberson\u2019s dry goods and gent's furnishings store, 65 St.Luwreuce street, and one man was knocked or pushed through a large plate glass window of the store, and received severe wounds from \u2018he broken glees., His wrists were badly cut, requiring fivo op.#ix .stitches.iu each, besides other injuries being inficted.He had to be teken to the hospital, where his wounds were dressed.His: fellow combatant made his escape and has not yet been found.The glass was insured.\u2014\u2014\u2014 JUDGMENTS IN APPEAL.The Court of Appeal will render judgment in the following cases ou Thursday at 10 a.m.:\u2014Naud and Marcotte; Wilshire ani Town of St.Louis and Montreal Water & Power Company; Germain and Langlois : Lamarche aad O'Connor; Stanstead Mutual Fire Insurance Company end Godley; Vali- quottc and Savage; Stewart and Enari; the city of Moatreal and Hogan; Leipschitz and Montreal Street Railway Company; Peters and Jollette Tobacco Company; Ross and Walker; Mershall and Cowans.\u2019 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ALLEGED ILLEGAL PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.The College of Physicians and Surgeons has entered penal octiops in the Circuit Court against the following persons, for ellegéd Îllegaï practice of the medical profession: Antoins Racicot, C.Esmonin, two actions; Elzear Laliberte, two actions, all of Monresi, and Azarie Mireault, of Ste.Marie Solomee.lan.PETTY THEFT.1saac Parise, alias Jno.Parizeau,appeared for the restoration of the rest.His bab- before Judge Desnoyers this morning,charg- 1 i is \u20ac theft of some brass articles, bling has of course ruined all his chances he Eole fretory He was ar- of restoration, and, upon the depart-|restea by Detective Suthergill vesterday.ment's satisfying itself that he said all he was quoted as saying, he will un- \u2019 l He was found guilty and fined ten dollars \u2018or two months count to the Navy Department for slan-, SPORTS AND PASTIMES, WHEELING.OPINIONS FROM TORONTO.Toronto, April 25, \u2014Chairmun Irwin, of the Rules and Regulations Committee of the i C.W.A,, sald yesterday when asked fer bis opinion regarding the new cyclists association formed {n Montreal that the whole thing was brought about because A.I.Ratt.ruy was defeated for the vice-presidency of the association last month.He was surprised that Mr.Rattray could not meet his defeal with equanimity, os better men had done.In electing Mr, Prescott over Mr.Rattray, the C.W.A.#howed that it was a Dominion and not a Provincial organization.Chairman Cairns, of the Membership Committee, thought the idea was to form a small organization in Montreal that would be in affiliation with the C.W.A.Jf the report as published was correct, the Montreal cyclists were foolish to engage In such au undertaking at this time.Mr.Rattray is nothing but a disgruntled office.seeker who had been defeated for the vice-presidency and sought to get back at the C,W.A.by this means.Mr.Calrns declares the movement cannot hurt the C.W A.in any respect whatever.Chief Consul Pearcy, in speaking of the new association said it was evident Mr.Rattray hoped to get back at the C.W.A for not electing him to tbe office of vice- president though it Is stated it Is to better , look alter cyclists interests than the C.W.A.! has donc.There is prima facie evidence that it is spite work on Mr.Rattray's part.Consul Pearcy dismissed the subject with thie remark:\u2014'If the C.W.A.bas not looked after the interests of Montrea) cyclists as it should have done Mr.Rattray is the whole cause of It, as le is chief consul of the Montreal District Council.\u2019 WILL NOT CONFLICT WITH THE WORLD'S MEET, Toronto, April 25.\u2014J.Jobn Schulte, the indefatigable secretary of the Canadian Road Club, said yesterday tbat the club had abandoned the proposed race to Orillia on the civic holiday, as the World's Meet would then be in progress at Montreal, and \u2018the officers of the cluD wished to co-operate with the meet rather than promote a race that would conflict with it.The club, however, intends to make itself and influence felt before the season is over and the intention now is to conduct the R.O.T.road race.Mr, Schulte sald this had been practically decided on and this being the case the success of the race is assured.BASEBALL.WASHINGTON SECURED CASEY AND FARRELL.New York, April 25,\u2014The Brooklyn Base- bail Club has completed à deal wherëby, third paseman Casey and catcher Charley Farrell, have been secured \u2018from the Washington Club.Casey and Farrell have been ordered to report to Manager Hanlon at Washington Park to-day, and will probably play on the Brooklyn team this afternoon.Casey.who is the smallest player in the National League, went to Washington lus: season from Toronto, and at once attracted the attention of baseball critics.AQUATICS.N.A.R.A.REGATTA.Toronto, April 25.\u2014Mr, Alexander Fraser nf this city, the president of the North- Western Amateur Rowing Association, is out with à suggestion to hold the next regatta at Barrie in the event of the C,A.A.0.selecting Muskoka for its regatta.Mr.Fraser sald yesterday that a meeting of the executive of the N.A.R.A.would be held shortly and he would urge the selection of Barrie, or some other suitable place between Toronto and Muskoka for the regatta.Naming a date shortly after the C.A.A.O.affair it would suit the convenience of the returning competitors, and enable them to compete at, both regattas witf- out much additional expense.HUNTING.IMPORTANT ALTERATIONS IN THE C.H.A.Toronto, April 256.\u2014Some important alterations have recently been made in the régu- jations of the Canadian Hunt Association as affecting the qualifications of hunters, and the obtaining of certificates for gentlemen riders.By the change in rule 69, a hunter may be qualified even if not owned by a member, which wae formerly required.Reciprocity in riding certificates is now esta- blUshed with the National Hunt and Steeplechase Association of the United States.Nine months previous to the application is now the time limit against winners of open jumping race.2 SMALL FIRES.Fire did about a bundred follers* worth of damage io Mr.J.A.Parks\u2019 ale house, 1042 St.Andre street, at 9.15 last night.The firemen were called out to stop old grass and rubbish froia burning at 161 Cote des Netges Road about nine o'clock last night, .Fire was discovered this morning by 8 watchman of the Slater Shoe factory at 5.35 in the stable of E, J.Maxwell & Co, 725 Craig street.The fire bad evidently been smouldering for some time, for although extinguished before making apy headway, the smoke had nearly smothered the three horses.One le expected to die, SPECIAL SESSIONS.Charles Gagnon, alias Remillard, arrested by Detective Suthergill for breaking into a club room at St.Urbaln street, on April 8 or 9, and stealinx liquors and tobaccos therefrom.was found guilty by Judgo Choquet last week.This morning he was sentenced to three years In the penitentiary.He has not been out long and has a bad record which went against him.Geo.Butt, found guilty of baving stolen 3 kit of carpenter\u2019s tools, worth about twenty dollars, was sentenced to four Months i= jail.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014r A CASE OF VANDALISM.About three o'clock this morning two men entered the grounds of Mr, Jas.Linton, \u2018Mount View ' 1125 Sherbrooke street, and broke the antlers of the ornamental stugs which stand just {pside the gate.They were then seen by a watchman of the Montreal Gas Company to run away down Sherbrooke street, but they could not be caught.Mr.Linton knows no reason for the decd except malicious mischief, pe p= se \u2018 Eo aa ri ter Di CE aT pa a pa ee iD yp eee = \u2014 Tt hes JIT en 4 [] ah alii SURE ee 2 ne 14 PORT OF MONTREAL, President of the Corn Exchange Addresses Winnipeg Grain Men on the Subject.BTRONG RESOLUTION ADOPTED FAVORING GOVERNMENT AID AND A TEMPORARY CHANGE IN THE LAW OF NAVIGATION.Winnipeg, Man., April 24.\u2014A largely sttended meeting of business men and gentlemen interested in the grain trade of the North-West was addressed to-day by Mr.Alex.McFee, president of the Mont real Corn Exchange, the objéct being to increase interest in the port of Montreal, and the all-Canadian route to the sea board.At the comclusion of Mr.McFee's address \u201cthe following resolution was wvanimously.adopted: \u2018Whereas, if is, anticipated that.phere) will be a large increase in the agricul tural products of Manitoba and the North-West Territories, and ample trans portation and terminal facilities for bandling the same, will be of advantage to the producers; \u2018And, whereas, it is of paramount importance to the west, and ajo to the eastern provinces that a large share of this business should pass through Canadian territory, to the seaboard; \u2018And, whereas, the Canadian inland marine is insufficient to meet the requirements of the grain trade originating at Fort William elevators; \u2018And, whereas, there are no elevator facilities at Montreal for storage of grain arriving by water route; \u2018Be it, therefore, resolved, that it is the orinion of this meeting in view of the large anticipated increase in the grain products of this country which will require all the harbor space in the port of Montreal to provide for the same, that the property now controlled by the Montreal Harbor Trust be not alienated by lorg-term leases to either individuals or corporations; \u2018Be it, therefore, resolved that pending the increase of Canadian tonnage sufficient for the requirements of the grain trade originating at Fort William, that United States vessels be allowed to load at Fort William for Canadian eastern ports for export; and that the port of Montreal be equipped with most modern permanent elevator facilities by the government as an adjunct to the canals, thereby assuring to the producer that the minimum charges for transhipping snd storage of grain will be made; and al- no-thet such facilities be provided by the Dominion Government as will prolong navigation at Fort William to the latest date possible.\u2019 treater COGHLAN REVELATIONS, GALLANT CAPTAIN BECOMING RE- SERVED\u2014FEFLING IN BERLIN.New York, April 25.\u2014A hundred and twenty sailors from the United States cruiser \u2018 Raleigh,\u2019 clad in their naval uniforms, were given a banquet in the Astor gallery of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, last night.Shortly after the banquet had begun, Captain and Mrs.Coghlan arrived and mingled with the spectators: Captain Coghlan, when asked about the international furore raised by his speech, was very reticent.He said :\u2014\u2018 I! have received no communication from Washington, except a routine order which has come through Rear Admiral John W.Philip.I do not care to discuss the matter.As you can well understand, the more I talk about it the more the matter wiil become involved and there wili be misstatements and misunderstandings.You can understand my position.\u2019 THE BERLIN PRESS.Berlin, April 25.\u2014The afternoon newspapers here yesterday contain few comments upon.Captain Coghlan\u2019s remarks, and they generally take a calm view of the after-dinner speech and consider the incident closed, particularly in view of the semi-official note published here announcing the strong disapproval of the United States Secretary of State with the captain\u2019s conduct.coupled with the dignified tone of the American press on the subject, which is regarded as being noteworthy and as testifying to the improved German-American relations.The \u2018Vossiche Zeitung\u2019 is an exception to this rule, and pronounces itself in favor of demanding severe punishment for Captain Coghlan.It says: \u2018Captain Cogh- Jan belongs to the class of American officers who have swelled heads in consequence of their easy victory over Spain.\u2019 The \u2018Tageblatt\u2019 in an inspired article recalls the fact that the incident is a | year old (referring to the message which Admiral Dewey is said to have sent to Admiral Von Diedrichs), and adds: \u2018If we must admit Admiral Dewey at first harbored suspicions of the German squadron, these suspicions were subsequently removed, and their relations became most rordial, Admiral Dewey even decorating his ships with flags on the Empress\u2019s birthday, which international etiquette did mot compel him to do.The \u2018Loka! Anzeiger, in a somewhat violent denunciation of Captain Coghlan, says: \u2018He comes of Irish-American line- Jay AS ASS A MAN age, which, notoriously, produces the roughs, both high and low, of the American classes.\u2019 The \u2018Boersen-Courier\u2019 thinks it \u2018strange the Americans re-commence to seek a quarrel with Germany, instead of first conquering the Filipinos, who promise to give them enough work for some time.\u2019 \u2014_\u2026œ LADY SCOTT BACK HOME.London, April 25 \u2014Lady Bcott, wife of Sir Samuel Edward Scott, Conservative member of parliament for West Maryle- bone, and daughter of Earl Cadogan, lord lieutenant of Ireland, who disappeared somewhat mysteriously while out shopping on April 17, greatly alarming her family, has been found, and is now with her relatives.The \u2018Daily Chronicle which makes this announcement, says the matter is being amicably arranged.\u2014 NO MENACE.BRITISH TROOPS INCREASED IN THE TRANSVAAL TO BE READY FOR EMERGENCIES.TBondon; - Aprit +5; Commons to-day Mr.John Dillon, Nationalist member for county Mayo, called attention afresh to the large increase in the British forces at the Cape within a comparatively brief period\u2014an increase which Mr.Balfour, when the matter was brought up last week, said was in no wise intended as a menace to the Transvaal.Mr.Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, answering Mr.Dillon's interpellation, explained that the increase was due to the fact that the Transvaal Government had been making \u2018tremendous military preparations\u2019 on the borders of Cape Colony.Mr.Henry Labouchere, Radical member for Northampton, reproached the Colonial Secretary with \u2018following a defiant action by a defiant speech.\u2019 DUE TO AN ACCIDENT.JURY\u2019S VERDICT IN THE WINDSOR HOTEL FIRE CASE.\u2014\u2014 New York, April 24.\u2014The inquest into the Windsor Hotel fire was held to-day by Coroner Bausch.The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the fire resulted from an accident.Chief of Police Devery stated to-day that $10,000 worth of jewels, silverware, clothing and other property, found in the ruins of the Windsor Hotel, would be put on exhibition for ten days in the hope that they might be identified and claimed.At the expiration of that period anything remaining will be turned over to the police property clerk.\u2014\u2014\u2014 PERISHED WITH HER TREASURE.Bellefonte, Pa, April 24.\u2014Mrs, William Meyer, an aged: widow living near | Boulsburgh.in this county, was burned to death last night, while a large crowd of men stood helpless to rescue her from her burning home.The woman was alone, and started to save as much of her property as possible, She had carried out everything of value, except a trunk, in which there was considerable money.She expressed her determination to save the treasure and insisted on rushing into the house.She was caught and dragged back twice, but the third time she broke away and dashed for the burning building.A moment later she was seen at the upper window with her clothes and hair on fire trying to raise the trunk to the sill to pitch it out.After several vain efforts she sank back.Her charred remains were recovered.LAW OF EXTRADITION, IMPORTANT POINT DECIDED BY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT.Washington, D.C., April 24.\u2014Chief Justice Fuller to-day announced the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Thomas Cosgrove vs.Eugene | D.Winney, United States marshal for the eastern district of Michigan.The case involves the extradition treaty in force between this country and Great Britain, for Canada, the particular point at issue being whether a resident of Canada who has been extradited and brought to the United States on one charge, can be arrested on another case before the proceeding had terminated and he had had an opportunity to return to his own countrv.The Chief Justice held that he could not thus be dealt with, reversing the finding of the district court for the eastern district of Michigan.\u2014 THE DUTIES ON TOBACCO.Windsor, Ont., April 24.\u2014The Domin- jon Government has notified the Essex Tobacco Association that no change will be made this year in the excise and customs duties on tobacco.The growers wanted a uniform excise duty of ten cents, a single license and an import tax of 60 to 70 cents on United States tobacco.By such amendments to the tariff the association felt that the American weed would be kept out of Canada and the Canadian product used exclusively by Canadian manufacturers.\u2018The government's action,\u201d said an extensive grower to-day, \u2018will tend to discourage the tobacco industry in Kent and Fssex counties.Tiere was more than five million pounds grown last year, but I am satisfied that not half that amount will be raised this season.\u2019 THE MERRIE MEN OF ENGLAND.St.George's Society\u2019s Annual Banquet.THE MAYOR AND THE ST.LAWRENCE ROUTE.The anniversary of England's patron saint was celebrated by the St.George's | Society of Montreal by a banquet last night at the Windsor Hotel.In the absence of the president, Mr.Wm.Nivin, in England, the functions of chairman were performed by Mr.E.Goff Penny, M.P., first vice-president, who expressed regret at the absence of Mr.Nivin for the second time in succession.Telegrams giving fraternal greeting were read from the St.George's Society of London, New York, Ottawa, Toronto and other places.It had been hoped up to the last minute that the Hon.W.S.Fielding would add interest to the occasion by his pres ence, but he was compelled to send re grete.- The chief guests were His Wor- MR.E.GOFF PENNY, Vice-President of St.George's Society.ship Mayor Prefontaine; Mr.J.H.Ferns, president of the Irish Protestant Benevolent Society; Mr.A.F.Riddell, second vice-president of the St.Andrew\u2019s Society; Mr.F.T.Beique, president of the St.Jean Baptiste Society ; Dr.Kennedy, president of the St.Patrick\u2019s Society; Mr.W.Seath, president of the Caledonian Society, and Mr.Jackson, representing the Sons of England Society.Others present included Messrs.E.A.Mumford, A.Reford, H.Thonip- son, J.E.Holland, S.8.Tucker, kil Rees, H.F.Rowell, F.H.Rowell, G.Hodge, W.Illsley, G.Hall, M.D, 'H.Reyner, C.E.Hart, W.Livermore, G.Knott, Chief Harrison, Westmount ; W.Renwood, J.Hewland, J.W.C.Binns, W.Chalk, Thos.Harling, the Rev.E.Bushell, C.Blakely, R.Meredith, G.Durnford, James Richards, the Rev.C.G.Rollit, M.Tabb, R.C.Wilkins, J.McAllister, F.E.Yardley, H.Barton, R.S.Clift, J.S.Murray, S.C.Oxton, W.C.Blake, the Rev.W.C.Rodgers, J.Rendell, Joseph Ward, S.Carsley, C.B.Carter, the Hon.Mr.Atwater, T.Montgomery, J.K.Ward, W.Jackson, G.W.Wilkinson, A.A.Coates, F.H.Richards, H.E.Hardisty, E.Stewart, H.A.Hodgson, M.J.Farrell, M.H.Chapman, W.M.Birks, J.Fortier, AT.Rice, Wm.Hall, Robert Hobson, W.Bridgeman, Robt.Bickerdike, M.P.P., and H.G.Nivin, ' Justice having been done to the viands, which included, of course, the time-hon- ored Toast beef and plum pudding, al) served in the Windsor's usual admirable style, speech-making was in order.The toasts numbered six: \u2018The Queen\u201d \u2018 The Governor-General,\u201d * St.George and Merrie England,\u201d \u2018Our Guests\u2019 \u2018The Press\u2019 and \u2018The Ladies.The toast of the evening was proposed by Mr.John Harling, and brought out a united rendering of \u2018 For England, Home and Beauty.\u201d The Hon.A.W.Atwater responded.The cry of \u2018St.George and Merrie England,\u201d he said, had charmed the English ear wherever heard, and the virtues of that saint had always been the standard of the English people.St.George early managed to get his name.into very good company.St.George, \u2018St.Andrew and St.Patrick stood for a combination that as far as this world\u2019s history was concerned was simply irresistible.Might he soon get his name associated with even a greater saint\u2014St.Jean Bantiste.Mr.Atwater dwelt briefly upon the greatness of England as a nation; no longer Merrie Little England, harassed by border wars, but Greater England, which wherever she had stood, she had stood for the progress of the world.He reminded his hearers that they were within a month of the eightieth birthday of our beloved sovereign.When Victoria ascended the throne, in 1837, conditions in Canada were vastly different from what they were to-day.Our French- Canadian people were then in open re- hellion, and for just cause ; Queen had no more loyal subjects.In proposing the next toast, the president referred to the fact that they had entertained many other guests during the vear, their kith and kin, at St.George's Home, the exact number being 1,288.No later than the previous evening a hundred and fifty immigrants had arrived in the city.a hundred of whom they entertained with hed and breakfast at the Home.He added that before poon of the same day all had found situations.The Mayor was the first guest to reply, ; \u2018statute, authorize to-day the: MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.EE and did so in a speech of some length.In vouching for the loyalty of French- (Canadians, he repeated the sentiments expressed by his leader, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, in Paris.France had given them life; but there was another principle dear to every human breast.It was liberty, and England had given them liberty.Her subjects of French origin were just as faithful to the British Crown as any English, Scotch or Irish.Touching on civie affairs, His Worship said that there was a great deal to be done.With only a little good will the city could be made one of the greatest and most important on the American coutinent.The St.Lawrence route was destined to be the route of the west, American as well as Canadian.The Americans realized that without spending two hundred million dollars they could not make the Erie a fourteen-foot canal.+ was the policy of Canada to develop the St.Lawrence route.The port must be properly equipped, if at the cost of the whole country, and perhaps the harbor and other dues abolished.These questions must be and would be shortly considered.The speaker threw out a word of advice to the English population of Montreal.Without meaning anything personal to any one who had ever sat in the council, he would say that the English people had not in the past sent their best to represent them, and to this rather than to any preconcerted design on the part of their French-speaking fel- low-citizens, might be traced the cause of any discontent.A number of other speakers followed, including the representatives of sister sccieties.Proceedings were enlivened by selections of vocal and instrumental mu- sie, concluding, about two p.m., with \u2018Auld Lang Syne\u2019 and \u2018God Save the Queen.\u2019 ST.GEORGE'S DAY IN NEW YORK.New York, April 25.\u2014The 113th anniversary of St.George's Society, of New York, brought about three hundred loyal Britons and their guests together at Delmonico\u2019s, last night.The banquet romm was bare of all decorations save.for a life-size oi] portrait of Queen Victoria.flanked by the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes.The president of the society, Mr.Geo.Gray Ward, acted as toast-master.With him at the table of honor were Captain A.T.Mahan, US.N.; Lieut.-C-lonel Lee, military attaché to the British Fm- hassy at Washington: the Rev.Dr.Parker Morgan, and Messrs.Howland Pell, S.F.Stanton, Tohn Reid, George Ahearn and Prey Sanderson, consul-general: Dr.F.L.Patton, president of Princeton University: Mr.Tunis C.Berget, and the Rev.F.Walpole Warren.STEPHENS vs.PREFONTAINE PROCEEDINGS TO DISQUALIFY THE MAYOR.Acting under the provisions of the new charter, the Hon.G.W.Stephens took out proceedings in the Superior Court, vesterday afternoon, to disqualify Mayor Prefontaine froin sitting in the municipal council for the next two years, for having violated the clauses of tbe statute prohibiting the expenditure of money in excess of the amount duly appropriated.The specific charge laid against His Worship is in the following terms:\u2014 , \u2018That on or about April 13, inst, and while the said statute was in full force and effect, the said defendant and respondent, being then, and still \u2018acting as Mayor of the city of Montreal, and a member of the council of the said city, did, in violation of the said the expenditure of nioney exceeding the amount previously voted and legally placed at the disposal of the Council for the Road Committee for that purpose, to wit, to an amount of $2,625 or thereabouts, which he, the said defendant, as such member of the said council, ordered to be disbursed out of the moneys of the city for the payment of wages due certain laborers and workmen employed at the instance of the Road Committee of the said covncil.\u2019 \u2014 DEADMAN'S ISLAND.DISPUTE TO BE DISCUSSED AT À MEETING OF VANCOUVER CITY COUNCIL, TONIGHT.\"Vancouver, B.C., April 25.\u2014A large crowd attended the meeting of the city council, last night, in expectation of a leng debate over the Deadman\u2019s Island sensation; but once again the public was disappointed.The Dominion Govern: ment's letter staling that the lease has been granted to Mr.Ludgate, and that the city has no right to the island, was read and the council decided to discuss it at a special meeting to-night.Mean- \u2018time the crowd became very noisy, and nne man had to be put out.Mr.Ham- mersley, the city solicitor, says if the ccuncil decides to fight the matter, it has a splendid case.Mr.Ludgate now says he only represents himself, and no company is interested.pe \u2014 PORTUGUESE (CABLE SCHEME.London, April 24.\u2014The Lisbon correspondent of the \u2018Times\u2019 says : \u2018The Portuguese Cortes has approved a project for laying and working a cable from the Azores to North America, Great Britain and Germany.The undertaking will be carried out by the Europe and Azores Telegraph Company.\u2019 Bi oA > die TUESDAY.APRIL 25, 1895.THE DETROIT STREET RAILWAY TROUBLE.Detroit, Mich., April 24.\u2014A committee of sixty-two citizens by their attorneys this afternoon filed a hill of complaint asking that Governor Pingree and the other members of the Detroit Strect Railway Committee and the city of Detroit be temporarily and perpetually enjoined from taking any further steps toward the purchase and operation of Detroit\u2019s street railways under the McLeod Act, authorizing the same.and asking that the McLeod Act and all proceedings thereunder be decreed to be void.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 SURROGATE REGISTRAR AT CORNWALL.MR.JOHN A.M\u2018DOUGALD FILLS THE VACANCY EX-OFFICIO BY STATUTE.Toronto, April 22.\u2014It transpires that the vacaney in the office of Surrogate Registrar for Stormont, Dundas and Glen- garry, at Cornwall, is now filled by operation of the statute respecting Surrogate Courts in the person of Mr.John A.Mec- Dougald, who for many years has held the offices of registrar of the High Court of Justice and clerk of the County Court for the same counties.In cases where the emoluments of the two latter offices do not exceed $1,600 for the year preceding a vacancy in the office of Surrogate Registrar, the clerk of the County Court, upon such vacancy, becomes ex-officia registrar by operation of the statute.As Mr.McDougald is already in office, and qualified in his position of clerk of the County Court, the practice does not require a commission to issue from the lieutenant-governor.His instructions were communicated to him to-day by Mr.James Fleming, Inspector of Legal Offices for Ontario at Osgoode Hall.Mr.McDougald is one of the oldest High Court registrars in Ontario.and is regarded by the Attorney-General\u2019s department as one of the most experienced and competent._____ CANADIAN MINERALS, REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.Ottawa, April 25.\u2014The annual summary report of the Geological Survey for 1898 was laid on the table of the House of Commons yesterday.While the director has again to allude to the ever present danger of the loss by fire of the valuable collections and records of the Survey still housed in Ottawa, he adds that there is now some prospect of the early erection of a mew and spacious fireproof building.The aggregate value of tbe production of minerals in Canada during the year 1897, as finally corrected and published, is $28,661,430, being an increase of about 27 percent over that of the previous year, This is largely accounted fpr by the great development of gold mining, particularly in the Yukon district, the value of the gold produced being more than double that for 1896.Several other mineral products, however, likewise show a very significant growth, the percentage increases in value of some of these being as follows, according to the figures obtained by the Section of Mineral Statis- tice and Mines :\u2014Lead, 93.7 ; silver, 54.6 ; copper, 46.9; gypsum, 37.3; cement, 36.5 ; nickel, 17.7.The returns for 1898 are at this time by no means complete, but they are sufficiently known to indicate that a further increase of 25 to 30 percent in value will appear in this year as compared with 1897.As before, however, a large proportion of this increase is attributable to placer gold mining in the Yukon dis- triet.Among the minerals for which special inquiries have been received during the year, the following may be mentioned.Some of these have not vet been found in Canada, or not in quantities that appear to be of commercial importance, but most of them may be looked for, in different parts of the Dominion, with prospects of success, while others are already well known.Asbestos, antimony ores, bismuthenite, corundum, chromic.iron, felspars, fire clays in British Columbia and the North- West Territories, fluorspar, graphite, gypsum, iron pyrites, iron ores (Bessemer and titaniferous), limestone, molyvhebden- ite, mica, marble.magnesjte, natural gas, nickel osmium, platinum, pottery clay, peat, phosphate, apatite, quartz, sand for glass-making and for sand-blasting, stea- tite or soapstore, tale, tungsten and zine ores.The director counts upon the active cooperation of all those engaged in mining and metallurgical industries in Canada to make the exhibit in this line at the Paris Exposition a creditable and representative one, as the occasion seems to be one of which the greatest possible advantage should be taken.Communications on the subject are invited from those interested.Notes are included on the several sur- vevs in progress in the east, in the west, and in the Yukon district.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 MARCONT'S LATEST ACHIEVEMENT London, April 24.\u2014Signor Marconi, the electrician whose experiments in wireless telegraphy are attracting international attention, has successfully communicated from South Foreland, Kent, England.to the French armed despatch vessel \u2018Ibis.while sailing in the English Channel.In conducting the experiment he was accompanied by a French naval officer.The feat marks also his first success in concentrating messages at one point to the exclusion of all others.THE CASE OF DREYFUS, \u2018 SERIOUS STATEMENT BY AN ENG LISHMAN.; London, April 25\u2014Mr.David Christie Murray publishes this morning the state 1 { ment that he has learned from trusue > | thy sources in Paris that the Sup: 0 \"Council of War, cluding General 14 Negrier, General Zurlinden, Givuera, varell, General Duchesne aus oy veral Jamont, iis vice-president.po whom, except, perhaps Gener: ; den, has heretofore been smptivstsn i | the Dreyfus affair, has decuded that der no circumstances Dreyfus be liberated.He understands also from the sun sources, that negotiations wre now 1 ceeding between the Intelligence Bure.and the judges of the Court or Cassat to secure a rejection of the request for © vision and that the judges favoring re vision are Leing subjected to terrible in timidation.More than this, he learns that every: thing has been arranged for a shan, tril of Col.Picquart, who ix to be degrade: and sentenced to imprisonment years, Paris.April 24.\u2014 The \u2018Figaro\u2019 whatever, wo or ten continues its publication of the testimony vtiere, before the Court of Cassation tr Dreyfus revision enquiry.Capten tx net, who described the discovery of : forgery of Lieut.-Col.Henry, tu Court that in his opinion Henry vas - ly an accomplice of Col.Du Paty de a the principal author of the forgers.11 much as Henry was never befure accus of wrongdoing, while Du Paty de was known to be guilty or shady jr.tices, Paris, April 25\u2014The \u2018Figaro, in - publication of the testimony offered i fore the Court of Cassation in the Dh fus revision proceedings, continues ©.evidence given Dy (aptain Cuignet.wi gave the court his reasons for believiru that Dreyfus was guilty.First.his (Drevfus\u2019s) confession; ac ond, the technical contents of the bo: dereau, and third, the secret dossier Captain Cuignet admitted, however.tha: there was nothing in the secret dossier that referred to Dreyfus or showed Hs guilt except the Panizardi despatch.Paris, April 25.\u2014 The Matin\u2019 this morr ing announces that Countess Esterhar\\ will to-day begin proceedings for a «d: vorce from her husband, Commandant: Esterhazy.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 COPPER COMBINE FORMING.New York, April 24.\u2014The \u2018Tribune, to-morrow, will say: It is generally le.lieved that definite announcement will le made within the next week or ten days of the formation of a great copper mining combination, about which so much has been said in the last few months.I: & understood that the Rothschilds have been co-operating with the Standard (n] men in securing a controlling interest many valuable copper properties with the object of combining them into a vast cor poration which shall dominate the copper market of the United States.ANGLO-FRENCH NILE CONVEX.TION.Rome, April 24.\u2014In the Senate to-duy Admiral Canevaro, Minister for Foreign Affairs, replying to interpellations regard: ing the Anglo-French Nile Conventirn and its effects upon Tripoli, one of the Barbary states in the north of Africa, cn the Mediterranean, said that Great Br.tain and France had given ample a- surances that they had no designs, either for present or for future zxecution on Tripoli and that the commercial route: between Tripoli and the hinterland would be kept open.J REVENUE COLLECTOR IN TROU BLE.Lancaster, Pa., April 24, \u2014Samuel B.Downey, deputy internal revenue collec tar here, was arrested to-day by Captain Burns, of the Secret Service, who came here with Chief Wilkie, from Philadel phia.Downey is charged with informing Jacobs and Kendig, the cigar makers, arrested for counterfeiting, of the fact that the Secret Service agent, Burns, was after them.He is now locked up in the collector\u2019s office and will have a hearing to-night.THE EMPEROR WILLIAM'S NEW PLAY.London, April 24.\u2014A despatch to th \u2018Daily Mail\u2019 from Berlin says that the Emperor William's new drama.\u2018Der Ki senzahn,\u201d founded upon the history of Brandenburg, will probably be staged during his forthcoming visit to \\Vicr baden.el ew \u2014 MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP OF SALOONS.Toledo, Ohio, April 24 \u2014The Toledo Pastors\u2019 Union, at a meeting to-day made a move towards sanctioning the municipal ownership of saloons.The matter created considerable discussion, the majority of the pastors seeming to favor the idea.THE DAILY WITNESS is printed and published at the \u2018 Witness' Building, at the corner of Craig and St.Peter streets, in the city of Montreal, Uy Jobo Redpath Dougall, of Montreal All business communications should be addressed John Dougall & 8on, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office, Montresl, and ail letters to the Editor should be addressed Editor of the * Witness,\u2019 Montreel."]