The canadian gleaner, 28 février 1878, jeudi 28 février 1878

[" rene A.DUNSMORS invites special attention to the follow Goods : po is FANCY DRESS GOODS, Great Variety ! BLACK DRESS GOODLS, a Specialty ! Canadian Tweeds, Fancy Coatings, Napp Cloth for Ulsters, all Wool and Union Shirtings, Scarlet and White Flannels, a fine assortment, all \u2018Wool Double Shawls, cheap Winceys, 23 per cont.below last year's prices, 3 and Sashes very low, Woolen Yarn greatly reduced, LADIES and MENS OVERSHOES! A Fine Assortment Boots & Shoes.§@~ CHOICE GROCERIES ALWAYS KEPT.\u201cGa Also a great variety of other Goods sait- able for the present and approaching Season.Dominion Block, Huntingdon.STAGE TO RIVER BEAUDETTBE.THE undersigned intend running a line of Stages from Huntingdon to River Boaundette, connecting with the trains.Leaving Huntingdon every morning at 4 o'clock to connect with the 7 o'clock train going East, and remaining there until the arrival of the 11:03 going West.And another Stage leaving Huntingdon every day at 12 o'clock to connect with the 3:20 goin, East, and remaining there until the arriva of tho 6:55 gaing West, and thence return to Huntingdon.Having good horses, comfortable stages and careful drivers we trust we will securo a liberal patronage.FREIGHT drawn at reasonable rates, A.PERCY, Proprietor.A Great National Work Just Published.Te Now Popular Illustrated Hrsrory oF THE DoMINION oF CANADA, by Chas.R.Tuttle; D.Downie & Co., Publishers.Being the most eluborate and artistic work ever issued in this country.A Beautiful Quarto in 2 vols.of 600 pages each, handsomely bound, sparkling with 810,000 worth of Art Illustrations.Sold by subscription in volumes or in monthly parts at 50 cents each.Good agents wanted in every county in the Province on this and other standard publications, all selling rapidly; good wages guaranteed.Send $1.00 for sample numbers.Address D.Downie & Co., Publishers, & Importers, 162 St.James St., Montreal.FALL AND WINTER GOODS in large supply and at very low prices at W.W.DALGLIESITS, Teas of best quality and all sorts of Gro- cerics very low at W.W.DALGLIESH'S, Ladies\u2019 Mink sets, Persian Lamb Caps, and Clouds, in great variety at W.W.DALGLIESH'S.Buffalo Robes and Horse Blankets cheaper than ever at W.W.DALGLIESH'S, Saratoga Trunks and Valises at W.W.DALGLIESH'S, Crosg-cut Saws, Wood Saws, Hand Saws, Tenon Saws, &e., at W.W.DALGLIESH'S.Boots and Shoes, Overshoes, Moccasins, Rubbers, &e., at W.W.DALGLIESH\u2019S.Also some accounts that must be settled at W.W.DALGLIESH'S.Huntingdon, Dec.5.DENTISTRY.H.W.MERRICK, DENTIST, FORT COVINGTON, N.Y., EGS to inform his many friends and patrons in Huntingdon County that he has removed bis office to his new residence, situated on the street leading to Hoganburgh, opposite to the residence of H.C.Congdon, where he may be found the first twenty.five days of cach month.Those having operations performed or work done can remain, and will be entertained without extra charge.All operations are warranted.Gold fillings are warranted for five years.Fort Covington, Aug.7.DAVID BRYSON, A UCTIONEER, Village of Howick, conducts sales in both languages.Bar Ready to attend sales in any part of the District.Prompt attention to orders by mail.CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES, TEAS, COFFEES, SPICES, BUGARS, SYRUPS FRUIT, FLOUR, SALT, FISH, PICKLED AND CANNED SALMON, CIGARS, TOBACCO, (Finest Brands), BORDEAUX VINEGAR, PURE COAL OIL, &c.USTOMERS will find the choicest \u2018Teas in the Province, at almost importers\u2019 prices.Largest stock in town.Choice Teas a specialty; they please everybody; trade continually increasing ; customers wanted everywhere, Best inducements, Judging from what customers say, our Teas are fully 10 to 15 per cent, cheaper than they pay clscwhere.Besides we keep n better class of Teas than you find generally in country towns.All our Teus are good ; we don\u2019t keep common qualities, and wo sell those really good qualities at the prices usually charged for common kinds.Don't waste time then, but send for your Tea to GEORGE Q.O'NEILL.OTICE\u2014The undersigned begs leuve to N inform the public that he has opened an office in the County building, village of Huntingdon, where he will attend every Thursday, and remain while detained by businoss.IL I.Crevier, N.P.Huntingdon, Dec.7, 1877.FARM FOR SALE or the River Chateauguay.Portion of No, 4 and 5, in fifth range of Godmanchcster, containing about 200 acres.Apply to ANDREW SOMERVILLE, Huntingdon.MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE COUNTY OF BEAUHARNOIS.Inswving only Farm and Isolated property.PRESIDEN T-Archibald Henderson, Esq.Directors\u2014=George Cross, Esq., Francis W.Shirriff Esq, M.D., John Symons, Esq., Colonel James Reid Alexander McNaughton, Esq.and Daniel Macfarlane sq.Socretaryand Trcasurer\u2014AndrewSomerville Hun- tingdon.Agents\u2014William Edwards, Franklin ; Robert Middlemiss, Hinchinbrooke; Thomas Clarke, Ste Philomène ; Robert Smaill, Elgin; P.Clancy, N.P,and J.A.V.Amirault, N.P., Hemmingford; Wm.Gebbie, Howick; John Davidson, Dundee ; 1.1.Crevier, N.P., 8t Anicet; J, C.Manning, Franklin ; Arthur Herdman, Herdmau\u2019s Corners ; Dr Maclaren, Durham, and A.M.Mason Huntingdon.MO\" Parties wishing to insure their property, are Tequested to apply to the agentsor Becretary.Uhe Candinn Oleaner NO.636.FAIR WARNING.their accounts, will please boar in on the first of March will, on the second day of the same month, be handed to my lawyer for collection.Joux HunreR, Huntingdon, Feby.21.IMPROVED STRAW CUTTERS \u2014AND\u2014 FANNING MILLS For Saie CHkar for Cas.BOYD & CO.Huntingdon, Feb.13, 1878.NOTICE.TEE undersigned being desirous of selling off bis Stock of Day Goons now on hand has concluded to sell AT axo UNDER COST to May 1st.Parties in need of such will find this a good chance of getting Cheap Goods, ME\" All Book Accounts over 6 months due must be settled.JAMES ANDERSON, P.S\u2014Two Hundred Thousand fect of good dry Hemlock Lumber for sale at Six Dollars per 1000 ft.Anderson\u2019s Corners, Feby, 1878.J.A.Great Bargains and No Deception! TS subscriber, from the position in which he is now placed, boing unable to carry on the Dry (Goods business, must clear out his entire stock of DRY GOODS AND BOOTS & SHOES.he stock comprises Dress Goods, Flannels, Ladies\u2019 Underclothing, Clouds, Fur Sets, Berlin Wools, &c.Gentlemen's Tweeds, Underclothing, Sashes, Scarfs, Fur Caps, Hate, Rubber Coats, &c.Boots and Shoes of all kinds, both of Men's and Womon's wear, plain and buttoned ; also, Overshoes, 8a Tho whole will bo sold at Cost and under.For tho future, the undersigned will con- fino himself to the Grocery business, in which he will keep as usual a completo assortment.- JOHN GILMORE, Huntingdon.FOR SALE OR TO LET TT\" Dewittville Cheese Factory.Apply to JouN STEwART, Dewittville, Que.Another Chance for Cheap Goods ! TT undersigned being about to take a partner into his business finds it necessary to reduce his Stock before doing so.He will therefore offer his entire Stock at and under Cost until the first of March for CasH only.Scarlet Fiannels, only 20 cents.All wool Fancy Flannels, only 33 cents, Gents\u2019 Shirts and Drawers, only 40 cents.Bod Blankets, only $1.50.Resdy-mado Horse Blankets, only $1.00.Prints and Cottons, only 6 cents.Hemp Carpet, only 18 cents.Ladies\u2019 Muffs, very good, only 82.Breakfast Shawls and Scarfs, all at Cost.Waterproof Cloth & Tweeds, all at cost.Shawls, Skirts, and Hosiery, all at cost.Men's Hats and Caps, at and below cost.Ready-made Clothing, down to cost.Boots and Shoes, all at cost.A large stock of Crockery to bo sold at cost.Groceries all cut down in price.3&9 THIS SALE WILL BE GENUINE 208 I will soll strictly Ar Cost, and somo lines below Cost.JOHN HUNTER.P.S.\u2014Two good Bugyies for sale Cheap, also new and second-hand Cutters, and several sets Single Harness.PLOUGHS! PLOUGIS !! DAVID ROSS, GENERAL BLACKSMITH, HorsE SHOER, AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT MAKER, EGS to inform his friends and the public that be has leased the Blacksmith Shop now occupied by Mr Reeves, for a term of years.From long experience in all branches of his business in Scotland, where he was successful in carrying off several prizes, and in Canada, D.R.believes that he is ableto satisfy those who may favor him with orders both in regard to finished workmanship and moderation in charges.D.R.would farther intimate that he has a few single and double boarded Ploughs ready, and those who may be in want of such would do well to call early as he will sell Cheap for Cash.All communications addressed to David Ross, Huntingdon, will receive prompt attention.a Until the 1st May, when ho will take possession of his new premises, he will be found at bis old stand.Huntingdon Feby.7, 1878.DFNTISTRY! DENTISTRY! New Dental Rooms.E, FOOTE, Surgeon Dentist, Chateaugay, N.Y.begs to inform the people of Huntingdon and vicinity that he has opened a new Dental Office at Chateaugay, where he may be found every day, excepting the 3d and 4th of cach month.T'hose having operations performed can remain and will be entertained without extra charge.Teeth extracted without pain by the use of anmsthetics.Particular attention paid to the preservation of Natural Teeth, Arti ficial Tecth, from one to an entire set, moanted on the Celluloid Base, making the lightest and strongest base in use.All operations carefully executed and satisfaction guaranteed.PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.N@F\" Special Rates to those from a distance.Workshops, Waggons, Lots, &c., for Sal r Sale.THE subscriber having bought at Lancaster and about to move, must sell the remainder of his property, comprising two lots in the village of Huntingdon, one with his workshops erected thereon, the other an 8.acro park lot, and all the Lumber and Stock in hand, including Buggies, Lumber Waggons, Cutters, and Covered Carriages.$35 Cutters sold at $30 cash, or 8 per cent.until paid.Parties in want of vehicles will find this à rare opportanity to supply themselves cheaply.Material and workmanship of the best.A, McARTEUR.A\u201c parties who have been notified about | ONTARIO DAIRYMEN'S CONVENTION.TEE annual meeting of this body opened at Ingersoll, Ont., on the 13th inst., and last- led theo days.We append an abetract of mind thatall such accounts remaining unpaid | the more important procecdings taken from | the Globe's report : In reply to a question as to what kind of kage was best for butter to send to mar- et, which was answered by Prof Arnold, who said that as far as his observation and experience went no kind of wood firkin or tub was equal to white oak.Whatover the kind of wood the package was made of, it must be first suaked in cold brine \u2014the longer tho better\u2014and then in boiling hot brine, which had the effect of first extracting the sap and filling up the pores, making it impervious to the air, which was very important.Stone vessels wero used with great satisfaction by some.When properly glazed, tin vossels were good if the tin was pure, but this could seldom be obtained it being mixed with zinc and other motals which caused decom by means of the electrical currents that were induced.In a discussion, it was stated that it took slightly over 10 Ibs of milk on the average to the pound of cheese.Where the average was vory low, it would be found the milk of Jorseys was used.Prof Arnold was called upon to give an address on cooling milk for the dairy.Ho recommended such a treatment of the cow that the milk would not require cooling.Plenty of food within her reach without travelling through the hot sun, a good supply of pure water, careful and slow driving, and milking in the eliade wero of far more importance than cooling the milk, tev W.I.Clarke followed with some excellent remarks on the same subject, sug- gosting stone basement stables as a suitable place for milking cows during the bot season.On motion of Mr Weld, of London, seconded by Mr Casswell, a resolution was passed by which the Convention recommended, for tho purpose of increasing tho value of dairy products, that trees be planted along ronds where cows ure driven and in pastures where they run, or artificial shados be erected.CHEESE MAKING.Prof L.B.Arnold then gave some suggestions on cheese making.He said that the processes by which milk was converted into cheese were very numerous, and the products resulting were very unlike.Each of these processes in its own lino constituted a specialty, which to be carried to pertection must be learned and studied, and thon practised, and knowledge obtained by cxperience.Success, however, in such a specialty ro- quired something more than mero experience in manipulation ; in fact, it required all the knowlodg which could bo obtained in regard to the nature and condition of the material to be used, whatever it might be.The dairyman who studied most, and knew most of tho material he had to handle, was assured of securing tho best results.Milk was a complex body, and it needed a great deal of study, observation, and experience to know what could be done with it, and what could not be done with it.Ho did not propose to enter into a full discussion of the properties of milk, but would mercly make a few observations, with the view of impressing upon them tho importance of making themselves familiarly acquainted with all that related to their special vocation.It was a notorious fact that in modern investigations, whether in art or in science, that there was constantly a stronger and stronger inclination and necessity for going back to fundamental principles.As an illustration in their particular vocation, take the milk globule.Everything in butter-making, and a good deal in cheese-making depended upon a knowledgo of the construction of the milk globule.They all knew that the milk globules wero formed of a thin, delicate pellicle, filled with fats of different organization.[If these globules were broken a composition resulted which, like that of a broken egg, would rapidly go to destruction.The globules were lighter than the serum of the milk, and would rise by their own specific gravity.This knowledge was material, and enabled thom to get the cream to rise and make butter in fine order.Tho ncces- sity of going back to fundamental principles seemed eo important that he proposed to call attention to some of them in relation to the manufacture of cheese.Checse was made of milk and rennet.Milk they understood, and ho would not attempt to describe it, but would speak more particularly of rennet and its qualities and mode of action.Ho might remark, en passant, that milk had several compound ies in it.It contained 87 per cent.of water, 4} per cent.of sugar in solution.one-half per cont.of albumen, and 3 per cent.of casein, which was different from albumen but difficult to dis tinguish from it.Now rennet acted upon only one of those substances, namely, the casein, and this enabled us to make cheese.Of course, tho fat in cheese was held in place by the casein when coagulated.In 00 pounds of milk there were only three pounds of casein, yot when this three per cent, of casein was coagulated, it was sufficient to give solidity to the cheese product.He had perhaps given a low average proportion of caesin but this did not affect bis calculation.Ile would noxt call attention to some of the peculiarities of rennet, If they took a calf's stomach that had been dried, and soaked it in water, they would get in the water innumerable small particles of solid matter like dust.In a single rennet there were billions of these particles.They were finer than anything we could imagine, their diameter being but one two.thousandth part of an inch.These dust-like particles had a distinct and definite organi gation, They consisted of 8 membranous cell, enclosing a little liquid and a little solid matter.That something inside the cell is what plays the part which rennet plays in the coagulation of milk and the curing of cheese.It was na curious thing that the rennet produced this effect upon the milk by its presence, but entered in no way into the composition of the milk.It lay in its ition to take place, HUNTINGDON, Q.THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1818.did in thoserum.It was by the operation.It made a change in the casoin, but made none in the albumen.So that the rennet distinguished between these two substances, although the chemist found it difficult to do so.This peculiar action of rennet was termed catalytic, or the action of contact, and was undoubtedly of an elvo- trical character.It did not impart any of its substance to the milk, nor did it luse anything of its power, its action being continuous.If they took the dried stomach of the bog and suaked it in water in which was mingled a little muriatic acid until the strength of the rennet was givon out, and then pouring off the water put in a certain quantity of salt, millions of globules would rise to tho surface so that they could be soen with the naked eyo.This matter taken off and dried and mixed with milk of sugar con.(stituted the pepsin of tho drug shops.Ifa rtion of this pepsin were placed in a tum.ler of warm water and kopt at a given temperature, a small pioce of meat put therein would be dissolved\u2014the meat would in fact bo digested.A recond piece of meat dropped in the tumbler would share tho same fate.The process could be repeatod until the liquid became so thick that the pepsin could not get at the substance of the moat.Tne experiment showed that rennot was not altered by its action, and that the digestion of our stomach was not altered by its having acted upon a certain portion of our food.In the first instance popsin was mado from the stomach of the ox, and henco its namo; but it was at present made from the stomach of the pig, that omniverous animal furnishing a material something like that suppliod by the human stomach, Digestion, however, was not continod to the stomach.The principle prevailed in the whole animal economy.x coagulating material could be got in a similar manner from the alimentary canal of the calf.In the ancreas globules closely resembling those in the stomach could be got, but performing a differont function.While those in the stomach dissolved albuminoids, the globules of the pancreas converted starch into sugar, and casein into curd, and could bo used in making checse with fair succoss.Tho same peculiarity existed in every gland of the bu- man body, in the salivary glands, and in tho milk-sccreting organs.Milk under certain circumatances was often so full of this principle, that if kept warm for a little time after coming from the cow, it would coagulate of itscif.Ho had known choose mado from milk coagulated spontaneously.In all casos whero fover was produced in the animal, the milk always contained a large proportion of this coagulating clement.It was à quostion whether the croam globules did not contain the element to à certain extent.Now, the action of this popsin in milk was burried by some substances and rotarded by others.Some agents destroyed while others facilitated its action.At 98 dogrees of heat the action of ronnet was vigorous, at 160 degreos it lost its power.The presence of an alkali would in tho ond destroy the action of the rennct.Acids also depreciated its effect.Tlo had at one time supposed that light acids were beneficial to the action of rennet, but his late experiments showed thore was an invariable loss of strength.Putrofaction aided the process, as it decomposed the casein, and the ronnot acted with more vigor.In every case of tainted mill, tho action of rennot was very quick.Of courso this state of things wns not dosirable, but it has its influence in cheeso-making.What was desired, what- over the process used, or tho varioty of cheese mado, was that the rennet should havo its normal action in changing tho curd into cheese.Tho coagulum which adhored to or enclosed the rennet in some way form: ed a now fat which did not exist before.It was small in quantity, and had an acrid strong taste.Tho cheese was powerfully affected by it, and dorived its pecaliar flavor from it.How this fat was formed was not known.While it was being formed, the casein assumed a soluble condition with this now taste, and tho strength of this taste was practically the measure of the perfection of the cheesing process and the degree of its digestibility.When this fat was not well developed, the cheese was very indigestible and unwholesome.In treating choose, therefore, if that injured tho action of the reunet s0 that it did not break down the casein, the cheese obtained would not be easily digosted.They did not carry the process far enough on the wholo-milk choeso, for they threw an acid right in the way, and produced a cheese which bad not the cheose flavor, but perhaps a sour taste instead.What was wanted, thorefore, was to got rid of the acid, or to make cheese without putting that acid in the whey, and allow the rennet to oxert its proper influence.Everybody knew that milk was excocdingly susceptible to change, and it was one of the most fertile homes of forments known to man.Whey was very close upon it in this respect.hen ronnet was put into milk, something else was carried in with it.There was already ferments in the milk, caused by unfavorable circumstances in which the cow was placed.Then the calf from which the rennet was taken might have been in an unhealthy condition, and its stomach, full of macus and filth, will sapply namerous dis- case germs.All these are poured into the milk, to meet the germs of decomposition {already there, and the whey is affected, : Every change in the whey had a marked offect upon the curd, and atampod the char- :Acterof the cheese.They all knew tho card tdid not sour, but the whey.Nevertheless, -the whey would produce a specific effect, land so with all the other ferments.The {only method of avoiding this was to separate the curds from the whey as soon as possible, The milk should be heated to the point at which it was wished to make the cheese, and at which the rennet would act the best, ! which would probably be from 95 to 100 de- \u2018grees, Why not heat the milk instead of ectly unaltered coagulom just the same as the milk globules $1.50 A-YEAR.ment in à Vermont factory, and good results were obtained.The success was not, however, perfect, owing to the necessa conditions not being all taken into consider- | Bondel in ation.Since then ferent way.© had operated in a dif- It was as follows :\u2014Heat the! d The same Com has ten millions gallons of oil from England and France, and has refused orders amounting to bun- dreds of thousands of founds.The rapid growth of the business in this country indicates v discovery made by Mege, lished the ideatity of the limpid and odorless oil of fresh beef fat with the oily element of cow's milk, came in time to meet & present want\u2014just as petroleum was discovered when the whale-fishery began to languish, and gold when the world's supply of the precious metal was runnin short.The processes through which Mege arrived at the extraordinary results ry have been vividly described by M.Felix paper published in tha Moniteur Scientifique.At his farm in Yincen- milk up to 98 degrees, and apply the ronnet, | 2 M.Mego placed several milch cows cover the vat; and keop it warm.| as the curd comes sufficient to be cut, cut it (up in the ordinary way, and cover it up.Then draw it off as quickly as ible.Get the whey away as fast as it will sottle.Let it stand, keep it warm at 98, and allow it to lie there till it responds to the bot-iron test, \u2018and then \u201cgrind\u201d it, and it will be found that all the effects of the chan which have been going on in the way before de- scribod will bave been avoided.The process will beget cheese to all intents and purposes like English Cheddar cheose.thor advantage of the process was- that it was an admirable plan to get rid of taint or sourness in the milk, lle knew that the use of the acid had done a groat deal of good, and he gave it the credit of almost having saved the factory system from destruction.Lactic acid being an antiseptic, arrested putrefaction.The taint, however, would still be loft, and went into the stomach of tho consumer.In conclusion, the professor stated that cheese made in this way was found to be the most digestible, and he thought it would just suit the Koglish palate.Ho did not adviso them to rush blindly into the sys- ter, but to experiment for themselves.MARKETING CHEESE.Mr A.A.Ayor, of Montreal, spoke on the subjoct of marketing cheese.Ho went back ns far as the shelf in the history of the sub- joct.In the first place, he advised them to avoid making chooses so that they would walk to market of themsclves.Many fao- torymen were careloss in this repect, and owing to want of caro or to heating tonden- cies thoir cheeses were often worthless for shipping.During the hot season buyors scarcoly ever received a car of chooso without finding more or less of this class of choose among them.Ho had found none of those walking choescs from factories that used top and bottom cloths.Anothor thing to be avoided was putting tho cheeses in garrets or top stories of the factories, or near the roof, as this practico spoiled them.Many cheoses received by the buyers showed a lamentable want of neatness, and appeared to be daubed all ovor with grease, and the sale was consequontiy binderod.lt wasim- portant too that small cheosos should not be shipped in tall boxes.of tho right sizo oxactly.Tho poople in the Western States could teach the people of Canada and the Eastorn States a lesson in this matter.Tho Wisconsin cheese perfectly fitted tho boxos.If thoy wore careful in arranging the size of the cheesos, there was no reason why they should not be all of tho same bulk.For carrying the cheese to market in good condition two things wero itively nocessary.Let the chceso be well salted, and made firm.Whon Professor Arnold was speaking about the cheese\u2019s flavor, it occurred to bim that there might be some difference of opinion as to what constituted a opueny flavor.Amori- cans would scarcely bo disposed to admire tho flavor ot some Swiss choosos.The market required a new choose, that is, one that appeared to be new, in othor words a mild cheese.They must market their chueses, therefore, as soon as thoy were ready.Ile had rfothing to say about autumn choese, as thero was no difficalty in keeping them in a proper factory, and there was no reason why they should not bo held till tho following March.A largo proportion of the cheeso from this district was sent to England on through bills of lading, and there was the loss of weight on arrival.On arrival at the soaboard thore was often n loss of half a pound per box.Ile thought the scales should bo balanced at the half pound, so as to mako up for tho loss.Nothing was gained by the prosent system, as theshipper had toallow for therdeficiency in his calculation.Numerous complaints were made about the Ingersoll cheesc in this respect, bat seldom any about those from New York.He might say that some of the factories in Canada turn - ed out cheero as fine as any in the world, RETURNING THE WHEY, Mr T.Ballantyne delivered an address on \u201cRetarning the Whey in Cans,\u201d in the course of which he strongly condomned the practice of returning the whey in cans in which milk was delivered to the factories.Mr Casswell moved, \u201cThat whereas it has been ascertained in the discussion of this Convention, by facts from some of the lcad- ing buyers and best judgos of cheese, that in nearly evory case where the practice of returning the whey in cans which are used for the delivery of milk to cheese factories has been permitted, the flavor of the cheese has received more or less injury traceable to no other cause, be it resolved, that this Convention strongly condemns tho practice, and recommends factorymen and dairymen to discontinue it in future.\u201d À discussion followed in which it appeared that the general opinion of tho Convention waa in favor of the resolution.The resolution was carried unanimously.A debate on tho best breed of cattlo ended in a general agreement in favor of the Ayr.shires for dairy pur, , and_on the different kinds of salt in favor of Liverpool salt.The chief objection to Canadian salt was its liability to attract damp.OLEOMARGARINE BUTTER.THE great industry recently introduced into this country by the establishment of oleomargsrine butter factories has grown into large dimensions in Europe.ere are numerous factories in France, Holland, Germany, England, and Ireland, employing many thousands of men, and involvi investments of capital to the amount millions of dollars.In Vienna, one establishment employs five hundred men, and its annual production of butter is equiva- ithe curd?Tho milk could bo heated cven- ! lent to that of thirty thousand cows.An \u2018 x which could not be done with the card.| order was received in this city by the Com- © failed to see what objection there could mercial Manufacturing y, à few be to this plan.He had tried the experi- weeks ago, for fiye tons onc The boxos should be Ÿ, As soon |on à strict diet, and found that they soon decreased in weight and in the yield of milk ; but their milk always contained butter.This led to tha conclusion that the butter was produced from the fat of the animal, which, being reabsorbed and carried into the circulation, was deprived of ita stearine by iratery combustion, and furniehed its oleomargarine to the udders, where, under tho influence vf the mammary pepsin, it was changed into butyric oleomargarine ; that is to sy, into butter.The wayw duction of an article precisely the same as milk-butter.Tests with fresh beef-fat, from which the pure vil was expressed at a low and uniforin temperature, produced the desired result, as exhibited in the comparative analyses made by Drs Brown and ott since the introduction of the new product into the Western States, and which demonstrated that in chemical com.- ition thers is no difference between airy butter and oleomargarine butter.It was confessed at the Cleveland Con- vontion of American Dairymen, by Mr Eastman Reader, of New Hope, Pa, who read a paper on \u201cOlcomargarine vs.Butter,\u201d that the new product had \u201calready become a serious competitor in the market for anything but the finest grade of butter.\u201d This, point suggests another\u2014namely, the absolute necessity now pressing upon tha dairy interest to withdraw from the market all but the finest quality of milk- butter ; for what aro called the \u201cfancy brands\u201d will always find a market, oven if the price he 6u or 75 cents per pound.It is inevitable that tho inferior qualities of butter which are produced cheaply and sold dear, undor the false pretence that they are Orange County or other prime brands, will be entirely displaced by oleomargarine butter ns suvn as tho public thoroughly understand what the latter product really is.Tho dairy interest represents an enormous trade, it is trie\u2014 some six hundred millions of dollars a ear\u2014and nothing is more natural than that that interest should revolt at the introduction of a product which threatens to take its market.But it is in the lesson of history that the changing tides of human demands are promptly met by fresh invention and fresh discovery.The spin- ning-jenny, the sewing-machine, the reaping and mowing machines did not destroy industry.They only stimulated it, and their introduction established new enterprises that have grown to fabulous proportions.If our dairymen, therefore, are compelled \u2014nas they will he\u2014to mako loss butter and to produce more cheese, or to kill fewer calves, and raise more beef, they will merely be turned aside into other channels of industrial pursuits quite as profitable as, and as a good deal moro reputable than, that of putting inforior butter upon the market and demanding top- prices for it.Apropos of this, the following extracts from a letter written by Mr Thomas R.Downes, one of the largest provision brok- era in London, are interesting.Speaking of the new hutter, which he considers one of the most important discoveries of the day, and one that will, year by year, gain favor with the public, ho says: \u201cMiller & Hall and other agents of London, are receiving some from America of ao fine a quality that competent judges have pronounced them good butter.\u201d Alluding to the factories of America, he says: \u201c They aro on a scale of magnitude oqual to the production of 5,000 packages weckly of so fine a quality that it will drive Canadian and common American off this market.I write as a disinterested party, desiring tv see justice done to the article, and to induce others to try it who have hitherto felt prejudiced against it.\u201d The magnitude of the new industry in this country is a surprise even to those who introduced it with sanguine ex tations of success.The books of the Commercial Manufacturi Company (Room 57 Coal and Iron Exchange, Cortlandt street)\u2014which holds the exclusive patent right for the States of New York and New Jersey\u2014show that during the past ten or twelve months the total amount of prime beef-fat used for making oleomargarine oil and butter was 20,0.0,000 pounds in the New York factory alone ; besides proportionate amounts in half a dozen other factories, which are worked, like the one in this city, under the general Mege patent bought by the United States Dairy Company, but are scattered at different points nearest the great sources of cattle supply.Orders for oil and butter have been filled at the New York factory to the amount of millions of pounds during the period indicated,and thedemand iscomstantly growing \u2014New York Advertiser.scene in the Senate during the latter part of last night was of the most painful character.A number of Senators appeared on the floor intoxicated.They were unable to keep the run of proceedings, and made a frightful exhibition of themselves.This has been the subject of universal comment J oseph Faulkner, who has just died at Windsor, N.S, at the age of one hundred and tiree years, wi.«ne of the crew of the Shannon when she fought her cele brated battle with the Chesapeake.A Post's Washington special says: \u2014The - ve dei = prota ean abe THE CANADIAN GLEANER 15 publisb- | od every Thursday at noon.Subscrip on, $1.50 a-yoar in advance, postage free.Single copies, four cents each.One dollar pays for cight months\u2019 subecription, two dollars for à year and four months.Advertisements are © seven cents per line for the first insertion and three cents for eachsubsequent insertion.Advertisements of Farms for Sale, if not over 10 lines, are inserted three times for 81.No advertisement inserted for less than fifty cents.ROBERT SELLAR, Proprietor.The Qunadian Gleaney, HUNTINGDON, THURSDAY, FEBY.28, 1878.A DINNER was given to Mr Joly by his admirers at Quebec on Saturday\u2014a deserved compliment.The Hon.H.Starnes was present, and is reported to have charged \u201c the Government with incapacity \u201c and with bungling the financial affairs \u201cof the Province,\u201d all which is true enough, tho\u2019 it sounds somewhat strangely to hear the manager of the late Metropolitan bank talking of \u201cincapacity \u201d and \u201cbungling \u201d in connection with financial affairs For all the help he will bring, the Opposition had better leave the representative in the Council for this District with his old party.Has Mr Starnes the qualification that entitles him to represent this District ?THE national societies of Toronto have invited O'Donovan Rossa (ex-Fenian convict and treasurer of \u201cskirmishing fund\u201d whereby the British lion was to be driven distracted) to help them to celebrate St Patrick's day, and appearances indicate he will be on hand, trusting to Canadian supineneas not to arrest him and send him back to England for having broken jail.After securing the condoning of O'Dono- hue\u2019s crimes, this will be a rare opportunity for Barney Devlin to introduce a memorial into the House praying that Her Majesty extend her amnesty also to this counterpart.WE are sorry to read of another collision between the Orange Young Britons and the members of the Catholic Union, Montreal.A union Protestant concert was given in the Mechanics\u2019 hall, which went off successfully.In dispersing, the sudience noticed bodies of young men standing in the streets, and apprehensions were entertained of an attack.There was no interference, however, until several members of the Young Britons\u2019 band came out in uniform, who were followed up Bleury street ; the Britons in the middle of the street, their pursuers on the sidewalk.Above Lagauchetiere street one of the Catholics fired a shot, when the body halted, and, after some conference, went back.In doing so they met a young man, when, says the Witness,\u2014 A shout was raised, \u201cThere's one of them,\u201d \u201cgo for him,\u201d whereupon the whole crowd, numbering at least sixty, set upon one poor defenceless fellow, and beat him most unmercifully.Several other shots were fired, and everything had the appearance of a bloody riot, the piercing cries and groans of the unfortunate young man who was being so bratally beaten, resoundin on the still night air.The police seemed deaf, as the dd not make & prompt ap- ce ; however, the Young Britons, who ere shot and péher parties comm street, heari is rushed roman the spot, when the rowdies scattered.As if to prove the assailants to be as stupid as cowardly, it turned out they had mistaken their man, and instead of pummelling & heretic, as they supposed, they were lathering a Catholic.The young man was considerably hurt, and in his statement declares he was going quietly home and is unconmected with any organization \u2014\u2014It would be well for the Orangemen of Montreal, and the Young Britons in particular, to consider whether they are acting as discreetly as they might do.It is true they have a perfect right to hold concerts and take an evening airing with their band, playing unobjectionable tunes, but if such opportunities are made, by their opponents, the occasion of rows, people, who do not look closely into the facts, will, as we already perceive by the comments of some of the papers, blame the Orangemen as being the exciting cause.There are issues of the deepest import at stake in this Province, and it will be deplorable if publie opini elsewhere is misled, by those recurring encounters in Montreal, to suppose that all that is in dispute is the wearing of \u2018colors and the playing of party tunes.For the sake of Protestantism at large, Montreal Orangemen ought to refrain from everything calculated to foster the ides that the matters in dispute between ws and the majority are not of the gravest mature, but the mere bickerings of two factions.If there are any judicious men of the bead of the Orangemen of Montreal thoy cannot fail to see that aflgirs like that of last week are misconstrued to the hurt of the cause all Protestants, no matter whether Orangemen or not, have at heart, and that good policy would teach them to dispense with all occasions likely to give rise to breaches of the peace.When a collision must take place, (tho\u2019 why there should be sueh we fail to see if Protestants would only exert unitedly and wisely their constitutional influence) let it be about something more tangible than the right of young men to wear colored coats or assemble to hear patriotic tunes, and on an occasion when tho Protestants will be prepared to give their assailants such a reception that they will never court another.We hope we have seen the last of the many paragraphs headed \u201c Another Party Row in Montreal.\u201d 0 A MORE unsatisfactory session than that about closing at Quebec could not well be.The Ministry met the House in their usual state of unpreparedness, and when they did bring down the measures they proved to be of a curde or ultra nature, and have been forced through by what Mr Joly described aptly enough as \u201cbrute force.\u201d A more offensive disregard for the opinions of the Opposition and for constitutional rules and forms perhaps no Parliament ever exhibited,\u2014certainly no British Legislature in our day.Even strong Governments ave, as a rule, willing to listen to suggestions and to meet the views of opponents, but there has not, this session, been a single measure at Quebec amended at the request of the Opposition.As the bills have been introduced, they have been passed, and the consultation with the House regarding them bas become a mockery.Messrs DeBoucher- ville and Angers might as well call themselves dictators of the Province, for what they will is carried into effect without regard to the wishes of the people.The bill to compel municipalities to pay railway bonuses in violation of the terms upon which they were granted and the resolution to record the censuring of Mr Joly without stating his alleged offence, will remain unprecedented acts of injustice and tyranny since self-government was granted to the Province.It is unpleasant to reflect that in their arbitrary course the Government, all through the session, has received the support of the majority of the English-speaking members.For the sake of a few bones thrown them, in the shape of assistance to \u2018their railroads, the Eastern Townships\u2019 members have backed the Ministry in acts which they ought to know are arbitrary and which they certainly must know are leading to bankruptcy and a dangerous feeling of discontent.The Quebec Telegraph, on this point, says : It is to us a matter of sincere regret that the members of the English minority of this Province should be found on the Government side of the Mouse.Of course there are exceptions, but only in three cases, namely, Argenteuil, Huntingdon, Artha- baska and Drummond, represented by Messrs.Bellingham, Cameron, Watts.The remainder of the old country con- stitaencies bave in Parliament, representatives who support DeBoucherville's Government and Party of Taxationists.Hcre are their names :\u2014 .Messrs.Robertson, Sherbrooke.Sawyer, Compton, Thornton, Stanstead.Baker, Missisquoi.Church, Pontiac.Ogilvie, Montreal Centre.McGauvran, Montreal West.Alleyn, Quebec West.Kennedy, Mogantic.Lynch, Brome.Do the English speaking members, such as Mesars Robertson, Sawyer, Kennedy and Thornton, imagine that by acting as voting machines on every question in the House, they will serve their constituents best ?We are ashamed of the majority of our Kng- lish-speaking representatives, for were they mon like Messrs: Bellingham, Watts, and Cameron, who deserve well of their constituents for the stand they take in the House, they would refuse to vote for a Government that is gradually bringing us to roin and disgrace.Mr CARTWRIGHT'S budget speech is a plain statement of the financial condition of the country, and is far from encouraging.The points to which exception may be taken, are Mr Cartwright's sanguine views of a revival of prosperity and his neglecting to impose new taxes to meet the deficit.In the face of the daily reporta of fresh failures, which seem to increase in magnitude and number, it is hard to believe there is any improvement in trade, and the increase of importations during the past six months, on which Mr Cartwright dwells so emphatically as corroboration of his expectations, will likely turn out to be an aggravation of the evil, the importers or those of the storekeepers, who never did less, With the prospect of no improvement until after an abundant harvest, it would have been\u201d judicious to have either suspended such public works as the enlargement of the canals and the building of the railroad to Manitoba or te have imposed sufficient new taxes to have restored the equilibrium between expenditure.and incomes.This discounting of the ° .future, this trusting to something to turn up, is & reckless way of doing business which a sound financior like Mr Cartwright ought to shun.The probability is his better judgment has boen overborne in order to avoid giving the Conservatives, at the approaching elections, the cry that the Reformers have increased the taxes.EE THE charges against Mr Chapleau, which Mr Bellingham has vainly endeavored to bring before the House, are of a serious nature.The contractor of the Laurentian or 8t Lin railway, a short line, got into difficulties, the undertaking being beyond his means, when he applied to the Government for assistance.Mr Chapleau told him if he would make a transfer of the municipal and Government bonuses to certain gentlemen, of whom Mr Chapleau\u2019s father-in-law was chief, he would get enough of iron and other material to enable him to finish the road.The contractor, who cannot be a very shrewd man, agreed, and the result was he found his pretended friends had everything and he became bankrupt.It is on his affidavit as an insolvent that the charges against the Provincial Secretary rest.Mr Chap- leau denies the allegations of the contractor in toto, but if he really is innocent of pocketing any share of the monies, if the transfer he got the contractor to make was an honest one, it is hard to understand why he should have resisted sv strenuously the motion for a committee of investigation.His opposition to all enquiry, coupled with his previous participation in questionable jobs, raises something more than suspicion that he is not in the right place while a member of the Cabinet.AN important gathering of temperance men took place at Ottawa last week, the chief results of which are likely to Le the amending of the Dunkin act by the Dominion Government and the raising of £100,000 to agitate the country in favor of Prohibition.Mr Mackenzie seems now to be satisfied about the matter of jurisdiction, and the session will not pass without amendments to the present permissive law.In fairness, those in Hinchinbrook and elsewhere who are dissatisfied with ithe operation of the law to stop the |liquor-traffic, ought to wait until the new i legislation is formulated.While not exonerating the Temperance people from blame for their supineness in not enfore- ing the law, we think too little allowance has been made for the difficulties which lie in the way of obtaining a conviction under the present act.Should the anticipated changes be made, it will be the fault of thoscinterested if unlicensed grog- sellers continue their course with impunity.IT would have been an easy matter to have filled several columns of this week's paper with despatches regarding the Eastern question, but after wading through them the reader would have been no wiser and a good deal more confused than when he began.The confidence with which the concocters of these despatches assume to tell what is passing between the courts of the Great Powers is only surpassed by the effrontery with which they will contradict to-day what they asserted yesterday.The Russians have been in Constantinople we do not know how often according to these ingenious gentlemen, and England has been almost daily on the brink of declaring war.The negotiations now in progress are of too delicate and grave a nature to be known outside diplomatic circles and no dependence can be placed upon anything beyond what the Ministers feel justified in making known in the Imperial Parliament.It is certain that, up to date, the conditions of peace have not been completed between Russia and Turkey.Russia is understood to demand the surrender of six iron-clads as payment of part of her indemnity and the evacuation by all Mohammedans of Bulgaria.These dnd a difference of opinion asto the drawing of the southern boundary of Bulgaria appear to be the more objectionable features of the treaty to Turkey.England objects strenuously to the giving any part of the Turkish tleet to Russia and to the handing over of the Egyptian tribute in payment of the money indemnity.In justice to Russia it must be said she shows no disposition to provoke & rupture with England, and, considering her sacrifices in the late war and the great advantages she has gained, is more forbearing than could bc\u2018expected.She is now so strongly entrenched and for the goods are still on the shelves of well-prepared that she could bundle the Turks out of Europe and take possession of Constantindple and every other parcel of territory she covets in spite of the British fleet, so that, with the ball thus at her feet, she should choose to parley with the Powers is to her credit.A number of the conditions of the peace will bo reserved for the approval of the Conference, which will not meet for a month yet.The war cloud has by no means passed over, but every day's delay adds to the probability that it will not burst.IN the annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 1876, Mr Browning gives a tabular report of the opcra- tions of all the agricultural societies, and from which we take the following : Beauharnois\u2014342 members who paid $342, Government grant $656, receipts from horses $822, other receipts $91\u2014 total receipts $1911.Out of this 8619 were paid for prizes at show, $281 for best farms and crops, 8784 for unspecified items, and $117 to the Secretary.Chateauguay\u2014Claims to have 270 members tho\u2019 they paid only $267.Government grant R656, receipts from horses 8951, other receipts $368\u2014total $2242.For prizes at show $703 are roported to have been expended, $192 for farms and plowing match, $1278 on various items, and 8147 to the Sccretary.Huntingdon No.1-340 members who subscribed $442.Government grant $372, arrears due on horse $48, other receipts $269\u2014total 81228.Prizes at show $817, other expenditure $695, secretary $101.Huntingdon No.2\u2014219 members who paid $335, Government grant $284, other reccipts S158\u2014total 2777.Prizes at show $426, other expenditure $126, scere- tary $38.Much labor has been spent in compiling the returns, but we are afraid they are not to be depended upon.Thus, Chateau- guay and Beauharnois paid each about 240 less in prizes than is set down to them.CIRCUIT COURT, BEAUIIARNOIS.Ox Monday Judge Bélanger gave judgment, at Beauharnois, on the law points raised in the contestation about the proces- verbal made by Mr Vannier and published in the Gleaner in July last.It will be remembered that the proces-verbal, ns homologated by the delegates of the Counties of Chateauguay and Huntingdon, ordered, among other works, the blasting of the rock in the bed of the south branch of the River Outard near Anderson's Corners, and assessed a large number of lands in Hinchinbrooke, Franklin, and Ormstown, drained by the Clear Brook, Mitchell Brook, White Brook, and Black Brook to bear the expense, which would be very large.About a hundred of the assessed parties retained Mr J.J.Maclaren to contest the matter, both for irregularities and because the works would not benefit them ; their lands being very much higher up these streams; and an appeal was lodged in the Circuit Court, Beauharnois.The only parties contesting the appeal are the County Council of Chateauguay.They have retained Messrs Duranceau & Seers, who have attempted to set aside the appeal on a variety of technical points, attacking the form of the writ, the security, the notices, the petition, &c, and raising no less than twelve technical objections of this nature.At the argument last term most of these grounds were abandoned, hut it was claimed that the proceedings were null because the writ and petition had not been served on all the interested arties, and especially on all of those who ad petitioned for the work, ghd that the writ should have been returned within 40 days and not on the first day of court after the 40 days had expired, as was done.The judge gave an elaborate judgment, taking up the objections one by one, and holding that the law had been very closely followed, and that, under Act 1067 of the Municipal Code, it was not necessary to have served the papers on more than the Secretary of the Board of Delegates, although the precaution was taken to serve both Councils as well.He also decided that, under Act 1070 of the Code, as amended in 1875, the proper time for the return of the writ was the first day of the term following the expiration of 40 days after the homologation.The exceptions were therefore dismissed with costs.Mr Maclaren applied to have an early day fixed for the final trial.The judge said that as soon as the term here was over he had to go to the District of Terrebonne, and would be gone all March.He could fix a date either in April or May and would consult the parties as soon as he could arrange it definitely.& We neglected to note, at the time, that MrWilliam Mack, miller, of Cornwall, has been clected to the honorable position of Warden of the three large and wealthy Counties of Stormont, Dundas, and Glen- garry.Mr Mack was brought up in this County and has still many relatives residing in it, who, with his numerous acquaintances, are gratified at the honor which he has deservedly attained.SuicipE.\u2014 On Monday afternoon, at half-past three, Louis Napoleon Dupuis, aged 27 years, son of Augustin Dupuis of St Anicet village, shot himself, in his mother\u2019s bedroom, and died about three hours afterwards.He had been in low spirits for some time and had been watched for about a week, as he expressed a wish that somebody would shoot him and tried to borrow a revolver.On the afternoon in question he got a shot-gun which had been a long time loaded, and, going into the room, took off one boot, placed the muzzle near his heart and drew the trigger with his bared foot, the charge of shot making a fearful wound in the left breast, a little above the heart.An inquest was held by Dr Fergusson on Wednesday, ending in a verdict of suicide while laboring under temporary insanity.B&F We hear of several of those pests of society, agents for patents, being in the District, and inducing farmers to buy rights by signing notes of hand.In the, light of past experience, that farmer is wise who, on finding out the character of MES THE OKA MEETINGS.ATHELSTAN, THE third of the Oka meetings was held in the basement of the Athelstan church on Thursday evening.The attendance Was £0 that a number had to stand.Mr David D.Robertson was called to the chair, and, iu introducing Chief Joseph, remarked on how the case of the Okas had aroused such general feeling in the bosoms of all lovers of liberty.The Chief spoke at considerable leogeh and made himself well understood.He gave a very connected account of the occurrences both before and after the fire, and was listened to with much interest.Hymn\u2014\"Rescue the Indians.\u201d r James H.Buchanan moved, seconded by Mr James Baird: That it is exped- that collectors be appointed for each section.Carried.The Rev A.Parent gave much interesting information regarding the Indians, their character, their present condition, and the advance they had made since becoming Protestants.Moved by Mr Joseph Adams, seconded by Mr Robert Kelly : That the following Petition be adopted, that the Chairman sign it on behalf of the meeting, and that it be transmitted to the three branches of the Legislature : Humbly sheweth that the Protestant Indians of the Seigniory of Two Mountains are in destitute circumstances, and to such a degree that many would perish from starvation were it not for the relief extended by the charitable in many parts of the Dominion.That their deplorable condition arises not from any fault for their own, but from the course pursued towards them by the Seminary of St Sulpice.That the Seminary of St Sulpice being a corporate body, no action at law can be instituted to ascertain whether it has fulfilled the conditions towards the Indians upon which it received, from the Crown, the said seigniory, unless in the name of the Attorney-General of the Province of Quebee, whose consent is not obtainable.Therefore your petitioners, seeing no other means of redress, pray, first, that the Government of Canada may intervene and secure by legislation the rights of the Indians of Two Mountains, which they consider it is the more bound to do from being guardians of them, and all other un- emancipated aborigines, and, second, that until such legislation can be given effect to, that the Government undertake their support.\u2014Carried unanimously.Chief Joseph sang 2 hymn in Iroquois, and was loudly applauded.Mr Shanks moved a vote of thanks to the congregation for giving the use of the church for the meeting, and to the Chairman, who, tho\u2019 called upon unexpectedly.had so well discharged his duties, which was seconded by MrSellarand carried.The singing of the Doxology and the pronouncing of the benediction by the Rev A.Parent closed the meeting.In dispersing, the audience crowded around the chief to shake hands with him, RockBURN.A large and enthusiastic meeting was held in the Presbyterian church, Rock- burn, on Friday evening.The church was filled to overflowing, many not being able to find sitting-room.The Rev Mr.Johntson, pastor of the church, occupied the chair.After devotional exercises, conducted by the Chairman, Chief Joseph sang a hymn in the Iroquois language, followed by a speech of about three-quar- ters of an hour.The Chief spoke with considerable freedom and great effect, eliciting frequent cheers from the audience.The Rev Mr Parent followed with an admirable address.A resolution, adopting a petition, a draft of which appears above, was moved by A.Oliver, Esq., seconded by Mr A Mac- laren, and unanimously adopted by the meeting.It was resolved on motion of Wm A.Farquhar, seconded by Chas Will: That the following collectors be appointed: \u2014 Messrs Thos Knowles, Wm H.Gibson, Jas Rennie, Henry Rennie, George M'Coy, Wm J.Blair, Henry Wilson, John Crutchfield, Robert Law, and Thomas Blair.Messrs Oliver and Wm Henderson were appointed as a committee to receive the contributions from the collectors and forward the same to Mr Pinhay at Huntingdon.On motion of W.S.Maclaren, seconded by the Rev Mr Allen, a vote of thanks was tendered to the Rev Mr Johnston for his services as Chairman, also for the use of the church for the meeting.The Rev Mr Allen, in seconding the resolution, enlarged somewhat on the Oka question, in a short effective speech, which well received by the audience.The ting was closed with the benediction, pronounced by the Rev Mr Allen, Tue COLLECTION, Never in the history of this part of the County of Huntingdon has there been so hearty and unanimous a response to an appeal for aid.The collectors have invariably had one experience to tell\u2014that everywhere the people gave willingly.The quantity of provisions amassed seems large, but not when the number to be relieved is taken into account.There are close upon five hundred Protestant Indians, of whom three-fourths need to be assisted during the winter more or less, To those families who have some means or who are likely to earn something during the summer, the provisions collected are not given away, but sold at a low price, thus preserving independence of character in the Indians, preventing the growth of a beggarly spirit, and making the relief go further, for the money so obtained is used to buy fresh supplies.Many of the families, however, are so destitute and unable to earn anything, that tho relief is given as an absolute gift.From the peculiarly harsh way in which they were persecuted by the Seminary last summer, the majority of the able-bodied men having been arrested once or oftener between May and October, and many confined to jail for several months, they earned less than usual, his visitor, turns his dog loose upon him.so that the present winter would have ient to raise a subscription in kind, and | re 1 0e 00 05 0000 mr D been a severe one for them and theiy families had relief not red in upon them ina r volume t in any previous year.The visit of Mr Parent and the Chief has resulted in good to the tribe and to the people of this section by stirring them up and opening their eyes to the machinations of the Ultramontanes.Collected by Wm Walker and Samuel Lamb :\u2014Tag McDoosld, § bush wheat ; James Lucas, 7 Lush Oats; John Ford, pan flour ; Alex Lunan, § bush wheat ; John Wallis, 1 bed-quilt ; Fred Wallis, § bush wheat ; Thos Black, 1 b oats ; Mis Creighton, 1 bush peas ; Mrs Johnston, pan flour ; James Stephens, 1 bush wheat and clothing; Robert Clarke, bush wheat ; Hugh Tannahill, 2 bush wheat ; Wm rthur, 3 bush oats ; Joba Arthur, 1 peck beans ; James Morrison, 2 bush peas ; James Marshall, 1} Lush peasand meat ; Wm Caldwell, 1 bush wheat ;* Wm Morrison, } bush wheat ; John Olarke, 1 bush oats ; Thomas Lanktree, 20 ths flour ; J.Cooper, 1 bush peas and bush wheat ; John Henry, § bush wheat ; B.Lanktree, bush peas ; R.Mack, 1} bush oats ; Jas Learmont.bush wheat ; Archd Paul, 1 bush peas, clothing and quilt ; D.M'farlane, 2 bush wheat and clothing ; Gi.McFarlane, 1 bush peas; Misscs McFarlane, clothing ; 8.Lamb, 50 Ba flour and pice of meat ; J.Merson, § bush wheat ; Henry Wallis, 1 bush peas; James Stark, § bush peas ; W.Walker, 50 ibs flour, quilt and clothing ; Alex Robb, pan of flour; Robt Robb, 2 bush oats ; George Pringle, 1 bush wheat; Alex Lunan, 20 Bs flour; Andrew Chambers, 30 is flour; James Chambers, 15 Bs flour and meat.Collected by John White and Joseph McCombs :\u2014 Joseph McCombs, 1 bush wheat ; Issac Thomson, 70 Bs indian meal ; Joseph Laird, § bush wheat , John Macarthur, 1 bush wheat ; Daniel Sutherland, 1 bush corn and clothing ; Mrs Holbrook, bundle of clothing ; Wallace Holbrook, 1 bush corn and bundle of clothing; James Lunan, 1 bush wheat and quilt ; Job McGregor, 1 bush wheat and shoulder of pork ; John Nesbit, 1 bush wheat; David White, 50s flour ; George Thornton, 1 bush wheat ; John Tannahlll, 1 bush wheat ; George Burnside, 18 1s pork ; John Patterson, 1 bush wheat; Wm Anderson, 50 lbs flour ; Wm Dowalie, 3 pecks wheat and some pork, Oollected by John D, Stott and Joseph Watson :\u2014 J.B.Btott, 2 bush oats ; J.McKee, 1 Lush wheat ; J.Donnelly, t bush wheat ; Chas Brown, 1} bush wheat ; Henry Seely, 1 bush wheat and clothing ; Thomas Cairns, 2 bush peas ; John Baird, 1 bush peas; John Pringle, 1 bush wheat; Daniel Brims, Jr, 1 bush wheat ; Wm McIntosh, 1 bush peas; Donald Mc- Intosh, } bush wheat ; Mrs Alex Mclntosh, 1 bush wheat ; Wm Shearer, 2 bush corn (in ear) and clothing ; Hogh Anderson, 2 bush corn (in ear) ; John Anderson, 2 bush corn (in ear); John Cairns, 2 bush oats, clothing and meat ; James Stewart, 14 bush corn (in ear); Thomas Stott, 50c ; Joseph Watson, | bush peas ; George Stewart, 25c.Collected by John Ross aid Matthew Wallace :~ David McCoy, 1 bush buckwheat ; Hiram Taylor, 15 ths pork ; Charles McLatchie, 8 tbs pork ; James Ross, 1 bag corn (in ear); Mrs Anderson, 5 Ibs pork ; David Robertson, parcel clothing and 50c ; John McHardy, I bush buckwheat ; Charles McHardy, 1 bag corn (in ear) ; Mrs Walker, $1.00 ; Benjamin Walker, clothing and 1 bag corn; George Legget, } bush buckwheat and } Lag corn ; William F.Taylor, 50c ; Robt Simm, 1 bag corn (in car) ; Lorenzo McLatchie, 1 bush buckwheat ; James loss, Sr, 1 bag corn (in car) ; William Platt, 1 bush buckwheat; TRolt Wilson, 1 bedquilt and 11 Ibs pork ; Gilbert Myatt, 1 bag corn (in ear) ; Wm Myatt, 1 bag corn (in ear); Mrs Hincks, parcel clothing ; Albert Mason, 9 hs beef ; Mrs Samucl McLatchie, 6 Ibs beef ; James McLatchic, 25¢ ; Mrs A.Montgomery, 26¢ ; Miss Sandilands, 9} bs pork ; John Ross, 184 lbs pork ; Matthew Wallace, bag corn (in ear) and parcel clothing.Collected by Wm Waterson and Jolin Barrie from the farmers in the Ist and 2d Concessions of Elgin : 10 bush oats, 3} bush peas, 1 bush beans, 4} bush wheat, 300 Ibs flour, 200 fs meat, a quantity of clothing, leather, ten, &c., and $13.50 in money.Collected by Hiram Seely :\u2014Hiram Seely, 1 bush wheat ; Mrs Seely, 1 parcel ; Wm Cairns, 1 bush wheat and 1 bush oats ; Robt Lumeden, 1 bush oats ; Alex Lumsden, bush corn ; George Harland, 12 ihs «| pork ; Wm Gardner, 21 Ibs meat; Allan Louden, shoulder of pork ; J.H.Buchanan, clothing and yarn: Mrs J, Spencer, 1 sack flour and § bush corn ; Andrew Wilson, 15 Ibs pork and clothing ; Wm Wilson, 1 sack flour and special for the sick squaw, 1 comforter and clothing ; James Buchanan, Sr, 11 ibs pork; John Elder, 1 ham, 18 lbs, and 25c ; Samuel Peckover, } bush corn ; John McKay, 25 Bs flour ; Thos Purse, | bush potatoes ; James Louden, pork ; Jushua Breadner, parcel of clothing ; Robt Lamont, 50c ; Widow Anderson, 2 comforters and 1 parcel clothing ; Jasper Hawes, pork ; Mrs Geo Anderson, clothing; Joseph Adams, beef ; Mrs Cleveland, pork and meal; Miss Munro, pork.Collected by J.R.Copland :\u2014Wm Anderson, box of sundries ; Alex Leggett, 4 bush corn ; Robt Johnson, } bush corn ; Alex Copland, parcel of clothing ; David Johnson, } bush corn; Thos Terry, 1 bush wheat ; Wm Jamieson, roll of leather ; Henry Thomson, § bush corn ; John Patterson, 4 bush wheat; Alex Penton, }§ bush wheat ; Geo Outterson, à bush wheat and some meat.Collected by James Anderson and James Baird from the farmers in their part of Hinchinbrook: \u20142 bushels of wheat, 2 bags of corn in the ear, 3 bushels of shelled corn, 15 hs of meat, 1 bushel of peas, 2 bushels of oats, clothing, and 50c.Collected by James Blaik and Wm Goodfellow :\u2014 Jas Blaik, § bush wheat ; John Hyde, 1 bush whent ; Robt Goodfellow, 1 bush wheat ; Samuel Brown, 1} bush barley and parcel of clothing ; Wm Goodfellow, 1 bush wheat ; John Edgar, 50c.Collected by Thomas Adams :~=Thomas McCartney, 1 bag oats ; Jas McCartney, 1 bush peas ; Wm Har- rigan, 1 bush wheat ; Jas Nicholson, 1 bag of oats : Thomas Adams, 1 bush wheat; John Ruddick, 1 bush wheat ; John Todd, 1 bush wheat ; Chas Brown, 1 bag oats ; John Cowan, 1 bush wheat ; Alex Shaw, 1 bush barley.Collected by William Harrigan :\u2014Samuel Graham, 1 bag oats ; Francie Whealy, 1 bush barley ; John Reid, clothing and § bush wheat ; John Furey, 1 bush oats ; Alex Hunter, 1 bag oats.Collected by Jobn Caldwell and Danicl Purcell :\u2014 Thos Biggar, 1 bush peas ; Wm Dalgliesh, 1 bag potatoes ; Robt Mack, 50c ; A Friend, 25c; Isabella Anderson, parcel ; John Buckham, 1 bag potatoes ; W.J Smellie, 50c ; Wm Stark, 1 bush potatoes; Wm Caldwell, 1 potatoes ; Peter Caldwell, 3 bush wheat ; John Rennick, parcel of clothes ; Mrs Biggar, dish of flour ; J.& R.Booth, 55 ibs flour ; Thos Cain, 1 bush oats ; Samuel Dunsmore, 22 is flour ; John Dunsmore, 50 1bs flour ; Alex Cunningham, Jr., 1 bush wheat ; Miss M.A.Cunningham, Plank Road, quilt and clothing ; Robt Shaw, 1 bush oats ; And Cunningham, 1 bush oats ; Robt Hyndman, § bush wheat; Alex Cunningham, 1 bush oats ; John Cunningham, 4 bush oats, Mr Pinhay desires us to say that the balance of the list will be printed next week.LECTURE\u2014On Tuesday evening, Dr Glover of Hemmingford delivered the last of the course of lectures in St Andrew's church to a fair audience.His subject was \u201cAn Hour with the Poets\u201d After dwelling on the nature of poetry at some length and with considerable critical appreciation, he singled out descriptive peetry, that of aspiration, and that of the affections, giving illustrations from Byron, Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Longfellow, Burns, and Lady Nairne.The selections he rendered with much taste and feeling.The lecture, indeed, was so enjoyable that there was general regret at its brevity.A vote of thanks was moved by Mr Somer- ville, seconded by Mr Sellar, and tendered by the chairman, the Rev.J.Watson.ina complimentary speech.The course of lectures, five in number, thus ended, have formed a pleasant relief to the monotony of the winter evenings of the villagers, and been the means of raising a fair sum for the relief of the deserving poor.&& On Friday evening the Athelstan Division Sons of Temperance held the 26th anniversary of its organization.The chairman, Mr James Louden, gave an appropriate opening address, and, during the evening, a reading.Dialogues, \u201cMarry no man if he Drinks,\u201d \u201cDay of Disappoint: ments,\u201d and \u201cBefore and Behind the Scenes,\u201d were very well rendered hy St bd Ct bd bprt o 0D a BD Pt ete ® ge @t pf mt gD MD eed = \"PD Orr bh A 2 - TOC Oe ho ie = me REE a < aly \u2014 \u2014 \u2014\u2014 mm = \u2014\u2014 = \u2014 ._ tee en cree! vision.Ient | to such lan as be used in his firet let- | ministration of publie affaire, it will not be [annam.The liabilities the present Govern- It was hb in the extreme to at this market to-day, and searcely an wide bers of the Mhvision.ris Mr ter.I only wished to bring thie matter be- | necessary to lovy new taxes.\u201d In support|mont bad felt it n to meet were the |listen to those creatures, their sales made during the forenoon.Of x Wm.Shearer.Mrs.A.Louden ided fore the public in the interests of justice of his resolution the hon gentleman remind.expenditare on the Weiland and Lachine Speaker, pass sentence on a man as much at the organ, and, with Messrs S w on the violin and Coggin on cornopian, layed some beautiful pieces.E Buchanan, McIntosh, and Coggin, with Messrs Shirriff and Christie, also added to the enjoyment of the evening by sweetly singing duets, songs, &e.ter Robert Breadner recited \u201cBe Kind to the Bair- nles\u201d The entertainment closed by the \u201cFreedmen's Chorus,\u201d in character.The unfavorable weather during the day and evening prevented many from attending, yet the meeting, on the whole, was a success.Huntingdon is not going to be un- romented at the Paris Exhibition, The Principal of the Academy, Mr McGregor, caused his scholars to prepare a series of exercises in their various studies, which were afterwards bound together making a handsome volume, and which will form a art of the Education exhibit from the Province.The Education office has expressed their high satisfaction with the exercises.&2T The Soiree, the second of the season, held on Tuesday, 19th inst, in Zion Church, Dundee, was a decided success.About 250 were present.The net proceeds, amounting to 850, are to be applied to church purposes.A little disappointment was felt oy the non-appearance of Rev Mr Baillic, Fort Covington ; also at the unavoidable absence of another reverend gentleman.After tea, the meeting was addressed by the Rev Mr Catta- nach, and entertained by readings from Messrs Davidson, Smith, and McCaffrey, interspersed by pieces from the choir under the pastor's own special training, A solo, rendered by Miss Maggie Miller, and \u201cHome by the Deep Heaving Sea,\u201d by Miss Rebecca Miller, \u2014Miss Moodie accompanying on the organ,\u2014deserved particular attention.A concluding piece brought the proceedings of this very pleasant social to a close.SupDEN DEATH.\u2014On Monday afternoon Mrs Leahy, wife of Mr John Leahy, a well-to-do farmer of LaGuerre, suddenly dropped dead while talking.She complained of not feeling well in the forenoon and was visited by a doctor, but nothing serious was apprehended until the moment she expired.She was 63 years of age.An inquest was held by Deputy-Coroner Bourgeault on Tuesday, when a verdict of \u201cdied from disease of the heart \u201d was returned.LoyAL ORANGE AssoCIATION.\u2014 The Right Worshipful the Grand Orange Lodge of the Province of Quebec met in the city of Sherbrooke on the 19th and 20th instant.The meeting was the most harmonious and agreeable held for many years ; the reports of the Grand Secretary and Grand Treasurer were very encouraging.Eleven new warrants were issued during the year and several old lodges resuscitated, so that the membershi throughout the Province is much larger than ever before.The statement of the Treasurer showed that the Association was in an exceedingly healthy state financially.Altogether the past year has been the most prosperous, in every way, that the Association in this Province has ever known.The following were the officers clected for the ensuing year: Joshua Breadner, Grand Master; John Woodward, Deputy Grand Master; Rev.C.A.Doudiet, Grand Chaplain ; E.T.Scott, Grand Treasurer; James Barr, Grand Secretary ; Dr.C, I.Wells, Grand Lecturer ; Clark Gordon, Grand Director of Ceremonies ; Wm.Kingsbury, Deputy Grand Secretary ; Rev.T.S.Chapman, Rev.L.C.Wurtelle, and the Rev.J.J.Casey, Deputy Grand Chaplains.The Grand Lodge voted as a bonus to the Grand Treasurer and Grand Secretary 825 each for the efficient way they had discharged their duties during the past year.The Grand Lodge will meet next year on the third Tuesday of March at Lachute.THE DAIRY FACTORY RETURNS.To the Editor of the Gleaner.Sir,\u2014Mr Dewick commences his last letter to you by saying tbat my jealousy has carried itself to a \u201cridiculous pitch.\u201d Now, I would like to ask him what I have need to bo jealous about, except it be my good name, which has been called in question in his first letter, by his stating that 1 had made statements which were false?1 thought the best way to ostablish that my statements were correct, was to take ten of the patrons and prove it by thom, and I felt certain that, if Mr Dewick was right, they would only be too glad to assist him in his great work of showing their sales up ; but, instoad, he wisely ehirks when it comes right down to the point, knowing fall well that ho would lose what he terms the \u201cpaltry sum\u201d of $10 or $20.Hoe also thinks that I ought to be satisfiod with his assertion, that the patrons netted what he claims they did, as his dirce- tors were perfectly eatisfied with it.I sup- oso they would have been better satisfied fad Mr Dewick stated thgt they netted from 81 to $1.25 per 100 1bs,, and that they made a pound of butter from 20 pounds of milk, Mr Dowick considers that am quite capable of making calculations for myself, and not trounling the directors to name the day for an investigation.I did =o, and my figures were 80c, and had the investigation gone on it would have shown how far I was wrong.Ile states further on in his last letter that no one is more anxious than him- solf to mee \u2018true fignres.\u201d If that is the caso, why did he not begin with his own factory first?1lo says since this discussion commenced many of the patrons have come forward and furnisbed information which fully substantiates all he has said.Surely, then, it would not have been so much trouble as he anticipated to have got ten patrons to come forward and given that information bofare other partios as well as to himself.In conclusion, Mr Fditor, (this being my last letter on this subject), I claim the victory.If am not right, I am nearer the trath than Mr Dewick, and he certainly knows it by this time, for, if not, he certainly would have accepted my challenge at once, without doigning a reply.It would have been more gentlemanly in Mr Dewick, when he saw his mistake, to have acknowledged it at once, instead of resorting and fair play, and have been imbued with this mind in all my letters.1 think, perhaps, the public have had enough of this, and I will now close.Hoping that the Helena factory will be more careful in making their returns in the futare, I remain, yours very truly, Peren McFARLANE.Kelso, Feb.23.THE LOCAL HOUSE.Monpar, Fesr.18, Mr Lynch moved for the appointment of à select Committee to take into consideration the prosent system of municipal taxation in the Province.In support, be stated that he considered \u2014and the people of the Eastern Townships considered\u2014that it was fally time that a change was made in the present system of municipal taxation, tho whole burden of which had to be borne by the real-estate owners.It was not bis intention to propose that real estate should not continue to bear à large proportion of municipal taxation, but he desired that it should not bear it all.In several States of the American Union all kinds of personal property, including mortgages and promissory notes, contributed to the support of the municipal machinery.To à certain extent this system had been introduced into Upper Canada.Ilo maintained that the effect of tho present system was that tho agriculturist, who took an interest in his work, and made costly improvements on his property, found his taxes increasing in proportion to the continued improvements made on his real cstate.On the other hand, ho alleged that many individuals reaped largo profits by lending money at a high rate of interest, and yet contributed nothing to the maintenance of municipal government.It might be said this would result in driving capital out of tho country to Lo invested elsewhere.But the experience of tho States in which that system had been adopted, proved that such was not the case.Ho cited a very common caso in illustration of his argument.A bardworking, struggling farmer, proprietor of land valued at 84,000, is forced to borrow $1,000 for which he gives a mortgage besides paying heavy interest upon the amount borrowed.He pays municipal taxes upon land valued at 84,000, though reully owning but 83,000 worth, and the lender of the $1,000, who holds the morgage and is in reality proprietor of one-fourth of the land, bears no share whatever of tho burden of municipal taxation.In conclusion, he trusted that the House, by adopting his motion, would recognize the principle that a change was called for in the present system.Hon Mr Church said there could not be any objection to the consideration of the question in the manner in which his hon friend bad placed it, and that there was no doubt that the time had arrived when the matter could be looked fairly in the face.As with most other questions, however, he contended that there was two sides to it.He complained that the people of the agricultural districts appeared too anxious to acquiro large tracts of land without having a sufficiently large floating capital and live stock to maintain the fertility of the soil.Any burden which was to be laid upon the acquisition of further stock or capital could not be considered a step in the right direction.However, he should be very glad to aid the Committee named in their consider: ation of the question of municipal taxation.He contended that if a heavy tax were to bo imposed upon loans capitalists would merely raise their rates of interest so as to throw the burden of the increased taxation upon the borrowers, The present rates of interest wero much lower, however, than before the repeal of the usury laws.Mr Joly could not help joining issue with tho Treasurer upon one point, though it could not bo mended by the House\u2014name- ly, that the rate of interest had declined considerably since the repeal of the usury laws.On the contrary, he found that, in country districts especially, the rate of interest had advanced from six to eight and nine per cent., and lenders felt quite satisfied in their consciences, feeling that they were disobeying no law.Hon Mr Church was surprised at the statement made by the member for Lotbin- iere, a3 in the west of the Province and the eastern part of Ontario the rate of interest had declined since the repeal of the usury laws from 12% and 15 per cent.to 8.Mr Lynch stated that he bad taken the opinion of several leading capitalists in the astern Townships who had means invested in land, and they had all acknowledged the justice of the system which he suggested, The resolution was adopted.Mr Turcotte moved, \u201cThat in the opinion of this House it is in the interest of the Legislature and of the Province that the seat of Government should be removed to Three Rivers.\u201d (Cries of \u201cIlear, hear.\u201d) Mr Turcotte, in support of this motion, stated that the members might laugh and cry \u201chear, hear,\u201d but he was perfectly eeri- ous and in earnest in moving this resolution.He said that it was necessary that members should have it in their power to debate every question with perfect freedom, which, in view of the recont action of the populace in making a hostile demonstration in front of Parliament House, he contended was not the case in Quebec.After some debate the Speaker ruled the motion out of order.TUESDAY.After a long debate, the railway bill was read a third time by 42 to 22.Hon Mr Church introduced his resolutions with reference to the new taxes on commercial transactions, which impose a stamp duty on all contracts for over $200 and upon all transfers of stock.WEDNESDAY, Mr Bellingham put a question to the Ministry regarding Mr Chapleau\u2019s connection with a transfer of tbo St Lin railway, by which he or his relatives put money in their pockets.Mr Angers refused to enter into tho matter.Mr Joly moved, \u201cThat this House respect- fally expresses tho opinion that, in view of the abolition at no distant date of the Legislative Council, it is not advisable to fill the vacancies now existing, or which may in future occur, in the Legislative Council.\u201d After a number of members had spoken, the Speaker ruled the motion out of order.Upon the Treasurer's motion for the second reading of the stamp resolations, Mr Joly moved in amendment, seconded by Mr Bachand, \u201cThat these resolutions be not now adopted, but that it be resolved that, in the opinion of this House, by a judicious system of economy and retrenchment exercised the Government in the expenses of the Province, and by a wise ad- when the support of the Opposition, which ' bad hitherto been lent to the railway policy 4 corresponding increase in the receipts od the members of the Government that of the Government, was in 1875 withdrawn, the Government had boon warned that their now policy was destined to lead the country to rain and direct taxation, which was now proved by the resolutions of his hon friend to be the case.Their railway policy of 1875 had been persistod in despite all the rotestations of the Opposition, and had been orced through the House, and now he su posed the resolutions of the Treaeurer would share tbe same fate.There were very few people in the Province who would not be affected by them, since stamps would be re- uired to render legal even a contract for $200 worth of work in cutting firewood.Brokers would find the impoet weigh exceedingly beavily upon them.and men who did a business of from ten to twelve millions of dollars annually would bave to pay in stamps several thousands of dollars.Ile feared that tho effect of this would be to drivo a large amount of business out of the Province.He complained that the fourth and fifth resolutions, with reference to the penalties for neglecting to affix stampa to the documents mentioned in the measure, wore harsh and vexatious, After further discussion the amendment waa defeated and the second roading carried by a vote of 22 to 39.THURSDAY.Mr Bellingham again brought up tho matter of the Hon Mr Chapleau being connected with tho Laurentian railway, when Mr Angers objected to his proceeding.After a tedious discussion, Mr Bellingham moved, \u201cThat tho question be referred to a Special Committee of five members to be elected by the House.\u201d The motion was voted down by 41 to 17, Mr Joly made a loug speech on the preservation of timber, urging that the Government tako steps to stop the destruction of our woods by pillage and five.Pam THE DOMINION PARLIAMENT.FRIDAY, FEB, 22, The Ion.Mr CARTWRIGHT brought down bis Budget in a speech, of 5 hours duration.As it is utterly beyond our power to give even an abridgement of it, we copy the Globe's synopsis : The Budget speech of the Finance Minister comprised not merely an exposition of tho policy ot the Government at the present time, but a defence of their policy in the past, and a rvoview of the financial history of tha Dominion\u2019s first decade, terminating ou the 30th of June, 1877.It will be observed that he hopes to meet all the public engagements of the country without any addition to the burden of taxation.He adlieres to the principle of imposing no taxes boyond those which may be absolutely necessary to meet the require ments of the public servico.Ile referred, in the first instance, to the foreshadowing of coming events in his speech as a private member of the House in 1873, and his des- scription of tbe embarrassments surrounding the advent of the present Government to office in tho financial statement of 1874.Yet even on thoso occasions, he had not fully estimated the effects of the previously existing period of inflation, or the reaction that ensued thereupon.The total value of trade, allowing for the admission of Prince Edward Island, had fallen not less than fifty millions under the influonce of the depres sion, and this too notwithstanding the growth of population and increased area of territory under cultivation, representing a natural increase under ordinary and favorable circumstances of some thirty or forty millions more.At tho same time the revenue from customs had decreased by a trifle over threo millions of dollars, while the total value of imports had been reduced by one third.The population had increased by one-ninth, the result being à per capita reduction of imports of from 835} to $25} dollars per head.Ilad the imports con- tinned at their former ratio the present revenue of the Dominion would havo been some twenty-seven millions, whereas it now very slightly exceeded twenty-two millions.The strain had beon severe.It had visited not only ourselves but our best customers and in fact the whole world.But it is satis- factury to mark the turning of the tide as exhibited by the improved revonue returns of the past seven months as compared with the corresponding period of 1876-7.In the seven months ending the 10th of February, 1878, the revenue amounted to $13,434,235, | and in the previous year to $12,494,279\u2014an increase of nearly a million in seven months.Of this some $200,000 might be due to the importations arising out of the fire at St John, but then, on the other hand, the very extraordinary charactor of the season had been exceptionally unfavourable.Turning to the expenditure of 1877, it would be seen that in Civil Government there had been a total expenditure of $812,000, or 871,000 less than in 1873.4.The charge for superannualions amounted in 1877 to $104,000, The additions to the charge for superannuations had been largely counterbalanced by the abolition of useless offices or other savings in a similar direction.Under the head of Immigration had to be included the loan (repayable) to the Men-! nonites and Icelanders, amounting to 879, | 000, and $21,000 caused by the outbreak of the small-pox st Gimli.Tho expenditure in operating the Government Railways had exceeded the estimates by nearly 890,000 but on the other hand this bad been mot by Canals an additional five and a half millions; debt maturing, thirteen and a balf millions ; Pacific Railway, so far as was immediately necessary, six millions, and other charges amounting to five million dollars.It would be still 10 borrow, but after 1881 it was satisfactory to know that redemption of debt maturing would be optional, and not, as heretofore, compulsory.The cause of the excess of the sodden inorease of expendi- turo in 1873-74 were then recapitulatod, amounting to four millions of dollars, and it was shown that as between 1872-73 and 1876-77 the increases sololy due to the policy or engagements of the Macdonald Administration were represented by a sum in the annual expenditure of $5,100,000.Having regard, however, to the incroase of population, the receipts from the gross taxation of the people would be 85 79 per cent in 1876-7 as against 80 85 per cent.in 1871-3, or taking the sum actually paid in taxes, the charge per capita was only 34 79, against $490 in 1873\u2014an actual reduction, notwithstanding the enormous additions made by the outgoing Administration and the obligations their policy had entailed.And although 2} per cent had been added to the Customs duty on a large portion of the imports in 1874, the diminution in the tea duties as compared with former yoars, and the reduction of the duty on coal oil bad practically counterbalanced the increase in tho tarif! above reforred to.Mr Cart wright thon at some length discuseod the question of tho relative taxation of Canada as compared with tho United States including of course the municipal taxes.llo pointed out that, as a consequence of a falso and injurious fiscal system, out of from four to five hundred million dollars paid by the people of the United States as the rosult of their fiscal system, not over one-third reach- od the public coffers, while the reckless mis- managomont of municipal affairs had griov- ously burdened the populations of tho great cities.On the whale he believed the taxation of Canada represented a per capita charge of barely one-third of the United States, or barely one-half as paid in hard cash.It would not be more than half the per capita rate of Great Britain.On the whole, thon, he held that our taxation in Canada was on- durable if not even light.The Public Accounts of Cunada for the past two years showod an aggregato deficit of 83,361,000, but as of this 1,650,000 was representod by money applied to the purposes of a sinking fund, the actual addition to the public dabt from this cause was not over $1,700,000, With a steadily increasing revenue ; with a large virgin territory being brought into a productive condition, at the rato of from half a million to a million of acres per annum ; with facilities for transmitting our agricultural products from the farthest portion of Ontario cast of Lake Suporior to London or Liverpool at a cost not exceeding one quarter or one-half of a penny per poand ; with an almost unlimited market thus opened u to our agricultural population, of whic thoy were evidently not slow in availing thomselven, ho spoke with some confidence of the future.In his opinion there was no reason for imitating the policy of the United States, which it was evidently their wish to retract.Ho believed that so far the expon- dituro under the actual control of the Government had been pretty nearly reached.Out of the total annual expenditure, the sum of 113 millions represonted fixed charges constituting a first mortgage on the revenue.Thon some 6} millions were really cross-entries, and the balance only was susceptible of any economical influonces.In 1876 the controllable expenditure amounted to $8,569,774, and in 1877 to 86,535,078, or a reduction in favor of the lattor year of $1,734,506.In 1873.74 it was 88,324,076, showing a reduction in favor of 1877 of $1,488,998.In 1872.73 it was 89,762,095, or more than for 1877 by $227, 017, and that notwithstanding the new charges already referred to.For 1878.9 the Finance Minister estimated that under ordinarily favorable conditions, assuming the Customs would yiold 12§ millions and the.Excise 53 millions, the revenue would be equal to $23,800,000, or a little over the estimated expenditure.He preferred not to impose new taxes, because, firat, there were signa of improvement ; secondly, because the receipts of 1877 were below the ordinary avorage ; thirdly, because the deposits to sinking fund account had rendered the doficit less formidable ; fourthly, because some objects entailing expenditure were approaching completion ; and, lastly, because the country would soon have an opportunity of deciding for itself botween tho policies of the political parties.He ridiculed Sir John Macdonald's protectionist professions, and the proposal to increase the wealth of the country by adding to the burdens of the poople in taxing their bread ina timo of scarcity.He held that tolevy more taxes than the revenue required was only a specios of legislative robbery.High dutics would cause sectional differences, and not only impede progress, but, as an incentive to smuggling, tend to demoralize the people.His further observations were in the nature of a commentary on the financial situation.At the dinner to Mr Joly, Dr Cameron, in response to the toast of Her Majesty's loyal Opposition, spoke as follows : After the characteristic and able manner in which my hon friends the members of the from those undortakings.After noticing! some other items Mr Cartwright warmly | defended his application for the last loan at the time selected.\u2018The Finance Minister next reviewed the liabilities which confront- | ed the new Administration when they came | into office.On the first of July the engage- | ments of their predecessors anticipated an! additional outlay annually on railways of $750,000 ; on Indian treaties of $400,000 ; on North-west organisation of $400,000.The contemplated additions to the debt were as follows :\u2014On Canals, 843,800,000; on Intercolonial Railway, $10,000,000; on ublic debt maturing, $35,000,000; on Nova tia and New Brunswick Railways, $2,000,000; on Prince Edward Island, $2,600,000; on minor Public Works, $4,600,000 ; on St Lawrence improvements, $2,500,000 ; on advances to sundry objects, $1,000,000 ; making a total of liabilities of $131,300,000, or nearly equal to the total net indebtedness of Canada at the same date, twenty-three millions more than the amount of debt in 1873, and requiring to meet it an annual loan of twenty millions per annum for scven years.The lowest estimate of the former Finance Minister put the additional charges for new debt at $3,337,400 per Opposition ave acknowledged the toast Beg.w ich you did us the honor of receiving so heartily, I feel that little remains for me to say.I am proud at the same time to have this opportunity of testifying in this public manner my thorough appreciation of the manliners, the uniform gentlemanly deportment, and the rare ability displayed by the hon leader of Her Majesty's loyal ; Opposition in this Province, in our Provincial Legislature, and I am also proud to have the opportunity of saying \u201cshame\u201d upon the men who conscious of their own moral weakness, conscious of theirinability to argue an important public measure on its merits, condescend in this enlightened e to carry conviction through terror.(Bod applause.) Not only has the able leader of the Opposition in the islature of Quebec been insulted, but with him every man, whether in the islature or not, who is desirous of maintaining intact the privileges and prerogatives of British subjects, (Hear, hear) Never in the annals of a well-constituted deliberative body has such an unsecmly attempt at brute force been displayed, and I hope the day is far distant when such another attempt will be resorted to.(Applause.) thoir superior as day exceeds night, as light exceeds darkness.But he has the sympathies of the e of Quebec, the sympathies of the ladies, beautiful ladies of the city of Quebec, God bless them, the sympathies of the Provinoe, thesympathics of the leading minds of the inion, who with one accord subscribe to the lan of our great American cousin and t, dir hearts, our are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith trinmphant o'er our fears Are ali with thee, are all with thee, (Loud applause.) Rome, Fob.21.\u2014The Pope held a Congregation of Cardinals to-day.He announced that an Enoyclical to the Catholic world would be despatched to-day announcing his acoossion.It has boen decided that the Popo shall not for the present leave the Vatican, and it is announced that he will continue the policy of his predecessor.The coronation, which will be private, will take lace in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday.Te um will be sung in the churches to-mor- row.[tis stated on good authority that Pope Leo XIII.was not chosen \u201cby adoration,\u201d but by the requisite majority of votes of the Conclave; that Bilio having declined to be a candidate, his partisans, numboring nine Cardinals, gave their votes to Poco; that when the votes were counted all the Cardinals knelt at tho feet of the Pope, and this act has beon misconstrued as an eloc- tion \u201cby adoration.\u201d On the first ballot on tho morning of the 19th a few Cardinals voted for Pocci.At the evening ballot his votos suddenly increased to 35.On the following morning he finally obtained 44.A large number of congratulatory tolegrams from sovereigns and othors are being received by tho new Pope.Cardinal MoCloskoy, presenting homage to the Pope on Monday, said he had no reason to deplore tho latencas of his arrival in Rome, as the conclave had made so excol.lent a choice.Toronto, Feb.26\u2014The Local House sat till ono o'clock this morning, discussing the Orange incorporation bills.Nearly all the members took part in the debate, which waa at times excoedingly lively.Hon CO.I.Frasor, Commissioner of Public Works, and a Roman Catholic, made the principal speech of the evening against the incorporation of the Order.He quoted from various Orange publications and records of Orange meetings in ordor to show that the organization was a politico-religious one.He further hold that the Orangemen of this Province wero, as a rule, Conservatives, in support of which ho instancod the fact that two members of the Order in this city had boen expelled for having voted for Mr Donoghue, the Reform candidate in Kast Toronto a few years ago, The debate will be continued this afternoon.A London dospatch says: \u2014The reason why Russia's demand for the Egyptian tribute concerns England is that the tribute is already plodyod as security for the interost on the Turkish loans of 1854, 1855, and 1871.Tho first of these was raised to carry on the Crimoan war ; the socond is guaranteed by England and France ; all aro largely hold in England.By the torms of agreemont between Turkey and the British Government and bondholders Egypt now pays tribute directly to the Bank of England.The Rassian proposals will abrogate this convention without consulting or indemnifying the boneficiary assignees, and make the English and Fronch Governments liable for the 1855 loan.There is to be no procession in Montreal on St Patrick's day, the societies having agreed to dispense with it as mark of res pect to the late Pope.It will be remembered that at tho inquest held in Ireland upon the body of MacCarthy, one of the released Fenian prisoners, who died suddenly from heart dinease accelerated by the excitement of his reception in Ireland, numerous charges of harsh treatment and cruelty were brought against the doo tors, governors, and other officials of the prisons in which the deceased man had been confined.\u2018The jury in their verdict, rocord- ed their belief that harsher treatment than necessary had been used.Since then reve- ral of the Irish Home Rule members have moved in the matter, and the result is that an enquiry is instituted into the charges brought against the prion officials.The inquiry will be strictly private, but will be held under the presidency of Sir James Ingham, chief magistrate of the metropolis.WEATHER REPORT »y Da Sump.and ordinary milch cows there was a god supply, but good cows were scarce, there being no extra ones on the market.Thos.Orr, of Hemmingford, sold threo cows at $33 each, and one at $27; a pretty good cow was sold at $35 ; tho two best cows on the market remained unsold at noon.Calves of uality are much sought for, and high prices are paid for them ; the prices paid to-day were from $8 to $8 each.Sheep are rather scarce.There was one spring lamb offered to-day, and was bought by A.Coultry for 85.Two other spring lambs were formerly brought to the city, specially for tho late banquet at the Windsor Hotel, they cost $12 cach.Montreal, Wednesday\u2014Gold 101].Greenbacks bought at 98 counts on the doliar.Silver, largo G : small 8 por cont.discount.In Huntingdon greenbacks aro bought at 97 cents.\u2014\u2014 \u2014 \"WPT THE EASTERN QUESTION.NTRANCE of Russians into Constantinople.Surrender of Turkish warships.Terrible excitement and panic in London.The vote passed for the army and navy for six millions pounds sterling.The British fleet ordered to Constantinople.The windows of Gladstone's house and the \u201cPatty News office broken by excited crowds, Droadful Excitement in Huntlagdon on account of it being aunounced that WILLIAM THIRD & CO, are now disposing of their Tinmense Stock of New General Merchandise at less than importers\u2019 and man.ufacturors\u2019 prices.Undernoted arv à list of the TREMENDOUS REDUCTIONS made, which will couvinco the sharpest of intending purchasers of the genuineness of the above facts: Ladies\u2019 all wool Crossovers, 35c ; former price $1.50.(Good heavy Fancy Flannels, only 200 4 yard.Ladice\u2019 Fur Botta, $1,50 # set : former prire $4.50.No.1 Coal Oil 24 conts per gation, or 4 gallons for 90 cents, Eddy's No.1 Matches, 124c # box ; fo.tuer price 20c.Table Salt, in bags, 124c ; former price 20c.Best table or cooking Raisins 74c @ 0; former price 124c.Best whole Rice 4jo & Bb ; former price 6c.No.1 Family Soap 8 cents § bar: former price loc.Great reductions made on White and Grey Cottons.Choice Japan, Tea 30c & B ; former price 80c.Crockery, Glassware, and Hardware at lens than manu - ufacturers\u2019 prices Ladies\u2019 Trimmed iats at half the original cont.Ladies\u2019 Manties, Shawls, and Clouds at unusuaity low prices.Terrible excitement has Leen cauned on acconnt of the great reductions made on (Gentlemen's and Boys\" Under and Overooats, Pants and Vests, A 8plondid Stock of Choice Buffalo Robes and Fancy Sleigh Robes to bo sold at prices to suit the viown of intending purchascre.A magnificent amortment of (Gentlemen's Cloth and Fur Caps, Underpants and Undershirts, Fancy Flan.uel Bhirts, Wool Sashes, (Hloves and Mitta to be sold at a hoavy discount.A choice assortment of Ladicw Stays, Ribbons, Flowers, Feathers, Albums, Hilk Tice, and Stylish Prints marked down fully 30 per cent, below regular selling prices.The balance of Toys to Le almost given away.WILLIAM TIUIRD & Co.P.5.\u2014Choico Family Flour, Indian Coru Meal, Ont Meal, Pickled Salmon, 8moked Ierringa, No.| Labrador Herringa, Finnan Haddies, Lobsters, Sardines, and apples kept constantly on hand.Huntingdon, Feby, 20, 1874.FARM FOR SALE.HE undersigned offers for male hin property containing about two hundred acres, with sixty acres in a good state of cultivation, and about thicty acres in green bush, the remainder In pasture and easy to clear up and fit for tha plough to a largo extent.The property Is situated on the lake shore, first range of St Anlcet, County of Iuntinglon, at n distance of two miles and a half from 56 Anivet village, and two miles from Fort Lewin wharf, and a dwelling house, frame barn, granary and a stable thereon erected.The conditions of mle will bo liberal and may be known by applying to the proprietor on the premises.HUGH RANKIN.8t Anioet, 20th Feby.Charooal | Charcoal | ARTIES in nood of ('harcoal can procure it by applying immaodiately to the un.dersignod, ARTHUR RoBERTS, in Homming- ford, if by letter address : Frontier, PQ.Frontier, Feby 26, 1878.EXTENSION.HUNTER will extond his CLEARING J.SALE until the 911 of MARCH, as ho haa still a large quantity of goods to din pose of.Partien in need of Goods will save money by calling on J.I1., as he in selling atrictly at coat.If you don't believe it, ask those who havo already favored him with a call ; or, botter still, call and seo for yourselves.Hantingdon, Feb.27th, 1578.HOUSE TO LET.O Let the residence of the late William Temperature Rain Bnow Smith.Possession givon Ist May noxte Highest Lowest in inches in inches Terms reasonable.Apply to 20 Feby .25 10 .00 .W.ConnETT.21 « \u2026 832 22 .00 Huntingdon, Feb.27.22 © 35 32.00 HALL 23 « 37 32.1.40 CTO 24 « 33 29.00 VI RIA \u2019 26 « 23 22 .00 33 20.00 26 [4 At the residence of John MacDonald, Feq., Rosebank, LaGuorre, Que., on the 27th inst, by the Revd J.C.Cattanach of Zion Cburob, Dundee, Samuel Paxton, Esq., merchant, of Montreal, to Jennie, daaghter of Revd Alexander Young of Napanee, Ont.On the 26th inst., at tho residence of the bride's father, Ormatown, by the Rev.D.W.Morison, B.A., Jobn Tully, of Elgin, to Janet, only daughter of Donald McEwen, n the 21st inst., at the residence of the bride's father, by the Rev.C.McKerracher, John Milne, of Williamstown, to Annie Howden, only daughter of Jobn Ritchie, Fertile Creek, Soath Georgetown, P.Q.BEAUHARNOIS MARKET.( By telegraph to the Cleaner.) Peas 70 Iba.80c.@ 00c.Oats 40 Ibs.34 @ 00 cents, Barley 50 tbe.45 to 50 cents.Beans, 70 hs, $1.00 @ $1.25.Oatmeal, $1.80.K.N.McFsz, Grain Buyer.VALLEYFIELD MARKETS, (By telegraph to the Gleaner.) Peas, 70 Îbs., 80 conta.Oats, 40 hs, 34 cents.Beans, 7010, $1.20 $0.00.Oatmea 1001, $1.80.Pork, 100 he, $5.00 @ $5.25.Toop & NicoLsox.In Montreal, on Tuesday, common butter was quoted at 10c @ 13c.; medium to good, 14c 18c ; fine, 19c 20e.Cheese, 14c.@ 14jc.Oats, por 32 Îba., 28c @ 30c.Bar- = Sc.@ Che.Peas, 78c.@ 80c.per 66 VIGER CATTLE MARKET \u2014F1s.36.were not many beef cattle BY REQUEST.HE members of the HUNTINGDON CORNET BAND having been re- quonted by a large numbor of trionds, have ecided to repeat TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR ROOM, in the Victoria Manet, Huntingdon, on FRIDAY EVENING, 871 MARCH, The Entortainment to conclude with the Roaring Farce, \u201cI's Nor Mrsir.r AT ALL.\u201d Tickets of Admisaion.2H centa, Reserved Seats (Front).30 cents, Doorsopen atG p.m.Curtain rises at 7.8& The plan of the Reserved Heats is now open at the Post Office, where Tickets can be sccured.Ico Cream, Oranges, and Confectionery will be sold after tho Play.1876 SPRING 1878 Sugaring Utensils.GOOD STOCK VERY CHEAP to suit the times, such as Sap Buckets, Russia iron Pans for boiling, patent Sap Spouts, &c.B@\" Also all other articles in the Tinware line.Repairing done with despatch.Jas.8, Cowax, Huntingdon, Feby 28, 1878.SAWING.O those wishing to get sawing done, I hereby give notice, that I have bought back tbe Saw and Shiogle-mill at my old stand, and am now prepared todoall kindsof sawing at the most reasonable terms and to the satisfaction of all parties, the mill baving ne & thorough repair.: andergone Waa GoOUNDREY.Dewittville, Feb, 12.og mdr mes ee eof rs ce Es | \u2014 0 A WIFES STORY.\u2018oonventionalism of society,\u2019 as CHAPTER IV.Lar me do justios to my uncle's family as well as to myself, by saying that I re- osived s warm and cordial welcome.[ bad not seen my cousin Clara since she was a girl ; and of her manners and temper I had Bot a ey leasing remembrance.1 found ber à well-bred young woman ; and in the kind sympathy she evinoed, I could discover none of that assumption superiority which bad in by-gone days me so much uneasiness.My aunt met me with overflowing kindness : she was evidently y affected by the blow which bad fallen on us both, but beaviest on me.My uncle's place of business was in the city, bat his family residence was in one of the once fashionable squares in the neighborhood of Holborn.Jt was a large house ; and some preparations bad been made for my permanent abode there, You will be absolute mistress here, Ellen,\u2019 said my aunt, when she had taken me into aemall suite of apartments, comprising a comfortable bed-chamber, a dressing-room, and a sitting-room, opening in each other, and all rather richly furnished.\u2018These will be Jour own dominions; and I hope we shall make it a bappy home for you.\u2019 I whispered my thanks for the attention which had been directed to my comfort ; bat I shook my head despondingly when my sunt spoke of future happiness.My sorrow was of too recent a date to allow me to think of that.In the course of a fow days, however, a change of scene and occupation had to some extent dulled the sharp edge of my grief.1 bad enough b do, with Susan's help, in un- ing and arranging the personal pro- br y I bad sent on from voir Holt ; find though this employment brought to my recollection very vividly my dear father and his uniform kindness, and the delights of the homo I bad lost, 80 that my eyes were perpetually fall of tears, the very exercise of body and mind was salutary ; and before the work had come to an end, I was surprised to find that I was not entirely and mediably miserable.The considerate kindness of my aunt and cousin had its influence also in calming my spirits.I should be under no harsh constraint, it seemed, in the bouse of my guardian, Deference was paid to my wishes, when I expressed any ; and I was allowed to occupy myself as pleased \u2014to associate with my relatives when [ chose, always having the retirement of my own apart ments when I preferred solitude, and the services of my own maid always at my command.I rarely saw my uncle until he returned from the city to our late dinner.He was gonerally taciturn, like one who had thoughts of bis own which occupied bis attention, and which he did not choose to reveal.He spoke pleasantly to me, however, when he did address me ; and occasionally he unbent and became even talkative.My aunt and cousin were fond of society ; and was introduced, in due form, to what they called a select circle of friends.I had no reason to complain of my reception, tho\u2019 1 could not help suspecting that, bad I been a portionleas orphan instead of an heiress, 1 should have received less flattery and adala- tion.«It is not worth while to enter into par- tioulars, my dear,\u2019 my aunt Seymour said privately to me one day, after an old lady left the drawing room, and to whom I had replied with unconscious simplicity on being questioned about my dear old home, and the extent of the Fair Holt estate.\u2018You answered pretty well ; but there is no oc casion to Jet people know how much or how little we may be worth.It is better to let them form their own ideas from what they me.And yet tho sight of the old house, to- see.\u2019 gether with the thought that I was\u2014for I did not, at that time, fully comprohend this time, at least\u2014shut out of it, distressed what my aunt meant ; bat my cousin after- m wards enlightened me ; and I then learned that exaggerated ideas of my prospective fortune were entertained by my aunt's friends, and were encouraged, if they had not been instilled, by my aunt herself, as a means of obtaining consideration for me, and probably of influencing my settlement in life.1 was vexed at this, at first ; but I fear I gradually became reconciled to the deception\u2014at loast I did not attempt to remove it.I soon discovered that, according as my uncle's schemes and transactions in business bad been prosperous or otherwise, so was he placable or irritable; and that there were jealousies, heart-burnings, manceuvr- ings, and deceptions innumerable constantly at work in the hearts of my aunt and cousin.By each I was in turn made the confidant of schemes or grievances which greatly distressed mo ; for they proved that, under the mask of smiles and pleasure, all around were full of mistrust and bitter envying.For a time these discoveries were the greatest drawback to my comfort, for I had no reason to complain of personal neglector unkindness ; but it is astonishing how soon one gets used to what at first appears insupportable.CHAPTER V.\u2014=OLD FRIENDS.I had lived in London a year, when a card was put into my hand.It bore the name of \u2018Henry Temple,\u2019 and the gentle man was waiting in the library, 1 was told.Henry Temple, my old companion, and almost playfellow at Fair Holt! I had not quite forgotten him ; and his name called up very poiafal thoughts and feelings in my mind.remember ny father our happy bome, and my father\u2019s friend, Mr Temple.1 had not used him very well.I had promised to write to him often, and he had often written to me; but I had neglected my promise, and for some months had not sent him a line.\u2018Shall I say you are en, be used for me, and I said so.\u2018And ob, Harry,\u2019 I said\u2014 Mr Temple, mean \u2014\u2014' \u2018Let it be Harry,\u2019 said he, with a smile; \u2018it does mo good to find that you have not forgoiien my old familiar name.\u2019 \u2018Well, then Harry\u2014I am so glad to see ou ; and you must not notice me if [ ory a ittle, far you bave put me in mind of the dear old times that are gone for ever.\u2019 \u2018They are, indeed,\u2019 he aid ; \u2018but, Ellen, I have a message for you from my uncle, and & severe lecture to give you from him,\u2019 he added, good-humoredly.\u2018lie says tbat you have quite turned him off.\u2019 Ob, no, no, I had not done that, 1 said, eagerly ; bat I had lately had so much to do, and so forth.My reader, if a youn lady, will understand the excuses I foun for having neglected the correspondence of an old and grave friend.\u2018Will you prove that you have not for- tten my uncle,\u2019 said Henry, \u2018by acoepting is invitation ?He wants you to pay him & long visit.\u2019 This, indeed, was the object of llenry's calling on 1pe ; and I learned further from him that he had been sponding some weeks at the parsonage, and was now on his way, through London, to his own estate in Sussox.Ho had left college, and was hesitating whether bo should spend a year or two in travelling, or settle down quietly at home with his widowed mother.1 need not prolong my account of this interview.1 introduced Harry to my aunt and cousins, and he was invited to dine with us.Ile often called again during the twu or three weeks be remained in London ; and before he pursued his homeward journey, he had, from some cause or other, determined that he would not leave England.Meanwhile, I had obtained my guardian's consent to spend a few weeks at Mr Temple's parsonage, and on the day that I took the journey Harry Temple loft London also, going southward.My kind friend Mr Temple received me with warm affection ; and Mrs IIarrison, his old housekeeper, wopt for joy, as she said, when she first saw me.Hers wero not the only tears that were shod.À host of tumultuous thoughts and remembrances rushed upon me when I entered the old parsonage, and I was glad to oscape to tho chamber which had beon prepared for mo, to hide my emotions.As for Susan, who had accompanied me\u2014the faithful old sor- vant who had been my nursomaid in child- bood, and my \u2018lady's maid\u2019 in later years\u2014 she fairly cried and laughed in the same breath, to find herself again amoug old scenes, and to see old remembered faces.I passed the evening of that day with Mr Templo, in his library\u2014the room with which I had been so familiar in my childhood.The very books ranged in rows on their shelves were vid acquaintances ; anda great ink-blotch on tho carpet rominded me of an accident which had befallon me ten years before, and of the gentleness and good temper of my host.\u2018I owe you a new carpet for this, sir,\u2019 1 said, pointing tu the memento.\u2018No, Ellen,\u2019 he replied ; \u2018I look upon that blot as a dear friend, because it reminds me of you.L would not part with it on any account.\u2019 From the windows of the old-fashioned library could be seen the roof and chimneys of Fair Holt, and the tall, thick trees by which it was belted in, as well ns tho path through the meadows along which 1 had so often tripped in by-gone days.The sight made me sad.Fair Holt bad a tenant.My unclo bad managed this without much difficulty, and, as be had said, it took a world of trouble off his hands, besides being advantagoous to e.Mr Templo soon turned the conversation to other topics, however : he led me on to talk of my London history.But, alas, there was much in that which I hesitated to tell.I know not whether my dear old friend was quite satisfied with the hesitating account I gave of myself.He said nothing, however, and began to speak of my father\u2014 tenderly, affectionately, and sympatbizingly : he told me how he daily missed the frequent intercourse which bad formerly given him such pleasure\u2014that the villago seemed a different and a sadder place, now that he was gone; but that all this regret was lost in exultation when he remembered\u2014and he never ceased to remember\u2014the glorious \u2018inheritance of the saints in light.\u2019 .«As for myself,\u2019 continued Mr Temple, \u2018it seoms to me that it cannot be long beforo 1 shall also\u2014to use the words of the psalmist \u2014¢go hence, and be no more.\"\u2019 Do not say that, sir,\u2019 I said.\u2018What shall 1 do, if all whom 1 love are to be taken from me?I was indeed, and not without reason, distressed to hear him speak thus.I bad noticed how much my g old friend was changed since I parted from him a year before.He had me palo and infirm, not from years so much as from failing health.Harry had partly prepared mo for this ; but the alteration was greater than 1 had expocted to find it.His cheerful conversation, indeed, had banished the thought from my mind.And then he turned tho conversation to the old people in the village whom I had known, and gave me the history of much that had around him during the last year.And he did not forget to tell me that my little Shetland pony, of which he had taken charge, was fat and frolicksome.It was late before wo parted thatevening, and when I retired to my chamber 1 had no inclination to lay my head on my Jhllow, , Miss Ellen?\u2019 My heart, was sad : I almost wished I had Susan, when I eat lost in thought, not accepted Mr Temple's invitation.A with the card before me.Bible lay on the dressing-table, and I me- ous no ; tell Mr Temple I will step down chanically opencd it ; but the first words on y\u201d I glanced almost which my eyes fell sesmed to roproach me When Susan was gone, for past nogleot, and I hastily closed it.At unconsciously at my image in the pis.length I sank into an unquiet slumber.\u2018He will scarcely know me, I should think,\u2019 CHAPTER VI.\u2014\" AN EXCELLENT CONNEXION I said to myself: \u2018I wonder whether he is FORMED.as much altered as I sm.\u2019 With the dawn of the following day camo No, be was not much altered, except that more pleasarable thoughts.The bright he had grown into manhood.He met me sunshine streamed into my chamber, and with bis old smile, and his frank, cordial| when I opened the window the cool air jagbt Miss Maitland would not re- fanned my cheek ; while the green meadows around, and the woodlands in the distance, old friend,\u2019 be said ; \u2018though |with tho eparkling river which wound seem to doubt whether you through the valley, refreshed both my oye \u2019 He laid a peculiar em- Gul 0 the last words.aad my mind.y those, perhaps, w peinfaliy, for I knew how bave been for some time mewed up in a close and crowded city can understand the formerly condemned this kind of .Moreover, I knew that it was a character of that elasticity produced by a sent practice of sant and cousin to and reviving scenes of nature.home\u201d te visitors whom they did 1 descended from my room, and met my [- A i Ï iif Jen aber.à ! sudden withdrawment into the ever fresh\u2019 called and listened (0 the well-remembered tones it, but I had never willingly pec it to! vi of bis voice at family prayer, and afterwards 1 | took his arms and walked with him into his .And when subsequently I went into the meadow where Plato, my dear little Shetland pony, was Juietly grasing\u2014fat and flourishing, as Mr Temple had told me\u2014 and saw him prick up his ears at the sound of my voice, and then trot towards me, to rub his short, dampy nose into my bands as he had been wont to do, in search of a cake ,Or an apple, it was as much as I could do to keep my gratitication within bounds.I will uot linger, however, over this part of my history.Let it suffice to say (hat much that was pleasant, mingled with some things which were painful, varied this summer visit to the scenes of my childhood.1 renewed my friendship with my old teacher, Mrs Pago, and sought out my father\u2019s old servants\u2014or rather, Susan did this for me.1 went round the village, and looked in at the almshouses and tho school, and was pleased that there were many among tho young and old who had not forgotten me.| rode out on mv Shetland pony, and walked out with Mr Temple through the fields and along the shady by-paths I had trodden when a child, visited my father's and m mother\u2019s graves, and wept bitterly there.was invited to Fair Holt; but my heart failed me.If it had romained deserted, 1 could have wandered alone over its desolate chambers, dismantled rooms, and neglected garden ; and might bave found some of \u2018the joy of grief, rhaps, in a free indulgence of it.It mi Eu too, have been beneficial to me.Bat could not bear to seo it gay and cheerful, inbabited by strangers ; 80 I never ventured nearer to lair Holt than the entrance gate to the large meadow.1 had been a month at the parsonage; and the quiet life seemed to exert a salutary influence over my soul.1 received a letter from my Cousin Clara, which, it may be, aleo helped to turn the current of my thought into another channel.It contained news of her approaching nuptials.Her hand had been sought and won, it seemed, with some rapidity, for tho wedding was to take place within a few weeks\u2019 space ; and she besought my return to London as her bridesmaid.1 was surprised at tho news and the request, and yet more astounded when she named the bridegroom-elect.He was n gay man of the world, whom I had occasionally met at my uncle's table, and concerning whom my cousin had often oxpressed herself with vepugnance.He was, also, nearly double Clara\u2019s age.\u2018Is it possible,\u2019 I said to myself, \u2018that my uncle and aunt Seymour can have given their consent to such a match 7\u2019 Yos, it was not only possivle, but certain; for, inclosed in Clara's letter was a note from my aunt, endorsing her request, and expressing satisfaction with her daughter's choice.\u2018To be sure,\u201d sho wrote, apologetically, \u2018thore is some disparity in age, and Mr Colvin has been rather wild in his young days, as 1 daresay you may have heard, Ellen.Indeed, I think I have said as much to you ; but be is quite steady now, and 1 have no doubt will make a good husband for Clara ; and it is an excellent connexion.\u2019 CHAPTER VII.\u2014MORE CHANGES, AND ANOTHER \u2018EXCELLENT CONNEXION.\u201d The timo allotted for my visit to Mr Temple was within two or three weeks of its close, when one ovening we wero greatly surprised by the sudden and unannounced appearance of Henry Temple.I do not know what reasons he gave to his uncle for paying another and an unoxpected visit to the parsonage; but, whatever they wero, he wns welcomed very warmly, and it scemed as though he did not intend to beat a speedy retreat.For my own part, I had no idea, at that time, that I had anything to do with Harry's erratic movements.I did not suppose that he had any thought of me, except as his former childish companion ; and I am sure 1 had never thought of him in any more intimate relationship.[I liked him, however; and without hesitation [ accepted his invitations to resume our botanizing expeditions, But, after a fow days, I could but notice, not only that he was very stupid about plants and flowers, but that ho generally turned the conversation to my recent way of life in London, and seemed wonderfully inquisitive about my present tastes and pursuits.He was communicative in his tarn\u2014 more communicative, indeed, than I had chosen to be.He described his house in Sussex, told me how he intended to employ his time when he was \u2018regularly settled down,\u201d and spoke enthusiastically of his mother, whom he evidently reverenced and admired as one of the best of womankind, and wished that I knew her.After he had once or twice renewed these subjects, I began to think that Ilonry Temple was gotting dull and proay, till at length tho suspicion dawned upon me that he had a motive in these disclosures and wishes.But if he had, he did not reveal it; and, at length my visit came to an end.I shall never, while I live, forget the last evening I spent with my dear old friond at the parsonage.His ordinary cheerfulness seemed to bave forsaken him ; he was unusually serious, and even solemn.\u2018We may never meet again, my dear child,\u2019 he said, taking my hand in his, and speaking tremulousiy.\u2018I have not yot come to that time of life when the grasshopper becomes a burden, and in which there is no pleasure, but 1 feel I may soon be called away.\u2019 On my arrival in London, I found, as [ expected, my aunt and cousin in full and foverish preparation for Clara's wedding.Let me lightly pass over this event; there was nothing in it worthy of record.It was, looking at it as a matter of worldly policy, \u2018an oxcellent connexion,\u2019 ns aunt Seymour bad spoken, and continued to speak of it.Mr Colvin was a rich man.His father had been a merchant, had amassed large property, had retired from commerce, had bequeathed his fortune unimpaired to his only son, who, when he had epent more than half the ordinary period of existence in affluence, luxury, idleness, and dissipation, bethought himself that it was high time to marry.As an old business connexion of his father, he had kept up an acquaintance with my uncle Seymour, and, when but little expected, he had made an offer to Clara.Poot Clara had not much reason to respect the man whom she had promised to marry ; bat the offer dazzled her, and she fancied that she could love him.And so they were married.It was a grand day at \u2014 Square.My uncle Soy- mour was in high spirits, and ono of his yest humors; and we wero all of us too usy and too much excited to be thoaghtfal, Clara paled aud trembled a little while the ceremony Was progressiag; but she soon recovered her com and thenceforth was Mrs Colvin, The husband had the air of a man jaded with the world ; but he was lite, and apparently well pleased with imself and all around bim ; for no expense had been spared to give due eclat to the wedding.The honeymoon was passed away at Clifton ; and thon we passed away > Clara's future home near London.lt was a large house, magnificently furnished, and Mr Col- vin was proud of it.He was evidently roud of his now and pretty wite, also; and in the constant succession of visits received and returned, and entertainments given in honor of the Alliance, and from which there scemed no escape for me, I soon lost the salutary impressions which my quiet visit to my old friend\u2019s country parsonage had temporarily revived.If thero was little manifestation of heart piety in the family and housebold of my uncle Seymour, thore was, at least, somo outward respect paid, 4s I have said, to a profession of religion.In the house of Mr Jolvin this respect was oxchanged for utter disregard of its very forms.And yet my aunt had spoken of Clara's marriage with y an avowed contemner of Christianity as an \u2018excellent connexion !' 1 had not yot roturnod to my uncle Seymour\u2019s house when a letter, deeply edged with black, reached me by post.iy band trembled as 1 opened it; and it was as I foared\u2014my kind friond, Mr Temple, was dead.The letter was written by lieffry, in ovident distress ; and it contained little besides the mournful intelligence, only that on his return, through London, ho hoped he might have permission to call on me in\u2014\u2014 Square.\u2018T'uo sorrowful nows gavo mo a sufficient reason for withdrawing from the gay society at my cousin's, and for returning to the house which was still my home.1t is not enough to say that I deeply regretted the death of my early friend.I was struck with remorse.Mr Temple's kindness and affection for me had been unceasingly displayed, and I loved him with a childlike love.And yet how had I disregarded his advice and &autions, and even treated his lotters with criminal negloct ! And what influence had his instructions had upon me ?Consciehco accused me.Henry Femple paid his promised visit, and he wns accompanied by his mother.They romained some weeks in London, for Lenry had busincss to settle connected with his uncle\u2019s will.They often called at \u2014\u2014 Squaro ; and it would have been affectation in me to have protended ignorance of Ilenry's state of mind towards myself.At length he took courage to ask me to become his wife, and I did not refuse, for I felt that [ could safely trust my happiness to his keoping.Could | promise myself that it was in my power to promote bis happiness ?[ would not suffer myself to doubt it; and yot I might have doubted, for there were somo points on which we widely differed, and T ought to have questioned whether tho fondness 1 had acquired for the dissipations of society, and which Henry positively disliked, would fit me for tho calm domestic life to which ho looked forward with such delight.But I would not think of this.1 was proud of my friend, and believed that I could adapt myself to his tastes, or that 1 could prevail upon him to adapt himself to mine.Let me add, too, that the distress 1 had so recently felt at the loss of his uncle, had somewhat sobered me, and withdrawn me temporarily from the more frivolous occupations which had obtained such a hold on my affections.There was one disqualification, however, which did not enter into my calculations.I shall refer to this hereafter.Meanwhile, 1 was congratulated on the \u2018conquest\u2019 1 had made.My aunt Seymour was loud in her approbation of my intended husband.She had spoken of Clara\u2019s marriage as being \u2018an excollent connexion,\u2019 and now the phrase was constantly repeated.\u2018But there is one thing you must positively manage, Ellen,\u2019 sho said, one day when we wore alone, and had boen talking of my approaching ospousals\u2014T mean about Mrs Temple\u2014Honry\u2019s mother.What do you think of her, Ellen I liked her very much, I replied ; she seemed such a nice, quiet, comfortable lady, and was so fond of Henry.\u2018All this is vory true, my dear,\u201d said my aunt ; \u2018but yet I do not like tho idea of your having a mother-in-law always at your elbow.You must use your influence with your husband to make some other arrangement.When you are married and settled down, you will find it very inconvenient to havo two mistrosses at Temple Court.\u2019 \u2018But, aunt,\u2019 1 said, \u2018you know how fond Henry is of his mother, and that he has said, from the vory first, that tho\u2019 Temple Court belongs to him, he would consent to live there only on condition that it should always be her home.And it does not seem right to wish Mrs Temple to bo turned out of ber old home, to make room for a stranger.Besides, you know, aunt, I have quite agreed to Harry's proposa) ; and it issettlod among us all that Temple Court is large enough to hold two Mrs Temples.\u2019 \u2018low very absurdly you talk, Ellon,\u2019 ro- plied my aunt; \u2018and you use such an odd expression ! Of course, doar, you would not wish Mr Temple to turn his mother out of house and home.Nobody could wish that, and I am sure I did not hint at such a thing.But if she could be induced to think that it would bo more comfortable for all parties to live in that very pretty cottage that Henry talks about, and that belongs to her\u2014\u2014\" \u2018Henry would call this a \u2018turning out\u2019 aunt,\u2019 I argued ; \u2018and I am sure be would never agreo to it.It is not as though Mrs Temple's cottage was near Temple Court\u2014 it is ten miles off, aunt.\u2019 \u2018Well, my dear, and ton miles is not eo very far off.You may depend on it that I am right ; for as to Templo Court bein large enough for two mistresses, you will find that to be quite a mistake.You have no idea how many disagroeablo things there will be connected with it.The servants will not know who they are to look to for orders, and will be suro to make it an ox- couse for being negligent ; and thon, if any little difference of opinion should arise be tween you and lenry's mothor, he will, as likely as not, wish you to yield to her authority ; and, at any rate, there will be always a danger of his sotting his mother u as an oxample for you, and you know how unpleasant that would be.And there will bo little matters overy day to bring you fresh annoyances.Why, oven your letters, ou know, must be directed to \u2018Mrs Tomple, Janior, or they will fall into the hands ot your mother-in-law.In short, you will find that she will be the real, and yon only the P single mark of violence.You nominal, mistress in your husband's own house.You may rely upon it, it will not a.\u2019 \u2018Bat what can I do, aunt?I asked in some alarm, for I confess I was a little startled by the vision my aunt had conjured up to frighten me.1 remembered havin read, in some book of eastern travels, that it is the custom among the Turks, I think, for the mother-in-law to be recognized as the mistrees of her son's household and family, and that the poor wife or wives have a sbocking time of it, in consequence.I had never made this application of tho state ment before, but now I did make it.\u2018You must not do anything rashly, Ellen,\u2019 aunt Seymour rejoined, \u2018and you must not, by any means, seem to wish old Mrs Temple away.But you must contrive to mako her think how much more pleasant it would be for her to have a house of her own, and so get her to make the proposal to Henry.Why, bless you, Ellen, a wife can carry almost any point she likes, if sbo is but dis creot, and sets about it in the right way and at the right time.I should never have got on at all with your uncle if I had not found out the way to manage him ; for you must have seen how dreadfully obstinate he is when he takes anything into his head.You know that, don\u2019t you, Ellen ?\u2019 1 acknowledged that perhaps my uncle was at times rather \u2018firm.\u2019 \u2018Now, how can you flatter Me Seymour 80, Ellen ?\" asked my aunt, laughing at the hesitating qualification of her stronger torm of reprobation, \u2018Firm, indeed! Oh, but ho is nothing short of obstinate; and you must have scen that perpetually.He has got a notion, too, that his will ought to be law ; and, by the way, my dear, do you not think that Mr Temple has a little of that sort of\u2014well, [ won\u2019t call it obstinacy, but firmness, ns you say, in his composition ?\u2018Dear Aunt, how can you say so ?\u2019 I exclaimed.\u2018I do not think he is at all like'\u2014 like my uncle, I was about to say; butl stopped short.\u2018I moan that I have never seen anything like what you call obstinacy in Henry.\u2018Ah, well; but you are not married yet, Ellen ; and a lover is sometimes very different from a husband ; and you will see by and by that, like most of them, he will have an opinion of his own.\u2019 \u2018I hope so, aunt,\u2019 I said.\u2018Of course, my dear ; but you know what I moan.However, I was speaking of my busband, and not of Mr Temple; and let me tell you, as a great secret, that the only way to deal with him is to let him fancy that be alwaya has his own way.So, if I want anything very particular, take caro to let the proposal come from him : and that is easily enough managed.And then, to make it more certain, it is a good thing to throw in a little gentle, innocent opposition ; and you cannot conceive how this quickens the gentleman's eagerness to carry out his own pans, ns ho is simple enough to think them, \"here, my dear Ellen, you have my recipe for ruling a husband ; and a word to the wise, you know, is enough.\u2019 The conversation ended here, for wo were interrapted by the entrance of Henry and his mother ; and I could but notice how cordially my aunt received Mrs Temple.As for myself, I folt depressed, though I know not why.1 was not aware then, that the first seeds of mistrust had been sown in my heart, which wore thereafter to produce bitter fruits.; [To BE CONTINUED.] CANADA.THREE PErsoNs KiILLED BY DRINK WirHIN TWENTY-Four Hours.-On Thure- day night last a young man named Gallagher found a carter named Leon Beau- champ lying insensibly drunk in his sleigh in St George street.He was driven to his residence in Dufresne street by Gallagher and was attended by Dr Mount and r Durocher.The dreadful poison had, however, accomplished its work upon its victim, and medical skill was incapable of saving the man\u2019s life.He died on Saturday morning, and the Coroner held an inquest the evening of the same day.Upon the evidence of the medical men and others, the jury returned a verdict of \u201cDeath from cerebral congestion, consequent on the excessive use of intoxicating liquors.\u201d The deceased was 54 years of age, and leaves a widow.An inquest was held this morning by Coroner Jones on the remains of Patrick Maguire, a carter, about 38 years of age, belonging to the Ontario street stand, and who lived in a small house off Bleury street, above St.Catherine.The presumed cause of his death was strong drink, for Maguire, while a genial, good-natured fellow, was very often under the influence of liquor.At the inquest the witnesses examined were Mr Joseph Bourdeau, foreman of the jury, Mr W.G.Cole, waiter at the St James Club, Mr A.A.Johnson, book-keeper of the Montreal Brewing Company, Charles Meunier, the grocer from whom the whiskey which killed deceased was purchased, a young man named Lafferty, Dr Burland, Constable Davy and Martin Donohue, brother-in-law of deceased.Messrs Cole and Johnson testified to having stopped the horse, which they saw walking down St George street about half-past twelve Sunday morning, there having been, apparently, no person inside.However, after examining more carefully they found a man wrapped up at the bottom of the sleigh, with his head thrown back and his mouth open.They started to take the \u201crig\u201d to the Central Police Station, when they met Constable Dury, who felt the man\u2019s heart, which did not beat perceptibly ; but he found the body warm.Dury then drove deceased to the General Hospital, where Dr W.H.Burland pronounced him dead.A whiskey bottle was then found in the bottom of the sleigh, and it bore the name of one Charles Meunier, a grocer.Meunier testified upon being shown the remains of the unfortunate mau that he had seen him previously ; that the whiskey bottle had come from his placo, but he had not sold the drink himself ; but it might have been sold by one of his clerks.Mr Bourdeau had examined the body, but had not found a Lafferty testified that about {welve o'clock, he saw near Sherbrooke street, some man in a fur coat driving Maguire's sleigh with some one in it, lying at the bottom.The sleigh was being driven at a rapid rate.Dono- hue said had home sober at five o'clock, and when asked by the Cor- | Minneapolis, oner whether or not deceased was a hard drinker, he said he was occasionally sober, After 8 short deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of death from \u201cApoplexy, caused by the excessive use of intoxicating liquor.\u201d\u2014 Montreal Witness of Monday.There is much growling among English taxpayers over the immense number of sinecures existing in the British army and navy.There are 352 handsomely salaried admirals in the navy, which contains only 207 vessels, or more than one to every ship.The 151 regiments of the line in the army also 105 generals, 169 lieutenant-generals, and 554 major-gen- erals, or 598 generals in all, and over five to every regiment.Besides all these generals there are nearly 1,300 colonels and 2,000 lieutenant-colonels, and in short, 13,898 superior officers, of whom 11,161 arc on full pay.There are also five field- marshals at £6,000 a year each.Nine- tenths of these officials do no other work than draw their salaries «vhich is not fatiguing.AN INCREDULOUs JEHU.\u2014The Duke of Connaught, says a London paper, during his recent visit to Dublin, became particularly partial to the outside cars indigenous across St George's Channel, and frequently took an opportunity of being iven in them.The other day in pursuance of this fancy, his Royal Highness called a car, and ordering the driver to take him to Portobello Barracks, genially fell into conversation with him.TheJehu was quite unconscious of the identity of his fare, and, taking him for an Englishman newly arrived, commented at great length on the fact that his carriage had once accommodated Earl Spencer during that nobleman\u2019s Viceroyship.\u201c Bedad,\u201d said Pat, \u201can yer \u2018onner aut to feel \u2018onner- ed at sitting on the same sate.His Excil- liney is such a foine gintleman intirely.\u201d The Duke expressed himself much gratified at the happy coincidence, and Pat went on to confide to him that but one drop was wanting to make his cup of pride and happiness run over, and that was to have the crowning honor of being hired by \u201cPrince Arthur Patrick, a devilish foine young fellow, the say sor.By the powers, its meself would drive him in foine style, maybe I would\u2019nt make the shtones rattle and give his highness an illigant taste of arale Dublin dhrive.\u201d The Duke said nothing at the moment, but at the end of his journey, giving the man an extra douceur, he demurely observed, \u201c Well, you've had your wish; I am the Duke of Connaught.\u201d Pat put the money in his pocket, an amazingly knowing expression stole over his face, and, as his fare turned to go, he put one finger to lis nose and answered\u2014 The Duke of Connaught ; in- dade?Why don\u2019t you say you're the Prince of Wales?Arrah, get along wid ye, I get up too early in the morning to be codded by an English gossoon.\u201d The St Paul papers mention the formation of an Irish organization called the General O'Neil Skirmishers, Private information has reached Winnipeg that the Fenians are drilling in both St Paul and The object of the movement is not quite clear at present.It is believed to have reference to contemplated operations in this direction in the event of gland going to war with Russia, More than three hundred Chinese have been received as members of the Protestant churches of California, and, in addition, there are seven hundred Chinamen in Christian associations for learning Christian doctrines; 750 Chinese attend the mission schools of San Francisco, and more than 1,000 go to the Sunday schools.In the House of Commons, last week, a motion by Mr Meldon, Home Rule member of Kildare County, in favor of equalizing the Irish borough franchise with that of England and Scotland, was opposed by the Government, and rejected by 134 inst 126.The announcement of the close vote was rected with loud Opposition cheers.Mr Bright and the Liberals supported the motion, London, Feb.20 \u2014A letter from Bey- rout says:\u2014Turkish soldiers have killed thirty and wounded twenty-two Druses in the village of Mount Ulleh.The attack was made under pretence of arresting the headman of the village for trespass.An eminent British officer, Col Chesney, ridicules the notion that Great Britain will ever have to fight with Russia for her Indian Empire.Until Russia has command of the sea, and as long as her only approach to India is across the steppes of Asia, speculation as to Muscovite signs on India is the wildest of political fancies, If Russia ever should obtain command of the sea, it will be after England has lost it, and with it, of course, India.The difficulty of the financial position in which Russia finds herself may be imagined from the fact that excluding the war expenses and allowing the official estimates of receipts to be correct, thoro was a deficit of over $20,000,000 to account for in her budget.Enormous issues of inconvertible paper have becn made, and the rouble is correspondingly depreciated abroad.She has expended on the war not less than $500,000,000, and as the exaction of a money indemnity from Turkey is out of tho question, that immense sum will become a charge on her debt, and will further increase the deficit in years to come.Her credit has fallen so low that she has to pay seven per cent interest.It will bo seen in how unfit a state sho is to continue the war with fresh antagonists who have practically inexhaust- iblo wealth at their back.But though anything but speedy peace is out of the question with her, it is not quite clear what Russia is going to do about her finances whon that desirable end is attained.British and Dutch capitalists are beginning to fear that in lending money to Russia they have made another dreadfully bad investment.: Joseph Wall of Now York some timo ago kicked his wife to death while he was intoxicated, He pleaded guilty to manslaughter, and Judge Davis sentenced him to fifteen yoars\u2019 imprisonment.The Conrt advised him to take steps to bring a civil action against the parties who sold him the liquor and apply it to the support of his oli Ppiy ppoi "]