The canadian gleaner, 11 mars 1880, jeudi 11 mars 1880

[" Lorie EE a arte Sa IEE ed a Tre SET ER BOYD & 00.ARD.\u2014The will reside at Prejent's C Hotel, Durham, further netics, for the pur- poss of sttending to the Auctioneer business his ied pose.him at Oras.town, P.Q, or to George D.Bryson, agent at Howick, being now entirely at his disposal for oot \"All vommuniostions addressed to will recvive immediate attention.- DAVID BRYSON, Licensed Auctioneer.Ormstewn, Feb.18, 80.RCHD MoCORMICK, V.8., weuld respectfally in- A form the public that he hus taken up bis permanent residence at Durham, where he is always to be found, excepting Tuesdays, when he will be at his is, and Fridays, when he will be at Office : John C.Lockerby's, father's, St Moirs Huntingdon.nest door to Hugh Walsh's, Durham.NO.743.HUNTINGDON, Q., THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1880.The Calin Gleam $1.50 A-YEAR.SPRING HATS AND CAPS.suitable for Bpring wear and of the latest style AVID BRYSON, licensed auctioneer, Howick, P.Q., sells in the English and Sales of real estate, merchandise, and farm stock respectfully French languages.solicited and promptly attended to.Call early while the selection is good.WM.WALSH, Huntingdon.NOTIOE.ASH PAID for all kinds of Grain at the Hunting- don Mills.A.HENDERSON, barn, and other ontbuildings.Athelstan.; LAST CALL.FEATHER AND CARPET RENOVATOR HE undersigned will stay in Huntingdon for a short period to clean and renew feather beds, and all kinds of carpets, matresses, &c., by his patent process, making them good as new, Satisfaction guaz- anteed.Shop at Wm.Third & Co.'s old Store, op posite the upper bridge.Z, MANNY & CO.FOR SALE.\u2014 IRST\u2014200 acres with house, two barnsand stable on the banks of the Chateauguay river, at Dewitt.ville, where there is a school, cheese factory, grist mill, saw mill, carding mill, carriage and blacksmith shop.d\u2014100 acres in 4th range of Godmanchester, with stone house, barn and stable, and large orchard.Third\u2014100 arpents near St Agnes, Dundee, with Secon: house, barn and stables.Fourth\u2014Brick house and store, in the village of Huntingdon, at present occupied by Samuel Montgomery.Apply to ANDREW SOMERVILLE, Registrar.Huntingdon.FAUGH-A-BALLAH.THE TRUTH AGAINST THE WORLD.TOCK and assortment of Teas, Coffees, Sugars, Syrups, Spices, Fruits, Fish, and General Groceries fully maintained.The choicest Congou, Gunpowder, and Japan Tens at the very lowest prices.Don\u2019t give high prices when you can get them at three- fourths the usual cost.A full pound weight of 16 ounces for less money than others sell the same quantity and quality.Don\u2019t be deceived by other concerns who pretend to If you desire sell you the same article.really good, refreshing, nourishing, and cheap Teas, and General Groceries, go to the RELIANCE T' HOUSE 8a The highest price paid for Eggs, Batter, &eo.: GEORGE Q.O'NEILL.Huntingdon, June 19.PAINTS.A\" invitation is respectfully extended to the public to call at the Drug Hall o it Post Office, where \u20ac Rte nn Goods found in a procured, viz.: Lyman\u2019s, Ro other White Leads, Boiled and Raw Linseed Oil, Tanner's, Nestsfoot, Lard, Olive, Sperm, Salad, Machinery, sud Castor Oils, White Zinc, Drop and Lamp Black, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Violet Paints, (dey or ground in oil,) Putty, Shingle Paint, Paint ushes, Black and Brown Japan, Furniture, Carris and White Varnishes, Glass out to any size, also.mine for Tinting Walls, Perfected Butter Color, Log- wood, Madder, F'ustic, Cochineal and Compound, and the celebrated HandyPackage Dyes.\u2019 J.C.SHA .Huntingdon, Aug.4.NES RCHIBA LD & M'CORMICK, Advocates No.112 St.Francois Xavier Street, Montreal.J.8.Archibald, M.A,B.C.L.D.M'Cormick, B.C.L Mr M'Cormick will attend the Courts in Beauharnois, Hantingdon, and Ste.Martine.Accounts for collection may be addressed to the firm, Montreal, or M.8.M'Coy, Hun- tingdon.MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE COUNTY OF BEAUHARNOIS.Insuring only Farm and Teolatedproperty P KESIDENT\u2014Archibald Henderson, Esq.Directorse= George Cross, John Ferns, Danle, W'larlane, Donald McNaughton, Andrew : John Symons, and John White.prem Oliver Secretary and Tieasu Huntingdon, asurer\u2014Andrew Somerville Agonte\u2014William Edwards, Franklin ; Robert Middiemiss, Rockburn ; Thomas Clarke, Ste Nallomène; Robert Small, Trout River ; P.Clancy, - P,and J.A.V, Amirault, N.P., Hemmingford; Malcolm Condie, Howick; William Blackett, Allan's o ors ; John Davidson, Dundee ; I.I.Crevier, -P, Bt Anicet; Arthur Herdman, Herdman\u2019s Oorners ; John Bryson, Ormstown, and J.C, Bruce, Manag don Arte Cameron ot Dundee, and E.H.y Notary Public, of Beauharnois, BEF\" Parties wishing to insure theÏrproperty are Squested to apply to theagents or Secretary.FURNITURE! FURNITURE! \u2014 TS subscriber has on hand a large stock of Furniture, consisting of Bureaus, Bedsteads, Washstands, Cane and Wood Sent Chairs, Tables, and all other articles found in a first-class assortment.Parties requiring Farnitare will find it to their advantage to call and examine our stock as it will be sold cheap.A.HENDERSON.GASKETS AND COFFINS.Tae undersigned has now on hand at his Warerooms, Hantingdon, a full assortment of Undertakers\u2019 Supplies, includin Caskets and Coffins of all sizes, styles an prises.Also, a supply of Burial Robes, 0 Plates, and other trimmings necessary.0\" Prompt attention paid to ail orders \u201cWa A.HExDERsON.DENTISTRY.H.W.MERRICK, DENTIST, FORT COVINGTON, N.Y., T home the first 25 days of each month, until further notice.Artifical teeth inserted, on the new celluloid base, which is far superior to rubber in every respect, at ny reduced rates.All operations war- Fort Covingten, Nov, 12th, 1879.HB price for Auction, Soiree, and other Bille, at the Gleaner Office, is 81.75 for 26, and $2 for 50.Parties at a distance by thie ling the price witb order, will have their Bills sent by return of mail, postage paid, Moabatement made from these prie.a in addition to the usual class of Drug Store, the following may be berteon's, Ramsay's, and Dwelling and Shop to rent on reasonable terms.DAMASE LARCHE, Athelstan.NOTIOB.Gonzague.FARM FOR SALE on the 3rd range of Hin- chinbrook, within 1 mile of Athelstan, containing 10 acres, of which about 30 are under cultivation, the rest being under good bush.There is a house, à large For further particulars apply on the premises to Wilson Johnston ; Post-office, THE undersigned is giving up business and going to Colorado, so that all indebted to him must call and settle by cash or note before the 1st of April, when all unsettled accounts will be left with a lawyer.THe St Louis de Gonzague Cheese Factory for sale ortolet.Apply to L.VACHON, St Louis de struction of those who desire subsequently JUST TO HAND, à box of Caps and Felt Hata to enter upon a collegiate course.As matters now stand oneof these classes of studies must suffer at the expense of the other, or, at least, some particular studies at the expense of others, for it is quite unreasonable to suppose that a single teacher, whatever may be his capabilities, can properly superintend the instruction more subjects, in many of which there are this sug, beyond the neighborh of your town might be considerably raised and that, if it should be found impossible to add another teacher to the present statf, one of the lower schools should be made to train its pupils up to such a standard that it would not be necessary to have junior classes in DENTISTRY.Dr.0.H.Wells, Dentist.(Licentiate Dental Association Province Quebec.Dental Licentiate Medical Council, Great Britain and Ireland.) H* settled permanently in Huntingden to practice Dentistry in all its branches, and hopes that the convenience of having u restdent Dentist will secure for him the generous patronage of the public.Dr Wells was for twelve years established in the Eastern Townships, and latterly in Belfast, Ireland.He proposes to use the best materials and to give his services at reasonable fees.BG\" The preservation of the natural teeth a speciality, artificial teeth of the very best materials Repairing, &c.Office at Mrs Cowan's, near the upper bridge.WANTED, EEF CATTLE, Milch Cows fresh calved, Veal Calves, Fat Bheep or Lambs\u2014for which tbe highest price will be paid by the undersigned.Address : P.CAVERS, Ormstown, P.Q.HE CANADIAN GLEANER is publisb- ed every Thursday at noon.Subscription $1.50 a-year in advance, postage free.Single copies, four cents each.One dollar pays foreight months\u2019subscription,twodollars for a yearand four months.Advertisementsare charged 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 PEF\" The figures on the direction-label indicate the ate to which the subscription is paid, and, there fore, are a valid receipt to the subscriber for money sent.After remitting, be sure to netice that the figures are changed.All such changes will usually be made previous to the issue of the succeeding number, except when the subscription has been paid to an agent, when a few weeks may elapse, Subscribers outside the District, who desire to continue to receive the paper, will please observe the date on their papers and send the money to renew before their time is up.: ROBERT SELLAR, Proprietor ELGIN COUNCIL.À SPECIAL MEETING was held on Monday, 1st inst; all the members present.Moved by Coun Donnelly, seconded by Coun Wattie: That Daniel M\u2019farlane be re- electedfMayor.Carried unanimously.The board took up Mr Stark\u2019s account, which it was resolved to leave over until the next regular meeting of the council, and the secretary was ordered to notify John Cairns to appear at said meeting.Moved by Coun Gavin, seconded by Coun Brown : That the following named persons be officers for the ensuing term of 2 years: Auditors\u2014James Gilliestand William Eddie.Valuators\u2014Archd Paul, James McNair and Robert Patterson.Road Inspectors\u2014 Dist.No 1, Wm.Shearer ; 2nd, Wm.Crawford ; 3rd, D.H.Brown; 4th, Jas.E.Donnelly; 5th, Donald McFarlane; 6th, Francis Napier ; 7th, George Elder ; 8th, Henry Tully; 9th, Thos.Shearer ; 10th, Wm.Bell ; 11th, Samuel Lamb; 12th, Wm.Wilson.Raral Inspectors\u2014Robert Smaill, Barnabas Lank- tree and Thos, Cairns.Pound-Keepers\u2014 Moses Wilson, Robert Mack and Jas.Shearer.Carried.: Moved by Coun Wattio, seconded by Coun Elder: That a rate of 2 mills on the $1- valuation be laid fer road purposes for the ensuing year, and that the same allowances be made for those who work on the roads as last year.Carried.Moved by Coun Anderson, seconded by Coun Donnelly: That George Elder, jr., be appointed to have the bridge on the sideroad at his place repaired immediately, and hand his bill into this council at its next meeting.Carried.An application was made by Chas.O'Reilly of Trout River for a license to sell intoxicating liquors.Moved by Coun Elder, seconded by Coun Donnelly : That Mr O'Reilly\u2019s application be granted.For license: Elder and Don- nelly.Against license: Brown and Gavin.Coun Wattie and Anderson declined voting.The Mayor gave tho casting vote against license and declared the motion lost.THE ACADEMY.To the Editor of the Canadian Gleaner.; SIR\u2014In your issue of the 26th Feby last there appeared a communication under the heading of the \u201cHuntingdon Academy\u201d which possessed considerable interest for me as having been a former pupil of that institution, The necessity for reform in the management of the Academy is, however, greater than the tone of that article seems to indicate.The respected Principal, duri ater part of the scholastic year, number of pupils, twice too la efficiently dealt with,considering them.In order to make its working thoroughly be divided between two teachers, one devoting his time more particularly to those pils who are a » the other attendiag chiefly to the in- grammar and geography for them when they are promoted to the upper school.It is also requisite that a system of inspection should be adopted independent of the government office for that purpose, which latter, in so far as my experience of its working is concerned, has, on account of the character of its administration, not only been a reproach to the community but also an object of ridicule or disgust to every intelligent people.It is, however, only fair to say that there have since been signs of improvement in the administration of this important office.Yours, &e., A.G.Cross.Montreal, 8rd March, 1880.EE SABBATH-SCHOOL CONVENTION.THEFrontierSabbath-school Association held their Convention on the 25th Feby, at Athelstan, in the Presbyterian church.The forenoon session was not well attended, yet it was both interesting and helpful, and characterized by a most hopeful and brotherly spirit.After the usual devotional exercises, conducted by the President, the report of the preceding convention was read by the secretary and was adopted with the commendation of the association, The first matter brought forward was the selecting a place for the next meeting of the association.A kind invitation having been tendered by the good people of Huntingdon, it after due consideration, was most heartily accepted.Two committees were then appointed, one -to draw up a programme for the proposed convention at Huntingdon, which takes place sometime in June or July next, and a local committee, comprising the ministers and 8.8.supts.in Huntingdon, said committee to make the necessary arrangements for entertaining delegates attending the convention.The business of the morning having been disposed of, the association held a short prayer-meeting, aud was afterwards dismissed - AFTERNOON SESSION.As agreed, the members convened at half-past two p.m.The attendance at this session was very fair\u2014one most attractive and interesting addition was the choir of the place, which at once inspirited the meeting by singin che beautiful hymn, \u201cPrecious Promise.\u201d After the reading of the xx1v.Psalm and prayer, offered by Mr Clyde, S.8.Supt.of Huntingdon, the President delivered a short and stirrin address, in which he spoke of the wor which the association proposed to do, and also showed what were already the beneficial results of S.S.conventions.After the address of the President, the Rev W.Johnston, Rockburn, opened a discussion on the best mode of establishing Sabbath-schools in places destitute of such.The rev.gentleman was quite enthusiastic in presenting his views which, as he said, were based on the good foundation of personal experience.His plan was to send teachers from strong Sabbath-schools, and under the patronage and supervision of some church.His views were seconded most eloquent- y by the Rev J.Pattèrson.The Rev J.Casey spoke in a very practical way, by roposing to assist Mr Johnston to estab- ish a school in such a place under his (Mr Johnston's) charge.Dr Fergusson commended this earnest application of the principle to the present need.: After the singing of another hymn b the choir, an essay was read by J.C.Wright, his subject was \u201cThe Duties and Qualifications of S.S.Supts.\u201d Rev Mr Patterson eriticised the essay as \u201cI deal in its conception,\u201d &c.The standard he thought was a little too high in the essay.Mr Clyde and Mr Wilson appreciated and commended the essay.Another hymn being rendered by the choir the Rev Mr Patterson opened a dis- cassion on the Bible class.e rev.gentleman commenced by saying \u201cthat teach- a Bible class was the same in kind as in the oll other teaching and differed only in ob- degree 0 iged to superintend the instruction of a of teaching, he commended teaching older| make our way, the giant choosing to be- to be [scholars by \"In comparing the different modes EVENING SESSION.Tho\u2019 the night was both rainy and dark, of the Sea.Present] educa- the attendance was very good.the opening exercises, was an essay by Dr ason, but as the \u201cQuestion Box\" was very full the Dr desired to lay his essay on the shelf, promising to keep it dry for & future occasion.The \u201cBox\u201d was then opened and between the interest drawn forth by some of the posers proposed, and the very excellent music given by the choir the night passed most rapidly.As satisfactory and interesting.Yet,in as some of us would have wished it to\u2019 have been.Several would not \u201cdogmatize,\u201d therefore they did not \u201cstigmatize.\u201d deservedly due to the people and choir, the convention adjourned, S\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 HOUSES IN THE BOG IN IRELAND.WONDERING at the awful appearance of the landscape, says the London Daily Telegraph's\u2019 correspondent, which looks just now as tho\u2019 the Creator had excepted it when He said, \u201cLet the earth bring forth fruit,\u201d I am presently invited to descend from the car and take to the open country.It is the purpose of my reverend guide to show we some cabins out on the bog, and I meekly followed, learning en route to understand the exact pertinency of the term \u201cbog trotter.\u201d A man who crosses one of these delectable tracts must trot, for only so can he acquire the momentum needed te carry him from mound to mound of the firmer soil.Father M'Fadden, thru long practice, is a magnificent bog-trotter, and a better pilot for a novice encumbered by a long coat and tossed about by a high wind no one could desire.At last we reach the cabins\u2014unapproachable other- wise\u2014and as we enter a good many in the course of the day, finding them all alike, I may as well sketch the first, and have done with them.Let the English reader picture to himself a thatched outhouse in the midst of & marsh, with a few plots about it, enclosed \u2014if enclosed at all\u2014by loose stones.There are mo windows to the house, but it has doors opposite each other like those of a barn, the one in use being determined by the direction of the wife.time cov After the usual votes of thanks, most |thruout nearly you have Gweedore.EE MISCELLANEOUS.DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER.\u2014 A man of eccentric habits, named Lynne, is ths residence of an old man He went out on to the , and made a circular excavation, in the pit with turf and stones, and there took up his abode with the partner of his jays and sorruws.The priest descended into the cavern\u2014it ia like exploring a rabbit-hule\u2014but I am content with such a glimpse of the interior as can of from 80 to 100 pupils in a dozen or|a rule, the answers and discussions were bo gained thru the outpouring smoke.a defiant demeanor.\u2014\u2014 his some ! hold, and in your manifesto distinctly stated oy: It ia 4 be a policy of ex We are all in your hands; tbe Car has virtually abdi- have no appeal from your acts.We are at your \u2014the mercy of a tiger.Think not we fail to understand the situation.It is your life er curs.These middle ground.But we are many.Thousands of us may perish, but their will be filled with other thousands, no less resolute, There can be but one conclusion to this strugglo, however it may be delayed + in the end we shall conquer, and you will fall.Guards and cannot protect you from a fate in comparison with whose desirableness to us our lives are as nothing.\u201d The man who tired upon General Melikoff yesterday is a converted Jew named Modetsky, from Minsk, 430 miles southwest of 8t Petersburg.He has been tried and sentenced to-day and , will be hanged to-morrow.He maintains He says he faithfully regard ; Near this \u201chome\u201d is a cabin containing carried out his chief's order.two or three classes.In furtherance of |tp one question, viz, \u201cIs it sinful for S.S.father, mother, and children, who have 8 tion, I take the liberty of indi- teachers to dance at private parties i\" the nothing upon them that can, even b cating, that the fees of pupils coming from general sentiment was not as prenounced ! courtesy, be styled clothing ; anël near this ; again \u2014but w 7 lengthen a painful tale ?ancy these sighta repeated over and over with heart-breaking monotony, and visible the whole parish.Then SUICIDE IN A FrT or REMORSE \u2014A ver- diet of felo de se has been returned at an inquest held as Gloucester, En on the body of Frederick Sherwood, a lad 16 ears of Deceased had robbed his mother of bor purse containing 5s, and on her accusing him-of the theft he denied it and left thé}{hodte.\u201cMe went drinking with some young men and e his intention to commit suicide, wbich he did the same night by placing his head on the railway line, when it was severed from the has just died at Wigan, England.Feeling some time ago that his dissolution was not far distant, he walked into an undertakers shop, and had himself measured for a wooden suit.The coffin was prepared and embellished according to his own in- by the parish authorities.This piece of furniture having been constructed according to the directions of its yet living tenant, Lyne wrote out his funeral cards, intimating the day and the date of his demise, and requesting the attendance of his friends.Everything being in readinoss for his death, the man quietly laid himself down and died.How he managed to die it is difficult to say, although it is certain the man laid no violent hands on himself.All his life he had been a devoted adherent of the Church of England, but just before his death he summoned a priest of the Catholic Church to his bedside, and was received into the fold.Charles Napier, an English scionijst, says the craving for drink is relatively under contrel when n farimaçeous diet is employed.Among the articles which are specified as antagonistic to alcehol are maccarroni, haricot beans, dried peas, and lentils, well boiled and seasuned with wind.On entering, a cow, or two or three sheep, or, perhaps, a pig, may be seen sharing one end of the apartment with a huge heap of manure and a pile of straw.At the other end the family live.A fire burns on the floor, the smoke going out at the door for preference, and on each side straw, with, perhaps, a brown military blanket given in charity.The inmates squat round the fire for the warmth that their poor foud does not bestow.Of furniture there is none in the place, save, it may be, a broken chair, or a rude bench, and the interior, what with smoke and the lack of openings, is almost dark even at midday.Such, ye gentlemen of England, is a Donegal cabin in this present al- vanced year of grace, and in such manner do thousands live within two days\u2019 journey of the capital of your mighty empire.The fact, you will admit, is not one to boast of.I verily believe that Cetywayo would not have permitted his Zulus to be housed like these wretched people.Uniformly miserable as are the cabins, the misery of their inmates is a little diversified.In one place we find the mother preparing\u2014what do you think ?\u2014a dish of seaweed wherewith to flavour the Indian meal obtained from the relief funds.I am not joking.God forbid.Her children have gone to the shore and gathered the stuff, and while I look on she prepares it for cooking.Outside another hovel we come upon & heap of shells thrown there after the contents had been devoured by the inmates\u2014a widow and her daughter, The widow, by the way, has just been processed for rent, which grim joke she seems to appreciate, and hunts among the bedding for the docu-, ment that demands of her £1 7s 6d.Farther on, a man who has two heaps of seed potatoes on his land confides to the priest (the whole conversation goes on in Irish, and has to be translated for my behoof) that, if he brought them inside, the children would roast and eat them.In another place we find a woman in bed, with a young infant, and near her a cow borrowed from a neighbor for milk, at the expense of the beast's keep.So we work our way describable wretchedness as this, the onl redeeming feature being meal-sacks, whic silently testify to the eager bog to another ering thru marshes and across streams, we looks like & mud beehive, with an em- \u201cY ; milli Von do The first thing on the programme, after bankment round it.That, if you please, | ou are one we are millions.You v of the fire are the family beds, mostly of down to the beach, and everywhere the cated to the Czar, who swarming children are more than half|that \u201cit was fortunate naked, and the men and women are|chosen some other target in rags, while the faces of all are/than himself\u201d When arres wan, and their forms shrunken and gaunt.man was defiant and spoke incoherently, I never saw such hopeless misery, such in- apparent] being under the influence of rink.aud the ball pussed throug poor creatures that koff's overcoat, and striking the breast|; human kindness has not bidden the world plate_which the General wore, glanced farewell, In one of these seaside cabins off.lives a fine, powerful fellow, whom Father marvellous, but the fact of his weari M'Fadden, himself an abstainer, has re- bullet proof armor accounts for it.The deemed from drunkenness, and he, with 8852s8in was preparin service, acts as our guide across the shot, when , a across, and! has point orfoffering to carry me on his back.I de-{] grasp the principle of his theory, so that a clined the ignominious position with a rather lively discussion followed the ad-| laugh at tbe poor fellow's good joke, but efficient and to maintain the reputation dress, and Facts vetsus Pri) which it happens to have acquired, the the remainder of the session.The meet- classes in the highest department should ing was then adjourned.b Principles oceupied somehow his ready hand and strong arm he 7 ubtarily accepted butter or olive oil.He claims that the earbon thus ingested renders umnecessary, aad therefore repels, the carbon in the alcoholic beverages.Me states that eon- firmed drunkards, and those brought to death's door by their habits, have been fully eured by a proper farinaceous regimen.The celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Emperor of Russia's accession to the throne was celebrated on Tuesday, 2d inst.A St Petersburg despatch states that the day passed quietly.A letter was received from the Emperor William, counter signed by Bismarck, congratulating the Czar in terms of warm and earnest friendship on the 25th anniversary of his aocces- sion, and on his recent escape from injury.The Emperor William expresses gratification that the friendship which united their fathers has been maintained, and hin confidence that it will continue unchanged to the end of his life.The city was gaily decorated, and the day was observed as a general holiday.At 10 in the morning vast crowds assembled before the Winter Palace, troops were massed in the centre quadrangle of the palace and the immediate vicinity.The programme of ceremonies as arranged was executed.The Czar appeared on the balcony of the palace, where he remained twenty minutes saluting the multitude amid great enthusiasm.After the Czar had received the congratulations of an enormous crowd at the Palace he drove out in an open carriage and was loudly snd continuous] cheered in the crowded streets throug which he passed.St Petersburg, March 3.\u2014As General Melikoff, the recently ap; 2ointed military dictator at St Petersburg, was passing out of the Winter Palace th:.s afternoon, an unknown young man step ped up immediately in front of him, and fired a pistol at him point blank range, and (hen fled.The would-be assassin was ut once pu.\u201d sued and arrested.General Melikoff was unhurt.Great excitement exiiita throughout the city at this renewed attempt to assassinate a member of the Government.Information of the event was communi- imly remarked de Nihilists had to practice on ted the youn he weapon used was a revolver, His escape esigned to esca 8 Halifax, ss being nearer to Eu h General Meli- the was at first considered See we rte.The line of railwa ped assassination yesterday, Englan las received written warnings from Nihi- |ers intended for carrying mails pes iste in mysterious letters, deposited at|sengers.being si in various places within his residence, as well the © t, that he need not imagine that offers great facilities for coaling, and it is D ] their bands.He | claimed on completion of the railway, thet are nover far away at a critical moment, is assured that he will be watched and all steamers crossing the Atlantic will find and I helieve nothing would delight him | pursued, and that the bullet or dagger |it for their interest to coal there, both on more than playing Sinbad to my Old Man | will yet do its work.Une of these notes the outward and homeward voyage, as we reach what is said to contain the following paragraph : Ter can sail with body by a passing train.A correspondent on H.M.gunboat Gon- hawk, which is distributing meal among the Western Islands of Ireland, writes from Innishar, off Galway :\u2014\u201cIt is n ter- structions, and paid for down on the nail, rible state of affairs.Fifty families here Lyne declining to be buried on credit or [eke outa miserable existence.Their houses are small fheaps of dirty stones.Their land is rock and soft bog.Hunger and want are every place visible.The people go naked and without food.Many are slowly starving to death.Such acenes of appalling destitution I never before witnessed.Every step we took brought before our view new and more tearful pictures of destitution and suffering.he more we saw, the more certain did death from starvation appear the inevitable fate of nearly every man, woman and child on the Island.Gaunt, thin and pale were the faces of men, naturally of herculean build.The features of the women and children were overspread by the ghastly pallor of hunger.Tn many cabins o ildron crouched shivering and almost waked around the fire.Shen 1 entered they sprang behind their mother, whose single garment, or thin dress, was but tho slightest protection against the wind which blaw thru the broken roof.On the fire was the dinner, a pot of brown green seaweed.It is certain that unless they ave well cared for dozens will die of starvation.\u201d The Church of the Saviour, Moscow, intended as a memorial and a thank offering for the deliverance of Russia from the French invasion under Napoleon L, is to La consccrated on the next anniversary of the Czav's consceration, August 26 Ita construction was begun in 1833.The height of its dome is 369 feet 6 inches.Nearly two thousand tons of iron or other metal were used in the cupolas and roof.In the gilding about nine hundred and twenty-five pounds of gold wero employed.The crosses have been cash in bronze, and are fire-gilt.Within the oburch are several columns of jasper, each of which cost $13,000.There are in the dome sixteen windows, each twenty-six feet high, whose bronze frames weigh each three tons.The double doors are also of bronze, each half weighing about two and one- half tons.The entire cost of this inagni- ficent church has been about $15,000,000.Laredo, Tex., Feb.28.\u2014On the 22nd .thirty-three Indians from Chihuhus made a raid on Soucillo del Purto on she Mexican side, killed a woman and three men and drove off 300 horses, The band then separated, killed four sheep-herders and perpetrated other atrocities.The Mexican army is pursuing the Indiane.The raid is said tojbe in retaliation for bed treatment the Indians received from the Mexican Government.: New York, March 3.\u2014An euterprise is on foot to bring the commercial centres of Europe sud America into closer commubi- cation.The promoters point to the prolonged delays to mails and passengers during the present season, many of the fast- eat Atlantic ocean steamships haying been delayed from 14 to 20 days, They claim that the chief dangers of navigation arise from approaches to and courses slong the + the dangers of the ocean in steunch > ~thy vessels being comparatively andseawo.\u2018- reason they selected the slight.For thi * nn the continent of nearest available porv ~ort, is White- America to E ; that y.~dby one haven, in Nova ia, propouna Ad.of the chief surveyors of the British .miralty to be superior to the harbor of ; rope, lying directly upon the ocean, requiring very little pilotage, aud never known to bave been frogen over.This route, too, avoids dangers of Sable Island, lying direct- y in the track of ocean steamérs from from ork to Whitehaven is nearly com- NE pleted with only some 50 or 60 miles wanting to fill up the missing link.When to fire a second i en.Melikoff knocked him this rosd is in W of the waste.Flound- down, and he was secured by a Cossack.tion, the passage from bitebaven can be made in from 30 to 36 hours, and from thence to St Petersburg, March 4.\u2014It is reported the nearest thi ing that i ix days.i rinciples rather than facts.lieve, at every difficult place, that a Lon.narrowly boos at General Molikof, ho and a half to ix 263: tine ot hes e num.[ The rev.gentleman spoke well, but some donner cannot possibly ber and variety of the studies\u2019pursued by of the brethren failed to see the port in England in from five n d to start a fast line of y atoam- Whitehaven of the coalfields fova Scotis, one-third less the position you now meh more freight.carry that : Eee THE TY Tet Le The Ca adi Gleaney, HUNTINGDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1880.THE coroner's inquest on the Biddulph horror has ended in a failure of justice: Despite the clear and positive evidence of the boy Connors and of Wm.Donnelly, the jury refused to implicate the parties they named, and brought in an open verdict of murder against parties unknown.So strong is the feeling against the Don- nellys and in favor of the prisoners that a conviction is looked upon as unattainable in London, and s change of venue will therefore, be applied for by the prosecution.William Donnelly is very bitter against Father Connolly, and, in an interview with a reporter, expressly accused him of being the indirect cause of the revolting tragedy.\u2014 Tue Ontario Legislature adjourned on Friday after a session fruitful in useful legislation.Another advance was made by Mr Mowat in securing to the Province a reform in the courts, and, should he con- \u2018ness only by borrowing from Molsons.\u2019 The books show that every month it w , was acwmally imsolvent years before it \"closed its doors, and yet, knowing it was, bankrupt, its directors not only continued | to seceive deposits and issue bills but ex-! tended its business to our own section and | to Glengarry.Altho, apparently, a clerk picked up off the street, the Directors left \u2018everything to Menzies, who discounted ' whatever paper he pleased and issued bills | irrespective of capital or the requirements lof the law.Mr Brydges seeks, like Sir Francis Hincke, to throw the entire blame .upon the cashier, but it may well be asked | what is the use of a President if not to : superintend and look after subordinates ?In his case, by his own admission, he had full warning that matters were going | wrong, knew that Menzies was discount- ling worthless paper for his friends and i helping \u2018himself in like manner, yet he | neither suspended him nor ordered an ex- {amination of the books.Of course Mr \u2018 Maclaren could put no questions to Mr Brydges, in his present situation with apro- - secution hangingover him, likely to crimin- iate himself, but the public will draw the inference that he had a motive in allowing the cashier to retain his position.His answers touching the circulation are as tinue to he Attorney-General many years evasive as those he admits he gave at the longer, Ontario will have a system for the meeting after the suspension.The matter administration of justice that will make of the St Martin church notes is one of it the envy of those less favored.The the most scandalous connected with the Government, apparently thinking enough had been done in that way for some time to come, refused to grant any further aid to railways, altho\u2019 there are several which cannot be completed without assistance.Half a million was set aside to erect new parliamentary buildings and twenty thousand voted towards the Irish famine fund.rotten concern.St Martin's is an aristocratic Episcopal church in Montreal, attended by Mr Brydges, John Molson, Wol- ferstan Thomas, and others.Like the rest of the city churches it is in debt, and the Mechanics bank cashed sundry notes signed by the parties named.These notes were transferred to Molsons.Parties in this District who had Mechanics notes to WHEN Mr Mackenzie was in office the meet, last summer, held by Molsons, have Conservatives were continually assuring |® feeling recollection of the sense of in- the workingmen that, if they got hold of justice that moved them in having to lift the reins of power, there would be em- them with other money than Mechanics\u2019 ployment at good wages for all.We bills.It was different, however, with these pointed out, at the time, the dangerous notes ornamented with the signatures of tendeney of such promises, as being calcu- Brydges et'al.They were expressly sent lated to foster Communism and sure to down by Molsons to the broken bank to bring disappointment.The \u201cflies upon the be redeemed in Mechanics\u2019 bills, and this, wheel\u201d have now been brushed off eighteen too, after the bank was legally insolvent.months and Sir John Macdonald and his The poor farmer was not allowed to lift his colleagues had firm hold of it, yet they are fain to confess to the unemployed at note with the bills he had received for it ; Mr Thomas insisted on gold or current Ottawa that they cannot control the funds; but the notes with his own name machinery of government so as to create work for all.Since their accession to power there have been more failures and at least equal deadness in the general trade of the country as during the period of their predecessors.Speaking for this he arranged should be redeemed with Mechanics\u2019 bills when they were not bringing 40 cents.The transaction was a loss to the creditors, and if justice is done, Mol- sons bank will be compelled to refund to tho estate the difference between the face District we can affirm.with all truth, that of the notes and the value of the bills, apart from the late full average crop and IT will be observed that the Imperial the sharp demand that prevailed for peas Administration has decided upon an ap- and dairy products in the Fall (for|peal to the country.Regarding Mr Glad- neither of which can credit be given to|stone as the foremost man of our age and the Government, seeing the harvest was sympathising with the Liberal views re- out of the bounty of Heaven and the de-|garding the iniquity of Beaconsfield\u2019 mand for its products came from England, | policy abroad, we confess, at the same the country it legislated against) a worse time, that we do not ardently desire to see winter has not been known.Men, eager a change.The conduct of the Liberal to work at board wages, could not get em- party with regard to Home Rule has been ployment, and even in Valleyfield, which, so equivocal, that, at the present juncture, as a manufacturing centre, the Protection- we are inclined to think it will be better ist tariff was designed to build up, there for the Empire that the Government re- has been and still is an amount of destitu- 4i2 88 i ix tion which is a reproach to a new country like Canada.For several weeks there |energetic steps yesterday with regard to has been an uprecedented exodus of young the railway, as will be seen by its minutes.men from this county, and a great many |The petition from it will answer a good more are preparing to follow, all going to purpose, as the Grand Trunk, among other that country, which, under Conservative efforts to defeat the act incorporating the auspices, was to present no inducements Montreal & Province Line railway, has to Canadians, namely, the United States.circulated among the members at Ottawa For all this we do not blame the Govern-|a memorial which is a misrepresentation - ment We say now as we said when Me of the facts so far as regards this section.Mackenzie was in office, that a govern- The petitions cireulated among the rate- ' ment may rétard the prosperity of a coun- payers have been well signed.Out of122 tey, but cannot create it.The springs of available ratepayers in Dundee 107 signed, presperity lie beyond the reach of depart- and out of 130 in this village 110 signed.mental control, for they consist in the fruitfalness of the seasons, in the industry and saving habits of the people and in the ability to buy of those outside their boun- Absence from home was the cause of not getting all, for a refusal was exceptional.The petitions from other municipalities have not come in, but they will show a daries with whom they deal.What we like unanimity, and from them Parliament do blame the Government for was ite| will learn that it is the united wish of the leading the country to believe that it |ratepayers along the route that a charter could, by a revision of the tariff, supplant be granted to the Montreal & Province the ills of adversity by the benefits of Line Company.At a meeting at Durham prosperity, thereby deceiving the electors on Saturday, the ratepayers of the parish to thelr hurt.The expectations raised in agreed upon moving in accord with those 1878 have not been realised, and the|of Huntingdon, and similar petitions are eountry finds iteelf no better off than had now being largely signed by them.the \u201cflies\u201d continued to rest upon the national wheel, while it sees an obstruc- THE opening of the criminal term at .Beaubarnois on the 1st inst.was looked tion to the re-establishment of substantial .prosperity in the existence of & new ¢ sp forward to with some interest as being which makes Eving tare, RE TES ememination of Mr Brydges is worthy of attentive perusal, for it gives on suthentie glimpes into the management of the bank whereby this Distriot bas suf- fosed so great a loss.It will be noted that the beak really had no capital beyond the email amsunt of that Was proferenes-atook paid in, snd that is was able to de'buil.| dearer and filches from the farmer to enrich the manufac 5° Coos likely to finally decide the St Louis out- It will be recollected that the grand jury of last court found two true bills against Jehn Hunter for having a pistol in his possession and for polating it at Bougie, and three against John Hall for amaulting three Canadians.Besides these, were the old indictments against prosecutor, J.K.Elliott, declared he had a8, newvidence to lay against either Hunter in existence it was going behind, that it or Hall on the special indictments against! them, whereupon a jury was sworn in and went thru the farce of rendering five verdiots of \u201cnot guilty\u201d without leaving the box.As to the general charge against the whole five, it will be borne in mind, that the former crown prosecutor, Mr St Pierre, framed the indictment under an obsolete statute of the reign of Bloody Mary.On a motion by Mr Maclaren to quash it, tho judge took the matter en delibere, but-on Monday, after four months\u2019 cogitation, his honor did not seein to have arrived at a decision, so that the point remains in dispute whether a statute framed during the Marian persecution and when England was a Popish country applies to Protestants in the Province of Quebec in the year of grace 1880 and under the benign auspices of Victoria.The crown prosecutor came to the rescue of his honor by entering a nolle prosequi, and the five Protestants got free of the meshes of the law.Renaud, who struck old Mr Symons and afterwards got out of jail on the informality that Mr Williams, J.P., had not certified the copy of summons, discontinued his action against Mr Symons for false imprisonment, and the appeals against the convictions of the magistrates in this village were also dropped, so that the whole litigation connected with these outrages has come to an end.We cannot say to an honorable or satisfactory end.Here are five respectable farmers who, on going to church with their wives and children, on the third Sunday of last June, were stopped on the Queen\u2019s highway, insulted, maltreated, and put iu peril of their lives by an ignorant and bigoted crowd who claimed the exclusive possession of the streets while their procession of the host was not even within range ; were afterwards summoned on a charge unknown to British law, committed by a magistrate who knows as little and is as bigoted as the crowd who assaulted them ; been arraigned before the Court of Queen's Bench, along with known malefactors, as criminals ; Leen kept iu a state of suspense for eight months and subjected to loss of time and money in attending to their cases; and now, these innocent and grossly used men are\u2014bowed out of court.Is this right?Can Protestants in this Province, while behaving peacefully and going on lawful errands, be refused the use of the public roads they have helped to make and maintain by the followers of the Church of Rome ; be worried by absurd legal prosecutions ; be denied all recourse against those who assaulted them, and then be told they may congratulate themselves on getting off so easily ?We know how the present jury- panel is constituted, and therefore the risk the Protestants would have run on being tried, but we say this, it would have been better that they should have been convicted than been released as they have bgen.Had even one of them been sent to jail, their outrageous usage, the shameful state of the law as regards the rights of Protestants in Quebec, would have come so prominently before the Dominion that a remedy would have been inevitable, and what would have been the temporary bardship of the sufferer would bave redounded to the advantage of his fellow- Protestants at large thryout the Province.We-do not blame the.St Louis Protestante, however, for consenting to a compromise, for they have not been sustained as they ought to have been by their coreligionists.The appeal was made last summer to furnish funds for their defence and to make theirs a test-case.This District is largely a Presbyterian one, the accused are Presbyterians and were going to a Presbyterian church when assailed, yet only one Presbyterian minister, the Rev D.W.Morison, showed a disposition to actively sustain them, while the laity seemed content to talk and leave these cruelly-wronged men to fight out their own battle and pay their own costs.We tell the Protestants of this District that they have not only acted shamefully and dearest interests.They have saved a few paltry dollars but they have missed a rare opportunity of vindicating their claim to equal rights in this Province, without which their future peace and quiet possession of their properties may be imperilled, sud brought upon them more than ever the secret contempt of the priesthood, whose experience in this transaction has fostered their erroneous belief, that, in the parishes, Protestants can be insulted and trampled upon with impunity.CHE Sin L.TiLZEY submitted his budget on Tuesday, and of which we will give à synopeis next week.It showed that for the year ending June last there was a deficit of $2,100,000 and for the current year the two named and David Benning, Hugh Symons, and his son James, for disturbing | the fete dieu ; On Monday, the | aatased being ready for trial, the crown | ending 31st June next there would likely be one of $528,000.The changes in the tariff are not material, the chief one being 10 cents more per ton on coals and a slight pai cowardly in this matter but against their |P facturers anumber of articles used by them are placed on the free list.Sir Leonard professes to believe that the N.P.will yield sufficient revenue by another year to put an end to deficits.: We HUNTINGDON COUNTY COUNCIL.AT the regular meeting yesterday all the councillors were present excepting Masson and Woods, Mr M'farlane was reelected Warden.: : A report by the deputation appointed to wait upon Mr Hickson was read.It stated that no new terms were proposed, beyond that \"any aid obtained from the Quebec Legislature would be allowed to count on the¥8300,000 demanded, and so reducing the amount to be raised by the municipalities.The council were unanimously of the opinion that contributions from either Montreal or the Legislature were unlikely and could not be counted upon, and.thatJit, was impossible for the municipalities to raise the required aid, without which Mr Hickson refused to say that the Champlnin Junction Company would build the road.Moved by Coun Edwards, seconded by Coun Oliver : That, Whereas this Council has carried on prolonged negotiations with the Montreal and Champlain Junction Railway Company regarding the extension of their projected line from St Isidore to Dundee, being honestly desirous, notwithstanding the manner in which it obtained authority to construct\u2019such extension, that it should have the first opportunity of doingŸso; And whereas these patient and renewed negotiations have demonstrated that the said Company will not build the desired railroad without an amount of extraneous aid which the municipalities interested are unable to raise and see no prospect of getting either from the City of Montreal or the Quebec Legislature ; And whereas the said Company has deceived this Council, inasmuch as at its last meeting, it sent two representatives to wait upon it with the request to suspend action and re-open negotiations, the inducement they held out to do so being positive assurances that new terms would be submitted that could not fail to be satisfactory ; and on the Council's placing reliance on such assurances, deferring action in endeavoring to secure a railroad from other parties, and sending a deputation to wait nnew upon the Vice-Presi- dent, Mr Hickson, in Montreal, it appears from the report of the deputation, now before us, that no new terms were submitted of the nature so expressly promised, and that the Company still makes it an indispensable condition of building the railroad that it receive $300,000 in aid ; Therefore be it resolved, That as our negotiations with the Montreal and Champlain Junction Railway Company convince us it will not act upon the powers irregu- latly obtained by it at last session of Parliament to build the branch from St Isidore to Dundee, we now extend our weight and influence to the Montreal & Province Line Railway Company, and respectfully request our representative, Julius Scriver, Esq, to aid said Company in obtaining an act of incorporation ; that the Warden and Councillors Cameron and Johnson be a deputation to support said Act before the Parliamentary Committees, and that the Warden and Councillors Cameron and Johnson be a standing committee to take whatever further steps they may deem advisable in conducting negotiations with said Company and in facilitating its operations, to report at next meeting.\u2014Carried unanimously.A petition to Parliament was then adopted, which with the other resolutions of the Council will appear next week.pe ST, ANICET COUNCIL.Ar a session held on the 1st inst.were present G.N.Masson, Esq., Mayor ; Couns Casa, P.W.Higgins, T.Leahy, E, Dupuis, 8.Rankin and O.Caza.On motion of Coun Higgins, seconded by Coun Rankin : William Cameron, Olivier Quenneville and James Finn were appointed valuators.On motion of Coun Carn, seconded by Coun Hig- gius, the required number of rond inspectors and rural inspectors were appointed as follows, viz : d Inspectors.Rural Inspectors.let Division, James Brown Louis Lalonde and © Francois Chrétier John Grant 3rd \u201c David Brown F.Lalumiere 4th + Jos, Quenneville,sr.André Saucier Sth * Louts Cascagnette David Trépanier 6th * Donald McLean Jobn McNicol Th + Léandre Beauchéne Jean LeBlanc, jr 8th © Thomas Dalgliesh Louis Quenneville 8th « Xavier Castagner Joseph Girard 10th « Gilbert Lepage Pierre Lemieux 1th « Moise Lalonde Noé Montcalm 12th « Michael Finn P.McNaughton, jr.13th « John J.Higgins John K.Higgins i4th «Joseph Black Thomas Smyte lôth «\u201c John Smyte, jr.James Harvey 16th « James Fergusson Duncan Stewart 17th « Thomas E.Quinn Caleb Leary 18th © Thowss J, Higgins William Stoles 19th « Thomas H, Murphy Michael McGinn 30th © Francois Saumier Michael Moore iat « Donald A.Stewart Etienne Quesnel 220d \u201cJules Lauson Charles Laberge 23rd\u201c Charles LeBlanc Joseph Balair 24th « Johu Leaby, je Patrick O'Hair 25th * Jobn Ross Etienne L'Ecuyer On motion of Coun Dupuis, seconded by Coun Raukin : Pierre Doré was appointed pound-keeper.On motion of Coun Leaby, seconded by Coun Du- uis : F.8, Bourgeaunlt and J.8.'Tonguny were appointed auditors.Couns Rankin and Higgins dissenting.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 HEMMINGFORD VILLAGE COUNCIL AT a meeting of this council, on the 2d March, there were present Mr Mayor (Robt.Wood), and Councillors Joyal, Dorais, Edwards, Latham and McCrea.Moved by Coun Dorais, seconded b Coun Latham : That the socy.-treasr, (F.8.Proper) be and is hereby authorized and requested to communicate to the Hon Attorney-General of this Province the manner in which this corperation has been treated by Louis Hainault, Ksq., Sheriff of the District of Beauharnois, he having sued us on the 16th Jany last, and put us to costs, for our contribution to the Building and Jury Fund of said District, without any warning of his intention to do so, and without even requesting the payment.The said contribution only becoming due on the 31st of Dec.last.Carried unanimously.On motion of Coun Edwards, seconded by Coun Latham : A bill for repairing hall, amounting to $1.40, was ordered to be On motion of Coun Edwards, seconded ughton, sr., and Samuel Glavin were appointed valuators.On motion of Coun Joyal, seconded by Coun McCrea: Wellington Wark was appointed inspector of roads.On motion of Coun Edwards, seconded by Coun Joyal: John McNaughton, jr., was appointed rural inspector.On motion of Coun Latham, seconded pointed pound-keeper.On motion of Coun Latham, seconded by Coun Dorais : Julius Scriver, Esq., M.P, was reappointed auditor.gr The celebrated vocalists, Tandy Brothers, of Kingston, gave a concert in the Town Hall, Hemmingford, for the benefit of the Methodist church, on Friday evening, the 27th February.These gentlemen have marvellously sweet, flexible and powerful voices, and display great taste in rendering their selections.The large audience seemed to Le perfectly entranced while they sang, and at the close of each piece broke out into rapturous applause.They were frequently recalled and each timo responded cheerfully.Two duets, «I Pescatori\u201d and \u201cThe Lost Ship,\u201d may be particularized as being in every respect admirably sung and were enthusiastically received.Dr Glover kindly gave a couple of selections from Shakespeare and Mr Melutosh favored the audience with two violin solos during the evening, one of which was encored and responded to.Miss F.F.Wood, of Chateaugay, N.Y, ably accompanied the Tandys on the piano and gave a couple vf piano solos.All music-loviug souls who were present on the occasion will long remember the Tandy concert at Ilemmingford as among the most enjoyable occasions of their lives.KT The mildness of the weather up to within a few days rendered crossing the St Lawrence dangerous and several casu- altes took place.A team with a load of cordwoud broke thru at the mouth of the Beaudette and were lost, the driver alone escaping.On the 5th inst.a man by the name of McDonald, and a woman from near Fort Covington, were crossing from Hopkins to Summerstown with a horse and waggon, when they broke through.The horse and waggon disappeared, but the woman\u2019s shawl caught on the ice and held her until the man dragged her out.A son of Mr Johnson, lighthouse keeper, is also reported to have lost a horse.The late frost has improved the ice, but caution is still required, for it is unusually thin and soft.; &Z7 The scholars who passed first in School Inspector Emberson\u2019s\u2019 recent examinations in Huntingdon and Chateau- guay counties and the marks obtained by cach, are as follows : St Jean Chrysostom municipality No.1, School No.I, Sarah Ainslie 477 ; St Jean Chrysostom municipality No.IL, School No.2, Jennie Ballions 420 ; School No.3, Lizzie Robb 524.Godmanchester No.7, James Patton 238.Prizes for regularity (the best given) were awarded to Christina McRae, Janet Lang, Florence Ferguson and Georgia Caldwell.gr The Rockburn butter factory opened on the 15th May and closed on the 25th October.During that period it reccived 564,865 hs of milk.From 15th May to 15th June it took 24 pounds of milk to make a pound of butter, for the next four weeks 26 hs, 6 oz, from the 15th July to the first week in September 27 hs, and for the remainder of the season 20 lbs.milk to the pound of butter.This average, high as it may seem, will compare favorably with the other factories, for, from some peculiarity in the season, the milk was not as rich last summer as usual.On the 15th June the first shipment was made direct to Scotland, where it sold for 16% cents per ih, the second sale was made at the factory on the 15th August for 16 cents, the third, also deliverable at the factory, on the first week of September for 20 cents, and the balance of the season\u2019s make was sold at 30 cents\u2014the bigheat price obtained in this county.The summer's sales, after paying cxpenses, netted the patrons 45} cents the 100 Ibs.of milk, and the last sale $1.24, the average for the season being 63 cents.The lowest any patron made per cow was $10 and the highest $21.50, the average being $15.Mrs Dawson was butter-maker and is to be congratulated on raising the reputation of the factory by obtaining the first prize at the District Show.Mr Oliver was lessee and will likely carry on the factory during the coming season.#ZF During the past winter Mr Ayres has conducted a second music class, which was as well attended as the first, and which bas done much to raise the standard of musical culture in this vicinity.On Friday evening, in the Methodist church, he brought his term of tuition to a close by a concert, which was not, we regret to say, well attended.The chorus was not as strong as anticipated, but sang in good time and with admirable effect.iss Briggs of Fort Covington mainly sustained the solo parts and Mrs Matthews of Fort Covington was organist.Miss Briggs has a clear voico of considerable compass, and sings with the self-possession and abandon of a professional.She was repeatedly applauded and should she revisit this place will have a large audience.Mrs Matthews is a performer of rare ability, and the solo she rendered was much appreciated.The Rev J.B.Muir, in his customary happy and characteristic manner, conveyed the thanks of the meeting to Mr Ayres and those who had assisted him for the treat they had afforded, which was seconded by the Rev A.A.Allen in equally eulogistic terms.&& On Monday evening the meetin of the Temperance Society was, as usual, largely attended.A dialogue, exposing the injurious habits of drinking and smoking, was capitally rendered by three girls, Minnie Cameron, Bella Ewart, and Janet Leslie, and three boys, Frank Bissct, John McMaster, and James Rossignol.The ghoir sang finely \u201cGood News,\u201d after which the Rev D, W.Morison of by Coun Dorais: John Dunlap was ap-, 15 oz, giving an average of 25 Ibs.3 oz.of ham crossed | gave à plain, common-sease address oa the y Coun McCrea: Wm.Reay, dohn Me-! a consequences of indulging in drink, how i injures morally, physical , and pecuni.arily.Miss Holbrook read impressively à | poem on the death of Absalom, the pad of the father\u2019s lamentations being touch.!ingly brought out, and was followed by {Mrs Logan who sang very sweetly {Scotch song, The Ingleside.A reading by Mr Morison brought & very agreeable evening's entertainment fo a close.# On Tuesday afternoon the residence of Dr Fergusson, Franklin Centre, way burned to the ground.The fire started above the kitchen ceiling, apparently where the stove pipe entered the chimney, and spread so rapidly that only the contents of the front, or main building, could Le saved.From the house the flames spread to fully 50 cords of dry firewood, and from thence to the stable and carriage house.The Doctor's loss is heavy, ag everything in the kitchen, cellar, attics, and stable-loft was consumed.He has à policy in the Beauharnois Mutual, which will probably cover two-thirds of it.The neighbors worked well and have shown great kindness to the family in their un.looked for misfortune.&r The Social at Mrs Dalgliesh\u2019s on the Ridge, on Wednesday, 3rd inst, was very pleasant and enjoyable, and realized $25 for the building fund of the Methodist church.On Tuesday evening a second social, for the like purpose, took place at Mr James Cowan's, Hinchinbrook, which passed off most agreeably to the large number present, and in netting $32, WEATHER RECORD.March 4\u2014Cloudy and very mild ; roads muddy.bth\u2014Showers of rain followed by sleet in the morning, with a light fall of snow in the afternoon, 6th\u2014Sprinkling snow all day; frosty towards evening.7th\u2014A very fine day; bright and warm, with sprinkling of rain towards evening.Long stretches of the Chateauguay open.8th\u2014During the night a high north-west wind got up, and to-day is as bitterly cold as yesterday was enial.8 9th\u2014Still frosty, growing cloudy in the afternoon.10th\u2014Light fall of rnow during the night ; dull and cold.DOMINION PARLIAMENT.TUESDAY, 2ND MARCHA number of bills in the hands of private members were considered.An address to the Governor congratulating him on the escape of himself and the Princess, in the late accident, was adopted.WEDNESDAY.A long debate took place on a motion regarding the contracts for the Pacific railroad, themover, Mr McLennan, strongly condemning the system pursued by the late Administration.Sir C.Tupper said the main line would cross the Red river at Selkirk.Mr Mackenzie defended himself at length, and declared the changes in route that had been made would add greatly to the cost.Mr Hooper, accused of embezzling 232,000 of the funds of the county of Lennox, read a statement in which he solemnly declared that he was not aware of a deficit in his accounts as county secretary and that the charge had been preferred on account of his adherence to the Conservative party.After debate the house resolved that the facts before it were insufficient to take action as to his eligibility to retain his seat.- THURSDAY.Mr Blake moved the second reading of à bill for the better prevention of crime.It provided for photographing criminals twice convicted and placing them under the supervision of the police after serving their sentences, and giving them power to arrest them if they were not engaged in making an honest livelihood.fa 1876 there were 28,000 convictions in the Dominion, in 1878 there were 33,000.To check such an increase of crime the measures proposed would have much effect.The Government opposed the bill, and among its supporters there was a like feeling.Mr Thomas White declared the principle of the bill was bad.It was to put the mark of Cain upon men who had been convicted a second time, and prevent them retracing their steps in the path of virtue.Mr Blake said protection against known criminals was necessary.It was not to be expected that people were to wait until they were assaulted or their property destroyed or stolen by parties well known to the police before taking any action.The bill got the 6 months hoist.The bill sanctioning marriage with a deceased wife's sister, on coming up for second reading, led to some debate, and was passed by 140 to 19.Bergeron, Hol- ton, and Scriver voted for it.FRIDAY>- A number of bills were introduced and advanced a stage, after which the debate on Mr McLennan's motion for papers regarding the Pacific railway was resumed, and ended in its being adopted.A reply from the Governor was read to the address of congratulation as regards the escape in the late accident, and in which he said : During the time the Princess has been in Canada, she has received from the people of this country constant marks of their chivalrous an erous affection.She bids me tell you what I know to be the simple truth, that she is very sensible of these and feels herself happy in having come here, and in being the occasion of a manifestation of the love of a loyal an united people for the Queen and the Empire.It will be her pride while in Canads to devote herself to the interests of the ople who have before them so great 8 uture, and in whose hearts it will her earnest wish to find an abiding place.S\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE TRAITORS.THE following are the latest pe of Parnell and Dillon's treasonable utter ances, which found vent at St Louis ad Bloomington, Ili : J To the starving people of Ireland help came not only from America, but from India, Turkey, and France\u2014from every\" where save England.(Yells) If people were to be murdered by the law © Eng land they were determined at least that murder Po out.The ker : ; \u2018until the the ocsan, \u2018and then gave way: late to save half a million of people fron bogEog for charity.England ¢ sired to humiliate Ireland.Relief coming from America had baffled to a large extent the designs of the English Government.We were called when we landed in New York (said Parnell) Communists, and persons who desired to attack the vested rights of property, and a great many other epithets of more choice character ; but pow it is acknowledged that the Irish ople are the most patient in the world, to tolerate such a land system for a single instant.The speaker read an account of destitution, which, he said, was within eleven hours by mail of London, the seat of Government of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria.(Great hisses.) I have known, he said, a landlord to burn corn that he had seized for rent, in sight of the starving poor, rather than they should get it to eat.The condition of the Irish peasantry was next contrasted with the late system of negro slavery in this ey could enrol, and would enrol, four hundred thousand or half a million Irishmen (cheers) into the League which will never cease its existence, and which will supply us a8 we want it with the sinews of war\u2014(cries of \u201cgood I\") till they succeeded in establishing an Irish land system, and in setting free the people of Ire- .(Applause.he ke of England had contributed a half-day's salary to the relief of Ireland.(Shouts of derision.) Although emigration might be & temporary alleviation of the trouble in Ireland, it would be a cowardly step on our part.It would be running away from our difficulties in Ireland ; and it would be an acknowledgment of the complete conquest of Ireland by England \u2014 an acknowledgment which, please God, we will never make.(Great cheers.) : ; ; T believe the end of this English misrule in Ireland will soon come ; and I believe the surest way to finish the English Government there is to finish the Irish landlords, We will never give up our country.PARNELL IN CANADA, THE agitators, Parnell and Dillon, made their first public appearance in Canada at Toronto on Saturday, when they spoke in one of the theatres, which was crowded by an audience composed of their own countrymen.Mr Parnell left a very poor impression, being an indifferent speaker\u2014 cold, lifeless, and formal, and his remarks being a repetition of his stock speech, toned down to suit Canada.Dillon had no such reserve and was bitter against England.He said : It was not sufficiently known that while Canada had led the nations in contributing largely out of her public funds, aud while a bill to grant $300,000 was now being passed by the Congress of the United States, the Government of England who were responsible to the civilized world for the lives of the people of Ireland, had not voted one shilling of English money for their relief.(Hisses.) On the other hand, England, which as the Irish people knew to their cost, was already far the wealthier nation, was draining money out of Ireland to the tune of about £7,000,000 a year, turning, as he presumed they would call it, an honest penny\u2014 (laughter)\u2014out of the distress of their fel- low-subjects.It had been said that a large sum of money was now being voted for the relief of the Irish poor by the Parliament of England.The statement was one of monstrous hypocrisy.The money to be used was Irish money\u2014 Church funds\u2014and to which England fad no more right than they (the audience) had.The great enemies of Ireland were the English Government and the English press.The receipts of the meeting were small, being under $1000.At the close the band was hissed when it played \u201cGod Save the Queen,\u201d and the Anthem was\u2018not concluded.Mr Parnell hoped that the next time he came the band would be able to play \u201cGod Save Ireland.\u201d On Monday they left for Montreal, where, as will be seen by the subjoined report of the Herald, they had a great reception: from the hackmen and the Irish Catholic societies : On the arrival of the train the signal was given, and at once hundreds of torches were lit, so that the train steamed into a blaze of light illuminating its passage into the depot, and thousands of people made a rush for the rear car in which Mr Parnell and his friends travelled ; but he was escorted by Mr MoNamee and his friends, sa as to avoid the demonstration, which promised to be rather too hearty to be pleasant, One, more demonstrative than the rest, said, \u201cHe must have a fur cap,\u201d and, suiting the action to the word, offered Mr Parnell the one he himself was wearing.That gentleman, however, kindly declined the honor.The crowd in the depot was so great that people were actually lifted off their feet, and when the barrier had been the more enthusiastic of the party got hold of the hero of the time and lifted him shoulder high, carrying him to the sleigh outside, On 15 appearance at the entrance, cheers rent the air, being repeated again and again, until it was almost deafening.The marshals were soon at work, and in a remarkably short time the procession began to move.The view along St Joseph street Was unprecedented, for, as far as the eye could ar: were torches to be seen and these, in the clear, frosty atmosphere, lent 8 refulgence such as, perhaps, was never ore seen.All along the route, from firat to last, were to be seen illuminations of the most varied character, and even the humblest, of the Griffintown cottagers had placed lights in\u2019 every window of their houses.On arriving at McGill street, the Shamrock Lacrosse Club unhitched the horses, attached ropes, and d the sleigh containing Mr Parnell through the Temainder of the route to the St Lawrence all, where the crowd was even ter than at any other point.On reachiog the the air so that it vas i anything else which visitor.rode was drawn through the open rauks of the-processionists it was was kept open for it, as the crow pressed so cogerly to get a glimpse of the guest.After a short time one of the outer windows in front of the Hall was taken off and Mr Parnell presented himself, accompanied by Mr McNamee.This was the signal for a great outburst of enthusiasm, and the people sent forth such cheers as have seldom been heard in front of that noted house.Mr McNamee said that Mr Parnell, after travelling 350 miles, was too fatigued to address them that night, but such as could get into the Theatre next night would be able to hear his address.He concluded a very brief address by exclaiming \u201cGod Save Ireland.\u201d Again cheers rent the air, and amidst these the gentleman retired.After arriving at the Hall, and being conducted to his rooms, Mr Parnell was introduced to several ladies and gentlemen who had been waiting for the purpose.Among these were Father Salmon, the Hon L.Beaudry, Mrs McShane, Mrs Dunn, and many others.EE NEWS BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.Tho Duchess of Marlborough, writing to the Lurd Mayor of London, says the distress in Ireland is not yet diminishing and continues to be general, and in some parts increasing.The Times states that since spring has set in considerable stir is apparent in emigration at Queenstown, people of the rural classes departing for America.The recent revival of trade iu America and the arrival of large remittances from American friends are attracting people thither.It is anticipated that after Easter there will be an unusual rush, The British Government has contracted for the construction of three new ironclads.Glasgow, March 5.\u2014A fearful boiler explosion took place at the Glasgow iron works to-day, killing six men and wounding thirty others.London, March 5.\u2014The House of Commons this evening by a vote of 248 to 134 rejected Sir Wilfred Lawson's local option or anti-license resolution, St Petersburg, March 5.\u2014The would-be assassin of Melikoff was brought to-day from the fortress to the place of execution, strapped in a sitting posture on a black vehicle with his back to the horses, a placard bearing the words, \u201cState criminal,\u201d attached to his breast.A company of Cossacks formed an escort.The scaffold wag surrounded by infantry.On the way to the scaffold and after reaching it Vlad- etsky was quite calm, smiling occasionally.After his sentence had been read he turned and bowed on all sides to the people.Just before being delivered to the hangman he said a few words to the priest and kissed the cross.The execution was in the presence of an immense concourse.The body remained banging twenty minutes.The police arrested seven men in the crowd having the appearance of students.They were taken to the fortress under a strong escort.Rome, March 7.\u2014The 100-ton gun on board the new ironclad Duilo burst to-day, wounding ten men.The vessel is uninjured.The Afghans are favorably impressed by the establishment of à dispensary hospital at Cabul, where 11,000 patients have been treated during the past two months.There is much sickness among the Kurum Valley forces.The British authorities have presented Shere-Ali, Governor of Candahar, with a battery of 6-pounders and two thousand small bore Enfield rifles in recognition of his friendship.The approaching spring renders the early resumption of hostilities probable.General Roberts estimates the enemy's force at 60,000 men.The Germans have their cavalry agents out, who have been and are purchasing horses in all directions.Ireland has contributed not a few to the demand.The ex-Empress Eugenie is visiting the Queen at Windsor.On arriving there on Friday the Princess Beatrice and Prince Leopold met her at the railway station.Lord Beaconsfield has joined the party.Sir Stafford Northcote, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced in the House of Commons on Monday that the Government had advised the Queen to dissolve Parliament at Easter.He remarked that if the dissolution could be arrived at, on or near the date mentioned, a general election could be held and the new Parliament assemble in the beginning of May.The Chancellor further announced that if he would be able to bring forward the budget the Government would not attempt to pass any of the measures now pending, save those which have already passed through committee.At the conclusion of the Chancellor's remarks, Mr Forster, member for Bradford, said that on behalf of the Opposition, he would express his satisfaction with the date announced by the Chancellor for the dissolution.Notwithstanding an attempt to appear satisfied, the Liberals manifested certain indications of uneasiness, at having a general election forced upon them at so early a date, The result of the recent elections in Liverpool and Southwark, has greatly diminished their control in the outcome of an appeal to the country at the present moment.On the other hand the Conservatives are jubilant and confident, and boast that they will come back in May with a majority of not less than 120 members, London, March 9.\u2014Lord Beaconsfield has issued à manifesto in the form of a letter to the Duke of Marlborough, dated March 8th, in which he says the arts of agitators who have represented England a3 being indifferent to Ireland's sufferings have been defeated by the Government's liberal and prudent: measures.Lord Beaconsfield takes great credit for settling the question of intermediate education.Nevertheless he says a portien of the Irish St Lawrenos Hall cheers and hurrahs reat population is attempting to sever the constitutional tie uniting and Eng-{ impossible to hear! , and although the sleigh in|or learning wi with the greatest difficulty that the way, | land, and he h resist this destructive doctrine.He says the Liberals have attempted and failed to enfeebls the colonies by their policy of decomposition, now re- i in the disintegration of the United Kingdom, a mode which will not only accomplish but precipitate their purpose.The power of fe and the peace of Europe, he says, ely depend upon the vordies of the olocto.The ineffable blessing of peace cannot be obtained by the passive principle of non-inter- ference.Peace rests on the presence, not to say the ascendency, of England in the councils of Euro ! London, M 8\u2014The news from Ire- ; land is of the most encouraging character.| The energetic work of the various reljef committees has succeeded beyond the most sanguine anticipation, and there is d reason to believe the worst of the anger is passed.Connemara is now the only section from which severe suffering is roported, and a decided improvement is reported from all other directions.EE EXAMINATION OF MR BRYDGES.Mr J.C Bryvass, President of the Mechanics\u2019 bank, was examined in the Enquete Court, Montreal, on Saturday.Mr Brydges showed evident signs of his recent illness, and had to walk with a stick.Mr Maclaren, Q.C., conducted the examination in a very gentlemanly manner, and Mr Kerr, QC., watched the questions for Mr Brydges.Thu following interrogatories were put by Mr Maclarn : Will you tell me when you became President of the Mechanics\u2019 bank ?As soon as it was reopened, on the request of a Committee of sharcholders, I took the Presidency, very much against my own will, in July, 1876.You then remained President up to the Insolvency ?Yes, Mr Bhanly being Vice-President.At the annual meeting on the 7th July last, steps were taken to put new Directors on the Board after the suspension.Some of the sharcholders came and said they would like to put some new members on the Board, and Mr Gilman and Mr Guimond were named.Mr Gilman bad not shares cnough to qualify him, and J said I would transfer some of mine to make him eligible, I transferred some, but do not remember how many, aud he was made a Director.Can you find the transfer to Mr Gilman?No, 1 never signed this book.(Book presented.) Was the transfer to Mr Gilman immediately preceding that to Mr Garth?Yes.Did the part of the torn leaf that remained in tho transfer book give any clue to the transfer?No.Who was custodian of the transfor book?The cashier.How long was Mr Menzies custodian of the book after this transfer?All along, How long was Mr Menzies cashier 7 He was there at the time of the suspension.Ie was cashicr after Mr Dunn left, or rather he became acting cashier about January, 1877.He signed as acting-cashier for some time, but I do not know whether there was any formal motion appointing him.What was his salary ?1 think it was $900.(After referring to the minute book.) It must have been $800.That was prior to February, 1877.After that what was his salary ?It was not altered for some time, He had it raised to $1,200 some time after, but he said he hoped it would not be sattled at that, because he hoped to show ko was worth more.That might be about six months after, Are you aware of any minute relating to his salary ?I do not think therc was one.The Directors thought it a proper thing to do, but as he wished it to Ue left over, there was no minute As a matter of fact the Board never formally raised it, but proposed to do 80?Yes.I went to a lending banker and aeked him to refer me to some ono as cashier, He did so, but the gentleman declined it.Do you know anything of Mr Menzies discounting notes on account of his salary ?I did not until long after, and I then found he had made large discounts which were not authorised, I think, both to himself and a person numed Senecal.When I returned from England I found very large amounts had been so dealt with.Did you order them to be placed ns on salary account ?No.You gave no consent to them being put in that shape 7 No.I spoke to Mr Menzies in the strongest manner about it.I was absent to England for three months, and that was done while 1 was away.When I returned I condemned it, a8 will be scen from the minute book of the 6th June, 1879.Were you aware that Mr Menzies\u2019 wife was getting discounts and money from the bank ?Certainly not ; after I came back Mr Menzies sent mc a note for $15,000 from his wife with a proposition to mortgage their property at Point Claire for that, ns security for money had by him.Had Mr Menzies authority to discount his own or his wife's paper ?Certainly not, What knowledge have you of a note for $25,000 hy Senecal & Co., and which Menzies states was put in to represent a discount for circulation account ?I have no knowledge, only that he told me after, he had done it on his own responsibility.What became of the proceeds of the discount of that note ?I do not know.He said it was put in to cover money in over circulation.What authority had he with respect to discounts ; what was his authority, without it being necessary to refer to you or to the Board ?No person was to have a discount of more than $5,000, and he was only to discount paper which was thought to be good.Was any consent given to his discounting for parties or on account of business in which he was interested ?Certainly not.In fact we never knew he was mixed up in these matters until the mischicf had been done.Can you mention the date when you became aware of tlese irregularities ?About the middle of April last year.What did you do then ?Mr Shanly said they had found that large sums had bcen given to one Carter, A meeting of the Board was called and I asked Menzies for an explanation.I told him then he was not to make any further discounts without the knowledge of the accountant.In my absence the Board bad taken advice as to what course they should pursue with regard to Menzies.He gave me a statement of Carter's and his own account, which was the first I knew.That was probably about the end of April.There was a book which he showed to me with all tho accounts set out at length, but that has not been found.Are you aware of à written authority from the Vice- President to increase Carter's account, as stated by Mensies in his examination ?I have no knowledge of it, Did he ever show you such authority ?He never said he had m written authority.He maid he had spoken to Mr Shanly when he was very much pressed, and he had said he could increase his credit $5,000.I never heard till now of any written authority.Is it a fact that the minute, of which you spoke on the 6th June, 1879, was written after Mr Menzies left the Bank ?Certainly not, it was written while he was there.I may say that when I took him to task about Carter's account, and at that meeting I called him to the table to ask him to repeat to Mr Shanly what he had said to me, I handed the minute to him to enter, and he said he did not think it fair to bim to enter it.At the next meeting, finding it had not Lecn entered, I entered it myself, Did you give consent to the giving out of bills and taking up Mineral Point stock which the Bank now holds as collateral security?I did mot, the first transaction was some small advance which MrShanly authorized.The Mineral Point stock came into the Bank to cover the liabilities of Carter and others.They were taken as a possible security.What instruction had Mensics about the bills?He bad the general charge of the working of the Bank, bat he put in circulation much more than he had a right to.When did you find that the bills exceeded the paid.up capital of the Bank ?On my return.Are you not aware that the circulation was largely increased after the middle of April, when you say you returned ?It was à good deal reduced.Is it not true that in the returns of the 30th«April, 1879, to Government, you said it was $168,132, and at the annual meeting in July you ssid it was $230,000 ?I cannot tell what was in the returns.I did not sign all of them, and I cannot tell from memory.Plense look at the balance sheet of April 30, 1879, and say if it is not sct down as $168,132, and the balance of 5th Juiy as over $230,000 ?=Yes.Does not that show an increase instead of a de- erease?Actually, there was more circulation than the statement of April 30 shows, but not to my knowledge.For some time previous I bad directed Mr Meonsies to make out à statement of the affairs of the that all men of light\u2019 tn- structing Mr Meriarty te make Ep à ctatomens circulation that 1 found that more bad been pot than Mr Mensies' returns showed.Would not the circulation be greater whes bank suspended in 1879 than in July following ?cannot tell ; ! was absent in the North-West, and not return until after the bank had suspended.No bills would be issued after the suspension, and bille the next meeting.would be paid in to retire paper, and so reduce the circulation.of and paid Are you aware partics being eu to circulate notes of the bank, particulariy in the dis ( trict of Beauharnois ?I am not aware that commission telles and bis cash dismissed and an attempt was made to got the money but we could not.! Had you no guarantee bonds?I do not know.We had one from bie brother but we could not get the What was done to get it?1 pressed Me J.D.Crawford very hard, but he made great objection and ! it was found there would be « great difficulty about | gutting it, and it was written off.Was there any doubt about the bank having lost : the money ?No.! The farther examination of Mr Brydges was od- | Jjourned.| J.H.Semple & Co, the well-known | Montreal grocers, failed on Friday.It is | thought the liabilities will reach $150,000, of which more than $100,000 are indirect.EF BF found 1 be Mr Maclaren\u2014People have been paid for driving out about Valleyficld and doing so.Are you aware who importuned the oashisy to push the circulation of the bank ?1 cannot tell you.Did you not soe in the telograph book messages from him to bis agents in the country to push out bills and send ia notes of other banka?I never saw thom, Mr Macluren\u2014They aru there.Witness\u2014I never saw them.The amount received from the Molsons Bank on the reopening was $135,000 ?Yes, that was borrowed.It was really lent by the Bank of Montreal, but thru Moleons.What security were you to give them?Certain bills renewable aud personal seeurity, and as the request of the shareholders Me Shanly and myself fave sceurity for $125,000, for which wo have 0 liable : .ever since, or from that amount down to $75,000.The chief creditor ie the Dank of Montreal They hold that paper now.t a meetin of shareholders of the Me- Were not Molsous to receive pager to the extent of chanics\u2019 bank, held in Montreal on Satur $300,000 as collateral security for $135,000?Yes; day afternoon, Mr C.Garth in the chair, and al nal security.; .\"Did not you s also transfer wo them unpaid calls on the committee _Sppointed to act with a the preference stock ?Yes.committee of creditors reported that they When did you first bocome aware of the unpaid Sue on the preference wtock 7 1do motremenber On time, which had been refused.A vote Were you aware of that prior to the 13th June lsat ?of thanks was passed to the committee for It seems to me so.their services, and they were constituted a Do you remember a question put to you by Mr Du- y .bamel at the mecting of the 17th June?Yes, I an- permanent body to watch the interests of swored it at the time to the best of my knowledge.shareholders in general.It was decided .Did he ot thon, ask, \u201cHave the Directors trans that sharehqlders should pay the double etre e ance duc on Fi ol any oT 1; 21° : bank,\u201d and did you not answer, \u201cNo\"?I remember Lisbility a ro with the small faseasmment the question but I did not answer in that sense, be.that might necessary on the 40 per cent.stock to pay the preferential credi- cause it would not be true.Do you not sce it in a verbatim report in the torg, Herma?(Copy banded.) I do.London, Feby.29.\u2014Inquiry into the Did you read that report in the Herald ?I cannot , A \u201c 4 say whether I read it.PT saw it.Tay bridge disaster ia now proceeding at had made an offer for the estate of 33 cents | Did you make any complaint as to the report 7 No.Do you remember the words you used 7 I do not remember, but I did not give a naked negative.Did you lead him to think so?I do not think so.Did you say that Molsoa\u2019s Bank had them?I do not think so.There was a good deal of feeling between the two Banks at that timo, and 1 did not think it wise to lct the public know what was before us, and I gave an cvasive answer purposely.Is.it not a fact that at the time of the suspension the Molson's Bauk bad practically all the paper that was worth having ?They had a very large amount of it.I think that wo owed them about $200,000.Were not Molsons satisfied with the $300,000 of approved security and your two securitics ?That was the basis, Why then transfer the unpaid calls on stock 7 Because they insisted, and said unless we agreed they would stop the account.They agreed subsequently to discount, and they did so to the amount of $80,000, but it was brought down to $12,000 at the time of the suspension.The stoppage of their credit had & very injurious effect.On whose suggestions were the agencies at Valley- field and Beauharnois opened ?Beaularnois was the first.At the time I was in the Lower Province, but it was opened at the request of the people there, when the Merchants\u2019 bank withdrew their agency.lt was thought that it would be a good country business, and take the place of what was not a good one in the city.I believe if the bank had been confined to that district it would bave gone on satisfactorily until the capital bad increased.Are you aware of any dividends on this preference stock ?Yes ; they were declared.[Vas it dono at the regular meeting?I cannot tell, Is there any entry in the minute book ?I cannot =, The Act sald they must get cight per cent.divi- end.\u2026 Mr Maclaren\u2014It seid they \u201cmight\u201d get it.Were there any profits made in the last half of 1876?Mr Dunn reported so.\u2018Theo amount was, perhaps, no more than $25,000.Arc you aware of any other minute than the one of the 14th December, 1876, referring to this?I am not aware.Will you see June, 18797 If you look in the accountant's book you will see an eutry about the dividends Lein'z paid in June, 1879, which I have written over in peucil \u201cnot to be paid.\u201d Are you aware of Any profits being made subsequent to that?The cashier reported there were profits over those dividende.Pluase look at the Loss Account, pages 642 to 646 in the bank ledger and say if jt does not show a loss every six months from the re-opening of the bank until its suspension ?I never saw this before.TJ do not know wlat this starts with.December, 1875, was before the first suspension of the bank or about the time.I cannot give you any explanation.The Onshier always reported there were profits sufficient for preferential dividends, Did you never Jook at the Loss Account ef the bank before today ?I never saw that until to-day.Are you aware of any profit account?I cannot tell you, I never went through the books.1 took the statements of the Cashier.You never verified them by the books ?I did not.Did the annual statements show profit or loss ?They never showed either one or the other.They wers not glowing etatements.I told the shareholders two or three years before if they did not give the bank the support they had promised, it would bave to be closed.It was on the strength that they would take up the extra capital that I became security, It was against my own judgment, Practically Me Shanly and myself were the only two who took up capital, and they left us in the lurch, Were you aware that, after the insolvency of the bank, tbe cashier continued to receive notes and cheques of the bank equal to the amount on thelr face in settlement of liabilities of debtors at the bank ?I understood he was doing so up to tho time of the bank being put into insolvency.; I suppose you mean the issuing of tbe writ ?That s so.Are you aware that the bank was fnsolvent under tho bank Act?That is a legal question I cannot answer, At the time I was told that Mr Gilman had advised the cashier to receive such.tho bank was insolvent 90 days after its suspension ?I was not aware.But I was in thse North-West, and the whole of the proceedings were completed when I got home.Ate you aware that the day before the issue of the writ of attachment that paper to the amount of $7000 of 8t Martin's church, with your name on it, was surrendered for funds of the bank in amount equal to its face ?1 was aware after, but not st the time, because I was not here.I was informed on my return that it had been done, and it was done under legal advice, The cashier objected to cash it, and Mr Bethune wrote him that if be did not pay it, he should hold him personally responsible.Hod nothing been done to urge the returning of this paper prior to your departare ?No.Are you aware this paper was part of that transferred to the Molson's bank ?I believe some of it was, but I had no idea the whole was.Do you know how it found its way from the Mol.sons to the Mechanics\u2019 bank ?I do not.Was Mr John Molson the other maker with you as She of the churchwardens of St Martin's church ?es.Were these notes made by you and Mr John Mol- son as churchwardens, payable to the order of you and himeelf 7 A portion, but not the whole, What do you suppose the amount was made ?1 think $2400.Do you know where those hotes are ?I have no kaowledge.Have you heard what besame of them after their surrender by the casbier ?No, I have not.Had you anything to do with the procuring of the appointment of Mr P.S, 8t as official assig- nee ?1had not.I was not in the Province of Quebec or Ontario at the time.Did yon authorise any payment for the procuriog of his appointment ?T°\" was away at the time, and I never knew any expenses had bren so incurred, In it true, as sworn to hy Mr F.E.Gilman on the 18th November, that you suthesised Lie partner being sent to Ottawa to procure the appointment of Mr Ste.as assignee for the bank ?No, I was absent in Manitoba when thess actions took place.Before I Were you net aware that under the Banking Act Dundee before the board of trade.mer testified that they saw numerous bolt holes empty and found bolts in the holes where there should have been rivets and rivets without heads, bars loosened and nuts unscrewed.One of the supporting columns of the high girders, cracked from top to bottom, was held together with four loop bands.Sometimes the oscillation of the bridge was so great that they feared it would fall.The evidence created considerable sensation, but its value cannot be estimated until the railroad inspectors are heard.The engineers and mechanics employed in the construction testified to the thoroughness of the work, but their evidence on the whole is not very satisfactory.Boston, March 7\u2014The horses of the Highland street railroad in this city were attacked on Thursday with a disease said to resemble cerebro- spinal meningitis.About 25 horses are sick with the disease, which appears to be epidemic, and baflles the efforts of veterinary surgeons.It is rapidly spreading.The Atlantic telegraph states that a de- tructive epidemic 1s raging among sheep in the West of England, namely, liver rot.The counties of Gloucester, Worcester, Wilts, Hereford, Oxford, and Somerset, containing 3,000,000 sheep, are suffering most, and some farmers say that the loss will be seventy-five per cent.of the entire flocks.The disease consists in the presence of the fluke-worm in the liver.et seasons such as England has just passed thru are peculiarly favorable to the development of the fluke, which in ordinary seasons is only formidable on moist, low-lying lands.The first effect of an attack of theso parasites is that the liver is stimulated to abnormal activity.Hence the affected animal at first gains in flesh.Owing to disagreements and misunderstandings among the temperance electors of Chateaugay, N.Y, the license party carried the day at the town meeting last week by 60.a BIRTH.At Elgin, on the 9th instant, the wife of Mr Robert Todd of a daughter, MARRIED.On February 17th, at the residence of the Lride's uncle, Stanley T.Carr, North Dufferin, Manitoba, by the Rev Walter R.Ross, Angus W.Campbell of Osmp- beliville, Man.to Maggie A.eldest daughter of Gabriel Green, formerly of Elgin, Que.DIED.At the residence of her sun-in-law, Laurence Con- nor, Westville, N.Y., Margaret McGarvey, relict of the late Hugh Shannon, formerly of Dundee, aged about 175 years, (By telegraph to the Cleaner.) Pons, # 70 fbs., 80c.@ 82 cents.Oats, ¥ 401b, 350 @ 36c.Barley per 50fba., 40c to 50c.Beans, 70 Ibs 90c @ 81 Batter, pound, 17¢ @ 18 cents.K.N.MoFzzx, Grain Buyer.VALLEYFIELD MARKETS.(Dy telegraph to the Gleaner.) Peas, P 70 îbs., 82c @ 83c.Barley # 50Ibs,, 50c to 56c.Oats 40 Îbs., 36c @ 37c.Pork, 9 100 1bs, $6.00 to $6.50.Batter, :¥ pound, 18c¢ to 20c.Topp & NicoLBON.NEVV SPRING GOODS! W.DAIAILIESH is now receiving a nice as- » tortment of Goods suitable for Spring sad Bummer trade, wl vich will be sold at very orate ricen for ready pa Y.He has decided to give up the ONG CREDIT 5 YSTEM and go où the ready-pay plan aa near as practicable, Those parties who are in arrears ard requested to SETTLE UP as scx as possible, SF\" Fresh Garden, Field and Clover Sec 18 Just received, Huntingdon, March 11th, 1880.OBRTIFIOC ATE OF WEIGHT.E have weighed today a pair of splendid hea draught Mares off Prince Royal, owned by Mr A, Bell, the pair weighed 3300 Re\u2014their respective weights were 1630 and 1670 Re, WILSON & McGINNIS.March @th, 1880.PAr UP.\u2014Partles indebted to the undersigned by note or book account are respectfully request od to settle them not later than the 1st April, as we are gving out of business and lenving the place.After that date the unpaid accounts will be collected by W.8, Maclaren, Esq.HAWS & CHAMBERS.Athelstan, March 9.DAIRY SKINS WANTED by A.MoNAIR.The highest Cash price 5,000 SEL Th 1 cedar tage, and .about .trees.The work will be so.demy on Saturday, March 2v Specifications to be seen at the pl.undersigned, or on the ground sale.A 1 SPRING AND SUMMER IMPORTATIONS.WILLIAM THIRD & C0.BEG to announce that they are now receiving and opening out their Now Spring and Summer Importations, and invite inspection by intending purchasern, Huntingdon, Feb.19, 80, SUGAR SOCIAL will be given at Mr Wm.Canningham\u2019s\u201d on Wednesday evening, the 17th inst.Admission 20 cents.Bugar and Ten served at 6 pm.Proceeds in aid of Methodist Church Building Fund, All are cordially invited.1880.7880.NEW SPRING GOODS ! AT RAILROAD PRICES IN LACK and Colored Silke, binck and colored Satine, black and colored Velvets, black and colored Cashmeres, black and colored Merinoes, black and colored Persian Cots, black and colored Brilllantines and Lustres, black and colored Prints (a great variety to select from), biack and colored Buttons (by the thousand), black and colored Shawls in double and single, black and colored (loves, Ribbons and Ties (a very large assortment), black and colored Umbrel.he las for Ladies and Gents, black and colored Hats in painters who painted the bridge last sum- | wool and tur, also Spring Caps.Our Stock of GROCERIES, including black and uncolored TEAH, will always ba found fresh and pure.Our Stock of CLOTHING of a superior quality fur aged men, young men and boys will be found unusually large and taking for Spring and Summer and in Suite adapted fur all seasons of the year ; also, Rubber Coats in drab, black and Tweed pattorus (the Tweed patterns ansv.er for Spring and Fall Overcoats) BOOTS & SHOES and Rubbers for Indies, gente and children ; Haidware, Stone and China Ware ; Gent'e furnishing Cottons, Linens, Shirtinge ; Boye\u2019 Suitings; Cottonades, Tickiugs, Tablings, Corsets, Carpets, Wear - tng and Knitting Cottons, Looking-Glasses, Wali- Papers, Lace Curtains, Muslins, Cretons,\u2014fresh and pure.Olover and Grass Seeds, together witha great variety of other Goods will be kept thruout the season.McNAUGHTON BROS.March 3nd, 1880.UBLIO NOTION is hereby given that a pub.P lic meeting of thu Ratepayers of the Township of Godmanchester will be held on SATURDAY the 12th instant, at Ten o'clock in the forenoon, for the par- pore of considering tho course the council should pursue in reference to the $5,800 accrued from the Seignlorinl Indemnity Fund loaned to Andrew Bomer- ville on mortgage for five years, and which mid five years havo now expired.ROBT.HYNDMAN, Secretary-Tressurer.Godmanchester, 3rd March, 1880.AUCTION SALES.At residenco of Richard Wiidors, New Ireland, on TUESDAY, 16th March : horses, cattle, implements, vehicles, oats, &c.10 montha\u2019 credit, A.PHILP#, Auctioneer.At residence of John Gilmore, New Ireland rosd, on THURSDAY, 18th March: milch cows and young cattle, mare, potatoes, mower, &c.9 mouths\u2019 credit.A.PHILPS, Auctioneer, At residence of Miss Elisabeth Johnston, Ist concession of Rigin, on FRIDAY, March 19 : horses, cattle, vehicles, implements.8 months\u2019 credit.A.PHILPS, Auctioneer.At residence of James M.Leahy, 1st concession of Hinchinbrook, on TUESDAY, 23rd March : horses, cattle, sheep, hogn, implements, &c.12 month credit, ANDREW PHILFS, Auctioneer.At residence of Thomas (irant, La Guerre, on WEDNESDAY, ast March: horses, com, Joung cettle, shee, reshing mill, &c.8 months\u2019 ci .Py threshing mil, SSH ANKS, Auctioneer, _ Clearing Sale of Bankrupt Stook.HF undersigned having bought the Bankr Stock of E.Polen, consisting:ef Dry G Groceries, Hardware, and Boots and Shes, it S@ FOR SALE ON MONDAY LAST, \u201ca And will sell the whole At Cost and Lass, 88 he bas made up his mind to clear it out in Two Weeks at what it will bring.Will attend personally te the Sale or Wm, Bryson.HUGH WALSH.LAND FOR SALE.150 ACRES owned John McKinnon, Dundee Centre, end 100 ares owned by H.McKinnon, one mile from Dundee Centre.Noth these farms are in à good state of cultivation, with buildings thereon.For particulars apply on the premises to the parties nemed.If by mail, address to Dundee Centre P.O.NOTICE.OR SALE OR TO RENT a first-class Dwelling.House, a good Blacksmith Shop snd à foot site, in which I have dons & good business for last ¢ years.Aslam going to Manitoba this site will be offered until the 15th of April, 1880.For further {oulars spply to part PPT ¥.BETHUNE, Riviere Raisin, Lancaster, On SPHOIAL AND FINAL NOTICE.M\" W.J.HAIRE, of Franklin Centre, wishes to inform all parties still indebted to him, thet be has left instructions that ail accounts wbich are pot settled by the 26th March must be placed in other bands for collection, and he trusts that no ons will incur such unnecessary expenses.SE\" The Store is still open and the public ean obs tain all kiods of Goods as during the past month, AT COST, AND UNDSR COST.Franklin, March 1, 1880.BTE \u2014For the next 10 days you can get à Pro Upper or Lower set of Teeth for 00 ot De N.E.Foura's office, Main street, Chatesugay, NY.RM FOR SALB.\u2014The north balf of Lot No 31, in the 4th Range of Godmanchester, com- tainiog 100 acres of land, with dwelling-bouse and stable thereon, 8 good well, 30 acres of clearance, re- .n ; ainder in standing timber of different kinds, » n \u201ctity of cedar and ash well adepled for fencing Sarpos 4, 8 first-class growth sugar bush.on be a 8 in a bleck or Jou » Ee Possession 4 immediately.\u2018erms » forther partic \"es ply to HUGH TANNAHILL, orthes pasticus.Trout River P.O.NO TICS.\u201con it and planted on the ANT ob LE onto, à \u2018birty evergreen 'd at the Asa- \u201c13, at 1 pom.\u201csce the * heur of OnaLuats, Trout River Lines.per order of Ove [Se se \u2014 A À | glanced at her man with a puzzled who in her turn began to suspect that her be & more cheerful time for your solitary from them seals the boy's doom.The | mam of bis own choice.Ho was \" LADY Ae T JUST Re be subi shook his gay head, | oredulity was imposed on, and her young walks.\u2019 .| demand s ransom; but the ransom % secure 28 votes for bim before cocina Fon days sucoeeding this scone with and hinted that I had beat return to Eden.mistress ill-treated.Mrs Danton had tol I did go to bed.I had not seen Basil mine : it is that which I have named.that his course was likely to defeat his À Mrs Danton I was enable of being closely | side.my nurse that I had tempted her by for many hours, and perhaps that made And were you to offer we all the gold in cause.T it was à straight i watched, and literally a prisoner in my\u2019 \u2018No, no! I cried: \u2018if you will not have bribes to remove the impediment ; but|me more uncomfortable than usual; but I the universe in exchange, I would fling it two-sided contest, the temperance cand;.own house.Fibsey attended upon me, pity on me, I must toil on on foot ; but I |that she, the gentle Mrs Danton | had re- remember my last waking thought was\u2014 from me as worthless dross ! date winning by a plurality of 9 in g tote) but she looked scared and bewildered, must reach Barley Wood ere daylight jected them with scorn, and had taken the I wonder what is to come?Yet my eye-.Alas! I wished tu gain time, for she vote of 1,119.Last year license carried spoke little, and avoided entering into dawns ; and can you do wrong, Farmer boy with her out of harm's way.She |lids were heavy, and I slept soon.I: was becoming impatient; and I murmur- the day by 228 majority.It is but Just 3 conversation.It is true that she was al- Aston, in conveying me to the good Mrs made Fibsey believe that.I was insane, kuow not of what I dreamed, or if I.ed, \u2018How can I believe that you would to add that none of last year's di ul i ways accompanied by Mrs Danton, who Edmondstone 7 for that I actually accused her of the deed, dreamed at all ; but in the middle of the abide by your part of the covenant were practices were repeated, and at da .bad evidently regained all her former in-' \u2018Nay, nay, I dosn't think I can, your which I myself had originally suggested, night I awoke suddenly, and sat up in my |I to bind myself as you desire 7 And oh, \u2018streets during the evening were Surprising.fluence over the old woman, doubtless by ladyship, though my missis and I be sore|but which the interposition of an Al-|bed.What fantastic tricks are played by | Mrs Danton, wherefore do you exact so ly free from disorder and intoxieation, Ay \u201cil bamoring her prejudices and foibles ; for grieved to see h in such a plight like.mighty hand had decided in the way al-|the imagination ! The belated figure hard a compact ?' \u2018ort Covington the sentiment amongst the ug Fibsey, despite an affectionate nature, was But I'll put to Dobbin, and carry ye over ready known.She promised Fihsey never which I had seen only distinctly enough\u2019 My heart whispered too well the where- electors against license was more decided in often obstinate and domineering.Mrs to the ministers in less than an hour.to divulge ray premeditated guilt, and im- to recognize it as that of a female, was fore, for John B.Cha \u2019 : ; ; pman was elected temper.i$ Danton treated me as & peued child, coax-| I bade him go to Edenside on his re-| pressed upon her the necessity of not call- now before my mind's eye, and it was as-| With a glance of scorn she replied, ance excise commissioner\u2014no license cap.yl ing and caressing ; but quailed beneath turn, and tell Fibsey that I had sought |ing in a witness.Poor old foolish Fibsey ! sociated, nay, identified, with that of her \u2018First, unless my part of the condition be didate being in the field.at her eye, and when I clung to my ancient refuge with Mrs Edmondstono ; for not- she believed me mad\u2014not guilty ; and who had caused the unhappiness of my fulfilled within a month from this day,| At a meeting at Peoria, Ill, Parnell de.nurse, intreating her not to leave or for- withstanding her late singular behaviour, | self reproaches shortened her days when |life ! The figure, which I had forgotten yours will be null and void-your cath clared the people of Ireland were starving, sake me, but to send for Mrs Edmond- I knew how agonized the old soul would she found that Madam Danton had de-|before I went to bed, now haunted me | cancelled.Believe me when the child although they produced more food than stone, she looked appealingly at my be when she awoke and found her caged ceived her.\u2018But she had such winning |after my sleep was over ; and the solemn | Cecil stands before you in health and [those of America.The cause was the tyrant, who whispers something in her bird flown, ways; quoth Fibsey, \u2018that she most made wood, the dim vista among the trees, and |safety, and not till then.As to your system of land tenure, by which the food ear, and turned to me with an authorita- one believe black was white, if she had a |the flitting female, were before me till|other question\u2019-her voice faltered, her| was taken from them to pay back rents tive air, oddly mingled with a show of; I gained the blessed haven\u2014I nestled mind.\u2019 And in this, alas ! I was able too night and its spoctral show were dissolved head dropped-let your own heart an- The National Land League had tenderness\u2014a show, indeed, for 1 read in my early friend's bosom.Basil held fully to corroborate my nurse.in the dawn.swer it\u2019 teaching the people that they should not hate and revenge in the expression of her | my hand, and in a torrent of wild inco-| But she had flown from Edenside with| The next evening I was again alone,| I was silent and undecided.She con- pay the landlords anything more thay countenance.; herent words I discharged my bosom's her brother Don Felix hours previous to|and [ was glad of it.This, however, I tinued more vehemently, \u2018My time is |just rent.It had saved over £10,000,000 How inexplicable was my situation !| load.Passionate floods of tears came tothe arrival of Basil Edmondstone.Every |tricd to conceal from myself, for I was short; decide, and we part forever ! sterling in abatement of rents, and limited What did it portend ?Was I mad, and {my relief, relieving the overcharged brain, means was used to trace the fugitives, but ashamed of the sickly fancies that had be-| Appeals, supplications were unavailing ; the area of the famine.Its work would were they treating me as a lunatic ?and assisting to clear my clouded appre-| without success, and the affairs were set me.T set out, nevertheless, on my she folded her arms, drew her cloak not be finished until the system of land.Never left alone ; watched night and day ;|hension.I was sensible they did not |spcedily placed in competent hands.My |lonely walk, skirting the pine wood anew, around her, and stepping slowly back- lordism should be done away with.(A and even my dear old nurse leagued |loathe me ; they believed me innocent ;|existence being so little known beyond |examining anxiously every vista I passed, | ward, coldly said, \u2018I give you five minutes Voice\u2014\u201cShoot them\u201d) Well, we can\u2019t been against me! Those resolutions for the and I sank to rest in Mrs Edmondstone\u2019s| the retired precincts of my home, curiosity {and coming to a dead pause at the one more, Lady Marjory, to decide your own do that.We have not got anything to guidance of my future conduct which I!arms, and slept like a wearied infant.1 was not aroused, save in the distant heir| where I had turned bac the night before.fate and the child's.Then farewell ! shoot them with.(Slight applause, A had formed in the solitude of a sick cham- had heard Basil say, \u2018We will talk over|who so unexpectedly succeeded to the |I looked down the natural alley of trees, (TO BE CONCLUDED NEXT- WEEK) most difficult problem, he continued, js ber when too feeble to express them reso- these distressing matters in the morning, property, and the wary lawyers who were their branches meeting at the top like the PTT what we are to do with these 10,000 Irish lutely, I determined now to impart to Mrs my dear Lady Marjory; but be comforted, engaged in transferring it.arches of a cathedral, and the dim light CANADA., |landlords, and I have been thinking that Danton in Fibsey's presence : they might!\u2014put your trust in Him from whose was eventually the affianced bride of | fading slowly away in the gloom beyond.| Halifax, March 3.\u2014The annual meeting perhaps if we were to ask the United free from persecution, and relieve me from scrutiny nothing is hid.\u2019 Basil Edmondstone.Long, long I had |I felt awed, and yet firm ; and when a of the Chamber of Commerce seemed to States Government for a loan of a few of Don Felix's hated addresses.That even-| In the morning I recapitulated to Basil |combated with my own heart, and refused figure emerged from the farther darkness resolve itself into a general assault upon their war ships and fill them up with these ing, as Mrs Danton sat beside me, Fibsey |and his mother all that had taken place : to listen to his addresses, until the foul|like a spirit, and glided slowly up that|the Dominion Government, in which emigrant Irish landlords\u2014(laughter)\u2014 busying herself about the apartment, I|I made a full confession of the past : of |aspersion cast upon me by Mrs Danton solemn aisle, I stood still and self-possess- strong Conservatives took an active part.aud despatch them to New York and ask opened the subject by commencing\u20141I| my own weakness and culpability of har- was cleared away.\u2018And how can that led, as if I had come by appointment to The annual report of the Executive Com- Mr James Gordon Bennett if he would have long wished to speak with you, Mrs boring thoughts of \u2018possibilities, suggested |ever be hoped for # said Basil ; \u2018in all hear its errand.; ) Danton, on a painful topic from which I by Mre Danton ; of the horrible suspicions human probability you will never hear of As it approached, I wondered how it Douell one of the leading Conservatives, to fit up as a poorhouse for them.(Great shrink ; nevertheless, I must delay no|siie had awakened by her tone of voice |her again, and would you sacrifice my |was that my eyes had not recognized at a condemned the tariff, and expressed a |laughter.) ; longer informing you of my unalterable and looks, and of my shame to breathe happiness, Marjory, to a false notion of [glance the truth which my heart felt by |hope that it would be changed.The adop- Rochester, March 1.\u2014Bergen in Genes.decisions respecting the future.I am |these foul suspicions to any human crea- [honor ?Do not I know your purity and |instinct ; how the figure should have im- |tion of this clause was moved by Mr Adam |see county, N.Y., a village of seven hun.utterly careless of the constructions that |ture ; of the frenzy her letter from the|innocence ?If you wait to become my pressed itself slightly and dimly, like an|Burns, another strong Conservative, the dred inhabitants, situated on the Buffalo may be placed on my conduct, for this |coast wrought in me\u2014all the rest they |bride until Inez Danton dues you justice, |indifferent thing, upon my memory, and head of a large dry-goods firm, and one of division of the Central and Hudson Rail.misery is greater than I can bear.\u2019 knew\u2014attributing my illness to the sud- you may wait in vain.Marjory, she is a have there burned, and deepened, and |the proprietors of the Government organ way, about twenty miles west of Rochester, \u2018And what may be your sage resolves ?|den shock.But one circumstance had |disappointed and a revengeful woman !|blackened, like hot iron! There was no here.He said the tarif was unjust, im- was fired in three places simultaneously said Mrs Danton with a pitying smile of impressed them strongly against Mrs Dan-| And then he told me a tale which caused mistaking that noiseless footfall, that poverishing the revenue, interfering with by the explosion of a train of gunpowder contempt.ton, which was this : Fauny, the deceased {my cheeks to tingle, and my eyes to seek |gentle carriage, that graceful form ; and healthy competition, promoting smuggling, this morning.The explosion of the in.\u2018Never to assume the hated title which |child's nurse, now a domestic at Barley tho ground\u2014a tale he never would have {long before her slow step brought her to |and generally putting a premium upon cendiary\u2019s train occurred between one and my uncle's son inherited\u2014never to touch Wood, having partially recovered from |betrayed to mortal man or woman save to me, I was prepared to see, to hear, to con- dishonesty.The motion was seconded two in the morning, and soon the whole the fatal wealth | To cast it from me as her attack of lethargic headache (which her about to become his wife.front Inez Danton.She was shrouded in a|by John Taylor Wood, another Conserv- village was aroused.The entire business I would cast the wages of iniquity, and in |she persisted was \u2018a very odd one\u2019), unex-| Mrs Danton had confessed her love for [long black cloak, the hood of which con- ative who said the Government's policy portion of the village was in flames.Ber- poverty, reproach, and humiliation, to lead pectedly entered the apartment where Mrs him unasked.She had Hung herself in |cealed her face ; and so silently and sha- had ruined his business.He referred |gen has no fire department, and a tele- a life of self-subjection ; for I have tam- Danton and Don Felix d'Aguilar, were]his way, and passionately sought him.|dow-like did she glide along the path, | particularly to the duty on cornmeal and |gram reached Rochester asking for a pered with guilt\u2014not the black guilt |closeted on their return from that fatal| Need it be added, that not her excessive |that I might have supposed her to be & the discrimination against American kero- steamer and firemen to save the property which you impute to me\u2014but that which excursion.Fanny had uot learned the beauty, talents, or fascinations, had power messenger from the dead.sene oil.The sentiment of the whole from the flames if possible.The steamer is more shadowy, and more leniently disaster, but she heard them-laughing and |to touch a heart like Basil Fdmondstone's, She threw back her hood, and I was meeting was against the tariff.The only land hose of this place were loaded on viewed by the world\u2014the guilt of con- |talking, and sought the litle earl.Mrs when modesty, that first and sweetest startled by the alteration in her appear- man who defended it was Mr Bremner, platform cars and ready for a start.Just templating with satisfaction the possibility Danton, whose back was towards the en-|charm of woman, was wanting.He ance.Her eyes were hollow and sunken, who is well known as the champion of|as they were steaming out word came that of the unfortunate boy's accidental decease.trance of the apartment, indulged in pro- repulsed her, but decisively ; and he told her cheeks emaciated and sallow ; exces- the Redpath monopoly.The clause pass- they need not go, for they were too late, Oh, Mrs Danton, say you have trifled with [longed bursts of merriment, mimicking [me (blessed assurance 1) that my image at |sive mental suffering, and the struggles of ed without division.The next clause of |and all the buildings within reach of the me ; say that his end was accidental\u2014 some absent individual (Fanny declared it |the moment reigned in his bosom, and passion, were impressed indelibly on every the report complained of the failure of the fire had been burned to the ground, and that he fell not a victim by your contri-|was me), until a sign from Don Felix |forbade the entrance of another, even if |lineament of her face.Perhaps it was winter port agitation.This was a matter the contents consumed.Nine families vance and at my suggestion |\u201d Spare me, caused her to look round ; when, on see- that other had been everything he could weakness on my part, but I had loved her in which lavish promises were made to|are rendered homeless, The wind was spare me, or take my life too ; for reason |ing Fanny, she assumed a grave counte-|have loved.I returned to Edenside, to once, and I was touched by these traces of Halifax by the Tories, including Sir John mittee, signed by the President, John kindly give us a loan of the Herald office blowing at the rate of fifteen or twenty is nearly unseated ! nance, and put her handkerchief to her| complete tinal arrangements prior to quit- sorrow and misery.Macdonald and Dr Tupper ; but of course miles an hour, and it is evident that the I tried in vain to check the hysterical |eyes.But it was too late: the panic-|ting it for ever, and taking up my rest at| \u2018You pity me, Lady Marjory said she.the promises were only made for election object of the incendiary was to burn not paroxysms that gained the mastery, and I [struck girl listened with dismay to the Barley Wood as the pastor's helpmeet\u2014 \u2018I do.from my heart.purposes, and there is such general dis-|only all the business houses but also to thrust their proffered services away with|sad tale uf the child\u2019s accident and los® {sweet title :\u2014blessed hope ! Yet I was| \u201cYou find me changed ?\u2019 gust at the\u2019failure to fulfil the promises | kill or ruin every property-owner in the violence.Then I overheard Mrs Dauton but she shrank from Mrs Dauton with ill- {uot happy ; for though I tried to be con-| \u2018Oh yes\u2019 .that even the strongest Tories have to|place.The people are almost wild with whisper to Fibsey, \u2018I fear we cannot hush | concealed disgust.vineed Basil's arguments that Mrs Danton \u2018And you ?\u2014are you happy ¥ I recoiled join in condemning the Government.An- (rage, and few would hesitate to wreak up the matter much longer ; she is becom-| This was the occasion of Mrs Edmond- |did not in her secret heart attribute con- from the hissing tone with which she ing worse, and we must call in help\u2019 1|stone's marked coldness to that lady at|sent to me, yet to recall that precious |spoke these words.saw Fibsey shake her head, and T essayed Edenside ; for a suspicion of the reality child to life again I would willingly have \u2018You know,\u2019 she continued, \u2018you are other clause in the report complains of the summary vengeance upon the perpetrators Government's refusal to give Nova Scotia of the deed if discovered.The conflagra- a share of the Fishery Award.tion resulted in the destruction of thirty- to speak calmly, but my struggles nearly had never crossed her pure mind.\u2018Basil, renounced my most cherished hopes.about to be married to Basil Edmond-| A.ordine to the Montana Herald com- one buildings and their contents.Three choked me.my dear,\u2019 she said, \u2018can you not fathom CHAPTER VII, stone.Is not that happiness | Is there paratively few buffalos have ranged the young men in one of the blown-up build- \u2018Fibsey, Fibsey, what does all this| Mrs Danton's motives for committing this| Happy ?oh far from it ! 1 was not even [anything in this world for which you past summer north of the international ings parrowly escaped being blown to mean 7 I am not ill\u2014I am not mad ; but |crime\u2014was it not to secure Lady Mar-|tranquil.The storm in which my young would exchange such a fate ?Come, be- dar Forts Walsh and Macleod |atoms.Burt E.Hall in escaping from the you will make me so! Send for Mrs Ed- jory\u2019s hand and fortune for her brother, |life had been passed had swept by ; but | think yourself, for impossibility is a fable.boundary.Forts Walsh an acleo Poe fi been important burning dwelling of his widowed mother mondstone.Who dares prevent it ?by terrifying her into compliance if all|the surges it had left still rose black, and Is there anything in existence\u2014any boon have fo or ho years past of buffalo robes, was lost burs 1 to death, and will pro- Mrs Danton exchanged a look of con-|other means failed ?\u2019 _ dreary, and ominous around me.Was it|so vast, so unheard of\u2014as to buy back 4he market value of which to the Indian bably die.The aggregate losses now foot cern with my nurse: to me that look con-| \u2018That was one of her motives assuredly, possible that a fault like mine could be so your plighted hand ?.hunter may be estimated at $2 each.In |Up $117,450 ; the insurance is about veyed a plot of deep-laid villainy and dar- mother,\u201d he replied thoughtfully.Here-|atoned ?Were we really at that conclu-| \u2018This is futile, Mrs Danton I I cried in = = ab ov i Gk, Sra CRIE SHE Baa yey ae ae OS ES - BLE EE FL A A HERE.Aw EL OR on Shy ge: fa f 0 350,000.ing on her part, and I saw that she had after I drew from Basil an elucidation of |sion of the history in which it was said, some alarm, my trepidation increasing Lett oo and a large re Bathere iu The shocking tragedies which accom- belied me to my old attendant.Suddenly another motive which had influenced this|in the fairy tales, I loved when a girl, each moment as I beheld her excitement.Walsh.In 1878 the number was 12,797 pany intemperance, though so terrible in my resolve was formed ; I became ive, beautiful fiend.\u2018and then they lived happy all the rest of |\u2018Let me warn you, that in case you are|at the former and 16897 at the latter Character, occur so frequently as apparent- and received-Mrs Danton\u2019s farewell forthe| I impressed upon these dear friends my |their lives ?I could not believe it\u2014at|discovered, your person will be secured.place, while this year only 5,764 have ly to deaden public consciousness to a full night, she bending over me, and hissing in| resolution of never profiting by the child's least never when alone.When Basil left Pass on your way, and suffer me to pass |%ome in at Macleod and 8277 at Fort |realization of their horrors.A Dayton, my ear, \u2018To-morrow, Lady Marjory St|death-of never claiming the title or pro-| my side, with love on his lips, and hope on mine\u2014our paths are different for the ; ny i i - Ohio, telegram furnishes another addition Just, you and I must come to an under- perty.I told them that peace of mind|and heaven in his eye, I looked strangely future, believe me,\u2019 Walsh.This steady tae am to the list of those fii hel cases.It standing\u2019 Aloud she added\u2014'Pleasant|{had flown for ever; that Mrs Danton's|after him ; and then, turning round, I| \u2018Not 50 far apart as you may imagine.|half-breeds of the Northwest affords a |mentions the arrest of Julius Ranke, dreams, Countess May ! belief in my guilt embittered existence ;| gazed as if expecting to see a phantom.I|Listen, Lady Marjory St Just !\u2014Cecil, ready explanation of the suffering among charged with having caused the death of Fibeey-slept in an adjoining closet which and that I must live a prey to remorse.wondered what was to come next, and Earl of Mertoun, lives \u201d .; an .them, his infant of four months.It appears from communicated with my apartment, the| \u2018Lady Marjory, she does not believe and whence it was to come.I felt asifit| \u2018You are mocking me, Mrs Danton I| The train from Belleville this afternoon the testimony of another child of six door being left open.I refused the night-|that you are guilty of aiding or abetting was a denying of Providence to suppose |cried in extreme terror.Her hand was| on the Grand Junction Railway ran over| years, who was in the room and witnessed potion, saying felt drowsy without it, her in this crime of darkness,\u2019 said Basil|that the end had already arrived.on my arm, and her dark eyes flashed|, squaw about five miles east of Campbell.the crime, that \u201che came home under the and closing my eyes, as if asleep.Very Edmondstone ; \u2018but she affirms it in order| This idea more especially beset me at fire.ford, killing her instantly, She was, sup- influence of liquor, and, seizing the child, soon I heard indubitable signs that Fibsey to obtain a hold and mastery over your| night.Often have I sat up in my solitary \u2018Nay, 1 am not Jjesting or mocking, posed to have been under the influence pe dashed it to the floor, and then kicked it was in a great slamber, and soon after the actions.I perfectly agree with you in |bed to listen for what was to come ; to |Lady Marjory; she said in a grave, low liquor across the room, crushing in its skull I midnight chimes, I rose, threw on my|the noble resolution you have formed try to fenctrate the darkness that sur-|voice ; \u2018that child lives in health and| \u201cfn an interview with Mr Gordon lawver| Atlanta, Ga.March 1\u2014Advices from .clothes, and a large warm cloak and hood as to the title and its adjuncts, and I ad- rounded me like fate.In the daytime, safety, and I have come to tell you so.|forthe prosecution, that gentleman roferted Isabella, Ga., gives an account of the kill- - which amply protected me.The key of vise that immediate steps should be taken when Basil was not with me, I went about| \u2018Then you will restore him\u2014then you |, Father Faure's stat ent that he (Mr |ing of an old man named Martin (colored) my chamber door was in Fibsey's pocket, as to the necessary disposal of these affairs.like one in a dream ; and when anybody will hear my blessings heaped upon your Gordon) had gone to him and offered to |in Wood County, Ga.a few days ago.which, with the rest of her apparel, lay by I will also instantly depart for Edenside, | talked to me of my approaching happiness, head\u2014\u2014 I had thrown myself on my drop the vo eution if he would leave the He had been hunting \"his cow, and sat her bedside : tremblingly I extracted it,|tax Mrs Danton and her brother with the |I stared with a wondering and ineredu- knees before her, for I doubted not the|pjace Mr Gordon said this was true, but down on the river bank to rest.An alli- applied to the key-hole, and stood in the [crime she has boldly confessed to you, and |lous look.This, it may be said, was the truth of her asseveration : her tones and Pas attended by other statements which gator was a few feet off, and made a sud- corridor, where the moonlight streamed in deliver them up, if needs be, to the hand remains of my fever\u2014an affection of the gestures bore the stamp of veracity.\u2018Oh the priest had not mentioned, The inter.|den rush upon the defenceless old man, as it had done on that well-remembered of justice.; ,,, (merves ! It wasan affection of the con-| wherefore have you played this cruel part, | view referred to took place in the hotel at struck him down, seized him by the hesd night previous to Mrs Dauton\u2019s departure \u2018But remember, Basil, my dear,\u2019 said his science ; it was an instinct of faith ; it| Mrs Danton ?Why did you affirm his! pickanock, occupied by Father Faure.The in his powerful jaws and dragged him \u201cfor the coast.All was still, yet my poor mother, \u2018that we have no proof She may was the heart's secret acknowledgment of death, and hasten my poor father\u2019s end ?'| following is the posi of the conv \u201cinto the water = heart throbbed almost to \u2018suffocation : |deny her own words ; and besides, what a of a just, awful, and mysterious God.I scarcely knew what I said or did, the] tion as 8 von by Mr Gordon : When I eee here, in my own house, to be stealing out | situation it would place Lady Marjory in! Some evenings I was alone, for Basil's rush of mingled feelings was so tumultu-| vent a the vom he said to M Herbert H, Smith in a communication like criminal, it was verily strange and |if the wretched woman accuses her pub-|time was always at the command of the ous, banishing reason momentarily ; but Gordon, you are very hard on m or to the New York Tribune, states that dreadful ! I had but one overpowering |licly of consenting to it! ._.distressed and the dying, and on such oc- Danton quickly recalled my scattered in- plied \u2018Father Fane I am the 1 re- 20.000 persons have died from starvation desire\u2014to reach Barley Wood, to throw \u2018Alas | mother, see it all, sighed Basil.casions I loved to saunter along my favor- tellects by sternly rejoining\u2014\u2018Heed not\u2019 against ou, and I am just as hard awyer in the rought-stricken Province of Cears, myvelf on tie p on of those dear|\u2018What a mesh of entanglement! Never-|ite path, bounded on one side by a solemn | the past, Lady Marjory St Just\u2014with the 4 the Hidence will Dit but 14 y ot in Brazil, and 300,000 from pestilence.friends, and to unravel or break the |theless, we must walk in the plain honest|pine wood.One evening the twilight present you have enough to do.The think there is an fle Fi 7 th 0 bof There are now 250000 destitute people meshes of that detestable web which was path, and leave the rest in His hands who| was more than usually beautiful, and I Es i y desire on the part o » ; rl of Mertoun lives I tell you.I trans- ; ; EU ring is .closing around me like the grave.will not suffer the innocent ones to be |looked, in passing, with more than usual | ferred him to my brother's vessel, which the prosecution to punish you b ar rison- fed 3 the Govern ment.ey nd ohined the garden entrance at the end wronged.\u2019 ., admiration down the vistas formed here hovered a few miles from the coast.Safe tection of the people in the Pie ka 2 To The Brazilian Treasury is almost ex of the corridor, and succeeded in unfasten-| \u2018But you must not go to Edenside, I |and there by the trees, where the dim re- |in the mountains of the Ronda the boy is enable them th ui dy ; th ie b ds, hausted y ing the door.Mrs Danton\u2019s room was at|cried in alarm.ligious light faded away into impenetrable concealed ; but he shall be restored unin- P quietly in their beds.; .4: .) : AA S | If you are of opinion that the evid i In a speech in the German Reichstag, the other end, and I did not fear that she| Wherefore !' replied Basil in astonish-|gloom.At this hour the picture was|jured within a month from this day if you : P once 18 id: Si n- womld detect the noise.Ispraag down|ment.\u2018What else remains to do?rarely enlivened by the human figure ;/aro willing to abide by the con tion I woody tro ng to be yo RA lacs onion at the Torah War nee hoo thé steps\u2014across the sward, glisten-| \u2018Oh I am afraid of that flerce, desperate but on the occasion I refer to, some belat- propose.If not'-her countenance grew, |] don think the old ; a fe ep Ne considerably extended her military estab- {gin the cold moonlig t with hour dew; man : he may insult you, Basil; and o wanderer appeared to he threading the oh, so dark and dreadful-his fate rest on you or endeavor bod bring you back \"A = lishment a, d France has doubled her my way among the well-kñown then \u2014 4, s of the wood, for saw, although |your -you will never see or hear of said, © ste willi , ; ur bat intricate paths snd defiles\u2014passed the \u2018Then what ?said Basil smiling, as he only for an instant, a woman appessiog, fim more.\u2019 y rear © said oh] quite willing fo nm but Loan too wleanwhile we hav 0 kent per shrabbery\u2014down towards tbe valley and tenderly took my band.\u2018Do you forget |and then vanishing among the trees, It| \u2018Name the condition : it must be hard aid Rotten er Lau willi oo oly 19 cents of our po ae France has 80 the sireams\u2014through the wick that I am & mas of pesce-\u2014my office, my was a feature of the picturesque which in| indeed if I refuse compliance, I uttered |exile\u2019 That is th.exulaoci ge into army of 497.400 men, while Germany has ott into the open pastures ; there stood |garb-\u2014 His insults, Lady srjory, will another frame of mind would have inter- steadily, meeting her as she slowly statement about CP postion he lonl > 401 000 soldiers.The peace strength .alone\u2014Barley Wood ten miles off, my |glance off the armor I wear without injury ested me, but just now I felt disturbed, as| and deliberately said, \u2018You must swear, as |, ÿ es into exile when Lo ho ole that of ours.5 frame tottering, but my spirit brave to me.\u2019 .LL if by an intrusion.I suddenly found that I shall dictate, never to become the wife geked at the Close of tho preliminary trial 4 rs I ' twice ge gress \"in France is Ward, ouward, or death f aried.I} He spoke with le dignity, and I|the gloom had increased, and that there of Basil Edmondstone; and, moreover, © had anything to yee roo Jal torn OF roria.fourteen years fore Bo clear ides how gained a small felt reassured, thoog\u2019 I had betrayed more aa a chillacss in the air which warned me never to reveal to mortal aught of what UNITED STATES while in Germany it.is only twelve year: | , distant maiden wou in ; : ; à behi ,; Loc Aston, the proprietor, had have done 6 as to the state of my affections.oo hon, retracing my steps, I hast- has now passed between ua The Malone Palladium states that at the The degree in which our army si behind - M h k iri â *, i it .reopoéted \u2018my Sather, who Mad This was not the time to speak of dream \u2018las anything alarmed you ?ssid Mrs y heart sank despairingly, but à |annual town meeting, held last (week, the other can only be made up for y activity a A ' « h limpse of hope supported me.\u2018If the |strife of th i : t iron I ti of ood Too on befriended him of love, yet there was a softness in Basil's) Edmondstone., chil really lives, I ried.\u2018the hand of advocates beth of Tioense and prohibition en mue nee deplor pren sacri te I sucoseded in gaining eye, aud a tenderness in his voice, to which| \u2018No, nothing\u2019 justice shall recover him.\u2019 were out in force, and contested the fight fices on the Gor an nation.= Riftancs, ou dnd i permadiog the mer 1 bad been TRES Fibeey Did you meet fois one in pour walk ¢ | With taunting laugh Mrs Danton ex- from the opening of the polls to their close.London March 3 \u2014By a new antieis 1 bed y or vored 1 e ling to hi Ansor but when Me Joon.: saw was & claimed, nve rom our mountain |The former were divided in the morning, | trade convention between Great Br earned reach.made Dame ing his promise ; but when Mrs Danton woman coming out of the wood.fastnesses ! You know not what you say, one of their number, deal in- jon between 7¥ Aston rt thet I we.fyi pd of (my oops her rage Sao no to tom lock pale, = love : you should Marjory St Just.My kin are bold, das: sisted on dictating the canine amt bad a ut des two owers in the suppre* ; Porsesntion A dompeie a.bounds, and secused Filpey neglest, : carly morning would ing men, amenable to no laws, aad a word beem overruled, persisting in running the sion of the slave trafiio is assured."]