The Star, 5 décembre 1877, mercredi 5 décembre 1877

[" THE ST R.VOL 1X.NO.287 A Morning Telegrams.THE WAR.wal of England\u2019s Tey of Anisginy totes \u2014Bom peu econd Gri- emp 40 CR portant Developments Rumou .avectal says LoxDON, Dec.4,\u2014A Belgrade pe say -neered his departing troops with a ty of a better issue to this new cam- She British Consul presented a note deprecating war on the part of Servia, and : tening the withdrawal of England's we nee of autonomy.It is rumored that oe mbardment of Erzeroum tas com- the ood An {rade has been issued con.pe Parliament on December the bere Bucharest special says it is thought 1845.manians are about to make another me t to capture the second Grivites se.Important despatches were rived at Belgrade on Monday.Their ro ter ta haye not trapspired, but a Cabinet con (il wes immediately convoked, and ers gent to all militia to arrest their agrée h until further notice.The departure ¢ artillery and military trains for the frontier has been postponed.It is rumored that a change of Ministry is impending, Fourimportant Russian officers have arrived to confer with the Minister of War.FRANCE, et Question\u2014 Explanation The BS For Proposed Congress of Both Chambers\u2014Declaration from the Left\u2014A Pretext for a Secon ssolution.i, Dec, 4.\u2014In the Deputies to-day, Jules Ferry said themsjority would t the budget only to a Parliamentary Ministry.Until further potice the budget committee would mot report in favor of direct taxes, Gambetta said the Chamber was ready to consider the budget, but would only hand over the resources of the cæuntry gheri those in power bowed before the popu- prwill.M.Rouher moved to consider the pudget on Thursday.Lost\u2014328 to 197.The Senate has elected De Larcy (Legiti- mist) and Barot (Bonapartist) life Senators, Jeon Rueanlt gave notice in the Deputies that he would ask ministers to explain a semi-official note published, stating that Mac- Mahon\u2019s efforts to form a conciliatory Ministry had been, 50 far, frustrated by the exorbitant demand of the Left.A congress of the two Houses should be held for revision of the Constitution.Greevy said he as the only member of the majority who had been summoned by the President, and he did not speak in the name of the Loft, or indicate any conditions.The affair cause much comment.Members of the St declare the idea of à Congress, mentioned in private, bas been seized upon at the Elysee as a pretext for breaking off the conciliatory negotiations, The Cabinet to-day discussed the petition movement among persons in trade.Government ap rs resolved to prevent this manifestation, which it considers?hostile to itself, The sale in the streets of the journal Le Bien Public, containing extracts from the petition, has been stopped.The Bureaux of the Left Senate have issued a note formally denying that any Senator of their section hes been authorized by Republicans or commissioned by MacMahon to formulate conditions for a parliamentary Cabinet.The deputies of the Left issued a similar declaration.A correspondent considers it palpably evident that Senator Duclerc\u2019s strictly informal and personal proposals to Mac.Mahon for à revision of the conatitution in a Republican tense have been eagerly seized upon 2s furnishing a pretext for a second dissolution.merc: Fires.LONDON, Ont., Dec.4.\u2014A fire broke ont this morning in the wagon and carriage factory of Mesers.Heard & Son, Lambeth, resulting in the total destruction of the shops, with a large quantity of lumber and material in course of manufacture, as well as tools, &c.The loss sustained by the Messrs.they have no insurance.The origin of the fire is attributed to tramps.HaALIFAx, Dec.4 \u2014The total insurance on Acadia College is $14,000, divided as fallows :\u2014Tsolated Risk, $4,500 ; Queen, $5,- 000 ; British America, $4,500.ST, ANNE\u2019s LocKS, Que.Dec.4.\u2014A fire broke out about two o\u2019clock this morning in the stable of Mr.Tremblay, destroying two stables, two sheds and a butcher shop, together with one horse, three cows, three pige, one sleigh and & wagon.Fortunately the village possesses a new fire engine,or the wto'e of the place would have been con- ramed.Sparks from the Telegraph.Several hotel keepers of Quebec have been fined for selling liquor on Sunday.An official investigation into the \u2018\u2018 Huron\u201d digester will be commenced to-day.A Naval Court to investigate the \u201cHuron \u201d disaster is to commence to-mor- Tow.Great preparations are making for the celebration of the independence of the Isthmus of Panama.The revolution in Ecuador has assumed alarming proportions ; at last advices the inswgents were marching on Quito.Typhoid fever is raging in the Parish of Valcartier, Que.The people are in great distress, there being no doctor in the place.À private telegram received from Win- nigeg states that Madame Cauchon, wife of the Lieut.-Governor, is supposed to be dying, A gentleman from the shanties on the Coulonge and Crow Rivers reports six inches of ice in that locality and sixteen inches of SLOW.Corporation suits were taken in Quebec on the 4th inst, against a number of insnr- ee campænies for son-payment of assess ments, The schooner \u201cTwo Sisters\u201d was wrecked of Galveston, Texas, on the 3rd inst; three lives were lost ; a pertion of the cargo wes saved, The total number of interments in Bar- ington!Cemetery, Hamilton, during the last Honth, were 41, against 36 in the corresponding period of last year.The Canadian steamer *¢ Newfield \u201d took 151 samples to the Paris Exhibition.This leaves 200 entries yet to be filled, which ¥ill necessitate another trip.Deposits in the Post Office Savings Bink at Ottawa during the month of November 8moint to $10,069, and withdrawals during the tame period $6,824.05.À runaway horse in Toronto, knocked (WN 8 young man named James Kennedy, tnd to severely injured him that his condi.lion je considered precarious.The death sentence of Le Tourville, for Durdering his wife in the Tyrol, has been \u201cminted to eighteen years imprisonment, Lot for life, ag previously telegraphed.The Hon, Mr.Laurier arrived in Ottawa hey 5th inst, The reception committee meet them at Prescott.A torchlight Procession will talce place in the evening.The Toronto Corn Exchange Association ve elected Messrs Spratt, the President ot ÿ Association, and W.D.Matthews, as \u201c¢gates to the Dominion Board of Trade.ae Minister to Japan reports that the ap \u20acxpense by the Satsuma rebellion ted to over $5.000,000 per month.0 forces engaged were not more than 30,- de election in Antigonish, N.S., for the fou in the election of J.S.dort, \u2018Pson, of Halifax, (O ition) by a ps of about six aver Soap) Ho.fy evgements are being made in Quebec Ton \u20ac sale during the coming season of th 7 J Ph red Le preaux anthracite coal, ! ities o i ill, it is sai tipped ment von which will, it is said, be hoe à patch from Rome says there is no ity ® Pope\u2019s recovery.His weakness hy.that closing the issue in his leg has Carina Beary, notwithstanding the risk, , al Simeon is seriously ill, tite Myices say that the populace cherish | sin te ngs toward the British navy \u2018that © Hauscar \u201d affair, It was report- vas .British captain, in full uniform, Cll, #Y the mob in the streets of Thy Teport, from Winnipeg of the granting -1876.Heard will be from $10,000 to $12,000, and ; of permission to traders to kill buffalo on the same terms as Indigns, and of the menacing attitude of Sitting Bull and the alarm of the Blackfeet Indians, is semi-officially denied at Ottawa, In the case of The People against Richard B.Connolly, in New To comnsel consented thatthe plaintiffs take a verdict for the amount of their claims.This was figured at $8,537,170.15, and the Judge directediihe jury to return a verdict for that amount.It is feared a stampede of Sioux, while on their way to the new agency on the Missouri, will cause widespread demonstrations of hostility to the Government and white settlers.The agent for the Sioux has been instructed not to issue amy food except at the agency.The U.8.Post-office Department and Canadian offices have agreed to return letters between the two countries upon being requested to do so within a given time, to places they were mailed from without, as formerly, holding them for return to the dead letter offices.President Gowen, of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, Pottsville, Pa., writes that a reduction in the price of coal requires a reduetion in wages of 30 per cent.below the present basis, but promises 10 per cent.advance of wages with every 25 cents advance in tolls and freights.The Medical Forgery Case.Dr.Gübert\u2019s evidence continued :\u2014Dr.Fenwick assured me that the list had been revised carefully by himself and other parties, and that he would positively vouch for its correctness in every respect, and that with regard to Dr.Mines\u2019 name being on it, he could positively assure me that he had received his license in dus and proper form some yeers previously.As I had very grave doubts of the truth of this statement of Dr.Fenwick, I determined te ascertain who had received Dr.Mines\u2019 proxy vote.I therefore went into the ante-Toom, where the proxies were being verified,and there ascertained that the proxy of said W.W.Mines was verified in favor of the accused, Dr.E.D.Worthington.On returning home after the election I wentto Messawippi to see Dr.Mines, and asked him why he had given his vote to Dr.Wor.thington to use against me at the last election at Three Rivers.He assured me he had no idea he was giving his vote to be used against me, otherwise he wonld not have given it at all.He said thet Dr.Worthington had told him there was to be a great strife between the McGill College men and the French practitioners, and that was the only reason assigned by Dr.Wor- thington for asking him for his vote.He said, moreover, \u201cI did not think that you were interested in the matter at all, for when I was at your house afew weeks ago, youdid not ask me for my vote, nor even mention the election.\u201d I replied, ¢¢ Of course I did not ask you for your vote, as on that very occasion, you told me you had no license.\u201d ¢ But,\u201d I said, \u201cwhen Dr, Worthington asked you for your vote, you told him also that you had no license, Dr.Worthington then offer ed to procure a license if you would give lim your vote?\u201d Dr Mines said, \u2018 Whe told you this?I never told anyone about it.\u201d I replied, ¢ Never mind who told me about it, show me your license.\u201d He then produced the document marked \u201cA\u201d in this cause, and purporting to be a license from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada and dated 29:h September, I then asked him how and where he procured said license.He replied that he had been requested not to tell and did net want to betray any confidence.I asked if he was placed under oath if he would speak the truth?He said of course he would do so.He said he bad not read the license either when he opened it or since, but after looking at the signatures and seal of the College he thought it was all right.I asked him ro read it.He replied that his Latin was a little \u2018\u2018rusty,\u201d and I helred him to read it at his request.The license represented that he had peraonally appeared before the Medical Board and had sed all the necessary examinations in the City of Quebec on the 29th Sept., \u201975.I asked him if that was true?He said \u201cNo\u201d\u2014 it was not true, as he had never at any lime presemted himself before the said Board.He objected to answer any other questions unless he was compelled to do so.1 then leit him and determined #o lay the matter beforc the Board of Governors at their next meeting, but before doing so I visited the cities of Montreal and Quebec for the purpose of searching the Registrar and Secretury\u2019s books, with a view to ascertain how this fraud had been accemplished.I then found that a discrepancy existed between the Registrar and Secretary's books, not only in the case of W.W.Mines, but also in the case of Dr.J.A.White, of Sherbrooke.Dr.Fenwick objected to the name of Dr.J.A.White being introduced in the testimony, as there were falsifications in the beoks since 1847, the first day they were opeæed, for which he did not think he should be hold responsible.On consulting with his counsel Dr.Fenwick withdrew his sbjectien.Witness continued : And also in the case of Dr.Beattie.Thesaid Dr.J.A.White being entered on the register as having received his license in the month of May, 1871, and the said Wm, Beattie as having regeived his license on the same day and date as that of the said W.W.Mines, viz., 29th Sept., 1875, whereas neither of these names ar in either of the Secretary's books, and where they must have appeared had no fraud been committed.At the mest- ing of the Medical Board in Quebec on the 27th September last I brought this matter before the Governors of the College, and there charged the said Dr.E.D, Worth.ington in complicity with the late Registrar, Dr.G.E.Fenwick, with fraudulently tampering with the books of the said College, and with having fraudulently issued a certain spurious license or licenses ; and then propesed, seconded by Dr.Laducere, the following resolution : ¢¢ That in view of the grave nature of the charges made by the mover, involving as they do the very vitality and professional reputation of the College, the President is hereby requested and empowered to institute an immediate and strict legal investigation as to the truth of said charges, and in the event of their proving well founded, will proceed at once to the proseeution of the offender or offenders, with the utmost severity of the Jaw.\u201d\u201d It was thereupon insisted by the said Drs, Worthington and Fenwick that any charges should be formulated in writing and entered on the minutes of the meeting for the purpose, by them expressed, that if I failed to prove said charges I should be forever disgraced.I at once accepted the challenge and amended my resolution to read as follows : ¢ That in view of the grave nature of the charges made by the mover, to wit, that a license or licenses have been surreptitiously issued by a member or members of this Board, in contravention of the Statutes of this College; that the books of this College have been fraudalently tampered with; such license or licenses have been fraudulently ante-dated, and that the names of the officers of the College have either been forged or have been {fraudulently obtained ou such license or licenses ; that is to say, they were neither signed nor sealed at the time represented ; that this malicious action was evidently taken with aview to influence the elections of this College, and must have an influence, if allowed to remain uninvestigated, to materially injure the reputation of said College, the President is hereby requested and empowered to institute an immediate and strict legal investigation as to the truth of said charges, and in the event of their proving well founded, to proceed at once to the prosecution of the offender or offenders with the ut most severity of thelaw.\u201d In the course of the discussion of the subject, and before the votes were taken, the said Dr.G.E.Fen- wick rose and said that he would explain the matter of Dr.Mines\u2019 license in a few words ; that the whole circumstance had arisen in consequence of his own negligence, and not from any ill-conduct on the part of himself or his friend, Dr.Woething- ton.The investigation then adjourned until 2 p.m, to-day.HON.WILFRED LAURIER.The Demonstration in his Honor at the St.Lawrence Hall.( Continued from Yesterday's BTAR.) The chairman, Mr.B, Devlin, said : The next toast I have to offer you is the health of a distinguished Irish nobleman (applauss), His Excellency the Governor-General, who 80 ably represents the power and dignity of Her Most Gracious Majesty, the Queen, in the Dominion of Canada.(Applauge.) Te him, gentlemen, this country owes a deep debt of gratitude for the very great interet he has taker, since his advent among us, in every measure calculated to promote her wel - fare and bring her nearer and nearer to th attainment of national greatness, (Applause.) An Soquent advocate of peace and harmony, His Excellency has, in the course of his visits to the outlying Provinces of th) Dominion, contributed largely, very largely indeed, by the frankness and kindness of 5 manner as well as by the unrivalled brilliancy of his speech, to allay feelings of irritation, to strengthen and cement the bond of confederation, upon the solidity of which depends the future happiness and presperity of our young Dominion, (Ap- plaute.) And when the time arrives for His Bxcellency\u2019s departure, which we alt trast may be far distant, he will have the proud satisfaction of knowing that the people over whom he has ruled with so much dignity, will retain the affection they over felt for him (applause), for his unbounded hospiteli- ty, and, above all, for the strict, stern impartiality which has at all times marked the administration of the high office confided to him by his and our Sovereign.Gentlemen, I give you the tesst of His Excellency the Governor-Generad, The Chairmen then proposed the health of the Hon, Mr, Laurier in a splendid speech.Hon.Wilfred Laurier in reply to this said : \u2014Mr.Chairman and gentlemen, allow me, previous, and before everything, te tender you my thanks for the great honor which you have beea pleased to bestow on me today.I cannot be so presumptuous, gentlemen, 88 to supospe that this honor is extended to me personally, or for any personal merit of mine.1 take if, gentlemen, and glad I am to take itto be such\u2014a demonstration to promote those principles, those great principles of truth and justice which constitute the Liberal cause (applause), the cause of which it has been my good fortune, honor and privilege, the past two months, to be the standard.beazer.Allow me also to take advantage of this opportunity to tender my thanks, my most hearty thanks, not only on my own behalf, but on behalf of the Liberal party, to my friend, the Hon.Mr.Thibandean, who has been so kind after my defeat at Drummond and Arthabaska, when I had been crushed down, as to give me the opportunity to rise again and promote the interests of the party.I cannot, gentlemen, in sufficient terms express ny gratitude to Mr.Thibaudeau.Mr, Thibaudeau has been to me more than a friend for many years.On this oceasion, however, be has done me a servic, for which I cannot thank him too much, ead in doing me this personal service, he has done an honor to the Liberal party, as he has often done in times past to the Liberal party of Lower Canada.You will allow me also to tender my thanks to the party generally, and especially to the electors of Quebec East.Gentlemen, I had a strong opinion of the patriotism of the County of Dmmwmond and Arthabagke, my foemer constituency, and 1 had good reason to believe in it, but their patriotism was as nothing when compared with Quebec East, The same means were used, the same slanders were uttered against me, but if they found believers in them in Arthabaska, they were spurned in Quebec, and the result has been as you see.Still, gentlemen, let ms take advantage of this occasion to speak one word for the County of Drum.mond and Arthabaska, It has not lost faith \u2018 in the Liberal party.Drummond and Arthabaska are thoroughly aud intensely Liberal, and only await the oppartunity to prove the truth of that assertion.If, gentlemen, I have been defeated in the County of Drummond and Ar- thabeska, it was not because they had lost faith in the Administration of the day\u2014not becanse they had lost faith in the policy they have supported for years ; it is not because they were not the same men who returned the late Mr.J.B.Eric Dorion.Noe, gentlemen, they are still the same, and wherever the name of Dorion is mention :d they still rise to the same rapturous enthusiasm as of old.If Drummondand Artha baska were lost, it was by trickery.I thought the patriotism of the people was suffi eient to defeat Tory craft.I hava, however, learned by my experience that, though patriotism may be strong, we must not forget thoselhuman devices necessary to ensure victory.It was not the population that voted against me; of that I am satisfied, I have polled as many votes this time as I ever did before.The total voting population is only 3,200, whilst on this occasion there was 600 in excess polled\u2014600 from the Counties of Nicolet and Yamaska., At the general election these 600 outsiders could not have voted, and then the resu't would have been as it ever was for the last twenty years.We are Liberals, and must be just to everybody, and give the devil his due, and from that you will see that the most deserved thanks of the Liberal party are due to the Conservatives.It was a brilliant piece of stratagem in Drummond and Arthabaska that secured me the glorious victory in Quebec East.Quem Deus vult perdere prius dementat.We determined to take revenge.I had the offer of many seats, several of my friends in the House of Commons tendering their resignations.I resolved that the defeat would not be revenged without a splendid victory, and I concluded to go to the cradle of the Province, to the door of the Quebec Government, to throw down the gauntlet and mest them in a constituency where they would have every opportunity to bring their charges.The event proved that in doing what I did I acted rightly\u2014ths result has proved that we had not mi d our trust in the electors of Quebec, but that they were equal to the occasion.You know the slanders that were brought against me.To the English Protestants they said I was anannexationist.Such silly &sertions as these require no reply.Whenever they meet an Irish Catholic they told the Irish Catholics T was nothing better than an Orangeman ; that, in fact, I had insulted tte Irish Catholics in Arthabaska.I was sorry to see that I had insulted those in the party which had everywhere placed me in the ascendant.It is not in my nature, gentlemen, toinsult anybody.I was sorry, Mr.Chairman, to ses such weak and false charges brought against me, but the Conservative party are so disgraced and degraded now, that there is nothing they will not do to promote their evil ends.Well, gentlemen, it so happeas that I am a Liberal in my ideas, but in some respects a Conservative ; I adopted this collar 15 years ago when it was the fashion ; though the fashion has many times changed, still I shall keep this collar for all that, It would be useless, gentlemen, on my part to enter at any length into the policy of the Liberal party.I have been à member of the Liberal party a lopg time.I was bors a Liberal and the principles of the Liberal party are truly great principles\u2014truth and justice.I am satisfied if these principles are honestly carried out in this Dominion of ours, this country shall be a great country, It has been the will of Providence to bring upon this corner of the earth a population of different races, nationalities and creeds, and gentlemen, I may say there is no other link to bind this element but the principles of the Liberal party.Here we arr, gentlemen, my next neighbor (Mr, Devlin) is an Irish Catholic, his neighbor (Mr.Holton) an English Protestant; I am a French Canadian.This is the circle of our society.There is the link, It has been my endeavor in political life to bring more closely tore- ther all the branches of the Canadian family.But I want all to be united in a common tie to make this a great mation, 1 want the Irish to remain Irish, the Scotch, Scotch, the English, English, the French, French; but I want all, Scotch, French, Irish, and English, tobe, above all, British subjects and Canadians.Gentlemen, let me say that I do not underrate the duties I have before me.I do not underrate the great responsibility which I have to undergo, and as I am the junior member of the Administration, junior of the Liberal party, it shall always be my duty to look for advice to our veteran of the party, Mr, Holton.And letsme onc: more nk you for the kindness you have extended to me.I do not, as I seid before, accept it for myself, but for those members who are true to you, and who, I am sure, are true to the population of the Proviace of Quebec.Let me, in conclusion, say that it has been'my fortune, so to speak, to hoist the Liberal flagupon the Citadel of Quebec, and I mean to keep it there.You Liberals of the Commercial Metropolis should at ance organize, I think we are better organized in Quebec than you are; but leok toit.Again, gentlemen, I thank you for the cordial way in which you have received me.(Loud applause.) Hon.Mr, Laurier spoke in French stantially as he had done in English.The chairman next proposed the Senate and House of Commons, to which the Hons.E.G.Pen.y, L.Holton, Smith of Selkirk, sub.Dr.Brouse, Dr.Christie and Mr.Cheval } replied.* The Liberal members of the Provincial Legislature\u201d was p oposed and responded to by Hon.Henry Starnes, Hon.Mr.Laframboise and Messrs, Mauchard and Prefontaine.Mr.Doutre, Q.C., proposed \u201cThe electors of Quebec East,\u201d Mr, Christin replied.Hon, Mr.Laurier gave the health of the chairman, which was duly honored and suitably acknowledged, The Hon, John Young's health was proposed by Mr.F.Mackenzie and replied to by Mr.Young.Shortly after this the party adjourned, In the evening Mr.Laurier was serenaded, and In answer to repeated calls he appeared at a window of the St.Lawrence Hall and de.Jivered an address very similar to that given at the dinner.The crowd wae not arge, probably about two hundred, and the enthusiasm was not very great.Civil Rights Alliance.Last evening the annual meeting of this association was held in the Mechanics\u2019 Hall, Ald.Clendinneng presiding, The following gentlemen were present among others: Mr.James Robertson, Rev.Mr.Chiniquy, Mr.N.O, Greene, Mr.W.Drys- dale and Rev.Mr.Gaetz.In his opening remarks the chairman spoke of the necessity there was for this association, in view of existing circum: stances, and to secure to Canada her proper place.No country could get along if her people remained in ignorance of their rigats sud privileges.Canada should in the future be a great country, and it was absolutely necessary to take some statesmanlike measures to secure to her people the birthright of Britons, Wherever the British flag waved it had been the pride of Britons that liberty should obtain, The liberty of the people of this Provins was peculiar, and the pupils of Laval and other universities were taught to * Look this way to our clergy ; you must coms this way to parliament or go to some outside constitu- excy.\u201d He criticized the law which compelled Protesiants to pay their tax to the Roman Catholic School Commissioners, After further remarks, Mr, F, W.A, Osborae, the secretary, read the first annual report, substantially as follows : \u2014 *¢ This Association may be regarded as a development, upon a broader basis, of the Protestant Defence Alliance.It is only eight months since it was organized.Of necessity, the Association, contemplating as it does, a thorough vindication of the rights of citizenship, can only make what to a casual observer will be, slow progress, inasmuch as an educational process of no small magnitude is involved in the comprehensive scheme which the Alliance has before it.Your Council, undaunted by the delay and complications which marked the progress of the Oka investigations, lost no time in following up the efforts of their predecessors.The various suits at law in which the Alliance, as representing the Indians, is involved have been clearly described of late in the Pindicator.Your numerously signed memorial praying for Government intervention has been submitted bya deputation, and the representative of the Government has suggested the removal of the Indians from Oka to some Western terri tory, that their personal and social comfort may be promoted whilst the claims of the Seminary are being legally tested.How far the adoption of this proposal may be in accordance with the objects of this Alliance ir a matter which requires the most careful examination.What are usually designated the Oka troubles appear to your Council to infold a very wide and important national question, hence the undesirability of allowing the subject to sink into a delusive quisiule.Now that the public mind has become greatly ealightemed as to the nature of those obstacles which are opposed to the settlement of the Oka difficalties, and also concerning the intricacies and peculiarities of those departmentsof judicature before which the defenders of the Indians have to contend, it will be more easy to convince our friends that, although the cccasions upon which anything approaching a decisive judgment is given are very rare, yet everything which your representatives can possibly accomplish is being prasecuted with undi- mipished zeal, and the Council strongly recommend their successors to abandon no vantage ground, and to carry their suits, if needs be, to the very highest tribunal in the kingdom.\u201d The troubles in July, anent which the association has asked for some improvement on the jury system; the fact that peace has been counselled, and that with this end in view gentlemen have been asked to lecture upon questions of national liberty; that all classes and creeds are represented on thie Soctety's roll ; that the greatest item of expense\u2014the Oka question \u2014was being provided for by liberal subscriptions, although it should be rather by increased subscriptions from members, were among the other items alluded to, while the general tone of the report wae encouraging.Mr, Henry moved the adoption of the report, seconded by Mr.Hadriil.Carried.Ald.Clendinneng said, owing to the absence of the treasurer, the reading of his report would be postponed.The election of the new council was then gone on with and resulted as follows : \u2014 George W Beers, Rev A J Bray, S Caldicot, Ald Clendinneng, Ald Nelson, Principal Dawson, Joseph Doutire, George Esplin, Rev L Gaetz, J 8 Mclachlan, Rev J B Green, N O Greene, George Martin, Charles Morton, Rev E M Myers, Thomes Robertson, Rev James Roy, E T Seott, Rev J F Stevenson, Ges Young, A Boisseau, Rev C Chiniquy and F W A Ostorme, A number of speeches were made, a\u2019ter which Mr,Caldicott moved, seconded by Mr.McDermott, * That the Council ba desired to take such steps as may appear sufficient to maintain the principle of civil rights in the matter of public processions.\u201d unanimously.A vote of thanks was then passed t> the Chairman for the able manner in which he filled the chair.The meeting shortly after dispersed.PUBLIC OPINION.The Velanteer Fire Company.To the Editor of THE STAR : Srr, - The discussion re the Clandeboye Volunteer Fire Co, has waxed so w.rm of late, and so mnck opposition has been evidenced by some of the city authorities, that it shows commendable pluck on the part of the young men composing the above organization, who, in spite of the, I might say, fierceness with which the scheme has been opposed, are still agitating with the hope ultimately of getting what they require.I believed, from what I can learn, that our regular brigade fall in with the ideas of the ¢ Clandeboye *\u2019 exactly, and would be glad of their assistance when occasion calls for them, which, God grant, may be far distant.The advantage they would be at in combating the flames at such a fire as the one which occurred in Griffintown last summer, with such an ally as the volunteer company is sure to become, embracing as it does, some of our old fire veterans, is not to be overlooked.It is true that, with the paid department in its present state of efficiency, it would be next to an impossibility for a fire to make any extraordinary headway, but as cases do occur when an auxiliary would be of immense service (St.John, N.B., fire for example), the formation of a brigade which could be relied upon in case of an emergeney is rot urcailed for, That this amateur company will be directed by the regular Chiet is assumed, and theidea hinted Carried tt that they will work independently of the city brigade is not true in fact.organization will only tend to demoralize our nreseut brigade, and no reasonable set of men ccull expect to succeed in such a scheme, It istheir intention to act so as to harmonize with present regulations, and any wan with the welfare of the city at heart could not oppose the formation of the company in any way and be true to his duty as a citizen.As to the insinuation that the thing is set agoing by men interested in tke sale of fire engines is too paltry to call for anything but a passing notice.I remain yours, Geo.Boor.A Plea for an Uaforiunate C1 ass.To the Editor of THE STAR : Had she a father?Had she a mother ?Had she a sister ?Had she a brother ?Or had she a nearer one 8till, and a dearer one, Yet than all other ?Alas ! for the rarity Of Christian charity, Under the sun, Oh! it was pitiful, Near a whole city full, Home she had\u201d none! And Christian charity of & certain description is as rare, Mr.Editor, in the City of Uburches, in the present day, as when the poet Laurent pennad the \u2018\u2018 Bridge of Sighs.\u201d 1 am induced to ventilate a sub.jeet that is too much hidden, in the sincere ope that, drawing aside the screen of false shame, the eyes of our citizens may be opened to the glaring and barbarous cruelty with which the public, and its servants, the magistrates, are in the habit of treating one class of our sisters, for they are our sisters, no matter how distorted by circumstances the family likeness may have become.It would be far better for humanity if society were not, by conventional agreement, forbidden to discuss tho subject of the social evil ; far more in the interests of right and justice if he who ventures to write upon it in a journal were not compelled to suppress facts and arguments, or run the risk of damaging the medium which he uses.Sir, we are too barsh on our unfortunate girls who from some cause, almost always fiom men\u2019s passion and selfishness, have left the paths of virtue.To speak plainly.How can we see a young girl sent down to jail to rot for months in company with hardened and drunken old Jezebels, and eventually to come out irretrievably ruined, while the companion of her moral and social offence islet off.A more forgiving spirit would become us, who all know who it was who answered the accusers of the woman taken in adultery with the words :\u2014¢ He tbat is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone at her\u201d \u2014He suffered | 208 CASSIDY, HENRY LYMAN, XL OBERT ANDERSON, RDWARD STARK, Aciuary and Interim Manager, ERAD OFFIOR James Street.173 ROYAL INSURANCE CO°Y OF LIVERPOOL.FIRE awp LIFE, 179 Bt.CAPITAL = - - $10,000,000 ASSETS OVER - 18,000,000 LIABILITY OF SRARRHOLDBRS UNLIMITED, FIRE DEPARTMENT, All classes of Risks INSURED at favorable rates, LIFE DEPARTMENT.ÉEQUBITE should be primary consideration,\u2014 ich is afforded the Jar accumulated ads and the antetod Mabil ty Of enareholders.counés-kopé distinet {som those of Fire W.E, SCOTT, MD» Referee.J.KENNEDY, Inspecior, HH, L.Routh & W.Batley, Ghief Agents, For the convenience of the mercantile communi recent London aud Liverpool Directories can be seen [x MARVEL.ABOUT OLD STORY-TELLERS, OF HOW AND \u2018WHEN THEY LIVED, AND WHAT STORIES THEY TOLD.By DONALD G.MITCHELL Author of ¢ Reveries of a Bachelor.\u201d PRICE, 82.00.FOR SALE BF DAVISON BROTHERS, ST, JAMES STREET.286x BLN BOOKS, BLANK BOOKS.JUST RECEIVED, 4 NEW AND COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF THE CELEBRATED AMERICAN BLANK BOOKS, THE BEST AND CHEAPRST BOOKS IN THE CITY.GLO.HORNE & SON, .1 & 73 £T.FRANCOIS XAVIER ST.new designs, UNION WATER METER [OOMPANY'S METERS | AT CHANTELOUP'S.Tes ROOF CRESTINGS, Er] From NEW YORK : The © SCYTHIA\u201d will Sail on WARNRSDAY, December bth.From BOSTON : The \u201cSIBERIAP will Ba on SATURDAY, December 8th.THOS.WILSON, emt, HOSPITAL STRERT._28leodx _____ 1 c ASCHOR LiNFi CARS TI me a Pro =X £ ave: FT slt 1 Naw YORK AND GLASGOW, So First Oabin to Glasgow, - donderry, Belfast or Liverpool, 355 to $70 ©.B.Currency.To London direct, every Wednesday, $55 to $70 U.8.Currency.Excursion Tickets a reduced rates.Bieerage and Intermediate as low ss by any othar GUSTAVE LEVE, Gid_ Post Office Building, comer St.James and St.Francois Xavier streets, Montreal, 108 1y =~, ALLAN LINE.Cu HAT CAS Under contract vit she Govan.ex\" 17e ment of Oanada for convayanes OANADIAN AND UNITED STATES MAIL 1877-8.Wintor Arrangements, 187s.This Company\u2019 Iines are Eo ine Sader.semicon.re PRIED FLOWERS, os, 4 lage and vested amewrtusnt of Died BV ler INS, VeTy beavtifilly arcunged and bright in .Ors, Barkets, Bog ets, Wr6e LI:B, Crosses, &C.* Alan a\u2018vvuo EUppiy of White Wreaths, Bi for «.GOULDEN, DRUGGIST, \u2019 175 ST.LAWRENCE STREET.(O-* FISH, GOLD FisH.t received a large supply of Gold Fish in fine péciiby conditin and beautifully marked.For ssls wholess!e and retall at greatly reduced \"J.GOULBDEN, DRUGGLSEy 175 87.LAWRENCE STRERT.ICHBLIEU RENAL MINERAL SPRING WATER.THE GREAT NATURAL REMEDY FOR apts pane Diabetes, Dropsy, Inflammation 5 the B adder and Kidneys, Hemorrhage from the Kidneys, Caloulus or Stone in the Bladder, Albuminaria, Irritability of the Bladder, with paln while Voiding Urine, Gout, Rheumatism Indigestion, Dyspepsia, &c.Price Se.per sae sale J.D.L.Ambrosse, H.F.Jackson au ae oy Hotel, Chambly Basin, which 1§.8nly à few miles distant from the Spring.Gountry orders promptly filled.Agents wanted J.A.MARTE, Druggist, PROPRIETOR.200x 400 Notre Dame street.250x noted first-class, full-powexed, engine Iron Bteamships:\u2014 Tons, Sardinian.4100 Lieut.J, BE.Du .Circassian.3400 Gart- Jas.Wylie.Polynesian, apt.Brown, Sarma tian.Capt.A.D.Aird.Hibernian.Lieut.Archer, R.N, B, Casplan,.Capt.Trocks.Scandinavian Capt.E.8.Wi sgian,, Capt.Bitchlg.Austrian.H.wi .Nestorian.Capt.Urquhart, Marzvian pt.Graham.Peruvian Licut.W.H, RNR Manitoban.Capt.Mepougail- Kova Scotian.Capt.Richa: Te Canadian.pt.Neil Me Corinthian, Capt.Menzies.Acadian, Capt.Cabel Waldensian.Capt.J.G.Stephen, Fhœnician.\u2026.26 Capt.Jas.Scot Newfoundland.Capt.Mylins.The steamers of the Liverpool Main Line (satling fram Liverpool ev THURSDAY, and from Halifax every SUNDA receive on board an to and from Irel te despatched from Portland via Halifax.From Halifax, calling at Loch Foyle to land Mails and Passengers and Scotland, are intended to RATES OF PASSAGE FROM MONTREAL via PORTLAND OR HALIFAX.Oabin.\u2026.\u2026.00escusreucer $87, $77 and $87 According to.acoommodation, Intermediate rates P4700 teerage, via Portlau: y CAMErS, sailing on 15t and 8th Dec.$26.50 Steerage, by subsequent Steamers from Halifax.vessorcioncaur .$31.00 The Steamers of the Nowfoundland Mail Line are town and Liverpool, each alternate Tue Nova 8cotlan.eseeeriss llth Dec.Hibernian.BATES OF PASSAGE DETWHEN HALIFAX AND 87.JOHNS : Cabin, $20 ; Bteerage, $6.An expelienced Surgeon carried on each Vessel Berthe not secured until paid for.« Through Bills Lading granted in Liverpool and at Continental Ports; to all pesnés is C vis Haiifux end the Intercolonial Ratloay.\u201d esocvou0,2Pth Dec, land; 10 H.4A ALLAN, 01d.L res fay a 3 CURRIE, 21 a Bans in Paris, GUSTAVE ROSSANGE, 25 Quad Voltaire; in Antwerp, to AUG, SCHMITZ CO., or RICHARD BERNS; in Rotterdam, to G.F.ITPMAN & 500N ; in Hamburg, to W.GIBSON & HUGO; Bordeaux, to LAFITTE & VAN DERCRUYCE, or E.DEPAS & (0.; in Belfast, to CHARLEY & MALCOLM, in London, to MONT6O & GREENHORNE, 11 Grage Church street; In Glasgow, to JAMES & ALEX, ALLAN, 70 Great Clyde street ; in Liverpool, to ALLAN BROTHERS, James streat ; In Chicago, to to JOHN M.| ALLAN & CO, 78 La Salle street ; or H.& A.ALLAN, Corner:of Yeuviile and Common steeate.3 This line is composed of the following first-class fall-power= ed, Clyde-bullt Steamships, and 13 intended to perform & regular service hetweem | LIVERPOOL, QUEBEC and MONTREAL, in Summer, sailing from LEVEBROOL WRDNESDAYS, \u2018weekly LIVERPOOL, HALL and LIVERPOOL, BORDEAUX, CORGNNA, HA- \u2018ANA ara NEW ORLEANS in winter.These (resuels Dave yory superior aad Pees or Ca ecerage Prep.tickets are fancied at reduced Prod to thone desir- ours .of bringing out their friends.COMMANDERS, Capt.Wililams, Capt.Reid, Capt.King, Steamers will Sail as follows, from Portland : ONTARIO.oooveenransssinrses 22nd December.DOMINI s\u2026.\u2026.5th Januæy.orossesau00s sass00u002 th anuary.Rates of Passage from Montreal, via Portland : CABIN\u2014Quebec to Liverpool, $57 and $687; return do.$114 nod $194 ! \u2019 Through Tickets can be had at sl! the prinatpes Grand Trunk Railway Ticket Offices in Canada.For Freight or Passage, apply in Havre to EL Generstal Daizous, or O.Brown ; in Paris, to H, Generstai & Dalrous, 55 Rue d'Hautwille; Bambures to M.O.W.Moller ; in Bordeaux Messrs, Currie & Co ; in Copenhagen, to P.M.Koile, 18 Banetannæplads ; In Berlin, to Michael ng, Consul; in Bremau, te N- utchin & Co.; in Andwerp, to .Ratos ; in Rotterdam, to Wam- bersie & Son ; la Londan, Bowring, Jamieson & Co.y 17 East India Avenue ; in Bolfast, to Henry Gowan ; in Now Orleans, to Biles, Wael Co.; in Philadelphia, to W.Bockie ; in Halifax to À.@.Jones & Co.; 1a Liverps