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From the t revisemlat.
A eowmus)eatos from the Executive
Coiisctl el Hite hosiery, and Lord Elgin's
despatch,* accempsinyieg it, will be reuse
on tbe, 6,-t page int owe paper this week —
The communication is a IUDlf tiucumwsl, but
the osaperrarce ut the, n,bjec1, as well as
line greet abdny with which it to treated,
pacified its tneeruus.; and indeed whether
we reeerJ that Jouuii rn,, or t he able and
lore:bte de -patch of Iles Excellency, one
knows. not which to athutre snort. The
one party Auer* a prof'und knowledge of
the subject aeon which he treat", end the
u her,coi,ieced of the soundnerr of the
ecntnnents advancet',reedity endurser them
and adds the *eight of his own tante and
opinions to those of his Connell. 1Ve have
- ellen epokun levourebly it: the, ,Governor
General end the present Admeustr•trun ;
the doe:weenie now before us folly justify
whatever may leave been sista In that way.
Canadians may gritty feel proud of tees
;mime, Government. Instead of the maw -
1 mi , nuneoinvoltal, mean mut Meg despatch
es a tiring containing implied eetioure on
this new country and it* tnhabttauts, we
have before tar an open, wanly eepuural of
their cause, and • courag'ons avowal of
Me truth, though it may n •t be very pals
table to certain partied on the other aide of
the Atlantic.
"The people of Canada,' cava lite Excel-
lency, "atomated with the beet du.poeUovs
towards England. The (tanwhan lamer :s
• ..plu:ant •t present to the Imperial 1.e•
81.14! Ir,, not ter favor, but fur justice ; and
intron_ es is affection for the mother coun-
try and her :netituuuns, he [ the farmer ]
cannot reconcile it to Ms bream of right,
• that atter being deprived of all prulectiou
for hie produce.," &c. And again, having
hu mind the very natural consequences
of refusing that ,' joaice" for which the
Canadian termer to muplicent," the repeal of
the navigation laws, he vented, a L arhould
deeply grieve If (owittipg the paaenthelic
part] pronouns were'satered to remain on
the -British statute book, which would seem
to bring fie material in'errst of the colonists
mai tie airstrip/inks of duty and Infection
info eppusiliva." Malkin no bliuktot; ui
ibe subject ;the truth Is told iu John Bull's
era way, just in tee same unequivocal
strain as that• adopted by Lurd Elgin's
fatber-in-law, lead Durham, in his metuor-
aWe report on Canadian ufftir.. And from
the document, now !aid out before. the Im-
perial Legislature, their eyes must be fully
opened tar to the inevitable cunsequencee of
refusing that " justice' far which we are
"stppacant."
The repeal of the navigation laws is the
binge 'men which the prosperity of Canada
now turns. These laws require that our
productions shall be transported to Eugland
only in resod, built or owned by British'
autjccte ; this prevents competition and
secur:tea wonepuly of the currying trade
to.Iiritirh shipowners, and, in consequence,
they chargee more fur freight than the ves-
sels of other narttone$Before the repeal
of the Core lefts is Etigland, the high du-
ties upon foreign product secured for us a
profit front which we could afford to pay
these bigber rater of freight ; but since
1846, the duty un foreign grain is removed,
mrd as Brituh.ahips charge twice as much
for freight across theAtlentie as American
vesadial naterretu'merchant', lose just tbe
difference of the freights.. and in conse-
quence cannot of esel to pay so high' a price
-teethe Casidian farmer fur bid gram. This
u tlte.ge:t of the nutter, and'tthat we teal
is to admit American and other vessels to
transport our preduceeto England, so Hutt,
by the c I e11i ata created, heights frim
510utrcal well bo as low as from New
Y •rk. Oar gr., it bpi; ti's eel. then Willard to
bite a better prica,to our tarsier,, and the
latter cao compete with the fanners of the
United Blateii. . Uottl this is dour. it is
clear that our province must suffer. And
who ars to be benefited by Meioses. which
• we are called upon. to sustain i Sunply
lite *woes. of British vessels. Were the
price of prnvieions for the peer of tks empire
lowered thereby, it would be some induce-
ment to bear the evil, but that our whole
population should suffe to enrich- the ahip-
owners, re not to be e>rrected nor endured.
Lord Elg ta-rightly judges, that tbough "
the poo to of Canada are animated with the
beet disposition tow•ardn England," still, if
these cruet navigation laws are "suffered
to remern on the British statute book, the
material interests of the cnloni.la and the
prourptinge of duty aodaflectson will come
into opposition."
This result thin anticipated by His Excel-
lency we would deeply lament, but"however
strobe and sincere the attachtneut of the
people of Canada to Great Britain, it were
alike unroa usable and absurd to expect
that they would censemt to aisle owe ruin,
in order to enrich the shipowners of the
empire !
There le, however, a pouible remnedy for
Upper Canada ; ehuuld leg •'Reciprucity
Bili" befuru the American Coegreu be
, finally weed, our productions would And
• ready market to that country, and the en-
tire carryurg undo would be turned towards
New Turk ; lulu their "Drawback" law'.
wuuld, air it et Meng alreddy, bring the im-
port tiedo by the same route ;, this, how-
ever, would inevitably ruin the lower pro-
vince. It, therefore win are expected to
remain where all our a8'ectiuea and attach-
ments would bind u.—.onnccted with the
lkitieh eumpie---thee uatie:Amu laws must
be repealed. It sterns, however, that the
consi..eraton of this great question is defer-
red until neat meeting uf the Imperial par-
liament, but there is a purr lee pledge gloat
it wilt bo uu0 u( time first ironware. of the
next ICasiun.
The re-o.tabliehmest of "protection"
would ruin Urrat Dwelt), the continuance
of the ssv'igattl.wa will ruin lin. Free
trade-etboulssx thrtegIN+nuaace uf. ite hall
groom laws ntee the colonic., the Continu-
e -if wiion of list culon es wah the soother
country, .nl the pres;'trity of ibe colunics,
aic (hung.. which, in our opinion, cannot
etihsl.l t"gel':er.
Since *rains! the fercgo;ng, wo regret to
pears that the American Congress hes ad
,creed etilimit peeping the Reciprocity
Rdl,altboegh it hail 'mooed the steund rex•
ting in rho S•'nalo. ('ungress Nil meet
agate ea-ly in 1).•s.• , b r, and maty reaction
it, but shoul.i the 1Vhig., aho are protec-
tionist', get into twwnr by the th,ton of
ll,enr Ca'JIJa'.•, G•:ncr.il Taylor, 1110 1.11,
the td's of that it,. mpruerty B,ll is very
duubtfwl.
PROSPECTS OF TRADE.
The poeitt,e statement of the failure of
the potato crap at home, given tm our
Telegraphic report of the .Volga, a'• news,
ehuutd it prove to have been well (Wooded,
mart hate an important hearing us our
trade for the year. The immediate effect
tri the failure becuuuog knees, bar been e
,nee In the price et home el all de.crtulons
of produce, which, if we may judge from the
result of the sante calamity in 1846, le like-
ly to conanine, and will hate a curre.pund
tug elft -et on the markets of this cuot.nent.
loused our Telegraph reports of last night,
.hew that a rtes -has al+eady taken place
both in Montreal and New l ore. Thor
are cucuur.tavices *hull realer a high price
more probable than rvru in that year. The
toiler accoouls by the Brifa*uta, we are
.tarry to say, du nut .peak tat uurably u( the
Englieb gram crops; then can be no duubt
that tt.e ui.turbed .tate of all parts of the
CunUucnt must bare thrown a considerable
LreuJUt of lan8 out u(tultIvalton; and s.1 the
war wbicb ham been threatening so long,
should break out, the supply which has
hitherto been available from that quarter,
*OHIO be entirely withdrawn.
It is certainly to be regretted that Cana-
da hag out been enabled to take full &Jvan-
age of these circunutancee, by the• abole
taus u( the Natigaticn Law+, and of the
American Differential Duties, but it mhoutd
be taken nue account that we have a pre-
ference to the Brinell utarket until March,
1849, and that as the freights by the St.
Lawrence are much lower this reaeuo than
usual, Great Britain affords us the best mar-
ket ter our produce, for thlayear at least.
One thing appears perfectly certain, that
we shall be able to obtain a good price fur
any quantity of produce we way have to
spare. Ar to the quantity it or n what
difficult to decide, but wo are well satisfied
arum all account," that notwtthrtandtng the
,liseetruum ravages of the runt in the Siring
Wheat uf the back Townrhtpa, we shall
lave to the Upper Provence a tau average
crop.
11 this be go, we may well congratulate
uurdetver on the prospects of our trade
during the coming reaeuo, for our resourcee
are uuw !ergs, while our babi!Itiee Incurred
are nut great. The Sprog unportatuone of
the year at ere exceedingly email, and for
the }'all, ttougb4a"e• r to prop rtiun, they
will he much lead Important in amino, than
those of former years.
We are to1'urured that the clocks of goods
in the country are very low, and that the
merchants who bane already commenced
making their (all purchases, are ordering
largely, to anttctpatou uf a profitable burn -
need.
A very large queetity of wheat has be n
purchased•in Toronto within the last ( w
days, woolly from 4a 6d to 4a 10d; notwith-
standing the luvourable news by the steam-
er, tl.ore appears to be no dispouuon to
rale, the price. We rejo.ce to bee that
there as great uneilhngnese to enter into
speculation emitter to lbatul 1846; we sin-
cerely true[ that thuse engaged in the busi-
ness will take warning from past experience.
Globe.
MAD DOOM.
CORji'ORATION OF MONTREAL.
PFOCL.9.tIJT ION,
WHEREAS a Dug whose owner N ua-
knuwn, las been wen running at large, and
wsoder,ng in the streets of tees City, biting
other Dogs., and there is r.aeun to believe
tbat such Dog is )dad; all persons fa the
( ty are hereby ordered to ('ON Fl N E i hair
1)1)GS 1111111ediately, or to 5IUZ'GI.F: them
nm ouch a manlier ad that they ►hull be
totally usakes to bite, and this during the
space of twin months trout the pieeent date,
terminate on the lith day of October
text uuder the penalty prescribed by law
against the owner or muster of every Dug
bound running or watxlering without befog
'nuzzled, while this notice shall continue in
lurce.
JOS. BOURRET,
Mayor.
City Hall,Montreal August 16, 1818.
The above is the copy of a proclamation
which bar been stuck up extensively about
the city, and which has carried the deepest
Alarm into the bosom of every affectionate
mother of a dug faintly, and into the heart
of every puppy, within It. The question is
now generally asked—whose dog was that
which was seen running about as described
in the above advertisement, and after a
very lung and painful enquiry (aided by a
great many consultations with Policeman
NO.'10) we have conte to the conclusion
that it was "Gubee'e." The -reasons
which have led to this conclusiun aro but
potent. Itis well known—there can be no
doubt of it at all—that "Guboc" arid 0'-
Cunner have entered into an alliahce to at-
tack this city, seize the Inhabitants, ,have
their heats, and make them kneel down and
overrhip the Stripes and stare which Oubee
the king, and O'Connor his minister, will
set over them. But the inhabitants whelp
walk on two iega are not the only occu-
pants of the city. We say it to the credit
of the dogs that they are and always have
been must loyal and enthu;;iaetuc-supporters
of the roast beef of Old England, ever
ready to amsaemble at the cry of "fresh
meat," and willing to lay down their tail;'
sooner than consent to be whipped and
kicked by Gubee and O'Connor. /Cow the
idea of buying the dogs off it out of
q'testion. They know that "Gubee" ne
has been the friend of a dog—that a " dog 'a
life" with him is no life at all, and that it
wuuld be better to have their legs tied, and
be pitched into the St. Lawrence at once,
than trust to his mercy or the picking. .of
his pantry fbr existence. Such being the
case, it in evedet the', in case of danger, the
dugs would be staunch; and there' is not a
terrier or a bull in the city, or a dog with
smooth hair or rough hair, or a curly tailed
dug or a straight tailed dog that would nut
lift hia voice against the man with the pees
greenjacket and his conbcd•-rate in mis-
chief, if they should try to come hither.
Now, much being the case, are'the dogs
to be got rid of 1 With than In it, the city
can never be entirely defenceless; for if
Rome was saved by a lot of uneducated
gabbling geese, surely Montreal may trust
something to the canines in the way of at-
eutance. There can be no duut)t that the
knowledge of this fact has induced Gubee
lirat to bite a dog and then to let him loose
on society. The notion that the mad -dog
is Gubee himself, we discard: Gubee is too
knowing to go mad, that- i., unless mate -
thing could be made by it; but be could
bre another dog, and that dog could bite
more reepectmble dogs, and so the mischief
could be done.
Ve ahudJer when we think of the effects
this horrible scheme may induce.
We have ourselves a dug which lays es
near to our heart as ever dog lard: a dog
that would bark for the British flag for et
.hour, but would take deuced good care that
neither "Gubee," nor his confederate cur
gut near enough to lute him. ,But suppos-
ing that dog could bo bit;—supposing Gu -
bee', dog to get hold of him. Why, in
that case. who would be eafel The Tram
script Office (and with the'Tranecnpt Office
alt that is most valuable and virtuous in the
city,) would be in a state of hvdrophobyish
insanity, and in the universal delirium tna
Mould follow, the whole city would be de -
kneelers! Can there be a d0ulit then that
it it Gubee's dog (hit by Gubeo hunself,)
that had been sees "biting other doge,"
and that the object of this biting is an in-
vasion of the city as soon as the inhabitants
aro all out of -their senses?
it Is certain we are en the verge of a vor-
tex, but we meet not go tumbling in. Let
a reward be immediately offered for Gubee,
as the man who bit the dog which hart been
seen biting ether doge, as described in the
proclamat.uo of the Mayor. Gubee once
muzzled, no other dogs can he bit, (for of
course tbe other cur will bo killed,) and then
the city will 'be saved, and all the inhabitants
with their undreamed babies in their arias
will appear before the Toanseript Offence to
thank the editor for having preserved them,
and to present Mr. M'l)uuald with a silver
snuff-box having on one side an engraving
of Guhee in a rat -trap, and un the other the
likeness of a venerable female dog, standing
un its hind legs, with a copy of the Mayoi•
famous pruclawauon round its neck. —
Transcript.
SETTLEMENT OF THE PUBLIC
LANDS.
It is a strange paradox in economy that
our public lauds, which ottgh to be a source
el public wealth,. have to almost the pre-
sent time, been a public burtgeo. The
strungcat cow emnation of a system of
management which has convex ted the mean-
of puelic wealth into a perpetual public
cosy is -the bare mention of tbe fact. It is
sometimes observed by practical t epee-
mints, "1 would n t take as a gift a horse
fur which 1 hare no employ o cut, as be
would souk -eat up his own value.' In the
case of our public lands, the huree has nut
only eaten up its uwu value, .but the ex-
pense of the gruuui bas, to addition, been
thrown upon the owner. A departure from
such a system cannot be cause of regret.—
Whatever be the merits u( the new plan uf
dispuuog of the public (ands, struck out
by the present Ilead of the Crown Lands
Department, it certainly holds out superior
advantaged to the mdu,trrous settler. The
settlement alum* required are easy, and will
generally be performed in half the Woe
allowed. The pussessbu0 of 50 acres will
give the persevering settler a means of turn-
ing eta industry to account, •u that its pro-
duct, of .l ch he will be sole master, will,
in a abort tame, place in hie possession the
means of purchasing an -additional 150
acres. He will thus become the possessor
and sole owner of a farm of 200 acres. Re.
ccitung the first .50 acres as a gratuity, the
remaining 150, at 4s. au acre, will cost hint
only 1:35, which, w fact, will be the whole
coat u( 1t . farm. A farm et equal extent
and value, cannot be acquired on such easy
terms rat any other country. In any part uf
the United States, 100 acres of wild land
cannot he purchased fur less than 1$250, or
£62 10x.: which stows an advantage ut
1.,17 10.. to the Canadian settler. In ad-
dition to this, Memento of settlement are
easier here than in the United States. The
settler in the United'Statea must pay down
the whole amount of the purchase money,
before he can exercise lits industry, except
as a squatter, on any portion of the
Ills right right ul pre-emption is valuable, it is
trait, but there is jest this difference between
the two cases: In Canada he is a legal set-
tler; in the United States be is only a egmat-
ter. Practically there is out much differ-
ence between them; except that the Cana-
dian settler filially obtain* his farm for less
m ,rey than the American settler. The
plan of requiring payment duwo fur the 1.50
additional acros which the settler here pur-
chases, will secure the department from
loss, and the settler agrinst the unpleasant
contingency of forfeiture of hu land for Ms
tailing to make payment, which cannot vow
happen. Fifty acres will afford a sufficient
field fur ea indtAiduars industry 1411 he be-
comes able to purchase the rooming partes
of hie lot.
These inducements cannot fail to attract
a superior class of emigrants from the
mother c000!1); especially as the former
standing objet tion against settling ie
Canada, the tyranny or an irresponsible gov-
ernment, has been removed. nom the
impetus that will be ilius given to emigra-
tion we may reasonably expect a rapt in-
crease to the pu1nilatiue and wealth of the
country.—,matins.
The progress of the Temperance Canoe
among Ibe French trepanation is most as- I
towelling. la 1* (.envy of ISerthier, 131
The Mrd cal Times tnenunnd a maniac 000 peruse w.esr.recentiy lidded to the
who never slept, yet lived in rood health 'Total Abstinence sty by tars Oasrsroso
till bin7:lyd year. 1101 heel a kind of dee of Paiber Chtnrya/, land is lapsed 4,00) —
tn,f fur *lout a q tarter el an hoer nvice a 1 This',newety is sow stated to eember not
day, whMh nee all the elwuhcr be wad evelose than 1011,000 adherents among the
, auwu to take. I French Canadane.-,.1foalreal M'trwsw-
The chroniclers of those times telae•
many teeth's calamities which bekl the
tattoos u1 Christendom during that year.
and which, el costae, were all attributed to
the aiduence of the comet. The rope Ur-
ban IV. was tngb►ened tete ao al.rss:mg
Moonier, which centined hos to bin apart-
ment during the whole pentyl of the appear
once of the comet. ler the eight of 41r the -
appearance the Pope died.
In 15011 a comet, euppuwd to be the one
with the preceding, again appeared and
spread consternation throughout Europe.—
It muted with immense velocity, accum-
pleating 15 degrees u( els troth t4 the
heavens et at hours. Ti. head, of the
comet exhibited the appearance of a bright
globe of dame belt the rise of the full moon.
The rare of light and the colour of tete
body vaned and interchanged like the dick-
ering of a thine agitated by the wind. The
tail was atet-der in .baps, and at first of a
red colour, but afterwards it tided into a
pale and livid hue. The rays clustered very
thickly roan! the head of the comet. This
brilliant phenomenon was first seen in the
sign Libra, and daappeared in that of the
Nunhern Ir'i.b.
It these two comets be identical, a reap-
pearance during the present year may be
looked for with, considerable confidence.—
Owing, however, to thb want of repeated
and accurate observations, this point can -
out bo regarded as fully settled—to say
nothing of purtubateons caused by other
known and unknown members of the sys-
tem, to which the movements of comets are
liable. Should the expected vidit take
place, it will add one more to ,the great
events of this year of wur tern, and furnish
tete science of astronomy with the matenals
for a splendid triumph.—Boston Courier.
A GREAT COMET EXPECTED.
The attention of astronomers to iurope
has recently been turt.ed ti ward the subject
of a great comet, which appears to have
vis.ted our system at intervals of 292 years,
and the calculations of many scientific men
be correct, ought to make its next appear-
ance during the preprint year, not far from
the month of August or September. Mr.
J. R. Ilind, an astronomer, has lately p.tb-
Iushed a work on Ude euhject, and confident-
ly predict• tbe retorts of the celestial yrs, -
tent in 1848.
Of the very early appearances of this
comet, we have no erecter acuenbfic ac-
counts. But in the year 1264 its appear-
ance threw all Europe ,oto great alarm, and
cawed at to be recorded in the histone,,
and chrpnmcles of that day with special
notice.
The tall was very long a41 broad, re.
.emitting a fan, in shape, emergibg from the
eastern horizon before the dmndoer nucleus
of the conte', and when rally risen, stretch-
ing tiself upward, and'bootieg i1s rays to
the meaeJan. Th. comet oreupie.l en
anvil one half of the heavens, presenting s
fearful 'panties to the ryes of the soper-
%uterus observer. As it swept alone
through space, the tel diminished daily in
breadth, (rot pvepertronally recreated m
length and britlaaey for many days, till al
length it gradually disappeared, to the groat
rebel of the terrified tababiteata of Lumps.
STEAM, 1',ox0.a ♦*o Lme trans.—Nu
finer illustration of the wonderful effects of
enterprise, le making use of the rtcources
h+rnurhed by nature and art, was ever seen,
than in the reception of the Britannia r
news in this cite am Saturday last.
A summary ut the news war prepared on
the ,teartlpr, by a person whu went to Hali-
fax fur the purpose. Ties was placed upon
the neck of carrier pigeons, which were
liberate) when seventy ur eighty utiles from
Borten.
Thee reached Beaton between 9 and 10
on Sa,ardav, and the the news wa' tomo-
Mlately •Intiminttned to. Philadelphia. It
ora„, given tothepublic of this city, in an
extra Bulletin, at 1 o'clock, P. 74.—two
hour, before it was published in New York,
and more than an hour before the Britannia
arrived at ber wharf in 1lortoao—Pkiladel-
phia Billed*.
Taal Psn,Tar,Tuar —Tbe kitcbeskeepee
having been lurwsb.J with the charger a-
gainst Mut arising out ut the evidence taken
before the Penitentiary Cusum+.uouerr, has,
alter a leigtby consideration of the matter,
come lu the cuaclu,+i ,n that "prudence a the
better part uf valor," and resigned hes ufllce.
The charges embraced peculaton, cruelty
to pn.os era (ae exhibited in the declaratione
which we published In February last), ■0J
conducj subtersers of the dureiplinu ut the
inotitenon .—K(Rgslom Neem.
MiuTu.e+We were informed yesterday,
on authunty, that an order well be shortly
*Need, front the Murata Department by
which the respective uniform, of the differ-
ent senor of that smite will be Isid down,
•rad officers instructed to provide themselves
with them, as we suggested a few days ago.
There aro good and .uffteient reason* fur
thug step, and it has been taken from a
knowledge that the officers of the Militia,
generally, and particularly in Upper Canada,
desired u.—.1Jo*!real Courier.
CA:fAL ROUeN MON Naw You To CIIr-
t:Aoo.—The Chiengo Democrat notices the
Iarrival in-lbat city of the canal boat John
Drew, from. New York. 1t came up the
Hudson River and Ens Canal to Bu6'elo
—from Buffalo to Erie through the lake—
front Erie -to Pittsburg up the canal—from
Pittsburg down the Obie to the Mississippi
•—ftp the Mississippi to the lllluuia—up
the Illinois to tbe canal, and down the ca-
nal to C icus ago — thus making an inland
voyage di about two-thirds the distance
from this country to rope. _
II, amiOaC& ,toA.. A lot of — 20 toes
r
prince dew -rutted hump was shipped yester-
day (ruin th', city by way of the Illinois:
river, cans! d I,kes to Quobec, Lower
Canada. Scveraanlloteha eberstoforegon to
Toronto and other points in the British pro-
vinces. We also noticed about 100 kegs
of lard gwme un board a steamer for Pate -
burg, and de -tine) tort the New York mar-
ket. Tho u!d channels of trade are nearly
lost eight of, in the many new and more
profitable ones springing up daily.—SI.
Louis Republican, Jug. 23.
FI.GUL.AR CASE AT WALTUAM.—There
has been and is now considerable excite-
ment in Waltham, occasioned by the fol-
lowing facts:—A young lady in that town
was aken sick recently, and during her ill-
ness dreamed, three nights in succession,
that she stinted go into a trance, and that
her friend,, thinking her dead, would under-
take to bury her body, but that, lie tt was
being pared in the tomb, symptoms of re-
turning, Zile would induce them to desist,
fund that she would finally be restored•—
Last Monday morning, about 4 o'clock,.,he
ceased to breathe—since which time none
orof the appcarancca usually seen upon the
cad have occurred. The limbs are not
rigid, hut a, pliable liable as In life. No sign of
mnrttficuion has appeared, and the flesh hes
not that cold and hard fer lung that follows
death. The attending physician has pro-
nounced her dead, but the family resolve
upon not burying till decay comrnences.—
A consultation of physicians was to be field
today, and attempts made to restore life.—
Chelsea Pioneer, 8511s.
Looe Out !—As a canal -boat was pas-
sing under a bridge, the captain gavo the
usual warning by calling aloud, " Look
out !" when a little Frenchman, who wad
to the cabin, obeyed the order by popping
Ill. head out of the window, which received
a severe thump by coming in contact with
a puller of the bridge. Ile drew it hack
in a great pet and exclaimed, " Dere
Anmerikine cry ' look out !' when they mean
'look in ! ",„
Lames Ionone.—The editor of a paper in
the Untied State., lately Inf,rmsd his rea-
ders that the. ladies •Iways pulled off the
left stocking last. TMs, as may be sup•
wetted, created some little stir amongst hie
fair reader., and whilst in positive term.
they denied the statement, they at the sane
time declared he had no bootee's to know
it, even if it had been the fart, and pro-
nounced him no gentleman. He proves 1',
however, by a sheet argument. "When
one stocking is pilled of Aran, soother to
left on—and polling of thin is taking the
left stocking of last.'
M. (Ile Boll, the celebrated Norwegian
violinist, is now working as a journeyman
an the 'manufactory of M. Vutllsume, a
Portman musical instrument maker, in the
hope of being enabled to make a violin that
shall roma' rhe notes of thn.e made by the
celebrated Stradnanne, of Cremona, and for
ibis purpose ho has brought from Nbrway
wood more than 200 yeses old.
A witty laws Once a Reeoeder of the
Third Menietpeiey, yeeterd.y jireee.ly
asked a boarctng house keeper, in Recorder
Beldwin'e Court, the following q,ieetlon.—
Ws think the reply wap geed.
o Mr. —, if a man gives yo. $5110 Ie
keep for hint and diem, what do you do '—
Do you pray ler Mm 7"
" No .Ir," replied Mr. " 1 prat for
risotto, lake him."
STOLE. Guous.—Same suspicious cir-
cumstances cowing to the knowledge of the
Magi.trater, search fur stolen article*" was
made, on 'Thursday lust, at 1110 house int
one Datbl Avey, who has but lately arrived.
A large quantity of rutile, a mlpuare, a basket
and a handsaw were found, all claimed by
Mr. Wtlhawr, as his property. It is sup •
posed that other articles found 0u Avey'r
premixes want owners. Some tools were
dtscuvered a few days since in the puede-s-
em of Avey, by Mr. Digging, their owner,
when asked by Mr. Higgins, where the re-
mainder were, Avey promptly replied be
would go for them—he lens nut, however,
yet returned.—Dundas Warder.
ANOTHER MISSING MAW—On liaarduy
morning last, Edward Gilligan, laborer,
well known w this town, lett his house ae
usual, in order to go to work, and fear nut
mince been heal) of. No conjecture can be
formed as t_" the cause of his absence.—
DrWarder.
ardor.
The Tut Nuking of the Duren Road goes
on apace, but a correspondent complains
that it goes un far too fast to be good.—
The Contracture, he say,., throw the clay
rap on both fades of the road, and then rhes»
it to stand there and be preseed down by
vehicles, until within a ,bort period •of the
job being taken off their hands, at ditch
time they bavro;the 'metre filled•up.au iilalty
inches, according to contract, which thus
becomes a tunas of 101 .e clay, that the fall
tame cur.vert into a muddy stream to Cloud
the country. 'I'be Distract Surveyor, and
district councillors, ought to look to this.
—Gall Reporter. .
HURON SIGNAL.
..I IOIed to dn• seats iodigsity w esferag es
hie aeeumut ; ae1 therefuee w/ wend propose
'bat Bereey's chwatawu.hlp should call lm tit no
Other re•pouse then the Luta and fearless ridicule
of the Press in l'aaside. Aul we believe then
a tot owe Press in Canada, Whig, Tory or Rad-
ical. that will refuse to lay it ow thick, Kea, so
that it will tender *II other bei fcatiou/ seper-
duous we're seat iuvaswoa
Weare disposed. however, to doubt l6. nudity
of Baruey'r eava1rug propensities. 'I'M auppo-
sitiun coutaius too much of the extravagant to be
easily swallowed. We are col acyuauad with
the nae, but from the very fie: el his being able
to address a meeting and weki an iadaaaae over
a pnrueet of hie leliow-men, we may safely pre-
sume his ability to perceive that whatever aati-
pstby he limy have ■gaiudt the dominion of the
British
Lion, he eau haw neither right nut claim
to fhebooa Ede property of the people of Canada.
The soil of Canada dors not belong to the Brit-
ish Lion. l4 tad all that it cootaios, belong to
the people who have purchased and paid for them
by their own industry. And though that spirit
of disaffecaou towards British supremacy, which
is eoufineJ to • very small fraction of those who
have lately been driven from the emtulumenu of
office, should become general, the people will
never stoup to be plundered of their honestly
ratted wealth by a horde of lawless, lazy vaga-
bonds. If ever Canada is to be annexed to the
United State., it must be by an amicable treaty,
not through the agency of Barney Develru ; and
we think Berney is wise enough to know this.
But even though we thought otherwise, we
would not by any means encourage Itis ignorant
vauinity by sacrificing the lives of our iouoeent
culoui,te iu waging wvr wvtb 11,m+. We think
■ mach wiser nrethso would be or vend the Ilun.
R. N. Sullivan to alk rationally with the State
Goverwuei:t of New York, and endeavor 1
procure ■ eimutio0 fur Brruey- at Utica, where a
large e614bl.14 m al of such characters u regu-
larly kept up.
" GILLS roses IIUNT.
We hale no desire ail iuterfering in the busi-
ness transactions of other people, and we do so
only when the cause of right and )ustii• requires
to be viudicatd. Without enqut:iug whether
thedecision of the Mla;i-trates, given last week,
a (aver of (tilos, egaiast Vere Jelin 11wt, le •r
I is not in accurdanre. with law, we regard it as
being at variance with everything deserving the
name u( lusute and eomntoa *ease. 1h. Adam
Smith, may years ago, seemed willieg to
expose the fact that the Legislature are both
fond end fortunate in making laws to cortail the
liberty of the Natant, and to prevent or pettish
corn nation. among workmen ; while -they seem
equally willing w neglect ts4i,!atiun spies(
the tyrannies and monapulies of Maslen. Ant,
it is probable that, the new Act to regulate dd-
fereoces between Servant, and Ma+t'r is of this
deecript oo, viz. four clauses fur the benefit of
the master, acd one for the beuefit of the ser-
vant. We hen sot, vitalised the Act, aid as
the facts of the ease have already been forwarded
10 the peeper Auiboritier, we will not take the
marble of examining it at pretest; bet for the
estisfeetion ofe oar reader., and the safety et
public justice, we .ball state, in few words, the
leading eiireumetances upon 'which the declines
was given'. 'it appears that three Printers who.'
for wine menthe back, pace been working is the
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. 1848. • '
ITT The Proviitial :Parliament is further pro-
rogued toSetsrdsy, the 12th of Oetubei.
Ila The two. Half Shares, of £50 each, sold
by tee Mailing Society on Saturday evening
last, brought severally 31 and 35 per cent; wed
we are much gran -tied is being informed that the
number of Shareholders are iucrrasing, which, I-H,rea Gazette Office, had recently come to the
together with the increase of the boots, is proof conclusion that they would quit work, nut with
that the principle ef the Society is beginning to
be appreciated.
Accident —A Boy of twelve or thirteen yeas
of age, the son of Mr. McCaul, farmer, Col-
borne, was drowned while bathing near the
South Pier, on Friday, the first instant. The
body was found on the following day, and an
inquest, was held et the Steamboat Hotel before
Geo. Frazer, Esq. Coroner verdict returned
accordingly. .
Po►CLoTioo tar TORONTO.—In the late census
taken of the City of Toronto, the Gio1e gives
the intention •f obtaining higher wages, but in
the hope of getting the wages then ride. And
accordingly Mr. Srnitb, foreman of the office,
reed to, Mr. Gales a *titters iotimsmioa to that
effect, on Tees'(py the 2.1r tb ole. Mr. Giles
said he could net blame them •; be coalif sot help
it ; 1•e did not care u mob, .. be could procure
other hands from Hamilton ! Oa the following
evening they served him with a written notice,
intimating that they led quit work, sad would
not rmama 111111 they got at leers some pieties
of their wages. Whereupon Mr. Giles told
Johnlingt, who was boarding' in his'houae, that
Me engegttnent between them was now at au
the returns, as follows :—" Total -cumber of
end: that he (Hunt) might just take any mraoa
persons re+ident, '23,503 ; members of families be pleased t0 nco,er his wages : and that he
absent, 756 ; persons rcsideot net members of I expected he would not sleep io Wilhelm. that
families, otter than servants, 2,3.1:1: household- I sight. On Thuteday,'t6e_-,flat alt., Giles had
ere, proprietors of teal Mare,Ix'J; 0066 -Pio. him brought before Wm. Rennet Rich and Rosa
prietun, 26e6. Robert -on, Esquires, Jiettires of the Peace, who
fined him in the sum of two pounds ten shillings
TERRIBLE EMERGENCY for leaving the employment of the compl■inapt
Among the multitude of mighty revolutions without giving doe notate ! ! blunt was willing
in which the civilized world has been tumbling• to swear that no contract, regarding either time
and tossing for mine months pant, there have
been smile useful lessons to be learnt, many
disclosures of strange workings and hidden 6074-
teries, so that our mind was prepared for almost
anything that could twee from the womb of
human extravagance,—bat really Barney Deves
lin's iovasioo of Canada has taken us by surprise
It has coinpletely upset our gravity. Just do
;kink, reader, on the magnitude of the evil thin
is hovering over our country 1 No less a person-
age than little Barney Derek of Montreal, and
a whole host, Barney says TAN TIe`esANI, 6 of
the idle, lazy, loafing scoundrels, the dreg -tools
of toryiam, under the drilling an.piees, we MI -
pose, of the notorious A. G. Gubee in Montreal.
ee wages, ever existed between him and Giles.
Hence the queetione to be considered are, first—
h a man's oath sufficient to establish the exist-
eneeof n contract when the outer party is will-
ing to swear to its non-exiatenee 7 Second,
Dot the law recognize a contract at -all where
there is neither written nor living witoesaes 7
Third, 1f a Printer works six weeks and dieco-
vers that he can never receive Iia farthing..!
wages, either by legal process or otherwise, does
the law require that he ahsll ay to his employer,
Well, I will bestow you another week of my
labour, and during that time you must provide
• man is seep into my shoes 7" If the law
answer thea que.tions in the affirmative,
have entered into a league with the indolence then verily ora ■re living under the most gried-
and worthlesenene of New York city, To take ' ing tyranny ; and it would be well that the
peasesaion of Canada, and to trample the British
Lion under foot; in other words, they have
determined to seize upon the "lands and tene-
ments, goods, gear and chattels" of the pemeablr
and in,luetnous population of this Province ! 1.
Rot this a terrible state e( things ! The Colonist
proposes • great importation of firearms and
•monition, ■td some other extensive warlike
preparations on the part of the Imperial and
Colonial Governments to meet the exigency elf
Berney's invasion. Now, if we wish to invest
Barney with the chara-eter of a lorrable Hero,
mid to sacrifice the lives of a few of ler innocent
fellow -coon rrymen, we think the propoa.t of the
Colonist should he adopted. It would be e
three of de6aoee to Barney's bravado ; u much
as to ay " t'ome6 Barney if yeti dare," This
reminds us of our schoolboy day* when oat boy
would his. mid to another, " Sawatch my bat-
tens if you dare ;" the buttons were immediately
*crotched. •rad the Push was retuned by spit -
ling in the (ace of the eggre•/nr ; this called
forth a blow, gad the blew brought out a battle,
which like every ether bottle, ended in the
mutual Iagaiauoe of both patties. Bet hewe-
ver deserving of • good hearty ►ickag Barney
nevelt* may be, we would have no wish that
ley of est respectable rptllsuon should be
working men of the Provinee should make a
universal fa -et for the repeal of this law. if oar
statutes •newer in the negstive, thee, the
decision, in the present case, is net likely to
its rad.
" Ile who would sheet the poor man of his toil
is not • robber—robbers oft are brave,
And honourable, disdaining stealth withal;
But he who wrongs the lab'ree of Ids MINA
is mese and miserable-1we. Y
A petty p.11'rior, picking, gala*sat,
A thing of sneaking, swindling, eoal-Ieesaen,
Void of ell prueipte and manly life,
A worthless crawler on the walks of roes,
Which benour 'acmes to kick—for dread of
mach." —044 flag,.
SHORT ESSAYS FOR LITTLE DOT$.
.etaER tr.
A child feels some pleasure is tarsier the
Alphabet, simply beeeuee he le leamias the
a•m.s in real olyeeta—things Mesa Inok at.—
Wen ha taught them in • proper m•eeer, Mat
is. not In • long string, aria teak, hot one by see
r an emu.ement, tad to *sewer to the natant
enquiries et hie Woe ; h• might be able a
recognise and name them es correctly at owe
years of age, es he knows gad masa the chills.
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