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Huron Record, 1880-12-03, Page 7_ AROUND TI3111 WORLD, —The London Balloon Society proposes to fetch down some fog to mare. •-e,T1te Sultan has conferred the order of Osmanie on Cardinals Nina and Simeoni, late repel Secretaries of State. —The imports of Great Britein up to date exceed them of last year by over a290,000,. 000, the exports by over 6180,000,000. —A woman died. of f;igh at' daneeville, Wife, upon seentg her ohild in danger et he- ing run over by a railroad train. —patti bought last montheixteert thotniantl dollars' worth of art objects in She has of late developed, a taste for painting and sculpture. — The judieiary of Indianasare taking same paints to con•eet the Mistaken idea that under the present laws, divonses are easily' obtained in that State. • ./.4 —The Italian emigrants landed in the United States during this year ntunbor 12,- 327, of whom 8,560 were men and 3,761 women. —A horse rolled M a brook at Topsham, Me., and was unable to get up. His body made a dam'which. raised the water and he was drowned. --The eaneriment, keelsing a detail, of. policemen in readiness to answer urgent cells made through the telephone, is being made in Chicago. —Lord Kimberley, the English 'Colonial Secretartahas decided to make a change for the better in the conditions under which Cety- wayo is living now. —Mrs. Sohurbhardt, who was Master in ' Chancery for Union °aunty, Ill., has beep• turned outeupon a decision that a woman cannot hold the office. —Dr..Willjarn 1LBens= of Virginia says that he has seen an angel, from whom he re- ceived eome correct .and novel religious doc- trines ; and these he will embody in 14 new, creed. . —Some of the 'Choctaw gine in ".the Nation," as Indian'Territory is called, are highly educated, very beautiful; and nearly .as fair in complexionas their deters in •the States --eln a cave near Silver Cliff Col., two bars of gold, worth 3900, were found. Two human ekeletons were -there, too, and it is supposed they are the rimming of very early miners. . —The first • wife of Bishop Plithlosey of Maryland was twenty years his genier. • Mies Lucy Hunter, of 'Washington, whom the Bishop is soon to many is twenty years his junior. —Emile Zola'a fattier WU a distinguished engineer at Aix, where several canals and roads are named after him. His mother was recently interred in the burial lot given by the town to the Zola family.' —A Nevada widower took his MO sisters in-law- to Salt Lake and mrnied, them all. The -oldest 18'30:and -the-youngest ld au el thliv pint -en -the most• ardent love for .their husband, as well as for one another. —When the Princess Louise with married, a London ramie hall songstress of eelebrity advertised that her profeseimmlandattatepplel be in future Mlle Louise Lorne. Stuasesetul perforthers at these places:make from 3e0 to 3250 a week: • . a -A. Mons. Loiet has been recently dads. ing in the Sea of -Galilee. If-hassa deptlr-o ' over 800 feet, and °attains twelve smiles of I fish. The majority of these Bowies. have the . singular • habit of hatching their eggs and ..sheltering their young in theirsmouths. — The American horses areadmitted td have run remarkably well at the :last New- market races. Mr. Keene's Foxall hi pro- _ notineecl to be a grand looking colt andabi .perforreance in giving' 28 pounds • to the highly bred Heydar and beatiagbine was re- markable. a --A writer in Land and Water says: "What a mistake it is to mit marble'statues ,in the open air in London There is • the ,effigy of the Queen in the Royal Exchange. In fine weather thefeaturee are soothogriined And on wet days the Water fi016.13 inditty fur .rows down the cheeks." . • . '• — An eloping couple on a Soinerset and . • -Cambria, Pa., Railroad train were accosted by a man wiardireirifaratietroftlre-Pee and offered to marry them on theaspet fet $5, In order to save time, -they employed him. After a week's honeymoon theyfound out that good preservation have already been brought M light. —The scaffoldings are still up around the ewers of Cologne Cathedral, and the Cologne diktsette eats that it will be necessary to keep at work upon them all next year, and much, too, has $o be done in the matter of glazing windowe.and forming:and fitting artistically wrought doors. The Gazette puts the ' whole *eat viten completed at 46,500,000, whichwas about the cast of St. Paul's in London, —The owners of two adjoining fume M Missouri disagreed aliont the boundary line. Although the ground in dispute was a strip only elk inches wide, they got into a violent controversy over it. While they were angrily discuesing the question, one ordered the other to stand off the narrow apace in question, and then deliberately chopped off one of his feet with An axe. --It is regarded as contrary to etiquette in India for any private individual or any mbar- dinate officer fo pass the carriage of a Geyer nor. Lieut. Vernon was returning front the Poona races, and passed the carriage Of the Governor of the l3othisay Pxesideney. A trooper was sent after the Lieutenant to order him to come back. He refused and struck the trooper; therefore is he to appear before a- court martial, —The October Quarterly Review says that the Conaervattves are formally represented in London by one eveningpaper'and informally by another, and partially by two publiehecl in the morning, while of all the weekly organs of opinion there are but two which can fairly .badeseribed as even tolerant of Conservative principles. In the provirases only 380 out of 1,376 daily and weekly papers are professedly Conservative, as against 482 avowedly, Liberal. • . —In regard to the highert education of wo- men; the Welland High Sehool takea lead- ing place among Abe educational institutions of the Dominion. Two young ladies attend- ing that school are preparing _ for them:send yi3ar etatninations in the University Of To- ronto, taking the full quotaof subjects re- quired for the 'honor classical course. Four other young ladies are studyingfer matricula- tion With honors. —A St. Louis bank teller, in wahinw. a cheek, Raven woman a sealed envelope marked 3500. She did 'not count the money until she got home, and • then found only . $285. She returned to the bank but could not go ' the mistake rectified. She ought to have opened the envelope, the teller Reid, before quitlifig the Minter. A lawsuit resulted an a verdict for the woman, whom statement of the facta was simply corroborated. The hank will appeal. —Lady Burelett-Coutts•has been invested with the white and purpleliveriee of the Guild of Haberdashers and made a free and accepted draperess. • She is the first woman since the dap' of • Elizabeth who has been admitted within the charnied circle of. tee guild. The vesture is a sort of pinafore, Mantle and robe, and a richly embossed gold medallion was hung amend her neck'. She made a long and efeeellQ. ent.apessela inswhiels thereaege .pataittga o —The Rev. Dr. Cuyler says that Dr. Cox oithe commenced a prayer thus: " Oh I In- finite God, We are republicatie toward each 0016r;...but we are all monarchisti toward Thine everlasting throne." Dr. Onyler ex- plain% : "He was todthordugh an American not -to believe in our demooratic policy. • He was too devout a Christian to doubt the Ala solute sovereignty of God. Before the law .of the land %seaman equals. Beforedeliovah's gloxiousthrone we are all alike inferiors—the dependent subjects of His empire." Martin, a convicted murderer, was lying under 'oentence of' death in the jail at Lebanon, Mo. There was no hope Of A re- prieve, and the prison Mae too strong to break. Noordinaryway of escaping the, ga lows was possible. So Martin mad'e desperate loie to Martha Willi= the sheriff's daughter. He was young andlhandsome and his suit was suoobssful. • One night she uplookedhis cell, gave him elothing, money and weapons, and eloped with him. • The sheriff offered 4500 for their capture, but they have not yet been a—Mr. and Mrs. Offutt drove twenty mile to Paris, Ky., to see a• performance by .the Wallace Comedy Conspany. Mrs. Offutt, who as young And pretty, was "alarmed by the oung of E. Quy—Bpanglera-theralmutleamer- erd of the play. The Citrate went to the area hotel where the comedians laved. °Vint ealitres that, both from the stage and at the inner table, Spangled flirted with his wife. Iter the meal, Offutt decoyed Spangler into secondestory room; locked -the deer, and aye himehe choke between jum,ping out of he window and beingshot., Spangler jumped, —The -Rev. J. IL Gallahorn and a party of evangelists were oonducting revival meeting* at Haanibal, Mo. Perfeet holiness was their especial theme, and their energies were direc- ted to arousing true piety among church. member's. They were successful and every evening they drew. a crowded eongrega- he was an =pester. , • ' —Tho IP•itish Nautical 'llagazine giverethe A following returns of .13titish and American tonnage in Chinese ports : : g MU 1875. 1877. Britiob 4,645,557 5,167,435 6,407,352 Ainertemn3,184,360 2,777,367 • 556,112 —Ths daily military journal of Russia, the RooRki Ittra(ddr, causes the governinent a loss of about 312.000 year,and the aggregate loss on it since 1812 has been not- lead than $600,000. The monthly journal started ht 1858, has involved aloes of 3250,000. Boon- emists cry out fbr the suppreesims of these organs." I ion to the Academy of Music. Suddenly " —The cost of this Suez canal was, accord - to the report on the Darien Cana by Josei3h Niinnio, -jr., Chief of the United States Bureau 0 'Statistics, 392,278,907. The receipts last yew' were 65,973,186, andthe expenditure including 5 per bent. interest upon the share capital; as sinkinglurid, 35,- 41,542, leaving a balance of 4557,645. —Albert Wolf, in the Figaro, declares that there is at present only one genuine Parisian alive ; ho Is named Dupin. He has never been oil the boulevards A day, and. 'in his time has seen the.Constable and Empire, the Restoration, the umbrella Of Loads the 3 coup d'etat, the .Second Empire; and the three Presidents of the existing republic. —A man in a prayer meeting at Great Springs, Ga., declared that he Was ready to die, and awaited the summons with iinpatis enco. Ho had barely uttered the sentiment when a bullet orathed through the window and grazed his ear. A neighbor .at,s,lrora he had Hued for debt, latd taken him at his word. ife hastily hid himself under a bench. . - - —The China (native) Merchants' Steam ,Nat igation Company, flying ander the native flag, now owns—having largely increased its fleet by the purcham ' of Russell es Co.'s American steamers -83 eteata vessels of 22,- 910 toes, Li -Hung -Chang, Governor-Geer. al of the "home " previncti 01 Chih-li is the Patron, -and probably realloulader of the aseoeiation. ' --In a fiela near Sheerness, England, that has been in cultivation for centiniee, the fonndation of the convent Mt steonty nuns, founded at Minister-in-Sheppy it the year 670, have jut been discovered. The eaten. give buildings were sometimes . pillaged and destroyed by the Danes, and. Were final- ly rebuilt ta Mt/ Objeete of interest .in • heir mission VW closed by the publication of a statement, signed by elergymea of several 'Western phloem where Gallahorn hail labored, that he wasa grossly inn:horst person, and had lately been expoeed by a church council. —Ina recent convereation the Chief of the Perth Fire Departraeat,Col: Parisaomplained that he had but four steam 'fire engines, all told, and that the municipal caution did not gist° him money enough to keep horses impotently on hand, the result being that when a big fire breaks out—thestearaeliginesi do riot go to small' .ones—valuable time is lost in practuing luireese Let a fire once get well 'started on a windy night in the Western part of tho city, and there would be no 'Mop- ing it. Yet Col. Paris does nOl. admire our System. Too much reliance is Placed, he thinks, on -the machine and toe little on in- telligent human effort; toe many lives are lost at tires and too much movable property destroyed.. .e—Two more volumes, the eighth and ninth pf the aeries, have been pabliehed of the Par- liamentary 'speeches of M. Thiers, and the meet cursory glance at them cannot fail- to awaken in the reader's mind admiration of the wonderful versatility and itultuary of the 7tateisman. The two volumes, each contain - ng more than 600 pages, conaprise the period between the month pf June, 1848, and that of May 18, 1864, perhaps the most interesting of, the speeches being those prOneenced on the ill-fated expedition to Mexico. The collection, when complete,will form a veritable hiettiry of Franco during the middle period of this eentury. —The new Empresa of Maid' is oaid by those who know her best to be a woman of head who will Maio:113er influence felt, if the Czar's life is owed a few years. She ia a very good friend and a vindietive enemy, as Vettut Adlerberg hag to hia segrotr loathed. • Russiens like the ides of a Russian Emotive whose polio it will be to fester the anti -Ger- man feeling atteourt and the schoole and ani - vanities. Nihilists are much gratified to see a further element of disunion introdueed, into the Imperial family by the elevation.to the Grand Pagel status of• the second -clam Itomanogs who are springing rip about the Czar, • —The queotion whether cruelties to wild beasts in a menagerie than be permitted has just come up in the form of a test case be- fore the Derby Police Court in England, and has been decided in the negative. The ground on which the Royal Sooiety for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to .&nimals won the case was that wild beasts, caged and fed by hand, are domestic animate. The beasts in question were hyenas, and their tamer had inflicted grows cruelty upon them to indaoe them to jump through a hoop of Are, in doing which their bathe were burnt, while their heads and bodies bore.marks of blows from a elub. Li the same court another person was fined for whipping a madden belonging- te the same menagerie. —A recent traveler In Japan says "11 you wish to low an article don't ask its. price, but that of several other things; working in- differently around to it Perhaps the' vendor says 10 yen • .you laugh, as if yeti were very much amused, and nay 2 yen. He laughs, derisivelyebut quite goodmaturediyeand you lay it down, whereupon he says 9 yen; you laugh again and walk 'about, on :which he looks amazed and says 7 yen; you 8*, cares lithely, 3 yen. Helooks sad, Yon. move as if to leave, and most likely he elapshis hands, looks jubilant and says yeroshi, width means 8 yen which possibly is far mere than it is worth' to.him. If the sellers were pour and glum this process would be unbearable; but they are as smiling and pleasant as people oan be." —The fact that there is no night school in Hapeilton, is one whith muds a very severe reflection on thir city's educational facilities. Many places of far lees 'population than Hamilton, have a regular system of evening tuition, which is taken advantage of by large numbers of young men and women. For some sewing past the Mechanics Institute, have had evening °lakes for instruction 111 the ordinary branches of education, together with drawing and bookakeeping, but finding that the exPenses were -too heavy and fatlingto induce the Board of Bducationde co- operate with. them, the Directors of the Institute have allowed thematter to drop It is the duty of the Board of . Education mut* more than if is of the Mechanics' In- stituto to see that night schools are estab- lished and maintained in a large city like ours. The betefit to be -derived from them is more than apparent. All the facilities are at the disposal of the Board, and in their heeds the endertakiag would be quite ititorpeasive.• . —EverettBegbitt takes elaborate pains to be a swindler, as his doings at Kingston inda cede. He sent hie •eard to the Freeman office, urgently requeeting somebody to call an him at hishotell- --Theagentlemaar whosatthalosideaT found him in bed as pale as a abed,. eatigha Mg violently, and with several bottles of medicine beside him.Babbitt said he, Wilts .& typetietter on his war home to die of consump- tion, that he lied been delayed, and hadepent all his money for medjoal attendance. He wanted a•fetv dollere, as a loan, and would surely aciturn it as soon as he reaelaed his fatally. A • colleotien among :the Freeman priuters yielded 412, which he took with pro- tostatioas af gratitude. He has played the same triok in nearly'every eityaind village on theroute from Omaha. His cough is arta ficial and his pallor in chalk: • '—Early inallepresent century the English universities, though lax in inoralitY, were rigidainathe-matter-of-attire,--White-Waist- coats, silk stockings, and low_ shoes formed the authorized dress for Cambridge under- graduatee at dinner in hall, and any variation from this custom was Punished. In 1810 no gownsman wassaallowed at Oxford to come into hall whiles:it silk stockings and IMMO.: At Cambridge, a few years later,:trousers.were orderbel to ha worn 86 mourning for the Prin. Om Charlotte—for one term- only. Next tetra one undergyaduater who persisted in wearing them, was rusticated. Me reappeared in themthe next term, and was rusticated Again. Meanwhile the troueeriste •gathered strength, aialaterwoh-the-daye—An--olde-para son, who died someyears ago used to tell how a po,nder, on discoloring him in the tabooed. trousers, exclainieds "Go home, sir, instant- ly and change your 'clothes, and•don't let me Meet you again in that diagraesful dress." • —The late Baron Rthasolii with a pedigree as good as Victor Emanuel's, Made himself alwattesthe afingS humblest vassal. When the King paid'him a visit in • •his ancestral chateau of Broils, the Benne met the Xing on the confines of his estate and accompanied him on horseback metal - he had orosseclatha threshold, then left and Only camewhen 'tent for. Rieasoli's fitendships were -few but strong and lasting. He had a contempt for the nouveau riches of the revolution, . drove rip in a simple cab to the Chambers when they came ina. carnage and pair) • and while all the resources of Moeteos or the Cate di, Room hare** sufficed them he dined tit a modeet estdminet in the Piazza di Sin Loren - so on a basin • of dam, a veal cutlet, and a quintino of his own Chianti: ' He • dies with- out issue. • The heit to his splendid property, .which inaladee the a petranage • of .fifty hurehea, is his nephew, Giovanni Rioesoli Firldolphe, a yonth•of 17. ta. —A new school of horticulture is to be opened in Paris the. objeets of which are •to, be ao, follotve 'The culture and acolimatina Lion of all plants, useful alikein ails-, indtis, tries and meditine ; also of ell shrethe and trees suitable for the ornainentation of the sgtiaree and public walks in Paha There will be a museum annexed to these • gardens containing dried specimens, damplith of woods, chemical products, gams; month, dice and by the side of eaoh group of epeoimena a geo: graphical table giving the habitat and distra bution of the eripeoial Plant. Every year a horticultural exhibition will be held in Paris, to which amateurs as well as ptofes. atonal hortioulturiets are to be invited to ma: -tribute. . Regular counsels of -Tectux•es in prate tial botany are to ba given to students of both emcee, Atte examinations, all gratuitous, 'Oleos Mame, frie of sharge, will afford.' Asa dents every-faoilityfor study. /thistly, pupils. of the various rannicipal schools Will receive invitations on opecial days, when pietistical lessons of an elementary kind will lie gieen them* regular prothitiors, --1, How's Wheat t" "Dollar thirteen." ",h, htht evieet.° —Guelph Mercury': Tom Baker, a local celebrity, was out with a horse and cutter on Saturday.afternoOn The home was over his ehoulder and the cutter under his arm, CABINET DISSENSIONS, 1 The tmpertal Government not a Unit a the 1rtsb. question. Lannon, Nev. Mee -The publication of an authorized statement this evening to the effect that the reports of dissensions in the Cabinet are totally devoid of foundation, and that no ouch variance of opinion salsa; between the members of the Cabinet an to justify the pup, position that any ministers are so much op - Peed to their colleagues as to contemplate the necessity of xetiring, from the Cabinet, would show that the subjeotof suspending the habeas corpus act in Ireland has been dropped, by the Government. teThe Birmingham Daily .Post contains to -day the following significant statement with regard to Ireland: "There is a pellet beyond which the .Radioal membera will not yield an inch. It the habeas corpus is to be suspended on such ground as are at pregent urged in justification of such a atep they will leave the Cabinet. Thatthis would Boone; or later imply the colleen of the Cabinet is tolerably certain, .The direot link between tho Adiniuistratton and the foroecthat sailed Mute being Would be broken, and the for- mer would in no true sense be representative of the principle which, with a great popular wave, put Mr. Gladstone into power. 11 18 a barbarous remedy at best, . and ought never to be resorted to Until' other measureshave indisputably • failed. A feeble Government would. flyeagerly to coercion; a strong one; with a epoi head and Colleated judgnient, would just let it alone. ' The members for Birmingham are right if they have but staved off the demand till the country has hacl time to recover its judical calinnerie, and they will have earned the eincereet thanks ot every lover of liberty. Lawlessness inIrelandraust be put down, crime must be traced out and puriished ; but all this we hope and Width can be done without going back to the clumey expedient of brute flame, and forfeiting the liberties of the wholeconimunity in order to deal with the wickeenees 'of a few. The semi-official assertion it, therefore,. simply misleading. Coercion would have been demand- ed but for the opposition of Mews. Bright and Chamberlain. The Cabinet is •now elaborat- ing details of an Irish programme which will most probably include, -besides improvement of the oystera of land tenure, the purchase of certain lands and estates with government assistance for 'the purpose of piecing the itheme of a peasant proprietary on trial. The St. James. Gazette says: It is safe to affirm that there are difference's in the Cal - net between the views of Lord Selborne, laird TB& Chancellor, who holds that the vindica tion Of the law should have. plenty. over ro- dross of the alleged grievances, and Mr. John Bright Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, And Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, President of the Board of Trade, who believeboercive mea- sures are imneceithary." The Times, in a leading,attiele rapeate the statement that there are difference's in, the Cabinet. It says that the arguments hi favor of coercion in Ireland are urged asstrongly as ever, and that the Calmosekeshas certainly -nottleilidirdlin Setting that aside. On the other hand, the objections of,,Messrs. Bright and Chamborlem have not been surrendered. It may be itieuneed that the question is an open one, but every day- tends to its .settica. ment in a sense favorable tothe contention of Messrs. Biaght and Chamberlain, who have not pethaps converted. 'their colleagues to their views, but have prevented a decision the other way, and itaaeilLeigninot be worthwhile to attempt • to enforce the Opp'osite view." ' • . .es." CANADIAN NOTES. , The main water pipe in -St. john's, N.B., atass'eholted pp on Monday night, c.aithing much incOnyeisienee and-elan:U.' The i o cleared now and water plenty, • Intelligencefrom Battleford brings* tidinge of the death °Oahe Rev. Father. Hart, (Ufa., who is reported to have died of exposure and fatigue while out On , a hunting expedition after getting lost on the plains. Tbe body was found by the Mounted Police -on the 15th Oct. not far -from Bataleford.. • ' The Masonth fraternity of Ecleientois have deeidedto ask the Grand 'Lodge et Canada for a charter for a lodge to be established The inerket quotations At BattlefOrd. are: _61 ptr bushel ; oats, 41.25 ; potatoes, 41 to tp tie per bag; bbt ter, 50 oda Per pound; beef, 10ets. per pound, and hay, $5 to tic per ton. Itis estimated that tho amount ef 'wheat raised daringsthe past season orethe Mennon- ite remits neat of Emerson will •aggregate 300,000 bushels. A traveler states that re- cently in, driviag from Emerson to Pembina Mountain he met one hundred and fifty Mains laden with Wheat, about two thirds -of the number belonging to the Mennonites. Montreal harbor is nearly deserted -he ship- ping, the last steamer of the season havusg. left port for ;,-Liverpool: Them is every evidence of thd very neat approach of the close Of 'navigation. The steamehip, Ottawa, of the Dominion Lino, and the ship Boyne went ashore recently at Cap La Roche, near Sorel, on their passage down. The steam- shipLombard has been got of( the shoal in Lake. St, Peter, and had proeeeded on her "Ynugelio meeti. ngs. are '• held on isb couver Islatidand the maidland to • consider the - railway-- qtreation. At -ColwoOd and Saanioh, both on the island, the resolution of the Victoria, meeting was indorsed. At Yale, (int= mainland, resolutions expressing tip:a- pathy with the Vancouver Islanders in mo,- ing for a fulfillment os.f the railway terms, but declaring that British Cleilunthia is not better off as a brown colony, were passed. • -Itis authoritatively _denied that the Detain. ion Government has made a new demand up- on the Government of British Columbia fot all the public lands. • Thefirst exteneive transaction of the Cana- dian Pacific syndicate was to purchase the premises used by the Consolidated Bank in Montreal for the head offiees in Canada of 'the •CompanY. The buildings aro situated next to the Bank of Montreal, are very Bub. stantial -and commodioes, and are eonsiderea cheap at the $80,000 paid for them. The exaraination of Ald. Soatrow, of Lon- don, for irilluiriably flogging George'Donnelly, his aperentice,was continued on Monday and adjourned: The, testimony orthe beywas taken. There is tio doubt that the punish, remit given was very severe. It does not yet appear how grave was the Offenee for which it was aTgeiva• ttest tato' the eirourastaneies attend- n ing the death of Edward Navin, tie3ar Napanee was eoneleded on Monday. The testimony showed that Mrs. Navin wee Of a very violent tenaper, that she was addicted to the flee of hoer, and that thebad frequentlythreatened her husband's life. The medical. teetimohti hewed that death was caused by a blow with • "*" —,eltiesamatessoses some blunt instrument in the hands of oome ether person, The jury deliberated for some time, and finally unanimously rendered the following verdict That the deceatied Ed- ward Navin came to hie depth on the 191h of November, on the second cenesessionof Ernes, town, county of Lennox and Addington, by injuries inflicted by the bands Of his wife, Eleanor Navin." ConotableStorme was or. dared to arreet Mrs. Navin, and be proceeded about dark to do so. She will be lodged in Napanee jail. The body of the murdered man will be buried by the township in which he resided. TOE /ANT vial !FAMOUS 'aria End of the (Moe Poprilex Ocean Fieet Collins Steamshine, • (Vivra the Neu! York Tribune.) The lest vestige of tlie old Collins Line Liverpool Packets will disappeite in a few days. The Baltic, one of the five steamships built for this line in 1849, when it was Started with capital subscribed by several merchants doing businees in Now York, ie to be broken imin Boston. At the start the company had a con- tract with the Government for $14,750 a trip, Whiell was afterward •inereased to $33,000 a trip, for carrying the mails. The five vessels were the Adriatic, Atlantic, Pacific,-Arotie and Baltic. They were built and equipped in. New York. Theirdintensionswere ; Lengths. a 290 feet ; beam, 45 feet; depth of hold, 314 feet ; capacity, 2,860 tons; mathinetyal,000 home -power. in sire, etieedand appointments . they surpasded any steamers then afloat, and they obtained a fair share of the passenger • traffic. A fortune was expended' in decorat- ing the saloons. The entire, cost of each steamer was not lase than 11600,000, and net, withstanding their quick passages, the sub- sidy received . and the high rates of freight , paid', the atom:acts ran for six years at great ' loss, and finally the company ••became bank- rupt. The Atlantic was the pioneer steamohip of the line. She tailed from New York Alin 27, 1849, and arrived in the Mersey May 10, thus making the passage in about thirteen( days, 0. two of which were lest in repairirfg the ma- chinery; the speed was reduced in order to prevent the floats from being • tern from the paddle-wheele. The average tine of the forty two westward trips in the • early dive of the line was 11 days, 10 hours and 26. =milers, ` against the average of the then so called fast.' est.line of steamers, 12 daye,19 hours and 26 minutes. In February, 1852, the ittetle made -- the passage from New York M Liverpool in 9 days and 17 hours. The Arctic was afterward - run WO by a French vessel At sea' and only a few of her passengers were eaired. The Pa - cilia was never heard from after sailing from Liverpool, and all the persons on board were lost. The Atlantic, after rotting .and rusting at her. wharf, was deprived ot her -Machinery, and converted into a sailing vessel, and Was broken up in New York huit year. The Adri- etio, the" queen Of the•fleet," made thee than a helfelosen voyagegatypeaseld_Mathe _Galway-- - -Cifempaiiy tidd is now used Mho Western Ie. landaas a coal hulk by an English Company . The Bahia was in the Government bervie,e . during the war a8. 8 aupply vessel, and Was afterward sold At auction; her machinery with., removed and sold as Old iron. She' was then' , converted into A sailing ship; aud of late yeare hae beau nsed as a- grain -Canting veasel between San .Francisco and Great.Britain. • Con a recent voyage to 'Boston she was e stranded to such an extent 55 10 be made' bn: • eeinvorthy, and for thatareason is bohen up. . ..•,. aakets THE sTELLA.Rire$,T' A Searching Investigatclonted, be Mado-S ' The_fleaseriainentato Bair Peat of the ' New GaesbevS, N.S., No,. 23. —The -jury resumed work at nine o'clock. The following telegram froni the Commissioner of Mines - was read by the Coroner.. • It was a reply to ono sent by the Coroner to the Commissioner: - of Minos and Works respecting the ,expinthe of the investigation,: 11 Halifax, Nov. -19, Inspector' Gilpin has my instructions, if he desires to have witnesses celled; ' irrespective • of those deemed proper Id be called by your- • . self and the jury, ' that the .Government will • bear the etpenseof Buell witnesses. Signed, Samuel °Melanin, Commissioner of Mines." Thefill owing replyasenneurto the .0ommis- . Riefler of Mines: , " The investigation of the jury hap continued now .four dayaand is • adjourned till next Tuesday.. , Many witnesses are likely to be called before eproper and Bathes factory 'conclusion is wiled at. This matter'. is allowed to beof-more than local interest, and we are satisfied that the Govertment wOuldliketo oee that 'stroll an imminent in- s tercet at; the Halifax coal Mime shall be ear& fully protected, and in our opinion much of • this protection is involved in a most thorough investigation as to the mimeoof the late calamity in that -mine. • In ceder to do this in the best way we Insowonore than ordinary expenses will be incurred. We•therefore have every - conviction that the Government having known this will!give the -necessary assistance. (Signed), George Murray, tiotoner ; John • McKay, foreman." To' this thefollewing an- swer was sent : "The instructions already given to the Inspector of Mines I deem sufficient and as extensfve tie I hale authority to give. , (Signed)? Samuel °recline's." . Mr, .Fludson,, manager of the mines; and • otherwitnesses were -examined to -day, aid the ingtest was adjeurped till to =reeve RAILWAY CONFLICT, • Tenon rca•No v. 2L—There was consiaerabl ' commotion in the west end of the city to -day over the railway war between the Credit Volley and the Grand Trunk Railways. The Credit Valley Company set a gang of men. to work to clear the track of obstructions placed there by the Grand Trunk Railway, and to put the ears of the latter company to one side. There was some fear.of a row at one but no serious disturbance toelenlace. ' The Credit 'Valley Railway Company will not bo able for a douple of days to attend tdtheir regular traffic, as they will employ their roll- . bag steak and workmen ia extending their line into the eitta• *The hearing of the alga. aunt in the injunction granted against the Grand Trunk Railuray on Friday will take place on Tuesdaa. . --A Brantford amateur dramatic' eleb'prir poem' to play The Idiot Witness, or the Tale , of Bleed. The -next play will probably .be -- The Blooming Bloke, or the Bloody Bruiser of Brantford, e -A. colossal statue representing "Italy" illuminating the world, after the manner Of Bartholdy's "Liberty,' intended for.Beelloe'e island, is to be ertaitai on the Janicultutt 11111, at Bonn. • a 4—tr,„101,6a23--: