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T SEVENTH PARLIAMENT â€" FOURTH SESSION AT OTTAWA. T 1"le READINGS. The following bills were read a third time :â€" Respecting the Atlantic and Non th-lVest Railway Companyâ€"Mr. Baker. Respecting the Bell Telephone Company of Canadaâ€"Mr. White (CardWell). To incorporate the Duluth, Nepigon, and James’ Bay Railway Companyâ€"Mr. Manson. The House went into Committee of Ways and Means, and proceeded with the con- sideraticn of the tariff. OATMEAL. Sir Richard Cartwright considered it was ’ron. four cents per pound .to five cents per pound. The motion was carried. sricus. .‘Ir. Foster moved that "spices, viL: ginger, and spices of all kinds n. e. 3., unground,” be changed from 15 per cent. 12 1-2 per cent. The motion was carried. FREE 'raa asp COFFEE. Mr. Foster proposed to place on the free list'tea and green coS’ee imported direct from the country of growth and production. “This item,” be said, “shall include tea and coffee purchased in bond in any‘country where tea and coffee are subject to Cus- toms duty, provided there be satisfactory roof that the tea or coffee so purchased in nd is such as might be entered for home consumption in the country where the same is purchased.” . The item was allowed to stand by re- extraordinary to tax oatmeal 68 cents, and quen- oats, the raw material, Sl a barrel. Accord- ing to protectionist principles that meant that the oatmeal would be manufactured in the United States. , Mr. Fosterâ€"There is no danger of any wrong following. If the hon. gentleman wants to add to it I have no objection. FNCLEA .\' ED RICE. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€".â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"_ DISEASE SPREAD BY DOGS. Tuberculosis In France ls Carried by These Animals. Consumption now carries off five per thousand persons in France or 170,000 a year, says the London Dispatch. In Eng- Mr. Foster; 0!! the item 0‘ undefined land the mortality has fallen to two per rice, moved that it be reduced from hve- tho,“me tenths to three tenths of a. cent. per 1b., but not less than 30 per cent. ad valorem. The towns where this scourge :s/nost intense are Paris the mortality rom it is one out of five deaths ; Dijon Sir Richard Cartwright said this simply and Nancy, where it is one m of seven, meal“ that 1h“ Governmen‘ PI°P°Sed l'° and Marseilles, where it is one out of six. COIN-"Ne i )‘el'Sf qdlogg m°D°P°1Y- F" the At the Protestant congress at Havre, held flake 0f mammmmfi 4° 80?” we Gwen" to study special questions in a practical ment was $100,000 on the people of the country. The item passed. mas, ensures. gong to in i0“ 9‘ tax 0‘ over manner, Dr. Gilbert, who is a consumptive specialist, said that drunkards are particu- larly subject to it. There is a drunkard's plithisis. Now, the habitations of inebri- Mr. Foster moved that the duty on rice, files are cleaned, be 1 1-4 cents per pound. In the new tariff it was placed at 1 cent per pound. The motion would make the duty what it was under the old tariff. Mr. Fraser contended that this was a. tax of 65 per cent., and was outrageous protection. Mr. Foster said the tax was well can sidered and equitably levied. It was known that rice cleaned in Burmah was not so cleanly done as when cleaned by white labor in this country. f‘he motion was carried. “'11 EAT. DIRTY AND ILL-K EFT and cleanliness is a great obstacle to the spread of contagious diseases. In La Cite Harvaise, or mansions built for working class tenants,the mortality from consump- tion is very high, notwithstanding the hy- gienic principals according to which the architect worked. There were five out of twelve deaths from consumption. This might be explained from the tenants" habit of spit-ting about. A woman’s dress that swept the spuma of a consumptive on the stairs picked up the germs, which she in- haled in brushing the garment. Dr. Gilbert Mr. Martin said reciprocity in wheat, is for this reason, against tenement houses with the United States would be very ad- or mansions for the poor- The shaking of vantageous to the farmers of Manitoba. clothes and bedding from the windows The farmers suffered greatly from combina- and balconies was another tions among the local wheat buyers, which depressed the value. If we had free eu- SOURCE OF CONTAGION. . trance to the American markets this com- The subject. of dogs as a means of propagat- bination could be overcome, as it would ing consumption was also gone into. A be practically impossible for local buyers report of Professor Cadiot of the veterinary to combine with American buyers. Mr. Campbell said millers did not want a vehicle for spreading it. protection of 1.3 cents per bushel, and treated dogs suffering from tuberculosis for the 75 cents per barrel. Mr. \Vallace said his ’hou. friend from what their disease was. school of Alfort, shows that there must be He had long cancer, but later a microscope. showed him Betweenthc 14th Kent (Mr. Campbell) had come to him of last March and the 7th of April eight and asked him to use his influence in hav. dogs died at Alfort of tuberculosis. From ing the duty raised from 50 cents to $1 a the first of October 1891, to the first of barrel. August 1893, he made forty post mortems Mr. Campbell and he had never made out of 9,000 and found in all the forty cases any such application. The chairman, being appealed to, said disease is very catching from a doc. The It tuberculosis the cause of death. he did not know who should be called to originates in the intestinal mucus, because order, the man wl.o made the assertion or dogseat bones picked by tubercular patients the man who denied the assertion. The item passed. STARC ll. and lick up what they leave on plates. They also keep about them, if attached to them, and in this way some get affected through the lungs. If the dog is often Mr. LIcMullen said it was outrageous to contaminated by the human patient he in levy a lax 0‘ 1 1‘2 Cents 3 Pound 0" Eml'Ch spreads the disease to other human beings. merely for the purpose of maintaining an enormous and grasping industry, and also a combine, for there was a combination between the three factories that manufac- tured the article in Canada. I Mr. Reid said there were eight or nine starch factories in Canada, and that a comâ€" bine did not exist. The item was carried. TEA AND COl-TEE.’ W Leprosy in North America. In North America, leprosy seems to have acquired such a small hold that the limited number of cases which have occurred there are well suited to study this question of contagion. I extract notes of a few of these cases from a book which I’ have recently published, and to which I refer for further M r. Foster desired to change the item of details of these and many other cases. " cofi'ee, green, when not imported direct In July, 1878, Dr. Robe (an authority on without traushipment from the country of the subject) stated that there were only growth and production, ten per cent. ad three cases of leprosy in Maryland. Two of valorem,’ to read “tea and green coffee, these cases had the following relation to n.e.s., ten per cent." Sir Richard Cartwright asked that the more,wasaleper. each other : A man named llrown, in Balti- His next-door neighbor, item be allowed to stand till hon. gentlemen a. married woman with a large family, and could consider its effect. Mr. Foster agreed to the suggestion. The item was allowed to stand. ROASTED COFFEE. whose husband was in good health, became a leper. She had been some years in the neighborhood, and the families were inti- mate. At one time there Were some lepers in Mr. Foster moved to strike out the words Louisiana, but they hwe Almost, entirely “ without transhipment” in the item of coffee, roasted or ground, which Would disappeared. In 1860 a Mme Ourblane,whose father came from the south of France de- n°w madi“" C°ff°et masked 0“ ground» veloped leprosy. She died in 1370, leaving when not imported direct from the country {our sons and two daughmrs. of growth and production, two cents pound and ten per cent. ad valorem.” The item was carried. ClllCORY The first, Per second, and fourth sons and a daughter be came lepers. They had all lived with the mother. A nephew who lived in the neigh~ borhood, and a young woman not related to My. Foster said he deairad to change the the family, who had nursed the inother,be- item reading “ Chicory, tl‘ree cents per “me leprous- “5 we“ “9 3 Young 1mm. 5130 pound,” to thefollowingâ€"“Chicory, raw or reen, three cents per pound,” and "ch icory ilmdried, roasted or ground, four cents per pound." This he explained, left the item exactly as before. He under- stood chicory was being cultivated in some pgrts of Quebec, and thought it would not fair to interfere with the industry under- ench conditions. The items as amended were carried. COCOA PASTE. not related, who had often slept with the fourth son in 1875. Since 1820 there has been a small leper colony in New Brunswick, which first ap- peared in that year in the person of a cer- tain Ursule Landry. From that case the disease extended, and in 1833 there wore in the lazaretto twenty-four leper patients. These cases have been referred to in most recent works on leprosy. The brief account which I have given in my book is taken from a paper by Dr. Graham of Toronto, 9. M“ Foam" "10"“! lo “huge “19 “9m reliable authority, which was published in reading “coco’a paste and chocolate and 1883. I cannot refer at greatorlength to the all!" fifep‘““°“3 °f “503' ‘0‘" 099“ 15’er circumstances here, but I have,in the work Pound. ‘3 {0110‘7'31‘ W Pu“? and referred to,shown how, in New Brunswick, OhOCOlMG F3310, ‘0“? can“ PG! Wundr “1d endemic influences and heredity must be chocolate and other preparations of cocoa. excluded, and 1 now the frequgnt, mention 25 percent. ad valorem." The duty had been reduced on candies. and cocoa paste of the fact that leprosy developed in healthy individuals after they had slept with lep- and chocolate paste were much used for en. the coating of confectionery, and he thought it would not be well to raise the dut these articles. The items as amended were carried. NUTS. Mr. Foster said he wished to make a change in all the items of nuts. Some of them were too high. He re the amended list to read :-â€""§uts. shelled. new... five cents per pound. Almonds, walnuts, Brazil nuts, pecan nuts. not shel- led, three cents per pound. Nuts of all kinds not otherVise provided for. two cents per pound.” . The item: as amended were carried. 0000.; Sun. y °n More Underground Roads in London The new underground railway, which is to relieve the street tradic both in the City and the West End, is to be worked upon a novel principle, which will offer every facil- ity for quick journeying along the route of the line. The tunnel is to be made deep down into the earth, far below the deepest vaultsâ€"practically in no man's soil, where "rights" do not penetrate. The trains are to be reached from above by lifts constanto ly working.and there will be no delay in taking tickets and having them clip d. , The passen era will enter the lift, w ich will deseen to the cars below, and where ‘ Mr. Foster and that “cocoauut de- the fares will becollected upon the omnibus arrested, sweetened or not,” be changed system,or something very like it. HOUSEHOLD. Bread and Cake. There are rules of etiquette that apply as exclusively to each of these articles as do those governing the use of the napkin, knife, fork, etc. Bread etiquette can be divided into rules, as follows: 1. Bread. biscuits, rolls, buns, etc., should be removed from the plate, also eaten with the fingers and never with a fork. The proper place to lay either is on the bread-and-butter plate; or, when these are not a part of the table service, on the rim to the regular plate, or leaning against its edge. If warm bread or biscuits are served they should never be allowed to rest, even in part, on the table-cloth, as the steam from either will soil it. This is .something everyone, whether guests or members of the family, should carefully avoid doing, particularly in houses where little or no help is kept. Every housewife is desirous of seeing her table arrayed in spotless linen; but this is possible in but few homes, unless through the carefulness of those at the table. 2. Bread, biscuits, etc., should be brok- en, not cut, into small pieces before spread- ing. This should be done Wlbhfille bread, etc., resting on the rim of the regular plate, and not on the table-cloth or palm of one’s hand. Children, and some grown people, should be carefully drilled in each part of this rule, as it is one they are prone to dis- regard. Few things show greater ignorance of the common rules of table etiquette than carrying the entire piece of bread, a whole biscuit, or any large piece of food, to the lips for each mouthful ; while holding bread in the hand to spread shows, to say the least, lack of culture. At many tables little individual butter knives are provided for spreading bread. But when they are not, the ordinary knife is used. _ 3. Small pieces of bread should never be used for a mop to wipe up the last parti- cle of gravy, or food from the plate. They are, however, correctly used to assist the fork in lifting foods, like salads, etc., that recede from its tines. In this country, a 'small piece of bread is also used to assist the fork in breaking fish into bits suitable for eating. A pretty custom, observed at some fash- ionable tables, at informal dinners and teas, and when the family dine alone, is the serv~ ing of bread from a handsome, highly- polished bread-board, which is placed on the table within easy reach of the hostess’s or host’s right hand. Beside the bread, which lays on the board, and should be a. small, uncut loaf, is a. fancy bread-knife and long-handled forks At the proper time the hostess cuts the bread, passing a slice with the fork, to each person at the table. At the majority of well-regulated tables bread is served in the customary manner, slices piled one upon the other on a doily- covered bread-plate or tray, which is placed on a side-table or the table proper. These must be out very, very thin, be evenly iled, if long, be cut in two, crossways. ‘ A Good Variety. A Baked Soupâ€"Put a pound of any kind of meat, cut in slices, two onions, two carrots. two ounces of rice, a pint of peas previously soaked, pepper and salt into a pan, and one gallon of water. Cover it very closely and bake. Beef Soupâ€"Gets shank of beef (hind leg) costing about twenty-five cents. Have the butcher break the bone in two. Put one~half intoa kettle with five quarts of water, one ounce of pearl barley; chop finely one carrot, one turnip, an onion, and a quarter of a medium-sized cabbage; add pepper and salt. Cook slowly for three hours and you will have a very wholesome and nourishing soup at small expense. flash for Teaâ€"The meat left over from 8 the soup dinner make into hash, add an onion, a bit of butter, 8. teaspoon of flour rubbed smooth in half a teacup of water, pepper and salt. Simmer slowly. To boil hashes or minces make them hard. Oatmeal Puddingâ€"Pour a sort of boiling milk over a pint of oatme ; let it soak all night; next day add a beaten eg , with a little salt ; butter a basin that .wi 1 just hold it ; cover it tight with a flouered cloth, and boil it an hour and a half. Eat it with butt-er or sugar. When cold, slice and Cpoast it, and eat it as oat-cake but- tere . -Ricc Puddingâ€"Wash a ctfl'eecup of rice, tie itjn a cloth, leaving plenty of room for it to swell. When done out it with butter and sugar or milk. Plain Pancakesâ€"Make a batter of flour and buttermilk, add a little salt and soda. They are very good eaten with butter and sugar or maple syrup. Bookingsâ€"Mix a pint of buckwheat, with a teacup of warm milk, and two tablespoons of yeast; let it rise about two hours; add two eggs, well beaten, and as much milk as will make the batter the usual thickness for pancakes, and fry them. To Dress Pig’s Feetâ€"Clean carefully,aud soak four hours; boil them tender; take them out; boil some vinegar and a little salt with some of the water, and when cold pour it over them. When they are to be used, dry them, and cut them in two, fry, and serve with butter, mustard and vine- gar. Jelly of Pig's Fochâ€"Clean and prepare as above, then boil in a very small quantity of water till every bone can be taken out ; throw in a little chopped sage and parsley, and mixed pepper, salt and mace, in fine powder; simmer fifteen minutes, then pour the whole into a melon form. __â€"â€"â€"â€"*â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" CHICAGO PEST RIDDEN. Small-pox Epidemic, llosplfuls Crowded. -â€"-Waltlng for Patients to Die. Small-pox is raging in Chicago and the city is apparently helpless. There are ten cases of the disease in the County Hospital, and that institution is under quarantine. The epidemic is increasing daily. Officials iscuits, rolls, etc., are served likewise, , of the city and the county have become only they are piled promiscuously on the seriously alarmed, and it is quite apparent plate. __.â€"â€"-â€" Table Talk. .a‘ Plates for hot ediirses should always be nex ’03 the pest heated. - - Serve pistachio nuts, French walnut salted almonds between courses. that the spread of the disease has grown } because of the carelessness of the oflicibls. Several weeks ago $25,000 was appropriated for the Health Department to build an an- houso, which has been full for a long time, and nothing has been done 5 and ‘ on the plea that the architect’s. plans had not come. . Meantime dozens of cases cannot be re- The 3°“? Plate Shoum be lent at least! moved from the places of origin, and the half an inch unfilled. A guest for a single meal needs not to fold the napkin. It cannot be used again. Cut cold meats and bread in the thinnest slices. In making sandwiches, butter the bread before cutting. No butter is served at dinner. For break- fast asmall pat is served to each person, with a small piece oTice, if the weather, or room, is warm enough to make it needful. The correct way tor serving bread aside from the individual plate is to put a (10in upon a plate, pile the thinly sliced bread upOn this and cover with another daily that all moisture may be retained. Souvenir spoons are still desirable. The designs taken from caravels, gondolas, etc., at the \Vorld’s Fair make charming models. Many prize these spoons long after those who buy them are forgotten. The Maryland cook makes cofiee without a filtered coffee pot better than some make with it. She puts the coffee into the pot, sets it. over the fire and shakes it until well heated and pours boiling water over it. The aroma of the coffee is delicious. Pieplant. Saucc.â€"Choose the crisp, tender, stalks, wipe clean, but do not peel them, cut them into small pieces and place in a granite-ware or porcelain stew-pan ; add a very little water, and cook them until tender. When it is well cooked, add sugar to taste, and flavor with grated lemon peel, or lemon ex» tract. Serve cold. Pie.â€"â€"Line the plate with a nice crust,filI ; i day epidemic grows. oi; Sunday twenty-five new cases were found, and yester- thirty were reportel. So serious has the situation become that Alder- man Madden, Chairman of the City Finance Committee, has decided to draw on any and all of the city funds to enable the Health Department to handle the new cases. -.t‘he County Hospital is overcrowded with ordinary patients. The pest house itself is overpaeked with patients. They are sleeping on mattresses on the floors of the rooms. Every available inch of space has been pressed into service, and at last it was necessary to close the doors. In the County Hospital the danger is imminent. The “’arden told the Health Commissioner that the hundreds of patients were in dun. ger of contagion and pleaded with him to have the patients with the pest removed. The doctor replied that he had no place to whichto remove them. “All I can do," said the Health Commissioner, “is to wait until . -A.-~-.,_,;,, â€" .3..- m...» . . _ _ , _. k ‘ We“ ._- ..._._._._..._._ .........___.._.. ._. _......_._ BLBDDY RIBTS BETllflIT. INFURIATED POLES ATTACK THE POLICE WITH SPADES. . a... Sherlerolllns Struck Down auda Nnn‘ ber- et Deputies Woundedâ€"The lob Fired oilâ€"Ne lulled. One Fairly Riddled With Bulletsâ€"«Tho nob l’lnal- ly Dispersed. A despatch from Detroit says :-Fatal labor riots broke out here to-day between strikin Poles and the officials of the water- works e tment. The Poles refused to o to war at so much per cubic foot, de- manding $1.50 per day and steady work. Seven hundred of the strikers congregated before 7 o’clock this morning at the water- works extension aud refused to allow the work to go on. One man who attempted to work was almost killed by spades in the hands of the strikers. Sherifi‘ Collins and all the deputies secured went to the scene of the riot. SHERIFF COLLINS STRVCR WITII SPAD. By the afternoon several thousand people were on the ground, and when the men at- tempted to go to work a general rush was made for them by the Poles. The police and deputies attempted to beat the mob back with clubs, but unavailingly. Sheriff Collins was several times struck by the sharp spades and now lies at the point of death. A number of the deputies were also cut up with spades. TWO RIOTERS KILLED. Finally the deputies fired upon the mob, instantly killing two and wounding several others. One of the Poles shot is unknown, the other, Andrew Karnoeski, was literally riddled with bullets. The Poles retreated at the fire of the police. Sheriff Collins before he fell shot several of the Poles with his revolver. There were only six deputies backing the sheriff when the fighting com? menced. Foreman George Cathey of the water- works was dangerously cut up by picks and shovels and is in a critical condition. The men who attempted to work fled for their lives from the fury of the mob, some of them concealing themselves in houses in the vicinity. John Russell Fisher, a news- paper reporter, was injured by some of the stones thrown. ‘ SHERIFF CCLLINS \VILL RECOVER. Alater deapatch says zâ€"Sherifl' Collins is resting quietly to-night and his injuries are not expected to have a fatal termination. There was another shooting affair to-uight when Deputy Sheriff Borneman attempted the arrest of a Pole named Tony Pabonski, near the court house. This man was re- pognized as a striker. Before the arrest "6on be made some one in the crowd at- tracted to the spot shot the Pole in the leg and he was removed to the hospital. Twen- ty-onenrresfs have. been made in connection with the trouble at Gresse Point waterway this afternoon. LE CARON AND THE FENIANS. [low Ilc Betrayed Them in the Bald o 1870 and Ruined Their Plans.- “ I was one of the 500 Fenians who left ' New York in April,1870,to go to St. Albans, Vt. , to take part in the intended raid into Canada,” said a well-known Irishman of New York, ” and the death of Major Le Caron, the spy, which is reported from London, reminds me that but for the part he took in that affair the raid of 1870 would have made a big difference in the Irish question to-day. ' “ Le Caron had been some time in this country, taking an active part in organizing the Fenians, and was believed to be nfaith- ful and enthusiastic friend of the Irish cause. When Gen. John O'Neill of tho Fenian army had decided to undertake the invasion of Canada from St. Albans, Lo )aron, who held the title of General in the Fenian order, was sent by Gen. O’Neill, through Gen. Donnell , to make himself thoroughly acquainte with the country between St. Albans and Franklin, on the Canadian border, so that he could safely and quickly pilot the forces of Fenians,who were to make their rendezvous at St. Album, from that place to Franklin, whore (fen. O’Neill had another force ready to cross the some of the patients at the small-pox hos- border and “kc possession of and occupy pital die.” colâ€"o Looking Into Vesuvius. At last, after such a weary and horrid, an old fort that stood on a bill a. mile or so from the border line. Gen. O'Neill (lid not care to move until the forces from St. Albane joined him. ” The 500 Fenians who left New York yet charmed ascent, one must walk the city got to St. Albans the next evening. awful plateau, 3,000 feet above the flashing green surface of that lovely sea below, which,however, may any moment be hidden Le Caron was there to meet us. His orders were to march us right on that same night, so that we could join Gen. O’Neill at Frank~ from view by clouds girdling the mountain lin at 9 o'clock the next morning. Le Caron lower down its sides. Standing now beside the tremendous central pit, one’s care must bear the ceaseless thunderinge that growl and snarl in the cavities below. One must c): erience that heart-stabbing it With Pie?laut cut into 9m“! Piece“ 3 mix 3 start at the an den discharges, like a then- one tablespoon of flour with one cup of sugar, turn it over the pieplant and straw small bits of butter ever the top (one-half a teaspoon of butter to a pie), shake the sugar through the pieces and add the upper crust, pinching it well at the edge to retain the juice. The natural flavor of the pieplant issufiicient. Shortcake.â€"â€"To one quart of flour add one-half a teaspoon of salt, and one scant teaspoon of soda; sift flour three times, and then rub into it.two tablespoons of lard or nice drippings; add sour milk or buttermilk until it. is like biscuit dough. sand lOO-ton guns for off at once, and re- curring, like minute guns, at regular inter- vals in a ceaseless repetition. One must see, at every discharge, 1,000 cart-loads of broken rocks fly thousands of feet u 'n to the murky air, spread themselves like the remnants of o. cyclopcan rocket, and fall back into the abyss, only at the next discharge to be shot up again and again without end. Dire Poverty in Russia. The amount of sufl'ering and misery that Divide it into portions, roll them a little v Russian peasants are now undergomg in thinner than biscuits, and place one above the other on a tin, lightly spreading the lower one with butter, so they will separ~ ate easily. When baked, separate the layers, and between them and on top.' spread hot pieplant sauce. Keeping Pieplantâ€"JVheu pieplant- is old, or if it has made. as low growth, it. becomes tough and stringy. and if then used, peel it before it is wicked. When young and tender, the thin skin will cook as well as the rest, and the delicate color that it adds to the sauce improves the looks, and does not alter the taste. When on have more than you need for immedo rate use, out it into suitable lengths pack closely into Mason cans, fill up with cold water. and seal. For use, turn of the water and prepare as though it was fresh. The fresh juice of pieplant. with the ad- dition of sugar, a few drops of lemon extract, and cold water, makes a refreshing drink for awannday. some of the governments in the interior cannot be imagined by those unacquaintcd wrth this country. In the Government of Kursk, which may be taken as an example, the peasants are entirely without the means of existence. The Novoc Vremya states that in some villages, where there are from 400 tow!) inhabitants, it would be impos- sible to find as much as two rublesâ€"about four shillingsâ€"among them, and all the crops which they athered last year have long been sold. ow these poor wretches are to existâ€"it cannot be said that they liveâ€"till the next harvest it is im ossible to conceive. 1n the gOvernment 0 Onion- burg the inhabitants are dying of want. Some of the poor creatures, it is stated, allow themselves the luxury of a piece of bread once every two days, but the general food is millet bread, which,when the loaves are baked and still warm, looks like cementmnd when it becomes cold,is harder, it possible, than stone. 1 led us from St. Albans, but led us bya rou h and circuitous rout/3 among the bills for ours, until many of our men began to grow weary, and protests and grumbliu became loud. Although we had marche without a stop of any kind we were appar- ently no nearer Franklin than when we left Si. Alhans. At last Le Caron ordered a halt for the night. We were then nears. large farm house and enclosure, and we turned in and waited for morning. The next day We resumed our march. but it was not until 2 o'clock in the afternoon that we reached Franklin. It was then too late. Gen. O'Neill had waited several hours for his reinforcements, and that proved fatal to his lane. The news of the raid had spread t rough the re ion, and when the General at last advance to take possession of the fort he was met by a volley of musketry from its walls. It had already been occupied by a large force of Canadians, who had gathered from all parts, and it was impossib.e for us to ca ture it. We returned to St. Albans by a p sin and easy route, and were annoyed to find that the distance between that place and Franklin was only seventeen miles. I thought then that Le Caron’s conduct in leading us about all night was suspicious, but he explained it by saying that he had lost his way among the mountains. When, years afterward, he came forward with that exhibition of himself as an informer in tho Parnell trial, if there had been any doubt of his treacher in the St. Albans affair it Was dissipate . He had designedly pre- vented us from making that junction with Gen O’Neill at Franklin, and the Irish cause was feet before it was begun. " " The British revenue for the financial year just closed shows a net inseam it over £700,000. .a- -aa‘ma’lw ' smm»-_-._-~_... .. - v *‘ we. 1 ,4; EWLQw,wea:-L w“: , .l Sly . aiding. 14%.. ~..â€"â€"..__ ,,