County SOLARA The. Perth WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1863. Serald. To cur Subscribers. The circulation of the Herald has in- creased to such an extent, that we have re- solyed at once to enlarge the paper to its full size: Our next issue will be a whole sheet, just double our present size ; and we hope also to be adorned with a new and more prepossessing heading, now getting up. We shall then have produced a paper con- taining nearly twice as much reading mat- ter as any other paper in the County, and shall look for increased patronage from our friends. The subscription to the enlarged paper will be the usual Two Dollars in ad- vance. The 12th of July. The Orangemen of this County, as pre- viously announced, assembled here on Mon- day last, to celebrate the Battle of the Boyne. 'The number present was estimated to be over 3,000, with 37 stand of colors.-- Some delay was caused by the Wallace Brethren not arriving at the time appoint- ed. The delay was owing to tho Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway Company not sending up regular passenger cars to Mit- chell. The special train provided for the conveyance of the Brethren from Mitchell to Stratford was composed of common freight cars. 'The consequence was, that train had to come from Mitchell to Strat- ford, and then another be sent up before the Wallace people could come down. We do not know whose fault it was that such cars were provided. It is to be hoped, how- ever, it was not intentional on the part of the Company. Immediately after the Brethren had dined, a grand procession was formed head- ed by the Stratford, St. Mary's and Se- bringville Brass Bands; E. Dent, Esq., County Master, acting as Grand Martial_-- The procession marched through the prin-| cipal streets, and then to Mr. J. C. W. Daly's Park Lot, where a platform had been erected for the Speakers. Mr. Dent briefly addressed the assem- blage. He said, owing to the delay caused by the Mitchell Brethren not arriving at the appointed time the addresses would have to be short, and many who had intended to speak on the occasion would be prevented, as the time would not permit. At first, he said, it was arranged that the Orangemen of this County would go to Toronto to cele- brate the day there, but owing to some poasts haying been made that they dare not show their faces«in Stratford any more af- ter the late political defeat, it was deter- mined that they should meet in the County Town of the Vounty of Perth--that they would meet in Stratford and celebrate the day there. The numbers before him proved that Conservatism in the County of Perth was not yet dead ; it also showed the spirit and yigour of the Orange Society. It was true that a few of the Brethren had desert- ed the Conservative cause on the occasion of the late election. Some 125 had voted on the Clear Grit side. He was sorry such had been the case. He could not understand how any Orangeman could vote with the Grits after what the Stratford " Beacon" had said about them. Had not that paper called them midnight assassins ! meeting in dark rooms with dark lanterns to plot the ruin of their fellow beings. Had the Orangemen of the County stood by each other, had they all been true to the great Conservative cause, they could have elected their man. He hoped in future they would understand themselves better and not vote for men who would trample the colors be- fore him under their feet if they could -- Mr. Dent complimented the Brethren on the effort they made to be present on that day to celebrate the great victory of the Boyne. Some before him had come over fifty miles. Such men were worthy the name they bore. As County Master, he felt his position to be a proud one. The number of Orange banners displayed that day proved that neither Orangeism nor Con- servatism was dead in the County of Perth. The Rey. KE. Patterson being called upon said; as the time was very limited and as Mr. Daly had yet to address them, he would not detain them with any remarks. He was not a politician, but his views on such matters, did he express them, would, no doubt, please them. He had just one word of advice to give them--a house di- vided against itself could not stand, let them therefore be united; let them remember the motto, " Union is strength; united we stand, divided we fall ;" whichever side of polities they took let them be united. Mr. Stewart spoke for a few minutes, say- ing he was the oldest Orangeman present-- that he had introduced Orangeism into Ca- ' deafening cheers. Mr. DaLy next came forward amidst He explained the object for which they had met. It was to cele- | prate one of the most important victories The of which history gave us any account. | struggle which terminated at the battle of the Boyne was for civil and religious liber- ty. Freedom was arrayed against despot- ism, and the cause of freedom triumphed. Such celebrations were necessary. Were it not for such gatherings as that before him, those liberties for which our forefathérs bled would soon be trampled upon. Every one remembered what took place at Toronto last winter: how a lawless mob had, on the occasion of the meeting to discuss the merits and demerits of the Separate School Bill, broke up the gathering the moment those who were opposed to the Bill got up to speak. That ism, no matter what it was, was a despotism which would dare put down the right of free discussion --that would not acceed to others the pri- vileges that it claimed for itself. It was the duty of every Briton to guard the rights and privileges he now enjoyed--those rights and privileges: the right to speak and act for himself--those rights and privileges : the glorious blessing of liberty civil and reli- gious, were bought with blood and should be held sacred. The attempt to stifle free discussion in Toronto shewed plainly to every man that, were not the power want- ing, he would not be addressing them on that occasion. advice for them in political matters, and then he had done. He was opposed to free men acting otherwise than as free men. There was a right and a wrong way of doing all things,and attempting to carry an election by intimidation or force was the wrong way. The Conservatives of the County of Perth lost their election by their own neglect. North Easthope had set them an example. He hoped they would follow it. North Easthope had put in Clear Grit Clerks, Clear Grit Assessors, Clear Grit Collectors, Clear Grit everything. It had attended to the Assessment of every man and boy in the Township, hence the reason of the large vote which that Township had polled. He asked if the Conservative Townships and Villages had acted in the same way. There was Blanchard, a Conservative Township, with a Clear Grit Assessor; there was Mitchell the same; there was Elma with a Clear Grit Clerk, who had kept the list back and caused a loss of some fifty votes to the Conservative cause ; there was Wallace, just as bad. The Wallace list, he said, had been detained by a Grit Postmaster for three weeks after it was mailed. These were the causes--these were the reasons why the Conservative party was behind. They had a majority of good votes in the County, and it was their own fault if they allowed the enemy to get ahead of them. He trusted the causes of our defeat to which he had weferred would be promptly and effectually removed. Let the Conservatives appoint, when they haye the power, officials from among themselves, let them follow the ex- ample of North Easthope, and see that every man who has a right to vote be put on the list, and then matters would assume a different aspect. Mr. Daly then thanked the Brethern for the patient hearing they had given him. He felt proud, he said, as an QOrangeman, to see such a very large number present, and he also felt proud of the manner in which they had conducted themselves. He trusted they would always act as well. Mr. E. R. Sullivan then came forward and addressed the Brethern for about half an hour. He admonished them to stand a united body, to assist one another as far as possible, and above all things to be firm in maintaining Protestantism. He referred to the double-dealing of George Brown and the party with whom he was now allied. Had he and that party the power those flags, he said, would be trampled in the dust. He concluded by moving the follow- ing resolutions, which were seconded by Mr. Arthur Whittaker, District Master of Wallace. "That in view of the ill-advised action of a portion of our duped and deceived Brethren in other parts in the recent General Election, and the subsequent action of certain Orangemen of Frontenac. in meeting assembled at Kingston, touching their support and allegi- ance to our respected Grand Master elect, and their evident predilection for a political party, whose antecedents and practices have ever been adverse to Orange interests, the Orangemen of Perth County en masse assembled, do therefore " Resolve,---That it is our duty to disabuse the public mind relative to the position of Or- angemen proper, towards not only the present Worthy Grand Master, the Hon John Hillyard Cameron and his co-officials, but also towards the Canadian body politic." "1st. They repudiate the connection of any portion of the Order with the political party at present known in Canada as Clear Grits, and hold that Orangeman unworthy his privileges who may have cast his political lot with such a party." "2nd. They utterly repudiate tlie resolutions purporting to emanate from the County Lodge of the County of Frontenac, as un-Orange, and based upon the most palpable fallacies. They reject them as the offspring of malace and igno- rance, utterly at variance with the mature and spirit of Orangeism." "3rd. They hereby record their entire confi- dence inthe integrity and worth of our Right Worshipful Brother, Hon John H. Cameron, Grand Master of British North America, and beg to tender him the assurance that those of our noble Order who sympathize with our errat- ic and contumacious Brethren in Kingston are few indeed." " That the Conservative newspapers of the County, with the Toronto Leader, Hamilton Spectator, London Prototype, Kingston News and Whig, Cobourg Star, Belleville Intelligencer, and Montré&l Gazette, be requested to give the nada in 1821, Ke. = above resolutions a place in their columns, He had a few words of These resolutions were passed unani- mously. Mr. Dent, on behalf of the Stratford District Lodge, presented Mr. Arthur Whittaker with aflag having a " Wallace Lamb" painted on each side. The procession then reformed, and marched to the Union Station, to see the Brethern who went by train off; after which the local Lodges conveyed the Morn- ington Brethern a short distance out the Northern Gravel Road, and then dispersed. The Stratford Volunteer Militia Band afterwards played several tunes on the platform in front of Mr. Sullivan's resi- dence. The nnmber present was greater than ever before assembled in Stratford -- Throughout the whole of the proceedings the greatest harmony and good order obtained. We did not observe one man belonging to the Order the worse of liquor. War News. No fighting of any note has taken place General Lee has not yet recrossed the Potomac. He is repre- sented as being in a good position. There is nothing definite as to the reason why Lee has not recrossed the Potomac. Some re- ports say it is because the river is so high. On the other hand it is said he has no wish to cross and is prepared to resist, and that a reinforcement of 40,000 under Beaure- gard is marching to reinforce him. Gen- eral Morgan is making a destructive raid through Southern Indiana. He has done a great deal of mischief to Railroad and and other property. Vicksburg has been surrendered. since our last issue. The Conseription in New York--- A Riot ensues, A fearful riot took place in New York on Monday last, and appeared to be in- creasing up till latest accounts on T'udsday evening. The riot commenced in the 3rd Avenue at the conscription office. The mob set fire to the building in which the conscription was being held, and drove away the officials. | The whole block has been burned down. The mob would not allow the fire bells to be rung nor the en- gines to be used. _--All the telegraph wires in the locality have been cut. Several lives have been lost. A number of policemen have been so badly beaten that their re- covery is almost hopeless, and Superinten- dent Kennedy is dead. The coloured Or- phan Assylum has been destroyed, and some 20 coloured people are supposed to have been killed. | The mob appears to be determined to resist the conscription to the death. The city*is represented as being in a fearful state of excitement. One or two military corps had arrived, and measures were being taken by General Wood, which, it was hoped, would quell the riot. No Representation till mext Census. We clip the following paragraph from a late' number of the Quebec Vindicator :-- " The past of any public man or party is gen- erally safe ground on which to predicate occur- rences in the near future, and the past of Stand- field Macdonald's administration is full of guarantee. He promised us a Separate School Bill but twelve months ago, and, at the risk of rousing against himself the whole fanaticism of: the West, he gave us the Bill of the late session. He promised to keep the question of Represent- ation by Population a close question, and his promise was kept to its fullest extent. We may have to return to the simple majority rule,, but the correlative question, of disturbing the relative representation of each section, is virtually de- Serred by the default of its advocates until the census of 1871,---it will be the fault of Lower Canada if any reason shall then exist for such a radical reform." The Quebec Vindicator is not one of the great guns of the party: still its opinions are not on that account to be overlooked. The Vindicator bases its assumption that there will be no redistribution of the Representation till 1871, on the supposition that the Premier will act in the future as in the past. The Premier, the Vindica- tor says, ' promised us a Separate School Bill, and he gave it to us at a great risk to himself." Then he pro- mised to keep the Representation question a close question, and he did so. The Vindicator, therefore, concludes that Mr. Macdonald will not now urge forward a measure which is obnoxious to the people of Lower Canada. There is no doubt but the Vindicator is right. But mark what this Lower Canada paper considers a further reason for conclud- ing that this great Upper Canada question shall be put off till the next census: " by the default of its advo- cates." Thus then, by the desertion of principle on the part of those who assumed to be the strenuous advocates of this reform, has it lost ground ; and on that account do the enemies of it boast that is indefinitely put off. It is to be hoped that the good men and true of Upper Canada will show by their course in regard to this reform, when Parliament meets, that the Vin- dicator and all such have calculated \the merchant loses 4 per cent. on without their host in this instance. We are mistaken if the representatives of all shades of politics from this sec- tion of the province will allow re-, presentation to lie in abeyance for one session, much less till 1871. . Meeting of Parliament, It would appear from an announce- ment made in the Toronto Globe last week, that Parliament will be sum- moned to meet in the early part of August. This is what the country expects, and what is right. 'The an- nouncement in the Globe, however, is in strange opposition to what Mr Mc- Dougall said in his speech at Ux- bridge. No doubt it was the inten- tion of Ministers not to have summon- ed Parliament before the usual time ; and Mr McDougall, when he made such an announcement, undoubtedly spoke the opinions and intention of his colleagues. unqualified condemnation which Mr McDougall's announcement received from the press caused Ministers to change their intention, and influenced them to summon Parliament in ac- cordance with constitutional practice. This yielding to public opinion, how- ever, does not in any way change the fact, that the Ministry had determin- ed upon acting in opposition to what they knew to be right. Had net pub- lic opinion, expressed through the Press, been so strong and so unmis- The universal and takable in its tone, there is no reason for supposing that Mr McDougall's announcement was not the policy of the Ministry. It is well that Minis- ters will yield in such matters to pub- lic opinion; but why had they to be forced to do that which was constitu- tional and right? Why was it neces- sary to force them to do their duty? How much better would it have been had they announced their intention of meeting the House at once, instead of having a member of the Cabiget say- ing, evidently for the purpose of as- certaining how the public would take it, that the Chambers would not be called together much before the usual time; and then when it became known that the public would not tol- erate' such a course, announcing through their organ, their intention of doing what was right. Such conduct on the part of Ministers will not lead the public to believe that they are possessed of that high sense of right which should characterize men holding such an honorable position. Taking the past conduct of the men who compose the Macdonald-Dorion Cabinet as a criterion, they have done in this matter as well as could be ex- pected, American Silver. The great quantity of American sil-. ver which is now in circulation is likely to become a source of much in- convenience. We are informed there are persons who buy up this silver at a discount of 8 per cent., and then pay it out at par, telling the farmers that it is a legal tender to the amount of ten dollars. Canada silver is a legal tender to the amount of $10; and Amer ican gold is a legal tender at current or par value; but we are aware of no law which says American silver is a legal tender in Canada for any amount. The Town and County Councils should take some steps to guard against such an influx of Amer- ican silver at the present time. It should~ not be permitted to pass at more than its real value--that is, at its Bankable value. We believe it would not be taken at any Bank in payment of a bill; it is, therefore, a thing of great inconvenience to the general business man. Merchants cannot well refuse taking it from a customer in payment for goods, yet every transaction in which such silver is exchanged for his goods; otherwise he is compelled to add the difference to the commodities he sells. Im that case the farmer, generally, would be the losing individual. The par cir- culation of any money which cannot be used at par in the Banks should | not be encouraged. Such is Ameri- can which, consequently, should be prevented as much as pos- sible from coming into Canada. We have been told there are individuals in the habit of taking Canada Bank bills and exchanging them for American silver, getting the discount, and then paying out this silver at the rate of 25 cents. per guarter. The Banks, as far as possible, should prevent their bills from being issued for this purpose.-- This would be one way of preventing such a free circulation of American silver in Canada. Another, and per- haps a better way, would be for the Warden of the County and the Mayor of Stratford to take some steps to pre- vent this silver from being received in payment of taxes except at the usual discount of 8 or 10 per cent. This would prevent the farmers from tak- ing it as they now do at par value. silver : EuropeaN News. GREAT BRITAIN. The Princess of Wales held a Draw- ing-room at St. James' Palace, on be- half of Her Majesty, on 20th June, The Queen of Prussia has been pay- ing a private and personal visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle. At the Oxford commemoration on 16th June the degree of Doctor in Civil Law was conferred onthe Prince - of Wales. In the British House of Commons Mr H. Berkeley made his fifteenth an- nual motion for the vote by ballot; the motion, after a very brief discus- sion, was negatived upon a division © of 122 to 102. A serious and fatal accident had oc- cured on the Brighton Railway, which resulted persons, two of whom were privates in the Grenadier Guards. The acei- dent occured between the Kast Croy-- den and Victoria Stations, and ap- pears, so far as the investigation has gone, to be the result of negligence. | The official trial of the iron-plated ship "Royal Oak'? commenced on Monday, 15th June, and was highly satisfactory. This vessel is the first of the converted and fully armoured frigates. She is not prepossessing in appearance, but of great size and for- midable character. Her naked stern, with its sharp apex above the rudder, is doubtless the very form required for strength and for throwing off an ene- my's shot. She carries three 11¢ pounder Armstrongs on her upper deck, besides the usual complement: of boat guns and field pieces. The: main deck, which is protected by the ship's external coating of armour, vre~ sents to view a continuous battery) of 95 cwt., 68 pounders, and Armstro. + 110 pounder breech loaders. Th - lower deck is provided with a com- prehensive system of up and down- cast air tubing and shafting for venti- lation. The Engines of 800 horse- power, nominal, by Maudslay, Field. & Son The weight of the engines is 186 tons: boilers 206 tons; and of water in boilers when filled 118 tons. The propeller weighs 11 tons 11 ewt. The steering of the ship is managed by a simple reversion to the old gun room tiller, 2. ¢., & long straight tiller, projecting from the rudder-aead into the after cabin. The mean speed of the ship is 12.528 knots, Oak is an armour-cased frigate, con-- verted from the frame of a 91 gun serew liner. The annual Ministerial banquet at. the Mansion House fook place on the evening of the 16th. It was provided on the usual scale of splendor, and the: guests numbered 200. The Cabinet was represented by Lord Palmerston,, Earl Russell, the Duke of Argyle,, Earl de Grey, and Mr Gibson. They' all made speeches, but said nothing, unless anything may be inferred from the following words of Lord Palmers- ton. 'There are two powers on whose friendship with one another, or on whose difference and enmity mainly depends the question of peace or dis . turbance in Europe--I mean Engla' aq and France. I am happy to say that on all those great questions on ¥ ;hich- in the death of four -- The Royal --