County of Perth Herald (Stratford), 22 Jun 1864, p. 2

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4 THE COUNTY OF New Advertisements this Week. War, War.--A Caven Auction Sale--Henry Paddicombe. Temperance Demonstration--W. D. Buckle, Secretary. Stratford Grammar School.-- C. J. Macgregor Durham Bull.--William Lupton. Watch Maker.--W R Roberts Melodeons --Vivian & Maddocks.t Foxe's Book of Martyrs,--Vivian & Maddocks Family Bibles.--Vivian.&. Maddocks. POO Gounty of Perth Herald. WEDNESDAY, JUNE Tre Crisis. Sinee'our last issne a Ministerial crisis has been brought about. Mr. Dorion brought "forward a motion condemning a certain transaction which took place in 1859 Our readers will naturally ask what could the present, or Tache-Campbell 3 inistry have to do with an act of the Cartier-Mac- douaid administration ? Mr. Dorion's mo- tion was merely a personal attack upon the Finance Minister, and as such should have been voted down; but the factionists or obstructionists not daring to attack the present policy of the Ministry, being unable to point out a fault in Mr. Galt's financial scheme, asa last hope attaueked himself for a traasaction which took place five years ago--the Montreal Debenture affair which we notice elsewhere. The Ministry were in no way bound to accept of it as a mot on of want of confidence, because with as much reason might the obstruetionists have * brought in a motion condemnatory df any- thing else as that to which they particularly refer, and cariying it by a majority of the House, claim that it was a vote of censure upon the Ministry. The Government, however, thought proper to accept of the thotion a8 one of gon-confidence. On con- sulting yith His esinens: the Ministry received power either to reconstruct or dis- solve as they might think best. The Mi- uistry were unwilling to dissolve the House and thereby precipitate a general election; cntailing upon the country, thereby, a heavy expense to say nothing of the evil éffects of suoh' things 'upon the people. Before adopting that course, therefore, Ministers were willing to exhaust every other possible remedy for the dead lock at which mattefs had arrived. During a casual conversation which took place on Friday last, between Mr. Morris, of North Lanark, and My. Brown, the latter intimated that if the Gov- ernment advanced a stu towards the settle- merit of the sectional difficulties: which ex- isted, he would be inclitied to support them. Mr. Morris asked if he might communicate his (Mr. Brown's) views.to, the leaders of the Governnient. Mr. Brown replied that he had no proposition to make to the Gov- erument, but if the leaders manifested any willingness to make an effort towirds a peaceful arrangement of the relations be- tween the two sections, he (Mr. Morris) wis at liberty to state to them what his (Mi. Brown's) views were. On Mr. Morris' communicating to the Government these facts, it was arranged that an interview should take pluce between Messrs. Dik: Macdonald," Gait, Cartier and Brown. What Mr. Brown asks is a federation of the two sections of the Province to begin with, and afterwards extend the principle to the whole of the colonies. This is what was proposed as a remedy for the evils of which Mr. Brown complains by Mr. Galt and others iv 1859. We rejoice to see that Mr. Brown bas moderated his views 0. this subject. He must have seen for some time that Representation by Popula- tion, pure and simple, as he at first de- manded, could not be obtained, und if ob- tained would not work well. Mr, Brown deserves credit for thus abandoning a prin- ciple which he finds to bs impracticable, and meeting his former opponents in a manly and straight forward manner. It is equally noble on the part of Messrs. J. A. Macdonald, Galt and Cartier, after all the abuse they have suffered from Mr. Brown and his party, to bury all these past recol- jections and be prepared to work, as they -always have worked, for the best interests _of their country. It is unquestionably the but not more so than ce in the days of Lord North, or in 5 a Province in 1854. Our friends may rest assured, whatever the result of the crisis may be, that the Honorable John A. Macdonald will do nothing, nor be a party to anythiog that would cast a stain upon his political character. His life's aim and that of his colleagues roi ye seserate ir country, up her vast resources, pace eae highways and make her sition known among nations. If now they are meeting parties who have for a long time been their most bitter opponents, it is because the necessity of the crisis de- mandsit. | We think the conduct of Messrs. Macdonald, Qartier and Galt on the - side, and that of Mr. Brown on the other deserving of praise. Our friends are aban- doning no principle i what they are now meeting of extremes doing, and, therefore, still merit the sup- port and confidence of their party. We have not space enough this week to refer at any length to the proposed bases for a set tlement of the constitutional trouble. It.is nearly what we have contended for, and is, no doubt, as much as could be reasonably expected in the beginning. It is proposea that me be:s elected to represent the peo- ple in Parliament shall hold the position and discharge the duties of both federal and local legislators. Thus, affairs relating to the whole of Canada, in which the people of all sections are alike interested, would be dealt with by the Legislature whose mem- bers represented all sections; while ques- tions of merely sectional interest and of purely local concern, would be under the legislative cognizance of members from that sectjon, acting as a body separate from the general Parliament, and independent in its superyision and control over sectional mat- ters. To illustrate the working of this scheme: suppose thatthe Parliament now assembled in Quebec were elected under the federal principle, it would deal with all sub- jects in which the whole people are interest- éd in common, such as trade and. finance, &e* "Then when this general business was transacted, members representing Upper Ganadian constituencies would meet_as a" separate Legislative Assembly, and deal With matters particularly affecting their own section. And so also with regard to mem- bers representing Lower Canadian consti- tuencies. We would prefer that Upper and Lower Canada should each have their own local Parliament, and that these locals. should elect representatives to the central or su- preme House. The scheme contemplated above may do very well in so far as the Canadas are concerned; but should the principle be extended to the Lower Prov- inces and all become united in one Federa- tion, it would not answer. Tt is expected that the negotiations now going on between Messrs. Macdonald, Gath, Cartier aud Brown will be so far pertected as to enable them to announce the result to the House to-day. Both the Leader and Globe appear to think that all is settled ex- cept the personnel of the Ministry. It is ru- mored that Mr. Simpson will accept the office of Secretary of the Bureau of Agriculture and Statistics, and that Messrs. Buchanan and Foley will retixe--to b2 succeeded by Messrs. Brown, O. Mowat and Fergusson Blair. However much these announce- ments may take the public by surprise, we have reason to believe t: at all the gentle- men concerned are actuated by the best of motives, and that the r sult, if they finally succeed, will be for the general good. When Sandfield Macdonald perpetrated his unconstitutional shuffle, turning cut anuwber of his old colleagues and taking in new ones, he and his newspapers claimed that» this patched up administration was not responsible for either the policy or the acts of the Macdonald-Sicotte administration. The Macdonald-Dorion administration was quite a new affair with a new policy and a few new men, and therefore had nothing to do with the old policy or the old men, These people have since changed their views. Not being able to point out a fault in the present policy of the men composing the Tache-Campkell government, they- go back and bring forward a transaction which transpired in 1859, and for which Mr. Galt is alone responsible, anc on this transaction base a motion of non-confidence. The policy of the new men is unexceptionable--already a scheme has been submitted which will equalize revenue and expenditure--already steps have been taken to make our public system of accounts in the different Depart- ments more perfect--under their care an Insolvency Bill has been brought forward for the relief of those who have become hopelessly embarrassed. From the moment they accepted office till the present time they have devoted themselves to their task of placing the financial and other matters of the province on a proper basis--several |motions were brought forward by the fac- tionists, condemning certain parts of the new policy, but they had not the courage to press these motions to a vote. In a word, the policy of the Tache-Campbell Ministry was unexceptionable as a whole, and, there- fore, notwithstanding that the present House was elected ander the auspices of the Grits, aud that they claimed to have a majority in their favor, they were unable to induce members to stultify themselves by yoting in support. of motions condemning a polic which they knew recommended itself to the country. Being anxious, however, to again possess themselves of the spoils of office, they set themselves"to the task of trumping up some sort of a charge which would give their creatures a pretence of excuse for vot- ing dewn men who were not only able but willing to legislate for the best interests of the province. Accordingly the celebrated Montreal .$100,000 affair was brought for- ward. The Ministry were in no way bound to accept a vote upon such a motion as a test vote--it had no reference to them as a Government--it referred to a matter which took place many years before they were in officc--it was a stab at the character of a man whose talents make for him enemies of all such incapable creatures as the How- lands and Holtons of the Clear Grit camp. As such, however, the Ministry aecepted it as a trial of strength. The history of this transaction has been so often given that it is almost useless to repeat it. Under pres- ent circumstances it becomes necessary again to refer to it. We give below a very full and truthful statement of this affair as , STRATFORD, W EDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1864. '. given in the Hamilton Spectutor, which wiil show how absurd is all thenoise made about that $100,000. Had Mr. Howland done his duty the whole matter would have been brought to a close long ago. That time- server, however, was too anxious for office to perform his duty--he was too anxious to reconcile both the city of Mcntreal and the Grand Trunk Raitway to bring this matter toacrisis. The attempt made by him and others of that Ministry to bribe the Grand Trunk people proves that it was no part of his or his colleagues' policy to institute pro- ceedings to have this transaction settled. Again, it must be reniémbered that Mr. Blackwell was then alive, who would have confirmed Mr. Galt's statements and, there- fore, prevented the perjured Financial Commission from being able to cast even a shade of suspicion upon his character. The transaction, so far as Mr. Galt was con- cerned, was a bona fide one.- It was done for the purpose of relieving an embarrassed municipality which was-qnable to pay up. Mr. Galt merely gave upa claim upon the city of Montreal for one of a jike amount apon the Grand Tru, with the under- standing that the amount would be repaid by drafts on Messrs. Barring and Messrs. Glynn, fiscal agents of the Province. in London. At that time the Government held in their hands moritys belonging to the Grand Trunk. Referring to the matter in so far as the London agents were concerned, Mr. Galt states that the arrangement was made by himself personally--that they were at the time the Bankers of the Grand 'Trunk Company, and that they agreed to assume each one half of the advance--that Mr. Blackwell was cognizant of this arrange- ment. He also states that he advised the officers of his own Department and of the Receiver General's Department, of such an arrangement having been effected, under date 28th Dee., 1859.» This sum, in ac- cordance with the arrangement above re- ferred to, was charged in the Publie Ac- counts to the London agents---to which charge they took no exception, and Mr, Galt was not aware that the whole. thing was not finally closed up till the spring of 1862, a short time before he went out of office. On making some enquiries regard- ing this matter, he learned that the Agents had not credited this amount to the Pro- vince. He would then have attcnded to it at once had he remained in office. Before retiring, however, he took pains to instruct Mr. Langton, the Auditor-General, to bring the subject at onee under the notice of his -- suecessor, as one. that required immediate atiention. Instead of Mr. Howland, however, looking after the matter :s he ought to have done, at once, he allowed it to remain as it was till after Mr. Blackwell's. death--who was the only and most important witness of the arrange- ment made with the London Agents. After Mr: Howland: found-he could not bribe either the city of Montreal or the Grand Trunk Company to become the tools of the Ministry of which he was a member, and after the death of Mr. Blackwell had pluced Mr. Galt in an awkward position, the item was taken up--of. course . Messrs. Barrivg and Glynn had no recollection of it. Since then it has been twisted into hun- dreds of shapes in order to injure Mr. Galt asa public man. There is no doubt that The article in the Spectator, to which we referred, says .-- La In the course ofa remark upon one of the items of supply, some reference was incidentally made to the celebrated $100,000 Montreal debenture case, and some explanations were given which, as they were not given before, deserve to be made public. Mr, Holton charged Mr Galt with having caused the loss to the Province of that sum, and Mr. Galt in reply said that ifhe could not soon collect it from the parties who were previously responsible, it was due to the whim which the late Finance Minister had himself taken. Mr. Holton hereupon entered into cer- tain explanations, to the effect that when he took office he found this item a charge against the financial agents of the Province, that he had caused enquiry at once to be made concerning it, and that as the agents repudiated all recol- lection of the alleged arrangement with Mr. Galt that it should be charged against them, he had caused it to be wiped off the debit account with them.--Mr. Galt gave very full explanations as to the circumstances. He stated that when in London in the fall of 1859, he had had a conver- sation with Mr. Baring about those debentures, the redemption of which had been previously charged against the Grand Trunk, and that the agreement was made that the amouxrt should be charged against the financial agents. On that very day he had written out to the proper officer of the Government here, stating the nature* of the arrangement as to this matter and a num- ber of others, and that upon that letter, written on the very day of the conversation and arrange- ment with Mr. Baring, the entries had been made in the bookshere. That in the Public Accounts of 1860 the item appeared as charged against 'the financial agents; and these amounts had been sent home to them, and no exception had been taken ; and it was not until the following year that any question arose on the subject. That-the first difficulty occurred about ten days before the crisis of 1862, and Mr. Galt was in the act of making the matter right, when he was defeated. He then called Mr. Langton's atten- tion to the subject as one which would require the immediate attention of his successors in office, and authorized Mr. Langton to say that he vrould be happy if required to give any in- formation which he possessed on the subject to Mr. Howland, or in any other way assist in set- ting the matterright. He heard no more about it until the month of December, when he re- ceived a notice to attend before the Financial 'Commission. But as appeared from the evidence of the Commission, Mr. Howland, instead of at once availing himself of Mr. Galt's offers and en- deavoring at once to set the matter right, never appealed to Mr. Galt at all, and never mentioned the matter to the financial agents until he was niin lata the B. & E in London with Mr. Sicotte in December, and had the interview with the Messrs. Glynn and Baring, wich must so have startled them with the financial acunien of the Miuisterof Finance. Mr.Galt appeared, as we have said, before the Fin- ancial Commission, nd there under oath made the statements which he repeated last evening 5 but he said more, he gaye the name of Mr. Black- well as a person who was present at the arrange- ment between Mr. Baring and himself as to this $100,000. That evidence was given in of bruary, of 1863, if we mistake not; Mr. Howls. was then Finance Minister, and ought to have taken notice of it. Mr. Blackwell, the only living witness to the arrangement, was at the time alive and in England ; and yet he permitted the matter to remain unnoticed, and his success- or did the same for months afterwards, until in August Mr. Blackwell died, and then Mr. Hol- ton resumed the correspondence with the fisan- cial agents on the subject, and upon their state- ment, -when"he ought by the exercise of that discretion on the part of himself or his prede- cessor and cclleague, Mr. Howland, have secured the evidence of Mr. Blackwell, and thus have set the whole question right, upon their statement, we say he deliberately marked the item out, and relieved them from it! Surely Mr. Galt was rightin saying that to the action of the late Government was it due that the financial agents could not now be made responsible for this sum of money. The truth is they were more intent upon making political capital out of the affair than they were of 'securing : the; re- payment to the Province of the amount, and it is neither injurious or unfair in view of their conduct, to charge them with haying deliberate- ly commived at the loss 'to the country of the amount simply that they might afterwards charge it upon the Cartier-Macdonald. Govern- ment as a fearful offence, and the country will hold them responsible in this sense. ~ But another point alluded to by Mr. Galt, had reference to the insinuation of the Financial Commissioners in their report, that he or some other members of the Government were holders of the Montreal, Debentures which had-been re- deemed, and that they were personally inter- ested in having them paid. 'Lhe Commisioners, it appears, applied for the names of 'the holders of the Debentures, but were unable to get them from the British Bank, all the other institutions complying with their request. And in accord- ance with the secret instructions they had re- ceived as a trio of moral assassins, they put forth this insinuation as accounting for the re- fusal of the Bank to give the names of the hold- ers of the bonds. Upon the appearance of the report, Mr. Galt at once wrote to Mr. Paton of the British Bank, begging of him that no rules of the Bank should be'permitted to stand in the way of the names of the bondholders being given. Mr. Paton wrote to New York and procured the names, and had written a letter to the Secretary of the Financial Commission, giving them to him, and yet to this day the villanous insinua- tion of the report had been permitted to go un- contradicted, and the most damaging state- ments were made in connection with it, while the evidence had been all the whilg in the poss- ession of the Government to prove it» utterly unfounded. As Mr. Galt very properly saw, it ought not to haye been left to him to be the first to offer this explanation. Mr. Holton ad- mitted the receipt, by the Government through the Secretary ofthe financial Commission, Mr. Sheppard, of Mr. Paton's letters, and then the matter dropped. We are inclined to think we shall not hear any more for some time to come of this $100,000 affair, It received a quietus last night, as a weapon of attack against the old Cartier-Macdonald Government; although it may serve a purpose on the other side, in 'view of the wretched want of business capacity. with, which the question was treated by the Jate Administration. : Britisls , and Foreign Bible Soa- e ety. A large and highly respectable meeting was held in the Town Hall on Thursday evening last. In the absence of the Rev. Mr. Macpher- son, President of the Upper Canada Branch Bible Society, the Rev. Mr. Patterson occupied the chair. {On the platform we observed the Revs. Dr. George and Durrant. After a short ad- Mr. Galt will, in the end, be vindicated. dress from the chairman, th. Rev. Mr. Gill, who isiting this Country,as a deputation from . B. Society, addressed the meeting. described, ina humorous way, the opinion hich*the people of England entertain of Cana- s--that they are poor and live in little log shanties, &c, He said he was agreeably disap- pointed. He found Canada a large, wealthy and prosperous country. In loyalty he found the Canadian people equal to those of the mother country. He referred to the manner in which Her Gracious Majesty's Birthday was ob- served as a proof that the Canadian people pro- perly appreciated the worth of the noble woman who ruled over the great British Empire. Re- garding the importance of the B. & F. B. Society --the great engine for the propagation of Gos- pel truth--we gathered the following facts from the Rey. Gentleman's address. Lord Shaftsbury ig still President of the Society and it has for its members the Archbishop of York and Canter- bury and 32 other Bishops. Her Majesty's name appeared on the Society's books for ¥£100. The total sum received as legacies by the So- ciety during the past year was £21,628 17 11. The total receipts from allsources was £169,- 703 17 7. The Society's expenditure during the first year of its existence was only £691. Last yearit was £150,000. This was a proof of the progress the Society had made during the 60 years it has been in operation. The Society commenced its career of usefulness with the Bible translated into 50 languages only--now it issues that blessed book in 164 different dialects. For the first ten years after the Society started it issued little over 116,000 copies of the Scrip- tures--during the last ten years it had distribut- ed the immense number of 17,000,000. The is- sue of the last year alone was 2,495,118 copies. The Society has circulated in all, since its com- mencement over 46,000,000 copies of the word of God. Mr. Gill referred to the Society's operations in France, Austria, Prussia, Italy, &c., and showed that great success was crowning its efforts. The Choral Society added much to the pleas- ure of the evening by their performance. Ag the close of the meeting a collection was taken on behalf of the Society amounting to $5 84. W. N. Hossie Esq., moved the following reso- lution, seconded by the Rev. Dr. George, which is no County Court and Court of Quar- ier Sessicns,. ( Continued.) wie ry, Thursday, June 16th. The Courts were opened this morning pursuant to adjournment. On the Bench were His Honor, E. F. Ryerson, Esq , Deputy Judge, and Messrs, John Smith, Thos. Matheson, S. Whaley, John Lynch, Uriah McFadden, John Nicklin, Robert McKee, J. A. Scott, Wm. Mowat and John Shaiman, Esqs. sf The following legal gentlemen were present: D. H. Lizars, County Attorney, Carroll & Me- Culloch, Robert Smith, J. P. Woods, G.- -W. Lawrence and Chas, Scott, of Stratford; J. McFadden and ©, S. Jones, of St..Marys ; t, H. Spencer, L. L..B.,.of Toronto. . " The first case was Jostan Wridat et. al. vs. Wat Burns.--No defence. Carral] & McCulloch for plf. Verdict $129.87. Tarr ef. al, vs. Mrrenein et al--Verdict for plf., by consent. $211. L. M, Clench for pli. C. 8. Jones for def. APPEALS. na At the Court' of Revision which took placga short time since, in the township of Morn, ington, after being © greatly proyoked, James Boyd,: jr, and others, committed , what Mr. John Smith, of Millbank, was pleased to call an aggravated» assault, which consisted in. one ortwo persons looking at the gentleman with countenances shrouded «some- what with anger, and by one of the parties lay- ing his hand on another's shoulder. + For this offence they were brought before Mr. Smith and fined twenty cents. This, of itself, shows that the alleged assault could not have been much. Against this convicticn the parties appealed. There were three cases: Jas. Boyd, jr., vs. John Smith; Alex. Roe and Wm. Hamilton vs. W. C. Walker; Henry Nicklin and Alex. McKell vs. John Freebgrn. Robt, Smith appeared for the appellants, and D, H. Lizars for the respondents. Boyp vs. Surru was taken up first. After the two Legal gentlemen had very learnedly and fully argued the pros. and cons. of the case be- fore their Worships, the conviction was quashed on account of its informality. The convictions in the other cases being the same, the Court quashed them also, It was Judge Burritt's rule in cases of this kind to divide the costs--allow- ing each party to pay his own. As will appear from what follows some of our Worthy Magi- strates thought differently and decided otherwise: "We do agree that in the appealed cases, 'Walker vs. Roe,' Freeborn vs. Nicklin and Mc- Kell,' the appellants pay all costs. (Signed,) We Mow ar Py Ao RI SOOET, J: P: JOHN LYNCH, J.P. §. WHALEY, J.P. T. MATHESON, . J; P.. The same gentlemen in the case of "Smith vs. Boyd," signed a similar order. Strange to say, however, in the case of '* Walker vs. Hamilton," the following order was made :-- "Wedo agree that the costs in the appeal case, Hamilton appellant and Walker respondent, be paid by the respondent, Walker." (Signed,) WM. MOWAT, J. P. U. McFADDEN, J.P: JOHN NIOKLIN, J. P. ROBERT KcKBE, J. P. «. JOHN LYNCH, J: P. S. WHALEY, J.P. T, MATHESON, J. P. Why did Mr. Mowat view this case differently from the others? Was it because Mr. Walker | Was not quite as good a Grit as Smith and Free- born ? We are not aware of there being afiy dif- ference in point of fact. All the parties were charged with having committed an assault-- were fined for so doing--then why, in three cases make the appellants pay all the costs, and in the fourth case make the respondent pay all? AssauLt.--Peter Moutox was tried for having committed an assault upon one Frederika Brei- gel, of the township of Mornington, on the 6th of May last. "Moutox and Breigel formerly resi- ded near each other in the township of Welles- ley. Some time ago they removed to Morning- - ton. It appeared that Moutox had, while resid- ing in Wellesley, lost an auger and a hay fork. The lost articles were since discovered in the' possession of Breigel. On the morning in question Breigel came toa blacksmith's shop. kept by young Moutox, while there old Moutox and he had a dispute concerning the lost articles, which resulted in old Moutox ordering Breigel to leave the shop or he would make him--Montox finally took up a fork and chased Breigel to his own house which was but a short distance from the shop. While there he took up a stick of tire wood and threw it ifttending, according to part of the evidence, to hit Breigel--missing him, however, it hit Mrs. Breigel, knocking her down and hurting her a good deal. For this he was brought to trial. He was found guilty of common' assault and sentenced to one month's imprisonment in- the common jail. anaes yh : D. H. Lizars acted on behalf of the Crown. The prisoner was ably defended by Messrs. Woods & Scott. } AwrTy. vs. PUSSHELBERRY. it 3 Woods & Scott for pf Carrall & McCulloch for def. } KL This action. was browght to recover on a promissory note payable to the defendant or bearer, and guarranteed by him and his wife to the plaintiff. The guarrantee was in these words: "'T guarantee payment of the within note." The, defendent's counsel contended' that the guarran- tee was bad, because it did not state when or! to whom the note was to be paid or was guarranteed. The plaintiff's counsel quoted authorities and. cases in support of the guarrantee. A verdict was taken for $113.37, with leave for defendant to move in term to set the verdict aside and en- ter a non-suit. § © qqnot 2id to s9andy McKay vs. Caunriztp.--Action, on promissory note. No defence. Verdict $129 15.; Carrall & McCulloch for plf. if MarsHatu vs. SuMMpRVILLE.--<Action on pro- missory note. No defence. Verdict for $168. Carrall & McCulloch for plf. Hitpesranp vs. Stiyson et. al.--Promissory note. No defence. Verdict for $155 44. Car- rall & McCulloch for plf. The Grand Jury made, the following present- ment :-- RInIUS County Buinpines, was carried unanimously :--That this meeting has listened with much pleasure to the very en- couraging information so ably laid before it by the Rev. H. Gill, respecting the good work of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and beg to offer Mr. Gill the hearty thanks of the Stratford Branch Bible Society for his kind visit and ad- dress this evening--and desire him to inform the Committee of the Great Society he represents that we feel a deep interest in their labours, and continued aid. | Patterson. The meeting was then closed by the Rey. Mr. Granp Jury Rooms, Srratrorp, June 16, 1864. The Grand Jurors for our Sovereign Lady the Queen, in Quarter Sessions assembled, on their oath present : That having inspected the Jail--we find that the Jailor, Robert Kay, keeps the cells and rooms both clean and airy. We have also inspected the beds and find them clean and comfortable, We haye spoken to the prisoners--they speak the jailor and sub-jailors. We found a man in jail for debt, and upon enquiries find that he has only two half hours in pledge anew to them our sincere sympathy and of the kind treatment they have received from --

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