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SIMCOE-On 1st, thunder storm, with lightning and heavy rain for 34 hours, from SW, calm. On 14th, lightning, thunder, and heavy rain. 15th, frost in morning. 16th, at night, lightning, thunder, and heavy rain. 22nd, bard frost in morning; minimum thermometer, 329. 23rd and 24th, frost. 28th, fog. Rain on 1st, 2nd, 5th, 7th. 8th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 25th. Very heavy rain for 24 hours on 25th. STRATFORD.-On 1st, at 8 20 a.m., thunder in SE; 7 40 p.m. lightning W-NE till 9 p.m. 12th, windy. 14th, at 1.30 pm. distant thunder in NW, dense nimbi from W to E horizon fringed towards Z by cumuli moving from W to E, cumuli scattered along the rest of horizon, wind W, and velocity 2; at 1.40 p.m. rain began, wind W, velocity 8, nimbi cover ing nearly all the sky except from E to SW horizon, where cumuli were seen; at 1.42 p.m. hail, very heavy, stones small; at 1.45 pm. lightning with thunder; at 1 46 p.m. hail censed; at 2 p.m., wind lulled to velocity 5; at 2.40 p.m. rain ceased; at 3.30 p.m., wind NW, velocity 3; at 5 45 p.m., distant thunder again heard. 15th, frost; at 9 p.m. observed an arch of white light in the southern part of sky, extending from SE to W horizon, elevation at highest part about 45°, breadth of arch 109, dark on upper edge; the light was similar to auroral light, and remained visible for half an hour. 16th, thunder, lightning and ain. 20 h. high wind, E, from 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. 21st, hoar frost in the evening. 22ud, ice on the pools of water, first of season. 23rd, storm of wind. 26th. at 7.15 p.m., aerolite seen in S. 29th, frost. Fogs on 1st, 6th, 10th, 14th, 24th, 28th. Rain on 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th. 21st, 24th, 25th, 26th. Continuous rain from 6.45 p.m. 24th to 5 a.m. of 26th; depth 2.3423 inches The following is a comparative statement of rainfall at Stratford in September for seven years:—

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The only month (since August, 1860) in which the rainfall exceeded that of September, 1866, was March, 1861, when rain and melted snow measured 5.3839 inches.

If we try to look at the bright side of our bad weather, we shall see the probability that it has largely aided in checking the advance of cholera. Had September been unusually close and sultry, as it was last year, there is no saying how the plague-germs might have ripened and diffused themselves through our cities. These chill torrents of rain have aided the sanitary inspectors not a little, sweeping both air and streets free from predisposing causes of disease. Again, it is not improbable that the past inclement season may originate a system for saving corn and hay by artifical drying, which may prove of incalculable value to future harvests. The leading newspapers have spoken about it. Improvements are often forced upon the world by calamities.

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It does not seem hurtful to the votaries of science that they should learn that their boasted inductive philosophy cannot pierce "all mysteries and all knowledge. Before the every-day facts of the weather, the philosophers of Europe have been baffled. For the present, God has reserved to Himself this foreknowledge, and has hidden the links of law which doubtless bind cause and effect here, as elsewhere in His creation, from the keen eyes of learned men. Ocean has been spanned with a thin wire, which carries human electrician or meteorologist of them all can certainly say what thought from hemisphere to hemisphere; but not the most able weather will prevail to-morrow. It is as if to the proud boastings of modern philosophy were spoken the words, "Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther."

VII. Biographical Sketches.

No. 43.-J. B. E. DORION, ESQ., M.P.P.

The late Mr. Jean Baptiste Eric Dorion was the sixth of seven sons of the late Mr. P. A. Dorion, a member in the Lower Canada Legislature for Champlain previous to the Union Act, and a grandson, on the maternal side, of Mr. Bureau, M. P.P., in the same He was born at Ste. WINDSOR -On 1st, lightning, thunder and rain. Meteors on 3rd, 14th Anne de la Perade, in Sept., 1826, and was consequently in his legislature for the County of St. Maurice. and 28th from Z to SW. Meteor on 5th from Z to W. On 8th, lightning fortieth year. Being descended from a family so closely connectand rain; double rainbow observed in NE at 6 p.m.; wind N. darked with the legislature, his aspirations were early turned to politics, cumulo strati, golden edged, passing rapidly from SW. 11th, lightning and rain. 12th, aurora at 9 p.m. for one hour, an arch with streamers, at 10 p.m. dark strati rose from N horizon, obscuring the sky. 15th, frost for the first time this season affected vegetation. 22nd, frost. 28th and 29th, remarkably heavy dews. Fog on 29th. Rain on 1st, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th 13th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 24th. 25th, 26th. Harvest retarded by rain, but loss slight. Indian corn, near Detroit River, ripened, but in the interior considerably injured by frost. Month remarkable for a low temperature, with considerable variations; days sometimes warm, but nights cold.

5. THE WET WEATHER.

In England, they have had the same long period of wet weather that we have had in Canada. The Christian World has the following pertinent remarks upon the subject :

Philosophers of the weather can write such pretty knowledge as this:-The rain we see descending was thawed for us out of the icebergs which have watched the Polar star for ages; and the lotus lilies have soaked from the Nile, and exhaled as vapor, snows that rested on the summit of the Alps." And also: "The atmosphere is a vast machine that is apparently tasked to its utmost, yet is always in order, and never breaks down; an engine which pumps our rivers up from the sea, and carries them through the clouds to their sources in the mountains. Air and water are the great agents of the sun in distributing his heat over the surface of the globe, cooling this climate and tempering that." But even Captain Maury, author of the marvellous theory of wind circuits, cannot tell us why we should have thousands of tons of water more than usual spilled over Europe (and especially the United Kingdom) this summer rather than other summers. Has the great southern oceanic cauldron, where during our winter and spring, the intense heat of a tropical sun has been mauufacturing our rain, pumping up vapor to be condensed in the northern hemisphere-(for in our north temperate zone the annual mean rainfall is thirty-seven inches, while in the south only 26),—has this groat cauldron been subject to stronger influences than usual? Perhaps it would be small practical satisfaction to know. We are really driven back from the strongholds of inductive philosohy to the simple fact of the Divine ordering; we must recognize here that "Circumstance, which is the will of God,"--a will which the majority of men deny and disown whenever they can, striving to imprison the Most High in His own laws; considering him as a God that is far off, and not a God

that is at hand in the multiform affairs of His creatures. Yet inspiration tells that even the erratic "hail, snow, vapors, and stormy wind" are obedient to His impulses; they "fulfil His Word."

and in or about the year 1848, he, in concert with Mr. P. Blanchet and one or two other gentlemen of advanced political views, established L'Avenir newspaper in this city, which was always held to be the most uncompromising organ of the Rouge party in Canada. In 1857 he entered Parliament for Drummond and Arthabaska, which seat he held until 1857, when he was defeated, but was, however, again returned at last general election. Mr. Dorion was also editor of Le Defricheur, and a strong and influential advocate of the rights of the settlers, many of whom he induced to leave the French parishes along the river, and settle in the more fertile lands in the Eastern Townships. He was also one of the best stump speakers in the province, and a man of bold and uncompromising temperament, as also one of the most vigorous writers on the Rouge press -Leader.

No. 44.-THE VERY REV. JOHN H. McDONAGH, V.G.
It becomes our painful duty to announce the death of the Very
Rev. J. H. McDonagh, late pastor of the Perth mission, and Vicar
the morning of Wednesday, the 26th ulto., after an illness of some
General of the diocese of Kingston. The sad event occurred on
months' duration. The amiable and exemplary deceased was a na-
tive of the Archdiocese of Tuam, and made his studies in the Col-
lege of St. Jarlath's. He was ordained, we believe, in 1834, and
devoted himself to labor on a foreign mission. Perth, if we mis-
take not, was his first mission, where he spent thirty years of ear-
nest zeal and ability, which won for him the affectionate regard of
Catholics and Protestants alike.
Vicar General McDonagh is deeply lamented by the inhabitants of
The death of the Very Rev.
Perth and the surrounding country, irrespective of creed. By his
brethren in the priesthood his loss will be mourned as that of a
In his last hours, Father McDonagh had the consolation of being
faithful and prudent counsellor, a sincere and trustworthy friend.
attended by his nephew, the Rev. Dr. Madden, of Port Hope, to
diocese of Tuam, and prominently amongst them, Archbishop Mac-
whom he was much attached. His numerous friends in the Arch-
Hale, by whom he was greatly esteemed, will learn with regret the
premature demise of Vicar General McDonagh, who, but a few
summers ago, was amongst them-the very impersonation of health
and strength.Requiescat in pace.-Catholic Freeman.

No. 45-DEATH OF INVENTORS, LOWE AND SNIDER.
The English papers announce the death of Mr. James Lowe, the
inventor of the screw propeller, and Mr. Snider, whose name has

been made famous in connection with breech-loading rifles. The death of the former was accidental, and of both sudden. Mr. Lowe, who resided in London, was on his way home, and was standing on the kerb of the footway in Blackfriars' road, preparatory to crossing the street, when a horse and cart coming at a rapid pace in a direction opposite to the one he was looking, caught him by the arm, swinging him into the roadway under the wheels, which passed over his chest, causing instantaneous death. The London Times of the 26th ult. says in reference to the other great inventor :-"Mr. Snider will trouble the war office no more. The poor man is dead. At the moment when the arsenals of the kingdom are ringing with the labor concentrated upon his invention, the inventor has expired in penury and affliction, without ever having touched a single sixpence of remuneration or profit. His solicitor now writes to apprise us that the department was really preparing to do something at the very minute that it became too late, and that if Mr. Snider could but have lived till this morning he might have heard of what was coming to him. Unfortunately he died on Thursday."

No. 46.-RECENT CANADIAN DEATHS. MR. J. G. BEARD.-The remains were followed to their last resting place from his residence on Jarvis street, yesterday afternoon, by a large concourse of citizens. The deceased gentleman had resided for many years in this city and was universally respected and admired for his many manly virtues and business capacity. He was Mayor of the city in 1856, when that officer was chosen from amongst the aldermen, and he had also been an alderman for many years previously. He was also President of the Board of School Trustees for several years, and at the time when he was attacked by the sickness which carried him off, some two years ago, he occupied that position.-Toronto Leader.

the oil fever broke out and application came to be made for these lands, they were all found standing in his name in the books of the department, with unpaid instalments long overdue. What he had paid was therefore, in most instances, forfeited, and the lands resold by auction. His family tried to save some of them, but absolute proof of his death could not be procured, nor authority obtained to administer on his estate. Meanwhile he was exploring the mineral lands of Louisiana and Texas, and securing the right to purchase valuable lands.

The war over, and direct communication established between the South and Canada, Tripp received news of oil speculations in Canada, and came northward to receive his rights if possible. To the surprise of everybody early last session he appeared suddenly among his old acquaintances of 1854. The greater part of his property was gone, but some of his claims remained good, and one of them he managed to sell for $7,000, and took the money back with him to New Orleans to pay up instalments on his Southern lands. Our New Orleans contemporary says:—

"His death is, at this time, truly a serious calamity to the South, for he knew, practically, more about the mineral wealth of every Southern State than any other man; and at the time of his death he had just succeeded in making the pecuniary arrangements at the North, and was organizing companies to develope on a gigantic scale some of the wonderful, and heretofore unknown, mineral fields which he had discovered among the oil, copper, lead, zinc, and iron regions of Louisiana and Texas.-Ottawa Citizen.

of one of our oldest and most respected settlers in the County, John MR. JOHN LITTLE.-We regret to have to announce the death Township," its first settler, first postmaster and Clerk of the Division Little, Esq., of Mulmur, who was well known as "the father of the Court since its first establishment. He also at different periods occupied the position of Township Treasurer and Reeve of the Municipality. When he first entered Mulmur, nearly forty years ago, it was literally an untrodden wilderness, and the nearest settlement to the spot where he located himself was fifteen miles distant, and unapproachable except on foot. He made his entrance into the township with little property, save his axe; but he had a stout arm and willing mind for work, and soon hewed himself out a comfortable home and an independence.-Barrie Northern Advance.

ROBERT WIGMORE, ESQ.-We deeply regret to have to announce the decease of Mr. Wigmore, Lieutenant Colonel of the 3rd Battalion of the Peterborough Sedentary Militia, which occurred at his late residence, near Norwood, on Saturday last the 3rd instant. Deceased was a native of the City of Limerick, Ireland, and emigrated to this country in 1828, when he settled in the Township of Elizabethtown. In 1831, he removed to Dummer, at that time a wilderness, and was one of the first settlers in that township. He not only assisted largely in the improvement of that section of the country, but was to "that bourne whence no traveller returns." Lately the funeral MR. HUGH BYRES.-The old veterans of Canada are fast going a man of undoubted loyalty and warmly devoted to the success of of one of these veterans wendeding its way slowly through the the Militia Organization of the country. During 1837-8 he was one of those who promptly rushed to arms in defence of the Go-streets of this city. The body that was being conveyed to its last vernment, and ever since has devoted much time and attention to earthly resting place, was all that remained of Hugh Byres, of militia affairs. Under his auspices chiefly, the present Volunteer Black Rapids, a man who, as bugler, sounded the charge at Lundy's Infantry Company at Norwood was organized, and of this fine body of men he was Captain at the time of his decease. He was keenly alive to its success, and his latest public acts were directed towards procuring means wherewith to erect a Drill shed for its accommodation.-Peterboro' Review.

He was a

MR. C. N. TRIPP.-Very many in Ottawa became acquainted during the late Session of Parliament, with a person named Charles N. Tripp, who came here to urge the settlement of a disputed claim held by him to certain Enniskillen Oil lands, which he had purchased some years before. He succeeded in getting back some of these lands while here, or at least part payment for them, and again started back for Texas, where he was reported to be possessed of silver mines of great extent and richness. While at the Russell House here, he exhibited specimens of silver, some of the pieces weighing as much as five pounds. We have now received intelligence of his death at a hotel in New Orleans, which took place shortly after his arrival there. Tripp was a singular but inoffensive gentleman, and always full of great expectations. His death will be much lamented. Almost the last thing he did before leaving Canada, was to subscribe $5 to the dinner to the Hon. J. A. Macdonald in Kingston, of whom he was a great admirer. native of Schenectady, N. Y., whence he came to Canada some years ago, and was the first to predict what has now taken place respecting the oil regions of Enniskillen, He always had a penchant for mineralogy, and was fond of the roving life of an explorer. In 1853 and 1854 he roamed about Enniskillen and applied to the Crown Lands' Department from time to time for various lots of land there. He then proceeded to Quebec and showed his specimens of asphaltum or solified oil from the surface, declaring there were vil springs below. He tried to get up a company with special privileges to dig for it, but he was laughed at as a dreamer, and regarded as little better than a bore by members and capitalists at that time-from whom he received the soubriquet of "old Asphalt." He failed then, but managed to raise money to pay the first instalment on his lands. It is now found that he had selected every lot of land on which successful wells have since been opened up. He plunged into the wilds of Texas, and was heard of no more. When

Lane, the attack at Fort Niagara, and took part at the battle of Queenstown Heights, where the noble Brock fell fighting for his country. Nothing delighted the veteran loyalist, whose remains were on Saturday followed to the grave by a large number of friends and neighbors, so much, during his declining years, as recounting the incidents of his younger days. Though in declining years his loyal heart beat high, and his failing limbs gained strength as he heard and thought of the dastardly attempts upon Canada by the Fenians, and it was not without strong persuasion on the part of his friends that he could be induced not to enrol himself as a Volunteer and go forth once more to fight for the liberty and integrity of his country. The deceased had lived for upwards of half a century in Canada, and at the close of an eventful life, during which he had secured the esteem of very many, his remains were interred in the Roman Catholic cemetery here. May the spirit which animated these old veterans exist for ever, and become intensified by years, in the breasts of their descendants.-Ottawa Citizen.

VIII Papers on Places of Interest, etc.

1. THE RECOLLET CHURCH, MONTREAL.

SKETCH OF ITS HISTORY-WHO BUILT IT-WHO USED BY-ITS

APPROACHING SALE.

The approaching sale, and probable demolition, of this old landmark in the history of the city will readily recall the period when the Catholics and Protestants alternately worshipped on Sundays within its walls, and the Elders of the present St. Gabriel Street Presbyterian Congregation (then houseless) on one occasion acknowledged the kindness of the Recollet Fathers by presenting them at the close of last century with "one box of candles, 56 lbs, at 8d;" and "one hhd. of Spanish wine at £6 0s 5d." The Recollet Church was built in or about the middle of the 18th century by the Monks of the order of Recollets, and, like many parish churches throughout the country, was once entirely built of rubble and masonry.

The

Fenian; and that although yesterday I saw the Fenian flag-the harp and the sun on a ground of green-hoisted on a skiff, this was done more in bravado than in earnest, and proves by its singularity that this imbecile form of disloyalty is altogether exceptional in Valentia and the adjacent mainland.

3. SKETCH OF HEART'S CONTENT.

no means indicative of its real condition. The whole of NewfoundThe name given to the locality known as Heart's Content is by land is a dreary place at best, the extreme length of the island being 420 miles, and its area 36,000 square miles. First discovered in 1497 by John Cabot, and known as St John until 1583, the island was in that year named Newfoundland by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, though the point where Cabot landed still retained the name of St. Johu. The usual starting point for Heart's Content is Halifax, and from that point to Portugal Cove the trip is made in a lumbering coach, whose conveniences are none and whose charges are extortionate. Thus far the trip is confined to public conveyance; thence however, private enterprise must take the onus. There are no stages for their is ordinarily no travel. Nothing but a long hilly stretch of unbroken country connects the dirty Hamlet of Cabonear with the cramped and miserable settlement of Heart's Content. Once reached, Heart's Content is found to be a small coast settlement with no buildings worthy of note, and perhaps 700 inhabitants, Nothing in or of itself suggested its name nor secured its present prominence, but henceforth Heart's Content must have a name of historic interest, and stand side side by side with the great names of the world, as it was selected as the American terminus of the international coil. The cable may break, the enterprise may be destined to failure and abandonment, but still Heart's Content must be noted.

After the confiscation of their estates by the British Government Racoon has been here three months without descovering a single the building fell into ruins, and the part fronting on Notre Dame street had to be taken down. This was in the early part of the present century, soon after which the Government exchanged the property (which was then of far greater depth and width than now, extending from Notre Dame street to Lemoine street in one direction, and from St. Peter to McGill in the other, and planted with venerable elms of great magnitude) from St. Helen's Island.-then owned by Baron Grant, the proprietor of the adjacent seigniory of Longueuil. The Baron seems to have made a good bargain by the transfer, for almost immediately after the transaction he sold several of the lots on St. Peter and Notre Dame Streets (the ground now occupied by Moss' stores) to the Hon. James Leslie, and the old church itself and one or two adjacent buildings to the Fabrique, who, it is said, therefor paid the then handsome sum of £4,500. The remainder of the property was laid out into lots and streets, one of which(Lemoine) was named after the Baroness' family. At this period (1817) the Fabrique were contemplating the erection of the present stately parish church, and soon after proceeded to repair the Recollet church. Eight years however elapsed before the work of restoration was completed. The old parish church, which then stood lengthwise in the middle of Notre Dame street, was, in the meantime, taken down, and its cut-stone front transferred to the Recollet church, the galleries and interior decorations being at the same time given to the Bonsecours church in St. Panl street. date "1775" cut on the stone work above the principal entrance of Recollet Church is consequently apt to deceive with respect to the real age of the building. It was cut on the front of the old parish church in the year which it represents, but that church had been erected long previously,-in 1672. These repairs to the Recollet Church were finally completed in 1825, at which period the Rev. Messire Provost was appointed curé. The Irish residents in the communion of the church then attended it and continued to do so until St. Patrick's Church was completed. The other incumbents were the late Rev. Mr. Perrault and the Rev. Mr. Giband. Until within a few years the remains of many of the Recollet Fathers reposed within the vaults of the edifice they had assisted to erect and with them many of their grateful parishoners. The former were buried in the long woollen shrouds peculiar to the order, the materials of which still remained intact and perfect when the ghastly Fathers were recently removed to their new and last homes in the Cote des Neiges Cemetery. The memoirs and traditions of the past century speak in high terms of the zeal and piety of these old monks, who, by the self-abnegating rules of their order, were condemned to a life-long existence of pain and mortification, and self-condemned to live upon the alms of the charitable. In one sense it is to be regretted that the pecuniary necessities of the Fabrique are about to force such an old historical monument to the hammer; but the spirit of progress will take no note of this, especially as the site is undoubt edly one of the finest and most desirable ever put up to auction in the centre of a bustling city-and our capitalists are probably fully alive to its advantages and the productive uses it may be put to. Mr. Arnton will doubtless have a wealthy and influential audience when he puts it up for sale on the 15th instant.-Montreal Gazette.

2. THE ISLAND OF VALENTIA.

must have a destiny. Like that at Acapulco, it would seem imposTo its bay the place is indebted for its future fame. Such a harbor sible for the Creator to fashion it by accident or without design. For purposes of ordinary commerce, it is and can be of no avail, for there are no avenues of trade here, but for the landing place of the cable, for the safe anchorage of great ships of war, whose protectorate may some day be invoked, for all purposes of tonnage and cableistic facility, this bay is simply superb. Should success attend the present enterprise, should the laid cable be enabled to do its duty, this place will become one of the curiosities of the hemisphere. It cannot fail to grow and become a great resort. As the seat of fashionable society during the Summer months it would be without a rival. The broad deep basin, which sleeps in perfect tranquility, leads directly from the little town. The place itself is surrounded by hills, abounding in trees and groves, and the harbor is some thirty miles from the former cable terminus.

The people there fish for a living, and eat fish for sustenance. Visitors, of whom there are many, now find no hotels and poor boarding houses, and the inhabitants are charging enormous rates for scanty and poor accommodations. Travellers also complain that the misquitoes, or rather misquito-gnat, are most persistent biters and annoying musicians.

Such is Heart's Content. A better place could not have been chosen for the safe landing of the cable. Its advantages over the former selection are obvious, and so far as mere still deep water and a quiet basin are concerned, no skilled engineer could have so well devised a harbor as did the Great Architect of this.

The Island of Valentia, the Irish Terminus of the Atlantic cable, is about 6,000 acres in extent. It has three proprietors, of whom the Knight of Kerry is the chief, the others being Trinity College, Dublin, and Col. Herbert of Muckross.-The population is about 2,000; but although the Knight is a staunch Protestant, his co- 4. THE RECONSTRUCTED MAP OF EUROPE. religionists do not number more than 150. The harmony of this The treaty signed at Prague between Prussia, Austria, Italy, and little community (says a correspondent of the London Star) is, how- Bavaria, has materially altered the old boundaries of the map of ever, undisturbed by religious discord. The old priest, whe is now Europe. Before the late war the appearance of Prussia on the map between 80 and 90 years of age, has had charge of the parish for half a century, and his watch-word has always been Peace.' The was that of an elongated and almost disjointed country. It was average value of land is about 15 shillings an acre. Much more of composed of the following Provinces and populations:

it is used for grazing purposes than for cultivation, the principal
article manufactured being butter. Most of the cottages are simply
hovels; but there is a very considerable number of a better class, Silesia
and the peasantry have a well-fed, comfortable appearance. They Rhein.
owe much to the Knight, who spends nearly the whole of the income Prussia..
he derives from his property in improvements, and in giving em- Brandenburg.
ployment to the people. He is regarded with a feudal reverence, Saxony
tempered by modern manners. His traditional title gives him no Westphalia
precedence at court, but his ancient lineage really places him far Posen...
before the mushroom creation of yesterday.-The late Knight, who
was a protege of Lord Castlereagh and a distinguished politician,
being once addressed as 'my lord' by an officious servitor, impatient-
ly replied, 'Don't call me lord.-I don't wish to be anything of the
kind.' Perhaps he remembered the Arab proverb, The dog when
he has money must be called 'my lord the dog." It is pleasant to
be able to reconcile these relics of feudalism with the humanizing
claims of modern civilization. It is pleasant also to find that the

Pomerania..
Hohenzollern
Jande

PRUSSIA BEFORE THE WAR.

Provinces.

Area in Square Miles.

Pop. in 1864

15,762

3,510,706

10,352

3,345,195

25,063

3,014,595

16,601

2,616,583

9,700

2,043,965

7,819

1,666,581

11,401

1,523,729

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Garrisons in Mayence, Frankfort and Lux-
emburg
Lunenburg (Duchy). .

Total..

Since the war the appearance of Prussia on the map has been attendance was large, the ladies, as usual on such pleasing occasions, premuch improved. It is more compact and connected, in consequence dominating. Tho chair was occupied by the Hon, John Hillyard Cameron, of the following duchies and kingdoms having been added to it by Chancellor. force of arms :

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Degrees Conferred.—B. A.—Rev. Henry Wilson, Francis Checkley, George Irwin Taylor, Alfred Lindsay, William Wilson Holcroft, Rev. Pop. in 1864. William Westney, Ralph W. Hindes, William Banfield Carey, Thomas F. 1,923,492 Lewis Evans, John O'Rielly, Rev. William Grant, Thomas Charles Patteson, 960,996 ad eundem from Merton College Oxford; Rev. Mr. Morton, ad eundem from 632,612 Lennoxville. M. A.-John Wells, Rev. Charles A. Wetherall, Rev. Mr. 745,063 27,374 Morton, Rev. Featherstone L. Osler, ad eundem from St. Catherine's Col301,812 lege, Cambridge. D. C. L.-Robert A. Harrison, Charles J. Carroll, 468,311 Henry B. Morphy.

293,388 Scholars.-George Mackenzie, from Rev. J. G. D. Mackenzie's school, 764,632 Hamilton, Cameron and First foundation Scholarships, £45 R. Doherty (Brantford Grammar Schools), Bishop Strachan Scholarship of £30. T. W. 1,034,000 Paterson (U. C. College), D. F. H. Wilkins (private tuition), equal-Dick7,171,680 son Scholarship, each £27 108. 19,304,843

26,476,523

Matriculants.-G. A. Mackenzie, C. W, Ball, R. Doherty, T. W. Paterson, D. F. H. Wilkins, A. H. Coleman, A. E. Hagarty, G. Hamilton, A. J. Johnson, Rev. G. J. Low, A. N. Macnab, A. F. Matheson, E. F. Milbourne, E. Whitaker, Brown.

Prizes Presented.-Latin Essay, 1865, Rev. H. Wilson. Hamilton Memorial Prize. 1866, Rev. H. Wilson. Prince of Wales' Prize, 1865, Fletcher.

Thus it appears that more than ten new countries, so to speak, with an area of 32,582 square miles, and a population of 7,171,680 inhabitants, have been incorporated with Prussia by a campaign which lasted only about six weeks. Besides these material advantages, she is making Austria and the old German Confederation The smallness of the prize list was occasioned by the fact that the annual pay down in hard cash such large sums as will in a great measure examinations held usually in June, were deferred till Christmas, all the cover the expenses of the war. Bismarck may well congratulate students of the College being with the Queen's Own, at Limeridge and Port himself on such triumphant results. He has done more for his Colborne. country than any man since the days of Frederick the Great. He has elevated her to a high position among European nations. The following table shows the standing of the great powers of Europe according to their extent of European territory and European

populations:

Russia..
France.

Austria.

Great Britain and Ireland....
Prussia

Italy

Spain.

Turkey

Sweden and Norway

war.

Area in Square Miles. Pop. in 1863 or 1864,
2,162,216

211,100

235,235

122,550

151,355

122,788

176,671

189,920
292,440

The CHANCELLOR then offered a few observations relative to the progress and prospects of the college, which, he was glad to say, were in as satis

factory a condition as she had ever been. He believed that at no time since the year 1856 had there been a greater number of matriculants. He

was gratified to state there was not a single room in the college vacant. 66,898,484 They had also the fact that in the feeder of Trinity College, although not 37,472,732 so highly favoured as the college in the west, there are no less than eight 31,711,157 and forty students at present. Although, he said, as compared with the 29,070,932

Prussia, however, is not the only power which has gained by the Although worsted in every engagement with Austria, Italy yet comes out of the fight with Venetia, and a fair prospect of acquiring the Tyrol, with a combined population of 3,122,748, and an extent of territory of 20,676 square miles. Before the war the kingdom of Italy contained 25,268,879 inhabitants, and an area of 122,788 square miles. So that as it is most probable she will be reconstructed, she will embrace a total of 143,464 square miles and a population of 28,401,663 souls.

26,476,523 other school, it laboured under many disadvantages, yet he believed that in 25,268,879 the character of the instruction, and the manner in which the young will be 15,752,607 turned out, they will have no reason to regret their connection with it; and 15,730,000 although their scholars had been brought up in what he termed a more 4,762,274 humble house, yet they would have quite as good if not better education than they could have received in the west. It was a great gratification that the school had turned out so successfuly. It was a very satisfactory thing also, he said, to be enabled to state that their position in many respects was better this year than it has been for some time before, and that the number of inducements held out were also greater. This he proved by a contrast between 1865 and 1866, from which he argued that increased numbers would every year take advantage of the opportunities offered. Ia 1865, they found there were four foundation scholarships tenable for one Of course quite a number of petty sovereigns have been deposed year, one of £30, one of £25, and two of £20, open to all candidates of the in this war. Foremost among them is George V. of Hanover, the required age. In 1866, they found one of the value of £50, one of £45, known in England as the Duke of Cumberland, and said to be a and two of £30, with scholarships of the same value to be held during the first cousin of our Queen. Then there are: Frederick Francis II. Grand Duke of Mecklenberg-Schwerin; Frederick, Grand Duke of second and third years, awarded according to the result of the June Mecklenburg Strelitz; Frederick William I., Elector of Hesse-examination in each year. A scholarship of £25 per annum, tenable for Cassel; Ferdinand, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg; Nicholas, three years, in the Arts course, is also open for the sons of clergymen while Grand Duke of Oldenburg; Augustus, Duke of Nassau; Augustus, the Corporation has also provided that four bursaries shall be open every Duke of Brunswick; and Ernest, Duke of Saxe Cobourg, brother year, tenable from year to year, for a period not exceeding three years, of of our late Prince Consort. matriculation examination, and shall have satisfied the Corporation that he the value of £15 10s. per annum. Any student who shall have passed the cannot without the aid thus afforded, avail himself of the advantages of a University education, shall be eligible for a bursary, provided that he be not the holder of a scholarship. Ceteris paribus, the sous of clergymen to be preferred. He also expressed a hope that the medical branch which had been discontinued in consequence of their financial position some time ago, would be again resumed, and he had no doubt the beneficial effects of the statute lately passed, and which he explained would be fully taken advantage of, and that they would have that opportunity of holding out to their young men all the advantages they would obtain at any other institution. It was, he continued, a great satisfaction that the first scholarship had this year been taken by a young gentleman then present, Mr. McKenzie, who had been present at the conflict, where so many young men had been killed, and had himself roceived a wound, which, however, did not incapacitate him for study. The learned Chancellor afterwards adverted to the

The abolition of all these petty potentates, and the incorporation of their little territories into the powerful kingdom of Prussia, promises to be attended with good results, provided always that the people to be affected by the change are willing, and are not, in fact, reduced from independence to slavery. What will become of the dethroned and deposed ones it is hard to say. But it is by no means so hard to predict that the late revolutionary powers of Europe-Prussia and Italy-now that they have gained all that they wanted, will become very speedily eminently conservative in their policy, and in the views they will take of future European struggles and conflicts.-London Prototype.

IX. Educational Jutelligence.

-UNIVERSITY OF TRINITY COLLEGE.-The annual Convocation of Trinity College took place in one of the rooms of that institution, Nov. 8th. The

M.A.-J. W. Bell, D. Bemiss, J.E. Powers, J. Campbell, S. Foster, Rev.
J. M. Gibson, G. S. Goodwillie, J. Hill, A. Macallum, J. Muir, L. C.
Robinson, W. H. Vandermissen, J. S. Wilson, A. Woolverton.
LL.B.-J. C. Hamilton, M. J. Kelly, D. H. Preston.

M.B.-A. Beith, J. H. Burns, S. Cowan, M. J. Hanavan, J. H. Hughes,
A. G. Jackes, T. Jacques, J. E. Kennedy, J. A. Langrill, J. McConnell, J.
McCullough, P. McDiarmid, N. McIntyre, A. McKay, W. J. Mickle,
W. H. Miller, W. Morton, Oronhyatekha, J. Sinclair, D. Smith, J. W.
Stewart, J. Stubbs, H. H. Sutton, J. J. Wadsworth, J. Wallace, G. Williams,
R. W. Williams.

B.A.-R. R. Baldwin, P. M. Barker, C. W. Bell, G. Brunel, A. F. Campbell, H. F. Clarke, E. P. Crawford, W. Davidson, T. D. Delemere, W. S. Dorsey, W. G. Falconbridge, W. Fitzgerald, A. Greenlees, H. P. Hill, C. B. Jacks, D. Junor, J. H. Miller, M. C. Moderwell, D. H. Mooney, J. C. Morgan, J. A. Paterson, A. J. Robertson, A. J. Traver, W. Watt, A. Williams, A. H. Wright, G. S. Wright.

AD EUNDEM STATUM.-Arts.-First year, W. T. Holmes; second year, W. Mitchell; fourth year, J. E. Kennedy, J. D. D Sully.

necessity for a Convocation Hall, and trusted that they would be possessed of one, believing that no better appropriation of the funds at their disposal could be made. The proceedings closed by prayer and the singing of the national anthem, when the students gave three cheers for the Queen, three for the Bishop, the Chancellor, the Provost and the Bishop elect.-Globe. ——— UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO.-The Annual Convocation of the University of Toronto, and University College, was held on the 16th inst., in the Convocation Hall of the University Building. Memorial Window. The President, in opening the convocation said, that previous to the regular order of the proceedings of convocation, there was a ceremony to be gone through with which claimed their special attention. He referred to the Memorial Window which had been erected in honor of the memory of those University students who were killed at Limeridge last June, while engaged in assisting in repelling a band of marauders, known as Fenians, who had invaded our soil. This window, said the learned President, which they were now about to unveil, had an interest and peculiarity attached to it which was unprecedented, and which arose out of circum stances that he hoped would never occur again. They were not intended to do honor to the memory of the aged, not for those who had closed a long life of usefulness, but for those who had been cut off before they had reached the prime of life, before they had arrived at the noon day of their existence, or before they were enabled to realize the sweetness of their early morn. They were for those who left their hearths and homes without a father's blessing, uncomforted by a mother's sweet voice, to go forth and pour out their life's blood on the soil they were protecting. It would be sufficient for him to say that they were in truth what was said of them on the inscription on the window, "Egregi Summeque spei Adolescentes." Of each of them he would state that if the Almighty had spared their lives they would then have been on that platform, probably receiving the highest honors that the University could have placed upon them. There was, he was happy to say, one other topic without which his remarks would have been incomplete, and that was, the solitary hope Rev. Dr. McCaul, in presenting these prizes, said that there were none that they had formed those good and christian principles which prepared in the college that he felt greater satisfaction in presenting than these for them for that transition from the seen to the unseen world. (Applause.) public speaking and reading, because they were the only prizes in the He would now call on the gentlemen he had selected, Messrs. Kingsford, college that were presented by the students themselves. He felt as thorPatton, and Vaudersmissen, to unveil the window. Before the next meet-oughly satisfied that the prizes were well merited as if he had been the ing of the convocation be trusted that the ball would be adorned with examiner himself. another memorial window in honor of those from the University who took part in the engagement at Limeridge, last June, and those of them that were wounded on that occasion.

MEDALLISTS.-Medicine.-Gold Medal, Mickle, W. J.; Silver medal, McCullough, J.; Silver medal, Wadsworth, J. J. Classics.—Gold medal, Bell, C. W.; silver medal, Campbell, A. F. Mathematics.-Gold medal, Fitzgerald, W.; silver medal, Patterson, J. A. Modern Languages.Gold medal, Falconbridge, W. G.; silver medal, Morgan, J.C.; silver medal, Campbell, A. F.; silver medal, W. Watt. Natural Sciences.Gold medal, Morgan, J. C.; silver medal, Williams, A.; silver medal, Moderwell, M. C.; silver medal, Campbell, A. F.; silver medal, Mooney, D. H. Metaphysics, Ethics, &c.-Silver medal, 1st, Delamere, T. D.; silver medal, 2nd, Junor, D.

College Special Prizes.-Public Speaking, 1, Patterson, J. A.; Public Speaking, 2, Deroche, H. M.; Public Reading, Falconbridge, W. G.; Eng. lish Essay, 1, Junor, D.; English Essay, 2, Mooney, D. H.

Prince's Prize.-Campbell, A. F. The Vice-Chancellor presented Mr. A. F. Campbell with the Prince of Wales' prize. The Chancellor referred to the fact of His Royal Highness, since his visit to this Province, having kindly founded a prize in this University. He then referred to the severe ordeal which Mr. Campbell had to undergo before obtaining that prize, and he had now the satisfaction of knowing that the highest honor that could be competed for at the close of the University examination had been taken off by himself. (Applause.)

The window, which is of richly stained glass, is situate at the north end of the hall, and is composed of three Gothic arches. Within a circle in the central arch are the arms of the university and college impaled-one of the university supporters, Minerva, being on the right, and one of the college supporters, a dolphin, on the left. Within a circle in the upper compartment is the crest of the university, a maple tree, with the motto, CLOSE OF CONVOCATION.-The Vice-Chancellor, in closing the proceed"Velut arbor aevo," and within a circle in the lower compartment is the crest of the college, a Roman Lamp, with the motto," Rerum claris lucemings, expressed his regret at the unavoidable absence of Chancellor Morrision. One of the best modes, he said, of testing the prosperity of dare." In the arch on the right is a branch of laurel, with a cluster of maple leaves, above and below, and in that on the left a branch of cypress any institution was to compare one year with another. He would, therewith similar clusters. At the base of the central arch is the following inscription:

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"To perpetuate the memory of John Henry Mewburn, Malcolm McKenzie, and William Fairbanks Tempest, distinguished and very promising youths, who, whilst fighting for their country, fell at Limeridge on the 2nd of June, 1866.

The inscription is not complete. The remaining portion will, we believe, be on an ornamental wainscot, which it is intended to place under the windows of the hall, in honor of the members of the University company, who took part in the action, especially of Messrs. Vandernissen, Patterson, Paul and Kingsford, who were wounded in the engagement. The cost of the windows will be defrayed by subscription among the officers, graduates, and students of the university and college. The work was executed at the establishment of Mr. McCausland, Toronto, chiefly by one of his employes, Mr. Theodore Lyon.

fore, bring up a comparison of former years with that which had just passed. But before a test of figures could be relied on it would be well to ascertain what different changes had been made with regard to different pursuits. By instituting a comparison between the year 1866 and the year 1857, he found that in 1866 there were eighty degrees granted against only twenty in 1857. It would thus be seen what rapid strides the University had been making. Taking the number of degrees granted in the University from the year 1859 to 1866 it would give a fair idea of the progress of the institution:

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He (the Vice-Chancellor) believed that a great deal of the success which Degrees Conferred.—The Vice-President of the University (Dr. Crooks,) now attended the University was owing to the zeal and ability of the then conferred degrees upon the following gentlemen :—

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