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By {VII-I. Mary J. Holman, author of "Tempest and Sunshine." “ Ethelyn's Mistake," " Forrest House,” etc. " And do you not think I will do that, Queenie ?” Mr. Beresferd said, sitting down beside her and taking her hot hands in his as naturally as if he had been her brother or her over. And as he looked upon her,so brow en, and crushed, and helpless, and yet so sweet and lovely withal, there swept over him again something of the same feeling which had prompted him to ask her to be his wife that night upon the rocks. True it was that re 1 oently he had learned to think of another face , very difierent from the white, tear- stained one before him. But there was a great pity ‘ in his heart for the girl who had so dezzled,‘ and bewildered, and gbewitehed himâ€"a desirei to comfort and reassure her, and he felt: tempted to take her in his arms and soothe, her as he would have soothed a. little child. Grandma Ferguson had left the room as he came in, and the two were alone together, and Queenie's eyes, in which great tears were standing, fixed upon him, and Queenie’s lips he had so longed to kiss were quivering in a grieved kind of way, and Queenie’s hands were in his, and so it is not very strange that for amoment he forgot the face he had thou ht fairer than the one which he finally took etween his two hands and held, while he said : “ Queenie, you do wrong to talk as if any- thing for which you are not responsible can make a difference with your friends~wirh me, who once hoped to be more than your friend. You believe that Phil would have stood by you in this trouble. I know he would, and so will I. Queenie, I asked you once to be my wife, when you stood upon a dizzy height of prosperity. but you refused and scorned me, and now I ask you again when misfortune seems to be over- taking you. Will you be mine, Queenie, and let me shield you from the storm and prove to you thatIhave loved you for yourself rather than for your surroundings ?” Queenie’s face was a. study, as she drew it away from his encircling hands, and from sheer weakness and exhaustion lay wearily down upon the pillows oi the lounge, while she looked at him long and earnestly. Never before had Mr. Beresford seen so sweet, so soft and so womanly an expression in the dark eyes as he saw there now, and never had she seemed more desirable than she did when she answered him at lest : “ I thank you so much, Mr. Beresford, for whit you have said. It has done me a great deal of good, for if you can like me for my self alone there may be others who will do the same, and my life will not bequite so dreary. I will do you ythe justice to say that I believe you are in earnest now and mean what you say. but you are mistaken in the feeling which prompts you. It is pity for me, not love. But I thank you just the same, though I cannot accept your offer. When Phil went down beneath the waves my heart went with him, never to return. And you, Mr. Berestord, are destined for another. I know it; I have seen it, and am so glad. She is worthy of you. and was worthy before accident revealed that in everything she was your equal. And you will be so happy to gather sometime when it is all settled, as it must be at once. Send for Mrs. La Rue and hear her story ; or rather, go for her. I could not listen to it agaln. She will convmce you of the truth of What she says, and you must fix whatever there is to fix, so that Margery will have justice done her as Mr. Hetherton’s daughter. Don‘t let thought of me inter- fere with her rights. And now, go to Mrs. La Rue.” She waived him from her with her 0 (1 air of vuthoritv, and he had no alternative but to obey, and wishing her good morning he went below stairs to seek an interview with Mrs. La Rue. As they had no suspicion of what had hap pened it was a. mere accident that sent the Bossiter‘ s to Hetherton Place that morningâ€" Mrs. Rossiter and her daughters Ethel ’and Grace. clad in their deep crape for Philâ€"and Mr. Beresiord found them in the library with Grandma Ferguson. who had told them what she knew, and thrown them into a wild state of surprise and excitement. “ Oh, Mr. Bereaford," Ethel said, going swiftly up t0 him as he entered the room, “ this is a. strange story that Grandma has told us. and is it true that Reinette it; not our cousin ?” ' " I do not know,” he replied ; “ I am going £0 investigate itâ€"going to question Mrs. La ue. Shall I have her in here and let you hear what she has to say ?" “ Yes, yes, let her come,” Mrs. Rossiter laid ; and in a few minutes Mrs. La Rue entered the room, calmer and more collected than she had been in months. She had told the truth to Queenie. The worst was over. She could meet anything now; and at Mr. Beresford‘s request she began her story, which she repeated in a straight- forward manner, never once crossing herself or hesitating in the least. except ivhen some strong emotion overcame her, as she spoke of Margery and the day Queenie came to her in the Rue St. Honors. No one could doubt that she was telling the truth. and Mr. Beresford did not doubt her, but he said to her when she had finished : “ Have you no other proof than your mere assertion of facts ‘2” “ Yes.” she replied ; “I can give you the name of the pension in Rome where Mrs. Hetherton died. and of the physician who at- tended her, and the clergyman who buried her. These gentlemen, if living. will testify to the fact that she left an infant daughter, whom I took away with me. Then, old Flor- ine is still alive in Paris, and will show that I brought Margery to her and took her away at such a date, while Jacque Berdotte and his wife Jeanne. in Marseilles, can tell you I was their lodger twenty years ago, when Queenie was born; and I doubt not they will remember the American gentleman who came to see me. and to whom I went when I left their house. I told Jeanne who he was, and gave her to understand that he was Queenie’s lather. I think they are both alive. You can write and see. I have also Hr. Hether- ton’s last letter, written me from Paris when I was in the south of France, and he had heard that the girl Margery, in whom little Queenie was so much interested, was my daughter. That will prove that Queenie is my ohild;and after that you surely will be- lieve me without the letter which my mistress wrote to her husband the day before she died and in which she speaks of her blue-eyed, golden-haired baby, whom she hopes he will love because it is so much like her. I did not destroy that letter, though tempted to do so many times. I kept it, and can show it to you. but not now, for it is at home at the cottage, laid awav with Mr. Hetherton’s.” She talked rapidly, and every word carried fresh conviction to Mrs. Rossiter, who was eager to see Margery and 018.111] her as her sister’s child. Of the meeting between Mar. [my and her newly-found friends it is not my purpose to speak, except to say that at its close there was not in the minds of either a shadow of doubt as to the tie between them, and Mrs. Rossiter was surprised that she had never before recognized the striking resem- blance between Margery and the sister she had loved so dearly. “ I see her in every feature,” she said, as she folded Margery in her arms and kissed but fair face, Where the Ferguson roses and lilies were showing 50 plainly. But amid their joy there was a keen pang of regret and pain for the little, desolate girl lap-stairs, who, when, at last when they went to her, received them at first with a calm. stony face and dry eyes, which seemed to flash defiance at any pity they might feel for her. but she finally broke down in a storm of sobs and tears, and, laying her head on Mrs. Rossiters lap, begged her not to de- spise her utterly for what she could not help. â€" “ If I could Hie, 1 would.” the said, “ mid be out of everybody‘n way, but I cannot. I am QUEENIE HETHERTON. CHAPTER XLVI.-(Continued.) young, and life seems so lonely to me now, when once the days were too short for all I had to enjoy. Oh, why has God so dealt; with me ? " It was hard to answer that question, or ex- plain why to this young girl, whose life had been so full of sunshine, so much wretched- ness should have come. Anna Ferguson said it was to punish her for her pride, and that it served her right for having felt above them all. Miss Anna heard the news with a wonderful degree of equanimity. She was not greatly surprised, she said, for she had always thought Reinette peculiar and difierent from other young girls, and now she knew it was the bad blood there was in her. She pitied her, of course, and supposed she should go over and see her,but Reinette could not expect people to treat Christine Bodine’s ‘dsughter just as they had treated Miss Hath- ‘erton. This was the ground Anna took, and kept it, or tried to, though she met with little or no support from any one. On the contrary. the utmost sympathy was felt for Reinette when the story was known. Never before had Merrivale been so excited as it was now, for men, women, and children did nothing but talk of the strange affair from morning till night, and Margery, whom they all knew so well and had seen so many times, became as great an object of curiosity as the Queen ofEngland would have been had she passed through the town. “ There she comesâ€"there she isâ€"that’s Miss Hetherton,” was heard on every side whenever she appeared, and the men left their work and the women ran to the windows, and the children to the corners of the street to look after her. wondering how she felt, and if this change in her fortune would make any difference in her manners, which they had thought so sweet and attractive, and feeling sorry, some of them, that they had lost the dressmaker whose skill and taste they prized so highly. To Margery this notoriety and scrutiny were exceedingly distasteful. She had fought the story of her birth as long as possible; had; said that it could not be true, even after Mr. l Beresford, in whose judgment she relied so much, had told her to believe it without other proof than he had gathered from Mrs. La Rue. Of course he was bound to obtain all the evidence possible, both from Rome and France, and this he had taken steps to do ; but there could he no doubt upon the subject, and she was undoubtedly Miss Heth- erton, the heir of Hetherton Place. He called her Miss Hetherton, now, whenever he adâ€" dressed her, as did the other people in town, and there always came an increase of color to ‘Margery’s cheek when she heard the name and thought of the little heart-broken girl who had shut herself up in her room and re fused to see those of her former acquaintance, who, prompted partly by curiosity, and partly by genuine sympathy, came to the house to assure her of their continued friendship and esteem. “ It is very kind in them, and I thank them 0 much; but I cannot see them yet,” she would say, when Margery brought her the message. “ By and by I shall feel better. or die ; oh, if it could be the latter,” and with a gush of tears she would hide her face in her hands and sob bitterly. Disappointed in their desire to see Reinette, the curious and meddlesome ones turned their attention to Mrs. La Rue, but she, too, avoided and baffled them ; she had returned to the cottage in town, where she remained perfectly quiet, seeing no one and talking with n one except Margery and Mr. Beresford, to the latter of whom, as a lawyer, she was al- ways communicative, giving him any inform. ation he wished for, and aiding him ma- terially in procuring the proof, which, though he deemed it superfluous. he was desirous to obtain. To others she had said all she ever meant to say, and on the subject of her past li‘e her lips were sealed forever. Silent, cold and impassive, she moved about her house, with no look of human interest on her white. stony face, except when Margery came, as she did almost every day, with news of Queenie. Then the pale cheek would flash for a. mo- ment and theh eavy eyes light up with eager expectancy as she asked the same question, “ Has she mentioned me yet?” ” No, not yet,” was always Margery’s an. swer. and then the color would fade away and the lips shut tightly together as if in pain, but no Word of protest ever passed them, or complaint that she was not. justly dealt with by the girl whose life she had blighted It was Grandma Ferguson who staid con stantly with Queenie during the first few days after the story was known, and it was wonâ€" derful to see the love and confidence between them. With Queenie the feeling was almost idolatrous which she felt for the woman whose coare speech and common ways had once been so obnoxious to her, but to whom she now clung with more than a child’s fondness for its mother. On her bended knees, with her head in grandma’s lap. she had confessed all the past, even to her rebellious feelings on that day when she stood on the plattorm at the station and was claimed by relatives of whom she had never heard. “ I was so wicked and proud,” she said, “ for I thought myself equal to the greatest lady in Europe, and I hated the way you spoke to meâ€"hated everything about you, and Aunt Lydia and Anna; and went on hating it. especially the purple gloves and moire an- tique, which made my elbows jerk, they so offended my eye." “ I ain't an atom like you,” she said, and never could be if I tried ever so hard. "Paint the purple gloves, neither, nor the mory an- tique. which makes the difl'erence; it’s my whole make-up from the beginnin’. Some vessels is coarse, and some is fine. Some is jugs, and some is china, and I’m a jug of the roughest kind, but I love you, Queenie. and will stick to you through thick and thin.” “ I must go where no one knows me," she said ; “ where no one will look at me cu- riously, and pity me. I will not be pitied, and so I must go away.” But this Queenie would not do. After a time she might feel differently, she said, but now she must go away, and as Magnolia Park could not be of any great value to Margerv she was willing to go there and live. So Mr. Beresford was consulted and questioned with And grandma forgave the beautiful little sinner. and stroked the glossy, black hair, and told her not to mind, butget up andwipe her tears away, and be comforted. Then they talked together of Queenie’s future, and where she would go when sl’e left Merrivale, as she was resolved upon doing, for a time at least. “ Then why not go to that place in Florida where your Gra‘ma. Henherton used to live," Mrs. Ferguson suggested. “ She’s your gra’» ms. just the same, for she was your father’s mother, and I’ve heard it was a fine place where they once kept a. hundred Diggers. though it must be awfully run down." The Florida. plan struck Queenie very favorably. She had heard from her father of Magnolia Park, where Mrs. Hetherton had lived before her marriage. and knowing no thing of the dilapidated condition of the house, or the many difiiculties to be met and over. come before she could even be comfortable them, she was anxious to go at once. and broached the subject to Margery, who natur~ nlly opposed it with all her powers. It was her wish that Queenie should remain at Hetherton Place just as she had done, and share equally with her in their father’s home and fortune. “ You mean Magnolia Park,” Queenie re- joined. “ It is near Tallahassee, and where Mrs. Hetherton lived before her marriage. I have heard my father speak of it. He used to go there when a boy, and he told me What a grand old house it was, standing in the midst of a. grove of magnolias, with rooms enough to accommodate twenty or thirty guests. Yes. I should like to go there. I should like to see Florida. Pierre will go with me, and it will cost us but little to live.” “ And let me give you that little,”grandma said. “ I’ve monev in the bank, laid up for Army ; but now she’s goin’ to marry so rich, aha does not need it. Let. me give you a thousand dollars to start on, and when that’s done, you shall have more, unless you are ready to come home, as you most likely will be.” regard to the place. of which he knew verv little. Originally It was a fine plantation with at least a hundred negroes upon it, but these were scattered by the war, and since that time, or rather since he had done busi- ness for Mr. Hetherton. the farm had been let to different parties, who took the house furnished as it was when the last of Mrs. Hetherton’s relations left it, and who were not supposed to have any particular care for it. Now, however. it was untenanted, and only a few acres of the best land were rented to a man whose plantation adjomed it. It might be habitable. and it might not, but his advice was that Queenie stay in Merrivale and give up Florida, as it was getting near the last of February and not at all the time for going to Florida. But Queenie argued differently. March was the month when many tourists flitted to the South, she said. She should have plenty of time to get acclimated before summer, and she seemed so anxious, and excited, and de- l termined, that a consultation was held be- tween Mr. Beresford, Grandma Ferguson and Margery, which resulted in the decision that as soon as the necessary arrangements could be made, Queenie should leave Merrivale for Magnolia Park, accompanied by Pierre and Axie, Mrs. Ferguson’s colored girl, who was trusty and eificient. capable of overcoming almost any difficulty, and delighted with the prospect of a change from the monotonous life in Merrivale. This g1ving up of Axie, who had lived with her so many years, was Grandma’s own proposition which she stren- uously insisted upon, saying, when Queenie remonstrated, that it would not be for long, as they‘d soon get enough of that heathenish land of niggers and sand, and be back to the North again. The last week in February was fixed upon for Queenie’s departure, and the, day before she left, the Hetherton carriage drove through the village to the cottage, where Mrs. La Rue was lying alone. From it Queenie allghted, and entering unannounced re- mained there for half an hour or more. But of that interview nothlng was ever known, except this : When, next day, after seeing Queenie on board the tram at West Merrivale, Margery called at the cottage and reported that Queenie had gone, Mrs. Li Rue said, with a. quivering lip and trembling voice 2 i “ She kissed me and called me mother.” There is no sea on. Women and children have gone to bed as quietly as in their own beds. The cabin is deserted; most of the deck hands have turned in, and the look out catches himself nodding as he sits down. But for the rumble of the machinery the steamer would be a great silent coffin pushing its way into the darkness. Hark l The man in the pilot house islisten- ing as if his life depegded on it. There it is again ! It is a. long drawn Sign, ending in a moan. It is the sigh of the see and the moan of the heavens. Once you hear it you will feel chills creep over you, and an undefined and inexplicable terror will creep into your heart. You will tremble in your stout limbs, and you will look ahead into the darkness with your heart in your throat. Now there is a. minute when the stillness is deep and profound. The machinery has not been touched, but the rumble seems to have died away. There were little waves on the surface, but they have flattened down and left patches of foam drifting on a glassy sur- face. During this minute a second Wheelsman enters the pilot house, the captain is aroused from sleep. a. dozen deck hands turn out, and many footsteps are heard rushing up and down. Far away up the lake is heard the moan. Now it changes to a wail. Now it in a wild, mad shriek. and the gale Games down behind, a rolling mass of foam. The steamer seems to have grounded. Then she rises, reels this way and then that, keels over untila. hundred sleepers scream out in terror, and finally brings her 'face to the gale and forges ahead slowly, her decks wet and every timber groaning._ â€"-U. N. Arnott, an old member of the West Virginia. Legislature, and once its President, while on his way home from a re- ligious meeting on a dark night, took a path along an overhanging clifi'. trusting to his familiarity with the ground for safety ; but a misstep sent him down the precipice, and his neck was broken. An hour has gone by. It is no longer a liv- ing gale, but a. hurricane. Holding her head square against the gale and sea, the men in the pilot house are wet to the skin. Water is running off the hurricane deck. The frightened women have seen foam strike their state-room Windows. Every soul aboard is Wide awake now. Both engineers stand by and watch every movement of the machinery. Every time the Wheels-mien move the wheel to port or starboard they think of what would happen if a link in the tiller chain should give way. The officers move here and there, con- sult as they meet, and warn each other that the worst is to come. it means. Hands reach out after hands‘ fingers grip tighter, and now a mountainous sea climbs over the bow, rolls aft, and the next one follows to find nothing but beams and planks and splinters and struggling hu- man beings where rode a proud steamer ten seconds before. For half a minute everything drifts togeth- er. In two minutes those who are battling for life are out of sight of each other. On the shore a hun'dred miles away men say that it was an awful gale. Out at sea a numbness begins to creep over these who are hurled about, and one by one they give up the fight and the life‘preservers buoy up only corpses. â€"â€"Deuflt Free Press. Two hours now since the moan was first heard. Women have screamed and wept and swooned and grown calm“ Men have cursed and prayed and made ready for what is to come. No one has said to them that the steamer cannot weather the awful sea and the terrible gala, but each one feels it. There is a tremor beneath their feet which tells of weakness. There is a groaning as the heavy seas strike her which means that she is being worsted in the fight. How quiet men and women are after the reaction! Half an hour ago women were wringing their hands and filling the cabin with wails of anguish. Men were as white- faced as ghosts and trembling hke leaves. Now there are no screams. no wallsâ€"no word above a whisper. Some have secured life preserversâ€"others have resolved to make no fight. Here is a family of fiveâ€"there ‘ only husband and wifeâ€"yonder a lone woman or a single man. This night‘s work of the roaring gale and hungry sea will make a thousand hearts sad. “ The steamer is breaking up 1" The steward says so as he enters the cabin. There is a momentary start of surprise and terror, and then the lethargy of despair creeps back to the heart and gives each face a grim and de~ termined look. There are those here who will battle long and bravelyâ€"others will disappear beneath the foam like the iron ballast in the hold. Boomâ€"crashâ€"screuml Awavehas smashed in a section of the forward cabin, and water a foot deep rolls aft to pour down the stairway. That is the beginning of the end. Ten seconds aiter the machinery stops working. A thouâ€" sand barrels of water went swashing over the lower deck, and the fires down in the hold were drowned out in an instant. Now is the time for shrieks and screams and shouts and weila, for the steamer falls off into the trough of the see. But you hear no sound except the fiendish howling of the gale and the roar of the mad waters. What are those hundred men, women and children waiting for ! They stand and look into each uther’s taces. Husbands clasp their wives, children nestle closer, and the faces of the dead could not be whiter. Now it is com- ing! The gale catches the driving steamer and ”lowly turns her shattered bow to the seas. They feel her turning, and they know what Crash! Everything on the upper deck for ward of the smoke stacks was riven and splin‘ tequg and sent to lqewayd by that one wavez " FOUNDERED." (To BE COIanUED.) TH E PACIFIC RAILWAY. Full Text of the Contract with the Syndicate. THE WHOLE LINE TO BE BUILT $25,000,000 and 25,000,000 Acres of Land to be Given. THE ROAD TD BE FINISHED IN 1891 Sir JOHN MAoDoxALD presented a message from his Excellency the Governor~Geneml, which contained the contract and specifica- tions for the building of the Pacific Railway. The following being a copy: CONTRACT. This contract and agreement made between her Majesty the Queen, acting in respect of the Dominion of Canada, and herein represented and acting by the Honorable Sir Charles Tnpper,K C, M G, Minister of Rwilways and Canals, and George Stephen and INIHPRI‘L McIntyre, 01‘ Mon- treal, in Canada; John S Kennedy, of New York, in the State of New York ; Richard B. Angus, Junies TON, of St. Paul, in the State of Minnesota: Morton, Rose 6; Company, of London, England; and Cohen Reinimh & Company, of Paris,1<‘rance ~Witnesses, That the parties hereto have con- tmcted and agreed with each other as follows, nomely- , 1. or the better interpretation of this contract it is hereby declared that the portion of railway hereinafter called the Eastern Section shall comâ€" prise that part of the Canadian Pacific Railway to be constructed, extending from the western terminus of the Canada Central Railway, near the east end of Lake Nipissing, known as Calandar Station, to a point of junction with that portion of the Canadian Pa- cific Railway now in course of con- struction extending from Lake Superior to Selkirk on the east side of Red River, which latter portion is hereinafter called the Lake Superior section ; that the portion of said rail- way now partially inco use of construction ex- tending from Selkirk to Kamloops is hereinafter called the Central section, and the portion of said railway n »W in course of consternation ex. : tending from Kamloops to Port Moody is here- inafter called the \Vestern section and that the wards ” The Canadian Pacific Railway ” are in- tended to mean the entire railway as described in the Act 37th,Victoria. Cap. 14. Thv individual parties hereto are hereinafter described as “the company” andtho Government of Canada is hereinafter is called “the Government.” ‘2. The contractors immediately after the or- ganization of the said company shall deposit with the Government $1,000.000 in cash or ap- proved securities its LL security for the construc tion of the railways hereby contracted for. The Government shallpzty to the company interest on the cash deposited at the rate of four per cent per unnum half yearly, and shall pity over to the company the interest received upon securities deposited, the Whole until de- fault in the performance of the conditions hereof, or until the repayment of the deposit, and shall return the deposit to the company on the completion of the railway according to the terms hereof. with xuiv interest accrued thereon~ :5 1‘hc company shall lay out, construct and equip the said eastern section and the said central section of a uniform gauge of 4 feet 8;; inches; and in order to establish an approximate standard whereby the quality and the character of the railway and material nscdin the construcâ€" tion thereof, and of the equipment thereof, may be regulated, the Union Pacific Railway of the United States, as the same was when first con- structed, is hereby selected and fixed as such standard; and if the :Governinent and the com- puny should be unable to agree as to whether or not any work done or materials fur- nished under thls contract are in fair conformity with such standard, or as to any other question of fact excluding questions of low, the subject of this agreement shall be from time to time referred to the deter- mination of three referees, one of whom shall be chosen by the Government, one by the company and one by the two referees so chosen, and such referees shall decide us to the party by whom the expense of such reference shall be defrayed; and if such two referees should be unable to agree upon 1L third referee, he shull be appointed at the instance of either party hereto, after notice to the other party, by the Chief Justice of the Sn- preme Court of Canada, and the decision of such reierees, or of the majority of them, shall be “ B ”~Upon the construct-ion of any portion of the railway hereby contracted for not less than twenty 111ilesinlength,andthe completion there- of, so as to admit or the running of regular trains thereon, together with such equipment there- of as shall be required for the treflic thereon, the Government shall pay and grant; to the company the money and land subsidies appdcable there- to according to the division and appropriation final 4. The work of construction shall be com- menced at the eastern extremity of the eastern section not later than the first day of July next, and the work upon e central section shall be commenced by "' uu’ company at such point towards the ens ern end thereof on the portion of the line now under construction as shall be found convenient and as shall be ap- proved by the Government, at a. date not later than the let of May next. and the work upon the rastern and centml sections shall be vigorously and continuously carried on at such rate of my niml progress on each section as Shit“ enable the company to complete and equip the smne, and each of th -in in running order on or before the 1st duy of May, 18-31, by which date the company he‘ oby agree to complete and equip the said sec tions in conformity With the contract, unless pre- vented by the act of God, the Queen’s enemies, intestine disturbances, epidemics, floods, or other causes beyond the control of the company. And in «use of the interruption or obstruction of the work of construction from any of the said causes, the time fixed for the completion of the railway shall be extended for a. correspond- ng periodr 5. The company sna‘l pay to the Government the cost uCcording to the contract of the portion of the milwuy, 1H0 miles in length, extending from the citv of Winnipeg Westward up to the time at which the work was taken out of the hands of the contractors, and the expenses $11106 incurred by the Government in the work of construction, but shall have the right to assume the said work at any time and complete the same. paving the cost of construction {LS More» said so for as the same shall then have been in- curred by the Government 6. Unless prevented by the act of God, Queen‘s enemies. intestine disturbances, epidemics. floods or other causes beyond the control of the Government, the Government shall cause to be completed the said Lake Superior section by the dates fixed by the expir- ing contracts for the construction thereof, and shall also (muse to be completed the portion of the said western section now under contract, namely, from Kmnloops to Yale, Within the period fixed by the contracts therefor, namely. by the 30th day of June, 1885. and Shltll also cause to be completed, on or before the lst day of May, 185M, the remaining portion of the said western sec- tion, lying between Yale and Port Moody, which shall be constructed of equally good quality in every respect with the standard hereby created for the portion hereby contracted for; and the 5 «Id Lake Superior section, and the portions of the said western section, now under contract shall be COIDplelOd {LS nearly as practicable according to the specifications and conditions of the contracts therefor, except in so for [IS the some have been modified by the Government prior to this contract. mple Security to be Given by the Syndicate. “ A”~ The said subsidy in money hereby di- vided and appropriated as follows, namely : Cen- tral Sm:tion~â€"Assume<l at 1,350 miles. First 9;: miles, at $10,000 per mile, $9,000.000; second miles, at $13,333 per mile, $6,000,00; total, 315,, 000,000. Eastern Sectionâ€"Assumed at 050 miles Subsidy equal to $15,384.61 per 111116,$10.000,0l10. Total, $25,000,000. And the said subsidy of land is hereby divided and appropriated as follows, subject to the reserve hereafter previded for: CenLrILl Sectionâ€"FirstllOO miles, at 12,500 acres per mile, 11,250,000; second 450 miles, at 16,660.60 acres per mile, 7,500,00 1; total 18,750,010 Emtern Secti0n~Assumed at 650 miles. Subsidy equal to 9,015.35 acres per mile, 0,250,000. To.al, 25,000,000. 7. The railway constructed under the terms hereof shall be the property of the company, and pending the completion of the eastern and central sections the Government shall transfer to the company the possession andrightto work and run the several portions of the Canadian Pacific Railway already constructed, or as the same shall be completed ; and upon the completion of the eastern and central sections, ihe Government shall convey to the company, with a suitable number of station buildings and with water service, (not Without equipments),those portions of the Canadian Pacific Railway eonstru :ted, or to be constructed by the Government, which shall then be completed ; and upon completion of the remainder of the portion or the railway to be constructed by the Government. that portion shall also be conveyed to the company ; and the Canadian Pacific Railway shall become and be thereafter the absolute propertyof the company, and the company shall, thereafter and forever, efliciently maintain, work and run the Canadian Pacific Railway. ment agree to grant to the company a subsidy in money of $25,0003‘00, and in land of 25,000,000 acres, for which subsidies the construction of the Canadian Partific Railway shall be completed, and the some slmll be equipped, nfidutained and operated, the said subsidies, respectively to be paid and granted as the work of :construction shall proceed in manner and upon the conditions following, that is to saw: 8. Upon the reception from the Government of the possession of each of the respective portions of the Cmnmlixm Pacific Railway, the company shall equip the same in conformity with the standard herein established for the equipment of the sections herebv contracted for, and shall thereafter maintain and efliciently operate the tune. 9. In consideration of _’che premises the querp- thereof nmde as hereinbefore provided; tee company having the option of receiving in lieu of cash terminnble bonds of the Government, hearing such rate of interest for such period and nominal amount as may be arranged. and which may be equivalent, according to actual calculu- tiun, to the corresponding .cash payment, the Government allowing four per cent. interest on moneys deposited with‘t‘hem. “ C ”â€"If at any time the company shall cause to be delivered, on or near the line of the said railway. at a place satisfactory to the Governâ€" ment, any steel rails and fustenimzs to be used in the constructlon of the railway, but in advance of the requirements for such construction the Government on the requisition of the company shall upon such terms and co~ditions as shall be determined by the Government advance thereon three-fourths of the value thereof at the place of delivery, and a proportion of the amount so advanced shall be deducted according, to such terms and conditions from the subsidy to be thereatter paid upon the settlement for each section of 20 miles of railway, which proportion shall correspond with the proportion of such rails and festenings which have been used in the construction of such sections: y of January, 1882, the company shall have the option instead of issuing land grant bonds as hereinafter provided,of sub» stituting the payment by the Government of the interest (or part of the interest) on bonds of the company mortgaging the railway and the lands to be grant d by the Government running over such term of years as may be approved by the Governor»in-Council in lieu of the cash subsidy hereby agreed to be granted to the company. or any part thereof; such pay- ments of interest to be equivalent, according to actual calculation, to the corresponding cash payment, the Government allowing: four per cent. interest on moneys deposited with them; and the coupons representing the interest on such bonds shall be guaranteed by the Governâ€" ment to the extent of such equivalent, and the proceeds of the sale of such bonds, to the extent of not more than $25,000,000, shall be deposited With the Government, and the balance of such proceeds shall be placed elsewhere by the co in» puny to the satisfaction and under the exclusive control of the Government; ,i'ailing which last condition the bonds in excess of those sold shall remain in the hands of the Govern- ment, and from time to time as the work pro- ceeds the Government shall pay over to the company, firstly, out of the amounts so to be placed by the company, and after the expendt ture of that amount, out of the amount deposited with the Government. Sums of money bearing the same proportion to the m.lea.ge cash subsidy hereby agreed upon , which the net proceeds of such sale (if the whole of such bonds are sold upon the issue 1 thereof), or if such bonds be not all then Sold, 1 the net proceeds of the issue calculated at the , rate at which the sale of part of them shall have ‘ been made shall bear to the sum 01 $25,000,000 ; 1but if only a, portion of the bond issue he sold, 1 the amount earned by the company, according to i the proportion aforesaid, shall be paid to the company partly out of the bonds in the hands of , the Government and partly out of the cash de- ‘ posited with the Government in similar propor- ‘ tions to the amount of such bonds sold and re- maining unsold respectively, and the company shall receive the bonds, to he paid as cash at the rate at which the said partial sale thereof Shltll have been made, and the Government will re- ceive and hold such sum of money towards the creation ot a. sinking fund for the redemption of such bonds and upon such terms and conditions as shall be agreed upon between the Government and the companv. “ E "~lf the company avail themselves of the option granted by Uluuse “D,” the sum of $2,000 per mile for the first eight hundred miles of the central section shall be deducted pro mtu from the amount payable to the company in respect of the said eight hundred mileB, and shall be up» propriuted to increase the mileage cash subsidy appropriated to the remainder of the central section. 10. In furtherconsiderution of the premises the Government shall also grant to the company the lands required for the road bed of the mil- wuy and for its stations, station grounds, work shop, dock ground and water frontage at the termini on navigable waters, buildings, yards and other appurtenances required for the consistent and eflectual construction and working of the railway, in so far as such land shall be vested in the Government ; and the Government shall also permit the admission, free of duty. of all stool rails, fish plates and other fastenings, syikos, bolts and nuts, Wire, timber and all material for bridges to be used in the original construction of the ‘ailwuy and of a. telegraph line in connec tion therewith, and all telegraphic up- purntus required for the first equipâ€" ment of such telegraph line, [tlld will convey to the company, [Lt cost price with inter- est, ull rails and fusteniugs bought in or since the year 1879, and other materials for the con» struction in possession of or purchased by the Government at a valuation, such mils, fiistonings and materials not being required by it for the construction of the said Lake Superior and Western sections. 11. The grant of land hereby agreed, to bcnmde to the company, shall be so made in alternate sections of 640 acres each, t xtending back 24 miles deep, on each side of the railwuy Irom Winnipeg; to Jasper House, in so far as such lands shall be vested in the Government, the company receiv~ ing the sections bearing uneven numbers. But should any such sections consist in a material degree of land not fairly fit for settlement, the company shall not be obliged to receive them as part of such grant, and the deficiency thereby caused and any further deticieney which may arise from the insnificient quantity of land along the said portion of railway to (ZODL plots the said 25.000,000 acres, or from the nrcvul ence of lakes or water stretches in the sections granted, which lakes and water stretches shall not be computed in said acreage of such sections and shall be made up f1 om other portions to be selected by the company in the track known as the fertile belt. That is to say, the land lying between parallels 49° and 570 of north latitude, or elsewhere, at the option of the company, by the grant therein of similar alter- nate sections extending back twenty-four miles deep on each side of any branch or lines of rail- way to be located by the company and to be shown on a, map or plan thereof deposited with the Minister of Railways, or of any common front line or lines agreed upon between the Govern- ment and the company. The conditions herein before stated as to lands not fairly fit for settle- ment to be applicable to such additional grants, and the company may, with the consent of the Government, select in the Northwest Territories any tract or tracts of land, not taken up, as a means of supplying or partially supplying such deficiency, but such grants shall be made only from lands remaining vested in_ the Government. 17. The company shall be authorized by their act of incorporation to issue bonds secured upon the land granted and to be granted to the comâ€" any containing provisions for the use of such gonds in the acquisition of lands and such other conditions as the company shall see fit, such issue to be for $25,0U0,0x50. And should the coni- pany make such issue of land grant bonds then they shall deposit them in the hands of the Gov- ernment and the Government shall retain and hold one-fifth of such bonds as security for the due performance of the present contract in re- suect of the maintenance and continuous work- ing of the railway by the company as herein agreed for ten years after the completion there- of, and the remaining $20.000,000 of such bonds shall be dealt With as hereinafter provided ; and as to the said fifth of said bonds, so long: as no default shall occur in the maintenance and work ing of the said Canadian Pacific Railway, the Government shall not present or demand pay- ment of the coupons of such bonds, nor require payment of any interest thereon, and if any such bonds, so to be retained by the Government, shall be paid off in the manner to bevprcvidcd for the extinction of the Whole issue thereof, the Gov- ernment shall hold the amount received in payâ€" ment thereof as security for the same purpose as the bonds so paid ofi, pay- ing interest thereon at four per cent. per annum so long as default is not made by the company in the performance of the con- ditions hereof, and at the end of the said period of ten years from the completion of the said rail- way, if no default shall then have occurred in such maintenance and working thereof, the said bonds or, if any of them shall then have been paid off, the remainder of said bonds and the money received for those paid off, with accrued interest, shall be delivered back by the Govern , ment to the company, with all the coupons at- tached 90 such bonds, but if such default should occur the Government may thereafter require 13. The company shall have the right, subject to the approval of the Governor-in-Couucil, to lay out and locate theline of the railway hereby conâ€" tracted for as they mav see fit, preserving the following terminal points, namely, fr 111 Unlim- (1m station to the point of junction With the Lake Superior section, and from Selkirk to the junction with the western section at Kumloops by way of the Yellow Head Puss. 14, The company shall have the right from time to time to lay out. construct and equip, maintain and work branch lines of railway from any point or points along their main line of rd i1- way to any point or points Within the territory of the Dominion, provided always that before commencing any branch they shall first deposit a map and plan of such branch in the Depart- ment of Railways, and the Government shall grant to the company the land required for the Ioadhed of such branches and for stations, station grounds, buildings, workshops, yards and other appurtenances requisite for the eflicient construction and working of such branches in so far as such lands are vested in the Government. 12.71110 Governmefit shall extinguish the Indian title affecting the lands herein appropriated and to be hereafter grantedwir} aid of the yuilwfuy. . _ 15. For 20 years from the date hereof no line of railWay shall be authorized by the Dominion Parliament to be constructed south of the Canadian Pacific Railway from any point at or near the Canadian Pacific Railway, except such line as shall run southwest or to the Westward of southwest, or to Within fifteen miles of latiuide 49, and in the establishment of any new Province in the Northwest Territories provision shall be made for continuing such prohibition after such establishment until the expiration of the said period. 16. The Canadian Pacific Railway and all stations and station grounds, work shops, buildâ€" ings, yards and other property, rolling stock and apnurtenances required and used for the con- struction and working thereoLand the capital stock of the company shall be forever free from taxation by the Dominion, or byauy Province hereafter to be established or by any municipal corporation therein and the lands of the com- pany in the Northwest Territories until they are either sold or occupied,shah also be free rein such taxation for 25 years after the grant thereof from the Crown. payment of interest on the bonds so held an slmll not boollliged to continue to pay interest on the money 1eprese11ting bonds paid ofl, and While the Gavel mnent shall retain the right to hold the said portion of the said land grant bonds, other securities satisfactory to the Government may be substituted for theih by the company by agreement with the Government. 18. If the company shall find it necesse expedient to sell the remaining 320,000,000 0 the land grant bonds, or n. lnrger portion thereof than in the proportion of one dollar for each core 01'1an l then corneal bv the company, they shall he allowe 1 to do so, but 1119. proceeds over and above the amount to which the company be en- titled as herein provided shall be deposited with the Government, end the Government shall pity interest upon such deposit half yearly at the rate of four per cent. per nnnum, and shall pay over the amount of such deposit to the company Irom time to time as the work proceeds, it hne same proportion. and at the some time, and upon the sunle conditions as tho lmul grunt, that is to say, the company shall be entitled to receive from the Government out of the proceeds of the said land grant bonds the some number of dollars as the numbers of acres of the land subsidy which shall then have been earned by them, less one fifth thereof, that is to say, if the said bonds are sold at per. but if they are sold at less than par then a. deduction shall be made thcrcfi'mn corresponding to the discount at which such lands are sold and such hind grunt shall be conveyed to them by the Government subject to the ehurge created [LS security for the mid land Lzmut bonds, and shall remain subject to such churge till relieved thereof in such manner as shrill he provided for at the time of the issue of such lands. 10 company Blmll pay anv equnses which shall be incuned by the Government in carrying out the muvisions of the two lust preceding clauses of tlus contract 20, I! t e company should not issue such land grunt bonds then the Government shall retain from out at each grunt to he made from time to time every fifth section or the lunds hereby unread to be gmnted, such lands to be so rev tztined us security for the purposes und for the length of time mentioned in section 18 hereof, and such lands may he sold in such manner mud at such prices as shall be agreed upon hetween the Government and company, and in that case the price thereof shall be puid to and held by the Government for the sums period and for the same purposes us the land itself, the Government paying four per cent, per nnnum interest there- on and other securities satisfactory to the Gov- ernment may be substituted for such lands or money by agreement with the Government. 21. The company to be incorporated with suf- ficient powers to enable them to carry out the foregoing contract, and this contract shall only be binding in the event of an act of incorporation being granted to the company in the form here- by appended {is Schetiule A. . tn-" ., ,, In, __ LL‘ u, “rpm!” W ,HinW m 22. The Railway Act 0 1879, in so far as the provisions of the same are applicable to the un- dertaking reterred to in this contract, and in so flu” [LS they are not inconsistent herewith or con- trury to the provisi ms of the not of incorpora- tion to be granted to the company, shall apply to the Canadian Pacific Railway. In witness whereof the parties hereto have enacted these presents at the city of Ottawa, this Elst day of October, 1880. igued) CHARLES TUPPEB, GEO. STEPHEN, I)UNCAN MCINTYRE, JOHN b. KENNEDY, R. B. ANGUS, M91LTON,_ROSE 6x 00., No Peaceful Understanding Yet, and Both Countries Arming. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 20.-â€"“ The interests and dlgnity of Russia urgently demand that the Chinese question shall be speedily brought to an endâ€"to any end. Our situation is hu- miliating ; our heathen neighbors, without much trouble to themselves compel us to spend scores of millions of roubles‘ and that at. the lime when we badly need every rou- ble for the support ofvour famine-stricken people." In such harsh terms does the 60103 speak of the undecided policy of the Czar‘s Govern. ment toward China, and the journal seems to have expressed the general opinion of the public. A mere glance at the conflict be- tween Russia. and China will suffice to Show the immense superiority of the diplomalists of the Celestial Empire to those of the Czar. lfhe Pekin Government, without deâ€" claring war against the St. Pelersburg Government, adroitly managed to put its formidable enemy to endlees trou- ble and to an expense almost equal to that of an actual war. The Kujdla troubles alone took out of the Czar's treasury over ten millions of roubles, and the Kujdia. province is as far from being Russian as ever before ; it continues to be an apple of discord between the two neighboring countries. â€"A naked man on his knees in the snow, with the thermometer at zero, was so strange a spectacle that the conduct-or on the Pan Hazille Railroad stopped his train. The man said that a. strange voice commanded him to hang his clothes on a limb and pmy. It appears‘ then. that the Russian Govern- ment is not disposed to come to an under standing with her neighbor. 0n the other hand, Chins continues to arm herself. She, too, is building forts, buying men-ofvwar and drilling armies. When Prince Kung, the head of the peace party in Pekin, lost his power, the Pekin Government reaiily turned its car to the assurances of Tzo Tzung Ton, the Victor of Cashgar, that he can easily dis- perse all the Russian armies at the first en- counter. In fine, on the side of China. too, there are no signs of a peaceful disposition. But late events have taught us that not every demonstration means war. Again, nearly a year has passed since the Chinese Government refused to ratify the treaty of Livadia. concluded by the unhappy Tchun. How ? During that period of time Russia has been in constant fear of war. She has been raising forts on her eastern frontier. sending; out hazardous and costly expeditions, and transferring her men-of-War to the Pacific Ocean. Now a considerable Russian army is concentrated not far from Pekin, under the command of Admiral Dessovsky, and, at a cost of millions of roubles, is constantly kept ready for battle. But the Chinese Govern- ment is as far from declaring war or conclud- ing peace as ever. And the astute Chinese diplomat, Marquis Tzen. who spends his time for months in the capital on the Neva. manages to baffle all the efforts of the Ozar’s Government to come to any understanding; Such a state of affairs irritates the Russian people, and bittter complaints are heard on all sides of the hands of Russia. They affirm that thirty years ago the Russians were the sole masters of the trade, and no nation in the world could get a. single pound of the Chinese tea. unless through the Russian merchants. Now ltussis is compelled to buy a. large part of her tea from the English merchants. Ac- cording to the Chinese statistics for 1879, the Chinese foreign trade, both imports and ex- ports, amounted to $347,500,000. Of all this the English vessels transported 73 per cent., the French 12 per cent., the Chinese 5 per cent, the Japanese 4 per cent, the Americans 3 per cent., the German 2 per cent., and only 1 per cent. remains for the vessels of all the other countries, Russia in- cluded. If these figures can be believed, than t is evident that the complaints of the Rue- isians against their government are well grounded. It is well known that Russia is is the largest consumer of tea, and yet even that article she cannot get now but from the second hands. The Russian Liberals are particularly angry with the Government for its gross neglect in allowing tbq foreign trade ofAthna g0 slip put Prof. Martens of St. Petersburg, in his pamphlet “ Le Conflit entre la Russie et la Chine," recently published in Brussels, de- fends the Government. He argues that the Czar’s policy toward China. is, and has been for centuries, friendly and peaceful. If now a. Chinese question has come up, the cause must be sought on the other side of the English Channel. The Professor tries to prove that the Chinaman is arming himself against Russia only because he is tired of the preaching of the English missionaries, and is afraid of being poisoned to death by the opium forced on him by the English merchants. We are told that the latter bring to China 80,000 boxes of opium a year, selling at $500 per box;thet this poison had already put in misery over 8,000,A 000 of Chinamen of the best classes, and that the Chinese hatred for “the devils from be- yond sea" (so the Chinese call the English) threatens a general massacre of the European residents in China. The Professor comes to the conclusion that Kuldja must on no ac- count be surrendered to China. RUSSIA AND CHINA. iPer ’1". Dupre Trenfeli. JAMES J. HILL, Perhia Att’y, G604 Stephen. _‘Pe1 T. Dupre Trenfell. Como N, REINACH dz Co. ., â€"Counterfeit half dollars are extant: â€"â€"The Paris Onire states that Queen Vio- toria. has invited the Empress Eugenie to spend the winter months with her at. Wind- nor. ~â€"A note from her father‘s counsel, offer- ing to conduct. her divorce suit free of charge, was among the presents received by a Phila- delphia bride. â€"â€"The Guelph Herald (1085 not propose to allow the Globe to be the only illustrated daily paper in Canada, and again trots out its well-known and much esteemed portraits of Cabinet members. â€"-East Indian snake charmers are caram to extract the fangs of their pets. John Howe who went into the business at Charlotte, N. 0, did not thus make harmless the rattle- snakes which he used, and a Vicious blte killed him in half an hour. â€"Two physicians in 9. Toledo murder trial were asked whether the wounds, which they had already described, were the cause of death. They refused to answer, on the ground that such would be expert testimony, for which they would receive no compensa- tion. Judge Rouse sustained them. »-â€"Moriarty, who had been assaulted by Schmidt, appeared against him in a San Francisco police court. “ Did he have a pro- vocation to strike you?" the Judge asked. “ He may have had' something of Vthe kind concayled about his person, but it was a brick he struck me Wid,” replied Moriarty. ,_ Six reputable girls, langing £10m 17 to 20 yeals 01 we, engaged in a desperate street fight at East Boston, and were all arrested. The report describes Miss Crowley, who was one of the vanquished, as appearing in court in a stylish black velvet costumemvith banged hair and eyes. â€"~The thread for the glass cloth, now made at Pittsburgh, is drawn out ofamolten bar by means of a rapidly revolving Wheel at the rate of 2.060 yards 8, minute. The” weaving is done on looms, about the Slime as with silk. The coloring is done with minerals when the glass is originally melted. â€"â€"The British Quarterly makes the remark- able statement that the number of recorded deaths from starvation during the East In- dian famine, actually fell below that of ordinary years. During the worst of the crisis more than 4,000,000 people were saved from starvation at a cost of about $30,000,000 to the State. â€"Mr. and Mrs. Charles were on their bridal tour. and had reached Marietta, Ohio, when Mr. Coons, the bride’s divorced husband, pre- sented himself and demanded possession of her. The rival claimants drew pistols, but were disarmed. Mr. Coonsthen went to con- sult with a. lawyer, knowing that three hours would elapse before the couple could get away on the next regular train ; but they chartered a special locomotive. and so continued their journey unhindered. . â€"Virginie Dumeire, who recently mur- 1 dered her lover 111 Paris, bluntly told the Jury that were the circumstances repeated she should act as on the previous occasion. The jury retired for a quarter of an hour, and re- turned with a verdict of guilty of murder without premeditation. hut granted extenuat- ing circumstances. The Court condemned the defendant to ten year’s imprisonment. Virgmie Dumaire. on hearing the sentence. remarked to her sister: “ Do not trouble about me ; I am so tired of my life that the prison has no terror for me. After the ac- quitml of Marie Biere, who, however, did not kill but only wounded her lover. the sentence pronounced by the Aisno Court seems some- what anomalous. « â€"Some bunko swindlers at Cincinnati put a green farmer through the usual proccss of meeting a forgotten acquaintance, who had drawn a prize in a lottery; (of going with this “steerer” to the den of the rascles, and being there induced to invest $50 in the bunko game. But at the point Where he was ex- pected to retire a quiet loser he drew a revol- ver, and declared. with many rural oaths. that he would have his money back or take every life in the place. He got his money. â€"The British provincial press is full of rumor that the exl’remier is about silently to transfer the chief post in the leadership of his party to the Marquis of Salisbury, his efficient colleague in the settlement of the Berlin treaty. There is to be no formal re- signation of position, but, under the weight of advancing years and the pursuit of a long cherished literary task, Lord Beacousfied is anxious to be relieved of the hard work of active politics, in order to have more leisure for other matters. â€"Thirty-five years ago when Capt. Stone made Moundville, W. Va., his home. he planted two seeds, informing his family that he would like to raise wood for his coffin. Only one seed sprouted, and in the course of thirty years became a fine tree. During a. severe wind storm eighteen months ago the tree fell. It was sent to a Pittsburgh firm to be cut into lumber. and in due time returned to the captain in the shape of a. hen =some cofl‘m; and now, to complete the story. its owner has just been buried in it. â€"-Dr. Seliwinfurth, the Souden traveler, has published at Vienna a. letter, just re- ceived at Cairo, which stigmatizes in strong terms the recent increase in the Egyptian slave trade. The resumption of the traffic dates from the deposition of the ex-Khedive and the retirement of Sir Samuel Baker ; but it has increased more especially since Colonel Gordon has left. In spite of the English and French Consulates, there is every week a. wholesale importation of little negro children into Jeddah. and there is no prospect of this lucrative traffic soon coming to an end. , Sir Alexander Cockburn, the late Chief Justice of Eriglttnd, thought more of the spirit than of the letter of the law. When an un- known burrister he was intrusted with the defence of a man who, having been forced into an encounter by a noted duellist, killed him. “ Gentlemen,” he said to the jury. “ my learned friend has told you that it is murder, his Lordship will tell you that it is murder; I know that it is no murder, and you know that it is no murder.” After these words the jury at once returned a verdict of not guilty. â€"The average life of unimpregnated rail- way ties on the German and Austrian roads has been found to be as follows: For oak ties, 18.6 years; fir. 7.2; pine, 5.1; "beech. 3. The average life of ties impregnated in a judi- cious manner with creosote or chloride of zinc, under a powerful pressure, reaches: For oak ties, 19.5 years ; fir, 14 w 16; pine, 8 to 10; beech, 15 to 18. The average life of 834.341 pine ties, on thirteen German rail- roads, impregnated according'to various sys- tems, is calculated at some fourteen years, which may be considered every fair showing. â€"An amusing squabble of precedence took place recently at the opening of the Cam- bridge Assizes‘by. Judge Hawkins when a Vice-Chancellor of the university asserted his claimto sit on the right hand of the Judge, a. position ordinarily occupied by the High Sherifl. The latter dignitery. however, re- fused to acknowledge the superiority of the college den, and had the gratificaâ€" tion of seeing that estimable person, with his attendant esquire, taken down a peg by the Judge, who confessed the most utter ignorance of the existence of any usage such as that relied on by the Vice-Chancellor, and relegated the High Sheriff to his position on the bench. â€"Coquelin, of the Theatre Francais, has all his life been pining for a decoration. He could not get the Legion of Honor, because that is never given to actors; but the other day he had something almost better-an Austrian orderâ€"~given him for his exertion on behalf of the sufferers by the inundations of Szegeddin. It was handed to him by Count Beust. and he could not take it without pointâ€" ing a moral. “ Ah, Monsieur le Comte,” he said, ”what a. humiliation for the French Government!" “ My illustrious master, monsieur,” returned the _ other with cold politeness. “wishes to humiliate nobody, but simply to do honor to a distinguished man.” Coquelin said no more after that. ‘AROUND THE WORLD.