The Portland daily press., 1872-01-20

terday afternoon The clothing of a large
number of girls employed in the factory took
hre. They rushed shrieking through the town
into the surrounding marshes, in hopes of
quenchlng the flames The factory was totally
destroyed. -
GLOOMY VIEW OF THE SITUATION.
Hon. Mr.. Hoasman, NJ p, in an address to
his constituents at Liskeard, last night, took a
gloomy view of the political prospect and de-
clared that the present government was unfit
to deal with the English question.
DOMINION OF CANADA.
MEETING OF THE DOMINION BOARD OF TRADE
DISCUSSION OF TRADE RELATIONS WITH THE
UNITED STATES, -f- Al 7'}-
OTTAWA, CANADA, Jan. 19.-At meeting of
OF the Dominion Board of Trade Mr. Smith of
St John, N. b., spoke on the question of in
justice done Canada by the Government of the
United States in the excessive consular fees
and customs charges to which Canadian pro-
ducts are subject to upon entry at United
States ports. AT St John the exports amount
to st, OO0, 900 annually, while the imports were
100000. The complaints were that the mat
ter was one OF great Inconvenience and great
COST The Inconvenience was the necessity of
making double entry. The cost amounted to
about $3.50 on each such entry but the mer-
chants even then would not complain so much
II the entry amounted to anything when made,
but eonsuls certificates when presented to the
CUSTOM house officials were not worth the paper
on which written. They felt they were COM
PEELED to submit to injustice --.
Mr.. Hazard of Buffalo explained that a con-
suls certificate must of necessity accompany all
the invoices coming into custom officers hands
no matter from what country, It4aE1
Hon gohh Young thought that some recipro-
cal arrangements should be adopted. He was
not aware that the relations between the two
countries were different from that between the
Uulted States and other countries. He thought
that it was unadvisable to bring this matter
before t the Government 1t the present time
resolution and the trade relations with the
United States came up.
Mr. Young opened the discussion advocating
zollverein which was opposed by Messrs.
Rowland, Wilkes, Frye, Burton and others.
J., Nj Rowland explained the position taken
by the Dominion delegates at St. Louis He
said the feeling of the National Board was to
give reciprocal trade only ON their own con-
ditions, with the evident intention of forcing
Canada into annexation
Messrs. Lever and Hazard, American dele
gates, commended that the commercial men of
the United States did not want annexation 1t
was less spoken of in the United States than in
Canada. Mr.. Hazard stated that zollverein
would meet with strong opposition from lum-
per, coal, and salt monopolists, Besides these
there were political obstacles to its observation
and adoption, but Americans were open to free
commercial intercourse, and upon any fair
terms would meet the Canadians half way.
Ihe aeDate was resumed on the resolution to
appoint delegation from the Dominion Board
OF Trade to meet the executive committee of
the National Board at Washington.
second resolution cOndemning a zollverein
but expressing cordial willingness to nego-
tate fer the purpose Of relieving the trade be-
tween the two countries from all restrictions
were unanimously passed.
FRANCE.
TAX ON RAW MATERIAL
PARIS, Jan. 19.-In the assembly to-day the
discussion was resumed upon the proposition of
the Minister of Finauce to impose tax on raw
materials. Finally the assembly 376 against
3O7 adopted the resolution offered by Deputy
Ferry, providing that the government only re-
sort to the taxation of raw materials when the
other taxes fail to produce sufficient to meet
the expenses Of the nation.
,- COLLEGE PROFESSOR SENTENCED,
PARIS, Jan. 19.-The Principal of the Col
lege OF Vitry LIE Francois who was arrested
on account of the hostile demonstrations made
by the students of the institution has been con-
demned by German Court Martial to three
months imprisonment
The circumstance causes much uneasiness
here. -
DEMAND FOR A COMMUNIST.
The French government has made formal
demand on Austria for the extraditon of NJ.
u. Esenes, Gambettas private secretary, dur
ing the German war and subsequently connect
ed with the commune 81