The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1865-04-29 (London, England)

THE CANADIAN FEDERATION QUESTION.—Messrs. Galt, Cartier, and the other members of the deputation appointed by the Canadian Government to confer with the Home Government upon the Federation quemtion, arrived in Liverpool on Monday, by the steam-ship Asia, from Halifax, Nova Scotia. The honourable gentlemen remained a few hours at the Adelphi Hotel, and in the afternoon proceeded to London by train, being anxious to lose no time in arriving at their destination.  The Danish papers contain intelligence that the Government has resolved to hold an industrial and artistic exhibition at Copenhagen in 1866. A committee has been formed for the purpose, consisting of twenty-five members, presided over by the Crown Prince. The exhibition is to be on the let June, 1866, in the Riding. house of the Castle of Christiansburg, and will include raw stuffs as well as manufactured goods and objects of art. according to a parliamentary return, the tsßhuelmrnekswtraasndidnn the 31st December last, National Debt Office, tni the Nati -un— othe e samee BSavings idnagys was £4,995,663 44b. 3d. g to the credit of the the hands of the Postmaster General a balance of anpdoso £18,546 18s. id. making in all £5,014,210 Os. 4d. to meet a liability of £4,993,123 Ils. 7d. The repayments last year amounted t £l, 833, 849 2s. 9d. and the cash o received from depositors during the year was £3,350,084 Bs. ld. The charges and expenses incurred for the banks last year amounted to £45,856 is. The French Government has received officiaLinformation that the land cultivated with cotton in the proitace of Bona, Algeria, has increased within two years from 150 to 1,250 acres; 942 quintals of raw cotton were sent from that province to France previous to the 14th of March in the present year. The government hasconsequently resolved to expedite the execution of all the plans suggested for irrigating the lands by canals, or otherwise, in order to give to the cultivation of cotton In Algeria the complete development to which the want of water has hitherto been the only obstacle. A strange ease was before the Clerkenwell police magic trates, on Monday. A young man, named Samuel Young, Ivas charged with murder. On Saturday morning the trody of a young girl, named Matilda Coward, was found fn the New River, at Stoke NewingtOn. Her parents iv that she had no cause for committing suicide; but a witness states that at half-past nine o'clock on Friday night he met her in the street, crying. Young was seen between two and three o'clock in the morning of Saturday coming from the direction of New River. lie was In a half-drunken state, and told the policeman who clueshoned him that he had been in the New River, and had had a tussle there. This at present is all the evidenc4 against him or in support of the charge, but he was re. Sairk4_9d.  VIE MINER AND WODKMAN'S ADVOCATE, SATUDDAY, APRIL 29, 1365  Mr. Boyes, midshipman, Tbomns MO, enp.:ain of the after guard, and William Saeley, ordinary seaman—all of the Euryalus—have received the Victoria cross for gallantry during the late ,operations In Japan. A.petition has been addressed to the Emperor of the French by certain number of the inhabitants of Paris, praying for the suppression. of ,the octroi or town dues, which (hay affirm is a fiscal institution long condemned as vexations.to. the citizens generally, and injurious to the interests or trade'.' •  A fatal accident occurred to a gatekeepernamed Blunt, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire line at Lostock Junction, on Tuesday morning, about 930. He was looking after the Blackpool' train, when the 9 a.m. express from Manchester to Liverpool came up, the engine buffer striking him on the back and killing him on the spot. He was about 50 years of age, and leaves a widow and family. Au influential deputation waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Tuesday in reference to the mileage duties upon carriages. It was represented that the operation of the tax was most unequal and unfair. It was charged upon omnibuses which competed with railways, but it was not charged upon the latter. There was the same invidious distinction between omnibuses and steamboats. It was suggested that if the produce of the tax could not be wholly dispensed withlthe levy should be made either upon receipts or per horse. The Chancellor of the Exchequer proigised that the matter should have full and favourable consideration. He asked whether, if the duties were dealt with, the owners' of the vehicles would agree to fix the fares taken, or whether they would prefer to be guided by the exigencies of competition. The answer was that they would prefer the competition. A