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of gas by leakage, condensation, &c, during the month of October was 88,813 feet, the amount manufactured having been 451,170 feet.— Cr Little brought up the question of asphalting the footpaths, which was eventually referred to the Public Works Committee. — The Council then adjourned. "Paddy Murphy," the humurous contributor to the Saturday Advertiser, thus expresses his opinion on the political situation :— Begorra we're settled down to work at last, and lverything is as right as a thrivet. Did ye read our finanshial statemeut. Mesilf an' Sir George dhrew it up betune us. I gave him the binifit o' me grate exparience in polyticks, for ay coorse ye're aware that I made that branch o' edycashun me partikular study. We've promised grate things intirely. We're going to do mighty grand things if they'll only lave us alone for a little time. Sir George laid on the soft sawdher purty thick I can tell you in his address. Bad luck to the word he sed about pikes, an' muskets, an' blundherbusses, an' Provinshal rights, an' the curses o' Abolishun. Be-gog ther's nothin' softens a man 'o timper down like the sweets of office. No matther what radicals we are whin we're out in the could, as soon as we drop into tha Government chairs we become torys. Och it's a quare world, so it is. A vehicle of healths. A pure stimulant possessed of tonic properties has ever been regarded as the great desideratum for diseases which drain the system of its vital power, for overcoming the debility which follows sickness, and for remedying constitutional weakness. Knowing its absolute purity, its powerfully invigorative and corrective action, its value as an ant-dyspeptic and diuretic, it is no wonder that physicians so very frequently prescribe Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps. —Advt.