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35. And each laws hall co il viada for the period of Ton years fron}
perecic ans laws ja any wise page the tie of the Ennion, an additonal allow-
nant Merete in ict cr anerad Siatyethree thousand dollars per
with whieh have been mate anna. Dal so long as the Public Debt of |

drior thereto, and any bow nade by
m0) Logislatire in guysuanee ot Ue
wuthority hoveby conferred upon it
in regard to mations and subjvets in
Which coueurent jurisdiction is
hereby given to Parliament shi “
fay as Vie same is reopngnant or ia-
vonsistemt with any Act passed) by
Parliament, be null aud void.

REVENUES, civ List &c,

49.—Proman.laiterthe Union, all Duties
and Revenues over which the respective
Leyislatures of the said Provinces before
and atthe time of the passing of this Act
had, and have power of Appropriation,
except sach portions thereot as are by this
Act reserved to the Local Governments, or
raised by them in accordanes with the Spe-

cial powers canferred upon them by this}

Act, shall form one Cousalidated Revenue
Fund, to be appropriat.d for the Pabtie
Service of the Kingdom of Canada, in the
manner, and sudject to the charges herein-
alter mentioned,

60.—The said Consolidated
Fund ot Canadas shall be permanently
charged wi Pthe costs, charges, and
expeases incident to the collection, mana-
frement aul reecipt thereof such costs,
charges and expenses being subject, never-
theless, to bo reviewed and audited jn such
muner as shall be ordered by the Govern-
or-General in Counedl und otherwise pro-
vided by any Act of Parliament,

61.—Unl Itered by any Act of Paslia-
mivnt, the salary of the Governor-General
shall be ten thousand pounds sterling mo-
ney of Great Britain.

62.—The expenses of the collection,
Management and receipt of the said Cou-
solidated Revenue Fund shall form the
first charge thereon; and the xonual inter-
est of the public debt of the Provinces of
Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Branswiek
or either of them at the time of the Union,
shall form the second charge thereoa,

63.—Subject to the Aa payments
hereby charged on the said Consolidated
pubile service.

Revenue Pand the same s
ated by Parliument for the
54,—-All stocks, cash, bankers’ balance
and securities for money Lelongingito each
Province at the time of the Union, exgept
as hereinatter mentioned, shall be the pro-
of Canada. and shall so far be con-
vedas reducing the amount of their
spective debts yt the time of Union.
—Phe following Public Works and
Property of cach Provinee shall be the
Property of Canada, to wit:—
1, Canals, with land and water power
connected therewith,
2. Public harbors,
3. Light houses and piers, and Suble Is-
lanil.
4. Steamboais, dvvdzes, and public ves-
sels,

5. Rivers ¢ yement,

6. Riilways and railway stocks, mort

and other debts due by rai

y companies

+ Military roads,

Custom honses, post offices, and all
other public buildings, exeept such
as may be set aside by the Govera-
mnent of Canada, for the use of the
local Le aturesand Governments.

9, Property transterred by the Imperial

Government, and known as Ord-
nunee property.

» Arnmories, drill sheds, military cloth;

ing, and winitions of war, and lands

set apart lor general publie purpos-

a

Q

cs.

56.—All lands, mines, minerals, and
royalties belonging to the Pr
Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick
at the time of the Union, shall beiong to
the Province ot Ontario, Quebee, Nova
Seotia, and New Brunswick, in which the
sme are so situate subject to any trists
that may exist in respect to any of such
lands or to any interest of other persons in
respect of the same,

68.—All sums due for such lands, minds, |

or minerals at the time of the Union, shail
also belong to the several Provinces,

68.—All assets connected with such por-
tions of the Publig Debt of any Province as
are assumed by such Provinces, shall also
belong to auch Provinces,

59.—Canada shall, from and alter the
Union, assume the debts and liabilities of
each Province existing at the time of the
Union.

60.—The Provinces of Gnt:
bec, conjointly, shall assume any excess
by which the debt of the present Province
of Canada may exceed, at the time of the
Union, $62,500,000, and shall be charged
with interest at five per centum thereon.

61.—The assets enumerated in Schedule
J of this Act htreunto annexed, belonging
xt the time of the Union to the Provinée ot
Can
Vinces of Ontario and Quebee conjoiutly.

62.—Nova Scotia shall in like
assuine any portion of its pre
Debt ia excess of $3,000,000, and—

63.—New Branswick shallin like man-
ner assume any portion of ils Public Debt

3 of $7,000,000.

65,.—The several Provinees shall retiin
all other public property therein subject to |
the right of Canada to assume any Iands |
or public property required for tortitica- |
tions or for the defence of the country,

65,.—In case Nova Seotin or New Bruns-
wick have not contracted debts at tho tine
of Union equal to the amount with which
they are respectively entitled to enter the
Union as hereaiter provided, they shall re-
ceive by hall yearly payments in advance
trom the Governinent of Caunda the inter-
est at five percent, on the difference be-
tween the actual amount of thei respect-
ive debts and such stipulated amounts.

66.—The following sums shall be paid
yearly by Canada, to cach Province for the
support of their Local Governments and
Leyislatures—-

hiani

Ontario, $89,000
Quebee, 70,000
Noya Scotia, 60,000
New Brunawick, 60,000

$260,000

amd an annual grantin aid of each Pro-
vince shall be mate, equal to eighty cents
yer head of the population, as established
by the Censns of one thousand eight hun-
dred and ty-one, and in the ense of
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, by each
subsequent decennial Consus until the pop-
dution of cach of these Provinces shall
rate j}t.to four thousand souls, at age!
shal’ be fh therealter remain, Sach aic

mands upon sett

and ait bo paid Hit, for leeal purposes, |

ot onch Provinees but getty In advance
Canada shall dedaet.tiom Cebit My
stuns paid as interest on the Pabir }) i |
of any Provinee in excess of the Amore |
provided under the 60th, 62nd and 63rd!

ses.

unsiick shall receive by

Revenue |

vinces of

io and Que-|

2, shall be the property of the nt fleers:
|

nt Public}

that Provinee remains under Seven iil-
lions ot dollars, a deduction equal ta the
interest at five per contum on such deti-
cisuey slall be made trom the said sum of
Siaty-three thousand dollars.
63.—All payments to be mde under this
' Act, or iu discharge of liabilities created}
funder any Act of the Provinces of C aad
Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick respect: |
jively and assumed by Canada from and
halter the time of Union, and until other-
wise directed by Parliament, shall be made
in such fori aud inanneras may from time
‘to time be ordered by the Governor Gen-
jeralin Coungil, by proclamation to be is-
}suecd trom time to time, to declare that
‘such goods, wares, and merchandizes may
{be imported free into any part in- the
| Kingdom of Canada trom any of the Pro-
i vinces of Ontario, Quebee, Nova Scotia,
jand New Brunswick, upon proot of having
ready paid duty, and in case where any
| larger duties are exacted in 2 ny Province,
jit shall be lawful for the Governor General
jin Council in like manner to authorise the
iMportations of such goods, wa and
j merchandise on payment of the difference
of duty between the said Province,
All articles, the growth or produce,
acture of the Provinces of Ontario,
Quebee, NovaScotia, and New Brunswick,
shall be admitted free into all ports in
Canada, trom and after the Union,
71.—No lands or property belonging to
Canada or any Province thereof shall be
liable to taxation,
LOCAL CONSTITUTIONS,
WILE EXECUTIVE,

73,.—For each of the Provinces of On-
tario, Quebee, Nova Seotia, and New
| Brunswick, there shall be an officer styled
the Licutenant Governor, to be appointed
| by the Governor General in Council under
| the Great Seal of Canada,

74,—A Licutenant Governor shall hold
office during the pleasure of the Goyernar
| General; but anyduieutenant Governor ap-
| pointed atthe commencement of thy first
{Session of the Parliament of Canada, Shall
foot be removed within: five years of his

appointment, except for cause assigned,
which shall be communicated to him in
jp Writing within one month alter the order
for his removal is made, and shall be com-
municated by message to each of the
Houses of Parliament within one week
thereafter, if Parlinnient is then sitting,
and if not, then within one week after the
commencement of the next Session of Par-
liament; and in the event of the absence,
or illness, or inability trom any other
;cause of the Lieutenant Governor to dis-
eharge the duties of his office, the Govern-
ov General in Council may appoint an Ad-
iminstrator to execute the offie. and fane-
tions of Lientenant Governor during such
absence, illness, or other inability.
74.—TVhe Licutenant Governor of Quebee
may, by a proclamation to be i
{him for that purpose under the Gi
{of the Province, and to take effect fron a
iday to be named therein, constitute ‘Town-
| ps in those parts of the Province, anil to
Jtuke efuct from aday to be vamed therein,
}eoustitate Lownships i nuts of the
| Provinee of Quebee in which Township:
fire not already constituted, and may tix
jthe pietes and bounds thereof,
| Here follows the names of the
I places where the Local Legislatures shall
Ibe held, namely, in Ontario, Quebec, Nova
{Seotia, and Fredericton. The Legislative
| Assembly of Oatario shall be composed of
cighty-two Membe Quebec hag two
| Houses, the Legislative Council and. the
| Legislative Assembly; the former shall be
camposed of twenty-four Members, and
the latter of sixty-{ The constitution
}ofeach of the Provinces of Noya Seotia
jand New Bruuswick shall continue as es-
tablished at the time of Union.]
POWERS OF TILE LEGISLATURE.

90. In each Provinee, the Legislature
tay make Laws in relation to matters
fcoming within the clauses of subjects next
hercinafter enumerated :—

(i). The amendinent from time to time
of their Constitutions except as re-
lates to the oftice of Lieutenant Govy-
ernor,

(2). Direct Taxation within the Province
in order to the raising of a reyenue
for Provincial Purposes, and resery-
ing to New Brunswick the right to
collect the Lumber Dues provided
in Chapter 13, Title IIT of the Re-
vised Statutes of that Province, and
my amendinend thereof made before

| or alter this Act comes into opera-
| tion, which does not inerease the
i mnouat, but exeepting therefrom
| the Lumber of any other Province:
| @). The borrowing of money on the
eredit of the Province:
| (4). The Dlishment and tenure of
i Provincial offices and the appoint-
| ment and payment of Provincial of-

(5). The management and sale of the
public lands belonging to the Pro-;
Vince, and all Limber and Wood!
grown thereon:

| (6). The establishment, maintenance,

| and management of public and re-|

| formatory prisons in and for the |
| Provinee:

; (7). The establishment, maintenance,
and management of hospitals, asy-
lums, charities and eleemosynary
institutions in and for the Prévinee |
(other than marine hospitals) :

(8). Muncipal institutions in the Pro-
vince.

(9), Shop, saloon, tavern, auctioneer,
and other licenses in order to the
raising of a revenue for provincial,
local or muncipal purposes:

(10). Works and Undertakings.

(11). The incorporation of Companies,

(12). The solomnization of mariage.

(13). Property and Civil Rights but ex-
cepting such portions thereof here-
by assigned to Parliament.

| (14). ‘The administration of justice in the

| Province, jneluding the constitution,

: maintenance, and organization ot

Courts, both of Civil and Criminal!

Jurisdiction, and ineluding proceed-

i nre in Civil Matters in those Courts.

| (15). ‘The imposition of punishment by
fine, penalty, or imprisonment for
enforcing ang Provincial Law made
in relation to any matter coming
within any of the classes of subjects
enumerated in this section,

(16), And generally all matters of a pri-|
vate or local nature not assigned to
Parliament,

| 91.—In each Provinee the Legislature

may make Laws in relation to the educa-

tion in the Province sudject and according

lement of all future -de- | to the following provisions ;—

(1.) Nothing in any such Law shall
prejadicially affect any right or pri-
velege with respect to Denomiia-
tional Schools which any class’ of
persons have by Law in the Province
at the Union, : :

(2). All the powers, privcleges, and’

daties by Law conferred and im-

posed in Upper Canada, at the time

nl
oh
“

Roman Catholic subjects, shall be
extended to the Disspniicent Schools |

of the Queen* Protestant and Roman | laud and Prince Edward Island, or either of)

Catholic subjects in Lower Canada,

Where in any Province a system |
ot separate or Dissentient Schools!
by Law obtains cr is herealter es-|
tablished by the Legislature thereot
an appeal shall lie to the Governor |
General in Council from any Act or!
decision ot any Proviacial wathority

affecting any right or privelege of
the Protestant ov Catholic minority
in relation to Edueation,

In ease any such Provincial Law as
from time to time seems to the Gov-
ernor General in Couneil requisite
for the due execution of the provi-
sions of this section is not syne or
_in case any decision of the Goyern-

or General in Council on any appeal

under this section is not duly execu-
ted by the proper Provincial Author-
ity in that behalf, then and ia every
such case, and as far only as the
circumstances of each case require,
the Parliament of Canada shall have
power to make remedial Laws lor
the due execution of the provisions
of this section and of any such de-
cision of the Governor General, in
Council, "
REVENUES, &c, :
2.—From and after the Union, such por-
tions of the duties and revenues, over
which the respective Legislatures of the
said Provinces, hefore the period theredt,
had power of appropriation, which are by
this Act reserved to the Local Goyern-
ments or Legislatures, and all duties and
revenues by them hereafter raised in’ ac-
cordance with the sp: powers conferred
upon them by this Act, shall form in each
Province one Consolidated Revenue Fund
to be appropriated for the public service
of the said Province, if

(2. Here follows the Miscellaneous see-
tions respecting Outario and Quebee.]
MISCELLANEOUS SECTIONS RESPECTING ON-
QUEBEC, NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW

BRUNSWICK.

115. ‘The following sections are applica-
ble to Ontario, Quebee, Nova Scotia and
New Brunswick:

116. Bills tor appropriating any part of
the Public Revenue, or for imposing any
Tax or Impgst shall originate in the Legis-
lative Assembly of each Province,

117. It shall not be lawful for the Legis
lative Assembly of any Province to ¢
ate or pass any vote, resolution, addi
ov Bill tov the appropriation of any part of
the public revenue, or of any tax or ime
post to any purpose that has not been first
reconnnended to that House by message
of the Licutenant Governor in the ion
in which such vote, resolution, address or
bill is proposed.

118. Where a Bill passed is pr
the Lientenant Governor for his assert, he
shall declare acuording in his diseretion,
but subject to the provisions of this Act,
either (hat he consents thereto or that he
withholds his consent, ov that he reserves
the Bill for the signification of the pleasure
of the Governor General,

119. Where the Lieutenant Governor
assents to d Bill he shall by the first con-
venient opportunity send an authentic
copy of the Act to the Governor General,
and ifthe Governor General in Council
within one y uller the passing thereof,
thinks lit Co disallow the Act, such disal-
lowance being signified by the Goyernor
General to the Lieutenant Governor, or by
proclamation, shall annull the Act from
and after the day of such signification or
proclamation.

120. A Bill reserved for the signification
of the Governor General's pleasure shall
not have any force unless and until within
one year from the day on whieh it was re-
served, the Governor General signifies to
the Lieutepant Governor or by proclama-
tion that it has received the assept of the
Governor General in Council, an entry ot
every such signification or proclamation
when transmitted by message from the
) Lieutenant Governor, shall be made in the
Journals of each House, as the case may
be.

Q).

(4).

ented to

MISCELLANEOUS. ;

121, It shall be lawful for the Parliament
by any Act or Acts to define the priveleges,
immunities and powers to be held, enjoyed
and exercised by the Senate and the dloase
of Commons, and by the members thereof
respectively: Provided that no sueh prive-
leges, immunities, or powers shall éxceed
those now held, enjoyed and exercised by
the Commons House of the Imperial Par-
liument, or the members thereof,

122. The Parliament and Government
of Canada shall have all powers necessary
or proper for performing the obligations
of Canada, or of any Provinee thereof, as
part of the British Empire to Foreign
Countries, arising under treaties between
the Empire and such Foreign Countries.

125. ‘The Governor General shall appoint
the Judges of the Superior, District, and
County Courts in each Provine ad until
the consolidation of the Laws of Outario,
Noya Sco! and New Brunswick, such
Judges shallbe selected from their res-
pective Bars.

124. The Judges of the Courts of Quebec
shull be selected from the Bar of Que-
bee,

125. The Judges of the Superior Courts
shall hold their offices during good behaviour
and shall be removable on the address of both
llouses of Parliament. ’

126. Notwithstanding anything in this Act,
any Act of Parliament may from time to tiine
mike provision in relation thereto :—

(1). Agriculture in all or any of the Pro-
vinces.

(2). Immigration into all or any ofthe Pro-
vinces.

(3). All works and undertakings.

And in each Province the Legislature may
make provision in relation thereto:

(1). Agriculture in the Province,

(2). Immigration into the Province.

(3). All works and undertakings in the
Province;

But any Law passed by such Legislature shall
have the force of Law in and for the Province
as long and so far only as itis not repugnant
to any Act of Parliament.

127. Either the English or the French lan-

guage may be used by any person in the De-
bates of the Hotses of Parliament, and of the
Honses of the Legislature of Quebec, and both |
of these languages shall be used in the res- |
pective records und journals +f Parliament, |
and of the Legislature uf Quebec. And the}
Laws and Statutes of Parliament, anjl of the |
Legisliture of Quebec shall be printed ‘and.
published in separate volumes of the English |
and French languages respectively, and either |
of those languages may be used hy any person |
or in any pleading or process in or issuing|
from any Court of Canada, created under this
Act, aud in or from all or any of the Courts of
Quebec.

128. It shail be lawful for the Qaven at any
time hereafter to admit into the Union all or
any of the Colonies or Provinces of Newfound-
land, Prince Edward Island, Rupert's Land,
or the North Western Territory, or British |
Colombia, on such terms and conditions as)
the Parliament of Canada shall deem equitable, |
and as shall receive the assent of the Quecn;

SIDE JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1867.

and School Trustees of the Queen's! ward Island and British Columbia, as shall be |

agreed upon by their reapeciive Legislatures ;
and in the event of admiseion of Newfound-

them, each shall be entitled to a representa-
Uon in the Senate of Canada of four members,
but after the admission of Prince Edward Is-

land into the Union, the representation of

Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the Sen-
ate of Canada upon any redaction by death or
otherwise to the number of Ten Members from
each or either of those Provinces shall not be
replaced beyond that number, except as pro-
vided by the — sections of this Act; and it
shall be lawful for the Queen, upon any such
adinission into the Union at any time here-
after, to declare by proclamation, that any or
either of the Colonies or Provinces of fNew-
fuundland, Prince Edward Island, Rupert's
Land, the North Western ‘Territory, or British
Columbia upon, from, and after a certain day
in such proclamation to be appointed shall so
form a portion of the Kingdom of Canada, and
henceforth the same as the case may be, shall
be and become a portion of the Kingdom, up-
on, from, and after the day so appointed as
aforesaid, and upon such terms and conditions
as muy be expressed in such Proclamation.
INTRRCOLONIAL RAILWAY.

129. And whereas the construction of a
railway trom the River St. Lawrence to the
city of Halifax, in the Province of Nova Scotia
is mecessar

And whereas it has been agreed between
the Provinces that such railway shall be con-
stracted with all convenient speeed.

Be it enacted, that the General Government
shall, within six months after the Union; com-
mence such riilway, and within three years
thereafter complete the same,

Gorrespondence,

[For the Summerside Journal.)

The following extract, clipped from the
Acadian, published in Wolfville, N. S.,
serves to show how the business of rumsel-
ling is regurded in those parts, while it holds
up an exunple, worthy of imitation for others,

The names of the deputation, as appended,
represent merchants, firmers, and teachers,
showing that the intelligence and respecta-
bili
intoxicating drinks, and determined it’ possible
ty remove the nuisance from their midst.

We learn from other sources that the pro-
prictor of the establishment referred to has
since been convicted for violating the law,
notwithstanding his assinuations on that oc-
casion, and fined accordingly. We are. also
informed that another '* bar room” in the same
village has recently been closed, through the
praiseworthy efforts of the ** Sons” and ‘Lem
plars.” All honorto them, May they have
an abandant reward in the prosperity and
happiness of the people whose interests they
sevk to guard,

Rumselling is an evil to any community.
Poverty, Sabbath desveration, profanity and
es are increased through the influence
ating bever,
these evils in Summer.
deepest sorrow and anxiety in the minds of
every lover of moralit
does seein that the majority of the inhabitants
are greatly indifferent, else why is so little
accomplisied in staying the tide of intemper-
Among the * Sous” and t+ Good ‘Tem-

there are *

de, should awaken the

plars,”

of the pluce, are opposed to the sale of

The prevalance of

and religion; but it

good men and true,” but

Sdournal,
TAURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1897.

— Sunnerside

j -

| eB" No notice ean be taken of anonymous
commanications, We must know the names
and widresses of our correspondents as a gua-
ranty of their good faith. We cannot under-
take to return communications thatare not used

NEWSPAPERS.

Tue desire to hear and to tell some
new thing, has from the earliest ages
been a yery strong one in the human
breast. ‘There is no man so devoid of
sympathy and of curiosity,as to be utterly
indifferent as to what is passing in the
world around him, No on¢ is so immersed
in his own or her own priy.tte or peculiar
concerns, as to have no desite to know
something about his neighbor's business.
‘The appetite for news is almost as Ancient,
and quite as general, as the appetite for
food.. The taste of the savage or the semi-
savage man is, in this, as in most other
matters, very different from that of the
polished inhabitant of the populous city.
The undiscriminating appetite, and the
strong digestion of the ignorant and un-
cultivated, are very different from the
fustidious taste of the learned and the
enlightened. Marvellous andimprobable
reports find, with the former, a ready
credence, while the latter withhold their
belief from whatever has the remotest

Jappearance of being at all out of the

common course of eyents, unless support-
ed ‘by the strongest evidence. How often
do we see the rumor which is greedily
swallowed by the open-mouthed undis-
cerning crowd, rejected with every ex-
pression of contempt and ridicule, by the
well-informed, but sceptical hearer. Every
one knows that where there is a very
great demand for any particular article,
there will be a supply more or less ade-
quate to that demand, and that the pur-
yeyor will adopt his commodity to the
wants and tastes of his clients. ‘This
law holds good with regard to the supply
of news, as with every other article of
human consumption, ‘The village gossip,
who retails with additions and emenda-
tions, the latest piece of intelligence, is
ithe news vehicle in its most primitive
form; the itinerant beggar, the wandering
musician, the peripatetic merchant, who
in pursuing their several vocations, ram-
bled from town to country, and from
hamlet to hamlet, carrying with them a

events which had taken place, or which
were supposed to have taken place in the
various localities through which they
| passed, were in former ages, and in other
}countries, watched for as impatiently,

the impression made by them upon the eom-/@nd weleomed as heartily by the quid

niunity, does not seem to be what we might
expect, nor what they themselves desire, Can
th notwmike more vigorous measures than
heretofore? They possess tulent and intluence
and could by earnest and welldirected efforts,
cause Gvery rumseller to teel that his craft is
in danger, and to tremble in view of his guilt
in‘ putting the bottle to his neighbor's lips,”

while in the minds of the people, they might |

beget a wholesome fear of the debasing ani
sou! destroying stimulent. Would it not be
well to take into consideration the impropriety
of having the Post Office in’ such close prox-
imity to the bar room? Parents should feel
that it is bad enough to be compelled to bring
up their families in the vicinity of the Licensed
Tavern, without having to require them to
enter such a place, where they must neces-
sarily be exposed to temptation and danger.
The public has a right to expect that the bar-

room, and its accessories shall, at least, be

concealed from the view of those who are re-
quired to call at the Post Office.
But no more i
referred to, wh
yeu deem it worthy a place in your columns.
M. ?, FREEMAN,
Bedeque, March 6, 1867.

“A statement having gone forth to the ef-
fect that an individual from Windsor had en-
giged the bar-room of a house in Wolfville,
with the ostensible purpose of selling grocer-
jes, &c., Xe., but really with the determination
of selling intoxicating drinks. © On ‘Lhursday
afternoon a large number of the inhabitants
assembled in Blackadder's Hall, thence pro-
eveded through the village to the bar-room
above mentioned, where they (through J. W.
Barss, spokesman on the occasion) asked the
individual if he intended to sell intoxicating
drinks, to which question he answered in the
ative, stating that he was a law-abiding
ct, &¢. The deputation then withdrew,

after giving the person to understand, that if

such was his intention, they would do all they
couldin the way of patronage. Space will
not permit us to give the names of the entire
deputation, but we append a few to show its
character, J. W. Barss, Jas. Morse. D. J.
Ilarris, Joseph Weston, C. D. Randal, Capt.
Wellington Lagles, Edwin DeWolf, David
Strong, James McDonald, Nelson Harden-
brook, Reuben Reed, Martin Cleaveland, and
I. A. Bisiz,, A. J. Hill, L. Morse from Acadia
College,”

Brititsu Troors 1X THE Proyixces. —The
Montreal News suys{—'! We have reason to
believe thatitis by no means decided to re-
duce the strength of the British Army in
Canada, and that the four regiments ordered
home will be replaced by others from Great
Britain and the Mediterranean. Should the
Fenian gentry again show themselves, the
regiments now under orders to embark in the
spring will be retained; and in addition to the
reliefs whieh may be expeeted in June, and
which will consist of about 8,700 men.
havg on the spot ready for immediate
service about 15,000 British cavalry and
infantry all armed with new weapons and well
up in their use,
have been pretty
breech-loaders, and will certainly give the
Finnegan canatlle a warm reception should
they have the temerity again to trust them-
selves on Canadian soil.”

The Mother's Remedy fi
which children are afflicted is Mrs Winslow's
Soothing Syrup. It relieves the child from
pain, cures wind colic, regulates the etomach
and bowels, and, during the process of teething
it gives rest and bealth to the child, and carries
it safely through the critical period.

An Established Remedy.—j Browns Bron-
chial Troches" are widely kne an cstab-
lished remedy for Coughs, Co! Bronchiui
Hoarseness, and other troubles of the Thr
and Lungs. Dheir gyod reputation and ex-
tensive use has brought out imitations, repre-
sented to be the same, Qutain only “Browns
Bronchial Troches.” ¢

Children often look pale and sick from no
other cause than having worms inthe stomach.
Brown's * wituge Comfits” will destroy
worms without injury to the child, a

Children having worms require immediate
attention, as neglect of the trouble often causes
prolonged sickness,

Thave been afflicted a long time with a ewel-

all diseases with

things to little or no purpose uatil I used J. B
Fiitch’s Golden Ointment, which has mage a
cure, and I take pleasure, in recommending
it to the public

present. Here is the article
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Since June our volunteers |
generally supplied with |

jnunes of those days, and those places, as
| the weekly newspaper is now waited for
;and greeted by the expectant crowd ut a
backwoods post office. ~ Men were for a
very long period, obliged to content
themselves with these and other equally
| simple, and equally reliable modes of ob-
taining a knowledge of what was going
on in the world around them. ‘The news
paper in its present form, is comparatively
a modern invention—at least in Great
Britain. We think we have somewhere
read that in China—that wonderful coun-
try which lays claim: to every western
invention — newspapers were printed,
circulated, and read, thousands of years
before they were thought of by the slow-
witted occidentals. Some time previous
to the reign of James the First, the more
enlightened of the English country squires
obtained a tardy knowledge of what was
| going on in the metropolis, by means of
news letters, compiled by men who made
a business of collecting the news and
and transmitting it by post to those who
paid them handsomely for their trouble.
The means of transit in those days, being
somewhat rade, the periods of the delivery
of these news letters were necessarily
very irregular, and owing to the time and
expense necessary to produce a large
number of written copies, very few letters
in the aggregate were sent into the coun-
try. A news letter writer, one Butter
by name, in the days of the learned king,
took it into his head to print his letter.
By so doing, he found he could multiply
copies of his epistle to an indefinite ex-
tent, without incurring anything like a
proportionate expense. This Mr* Butter,
like every other benefactor of his species,
was opposed and ridiculed by his con-
temporarics, but he persevered, and as
jhe deserved, he prospered. His example
was soon followed by many others, and
in this way were newspapers established
in the British Islands. At first, the news
alone was given, without note or com-
ment, but by degrees the custom of specu-
lating on the causes and effects, immediate
and remote, of the events which the
writer recorded was introduced, The
compiler became an author and a politi-
cian. Ag the public began to read news-
pepers, men in busines soon found that
ithe newspaper, was a much better means

1

| of advertising their wares, and of making
| known their wants, then were the gaudy
jill-painted cumbrous signs that swung
and creaked over the doors of their es-
tablishments. The politician too, was
not long in seeing that the weekly jour-
nal could be made the means of extending
his influence to an almost unlimited ex-
tent. He found that by addressing the
public through the press, he secured a
larger aud more appreciative audicnce
, than he could possibly find in any politi-
cal meeting, however large. Statesmen
were not long in discovering that a new
| power was growing up in the land, which
| though not recognized by the Constitution
|could make and unmake ministers, and
even set up and dethrone kings. This
power was called half in jest and half in
earnest, the Fourth Estate, Another
name, one to which men of all classes
and creeds bow with unfeigned deference,
is given to this power, and that is, Pub-
jlic Opinion, The newspaper press is
|both the ereator and the exponent of
public opinion, hence its immense in-
| fluence in these days. Where there are
no newspapers, or where the liberty of

jling on mny neck and have applied different | the press does pot exist, there is no pub-

\lie opinion, in the proper sense of the
word. ‘

By degrees the influence of newspapers

{true and reliable record ot the notable}

(and indifferent, Every interest in these
| doys has its newspaper organ. Religious
jmen saw, that if political trath could be
| disseminated more widely and more ef-
| fectually by newspapers,than by any other
/known means, they could also be made
| to spread religious trath with equal effi-
ciency, Every important sect established
its newspaper to teach its peculiar tenets
and to further its peculiar interests. We
have now religious papers without num-
ber. But the teachers of error and infi-
delity, found in the newspaper press, @
ready vehicle for their teachings, and
consequently cmployed it in spreading
them among the people. Happily, very
few of such periodicals find their way to
this little out of the way community; but
that they do exist, and that they exercise a
wide-spread influence in larger and older
countries. is a fact universally acknow-
led and frequently deplored. Capital has
its defenders, and Labour its sturdy ad-
vocate, among the newspapers. Com-
merce employs the newspaper press to
extend its bencficient sway, and Art calls
in its aid to diffuse its elevating influences.

whatever his taste, his employment, his

jigion, his opinions, or his temperament
will find, if he looks for them, newspapers
compiled and written for his especial in-
struction aud delectation,

The morals of journalism is a subject
about which we have heard a good deal,
and about whivh it is rather difficult to
write. ‘Those beastly publications which
are circulated in some countries, and
whose sole tendency is to corrupt the
morals, and sap the principles of their
readers, need only be mentioned to be
condemned with horror and detestation.
Those again, which circulate slanders
against private individuals, and which
make « trade of libel, are seurcely less
mischievous, and less to be abhorred.

The private slanderer and mischief
maker, is a very despicable and hateful
creature. The trouble which he creates,
and the ill will which he engenders, are
almost unbounded. But the public de-
famer, is infinitely more despicable and
dangerous. No one, however pure his:
character, is safe from his cowardly at-
tacks, and as he deals out his blows with
the utmost cunning, and in the dark it is.
almost impossible to discover and punish
the dasturdly assailant. | Newspapers
very properly, unspairingly criticise the
public acts of public men. In doing this,
especially on this side of the Atlantic,
| public writers very frequently descend to
a style which in Britain would be con-
sidered ungentlemanly, violent, and even
scurrilous. While it is very proper and
even necessary for the public welfare
that public men should be made to feel
that the eyes of the people were upon
them, and that every derilection of duty
would be speedily discovered and prompt-
ly punished, yet we doubt if very much
is gained by violent personal abuse of
‘the offending party. The interests of the
public would be quite as well served if
the expose were made in simple unex-
aggerated phrase. We believe, too,
thut the moderate tone of the English
press is morein accordance with the
taste of the great bulk of newspaper
readers among us, than the vituperative
bombastic style affected by too many
American and Colonial journalists. We
append a few statistics of Journalism.

In England, in 1851, were 381 news-
papers, in Ireland 102, in Scotland 110,
in America 800, 40 dailies with a circu-
lation of 64,000,000.

Tire English Mail was received here
on Saturday last. ‘The Liverpool dates
are to the 2nd instant. ‘lhe news is not
very important, most of it having pre-
viously reached us over the Cable. ‘The
Fenians are again discoinfited.

ba Some of tho City papers are advocating
the holding of the Market in that place’ tri-
weekly, instead as at present semi-weckly,
We cannot see why it should not be so, as
the Citizens have now a comfortable and com-
modious building, In other Cities the Market
House is open every day in the week. ‘Lhis
affords the laboring man an opportunity to
purchase as his means Will adinit of, and to
be without such a facility is a great incon-
venience. ‘This latter positionis Susmersipe
now in.
flourishing Town no Market Ifouse aé all.
The inconvenience of this is very much felt
by all classes, more especially by the labor-
ing class. It is high time our fellow towns-
men made a move inthis matter, We be-
lieve that were the House of Assembly peti-
tioned, at its coming session, for a grant to
purchase a site and erect a suitable building
asa Market House, it would readily be grant-
ed. We have heard that the gentleman who
represents this District in the Legislative
Council, and who isa supporter of the present
Government, intends to bring this mattor up,
We trust he may be successful,

bay Ir will bo admitted by all parties,
that now is the time for the Government of
this Island to purchase a suitable piece of
land in Summerside, to be laid off aga Ponnie
Square, Many reasons might be assigned
why we should have it now. ‘Che preserva-
tion of health in the ‘Town requires it. The
Town is now rapidly being built up in. the
back part, and the most convenient and beau-
tiful sites for a Square are being disposed of
by the owners to private individuals as build:
ing lots, Another reason is, property is
cheaper now than it will be hereafter.

To Corresponvents.—“ A Fisherman,’”
will appear next week.

hae" Tur Election for a Councillor to fill
the seat of the Second Legislative Council
District of King’s County, vacated hy the
death of the Inte Hon. James MeLaren, took
place on Thursday last. he Conservative
Candidate was Daniel Gordon, Ksq., of George-
town, and the Liberal Candidate William
Clements, Esq., of Murray Harbor. Mr.
Jordon was cleeted by a majority of fifty
votes. The poll stood as follows :—

Gonpon 616, Crements 566.

ya Tne funeral of thelate George Wright,
Esq., which took place on Saturday last, was
onc of the largest we have ever witnessed. ‘Thero
were eighty-five sleighs. ‘The members of the
Masonic Fraternity—to which body Mr. Wright
belongedwent in procession, wearing tho
hadges and emblems ofthe order. On leaving
the’ louse the Masons preceded the corpse—
after which followed a long line of mourners
and friends. ‘Lhe burial service of the Mason-
ic Fraternity at the grave, was very. imposing.
We deeply sympathise with the bereaved

Tn short, every man in the community, .

We have here, in this rising and .

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