to France and that ia not complete, The
Kngtish ave very strong ia machinery,
iwating Use Aucricans in that departcn:
There is nothing Uke so many strangers
here as expected. The number of Aineri-
cans is aot mach greater than usnal every
season. Lis useless to come to see Une |
Uxhibiion before May,

Golsaial and other Stems.

Great Miuirary Peeparertors i Ev
nove.—The Globe say “1 as we hope
nad expect, the present year is destined to
reach its close in peace, it is not less cer-
tain that a great Rerepenn war is looming
in the distane ‘The universal disquictude |
which pre is of itsell a sign of impend- |
ing: troubles; itis simply a presentiment |
of actual dangers ahead. Every Govern-|
‘ment, too, rming, and on a scale never)
dreamt of belove. Nations, in faet, are}
Deing converted into standing armies.
-And as to the detail of military” prepara-
tions, the subjoined statement just made
by the Belgian Minister of War is worthy
or ice :—* Franee is having 480,000
sepot system,
not only in France, but in Belgium and
England, and the greater part of them are

to be vendy on the Ist March, 1868. “In
Prussia, the arsenals are busy occupied in

the manutacture of arms; and 1100. steel
eannon, loadiug at the breech, having been
ordered, Austria is transforming 600,000
muskets into Wanz alf of them
rendly by the end of the y Baden,
Wurtemburg, and Hesse Darm-
adopting the Prussian musket,
und are castiug a considerable quantity of
cannon on the Prussian model. England
lias already transformed 150,000 Enfield)
muskets on Snider’s plan, and will have
350,000 ready by the end of the year; she
will also have by that time 426 rifled cau-
non. Russia is transforming 600,000 mus-
kets on Carle’s system, and half of tham
will be ready by the beginning of 1868; she
is alsopmaking 900 caunon, In Denmark
the chambers have voled funds for chang-
ing muskets into breechloaders. Holland
i ormiug hers on Suider’s system,

nd has got £0,000 muskets on
Ampler-Milbank’s system, has ordered
90,000 on Winchester’s, and has made or
is haying made 200 breech-loading
Italy, Spaiv, Portugal, and G are
wislorming their muskets, aud Spain and
Grecee haye commanded cannon of M.
Kropp, the celebrated cannon-founder of
Prussia, Lastly, Belgium has got rifled
¢annon on the Prussian plan, and is about
to adopt the Prussian musket.’ ”

The Prince Imperial of France ought to
gain alittle popularity among a certain
elass of those who, — if fate se wills,
—niay ene day become his subjeets, On
his birthday # long list of acts of grace
were published in the Moxiteu, Soldiers
and saiiors, in prison for short temas, were
released, and those sentenced for longer
periods received a remission of part. of
their terms of punishment. Cousiderable
sums of money were distributed to aged
and infin s: us parts of the
eoast, wid forty-six gold and silver medals
were accorded to as many persons for acts
of courage and devotion in the saving of
Jife on the sea coast.

New Jersey has a literary curiosity, the
ik ich, in all probability, no other
State or country on either side of the At-
lantic ean boast, viz. x weekly newspaper,
edited, published and printed by the econ-
victs in the State Prison at Trenton, ‘The
name of this novel journal is Zhe Sunbeam,
and has lor its motto, * Byery cloud has
silver lining.”

Fork Wexpren Pros Bernep as Fern.
The Rosetta, paddie-wheel steamer, belongi
to the Dublin and Bristol Steam Navigation
Company, left: Dublin for Bristol on the 18th
March, with passengers, a general cargo, and
son board. ‘Lhe passage is usually
sixteen hours, but she did not arrive
ather desiiniuion, and ervat uneasiness was
telt for her safety. On Friday, however, the
Princess Royal steamer, from Bristol to Bide-
ford, fell in with her ina disabled state, off
I}ltracombe. On Tuesday, when off Milford,
one of her paddle-wheels was rendered use-
Jess by the gule, and it was with considerable
difficulty the other could be made to work.
dfer stock of couls ran short, and 400 of the
pigs were burned during the time to keep up
the fires! ‘Phe other pigs died,

Ayorurn Treasure Trove.—Thirty thou-
sand dollars’ worth of jewels and gold, wrap-
ped in newspapers and enclosed in a cake of
bitumen, we ago found in an old
unclaimed barrel of dumaged pork, in New
Orleans (La.) ‘The lucre is supposed to have
been concealed during the late American civil
war,

Twenty-two hundred murders have been
committed in Texas alone during the past
year, besides numerous murders and outrages
in other States of the, American Union!—
Military Government can be no great evil in
Texas.

It is confidently believed that the Union
Pacific Railroad will be completed in less than
three years. and so the Athinticand the North
Pacific be wedded by rail early in 1870,

The steamer Alhambra which arrived here
yesterday from Boston, brought 2503 barrels
Canida fiour, Owing to the Gulf not being
fece from ice the steamer did aot proceed to
Charlottetown, P. 1. L., as intended.—lalife
Axpress

The Paris

Exhibition will haye a host of
royal visitor The King and Queen of Portu-
gal, the Princee of Wales, the Crown Prince
of Prussia, Prince Humbert, of Italy, Prince
Osenrt, of Sweden, the Prince of Orange, the
brother of the Tycoon of Japan, the Viceroy
ot Egypt, and the King of Sweden, are all ex-
pected to be present,

A Southern paper says that the freedmen
are leaving Coltunbia, South Carolina, in such
numbers as to excite alarm for the future cul-
tivation of the lands. They are chiefly bound
for Vlorida, whither they are transported by
iovernment, at an expense of about five dol-
lars per head, and a promise of rations until
the working season comméa@nces. Their main
reasons for leaving are hopes of better emn-
ployment in the new regions to which they are
destined,

The London and Northwestern is the long-
est railway in Great Britain, measaring 1274
jniles. Italso has the greatest annual receipts,
over $31,000.000. The Great Western imen-
sures 1256 miles; the Northeastern 1200 miles;
the Great Eastern, 766 miles.s-During the 41
years which have elapsed ince the first rail-
way was laid down in England, § 32,500,000,000
in gold have been invested iff railway capital,
wnd the various lines now in operation mea-
sures 13,289 miles in length,

Srantiine Discoveny.—A young lady at
Ottawa, having been afflicted with a frightful
odor for several days, which repulsed her
friends, at list dissovered in her waterfall a
dead-mouse. It had been placed there Y a
mischievous brother. Extraordinary develop-
ments have lately been made in regard to the

jopulation of ladies’ chignons, but this lust
beats them all. ©

Owing to the numerous robberies that have
Jntely occurred in the various banks and bank-
ing houses, and the unsuccessful ce
mide by the police to arrest the guilty parties
or bring them to justice, several of the leading
New York banks have adopted the plan of se-
caring the services of efiicient private detee-

~ SUMME

Opening of the Legis-
lature.

Tuerepax, April 18, 1867,—At3 o'clock

His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor |

was plexsed to command the attendance of
the Members of the House of Assembly at
the Bar of the Council Chamber, Accord-
ingly the Members appeared before Uis
Excellency, and after the usual formalidees
returned to choose their Speaker, when,

On motion of the Hon, Joseph Hensley,
Attorney Geueral, seconded by the Hon,
Benjamin Davis, the Hon, Joseph Wight-
man was appointed Speaker,

His honor the Speaker having suitably
acknowleged the high honor conferred on
him, the House, with-the Speaker elect,
then went up to the Council Chamber,
when His Excellency was pleased to make
the following

SPEECH:
Mr, President and Honourable Gentlemen of
the Legislative Council :
Mr, Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of
Assenily ;

The time at which it was deemed ad-
visable to dissolve the last Assembly, and
the Ministerial arrangements which were
the result of the General Elections, have
prevented me from summoning you at an
earlier period for the discharge of your
Legislative daties.

Although the lateness of your meeting
must be attended with inconvenience to
you, L rely with confidence upoa your de-
voting siflicient tine to mature such mea-
sures as the exigencies of the Colony and}
its public services may require.

During the recess, the purchase of ex-
tensiv states has been eRected—the par-
ticulars of which will he laid betore you.

T do not tail to abserve the general desire
evineed by the tenantry to obtain the fee
simple of their lands by the purchase of
their farms, My efforts are, the
directed towards extending the action of
the Land Purchase Bill to sueh parts of
this Island as have not yet participated in
its benefits, and I shall endeavour, under
its provisiens, to buy out the interest of
the remaining proprietors iu the comp:
tively small portion of the land which
now held under leasehold tenure. fhe
means of providing funds for this purpose
will require your serivus consideration.

The important question of Education
will be again submitted for your consider-
ation, with the view of improving the
position of the school teachers, and other-
wise rendering the laws now in foree on
this subject more efficient and more exten-
sively useful.

Mr, Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of

alssemily : *

The public accounts for the t year
will be laid betere you, The revenue has
increased, but the expenditure has been
largely in excess of ordinary years, on ae-
count of the purchase of the Estates to
which [ have alladed, and the amount re-
quired tor military purposes,

‘The Wstimates tor the current year will
be submitied to you. They have been
framed with due regard to economy,

Mr. President and Honourable Gentlemen of
the Legislative Council:

Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of
alssembly :

The advantages to be derived from. the
development of the local industyy and from
improvements in ag re aure well
worthy your attention, and L shall be glad
to co-operate with you in such mensures
as you miy devise for the advancement of
these interusts.

The serious loss ineurred by the total
unfitness of the highways to support the
yeurly inereasing traflic, renders it abso-
lutely necessary that the whole question
should undergo a thorough investigation,
with a view to the adoption of a better
system. Your experience will readily
suggest the most appropriate means of col-
lecting information on this important sub-
ject as a preliminary step to future legisla-
tion.

In full reliance on your zeal for the wel-
fare of the Colony, L now leave you to the
discharge ol your Legislative duties*

Ifon Mombers of the Assembly having
returned to theiv seats, His Excelleney’s
Speech was again read from the Chair,
alter which the House proceeded to busi-
ness.

The Hon, Attorney General proposed
that John McNeill, Bsq., be re-appointed
Clerk. ‘The Hon, Mr, Uaviland: stated
that he had great pleasure in supporting
the nomination of Mr. McNeill, who, he
said, had discharged the important duties
of that oflfce with remarkable efficiency in
previous Parliaments; and he (ifon. Mr.
HL.) cougratulated the House on the cir-
cumstance that that ptntleman’s ability
and experience were now again fortunate-
ly tble for the service of the present
Assembly, which had a larger than ordi-
nary proportion of new Members,

Moved by the Lon. B. Davies, seconded
by the Hlon. Mr. Howlan, that Mr. Ken-
neth Morrison be appointed Assistant
Clerk,

Hon. Mr. Duncan moved in amendment,
seconded by Mr. Breeken, that Mr, Joseph
M. Dixon b tant Clerk, whieh amend-
ment was n ed on the following divi-
sion :— i

Yeus—ITons. Duncan, MeAulay, Ien-
derson, Haviland; Messrs. Owen, Prowse,
Yeo, Brecken, Ramsay, Green, McLen-
han—11,

—ITons. Davis, Laird, Iowlan,
Kelly, ; Messrs. Bell,

Kieckham, P. Sinclair, G.Sinclair. Cameron,
Jenkins, MeNeill, Arsenaux—14. _

The Hon, Mr, Haviland then moved that
Mr. F. W. Hughes be appointed Assistant
Clerk.

For the amendment—Hons. Haviland,
McAuley; Messrs. Green, Brecken, Yeo,
Owen, McLennan, Ramsay—8,

Against it—Hons, Davies, Laird, Upw-
lan, Hensley, Kelley, Calbeck, [lenderson,
Dunean; Messrs. Bell, Kickham, P. Sine-
lair, G. Sinclair, Cameron, Jenkins, Mae-
Neill, Arsenaux, Prowse—17.

IIon. Mr. Henderson moved that Mr.
John MeLvod, of Orwell, be Asssistant
Clerk, which motion, seconded by the
Hon. Mr. Duncan,Was also negatived, ou
the same division as the first amendment,
munely, yeas LL; nays 4...

The question was then put on thé orig-
inal motion, that Mr. Kenneth Motrison
be appointed Assistant Clerk, and agreed
to.

On motion of Mr. Bell, seconded by the
Hon. Mr. Howlan, that Nicholas Cenroy,
Esq., be appointed Segeant-at-Arms,—
Mr. Green moved in amendment, seconded
by Mr. Yeo, that A. H. Yates, Esq., be
Sergeant-at-Arms. ‘The question being
nt, the amendment was negatived on the
following division:

‘tyes, who sbull be on duty at the banks during
% ?

Yeoas—Hons.Ilaviland, Henderson, Dun,

ag aaa

RSIDE JOURNAL,

MeLcnnan, OUwea, Prowse, Yeo, Brecken
’

Nays—Nons. Hensley, Caloek, Laird, the proceedings of that body, Ton '
Boll, hewerer, that in the appointments of the vari-

Davies, Kelly, Howlin; Messrs.
Kickham, P.Sinclaiy, G Sinclair, Cameron,
Dr. Jenkins, MeNeill, Arsenaux—i4,
j On motion of De, Jenkins, seconded by
‘Von, Mr. Calbeek, Mr. Richard Piekard
| Was appointed Messenger to tie Lhouse,
Mr. Patrick Furlong was appointed
| Doorkeeper, and Ma. PLY Moan, Assistant
ido.
| Won. Attorney G@eral moved that Mr,
}David Laird be Ghiet Reporter of the
| House during the present Session, with
| leave to employ Mr, Robert: Gordon and
' Mr. P.S, MeGowan as his Assistants.
lon. Mr, Haviland obje ted to the House
naming any Assistants for the Reporter,
and contended that he should be allowed
to employ whom he pleased to assist hin,
as he (the Chief Reporter) alone was res-
ponsible for the due pertormanee of the
work, He (lon, Mr. IL.) therefore moved
in amendment, that all alter the word
employ” be struck out of the Hon. Attor-
y General's motion, and the word ** As-
ants be inserted in lieu thereat,
Haviland,
Henderson, McAuley; Mess Ramsny,
Green, MeLennau, Qwen, Prowse, Yeo,
Breckon—10,

Against it—IIous, Hensley, Calbeck,
Laird, Davies, Kelly, Howlin; Mes
Bell, Kickham, P. Sinclair, G. Sinelair,
Dr. Jenkins, Cameron, McNeill, Arsen-
aux—14,

On motion of the hon. Attorney General
Mr. Archibald MeNeill was appointed
Summary Reporter to the [ouse, his duty
being to furnish daily, with a printed Sum-
mauwy of the previous day's proceedings,

lon, Attorney General moved, second-
ed by hoa. Mr, Mowlan, that D,O'M. Red-
din, Esq., be Law Clerk, to which Mr

t
For the amendment—ilons,

Green submitted an amendment, seconded

by Mr. Brecken, that W. M. Howe. Esy.,
be Law Clvk. ‘The question being put,
the amendment was negatived as follows:

Yeas —llons. Haviland, Henderson, Dun-
ean, McAulay; Messrs. Ramsay, Green,
MeLennan, Owen, Prowse, Yeo, Brecken.
—Il

Nays—Hon, Attorney General, Calbec
Laird, Davies, Kelly, Howlin; Messrs.
Bell, Kiekham, P, Sinclair, G. Sinelair,
Ciumeron, Dr. Jenkins, McNeill, Arsenaux,
—I14.

Committee to. prepare the Address in
answer to Lis Excellency’s Speech—hon,
Mr, Kelly; Messrs. 2. air, G, Sinclair,
Bell, Dr. Jenkins, A mux, Kickham,

Committee on Pablic Accounts—Messrs
G. Sinclair, Bell, BP. SincelairY hon. Mr,
Kelly, and Messrs, Owen, Prowse aud
Yeo.

The usual standing Committees of the
House were then named, alter whieh, on
motion of the hon, Mr, Howlan, the Rey.
Thos. Duncan was unanimously appointed
Chaplain.

fon, Attorney General presented a mes-
trom lis Excellency the Lieutenant
tug the Llouse to adjourn
iday,

The House accordingly adjourned until
Saturday next at LO o'clock, .

A MeNtintn, Reporter,

Worrespondence,

vom our Chérlottetown Cor
Cuan.orretows, April 28, 1867.
Mr. Epitor:

Taking precedence of all other public mat-
ters, as regards the importance of the suject,
and considering the inter generally felt in
it by the community at we, wmonge the
events of the past week,—is the formal inaug-
uration of ua new Liberal Government, which
icious event occurred under very ta-
auspicious circumstances, on hist Thursday,
The opening of the House is one of those
periodical incidents inthe history of our quiet
City, which always causes a little excitement,
when all who can imike ita point ty be present
to see the members and to hear the Speech,
and to enjoy themselves to the fullest extent.
Atabout half past two in the afternoon, the
booming of Gannon announced that His [x-
cellency the Lieutenant Governor had lett
Covernment House, Arriving at the front of
the Colonial Building he was received by a
guard of honor composed of a detachment of
the Fourth Regiment, and the lrish Volun-
teers in their new uniform, which, though of
asomewhat imposing appearance, ona fine
day, did not scem exactly suited for such a
day as Thursday was, when the rain and snow
fellin showers alternately, and the pitiless
storms raging furiously. It was, indeed, a
very disagreeable wlay,—the snow being, in
some places, drifted to the depth of sdyeral
fect—a rather extrad¥dinary circumstance at
this time of the year,

And now while Ilis Excellency is in his
private offic® let us take a glance at the as-
sembled wisdom of the country in their places
in the Assembly Room.» The first thing that
strikes us in looking over the Moo is the
lunge proportion of young and strange faces
who have taken the places of those who we
were accustomed to see there,

‘There we see a few of the old matter-of-
fact nen, who have been more fortunate than
their companions, in securing their old seats.
There again we see some more young hands,
who seemto bein great difficulty to make
themselves teel at home, and they present
rather a ludicrous appearance to the beholders,
in their attempts to look us if they were just
intended by nature to fll those positions,
Here, again, we sce a few more of the honor-
able members, who are evidently impressed
with an idea of their own importance, and who
seem to feel the awful responsibility resting
upon them, in having the atfairs of the nation
thrust upon their shoulders; and trying to
louk as consequential, and still as life-like as
possible, But they are all now summoned to
meet His Excellency in the Council Chaniber
to know his pleasure. Nowit is that they feel
that their work has Legun in earnest, and we
see them summoning up all their courage, to
confront the Representative ot Royalty.
‘They having previously chosen the Hon. Mr,
Wightman as the Speaker, His Excellency
was pleased to contirm their choice. ‘The
Speech, viewed asa literary production, is
rather above the average of such documents.
Education, the Land Question, Roads ‘and
Bridges, and other matters demanding the
atteation of the people's elect, are promised
to be considered during the present session,
and the estimates for the expenditure of the
present year, hive of course been * framed
with « due regard to economy.” Perhaps
they have. ‘Lime will tell,

This ceremony being over, the members
returned to their own yvoom, and ‘‘to prevent
mistakes” the Clerk took with him a copy of
the Speech, which was again read. John
MeNeill, Esg., was re-appointed Clerk to the
House,—a post which he filled for a number
of years with the greatest satisfaction to the
Louse, and honor to himself, ‘

On account of having to go back to his
constituents, the Leader of the Government
was unable to appear in his official expacity.
The partial elections came off on the day
previous, and resulted in Mr. Hensley being
returned without opposition; Mr. Coles with
very little, and what will occasion the most
surprise, Mr. Whelan has been defeated.
The successful candidates for that district are
Messrs. McCormack and Rielly. ‘The loss of
Mr. Whelan will very probably be another
embarressment to the new Government, as he
was always the exponent of the party, and the
right hand tan of Mr. Coles. As | find my
spacu to be pretty nearly appropriated, I shall
have to reserve for « future ocaasion any

spondent,

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“THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1867.

oan, MeAuley; Messrs. Ramsay, Green further remarks of a polities! nature that 1)

might have to moke, and Twill endeaver )
keep your readers “ posted up” in regard to)
May eay,

ous officials in connection with the House that
there was a good deal of compettion. j

Owing to the snow storm on Thureday the
strects are in an almost iinpassable state. In
fact they could not be worse. A law was
passed some time ago by the City Council, |
compelling parties to pat down sidewalks in}
front of their premisos, bat it seems to
have been disregarded bya greatmany. Yeu
can get along of a dark night well enough as
fur as the platform extends, but woe betide
you if you have aot your eyes about you, for
the next step you uy go splash into eighteen
inches of mid.

A Concert for the benefit of the poor, is
advertised to come off this evening, but from
the present condition of the streets Lam afraid
it will have to be postponed,

The harbor is now clear of ice, and I be-
lieve the ** Princess of Wales” is to leave this
port te on her first trip, By the way,
the mail from Summerside which was due
here last Friday evening, did not reach here
until Saturday night about 12 o'clock.

TYPO.

To the Juvenile readers of the Journal.

Dear Youna FRiENDs;

Not untrequently I faney thatT see you,
happily, yes, joyously sitting around your
pareats’ table, on each Phursday and Fri-
day evening, and hear you reading the
* lKestern Pioneer,” and again laying it
down, hear you discuss its contents with
animation sparkling in your happy look-

ing faces and through the wit of your
pleasing observations, and Lam well aware

that, at this. particular time, you wish to
know whatis doing in the Parliament of
our © tight little” Anti-contederate Island,

On Thursday the 18th inst., the Legis-
lature was opened with the usual formali-
ties. The day was stormy, unusually so
for this season of the year, and in many
espects was an emblem of the human
mind when acted upon by turmoil trom
within. es

When looking around upon the hon.
members of the House of Assembly, L
thought that if some of you my young
friends, of whom TL notes were
that IT would have heard you
honorable members into three classes, and
T actually thought that T heard some of
you saying, why c / umber one, in some
respects seem to indicate that they really
do possess,

“A soul on highest mission sent,
A potent yoice of Parliament,
A pillar steadfast in the storm.”

Ot class number two probably you would
have said, from their countenanees otsi-
ously beam forth a subdued expr
ofcalm thought, and of a sir
serve their country honestly

3 and of class

number three you would say, that among
the honorable members, there area’ few
who have learned that lite is not alf san-
shine, ici
have

men who from life's vi

learned that) **sorrow makes us
7 und it is to such men we have
chiefly to look for that coasideration so
necessary for pablie men,

‘There was no business done on the first
day, Sappointments of the usual com-
hitter On Saturday the busin i
preceeded by a] from the ©
who you will notice, is the Rey, Mr. Dun-
ean, ‘Phe prayer was? replete with due
hnmility and contained a suituble acknow-
ledement of the ever witehiul and Super:
intended power of that great God who;—
* Shapes our ends
Rough hew them how we will.”

A FRIEND.

trned fro te Reading

Room of this City, to which Twas intro-
dueed by at On entering, you will
tind on the the latest telegrams ;
on the next desk the papefs of this Island,
and so on, nicely arranged you find. at
appropriate desks, the lutest news from
the Colonies, Canada, Europe, and the
chief cities of the United States

But what chiefly interested me was the
wonderful fact, that early in the evening
ofthe 20th inst., Mr. MeNeill could lay
before his friends, and the public, events
which had transpired in Londen on the
1th,

On enquiring T learn, that this is due
almost entirely to the enterprise of the
proprietor of the Room, Mr. A. MeNeill,
who on his own responsibility has entered
into arrangements with the London, New-
foundland, and New York Telegraph Com-
pany, and by means of this a gement
reccives the lat telegrams, which costs
him a dollar yin gold. In this enter-

rise he is aided by gentlemen in this
and by the publishers of the local
press.

T think the Le, uld aid Mr.
MeNeill with a lil grant ind thus en-
able the press to obtain those telegrams—
which not unfrequently contain thoughts
which make despots tremble—with more
facility.

I do think that the Legislature should
subsidise the press of the Island in this
way, inasmuch as knowledge thus scat-
tered broad cast among the people is for
the good, and benefit all.

Tlearn that Mr. MeNeill was the fist
who suc fully established a Reading
Room in this city, which was destroyer
by the great fire last year, and that he has
been able to re-establish another in so
short.a time, is highly creditable to him,
and the gentlemen of this city who have
aided him so liberally, in an effort so
laudable,

ssitudes

A STRANGER,
Charlottetown, April 20, 1867.
By Telegraph to Journal!
Lonpon, April 22.—Spain promises Eng-
landfall satisfaction, and indemnity for seizure
Victoria. Reply to demand in ease of Tor-
nado eciasive and unsatisfactory. Latest,
peace between France aml Prussia almost
despaired of. Prussia arming for expected
shock; causing alarm in London stock ¢x-
change, and tendancy to financial panic.
Cuba arrived at Halifax at 830, p.m.
Cnartorrerown, April 24,
One ease of small-pox by* Alhambra,—
sent to haspital.—Athambra left for Boston
to-day.— Reply to Goternor’s Speech pre-

I have been afflicted with a very trouble-
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‘tried many prescriptions to little or no avail;
but having heard of J. B. Fitch's Golden
Ointment L was induced to try a box, by the
use of which [am cured; ae believe it my
duty to recommend it to the public.
DAVID McLENNAN,
Wallace, Cumberland Co.
Brown's Bronchial Troches have been be-
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them in new localities in various parts of the
world, ‘Lhe ‘Troches are pronounced univer-
sally superior to all other articles used for
similar purposes. For relieving Coughs,
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Summerside Gournal,

TMURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1867.

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THE GOVERNOR'S SPEECH,

Everny one in these days knows what
a speech from the ‘Throne—whether that
throne be regal or vice regal—means.
The sentiments which it contains and the
policy which it shadows forth are not
those of the royal or viee-royal speaker,
they are now well understood to be solely
the property of his responsible advisers.
If the speech be a good one, to them is
the eredit chiefly due, if it be a bad one,
the whole burden of the blame rests upon
their shoulders. ‘The legislative work of |
the session is in this speech drawn in}
outline. It contains the *t good resolu-
tions” of the new Administration, and if
they are not carried into effect it will be
because either the time that can be spared
by the legislators, is too limited in which |
to accomplish so much, or that cireum-
stances over which they have no control)
prevent them from doing the good whteli |
they have determined to perform. Let
us see what these good resolutions are.
The first is that the Coles’ Administration
has determined to continue buying the
lands of such proprietors as. still hold
estates in the Island. A very good reso-
lution indeed, say we, and one which we
woull expect from the party which had
the honor of initiating the land purchase
policy on the Island. The means by
which to attain so desirable an end are
recommended to the serious considera-
tion of the gentlemen composing beth
branches of the legislature. ‘This means,
we rather think, a Loan Bill. Nowif the
Imperial guarantee for a loan could be
procured, or if we could borrow the need-
ful funds on the unsupported credit of the
Island, in the money market at Home, at
a reasonable rate of interest, the business
of making frecholders of our tenants
would, in our opinion, be much more
easily and speedily performed than it has
hitherto been, Some people may laugh
at the idea of our getting the Imperial
guarantee for the loan of any considerable
sum of money; but as that guarantee
was very nearly secured the first time an
attempt was made to procure it, who
knows but that we may succeed in get-
ting it when the tial is again made. It
we had the honor of sitting in places of
authority afmong th of the land,
we would advocate mak the attempt.
Phe success of that attempe would bene-
fit a great many worthy people, aud its
failure could do injury to no one.

The next matter which the Government
has resolved to: mend is the Hdaeation|
Law. We tally expected that the Leader
of the Goyorament would make strenu-
ous endeavors to render more eiticien't
that system of general education, the in-
troduction of waich, ina British Ameri-
can Colony, has done so much towards
building up his reputation as a politician,
not only in this, but in the neilboring

colonies, The miatter is a difficult one
to settle to the satisfaction of all con-
cerned. It must be dealt with by a

delicate, yet bold hand.” In applying the
necessary remedies to our diseased and
paralyzed) Educational System, the state
puysician must possess the hand of a
lady and the heart of a lion. It will be
found impgssible to fulfil the unreason-
able expectations of many,but if the pre-
sent Government can devise a good!
working measure, we are quite satisfied
that the people in general will consider
it a very great boon, and will look upon
its framers as their greatest benelactors.
From our heart we wish the Government
success in this important undertaking.

Whether the hint about the develop-
ment of local industry has any bearing
on the much vexed question of Bounties
to fishermen, we leave fox time to untold,
The Bounty question is a rather ticklish
one, and our legislators would do well to
steer clear ofit. Our farmers are steadily
if slowly improving. Mud machines are
doing more for the improvement of Agri-
culture in asingle season than the House
of Assembly without their aid could effect
in half a century, ‘Lhe gods help those
who help themselves,” should be the
motto of our Island farmers, fishermen
and mechanics. ‘There is no doubt,
however, that a little timely well applied
state aid has frequently a very good effect,
but the trouble is to tell when that aid
is timely, and where it is well applied.
We, for our part, are fully convinced that
for the one pound granted for the pur-
pose of fostering an infant industry that
has the desired effect, there are ten—we
had nearly written a hundred—so granted
which arc worse than wasted. r

The Speech concludes by directing the
attention of the gentlemen composing
both branches of our legislature to. the
state of our highways. We rather think
that any one who travels a hen’s race
from home at this or at almost any season
of the year need not be reminded of the
bad condition of our roads. Yet it is a
question with us how fur this state of
things is remediable. Climate and soil
—both of which have a very great deal
to do with the goodness and badness of
roads in all parts of the world—are things
which the most able and zealous legisla-
tors can do very little towards changing.
It is a question requiring much thought
and a great deal of experience to decide
what proportion of the badness of our
roads is due to ignorance and mismanage-
ment, and what to natural causes beyond
the control of any but the very richest
and the most enlightened of communities.
That the streets of our towns and the
principal highways in their immediate
vicinity should be put in the best possi-
ble condition, even though to do so
should cost the country very large sums
of money, does not admit of a doubt;
but that all the highways in the country,
or even the principal main post roads
throughout their whole length should be
made what would be called in some older
countries ‘good roads,” would require

been proved reliabie.

the expenditure of a greater amount of

i bors.

|money than this small and poor country
ean afford,

And after all we very mach
question if our roads in general are so
very mach worse than those of our neigh-
et they are easily made bad—that
is where the traffic is moderate—they
are as casily made good again. How-
ever, if our roads can be improved, by
all means Ict the attempt be made, but
we very much fear that we and our chil-
dren after us for many generations will
be obliged to wade through Island mud
in the Spring and Fall, and be foreed to
swallow our respective pecks of Island
dust in the summer, to say nothing of
flouncing through snow drifts and boune-
ing into pitches in the Winter, in spite of
the thousand and one theories we have
heard and reat about the improvement
of our Island roads,

It strikes us that the Governor's speech
is much more remarkable for what it
omits than for what it coptains. We
own to feeling more than ordinary curi-
osity as to what would be said in the
speech about Confederation, To tell
the truth we never dreamt that His Ex-
cellency would make no allusion what-
ever to this very important subject. We
fully expected to sce our fate as a eolony

! foreshadowed with more or less distinct-

ness in the Governor's Speech. Judge
our surprise when we saw no reference
whatever to the Union of the Colonies
from beginning to end of it! What can
this mysterious silence mean? Is all the
talk we have heard of pressure from
without mere unfounded rumor? Have
no despatches been received from the
Colonial Office in Downing Street, pres-
sing the subject of Confederation on the
attention of the Goyernment of this Colo-
ny, and containing. hints very difficult
to be misunderstood, that if we do not
speedily enter the Confederation of our
own accord,we will, in a very little while,
be foreed to join it whether we like it or
not. Is it possible that this Island is
left perfectly free, either to enter the
new Dominion or to remain out of it as
its inhabitants think fit? Werather in-
cline to believe this latter conjecture to be
the true state of affairsjand we are heartily
rejoiced that itis so. We would be very
sorry indeed to see the people of this
Island forced into Confederation. We
would infinitely rather see it left to the
people's unfettered choiee whether they
will enter it or not. ‘There need be no
hurry about the matter. ‘Ten or twenty
years, though a very considerable space
of time in the life of an individual, are a
very small part of the existence of a na-
tion. Before ten years have elapsed the
people of this Colony will be able to sce
whether or not it will be their interest to
unite themselves politically with the
people of the new Dominion.
be given them to decide, we haye no
te but that their choice will be a wise
one, but if they were compelled to form
part of the Contedcration a sense of in-
Justice would rankle in their bosoms for
long years to come, they would be lynt-
eyed to discover the faults and disad-
es of the new policy, but blind as
moles to its virtues and advantages.

The Governor's Speech is by no means
a brilliant affair, Such speeches seldom
or never are, but that it contains the pro-
mise of much sound and useful legislation
we very cheerfully admit.

A PROTESTANT CEMETERY
FOR SUMMERSIDE,

Tuar the Protestants of Summerside are
much in need of a burying ground, is a
truth that must be admitted by every per-
son acquainted with this place; and to us
it seems surpassing strange that they nave
not put forth a united effort to secure one
long ere this, In this respect the Roman
Catholics here haye set « most commend.
able example to the Protestants, for though
they do not number near so many as the
latter, yet for some time they have had
their burying ground of two or three acres
in extent. But how is it with the Protes-
tants? With the exception ot the Episco-
palians, who haye a small centetery at St.
Bleanor’s, none of the other denominations
here have any such place which they can
eall their own nearer than Bedeque or Lot
16; and in fact they have no claim what-
ever on the baryipg ground in these local-
ities, and ave only permitted to bury ia
them ex grat

We think it is now about x year since a
meeting was held in Brown's tall to take.
this matter into consideration, Jt was
well attended—most of the leading Protes-
tants of the town being present, and all
fully agreed that a burying ground should
be procured without delay. But when the
question arose, what quantity of land
should be procured, aud how should it be
obtained, there vas quite a variety of opin-
ion. Some thought two acres sullicientin
the mean time, others five, and from that
we believe up to fiity. Again, some were
of opinion that subseriptions should be
raised and a pivee of land purchased for
the purpose, while others thoughtthe thing
could be satistactorily done only by a joint
stock company. Finally a committee was
appointed to take the whole subject into
consideration and report, and thus the
matter ended, aud thus we believe it has
remained up to the present.

Surely we think that alter twelve months
consideration, the time has now eome
when something ought to be done in the
matter, We would then earnestly sug-
gest that a public meeting of all interested
be called a8 soon as possible, and that a
subscription list be epened, in order to
raise suiligient funds to purchase two acres,
But ifa suficient sum cannot be raised at
present to buy two acres, then let them be
content, in the mean time, with one. 1f
we are not able just now to Bat is largo a
burying ground as we woul: ine let us

clas linge a one as we are
avin thougl ieslrould be fall--le noene
despise the day of small things. We have
no tear, however, either as to the ability
or willingness of the Protestants of Suni.
merside in this matter. This subject should
be agitated till something is done, for to say
nothing of the great meonvenience, we
consider it little short of a disgrace to any
Protestant community — and especially
such a large one as this — to possess no
heed of their own in which to btn their
dead,

If time-

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