s ' ? = Che Cnanriser. Uharlottetown, Dee. 20, IS75, _ ee MERRY CHRISTMAS,” Ere the Examiner is again issued, ( tendom will ce mere have com Lthe Birtl {f the Saviour of \ r ler we W Mi i oy rv --* —-+-+ - REFORM A few weeks ago we showed that Legis tion in Prince Eaward Island costs, per head of the population, nearly double as re than doubk as much as in in New Brunswick ; over a third re than in Quebec, and nearly three times as much as in Ontario. We showed. moreover, that the number of representatives, pro] irtionately to the } tion. is about three times as great s in Neva Seotia, double as great as New Brunswick. four times as great as Quebee, and five times as great as In ‘ With every department of gov- ve nt? ia shis Provinee misman iged nd with a failing exchequer, these art startiil facts To-day w é ttention to the Cis . 4 Prov . Certzinly 5 s atte The system by whicl 3 , i introduced in tl Georg Age ;”’ 1 this system | ) pa 1 and altered to suit the ex rencies of the times, till it is quite in- seribab] ‘ We can on y vive one oT 5 istrations, drown from its practi eal working, by which our readers wil’, we trust, | ble to form some idea of its ‘ :diti nasa wh le I irst ist 1 will, we feel sure, he familiar to an important class of persons —a class, unfortunately, becoming smali by degrees and beautifully less. A teacher iraws his small salary at the end of every Larter Each time he does so, he has to obtain a certificate from the trustees of his school, to the effect that he has < lied in every respect with the pro. visions of our educational laws, and that he has been sober and attentive to his du- ties. The certificate has to be counter Justices of the the yr sent to the Sec Board of Education, who. signed by one or more Peace. It is then, together with cister, takeu retary of the school re in his turn, examines and certifies to beth. If, however, he finds the certifis cate or register incorrect in any particular vhich he often does—he sends them three weeks, or a month elapse before they can be returned in proper shape. ‘ertified; and the list to be e Council, so that They are, th n, agaia teacher's name is entered in a re the Executi s demand may be approved. As meets ogs of the Executive Council seldom take place oftener than cace a month—and the day no man can tell—the teacher r his order three or 1, hb rrow the money Some time S calls f four times is often obliged to b at a heavy discount —thus rendering his already small salary the the yn the Treasury still smaller sum. So soon as ssed his account,” Council has ‘ pe Clerk draws an order for teacher; and on the amount. This he gives to the the teache at last of the banks. Treasurer gets a All this the teacher has to go through every quarter. sut what we are more concerned with in this argument, is the larce amount of un- | necessary labor the officials are compelled | to perform. When the list of teachers | to be paid is sent to the Council Office, | the Clerk of the Council makes two it—one for himself and one for cor s the Treasurer; and the Treasurer, as soon as he reeeives the list, again copies i i book of his ow and returus it to the Council Office. This one illustra- tion shows the trifling work at which our underpaid officials are mployed. Well micht a person deeply interested, with whom we lately conversed, say that “ who ever introduced this roundabout method, must have had very little else to do.” Now, let us look for a little at the working of the Registry Office. This office should be self-sus ‘ining. A pt he son whe wants to register a document has n cht to expect the public to bear part f the cost. y > fees charged should certainly cover the working ex- penses of the office. Yet, what do we| } Nearly $2,000 are paid out of | the general Treasury for the purpose of assisting persons to register documents. | The salaries of the Registry officials are : Registrar, $050 00 Ist Assistant, 585.00 2d do. 530.00 od do. 428 00 4th do. 458.00 Sth do. 28 OO Gth = dr. 115.00 83.006.00 Add contingencies, say 500.00 | —~ —- 3 5965.00 Fees rec’vd during year Is74, 1,542.3 Cost of maint’nce over rec’ pts $1,953.69 We have no desire t disparage the officials of the Regist y Office. No | doubt they are all Cay ble meu, who | But the that in 1871—when only the Regis- a“ know their duty, and do it. fact trar | and one assistant were employed— | the fees received amounted to forty-seven dollars more than in 1874, when a Regise trar and six assistants were employed, cannot be overlooked, for it shows that | there is something wrong. And there is | too much reason to believe that the wrong | is but a type of that which exists in every department of the Provincial Civil Ser—| viee. If so, every department of the | Provincial Civil Service needs reforma— tion. We will return to this subject. >_> PARTIAL ELECTIONS, As we anticipated, the election on} Thursday last, made only more apparent the puerility and contemptableness of the | opposition offered to Hon. F Kelly, Only | about athird of the votes in the district were polled, and yet Mr. Kelly’s majority i . | was 520, The returns show: KELLY. BAMBRICK. Ist Polling Div., Brack. Pt.. 22 40 2nd +6 Covehead, 66 39 ord Southport, 79 20 | 4th Ft. Augu’us, 229 . Sith $6 Lot 48, 39 9 035 115 | Kelly’s majority 526, | In the ] irst District of ix ing’s County, Mr. Lauchlan McDonald was elected His mujority was we understand, one hundred and eighty-thrie | | George W. Hodgson | oldest and most active members of our Hee 3-65 A RR AIRS ee haere, NP Ma Cis amt ordi am Eo mbna NE LAR eee ee! ee ee ae oe See ee Mee. Lat Ne YVACDONALD Al THE bias ; | j By the rep rt of the Postmast Gen l4THeE OPPOSITION LEADER BEVIEWS ne ‘ ) SPAST TWEN | r the year line 30th June, 1S#4, DIAN LEGISLATION FOR THE PAST sa pl erai for the year ene o see YEARS mE ViNDICAtES THRGETS it appears that the number of post omet Ia GOVERNMENT AND ORITICONS T? iu the Dominion on the Ist ot Januar! COURSE OF HIS OPPONENTS-—-HE DISC SSES there a ’ the Cornsaérvanhve Party must re- ple, speaking through their representatives. [ can only say, gentlemen, that judging from the facts which have been mention. ed by vour honoured guest, Mr. White, this evening, judging from the evidence we yet every day, the tir.e «a not far distant MACKENZIE ON DEPORTVM ENT: CARTWRIGHT | when the people of Canada ri-ing in. their 1875, was as follows Ontario and Qui ON THE TARIFF: GEORGE BROWN ON THE) might will say to Mr, - ate. let me “4 the | 2 Ros set 693: Nova “RIG PUSH ” CORRESPONDENCE: BUAKE S| Fron, Mr. Mackenzie (laughter) ;—* Sir, in bee. 2.943, New Brunswick, ©. +. | SUBMISSION : HUNTINGTON'S WITHDRAWAL, | your two short years of G vermment, you Scotia, 868; Manitoba, 36 ; British Co- | ETC., ETC | have committed more sin of omission and lumbia. 47; and Prine Edward Island The Right Honorable Sir John A Me- | commission than pave cane ned Sp mest ohm ( vy { ] {706 post CCS. | Monald, rising to reply, was received with A. during the last twenty os Ng eet bie ki ae ee ~ cheering, renewed = again putitto you, pentlemen, if you hive read I l of n f | _—— or ge me I ye els was unpreces the eloquent speech »3 Of my friend Dr, lup- 1374 w for Ontario and Quebee, 23, Santer th heartiness. When the applause | per, T put it oe you il you read my — , 2 Org Nov 1 ceased. Sir John said | prompt speech on+the occasion of the 033; New Brunswick Jot vb = ee iuman and sentlemen I, one | election of my friend Mr. J. B, Robinson, a € 61} Manito! iz British — re reg" Opposition cheers), | to say if there is*one word in those speeches Colu O00. Py Kdward Island mente. come from Toronto to join in this | which which was beyond the line of our ' ) 8.087 i} number of | magnificent demonstration in favor of my | right, 1f we pe not confine ourselves to the ve i - friend — my political and personal friend— discussioa of the public ath rs of this coun- mlies annuairy , Lby mai 1Sé4) \fr. White. (Cheers.) | feel that it was | try, if we do not confine ourselves to legiti- | a in Ont ri »and Quebec, 10,091,225; due to him, due to the sacrilices be has | mate omen yt vo thon tac dl enh 321.334: Nova Scotia, | made, due to the stand he has taken, due | ministration ‘ 5 g, New Brunswick, 1 Manitoba, Columbia, 194.665; Prince Edward Is land. 249.324—total, 13,929,180. The number of letters and post cards was S74 1.993062 79.567; British \ in Oatario and Quebee, S1L,944, 700: New Brunswick, 1,518,000 ; Nova Seotia, 3,800,000 ; Manitoba, 204,250 ; | British Columbia, 266, 950; Prince Ed- ward Island. 824,600 —total, 39,358,500 ; The number of newspapers ( L874), in Ontario and Quebee, 22,550,000 ; New was to the position he has honored, to testify | my respect as one of the old members of {the Conservative Party, for Mr. A hite. (Cheers.) But while it was due to him it was also # great gratification to myself. I) long in public life have watched the course of Mr. White. I tirst knew him when, at Peterborough, with all the earnestness and enthusiasm of youth, he conducted one of the ablest country newspapers that existed in Canada, I have watched his course ever since, It has been a truly conserya tive course, not merely, gentlemen, in the party sense of the word, but in the higher patriotic sense, conservative ta thought, conservative in feeling, conservative in pre- Brunswick, 2.390.000 ; Nova Seotia, 3,-} serving the connection with the mother ei : er country—that grand old country from 150,000; Manitoba, 10,000 British which we all hail. (Cheers.) I have ( ipbia, 320.000; Prince Edward Is- | watched his progress ever since, and I iind , :_ yw with not earnestness, with oi” 600.0 t 29 OOO_000 Che | him ne land, G00,00U0—total, =: " not less enthusiasm, but with matured number of registered letters (15¢4), Was | mind and with the experience that he has in Ontario and Quebee, 1,396,000; New | gained by long and intelligent and vigilant Brunswick, 60,000; Nova Scotia, 83,000, Manitoba,6,400 ; British Columbia,5,300 ; P. BE. Island, 12,200 —total, 1,562,900. The number of free letters (1874), was in Ontario and Quebee, 1,318,000; New Brunswick, 37,800; Nova Seotia, 36,500. Manitoba, 7,200; British Columbia, 4,- 500; Prince Edward Island, 8,200— total, 1.432.200. The number of parcels 1S74) was, in Ontario and Quebec, 75,- 550: New Brunswick, 7,200; Nova Scotia, 16,000; Manitoba, 1,500; Brit ish Columbia, 1,900; Prince Edward Island, 500—tetal, 102,800. The postal revenue of Ontario and Que bee for the year ending June 30th, 1874, was $1,238,900.55, expenditure, $1,249,- 182.07; 276.39, expenditure, $130,668.28; Nova New Brunswick, revenue, $36,- Scotia, revenue, $117,910.89, expendi- ture, $202,848.22; $3,996.90, Manitoba, revenue; $16,107.87 ; British Columbia, revenue, $13,500.55, expenditure, expenditure, $71,626,27; Prinee Edward Island, revenue; $15,532,48, expenditure, 76; total expenditure, $1,695,480.34. | The number of money order offices was, Total revenue, $1,476,207, | on the Ist of July, 1874, in Ontario and Quebec, 536; New Brunswick, 66: Nova | Scotia, 93; Manitoba, 1; British Col- umbia, 6; Prince Edward Island, 3 | The amount of money orders issued dur- ing the year ending with June, 1874, was} in Ontario and Quebec, $4,181,123.26° New Brunswick, $1,069,359.48 ; Nova Scotia, $1,465,401.65 ; Manitoba,$12,761.- | 83; British Columbia,$2%,744.98 ; Prince | Edward Island, $57,938.45: Total. $6.- | The number of Savings Bank Post Offices in Ontario and Quebee, in which Provinces only they were in| 1874, the number of depositors for the 24,968; the total year Was 8§15.329.66. operation on the 30th June, was | 266 : year then ending, amount deposited during same $2,340,284, aud the amount of deposits and interest to credit of depositors, at the date afore-mentioned, was $3,204.- 905,46. The value of the issue of postage | stamps and postal cards for the year end- ing June 3]st, 1874, was, for Onturio and | Quebec, $886,565.75; New Brunswick. $73 Nova Scotia. $04,565 ; Edward Islaud, $24,900 : bia, M $12 initoba, 3, 975 Prince British Colum $6,0584— total, the SOO: 7 QQ “> 4 21,075,585. Zo. The ( year was, &: issue for pre— | vious ISO,075.75. During the year 1874, twenty-six new Savings f fie S were open¢e ] ‘. 268. According to miking the dank total number now the Postmaster-General’s statement, it ap- pears that after seven years’ operation the deposits in the Post Office Savings Bank have reached a point beyond which their increase will only be very gradual, and may be expected to fluctuate with the general financial condition of the country from time to time. Considerable amounts have been withdrawn—in all $1,144,400 —for investment in Dominion stock, gd higher interest offered in which proves a strong attraction. The number of depo sitors holding aecounts in the Post Office Savings Banks on the 31st December, i874, was 25,492, being an increase of 590 during the year, _~om ee SYMPATHETIC. Very general and hearty has been the sympathy of our citizens with the relatives of Charles DesBrisay, Esq., in their late be- reavement. The funeral which took place on Wednesday last, was atteuded by a very large assem ‘2ge drawn from every class of society, and every religious denomination, Venerable Archdeacon Read read the burial service at St. Paul’s Church, and Rey. performed the last solemn rite of the Church, in St, Peter’s graveyard Tue following Resolutions were passed at a meeting of the Church Wardens andVestry of St. Paul’s Church, held on Thursday, the 16th December, 1875, and a copy forwarded to the bereaved widow :-— Whereas, by the Providence of Almighty God, Charles DesBrisay, Esq., one of the congregation, suddenly died on Sunday evening, the 12th inst., while officiating in the pulpit of St. Paul’s Church as lay teader, Resolved Therefore that the Church Wars dens and Vestry of St. Paul’s ( hureh, do hereby record their deep sense of the loss the church has sustained by the removal of one, who, for many years past, took a most active and zealous interest in the welfare | and spread of her doctrine, and whose syms | pathy and assistance, so cheerfully given at | all times, to the poor and sick of our con- gregation, will long be treasured as a stand- | ing record of his christian character, and | 48 & practical proof of his reverent fsith in | the teachings of the church he loved so | well, Resolved further, that our warmest sym | pathies on our own behalf and that of the | congregation, be tendered to his widow and son, in this time bereavement, Artgur Newnery, V. Clerk. | } CHARLOTTETOWN, December 17, 1875. Sir,—My mother has received with much gratitication, the resolutions passed at a meeting of the church Wardens and Vestry of St. Paul’s Church, and enclosed in your letter of the 17th inst.; and, for myself, I return expression of sympathy. Yours faithfully, Signed Wituiam C, DesBrisay. A. Newpery, Esq, | Brown, 'of Nuevo | gentlemen, | know that every one of you | ber for Lambton, &c.”’ | we were reckless, criminal or incapable; them my sincere thanks for their deprived our | observation of publie aflairs, till he now stands one of the first journalists in Canada, (enthusiastic cheers) worthy of this demons- tration, and worthy of the exertions which ‘have been made by the true electors of Western Montreal. It is true that be has told us that he js a defeated candidate,and no one regrets that defeat more than | do; not only on my own account, but on ac- count of the party of which, for the present at all events, I may be considered as the |leader. (Cheers.) Mr. White has consolation, that the loss is to his party, the great Conservative party, that the loss | is to the city of Montreal (* we know it’)— that the loss is to myself, who looked fora ward hopefully to having him acting with me, fig!iting with me, battling, as I said a | few evenings ago, with the beasts at | Ephesus. But, as Mr. White has said, it is no defeat; it is a great triumph, for he had the real honest vote of Montreal, and | has in this demonstration the testimony of } the wealth, intelligence, enterprise and commerce of Montreal. (Cheers.) I might, gentlemen, at this late hour, content myseif with making these remarks, (No! no! go on!) and with thanking you for the honor conferred upon her Majesty’s Oppo- sition; only that beiug a lawyer I am fond of precedents, and I find that at a similar banquet, perhaps not sO numerously at-~ tended, which took place in Montreal, in | honor of a most estimable gentleman, Mr. Frederick MacKenzie, his namesake, the Premier of the Dominion, took occasion to enter into SOME OF THE POLITICAL QUESTIONS OF THE DAY, and following the precedent, I shall, with your permission, do the same. (Loud | Cheers.) Gentlemen, I feel bound to follow | the example set me by the Premier of Canada—by the Honorable Alexander Mac- | | kenzie—for we must be careful to speak of him as the Honorable Alexander Mac- kenzie in the future. (Laughter.) We all got a lesson lately, which I know you will take to heart, in politeness and deport- ment. We were told that no more must | be be styled Sandy Mackenzie (renewed laughter); that no more must such an one be spoken of as Archie McKellar, or an- other as Geordie Brown; that you must speak of them as the Honorable Archibald McKellar and the Honorable George didn’t know, Gentlemen, be- fore | read that speech, what a deeply in- jured man [ was myself; I didn’t know that the people of Canada, from the Atlans | tic to the Pacific, had been insulting me g me for thirty years by calling me ‘John A. (Laughterand cheers.) Andthen! could not but reflect, when that speech will be re-echoed, as such a speech deserves to be re-echoed, across the Atlantic, how Ben Dizzey and Bob Lowe will feel that, great statesman as they are, and one of them the Premier, they should be called plain Dizzey and Pob Lowe, (Laughter.) So, gentleman, remember that he is the Honor- able Alexander Mackenzie. It is said that this | you will not find one word without its war- jrant. We attacked no private character , | we made no fling at private conduct; we never struck below the belt. (Enthnsias« | tic cheers.) But before the people of this | country, through the press of the country, we arraigned the conduct of the Adminis- | tration for their management of affhirs, for their legislation, and for no other fault. | And, gentiemen, what said Mr, Mackenzie | im response to these speeches? He alleg ed in his speech the other day, that he was answering the remarks made by my honor- able friend and myself. Was the tone worthy of the Premier of Canada, of a man standing up to defend his conduct, and show that he was fit for the position that he nol ix, to show that he had been a faithful stewart to show the wisdom and justice of his ad ministration and the purity of his party 2 | (Cries of oh! oh! big push, ete.) Mr Mackenzie made the error that he always dées, of mistaking coarseness for strength (Cheers.) The Hon Adex. Mackenzie i3 a countryman of my own: he is a hard head. ed Scotchman, Hemakes, clear, well reas» oned, logical speeches, but the gods have not made him poetical. He wants imagin ation, and though his speeches are sound and sensible and able, they are, I must say, ; upon the whole as dry as a limeburner’s | shoe. [Laughterand cheers ] The other | day he assumed a new character; he broke | ont in a new phase loud laughter |, and for the first time in his Jife,he fayored his au- | dience with a poetical quotation. Now, it rather surprised me when he, the Puritan Premier, had the whole range of British pos etry to quote from, that he had preferred to quote that rake-helly old Sam Butler. {laughter.] Poetry is called a garden of sweets, a garland of roses, either raising the imagination by the sublime, or charming the fancy by the beauty of the sentiments of the poet. Now, let us call to cur memor the quotation made by the Hon, Alex. Mc. Kenzie. It is this: “The Prince of Cambay’s daily food Is asp and basilisk and toad, Which gives to hiarso strong a breath, He nightly stinks ww queen to death.” |Laughter.}) You may judge, gentlemen, from this poetical exerciseof the Premier of Canada, of the kind of answers we get in the House. We tell him, your Pucific policy is wrong. He answers, you are an asp. [Loud laughter, } ie Tariff is a mistake, You are a basi- lisk. {Renewed laughter.}] We say to him ‘‘ how about the steel rails?’ “ You area toad.” [Laughter.] IL have seen him again and again in the house of Commons, give answers not more consequent and quite | 4s polite as the answers | have been suppus ing at this moment. But I suppose the honorable gentleman considers that this was a specimen of what we call in Scotland |‘ wut.’ .(Loud laughter.) I might say, |} gentlemen, as I am inthe poetical vein as | well as himself, that looking at his free | trade speeches in Scotiand and his protec tion speeches in Montreal, he might re- member two lines of the same poet from whom he quoted ;— | What makes all doctrine piain and clear, | *LTis just two thousand pounds a year, And prove that false w as true be fore, The answer plain, two thousand more.” | (Laughter and cheers.] In Mr. Mackenzie's j | speech, as you must see, he attempted to) change the issue by talking of our incapa~ city. He specially contrasted himself and | me, and said, what right had I to speak of any one being incapable when I made such a mess of THE WASHINGTON TREATY ? Although there was no mission, although there missioners appointed by Her Majesty, of whom | was the fifth, be said that Treaty showed the utter incapacity of myself, and therefore it did not lie in my mouth to charge anybody with incapacity! One of Imperial Com- were five in Spain the great old grandees, founders of the ancient families of Castile and Leone the Duke of Ossuna und the Duke of Ma- | | dina Sidonia or the Duke of Madina Celi, and such great grandees, when they spoke | of each other called one and other Ossuna Sidonia or Celi, and sc on, but when they | spoke of anew man they styled him the noble and illustrious Hidalgo, the Marquis | Hombre. (Laughter.) Now, | are I. F. C’s (of the first families of Canada), and that while you are at liberty to address each other as Tom, Dick or Harry, you must always speak of Mr. Misckenzie as ‘the Honorable Alexander Mackenzie, Premier of the Dominioa of Canada, mem, (Renewed laught er.) Having thu; called your attention to the proprieties, and to the necessity of mending your manners in this respect, | would say it is very strange that this gentle. man who gave usa lesson in deportment seems to forget in his speech that he was Premier. Itseems that he had been so long in Opposition that he fancied he was Opposition still. He had told us in terms that the duty of an Opposition was to ob- jectand attack the Ministry of the day, and if they did not do that, there was no use in an Opposition ; and yet in his speech forgetting that he was a Minister, forget- ting that he had to give an account of his ateward-ship, forgetting that it was his duty to defend his position and to vindicate his rights to the position he now holds, his speech was entirely against the late Administration, against my late col. leagues and my unfortunate self. fLaughs ter.] You can judge from reading that speech if itis such a speech as ought to come froma Premier, Mr. Mackenzie said it didn’t rest in our mouths to judge of the competence of the Government, because we had shown our own incapacity. Well, gentlemen, if so, we were out; we have suffered the consequences of those errors, and he ought to know that a Minister can- not hold his position by the demerits or incapacity of the Opposition. You can judge, gentlemen, from the speech which was delivered in this city the other night the nature of the answers that we of the Opposition receive in Parliament when we arraign the conduct of the Government. Just in accordance with the tone of that speech are we answered in Parliament when we perform our duty to our con- stituents and our country—when we per- form our functions as an Opposition, ar- raigning their conduct, pointing out their shortcomings and warning them of the un. wisdom of their course. Mr. Mackenzie, instead of answering the attacks of the Op- position, instead of justifying the course of the Ministry, instead of vindicating the wisdom of their measures and the justice of their administration, turns round as he did the other night and personally attacks the members of the Opposition, tries to change the issue, tries to bark back on the defunct administration, tries to avoid the discussion of its measures, tries to avoid the necessity of defending his course by gross attacks upon the members of the Opposition, endeavoring to lead the House away from the consideration of his own course, his own demerits, to past issues that are of no consequence to the country —of no consequence to any one. (Cheers. } But we are out now, we are suftering the consequences of any errors we have com- mitted. It would be no answer to say that that we had shown ourselves unworthy of the confidence of the people. that we were as they say, Supposing | } Is THat any ANSWER | to a charge against themselves ? If we Pay, you have ruined our tea trade, you have destroyed our manufactures, you |have shaken our credit, you have! workmen of work, you have foreed our factories to work only | at half or quarter time, is it any answer to. say that the Ministers before them were un-_ worthy of the position they held» Weare | @ut in the cold shades of Opposition, and | the first instances he gives is that in the Treaty, the navigation of the St. Lawrence was made free to Americans for all time, while Like Michigin was made open to Canadians for ten years only. Now Mr MacKenz:e must have known, because he had the pspers before him, that instruc. tions were given to the head of that Com, mission that the navigation of the St. Law- rence was to be free. The Commissioners bad no discretion in the matter; it was an instruction from the Imperial Parliament, from the Liberal Government, from the Gladstone Government, that we should surrender the navigatwn of the St. Law. rence. It is true I‘ might have taken. my hat and walked’baek to CAnada, Hut’ that would not have done Canada any good, because the mstructions, were positive, and the navigation of the $t. Lawrence would have been handed over whether I was there ornot. Well,.Mr. Mackenzie knew that and but as this surrender was a foregone con- clusion, and as there were other questions up, involving questi of Canadian in- terest more deeply than the navigation of the St. Lawrence, ! remained to perform my duty, and | have~the thanks of my colleagues in Canada, and of the Parlias ment of Canada for doing so, And there was another reason—because the Americ, cans, by getting the free navigation of the St. Lawrence did not, in fact get anything. In the first place, you know that the Treaty provides that the navigation of the St. Lawrence is given for commercial pur. poses, only, and not for war; the United States bound the St. Lawrence down to St, Regis ; the Americans’ own our bank, and therefore they had the navigation of the internal waters down to that point. From the point where both banks of the St. Lawrence belong to Canada, the Americans had no power to use it, begause there is not a single inch where a’ vessel can go up, They might run the rapids, but they could neverreturn. So we were not really giving the Americans anything. Rut the latter claimed it as a matter of sentiment, though they knew that without the use of our canals it was worthless. [Cheers.] It may be said it gives the Americans the right to use the Lower St. Lawrence for commer~ cial purposes. But we give the same right to every nation under the sun; we court, but I say this, if you read those speeches, | We tell him that | Com- VASION, in candor he ought to have told his audience (Cheers and applause.) Her Majesty's Goy- j so. L might perhaps have walked away, | ernment—the Gladstone Government, — | ought to obtain a resassurance of the free | main until recalled by the voice of the peo-! navigation of those rivers to British and Canacian «commerce. (Cheers,| Then Mr. MacKenzie said further, looking at that clause in the Treaty allowing Cana- dian vessels to go through the canal at the | St. Clair flats, that the Americans had put | | their works on our waters. That is just | ‘the question. The American Government say the improvements are not on our side ; we say they are within our line, The Treaty | says that wherever these improvements may be,— improvements made at the expense of | the people of the United States, they shall j be free to Canadian vessels whether on the | American or Canadian side | Cheers, ] He goes on and attacks the capacity of the late Administration, as a whole, on account of TZ LOCATION OF THE INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY, | but if there is one thing the late Adminis- | tion ought to be prond ot, it is the con- struction of the Intercoloniai Railway,which is the best railway of ‘ts class snd the jand the cheapest of its cliss in America, {hear, hear.; And, Sir, as to the location of that railway, the hon. gentleman states in his speech that he knew that I was ops | | posed to it, and that Mr.McDougall was | opposed to it, and that for the sake of office, and contrary to our opinions, and our consciences, we put the line in its | present place, instead of running it down | the valley of the St. John, ({Hear, hear. ] | This statement has been made before, but | it has been denied and has been disprov- ed in Parliament, and Mr. Mackenzie,when he was making that statement, knew that | it had been disproved, and yet he re- | peated the old calumny in making the | statement,—I do not wish to use strong language, and he was wilfully using this | language and making this statement, when | he had, of course, the statement of all my | colleagues and of myself in Parliament. | [(fear, hear.] Gentlemen, consider for a moment. In 1858 there was an arrangement made at the request of Nova Scotia, and | New Brunswick, with the British Govern- /ment, by which the British Government | |agreed to give a guarantee to half the | cost of the construction of that Road, on |; condition that the Imperial Government | |should have the selection of the route. | |{Hear, hear.| When Mr. Sandfield Mac- donald’s Government came in, in 1862—it agreed to endorse that statement and carry out that promise. {[{Hear, hear.] More than all, gentlemen, at a later date in 1864, in the debates in the Parliament at Que- bec, on the Quebec resolutions which were | to form the basis of Confederation and ess tablish the Dominion, Mr, Mackenzie made | an elaborate speech, stating that he was in favor of the Robinson line was worthy of | adoption [applause]; and I have no hesi-~ tation in stating, gentlemen, that that line and that route 1s correctly located for the | purpose of getting communication from | Halifax with the St. Lawrence. Running | |aline through New Brunswick down the | valley of the St. John, with a cross-road | | to Halifax, would have been no carrying | out of the scheme, but the people of Nova | Scotia and a great portion of the people | | of New Brunswick would have a right to} / complain of a breach of faith if the line | | were not located where it is now (hear, hear.) But, Sir, there are other reasons, and con. clusive reasons, why that road should be | located where it now is, England had with drawn her troops, and we had the pledge of England, and the pledges—the pledges of the British Governmemt—have never been violateé {Loud applause,] we had the pledge of England that in case we were attacked by foreign foes, no matter from what quarter, and no matter from what | source, the whole military and naval power }of the Empire would be at our disposal | (cheers], and would be exercised in our de~ | fense, provided that we gave England the | means of defending us, by providing a road, | a military road, whereby she could send | her troops with the military stores in| | winter and in summer to fight our battles, | (Cheers.) A road down the valley of the | St. John would have been in no sense a |} military road; and instead of being a | sourse Of strength, it would have been a/| | source of weakeness. (Applause) A rail- ; way running along the territory between | the State of Maine and New Brunswick would have been a source of weakness, be- |ciuse with the enormous military force | the United States have got in case of war. that Government could at once send in and take possession of the road making it the means of sending the American | troops to conquer Canada, instead of being | the mans of sending British troops to | protect it. (Hear, hear.] And more than | that, gentlemen, while the negotiations | were going on, and after the negotiations were finished, after Confederation, while | we were considering the line and location | of the railway, we asked the British Goy. | ernment in order that there might be no. mistake, if it would sanction a ed line; and the reply of the English Govern~ ment was that they would sanction no | such line~thay would consider that the | | bargain had not been carried out—that | | they would grant no such guarantee, and | that they could not carry out their pres | mise to defend this country effectively | / with the whole force of the Empire, if) 'that road was exposed, as such a road | | would be. {Hear, hear, and applause | | Now, we have got a railway remote from the frontier—And as long as the military | power of England exists, and as Jong as /the military power of England continues as itis now, that road will always be a military road, and One upon which we can | depend for our defence in winter and in | summer against all comers. Before | leave the question of the Wash. | ington Treaty, | will say, gentlemen, that there was one point in it with which I es~ pecially agreed; and that was a clause in it providing that the United States should | be recommended to restore to Canada the MONEY EXPENDED IN RE-1STING THE FENIAN 1X« { | near, hear—anxious to settle all matters with the United States—anxious that there should be no question remain between them, refused to press our claim, and it was a loss to us, but no humiliation to Cana. da; if there was a humiliation anywhere it | was a humiliation to England, but England can afford to bear such a charge. — Applause —it was no humiliation to us, and what did the late Government do when HerMajesty’s Government, for Imperial considerations— for the purpose of settling all these ques. tions forever, refused to bring up the ques~ tion which promised to be fatal to a final settlement? We claimed at her hands some compensation, and said, ‘If for [m- perial reasons, for your own purposes, you do no press our just claims; we ask you to | compensate us,’ and, gentlemen, she fully | compensated us in & manner most agree-_ able to our feelings. It would have bees | little consolation to us to have reesived a sum of money for the annual sum that these outrages and these invasions cost us: and it would have been little satisfaction to us if we, the people of Canada, felt that this money was to be taken out of the pockets of the British taxpayers, our fellow sub. jects, this would have been no consolation, but many of us would have been rather in« clined to submit to the loss rather than throw such a burden upon the ever-bur- | ‘ | i i } | j we invite the trade of all nations ; and what would the peopte of Montreal say if | the right was evet exercised to exclude | this commerce from their port, and prevent | the navigation from being free to the} the world? ‘That Treaty was passed in | 1871 ; it was sanctionedand ratified in 1872, and [ ask you now whether the Americans, } from 1872 to 1875, in their trade or in their | interests, have gained any advantage that you see? The right the Americans have | of navigation from St. Regis to Montreal | is nO more a disadvantage to us than the right of a crow or a pigeon to fly over the | waters. We haye the whole control of the | St. Lawrence yet, for at any moment we choose we can shut our canals; at any mo- | ment we can prevent the Americans from using the St. Lawrence in any way whatever. So long as we «re on good terms we will | allow them to use our eanals, but we will | never surrender the right of closing these canals when we please. (Cheers.| This is One Of the instances’ mentioned to show my incapacity. Then again, it was said, Sir John in that Treaty actually got a pro- vision inserted that the Yukon and Stickeen rivers in Alaska should be free to British and Canadian-shipping, and it was said that liberty was given years and years ago in a Treaty between England and Russia. Well, gentlemen, I have told you Mr. Mackenze is nota poet. I may also | tell you that he is not an international lawyer. I may teil you furtuer that in inserting that clause in the treaty, the i nat on il law was followe!. i hese gentlemen | were of opinion, the British Government were of opinion, Mr Gladstone was of. Opinion, that as Alaska had been handed | over from Russia to the United States, we dened British taxpayers—hear, hear, and applause.—But we have made am arrange- ment which fully compensated us without taking one single farthing out of the pock- ets of the British pe»xple. We asked Eng- land ~ not to give us money, but to lend us her credit, and Mr. Cartwright is now in England exulting his horn on this,— Laughter, and groans for the Finance Min. ister Mr. Cartwright is at present exalting | MNHE Subscriber has just completed his his horn on the strength of the guarantee of the sum of money which England agreed | Carefully selected Stock of } to guarantee forus ; and which she has | guaranteed for us.—Applause.—And_ this is another instance of our incapacity. — | of JANUARY, 1876. tickets for said requested to make returns on or about tke | Honor on the occasion, will please to enter 25th inst. in the new Catholic are respeetfully requested to attend. Alberton, Dec, 15, 1875—h pro ne agj tiljanl ee NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. | "ILE | Rochford Theatricals. | S. PETER’S BOY’S SCHOOL. | The Season will open on Thursday, the 30th Dec... with the Lauczhable Farce of e of No. 1 ROUND THs CORNER, and the Comedietta of RELLY WHILE. By H. T. CRaven. Further Perforinances will be given as fol- | hOWS “a | Jan. 4—‘* Blighted Being,” and “ Poor | Jan. 11—‘* Poor Pillicoddy,” and ‘‘No. 1 tound the Corner.’ Jan. 18—‘‘ Milky White.” and * Blighted Pning ? cing. In preparation: —** Two Puddifoots ;” “ Done on Both Sides;” ** Box and Cox;” ** Deal Boatman ;” &c., &e. Doors open at 7; punctuaily. N. B.— Boxes, . “ » cases rand 7 WwW. W.e 12 half octaves do., cases Glassware, ‘ 12 packages Koompaper, “ tad } rolis Floor Oil-cloth, Jae le _ 1 box Iron Bolts, —_ Lauchian, 1 bar Spikes, °' 2 ew th 2 Cases, “ nig Case, sie H. A. H, 1 Cask, vad 37776-21 | hha, Brendy, “ John Carro)i y! 1 Bale, ne wy a. li, ( 2 Bales o B. & S. l ~ rE I. & Co, 4 Bar sig F. W. Strong } 4 nests Tubs Bereta... ct 1 Box and 1 Barrel, Trig > ; oo Eade eg : a W right & Robin, iD 1 cask Ojl and 3 Boxes, “ Bourke, So . 3 bbis. Glassware, John = pg Co, 1 Box, “4 os ‘ 1 Cask, no mark, ex Minerva, re 5 boxes Copper Paint, marked A. McNeil. li 1 cask Glasswere, si Newbery Bros. 7 Barrels, sad - He ; ~— Is, J. M. Grant. garrel, Matthew ‘le 1 cask Ol, We hewaMeLean or [oon - a 1, 2 boxes Axle Grease, B.S. & Co, a 1 Box, vi 8S. Side Bank, 1 can Oil, ” ¥* 2 Cases, ve -, 1 1 Box, ~ William ¥ ac 2X) Boxes, No marks. furphy. ' 5 barrels Onions, marked T. B. H, vl ll Boxes, ” a Ws th j 1 cask ¢ vil, ” Kdw. Poole. 1 Box, , Mary Gillis, ’ | pkg. Dasher Leather, “ McK. F. & Co, ou 1 bale Curled Hair, si we 1 Case, ™ - ni 1] Case, a. WG. 2 barrels Glassware, J. O. Morrow, 1 Barrel and 1 Box, Morrow & Ca, ALso—At the same time and place, 15 quarter casks SHERRY WINE, J. D. CURRIE, Collector. st Charlottetown, December 18, 1875.—2in cle AUCTION! 3 CASH. $2,000 WANTED. bi AND T SALESROOM, ON WEDNESDAY, Thy wn Q 1 VV | +* the 22d inst., at 11 o'clock ;— . 4 i 4 { Fa N EW y EARS G It Is, 39 pieces Coatings, Tweeds and Doeskins; Ci i 20 do. Grey and White Cotton; 10 do, | ALSO, | Woollen Shirtings; 25 do. Winter H Ready Made Clothing, Confection- ery, Groceries, &c., | all on Consignment, and will be closed out without reserve. A. McNEILL, Auctioneer. Monday, Dec. 20, 1875. CHRISTMAS, EW YEAR, 1875. 1876. BUY YOUR | CHRISTMAS GIFTS. i AND New Year Presents, HARVIEG’S BOOK-STORE Dec. 20, 1875. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS | THE BEST ASSORTMENT Ever Imported to Charlottetown, Church Services, Prayer Books, Iftymn Books, «cro0ld Pens & Pencils, Christmas Cards, } } rocky and mountainous that | it would cost an immense sum of money to | build it, and as Mr. Sandford Flemming in | his report said that not one single pouud of freight would ever go over the road if once | _ built in this part, there was nothing left for advice of the highest authorities on inter, | us but the present route, which, after all, the Globe of the day before yesterday states, | his already shortened the route for travel | between the Western States and England, and by which the mails of this continent and the travel of this continent will hereafter pass down to Halifax.—Hear, hear, Pomades, Cosinetiques, Lotions for the complexions, Glycerine, Cold Cream, | Glycerine Jelly and Camphor Ice, for chapped hands and face, Sponges, Per- fume Flasks for the pocket, Gold and | Silver Union Smelling Bottles, rene t Capped and Silver Capped Prestons, Vinegerettes, Toilet Bottles, With a great variety of Kaney Goods! | together ~a1s0— 31 Water St., Raisins, Currants, Figs, Almonds, Nuts, | Dry Preserved Ginger, Flavoring Essen- | ces, Prepared Cochinea!l, Ground Spices, (pure,) Gelatine, Sea Moss, Farine, Isin- glass, Marmalade, Lemon, Orange and Calf's Foot Jelly, (:n quart bottles), Ma- caroni, Vermiciili, Candied Citron, Lemon and Orange Peels, Pickles Sauces, Anchovy Paste, Parisian Es- sence, Pearl Sago, Superfine Tapioca, Liebeg’s Malted Food, Liebeg’s Extract of Beef, Sardines, etc., etc., ete. Wm. R. Watson. City Drug Stere. I Victoria Building, Dec, 20, 1875. cei Merchants Bauk of P. B. branches. Looks, Pamphlets, Iiandbills, Cards, ittilheads, ‘Tags, law Blanks, &C.» Printed to order in the BEST sry LE, AND AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE. Chitown, P.E. I. JOHN COOMBS, Wau. WORTH. Yec. 6, 1875.—h ane t im Island. on the DIVIDEND of Five per cent. | 4K Original Stock of this Bank, has this | day been declared, and is payablet holders on demand. { oO stock. W. McLEAN, Cashier. Ch’town, Dee, 6, 1875.