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DECEMBER 10, ($79.

ixaggerated Language in Politics.

Tas London Zimes makes some excellent remarks xbout the prevailing fashien of op- posing politicians of making extreme state- ments an charges. These remarks are called he facteof the Duke of Argyle ated that ‘‘ the Government can

forth by having ¢ never open its lips without making state- ments full of the most gross inaccuracies 5" that on Lord Salisbury

was ‘‘ entirely without foundation,” that

assertion of another was ‘‘ an absolute mis-statement,” and that another “‘ had not a word of truth in it.” ‘The 7'imes points out that at least one of the assertions sc characterized was true; and then goes on to say that the Duke’s strong for truthfully remarks, is too the supposition

language, even if true, was ** too The public at large, it and too

that never grosses

oelief.” cool just to entertain it is open

governed by men who their lips without the inaccuracies. Nine men out of ten are prepared to be convinced that errors, and even great errors, have been committed by Ministers. Errors have been committed even by Liberal Governments. But the majority of reasonable men are not easily to be persuaded that the entire course of administration and its whole subsequent defence jias been one tissue of ‘‘ the gross- est violence,” “‘the most gross inaccuracies” and “ deceit.”. The Duke, it says, ‘‘ carried this style of denunciation to an unusual height ; but we have had a good deal of it lately, and there has been result. [t

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time to ob- may, we think, ineffectual in

serve tiie be said to be its ostensible ourpose. There’ is no sign that the country is stirred to any

offences If the pub-

lic is inclined to form any opinion on the

indignation at these alleged

against morality and integrity.

subject, it is the usual one that disputants who lose their temper must be conscious of having-the worst of the argument. In truth the spectacle before us is by no means a generous one, and is peculiarly unwel- coine to Englishmen.” ;

We have no doubt the Times’ estimate of the result of the exaggerated language of British Opposition Leaders is quite correct; for in this country where the language used by the Opposition is much more violent,the result is that it is not only wholly ineffect- nal in its ostensible purpose, but it actually does good to those whom it is intended to injure, and harm to the party for whose benefit it jis used. Hon. J.C. Pope and Hon. Donald Ferguson have both profited largely by the exaggerated langusge of their oppenents.

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W heat Cornering.

It is stated that capitalists in New York and Chicago have combined to force up the price of wheat in the British market to quite a liigh figure. They propose to con- trol the main portion of the supply on this side the Atlantic, and by keeping it back judiciously compel British buyers to atcept their terms. :

Should this statement be true, the hostile combination indicated will probably put the British people on their mettle and forward the movement for a Commercial Union of Great Britain and her colonies.

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Mental Depression of the Czar and Empress.

News of much importance and comes from St. Petersburg, The Czaris in an extremely depressed mental eondition. The fits of melancholy which oppressed him before his recent journey to Levadia ha returned, and

‘he remains for hours in a state of profound

introspecsion, refusing to converse, reject- ing food, and excluding fron his presence every one save his inseparable companion and confidante. At intervals the Czar makes eiforts to shake off the intellectual incubus which oppresses him, but these ai- tempts are only momentarily successful, and he relapses into his former state.

Advices from Cannes state that the Em- press is ina similarly deplorable condition, The attendants seek in vain to rouse her by cheerful conversation and invitations to her to take part in serial and other amuse- ments and divisions, but the Empress with- out mnifesting any dissatisfaction or dis- pleasu:c.insists on being left alone with her own thoughts. A St. Petersburg despatch says ;---i'wo arrests, in connection with the attem >t on the life of the Czar, near Mos- cow, liave been made, but it is believed the real porpetrators of the deed and ramifica- tions «{ the plot have not been, and will not be discovered.

—** As between the English and American manuf.cturers,” Sir John MacDonald is re ported to have said at the Ottawa banquet, ‘we prefer the English, but as between the Amarican and Canadian we prefer the Uan- alian.' To this classification of p-eference all Canadians materially assent. Sir Leonard Tilley showed the relative decline in American miwuufictures, under the new tariff, to be much ~regter than in Eaglish, while it is well known that Canadian manufacturers are toa cousidcrable extent taking the place of both for home consumption. -~IJonetary Times.

Tuk Day HxXAMINER. |

= es ~~ | Manitoba Exports and Imports.

The total exports of Manitoba for the quarter ending 30th September were of the value of $347,376 of which $352,491 were furs. It was then probably too early for statistics of grain export.

The value of the goods paying duty in that period was $311,340, being an advance of $59,125 on the imports for the corres- ponding months ef last year, which amount- ed to $251,215. The duty collected at Win-

. c oOo GOR nipeg for the past quarter, was $73,985.78, being an increase of $22,641.15 over a like neriod for last year. The value of mer- chandize paying duty ex ship was $267 596, and ex warhouse $30,473.

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Custom and_Excise Returns.

The following table shows the amounts of revenue derived from eustoms and excise payments at the following ports during last month, as compated with the same month

ef 1878 :— : Nov. Noy. In. or De. 1879. 1878.

’ ‘ *¢; ie RR €C ne Montreal ens’ms $336,279 $244,655 $91,624 I

‘* excise ' §3,662 999,075 15,473 D a , nor < ae” Q RI Teronto cus’ms 144,237 134,662 9,975 ] ‘* excise 38,026 108,010 69,984 D +74 ’ Kl ORS °) Q7 "OQ Hamilton cus’ms 51,253 62,951 11.698 D ‘« excise 29,233 25,841 3,392 I Halifax cus'ms 56,525 62,329 9, 864 D ‘* excise 7,272 21,062 3,799 D cr ’ ~~ ‘ KT FOO "7 oo St.John cus’ms « 75,112 57,788 17,324 D

' ‘* excise London cus’ms

“ excise 20,527 24,426 3,899D Guelph cus’ms 3,335 2,881 454 I] Kingston ‘‘ 10,950 Belleville excise 5,471 6,564 1,193 D

—Monetury Times, «<>P .

The Pacrfic Station.

The officer of the Reyal Engineers who proceeded some months ago by the order of -he Imperial authorities to British Colum- bia, to examine and report upon the condi- tion of the defences there, has returned. He considers, it is said, ‘‘Esquimalt unten. ible in the event of an attack by hostile vessels, and recommends the erection of certain defensive works at Nanaimo. Nanaimo is the present coaling station of the English Fleet in the Pacific, and is the only place on the whole of the western coast of North and Seuth America where British men-of-war would be able to re-coal in time of war. At present Nanaimo is com- pletely defenceless ; but, as the entrance to the harbor is narrow and intricate,it should be no difficult matter to render it practical- ly secure.

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The Fortune Bay Claims.

The Newfoundland papers. do not seem to be much impressed with the validity of the claims put torward in the Message of the President of the United States on ac- count of what is termed the ‘‘Fortune Bay outrage.” A St. John’s paper, which is sup- posed to speak ‘“‘officially,” says: ‘‘The President’s message refers to the American claim of $105,000 against the British Gov- ernment for the Fortune Bay damages; it by po means follows, however, that the claimants are to get, or that they expect to get, this money. It will be paid no doubt, as soon asprovedto bedue. There willbe no avoidable delay in the payment, no haggl-

ligation, no convulsive effort to shirk er re- pudiate it; but we apprehend there is a good deal to be proved before this debt is proved. It is admitted even on the part of the Americans themselves that they were the aggressors, and that they violated the Washington Treaty at Fortune Bay. The correspondent of the Boston Herald said this may as well be honestly admitted at once. Our people were, of course, beyond all doubt, wrong in destroying any of their property, and to the trifling value of that property there may be a claim, if it may be worth so calling, but this is a mere truinp- ery matter. How the pretences on which a sum of $105,000 is asked are to be sus- tained, we must wait to see.”

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The Telephone.

The Dominion Telegraph Company are at pesent intr ducing the el»phone in‘o Hal. fax. The Halifax Herald says: The whole system is simple and inexpensive. The Telegraph Company put up and maintain their various telephone wires just the same as the Gas or Water Companies put down their pipes, and they can connect any house or office with their system of tele- phone communication, just as readily and easily, and winch less expensively, than tlie other institutions named. There is this dif- ference, that the greater the number of houses and offices that become connected with the Telephone system, the greater theadvantage to all hands, and ultimately the legs cest. For instance, supposing there are forty residences, hoteis, offices, shops, etc., having telephones. These all connect by wires with the head office, whers there is a number and bell for every subscriber. lf No. 1—say a merchant—wants to know whether his freight has arrived at the Depot cr not, he* rings his bell and tells the head office so, and the operator there in charge ‘connects the wires of No. 1 with the wire. coming from the Depot (which is} done in an instant), and he asks the question, and gets his answer without ever moving o:t of his office chair. Or if le wishes to ask advice from his lawyer, ask the ratingof any customer at the Commercial ageucy or order a doctor, or give a newspaper an advertisement, he can do the very same thing by the very same process, always Suppo ing that these other people have tele- phones as well. Already a number of persons in Halifax and Dartmouth have yiven orders to be placed in the Telephone family. The list of subscribers already in- cludes General McDougall (Maplewood) ‘His Worship the Mayor, the At- torney General, the Marine § and

ing for twelve months over a clear ob-f[

mea Fisheries’ office and wharf,the, Halifax Club, the Brigade Office, the Intercolonial Freight. Depot, Intercolonial Hotel, J.T. & A. W. West, Lawson, Harrington & Co., J. 8. Maclean & Co., Esson, John Tobin & Co., Robt. Beak & Sons, Moir, Son & Oo. (office, and Mills at Bedford ; 8. Oland & Co., (Halifax and Dartmouth), Stairs, Son & Morrow (Halifax and Dartmouth), the Insane Asylum (Dartmouth), Colonel Cameron, J, Godfrey Smith, and a number of others.

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The leaders of the slavery party threatened to abandon and defeat the Min- isters if the scheme of rapid abolition of slavery and reform in Cuba be persisted in. tinder these threats Premier Campes per- mitted alterations in the bill to such an ex- tent as to convince the Liberals that he had completely surrendered to the conservatives.

Flour, Herring, Apples,

W. D. Stewart, Auctioneer, H* on consignment for sale cheap

500 bbls. choice FLOUR,

200 ‘* Nova Scotia APPLES, : 20 half bbls. prime Labrador HERRING

Dec 10, 1879—2i

and! American

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Sugar & Molasses

7: STORE AND TO ARRIVE:

12 hhds. PORTO RICO } 8 ** CHOICE BARBADOKES |

20 bbls. GRANULATED > SUGAR 15 * CONFECTIONER’S A. |

10 ** BRIGHT REFINED J

103 puns. Choice Bar- }

33 tierces badoes and * , MOLASSES, 18 barrels \ Trinidad (

FENTON T. NEWBERY & CO.

Dee. 9, 1879—6i pat 3i her 2i

FLOUR & GORNMEAL.

eo THIS FALL:

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20 bbs. BUDA,

200 ‘© OCCIDENTAL, 200 ** MAZEPPA,

100 ‘“* CAMPBLEFORD,

50 “* ALABASTER,

50 ‘** WARCUP’S SUPERIOR, and other choice brands,

200 bbls. CORNMEAL,

BEER & GOFF,

Dec. 6, 1879. oe aE

Union Bank of P. i. Island,

DIVIDEND NO. 3l.

OTICE is hereby given that a dividend

of five per cent. for the past half year,

has been declared on the capital stock of this

Bank, payable at its Head Office and Branch- es on and after this date.

GEO. MacLEOD, Cashier.

Ch’town, Dee. Ist, 1879—lw d3

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BEAUTIFUL

Uhrisimas, New Year |

AND

Birthday Cards,

just received at the store of

A. BS EE EES:

ALSO: Bound Copies of May’s Own Manual. Child’s Companion, Child’s Own Magazine, Cottage and Artizan Kind Words for 1879, and a great variety of Fancy Articles, Wools, Silks, &e. Nov. 14, 1879—1m eod

73,620 MORE SINGER SEWING MACHINES’

SOLD IN 1878 THAN IN ANY PREVIOUS YEAR.

In 1870 we sold 127,833 Sewing Machines. se 1878 ee ee 306,432 ee sé

Our sales have increased enormously every year, through the whole period of ‘hard times.”

We now Sell Threc-Quarters of ali the Sewing Machines Seld in the World.

Waste no Money on ‘cheap’ Counterfeits, aa Send for handsome Illustrated Price List ROBERT YOUNG, South Side Queen Square,

Sole Agent for P, E. Island. Ch’town, March 18, 1878—2aw tf

- FLOUR,

og STORE:

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300 bbls. Howland’s SUPERIOR,

200 ‘** TEA BUNS, 300 “* SPRING EXTRA,

AND 1,100 bbls. CHOICE BRANDS to arrive.

CARVELL BROS. Nov. 20, 1879—2aw 2w

UY THE DAULY EXAMINER, for the latest news—local and telegraphic

PIQUSE. DECEMBER

G. DAVIES & 60.,

Desire to call special atten- tion, during this month to the following low lines of Goods :

A Lot of ENGLISH BLANKETS, at $1.75, $2.50 and $3.50

A Lot of QUILTED BED COVERS, $1.25, $1.75, and $2.00

A Lot of BOYS REEFERS at $2.00

A Lot of Womens’ Grey Ribbed HOSH, at 22 cents.

A Special Line of Plain and Fancy

WINCEYS,

(Stripes and Tartans.)

A Large Assortment of Mens’ Women’s and Childrens’

Fur Goods

A choice lot of

Wool Goods,

Promenade Scarfs, Squares,

BREAKFAST SHAWLS, &e, &e., ke,

Also—Just Received by S. 8, “Prince Edward,” NEW FRILLINGS, FRINGES, LACES, RIBBONS, SPOTTED NETTS, BERLIN WOOLS, LADIES RIBBED CASHMERE HOSE.

A Fresh Supply of Herr’s

Celebrated

H. M. T. SEWING COTTON.

TERMS CASH.

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AJQVES UO

Dec. 3, 1879.

NOTICE.

WV E have on hand some lots of Fane Goods, Silks, Ribbens and ae wares, which We are offering to country trad- ers and others in exchange for country Socks, Mitts, Homespun, &c. By calling early an advantageous exchange may be secured,

F, LEPAGE & CO, Glasgow House, Queen Street, Jec. 6, 1879 —2w 2aw

CONCERT |

TYXHE QUINTETTE CLUB of Chariotte-

town, lately known as the ‘‘ Orehestral Club,” will give their opening Concert of the season in SI. PAUL’S SCHOOLROOM, on

Thursday ev'ng, tith inst, at eight o’clock.

Tickets 25 cents each; to be had at Dr,

Dodd’s, ‘Apothecaries Hall, and Bremner

Bros. S. N. EARLE, Director,

Dec. 5, 1879.—4i

OPENED THIS DAY,

‘Fancy Wool Breakfast Shawls, Plan do do (0,

Col ciec Wool Squares, NEW FEATHERS, NEW HATS, NEW FRILLINGS, PLAIN & FANCY VELVETEENS,

BEER & SONS.

Dec. 3, 1879.

Acme Skates.

(CX CASE this day received, BEER & SONS.

Dec. 3, 1879.

CHOICE LABRADOR HERRING.

25 bbls. No 1 LABRADOR, 25 ‘“* HALIFAX SHORE,'

Just received at the

FISH MARKET, Grafton Street

BRICKS. BRICKS.

UILDERS AND CONTRACTORS take notice that the Charlottetown Brick Company will be prepared to deliver in JUNE and JULY next at their yard in the Royalty, and in Carlottetown, any number of Bricks up to ONE MILLION, at prices lower than ever before placed in this market. Reserve your orders.

FRED. W. HYNDMAN, Agent,

Dec. 1, 1879—

Ch’town, Dec. 1, 1879~ pat 2w

Bones. Bones.

fFNHE undersigned will pay fifty cents Cash per cwt. for all bones delivered at the Bone Mill, in the Royalty. No quantity less than one cwt. (112 lbs) taken.

FRED. W. HYNDMAN, Agent,

Ch’town, Dec. 1, 1879—pat 2w

COAL COAL.

cy HAND, (in Shed), 100 TOWNS BEST

SCOTCH HOUSE COAL,

- (Warranted. )

Also—A large quantity of Pictou Round and Nut Coal.

Terms Cash.

Nov. 26, 1879.

CAPT. JOHN HUGHES, Water Street,

STOVES, STOVES,

AND TINWARE,

N STEVENSON calls attention to his « Stock of Stoves. On hand: the

Gurney Range, for coal, andthe Golden

Age, and others for wood,

TINWARE and STOVEPIPE constantly

on hand and made to order. ‘

Nov. 8, 1879—lm 3taw

CORDW OOD.

HE undersigned will receive tenders up ta Ist of JANUARY next, from parties willing to supply 500 CORDS of dry SOFT- WOOD, to be delivered at the Charlottetown Brick Company’s yard in the Royalty. The wood to be 4 feet in length, and not over eight inches in diameter, Further particulars can be obtained from he undersigned.

FRED. W. HYNDMAN, Agent, Ch’town, Dec. 1, 1879. pat 2w

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