Ce ae ith that of the 'To- | which the Lezgite bas extended ; : , ae ; a arliament is, mond’s opinion agrees with tha i a. oe een ; to be handed over to this Syndicate, Why. Sir, when thie railway is con. | petitionsand manifesios in a wavelling bag. The proposal now helore .F lronto Globe of not so very long ago. | Bonfires blazed on every bi

. » of the t. fi ble terms that aaa : hese : an ] He ia a wonderful man this Senator Hay- | as follows :— int rait SfNele | ee hoot tte eens Ti mead |

are of the most favorable t he struc ted, t ese omen are rounne thorne for changing constijutions. We all) Existing reads with éontracts “ Qnr rulers will 9 traitors “ | without partici lar distarbance the ‘ : - - have yet been submitt d. One would to run at. The cost of running remember when he and laird shouldered cour leted, $23,000, 000 ,eountry and to British ‘ RUOD . . hie . have been isol sted instances whore Tul ay

MR. BRECKEN'S SPEECH really think that there were associa- it has been estimated by the hon. | Prince Edward Island in the dead hour of | Cash subsidy 20,099,509 {Joss @ single season in Rg ng ig | aot eo eae : MR. BRE : ; . nd convenient for settlers to go to Fort . .

tions, syndicates, and men who were member for Lambton at $6,000,000, | the night and started for Ottawa, but this | 25,000,009 seres of land at $2 | bonfires were erected in the ; j

5 . ; market and 50,000, 000 } Garry through our ewn territory, and ni places

Mr. Brecxrx. |! shall follow the willing aud anxious to take up this and by Mr. Sandford Flemiug at | his — ae eres meta t Dee ee ae see t thi in a fair way for the Cana oa of Swern: Pen oti in thal gs , * Or ores a ime in- 5 Fisen ‘3a Wile | trate ‘* | suppose ere this petition frem the it ie jutting things in ai O Canj- reets. pted example of the ho: gentleman who work. A great deal of time and in $8,000,000. Where is the traffic to ppo 3 ah os Railway ape Total, $103,000,C00 an Pacific Railway. It is a question of

Island against the Care Towy, Jan, 3A,

has just taken his sat, by addressing genuity and ability have been expend- come from? ‘There is no throngh reached Ottawa. Some of these petitions | Thus it will be plainly seen that the present | ot merely of convenience, but of national Tne Boors of the Oranae F : rae myself very briefly on the subject. be- ed iu making contracts between the traffic; the traffic must be a wayside bear the names of dead as well as living | terms are $56,000,000 betier than the Allan | existence, It must be pushed through at meeting and determined’ "te ot held a fore the House. 1 ave sat here for contract now before the House and tratlic, aud therefore it is the interest Grits. A'l the persuasive powers of English contract, amd $59,627.500 better than the whatever expense. We believe it can be cattle to the Boers in sho Teastual oom and some weeks listening to the able the terms embodied in the Act of of these meu to sell their lands and | Galic and dog Latin were used in certain | terms offered by the late Adiwntnistration 1M | pushed through not only without being a Loxvor Sud 20, epeeches which have been delivered 1874, viz. : $10,000 aud 20,000 acres get them settled. Why, Sir, eould localities without producing the slightest the 19 of vt cine geo t burden pecugiarity to eae ee zie Thcewie atsony tellin a aedaae aa Sy hon seulement side of | perme and the unild sum for | you mine « evatey cing aid out | eet ay trek ee feo ee a ee Te | gu ak momber aor of rating

the House, upon this very important question. There is feature of the debate which has struck me very forcibly, indeed, avd I shall refer to it now, howover, without any desire of raking wp nations! animosities, or importing anything approaching bit- terness into the discussion. I allude particularly to the able speech of the hon. member for Bothwell (Mr. Mills)—2 speech replete with con- stitutional law «aod parliamentary authorities, and one to which I listen- ed with a great deal of interest. The hon, gentleman is ( ynd of authorities ; he is very authoritative,and I, for one, do not find fault with that particular of his utterances, for I am fond of anthorities ; they sliow that the man who cites them is « hard reader. The hon, geatieman is so strong on au- thorities that I do not think he would venture the statement that two and two make four, withoat bringing for- ward att. areay, of authorities: to gstablish his sta'ement. The hon. gentleman read voluminously from the English Hanserd, and went back to the days of Dwiel O'Connell to show that in’ ® question of such magnitude as the present one, a ques- tisu so far-reaciiing in its couse- quences upon Cacada—and I admit its importance and that once the die is cast our decision is irrevocable—it is quite right and proper and patriotic that ‘hon. gentlemen should vote ac- cording to the dictates of their con- science, even if by so doing they should not be abl. to follow the lead- ers of their party. Then, again, hon. members have cautioned us and ex- press the hope that we would not be a mere mechauical majority, that we would not give a olind anc unrefiect- ing Vote on this question. We are all part men, and there is no use con- cealing it, and we do bear an allegi- ance to a leader that the Opposition do mt exactly understand. But while that fs the case I recognize with the hon, member for Bothwell the heavy respousibility tha resis upon every mag that ensts hi- vote on chs ques- tion,” T look wpon the success of a road between th: Atlantic and. the Pacifie Ocean as ayeaymous with the success of the Doraision. But I ask why those ‘hon. gentlemen assume that they are only in a position to call

one

themselves patriotic, as if they were |

not bound by any ast poles a they had-xiihing to forget and no- thing to ‘forgive? This matter has been before the country in some form every year sisee Coutederation, and every elector has liad an opportunity of éasting his vo's upon it. I do not ackpew ledge that the Opposition have a rigut to assume that they are free and untrammelie: by their past policy on this questian, and that they con- sistently vote against any scheme for building the Canadian Pacific Rail- way. When the right hon. gentle- man the leader ef-the Government

launched his cel-brated Allan con- tract there was not ide in the Dominion of Casa t was not inundated with } liverature.to prove that homy leman and his Cabinet— iti guitieant that the personel of to-day is

very pearly xe _ was in 1873, makiny allawanecs forthe vicissitudes of lite—that the lion. gentleman and his Cabinet were not only corrupt but incapable of carrying out a work of this maguitude. If the hon. gentle- men opposite wish to prove their liberalism, they have now an ad- mirable opportunity for doing so by forge*ting old animosities, and cor- dially uniting with their adversaries to carry oat this great work. In- steal of that the, have libelled them- selves as Liberal, they are daily libelfing the title. In 1874, the hon. member for Lambton placed an Act on the Statute-b.ok providing for the construction of this railway by private enterprixe. I may observe here that I have a very great respect for that hon. entleman of whose ability, of whose industry and know- ledge of public atiairs, 1 wish 1 pos- sessed one-twentieth part. When the former Governor General, Lord Dufferin. weat i) British Colniabia, he staked the ere dit and the reputation of his then Vremier that this. great work should ‘\¢ carried out. But that Act provided that this work should be done ly @ private company, and to this mode of building it hon.

which the Government was to guar- antee four per cent. for twenty-five years. That Act has beeu on the Statute-book up to the present day. I believe that advertisements were published in the Cunada Gazette in 1878, previous to the elections,asking for tenders under that Act. I am not going to question the motive of the hes.member for Lambton in publish- ing those. advertisements ; I am not going to question whether, in doing so, he was actuated by a sincere de- sire to carry out this work.or whether it was au eleetioneering dodge. Those advertisements have, 1 believe, been continued in the columns of the Gazette up to last year, and nobody has come forward to make a tender, A great deal has been said about the way in which this coutract was let; about the tenders not having been asked for. If this contract had been vonsidered for the first time; if the idea of building a great traus-con- tinetal line bad originated last. sum- mer, there might have been some weight in the objections of the Opposition. But in view of the fate of the Allan contract, and the fact that the Act of 1874 has been on the Statute-book, and the advertisements iu the Gazette up to last May, their argumeats lose their force. Wheao the right hon. leader of the Govern- ment, the Minister of Railways, aud the hon. Minister of Agriculture went to England, I have co doubt in my mind that they addressed themselves to the settlement of this matter in a patriotic and anxious spirit; that they opened uegotiations and made every eflort to arrange a contract. We are told that they did not succeed. There was a reason for their non- suecess. There was that ingenious, but, I am sorry to say, uupatriotic speech of the hon. member for West Durham last year, which he took six er seven hours this Session to answer. The hon. Minister and his colleagues had to encounter the bad effect of that speech. The hou. member for ‘Vest Dorbam, unfortunately for his couutry, in this instance is a states- man whose personal integrity stands high, and English statesmen could hatdly think that a geutleman oceupy- ing the position of the hon. member for West Durham weld belittle his country for-the” purpose of serving his party. Ithink the hon. Minister of Railways said he had been in communication with a very prominent statesman in England who had read the speech delivered by the hon. Minister last year, and was very much taken with the scheme; but as soon as he saw the speech of the. hon. member for West Durham, he did not return to the subject aud was never seen by the hon. Minister again. It is, indeed, a misfortune that a gentleman of the high standing and commanding abilities of the hon. member for West Durham, should torture his ingenuity to the detriment of his -country.. There is another feature that strikes me. When the right hon. gentleman of the Govern- ment made his contract with Sir Hugh Allan, how often was it not re- peated that the Goverument of the day had entered into that contract in a corrupt,partizan spirit, reckless of the interests of the country, and solely with the unpatriotic motive of strengthening their hauds. ‘The ex- Minister of Finance, in that very re- markable speech of his the other viglit, threw out all sorts of imsinu- ations, but made no arguments; and here I may say you may auswer a man’s arguments, but you cannot answer his insinuations nor his fears. The hon. member for Centre Huron said that he had uo respect for the Government, but had respect for the members of the Syndicate. Let us be thankful for small favors. Let us be thankful that he does not accuse the hon, leader of the Government and his coadjutors of having entered into this contract with the unpatriotic motive of strengtheuing their hands. You must look at the surrounding Circumstances. If itis true—and [ suppose I am not unparliameutary in alluding to it—that the political creed of these wealthy men who form this Syndicate is vot in accordance with the views of the Government, surely it is an evidence that the Geverument have been actuated by the patriotie desire of promoting the interests of

in blocks a mile square, with the blocks alternately settled’ and desolate? The Syadicate could uot withhold their lands from settlement, without tying up the Government lands also. The poorest mau in the world would not settle in such a eountry. We have heard so mary inconsistent statements from hon. gentlemen that we hardly know what to think. I have made up my mind to.one thing, wud thet is, that this trial is too severe fcr their patriotism. ‘The speeches made by the hon. shown a great deal of research ; we have been told the cost of running all the rail- roads in the United States: bat the whole line of their argument has cou- vinced me that they cannot give this contract the support its merits deserye. I, myself, coming from the Lower Provinces — and if IT introduced sectional feeling into the cousidera- tion of this question it would be dis- creditable to me—would have been better satisfied if, in the first iustance, we had hastened a little more slowly.

gentlemen have

he

We would have been better satistied if, at the inception of this great

scheme, it had been decided to stop at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Bat, Sir, the public credit of this

country has _beeu pledged to the completioa of this great + ork.

Favorable as are the terms of this contract, it necessarily involves the expenditure of a large sum of money. I hope the auticipations of gentlemen who know more about this contract than I do, will be realized, and that the discontented, starving, struggling people of Europe will find a home in the North-West, where their labor will be remunerated, and where they will increase at such a rate that they will divide with us the public debt that vow rests on the people of Can- ada, and thereby lighten our taxation, I think it is a matter of regret to hear hon. gentlemen belittle our country and its resources. What satisfaction can it give them to assert that the population of Canada is going to the

United States? Surely things must have come to a crisis to necessitate

talk of this kind. This great. trans- continental live will necessarily increase our burdens unless public men of both sides strivé sheulder to shonl- der to* induce the populations of Europe to come to this country atid fill it up Then the lauds which last year, were worthless, aud this year are worth $3.L8 an acie, will recoup this country for the great work. we are now undertaking. Well, it this is to be aceomplished, do not let us have the money markets of England, and every leading commercial louse filled with the deprecatory speeches of the member for West: Durham. Let us be true to our country, and lay aside political feelings and prejudites and eumitics—!et us do. the best! we can to induce the tide of immigration into our North-West aud make its lands valuable. We hear of’ land there being worth $4 and $5 an acre. These are railway values. . What are thode lands worth naw to the Proy- inces of Quebec oy Ontario? Their value will be created by the railway which will open up great of wealth to the Dorninion, more bene. ficial in their results than the gold mines of California to that State. For

sources

that reason I intend to support the Bil of the Misister of Railw ays; and

whatever agitation is got up, I have an abiding faith in public opinion and the sober ht of the people. We have af evidence to-day of its beneficial operation in the present position of political parties. Only a few years ago public opinion overwhelmed the Conservative party, but after five years of trial ot the op- posite party, the people have had time to reficct on their course and the merits of the Conservatives returned them to power, in the interest of the country. This gigantic undertaking has been before the cquatry for years, aud wheu the people returned the right hou.geatlemen to power,they de- sired not only changes of political ad- ministration, but the completion of this great work. The covutry knows this great undertaking can be safely entrusted to the present Ministers, who do not mean to steal a march upon the people. They have done the best they could, and if every doc- umeut asked for were placed on the Table, I do rot think it could injure

: second-thoug

Another correspondent says :

‘In the Government’s Pacific Railway policy J believe you will be carrying out the wishes of your constituents, by giving the Government your undivided support. I am greatly mistaken if the people of this Dominion are again going back to the days of dark depression which pervaded the land during the reyime of Mackenzie, Cart wright & Co.”

Another correspondent say *

‘Our Grit friends on the Island are Isboriaug hard to create a _ feeling against the Government on account of the Pacific Railway bargain. I suppose they found their conspiracies took so well before, they think this a fitting opportunity of playing the same cards over again, but it doves not seem tu work. They will find that

many ever of their former blind followers

have received sight within the last six years. Xe. Another writer says :

‘Grits are sending round _ petitions

ayainst the Pacific Railway and they are being signed by their frends. The neet-

ings that have been held have most signally failed to affect public opinion in the slight- est degree. Intelligent, reading and think- zs men are of opinion that the Syndicate act is the best thing for the country

mitted for building tiie Pacifie Rail-

Another correspondent says :

‘The Grits ara.endeayaring to make all possible capital eat«f. the Pacitic Railway acheme. Petitions ase being industriously eartied about: for signature,in»the vain

hope of defeating the measure, These petttions, will no doubt, when presented to Pag: nt, present a long array of names ; but they will net by any means represent the sentiments of the great bulk of electors lin this section of the conntry. All the level headed peojile, not politieally pre- judiced, that I have heard speaking on this

si! ject, say that they don’t care a eent if the whole North?West’ were appropriated

to the building of this road, as long as the older Provinces are saved from the burthen I strongly believe if the posed through Parliament it will affect the political attitude of your constituency towards the Government, more fay ‘ably than otherwise. :

Another correspondent writes :

‘* Our local Grits feel very sore because they cannot raise enough gullible matter to stit up the people. They tri their very best but it would) not work worth a cent, Petitious were in circulation here, but 1 do not think that any reapectable Gril even was seen cut with them. , §4a.one petition which | aawv tare afere names of. mere chiidven—doys bardly in their teens. Peo ple are jaughing at the ideacf such men as D. and ©, sed K. hawking reund pétitions calling on the Honse of Commons ‘ard the Senate to stip the Pacifie Railway.”

It will be Seen by these few extracts that the people of Printe Edward Island are far from being ** perated” at the terns of the Syudicate contract. And that the ‘‘ up- rising’ of which we. have leand so much xists gvly inthe imagination of..the Op- Ihave simply given .you . theac

pro-

of Gang so Meas paases

? acd

ex

positions extracts, Mir. Speaker, asa sample of what a large majerity of the free and indepen- dent electors of | Prince:sEdward

think of the situation. © 1 believe they may

are whole psyes in the same handwriting, ahd i cah point to names in that petition which Have been signed twice. “For my

part I have listened attentively to the debate on this important subject from day to day, andl am free to confess that if I had

apy doubts at first as to the proper econ to take. they would have been all remored by the Ciketssigi which this Patliaivent and throughout the ceuitry

rse

m by the Gov- Hailwsy Syndicate

i hy Parliament

} is the vs t ever clcred for the con sideration of this House, and [ have not the least doubt but the large ! of electors

‘ ”

thronghout the Dominion will y endorse !the action isken on this <« on by the | Government 1 their sity ers in this | | Parlianicrit. There are sonic points in lwhiech both great parties” Inthis country tne @appatently agreed. Both parties x¢mit that the toad mist he built Thé ixon.

nowber for Quebec, who vas the Minister Let the Tnterior under the Mackenzie Ad- ministtation, statéd’® the tther evening that he bad yet to learn that any member of the Reform party had attempt d_to reptidiate : ’ © sie ’ . : ™ . bens the building of the Canadian Pacific Beil way. I was glad to hear this candid adinis-

sion from co distinguished a member of the Opposition, tor in e sections which T might name the people are being told, order toi therm sign ‘the netiti®ns which are being cireulated™by the Opposi- tion, that the scnt Government and their supporters inParliareent are the'only party in Cauada f building this. great railway, when the (auth is that the, Reform

rtain in 5 uce Pe) ug mre pre 1 id

ie fav« mr «

party is the ouvly party. jcommitied to» the construction of this great and

expensive undertakung as a Governinent

island |

'

| be safely taken as a truer index to the state | of publie feeling in that Previtee than the 1 he twice signe d petitic i just read to this | use. I’ may say’ That’ 1 have looked } | over that petition, which is Tike all other | petitions i. by no.) .meaus,a lgenhine one, as it bears dozens of names

| evidently written by the same hand. There

has taken place in |

nvinced that the]

them without any subsidy; while the Act of 1874, passed by the then leader of the Government and his supporters, provided for subsidizing branch lines by land bo- nuses of 6,400 acres per mile. The esti- mated quantities of land for the purpose was 12,000,000 acres, which at $2 per acre would amount to $24,000,000 additional. One of the great objections raised by the Opposition against the proposed arrange- ment, now under the consideration of this House, is with reference to the ownership of the road after it has been constructed, They appear to be very much troubled about the road being handed over to the Svndicate absolutely for ever, or, as a speaker at a meeting recently held in P. E. Island, stated: ‘‘ for ever and ever Amen.” Asaninstance of what it coste the Government to run a railway, let “as look how the account siands with refer- ence ty the Intercolonial Railway, for the years 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877 and 1878. In Mr. Brydges’ report of the 18th Anguast, 1874, he informed the Government that the grosa expense for the year on the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Railways smounted to $1,501,055.08. The hon. the Vinance Minister of 1874—the present hon. member for South Haron—stated in his sudget Speech, page 29, that the deficit in connection with the Intercolonial railway, for the vear 1873-4, was 31,250,000, By reference to the Public Accounts for 1876, the expenses and revenue were as follows: Expenses, €1,485,015.125 Revenue, $861,- 593.42: leaving a balancr of $623,422.69. The tota] cost ef the Intercolonial Railway, as stated in the Public Accounts page 44, for this year, is put down at $20,593,915 ; Juterest on this amount, at, 5 per cent., $1 029,650; which added te the difference between expenditure and revenue makes « Geficit of $1,653 4 Zh:

The deficit for 1874 was...... . .$1,250,000 ee 4 OP aa a 1,653,071

. vas ee Oe ee a 1,478,229

. . OF eLOFE bo otas ste se. 3% 1,736,240

- * Pe ei dekh $y «aa 1,582,079 Tephaee ae 405» be vic $7,699,619

| Or an average. deficit of $1,559,923. It

| will, therefore, be seen that one of the very | best features in the present agreement, | ear cially in the intereat of the older

Provinces, is that the road when compiet- | ca shall be equipped and-operated by’ the | Syndicate and not by the Govermment. | ‘The bare expense of running tlie Pacific | Railway after it has been consiructed, has j been estimated by Mr. Sandford Fleming | at $3,000,000 anrually. In view of theae |} ineta, we onght certdinly to congratulate |eursel ves upen the assurance that the read his not only to be built, bat to be owned and operated by a private company. . I be-

Hiere that I am honestly acting in the in- tereats of my constituents in supporting }

ithe proposition now berore this House. 1| L

aeeept the bargain with the Syndicate as

a whole—the details of the agreement do |

j

i

{not, directly affect. the interests of . the | | people of Prmce Edward island. There is one point, however, to which our {opponents .in that Province are» en- | deavormg to: give special prominence, band that is in referenee to the laynestion. of land menopoly. | This is fa*tender spot with Prince Edward

istenders, and they are being strongly ap- | pealed to-on this head. Froui:the faet that | the peop’ sof that Vrovinee were: subjected {to a grinding system of landtordism for {| overa century, and’from which they hare been freed by means breught ahout under | Confederation that never might have been successful if they had to depend upon Downing Street instead of Ottawa rule—it will be readily understood that thie ery of monopoly ia intended to rouse the ‘preju- dices of the peaple of that Province. Let | us iefer to fhe exact wording of the contraet | on this head, in order to ascertain whether there is avy grounds for fearing a land monopoly or not, On paxe 6, seetion 11, | of the Syndicate contract and agreement, We eau AaB iGiOWws:—

i i i {

} ; ‘* The grant of lend hereby agreed te be } made to the Company, shall be so made in al- | ternate séCtions of 640 acres h, extending ef the

j back 24 miles deep, on each rail- | way, from Winnipeg to Jasper House, in se far as such lands shall be vested in the Gey-

| ernment, the Com, any receiving the sections | bearing uneven numbers. But should any of | sech sections consist in niaterial degree of l land not fairly fit for fett'ement, the ¢ m- pany shall 2ot be obliyed to receive them as

| part of such graut, and the deficiency thereby | caused and any further deficiency which may

| arise from the imsvflicient quantity of land } along the szid porti ™ of railway, to complete

the said 25,096,000 acres, or froin the preva- lenee of lakes anid water atretches in the tiens grauted (whieh lakes and water stret shal! t be ecmprt

+

S€C- ches n the acreagé of. such section,) shall be Mace np from other portious | to be eclected by the Company im the tract | known as the fertile belt, that is to say the | land lying between parallels 49 and 57 degrees of north latitude or elsewhere at the option

n

: a | of the Company by the grant therein of simi- |

iar alternate seetions extending back 24 niiles deep on each side of any brane line or lines of railway to be located by the Company, and to be shown op a soap or plan thereof deposit- ed with the Minister of Railways; or of common frontline or lines agreed upon n Government and the Company, th

| twee con- litions hereinbefore, stated asio lands not fairly fit for settlement to be applicable to |

} such additional grants. And the Company

with the consent of the Government,

may,

Ameriea would turn out an unsubstantial dream ; with it, amd with ordinary prod- ence and wisdom on the part of our statesmen, it will become a great a glorious, and inevitable reality.”

The land of the Northwest is comparative- ly valueless without a railway. With a railway the lands will prove more than suf- ticient to meet all the outlay that will be ineurred, for after the Syndicate receives 25,000,000 acres there will be still left in in the hands of the Government about 175,000,000 acres. This at even one dolla an acre will amount to $175,000,00, an

amount suffieient to recoup the Govern- ment for every dollar expended in building

the road, besides leaving a handsome sur- plus to the credit of the country. As lam therefore fully convinced that the building of the Pacitie Railway will not increase the burdena of the people of Prince Edward Island one cent, Linteud to support the proposition now before the House ; and in doing sv, I believe Iam acting in aceord- ance with the wishes of those electors at least whose votes gave me the huner of a teat in this Parliament.

NEWS BY TELEGRAPH,

Desi, Jan. 26,

Tee trial of Parnell and the other trav- ersers was finished on ‘Tuesday, and the case given to the jury. At 5 p. m. the jury returned to Court, and their foreman said they had not agreed, uor were likely to agree. The jury was discharged at 7.45 o clock, tlie foreman siating it was impos- sible for them to agree. A juror previous- ly stated that they were ten to two, but the judge said he could only receive a whabious verdict, Great excitement pre- vailed, aud it was heightened when the judge said that after the exhibition of tur- bulence in the Court be conld not expect there} would be a free and unabimous verdict. Immense crowds were cheering outside the courthouse. Parnell remained in“ the Court all day. He was loudly cheered on going to and from luncheon. Wien the, result of the State trial was made known in Dungarvon the town was. brilliantly illuminated, bands paraded, and the surroweding hills were ablaze for twenty miles.

Orrawa, Jan. 28.

A mass zg of Irishmen was held

last evening for the purpose of furthering

meeung

the objects of the Land League. Among these who addressed the meeting was

Senator Howlan of 1. E, Island, whe will deliver a lecture shertly in aid of the League.

Montreat, Jan. 27, John Hamilton, Master of an Orange odge ai Point St. Charles, is threatened with ‘* Boy cotting.”

Ortawa, Jan. 28.

The proceedings in the House this morn- ing, atter 3 oclesk, were important of conte ; bus they were an extraordinary wixture of fun and seriousness. The séfi- ouskess was mostly with the Opposition, who stuck to their amendiments With a zeal worthy of a ‘better canse. Tt was a few minutes before éight o’clock when the final yote was taken. When the yeas and nays wete called, the Government and their supporters Tose en masse and a grand cheer resonnded through the @hamber. All ov the Government side stood up for a minute, cheering lustily, and then, led by Mr. Fortin, they broke out with ihe National, Anthem.

Ou Monday Sir Charics Tupper will in- troduce an Aet to amend the Consolidated Railway Act, and also an Act te consclidate and amend the laws relating to. Govern- ment Ratiways.

Hon. Mr. Blake gives it as his opinion that after the Pasific Railway bill is dis- posed of, the session will not be prelonged to any great cxtent.

The Engineers connected with the Paeific Railway ‘have been notified that their servi- ces are 0 longer required by the Govern- nient in consequence ef the line being buil by a private company.

Dugsan, Jan. 27.

A patrol from Pretoria captured a Boer jaager after severe fighting. Tie Loers lost 27 killed and many wounded. The enemy abandoned their stores. The Britieh lost 4 killed.

LoNnbox, Jan. 27.

The thaw has rendered the Thames iin- possible for rowing for a week, owing to floating ice. Hanlan had two good spins on Sonthampton harbor yesterday.

Gen. Sir Geo. P. Colley, telegraphs te- day from Mount Prospect. Our advance has been stopped by rains; but the weather is clearing.

Durean, Jan. 2

One thousand Boers are in sight of the scouts of tho British advanced columa,

Lonvon, Jan, 28.

News from Transvaal indicates that the Boers have taken up a positien in Draken- berg pass, which is emong the last of the steep ascents leading tu the Platean. They perinitted General Colby, whose progress has been only twenty menced to move, to advance unmolested through some of the passes in the mountains; but their position will

miles since he com-

worst

Boers belligerent rights San Francisco, Jan. 20, The rafh that began on the 28th and spread over the coast from British Columbia to the southern portion of this State has been the heaviest storm 1$61. ——_

MISCELLANEOUS.

Another disastrous earthquake has oceurred at Agram.

Irish mass meetings are being ergan- ived throughout England,

Elleanor Williams. of St. John, N.B., died lately at New York, aged 104 years.

The Government press at Simla, in India, has been burned, entailing a loss of £30,000

There is but little bad luck in the world, but there is a heap of bad management,

The borings for the St. Lawrence | viver tuovell at Montreal are in full eperation ai present. ‘s

A weak mind is like @ mierose which magnifies trifling things, bat™ Cannot receive great ones.

The ivenclad Belleisie bas been sent to the northern coast of Ireland te prevent the landing of arms,

The estimated cost of maintaini the police department of Chieago fer the ensuing year is $619,228.50.

The Karl of Devon, sooner than nothing at all, has accepted Griffith's ” valuation from his Irish tenants.

The Government has information that there is dasger ef the Fenians making use of the agitation in Ireland.

It is now stated asa fact that Prioee Gertschakef!, the Russian Chancellor, is retiring trem the conduct of publie atairs,

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Kansas harvested 25,000 acres of Egyptian or rice corn last years. If (hrives in the driest soil and intensest heat. .

The condition ef Ireland is said to show some improvement, Outrages are less frequen’, and the panic hasan ae measure abaved.

An Amherst saloon leeeper reports

that one of bis customers has sworn eff tuis year, and that was man he refused to trust loager.. , __ A despateh from Durban says :— Sir Hercules Robingon’ has arrived at Cape Town and assumed oilfice as Gey- eraer of Cape Colony.

The entire. wheat erop of Seuthern Indiava and Diinois is ceported ts bea jailure, owing to the late planting and the carly and severe winter.

‘The prominent butter dealers of Chicago have agreed not to sell imita. ; ion butrer because they are badly ine juring the export trade. 4 .

The experts ef grain from the port of, Now York during the year 1880 reached — 107,000,000 ,000 bushels, an excess of nearly 13,000,000 bushels ever the ‘ex: ports ef any previous year, od

said aa old gentleman, pompeusly, |” “Yes,” replied the other one, * bat ineney wou ido as much fer a man ag

some men will do for money.”

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The ianian-Layeock boatsrace has’?

This will prevent the Canadian cham. — pion’s departure for home en the 27th inst., as he originally iatended, é

received a letter addressed to “ Ticket — of Leave Couvict Davitt,” and senvey= —

he was remi(ted to prison again, A Jesuit priest who was visi Guatemala for his health was arrested under the provisions of an law directed against the order, thrown into prison, and subsequently shet.

Mr. Blake declared that the grant of 25,000,000 acres to the syndicate would create on Ireland in the North-West ; but he Urinks that a grant of 22,000,000 acres wenld make it a land of liberty.

The speculation en the Montreal Steck Exchange during the twe weeks ended fast Saturday amounted to a total ot $7,800,000 fcr bank and miscel- laneous shares, and without including railway and other bonds,

‘Will you have your oysters scallop- ed ? asked a waiter of a green customer grem the country. * Have the oysters sealped 2? No, but you kin sealp the butter, i you want to, It needs it the

* Movey does everythicg fora man,” ©

been postponed until February 14th, ;

Davitt, che Trish Land Leaguer, bass< 5.

ing the information that it is quitetime __

1 . be i . try } > . "eo } , ‘ i " é 7 ‘ . 7 . : 2s ; 7 c gent-eme o of th Opposition are fully the counsry 30 the course they have the Governm: ut or strengthen the work. Tho Prevince from which I came | select the North West Territories any tract or enable them to await ihe encounter worst kind.’ committed. Tt "yard it almost as a taken ; for it cannot be conceived that Opposition. had no-act or-pert.in settling the terma on | #racté of land: not taken sip.ss s.aneana ef aup- | when the troops are fatigued with rongh My ‘ . i. . 4 ee ? ’ peer eo eeee ; : : , ba Raia ; is aii Ue 5 an wus hk dees > cane hikes F ’ ’ matter of congr:tulation that the right they wished simply to strengthen their a a which British Columbiaentered the Union. | ply oo a pee supplying suc a detic iency. travelling whilst the Boers have behind The Free Press says that there isa hom gentleman was defeated io 1873, hands when. after spending auxious DR. MUTTART'S SP When. Prince Edward Jeland entered Con- i Put grants shail.be made only irom Jands re-} them x comparatirely leye] plain throvgh | {jttle rumor afoat (hat the Marquis of and that the great Reform party had mouths of toil over this work they ite tei -, federation, the building of the, Pacific |." _ ccc te jon “i i ne Crens ot PelOm. Pid Lorne is tobe created Duke of Greens : : . 5 $2 i huttart: will p iso 2, De) > i} within a limited time fully |S f one oonene 2 rring to this} Dearly all monnte an retreat much faster : 4 :