= Clippings from Late Papers.

a is remem etm coer : ‘i | him with a bonus of 84,00)? What abeut | Boer State would probably now be in ex- destruction, an] ‘in the sacred names of | YEC. - Fi hi e

Lirge quai tities of hay continue to be shipped from Ottawa to New York. |

Sixteen Canadian artillerymea will leave Montreal in June for Sheebury- Thodss.

Epizootie is prevailing tea serious extent at San Francisco, greatly iacom- moding the s reet car companies.

The Starr Manufacturing Company of Halifax has declared a dividend of 15 per cent—the largest for many years.

It ‘3 state! that Nally, one of the traversors ia (he recent State trials at Dublin, and oneof the prisoners under the Coercion Act, has become insane

On Mr. (Cladstene’s resolution of urgency on su ply in the House of Com- mons en the 18th inst., the Government were defeated by a vote of 296 against 212.

*

Charles C. Gregory bas entered an actien in the Superior Court of Quebee for $100,000 damages against the Canada Liprovement Ce., and Sir Hugh Allan.

Ao amiable lunatic, whose ambition in this life is to outfast Dr. Tanner, will begin operations at Chicago shortly wader the auspiees of a local medical echeo!,

Courtney says the coming seuller is Wallace Ress, and, furthermere, that if Ross had ove half the chances Hanlan has had, and were handled as well, he coud beat the champion.

The oldest member of the Ontario Leyisiature is Mr. D. D. Galvin, M. P.P. for Froutenac since Confederation. The hon gentleman, whe is a Baptist by relixion, is 85 years of age. < of the Nova Scotia Gov- ming extensive constitu

There is ta ernment pro;

| the statements or opinions o/ r cor?

kmentally and physically—to father their off-

Correspondenie.

We do not hold o ‘ . ( sb le Jor spond

aa

wt Us.

Union Bank—No. 6.

To the Editor of the Examiner.

Siem,——-I am glad to find the Union Bank haa assumed courage to reply to my last etter, True to their eowardly nature, they dared not answer one of my questions, but raised a question respecting the report | ef the proeeedings at the annual} meet'ng,—mere quibbles—occuppying half the letter; and then commenced to daub | me with foul abuse and dirty names, Had Palmer and Dawson faced, the music it | would not have been so bad, but te get a| poor crippled man—who is disabled both

spring, 18 mean and contewptible te the uttermost. Ido not thus write for fear of a contest with Geo, Macleod. If aecessary [ would have had no hesitation in trying a lance with him at his prime, fer | consider his coat of mail vulnerable all over ; but his recent affliction demands sympathy and protection. It would, therefore, be un- manly in the extreme, to hold him respon- sible for the contents of the letter. There

| which

the deficieney in this mans department of over $16,000 on the 4th Maren, 1873, and refusing to enquire if it could be traced to him direct? What about tae $44,000, of which the Shareholders have been black- mailed ?

No wonder that at the Bible Society meeting, on Monday night, Col. Gray gave utterance to the following :—

“There isan utter faithlessness in many whe call themselves the followers of our blessed Lord and Saviour, The great remedy for this is to train the miads of the young im the great principles of ear hely religion. [tis incumbent vpon the Pastors of our various congregations, and upon every head of a fam- ily to redouble their efforts, is so training the minds of the rising generation that we may have established in ear midst that is now seriously wanting—Pustic Opinion. (Applause.) If this prevailed in our community, men would be forced to bow their heads in shame fer acts and conduct which are at present painful to contemplate. Instead of meeting with censure, it is too much the fashion for pe :ple to approve of and encourage an example s0 insidious to the morals ef the young people areund us, without considering the obligations which we, as Christians, are beund to fellow.”

Did Judge Peters utter a falsehood when, atthe close of the trial, after the most utmost

Inve

can be neo doubt that the true author is Chaties Palmer, assistéd by Dawson. I

shall, therefore, regard the answer as theirs, |

and treat it aceordingly. ao I have no objection to, their description of the proceedings ef the meeting, except

with regard to the one point of the treat- |

ment of the shareholders who remained to ear the explanation of the Directors. I have seen some of them since the publica- tion of the letter, and they persist, that after the ballots were handed in, they waited long enough to ascertain, that the Directors had no intention of going into the matter, and that when their patience was utterly exhausted, they also left the Bank. Some, I have bees informed, when they saw how skillfully the Directors had

arranged the affair, and that there was no |

chance of fair play, left the bank—before

tional change

Leyisintive C -ancil, curtailment of the

House of Assembly and of the Execus tive Council, ete. Mark Twain admits having made

his lecture, but makes no vromise of restitution. This shows whit a calleus moral condition persist- ence in lecturing may bring a man to.

Scoaar ror rue Hartvax Rerinery. —The bark ©Terentia,” of Glasgow, Capt. Caw, ar days trom Bahia, with the first cargo ef sugar, cens sting of 525 tons, fer the Neva Scotia Sagar Sefinery.

The Boers | ave committed another act which is | cely to alienatesympathy frem them. -onbert has sent a num- ber of bis men to Uarecht, who, by his orders, are clexring that district of the Joyal Boers aod burning their home- Steads

The Marquis of Hartington stated in the Houw-e ef commons yesterday that the order of ths withdrawal ef the Brit. dsh treops from Candahar had already been given. 1t is understeod that the |

i

$125,00 ont o

whole force at present in eceupation | wifi not be wit .irawn at once.

Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt has been} preaehing on the blessings of a content- ed spirit. He -ays it is a glorious thing to be satisfied with what yeu have. Most peeple would |e in that happy frame ef miod with something less than a hbuodred million deilars.

The county of Grey, Oat., has a veri- table Sampson. Wm. Brown, of Ben- tinck, says the Durham Review, shouldered am! carried one barrel of galt one quarter of a mile, then putting the barrel on the ground took it by the chimes, and threw it fourteen and a quarter feet.

Kittep at Sea.—The Suckville Post says the melancholy news has been received of the death of Avison Knowlton, a sailor en beard the “Fred Scimme!.”” He fell from the topsail yard, stviking (wo yards in his deceut, aod then the rail, from which he fell to the water. He was te have been mar ried early next summer.

Arrangemen!s have been made where- by telegraphic communication between Europe «od tha west coast ef South Amorica wili be had by way of the United States, Mexieo, Cential Ameri» ca, and Panama, iestead of via Portugal and Brazil, as at present, This will eave about 8,000 miles in distance, and $6 a word in cost.

Lord Beacon-tield, says the London earrespoudent ef “The Publisher’s Weekiy,”’ has another novel, which,it is | posible, may see the light ere many tacoths have elapsed. It was, I am given to anders! aad, planned and partly written some years ago, and is so near | compietion that it might be prepared for publieation almost immediately. | Theetory deals with politieal affairs, but with circu:nstances more recent, and perhaps, (herefere, more univer- | eally interesting than these touched upvo ir “ Endy aion.”

Dr. Orton, M. P., has stated in Par- liament that in consequence of the National Policy the farmers in Canada had been afforced an enlarged home market for the following quantities of grain, se much less have been imported since the tari was impesed :—Osats, 600,000 bushels ; barley, 115,000 bus.; Iniian ¢ors au coarse grains, 2,500,- 000 bushels; ry:, 60,000 bushels ; wheat, 2.900.009 bushe s—the whole amounts ing to abeut 6! 90,000 bushels. On the

-such as abelition of the |

ived the other day, 70!

the ballotting commenced—in disgust with the proceedings. {t is self evident, that if the President

| really had an auswer written fit to read to | the Shareholders, it ought to be fit for the

oes : | publication of his cross-examination render

| ; |

Why then did he not publish | Did the

publie gaze. his fourteen page manuscript !

it worthless? Or, if reviewed and eonden- sed, is it the dregs of that epistle which is presented to usin the latter half of this letter! Let us glance at its contents.

My last letter is characterized thus: | ‘* marked by abusive language—a reckless

| disregard of truth—deception in the garb-

quantities impe ted of grains and flour a revenue of sonie raised, which have been paid by the |

American farmers, ard the Canadian |

was saved so m ch in taxation.

Tox WRECK oF THE Wreckers trom Provincetown, Mass., will soot: resume work on the wreck of the Atiantic, of the White Star Line, which was suok off Halifax, N. S., some yeurs ago, when 580 lives were lost. The wreck’s tern lies in twelve fathoms of water. The average time that the wreckecs worked last year per mouth was six lays. The first werk done wiil be to opet.a tring of state reoms. The Atiantic’s safe, which is supposed to be located about armidships, eoniains $80.00) and a large quantity of jewelry. Kigh: thousand dollars will be expended in the fortheeming re- search. Mostofthe cargo was taken fram the wreck seen after she sank,— New York Evening Telegram.

Tae Evevatos Wuarr Beaun.—The timi<i for the elevator wharf at Rich- mond began to arrive yesterday. The wharf will be 600 feet long by 80 feet wide, and will be erected to the south of the last one built at Richmond, leay ing a deck of 100 feet width between them. “le will :ceommodate three large steamers. It ir rendered necessary by the yrowing business of the read, even thongh it had net been determined to build an eleveior. The delivery of materials must | egin atonee, and every stiteh must be on the spot by the 20th of kay. Abont 200,000 feet of deals and 200,000 fee: of square timber are required. The cost of the wharf is es- timated at $35,000. Tho wha: ves were wii (ull last ever ng, and @ steamer was lyinucin the stream waiting fer a berth, —Her. Herald.

ATLASTIC.— }

$200,000 haa been |

" Frem this

They are

ling of facts, and evidence. decision I appeal to the public.

age employed, and the truthfulness of the

of Palmer and Dawson, as felony, or in ealling their pet servant and friend, a thief, er permitting Mr. Palmer to use his own language to explain his own transactions, is to be properly denominated as abusive, untruthful and deceptive, the publie will | decide. i We are next favored with a description of my incompetence as Cashier. It is use- less to go again over the particulars of the manner in which [ was cajoled by the) President inte a consent to accept the posi- tion—of his pledge that I shouid have

|every needful assistance, and when Low-

wan Yeo was appointed, making me pay half his salary——of his repeated promises to | provide a proper accountant, and up to the | last moment refusing to provide a man fit

to take charge of the books—of his palming | off upon me as assistant the brether of | Rowan Fitzgerald, whom I begged the} President to take away, being more hin- | drance than use in the Bank. Nor is it | worth while to refer to Dawson’s assurance | that the accounts were correct to a cent, | when they were subsequently proved to be

over $30,009 astray —to his protection of the | interests of Wellner, and his strenuous ex- | ertions to fastea upon me the results of | this man’s villainy. These things have | been before the public for some time, and | have not been disowned. But I will merely | refer to Mr. Palmer's deciaration to me | a few days before George Macleod arrived, viz., ‘‘ | want you to understand, that you | are under no obligation whatever to the | Bank, but we are under the deepest obliga- tion to you, forif you had not taken charge | of the Bank when you Wid, we had no} alternative but to close our doors.” Not many months elapsed before the same lips gave utterance to the following: ‘‘ Yes, sir, and I promise you that if you had not} found out these mistakes (some $25,000) you, or your sureties, would have been made to pay every penny of them.” What a contrast! How truly St. James des- cribes this phenomenon—‘‘ Ont of the same

mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing.”’

} ’ | | '

The arbitration is then referred to as a

point in favor of the Bank. Not so fast | Mr. Palmer. They decided against me on the ground of strict legal liability. Could |

they but have heard, before their award, the decision of Judge Peters on this point viz “‘if the Award had come before this court I do not see that the Bank could have | recovered a cent of it,” think you that they | would have rendered such a verdict?) But | the subsequent conduct of two of these | gentlemen is in striking contrast with that | of Palmer and Dawson, and their confreres. | When the Merchants Bank Directors found | a heavy loss had been made, in their tran- | sactions with two or three leading firms,they did not shirk their responsibility in the | least, but met their stockhelders manfully. | Nor did they keep back any information, that was required to explain fally the whole | ease. And who at that investigation piled on the agony upon the heads of those Directors with more vim than Charles Palmer? Yet when he is charged with a deficit of $44,- | 000, and with aasisting a clerk to rob the} Bank, does he come forward and give the | Stockholders one word of information on the subject? Not one! The Merchants Bank Directors acknowledged their respon- sibility, by paying down $40,000 out of their own pockets, but all the satisfaction which the Union Bank shareholders have yet been able to get is the cool assertion that their Directors are rich men amply responsible peouniarily—that the charges refer to tran- sactions which occurred over years ago. (is the statute of limitations hinted at?) that it coneerns only the Stockholders, and their | legitimate enquiries only; will be answered, au] that as they have in the past, so they will in the fature, ignore all outside enqui- ries. Wherein the civilized world shall we go te find a nest of Bank Directors, possess ed of more daring audacity and ¢ool im- pudence, than is displayed in this extract ?

To show hia security on legal grounds, Mr. Paimer says ‘‘if a tithe of his charges were true, it would be a simple matter for the Stockholders to obtain redress in a Court of Law.” i am perfectly aware ef this, and am not quite sure that this method will not be adopted. Butis not Mr. Palmer aiso aware, that if a tithe of a tithe of my statements had been untrue, he would long ago have had resource to the help of the Law?

I can only now stay to notice ene choice phrase, just suited to Mr. Paliner’s forensic abilities. The Directors ‘‘ have no inten- tion of allowing themselves to be black. | mailed by Mr. William Heard.” What have I done to merit this implied charge ? In the name of everything that is honest and good, let them bring forward tho proof, I ask them not to spare me in the slightest degree? Let the public know at once the full extent of my infamous conduct, and J will abide all the consequences. Will Palmer and Dawson accept this challenge ?

It is rather unfortunate that Mr, Palmer | should have used this term of reproach. Has he forgotten that it is more justly ap- plicable to himself and his comrade ? What about their determined efforts to fasten upon me a deficiency of $25,000, when it was justly belonging to their own should- ers? What about their making me pay 225 for an error, and afierwards receiving the amount from the right party—thus re- eciviug payment twice for the same gmount, and virtually robbing me? What about assisting a clerk to rob the Bank continu- ously for many months of $15,000, receiv-

a

ing back by instalments $11,000—and then | giving him up his bonds and presenting

| order that your

| tain | before whom we must all! aj

searching tigation, and the efforts of Maleolm McLeod, F. Peters and | F. Breeken, with the Board of Directors

land their sateilites, had been expended to

|convict me of semething, he sat that | LEFT THE COURT as 1 ALWAYS DID, WITH A | CLEAN CHAnaAcTER? Was it true? Thea

| suppose the Judge had put both of these | werthies in the scale. 1 can imagine his | sentence to be as follows: | ***Oharles Palmer, and 'son: Aftera lo! of the evidk this case, just

with the faets which b fore me. I regret that t it was your duty to bring here,

William E. Daw

and painlul inves'igatic

bas been given in s that I should deal

hee whic h

ce<eman ave been brought be misereant whom but whom

he he

/you sheltered, a participa ed in, has so far escaped the pun- lishment due to his crimes. It is absolute-

ly necessary, that when men cecupying such

{responsible positiens as you have filled,

|take advantave of the trust reposed in | them, by evndening misdemeanors, re- | warding with a liberal hand the man who had |

prepetrated these erimes, and then endea- | vouring te fasten upon an innocent man | |the responsibility of this man’s deeds,

as well as a large which you were necessary that such offences should not go unpunished. this conrt clearly vroves, that when you published the any ual statement of the 4th Mareh, 1873, thet statement was utterly irreconcilesble with fact. Accerding to the testimony of your oewn

legally responsible ; it is

on that dayamounted to seme $51,000

ascertain on any given day, what ameunt of Bills Receivable was in tie possession of the Bank ; yet your duties as Directors were held so lightly, that it appears you did not even take the trouble te discharge this simple duty; for Gray states, that there was a deficieney in this alone of over $16,000, As this matter nas

not been legally brought befere me by the |

Shareholders, I do not thimk it necessary now to adjudicate on this question ; but I would advise the Directors to settle with the Shareholders promptly by refunding the whole of the said deficiency ; and with

| regard to the shameful misappropriation of

the funds of the Bank, by presenting Wellner with $4000 for simply robbing the Bank, I order that you pay Bank this sum in equal proportions.

And now, Mr. Palmer, leeking

at the position which you have oe- | eupied in this Court for a mamber/ 2550), | which

of years as Queen’s Counsel—at your efforts in bringing other offenders to justice—and ghen looking at your participation in these Wellner frauds—at your efforts to fasten on the Cashier the erime of sweating falsely to the Bank statement of 3rd March, 1874, and at yenr own evidence, stating first, that neither you ner Mr. Dawsen had any hand in getting up that statement, and when the Printers man vecript was produced, confessing that Mr. Dawson wrote it, and you took part in it ;—1 there fore decide, that you are no longer worthy to occupy a pesition at this Bar, and [|

i

Roll of Barristers forthwith. how

and reparation, you may eb at

repentance mercy he hands ef i peat

With this sente I mest heartily eon

cur, and remain, Mr. Editer, Yours truly, Wee Hearp

The Cedars, 18th March, 1881.

The Annexation of the Transvaal. Te the Editor of the Arainawer.

Srx,—One of your Sunmerside contem poraries recently reprinted from thé Torento Glob an article with the above heading; and in the local column referred

to it as being the cause of If so, then it eellent

“an exeellent synopsis of the war in Seath Africa. ight be said to be ap ex-

synopsis of play of Hamlet, were the character ef the Prince of Den- mark omitted from the text.

When the Boers, and others, dissatis- fied with British rule, retired to the Orange River Free State, and the Trans vaal, they were, as Hi hitaker’s Almanac

the

tells us, permitted te form themselvea into |

independent settlements, and as such were recognized by the Crown, at a Convention

being that the new Republics should not molest the natives—a eondition which ‘+ is well known the Boers of the Transvaal have not kept. The ease is well put by the writer of a series of srticles on ‘* The Rights and wrongs of the English in South Africa,” publisied in a German paper, the Kreuz Zeitung, and who is referred to in the Berlin correspondence of the Lendon Times, of Feb. 14th, as ‘‘a man, not only extensively acquainted with the Transvaal himself, but who also now, from his peculiar position here, has access to the fullest and most impartial imaterials for jedging of political events in the Bver States.” This writer asserts that the dem- onvstrations in Holland, Germany, and even in England, declaring for the indepen- dence of the Transvaal Republie could only have been made in total igneranee of the facts ; and he goes on to say :—

‘* By Section 4 of the Treaty with An- dreas Pretorius in 1852, freeing the Boers of that province, (the Transvaal), it was expressly stipulated thet, as the English made it aprineciple of their Government to protect the native races, there should be no slavery or slave deaging earried on in the Republic—a bargain its citizens have notoriously broken. The form of slavery may haye been avoided, but the ‘ inbeck- en,” or registration of native orphans introduced was nothing but a crafty method of traffic inf human beings, known as ‘‘black ivory ;”’ and in order to get possession of these orphans, whom their patrons were entitled to keep till their 24th year, though they generally disposed of them before that, it was no uncommon thing forthe Boers te surreund villages and shoot down the parental inhabitants for the sake of their offspring. The Eng- lish Government was in possession of proofs of the existenee of this form of slavery, and if in annexing the Transvaal it did not make public use of them, this was prob- ably to spare the sensibilities of certain of the Boers belerging to the dying-out generation. It cannot, therefore, argues the writer, be said that the English had no formal right to intepfere with them,

thengh o* much more aceount was their! their dissatisfaetion with British rule wa

nd whose wickedness you!

The evidence brought before witness—the

the best judges of the fitness of the langu- | auditor. Gray—the deficiency in the assets | tribes since,

iter |

back to the |

name be struck from the | dis- | miss you with the hope that, after true | System

that - idge }

istence in all South Afriea but for the buge sacrifices in men and money made by Kngland ; and, further, that the annexation of the Transvaal in 1877 unquestionably saved it from the dissolving influences of feud and hopeless bankruptey within and the disintegrating forces of Cotewaye and Seeeoreeni from without.

The Times’ correspondent adds : ‘‘ These reasonings are important,as coming from an authority of the first order, aud interest- ing as appearing in the columns of a highly Conservative German paper.”

On the 15th of Janaary last the Boer Triumvirate issued a manifeste in which, amongst other matters, they declare that they had never violated the ebliga- tions which Article LV. of the Sand River Convention imposed upon them, and state that the British Gevern- ment had liberated no slave in the Trans vaal, because tMey were none. To this the committee of the Aborigines Protection Society have replied by an elaborate state- ment, sent en the 14th Feb. to Lord Kim- berley, the Secretary of State for the Colo- nies. The Committee state that they will notenter upon the question of the justies or expediency of the annexation of the Trans- vaal tu the British possessions, their object being to snow that the native tribes inhab- iting the Trausvaal or its frontiers have an irresis'idle claim upon us to security againt exaion avd slavery ; and they affirm,

ay jan. quote the testimony of Dr. Livingston, ISir Pai ip Wodehouse, the Legislative Council of Natal, and Lieutenant Governor ’ Keate to prove, that from the moment the ! fvers secured their independence up to & recen eriod they were constantly engaged lin making raids upon the native tribes upon borders for the purpose of redueing

lilicir captives te astate of slavery. The Bocrs were far too politie to use the werd ‘slavery,’ or even to establish a system of lite-leny bondage. Their practice was to } kill the men, to employ the women «as | domestic servants, and to ‘* apprentice’ } the orphan children, a practiee which in-

‘duced Lord Carnarvon to inguire ** how it | came to pass there was 80 many ‘ destitute lerphan children’ in the territories of the | Republie as to require legislation on their | behalf by the authorities, and also how the

ei of them / Tne committee further quote from documents sent by Sir Heury Barkley to Lord Carnarvon in 1876, to show thas at that period the Boers were aecused ef pur-

portion of a deficit for! chasing children from the Swazis at the |

rate of a horse for a child; and from a re- cent report of the British Resident

wf peace, the Boers had endeavored to re- establish themselves in that part of the leountry. The

of

regent

that powers

having been brekeu by the

Boers are permitted to resume their old |

native policy. These are enrely serious charges. They may not be known to the publiegenerally ; | but they are, or ought to be, no secret to those whe aspire to be the guides or form- | ars of public cpinien. Yet, not a hint of {them is given in the Globe's ‘ excellent | synopsis,” which professes to be fouaded lone 'paper in the Nineteenth Century, by | Sir Bartle Frere, Not having seen the | February number of that magazine, I ean- not tell what use Sir Bartle Frere makes ef the charges mentioned abeve. But

i pote little likely to pass in silence such | atrong reasons for justifying the annexa- | tion of the Transvaal. But jit may, that they were unknewn to the conductors of the Zoronto Globe—a print claims front rank amongst the Do

| miniou journals—is so

the article in question did not wish to give | an impartial aceount of the cause of | war, but bas been wilfully guilty of a sup

pressis veri, for the paltry pleasure of

| having a fling at Lord Carnarvon, ef whom he says :—

‘*On the whole, the fact seems but too elear that the zeal of. Lord Carnarvon and {his subordinates for his eonfederation | policy triumphed over their discretion and their sense of right. In attempting to ex- tend and strengthen the British Colonial by forcible annexation of a | feelle Republic, tehey fergot the grand old tradivions of British justice, and at the saine time did violence to the simple politi ingiple that the addition of a hostile 18 just as thatof a friendly

1 ine

cal |

tation weaker st ii

must be laid in the loyalty of cts. Lt is matter fur congratulation Brit ots the lave of in the hands of

j

n whe truly iovee freedom

is now states

ced by henorabie records, as well

ave pledges to give to the Boers of usvaai British fair play.” . suflicient answer to this was given by +in the liouse of Li rds. en Feb. Lerd Brabourne (Mr. Kuach- bull Hughesson) said when this an nexat nh was belived that the evurse proposed by Lord Carparren was only one worthy of a Gritish Minister to pursue, and that had he } the pesitien of that noble Lord, er

tual

mi Que a tha

oeen In

ad, he oe

L supied the poat of ‘y to the present Minister of the | Colonies, he shonid have adopted a similar

line ofcenduct. The annexation had been | supperted in the House of Crommous by | Mr. W E. Forster and by Mr, J. Cowan.

,; even fh Secret

! | The speechea to which he had referred hav- | in 1852, one of the Conditions insisted on |

ing been delivered, and the question having cropped up several times during tlfe Session | of 1877, without any Liberal statesman of position or sminence having said a werd against the imeasure proposed, he must | coutend that their lordships and the eoun-

try hed a _ right to eonsider that j both poltical parties in the State ; had indorsed the policy of the

| anuexation of the Transvaal. The Karl of i Kimberley, the present Colonial Seeretary, | en irely goncurred in much ef what had been said by Lord Brabourne, and quoted *‘a curious piece of evidence furnished by a letter written by the wife of a Boer, in which she states that a Boer had come home with six head of cattle and one Caffre girl, and that another had come heme with 32 large Caffre girls, whom he was dispos- ing of fog half-a-severeign apiece. There- fore, my lords, I entirely deny that . that provision of the Convention had not been

violated.” After expressing his belief that the late Government in annex- ing the territory were influenced

by no greed of dominion or desire ~ to destroy the independence of a Republic whieh had claims oa our sympathy, but because its condition invelved in it, wars of « dangerous kind to all the South African colonies, and they thought than in order to avert this danger it was best that it should be placed under the dominion of the Queen. Lord Kimberley added ‘* whether the con- elusion was right or wrong, the motives were vot motives of which this country has any right to be ashamed.”

I have ventured to tresspass at so much length on your space because of the painful interest which must now attach to the events occurring in South Africa, and because the misleading utterances of an influential journal like the Toronto Globe, repeated by others, who—like your Sum- mersice contemporary— may be charitably | supposed to know nothing abont the mat- ter, probably will be the cause of a good | deal ef beoncet sympathy being wasted on false pretences. However munch we may | respect the Sonth African Boers for per- sonal bravery aud some other rough virtues,

we imust not forget that the first cause of | gs!

material claim te dominion iu Seuth Africa | the manumission ef their slaves in 183.

—which he had

Africa, her protectiou of the culored races from the maltreatment af the Buers, and

of the dangers and disadvantages that that would accrue, net only to the whole south. | 1877 ern part of the Continent, but also to the | «feo

Transvaal itself, if Evgland were to draw back her hand. Descending to details writer then essays to

previously explained. And | that the Boers eonsider the natural relation he then goes on tospeak of the great | ery sacrifices aud services of Eugland in Seuth of x

cen white and black men to be that | and slaves; that they have er cvased to hanker for and secretly ina dige im their traflic in ‘* tlack ivery ;” i) the’ annexation of the Transvaal in } wes against their wishes, it was | « by Sir Theophilus Shipstone with

»f 26 policemen only ; and thas |

ushed and chot down the goldiers |

sftera

»

show that no bingie | ot tae nation whieh had saved them trom

eitizens of the Republic came to be possess- |

in | Zululand, to show that since the restoratien |

Committee also considered | that the good faith of the British was pledged to see justice done to the pnative resistance | wars, | facts. If. in describing certain transactions | Nothing could be more simple, than to) they are no longer in a position to resist the invaders they formerly kept at bay, if the |

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‘independence and patriotism invoked the _ public opinion of Kurepe in approval of an | act of ingratitude so flagrant as scarcely to | find a parallel in the history of the world.” Iam, &e.,

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March 16, 1881.

To the Kditer of the Zeaminer.*

Dear Sin,—Seme time ago, there appeared in the EXAMINER, a communicstion, if [ mis- take not, overthe signature of ‘‘Saxon,” in which the writer stated that he bad written to Parnell asking him to detine Home Klgg and, that, for the information of your reader@ he would publish Parnell s reply in the Ex- AMINER. Now, ‘‘Saxon’ has either been fooling your readers, er Paraell has treated his letter with silent contempt. Altheugh lam neither a {and Leaguer nor a Home Ruler, yet I would like te know what Home Rule means; and I have beea anxiously Jook- ing out for Parnell’s reply to ‘‘ Saxon.” We have had several English maile since, so that want ef time cannet be pleaded. 1 think the circumstances of the case call for some re- marke from ‘* Saxon.” A correspondent of a paper is bound to keé» faith with his readers.

Yours, ete., L.AMPDEN, March 18, 1831.

The Czar’s Death.

The announcement of the death of he Czar, by a bomb thrown from the | band of an asaussin, on the 13th inst.,

caused great excitement reand the S aiiiiei . . ‘ | Winter Palace. The following par-

ticulars concerning bis death are fuller than those which have already appeared iin the Darty EXAMINER:

| ‘The Czar, hearing the crash, cvused | by the explosion of the first bemb |} thrown, at once raise} witidow, |epened the doer, jumped eut,and while | drawing his fur cloak abeut him a jsecond bomb was throws trem the knot | of lookers ov, explodivg right at his jfeet. The smoke ef the first explo ion | was still hanging about, and when the | second bomb struek the pavement a dense cloud enveloped the carriage.

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There was a how! ef pain und anguish from the Cessacks, some of whem were killed and mere wounded by the splin- (ers, apd three er four iookers on fell | The crash brought a squad ef! pohee whe were en duty at the Ims) perial stables. As the smeke lifted the | Czar was seen lying en his back beside the wreck of his carriage, his legs shattered and blood pouring from ghast- iy weunds in his thighs.

Lis cloak and wearing apparel were literally tern from his back. He was deadly pale and his cries to the officers of his heusehold for help were scarcely audible, They raised the Emporer, ;and with the aid of the Cossack officcr

lifted him ioto a sleigh and cesvyed him te the Winter Palace. The bombs were thick glass balls | filled with dynamite.

The Cossacks aud police eharged upon the knot of peeple trom which the bombs were flung. Several persons peinted to a man inthe roughsheepekin garb ef a peasant and declared ke had thrown the first shell. his was con- firmed by the Uossacks, whe saw him hurling it. A Celonel ef the police seized him. The man etruggied des- perately, and as the dismounted escert closed upon him drew a revelver as theugh intending te sheet the Grand Duke Michael, whose escape from death by the second expierien was little short ef miraculous. Bat his hand was struck dowa, aud in awinstast he was thrown to the earth and seeurely pirioned, the pelice putting irens upon him and the Cessacks bindisg him with repes,

The Czar was carried upstairs en & litter. His lett leg was fearfully shas- tered, the greater portion of the foot and ankle being blown oif. The right | leg was nearly torn fiom the bedy, He | was sensible, with brief intervals of ap- | consciousness, to the last.

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| At130 p.m., loperial family were {summoned to the tedside, where prays

| ers fer the dying were being said by a The leave tukiny is said to be téuchiny, The Czar kissed them al! and wave them his biew- | (sing. He Lore the agony of his wounds | with heroic fortitude, and said he truss- | ed he was ready to die and that Russia | }would never forget that he had been | exeriticed fer upheiding her institutions | fand maintaining i2aw and erder within ‘her berders. Tewards 3 p.m., i | evident that the end was neareud when | | the doctors spoke in a whisper of trying j amputation the dying man opened his eyes and motioned them away. At | 330 p. m., be breathed his last.