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The Best Man!

TO REPR EsSsENT

Queen's County in the Commons :

JAS. C. POPE

The Issue:

, _ LY EL WE OR WILL WE NOT TAMEL) . SUBMIT TO BE UNJUSTLY DEPRIV- ED OF REPRESENTATION IN THE

‘ > 9 CABINET ty WE NOT APPROVE

rE OR DO OVE 7 THE ACTION OF THE DOMINION GONERNMENT IN REMOVING MR.

AND NOT EVEN OFFER- ANT SEAT TO A RE- OF THIS PRO-

LATRD, ING HIS VAC PRESENTATIVE VINCE ?

THIS IS THE SQUARE FORE THE PEOPL COUNTY.

The Examiner.

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ISSUE NOW BE- E OF QUEENS

~ Charlottetown, Oct. 30, 18 ~ ?PHE CONTEST.

Tue contest takes place on the 22nd November. High Sheriff Watson receive ed the writ of election this morning. The

posing candidates will have scant time

% The election has, io

for the canvass.

fact, been sprung upon the people. The |

“contestants and their friends will have to exert themselves to the utmost to be ready for the fray. Fortunately the issue before the people is exceedingly simp'e. The electors have to decide first, whether Pope or Welsh is the best man to represent their interests; second, whether or not they will approve or disapprove of the action of the Dominion Government in depriving this Province of representation in the Dominion Cabinet. This is the main issue. It is sufficiently clear. If they elect a supporter of McKenzie, they express approval of the breach of faith of which McKenzie has been guilty. If they elect an opponent of McKenzie, they express their disapproval of McKenzie’s action, and their intention to take a dig- nified stand in defence of- their rights. The issue, though simple, is important to this province. We trust the electors of Queen’s County will rally round the champiou of the interests of our Island

home. ——-~<>-o—_——_———_

MR. WELSH’S. CARD.

We publish to-day the “ Cards”? of the candidates who are now seeking the suf- frages of the people of Queen’s County. The card to which the name of “ William Welsh ” is appended is a very elaborate production. It isas full and complete in

every particular as a writ of Fiert Facias fresh from the hand of the Attorney. Mr. Welsh is not by any means an egotist ; and therefore it is a matter of some sur- prise that the card literally bristles with capital “I's.” These immediately suggest to a lively imagination the impersonation of the brilliant,but not profound orscrupul- ous, Leaderof the Local Administration and Law-Agent of the Mackenzie-Cauchon Government. The “Card” might paes for the work of a well-paid special pleader. It is a work of art; and, as the Patriot remarks, ‘‘ it is well worthy of the closest etudy.’ The lofty tone in which it is set is one of its most striking characteristics. The perusal of it will, we venture to pre- dict, vastly delight the virtuous author of « Big Pash ” and editor of the Toronto Globe. Following the brief announce- ment that Mr. Welsh is in the field, there is a sounding seutence,in which Mr. Welsh is made to say that “ the general policy of the Mackenzie Administration, based, as I believe it to be, upon prin- ciples of honesty and justice, meets with my cordial approval.” Mr. Welsh very prudently refrains from explaining the general policy of the Dominion Govern- ment. In faet, it isa matter of doubt whether any man in the whole Domini- on could explain the general policy of Mr. Mackenzie—except, indeed, it be to retain power as long as possible at any price. Mr. Welsh judiciously avoids such minor details as the acceptanee of a man whose “crime is rank and smells to Heaven "’ to share in “ the councils of state,’ or the payment by the Govern. ment of the engagements entered into, on their behalf, by George Brown with Senator Simpson ; or the bribery of Mr. Anglin, the Speaker of the House of Commons—the man who of all others should be untainted and independent—by the offer and tender of Post Office prints ing,to the cost of $8000 ; or the purchase, through a firm in which the Premier's brother was concerned, of $2,000,000 worth of steel rails which were not wanted ond will not be used for years. Mr. Welsh avoids all these distasteful and scandalous facts ; and seeing that he is a candidate on behalf of Mackenzie and Cauchon, he is perhaps wise in his generation.

But Mr. Welsh says, “I am a free trader (so are we all free traders) and I am glad to know that free trade is a plank in the Mackenzie platform.” Is it ? Judging by the fact that the Mac- kenzie Government have raised the duty on every article imported—that they have levied a heavy tax upon many articles which were formerly admitted duty free ; that our sugar and tea and tobacco and soap and rice and many other articles of daily use, cost our farmers and mechanics at least 24 per cent more under the Macy kenzie Gevercment than they did under the Administration which preceded the Mackenzie Government,—judging by the fact that Mr. Mackenzie himself went down to Montreal and exerted himself to the utmost to procure the election of Mr.

' Workman, an avowed Protectionist—we must conclude that whatever Mr, Mae. kenzie may be in theory, he is not a free trader in practice. We may be excused for doubting Mr. Welsh’s reliability when he states that “free trade is a plank in the Mackenzie Government,” more especi- ally when we reflect that had it not been

been for a combina tive? of the Marititiié Provinces, and for | the frfin and decided stand which they | took against the igfliction of higher taxes

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} tidfi of the Fépresenta- |

and Cartwright! At Watford, only the |

his own organs to have said :—

‘With regard to the question of protection while adhering, as he always had done, to a firm belief in free trade as a fundamental commercial principle, and while failing "i- terly to see the advantage of protection to the farming community, he showed the im- | possibility of carrying out the free trade prin- ciples in-their entirely inthe present posi- tion of Canada,’

If the Premier believes that it is impos- |

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sible to carry out ‘‘ free trade principles " | in Canada, how can Mr. Welsh, in the | face of all the facts we have cited, truly | tell the people of Queen’s County that | free trade isa plank in the Mackenzie platform? Mr. Mackenzie's organ reports | that Mr. Mackenzie “ showed the impos- | sibilitg of carrying out the principles of |

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We are not informed that)

free trade.” he adduced as one of the reasons the fact | that the Mackenzie-Cauchon Government | have, during three years, increased the | expenditure by $90,000 a year for Civil | Service alone; that they have, in three) years, added $22,000,000 to the public | debt ; that they intend to expend $35,000

a year in the government of the “ great | Lone Land; ” thatghe whole Administra- | tion is marked by extravagance and in-|

In all probability, he confined |

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capacity. | himself to high sounding generalities—_ after the manner of Mr. Welsh. | With respect to the policy of the Mac. kenzie-Cauchon Government in the matter

of the Pacific Railway, Mr. Welsh is ex-

ceedingly vague. He does not say

whether he most admires the policy of utilizing the ‘ maguificent water-stretches '

or the policy of building the whole line

by Government, so that the profits arising from the road would fall to the couatry and not to a company; or the policy of letting the road out to contract and utiliz- ing 50,000,000 acres of wilderness land io the Northwest,—according to the scheme of Sir John A. Macdonald. For aught we know, he thinks the course adopted ‘just and statesmanlike’’ because it has incensed the people of British Columbia and driven them to the verge of rebellion.

But Mr. Welvh does not agree with the MeKenzie-Cauchon Government in all

things. It would not be prudent to do so. He will not support their action jn

cheating this Province out of representa- tion in the Cabinet ; and he is “ strongly opposed to any interference by the Do- minion Government or House of Commons with the question of Education.”. Upon these points he is in perfect accord with Mr. Pope and all Islanders. How he can at the same time support the Mackenzie- Couchon Government, is a mystery. If Mr. Welsh be elected, as a supporter of Mackenzie and Uauchon, the fact will be accepted, by people throughout the Do- minion, as proof that the electors of Queen’s County—in direct opposition to the declaration of the petitions they sent to the Dominion Parliament last winter—

approve and justify the notorious and un- warraptable interference with the Schools of the Northwest, For, be it remember-

ed, that Mr. Welsh’s protest will not be read outside the Province. Moreover,

the fact will be accepted as an expression

of approval of the deprivation of Prince

Edward Island of the seat in the Cabinet to which it is legitimately entitled.

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QUITE A MISTAKE.

Tue Patriot takes pains to correct a misapprehension into which many persons have fallen. Mr. Laird, its readers are informed, is not ‘‘ Governor ot Keewatin.”’ He is ‘‘ Governor of the Northwest Terri- tories.’ Yes, that is the fact. Mr. Laird and his little staff have gone to the “great Love Land” to “kill time ” by looking after the few wild buffaloes and wilder Indians who exist thero, at a net cost to the Dominion of $35,000 a year— which represents a capital sum of seven millions of dollars—a sum which would pay for building quite a lengthy section of the Pacific Railway. Let it be remembered that Mr> Laird is ‘* Governor of the great Lone Land,” with little or nothing to do. And because he is so, the country is minus $35,000 a year. When a Gov- ernor is wanted fur Keewatioa, some other great and good man at present in the Gov- ernment will, doubtless, be found at a like annual cost.

THE ISLAND SOLD.

The Watchman says that Prisce Ed. ward Island appears to have been a mere make weight in the hands of the Macken- zie Government and the Grits. When these patriotic gentlemen wished to gain a sufficient number of adherents in the smaller Provinces to give the control of the Government to Ontario, they were intensely generous to little Prince Edward Island. They gave her a seat in the Cabinet, yielding, as they said, one of the five seats which of right belonged to Oa- tario. And, generous souls! they were careful that their left hand should know what their right hand was doing. They blazoned their extreme generosity to the world at large. Their party journals were particularly anxious that Ontario’s gift to P. E. Island should be appreciated abroad, and especially in the smaller Pro- vinces. But the time come when they found it necessary ‘o strengthen their damaged position in Ontario, and then, forgetful of their boasted generosity to the Island, they coolly vacated the seat by the lure of another office to its occupant and took back their gift !

TWO VERY GOOD REASONS.

A correspondent from the northern end the County informs us that the people there intend to vote for Pope,—

1st. Because they think he is the ablest and most experienced maa.

2d. Because he will, if elected, be pre- vented from again imposing his peculiar views on the School Question upon the Province.

The people of the North take much the same view of the matter as the people of Charlottetown, who intend to vote almost as one man for Pope.

An attempted insurrection in Spain hes been suppressed, Many leading repub-

protective tariff drawn up by Mackensie diture, on aceount of the Civil Service, |

other day, Mr. Mackenzie is reported by | year. | fact.)

‘ernment have, in three years, increased the |

TS PORB THE PROPLE,

1. That the MeKenzie-Cauchon Gov: |

FACTS THA (OULD BE KEPT BB-

ernmegt have, by adding to the salaries of | upon the people, we would, even now, be | theit friends and by creating new offices | i from the pen woe. strivitig to make both ends meet udder 4 for their supporters, increased the expen, |

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NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($90,000) a | (The Patriot cannot deny this |

2. That the McKenzie—Cauchon Gov-

Public Debt of the Dominion $22,000,000 | (Sir John A. McDonald with al! his cor ruption and extravagance could only man- age to increase it by $10,000,000 in seven years. )

3. That the McKenzie-Cauchon Gov- ergment had three separate and distinct policies on the question of the Pacific Railway,—(1) utilization of the ‘‘ mag- nificent water stretches ;’’ (2) building of the road by the Government in order that, as Mr. McKenzie explained, ‘ the country would resp the profit, which might be gained by the Company if the work were let by contract ;’’ (3) letting the work to contractors, and paying them 50,000,- 000 in land and $30,000,000 in money— as provided by Sir John A. McDonald. [This is what Mr. Welsh calls a ‘* just nd statesmanlike’’ course. |

4. That the McKenzie-Cauchon Gov- ernment, though sincere friends of the Pacific Railway, [vide Governor Gener- al's speech,] have driven British Colum- bia to the verge of rebellion, because of their vacillation and tergiversation in re- spect to it,

5..That the McKenzie-Cauchon Gov- ernment purchased 2,000,000 dollars worth of Steel Rails, priseipally through a firm in which the Premier’s own brother had a large ioterest, the greater part of which rails are now rusting on the banks of a river flowing into Lake Superior.

6. That the McKenzie-Cauchon Gov- ernment proposed and solemnly promised to secure the construction of the Esqui» malt-Nanaimo Railway; and failed to carry the Bill providing for its constrac- tion through Parliament. [The two foregoing facts Mr. Welsh will doubtless cite as proofs of the ability of the Mc- Kenzie-Cauchon Administration to rule the country. |

7. That it has been proved before the election courts of Ontario and (Quebec, that leading men—the chief supporters of the McKenzie Cauchon Government—weie steeped to the lips in corruption, while they secured the election of the McKen- zie-Cauchon Government, by crying “ purity,” “economy,” and Reform.” [The Patriot dare not deny the fact be- cause we can name names. }

8. That George Brown, the real leader of the McKenzie~Cauchon combination, wrote the “ Big Push Letter,’ asking Se- nator Simpson to ‘ come down handsomely.’

9. That Senator Simpson “ came down handsomely,’’ and wrote to the sharehold- ers of the bank of which he was President, asking them to support the Grits, because, if they obtain power, it would be a good thing for “ our Bank.”

10. That Senator Simpson’s Bank now receives the bulk of Dominion Deposits, and has the free use and benefit of some $300,000 of that Dominion money. [Yet Mr Welsh is made to say that the Do- minion Government is based on the prin- riples of honesty and justice, and to in-~ sinuate that there is no collusion between the McKenzie—Cauchon Government and wealthy speculators. |

11. That the MeKenzie-Cauchon Gov- ernment have deprived Prince Edward Isl.ni of representition in the Cabinet, notwithstanding the fact that they speci- ally covenanted and agreed that she should be so represented while they remained in power,

12. That the Dominion Government allowed three years to pass away without providing either a Penitentiary er the ‘Winter Steam Communication between this Province and the Maialand,” which by the terms of union they are bound to supply. ;

13. That at the instigation of Mr. Laird, the Mackenzie Government con- spired to rob the young men of Prince Edward Island of one of their dearest rights—the right to exercise the franchise in Dominion elections. (Our readers wil! remember that their dastardly purpose was defeated by the watchfulness und the strenuous exertions of Senators Haviland, Howlan, Hayth orne, and Montgomery.)

14. That the McKenzie Cauchon Gov-

ernment passed an Act providing the ballot in Dominion elections in ‘this Island, and carelessly neglected to provide a Register of voters. ’ 15. Thatthe honest yeomanry of eighteen constituencies in Ontario and Quebec have declared in the most emphatic manner, their detestation of the rank corruption, clothed in hypocrisy, of which the Grits have been proven guilty, and their deter- mination no longer thaa possible to suffer incapacity, injustice, extravagance, and dishonesty to rule in the Councils of the Dominion. [It is to be hoped that the honest yeomanry of Queen’s County will follow the good example set by those who best know McKenzie, Cauchon and their followers. ]

GRIT IDEAS OF “FREE TRADE.”

The Charlottetown Patrtot (Grit) is try- ing to make out that the Mackenzie Gov- ernment is benefitting the farmers by its manner of illustrating free trade principles. It will intesest the farmers of P. E. Island to know that under what Grits call a right- eous tariff, which they will not change, the Cnited States alone have competed against Canadian farmers in Canadian markets to the extent of nine millions of dollars in three years. That is to say : the Grits think that the right sort of tariff is the tariff which takes three millions of dollars a year for flour, meal, butter, cheese, lard and tallow out of the pockets of Canadian farmers and hands them over to United States farmers. When the Patriot is extolling the Grit idea of free trade, we hope it will not forget to tell its readers that its party in Parliament went in to # man at the last session of Par, liament against reducing the duty on burns ing oil from fifteen cents per gallon to five

cents per gallon. A number of good Grits were and are interested in an QOii Ring in Ontario, hence the vote of the whole ‘ free trade party’ to make the people of Canada pay fifteen cents per gallon duty on all such oil imported into Canada!—Sit, John Waichman.

°° Dee--o

in the mountains near Saitschar there are 11,000 men, women and children als

licans have been arrested,

most naked and literally starving.

| run on errands to Montreal;

REV. HENRY Ward B! CANADA.

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* . UN SHINES. “No FAIRER LAND ON wuicH THE

The following eloquent tribu'e to fenr.

y Ward

Beecher, and «appears in the Christian Mirror of the 18th. 1 by the reverend peu. “ Pefore this autumn we ledge of Canada, but it wes smn‘ l ro we had visited for curiosity, Quebec, but we had never come into close contact with the people. We have come back from our brief visit—it included Montfes!. (!taws, Toronto and London—with a feeling of admiration for the country and love for the warm-hearted and hospitable people. There is not a farer land on which the sun shines than that part of Canada through which we travelled. As 4 farming country it is simply wonderful. All along the banks of the St, Lawrence, from Toronto to the western part of the Dominion, it is one vast succession of admirable grounds for farm~ ing, very largely cultured and improved, While in London we attended the agriculs tural exbibition which was in progress there, and it heightened our impressions of this great farming country north of us. We thank God for the prosperity of our neigh- bours up here. We used to think that it was hardly worth while to have the two nations, and that Canada had better merge with us. Wethink so no longer. More good will be done by having that English~ speaking nation built up. [tis a dominion which, altHougtett aitters Om us in names and terms is substantially like us at the root. They have a work which is peculiar- ly their own, in opening the wilderness through to the Pacilic Ocean, and on which they are now engaged. We had their indi- viduality and their national distinctness ; we rejoice in their prospects; we rejoice ess pecially in the apparent growth and strength of the Christian people that exist and is ex-~ hibited in the different denominations in their midst. pered, there is scarcély any limit to their growth. The land that is unpossessed is enongh to make half a dozen nations. And still more grand will it be if they maintain unity, and are but one nation. They will! be our brethern, a great brother country, and we shall need no wall of defence on our northern border. Would that we had on our southern border, in Mexico, or in the Repubiis Uf South America, anything that approached the admirable neighbors that we have on the north. One of the farmers, who dad heard a lecture on the introduction th which we expressed some complimentary ‘thoughts concerning Cana- da, said to us, with peculiar looks, ‘J don’t believe you will dare to say such things when you get-home.’ Weil we have said them; and we would not have said them there if we had not been ready to repeat them here,”

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MR, BLAKE AND LORD DUFFERIN.

Phere is no doubt about it, Lord Dufs ferin has made the situation an awkward one for Mr. Blake; and the Press is bound to place the matter before His Lordship and His Lordship’s Minister for their attentive consideration. In his speech in Victoria, B. C., some weeks ago, the Governor Gene- ral pledged his honor to the proposition that Mr. Mackenzie had not intrigued to defeat his own ‘Nanaimo’ bill in the Sens ate. Indeed no such charge was ever made by the Opposition Press, and Lord Dufferin met with it only in the shape of a rumor in Victoria, We quote his words, rerbatim,on the occasion : —

‘Well, | have learnt with regret that there is a very widespread conviction in this community that Mr. Mackenzie had surreptitiously procured the defeat of his own measure in the Upper House. Had Mr. Mackenzie dealt so treacherously by Lord Carnarvon, by the representative of his Sovereign in this country, or by you, he would have been guilty of a most atrocious act of which I trust no public man in Cans ada, orin any other British colony, could be capable. 1| tell you in the most empha- tic terms, and | pledge my own honor on the point, that Mr. Mackenzie was not guilty of any such base and deceit!ul con. duct—had I thought him guilty of it, ei/Aer

he would have ceased to have been Prime

If they continue to be pros- | : : : | .egister deeds, but as probably there will

spicHER ON| §G0ING ATA GRP | Ail soufid and well.con’ | ers’ , Canada | bribery and corruption with in the interests of the Dom! New York | entitled to « position 1D

irnal edited | therefor, | the authority 0

We had | Laird’s appointment,

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14 GREAT SACRIFICE.

litioned ‘ Reform- | who having yen . a. = | nant party, are the public service | will be interested in learning on | f the Ottawa Free Press that ths in connection with Mr. |

‘the vacant ber will be filled up by

the 26,’ Let us en as given (with the sal ' Vic., Cap. 49, the act amending and con- solidating the laws respecting the North- west Territories. ’ 5

First of all there is the Lieutenant-Gov- ernorship with $7000 a year; then two stipendiary magistrates with $3000 a year,

each: two members of Council, exclusive of

| these magistrates, whoare to be members

of the Council ex officio, at $1000 a year each; and one clerk of the Council at a salary of $1,800 a year, ‘These are the gentlemen who are to ‘loaf about the throne’ in the territory. It may be said that $1,000 a year is not much for a member of the Executive Council, but Section 5 of the Act provides that from time to time they may pay themselves by Order in Coun- cil ‘such sums as they may consider ade quate to defray their travelling expenses.’ To an austere patriot, therefore, who can cultivate life from January to December on a little oatmeal or proven the year round on a hundred weight of pemmican, this provision means a clear profit of at least five dollars aday. Section 12 seems to ompuwe: Mr, Lulrd tv appoint a Queen’s Printer who shall charge by the job, just such a berth, Mr. Workman, M. P., will bear us out, as would suit some of the gentlemen of the Montreal Herald. Then by section 54 there is to be a Registrar ot Deeds ata salary of $2000a year. Mr. W. Scott, brother of the Secretary of State, has ‘reluctantly consented to overcome his scruples with respect to taking office,’ as the Globe says of each pensioner, and accepted this Registrarship. Uis duty will be to

be no deeds required in the territory until Manitoba and Keewatin, the eastern and more fruitful north west regions, have been colonized, the position will not be a labor- ous one, at least not for some decades. Then there is to be a Sheriff at an annual salary of 1,20), not a large sum it is true, but as section 5, respecting travelling ex- penses applies to the office, a student of oatmeal may do worse than acceptit. Sec. tion 60 empowers Mr. Laird to appoint ‘Clerks of the Judicial Districts,’ probably five in number, at a salary of $500 a year, each, and here again bountiful section 5 will enable the frugal officer to eke out something for rainy weather and old age. Lastly, section 70 empowers Mr. Laird to create offices enough forall his retinue at his Island home. It provides that ‘ when- ever in any Act of Parliament of Canada in force in the Northwest Territories, any officer is designated for carrying on any duty therein mentioned, and there shall be no such officer in the Northwest Territories, the Lieutenant Governor and Council may order’ the appointment of one. ‘ Reforms ers’ willing to accept the positions and emoluments of constables, peace officers or gaolers, will govern themselves accordingly.

Ali these berths, those of Lieutenant Governor and Registrar excepted, are tc be filled up by Thursday next. It will be the hugest sacrifice of patriots on record. Let us fora moment consider its cost to the

country:

Lieut. Governor 7009 Two Stipendiary Magistrates 6000 Two Members of Council 2000 Clerk of Council 1800 Queen’s Printer (say) 1500 Registrar 2000 Sheriff 1200 Five Clerks of Districts 2500

Constables, Peace officers, Gaolers, etc., (say 10 at $300 a year) 3000 $27,000 Extras under section 5 (say) 8000 Annual charge $35,000 In addition to the above, the Mounted

Police, which by section 56 of the Act is placed at the disposition of the Lieutenant Governor, costs us $300,000 a year. The

Minister or I should have left the country.”

Indian bounties for this region alone (Man-

Now Lord Dufferin was speaking as & | itoba having a separate account) are esti-

special pleader. that what he meant, and what he would have said had the idea presented itself to his mind, was, that if Mr, Mackenzie bad in any way intrigued to prevent the honorable fulfillment of the ‘Carnarvon terms,’ after the honor of the Government hal been pledged to them, and Lord Carnarvon had been assured that the terms would be duly fulfilled, either Mr. Mackenzie must have resigned or Lord Dufferin would have left the country.

This is a very serious matter, and no amount of special pleading by the Press can prevent it from being presented in its true form to the Governor General. If the charge as proved against Messrs. Mackenzie and Blake be substantially the same, in effect, so far as the “overnor General is concerned, ‘as the charge as supposed by that personage, then indeed there will arise the same necestity for balancing the alter- native of a Minister's resignation or a Gova ernor General's retirement. We have already quoted Mr. Blake’s speech after accepting office in 1875. We quote it again in order that the suggestions it gives rise to may be fitted to the inferences to be drawn fairly from Lord Dufferin’s speech and threat. Mr. Blake in speaking to his constituents after accepting a place in the Cabinet in 1874—after the defeat of the Bill in the Senate, said :—

“He would now touch upon a question with respect to which he had not been ens tirely in accord with the gentlemen who were conducting the afluirs of the country. He referred to the settlement attempted to be made thruugh the Earl of Carnarvon with British Columbia. He had been of opinion that that settlement was more onerous to this country than it was advare tageous to agree to, and he was happy to be able to say that previous to his accept~ ing office discussions had been entered upon which had resulted in an agreement upon a policy satisfactory to himself, and when deyeloped at the proper time and place in Parliament, would, he believed, be satisfactory to the country.”

That this ‘agreement’ involved the ab- andonment of the Carnarvon terms, and the making of the new propositions which have been so indignanily resented in Brit- ish Columbia, is an inference which inevit< ably will be drawn by the public, and must be suspected by the,Governor General, His Excellency is thus brought face to face with a combination of circumstances, quite as discreditable and quite as much the the result of a conspiracy, as the circum- stances supposed by him in Victoria. If it would have been « fatal and final step for Mr. Mackenzie to have intrigued to defeat his Bill in the Senate, it is equally fatal and final in our opinion for him to have in- trigned with Mr, Blake to prevent the Bill from being re-introduced to Parliament. The‘outrage in either case is the same—the breach of the faith of Canada with the Colo. nial office and with British Columbia, We do not believe that Lord Dufterin is the man to shut his eyes to the extreme gravity of the situation.— Halifux Herald,

St taeda In view of possibie emergencies the | steamship Cathay has been chartered to. convey British troops to Malta,

We take it for granted | rated at $148,000 for this year; and on the

30th June next $71,000, so “the Estimates say, will have been expended on the ‘or- ganization of the Government’ in the Ter- ritory.— TZoronto Mail,

MR. MACKENZIE’S BREACH OF FAITH WITH THE ISLAND.

Uron Mr. Mackenzie’s failure to giye Prince Edward Island representation in the

| Cabinet so long as he continued in power an Ontario paper remarks:—‘Mr. Mac-

kenzie broke the arrangement which had been adhered to up to his accession to

| office, with respect to his arrangement of

Cabinet portfolios. He broke it, because only breaking it could he offer Mr. Laird sufficient inducement to deseat Sir Jobn Macdonald. The inducement was a ministerial office and $7,000 a year—no trifle to sucha man as Mr, Laird. Now that the necessity which led to the depar- ture from the arrangement which up to that time had been acted upon no longer exists, Mr. Mackenzie returns to the s/atus quo ante, and gives to Ontario the member of whom she was deprived to enable him to carry out the wholesale corruption scheme by which he reached the cherished goal of his ambition—office. Mr. Mackenzie’s re- turn now to! the previous practice is the strongest condemnation we could have of his departure from it in the fall of 1873,’

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‘THE CIVIL SERVICE.

The Presbyterian Witness,referring to the recent robbery of the mails, says :— “ In this case there appears to be no doubt that the theft has been committed by some one in the department. This is suggestive. It is a painful and emphatic comment on our system of conducting the putlic business. ‘To the victors belongs ths spoils.’ Men of no character and of no competence are appointed to positions of great importance merely because they were partizan hacks. The Civil Service is ‘run’ in the interest of this or that party—this or that clique. Very few are appointed or promoted on the score of pure merit. Promotion comes through the party managers. Such at least has largely been the case in the past. It is too much to hope that the Reform party will make good his claim to its pame by insist- ing on thorough reform in the Civil Service ?”’ Upon this the Moncton Times remarks :— “We feel like quoting Scripture to our re. ligious contemporary : ‘Can a fountain.’ &e., &. When thistles yield figs, then Reform may be expected from men who have greedily seized every opportunity that offered to show their contempt for the prin- ciples they professed. Does not our con- temporaiy know that in the Grit dialect Reform is the word which in English is called Corruption ?”

7 Nicene FAMINE IN INDIA.

Alarming news comes from India. The crops are a failure, and a famine stares the- people in the face, The cattle are already dying of starvation, and the Outlook is

Diplomacy is still active.

gloomy in the extreme,

| our descendents an

PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS.

In the name of the Most Holy and Indi« visable Trinity, we, Peter the Frst, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russians, &c., to all d suecessors to the throne and governme tion

and to whom w

sustained us by His divine help, allows me to look on the Russian people as called

European nations have mostly reached n | state of old age, bordering on imbecility, or | they are rapidly approaching it; naturally, ‘then, they will be eusily and indubitably conquered by a people strong in youth and | vigour, especially when this latter shal! have attained its full strength and power. I look |on the future invasion of the eastern and western countries by the north, as a peri- | odical movement, ordained by Providence, | who in like manner regenerated the Roman nation by barbarian invasion. These emi- grations of men from the north are as the reflux of the Nile, which at certain periods, comes to fertilize the impoverished lands of Egypt by its deposit, I found Russia as a rivulet, 1 leave ita river; ny successors will make it a large sea, destined to fertilize the impoverished lands of Europe; and its waters will overflow, in spite of opposing dams, erected by weak hands, if our de. scendents only know how to direct its course. This is the reason I leave them the following instructions. I give these countries to their watchfulness and care, as Moses gave the Tables of the Law to the Jewish people.

1. Keep the Russian nation in a state of continual war, so as to have the soldier al- ways under arms, and ready for action, ex. cepting when the finances of the state will not allowit. Keep up the forces; choose the best moment for attack. By these means you will be ready for war even in the time of peace. This is for the interes: of the future aggrandisement of Russia,

{[. Endeavour, by every possible means, to bring in, from the neighbouring civilised countries of Europe, officers in time of war, and learned men in times of peace, thus giving the Russian people the advantages enjoyed by other countries, without allow ing them to lose any of their own self-ree spect,

III. On every occasion taket a part in the aflairs and quarrels of Europe; above all, in those of Germany, which country be- ing the nearest, more immediately cons cerns us.

1V. Divide Poland, by exciting civil dis— cord there; win over the nobility by bribe~ ry; corrupt the diets, so as vo have influence in the election of kings ; get partizans into office — protect them ;§ bring to sojourn there the Muscovite troops, until such time as they can be permanently established there. If the neighbouring powers start difficulties, appease them, for a time, by parcelling out the country, until vou can retake in detail all that has beer ceded.

V. Take as much as you ean from Sweden ; and cause yourselves to be attacked by her, so as to have a pretext for'subduing her. To accomplish this, sever Denmark from Swed~ en, and Sweden from Denmark, carefully keeping up their rivalaries.

Vi. Always choose as wives for the Rus- sian princes, German princesses, so as to increase family alliances, to draw mutual in- terests closer, and by propagating our prin- ciples in Germany, to enlist her in our cause,

VIL. England requiring us for her navy, and she being the only power that can aid in the development of ours, seek a com- mercial alliance with her, in preference to any Gther. Exchange our wood and the productions of our land for her gold, and establish between her merchants, her sailors and ours, a continua! intercourse: this will aid in perfecting the Russian fleet for navi- gation and commerce,

VILL. Extend your possessions towards the north, along the Baltic; and ‘owards the south, by the Black Sea.

IX. Approach as near as possible to Cons stantinople and its outskirts, H WHO SHALL REIGN THERE WILL BE THE TRUE 60YEREIGN OF THE WORLD. Consequenily, be continually at war—sometimes with the Turks, some- time with Persia. Establish dockyards on the Black Sea; get entire possession of it by degrees, also of the Baltic Sea; this being necessary to the accomplishment of the plan, Hasten the decline of Persia; penetrate to the Persian Gulf; re-establish, if possible the ancient commerce of the Levant through Syria, and make your way to the Indies, they are the emporium of the world, Once there, you can do without the gold of England.

X. Seek, and carefully keep up an al-~ liance with Austria; acquiesence, apparent- ly, in her ideas of dominating over Ger- many ; atthe same time,clandestinely excit~ ing against ber the jealousy of the neighbors ing provinces. Endeavor that the aid of Russia should be called for by one and the others so that, by exercising a kind ot guardianship over the country, you prepare the way for governing hereafter.

XI. Give the House of Ausiria an inter- est for joining in banishing the Turks from Europe; defraud her of her share of the booty, at the conquest of Constantinople, either by raising a war for her with the an- cient states of Europe, or by giving hera or which you will take back at a future period,

XII. Attach to yourselves, and assemble around you, all the United Greeks, as also the disunited or schismatics, which are scat- tered either in Hungary, Turkey, or the south of Poland. Make yourselves their cens ter, their chief support, and lay the foun-~ dation for universal supremacy by estab- lishing a kind of royalty or sacradotalgovern- ment; the Slavonic Greeks will be so many friends that you will have scattered amongst your enemies.