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“EBRUARY 22, 1873.

“ Northern Light” in Parliament.

It is satisfactory to know that the griev- ances, which the people of this Province have been undergoing ever since Mr. Mc- Kenzie arrived at power, in respect to the Winter Mail Service, are not unrepresented in Parliament. The present Dominion Government were, to begin with, very long in complying with the conditions of Confed- eration, which provides for efficient mail service during winter. Mr. McKenzie put otfas much time as he decently could be- fore attempting anything, and when an ef- fort was at length made to fulfill ob- ligations, it was not madein a direction which could ensure any degree of certainity to its results Mr. Sewell had, it would seem, dreamed for a life time over the possibility of constructing & eraft that would force its way through the frozen St. Lawrence. From the phantas- magoria of these dreams he constructed, in his waking moments, the eslebrated North- ern Light. Mr. McKenzie was not averse to run the risk of acquiring some fame for his Administration by patronising a man who set at defiance the terrors of winter. Still, the undertaking was an experiment, and tue Premier consented that it should first be tried on the people of this Province. In doing se he followed the practise which has frequently obtained in jmedicine. When the action of new drugs had to be tested, or a new adopted, it was

course of treatment the custom in old times to select some felon, and operate upon him,

watching and noting the symptoms and the results. The people of this Island have been Mr. McKenzie’s felons, on whom he has experimented to his heart's content. No matter how severely we suffered, the treatuient had to be proceeded with. A deaf ear was lent to all our rgmonstrances. We might be weeks without mails—that was nothing to the point—the great experi- ment was going on, and the fame of Mr. McKenzie as the patron of inventions was not to be allowed to wane without an ob- atinate effort to uphold it. Hence the wv iriety of repairs and alterations made upon Mr. Sewell’s craft.

Now, as we were yesterday informed by telegram, the Island Representatives have exposed, in Parliament, the injustice with which we have hitherto been treated by the Government. There may, therefore, be some hope now that a remedy will be ap- plied, and that Mr. McKenzie will be in- duced to lay asside a little of his obstinacy, and fellow the advice of practical men, who know of what they speak, rather than take for hia guide the theries of adreamer. We want to receive our mails regularly. The Cape route can secure this regularity for us. Let Mr. McKenzie, then, adopt it at once, without any longer delay.

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The Patriot's Enterprise. Tux enterprising spirit of the Duily Patriot has driven its managers beyond the

limits of honesty. The special despatch |

which was sent to the DatLy EXxaMINER from Ottawa, and which appeared in that journal last night, was printed in our con- temporary’s issue of this morning, without comment or acknowledgement. This act we characterize a3 an unmitigated piece of theft. Weare willing to admit that we did not entertain a lofty idea of our con- temporary’s honesty. We suspected that he was not possessed of that sensitive for- mation of conscience, which shrinks from the bare suggestion of a dishonest act, and, therefore, we adopted the tactics of those who have suspicious characters about them. We set a mark upon the telegram in ques- tion, by changing an unimportant word, and lo! it appears in our contempo- rary’s possession, and by that mark we iden- tify it as our own property. The marked shilling has been found—and the charge of theit—in literature it is called plagairism— fully established.

We have no objection to the Patriot using our telegrams, but he must have the honesty to tell the world that they are not his—that he lacked the enterprise to get them for himself, and that he avails himself of the enterprise of others. Want of enter- prise is only a defeet—but want of honest y' is something more serious,

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Supreme Court.

The following is an outline of Mr. E. J. Hodgson’s address to the Jury in the case of the Queen against McCloskey :—

GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY: Twenty-nine days ago it was my lot to address a \ury mm a case similar to the one now before the Court. Although it has been said that nothing but what we have already heard can be advanced by counsel for the defence, yet I shall endeavor if possible not to repeat myself either in argu- ments or words, Out of mercy to you, gentle- men, who have sat here for weeks listening to evidence and addresses from counsel on both sides, I shall avoid uttering one word in the gaine connection as formerly used by me in the case of Collins. I think you will be well pleased at this, and accord to me a vote of thanks. If there is anything which I must say that does not bear directly upon the testi- mony before you, it will be concerning the malicious efforts which have been made out- side the walls of this Courtroom to influence the jurymen and to prejudice them against m

client, against Mr. Palmer and against myself. I think it a duty to the profession of which |

“lama member, to the community in which we

live,—to the position which I occupy as a law- yer, and particularly to my client, to resent the attacks which have been made upon us, and which are worthy only of a midnight as- sassin upon a helpless individual. I do not accuse either of the learned Counsel opposite me of any complicity in these attacks. 1 impute no blame no them, because | know they would not be guilty of such foul play or conduct. The position of counsel for a pris- oner isa delicate one, I am the more impelled to utter my protestations against the course which has been followed, because it is now evident that a most wicked attempt has'been made to prejudice ua by means of a corrupt, & vena!, and a subsidized Press, It has been said tuat Mr. Palmer aud myself have stub- bornly resiated every effort tg bring the trials of traversera to as speedy a close as possible, and that our object was to make political capi- tal out of this case; and my learned friend and myself find that we are brought to the var of Political Opinion by the semi-oflicial or gan of the Government.

it has been said that! which rests heavily upon me.

do not hesitate to declare that the avowal of such an object it a greater insult to the Crown and dignity of the sovereign than any act which the traverser is alleged to be guilty of. I have thus explained the sense of responsibility which rests upon Mr. Palmer and myself while conducting this case and the unfairness of any outside attack upon us as Counsel; and in leaving this matter { shall read to you an extract from one who well knows a Counsel's duty :—

‘The advocate should be self-confident with- out self-conceit. He should combine the ex- tremes of boldness and caution, for he is to be prompt even in tap most doubtful and delicate matters to decide an action, and then he must act with celerity and firmness, and yet both his decision and action are to be deliberate. It is almost a misnomer to call him a lawyer, His knowledge of the law is the smallest part of his professional attainments. He must know mankind better than he does the code and re- ports, and he must understand the infinite play of the feelings which, far more than their reasons, sway the people with whom he deals —parties, witnesses, jurors, even the Judges themselves. He must recognize truth intui- tively when he hears it, and falsehood likewise, and be ever capable of making both plain men and learned Judyes see with his own eyes.”

This picture is not overdrawn. Romance and adventure fill the lawyer's daily life. He is more than amere frothy speaker, to tickleand set agape the popular fancy and more than the lucky teenie of great prizes in his fees. He is a patient, laborious, intense worker, living in his cases and hanging over them as affection- ately as a mother over her children. He fights as many battles in a year as a general in yr time, and over and over again expends on some controversy of trivialmoment that payahim only with the thanks of the poor or the blessings of

and skill than often fill a long campaign which etids in an ever memorable defeat of overcom- ing thousands.”

This, gentlemen, is the duty of an advocate, set forth in language more expressive than | could have used. However short I may fall of this ideal, it is the model I now set before me ; and I do assure you, that in addressing you, I seek but to discharge the onerons duty lf in anything

our object is to make these trials as long as/[ may say I should touch a sympathetic chord

possible, so as to involve the Govern- dollars, and to make the Attorney Gen- eral responsible for such expenditure. Gentlemen, the accusation made by the press, is as false as it is malicious. the discharge of his duty, kaows no political

ia the hearts of those who hear me,—friends

ment in the expenditure of thousands of} of the traverser, who believe, as many do be-

lieve, that he is to be made the victim of a persistent though malignant conspiracy, —and should they be led, in a moment of mistaken

The lawyer, in| excitement, to give vent to the slightest ap-

plause, not only should I hear it with tue

party, no family, no friends, no interests, he) deepest pain, but 1 should resume my seat,

knows noone in the world, save only his| from which I shall not again rise to trouble

client.

cused of some great crime.

upon his soul, because it was said he had hur ried one of his fellow-creatures into the pres- ence of his God.

diseretion, I should fail to piace his case as [

hurriedly, from time instructions to me,

in the agony « the death

I have felt this come home to me in a} you further with a siagle remark. very real way, when my client has stood ac-! only whom I address—you only have | known I know what it is| ali through this trial—you only 1 speak to to stan] by a mia agaiast whom it wa; ch arged!/ now. i want thie that there was blood upon his haals and guilt | applause.

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embarassment of no The consciousnes of a duty, per- formed however inadequatily, is all I look for; but still iess do I want

: I have seen his pale, white | still more do | protest against the evil attempt face watching, with au latensity that no words ‘to strike my client and prejudice his case, as could utter, each phase of his case as it pro-| the Goverament organs f

ceeded; and [, too, have trembled less, by | determined still to do. aome neglect, some oversight, some waut of} small matter, but, gentlemea, in the conduct

rave done, and seem You may thins thisa

of a suit [ recognize no matter as ‘‘ small,”

might have done; and the pale lips, _Wwhich| As in that European country where the perse- to time, whispered verence and the toil of man have pent back the might svon quiver! ocean and have rescued from its waters what struggle} pow are smiling grain bearing fields, if in

It ia the general opinion that lawyers will de- any of the marine dykes, tie Engineer sees

fend any one—he he guilty or not—for pay. whom we believe to be guilty. But, gentle-

found guilty. But the law goes beyond that, The cold,

contains the instructions that a must be given ‘‘according to the evidence,’ and our duty is to stand by the priaoner, ani

but one drop of water force its way through,

That we use lofty language in defence of men| he trembies; for he knows that where the drop

has come, the torrent soon will follow—and so

men, the lawa presume a man is innocent till| here wien the Government organs seek to pre-

judice the prisoners, as they have done ; and

grave language used by the/such conduct be passed by without protest, officer who administered the oath to you} words will soon pass into activa, and trial by verdict] ury—the strongest bullwork of our liberties—

will be sc only in name. And now I have done with this matter, and

to see that the evidence comes up to that stan-} shail apply myself move immediately to the dard which the law requires, before a verdict} case wines 5 ay oP

may be rendered. No man is to be found

It is said that ‘‘a new broom sweeps clean,”

guilty if any reasonable theory of his innocence | and most signally has that proverb been ex- can be reconciled with the evidence; and if} emplitied in the action of the junior counsel this can be done, then he must gocfree, no| for the prosecution, who during these trials

matter how guilty he is in reality, for the law says ‘It is better that ninety-nine guilty per. sons should escape rather than one innocent

has come now first into this case, He has, indeed, made a clean sweop of many of the witnesses who hitherto were examined and

person should be convicted.” We are deter-| upon whose testimony great weight was laid.

mined to stand by the traverser, no matter

Press. We havearight to defend him, and we challenge any one to dispute that right. 1 do not care what political party may go to the wall, or which party may be upheld. I care not what interests are sacrificed-—what loss sustained. ‘The one object I have before me is to show you, as show you I can, that this man’s innocence is consistent with the evi- dence adduced, I may receive threatening letters, may, I haye received you must know. I care not what the con- sequences may be to myself, personally, or po- litically, or to my friends, or my country, or to society in all. the wide world; I know but one man—my client-—-and his inter- ests. A corrupt, a venal and subsidized press cannot deter me; an organization saturated with malice and hatred to the very core against all who do not see through a yellow haze may threaten me—malicious ag is their design it will be defeated.

[Mr. Hodgson then proceeded to read ex- tracts from the Argus newspaper. Mr. Long- worth interrupted him by saying that there

newspaper had attempted to influence the minds of jurors. Judge Hensley said: ‘‘I shall not restrain Mr. Hodgson, He may read the extracts. ]

I wish that you should distinctly under stand the point of yiey from which I wish you to regard the matter, It is not 4 matter personal to myself. If it was so 1 would not trouble you regarding it.

Gentlemen of the Jury, there is a portion of the Press to which | have given per- mission to abuse me in terms the most elegant and the most choice in the editor’s vocabulary; for | feel certain that I shall rise in the estima-

tion of all good and honest mey in exact pro- portion as I fallin theirs, But this is pot a personal matter. It is a cowardly, dastardly attempt to attack my client’over my shoulders. There are many ways of cloaking an act. It is sometimes difficult to find the source of a brook, Jt may be hidden by dense woods and underbrush, and can be reached only after

Ture was a large and active market to- day. Beef, pork, butter, egys, etc., were, The prices were!

as tollows: Beef, ar., from 4} to 8 cents; butter, fresh, from 24 to 26 cents; butter, tub, from 20 to 22 cents; mutton, from 6 to. 10 conta; pork, from 44 to 54 cents; hay, per 100 lbs,, from 80 to 90 cents; oats, from | 41 to 42 cents; flour, per 100 |ba,, from $3.25 to $3.50; oatmeal, from $2.80 to $3.00;

ney from 25 to 30 cents; eggs, from

to 25 cents.

many devious windings; but when found, we can tell whether it gives forth sweet or bitter waters. Now, in the paper alluded to by me, you willfind such astatementasthis: ‘‘A verictd has been found against Collins ; the Attorney General IS A VicTOR AGAIN.” The point, then, at issue, it appears, is not to permit this Court to ascertain whether my client is in- nocent or guilty of the the alieged riot, but that Mr. Davies may again be a victor. I thought that Crown prosecutions were touphold the majesty of the law, but the Argus says no,

They are that Mr, Davies may bea victor, I\ ther of the late Stephen Swaboy, Esq.

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them as}.

was no evidence in concert to prove that the:

{ will read to you a list of these now aban-

how we may be abused by a portion of the| doned innocents, who by, Iam bound to say,

a most wise discretion, have been relegated to silence and obscurity: John Moore, Charles Hooper, Alexander Horne, John Scott, and even ‘‘Sir” Daniel Stewart. True it is that Scott was brought up as a sort of forlorn hope, but as | was not permitted to cross-examine him, I feel iustified in .laiming him among the abandoned ones.

(To be Continued.)

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A Few words and we dismiss *‘ Ward Four” from further consideration. If an Act of Parliament affects private rights, those who conceive themselves injured by it have a constitutional right to petition against the Act and lay their grievances before the tribunal which has the power to deal with them. Turkey is the only coun. try where this right does not exist, and ‘*Ward Four” is evidently under the im- pression that a Statute, even before it has been assented to, should be regarded 9s an Imperial firman.

It is quite true that Mr. M. McLeod is **not before the public as an occupant of a public office ;’ but we only mentioned his name because we fancied that ‘‘ Ward Four” might, perhaps, be able to understand an argument leading to what logiciang called reductio ad absurdum. But itseems we mis- took. As Dr. Johnson once said to a trouble- some shallow-brained fellow, who, like ‘Ward Four,” was unable to understand a simple argument, ‘‘Sir, although I may be bound to furnish you with arguments, I am not bound to furnish you with brains to un- derstand them,” et Sani ll tpi

Tre corner loafing pest still exists, not- withstanding the fact that a large number of them have been prosecuted. Yesterday evening, one of the recently prosecuted ones, stood in a crowd at Hyndman’s cor- ner, and told the police on beat that he was fined but 25cents., he could be so fined again, but d—d if he would move from the corner. What is the policemen’s duty ?

We regret to learn of the sudden death

the active and energetic Secretary of the 8. P. G. The deceased gentleman was a bro-

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of the Rey. Henry Swabey, well-known as | Cashier at least one day previous to the meet.

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Plans and Specifications to be seen at Peake

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We do not bind ourselves to accept the low-

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Feb. 22, 1878—4i taw LECTURE.

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Friday Evening, Feb, 22nd,

BY REV. D. FITZCERALD. SUBJECT :

“KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.” Lecture to commence at eight o’clock. Ad- mission 10 cents ; ladies 5 cents. JOHN McLEOD, Sec’y.

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Commencing at 8 p. m. (Sharp.)

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Persenation of Religious orders will not be permitted.

No gentleman will be allowed to personate a female character.

Only those taking partin the Carnival will bé allowed in the Dressing Rooms.

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Season ticket holders for promenade, 25 cts.

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RINGS. _

LOT of Solid Gold KEEPER RINGS (handsomely engraved.)

Also, Solid 9, 12, 15, and 1S Carat Gold

WEDDING RINGS received to-day. W. W. WELLNER.

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ADDRESSES _

Massrs, Palmer and Longworth

in the case of the QUEEN vs. MARTIN CARROLL, for Riot, are now on sale in the Bookstores, in Pamphlet form.

PRICE, 5 CENTS. Ch’town, Feb, 19, 1878.

HOUSE PROPERTY,

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Jan. 31st, 1878.

Bank of P, B. Island,

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House, in Charlottetown, on TUESDAY fifth day of March next, at 12 o'clock, bene: for the purpose of electing Directors for the ensuing year, and thetransaction of such other business as may be laid before them.

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LL OUTSTANDING ACCOUNTS paid by Ist MARCH, there will tion unpleasantness immediately after. Mind that,

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froceries and Provisions,

AT HIS OLD STAND,’

and will be pleased to have them call and inspect for themselves.

ON HAND,

10 CHESTS CONGOU TEA,

(‘* New Season ”) 1,090 Lbs. Canadian Cheese,

10 Casks American Kerosene Oil, (120° test ; 36 cts. per gal.)

20 BARRELS SUGAR

{all kinds),

100 Bhis, Sup. Extra Flour,

3 Pans. Very Choice

MOTLASSEHS 20 doz. Pickles, 20 doz. Assorted Jams

20 boxes Dessert Prunes,

100 Tins Sardines.

CANS PEACHES, PINEAPPLES

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NEW RAISINS, ZANTE CURRANTS? DRIED APPLES, STEWING 'PRUNES, 380 QUARTS CRANBERRIES, i

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MERCHANTS Marine Insurance Co'y

OF P, E. ISLAND. NOTICE.

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Wednesday, the 13th March,

AT THRE O'CLOCK,

for the election of Directors for the ensuing year and the transaction of other busizess.

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Manager, Feb. 9, 1878—pat taw till meeting oe

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