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Charlottetown, Dee. 20, 1875,

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WERRY CHRISTMAS, Ere the ExamiIner is again issued, ( tendom will ce mere have com 1 tl Birt! f the Saviour of \ i r ler we W

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R KE ! a) PR J A few weeks ago we showed that Legis tion in Prince Eaward Island costs, per } 1 of the | pul tion, I rly double as

re than doubk

:NovaS oa; 2

} a ‘ck : over a

as much as in in New Brunswick ; over : re than in Quebec, and nearly three times as much as in Ontario. We howed. woreover, thet the number of I irtionately to the tion. is about three times as great

i

} Nov i Sex tl ‘. double as great as

New Brunswick. four times as great as

Quebee, and five times as great as in ‘ With every department of gov- ve ! e 1a shies Provinee mismanaged nd with > failing exchequer, these are startiil facts

To-day w é ttention to the Cis . 4 Prov . Certzinly

. s utte The system by whicl

3 i i introduced in tl (reorg Age ;”’ 1 this system |

}

» patehed and altered to suit the ex

rencies of the times, till it is quite in- scTi vab] e We can on y vive one or 5 istrations, drown from its practi eal working, by which our readers wil’, we trust, | ble to form some idea of its

1 will, we feel sure,

i irst Isl he familiar to an important class of persons

: 5 ig —a class, unfortunately, becoming smali by

degrees and beautifully less. A teacher iraws his small salary at the end of every uuarter. Each time he does so, he has to tain a certificate from the trustees of his school, to the effect that he has < lied in every respect with the pro. visions of our educational laws, and that he has been sober and attentive to his du- ties. The certificate has to be counter

signed by one or more Justices of the

Peace. It is then, together with the yr sent to the Sec—

Board of Education, who.

cister, takeu retary of the

school re

in his turn, examines and certifies to beth. If, however, he finds the certifis cate or register incorrect in any particular

vhich he often does—he sends them back for correction; and a fortnight, three weeks, or a month elapse before they can be returned in proper shape.

‘ertified; and the list to be

e Council, so that

rhey are, the n, agaia teacher's name is entered in a

re the Executi

s } man i may be i I r¢ ved As meets ogs of the Executive Council seldom : ; ; : take place oftener than cace a month—and

the day no man can tell—the teacher

sometimes calls for his order three or Indeed, h

to borrow the money

four times is often obliged

at a heavy discount —thus rendering his already small salary still smaller

sum. So soon as the

ssed his account,’ the

Council has “ pa

Clerk draws an order on the Treasury

for the amount. This he gives to the teacher; and on presenting it to the Treasurer, the teacher at last gets a

All this the teacher has to go through every quarter.

of the banks. sut what we are more concerned with in this argument, is the larce amount of un- | necessary labor the officials are compelled |

When the list of teachers | is Sent to th Office, | mikes two

to periorm to bi paid

the Clerk

(ounci! of the Council

ite- ne for hin self and one tor

‘ 5 the Treasurer; and the Treasurer, as soon as he reeeives the list, again copies i i book of his ow

and returus it

to the Council Office. This one illustra-

tion shows the trifling work at which our

underpaid officials are mployed. Well micht a person deeply interested, with whom W lately conversed, say that ‘who ever introduced this roundabout method, must have had very little else to do.” Now, let us look for a little at the working of the Registry Office. This

office should be self-sus ‘ining. A pt 7

son whe wants to register a document has 0 cht to expect the public to bear part of the cost. The fees charged should e rtainly cover the working ex- penses of the office. Yet, what do we | tind? Nearly $2,000 are paid out of |

the general Treasury for the purpose of

assisting persons to register documents. |

The salaries of the Registry officials are :

Registrar, $050 00

Ist Assistant, 585.00 2d do. 530.00 id do, 438 00 4th do. 458.00 Sth do. 28 OO om ..ae. 1'5.00

83.006.00 Add contingencies, say 500.00 | —~ —- 3 5965.00

Fees rec’vd during year Is74, 1,542.3 Cost of maint’nce over rec’ pts $1,953.69 We have no desire t disparage the officials of the Regist y Office. No | doubt they are all Cay ble meu, who | But the

fact that in 1871—when only the Regis-

a“

know their duty, and do it.

|

trar and one assistant were employed— |

the fees received amounted to forty-seven

dollars more than in 1874, when a Regise

trar and six assistants were employed,

cannot be overlooked, for it shows that |

there is something wrong. And there is | too much reason to believe that the wrong | is but a type of that which exists in every department of the Provincial Civil Ser—| viee. If so, every department of the | Provincial Civil Service needs reforma— tion. We will return to this subject.

>_> PARTIAL ELECTIONS,

As we anticipated, the election on} Thursday last, made only more apparent the puerility and contemptableness of the | opposition offered to Hon. F Kelly, Only | about athird of the votes in the district were polled, and yet Mr. Kelly’s majority

i . | was 520, The returns show: KELLY. BAMBRICK.

Ist Polling Div., Brack. Pt.. 22 40

2nd +6 Covehead, 66 39 ord “6 Southport, 79 20 | 4th «Ft. Augu’us, 229 .

Sith $6 Lot 48, 39 9 035 115 |

Kelly’s majority 526, | In the ] irst District of ix ing’s County, Mr. Lauchlan McDonald was elected His

mojority was we understand, one hundred and eighty-thrie |

| George W. Hodgson

| oldest and most active members of our

. Uk Wh aa ee LAR j ate sci MARI eS NIN Rh Ci a olan SER +a . ’ AY A ieee = . VACDONALD AT THE there al’ the Conservative Party must re- “i , SIR JOHN Ay a Yn rome. @ ks, WHITK BANQUE<. : WHITE BANQUI ple, speaking through their representatives. — — —_—_—_——_—_— ™ ‘ . {the Postmaster Gen 1 LEADER BEVIEWS CANA 11 can only say, gentlemen, that judging By the report Che ostm THE OPPOSITION EA all aay TWANTY from the facets which have been mention. 1 “7 Tana 7 YAN LEGISLATION FOR , or ’ . : aa ‘ r eral for the year ending 30th June, 15+ t, Z zo 1 :—HE VINDICATES THE ACTS OF |; ed by your honoured guest, M1 . White, irs that the number of post ofices ie GOVERNMENT AND GRITICISES THE | this evening, judging from the evidence we « vw S bhatt ‘ ‘a 4 : vt? ' r - velit » LIS OPPONENTS—-HE DISCUSSES | yet every day, the tir.e «a not far distant in the Dominion on the Ist of January ee '

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iA Tail RaSteatsiie Cadet al IE ce. NS

5 ts he, <5 eee: 14a eo

MACKENZIE ON DEPORTYENT: CARTWRIGHT | when the people of Canada ri-ing in. their

1875, was as f slows Ontario and Qui ON THE TARIFF: GEORGE BROWN ON THE) might will say to Mr, ——— , let me say the | ; ' 28. Nova ain ‘USH " CORRESPONDENCE: BUAKE S| Fron.) Mr. Mackenzie (laughter) ;—* Sir, in

hee. 2.943: New Brunswick, 000 avOVE BIG | eee RAWAL, | ee ’ bec, 2,343 ; “ich (loe| SUBMISSION : HUNTINGTON'S WITHDK >} your two short years of Government, you Scotia, 868; Manitoba, 86 ; British Co-| ETC., ETC ' have committed more sin of Omission and : — . ’ } : ~ TT 1 ° ynarge agal 3 lambia, 47: and Prince Edward Island The Right Honorable Sir John A. Me- | commission than were charged wg nst John l of 4.70 t oflices. | ponald, rising to reply, was received with | A during the last twenty years.’ (Cheers.) ‘ ‘ ( 0 mal rising “J . . 17? ki , ; , a tic cheering, renewed = again putitto you, pentlemen, ifyou have read , nia y mnthusri-tic CHner Ik, ‘ 5 es t \ »

I i of n f post rout aaa wan The welcome was unprece, the eloquent speeches of my friend Dr, Tup- . oO ane apy et y oy t > ea. -

1S74 w fae tario and Quel oS. 2a. dented in heartiness When the ipplause per, | putit to you Ww you read my 1m oe x 1 “in John said prompt speech orytbe occasion of the

: New Brunswicl 8 969 Nova | had ceased, Sir John saia 14 . Mr? J R ; Yoo 5 aputiencen oom } Mr. Chairmen and g ‘ntlemen I. one | election of my friend Mr. J. B, Robinson, Scotl ( 1 Manito! 7 British of Majesty's loyal Opposition (cheers), to say if there isone word in those speeches ( . O00. Py Edward Island have come from Toronto to join in this which which was beyond the line of our ie } number of} magnificent demonstration in favor of my | right, if we did not confine ourselves to the 7s 2g OS | 1umber ¢ nagnoim At : ° a ft} snblic rs of ‘

1,208 i4) friend — my political and personal friend— discussioa of the pu a Mba ee this coun~ a. . Q ih , d ’ ' . re < mine our res to ler “

miles annually y d by mai 1Sé Mtr. White. (Cheers.) | feel that it was | try, if we do not confine ourselves to legiti bee, 10,091,225; 1] que to him, due to the sacrilices he has | mate remarks on the conduct of the ad-

sin Ont ri y and Qu New Brunswick, 1,321,334 ; Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Columbia, 194.665; Prince Edward Is land. 249,324—total, 13,929,180. The

number of letters and post cards was

1.993062 79.567; British

1874). in Oatario and Quebee, 31,944, 700: New Brunswick, 1,518,000 ; Nova Seotia, 3,800,000 ; Manitoba, 204,250 ; | British Columbia, 266, 950; Prince Ed- ward Island. 824,600 —total, 39,358,500 ; The number of newspapers ( 1874), was in Ontario and Quebee, 22,550,000 ; New

made, due to the stand he has taken, due

to the position he has honored, to testify |

my respect as one of the old members of {the Conservative Party, for Mr. White.

(Cheers.) But while it was due to him it

was also # great gratification to myself. I)

long in public life have watched the course of Mr. White. I tirst knew him when, at Peterborough, with all the earnestness and enthusiasm of youth, he conducted one of the ablest country newspapers that existed in Canada, I have watched his course ever since, It has been a truly conserya

tive course, not merely, gentlemen, in the party sense of the word, but in the higher patriotic sense, conservative ta thought, conservative in feeling, conservative in pre-

Rrunswick, 2.390.000 ; Nova Seotia, 3,-| serving the connection with the mother . | bts country—that grand old country from 150.000; Manitoba, 190,000 British which we all hail. (Cheers.) I have ( i D1 S20 GU ; Prince Edward Is watched his progress ever since, and I tind

nd. 600.000—tetal, 29,000,000 The | him now with not less earnestness, with ao not less enthusiasm, but with matured numbe r < f re riste red le tters (1874 . ‘was mind and with the experience that he has in Ontario and Quebee, 1,396,000; New | gained by long and intelligent and vigilant

Brunswick, 60,000; Nova Scotia, 83,000, Manitoba.6,.400 ; British Columbia, 5,300 ; P. E. Island, 1,562,900. The number of free letters (18 1.313 UUD:

12,200 —total, 74), was in Ontario and Quebee, New Brunswick, 37,800; Nova Seotia, 36,500. Manitoba, 7,200; British C lumbia, 4,- 500; Prince Edward Island, 8,200—

total, 1.432.200. The number of parcels

1S74) was, in Ontario and Quebec, 75,- 550: New Brunswick, 7,200; Nova Scotia, 16,000; Manitoba, 1,500; Brit

ish Columbia, 1,900; Prince Edward Island, 500—tetal, 102,800.

The postal revenue of Ontario and Que bee for the year ending June 30th, 1874, was $1,238,900.55, expenditure, $1,249,- 182.07;

276.39, expenditure, $130,668.28; Nova

New Brunswick, revenue, $36,- Scotia, revenue, $117,910.89, expendi- ture, $202,848.22;

$3,996.90,

Manitoba, revenue; $16,107.87 ;

British Columbia, revenue, $13,500.55,

expenditure,

expenditure, $71,626,27; Prinee Edward

Island, revenue; $15,532.48, expenditure, $25,057.03. 76; total expenditure, $1,695,480.34. |

The number of money order offices was,

Total revenue, $1,476,207, |

on the Ist of July, 1874, in Ontario and Quebec, 536; New Brunswick, 66: Nova | Scotia, 93; Manitoba, 1; British Col- umbia, 6; Prince Edward Island, 3 | The amount of money orders issued dur- ing the year ending with June, 1874, was} in Ontario and Quebec, $4,181,123.26° New Brunswick, $1,069,359.48 ; Nova Scotia, $1,465,401.65 ; Manitoba,$12,761.- |

83; British Columbia,$2%,744.98 ; Prince | Edward Island, $57,938.45. Total. $6,- | The number of Savings Bank Post Offices in Ontario and Quebee, in which Provinces only they were in|

1574,

8§15.329.66.

operation on the 30th June, was |

266; the number of depositors for the year then ending, 24,968; the total) amount deposited during same year was

$2,340,284, and the amount of deposits and interest to credit of depositors, at the date afore-mentioned, was $3.204.-

905,46.

The value of the issue of postage | stamps and postal cards for the year end- ing June 3]st, 1874, was, for Onturio and | (Juebec, $886,565.75; New Brunswick, $73 Nova Scotia. $04,565 ; Edward Islaud, $24.900 - bia, M

i 812. S00 :

3, 975 Prince British Colum $6,0584— total,

issue for the

initoba,

7 QQ “> 4 21,005,585 Zo. The (

year was, &:

pre— |

vious ISO,075.75. During

the year 1874, twenty-six new Savings

offices were opened I

268. According to

miking the

dank

total number now

the Postmaster-General’s statement, it ap- pears that after seven years’ operation the deposits in the Post Office Savings Bank have reached a point beyond which their increase will only be very gradual, and may be expected to fluctuate with the general financial condition of the country from time to time. Considerable amounts have been withdrawn—in all $1,144,400 —for investment in Dominion stock, mi higher interest offered in which proves a

strong attraction. The number of depo

sitors holding aecounts in the Post Office Savings Banks on the 31st December, i874, was 25,492, being an increase of 590 during the year,

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SYMPATHETIC.

Very general and hearty has been the sympathy of our citizens with the relatives of Charles DesBrisay, Esq., in their late be- reavement. The funeral which took place on Wednesday last, was atteuded by a very large assem ‘2ge drawn from every class of society, and every religious denomination, Venerable Archdeacon Read read the burial service at St. Paul’s Church, and Rey. performed the last solemn rite of the Church, in St, Peter’s graveyard

Tue following Resolutions were passed at a meeting of the Church Wardens andVestry of St. Paul’s Church, held on Thursday, the 16th December, 1875, and a copy forwarded to the bereaved widow :-—

Whereas, by the Providence of Almighty God, Charles DesBrisay, Esq., one of the

congregation, suddenly died on Sunday evening, the 12th inst., while officiating in the pulpit of St. Paul’s Church as lay teader,

Resolved Therefore that the Church Wars dens and Vestry of St. Paul’s ( hureh, do hereby record their deep sense of the loss the church has sustained by the removal of one, who, for many years past, took a most active and zealous interest in the welfare | and spread of her doctrine, and whose syms | pathy and assistance, so cheerfully given at | all times, to the poor and sick of our cons | gregation, will long be treasured as a stand- | ing record of his christian character, and

| 48 & practical proof of his reverent fsith in |

the teachings of the church he loved so | well, Resolved further, that our warmest sym | pathies on our own behalf and that of the | congregation, be tendered to his widow and son, in this time bereavement, Artgur Newnery, V. Clerk. | }

CHARLOTTETOWN, December 17, 1875. Sir,—My mother has received with much gratitication, the resolutions passed at a meeting of the church Wardens and Vestry of St. Paul’s Church, and enclosed in your

letter of the 17th inst.; and, for myself, I | Save, return them my sincere thank; .._ deprived our

: anks for their have foreed our factories to work only | | at half or quarter time, is it any answer to.

expression of sympathy. Yours faithfully, Signed Wituiam C, DesBrisay. A. Newpery, Esq,

| Brown,

'of Nuevo | gentlemen, | know that every one of you

| ber for Lambton, &c.”’

| we were reckless, criminal or incapable;

observation of publie aflairs, till he now stands one of the first journalists in Canada, (enthusiastic cheers) worthy of this demons- tration, and worthy of the exertions which ‘have been made by the true electors of Western Montreal. It is true that be has told us that he is a defeated candidate,and no one regrets that defeat more than | do; not only on my own account, but on ac~ count of the party of which, for the present at all events, I may be considered as the | leader. (Cheers.) Mr. consolation, that the loss is to his party, the great Conservative party, that the loss | is to the city of Montreal (‘ we know it’)— that the loss is to myself, who looked fora ward hopefully to having him acting with

me, fig!ting with me, battling, as I said a |

few evenings ago, with the beasts at | Ephesus. But, as Mr. White has said, it is no defeat; it is a great triumph, for he had the real honest vote of Montreal, and | has in this demonstration the testimony of | the wealth, intelligence, enterprise and commerce of Montreal. (Cheers.) I might, gentlemen, at this late hour, content myseif with making these remarks, (No! no! go on!) and with thanking you for the honor conferred upon her Majesty’s Oppo- sition; only that beiug a lawyer I am fond of precedents, and I find that at a similar banquet, perhaps not sO numerously at-~ tended, which took place in Montreal, in

| honor of a most estimable gentleman, Mr.

Frederick MacKenzie, his namesake, the Premier of the Dominion, took occasion to enter into

SOME OF THE POLITICAL QUESTIONS OF THE DAY,

and following the precedent, I shall, with your permission, do the same. (Loud |

Cheers.) Gentlemen, I feel bound to follow

| the example set me by the Premier of Canada—by the Honorable Alexander Mac- | | kenzie—for we must be careful to speak

of him as the Honorable Alexander Mac- kenzie in the future. (Laughter.) We all got a lesson lately, which I know you will take to heart, in politeness and deport- ment. We were told that no more must

| be be styled Sandy Mackenzie (renewed

laughter); that no more must such an one be spoken of as Archie McKellar, or an- other as Geordie Brown; that you must speak of them as the Honorable Archibald McKellar and the Honorable George didn’t know, Gentlemen, be- fore | read that speech, what a deeply in- jured man [ was myself; I didn’t know that the people of Canada, from the Atlans

| tic to the Pacific, had been insulting me

for thirty years by calling me ‘John A.

(Laughterand cheers.) Andthen! could not but reflect, when that speech will be re-~echoed, as such a speech deserves to be re-echoed, across the Atlantic, how Ben Dizzey and Bob Lowe will feel that, great statesman as they are, and one of them the Premier, they should be called plain Dizzey and Pob Lowe, (Laughter.) So, gentleman, remember that he is the Honor- able Alexander Mackenzie. It is said that in Spain the great old grandees, founders of the ancient families of Castile and Leone

the Duke of Ossuna und the Duke of Ma- | | dina Sidonia or the Duke of Madina Celi,

and such great grandees, when they spoke of each other called one and other Ossuna Sidonia or Celi, and sc on, but when 5 spoke of anew man they styled him the noble and illustrious Hidalgo, the Hombre. (Laughter.)

White has this |

| Canadians for ten years only,

|

they |

Marquis |

Now,

ministration ?

Our Views may be wrong, you will not tind one word without its war-

jrant. We attacked no private character ,

| we made no fling at private conduct; we

never struck below the belt. (Enthnsias« | tic cheers.) But before the people of this | country, through the press of the country, we arraigned the conduct of the Adminis- | tration for their management of affhirs, for their legislation, and for no other fault. | And, gentiemen, what said Mr, Mackenzie | im response to these speeches? He alleg ed in his speech the other day, that he was answering the remarks made by my honor- able friend and myself. Was the tone worthy of the Premier of Canada, of a man standing up to defend his conduct, and show that he was fit for the position that he nol ix, to show that he had been a faithful stewart to show the wisdom and justice of his ad

ministration and the purity of his party 2 |

(Cries of oh!

oh! big push, ete.) Mr Mackenzie made the error that he always dées, of Mistaking coarseness for strength (Cheers.) The Hon Adex. Mackenzie is a countryman of my own: he is a hard head. ed Scotchman, NHemakes, clear, well reas« oned, logical speeches, but the gods have not made him poetical. He wants imagin ation, and though his speeches are sound and sensible and able, they are, I must say, ; upon the whole as dry as a limeburner’s | shoe. [Laughterand cheers ] The other | day he assumed a new character; he broke | ont in a new phase loud laughter |, and for the first time in his Jife,he fayored his au- | dience with a poetical quotation. Now, it rather surprised me when he, the Puritan Premier, had the whole range of British pos etry to quote from, that he had preferred to quote that rake-helly old Sam Butler. {laughter.] Poetry is called a garden of sweets, a garland of roses, either raising the imagination by the sublime, or charming the fancy by the beauty of the sentiments of the poet. Now, let us call to cur memor the quotation made by the Hon, Alex. Mc. Kenzie. It is this: “The Prince of Cambay’s daily food Is asp and basilisk and toad, Which gives to hiarso strong a breath, He nightly stinks ww queen to death.”

|Laughter.}) You may judge, gentlemen, from this poetical exerciseof the Premier of Canada, of the kind of answers we get in the House. We tell him, your Pucific policy is wrong. He answers, you are an asp. [Loud laughter, } i Tariff is a mistake, You are a basi-

lisk. {Renewed laughter.}] We say to him ‘‘ how about the steel rails?’ “ You area toad.” [Laughter.] IL have seen him again and again in the house of Commons, give answers not more consequent and quite | 4s polite as the answers | have been suppus ing at this moment. But I suppose the honorable gentleman considers that this was a specimen of what we call in Scotland |‘ wut.’ .(Loud laughter.) I might say, |} gentlemen, as I am inthe poetical vein as | well as himself, that looking at his free | trade speeches in Scotiand and his protec tion speeches in Montreal, he might re- member two lines of the same poet from whom he quoted ;—

| What makes all doctrine piain and clear,

| *LTis just two thousand pounds a year, And prove that false w as true be fore, The answer plain, two thousand more.”

| (Laughter and cheers.] In Mr. Mackenzie's

j | speech, as you must see, he attempted to)

change the issue by talking of our incapa~ city. He specially contrasted himself and | me, and said, what right had I to speak of any one being incapable when I made such a mess of

THE WASHINGTON TREATY ?

Although there was no mission, although there missioners appointed by Her Majesty, of whom | was the fifth, be said that Treaty showed the utter incapacity of myself, and therefore it did not lie in my mouth to charge anybody with incapacity! One of the first instances he gives is that in the Treaty, the navigation of the St. Lawrence was made free to Americans for all time, while Like Michigin was made open to Now Mr MacKenz:e must have known, because he had the pspers before him, that instruc. tions were given to the head of that Com, mission that the navigation of the St. Law- rence was to be free. ‘I'he Commissioners bad no discretion in the matter; it was an

Imperial Com-

are I’. F. C’s (of the first families of Canada), instruction from the Imperial Parliament,

and that while you are at liberty to address each other as Tom, Dick or Harry, you must always speak of Mr. Misckenzie as ‘the Honorable Alexander Mackenzie. Premier of the Dominioa of Canada, mem, (Renewed laught er.) Having thu; called your attention to the proprieties, and to the necessity of mending your manners in this respect, | would say it is very strange that this gentle. man who gave usa lesson in deportment seems to forget in his speech that he was Premier. Itseems that he had been so long in Opposition that he fancied he was Opposition still. He had told us in terms that the duty of an Opposition was to ob- jectand attack the Ministry of the day, and if they did not do that, there was no use in an Opposition ; and yet in his speech forgetting that he was a Minister, forget~ ting that he had to give an account of his ateward-ship, forgetting that it was his duty to defend his position and to vindicate his rights to the position he now holds, his speech was entirely against the late Administration, against my late col. leagues and my unfortunate self. fLaughs ter.] You can judge from reading that speech if itis such a speech as ought to come froma Premier, Mr. Mackenzie said it didn’t rest in our mouths to judge of the competence of the Government, because we had shown our own incapacity. Well, gentlemen, if so, we were out; we have suffered the consequences of those errors, and he ought to know that a Minister can- not hold his position by the demerits or incapacity of the Opposition. You can judge, gentlemen, from the speech which was delivered in this city the other night the nature of the answers that we of the Opposition receive in Parliament when we arraign the conduct of the Government. Just in accordance with the tone of that speech are we answered in Parliament when we perform our duty to our con- stituents and our country—when we per- form our functions as an Opposition, ar- raigning their conduct, pointing out their shortcomings and warning them of the un. wisdom of their course. Mr. Mackenzie, instead of answering the attacks of the Op- position, instead of justifying the course of the Ministry, instead of vindicating the wisdom of their measures and the justice of their administration, turns round as he did the other night and personally attacks the members of the Opposition, tries to change the issue, tries to bark back on the defunct administration, tries to avoid the discussion of its measures, tries to avoid the necessity of defending his course by gross attacks upon the members of the Opposition, endeavoring to lead the House away from the consideration of his own course, his own demerits, to past issues that are of no consequence to the country —of no consequence to any one. (Cheers. } But we are out now, we are suftering the consequences of any errors we have com- mitted. It would be no answer to say that

that we had shown ourselves unworthy of the confidence of the people. that we were as they say,

Supposing | } Is THat any ANSWER

| to a charge against themselves ? If we Pay, you have ruined our have destroyed our

tea trade, you manufactures, you shaken our credit, you have! workmen of work, you

say that the Ministers before them were un-_ worthy of the position they held» We are @utin the cold shades of Opposition, and

advice of the highest authorities on inter, | nat on il law was followe!. i hese gentlemen |

from the Liberal Government, from the Gladstone Government, that we should surrender the navigatwn of the St. Law. rence. It is true I‘ might have taken. my hat and walked’baek te Canada. but'that

would not have done Canada any good,

but I say this, if you read those speeches, |

We tell him that

were five Com- |

| ought to obtain a resassurance of the free

} main until recalled by the voice of the peo- | navigation of those rivers to British and

Canacian «commerce. (Cheers,| Then Mr. MacKenzie said further, looking at that clause in the Treaty allowing Cana- dian vessels to gothrough the canal at the | St. Clair flats, that the Americans had put |

because the mstructigns, were positive, and | it providing that the United States should |

the navigation of the $t. Lawrence would have been handed over whether I was there or not. Well,.Mr. Mackenzie knew that and

in candor he ought to have told his audience so, L might perhaps have walked away, | ernment—the Gladstone Government, — but as this surrender was a foregone con- | pear, hear—anxious to settle all Matters

clusion, and as there were other questions up, involving questi of Canadian in- terest more deeply than the navigation of the St. Lawrence, ! remained to perform my duty, and | have~the thanks of my colleagues in Canada, and of the Parlias ment of Canada for doing so, And there was another reason—because the Americ, cans, by getting the free navigation of the St. Lawrence did not, in fact get anything. In the first place, you know that the Treaty provides that the navigation of the St. Lawrence is given for commercial pur. poses, only, and not for war; the United States bound the St. Lawrence down to St, Regis ; the Americans’ own our bank, and therefore they had the navigation of the internal waters down to that point. From the point where both banks of the St. Lawrence belong to Canada, the Americans had no power to use it, begause there is not a single inch where a’ vessel can go up, They might run the rapids, but they could neverreturn. So we were not really giving the Americans anything. Rut the latter claimed it as a matter of sentiment, though they knew that without the use of our canals it was worthless. [Cheers.] It may be said it gives the Americans the right to use the Lower St. Lawrence for commer~ cial purposes. But we give the same right to every nation under the sun; we court,

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’ VW he sald b Auction, at Ware Ouse oo | their works on our waters. That is just | 'T MONDAY, the 27th ‘Deee mber, a ae " tic j the question The A merican Government , ‘ o'clock a. m., (unless previouel liimed. “e it i :

i , = , I and Charges thereon duly paid) tha maeee® , say the improvements are not on our side ; | S. PET ZR S BOY > SCHOOL. ine Ot Dds, WARES ind MERCH AN DIN Ow - we say they are within our line. The Treaty — | i sie naan etitinemientae o -~

| says that wherever these improvements may The Season will open on | Sonne Wile,” ee oe OO be,— improvements made at the expense of | | 1 cask Turpentine, r L. & Co, the people of the United States, they shall j Thu rsday, the 30th Dec., > ete ae 0 ‘a be free to Canadian vessels whether on the | with the Laughable Farce of » cases Lrand ? W. W.¢ American or Canadian side. [Cheers. } wl 12 half octaves de., He goes on and attacks the capacity of the No | ROU Nd T hy CORNER 0 peireloum’ is late Administration, as a whole, on account : v | Ie oy s Koompaper,“ T.0, ¢ of and the Comedietta of } : a sy het Jae. MeLanect lan. TZ LOCATION OF THE INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY, | t bart Spikes, " RET th gp . . 7s - r rang, 2 Cases, ” i, but if there is one thing the late Adminis-| RET YJ W WW HI DE | | ao “ a 7 HL. tion ought to be proud ot, it is the con- se dale 1 Cask, “ 37776-21 struction of the Intercoloniai Railway,which By il. P. CRAVEN, l hhd. Brendy, * John Carro}j 0! : t] hast tailores : oe ' aiid 1 Bale, M. & Co. ° s the be railway of ‘ts class snd the ik Hh edi ae fol. | 2 Bales, “ B&S land the cheapest of its class in America. Further it erformances willbe given as fol- i ite : L. & Ca. {hear, hear., And, Sir, as to the location | 2 ee : ; — Tubs « _F W. Strong, ct of that railway, the hon. gentleman states | Jan. 4—‘‘ Blighted Being, and “ Poor) 7 Rox ad 1 Barre 1, Wright € Robs - in his speech that he knew that I was ops | ‘ Pillicoddy 4 pkgs. Stair Fixings, oe u 1 I e that I | 1 cask Oil: i3B “g “ | posed to it, and that Mr.McDougall was | Jan. 11—‘ Poor Pillicoddy,” and “No. | 3 bbis. Glassware, jenn anne ™ | opposed to it, and that for the sake of Zound the Corner.’ | 1 Box, “ 0 _ a office, and contrary to our opinions, and | Jan. 18—* Milky White.” and * Blighted } t : ask, - oe no mark, ex Minerva, ; : : } | ; a |; » boxes Copper Paint, marked A. McNeijil. li our consciences, we put the line in its | being. | 1 cask Glasswere, “ Newbery Bros. present piace, instead of running it down! [py preparation: —‘** Two Puddifoots ;” ; oem “ "i LM Gr the valley of the St. John, (Hear, hear.] | “ pone on Both Sides;” ‘* Box ond Cox;” | 1 Barrel.’ Matthowd Melon This statement has been made before, but | + Deal Boatman:” &c.. &e. cask O}1, W. ; an or : a . . i ciliate can * ” ” 1 it has been denied and has been disprov- Doors open at 7; to commence at 7.30! 2 boxes Axle Grease, B.S. & Co, o} ed in Parliament, and Mr, Mackenzie,when punctually, 1 Box, “ 8. Side Bank he was making that statement, knew that | . oe oo ar ’ 1 can Oil, 7” A. : it had been disproved and yet he re N. B.—As there is only a limited amount | 2 Cases, . i ‘ i a ~~ ~| of room it is hoped that seats will be | 1 Box, , “. William Murphy. d peated the old calumny in making the secured early to avoid crowding 1° me et 0} statement,—I do not wish to use gehen PR pent ee mayen > a | language, and he was wilfully using this |. ‘“Cmission -» cents. | 1 cask Gil, “ Edw. Poole © ’ ‘ : Ch’town, Dec. 20, 1875.—p h ne onan | language and making this statement, when | , saline Theat encanta ail a eitebieaiins ms aoe Gildis, he had, of course, the statement of all my | | 3 heiee aied We. er, |, McK, F. 20a, ou colleagues and of myself in Parliament. | CHRISTMAS SALES ! 1 Case, “ oe nk [ ear, ceed Se consider for » | Sere ie sie: . we onan moment. In 1858 there was an arrangemen 1 Barrel and 1 Box, Morrow & Co. made at the request of Nova Scotia, and | BY AUCTION, | ALSO—At the same time and place, 15 quarter New Brunswick, with the British Govern- ON | casks SHERRY WINE. a ee 2. /ment, by which the British Government | dD. cU i ivinitn i | ' j »* ). ( T ZR 4%, Collector oa |agreed to give a guarantee to half the | Monday, Tuesday, Wedoestay, and Thursday Ev'gs, | leds 7” ms eras, . cost of the construction of that Road, on : : ee ee ge } condition that the Imperi ul Government | this week, at 7 o clock, a large and useful | 2 om ee ee |should have the selection of the route, | variety of FANCY ARTICLES of all kinds, AUC TION ! | |{Hear, hear.) When Mr. Sandfield Mac- | Suitable for . yee | donald’s Government came in, in 1862—it + | agreed to endorse that statement and carry CHRISTMAS PR FSENTS CASH. $2,060 WANTED, ex povadge fh sername a e ror AND T SALESROOM, ON WEDNESDAY, } \ Gai, % emien, < ate ate OO, | - - yy 1 Vv ia » 9») ‘clock -— _ | in the debates in the Parliament at Que- NX EW y E ARS G Ik IS, Ba the ae ae apts o'clock ; Fa | bec, on the Quebec resolutions which were| ~ m ww Pe Coatings, I'weeds and Doeskins; Ci, | to form the basis of Confederation and ess ALSO ad _ mp and White Cotton; 10 do, H | tablish the Dominion, Mr. Mackenzie made | ; , ee a own! My oe a nletewe Lad ane : . * mn esS Materials; othing, in Coats, | an e laborate spe ech, . tating that he was | Ready Made Clothing, Confection Vests, Pants and Caps, Woollen and in favor of the Robinson line was worthy of | . Fancy Shirts. Woollen C ; j ; ah ; rs ceries &c. ancy Shirts, Woollen Clouds, LR. and of | adoption [applause]; and I have no hesi- ery, Groce ’ ° Web Braces; White and Colored Cot | tation in Stating, gentlemen, that that line : i ton Warps; Linen and Shoe Threada- on > Aner Consignment, and will be closed out arps; 4 i Shoe Threads | and that route is correctly located for the ee . | Tailors’ Canvas and Linings; Candle. th i of getting communication from McNEILL, Auctione | wick; Ladies’, Gents’ and Children’s cu Halifax with the St. Lawrence. Running | I A. ‘tare wiisds, Auctioneer. Boots, Slippers and Overshoes; 100 laline through New Brunswick dowa the | Monday, Dec. 20, 1875. bexes Confectionery, in H. H., R., valley of the St. John, with a cross-road Ta F Strawberry, and Gum Drops, of | to Halifax, would have been no carrying | N. RANKIN, out of the scheme, but the people of Nova | Dee. 20, 1875.—1in Auctioneer, - Scotia and a great portion of the people | 3 9 | - = ————. M | of New Brunswick would have a right to} | complain of a breach of faith if the line | 1875. 1876. SPLENDID VASES, | Were not located where it is now (hear, hear.) BUY YOUR a : we pe | But, Sir, there are other reasons, and con. + JUST TBE THING FOR hs | clusive reasons, why that road should be | CH RISTV AS GIFTS , 80 located where it now is, England had with | \ ath J Christmas Presents | drawn her troops, and we had the pledge | AND | ws of England, and the pledges—the pledges , ig on of the British Governmemt-—have never | N Y p t . es violated {Loud applause,] we had | ew year rresen S, N I W YE {R G IFTS 7 the pledge of England that in case we were AT {} tN Ad < x Wy co attacked by foreign foes, no matter from ’ or . | what quarter, and no matter from what HARVIE'S BOOK-STORE At Harvie'’s Book - Store. & | source, the whole military and naval power| *’&¢- *¥ pistes _ | Queen’s Square, Dec, 20, 1875. }of the Empire would be at our disposal | ~~ sain ” | (cheers], and would be exercised in our dex | P E ISLAND RAILWAY fense, provided that we gave England the ik ‘ ) means of defending us, by providing a road, | TT nm a military road, whereby she could send | THE BEST ASSORTMENT "'rERNDERS fc | her troops with the military stores in| FOR la winter and in summer to fight our t 3 ttetown. : | winter | amma ig ab ur battles. Ever Imported to Charlottetown, E p | (Cheers) A road down the valley of the | SNOW F NCING ! | St. John would have been in no sensea’ Church Services, ae ” ; military road; and instead of being a! Prayer Books, YENDERS are invited for the construc- is | sourse Of strength, it would have been a | Iiymn Books, ~ tion of about Sixteen Miles of Snow b source of weakeness. | Applause} A rail- | Golda Pe — ‘is Fencing. I lans of the fence required, and ; Way running along the territory between |. in — oe * | detailed specifications can be seen at the t ‘the State of Maine and New Brunswick | C®ristmas Cards, | office of Mr. G. C. Cuningham, Engineec,at fr would have been a source of weakness, be- Chromos, the Railway office, at ( eee ee on t) | ciuse with the enormous military force | Wax Flowers & Shades, - aa eee cone or al ithe United States have got in case of war. | lee a —h | ans Se es mee & gua’ anes as And Abundance of other Goods Tenders will be received addressed to and take oat aa ad at a, ee ing | SUITABLE FOR the undersigned, and marked outside, R it the means o _ Sending the American - “Tenders for Fencing,” up to 8ist Decem- f troops to conquer Canada, instead of being Christmas and New Year Gifts, ' ber, and work will be required to be vigor- , the mans of sending British troops to) ously prosecuted as soon as the weather a protect it. (Hear, hear.] And more than | AT will permit in the spring. No tender will b | that, gentlemen, while the negotiations | he be accepted for less than one mile. No | were going on, and after the negotiations H a ry | e S B 6 0 kstore | tender will be considered that is not on the p were finished, after Confederation, while | § proper priated form. . we were considering the line and location | C. J. BRYDGES, v of the railway, we asked the British Gov-s | Queen Square. Gen’'] Sup’t. Gov. Railways. r ernment in order that there might be no Dec. 20, 1875, Ch'town, Pec. 20, 1875.—3i . mistake, if it would sanction a ed - —_——— line; and the reply of the English Govern-~ AXES XE 7 ment was that they would sanction no | C AL NOTICE ! EGS, A. Ss. t such line~thay would consider that the | j d | bargain had not been carried out—that | tere 40 Dozen AXES, t | they would grant no such guarantee, and | THE subscriber is obliged In Broads, Underhills and Boirons, ‘that they could not carry out their pres | . ati ue ie : or ‘. “wee | i fhich we yarrani a _ ae bes — ee to intimate that all amounts | , d ' - > [with the whole force of the Empire, if| | oO" WHOLESALE =AND- RETAIL. that road was exposed, as such a road | due him on account of THE | ‘ j j 5 , . 5 7° = . a | would be. {[Hear, hear, and applause | | W. E. DAWSON & CO. | Now, we have got a railway remote from | EN AMINE R—ceither by | Ch'town, Dee. 20, 1875. 4w b | the frontier—And as long as the military | . mi aii power of England exists, and as Jong as Note of Hand or Book Ace t ‘the military power of England continues remner res t }as itis now, that road will always be a count—to the 1st June. 1875, "> \ | military road, and one upon which we can ae ad t depend for our defence in winter and in remaining meperrd afte ; the HA’ E just about completed the best as- j | summer against all comers. i Se i oa sorted and largest ( Before | leave the question of the Wash. | loth JANUARY next, 187 b, oc l ington Treaty, | willsay, gentlemen, that | ; . . St k of Stationery there was one point in it with which Tes.| wil he sued for without re- pecially agreed; and that was a clause in : yer! importe d by them, to which the atten- spect of persons, tion of traders and the general t be recommended to restore to Canada the | pubite is Invited ‘