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THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP.

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{ | Robert Hodgeon—then Chief Justice—|

_ under a deep sense of ri sponsibility, interpreted the “ Land Assessment Act ; : a in a manner which did not commend its |

ublic, it was

self tothe non-professional p Mr. Palmer who suggested and provided the materials for the celebrated ‘‘ Ramsay | nounced and vilified with al] the bitter

ness and hatred which long years

brooding over an imaginary wrong had | will |

intensified to an extent which, we

| venture to say, has never been witnessed before. It was 4 cowardly act thus to | and to hide behind a} Yet, he Gid it. And when he had been appointed Judge of | | the County Court—when his political | A

screen himself

client's name, }

opponents had overlooked his treachery, land given him a judicial office, with a} salary equal to that of the then Chief) Justice—he accepted it; and for awhile

{he was still, But it was only so long as i he conceived Judge Peters to be beyond |

| his power. The moment his slow-moving ' mind conceived the idea that he might be | placed above him, he at once took the | | field and canvassed with a vigor and an energy which threw into the shade every | | effort he had ever previously made us 4 politician to procure his return at a con-

tested election. | Mr. Palmer may say, these are general. | lities. He, or his friends, may ask that | ‘time and place, and the particular ex- | pressions he has made use of be given, 'so that he may categorically deny them.

} solicited

| Island !

} eraiuty

| Letters ’’—in which the Bench was de-| Mr. 1

| princely gift will speak

; dom, his patriotism, anda

| He has fairly covered Messrs.

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THE PARK BILL. Tre Cabinet of the Dominion has, un

House and

Farm to to the people of Prinee Edward

siven Government * This spontaneous act of lib ’? was ——we are told by the Patriot ' - Laird He

advised by Mr

‘no doubt

wird has redeemed himse!f

| has atoned for all--all his past offences

ot i ; se | against political decency, morality and hon-

He has laid for himself the foundation The

mets} horie lly

or. of a great and enduring monument. ns.

. 31! ef course —to unborn generat! Tt will

tell of his power, his knowledge, his wis } ye ind be- yond all—of his magnificent, his ineffable irits-

liberality. Great and generous spi

such as Mr. Laird’s

the earth without enveloping in the glo- |

rious halo which constantly surrounds them all those with whom they are in eny

way connected; and Mr. luaird has shed |

his bright effulgence o’er the constellation *

of which he is such a “ particular star

McKenzie

j and Dorion with glory.

But here is the teste. Let us read it. Mark well the

the princely Cabinet of Canada gives to

‘burning '’ words in which

ithe Government and the Legislature of

of the said province of Prince Edward Is- land ‘a splendid property’’— ichich is not its to give _—

On the recommendation of the Honorable

| the Minister of Public Works, and under the | provisions of the 108th section ofthe “Brit- ish North America Act, 1567,

and the Sth

|The demand would not be an unreason- | section of the 3d schedule attached thereto,

‘able one; and, by anticipation, we will comply with it. on Queen Square, he canvassed a leading

| His Excellency the Governor General : ; Council, has been pleased to order, and it During last spring, up-|is hereby ordered, that the Government

House, at Charlottetown, in the province of Prince Edward Island, its grounds and pre-

Tae appointment of the Hon. Edward | merchant to use whatever influence he | mises, together with the farm, thereunto

Palmer to the « fic: Chief Justice of this mplished through the

Island has been accomp! efforts of a small but unprincipled cliijue of politicians in Charlottetown. When it is considered that their ideas of fitness t .

r of

Mr. Albert Yates and Mr. John Haszard, it is notto be wondered at that Mr. Palmer

should be marked ont for preferment.} spo open square, in a voice tremulous | fuects or to have greatly misappri

| wersed—that Judge fice find expresseon in the appointment of | Chief Justice, Judge Hensley, Master og; House and the proposed Park.

could to urge his appointment to the He was frankly told and

Chief Justicesbip. that the general feeling was- shared by the person with whom he con- Peters should be

wis

he (Mr. Palmer) Vice

the Rolls, and Chancellor.

|} attached and held therewith, shall be,

And then and there, upon | been either strangely ignorant «

and

they are hereby appropriated to the use of

| the Government and the Legislatare of the

said province of Prince Edward Island.

In our last issue we explained pretty fully the fvets concerning Government The

Cabinet of the Dominion appears to have these

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y ended

But they had another object mm view be- | gigh suppressed passion, he denounced | them. Government House Farm is no!

sides the making ofa questionable ap} vint- ment, 1 hey | mnged to ¢ast a reflec tion,

their feebk

so far as it was in power 0) was, thet Judge Peters was 0 member of |he contended that Government H do so, upon a Judge eminent tor ability | 4), family compact—Jdudge Peters who! Farm was public property ind that i distinguished for his unimpeachable | y95 not, and never had, a single relative | « jt came within the designation of Sec. 8 integrity, merely beeat in the fearless upon the Island beyond his own family. | of the British North America Act, 1867,” | discharge of his duties, he refused to; And this charge to come from a man— | If the premises laid down by the Hon. | truckle to any Government, or any poli-| yf, Edward Palmer—who had done all) Minister of Justice had been true, his | t | nd r regardless of those | the dirty work of that “ family compact ” | conclusion would have been correct ; the | iderations which « more pliant Judge | which he then denounced ; who opposed | action of the Dominion Government in | he i iall tried out every liberal measure, from the ‘“ One-! recommending Her Majesty not to as- the pr s w he was sworn tO| Ninth Bill ”’ to the Reciprocity Treaty ;/ sent to the Park Bill would have been ipt id who, when he saw that power and place just; and the sift of Goverument House When Mr. Laird, in furtherance of the | were slipping from the grasp of that same | and Farm to the Local Government and wretched xceptional policy whieh | « family compact,” sought to silence the | Legislature, would not have been an “airy has | : = l Island, re el quent voice of its greatest opponent — nothing. ’—as it is Government House tu if fh r whom Mr. | ¢he Hon. Edward Whelan—by procuring | Farm was, in the reiga of King Georg BP r had appointed them, or (to such ap his conviction for perjury; who, because the | the Third. eranted to Lord Dorchest exter : ' , they h P- | Trishmen and the Catholics could never Governor General of Canada. and to his pened to be on terms of intimacy with | go far forget themselves as to vote for) successors in office,to be by them held, in him, it was hoped that Judi appoint-| him. denounced them as ‘the men with | trust. for the use and be sali of the Line ments would be madegvith more consider- | tow foreheads and long yellow teeth.” sennnt Governor o¢ Adwinistrator of thi tion for propriets 1 deceacy. It was In many places, and to many men, he Government of the Col ny for the time hoped that the highest position on the | has denounced those judicial interpreta- | peing, The deedis on record. N ) power Bene would } } by w thy oceus | tions of the law, which Judge Peters, as on earth can break it without tl consent } snt od all wer ere ]l asto whom the mouth-piece of the Supreme Court. has of ceuk tevin to th. The Qu : sai should be. It was not thought that the had oceasion to pronounce, tle goes up- eins ah : seme bares lly eranted it to inferior Courts would be ransacked for an | on the Bench pledged to procure their the Governor General for a specific pur- indivi lu al whose it ility was more t! an reveraal. He has promised this in his pose ; the Governor General cannot. a. taske i by the cases which came before him canvass for the office of Chief Justiceship exese he only holds it ia trast for tl there. So strong was this feeliog, that it | over and over again, with many a signi SS tical Bou, ae at aw akan: tien was not confined to any party. Men on | ficant hint as to who should first be made Lieutenant Governor cannot, bi anse it is both sides of politics, local as wellas Do- | to feel his resentment. vested in his superior. The formal con— minion, were influenced by it ; and so Judge Hensley has been passed by— sent of all three must be obtained before much so was this the case that exceptional and designedly so. That he deserved the deed of Government Farm can be and highly discreditable means were re- better things of the Liberal party, is Oe nese sorted to. to induce the Cabinet to violate | admitted by all. And yet, in his canvass sii matter how magnificently liberal the spirit of the British North America | for office, Wr. Palmer has not hesitated its intentions—can present ths farm, as Act ond to make the sppointment they | to denounce him too. a free and ‘“ unsolicited’’ gift to the hav o : | And so, for the first time in the history people of Prince Edward Island. When Mr. Palmer was appointed | o¢ in, Colony, a Chief Justice has ob- Mr. Laird is, — or should be —coenizant County Court Judge, his first act was to | pained his promotion by means that an | of this fact: and, as we list week demon-

appoint his son—-we believe a minor, and a |

Judge Peters. suppose to be his disqualification

¥ 3

He

honorable man would scorn to use.

And what do our readers | —never was—public property

The Min

ister of Justice argued from a fallacy when

wt

strated, he should have made it known to

re — = rkship of the | wit} take his seat amid the dec p regrets | the Cabinet of Canada. He did not; and Court. This 2 « Ney : m, strongly to | oF the profession, and with an utter ab-| he has been revenged of the citizens, be condemned as it was, the press, out of | sence of confidence on the part of the Mr. Pope, when be was at Ottawa, act-

oasiderstion for Mr. Palmer, passed i } At la

high

st remonstrapces

xuthority, pro-

cured the canceling of young Mr. Pa

mers appointment. : nd Judge Palmer im- i :

mediately filled up the

nephew, Mr. Henry Wright.

with his What Mr.

vacancy

Wricht’s special fitness for this office was, |

we never could understand. We h

seen him in the aa Clerk of ti

actieg County Court?

and we feel bound to suy that if he pos- even the slichtest possible he

sesses the art of concealing it more effee-

sessese 20Yy,

smount of ability whatever, also pos-

tually than ony individual we ever knew. The reason of his appointment, however, aoon t

yecame evident

ides those of a County

quir sd of him b

Court Clerk : for he ope nly hawked about petitions to the Cabinet asking for his uncle’s appointment as Chief Justice, and canvassed for him after the manner of the frien ls of diare put ible and corrt pt Judes in the State of New York.

His canv Henry Wright's endeavors himself canvassed in every direction for

| public.

\a retiring pension,—the

¥e |

» Supreme Court and «also

Other duties were re- |

until some future Minister of Justice

of which will have the merciful effect of re-

acceptance

moving the infliction which has been in which t!

visited upon us,

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BRITISH COLUMBLA,

| Tne Seeretary of State for the Colonies has interposed his good offiees for the | settlement of the unseemly quarrel be-

| tween British Columbia and the Domin- ion Government. In late despatches it is stated that he has kindly offered to act

| as arbitrator—provided that each of the | : ; consent and recommendation of the Gov—

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Governments agree to accept his decision British Columbia will no doubt

| as final.

| zie’s reply, it is stated, will depend upon ithe view taken of it by the Northern ! Pacific Railway Company.

There appears to be great indignation 'in the “ Pacific Province’ against the

i half-mast in Victoria

his own apoointment—through the streets | embroglio is settled the better.

°C lott town and upon the public —-

roads of the country. Towards Judve | CIVIC ELECTIONS.

Peters he made no seeret of his animosity. | f

oe ere oo * eo #06 | tiers for thie city will take plese t- a a 8 s ‘ a aa Bes w | morrow. We are pleased to learn that ; 2 s . ee ie el te | N. Rankin, Esq., is again a candidate for “ae | cies ie theks ible wore the Mayoralty. It is not likely that he ridiculously disproportinate. Whee Mr, | will be opposed. The following gentle

Pet rs was

in 1849, no on

appoint i Master of the Rolls, mentioned Mr. Palmer's

nime in connection with that office, and yet then he had

He was

pre ferred before him as now. an} older man. he had been longer at the bar. But

were not

justice ;

us good a claim to be}

men are, we believe, candidates for alder- manic honors :---

Ward 1—Artemas Lord, and Thos. Morris. ‘** 2-—-Wm. Murphy and John Quirk. « 3—W. B. Allin and H. H. Pollard.

4—-C. F. Harris. ‘« $—H. B. Smith and W. Boyle.

| We regret that the question of introduc-

at thot time party considerations | ing pure water into the city is not the allowed to outweigh a sense of | question before the citizens. and the Government of the Col-| Ward is there an avowed champion of the

In only one

eay, supported by an universal public measure to test the opinions of the people. opinion. appointed Mr. Peters to the) We trust the electors of Ward 2 will give Bepeh. This Mr. Palmer has never for- heir hearty and substantial support to gotten or forgiven. For twenty-five long | Mr. Murpny. His opponent is a good

years he has nursed his wrath to keep it! man. warm: and by many a sneering remark, by many a muttered execration, he bas | perienced in civie affairs. sought to raise, and then deepen and in-

tensily « feeling against Judge Peters And this course he has persistently fol

! But Mr. Murgpuy isa good man |too. He is active, public spirited, ex- He aas, we believe, the general interests of the city

. sincerely at heart ; and, over and above

all, he is the leading spirit in the great

lowed with all that dogged vindictiveness enterprise for supplying to the citizens which, with him, 1s a second nature, pure water, in large quantities, at a cheap

When, in the eclebrated Ramsay suits, | rate. Judge Peter), iu conjumetion wits Sir Ward 2 iffor no other, vote for “Murphy.”

For this last reason, electors of

| egree to the proposition; but, Macken- |

The sooner the |

All that is left for us, is to wait) og differently.

| will—out of consideration for us—prepose | jy his desire to obtein for t

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did not cease with Mr. | present Administration at Ottawa. On| Mr. Palwer |“ Dominion Day”? several flags were at |

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whom he represented, and

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and lasting boon, he made known to

John A. MeDonald the peculiar manner Government

He laid before him the plan of the proposed park ;

ue property in

Farm was hedged and guarded.

told what wus wanted, and asked his ad— vice. On his advice Mr. Pope acted. The plan suggested by the Minister of Justice, —the first lawyer of Canada—was that

the Legislature, at the session then pend- |

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ing, pass an Act in which should be em- bodied what was required. said, be sent from Downing street for the ernor General in Council; and he bound himself te recommend it. This agreement —-of which the Hon. David Laird was ful- ly cognizant--was not carried out by the A. MeDonald’s Consequently the Park is lost

successors of Sir John Cabinet. to our citizens.

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THAT DEFICIT.

Av the end of the financial year—31st | June—the public accounts showed a sur- |

plus of revenue over expenditure of $400- 000. The deficit proclaimed by Mr. CARTWRIGHT and the Globe is “nowhere.”

Tue election of a Mayor and five Coun-} Dr. Tupper was right—as usual,

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AN EXTRAORDINARY ABDUCTION. |

On the first of July last, a child, four

years of age—named Charles Koss—was,

in open day, carried from the streets of |

Philadelphia. The best detective talent in the Union has been placed on the track of the kidnappers; but every effort The abduction has, of course, created a great sensation. The excitement is greatly increased by the fact that the captors of the child have had the audacity te communicate with

has, so far, been vain.

his father, and to offer to restore him in consideration of receiving $20.600,

Copver Mixing. —The Poitland Press says: —The English company which is working the copper mines at Grangl Manan are meet- ing With success equalto their expectation They have a quantity ready for shipment.

The Elcho Shfeld, year, has been won this year by the Scotch Eight. The gross scores at the three ranges of 800, 900, and1,000 yards were—Scotland, §,437 ; England, 1,405; Lreland ; 1,378.

The eastern train leaving Montreal, Tuess day night, ran into a freight train near Soix- anta and was badly telescoped. Two engines, a Pullman car anda mail car were consids erably smashed. The conductor and several

killed.

cannot live upon |

It would, he |

won by Iceland last |

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“SUPREME COURT — GEORGETOWN,

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The greater part of the term was occupis | | edon the trial of the case “ Donald McIntosh

vy. Donald Campbell and others,” for ass sault. Tle trial occupied six days ~for the plaintiff, Alley, Davies and Hodgson; for the defendant. Palmer,McLeod and Sullivan, | Donald McPhee rc | settled out trial — for the plaintiff Palmer and MeLeod ; for tht defendant, Alley and Dayies Doe Knight, was a suit to try the tit!e of a piece of land at Souris—verdict for plaintiff -for the plaintiff!) McLeod and Davies ; for the defendant, E. J. Hodgsen. Andrew Glov- Ler, es John Stewart—and absent debtor—

Dem ¢ ‘hiverie vs.

was tried— verdict for plaintiff for $317— for the plaintiff, McLeod.

The petit jury complained very much of their being detained solong from home at a , busy season of the year—on pay that will } not half defray their necessary expenses, | On Tuesday evening Judge Hensley dis- | charged them, and the cases then on the | docket remain over till next term.

There were no criminal trials; and the | High sheriff in due form presented the pres | siding Judge with the traditionary pair of white gloves.

} Towards the close of the term, Mr. Me- Leod stated that he considered it his duty — }as counsel in one of the Lunatic Asylum | cases—to call attention to articles in some

_| of the Island newspapers in which the mat.

ter to be tried on these cases was discussed. | He submitted that, inasmuch as the guilt ‘or innocence of the persons accused was | now a question pending in court, it was ils | legal for newspapers —by the laws of Engs | land and of this colony—to argue the ques~

they guilty or innocent. The Judge res

| marked that he had noticed some, at Jeast, |

|of the articles complained of; and, that

| the law of this Colony would protect parties from having their cases improperly pres

judged by newspaper articles, while their |

Mr. McLeod | remarked that he did not wish to press the | matter further, as he was satisfied—after the

cases were pending in Court.

Court had given expression to the rights of

parties under the law — gentlemen conducts ing newspapers in the Colony would not

transgress the limits set by the law to the |

discussion of questions under the cognizance of the Court.

THE TILTON-BEECHER SCANDAL.

lx the United States, just now, the “all. absorbing topic” is the Seandal.’’ The newspapers are full of it ; the people, no doubt, revel in it. truly one of the most extraordinary scandals

| Of this scandalous age. Several years ago Mr. Theodore Tilton, of Brooklyn, New

York, accused Henry Ward Beecher of hold< ing criminal correspondence with his [Til - ton’s] wife. The charge was not openly pre-

ferred, although a few particulars were pubs |

lished, or darkly hinted in the news-~ papers. Mr, to the charge,—and as it now appears— wrote an apologetic letter to Tilton.

at, Beecher declined to answer

The and it was thought—and doubtless hoped by some it buried in oblivion Such was not the case.

affair was, for the time, hushed up

—that was forever. A short time ago Mr. Tilton published a letter in which he re-~ newed the charge formerly preferred. Mr. Beecher thereupon demanded the appoint ment of a commission to investigate the

charge and report to his congregation; and

nominated several leaders among his flock as conimissioners, ‘The investigation is now proceeding. Properly speaking, it is a prix vate investigation ; but through the en- terprise of the newspapers and the treachery of some of the parties concerned, most of the evidence has leaked out. The evidence is a curious agglomeration and denial. ‘Tilton distinctly asserts --in fact swears—that Beecher held criminal correspondence with Mrs. Tilton, and that both admitted the fact to himself and to Mr. Moulton, an Attorney. Mrs, Tilton frantically denies the charge ; denies ever admitting it to be true ; and declares that her married life has been rendered miserable by the vagaries and free love practices of her inconstant husband. The latter statement is borne out by the notor ious Victoria Woodhull — who rejoices in the fact that, for three months, Tilton was hardly out of her sight; that he was her ** devoted,” her “ accepted lover,” and that he slept ‘“‘every night for three months in her arms.”’ Beecher, on his part, declares that although he may have been guilty of leading Tilton’s wife to love him more than her husband, there was never the slight est criminality in their So the matter rests. The evidence taken before the Committee is voluntary. With | the exception of Tilton—who took an extra judicial oath—none of the witnesses testified to their statements. | The latest news in connection

of assertion

communications

with the scandal is that Tilton has been arrested for |libel. <A friend of Mr. Beecher caused the

arrest in order that sworn evidence may be |

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| taken before the Court, and the “ Scandal’ properly ventilated. _ +

A SECOND CHAMBER,

| The Toronto Nation remarks that “ Up | to the present time, no Province of the Dominion has followed the example of Ontario, in preferring one to two Legisla, | tive Chambers. he late Government of | Manitoba had proposed a bill for abolish~ ing the Second Chamber before it was | defeated; but though the fact was ans nounced to the Assembly, the bill does not appear to have been introduced. The | Government felt confident this measure would be supported by the country; and if so, we shall hear of it again, though it may, and probably will be discarded by the | new Ministry. The smaller the Province, | the more unwieldy and incongruous does | a cumbersome legislative apparatus ap- pear.”

| | Peru has made proposals to Germany for | a treaty of amily, commerce and navigation,

similar to that she recently concluded with

i Italy. The Chancellor has referred the res } ; : | quest in favorable terms to the Federal | Council. ‘

The Arkansas troubles are not yet ended,

and it appears from information published in the Littl Rock Gazelle that Brooks is preparing for a new coup d'elal. The fol- lowing is the rumored new scheme of the Brooks party :—On Monday, the day before the meeting of the Constitutional Conveniion, when the Congressional Committee will arrive, McClure, Searle, and Bennet, a quo- | rum of the ex-Supreme Court, are, it is said, to meet Cox,a clerk to the old and present ‘Court, who will recognize them and secure | the records of the State House, A test case is to be made and an injunction to be issued against the meeting of the Convention, des claring illegal the legislature which called it. Oliver, the ex-Sherilf, is to serve the in- junction, and, if possible, seize the Legisla- tive Halis with a strong posse, The same journal says that there was a rumor that Cox had been arrested, but enquiry proved only that, on going to his office, he found a guard with loaded muskets stationed at the door. fie was not allowed to go in at first, but was soon after admitted. The armed guard was then withdrawn, and a citizen guard sta- tioned near, watching the oflice and State | House. The militia guard is very vigilant. the old Supreme Court Judges claim that Mey are the Court, and can sit, not having | adjourned before the meeting of Baxter's | Legislature’ There is nowa rumor round | the State House that Brooks’ men have 5,000 | armed negroes organized in the country, near

other persons were injured, hut no one was this city, The guards were doubled last | the forms of Responsible Government at

| night, and will be increased to-night.

James McDonald, was |

tion either for or against the defendants, be |

‘ Tilton~Beecher |

It is |

| “ CANADA FIRST.”

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‘ PARTI NATIONALE ’'-——-THE “ MARITIME NATIONAL CLUB’? AND ** CANADA FIRST -—

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BRUNSWICK, AND HON. W. W. HOWLAND, OF ONTARIO,

{ From the St. John Telegraph.) A very large and intelligent audience | assembled last evening in the hall of the | Mechanics Institute to hear Mr. Howland, the President of the Dominion Board of Trade, on the “Canada First”? party. Mr. Howland was met in the antesroom, and attended to the platform by a large num. ber of influential gentlemen, and on enters ing the hal! was greeted with cheers. Mr. | Howland had been asked to deliver an | address by the Maritime National Club, and its President, Mr. E. Everitt, took a seat on the platform with hm, together with the High Sheriff, who acted as chairman. SHERIFF HARDING

said he had been delegated by the Maris time National Club to introduce to them a gentleman, whom they felt to be one of us, @ Canadian, and a man who had done much to moulda national sentiment in the Province of Ontario. He also thought it more than right to introduce the Maritime National Club to them; and there was the less difficulty in doing so as, unlike many other societies, they made no secret of their principles, and each person on enter- ing the hall had been presented with a

| proceeded to read :—

PLATFORM OF THE MARITIME NATIONAL CLUB.

| Organized April Yith, 74.

The objects of this Club shall be :

A. The cultivation of a National throughout the Dominion.

B. The development and formation of a poli- tical party, to be a Dominion Party, without dependence on affiliation or connection with any

| of the existing parties.

| 1. Sritish connection under | the |

sentiment

Confederation of British North American Provinces.

2. Closer trade relations with the British West India Island i connection.

3. Encouragement of Immigration.

4. The imposition of duties for Revenues, so adjusted as to afford every possible encourage meat to Native Industry 4

5. Pure and Economical Public Aftairs

OBJECTS OF THE CLUB.

‘, With a view to ultimate political

Administration ef

To propound and discuss questions of a poli- tical character, both Canadiun, provincial aad municipial,

+a correct knowledge of political }

EXPOSITIONS OF SHERIFF HARPING OF NEW |

copy of their views and objects, which he |

| lishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen.

| to the expense of electing a House of Com. mons ?

These Provinces were now almost as much separated (in community of sentiment) as before Confederation. There had been /nothing to break down Provincial lines. | What was wanted was a strong party that would run through all this and bind the Confederation together. We have had great prosperity, under the Union, and there has been no strain upon it, but let reverses, direct taxation, or some such grievance arise, and where is the national! tie that is to hold us together? There may

| hour of trial. There must be an active and strong current of sympathy from one part of the Dominion to the other. We want to stand shoulder to shoulder, We want to form a great and strong party on the basis of national sentiment. Going toa country where such a sentiment exists we can clear- ly @serve the benefits of it. We can see how it imparts strength and solidity an uns ity$to the whole political fabric, makes it able to stand the shocks of adversity, and binds it together with bands stronger than steel.

Having shown that there were no parties at present existing in Canada with cohesion and range sufficient to embrace the whole Dominion, Mr. Howland proceeded to lay down the proposition that to ensure the safety of anew party it was necessary to put down sectionalism. When aman came before us as a candidate we should not ask him if he belenged to any particular society /orsect. Let him come, not on any such | doubtful recommendation, but simply as a Canadian, as a man of sound principles and good talents. Sectionalism was too preva-~ lent in the form of Provincialism now. It had been said that the House of Commons might as well be railed off by Provinces and worked in this way—and there was too much truth in the remark. All this was wrong and must be brokenup. Weare all Canadians, and it was the aim of the * Cans ada First’ party to obliterate those petty lines which divided men, because they came from difterent Provinces. He was sati fied that no time could be more opportune for such a work than the present. -

had no right to havea national sentiment, such as was the object of the ‘Canada First’ party to create. He had no hesitation in combatting such an idea. He claimed for

love of country which distinguished Engs Were these men less truly British because of their

principles. and induce the people inthe city and | love for the land in which they lived? And throughout the province to take an interest in| why should Canadians be denied the same | privilege? That was the sentiment of a

Canadian, provincial and municipal To bring together members of the different social cla , for the purpose of producing a free interchange of ideas, and standing of each other's rigt ments. | To disetiss, promulga | tical, political ane

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its and require ite aod support all prac- 1 social reforms. st measures for preventing the use of corrupting influences of all kinds for political | nerposes

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ject ile thought these principles were such |}as no man could object to. Their motives | were good. Instead of being only 280,000 people we were now 400,00 people, and

| our responsibilities and aspirations had in- increased in a corresponding degree. Cans ada was the only colony that had ever been consulted in regard to Treaty making by the mother country. No man belonging to the Maritime National Club would ever | desire to sever the tie that binds us to the Empire, yet it would be foolish to ignore

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He trusted that day was fardistant. Our politics since Confederation had been ills defined. measure for the general good, but that being accomplished, it was found that the old issues which made and unmade Cab- inets, were things of the past. There must of course, always be two parties in any country; it was necessary to prevent cors ruption, although he was not one who be- lieved that when a man went into political lffe he necessarily became corrupt.

The movement which originated this Club reminded him of a movement thirty years ago, when they started the Reform club. Some then accused its members of all sorts of wictedness ; there were Annex> ationists, and he knew not what, but in the | end they had exerted a most healthy in- fluence on the politics of the country, and |he only hoped the present movement

would have equally good results. It would seem from their programme that they were not narrow in their views. Having all the objects of the club before them, and the club haying asked a gentleman to address the public of St. John (a gentles man whose name was synonymous of na- tionality in Ontario), for the purpose of | interchanging ideas on the great subject of | the unification of the men of the various | provinces of Canada into one people, it | only remained for him to introduce that gentleman to them, Wm. Howland, Esq., of ‘Toronto,

MR. HOWLAND,

}on rising was received with prolonged | cheers. He said that after the reception | that had been accorded to him, he felt | some diffidence in addressing so large and intelligent an audience, but their presence proved that they were in sympathy with the movement for the creation of a na» tional feeling in Canada, for he was proud to think the time ‘would comejwhen local | political jealousies would be forgotten, and

we would be all content to be simply Cans \

adian. Sheriff Uarding, who preceded him, had so thoroughly covered the whole ground, and shown such a thorough under- | standing of the question involved, that it had almost made any remarks on his part, superfluous; yet there were one or two points on which he would briefly touch. Looking back to the inception of Con- federation he could not but regard it as a | great political mistake that elections had | not then been held in all the provinces on | that question, for then we would have had )}new party lines drawn. As it was, Cons federation was carried by means of coali- tions in all the Provinces, and Liberals and Conservatives were mingled together. In Ontario this state of things existed until George Brown left the Government, after which an attempt was made to establish the old party lines. That attempt had been going on ever since, or for nearly | seven years, and he put it to them whether | they thoughtit had been at all successful. The only answer that could be given to such a question was an emphatic No. In New Brunswick party lines had been almost entirely obliterated, so that neither the old Liberal party nor the old Conservative party were able to disentangle themselves from the alliances into which they had entered. In Nova Scotia the changes } which had taken place were simply miracu- lous. First, Dr. Tupper was returned as the sole representative of his party in Nova Scotia, a head without any tail; then at the next election he brought with him all the Nova Scotia members but one or two. Again he was reduced to his original state and returned solitary and alone. In Que- bee there were formerly two parties, the Rouges and the Blues ; since then a third had arisen, the Parti-Nationale which now was, in point of fact, the strongest of the three. In Ontario, and he regreited to say it, party lines had been restored only so far as regarded bitterness of feeling, but not as regards principle. Sectional animosities had been granted a new lease of life, and now it became merely a question as to what sectional forces could be obtained to aid a candidate. The great influence of the Orangemen and the powerful efforts made to secure their swpport, were ins stances of this. He did not think that such a state of things should be allowed to exist ; and this brought him to another point—the undue influence of leaders. ‘The individual withers, and _ the world is more and more,” sings Tennyson, but in our politics it has not been so. We have followed our leaders blindly. The politi- cal history of Ontario and Quebec, for the last twenty years, has been but the history of Sir Jobn A. Macdonald and of George Brown. Instead of the parties initiating their own policy, the leaders initiated it for them and forced it down their throats. He might illustrate this by two treaties, one made with the United States, which had gone into operation, and the other in course of being made, or, at least, proposed. The first treaty was very dis- tasteful to many people in Canada ; ifa poll had been taken on it, irrespective of party, or rather the personal influence of leaders, it might not have been agreed to; yet it was agreed to, and we might yet have to swallow the Reciprocity Treaty in the same way. .f constituencies and voters were go- ing to follow leaders blindly, why keep = ?