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Charlottetown, June 4, 1877.

THE SCHOOL ACT.

Wen last summer the great contest on the School Question was going on, we fought as vigorously as we could for the side which we believed to be right. But the battle was fought and lost, and, since the question has been decided against us, we accept the situation, and have no Inten- tion of keeping up the fight about a mat. ter on which the country has spoken decidedly. But we consider it our duty, as public journalists, to watch most closely the action of the Government under the new law. There are many things jin that law of which we do not approve; but we ean say this much for it: it is so framed that it may be worked in such a way as wo be not oppressive. On the other hand, it may be made to cause both injustice and oppression. For this reason we shall scru- tinize all the more carefully every step the Government take; for, certainly, in so delicate a matter, the country has a right to demand that the utmost care shall be taken that everything shall be rightly done and no reasonable ground for suspicion be given. So far, the Government have been singularly unhappy in what they have done. It will be seen in another column that Senator Haviland, Recorder of the City, at a meeting of the City Council, gave the opinion that the a ppointment of School ‘Trustees by the City, before the Ist July, is fillegal. Mr. E. J. Uodgson first called attention to this point in our columns. Some persons may not have given much weight to Mr. Hodgson’s opinion on this subject, supposing his political — bias to have impaired his judgment. We should scarcely suppose that a leading practitioner would risk his professional reputation with- out some ground other than party feeling for his opinion. But however that may be, wejnow have Mr. Haviland, who is pre-emin~ ently “sound” upon the school question, to whom as much as to any one man in the country the result of last summer's elec- tions were due, advising the Cty Council in his official capacity that the appoint- ments are illegal.

Now we have no doubt that legal opin- ions will be given on the other side. But we say that it is culpable carelessness that there is any question at all. When s0 staunch a friend and supporter of the Govs ernment as Mr. Haviland, is compelled to give an opinion against them, all can see that there must be great bungling some- where. And this should never have been. The officers of the Government are now paid good salaries, and they should give gufficient attention to their work, to make their laws clear or to administer them in such a way that the validity of their acts cannot be questioned. ‘This they have not done. Even supposing them to be right, they have so bungled the matter that they must either have the appointments made over again, or we shall have litigation, which will not stop short of the Supreme Court at Ottawa, or the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, to decide a matter which but for their stupidity would never have been in question.

There is another appointment on which we would say a few words—that of Mr. Manning to be Suprintendent. We have no wish to disparage that gentleman or to speak unkindly of him. Since he came here, he has, we believe, applied himself

assiduously and with success to his duties, and his previous record, as a teacher, was, we understand, a good one. We have not a word to say against him. We shall be glad if he turns outa good Superintendent. But we may as well speak out plainly and say, that the impression is strong and gen- eral that in making this appointment the Government were mainly influenced by a desire to relieve the trustees of the Wes- leyan Protestant School—some of whom are members of the Government— from a position financially embarrasing. It is no secret that the school was not pay ing. Mr. Manning was, we believe, en- gaged for six years, of which five still re- main. Itis more than suspicious when the Government were known to be in treaty with persons who had practical experience in the administration of Public School Law, that these were all given up, and Mr, Manuing appointed, to the great relief of the Trustees of the Protestant School—one at least of wh m is a LEADING MEMBER OF THE GOVERNMENT. The trustees of the Protestant Academy, no doubt, ren~ dered, last summer, valuable services to the party in power, and gratitude is a very beautiful virture. But, still the country has a right to expect that its interests shall be not only the chief but the sole con. sideration in all appointments made, He would be credulous indeed who believed

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Just as about the appointment of Trus- tees, Mr. Haviland has pronounced against the Government; so, we observe, the Pres~ byterian whose devotion to the Secular School cause can scarcely be questioned, objects to Mr. Manning’s appointment.

The Goverament have done but two acts under the School Law. One is of doubtful legality; the other has very much the look ofa job. Ifthe law is to be ad- ministered in this way, there toubles ahead,

We note that the /atriot has dubbed tho Dairy Examiner the organ of the sectarian school party. That there may be no mis- understanding as to the ground we now take—we repeat distinctly and decidedly that, as good citizens in duty bound, we shall accept the decision of the majority of the people, as declared last summer; and we shall,by straightforward and honest criti> cism, endeavor to have the principle then established properly andisuccessif ily c. rr ed out. We bow to the will of the people- But we will not permit the Government to blunder uncorrected or “job”? unexposed.

JOHN B,. GOUGH,

It has been a disappointment to the people of this Island that they had not an opportunity of listening to the most elo- quent of living lecturers, on the occasion of his recent visit to the lower Provinces. He is a veteran in the field of tempers ance reformation. Though his accent is thoroughly American, he is a native of England, having been born in 1817 at Land. gate, Kent. His father was a common soldier, and his mother t-ught *. the village school. He removed to America when about twelve years of age, and was joined by his mother and sister at New York in 1832, if our memory does not fail us, His mother died in 1834, and soon after her youthful son fell into dissipated habits, and became a confirmed drunkard. [t was in 1842 when Gough was twenty- five years of age that he was induced to take the pledge. A friendly hand was laid on his shoulder at a temperance meeting and with a trembling hand he added his name to the list of members. Then began a battle which he describes with remark- able power. He had been brought to a stage of degradaton, bordering on delirium tremens. He was by trade a bookbinder, and on the morning after he took the pledge he presented himself before his employer and said, “I last night took the pledge, sir.”’ ‘So I have heard,’’ was the dry reply. “Do you think I won’t keep it,’ said Gough. “Indeed I do,” was the response. On attempting to work his hands trembled, and piece of cold iron lying be- fore him became a wriggling snake with fiery eyes. He felt strongly tempted to take one glass as medicine to steady his shattered aerves, but he knew that if he took one, another and another would fol- low, and he resisted the temptation. For six days he was the must miserable of wretches. On the day after he took the pledge one of the city lawyers called at the workshop and taking his hand said : ‘“May God bless you, fight the battle my boy;” and he did fight the battle, and came off a conqueror, thus proving him- self a greater man than he who taketh a strong city. No sooner was Gough em. ancipated from the thraldom of drink than he began to lecture on the subject of temperance, of which he since has been the most eloquent of advocates, The man who placed his hand on his shoulder in 1842 and kindly prevailed on him to take the pledge, died many years ago; and Gough, as a practical expression of grati~ tude, has since maintained the widow and her family—allowing them ’ want for nothing.

He delivered three lestures in Halifax on his recent visit, the subjects being Peculiar People, Temperance and C rcum- stances, speaking on each occasion for about two hours. The writer heard him many years ago, and has no hesitation in saying that he has improved vastly since thattime. In stature he is below middle height. He is in person thin and wiry, has a flowing gray beard, a quick expres- sive eye, a well-formed, though not an ex-~ tra large head, with a wellsdeveloped fores head. Since his eleventh year he has had no educational advantages, at least in the sense in which the expression is commonly understood. He speaks excellent English, resembling in the simplicity of its style that of Goldsmith. From the moment he begins, the audience is captivated, and he holds men, women and_ children with unrelaxing grasp till the last sen- tence of his lecture has been uttered. He ‘tells a story almost as well as the late Dean Ramsay, but his main power consists in action. He has taken the advice of Shakesphere=to the players: ‘Be not too tame neither, but let you

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tion to the word, the word to the action ; with this observance that you overstep pot the modesty of nature.’’ Gough is a man of unrivalled dramatic power. Le cannot speak without acting at the same time. n his lecture on circumsiances he describes a swell walking along Broadway with cane in hand, and bowing most pleasantly to the belles of the city when his grandeur is spoil ed by a hog coming suddenly round a corner, and getting between his legs carries him off, minus hat, cane and eye: glass con- siderably @istance; he theus convulses the audience with laughter. He then tells an

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RUMORED DISSOLUTION. FIRE IN OTTAWA.

incident which occurred in Boston some | years ago, as illustrative of circumstances altering cases, and, a3 proving the wisdom and propriety of suspending judgment in all cases till all the circumstances connect» ed with them are known. Passing along one of the streets he noticed a number ot

young men emusing themselves by push- |

ing a well-dressed girl, who was under the niluence of drink, from one to another. He rebuked them for their cruelty, and having ascertained from the poor girl, who was about seventeen years of age, where she lived, he prevailed on her to take his arm, and he thus conveyed her to her home. As he knew that the story of his

being seen in the company ofa drunken wo men would be circulated through the city, he resolved, at a temperance meeting at which he was to lecture in the evening, to state the whole circumstances, after which the parents of the girl came forward and thanked him for having brought their daughter home. She had gone to aunt’s house to attend a marriage, and complain: ing of cold, her aunt gave her some toddy and afterwards a glass of wine, which made the girl quite intoxicated on going out to the open air. Her parents states that she had not previously ever tasted alcholic liquor, as they never used it inthe house ‘“‘Thus, said the lecturer, circumstances, alter cases.”

’ Gough was born an orator. In this res~ pect be resembles Erskine the greatest iorensie orator England ever produc d. Erskine was a subordidate officer in the navy, when to pass time he stepped into the court where Lord Mansfield was pre-id- ing. On hearing cases argued he thought he could have done better himself. He set himself to study law, and the very first speech he delivered placed him in the front rank of English advocates, He was like Gough, one of natures orators, not like Demosthenes requiring to put pebbles in his mouth in order to influence his ut~ terance,

What renders Mr. Gough’s lectures pe-~ culiarly valuable is the vein of common sense which runs through them. His ars guments are unanswer:bly just, because they are supported by the logic of facts. ln support of every principle he enumer- ates, he adduces a well told anecdote, which amuses and instructs the audience, whilst, at the same time, it strengthens his position. But as our available space is exhausted, we must, in the meantime, drop the subject.

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PRESENTATION,

Last evening the Rey. J. Ellis, Assistant Priest, preached an eloquent and effecting farewell sermon in St. Peter’s Church. Afier the service was over the Hon. ¥. Brecken, Church Warden, on behalf of the Congregation presented Mr. Ellis with o handsomely bouad album enclosing the following Address to which the autograph of nearly every member of the coigze gation was app: nded :—

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. IsLanb, Feast of St. Barnabas, 1877.

To JowNn ELuis, Pris.

DeaR AND REVEREKD Sin: —We cannot permit you to go away without an expres- sion of our sincere sorrow and regret at your leaving us.

During the six years you have been with us as Assistant Pricst at St. Peter's Church your duties have been onerous, but have been most zealously performed; and while we shall most gratefully remember ali the St. Peter’s Boys’ School owes to your care, we trust we shall not cease to recall the words of counseland advice which, inthe exercise of your sacred office, you have so frequently addressed to us.

Removed to work elsewhere for God and and for His Holy Church, we trust His bles- sing will ever rest upon you, and we hope that among the dutics and the anxietics which must ever press upon God's Priests, you will not cease to remember us, more especia'ly as you offer the All-Prevailing Sacrifice to Him.

As a slight token of our affection and

esteem, we beg that you will accept the nc- |

companying purse. Believe us to be, Dear and Reverend Sir, Yours most truly.

To this Address Mr. Ellis returned a brief and appropriate reply.

Mr. Ellis has been in Charlottetown some six years. The longer and more intimately

he was known the greater the respect ia | which he was held. His manly Straight- |

forward character, his assidueus devotion

both to his secular and his sacred duties. his | sterling qualities of heart and mind—_

account for the high estimation in which he is held by the congrega'ion, and their extreme regret at his departure.

To the citizens at Jarge. Mr. Ellis was.

chiefly known as the introducer a:¢ life of the *- Readings”—which, for severa! years, enlivened our winter evenings—improving those who read, and pleasing and instruct- ing those who listened. Mr. Ellis will be followed in the voyage to his native land by the prayers of 1aany of the fleck he is leaving, and by the good wishes ofall.

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Monvtrear, June 2,

The Apostolic Delegate, the Right Rev. Saturday morning. He carrie? ihe Host in process sion yesterday. There was an illumination at night, and there will be a torchlight procession toxnight. His Excellency will be the guest of the Governor General at Ottawa.

E, Selby Smith, Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion Militia, has been knighted.

The rumors of the dissolution of Parlias ment in July are not credited.

By a fire at Ottawa the property of E. B. Eddy, consisting of a stable with 43 horses, 150,000 feet of pine, storehouse and meat market, was destroyed, Loss 20 OV9.

The flour market is easier.

Superior Extra, $8 50 to $8 60 i'xtra Superfine, 8 15 to 8 25 Fancy, 7 15 to 7 80 Spring Extra, 7 50 to 7 75 Superfine, 7 10to 7 15 Strong Bakers’, 7 50 to 7 75 Fine, 6 60 to 6 70; Middlings, 6 25 to 6 40 Pollards, 5 90 to 6 00 U. C. Bags per 100 Ibs., 0 00 to 0 U0 City Bags (delivered) 4 00 to 4 10

Oats 4 cents lower; peas 5 cents lower, at 95 cents to $1.00 Money market dull.

THE DANUBE 10 BE CROSSED.

stupendous Efforts on the Part of Russia.

NO HOPE OF PEACE!

The Turks Again Vic- torious !

(Special Dispatch to the Daily Examiner.) CONSTANTINOPE, June 2, 1877.

Tae Danube will be crossed the day after the arrival of tbe Czar. Stupendous ef- forts will be made by Russia, The army on the Danube is to be increased by one bundred thousand men,

No reliance is put on rumors of peace.

The Russian reverses at Ardahan are confirmed,

The Turks have won a victory at Sukem Kalch, They captured eight guns.

Vienna, May 31,

The Fremden Blatt asserts that the Pres- ident of the Turkish Chamber has recom-~ mended the resaliof Midhat Pasha.

Lonvon, May 31.

Servia has definitely resolved to maintain strict neutrality.

The Porte has issued a notice warning mariners Of its intention to place torpedoes in certain portions of the Dardanelles and Bay of Smyrna.

A correspondent at Vienna says the per- secution ot Midhat’s adherents continues. Despite banishments, opposition to the palace clique seems to continue, being jstrengthened by aparty in the ministry itself. The Grand Vizier seems to uave ar- rived at the conviction that things could not go on much longer without leading to {a serious cri-is, The Sultan, with the fear of a possible return of Midhat, and on the ctherland of arising or an attempt against |b 8 person, seems quite scared and at a loss | what to do.

't is eharged that a number ef Bosnian refugees in Servia who, comfiding in Turkish amuesty, crowded to the frontier in hope ‘of returning home, were immediately seized /by the Turks and driven to Derbenda, thrown into dungeons, and nine murdered ‘in cold blood. Lhe massacre has spread terror through the Bosnian population , —_ are arming and looking to Senshe for / help,

Erzeroum, June |, The Russians are cannoading Karodagh and the Turks are replying. New York, June 1.

_ Kiernan’s Athens despatch says the new irec.an Ministry has decided to participate

in the Eastern war- Lonpon, May 31.

The Standard's Paris special says that Senor Reni Zorilla has been expelled from France at the request of the Spanish Goy-

ernment, who accuses him of plotting against the peace of the country.

Lonpon, June J], A hurricane and rain storm wrecked

stands and booths at Epsom to-day, leay~ ing only the grand stand. One man was killed.

It is stated that a large portoin of the £60.00) which the Pope received from the pilgrims has been remitted to London and deposited to provide against needs of the Holy See while the Pontifical throne is vacant, and for the first requirements of Pius’ successor,

[t is reported at the London Admiralty that the crew of the British ironclad flags ship Alexandra of the Mediterranean squad~ ron, now at the Pieraus, mutinied and diss abled the guns on board, An immediate investigation has been ordered,

The Paris Moniteur says in one ease only could Marshal MacMahon be led to en- tertain the idea o; resigning, namely—if he found himself opposed by both Chambers.

Lonpon, June 1,

Gen. Grant went to Epsom races as the guest of the Prince of Wales,

The mutiny on the man-a-war Alexandra was occasione:| by stringency of discipline and unusuai severity of punishmeut.

The fortnightly settlement on the stock exchange, concluded yesterday, deveioped a considerable amouns of trouble among bear speculators, Thirteen failures haye been declared—some with rather large out< side accounts open.

There are reports of embarrasment in the Bradford manufacturing district. Four fiums of no great importaece have suspend.~ ed. Their aggregate liabilities, though considerable, are not such as to appreci- ably disturb trade.

The Zimes’ leading artiele says: “Mr, Gladstone is now pre-eminently the Libers al leader—all that has the true and clear ring of liberalism in the country, all that may be counted upon to endure and have weight in any future coatest between two great parties of the state, now attaches it. self to his name,”

Pauts, June [, The government intends to prosecute the President of the Paris Municipal Council for remiurks insulting to President MacMahon, during his speech at St. Denis.

The students of Paris have presented an address to Gambetti. It is moderate in tone and thanks him for iis efforts on behalf the Republic. “Gambetta congratu. lated the students on their tirm and patient attitude. Lonpon, June 1.

The Anglo-American Times says a dinner to General Grant has been arranged at the United Service Club, which is the repre- sentative of the British army and navy. Chis honor is only tendered of officers ‘of hightest distinctlon, Other military clubs have foliowed the example of the United Service, in iaviting the General to become an honorary memeber. Among the polti- cal clubs the way has been led by the Reform.

The Glove is informed that the statement that a number of American naval officers and engineers had arrived at St. Peters- burgis untrue.

_ Parts, June 1,

The editors of Le Radical have been sen-

tenced to three months’ imprisonment and one thousand frances fine for insulting Presi- dent MacMahon and defending the Com- mune. The publication of /e Radical is suspended for six months. At Perpignan the editors of two Republican newspapers have Been sentenced to fifteen months’ im prisonment and four hundred doilars fine. and two years imprisonment and four hun- dred dollars fine respectively, for similar offences. A prosecution has been instituted against an Algerian hewspaper, tne Cour. ler of Oran.

The Monileur states that “Yount DeCham- bord has advised his adherents in the Sen- ate to vote in favor of the dissolution of the Chamber, so as not to render the Levit- imist party respousible for the vrave con- sequences which might ensue if ’ dissolu- tion was refused.

New York, June i

There have been two unsuccessful at tempts to assassinate J. B. Stillson, N. Y Herald Utah correspondent, by mysterious strangers,

Two hundred more emigrants sail to-day from New York for New South Wales,

S. M. Kuowlan, assistant adjutant-gen- eral of the grand army of the republic, sui- cided to-day »y strychnine, while laboring under temporary insanity from drink. ” é WASHINGTON, June 1.

The reduction in tae debt for May is 8¢.- 981,274.83. :

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(By Special Telegram to Daily Examiner. ALBERTON, June 2, 1877.

The Schooners Cora and Eldorado trom Boston to load potatues for tue Bay State, arrived her to-day. The Schooners J. W. and Break of Day from Magdalene Islands have also arrived,

PORT OF CHARLOTTETOWN. CLEARED,

June 2—Seh. Gazelle, hennedy, George- town, mdse.; Maria Alma, McGrath, Shediac, ballast; Annie, Haliday, Grand River, mdse.: brigt. Serius, McDonald, Cew Bay. bal.; sch. Biack Fox, Johnson, New London, salt: Ocean Wave, McEachern, Cape George, mdse.; OUnoward, Scott, Wallace, mdse.: Lettie, McDonald, Anticosti, fishing outfit; Columbia, Cox, Rustico, mdse.

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June 2—Sch. Velocity, McNutt, Richibue- lo, boards; Gazelle, Muilins, Antigonish, gypsum; Albert, Herring, Murray Harbor, mdse.; Three Sisters, Miller, New London. produce; brigt. Aleppo, Campbell, Monta- gue, lumber; Rising Dawn, Hughes, Pictou coai; Plover, Alian, Bay Verte, boaris: Annie, Huheleg, Grand River, mitse.; Lucy Ann, Allen, Bay Verte, boards; Sea Bird. Hyde, Mucray Warbor, hardware,

ilotel Arriyais.

KANKN§ House.

June 2nd.~-Messrs, Adam Batson, Gloces- ter; W. L. McKenna, Montreal: E DB, Out- rain, St. Join; K. A. Garratt, Montreal ; ‘Owen Evans, Halifax,