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— ———— : : i i ‘ ame " | | posed of, In the suit the “Canadian Bank TELEGRAPHIC States, Mr. Jenkins submitted a question} NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. a i i ‘i ‘ons “err } posed OF,” 1 16 sl 1 ‘Canadian Ba Yh his . } : 2 nln ‘ z . THE kK Y { VY] Vi. RP THE DOMINION LOAN. UPREME COUR! os oa ienisthin ‘edeedad ey on the subject to Mr. Disraeli in the Com, | - Z é i i i i | ESSA 0 on erce ts. SAIC a onal« A atcuornciim : e ° 4 / A 4 4 » of the S preme Court com- verdict of nonssuit was rendered M oe Be OrrawaA, June 29,—Attorney General mons. Quickest and Shortest Route p ’ ep v | , widely Sakae anininns he A RINT ae ee oe “—e ee eT ae ct -morrow. to lay ; ‘cmneli replied: —*‘ {don’t think it vy IS PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY PORENOON Many widely-differing opinions hav lmenced on Tuesday last—Mr. Justice | go» plaintiff, Hodgson for defendant. In | Walkem a i i a to-m sf a; eae Mr. Disrac Hi ‘c " M. taute’s Ministers to TO BOSTON, } . } ee ] _r ' . 1 j Case . »¢ rer “nt ) mrs . r r Majes Si Ss 8 LU By TRE | been expressed concerning the loan recent- } rs. and Mr. Justice Hensley the | the case “John Doyle vs. John McIntyre,’ the case 0 rN " ai al Rover ears is the duty of er \) : y i ti : : : L i ee is obtaincd be Mr. Cartwricht A fer : i , : compose tion for assaalt—the Jury vet : | ish Columbia before the Promier. find giounds for allegations contained in B’ leaving ¢ ne ngs he — ” : — . 2. ." ' , eer ee Bench. follow wen ree ~ | ae a Sree * Jury returned a ; ‘ . saa , Zoat on Saturday morning, Travellers cs se oe ie ual a | » Cock a . eaker of the Com<] oy, . . s paragrs na newspaper ,; . oe : ost matt ; Examiner Printing i Pablishing Co admiring political friends affect to believe | the Grand Jury :- | verdict of Not Guilty — for the plaintiff Bays | Mr. Cockburn, late Sp on eT an anonymou paragraph I es connect with the Boston Steamers A/‘ambra or aul , iy . *: , : | . | mons, has been appointed Selicitor for the | put | may be permitted to say that nothing | ¢)pro// at Halitax, and arrive in Boston Monday that the Minister of Finance has don J. S. Carvell, Esq., Foreman field and Shaw ; for the defendant, Alley | i ’ : 12 | morning at nine, being only 54 hours OFFICE: . _ nthe oe 1 Smit! t49;:Joln hee, 1. 4] " | Bank of Montreal. could be more cordial or friendly than the | morning at nine, being only 93 How. ” something alike brilliant and wonderful, | “ty: ! ncaa M eon »), | and Davies. The suit of the Queen rs. John | . 1 Pal lull ] bet ul Majesty’s Govern ERnenED Hnees eee em UARVE! L BROS ; ' North River; William Melkwen Ol | .,| Weather is sultry. Politics are aul, relations between Uer ajesty’s Governs CARVELL BROS d Mice i one <4 : : + | MeDonald for larceny resulted in yerdic ’ ; ; : eae Corner Queen and King Streets On the other hand, m iny extrem politi | Harry Binns Royalty; Robert Jones, Lot | McDon 3 rm . yr 7 : — | Loxpos, June 20.—A Japanese legation| ment and the Government of the Domins | July 6, 1874.—Im ~ , ay co } :.. : ee ’ @ Ty TD neewle se oO ré) . dre Stey of aequitt for the prosecution, wy . ’ = TERMS —Per Annum, $1.62, if paid | eal opponents think his mission to Eng 7 ; . eta. ‘ " ' ‘ a \ Ha pened . , | t} ~ " | has heen formed at Pekin. ion.”’ YS ! Son ) 7 Son ) 7 thin the year—S1.82, postage paid; $2 if;, — rm nson; John Stewart, Lot cartes * Tan Soheitor Cenera or © prisone i . | ) . men paid within th r os land has proved a disastrous failure. The | 0 1 1 ot Is lohn Johnston, Milton, Don- | a : Alien Te q The number of Japanese troops in_ lors Orrawa, July 2. -- Lord Dutferin has gone | b Oap - Kas | ‘+ Knee | . ies WHET Ut i sie ‘ ' ’ re xp ; ay ) Shaw anc Hey, ' : 5 eee ' i, <eeemenemmee CLUG KATES | opinion, however. most gene rally enter ld MeKay, Wheatley River; Richard Bag- a setal of ds < Qasen ve Geores tk ae & 200. to l'adousae, where Fournier and Geolirion rie ase in vescint of 0 ates Con on Tue Examrxer will be forwarded to | tained is, that Mr. Cartwright has neither ae R } r i: lam , 6 Philip Blateh, | , tited in the eonvictionof the latter = The Chinese have not yet tiken part in| will be sworn in Ministers of Justice nd | 84 ment of Family and Toilet SOAPS, wor ho } } i ta ‘ I iif Ate, est e6 l oo ' ' ‘ r : 4s | : a e Clubs at the following rates per year—pay- | done verv well nor very ill. } haviottetown - William McKay, Lot 2 the hostilities. Inland Revenue, respective'y 100 boxes SNOW DROP, i P a al | k i hartotteto Lill aie ’ arceny. } : . . : ' . } werner a , ee ee & 7.00 He has sueceeded in placing upon the | David Johnston Long River; J, D. Mason, a N Is ASTE!I News from Pekin a eee = “ Dreifories with tu mprepeen —— 7 ST wine” 5 copies one address S 7.0 : bie inh hd nd een THE CHURCH DISASTER, | oe eee between the | tour with Lady Dufferi i io do Lik ae oe r sien | Mele wessbet a lowe of four siillicns |‘ i ttetown, ae | the scene of the recent riot betwe tour with Lady Dutterin, : 5) do ROYAL BROWN, ] «s es rr = ™) | . . | 4 . 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Ch’town, July 6, 1874.

TN

CHARLOTTETOWN PARK.

_—_——

Amonast those things for which the citizens of Charlottetown, in particular, have to thank Mr. Pope's vigorous Gov- ernment, is the fine tract of land which was acquired by the Corporation, under the terms of Confederation, as a public | park. Do the citizens know thst they

have, however, only realized ninety per cent. This fact it i mediate attention criticism.

is which arrests im-

and evokes hostile We constantly hear Canadian securities queted in London at a hand- some premium of from eight to twelve per cent. loan ”’

At the very time the “new was effected, Dominion five per cents, which terminate in 1903, were sell- ing for 109; terminable in 1884, found a ready market at 112. It is no wonder, then, that the sudden transition to a discount of ten per cent. startled all those who think the Do- minion a great and prosperous country. It may well be doubted whether or not it was good policy thus to depreciate the credit of thiscountry. Credit is almost as good as capital—especially to a new

and Dominion six per cents,

the Dominion cannot but suffer while its £100 bonds are only worth £90 in the

financial emporium of the world. The Toronto Nation aptly remarks :— ‘The quotation of so low a rate as 90

for Canadian securities is apt to give a rise to a an unfavourable inpression respecting our credit. A depreciated security and a security with a depreciated look on its face are apt to be confounded. ‘The striking

have a park ?—* A question to be asked,”

we fear! And yet it is singular, to say | the least, that the people do net avail | themselves of its advantages. We do not | seem generally, however, to care much for getting out of our dusty streets in simmer time, though we rail against them with | eo much volubility. The mind of the! ‘ towney ’ is in gross error as to the way) of enjoying life in the pleasantest part of the year, when “nature putteth on her

holiday attire.” The free clear air of | the country, and the music of the woods, are a panacea for every ill—if we only | had the wit toknow it. But in the spirit | of that fabled and unhappy toad, who | spent its life in the centre of a sandstone | rock, the desires of our poople are bound- ed by the limits which enclose the town. The Charlottetown mind }:as, apparently, no greater love of beauty, and no greater leaning towards brightness and cleanliness, | than can be satisfied by the contemplation | of the stately architecture which adornsour | streets, and the layers of dust which make | that architecture dirty.

|

Our young men and maidens, it appears, promenade up | and down our dusty thoroughfares with | satisfaction. (‘ertainly, it strikes us, the | charms of the fair ones would show to greater advantage with a landscape back- ground ; and, as to the young men, they would, no doubt, say with Ruth of old, “ where thou goest I will go." If, when we had left the streets of this earthly Beulah, we were forced to take to the roads for exercise, our case would be hard, forthe roads are dusty also. But we would enforce on you, friends, that now a really delightful pleasure-ground belongs to “ you and to your heirs for ever; common pleasures, to walk abroad and recreate yourselves.’ The western part of Government farm is now ours, and # more pleasant place for a walk could | not be desired. The woods are fuil of shady lanes and ‘deep embowered paths ;’ —groves where the old philosophers need not have been ashamed to teach. A stroll beneath the trees on ‘ Beech Hill ’ would kindle the soul of any man, if he had an ounce of sentiment in him ; and any one who could spend an hour or two in our park, and not return to town re- freshed and invigorated, would indeed be s “clod of the valley.’ We hope that the Corporation purpose taking some pains to improve this place, though we know that funds are scarce. As it is now, it is far more delightful than many elaborately laid off places of public resort in large cities, and if anything done to it is not well done, the ground had better be left as it is. To tell the truth, indeed, any matters requiring taste, have so uni- formerly fallen to the direction of men of the ‘ duffer ’

that we almost dread to hear ot opera-

species in this community, tions being commenced, Too many trees bave been taken away already; and, for our part, we should glory in seeing the head chopped off any man who would cut another stick, except in the way of clear- ing out some of the small underbrush.

‘Now, the sum of this is, that we earn- estly wish to recommend those whose good sense lead them to walk abroad, to take the park on their next saliy forth, and if they don’t endorse all that we say— well, so much the worse for the credit of their judgment. The facts remain.

‘THE LAND PURCHASE ACT, 1374.”

We feared the evil influence of the Minister of the Interior; and our fears bare been verified. The Patriot of the 2nd instant contains the following para— graph :—

“It is rumored that the Compulsory Land Purchase Bill, of 1874, will not receive the Governor General's sanction in its present form. The Government wiil no doubt give the reasons on which their refusal is hased, and we trust that the despatch containing them will be published as soon as received.”

The Local Government have not, we are informed, received any official notifi- eation of the determination of the Gover nor General to refuse his assent to the Land Bill. We assume, however, that the information contained in the foregoing paragraph is correct.

Last Session, the Legislative Council, to suit the purposes of the Local Opposi- tion, threw out the Bill empowering the Government to purchase land at a higher price than seven shillings and six pence per acre; and the tenantry are now left powerless to rid themselves of the burdens imposed upon them by the landlords. The $800,000 which Hoo. J. C. Pope

and his party procured for the purchase of preprictary estates will lie unapplied to the purpose for which it was intended at least another year. And who have the

| an extensive borrower for years

merely nominal

contrast presented between the low quota- tion for the new loan and the higher rates

at which our securities have stood at once |

excites attention. As “anada is likely to be to come, the very greatest care should be exercised in order to preserve our present high

| credit.”

It is said that the money obtained un- der the loan cannot yet be used—that the canals to the construction of which it is to be applied, are not yet far enough ad- vanced to require the outlay of large sums of money. Should this prove to be a fact, the loan has been premature; for the money must, in the meantime, re- main in the hands of the Minister of Fi- nance, or be deposited in the banks at a

of The be might even be disastrous, —for the money

rate interest.

consequences must serious.

market is already sufficiently easy ;

flooding it with loanable funds will sim- |

ply be inflating the currency to a danger ous degree, beeause of the liability to contraction at any moment. —_- LAIRD VS. ROSS.

Tue Minister of the Interior and the

Minister of Militia are, evidently, an ill- |

matched pair. They have already had a disagreement. On the 4th of April last, Mr. Laird, on behalf of the Government, offered and agreed to sell to the County Council ot Kent, N. B.,a piece of Government land in Chatham, for $1,100. On the 28th of the same month Mr. Ross informed the Council ** that it is not the intention of the Gov- ernment to dispose of the same.’’ Com- menting on this fact, a contemporary ex-

Dominion

claims ;—

* Surely Mr.Laird has not been attempt- ing to dispose of property without consulting the controllers thereof! Suerly Mr. Laird has been guilty of very great ignorance or an immense amount of assurance. Surely he might have added a postscript to his letter to the effect that “this was the Government's ultimatum aé present,” and thereby save him- self and colleagues from the imputation of breakrng faith with a County Council upon the mere barter and sale ol a 160 feet of land! Minister Laird sells the ground, but Minister Ross refuses his consent, and the entire affair makes the Premier and his Cabinet appear very foolish and very incompetent in the eyes of every well thinking person. The Chatham Planet demands : ‘ If a small matter like the sale of 160 feet of Government lands in the town of Chatham gets Ministers in a snarl, how should people expect that a Cabinet composed largely of just such men as the heads ofthe Militia and Interior Depart- ments will ever be able successfully to man- age the more important and grave affairs of he Dominion of Canada?” The people do not expectit now. In the innocence of their hearts they did a few months ago, but cir- cumstances change men wonderfully !

THE LUNATIC ASYLUM

ConsipERATIONS of delicacy and de- cency, which ordinarily weigh with edi- tors of newspapers, must give way when great abuses are to be reformed. We therefore make no apology for publishing the “plain words’ in which the Grand Jury have thought it their duty to por- tray to the Supreme Court the terrible state ofthe Lunatic Asylum. Again and again, last winter, the EXAMINER direct- ed attention tothe unspeakably horrible state of this Institution, and called for a reform. The subject was discussed and ventilated in the House of Assembly ; but nothing was done. We trust that steps will now immediately be taken to rid the Province of this burning disgrace. While the Institution is being purified and reorganized, it might be well to have the most violent of the lunatics removed to the Asylum at St. John or Halifax.

Tak June number of Blackwood's Mag- azine, which completes Volume CXV., is filled, as usual, with interesting matter

The serials, “ Alice Lorraine,”’ and “ Val- entine and his Brother,’ are continued.

In “The Poets at Play” we find many verses which were not written for publica- tion, but dropped naturally into the private communications of such writers as Scott, Cowper, Lamb, Swift, and many others.

“The Romance of the Japanese Revolu.s tion’’ begins by describing the Japanese and the objects they displayed at the Vienna Exposition, and gives a very interesting ac- count of their character and condition.

“Sex in Mind and Education” discusses & matter of great interest to Americans, namely, the “identical education of boys and girls.” It reviews EZ. H. Clarke’s work on the subject recently published in Boston, and also some essays which have appeared in the English Fortnightly Review.

“ New Books” is a review, with copious extracts of Victor Hugo's “ Ninety-three.” It is extremely laudatory, remarking in conclusion, that it was intended to discuss more than one work, “but what other work can we place by the side of ‘Quatre vingt treize’?"’

The usual political article, describing the reception of the Conservative Budget and

people to thank? Mr. David Laird and

the Local Opposition | |

Parliamentary doings since Faster, brings us to the end of the number, and leaves us, like Oliver Twist, asking for “more,”

They |

mitted on the ratlway. He called to mind

| the crime committed in this Island, years | ago, of placing a bottle of poisoned liquor | upon the roadside, by drinking which sev- | eral persons lost their lives; and declared | that in point of heniousness, it was not to

| be compared with the crime of placing obs

the .

structions—-planks, stones, etc.,—on | line of railway. The Grand Jury found the following Bills | of Indictment :— | The Queen at the prosecution of Ewen | MeMillan cs. Patrick Quinn and Edward Flannigan, for robbery. The Queen at the prosecution of Donad McIntosh vs. John MeDona'd for !arceny— | stealing a horse.

The Queen at the prosecution of John |

MeLauch'an rs. Thomas Noonan, THe Queen at the prosecvtion of Ed- ward Mullins vs George Swan ~ larceny.

| On Friday last the Grand Jury submitted

and struggling people; and the credit of | the fo ‘owing presentment respecting the for this fact alone the list of the dead must

Lunatic Asylum :—

| The Grand Jury feel it to be their duty | to bring to the notice of your Lordships, the state of the Lunatic Asylum of this Province. } On Phursday, the 2d of July, inst., they | formally visited this Asylum ; and, as it | wasa fine afternoon, most of the inmates | were out of doors. The institution was | seen under exceptionably favorable cireum~ stances, for many of the windows and doors | were open,upstairs and down. | Grand Jury find it difficult to believe that an institution so conducted would be al- lowed to exist in any civilized community. In a cell below the ground, about six feet by seven feet, they found one young wo. man entirely naked, hiding herself on the floor beneath some broken dirty straw. |The stench was unbearable. pools of urine on the floor, evidently the accumulation of many days, as there were | gallons of it. The poor creature endeavor- ed to hide herself in the filthy straw, and

| although the keeper alleged as an excuse |

for her condition, that she was violent, the only article she had upon her was a rag tied closely around her neck with which she could easily have strangled herself had she been as violent as alleged to be. In another cell about the same size, another young woman was closely contined, The stench was so unbearable that none of the } jurors could remain there longer than few seconds. Inthis cell there was not even the dirty straw, but the poor creas

| ture lay upon the boards in a state of filth | and |

which was sickening.

In another cell, on the same level, and of the same dimensions. (6 x 7) they found an elder'y woman, but common decency restrains the Grand Jury from giving the details of what they witnessed.

The whole Asylum is in one state of filth. Men's rooms and women’s rooms exhibit an utter absence of the slightest attempt at

some of the jury were ill for hours after in- haling it

weather, when the doors and windows are necessarily closed, must far exceed all we have been told of the ‘Black hole Caleutta ”’ the floor so large as to show that it mnst have been allowed to accumulate in large quantities; while the beds and bedding are, with hardly any exception so abominably filthy that, if they be not alive with vermin, it is because vermin could not exist insuch an atmosphere as surrounds them.

Lordships that the cases which they have referred to by no means exhaust the re- volting sights which they witnessed, but they mention them because they think

| apparently harmless creatures, there cer, tainly is no excuse whatever for their filthy and horrible condition,

The Keeper of the Asylum is an ordinary laborer, who relinquished the occupation of a joiner for his present position; and the Grand Jury fail to see that an utter want of | ‘training, joined to a singular absence of moral competence, is any fitness for the responsible position which he occupies. The Grand Jury think it right to inform your Lordships that the Keeper showed an evident unwillingness to allow them to see the victims specially herein referred to, as well as others of the most distressing eases ; and in every case where this unwillingness was manifested, and the reason of their extreme violence given for such unwilling, ness, we found apparently harmless crea. tures,—in some instances suggesting the possibibility of their being the victims of violence rather than of their being violent.

The men’s side of the house corresponds with the women’s side, except that there are more women confined in the under ground cells than there are men.

The Grand Jury feel that they cannot within the limits of a formal presentment, adequately convey to your Lordships any idea of the terrible state of the Lunatic Asylum. Nothing but a personal inspec- tion could do that; but they do not think they can discharge their duty without formally presenting it. It is the feeling of every Juror that he would rather see any friend of his die and be buried, than con. demned to a living death in that Asylum. We know of no crime so great, deserving of a punishment so terrible as to be incar. | cerated in one of its underground cells.

The Grand Jury last Hilary Term made a presentment similar to this, but without any effect. But we cannot but think the responsibility rests somewhere, either with the Local Government, or the Trustees, or the Medical Attendant, or the Keeper ; some one, or all of these, must be respons sible for this state of things, and as_pre~ sentments of the Grand Jury upon this subject are treated with an indifference which we think they do not deserve, we beg most respectfully to ask your Lord. ships where the actual responsibility lies, and if it be compellent for us, to prefer an indictment against the guilty parties, in order not only that punishment may be awarded where it is so justly deserved, but that the unfortunate creatures of whom we have been speaking. may be rescued from their present deplorable condition, and this Province of Prince Edward Island ke res lieved from the foul and shameful disgrace which now rests upon it.

On behalf of self and fellows,

J. S. Carven,

Foreman, Grand Jury Room, Trinity Term, ; July 1874.

On Saturday torenoon, Mr. Justice Peters delivered a lengthy charge to the Grand Jury respecting the subject matter of the foregoing presentment. His Lordship exs pressed satisfaction that the abuses and scandals so long connected with the Luna- tic Asylum had been brought prominently before the Court and the puolic by the Grand Inquest of the County. He directed the Grand Jury to indict the Trustees, the Medical Superintendent, and the Keeper of the Institution for their criminal supiness and negligence. He dwelt with much force upen the bad practice, so common in this Island, of persons accepting honorary positions, without ever peaforming, or even intending to perform, the duties apper- taining to those positions, and he express- ed his belief that the formal indictment of the Trustees of the Asylum, would be a lesson which all persons in office, or ac- e@pting office, would not be likely to forget.

And yet the |

There were |

cleanliness, while the stench was such that |

The sufferings of these poor people, on } sultry nights of summer, and in stormy |

of |

There are stains of urine on |

The Grand Jury desire to inform your |

that while there can be no possible reason | for the close confinement of these poor and |

; the last of the living and the dead had | been taken out.

| ple were crowded into Montgomery and

as serious as telegraphed last night. The oceasion of the gathering last night was a festival given by the ladies of the church, and a concert by ‘The Little Old | Folks.’ At the rear of the church are the Sunday School rooms, occupying the first | floor, and the church parlors, occupying the second floor. This partof the edifice wag in use for the festival and concert. At the supper was being)!

time of the accident, served in the central parlor, which had |

been prepared for the occasion with tables, &c. This room, which was forty feet | | square, was filled with people, the session |

| persons. The number in the supper room | is variously estimated at from 250 to 500, | mostly grown persons ' floor gave way the children of the congre- gation were in one of the anterooms, being | prepared for the ‘ Ancient Concert.’ But

| have been very much larger, as many Of | the helpless \ittle ones would have been crushed to death in the mass of humanity 'crowded into the V {shaped vortex formed by the falling floor. At the mos | ment of the falling of the floor

| | HE SCENE WITHIN 1HE PARLO®S

j; was one of happy enjoyment While all | were pleasingly engaged, without a single | sign of warning, the floor suddenly sunk | beneath them. and in an instant the happy | throng found themselves buried in a mass of struggling humanity, intermixed with

falling timbers, furniture, &c., and in utter | darkness, the gas having been extinguished | the The

descent of the floor was accompanied with

by breaking of the gaspipes.

|a terrible crushing of timbers, and from | the endangered human beings went up HOKRIBLE CRIES FOR HBLP.

| An instant after the fearful descent had | been made all was as silent as the grave, | but immediately after heart-rending ap- | peals for help were to be heard from |hundreds of those who were in agony.

room below being deserted, save by a few | The house of the editor of Le

At the time the/!

and head of the department of education. has been murdered by his countrymen.

The Nagasaki Express says it is the evi- dent intention of Japan to annex so much of Formosa as is not under the control of China.

The Carlists report that they have raised the siege of Figueras, near the French frons tier.

An order has gone forth from Carlist headquarters, that in future engagements no parley of truce shall be granted.

Gen. Concha, on the contrary, tells his troops not to make reprisals.

Faris, | Bonapartist organ, has been searched by the police, who seized a number of documents,

Mansard, a Bonapartist has written a | letter in which he acknowledges that a | committee exists for the futherance of a plebiscite and that Rouher is its president. The statement is made in the face of Rou» her's recent denial in the Assembly of any knowledge of such a committee.

New York, June 2), p.m.—Gold 110; ; exchange steady. Thermometer 95 in the

shade. Joseph 8. Sprague, a highly esteemed gentleman, connected with the Boston

banking house of Matthew Bolles and com- pany, shot himself and daughter, aged six years, yesterday, near his residence, in Medford, Mass. He was temporarily insane from the recent death of his wife.

Loxvon, June 20, p.m.--Despatches from Madrid bring intelligence that Marshal Cencha was killed yesterday in an attack upon the Carlist intrenchment at Muro, near Estella.

When the National forces learned of the death of their commander they returned to their former positions without disorder, leaving no trophies in the hands of the enemy.

The command of the Republiean army will now be taken by Gen. Zabala, minister of war.

Soon afterwards persons were seen issuing | from the doors and windows, which were

Senor Cotoner will succeed Zabala as

| minister of war, and Sagasta will become | president of the Council.

| smashed out by the frightened people and }

The uninjured in | who were able to free them-

| an a’arm was sounded. | the church | selves from the mass began at once to The firemen and

police were quickly at hand, and labored | nobly in the work of rescue. Entrance to the church was at once stopped, and none

| assist in rescuing others.

| were allowed to enter lt except those en- gaged in taking out the inmates.

The scene within the building was terri- ble in its detals, and that without the edi, fice was heartrending indeed. Fathers and mothers searching for their children, hus- bands looking for their wives, wives en-

| quiring for husbands, brothers for sisters, and children for their parents, of whose all and in dread, Quietly but rapidly the work of extricating the people was carried on by the aid of lanterns, a large number of which had been secured, while some buried themselves with shoring up slanting sections of ihe floor. Many others were aiding men, wo- men and children to free themselves, and as fast as the living and dead were rescued they were passed out through windows and | doors, where ready hands assisted to con- vey the dangerously injured and dead to physicians’ offices and the neighboring houses. The work was vigorously but slowly prosecuted, ‘and before midnight

fate were uncertain

The excitement without the church was terrible, and as each body, either dead or severely injured, was being | carried to the adjoining houses, the

MASS 8URGED BACK AND FORTH, all terribly anxious to ascertain who it was and whether dead or alive. At the height of the excitement not less than 10,000 peo-

Jefferson streets, and in the adjoining pres mises. The excitement at the scene did not subside until long after midnight, at which hour the dead had either been res moved to their homes, or to various under- taking rooms in the city, about which ex: cited groups were to be seen up to two o'clock this morning discussing the terrible details. The excitement in this city to- day over the accident is intense, and many unfounded rumors are in circulation in res gard to the cause of the accident. The disaster was caused by the giving way ofa defective truss. The gathering was in the parlors on the second floor, which was sup-~ ported by iron rods from the truss. The truss giving way, of course the floor fell THE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT,

Various reasons are assigned for the I have carefully investigated the case, and believe the following to be substantially correct. —The floor upon which the party was assembled was sus. pended by iron rods from a wooden truss under the roof, this truss gave way, when, of course, the floor could not supportzitself, and went down. The ceiling fell when the timbers of the truss gave way, and all fell together. Most of those who were killed were struck by the timbers of the truss, or smothered by the plastering. Why the truss should give way has been variously conjectured, It is ali summed up in the statement that it was imperfectly construct- ed, and the floor was improperly suspends ed, The truss had an upper and lower chord. The lower chord rested upon the brick walls, and was

LICED WRONG SIDE UP,

One I. iron rods that supported the floor was bolted into the chord inside of the splice, while outside of it the rod from the joist above was fastened. The tendency thus was to pull the two pieces spliced apart instead of holding them together. This splice broke. The cause of the break wes that the timbers were rotten. They had evidently been put in green, and had had the dry rot. Another reason for the break was that the entire weight upon the floor was on the lower chord and not upon the sustaining beams. The rods which sups ported the floor only passed through the lower chord, and not into the upper one. So far as the power of the truss was con cerned, it might have been astraight stick of poorly spliced timbers, half rotten, An- other reason might be given for the acci. dent. One of the joints in the upper part of the truss was badly fastened. The plate fastened upon the short iron rod in the truss did not cover the upper end of the brace at all, allowing it to slip by. It had been reported that iron pillars had supe

ported the floor till recently, and had been removed by the trustees. This is untrue.

accident.

Several Absent Debtor suits were diss

The truss was put in when the building was

Lonxvoy, June 30.—In tae Commons Mr. Jenkins asked Dlsrael if the Standard’s ass sertion that the Canadian Government aimed at annexation reliable. Mr. | Disraeli replied that the relations of the

| Canadian Dominion and the Imperial Gov~

was

ernments are most cordia. and satisfactory.

The death of Concha is considered in Paris an event of great political importance, as it is believed that Concha intended to proclaim Prince Alphonso King as soon as the campaign against the Carlists was suc~ cessful,

Besides Concha, one brigadeer and two staff officers were killed at the attack of the Republicans on the Carlist entrench< ments.

By orders from Madrid the whole army has fallpn back to Lerin, eight miles from Estella.

Marshal Serrano arrived at Madrid last evening.

There is a possibilty of a collision between Xussia and China,

The Spanish Government is organizing 50 battalion for immediate service.

The body of Concha will arrive at Mad- rid tosday, and will have an imposing funeral,

Caravans arriving from Central Asia, bring reports that Yahoob Bey is arming against Russia, It is believed he is prompts ed to this by the agents of Grrat Britain.

Destructive fires are reported in the town of Benditchev, Russian Poland, by which twelve hundred houses were destroyed, and thousands of persons rendered home+ less.

New York, June 30.-—Gold closed in New York yesterday at 111. @re stronger.

The Toronto Globe disapproves of the re~ turn of Canadian emigrants at the publie expense.

Weather continues extremely hot.

The Herald’s Washington correspondent says rumor is afloat of serious difficulty with Spain, growing out of a peremptory demand by our Government for full indem- nity for the Virginius prisoners shot by or. der of Burriel.

A Portsmouth, New Hampshire, despatch says the cable steamer Ambassador, lying at anchor in the lower harbor, broke loose last night from the buoys to which she was attached and drifted out to sea. She brought up near wood Island without dam- age.

The nonrarrival of the Faraday begins to cause anxiety for her safety.

Lonpoy, July 1.—In Commons, Dr. Butt moved his resolve in favor of Home Rule for Ireland, and supported it in a speech. The question wrs debated by the Attorney General for Ireland. Viscount Crichton and Marquis of Hartington opposed Dr. butt, urging the cordial co-operation of Ireland with England, instead of useless agitation of a separate Parliament. The debate was adjourned until Thursday.

The Carlists murdered many of their prisoners taken in recent engagements.

Marshal Serrano will immediately assume command of the Republican army.

The loss of the Spanish Republicans in their last attack on Estella aggragates 800) men killed and wounded.

The-Carlists claim that eight hundred prisoners fell into their hands during the retreat of Republicans after the battle of Nuro.

There is a report that papers have been found compromising the Bonapartist Dep uty, M. Rouher, and that the Assembly will be asked to authorize his prosecution.

New York, July 1.—Eleven persons are said to have been murdered on Monday night in a dwelling in Spencer County,

Gold closed yesterday at 111.

Ottawa, June 30.—Dominion Day will be observed here tosmorrow in loyal style.

A grand military parade of all the troops at camp garrison will take place.

Attorney General Walkem, of British Columbia, who arrived here last night, waited on the Premier tosday for the purs pose of submitting certain propositions, and should these be satisfactory, he will not proceed to England.

Mr. Wilmot arrived here from Newcastle, N. B., to day with ten thousand salmon fry for the tributaries of the Ottawa,

Information has just been receive here that a foolish attack having appeared in the London Standard on the Canadian Min-~ istry, stating that they had conceived the idea of separating from the Empire and