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without the Legislative Council, the most

| Tne Dominion Board of Trade met at Oltawa on Tuesday last. Delegates from all the Provinces were present; the re- | presentatives of several Boards in the United States, also attended. To the ‘hearty welcome accorded these gentlemen Mr. MeLennan, of Milwauki, responded.

effective checks to aggressions of our lo- | He showed the benefits derived from busi-

eal rulers. The liberties of the people and the stability of the constitution are both—as fur as possible—assured.

There is, we think, only ove argument ‘which can, with any show of reason, be urged against the abolition of the Legis-

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enue cannot be made to expand as it eould formerly, the greatest caution will be need- _ed in the expenditure of public money, or /we will be obliged to resort to direct tax- ation; there are many expensive public enterprises in which it wlll be expedient to embark, if the public funds will afford it ; the House of Assembly is generally made

| up of young and rash spirits, who wil be

Very apt to commence works to carry out which it wiil be pecessary to resort to di- | rect taxation; the Legislative Council—

| which is general y made up of older and

ness men of both countries meeting fre- quently, It would lead finally to closer commercial relations. Reciprocity, he said, was not an absolute necessity to either

; country, What their natural positions re-

| quired was that trade should be placed on |

unrestricted basis, consistent with the He urged the de- velopment of the canals of beth countries.

With all the facilities on both sides of

an ; | necessary revenue,

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THE LAND QUESTION.

Pusiic MEETINGS, called for the pur- pose of considering the Land Question, and other loeal wants and interests, were recently held at Clifton, New Londoz, and at Winsloe Road North. Although the inhabitants af both these thriving sev tlements have our deepest sympathies and our best wishes for the success of their _ efforts, we are unable, owing to the erowd- ‘ed state of our columns, to publish de- tailed reports of those meetings in this issue of the EXAMINER.

The Secretary’s

report of the meeting ut Winsloe Road, |

is unfit for publication. Itisso extreme- ly partizan that it cannot be strictly

|correet- Such expressions as “‘ This un-

| precedented piece of foul political spite,” |

“ Despicable acts,” “ disgraced by « Goy- ernment based upou deception,” are, in

the line, the internal means of communi- | ac | our opinion, proot positive that the report

cation had not been yet equal to the re—| quirements of commerce. In the report | of the Executive Committee, which was |

is net reliable. The Secretary who penned these ex-

read after the organization of the meet- | Pressions rejoices in the euphonious cog-

ing, the lute Government were thanked | 20men of “John Kenneth McInnis.” for the passage of several Acts for the | We should like to knew what right “John

Lense of trois. | Kenneth MeInnis,”’ or any other secretary appointed was one to consider a ne

Among the Committees | bankrupt law. The following officers self a governmental censor. Who author-

w | of a public meeting has to constitute him- have been elected for the current year :—

W.H. Howland, Toronto, President. C. Hi. Fairweather,St. John, Vice President.

Ececutive Commitlee— Robertson, Mon- }

ized him to use bad language coxtaining charges which he cannot prove? After hearing such foul inuendos in respect to the servants of the public we can imagine

ALL LETTERS sent by mail should be | More conservative minds than the As- addressed “ Examiver )’rinting and Pub | sembly— will be needed to check hasty

treal: Hon. T.R. Jones, St. John; Bennock, | ; : ig | Ottawa; Harty. Kingston ; Brown, Hamilton; | the good genius of the Province seizing

THE CENSUS:

(From the British Colonist.) The second volume of the Dominion Census of 1870.71 is printed. It is a bulky ‘volume of between four and five hundred |pages. The first table, number 7, gives

the number of births during the twelve |

months immediately preceding the 2nd of April, 1871. Tables 8 to 12 call for no special remarks ; but table 13 contains the

| enumeration of the people by occupation, |

| . . | being a general expose of the various in-

| dustries in which the population is engaged. | The five following tables are devoted to the | enumeration of the deaths that occurred | during the twelve months prec< ling the | 2nd of April, 1871, by districts, giving the |sexes and status of the dead. We are told, no doubt truly, in the introduction, that as is is always the case when deaths are enquired into by means of a census, in- stead of a system of registration from day to day, the number of deaths recorded falls very greatly short of the actual rate of yearly mortality. Inthe Province of On. tario the recorded deaths are about equal to one in every 89 individuals of the total population, in the Province of Quebec, to one in every 57; in New Brunswick, to (one in every 80, and in Nova Scotia also

three persons of the population of the four Provinces. Even in the Province of Ques bec, where the census returns of deaths are more accurately given than elsewhere, there 1s still a deficiency. It is added, however, that means exist to enable an ad- justment of these figures to be made, so

one in every 80; being one in seventy-—

lishing Company.” Lock Drawer, 72, POST

| legislation and prevent this (dreaded) al-

OFFICE, Chariottetown. i anneal

‘ternative. This is a plausible, but not a

Catheart, Thompson ; Ualifax ; Labelle, Mon- treal; W. Thompson, Toronio.

weighty, argument. Popularity is a

Examiner,

must be economical ; = party in power, to retain popularity, will | be economical. The Lower House is not 'always composed of young men; and if | the Legislative Council were abolished, ali d the old politicians who were worth any- ‘thing would find seats in the Assembly,

Che

¢Ch’town, March 2, 1S74.

THE SECOND CHAMBER.

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Lone before the union of this Islan with the Domivion of Canada many per- : , sons strongly urged the abolition of the | 224 would, of — eer oe influ- Legislative Council. They argued that | ep¢e Upon legislation erenenTe with the popular branch of the Legislature was | their experience and ability. We have sufficiently checked on the one hand by : : the press und the people, and on the other | of these conclusions. Our own H use of by the Imperial Government. Few could | Assembly turnishes . striking one. either understand why the Legislative Notwithstanding the existence of the Leg- Council was needed in this small, ‘much ' governed " colony, or perceive any of the | Suara benefits which it conferred upon the com- | enches munity. ”” it was considered to he merely au expensive leg- islative oraament,—a dicnified assembly of old geut'emen, appointed to remind ciel

, ® , fe Counce | a ee | All things considered, we think the | “eg” of Acts of Parliament. But then| Legis'ative Council should be abolished, |

. . and upwards of $3,500 a year saved to our legislators were only directly respon- : . ,| the public Treasury. sible to the electors and to the Imperial | Ain, Government. The people did not so| TRADE RETURNS. sedulously scrutinize the sects of Parlia- | _— i mest and Government as they do now, | By courtesy of the Customs officials, the press was not so active end the Im-) We are enabled this morning to lay before

perial Authorities were too distant and our readers a short statement showing the

too ignorant of our local affairs to exer-

islative Counci!, many d politicians sit upon the red

in the Lewer House. And as In the “ good old times for economy, was there ever a party in | : power more economical than the party | which now has charge of the public money ? | Yet it is uninfluenced by the Legisla- |

trade of this Province for the six months To many

: iis suding 3lst December, 1873 cise a great controlling influence over the | euding 31st I ecember, 1873. ’ So that. under it will, doubtless, be somewhat startling.

At first

“ balance of trade

legislation of the colony. the old regime, there was, perhaps, a show of reason for a second Chamber, the fuoction of which is to prevent over- | the Island; for while the value of our) But now we are under imports is shown to be $925,822, the | ‘“ehecks and| value of our exports is only $556,429. In-| The cause of this apparent discrepancy |

sight it will appear that the

?

is largely against

hasty legi=lation. a new regime; avd the guards” have been drawn closer. stead of a people comparctively uneduca- | is easily explained. A large proportion | ted und uniateresied in the politics of the | of our imports was composed of material | Island, we have a people educated, intel~ | for the construction of the Railway; and ligent, well ivformed io politics, and par- |a large proportion of our exports were ticularly watchful over the conduct of|to the neighhoring Provinces—to the their rulers,—rulers whom they have, markets of St. Jobn and Halitax; since | power to depose every four years. In- | Confederation, produce shipped to any | stead of the British Government, which | portion of the Dominion has not been set | could neither understand nor sympathize | down as an export,—and therefore it is |

Vice President, the question of Interna.

tional uavigation was discussed, and a|

John Kenneth McInnis by the throat, ! :hatan expression of the real facts may be

a

CARLYLE ON THE CHOICE OF BOOKS. A book by Cunningham Geikie, address. ‘ed to young men contains the following ‘admirable letter from Carlyle -—

Cuetsea, March 13, 1543,

Dear Sir :—-Some time ago your letter was delivered me, I take literally the | first free halfshour | have had since, to write you a word of answer.

It would give me true satisfaction, could lany advice of mime contribute to forward you in your honorable course of provement , taught me that advice can profit but little there is a good reason why ‘advice is so seldom followed'—this reason, namely, | that itis so seldom, and can almost never be, rightly given. No man knows the state of another it is always to some more or less imaginary man that the wisest and most honest adviser is speaking.

As to the books which you, whom I know so little of, should read, there is hardly anything definite that can be said. For one thing, you may be strenuously advised to keep reading. Any good book, any book that is wiser than yourself, will teach you something—a great many things» indirectly and directly, if your mind be open to learn. The old counsel of John- son’s is also good and universally applica- ble: Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read. The very wish and curiosity indicates that you then and there are the person likely to get good of it. ‘Our wishes are presentiments of our capabilities ; "’ that is a noble saying, of deep encouragement to all true men;

}

but a long experience has |

j | | THE CAUSES OF MP. GLADSTONE'S

DECLINE AND FALL,

The crushing rejoinder of the English | constituencies to the appeal of Mr. Giads | stone, is as decided as it must be humiliat-~ | ing. The actual ruler of England, for | many years past, is all but consigned to | oblivion; how long it will last, who can | tell? and this not on account of the

i ;

| strength of the Opposition, but because of

| the distrust of Mr. Gladstone and aversion

| to his policy, which have recently been en- self-ims gendered

It will require all the philos~ ophy and all the Christianity which Mr. Gladstone possesses, and we believe that he is no stranger to such consolations as | they are respectively fitted to impart, to |enable him to bear his defeat wth com- posure. Ofone thing he may assure him, self, that however he may have temporarily

tions of Englishmen.

While all this is true, it will appear that there are reasonable grounds for the fall of the late Premier. It i# probable that his reforms were based too much on abs stract principles, to bear all the practical

number of influential classes aggrieved thereby was very great, while many of those

for other favors and did not get them, were quite as hostile as if nothing had been done for them— were ready even to trust a new leader who was not likely to do anything for them.

The bid made for power by Mr. Glads

fallen in public estimation, his past career | will form a bright page in the English his- | ezuela, causing much damage to life ana tory which will be read by future genera. | POPerty.

tests to which they were put. Then the)

who were benefitted, because they asked |

Sees tema

MISCELLANEOLS.

Spain has removed her duties ports.

It has been proposed at Wa reduce postage to two cents,

Deaths from famine paul, India,

Asiatic cholera at Bueno Ay i | a ; : ‘ > Ayre: @rry, ing off about 50 persons daily,

‘There is said to be muck sie

re is si ? ‘sickness a: the British troops at Ashantee. =

The Ohio has arisen 37 feet ai Ci ati, and fears are entertained of a food

It is reported that Secretary Fich is to England in the p-ace of Scher ed, :

ti i ack, rage’

‘

saki.

. ee aiding to the value of tw

| two millions of dollars we i

| tw re erec

| York last year ——

A severe earti.quake is reports

ae merchant in Troy, N.Y... recently ship, ped an invoice of stoves to Siam and China,

Nearly half the population of a village Connecticut are suffering trom alga

A reciprocity treaty is about to be ranged between the Sandwich Islands ot

the United States. Vr. Disraeli, in limiting his Ca binet to 1 b press. Mr. Gladstone’s Cabinet pe 15 members. | Mr. Cardwell, of the Gladstone Mini

will be elevated to the Peerage, under the title of Viscount Rivington. '

The Indian Government state: that it

members, is generally approved

lex. hingon te 7

are reported @ Ne« a

a

ts } The insurrection in China is spr ; and the insurgents are marching On Na

‘din Vem

| as Othello, the Moor, said to Iago :— Villain be sure cf it; give me the ocular

proof,

‘ jand saying in the same voice of thunder | arrived at sufficiently near. After addresses from the President and | ying y

The causes of

| deaths, under the categories of disease, ac-

/cident, and by criminal interference are | all the objects that look wonderful or bean~

‘given by Provinces. These causes, of | tiful to you, follow with fresh hope the one

applicable to our wishes and efforts in re-| Stone, a snare into which Mr. Disraeli was

gard to reading, as toother things. Among | near falling, by proposing the abolition of |

what was expected.

| has now sufficient grain to meet any de | mand from the distressed districts.

| Charles Shirley Brooks, the novelist, dra.

}

| Punch is dead,

the income tax, worked differently from | moving east. It seems a settled | the 8,000 bar-rooms in New York.

matic author, and editor of the Vondon Look ovr.—The women crusaders ag They are already att

ie <

necessity tos party; and to be popular, | it therefore, the |

not far to goforan instance of the justness

of our most ex- |

; that a committee be appointed to draft a

| Jones, of St. John, N. B., moved that it

Or by the worth of miue eternal soul, Thou had’st betier been born a dog, Than answered my wake'd wrath.”

resolution adopted expressing satisfaction | | with what has been accomplished, and |urging upon the Government the en Seriously, we advise John Kenneth Me- | largement of the Welland and St. Law- | Innis to weigh well the question whether j rence Canals. The following amendments | or not it is right and expedient for Seere- | were made to the constitution: ‘ To elect

officers at the close of the yearly meeting ;

to have the Secretary and Treasurer re- | side in Montreal ; and to have « Vice. | President from each Province represented | Prorgsson ANpERSON’s lecture in St. Pat- at the Board, Mr. Marshall, of St. John, _rick’s Hall, on Friday evening last, was, we |N. B., read a lengthy paper upon the | question of Canadian tonnage. He re- | ferred to Plimsoll’s bill, as brought be-

taries of public meetings to constitute themselves critics.

Ooms e e

| PROFESSOR ANDERSON’S LECTURE.

dience before which it was delivered en. | joyed a rich intellectual treat. It was a | | fore the English Parliament, and read a ad

, | peare’s Julius Cesar.’’ | paper on the subject. He concluded by I ; :

} oe see y J ai ag B | : } moviug, seconded by Mr. Fairweather, Esq., he introduced the lecturer with afew |

appropriate remarks memorial to be forwarded by the Board to the Governor General in Council, urg- ing upon our Government the importance of adopting such measures as to it may | seem necessary to prevent any legislation | phases of passion as portrayed in Macbeth, | that may be proposed in Great Britain in consequence of the report of the Royal played a knowledge of the workings of the Commission, recently held in London,

agen ri any of the others. After explaini prejudicially affecting the tonnage of the | —

Ceesar himself was by no means the leading , character in the piece, inasmuch as it only | included the last month of his life, and that Brutus is the real hero of the drama, he

This motion was After some remarks, Hon. Mr.

Dominion of Canada. earried.

Hamlet, King Lear, end Othello, but it dis~

is of great importance that all lines of |

railroad leading from one part of the

Dominion to another should be

‘by the most direct waters, and as all the}

lines leading through our own or our neigh-

bors are to large extent circuitous. there- |

fore, resolved, that the Dominion Board of

Trade look favorably to the early con- | structian and completion of the Lake Me- |

gantic Railroad, which will make as nearly as possible a direct line from Montreal to the seaboard in New Brunswick. Nova Scotla, and P. E. Island. The ques- tion of the tariff elicited a lively debate. Mr. McPherson moved that a duty of 15 percent is fair and reasonable, and no disturbance of the tariff is at present de- sirable,

made |

gave a slight sketch of the life of Cvwsar showing that by the power of Rome he con: quered Gaul, and by the plunder of Gaul | he conquered Rome, and having attained

| to the offering of divine honors by the Senate he became suspected, by the ars dent supporters of the then crumbling republic at aiming at the hateful title of King. The honest fears of Brutus, worked

| course, partake of the deficiency experi- ;enced in the general census record of |deaths. The 10th table. the last of the

; second volume, contains a statement of)

the number of churches belonging to the several religious denominations, with the

| number of buildings attached to, or imme- | ‘diately connected with, these churches, | sire, the Monition of Nature, is much to be | Similar information is also given in relation | attended to.

to the higher class of educational institu,

on the 2nd day of April, 1871. Although census returns are, on the face

as useful information. In consulting the |

tire returns of the census. From table 10 it would appear that the | number of children going to schoo! in the |

human mind in general, not to be found in four Provinces are 351,122 boys, and 330,769 | of the history of past men.

| girls; 161,104 males, and 138,471 females | over 20 years of age are unable to read, | and that 198,721 males, and 213,421 females |

are unable to write. There are in the Pro- |

Province of Quebec, The totals by Pros | vinces of those who are unable to read is for | Ontario, 57,379; for Quebec, 183,852; for New Brunswick, 19,002, and for Nova Sco-~ tiv, 31,332. This gives a proportion, to the entire population, of about four times as many for the Province of Quebec as that of Ontario,

upon by the selfish and crafty jealousy of Cassius and others, a conspiracy was formed which culminated jn Cmsar’s assassination. | Then giving a masterly sketch of the phil-

osophicand unworldly disposition of Brutus, | _and the keenly discerning selfishness of | Cassius, he proceeded to point ont how | | Ceesar, perceiving the worth of Brutus, had,

after taking him prisoner at the battle of | Pharsalia, not only spared his life and all |

} i { | | i

Mr. Gillespie, of Hamilton, | the degradation with which the custom of | dred years old and the ages of 74 are not

with our local Wants and interests, we have the Dominion Governinent, which is

intimately acquainted with the require-| nish a ‘“‘ Comparative Statement.’

ments of our people ; and to it all Acts of our Local Parliament must be referred before they become law. So that the Lo-

'that the balance of trade appears to be |

against us.

We regret that we are unable to fur- | > Under | he cire ances i ld be »mely | the circumstances it would be extremely | difficult to make a correct comparison of |

| seconded by Mr. Elliot. | London,

ca Parliament is now curbed and hedged our Trade during the past year with that | in, so to speak, by two powers, each of of the years preceding it. Compurative

from

moved in amendment, that the tariff | the times overwhelmed the vanquished, | should be increased to 20 per cent ; | nat tat, Dole Hews ert. snd: paliey, | . heaped favors and distinction upon him; |

Mr. Walker, of | : aie +] | and how gratitude and patriotism struggled |

| for mastry in the mind of Brutus, until the | amendment that the Board approve ot 15) crafty urgings of Cassius led him to take per cent duty ad valorem. and it is of) the lead in the fatal conspiracy. We have | opinion, that in the event of any increase | not space, nor would it be well timed, to re- | of revenue being required, it should be | peat the leading extracts of the dama,

raised by increasing the duties on articles | SUCH 98 the justificatory speech of Brutus,

moved an amendment to the

which is stronger than itself. Statements must in future date if there ever was any real need for a ‘Second Chamber” ia this Island, the need no onger exists.

But, the Legislative Council of this Is- | land was at one time respectable. sequently it was respected,

Therefore,

('on- Now, how- ever, there are “none so poor to do it reverence."’ The little influence it once

Confederation.

TRADE OF P. E. ISLAND.

Statement of Imports into P. E. Island for | the Six Months ending 3lst December 1873, 487122 438700

Vulue of Dutiable Goods imported és Free 6 6s

Total value of Goods imported, 8925822

duty ex Ship, 465779

of luxury, not necessaries of life, and the

}and the condemnatory funeral oration of

_ Antony, as we could not possibly reproduce |

The total number of the blind in the four | Provinces is 2,576, and of these || are over | a hundred years of age. In point of sex 1,400 are males, and 1,167 females ; and they are distributed as follows: Ontario, 1,209 ; Quebec, 1,203; New Brunswick, 216, and 328 in Novs Scotia.

There are in all the Provinces combined 5,026 males, and 4,397 females of unsound mind. Four of these are more than a hun-

given.

OPINION IN BRITISH COLUMRBIA.

The Victoria Standard states that Mr. Mackenzie's intentions, as represented by the opposition, are objectionable. It cons | cludes an article on the Pacific Railway question as follows ;—

When, however, we take up the accredits

that looks wonderfulest beautifulest. You will gradually by various trials (which trials /are that you make honest, manly ones, not silly, short, fitful ones) discover what |isfor you the wonderfulest, beautifulest ; _whatis your true element and province, and be able to abide by that. True De-

But here also you are to | 4. oo | discriminate carefully between fue desire

| tions, and to penitentaries and jails, with and false. ‘The medical men tell us we | the additional information of the total num- | should eat what we frvely have an appetite regret to report, ill-attended. But the au- | ber of persons abiding in these institutions | for; but what we only fa/sely have an appe-

| tite for, we should absolutely avoid. It is | ‘very true. And flimsy, ‘desultory’ read-

long and a brilliant discourse on ‘“Shakes+ | of them, a dry subject of study, still, when ers, who fly from foolish book to foolish ‘carefully investigated and _ intelligently | book, and get good of none, and mischief The Chair being taken by P. R. Bowers, | handled, they afford much curious as well | of all—are not these as foolish, unhealthy |

eaters, who mistike their superficial, false

Professor Anderson | tables it must be borne in mind that the | desire after spiceries and confectioneries | then proceeded to show that the play of figures now furnished are nearly three | for the real appetite, of which even they Julius Cesar” is one of the most remark- , years old, so great is the delay in the issue | are not destitute, though it lies far deeper, able of Shakespeare's dramas. It had not of these volumes, of which, we believe, it | far quieter, after solid nutritive food? the depth of feeling aroused by particular | will require several more to contain the en- | With these ilustrations 1 will recommend

Johnson's advice to you, ’ Another thing and only one other, [| will say. All hooks are properly the ‘ecord | What thoughts past men had in them, what actions past men did; the summary all books whatsoever lies there. It is on this ground that the class of books specially

ol

Let him study that faithfully, innumerable inquiries, with due indications, will branch out from it; he has a broad beaten highway from which all the country is more or less visible | —there travelling, let him choose where he will dwell.

Neither let mistakes nor wrong direc: | tions, of which every man, in his studies | and elsewhere, falls into many, discourage | you. There is precious instruction to be | got by finding that we were wrong. Leta a man try faithfully, manfully, to be right; he will grow more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves. (ur very walking is an incessant falling; a | falling and a catching of ourselves betore

point in England that indirect taxation cannet be increased. It was shrewdly in- ferred, therefore, that the abolition of the income tax just meant increased direct taxation, ere long, and perhaps in a more

come tax. The country being rich and prosperous, people asked themselves why the national exchequer should be crippled, or if the taxes paid must be continued why there should be any shuffling about the mode of paying them. When the doubtful scheme of Gladstone was associ~ ated with the humiliating cheeseparing of Lowe, the people felt more disposed to pay the old taxes than to avail themselves of the new deductions

Add to all this that Mr.

Gladstone's

sired by the Euglish people. Averse as they are to the intermeddling epirit ex. emplified by Lord Palmerston, they are more averse to truckling, whether it were to Russia inthe matter of the Black Sea treaties or to the United States in the Alabama matter, and as what was done in these respects did not please them, a great deal of irritation was caused which Mr. Gladstone's political foes turned to good account. Mr. Gladstone, being a scholar

without cause

separation from the people, never had that

vinces 2,049 male, and 1,740 female deaf named History can be safely recommended personal popularity which Palmerston en- mutes. Of these latter 1,650 are in the as the basis of all study of books. Past | joyed and which Disraeli knows so wel] | census of 1870, the white population of the history, and especially the past history of | one’s own native country—everybody may | be advised to begin with that.

how to cultivate, and did not realiy under- stand the public sentiment of the country. Owing to these and other causes, including | the English love of change of governments, | Mr. Gladstone s defeat can be understood, | Itis one of the greatest of modern times.

It has not been without a cause, just as the | overturn in Canadian politics has not been but, while this is the case Gladstone may find solace in looking back oa pastin which he was a great and dis- tinguished figure, and we may say the same |

/of our own Canadian lesders.—S/. John Telegraph. JAPANESE STUDENTS IN THE

UNITED STATES.

The recall of the Japanese students from this country and Europe in such large numbers has led some persons to

objectionable form, than that of the | DS aaa “e | fill out a training ship. os

In a late fight the Dutch troops in Aches ;

foreign policy was not as firm as was de> |

and a thinker, who lived in comparative |

' Study to do faithfully whatsoever thing in

| find either expressly or tacitly laid to your’ the matter committed a great mistake in

we come actually to the pavement! It is | that the Japanese Government has abans emblematic of all things a man does. | doned its policy of educating its youths

In conclusion, I will remind you that it | abroad. This, however ia by no means | is not by books alone, or by books chiefly, | the fact. The necessity for the recalling of | that a man becomes in all points a man. a large number of students in foreign couns | tries arises partly from the lack of funds, | but mainly because those saving charge of

your actual situation, there and now, you

| A correspondent of the Standard on the”

Gold Coast writes that a treaty has

j i 5

signed by Wolseley and the King of the”

| Ashantees.

£5,000 for the benefit of destitute

;

| captured an imporiani fort, killing 2.909 | detenders. The los: so the expedition ip only six killed and fifty-six wounded,

| Mr, Dillion, a member of the Livingsteng search expedition, with Livingstones’s pe | mains, is expected ty reach Zanzibar ¢he | 20th inst. The Cameron expedition

| proceed to Ujiji to obtain documents

| property left by the doctor, .

Francis John Parkham, Secretary of Brig 'ish Legation at Washington, and Wa

| Secretary of British Legation at Copenhm gen, are to exchange places.

Political disturbances have sppeared ig | Japan. The people clamor for a war with the Coreans. This, or a civil war, is inevib ; able. An insurrection has broken out ig | the district of Tizen.

Rev. Mr. Moffatt, English Missionary to South Africa, doubts the correctness of the | reports concerning Dr. Livingstone’s death, | The Foreign Office likewise entertains some | doubt. A Jewish journal, called Glad Tid /has been commenced in Calcutta. It i published every Friday, and is printed ig | the Arabic Language and Hebrew chara } ter. | There are more negroes than white men in the Mississippi Legislature, which is nog }at all unreasonable, as, according to the

| State numbered 383,000 against 444,000 | colored,

The Times says a despatch received at Cape Coast Castle on the 28th January, from the expeditionary force, announees — that Coomassie, the capital of Ashantee, — surrendered to General Wolsey, and that the King and family were made prisoners,

lhree railway accidents occurred in Engs land lately. The most serious happened to

| the Scottish mail train, which ran intoa

luggage train near Preston. Fifteen pers sons were injured, of whom two died. The

| ears were all demolished.

It appears from Parliamentary Blue Books that the last admini-tration of Mr.

| Disraeli brought down the taxation of the | country from £2 8s 4d per head to £2 5s } 6d, and that Mr, Gladstone’s Government | has raised it again to £2 8s 2d.

A despatch to the7%mes, from Calcutta says that 280,000 persons are distressed from want of food in the district of Tirhoot

suppose | and Baylipoor, Presidency of Bengal. The /same dispatch says

it is estimated that, but for aid furnished by the Government,

| 500,000 persons would have perished,

It is said that on the «ssembling of Parlia- ment, it willimmediate be prorogued until

| March 12th, so that the members who ae- | cepted office from Mr. Desraeli may have |} an opportunity to go before their constit

| uents for re-election.

It is also said that

Lady Burdett Coutts has offered bon -

London, and the money is to be used to

‘ed organs of the Government, and read | charge—that is your post; stand in it like

ever sending so many unprepared lads

what they put forth as the sentiments and | a true soldier; silently devour the many | abroad. Most of them arr ved in America

intentions of the Cabinet as a whole, it has |

Board is further of opinion, that perman-

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ency in the fiscal policy of the country is most important to its commercial and manufacturing interests. By telegraph to the Patriot of Saturday evening we learn that Senator Howlan proposed a resolution suggesting the necessity of pro- curing the fullest information on the Fish eries of the Dominion, and that a Com. |

| read them for themselves, now, whilst the!

| conscious-stricken Brutus, who, at Phillipi,

,hess of appreciation and an eloquence |

a tendency in a great measure to dispel our | the masterly reading of Professor Anders | fears as to any intention on the part of the | son, We can only request our friends to | Government to violate the conditions of the agreement made with this Province. ‘They | ; ae : tell us the railway is to be commenced at impression is fresh upon their minds. The) the earliest possible date, simultaneously |

workings of remorse in the mind of the ‘on both sides of the mountains, and that |

| by utilizing the vast stretches of water com-~ : oe munication lying between a point not far perceived that his crime had produced no- | from the Rocky Mountains and Fort Garry, thing but disaster, was given with a keen-| and between Lake Superior and French | River, on the Georgian Bay, communication |

chagrins of it, as all human sitwations have | or Europe unable to spesk a word, and many, and be your aim not to quit it with- | having but the merest elementary acquaint~ out doing all that #4, at least required of | ance with a foreign language. Encouraged you. A man perfects himself by work, | by injudicious foreign advisers, and without much more than by reading. ‘hey are a fully considering the wisdom of the step, growing kind of men that can wisely com> | they sent hundreds of tha lads abroad, bine the two things; wisely, valiantly, can | who, instead of studying science and liter- do what is laid to thair hand in their pre- | ature, had to begin the spelling-book and sent sphere, and prepare themselves withal first reader, and spend twe or three more for doing other wider things, 7 such lie | in elementary drudgery. A »outsix months