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¢ — re A RENEE POET - a —-— — : — a — peech . " | | 7 ; a as toon 7 ed i ill' yoke of ietory bondage. They have Than jar®a kind memento ; | on the |e ended hc Gk ccs Eee oe ee ee is to be hoped that with this change will’ yoke of proprietory ge. a han : ' Ss ot Hon. J. 4 Pope, ou the the working expenses ard the wear and tear, | Breten en the Eust. These are works of wreat im “ ? ‘a See about uniform weights aud (ever been the supporters end oe the Bot how the BB jcttheme may geug, Railway. between the narrow and broad guage, which le fortance ; and the measures adopted by the Legis OGhe Nyuaer. | sqaenet al de away with the old style of | rg et a ee et phe Let time an _ —— ae eal tale chest G0 por oer nat OO. geE NNER, Son ee ee wee ian i de he . ‘gelling goods and merchandize by the ewt,of the tenautry, ‘tlhe opposed the exe Pores ony Mp ems meg,

Poa Sm i lbs, whieh is ponsible Government; (112 tbs) instead of the nett 100 Ibs, whieh is pons be Ae ame gy be i i h . | |} tension of the franchise; and they have been

' Cappers Are detain Faenng —_ | either the open enemies, or the lake-wardu What says Prince Edward Island, Old sleepy) -

Veruaps terpeg ut 4 sermon,

, mh, Ye'litry the world fa! -oou, my lad, Au’, Andrew, dear, believe ine,

| apectively, ot the earnmnges and in this way, are | "beee raibgaye which are essential to the pros | suming our traffic to be equal to that of the | Perity vf the country at large. Gu ahead Nova |

Shediac line, our Railwyay would not only pay |

Io theansawer made by this House, to the speech with which Hie Houor the Lieutenant | Governor opened the Seesion, we expressed con-

‘friends of popular education. The Liberals, ; ‘on the other hard, have been the pzrsistent |

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;' se ei , ie a ; , currence with His Honor ip bis suggestion that working expenses, but leave . net pro@t of over )) chow seems to be still asleep on any great, We are beginning to find out that any LIBERALISM. lenemies of the leasehold system. They bave| Ye » find rn ua Buco eveet, we should consider the expediency of deepening 6 per cent, equal to the full interest on all the public measure for its improvement. A Govern. journalist, who departs from the trodden_ ii \ adeatniell with mght and main to resist the Au’ muckle they may grieve ye:

For care an’ tronble set your thonyht, Ev’n when your end’s attained ;

An’ «’ your views may come to nought, Where ev'ry uerve # strained

the waters in cur harbors, aad of constructing a railroad through the Island, and declared oyr |

tention to devote to those important subjeste our | earvest coneideration. Last evening } iutimat- | Wiel *% the equare mile, is only one-fourth that Leader the Hon. Mr. Pope, whose jund enlarged intelligence showed the utility an

a. 2 { the} ef ours. There is much of the land along their | : ed to the House that on (hie—the day o °| | necessity of sach an undertaking. This hus creat-| the Examiner, performed & 6e

money invested in ite construction; and, couse- ment measure for the constrretion and commence. | ways of conducting & paper here, that 19 per- | THERE have been men in every age 0 ‘usurpations aad exactions of pretended aod } | z ; quently, be no burden upow the country. As | ment of a Kailway from Cuscampes to Georgetow', | song] malignity, purtizan politics, and general the world who have hated oppression and) eq) jandowpers. It has ever beeu their aim

before remarked, tie population of New Bruns- has been brought before the Legislature by its ; hand I iia a os in one way and/to secure tobe tillers of the suil the possess | ‘ i j agc road to travel.) wrong, and who, some ib \ 8 a See ee | : ' ‘sion of the lands waich they have ut » great:

4 Last week some parties on ‘he appearance of some in another, _have sudeavoredl vt expen Meare of labor ‘vedeused fies te! . line which Is rocky, barren, and unproductive, | ries of * ground | aneliorate the condition of the mansoes of wilderness. They have eymyathised with the | Fetson Raiat of the Rncwnd tloy-t wou Wy e ; . * \ed an aitation from one erd of the Ieland to the| and lofty tamblings’ that were only equalled by | mankind. ‘These have been men of keen) people, and have been, in consequence hated |

“ON ' evertheless, it ie a fact, as shown by the s i : | ie C j y to x! f |

ee ae ot of all the passcaney {tes K% up by Suarlers, Read side Pedlars, and | the impertinence of others, to allof whom, we ‘discernment, possessing a strong sense of y cbs aed e. vias ees

2 - : : : . : ; ; . : . An 1 esc my : as . '

tines Grag-esttere, whe have exinad sud Mimese’) pay proper attention in due time, Justice. of generous self. oe spirit, Islund to this day? Is it because it was]

va and of indomitable courage. Their sympa-| y,ong or unjust that men should be com- OPINION ON THE RAILWAY \thies have ever been with the weak, and

1'ii no say men are villians a’; The real, harden'd wicked,

Wha ha’e nae check bat buman law, Are toa few restricked ;

Bat, och ! mankind are nnco weak, Au’ little to be trusted;

If self the wavering balance shake,

mit a resolution respecting

or 4 RatLnoan, I shall accordingly wove a turne, that over 95 per cent of all the passenger |

Resolution, It ie not my intention to make a | ‘affic of the Shedise road, is wayside or local \on the proceeds of Revenue arjsing from Roads, long speech, as J, on a fermer occasion, address- | traffic, and less than 5 per cent through traffic. | Bridges, and Statute Labor Acts. Those parties |

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pelled to give up land upon which they bad)

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ed the House ou this subject. it ie admitted, are insufficient for the increased | OMe-filth passes through, As our country is | traffic, and tLe transport oi our agricultural and jsettled all along the proposed line, and as we other products, It is almost impossible to aie haye & much denser population to the equare | roads over out soil, such es will stand the wear | Mie, than New Buuoswick, it is but fair te as-|

Our roads, Of the freight traffic, four fifihs is local, and only | see ina railway the breaking up of their mono- plies—the craft, as of old, is in danger, and they |

the outs, and a few time serving demigogues have set vp such a disynal cry of disaster, rujn, and taxa- tion, thereby scaring a part of the United Wisdom

of this enlightened community almost intg fits,

QUESTION.

Tux Capital has spoken out in favor of the ailway Question in terms that can not be

ih i Mr, Davies, one of the

| misunderstood. j

suffering; they never could see cruelty in- flicted on the defenceless, and keep silence.

expended no labor, when they had failed to fulfil the conditions upon which it was im- properly and wastefully granted to them ?

They saw abuses and exposed them, and | Ry no means, It is because the Es -heators would not rest themselves, or suffer others were for the most part humble men contend- to rest, until they were abolished. They|'% #zuinst @ powerful clique who were

u's rarely right adjusted !

Yet they wha fa’ in fortune’s strife, Their fate we should na censure,

For still th” important end of life, Then equally may answer;

and .tear of hesvy bauling, particularly in the | S4¥™e that we should have more traffic, So that

‘and causing the eaid Government measure to be | representatives for the City, is one of the

spring and fall of the year. It has been a very | if we take this as the standard of cowparison, I | difficult matter tu get the productions of the don't see how a railroad through this Island | country to market, with such inadequate facilities | could fail to be more reu:uperative than a rail-| ve we have at present, and it has already been a | road in the neighboring Provinces—receiving as | necessity to expend a large sum of money in| %* it weuld, more work, the population being | order to enable our people (o carry their surplus | uch greater to the equare mile, and pur pro, | products to convenieat harbors, and the question | ducts three times greater than they are in New

which forces itself upon us, is, whether it is most | Bruaswick; so that, instead of the road ruining | advisable to spend money in wacadamizing and | our people, it would be the weave of adding to lding a| their wealth, by the benefits which would re- |

improving eur common roads, or in bui line of railroad through the Island? This a | sult from the increased facilities for the traasport |

question which deserves our serious consider- | of their productions, and the bigher prices which atior, and should be taken up by this House, and | they would obtain for them. In all progressive dealt with upon its owa werits, It is a fact | countries, railways are looked upon as necessi- seadily admitted, that we bave no loose stone or | ties. The United States sre interseeted in every granite, such as ie found in the neighboring Pro- | direction by lives of railway, and the people of vinces of Nova Svotia and New Brunswick, suit | thst country were looked upon as ainengst the able fur the construction of roads. and the cost | most progressive and enterprising peop!e in the ef macadamizing with imported stone, bas been - world, Upper Canada, New Bruoswick, and found to be so very beavy, that it is quite evident Nova &cotia, are following in tle same progres- that we never can prosecute that wode of road-/| sive path, and why should we lag behind? A making to ary great exteot. In this country | substantial proof of the success of railroads in labor is becoming very scarce, and the farmers | New Brunswick, is given by the fact, that they are becomming better off, and markets tolerably | were now running a line from Fredricton to) good; ready cash is to be obtained for products | Kiver de Loup, in Canada, With your perinie- |

of all kinde, The moment harvest is over, far- j sion, Sir, I will now allude to a letter of Mr. | give the other the oflice of Collector of Excise 7 progressive movemest of Charlottetewn? Iam sure either of the two gen: | i

mers begin their threshing, andjafterwards com- | Derby, of Buston, which appeared in our lvcal | mence to bring their products to market; in | newspapers a short time since. This gentleman |

set aside, which all men ef intelligence and enter prise could hail as a harbinger of prosperity, thereby placing us, in a measure on an equality with the Provinces around ug. Alas for the com parison | Yours,

Raliaroan. Albion Bay,

OPINIONS OF THE PEOPLE,

To THE EpiroR ov THE EXAMINER. Sir ,

A short time ago I wrote a letter, which was published in your paper, on the injnstice done to the French Acadian population of this Colony in the distribution of Public Offices, I see that my letter bas done some good, Gilbert Buote, Esq, of Tignish, has been appointed Commissioner for taking acknowledgements to Deeds, &c., but that is not sufficient, there are more important offices which ought to be filled up by some of the Acadians. There are two French Acadian members in the Honse of Assembly, both strong supportera of the Government and, no doubt, those two gentlemen

| represent the views of the majority of the French

Acadians in this island, and why not appeiut one of them to a seat in the Executive? and why not

tlemen above referred to are better entitled to it

| most careful of legislators in sis words and ‘actions. He intimated that he would like to | know the feelings of bis constituents, In a single day, nearly @ thousand voters ex- pressed their desire to him that be should support the Railway poliey of the Govern- ment. Tbe unanimity and willingness with which this expression of opinion was given, show that Charlottetown is stongly in favor of the movement. All classes—rich ,and poor, youag and ofd, went in, as one man, to ask their representatives. This exhibition shows that tLe Railway is a popular move- ment, aad that it does nut emanate from | few politicians, or from any tyrannical fac- tion, as is sometimes said by the oppoeers of the Railway project. For Chariottetown to so unanimously approve of such a progres- sive movement, is certainly a singular phase of the signs of the times, Charlottetown, that used to ostracize the liberals, and stone to death the prophets of progress in days gone by, to go in so beartily for the greatest Islanders, in day, is @ sure proof that its foasi's are depariing, and that its old

| our

; ; _.” | cunning enough and influential enouzh to pre- had no toleration for ancient tyranniés,

they entertained no respect for hoary

to right what was wrong in the world, and they did their work not always wisely or well, but fearlessly and perseveringly. Tyrants feared them and hated them, and jthey were not a’ways understood, or ap- preciated by those whom they were toiling to serve. But they were men strong to suffer as well as todo. They endured the scorn and contumely of the great with for- titude, and the misrepresentation and in- sult of the lowly with patience and hope. They worked for a great end, and to reach it they sacrificed every thing that men hold dear, the respect of their fellows honor, wealth, position, and even life itself. They were volunteers in a great army, and they went to battle knowing the danger,and coun- ing the cost. Sometimes they have been victorious, and have received for their re- ward the tardy plaudits of those for whom they toiled and suffered, and quite as often they have been vanquisked in the unequal

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abuses. They felt that it was their mission | policy of the Tories of all countries, aud of

judice the minds of the people agaiast those who

labored to set them free, This bas been the

and the ‘Tories of this Islund were:

A man way ba’e an honest heart,

Tho’ poortith hourly stare him; A man my tak’ a neibors’s part, Yet ba’e nae eash to apare him.

| all ages, true to their instincts. What man of middle lage among us does not remember the obloquy that the proprietory Tories heaped upon George ‘Coles and Edward Whelan and their co- ' workers of the old Liberal Party. They were ‘abused aud slandered in every possible way. They were persecuted by the Family Compact clique while they were rising into power, and every obstacle wus thrown im the way by the Cunservatives to prevent the people ‘benetir- ing by their services. But they, in spite of the sirenous opposition and bitter social per- secution of the Tories, won tor the people the | only victories they have obtained ou this [s- land They gained for them Ke-ponsible Government, thereby obtaining for them an infduential voice in the management of their} own affaics, They broke up the tenant system, and undermined the political influence cf laudlords, and they diffused amony the | people the blessings of education. heir successors have ever since found amole em- s ‘ - | ployment in carrying out what they initiated, “See the philosophy ia this, about getting }and improving and impairing what they es-/a certain portion of wealth. Isnt ita jtablshed. The peopie of this Island, and | whole volume, on political economy.” | peoples everywhere owe a great debt to_ | Liberals. We know that there are some! } among us who to find a pretext for inconsist-

When wi’ a bosom erony;

But still keep something to yoursel’ Ye scarcely tell to ony.

Conceal yoursel’ as weel's ye can Frae critical dissections.

Bat keek uirough ev’ry other man, Wi’ sharpeu'd, sly inspection.

The sacred lowe o” weel plac'd love, Luxuriantly indulge it;

But never tempt th’illicit rove, Tho’ nuetuing should divalge it:

J waive the quantum o’ the sin, The hazard of concealing ;

Bat, och { it harde: s a’ within, Au?’ petrifies the feeling !

‘fo catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Asriduous wait upon her ; An’ gather gear by ev’ry wile

‘“‘ Now listen to the good advice and true a worldiy wisdom in these two stanzas"— Aye free, eff han’ your story tell, : = Ae

macy cases travellirg a distance of 30 or 15 miles Thie takes much time wh ch is wanted on the feym. We all know that time is money. The expense to the farmer of cetting his products to

| 18 admittted to be one of the first statisticians in the United States, and he says that, if the coun- | try would furnish 50 tons of freight per day, each | way, er its equivalent, that is, 25 tons and 25

| than the oflicer, who, four years ago, deserted his jconstituents for the suke of the office, and who is fugzyism is gone forever. Toryism always If the | Jooks to any changes in the future with fear, | Goverument continue keeping their political ene |liberalism Jocks forward with hope. Char-

no supporter of the present Government,

strife, and have Gedioated ui— talents, | eney endeavor to cast a reproagh upon Liberal- wealth, fame, and life long labor to the; ism, and to bring the profession of liberal | good of their kind, apparently in vain. principles iuto disrepute,

They draw a} /horribie picture of the erimes and the teach-

. 7 » > “ s ; - ¢ . . Lhdse have been the world’s Liberals, great | ings of the lawiess and the licentious and en-|

That's justified by honour; Not for to hide it ina hedge, Nor for a train-attendant, But for the glorious privilege

OF being independant.

market, under existing circumstances, is equal | passengers, the railway would pay working ex- to three times what it would bad we a railroad. peuses and interest, Nuw, every hon member Had we a railroad, cur farmers would be en /of the Committee must be eatisfied that the abled to spend upon their farms, in preparing for | freight and travel would double the amount} the next year’s crop, muck of time now coneamed | named. There can be bet little doubt, therefore, | in hauling their products to market, As the | that the work would pay, and would be no bar. | country growe older, avd as farmers cultivate | then er expense upon the country. Ths railrvad their lands te a greater extent, the more wii! the | from Cascumpec to Georgetown, at a cost of want o/ noproved communication be fel’, Under} £5000 a mile, (the distance being 120 miles) these circumstances, it ie evident that, with the would be £600,000, Right of way. say £10,000; increasing prosperity of our people, something | Engineer, say £2250 for three years; Cowwie- must be done to give them corresponding | sioners, £40003; Appraisers, £3000, and say, an facilities of transport. Now, as I have said, the | additienal £2750 for Contingencies—the total qnestion is, Shall we undertake to charter vessels | cost would thus be £622 000. During the first lu bring stone and gravel from abroad, witb| year af construction the expenditure would not which to macadamize our reads or sbeil we exceed £150,000; and as the expenditure would undertake to build a railroad? I know some | extend over the whole year, not more than six hon mewbers are opposed to the latter expedi | -,ynths mterest cou'd be estimated, viz: £4500 eat, beeause the line will not run down te par-' Phe second year we should bave to provide for

| y am well awure there are a namber of cunning men

who go among the people misrepresenting the views of the Government, with respect to building a Railroad in this Island, They tell us, oh! Pope, “Nowlan & Ce., will ruin tLe Island, they will diive us into Confederation, or some otber ation, they want to speculate and make money at our ex- pemse ; but in the same breath they tell us, put us in power, and we will build the Railroad for you. Well thut is all very fine talk, bat it is rather slippery to be depended upon, Another advice I wish te give you, beware of those parties who go round uskiag you to sign a petition for a Railroad, aud ufterwards they put the petition through a physical process, and it turns out to be a petition

ies in office, th : t their friends will | | mies im aBiee. hey may expect their frienc * will lottetown has become liberal then, for ebe desert them in time of need. Now I would like to

; ' eat fai i u say a word to my countrymen onthe Railroad. I must have great faith in the success of the

for it. If the expenses of the railroad are to be met with an impost tax, tien Charlotte town will have to bear a large part of the burthen. The citizens of Charlottetown use |@ large proportion of the dutiable goods |such as cloths, earpets, wines, sugars, and ‘other luxuries which peopte in the country |use more sparingly. We hope that the generous confidevce of the Capital in the |success of the Railroad will be abundantly realized. re long we may have direct steam communication with England, and

railroad when she is so ready to tax herself

| professed and practiced, is true Liberalism.

Whereever we see a man courageously | battling with tyranny, there we recognize a true Liberal. The man who vigorously protests against injustice is a true Liberal Ile who advocates the caus> of the weak against the strong, and who, when he feels that he is right, wili not be put down by the crushing hand of authority, is a true Liberal. ‘Ihe man who contends for justice to all, who is determined to see that in his time and in his country the rights of all classes shall be recognized and respected, is a true Liberal. The man who does not

aguinst w Railroud. I tell you again beware of| though the impost tax may be greater, yet | measure the rights of his fellow citizens by

chose Quacke, Now, Mr. Editor, allow me to congratulate yon

the goods, thus more cheaply earried from | Epg:and, may be had at less cost than now

\their birth, their station, or their numbers, | but who «s readily renders to the ignoble,

e ‘ } - m i rine Dp p } cof ' i ticular districts, Along the western part of thé | the interest for twelve u.onths of the £150 0u9 | 0" Four euccees in having put « new Zreas on ct to the consumer, Since competition and the lowly aud the few their full due as to

evuntry, for many miles, there »s no harbor, ror | expended the first year, and £200,000 expended means by which the iwhabitants can previde | the second year for six months, amounting to Themselves, by water transport, with many | £15,060. Tbe third year intereat of £350,000 articles indispeneably vecersary to the ecmfort of | for twelve months, and balance of expenditure, their families. They have frewood in abundance, | say £272,000 for, say, three wontbe, equal to | timber, staves for makicg barre’s, and many | £26,580, In all, £46,080 in three years. Two vtber things, required in oiber parts of the Is-| and a hal! per cent on the imports, would amount land, the sale of which weuld go far towards | in three years to £45,000, and belance of interest enabling them to pay for their lands, all of which | on this amount, say £600. to be added. So that, are pow useless to them, by r-ason of the want whilst io the years of construction £46,080 | of a railroad. Again, we bave been told that | would be epent, the 24 per cent would realize | building a railroad weuld bring ruin upon the | ¢45,600,—only 450 less than the expenditure— |

Colony. Those who say thie apparently contra- | to say nothing about the saving in the Ruad Ser- | Spoil’d one.

dict themselves, for nearly all the resolutions | view and Post Office Department, One of the |

passed at public mertings, although they express papers published in this City the Patriot, stated |“

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EXAMINER, continue to advocate for our Rights, our Liberties, our Constitution, aud ‘ust, not least a Railroad, and my countrymen will continue to patronize your valuable paper.

cash prices have commenced, we get several | articles very much less than even when the |duty was not so much as it is now, so we

| the high-born, the great and the many, is

is a wrong to be righted, an evil to be re.

As the muil is just going away, I meet close, I) may find that with railroads, and steam com-| medied, an abuse to be swept away, there

shall-return to this subject soon aguin, in the mean time I remain, yours truly, 4 AN ACADIAN. Tignish, March 23, 1871, —_———————- — + woe o—- (Written for the Examiner).

KICKSHAWS. Ma! this egg don’t taste nice ! Muet I eat it?

Ma. No my dear it will do to scramble,

/munication with England, we may get our | goods cheaper though the taxesmay be higher.

| the true Liberal will be found hard at work. It is to the labors of Liberals that the masses

‘and humble, and the creed which they | deavor to persuade those whom they oddoons |

a true Liberal. Where ever in society there |

| that they are depicting Liberalism in its true | : . . \lineamen:s, Nothing cau be more urfairor| “ Then there is nothing in all sacred elo-

|more dishonest than such a course. What | quence that shews us the duty and reve-

| good thing is there in this world that has not; rence. .20e..owe. one Disine wester beet

| been abused by misguided and by wicked men ? | | Are we to denounce Christianity and to be | i blind to its transcendent merits because foolish | jand bad men have, m all ages committed | ; crimes in its name, and pleadec its authority for the perpetration of the most pernicious practices and the most indecent exiravaganccs? Are we to rest contented under tyranzy and to bear injustice and Wrong with slavish and un- manly patieuce, because history tells us that meu jn asserting their liberty, and im fighting for their freedom, have been guilty of deeds of the most atrocious wickedness. No, Cbristianity is ho'y and altogether lovely, not- withstanding the evil deeds and the follies of | too many of its professors, aod liberty is most sweet and most precious though men have sought to achieve it by crime aud bloodshed, and have when they obtained it, made it a! curse instead of a blessing. So Liberalism is | a pure, a noble, @ generous creed notwith-| tanding the faithlessness the inconsistency, | When ranting ronnd in pleaenre’s ring,, the folly and the wizkedness of too many of| Religion may be blinded ; these who profess to be guided by iis teach i Or if she gi’e a random sting, ing. As long as mev love liverty, as long as | x generosity, magnanimity and self sucr fice are considered yirtues, so long will |.berais and | | liberalism exist. True Liberalism, we admi*,

than these noble verses. ’

The fear o’ hel.’s a hangman's whip To band the wretch in order;

But where ye fee! your bonenr grip, Let that aye be your border:

Its slightest towehes, instant pause— Debar a’ side pretences; Au’ resolutely keep its laws, Unearing eonsequences.

The great Crea’ er to revere Must sure become the creature ;

But stil] the preaching cant forbear, Ax’ evs the rigid feature:

Yet ne’er with wiis profane to range,. Be complaisance extended ;

An Atheist laugh’s a poor exchange For Deity offended !

-ee It may be litvle minded;

But when on lif we're tempest driv’n, A concience but a carker, A correspondence fix’d wi’ Heav'n

We will review the expressions of public) in all free countries, and in countries which opipion or the Railroad Question throughout |are not yet entirely free, are indebted for the [sland next week. In the meantime we/the freedom they enjoy. 1 hese privileges | must express the belief that Charlottetown ‘have in different ages, and in many ways, | has spokcn out generously, and uneelfishly | been wrong by determined Liberals, from | ‘in favor of the Rafiway movement, and we the strong hand of power. Toryism, or as| fecl certain that ere long she will st amongst it is now the fashion to cal! it Conserva-|

the cities of British North America the | tism, has ever held with a most tenacious

is as different from the practice of some of our | Ieland p< liticians, who, in former days pro- | tessed to be guided by its principles, as one | pole is from the other, Let our readers im- | agine, if they can, the high-sogled Grattan) selhng his country for a title, or the lion hearted O'Connell Letraying the cause of his correligionists for a place in the eabinet.

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Is sure a noble anchor ! “ Then see how grandly and affectionately he closes this glorious poem.” Adieu ! dear, amiable youth, Your heart can ne‘r be wanting ! May prudence, fortitude, an rath Erect your brow undannting !

opposition to the undertuh ing, nevertheless, ad-—

mit that ali countries in which railroads have | been built, have flourished, Se, if we take this | for granted, these objections are untenable, and the facts which these opponents of a railway ad- | mit, are amongst the streagest arguments that | can be adduced fox building one, It is adwitted | then by the epposition, that railroads are, in all | countries, beneficial. The uext question is, bave | we the resources adequate to such an under- | taking? My own opinion is, that our peeuniary | resources are, not ovly equal, but surpass those | of our sister Provinces And bere I may be | pardoned f.r making allusion to the prees. There ys no man Who wore bigh'y appreciates the ad- vantages of a free and en)ightened press than | do. 1 glory in the liberty of a manly and mde pendent pres*, But thete are sowe peuple so foul and invidious, that no slander is too glaring or falees 00 insinuation tuo vile; nothing too bad to be put ferth by them on fact. 1 say, I glory ip the liberty ef a free press, and I wonid be very sorry to interfere with its liberty; but licentious press is a curse |o the ceuntry in which it exists, The inference these calumniators of thetr country would bave (beir readers dr, is that we have no rescurces for such an enterprise Now, sir, what, in al) prebability, would ¢ rail- road cest us? It is well known that a first clase railroad cau be had here for £5000 currency per wile for construetion, inelu ding all the ay paratus whilet in Erglard, they cost £39,000 sterling ov the average; in Scutland over £25,000; in ren | land leee. Of the earnings of a railroad, the only proper way to judge i» by comparison; com- poring witb ours the resources and population of of thoee countries where railroads have been built. If we take New Brunswick, we find that the gost of constructingsth¢ Shediac line of 108 wiles, wes $44 00 per mile, whieb, taking their them popolation at 194,000, amounted, on an average, to $24 per head, ‘or every man, woman and ebiid ip the Proviner. Our railroad, frow Cascumpee to Georgetown, 8 distance of 120 gatleay at £5,000 per pile, would ceet the people of the Island, an average of $26 ahead. No neible map can be found im New Brunswick be will say that ibey could do without their ruiwayr. The question then arises, can the people of this Island as wel! afford to have araile pray as the people of that Province? There, nach of the country ie barreo and woribless, aud thelr people are large'y engaged in the luw- ber trade. and that, not enf.equently, fails to prowe remorerative; cope: quent!y, the people in geveral sre yuor compared witb ours, «bo have fice fertile jands, 904, by their indurtry, are growing rieb from the products of ther farms. This is @ strong arganeot in favor of te con struction of 8 railroad in thie Island, Besides thie, tbe population per equare mile on thie Is- Jand, ls much greater than in any of the other Provinces. In Upper Cavada, st the last census, it wag 11,57 per square mile; ia Lowey Canada

a few days ago, to the effect that the Goverte | inevt contemplated levying a tax of 3 per cent | on the importe, 24 per cent on the advalorem, and 14 per cent on the exports of the country, That state:nent was incorrect, and without the shadow of truta to support it

At the close of his speech, he submitted the follewing:—

“ Whereas the Trade and Export of this Island have wuch increased during the past few years; and whereas it is found almost iwpos- sible, in the absence of stone or gravel, to keep the roads jn an efficient state of repair, to render easy the transport of the productions of the Colony; and whereas the coustructioa and maintenance of a line of Railway through the Island, wenid greatly facilitate its trade, de+ velop its resources, eularge ite revenue, and open more tr quent and easy comuunication with the neighboring Provinces and the United States:

Resolved, therefore, That the construction of a first-class Naijway, of three feet six inch gauge, from Cascumpec Harbor to Georges town, calling ot Summerside and Charlotte town, With branch lines to Souria and Tignish the cost of which not to exceed Five Thousand Pounds, cutrevey, per mile, is worthy tbe serious consideration of this House.”

CORRESPONDENCE.

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To raz Evitor of vue Examiner, Sir,

Yon will, perhaps, allow me acorner in your valuable Examiner fora few simple thonghte on the great topic of the day—Railways, It is suid that © Comparisons are odious 5” and the foliowing will, in a measure, go toshow the trathfulness ot the adage with regard to Prinee Edward Island, and the neighboring Proviuces. Canada says,— There was never a time since the agitation in the eoustry for the construction of the Grauk Trank Railway, when the public mind was so keenly alive to the necessity of Railways and other public improvements #s the present The new railway projects mooted und on foot, are almost beyond cumputatioa. Some fifteen different lines, allto meet the great North West traffic are now being opened up. The improvement of canul and river navigation is alouttu be entered upon on a seale of unusual liberality, as provided for in the estimates; nud the several proyinces and mwunici- palities, vie with each otber in their eflorts to im- prove their respective localities, Canada never before presented a more prosperous aspect. Even taxation itself, usually )soked upon as burthensome to beur, and inadequate to the demands upon it,’

a, aeused to give concern, except as to tle disposi- tion of the funds it produces,

The Dominion Government is reported to have a lerge eurpius from the last financial year, and a etil} largey one acoruing during the present, The prespe** iso cheering one; and all the more 60, as the pert centious aud far-sibted cannot ebow any reo*Mabl. grouud for imputing these exterior &gds of progress 4 a tetaporary inflation. These great undertakings for the development of the country’s resourc®. ars to be pushed forward with great zeal. Good for Canada.

£20; Nova Scotis 17.72; New Brunewick 9.283 ¥. E» Island 37.20; Newfoundland 3.54 thus, waking oe population, per square wile, more than three times that of Upper Canada, seven | tunes thet of Lower Canada, double that of Nova! Scotia, four times that of New Rrunawick, and, ‘welve times that of Newfoundiand, Yve returns

Nova Scotia says, since the opening up of ruil- way communication with the interior of the Pro yince, the cities and towns have increased rapidly tp pepulation and wealth. Bince 1853 Railways dave bees 1a operation from Halifax to Windeor on the Bay of Fundy, and from Halifax to Trara, at ibe bead of the Cobrquid Bay. Ibe latter line is now continued to Pictou Harbor in the Straits of

with a little lemon, for our evenig party, The Broad- Axe 1s said to have given an

unkind cut te its own friend. Tae cut isso

extensive that it will require several stitches

Tbe Hon, Mr. Gravy madean oily speech in Lard Hall, about Greece, to a melting! each otker. audience, Ther: 109 above zero,

Baldy says, He is not distress’d at 25 per! cent f r Hair dress’d, and so dves not care for the Barber 8 ring.

When is my dear Mam’ma like a suil of a Ship? When she isa Spanker.

Which one of the High Joint Commission is not in his element? Bish, (out ot water)

Can you neme a piece of household furnish- ing thee answers tv an eight day clock? Bedticking.

In what way is the caption of this ;aper jnodervus!

most prosperous and happy, as “be is the most beautiful of them all. If she fi. “wishes

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DECIMAL CURRENCY,

Ix view of the early adoption, by the Gov- ernment, of a Decimal Currency. We wou!d recommend the Canadian system of fixing the 'value of the Sovereign at $4,863 cents, thus with the assimilation of the Nova Seotian currency, on that basis the dollar will be of uniform value throagbout British North / America, and thereby greatly facilitate busi- | ness intercourse between the several Provincee.

It will be advisable in framing the Bill to make the American Rogin, penbie eagle one Because Kickshaws, is corruption of, ba'f eagle. eine. on ee —— Quelquechbose, corruptly brought under your acti of whieh ace net 6 ingel eb. sensitive nose; and is yulzar, coarse, upre- 2? '4. 16s. Gd. currency, although the

—. . : der at £ fined and offensive to your jolished mid. Spanish are wetth abont-& deller sioke the i PxIGGINS,

the various South American and Mexican commouly distinguished in the United States as Patriot Doubloon.

English Silver ought to be made a legal

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SIR E. THORNTON.

|are they

Secretary Fish writes tha following letter in ref-rence to the supposition that Mr. Sumoer’s dismissal was ceused by interference of Sir E Thornton. : Wasuincton, Marcu 12, 1371

To The Editors of The Evening Post:

A especial despatch, dated Washing ton, Mareh 11, introduced with s'artling headings, which ap-| pears iv the second edition of your paper of last evening, requires a contradiction, rather from the character of the jourval which is made to give currency to @ malicious invention, than from apy probability of truth in the statements of the despatch. .