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for their supporters, incre diture, on account of the Civil Service NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($90,000) : year. fact.)

2. That the MeKenzie-Cauchon Gov

Public Debt of the Dominion $22,009,00(

(Sir John A. MeDonald with all his cor

years, )

Railway,—(1) utilization of the ** mag-

the road by the Government in order that, as Mr. McKenzie explained, “ the country would reap the profit, which might be gained by the Company if the work were let by contract ;” (3) letting the work to contractors, and paying them 50,000,- 000 in land and $30,000,000 in money— as provided by Sir John A. McDonald. [This is what Mr. Welsh @lls a “ just and statesmanlike’’ course. |

ernment, though sincere friends of the Pacifie Railway, [vide Governor Gener- al’s speech, ] have driven British Colum. bia to the verge of rebellion, because of their vacillation and tergiversation in re- spect to it.

5. That the McKenzie-Cauchon Gov- ernment purchased 2,000,000 worth of Steel Rails, principally through a firm in which the Premier’s own brother had a large interest, the greater part of

dollars

of a river flowing into Lake Superior.

ernment proposed and solemuly promised to secure the construction of the Ksqui- fuiled to earry the Bill providing for its construc tien through Parliament. [The

malt-Nanaimo Railway, and two

cite us proofs of the ability of the Me- Kenzie-Cauchon Administration to the country |

7. That it has been proved before the election courts of Ontario and (Quebec, that leading men—the chief supporters of |

Good Stabling on | ¢1e McKeuzie Cauchon Government— we e |

steeped to the lips in corruption, while | they secured the election of the McKen- zie-Cauchon Government, by “ purity,” “ economy,’ and Reform.” [The Patriot dare not deny the fact be- | cause We can name names. }

crying

8. That George Brown, the real leader | of the McKenziesCauchon combination, wrote the “ Big Push Letter,’ asking Se- nator Simpson to ‘ come down handsomely.’

9. That Senator Simpson “ came down

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handsomely,’’ and wrote to the sharchold ers of the bank of which he was President,

asking them to support the Grits, because,

if they obtain power, it would be a good thing for “ our Bank.”

10. That Senator Simpson’s Bank now | receives the bulk of Dominion Deposits, and has the free use and benefit of some $300,000 of that Dominion money. [Yet Mr Welsh is made to say that the Do- minion Government is based on the prin- riples of honesty and justice, and to in- sinuate that there is no collusion between the MeKenzie-Cauchon Government and wealthy speculators.

11. That the McKenzie-Qauchon Gov- ernment have deprived Prince Edward Is!:nd of represent:tion in the Cabinet, notwithstanding the fact that they speci- ally covenanted and agreed that she should beso represented while they remained in power,

12. That the Dominion Government allowed three years to pass away without providing either a Penitentiary or the ‘Winter Steam Communication between this Province and the Mainland,”’ which by the terms of union they are bound to supply.

13. That at the instigation of Mr. Laird, the Mackenzie Government con- spired to rob the young men of Prince Edward Island of one of their dearest rights—the right to exercise the franchise in Dominion elections. (Our readers will remember that their dastardly purpose was defeated by the watchfulness und the strenuous exertions of Senators Haviland, Howlan, Haythorne, and Montgomery.) 14. That the McKenzie Cauchon Gov- ernment passed an Act providing the ballot in Dominion elections in this Island, and exrelessly neglected to provide a Register of voters.

15. That the honest yeomanry ofeighteen constitueucies in Ontario and Quebec have declared in the most emphatic manner, their detestation of the rank corruption, clothed in hypocrisy, of which the Grits have been proven guilty, and their deter- mination no longer thaa possible to suffer incapacity, injustice, extravagance, and distonesty to rule in the Councils of the Dominion. [It is to be hoped that the honest yeomanry of Queen’s County wil] follow the good example set by those who best know McKenzie, Cauchon and their followers. }

The Commissioners appointed to make terms with the Sioux Indians are on their return home, having successfully performed their task.

The case against Slade, the American me~ dium, charged with conspiracy, was dismiss- ed at the Bow Street Police Court, London, yesterday, whea a new prosecution was com-

(The Patriot cannot deny this |

ernment have, in three years, increased the

ruption and extravagance could only man- |

3. That the MeKenzie-Cauchon Gov- ergment had three separate and distinct | policies on the question of the Pacific

nificent water stretches ;” (2) building of

4. That the McKenzie-Cauchon Gov- |

6. That the McKenzie-Cauchon Gov: |

foregoing facts Mr. Welsh will doubtless |

rule |

EDWARD ISLAND, WUD RBS Da

CHAPTER XVI,

In the entanglement of human affairs we can seldom vecogniz3, whilst they are actu- ally working for or against us, the forces that affect our fate; and asin life a thou- sand circumstances seem trivial and of no

, the sweet nourishment of our existence or

, | events is not to be estimated until the story | is fully told.

We may leave Jacob Ogden, the elder, | to his incessant production and accumula,

| tion. Heand his steam engine are set-

: tling the future of people he little concerns | himseif about, But there is another pers ’ | sonage equally absorbed in his own life, | equally self-contained, and yet more soli- | tary, whose influence, though widely differs

aze to increase it by $10,060,000 in seven | ent in its nature, will not be less eftectual

| and far-reaching, If is necessary that tbe | reader should begia to know him now.

| The Stanburnes of Wenderholme though popularly regarded as the representatives | Of the family cf Stanburne, because they Were the wealthiest and most conspicuous | bearers of the name, were in fact a younger branch, descended from a brother of Philip Stanburne, who had represented the family w the time of King Henry VII[. ‘his Sir Philip had been impiicated in the imsur. | 8 ction knowa as the Piigrin aze of Greece; but as he had taken no part in the previous risings, and as he bad not been one of the most prominent or active of the insurgent gentiemen, his life was spared, though his estates were confiscated, Sir Philip had many friends, and amongst them one or two personages Henry’s favour,

who enjoyed some of By their influence a small portion of the confiscated estates was res stored to the family, but not to the elder brother. Out of seven fair manors, only two were given |ack—namely, those of Wenderholme and Stanithburn Tower; and both these were allotted to Henry Stan, burne, brother of the attainted knight. Henry Stanburne seems to have been a man of an unromantic nature, disposed to make the best of the circumstances in which he found himself. Two letters from his brother Philip, dated four years after

Messrs. Greenshields, Son & Co., Montreal, | Which rails are now rusting on the banks | his attainder, and two years after the re.

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| storation of the manors, are still preserved at Wenderliolme, and afford evidence that Sir Philip lived at Stanithorn Tower by his | brother's permission, Other evidence as sist to prove that Henry Stanburne con- | fined his generosity to this permission and | an allowance suflicient for the wants of a | Very moderate gentleman, He never bes stowed any real property on his unfortunate | kinsman, and, in short, treated him much as an elder brother usually treats a cadet. | Circumstances and events had in fact re- | versed the positions of the two, and Henry Stanburne acted very much towards Sir | Philip, had he preserved his original rights, as he would have acted towards Henry. Phis state of things appears to have lasted for many years, but Henry Stanburne died first; and perhaps for some feeling of re- morse fur his own want of generosity, or for an apprehension that his son and successor

| was not to be relied upon for the continua~

tion of his charity, such as it was, he bes queathed Stanithorn Tower and the small estate belonging to it to Nir Philip in his will, The knight had thus a secure pros vision for his old age, which was protracted beyond the usual term of human existence, and in his turn he left the estate to his Only son.

Henry Stanburne, who had ever been guided by prudence rather that enthusiasm, acquiesced in the political and religious changes of his time. Had he been the rex presentative of his family, it would never have been exposed to attainder and contis« cation. He confirmed to Protestantism and establish himself and his descendents in the security which is enjoyed by those who sup port the powers that be. But Sir Philip, who had suffered in defence of the Church of Rome against the encroachments of King Henry, remained devoted to her till the day of his death; and through all the dans gers and disabilites to which a Catholic family was exposed under subsequent reign, successive representatives of his reign had cherished the same faith. Neither branch at the time of the present history was (if the alteration in the value of the money be duly taken into account) either much rich- er or much poorer than the heiress of two estates in the time of Queen Elisabeth. There had been fluctuations in their wealth. They had married heiresses at different periods ; but the extravagance of asucceed~ ing generation had always brought the fa- milies down to their cld level again, though they had never sunk so far below itas to make iecovery impossible.

There is no evidence of the least inters course between the two branches since the time of Sir Philip Stanburne. It is prob- able that the heir of Wenderholme consid- ered himself aggrieved by the bequest of Stanithburn to his uncle. The distance between the two houses is not sufficient to account for this, since a vigorous rider (and in former times all were vigorous riders) might traverse it ina day. Indeed, if we consider the changes of feeling which have been brought about by the pregress of the mechanical means of locomotion, Stanith- burn must have seemed nearer to Wenders holme, in the seventeenth century than it does now. The road to it lies across the hills, whose blue masses closed the pros~ pect from the front of Wenderholme Hall ; and on an exceedingly clear day the tower or peel of Stanitbburn may be distinguish- ed with the aid of a telescope from the moorland behind the house, ‘The activity of modern progress has not yet approached the grey tower where Sir Philip Stanburne lived in the long retirement of his age. No railway whistle is audible there, no factory chimney is visible from thence; only, when he air is heavy and dull, the sunsets area littled dimmed by the far smoke of Sooty~- thorn.

The present owner of Stanithburn Pell was called Philip Stanburne, after his ans cestor. He was twenty-five years old, and a long minority had just barely sufficed to bring his estate round after the extravae gance of his father—if, indeed, a man is to be condemned for extravagance who was guilty of no other crime than a simple conformity to the customs of bis class, An English gentleman, the representative of an old family, who in a country where rich men are more than usually plenty, has to keep house on seven hundred a yearin a

menced under the Vagrant Act.

Ch’town, July 27, 1874.—6m

position where the least carelessness is ruin,

| its bitter poison, som the mimic world of

ased the expen~ | fiction the real importance of persons and | gop ;

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MONDAY, NO

| and Peter Stanburne, without being seif.

indulgent or inany visible waya man of}

/ expensive habits, lacked the power of keen and constant attention to trifles which is necessary when a man’s income is unequal

| to his position in life. He had been hospit-

able to his friends in a simple and unpre- | tending way, and he had been kind to his servants and tenants, but his establishmenf

1. That the McKeasie-Cauchen Gov- account, on which, nevertheless, hang the | had always been exceedingly limited; and ernment have, by adding to the salaries of fruit that is to ripen in the future, and be/ when people who knew him became aware their friends and by creating new offices

| that he had for several years outlived his income, they had only been able to account t on the supposition of some secret ex, | travagance or vice. His embarrassments, however, required no such explanation, and it did him great injustice. His crime had been an incapacity to bear solitude, united to a total unfitness for any society but that of gentlemen. There are men who can exx tract pleasure and profit from human in- tercourse of almost any kind whatever— can adapt themselves to any capacity and any rank—and who therefore can never be isolated till they are actually shipwrecked om an uninhabited island, But there are also, and these latter are more commonly found, the men of estate and class to whom intercourse with men outside of their class is less endurable than solitude itself. Peter Stanburne was one of these; and as soli- tude was hateful to him, he visited among men of his own rang, but of far superior wealth, as muchas he possibly could,

Towards the close of Peter Stanburne’s life he perceived his error, and determined to do whatever might yet be in his power torepair it. He had a good deai of very unproductive land, which he resolved to plant; and during his remaining years he never quitted Stanithburne at all except to visit one or two friends who were experi enced planters, and whose instructions were of use to him. Ilis wife who was a lady of his own rank, had a small fortune, which was invested in the improvement of the estate; whilst one or two farms in South Lancashire, the remnant of the dower of a former mistress of Stanithburne were sold to pay Peter Stanburne’s debts. He had the satisfaction, in the comparative solitude of his latter years, of seeing the Stanithburn property pass the great turning-point from waste to increase; and he died, after hay- ing written the most careful and minute directions for its management, during the minority of his son. He also—and this perhaps, may have been less judicious— warned his boy to shun the attractions of society, and advised him, if he would be happy, to love the old tower and the estate and live there in prosperity and peace. His wife survived him a few years, and her affection to her boy was of that intensely concentrated kind which absorbs all earth- ly desires. She wished for nothing in this world except with reference to her boy; and the best of her pleasures was to have him near her in the tranquility of their solitary home, He passed some years at the Ros man Catholic College at Stonyhurst; but his absence was painful to the widow, though she bore it with patient resignation. We are, however, very easi!y convinced when our wishgs coincide with the counsels of our advisers, and Mrs. Stanburne was soon convinced by ber doctor that the rules of Stonyhurst were too rigid for Philip’s health, Whether the facts of the case quite justified the doctor's recommendation is doubtful, but it is certain that Stanith. burn agreed with the bey better than any other place ; and though his health, even in the prime of manhood, was never robust, it was strong enough to enable him to enjoy life very heartily in the free air of his own native hills. A physician acts faithfully with us when he tells us what is best for our health; and the question how much health is to be sacrificed to intellectual training or how much intellectual discip- line to health, is one for parents or the patients himself to decide. If Philip Stan~ burne had remiined at Stonyhurst, his mind would have had all the advantages of the careful education which is given there, but his body throve better at his own plantations. It is unfortunate for medical men that when the course they recommend is successful it is commonly inferred to have been unnecessary. Thus, because Philip S:anburne grew stronger at the Peel, people said that there had never been any occasion to remove him from Stonyhurst,

The few years that he lived that way with his mother were the sweetest and happiest of his life, and when they were brought to a close by the kind lady’s death, Philip Stanburne, just then of age, only lamented that he had not seen more of her whilst she lived. He had passed one or two vaca~ tions at the house of the Catholic gentry whose sons were school-fellows of his at Stonyhurst, and now it seemed to him almost a crime to have lett that dear old lady alone that he might enjoy the com- pany of his friends. His life became a life of almost absolute solitude, broken only by a weekly visit toa great house ten miles from Stanithburn, where a chaplain was kept and he could hear mass; or by occas sional visits from the doctor or one or two from his by means intimate neighbors. In country places a difference in religion is a great impediment to intercourse; and al- though people thought it quite right that Philip Stanburne should be a Catholic, they never could get over what they called a feeling of ‘queerness’ in the presence of a man who believed in transubstantiation and said prayers to the Virgin Mary. Like many other recluses, he was accredited with a dislike for society far different from his real feeling, and much less creditable to his good sense. Habit had made solitude endurable to him, and there was something agreeable to him, no doubt, in the sense of his independence, but there was not the slightest taint of misanthropy in his whole nature. He naturally shrank from the society at Sootyhorn because it was so strongly Protestant; and there was an earnest an energetic clergymen there who combated Popery with such vigor that the noise of the controversy filled the country round about, On the other hand, without being by nature avoricious, he had so keen a sense of duty to the name he represented that he resolved to improve and increase the Stanithburne estate to the utmost of his ability; and as he had no profession by which money might be earned, he was rex duced to mere saving, which injured his eputation in two ways, for it both compel~ riled him to ke: p out of society and to look

very closely to the expenses of bis own little establishment.

Philip Stanburne was fishing in the rocky trout stream that ran below the Peei, when a boy came to him with his letters. The only one of them with which we are

concerned was the following :—

VEMBER 6, 1876.

POSTAGE PREPAID,

“ Wenderholme, April 4,- —

that a regiment of malitia is to meet for training at Soo'yhorn, and that I have ic. cepted the lieutenant~colonel. Would it be agreeable to you to join us? It would give me much pleasure to be allowed to propose you to the Lord Lieutenant for» captain's commission.

‘T have to offer an apology for not writ- ing on this subject earlier | there now being so short a time before the first training] but the truth is, I ,was led to believe that an application like this would be unsuccessful. I was told that you wereso busily occupied with improvements at Stanithburne that your acceptance of a commission was most unlikely, I hope this little difficulty may be overcome. The distance from our head- quarters to Stanithburn is not such as to prevent you from visiting your property trom time to time, even during the month of our training; and if 1 can manage to find a good lieutenant for you, there need not be any real difficulty about short leaves of absence.

‘ Pray excuse this liberty. colonel is naturally anxious to have his re - giment properly officered, and so has to do

A militia

During the siete rugged that it ; a bitte per day? ; | collections in the department of natural | history were made, sand many valuable | scientific observations were taken. Excel- | lent coal was found pear the place where | the Discovery wintered. The expedition experienced the coldest weather ever regis= tered in temperature, being 59 degrecs below zero for a foitoight, falling once to 104 degrees below freezing point. The Pandora, when spoken by the Alert, re- ported her screw slightly damaged. by the ice. The Pandora called at Littleton Island, Cape Isabella, but was unable to reach Cape Sabine. As the expedition did not touch at Littleton Island on its return it missed the letters left by the Pandora. The health of the crews, with the exceps tions already mentioned, his been good. Frost-bites were severe but not numerous, Peterson, the interpreter, died in forty days after both feet had been amputated for frost wites, Ali the members of the expedition declare it impossible to get newrer tie Pole than their northern explors ing party, which penetrated to within 400 Mites of it Un the return from the sledge Journeys, the men were ina very help condition, and it was necessary to carry some of them onthe sledges. The p ank- ime of the Alert was much damaged by the ice.

A member of the expedition telegraphs to the /i/y News :—! The northermost

journey the ite was so

a little recruiting himself when the oppors tunity occurs.—i am, my dear sir, yours very faithfully, J. Stanburne.

‘ Philip Stanburne, Esq’

The recepient of this letter was far too minutely acquainted with the history of his family not to be aware that it was the first communication which had passed from Wenderholme to the Peel for nearly three hundred years; and his nature was suf- ciently imaginative to realise the pro. foundly poetical nature of the fact. He

looked up to the old Peel, whose tower, grey as the rocks around it, took the full sunshine of the fresh April morning, and then he looked to the hill behind Wender- holme, faintly blue in the remote distance. What distance? What remoteness? ‘It seems a long way off,’ thought Philip Stan- burne, ‘ but, really, how near itis! Why a horse could traverse it in a day and a pigeon in half an hour! A railway train crosses twenty such spaces batween sunrise and sunset: and here are two houses in- habited by men of the same blood, that bave been separated for centuries by mere coldness-no downright, honest quarrel, bat a traditional sulk.” He knew all about John Stanburne of course ; every Stanburne of the Peel knew all about every Stanburne of the Hall for the last nine generations— whom they married, and how many child- ren they had, and alli the main facts of their lives. ‘This information always came to the Peel somehow, because it always inter- ested the inhabitants of the Peel, But no Stanburne of the Peel had ever, since the death of the old knight who took part in luckless pilgrimage of Greece, received any direct communication whatever from W en- derholme—not so much asa mere formal announcement of a death ora marriage ; nor had the chiefs of the two houses ever once spoken to each other. And yet any hatred or jealousy which might have caused the first estrangament had utterly died out long ago, but in its place there was a haughty reserve and pride. Neither Stan- burne would take one step in advance,and it seemed as likely that the stone houses themselves would quit their foundations and meetin some field between them as that their owners would come together in amity.

Like all solitary men, Philip Stanburne had acquired meditative habits, and as his temper was of the order in which imagina~ tion naturally predominates, if circumstan~ ces is favorable to its freedom, the reader will easily understand that this letter from Wenderholme set the whole imaginative machinery in motion. The history of his family was to Philip Stanburne a subject of the intensest interest. He had little of the pride of birth—he had nothing of the pride of social position—but he had in an unusual degree the sentiment of ancestry ; and there were points in the history of his ancesters which could only be effectually cleared by reference to papers which might be presumed to exist at Wenderholme. Philip Stanburne was not rich but he would have given many bank notes to have been allowed to ransack all the archives there. He had dreaded to ask permission to do this, from an apprehension that his appli- cation might be considered a mere pretext for scraping an acquaintance ; and now the opportunity had come. It was this con- sideration rather than any intention of joining the militia, for which he felt him-~ self little suited, that induced him to reply as follows to his new and not unwel-~ come correspondent :

‘My dear Sir,—I feel flattered by the kind proposal in your letter, but fear that I should not be of much use to you as a recruit. I am so little acquainted with military affairs that it is difficult for me to answer positively without having a little previous conversation with the adjutant or yourself, Would you kindly name a day and place where I might have the honor of meeting you? Having no engagements whatever, I may promise beforehand to keep any appointment you may make. —| remain, my dear sir, yours very truly, Pmip Sranrvrnr. Colonel Stanburne, etc., etc.’

To be Continued.

THE B RITISA ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

RETURN OF THE ‘ALERT’ AND ‘ DISCOVERY ’— PASSAGE TO THE NORTH POLE IMPRAOCTICABLE —IN THE PCLAR REGIONS—ICE 150 FEET THICK,

Loxpox, October 27. —a telegram has been received at Portsmouth announcing the return of the British Arctic expedition under Captain \ares, comprising the naval

steamers Alert und Discovery, to Valentia.

The progress to the North Pole was found to be impracticable, Captain Nares reports that no land could be discovered to the northward of the highest latitude reached,

namely 83.20, but in other respects the ex- pedition was successful. The Alert has proceeded to (jueenstown, and Captain Nares to London, Allare well. The Alert arrived at Valentia at 2.30 o’ciock this afternoon, being the firstland made since leaving the frozen regions. Sbe parted company with the discovery in the Atlantic. The Alert and Jiscovery left Port Foulke on July the 29th, 1875, and left the ice off Cape Sable. Afver a severe and continuous stroggle they reched the north side of Lady Franklin Bay, where the Discovery was left in winter quartes. The Alert pushed on and reached the limit of navigation on the shore of the Polar Sea. The ice varied in thickness, beirg in some places 150 feet deep. President Iand does not exist.

The Alert wintered in lat. 82.26. At this point the sun wes invisible 142 days, and a temperature the lowest ever recorded was experienced. A detatchment with 6 eiges was despatched jsorthward. It was absent 70 daysand resched lat. 83.20. Another partyrounded Cape Co!umbia the aorthmost point of America, and traced 220 miles west from Greenland, and also explored far to the eastward. ‘hese sledge parties met with no game and suffered from scurvy. Hans Peterson d ed from frost bites. James Hans and Charles Paul, of the discovery, died on the sledging expeditions. No Esquimaux were seen, nur were any ice-~ bergs met with veyond Cape Union. The expedition encountered great difficulties in returning. ‘ihe Alert’s rudder bolt was damaged. The vessel left Smith's Sound September the 9th; spoke the Pandora October the 6ta—all weil. The Alert parted from the discovery ina gale on the 7th of October. She will shift ber rudder at Valentia, and j»roceed to Queenstown, to coal. The Admiral at Queenstown telc-

land reached was in lat. 83,07. After that there was ice. The point furtherest west reached was in longitude 85, Lady Frank- lin Straits is in reality a bay. Peterman Fiord was closed by a glacier. The north= ernmost point of Greenland seen was in latitude 82.57. -_——— — ‘_~ee + --- - EASY LESSONS IN POLITICS,

GOOD MEN AND BAD MEN, AND HOW THE COUNTRY WAS SAVED.

No. 3.