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Daily Patriot. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 15.
_ JRussia bas invited all the towns of Bul-
| garia to send delegates to Phuillipolis for the
| purpose of electing a prince.
Prince Milan has expressed his intention
| of proclaiming the independence of Servia,
on the 2ist of this month.
| It is said that the Russians are now look-
|ing for a loan in America.
Russian diplomacy is now bringing great
She has
‘pressure to bear upon Turkey. /consented to evacuate Shumla and Varna | in Bulgaria, but has positively refused to i grant permission to Austria to occupy Bos- i nia and Herzegovuia.
It is stated that the Russian attempt to | make separate arrangements with the EKuro- | pean Powers has failed.
Lonpon, April 15.
here say that Bismarck will be successful as
a mediator if England persists in her pre- | sent attitude. | The “Times” St, Petersburg corres- | pondent does not give a hopeful report of | the state of feeling in Russia. The war- i like excitement is still especially intense in Moscow.
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| The Berlin correspondents of the Press ;
Havirax, April 15.
A terrible fire took place in this city yes- terday morning. It broke out in A. Ford- ham’s large leather finding store on Upper Water Street, and, in a very short time, spread to the office and warchouse of Howard C. Evans, commission merchant on Bar rington Street, directly above. Both stores were totally destroyed.
The store of Mr. Evans contained several barrels of kerosene oil which made the fire worse, and more difficult to extinguish,
Something, supposed to be gunpowder, exploded and threw the whole building to the ground, burying"in the ruins three men.
One of these men was Edward Fredericks, a well-known druggist of this city. He, together with one of the officers of the Union Protection Society, was killed out- right,
The other many William Howell, was ex- tricated from beneath the debris of the fallen building after four hours’ hard work, and, although he is badly burned, it is expected that he will live, - '
The fire burned for fourteen hours, and, notwithstanding that the firemen worked heroically, it was at one time thought that the whole block would have to go.
The total loss is upwards of $60,000, and the insurance only $38,000.
The cause of the fire was invendiarism., — mrinililienentemrennn —
The Main Question at TIesue.
THe Toronto Mail reminds its readers that since Mr. MeKenzie took office in Ne- vember, 1873, the volume of trade has re ceded from $218,000,000 to $168,000,000, The national debt has risen from $99,000,- 000 to $113,000,000. In the six years of the MacDonald Government the debt in- creased $24,000,000; since 1874 it has in- creased $33,000,000. The annual surpluses which from 1867 to 1873. amounted to up- ward of $10,000,000 have given place to huge deficits, though three millions of extra taxes have been imposed on the people. The number of failures between the Ist January, 1874, and the 31st December last was 6,500, and the liabilities $88,000,000. In the United States in 1877 one business man in sixty-three failed; in Canada one in twenty-nine. The annual expenditure since 1874 has exceeded the highest year’s ex- penditure during the MacDonald regime by $5,000,000. The cost of the public service, in which Reformers promised to exercise close economy, has increased enormously, as witness the figures :—
1873. 1877. Civil Government. ...8 750,000 $ 812,06 Customs salaries..... 568,000 722,000 Excise salaries...... 172,000 211,000 Post Office manage- mens . oi. 64's Ua 1,067,000 1,705,000 Administration of Justice... .... ..). ..«7 / SSR POO 566,006 Canal salaries. 173,000 208,000 Immigration ...... 287,000 304,000 $3,416,000 84,578,000
Immigration has practically ceased, though $300,000 a year is spent on the work; but the emigration of our people to the United States has not been brisker since the close of the war. Business of all kinds is prac- tically at a stand-still, and the comm:: outlook is yet dark and depressing, i. Minister, and native enterprise is dead. No class of the community 1s prosperous: there is none but deplores iis accummlating misfortunes and bewails national decay and decline. For the first time in our history, honest men willing to work are wnahle to find work to do ; and hunger and want have become factors in society.
The Broad question soon to be submitted to the people are—-Is this state of affairs to continue? Shall we again entrust the des- tinies of Canada to men whose incompe- petence they themselves admit, and whose corruption and extravagence are matte rs o public record ?
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| ‘When March is like April, April will be like March,” is an old by ae seems as though it would be veritied this year,
. * , } country has no confidence in the Finance
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PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE,
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. Monpay, April 15. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
ABOLITION OF THE
Mr. Hacxerr opposed the proposition of the Government, which he held would prac- tically disfranchise the young men of the Province. He remarked that in some coun- tries intelligence is taken as a qualification. He was very sorry that the Government proposed to neutralize the votes of young men. He thought it our duty—as repre- sentatives of all classes of the community— to protect the rights of the young men as well as others.
Hon. Mr. Davies deemed any attempt to make this a party measure. He said the policy of the Government is to hand hack imtact to the constituencies the constitution entrusted to their care. He thought it the duty of the Legislamue to conserve the in- terests of property helders. He had faith inthe young men; but there are others whose interests the Government have to protect. He denied that there was any at- tempt to disfranchise the young men. He explained the position, and contended that property holders always had special rights under the Island Constitution.
Mr. Wetsu would not take away the protection of propsrty-holders. We must protect them.
Mr. L. McDonatp thought that if Do- jainion members could be elected by fran- chise voters, Local members ought to be elected in the same way. He saw no reasen why some persons should have two votes, and others only one.
Mr. McMirian does not see that the Legislative Council was now wanted at all. If members of the Local House were fit to- day to represent property-holders, they would be fit to represent them after the Legislative Council was abolished, without the proposed double vote. Property always has outside influence. Every property holder on the average controls two or more votes.
Hon. W. D. Stewarr said the practice the Government propose obtains in Eng- land in electing the guardians of the poor. He believed it was te right practice to in troduce here.
Hon. Mr. Prowse Mo- Millan’s arguments.
Mr. Catnoun thought the proposal to abolish the Legislative Council resulted from the demand for retrenchment. . He centended for the retention of the Levisla- tive Council, and was rather disposed to go back to the nominative principle.
House divided on the amendment as fol- lows :—
Yeas—Messrs. Davies, DeBlois, Lefurgy, Stewart, Yeo, Gordon, Robertson, Prowse, Dr. Robertson, Calhoun, Welsh, Westaway, Richards, Lea, McLean---15.
Nays—Messrs. Sullivan, McMillan, Me- Kay, Campbell, Arseneaux, Conroy, Hack- ett, Kelly, J. A. MeDonald, L. McDonald, Mefsaac—11.
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le San Stefano.
it was the opinion of Vou Moltke that the best view of Constantinople was to be obtained from the neighborhood of San Stefano. The Grand Duke Nicholas will doubtless look at Constantinople from many other points of view, but he will probably remain of Von Moltke’s opinion.
Close to San Stefano run the magnificent old walls which haye stood so many sieges, but which for more than four hundred years have known no other foes than the storms and the thunders of heaven. Close to him are the Seven Towers, within whose massive keep a Russian ambassador has often been imprisoned, Close to hin: is the walled-up gate, through which the Mos- lems expect that the Christians will enter Constantinople when they reeapture it. They have recaptured it, and it would be easy for the Grand Duke to breach the gate, and enable the Christians to fulfil the pro- phecy. But, his triumph is too great to need the assistance which he might wm from the superstition of the conquered Turks, and the propheey will probably re- main unfulfilled.
Close to him, too, is the chapel in whose devoutly worshipped wells there live the miraculous fish which jwaped out of the frying pan on the day of the taling of Con- stantinople, and have lived on until now
turn be submitted to the fire. Nine hun- dred years ago some envoys, on their return to their master, told tim how
they had heard the angels singing the ‘i'risa-
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i}eion in the great Church of St. Sophie.
‘fhe Grand Duke is perhaps not very far from the day on which the Trisagion may once more be sung in the. stately church, but in the meanwhile he may from his halt- ing place at San Stefano feast his eyes on the greatest of all the Temples of the Greek faith, and may devise plans for its complete restoration to. the worshippers from whom it has so long been wrested.
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Harl Dufterin’s Departure,
The Ottawa correspondentof the St. Johu Telegraph reports that the departure of our popular Governor-General, Earl Dufferin, is
with one side cooked and the other waiting | until, in the fullness of things, it can in its}
considered to be near at hand, and the cir- | - ‘cumstances which he mentions as giving |
iO O75 NO. 275 and probably this custom will not be depart- _ed from in the present instance, although , there is probably not a man in Canada who _would not hold up both hands for the re- _tention of Earl Dufferin in his present of- fice. In fact he and his excellent Countess have made themselves so popular in Canada , that most people in the Dominion would | be willing to retain them for life_as the re- presentatives of Royalty in this portion of Her Majesty’s Dominions. Earl Dnfferin began well by familiarizing himself with the country over which he had to preside and by making himself acquainted with its people. He seemed to enter more heartily into the views and sympathies of the people of Canada than any former Governor had done, and some of his speeches on Canadian afiairs have, perhaps, done more to make Canada favorably known in England than any other circumstances connected with its history. Earl Dufferin has travelled.over every portion of Canada. His visit to the Maritime Province# in 1873 was the first of a series of Vice-Regal progresses which have been of infinite value to the Dominion in every point of view. He has since then visited all the principal cities in Ontario and Quebec, crossed the continent and explored the Interior of British Columbia, and last year he completed the scene of his travels by visiting Manitoba and the North-West. The Countess of Dufferin has accompanied him in all these journeys and has added greatly to their eclat by her amiability and kindness. When the Karl and Countess of Dufferin finally turns their back on Canada they will leave behind them hundreds. of warm friends and hundreds of thousands of admirers who will welcome them back with enthusiasm should they ever be able to re- ‘visit the Dominion. — rl
Souris Reform Club.
The. last entertainment of the Souris Temperance Reform Club, which came off on Wednesday evening last, was quite a success, although it: did not equal some of their former ones. The streets bei quite dry, the hall was well filled. Dr. Muttart, Vice-President, opened with - neat little prologue. The recitations were very fair. That of Miss Annie Campion, however, deserves special mention. Miss Campion’s reputation as a reciter is already made, and for such a *‘ wee, wee maiden” to face « large audience requires some nerve, Mr. Walker’s and Mr. McDonald’s were well received. Mr. Cantwell sang in his usual style, and received an emphatic re- quest for “‘ some more,” to which,however, he dk not reply. The duet by Misses lilly and Minnie McFarlane, was very beautiful, and was sung with much taste. The chorus—‘‘ Ye Merrie Elves” —was wel?
jrendered ; but quite a number of ‘the audi-
ence showed there appreciation of it in « way that must have been distasteful to the performers, by stamping and ‘ marking time,” till they had to be called to order by the Chairman. That familiar song—Annie Lanrie—tinished the musical portion: ~The laughable comedy, ‘The Mischievous Niggah” concluded the entertainment. Mr. Anderson still keeping up his reputation as 'a very “ mischievous’ dark- e.
PART I.
Prologue. An Original Poem--E. B. Muttart, M. D.
lL. Opening Chorus, ‘On Forever, On,” (‘Travi- ata)—Choir.
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2. Lecturette on the reign of King James and Recitation on the “‘Massacre of Glen- coe”—-Mr, R. F. MeDonald.
Comic Song, “‘The Sprig of Shillelah’’—Mr Wm, Cantwell.
Dialovue, Saladin and his Brother---Messre, ‘T. McDonald and Gallagher.
®. Duett, Down by the Everflowing Stream
{Bertini} —Misses Little and Minnie MeFariane.
. Recitation, Barial of Sir John Moorc——Miss Annie Campion.
Recitation, Charge of the Light Prigade- Mr. Walker. aa
8S. Deett, ‘Annie Laurie’?—Mr. R. F.. Me- : Donald and Capt. Tiernay. 9. Full Choras, “*Ye Merrie Elves, (Il Troy-
atore)-—Choir. PART I,
Concluding Faxee—The Mischievous Niggah,
Dramatis Persone. | Boss Tweed —-Mr. T. McDonald. ; Sallie T'weed—-Master Joseph MeDenald. Tony Onions—Mr, C. W. Anderson. Angelina Concertina—Miss Agnes Rose. Parley Voo— Mr. M, Paequetie. Patricus-—-Mr. Wm. Cantwell.
God Save the Qneer.
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