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etc AVDA te — en ous aes - : ; — SE ssicruscomats 15.900 | DANGEROUS LEGISLATION, : oP 5 ue ig : . anaes ann te every 40,007 . jecengsbe When a short time before |} vl » to THE BR ¥ { Vi NER together with the proceedings of this meeting’ | Dominion which are not to be found here, | was, from ee : : 3 which F the Toronto Mail} ‘urope to recrt Sa ; . ee Aniki al ee aaa . : eS ee ; @ cases rom the Toro J I ope to uit his he P said 4 hh dhe te 4 “ht to the Secretary of State and the several | 7) truth, the two countries may be said | whilst 1m more than half th [ ‘n which the Dominion that ines was caused by his h ‘i, vant sain , si _| Senators and Representatives in Congress Fl | lid we. the loss was traced to the | The bold manner in w nich th Lou.g Wrune with disappointment because | IS PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY FORENOON | trom New England to be the complement of each other—one | did occur, 6h of ; t lost made | Government have used their Parliamentary oe} faile y +} Y> } :_ : . i i ™ \ ; : * Bost ae > AmMouH ; she ) Ss , ” i va . oe oer wpa BY THE These resolutions were earried. In| has what the other wants. To keep ap! persons in fault, = ‘strength during the present session, to £2@ (oir, Stewart) had seen ¢ igh of } r A ° . ‘ . a +6 i § 5 , £ i larity He would 1 hatin ; advoenting their passage, Mr, Edward the barrier of prejudic which revenue , good. i] for the | centralize power in their own hands, is one ri would m 1w eal ‘ ae ee _ ; ’ o> dt tee Le sidered right, what ever might be thought Rxaminer Printing & Publishing Co. Atkinson made a very able speech—in | restrictions have raised, vould be unwise ee f tl 3 089 were | Of its worst features. One cannot well I ‘oo Sad > : : 3 sane 496 BRG. 8 Ics O,VCe . . s rislati a him Pr % h dece] ad be OFFICE which he aside. and impolitie to the last degree, There | year was 426,886, and of t a. fancy more dangerous legislation than that ‘racticed, an too many fais a le ° : L ¢ ! , if e »on deat ate Pd ° pe a . a a : . out ui matter, seals ok hat : : Tremomber the enthusiasm with which our) were peculiar reasons growing out of the | registered. Unpaid postage contained in the passage of this resolution : oe le cael, os : rreat Governor Andrew spoke of the lower! ., . . ts Peete oF O00, That it is expedient to authorize the Gov« eume A the magnitude x h it did Refers Corner Queen and King Streets. Ri — ~ arevte j sae : te disasters oceasioned by our civil war for | ters was about $9, * That it is a “° : : ea nee had bee le jas +} } " : oo ve la: dean . ' el’ * ee anor in (% : s Giscretic advance ee pa and ete ae a a iI TER MS—Per Anaum, 81.62, if paid} 09 the last time I dined with him bef the alteration of the old treaty, which | RE WATER PROHIBITED. ernor in Council in his di a - pa Report fr ms th It i ss within the year—S1L.82, | stave paid: 82 if | bis deat He compared Nova Seotia ar nod bean in operation for ten out: bat FIRE d sth from time to time to any Province 0 : rom the Inspector of [ducation for am oe geen oe ee is sian inh ses inaral wealt! ad bee eration 10 B Jonre, Se | ——— i vias on Q require oO! that Province, and he would r ad a few ex. | 2°! paid within the year N N ee il wal tin . Ae tag a ‘ a asso for persistios: in the | | ue Pices of ete dee | ada such sums as mey be requi ed for tracts. Inspector Tremblay for the district mnenes podenngpellingr fie 4 I i seed, hat whe ; rr Se ee eee | THE Manitoba Free fress oF ’ | local improvements in the Provinces, and nse ea aun * © Chstrik ’ T / , them equal, and, be alleged, that what thr Baie eel Soe ss Ove’ ‘triment: | * , . i ‘ i ‘ Of Gaspe, said, CLUB RATES. | lacked ‘in agricultural power, if anythin ing sebawell gaa duckies re | publishes a proclamation of the ident. | not exceeding in the whole the amount by | i In the course of the year minorities in Tus Examiner will be forwarded to} was more than made up in the wealth'cf | our interests.’ Governor, in which the importation of which the debt of the Province for which zVe districts declared themse aae) oT lubs ¢ he follo #» rates per -ar—pay- | ir ficheries Jaecing fh hey miv con- | tr. . 2 5 " Pian , . . , nets d tred themsels ntient 4 at t Y t wing rates per year—pa) their fisheries. Passing by them only n- | With such a * public opinion in the a ; liquors into any part of the | Canada is responsible then falls short of the assured hout having the means of sup. | Ment strictly in advance } sider how we may spare our too much S 1 with the Domini ee i i I . % t the ing | i , : | obi ; ‘ ! ' .| Nor r states, ¢ r : Inlon : z sbite ic as allowec o enter th eto i scnools. Loweve everything | 5 copies one address, - - $ 7.00, thinned-out forests and not barely tou bh the Northern States, and with the _— North-west Territory is prohibited. The debt which it wee allows - an on “se ee ee ss He a ao on rer ea ee rae i’ | unanimous for closer commercial rela- hiskey sellers, of the Northwest are, it} Union, and on which amount Canada has could have been arrived at, taking into ac- a vs rr 17.00 | 20,000 square miles of fertile soil of Lower] , E % . ‘ ‘ whiskey § ar) ce ' ni “ i t the rat : it g : i . ; ee : . ' w » ne r Re ic—on i ci to pay interest to the Province at the rate count the difference of opinion arising from | 30 * “ as 90.00 | Canada, underlaid with limestone, of which | tions with the neighboring Republ appears, ruining the Indians. The Rev. vo

divergence in religious belief. the other hand the deplorable effect of mul- tiplying schools, dividing res

progress of the schools.”

And here was another rather thing, from the Magdalen Islands :

“TL also think that it would be inoppor- tune to pass a law exacting of every com- missioner of schools some edu ition, at least elementary, such as reading. writing and arthmetic. Formerly, educated men were unfortunately so sp resly scattere:'!, that this kind of literary guarantee was scarcely possible. To-day owing to the vigilant so licitude of the department, general educa tion has taken an immense stride in advance, and I do not hesitate to say that it be impossible to find and elect competent school corporations.’

He thought he had said enough to show why the resolution did not commend iteelf to his mind. [le hoped he hai not a lowed one word to escape his lips which grated harshly upon the ears of any. He respect- ed the feelings of Roman Catholics as much as he did hisown. He admired the candor and ability which they had broug’t to bear on the question ; but, until he heard better reasons than had been advance he could not support the resolution. He remembered well the excitement upon the Bible question. The letter of Mr. icDon: ald at that time accorded with his views. He had been almost en outcast among his friends on account of his opinion on that question. He had on account of them been on one occasion chased from a public hus- tings, and yet he believed that almost every hon. member considered that then wise.

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_—<e-— s+ CAUTIONARY STORM SIGNALS. Beiow is the circular issue,fro.the Met-

eorological Office, Toronto. relating” to

Storm Signals. {On receipt of a Storm Tek-

gram, the drum will be hoisted on the

nal mast, at the foot of Prince street, and notices wili be posted opposite the delivery

Sic.

window of the Post Office. and in my office window : H. J. CEXvDALL, Superintendent, Charlottetown.

26th May. !874

When there is reason te believe that a storm ts approaching a Storm Signal Sta- tion, or station where there is publishing storm warnings, a telegram to that effect will be from Toronto to the place concerned, where the fact will be Indicated by the display of a storm drum aud by posting un one or more notices.

The drum isa cy t feet in diameter,and formed

sent

This has on |

rees already | small enough, and retarding the genera!

would |

in its favor, |

Was |

n Agent for |

| have already aroused such interest as to

ef wood or iron, which are

by intervals of about two inches,

tern showing 4 white light wil! usually t placed within the drum when is hoisted |

at night. The drum and notices wil!

isuauy re-

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| Congress and the country will confirm this

main up abuut thirty-six hours, unless order-

| bers is one of the subjects that have at-

ed down by telegraph, and wil! remain up longer if a telegraphto that effect be sent from Toronto. i he “Storm” signalled must, for the pre- | sent be understood in a ge: sense, |

t neither direction nor force being if there be reason for expecting a heavy |

alt, it mast be thus Stated in the notice; |

ut the absence ofsuch statments will not | show that the storm will nol be severe.

If, through faulty transmission, the tele- gram does not arrive before the commence- ment of the storm, the time for its occur- rence not being expired,the drum will never- theless be hoisted on receipt of the warn- ing. in order to show that the disturbance is not merely local.

It is to be understood that the drum is simply cauftonary, indicating the existence of a storm elsewhere, and that the proba- | bility of it reaching the neighborhood of | the place | vigilance. Bearing this in mil | seen that the display of the flied if the storm, instead of 4 the place warned.shou!d pass a

warned is sufficent to call for

i .it will be 1 is ju ti- vearing at

a distance

dru

of fifty miles or more on either side of it.

It must further be remembered thatthe } @bsence of a warning does not imply im- munity from danger, as defects in trans-

missicii may sometimes interfere with its timely arrival. G. T. Kryeston, Superintendant. Meteorological Office, Toronto. on

Prince Arthur has been created Duke of Connaught

M. Goulard s efforts to form linistry bave failed, President McMahon has taken the matter into his own hands and formed one himse!f, in which are Magne, as Minis- ter of Finance ; Minister of Foreign Affairs, ani General Cissey, Minister of War and Vice President of the Council.

Jeflerzon Davis writes fr idon toa friend in north Carolina health was improved by the voyage across the At» | lantic, and though yet weak, he hoped to return soon, and he «stored to | his usual conditior

A brutal man in Urange county, Ind., re- cently sent one of his children for water, and because the child did not move fast enough to please him, struck it on the head with a piece of wood, killing it instantly. | He afterwards fled. and at last accounts has Bot been captured.

The crown Prince of Holland expects to | marry the Princess Thyra of Denm»rk ; this fortunate Danish family wil! number | another crowned head among its members, | whic already includes the King of Greece, the future “zarine of Russia, and the fut Queen of Logland

Joseph Ar bh, it is said, is working himself to death, in the cause of the labouring men. His voice is hollow, and his physical weak ness painfully evident. On his returning bome recently, from one of his hurrying, speaking, %gitating journeys he had five miles to walk to! own door, and it took | him two hours to do it; and his altered ap»

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pearance naturally excited the concern of his fami'y. King Coffee Caicatli pr fe sess to be thor

oughly humbled The Jatest advices from Cape Coast Castle brings the King’s thanks for the release of the Ashantee } risoners, and his assurance of the most c mplete submission to the British flag and all the terms of the treaty. The King has again teken up his residence in Commassie

Hi. M.S. Niobe went recently ashore at Cape Blanc, Miquelon, during the dense fog, and will probably prove a total | The crew were saved, bul in want of } rovisions, Un receipt of this intelligence the com- mander of H. M.S.Woodlark,the only naval! vexsel in port, decided to proceed to the assistance of the Niobe and saile i Satur. day ni ht. A French war vessel has also gone to her assistance from St. Pierre.

Referring to the rumour published in the Atheneum that one of the chief poets of Engiand has completed a historical tragedy | a London correspondent writes that he has | every reason to believe that Mr. fennyson is the poet referred to ; that the subject of the tragedy is‘ Mary Queen of Scots ,’ and | that the laureate will bea vised by Tom Taylor «# to the practical ways and means necessary for the adaption of his work to | the stage. He also believes that ‘Old! Drury’ has been selected for this dramatic | venture.

The St. Louis Merchants are all agog with the idea of securing an important trade with Brazil, and really it looks now as though something might be done in that way. [tis stated that Brazil imports 750,- 900 berrels of flour, every year, has no manufacturies, exports immense «"antities of eotiee, and about 24 1,000,000 in gold an- nually. Before the war, the Missi-sippi

Valley cities reaped profitable harvests

from the South American States, but that

was broken up in 1861, +nd the trade has

never been resuscitated, [ts resumption

be a good thing for the entire South

the endeavor to secure it will

fe

ss,

| Treaty, we were unaware of the rapid strides |

| the thirteen years the Treaty was in opera-

| of 89,000,000; and itis susceptible of proof

| Pances; | mestic trade which will prove most oppor- |

| tune during the period of transition (which

; ments. | without yielding to all the pretentions of

lof commercial reciprocity with Canada. At a special meeting of the latter Board,

| give us free coal, lumber, potatoes and | breadstuffs.

| with Great Britain on the subject of recip- | rocal trade

4 fisheries: but our general trade and inter-

' commercial, relations of the United States

| Whether

Clubs may be made up at any time, but | not for a shorter period than one vear.

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“ Tue Examiner” has been under its We

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ices idl et i RECIPROCITY AND PROGRESSION, ee | Tue trade relations of the United | States, with the Dominion of Canada, are | just now receiving unwonted attention. If we may judge by the tone of several leading newspapers, and the opinions of

many leading politicians and merchants, these relations will, ere long, be much more intimate than they are at present. The New York Tribune—at one time a vehement opponent of Reciprocity—in a recent issue says-—

‘It is an open secret

have been for some in

that negotiations progress at Wash- ington fora new Reciprocity Treaty with Canada. They do not seem to have reach- ed, as yet, any completed result; but they

warrant acareful examination of the facts about the trade they affect. There has beeu a growing feeling that the Repeal of the Reciprocity Treaty in 1866 was a mistake. or not the sober judgement of

feeling, it is certain that the increasing com- mercial importance of our Northern neigh-

tracted no little public attention among us; aad we frankly confess that until led to look deep into Canadian statistics by the neces- sity of dealing with this proposed new

these lusty Northerners have been taking.”

The Tribune then shows that since 1867, the foreign commerce of the Do« minion has nearly doubled, while the foreign commerce of the United States— has decreased from 52 per cent to 35 per cent—‘‘a fact in itself most extraordinary and suggestive.” The Tribune confesses that—

‘From the moment of the repeal of the Reciprocity Treaty the balance of trade went against the United States, and that the aggregate of this balance, in the seven years that have elapsed since the ‘Treaty was repealed, has been $51,870,000. Again, as toa large proportion of the articles we recieved from them free of duty under the Treaty, itis undoubtedly true also that our | importations have been gradually increas- | ing since the repeal, at greatly enhanced prices, notwithstanding the duties we now impose upon them. For example, during

tion we purchased from the Provinces lum- ber to the aggregate value of $39,000,000, er an average of $3,000,000 per annum; but in the seven yeara that have elapsed since the repeal we have purchased nearly $57,000,- 000 worth of lumber, or an annual average

that the cash price of clear lumber at Tor- outo is double what it was ten years ago, and that its price at Portland, Me.. is double the present price in Toronto. We suspect the deductions of the Canadians, therefore, are not far out of the way, when they assert that we and not they pay the whole duty. lt is clear that few more important topics

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we in New England have none, under wheat | cultivation ; the natural home of wheat and barley, the land flowing with milk, and ren- | dering to the indstrious farmer the fleeces of the long wooled sheep, for which we | have scarce an acre that is fitted this side | of Oregon j *. | In the eight years that have elapsed the figures show $250,000,000 imports, to $200,- 000,000 exports, from and to the Dominion Instead of driving Canada into annexation | by the termination ofthe treaty, as some exs

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pected to do, we drove the provinces into confederation; we forced them to become a } nation, to establish manufactures at great

cost to themselves, to seek new and distant | markets, and to enter into competition with us in ways and places that we least expecte ed; and we built up a profitable business in smuggling that has done intinite harm to both nations, and which can never be stop- | ped on such a line

Mark one single item: Once we supplied Canada with cheese; now she supplies hers self, and exports ameeighth part as much as we do to Great Britain. We forced ber to go there for her cottons, her woolens and her hardware, and she sends cheese in part pay- ment.

But there is one peculiar feature in our commerce with Canada to which I would call your attention, and that is to the extent | which we even now exchange products of | like kinds. Contiguous countries must ex- | change, and on such an extent of border— measuring 3000 miles as it does—there must be an export at one end, where the same article is imported at the other. Mark these figures, from the Trade Statistics of 1873,

Take coal first. Canada proper possesses no coal, and the transportation from Nova Scotia is long and costly. Hence, in 1873, while we imported from the Dominion 261,257 tons, valued at $283,292, we exported 438,- 395 tons, valued at $2,175,755. Of course, the import was mainly in New England; the export from Pennsylvania and Ohio

Under a revenue tariff of fifteen per cent, with wool free, Canada has imported through Boston hundreds of thousands of pounds, even whole cargoes of Australian and other wools, for her factories, and has exported their products in payment; these very fac- tories have been built and started, and have been successful, while we were struggling to maintain our highly protected manufac- tures, and have partly, not quite wholly failed in the attempt

But thus far I have treated the question mainly from our own special stand-point,but } I call upon you to mark the export of bread- | stuffs toCanada. The Canadians grant tl of their canals, and are paring to them. Restore reciprocity, and the construction of the Caughnawaffga Canal could not be deferred. Its use would become so obviously essential and profitable that it would almost build itself, and on this the in

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terest of Boston and the great West | once more and demand the same policy. When will the people learn that all this commerce exists because both parties gain in the exchange? When will people cease to

talk nonsense about the balance of trade, be- cause theyshall have at last comprehended the truth thal there can be no permanent trade at all unless both sides gain? Unless there is a profitable balance on the Ledger of each person, firm or nation, no reciprocity treaty shail have any effect whatever. Are we to be hoodwinked, blinded and misled by a set of thoerists who prate of an adverse balance of trade, because one nation appears by the Custom House books to import more than it exports? Answer such fools according to their folly, and write them down asses in large capitals. Thengeven theycannot fail to under- stand. The great trouble with them is that they have not even intelligence enough to know what asses they are, and the conviction has not yet been forced upon them. England imported $500,000,000 worth of goods more than she exported last year, and, according to these sciolists, impoverished herself to that extent. In fact, by her policy she has become the money power of the world. * * * * . . .

“©T have asked, whatis the Deminion? Its area is equal to that of the whole United States, Alaska included, or 3,400,000 square miles. What does it possess? One half is covered by a vast forest, from which we must | draw our supply of lumber,cost what it may, | and subject to whatever tax a bad revenue | System may impose upon it. are their weallh—they are our necessity. The | removal of these vast forests is one reason why the population cf Canada has increase so slowly, their lands cannot be occupied like our prairies at an instant’s notice. It takes a | generation to remove the forest and make | room for the wheat, but bear in mind that the culture of wheat can only be maintained with our present knowledge of agricultural | chemistry on land that has preduced forest | trees. In the prairie soils exhaustion of the | alkalis soon takes place. The Canadas must, therefore, be the future’ granary for

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These forests

wheat for ourown country. Next, the fines

could occupy the attention of authorities at Washington than the consideration of the | commercial relations belween the . United States and the British North American Pro- | and it is fair to infer that neqgocia- tions may resuli in an enlargement of dos

we trust we have now entered upon) be- tween irredeemable paper and specie pay- We hope, therefore, that Mr. Fish, our neighbors, will make a Treaty.”

The Chicago and Boston Boards of Trade, have, we observe, each passed a series of Resolutions favoring a Treaty

held on the 25th ult., Mr. Edward T. Russel, said—

“* | desire to say a few words at this time in favour of anew treaty of reciprocity with the Dominion of Canada that will. at least,

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The abrogation of the old treaty in 1866 was unfortunate for both countries, and has been much regretted and at various times, efforts have been made to obtain a new treaty. In March, 1869, the House of Representatives adopted a resolu- tien calling for a renewal of negotiations

with the British Provinces of North America, the free navigation of the St. Lawrence River, and the freedom of the

course is still hampered by vexatious and unnecessary duties and expenses, from which we should seek relief by a new treaty. The opportunity is now offeredus. Bythe terms oi the Washington Treaty, the United States are bound to pay such a sum of money as may be assessed by the Commissioners as the value of the fisheries opened to us above those opened by us to Canada. This sum, it is claimed, will be alarge one. But it can, no doubt, be speedily arranged to the satisfaction of both parties through the me- dium of a treaty of reciprocity, and in this view and belief I offer the following

RESOLUTIONS:

Whereas, the commerce and trade actually existing between the United States and the Dominion of Canada are very great, amount- ing to some $80,000,000 per year ; and

Whereas, these mutual transactions could undoubtedly be more than doubled, if unre~ stricted intercourse was had between these two great countries; and

Whereas, the geographical, as well as the

and Canada are so intimate, connected as they are by the great lakes, rivers and rail- way systems of the Continent; therefore it is | hereby

Resolved, By the Boston Board of Trade, assembled in special meeting for the con- sideration of this subject:—That a reciprecal commercial treaty, similar in effect to the re- ciprocity treaty abrogated in 1866,should be | secured by the Government of the United | States as being eminently conducive to the | general prosperity of the country; and we |

~ ' earnestly call upon the Government to take |

4, an interest in procuring

able abundance in Canada as well as in the

ores of iron and copper exist in ae onl lower British Provinces, and these ores even

| now supply no small portion of the consump.

1 tion of the United States. These Canadian ores have no adjacent supply of coal, ani are valuable only a3 they can be brought in- | to connection with the coal field of this coun- | try. Among cur States, none have so great a free and ample supply of these ores as Illinois and Indiana, underlain as they are with coal, and needing, as they do, the iron way even tor their coun- try cross-roads. We speak asif our railway service had come near its end, when, in fact it hasonly begun. The best grazing country in the world lies in this Dominion; will it harm any one here to be able to exchange boots, shoes, clothing, hardware and the like for the best and most ample supply of beef, mutton, butter and eggs? Yet in the ab- sence of a trealy, even the privilege is in part forbidden, and because we cannot sell we cannot buy; hence the best of their supply passes across the water to enable our com- petitors in manutacturing, whom we so much dread, to compete yet more effectually with us. The finest barley, the finest oats, the best potatoes are the product of the Maritime ’rovinces. Do we need them in New Eng- land? Is the cost of living so low with us as to make it fit to reject this abundance be- cause it can be had cheaply? Would their competition effect our farmers injvriously ? Far from it. These are the coarse products of agriculture; our farmers can do better. Not many years since the finest wheat in the country was raised in Central New York; soon the soil was exhausted for wheat and litle is now grown. Did farming become less profitable? Far from it; the farmers turned their attention to grazing, to butter and cheese and to fruit, and now farming in that section is thrice as profitable as wheat growing was. The same thing would occur in New England. Give us an abundance of these coarse products at low cost, let us have the barley. oats, potatoes, fish and the like from the British Provinces, then we decrease the cost of living to all our operatives and the difference would be spent in milk, butter, cheese, fruit and the finer products of agri- culture raised by our own farmers on our own lands in the immediate vicinity of con- sumers, at far greater profit than can be made in these coarse and heavy products that will only pay for distant transportation by water —not by rail. I have thus feebly described what the Dominion of Canada isin the power of producing a such articles as we require to consume.’

The Boston Globe, commenting upon the action of the Board respecting com- mercial reciprocity with the Dominion, says:—‘‘ As the original reciprocity treaty proved, in the main, of signal ad- vantage to this country, it seems eminent- ly desirable that a similar one should be negotiated, especially as the settlement of our relations with Canada under the

e | St ttled

‘fair and honorable terms—we judge that |a Treaty of Reciprocity will be concluded as soon as possible. The people of this Province anxiously await the issue of the | negotiations. | ee DISMISSAL OF DR, JENKINS Dr, JENKINS, on Friday last, received, | by telegraph from Ottawa, a notification lof his dismissal from the office of Quar- autine at Charlottetown. Dr. | Jenkins has held this office for the past It has never been pretend-

master

eleven years.

the office well. dismissal, which we can imagine, was his

The only reason for his

opposition to Mr. Laird in the late elec- tions. Although Mr. Laird is thought, by Mr. Benjamin Davies and others, to be over-forgetful of his friends, itis quite certain that he remembers his fos.

Dr. Hobkirk has been appointed to the office from which Dr. Jenkins has been so dismissed. Pr. Hobkirk will, doubtless, assiduously apply himself to the duties of the office. It is, however, somewhat strange, that the claims of Dr.

summarily

Beer have been so completely overlooked, Dr, Beer, and his friends, have lent power- ful assistance to Mr. Laird. Dr. Beer is active, capable and courteous,—just the

min to take charge of the quarantine | station. He deserved more at the hands of the Minis-

Why hus he been ignored ?

ser of the Interior than either Dr. Taylor

|or Dr. Hobkir*.

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| LM VIGRATION.

Tur Report of the Minister of Agri- culture (laid before Parliament) is at hand. taips are interesting and somew! +t grati-

| fying

The Immigration Statistics it con- The number of immigrants re— ‘

| ported by Government agents to have Canada 59,050

ast is | | : ‘ eo m6 ° . > | Against 36,578 in 1872, an increase of | |

in year 36.83 per cent., and against 10,091 in 1866, an increase of 595.98 per cent. There has been a steady increase in the arrivals in Canada since Confederation ; but the inerease was considerably larger last year than in any previous year. It | is to be due to the assistance of charitable socie— ties and persons in the mother country, as the returns show the number so assist— ed in 1873 to be only 1,124, while in 1872 the number was 2.435. In addition

059 are reported to have passed through Canada to the United States, and the Minister notices this fact particularly, because he says, ‘these through passen- gers are constantly confounded with im- migrants leaving Canada for the United States.’ There are no means of classify- ing the national origins and the trades

and calling of the immigrants, excepting

|ed that he did not perform the duties of

noticed that this increase is not |

to those who have settled in Canada, 49,— |

those who arrive at the port of Quehee. | Of these, out of 36,901 that arrived last | | year, 18.004 were English, 4.336 Irish, |

| 4,665 Seotch, 739 German, 664 Seandi- |

}navian, and 2,634 French and Belgians

The steerage male adults who landed at Quebee in 1875 are

trades and callings: —Farmers,

thus classified as to | 1,476; | laborers, 6,201 ; mechanies, 7,662 : clerks

and traders, 62 and professional mea, 7. | The total number of arrivals in 1873 in- | cludes 8,971 persons who entered the

Dominion from the United States, the figures having been obtained from the Custom Houses along the frontier, “These immigrants,’? says the report, ‘are supposed tobe for the most part United

States, and persons whom the late com-

Canadians returning from the

merciul and industrial depression in that country forced to Canada in search of

employment.” iiss ile aes ciiceac POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

The Report of the Postmaster General for the year ended 30th June, 1873, shows a very material increase in the business of the department over the pre- ceding year. On the Ist of January, 1874, there were 4,518 post offices in the Dominion ; number of miles of post route, 35,588; number of miles travelled by mail during the year, 13,266,598 ; num— ber of letters and post cards sent, 34,- 579,000; number of newspapers, 25,480,- 009; number of registered letters, 1,377,- 000; number of free letters, 1,091,000; number of parcels, 112,300. Postal! rev- enue for the year ended 30th June, 1873, $1 406,984.37 ; expenditure, $1,553,604, - 25. Number of money order offices on 30th June, 644; number of money orders issued, 160,242, amounting to $6,177,- 905,14. Number of P.O. Savings banks, 239; number of depositors during the year, 23,526; total amount deposited during the year, $2,306,918; amount of deposits, and interest to credit of deposit- ors, on the 30th of June, $3,207,051.57.

During the year 6C6 appointments of postmasters and way-office keepers were made, and 733 mail contracts were enter- ed into. The chief inspector's report shows that there were 180 post offices, served by about 98 miles of mail route, by land and water, in Prince Edward Is- land. When that Provinee was admitted into the Confederation, the Revenue was estimated at $12,000 and the expenditure at $26,000 per annum.

Of the Revenue, Ontario and Quebec yielded $1,192,530.77; Nova Seotia, $109,750.39; New Brunswick, $82,135.. 85; British Columbia, $17,517.24, and Manitoba, $5,05012. The increase of revenue over the preceding year was about fourteen per cent, while the increase of

Treaty of Washington has proved to be fraught with difficulties. Mr. Atkinson points out in his excellent speech the

immediate steps towards the negotiation of essential dependence of the two countries

such a treaty. Resolved, That the secretary of

this Board | "Pom each other, and the advantages to

be requested to send copies of this resolution, ! New England of those products of the

expenditure was about 13} per cent. Since, 1868 the number of registered letters have nearly doubled. In that

year they numbered 704,000; in 1873 there were 1,377,000 registered, The ratio of miscarriage in registered letters

| many men

G. McDougall, Wesleyan Missionary, in a letter under date 5th January, 1874, declares that unless the traffic in strong drink is discontinued, “ the very worst results, both socially and civilly, will follow.” The Indians, it is asserted, are literally poisoned with a kind of liquor which these rascally itenerant vendors give them in exchange for peltries. The effects of this liquor upon them is similar to those which follow the drinking of strychnine. Mr. McDougall affirms that this ‘accursed traffic’ is being prosecuted with ‘increasing boldness and unserupu— lousness;’ and he declares that, within the last three years, hundreds of men, women and children, have perished miser- ably, after partaking of the poisonous ‘Fire Water.” It is probably to check this ‘ accursed traffic,’ that the ‘ procla— mation ’ has been issued.

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PHYSIOLOGICAL

STUDIES,

News comes to us from across the Atlans that \r. intends availing himself which he finds at his disposal, now that he has no longer the

tic Gladstone

of the leisure

weight of the Government on hisshoulders, to study medicine. Mr. Gladstone’s mind, is a powerful and even an original mind, yet it is hardly Likely that at this time of his life he will be able to add anything to of called medical science. andit might be thought that it is rather late in the day for him to think about his health. But Mr. Gladstone only in his sixty-fifth year and he may be

the discoveries what is

is able, by fitting himself to be his own phys sician, to preserve for a longer period than would otherwise be the case a life valuable to England, and indeed it can be added It is imp»ssible not to ask why he did not study medicine before.

without exaggeration, to the world.

He is nearing lis grand climateric when he sets himself about mak-

ing himself acquainted with the laws of

health, and the remedies fer disease. The cause why he has romained until thi. time ignorant on medical matters, is an evil

which his example may tend to destroy. The sage’s advice to know one’s self has to Mr. Gladstone since his | youth up, and we all acknowledge the pro- the behest. Yet, like | Mr. Gladstone, we cherish invincible