LORD LANSDOWNE.

His Address at the Civic Banquet at Victoria, B. C.

ADVANTAGES OF BRITISH CONNECTION— IM- PROVEMENT OF THE PRESENT REGULATIONS CONSIDERED QUESTIONABLE—A MAGNIFI- CENT HERRITAGE TO BE PRESERVED. From the Victoria (B. ©.) Times is taken

the following report of the concluding por-

tion of Lord Lansdowne’s speech at the civic banquet tendered him in that city :- If there was one thing more than another

strikingly remarkable at the period through which we are now passing it is the manner in which both Great Britain and the colon- ies are awakening to the responsibilities which attach to such an empire as ours. How is that empire to be defended in the hour of need? How are we to secure that supremacy at sea which has so long been ours! To what extent may we count on the colonies and the colonies on us | These are questions which are being asked day by day by thoughtful men at home and abroad You have here at Esquimalt a naval station likely, I think, in time, tv become one of the greatest and most important strongholds of the Empire. (Applause.) You have a coal supply sufti- cient for ali the navies of the world. You have a line of railway—part of which I had the pleasure of visiting to-day—which is ready to bring that coal up to the harbor of Esquimalt. You will shortly have a grav- ing dock, capable of accommodating all but one or two of Her Majesty's largest ships. You have, in short, all the conditions re- quisite for what I believe is spoken of as a place d’armes; but, sir, uatil now that place d’armes has been inaccessible eXcept by sea. We shall henceforth be able to bring supplies, stores and material of war to it by an alternative route, direct, expedi- tious, and lying for more than half ils way over British territory. (Applause) I think, therefore, we need be under no doubt as to the interests touched by the establishment of this line, and that we may be assured that if this province has a special interest in the matter the whole Dominion, and not only the whole Dominion but

THE EMPIRE AT LARGE, is likely to gain in strength and solidity by the change which is about to take place. (Applause.) That change comes at a moment when public attention at home and in the colonies is being generally directed to these imperial qnestions, and when the relations of the Mother Country and her great self-governing colonies are engaging the earnest attention of all thoughtful men. And, sir, it is not too much to say that there never was a moment when it was possible to look with more satisfaction to the temper in which those relations are

discussed. Those relations were never characterized by a greater amount of cordial feeling and mutual respect than

they are at present. These sentiments are not of a temporary character or due to accidental circumstances, nor are they peculiar to any party or class within the British community. The colvnial policy of Great Britain is altogether outside the dis- turbing influences of party politics. We are, as you know, keen politicians at home, and party feeling runs pretty strongly with us as it does with you, but you will not fiad any political party, and I will under- take to say any political section of the slightest importance, which is prepared to profess indifference to our colonist empire,

or to make political capital out of our colonial relations. (Loud = ap- plause.) We have lately had some-

thing like a political transformation scene at home and an unexpected and dramatic transfer of power from one party to an- ether. Political society in Great Britain has been convulsed, but the vibrations of that convulsion have scarcely reached our shores. Both sides are equally sound on the colonial question, and although you bave been watching recent events at West minster with the intelligent interest which you feel in all that concerns the fortunes of the Mother Country, you can be confident that as far as you are yourselves concerned the dethronement of one party and the ar- rival of another in its place involves no change which need in the slightes’ degree affect yourselves.

BRITAIN AND HER COLONIAL EMPIRE.

A great change has come over the public feeling at home as to onr colonial empire. I remember reading a spesch delivered not long ago by Lord Derby upon this subject. He pointed out, and I think with much truth and force, that there have been three well marked periods into which the history of our dealings with the great colonies may be divided. During the first of these periods Great Britain admininistered them for its own selfish ends, regarding them as £0 many outlets for British com- merce, and guiding their affairs without reference to the present necessities or the probable future requirements of the colonies themselves. That ‘period ended with the loss of the American colonies. To the period of selfishness succeeded a period of indifference. Finding that the colonies declined to be administered with a sole view to the interest of the British Islands it became the fashion to look upon them as useless excriscences which, as far as we are concerned, might be suffered with feel- ings of equanimity to drop off wherever it might suit them to do so from the parent trunk. ‘'These wretched colonies,” said Mr. Disraeli, writing to Lord Malmesbury in 1852, ‘‘will be independent in a few years, and are a millstone around our neck.”” [am old enough now to remember the time when

FEELINGS OF THIS S°RT

were prevalent enough in the Old Country, although at this moment there are probably few persons who entertain them, and fewer still who would care to express them if they did. Lord Beaconsfield, towards the close of his remarkable career, would certainly have been the last person to do so, At the present time, whether you turn to the speeches of Conservative leaders or to

those of Radicals like Mr. Chamberlain with his bold conception of an Eng- lish democracy marching shoulder to

shoulder all over the world, you will find no uncertain note as to the future of our colonial empire. (Applause.) We have entered and are living in the third period of the life of that empire, the period of in- telligent and reasonable partnership be- ‘ween the Mother Country and the colon- ies. Under that partnership there have grown Up sentiments of mutual attachment and respect e» strong that many of our tost thoughtful statesmen here and at

home have been led to express a desire, not for relief from the responsibilities which attech to a colonial empire, but for a still closer union than that which now exisis and for a more highly developed form of association, a form of association resting more than at present upon con tractual ties and defining with greater dis- tinctness the dutics and liabilities and the privileges of both parties to the contract, in short to make that partnership approach more closely what I believe is commonly spoken of as a federation of the whole empire. (Applause. )

BRITISH CONNECTION ADVANTAGEOUS.

The subject is much too grave and serious an one to be treated within the limits of an after dinner speech. As yet these proposals have not taken any definite shape, or atany rate if they have been formulated, it has been by individual re- formers rather than by the recognized leaders of public opinion either at home or in the colonies. There are, however, I think, some considerations which are 80 obvious and unquestionable shat we need scarcely be afraid to give utterance to them. I had the pleasure of reading not long ago an interesting article in a review pub- lished on the other side of the frontier. ‘Fhe writer advanced reasons which were conclusive, in his opinion, in favor of a radical change in the relations of Canada and Great Britain. One of those to which most prominence was given was this. J will state it in the writer's own words: ‘‘Still another class of disadvantages must. be mentioned as a result of the connection. The Dominion is enabled by being a dependency of Great Britain to borrow large sums of money upon favorable terms.” This the author very candidly says is ‘‘cortainly not regarded in Canada asa misfortune, but there is,” he adds, ‘‘good reazon to believe that it isa misfortune nevertheless. (Laughter.) So that the head and front of Canada’s offund- ing is that her Finance Minister is, thanks to the British connection, able to go to Lon- don and get bonds cashed for less than four per cent. The writer then proceeds to expatiate upon the disadvantage to which Canada is hable from the fact that commer- cial treaties are negotiated through the British Foreign Office. I must say I would hardly have regarded that asa disadvantage to the Dominion. (Hear, hear, and laugh- ter.) Singularly enough throughout his lamentations I cannot find a single reference to the existenee of such a perscnage as the Canadian High Commissioner, or to the fact that whenever commercial negotiations affecting the Dominion are in progress the Dominion Government is invariably con- sulted at every stage, and that it is usual to associate the High Commissioner for the purpose of the negotiation with the officials of the Foreign Office.

THE FREEDOM CANADIANS ENJOY.

But, sir, the matter does not stop there. Is it nothing that in whatever part of the world you may find yourselves you may claim the privileges of British citizens— (loud applause)—and expect the respect and consideration which ail over the world a British subject is entitled to and will re- ceive! Is it nothing that having, as you have, a growing trade and a large commer- cial navy and an extensive coast line on two oceans, your trade, your navy, your coasts, are under the protection of fleets which even the bitterest detractors are obliged to recognize as being superior to the fleets of any other nation in the world? Is it nothing that the whole of the resources of the British diplomatic service - a service of which the members in point of training and efficiency are not surpassed by the diplo- matic service of any other pation —is avail- able for the promotion of your in- terests? Js it nothing that the high- est tribunal of the empire—the tribunal in which the most disiinguished traditions of the British jurisprudence are enthroned—is accessible to you as it is to as? (Loud applause.) [ have said nothing of the bonds resulting from a common origin and history, a common language and literature, and from public institutions closely resembling each other, and giving us an amount of freedom not enjoyed by any other community in the world. (Ap- plause.) All these are no imaginary or unsubstantial bonds of union, and their value is recognized both here and at home. I say, therefore, let us, before we attempt to alterand improve, at least take care that we realize the advantages which the present state of things undoubtedly affords. But when I say that I hope you will not understand me as arguing that that state of things is in all respects incapable of improvement. AN IMPROVEMENT UPON THE PRESENT RELA-

TIONS QUESTIONABLE.

I will in the first place take upon myself to say that if it could bo shown that under existing arrangements the great colonies or any of them are not allowed a suflicient opportunity of making their wishes known in regard to matters of imperial importance you will find nine Englishmen out of ten willing and anxious to improve those oppor- tunities. For my own part, I ain disposed to think that many of us are unaware of the extent to which the colonics are already consulted whenever ques- tions affecting their interests are at issue, You have <n the one hand the representative of the Crown in residence at the capital and in constant communication beth with your Ministers and the Govern- ment at home. You have on the other hand the official representative of the Do- minion living within a stone’s throw of the Colonial Office, and in constant eommunica- tion with it. Whether you will improve very much upon this arrangement by, let us say, the admission of a few Canadian deputies to an Imperial Parliameni sitting at Westminster, in a Parliament in which they would necessarily be liable to find themselves outvoted by members from the other parts of the Empire, I do not feel at all sure.

CANADA’S FISCAL SYSTEM.

There is one other proposition I will venture to make, and that is, that I should view, and I cannot heip thinking that the people of Canada would view, with the greatest suspicion any proposal having for its object what might be described as the affiliation of the Dominion of the Old Country in regard to its fiscal system. You enjoy at present the widest measure of in- dependence in regard to the management of your own financial affairs, and I believe that there are few privileges more valuablo in your eyes. As far as J am aware, the limits which the Old Country has sought to impose upon your complete freedom of action in this respect are two :—That you should respect the treaty obligations which

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are binding on the whole Empire, and that your tariff system should not, to any appreciable extent, deny to the Mother Country any advantages conceded to a foreign power. Within those limits the

fully conceded to you, and I am not afraid to confess that I shouid regard with appre- hension any attempt, however well meant, to invent « fiuaucial system which should be applicable to all the different parts of the English Empire, with their varying and, |

am afraid, sometimes incompatible in-

terests,

A MAGNIFICENT INHERITANCE —OUR RESPON- SIBILITY,

The only other proposition which I should venture to urge is this, that if there is any point at which we may reasonably hope to improve the conditions of the part- nership already existing between the Old Country and her colonies, that point is to be found when we come to a consideration of the defences of the British Empire. That is a question which recent events have brought prominently under our notice. How do we stand in regard to that question? We must in the first place bear in mind that the Imperial Government has placed upon record a formal admission of its responsibility for the defence of Canada from foreign aggression. That is a pledge from which it has never sought to recede, but if it is to be fulfilled it appears to me to carry with it a correlative obligation on the part of the colonies to do what lies in their power to strengthen their own local defences and to place their forces in a condition fitting them to bear their part in any great imperial emergency. [ am bound to say that nothing could be more satisfactory than tie attitude of the great dependencies of the Empire in regard to this question. It is one of the most vital importance to the Empire. It is one in which this part of the Dominion, situated as itis, has a very especial interest, and I do not know any question more deserving of earnest consideration by the Govern- ments both of the Dominion and of the Empire. (Applause.) We, on our side, have admitted without any reserve our responsibility for your defence. You on your side are, I believe, ready to second our efforts, and more especially in regard to your local defence to undertake so much of this liability as properly belongs to you. But, sir, these questions cannot be left to the inspiration and fmpulse of the moment. They are, rather, matters to which every one of us is bound to give his most attentive thought. It is» above all important that they should be thoroughly considered in the colonies them- selves. Besides you may depend upon it that in dealing with these questions it will be the desire of the Imperial Government to act with you and notin spite of, you, and that nothing will so much conduce to their settlement as a clear definition by yourselves of that which you yourselves desire. (Applause.) I feel sure that these subjects will be considered by you, as they will be by us, under the influence of a deep conviction that the anity of the Empire is worth preserving and that from one end of it tothe other we are alike interested in preserving for thoso who come after us the magnificent heritage which the courage and enterprise of our predecessors has secured for ourselves. (Great applause. )

Military.

THE militia force of this Province haye undergone a thorough inspection by Lieu- tenant-Colonel McShane, Acting Deputy Adjutant-General. They have acquitted themselves in a manner which is highly creditable to themselves and the officers ir charge. While our city corps are thorough. ly equipped, and in drill and physiq equal, if not surpass any in the Dominion, our country companies compare more than favorably with country corps in other parts of the Dominion. Lieutenant-Colonel Mc- Shane, during the course of his inspection, was amazed at the efficiency of the men, and he leaves carrying with him a very high opinion of the militia force of P. E. Island. The distinction won by the Charlottetown Engineer Corps, and No. 1 Battery of Artillery, proves that we have here the finest Engineer and Artillery Companies in the Dominion, and judging from the highly complimentary remarks of Lieut.-Col. Mc- Shane, we have no doubt that we also possess the finest Infantry Corps.

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Supreme Court.

Sarurpay, Oct. 31.

Hector McLean vs. John Bradley—-Mr. Arthur Peters addressed the court this forenoon for the rule for a new trial or non- suit, The court takes time to consider. John McQuarrie vs. John Bradley—This case was tried last Trinity term and judg- ment was given for the defendant. Mr. Davies states the grounds on which he ap. peals for a new trial. Mr. F. Peters shows cause against the rnle. The case is still being heard,

The court will probably adjourn this evening until the middle of November.

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A WELL ATTENDED meeting of the Literary and Scientific Institute was beld on Thursday evening, 29th inst., in the new Temperance Hall—C, Palmer, Esq.. in the Chair. The object ef the meeting was to place the Insti- tute on a permanent footing. A large amount of business was transacted, Committees were appointed te prepare rules and regulations for the government of the society,to secure papers on subjects for discussion The Institute then adjourned to meet again in the same place on Thursday evening, 12th November, at 8 o’clock, for the purpose of receiving the re- ports of the Committees, and for the election of officers for the ensuing year. In answer to the invitation of the Committee, the Hon. Senator Howlan has promised t> read a paper before the society on the first Thursday even- ing in December, on the Subway. Several other gentlemen have signified their willing- ness to read papers before the Institute. The indications are that the meetings of the society will be of even more than usnal interest: during the coming season

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NcoTWITHSTANDING the unfavorable weather last evening, the Gospel Army turned out in large numbers, and with torches made a parade tothe Market Square At 8 o’clock the Academy of Music was crowded and an excellent meeting was held. This afternoon 4 children’s service is being held. To-vight there will be a Free and Easy, Sunday morn- ing, ® Halilajah Free Breakfast ; afterooon, a'lover the house Experience Meeting ; and evening, Great Salvation Meetixg. Silver or ie oo oe atthe dvor at the atternoon and eveningjmeetings for the sup- port of the Army. .

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AUCTION

O be Sold by Public Auction, on Esp T the 10th day of NOVEMBER, at = woo 3 ous. oo the old Schoolhouse and Land et Southport, adjoining the English Uh erms at Sale, on a

BY ORDER OF TRUSTEES. Southport, Oct, 31—2i sat fri

| Winter-Keeping Apples.

Y Auction, MONDAY, Nov. 2a 10.30 B o'clock, at Salesroom :— «

One Carload Choice, No. 1 APPLES, in Tom- kins, Baldwins, Pippins, Spitz, Ser eee

fron. the orchards, via Pictou Landi A. McNEILEL, October 31, 1885. Auctioneer,

~NEW MEAT MARKET.

THE Undersigned, having taken a Stall in the City Market, begs respectfully to inform the

ladies and peviie generally of Charlottetow

he mae aving for sale on and from TUESDAY

next,

Prime Pork, Sausages, Lard, Fresk and Corned Pork, and Brawe

or Potted Meat,

and having had considerable experience in mak- ing and preparing the above articles, hopes to have a share of public patronage. kK. WALLER, King Square,

Ch’town, Oct, 24—imo eod

GRAIN D

Colonial Exhibi!ion in London, Bag, 1886. |

REFERRING to the above, it has been decided

to forward specimens of Fruit in glass jare, preserved by a solution of salicylic acid ; vege tables, such as Potatoes, Turnips, Cabbage, Man- golds, &c., will be placed in kegs or ha!f-barrels, preserved in the same way.

_Farmers who have extra good specimens of Vegetables, are requested to forward of the various kinds (three or four will be su toeny Station Master on the Railway, or direct to either of the Agents. Care should be takento prevent injury to products from bruising.

A. McNEILL, Charlottetowp, RICHARD HUNT, Summerside, Agents for Collecting Exhibits, Oct. 24, 1885-dy wky

“““ EXHIBITION a B. SMITH, ‘Dominion House,” will - exhibit his defeated Stock before the | Public, on the Market Square, in Charlotte- | town, on TUESDAY, November 3rd, at 12.30 |p. m. The public will then be enabled to | jadge of the comp:rative merits of these ani- |mals with those which were awarded prizes ? on }xhibition Day. The Commissioners are STEAMER “COBAN” will sail for St. John’s, | invite ‘ to bring forward at the same time the MONDAY. noon, 2nd NOVEMBER. | Stock to which pr'zes were awarded, and also

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