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THE DaiLty EXAMINER.

What Will the Government Do?

Tue Halifax Chronicle leans very much to the opinion that the Government should not esign until they meet Parliament. Our contemporary surely forgets, for the nonce, that the Finance Minister, General and the Minister of Militia have each been tendered ‘* a direct Vote of Want by the people, and are

the Receiver

of Confidence ” thereby precluded from the exquisite pleas- ure of meeting in Parliament a hostile ma- jority of seventy or eighty !

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The Result so Far.

We have now full returns except from plices where the elections have not yet taken place. They show a total majority for the Conservative Party of 65. The fol- Lwing figures show the number of inembers of each party elected :

OPPOSTTLION, MINISTERIAL.

IS i Pe eis Gl 25 0 EO eS ee . & 19 New Brunswick........ 5 11 eee ee oa 14 7 P. FE. Island. . ae heme l

J] 63

Liberal-Conservative gains and losses are represented by the following figures :

GAINS, LOSSES,

a a 38 5 go hn ak oes s 40 6 }2 ; New Brunswick-........ 2? 2 i ee ee 10 | Pe aa 2. 0 66 ll

TR «5 5 5. nn be tess yes 55

The Conservative majority in the new Parliament will be about 75.

EG SE RE ONE Political Officials.

Ir is well that the Patriot continues to agitate in behalf of political officials ; for, by such agitation, political officials will the sooner comprehend ‘‘the situation”? and realize the necessity of preparing against the privations of the coming winter. Be-+ sides, it is well that all should fully under- stand that the moment a man becomes a Dominion oflicial he ceases, or should cease, to be a politician. A public official is the servant, not of one or the other party, but the whole country. On the principle on which a judge is disfranchised, officials should at least refrain from taking active parts in politics ; and if they do take an active part in politics, they must take the consequences—which are, inevitably, dis- missal. So punctilions was Sir John on this point that, when he was in power, some of his own partizans were discharged from the public service be cause they could not or would not keep out of politics ; and we may be sure that when he again assumes the reins he will not spare opponents who have been guilty of the same offence.

It is well, we think, that the Patriot continues the agitation. But when it dubs men who to ask a legitimate reward for as- sisting in driving from power one of the worst Governments that ever depressed a country “ hungry jackals,” ‘‘loafers,” ‘“‘who seem to base their claims on the liberality of the party, on their inability to make a living except at the public expense,” we think it rather oversteps the mark.

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Dr. Tupper’s Triumph.

A DAY OF REJOICING IN AMHERST-—A GRAND DEMONSTRATION OF WELCOME,

Dr. er returned on Friday last from Parrsboro District, and was met several miles out by a number of friends and escorted back and through the town. The entire party formed a procession two miles long, and, pre- ceeded and followed by bands of music, and earrying gay streamers, flags and mottoes, formed the most imposing spectacle ever wit- nessed here. The streets were lined with peo- ple, and the rejoicings were very enthusiastic. ‘The whole atfair was a magnificent expression of public contidence, and a tribute to the genius of Dr. Tupper. He addressed the electors for over two hours, congratulating them on the great triumph won in the teeth of two Governments, denouncing the treachery

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The Press on the Blestions,

(New York Herald, )

So far as the United States are concerned the change is likely to prove adverse to our interests.

(Se, John Tel graph, )

‘The surprise and defeat of the Liberals in all the Provinces of Canada, except the banner Province of New Brunswick, have been so great that they find it difficult to account for it.

( Montreal Gazette. )

We remember well a closing sentence i a speech delivered by one of the leaders of the Conservative Party in 1874, when the prospect of Sir John A. McDonald ever again ovtaining nower looked decidedly gloomy. It was this : ‘‘Hereafter, when the discussions of the time will have been forgotten, and the influences that promoted these aspersions have passed away, | venture to think that it will require vindicate

neither skill nor courage to the creat Liberal-Conservative leac- er from the aspersions which a mad

jealousy and disappointed ambition have

heaped upon him.” That vindication was ‘ - . rey nt ie .

given by the people of Canada on ‘I uesday; it

could have expected, and attests not only his personal pepelenthy, but that the people of the country have not forgotten his past services, have not ceased to recognize his great abilities, his wise statesmanship, and are prepared to again commit to him the administration of the affairs of the country. The triumph of the party is a signal one for Sir John him- self, enabling him to say in his later years that he has received the confidence of the vast ma- jority of the eleetors, and that they recognize in him a statesman who, in a time of difficulty, is best fitted to guide and control the destines of the country. ( Boston Journal. )

The tirst returns from the Dominion. clec- tions indicate the defeat of the Liberal or MeKenzie Ministry and the return of the Conservatives under Sir John A. Me- Donald to power. It is possible that further returns from the other Provinces may change the result. The change in Ontario is doubt less due to the Catholics voting with the Con- servatives. The canvass has been made, to some extent, on the tariff issue. The Conservatives have taken grounds in favor of protection and have declared that the pres ent tariff is in the interest of the United States. This is undoubtedly true, and tt is equally true that many Dominion enterprises hav wAered in consequence, Goldwin Smith, who has claimed to belong to neither of the existing parties in Canada, recently expressed his purpose to support the Conservatives, ignoring the fact that they went out of power under a cloud of serious charges of general corruption in connection with the Canadian Pacific Railway, and giving as a reason for his course that he believed that the best in- terests of the people demanded the change.

( New York Tribune. )

The defeat of the Canadian Government is complete. After a vigorous campaign, in which Free Trade and Protection were the leacling issues, it is placed in a» hopeless min- ority of 70, with three of its Ministers unseat- ed. Since it came into power in 1873 it has commanded substantial majorities, and resist- ed energetically the efforts of Sir John A. Me- Donald to alter the tariff in the interests of domestic industry. But hard times have made the Canadians reflective and led thei to declare for measures designed to encourage manufac- tures and provide a home market for the pro- ducts of the fleld. They have not been swayed by large manufacturers, sometimes called ‘* bloated monopolists,” for there are few such men in Cangda, but have been guided by the broad, liberal purpose to promote the public good by stimulating new industries, and en- couraging those which already; exist. They have given Free Trade a fair trial, and al- though they have been flooded with quotations from Bastiat, and stories of American poverty, they have resolved to have no more of it. Mr. McKenzie will, of course, retire promptly from the Premiership and be succeeded by the Con- servative leader, Sir John A, McDonald, who was defeated at Kingston, but may readily se- cure a seat elsewhere. Sir John is the experi- enced statesman who promoted Confederation, acted as Premier from 1867 to 1873, and repre- sented Canada in the negotiations which re- sulted in the Treaty of Washington. He en- joys the confidence of Goldwin Smith, who gave him an independent support during the recent campaign. He isa strong Protectionist, and placing Canada first, is, of course, dis- posed to defend her industries from American as well as British competition. But in his de- sire to expand and diversify Canadian indus- tries, he is on the road which lrads to a Cus- toms Union, if not to actual annexation. Meanwhile, Canada, rendered prosperous by Protection, will be a better customer of ours than ever she could be under Free Trade.

(Montreal Herald. )

Conservative gains have been especially made in the cities, where the depression of so many industries has had the effect of creating afeeling of imce/aise, which must have told heavily upon any Government which _hap- pened to be in power during the period in which it occurred. In such times men are disposed to desire any change for change’s sake, and to adopt readily any suggestions for bringing about an improvement, however absurd these may be in fact. We see the same phenomenon in the United States, where there is every probability that the greenback yarty will achieve, if not a triumphant, at oak avery formidable position, mischievous as the realization of its theories must seem to

of Smith, Burpee, Laird, Coftin, Ray and

others who, for place or Government favors, | ing cooly on the subject.

hal basely deserted their party and princi- ples, and congratulating them that the Nova Seotian’s who had deserted their party were wiped out of existence. Searcely a spot of them being left to distigure the country. In 1874 a snap verdict had been obtained on false issues, and he then predicted that when the yeople had camly weighed and sifted the evi- deace their verdict would be overwhelmingly reversed. He was not disappointed. ‘The people had risen im their might te do tardy justice to the greatest of Canadian statesmen, Jobn A. McDonald, to clothe him again with authority, and to endorse the National Policy. He stated he would probably turn up again, like a bad penny, and bother them for re-elec- tion as a Minister, and announced, amid storms of applause, that Sir John McDonald had been it a Manitoba constituency. His remarks were interrupted by frequent and prolonged anplause. -<4e7

GREAT clouds of potato bugs are said to

cross the sound to the Connecticut pe a onnectient shcre from

all men capable of understanding and reason- % *

‘Ve need not say that we have no faith in the

-iservatives,—should they have the chance

u satisfying in any honest and compre- hensive manner, the expectations they have excited. The condition of the finances of the country forbids any slight-of-hand tricks on a large scale, and.we do not believe that any one will be bold onough to attempt them. If Sir John McDonald and Mr. Tilley should have the opportunity of trying their hands, they will, we imagine, endeavor to minimize the changes in our fiscal system, which they have pleiged themselves to effect. At the same time, they are bound by their pledges to do something, or pretend to do it, and we a>prehend that there is nothing they can do in that direction that will net be mischievous. The worst of commencing such a career is that ; as we see ina neighboring country, the pre- scription turning out to be useless, still more violent and injurious treatment follows,rather than a return to the wiser and better maxims which have been abandoned. Aside, there- fore, from the ordinary interests of party, to which, of course, we do not pretend to be in-

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different; we fear that by however amall de- grees, the return of Sir John A. McDonald to office, will be the commencement of a series of errors that will be constantly accumulating evil, as one after another they are found to be At the saime time, if we are bound to have a revolution in our fiscal system. against our own judginent and against the ‘udgiment of all our kk ading publie men down date, we shall only be too happy to findour forecast a mistake, and to see the realization of those hopes which have beep held out to the population.

( Toronto Mail. )

It was a yenerous maxim, put into the mouth of Auchises by Virgil, that the Roman, while crushing the proud, ought also to spare the vanquished, Entering fully into the spirit of that injunction, it is not our desire to exult unduly over the splendid triumph of the Op- position on Tuesday at the polls. ‘The Minis- terialists, as they may still in courtesy be termed, have, on the whole, received an unex- pected and overwhelming defeat with calmness and philosophical resignation. Although, therefore, it would not be fair or kind to make over merry with their misfortunes, it seems a duty to point out a few lessons to be drawn from them for public edification. Mven the

delusive.

was a fuller vindication than Sir John himself/paity which has been over-wise in its own con-

ceit may take with it into the cold shades of

Opposition a few reflections on the past, and

ponder over them with ultimate profits to its

own and the people's interests. % % * % an

It may not be out of place, in this connec- tion, to point the further moral, that want of -candor in dealing with the arguments of those opposed to us is a mistake as well as a sin. During the whcle of the campaign, and in the face of repeated protests. and warnings, the Goverement journals persisted in a system of gross misrepresentation. Unable to refute the logic of the National Policy, they invent- ed an imaginary issue to suit themselves ; one which no leader of the Opposition had dreamed of presenting to an intelligent people. - They went so far as to frame a fictitious tariff, with duties ranging from 40 to 85 and 99 per cent., and then to make an impudent attempt to father it upon their opponents. The result of the electious has shown that, though they may have amused themselves by tactics of this sort, they enraged without deceiving the electors. Their sin has found them out, and they are now suffering its penalty.

‘The elections have further demonstrated the fact that men who make loud professions of purity and disinterested patriotism are sure to be taken at their word, and punished with much sorer punishment than others if they fall. Of the defeated candidates the most conspicuous are those who have been the most blatant professors of the Pharisaic creed, and yet have proved the frailest of the frail. Messrs. Herman Cook, Glass, Walker, Edgar, Norris and Co. have all been swept Jike chaff before the storm of popular indignation ; and in Welland, the appearance of the redoubtable Oliver did all that remained necessary to se- eure the return of Mr. Bunting. Politicians ought to be wary in ‘‘ protesting too much,” or in giving thanks prematurely that they are ‘not as other men are’’—bribers, jobbers or oflice-seekers. Loud-mouthed assertions of purity, self-denial, and unadulterated zeal for morality are always suspicious, generally dis- trusted by intelligent men, and not unfreqent- ly entail upon the Pharisees a heavier meas- ure of condemnation than their acts intrinsic- ally merit. ‘The recent elections have effect- ually stamped out this species of political affectation for some years to come, or they will have failed of their proper effect.

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THE BLECTION.

Sparks from Hlectric Batteries. JACQUES CARTIER.

A great deal of regret is expressed at the result of the clection in Jacques Cartier, where it was thought Laflamme would be beaten. His majority is only 15 and this has been ob- tained, if report speaks truly, by the grossest corruption. In St. Anne’s it is said that the ballot box was stuffed in the interest of La- flamime, there being fifty more votes cast than there are electors on the list. Laflamme’s election will be contested.

KINGSTON,

Krxasron, Sept. 18.—The jubilant feeling of the Grits here was short-lived. When they found out last night that the country had gone against them, despondency set in, and to-day the joy of yesterday has given place to despair. They contemplated having a torchlight pro- cession to-night in honor of Sir John’s defeat, but the Government having been routed, horse, foot and artillery, they last night de- termined to abandon the project. The sweep- ing outof the Government is the talk of the city to-day; Sir John McDonald bore his de- feat with dignity. Heis now master of the situation and Kingston has lost his services. Evidence of corruption has already been filed against Mr. Gunn, and the election will be protested.

OTTAWA.

Orrawa, Sept. 20.—A quorum of the Min- isters in the city were in Council to-day, sett!- ing matters of routine, of no particular im- portance. Other Munisters are expected to arrive this evening and to-morrow. A full 'meeting of the Cabinet will probably be held to-morrow, at which final steps in view of the results of the late elections may be taken.

Lord Dufferin is here. Sir John McDonald is expected to-morrow.

HALDIMAN)D.,

CALEDONIA, Sept. 18.—Though the canvass of Mr. N. F. Davin has not resulted in victory in the county of Haldimand, yet he made the best run for the Conservative party ever made before in its behalf, and polled more votes than ever were polled before by any Conser- vative candidate. He received 150 more votes than Mr. Macallum when he opposed Mr, Thompson, 280 to 300 more than Mr. Mc- Kinnon when he took the field against the same gentleman, All that was generous and young in the county worked with him, while Mr. Davin himself worked with a vigour and a tireless activity hardly ever witnessed in any previous political canvass in this connty,

BOTHWELL.

UDGETOWN, Ont., Sept. 1°.—To-morrow night there will bea grand demonstration at this place in honour of Mr. J. J. Hawkins, the Conservative candidate for Bothwell. Al- though the contest has gone against Mr. Haw- kins, there isa new universal feeling among the Conservatives of Bothwell and Kent gen- erally that a glorious triumph has been achiev- ed in the great reduction of Mr. Mills’ pre- ,Vious majorities. It is well known that the

most unblushing bribery and intimidation was | resorted to on behalf of the Government can- ‘didate, if the contest is not entirely voided for

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other well known causes which must neoes- sarily vitiate the election, Mr. Rufus Stephen- son and others have been invited to the dem- onstration at Ridgetown where the member for Kent is most popular and will be heartily greeted.

HAMILTON,

The election fever is still raging in Hamil- ton. ‘he reform wirepullers, however, are conspicuous for their absence in the streets, 8o great is the enthusiasm here at the Conser- vative success, that 1f Sic John were to appear as a candidate, he would be certain to geta tremendous vote. The Grits had a splendid funeral procession prepared for the supporters of the National Policy last night. Judge of their disappointment.

GRAIN BAGS! GRAIN BAGS!

BY BALE OR DOZEN,

CHEAP FOR CASH,

AT THE—

LONDON HOUSE !

Ch’town, Sept. 23—pat 4i eod

Kerosene.

LANDING TO-DAY, MONDAY,

100 BBLS, 129° test. CARVELL BROS,

Sept. 23-—li

CARGOES AND FREIGHTS,

INSURANCE

EFFECTED AT CURRENT RATES IN

BOSTON MARINE INSURANCE C0,

sa” No Ponicy Fre. “a CARVELL BROS., Agents. Sept. 23-—pai 21

The Provincial Exhibition

AGRICULTURE & LOCAL INDUSTRY

WILL BE HELD AT

SUMMERSIDE, PRINCE COUNTY,

On Wednesday and Thursday,

October fad and 3rd, 1878.

Amount of Premiums, $1,372,25.

COMPETITION OPEN TO THE WHOLE PROVINCE.

F addition to the Cash Prize offered for the ‘* Best Cow and Calf,” a Statuette, in bronze, of a Cow and Calf, the gift of Robert Wilkes, Esq., of Montreal, will be awarded. ~

Prize lists may be had on application to Mr. George Lewis, Market Clerk, Ch’town; J. R. McLean, Ksq., M. P. P., Souris; Hon. D. Gordon, Georgetown; Benj. Rogers, Esq., Alberton.

The Drill Shed will be open on Monday, Sept. 30, and Tuesday, Oct. Ist, for the re- ception of goods, with a man in charge to take care of all articles delivered there.

The Cattle Show and Exhibition will be held on Wednesday, 2nd, October. The plowing match and testing of farming imple- ments on Thursday, 3rd October.

All articles for the Exhibition must be en tered and delivered at the Drill Shed, Sum- merside, on or before Tuesday, October Ist, or up to 9 o’clock the morning of the Exhibition, at which hour, sharp, the doors will be closed for the Judges to commence inspection. The live stock must be entered and on the cattle grounds at 10 0’clock, a. m., on Wednesday, October 2nd, at which hour the Judges will commence business.

No prize will be awarded for farming im. plements until tested. All implements must be entered and on the trial grounds before 10 o'clock, a. m., on Thursday, October 3rd. All entries for ploughing match must be made and teams on the ground before 10 o'clock, a. m., Thursday, October 3rd.

Exhibitors are particularly requested to take notice that it is absolutely necessary, and posi- tively required, that all entries be made on or before the time above specified, in order to afford the Judges sufficient time for the dis- charge of their duties.

Arrangements will be made with the Rail- way authorities for the usual reduction in

fares. JOHN GAFFNEY, Sec’y of Commissioners. Sept. 23, 1878—

To be Let,

VHE SHOP and DWELLING on Sydney

Street, adjoining the Store of H. J.

Callbeck. Possession given immediately. Apply to

FRANCIS P. McCARRON. Ch’town, Sept. 23, 1878—

Don't You Believe It,

HEN they tell you that the Steam Pump at the Gas House is pumping all the wells dry. They cannot lower the Tubelar Wells put in by JONES for a Cascley, m. Murphy, Paul bg : E. J. Hodgson, Archibald Holmes, John Morris, &e., &e., &e., or any other man, when a living vein of spring water is pierced, as has been done at the Gas House and at Quirk’s pump.

C. °C. JONES.

Ch’town, Sept. 21—tf

‘BOYS WANTED.

TFEYWO BOYS, of 15 to 17 years of age, & willing todo general work, may obtain situations for the coming winter. Apply at “THE CONFECTIONERY.” : Ch’town, Sept. 21—2i

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Grand Opening this Week,

AN ENTIRELY NEW STOCK

--OF THE—

GHOICEST GOODS !

Niillinery !

Direct lmportations, Substantial Stock, Wonder-ally Low Prices.

|NO AUCTION GOODS, NO TRASH,

NO HUMBUG, But First-Class Goods in every Department.

s Call and be convinced that we are giving the best value in Dry Goods in this City,

FOR CASH ONLY.

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PERKINS & STERNS.

Ch’town, Sept. 20—10i eod

FRANK D.CO

Physician, Surgeon, and Accoucheur.

Restpence—Great George Street, nearly | opposite the Bishop’s Palace. OrricE—Apothecaries’ Hall.

September 16, 1878.—2w

DO DROP IN,

At SEE SEE JONES ; look at his many different kinds of PUMPS—

are selling like hot cakes.

Have him bore you a WELL this dry time that cannot be pumped dry. Don’t throw away any more money by giving it to my CHEAP opposition, as in the past, as they cannot tell where to find living water ; neither can they steal his business.

Give him a call and he will tell you all

Ch'town, Sept. 21—tf Wanted, Immediately,

BUSHELS sound, well-picked 1,000 Early Rose POTATOES. [. C. HALL.

Wood and Iron—Suction and Force.

Ch’town, Sept. 21—3i

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THE NEW

WALTHAM WATCHES.

JUST RECEIVED BY

E. W. TAYLOR

are much better value for the money than the old style.

CALL AND SEE THEM.

CYLINDER AND PATENT LEVERS from $8 to $10, all warranted.

A handsome Chain given with every Watcb

DAY IOR’S,

South Side Queen Square, Sept. 18.—3w 3taw -

PIANOFORTES,

IRECT FROM THE FACTORY, sgLow COST PRICES, on view and for sale at

A. MeNeill’s Austion Room.

No, 11 Queen St., Sept, 19—tf

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