Local and ther Mens.

g ‘'N bern Light” is et " detained bv

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W. A, Brennan, Fsq., of the Juwrnal paid

gs 3 endly visit to-day,

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Marts crossed to both Capes __ to-day.

Couriers Cape Traverse for this city at

> K. Beacr to-day shipped sixtcen cr sos of eggs per Northern I wht” fcr the B STOR nark We believe this to b» th» first shipment from the city this seas: mn. l a ‘ Mr. ©, E. Pratt, of St. Peter's, yesterday made the first shipment of

tothe Boston market It consisted of six eases, and was sent via Georgetown. oe Amoxg the candidates for the Halifax Mayorality are Mesars, J. C. Mackintosh and Edward Jevnings, M. D. A requisition is | also in circulation to bring out Mr. J. P. (onbory. > Messrs. Clark & Camppett have finished | the lightheuse breakwater at the entrances of |

Summerside harbor.

credit for

prompt and businessuke manner. a =

These gentlemen deserve

Tur ice in the harbor is becoming very dangerous, Horses are breaking through at the various landing places. One animal had a narrow escape from drowning at Queen's Wharf landing, at one o'clock to-day.

— > — r Mr. Tim O’Conneut, who recently disap-

peared from town leaving numerous mourners, |

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and Who was afterwards arrested and lodged

in Dorchester jail, yesterday ‘‘swore out” of

tha* institution. — Moncton T'ranseript. wn

Tue general store of J. H. Cole & Brother, |

and the store of Mr. McIntyre, ‘‘Scott Act Vendor,” at Tyne Valley, were consumed by | fire on Friday night, the 4th inst. Both had

a large stock, and the loss, therefore, is| ests would not suffer in the least, if some |

lof the lights from the Colonial Building | : ‘ ‘ | were removed—of course I don’t mean ex- | 2orth, is quite unknown in Bermuda.

beavy. iceiaetibinietaia Tue notice published in our advertising | colamns, headed ‘‘Charlottetown Wooilen | Pactory Company,” refers to the old ‘* Woollen | Factory Company,” not the one at present doing business under the management of Mr. W. Uv. McKay.

— - — ; ALEX. Frravson, of St. Peter's Road, left! this week for San Francisco, Cal., and John | Pino, of Rustico, for Jamestown, Dakota. | They both purchased their throuyvh tickets | via Boston, at the Union Ticket Office, Queen } Streei, from Wm. A. Faught, ticket agent. We wish our young men success abroad. sean

Str JoHN MACDONALD gave notice in the House of Commons that, on Thursday next, he would move that it is expedient to amend the Liqaor License Act of 1833 in several respects, and especially as to the time for applying and taking out licenses; as to the appointment of Commissioners, and as to the Jegal proceedings enacted and penalties im- posed by the Act.

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RatLway Emptoyes Wacxs.—In the House of Commons on the Ist inst, Mr. Davies strongly urged that the wages of workingmen om the P. Island Railway should be increased to te same level as similar employes on the Intercolonia!, S:r Charles Tupper said ! 1s not going to raise the pay of these men until the annual deficit on the runniag of the P. E. Island Railway had been reduced. He was not obliged to pay more than was required to have the work performed efficiently.

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One Wire Too Mayny.—A man from Lunen- burg county was married to a widow here a few days ago, says the Dartmouth T'imes. The next day the bride on going to Halifax learned that her spouse had a wife living there, and when she returned she found her lover as happy asa lord, but she ordered him out of the house, ani threatened to shoot him if he remained. He then sought proceedings to get back the wedding ring and four dollars in cash he had given her, but we think the matter has dropped.

Tue Western Agricultura! Convention met in the Court House, Suinmmerside, at ten a. m., on Friday, 4th inst. The debate was opened in the forenoon by Alex. Laird, Esq., President of the Association. He read an able paper on the subject, ‘‘Mutual Insurance for Farmers.” ‘The time of the association was taken up until ene o'clock in discussing this matter, The afternoon session was opened by R, H. McDonald, Esq., who read a paper on ‘‘Which is the most profit- able to farmers, Stock laising or

Dairying.” The discussion was continued during the afternoon, but a decision was not arrived at, Te general impression of those present was that a combination of both would be best for the farmers of P. E. Island. cp tnines

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Another Interesting Letter from Rev, W. R. Frame.

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I think it was the London T'imes corres- | pondent who, in Prince of Wales on his visit to North Amer- ea, that likened P. E. Island. machinery of

with its government, to a | birch bark cano» having in it an engine out of a Cunard steamer. Had he visited this

one of the least of British eolonies—con-

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the season of egys | taining an area of only nineteen and a| Tights, and asserted its independence ina

juarter square miles, ] know not to what! nost practical Way. |

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© would have likened it,with its Governor, Legislative Council and House of Assem- bly. On the principle that ‘misery likes

; company,

benetit of those « t your re aders who desire | the Imperial Government € xpected the s reduction in the membership of tne Local | Colony to keep the public road service in a | Legislature, that Bermuda, in re gard to| high state of efficiency, and that the

| the number of her representatives, is in a much worse condition than Islan 1

Vith a population of 5,384 whites, and | 8,564 blacks (the femules in both cases | being in @ majority), making a grand total | of 13,948, Bermuda has no less than thirty- |six representatives in her House of As- sembly. She has actually one represenia- tive for every twenty-four electors—the latter requiring a property qualification of the value of £60 stg.

Were Prince Edward Island represented at this rate, according to population, in- stead of thirty she would have some 280 iembers in her Lower House

{ am not sending this information with the view to damp the ardor of those who

|} are anxious for the change referred to, or

cause them to ‘‘rest and be thankful;” for it is quite likely that the public inter-

tinguished. The Bermuda House of As-

'sembly is a very ancient institution—dating | #mount of interest taken by Bermudians | pack to 1620—a period when what is now | generally in political matters. So unlike the United States and Dominion of Canada| ‘he people of the Canadian Provinces, It was nearly all a vast, unbroken wilderness. | ™Ust be admitted that there is very little

The Bermuda Legislative Council is com- | except pure patriotism to induce a native to

posed of ten members. The Chief Justice | is ex officio President, the two assistant | judges being also members. The Colonial Secretary and Receiver General likewise | belong to it. of the ‘‘old family compact,” so the vulgar | say.

The members of the Legislative Council are appointed by the Crown for life. When

care is taken by the surviving members that none outside the pale of the ‘‘com- pact” shall be recommended to Her Majesty as a ‘‘fit and proper pe:s:n” for the vacancy. Though the ‘‘Crown” gets the credit of appointing the Legislative Councillors, the Council virtually perpetu- ates itself.

The members of the Legislative Council, with the Governor at their head, also con- stitute the Executive Council, or Govern- ment. It will thus be seen that the Gov- ernment is entirely distinct from the House of Assembly, and in no way depending on it, or responsible to it. The Government cannot be removod by any power in the colony. ‘To turn out the Government,” so well understood in P. E. L., is some- thing utterly unknown in Bermuda politics. In the House of Assembly there is techni- cally neither ‘‘Government party” nor “Opposition.” The members are geverally a united and presumab'y happy family. What a political millennium would be in P. E. L. if it had such an Assembly. But then how dull, and worse than dull, would political matters scon become, and how tame the newspapers would be, when an election took place at Belfast or in some other district.

Every measure after it has received the assent of the Assembly, Legislative Council and Governor, must also be approved of by the Queen, before it can become law, and it not unfrequently happens that the Colonial Secretary is ‘‘unable to advise Her Majesty’’ to assent to certain of the Bills sent home for Her Royal approval.

Though the House of Assembly has no authority over the Government, yet it wields a large amount of power, of which it is extremely jealous.

It possesses complste control over the rev- enue, and all monies beloning to the colony. The Executive Council makes appointments to office witheut any reference to the re- presentatives of the people; but it has no

Aw Appce or Discorp.—A short time ago the Clerk ot the Legislative Council had a dispute with the President of that important branch of the Legislature regarding the spell- ing of the name ‘‘Lausdowne.” The bet was a treat ‘‘for the crowd.” Mr. Clerk won, and the President accordingly sent for the treat a dozen and one-half of apples. ‘The crowd assembled to the number of seventeen, and were each presented by the President with anemblem of disobedience. It happened that after all were served that an apple re- mained, and the gentleman Usher of the Black Rod claimed it was his right, while the messenger disputed his right to it. A wordy quarr:|, we are informed, ensued, and an official of the building only arrived in time to cap*ure the apple of discord, and thus settled

We were shown the fruit to-day. lt bears evidence of being viciously bitten by = the Usher or some member of the

sorTdas.

the dispute

‘edlonesill ‘ PEFEINGION, of the Lntercolonial Railway, appears to be s detective who does too much t. John Telegraph says:— o the reported suspension os an Railway conductors a few Gagays ago, aud such as quel that will be de- eidedly unpleasant for the man who was in- strument:! in bringing about an investigation. A lady (whose husband is entitled to the courtesy of the raliway, and ig in possession of &@ pass tor himee.t and wife), was on the ay to i alifax, and asked the conductors to passher. They, knowing the lady's husband to be as represe ated, allowed her free passage, and this fact was reported by Detective

‘ ‘ ry) detécting.” The § ihere 13 a Be q ie

of Intercolonial

Skeffington to headquarters, with his sus- |

pecee reflecting on the character of the ady. The conductors were suspeaded and tined. It came to the husband's knowledye how the conductors had been served, and he also found out the nature of the report of the detective when they were brought up. He sought iegal advice, and the result has been that the detective had papers served on him in a libel suit brought by the hasband. The zealous official, it is said, went to one of the leadiog otticers of the road and was told that he would haveto get himself out of the diffi-

culty as best he could, it having been brought neatly balanced the other.

‘a by himself. In the meantime the men

have been reinstated, but the lady says if the} pemcent ia ad ; fines are not returned she will make them good | mendation to it from the Colonia. Office is

© the conductors,”

. ‘then the Colony has paid the salaries of the

funds whatever at its disposal, except what ‘is granted by an open vote of the House.

Until within a period of about 20 years ‘the Imperial Government paid in full the | salary of the Governor and also of the lead- ing government officials in Bermuda, Since ‘officials and also a portion of the | Governor's. | This change was brought about by a some- | what amusing cireumstance—at least to an | outsider. oS | During the American Civil War, Bermuda

wes a great rendezyous for blockade run- ners. They brought immense quantities | of southesa cotton here, which was stored | up for a time and then shipped to England. | Suet prosp:rous times the Colony had, | perhaps, never before witnessed. Dollars | were nearly as plenty as onions.

| Everyone was getting rich, or thought | 80, and the House of Assembly discovered | that it had quite a surplus on hand. But |how to dispése of it was a question that | required careful consideration. 8s ah | With all their professed regard for Jeffer | son Davis and his cause, the members of ‘the Honse were far tao ahrewed to “take i stock” in a Confederate loan. After wise | deliberation it was at length unanimously sgreed thai the money be invested in | English Counsels where it would be per- fectly safe,

As soon, however, a3 the fact came to the British Government, the latter naturally | decided that a colony which could invest |money abroad was quite as able to pay 18 ‘own government officials as the over- | burdened taxpayers of the United King- ‘dom, and made an order to this effect. | The House could do nothing except sub- mit, but the members became of opinion that it was a dangerous thing to have a surples, and like prudent legislators, as | well as enlightened potitical economists, /have ever since so arranged the publie receipts and expenditures that one has

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While the House of Assembly ig inde- its own sphere, yet @ recom-

ees TOA TIC“

1860, accompanied the

/eous, but firm, calm and vigorous, { may mention, for the special |

'revenus derived from the duties on liquor Prince Ed ward |

The remaining members are |!

| the purpose, and also a few favored ones

generally regarded as /ai, to be implicitly

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obeyed, as it is not p'easant for a small colony to incur the wrath cf Downing Street, But there was rather a notable exception to the gencral action of the House in this respect only las -essi-n. It appears that some time during the pust year the officers of this Garrison came to the con- ‘clusion that it would be much to their pecuniary interests to have their wines and liquors enter the colony duty free. So | important in their estimation did this matter become that they made it the subject of a memerial to the Colonial Office, and Lord | Derby, in a despatch on the subject to the Governor, recommended the desired change. The Governor, as a matter of course, laid the despatch before the Assembly. : The House, however, stood on its ancient

It not only emphati- cally refused to make the concession, but stated its reasons in language very court-

The House reminded His Lordship that

was mainly spent on this service, and further that the officers had full use of the roads like other people.

The decision of the Assembly was duly communicated to the Colonial Office, and there the matter appears to have ended. And these disappointed military gentlemen have still to sip their wines and liquors at their own exponse—instead of partly at the expense of the public. In speaking with one of the members on the subject, he seemed quite proud of the achievements of the House which he regarded as a triumph over the Military, but especially over Downing Sireset.

I may observe that the discussions in the House of Assembly here are characterised by moderation and courtesy. It may be in part due to the climate, or that there is nothing very important to discuss, but such violent and unseemly language as is some- times heard in Colonial Parliaments further

A stranger cannot fail to notice the small

become a po itician, as there are no offices of emolument to which he can reasonably hope to aspire. The principal offices, those worth seeking after, are all filled by the lome Government, and the recipients are the sons of English gentlemen, sent out for

from the ‘‘aristocracy” of the colony.

The members of the Assembly receive an allowance of eight shillings sterling per day when in actual attendance at the House.

The general election takes place but once in seven years. So faras I can learn an election here is not quite so interesting as one in P. E. Island, It is even said that the wits of the Bermuda politician is often put to the severest strains in order to get up a suitable ‘‘cry” at election times

W. KR. F. East Warwick, March 20, 1884.

Gordon on the Situation.

On learning that an emissary of the Mahdi was at Shendy attempting to stir up the people there to revolt, the Khartoum correspondent of the Times asked Gordon to give his views on the situation. He an- swered: ‘*There is nothing further to be hoped for in the way of quieting the people than has already been saieiaads and there is a certainty that as time advances the emissaries of the Mahdi will succeed in raising the tribeg between this and Berber. This is not owing to disaffection, but to fear caused by the pronounced policy of the abandonment of the Soudan, which policy bas been published by sending down the widows and orphans and the Cairo em- ployes from Khartoum.

WE CANNOT BLAME THEM FOR RISING

when no definite sign is shown of establish- ing a permanent governmenthere. Except by means of emissaries the Mahdi has no power outside of El Obeid, where he dis- trusts the people and also the Bedouins around. He isanonentity as to any ad- vance on Khartoum, but all-powerful through his emissaries when backed with the pronounced policy of abandonment without establishing a permanent govern- ment, Graham’s yictory is a glorious one, and if followed up by an adyance of about two squadrons to Berber would settle the question as to this place, for the people be- tween there and Khartoum would not think of rising, Zeber Pasha should be sent to succeed me. With these squadrons and Wood’s invincibles should advance a regiment, or it should go to Dongola, while 100 British troops might make a Nile trip to Wady Halfa, and stay there for two months, THIS WOULD SETTLE THE QUESTION,

for when the Nile rose, with the Berber black troops and those of Khartoum, which I would bring up, lL could deal with the rebels on the Blue Nile and open the road to Sennaar. Then I would take out the Cairo employes and Zebehr Pasha weuld put his own men there. I would evacuate the equatorial Bahr Gazelle Provinces, and hand over the troops to Zebeh¢ Pasha, who

would before the end of the year finish off the Mahdi. As for Zebehr Pasha’s blood-

feud with me, it is absurd, if a subsidy be granted him for three years dependent on my safety. As for Zebehr’s slave dealing offences, they are bad, but not worse than those of Ismael and other Turks, for the thief is ng worse than the receiver. Be sure of one thing. If her majesty’s government do not act promptly

GRAHAM'S VICTORY WILL Uo FOR NOUGHT, and with the useless expenditure of blood the effort of it willevaporate, I do not be- lieve we shall send any more telegrams, for it is no longer a question of days, but of hours, I am dead against the sending of any British expedition to reconquer ‘he Soudan. Itis unnecessary. 1 would not have a aingle life lost. It is my firm con- viction that none would be lost by the plan 1 propose, and our honor would be saved. 1 hke the people in rebellion as much as those who are not, and I thank God that, so far as | am concerned, no man has gone before his Maker prematurely through me.”

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We have just opened a large Sto ck of

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We have an immense stock of

GREY AND WHITE COTTONS,

Purchased when the Cotton market was at the lowest point of depression.

Fleecy Cottons, | Sheeting Cottens, Pillow Cottons,

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Ch’town, April 2, 1884.—dy wkly

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REWARD of five hundred dollars will

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JAMES McFARLANE, VERNON H KNIGHT, Trustees of Estate of late John Knight. Souris, March 28, 1884,

Executors’ Notice. V ,

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within twelve calendar months from date,

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