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TH E EXAMINER | THE WACLEOD CASE.

18 PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY FORINOON| = No stay, except one densely BY THE or consummately unscrupulous

Ryaminer Priatng x Haheaa Co. re to state that it is the duty of the

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‘olonial Secretary

norant

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oe ‘SUMMER RECREATIO POLICY. he London Standard, June 18.) We regret to find that the doubts which

‘ Att work and no play makes Jack a) we : not tO ago, respecting the loyalty of the Canadian

felt it our duty to express some weeks dull boy Though this proverb 1

| be found among those of wise King Solom- | (jovernment to the project of a trans-cons

| PNG@LISH OPINION OF MCKENZIE’S’ pot without significance for British states-

men. We do not mean to imply that even | any considerable section of Mr. Mackenzie's | Supporters are actuated by any desire to /weaken the ties which bind the Dominion tothe Mother Country. It may be that | the Government itself has conceived no

CORRESPONDENCE.

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COAL.

To the Editor of the Examiner.

Mr. Eviror.—Some years ago the Legis~ lature granted £1,000 to be given as @ res

man so placed may act, or be disposed to | pay out money entrusted to his care, yet silently, in the poor man’s breast, the re~ | luctance for obvious reasons remains.

When the money was voted for this service, and this man employed to sink a shaft, as Iam told he was, would it not) have been better to have placed it in Mr,

“CNBR OF comm

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,

EXCURSION

“to have the buoys OFFICE:

Corner Queen and King Streets.

TE RMS—Per Annum, $1.62, ff within the vear—#1.82, postage paid Bot paid within the year

CLUB RATES.

$2 it

paid |

New London or in any this Island. The intell- ordinarily educated indi

laid down’ in other harbor of of every vidual of the him that the Colonial Sectretary could

gence community would teach

| possibly have no more to do with the!

ion, it would neither

wisdom, disgraced his piety, or disagreed | ject which was the basis of the scheme Probably the men | (Canadian Confederation, the special price | of Israel, of his time, were of s more fes- | given for the adhesion of British Columbia,

lwith his views of life.

tive character than we, and did not need | and on the faith of which the {mperial Pars

| ‘ | should get

| their brows,” and be careful of their phil- | fied by the action recently taken by the ‘There

have diseredited his

“their bread by the sweat of | Canadian Loan

acteries and the hems of their garments, |

anvthing to remind them that though men | |jjament was induced to guarantee a new an) §

have been more than justi-

| : se : Brown-MeKenzie Administration.

is now every reason to believe that the des

> Pritish American Railway—a pro- , ' a of | that its chief motive is to separate itself

Tae Examiner will be forwarded to})..i0. down of buoys than His Honor Clubs at the following rates per year—-pay-| - ~ : r Y } H ment strictly in advance the Lieutenant Governor. et the ¢

& copies one address, @ 7.00 ald declares that to the neglect of Mr.

10 12.00 | Haviland is owing the wreck of Mac- 15 17.00 : Pr

2) 0.00 | Leods’ schooner, and the loss to the Pro

Clubs may be made up at any time, but | Vinee of $2,300. There can be no doubt

they needed recreation sometimes. ) sign attributed to Mr. McKenzie of “ whit» the Railway; and of He is a fool who does not determine te | using his influence rather to serve American

One of the duties of a man in this world Pacific

is to enlarge his capaeities of enjoyment. | ling away”

definite idea opposed to imperialism, and

from its rivals, and to do something which | shall injure the Macdonald policy. But it ‘is certain that the abandonment or even the postponement of the Pacific Railway scheme, will inflict a very serious blow on Canadian credit. It will make us doubt whether the Liberal party in Canada have any propér idea of preserving the integrity and the independence of the Dominion. So faras we can understand their policy, they are laboring to pull to pieces much of the work that was done in 1867—the work

ward to any one who would discover a work~ able seam of coal on this Island ; and subsequently a sum to procure a boring apparatus, which resulted in a report from Professor Dawson, Last winter the ques~ tion was again brought to the notice of the Legislature by Mr. Jokn Young, Mining Engineer, and through the spirited influ« ence of Dr. Jenkins, and others, $500 were granted to enable Mr. Young to test the

legitimate appropriation ; or, in the hands of some responsible man near the premises. I have it, on respectable authority, that Mr. Young, since he has been in Mimine- gash, has abstained trom tne use of spiritu. ous liquors; that he has labored like a slave, and interested himself to an extent, which, when taken into account, with the

Young’s hands, and taken security for its |

:

at ML

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: a co

YUE COMMITTER appointed to be

arrangements to receive the De from the Dominion Board of Trade United States National Board of Trade = to announce that they have arranged for et

‘Exeursio by Railway to SUMMersde

AND A

not for a shorter period than one vea

that the editor of the Herald is perfectly

well aware of the law by which all the harbors of the Island are placed under

ADVERTISEMENTS Until further notice, Advertisements will

inserted at the following rates :-

be

the care of Harbor Masters, who are 1 square, one insertion, 81.00 te lob Each Continuation, 00.25 | bound to see that buoys are properly ‘al a eee Be ee, 0-12! down. But it is just possible that he

ACCOUNTS RENDERED for subscriptions, Ist December, in each year; for standing advertisements etc.,Ist June, and Ist December, in each year; for transient advertisements—when ordered

did not know that Mr. John 8. McLeod entered into a contract—drawn up by Mr. Louis H. Davies, Solicitor General for the Haythorne-Laird Government, duly signed by himself and too sureties, and witnessed by the Harbor Master—to place the buoys of New London Harbor in their proper places for a term which had not expired when Captain McLeod's schooner was lost. Thisiaa fact. How, then, can the Colonial Secretary, or even the Government, be fairly blamed for

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Che Examiner,

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‘Master’ in charge of New London Harbor, and a contractor bound and paid to put buoys in their proper positions at the proper time ?

| The Herald's assertion that “the Mae- j

At noon on Saturday, Sir Robert Hodg-

sep was sworn in “ Lieutenant Governor

of Prince Edward Island.’ The ceremony

took place in the presence of Justices | _ os ' ¢| islature, offered to take one thousand

Peters and Hensley, several members © : : ' . Gous : j aa dollars in full for their claims, but the overnment, 0 rovernme i i 7 j Sas 8 We heart- | economical Government rejected the over- officials and private citizens. e heart- | : ily congratulate His Honor on his eleva- tion to this high office—the duties of

: . . _| fusing to acknowledge the justice or le- which he has performed so often and so using ¢ 8 J aatisfactorily.

gality of Mcleod’s claim—agreed to | place $1,000 in the Estimates as a par- FIRE. | tial indemnity for his heavy loss. This

|was done. But when the Estimates came by another | before the House of Assembly, a deter- great fire. [t broke out on the morning | mined opposition to the grant was offered of Tuesday last’ An area of fifty-seven | hy the leaders of the Opposition. Capt. seres has, we are told, been devastated, William Welsh, M. P. P..—a gentleman and one woman, three children, and three | who, jt may be suppesed, is familiar with firemen fell a sacrifice to the holocaust. | the rules and regulations which ought to The loss of property is not so great as | govern the conduct of mariners—declared might have beenexpected. The poorer| that McLeod's claim was preposterous ; portion only of the city was visited by| that it should not be recognized for a the flames. The damage is estimated at/ moment; that the captain of the lost four millions and a half dollar:

Leods, during the last session of the Leg-

a number

tures with disdain,” is false.

are these: The Government—while re-

THE SECOND CHICAGO

Caicaco has been visited

| schooner should, when he saw that the

negligence in this case when there was a |

The facts |

get the best out of the present time. To spend our days in toil and our nights in

anxiety. with the intention of making the ' euture free from care altogether, is a chi- | seinchen’ idea. Weariness and anxiety now, will bear the same noxious crop in all the and when their supposed tled, they will have built

} aie j years of life 1)

; necessity has

| themselves altars in the mind and through |

| habit subjected the faculties to a servile worship.

On the other side, again, no rational healthy natural eajoyment will fail to leave the mind more open to the kinder influs

who has been cons

| ences of life, and he aistently wise in the delight of living, will never behold nature in the sere and yellow eaf,

We put it to our readers, whether, like worthy Dogberry, they ought not to pray to written down ‘an ass,’ if they do not |} make shift so enjoy the summer in some | way. if more than half the people of Charlottetown are in the city on any fine day in these are committing a gross social sin. forsaken

be

|

beautiful months we

The house should be in such weather. its truth

condition of things, one would hardly think

and yet to go about and see the so. The places of business are filled with dank, sallow, unhappy looking people, who only go out for a few minutes each day—

|and that into the streets to get a breath

of fresh dust. the thoroughfares, looking as jaded, tired

The young laaies promenade

which had not taken root. to go slowly, miserably about. All appear to be merely tolerating life. Public Pics here—start solemnly off dressed in blac, with dolorous music to cheer them. Nota solitary soul in the community seems to be trying to make the best of this glorious July. ness such a serious matter, that we pity them as they ply their profession at the street corners. Here they stand against this or that tavern wall in the ful blaze of

Our very loafers make their busi-

the sun, both rich loafers and poor ones,

| buoys were not laid down, have ‘stood lout,” and not have attempted to enter | that the grant, if | '

a precedent to —

THE POOR HOUSE

, . i No Tue Keeper of our Poor House very New London harbor ; naturally objects to having that institu- passed, would be tion classed in the same dark category as every negligent captain and aggrieved the Lunatic We we assure him, the slightest intention of The Poor House is highly respectable—compared with the Lunatic Asylum; and Mr. Allen is,

a perfect Howard compared with Mr.

| shipowner might refer when pressing a |

never had, claim; and that

Asylum similarly ‘‘ preposterous so classing it | the Island would be ruined if such claims |

were recognized. This was Captain Wil- no doubt,

His political

| sonable enough it seems.

Gidley. Mr. Allen has, perhaps, done as | leader—Mr. Louis H. Davies—the great well a» he was able. We find no fault | legal light of the opposition—forcibly and with him. It is against the building— | Umhesitatingly declared it to be his opin— |

> i ¢ > elair ft sors > Lex | its utter unfitness for an asylum for poor, }ion that the claim of Messrs. McLeod i

old. maimed and blind men and women, | ¥23 not good in law—that it was ‘“‘sim- and the wretched system under which it| P!¥ monstrous. The Government—

is managed—that we protest. | holding similar, though, perhaps, not

BRITISH COLUMBIA.

| such extreme opinions,—and seeing that | Captain McLeod's own political friends were so determinedly opposed to the grant, withdrew it. An action at law was then commenced, which, a few days

By late Ottawa despatches, it is re- ported that just as Attorney General about embarking, he

Wakem was was

since, resulted unfavorably to the Gov- requested by Mr. MeKenzie to remain | sryment. These are the facts, —fairly little longer and negotiation | stated. Let the organs of the Opposition respecting the construction of the Canada | gainsay them if they can. Pacific Railway. Attorney General Wak-| Py. case is not yet, however, wholly em is the bearer to England of British ly

: : : f ost. The liability of the Govern- og § poetent. eqpinnt the policy © | ment to pay for vessels which are wrecked the

respecting |

oa ing /on the coast through the negligence of this Railway. 3ritish Columbians are, with good The

| Harbor Masters or Lighthouse Keepers, Government first broke faith with them,

continue

Government The

reasou,

Dominion

incensed.

| existence is

| has yet to be decided by the Judges of the and then soubbed them. The agreement

to commence the construction of the Pacific Railway, was not carried cut. Aa inderunity was offered. Proposals

Ao Envoy Extraordinary Pacific Province.’

were made. was despatched to the ‘ But somewhat curiously —and, as the Government of British Columbia thoucht, suspiciously—the Envoy could furwish no eredentials from the Dominion Cab- inet—on behalf of which he claimed to

act. On the 18th May, the Government

| Supreme Court. Andalthough the opin- | ions of Capt. William Welsh were not en- | tertained by the Petit Jury, it is not at | all improbable that the decision of the | Judges will coincide with the opinions of |the Attorney General, the Colonial Seec- | retagy, and the Leader of the Opposition.

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Fire.—The Quango, a new brigantine, at Lord’s Wharf, belonging to | H. & F. Douse, was, about one | o'clock on Wednesday night last, discovers | ed to be on fire. By the promptitude and highly commendabie exertions of our fire | brigade, she was saved from total destruc: |

| moored j Messrs.

come hither, € ne e nO eat rough weather Wi tl Qu * v t un | Seeking the fi 1 1 with wl t | Come hi ( Here s ) No winter or rough weather

gram to Ottawa, asking to be informed | tion. The loss, however, is estimated at | two thousand dollars—no insurance. The | fire, it is believed, was the work of an ins | cendiary, and the Messrs, Douse offer a | reward of $200 to any person or persons postponed | who will give information which will lead | On that day | to his apprehension and*conviction.

e telegra hed to the effeet that the TO- | -_-—— - . oP } Satispacrory.—In concluding an article

but since the Goy— |} : Bi :

is ig 3 on the Commerce of the Dominion during ernment of British Columbia had - LTE. the Tesente Mente: Times shee im more them, they | « We rise from an examination of the trade were then withdrawn, (n receipt of | returns for 1873, highly satisfied with the | this telegram, Atsorney Geuveral Wakem growth of our commerce which they ex. | hibit, and thoroughly convinced that it | was & most prosperous year. The fact that | the increase in our transactions was so general in all the countries with which we | deal, whilst all the classes of our exports |improved—some of them in a marked | manner — affords incontestable evidence “| that the Dominion was never in a more 41 | sound and healthy condition, or enjoying a up his mind | jarger share of prosperity. We fear the

whether or not the offers made by Mr. Edgar, (the so-called Envoy) were Lona Ade proposals of the Dominion Govern- ment. Mr. apswer till the Sth June.

of British Columbia despatched a tele- | | |

MeKeuzie his oe +

posals were bona fide

promptly considered

immediately set out for England with a formal protest. On his way he called at Ottawe ; and there, it appears, he remains for the present

Mr. McKenzie, it is evident, is not the Asa

indeed bg

“ right man in the right place.’ he is It took

contemporary remarks sorry hand at diy lomacy.’’ nearly a month to make whether he would aceredit Mr. Edgar; | year 1873-4, which closed on Tuesday, will and in the very did this, he withdrew empowered Mr. Edgar to make.

seme telegram that he | hardly be able to make so good an exhis

the offers he bit.’

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Can} (Canaptans at Wiweetpoy.—The shooting

| terest.

we wonder that the British Columbians | are protesting ” { ae ,-,4

Potirws iw Querec.—The Bien Publir eertsa that the ‘juebec (Ciovernment shortly dissolve the Loca! Legislature. and precipitate a general clection. In any event it must take p'ace next year following reasons for its opinion, namely, the success which its candidates have ob- tained in elections which have recently oc- curred. chances of success if the elections are over before amnesty is granted.

ae~

It gives the

avoid waiting till » nother session when they |

tay be forced to pass an electoral law, which would iniure them

lands. It alleges that it is on the tapis to bring out Mr. Coursol for either Mentreal East or Laval, cud mentions, on the other band, that many are_of the opinion that it

wil j

It believes they will have greater | They wish to} Further, they may not |

be obliged to accord an investigation with | reference to the administration of crown |

for the first stage of the Queen’s Prize at Wimbledon has been completed. Among

the perspiration rolling down their lugu brious countenances. What a pity some

| pious soul, some clerical body, with the |

energy of Peter the Hermit, preach a dailyexcdus from this stewing- pan of a city to the green fields. living is hardly tolerable, in the country, a delight. of

Gardens the

Hesperides are to be found within half an |

hour’s walk of the city; and a perfect

| liam Welsh’s line of argument,— and rea-! paradise is to be attained close at hand |

beneath the shade of innumerable copses. The sky, the fleeting clouds, distant pross

pects. and the nearer beauties of foliage |

This is all so palpable that every one sees |

' and burnt, as newly set cabbage plants Everyone seems |

nics—the only sort of amusement known |

would not

In town, |

| than British interests, is no mere party in- tention, but has been deliberately conceived | by the present Canadian Ministry. Had we 'no other proof of this it would be enough to quote the announcement lately made in | our money article that the Canadian Governs | ment desires to raise 2 new loan to the ex- tent of £4,000,000, no portion of which is to This can | only mean that the proceeds are to be des voted to some public works other than the Pacific

carry the Imperial guarantee.

has been either the magnificent

Railway, which postponed or abandoned, scheme of uniting the two seas by a line of railway through British territory, which we had all supposed to have received the sanction of the Canadian Legislators and people, and to be on the eve of execution, has been relegated, under various pretexts, to adistant and uncertain future by the sos called Liberal Government which now sways And, look - McKenzie cabinet, we are not surprised to find that the assertions made by the late Govern: ; ment and its friends during the heat of the

the destinies of the Dominion.

ing at the constitution of the

which was given us at least the foundations of a great united British State on American They seem to prefer buying the sup- port of their political adherents in the older Provinces by expending the public money on local public works, instead of spending any part of it on a scheme which promises no immediate political return. It remains to be seen how the Canadian people at large, and especially the outlying provinces, will view this diversion of their revenues, Under the pretence of a deficit they have had lately an increase of taxation 20 that they have not even had the solace of securing economy, while they are de- prived of the Pacitic Railway. To the pros vinces immediately affected, especially to British Columbia, the new policy must be almost a challenge to secession. It is hard to see what possible benetit they are to derive from their connection with Cans ada if the first and most essential condition of their contract is violated. As for the Imperial Government, it may perhaps be inclined to bear patiently tbe infraction of

soil.

| bitter contests which ended in the triumph j ofthe Crown McKenzie Party, are begin- | | ning to be beleived by many who supported | that party during the election. With the | exception of the Premier himself and of | | Mr. Brown, his most influential colleague, who accepted more or less cordially the |

scheme of Confederation, it is now remem.

| bered that the individual members of the | | Government have been distinguished, if at | all, for their hostility to that great measure, | for prosAmerican sympathies their anti-British proclivities.

their and | Looking | over the names of the McKenzie Cabinet,

| we discover only two or three whose public records bear testimony to their loyalty to | the idea of a united British America. The | | Minister of Justice and other prominent |

Ministers are chiefly known for the energetic Opposition they offered to the Imperial

policy of 1867.

The gentleman selected by | | the Government to preside over the delib. TT of the House of Commons was |

not only a fierce opponent of Confederation, } but an avowed sympathizer with Fenianism | both the United States. With these facts in their mind it is no won-

in [reland and der that the loyal Canadian people are dis. | posed to credit what has been alleged of the j intentions of the Government, especially considering how feebly and with what small success the charges of disloyalty to the Con- federation have been met by Mr. MeKenzie |

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and his colles

agzues.

How important is this question, as bear- ing upon the whole future of the Dominion, | we may perceive by recalling the history of | the project to connect the existing Cana-

Pa ' | County, New Jersey.

| COWS |

a pledge which will release us from the obligations contracted under the Guarantee Act. Itis the people of Canada themselves whom it chiefly concerns, to ponder well the action of their Government. If they

| would not tolerate Sir John Macdonald, in

valuable services, because he accepted pecuniary contributions from a political adherent who subsequently became a government con- tractor, will they look with more favor on

spite of his great abilities and

Mr. Mackenzie, who reverses the national policy, and attempts to appease those whom he supposes to be injured by the reversal with such bribes as are now offered to British Columbia, Manitoba and Quebec, to forego the execution of the scheme of the Pacific Railway ?

EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON,

MAILSTONES THE SIZR OF ORANGE®,

One of the most extraordinary phenom- ena ever witnessed in this country took place on the fourth of July in Bergen About a quarter of

| six, p m., in the village of Westwood, dur-

ing the celebration of the day, a sudden darkness came over the village, and bes fore the could seek shelter, a violent storm of hailstones des

alarmed inhabitants

}scended upon the heads of the crowd

Hailstones two inches and a half in dias meter, and as hard and heavy as cobble came in a furious shower. Hens and chickens were killed in large numbers, stunned. The

stones,

and horses were

| frightened populace ran in every direction,

and of banks, the music of the birds will dian railways with a district line to British | Seeking shelter in sheds, beneath trees d of banks, the music e birds w on : i

ns cea i Columbia. The Canadian Pacific Railway and every available spot. Fortunately the pour gladness into the soul if one will only ; ; : ee ith a : be |} assiv Or, if more social recreation: {was not the accidental, but the essential | majority escaped without injury. A young 8 passive, yr 3 ore social recre% Ss} are coveted. in the name of all that i } complement of the scheme of British Amer lady, named Miss Bogart, was, however, reasonable aint a picnic will satisfy ik jican Union. On no other consideration | Struck on the hand by one of the hail-

ee oes “ ~~“? | would the Imperial Parliament have con- | stone, and her wrist and arm frightfull

the delights of which we will not begin to pe E ae ee , . y

speak of lest there should be noend. Or, do you know the satisfaction to be found in a sail or a row in the harbor? are still ‘‘in the blackness of darkness. We have not begun to cultivate our social faculties. Here, every excursion to the country is made a matter of thoughtful profound consideration, of baking, of stews ing, of dressing, a ‘state, a stiff solemnity.’ Why can’t we, like sensible people, be con- tent toact on the fact that, ifa small ora great number of persons go out of town to enjoy themseives, they wil/ do so. Oh! for the Greek invocation of Jaques, to call

If not, you

fools into a circle. pleasant and shady tree in the Royalty be surrounded with a ring of happy people who should join to sing Amien’s wise old stave—(slightly altered)

Under the green woo

a

Svereme Court.—Trinity Term in Chars lottetown, c osed on Saturday. Nathan Davies & Son, rs. Insurance Company, of this city, resulted ina verdict for Plaintiff— $4,000, with in- In the suit, John A. McLeod rs, The Government of Price Edward Island, the Jury rendered a verdict for Plaintiff, assessing damages at $2,273—A_ point of law yet to be argued. The convicted crim- inals were sentenced as follows :—George Swan, larceny, two months’ imprisonment

The suit,

with hard labor; Thomas Noonan, stabbing w.th intent to disable, twelve months’ im- prisonment with hard labor. opened at Georgetown tosmorrow. LEE, RT ew

The Honolulo Gazette calls attention to the fact of several members of the National Assembly having been seen in public, help- lessly drunk.

Joseph Arch, speaking at a Mass meet- ing in Sheffield, a fortnight ago, says that in a few days he intended taking four ship loads of the best laborers from the New

been offered free passage. A settlement has been arrived at between

of Formosa. China pays the expense of the | expedition and guarantees the safety of | foreigners, and Japan accepts the arranges | ment and retires.

Tue Crisis or Tak WosLp.—Mr Disraeli has

the first sixty who are qualified to partici- in the 2nd stage are the following mem-~ bers of the Canadian Team ; man, 60th Battalion, Que. Private T. | Mitchell, 13th Battalion, Ont. ; Capt. J. P. Macpherson, Governor General's Foot Guards, Ont.; Colour-Sergeant Baillie, 47th Battalion, Ont.; Major Gibson, 13th Bat. talion, Ont.; and—Hancock. All of the above are entitled to a prize of £12 and to wear the National Rifle Association’s Badge. | Sergeant Vail was the only Canadian who In the | contest for the Alexandra Prize the follow~ ing have been returned winners; Captain Layton, 7th Battalion, N.S.; Captain Mac~ | pherson ;Lieut. MacNaughton, Coburg Ar- | till@y, Ont, ; Private Disher, 19th Battalion, Ont.; and Capt. Morgan, Sth Battalion Que. Canada has reason to be proud of so suc, cessful a commencement of the great rifle

| got into the second stage last year.

|

Lieut. Whit; |

taken a place among men which entitles

him to be credited with some insight und |

some foresight, and he tells us that the cri sis of the world is nearer than some men think. There looms up before him, asa thinker, dealing with great rather little is,

nacles, is yet beneath the horizon. It is undoubted. however,that in the consciences of most men, and particularly of most stu~ dents of prophecy, there is the expectation of a somewhat near approach of that grea

shock of nations or of systems, or of spititual things,called figuratively the Battle of Armageddon. It takes but a glance at | the history of the last few years to see that

ples which shows no signs of early quiesc- ence. The national idea supersedes the old system of Divine Right. ‘The national

whch, seizing simultaneously upon the pe.ople of all nations, show their first inhee rent sputterings in what is called Internas tionalism. Meantime the political powers

Then should every |

sented to pledge Imperial credit for its con. struction. The indetinite postponement of | this work by the present Government, in

| favor of the limited and partial construction | proposed, can oaly be regarded as a gross faith towards the people of British Columbia primarily and directly, and toward the Empire generally. The branch line from Fort Garry to Pembina, passing

| breach of

| | i as it will, outside the line of Lake Superior, on Canadian Soil, as proposed by the late | Government, is a mere extension of the ; American railway system in the Province of | °

Manitoba, and cannot be regarded as even

a part execution of the national work con- templated in the Imperial Guarantee Act.

| So far from its being an adjunct of the great- | | er scheme, it is a rival and enemy toib, the

the size of walnuts.

lacerated. At the Ridgewood House, in the village, an enormous amount of dams age wasdone. Not a single pane of glass was left whole in the building, and incre~ dible as it may appear, the hailstones ac, tually broke through the slate roof as if they had been cannon balls. The storm covered an area of about twenty-five miles, stretching from Spring Valley to Kinder Kamack. The storm prevailed at its ut- most at the stations of Pascack and Ridge~ wood, which are on the Hackensack branch of the Erie Railroad, and the depots were completely riddled, as though a battle had been fought in the neighborhood As late as six o’clock yesterday morning, hailstones were picked up at the station Through the section

"| jury of the existing Canadian lines, and to Witnessed. t's | the more serious damage of British Ameri |

‘© | the Ottawa River, be regarded as link or

the execution of which can only benefit the | Of the country where the storm raged, @ American railway owners to tin direct in- | most perfect scene of desolation can be Every tree is stripped of its fruit, grain fields of rye and corn laid low, Nor can the local line Mr. \ and the hope of hay this fall is utterly McKenzie proposes to construct in Ontario | 899 The sensation created in the vicinity was, we might imagine, tremendous. In one sewing machine factory, just above The Grand | Ridgewood, over 1,000 panes of glass were Trunk and other existing lines already cars broken, and the slate roof damaged. The ry passengers and goods from the Gulf of shower continued for thirty minutes, and

can interests. | from some point on Georgian Bay towards

| section of the Pacific railway.

the Mutual Fire |

Court will be

Pg : : Market district to Canada,to which they had |

China and Japan with regard to the Island |

sues, that coming storm among the nations | which, to those who sit on less axalted pin- |

a ferment has commenced among the peos |

idea itself gives way to forms of thought |

| $t- Lawrence to Georgian Bay by an easier, | more desirable, and we believe a shorter | route. This line, which is to be undertaken | as a publie work, will cost a large sum of the public money, but will not serve any national | | object, or fiulfil any part of the actual con. | | tract with British Columbia in the treaty of union, nor of the implied contract with the | British Parliament it passed the Guarantee Act. It appears to be simply a party expedient adopted by the McKenzie Government under a parliamentary pres-~

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sure of some kind, as a bribe to some of the discontented Provinces, the only effect of which will be to injure existing railways by , taking from them a portion of the traffic they can so ill afford to spare, and to increase | the prejudice of English capitalists against all Canadian railway projects. Yet these two bits of railway, onein Manitoba and the other in Ontario, neither of which forms any part of the original Pacific line, are offered by the present Canadian Government as the only substitute for the great national | scheme of their predecessors. It is true that the surveys in British Columbia, and | of the waters of the inland lakes and rivers are to be continued ; but it can scarcely be wondered at that the public, even that por tion of them who support the general “Liberal” policy of the McKenzie Govern. | ment, are not disposed to regard this con- cession as any contribution to the national work of completing the communication bes | ween the Atlantic and the Pacific,

Without being influenced in any way by the spirt of Canadian party—having no other concern or interest in the matter be» | yond an Imperial one’ we cannot but ex. | press our deep regret at the reactionary

policy of the present (fovernment, as cal- culated very seriously to loosen the scarce- | ly-formed bonds of Canadian unity, and to | injure the Dominion in its relations to the Empire. From men who profess to be actuated by the spirit of ‘ reform and pros gress,”’ something better might have been looked for than the abandonment of the grand prospect of a railway on British soil uniting all the Provinces in one solid State, joining east and west by a road practicable /in summer and winter, and opening up for settlement the fertile plains and valleys of

would be perferable to obtain Mr.Coursol’s | a

election for the commons to the end that | rs ee

he might become the leader of the Quebec Ma, Doxcan McGotvan has been appoint- Conservatives. , ed Harbor Master at the port of Malpeque.

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seem disolving into each other and massing themselves under two or three great heads so diverse in nature as to make it a) als most necessary that triale of strength should ensue between them,

| the Nortii Western Territory. The sym- | pathy disclosed in this policy between Cans adian Liberalism and an antisBritish feels

_ ing is an unpleasant one to note ; and it is

in this short space of time damage to the amount of many thousand dollars was done. +The hailstones, on an average, were the size of turkey eggs, and of every cons ceivable shape, with sharp corners and edges that cut like knives. During the continuation of the shower the thunder and lightning was incessant, and with the scream ng of men, women and children, and the shrieks of affrighted cattle, the scene was one truly awful.—V. V. Herald, July 6.

Dominion Day in Ottawa. — Dominion day was celebrated with the usual display of loyalty and enthusiasm yesterday by the people of Ottawa, Business was suspended, and hundreds of persons took advantage of the cheap fares on the steamers and rail- ways to make excursions into different parts of the country. In the city there were at~ tractions for those who wished to remain and for strangers who came to see the capi- tal.— Oltu«ea Citizen.

The last number of the Toronto Nation, in the course of some remarks upon Colonial Agents in England, indicates the inconsist~ ency of Mr. Jenkins’ recent proceedings. “Mr. Jenkins,” says the Nation, “is besides being agent for Canada, a member of the House of Commons ; and he sometimes so obliterates the line dividing the two funct- ids that the most attentive observer can - not be certain whether he is acting in the one or the other capacity. He recently moved, in the House, that reserved acts be sent to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and arguments heard for and against the excersise of the veto. If the constitutional procedure is to be altered, it is only reasonable that Canada should be heard ; amt she cannot be heard by a motion in Parliamaemt, for there he was a represent ative of Dundee, not in Canada. In mak- | ing sucha motion, he should be distinctly given it to be understood that he does not speak tor Canada. If Canada desired the change, her Parliament would address the Crown in favor ofit. There is no communi- cation in the Colonial office to show that the | proposed change would be agreeable to this country ; and we have a strong conviction that it would not. Even the Government seems to have been confused by the position of Mr Jenkins ; Mr. Lowther observing “ it might be inferred that he représented the Dominion of Canada that evening.” Sweh facts as this, and they are constantly erop- ping out, show the necessity of defining and circumscribing Mr. Jenkins’ sphere of duties by specific instructions of the most binding import.