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We are informed by reliable authority that Public Works, Hon. W. D. Stewart, last evening made a

the Commissioner of

political speech in

taking advantage of a social concert, given

the Nermal School,

to the students, as an occasion to spread his

vanity, and make the students the mission-

aries to carry his fame to the country, as the great supporter of the so-calied Free Education Law. W- party making a political engine of the Edu-

Law

quarters in an educational

protest against any

cation and establishing their head- institution sup- ported by the country.

W. D. Stewart, on that nounced his visit to Clifton, where he|

**Prowning men

oceasion, an-

claimed a great victory. eatch at straws,” and, in our opinion, if W. D. Stewart believes he returned victorious from Clifton, he is sadly mistaken. The sufficient to explode small

facts of the case are his statements. The -meeting was and the roads and weather very unpropi- tious ; consequently only a few of Myr. Stewart’s warmest friends met, and, out of the bonu fide electors, the Opposition claim the majority. But numbers, swelled by boys who have no votes, will not afford much protection to our disciple of Stuart Mill. meetings and making political clap-trap of the Educstion Act shoald-not be rehearsed

At all events, the result of political

in such an institution as the Norma! School. We believe Mr. Stewart announced the

policy of the Gcvernment at Clifton, and came out strongly against Mr. Suilivan, and ridiculed the idea of his ever attaining the position of leader, ‘‘for,” said he, ‘‘as sura as he did, the Education Law, in its nen- sectarian aspect, would go to the wall.” Ii} ill-becomes Mr. Stewart to speak in such a way. In Davies’ extremity he has been bidding for Catholic support. Why, there- The reason is Stewart in

fore, raise a howl now? piain: to keep W. D. ollice— that is tie yreat secret.

He said at Clifton: ‘‘ We sha'l not wait We will New Year and cut down the saiaries of the officials at once.” The stupid feilow knows thatis bosh, for sal- Statute cannot be cut down without the action of the Legislature.

it is t time W. D. Setwart has been drawing On 218 imagination for the!

for the meeting of the House.

commence with the

aries regulated by

not the fir sake of yaining power and holding on to the} the country has the inan, and will de- No confidence can be

sweets of office; but

proper estimate of the

clade accordingiy.

arvy.

placed in such a servile p

We are authorized to state that so far as Mr. Sullivan is concerned, he is ready to announce his views on the School question, and that he will not interfere with the non-sectarian priuciple of the present law.

The country need not, therefore, have anj fears on the subject of education, and the present party need not expect to reap any beneiit whatever from the religious howl at present. It would be more to their credit to resign manfuliy than brave the thing out, against the well-understood wishes

o: the country at large.

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Parrick Lanpry, a St. John s2amen, com- mitted suicide on a recent passage from Lon- |

' Government’s

igraphy was also needed. At the present

> vert

Tha Registry Office Again. Ti Local Government are in the last agonies of dissolution, and in their agony they have grown desperate. So low have they sunk in the public estimation that it is difficult to find language accurately to describe their condition Abhorred by thei®

opponents, despised by their friends, they

have long since sunk beneath even the dig- | nity of contempt. By setting themselves |

in on vesition to the well-understood wishes

} s ’ = 4 ce Sean ee ie oO tne peopie, and naving reuncea Nlis-Qov- i ‘

ernment and corruption toa science, they haverendered themselves powerless for good; but, evil has increased in an inverse ratio. Lunatic Asylum glass swindle, if brought

home

toa private individual, would cause him to make some effort to flee the country if he desired to escape the penitentiary, but with our Government it is different,— be- cause they are safe from the penitentiary they are indifferent to the moral pillory, to which every honest man has consigned | them.

Their last act of high-handed injustice is one which they have, from their point of view, just reason to be proud. Mr. Mon- tacue Howatt has been dismissed from his office as Assistant Registrar of Deeds. It is not alleged he was ineflicient. No charge was breught home to him ; his only fault is that he is the son of Cornelins Howatt, Esq., who ran the Dominion election in the Conservative interest last summer, when the people of this Province made a noble and successful effort to rid themselves of This

was 22 offence which onr Goverument deems

Grit mismanagement and corruption.

to be acrime, and they have punished it accordingly.

The nomination they have made to fill Mr. Howatt’s place is entirely in keeping with the acts of the Government. Norman J. Campbell, who has for the last few years enjoyed a sinecure in the Registry Office and received $1,500 for copying a few pages in the new Index Books, stands high in the estimation. He slandered the Rev. S. G. Lawson, that endeared him to the Government; he was ever ready to abandon the small duties he was supposed to perform to exercise what trifling infiuence he could for Grit candidates at the Do- minion elections, but he had a higher claim than this for official advancement. A tale bearer and tattler of the meanest descrip- tion, he was ever ready to carry tales from the Registry Office to the Executive Coun-

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eceaaniaiiie from the House of Commons to ‘look into the matter, which committee sug- ‘gested that lines should be constructed as follows —

' Prince Edward Island.—1st hne—From Tignish to the lighthouse at the North Cape distance about 16 miles.

Ynd—A line from the nearest station the lighthouse of the East Point, distance about 15 miles.

| New Brunswiek—1st—A line from the ighthouse at Point Hscumenac, south side of entrance to Miramichi Bay, to the near- telegraph station, distanee about 20

to

) est ; miles.

®2nd—A line to connect the Miscou light- 6, south part of th» entrance to Baie les Chaleurs, to the nearest telegraph at

ci Shippigen, distance about 18 miles

hous

| Nova Seotia—Ilst—A line, submarine from Cow Bay, on the north side of Cape Breton, to eonnect with the lighthouse on the north- east end of Scatari Island, distance about 12 miles,

Ynd—aA line from same place to Louis- bourg, distance about 12 miles.

3rd—A line from Halifax te Cape Canso, to connect with the telegraph system of Nova Scotia all the lighthouses and all the seaports of that part of the eastern coast of Nova Scotia, which extends on a distance of about 140 miles.

4th—A line from Cape Sable Island, south-east extremity of Nova Scotia, to connect with the port of Barrington, dis- tance about 16 miles.

5th—A line from Digby to the lighthouse on Brier Island, south side of entrance of the Bay of Fundy, distance about 4! miles.

Besides these lines, a number were sug- gested for Quebec. While the lecturer was glad that a part of these recommendations had been carried out that a line was really in existence from Metapedia to Fox River and from Matane to Fox River, he contend- el that the sytem should be extended, claiming that a great many vessels that are now lost might thus be saved.

The advantage of this system of teic graphy to the fisheries, which wasa_ very importar 5 industry, and io the signal ser- vice was also pointed out. With regard to the ways and means, Dr. Fortin suggested that the interest of five millions and odd dollars which Canada had secured from the Americans might be appropriately used for the purposes of construction of the neces- sary telesraph lines.

At the close of his address, the speaker was presented with a vote of thanks, and he seems to have left a very favorable im- pression on the minds of the commercial men of Quebec. The Maritime Provinces are also largely interested in any movement that wouid tend to the safety of shipping and to the advantage of those engaged in the fisheries, as the system of telegraphy proposed would undoubtedly do. This being the case, if is quite probable that, as svon as they conveniently can, the Govern- ment will take steps in this direction, and, as the situation will warrant, gradually ex- tend the electric wires to all points whereby

cil Chamber. By sycophancy and toadyism | he basked in the smiles of the very in- { eflicierit head of the Registry Office, and | the meanness of his small and petty spite | only added zest to the details of the repre- |

isentations(?) he made against those who!

stood in the way of his advancement.

But his term of office will be short. The} Government is tottering to its fall, so com- | pletely is it sunk in political trespasses and sins, that its tenure of cflice may be count-

ed by hours, and we venture to affirm that/the first and only intelligence that thous-!

one of the first acts ot a Government which

really p»ssess the confidence of the people,

will be to dismiss this individual, and thus

cancel a very improper appointment, which

should never have been made.

A Telegraphic System for the Marine and Fisheries of Canada.

(From the Moncton Times.)

Hon. Dr. Fortin, M. P. for Gaspe, in re- sponse to an invitation extended him by the Quebee Board of Trade, delivered an interesting lecture ia that city on Tuesday afternoon, upon the system of telegraphy) with the Gulf and Islands of the St. Law-} rence, advocated by him. <A large number ; of influential gentlemen were present, in- cluding M. P. P’s, members of the Board of Trade, Foreign Consuls, etc. The Hon. lecturer laid his views before the meeting in a three-fold aspect, and proceeded firs: to speak of the contemplated system of tele- graphy from various mainland stations to lighthouses on the lower St. Lawrence as auxiliary to navigation, shipping and com- merce. Reference was made to the great progréss in the construction of light-houses etc., for the extension of commerce and for lessening the dangers of navigation,since Confederation, but the fact that many ac- cidents still happen in the River and Gulf, was taken as proof that a system of tele-

‘commercial and fishing inarine.

‘as they had been twelve hours before.

don. ‘The following notice was tound on his! time, without the system of telegraphy now trunk, addressed to the captain —‘ Please; being urged, it was stated that news of a put im some of the New York papers that wreck on the coast of Australia or Japan Prtrick Landy. of St. John, cut his throat on | vould be likely to reach the cities of Can- board your Sulp, because he was foreed to do! ada before that of one on the coast of Anti-

additional safety would be atiorded to our

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The $100,000 Robbery.

No CLUE TO THE THIEVES—WHEN THE CASH

BOX WAS LAST SEEN—WHAT THE CHIEF

OF POLICE SAYS—~LATEST PARTICULARS. (From the St. John Sun.)

The full and complete account of the

e eee for ten or twelve days before the less

was discovered; but all the information in their possession has been made known to the Chief of Police, who keeps his own counsel, and will not divulge the special line of action he has decided upon. When interrogated last night, the Chief was, to use the favorite expression of one of the M. P. P’s for Sunbury; very * reticent,” thongh hopeful that the mystery would soon be cleared up. Detectives Weather- head, Alexander and Briggs, taking the cue from their Chief, had little to say. In fact the full account of the robbery, as given in yesterday's Sim covered the ground iso thoroughly that the police found little lor nothing to add to it of interest to the public. Richard Walsh, the plumber, who was engaged in making some repairs for the firm in the private office on Wednesday, says that he did not see the cash box; in fact, he paid no attention to the vault or its contents, nor could he tell who visited the office while he was engaged at work. He noticed nothing unusual while he was there; in fact, like a good workman, he did not concern himself about what others were doing.

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The parents of the pupils and others inter- ested in the Institution are respectfully invited to attend.

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robbery of Messrs. Turnbull & Co’s safe, which appeared in yesterday’s ‘‘Sun,” was!

ands of our citizens had of the largest and boldest theft that has taken place in St. Jolin for years.

It SEEMED ALMOST INCREDIBLE

that a private oflice so situated, in the very heart of a large and busy warehouse thronged with clerks and customers, could be entered in broad daylight and over $100,000 in bonds and railway securities carried off without the thief leaving a single | trace behind that would lead to his epeeny | detection. Various theories were ofered to account for the theft, but no one seemed able to throw the slightest light on the affair; and last night the public were as much in the dark, so far as the actual per- petrators of the robbery were concerned, as The firm are still engaged in making out a list of the number of the various bonds, &c., stolen. So far as known the following were taken :—

New Brunswick Railway bonds, $46,000 Bank of New Brunswick stock, 2,100 Maritime Bank stock, 3,500 People’s Bank ‘‘ 30,000 Spring Hill Coal Mining stock, 22,000 Jogging e sed fs 3,000

Total, $106,600

After giving ihe subject careful consider- ation, neither Mr. Turnbull nor any of his employees are positive of having sedn the cash box since the 29th ult., at which time it was opened and some papers put in it.

In this connection, A. F. Randolph, Esq., President of the People’s Bank of Freder- icton, who deposited some money in the safe on Wednesday morning, says that the cash box was not there then; as he ob-

it, having given his soul to the devil. He wa: so troubled he could do nothing. If I aw in in such troubie, my body should not sulfier, | bat my soul which caused the trouble, because | it is ruined. ——— _—~o «- <> -e eo ——- ——

fax Amusrsr Mystery.—Mr. W. H. Rogers, in a letter to the ‘* Post,” makes some , statements of fact calculated to show that the| phenomena lately observed in connexion with | Miss Vox are electrical. Whena bed occupied : by Miss Cox was made a non-conductor, the phenomena did not appear. Even this ex-’ planation opens up a wide field of inquiry as to why these phenomena should occur in such a marked manuer in this particular case.

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J. E. Heacsy’s Dramatic Company con- t.aue to alacge busimess in St. Johns, Nfld. Charies J. fytle and P. Naouery, are in the company, and are spoken well of by the St. John’s press,

osti, inthe Gulf of St. Lawrence. The lecturer related an incident of a re- port being current, while he was engaged on a Government steamer in the Gulf, that he was dead, and his friends were unable to obtain any information from him for three weeks. It was almost impossible to estimate the amount of property lost for want-of such a telegraphic system as he ad- vocated, and it could only be judged from through statistics, showing that in the year 1844-5, the amount of property that passed through the Gulf, up and down, and along the shores of the Maritime Provinces, was

$336,348,556, and total number of men on

board all kinds of vessels passing through the Gulf and along the coast of the Mari- time Provinces was 204,975. The lecturer said that through the influence of Dr. Robi-

ltaille, M. P., he had been enabled to get a

served the compartment carefully and put

his money in a small drawer just above where the cash box was always placed. Mr. ht. isa keen observer, and uot given to speaking hastily. His positive declaration that the box was not in the safe at that time is strong eyidence that the robbery must have been committed prior to Wed- nesday afternoon, The ditticulty of tracing the robber or robbers is materially increased by the length of time that j has elapsed since the box was last handled by the firm; for if it had been missed a day or so after it was stolen, the clerks would most probably remember all strange visitors safficiently well to give a pretty ex- act description of their appearance to the

lice. Lt would be expecting an impossi-

ility to ask the firm or their clerks to re- member all the customers whe entered the

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