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A correspoa icnt at 1" s De ‘ it has supple . .
ing particuiars :—London, Eugland, ts the vreatest citv the world ever saw. It is the heart of the British Empire and
the world It covers within the fifteen
miles radius of Charing Cross (Strand) +00 square miles It numbers within there b mioderires D.000,Q000 of inhabi tants It comprises over ? 000,000 foreigners fromevery quarter of the lobe It contains ‘more Roman Cathe lies than Rome itself ; more Jews tiinna Palestine more lrish than Da more Scotehmen than Flic bureh: more Welsbmen than Cardill; more country raised persons than the countries of Devon, Warwickshire and
Durham combined. Ithasa birth in every five minutes, it has a death in} every eight minutes, has seven accidents
1 its 8.000 miles of has on au average 40 miics of streets ypened and 15,000 new houses built in ‘ry year. In 1883 there were add
ed 22,110 new houses to the vast aggre- |
streets,
every day i
rate of dwellings which is called the
5 . forming
MeLropo is, thus “OS new streets and ove square, covering a sixty-six miles It is difficult to form figures. | Be vinton (the queen of wutering places) | in 188] had 20.379 inhabited houses, co |
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meotal picture from these
*) ,? . | hat London in 1883 added to itself a, towa bigger than Brighton. It would}
require two Cam bridges, or Oxtords, 01
Baths, to represent the additions made in London ina single year London has | 15,000 annually added (by birth) to its} population ; has over 1,000 ships and 10,000 sailors in its port every day
has as many bheer-sbops and gin-palaces t placed side by side, stretch . . ¥ . from Charing Cross to Portsmouth, a distance of seventy-eight miles ; has 35, 000 drankards annually brought before its magistrates ; has miles of open shops every Sabbath ; bas ,an in-|
fluence with all parts of the world,
as wouid,.
seventy
presenteu bya vearl p ystal districts of 288,000,000 of letters. SoU trains pass Clapham Junction every d tv, uod the Ti usD lation (under- ground) railroad runs 1,211 trains every day. The London Omnibus Co. have over 700 busses, which carry 56, 000,000) passeng annually. It is | more dangerous to walk the streets of London than to travel by railroad, o1
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cross the Atlantic year 150 persons
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last were killed and 2,600 injured by vehicles in the al There London 15,000 police, 15,000 cabmen, 15,000 persons connected with the post-oitice. ‘The cost of gas for lighting London an- nusily is $3,000,000. London has 400 daily and weekly newspapers. Last year there were nearly 600 fires. The ancieut aud famous city of Loodon was first founded by Bute, the Trojan, in the year of the world 2,832,so0 that since the first building it is 3,006 years. The drainage system of London is superb, '
to Liverpool ; i
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Fresh, at Beer & Gol!’s.
and the death late very low — The Cost of Lig Streets. A statement of the relative cost of illuminating the streets with the electric
licht ond fas Was placed before the
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In the same way as regards his friends, and especially his lady friends, Mrs. Cilatstone never thwarts his tastes, and perhaps one of the reasons of the nglish premier’s sempiternal freshness is that he can disport himself in what social pastures he will without domes- tic fear or reproach.
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Special Notices,
Fietcher’s Music
mayll
New Watrzrs, otec,, at Stor
Go to John Newson's uew building for all kinds of bonse furnishing goods, upholstering, frames. for your apriog fixings. Done promptly and well. Five Cases Hats opening ab D, A. Bruce's
oplo —tl.
New Stock of Ladies , Misees and children’s Bo ots, Shoes and Slippers, now open at J. B. Macdonald's Boot Store, ma 13
Srupy your interest and buy your hats at D
may 2, wkly are now opening their Silk, Felt and Fu
{ap 25
Guo. Davigss & Co, spring stock of Men's Hats
L.. E. Prowse sells the cheapest hats.
may Li Custom boote, Dorsey Gott
tap 27
Come and be fitted at once. just receiy ed at X Los,
Prowse’s.
may ll
est and cheapest hats at L EK
Kkverxy part of a gun ora sewing machine
jmide at Browns, or any kind of fiae ma-
‘hinery that is composed of steel, irou, brass, copper, gold or silver, At the Atheneum.
[ap 'S wky tf
Cur nicest assortment of children’s Straw
Hats will be found at J, B. Macdonald's
ma 13
Rev» CurkRANT JELLY, 25 cents per pound at
© Gols. [ap 9
Bruce's is the best place to buy your hats
may 2, wkly
Biscuits, ap27
Cuxistre, Brow & Co.’s Soda New Hats ! just arrived at L, (ap 24
New pboors and shoes opening at Dorsey, Golf & Co's {ap27
New Harts ! E. Prowse 3.
ly you have apiece of tine machinery to mead that you know cannot be mended in
}any other shop on P. E, Island, just carry it
to Brown and ask him when he can have it
ree | done, for he can make any piece of machin- y delivery in itsjery that ever was made by the hands of } man,
Brown on the Atheneum corner. {Aprl 18 wkly tf Fresa Orances, Lemons and Mvple Sugar at Beer & Goff s, (ap 24 Oxiy about seventy barrels apples left,
|} Send in your orders iu time. —Becr & GOFF
[ap 20
Rubsers, —Just arrived per str, Priucess of Wales, twelve cases rabbers at Dorsey, Goff, (‘eo Apr) 24
Starr io LE. Prowse’s and buy a good
Hat cheap. (ap 25
Wa. Brows, Gold and Silver Plater, oi
| such as spoons, forks, cruet stands, tea setts,
watches, and jewelry of every description Shop oa coraer of Prince aad Grafton Stre>ts, Charlottetown. [ap 18 wky tf
‘Tus greatest show of New Hats in the city is at L. E. Prowse’s. (ap 25
Boots! Boots!! Boots!!!—The g: eatest bargains this spring will be given at Dorsey, Goll & Co's. {ap27
Direct Steam Communication Between Charlottetown and London.
The first-class Lrou Steamship
‘CLIFTON’
New York board of Aldérmen last week | 2,500 Tons Gross Register. is intended to
by Secretary 8. McCormick, of the gas commission. At present there are in use 647 electric lighta, costing the city $165,308 per annum, or $255.50 each. Resolutions passed the Board of Aldes men (o provide for the introduction of 2.093 more, the cost of which would be The light now in use dis- placed 3,016 gas lamps, which cost the city $52,780, or $112,528.50 less than is now paid for the electric lights. The lights which the Beard of Aldermen have asked for would displace 5,345
$534,761.50.
gas lamps, the cost per annum of which would be $93,537.50 or $441,224 less than would have to be paid for the
electric lights. ‘The total excess of the cost of the eleetric lights DOW in Use and asked for over gas lamps for the same area would, therefore, be $553,- 752.50 per annum,
Mr. MeCormick advises against the removal of the gas lamps in districts now illuminated by electric light,as the city may Somecime be forced to fall back on gas. “I have not,” says the eceretary, ‘discovered any advantage the electrie light possesses that cannot be obtained from gas lamps except the lostantaneous lighting.’’—Flectriec Jour-
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Mrs. and Mr. Gladstone.
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{From “Society in London.”}
Mrs. Gladstone has exhibited a not inferior dexterity in her management olf Mr. Gladsione himself She under stands precisely just how to humor him, and how to diet lim, what friends to what to ward off and what social eccentricities are permissible to him, and even a safety valve for his overflowing spirits and snperabundant vig
4 ucourage,
careful eater, and has publicly announ ed that every morsel of animal food which he puts ia bis mouth requires, tor the purpose of digestion, 33 —or is it 3$lt—distinct bites. Mr. Gladstone, therefore, takes care that he iways eat slowly. economy enables him to be indifferent to the quality of the wine hock or champagoe which he may sip at dinner. ile takes very little of it, but he enjoys a couple of glasses of good poit after ward; and Mra, Gladstone takes
that the good port is never wantieg
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should/three months Again his internal | ‘‘Olympia,” or “*Ulunda,”
LUNDON immediately for CHARLOLLETOWN via LARRO\W Returning will sail from CHARLUTTE- TOWN FOR LONDON about the 25th of May, and will make regular trips during the season of navigetion between
Loudon *’ Liverpool and Miramichi, callirg at CHARLOTTETOWN both ways, Lias first-class Passenger Accommodation.
Will carry Cattle and other Live Stock, Cats. Lobsters and other goods at moderate rates Ikrough Bills Ladings issued to ail pointson P. E. I. Railway; also to Pictou Point du (hene, Moneten, Newcastle and other North Shore Ports.
Parties desiring to ship Live Stock will re- quire to secure space at an early date,
For Freight or Pessege and other informa- tion apply in London to STEWART BROS,, 3 Fen Court, Fenchurch Street, or here to
FLNTON T. NEWBERY,
Ag ent.
leave
Ch'town, April 27, 1885.
Halifax Steai Navigation Uo,
{TEAMERS sailing between Baltimore and “ Halifax to Havre, calling at Swansea on the outward passage
Cheap excursions to England and [’rance.
BALTIMORE TO HALIFAX.
s. S. “OLYMPIA” will sail from Balti- more for Halfax about 6'h May. Saloon pas- sage, including provisions, $20; Return, $30 ; Steerage, single fare without provisions, 56.
HALIFAX TO HAVRE. 8S. S. “OLYMPHIA” will sail from Helifax to*Havre direct about Saturday, 9th May. Fares—First-clasz (single) to Havre, $40. Return, $60. To Paris or London, $50; Ke- turn, $70.
HAVRE AND SWANSEA TO HALIFAX.
The new first-class S. S. ‘‘DAMARA” will sail from Havre on Saturday, 2nd May, from Swansea ‘J uesday, 5th May, for Halifax.
Will be followed by monthly sailings to and froin all the » bove-named Ports.
Through Bills Ladings iseued to Havre, London, Paris, and other places.
Retarn tickets availabie to return within per steamers ‘*Damara,”
For freight and further particulars apply to Ewite Ticgurr, Havre; Buroress & Co.,
care |
Swarsea; ADAMSON & RoNALDSoN, London ;
id. R, Fearp & Co., Baltimore; JosEePH Woep, Llalifax ; or here to FENTON T, NEWBERY,
Agent.
April 28, 1885
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MORTGAGE SALE,
TO be Sold by Public Ancti
Courts Building, in Obarletegeel Queen’s County, Prince kdwarq tn on WEDNESDAY, the twentiet), : MAY next, at the hour of twely on ct
noch,— “or LL that tract, piece o; cel A situate, lying and being ie ~
the Common of Charlottetown abou, in County, and bounded and described 7 lows ;—Commencing at a post in heal ful. west corner of a piece of land how o7 formerly in the occupation of Major ae thence running northerly ti) eee, Brighton Back Road or tor the dan two hundred and fifty-five feet thennt a of lowiug along the south side of said fol. westwardly for the distance of tro hy and forty-five feet or until it North or York River, thence River southwardly until it ronal = in possession of F W., Hyndman, the? eatwardly along said Hy nman’s ‘laud the place of commencement, together on all improvements thereon,
The above sale will be made by virtue of a Power of Sale, contend ie judenture of Mortgage, bearing date > third day of September, A. D., 1877 ard taade between Frederick W. Hyndman, af Charlottetown, aforesaid, and Eliza his wit of the one p*rl, aud George Davie: ef the same place, of the other part, which taig mortgage was assigned to the unde by indenture beering date the second day of December, A, D., )8X2
For further particulars apply to Macleod, Morson and Macquarie, Sue Charlottetown,
Datea at Georgetown, this sixth day of April, A. D., 1885.
WILLIAM SANDERS ¥,
Assignee of M April 6—6wks 2Qaw mon&th “ore
Apples. Apples.
300 Barrels— WHOLESALE & RETAII, at
BEER & GOPEs,
MOKTGACE SALE
10 be Sold by Public Auction, st the Court House, in Charlottetown, on Wednes. day, the third cay of June, A, D., 1885 at the hour of tweve o’glock, noon,— LL that tract, piece and paxcel of land,
situate, lying and being in Tov uship number sixty-one, in King’s County, in
Prince Edward Island, boundid and deg
cribed os follows; that is to say; By a line
commencing at a stake fixed in the couth side ot the Styrgeon Road, and in the north. west angle of farm Lot number 70, now or formerly in the ;ossession of John Steele, and punning thence Ly the megnetic mej. dian of the year |1764, south fifty-six Chains and sixty links, or to the rear line of fe
fronting on ihe north side of the Saint
Mary’s Road, thence along the said rear tine
west cight chains and eighty-one Tigh
thence north to Sturgeon Road atoregaid, an thence along the seme east to the place of commencement, containing by estimation, fifty acres cf land, a |jitle more or less,
The above sale is made in pursuange of ® power of sale, contained in a mortgnge, dated the fifteenth day of November, A BD, 1881, made between Duviel Durcan and ; Sarah Dunca” his wife, of the one part, ang ' Henry Coombs of the other part, whith mort. gage has been duly essignid to the unde. signed,
For turther particulars apply to Mr EA. waid J. Hodgson, Sol'citor, Water Street, Charlottetown.
Dated thie ‘I'wentieih day cf April, A.D,
1885. .
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