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XNAMINER.

THe Dairy is Published every Evening, OFFICE:

INGS’ BULLDING, CORNER OF WATER AND GREAT GEORGE STREETS, Charlottetown, P. E. I.

Kaves or SUBSCRIPTION -

Six Months, $2 50 Three Mouths, . . 1 25 fmme Month, 0 50

me Week

as Advertising at wost moderate rates. Contracts may be made for month!y, quar- erly, or half-ycarly advertisements, on appli- cation. W. L. COTTON, M anager.

No. 39 Water St.,

Charlottetown.

Prince Hdward Island Branch

OF THK—

NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE FIR& AND LIFE.

| J. W. MITCHELL, Office Sup’t

INSURANCE CO.

$9,733,332. 1,216,666.00

Subseribed Capital, Paid up Capital, -

CHIEF Ot FiCES—KEdinburgh, 64 Princess Street ; London, 61 Threadneedle Street.

Nine-Tenths of the Profits of the Life Assur- ance Business are divided every Five Years. Phe Tables of Rates are moderate.

Fire Insurances effected on nearly every @escription of Property, at the LowESr RATES of Premium. corresponding to the nature of the risk. a

Losxes settled with promptitude and liber-

ality. G. W. DERLOIs,

BRITISH AMERICA Assurance Company. FIRE AND MARINE.

Cash Capital & Assels . $1176.48

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INCORPORATED 1833.

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Head Office, - Toronto, Ont.

Risks taken on all descriptions of Property at lowest rates.

PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF LOSSES. HORACE HASZARD, Agent.

. Office, South Side Queen Square. July 10, 1879.

MACLEAN & MARTIN,

ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Newson’s Building, Opp. Post Office,

Churlottetown, P. E. 1. A, A. MeLEAN, D. C. MARTIN. ;

June 18, 1879. —ex2aw

FURTHER REDUCTION

IN PRICE OF

Albion Mines (Pictou, N. 8.) SLACK COAL.

LACK ani ROUND COAL can now be } obtained at the above mentioned Mines.

slack Coal, only $1.30 per tem; Round Coal, $2.00,

For orders, apply to

: G. W. DeBLOIS, Sole Agent for P. E. Island.

Orrice: No. 35 Water street.

Ch’town, June 23, 1879—patsj kca h sp2m

ANTHRAGITE GOAL.

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W ARRIVE in of the best Lehigh, Chestnut and Coal. Parties wanting to be ‘supplied

will please send in their orders at once, a8 the first in will bu first supplied. ‘There will be no two prices. Orders left at the Post Office or at the subscriber's will be attended to. THOMAS CASELEY. Oct. 1, 1879 —w stf Canasta pe a? ae

NOTICE.

N and aiter MONDAY, the 30th Sep- tember, I intend adopting the strictly

CASH SYSTEM

ta my business.

ALBERT SIMPSON,

3 CHA RLOTTETOWN,

Lx AMINER

a few days, 150 tons

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FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL CONCERNED.

| FENUHE Subscriber would intimate to ALL PERSONS indebted to him by Note of Hand, Book Account or ortherwise, that their accounts are now ready, and a full and punctual j settlement is expected, in accordance with the terms of credit. HENRY BEER. ' j

Southport, October 17, 1879.—6ins

BRITISH WAREHOUSE.

As W. & A. BROWN are about making a change in their

Firm, they are now selling their Large Stock of

FALL & WINTER GOODS,

At prices that defy competition.

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New Cloths, New Tweeds, New Dress Goods, New Clouds, New Velveteens,

New Manties, New Frillings. New Ulsters, New Cottons, New Flannels.

And a large line of Woollen Goods, of every description, all

of which they intend to close out within the next five months This is a bona fide sale. Come one, come all, and see for your

selves. W. & A. BROWN.

Charlottetown, October 8, 1879.

New Fall Goods.

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For NEW. DRESS GOODS, very Cheap, ~ goto J. B. MacDONALD’S NEW MANTLES go to J. B. MacDONALD’S NEW WINCEYS and CLOTHS go to J. B. MaecDONALD’S NEW HATS and BONNETS go to J. B. MacDONALD’S NEW FLOWERS and FEATHERS go to J.B. MacDONALD'S MENS’ and BOYS’ CLOTHING go to J. B. MacDona.p’s MENS’ and BOYS’ UNDERCLOTHING go to J..B. MacDonatp’s GREY and WHITE COTTONS, CHHAPEST YHT,

—-GO TO-

J. B. MACDONALD’S.

Queen Street, Charlottetown, Sept. 15, 1879.

NOTICE.

For Fo

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For For For For For

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TEA PARTY

—AND— OHN McINTYRE, Shoemaker, wishes to inform his customers in town and PIC-NIC SUPPLIES ! country that he has REMOVED from his old stand to his new place, next to oo eee mE onl ve’s, Grafton Street, where he wi g to see all his old customers, and as many new BEER & GOF F’S ones.as may give him a call. I works cheap for : ; ot NO SECOND PRICE. ‘Lemon, Raspberry, and Pine

Apple Syrup Sold in bottles and by the gallon.

Ali work warranted. Repairing done with | dispatch.

Oct. 6,1879—1m

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Sept, 25, 1879-—Im

PRINGE EDWARD ISLAND, SATURDAY, OCTOBER

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SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD’ SPEECH.

(Special Telegram to the Daily Sun.)

QueBec, Oct. 16.— The following is the report of the speech of Sir John A. MeDon- ald at the Banquet last night :—

Sir Jonn Macponanp, who on rising was greeted with enthusiastic and pro- longed cheering, said :

Mr. Chairman: In the autumn of 18541 had the great honor of being selected in this fine old city to be the Attorney General for the Province of Upper Canada, and it looks like a dream, Mr. Chairman, that a quarter of a century afterwards I should be here a living man, and and receiving this testimonial from this vast meeting. Only think of it, Sir! A quarter of a century has passed since I first took office in this grand old city of Quebec, wherel have lived so long and love so well. (Enthusiastic ap- plause.) It is a great honor; it is a culmin- ating delight to me, to think that in the same spot, in the same city where | first be- came really a Girector of the affairs of Can- ada, I receive to-day this evidence, given to me by the people.of Quebec, that I have on the whole governed the country wisely and well, (tremendous applause). And certainly no man knows better than 1 the fallibility of human nature (laughter); no man knows better than I, after a long ex- perience of politcal life, the failures which every man must make; but I have the proud consciousness at this moment that the peo- ple of Canada have forgiven my faults (pro- longed cheering); that they have recognized this fact which [ claim for myself, that whether I was right or wreng my only thought always was for the interests of Can- ada. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) It may be, gentlemen, a little pardonable vanity in my- self to make the declaration, but it will be admitted that while the Government with which I was connected existed, so long

DID PROSPERITY EXIST

in Canada.. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) I can not say, gentlemen, that we can regu- late atmospheric or climatic influences, but by some strange chance it has happened that whenever the Grits, our opponents, are in power, then you have bad harvests, Colorado bugs, weevils (laughter), and all the other evil influences which have pre- vented Canada from prospering. (Ap- plause). I heard the other day a Grit friend of mine say, ‘‘Well, you are the luckiest fellow in the world. When we came into office bad seasons set in and bad crops fol- lowed, and we had low prices and lumber was—a lumber.” (Laughter.) Well, I may remark that the first Napoleon said that Providence always fought on the side of the army which had the best artillery (laugh- ter), and I also remember that Prince Met- ternich declared that he would never em-

loy a man who had bad luck. (Renewed f oviett ) Now, Mr. Chairman, did you ever know a public party which is accoin- panied by-such bad luck as that of our op- ponents? For five long years they at- tempted to govern this country, and for five long years we had poverty, distress and despair. (Applause.) Let any man to-day stroll through the suburbs of this eld city and he will see the evidences of past misery and of present povérty—because we cannot by a magic wand, by the adoption of a correct rather than an incorrect policy, change atonce the state of affairs; but I would ask you, sir, if even here in Quebec there has not been a great change—whether men do not feel hopeful instead of despond- ing—whether there is not a bright and im- mediate prospect of escape from the slough of despondency into which the country was plunged by the Government to which we succeeded.and the party which we hope to keep out of power for many long years to come. (Great applause. )

I am not going, however, to talk politics to-night. My heart is too full for politics. Iam not going to discuss the comparative merits of one party or the other, but I have eome to this grand old place, where I had lived so long, to receive the greatest,

‘THE CULMINATING COMPLIMENT

and honor of my life. For ten long years I lived in this city; I was united with the French Conservative Party; I fought the battle. I was assailed in Upper Canada and told that I was unfaithful to my re- ligion as a Protestant, that 1 sacrificed the interests of Ontario to those of Quebec, and that I was the slave, in the first place, of Sir George jEitienne Cartier, and, in the next, of the priesthood of Lower Canada. If L was a slave I revelled in my chains. (Applause.) They were golden chains. Never in my life had I greater pleasure than wiren living in Quebec, surrounded by French Canadiaus and influenced by Fronch Canadian opinion. (Enthusiatic applause. ) Ah, Sir, it 1s.a great thing for a man who has been -in public life so long to receive this ovation. I might say, in the language of Othello -—

* * * If it were now to die,

*T'were now to be most happy ; for I fear

My soul hath her content so absolute,

That not another comfort like this

Succeeds in unknown fate. (Prolonged applause.) What my fate as a public man ‘may be I cannot predict; but when I see you, my friends (loud cheers) around me, my feelings are not those of de- spair, but rather those of confident hope and confident anticipation. (Applause.) Mr. Speaker—(Loud Laughter). Ah! you see, Mr. Chairman, what an influence Mr. Speaker has over me! He (Dr. Blanchet) has that influence which great power, great knowledge, and great acquaintance with

Parliamentary preceedings give, and I al-

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mont thought for the moment I was address- ‘ing him. Mr. Chairman, I was about to say that I have addressed audiences in this ‘room many times before, but not such audi- lences as this. This very house, perhaps jsome of yon may remember, was once the House of Assembly, the House of Commons ‘of Canada, and many and many a speech ‘have I made on that side (pointing to the | left) when I was in opposition, and many ‘and nang a speech have I made on this other side (pointing to the right) when I led the Government. So this chamber is not unknown to me. Never have I ad- dressed an audience in it with such great and thorough delight and extreme pleasure as 1 do to-night, when the people of Quebec are rallying around

me without reference to race, re- ligion or antecedents, to offer testi- mony to the fact that with all my

faults I have earned the respect and confid- ence of the people. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Chairman, I look around this room and see the inscriptions upon its walls, and you must not think me egotistic if I say they depict truly my past and my future. You will pardon me, I am sure, if 1 speak a lit- tle about myself, because you know this is my dinner,this is my day; but I read in the Morning Chronicle today,a very compliment- ary article which says that Quebec dees honor to herself by honoring me (cheers), and wound up by remarking that the people of this city and Province have forgot- ten the infamies of the Pacific Railway Scandal ! Well, gentlemen, I do not care a bit about what the papers say concerning myself, but | was wounded as few mon would be wounded, because few men held the same position I had held with respect to the person I am about to speak of. I was wounded I say at the remarks that were made in the same paper with referenze to

SIR GEORGE E. CARTIER.

(Loud cheers an waving of handkerchiefs). There are many French Canadian gentlemen listening to me ; there are many English- men listening to me; there are many men who have heard of the merits of Sir George E Cartier, but there is | believe, no man who can speak of him with such cer- tainty and such knowledge as [ can. He was a Frenchman and [am an Englishman. He had to stem the impulse of the French ; I had to fight the Protestant feeling against Lower Canada. Well, sir, we joined our forces together, we acted together and yeu know the result. I knew him well; and I can say of him now jast what I said of him on the day we knew he had gone to his ac- count; that a greater man, & purer man, an honester man; a wore sincere Inan than Sir George Etienne Cartier never lived. (Lond cheers). I teli you, sir, that when the history of Canada is written the name of George Cartier will be inscribed on its pages just as is Montcalm’s (applatse). As for me, I linger on the stage, and I sometimes think I ought to disappear and let younger and abler men take my place (cries of ‘‘No! No! and laughter.) An old man is glad to get com- pliments like these; but I know the time will come when I must make room for other and younger men; but, Mr. Chairman, 1 am to tell you that the Conservative party never was 80

STRONG IN PARLIAMENT

and out of Parliament, or possessed so many young men of ability in its ranks as to-day (applause. Look, sir, and let the reporters look at this phalanx which surrounds me to-night. I know this ceuntry is safe in possession of as honest, as earnest and as true men as I am, and I believe [wm an honest, earnest and true man myself (cheers. ) ‘ ; You saw the great victory we gained in Sept., 1878. We swept the country (re- newed cheers.) Now, Mr. Chairman, there was ho matter for swept in that victory. The late Government had bee in power tive years, and they continued in power and de- layed appealing to the Country until the last moment. They did not want to go before the people. They had five years preparation for the election, and you saw the result, and you thatI, John A. Mc- Denald (enthusiastic applause and chieer- ing) who was charged with having been guilty of a crime that would render me un- worthy of being received in an assembly of honored men, was returned to power with a majority in my oWh Province of 48. (Cheers.) Now, I propose, for perhaps the last time in my life, to allude to the at- tacks which wero made against me then on what my opponents termed the Pacific Scandal (Applause.) We had taken the great country extending from Lake Su- perior to the Pacific on our shoulders under extromejpressure from Her Majesty’s Gov- ernment, and in accordance with our idea we are going to be the governing power on this continent. (Hear; hear; and applause.) You know how cautious we were. We paid £300,000 to the Hudson Bay Company for all their rights, and the land we now own in the town of Winnipeg alone will cover that amount twice over. (Applause.) We knew further that British Columbia could not remain as it was with the United States on the south. The United States had bought Alaska on the north, so as to hedge in British Columbia and force her to fall into their Union like a ripe cherry into the mouth of a baby. We decided that cherry should net fall into a Yankee mouth, and we made arrangements with British British Columbia by which she is now a portion of Canada, and to-day our Dominion extends acress the continent, with the largest acrc- age of cultivable Jand in the whole world.

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