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IS74. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

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Ch’town, February 16,

——

Iz was an apt saying of George Peake,

Esq., at the meeting held in Temperance |

Hall on Tuesday evenin last, that the odject of a Chamber of Commerce is to promote unity. Te bury, for the time if possible, all personal, political and local enmeties and jealousies, and to unite in forwarding interests common to all—to

producers and to purchasers—is, indeed, |

the object of a Chamber of Commerce.

This object is not at all iuconsistent with |

sharp competition in business. For while the interests of every individual in a

community may be said to conflict with

the interests of others, yet, there is com— | mon ground on which all may meet and unite in advancing common iuterests.

In this Island there is much need of a | union and concentration of power and in- fluence. It is a very small earth,’ compared with the other great |

™ spot of j

Provinces of which the Dominion is com- posed ; and it is weak at best. Then, how mucb greater the necessity for united | effort —for a proper organization and discipline of tT 3he meetivg in Te m perance Hall on Tuesday evening last has, we trust, ‘ set the ball a’rolling’’ which will gather to- gether and mass all our business » en, trust, that when gathered f those com pose is, may be the advancement of the interests and the development of the resources of this Island.

The Secretary's report of the meeting, | is publishe? 2 another columa. The | “Wituber“present was not so large as it ought to be. Still, the greatest move- ments have often there is much to be hoped Our business men will soor

our small force

and we and

massed, the ‘ single sim’ who

}

email beginnings ; and for the future. we are con- viaced. be aroused to a sense of the neces— sity of comi ination for the advancement end protection of their muta.) interests. Every other trovince of the Dominion has its * Chamber of Commerce ;

will it be suid that we have not sufficient en

and,

terprise, friendly feeling and public spirit toform one ? Let politica! rancor give | Wey to putriotie good will, and petty, | person») and local jealousies to high and | liberal sentiments ; let a spirit of union end cordis! good feeling be shown ; and Jet us have a Chamber of Commerce which will give practical effect to united effort. this is, we think, not the passing of an Act of Incorporation, but the preparation of a subscription list. The amount to be subscribed should first be definite'y set- tied ; and then a committee should be appointed to canvass gentlemen who may be deemed eligible, and if possible, secure their names and their money. Names

PORENVOGY,

rtisements will | i Railway. J } psrtance to the Dominion ;

| Prov ince,

} with

| through

i this “Garden of North America

| view of the subject, a railway from ‘“ Ocean \ -

| minion

| will be forced into the background, and

lthe policy of Mr

| adaare unable to build it; and application

' policy be carried out, this will be precisely I 3 3

The first decided step towards |

, Government ?

_ a a oo me

A Re met 6 a

ne a

are not sufficient; for unless men have money in an enterprise, they will not feel the lively interest in it which is required to ensure The next best thing has, however, been done. About

its success,

ninety signatures, we are told, have been obtained to the memorandum which Mr. Shanks had drawn up of persons who agreed to join the proposed ‘ Chamber of Commerce.’ Although the report, given at the meeting by Mr. Heard, that in | 1°68, out of forty-eight subscribers tu a similar memorandum, only fourteen paid | cash, is not a very cheering token of | fature liberality ; still, now that a pressing need of combination is fe t,—now that merchants in all the other Provinces have | combined to further, by united effort, | their mutual! there grounds for believing that the course

interests, is good adopted here will prove suc essful, — that the money necessary to work the institu- tion wili be forthcoming. To pelled tu ask the delegates of our mer-| chants at the Dominion Bourd of Trade to represent our interests * at their own

be com

expense,” is just a little humiliating ; | and, however valid the excuse that it is now necessary to be economical, it is to be hoped that such a request wil! not again b: preferred. For gentlemen cannot be expect ed neglect their private business.and attend tw the common interests, ‘ at their own expense ;'’ nor are the men best qualified to represent the community generally those who will volunteer to do so “at their own expense.”

Every rule, however, has its exception ; and we trust that competent men—men who wi'l do honor to the Province—will be sent to represent it at the next meeting of the Board of Trade. There will, doubtless, be many subjecte discussed at the meeting which will not particularly interest our merchants; but there will al a0 be subjects -f vital importance to this Island. Such, for instance, is the follow- ing,—proposed by the “ Executive Coun- cil of the Board ” :-—

* That it is the duty of the Dominion Board of Trade vo favor ail weasures calcu- jeted to promote the industria! and comme

cial prosperity of Canada; ar i that its in- fluence will be exerted in fave f a Treaty vr Reciprocal Tiade with the ‘nite? States upon a broad, compre'iensi.e and liberal isis We have heard it stated that 2 Treaty of | ely city v h the | ted States would be the making of his Island.” Such a treaty is a pressin; want; and, granted, it would open uy exhaustless

irket for our produce, / d there can

be little doubt but it will be granted if t} t influer or 4 Dominion Bourd Trade be exert in its favor

wonee vy isit, then, tl it our repre

‘ ild b ible men,’ I

t to meet the a nents ures 1 Pp t nists in the Upy r Provinces ; ible to explain our ‘‘com sereial situ ition,’’ to plead our wants. to represent |

our interests, and to persuade the Board

| to exert its influence in favor of so great

}a boon to Prince Edward Island ?

Another subject for the consideration of the Domivion route for the proposed Canada Pacific It is a subject of the last im and, to this

it is of infinitely greater im

| portance than even a Reciprocity Treaty

United States F

the

the or, if is built

Dominion, and its eastern

| termini are Montreal, St Jobn and Hali

| fax, the immense trade which it will di

vert to those cities, cannot fail to force

upon them an era of prosperity ; their

population will increase till they become | as large as Boston and New York; con- i third should be quashed,

| sequently, their demand for provisions

Che Examiner,

will be just as pressing—their prices just as high,—and the people of this lsland— ” __wi]] find a ready market for their productions at their doors. Again, taking a wider

to Ocean,’’ through the Dominion, will

greatly concentrate its power; will con- tribute to the prompt exertion of Govern mental authority; and will render it in- dependant of the United States. On the

other hand, if the railway be connected

Board of Trade is the |

| |

( |

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| lief.

with the United States’ lines (as proposed | by the present Government), and if a large portion of the route be by way of the ereat lukes,—the object of the MeMullen Railway Ring will be Asia and territory will

ebtuined,—the the great diverted

trade of Western North-west be (during six months in the year at least)

New York, Boston and Portland. | These cities will be forced ahead ; Do- Atlantic seaboard

to cities on the

we will be forced to send our produce to market right past the latter to the former. Then, if the road be built according to McKenzie, the eap

italists of Great Britain are not very like— | ly to invest in it; the capitalists of Can | will have to be made to to the moneyed of the United States. They will build the roed; they will virtually con-

men

trol the road,—and by its means control

the Dominion and force on Annexation at | any juncture.

And even should they ré

truin from exerting this power, the Do- | minion will be placed in an exceelingly | humiliating position. How humbled would | the householder feel, who, in order to get from the front the rear of his house, had to go through his neighbor’s—his rival’s —hal ? And yet, should Mr. MeKenzie’s }

the position in which the Dominion will be

| placed with respect to the United States.

In Atlantic or from Ottawa, the

Provinces on the | the Pacific |

seat of

order to get from to

Provinees on

coast, Gov | ernment, to Victoria, the seat of a rebel- lion, it will be necessary—as at present— to through United over United States roads.

go States territory. These may be closed at any moment. Not

there was a disturbance in Manitoba, and

long since British troops were despatched to quell it. tination, it was necessary for them to go

In order to get quickly to their des-

through a canal on the south side of the Sault Ste. Marie, in United States terri | This closed against them by order of the United States’ Gov. |

tory. canal was

ernment. And is there the slightest rea- | son to suppose that, at alike juncture, | with like powers, like unfriendly act would | not be peaformed by the United States’ The following resolution, proposed by the Chamber of Commerce | at Port Levis, Quebec, will be submitted

to the Board ; and, for the reasons we |

have given, we think it should be sup- |

ported by the delegates from P. E. Is- | land :-—

“That in the opinion of the Dominion | Board of Trade the Canadian route of the | Pacitic Railway, will be the most beneficial | to the commercial interests of the Dominion, | and will guarantee at once to our people, the exclusive advantages and prosperity to be derived from the immense trade surely to spring up from the settlement of the Great North West,and the construction of a Great Highway for the Asiatic trade. ”

The necessity of a ship canal at Sault Canadian side of the river; a treaty with the United States for the extradition of absconding debtors ; the question of discipline as regards those who command and these who man our ships; the Insolvency law, and other matters of general interest, to be brought up at the meeting of the Board, should receive the attention of our delegates, With regard to our local wants, it would be well to draw the attention of Govern- | ment—by means of the Board—to the necessity of dredging the entrances to our | harbors on the north side, and to the| propriety of acting upon the Order in Council passed by the late Government, | by erecting lighthouses on our coasts. |

St. Marie, on the

——--@—wea e —- — Tae Bars Verre Canat.—The St. John, B. Maritime Tiade Review says :— }very season which this great Canadian | work is retarded illustrates its necessity to the whola Dominion, in a more striking manner. Take the case of Prince Edward Island, which perhaps suffers more for want of the Canal than any other Province, It is well known that the Island exports | a large amount of produce to the other | Maritime Provinces and the United States, yet every vessel which leaves the Island with | produce to the Western markets has to | make the circuit ef the dangerous Nova Scotia coast. Charlottetown would be | brought three hundred miles nearer Boston | and four hundred and fifty miles nearer St. | Jobn than it is at present, if the canal were | in operation ; and to the ports on ‘he North Shore or New Brunswick the saving in dis- tance by the canal would be even greater. Coal-laden vessels from Pictou, bound to | St. John, would save four hundred miles in distance by passing through the Canal, be- sides avoiding a most dangerous and ju-tly dreaded coast. The whole of the Guif ports, which are now or partly isolated, would experience the enlivening influence of augmented trade; and that district of

N

country, instead of being shut out fron the | great markets as at present, would be able

to send its produce by water wuere it could

be sold so advantage, and so would be |

stimulated to greater agricultural and manu. | facturing enterprises. |

} | of trade and Government—suggests that

| have not enterprise among ourselves to

| Start one.

| to the Island next summer ; that there is,

THE INSOLVENT DEBTCRS COURT,

We az) lied to the very obliging Clerk of this Court of Operations during the time it has been

for a statcinent its

established; and, we must say, that we

have been, as many of our re ders will be,

astonished at the amount ef work it has

quietly accomplished. It his generally

been supposed that a man in debt has no }

thing to do but »pply to the Court for his

protection and get, #3 a matter of course,

his pr tection. The return be ow wil

show a very different result W here the cae

reditors did not think it worth then

w t ppoear before t Jadge and «

it P « the d bt yy Obtalu h S disecnarg provided he complied with the Statutes

But where the creditor really opposed and the matter was gone into, then it will be seen that thirty ‘ ight eut of seventy seven opposed were turned out of Court, and their protections cancelled.

considered that this was a new Court,

| without precedent in tais Island, too | : . : | tion them. | much praise cannot be given to the learn- ‘ed and astute Judge for the dignified

| manner in which he has conducted the

proceedings, and for the harmony of the rules and regulations manifested in the practice which he has origiaate d. It will be seen that ony three appeals from Judge Youug’s decision have beea heard, and that the Assistant Justices of the Su preme Court decided that the first two should be sent back to the Insolvent Court, and that the proceedings of the We merely add that, when it is considered

would

that this Court has been in existence

five years, it speaks well for the credit |

and stability of our bona fide business men throughout the Island, that so few

|have found it necessary to apply for re-

We append the return :— THE COURT OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS. Sith Vic., A. D. 1674. Jurisdiction of £300 and upwards

IN

z me YEAR. & | 8 | @ |o ~ £ <a c - Zeioi 1869, 31) 44) 1) 82 tefused Discharge, 14 1870 11 | 18 32 Refused discharge, 5 1871 11 | 13 14 | Refused discharge, 7 | ‘ 1872, 13 i 10 | Refused discharge, 6 | | | | i 1873, a. i bio w 4 Refused discharge, 6 Opposed, 77 | 92 | 8 | 157 | Dismissed, | 38 | Discharged, ag | Total discharged, 131

NOVEL REASONS.

A gentleman — evidently all-innocent

lottetown ; for—the gentleman says—we

The gentleman urges that it |

is the first duty of Government to protect

‘its people; that it is probable a very

large number of Dominionists will resort |

comparatively speaking, no adequate pro-

tection for these people, either from the and, he |

therefore concludes that the general Gov- |

elements or the mosquitoes ; ernment should provide the necessary protection by erecting an hotel at Char- lottetown, or some other village in the Island—he eal!s Charlettetown a village, ‘* because,’ says he, ‘‘a city is not a city without at least one large hotel!’

2. That the Board of Trade ask, in,

| plain terms, the Dominion Government

to provide pure fresh water for the use Charlottetonians,-—for it is evident, the gentleman says, that the poison of bad water percolates through the bodies of citizens to such a degree that they cannot,

however much they wish, put forth the |

enterprise necessary to have water works constructed for themselves.

The obligation of the Government, he urges with the following argument---It is

the the duty of Government to protect | life and property; owing to the use of)

impure water in Charlottetown, the lives

ot many citizens are endangered ; their | | what its prayer may be; and for this we do

existence is robbed of half its pleasures, and several die every year; again, owing

/to the want of a plentiful supply, much | valuable property is in constant jeopardy |

from fire; therefore it 1s the duty of Government to protect the life and pro-

When it is |

| tion which Mr.

| Island in the Dominion Government.

| only of those whose

| abroad to New Brunswick

THE RECENT DISMISSALS.

the Patriot

Yn article in of the

recent dismissals

affair. Although several individuals

sisted at its production, neither its wit ror

acvance of in Mr.

its reasoning is all in

at Patriot ai hatred to Mr.

ordinary ticle.

to allow him to reason dispassionately or

fairly regarding any matter with which he

may consider him connected. Nearly the

whole article is taken up with coarse un-

manly abuse of the Hon. Josey h Pope. Per sons, like Mr. Laird, who mistake abuse for argument, fancy they have answered their opponent because they have roundly abused him. He is so brimming over vith hatred to Mr. J. C. Pope, that even the mention of his name is mide the pres text for the abuse of his father. The

temptation to follow his example is strong, and to obey the command, to answer the ‘fool according to his foliy ’ but we are restrained by considerations which are not the less obvious because we do not mens Only we ask Mr. Laird some - times to try and measure other people's feelings by what his own are, or, at least, ought to be, and not to try our patience ~o severely that forbearance will cease to be

We charged the Dominion Government it hitherto followed, of allowing subordinate

a virtue,

with reversing the policy which has

| officials to remain in office however frequ~ ently the Head of the Department may be |

changed , and amid the scores of dismissals

| Which have taken place within tme last few

weeks, we noticed two of the most indefen sible— the Hon. Joseph Pope and Mr. W.C. DesBrisay. With regard to the former, (the latter he does not attempt to justify) Mr. Laird, in effect, says that his hatred to Mr. Pope, and to all who bear his name, is far greater than any desire on his part for the efticiency of the pubiic service, and that he could not belong to a Government which

j . : | would not remove them from office, no

matter how long they had heid it, or how well qualitied to fillit. This is the posi-

Laird assumes, Of course

jit raises his popularity among the little | clique of office seekers by whom he is at | present surrounded.

But there is a wider and deeper view to take of the matter.

| Mr, Laird is supposed to represent this

That

| this is a mere fiction he is careful to show ,

for he declines to recognize himself in any sense the representative of this Island, but his

A

he and friends polled at the last late election.

votes

large minority in King’s County, and a re- | ' you do not meet wth that feeling.

spetable minority in the other two Counties, are completely and wholly unrepresented.

And Mr. Laird takes good care that they |

shall know it. He has announced thut his career shall be uninfluenced by a single

| thought of the thousands of electors who

decline to enroll their names beneata his

banner, who have no one to say a single | word for them on the floor of the House of |

Commons. A generous man would not be

unforgetiul of this in the hour of victory. |

. |Mr. Laird laughs the very idea to it would be well to prefer the following | scom, He has announced that his requests to the Domiuion Board of Trade | relentless vindictivness shall know no at its next meeting :— bounds,—shall stop short of nothing un«

1. That the Board urge upon the til he has removed from every office every "Government the propriety—nay, the ne- one, no matter how long or faithful hi: cessity—of building a large hotel at Char- services, if the poll book shows ihat he

voted against him, or if he is suspected of

| being on terms of friendship with the Hon.

J.C. Pope ; that he will put in force every power of existing legislation for the beneti of one class only~those who stoop to flat- ter his inordinate vanity ;—and that he will follow to the bitter end the course he has announced his intention to follow towards those who dare to differ from him. To those of us who, thank Heaven, are inde- pendent of his influence,—who neither

duct of the Dominion Government, as ex- pounded by him personally, signifies noth- ing. But itis sad to see the Government of our new country conducted in sucha manner as to lead those who are politically opposed to it to consider themselves as aliens. There may arise matters in relation to which those who voted against the Gov, ernment members might desire to petition the We know Mr. Laird far too well to dream that he would do otherwise than thwart presenting of such a petition. in this Island

House of Commons. even the mere There are thousands who must look or Nova Scotia, or Quebec, where they may find Members of the House of Commons who will not al

low party privilege to deaden that love of fairplay which Mr. Laird has announced he will never allow to influence him. of us should dare to exercise the privilege -—supposed to exist in every free State~ of petitioning the Legislature, we may trust

| Mr. Laird to do his utmost to thwart that

petition, no matter what it may contain or

trust him most implicitly, that he will do it with all that bitterness of which he beyond any man we know, is the living embodi ment. This is the prospect before This is what the Minister of the Interior

us.

Th inst., in answer to our remarks upon the is an exceedingly tame

88—

Laird’s Pope is of too virulent a kind

| before it, will pass away. At the present

| of employment.

| this country and the United States.

| say that the result of my observation in the

tion of love for England, merely because

jside of the Atlantic.

| to tell you why it is that Americans hate

jies of the Canadian Government.

will there

| in England that the laborer and artizan | | want to leave on this side of the water.

. 4 | you have there an aristocracy to bar the want his favor nor fear his frown,—the con. |

| cessful.

If any |

GOLDWIN SMITH ON CANADA.

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In the course of along address before the Trades Union Congress in England, Pro- fessor Goldwin Smith explaine| the design and prospects of Cornell University, anc concluded as follows :-——

It has happened in the States, but I mus’ tell you that in Canada, where I principally reside, though I go over every year to give my lecture at Cornell Universi y, there ar in my opinion, quite equal alvantages t the States, and in some respects greater ad- vantages I was drawn to Canada by the fact that members of my fami’y were resid» there, that they lad found ita sant but | Canada a very happy and pleasant country affords, as I ,all the ad

st

the States, and some furthe:

and

home ; have also found

tolivein, It sa vantages of advantages besides, At the present mo- ment there is a check to the prosperity of the United States. I believe it to be only atemporary check, knowing the country and knowing the people, and seeing the

amount of wealth and industry there 1s in doubt whatever

that this crisis, the same as several crises

these States. I have no

time it has created wide-spread distress,

|} and thrown many of the working class out

Thatcrisis has not sy

to Canada. We have suffered a good deal |

| from being denied reciprocity of trade with | the

United States. It is denied us on ac- count of some misunderstanding between It has separated our trade from the States, and therefore we are not involved with the Ame-

rican crisis. Then there is another advan-

tage which Canada possesses. I am sorry to

United States is to convince me that feel- | ing against England is very high and very

deepsrooted. We, as Englishmen, feel it | deeply. Many of those in Canada have left

England, like myself, without any diminns | other considerations drew them tothe other

They still love the | old country, and they cannot bear to be | among people who are always breathing | hatred toit. I shou'd be, perhaps, puzzled |

}

England so much. Probably it might be traced to many influences. There are the old quarrels, and thereare the celebrations of these old quarrels.

Then there is the in- fluence of the Irish, and perhaps the influ ence of the protectionists has something to | do with it. Inthe Hastern States the feel- It is, however, not so strcng in the West, or at

ing against England is very strong.

any rate it does not prevail to the same extent as it does in the East. Im Canada

You

You

are there among Englishmen. | welcomed as an Englishman from the mo- | | | |

are ment of your arrives! in Canada. In the United States you have to live tive years efore you can be naturalized, and until | you are a naturalized subject you are placed } under certain disabilities in regard to the | ownership of property. British Canada is | thoroughly English; "here you find yourself no: only among those who speak English, but among those who are in heart English,

yvhose words, habits and customs are Eng- lish ; but on the other hand, it is not Eng, land in the sense of being part of aristocratic England. I think the cause of Canada has

been somewhat ill-pleaded by the emissar- They have come here and said to the suffering English laborer and to the suffering Eng- lish artizan, “Go over to Canada and you find the exact counterpart of Again, that is only partly good hearing in the English laborer and the suf-

England.’’ fering English artizan. There are some things |

} He | says to himself, if you really have in Canas | da everything that we have in England; if | i if you have | there the squire, to waom [ am bound to |

if you have the land. |

way of progress to the people ;

cringe all my days lord system ; if you have there the parson | to help the squire and the landlord to keep | his foot on my neck; if you have all these blesssings in Canada, I will go to the United States. But it is not a fact that we have all We

there a little mock court which I have no |

these blessing in Canada. have doubt plays some curious antics in imitat~ ing the real courts. There have been ef- forts made to propogate an aristocracy in Canada, but it has not been eminently suc- | Four gentlemen have received

| aristocratic honors from the Imperial Goy-~

ernment, and three of the gentlemen who received those Imperial honors were in volved in the Pacifie scandal ; and the Gov- ernment of Canada has declined to bestow Then, as to the Church question. that has been distinctly settled in the sense of our | religious equality. We have an education- | al system such as, while you have an Es~ tablished Church, you will never get here. We are Englishmen in this sense. We love | England, and look back with fondness to it, and desire to retain in our memory illuss | trious deeds recorded in its history, and if | we ever become a separate nation, as] bes lieve some day we shall, our feeling toward

read | . j them.

| supreme.

| : : : | should be adopted by a popular vote. any further Imperial honors on Canadians, | ! thie

| resources are great, its mineral wealth is great, its ground produce is large, its water communication and power are abundant, there is everything that can make a prose perous and wealthy country, and the emi~ grant, thrifty and industrious, will share its rising prosperity. I hardly know a man in the higher ranks of Canada who has not risen from the ranks of labor. It has been , said that emigration depends on the man.

Well, everything depends on the man ; in | every walk of life it depends upon the man | himself whether he sueceed or fail; but ! |

doubt in the case of an emigrant to Canada that more depends than in the ordinary life. 1 ordinary complement of limbs, sound health and who is determined to

walks of think a man who has the has

t

who re vdustrious and temperate, is sure to be prosperous and do well. tress fall upon the people of this country

if this wonderful prosperity which I find in all cities receives a check; if any laburer should be thrown out of employment, or if

he desires to ‘eave the Dominion of the i

| British aristocracy and come to the realm

of equality, Canada will give him a warm welcome and a prosperous and happy home.

_—o-— +

‘“ PEFORM” IN NEW YORK.

|

‘The times change and we change with Never were truer words uttered, and seldom has a stronger proof of their correctness been furnished than by the which ‘Reform’ is now taking amongst our neighbors across the line. They are, in fact, adopting a ‘ retrogade ’

course

French revolution, been everywhere held | up as those of Reformers. Such a change

is the initiation of Conservative Reform in

| such a country as the United States, should | not be allowed to pass unnoticed,

Almost all the Reform measures of the present century may be resolved into exs tension of the power of the popular mas jority of the day. At bottom all Reform- ers Were very much of opinion that ‘the | sole right of Government is derived from the consent of the Governed,’ and conse- quently that the popular will, as expressed by the popular majority, should be made The people, it was always | argued, can have no interest apart from their own, and therefore can never misuse power Wide extensions of the suffrage ; short tenures of office and popular appoint- ments to office, were the logical conse- quences of these theories, and in no coun- try have they been carried so far as in the States. Having tried them, New York is |

now contemplating a reversal of them.

A series of ameudments to the consti- tution has now been adopted by two legis» latures, and only awaits adoption by a popular vote to become law. Amongst them are provisions lengthening the Goy- ernor’s and Lieutennat Governor's tenure of office to three years ; raising the salary of the former to $10,000; permitting him in case of any bill coming before him for signature, containing several items appro. priating money, to veto one or more such items while approving the rest ; abolishing

the election of judges of courts not of | record in the cities of New York and | Brooklyn; of the Attorney General, state | engineer, superintendent of public works, and superintendent of prisons, and vesting the appointment of them in the Governor ; providing for the election of the treasurer

by the legislature instead of by the elec

tors ; and forbidding counties, cities; towns

and villages to loan their credit or give

money to.ssociations and corporations, or to become owners of stock in them.’

Each and all of these measures are so many contractions of the prerogatives of | the popular majority. None of them, we | believe, was originally possessed by the | majority in New York, but all were con-

ferred on it, each movement being hailed

asa grand ‘reform.’ Now, after a trial of them, it is found that the ‘reforms’ have been pernicious, and it is proposed to res

form backwards by undoing the previous |

innovations. Not only this ; but we find such a Liberal paper as the New York

Tribune endorsing them as being ‘meas |

sures aiming at wise ends, and deserving the most careful con-ideration of thoughts ful citizens,’

These facts goa long way to show that Conservatives are not such stupids, nor the

Reformers such wiseacres as the latter are |

so very fond of complacently declaring. Here we find a Democratic legislature pro-

posing to recast the political institutions |

of the country in an anti-Democratic direcs tion, The only point on which we are

| surprised is that it should have the good

sense to do so; and -ve shall be still more surprised if the proposed amendments The action of the legislature, however, proves that our neighbors are opening their eyes to the fact that government, in the lan- guage, of Guizot, is not a matter of will, but of reason, truth and justice. It is not

lf, however, dis~ |

course, and acting in direct opposition to | the principles which have, since the first |

| Pig-house and Sheep-house.

| |

| the Company.

EMENTS.

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REMEMBER The last “Penny Readings” of the Season, in

ST. PETER’S BOY'S SCHOOL,

Tuesday. Feb. i7th, at 8 oclect.,

Admission 15 cents.

SYRUPS.

] () CASKS RASPBERRY LEMON STRAWBERRY SYRUPS of the very best qualities at

CARVELL BROS. Ch’town, Feb. 16, 1874.

| COAL,

150 } CARVELL BROS, | Ch’town, Feb. 16, 1874.

| i. ie . 2(,BOXES TIT. C. TIN on sal invoic scenes I. C. TIN on sale at invoice

TONS Albion Mines ROUND COAL for Sale.

CARVELL BROs. Ch’town, Feb. 16, 1874. .

St- Lawrence Marine Insurance Com- pany of Prince Edward Is!and.

N compliance with the Act of Incorpora- tion, the annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of the above Company will

| take place on Wednesday, the Eleventh day |of March next, at their office, Exchange

Building, for the purpose of receiving Re- | | port, electing seven Directors for the ensu- | ing year, and transacting such other busi- |