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That Petition.

Tue disgrace into which Provinee has been brought y reason of the falsified anti-Synidicate petition, be regard nen as an in

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mist wd by ail honest jury for there can be no ex planation, apology or redress. The peti- tion is an unmitigated blot upon the record ef the Grit party in this Island. Just as the disgraceful coudect of Mr. Laird and his silent followers was losing its hold upon the memoryef the country, just as our pres- ent representatives were beginning to make head against the prejudice which their predecessors had implanted in the minds ef our fellow Canadions in the Upper Provinces tris falsified petition was presented to Parliament; anc, in connection with an infareous tranzaction, the name of the Island is again dragged before the world. Those who have >een guilty of this aet can never sufficiently atone for their conduct. They indeed represent a very small portion of the electorat The very fact that they were, in order to obtain a list of names at all commensurate with the population, compelled to resoré to such extrome tactics siows beyond a doubt that the Government is strong and the Syndi- eate approved in this [siand. But their bad act is, in the eyes of Canada, the bad act of this Province. ‘lhey have, we fear, almest overwhelmed all of us in disgrace.

True, our representatives in Parliament did their beat to ward off the blow. They explained the ma ter as fully as they could. Bat we regret that they deemed it necessary to animadvert wpon the name of Mr. A. B. Warburton. That Mr. Warburton had anything te do with the forged signatures, ne ove who knows that gentleman can for a moment believe. Mr. Warburton is, per- sonally, held in high respect. He is one of those whom we should desire to see taking an active interest in public affxirs—in opposi tion of course—at least so long as he re- mains in the anti-patrictic party; and we exceedingly regres that his name is at all mixed up in tt iisgraveful transaction. Bat it was his duty as Secretary ef the « Reform Associstion,” (save the mark) to forward the petition; and we have no doubt that he acted under orders. This view is strengthened by the fact that the petition

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was sent to Mr. Anglin. Mr. Warburton would ‘never, { his own motion, have dared to overiock those whom the honesty and intelligence of this Pro

Parliament, and to have for sending the petition he couldn't trust the

vince have sent t given as a reas to Mr. Anglin tliat

Island members with it. Mr. Warburton is, personally, unequal to such gross im He wouldn’t think of so de-

pertinence. ‘ liberately insulti:g the Island peuple anc their representa He simply did as his superiors in the Grit party directed him

ves.

to do; and we thiak the Minister of Marine | made a mistake when he implicated Mr. | offience. As

Warburton in so serious on any honest man, in a similar position would have done, Mr. Warburton hastened to write to Mr. Anulin, making ali the ex- planations he e ald and repudiating any knowledge of fra d.

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The Cloture.

Mr. Gianstonn, as well as ethers, clearly foresaW the est in which he is now enyrg: and by means of the Foreign Offices informed \imself in advance of the mathods of mos: nations in dealing with obstructive parlia neptary minorities. They are all closely aiike, and are generally modelled on the -loture, er method of elos- ing a debate, in vogue in France, where the rules adopted after the restoration mostly still prevail. In either branch of the Frenc:h Assambly, a quorum being present, the pre siding officer, upon the demand of a considerable number of the members puts the question whether the debate snall be closed, either at once or after the list of inscribed speakers is exhausted. A single member may speak in opposi- tion to the question, and upon its deci- sion in the aftirmative all debate and delay mustend. The «xtremest instance of the eloture is found i» the Austrian Reichsrath, in which the President, of his own motion, it would seem, may, at the close of any speaker's remarks, put a motion to close the debate, and a bare majority suffices to carry it. In Italy the «loture must be demanded by a member. ithe Belgian Senate five members may cal! for it, and in the Chainber ten, and asiwple oajority prevails. In the German Reitchstg and the Prussian Land- tag, thirty members, may at apy tene call upon the President in writing to close the de- bate, and upon th» question ‘that the debate be now closed’ be: ag put,a majority prevails. In Norway, unzary, and Sweden there is no cloture, and the only form of it in Spain isa rale permitting a motion that a question be no further discussed in Switzerland the éloture must be cemanded by two-thirds of the membera present before a division on

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the main gestion is ordered. In the United States they have put the English motion for the ‘‘ previous question’ —

which, in Englacd, is merely a device for avoiding a direct or no on the main question-—to the uses of the cloture, and a majority of a quorum is sutlicient to order an immediate v

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Summer-ide Lighthouse.

Tus Summerside Progress prints a pic- ture of the new | ghtbouse recently erected at the mouth of the harbor ard remarks:

*“*Tothe Hon. Jas. C. Pope, Minister of Marine and Fisheries, the merit is mainly due for insisting a the erection of this valu- able work. Alkuough the late Dominion Government took the iuitiative in the matter, yet without the active interest taken by Mr. Pepe in the under ‘aking, it might for years yet remain but a mere matter of speculation, It is true that considerable delay marked the progres® snd completion of the work, yet there doubtless were obstacles in the way with whick ‘he po blic may not have been ac- quainted, and henve the more credit is due te our representatives and particularly to the Minister of Marine and Fisheries. for their porsistens’ in ysecuting the work to its final destiny.

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Our Representatives in Parliament

Rerexnixe to the recent speeches of our representatives i: Parliament, the Progress

says °- **On the whole we have every reason to feel satisfiel with oor island members. Nor is

there any cause Ww believe that they do not represent the tation exzineered by the opposition members, the grand total f all the signatures to the anti- syndicate petitions amounted to less than 70,000 while there are 653,000 voters in the Dominion. ”

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How to Produce Beef in the Cheapest Manner.

Canerutty ¢ adacted experiments for several years pas’ have enabled cattle feed- ers to prove (ssys Mr. A. B. Allen) that beef of yood quelity can be most cheaply roduced by giving their animals, from irth up to slaug iter, all such suitable food as they will daily eat and digest well. Steers of the most improved breeds may be made by this method, as a general rule, to weigh from 1,000 to 1,600 pounds at eighteen to twenty months of age, and extra choice at the same age exceed these weights by several hundred pounds. In pushing animals up to, or near maturity in this rapid manner, in order to obtain the best quality of ‘lesh, they must have suf. ficient exercise iv the open air, and be ex- posed to the hea hial influenee of sunshine as much as ponible. There is nothing ual to good ek! grass pastere to obtain this, and the longer the steers can be ¢ out upon it he more advantageous it

will be to them.

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Tac Dominic: Telegraph Company greatly exteade:! and improved their system during tl year.

popular will; for, after the agi- |

The ‘‘Northern Light.”

Tun relief of from her ice-prison was a great this community, as well as to her passen

vers and all immediately connected with her.

The passengers | Mrs. Hazlewood, and | Leod arrived from | day forenoon

the

Lieut. and Mrs. Mc Tues-

including Mr. and

Georgetown on

They report that they are all right, that \ : : the ship and her captain and crew are all ; ; right, and that the herse is all right.

Lieutenant Hazlewood speaks in high terms of the cenduct ef Captain Finlayson and says that no man eould have done better under the circumstances. Too mach he thinks cannot be said in the Captain’s favor.

There was no laek of provisions, ‘heugh for fear of a lengthened jce-olation the Captain placed the inmates of the ship upon short rations.

The passengers (including the poor horse) look well, and evidently have not been starved; nor is the ship leaking in a way to cause any alarm.

They say that on Thursday last after the passengers left by iee-boat, the remaining passengers and crew set te work cutting a way for the steamer into a channel at the north side. They worked well, and when they had moved the steamer into it, the channel—by aetion of the wind moving the ice—closed, and the steamer again became ice-bound. But the ehannel gradually opened and the steamer moved out and after being several times similarly jammed they found themselves on Sunday morning off Bast Point. Here the steam- er's course was shaped for Georgetown, where she arrived on Monday morning, after passing through immense fields of ice. -2_> oe —-——

The Full Text of Mr. Gladstone's Coercion Act.

We give below the full text of the Glad- stone Ceercion Act, of which the cable has had so much ‘o tell us within the past month. It is entitled ‘‘ An Act for the Protection of Person and Property (Ire land) Bill,” and is embraced in three sec- | tions, as follows :—

I. (1) Any person who is declared by war- rant of the Lerd Lieutenant to be reasonably suspected of having either before or after the passing of this act been guilty as principal or accessory of high treason, treason-felony, er treasonable practices, wherever committed, or of any crime punishable by law committed in a prescribed district, being an act ct violence er intimidation, and tending te in- | tertere with or disturb the maintenance of | law and order, may be arrested ia any part of reland and legaliy detained during the con- | tinuance of this act in such prison 1n Ireland | as may from time to time be directed by the ' |

Lord Lientenant, witheut bail or main prize, and shall not be discharged or tried by any | court without the direction of the Lord Lieu- | tenant ; and every such warrant shall be con- clusive evidence of all matters therein con- tained, and of the jurisdiction to issue and exeeute such warrant, and of the legality of the arrest and detention of the person men | tioned in such warrant.

(2) Any person detained in pursuance of a | warrant under this act shail be treated as a | person accused of crime and not asa convicted prisoner. ;

(3) A list of all persons for the time being | detained in prison under this act, with a | statement opposite each person’s name of the prison in which he is detained for the time being, and of the ground stated for his arrest in the warrant under which heis detained, shall be laid before each House of Parliament withia the first seven days of every month during which Parliament is sitting.

(4) ‘Prescribed district’ means any part of Ireland im that behalf specified by an order of the Lord Lieutenant for the time being in fore, and the Lord Lieutenant, by and with the advice of the Privy Council in Ireland, may irom time to time make, and when made revoke and alter, any such order.

Il. (1.) Any warrant or order of the Lord Lieutenant under this act may be signified under his hand or the hand of the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, and a copy of every warrant under this act shall, within seven days after the execution there- of, be transmitted to the clerk of the Crown for the county and city of Dublin, and be filed by him in his public office in that city.

(2.) The Lord Lieutenant, by and with the advice of the Privy Council in Ireland, may from time, make, and when made revoke and alter, any order prescribing the forms of war- rants for the purposes of this act, and any forms so prescribed shall when used be valid in law.

(3.) Every order under this act shall be published in the Dublin Gazette, and the pro- duction of a printed copy of the Gazette, pur- porting te be printed and published by the Queen's authority, under this act, shall be conclusive evidence of the contents of such order and of the date thereof, and of the same having been duly made.

(4) The expression ‘‘ Lord Lieutenant” means the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland or other Chief Governor or Governors for Ireland for the time being.

If{L. This act shall continue in ferce urtil the 30th day of September, 1532, and no longer.

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British Speakers.

The offioe of Speaker of the British House of Commons, which Mr. Gladstone has just invested with new powers, is one of the :ost lucrative prizes of public life in the United Kingdom. The holder, who takes precedence next after the peers, re- oeives an sunual salary of $5,000, a palace, and, on retirement, a peerage and a pen- sion for two lives of £4,000. Although elected by the Commons, subject to a now formal royal approval, he is in no sense a partisan, as is shown by the length of time during which the oflice is uaually held. Thus the present Speaker, the Right Hon. Henry Bouvverie William Brand, was chosen in 1882, upon his predecessor enter- ing the peerage as Viscount Ossington. His official life has, therefore, seen Disraeli succeed Gladstone, and Gladstone succeed Beaconsfield. Three persons only have held the office of Speaker in the Vic- torian Parliaments, and only five since the reform of 1833. Possibly the longest term is that of Speaker Onslow—- | the same that said the Lord in Heaven only | knew what would happen if he should once ‘*name” a member--who filled the chair | for thirty-three years, the peried embracing the entire reign of George II. The princi- ple on which the office always has been administered can scarcely be better siated than in the reply of Speaker Lenthal to Charles I., who had come down to the House with an armed foree to fetch away certain offending members. ‘‘ May it please your Majesty,” said the fearless commoner, ‘‘ I have neither eye to sce nor tongue to spexk in this place but as the House, whose seryant I am, is pleased to | direct.” From this it will be best seen how tremendous and revolutionary a step was taken when the House last week order- ed that in certain contingencies the Speaker should have original and discretionary powers to control the course of its business.

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Russia’s Duplicity.

Facts recently brought to light by the publication of the Russo-Afghan correspon- dence discoverey at Cabul after the mas- sacre of the British embassy show the ex- istence of a secret treaty between Russia and Afghanistan, by whieh the former undertook to assist the Ameer against foreign enemies. They also reveal a plan suggested by Russia fer inciting a rebellion among the Mohammedans in India, all of this being subsequent to the signing of the treaty of Berlin, when the relations be tween Russia and England were placed upon friendly footing.

¥riend 8. has a son who is not precisely a studious and working bey The list of grades which he brings home daily tells of a deplorable apathy on his part. Fifteen days ago he came home No. 27. ‘ Then you are twenty-seventh in your division?” says his father. ‘‘ Yes.” ‘‘ And how many are youin all?” ‘* Twenty-seven.” ‘That is, you are the last?” A week later the list made him No. 29. ‘‘ Now,” said the father, ‘‘this is tooiauch. How can yon be the twenty-ninth when there are only twenty-seven?” ‘‘ It’s very easy,” eaid the boy, ‘two new ones have come.” — Figaro,

Northera Light” | WRECK OF THE BARQUE relief to}

A Touching Tale of the Sea.

TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS OF THE CAPTAIN'S

WIFE AND CHILD—HEROISM OF AN ISLADER, |

Tue barque ‘‘ Happy Home” was wreek- ed at Maitland, Nova Scotia, early last | sates She first struck on a ledge and afterwards swung off. The boats were made ready; but the captain expected to be able to strand and thereby save the vessel, and en this account he did not give orders to take to them. In this expeeta- tion he failed ; for, after sailing some time, and without a mowent’s warning the sbip fell over on her beam ends, and the boats being on the lee side, were carried under with her, and no chance was left to get them. The crew consisted of ten seamen, steward, second mate, mate and captain ; the eaptain’s wife and daughter —eight years of age were also on board. A cor- reapendent of the Yarmouth Tribune gives the following touching account of their sufferings :—

When the barque fell over on her beam ends there was left a very little room for them to stand on. Captain Coaltleet lashed his wife and daughter—the latier being held in the right arm of the mother —to the mizzen chains and then, close by, the captain and crew lash- ed themselves on. ‘Then commenced one of the greatest trials that a parent and husband could endure. The barque was carried south- erly by the tide, and then to the north. This last change in the vessels course breught the faces of Mrs. Coalfleet and daughter to the wind, and snow, and at the same time the apray Wes breaking over the barque and full in their faces. Now the suffering of all was intense, but more particularly the wife, the child. and the steward—McDonald, from Prince “dward Island -—and who, it is said, had one of the noblest hearts that ever throbbed beneath a human breast; indeed he proved this to the sacrifice of his ewn life, by throwing off his coat (which was carried away by the tide) and diving down to cut loose one of the boats ; but in this he failed, and now had nothing on but shirt, pants, and avery thin pair of socks. Yet he forgot his own sufferings and labored with the captain and the other officers to protect the mother and child from the snow, wind. and beating spray. At this time the cries of pain and suffering of tae captain’s wife and child were heartrend ing; and gladly would the captain have died with these dear only he would then leave an orphan boy at home. The steward perished at 12, the girl at 1, aud the mother at 4 o’clock, a. m. The last words both of the girl ana mother were: ‘ Lift me higher.’

Very early in the morning, the wreck was seen off Sandford by Mr. Churehill, who with others put off with six boats and took off—or rather rolled off inte the boats—ten sea men, second mate, mate and captain, leaving the steward, the girl and mother as they were, lashed to the rigging. The condition of these poor fellows was such, that Mr. Churchill and crew were forced to leave thie dead in order to save the living. The cap tain’s feet and ancles were very badly frozen and he was poorly besides. ‘fhe mates hand: were frozen— also the second mate avd three of the crew. P }

ones,

The people of Sandford did ali | in their pewer to make them comfortable, aud nothing was neglected that would promote their speedy recovery.

The barque drifted to the north till she came opposite Maitland, about two miles from Sandford. Here acrew from: Maitland boarded her, and took off the dead, which were ina sitting position as they had been lashed, and the bodies were carried to Mr Josiah Ellis’ and laid on a table in his parlor. Here lay the mother, daughter, and the stew ard, who without doubt, lost his own life by striving to save others. As I entered the humble hall of death, | gazed on his form as on that of one who was worthy to fill a more honored plaee in life than that of cook. The mother and daughter were richly and warmly dressed. They were still partially encrusted with ice, and the hair of the little girl was beautifully wreathed with the same. Nota trace of ageny or pain rested on their coun- tenances, but in a calm sweet sleep they soemed to lie ; and as [ stood looking on their inanimate forms, and the resy cheeks of the child, my thoughts turned to the dread element which had wrouglit their destruction, and | could from my heart say .

‘“Give back the lost and lovely! these for whom

The place was kept at board and hearth so long.

They hear not now the booming waters roar,

The battle thunders will not break their rest.”

Mrs. Ellis and danghters, with seme other ladies at Maitland, went to work aud had them —the child and mother—clegantly prepared to be laid in their coffins when they came. On Mrs. Coalfiset’s person were found’ a silver and a gold watch, besides fifty-one sovereigns.

The second mate, though far from well, accompanied the corpses to Ohio, and from thenee in the cars to Hantsport, the former home of Mrs. Coalfleet. The steward’s body was nicely dressed and placed in a neat coffin and followed to its last resting-piace in the graveyard of the Union Church by some of the most respectable citizens.

The little girl, at the time the barque struck, was preparing her Christmas presents, which she had collected in Europe, for her little brother and friends at howe-—expecting in a few hours to land in &t. John. Alas! in a few hours life and its concerns were no more to her. How many of us are like that little child, preparing toys that we pever shall deliver. How vain is man! to-lay he blos- soms; to-morrow he fades and dies. Such is life; and surely it eamnot be our only home.

[Mr. McDena!d referred to above, was a native of Lot 47 in this Island.—Ep. Examt- NER. ]

<< e Tho Luona Mine.

Tse Rio Grand and San Juan Herald wealth of Gunnison County, Colorado How towns such as Ruby, Gothic, and Crested Buttes, spring ap through the dis covery of some one rich strike or prospect in their immediate vicinity,and,how recent ly discovered wines are prospering. Herald gives a goud deal ot attention to the Luona Mine, of which Mr. J. H. Fletcher isa large sharehvider, and President of the Company which is to operas it The Herald says, ‘* the mine, for what work was done, showed a body of ore which for richness and exteut is marvelloua yield- ing 1,000 ounces of silver to the ton of ore. From a report of Prof. J. G. Ridgley. whe was sont out by Denver capitalists to make a most through examination of the mine and surroundings, dated December 27:h, 1380, we extract the following : ‘* The vein is at the bottom of a cut or gulch near the base of the mountain, and below the strati- fied formation in the granite rock * * * Its dip is nearly perpendicular, but into the mountain. The vein matter is sepa- rated from the wall rock by a selvage, and the ore body stands uncovered along the vein fifteem feet, five to eight feet wide, andislaid bare thirteen feet deep. The gangue is chiefly cale spar with quartz clorite and tale; the mineral, chiefly sul- phurets of silver, silver glance, brittle sil- ver and dark ruby silver, with wires and nuggets of native silver in almost every part. Of this mass, the more sparry parts (about one-quarter of the ore) assays from 600 ounces silver to the ton, in the decomposed parts,—to over 18,000 ounces per ton in the best portions, The more quartzoe parts yield from 300 to 1,500 ounces per ton. Taking the lowest average, $i0 worth of labor will mine #1,000 worth of this ore per day. * * * The greatest value consists, not in the un- usual richness of the ore already exposed, butin the fact that the ore is distinctively and predominantly sn!phuret of silver in its most valued forms—forms which have made the great silver mines of all lands and fur- nished the bulk of silver for all nations.

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Arctic Research.

The Arctic authorities have been eonsider- ing she question of representing in proper quarters the necessity of actively resuming the Polar exploration. Ne immediate steps toward the despatch of an expedition will be taken, however, as the abserption of public attention by the grave poiitical questions might prevent the subject from receiving sullicient support. Meanwhile — and charts will be prepared, whieh will be eontinuously brought to the notice of the public. Dr. Emil Bessels, chief scientific officer of Dr. Hall’s expedition in the steamer ‘ Polaris,” who is now in Lon-

publishes an article showing the imiumenese |

The |

Escaping from the Penitentiary. |

‘HAPPY HOME ~~) POUR CONVICTS OVERPOWER THE GUARDS |

AND sCALE THE WALLS.

Kinaston, Ont., Feb 14.—The most daring aud desperate escape ever made from the Kingston Penitentiary, occur- red last evening between 6 aod 8 e’cleck. Four prisoners named Wright, Blake, Shiotte and Rapsem, were confined in the ‘ yard solitary cells,’ at the foot ef the prison. They were all desperate characters, and had been placed in the

cells fer misconduct. Blake was an idiotic person, and given to terrible passions. He had @psauited the con»

victs’ guards and the Deputy Warden. He also stabbed Warden Creighton with afork. Since this time he has been in confinement, it being danger@us to allow him liberty. He was a life prisener. Wright was from Londen. He was serving al years’ sentence for robbing a toligate keeper, A comrade of his wae shot while being arrested. Rapsom, a P. E. Islonder, was guilty of larceny, and had 24 years to serve, while Shiotte had only tea months to serve. He was from Moutrea!. Since the incarceration of Wright, ascheme has been on ‘foot

for the escape of the four. With this end in view Wright with a cemmon case knife destitute of a

handle, transformed inte a saw and cut seven bars, three perpendicularly aod tour horizontal, eff his barred door. The work was completed yesterday. Te prevent the openisg being seen en the door jarring when opened he placed in the erevices bard soap used by him in washing yesterday. He got out into the cerridor, knocked the lecks off the other prisoner’s doors and let, them out. , [cig the dniy ef the guards to visit these cells on Saoday at several perieds through the day. Six o’cleck was ene of the hours. When the guards went in last night they were peunced upon and a desperate fight ensued fer three-quarters ef an heur They fought, two prisoners attacking each guard. It was either life or death for the convicts, and they fought for it. Up and dowa the passuge the contest- ants roiled, till finally the guards were overpowered. They were then tied with repes mace frem tie bed clething. The r revolvers were teken fiom their pockets, and they were dragged to the cells and put inside. The conviets

ked the gurds in the cells, and then

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threw the keys awy. The liberated wien then went to the tailor’s shep where they secured each a suit of eivilian’s clothes. The next move wa-

| te scale the walls with ladders, which was successfully necomplished, The guards were not discovered in the cell- until about nine o'clock. The eonvicts hai then about two heurs’ rtart. As } soon asdiseovered an alarm was sound- led, and men dispatched in all direction. ‘Cue convicts have not yet been capiur ed. ihe convicts picked their time nicely, as no guards were around the place at that hour except the two who were attacked, There is considerable excitement in the city. nlite svpibiadaie

The State of the Country.

The trade returns show a most cheerful state of public business. The volume ef our exports was greater in the past year than in any year sinee 1875-4, which mark- od the highest figures since the formation of the Dowinion. The value of our exports, for the firat time in the histery of the country, exceeded our total imports by $1,- 421,711, and exceeded our importation for consumption by $16,129,109. Onr aggre- gate trade was $159,693,807, against an aggregate trade last year of $151,832,863, er nearly $8,000,000 of increase. Our trade with Great Britain exceeds that of last year by $15,018,438, and our trade with the United States has decreased by $8,207,863. Our trade with the West Indies has increased since last year by $2,- 063,749. Our trade with China and Japan showa an increase over last year of $425,- 944, anda larger increase over previvus years. Thevaine of goods entered for consumption show a decrease since the lasi vear from $80,341,603 to $71,782,349, or in round oumbers about $8,500,000 of de- crease. These facts prove beyond qneation a rapid progress towards great and per- manent prosperity. They show that our manufactures are inercasing in activity that our people are extensively employed ; that our foreign trade is developing; that our shipping is prosperous ; that our trade relations with Great Britain have not proved as unfair as the Oppoaitien asserted they would be ; and that one of the chief oijects of the National Policy, the protec- tien ef our industries, has been effectually accomplished. There is, therefore, every- thing to encourage the Government in its active aud enterprising policy of progress in regard to public works.

Finauciaily there is ihe same story to tell The inerease in the public debt of $9,530, 000 has been called to account by the Oppo- aition. The receipts for the year ending | 30th June 1889, were $23.307,406 ; and the

expexditures $24,850,654, or an apporent | deficit ef 31,543,228 ; but if we dedict from | thie €1,500,000 really due as revenue in the | past though paid in the previous vear, we shall have only a deficit of $243,223. The fivaies of the current year prove that this is the correct way of looking at these figures siuee the large revenue of this year, so far, shows that if the tariff were appiied to the eonsnuimption of the past year it the deficit pe more than we The figures of the eur The ipte of the seven months past have compered with the previous seven months, as follows ;

RECBIPTS.

BME OS os Geis cians eee eece et $12,315,83 BI hiss tices ha Chet Krk bins x 16,444,951 The expenditures for the seven months as compared with the revenue, shows an equally satisfactory result with regard to the previeus year. Thus: 1879-80 (7 monrus.)

Expenditures .... covers eeee $1 4,456,453 Recoipte.....c.crscccsscccecssvevsecess 12,315,831

Over expended..........000+68 2,141,422 1880-81 (7 morTHs.)

Expenditures. nncenescni tac ae ies Receipts. orersccccccrsecesesceesereees 16,444,951

Sarplus.. 100 seceocoescogsoveeceye$ 1,663,528 Under all these cirevinstances the public eannet help seeing that the Opposition have very little ground indeed for deciar- ing the ‘‘ruin” of the country because the Government has gone into an enter- prise on favorable terms which the late Soverument was anxious to enter upon on very unfaverable terms in a time ef con- fessed depresion.—Teronto Mail.

seiliieeninie

Mrs. Parnell, mother of the M. P. of that name, whe is now in America, has written a very strong letter to the Irish Land Leagues inAmerica in which she states that it is the daty of the Irish farmers netto pay any rents until the Government changes ita present tactics, She says that if the Irish farmers are giving way and paying their reats they are not worth fighting tor asd should bo left to their fate. This letter has excited much unfavorable comment among the Land Leagues of Boston and elsewhere,

sativa leave have last stated it. rent year are still more encouraging.

The rece

would

been,

Well, miss,” said a knight of the birch rod, ‘“‘can you decline a kiss?” “ Yes, sir,” said the girl, dropping a per- plex d courtesy. ‘‘ I can, but I hate to

don, is to receive the command of the Ameriean expedition to Jones’ Sound,

most plaguily,”

| Longevity of British Horses. |

The numer of horses in the United Kingdom has been « stimated at rather wore | than two millions and a quarter, and their average vulue can scarcely be set down at less than £50. Their collective value, therefore, falls little short of sixiy-eigut millions sterling.

needs to be is a-self-evident proposition ; that it is so spent is certain, if horses on an ave-age beccome useless at a tine when they ought still to be io full vigor. On this point few will be disposed to challenge the verdict of Mr. W. Donglas, late veterinary surgeon in the 10th Huserrs, who tells us that a horse should hive fiom thirty-five to forty, and live actively and usefal during three-feurths of this period. ‘‘All authori- ties,” he says, ‘‘now admit that animals should live five times as long asit takes them to reach maturity. A dog, which is at its full growth when between two and three years old, is very aged at twelve years Horses do not, unless their growth is for- ced, reach their full prime until they are seven or eight years — old, which by the same Iaw leaves them to live some thirty years longer. When these facts are kept in mind, to- gether with these other facts that three- fourths of our horses die or are destroyed under twelve years old, that horses are termed aged at six” (he should have said eizh.), ‘Sold at ten, very old when double that number of years, and that few of them but are laid up from work a dozen times a year, ; the viciousnesa = of en-

a system which

tails such misery and destruction ef life cannot be too strongly commented upon.” If we take the age of three

years as that at which herses begin to work, and twelve as that of which they are worn ont, it follows that the period of their efficiency is shorter by at least four teen years than it sheuld be, In other words, the natien has to buy three horses when it onght to buy only one, and thus upwards of £200,000,000 are spent every 21 years in the purchase of horses, when £68 ,000,000 ought to suffice. The loss, therefore, to the nation is at least £135,- 000.600 in twenty-oue years.—Fraser’s Magazine. — oe oa -—

Weary Women.

Nothing is more reprehensible and tho- reughly wrong than the idea that a women fultiils her duty by doing an amount of work that isfar beyond her strength. She not only does not fulfill her duty, but she most signally fails init; and the failure is truly deplorable. ‘There can Le no sadder sight than that of a broken-down, over- worked wife and mother—a woman who is tired of ber life through. If the werk of the homsehuld cannot be accomplished by order, system, and moderate work, without the necessity of wearing, heart-breaking toil—tei] that is never ended and never begun—without making life a treadmill of labor, then for the sake of humanity, let the work yo. Detter live in the midst of disorder than that order should be pur- chased at so high a price—the cost of health, strength, happiness, and ali that makes existence endurable. The woman who spends ber life im unnecessary labour is ubfitted for the highest duties at home. She should be the haven of rest to which both husband and children turn for peace and refreshment. She should be the care- ful, intelligent adviser and guide of the one, the tender confidant and helpmate ef the other. How is it possible for a woman ex- hausted in body, as a natural consequence in mind also, to perform either of these offices. No, it is not possible. Tie con- stant strain is too great. Nature gives way beneath it. She loses health and spirits and hopefulness, and, more thau ali, ber youth ! the last thing that a woman should allow to slip from her; for no inatter how old she is in years, she should be young in heart and feeling, for the youth of aye is sometimes more attractive than youth itself. To the over-werked woman this green old age is out of the question ; old age comes on her sere and yellow before its time. Her disposition is ruined, her tem- per is soured, her very nature is changed by the burden which, too heavy to carry, is dragged along as long as weary feet end tired hands can do their part. Even her affections are blaunied, and she becomes merely a machine—a woman without the time to be womanly, a mother without the time to train and guide her children as only

| building for a Custoin House, Post Office, That the nation ineurs s | and Inland Revenue Offices

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Orrawa, Feb. 15.

Sussex has a vote of five thousand dollars in the estimates to-day to commence | Woodstock thousand for a like purpose. | tor Negrotown Point, N. B.; six thousand for Point Du Chene; Shippigan three thou- sand; Tobique two thousand; River de Charles to Bear Isiand on St. John River, two thensand; St. Andrew's harbor gets two thousand; Quaco fifteen thousand; and Cocagne five thousand. Militia diili pay is increased seventy-five thousand dollars for extra drill,

Lonpon, Feb. 15.

All the morning journals eulogize Han- lan and express the opinion that he is in- vincible. i

At a banquet given to Hanlaa last night, Mr. Innes stated that as Trickett was not pleased at his recent defeat by Ross, he would match Ross to row against Trickett or Laycock for from £500 to £1000,

Srxuincrigip, Tenn., Feb. 15.

An ermed mob yesterday compelled the judge and Attorney General to pro- mise an early trial of the negroes imprisoned for murder without chargesof venue. Five companies of militia have sinee arrived.

Arcugson, Kansas, Feb. 15.

A severe snow storim prevailed yesterday along the Central Branch Railroad, west of this city. ‘Twelve inches have fallen. The wind is high and the cold severe. Only two railreads eentering here are running trains.

Lonpon, Feb. 15.

Phipps (Conservative) was elected to Parliament without opposition fer South Northamptonshire, vice W. F. Cartwright (Conservative) deceased.