Ghe Examiner.

Charlottetown, May %, 1876,

j ‘ LATE SESSION furrmry-Two Acts were Pp assed during session of the Legislature which was | wued on Saturday,30th ult. Of these, | three provide for the final settlement of | the Land Question. The “ Act to amend the Land Purchase Act, 1875,” familiarly | known as th Ancillary Bill,’’ has already been explained in these columns. | lt simply declares the meaning of some lauses in the compulsory measure passed | ast year; and makes a few additional |

eguiations ior the

preme Court and the Commissioners, The |

guidance of the Su-

repert circulating throughout some parts of the eountry that it relieves tenants from paying to proprietors whose estates have not yet been paid for by Gevernment, the current year's rent, is entirely erroneous. | The fact that proprietors and their agents are, to secure themselves, sueing thou- sands of poor tenants who have not paid | the year’s rent, and who are unable at | this season to pay it without making great sacrifices, should stimulate the Govern-

to the earliest moment possible.

ment et possession of the estates at The rent

lt is, however,

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must, of course, be paid, very unfortunate that proprietors should | be placed in cireumstances in which they deem themselves compelled to distrain for | rent at a season when many farmers find it | next to impossible to raise adollar. “An | Act to facilitate the purchase of the | estates of proprietors under the Land | Purchase Act, 1875,’’ and an “ Act to empower the Goverrment of Prince Ed- ward Island to purchase lands held by proprietors,’ both of which have received the Lieutenant Governor, will, we trust, be speedily put into opera-

the assent of

tion. With the power which these Acts give, the Government will, we believe, be

enabled to bring the agitation of a cent-

ury to a peaceful it not a thoroughly | 4

satisfactory close. The Act providing for reform in the Civil Serviee of the} Province, though felt by all parties to be | wanting in some respects, is yet * de- | cided step in the right direction. One| result of its operation will be the jatro- duction of the principle of departmenta] government—a government under which the head of each department is a member | ot the Executive, and responsible to the | Legislature for the performance of the | duties appertaining to his office. In re- forming the Civil Service the Legislature |

doubtless went as far as it was prudent or possible to go at the presenttime. While | it is extremely desirable that the two! highly important d and Public Education should be | thoroughly re-organized and placed direet

epartments of Public

Lands

ly under the control of a responsible Go- vernment, it was perhaps advisable not to tinker with them until the state of the first is definitely ascertained, and the will of the people respecting the other is shown by an appeal to the polls, If the ‘* Act further securing the independence of the General Assembly ”’ contained a clause providing that oaly one representative in either House should be elected where| there are now two, it would, besides the saving a large amount of money annual- ly, tend, not only to the independence but also to the efficiency and respecability ef our Legislature. That our ship of state is now too heavily manned is becom- ing more and more apparent every year. The real of session almost entirely upon the shoulders of six or seven men ; and the Province, though | she can ill afford it, is obliged to pay ups | wards of forty. But, though the Act | lacks this important provision, it is, yet, | a good measure ; and it will, we teel con- vinced, be productive of good results. The Act, introduced by the Hon. A.

J. McDonald, regulating the sale by li- cense of spirituous liquors ‘ appears to contain,’’ says His Honor the Lieutenant Governor, ‘ provisions which will have a salutary effect in cheeking the prevalence of local evils generally deplored.” It leaves the power of permitting a licensed tavern to be opened in any school district in the hands of the people of the district. It requires that only two meetings shall be held in the same school district in the course of a year; and that the meetings shall not be held ia a private house, but in a school house or some public building. Notices of the meetings must be published two weeks in the newspapers of the County, or if there be no County paper, in one of the papers of Charlottetown. A notice is also to be posted on the schoolhouse, and a copy of it must be left with the school. master. In order to discourage tavern keepers from giving liquor to persons who have not the ready money to pay for it, the Act provides that the tavern keeper shall not recover, in a court of law, the price of any quantity less than a gallon. It also imposes a heavy fineon any Magis- trate who may grant a certificate to a would-be tavern keeper, whose house and premises are not supplied with all the ac- commodation the law requires. Last, but not least, it raises the fees for tavern licenses to $30, and for store licenses to

work the falls

$75.

Two Acts affect the City of Charlotte- The “ Act in further amendment of the Act to incorporate the city of Char. lottetown,” gives the city the right of governing itself, and renders the City Council a powerful body. We trust citi- zens will rise to the occasion. There is, undoubtedly, sufficient talent and suf- ficient enterprise and public spirit in the town to govern it economically and well, and to raise it toa level with any of ihe cities of the neighbouring provinces. The selection of Councillors will, in future, be an important matter ; and civic elections will, doubtless, be a little more lively in the future than they have been in the past. Good, tried, practical, respectable, business men, should be obtaiued to represent the interest of citizens. Unfortunately such men will not now serve merely for the honor of the thing ; and it may be well for citizens seriously to consider the pro- priety of paying to City Councillors a sum sufficient to indemnify them from personal loss, A sinall allowance —such as is paid the Directors of Banks and In- surance Companies, might have a salutary effect, and be the means, in the long run,

town.

| gether, the session has been moderately

| knowledgments of Deeds.

| of Prince Edward Island.

Act,

{| dent Association.

| the appointment of a Parliamentary Com-

of saving money, The “ Act vesting in

the city of Charlottetown a certain por- tion of Government House Farm,”’ will, assent of

the Governor |

i | i i . if it receives the

General, give to the citizens for all time,

Alto. |

|

_ recreate and amuse themselves.

We subjoin a complete list of | the Acts passed . |

fruitful.

An Act to confirm the registration of cers | tain deeds and writings ! An Act in further amendment of an Act to incorporate the City of Charlottetown. An Act relating to Partnerships. } An Act for the appointment of Commission. | ers beyond the limit ef this Province, to take | iffidavits in the Supreme Court, and

ac- | The Seduction Act, 1876. Acts therein |

An Actto continue certaia mentioned |

An Aci toamend and consolidate the laws | relating!o the Methodist Church of Canada,

An Act tv amend An Act to Incorporate the Merchants Marine Insurance Company

An Act to amend the Insolvent Debtors’

An Act to change the place in Charlotte-

town for holding the Sheriff's Court for the purposes of Elections to the General As- sembly.

An Act to ratify and confirm a certain

exchange of Pasture Lots, Nos. 326 and 325,

made between George Coles and Martin Dogherty both deceased.

I'he Official Oaths Act, 1876.

An Act respecting the Jurisdiction of the Stipendiary Magistrate. |

An Act for vesting in the Town of Sum- | merside, the Lands and Premises therein |

mentioned. An Act to amend the Act of the thirly- rventh Victoria, Chapter five, intituled An Act to prevent ihe running at large of horses, cattle and sheep in the several school districts in Queen’s County in this Island. An Actenabling the Stipendiary Magis- trate of the City of Charlottetown to grant relief to Insolvent Debtors. An Act to Incorporate the Acadie Provi-

sé

An Act to Incorporate a Law Society.

An Act for the Incorporation of the Vie- toria Boring and Mining Association.

An Act respecting the Town of Summer- side.

An Act rolating to Public Wharfs and Bridges.

An Act further securing the Inde pendence of the General Assembly.

An Act to facilitate the purchase of the estates of the proprietors under ‘“ The Land Purchase Act, 1879.”

An Act relating to certain departments of the Public Service.

An Act regulating the sale by license of Spirituous Liguors.

An Act relating to Coroners Inquests.

An Act respecting the recovery of Assess- ment imposed on land in this Island.

An Act to empower the the Government of Prince Edward Island to purchase lands held by the proprietors.

An Act for the appropriation of certain moneys therein mentioned for the year of our Lerd 1876.

An Act respecting the management and sale of certain lands.

An Aetto amend “ The Land Purchase Act, 1275.

An Act to vest a certain portion of Govern- ment House Farm in ihe City of Charlotte- town for certain purposes therein mentioned.

THE SCHOOL COMMISSION.

TruTa, like a torch, the more it’s

shook, the more its shines.’’ Investiga- tion and criticism never injure a good cause. We were not of those who opposed mittee to enquire into the state of our public schools. Had our advice been followed, a Committee with similar but wider powers would have been appointed last year; and a full and comprehensive report of the working of our school system, together with a scheme to remedy existing evils, would, ere this, have been laid before the people. The Committee of which the Leader of the Opposition was chairman, could not, necessarily, make anything like a thorough examina- tion into the state of our public schools. Still less could they offer to the people a well-weighed plan, by the adoption of which those schools may be improved. But they have rendered, at least, one very important service. An argument constant- ly used »y secularists is that the teaching of distinctive religious beliefs ia public schools cannot, in a mixed community, co-exist with the peace, contentment and good government of the country. The developements made before the Committee show that this is a fallacy, Though in glaring violation of the spirit as well as the letter of our educitional laws ; though in direct opposition to the will of the majority, as expressed by their representa- tives in the Legislature, religious instruc- tion—ay, ecctarian education—has been imparted in many of our public schools for at least seventeen years—and so ex- ceedingly slight has been the disturbance that the public at large never heard of it. Nor could the closest cross-examination of the witnesses, by the Leader of the Oppo- sition and other members of the Com. mittee, elicit a single instance in which such religious instruction had been the means of disturbing the tranquility of the district in which it was imparted. Mr. McPhail, School Visitor for Queen’s County, said that in Rustico there are two schools side by side—one composed of the children of Roman Catholics, the other of those of Protestants. In the former the catechism is taught; in the latter the education is purely secular. Yet there is no quarreling among the children ; “no pointing with the finger of scorn at the Papist school ;” no strife among the parents. On the contrary, “the most perfect harmony exists.” The tev. Alexander Mclean has been so slightly effected with the horrible results of sectarian teaching that he has, ever since he became Pastor of Belfast, per- mitted the religion of Presbyterians, as laid down in the shorter catechism, to be taught in the public schools of that district —simply because “it was not of much consequence; it was an old Highland custom,and Highlanders are very tenacious of their customs.’? The instance of a schoolmaster who actually taught two different catechisms—and lived —was also cited.

The Committee having established the fact that religion has been, and may be, taught in the public schools of this Pro- vince, it is, of course, needless to adduce the example of such cities as Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, and such countries as England and Prussia, te prove that the Christian Religion—the religion of peace, morality and good-will—mzy, under cer tain conditions, be admitted into the pub- schools of a Christian people without dis- astrous results. This important point having been made clear, we may hope that the persistent demands of Roman Catho-

lics, and the ardent desires of all truly religious Protestant parents may be speed- ly satsisfied ; that a long continued agita- tion may be allayed, and our public schools raised to the level of respectability.

A Scrrosep Mugoerer Caucut.—A rough+ looking man, blind of an eye, supposed to be Betts, the Noya Scotian murderer, was arrested by the police of this city, on Sun-

day.

THE LOBSTER QUESTION.

‘LOBSTERS, prepared by

in this Is—

CANNED Messrs. Cairne and Waddel

: oe . ils ave now a high place in the market a small but beautiful Park, in which, to} nd, have now a higa:p

England. We recently tested a can put up last summer by Mr. Waddel, The meat proved as fresh and good as the day the can was hermetically sealed. The demand for such goods is of course on the increase. <A amount of capital has been invested in the lobster “ Lobster factories ”’

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large

canning business. have been erected in various parts of the

Island ; and preparations are, we under- |

stand, being made to vigorously prosecute the work during the coming summer. The trade will, however, we fear, re- ceive a severe shock from the Dominion Government. By a recent order in Council, all fishing for lobsters from the 10th of July to the 20th of Augustis pro- hibited and rendered illegal. This erder was doubtless ).ssed because it was thought necessary or advisable to protect the fish during the spawning season. But before passing it, the Dominion Govern ment would have done well to enquire lst, whether lobsters require protection ; 2nd, whether capitalists and fishermen who have invested largely ia the lobster

fishery may not be injured or ruined if}

the order is enforced. Mr. F. H. Baker, a gentleman who evidently knows the habits of lobsters and understands the lobster canning business, writes to the Halifax Reporter :-—

On the coast of the Maritime Provinces the Factories rarely open until the middle or last of May, the time being later as you go Kast from Cape Sable—an average being the {st of June. On the coast of Maine the lobsters really are soft-shelled and unfit for use by the Ist July, but here they are in their prime all through July, and even far into Augustin Cape Breton, while on the coast of Newfoundland lobsters are often good all through August in some localities. To close Canadian factories on the Ist July and open on the 20th August, is virtually to prohibit lobsters from being caught when in season and allowing them to be caught when out cf season—softsshelled propagating their kind and uafit for use. When the now-proposed clos season [that is from the 10th July to the 20th Aug.] on this coast expires, and the factories are allowed to open—not only is this opening time (he really spawning season but few lobsters can be caught, for the the instinct of the animal teaches it to conceal itself among the rocks reefs, suDmarine caves, and kelp, while propagating its kind, and its shell that is its armor, being softened, is no longer its defence—hence the lobster hides, and will not come out. The books ofall the canning factories sbow a sudden falling off in the catch allj along the coast of tue Maritime Provinces, beginning at Cape Sable about the 3ist July, and later as you go east and nerth, or north-east, as the coast line runs. This is when the proper close season should begin if begun at all, This lasts about six weeks, so that with the close season, as imposed by the Dominion Government, beginning six weeks before the true spawn- ing season really segins, added to the six weeks of the actual spawning season, it virtually cleses the Canadian factories from the 10th July to the 10th October, by which time the rough weather on the South- ern sea-board of the Maritime Provinces, the exposed and rock-bound coast, and the risk of losing the traps and gear used by the fishermen, which unlike nets are set close in shore and are often destroyed in a single night for miles by a heavy sea heaving in from the Southward, South-east, or South- west, makes the fall fishing for lobsters every year less and less prosecuted, $because un- remunerative, more especially a3 so abund- ant are lobsters that even the eariy summer fishing has oversstocked the market, so thet last year the proposition was seriously entertained among the packers to close up for the year, about the first or middle of August according to location. The effect therefore of this new order imposing the close simply is entirely prohibilory the year round in effect, because no packer could afford to open his factory for a month’s fish- ing, and no fisherman would catch for such a time or fit out tor it.

Mr. Baker goes fully into the matter; and concludes :—

The lobster fishery in the Maritime Pro- vinces ranks next in importance and value of its exports to that of codfish. It is an in- dustry in which hundreds of thousands of dollars and hard earnings of thousands of fishermen are invested. Well Sir, suppos- ing without a word of notice, after the House and Senate at Ottawa had closed and the representatives and senators went to their various homes, without jrevious discussion or intimation of dicussion, an order should be passed in Council that no codfish should be caught but for one month in the year,and the whole fleet of fishing vessels rof at the wharves, and the fishermen fitted out for the season slarve,—would there not be rebel- lion or wholesale emigration, and yet there would be far more reason to pass even a law protecting codfish than lobsters, because codfish really are scarce and high in price, arguing excess of demand over supply, and codfish are caught the year round in all weather, that is hundreds of miles of traw! with baited hooks lying on the bottom, out in deep water out of the reach of surf and undertow catching up the mother fish while vessels from foreign lands fish on the same ground and steamships even from France are on the banks of Newfoundland. Here would indeed be a source of alarm for the extinction of the cod, and sir, would any Government dare to thus abruptly and arbitrarily impose such a law withont due notice, so that the capital invested could be withdrawn, and the people engaged get other employment. But Sir, this ts what the Dominion Government have done to the lobster fishery.

PersonaL.—Mr. Robert A. Nicholson, of the firm of Fenton T. Newbery & Co., left ‘he Island last week for England and France, with the iniention of taking St. John, Boston, New York and Philadelphia en route. From what we can glean of this gentleman’s not entirely uneventful history, travelling is nothing new to him, He is wo understand, a native of Kamptee, Central India, from which country he was taken, at an early age, to Scotland, narrowly escap- ing the fatal effects of the climate, only to face another danger. On the vovage from India the ship nearly foundered off the coast of Natal. After residinga short time in Edinturgh, he ~ss taken by his mother to Paris, where, during the coup d'etat of 1851, the bullets of the Insurgents nearly terminated his youthful existence. Mr. Robert A. Nicholson, we understand, is the second son of the late Captain Robert Nicholson, H, M, 2lst R. N. B. Fusileers, Grandson of the late Lieut. General Robert Nicholson, Commander-in-Chief of the Hon. East India Company’s Forces at Bombay, Nephew of his late Excellency John Gregory, Esq., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahama Islands, in the West Indies.

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Rive Association.—The Annual General Meeting of the Provincial Rifle Association was held at the City Council Chambers, on Monday last, Lt. Col. Rankin, the President of the Association in the Chair. The follow- ing gentlemen were elected members of Council for the ensuing year :—

For Queen’s County, Major Morris, Major Mitchell, Capt. Freeland and Capt. Longs worth, re-elected.

For King’s County, Capt. Owen, re-elect @1; Capt. McLeod.

For Prince County, James ltichards, Esq., M. P. P., and Richard Hunt, Esq.

The rule of the Association with reference to membership of Militia Companies was amended by limiting the number of mem- bers to twelve for each company, subscribing the sum of $10. The thanks of the As- sociation were then tendered to Lt, Col. Rankin and Council, for the manner in which they performed their respective duties at the annuai competition for the year 1875,

CORRESPONDENCE.

RARAA RARE | NOTES FROM MOUNT STEWART. | To the Editor of the Examiner.

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| Sin,—Perhaps a description of the thriv- | | ing village at Mount Stewart would not be | amiss. Many do not happen to visit that | way, and therefore would like to read of | the thriving little place. Mount Stewart is | situate near the head of the navigation of | the Hillsborough, and distant from Char- lottetown by land eighteen miles, and about twenty miles by water.

It has a

| double advantage for market, as the cars | from Charlottetown run up the north side, |

| pass through the village, and down the |

|south side of the river. Mount Stewart |

villag» is built on land which is pretty low | and wet; but in many parts it has been | very much improved by draining. Many | new dwellings and other building were put | up in 1875, some of which are very tasty. | The inhabitants are erecting a building to | be used as # hall and schoolroom. The | lower flat is for a school, and the second storey will be fitted up for a public hall. | The design and plan wore, as | was inform, | ed, drawn by Richard Weeks, Esq., Supt. | Pablic Works, for Queen’s County. At this | place there are three hotels. The first on | the list is Mr. Clark’s two storey well-laids | oft house, where the traveller can have | his horse and himself cared for if occasion | requires. Next is the hotel kept by P. | Whelan, Eeq. This is & well-kept house, | where a meai will be got up in first-class | style in # emall amount of time. There is | also the Gillis House, kept by an obliging | gentlemen. So that you can see there is” no necessity of going away from Mount Stewart hungry. A word about the ship- building. As near as I can remember, there are nineteen vessels building here, varying | in size from 200 to 900 tons. The largest,

I understand, is owned by Mesers. Peake

Bros. & Co. Longworth & Co. do a large

business here in shipbuilding and manu-

facturing timber. ir. Longworth has one

of Taylor’s rotary steam mills titted up with

different kinds ot machinery. There are

several circuiar saws, a French band saw,

and about the best planer on the Island.

The man who attends to the planer can

put in a deck plank for aship, and it comes

out planed on the four sides. The band

saw and circulars will make aship’s knee,

ready for bolting, from the rough stick,

All the machinery seems to be excellent,

and bids fair to remunerate Mr. Longworth

handsomely. There is no doubt but this

steam mill will be a great benefit to the

public, and to shipbuilders in particular.

A number of vessels are built above the public bridge, and, when launched, are floated through the draw. This draw was built by James McQuaid, Esq., and Mr. H.

Braudock., It speaks well for their works

mapship. The diaw is wide enough to

admit a 50) or 600 ton ship, and still will

only occupy a few moments in opening and shutting. I understand that the Superin. tendent of Queen’s County designed and superintended it. David Eagan, Esq., has made a large and useful improvement in

building out a very extensive breast block

for ships. This will be a fine work when

finished, and shows the go-ahead propens sities of Mr. Eagan. Well, I say, Mr. Eds itor, success to all such men.

Yours, A TRAVELLER,

May 6, 1876.

MISCELLANEOUS.

SOE ee

They enter acargo of opium at the Ha- vana Custom House, as coals.

Some of the hill tribes of india have res» volted, and are likely to give serious trouble before they are subdued.

The Algorian revolt has been completely subdued, the leader being held in hostage for the future good behavior of the tribes.

The unveiling of the Schiller monument at Marbach, in Germany, will iake place on May 9, the anniversary of the poet’s death.

One of the ladies in waiting on the Queen of Greece is to be married, and her trous<« seau, which has been ordered in Paris, is to cost $200,000.

The King of Dahomey has sent an inso- lent message to Commodore Hewett and is threatened with punishment, So another little war is in prospect,

The establishment of the Episcopate of the Christian Catholic Church of Switzer land has¢ been approved by the Federal Council of that country.

Probably the oldestclergyman in Europe is the Rev. Dr. Ingram, of the parish of Unst, Shetland, who,on the 3rd of March completed the 100th year of his age and T4th of his ministry.

Shakespeare's estate at New-Place, at Stratford-on,Avon, has been formally cone veyed to the corporation of that town by Mr. Halliwell Phillips. Mr. Phillips has had published recently a list of Shake- speare’s Study Books.

The Messager de Paris bombastically ans nounces that the Russivn Czar, before the end of this month, wil «ttirm that the peace of Europe must not be piaced in doubt; making the declaration with such solemnity as to dispel all distrust.

A correspondent of an English farming paper states that one of his tenants placed a pump inthe piggery in order to pump the whey from tiie cheese room, and adds, ‘ one day I saw an old pig deliberately take the handle of the pump into its mouth and pump itself some whey.’ There were evi- dently some brains in that old hog’s head.

A safe deposit vault just completed in London, is deemed invulnerable. It is sunk forty-six feet into the ground, with walls of Brick and concrete six feet thick. Inside this structure is the safe, three feet thick, mada of fire brick and undrillable iron. The metal doors weigh four tons each, and are swung by hydraulic power.

A Miss Andrews daughter of a grocer, has recovered £2() damages at the Ipswich As~ sizes, in England, trom a butcher named Bishop for breach of promise of marriage. In his defence the defendant added insult to injury, for he not only denied that he had ever made any promise of marriage, but said that he would rather have married a sweep, and would as soon have kissed s monkey as the plaintiff.

A staff of divers, under the direction of Mr. Ridgard, of Liverpool, has arrived at Scilly to attempt to recover the remainder of the £80,000 of specie which went down in the Schillar last May—£57,000 was rex covered last year. The divers who went down report the remainder of the wreck as being deep in the water and undisturbed by the winter storms,

A telegraph efficial explains how cables are broken by the anchors ef fishing crafts. The skipper hooks the cuble, heaves up his chain as far as heis able, putting a severe strain on the telegraph cable, and then swings toit, a heavy sea strikes him, ora tremendous ground swell throws him ups wards like a cork, and something has got tosmash. That something is generally the cable, being weakest.

A deed of unparalleled audacity has been committed by 2 young woman in Dresden. On a night when she knew the aged pro. prietor of a fancy store would be alone, she asked for a pair of cuffs. Asthe old man turned to look for them, she took a hatchet from under her apron, and dealt him a ter- rible blow on the head. The wounded man was, however, able tocry for help, which speedly came. The girl tries to palliate her crime by saying she wanted money for her wedding.

The marvellous recuperation of France is again proved by Leon say's budget for 1877. In 1869, the last complete year before the war, the revenue amounted to 1,400,000,- 000 francs; the expenditure 1877 is estima- ted at the enormous sum of 2,! 20,000,000 francs, which shows that in eight years the taxation of France has increased fifty per cent., the excess over last year’s expendi- ture being 50,000,000 francs. For the

and navy 730, francs are allo

but for education Jony 40,000,000 francs.

Centennial Exhibition. General Superintendent of the Canadian Department, is, it appeers,at feud with the

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Empress Augusta of Germany will shortly pay a visit to Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle,

The proclamation of the title of Empress of India has been published in the Oficial Gazelle of the United Kingdom,

A memorial in favor of reciprocial trade relations with Canada, with the signatures of some 1,300 merchants and citizens of Boston attached, was presented in the Washington House on Saturday

The American Government having des clined to acquiesce in the demand of Eng» land, the British Cabinet has decided not to return Winslow to the United States and he has been unconditionally released from custody.

1t is believed that in future a more strin- gent interpretation will be given to the Washington Treaty by the Canadian Gov- ernment, in dealing with questions relating to privileges granted to Americans under that Treaty.

It is just two centuries and a half since Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, generally called Lord Bacon, died. His death took place on Easter-day, 1626, when he had not quite completed the

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| rst quarter of his 66th year,

Mr, John Harper, late Head Master in the Model School at Truro, and now Vrins cipal of the Victoria and High Schools, St. Jobn, N. B., has published a volume ens titled “ The History of New Brunswick and the other Maritime Provinces.”’

Lord Duflerin will shortly visit Quebec, where, during his stay, it is probable he will accept a banquet, proffered by the Mayor and the citizens of that city, His Excellency has had plans prepared for im- provements to the city, when the city is in a position to make them,

It is greatly to be regretted that there is trouble among intending exhibitors at the Mr. Perrault, the

Provincial Agents; and fears are entertain- ed of such a squabble as will materially retard the progress of preparation in the Canadian Department.

Aconference recently took place in Rome between seven Cardinals and the represen« tatives of some of the Great powers, with the view of settling the differences between various states and the Church, but the des sired end does not seem to have been at-~ tained,the prelaies declaring peace to be an impossibility without the acknowledgment of the spiritual independence of the Church,

‘‘A Father,” in a fit of semi-humorous wisdom, makes a proposition in the Fes porter that on the registration of the birth ofa child the parent shall be entitled to receive the sum of $50. The abolition of all Emigration agencies and the useless ex- penditure in connection with them, would, he thinks, enable the Province to pay this bonus on the rising of a family. No doubt there is a good deal of sense in the pro- position, and many intending fathers would gladly support it.—Hz. Herald.

Ong or A. T. Srewarr’s Goop Daups.— There is a widow lady living in one of the adjoining countries of North Carolina, whose husband was a Confederate soldier, and who during the war was in prison at El. mira, N. Y., where he died. This lady since the close of the war, has received regularly every year the cheque of A. I’. Stewart, the deceased millionare, in the sum of $59. Why, she has never known. The lady is in dependent circumstances, and she now fears that her annual donation will cease.

A letter from London has this information about the late Mr. Forster's unfinished “Life of Swift :’--“ A paragraph recently appeared in the Athenawm lamenting that none of the materials which Mr. Forster had collected for the completion of his

Life of Swift’ are in a form in which they can be used. But I am assured by an eminent literary man, better accquainted with the subject of the memoir than any one living, that there are among these materials facts of the utmost importance concerning Swift and his times — facts never printed or made known—which will require further attention, and probably make it necessary that the biography shall be placed in competent hands for com: pletion.”

Massachusetts Republicans have resented the indignity offered by the National Senate to one of their best men when it rejected the nomination of Richard H. Dana 9s Min- ister to England. At the Republican State convention, held in Boston last week, Mr. Dana was chosen as one of the delegates to the National convention to be held at Cin- cinnati for the nomination of candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency. The Massachusetts gathering of a thousand delegates, including James Russell Lowell and John G. Whittier, the poets, and many other distinguished men, left its delegates tree to support any candidate whose high statemanship and pure character furnish a guarantee that, if they are elected, the Govs ernment wil! be administered without the scandals that have lately disgraced the Re- publican party and the nation.

How is this? There has been no coms» munication with Sable Island since last De- cember, though nearly all the time there have been two Government steamers in Halifax harbor. Only once was an attempt made to reach the Island, and it failed in consequence Of the ice blockade, Several vessels are missing, which may possibly have been wrecked on the Island. Yet for five months there has been no report from that quarter. We had occasion once to find fault with the Government of Sir John A. Macdonald for keeping steamers idle in the harbors when they might have been off the coast assisting distressed ves- sels, and we do not think that the present Government are entirely guiltless in this matter. The importanee and imperative necessity of a telegraph cable to the Is- land becomes more evident every day.— Hr. Chronicle.

AGRaniaw Murper in Ingianp.—A terrible agrarian murder has occurred in Ireland. Mr, P. S. Brydges,a land agent, who had been fired at a year and a half ago for an ejectment, was recently fired at again. He was driving from Michelstown towards Cork, accompanied by two constables, when he received a regular volley, and his drivera man named Hyland, was shot dead. He himself was wounded with slugs in the head and body. Mr. Brydges, who is agent for Mr. Buckley, an Englishman, had recently placed an increased rental on the farms, and expresses his resolution to adhere to his decision. The Coroner’s jury which sat on Hyland seems to have thought that, as he was not aimed at, his death was acci- dental,and said they did not want to saddle the crime on any one man. Accordingly, they brought in an open verdict of ‘ Died from a gunshot wound.’

The dissatisfaction which was pretty free- ly expressed in some of the British journals on the announcement of Lord Lytton’s ap» pointment to the position of Viceroy of India will still be fresh in the minds of our readers. It is not the first time, however, that pubicopinion has been mistaken in taking the measure of a man’s ability. Mr. Disraeli is a notable instance of such a mis~ calculation—a miscalcufation of the injus~ tice of which he was not unconscious, when he told the assembled representatives of the Commons of England that the day would arrive when they should be glad to hear him. There is something in the tone of confidence adopted by the new Viceroy in the speech which he made at the ceres mony of his reception and installation at Calcutta, which, while it calls to mind the indignant reply of the present British Pre- mier to those who would fain have coughed him down, also gives promise of a consider- able share of these qualities which go to the making ofastatesman. His Lordship said that he had now become, by the Sove» reign’s favour, the inheritor of a great duty, bequeathed by great men, whose talents and even lives had been exacted by the unsparing nature of the duties of the office. He had not shrunk and would not shrink from the great task before him, res lying on the support of his colleagues, the sympathy of his countrymen and the confi» dence of his Soverign. The recent develop- ment of events,both in Asia and in Europe and the increasing proximity of the East+ ern and Western worlds, which, while ren- dering more difficult the complete duties of the Government of India added to their importance and grandeur. lord Lytton then alluded to the recent discussion in Parliament respecting the relative position

‘of the home and Indian Governments, and

said he would always welcome the timely constitutional co-operation of the the home Government as a guarantee for the free- dom of their discussion and the dignity of

their authority,

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