od <¢€ ° i J, “ ¥.. 2°) 00% © 0% at , s .% ‘ 4 3 re © t . i $3 — ee Ob Sab 5's. hariotietrwn. Feb. 22, IS8Zo. DOMIN VY PARLIAMENT. Cur Budget’ was the allsabsorbing

topic of last week. Notwithstanding the large surplus of the past year, there is to be no decrease in the taxation of the country. Lhe Government is evidenty determined to make large allowances for increased ex~ travagance

Reports of several Departments have been received.

PURLIC WORKS.

fhe report of the Minister of Public Worke—received at the Examiner Office last Wednesday—is remarkable for an ela borate statement of the public improve- ments progressing inevery Province of the Dominion --except Prince Edward Island. Che Minister has, apparently, ignored the existence of this Province. He has not even condescended to tell |’arliament the number of lighthouses and breakwaters the Government are building here—the num- ber of harbors dredged—or Public Builds ings erected. His forgetfulness is greatly to be regretted. At the suggestion of the Hon. J. C. Pope, an Order in Council was made by the late Government to erect eleven lighthouses on the coasts of this Province. The constituents of the Do- minion, and especially those of this Island would, doubtless, be greatly interested by information as to how Minister Mackenzie is carrying out that order. But Minister Mackenzie In his report the name ‘ Prince Ejlward Island,’ is not men- tioned. Mr. Boyd, however, furnished a very able report respecting the harbors of

is silent.

the Province and the railway, which ap- | pears as an appendix to the Minister's |

report. But it treats, only, of improve- ments already made—not of those being made. The other Provinces are not ignored as this is. We learn, for instance,that during the past vear the expenditure on public buildings in the various Provinces amount- ed to $814,109.41, this sum being aivided as follows—(Ontario, $494,744.85; Quebec $15,504.71; New Brunewick, $80,620.60 ; Nova Scotia 37,019.21; Manitoba, $12. 919.15; British Columbia, $67,391.86. Nova Scotia has, :iuring the past year, had $127,507.74 expended upon the improve-

ment of its harbor and piers. Prince Edward Island has had nothing —at least nothing worth mentioning in Premier

Mackenzie's report. And yet it might readily be shown that.the harbors and piers of this Province are as much in need of improvement as those of Nova Scotia.

Respecting the Intercolonial Railway Minister Mackenzie's report states that the track-laying from River du Loup to Moncton, 374 miles, will be completed by the end of August next. The ballast- ing, however, will not be finished by that time. Referring to the North Western communication,the Minister states that the line of communication between Fort Garry and Prince Arthur's Landing is now gener; ally recognized as the summer route to the Province of Manitoba. Its capabilities have as yet been developed toa limited degree only; but the line has nevertheless extended considerable facilities for the transmission of freight, and for the passage of immigrants to the Red River country. Besides this road through British territory, there are two routes through the United States—one from Detroit entirely by rail» way, via St. Paul to Duluth; and the sec ond by steamboat from Detroit, ascending Lake Huron and entering by the St. Mary canal. Fy the former the distance from Toronto to Fort ‘iarry is 1,569 miles, of which 1,310-- from Toronto to Morehead— are by rail,and the balance, 25) miles, is by stage. By the water route the total distance is 1 500 miles, of which 477 are by railway, 773 by steamer, and 250 by stage fhe Dominion ronte is only 1,078 miles long, 04 ef which are by rail, 532 by steam- er, and 452 miles by mixed road navigab! water andl portages. During the past sea son facilities for Two at Fort

increased. steamers built

Francis, with three steam tugs and four |

deck barges, were placed on the route by the middle of August. The charge for immigrants from Prince Arthuw to Fort (iarry has been ten dollars per passenger, with 200 lbs personal baggage.

The Pacific Railway survey has been di- vided into three sections. The first, called the Eastern or Woodland section, extends from the city of ()ttawa to the Province of Manitoba. reported practicabie; the first, passing to the north of Lake Nepigon, with branch to Prince Arthur, 1]97 miles, or with branch

to Red Rock on Nepigon Bay, 1152 miles. |

The second route passes to the South of Lake Nepigon, witl branch to Red Rock 1048 miles. The third pasces to the south of Lake Nepigon and touches Imke Super- jor at Prince Arthur, 1102 miles. The Central or Prairie region extends from Manitoba to the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. ‘nly « generai reconnoissance has been made of the counrry, by which it is ascertained that «line can be obtained to the Yellowhead Pass. The Chief En- gineer, it is stated, has directed the atten, tion of the Department to the possibility of using steamers of light draught on the water channels runuing through this re gion. It isin the third section —the West: ern or Mountain HKegion—that difficulties are encouniered. ‘The country is traversed by two lofty chains of mountains — the Roc y Mountains, and the Cascade range between the Rocky ‘:ountains and the Pacific All the lines surveyed are marked by a common difficulty—the crossing of the Caseade chain of mountains, Once the valley of the North Thompson is reached, a favorable line. without heavy works of construction, is found forthe entire length across the mountains to the eastward, Engineering parties have been organized to continue the surveys between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific, and also in the prairie ant woodian« region. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS

The Report of the Minister of Finance shows that the publie debt of the Domin- ion was, at the Istof July last, $141,163,- 551.33—an increase since the accession of the Mackenzie Administration of nearly $19,000,000. The revenue receipts for 1873-4 are reported at $24,405,092, being an increase of $3,555,525 over the income of the preceding year. The expenditures —less public works charged to capital ac, count—amount in the aygregate to $23,- 316,316.75. Thus for the years 1873-4 there was a surplus of $1,273,102.93 and, not as Mr. Cartwright last year computed —in order to lind a pretext for levying ad-~ ditional taxation—a deficit of +3 00),000.

Even had the tariffnot been raised there |

would still have been a surplus, at the end of June 1874, of $500,000. And the Mins istry must face the charge of having, with - out any justifying ciuse taxed the people to the tune of nearly a dollar per head of the population of the Dominion. THE ESTIMATES,

()n the afternoon of the | Ith inst., the

Minieter of Finance laid ‘the estimates ’

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ansportation have been |

For this three routes have been |

of ex~

on the table and made his budget speeeh,| The following are the estimates Nhe expenditures for the coming year are | penditure for P, E. Island :— } set down atabout $24,858,000 ; the revenue Civil Government. | is estimates! at $25,250,000. In his speech, | Salary of Lieutenant Governor $7,000

as summarized in the telegraphic columns of the St. John News, Mr. Cartwright said

Court.

Supreme

Salary of Chief Justice $3,000

TIiE MISERIES or NEW YORK. — j HOW THE POOR LIVE—ANp piR-—SAD STORIES OF LIFE IN A GREAT CITY.

The New York Herald in a recent appeal for help for the poor says ;—Families are homeless and hungry here in”our streets to-night, with the bitter winds cutting through every fragment of their scanty cov ering, and with no refuge save the floor of the police station or the bed of the river. Husbands, with their wives and children, pass brilliantly lighted rooms and catch glimpses of tables heavily laden with food and go sobbing and crying into the dark- ness, having tasted no food and felt no

he was glad to be able to announce do Master of Rolls 2 500 that, notwithstanding the great depression do Vice Chancellor 2,000 of trade, the finances of the country were Counly Courts. jin better condition than at this period | calaries of three Judges 6,000 | last year, and that there would prob- | Travelling expenses 600 jably be a surplus of three.quarters of a Immigration and Quarantine | million of dollars. ‘! he Intercolonial Rail- Salary of Inspecting Physician 100 | way being completed the Government were da = Steward 300 | now ina position to proceed with the Canal | Contingencies 300 land Pacitic Railway projects. He dwelt at Pensions.

‘length on the variation of Imports to all | Hon, Sir Robert Hodgson 2000 _countries. He clamed that Import Duties Hospitals, under the tariff charges of last session were | Souris Marine Hospital (KM)

necessary, and expressed great hope in the | Marine Hospital at Charlottetown 1,500

future financia’ condition of the Dos | Shipwrecked and disabled Seamen o00

minion. He announced no change in Penitentiaries.

the tarift. Dr Tupper congratulated the | General Penitentiary for Maritime

Finance Minister in the altered tones of his Provinces 10,090

speech compared with that of last year. HW Sid Hiatal

This time they had not been framed by | New London 1 O00

objurgations upon his predecessors nor by | Tignish 7,159

siatements as to the financial condition of lvedyin

the country not calculated to raise its cres | At Cascumpee 3.000

dit. He was in a position to challenge the -— ce cies ks 3,000

serutiny of the Finance Minister's state- "Sa e cat ©. i. ad 10.000

ments of a year ago in face of and in coms pee

parison with statement of accounts now r si aii oan

Sch

voner Packet Service to and from small ports around the

coast and to adjoining pros

submitted to the House. On that oceasion he (the Minister of Finance,) asserts that

the expenditure of the current year so vinces. * 1000 | largely exceeded the receipts as to necessi- Liphihonses~Nalaries and Maintenanre. ; tate increased taxation. This statement | ,- Ne in Cle : : Keeper, Block House 300 | was put in Ilis Excellency’s speech. But do Point Prim 300 | this year the hon. gentleman had introduc-| do Panmure Head 250 ‘ed in his speech that which should have - a — — sh isk aol |been made & year ago. He should then| 0 Fish Island poe ; : do Sandy U'd Caseumpee 250 | have admitted that the trade of the country | go North Cape 20) | was sound, notwithstanding the deff®ssion do Summerside 100 }of trade in United States finance. The | re Sea ae “es “0 = < ‘raps “ictoria 75 Minist ‘ raw ’ ».| 0 Crapaud Vic | Minister had admitted, however, that be | do St. Andrews Pt Harbor Light 100 | tween revenue and expenditure forthe last; qo ‘Tracadie 100 | : > aoc } ca 5 | year there wasa difference of $880,000. Dr,; do Rustico 100 | pa ; } r >. ie | Tupper reviewed the statements of revenue | do ae — ee Light = . i o Little Channe a 8 ‘ 4 : ’ nd expenditure from 1867 and stated that Te me Petess tteer 100 asum previously set down in the receipts} qo Murray Harbor 100 | for premiums was substracted for year 1873- | Lights to be constructed 600 4. He said his predecessors had counted “od kee ie 1,000 | : ' : Maintaining Lighthouses, Furnish- a, 8 H Cartwright | i sn a . . ; on these premium y one had rtwright eekt (Hl Sank De be. ° 54M) _ acted similarly as to 1875-4 there would have | Buoys and Becons,maintaining re- been over $300,000 on his credit side. The pairing & to provide for revenue should then have been set down at | new buoys >, 200 as i Fig] $24,589,000. He referred to the Public | PIBHCT ER accounts of the current year The expens | Salaries of Fishéry overseers and | | var sfor P. E. Is'and: | diture to Government Railways in the Lower | M ce - P.E.Ks'iandsed nnn | we de ~ ‘ , Provinces to stem that large expenditure | Maintenance of a schooner em- | has been charged to the Revenue expenses | ployed in the protection of this year which should have been charged | the Gulf Fisheries 1a COO ' to Capital account. The cost of the acqui- Steamboat laspection:. os ‘ . . i at — . . | sition of Spring Hill Branch Railway, nearly |For anspecting P. E. Island | five miles, had also been set down to the | Steamers 500 | | Revenue account. Similar outlays had Subsidi | always been set down by his predecessors to | Subsidy to P. E, Island 194,009 | Capital. His (Cartwright’s) object was thus "ndians. | to place them at a disadvantage in com-| Probable expenses in connection | parative statements. ‘The expenditure on with Indiansin P. E. Island = 200) | those railways was thus swollen by the Custon ‘ | amount of £545 625 which rendered the | gi). sies and cont ngent expeases 22,500 | present comparative statement vaiueless. | Hi . . = +: dee Adding it to theexpenditure of 1875 dis-|_ |. : | Adding + aie ake I i \ ae ,. | Salaries, etc. 2 600 | count of $96,512, the Finance Minister's Salary of Inspector 1.800 | statement of outliy reached $23,412,829, oa ih ae Letoevy Krave pe Sra nh ne But the tot:l outlay of the year, The Railway Pe OV: om , Maintenance, : New Works. imaking proper deductions, was but F

35,000 vo OOO

Locomotive Power Car expenses

| $22,869,204. . The Finance Minister had striven to mawe it appear that there

a |; Station and Train expenses 20 000 was a deficit of a million and a quarter dol. | General changes 7000 lars in the country's onerations for last year | Ordinary repairs 8 000 and notice had been taken of it to Canada’s | Snow fences 5,000 prejudice in England. He contented the | Total 29 COD

| correct rendering of the account would show P, | surplus of £1,722 215, that was no doubt | Salaries and other expenses 52.000

subject toa slight reduction. He aceused | Cartwright of imposing unnecessary taxes of | a i ; Se a gel | the Judges of this $3,000,000 by his disbelief in Tilley’s esti. ; oe 5 . . "a | the other Provinces is, we observe, kept

mate, which was only $300,000 astray when | mighiiee ’ tile i One Chief Justice receives $3,000 per

e + ° j up. Cartwright erred in judgment to the extent dae : : . —— | year. Chief Justice of Manitoba

of £1,232,806- He held these changes in the | 7 — die . se : ; | $5, 00, the Chief Justice of British Colums tarift had deranged the trade of the country. ae dst he : : of Nova Scotia, £5,000: of fie analyzed the receipts from [nland rev- | . ie ee , ia | New Brunswick, £5,000; of Ontario, £6 ‘00 enue and Customs for 1875-4 to show the : oe i Se a : 7 of Quebee, £6 OOU- incorrectness of Finance Minister’s calcula

The very invidious distinetion between Province and those of

The

| bia $*,820 ‘

’

ceive £2,500 each. The Puisne Judges

of every other Province in the Dominion

| tions. There had been instead of predicted |

decline in trade, an increase in imports for | i ; ; , ee ” : : ' sa ' : half | receive salaries ranging from $5,000 to the past six months of a million and a tall, |... a = i .

I : #3,500. Why should this offensive differs True, the Province is small,

‘ lot 1874 43 , , | but the judicial staff is small in proportion, ore July IST4 they were bound to accept |

regards Custom re- }ceipts to the amount of $1,083 539. He ; contended that the Finance Minister was obliged to draws on his imagination for facts, to put down whatever balance was possible tothe charge of increased Customs, whatever balance was necessary to establish an imaginary deficit. Tupper denied the existence of any deficit list year. Irre- spective of increased taxation it would have reached $649,604 or within $123,082 of the amount he, Tupper, claimed in his remarks last session leasked where was the sur- plus of 1872 of $1,638,000 left the present Ministers, This amount added to what would have been available, without the last mischevious meddling with ‘Tariff, and would have afforded a total of $2,288 425, | He condemned Cartwright’s conduct on tea ‘duties. Last year that trade had been seriously affected by Ministerial policy which ‘threaten d it with extinction. Then the tariff had been modified unjustly to make poor, poorer, and rich, richer. He next condemned sugar duties and held sugar was p ying 50 per cent, on its cost. Ile argued that surplus con!d not better be disposed of than in reducing duties on sugar largely consumed by the poorer class This was the poliey of English and all other Govern- ments.

The St. John Zelegrap’ reports that Dr.

| Now if they conceded that the half million

j i | ence exist? | went into Inland revenue department be-

Aes pai In point of learning and ability, our Judges | @ similiar statement as : ri ‘ compare favorably with those of any other part of British America. Their duties are as onerous and difficult—require just as much skill acumen and laber as those of any other Provinces The cost of living, too, is just as great, or nearly as great, here as itis in any other Province. Then, we repeat, why this offensive difference ?

‘woe > _ ens

APPRECTATIVE.

So well do criminals appreciate the com- forts of living in the ‘Castle of Indolence ’ on Pownal Square, that those discharged, lose no time in taking measures to secure their return. A man named Carroll, we are informed, was lately incarcerated for the third successive term. There is we be- lieve but one thing needed to render the life of those kept at the public expense in the Castle of Indolence, supremely delight- ful, viz: a few honest citizens to act as valets and Jacqueys. It has been suggest-

should be made to take turns at this em. ployment. It is urged that the champion rascals who succeed in gaining the prize of a comfortable living at the Castle should be encouraged ; a higher premium should that be set upon rase lity; and that it is no- thing but fair that the public, which pros Tupper, in his criticism, charged Mr. Cart-|eides the prize should also provide the wright with having increased the expendi- | premium.

ture on every item, notwithstanding the Sei edy

Government's previous expressions of economy. We charges him with placing $545,625 on certain improvements on Iny t-reolonial Railway to Revenue account, when it should have been placed to capital account. Mr Brydges, Dr. Tupper continued, had informed the government that the gross expenditure tor the year ending June 30, 1873, on the New. Brunswick and Nova Scotia railway amounted to $1 011.892, and yet, with this evidence of the impropriety of including one dollar more,$545 000 were added to the amount that could be properly put there, without entirely destroying the character of Hon. Mr. Cartwright’s docu- ment as 2 comparative statement.

Men Wantep in Britisu Cotumsia.—The Dominion Government is about to build a line of telegraph through British Columbia, which will form the British Columbia section of the Canadian Pacific telegraph. This section is some 600) miles long, through a wooded country, the timber requiring to be cut down and cleared a distance of 66 feet on each side of the wire, principally chop- pers and woodmen. To do this some two hundred and fifty or three hundred men will be wanted. ‘The contract has been awarded to Mr. F.J. Barnard, and work will commence about the first of May, and willoceupy about eighteen months. The Government ts about to commence the con struction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, on Vancover Island. This work will aftgrd employment to hundreds of working men. The rails for this road have been ship~ ped from England, and the construction will probably commaence early in the spring. There is a great scarcity of laborers in Brit- ish Columbia of the class required for these works, and men of energy, who wish to try their fortunes in the Pacific Province, may safelydo so. Ordinary laborers are now getting $40 per month and found; chop. pers, $45 to $50 and found. The Iand laws of the Province are exceedingly liberal ; free grant homestead can be had by those who wish to setile. For the information of those that wish to emigrate it may be added that the cost of a third-class ticket by rail from New York to San Francisco is about £60; steerage fare (meals included) between San Francisco and Victoria, $15. Further particulars can be had respecting the telegraph line by applying to Edgar

From the total sums Dr. Tupper deducted that which ought to be capital expendis ture— namely, $545,625, which left a total of $22,867,204. He asked if the Grand Trunk Railway would like the two million pounds expended on steel rails to be charg- ed to the current expenses of a single year. The extraordinary expenditure on the part of the government was caused by the lay- ing of steel rails, which ought to be charged to current expenses and spread over a number of years deducting costs for the extr.ordinary works, The house could cb- serve that $122646 had been magnified into $1,25),000. Dr. Tupper adverted to the aspersions cast upon Mr.Tilley by Hon. Mr. Cartwright, and to the additional tax- ation proposed to be levied next year, stating that in view of the fact that under the administration of the late governftent the trade of the country had increased in five years from $151,027,928 to $217,801,- 393, the hon, gentleman might have spared

Our Puisne Judges res |

ed that those best fitted for the seryice |

warmth from « fire for many, many hours, DYINC FROM EXPOSURE,

(!n Saturday a beautiful lady sat erying at the Guild. From the uraster the writer sought to find her story. It wasthis; Ler husband was a printer and they had come to this city some years ago from Connecti- eut. The husband obtained employment from the American News Company and afterwards worked at the case in the Bible flouse.

He became ill—was stricken down by fever—and soon they were penniless. On Monday of last week, they with their child, were turned from their lodging into the street. Throngh all the storm of that day they wandered about exposed to the elements, unable to find even temporary shelter, Night drawing on, an old lady, who spoke to them in passing, directed the wife and child to the Home for the Friends less, and the husband went to the nearest station house. There, thinly clad and wholly without linen or other undercloth- ing, he lay down to rest on the cold “stone floor. In the morning he was very ill, Hemorrh igef the lung: set ia, ond the vic- tim of disease and want was carried fainting to Bellevue Hospital, THE FAITHFUL WIFE

_ of this poor man came to him before he was removed to Beilevue, and taking off her single flannel skirt, made fer him a shirt. Then with naught but a thin dress to pros tect her person from the cold, she sought the ever open door of tlre Guild, where she found what little of comfort and cheer can fall to the lot of one so unfortunate. And now she passes some hours of each day at her husband's bedside, and returns to sit in & quiet corner of the Guild workroom to sew, while the tears fall often upon the garment in her hands,

Inan attic in Monroe street, the writer | in company with a volunteer visitor of the | (iuild, found another example of wifely faith and filial devotion The husband had been employed in the establishment of one of the leading merchant princes, where he was injured*by an accident. For 16 months he had been contined to his bed, and his wife,

HIs ONLY SUPPORT, A CaIPPLE,

had nursed him tenderly, This woman, a modern had not only earned money by daily washing to support her | husband and provide him with medical ats tendance but had paid the rent of her attic

heroine,

mother, and a sick sister by the proceeds of her labor,

Still another case is that of a poor wo- man | tely employed by a famous restaur- auteur, Who lost employment through sick-~ ness, and when starving, made her way to the Guild, which she reached only to faint atthe threshold. Three times while waiting for her basket to be filled, she swooned and the two physicians in attendance stated that her weakness was the cause of hunger and exhaustion.

THE RATS OF A TENEMENT HOUSE.

In Allen street in the cellar of rear tene- ment or rather a dark hole, at the bottom of a wretched structure, where the ceiling was so low, one has to bend low when in a standing position, a lady was found lying upon a bed where there was neither sheets nor quilts. A dingy blanket covered her person, and nestling close beside her were her four children,

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One of them, a little | fairy creature of wonderful beauty, with her | hair of burnished gold, and eyes that had | stolen the bloom of violets,was prattling ins

i

nocently, and all unappalled by the gloom | and horror of the place. Yet that child had | seen tie rats drag her little cloak from the | broken chair where she had placed it, and

rend it in pieces with their sharp teeth,

| while her mother and sister cowered shud< dering in their beds, All mght long one or another of these poor creatures kept watch, | While the others slept, lying in constant dread of attack from the noisome squaling creatures that thronged the floorand clambs } ered about them. Yet this family

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ONCE POSSESSED A HAPPY HOME, | from which they had been driven by finan. | cial reverses and the death of the husband and father. The mother, a native of Bal-~ | timore, had been bred in afiluence, her father holding an office of honor and trust under general government for many years, Death and business disasters had brought them to this pitiful state at last and forced them to accept and cling to shelter only fit for dogs. Suchare the fearful phases of life the Guild visitors encounter. Tue im- pression they leave upon the mind will never fade, and the lesson they teach have | & power that few Sunday sermons possess.

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TH NEWST, HELEN'S BRIDGE.

The last great work Sir Hugh Allan has .aken up is that of constructing the new St. Helen's Eridge at Montreal, which is to be built in connection with the Northern Colo- nization road, and which is, in fact, an im-~- portant part of the scheme. The Victoria Bridge, an imposing and costly structure though it be, does not suffice for present wants, or at all events for the new traffic which is sure to be developed by improve. ments now in progress. Further, it has only one track fer railroad cars and no accom- modation at all for ordinary vehicles or for pedestrians—a want which it is now felt must be supplied. The new bridge takes its name from St, Helen’s Istand, which will te utilized as part of the crossing from shore toshore. Starting from the high level of Sherbrook street, in the eastern part of the city, a viaduct supported by piers and _pils lars will cross the street near the river at the height of 100 feet above them. Bes tween St. Helen’s island and the north shore there is a little flat island called Isle Ronde, which will also be made part of the crossing. The north channel, between St. Helen’s [sland and the north shore, will be crossed by « suspension bridge at a height of 160 feet above the water, allowing the tallest masts to pass under it. The sus- pension bridge will have three floors, the upper one carrying s double railway track, the middle floor being for ordinary road vehicles and pedestrians, and the lower floor for street ears, which will keep up cheap transportation for passengers between the city and the south shore. From the island to the south shore the bridge will be flat, supported by piers. St. Helen’s Is» lind itself is to be made a public park, and from its airy situation and the fine view all around, it ought to be capable of being easily made aevery pleasant summer resort. The \ontreallers, and indeed many others besides, will have abundant reason to thank Sir Hugh Allan for what he has done and is still doing to forward great public improve-

his denunciation. Dewdney, Esq., M. P., Ottawa, Ont,

ments.— Toronto Mail.

and purchased food for her inyalid father, |

WISCELLAXEOUS.

SS Rr re oe er er re re eee ere

Dr. Vaughan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford, England, is lecturing in New York on *‘ The Gladstone Controversy.”’

The estimated aggregate value of the dresses worn at the charity ball in New York city on Thursday night was £2,455, 967.

The annual potato crop of the Unite

States is stated to be 150 000,000 bushels, worth about £100,000,009 to the consums

ers. ‘

A Dutchman describes New Yorkers as ‘berry fine peoples, who go about der streets sheating each oder, and dey call dat bizziness.

The first two 38-ton guns ever made for naval warfare were issued to the British Navy at the beginning of the year. They are for the ironselad Thunderer.

The German authorities have seized the |

copies and forbidden the promulgation of a

charge by the Bishop of Strasbourg to his |

clergy, in which his Lordship avers that the Church is persecuted,

Peanuts are rapidly coming to the front as an article of trade. Ten years ngo the crop did not amount to more than 150,000 bushels. Last year 2,000,000 bushels were raised, valued at $3,000,090.

General Sheridan states that the number | of persons who have been killed or wound. | ed in the State of Louisiana since 1566, on |

is—

account of thelr political opinicns, Killed, 3,141 ; wounded 2,115; iotal, 4,~ 956.

The night of Friday, the 5th inst., was the coldest ever known in the Upper Provinces, The thermometer fell in afew hours from ten degrees below zero to thirty-four de- grees below that point, and then rose again to twenty-five.

Lemon Juice in Diprueria’—Dr.. Revil- lout states that lemon juice, used as a gar~ gle, is an eflicacious specific against dip- theria and similar throat troubtes. He has successfully thus employed it for over eighteen years.

Germany objects to importations of Amex rican potatoes, being no doubt afraid of the Colorado potato bug. Why do not our Maritime people, more especially those of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia,

make a study of the German potato market |

and cultivate it as far as possible ?—7?/e- graph.

A terrible story of crime comes from Grand Rapids, Mich. The twelve year old daughter of a man named Linden who has just been sentenced to imprisonment for life for murdering his wife, having revealed the fact of his murdering his infant child with a blow of his fist, and killing his bro-~ ther while walking with him in the woods.

This is the way a colored preacher at Rich- mond arranged his hearers for mutual con venience :

please sit down so de hind part ob de)

church can see de fore part, for de hind part can’t see de fore part ef de fore part persist in stanin’ before de hind part to de utter exclusion of de hind part by de fore part.’

According to the mercantile agency of Dun,Wyman & Co., there were 5820 fails ure in the United States, in 1874, with gross liabilities amounting to $155,239, 000.-

In 1873 the failures were 5183 and the lias | if the return for last |

bilities $228,499, 000. year is correct, the average liability of each insolvent was the considerable sum of £26,~ 620. ee

The Montreal ‘ Gazette ’ an evidence of the hard mention the fact that at a high-toned boarding-house in the city, the house keeper was detected in the act of oiling the butter. She says that with butter at Svc a pound, and the thermometer 280 bes low zero, it’s a wonder she has not suspends ed long ago.”

times

The last natural curiosity story comes |

from Portlandville, Dakota. Some people who were drilling a well struck a cavity about thirty feet down, from which hot steam bursts, and has been escaping ever since. It warms the country round about so gener

ally that the snow has melted away and the | wild animals of the country congregated at |

the plsce at night for the comfort of it.

The first Napoleon is said to have always carried with him an emerald of great value which belonged to the crown jewels. Le lost it on the field of Waterloo where it was picked up bya Prussian soldier, and afterward found a place among the crown jewels of Prussia. The story looks a little apocryphal, but the incident may have been one of those singular coincidences which sometimes occur.

The ‘Church Herald’? says;—A rumor has reached us from Buckinghamshire, which we have some reason to believe is not without foundation, the Prime “linister is likely to be married this spring to the widow of an English peer: In view of this coming event the Manor House ef Hughens den is about to be enlarged by the addition of a wing, from designs by Mr. Vernon the well-known architect,

Influenced by the bad, though perhaps necessary,example of her neighbers,Sweden proposes to undertake a great scheme of military reform. Under the existing ar. rangement she keeps in her service no less a force than 150 000 men, including 20,000 volunteers. But this does not seem to be suflicient; in opening his Parliament on Monday, King Oscer announced that Gov- ernment had resolyed to introduce a bill for the establishment of compulsory mili- tary service.

Larger Appropriations.——The House of Repretentatives shows its interest in the culture of fishes by appropriating £67 500 fer the propagation of food fishes. This sum is larger by $50,000 than than the one given last year, and proves that our legis- lators have some idea of advancing the prosperity of the nation. They also allow a government vessel to be used in the summer for investigating the marine in habitants of our coast. and they second the able efford of Prof, Baird in bringing to light the economic and comm rcial resoure- es of our waters. They could not expend money for any more practical purpose, for the developing of our food fishes is one of the most important public enterprises in- augurated ina long time.

Blackwood's Magazine for January, 1875, republished by the Leonard Scott Publish- ing Co., is now ready. The following is the table-of contents :

Giannetto

Idas : an Extravaganza,

Alice Lorraine. Part X.

The Abode of Snow.

The Story of Valentine and his

Brother. Part XIII. VI. The life of the Prince Consort. VIL. The Great Problem : Can it be Solved ?

The new story which begins the first volume of the new year is told in a very quiet style by an Englishman, who spent a winter at Nice with an invalid daughter, during which time he met with Giannetto, an Italian fisherman. The interest is arous< ed and kept active by the mystery attach- ed to this man, who suddenly received the power of speech and song when over twenty years of age, although he was born dumb. The story is to be continued. +Idas-: an Extravagenza,’ is an attempt to exhibit the tendencies of materialistic theories in their extreme issues’ ‘Itis the deprayation of social and political morals consequent upon the materialistic theory, thus developed far beyond the contemplation of its modern sponsors — the wildest excess springing generally from the confounding of things essentially distinct, which that theory is grounded upon—that we have to deal with in the ensuing pages.’ ‘The Abode of Snow’ begir. with an account of the - jula,’ or bridges made of ropes of twisted birch twigs, which are neither safe nor pleasant to cross, but the gre:ter part of the article is devoted to adescription of the customs of the Thibetans, and especially the work. ings of polyandry. A very entertaining article is the review of the first volume of Mr. Martin’s ‘ Life of the Prince “onsort’-— a book which cannot fail to increase the ad- miration and reverence of the nation for the great and dutiful soul who lived a life ob- scured by its very greatness,in the midst ofus, and who only now can be fully known.’ G. R. Gleig -ChaplainsGeneral— gives his views On the subject of religious belief in the paper entitled, ‘The Great Probler Can it be Solved ?’ which the author says is written ‘ exclusively for those in whom, ury fortunately for themselves, the principle ot faith has been shaken.’ Itisa clear and comprehensive article, that cannot fail to interest any thoughtful-reader,

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