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Charlottetown, Oct. 23, 1876, [ IMPENDING WAR.

Tue telegrams of the past few days

rive alarming intelligence. A general

Europe in War seems imminent For Ome time past the po itical outlook in Ku ope Now p- pears as if the storm were about to bk that Great Britxiu is

has been most portentious. i

ver continent. preparing for a struggle which will t.x her powers to the utmost; but which is in all probability,iaevitable. The Eoglish Government has directed the powerful

1 that lately rendezvoused at Besika

rieet, Bay oceed Constantinople; the ay, to preceed to onstantinople ;

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~ ’ American squadron has been order

ere long throw down the gauntlet to Rus-

sia, even without English support.

It would not be the first, nor yet the second time, that Great Prit:'n, single- handed, has faced Europe iu arms. Read- ers of history will remember her position if the last century.

Then her American colonies were in open

in the latter part

revolt. France and Spain were waging desperate warfare against her. The armed

veutrality of the North were deteriiued

on her destruction. The prophets of evil foretold that her end wes come. He wes a hopeful mao who then looked for victory gainst such odds. It seeme:! mre like i struggle for existence than lor vit ry.

Yet she came through it all. She triumph- ed over her foes. humbled. True, she

lost her colonies. But her foreign enemies

her opponents was

had resson to repent the sudacity which

The most powerful of

MARK TWAIN ON OUR CIVIL SERVICE. Tuk abominable practice which prevails

| ‘here and in the United States, and which

‘has been perpetuated by the Davies Ad-|

miuistration, is capitally hit off by Mark

Twain.

cal speech he said :— * Our present civil system, born of General Jd ckson and the Democratic party, 1S 50 i iwlic, SO Contemptible, so grotesque that it would make the very savages of Dahomey 1, and ‘he very gods of solemnity laugh. Ww will t hire a blacksmith who never | lifted a sedge, We will not hire a school teacher wuo does not know the alphabet. We will not bave a man about us in our business life, in any waik of it, low or high noless he has served an apprenticeship and can prove that ho is capable of doing the work he offers to do. We even require a | plumber to know something— laughter, and } © pause by the speaker)—about his business, that be shall at least know what side of a | pipe is the inside. (Roars of laughter.) But when you come to our civil service We Se-

v lll great numbers of our minor public

Sai bil 7 . th ignoramuse Te pul the vas ld itself’ rea » Suilata onoment ao / ae aad s With ignoramuses. We put id Utself Pe dy ue att at : mited their utteck rhe odds wert ainese ote auelees house into the hands of i F I re bee Te ‘ t >) . , j uo otice. i roops have been ord. red out, | even wreater then than pow. The contest la flathead who dues not koow a bill of lading and are already on their way to Egypt | was lone and desperate Sut the brave | from a aes - <r heud of dae rth bs

: : ; , ve > * ? sec : )—never having heard of either of the

: ie - -o receive struc. | . ' : . pause never ha gh : ; and India, Lloyds have received instruc lold landcame forth victorious. We be | before. (jaugbter.) Under a ‘Treasury oP, if ave ships spared for the | ,. ; . . ‘nt we pour oceans of money an ia ar ee ired 5 Sipe sie, ee pn nee RN. eeeeien Gdililelies theven? the ead ‘ — . . > wa . a ms felts ac ype ) B ste : ¢ , : cransport of troops whenever required. OR en, eee and brain of an ignorant villager who never Even as We write, war may be declared | NOT THE ISSUE. before could wrestle with a two weeks vie . . ° | 1 > oelling . > . > g 1g l-

. en Gre: : ‘ sik } 3 ‘ ; ; ‘ bill without getting thrown. (Great lang between Great Britain and Russia. | Why the Patriot, of all papers in the ter.) Under our consular system we find The latter country, in its career of self-| yorig should. at this juncture, raise | creatures all over the world who speak as : i: : Be ae ne ‘ a : 'language but their own, and even when it aggrandizement, is, for the second time the question of Free Trade vs. Protec- lcomes to .that go wading all their days within a quarter ee century, coming in | tion. we are ata loss to understand, We| through floods of moods and tenses, and ith its iv ae > 1" . - | flourishing the scalps of mutilated parts of contact with its great rival, Let us con- } bave a I ree 1 rade Croverpment, tt is} speech. When forced to it we order home a sider what causes have produced a result | true that all the influence of the Admins | foreign ambassador ut is frescoed all id |: : : with—with—with indiscreetness—(laughter) so much to be deplored. istration was brought to bear in the but we immediately send one in his place To foment discontent and insurrection | election of Mr. Workman—an avowed | whose moral calling has a perceptible shady

in the Turkish provinces, to throw ob- stacles in the way of reform in the Gov cepment of the Porte, and thus pave the way to the disruption of the Ottoman Empire, have long been the policy of the Russian Court. The fisal result sought was, of course, the conquest of European Turkey and its annexation to the domini- ons of the Czar. This policy of foment~ ing internal dissensions, with a view to | ultimate conquest, has already been suc- cessfully practiced by Russian statesmen. She adopted the same course in dealing | with the kingdom of Poland. In that unfortunate country the emissaries of St. Petersburg fostered and kept alive the

Protectionist. It is also true that the Government raised the tariff to seventeen and a half per cent., and levied a heavy

tax upoa a large number of articles which,

istration, were imported free of duty. Still Mr. Mackenzie declares his Govern- ment a Free Trade Has not his Government killed a flourishing tea trade and banished the sugar refining business beyond the borders? every merchant knows that it is the in variable practice of the Mackenzie Admin- istration to protect the wrong interest!

Government.

And, may it not, therefore, be termed a Free Trade Government? Then why

spirit ot discontent between the nobles and common people. They brought powerful | influences to bear oa the Polish National | Diet in order to prevent the introduction of needed reforms into that body. They

sueceeded in dividing the nation against | itself. Then it could do no more than | hopelessly struggle against its dismember- | ment. Those who now lift up their voices

in horror at the tales of. inhuman atroci-

ties which have been perpetrated on the | Christians of Bulgaria, would do well to | remember the systematic and unparalleled | course of violence, outrage, and massacre | adopted by Russia,—carried out by Rus- | sian regular troops, towards the conquered | Poles. They would do well to ask them- selves whether the Christian population of | the Turkish provinces would gain any: | thing by being handed over to the tender | mercies of that semi-barbarous power | which, nominally Christian itself, was guilty of such barbarities towards Poland. Unee Constantinople were in their hands, the great object of Muscovite ambition | would have been gained; the road to the | East would have been secured. The | command of the Black Sea would then | uico have been acquired—a command long | coveted by the Russian Admiuistration. | ine attainment of these two ends would | bave the effect, in the first place, of almost shutting Great Britain out from her

Indian Empire. Being thus isolated from | the sovereign power, Hindostan, in the | event of serious European complications |

in which England might be involved, |

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should the Patriot (which, we presume, has confidence in the Mackenzie Admio- istration) attempt to scare our people with the cry of Protection ? So long as the Mackenzie Government is in power there is no dangerof Protection. The petty partial election of a member to re- present Queen’s County cannot effect the Then why does the Patriot raise it? It is all very well for Sir John A. Macdonald (who is out of power) to discuss the subject ; and to have his laugh over Mr. Cartwright’s bungled tariff. It may be well for us to remind the Patriot and the people of Queen’s County, that only so late as last winter Sir John A. Macdonald declared in Parliament that he

question.

was, and always had been, a Free Trader | on princijle,—that, at the same time, he |

cited the © inion of the greatest Free Trader wh. ever lived—Jobn Stuart Mill

| —that, under certain conditions, inciden- |

tal protection was advisable—nay, was

| absolutely necessary to the prosperity of a

State,—that, at the same time, Sir Jobn

| A. Macdonald proved conclusively that

just these conditions then existed in the Dominion. Buf, why should the ultra Free Trader editor, of the Patriot and the admirer of the Mackenzie-Cauchon- Huntington Government fear Protection —seeing that Mackenzie, Cauchon, and Huntington, flourish together at Ottawa ? Would vot the editor of the Putriot do well if he justified Mr. Laird for relin-

stipulating that another Islander should take his place? Is not the Hon. Daniel

uoder Sir John A. Macdonald’s Admin- |

Surely |

tint to it, and then he brays when we sup- posed he was going to roar, We carefully train our naval officers and military men, and we ripen and perfect their capabilities | through long service and experience, and keep bold of those excellent servants through a just system of promotion. This is exactly What we hope to do with our civil service under Mr. Hayes. (Applause) We hope, and expect to sever that service as utterly from politics asin the naval and military service, and we hope to make it as respect- abl2 too. We hope to make worth and capa- cily the sole requirements of the civil ser- vice, in place of the amount of party work the candidate has done.”

AN EXAMPLE

Tux Patriot holds up the political con- ; duct of the Hon. David Laird as “ an example to the sons of Island farmers!” We have nothing whatever to do with Mr. Laird’s personal or private character. It may be that Mr. Laird is just as per- fect as the Patriot represents him. But his career as a politician is certainly one which should not be imitated\by the | ambitious sons of our Island farmers. It will be an evil day forthe Dominion when | any considerable number of our politicians | adopt the tactics of Mr. Laird. | Of such staff as Mr. Laird is composed | are traicors made. An imitator of Mr. | Laird, if elected to maintain Free Trade, | would support a policy of protection, and

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for so doing would take a seat in the Gov- ernment. If elected to oppose the builds | ing of the Pacific Railway, and Sir Hugh | Allan, he wOwld go on with the Pacific | Railway, build the Georgian Bay branch, 'and hire Sir Hugh Allan to do it an ad-

;vanee on his original contract of one | thousand-dellars per mile—* because Sir | John A. McDonald might do the same

thing.’’ He would oppose sectarian free

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schools ia the Provinces and he would sup- | | port sectagian free schools at Ottawa. Or

| if eleeted for the special purpose of maiu | taining the independence of his country, jhe would steal off, under cover of the | night, to sell his country to the neighbour. |ing republic. And at the last, without ‘consulting his deceived constituents or their interests,

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ernorship and $7,090 ayear, This is the | course amimitator of the example of Mr. |

In the course of a recent politi- |

without a word of expla-! will continue to do regardless of results ; | nation, without so much as saying ‘by | various influences are at work to neutralize quishing his seat in the Cabinet without | your leave,” he would revive upon a Gov. | Britain’s manufacturing advantages, but the

FURTHER TESTI MONY.. da “M. P.’’ and ourse!ves wer aa few days ago in showing e it ae kenzie had abandoned the V oe . o | railway, not because of the defeat 0

bill in the Senate, but becaus: of a conce ied to make to)

cedent of the |

‘sion which he was compe! Mr. Blake asa x | enemas for South Bruce's en ~ | Vabinet. The newspape™ published in this | city, which is iaithfuily dong all the dirty

work of Ministers, characterized our show-

ing as a“ contempuble fiction.’ Well, let The Hatifax Morning Herald had

ptry into the |

ug see. been looking into the matter about the ‘same time. affti game across the speech | which Mr. Blake delivered before his cons | stituents on 2d Jane, 1875, when as a Min- ister, he went back for re-election, On that occasion he said, as reported in the Liberal newspaper of the following day ~ « He would not touch upon a question with respect to which he bad not been en- tirely in accord with the gentlemen who | were conducting the afftirs of the country. | He referred to the settlement attempted to be made through the Earl of Carnarvon with British Columbia, He had been of opinion that that settiement was more onerous to this country than it was advantageous to agree to, and he was happy to be able to say that previous to his accepting office discussions had been entered upon which had resulted in an agreement upon a policy satisfactory to himself, and which, when developed at the proper time and place in Parliament, wou!d, he believed, be satisfactory to the country.” There can be nothing plainer than this. [t fully bears out all that was said by ‘* M. P.”” and The Mail, Mr. Mackenzie deliber- ately agreed to break the Carnarvon Terms to which he was a consenting party, to se- cure the accession to the Cabinet of a member of the Party, who in an outside in- dependent position was making himself ex- ceedingly damaging to the Ministry. If the circumstantial é@vyidence was not suf- ficient vo od@vict the Premier of treachery to a solemn bargain,*the words of his Min- ister of Justice supply ali that was wanting. What, in the face of such a revelation as this, we ask, will be thought of Mr. Mac- kenzie in England? In this matter if not in others, Mr, Blake was consistent; it is a pretty e.cpose to go before Lord Carnarvon ; itis a sorry addendum to the Governor. General's anxious effort to mollify the peo- ple of British Columbia, Baser treachery could not well be conceived.— Toronto

Mail.

BRITISH TRADE UNION ThOUBLES,

Intelligent people who would like to see Britain maintaining its pre-eminence as a manufacturing nation must be disgusted at reading the reports of the eternally recur~ ring Trades Union troublés, which have already inflicted such deadly injury on various branches of British manufacturing industry. The people, who control the action of the Unions seem either the most ignorant or the most reckless of human beings. ‘They are either absolutely igno. rapt of the nature of the competition which British manufacturing industry has to sus~ tain, and of the necessity to its very existence that the cost of production should be kept within moderate bounds, or, more or less of all this, they are reck- less of confidence in their short-sighted selfishness. If these Unions would only act reasonably, contented with a fair days wages for a fair day’s work, and wages rising wh¥n business is prosperous and | prices rule high, and sinking proportionally when the demand is light and prices low; and should they at the same time altgw freedom of movement to genius, invention, skill and enterprise, Britain might long ‘maintain its manufacturing supremacy. | But they have done, are doirg, and Will do

more of thesé things, They have been | constantly playing into the hands of fors | eign manufactures against the beet interests | of thgir own misguided members. And as they have done, it is presumed they

most mischievous of them all is Trade Unionism, and, so far as we can gather,

“a HE BALANCE OF POWER.” (From the Pall Mall Gazette.) that the “ balance of

: ite clear . It is qui be regarded as a foolish

power ” deserves to

superstition ? opinion that it d Mr. Oiway succe struck out of t Act, which the necessity of power as amongt a standing army.

he reasons for maintaining

Mr. Lowe has echoed the views which were | .,

once considered the peculiar property of the Manchester school of politicians, Eog. land, according to Mr. Lowe, has always had a pet bugbear; now it is Russia, once it was France, and in a former age Spain, and yet a dispassionate student of history might weil come to the conclusion that the English of the sixteenth century had some reason to view the power of the House of Austria

Philip il, may not have aime

Gaul

with alarm.

‘ed at universal empire, but our ancestors can scarcely be blamed for having thought

otherwise. At the present day when Eng. land is perhaps a hundred times more powerful than she was under Elizabeth, we should probably deem it necessary to ins crease our naval and military estimates if Alphonse XIE were at once King of Spain, Portugal, the Two Scillies, Holiand,Belgium Burgundy, the whole continent of South America, and Mexico, and if his uncle were at the same time Emperor of Austria: if both, moreover, were absolute monarchs and zealously engaged in burning Pro- testants within their respective dominions ; if Russia and Prussia were fourth-rate Powers ; and if the most formidable fleet of iron-clads ever yet mustered were riding at anchor in ihe Tagus, ready to convey an expedition destined for the conquest of England. Even after the destruction of the invading armament both Conservatives and Liberals would probably be unanimous in thinking it desirable to favor any Eu- ropean state which could act as a counter- poise to the Austria-Spanish alliance.

The power of France in 1688 may not have been relatively so great as that of Spain in 1588, but it was assuredly sn‘licient to make every patriotic Englishman to trembie for the future of his country. No King or Commouweaith could vie with Louis XIV in military or naval resources, or what are emphatically termed the sinews of war; while as if to prepare the world for the idea of a French hegémony, the French language had been generally adopted as the international medium of communica~ tion, Holland was almost the one free State left in Europe; the King of England was & pensioner and a tributory of his cousin; Germany and Italy were hopelessly divided; Russia was still con- sidered (and justly) without the pale of civilization ; Spain was in a state of dry rot. It is very true that before the death of Louis the prospect had completely changed but not from the action of a peace society, or because the Court of Versallies had ac quired more enlightened notions of self- interest. Hard blows—Ramillies following upon Blenheim, and Malphaquet upon Oudenarde—had restored the equilibrum ot power which English statesmen then held to be indispensible to the safety and honor of England,

Coming down to a time within the mem~ mory of the prese:t generation, we find that England had to deal with some more stern facts, among which was the Empire of Napoleon. The new Empire at one time included France with the Rhine for its fron- tier, the remainder of Holland and a large slice of Germany, as far as the Elbe, with Northern Italy, inclusive of the States of the Church. All Germany, with the excep. tion of a diminished Prussia formed a pro- tectorate under the Emperor, one of whose brothers was at the same time King of Spain, another King of Westphalia, while

ne

his brother-in-law was King of Naples. For the first fifteen years of the present

century he would have been a bold man

who should have ventured to assert that ‘ the balance of power’ was not worth pre~

| English nation bears especial love to a little

Mr. Bright has long been of | oes, anda few years ago | eded in getting the words | he preamble to the Mutiny) till then was wont to enumerate | preserving the balance of |}, sorry to see the Belgian line of sea-coast | in the hands of a possible rival of England, And ina recent speech | porhans we may not consider that the ; quisition of Belgium by the France of | portion of the people of this arrived at a conclusion which, in the of the Government would, if effect, be injurious to the

to this, or are we especially interested in the redemption of our pledge, because the

State, the people of which are ehbiefly known for the tenacity with which they cling to Ultramontane ideas? Surely it is rather because we remember Napoleon l’s opinion, ‘that the power which possessed Antwerp would hold a loaded pistol at tue head of England, and because we should

i876 would be fraugit with cauger to us, but there are other powers besides France with which we might have to reckoa. Under certain circumstances we should, therefore, go to war with a purpose which can scarcely be better explained than by saying it woald be to maintain the balance of power, or at all events the balance be- | ween ourselves and otber nations, A war ‘for the mere sake of maintaining some , | fancied symmetry of the map of Europe would, ne doubt, be worse than Quixotic, but our statesmen, from Walpole to Paim- erston, attached quite another meaning to the famous phrase which is now falling into desuetude. For them it signitied neither more nor less than a jealous regard for the interests of our country, and an anxiety lest another power should become 60 strong as to be aboye the necessity of paying any attention to the wishes of the English nation. And thereare signs that a Minister of the Queen whe should consider these interests as more precious than the objects of a vague humanitarianism, would be far from losing the confidence of his country-~ men.”

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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

Wasateton, D.C., Oct. 18, 1876.

“Quiet reigns in Warsaw.” After the intense excitement caused by the Ohio and Indiana elections it is surprising to see what an air of quiet contentedness the city has assumed, This quietness was disturbed for afew hours early last evening by a fire originating in the most thickly settled busi-~ ness portion of the City. It has Jong been held an axiom that in every event that oc- curs from the most trivial to the most im- portant, a womanis at the bottom of it; and now I think it equally true that for every fire that occurs, cual oil may be held accountable. Such was the case last night. A clerk in the large wholesale and retail grocery store of Mr. Baruch Hall, on 7th street, near Penn Ave., in attempting to draw some coal! oil, inadvertently held his lamp too near, and an explosion was the consequence, setting fire to a large quantity of bacon and threatening the distruction of the centre square. Several casks of coal oil were in the celiar, but happily the flames did not reach them. The firemen were promptly on the spot, and in an incredibly short space of time the flames were extin- guished. Our Fire Department here has the credit of being the best in the world, Ican’t say how this may be, but their promptness to be upon the ground at an alarm of fire is almost magical. Senator Patterson accompanied by a delegation had an interview with the Secretary of War, yes-~ terday, for the purpose of representing to him the necessity of sending more troops to South Carolina, Gen, Sherman return~ ed to the city this morning, he is of the Opinion that no more troops are needed, and seems to be averse to having U. S. soldiers turned into policemen to be used for party purposes, A Mississippi delegas tion also had an interview with Secretary Cameron with a view of urging a like neces. sity in their State, but no steps will be taken till the returnofthe President. At the session of the American institute of Archi- tects in Philadelphia the day before yester- day, Mr. Stone, of Providence, Rode Island, introduced resolutions declaring the Nation- al Monument at this place unworthy of the architecture of the age, depreciating its completion —and resolving in case of failure of their efforts to eftect a stoppage of the work-—to issue an address advising the people of the United States to withold con-

Times :-—

before it separated of forming Opinion on the policy to be Turkey. severally announced {i,«), : of hering toa line of polic Christian racec in Toto a) es Prime Minister says he is not

| country. He proceeds to say that

denounces those public men whose coincide with the céuntry and

nounced in favor of the five month’s istice,

the forfeiture of his title and the tration of his property.

Sir, — Parliament had no op a isting PUrsUed tom, Minister, i. int

Since they two

the by te a COUNEIY iagy, ests of England and fatal to ar OP are Bring the Government as worse than the of the Bulgarian atrocities, Og ean ing of the Prime Minister, no pte. can be more sharp than that Which tiny ai the present between the Govern, and the people. How is this be reconciled? The answer of the . ment is that they are to doas they {i the people are to tamely submit, I dong say that such @ course is beyond the Pome of the Government. Had Parliament bey, sitting, Parliament would haye but as Parliament is not sitting the Gover, ment can do as they please. The dence of the country has placed the Ge. ernment in a position to thwart the wishes of the country, and they Car, ts they now propose, repay that confidencs taking advantage of the absence of Py, liament todo what Parliameat, if in session would assuredly prevent them from doing it appears to me that in so grave & juncture itis the duty of those whom admit to be the great majority of the nation —a nation not wont to tamely submit to the domination of a minority—to makes last effort by an appeal to the Crown to in terpose between us and those who while acting in our name, to make us party to transactions which we repudiate, The question whether we ehall or shall not aduere to our traditional policy as regards Turkey is no doubt of vast importance, but itis even more important that we should pot exhibit ourselves in the eyes of the world as submitting to be deprived by mere chicane of those rights of 8elf-gors ernment which we have, it would seen, wrung from powerful Kings, but cannot wrest from Ministers, the creatures of om own creation, ROBERT LOWE.

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__ MISCELLANEOUS.

z . ~~~ ee eee _ Greece is putting her army ona war foots ing.

Russia proposes a national loan of three hundred million rubles,

Warlike demonstrations by the populace of Athens still continue, . "y

The St. Petersburg National Bank has stopped payment ot its bills in gold. _ The influx of Russian soldiers into Servia

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is assuming most serious proportions.

England, Italy, and France have pros

arm-

Sachir Pasha, one of the Turkish com-

manders, has driven off the insurgents and relieved Bilek,

The Indians at Standing Rock have si

eda treaty relinquishing the Black H country.

Great distress is prevalent in Deccan and

Southern Marhatt, in India, occasioned by the failure of the crops,

The influx of Russian officers and troops

into Turkey increases, and is assuming a more serious aepect than ever,

The last surviving native of Tasmania is

no more. She was a Queen, and her name was Lidgiwidgi Tannaninni,

Rumors are current in Vienna of an al-

liance being on the point of conclusion between Russia and Austria,

The plague has broken reseir

tuo Servian soldiers, owing, it is thought, to the u

nseasonable heat of the weather. The Turks talk calmly of their determi-

nation to fight Russia single handed. Rus- | sia is concentrating troops in the Caucasus, _

Count Von Arnim’s sentence will involve seques>

serving, or that England could safely afford to let it take care of itself. from Pitt and Fox and Burdett and Corbett, all would agree that the ambition of Napoleon was

tributions, The matter was referred to a committee. Now, I don’t know Mr. Stone, but I will venture to suggest that his reso-

would fall an easy prey to the Russian | Davies as good a man as Mr. Cauchon or | Laird would pursue. We want no sueh| that influence was never more active,never

In the second place, the command | Mr. Mills? Here is a “live issue” for | “es sie more deleterious than at this moment. . Pie Faas ny | ators, | . : :

of the Black Sea would enable the Rus-| * ss tat | Late cable-grams furnish information on

Some bay x creditors have made a seizure of 295 Krupp guns that were being shipped from Antwerp to Turkey,

The resignation of the Duke of Abercorn

arms.

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sians, who are the greatest protectionists in the world, to shut out foreign com- | Were | this poliey to succeed, a terrible blow | would be struck at England’s commercial | and political@premacy. These are ends | that Russia, notwithstanding her hypo- critical expressions of amity towards Great Britain, most ardently desires to accomplish. Once the power of England were crippled; there would be nothing to oppose Russian advances in the East.

merce frou the Black Sea ports.

To counteract the schemes of Russian statesmen in this direction has become al- most the traditionary policy of England. Por this purpose she has, for the last half century, endeavoured to effect reforms in Turkish Administration. In this, though often thwarted by the insidious opposition of Russia, she has met with a fair mea- sure of success,

The persistence of the two nations in their respective policies has caused the state of affairs which our telegrams indi- cate. It is impossible at this time to fore- tell what the result of the threatened con- test may be. Of this, however, we may rest assured, that our mother country will prove herself worthy of ber ancient renown. Were the struggle confined to the two great powers we would have no fear of the result. Though the Euglish and Irish forees are inferior in number to their ops povevts, they yet possess that martia; spirit which will not submit to defeat; which has borne them on to so many yie- tories, before which the Russian soldiery hive never yet been able to hold ground. Bat it seems probable that the struggle will not be so confined. There appears a strong probability that Germany will throw

in her weight with Russia, that Austria may be forced to join the alliance, and thst Great Britain supported by Turkey alone, will have to encounter their united powers, Should France be drawn in, she will likely join England. But even with. | out aid, we believe, in the long run, that our fatherland will prove more than a match for her opponents. Moreover, though of late years, the Turkish troops have been somewhat despised ; they have, during the present Servian war, proved themselves to be war-like and well-discip.

THE CONTESTANTS.

Messrs. WrLLiAM WeLsH AND JAMES C. Pore are likely to be the candidates for the representation of Queen’s County in the House of Commons. Mr. Welsh is, we learn, the nominee of a caucus which met in the Provincial Building, on Wed- nesday last. He has not yet publicly sig- nified his acceptance of the nomination. Before doing so he will probably consider whether or not it is right to desert, so soon, the constituents who only a few weeks ago “ did themselves the honor of electing him by an overwhelming majority.”” We think it is not right. We think the prac tice of representatives who resign the trusts committed te them by their constituents to take the first office which, in the muta- tions of political lite, presents itself, or to fill the first seat left vacant in a more hon- orable assembly than theirs, is, decidedly, awrong one. It is a practice which en- tails continual turmoil and great expense upon the country. It isa practice which involves a virtual breach of faith, on the part of the representative who resigns with the electors whose suffrages he has obtain- ed. Every representative virtually con- tracts with his constituents to represent their interests and the interests of the Province at large, in the Legislature, until the end of the term for which he was elected ; and he is no more justified in resigning without the consent of those who elected him, than the man who neg- lects to build a bridge which he has en gaged to construct. Very tew indeed will agree with the Patriot, that the example of Mr. Laird is, in this respect, worthy of imitation ; and we shall be surprised and disappointed if Mr. William Welsh is Mr, Leird’s first imitator.

The name of thesHon. J. C. Pope has been freely used in connection with the vacant seat ever since Mr. Laird ascended the gubernatorial Throne. The interests of our agriculturists are already very well represented by Mr. Peter Sinclair. It is conceded that our merchants and traders and the country in general cannot be bet- ter represented than by Mr. Pope. Those who lately opposed Mr. Pope on the School Question appear to be weil pleased that

lined forces. As soldiers, they have shown themselves far superior to their antagon- | ists, while their generals have, in military- strategy, been much more than a match for the Russian offieers who direct the operations of the Servian army. When well equipped and supported by an Eng- lish contingent, perhaps re-organized and commanded by Kuglish officers, they will be able to offer no mean resistence to a hostile advance. The War-spirit, too, is thoroughly aroused amongst the Turks aod it is not improbable that they will

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an opportunity has offered to place him in a position where he will be powerless to They feel too that they would be as foolish to reject the | political services ot Mr. Pope because of his views on the Schoo] Question, as the Synod of the Presbyterian Church to reject the suggestions of the Rev. G. M. Grant, because he thiaks it advisable to introduce the Ontario system. Mr. Pope _isthechoice of the people, The indica tiovs are that he will poll an almost solid vote in the city; and from West River, New London, Belfast and other populous

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CANADIAN RAILWAYS.

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At a mecting held recently with the | | President, Hon. Mr. Childers, in the | chair, a cable despatch says that the pros | ject of amalgamating with the Grand Trunk was duly considered, the propo- sition being finally rejected by an overs whelming majority. The proposition was that the Great Western should pay to the Grand Trank the sum of £25,000 sterling by way of rental for the use of the whole of the latter’s line, west of To- route, including the Buffalo, Lake Huron, the International Bridge, and St. Clair ferries. Mr. Childers, in a Jong speech, severely condemned a series of what he termed discreditable acts of the Grand Trunk Railway Company; the report was finally passed unanimously. A second cablegram says: Richard Potter, Esq., M. P., has resigned the presidency of the Grand Trunk Railway, and Uaptain Tyler has been appointed to succeed him. There is an unusual stir in railway circles, Mr. Potter’s sudden termination of his official connection with the road being the sub- ject of a great deal of comment.

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THE PACIFIC RAILWAY.

Tue Patriot intimates that Mr. Me- Kenzie has not adopted Sir John A. Me« Donald’s scheme for the construction of the Pacific Railway. The Patriot may be right. We shall see. The Governor General says:

“The fifty millions of Jan¢ millions of money to be p ada uncer the bill (Sir

1 and the thirty rovided by Can- Johu’s bill)

are ee ass Tenders, I imagine, will be called for almost immediately.” Vide speech at Victoria.

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HALIFAX AS A GRAIN PORT.

We are pleased to learn that after a large amount of talk of the claims and ad- vantages of Halifax as a grain port, some- thing of a moré practical spirit bas been manifested by a large house of that city, Messrs T.& E.Kenny,who have determined to ship a trial cargo thence at once. Sever- al other Halifax merchants have besides agreed to ship three cargoes on joint ae- count. We hope the enterprise will be entirely successful,

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TemMreraNnca.—On Saturday evening, Oct” 21st.,** Prince Edward” Division, No. 1,8. of T., was re-organized at the old Division Room, Atheneum building. The following officers have been installed into their ree spective chairs for the present term :

W. P,. C.F. HARRIS,

W. A., JAMES McKIRE,

R. 8., J. B. COOPER,

A. 8. 8.. THOMAS PICKARD, F. S.. CHARLES MORRISON, Treasr., J. W. MORRISON, Chap. HON. JUDGE YOUNG, Con., I. W. WADMAN,

A. Con., SILAS WADMAN, I.°8., THEO. L. CHAPLELLE, QO. 8., GEO. WIGGINTON,