sults in Confederation, might, we are sure, | representation proportionate to their po- be still further carried out. A union of | Pulation on that basis. As to the capital, Nova Seotia, New Brunswick and P. E_| Were it not for the difficulty of winter

[sland into one province would have communication, Charlottetown, from its many advantages, To one of these—the central position, would be the most suit

financial—we purpose specially calling at- able. Asitis, the choice would be be- tent day. The idea of such a union | t¥ee2 some of the border towns, —Sack- is no nov Ity. During the session of 1864 Ville, Amherst or Moncton. Their the Legislatures of the three Provinces c!#ims are so evenly balanced that the provided for a meeting of delegates to | decision might be made by lot, or the consider that question. The meeting matter left to the arbitratien of | took _plae it Charlottetown, and | the General Government. But these are ended in the Quebee Conference, The | Purely questions of detail, not touching larger scheme, for the time, so occupied | the main principle. The subjects which

pul ttention that the smaller one was| Come under the control of the Local

we mov well pow resume “overmment are precisely such as could

ite oie confident that | D¢ just as well, we believe much better,

when once public attention is turned to, ™@9aged by 2 united Legislature and | this subject. the advantages of the union | Executive. Our peculiar difficulty, the will be so manifest that we shall not long | Land Question, will soon be settled ; and allow our present wasteful and extrava-| there is nothing about which we need be | gant mode eof government to continue. _| Jealous of joining hands to accomplish. |

The population of these three Provia~| 10 show how good a position financially | ces amounted by the census of 1871 to| the United Provinces would occupy, we To lezislate for and administer | give the estimate revenue and expenditure the affuirs of this numer of people, there _of each for the present year—

are at present employed,—

— 667000

REVENUE. EXP’TURE. SURPLUS.

“ ss i ” Fn oe ” cd 2 ~ 2.995 | 3 Licutenant Governors 0d Baccutive Nova Scotia, $768,011, $673,786, $ 82,225

oe | *N. Brunswick,691,886, 540,486, 151,486 |

Councils, | P. E. Island, 320,438, 220,430, 100,000 | 6 Legislative Bodies, comprising 162 |

a. en Total, $1,780,335 81,484,702 $333,711

15 Heads of Departments. To the surplus here given add the esti- All this machinery to manage the affairs | mated saving under the proposed union of a people numbering but little over one- | 204 we have a total surplus of $419,415. third the population of the Province of | With such a prospect,—with a smaller Ontario. more compact, and, therefore, cheaper

Now, let us see the expeuse, as nearly and more efficient public service, we should | f all this lavish | P¢ #9 2 far better condition than at present, provision for Government. We shall in— | and be in quite 7 good 4 position as is clude only those items of expenditure | the Province of Ontario, at present by which, under a union, would be amalga- far the most prosperous member of the Confederation.

al Ease

a3 We can approximate, 0

inated : —

* The New Brunswick statistics are from | the public accounts of last year. The es- $40,000 27,634 timated snrplus this year is much larger.

Legislation costs per anaum : Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,

P. E. Island, 10,000 | We have not the figures at hand. a z : | + _-_o- = _ —— aan OUR RAILWAY, Executive and Administrative : : Stine Gavermane. #21,000; THE railroad between Charlottetown 3 Private Secretaries, say 2,500 | and Summerside is to be opened on the

first of May-~at least, such was the ar- rangement last fall. Muny persons would be pleased to learn that the road is now

Total $23,500

ee

Departments

Nova Scotia, 21,900 New Brunswick, 22,150 ready and all the arrangements made. f el rhc ce 9,789 | ‘Those who are unaequainted with Mr. Total $53,839 Laird—the gentleman who represents our

The grand total of these is $154,973;

that is, almost half of our entire revenue

interests at Ottawa—have, doubtles, taken it for granted that everything has been under Confederation. made ready as a matter of course. The Besides this, there is the item of public | majority of our people will not, however. which may tairly be here con—-| be surprised to learn that nothing what- silered, as the printing of three different | ever has been done. Not a single railway laws, Gazettes. Xe., is very much | official has been appointed; not a yard

creater than would be the printing of the of telegraph wire has been obtained ; not larger number of one set. This amounts | a single telegraph post has been sunk | along the line. Everything is just as it

$ ,000 was last fall. Yet we are within three

10.000 | : ‘ a aee weeks of the time when the road should

printing,

sets of

to

Nova Scotia New Brunswi

P. E. Island,

ke

Ky

| most influential merchants have, we know,

exerted themselves, individually, to ob- a ‘ better efforts may prove successful.

? and their

if

tain arrangement;

Still,

the voices of all our principal business

men, were united and expressed through the established medium—the Chamber of Commerce—the reform would be much more certain. Representations should, we think, be made by the Chamber to the Postmaster Generzs! at Ottaw These representations should set forth the griev ance; and suggest a remedy \ simple | statement of last year’s «arrangements would be sufficient to force upon the minds of the authorities the necessity for a better system. We want—we are en- titled to—d ily communication ith the

mainland. A steamer should ply to and

fro between Charlottetown end Pictou, and (after the railway is oF Shediac every day of

We can

until such an ar-

Summerside and the season— Sundays excepted ]

i

never be wholly satistfie: rangement is made; for until we have daily

| communication with the mainland we will | be behind the times. Shou!d the ‘ Cham- ber of Commerce’ obtain this boon, it will be entitled to the thanks of the com munity. And if—zss from reliable in- formation received, we believe is not improbable— sleeping cars |e placed upon

the railways of New Brunswick and Nova

about 9 p.m.; leave this port at 10 or 11 p.m., connect with night trains in Pictou and Shediac about 2 a.m.; and reach Halifax and St. John in time for delivery about nine o'clock the following day.

—__—— — — THE LUNATIC ASYLUM.

WHEN the Colonial Secretary announ- ced that did immediately to make some

Government not intend alteration in the management of the Asylum for the Insane, we must own to a feeling of startled and If the hideous details delineated by Honorable Members a few moments previous to the announcement are correct, the institution is a dark blot on our enlightenment and civilization,-—-a standing reproach to our Christianity and our humanity. A num- ber of bapless human beings, deprived of their reason by the same God who lavish- es upon us all the blessings we enjoy, are confided to our care. We shut them up in small, filthy, prison—like rooms; and when all these are filled, we send them te our common jails, and chain them

painful surprise.

We place over these unfortunate fellow- creatures of ours—to guard them and to minister to their diseased minds—A CAR PENTER. We these enormities because the

permit—we continue—

Ye be opened! ! We have a representative = Total $26,000 at Ottawa. That representative is a : Now, we connot ex.ctly state what the Qubinet Minister. It might, therefore, |

expenses of the united provinces will | pe imagined that our interests receive } be; but we may opproximate pretty | special attention. Why, then, is there 4 1 Licutensnt Governor and | pow no prospect of our railroad being . Privite Sveretary, $8,250, ready to accommodate the public before : Ir wil be seen that we suppose the | the middle of June or July? Either ; Provinees would still continue to draw|... representative has no influence ‘ fromthe General Government the amounts with the Government of which he is ‘ greed to he paid to their respective nominally a member; or he supinely en- ! Governors at the tin of the passing of joys his $7000 a year and neglects to ex- : the British North America Act. It is} oy¢ his influence; or, worse than all, now ‘ only fair that they should do so. Still,| thas he is Minister of the Interior, he j aren : amieurdan effected, we must | «. scorns the base degrees by which he did remember that what Canada pays, we Pay | second,’ and thinks his constituents so oar than * md oe ere effected from ¢,- beneath his notice that they are not the general expenditure, ts for our owa| | 145 the exertion of his influence. Had ; et a : the Hon, James C. Pope occupied the . For legislation, as Ontario has only one position of Mr, Laird, or bad either the Chamber. that would be quite sufficient | Hon. Charles Tupper, or the Hon. Peter . for u aud, taking as a basis the number Mitchell represented this section of the of represeutatives sent by each province Dominion in the Government, we would to the Dominion Parliament, and suppos- certainly have had every necessary ar- ing one-half added to that number, the rangement made for runing of passenger Provineial Legislature would consist of | 4 freight trains as soon as navigation ; ~ members——Ontario has only 82. We opens. When Mr. Laird represented may approximate its expenses in this Way. | Beltast, its interests were neglected; and The New Brunswick Legislature consists | pow that he represents Prince Edward of 63 members,—about the supposed Dum-| Jstand in the Couneils of the Dominion, ber. It costs, for members’ pay, travel- its interests are neglected. ling expenses, and other contingencies, itn

$27,634. The united Legislatures would not really cost as much as this, as, with two Houses, many offices are duplicated. However, it is not far out of the away

As tothe Heads of Departments, the Provinces now haviog fifteen — seven would be a liberal allowance for them when united. Caleulating the salaries from Nova Seotia aod New Brunswick — ourown being quite too low to be com sidered in any fair caleulation—we find the highest to be $2,400, and the lowest $1,600. Putting the seven at the aver- age $2000, would give $14,000. Two or three clerks are in each department— the h'!est number employed in any one

THE LATE SPEAKER.

‘“ Naturk,” Shakespeare says, ‘“ has framed strange fellows in her time.’’ The late Speaker of our House of Assembly is certainly one of these. The latest and one of the strangest of his acts was the pe- titioning of Dominion Parliament to re— lieve him from the “ embarrassment of his office,’—vide telegram Had the petition been presented on the first of April, we should have thought he intend- ed to play a huge practical joke on the House of Commons,

EF ne erm

The sale of s'cohelic liquors has been

~ ee

the Asylum are responsible ;

| Goverument has no power under the law

to improve the management of the insti- tution! ! We permit them, too, in an age in which the treatment of lunatics has

We continue when, not more than two hund-

reached perfection. allow them to

red miles away, insane persons are placed

physician who has made the treatment of their diseases his special study; and who sees that they are cared for and tended as

such unfortunate men and women should

tinue to treat our lunatics like—-in the language of one of our legislators---‘‘ like brute beasts,’’ Why ? cessary improvements to our Asylum

Because the ne

sum of money ; because the Government has no power to ‘change the manage- Can people allow such objections to weigh

ment,” our Legislature---can our

Christianity ? work, ma removed.

Let us have this shameful stig Let the press and the pul-

duty. ize our Government to make some sacri- fice for us. Cannot we do without our exhibitions and a few other public super- fluities, s0 that our fellow-creatures---who, for our own safety, we place in confine- ment- -may be taken out of the filthy cells of our Asylum and jails? But it appears that the law does not authorize Govern-

ment !

Medes and Persians, unchangeable ? impossible to alleviate the pitiful cond of lunatics who are so unfortunate as to live in this Island? If it is not—if the

Is it

immediately. The Legislature is sitting,

prohibited within the Dominion Parliament Buildings

is seven— their sularics averaging abeyt

patil it beeemes indelible,

be. But we refuse to be taneht: we con. |

a. Rr recy a ~- 7} ry »Y — " — : mT AT J Vf ] } i Al: I A A MIN ER $1000. Suppose an average of five in POSTAL ° ' 7 7 cr . each department ; this would amount to ~ i ’ i} i r ine ¢ ' I j it ee ee YONDAY PORENOOY, $35,000. This then would make tue : - - i. ~wnenses - try to k ep up t t » th BY THE Te a postal reform ed. Hitherto E ' Deinti | Legislative, $27,600 : Halifax Von nor ni t ; Executive, viz the slow carriage ¢ hall mail til i , . ‘ Hi dil ibid OUD, & Publishing Co. Lieut. Governor, say $10,000 and st. John has |} f nsistent Jepartments, 49,000 ae . . 9 r F ! Cc E : eetnameneinanint 59,000 | Wit the era of st ! y 0 ; omens us immer n fou Corner Queen and King Streets. ane oes. 000 Last sumn ONES AE 8 Poe Annum 8) Oe ‘ : Ge days for a mere! { to oy er Annum, $1.62, If paid A saving of 868 ,373—not fir from one las . n he Year—S1.82, postage pald; $2 if 6 ec respond, by mail, w not paid within the vear, halt the expenditure. If we suppose the either of the commer th CLUB RATES | Publie Printing to be one-third less than ee ae . Fan Besuecin wil be @ewesdes to at present, this would inerease the sav Sa ale wis at 4% t wing rates per year—pay- ings to $85,707, Post OFF oi ee me en REENER “re We have made no calculation of the = vould reach P a ® : ne ree - . si i high 1 vould t i i l it j : cS one address, : ‘oo saving that would be effected in the ad | ,~ | a Wed 7 sl . : re 2.00 i . . 7 ‘ o°e OoecK OD Y Cal J ] would i 17 ministration of justice, though this would, | il : 6 — » m P » to the ineffable disgust of impatient pa 20.00 we believe, be considerable. Jails, Re- i ties eee a Geel : made Up at any time, but | formatories, Lunatic and other Asylums, |. ~ : en ; ras | di than one year. five hours; then it would proceed on its j —could all be much more cheaply and ce iad sendh Mililke (in, on ox ADVERTISEMENTS— : s : i : ot y, and reacl alifax (in an ex ee , TS efficiently provided and managed in the |}, tog condition) between ten and eleven wth farther notice. Advertion , i eeves | Rely mesg erp — = eioemante will | larger scale in which the Union would | o'clock, p.m.; then it would ‘rest’ till l square, one insertion, - $100 jog them on. It is well known that, = after breakfast next morning ; and, final-! Ea h Ce atinnation s 00.25 all such institutions, after a certain ex-|). 4+ nine or ten o’clock on Thursday, it | Special . otices, ** per ii hag a ah 12 . * . ‘ 5 a ; : : < a ACCOUNTS FR ears st a incurred, an increased number | would reach its destination. rhe return “ 4 DB. na 4 i > ex—| : ‘ } for subscriptions, tst December, in each may te qevemmmedeted without the ox letter would arrive at Charlottetown about iOr SUDSCTIDPtions, « ce er, . ° ° s ° al : ’ t year; for standing advertisements etc.,1st | Pe0s increasing at all in proportion. A) ¢.. orclock on Frid ty. Letters for St, June a a Ist pe emt *, in oacte yee oe good immigration policy could be much John did not ‘rest’ quite so long or so transient advertisemments—when ordered : eal . Tnited | an ; ou more vigorously carried out by the United | op on on the way. The distance, however, ALL LETTERS sent by mail should be Provitices. : is greater; and the time taken up was renee “ re oe ay There are many questions of detail | shout the same ushing Company.” Loc rawer, 72, . : = ‘ ae ; OFFICE, Charlottetown. ; which we do not now discuss, but to which | This ‘slow system’ must not be toler- 2 ——-- we shall, from time to time, call atten-/ ated any longer. We must have a re- ori : tion. We just mention one ortwo. The |form. The only question is, how may it g ic Yamiiner, number of members, and their apportion | be brought about? It is useless to re ment. At first, the provincial bound— | call former discontent; it is wroug, as ne aries would, we suppose, have to be | well as useless, to lay, as some have done, 1 Ch'town, April 13, 1874. eonsidered, though, in time, they would | a]! the blame to the charge of the Steam ea te ~+ +++ ++ +++ +++ | be forgotten. While they are regarded, Navigation Company. Some steps which UNION OF THE MARITIME PRO-| P. E. Island might occupy the same posi-| wil] have a practical effect must be taken; VINE "ES. tion in the smaller union that Quebec and the . Cham ber of Commerce , lately , 2 . . . . . Tue principle of Union, which has does in the larger, having a fixed number | established here—is, in our opinion, the been found to lead to such advantageous re- of members, say nine; and the others a | body proper to take them. Some of our

SUPREME

{ i

COURT.

[In this Dominion of cvrs the necessity

of some independent uuthoritative power to define the distinct rights and privileges

of the Provincial and the general Gov-

ornments, to pronounce upon the consti-

ution lity of the laws, and to decide in

f any dispute which may arise, lay, b comive more and more up-

trent. The subject is already beginning ceive the attention of our politicians

A

vested with prerogatives similar to those

tatesmen, Supreme Court, in-

f the ‘Supreme Court of the United

States,’? has been suggested. Mr. Lau- rier (M.P. for Arthabaska, Quebec,) in the course of his remarks when seconding

ithe Address in reply to His Excelleney’s Speech, alludes to the ‘ establishment of a Supreme Court, which he contended was necessary in order to pronounce on the constitutionality of the laws, which at be submitted to

present had to

sideration,’? Sir John A. McDonald, in | his speech, said—‘“‘ He had been of the same opinion since Confederation. ; increasing. It was a subject surrounded | with many difficulties, but he would give | his humble consideration and attention to | any measure designed to establish it and lenable and make it work satisfactorily.’ The necessity of a ‘Supreme Court’ ‘States’

where separate and Provinces

are united under one general Govern-

ment is set forth in the lucid style of John Stuart Mill, in his essay oa ‘“ Re- presentative Government,” as follows :—

“Under the more perfect mode of federa- tion, where every citizen of each particular State owes obedience to two Governments, that of his own State, and that of the federa-

the law | officers of the Crown in England for con- |

He |

| believed that the necessity was every day |

BELFAST DISTRICT.

Hap the late representative of Belfast —the present Minister of the Interior—- Mr. Lairé—-been one tithe as pertinacious in his importunity as his successor—Mr. Welsh—the district would not now be in the neglected condition that Mr. Welsh hardly allows a day to pass with- out reminding the Government and the

it is.

House that the interests of his constitu- ents have been overlooked. His demands for justice —we will do him the justice to

-have been unremitting and vigorous,

and the urguments he uses have been forcible, if not convincing. The people of Belfast do not certainly deserve any

| special favor at the hands of the present

|

| {

Government. In view, however, of the way in which their interests were neglect- ed by Mr. Laird--—in view of the “ evil

influence.’’ or “ want of influence,” of the

sented them--—-we trust the Government

| may be induced to take their case into

favorable consideration.

THE OPINION OF THE CHIEF JUS.» TICE OF ENGLAND UPON MR. | HAYTHORNE’S CORRESPOND, ENCE WITH THE RAILWAY PRAISERS.

} | |

APs | | | | }

Wuewn \'r. Haythorne’s very disgraceful | correspondence with the Railway Appraisers | was before the Legislative Council, that | brilliant body, as though to put beyond a doubt the universal opinion of their utter uselessness, passed a resolution approving | of the crime of which Mr. Haythorne had been found guilty, and which would have insured his expulsion from any respectable | body.

Sad as it was to see the indifference with | which his misdemeanor was regarded by the Council, it is sadder still to know that

tion, it is evidently necessary not only that the constitutional! limits of the authority of | | each should be precisely and clearly defined, | but that the power to decide between them | in any case of dispute should not reside in |

open) between |

either of the Governments, or in any functions

ary subject to it, but in an umpire indepen- lent of both. There must be a Supreme Court of ice, and asystem of subordinate Courts | in State of the Union, before whom

tions shall be carried, and whose

1 n n them, in the last stage of appeal shall be fina Every State of the Union, and | the Federal Government itself, as well as | ev ery ionary of each, must be liable to | | sued in those Courts for exceeding their

W r for non-performance of their federal jut and mustin general be obliged to em- I thos as the instrument for en- | { ing their ral rights. This involves the remarkable consequence,actually realized | inthe United States, that a Court of Justice, | the highest federal tribunal, is supreme over the various Governments, both State and Federal; having the right to declare that any | jaw made, or act done by them, eds the powers assigned to them by the Federal Con- titution, and, in consequence, has no legal

ilidity. It was natural to feel strong doubts before trial had been made, how such a pro- vision would work; whether the tribunal would have the urage 10 exercise iis cons titutional power: if it did, whether it would | exercise it wisely, and whether the Govern~ ments would consent peacebly to its decision The discussions on the American Constitution before its tinal adoption, g evidence that | these natural appr ons were strongly | felt; but they are now entirely quieted, since, luring the two generations and more which | have subsequently elapsed, nothing has oc- | curred to verifv, though there have at times } | been disputes ¢ f considerable a¢ rimony, and | whi ecame the badges of parties, respect-

l ' beneficié

Scotia, the Postal reform may be made complete. For, in that case our mails | |v could be made up in Charlottetown at

| he

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there to in the floor of a darksome dungeon. | | to the

Truetees of'| | States, or between a citizen of one State and because our |

h be he limits of the authority of the Federal Governments. The eminently 1] working of so singular a provision is probably, as M. de Tocqueville remarks ‘at measure attributable to the pecu

Lil

} ng Stat

1a ar x] liarity inherent

- nely, that and in the abstract, but waits

| in a Court of Justice acting | it does not declare the

nat

\ now ine until acase between man and man is brought | before it judicial'y, involving the point in dispute: from which arises the happy effect that its declarations are not made ina very | early stage of the controversy ; that much | popuiar discussion usually precedes them ; |

chat the Court decides after hearing the point fully argued on both sides by lawyers of res putation ; decides only as much of the qu: sts | nat atime asis required by the case before | nd its decision, instead of being voluns | ered for political purposes, is drawn from it by the duty, which it cannot refuse to fulfil, of dispensing justice impartially between ad-

iy

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verse litigants. Even these grounds of con- | fidence would not have sufficed to produce the respectful submission with which all

authorities have yielded to the decision of the Supreme Court on the interpretation of the | Constitution, were it not that complete re- liance has been felt, not only in the intel- tual pre-eminence of the judges composing | that exalted tribunal, but on their entire sup- | eriority over either private or sectional par- | tialities. This reliance has been in the main | justified; but there is nothing which more vitally imports the American people, than to | guard with the most watchful solicitude against everything which has the remotest tendency to produce deterioration in the quality of this great national institution. | The confidence on which depends the stability of federal institution was for the first time | impared, by the judgment declaring slavery to be of common right, and consequently | Jawful in the Territorios while not yet con. stituted as States, even against the will ofa majority of their inhabitants. This memors able decision has probably done more than | anything else to bring the sectional division crisis which has issued in civil war. | The main pillar of the American Constitution | is scarcely strong enough to bear many more such shocks

The tribunals which act as umpires be- tween the Federal and State Governments, naturallyalso decide all disputes between two

the Government of another. The usual res medies between nations, war and diplomacy,

| being precluded by the federal union, it is }

in an establishment presided over by a!

| that,—

would involve the ee pt nditure of a large |

against the dictates of humanity, the | promptings of civilization, and the ealls of | Let us immediately set to |

pit call our legis'ators to a sense of their | If money be needed, let us author- |

ment to make any change in the manage- | Are our laws, like those of the |

law may be changed, let it be changed |

necessary that a judicial remedy should sup- |

ply their place. The Supreme Court of the | Federation dispenses international law, and is the first great example of what is now one |

f the most prominent wants of civilized so ciety, a real International Tribunal.”

> ee oe

OUR CONSTITUTION.

Tue Frenchmen of Lower Canada, it appears, appreciate British Government | and the Constitution of the Dominion. | Mr. Laurier, a talented young French | Canadian, in the speech by which he in Reply, said |

seconded the Address

j

“Our constitution was founded upon the British constitution, the finest under which men ever lived. It secured to every man his | liberty, and enabled him to exercise his con- stitutional right without fear. There was | nothing on this continent to equal this great constitution. Particularly was it fitted to | unite citizens of different races, nationalities and religion, a quality in which the United States’ constitution had signally failed. To day there was not a man in Canada, who did

ful had been the welding in one of the dif. | ferent Provinces, that every man of them was proud to bea Canadian (cheers) while equally proud to be a subject of the great British | Empire. (Renewed cheers ) If to-day there | is aman among them who would seek or de- sire to sever this union, he would be worthy |-of no place in a civilized community. He af- tirmed, without fear of contradiction, thal we presented a spectacle of civil and religious liberty not surpassed in the whole world.

~~ o 42> -¢ o-————____..

General Edward Lee, who was acting Governor of Wyoming territory when sufs _frage was granted to the women, delivered

a lecture at Boston, last Wednesday, on its workings. He declares that no domestic | jars have occurred, even when in one case a husband and wife were rival candidates for the same office, the one on the Democratic

| the other on the Republican ticket. _ women generally vote for the best candies

ition dates, and cannot be bribed. and the whole

| political situation is improved.

The living man who saw Washington now resides near San Erancisco, and is 97 years ofage. His usefulness on this earth will _ terminate with the Philadelphia Centennial,

’ : , where his affectionate grandson proposes | There is excuse~—no necessity for our to put him onexhibition. The old man’s

people to bear this stigma of disgrace |

name is Creston. He has held Washing, ton’s horse, and hopes at the Centennia! to stirrup recollections of the General,

| cary.

| mind can only regard with horror,

| we have suggested a way in which | Haythorne can test the question with refer-

| they will not try that.

| cept the advice we tender, in the most

| an identical case. | Geneva | ecutive and judiciary powers are separated

| that would venture to interfere with the | discharge of the judicial office. | ke considered a violation of the most sacred

) to seek to control, or even to influence,

| Judge, even of the most inferior tribunal.’’

| ited, acquired possession of the P. E. Iss

| the lower rate,—a result which precludes , the possibility of further concessions by | | the company without serious loss.

| being placed in the most unguarded part

| keepers are constantly on guard. | not think it necessary to make a complete

not support this great union, and so success- |

The |

it has so completely identified itself with | him in his discreditable position ; for it has put upon record a repudiation of the well- | understood relations which ought ever to

exist between the Executive and the Judi-

We remarked before that we had no hope of converting Mr. Haythorne from the error of his way, for he has become stereotyped now; but do earnestly hope that the Legislative Council —even though teem- ing with incapables and incompetents as it is~will reconsider the resolution which Journals,

we

its which

now disgraces approving well-regulated | The

number of its days is drawing to a close; |

of conduet every

it will soon cease to exist, and for its own sake,—for the sake of its few creditable | members, not

and its larger number who are |

creditable, we should deeply re-

| gret that one of their last acts had been a

resolution approving of the commission of a crime. We do hope and trust that if they have no respect for themselves, they

| may, et least, have some little respect for | the constituencies they misrepresent, and

reconsider the decision they have arrived at. If they really do think they are right,

Mr.

ence to their worthy (?) President. But

We have received assurances from many quarters that the action of the Council in | approving of Mr. Haythorne’s undisguised attempt to influence the decision of the Appraisers regarding suits then pending before them, is universally regarded with | the deepest regret. And if it be too much to hope that that body will decline to acs

perfect good fuith, we at least beg that they will attentively consider the opinion of the Lord Chief Justice of England on In dissenting from the Sir Alexander Cockburn

award, says :—

‘In England, in America, in every wells constituted and well-regulated State,the ex-

by a broad and impassable barrier. There is no authority in the State, however high,

It would

principles, and an outrage on all propriety,

directly or indirectly, the decision of a

_ - TELEGRAPHIC RATES.

ANGLO AMERICAN TELEGRAPH Co..

Charlottetown Station,

April 10, 1874.

To tue Eprror or tur Examiner.

LimirEp, )

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Deor Siv,—In reply to the resolution of the Dominion Board of Trade, published in your last issue, I beg to state that, as soon as the Anglo American Telegraph Co., lims

land telegraph line, the Directors took the tariff into consideration, and resolved to res duce it from 75 cts. and 8 cts. to [0 cts. and 3 cts., being a reduction of 33 per cent. for the first ten words, and nearly 66 per cent. for additional words. This res duction came into effect October Ist, 1873 and the result, so far, is a diminution in the | receipts exactly corresponding with the res | duction made—thus proving beyonda doubt that the public in P. E Island have not sent a single extra message on account of |

T. C. Janus, Supt. A. A. Tel. Co., Limited.

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Boss Tweed still affords matter for the | newspapers. A special despatch to the St. | John Teleyraph, April 6th, is as follows:— |

‘Police Commissioner Stern asserts, in defence of himself, that so far from Tweed

of the prison, he is placed in the safest and most strictly guarded portion, where 22 He did

martyr of Tweed, or exercise unnecessary severity, and will satisfactorily explain his action at the pfoper time. Foster Dewey, Tweed’s secretary, asserts that he has been unable to dress himself, has been under medical treatment for ten years, and ifsub« jected to all the rigor of prison, would live but a short time; furthermore, owing to his great bulk and weight, he could not be contined in one of the ordinary cells, Tweed himself says he has performed all work incumbent upon him as hospital at~ tendant. While he is more favored than | others, he would not escape if he could, and is hopeful that his counsel will be able | | to effect his release. He complains of great | | physical prostration, and believes himself a | fit subject for hospital. The Times says Tweed himself paid, with money robbed | trom the city, for the royal appointments of | his apartments, and says, editorially, that | he still has political influence, and as he holds the fate of scores of prominent men |in his hands, it was never very probable that he would be allowed to pine away in solitude. If he believed there was no hope | of escape, he would, undoubtedly, open his | little budget of secrets. I'weed was yes~_ | terday visited by over one hundred politi. _ cians and personal friends.

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| Murper in Canapa.—An Ottawa dess | patch says:—John W. Goldwin murdered an aged man and his wife, named Hadwood, in the eastern part of this County last night, | Goldwin was arrested. With great difficulty he was saved from being lynched.

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A Melbourne despatch says that Roches fort and his friends are at present at sydney, but intend to proceed to Europe at once,

Minister of the Interior, when he repre- |

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that period of the value of imports over ‘exports, was $19,334 094, the average year- | ly excess of goods entered for consumption | being $15,762,818.

' to Canada, and that is the value of our

| exclusively in the hands of our large ship-

| eign countries in 1872 was $2,639,663; in

| spicuous in the products of the mine, the

| exports with those two countries of $197,- | 074,828, equal to 90.73 per cent. of the

| the last fiscal year $4,609,552, and if we ins

| dies, which amounts to $2,933,548, we have

| inwards and outwards: 6,861,456 in 1871. | 1872, and 5,663,462 for 1672 and 1873.

_ foreign markets stands at the comparative~

“ THE WINTER BOAT.” Just now, the need of the promised | ‘winter boat’ is keen!y felt. We have been : without foreign mails for a week. In the meantime schooners have entered the | This is tantalizing.

port of Georgetown. We trust that the promise to get a suitable

steamer to carry our mails in early winter and early spring may be kept in good faith. We hope the call for tenders was nota mere election ruse. Some persons | prophecy that Mr. Laird’s “evil influ- want of influence,’ or “ ne—|

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elect to exert his influerce,’’--as shown in the case of the railway,—will militate obtainment of steamer.’ It is to be hoped that these

prophecies may be unfulfilled—-that the

against the a * Weer!