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Stock & Parming Implements, REVOW AL.

eo be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, _— Subser:ber begs respectfully to an- on Ww } UNESD \Y te tN Dex nber text i teseunpncte> Fee hie Customere wnd trietds That hie ¢ following Stock ; 4% REMOVED te the New Brick Building, in Queen Street, erected on the site of lie former Store, Where he has opened lin

en the * ph yme ier « prem ses, ti

and Parming Loaple ments, Ke

veurs old; | chesnut Mare alf

t drauaht Horse, 7

Bleed, 6 wears old, teofoal bv Ellix’s imported “a y . 2 ¢ Civdeadale horse ; 6 Mileh Cows in calf; 2 Stripers YEW GOODs! ® Heifers in calf; Ido; | Ball; 30 sheep, SSpong Received per Undine, L. C. Owen and Lotus, from

Gireat Britain; aud per Oriental, trom the Uuited States, comprising, mm part,

Cottons: Grey and White Cottors, Grey Sheetinga, Regatta § Deeds tee and Faney Shirtings, Faney Prints, Drillings, Jeans, Glazed linings, Casbans, Tickings, Tewel- ings, Battiogs White, Red aud Blue Cotton

Pure Farming Implemenuts—2 Carts, nearly new { Track. with iron wheels; | tron Plough. 1 Wooden do, U set Harrows, | single-seated Wagon i Herse Rake and Wawon Harness, H mes Collars, Chains, DBack-lands sundry ther Parwit leplements. Tous of Hay : eel Herring Neta, | Franklin Stove . 1 Crank Churn, | Dasher d 3

a. FT rete Chita.

(‘art mtr nd Stray

dozen Milk Dishes, and a variety of other articles doo hemerets to mention W arps, &c., Xe. Termes All ences onder £2. cash; amounta over ‘ £ ; Cloths :

onapproved jolat voles

DAVID LAWSON.

TS66

Zz. eleven mouths credit Black and Blue Pilots, Whitneys, Devons, Astri-

cans, Scetch Pweeds, Fancy Doeskine, Black Broad Cloths, Black Doeskins and Casimere and Union Cloakings.

TA in, Milian SELLING OFF! Dress Stuffs: : French Merinoes, Coburgs Alpacas on vil ' rt wrge Alpacas, The Sudscriber is now ready [2 Black Coburgs and Lustres, Faney Checks. Gala DARTLES winting Great Bargains, for Plaids, Plain and Fancy Winceys, Serges, Cash- ieres, Plaids, & ce. Fancy Goods: Ribbons, Feathers, Flawers, Brooches, Dress Buttons, Belt Buckles, Bead Trimmings, Laces. Edgings., Frillings, Stamped Muslius, Berlin

Stanhope Now. 1°

Ce Sale to menee at 10 «clock

Colowred

their him a call,

ces before purciins

Caen. wll deo wel s steck and gr

he is conlident he can sulisty

leh wive and €hatnine ing ¢ Chem bet tu quality ated price

Hix Steck in PRY GOODS consists of Alpacas Vader, Coburgs. Wincev and Dress Goods in va- vite. Prints ' Grev and White Cottons, | Wools, Seoteh Yarns. Patent and Silk Velvets, Plein = a t — a * Broudeloth (very | Veleet Ribbons, Dress Caps, Borders Caps,Cauls

e lac & we ‘ : prods tloves , ee ' : : : ; : fine), a“ we sucy Tweeds, Gloves, | Se.) Veils, Moods, Clouds, &e, &e.

Tammings, &c ' Woollens : Blankets, Rugs, White, Secariet and Coloured

Flannels, Searlet and Black Shirting, Saxen) Shirtings, Blue Serges, Scarts and Cravats, &c

i isewhere. ue

Shirtings

Ready-made Clothing, aml Ower couta tof

tne

4} aseortme Ladies Meu's Boots (| A wood stock of

tu Pants, Vests Gents and manutactdre.)

Shelf Hardware,

Tevots

Linens: | White Frontings Grass Cloths, Hollands, Table

Paints and Paint Oils, Fish Oil, Varnish, Glass, | Dawasks, Ticki gs, Osoaburgs, Hessians and Putty, Cro kery, ke de i Drillings Also, Gents’ Furnishing Goods :

5 Barrels bright Varnish, t Bhi. Black Varnish.| Coates, Vests, Pants, socks. Drawers. 1) bie Northern Puch, 6 bbls Northeru Tar 15! Giaves. Hats & Caps, Mufflers and Searts, Neck tens wasoried tron, fron { ineh to Sineh, 100 Qain Ties, Collars, Braces, and Kubber Cuats. . tuls Codfish (prime), allot which will be seid ce: ex

—Also—

for Cash. FINAL.

Parties indelted to the Subecriber wil! please call aud pay their respective auvuuts immediately

Without farther uotice . Felt Soow Boots, &e.. &e REUBEN TUPLIN ; , ; ; ee a Vid tee 66. 1 Tailors’ Trimmings. ee ————————-——= | Groceries and Dye Stuffs; a full Assortment otf NEW STOCKS. | sual Ware, ac, keke” FREDERICK LEPAGE. WINTER GOODS! Glasgow House New. 12, 1866 TE*HE Subseribers would respec fully in- sa ¢ \I1 nnnS | } Subs . ' vite the attention of Town aud Country Cus NEW GOODS ' NEW GOODS : tomers to their HE Subscriber would inform the Inhabi tante of P. E. Island, that, on the arrival ot

Vausually nm Stock the Brig ANN, trom Liverpool, G. B., be will oF otter,

Fall and Winter Goods, Wholesale and Retail,

Received from LONDON MANCHE-TER,| For Cash or geod Joint Notes of Hand, GLASGOW LIVERPOOL, HALIFAX. and BOS | yon 1.2 & 3 WHITE LEAD, in 56, 28, & 14 Tun : earefally selected to meet the Wants of the : ; a si

Coantey. aad now selling at EXTRAQKDINABY) ig Bed, & Yellow PAINTS, in 28 & 14 ibe. ; '

Shirts,

Fur Beas and Muffs, Woollen Shawls, Hoop

Skirts and Skirt:ngs ;

OW PRICES, for Cas gad B - nsniatateaiaceale DAVIES & WEEKS Boiled and raw LINSEED OILS; . "' reer Chanee’s Swethw iwek GLASS;

Or . New 19. ls6H > 4 eo eS : . PUTTY, Black and White, ir. Bladders 23 and 14 Ibs.;

New Goods, New Goods.

ogre Suteeribers have just received per from Liverpool, their

Diamend Head DECK SPIKES;

Bare Refined and Common LRON, assorted sizes; ttt bh é. | Barrels and Kegs COAL TAR: FALL & WINTER SUPPLY OF | Barevis Black and Boght VARNISHES;

| Coils HEMP and WIRE CORDAGE; DRY GOoOoDs, Bolts Extra and Navy Boiled CANVAS; Now opea for [nspection at the Old Establishm

‘ od Bars YELLOW METAL, § to 9; Pownal Stre-t; wisv to be had atthe New Store,) YELLOW METAL BUF? BOLTS, 7 * 3; Queen Square,

, CLINCH RINGS, Lron and Yellow Metal; A Good Selection of

Crates and Casks GLASS. CILINA, and EARTH- WINTER CLOTHS,

ENWARE,—Crates assurted for country Compri-ing Whitneys, Beavers Plain & Fa Dueskius, Elephant and Moscow Cloths.

U adi i.

Barge *

} tres 5 ey |A NEW MIXTURE for Bottoms of FISHING on BOATS, wuch approved of by English fishermen. | Parties wanting any of the above articles will

—aAlso— A Good Selection of ide well by calling and inspecting them, at the OLD STAND, formerly oceupied by W. W

Ready-made Clothing, 5 | Lane & Co., HEAD of LORD'S WHARF

Pearlet. White & Grey Blankets. Horve Rags, Rui Water Street

way Wrappers, Printed Draggets. Cocoa Matting, | ‘ " ARTEMAS LORD.

Weollen & Marsellas Quaiits. Woollen Covers, Piak, Blue, White and Scariet Flannels,Faucy do Oct. 29, 1866. Dress Stuffs. ae a oa Lustres, Cobarys, Baratheas, Alpacas. Poplir +t, i: re ! i re ! fF re !

Cumlets, Shepherd Plaid Checks, Morinoes, Plain | ea McKINNON & FRASER’S

aud Fancy Whincies, Tweeds, Xe. Worsted Damasks, Sm :

Piack and Coloared Silke. Striped Sitks, Shawl |\ Carriage Factory.

Mautles, Paletots, Cheet Protectors, Corsets ates a Wall ta bas be

PRiNCE STREED,

Grey. White & Printed Coittouis, | R OPENED Cotton Warp, Wadding, Gloves, Hata and C ps. | E " ° Boots and Shoes, Table Covers, Table Daniu-’ s , . . ‘ . ©

Geute’ Linen and Whire Cotton Stiits, Wootten | ‘ HE Subs ribers, in announcing Shirts, Konnet Frouta. Gents’ Ties aud Searfs, (ul late. Masiine, Maslin urtaine, Ladies Goes,

the

re-opening of their Factory. destroyed by fire in the early part of the Summer avail them selves of the opportunity of retarning Chauke for

Ladies’ Felt, Veivet, and silk HATS; Ladies’ |

Rubber Boots aud Shes; |

iICUT NAILS, and CUT SPIKES; i these, would be better employed at home;

[nial representatives combine and

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7 186,

‘THE ORGANIZATION of the EMPIRE. | men between 18 and 45 beimg obliged to serve In a pecuniary point of view we shall be bet- ‘always believed that tie late Reciprocity

BY THE HON. JoSEPH MOWE. Edward Stanford, 6, Sg W. 1866.

( Concluded.) some of them the season tor profitable indus try isshort, it would be wise in Her Majesty's and | select one at random, because it often Government, having secured this organization attract? a good deal of publie attention. — and these high powers, to press as lightly as Chere are 60 000 Englishmen in. the Colony possible in times of assured tranquality upon ot New Zealand, who hold a portion of the the people, who, in that case. would always Islands by what has otten appeared to be a be the more ready, in times o most precarious tenure. Tue Maoris hold danger, when tre reason of the thing was ap- all the rest, under some agreement with the parent, to submit to heavier sacrifices. British Government, and are said to have By another Bill, to operate uniformly over the patronage ond protection of certain wor- the whole Empire, (India bemg excluded as thy people in Kagland, whose philanthropy she provides fur her own army.) the funds seriously embarrasses the local Government should be raised for the national defence — —When war breaks out nobody in this coun. | lhis measure, like the other, should be sub- trv can getat the merits of the con (Povesy. Phe Colonists are uccused of provoking it, Vernmentsand Legislatures. This tax should that they may despotl the Maoris of their be distinguished from all other imposis, that land, or profit by military expenditure ; and the amount collected could be seen ata glance, the policy is seriously entertained of leaving and that every portion of the whole people these sixty thousand Englishmen. thousands | Might see what they paid wad what every of miles trom home, to fight and slay these other portion had to pay- savages at theirown cust andcharges Then This tand could either be raised as head matters become complicated by disputes be. Money over the whole population, in the form tween the Executive and the Commander-in- | ‘ Chiet., and nobody knows wh: to bame. We per-centage upon un ports 5 constituting, next rarely get out ol theese entanglements without tv existing liabilities, a first eharge upon the a good deal of bloodshed. and a large expen- Colonial Revenues, ard bets pad inwo the diiure. And searcely anybody in England military chest, to the eredit of the Lords van tell. even when the war is over, why it Commissioners of the Treasury. was begun. Now [ would sanplify all this As the great arsenals, duckyards, depots by saying to the New Z-alanders, send over and elaborate fortifications, are in these Ls- here the best wan you have got, clothed with | iands, as the bulk of tue naval and military

the autherity of office and sustamed by the | eXpenditure for arms, munitions and provi-

public confidence gand lec him explamn your | cause belore the Parhament ol the Empire Li | , You are right you shal! be sustatued, if wrong, you must give way or change your policy A single night's diseussion tm the House of | Commons, with the New Zealand Minister|! there, would do more for the peace and order | Where, In time of peace, there is our little ol of the Colony than a year’s debate without | naval or military expenditure, him. No man would come here with a bad In another respect @ wise discrimination case, and, if he did, and if it broke down, no | S#ould be exercised. Within the Bercst Ls- wise man would persist in a line of policy lands are stored up the iruits of eighteen cen- which had been patiently reviewed and ¢ mn- | Curies of profitable industry, All tiiat yener- demned by the House of Commons, in his | #ttons of men toiled tor, and have bequeathed, IS NUW In possession of the resident population bere, including ail that was created and |

on board of block ships. harbour defences, or

Londor : Cross

Charing | obliged to serve on shore,

But, take a purely provincial question,

sions, occurs here. where are the great fl-ets and camps. the people o! Great Britar ireland ought to be prepared to pay,

own presence, alter a lair discussive ip which he had been heard at large.

But it may be asked would the Colonists | value this privilege 2? Would they send these | British Colonies have been founded. ‘wembers? [ think they would, bat if the | the machinery is here which does now, and

| did not their mouths would be closed: and | WHl continue to do to a very large extent, the

| the offer of free consultation, not only on such “#4nutacturing business of the Eupire. It

| local concerns. as from their pressure on the | !¢ be true that these machines earo the wages

| Imperial treasury challenged the investiga- and do the daily work of eight hundred

tion of Parliament, but on the great questions millions of people, here are suurves of wealth | | of Peace or War, having been freely tendered and an amount of property to be defended | /to them, they could not complain if the Bri- | vat of all proportion to what can be found in| tish Government took such measures for the | all the provinces ; and it is of the utmost im- | | preservation of domestic tranquility and the | portance that this elaborate mechanism of

| general defence of the Ew pore as in its wis- | 'ndustry, which has cost 80 much and earns

| dum seemed polive and discreet, It is not | 80 much, should never be perilled or stopp. d

probable that all the Colonies would send lor a single day. ithese members, to waste their time im the | Taking ito view, then, the comparison House of Commons, when they bad no special! i these wealthy and densely peopled Is grievance to discuss, or policy to represent, lands bear tu the sparsely populated Colonies in the absence of beyond the sca, it would seem Dut tair tat ihey should assume, in proportion fu nulM- but when they bad, the privilege would be bers, a much larger share uf the burtiens vl

|

beeause their lending men,

much esteemed, and the convictiun that they | National detence had the mghtto send them acall tines would| If the general principle be admitted we | add a new element of strength and cohesion need nut waste tre with the detains, which to the Empire ivetuaries and accountants can adjust. Parr | But it may be asked might not these Colo- | allowance being made, under these two heads, | y form al cau see no reason why the Colonies should Brig.de, embarrassing Governments and ob- | Hut contribute in peace and war their fair | structing public business im pursuing anti- quotas towards the defence of the Ewpire British cr other unworthy objects? There | As respects the mode in which this contri- | is no danger of this. These men would re- | bution sould be levied, there are many rea- | present communities wid- as the poles asun-| sons Wy 4 tax on imports should be prefer-| der, with climates soils, productions.interests, | te d. Direct taxes are easily collected in a as varied as the skies under which they were | densely peupled country hike kngland, where | everybody can be gotat, and where every

bred. They would know less of each other and | acre ut land has a marketable value, Int e

of ewe other s interests than the body of Eng- lishmen among whom they were thrown, | provinces direct taxes often Cost more thas | would pertaps know of them all. These |chey come to, because the scarcity of mone, men would bring with trem stores of acca- | in new settlements, the distances to be travel- rate information, alten invaluable in Parlia- | bed by the coliectors, and the difficulty of en- | mentary inquiries, and they might sometimes forcing parmentit there is evasion or resist- throw into debates the fruits of long ex-| ance. renders this by lar the least satisiactory | perience and the subtle vivacity of very ac- | mode of collecting revenue. But, added to | complished minds; but | cannot conceive | their ad valorem duties, the tax for National | with what designs, or under what leadership

| Delence could, tf fairly adjusted, be paid by | they could possibly combine for objects that) atl the Colomes without resirieiing their | were not legitimate.

The effeet of this eon- | commerce or being burthensume bo their in-

cession would not only be to supply the | dustry. | House of Commons, ac first band, with much but the question may now be asked, and valuable information, but to raise the stand-/everything turns apon the arswer that way | ard of qualification, und to elevate the tone | be given tu 16, will the Columies conseat to 4 public inscruccion and debate, io all the | pay this tax, orto make any provision atall Colonies tor the delenece of the Kuypire 2? bt must be | The Crown Colonies and foreign popula- | apparent that no individual can give an an tions are not included in this scheme. Ler | swe to this question ; that the Cabinet, were

Wiaek aud white Laut « Woewl Hose.Gents’ Hire, Drawers and Linders. Door Mate, Curbrellas--a Variety iu Cottou, Silk, aud Alpaca, &e., &e.

—Also— A Large Lot of Furs. Ladies’ and Gente’ Fue Caps, &e., &c. All of which will be sold cheap for Casa. J.S & J. PURDIE.

iages,. Sleighs, &c. Ch'tewn, October 22 1866. f+13m Carri g § r

ogee —— —__——-. — | in as good style as can be got up in the City, and NOTICE ! NOTICE ! japon as reasonable ters

— Job Work of all kinds in our line strictiy at- Teo Lord Viscount Metville’s Ten- oded te. ants oun Lot 29.

| Painting also done in the best style. (ESUE Sabseriber having understood from | McKINNON & FRASER. wmeany of hia Lordship's Tenants that it war

impossible for them to meet him with their Kents | on the das appeinted in Charlottetown, in co :me- i <pnenee of their net being alde to ship their proiace

the very liberal patrouage extended to them in the past, and reapectfully request a continnacce of the sume for the fatare so large and so well fitted up as to be second to none in Prince Edward Island, aud. moreover, x large Stock of the very best Materials used is their trade having been lately received by then from the United States. their facilities for carrying on Business are greatly increased, and they are now prepared to supply

Notice to Debtors.

ALL persous indebted to the foregoing Firm are : adie oa earnestly requested to mak« immediate payment of in time that he will be at ALEX ANDER MeKA 1 5; their respective Accomnuts The losses sustained by DESABLE. sear a e Bridge, on WEDNESDA y ithe burning of their Premises demand that these = i2th day of DECEMBEK uext, w receive (IT ) oet-standiny debts be paid up at once.

ute vray ar + . ~

Hoping that thew will be prepared to pay the : : _MeKINNON & FRASER. ewrne, leaving all excuses aside. Upper Prince Street, 3m

Chirown, Oct 7th, 1866.

J. K. BOURKE, Agent. sta i«i ite eer . Cen Books! Books! A Great Sale of Standard Books at Auction, by R. J. Jupp, the celebrated Book Auctioneer.

Millview. Now 19

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THe LAST CAUTION

A: the Season for Shipping hax row far

advanced, aud those indebted to the Estate of |

the late Patvick StePHeNs not having come for- | ward to pay up theirrespective Accounts, the sub

eeriber intimates to them that on the closing of the |

Navigation DEvAULTERS WILL Be sUED indiserimi- |

Wately. ‘ KR. J. CLARKE, Ayent tor above Estate. Orwell *tore. Now. 19. 1866 tf

Great George Street.

lable. including the great Authors of the past and | present ages. Catalogues are printed and will be | circulated in time.

D. VAUGHAN, The Sale will commence on or near Friday

Manulacturer of flats, Cups | evening, Oth November. and Furs NEIL RANKIN, Auctioneer.

Nov. 5, 1866. a et as QUEEN'S SQUARE, TO THE TRADE. Charlottetown, - - - - P. E. I.) — pax Ledie’ and Gents’ Furs made and | CORN BROOMS! CORN BROOMS! repaired to order. November 19, 1866. — 3in

MONEY WANTED. | oat. | tempted in the Island, he will receive sn@i en-

. a rs Scopes couragement as to enable him to continue and a ; ot pew! larwe the Business PAID thie PALL in full, aud at the furthest by RE XOMS can be had from Mr. DODD, Auc-

the Ist December. | tioneer, Queen Square, (who will wet for the Sale W.E of them.) as Cheap and better quality than im ported. JOHN MeLFAN, Mannfactory, Sydney Street.

~ Buffalo Robes. fear Dee I AOR

JUST BECELV HD: ood Or Soe iat PORTER PET INES Novewhber 12, 1866 isliw ABE now take at our tallery. the only on. Pp

ing Pablie that he-has commenced the

— Manufacturing of Corn Brooms,

DAWSON.

Nov. 5, 1866.

al | face in the Colony where they are taken. | These are the Portraits that of late Lave cnused

Cook Stoves to Burn Coal. | «uel: excitement all over Enrope and Ameriea ; and

UstT RKC HIVED. at Dodd's brick | no wouder, for they are traly wonderful specimens Store, a lot first class Cook Stoves suitable for | of urt, avd are destined to supersede every otver

cits, jatyle of Portraiture. For beauty of tint, and ~~ 12, 1966. isliw PUSS SG HesS ie hacmeny of light and shade, there is nothing inthe

-—— 3 1 it. They done ou Porcelain,

Just Arrived ! owes eeieiilie, teeing aa of the firet

] BARRELS Large New Buy of "'T reepectfully invite all who can appreciate to leland FAT HERRING, and for sec specimens vow on view at my studio.

Sule by

I. C. HALL.

Their new factory being | hy which they can be provided for. | |

HAVE been instructed by Mr. JUDD, to) announce that he will be here to open a Sale as | | above, in Charlottetown, in Mr. THOMAS Store, |

The stock will be very large, varied and valu. |

TEVUK Subseriber ee to iatorm the Trad-

| and trusts, that as this ia the first of the kind at- |

i

Majesty s Ministers may devise some mode they to propound this policy even alter the 1 pass | most anx ous Inquiry and fuli deliberation, them by because I do not see the way clear) could only waits in hope and confidence tor to admit them, until they have achieved the | the response to be given by 3+ mnany Commu status of self governing provinces with res- nities, sv Widely dispersed, and affected by so | ponsible Mimeters to send ; but, if they were | many currents uf thought. | wade to feel that, by qualitying themselves of doubt to perplex aad almust to deter them } tor rational self-government, they mightulti- mately enjoy the full privileges of British lertigenship. the effeet even apon those por- | tions of the Empire, sull treated as terricories | all respect, { would urge Her Majesty's Go- are treated in the United States, megtt not) verument to give the question their grave

be without its value in exciting to ewulation | consideration. and improvement. Having made this step in advance, I would | interest, of all her Majesty's subjects in tie proceed to treat the whole Empire as the Bri- | outlying provinces fairly admitted to the «n- tigh Islands are treated, huiding every man | j yinent of the provileges indicated, to make j liable to serve the Queen in war and making this contribution, f have not a shadow of levery pound’s wort of property responsible ‘doubt. Witoont the protection of the fleets lior the national defence, | Great eare should be tuken that. in every | jess Withour -ffigient organizition they province, 2 decennial census should be pre- cannot Jean upon and strengtien each other, pared under every possible guarantee for tul- | or give the Mother Country that uroral sup | ness and accuracy, and the information fur- por, whieh in peace makes diplo wacy effee- nished by these returns should be digested | tive, and in war would and condensed so as to present ut a glance a|shert, sharp. and deeisive. Besides, _pietore of the Ewpire loverflow of labour and of capital into the

tal, there is so litcie to be lost by failure, and 'so much to be gained by success, that, with

the

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The census would of course give, as th: | Codensee, is to some extentchecked by doubts | basis of legislate n: as to the security of their future, Li one

The number of people. Jorgunized and consolidated under a sys |

The value ot real and personal property. rem mutually advantageous and universally The amount of Exports aud Lunports. l known, there would be an eod uf all jealousies | between the taxpayers at home a d aboad | We would no longer be weakened by discus or propositions tor dis

The tonnage owned. New ships built | The number ot Fishermen and Mariners em- | sions about detence, ploved. lipemberment, and the irritation which is now | Tne information gathered by the las! | kept up by shallow thinkers and misehtevous | census may, fur present use, be suificient. and | politicians, would vive place to a general if go: ieeling of brotherhood, and confidene, of ma- A Bill, making provision for the defence ol | tual exertion, dependence and security The ‘the Kmpire, may be prepared to operate unt: | great powers of Europe and America would ltormly over the whole, and should be submit- | ar onee recogmiar tue wisdow and torethought | ted simultaneously to all the provinces Lf. out of whieh had sprung this pational eom- i should provide .— | bination, and they would be slow to test its For the enrolment ofall the men from 16 to | strength. We should secure peace on every 60 labite to be calied out in case of war. i side by the notoriety given Co the fact. that For the effecuve organization and train-| on every side we were prepared for war ing. as Militia, of men between the age of 18 Now let us see tf Uer Majesty’s subjects, and 45. vear by year in time of peace. | making these sacrifice 8, and giving these aids, For fixing the quota, which in case of hos- | would be worse off or would stand on a Jower tilities any Where, each province Is to provide | level than the people of any other great Kun during the continuance of the war, the Colo- | pire, with whom our pride might tempt us nial Goverpment having the option to supply to chailenge equality We wouid have, in all its quota by sending regiments already ew- the Provinces, responsible Governments, inde~ bodied, or by furnishing volunteers from the youth of the country who might be better spred ; , For incorporating these men into the Bri-

Press, Mamespal Institutions, the entire eo trol of our own revenues (the defence contn- bution being deducted). and the rezulation

mitted tor the sanetion of the Colonial Go- |

sf @ property or imcome (ax, OF by a certain |

‘and of great commercial advantages.

jand

Luere is enough | }may be pardoned for venturing to diseass a

lfrom trying the experiment, yet It isso hape- | jiu presence of statesmen and public writers,

| ‘That itis the duty. and would be for the |

and armtesot England, they are all detence- |

. make the contest |

pendent Courts and Legislatures, a Free |

ter off = The whole of the import dutres in

jshould stul retain ours (less the con ribation

vinces a large fund, available fur local services and internal nnprovements.

But suppose this poley propounded and and that the response 18 a Even in that case it heeanse the pub-

the appeal made, determined negative. would be wise to make it,

ithen be clear. and the hands of jmen tree to deal with the whole question of national detenee, in its broedest outlines or in its bearing on the case of sny single pro- vince or group of provinces, which might then be dealt with in a more independent man- ner,

Bot [T will not, for a moment, do my fel- How Oolonists the injustice to suspect that decline a fair compromise of a question which involves at once their own protection and the cous lidation and se- ceurity of the Empire. At all events if there are any Communities of British origin any- where, who desire tu enjoy all the privileges and immunities of the Queen's subjects with.

they will

‘ase rtain where and who they are—let us measure the proportions of political repuadi- ation NOW, in a season Ol tranquility—when we have leisure to guage the extent of the evil and tu apply correctives, rather than wait Gil war finds us unprepared and leaning upon presuusy tights Jit which tiere is DO reality.

But it may be asked can such an Empire as this, Wanting the Gompactness of Franee,

may Save QU puins if this question cannot he junswered ; but, after much reflection on the ‘subject, L think it can, with as much eer- tiinty as any question can be answered that includes so many elements of speculation to Which no positive test can be applied.

A nation of soldiers, like the Romans or the French, would hardly have known what

left by the loretathers of those by whom the to do with such an Empire as ours, had Pro- Besides, | vidence bestowed it as a gift.

But to a na- tion of werchants, manufacturers, planters, fishermen and sailors, its very extent, expan- sion, and diversity of production and consump tion, are ats chief attractions. All that the sun ripens or the seas produce is ours, with- vut going beyond our own boundaries. Ifa

zolverein, such us the Germans have, or free |

trade between States such as the great Re- public enjoys, be advantageous, we have them on the widest scale, and with a far larger population. Tue seas divide our pos- sessions, it is true, but out of this very divi- sion grow our valuable fisheries, our mercan- tile warine, our lines of ocean steamers ; and vut of those our navy, and the supremacy upon the sea, which, if we hold together, with clheaperiron, coal, timber and labour than almost any maritime country, po other power can dispute.

Besides. though in some respects our dis- tant pussessions are a source of weakness, on the whole they give great strength and power. Through India we command the trade and almost control the policy of Asia ; end even in America, whieh at this moment is held to be our weakest point, while we possess half

‘the Continent with the provinecs of British

America and the West Indies, we control the North Atiantic and the Galf of Mexico, and

| have a power of offence, as well as the duty

of defenee, all along a frontier which no sur- vetlance can possibly close against our trade ; and so it as, in. every quarter of the globe,

the risks and the cost of empire are Counter- |

balanced by the possession ou! p litical power While we act in concert these are the common pro- perty of us all, and I cannot believe that there is in a single province of the empire in whieh British settlers torm a majority, @ dis- position to break away from the honvurable Cot pact under which these advantages are mutually shared, or an indisposition to con- iribute towards their perpetual guardianship and protection,

Poat this paper might be kept within readable CoM pass, { have not encumbered it with details, nor have L touched upon a number of subsidiary measures, such as a national currency, weights and measures— uuttormeity of police—systematic plantation the relef of the poor rates, postal savings’ banks, public unprovements and d+- vennial exoibitions, and yenerally those mea- sures which would have # tendency to foster nuuonal teelings and stamp upon the whole populativo of the Ewpire a national ¢harac- ter.

question of such magnitude and importance | whose exalted positions and lung experience, lrender ib hazardous to ask their consideration fot new principles ot Government. But, ‘during thircy years of active public lite, I have Leen compelled to study clusely the pa | ture of Colomat and [mpertal rclations, with

| the opportunity of mingling freely with the)

public men ot the United States, and of ex- jamining their system and development, and L reepeettully indulge a hope that some

}tion, and expressed with no wish to embar- ‘ras, but with a very sincere desire to aid the

| public men of the Mother Country in dealing | with the great mteres:s couitied to tueir |

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|OUR TRADE WITH THE BRITISH PROVINCES {

A NEW TREATY WANTEL.

[From the New York Prices Current.]

| The failure te agree upon a liberal sabsti- | tute tor the rescinded Canadian Reesprocity | has cut off a very large and lucrative trade, iwhich we lormerly enjoyed with the neigh- \foring Provinces. Waile deliberations upon | the question were pendins in Congress, the

itheury was frequently broached by a portion | yl our pres’ abu representatives, tu the effect!

‘that, by a total abrogation of the Treaty,

\their products would be cat off trom our

| warkets, and values would, In consequence, | become sy reduced, that the Provinces would | be literally stary-d into making such terms jas would be deemed equitable by our Go | vernment; but events have proved the fallacy jot all such prognostications. | repars of the Montreal Corn Exchange, re- peeatly published, shows the prices of tlie ‘leading staples have noé only been tally ; maimtained, but that there has been an in- ‘creased trade in many articles; and that the

out paying jor and detending then, let us-

weight may be givea to sincere convictions, | ‘formed ater many yeirs of anxious d-libera-

‘Treaty, during the last session of Congress, |

. | The annual.

Treaty was one sided, and, therefore, favour-

(in forts or water batteries for the same num- all the States now go into the National Trea- | ed such a revision a8 would edapt it to the ber of days which effective militiamen are sury to sustain the general Government. We | progressive exigencies of the time

| Were opposed ty its abrogation, and firmly

As labor in all the Colonies is high, and in | for national defence) aud bave in all the Pro-| believed that when it was withdrawn, many

‘commercial intereste were sacrificed. The | merchants and business men of the Provinces, und especially of Upper Canada, bad long }svught our markets ; not so mach, perbaps, | tor the final disposition of their products, as | affording the most direct and available means

f impending lie conscience of the Mother Country would) for reaching the markets of other countries her states- |

They thus gave us the benefits resalung from | transpor tari wm and exchange of those com- | modities, beeanse we aff rded them free in- | grews and egress at our seaports. But since | the abrogation, as we have seen, they have | found means to dispose of their surplus pro- |ducts, and to strengthen and extend their | commercial relations with other countries | What was wanted was, not a retrogade step, | but such judicious action, on the part of the | yoverning authorities, us would extend those | principles which bad been demonstrated to ibe beneficial to the best interests of com- | merce. [ln other words, commercial men | wanted reciprocity made as vearly equitable (as pussible—avt repudiated, There was one important item of interest / to Government aud business men, that was either Jost sight of, or not fully appreenared, when the treary was abrogated, end that was | the temptation tu smug sling along the bor- | der under the present system, ilhiett bustness having, during the present year, assumed gi-

| guncie proportions, especially mn the Norcheérn |

| part of the State. It was recently stated by the Treasury agents that the trafhe had been ‘unweasurably broken up, but it had lately

n and Russia or the United States, ever be kept to- | been discovered that the business bad been and | gether, and so brought to yield to the/ cerried oa to a greater extent than ever. A have nv duvubt, would, 4 much larger pro-| guidance and control of any central autho- | Washington despateh of yesterday says that portion towards this tund than it would be | rity, as to the strong tn war, and in peaceful | active measures are being adopted by the pro- air to exact from the outlaying provinces, times wastually interested in a common name, | per officials to bring the offenders to justice, and in a simultaneous development ? We |

but with a irontier extending seme three thousand miles, st is stunply impossible to pre- | vent infractions of the revenue law. | In the present dearth of some of the lead- ing agricaltural staples of tie West, sucti as breadstuffs, the absence of corresponding on trom Canada, that were wont to come here, is keenly icit, and speculaturs are thus, to considerable extent, enabled to regulate prices of food products pretty much to suit themselves. Quite an interest has been awa- | kened in commercial circles vpon 6413 watter of late, and we understand that an effort will be made, during the ensuing sessivn of Con- | gress, to have a mew treaty adopted. It re- /wains for the interested people of both coun- | tries to put their shoulders to the wheel and insist upon an amicable co-operation on the | part of their representatives, and a treaty may be concluded that may be productive to tie best interests of all concerned. er

“ICELANUVIC LEGENDS.” SCANDINAVIAN SUPERSTITIONS.

In the second series of a work with the above title the fullowing legend is given :—

into the sheep-walks, with their leader, who was a strung man and dauntiess withal. When they bad reached the farthest point o/ their search a storm came on with a heavy

knowing where they were. Alter a long walk they found that their path Jed down a hill, and soon they found them-elves in a small valley, and having by chance come | sctuse"™ house, they knocked at the door. |'There come out an old fellow, ugly and mighty raecally-looking, and said that it was a new thing for stran ers to come and pry about his dwellings, and looked with unglee- ful eye on bis guests. Lhe leader spoke tor them ali, and tuld him how they happened to come thither; and having told the old tellow this, he stepped soside the door with all his wen, without waiting tor the mbospitable man's leave or refusal. When they had sac | fora while, meat was brought them on dishes |by a young damsel of downeast mien. She | whispered to the guests, as she gave the mea ‘tu them: ‘Eat only the meat at the edge lof the dish farthest from you.’ They looked and were soon sure that all at that edge was mutton, but all at the other ouman flesh W ben they bad finished, the girl removed the weat from the table, and took the wet cluthes