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NOTES FROM THE GAPITAL.

THE PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND PETITION.

The fraudulent nature of the Grit peti- | tions has een shown up in more than one | instance ; but among the whole batch there )isne greater swindle than the one from | Prince Edward Island, presented by Mr. Great boasts were made that this } particular petition contained the names of 4,400 voters ow the Island. An examin- ation of the document shows that 1 is | utterly unworthy of attention. The Min- ister of Marine, in a yood huimored | speech, exposed the huge fraud, and stated | that the Eon. gentleman who had placed the petition upon the table should be cen- sured for presenting a document with so wany palpable evidencea of fraud and for gery. He amused the House by exhibiting the petition and pointing to whole pages of foolscap, covered with names in duplicate, which had been counted, no doubt, to ' | | }

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swell the number to 4,400. Both Mr. A. C. McDonald and Dr. Muttart exposed the frauduient nature of the petition, one of

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| rather eut off their right hands than do j such a dishonorable act as to sign twiee for the purpose of swelling the count, The game may be said of those in Prince County whose names appear twice. A _ large number of

THE BATCH OF NAMES.

that appear in one handwriting might be given, vat, a few examples will suifice at present. In Dromore settlement some en- thusiastic Grit evidently weil acquainted with the settiers, slapped down 13 names at a sitting, and te satisfy bis mind that no particular acquaintance had been omitted he nuwbered each man on the margin of the petition. Another in the same settle | ment, following in his footsteps, put dewn 16 names. As this may be the first intima- tion given to the 16 men, that their names appear on a petition seut to Ottawa, pray- ing that they and their families may be taxed to build the Canada Pacific Railroad entirely out of the Public Treasury, the nawes are here given a8 they are to be seen in the handwriting of some Grit inkslinger: Patrick OBriev, Patrick McDonald, Michael McDonald, Patrick MeVonald, the second time, Robert Dooley, James Ciark son, Hugh Sherry, Francis Sherry, Patrick Sherry, Johu Briton, Angus McLeud, Hugh | MeLeod, Gharles Kelly, Peter Duffy, James | Hughes and Daniel Hughes.

Another faithful and serviceable adherent of the party in the first Distriet of Queen's taxed his memery till he thought of the names of fifty six (56) who in his opinion were generous eo gh to tax themselves for the benefit of tne future setelera of the North West. Here is the

LIisT OF MEN

for him te settle the matter with : James Mann, Donald Daggan, Francis Sudsbury, William Delaney, John A. Manv, James Evans, Richard Profit, James A. Profit, James A. Evans, Albert Stewart, Daniel McKay, Joseph Duggan, John Miann, Wil- liam J. Maun, Donaid Campbell, William Campbell, William H. Campbell, Alex. Campbell, John Campbell, George Murphy, George McLevd, Thomas Murphy, Robert Michael

Wedicck, Alexander Murphy, Mountain, James Renalds, Dugald Sads- bury, Matthew O'Halloran, James Sim- |

mons, Thomas Millman, Wia Profit, Davi i} Protit, Richard Paynter, E. Paynter, Ed. | Warren, Alex. Cousins, Audrew Davison, | Fredk. Davison, Joseph Davison, Louis J. Hillman, William P. Evans, William | J. Evans, A. N. Evans, John Profit, lsenr., John Profit, junr., John F. Adams, John Bryenton, John Cousins, James Sheshan, William A. Delaney, Alfred W, Delaney, Join Bernard, Jacob D: ggav, Benj. Dougan and Samuel Bern- lard. I: is as well to inform some of these | yeutle neo that lberces have been taken with their names, as taey appear twice 10 different handwriting. One of the cham- pion signers (1 will not say forgers, for that | seems to be too harsh a term to apply to | one so zealous to serve his partyin a crisis, ) | belongs to another district of Queens | County. His mewory worked like a charm | and doubtless did not require any spurring

to recall the settlers for miles around.

Thirty-one nawes was the result of his

enthusiastic effurt, and doubtless thirty-

one more wenld have appeared in biack

and white if he had not been compelled to

curb his zeal by coming to the end of his

sheet of fuolscap.

HERS 18 HIS LITTLE List.

| Heoter McDonald, {Rod k Fraser,

Alex. Fraser,

| Jahn Fraser,

| Arch d McLeod, \W, B. Muaa, Lemuel Geo. Muna, | Hugh Gillis, |Normaa Nicholson, \James MeDonald, |Alex. McLeod, seur.,

John Pain, Laughlia sicKachern, John Hume, Wellington Hume, Heotor McNeil, Donald MacNeil, Angus Bine, jun, Acgus Lamont, Norman McLeod, Douald McPherson, John McPherson, | John McRae, Joba McKay, James Vc Millan, | Rebs. McKay, Patrick King, Peter Emery, Norman Nicholson, I“ liam Tayler, Donald Tayler.

Mr. Yeo in his speech could not deny that whole batches of names appear in the handwriting of one person; but attempted to explain away thisevidence of forgery by stating that in Prinee Edward Island the Secretaries at political meetings sign peti- tions for three-fourths of those present. Comment on this is unnecessary. In tke first place, his statement exposed the worth- leas character of the document as & petition

his countrymen, for the would naturally be drawn, is that P. EK. {sland electors are illiterate and have te employ Secretaries of meetings to sign their petitions for them. But how does it come that there are orer one hundred places on the petition where names running from five to twenty in a bateh have been written by one person! Have over one hundred meet-

ings been held aud over ove hundred Secre- taries been employed in signing the names of electors? Mr. Yeo in trying to wriggle

and in the next place it was a reflection on | loss of the G. T. R Co. inference that

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| ° ° 7 | placed him, only went deeper into the | will meet the defeat it richly deserves, at

) muck.

WRITTEN ON THE BACK

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| of the document are to be seen the words | thirty, forty aad eighty signatures, the |

| petition. '

jcommencing with the name of | which about 30 appear to be genuine sig-

natures; the rest hayp been written by in-

| the hands of the people’s representatives in | Parliament.

BOULTBEE’S BILL.

An Act to amend ‘‘ The Canada Temper-

fraudulent nature of these words being | gree Act, 1875.” | manifest on examination of the face of the | On one sheet of foelscap alone, | Duncan Munn, are te be found 78 names out of |

Whereas it is desirable that there «hou'd be amajouty of the electors entitled to vote in |order to give effect to the provisions of ‘Canada ‘leraperance Act, 1878”; Therefore | Her Majesty, by and with the advice and con- | sent of tue Senate and Heuse of Commons of

dividuals who seemed to have a cirte | Canada, evasts as follows: | blanche to put down the names of their | 1. The fiity-seventh section of the said | neighbors. But while a stern sense of duty | **'The Canada Temperance Act, 1878,’ is

compels me te un mask

THE HUMBUGS who set the maehinery in motion which

petition, a deep feeling oi sorrow and regret is felt when the name ef our go dd brether George W. Millner is to be mentioned among those who have signed twice. What ! Bro. G. W. Millner? Never! Stopa minute and examine the document more closely before yon report that statement Yes, sad to relate, there is bis name writ- ten in a goed bold hand, and the leading fone of the fellowing quarteste : Geo, W.

The first one is doubtless made on his own

| Robe rt Small. | his private signature

become,

Careless, reckless, and

Fearless of what s past, present and to come, |

And desperately mortal. Ail that can be wished bya Tory in interest of so good a fellow, aud respectable

a citizen as Bro. George, is, that the mal- |

evolent nature of these who compose the Reform Association; who pull the wires and get up fraudulent petitions and bun- kuin resolutions, may not lead him to the same depths aa the uoble lord wlio se path- etically iamented that the devil was not, so

strong in him as he used to be forty years |

before. It is possible that in the white

heat of party zeal he lost his heart and |

overlooked the consequences of his hasty

act. However, it is nothing but fair to give | his signature to }

him credit for confiaing the second time, for there is uo knowing what self-control was practised and what mighty struggling there was against the temptation to sigu a dozen times.

‘> What's dene we partly can compute ;

But bnew not whats resisted.”

What does the petition amount to, and what has it affected? Simpiy nothing, be- cause there are so many symptoms of fraud upon the face of it. The Montreal |i stness, au ultra Grit organ, has pointed out how

eats at: the petition was weakened by the names in |

duplicate, and the large batehes of names in one handwriting. The Minister of

Marine informed the House in what man- |

ner many of the bona fide signatures had been obtained, by reading an extract of a letter from one of his constituents. He has in his possession quite a number of letters showing the disreputable means that were employed to get names. tation of the Isiand petiton, members on both sides of the House who had peti tiona to lay on the table were subjected to a cross fire of jokes, asking them ‘‘ how many names are duplicated!’ ‘ How many names of children and of dead peopie are on them?” ‘“ Did the Secretary sign for three-fourths or the whole!

The whole machinery for obtainin

petitions against the Canada Pacific Rail

way agreement was set in motion at Ottawa, The work, it was thought, might be safely left to the malevolent nature of who pretend to ferce the Liberal mind to think in Prince Edward island. If the

c.reulation of the petition would do na}

other good than to prevent the feolings of the Grit party from becoming stagnant, it would amply repay the wire-puilers. It was intended to stir up the Reformers be- yond the charmed circle of the Reform Association in Charlottetown, who proba- bly require the spur ; but, the thing fizzled. Tie Grity party hacks have always been the worst enemies of tie Liveral party. They put one in mind of a pig in the

| water, which swimming against the stieain

cuts his own throat with his sharp fore- fect. it isanotable fact that with the exeeption of two or three, the bank direet- ors, lawyers and substantial merchants be longing to the Reform Party have not signed the petition. This proves that the tail does not wag the bedy, and that the principal men de not propose to be led by A. B. McKenzie and Michael Traynor, Henry Lawson and Patrick Keenan, Ban. nerman Warburton and Biuly Hobkirk, John Wear and Simon Frazer, Johnny A. Scott and T. B. Aichorn.

It is te be regretted that the Minister of Marine should bave mentioned the name of A. B. Warburten in bis speech, even in the connexion in which he did, as it gives that forward young man the notoriety that he craves. it was done, however, in reply to a letter read by one of the members from Mr. Bannerman Warburton, who seems te have an itch for writing letters to members of Parliament.

The bona fide signers of the now notorious Petition, will be pleased to learn, that the present Government is carrying out their wishes by building the Pacific Railway ** systematically and economically,” and in the only available manner, whieh wi! re- lieve the taxpayers of the older Provinces, from contributing one additional red cent, in the shape of taxes, towards its sure and speedy construction.

TICKET SCALPING.

A Bill has been introduced by Mr. Kirk-

trick to suppress Railway Ticket scalping.

he word scalping is better known in the annals of Indian warfare. In this case, however, it is applied toasort of ticket brokerage, said te prevail extensively on the Grand Trunk Railway, to the alleged The general feel- ing in the House is opposed te the Bill The Act proposes te make ticket sealping a mis- demeanor, so that noone will be able to sell a ticket that he does not use under pain of arrest. If a traveller for instance should buy a ticket at a reduced through rate, and through some cause or other only go part of the journey, his ticket not being saleable, becomes valueless. This Bull if passed would prove # great injustice to the travel- ling public, and there can be little doubt but Mr. Kirkpatrick’s Bull, introduced in

petitions

out of the slough into which

the interest of the Grand Trunk Railway,

gathered im the names that appear on the

Millner, Samuel Millner, Geo, E. Millner, |

the |

After the presen- |

the few |

hereby repealed and the following seetion substituted therefor :

**57. If the majority of all the voters whose pames are entered on the voters’ list ured at such polling vote for the petition, the same shali be held to have been adopted, but not

| otherwise ; and the Returning ‘‘fheer shall make his return to the Governor iu Council

’ | aceordingly.

The Bill comes up for second reading to- day. It will be opposed by Teimperanee lmen on hoth sides of the House. Nat- | withstanding this, it is teaght, it will be | carried in the Honse, and as last year, de- } feated in the Senate. The Government, 11 is understood, is in favor of Aet as it new stands. As, however, the present Bill is

not a Gorernment measure, it will be de cided by an open vote, irrespective of party. INSOLVENCY,

Contrary to expectation, McCuaig’s Bill to amend the Insulveut Aet of 1875. passed its second reading by a large majority, Mr. Biake shirked the vote. Aljll the

Island members, except blr. Yeo, voted in favor oi it. } PENATOR HOWLAN

. ; ; oa a delivered a ringing speech en Tuesday, in |

, prs ee Oe 7-9 a ’ to. ™ om - Ye = ”

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law, we cannot help thinking that it might have been a different one.

We have often thought that if it were con. istent with the dignity of the Master of the Kolis to visit personally the seene of thia notable quarrel, and personally to take into consideration all the e¢ircumstaneces conuected with the case, he would either

| never have granted the injunction or else

ha would have awarded the Messrs. Duehe- min, a fair gompensation for the loss they would probably sustain by reason of the closing of their factory. If Judge Peters had himself seen that Mr. Alley had so mach room on his lot that he eould have left about fifty feet between his flew house aud the reserved site of the eld Duche- min factory, if he could have seen that by making ‘‘ dead walls” in their faetory, and by every means in their power, the Messrs. Duchemin endeavored to prevent the noise made by their mashinery frova inter- fering with the cowfortable enjoyment of their iraseible neighbor, if he could himself have stood beside the engine while it was working and seen by personal observation that it makes no tremor and little noise, and that there is a dead wall nine inches thick, and cellar ten feet broad and a bank of earth four or five feet in width be- tween it and Mr. Alley’s house,—-we be- lieve he never would have given his first decision. If, moreover, he could have seon that the machinery subsequently removed to the old Duchemin hemestead is now full fifty feet distant from the residence of Mr. Alley, with the factery and a large open space between the two, and, if he could have seen the large, young, helpless families dependeut upon the work-

ling of the factory for a livelihood, we

are satisfied that he never would have ren-

} ’ ss | dered the last cruel decision.

That such a decision has been rendered

| reply to Senator Haythorne, in favor of the | must ever remain a matter of doop regret,

Syudicate Contract published in the Island papers. A NEW PARABLE. The Rev. Mr. Pearson, of the East End i Methodist Church, preached on Sunday | evening last on ‘* The parable of the Syu dicate.” He chose for his text Isaiah, | Chapter XXV, Ist verse: ‘The wilder- | ness and the solitary place shall be glad for | them; and the desert shall rejoice and | blossom as the rose.” It is needless to say that the preacher, who is a man of good { ability, tock the correct view of the Syndi- eate discussion, The sermon was eloquent, abounding in many praetical and useful lessons which anti Syndicaters would de well to bear in mind.

A THAW,

Since the honorable gentlemen of the | Senate began to diseuss the Syndicate Con- tract the weather has become quite imild— | lu fact, the long expected thaw has actually }8etin, andthe rain forthe Jjast twenty | four hours has been falling constantly

| } THE HOUSE WILL RISE, it is now thonght, about the middle of next |month. After the Badyget Speech is given | early next week the principal business of | the session will be so well advanced to per- mit of Parliawent being prorogued as | above. THB BALL LAST NIGHT. {| Last nighta grand Ball was given by | His Excellency the Governor General at | Rideau Hall, to which a large number ef jladies and gentlemen were invited. It | was the sequel to, er continuation of a ball | that was given on the previous Wednesday jevening. The guests numbered about 500. | Amongst those present last evening were | members of Cabinet, dressed in Windsor oniferio, Judges of the Supreme Court, a large nuinber ef military gentlemen, hold- ing rank both in Imperial and Canadian | regiments, besides many prominent per- sonages frem differeut paris of Canada and the United States. Twenty danees, chiefly { quadrilles, waltzes and po.kas were gone | through to the music of one of the finest |eity bands, whose good playing lent a charm and enthusiasm to the dancing which | was apparent in nearly every face and step. Lord George Campbell, a dapper little fel- | low with shiney face, high heel boots, aud } hair arranged so as to add as much as pos- sible to his height, whichis that of an | ordinary sized 12 years old boy—danced with great vin the entire evening. The | Marquis himself kept continually in the lfront ranks and literally seemed the | ** maddest, merriest ” man of them all, his handsoue face being all aglow with cheer jand good will, Nothing conld be more | pleasing than to wateh the spirit with which | he entered into the Sir Koger de Coverley dance along with Lord George and Lady Campbell. P. E ISLANDERS AT TH BALL.

Hon. J. C. and Mrs. and Miss Pope, Mr. Aldons, F. Brecken, M. B.; A. C. McDon- ald, M. P.; Dr. Maitart, M. P.; A. W. Owen, John H. Bell, J. Dickieson, Senator Montyowery, R. Hunt and J. Yeo, M. P.

It may be truly said that a happier and more cheerful might was never spent at

Rideau Hall.

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The Aliey-Duchemia Case Again

THe monster meeting held in the} Market Hail ou Monday evening can hard- | ly iail to have a marked influence upon both the future of the Alley-Duchemin embroglio and the future of the industries of this Province.

The meeting distinctly pledged the citizens to assist the Messrs. Duchemin to obtain a release from the bondage of the decision by which their hands are now tied, and a restitution of their right to work in the place of their birth. Mr. Ailey has now to fight, not the Messrs. Duchemin only, but the whole community—united and in earnest There can hardly be a donbt about the result. Though an ap- peal to Ottawa should fail (and, if justice ean be obtaired at that fountain of justice, it cannot fal) still a self-governing eom- wunity, thoroughly aroused, will not fail te enact iaws, and te make regulations whieh will free the wheels of industry im this Prevince.

This may be done without infringing on the law that no man shall inflict a nuisance upon his nelghber. It may be provided that if a legitimate business is proven to be a nuisance, its owser should reeeive a fair compensation for the loss incident to the stoppage or removal of it. On the ether hand it may be previded that ifa man shail deliberately plaee him- self beside an established factory, whieh afterwards proves annoying to him, he aball not have the power, no matter how mueh money he may have or how much he may be disquieted, to oust--much less to ruin and cendemn to jail—the owner vor owners of the factory. But oven after the passage of such a law as this, a great deal must, a8 at present, depend upon the dis- erection of the Judge before whom any par- ticular case may be tried. This dixeretion shoald eundoubtedly be used with the utmost eare. It has been well said that—

‘He who takes from me that by which Llive, Doth take my life.” And a Judge having to decide in a eane like that which is now engrossing public attenticn, must unavoidably act under a very grave responsability. The decision ef Judge Peters has brought ruin and dis | treas upon the Duchmin Brothers and their families. Admitting, for the nonee, that

i; meat

that decision is strictly in aecordance with

{t will probably be | not only on account of the sufferera by it, Bey vut on account of

| itself. four Courts that the public should have

the Court of Chancery I. is essential to the usefulness of

| perfect confidence in them ; and, as an ex-

ponent of public opinion, we cannot shirk the unpleasant duty of telling Judgo Peters that the confidence of the public in the Court of Chancery has, by reason of this decision, been impaired. Ex- pressions of distrust are brought to us from all sides. It hae ever come to this, that comments are fresly made on the fact that the son of the Master of the Rells pleads before his father in the Courts. For ourselves we attach hitle or no im- portance to this circumstance ; for we be- lieve that Mr. Justice Peters is uot the 1aan to be swayed by it. Nevertheless, there should be no reasonable ground of sus- picion that our Courts are biased in any way or by any cause ; and though it should somewhat dimish the praetice of one of our ablest young barristers, or deprive suitors in some cases of the learning and ex- perience of one who has long adorned our Bench, we deem it a duty we owe as well to the Court of Chancery as to the public at large, to frankly let Judge Peters know what the voiee of Pub- lic Opinion says on this point.

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Professor Hind’s Charges.

In reply to Mr. Rebertson, the Hen. Minister of Marine and Fisheries, reeently delivered a short but vigorous speech. We quote a summary of it from the Toronto Mail :—

Mr. Pope (Qaeen’s) said there was no ebjec- tion to furnishing the eorrespondence asked fer. The subject with which it dealt had created a good deal of excitement beth in England and the, United States, and he was going te say here that the charges imade by Professor Hind were outrageous in themselves and the correspendence would couvict the profeseor of aeting trom some improper motive rather than from a desire that any errer should be corrected. It was net at all im- probable that in the making up of tho returns mistakes might have occurred, but no one would for a moment believe that the hon. member for Westmoreland (Sir Albert Smith) his associates, or the oflicials of the Depart- ment of Marine and Fisheriva, would be guilty of the yross conduct charged against them. But besides that the effeet ef the frauds which Pref, Hind charged against Canada would be against the case of Canada; in fact it weuld have been against the in- terests of *anada that such frauds should have been committed. One charge was that the returns showed 109,000 barrels of mackerel short iu one year. As to that charges, he could say that while the Commission was sitting at Halifax a table was made out in the Depart- meut of Marine and Visheries. This table was sent down to Halifax, but before the argument was commeneed inaccuracies in the table were discovered, and the whole argu- was based upon other returns and statistics. That table did not affect the ease in any way, and if it did affect it at all it affected it as against Canala. He was glad te notice that the American Government had not taken this matter up, and that the British Government did not think it worth while te notice it. In discussing this anbject it was t> be notieed that if Canada had been inter- ested in committing frauds in the statistics, the frauds would have been in the way of inereasing the exports from this country te the United States and lessening the imports from the United States. One of the charges was that the quantity of mackere] exported to the United States had been diminished iu tke re- turne, and that fura and skins had been added to the exports from the United States to Can- ada. As he had said before, anything dene to increass the imports from the United States to Canada operated against our ease. Yet Pref. Hind endeavoured to shew that the im- ports from the United States had been made to appear larger than they were. He also pointed out that anything dene to decrease the record of exports from Caneda te the United States was to Canada’s disadvantage ; yet Prof. Hind had charged Canada with

having diminished toa large extent the record |

of exports to the United States. It was not his (Mr. Pope’s) intention to diseuss this matter at length. The subject was one which might or might net come up between the two countries. He did not, however, think it would. He was net in office when the Halifax Commission sat, but he ceuld not help saying as regarded Mr. Hind's charges against the officials then in power that the professor's own statements suflicient- ly condemned him, and made it quite ap- a that he was not actuated in making

is statements by any kindly motive tewards the country. The hon. member for Westmere- land could no doubt give some information on the subject. That gentleman’s services in coaneetiien with the eommission were duly recognised by her Majesty, and a deal of credit had been given him for the able manner in which be had condueted the eom- mission. No deubt everything cennected with the subjeet would be fresh in his memery. So far as he (Mr. Pope) was concerned, he be lieved there was nothing at allin Prof. Hind’s statements.

Loss or THE ‘‘ Bouremsan.”—The following reasons are given for the loss of the Bohemian, After passing the Calf-light Captain Grundy gave orders to noe the ship two points off the wind instead of twe points off the shore. As aoon as the breakers ahead were seen by the man on the look-out the captain sang out, ‘* Hard over, hard over,” probably thinking that then he was near danger as the wrong courss was taken. Then he gave orders to back astern, but the ship was going too fast. She struck the island, and went down in twenty minutes after strising. Only twenty- two men were saved out of fifty-seven on beard the ship. The cargo will probably be- ceme a total loss. Capt Grundy and all the officers who were on watch at the time were lost. No one can give a correct account of the matter. A despatch from Skibbereen says that the bacon and cotton of the Boke- mian’s cargo are being washed ashore there,

Local and Other Items.

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Tue Czar of Russia is said to be seriously ill.

A WELL-KNOWN Kansas capitalist is new imvesting his money in Manitoba lands.

Tur market on Friday last, the 3rd inst., owing to the bad roads, was very small.

A pgspatcu ef the 10th inst. says Hon, ir, Mackenzie is again confined to his house.

Lavy Liscar, widow of the late Governor General of Canada, is among the Boycotted.

A Lovstana town called Pass Manchac was tetaily swept away by a storm on the 9th inst.

A wo.r recently bit sixteen persons in a village near Naples, nine of whom died frem hydrophobia.

A woman named Mosher, of Asylum Road, Halifax, was killed by falling from a hay mow on the 9th inst.

Tue barque ‘M. J. Foley,’ McDougall, master, arrived at Norfolk, Va., Thursday, 30 days from Bordeaux.

Neary 1,000,009 lobster cans have been manufactured at Messrs. Sheed & Moore’s factory, Pictou, this season.

Seven hundred thousand women in France and Italy are engaged in the manufacture of raw silk froin the eocoon.

A LARGE MEETING was held at Bay Fortune on the 19th ult. to take into consideration the improvement of Fortune Harbor.

AnorHer ‘‘ ELEVATOR oF THE STANDARD.” —Mr. Larue, M. P., for Bellechasse, has been unseated for Come-along-John tactics at the recent clection.

Sxeak THIeves plundered « number of wardrobes in the Canadian House of Commons on the 4th inst., carrying off caps and coats to the value of $200.

Tue relatives of Mr, Carlyle have desiined tke proposal that the remains be buried in Westminster Abbey because he expressed a decided wish te be buried with his wife.

Drownep.—A young man named Themas White, whose parents reside at Murray River was drowned out of the brigt. Gaven on her receut trip from Murray Harbor to Great Britain.

CHARLOITETOWN is pot the only city that has trouble with its street, for the New York World declares that the atreets of that city ‘* are corrugated ravines broken up into hil- locks of filth.”

Tre Advertiser reperts that efforts are been made by the farmers of Summerville, New Perth, Baldwin’s Road and adjacent settle- ments te have a starch factory established at Eighteen Mile Brook.

His Exceccexcy the Governor-General has been pleased to make the following appoint- ment, viz: Donald Campbell, of Grand Traee- die, in the Provinoe of Prince Edward Island, te be Harbor Master of Tracadie, vice Hugh Campbell.