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Tae Dartty EXAMINER.

APRIL 10. 1878.

; - - iil al aa The Local Premier's Shortsighted Policy.

The Patriol hits the Leader of the Local Government and his followers squarely.

It says :

‘‘Some of our politicians are trying to

rouse a feeling of jealousy in the minds of the farmers of this Island against their neighbors in the city. We deprecate such conduct. Such agitators, incapable for the most part of doing any great good, are, for the sake of gaining a reputation as the friends of the peo- ple which they do not deserve, exciting feel- ings which it may be difficult to allay, and which are detrimental to public prosperity. The capital of any country 1s looked on by strangers as an index to the character of the people and the nature of its resources. In other places the people, not only of a city itself, but of the whole country round about, take a pride in its prosperity and contribute as taxpayers to the beanty of the capital of their country. Charlottetown is, of course, com- varatively a small place, and it might not be lcoled upon as fair to compare it with Lon- don, on the beautyfying of which hundreds of thousands of pounds of Fngland’s money are spent annually, or with Paris, the very men- tion os which warms the blood in every true Frenchman’s veins. But such as it is, it is the capital of the Island, and we should strive, in- stead of making Islanders jealous of it, to make them proud of it and to make it worthy of their pride. Our city is dependent on the country for an existence,” ete ad libitum.

It is now evident that Mr. Davies made a serious mistake when he shielded Char- lottetown from the operation of the Assess- ment law. We doubt not that Mr. Davies thought that he was doing a good thing for his constituents. And it may be that he did save his Government ; for if the voice of the town had joined with that of the country, the Taxing Compact would have been broken to atoms ere this. But he failed in his duty as a legislator. He acted the part of a mere representative of a constituency, and determined, at all hazards, to hold on to office. The conse- quence is that even the Patriot is obliged, indirectly, to pass a heavy censure upon him for rousing jealousies between town and country, and for inflicting upon his con- stituents incalculable harm. As the Patriot very truly observes, ‘‘ Our City is depen- dant upon the country for tts existence.” The passage of an Act which has aroused the antipathies of the country, was, there- fore, injurious to the town. The fact is we are all one people. Our interests are iden- tical. We should all act in harmony. We should allalike bear the public burdens,and all alike share the advantages afforded by the Government of the Province. Had Mr. Davies levied a fair tax upon both town and country, and provided that a fair quid pro quo should be dispersed by the Government to both town"and country, the harmony of the Province would not have been marred as, most unfortunately, it is now. Whether the people compelled the Government which inflicted the tax to. resign, or whether it sustained them in oflice, they would, as they should, all have acted to- gether. We should not now see the coun- try looking with jealous eyes upon the town —afraid even to elect a townsman as its re- presentative. The Patriot may continue to prate about the beauty of the Capital, and the pride the whole Province should feel in it. Ifthe Government pursues its short- sighted suicidal policy, and, by so doing, foments distrust and jealousy in the coun- try, the Capital will not be loved or courted by the country upon which, the Patriot

says, ‘‘ it depends for an existence.” << e

The New Asylum Foundation.

A Committee of the House of Assembly have, during the past two or three days, been engaged in inspecting and hearing evi- dence regarding the foundation of the New Asylum for Insane. We learn that while inspecting, Mr. Campbell, one of the Com- mittee, made some ominous holes in the basement walls. The statements of Messrs. Rodd, O’Bourke, and Corbett, are to the effect that the foundation is not level ; that the stone put into the wall is about half bad ; that the remaining portion is so indif- ferent that it is only fit to mix with good stone ; that the sand, though not what is demanded by the specification, is passable ; that the mortar used will never set under ground, and but indifferently above ground; that the workmanship is, on the whole, very inferior; and that, altogether both the material and workmanship of the foun dation are so inferior that it 1s not strong to sugport such a heavy edifice as the pro- posed Asylum.

The statement of Mr. Cunningham, C. E., was taken this morning. He says he thinks, about a quarter of the stone used is bad, and that the remainder is “pretty good.” The mortar used, very bad—although the sand in it seems to be of fair quality. The workmanship is very indifferent. There = he says, too many small stones in the wall.

At the Stipendiary Magistrate’s Court this forenoon, Thomas Fennessy, drunk and disorderly, was fined $3 and costs or 21 says. John Duffy, drunk and incapable, was fined $1 or seven days.

Tue Steamer Worcester, which sailed from Boston for this port on Saturday last, has not yet reported at any of the inter-

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aig ‘ Yesrerpay afternoon the House of As- sembly was in Committee on Pauper and Road Seales. Nothing of general interest transpired. The Legislative Council was engaged with the Education Act Amend- ment Bill. One or two unimportant amend. | ments were offered.

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Situation in England. |

Tue popular feeling in England does not seem to he averse to war ; for the Commons —always a pretty correct reflex of public opinion—have thanked the Queen for call- ing out the reserves, and Mr. Gladstone has been passive. No doubt the English people now feel that their country’s honor is involved in the issue, and the speeches of Beaconsfield are excellently well calculated to gratify the popular tatses, and convince the nation that in his keeping its interests are safe, Sir Stafford Northcote’s speech, judging from the outline which the tele- graph brings us, is conceived in the hap- piest mode. England never seeks war ; but to allow treaties to which she was a party to be set aside or overridden, would be an acknowledgment of weakness ; and to ac- knowled this, would be to sink to a second or third class. There must be a struggle before this can take place; negotiations can never do it, and the war that will effect it will be a long and bitter one. ‘The British Empire must not only be enjoyed, but maintained.”

In no hands at the present time is the honor of England safer than in Lord Bea- consfield’s. It is however saddening to see Gladstone such a wreck of his former self. He and the men who think with him, have been Russia’s best friends. The Ex-Pre- mier has indeed been playing. the self same card which Bright and the Peace party played in the negociations which preceded the Crimean War. ‘They have soothed the Czar and exasperated the English people.

One thing is very clear, that England is now better prepared for war than she was before the Crimean campaign. Her prepar- ations are in a more advanced state, and she is now in a condition to strike when-; ever the blow is called for. It is pretty certain that if the maintenance of peace de- pends on England’s concessions, war is cer- tain. Whoever humbles herself England, we are sure, will not.

The Canadian Militia.

A number of the Times uppears to have had a letter depreciatory of the Canadian militia, because that journal contains the following : ‘‘As an ex-linesman and Cana- dian settler, I felt pained at ‘linesman’s’ not generous allusion to the loyal Canadian militia. H must know, as well as I can tell him, that drill and discipline are ques- tions of £ s. d. Canada is not overbur- dened with wealth, and she has far better uses for her money in opening out her fertile provinces than in drilling and dis ciplining an army for which, as ‘Observer’ remarks, she has no use. That the Cana- dian militia possesses the materials—in the physique of its men and in the true mili- tary spirit of both men and _ officers—requi- site for the formation of a first-rate fighting force, has been testified time and again by those competent to judge, quite recently by General Selby Smith. Whenever and wherever they have been called upon to de- fend their frontier, Canadians, at no slight personal loss andinconyvenience, have joined their colors with’ alacrity and have done their duty creditably. While fully admit- ting that a battalion of Colonial Militia on the parade ground could not compete with the one to which ‘‘Linesman” belonged, I cannot forget that, under certain combina- tions of circumstances which in time of war might reasonably be expected tooccur in such a country as Canada,a half-driiled Canadian

men inured to the climate and+skilled in the use of the axe, might not only live, but also perform good service where a highly disciplined British regiment would simply perish.” ceaecig ied edinegina Russian Peasants.

Not only are the houses filthy and un- comfortable, but the peasant dwells with his horses and cattle under the same roof, he above and they below, so that the odor of the stable and every other imaginable vile smell fpermeates the whole interior. One not accustomed to that way of, living cannot stay within doors, much less eat their food. Their household furniture is of the most primitive kind, also their farm- ing implements. Indeed, everything makes you think that you are carried back to the dark ages. The people live in villages alto- gether, each family having land appointed to them according to their numbers, by the village commune or assembly, which also decides as to the rotation of crops and the time of gathering them. Some of the coun- try through which we passed seemed quite fertile, but the greater part has a barren appearance. Often whole stations would be a continued wilderness, with a sandy or corduroy road, forests of pine, spruce and birch stretching away on either hand, A\l- together, the prospect was thoroughly unin- viting, and we were glad to turn our backs upon 1t.

The Palm of Drunkenness.

Ai a conference held in Liverpool, in con- nection with the Church of England Tem- perance Society, one of the speakers, Mr. Rebert Gladstone, a Liverpool magistrate, stated that some years ago he collected sta-

tistics with regard to drunkenness, and he then arrived at the conclusion that Paris was not so drunken a place as London, | London was not nearly so drunken a place) as Liverpool, and Liverpool only half as} drunken as Glasgow. pn @<cr- > '

WE are requested to state that the letter | on ‘‘A Mother,s Influence,” signed “ E. P. | F. ra not written by Edwin P. Ford, |

Correspondence. |

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xa Wie do not hold ourselves re sponsible for | the opinions or statements of correspondents.

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County Courts.

To the Leditor of the Hxramiiner Dear Srr,—! called at the oitice of the| County Court to-day, shortly after 12 o'clock, noon, and could not gain admittance. This being a very important office, it should not remain closed during the middle of the} day. Can you tell what is the reason. Yours, &c., SurvToR. Ch'town, April 10, 1878. ~ EE The Rival ‘ Leaders.”

Truth says : ‘ Ii is well known that Lord Hartington, if left; to himself, would not have accepted Mr. Forster’s amendment as a party manifesto. The more flighty Lib- eral leaders have led him where he would never have gone of his own accord. Mr. Forster’s failure must have given consider- able secret satisfaction to his hard-headed leader, who appeared to contemplate him, during Mr. Cross’ reply, with a combina- tion of triuinph, reproach, and apprehen- sion.”

seit asdithiieblonsoa Mr. Gladstone at Oxford. Mr. Gladstone has been to Oxford, and received an address from the Liberal Asso- ciation of the city. In reply, in dealing with the vote of credit lately granted, he said he was advised that the sending of the fleet to the Dardanelles constituted an aet of war, and adistinct breach of neutrality by her Majesty’s Government. Their supporters might think the vote necessary to save Lord Beaconsfield, for if they lost him many of them thought that England would sink to the bottom of the sea. ——~ -—- -—». 0 e- --— — Longevity of Quakers. | The Pall Mall Gazette says that to what | ever cause the good health and longevity of Quakers is due, the fact is noteworthy. The number of deaths in Great Britain and Ire- land among Quakers, during last year, was 308—125 males and 183 females. As the number of Quakers in the kingdom may be roughly stated at about 20,000, it will be seen at once that the mortality is consider- ably less than that of the population in gen- eral; and an examination of the details shows conclusively that this. is the case. Out of the 308 there were only 19 deaths of children ender one year. The total number of deaths under twenty years of age was only 49; and out of the 308 the highest number in any one ten years of life was in that which included those whose ages were between seventy and eighty. The next highest number, 56, died at ages between eighty and ninety. Eight died whose ages were between ninety and a hundred, and the average age of the members of the body in the last year, according to the official statement from which these figures are

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A Bishop on a Delicate Topic.

The Bishop of Manchester writes to the Liverpool Daily Post :—‘‘I cither expressed myself awakardly, or your reporter misap- prehended some words which fell from me, at the Church of England Temperance So- citie’s meeting in the Philhormonic Hall on Friday night. I did not mean to say that at balls, where iced champagne is served at the buffet throughout the evening, ‘‘ many a young lady, no doubt, in the course of the night, finished her bottle ;’ but that, if a young lady, fatigued with the heat of the room or the exertion of the dance, accepted every invitation of her partner to go to the buffet and take a glass of iced champagne— the process of icing helping to conceal the strength of the beverage—she might almost finish a bottle in the course of the night without being aware of the strength of the treacherous intoxicant. Even so, I am afraid the statement savers séMewhat of exaggeration, from which the advocacy of the cause of temperance has already suf- fered too much ; but to have expressed my- self as I am made to do in your report would have been to cast a slur on the hab- its and character of our young ladies, of which I should be sorry to have been guilty.”

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Dawnoar ; > le Pauper Emigration to Canada.

Miss Rye is again in lively spirits, and writes to the Times that she will shortly re- sume business transactions. Her ‘‘card” is as follows :—‘‘Kindly allow me to inform Boards of Guardians and others interested in this question, that an order in Council has just been passed here by which the Do- minion Government of Canada has pledged itself to inspect, and annually report to the Home Government upou the condition of any pauper children hereafter to be sent to this country. I hope now that the last ob- siacle has been removed to the working of this experiment (if I should so call a work, and a suecessful work, now nine years old,) by which pauperism may, to a great extent, be broken up, this country suited, and poor children happily provided for, and placed ence more in family circles. I shall be de- tained a little longer in Canada, by matters} of detail, but all being well I trust soon to/| be again in England, and once more ready

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That Hligibly Situated Property known as the City Hotel,

_ ; FENGIS HOTEL contains 28 Rooms, and its | location for Hotel purposes cannot be sur- passed, being centrally situated, within a stone’s throw of the Post Office and Public Buildings, and but three minutes’ walk from the Railway Station and Wharves. Possession given Ist May. Apply to s HASZARD BROS. Ch’town, April 8—eod t may 1

Insolvent Act of 1875 and Amend- ing Acts,

7FXENDERS will be received by the Assignee of the Estate of 8S. Keith and Co., for the whole Stock, Good Will and Trade of the above-named Insolvent, until twelve o'clock, nooh, of SATURDAY, the 13th day of April, 1878 ; and the names of two responsible per- sons, willing to become bound for the amount, will be required to accompany each tender. The Assignee does not bind himself to accept the highest or any tender. 3 C. V. McGREGOR, Assignee. Ch’town, April 6, 1878.—pat

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