The Best Man!

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Queen's County in the Commons :

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JAS. C. POP

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The issue:

WILL WE OR WILL WE NOT TAMELY |

SUBMIT TO BE UNJUSTLY DEPRIV- |

ED OF REPRESENTATION IN THE

CABINET ?

OR DO WE NOT APPROVE

ACTION OF THE DOMINION GONERNMENT IN REMOVING MR. LAIRD, AND NOT EVEN OFFER- ING HIS VACANT SEAT TO A RE- PRESENTATIVE OF THIS PRO- VINCE }

THIS IS THE SQUARE ISSUE NOW BE- FORE THE iOUN ry

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he Examiner.

Charlottetown, Noy. 16, 1876,

THE ORIGINAL : “ BIG PUSH LETTER.”

“ Private and Confidentiai.] {Copy}.

* Toronto, 15th Auguat 1872.

*“ My Dear Sin,—The fight goes bravely on, but it is hard to work up againat the enormous sums the Government candidates have in their hands. We here have ex- pended our strength in aiding the out coun. ties and helping the city candidates, buts big push has to be made on Saturday and Monday for the East and West divisions, if we are not to succumb to the cash of the Government. We could carry all three divisions easily but for the cash against us, and if wecarry the firet on Saturday the other two will go with us in spite of all the cash they can muster. We therefore make our grand stand on Saturday. There are but halfa dozen people that can come down handsomely, and we have all done what we possibly can do, and we have to ask avery few outsiders toaid us. Will you beone? | have been urged to write to you, and comply accordingly.

t* Faithfully yours, GEO. BROWN: ‘* Hon, Jobn_ Simpson, a &c., é,"

And these are Mr. Justice Wilson's res

marks apon the “ Big Push Letter :”

‘*It is, of course, a plain demand for

money to oppose, it is said, the expenditure |

by the Government candidates at the To- ronto elections, and it is an admission that the writer and those co-operating with him had expended their strength, which I sup- pose means their money, in other constit- uencies for the like purpose. IJ is a leiter written for corrupt purposes to interfere with the freedom of elections. It is an invitationto the recipent, as one with some others and the writer to concur in committing the offence of bribery and corruption at the polls,”

The Toronto Mai? remarking upon these remarks, says:

“No one save the psrties damnified by his Lordship’s opinion, would venture to assert that it is overdawn, unnatural or un- just. It is a plain commentary on as plain an invitation to bribery and corruption as ever was penned. ‘Come aiong John, come along and let us put down bribery and corruption, we've lois of money,’ which was subjected to more severe condemna- tion by Chief Justice Hagarty in the London trial, wes not nearly so explicit or sug- gestive.”

Commenting upon the above letter, the Toronto Netion[and independant journal, | declares that: —

‘Under his own hand Mr. Brown stands convicted of an offence of the same charac- ter as that whic hurled Sir John McDonald from power, wiih the additional and darker

fain 6 ft hyp M risy from which Sir John Mes Donald was free.”

Sut we pass on. When in 1874 Mr. Malcolm Cameron opposed Mr. Gibbs, the following «‘ Circular’’ was sent to

persons doing business with Senator Simpson’s Bank :— My Duar Sir :— We are very much interested in the success of the present Governmert, as their con- tinuance in power will do much to the euccess and prosperity of Tum mank, and through thera of the business people of the community. Our President, the Hon. John Simpson, is calling upon our friends to give us a hand for Mr Cameron; and we would esteem it a great fuvor if you could give us @ helping hand along with our numers ous other friends (Signed, ) C. Hottanp, Manager. Hon. Senator Simpson himself wrote jettsrs to friends of the Ontario Bank. exerting them to support the Grit candis date, Cameron,—-

“Because if they [the Mackenzie Gov- ernment] are sustained ovr Bank and other Ontario Banks will have the use of the gors ernment surplus until required,”

Could the Hon. J. Simpson have writ~ ten this unless there had been some uns derstanding between him and the Goye ernment ?

When these letters were first made pubs lic in June 1875, there were in the On- tario Bank, Government deposits to the smount of one and three quarter miilion dollars — within $100,000 of its entire paid up capital. Of this sum no less than nearly SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, (600,000) paid no interest whatever. The following statement—taken from the Canada Cazette—shows how Senator Simp- son was paid for “comiog down hands somly :”

3lst December, 1875 :—

Tutal on demand in all Banks in

Ontario, $981,000 Mr. Simpson's share, 428,000 3lst March, 1876:— Total on demand in all Banks in Ontario, 865,000 Mr. Simpson's share 317,000 30th June, 1876:— Total on demand in all Banks in Ontario, 738.000 Mr. Simpson's share, 395,000 3lst August, 1576:— ‘Total on demand in all Banks in Ontario, 416,898 Mr. Simpson’s share, 248,782

Thus while the average amount lying ile and paying no interest to the Treasury at all the Banks in Ontario since December last has been $750,000, Mr. Simpson’s avers age has been $346,000, close on oneshalf the the whole amount,

Our contemporary the Toronto Mail figures out Mr. Simpson’s gain and the country’s loss to the Jlet August last, as follows :—

Interest on $346,000 for 1876, $20,760 «© = 428,000 for 1875, 25.680

- ** 428,000 for 1874, 25,680 $72,120

On the 30th September lest the Govys

* ernment Deposits—on demand, and not bearing interest—in the Optario Bank, amounted to no less sum than $330.971.60 ~-nearly double the amount on deposit in all the other Banks in Canada added tos gether |!

PEOPLE OF QUEENS |

~ | other, by himself or by interposition of

SAND Dottars [$10,000] fer- public

Now, let us lay before the electors of Queen’s Couaty a few instances of indis vidual “ purity ’”? on the part of the Grits. | By the records of the Elections Courts, | [ presided over by Judges of the land] we learn that no less than forty supports ers of the Mackenzie~Cauchon Covern- ment were unseated for Bribery and Cor- ruption in the election of 1874.

Mr. Cook, Simcoe, expended

about $28,000 | Major Walker, London, Mr. M.C. Cameron, ‘“ over 20,000)

These figures are from a reliable source.

S75,0001!! But let us change the subject. We} have seen how the Grit Party and Gov- | ‘ sae af olen |

ernment preserve the “ purity of elecs |

; i a el tors’ and obtain an “ independent vote. |

| sentation | Welsh, as an honest man, pure Government, as a hater of corrups ‘tion, to withdraw from the contest and to | allow the electors of Queen’s County ‘unanimously to express their abhorrence of the corrupt acts of which the Macs Of these, | kenziesCauchon Government and | are guilty.

2,000, FACTS WHICH THE

| ting out of the question our right to repre-

we ask Mr.

lover of

in the Cabinet,

as a

Party

—— oo ee fs “PATRIOT” CANNOT DENY

Ar the commencement of the present

4 They show thet three only of the brilliant | .oosost the EXAMINER preferred a number {, | elevators of the standard " who support of charges against the McKeozie Cauchon / Mackenzic and Cauchon, expended, 10! Government, which we fully expected the i their elections, close upon, if not quite, | pisos won

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proving. But the Patriot this day, even denied thew. |

1. The Patriot has not denied that the | McKenzie-Cauchon Goverament have, by |

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adding to the salaries of their frieuds aud |

is forced upon us the extraor: inary posi- tion in which Messrs. L. H. !davies and |W. D. Stewart *re Mr. DeBlois, with a ccson sense of honor, 1

high principled gentleman, has hitherto refrained from taking apy part in political meetings, leat, with any of his colleagues, he should mar that harmony which the iaterests of the country call for among the members of a

(yovernment.

. .. Pcolleagues. , ld have made a show of dis-| > honor, of the duties of their offices, of

MR. DEBLOIS’ LETTER.

Trg oftner we read Mr. Del}iois’ manly vod straightforward letter, the more there

nottine hemselves,

which we should expect from a

by coming into collision

Unfortunately, po such # vex the souls of his “ Reform ”

scruple Regardless of the dictates

t the country,of the dictates

the interests 0 , Davies and Stewart

of self-respect, Messrs. | do not come into collision with their col- cause their colleagues are

leagues only b Still,

more honorabie than themselves.

Now let us ece how they preserve the | by creating new offices for their supporters, this one-sided line of action works with . > ° ” a fbon i, " | ais > . ’

‘“ purity of representatives aod the “in ‘increased the expenditure, on sccount of | exceeding unfairness fur the Liberal Con-

dependence of Parliament.’’ Mr. Macs | of the Civil Service, NINETY THOUSAND | servative Party. It Messrs. Davies and

keozie was sedulous in the preservation of |

DOLLARS ($90,000) a year.

Stewart will not understand Mr, DeBlois’

| the independence of Parliament when he | 2 .The Patriot has not denied that the | dienified rebuke, it will be almost an ex- wasin Opposition, Owiag, partly, to bis Mackenzie—Cauchon Government have, | coss of chivalry for him to continue aloof

| exertions, the following law was passed,

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| | and is now on the Statute Book of Canada: | i «No person whosoever, holding or enjoy- | undertaking or execuling, or execuling or indirectly, alone or with any | any | trusteo or third party, any contract or | agreement with ter Majesty or with any public officer or Department, with respect to the public service of Canada, or under which }any public money of Canada is lo be paid

for any service or work, shall be eligibie as i member of the House of Commons, nor | | shall be sit or vote in the same.”

|; ing, | directly

That this law is a good one, inasmuch as, lit regarded, it prevents the Government | from exerting ‘“ usdue influence’’ over | members of Parliament—is patent to all. But let us see how it is respected by the Mackenzie-Cauchon Government. Timo- thy Warren Anglin is Speaker of the House of Commons—First Commoner of Canada. He is also publisher of the St. | John F’reeman—a powerful journal among the Roman Catholics of New Brunswick. To secure the warm support of his paper, the Mackenzie-Cauchon Government of- fered and gave Mr. Anglin—in the face of the Statute we have quoted — post office printing to the amount of [$8,176.00] eight thousand one hundred and seventy six dollars—as shown by the Public Ac- eounts of the Dominion. The total } amount drawn from the Dominion Ex- chequer by Mr. Anglin, Member of the Dominion Parliament, Speaker of the House of Commons, and publisher of the St. John Fireeman, was, last year, about as follows :—

Speakership, $4,000 Allowance as Member, 1,000 House rent, &c., about 4,000 $5,400

Add Public Printing, 8,176 $13,576

We need not udd the points of exclama- tion. Such wholesale Governmental cor- ruption of the man who, above all others,

| question of the Pacifie railway,—(1) util-

should be independent and above reproach, is simply shocking.

The Hon. Mr. Vail,Minister of Militia ahd Member of the House of Commons, and Mr. A. G. Jones, Member of the House of Commoas, are both members of the Citizen Publishing Company of Hali- fax ; and the Citizen Publishing Company of Halifax, last year— in spite of the law —drew from the Exchequer of the Des minion the enormous sum of TEN THOV-

printing !

Now let us turn from the corrupt acts of the Government to the corrupt mem- bers of the Government. Mr. Welsh, if elected, will support Mr. Cauchon. We should be sorry to ask the electors of Queen’s County to judge allas we ask them to judge one—one who stands con» demned by the mouths of the Govern- ment’s own witnesses. Of the Hon. Joseph Cauchon, President of the Do- minion Council, the Montreal Herald | [Grit] said :—

** This man (Cauchonj richly deserves to be hanged.”

The Toronto Globe (chief Grit) said that he (Cauchon) was a “monster in human form ;” and had “ made his fors tune out of the starving stomachs of of those poor people who should be the object of universal pity,” and “ his offence is rank and smells to beaven.”’

The Montreal Gazette (Conservative ) says :

‘* He (Cauchon) has prostituted his posi. tion by seeking to coin money out of the most helpless of God’s creatures.”

And this “ monster in human form ’’. — this Cauchon—is President of the Cabinet which Mr. Welsh will, if elected, support !

The election of this Cauchon, was the result of a most corrupt bargain. M. Tarte was the opposing candidate. M. Tarte was induced by M. Cauchon to withdraw from the contest. M.Tarte declared to the electors of Quebec before he withdrew from the contest that he demanded—we quote the Toronto Nation, an independ, ent and, therefore, reliable journal, of the 3lst December, 1874—

“That the promised Dry Dock should be constructed at the expense of the Govern- ment; and he is enabled to announce that the Government have sent engineers to make soundings through the ice in the River St. Charles, where Quebec is very anxious to have the work built, though the reports of the official Engineers show that the work will cost a very much larger sum than if built on the opposite bank, where they also report the river is free from ice for a much longer period. ‘he North Shore Railroad, M. Tarte contends, is a link of the Pacific; and that, sooner or later, the Dominion must pay forit. Nor is this all. Quebec owes a million of dollars to the Government, and M. Tarte’s notion of justice will be satisfied by nothing less than passing the sponge over this amount. | The whole of these items will figure up to about six millions, and the justice to Que- bec that would make M. Cauchon’s unop~ posed election cost this amount to the country would be a strange justice to the

taxpayers. Such, however, is Cabinet Government.”

Here we rest. We should like to s2e our high-flying contemporary, the Patriot, quash this over-whelmning indictment, We should like to see him come down to faets und figures. But he dare not.

If we had suffered no special insult or wrong ut the hands of the Mackenzie- Cauchon Goverament; if we had not been robbed ef Representation in the Cabinet— still, we have here facts sufficient to con- demn the Mackenzie Administration and the Grit Party. Sir John Macdonald was condemned. We now call for the con- demnation tad punishment of that mons- trous combination of corruption and

hypocrisy—the Grit Government. Puat-

in three years, increased the Public Debs | of the Dominion $22,000,000. (Sir John | A. Macdonald with all his corruption and extravagance, could only manage to in| crease it by $10,000,000 in seven years.) 3. The Patriot has not denied that the Mackenzie-Cauchon Government had three separate and distinct policies on the

ization of the “ magnificent water stretch- es; (2) building of the road by the Government in order that, as Mr. Macs kenzid explained, ‘the ceuntry would reap the profit which might be gained by the Company if the work were let by eontract;’’ (3) letting the work to contrac- tors, and paying them 50,000,000 in land and $30,000,0C0 in mouey—as provided by Sir Joho A. Macdonald. [This is what Mr. Welsh calls a ‘‘just and states- manlike ’’ course. |

4. The Patriot has not denied that the | Mackenzie~Cauchon Government, though | sincere friends of the Pacific Railway, {vide Governor General’s speech,] have driven British Columbia to the verge of rebellion, because of their vacillation and tergiveration in respect to it.

5. The Patriot has not denied that the Maekenzie~Cauchon Government proposed and solemnly promised to secure the con- struction of the Esquimult-Nanaimo Rail way; and failed to carry the Bill provid- ing for its construction, through Parlia- ment.

6. The Patriot has not denied that Speaker Anglin was bribed by Post Office Printing (which was proffered to him) to the amount of about $8,000 in direct op- position to the political morality, and the alleged principles of the MacKenzie. | Cauchon Party.

7. The Patriot has not denied that it has been proved before the election courts of Ontario and Quebec, that leading men— tho chief supporters of the Mackenzie— Cauchon Government—were steeped to) the lips in corruption, while they secured the election of the Mackenzie-Cauchon Government, by crying “ purity,’’ ‘ econ- omy,” and “ Reform.”

8. The Patriot has not denied that George Brown, the real leader of the Me- Kenzie-Cauchon combination, wrote the “Big Push Letter,” askeng Senator Simpson to “ come down handsomley.’

9, The Patriot has not denied that Senator Simpson ‘‘ came down handsome- ly,’ and wrote to the shareholders of the | bank of which was President, asking them

from the conflict. Mutual forbearance is harmony, But when ose party fights and the other does nothing but take the blows, ‘tig neither peace nor a fair fight.

« Nov rixa est, dum tu pulsas, ego vapulo

tantum,”’

which may.be accommodated thua:—

‘ You can’t call it a quarrel when you do all the spouting and I hold my tongue.”

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THE TRUE ISSUE,

[From the Montreal Gazette.]

One of the subjects which has entered into the contest is the conduct of Mr. Mackenzie in filling the vacancy in the Cabinet from Ontario instead of by appoint. ing one of the Island members. Mr. Pope makes special complaint on this ground. He says :—*‘ When Mr. Laird and his asso- * ciates agreed to support Mr. Mackenze, ‘‘it was on the distinct understanding that ‘* Prince Edward Island should have a seat ‘‘in the Cabinet. The seat has been given “to Ontario, and this Province is now de- prived of it: In this our people have been * most unfairly treated.’’ This statement has been answered by the Globe, which de-~ votes a columuand a half to the answer, Leavfng out of account an attempt to deal with the question on an arithmetical basis showing that as Prince Edward Isiand has but onesfortieth of the population of the Dominion, it cannot be entitled to one» thirteenth of the representation in the Cabinet, the answer of our foronto contem- porary is as follows:—‘‘ When, on the for- mation of the present Government, Mr. Mackenzie advised His Excellency to make Mr. Laird a Privy Councillor no one in On- tario complained. On the contary, this tribute to the ability of a leading public man from the new Province was hailed with general satisfaction, bnt the arrangement was never conceded as a right or bargain. Mr. Laird baving received another very honourable appointment, the right of the Governor-General to call a member from Ontario to fill his place is unquestionable.” There i- nc doubt that no one in Oniario— that is no Grit in Ontario, complained when Mr. Mackenzie advised His Excellency to make Mr. Laird a privy Councillor, and for the very best of reasons that by the doing of it the party secured power and were able to make that Jan. midnight attack upon the constituencies. And there is equally no doubt of theright of Governor-General to cal) whom he pleased to his Council, although that is a right exercised under advice, and for the exercise of which, therefore, Mr. Mackenzie and not His Excellency is re. sponsible. But this does not meet the point. Except in the case of Mr. Laird, this government has not attempted to change the arrangement—the unfortunate

to support the Grits, because, if they re- mained in power.it would be a good thing | for “ our Bank.”

| 10. The Patriot has not denied that | Senator Simpson’s Bank now receives the | bulk of Dominion Deposits, and has the free use and benefit of some $300,000 ot Dominion money. [Yet Mr. Welsh is made to say that the Dominion Govern- ment is based on the principles of hoaesty and justice, and to insinuate that there is no collusion between the Mackenzie-Cau- chon Government and wealthy specu- lators. }

11. The Patriot has not denied that the Mackeozie-Cauchon Government have deprived Prince Edward Island of repre- sentation in the Cabinet, notwithstand- ing the fact that they specially covenant- ed and agreed that she should be so re- presented while they remained in power.

12. The Patriot has not denied that the Dominion Government allowed three years to pass away without providing either a Penitentiary or the “ Wioter Steam Communication between this Pro- vince and the Mainland,” which by the terms of union they are bound to supply.

13. The Patriot has not denied that, at the instigation of Mr. Laird, the Mae- kenzie Government conspired to rob the young men of Prince Edward Island of one of their dearest rights—the right to exercise the framchise in Dominion elec- tions. (Our readers will remember that their dastardly purpose was defeated by

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the watchfulness and the strenuous exer— tions of Senators Haviland, Howlan, Haythorne, and Montgomery.) |

14. The Patrtot has not denied that the

Mackenzie-Cauchon Government passed | an Act providing the ballot in Dominion | elections in this Island, and carelessly | neglected to provide a Register of voters. | 15. The Patriot has not denied that | the Mackenzie~Cauchon Government haye | raised the Customs’ tax to 174 per cent. ; | that they put 25 cents upon every pound | of tobacco which the poor man uses; 15 cents a gallon upon the kerosene oil which | he burns ; 3 cents on every pound of tea | he consumes—[Yet the Putriot persists in calling the Mackenzie-Cauchon combina- tion a “ Free Trade Government ! ’’]

16. The Patriot has not denied that the honest yeomanry of eighteen constitu- encies in Ontario and Quebec have dex clared, in the most emphatic manner,their detestation of the rank corruption,clothed in hypocrisy, ot which the Grits have been proven guilty, and their determination no longer than possible to suffer incapacity, injustice, extravagance, and dishonesty, to rule the Councils of the Dominion.

Now, we declare that the Patriot cannet truthfully deny the charges we have preferred. We challenge him to prove that they are not substantially correst .

arrangement, we have always thought— adopted at Confederation. Regard has been had to Provincial representation in the Cabinet. Now, the selection of a Min- ister from Prince Edward Island in 1873 wa. either proper on public grounds or it was nots If it was, there is no reason why the same public grounds should not prevail now. There were certainly no other grounds—capable of being publicly defended, upon which the aps pointment was made. Mr. Laird had had no experience of public life in the Dominion, he knew nothiny of our politics, and he cer- tainly had no such local repute as to make it an object to secure his services at the head of a department. We were bound to assume, therefore, giving to Mr. Mackensie the benefit of a charitable construction of his conduct,

| that the ground upon which Prince Edward

Isiand was accorded a seat in the Cabinet was that ITS POSITION ENTITLED IT TO THAT DISTINCTION. Jf that was the mo- tive, what has occurred te make the difference since? Surely if in 1873 it was right that the Island should be represented in the Cabinet, it would be right now, and an ins justice is done it in its not being so repre. sented. But if the motive was the corrupt one of securing the Prince Edward Island vote to turn out one government and put in another, and that, having been accoms plished, the island has no further claims on Mr. Mackenzie, then the the electors should resent lhe indignity of having been made a counter in the game of party intrigue, and should condemn the government that was guilty of placing that indignity npon them. That is a dilemma from which Mr. Mac- kenzie cannot escape, and which will, we are inclined to think, cost him the electo.al vote of the Island.

A new invention for use at sea has lately been exhibited at Liverpool, Eng. It isa small portable condensing apparatus, cap- able of being fixed in the bow of a ship’s boat and of supplying a quart of fresh water per hour, The apparatus consists of asmall boiler, in which the salt water is distilled, of a condenser, and of an oil lamp, which produces the heat required to boil the water. The apparatus is intended to be fixed in ships’ boats before starting on a voyage, and as it comprises an oil tank holding a ten days’ supp'y, a crew obliged to take to the boats suddenly need not fear that most awful of privations—want of drinking water.

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POLITICAL MEETINGS.

Mr. Pore held a meeting at Mount Stewart yesterday. It was all but unani- mous in his fayor, The meeting at Ellis’s, Tracadie, Sand Hills, was entirely in favor of Mr. Pope. At Mount Stewart, Mr. Welsh looked wearied, downcast, and was not slow to acknowledge his state of mind. He said he had no hope of being elected. But Mr. Welsh is a wit; and, perhaps, he spoke derisively. Certa nly his prospects at Ellis’s and Mount Stewart were gloomy enough to damp even more buoyant spirits than those with which the gallant Captain is credited, At Long Creek, Mr, Pope was well received. He will, probably,

receive about half the votes polled at West River,

| BRITISH FLEET IN BESIKA BAY.

The London News of the 25th ult., says: —The Bes ka Bay fleet includes at the pre~ sent moment, apparently, every British iron-clad in the Mediterranean. Some of the vessels have been to Malta for refit, while others have been away to fill up with coal, but by this time it would seem that the fleet is more powerful than it has been from the first. There are no fewer than eleven powerful iron-clad#and three minor vessels under the command of Vice Admiral Drummond and Rear Admiral Rice, the two fiag officers in charge of our Mediter- ranean fleet. The most formidable craft of all is the Devastation, which is armed with heavier guns and carries thicker armour than any other vessel efloat. In- deed, this raft-like turret vessel would, under most circumstances, be a match for the rest of the iron-clads in the fleet put together, for no guns carried by a broadside

1») could pierce the armour of the Devas. i.uon while one wel! aimed shot from ‘he heavy cannon of the latter would suilice to send any of our masted men-of-war to the bottom. Next to the Devastation the most powerful ships are the Hercules, which bears admiral Drummond's flag ; the Sultan, commanded by H. R. H. the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Monarch ; these three, indeed, being the finest broadside irons clades of the British Navy in commission. ‘Then there are the Tlriumpb, scarcely inferior to these, bearing the flag of the Rear Admiral; the Raleigh,jthe Research, the Pallas, and Swiftsure, and the two iron rams the Hotspur and Rupert. The Heli-~ con despatch vessel and the sloops Crusier and Rapid complete the Besika Bay fleet, although there are eight other British gun- boats and gun vessels distributed about the Mediterranean, besides the Hibernia flag- ship st Malta. These smaller craft are at present doing the duty, which usually falls to the bigger vessels, of cru sing and visit~ ing ports at which British Consuls are stat.oned, and this they will continue to do until the Vice-Admiral breaks up the equadron at Besika Bay.

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CRIME IN ENGLAND AND WALES.

According to the judicial statistics of England and Wales for the year ending September, 1875, there is a decrease in the number of houses of bad character. There is a decrease in the number of indictable offences reported by the police, and in the number of persons for trial at the aseizes and sessions. A decrease also occurs in indictable offences, in the classes of offences against property without violence, of mali- cious offences against property, and of forgeries and offences against the currency. In the class of offences against the person there is a considerable increase. The number of convicts for murder was greater in 1875 than is found recorded for any pree vious year. The murders reported were 141. ‘*These facts,” says the London Standard, ‘‘indicate a period of comparative prosperity, associated with a tendency to greater disorderliness.”’

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The reverses encountered by the Servian armies in the war wth Turkey are in sin- gular contrast with the uniform success of the Montenegrin forces in their operations against.the Turks. Montenegro is only 4 sma!l mountain district with a population of 100,000 all told. But these mountaineers are hardy and brave, inured to hardships, and have had frequent and protracted con- flicts with the Turkish troops in which they have become accustomed to wa- and its trials and necessities. They know all the defiles, passes and strong places of the mountains, and use their knowledge with marked skill. Some of their positions are almost inaccessible. But their numbers are so limited that if the war were to be a long one they must be forced to submit through mere exhaustation. On the other hand, the Servians at the outbreak of the contest hadan army of 130.000 men, backed by aid from Russia, and furnished with the best arms in Europe. But fora long period they had not been at war, and were therefore unused to its sufferings and horrors, whilst the Turkish Government has never been without a war somewhere. The want of organizing ability in the Ser- vian Government has caused more disasters than the deficiency of resources. At the present time it would be extremely diffi- cult to infuse warlike capacity into the Ser- vian population.

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P. E. Istanp Bargue AsHore. ([Specialé Despatch to Morning Ghronicle.] Cow Bay, Nov. 11.—The Barque Minerva, of P. E. Island, bound from Loadon to Char-~ lottetown, P. E. L, is ashore in the throughfare at Mainadieu harbor. She is laying in 9 feet of water at low tide, strikes heavily, and has two anchors out. Now making about 1000 strokes in 24 hours. | he captain came here to get a tug boat to go round for her when weather permits.

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On reading a paragraph in the Patriot Extra, the vision of the Commissioner Public Works on the stump involuntarily arose before our mind’s eye. In contem- plation of the exquisite elegance of the style in which the paragraph was w itten, we lost a considerable portion of time speculating upon the place in which the writer “ had went ” to school.

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Smoked Herring, Cocoa Nuts, a&c,, &ce.,

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BY AUCTION

at the Subscribers Salesrooms on

Wednesday, 15th November. AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK, Bbls. BALDWIN APPLES, 200 boxes SMOKED HERRING, 300 COCOA NUTS, ; } 10 Casks AMEKICAN KEROSENE, 15 pnos. MULASSES, 100 MACKEREL BARRELS, and Sundry other Goods to close Consiga- ments. FENTON T. NEWBERY, & CO.

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AUCTION SALE !

Wwe. will sell by Auction, on MONDAY, the 13th inst., at 11 o'clock, a. m.:—

20 doz. BROOMS, 20 * PAILS, 10 cases MATCHES, 80 boxes SOAP, 20 * CLOTHES PINS, 50 hd CRACKERS, 15 nests TUBS, 50 kegs B. PEPPER, ° 20 * GINGER, 100 doz. BLACKING, 160 boxes Perai BLUE, 30 bbls, LAMP CHIMNEYS, 50 gross LAMP WICKS, 5 bales CANDLEWICK, 20 M. PAPER BAGS, 10 gross BLACKLEAD, 2 * AXLE GREASE. MACKENZIE & STUMBLES, Anctioneers. Ch'town Nov. ,1876.

Apples For Sale! BBLS. choice American WINTER

BALDWIN APPLES.

30 McKENZIF & STUMBLES. Ch'town, Nov. 10. 1876.—2i

NEW DRUG STORE, if ¥

EXTENSIVE STOCK

OF

British and American DRUGS, &.,

n the store immediately adjoining Hon. P. WaALKFR’s.

This Stock, which has been purchased in the most reliable markets, is warranted pure and fresh, consisting of—

Drugs, Essences, Dye Stuffs, Spices, Perjumery, Brushes,

SOAPS AND TOILET REQUISITES.

Particular attention will be given to DISPENSING!

The subscriber respectfully in- forms tbe public that he has opened with an

Open on Sundays for Dispening only. Morning from 9.45fa.m., till 10.45 a.m.

Afternoon ‘*“* 3.00 p.m., till 4.00 p.m. Evening ‘ 8.30 p.m., till 9.30 p.m.

C, D, RANKIN.

Ch’town, Oct. 9, 1876.—1m PRIME Virginia Leaf Tobacco

CHEAPER THAN EVER, For Cash! Cash! Cash!

(HE subscriber keeps constantly on hand a choice selection of Virginia Leaf To- bacco.

All dealers should call and examine our Stock, as we are prepared to

Sell Lower Than Ever to Those who Purchase for Cash.

CHARLES QUIRK

Mar. 6, 1876.—ly 102 Upper Qneen St

Taylor's Cloth Mills.

HE’subscribers are now receiving cloth for

To the Electors of Qusen’s op

\ ENTLEMEN :—You will soon be ca! upon to elect @ Representative ; Mie the vacant seat in the Dominion Ho of Commons, caused by the acceptana” of your late member, the Hon. David ls of the Governorship of Keewatiy aird, having been requested by many iofoen Electors, from various parts of the Con — to oifer myself as a candidate, | bave ma sented to do s0, and now beg to cam your suffrages. When Mr. Laird and his associate. to support Mr. Mackeuzie, ir was breed distinct understanding that Prince Réceat island should have @ seatin the Cablene ‘That seat las been given to Outarig “ this Province is now deprived of jy,’ aed In this our people have been 10 et fairly treavea. If cevurned I wijj aa our to re-establish that legitimate influee: ) the Councils of the Dominiun, ty Whi this Proviuce, from the number, Weaiti ch iutelligence of its people is unqaestionab) entitied, and I will not support any Ad ministration wiich will refuse to Pri Edward Island a voice in the Connells of the Country.

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You will hear muck about Free Trad versus Protection. 1 am a Free Trader - the brox«d principle, and will reuder - best assistance in endeavouring to slab. lish reciprocal Free Trade with the United States, which would do much to p

ro: the best interests of this ae Couulry.

agricultural

Our Island Railway has not been ductive of that geueral benefit to us whieh I ivtended it should be. This in my o.; pion, is entirely owing to its present a agement. I wonld endeavour 30 to lessen its necessary experditute and reduce the faritf as would make it of more extended advantage to all classes. I claim tor this Province a fair 4 J : rticpa. tion in the expenditure of the public “ends for the opening up of more extended com- munication with such portions of the colon as are noW destitute of the necessary facili. lies for the transit of its productions and for such other objects of public improves ment as will conduce to the furtherance its best interests. be With reference to maiters of Gene ra. Policy, my best endeavors shall at = times be directed to the development of the vast resources of our Great Dominion I have the honor to be, Your Obd't. Serv't, JAMES C, POPE October 30, 1876. :

To the Electors of Queen’s (po. } ENTLEMEN :—The appointment of tho Hon. David Laird as the Lieutenani

Governor of the North-West Territories

having caused a vacancy ia the Domiyion

House of Commons, which you will shony

be called upon to fill, I have been solicited by a great number of electors from diflerent paris of the County, to offer myself us 4 candidate, and I take this early opportunity of informing you of my determination to do so, and of soliciting your support.

‘The general policy of the McKenzie Ad- ministration, based, as I believe it to be, upon principles of honesty and justice, meets with my cordial approval. I recog- nise in that policy a determination to gov- ern this great Dominion on sound political and constitutional principles —a course which necessarily avoids the demoralizing effects which invariably follow from col- lusion between Governments and wealthy contractors or speculators.