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PARTY HACKS AND PARTY POLITICIANS.

Tuk Press as a constitutional power has been very appropriately designated the fourth estate of the realm, but when it goes out of its proper sphere, and as» sumes functions which do not properly belong to it, the influence it exerts is pernicious. When it attacks private charseter, or its power is exerted in injuring a man in his legitimate business, it becomes a powerful engine to mischief. Hence the laws enacted in Great Britain where it enjoys the widest range of legiti- mate freedom, are extremely stringent, and effectually keep it within proper bounds. We noticed a striking case in the newspapers about two years ago illustrating the rigerous promptitude with which the law of libel in the old country is administered. Public Opinion, a most respectable London weekly, had copied from an American newspaper a_ short paragraph in which it was asserted that the husbacd of the celebrated Singer Jenny Lind was squandering her fortune. The same paragraph was also inserted in unother English paper, and when the matter was brought to the knowledge of the gentleman accused, he immediately instituted an action against both papers. The editor wrote his agent offering to apologise for the wrong inadvertently done, and to pay any legal expenses already ineurred, but nothing short of putting the case before a jury would satisfy the aggrieved party, and when the case was decided, a verdict for two thous sand five hundred dollars and all expenses was returned against each paper. In these cases it was proved that no enemies against the injured party was cherished, that the literary item for which the charge had been served was inadvertantly clipped by the sub-editors, and inserted as current gossip or news, yet the expla~ nation did not prevent the inflietion of the penalty. We read of no such cases in these Provinces. Some papers take an appaling degree of liberty with the private character and business of public men, but the evil is so common that actions for libel are comparatively rare considering the extensive ground furnished for prosecution. But it is to another feature of a certain class of newspapers that we wish at present to draw attention, —to Hacks which would defend the con. duct of the leaders of the political parties to which they are attached, even were these leaders to violate some of the com- mandments of the decalogue, and which make it their business to approve of every public act or measure which may eman- ate from the men whom they delight to worship. These papers have set up an images in the form of a favourite states- man, and they not only fall down and worship it themselves, but do not hesitate to denounce as politicol traitors or heretics all who do not follow their own despicable example. Whilst we would thus depri- cite a slavish adherence to any political party, we are pot admirers of milk and water journals which are destitute of fixed principles, and trim their sails to suit their own selfish ends. Whilst we hold Liberal-Conservative _ principles, and will be at all times ready to fizht for the true interests of the party to which we are attached, of which Sir Joha A, McDonald is the hons ored leader, we are not prepared to des nounce the party who paradoxically call themselves Reformers, as a lot of uoprin- cipled raseals who have no ability or good We believe the Honorable Alex- ander MeKenzie to be a gentleman of

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estimable private character, and that, like his more able and accomplished op- ponent, Sit Jobn A. MeDonald, he is incapable of taking dishonestly a cent of the public money, for his own personal The grave bluoders which, as the leader of the party of immaculate purity, he has committed since his elevation, have been mainly owing to the numerous hungry jackals by whom he is surround ed, and to whom, ia the bewilderment incideat to their perpetual howling, the poor man has been obliged to throw pieces of carrion, so that he might have inters

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vals of peace. Mr. McKenzie is a gen-

XUMINCL. ‘leman of fair ability, who would gracefully

nd efficiently fill the civic chair of a large

‘city, but is utterly unfitted for the wide ‘range of Dominion statesmanship.

His wind is cast in a narrow mould, and he -annot be blamed for not possessing qual-

lities with which nature has not endowed

him, Some of his truculent worshippers will profess to feel offended at this estis mate of their idol, but we believe it to be a fair one.

In the more violent of the organs of both parties, it is amusing to notice how charges of bribery and corruption are bandied about between them like a ball at a cricket match; but the truth is, as every candid man will readily admit, that both parties have done a trifle in that particu. lar line, and that the kettle can hardly, therefore, with propriety, call the pot black. What has rendered the present Dominion government so unpopular in the country is the flaming professions of virtue with which they assumed office. The people were led to believe that a kind of political millenium was about to be inaugurated, but the brilliant illusion soon vanished, and has left a revulsion of feeling which is destined to culminate at the ensuing election in the country, con- signing to the delightful privacy of do- mestic life the present incompetent administration—a retirement which must be very congenial to their unadulterated souls, and from which they ought never to have been permitted to emerge. What the country wants is not pedlars in polit- ical wares, but statesmen, Not only has the Premier proved himself incompetent as a statesman since his accession to office, but he has been in some cases most un- fortunate in his selection of heads of departments — putting men in elevated positions for which, by education and truining, they were utterly incompetent— men who might be good judges of codfish or red herrings, but of very limited natus ral capacity, and who, if you questioned them about the “ Wealth of Nations’? or any other standard political works, with which they should be as conversant as with “Jack the Giant Killer’’ or “‘ Old Mother Hubbard,” would betray the most woeful ignorance. From considerations of hus manity, if not from any other, the coun- try will take care to send these men back to the contraeted spheres for which nature intended them.

MISREPRESENTATION.

Tue editor of the Patriot has found a mare’s nest, and hastens to inform his readers. He says the EXAMINER is ens tering the thin edge of the wedge of the Protectionist policy. Although the Pat- riot prides itself upon its ability to miss represent, and to put a construction upon an opponent’s words which were not in~ tended by the writer, yet, the trick is so transparent in Saturday night’s issue, that we feel sure no one will be deceived by the rant about protection. We dety Mr. Lawson or any one else to point out one single sentence in favor of protection in our article on “ Sugar Refineries.” We alluded to the unpleasant fact that the industry of sugar refining in the Do- minion was crushed out of existence by Grit stupidity. Our astute contempor-~ ary would have us believe that, when these refineries were flourishing, with our tariff at 15 per cent. ad valorem, we had protection, but now, that the tariff is 174 per cent. ad valorem and the duty on raw sugars about 50 per cext., we have free trade. Verily, the Putriot’s style of reasoning is peculiar to itself. If Mr. Lawson knows anything at ali about the matter, he must know that the present administration raised the duty on raw sugar, and this act b'asted what was a growing industry.

The complaint is made that our article was too heavy leaded. Perbaps we did give him too many unpleasant truths to digest at one time, but the truth must be told, whether agreeable or not to our ‘“ Reform” friend. The same kind of shots are being delivered in every part of the Dominion, and doubtless will lay out the McKenzie Government some of those days. If, instead of misrepresenting the EXAMINER, he were to direct his atten.

tion to fiading out the reason why salars ies of Dominion officials on the Island are

‘lower than of the officials of any other ipare of the Dominion, he would evince a ‘desire to see justice done to our little | Colosy.

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MR. MACGOWAN’S LETTER.

Tue New Era of Saturday last contains a letter from A. H. B. MacGowan, giving the cap

his version of the cause of his dismissal by Judge Alley from the office of Clerk of the Court of Queen’s County. Mr. Mac~ Gowan states that he had about made up his mind not to appear in print on the sub- ject. We wish for the sake of Mr. Mac; Gown that he had fully decided in his mind not to make public, after his dismiss-~ al, what during the time he held oflice would have been considered by him too trifling a matter to mention. The pub- lic are not at all disposed to pry into the private matters of either the Judge or Clerks of any of our Courts, All that is demanded of them is that they discharge their public duties faithfully. If Mr. Mac« Gowan is not a teetotaler, doubtless the

office was net a very unpleasant one. If he is a teetotaler his duty was plain—viz, to refuse point blank to perform any such work. We hope that when Judge Alley replies that he will do so without showing a spirit of retaliation or revenge—a spirit which we cannot altogether acquit Mr. MacGowan of showing. We allude to this matter of the dismissal because a para-

news appears to have called fortii the letter to which we have referred, Doubtless there is another side to the story.

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A HUSBAND IN A TIGHT PLACE.

Ile is @ young man who came down to Montreal from a city in Western Untario to work at the jewellery trate. He fell in love with a respectable Montreal girl and married her, but against his mother’s will, who considered the wife’s family bad not suf- ficient social standing, Yesterday sheand a foster daughter came to the city on a visit to the young man, and induced him to de sert his young wife and leave with them for Ontario, As he did not return home in the evening, the young wife grew nervous and fearful lest something uwful had oc. curred to her liege lord, made a diligent

ten minutes before it pulled out for King- ston. Sitting comfortably in the cars was her husband, backed up by his mother and his foster sister.. The wife, who was ac- companied by her mother, at once rushed in, and a scene took place which is beyond description. The wife, with tears, be. sought him not to desert her, and eventu- ally got hold of him, while his mother, equally anxious that he shouldn’t leave, grasped him as firmly on the other side. He felt he was in a tight place, and looking wildly around on the interested passengers, exclaimed : ‘‘ Whichever is strongest can take me.”? They pulled away and his mother punctuated her jerks by remarking audibly that his wife’s family had dosed him with liquor in order to get him to marry. This the wife and mother-in-law strenuously denied; they belonged they said to a temperate family. Amid the roars of the passengers, the con~ ductor now came in and said all who hadn't tickets must get out, and the young wife and her mother accordingly had to retire. The poor deserted girl fainted in the De- pot, as the train moved out, taking her youg husband with it, and the policeman who raised her up saw her white face dawn tight with lines of agony. It is believed that the wife will eventually be allowed to follow her husband, whose strong-mainded mother thus cruelly separated them. The names, out Of respect to the feelings of all concerned, are withheld, — WVitness

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WESLEYAN CONFERENCE,

The fourth session of the New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Conference will commence at the Methodist Cuurch, Fre, dericton, on the 28th inst. The houses provided for the P. E. I. Ministers are as

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‘travels wow-a-days brings us the an- nouncement of an event long before the particuiars arrive, and when these do come to hand the event is almost forgotten, or

is imperfectly remembered in the flood of

‘Other events which have, since the first | ennouncbabielll been. reported. Ardaban was practretlly an outpost or defence of Kars. Russians made several attacks upon the place and were repulsed, and this gave the Turks an easy feeling as to the strength of their defences. Finally the Russians set themselves to work in real earnest; they brought up 59,000 men, they erected nine batteries opposite the two principal entrenchments of the Turkish defence, and mounted upon them forty guns, from which they bombarded the en- 'treachments, beginning at 8 o’clock in the /morning sad keeping up the attack until 2 o’clocis in the afternoon. The firing could be heard twenty miles away. Against ‘this vigorous fire the well-directed shot from the hussian artillery dismounted their guns and left them entirely useless. ‘Then an attack was ordered, and after a long \sustatned musketry fire the Turks aban- doned the defences, and a large quantity of cannon, rifles and cartridges fell into the hands of the enemy. It does not really appear that bayonets were crossed in the affair at all. The Turkish garrison was only about ten thousand strong, so that the Russian force outuumbered them five to one. Notwithstanding this, however, the Turks appear to have made an effective and orderly retreat. They divided into two parties, one retreating towards Kars, the other to Ardanuteh, The loss on either side was very light. The Russians admit only fifty killed and wounded. The affsir was one in which numbers did the work; and thus they will continue to doso ong as the war lasts. The importance of the victory to the Russians was very great, cowing to the setion of the country which fell into their hands. — Globe.

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PORT OF CHARLOTTETOWN. ENTERED.

June |ith.—Schr, Idare Grant, Chimique, deais; Rustic, McDonald, Buctouche, deals, &c.; Annie Duncan, Leard, Crapaud, ballast; John Bell, Kinley, Shemiogue, deals & ends; Maggie McBeth. Smith, Buctouche; Boards; Addie, Ars: nau t. Shediac,Lumber; Philistine Boyle, Wal ace, Stone; Gualion, Grant, Pic- tou, Coal; Sea Dr ft, Byrns, Richibucto, deals; Lone Star, Walton, Chimogue, deals; Ariel, Moore, Shediac, Lumber; Minnie B., Green Bay Verte, Boards; Cortroue, Brown, Pictou, Coal; Anadine, Allan, New Castle, deals and lJaths; Sarah, Martin, Halifax, deals: Margaret May, Morrison, Dalhousie, Shingles; General Clark, Shea, Pugwash, stone,

CLEARED.

June l1th.—Schr. Philistine, Boyle, Pug- wash, ballast; Str. Henry Aitken, Hobbs, Pictou, baliast; | Dare, Grant, Bay Verte: ballast; Pathfinder, Campion, Souris, salt, Rustic, McDonald, Buctouche, salt: Minnie, Howlett, Grand River, mdse.; Marie Emma, Renox, Picten, ballast; Lone Star, Walton, ay rus orllast; Maggie,McDonald, River JOhn, ballast.

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Hotel Arrivals.

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ROCKLIN HOUSE,

June I{th.—Foster Pickard, St. John: Thomas Croden Richibucto; Walter Simp- son, Bay View; Janes I. Stewart, West

Cape; James Barnes, Shediac; Robert Simp- son, Cavendish, A Rennau, New Perth; J.

Yeaton, Halifax: A McMillan, Wheatley River, (z00rge Canet, New London; Charles LeFuerg,, Summerside; Percy Palmer, Vic- toria. RANKIN HOUSE. 7. . . ~ . . ‘une \U—Aessrs. Samue! Snider, Brad-

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fons | ') Chambers, Montreal; E. U. Pease, do.;

P. \W. Snider, Bradford.

June llth—G. \W. Hawley, Cascumbec: T. James Dawson, Montreal: Fred Barber, England, F. H. Smalland wife, St. John.

follows :—

John 8, Allen; G. M. Clark, Queen street. |

John C, Berrie; M. Coulter, © ieen street.

Henry J. Clark, Alfred Whitehead, George street.

H. P. Cowperthwaite, A.M.; David Hatt, Brunswick street.

T. J. Deinstadt; Mrs. A. McCausland.

C. W. Hamilton, P. A. Logan, St. Mary's.

J. V. Jost; Judge Wilmot, Regent street.

A. E. LePage; A. A. Miller, King street.

W. W. Lodge; G. A. Cliff, King street.

Aquilla Lucas; H. Y. Hoyt. Queen street.

Joseph Seller, A.M.; Robert Willey, Brunswick street.

F. Smallwood, Sup.; Judge Wilmot, Regent street.

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Tae steamer St. Lawrence, Capt. Evans, left Summerside for Shediac on Saturday morning last with freight, mails and pas~ sengers at 9.10, arrived at 11.50 and after discharging and loading freight left for Summerside at 1.40; arrived at 430; left Summerside for Charlottetown, 5.30, and arrived at 10 o'clock with 449 kegs nai!-

106 bbls. flour, —140 miles in ten houzs,

REVERE HOUSE,

Jnne lith—Geo. Henderson, Truro: James Peters, Montreal: James G. Gillis, Toronto: C. Romaine, Toronto; R N. Dogherty, King- sion; G. N. Cafrin, San Jean, Cal.; W. B. Thomas, St. John; G. B. Thomas, Moncton: Mr, and Mrs. A. C, Gushing, Sailsbury; G. W.Cofrin, Boston.

Personals. LLL LLALAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL YY

E. J. Hodgson, Esq., arrived from Mon- treal to-day.

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Frep. Smart, Eso., General Passenger Agent for the Maritime Province, of the Grand Trunk Railway, came ‘in by the Boat Lxpress last night, accompanied by his wife.

W. HI. Surru, Dominion Steamboat Inspee- tor, Was a passenger by the “ Princess of Wales” to Summerside last night,

A. tl, Aner, Principal of the Deaf and | Dumb Asylum, at St. Jobn, is again on the | Isiaud, and intends spending some time here | as holidays.

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aix. Lancmarp, of the St. John Customs and a brother-in-law of J. R. Calhoun, Esq., M. P. P., Summerside, is visiting here.

Details are at last beginning to arrive of inre of Ardahan, The way news

| Local and Other Items. Mait.—The English Mail via. Ialifax will arrive here this evening at 7 o'clock.

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Ick Cream, lbedeque Oysters, served up at ‘‘ The Confectionery.”—21

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PiCkLes, extra nice, for sale, by the quart or gallon, at ‘The Confectionery,” —9j

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AnotuEr lot of those wonderful seven cent prints just received at Robert Young's

Fresu Bedeque Oysters, by the quart or bushel; or served up at all hours, stewed

fried or raw, at ‘‘ The Confectionery, Lunch Room,

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Dancer.—We warn all parties of the danger of swimming at Kensingion during the practice of the volunteers at that place. Bermupa Istanps.—Mr, R. J. Smith's lecture, on the above subject, in the Y, MT C. A. Hall, last evening, was attended by a large and attentive audience.

a ee, ce F. & M. Association. —The first meeting of the Farmers & Mechanics’ So-operation Association will be held in Szott Hall on the 29:h inst.

By the lively appearance of some of our rowing boats when practing every evening, good competition may be expected at the St. Patrick's T. A. Society Regatta on the 25th inst.

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Asparacus, [ihubar’, New Bermuda, Onions, Bannanas, Pine Apples, Spanish Lemons, Oranges, &c., just received at The Confectionery.” TT -+---- Seane

To-morrow, the Conductors on our Rails way will appear in all the glories of sums mer Official suits of the ‘*Blue-black,” got up in Keith & Co.s’ best style.

eheGli —-- —— ‘* BaPTisMA ” is the titls of a little work by the Rev. John Lathern. It isa very small book, but inconceivably great in value, and will be found beneficial to those to whom it is inscribed. We may at a later date briefly reyiew it. 1b 1S, § bettie SUBSCRIPTIONS to the DatLy EXAMINER Solicited. Terms:

Six months, €2 50 Three months, 1 25 One mouth, 46 One week, 12 Payment strictly in advance. —_———_-44 po ——

Dismissep.—We learn that Messrs, Ed. ward McKinnon and George Davison have been dismissed from service in the Regis. try Office owing to the dullness of business in the Department.

ideinitiniiaiecaipacess Nossy.— On examining the immence stock of Diagonal, Tweeds, &c., at the store of Mr. C. E. Robertson, a person must be totally convinced of the graat jadgment which Mr. R. exercises in selecting his goods. He has now on hand a superior stock of clothing which he will sell at a very reasonable figure.

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Suicwe.—A sad report comes from ra- paud to-day, to the effect thata Mrs, Dar- rach and her child were found in the Mill Pond of Mr. Braddock Howatt, on Sun« day morning, with a piece of iron fastened by a string to their bodies. Of this we re- ceived no further information than Mr. Darragh left his house on Sunday morning, at an early hour, his wife end child being in bed. An hour afterwards he returned, and on going to his room, he found it va-~ cated. Search ws made, and shortly after- wards both were found in the place above stated. Cause unknown.

It is stil further, reported that a woman named Irving jumped off the bridge at Crapaud with a child in her arms, and both were drowned, on Sunday.

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A Darine Ronsery. —Yesterday forenoon a robber entered an upper bedroom in the Torryburn=fHouse, kept by Mr. Chas. Gods dard, and appropriated to himself a cash box containing about $520 and three watches. The fellow was seen to come down the stairs by Mrs Roop, and she, suspecting something wrong, gavean alarm. The robber dropped a gold watch belong - ing to Mrs, Goddard, and started for the woods with the rest of his booty as fast as his legs could carry him. He was pursued, and being hotly pressed, dropped the cash box. . His pursuers, thinking that the money was in the box, stopped the chase for a minute, but on opening the box it was found only to contain one of the watehes. By this time the thief was out of sight. He is described a3 a low-sized man, probably about 5 feet 3 inches in height, with no oo He wore a gray cap,—St, John Globe,

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