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"ay « * A&G : Che Grovwaaaet ‘di >% ~ A GEESE EIES De t‘hariot fown, i: eh he S76, ‘ ntion i in directed t t} want 7, \ {\] { ot mmocdation and means ot « mt — ment The } tient are with the loft t t ust except } { few who W rk about the | lative Cour hou barn, debarred from employment \ t mt — r amusement of any kind, end the life | , they ead very menotonous one. Eleven designs for the proposed asylum : on Government Farm were submitted to the Board of Works and referred to the | e ‘ M t lM : ik ;, eit rintendent. In deciding the design i t Ve . . { lopt. he ebtained the assistant of } ' _ @ iP Dr. Walker. of the Boston Insane Hos- ) q’ nel rs on : : pital Che decision was in favor ot the Wet want se@isiatly . : } a f Messes. Sterling & Dewar, Archi- ( people of Manitoba ; our : ' ’ { s, Halifax. It was, however, de- iV re 2s much oppost 1 to| ' ve im many respects, and Dr. s the people of Manitoba, and, : . . : Ale , Walker offered many valuable suggestions rat ¥ n tl juestion of “ ‘ ° ’ or its improvement. ihese suggestions sis submitted tot {ou rs ‘ onngne were conveyed to Mr. Sterling on Dr. ¥ Will \ ior at tion : is oe Blanchard’s return home, and, in accord- HOW NOT TO DO 14 | ance with them, alterations are now being is : 1 } made. It is hoped that as soon as the As t ti ters wer ealled for the } i 7 ey e T) spring arrives, everything will be in llldin t ulway fend hey were , . : : : T J readiness to begin the work } let Decen r ose Who ve : “ae by Ist De , : ‘There is, however,’ writes the Doctor, } 1 tl ! bt, that they ’ ; ‘ Abe, § o ) g for which we should not be ” tti +) 1 rit t i that : } : ; ] ry I s ‘ . ' v s ra ic! \\ { \ l A l 1 Lut { wher ? Ny s n i I \ way { my \ ney \ t 4 lil it i : t I ! ally red I hop } ‘ ‘ rift hat not r ¥ i, a ‘ ” ah ' t Gover rent will see the ent \ i who submitted gran the land at ovee, ia . ' 1 } I rt work of a similar nature west tender oc atmecrs amt or iy | nt The ¢ rnment Farm | } ile i mp! ining of hard times | s a great deal of land, and I trust . } , } nay s Way Clear to alloW us one vhen they might be profitably employed ry ggg ir to we 5 . 7 n i Ss which Will give am} i room itt I Pp ring the fenciog t only for farming and gardening purposes ! \ whatever has been } I ealion and exer »as well. WW} busy they can Farming operations in connection with vi I S is = tit i i : the Asylum have, of course, been on a i s have returned ; when " ; ge , anole hit hay h re } , i : very limited seal mt they hay een . Bf 1a i not ¢ ’ ‘ \ ittended by success oni t] mathanes. the contract ; | * ‘ | al va products of the h I 1 into—at an i . A orto beus sold, is $611.60. , f thousands of dollars. | Had we had scope, double t! unt might : ; | have been rea iwith the expenditure of \ 5 his tryit ut the Hl f ry little more money, as no employment , \ an be found for many of the patients who th | are willing and anxious te work. ‘frequently VEETING OF PARLIAMENT. | 90 60ing through the wards I have been asked by different ones to send them out to | ’ : i fulfilled work, and too oflen the answer has been, €eLARING 1D Dsist ney ub UIner pro- ‘ Chere is nothing for you to do. mises,vacillation, weakness and ineapacity,| The Superintendent acknowledges his . : . . . ' i és these characteristics of the present] oblications ilers of the Pominion,—constantly dis-| To Dr. Taylor for his kind attention to the > o) } : ‘ : Ss the patients during my absence yed throughout the past two years—| I g my i 7 . ‘ ’ : I a r | from the Island; to Robert May, Esq., for ive rudely shaken the people's confidence | the + Penny Illustrated Paper ” which be

ther Notwithstanding the large } 24s tito send us during the year ; : : ; sa ») the Clergymen of the diferent denom- which Mr. MeKenzie will have i ad Bleue es , as : i i vn y* 4} Wakil chiada >e& Uiinr } . t ner f Parliament. KE ty our Sunday flernoon ‘ ae 1.13 S in the Asylum; to the Ladies and I to t reins . _s sy rein { 1 also, who ! e so Kindiy con- government throughout ¢t ss10D. Mus it the Services—thanks i» yi y © de d ily culust him : I i l t ( idian Ns Vews have been received from R sh { Is tne verg if re-{G nment House, wt 1 were very wel- ‘ Ma ‘ is lissatisfi Nova ind i vedto wl away many a} a , ne Edi the Exau Scot New Brunswick 1 Prine , 1 pa ta hoon cont dt dus | t dur Edward I h has its grevien 8 1 to the J ind Pro- : ' , pa u! Wing papers, which have ? Yr ' Te res aS ; hat 1 (ua ire rest the | p , t st during the past twelve | ; is financially d ssed. | month 8 t Argus,” t Herald,”’ | a na the SI $ Progress,” and thé + Y ft <f ) - ' y < 1 ain ;u ion | Wester: ¢ pubis il WweNntVill } I ale ts 1 upon. t l iders N. S.,8 s t lturntha s,a tos t r . i lance of their favors. Several copies +} fIrnneacit ' re more ictlve, ANG | .¢, : the Oppesition are mot , id | f th Meteor published in the Hospital re backed up by a much larger followiug 1¢ Insane at Tuscaloosa, Ala., and of ‘ : » « Excelsior wean Pelt echoes m the «« rrav than they have been since the Govern. | ‘he “ Excelsior,” published in the « Murray but 7 i R | Institu Perth, Scotland, have also ment obt ined power. Altogethe Mr. | been received McKenzie will have his hands full. | The officials at present connected with a —-— __» | the Asylum are:— PUNISHMENT WITH A VENGEANCE. : : ne Orrician Tracstees.—Hon. Chief Justic j ae ; . ; | Hon. President of the Legislative Council One morniny last week, a jewelry shop | jjon. the Speaker of the House of Assembly : ; . ‘ De ereeruen ‘ —- * n Queen Street was minus a quantity of} Ormer Tresti s.—Hon. L. ©. Owen, M. sail : , s The | U: Ps Hon. W. W. Suilivan, MP. P., Hon. hy 4 ther trinkets et gs, brooches, aad other trinket ¢ | Patrick Walker, M. L. G., Hon. Wm. Strong were informed f the fact apd on | M. L. ¢ tion. Jos. O. Arsenault, M. P. P nie ; a ta W. D. Stewart, Esq., M. P. P., Theoph friday jiast a sm delicate-looking, 1n- | DesBrisay, Esq., J.$. Carvel., Esq., Alex elligent lad, nine years of age, named | Brown, Esq.; Rey D. FitzGerald }: . ; a Honora Ss .— Theoph Jes- Bateman,was placed in the prisoner’s dock | toe wae | I efore the Stipendiary Magistrate, charg MeptcaL Scperintenvent.—Edward S§. ° e : ryt . slanch r I ) i with the crime. rhe magistrate en- Blan ard, MoI i. ae ; : - | Scri sor.—Edmund Walle: ired into the case; and finding that it] sy Mrs. E. Waller os ‘ + ae ae ‘ | s outside his jurisdiction, committed } oe . ; nORPe AN CRITEr Sag youthful prisoner to Queens County | DIOCESAN CHURCH SOCIETY ‘ a teal which wil take . ‘ apt t , which will take | luz annual meeting of the Diocesan it nene i W ol Church Society was held in t. Paul’s (Jueen’s County Jail that the Grand Jury | Schoolroom, on Wednesday evening last. seek ow eo reported :-— Ven. Archdeacon Read occupied the chair. i Phere was a thin audience—partially owing 9g Mr. Ha | to unfavorable weather and partially to the a +h j . 1} ™ ge " —. <, | fact that it was generally supposed that the h p ul g in| ; ; t , ill the attention of | Meeting was merely a formal one. Rev. , s,to the want ade- | D. FitzGerald, Secretary of the Society,read | ‘ r r) mr r\ nt | vr , jal lat ind om 7 then’ iO" | the reports, These show that throughout the I st ifined, asthey found | él . : room-— | the past year the work of the Church has . ‘ aaa - 5 t g ling togeth: with | been carried on as usual. ‘he vacancies na cog teary ned tor Gus) at Port Hill and New London have been grad S sna A fils > } : ne 4 filled up by the Revds. Messrs. Dobey and |

And that I perhaps all innocent of tl rime i id to his ch Arce, und evident- y ignorant ol its tru nature, has 6 Dn condemne 1 to lleness and to the ¢ nstant

society of the most hardened criminals in

the community—/or fir long months, If

properly cared for, he would,undoubtedly,

make a good

But, ten chan

man and a good citizen.

es to one, he will come out

of Queen's County Jaila thorough paced

scoundrel. And, if so, who isto blame ? Certainly not the Magistrate. He had no alternatiy We pause ior a reply +e — THE LUNATIC ASYLUM. Tue annual report of the Medieal Su- |

perintendent 0! the Asylum for Insanc per

| Newnham ; but there i 1 Ch

death of the

s still a vacancy at

srry Valley; and, owing to the recent lamented Mr. Ross, another at Messrs.

Dobey and others, acknowledge

Georgetown. lhe Archdeacon, | McLean

kindness and presents received from their Chief moved

seconded by His Worship the Mayor of

| parishoners. rhe Justice

| Charlottetown ;— That the Report now read be adopted and | printed under the direction of the Com- mittee. Moved by isv. Mr. Johnston,of Crapaud ’ seconded by Rev. Mr. Dobey, of Port Hill: | That this meeting desires to express its sense of thankfulness to Almighty God for

the measure of success that has attended the operations of this Society during the | past ye .

Moved by Rev. D. FitzGerald, seconded | by R. F. DeBlois, and supported by H. J

sons has just | en published by order of the | Cundall, Esq. Trustees. t coutains a pretty compre- } That the following persons be the Ex- . : oe : 1 ecutive Committee for the ensuing year rensive atateme »S yote - ? hensiv tatement of results obtained | and that the thanks of this meeting be during the past year Dr. Blanchard | given to the Collectors for their valuable writes | services : On t sist December, 1874—the date of | Vicn-PrestpENts \rchdeacon Read, last report—there were in the Asylua 64 | Rev. D. FitzGerald, Hon. Judge Hensley. i its hia and 28 females. Since CLERICAL SeECRETARY—Rev. JD. Fitz- ; .8 | ‘oralsd then there have been admitted 14—11 males | Gerald. — on i il making the whole number{| AY Srorerary—William © DesBrisay. nder treatment f the vear 78—47 males | PreasvureER—William C. DesBrisay. j ring } ‘ een dis- Lee . nales. Fourteen have been di EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. d—in and / females. One male} ,,,,, ‘ a 5 ral ‘the resident Clergy of the Establicse eaving in the house, at the present } A ; rgy of the Establised , ' ' a : Church, } pati J males and 24 females. | Ori i discharged, 9 were vered, 2 Aitken, G. Albert Mooper, D. R. M. much proved, aad 2 unimproved. By com- Alleyne, E. B. Holl, Henry A. paring the above figures with corresponding | Brecken, John Hunt, William 'P paring * Hs ne I ang | a - 2. On th n jast year’s report,it will be seen that | Brecken, Frederick Harris, T. J. while fewer patients have been admitted, a | Buckertield, W. i. Haviland, T. H. much larger percentage has been cured, | Candall, William Ings, John though to what this it due it is hard to say, | Cundall, H. J. Jay, John as there has been quite as wuch overcrowd. | CUTS, Owen Leeming, T. J. ng as in former years ; Cousins, William Mutch, David Phe percentage of cures on admissions has | C@"Vel, «7. 5. Maxwell W. T. been 64. Last year it was 29, showing an | V'#*, Thomas McLennan, A, A. increase in favor this year of 35 per cent. | DeBlois, G. W. Peake, James Last year the percentage of deaths on the | ore s, L. H. Poake, George whole number under treatment was rather | Ly sBrisay, Th WAS Paimer, Charles less than fou This year it has been | 2-5, | om rr ees) Beeps Palmer, D. W. shewing a decrease in favor of this vear of a a a. -W.C. Pidgeon, James 2 3-5 per cen Phough the admissions for | G. oT Nichards, William 1875 do not number more than 2-3 of those | e n il : Sanderson, Wiliam for the previous year this has t asian, R. awhey, William 5 ; 1a Dt | aiteson. KJ inka: @ been because we have not had applications, | price. Ww Sims, Thomas but that owing les. F. W Pweedy. George

to the crowded condition of

house, we have refused to receive any | cases, except to fill vacancies that oceur by

the discharge of patients. Had we had room | to r -ailfor whom admission was sought uld have nearly doubled our numbers. Lnfortunat many of these cases must HeCHESSAT apse into chronic insanity befor: oom can be fou: d for them. On the whole However, Considering our limited space and means, there may, I think, be aseribed to the perations of the past year, a fair degree of

succe ucces*,

Our per centage of cures has been ge, our death rate less than 14 per cent., vhich is wonderfully small, seven per cept ing the average in hospitals for the insane.

}fodeson, i. R. These resolutions, on being put to the meeiiig, passe unanimously. Resolutions (adopted by the Committee) expressing regret for the loss of Charles

DesBrisay, E-q, and Rev. Mr. Ross, and |

sympathy with their bere:ved relatives, | were read. The Archdeacon remarked that services were every Sunday conducted at Georgetown by the ehurch’s indefatigeable | catechist, Mr. Euston. Short speeches were | delivered by Revds, Messrs. Johnston, Dox | bey and FitzGerald,and by the Chief Justice, Mr. R. DeBlois and the Archdeacon,

, | should be properly represented on th

rp } I il, IN SE »N WHAT OUT : it NG ANI l i \ / ; tmemil< of the Privy Councu

embled in the Council room in due and

ancient form.—that is to say, they entered in ones and twos, each honor ible Councillor

apparently rushing as if his life depended

upon his not being too late to watch the } movements of his calle rues ; each detain- ed by important business in his department; each wearing the air of man on whose shoulder rested the destimes of nations.

When the interesting group got together, their countenances formed a study for an artist. Blake was the personification of ors icular wisdom; the face of the Sphinx was 10t non-committal, Mackenzie's brow was careworn, and he seemed ill at ease. Cauchon stroked his beard and aps peared to be thoroughly satisfied with him-~ self and all the world. Lie was really the only Councillor who bore a gay heart. Huns

more

tipgton lolled in an arm chair, as if care- less whether school kept or not. Smith was grave but not depressed in spirit, as lthe mancan attord to be who has several

}

“scotians Pars

strings to his bow. If the Nova

were present we did not see them ties of two each not being company) stood or sai and cons,

bustle and rush of their entrance into the chamber having apparently died out when

in their absence. Mackenzie and Burpee | especially, were in anxious consultation, Presently, the President, M. Cauchon, took

his seat at the head of the board and ealls ing his ‘on frens’ to ‘ordare;:’ and to order they came accordingly. The Pre dent was requested to state the contents of the Schedule, whereupon Cauchon ; De fus ting I fine on dese shes du @ 1s le | etie mattaire of de Ci Wilby Huntingion : 0, Lord! Monsieur Tonson >| come again! Blake: Skip that Mr. President. Ne

| hive hearl enough about that.

} Cauchon: | weel putdese to de Premaire | deed not you, Meestaire Premiere, promees me dat——

| Mackenzie. Peace, | beseech you,gentle- | men! (Our controversies are most unseem- ly.

Smith: It | utter, that we | this matter.

‘ | Miackenzie

really seems to me, Mr. Pre ought to knnw the uruth of | now put it to you —— (interrupting): | hope the } gentleman ;som New Brunswick does not propose to take charge of this government. | do, indeed, trust that no such idea has If at this

| bred in his capacious mind, | Council Board we give inferior Provinces | such as New Brunswick and Nova Scotia } each two seats, itis not because they are entitled to them; it is not intended that | they shall overshadow and cali to account !

Province which supplies the bulk of the support of the government, which provides the revenues for the Government, and which is quite capable of managing the af- fairs of the Dominion without the assistance of any other Province. I hope I shall not be called upon to express myself further on j this subject. Weare not troubled at this | Board by our colleagues from Nova Scotia |

or by Mr. Smith’s New Brunswick collea- gues, and | can’t see what there is to agi | tate Mr. Smith.

Smith: Gods and fishes! Has it come to this? Blake, what do you say to that? What do you think of that Huntington

Cauchon: ©, my tren, speek ; de i} mooch alter dat!

Smith: Well why, where’s Burpee ? ym: O, Mon bow to de President and Say ec ing beesiness call eem away.

Smith: Important business ! What busi- ness can he have more important than the

l~

de big chief hav chief weel not spe Ha!

Burpee, what do you

leetle ik

>

} Cauca make ees

Ye import-

jeur } + aeul OSL

proceedings of this Council, | wonder ? } Cauchon: O, eet ees mos importang bees- iness. E teil me in very great secreet. | tell eet to you in one secreet. Heav gone | to telegraf for one grate coat! Ha! | Voices: A great coat Cauchon; Oui. One grand coat | Smith: What in the name of Memrams | |

cook dves this mean? Mackenzie: Allow me to explain

Smith: How? Is this government measure, that the Premier feels called ups On to explain ?

Mackenzie: Young man,save your breath, I pray you, to coo. your parritch You |} all aware that there are a number who not society men. I am not, Laird is not; Coffin is not; don’t care for society; Mr. prefers Dorchester others of us would rather society by proxy. Now, as some of you are aware, the Earl of Dufferin, author of High “atitudes,’ and presently Governor General of Rideau Hiall, is about to give masquerade ball, and

Several Voices: A times as these ?

Mackenzie and as it is important

a

for

are

one

' do

masked ball in such

I said a masquerade ball ; that the Government

ai }

3 OC-

casion we have

concluded to do something

creditable to the Goyernment of this great

Smith: Excuse me, Mr. Premier, what has all this to do with my colle leaving the Council so suddenly ? Be patient and you shall | hear. It is necessary that the Government of this great country should be well repre- sented at the Ball, and we have delegated the Minister from New Brunswick to repre- | sent the Government on that great occasion.

sague’s

Mackenzie :

| Since entering the Council room we have | decided in regard to the style of the dis- | guise and price. The outfit which your colleague will wear, Mr. Smith, will cost Four Hundred Dollars, a mere bag——

Huntington; Shade of Reform, me !

’

support

| poor railway trackmen whose wages we have just cut down 10 cents per day in the stormy mid-winter.

Cauchkon : 0, eet ees nothing!

Mackenie : Gentlemen, it will bea rich disguise and most creditable both to the

Government and the maker,— for you should understand, gentlemen, that we have ordered this gorgeous coat from St. Jobn's; and that no mystery may attach to our colleague’s movements I have to an- nounce that our colleague has left the joard in order to telegraph his order to Monsieur Iiammondi, in St. John’s,—for your absent colleague is that sort of a man that before consenting to act as a repre- sentative of the Government, he exacted a pledge from me as the head of Government that the necessary clothing should be pur-

chased in New Brunswick—and nowhere | else! That you may be able to recognize

| the Government when you meet itin the | ball room, | will read you a description of its contemplated disguise :—|It will add to the mystery to suppress this description, — Ep.| Should you be present and meet Government, | trust you will be pleased

pains to make it presentable. In conclu- sion, | would enjoin perfect secrecy until the eventful evening; and so far will this be carried that neither the Governor General, nor Burgess of the 7imes will receive infor- mation on the subject.

Huntington: Fully impressed with the solemnity of the occasion, and desirous of doing the utmost honor to our New Bruns wick colleague and the Governor General, | [must still express my regret that anjin- tentlon which a number of us had conceiy- ed, is not likely to proceed to its culminas jyion. Irefer toa proposal to send to the marked ballour P. E Island colleague, the Hon. David Laird disguised in the Windsor Uniform.

Voices: Hear! Hear!

Cauchon : Were den | *coat de many color?’

weil be Josef's Ha! I sall eer enuf. Laird : Me friends and brethern. I! can nodoit. Ihave here aletter from Currie which forbids me do it. Currie writes do not like to be irreverent, but I cannot help saying that ‘the deil is fiddjin’

| through this Island, and if you don’t look | sharp you will be the ‘exciseman’ he will | ‘danceawa’’ with. Jhere is the mischief | to pay. Father MeLean is riding through | your Belfast constituents and getting the | Presbyterians everywhere to sign the peti- , tion for the repeal of the Sectarian School clause of the North West Territories Act. He is aiming square at you, and has light- such a fire in the rear that all the water in the Hillsboro cannot quenc) it. The hea-~ ther is ablaze, certain. Then the Catholics are falling away, that pill of Howland’s, about your disfranchising the co-religionists working mightly. McLean has been in communication with the Presbyterians of ew Brunswick and Nova Scotia on the Secs | tarian School business; the Island Baptisis have brought the mattter before the N, B,

ae Zs

i illite 0

more than that number |

versed apart, as if in contidential mood, the |

they discovered that nothing had been done |

the representatives from Onturio, that great |

are | of us |

Hunting- | Smith bimself | Corner to Ottawa; and |

‘* Christmas in |

but j

Smith: How shall I ever meet those |

With its appearace, as we shall spare no |

Ei sent Mr.

nd N.S. Baptists, who are ibout to take

tion; and the Methodists here betore the Methodists there. ‘lo make matters worse Lawson, your Kditor. has committed the

(against my wishes) squarely to the defeene of the Act, hoping to hold the Cutholies: but nothing ean hold them, and now the Portestants are utterly disgusted, \ greater stupid than Lawson don’t often cross the Straits. billet in Ottawa and leave the latriot to me? The paper must tack. The Tek graph understands the business better. If we don’t come back to your old Non-Sectarian pl itform we are gone Let the Pope go and tand up for Protestant principles,—unless re booked forthe North West Gover- norship, in which case it don’t matter, pros vided you have got me so safely anchored in

you

| lence bout dose work. Can't you get him some |

the Collectorsship that the ship won't drag! |

It's reported — this, gentlemen, is the

‘part to which I wish to call your attention |

—*it’s reported down here you are to ap- pear on state oceasions in the Windsor unis form. I hope it isn’t true. Just recollect how you and I[ ridiculed the other fellows in the /’a/riof on that matter, and don’t do it.

'

Cauchon: De fus subjec on de schedule dat | sae is de Quebee Graving —~ {

lluntington; Why, we were discussing the ways and means of raising a revenue,

Cauchon: I know dat—de way and mean to lift de money to pay pour de Dock. Ha! } An den dere are dose embellishment. | deed ave one fine parley weed Ees Excel~ Dey are to proceed. |

Smith (laughing): Mr. Finance sinister, | have you a quarter million down for Cau- | chon's *‘ Embellishments ?

Cartwright (examining his papers): I believe I have.

Smith (looking serious) : You have ?

Cartwright » | certainly have made pro- | vision to that extent!

Smith - Have you made provision for the Bay Verte Canal to any extent ?

Cartwright (examining papers): Yes, to | some extent.

Smith - To what extent ?

Cartwright (reading): Bay Verte Canal : | lo defray. expenses Messrs. John Young |

” |

| and assoc*ate Commissiones, $10,009

Banish yourself to the North West; go |

is Emigration Agent to Scotland; get ap- | pointed Superintendent of the Island Rail- |

The

way; do anything rather than that.

wave of laughter that would pass over this |

Island at the thought of * Davie Laird’ in | the Windsor uniform wou'd make my days miserable, and my nights ’’——

Cav ouon: O, dat weel do. We av eer enuf. Wen I say I well av you photograf I wos in fun. Dont get scare.

Lairp: Mr. Huntington will understand from the tenor of these remarks from Donald that for me to appear in the ‘ Winds ’ however kind!y meant, would be ims possible It would the last hair that vould break the camel’s back.

sO:

be

C veson: Camel back! Dat is good. | say SO LOD.

Buake: It does seem to me that we are wasting time in discussing coats and camels

und what may happen to members from the Maritime Provinces, as if these were mat. ters of consequence. These are not times when Isaac's coat or Jacob's coat or David’s harp can save the Government. We stand at the brink of a yawning abyss. The Government needs millions ef dollars of new taxes. Is it not so Mr. Finance Minister ?

Cartwericat; Verily, more more money we must have

Swit: I hope your new tax bili will more lightly om the Maritime Provinces thin your former proposals.

Cartwright: We shall treat all alike. It was complained last year that we levied certain special taxes on the fishing interests of New Brunswick and not on Nova Scotia. We propose to place Nova Scotia on the same footing this year, and thus do justice to all,—tor justice when it ceases to be even hanied ceases to be justice. This ought to

| be good for 100,000. Ships’ materials will

| have to be straightened out in the same

| way: some are taxed and some are not—

| we will tax all alike, so that there may be

| no cause for complaint.

| Premer: This is a Reform Government, and all its subjects and their property stand before the Government on exactly the same footing.

Cartwricut; Precisely. [The traffic on the Governmentrailways, wherever situated should be made to contribute. When we come to own railways in Ontario and Ques bee and in the Westnrn country we shall run them on commercial principles. wleantime, it will be necessary to increase the Tariff on the Maritime roads. The Brydges’ increase has given us no more money—that was because it was too small an increase ; we must add to it. We know now how many passengers and how much freight will seek the roads under any cir- cumstances, and those passengers and that freight must contribute more to the good government of the country. An increase of 50 per cent. ought to give us another

of which will be

taxes and

mis ~

$150,000, a good part needed to pay salaries of new officials. By cutting down trackmen’s wages and

judicious cheese-paring in other quarters

imong the working men, we can save

perhaps £500 more; so that there ought to [be a gain of $159,500 from that quarter alone. Sith: What will they say in Westmors | land? | Cartwricut: I will make a note of the | question and answer tosmorrow. To re-

sume :—As regards the Island Railway, | the Government has gone to considerable expense for repairs to that road——

Bake: Isn’t it a new road, just taken off the hands of the contractors, Schrieber & Burpee ? | Cartwricut: [ can not

consulting the Department. ‘The fact Mackenzie: I willanswer. It was anew road a few months ago; it appears to be an old one now, without rolling stock, snow | fences, snow ploughs, or any proper equip- ment. |} Cartwrigut: Whether an old or a new | road, the fact remains that for repairs we | have had to expend a very large sum of money. ‘This is clearly the fault of the Island people, and there is no reason for their not paying for it. We propose to add to the tariff in that quarter, in the ex- pectation that the Islanders will more highly prize their privileges and accordingly patronize the road more fully. Another 29),000 here. (I have generally found this principle work admirably). On | tobaccos, spirits, ales, boots shoes &c., we shail add something, a mere trifle—some- thing that will enable the duties to be readily calculated at the Custom House. (1 have generally found 50 per cent. and 100 per cent. rates which give no trouble in arithmetic; multiplying by two—say, 200 per cent.~—is also a favorite of mine). These, with advances on tea, sugar, cottons, woolens, drugs, and most of the other articles in our list of imports; taxes on savings bank deposits (by some oversight | hitherto exempt); on old maids and bache- |lors and the newly married, who are free from care ; on men of families, who have enjoyed the blessings of Reform Govern- ment now for several years, and can aps preciate it; on all places of amusements, where entertainment is afforded, free from | the corrupting influences which prevailed under a former wicked Government; on auctioneers, who exercise their voices and lungs on our public streets, which a Res form Governmeut have rendered safe for life and limb; on pulpits and pews, where the Truth is proclaimed free from all dross of error since our Minister of Justice ele- vated the standard of political righteous- ness—on these, say $1,000,000. My cal- culations, gentlemen, are that about $3,- 000,000 extra can be raised by these metbods, and with any other scheme than this | am not prepared to face Parilia- ment.

reply without

Smith: are you in earnest, Mr. Cart- wright, Cartwright: ‘Am [ in earnest?’ I will

make a mem. of the interrogatory and sub- | mit a reply to-morrow.

Smith: I reaily cannot face Westmorland with such a scheme as this. Westmorland is restive under taxation.

Blake: You have not complained of the 3rydges railway tariff, or the Bay Verte Canal business, in which Westmoriand was deeply interrested. and you ordered the new Fishery tax. Why kick up at this trifle ?

Mackenzie: It does seem tome asif we had in this Government men who were ney- er made Grits. As | remarked ata forms er meeting, there have been members of our Privy Council who seem to be making trouble for their colleagues as, for instance, in New Lrunswick, where the Press has pretended that the New Brunswick Minis. ters were not responsible for the Sectarian School clause of the North West act. I think | proved pretty clearly that Messrs. Smith and Burpee approved and aided the passage of the Act at every stage. Mr. Burpee himself is now satisfied that he was wrong, and having made up his difficulty with the Government has received a fresh proof of the confidence of the Government. | Lie has been appointed an ambassador. We

Brown as a Reciprocity Treaty | Commissioner to Washington, Mr. Cart- wright to England on financial missions, Mr. Laird to the Indian Country to smoke the pipe of peace with the red men and steal their lands for tobacco. I went to London to see ‘Ginx’s Bibe;’ M. Dorion we sent to the Bench and Mr. D. A. Mac- donald to Government House, Toronto, It is now Our purpose to send Mr. Burpee as

fit equal to the occasion.

Smith: I think you mentioned that be- fore.

Mackenzie: | repeat it now, in order to show the rewards that are in store for those who serve this Government and diligently obey its commandments.

Cauchon: Ees de Council ready for de question ?

Huntington: What question, Mr. Pregsi~ dent?

bear |

Cauchoa : Weel de Council come to ors dinary ?

Smith ; | hope, Mr, President, you don't | desire to stifle enquiry. [am asking—-

Cauchon : De gentleman foolitch tings. De gentleman weel act de wise man when he weel not poke hees nose in dose tings wheech de have nothing to do weed. De Ministaire de finance av all dose leetle beesiness in-charge an weel take care of dem.

Voices : Hear! hear!

Mackenzie: I can assure our New Bruns- wick colleague that everything will be satis fictorily explained. There is not time now to enter into the discussion of every item.

Smith: | must confess I see only too clearly that there are new taxes of all sorts in store for the Lower Provines, but [ don’t see any extra appropriations for that quar. ter. When I ask for information | am choked oft and insulted by the President of the Council, who can see nothing beyond the gratification of his personal ends and the indulgence of a brutish desire to make himself disagreeable.

Huntington: Hear! Hear!

Cauchon: Coppaire! Coppaire!

Huntington: I may not agree with all that our colleague from New Brunswick urges, but as regards the conduct of Mr. Cauchon while presiding at this Council there can be no difference of opinion, I have seen unfairness and injustice in ail its forms, from the cruel ex parte statements of a Copper Cormpany’s meeting to the unfortunate al- lusions of the St. John Freeman; I have witnessed the conduct of many deliberative assemblies, from the exciting uproar of a House of Commons awaiting prorogation prior to the fall of a wicked John A. Minis~ try, to the shocking vulgarity of a Hants County demonstration in honor of one 0, S. Weeks, far have I travelled and much have | seeu of legalized outrage and consti» tutional assassination, but anything that could be calied a patch upon our Presi- dent's conscious wrong doing while profes- sing fairness and a regard for the public in» terests, mine eyes never yet beheld, I have been told of a godly Presbyterian minister, who in asermon not long since preached in a Maritime town, illustrated the possibility of a people suffering long under the unmerited burthens, by stating that ‘the Lord had enabled the people of this Dominion to stand up even under twenty years of Sir John Macdonald’s gov- ernment.’ Inthe same sense I may say that we, members of the Reform Govern~ ment of Canada are long suffering, patient

/and slow to anger; that we are capable of

suffering almost to any extent; that we are a strong Government, probably the strong- est Government that ever existed, or we could notstand the presence in our midst of Joseph Edouard Cauchon, whose offence (as the Toronto Globe has said) is ‘rank and

| smelis to Heaven,’ who coined dollars from

an Ambassador to Rideau Hail, with an out- |

the shrieks of lunatics, who put money in his purse as the profit of his trading in the tood and shelter of ‘the most unfortunate of God’s creatures.’

Cauchon: Ha! Dat ees fine. Nex one?

Blake: I had hoped that the voice which has just ‘sounded, whose clarion tones pealed forth from Argenteuil a blast which has startled the Dominion, would have made an impression even on the mind and feelings, all too blunted, of the President of the Council. There are things which should be said that men are seldom found tosay, There are things which men say, that seems harsh but seem necessary to be said. There are things which if left unsaid now will have to be said at some time, and then with more harshness than if said now. Hence the propriety, the justice, the kind- ness, if | may use the term, of saying that to M. Cauchon which he may not care to have said but which public policy and the interrests of our Government and our great Party require us to say. It it right that M. Cauchon should understand that he is re- garded as an interloper on these premises. {tis proper he should know and feel that we do not regard him as belonging to the Reform Party. It is