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The . Exaniner.

Charlottetown. May 31, 1870. Ri ‘ ‘ iE V iS WA NA G k- MENT. Wer could not have thought it possible t] hined efforts of the extremest im wpidity ad utmost official in- mnetence tohave produced such a | hun sli r arran nt as that of the mails tween city and Halifax. Previ- ly we had three mails per week to ind

m Halifax—each taking This ement, with its long

Piet

one day to £o

r come, arrang

bad enough, bat it Now w

lay at u, Was

was far better than this year’s. have only ewo direct mails to and from Halifax per week. On two other days, for no earthly unless it be « orgetown people, Georgetown ; but coming do the trains and steamers con- “It of all in the return,

° . mt > The train leaves Georgetown at 4.30 p.m.

neither going nor

nect. is worst

‘The steamer does not reach Georgetown until about an hour afterwards! So

there the mail remains all night, reaching about neon the next day,

that

Charlottetown } is ucs Us from Halifax

system 15,

ek day; and then a the same day. lt When there rgetown was forward-

rlier in the we han mid-day on Wed-

second comes in on is either a feast ora fumine. was no railroad, a

. at Ge

mail arriving

d immediately, znd reached us that night. Now it docs not come until next day. Previously, if an English mail

reached Halifax on Saturday, we got it on Monday afternoon. Now we cannot eet it until mid-day Wednesday. And this because we have a railroad. When Paddy found himself in the Sedan chair which had no bottom, he remarked that had it not been for the glory of the thing, he might as well have walked. Unfor- tunately we gain the glory of having our mails and passengers carried by train at a decided loss.

Whether the fault of this disgracefully stupid arrangement is with the Post Office, the Railway Office, or the Steam- boat office we cannot say. Among them they have made a precious mess of it. For the carriage of the mails, the Post And

here we would eall attention to the im-

Office is primarily responsible.

propriety of of again issuing a mail table which is not, and cannot be, a correct one. The statement that mails

are delivered from Nova Scotia at 8.30 p.m.,on Tuesday and Friday, is quite They have never been de- and with the pre- We quite

incorrect livered on these days ent time tables cannot be. inderstand how a gentleman of Mr. Mc- Donald’s business capacity would sbrink from stultifying himself by putting his name to atime table which would show no mails from Halifax on Monday and Tuesday, tw@ on Wednesday, none on Thursday and Friday, and two on Satur- day butsuch is the present arrangement, nd the public should know it.

The press of Halifax has been roused

to protest against “the arrangement.” A |

Charlottetown correspondent of the Morn- ing Chronicle, (May 28,) pourtrays the triumph of mismanazement in forcible language. He says: |

“ At present we have daily mail and pass- enger communication with St.John. That with Nova Scotia is worse than it has been for many years. To compare them—a pass- nger for St. John leaves Charlottetown any lay at 630a.m.and reaches his journey’s nd, without stopping, 8p.m. An unfor. tunate traveller bound for Nova Scota on

co days in the week leaves Charlottetown |

> a.m. (this necessitates his sleeping on urd the steamer atthe cost of one dollar his nights odging) reache’s Pictou at 9a. . waits in that interesting city five long urs and gets io Halifax about

artily sick of the journey. On only two lavs of the week can he getto Halifax, | then he must leave Charlottetown a day fore, going down to Georgetown in the

eruoon, spending the evening and night | +, leaving for Pictou at5 a. m., spending day there, reaching Halifax 28 hours

after leaving Charlottetown, though he has actually being travelling only twelye hours. So extraordinary is the arrangement that ifa business man goes to his oflice on Monday norning and finds that be must write a etter to a Halifax correspondent, he cannot get the letter to Halifax till Wednesday night and it will probably not be delivered till Thursday morning.”

Commenting on the letter from which the above is quoted, the Chronicle pro- tests —

‘¢ Against the injustice,” and hopes that it will speedily be remedied. The matter concerns the whole province, and the ports

Pictou and Halifax in particulir. The mbers for Halifax and Pictou, we pre- me, have taken steps to bring the subject to the notice of the Dominion Government, vhich liberally subsidizes the steamers, and we trust that notime will be lostin giving Nova Scotia that measure of fair play Which already been accorded to New Bruns-

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The Halifax Reporter says :— It is High time this state of things was iedied, and that the people of Halifax and ‘lottelown aroused from their apathy, snd worked with @ will for the accomplishs ‘nt ofa direct and ready mode of transit. ind still—or, what is worse, to sleep— the business which should come to fax is taken away by more wide awake neighbors, isfar from cveditable, and is at ame time most suicidal. The difference in the means of communication between the j :iand St. John, and between Halifax ind the Island—the former being afforded laily—is something beyond all explanation ; ind it is marvellous that the members of Parliament representing Halifax and Pictou,

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ives during last session in this r,and secure at any rate something vr than we have now.

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THE ENGLISH MAIL,

‘ne beauty of our mail arrangements with Nova Scotia is evident this weck. he English mail did not reach here on Suturlay evening. Consequently, even though it should have arrived at Halifax on Saturday morning, we cannot, under present arrangements, yet it until Wep- NESDAY APTERNOON. We would suggest that our merchants, and others interested in the British mail, should subseribe a sum sufficient to have the mail brought down in a wogon on Friday evening. As will be seen in another colum, we have opened a subscrip“ion list for the purpose.

Tue Queen's Birtupay — Most of the stores and factories throughout the city were closed on Monday last—the Queen's Birthday. His Honor the Lieutenant Governor held a Levee at Government House ; but the Royal salute—seldom if ever omitted before, was not-—owing. we presume, to the parsimony of the Domin« ion Government—bheard. In the after- noon, gay parties of lidies, gentlemen, and children took passage in the train for Mount Stewart and elsew her ¢,

reason that we can discover, | to tickle the vanity of the | our mails must go |

8 at night, |

«“ THE PLAGUE OF COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.” For two or three years the merehants

ind traders of this Province have been sorely tried and irritated by the “ Plague

” This spring

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| of Commercial Travellers the infliction has been all but unbearable.

‘ Traveliers ’

The have been more nu-

| merous, more viru) nt, more ps reist nhy

than ever before. On a cere wee | than forty-eight within the limits of Char-

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obnoxious

tain day last week, there no less

lottetown: and to estimate the number

and

Island, peddling their wares trom

| seattered throughout the length

of the | store to store, is simply impossible.

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“ Commerci 1 Travellers ” di '

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. 1? into two classes—-the re sp etubie

= ive s land the disreputable, Those of the first | °

| class our commereial men are always g! id |

'to see. They are gentlemen—generally of very engaging manners—whom it is a pleasure to meet and an accommodation to deal. with, They come direct from manufacturing or large mercantile estab-

lishments in the Dominion, the United

States or Great Britain. Their sales are strictly limited to large quantities ; and their business is fairly and honorably transacted. Those of the second, and by far the most numerous, class are generally

so low in the seale of Commercial moral-

}ity, so ill mannered and dissipated, so

lec A h

like in the persistency with which

they cling to an unfortunate dealer—they

| descend to such contemptibly mean and petty transactions, they are, to use plain language, such cheats —that they are little short of a curse upon the community. They mst part, third or fourth-class houses in Montreal, Boston, or New York. Their advent is generally marked by the open. ing or close of navigation. In the spring, they come, some iu the ice-boat by way of

liars and

represent, for the

Cape Traverse ; some in the first or sec— ond steamer from the mainland. The majority rendezvous and drink at Char- lottetown a few days, and then spread themselves — like the grasshoppers of Egypt and Louisiana—over the country, Every town, village and hamlet, every store and tavern, is besieged. After the sales of the long winter our dealers are, of course, short of stock; while their money bags are, generally, pretty full. The besiegers, by bearing down upon them in the nick of time, and by dint of treating and other low arts, often take large orders, for inferior articles at prices beyond those asked or obtained by legiti- mate and honest wholesale merchants in Charlottetown for first-class wares, No order is, however, too small for a Com- mercial Traveller of the disreputable | class—provided the money be forthcoming. He will sell to one a barrel of biscuit, to another a barrel of axel grease; to this tavern keeper a quarter cask of bad brandy, to that street corner grocery a case of unwholesome confectionery. He is, to all intents and purposes, a counterfeit The genuiae pedlar carries Government, for which he

retail pedlar. a license from has paid afee, and he delivers his wares the counterfeit pedlar

as he sells them ; carries no license, and delivers no gooda, He travels through the Province dissem- inating bad morals, and bad manners; but his inferior highly-priced goods come after him. He opens the gates to a flood |of ‘ shoddy’ and ‘trash,’ and, without | check or hindrance, floats himself off | triumphantly — carrying with him the good money of the people.

The wholesale merchants and dealers of the Province, who pay their rents and | taxes, who buy and sell good materials, who live here and spend their money

bere, are deprived of their legitimate trade ; the retail dealers and the people, | generally, are imposed upon and cheated ; and the money of the Province is carried | away by this “ disreputable class of Com- | mercial Travellers.” If they are left un- | checked next year, there will be little of | the million or two of dollars, distributed throughout the country while the railway was being built, left among our people at the end ofthe season. We trust stringent restrictions may be placed upon them with the least possible delay. We call the attention of the Chamber of Com- meree, the City Corporation and the Legislature, to the evils connected with, and sure to follow, the “plague of the Commercial Travellers ;’’ and trust that “something may be done.”

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PRISON DISCIPLINE,

A correspondent who has had the best opportunities of observing Prison Dis- cipline, and whose opinion is of great weight, sends the Toronto Nationa coms munication containing some rather stern counsels on the subject. He regards the popular system as immoral and impolitic. We must condense his remarks. He'says: The personal habits of every criminal re- quires for penalty and for reformation that they be at once, with the stern hand of justice and wisdom, unflinchingly controlled, subdued, and changed. Many years of experience strengthen in me the conviction that the usual diet in our prisons is a mon- strous error. It indicates in its quantity and quality strange ignoranace of the chars acter and forgetfulness of the habits of criminals. Instead of abundance of such food as soups, pudding, etc., and of fine bread, let there be substituted a very spare diet of only stale bread and cold water, as the only prison diet, and only twice a day. The principle is abate, sternly abate, the nourishment of the animal nature in des praved persons. Itis of all others, the best, the safest, the most salutary prison punishment for both body andmind. The man of violence, the irascible person, the swindler, the robber, the drunkard, the gambler, the debauchee, the vagrant, all of them need to be, by such wise means, tamed and terrified. Terrified at prison life —so terrified that they shall thoroughly dislike it. Tobacco must be in all cases prohibited. It is the most powerful means of deadening the moral sensibilities of de- praved persons. Vain is all prison dis-/ cipline without the certain exclusion of tobacco. Solitary confinement or steady employment at work should be the rule. The correspondent quotes several an- ecdotes for which we have not space, of convicts in England and the States whose condition and prospects were materially altered for the better by the rigorous diet- ary discipline of which he is in favor.

Canabian Ratpway Loans.—According to a cable telegram Senator Foster has suc- ceeded in floating the Canada Central Rails way bonds. Sir Hugh Allan has also been successful in his operations in connection with the Northern Colonization Railway.

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THE CITY PARK.

Our Faruers allowed us to be wrong- ed—and their descendants, for all time, to be wronged—when they permitted the Common of Charlottetown to be granted,

| in perpetuity, to private individuals. Had

the Common been leased, and not robbed, the rents arising from it would to-day have been much more than sufficient to defray the cost of constructing and main— taining the water-works and sewers which are noW so greatly needed.

Let us be careful that we do not give our children cause to rise up and bear testimony. against us. Let it not be said, come after us, that because ss and neglect—our want of and the courage to maintain

by those who of our supine our rights—they were deprived of the advantages of a conveniently and beauti- fully situated Park.

Government Farm was once, it is ad- mitted, part of the Common of Char- lottetown—it once belonged to the people of Charlottetown. Of right it belongs to them yet ; and if proceedings at law were instituted by the “orporatioa, every inch of it could, we believe, be reclaimed,

We have no disposition to counsel ex- As much of the Farm as is required for a Park will, we feel

treme measures.

convinced—if the subject be properly

| agitated before the people and represented | before the Legislature—be obtained next

session. The Lieutenant Governor of the Province must be provided with a place of residence consistent with the dignity of his office; Government House now occu pies one of the most beautiful, aud certain- ly the most appropriate site the Island af- fords ; and there is no disposition, on the part of citizens to have it removed. They are willing that the Lieutenant Governor should enjoy the finest place of residence in the Province ; and that his privacy and his dignity should be maiutained by the possession of spacious greunds around it.

By making the eastern boundary of the proposed park parallel with the eastern side of North River Road, these advan- tages will be secured to his Honor; and by running aline straight to the shore so that Battery Point may be included in the Park, the citizens will be satisfied. His Honor will have left to him twenty» three acres of land—-a more generous al- allowance than that of the Lieutenant Governor of any other Province in the Dominion ; and the city will have about seventy-seven acres—certainly none too many—for the Park, We trust the citizens will take an early opportunity of expressing their opiaion upon this im- portant subject. At a public meeting held shortly before the Civic elections, a resolution respecting the Park, might, with propriety, be submitted and passed.

NEWFOUNDLAND.

By an Ottawa special to the Montral Ga- zette, we learn that Hon. Mr. Shea, of New~ foundland, who took such an active inter- est in the Confederation question, is there on business with the Dominion Government. He says Mr. Light, the engineer, who was sent down to the Island to survey for a rails way across Newfoundland, had arrived at Halifax on his way down, and intended to get to work immediately. The length of the proposed road is about 300 miles, through a good country. The western ter-~ minus will run throngh a magnificent bed of coal. He says there is no agitation on the Island at present with respect to Con- federation, but the people are gradually bes genning to look favorably on the question. An experienced surveyor named McLeod has been employed to explore and map out the timber lands of the island, and, when the railway contracts are given out, a por. tion of the lands will be given as a bonus. The balance will then be given out to lum- bermen who want to work them, the New- foundland government intending to adopt the same system of granting licenses and managing timber berths as is now in vogue

in Ontario and Quebec. He considers that if Newfoundland came into Confederation, it would be to the interest of the Dominion to make St. John’s the Atlanti¢ port for the Canadian mail steamers, as it is very little over five days from Liverpool. The revenue of the Island at present is about $900,000, and the whole public debt only $1,100,000. The Colonial debentures are all held on the Island, one-half of the pub~ lic debt being held by the savings bank. The Island 5 per cents are worth from 106 to 107. The great question there at present is the termination of the Anglo-American Cable Company’s monopoly. The Gov« ernment calculate that all they @re bound to pay for terminating it will be the cost of the land wires and the cables to Cape Bre- ton, which are worth about $250,000 or 300,000. As far as the Island is concerned the cable is of no great advantage to them as only about five out of every thousand messages that pass over it are for Island people. Mr. Shea intends to leave for Newfoundland on Wednesday, staying a short time in Montreal. The present Goy- ernment of Newfoundland are favorable to Confederation, but their policy is not to agitate for it until the people come to see the value of it themselves,

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MYSTERIOUS DEATH.

A despatch from Port Lambton, (Ont.,) dated May 25, reports that on Friday night a farmer named R. S. Finlay, living on Bear Creek, about six miles from this place, having retired at his usual bed-time about 9 o'clock, was awakened about midnight by anoise inthestable. He partly dressed himselfand went out. A short time after his wife being awakened, and finding he had not returned, got up and looked out of the door leading to the stable, where he had gone, and seeing no light there, called on the two hired men who were sleeping in the house to goand see what had hap- pened, she following them. On entering the stable they found him lying on his face, with blood oozing from his head. They then alarmed the neighbors, leaving him lying in the same position until Sat- urday afternoon, when Coroner Winters, of Dresden, summoned a jury. The evidence obtained from his wife and household went to show that Mr. Finlay a few days before loaded his gun and placed it in the barn, remarking that he was going to shoot some squirrels that were carrying away his corn. This gun was found at his feet discharged. The contents of the gun had entered under his left ear and passed out through his right temple, causing instant death. The jury, after sitting for three hous, adjourned until Wednesday afters noon, when further evidence will be pro-~ duced. Considerable excitement prevails in the neighborhood.

DerartMentaL —Mr, Huntington will ad. minister the Public Works Department during Mr. Mackenzie's absence in Europe.

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MINISTERIAT, CHANGES.

Mr. Blake is to be congratulated upon his resolution to accept at length the re- sponsibilities of office, by becoming & mem, ber of the Cabinet whose policy he has so powerfully influenced ; and his friends must also be congratulated upon having their fears set at rest, and upon seeing the wan- dering body of undetrmined orbit brought within the influence of the Governmental system. By accepting office at this late day Mr. Blake has practically admitted the justice of criticisms which his previous re- fusal excited. As one of the ablest and

most prominent mgn of his party, wield

ing tao 5 over its policy second t an influence over its policy second to none, it was but right that he slaould not evade the responsibilities resting upon Ministers of the Crown, edly a source of strength to the Govern-

His accession is undoubts ment, and is emphatically an improvement in the department of Justice. Mr, Four- nier has not held his late portfolio fora long time, but it has been ong enough to exhibit his unfitness for the position. In the more humble station now assigned to him as Postmaster General, it may be hop- ed that his incapacity will be less con- spicuous and less dangerous.

It is impossible to avoid the reflection that the partial reconstruction of the Cabi- net now eflected has nothing of permanency tocommend it. It is indeed a little strange that soimportanta step as the acceptance of office by Mr. Blake should have been de- cided on abruptly, and should be brought about at last by an accident which could not have been foreseen. which the decease of Lieutenant-Governor Crawford has led could not, in the nature of things, have been the subject of much consideration, @nd we imagine that they are simply the forerunners of a further shuilling of portfolios. Possibly Mr. Blake's accept~ ance of office may be only preliminary toa further change of mind on his part, and the Supreme Court may yet find in him its first President. That he will long continue to serve contentedly under Mr. Mackenzie can scarcely be credited, nor does it seem pro, bable that the latter will resign to him the Premiership, and confine himself to the important duties of the Public Works Des partment. There are other reasons for an- ticipating fresh changes. ‘The Finance Ministership, the special weakness of the Government, remains in s/atu quo, and though Mr. Blake has been brought into the Cabinet, it must be remembered that Mr. Holton still continues unattached, and is not likely to be seduced into the fold so long as Mr. Cartwright remains at the head of Finance. — Montreal Gazette.

ANOTHER HORRIBLE MURDER,

The changes to

Another murder, even more horrible in its details than that of Mrs. Bingham a few weeks since, was perpetrated in Boston, on the evening of the 23rd inst. A bright little girl 5 years old was murdered in church, and the bruised and mutilated body carried up into the tower and thrown upon the floor of the loft. The victim of the tragedy was Mabel H. Young. That afternoon, Mabel, in company with an aunt attended

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ithe face terribly mangled,

On coming out of church, the aunt remained in the vestis bule about ten minutes, conversing with some friends, and on starting home missed the child. At first it was supposed she had gone back into church, but when she was not found inside, and persons outside des clared she had not come out, the aunt be came alarmed and search commenced in every direction. About four o’clock some ladies at an open window across the street heard the faint cries of a child, apparently from the church tower. They found the door leading up from the organ loft locked, and on forcing it open, discovered fresh blood on the floor and steps ieading up to the next landing. They also found a strip of board covered with blood at one end and heard low moaning from above. cending a long, steep flight of stairs, and raising the scuttle, which resisted the strength of astrong man, they found the mangled body of the child, lying near the edge of the scuttle, as though it had been carried up the steps and hastily thrown down there. From the top of her head, which was broken in, blood and brains were oozing, while the nose was crushed in and Surgeons at

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once pronounced the case hopeless, and her death a question of buta few minutes at furthest. Thos. Piper, who has been sex- ton abouta year, was arrested. He engaged at work about the Church, but his suspicious manner, and his denial that he had the keys, when two keys fitting the doors of the tower were taken from his per, son, point strongly to him as the murderer. He has once before been under suspicion of murder, but was discharged for want of sufs ficient evidence. A person who passed the Warden street Church, about the hour of the murder, identified Piper as the man he saw clambering from a belfry window to the ground. Several little girls have stated that Piper has endeavored to entice them into the Church at various times. The prisoner confessed that he was not in his right mind on Saturday, but still maintains his innocence, ‘This last affair has caused a profound sensation in the community, and intense excitement prevails. How the child was enticed away, and for what motive, has not transpired.

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A Rarg Cas or Lonoevity.—-Many pars agraphs have been going the rounds of the press of late anent the longevity of fami lies in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ; but we have not seen any as yet which will match a statement handed to us by Dr. E. Clay, concerning a family in Carleton, New Brunswick, which we are pleased to add to the already long list which has been pubs lished. Dr, C. called, when in Carleton a few weeks since, upon an old friend of his, Mr. S. Wetmore, and was pleased to find his father and mother still living. Mr. James Wetmore, who is aow a straight, handsome man, was born on Sept. 6th, 1781; his wife, Susan Purdy, was born April 20th, 1780, so that they are in their 94th and 95th years respectively. They were married in Rye County of Westches~ ter, State of New York, Sept. 12th, 1803, and have therefore lived in happy wedlock 72 years, a favor seldom granted. Al- though the old lady’s sight has failed, she is still in possession of all her mental facal. ties, Their family consisted of eight child. ren, thirty-eight grandschildren and sixtys seven great-grandchildren. The ages of Mr. W.’s iamily would be, if all living as Dr. Clay believes they are, 71, 69, 67, 65, 61, 60, 57, °54, 50. The united ages of

vents and childran are 676 years. Mr. Wetmore ssid he believed he was the oldest Freemason in the Provinces, having been made a Mason in 1808, and has lived to see his sons 4nd grandsons Masters of Masonic Lodges. Hz. Reporter.

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GOVERNMENT AppointMENTS.— The follow- ing appointments in this Province have been made by the Dominion Government: Ewen Mc\illan, Charlottetown, to be Har- bor Master of West River; William Mc. Neill, the younger, of North Rustico, to be Harbor Master of Rustico. Hugh Camp- bell, of Tracadie, to be Harbor Master for

the port of Tracadie.

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SIR JOUN A. MACDONALD.

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Previous to ‘he departure of Sir John A. Macdonald for Toronto, an influential de-~ putation of the citizens of Ottawa waited upon him, and tendered a banquet as an expression of the cordial friendship they entertained towards him, Sir John—owing to the recent death of a relative—declined the honor. livered on the occasion he said :

Ife thought it was admitted that the acts of himself and his colleagues, as aGovern- ment guiding the administration of the Dominion, had been successful. The strong~

In the course of a speech de-

est proofof this fact was that those who succeeded them in the administration of iffuirs attempted to make no change. They

took the system of the government as they found it, and those who had paid attention to the proceedings of the present Adminis- tration would find that nearly all the measures of vital importance introduced by

prepared and matured by their predeces-

of Canada that they should purse the course laid down by the founders of Cons federation. Although the Government of which he was at the head might have committed sins of omission and com- mission, yet there never was an Adminis-~ tration in this or any other country which tried harder with all their power to do what was right for the people and for the prosperity of the Dominion. (Cheers.) Whether the present Government would continue in their footsteps remained to be seen. A strong rumour was abroad to-day that the jarringelements in the Govern-

ment had being brought into accord. Whether its effect was that Mr. Blake

comes in under Mr. Mackenzie, or whether it would usher in a new departure in_ poli- tics he could not foresee; but he would be very serry to find any attempt made to strike out a more ambitious policy than that adopted by Mr. Mackenzie since he became the head of the Government especially if he should be anything that would tend towards severing us from the Mother’ Country. Call the pelicy what they would, “Independence,” ‘ Semi Independence,” or ‘ Annexation’’— any. thing tending to alter the present happy state ofaftairs between this and the Mother County, he considered would be greatly to the injury of Canada, and it would meet with his hearty opposition and the opposi»s tion of the great Conservative party of the Dominion, as well as the great body of those who had the good of the country at heart. (Cheers.) If events should will it so, it would give him great pleasure to re- turn to Ottawa, where he had spent ten of the happiest years of the sixty of his life« time.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

The Papal delegates are to have a big reception at Quebec;

A Consistory will be held, June 24th, when six more cardinals will be appointed.

A meeting of the Eraperors of Austria, Germany and Prussia will soon take place at Ems

‘Can animals suffer pain?’ is the latest question. Stick » pin in a mule’s hind leg and see,

The Prussian government, fearing dis- turbances,. has forbidden processions in honor of the Pope’s Jubilee.

New Horse Disease—The horses in St. Louis are dying of cerebro spinal menigitis. The malady, however, is said not to be spreading much, and to yield readily to treatment.

It is stated thata person has been ar- rested in Vienna bearing an anonymous letter containing an offer to assassinate Bismarck for a iillion florins. The writer has not been discovered,

At a political meeting held at Madrid recently, it was resolved that on the epening cf the new Cortes, a constitution based on a compromise of all monarchial and liberal parties should be submitted.

A religious procession flassing through tlie streets of Brussels yesterday, was ats tacked by the populace, the police being compelled to interfere with drawn swords and arrest some of the rioters before order was restored,

Send the belt to the ‘ North British Agriculturist.’. Here is a ‘prolific ewe’ story which knocks all the others higher than a kite :—A halfsbred ewe last week, at Finecraigs, Scotland, gave birth to six lambs, three of which are alive and doing well.

A special to the New York Herald in- timates that the reported ill-treatment of foreigners by the King of Burmah is quite unfounded, and that his majesty is very anxious (9 make an amicable settle- ment with tae British and Chinese gov- ernment.

A despatch announces that the widow of the late President Lincoin has been found insane by a jury, on the evidence of medi- cal men and others. The complaint was made by her son, Robert T, Lincoln, who set forth that his mother was unable to manage her estate.

An adventurous little boy undertook to cross the path of a huge elephant which was walking in a circus procession through Detroit the other day, when the animal seized him in its trunk, held him long enough to frighten him well, and then set him down about three yards from the start- ing point.

Desertions from the Army.—An official statement shows that the desertions from the United States Army from July Ist, 1873, to June 30, 1874, were 46.6, and re- inlistments, 699; for the ten months of the present fiscal year ending April 30, 1875, the desertions were 1721, and rex enlistments, 1779.

A despatch to the Zimes from Vienna says a dreadful accident occurred on the River Mur, town of Judenburg, Province of Tyrol, The ferry boat having on board a number of Catholic Pilgrims, en route to visit the shrines on the other side of the Mur, from Judenburg. sunk in the middle of the stream. Fifty-nine of the pilgrims are known to have been saved, but seventy- six are missing, all of whom are believed to be drowned.

The Spanish government seem more than ever determined to retain possession of Cuba, and are pushing the insurgent troops with more energy than they have shown for some years. Advices state that on the 14th instant the government troops attacked a body of insurgents numbering six hundred men, commanded by Ruloff, at Charco Azai on the 14th inst., and again at Hugo de Manicaragua on the 16th inst. In the encounters nineteen of the insure gents were killed and ninety of their horses captured. The government loss was five soldiers killed.

The Pall Mall Gazette relates a curious instance of misplaced confidence by which the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, lost a valu- able serpent from its collection. Acting on the fascination theory, it was the habit to feed the snakes with live animals, and a live rat was introduced into the cage. Instead of following the traditional policy of small animals, and yielding himself a prey to his adversary, the rodent flew at the two-thousand-frane snake and put him hors decombatin notime. The managers of the Jardin hereafter will use only dead animals with which to feed their serpents.

Disfranchisement in British Columbia.— The Legislature of British Columbia has just passed an act, by which all Indians and Chinese are deprived of the right to vote at elections. As these two races form a large majority of the population of our Pacific Provinee, it will be seen that the measure is rather a sweeping one. It may be that there is danger of the white people Being outsnumbered and outavoted by the uneducated and uncivilized, but in that case an education qualification would seem to be better than a measure of dis~ franchisement on account of race or color.

A Sad Story.—Following is the history of Henry N. Mygatt,as foiled down from a New York paper. He had a good clerks ship in the Treasury Department at Wash~ ington, and many friends of a too convivial kind. He contracted such an appetite for alcohol that, despairng of reform in the midst of social temptation, he resigned his place and went to Greenville, Mass. There among strangers, he took a clerkship in a clothing store, hoping that hard work and sleep would help him to resist his curse. In this he was mistaken. A few days ago he killed himself with laudnaum leaving a written statement to the effect that he would not live a drunkard and could not live anything else,

the Government were those which had been |

sors. Neither had they matured any new policy. Ue was vain ertough to believe | that it was for the future prosperity of

VEW ADVERTISEMENTS,

Liquors, Tea, Tobacco, Flour, &c., &c.

We will sell at AUCTION on WEDNES- DA Yinext, 2nd June, at 11 o’cleck — 10 qr. casks Hennessey’s BRANDY,

ioac. * Pignette, do 5qr ‘* Scotch WHISKEY, Sar. “ sen do,

ida. * mae, do,

200 bbls. Choice Brands FLOUR, 30 chests TEA, warranted, 10 bexes TOBACCO, 20 caddies do. 150 boxes RAISINS, 100 * CONFECTIONERY, 15 bbls. ONIONS, 10 puns. MOLASSES, 10 hhds. Scotch refined SUGAL, 10 bbls. COFFEE SUGAR, &c., &c., &c. CARVELL BROS.,

Civ’tuwn, May 21, 1875.

Auctioueers

NEW GOODS JUST RECEIVED. 100

chests TEA, very choice, 20 bags RICE, 25 cases STARCH, 20 do. PICKLES, 10 bbls. do, 25 cases TABLE SALT, in bottles, 10 do. PEPPER, 10 kegs WHITING, 20 kegs B. SODA, 5 cases GINGER. 5 do. CREAM TARTAR, 1 bags NUTS, 2 kegs PUTTY, 10 bbls. CURRANTS, 50 doz. BROOMS, 100 doz. BUCKETS, 2 cases BLACK LEAD, 2 do. MUSTARD, 100 boxes SOAP, in 1,2 and3 25 cases FANCY do., 10 puns. best Cienfaugos MOLASSES 500 bags Liverpool SALT, SUGAR, RAISINS, &c. ta Usvuart Terms.

Crown,

W. D. STEWART.

May 31, 1875.—-lm JOHN GAHAN, FAMILY GROCER, TEA & WINE IMPORTER, Ge QUEEN STREET, Respectfully solicits the patronage of his

old friends and the public.

May 31, 1875.—4in Apprentice Wanted. WANTED, at THE EXAMINER Office, a smart BOY to learn the Printing

Business. One from the country preferred. Apply immediately.

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Prince Edward island Chamber of Commerce.

MIWE regular Quarterly Meeting of the Prince Edward Island Chamber of Com-

merce will be held at the Room, Queen's Building, on this (MONDAY) evening, at 8 o'clock.

As matters of importance will be discuss- ed, a fall attendance is requested.

By order, P. S. MACGOWAN, Ch’town, May 31, 1875.—1lin Sec’y.

10 ARCHITECTS.

Wanted—Pians and Specifications.

NE hnndred and fifty dollars ($150)