CARY,

ber has purehased Tue |

wspaper. Ho desires ro}

tl to the people of Prince

island and proi able to himself. | ofore. it will be published every

morning. It will contain a com- |

, the veal and foreign

preceding week ; and editorial ‘

true re-} | and maintaining those |

measures of

porrtse i

“,” es i xperience of the past has proved to be

benefici

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. a of “ad taxation, and |

tingeney irect

promote the efficient affairs. it will advoeate the reduction, to ; i sont ’ ’ the | one-half their present number, of t * . : ‘ aa

i re i Sxecutiv uncil, |

Local Legislature and Executive C | establishment of lepartmenta! and |

ly responsible Government, *and a

thorough re-organization of the Civil Service of the Province It will strenu- ously support the intro luction into Char- | lottetown of a plentiful supply of water, the passage of an act providing for

rewistration of voters, and all local im- |

requirements.

i eel

| horse-power engine,

i through pipes into the city.

la pr ictical waterworks engineer.

| and social institutions which the | 1. To provide against the con-| al

ene onduct of public . Pe ae ee ’ | conversation with Mr. Frank Shanly ’’—

i who, prot ably, never really tested Mr. | | Fairbanks’ caleuwlations—will, we think,

\the absurdity of such an undertaking, |

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early provided with sewerage, so that the springs beneath could have been preserv- _ | ed from the poisoning process with which provements calculated to supply publie | we have treated them, we might yet, for

2, HEARD'S

a 2 db, Mr. Hearn has published his scheme.

Li is

ply to sink a laree well on the hieh land : .

SCHEME, |

worthy of consideration. It is sim-

; . i ae outside the city, apply a twenty-four- | and pump the water

We trust

. : ? - j Mr. Hleard’s scheme may be laid before |

While we are well Heard’s scheme, we cannot agree that Mr.

Heard has displayed good taste or good

pleased with Mr.

judcment in pronouncing a sweeping con-

tion of the Fairbanks scheme. Not |

demn:

heine an engineer, he is, practically, un-

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ble to express an opinion worthy of con-

sideration upon the work of Mr. Fair—-|

ban! and even the ‘pleasure of ay

hardly justify Mr. Heard’s declaration that “ nothing more need be said to show

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and the folly of trusting to such wild eal- | enlati us as bid defiance to the plainest |

common sense,’’ Nor ean we agree with Mr. Heard tha? |

“if the city of Charlettetown had been | 1

many years, by extending our well sys-

A native of the [sland,—conversant | tem, do without avy extraneous supply

° ” with its wants and interests; a printer— | for domestic purposes.

P To . trained in the office of John Ings, Esq. ;

a praetical journalist during the past four

years—,the subseriber hopes, by strict at-

tention to the duties of his profession, to |

the

merit W. L. COTTON.

July 12, 1875.

The Examiner.

Charlottetown, duly 12, 1875. : a i - icceeaal ery ic. rrizens of Charlottetown will, in the | tew weeks, be called | six men to repre= | m in the City Council. The in important one. It is ex- that the Civie purse strings be jadicious, economical and public— |

of a

choose

men; that no vestige of the| element exist; that the honor |

f the city be kept up; that be introduced. It

pprovements

‘efore, necessary, to elect gentle-

and discrect for business, re~

1 and honored in their social relae

approval and the support} his fell ae . | more deeply upon this subject, so that he ol 1s TellOw-CC 7 en. |

» 2 |

If sewers had | “early been provided,” and a plentiful

‘supply of water, with which to flush them, had not also been obtained, the sanitary

be pretty low. We trust Mr. Heard ‘will take the trouble to think a little

may be able to write a little more cor— rectly. r ee a- ©

DEATH OF GEORGE BROWN.

Many of our readers will regret the premature death of the great oarsman of

the Maritime Provinees—George Brown. |

He died on Thursday last, the Sth inst. Undoubtedly the champion of America,

one man only stood between him and the | obtained the Government and have

championship ot the world. He took part in many aquatic struggles, yet he was never fairly beaten in any single scull race.

THE WATER QUESTION.

Ix a letter to the Putriof, ex-Councillor Murphy has pointed out the most prudent with respect to this important question. He writes :—

‘¢Should a majority be returned to the City Coune:l in favor of water; the Council should take immediate steps to engage one or more competent Engineers who are known to have had experience in this particular branch of engineering, and who should be instructed to examine thoroughly

course to pursue

| into the merits of the Fairbanks or Winter

not now our purpose to attack the City Council] or any member of

i hey have devoted much time to the istration of Civie affairs ; and even

though—as is asserted — the party ia power have taken good care to serve their | own purposes, they have also rendered some service to the city. Under ordin. | ary circumstances, however, the infusion | into the Council of a little “new blood ”

-the application of the « new broom ’” —is required. But how much more so when the most important measure which ever engaged the attention of citizens sinee their ‘incorporation, is shortly to be There be no doubt

nsidered ? can

ut it—‘‘the Water Question” must |

And if it is

to be dealt with reasonably, economically,

soon be practically solved.

ind in a business-like manner, how neces- |

sary is it that some of our best men should be eleeted City Councillors ?

This will not, however, be done, if citi- zens allow time to pass away, and neglect to nominate their candidates till within a day or two of the election. The re- spective positions of Mayor and City Counvillor are really high, honorable and responsible. The to them by the citizens, the more they willbe appreciated and sought after by respectable and able men. The low state of the City Council, at the present time, is, We are convinced, owing more to the apathy and carelessness of citizens than to any other cause. Good men saw plain. ly that the people imagined it mattered vot much who became Mayor or City Couneillor—for they neglected to nomin- ate candidates, or even to think much

about nominating candidates, until within |

a day of two of the election—and so held back or refused to serve, and inferior men—men many of whom care more for the “loaves and fishes” than for the rests of the town—were elected. Now ‘o be hoped that citizens will pur- ‘\ferent course this year, The in— | stake are incomparably higher before. Upon a judicious se~ men depends, to a certain ex~ success of the City Council in a great and pressing want. re, trust that the left till the last moment. with pleasure, that a minittee of gentlemen has already been inted for the purpose of suggesting Their report will, doubtless, In the meantime, lvise our citizens, to “ respectfully ‘ine the promise of their votes to

We observe,

lidates,

be made public.

+ ao oe —

MR. CHILDERS.

Tue appointment, by the Lord Dufferin, of the Right Honorable Hugh Culling Eardly Childers Virst Lord of the Ads miralty in Mr. Gladstone’s Goverument, to the position of arbitrator in the settle- ment of our Land Question, has surprised many persons. It is generally felt that the Dominion need neither have gone so ‘ar nor so high to find a suitable arbitrator. Che tenantry will probably object that Mr. Childers is not sufficiently American or Canadian in hiv feelings or sentiments to suit them; and speculators may, not unlikely, wonder how long Mr. Childers will consent to serve for $10 a day—the amount fixed by statute !

Mr. Childers will~if he ever anal

about the work at all—undoubtedly bring to bear upon the questions to be settled an able and well-trained mind. He has served ereditably to himself and usefully to the people, in the Legislatures of Aus- tralia and in the Commons of Eogland ; and he has had much to do with “ Land Questions” both in the Colonies and at home,

| with which they may be acquainted. | these survey, and examined the various modes |

more value attached |

selection |

| River plan, the Holly and Waterhouse, the

Norman, and, indeed, all other systems Alter gentlemen shall have made the

of supplying cities with water, they should report to the City Council which of these

schemes is, in their opinion, the best, and ; e . under all circumstances, the most suitable |

for our requirements; they should also state the order in which the other schemes

should challenge the consideration or the | information befere |

Council With this them, the Councillors will be in a position to call for tenders for the construction of said water works in accordance with the plans and specifications which should be

supplied by the before-named Engineers; | in, and the |

and when the tenders come

land damages have been assessed, the days |

for guess work and supposition, as well as for misrepresentation, wilful or otherwise,

for certain the

to determine whether or not the financial | the Council in proceeding with the under- | taking. The judicious expenditure of a | few hundreds, or even a few thousands of | dollars, in obtaining good engineering advice, may be the saving of tens of thou- sands ofdollars to the citizens, in future.” j _—> | MILITIA APPOINTMENTS.

{ From the Canada Gaxette.}

| No. 1 Charlottetown Battery of Garrison Artillery. Adverting toG. O., (17) of 25th 1875, the Charlottetown Battery of Garrison Artillery therein authorized is to be known ' as No. I Charlottetown Pattery of Garrison | Artillery. No. 2 Chaviottetown Battery of Garrison Ais tillery i A Battery of Garrison Artillery is hereby | authorized at Charlottetown in Queen’s County, to be No. 2 Charlottetown Battery of Garrison Artillery. To be Captain— Major Thomas Vorris. To be Ist Lieutenant—Major George F, Dozherty. To be 2nd Lieutenant provisionally— James Douglass Iriving, Gentleman.

Charlottetown Battalion of Ine

vorisional Santry, A Provisional Battalion of Infantry is hereby authorized to be styled the “ Char- lottetown Provisional Battalion of infantry,” with Head Quarters at Charlottetown, to be composed as follows : An Infantry Company at Charlottetown Royalty, to be No. 1 Company. An Infantry Company at Southport, to be No. 2 Company. An Infantry Company at Charlottetown, to be No. 3 Company.,. | Tobe Major Commanding—Lieutenant~ | Colonel Henry Beer. | ‘To be Paymaster—Chartes Full, Esquire. | To be Adjutant--Captain Elijah Purdy. | To be Surgeon—.Joseph Creamer, Esquire,

M.D.

Now 1 Company, Charlottetown Royalty.

To be Captain—Captain Francis Dogherty.

Toe be Lieutenant, provisionally—John Henderson, Gentleman.

No, 2 Company, Southport,

To be Captain—Captain Sumuel MeRrae.

To be Lieutenant — Lieutenant James Kennedy.

To be Ensign, Mutch, Gentleman. No. 3 Company, Charlottetown, '

provisionally James

To be Captain, provisionally-——Francis 8, Longworth, Esquire. To be Lieutenant, provisionally— John McPhail, Gentleman. To be Ensign provisionally—George D. Davidson, Gentleman.

i } _-—-

| Excise Starexent.—The duties of Exise

Collected within the Island Revenue Di- | vision of Charlottetown, from the com- | mencement of the current Fiscal year, to | the end of June 1875,

1873 & 1874. 1874 & 1875,

| Spirits, $4,245.70 $9,734.97 | Tobaceo, 22,048.64 27, 123.00 | Malt, 3,320.97 2,616.89 | Petroleum, 301.75 | Licenses, 1,050.00 1,050,00 $30,665.3 $40,826.61

The Increase for Fiscal year of 1874 and 1875 amounts to $10,161.30. :

>< <--

Savon Fisuery,—An Ottawa despatch of the 7th inst., reports :—‘ Wilmot, In. spector of iisheries, and F, W. Whitcher, of Marine and Fisheries Department, leave onan official tour through the Maritime Provinces. Some new breeding establish» ments for proprogation of salmon will be erected in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and _P. E. Island.’

ASIEN RESTS ee ate

} which had

| alike.

condition of the city would by this time |

will have passed away, and we shall know | costs of our water-works, | The City Council will then be in a position |

resources of the city are such as to warrant |

June, |

H i} # PROSI OPIT GO VEY VE v I,

HOW WE DEP (dv a. tite)

yernment of Can- Reform Party,

ago the Cr

and the

Two years ada changed hands, been in with a number of John A. form Government of Canada, of the change, the Government was enjoy the Provinces |

Maedonald, a At the time

ing unbounded prosperity. had been gradually cemented together, not

without diticulties,

<2 oye EEE a aT

| fF : : BRED UN-' ablo being that Canada hag ny

change for the prosperous da;

We find the Couneils of the « filled with fanatics who place the public good. We find th ans, representatives of intelligeut consti

nd became the Ke- day their acts of yesterday, an

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Opposition, coalesced encies, who interpret laws accora

the supporters of Sir) their inner consciousness, who deny to-

{1 redeem or ulfil a pledge according ag their whim

nove them, We find the most revolution-

ary financial and commercial measures pro-

| posed, and determined which had been aggra” | force them upon the country, in §}

efforts

vated by the course of the Parliamentary \a}} but universal protest, We find the

cities the workshops gave remunerative |

|

hands, Ourship building and ship own- ing interests were very productive, and the | former found in the Government a warm

friend. The public works, especially the

| employment to many thousands of willing | culties is attributable, but a very

Opposition led by Mr. \eKenzie. The | confidence of capitalists ik the stability of patronage of the Government and the ex- | the country’s industries shaken, and wides } penditures of the Government were equis | spread apprehension amonz all » have tably distributed among all the members investments which it lof the Union. he smaller Provinces, the Government to mike through the ability of their representatives | the population discontented, and 3 |in the Government, and the spirit of justice | thom leaving their country: which ruled among tho Ministers from the We find the wheels of cot greater Provinces, exercised their uudue | to a standstill, and a dedi |influence in the councils of the country. | the financial contres ; urn | Trade prospered, and the commercial ad- alyzed—workmen and | Vancemeni of the country was unparalleled | charged by the thousand, and banks th ‘in the history of any nation. Manufac- | ened with araid by 2 blundering Finance tures flourished, aud even in the smaller | yzinister. To the general commercial de

pression, doubtless, a portion of the diffi-

| share falls to the credit of the mismanages

ment of a Governmeut which, predicting its good intentions on the assumption that

its predecessor was responsible for ‘ all the |

Government railroads, were so managed as | j)). that flesh is heir to,’ promised the couns

to co-operate with the great industries of | try an era of unparalleled prosperity ! | the country, while offering a speedy and! yooh of the depression that exists is, uns | cheap means of travel for rich and poor | qonbtedly, owing to the rashness, weak~ ness and incapacity of the Administration,

The flnancial condition of the coun. try was sound and satisfactory—the Gov. ernment and the banks having a good un i derstanding and acting together in the | country’s interest. The population were | contented; a love of country was permeat, | ing all classes; a national spirit was gener- ously cultivated ; and Canada and Canadis ans were respected at home and abroad

It pleased Mr. Mackenzie, Mr. Blake, Mr. 3rown, and the:r followers to decry the cvuntry—to represent it as_ terribly mis~ governed—to foster discontent in the re- spective Provinces—to sacrifice Patriotism {on the altar of Party Jand to capture deserters from the Govern-

to compass sea and | ment ranks—and thus overthrow an | ministration which had really raised the | Dominion to the summit of prosperity. | They accomplished their purposes ; they ruled the country with absolute power for two | years. Parliament gave them every atom

|

| Of patronage, every expenditure, every | lawful assistance to administration, that | they could possibly ask for, And | Stands Canada to-sday ?

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where

The last two years -the two years of | Gritrule - will be remarkable in our history las embracing the period in which men | raised from the ranks of violent, unreason- | ing. brazen Opposition, fancying they could rule Cimada on the same principle that they emitted phillipies on the stump or in the press, or as they would

run a ward

election,’ came near plunging their coun.

try into the very abyss of ruin, and indeed |

succeeded in creatink widespresd discon- | tent with the country and its institutions. These politicians, when in Opposition and certain of reaching power, assured their country that their coming rule would bea blessing to the Dominion. Commerce, the financial world, all the industries, the pub-

lic morals, purity of election, pablie works

jete., would all be the better for their jreign. Let us enquire how far the pre

sent condition of the country justifies these promises and predictions.

The late Government was denounced as administration, the fitting res

}a reckless Is the dominant | Party, more conservative? When we res ply fully to this query we shall have ac.

presentative of a reckless party. | present Government, the now

counted for the condition of Canada to- day and fully exposed the sophistries which enabled our Grit rulers to attain to power.

Edward Is it not on his attacks upon established institutions—his recent assaults upon the Confederation scheme as at present arranged and worked out—his backing and filling on such vital questions as the constitutional rights of Provinces under the Union—his repeated attempts to humiliate the weaker members of the Union — his reckless joining and deserting of Governments, his lamentable weakness to be thought a ‘reformer’ and a radical— his abortive attempts at compassing the impossible? Where does Mr. George Brown find his claims for recognition by posterity, if not in the recklessness with which he rules his Party and rides roughs shod over the Government and its members —or his abortive Reciprocity Treaty, by Which the destruction of manufacturing interests of Canada would have been en sured and Canadians would have to” look to Washington’ in earnest—of the perni- cious influence which he, not a member of

On what rests the fame of Mr

Flake, we ask ?

the Government, is believed to exercise over the interests of the whole Dominion ? On what are Mr. Cartwright and the finan- cial men of the Government to be congra- tulated, if not upon’ their reckless and partially successful attempts to increase the cost of living by increasing the customs duties—to fetter the shipping interests by new taxes—to proclaim a deficit and thus damage the financial standing of the coun- try, when there was no deficit—to create a universal panic throughout the whole ex- tent of the Dominion by a proposition, in atime of great depression, to withdraw from the temporary use of the banks many millions of Government money? Of Mr. Mackenzie, what can the chronicler of the two years’ events say but that moved by the most stubborn will and the most in- ordinate assumption, he was at times also impelled by the least reputable of motives, and that many of his acts were characterized by desperate recklessness coupled with the grossest ignorance of matters with which he should aave been intimately acquainted ? What ean be urged in defence of his giving the Government railways into the hands of the spoiler? What of his infamous treats ment of the EBay Verte Canal scheme ? What of his connexion with the Laflamme Jette Lachine Canal Land Scandal ? What of his conduct in relation to the Frederic. tion Ordnance Land-jobbery ? What of his pressing Mr. Ifuntington into his Cabinet only to be compelled to dismiss him. What of his taking a third-rate lawyer like Mr. Fournier for his Minister of Jus- tice? Whatof those acts by which he has alienated both Manitoba and British Col. 'umpbia from their Eastern sister Provinces ? ' What of the pampering an@ petting he has | Shown to such allies as the ‘unconstructed > Anti-Confederates of Nova Scotia who, this very week, have shown their interest in the Union by preventing the people of Halifax from celebrating Dominion Day? It is scarcely necessary to pursue the subject further in this vein, but the honest an- swer to those queries will be sufficient to condemn the Mackenzie Government and the Keform Party as the most reckless and least patriotic that the country is ever likely to be saddled with; and the condi- tion in which the country now presents it- self to the calm observer, after only two years of Grit rule, will satisfy any reasons

Ads |

—to its trighful commercial blundering, its

determination to tamper with invested capital. Auvother moving cause of the heart-sickness whieh affects a large pro- portion of the population who have been schooled by the Grits, is found in the fact that the latter had taug vy to believe that the lute Government was the sum of all iniquity ; and now these dupes find that

their own idols have turned or

bad, and they have, consequently, lost all confidence in their country and: its rulers, {tis not surprising, under these cireums | stances, that some are emigrating, while | others, like the Halifax supporters of the

Government, seem to think that, with Mr. Blake’s assistance, the union of the vinces is only a temporary affair, and they will not stultify their past record by cele brating Canada’s Birthday.

They show that it is possible for a Party which came into power to ‘ clevate standard of public morality,’ to become a perfect engine of corruption ani

in a marvellously short period.

monstrate that political leaders, ,, opposition, are constantly denom Government of the day for mism:

may prove themselves in a few montis to be the most reckless and incup ministrators of the public business. They show that the professions of a certa

of politicians are mere moonshine, promises worth!ess, their boastings puerile their attacks on their opponents mere clap- trap and tricks of the trade. The Grit Party, after a two years’ trial, stands re- vealed in its true character and just pros portions. It has been weighed in the bal. ances and found wanting, and cin play the part of the moralisf no longer. The party leaders are alive to the dangers that beset them at the hands of the people, convinced that some ew combination, some new appeal to the betier

and are

sentiment

Kenzie, Brown and Blake return f lend.

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Despatches from Professor Janney state that so far he has not discovered suflicient gold in the Black Hills to werrant any ex- tended mining operation:

The Mark Lane Express says the weather hinders haying and harvesting ; consequent. ly prices of wheat a shilling higher, and in some markets two shillings.

The indirect taxes in France still greatly exceed the estimates, and in a yery short time it is expected that the excess for the year will reach 69,009,000 francs.

The Charlie Ross kidnapping case has been again brought to notice by a Philadelphia evening paper which says that one Wester+ velt who has been imprisoned for some time for alleged complicity in the abdues tion of the boy has made a confession, but nothing will be published in order to more | properly serve the ends of justice.

PINS rene

The inundations in France have added

another to the list of that c puntry’s mis fortunes. Great suiferinus hss been occae sioned in the flood district ul the loss of

life is now placed th total of three thousand. he estimated value of the property desiroyed is jixed by our latest telegraphic news at over twelve millions of pounds sterling.

Dean Stanley, in the course of his sermon

at Westminister Abby, ulluded tothe Am- erican Declaration of Independence, He contrasted the animosity displayed in for- mer days on the occasion of anniversary, with the spirit of conciliation whic! present prevailed, Now, every American was proud of his English ancestry, and every Englishman proud of Washington, The Lancet calls attention to the fact that Captain Boynton suffered so badly in his passage -across the Channel that he

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Some etvong green tea was given lim on coming ashore and this took sway «al! en- pleasant feelings. He said he would not go through that struggle again for any money. The same paper notifies wit! some degree of professional cantion that amon: the men of the arctic expedition there ar several tee-totallers, among the rest one Quarter-Master who has made two arcti: voyages without breaking his pledge. in the expedition to the North-west, and in Ashantee Campaign, hot tea (not cold tea as the Lancet states) was made a good substitute for liquors, and the men e much better for its use. Still in the aretie regions the daily allowance of rum will be served out to each man who will take it.

A Very Bap Bor. —Max Adler mentions a report that the chief astronomer at the Washington Observatory was dreadfully sold a few days ago. A wicked boy whose Sunday school experience seems only to have made him more depraved, caught a fire-fly and stuck it, with the aid of some mucilage, in the centre of the largest lens in the telescope. That night when the astronomer wentto work, he perceived a blaze of light apparently in the heavens, and what amazed him more was that it would give a couple of spurts and then die

locality. and the next morning graphed ail over the univer

the third magnitude in Orion. [na day or two all the astronomers in Hurope and America were studying Orion, and they gazed at it for hours until they were mad, and then they began to telegraphed back to the man in Washington to know what he meant. The discoverer tcok another look and found that the new star had moved about eighteen billion miles in twen ty~four hours, and upon examiningit closely he was alarmed to see that it had legs!’ When he wentto the dome the next morning to ish up his glass, he found the lightning ug. People down at Alexandria, seven miles distant, heard part of the swearing, and they say he infused into it much whole- souled sincerity and vigorous energy. The bills for telegraphic despatches amounted to $2,600, and now the astronomer wants to find that boy, He wishes to consult with

about something

fhe lessons |

of the two years are most significant. |

of the country, will be necessary if their lease of power is to be extended. What new surprise they have in st (or nad we shall probably learn when rs, Me- |

almost wished he would sink. He was very sleepy and even slept some tine in h’s | dress and woke to find himself paddling,

out, only to burst forth again ina second or |

two, Heexamined it carefully for a few moments, and then he began todo 3 to discover where in the heavens that «ts; was placed. Ue thought he found the |

“ ya + discovered anew and remarkable star of |

ET OTS: It a

BOUS.

employs 800 clerks. |

given $30,000 |

Lothschild has just th running horse. } m from London announces that slowly improving.

190 tons of rock fell from und@!~ | i the American Falls at. Niagara, on [ast | onday. i ‘The German Emperor has conferred the irdselass order of the Crown upon the |

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NEW ADVERTISEWENTS,

Flour, Ceram

ui, Sugar, Mo-

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BY Auction at the subscriber's Sales Rooms, on WEDNESDAY, the Id4th

inst., at eleven o’cloek -— 200 bbIs Canada FLOUR, 50 do CORNMEAL, (kiln dried) 15 bbis OATMEAL, : 6 hhds, English Reflaed SUGAR.

\irican explorer, Dr. Nachaigal. » do Porto Rico do \n Austrian manufactory has made 20 bbis Yellow Retiiest do 180,000 rifles for the Prussian Goyernment 10 bbis Granulated do ind is making 145,009 more, } rs nde eo Yager “9 i 0 puns Choice MOLASSES, At the match for the All [reland Chal- | 4 do damaged do

nge Shield, the Dublin team were —

torious, beating the Americans by 11 points. rhe poet Schiller died May 9th, 1805, ie steamship Schiller, called after the

t, went down May 9, 1875. v Hfago has enjoyed literary celeb. - thirty years, and has realized by his

pw 600,009.

Mines of the Cape Breton Company ypped work, and others it is feared ma follow. This will entail a good

ids of

i of distress.

An edition of the Bible is to be printed a Londen with all the proper names ac, cented, to show their proper pronuncias tion

The shooting for all Ireland took place on Saturday, between Dublin and New York. fhe Dublin team won. Score—Dublin, 569, New York, 558 ; Belfast, 528.

The cup presented by the Mayor and citizens of Belfast ireland, was won by Col, Gildersleeve (American), after a re~ murkably close and exciting contest witha Belfast marksman. There were twenty - four contestants.

In the Commons, last week, John Bright | presented a petition of sixty thousand mem- | bers of Agricultural Laborers’ Union, and | others, asking extension of household suf- {rage to Counties and Boroughs, and for | the re-distribution of parliamentary seats. | ‘The journey from Amsterdam to Vienna | has just been made on foot by M. De Witt in twenty-six days, thus winning a wager | tance, 702 English miles, in thirty days. [fis actual daily average was thus twenty-~ | seven miles,

The London Tavern was offered for sale | the other day, but was bought in, after a

|sum it had advanced froma first offer of | £65000. Ten years ago the property | changed proprietors for #41 000.

| The extensive coal fields in the Island of Saghalien, which were recently ceded by | Japan to Russia, are to be worked by Russ sian engineers and miners, and it is intends ed to employ a large number of the cons | victs frag Siberia.

Each ship of the aretic expedition was |supplied with pigeons similar to those used in the Franco-Prussian war. Part of ,these birds are to convey messages from the sledge parties to the Alert, the others to communicate with the Discovery.

*| Lorp Dupztry’s Lucx.—The London core | the ‘Liverpool Courier’’ |

respondent of

s:—‘ Lord Dudley is one of the milli- of the turf, and he has made another is usual luck. Just » Ascot Gold Cap, Lord Dude 100) to £5,009 on Dorchess he had inspected ia its ious evening. The bet was id sp it up amongst several sporting men in the ring, £5,000 being too heavy a x one hand. The horse won very easily, and Lord Dudley gets his £5,000. ilis luck is proverbial, and he boasts that iis weekly settlement at Tatterall’s never . josing account, a very remarkable | thing lor any devotee of the turf. He laid £5,000 to £4,000 on Spainaway and Lady Love for the Oaks, and of course won, lhe money value of Lady Dudley’s jewels has been won by his Lordship in bets near- ly twice over since they were carried oft too mysteriously from Paddington Statton.”

It is reported that an insurrection broke out sgainst the Turks in Herzegovina. Che women, children and old men have been sent to Dalmatia for safety. The rurkish troops are marching ag:inst the insurgents. Austria has sent troops to | ‘ekovich, on the frontier of Herzegovina. | tlon. Reverdy Jehnson, the Nestor of the | American bar, having already passed his

‘| eightieth year, astonished everybody in a

Baltimore court-room the other day by his

mentaland physical vigor, the retentive. ‘ness of his memory the clearness and | strength of his Voice, and the clo-eness of | his reasoning on points of law. He took /no notes relying entirely on his memory 'to reply to long arguments by his oppon- | ents, arguing the entire day without ap- | parent fatigue.

Tur Barrister AND THE WitNEss.—There isa point beyond which human forbearance cannot go, and the most even of tempers will become ruffled at times. At the assiz. es held during the past year at Lincoln, England, both judge and counsel had much trouble to make the timid witness npon a trial speak sufficiently loud to be heard by the jury, and it is possible the temper of the counsel may thereby have been turned aside from its even tenor. After this gen- tleman had gone through the various stages of bar pleadings, and had coaxed, threaten- ed, and even bullied witnesses, there was called into the box a young ostler, who ap» peared to be simplicity personified.

‘ Now, sir,’ said the council in a tone he would at any other time have denounced as vulgarly loud. ‘I hope we shall have no difficult in making you speak up.’

‘I hope not, sur,’ was shouted, or rather bellowed, out by the witness, in tones which almost shook the building, and would cer- tainly have alarmed any timid or nervous lady.

‘ How dare you speak in that way, sir?’ said the counsel.

‘Please sur, 1 can’t speak any louder, sur,’ said the astonished witness, attempt- ing to shout louder than before, evidently thinking the fault to be speaking too soft~ ly.’

‘Pray, have you been drinking this morn« ing shouted the counsel, who had now thos roughly lost the last remnant of his temper.

‘Yes, sur,’ was the reply.

‘ \nd what have you been drinking ?”

‘ Corfee, sur.’

‘And what do you have in your coffee, sir?’ shouted the exasperated counsel.

‘A spune, sur,’ was the answer innocent- ly spoken, amid the roars of the whole ) court — excepting only the now thoroughly i, who flang down his brief and

iid counsel, i out of the eourt.

\ correspondent of the Pali Mall Gazette

sends the following as an almost verbal sunt of the Sultan of Zanzibar’s im- | pressions ef his reception at Marlborough | ilouse -—'There was something in the | beaming countenance of the Prince of | Wales when I met tis Royal Highness in | the great tiall which gave me confidence. ! felt at onee that my reception was not to

be cold and formal, but warm and hearty. When His Royal Highness introduced me to the Princess, his sweet consort, and then to his sweet sister, the Princess Alice, and her noble consort, the Prince of Hesse, I was bewildered with gratification. Yet even that was nothing to the feeling I ex- perienced when His Royal Highness asked me if [would like to see the children ; yes, he said ‘the chiidren,’ as a father who was nota prince, would say it. In my highest expectations I had never anticipated such a pleasure. One with a soft voice, thinking, doubtless, that I might feel embarrassed, suggested that only some of the children should be brought, but I know a few words of English, and | heard the prince say ‘ All, all.’ [cannot express to you the joy which [ felt when these sweet children -entered the room, and saw them all put their arms lovingly round the prince’s

* neck and embrace him; and he too,

embraced them lovingly, lifting the little ; ones ef the floor to kiss them. At that /moment my heart was full, and [ prayed that the blessing of God might rest upon them. In manners they were so natural, so cheerful, so trusting ; they sat down by my side with the utmost confidence—by the side of me, an Arab whom they had never | seen before, and I can truly say now, in re~ | ply to the question which his Royal High- | ness had previously asked me, that the most pleasing sight which I have witnessed in England, and that which hitherto has im. pressed me most, was to see this Royal English home. In fact, I almost forgot everything which passed at the interview except the picture presented by that bright and noble family—a picture which will never be erased from my memory. More~ over, | no longer wonder, since I saw the a boys ~ in — eee Navy is the glory o' :

say, may the peace of God and his blowing rest upon her Majesty the Queen and these her illustrious descendants,

of $5000 that he would accomplish the dis. |