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his subject, and manner of treating it, combined to make Mr. Forbes’ lecture at the Academy last evening, one of intense interest. Charlottetown, as in duty bound, gave him its best audience:

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‘*It was in July, 1870,” Mr. Forbes said, in opening his address, ‘ that I took up the trade ef a war correspondent, and I have fol-

lowed it ever since. During these ten years ‘¢ has fallen to my lot to make seven distinct campaigns —five in Europe, one in Asia and A‘rica. Duriag these years I have visited India three times, had a talk with King Theebau in the capital of native Bur- mah, seer St. Petersburg gay and St. Petere- burg sad. looked in on Mr. Stanley at Zanai- bar, eaten 4 ‘Uhristmas dinner at the head of the Khyber Pass; had fever in Nepaul, on the Danube, in Cyprus and in Zululand ; have been woanded twice, bave been a prisoner in at Jeast half a dozen different covntries have been once half-killed by a mob, have transmitted the earliest details of several im- portant battles, and have been mentioned in despatches for the saving of lives in action,”

it was vot, however, he explained, his pur- oeak of his own achievements. He had cor e to talk ot crewned heads, and should }egin at once. It wae in the Franco- Prussian war, When Prince Frederick Charles was marching on Metz, that he first saw, in the market place ofa little village, St. Abbold,

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pose to

EMPEROR WILLIAM,

bluff, k ea-eyed, frank of speech, but genial. With hia where Von Moltke, thin, gaunt, wrinkle l, knowing how- to be silent in seven languages; and the ragged Bismarck, looking mere lice 4 soldier than a statesman. For two hours William stood there, surrounded by won yringcadets frem the military schoel, watching the army defile before him; row white-coated, steel-breasted cuirassiers, and now files of infantry with their bands. He persons ily eriticised the discipline and equip- ment of the soldiers, August 18, 1870, at Cravelotte, Mr. Forbes saw

PRINCE FREDERICK CHARLES,

who hod risen at daybreak, and was consult- ing wh his generals, He was a square- should. red, upright man, with a bread, square Krow, een eye and a wide mouth. Clad ina red tunic and mounted on a bay horce, he at last brought his hand down en his thigh, ex- claiming: ‘‘ Your duty is to march forward, find the enemy, prevent his escape, and fight him wherever you find him.” During the roar o! battle that day, with 60,000 men dead er dying, the King was sitting on a plank, one ep | of which rested on a dead horse, the ether on a broken wagon, with Bismarck near resending to be indifferently reading letters. Ashout was heard. Von Meltke galloped up. ** We have won the battle; the victory is with your majesty,” God be thank- ed!” exclaimed the Emperor, and Bismarck nervo isly crushed the lettersin his hand. At Sedan the Emperor William sat on a hill over- looking the battle-tield, with the American Generals Sheridan and Forsyth, when the news of the oar a came, and the French bearer of the flag of truee was seen riding sadly back. At dawn the next morning Bis- marc), who had been drinking champagne and ¢sting’sandwiches with officers and the speaker, uotil 1 o'clock, and arguing terms of surre ider the rest of the night, waa mounted on bis bay—fresh and clean shaven—riding towaed Sedan, while he followed. A shabby, lew carriage, from which came the gleam of gold lace, approached. Bismarck sprang from his horse, letting it go, and bowed low, The leaden celored, gaunt-eyed, deep-lined mau with dishevelled mustache, in the carriage was

him

NAPOLEON III.

A ichting at a weaver’s cottage, Napeleen and tusmarck sat down and talked in an un. der:one, while he (Mr. F.) stood at the garden hed se, the weaver calmly looked on from his wit tow and eager troops and provision carts strcamed by. hen Bismarck rode back to the Emperor and Napoleon waited alone, wa «ing back and forth, limping slightly and sm king countless cigarettes-—the proudest monarch in Europe was kicking his heels at a weavers cottage, waiting in attendance on a Prossian Count, the servant of a Prussian mooarch. Soon a troop of cuirassiers formed arcand the cottage, Bismarck returned, and Napoleon was escorted to a ruined house in Se ian. Vou Moltke puad dispelled the obstin- acy of the French General Whimfen, by show in. him the steel girdle of German cannon, and the capitulation was signed, The German movarch came riding dewn with head proudly erect to meet the bent and breken Napoleon, who came forward with handker- ehief at his eyes, while William’s face worked strangely They walked up the steps together these brothers, . What strange thoughts must have flashed through their minds! The interview lasted twenty minutes. At the end o! that time the German Emperor rode away among his wildly enthusiastic, victorious troops, while Napoleon, a few minutes later, eutered a carriage, and, surrounded with a guard of German soldiers, was driven away to eaptivity. In the fortune of war it was his (Mr. fs.) privilege to sleep that night in the bed occupied the night previous by the Emperor of France. Napolean had evidently been reading in bed, for on a small stand near the bed, he (the speaker) found an open book—and, curi- ously enough, it was Bulwer’s ** Last of the Tarons.”’ rom the reeking field of Sedan he earried his audience, per saltum, tothe Cal cutta ghant, where had gathered the native reyalty of Queen Victoria’s Indian Empire to welcome that sovereign’s son and heir. From

ndia the lecturer crossed a few continents to Spain, whose present menarch, Young Kin Alfouso, he accompanied when the ex-cadet 0 sandharst went out to take upthe Kingdom that the collapse of Castelar’s Republic so sud-

leniy opened up for his acceptance,

‘“PHE SHAH OF PERSIA,”

continaed Mr. Forbes, taking another leaf from his note-book, ‘‘ was the shallowest and gaudiest fraud ever imposed upon the people of Europe.” Mr. Forbes met him first at Brussels. He had not been se well or so long entertaied as he might have been had he re- frained from spitting on the dress of the Empress. He was a very rude and a very unpre possessicg hook-nesed hawkeyed Oriental ** Bur,”’ said the lecturer, ‘* we all loved him ! We raved about his dresses, and swore that he

was actually the possessor of diamond and of? ham’s fine Walking Boots.

ruby costumes. Now the truth of the matter is that his gems were bogus and were mado in Paris a year before his arrival, for effect, You see, the Persian Government was 4 little im- poverished, and looked upen a large loan from England or France as something much to be desired. The Shah was to dazzle us and give us all the impression that money invested Im Persia was practically mouey invested in dia monds and precious stones. To keep up the deceit of the Shah’s enormous wealth he was reported to have lost jewels worth fabulous sums from the bows upon his horses’ tails. Poor Shah! lsawhim in a large cotton mill on one occasion, where 10 his honor five-hundred young women employ- ed in the mill sang to him a song of welcome. He was pleased—of course he was. He ap- preciated it so munch that he went to the pro-

rieter of the establishment and offered to ey all the female stock on the premises. He usually travelled free, but a certain italian railroad which objected to this seized upon some of his jewels in payment of railroad iare and found them te be shams.” After expos- ing ‘‘the greatest fraud on earth,” the tamous journalist, turned over another leaf in his note book, and took his delighted hearers to the scenes of the Russo-Turkish war. Mr. Forbes was presented to the

GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS

on a boat in the Danube. He is tall, of the Jewish type of face, soldierly in bearing, bluff even to rudeness. When the fiercest fighting was geing on at the Shipka Pass, he (the Speaker) waited until 6 o'clock when it was evident thatthe Russians had gained the victory, then rode to Bucharest, 170 miles, neither eating uor sleeping, having relays of herses along the way. Uutstripping the Mus- sian orderlies, the renowned diplomatist, Gen- eral Ignatieff met him as he rode into the im- perial head-quarters camp, andfhaving learned the character of his news, insisted that he should narrate it to the$ Emperor. Mr. Forbes was in a state of personal shabbiness, which he amusingly described. He had not been brought up among emperors, but he knew that a man ought to wait upon an em- peror in his Sunday clothes, and he was re. luctant to face the great autocrat. But Ig natief insisted, the Emperor was awakened, and Mr, Forbes found him in the alcove ofa miserable Turkish house; ‘‘ gaunt, worn and haggard, his voice broken by nervousness and by the asthma which afilicts him.’”” Mr. Forbes drew for the Emperor a gee of the tight and the ground, which caused the Emperor to re- mark that he must have been a soldier in the artillery or the engineers. ‘‘No,” said Mr. Forbes, ‘‘in the line cavalry." The Emperor said he was not aware that the British line cavalry officers were thus conversant with military draughtmanship. Mr. Forbes re- plied that he had been a private trooper; not an officer; thereby, as he drily observed, con- veying to His Imperial Majesty the impression that the ordinary British dragoon is habitually skilled in plan making. Again Mr. Forbes was on the move, and swept his hear- era away to Mandalay. the capital of young

KING THEEBAU,

whose recent aberrations of cenduct Mr. Forbes was inclined to ascribe te the infliction of a ‘‘ double-barrelled mother-in-law,” a lady who had married both her daughters to the young King. ‘Theebau seems to have taken in the astute correspondent with the present of a ‘* bogus” ring, which led him to * set down the lord of the white elephant as a fraud.’’ The passages in which he described his intercourse with the late

PRINCE IMPERIAL

were full of deep interest. He told how he had witnessed the lad’s ‘‘ baptism of fire” at Saarbruck, and saw him pierced with nine- teen assegai wounds on the blood-stained sward by the Ilyotosi River. From the pathos of this interview he leaped to the humor of an interview with

OHAM,

the brother of King Cetywayo, of Zululand, a gentleman who makes bolsters of his wives, and has other eccentric characteristics. Mr. Forbes saw the Emperor of Austria at the Vienna Exhibition of 1573, the Empress lead- ing a fox in freland, and knew Prince Milan, of Seryia, the German princes, a Rou- mania prince, and the son of the Viceroy of Egypt. The conclusien of Mr. Forbes’ |ec- ture, which lasted an hour and a half, was de- voted to anecdotes concerning the royal fam- ily of England, and there was dramatic power in the contrast he drew between the misery at Sandringham during the memorable illness of His Royal Highness the

PRINCE OF WALES

and the gladsome splendor of the national thanksgiving eelebrated in St. Paul’s Cathe- dral on the recovery of the Prince, Mr. Forbes having been both at Sandringham and under the dome during the thanksgiving ceremony. To the Prince of Wales the lecturer attributed the ‘‘finest tact, sincerest consideration, and truest gentlemavhood, while possessing faults like others, they serve only as a fringe to a noble eharacter.” Loud and prolonged ap- plause greeted the conelusion of his splendid address.”

This summary report gives but a very faint idea ef the series of vivid descriptions of which the lecture on ‘‘ Royal Peuple I Have Met,” is made up; and it is said that the lecture to-night on ‘‘ The Inner Life of a War Correspondent,” is much the best of the two.

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pecial Notices.

Quince, Cape Cod Cranberries, Green Grapes, and lots of nice things at B. Balder- ston’s. oct 25 61

You can always get the best Tea at George Carter’s.—o25 lw eod

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HOTEL ARRIVALS.

RANKIN HOUSE.

Archibald Forbes, London; Ww F Morse, New York; G W Budd, Summerside, 25— Allan Finlayson, V R Bridge; BH Bilan- chard and lady, Halifax; iev. wr MeCulloch, lruro, NS; ii T Sutherland, New Glasgow, N S; Thomas Patton, Ottawa, Vernon H Knight, Souris; J © Mabey, 5 Scud; ay Kdmonds, Montreal, A N Jack, Halifax; Geo Howatt, Crapaud, Job Thomas, Montreal. OSBORNE HOUSE,

Oct. 25.—Ewen McDonald, Morell; Eugene Craswell, St. Eleanors; Wm D Shaw, (teorge- town; BB Maddock, Bangor, Maine; Josiah Grant, Summerside; AJ Hayes, Providence, R 1; Geo Whiteman, Montague; Capt and Mrs ES Williams, New York ; Joseph Wy lie, Bactouche, N B; James Barclay, Ellers lie; Miss Stewart; Port Hill; S H Hart, St John, N B; H McLeod, Pradalbane; J hi Murray, city.

ROCKLIN HOUSE.

Oct. 25th—E J Fuller and wife, Miminigasb James Robison, Boushaw; J P Cook, Victoria; J C Wilson, St. John N B; Duncan Ferguson, New London; Alex R_ Boutelieu, Halifax; Melville Willock, China Point; Rev. Neil Me- Kay, Summerside; Mrs Coffin, 5t. Peter's; John Johnstone, Mt. Stewart.

BIED.

At the residence of her son, Mr. Patrick McEntee, County Line, Lot G7, on the 13th inst., Mrs, Bridget McKutee, in the sGth year of her age. Requiescaut tn pice.

IMIARBLE fMIANTLES, Shelves and Register Grates,

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WILL sell at AUCTION, at the store of Mr. 8S. W. Craser, corner of Grafton ard Great George streets, on THURSDAY, the 4th November, at II o'clock, 12 Marble Mantels and Register Grates, 6 Marble Mantel shelves. WILLIAM DODD,

Auctioneer.

Oct. 24.

Oct. 26, 1850.

ACADEMY OF MUSIC. TONIGHT! TONIGHT!

Last Lecture of MR, ARCHIBALD FORBES,

“The Inner Life of .a War Cor- respondent.”

Sketches of personal adventure, humorous

incidents, graphic and brilliant descriptions

Last opportunity to hear this distinguished speaker.

Tickets for sale at Chappelle’s. Seats 75 cents.

Reserved foe 26

AT OVUAT CONV L 420 half-chests TEA (extra good), 59 boxes TEA, 200 boxes RAISINS, 60 sacks RICK, 20 bbls. PICKLES, 25 bags NUTS, ° 60 kegs BAKING SODA, 30 bbis. WASHING SODA, 70 tings MUSTARD, 80 tins PEPPER and GINGER, 40 bbis. CURRANTS, 200 lb. NUTMEGS, 130 boxes PIPES, 20 casks VINEGAR (test),

200 sides SOLE LEATHER, 400 casks KEROSENE, } 250 coils ROPE, { 25 boxes McDonald’s TOBACCO, 75 cads do. do. (Smoking), ; 20 kegs ''wict, 110 boxes SOAP, 50 cases and haif-cases MATCHES, 120 doz. PAILS, 80 doz. BROOMS, !

75 puns. MOLASSES,

15 bhds, SUGAR.

25 tes. CARVELL BRAGS.

Ch’town, Oct. 26, 80—pat ex 2aw 3w, ar 3w

HEAVY HORSES.

ANTED, —Light horses, weighing from

1,300 upwards, and 5 to 7 years old, Apply at the ‘*‘Farmer’s Arms” on Friday next.

Oct. 26, ’80—3i W. S. McK EE.

Rev. Dr. Leeming, WN, 8. W,,:

WILL LECTURE ON

SHAKESPEARE

AT THE

ACADEMY OF MUSIC, THURSDAY, 28th OCTOBER.

aa” At the close of the lecture on Shakes- peare, Dr. Leeming will deliver by special request, that soul-stirring recitation—‘Suamvus O’Brien.’

One hundred chairs will be specially re- served and numbered. Apply at ‘‘ Diamond Bookstore.”’

Tom Tuvms’s Velocipede to be seen at the Family Grocery, and will be sold cheap.—R. K. Brace. oct 21

Tux new beverage ‘‘ Kaoka,” is for sale at ; George Carter's Grocery Store, Great George ! Street, Call and get a package, [oct. 18,e0d.

Cuzw Mail Line Navy from Resin & Hart's. {se I8

Sweer Brier Cigarettes with crystal mouth- pieces, at Rupin & Hart's, [sel8

‘Tux cheapest and best Note paper, Envelo pee. Velvet Photograph frames, Toys aud

lls of every description at the Agricultural store.—R. May. (sep. 2], tf)

Tuk best fine cut smoking tobacco in the Proviuce is ‘‘ Prince Arthur,” and only sold at Rugiw & Hart's, {se 18

SmoKE Rubies, for a mild and cheap smoke, from Rupin & Harr. [se 18

_ Keserved seats 50 cents; Parquette 35 cts ; Gallery 25 cents.

_ Ludlow Hall, Sum merside-~Mary Queenof Scots.

STOVE PIPE!

“Rouad Elbows, &e.,

MILLNER’S TIN SHOP.

HE Subscriber, thankful for past favors, solicits still a share of public patronage.

JOBS PROMPTLY ATT&NDED TO. CHARGES MODERATE.

Tue Ladies are all delighted with Bore- | 325 lm oaw ~~ *

GEO. W. MILLNER.

Upper Great George St., Uct. 12, 80—8i 2aw

FALL, [8S0.

AGNES Uh ARE NOW SHOWING

THE BULK OF THEIR SUPERB

NEW STOCK!

AND OFFER, Tiik

BEST VALUE

2Pan | , LABRADOR HERRING, oJ tarrchs and. natttbarrole Prema tH i . i

Prime li brador

cig at Peake’s No. 2 Wharf.

GO. COOMBS Ch’towu. Oct. 23, '80—-6i Water Street thracits Nat ¢ ; Antaracite tu (a °

4 SMALL CARGO of 100 tons of the is now on the way to the sub.

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a4 riber, and will be due isere Ist November aie ' ~ . ’ abont 59 tons unsold, orders for which are

¢ ° HORACE HASZARD=

Queen Strect, Ort. 22, ’80—4i

solicited,

THE STEAMSHIP

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PRINCE EDWARD, ROBERT FRASER, Comimader,

Will be on the Berth at Liverposl to Receive Cargo about tha - 12th ef November,

AND FROM >

. i % £ ] 7 Liverpes! ior Charlettetown About the 18th November.

For Freight apply in London to Jonn Prr- catrn & Sons, 16 Great Winchester Street, E. ©.; in Glasgow, to James Ketso, 134 St, Vincent Street; in Liverpool, to. PrrcatRy BRoTHERS, 51 South Jolin Street; in Pictou, N. &., to Noonan & Davies ; or here, to

PEAKE BROS & CO,

Ch'town, Oct. 16, 1880. MANAGERS,

SLEIGH ROBES

AIN DD E'U Soe

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CHARLES | MORRISON

Has just received a few splendid”

: Japanese Goat and Hudson Bay s

woLE: ROBES”

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WILL

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LARGEST ASSORTMENT

In the Trade, a

Alb DEPARTMENTS,

it Will Pay

EVERY BUYER

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TO LOOK THROUGH

OUR STOCK

Before Purchasing.

Terms Cash.

GEO. DAVIES & 00,

Charlottetown, Sept. 30, 1580.

Also, a fine selection of Ladies’ Seal, Persian Lamb, Beaver and Astrican Sacques ;

—~AND—

Squirrel Circulars, 7&

of

All the above’ are, without exception, the finest display of Furs ever shown in this city, Next door to P. G. Fraser’s Drug Store. 4. Ch’town, Oct. 20, 1880—2w aol

a “ ~_—~- — a rene —— —— —~———nmeeatin 2%. 4+ “ag Sai dain nae AUIS, LOS, Found, SVE

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ew Advertisements under this heading, i space not exceeding half an inch, witl be inserted for Ten Centa per day. Sa

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y OST—On Thursday

$4 sILVER WAICH. The finder wilft rewarded by leaving it at the EXAMINER office. . joe 26 + ae

last, an open face

SY OST—On Sunday night, between Lower hd Queen street aud Upper Prince street. @ iarge Scotch Pebble Brooch. ‘The finder will much oblige by ‘eaving it at this office. 02531

er same

Py PIZG@OTEC—The best remedy is for “4 sale at the Apothecaries Hail, DesBr-

say's Corner.’ oct 25d e lw

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WT TMBEELLAS—tThe subscriber wishes J to iuform the citizens of Charlottetown that the business of Umbrvlla mending, &., is still earried on at the old stand, opposite

Mr. R. Bridge’: meat store.—S. TAUDVIN, foe 25 Im

q SARTNERSHIP—Wanted in a well- A. established business in Charlottetown, by a person of considetable experience and some means. Address ‘‘ Partner,” Box 40, Char- lotteeown Post Office. joe 22

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Vi ) ARN 'PED— A tirst-classs young man as v Clerk in a Hardware Store. Must be by letter ad-

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well recommended. dressed P. O. Box 4.

Apply

ENGR SALE—A lot fine Poultry, consist-

ing of Plymouth Rock, Black Spanish, Hoodans, etc. Apply at the ExaMINER office.

g €SP—On Wednesday night, 13th inst.

_4 on the Maipeque Read, beoweek Char- lottetown and Hon. G. W. DeBlois’, a ‘*Cross- cut Circular Saw.” ‘The finder will be re- warded by leaving it at this office, or corres- ponding with Joun Gris, Bradalbane.

{oc 15 10i pd

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YGOQK—A first-class COOK wanted im- ) mediately at the ‘‘Revere House.’ Good wages. [oc 8 tf

ance cna

° . A cEwen flouse continues to receiv® i¥i permanent BOARDERS. ‘Terms mod- erate. [oe 7:

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WW ANTED—A Servant Girl—one from the country preferred. Also, at Boy to Apply

[tf wkly.

attend to garden, coach house, etc. at this office,

r rT) LET—Two Houses, containing 5 and 3 rooms respectively. Apply to JAMES McLrop, Lower Spring Park Road. {se 30

Wy een HOTEL, Powna.

Street, continues to receive transiem,

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and pe manent Boarders.

Squirrel, Hampster and Siberian

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