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ources,

bihties of the Bermudas The following is a smal! specimen of what was published in England at this time, no doubt by inter- | ested parties “This dangerous and en chanted plac e, (Be rmuda),**which had been

shunned as aNSeylla and Charybdis, and where no one ever went | was really the

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richest, healtituilest, ot on

Hew much the above reads lke the! glowing circulars issned the pregent day by enterprising mining, tail and land companies ‘‘out West’ who are anxious t induce simple-minded people to go thither and purchase ‘‘claims’” or *‘homesteads

The excitement about the weal:h of the Bermudas reached perhaps its highest pitch | when the news came to England that a large quantity of ambergris had been dis covered on the coast It was of course | fully believed that untold quantitities could be obtained around the islaid

i short @any beyan to Dell ve that the E!: Dorado, which had long been songht fer | in vain in South America, had at length been discovered It may seem strange to us now, that the delusion with regard to the extraordinary resources « the Ber- mudas should be kept upon England in after years, when there were full oppor- tunities of knowing the real facts of the case.

But have we not seen something like it} in ovr own time? Can we not remember some honest men, that had opportumties of kuowing better, wh on account of the plansible stories of glib-tengued paid agents, or other tuterestea parties, fave left com- foriable homes and orev oO distant countries to discover that they had been cruelly deceived, and who, instead of wealth, founa little else but bitter disappomtment !

Even Edmund Waller, the poet, con- tributed in fauitiess verse wwarda the

popular delusion by representing Bermuda

as Paradise.

Some of your readers will recollect that Waller was a member of the long Parlia- ment, and that he first took part with i: against the king; but afterward jomed the conspiracy against the Parliament. Paying a heavy tine, and bere'y escaping with his hea : he ti da from England aiid found his

way to the Bermndas.

Four lines from his poem on them will suffice ‘So eweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives or dies befere bis time; Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth

uncurst, To show how all things were created first.”

As soon as it became known to the Eng- lish Company who were carrying on plan- tation iv. Virginia, that the Bermudas were likely to be of considerable value they lost ho time inapplying to James |. for an ex- tensiou of their charter so to include them. This extension was granted to them on the 1%th of March, 1612. The Virginia Company, probably knowing that they had land enough without the Bermudas, and no doubt making a good bargain by the trans- aciion, had no sooner obtained thei¢ grant than they seld the islands to another company under the name of ‘*The Gover- nor aud Company of the City of London for the plantation of the Somer Islands.”

A grant of the Bermudas was obtained by this new company from the King, and to constitution was drawn up for the infant colony. This constitution provided that ‘‘there was to be an Assembly every two years without whose consent no taxes could be imposed.”

The **beok of orders” prepared by the company for the guidance of the first Governor, and also his successors, contained some severe, yet, on the whole, salutary laws for the new colony, and perhaps some of them would not prove highly injurious even in an old colony.

For instance, severe rules were laid down “against idle and vain persons, drunk- ards and these who spent theis time in carding and diceing;’ then again, ‘‘those who in bravery of apparel exceeded their means,” were ‘ ordained to pay double to the public burden.” How such people would be able to do this is not very apparent.

The vew company appears to have acted with thhe greatest possible energy in the work they had undertaken; for we find that, on April 28th, 1612, they sent out their first ship load of emigrants, unde: the charge of Mr. Richard Mocr, aprointed first Governor of the colony. The sh:p safely arrived early in July, after a favorable voyage. We can easi'y imagine that these emigrants going out with such exalted notio:s of tie Bermudas, like mary nowadays who ‘‘go We-t’’—sbould be doomed to bitter disappomtment. And so it turned out.

So far as known no more ambergris was ever discover-d. The early settlers suffered great privations, and were often on the verge of starvation.

Their condition, however, graduaily im- prov-d. Inashort time more em grants ar- rived irom England, bringing with them large q'antities of provisions aud other necessary stores.

Grain, potatoes, tobacco, also fruit trees of various kinds wese shortly after introduced, aud cultivated with great success.

But I must stop here, and shall give a sketch of the subsequent history of the Ber- mudas in aacther letter,

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W. R, F. East Warwick, Jan. 26, 1884.

P. 8.—The ‘‘cold wave’ which passed over North America cid not reach Bermuda. There have been some very warm davs here of late. Yesterday the the: mometer was up to seventy- five in the shade. Red, white and yellow roses are pow infuli boom. Larze shipments of early rose potatces have, within the last fortnight, been made to England and New York. Those sent to the latter place sold for $6 per barrel. We have also had ripe toma- toes and strawberries.

An Edmundton correspondent writes: ‘A very curious case is reported from an adjoining parish. A woman gave birth to a chill and the nurse reported it was a boy. Thechild was taken to the priest and bap- tized, being pamwed Pierre France. It now turns out ihat the child was a girl The query is; Will the child go through this vale of tears with this classic name, or will it be baptized over again!’— Woodstock Prees.

ss. - JoHN Newson is at the top of the ladder in

furniture. Long experience, best quality, greatest variety, and best workmanship. He dees uot need to advertise that “he isa live”

ma. Lhe public know it, Go and get real bargaina, “Dewseu's Building.” vpposite Post Vive. uti

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Tur Datty EXAMINER. |

PEBRUARY 9. 1884.

Reciprocity with Brazil and the

West Indies.

fue subject of reciprocal free trade | Brazil avd the West gn was iiutroduced to the notice of the Finance | | Minister by a deputation—of whom McDonald and Hackett were members—on Saturday, the 2nd inst. Dr. Fortin, who spoke tor the deputation, | that if the Canadian Parliament the duties off raw ete., Brazil and the Wes ludies would, no doubt, remit their | duties upouo fish, flour, lumber, ete., to | the advantage of ali colintries coucerne li appears that the Customs duties levie d oo imports from South America — . ie West ludies amounted in 1882 to $2.12 199.18. This comparatively smal! aincunt could, the deputation contended, dispeuded wiih, and as sugar etc articles of similar con- surippuion,

with

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are the remission would, as in the case of the tea and cofiee duties, be generally felt to be a boon to Canadian cousumers; while the remission on the part of Brazil and the West Indies of the duties they impose upon fish and other

Canada has to export, advantage to our foreign without in any way abating advantages which our home indus- the National Policy. to a letter ad-

j articles which } would be ap ; commerce, the irieS possess upder

Reterence was made

dressed to the Minister of Finance in November last, in which Dr. Fortin gays :—

“Our protective tariff cannot benefit th:

trade for which the principal markets are abroad, in Italy, in Spain, in Portugal, in the West Indies and in brazil; also in the United States; and therefore Canada would have, on the principl:s of the National Polcy, to resort to treaties or special trade sarrangem nts with theese countries, by which we “would alloy some of their produce to enter into this cour- try either free of wT for articles of food, or at greatly reduced rates for other articles ; on the other side, our bese luce, especially fish, flour, timber, ete., éetc., would be revi| rocally treaed with the same favor in these coun tries,

‘the amount of custom duties levied on imports from the West Indies, Brezil and other perts of South America, amounted, in 1883, to $2,120,199 18.. These imports, in a great measure, are eugar and molasses, that is to say, necessary articles of food.

**It seemsto me, and many of our friends are of the same opinion, that the Government of Canada ought to determine on making a liberal offer to the Governments of the countries above mentioned, in order to induce them to enter into reciprocal trade with and reduce, even abolish, the duties on our exports to these countries and the light and ship dues

‘*It is not for me to suggest what should be done, but my firm opinion is that, on sugar aud molasses, which are precious and necessary articles of food in a cold country like ours, the duties ought to be abolished altogether, if we receive an equivalent in the abolition or the reduction of duties from any of the West India Islands or from Brazil.”

* * “Now the establishment of recip- rocal trade relations between (/anada and the above named countries can be accomplished on a mest favorable besis for Canada, without any detriment to the trade of Great Britain, as what we export to the West Indies and Brazil is principally fish, flour and timber, and she does not export those articles there her- s:lf, while we import sugar and molasses prin- cipally from these countries, articles which Great Britain does not produce. Then there is po impediment to be found in England against our aspitations for enlarged trade with Brazil and the West Indies.”

“If our revenue were only moder- ate, the country could not expect much in this matter. But with a surplus of eix or seven millions in a single year, not one could doubt that this is the most opportune time for making advantageons treaties cr trade arrangments with foreign ‘nations, as there has been so much written and talked about this matter in this country for some years.”

It is reported that Sir Leonard listened atientively to the represeutations, and said that the Government were willing to do as much as they could to meet the wishes of the deputation. He feared, however, that it would be somewhat difficult to make the treaties required. Dr. Fortin, who is the enthusiastic pro- moter of our fishing interests, receives gieat credit for the active part he is taking in this important movement.

i

The False Prophet.

Our telegrams of the past few days have contsined the alarming intelligence of the defeat of Baker Pacha, near Suakim, a port in Egypt lying on the Red Sea; and distressing details of the fight. Two thousaud ot the force under Baker (3 500) were destroyed. It is said that the rebels were skilfully ban- died in the battle, and the result seems to bear out the statement. This reverse of the Egyptian arms, following so soon after the terrible destruction of the army of 10,000 men under Hicks Pacha, indi- cates that the whole Soudan, a territory about a thousand miles sqnare, on fully the size of the whole of India, must be abandoued to the El Mahdi, or False Prophet.

Ten years ago, when the Soudan had beep conquered, aud was tirmly held under the hand of the Khedive Ismail, the immediate predecessor and father of Mohammed Tewfik, the present Khedive. Mohammed Ahmed, the real vname of the El Mahdi, was a poor and unknown Fiki or Koran-reader of the Istand ot Abo, on the White Nile. Soon after the deposition of Khedive Ismail, the Mussulman population and Arabic tribes became much dissatisfied, iu consequence of the European ascendancy in the Gov- ernment, aud Mohammed Ahmed, as- suming the title of the El Mahdi, raised the flag of rebellion in the vicinity of Abo. Several detachments of the Egyp- tian army ayaiust him’were destroyed, The El Mahdi’s prestige increased, and he soon gathered au army ot 30,000 fellwwers. Just previous tothe oucbrenk

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molassas,

r Egypt under Arabi Bey, a con-

| siderable army was sent against the Kl Mahdi, but the Beg ryptians were cut to pieces ; and in 1882, during which the | | cantpaign resulting in the suppression of ‘the insurrection of Arabi Bey occurred, | ‘the False Prophet met with little oppo- | |sition, and he captured the city of El) Obeid, the capital of Kordofan, aud his | | successes caused immense numbers of | | Arabs, Negroes, and others to flock to his standard. Daring the past year in- ‘telligeace would, every ‘wow aud then, re ach us that wholé detachments of the i'gyp'ian army were destroyed in Upper Egypt. The grgat peculiarity of all the “| successes of the Mahdi, or his followers. | has been that ia all caves the result of i battles was the almost totel destruction ;or annihilation of the Egyptian forces. In several instances not a man has | escaped to tell the fearful tale of mas- Ie the case of the force of 10,000 + | men under Hicks Pacha, it is somewhat | doubtful if a single soulescaped. ‘There were, voder General cks, abont 1,200 Europeans, mostly English. These all | perished, after four days fighting ; and the deeds of these brave men. -will for- ‘ever remain untold, The sufferings of the foree, for days battling with ferocious lesions of the fanatical eoemy, and witle out water, under a burning sup, in the hot sands of that country, must, have been of the most horrible nature. We doubt if history presents a parallel case of such a massacre under the cir- cumstances. It is ouly second in its san guinary nature, and in the sufferings experienced to that of the retreat of the British from Cabul in 1842.

The wonderful and continual successes of the El Mahdi have won him a follow- ing of mavy hundred thousands. ~The ‘whole Moliammedan world will soon be- lieve him so be the loug-expected, the long-talked of **Mahdi.” The belief

that such a persosage would arise has

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same

long been a tradition in the Islamic world. General Stone, an Americen,

who is now engiueer-in-chief engaged in erecting the Bartholdi Statue in New York harbor, in a lecture recently deliv- ered, gives an authentic account of the Mahdi. General Stone was Chief-of- Staff |to the deposed Khedive. Werd came to him ove day from the Minister having charge of that part of the Soudan in which Abo Island was situated, that a rebellion had broken out, and that the leader had proclaimed himself El Mahdi As military measures were neces sary, Geveral Stone endeavored to find out the meaning of the word Mahdi, but could find nothing in the Koran regard- ing the personage. He consulted an in- telligeut Mussulman, conversant wiih Islamic traditions, who informed him

specting the Mahdi; but that tradition maintained that during the last days of the world an Arab false prophet would rise up, who will conquer first all the country o¢cupied by the Arabs ; then all Asia Minor, and then the rest of the world; that once in possession of full power, his ruling of the world would be bad, and would be short; for that Jesus Christ would appear on earth, near Jeru- salem, and call up from their graves the great.avd good warriors.ot all. times; that on reaching the grave of Ove such he would salute Is!amic salutation, “Salaam Aleickoum,” aud the warrior would rise, fully armed and equipped, aud would give back the salutation, “‘Aleickoum Salaam,’”’ and join his torees; that with this invincible army, coustaptly increasing, Christ would march on Mecca, occupy that city, aud there proclaim the truth of the Islamic doctrine with peace and good will to all good men; while all the evil men, and all the Christians who refused to accept the truth, would be distroyed and sent to hell. -In those days lions, camels, bears and sheep shall live tc gether in peace, and a child playing with serpents shall be unhurt. Journalistic Rascality,

‘Tue ‘Patriot, we regret to observe, is becoming lost to all sense of decency. It manifests a total disregard for truth and winks at slander. With impunity it hurls to the four winds statements which to its knowledge are false aud damaging, and when ‘a retraction is demanded it endeavors to give the falsehoods wider publicity. We give the following as an instance from the Patriot of the 7th inst:

‘Here is an item for Tue Examiner to explain ewey for the local voverument. The Halifax Herald says: *'A luuatic named Simon Acorn died in the P. E. Island asylum on the 24h ult. The corpse was taken to the ceme tery ard left on a snow bank for a day or two previous to interment.’ ”

The editor of the Patriot is as well aware of the falsity of this paragraph as the sexton of Sherwood Cemetery. We are informed that the undertaker waited on the Patriot editor the day after the report was circulated, aud showed him a certificate from the sexton to the effect that the corpse of poor Acorn was in-

terred the eveuing if arrived at the cemetery. Notwichstanding” this, the Patriot would not retract. It allowed

the talsehood to go abroad uncontradicted avd when it was copied from its columns into the Proviucial press, it re- copied it, and exclaimed: “Here is au item for Tae Examryer to explain away for the Local Government.” The spirit of the Patriot cavnot be better illustrated than by this piece of jourual- istic rascality,

Since writing the above, we see that Mr. Laird has apologised for circulating the report.

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—We bin that Mr. Martin, the Government candidate, is meeting with

greet success in the southers ead vf the

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the ancient with the

THE DAILY RXAMINER,

that there was nothing in the Koran re-!

“Belfast district.

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A large and influential | |

meeting at Caledonia, on Tuesday, was

almost unanimously in his favor. At Pleasant Valley, on ‘Thursday, the reso- lution in favor ef the Government candi-

i'date was cerried without a dissenting ‘voice. Mr. Prowse was present at both meetings.

Our Advertisers.

Wim. Dodd advertises a sale of Bank and Gas Stock at his auction room on Tucsday next at twelve o'clock.

D. McNeill announces that the annual meeting of the Auxiliary Bible Society will be held in the Y. M. C. A. Hall next Mon- day evening at half-past seven.

Prof. Vinnicombe’s benefit concert takes place in the Y. M. C. A. Hall on the even- ing of the 12th inst. The programme, which is published elsewhere, is excellent.

Dr. McSwain intimates that, failing health, he is obliged to 'reling uish his practice at Belfast, aud requests per- sons indebted to him to settle up as soon as

possible.

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BIBLE SsOCIET'Y.

HE ANNUAL MEETING of the P. E Island Auxilisry Bible Society will be held in the Hall ofthe Y. M. C. A, Char. lottetown, on MONDAY EVENING, i'!th inst., at 7.20 p. m. The publie are cordially invited,

D, McNEILL, Secretary.

Ch’town, Feb 9, '84.—2i.

CARD.

R. McSWAIN being compelled through |

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