Mackere per yy ‘ alo 1.2 to 2.40 } tT tT et . 2 (os | FRE | NURAMGE ‘ es r M 2.11 to 2.48 } i POULTRY i e <eNnS ) ‘ £0..0 to 0.50 ere C<AMINER. so Youle Yom, |, MCKENZIE & STUMBLES, Sead a Auctioneers, Commission Merchants b aliasuaaa ~ ©otton, UND GENER ‘ENTS OFFICE: tENERAL AGENTS, ; No bird-song fieated down the hill, The tangled bank below was still ; | ~ } THE RIVER PATH, | Norustle from the birchen stem, | Norippte from the water's hem. The dusk of twilight round us e¢rew, | We felt the falling ofthe dew; ; For from us, ere the day was done. Che wooded hills shut out the sun, {| But onthe river’s farther side i; We saw the hill-tops glorified, A tender glow, exceeding fair, A dream of day without its glare. sooner Queen and King Streets, | 77 Norih Side Queen Square, \ st repaid by Charlottetown, - - P. E. Island. | 5 : ll t October 18, 1875 ly ' a ual Cr1,.0t RA Tes WILLIAM DODD, j ie Pa Comimiission YWierchant and, ns al AUCTIONEER QUBEN SQUARE, oO CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND. iis may be made up at any time, bu:| CARVELL BROS., wee eee AUGTIONEERS. ......-7'= Commission Merchants, | AND oYseaeasls GENERAL AGENTS. -sawe-s |“ _ | Lower Queen St. Charlotetown, P, E. 1. secoe-s 9? F. M. CAMPBELL, Peer eae oe _- General Merchant m1 & =e ef) COMMISSION AGENT, senauescc | S| 4U0CZ2IONEFR & BROKER ee) = | TRINITY CORNER, GEORGETOWN, P, BE. I. SESARUES « a AGRNT FOR THE 2252022555 \. ¢ Standard Life Insurance Co. Se eweae ci Mel Sept. 1, 1873. ly z Pitt t BEE | ee 5 55.,.. . . 4 HASZARD BROS., 7 Ssasseu2 - 2 COuMmissida Merchants & Auctioneers, (3 SSS SESE SE * FORWARDING, MANUFACTURERS, ; - on AND ... - = General Agents, 61 WATER STREET, Opposite Merchants Bank, pi cg : E = \Charlettetown, - - - - REL ALMA NAC FOR NOVEMBER 1875, J. E. Haszarp, | Horace Haszarp. ‘ —:0:—— , rai byes eng ag evn oe. REFERENCES: Messrs. Greenshields, Son & Co., Montreal, Messrs. W. & R. Brodie, Quebec, Measrs. J. S. Farlow & Co., Boston, Henry Lawson, Esq., Halifax, N. 5. Hon. Daniel Davies, Charlottetown, P. E. I. i} day, Sh. 17m., a. m., W. r, 19th day, Sh. 251m. } » Beales $2m., p. Bie u M_A ET IN I should be shrunk into the dimensions of | Ww thus the damp, the chill, the gloom: } With them the sunset’s rosy bloom; While dark, through willowy vistas seen, The river rolled in shade between. t | From out the darkness where we trod, | We gazed upou those hills of God, | Whose light seemed not of moon or sun. | We spake not, but our thought was one. We paused as if from that bright shore Beckoned our dear ones gone before ; } | | } And stilled our beating hearts to hear The voices lost to mortal ear. Sudden our pathway turned from night; The hills swung open to the light; Through their green gates the sunshine showed, A long, siaut splendour downward tlowed Down glade and glen and bank it rolled; It bridged the shaded stream with yold; And, borne on piers of mist, allied The shadowy with the sunlit side. ‘* So,” prayed we, “ when our feet draw near The river dark, with mortal fear, ‘And the night cometh chill with dew, O Father! let thy light break through! ** So let the hills of doubt divide, So bridge with faith the sunless tide! ‘* So let the eyes that fail on earth On thy eterna bills look forth; « And in thy beckoning angels know The dear ones whom we loved below.” EERE Pa elit ALES ES A ee EE a a a Ba ~ Ee I IETS ot TE VOL, XXVI. CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MON , { ss ; ¢ 2 3 ‘ 7 Y 3 aalae : i! it ’ U , i 1 | i ¢ i’ BUSINESS CARDS. at hie ______ POBTRY. ___.__...|so truly do I honour him, that I should | ty’ DAY, NOVEMBER POSTAGE PREPAID. Eh 22, LS75. t NO, 47. | ? } i § ard nth do lad i hi i ansvrescsing the limits oath n eo. | THE me Ppar etal . , , pp + . . ‘iw | love him, so ardently mire him, and | transgressing the limits ef youthfal mode Pere PRESENT STATE OF TUE BRIT» | the date of his first joining a training ship | think meanly of her or him, who did not T oo iy rin " + i : ‘I wish, Plorenee, you could have a sister of his, perchance, I would be will- | ing to make her an exception. tions, as he looked on the ‘You ought to hear bim defending the! who were gatiiered close : rights of the South. You must not think, ; mng. | because I speak of moonlight rides and gay} ‘ No, no,’ ex aimed several voices, * pray ted in hearing, | soirees, that we court amusement at the ex | go on, we | | pense of study, Weare the hardest stu- | dents in the institution. iam obliged to} Give ws facts; they are more convincing than rhetoric.’ | study harder than Warland, Iie seems to| ‘ Un the river whose rapid current made | take in every thing, no matter how difficult | the music oi my beyh , continued War | orabstruse it may be, bya kind of intuition. | land,’ there was a burning boat Instead of being obliged to toil up the rugs ged steeps of knowledge step by step, he really has found « royal way. plumed with the pinions of the eagle, and bears him up towards the goal for which we are panting below. ‘ About a week ago Judge Cleveland gave a dinner to his students, and invited the principal gentlemen of the place to meet Among those who were exposed to a fiery death there vw only one iady companied hy Ilis spirit is | megro girl, The pilot, who chanced to be : negro, with a chivalry th honour io a white man, rushed toa lady, wnd told her if she would iter him to ftas- ten a rope round her bo ly, aiso to his own, he could And my girl too,’ cri and attached it ? i save her life, i-he, titrning to the us. When Mrs, Cieveland, who presided } side. ‘1 sorry mistress, 1 cannot take but with true southern grace and hospitality, | one.’ * Then I die with her,’ said tie heroie | had retired, the conversation gradually as-| woman, ‘I cannot leave her to perish 'sumed a political turn, There was one gentleman present whose prejudices against ‘the south are very bitter, and for whose Save yourself. lask not jife on such terms." The Airiean, more anxious than ever to res- opinions | have very little respect, Yet nd bore them hoth | he has reputed intellect, and a high stand- | ing in society. I saw him in earnest con- | versation with Marcus. (ne by one, those | who were conversing with others leit their companions and drew near the cynosure, | those that the \imig | I was anxious to become a listner myself, | by the midnight hu: for | saw that he was excited by the dark | ing. spot in his eyes and the elight quiver of his lips, a peculiarity of bis which gives great depth of expression to his eountenance oe when speaking. | know not what had been previously said, but the first words I caught were these, evidently in answer to some- thing advanced by his antagonist : neon ‘{ do not pretend to justify those who Unie within a vear or two uzo, we have | first votled this shadow on our land, My | b€eh aceustome:! to thunk of conscience would not permit me todo it, | louis and the | The evil as it now exists is too widely exx superhuman exertions through the roarins | flames and the whelm, ipg waves, ihis ison!y one of » thousand prove the strong atiection existing between ’ ity bas distinguished nd the tints of morn. Delaval,: why sre you silent? You ! | | | might speak volumes for you have myziads under your own svvay,’ NEW. CALEDONIA. AND THER. FIH ee _ q Arf) in a New Cale-| 1 lies » | Isiands, when we di¢@j} think at all of these spots of habitable land . | in the far away ~ LITERATURE. RRND III SI OI OI IND ND A A NI NINA NN MARCUS WARLAND ; tended, to deeply rooted, to admit of the South Pacific ocean, as | remedy you propose. You may eradicate weeds from your garden, the tares from your wheat, but this is like the iibrous grass so interwoven into the soil it binds together places where occasionally some unfortunate | shipwrecked sailors became food for nibals, or where devoted missionaries went | to share a similar fate. To hear of the | } OANs } OR, THE LONG MOSS SPRING destinies CHAPTER VII.—Continved. ‘ On my word, Florence,’ thus wrote De- lava! to his sister, in the midst of snow and | ice, and frost; ‘on my word, | wish you | were here, ‘his is the very region for one of your free, glad, brave spirit. | thought a cubic inch, congealed into an impene- | trabl cake of ice; but never did I feela| more extended sense of vitality, a fuller | consciousness of jubilant existence. | feel as if I could wrestle with the snow-spirit | and mock its merriest gambols. If you| only knew the rapture of a moonlight sleigh- ride ! Last night Marcus and myself join- eda party that went out about seven or | - i) ‘ ’ May 3, 1875. SUN MOON HilGil DAY'S Cy T LY WERK Seas levate? Saw'th INSURANCE. se sets Re i ks HMuUuMA li M i y G& 47441; 6 22M 9 54 . \ +> iY : «4 f l 51 sii*y "i os (a l $ 4- 8 57° 1 53 4: ‘ 5 10 2 4! $2 ‘ ~~ « by 40 OF _ ‘ ¢ ii ‘ i 5 . " . 2M 4 4 37 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. a ‘ ” 5 5 34 cate ae 2 — os a | BOARD OF DIRECTORS: ' ‘a 2s : — a: , Rosert LonawortnH, Esq., President, ! . on ae Hon. Jas. DUNCAN, : aon on on Hon. L. C. OWEN, ‘ 7 ° ‘ lion. A. A. MclonaLp, 9 . ‘ Hon. J. C- Pours, ; ol V4 . a ; Promas HaNpRansn, Esq., on A 19 1 84 es GeonGe R. Beer, £sq. fe , "a Risks taken daily at their offlce, corner 0 a4 “ ” ¢ | Great George and Lower Water Streets. 14?) 4 38 4 F. W. HALES, Secrretay. } Ch’town, March 22, 1875—ly y 3 ' 2 Zi G 32 8 SY pone focway Is 4 232 74 37 oF LAWRENCE “so © Marine Insurance Co. a 4 is i ¢ 47 ory fuday ter io osem | 4% PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. $300,000. = Authorized apital, = am 143.950. PRICES CURRENT, Subscribed Capital, - - BOARD OF DIRECTORS: ARCHIBALD Kennepy, President. Joun F. Roperrson, Axvremas Lorp, P. W. H¥NDMAN, RaLrvu B. PrAKE, Yuomas Morris, GeorGt DPD. LONGWORTTH. Risks taken daily at their office, Exchange Building. FREDERICK W. HYNDMAN, Ch’town, March 22, 1875.—ly Secretary. Ch'town, Nov. 15, 1875. FISH. ul 3.50 to 6.00 4.87 to 6.4% | 0.43 to 0.72 KREADSTUFFS it Flour, per ib 0.03 to 0.3 5.50 to 7.00 a ” WW to 3.00 U to 8.50 “py [OMDLDS we BOABDS. 4) et LB] 1 to 0.94 0.24 to 0.35 IMPERIAL 0 ~Ato 0.40 voor Fire Lusurance Company @, 40 to 0.55 | silk shaded, love-diffusing, violet eyes at /souled, warm-hearted daughters of New \ | | j eight miles from here toa dance. We were ali in double sleighs, six in each, pretty | closely packed together in buifilo skins and if you had seen the brightseyed, rosy- cheeked maiden who sat next to Marcus, to say nothing of the one at my right hand, I fears pang of jealousy would have shot through your bosom. ! tell you bright heiress of Wood Lawn, the stars themselves don’t shine more brilliantly, or wiak more mischeviously, than the eyes of these north- ern damsels during these moonlight rides through drifting snow, and the music of the bells that ring multitudinously on the necks of the spirited horses is not more inspiring than their joyous merriment. Ifit were not for a certain pair of down-dropping, } ‘ ; | } } } the South, that have irretrievably stolen away my heart, I should certainly be capti- vated by some of these high-spirited, whole- England. i see winter here is the season of hilarity and amusement. There has been a constant succession of parties lately, mostly, I believe, in honor of your humble servants. Warland is the lion of the seas son. The extraordinary attraction he cars ries with him, that captivated at one glance a certain little wild, dark girl of my ac- quaintance, that riveted me, when I[ first beheld him on the recitation bench, dis- mal place as it was, draws magnetically to- wards him, men, women and children. | find my lesser lustre completely merged in his superior brightness. I will give you an instance. The other night we attended a gathering at the hospitable mansion of Judge Cariton, I shall neyer more prate of hospitality as il it were the peculiar, the exclusive grace of the south. Never have l seen it more cordially, nobly exercised than in this land of snow. Perhaps you will say they think we are the sans of rich southera nabobs, and court our wealth and aliance. No such thing. Where is less of the aristocracy of wealth here than at any place I ever saw. The only sovereignity admitted is that of mind. And Judge Cleveland really reigns on a throne, whose : BAT | OF LONDON. email pteces) per th $0.08 to 0.1 | Subseribed & Inyested Capital, per i) (bv the quarcer J. vo OY. } ; * iy 0.12 to 0.16 : 2008) £1.9G65,000 Stg- r il 0.05 to 0.09 | —_——— rt ’ 0.3 to 0,09 | eri 0.08 to 0.12 | PHENIX svenss) 0.904 to 0.74 vik 05 INSURANCE COMPANY ' MISCELLANEOUS } ical 0.0 to 1.00 | Ov BROOKLYN. N,¥ ee 0/0 to 0.78 | Cash Assets, - - - $2,015,385.84. rit P pel ib by the tub u 6 to 0.19 | sif—ekins, per ip 6.4 to O.18 | se (new milk) per Ip 0.14 100.16 | The above Offices being of UNDOUBT- a rrE oe a noe} uD STANDING, guarantee perfect } i. t - rf a 0 vO to 0.24 security 7 pee. fg Payment ty n Ve 0.00 to 0.00 0 4085683, “75 Ul goles 19.0) to 11) De ACHED DWELLINGS insured for Us pe 0.25t0032| One, Two, or Three Years en SPE- jiomespun, (uen’s wear)per yd. 0.05 to 1.00 CIALLY ADVANTAGEOUS Homenpany (women's de )ner 34,00 bo. 0 TERMS. i! a i] ] per yar 0 O.AG . : pe; 0.12 to 0.16 FENTON T. NEWBERY, Wats, per bush 0.49 to 0.93 AGENT j toes r bushel! 0.25 to 0.32 a ee Pe Ba ey, pet Ib 0.08 to 0.04 Jan. 18, 1874. ly Sheepskins 0.32 to 0.40! ——_--————————— ieee te J 22° THE LIVERPOOL & LONDON jips, pe bush 0."0 to 0.275 te 0.17 10 0.28 | AND CLOBE VOW OPEN! —[NSURINCE COMPANY “International Hotel,” Central Street, humimersiae, P. EB. Island. Fire AND LIFE. } | Invested Funds, Ist Jan’y., 1874, $21,628,356 | Deposited with Receiver Geuer- al of Canada, 162,800 Other Investments in Dominion of Cavada, - i | Wish to tuform the public that 1 have | ned one of the best as well as | mmodious Hotels on this 367,091 the most co Island. Lam prepared to aecommodate the | me aere ' ling public with a first-class tabje, FAIR RATES. ny apartinents, and good stabling, . ; . where their horses will be tho- | ‘Prompt & Liberal Settlements. ittended to, foundations are everlasting as the hills, — yea, far more so; for the perpetual hills, | will bow, and the elements, melt with fer- ‘ing the earth where it grows.’ ' ils,’ replied Marcus, with graceful grayity, replied the geatloman, must expect to be trade and navigation retuons of these is- lands and to receive a civeulsur that you cannot tear it up, without destroys printed | giving pars ticulars ef the same, and actually ‘ Better let it be destroyed at once,’ said | there, is almost as gre ° ‘ t asurprise to us 9s | his opponent, ‘ than haye it kept together | . : a aging ott ‘ IListo some peorie} England ri ea ass! by such an unholy cement. eat ee anidhs oe a } 1 buffiloes ave not to] . ‘ rOuUgiA CG WOOUs neal | as a eireular, | ed ; ie . sured that be: ‘Time, the great rectifier of ail human " orn be found reanias t ‘can alone accomplish the work. Every | sare es tn i ge rash and hasty effort will only make the | Pee Selah feat ells Daeints ee AE operation more difiicult and protracted, He | Willi ah Pilla dete who is actuated by philanthrophy and aj... — a oe sincere desire to ameliorate the condition | of slaves, will only deprive them of the! blessings they already enjoy, and retard | Secretary,’ and printed by Mr vuka.Ovalan, Kill, The circular is weil printed on good | paper, we can understand at ouce that the press maust sirenuy have begun to exercise - i , é : : i , | its influence where but lately cannibalism | the period of their emancipation. Should | : re 2385 + i . | Was the custom. New Caledonia is a Frene} a servile war be the consequence their ruin | ; er, | penal sottiememont, but already there ate would be inevitable, as well as the destruc. lalla hates . tion of thousands of lovely and innoves! 8A mes t i ’ te as ee ae n ms beings, whose ¢glaims to humanity seem fors | Blea ial ? : ii te vee gotten in a wild and burning zeal.’ ee ee * These who live on the edge of a crater, iy appears that 16) vessels | entered Noum+: i, the pring: year 1875, and 131! vessels L port, in the | in 1874. During] . these two years tae commerca ol the island destroyea by the voleanic power that ejects se : as carried On vy ob breuchand 242 big the boiling lava. But sucha state of exis- | ¥*° ©?" oo ee ae ' | seen forget me in his presence, unless it might “y the graceful blush that mantled over the } | i i face of the young champion of our institn. | it would have done |} ) such officers as Sommere, Dickone or Admis | cue one so disinterested and humaine, made | instances that might be brought forward to! > | deck. ;auce were simply unlimited. | WQLK can b3 ISH NAVY {From tre Toronte Nation.) , inen Lave altered entirely, leaving but very little of what was seen then in their char. |actersand attributes. Education has been developed to an extraordinary degree umong a class which thirty years ago may | been said to have been altogether unedu cated, On board every ship afloat, the daily papers are greedily read, cussed, local events criticised with a free-~ ‘, dom which wowld have entailed summary reproof if not punispment in the days of » 1) Roxer ey : ; ral boxer. Jivery man can read or write | and the often diffieuit authors which men | { afloat float study and pore over, evinces # mars | j { vellous improvement in naval education, Drunkenness is not prevalent. sobriety } the rule—in facta steady level of uni ornt- | ity is found amongst them { few sailent points , The men have knowing ene man, you | pretty well snow ail his comrades, and they aim ntend aitem a dead levei in their pubs | lic lite. The old Wardogs who cleared the | sea of all intruders a generation back, and |) gave England a maritime reputation which | has lasted till now, sre known no more and in their place has arisen en entirely new | system, which we will proceed to discuss in | the present articie, whieh is based on ine | | formation contained in English and United | States journals, entitled to sperk on this subject with authority, lhe seamen and mariners of half a cen- tury back have been ably described by Mars rayat I Few could read or write, and the main who was able to do borh was looked upon asa Solon and general smanuensis of the whole Sailors then were grand, big, warm- hearted, grown-up childred, work upon their feelings, cause them even to shed tears, yet (eir courage ond endur- They were sea-dogs—severely treated but loving the hand that chastised them. They would fols | low a lsader to death, but when out ot a| ship they were reckless, roysteripg, spend- | thrifts, and betook themselves afieat at the | Creat availahia opnortinity ae : 1 urst 4VAlaG bee opportuniy. But Jack and | Jop—the glue Jacket and Marine of 1875! 1 are utterly dissimilar to their predecessors, Jack of tosday is a man of 26 years of age very steady as a rue, wel! behaved. clean!ys jand sober, ahominably conceited, and per. | SOY vily Yain to the jas, degree ; thinks he | cin do snythipg, because he has 1 smatter- ing of everything; careful cf bis money: ; generally amarsied man, and proud of his | home and children, very much inclined to he an eye-servant, owing to those above him having s0 much power over his present : md future that he is apt to look to them | in | personally for approval, instead of doing his uty straight forwardiy; by no means bard. vorking, although a wonderful amount o/ Taking | sini 2s he is, made what he is by the exer- queesect out of him, cise itself, for he commences in boyhood, } he i3 a fair specimen of a sailor and of the shomo. he Merine ia balfasailor and Polities are dis- | ' noble scholar,’ and became the | You might } | scourge them if they rebetied—you could ; in @manner which is calculated to make | ham think of himseijt asa good deal better ; than anyone with whom he comes in con- in no class in England has a greater | Ct. Boye who have left pertups a squalid eager listners | change taken place during the last thirty | 2O™® find theureives fed, clothed, and uni the charmed | years than in that of the Royal Navy, The “e#ted im a woy their wildest dreams never reached, soon learn to think them- selves of itaportance and imagine that the !navy of the *country cannot do without | them. is perfunctory ; it comprises seameuship, gunnery, ritle,sword, lheir teaching j and company drill, and those taught have simply a hese subjects. They neye an erement of vanity, seli-oone , cel and inenbordanation, and are inclined *mittering of t } tO sWarger and teaik bombestic nonsense. All this was wholly unknown under the olit is a matter worthy of deep whether ail the elaboration h we brve alluded, end which if out the time afforded for the dse subjected to it, should inot be revised and more of the old systera | introduced, Ynere is certainly a email | preporiion of b ; System ; and it ; COMSideration / tO Wh: offair rat proiciency of ti » jickets who come up to jthe siuided ceyuired, The mcwrer they we they to ihe grand o)d loveabie class of by gone days, and wish that the old majority of seamen may be of this order are to it the ne « ‘ t { officers as a rule ind a email exception rate OF pry, 7a, § * “ay, Vice sey suggest, viz, for able So that, with good conduct badges, they may bave j Minority the nc. per dime, and other rates in proportion ; should be in order to give the men less time on shore: third, barracks for sailors When on shore, in order to ens second, that tnoere © ; a seagoing training ehipes * jsure thew perfect training in infantry {roovements, efe.; and fourth, a rise ia of amount of pension for long service. As the navai force of seamen and mas vines exist at the present time, high paval authoricies consider that it is neithersuffi- cient in number or suited '6 meet apy Boys sre kept too iong in training ships im the first place their education is too comp!ex and cons extra emergency. ‘ dueted so variediy and dilsiorily as to rem. | . . . . : der their proficiency in all the subjects taught a matter of Limpossibility—tacts which are pretty proved by the treomency of in the Royal lastly by ‘Vanguard * entirely OF» fairly CaAtasliopes oe ‘ ‘ Oo. iate vears and ; baatet $ +} ' tne sinking of tae none whehse Joss was aAimost jing to the non.operation of one of the | princips! means for keeping a ship afloat, viz, the delay a closing the a man@uvre which should evident'y have been complet= ed almost as s00n as Ordere i. Oa the navy of England depends her place in the world + and we most heartily wish that every one and rule, of all classes ot could be brought to take a iively, inteiiigent, aud impartial interest occasioned waterstight compartments - undey her swa¢ the comunity, o A veligious war is threstened in Malaya. At tne Union Hovsr, 28 Queen Soree, is the largest and best stock of Meerschaum, i Eniar ond fancy Pipes, wholessie and retail, aso fresh Bedeaue Oysters. Sin Tre Onpest Bretrm Manvscript.—The two s- the fatter chiefly Britis? iin lel ‘ ; mm ancient manuscripts of the BiWe ¢ . ships: the iatter, chiefly British, counting j Most ancient pls tence would not be life to me. It would be tao t | haifa soldier, and has ail the soldier's eio- | kmown, esys the new edition of Appleton’s cal : ariy three-iourtns OF the who.e tonnag . s ? a . : : living death, 1 could neither eat nor sleep | [°°"Y ** ty 5°: | jidity—not generally well-behaved on shere | “0/4/02 CU'G NOW Ine iurse of publication, } 7 4) ees eats wae ot : J 32 there | . i . n IS7TS the imports were yaiuea at 4 7. . we the Codex Ninaiticus of the im erie, with the groans of these unhappy creattires | * ‘ , |_§ but careful of bis money, and Lele . . P on 8 ’ PPY 08 Tons sterling: and in 1874 at £503.273 shows |. t careful o: money, and proud of Library ot St. Petersburg, and the Codex ringing in my ears ; with their tears mois~ } ‘ ’ | his corps, and of the motto Pere mare pere| Vatieanus of the Vatieau Libr ry at Rome 2 ces wg AN mecrease Of Gver One ionitna | ‘ : ee ae oe ae » ’ ’ tening the bread their shackled hands were -e ee on rs Ek toxvom which has distinguished it, The old | Sota of which are believed to have been these Imports sometlning wan CRE | written the fourth preparing for my lips. i should expect every mouthful would choke me, pect my dreams would be haunted by the spectress of accusing conscience” ‘lam very young,’ said Wariand, looking earnestly at the group now gathered round him, ‘and my words may have less weight on that account; but, nevertheless, | hope that truth will be their passport, Young as | am, I have been on many broad pian- tations, and witnessed the discipline of t heed ion. third came ditect from Franee in 1873 and @litilemore than one-tlird in PS74.! i The remainder is French merchandise imported | but it is believed that nauch ef tuts is really y3 ; ; bd io . , ; 9 OlncmasayY Geseriped As om abroad: of British origin, shipped trom Sydney, New South Wales. £35,000 odd, or only about one-for of the imports ; suggests the question, what becomes of ait} rhe exports are stated at | irteent!] and the circular shrewdly | hundreds and hundreds of slaves. I have the indigenous products of New Caledonia, | alaves. ne over and above what sre consumed on the! seen them in the household, | have seen them in the field, and seldom while engag- ed in their labours have | heard one groan of anguish, or witnessed one tear of sorrow. They sing and jest over their tasks, and wear far happier and more smiling faces | than the hired servants employed to per- form your daily work. They are not taxed beyond their strength and endurance. . Self-interest alone, if no higher, better mo- situated as pers Coma ercial faci bie Bey tive, ould induce the planter to hushand At the port of Levuka the imports for 1816 the strength that is to till his soiland ga. ther in its wealth, That there are instanc- es where the master abuses his power, and the African feels the heavy weight of bon- dage, | do not doubt , for where is the s0- cial or political institution which tyranny has not abused and power perverted ? The taskmaster of your factories often oppress. | es the pale operative that toits over the loom, and the master of the household sometimes rules with an ironrod, I only contend for the general law of kindness and humanity,’ ‘ Still you must acknowledge,’ continued the gentlemen, ‘ that the only bond exist- ing between the enslaver and the slave must be exerted power on cne axle and en= : forced obedience on the other ?’ | do have t bus : : {the articles ‘No, sir,’ exclaimed Warland, with a island? In the case of a penal settlement] no very satistactory an-swer to tne question | is likely to be obtained but that the iss land has a favorable climete and a produc. tive soil is certain, The fii isfands, iying in neariy tue same latitude, but a littie nearer the equator- from 15° to 20°? south -are very Gifferent!y | and 1874 respectively were £87655 and | £99661 Yds 4 12s 8d and £99,594; showing a considerable both. During the i;amd the exports £54,502 ssme time increase in the resident white population of the isuas fell from about 5,000 to 1600; ewing + ry , } no ‘ . { . to pour cal uncertsiz i) im@ whe chiefly Lhe trade is, with trifling ex- ber, 1874. tralasian Colonies, the of export is cotton, which comslitutes in half of the value sbout 1 reasonable extent, cane, sugar and other articles of tropical produce, people living as far from the equator us we (be insports, again, are usually wanted tn tropical » onuce in | vent heat ; but the mind of man shares the nates. | ment about Warland is not surprising ; but for me, if | were made of gold and studded | with diamonds, they could not cherish me | more kindly. But in his presence, as I said before, my fine gold isalldim. 1! have lost ‘the thread of mystery. ‘The other night at Judge Carlton's, when he entered the room the walls were lined with living blossoms, biooming as gaily aa if it were all summer abroad. We sought the lady of the house to pay our respects, as induty bound we ought, Of course, the eyes of the lady _ were fixed on the splendid face and form of Warland, and beheld only his graceful bow, though I am sure I put my best foot fore~ most on the occasion, After a while she asked Warland in a very sweet voice, ‘ How is your friend, Mr. Delaval? I hope he is not indisposed, that he did not accompany you’—and there I was, right at his elbow, looking steadily at ber with my big black eyes, Iwas but smote in the sunbeams —a little twinkling planet, lost in the ef- i | i eternity of the Being from whom it ema. ling like arich, deep.toned instrument. | That they should make an excite | | countries, many of which we p: Canada, We can scarcely see, m the maemediate ‘Tacknowledge no such thing. hore is | gagure, any pro-pect of a direct trade with the bond of affection, gratitude, tenders | these far distant isies of the ocean, but ness and esteem, The dark background of | ghen the time comes for the opening up slavery exhibits some of the most beauti- | of pircct trade which must some day heightening colour, and hia fine voice swel- | ; character, and into that dark ground itseil | the Dominion and Australia, these islands ‘ est colours that adorn the landscape of life. | .ontinent of the Southern Aliow me to speak of my own experience. contribute no small share ol if. In very early years, myself and iniant sister | .ooiai and political conditions there are not were deprived of a mother's care, and pes | i144 could be wished for, but the diffienl- culiar circumstances threw us on the kind- | ness and fidelity ofan negro nurse, With) all a mother’s self-sacrificing tenderness fore by British coloniets; and changes that she watched over and cherished us,and with | 204 to be fifty yeers iu progress are now true filial and devoved love have we repaid |. .complished in five or ten years, her maternal cares. The fair hands of my as ocean, Oi course Must ties presented sre not greater then have been metand vanquished many times be- _——o--> - _—— a hundred slaves, are now scarred by the Sunday, for New York, ou bowd the steon flames, into which she plunged them to. er Abyssinia. a be as save the life of a poor mulatto girl whom | eiste ot nace oan 6220 5 000 far enbenn 68 ey as ¢} mi the year te 22,08"), in ¢ #8 she tenderly loved.’ This is only one of the estimates. the many instances of generous self-devo- : The destruction by fire of a whoilessie tiou to the welfare and happiness of others clothing factory, at Tamworth, | ba a gunner, thle to take his place in hand!- check put upon land transactions in Octos } ceptions, carried on with the Dritish Auss | . ’ + t primc)pai articie | i . > | artizans, servants, numbering altogetber in | whole. Spices | é . 5 ’ might be grown in these islands to any | ful and touching traits of tho southern } ostabtiched between the Pacilic Province of | are brought some of the brightest and soft~ iving in the track towards the graat island: | adopted mother, the mistress of more than, Cardinal MeUloskey left (Queenstown on | Stafiord- | {feuds between Jack and Joe exist no longer— their feelings are very much in | common, for that which presses on the one presses on the other, ardis required ] in the Royal Navy. . a: ast boy ina training ship, and is taught | when there all that will be required of him | when drafted into a sea-going ship. He | must ‘ hand, reef and steer,’ be a isir rigg- er, be able to pull or sail a boat, be an adept in sounding with the lead; he must | ing and working a heavy guniu a ship at ea, under ail ciroumstances ; a'so a infaniry soldier, able to take part in a field or rocket Then in addition, he battery. ' A very high stand. ' for Biue Jackets and Marines | to be one of the fil A Blue jacket begins | | { i ' ' i | containing 146 leaves of tine thin velluaa. ' ! about the middle of ticus—so called i¢in 1769) from the itherine, on SLoant Simai— ia supposed by lischendorf, its discoverer, ty copies of the Scriptur- es which the Emperor Constantine direct- j ed to he made for Hyzantium, in the year 231, under the care of Eusebius of Cresaroa. t consi-ts of $45) leaves of very fine vellum inade eitner from the skins of antelupes or | of asses, exch ieaf being 14) inches long by 1233 inches wide jhe early history of the | Vatican manuscript is not known but it appears m the first eatalogue of the Vatican i ir is & quarto yolume, ceitury A. D ine Ou | beeause it was obtains convent of Mt. C Cy + . 14 LAOTary, iG id, Both each 104 incues long and 10 broad, | manuscripts are written in Greek unecials, leiters, are without spaee be- Or capital } itween the words, ard have no marke ef | punctuation. must be able to knot and splice wash hie clothes and merid them, polish, paint, and scrub, and in fact periorm a host of servic. *s whigh may be required of him he Marine mnet bea thorough soldier in every , sense of the term, anda gunner as well, andi be able to til the same peaceiul AVOCaLIGNS as the sa lor, such as cooKing and the like. Now let us cansidar how many Jackets and Marines in the Royal Navy; Biue some up to the very bigh standard requir. ed. Allowed tor in this years estimates are 29 500) Bis From this number muat be | large number of ihe nov-combatart class, men who do not work tne guns, stokers, round numbers about 15)0 men. We ) must further take out the iads and ai! the | young seamen between Ue age of I> and wideh | 22—atout 7,000, and this leavee about 12, - 1000 men, of whom perhaps, sbout 4.000 | men are seamen gunners, who have been thorsughly dxilled in the Naval Schools of Portsmouth and Piymouth, to these may be added perhaps another 4,000, who, hav | ing been tanght by gunnery instructors in the sbips they are serving, are called train- ed men, making $0}) men, and perhap- half of tbe may standard required. This leaves the Royal remainder reach the Navy o: England with in round numbers | about 10,000 sailors on which she can rely ier strength, therefore, depends saimost jentirely upon these, and future reduction, their work must he done, |.if done at all by a class of inferor training | land efficiency. Among the Marines there marine artery are 2,5(1) men of the almost a8 well able to work the gums 4s | the best-trained seamen. /ben we have 10,709 Light infantry, of which twosthirds may be taken as equalin knowledge to untpained seamen, giving about 7,0) inen Ofalithese numbers we bave 4 tot of something under 20,000 fighting men for | , . {service in the Royal Navy, and we belteye | > or the begin- | | that with these numbers we have put it in light. The y | srisesas to whether we have @ suflicienoy }ofmen for the ships we have affost; and its best quesiion ie Jackets and 13,500 Marines, | deducted a | allowing for a | naturally | ! rhs following are the contents of the Westminister Review, for Werober, recently republished by the Leonard Scots Publishes ng Ca., 41 Barelay Streer, N.Y ihe Marriage of Near Kin. ji, Quakerism. |. Lord Sheiburne, the Minister. V. The Religious Rdveation of Chil» dren. \. The Baroda Blunder, Vi, Montaigne. Vii. Physics and mony. Physiology of Har- Vitt, Theism. iX, Contemporary Literature / The writerin the first article diseuases | the evidenco for and against the marriage ,of near relations, and from the facts ad< j duced comes to the conclusion, that there isno rational grounds for the prohibition | of cousin marriages, Or marriages with de- ceased wives’ sisters. | Ashort survey of ‘Quakerism’ follows, jin which we pre told, almost with regret, {that the old-tashioned Quaker. is rapidiy | disappeaiing. And thatattera few genes ‘rations pecple will begin to ask, *‘ What are the Quaisers ?’ just as they a now ask, whe | were the Leripstetics, or the Essences. | Jue first voiume of the Life of Lord Shem | burne, afterwards first Marquess of Landee | downe, lately pubusbed, is the subject of } an article which gives inapy extracts bear- ‘ing on the politics and statesmen of the euly part of the reign of George IIT. ‘Tbe Religious Edueation of Childvea,’ | glances at tbe methods of religious mstruc~ ition in vogue, which are classed under three heads—The Doctrinal System, the ferroristic System, and the Morbid-Emo- tional System. al) being illustrated by | quotations from and references to various volumes devoted to the spiritual guidance oi the young, ‘t pots with emphasis te the importance of the influences which operate on the daily lite of enildrem im mouding the character, and complains ial patents ére disposed to relieve thems ecives of the ‘ weariness of personally cons | ducting the moral ana religious education of their children, by handing them over at } the earliest and most critical period of exe letauce to the charge Of persons only baif | educated,’ ; The fifth article isa further examination of the mistakes mace by the ludian Gos , ernment ti its dealings with ihe Guicwar Cf D4roaa; anudantacs Ola we have @ pors | trait of Sontaigne, suggested by a recent ediiion of his books. ) ‘Ting tithe remaining articles ez j plain themseives, sad as on analysis oF | summary of taem could not be satisfactor- p . ¢ } 8 Ol lee : . 2 . ‘ re a 3s ti Lown 600 bauds owt! bi ‘ bis - - : ‘ s : 7 : n connection with the House, are fulgence of day. When we moved round displayed by this admirable woman. pa oy suds OGt | shen we have to consider whether they iy condensed so as to come within the | Liquors of che very best quality,— all at) sive effected upon Pri- | among the living blossoms, the sweet wall~| ‘ This is indeed @ very uncommon in-|°* CMD N VE he foundered ateanj.{ 272 the:men of; thirty. gears ogo, 5 p900 N our disposal, we perforce content lioderate prices to sult the times. Insurance against Fire effected upo One of the crew of the foundered steam. | 4 ix they are positively equal to the ena | oursgives with saying that chey merit more tlowers, that fluttered as we approached, | stance,’ said the gentleman, : but there are : than passing attention. Peecived Farm Properties, for like roses at the coming of the zepbyrs, it | some noble, self-sacrificing beings who ‘Te | Monday morning, in the Straits ot Fuea. ergencies and requirements | of the fist | The perodicels reprinted by the Leonard W. J. 8. GLOVER, ‘ more years, © | Wa to him the fair heads inclined, towards | deem the selfishness of a whole generation. | Lie states that the ‘ Pacijic ’ was run into by | naval foree io the world, Nawal officers! Scott Publisuing Co., (41 Barclay Street, ‘ : Proprietor. One, Three or ) ' | him the ringlets bowed. Perhaps hereand There are some even in Sardis who have a ship in full pall, ;asarnie are adgerse to the elaborate t N. Y.,) are as follows: ih Leadon Quars —- ania 4 — | At Reduced Rates. there some very polite damsel would in- | not defiled their garments.’ | The oe per paid tip a for | system of training pursued.) they assert.) 4% 4) ey 'y re ‘ee-er, ad a PLAIN JOB AND BOOK) omce—Great George Street, Charlotte | quire, «Why Mr. Delaval did not comet} ‘This is not s-solitary example. [could Fre Dei’, ox double the whole tazaticn | Hist the blue jacket of tonday isinordinates | Um TY Oa ear for any one, OF omy PRINTING done at the town, P. E. I. a while I was lookingat her unutterable| tell of many more,’ cried my friend, ‘but 1| of the kingdom. _$587,000,000 is what | ly conceited and self-reliant, prone to eye- $15 for all, and the postage is prepaid by MINER OvPrice | Ch’town, J Pi eee ee things. To tell the truth, so dearly do 1 | fear I am engrossing the conversation, and | Americans paid tor liquors, | service, and treated when on board from | the publishers. . j ‘town, Ju ? . ‘ el hold Furniture_and er ‘Pacific’ was picked up on a raft, on} {call frow the public will be thankfully vate Residences, House