ee 0 tt ee Poscedte ae ace greene tae i ans oo mc: easter or ae in i aly na — sa nation ota ee “aa 5 sale 89 enn aeeren one Earns +! THE EXAMINER WOXDAY, FORENOON BY THE Ryaminer Printing & Publishing Ce. OFFICE: Corner Queen and King Strects. TE REM S—Per Annum, 61.62, if paid within the year—$1.$2, postage paid 62 It not paid within the year CLUB RATES. ve forwarded to » k Tes Examiner will = We Ba te. Provineial Legislatures against the cen- tralizing influences of the Dominion Par ilament; that no man could consistently act an independent part as a member of both former and the latter; and that the Hon TT. Heath Haviland is now a Senator of the Dominion, and a member of the House of Assembly, he should re- sign either the one or the other. No sen sible man will deny the truth and force of much contained in the modest Leader's Yet few who heard it, could help admiring the blushing effrontery with he to untruthful statements, and the exquisitely sarcastic Spec e h which gave currency style in which he denounce! two of the vlabe at the fullowlug rates per year—pay- ti ment strictly In advance most preminent members of his party. § copies one address, - - & 7.00 It is quite probable that the modest leader te ‘ - 12.00) did not know that a senator does not 18 17.00 5 a oe « a 20.00 | Teceive pay unless he attends to his Sena- Clube may be made up at any time, but not for a shorter period than one year ADVERTISEMENTS— Unul further notice, Advertisements will ye inserted at the following rates :-— 7 aware of its falsity. We conclude, there 1 square, one insertion, - - - 91.00 fore, that he was ignorant of the rule Each Continuation, - - 00.25 ; ; : Special Notices, perline,” - - 00.12] Which makes it necessary for a member | ACCOUNTS REENDERED tor subscriptions, Ist December, in each year; for standing advertisements étc.,1s? June, and Ist December, in each year; for transient advertisemenuts—when ordered est. ALL LETTERS sent by mall should be addressed ** Examiver Printing and Pub. Nehing Company,” Lock Drawer, 72, POST OFFICE, Charlottetown. Che Examiner. modest leader, declare that Senator sei eS | Haviland was acting a dishonorable part ‘ ° = : Ch’town, March *, 1874. in retaining, while the law allowed him, as i. alae his seat in the House of Assembly? Well FIRST ATTEMPTS might the two Opposition Legislative | Tux ineffable modesty of Mr. Louis H. Davies was conspicuously displayed in his first public attempt to lead the Oppos— tion. Even before the House of Assem- bly was properly in session, he found it | atterly impossible to resist the promptings ofhis retiring nature. The (Clerk of the House had barely read the resignation of the Speaker; the ‘‘olonial Seeretary had hardly moved that the resignation be re- ceived, when the youthful leader sprang to his legs and “congratulated the hon- orable gentlemen opposite on the new light which had recently dawoed upon them.” The blush of modesty mantled his check , the smile of modesty wreathed at Ottawa. Indeed, it hardly possible that he would have uttered a statement so palpably talse in the pre- sence of such a large number of educated torial duties and intelligent gentlemen, had he been Ottawa during at least thirteen days of the session before he can draw his allow- of a senator while he attended to the duties of his office in the Local Govern- ment and his position in the Loca! Legis. And then, while Senators Hay- thorne and Montgomery. both retain their lature. seats in the Legislative Council — how could even the youuthful and ineffably Councillors and Senators ejaculate, “ save us from the cutting sareasm of our youth ful Leader!” it isneedless to add that his ‘pretty speech ’? was answered. Mr. Brecken, in a brilliant address defended the position taken by Mr. Haviland. In + the course of his remarks, he stated that | the Government “ had taken the wind out of the Opposition’s sails ; and that a mea sure was being prepared, and would be submitted during the would secure the independence of the session, Legislature.”’ | Before concluding this article, we can. | not forbear expressing a hope that the | youthful und modest Leader, for whom SCT as | is of the Dowinion Parliament to stay at | ance, or he would not have charged Mr. | Haviland with enjoying the emoluments | which | minion Jaw, and enables our Banks to do a larger business on the same capital than could be done by them if chartered under that law. That the provisions of the Local Bank- }ing Law are such us guard the publie in— | terest, the state of our Banks fully prove | They have been of inestimable benefit to the public, and have also offered sufficient inducement to the capitalist to place his money in them and allow it to be manag~ ed by a Board of Directors to his profit aad to the public advantage. When we remember that it is but two | years and four months since the Mer— | ehants’ Bank of Prinee Edward | commenced business, and a'so bear in | large amount of money was lost, and trade for a time so completely prostrated that it took the better part of the year to | . recover, we think the management could not do less than congratulate the stock- | holders (as they have done in their report) on the prosperous state of the institution, that the stockholders | equally well satisfied with the manage- and have been ment is evident from the unanimity with which they have elected the same Board of Directors. _—om + AN IMPORTANT MATTER. which comes into operation on the 16th | | passengers shal’ be carried by water from one port of Canada to another, except in | British ships; und if any goods or pas- |sengers be carried contrary to this pro- *- in j vision, the master of the ship or vessel so carrying the same shall forfeit the sum of | Shall be forfeited as smuggled, and the Customs at the port to which the goods or passengers ure brought, until the penal- ty has been paid and the goods have been delivered up to be dealt with as goods forfeited This Act, if will prevent the steamships Somerset and A/- enforced, hambra from * breaking bulk ’”’ at any port on their route between Boston and | trade altogether. We need not say that such a result would be very detrimental! to the interests of the Provinee ; trust the will make some special provision to meet the British } sooner or later be procured to carry on Pominion Government ease steamers will, his lips, as he ivsinusted, in tones sub- | We possess a sincere re gard, wil! do better | the thriving trade opened up by the Boe- dued by modesty, that M: Maleolm Me- | in future. a ed | i: os : eat {ton and Gulf Ports Steamship Company ; Leod and Mr. E. J. Hodgson, the Attor- | VERCHANTS’ BANK OF PRINCE |b" in the meantime the commerce of ney Genera! sud the Solicitor General, the Colonial Secretary and the Adminis- trator of the Government, had all been wrong, and he, the youthful leader, had alone been right Had not those who are popularly keown as the foremost lawyers and the most experienced politicians in the Province, expressed the opinion that Hon. S F. Perry Speaker of the Honse of Assembly, could uot legally resign his seat to the representative of the Queen ? And had not \r. Louis Hl. Davies de- elared that he cou'd ? And did not the motion of the Hon. Colonial Secretary, which set forth that the House was with- out # Speaker, prove that the youthful, modest, blushing ieader of the Opposition had uttered an opinion, which was now acknowledged to be correct ? Here, in- deed, was cause for exultation; now, it ever, was a fitting time for his follow- ere to applaud—and they did applaud! But, the scene soon changed. noe motion earried. The members of the! Assembly waited upon the Administrator. Their Clerk announced the fact that the House was without a Speaker,and they re ceived command to return to their Cham- ber and elect one. Then a “new light dawned!" The Colonial Secretary rose and metaphorically drew v«ide the thick curtain of party prejudice which had so completely obscured the mental vision of the modest youth who leads the Opposi tion. He showed that the resignation which had been received was addressed, pot to His Honor the Administrator of the Government, but to “ Archibald Me- Neill, Esquire, Clerk of the House of Assembly; ” that Mr. Perry had resigned —not his seat as a representative of the people, but his office and position as Speaker of the House of A-sembly—and that the document was dated, not previous to the first Dominion election, but only previous to the last Dominion election. Hence he drew the conclusion that Mr. Perry had himseli tacitly veknowledged bis first resignation to be irregular; and that a legal light, brighter than that held up to him by the youthful leader, had at last lit up the crooked poth of the late Speaker, and showed him the right way That the notice of resignition to the Clerk of the House was «ll right and regular enough, the Colonial Secretary proved by citing precedent s— two from British and ove from Colonial history. But he pointed out that it could not be | received unti! the House met, and for- office, and that Mr. Perry wis Speaker of | the Assembly until the moment it was | declared that the position was vacant, It) is needless to suy that this explanation did Bot cause the modest leader to hang his | bead. The of his! gature so overpowers hi« sense of shame, that he is unable to detect the exact mo- ment at which he renders himself’ ridi- eulous ! Besides, he had another ecard to! piay. He would yet win the game, Ue) was carefully prepared for the dernier | resort. He had a pretty little speech | upon the tip of his tongue; sud ner the inward contemplation of its we'l bal— anced sentences served, in some degree, | to blind him to the outwardly expressed ehagrio of his followers. Hardly had the | Speaker taken his chair; hardly had the Clerk risen for the purpose of formally reading the Administrator's speech when the youthful leader interrupted the regu- bar order of proceeding, by the delivery of ao irregular speech. te declared that the independence of parliament was in danger ; that the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitution had been violated ; that it was a settled principe that no member cou'd sit in the Levislature, and supreme modesty yet | m king stockholder is centered mally released him from the duties of his that the gross profits of the Bank for the EDWARD ISLAND. We have reeeived the Annual State— | ment snd Report of the Directors of the above Bank for the past twelve months, as held at the Banking House, on the fifth rect business with Banks, take very litt'e interest in anything respecting them; but Banking is the ‘‘ breath of life’’ to com— ” to merce, the ‘vital principle are as keevly watched, and as surely io— dicate the health of the commercial body to the financier, as the pulsations at the wrist of his putient indicate the health of the physica] man to his medical adviser. An examination of the Statement of the Merchants’ Bank of Prince Edward Is— land, shows that it is in a really vigorous and healthy condition. All its working and activity to trade in the community, and the promise of a handsome profit to its stockholders. us, generally, is the responsibility of the Bank, and its ability to meet its liabilities to the public. These liabilities consist, first of its notes in circulation, amounting to $150,493.00, and its deposits of $258,561.00, both making a total indebt- edness €s the public of $409,054, To meet this there is in the yvau'ts in But what most concerns gold, silver, Dominion legai tender notes, aud notes of Banks incorporated in this Island, and other Bank notes, «n aggre— ances due from other Banks and Bills of Exchange, there are $216,656.17, making the total of this portion of the assets amount to $264,909.10, or about 64 per cent. of the liability to the public, which is available from these sources, and could be used at any time. It, therefore, only requires the payment of 60 per cent. from the $247,458 (being the umount of Bills under diseount) in order to discharge the entire liability of the Bank to the public. The amount of Exchange which the Bank has to dispose of, and which the commu- | nity now so much require, would, if the Bank did not continue to discount other | paper, soon enable it to withdraw its own | notes entirely from circulation snd trade on the specie it would receive, or on the notes of other Bunks taken in payment of | the Bills of Exchange sold. Turning now to that portion of the ac- | countin which the interest of the money- we find past twelve months are $26,248.14, and if we deduct from the gross earnings the rent and expenses of management, $8,— 762.75, the interest paid depositors and commissions paid other Banks, $2,808.09, and also $5,530 for losses made by the unfortunate failures of 1872, we have re— maining « c ear net profit for the year of $12.873.98. We also learn that the whole capital was not paid up until about November last, so that the average work- ing capital of the Bank could not have amounted to $80,000, oa which the man— agement shows a clear gain of 16 per cent. From the profits of the Bank two di- vidends of five per cent. each were paid to the stockholders within the year, and we think the Directors have shown com— mendabie forethought in reserving the | balance of $15,586.16 net profits now in | hand, thus increasing the funds at the disposal of the Bank, and providing the , nucleus of that clement of future strength, _a permanent rest or reserve fund. submitted to the meeting of Stockholders, | jortetown. instant. Many persons, who have no di-| ¢hic important matter. | capital is actively employed, giving life | gate of $48,252.93 in cash ; and in bal— the Island will suffer unless on order of the Dominion Government be issued, under be allowed, until others are obtained, to “break bulk ’’ between Halifax and Char which the Nomerset and Alhambra may | The attention of the authori- ties at Ottawa is respectfully directed to _—o- + THE POLICY. trade. THe Colonial Secretary announced in and the variations of the monetary pulse the House of Assemb y on Thursday last | that the final settlement of the Land } is THE POLICY of our Local | We trust it will be to carry out this policy in a satisfactory | (Question Government, able | manner. Judging by the perscnel of the Legislature, we think it is not likely to receive opposition. Every member of both Heuses will, we feel convinced, vote in favor of a poliey which has for its object the total abolition of the leasehold sys- tem. There may be—there doubtless will be—opposition offered to details of the | measure «about to be introduced: but it | | | | | | j | settlement of the ‘“‘ vexed question ’? more perfect and satisfactory. —_— MR. PERRYS RESIGNATION, | In the House of Assembly ou Saturday | afternoon, the Leader of the Opposition | moved the following resolution : Whereas, the Hon F. Perry, lately re- presenting the First District of Prince County in this House, did, during the recess, resign | his seat by notice in writing the Lieutenant Governor and the Clerk of the House And Whereas, in the absence of express Statuary provisions governing the case, dif- ferences of opinion have arisen as to the legality of such resignation > And Whercas,the same S. F. Perry has been elected and returned a member of the Do- minion House of Commons, and practically the said first district is represented in the House by one member only— Therefore Resolved, that the House declare the said seat lately held by the said 8. F. Perry vacant, and do desire the Speaker to notify the Administrator of the Goverament thereof in order that a writ may forthwith issue to fill the vacancy. A short article on the subject of Mr, Perry’s resignation is crowded out. SANITARY. We are informed that the civic authori- ties promptly ordered an investigation of the ** nuisance’ reported in the Examiner of the 2d inst. ‘Two policemen visited and examined the slaughter-house of Mr. Brydges — the only one on Hillsberough street —carefully, but failed to find the source of the “villainous compound.” So we conclude the nuisance is not on the premises of Mr. Brydges. It is however, somewhere in the vicinity of his establish, ment, and we advise the civic authorities to continue the investigation until itis found. A thorough examination of all the slaught- er houses in the city, is, we think, expedi- ent. Ifsome of them are nuisances when the thermometer is at zero, what will they be after the thaws of spring. It is much better that a few butchers should suffer temporary inconvenience than that the public health should be in greater danger than it already is Slow fevers have been very prevalent, owing to the vse of poisonous water ; and who knows but cholera, with all its horrors, may be the result, if poisonous water is supplemented by poisonous air. A writer in the Montreal Gazette, who warns the authorities of that city of the probable result of a similar nuisance says . “Next to heaven, the object most desery- ing of the efforts of man should be the attainment and preservation of good health, which is the fundamental acquisition of earthly happiness,” Then letjus not court a pestilence. Since writing the above, we learn that Island | } mind the failures of 1872, by which such | An Act of the Dominion Parliament, | March, inst., provides that no goods or | four hundred dollars, any goods so carried | vessel may be detained by the Collector of | Charlottetown ; and will probably have the | effect of driving them from the Island | and we | of course, | a et, € siti —— SCHOOL VISITORS REPORT. Reports of the Visitors of our Public Schools have been published. They show that there are on this Island 392 schools, of which 47 are vacant ; that the total num. ber of examinations has been 355; that the total namber of pupils on the registers kept by teachers is 16,257: of whom 8368 are boys, and 6889 girls, and that the aver- out the year has been 8351. not show what proportion these figures bear to the total number of ehildren in the and we therefore are unable to compute those who are untaught in our public | schoo!s. Mr. McSwain, the King’s Gounty, submits ‘‘ summary of statistics ’ the following | Number of Schools in County, 103 -” examined 9] * closed or vacant, in which were examined, | Scholars in Districts the schools | Average number in each of these Districts, 10 591 | Number of scholars registered, 3907 | Average per school, 42 85-91 Number of boys registered, 2059 + girls " 1848 Number present at examinations, 1264 Average number present, 20 44-91 Average daily attendance for the County, 2193 | Average daily attendance per school, 23 89591 | Number of scholars reading, 3502 " " Writing, 2310 | Number studying Arithmetic, 1930 | “4 “ Grammar, 766 " Geography, 961 i Dictation, 878 ” Recitation, 1221 ‘ ‘ Bookskeeping, 43 , " Composition, 37 & History, 109 ' * French, 36 ” “ Latin, “ “ Greek, ! “ sid Geometry, 8 | « he Trigonometry, 4 “ « Algebra, 3 Mr. MeSwain also reports that the Gram- mar School at St. Peter’s Ray is now va~- cant; but the other grammar schools of King’s County are, he reports, in ‘ satis- factory operation,’ Mr. McPhail, submits the following Table of Statistics for Queen’s County :— Number Common Schools, 17 | Number Grammar Schools, 8 | Number Normal Schools, 1 | — Total 180 Number schools vacant 16 | Number schools change of Teacher, 109 | Number Teachers Grammar Class, 10 | Number Teachers Second Class 14 | Number Teachers First Class, 71 | Number Female Teachers, 67 | Number French Acadian Teachers, 6 | Number Teachers left the profes sion last 3 years, 113 | Number Teachers, Presbyterian, 100 Number Teachers, Roman (Catholic, 48 Number Teachers Wesleyan, 8 Number Teachers Baptist ‘ Number Teachers, Episcopalian, 5 | Number pupils enrolled, 8033 Number Boys, 4153 | Number Girls, 3880 | Number Present, Examined, 4207 | Numbker Daily Average, 3651 | Number Reading Scriptures in 104 Schools, 2532 Number Reading Class Books, 8033 Number Writing, 5161 Number Arithmetic, 4645 Number Grammar, 2271 | Number Geography, 3116 | Number Dictation, 2674 | Number History 543 | Number Book-keeping, 15) Number Composition, 187 Number Mathematics, 49 Number Latin, 4] Number Greek, 13 Number French, 51 Number French in 6 Acadian Schools, 350 Mr. McPhail notices, with regret, ‘ the continued increase in the number of schools which have had a change of teacher ; and ‘the increasing number of our best teachers who are abandoning the profession year after year. We notice, with pleasure— as a sign that our people are beginning to evince a more decided wish than hereto- fore for religious education—that the in- crease of pupils who read the Scriptures in the schools (in Queen’s County alone,) has been 842, Mr. McPhail also regrets to Mr. McPhail says, ‘shows that the daily attendance is yearly becoming more and more irregular ;’ and, hence, Mr. McPhail thinks, ‘it is every year becoming more evident that a compulsory Jaw is needed.’ Mr. McPhail reports that new schoolhouses | are needed in the following Districts, viz: 1, Little York, Lot 34. 2. Rona, Lot 62. 3. York River, Upper, Lot 32, . Pisquid West, Lot 37. . Mount Stewart, Lot 37. . Third Ponds, Lot 20. 7. Irishtown Lot 20. 8. Lower Milton, Lot 32. 9. Milvale, Lot 22. 10. St. Patrick’s Lot 22. . Bethel (Minor) Lot 48. this city, the number of pupils en- rolled is 630, of whom 356 are boys, and 274 girls. The decrease of the number enrolled during the past two years, has been 42. Respecting school accommoda- tion, Mr. McPhail says, ‘it is no better than it was years ago. The schools in the Temperance Hall and DesBrisay’s Lane, should be closed immediately, unless de- cent outsida conveniences be provided at once,” Mr. McPhail remarks that— “ THE VERY LOW EBB to which the commen schools of Charlottetown have fallen, ought to be cause of alarm to all who take any interest whatever in the future well-being of this, the Capital of one of the Provinces of the great Do- minion of Canada. That alarm must surely be increased to every considerate mind, when it is known that an army of about 800 children, of school age, within the limits of the city, or about one in three, neverenter a schoolroom at all. The twelve or thirteen poor schoolrooms now in use, with difficulty accommodate the 630 children enrolled ; but if the 800 children, who do not go to schoo! at a'l, could be induced to make their appearance, about sixteen addi- tional schoolrooms would be required. Turse FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.” The names of seventy-two students are, we observe enrolled in the register of the Normal School. During the past year, six candidates obtained certificates as taachers of Grammar schools, viz :—Messrs. Dugald McLean, Isaac McLean, John N. Robertson, Roderick McRae, Hector Campbell, Ewen Stewart. Eleven candidates passed as Sec- ond Class teachers, viz :— Messrs. Ambrose D. Fraser, Leigh Gregor, John McKinnon, Finley D. Martin, James McKenzie, Donald Currie, Donald McLean, Alexander Robert~ son, Hector McDonald, Roderick McRae, Miss Charlotte E. Montgomery. Ninety- four obtained certificates as teachers of the First class. Only four of the pupils in the Normal School study the French language ; and not one learns either Latin or Greek Mr. McPhail thinks that ‘If our school system is to be maintained, and the educa- tional wants of the youth of our Island are to be duly supplied in the future, imme- the objectionable smel| has disappeared. The nuisance (wherever it was) has been removed, | To those unacquainted with the nature | ot our Bank Charters, the amount of Bills under discount may seem too large for | the capital; but our Bank Charters, al-- at the same time hold an office of emolu—| though fully guarding the public against went, Without the consent of his consti-| any possibility of lors, are yet more lib- tuents; that it was necessary to guard eral than any charters which would now P jealously the separate interests of the be granted tos private Bank uuder the Do- Lec Broxen.~—Mr. Michael Foley, of Al- berton, had his leg broken on Thursday evening last. While on his way from home to this city Mr. Foley's horse ran away ; he was thrown out of the sleigh, and the painful accident was a result. —— <i iat The Tichborne claimant has been sen- diate provision must be made for the fol- lowing among other matters, viz., I, The raising of the Normal School from its present ‘ anomalous position of being a high school for children in Charlottetown, a little in advance of the other public schools,’ to the status of a real Normal School, the main object of which would be ‘to do for the teacher what an apprentice~ ship does for the mechanic, the artist, the physician, the lawyer—to teach him theor- etically and practically how to do the work teneed to 14 years penal servitude. of his profession.’ age daily attendance of both sexes through- | But they do | Island within the ages of five and sixteen, | School Visitor of | at If. Raising the standard of teacher's ‘qualifications, and the attending at the Normal School of all future candidates for the office of Teacher, for at least one term the salaries of such teachers to be propor= higher standard of qualification required, and such increase to be graduated through | a course of three or five years. III, The payment of Teachers, as is now | done in other countries, ‘ by results,’ t.¢., | according to the quality and quantity of the work done. IV. The payment of an equitable share of | the public funds, (in proportion to average | attendance) to all schools open to Government | lations of the Board of Education and the Teachers of which had submitted themselves to | the Board of Examiners for license. Q : school during at least seven months of | the year. VI. The compulsory attendance of trus~ tees to the duties required of them VII. Provision for the supply of school | suitable text books at first cost. - | VILL. The appointment of a Superintend-~ } ent of Education, who should have the | general oversight of all educational matters, ‘and who should also be the Inspector of ‘the Grammar and City Schools. In Ons | tario, besides the Superintendent id In- | |spector of common schools, there is an | Inspector of High Schools. | IX, The division of Queen's County into | two Districts for the purposes of schoo! Inspection and the appointment of a Visi- | tor for each District, in view of the fact that the number of schools therein is about double the amouut of that in either of the other two Counties. ,._ X. The appointment of one Board of Trustees for the City schools, (instead of having a separate Board for each school) with power to provide school buildings with | the establishment of graded -chools. XI. The grading of Grammar schools into | | two departments, a higher and a lower, with ; ® qualified teacher in each. XII. The adoption of a system of res | wards to pupils, by meens of merit, card, | or Otherwise, for good conduct, proficiency in studies, and good attendance. This would perhaps materially diminish the necessity for compulsory attendance. XIU. The providing for the retirement and support of those teachers who have become aged and infirm. XIV. The payment by the inhabitants of each school district, of a local assess- ment, either upon property, or so much per head of all male adults, the proceeds | of teachers’ salaries. In Prince County there are 109 schools, of which number 1! are vacant. Vr. Rob~ Whole number present at examin- No. of specimens of Writing shown =—-1367 During the past six months new Districts have been erected at Howlan Road ; Alma, Lot 19; and Mount Pleasant, Lot 27 while at Piusville, Lot 4, a grant has been given for the establishment of a minor school, New Schoolhouses have been built in the following sections, viz:—South Shore, Lot 27; New Annan, Lot 19, Linkletter Road, Lot 17; Fifteen Point, Lot 15; and Cape Wolf, Lot 7. We judge that Mr. Robson is not a man | of decided opinions ; for, in summing up | the result of his examinations, he says ‘I | mts have pleasure in recording that, with few | exceptions, the general status of the schools | in this county is as high as can reasonably ' will on y be with the view of making the | notice that while there has been, during be expected.’ It is wholly unnecessary to | 1873, an increase of 515 in the daily at- demonstrate the inanity of this high-flown | tendance, ‘ there is the enormous decrease | sentence. ‘of 834 in the daily average.’—a fact which | _-—om + MANUFACTURES OF CANADA. Tue Manufacturers’ meeting of Tuesday was by all odds the largest and most in- fluential demonstration of the kind that | has been know in Canada since the agi- | tation of 1858, I859, when a heavy pressure of public opinion caused the adoption of a | tariff having for its avowed object the fosters | ing of our ‘infant manufactures.’ In| years subsequent, the spirit and purpose | of that legislation were strongly adhered to such alterations as were made in details | being all in the direction originally cons | templated. Since the change of 1866 move; | ments for a return to the tariff policy of | 1859 have been made, but the back weight of public opinion to drive them home was | wanting. Yo all appearance that want is | now supplied, or is about to be; and to change the figure, we are already ina ras pidly arising tide cf general public en- | thusiasm in favor of fair play to home ins t rests, mining, manufacturing, agricultural and all other. The main cause of the present industrial reaction is neither far toseek nor hard to find ; it is the very one which has been set forth in these colums time and again during the last few months. The late panic over the border caused to fall at once ike the walls of Jericho, certain artificial obstructions ‘to that general decline in prices which should have been gradually going on since the war closed, but which was by unatural means and for speculative purposes long held back and delayed. The artificial obstructions referred to, having been swept away, Canadian manufacturers quickly discovered thata new era had been entered upon, and the large and enthusias- tic meeting of the other day is one of the first results of the discovery. With the old high prices on the other side, our tariff might be either fifteen per cent, or fifty, no matter, whenthe Americans could not sell at our prices But ‘the case being altered alters the case,’ very much indeed, in this instance; and for the first time in our history we are face to face with tlhe practical question, whether it be possible for us to live and hold our own with fifteen per. cent. on our side and from thirtysfive to fifty per cent. on the other side, our competitors being the most enterprising and gosahead people on the face of the earth, and living along our border for a distance of three thousand miles. The gentlemen assembled in the Rossin House on Tuesday, evidently have their answer to this question - whatanswer the assembs led wisdom of the Dominion will give to it, remains to be seen.— Toronto Mail. Histoxy or New Bruyswick.—Mr. Duns can Campbell Nova Scotia’s latest historian} has decided to prepare and publish a_ hiss tory of New ! runswick, and is now in Hali-~ fax collecting the requisite material for that purpose. He has discovered many valuable papers in the Nova Scotia archives. and will occupy the next eighteen mnnths & preparing his work for the press, — Hale tionally increased to correspond with the | inspection, and subject to the rules and regu | V. The compulsory attendance of pupils suitable apartments, and all ‘requisites for | | of which would be applied to the increase son, the Visitor. submits the following | synopsis — Number of pupils enrolled 4317 Number Boys, 2156 Number Girls 2161 ations 2384 Average daily attendance 2507 Number of pupils Reading as taken trom the Register 3382 | No. pupils Writing 2174 No. of pupils Arithmetic 2150 No. of pupils English Grammar 1078 No. of pupils Geography 1470 | No. of pupils Dictation 1102 | No. of pupils French 331] No. of pupila Latin 31 | No. of pupils Geometry 28 No. ef pupils Algebra 25 | No. of pupils Greek t No. of pupils History 204 No. of pupils Book-keeping od No. of pupils examined Reading 4352 | No. of pupils examined in Geo- graphy 664} No. of pupils examined in Grammar 452 No. of pupils examined in * rith- metic 570 No. of pupils examined in Dictation 1367 OF THE LEGISLATURE, OPENING At three o'clock, on Thursday afternoon last, His Honor the | Government came Chamber. After taking his seat upon the | throne, he desired the attendance of the The Usher of the down to the House of Assembly. Black Rod announced his Honors pleasure to the House, when the Clerk rose in his | place and informed the House that since | the last meeting of the Legislature, he had | received the following letter :— ‘To Archibald Mc Neill, Esq. ‘Clerk of the House of A-sembly: | “Sir, —1 beg to notify you that I do heres by resign the office and position of Speaker | of the House of Assembly. I have tle honor to be, etc., « Spanis.aus F, Perry.” | « 25th Jan, 1874.” The resignation wes acempanied by the signature of a No.ary Public. Hon, Col. | Secretary moved that the House do attend | port that it is without a Speaker. | Leader of the Opposition here made some | |remarks, after which, the motion was put by the Clerk, and carried. The House then proceeded t) the Council Chamber, | where they were commanded by his Honor | ito choose a Speaker, and then return, sdministrator of the | Council | SS CORRESPONDENCE, CPR LOLOL LL OL le hel To tage Epiror or tuk Examiner. — Sir, —In the Examiner of the 23rd instant you have advocated the abolition of the Second Branch of the Local Parliament, the culling and pruning of the other two, and also the abolition of at least one Govern- ment- office. May your advocacy on this point have free course and success. have just entered a new era in our Colonial should be our political watchword. local revenue may appear to be sufficiently flush at present; but let us wait a wee, and we will find that, unless it be carefully guarded and husbanded, it wiil be scant enough, ere long, for carrying on the pub. lic works of the country. You well re- marked that our local legislative duties | have been greatly diminished by so much of it having fallen to the care of the Dox minion Parliament. Indeed, if all those @ fai : Jf able eaaggae | * : é » OC es : 12 libraries, apparatus, aud a uniform series of | upon his Honor, and that the aye | duties of which our Legislavure has been 1€ | | relieved by our entrance into the Dominion, | were summed up, it will be found that only a few comparatively slight matters have | been left for our Local Parliament to legis- kia. ta parliamentary machinery, | ten times more confused,” | rises one from the midst of the | of modest mien, but vigorous voice and lu. | Which we support at present, for carrying }on the business of this smali Province, is We) history, and retrenchment and economy | Our | “wens nt individual” acumen, adrd study can reveal to an intellige the vast difference in the : ness and skill of some hand, and tl cernment hand, in The introducer of a scheme, for ify stance, presents it in its f opment, and states the intended. One of the deliberative } gets up and maintains that it is nati some essential element, } ut hes not genius to supply the desideratum, ther gets up and characterizes the | scheme as unworthy of bein but insists uy | Anc- whole & eniertained, own instead, which would be as answer the end in view, | would for the purpose of carrying water A third would introduce an clement int the scheme, which might prove of some ads | ee it not so incongruous to the | Whole scheme that it is wholly inadm} | A fourth rises to comune acne scheme but only succeeds to convince his | audience that he understands nothing at all | of the matter under consideration. df | only “darkens council with words without as a collander | knowledge,” and “makes confusion but By-and-by company, ; . : avir o . pen 0 2 PF ° ° #e . & ; > . | Having retnened, sm Sree af the Lend | ridiculously costly and cumbersome. We cid language, who instantly enchainse jer of the Government, seconded by Richards, Mr. Cornelius Howat was chosen | Speaker. the Administrator, | pleased to open the Session with the fol- and His Honor was | lowing es SPEECH | Mr President and Honorable Gentlemen of the Legislative Counci/ Mr Hous Speaker and Gentlemen of th of Asseml ly It affords me mach s otislaction to meet vou in General Assembly for the first time since this Island became a Province ef the Dominion of Canada. In accord- ance with the terms of the Addresses of the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly, transmitted to the Queen when the Legislature was last in Session, Her Most Gracious Majesty was pleased Couneil, declaring to issue an order in that from and after the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy- three this Island should become a part of the Dominion of Canada. J earnestly hope that the social, material, and politi- en] interests of the Province will he ad- vanced by the union Ilis Excellency the Governor General visited this Province in the Month of July last, and expressed himself highly gratified with the general appearance of the Island and the fertility of its soil, and with the loyal and warm reception accord- ed to him by all classes of its inhabitants the formation of the present Government my constitutional have been anxious that the Tenants on he remaining Proorietory Townships Since } the should have an early opportunity of be- | coming Freeholders, and have, therefore, entered into communication with the proprietors, in order, if possible, to effect a speedy purchase upon just and equit- able terms. The correspondence will be — | laid b fure you, and Tam confident it: is unnecessary for me to direct your =pecial attention to a subject of sach paramount importance. “The Tenant's Compensation Act, | 1872,’’ and the Act in amendment thereot of last Session, are still under the con- sideration of the Imperial Government. A Bik, transferring the “Jurisdiction for the trial of controverted Elections from the Legis!ature to the Judges of the Supreme Court, and providing more effectually for the prevention of corrupt practices at Elections will be submitted for your approval as well as a Bill for further securing the indep:ndence ot the General Assembly Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House af donnie I have given directions that the Public Accounts for the past \ear shall be laid before you without delay. The large sums paid as compensation for damages to Real Estate, uncer the provisions of the Railway Act, have exceeded all reasonable anticipation. The estimates for the present year will be submitted to you. They have heen framed with due regard to economy and the efficiency of the public service. The present Revenue under Confedera- tion judiciously expended, will, in all probability, be sufficient tor many years to come, to mect the charges upon i! without resorting to any additional Jocal taxation. Mr. President and Honorable of the Leyislatir: . } Crentlemen Counc | wealth, | body of legislators their honors Vr. Speaker and Gent] men of the House of Assembly \ despa‘ch which has been received j from the Secretary of State for the Col- onies, acknow ledging the rece ipt ol your joint Address, of last Session, to the Qaeen on the subject of the refund by the United States of certain duties, collected in the year IS71, on Fish and Fish Oil imported into the United States from this Province, will he laid hefore you. The construction of the Railway is rap idly advancing towards completion and it will be open for traffie early in the Autumn, when farmers and purchasers of grain and other products will be enabled to avail themselves of its advantages asa means of transport to the principal | harbors of shipment l rejoice to be enabled to congratulate | you upon the prosperous condition of the Province and the healthy state of its trad Daring the past year a kind Providence has blessed the labors of the husbandman with an abundant harvest, and the pro- ducts of the suil have met with a ready and remunerative market I now leave you to the performance of the duties of the Session, trusting that under the Divine blessing your delibera- tions may tend to the welfare of the Pro- vinee, and secure the happiness and eon tentment of its peop! The Houge then returned to the Assema bly Room. Hon, Colonial Secretary sub. | mitted a Bill respecting proof of telegrams, etc. Hon. Leader of the Opposition delivered a speech of which the following resolution (which he moved at its close) is an epitome :— Whereas a law has already been passed in the Legislature of the Dominion of Cans ada, abolishing dual represeitation ; And whereas the spirit of »uch law, if not the letter, is opposed to any member of the Senate of Canada, sitting or voting in any of the Provincial Assemblies of the several Provinces comprised in the Dominion ; And whereas it is desirable that the mem, bers of this House of Assembly shou!d not be hampered or prejudiced with the diss charge of the duties they owe to their cons | stiuents, and that the independence of the | House be as far as possible preserved ; Therefore Resolved that it is inconsistent | with the independenc of the House of Ass sembly of this Is'and, that any of its meme | bers should be permitted to sit or vote as such, while at the same time, holding a | seat in the Dominion Senate Hon Attorney General moved, seconded by Hon. A. C. McDonald, that Mr. L. H. Davies have leave to withdraw his resolu- tion—and when, after some debate—a dis- | cussion was heard, the latter motion was carried—by a vote of 16 to 10—the Colon- ial Secretary not voting n division for | the election of officials, which took place | immediately after, the vote was 16 to 11,— Mr. T. Kelly, who voted with the Govern- ment in the first division, voting with the Opposition. Mr. 8S, F. Perry, member for Tignish, and Mr. Campell, member for New London, were absent. On Friday Mr. Jenkins moved the ‘ draft address ' in answer to the Administrator's | speech. (On Saturday the House formed itself into a committee of the whole, to consider papers submitted with respect to the late speaker’s resignation Famine iN Inpia. The Governor General of India telegraphs to the British authori« ties that the Government will be obliged to maintain three million persons for three months. The expenditure on account of the famine, up to the end of February last, fax Citizen, Mr. | are endeavoring to crowd on our diminu- | ©" Present. He takes hold of the scheme | tive craft of State all the equipments | The House then attended upon | ad gear of a huge, full-rigged ship. By | over and over and round and round, and, advisers | ments, would be saved for other and better | doubt, so will all the other Provinces of the | Dominion. |} ness of each Session. | this Colony be scrutinized, it will be found | to poke fun at our present worthy Legisla-~ } this | vince. | its present members ought to be sufficient | ests at Ottawa, besides taking their share in | quires a vigorous application of the politi. | Assembiy. | act all the legislative business of so small a and presents it in all its aspects, turns it all means let us spill out of the Legislature like a skilful anatomist, dissects it and an- those soney ‘Old Ladies” of the Legisla- tive Council, and the country will rejoice at spare for them. A much more profitable | salaries of the clerks in the Registry Office, the change. We have no political tea to | is designed, | alizes all its parts, and shows how far it is persons, on the ong. 2€ siupidity and want of Aig 4 some others, on the other — first stage of de ‘ end for which “ : y o on some hobby project of hig He likely to — RAE Ae adapted to itself and the ends for which ig throws out all those redundant er iq. to view, a new and some other departments, urgently re- | *'€¢!mg in all its parts, and adapted to its _ | quire augmentation, and, above all, the | “timate end. He then re arranges its parts, i ‘ fi c mous s ji 7 investment. can be found for the money ongruous, and supplies such new elements ~ . ° * mn s ° m4 2 “i ¢ | which their salaries and outfits cost us, The | ®* ™4y be wanting. He then holds it up and symmetrical creation, — : : What was at first but chags salaries of the school teachers. Some of sits confusion, is now a well~arranged and _ |the employees in -the Registry Office are | veautiful system, suited to perform or ange — | paid only $200 per annum, —a salary which | . a any Government should be ashamed to of- | '* ¥"* Originally intended. The teeblesg— : wer all the questions or functions for whieh | fer an efficient officer. How differently capacity in all the deliberative assembly can | those in the Dominion public service are | "OW 8*sP the scheme in all its entiretyan@ — | paid. In the Customs Office, for instance, | bearings, and they cannot but acknowledge the salaries range from $2,000 to $700 per | and respect the superiority and genius @f - | annum, the latter being the lowest in the | ; Such order and system out of what at first appeared so chaotic a mass. | department. But the pay of the Legislative Councils lors is only one item in the cost of that | honorable body. The money expended in | garnishing the Council Chamber, the sala~ ries of clerks, doorkeepers, messengers | fuel, light, stationery, and other equips purposes. Your calculations, therefore, of /supporting that superfluous branch of the Legislature, Mr, Editor, falls far short of the actual sum total. If such a wide Pro-~ vince as Ontario can successfully and effi- ciently carry on its legislation with only one House of Parliament, why must little Prince Edward Island have two? Nova Scotia will soon make short work of the second branch of her Legislature, and, no The General Government at Ottawa will be amply competent and suffi- cient to put a veto on all unnecessary and improper measures which may be intro- duced into the respective Local Legisla- tures. The second Branch of our Jccal Parliament is not only an unnecessary bill of expense to us, but will, if continued, be a dead weight on the legislative busi- If the Archives of that the actual work performed by the Legislative Council during the last ten years past is not worth one day’s cost of that body. To support fourteen prim, wellspaid wooden members, as a mere parlia~ mentary parade, with their five well~paid understrappers to wait upon their wooden honors, is rather costly amusement to suit the taxpayers of this little corner of the New Dominion. Let not the foregoing observations be misinterpreted. They are not at all meant tive Council as private gentlemen and cit, As such, they may safely be counted as among the very cream of the common- It is a superfluous or redundant izens. are here characterized. Nor is their position their So long as the law for electing a Legislative Council stands on the Statute Book, so long must such a body be sustain- But the time has fully arrived when Statute should be erased from the face of the Statute Book of this Island Pro. Such adjuncts to the House of Ass sembly might, perhaps, be tolerated, pro vided they cost nothing. But as matters | now exist, they would be much better ems ployed in some other sphere or calling own fault. ed more profitable to themselves and to the country. Now for the House of Assembly. That body, also, will bear to be curtailed of some of its members. One-half the number of to perform all the legislation which will be required for this wee Province of the great New Dominion. Surely five members each for the three Counties of this Island should do all the work. If two members for each County can efficiently represent our inter- the general legislation that takes in the whole sweep of the Dominion, why in the name of common sense can’t five intelligent and ens ergetic representatives for each County of this little corner transact all our little lo. cal business, which will require but a mite of the intelligence and skill that will be res quired t egislate for the whole spread of the Dominion ? The truth is, our House of Assembly res eal pruning knife. We have no work for Legislative Courcillors, nor enough work for thirty doughty members of the House of Just look at our three Counties covering altogether about as much area as a locomotive would circumyolve any fine morning ere the sun reached the meridian, Fifteen good, honest men, possessing ordi- nary vigor and capacity, having the coun- try’s good at heart, would be able to trans» territory as this Island. Let us, for the future, put into Parlia- ment only such representatives as are qualified for parliamentary business—the very best we have to spare—and that nums ber will be quite sufficient to frame all our laws. Hitherto we have been too often squabbling for the ascendancy of party over party, and in an ill-directed enthusiasm have raised into position puppets and put- ty men, and have sometimes thrown pats riots and philanthropists over our should-~ ers. Anyone who will take a retrospect of the last dozen years may learn how many such putty men we have honored with seats in the Legislature during that time. It would be invidious, ~ indeed, improper, —to name any of these, but on reflection seme of these will revert to the intelligent read- er's mind. Letus now throw such doughs headed automatons overboard, and man our little craft of State with a real live crew, who, with clear heads and sturdy | hands, will navigate her safely in foul weather as well as fair. To watch the proceedings and discussions of a deliberative body over a newly~proposed is estimated at $7,500,000, scheme or measure, is very instructive. No that mastersmind which was able to bring Thus it is that some clear-headed think. 4 ers, With a ready command of language and $ a brilliant choice of words, argument and | . illustration, can clear up a difficult matter hensible to all around them this stamp, as the representative or law- giver of any people, is worth more than a and render it both intelligible and compres _ Ose man of — whole shipload of such dough-headed, put. * ty men as sometimes aspire to, and too citen attain, legislative honors and emolus ments. Let us, therefore, choose the fors mer type of men as our representatives, for we have a few such men amongst us. Further remarks on this subiect must be deferred for another letter. Vieror View, Ch'town, Feb. 28,1874. OUR FISHERIES. At the Dominion Board of Trade..on the 27th ult. ) says the special corespondent of the Montreal Gezet/e,—- Mr. How1an cal ed attention to the sub- ject of the Gulf Fisheries. We said that there was about to sit at Halifax a commissi- on for the purpose of determining the re. spective value of the British American and American Fisheries mutually surrendered by the Treaty of Washington. He knew that the greatest pains were being taken in the United States to get up the necessary « evidence on their side; and unless some- _ thing was done on the Canadian side, our own fisheries would be given away altoges ther. Another thing that was required for the interest of the Dominion, was to pro- vide a proper system of protection for the fisheries. He feared that a great mistake had been made in giving the fisheries away, they being, in his judgment, the one great element in the problem which might have been used as a lever to procure the renewal of the Reciprocity Treaty. However, all the fisheries, including the oystern1 lo). ster fisheries, were to be open to the Ames ricans, and the effect would be, unless pre- cautions were taken, that our fisheries will be exhausted by improvident fishing in the same way as the fisheries of the United States He desired that measures should be taken to preveat the fisheries from being destroyed. He mentioned some figures to show how large was the enterprise of the American fisher- men in Canadian waters and said that it was had been exhausted. very desirable not only thet our fisheries should be protected, but that they should be worked by Canadian fishermen, and with the outlays of Canadian capital. The people of the Maritime Provinces did aot, like hia friend the patron of the iron manufacturer, want any artificial advantages to be accord. edtothem. They were ready for the com- pletion of all the work; but he could assure him that, great as might be the value of our iron ores as a resource for the promotion of national prosperity, they would not equal the enormous wealth at present almost um touched in the gulf, whose appropriation by fishing would, moreover, largely increase the strength of the Dominion, in the way of adding to the seamen at the disposal of the country. He complained that while the Americans had been treated on our side with the greatest possible liberality, they had acted towards us in a very narrow spirit of exclusion, of which he gave several im. stances, both with respect to duties and to the employment of ships and seamen. He moved a resolution expressing the nece-sity that existed for the fullest statistical infore mation being placed the Fishery Commissioners appointed by tie Dominion, acommission shortly to set at Halifax, NS. also that the Board recommend the appoint ment of a commission to consider the best mode of protecting our fisheries, and pre- pare a law equitable to all parts of the Do- minion. Mr. Drewwonp, of Montreal, called atten tion to steps recently taken by the Fishery Department of the Dominion Government « view to the protection of our fish- eries. He did not believe the Washington Treaty conferred on Americans anything more than the right to jand on our shoses and dress fiish for the market. It did not confer on them any right to trespass on our shores or on our inland fisheries. Mr. McGracor, of Windsor, thought the Commission sitting at Washington would be productive of good results. Sugrirr Harpine, of St. John, N. B., em tertained the fear that the Americans when appearing before the Fishery Commission would submit such a mass of statistics to show the vast extent of the fisheries Of {he United States as to demonstrate thiat the ba'ance of trade was in their favor, sc) that instead of the treaty conferring a boma on Canada we wou d have to pay a large sum to the Americans, Ifa Prussian or Fert ghees were brought in to act as umpire +e might just ‘ook at the figures and give by decision thereon, not knowing anything of | the subject, and it was with a view to pre ‘ vent such an occurrence that the mover © f the resolution desired the fu!lest statisti* of the Dominion fisheries to he prepared. The motion was passed, before with