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To the ‘hearty welcome accorded these gentlemen Mr. MeLennan, of Milwauki, responded. effective checks to aggressions of our lo- | He showed the benefits derived from busi- eal rulers. The liberties of the people and the stability of the constitution are both—as fur as possible—assured. There is, we think, only ove argument ‘which can, with any show of reason, be urged against the abolition of the Legis- lative Council. It was used by Donald as @ 1.00 Ferguson, Esq, on the hustings in opies one address, - ~ eT. i - a a - 12.00 Charlottetown. That gentleman then = si : 17.00 contended that, as our public rev— 20 ™ 20.00 Clubs mas be made up at any time, bat | not fer a sborter period than one year i ADVERTISE MENTS— Until further notice, Advertisements will | be inserted at the following 1ates :— 1 square, one insertion, - - - 81.00) Each Continuation, - « « 00.25 Special Notices, ** per line,” - + 00.12) ACCOUNTS RENDERED | for subscriptions, Ist December, in each | year; for standing advertisements etc.,1st Juue, and Ist December, in each year; for trausient advertisemen's—when ordered out. enue cannot be made to expand as it eould formerly, the greatest caution will be need- _ed in the expenditure of public money, or /we will be obliged to resort to direct tax- ation; there are many expensive public enterprises in which it wlll be expedient to embark, if the public funds will afford it ; the House of Assembly is generally made | up of young and rash spirits, who wil be Very apt to commence works to carry out which it wiil be pecessary to resort to di- | rect taxation; the Legislative Council— | which is general y made up of older and ness men of both countries meeting fre- quently, It would lead finally to closer commercial relations. Reciprocity, he said, was not an absolute necessity to either ; country, What their natural positions re- | quired was that trade should be placed on | unrestricted basis, consistent with the He urged the de- velopment of the canals of beth countries. With all the facilities on both sides of an ; | necessary revenue, — THE LAND QUESTION. Pusiic MEETINGS, called for the pur- pose of considering the Land Question, and other loeal wants and interests, were recently held at Clifton, New Londoz, and at Winsloe Road North. Although the inhabitants af both these thriving sev tlements have our deepest sympathies and our best wishes for the success of their _ efforts, we are unable, owing to the erowd- ‘ed state of our columns, to publish de- tailed reports of those meetings in this issue of the EXAMINER. The Secretary’s report of the meeting ut Winsloe Road, | is unfit for publication. Itisso extreme- ly partizan that it cannot be strictly |correet- Such expressions as “‘ This un- | precedented piece of foul political spite,” | “ Despicable acts,” “ disgraced by « Goy- ernment based upou deception,” are, in the line, the internal means of communi- | ac | our opinion, proot positive that the report cation had not been yet equal to the re—| quirements of commerce. In the report | of the Executive Committee, which was | is net reliable. The Secretary who penned these ex- read after the organization of the meet- | Pressions rejoices in the euphonious cog- ing, the lute Government were thanked | 20men of “John Kenneth McInnis.” for the passage of several Acts for the | We should like to knew what right “John Lense of trois. | Kenneth MeInnis,”’ or any other secretary appointed was one to consider a ne Among the Committees | bankrupt law. The following officers self a governmental censor. Who author- w | of a public meeting has to constitute him- have been elected for the current year :— W.H. Howland, Toronto, President. C. Hi. Fairweather,St. John, Vice President. Ececutive Commitlee— Robertson, Mon- } ized him to use bad language coxtaining charges which he cannot prove? After hearing such foul inuendos in respect to the servants of the public we can imagine ALL LETTERS sent by mail should be | More conservative minds than the As- addressed “ Examiver )’rinting and Pub | sembly— will be needed to check hasty treal: Hon. T.R. Jones, St. John; Bennock, | ; : ig | Ottawa; Harty. Kingston ; Brown, Hamilton; | the good genius of the Province seizing THE CENSUS: (From the British Colonist.) The second volume of the Dominion Census of 1870.71 is printed. It is a bulky ‘volume of between four and five hundred |pages. The first table, number 7, gives the number of births during the twelve | months immediately preceding the 2nd of April, 1871. Tables 8 to 12 call for no special remarks ; but table 13 contains the | enumeration of the people by occupation, | | . . | being a general expose of the various in- | dustries in which the population is engaged. | The five following tables are devoted to the | enumeration of the deaths that occurred | during the twelve months prec< ling the | 2nd of April, 1871, by districts, giving the |sexes and status of the dead. We are told, no doubt truly, in the introduction, that as is is always the case when deaths are enquired into by means of a census, in- stead of a system of registration from day to day, the number of deaths recorded falls very greatly short of the actual rate of yearly mortality. Inthe Province of On. tario the recorded deaths are about equal to one in every 89 individuals of the total population, in the Province of Quebec, to one in every 57; in New Brunswick, to (one in every 80, and in Nova Scotia also three persons of the population of the four Provinces. Even in the Province of Ques bec, where the census returns of deaths are more accurately given than elsewhere, there 1s still a deficiency. It is added, however, that means exist to enable an ad- justment of these figures to be made, so one in every 80; being one in seventy-— lishing Company.” Lock Drawer, 72, POST | legislation and prevent this (dreaded) al- OFFICE, Chariottetown. i anneal ‘ternative. This is a plausible, but not a Catheart, Thompson ; Ualifax ; Labelle, Mon- treal; W. Thompson, Toronio. weighty, argument. Popularity is a Examiner, must be economical ; = party in power, to retain popularity, will | be economical. The Lower House is not 'always composed of young men; and if | the Legislative Council were abolished, ali d the old politicians who were worth any- ‘thing would find seats in the Assembly, Che ¢Ch’town, March 2, 1S74. THE SECOND CHAMBER. —— Lone before the union of this Islan with the Domivion of Canada many per- : , sons strongly urged the abolition of the | 224 would, of — eer oe influ- Legislative Council. They argued that | ep¢e Upon legislation erenenTe with the popular branch of the Legislature was | their experience and ability. We have sufficiently checked on the one hand by : : the press und the people, and on the other | of these conclusions. Our own H use of by the Imperial Government. Few could | Assembly turnishes . striking one. either understand why the Legislative Notwithstanding the existence of the Leg- Council was needed in this small, ‘much ' governed " colony, or perceive any of the | Suara benefits which it conferred upon the com- | enches munity. ”” it was considered to he merely au expensive leg- islative oraament,—a dicnified assembly of old geut'emen, appointed to remind ciel , ® , fe Counce | a ee | All things considered, we think the | “eg” of Acts of Parliament. But then| Legis'ative Council should be abolished, | . . and upwards of $3,500 a year saved to our legislators were only directly respon- : . ,| the public Treasury. sible to the electors and to the Imperial | Ain, Government. The people did not so| TRADE RETURNS. sedulously scrutinize the sects of Parlia- | _— i mest and Government as they do now, | By courtesy of the Customs officials, the press was not so active end the Im-) We are enabled this morning to lay before perial Authorities were too distant and our readers a short statement showing the too ignorant of our local affairs to exer- islative Counci!, many d politicians sit upon the red in the Lewer House. And as In the “ good old times for economy, was there ever a party in | : power more economical than the party | which now has charge of the public money ? | Yet it is uninfluenced by the Legisla- | trade of this Province for the six months To many : iis suding 3lst December, 1873 cise a great controlling influence over the | euding 31st I ecember, 1873. ’ So that. under it will, doubtless, be somewhat startling. At first “ balance of trade legislation of the colony. the old regime, there was, perhaps, a show of reason for a second Chamber, the fuoction of which is to prevent over- | the Island; for while the value of our) But now we are under imports is shown to be $925,822, the | ‘“ehecks and| value of our exports is only $556,429. In-| The cause of this apparent discrepancy | sight it will appear that the ? is largely against hasty legi=lation. a new regime; avd the guards” have been drawn closer. stead of a people comparctively uneduca- | is easily explained. A large proportion | ted und uniateresied in the politics of the | of our imports was composed of material | Island, we have a people educated, intel~ | for the construction of the Railway; and ligent, well ivformed io politics, and par- |a large proportion of our exports were ticularly watchful over the conduct of|to the neighhoring Provinces—to the their rulers,—rulers whom they have, markets of St. Jobn and Halitax; since | power to depose every four years. In- | Confederation, produce shipped to any | stead of the British Government, which | portion of the Dominion has not been set | could neither understand nor sympathize | down as an export,—and therefore it is | Vice President, the question of Interna. tional uavigation was discussed, and a| John Kenneth McInnis by the throat, ! :hatan expression of the real facts may be a CARLYLE ON THE CHOICE OF BOOKS. A book by Cunningham Geikie, address. ‘ed to young men contains the following ‘admirable letter from Carlyle -— Cuetsea, March 13, 1543, Dear Sir :—-Some time ago your letter was delivered me, I take literally the | first free halfshour | have had since, to write you a word of answer. It would give me true satisfaction, could lany advice of mime contribute to forward you in your honorable course of provement , taught me that advice can profit but little there is a good reason why ‘advice is so seldom followed'—this reason, namely, | that itis so seldom, and can almost never be, rightly given. No man knows the state of another it is always to some more or less imaginary man that the wisest and most honest adviser is speaking. As to the books which you, whom I know so little of, should read, there is hardly anything definite that can be said. For one thing, you may be strenuously advised to keep reading. Any good book, any book that is wiser than yourself, will teach you something—a great many things» indirectly and directly, if your mind be open to learn. The old counsel of John- son’s is also good and universally applica- ble: Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read. The very wish and curiosity indicates that you then and there are the person likely to get good of it. ‘Our wishes are presentiments of our capabilities ; "’ that is a noble saying, of deep encouragement to all true men; } but a long experience has | j | | THE CAUSES OF MP. GLADSTONE'S DECLINE AND FALL, The crushing rejoinder of the English | constituencies to the appeal of Mr. Giads | stone, is as decided as it must be humiliat-~ | ing. The actual ruler of England, for | many years past, is all but consigned to | oblivion; how long it will last, who can | tell? and this not on account of the i ; | strength of the Opposition, but because of | the distrust of Mr. Gladstone and aversion | to his policy, which have recently been en- self-ims gendered It will require all the philos~ ophy and all the Christianity which Mr. Gladstone possesses, and we believe that he is no stranger to such consolations as | they are respectively fitted to impart, to |enable him to bear his defeat wth com- posure. Ofone thing he may assure him, self, that however he may have temporarily tions of Englishmen. While all this is true, it will appear that there are reasonable grounds for the fall of the late Premier. It i# probable that his reforms were based too much on abs stract principles, to bear all the practical number of influential classes aggrieved thereby was very great, while many of those for other favors and did not get them, were quite as hostile as if nothing had been done for them— were ready even to trust a new leader who was not likely to do anything for them. The bid made for power by Mr. Glads fallen in public estimation, his past career | will form a bright page in the English his- | ezuela, causing much damage to life ana tory which will be read by future genera. | POPerty. tests to which they were put. Then the) who were benefitted, because they asked | Sees tema MISCELLANEOLS. Spain has removed her duties ports. It has been proposed at Wa reduce postage to two cents, Deaths from famine paul, India, Asiatic cholera at Bueno Ay i | a ; : ‘ > Ayre: @rry, ing off about 50 persons daily, ‘There is said to be muck sie re is si ? ‘sickness a: the British troops at Ashantee. = The Ohio has arisen 37 feet ai Ci ati, and fears are entertained of a food It is reported that Secretary Fich is to England in the p-ace of Scher ed, : ti i ack, rage’ ‘ saki. . ee aiding to the value of tw | two millions of dollars we i | tw re erec | York last year —— A severe earti.quake is reports ae merchant in Troy, N.Y... recently ship, ped an invoice of stoves to Siam and China, Nearly half the population of a village Connecticut are suffering trom alga A reciprocity treaty is about to be ranged between the Sandwich Islands ot the United States. Vr. Disraeli, in limiting his Ca binet to 1 b press. Mr. Gladstone’s Cabinet pe 15 members. | Mr. Cardwell, of the Gladstone Mini will be elevated to the Peerage, under the title of Viscount Rivington. ' The Indian Government state: that it members, is generally approved lex. hingon te 7 are reported @ Ne« a a ts } The insurrection in China is spr ; and the insurgents are marching On Na ‘din Vem | as Othello, the Moor, said to Iago :— Villain be sure cf it; give me the ocular proof, ‘ jand saying in the same voice of thunder | arrived at sufficiently near. After addresses from the President and | ying y The causes of | deaths, under the categories of disease, ac- /cident, and by criminal interference are | all the objects that look wonderful or bean~ ‘given by Provinces. These causes, of | tiful to you, follow with fresh hope the one applicable to our wishes and efforts in re-| Stone, a snare into which Mr. Disraeli was gard to reading, as toother things. Among | near falling, by proposing the abolition of | what was expected. | has now sufficient grain to meet any de | mand from the distressed districts. | Charles Shirley Brooks, the novelist, dra. } | Punch is dead, the income tax, worked differently from | moving east. It seems a settled | the 8,000 bar-rooms in New York. matic author, and editor of the Vondon Look ovr.—The women crusaders ag They are already att ie < necessity tos party; and to be popular, | it therefore, the | not far to goforan instance of the justness of our most ex- | ; that a committee be appointed to draft a | Jones, of St. John, N. B., moved that it Or by the worth of miue eternal soul, Thou had’st betier been born a dog, Than answered my wake'd wrath.” resolution adopted expressing satisfaction | | with what has been accomplished, and |urging upon the Government the en Seriously, we advise John Kenneth Me- | largement of the Welland and St. Law- | Innis to weigh well the question whether j rence Canals. The following amendments | or not it is right and expedient for Seere- | were made to the constitution: ‘ To elect officers at the close of the yearly meeting ; to have the Secretary and Treasurer re- | side in Montreal ; and to have « Vice. | President from each Province represented | Prorgsson ANpERSON’s lecture in St. Pat- at the Board, Mr. Marshall, of St. John, _rick’s Hall, on Friday evening last, was, we |N. B., read a lengthy paper upon the | question of Canadian tonnage. He re- | ferred to Plimsoll’s bill, as brought be- taries of public meetings to constitute themselves critics. Ooms e e | PROFESSOR ANDERSON’S LECTURE. dience before which it was delivered en. | joyed a rich intellectual treat. It was a | | fore the English Parliament, and read a ad , | peare’s Julius Cesar.’’ | paper on the subject. He concluded by I ; : } oe see y J ai ag B | : } moviug, seconded by Mr. Fairweather, Esq., he introduced the lecturer with afew | appropriate remarks memorial to be forwarded by the Board to the Governor General in Council, urg- ing upon our Government the importance of adopting such measures as to it may | seem necessary to prevent any legislation | phases of passion as portrayed in Macbeth, | that may be proposed in Great Britain in consequence of the report of the Royal played a knowledge of the workings of the Commission, recently held in London, agen ri any of the others. After explaini prejudicially affecting the tonnage of the | — Ceesar himself was by no means the leading , character in the piece, inasmuch as it only | included the last month of his life, and that Brutus is the real hero of the drama, he This motion was After some remarks, Hon. Mr. Dominion of Canada. earried. Hamlet, King Lear, end Othello, but it dis~ is of great importance that all lines of | railroad leading from one part of the Dominion to another should be ‘by the most direct waters, and as all the} lines leading through our own or our neigh- bors are to large extent circuitous. there- | fore, resolved, that the Dominion Board of Trade look favorably to the early con- | structian and completion of the Lake Me- | gantic Railroad, which will make as nearly as possible a direct line from Montreal to the seaboard in New Brunswick. Nova Scotla, and P. E. Island. The ques- tion of the tariff elicited a lively debate. Mr. McPherson moved that a duty of 15 percent is fair and reasonable, and no disturbance of the tariff is at present de- sirable, made | gave a slight sketch of the life of Cvwsar showing that by the power of Rome he con: quered Gaul, and by the plunder of Gaul | he conquered Rome, and having attained | to the offering of divine honors by the Senate he became suspected, by the ars dent supporters of the then crumbling republic at aiming at the hateful title of King. The honest fears of Brutus, worked | course, partake of the deficiency experi- ;enced in the general census record of |deaths. The 10th table. the last of the ; second volume, contains a statement of) the number of churches belonging to the several religious denominations, with the | number of buildings attached to, or imme- | ‘diately connected with, these churches, | sire, the Monition of Nature, is much to be | Similar information is also given in relation | attended to. to the higher class of educational institu, on the 2nd day of April, 1871. Although census returns are, on the face as useful information. In consulting the | tire returns of the census. From table 10 it would appear that the | number of children going to schoo! in the | human mind in general, not to be found in four Provinces are 351,122 boys, and 330,769 | of the history of past men. | girls; 161,104 males, and 138,471 females | over 20 years of age are unable to read, | and that 198,721 males, and 213,421 females | are unable to write. There are in the Pro- | Province of Quebec, The totals by Pros | vinces of those who are unable to read is for | Ontario, 57,379; for Quebec, 183,852; for New Brunswick, 19,002, and for Nova Sco-~ tiv, 31,332. This gives a proportion, to the entire population, of about four times as many for the Province of Quebec as that of Ontario, upon by the selfish and crafty jealousy of Cassius and others, a conspiracy was formed which culminated jn Cmsar’s assassination. | Then giving a masterly sketch of the phil- osophicand unworldly disposition of Brutus, | _and the keenly discerning selfishness of | Cassius, he proceeded to point ont how | | Ceesar, perceiving the worth of Brutus, had, after taking him prisoner at the battle of | Pharsalia, not only spared his life and all | } i { | | i Mr. Gillespie, of Hamilton, | the degradation with which the custom of | dred years old and the ages of 74 are not with our local Wants and interests, we have the Dominion Governinent, which is intimately acquainted with the require-| nish a ‘“‘ Comparative Statement.’ ments of our people ; and to it all Acts of our Local Parliament must be referred before they become law. So that the Lo- 'that the balance of trade appears to be | against us. We regret that we are unable to fur- | > Under | he cire ances i ld be »mely | the circumstances it would be extremely | difficult to make a correct comparison of | | seconded by Mr. Elliot. | London, ca Parliament is now curbed and hedged our Trade during the past year with that | in, so to speak, by two powers, each of of the years preceding it. Compurative from moved in amendment, that the tariff | the times overwhelmed the vanquished, | should be increased to 20 per cent ; | nat tat, Dole Hews ert. snd: paliey, | . heaped favors and distinction upon him; | Mr. Walker, of | : aie +] | and how gratitude and patriotism struggled | | for mastry in the mind of Brutus, until the | amendment that the Board approve ot 15) crafty urgings of Cassius led him to take per cent duty ad valorem. and it is of) the lead in the fatal conspiracy. We have | opinion, that in the event of any increase | not space, nor would it be well timed, to re- | of revenue being required, it should be | peat the leading extracts of the dama, raised by increasing the duties on articles | SUCH 98 the justificatory speech of Brutus, moved an amendment to the which is stronger than itself. Statements must in future date if there ever was any real need for a ‘Second Chamber” ia this Island, the need no onger exists. But, the Legislative Council of this Is- | land was at one time respectable. sequently it was respected, Therefore, ('on- Now, how- ever, there are “none so poor to do it reverence."’ The little influence it once Confederation. TRADE OF P. E. ISLAND. Statement of Imports into P. E. Island for | the Six Months ending 3lst December 1873, 487122 438700 Vulue of Dutiable Goods imported és Free 6 6s Total value of Goods imported, 8925822 duty ex Ship, 465779 of luxury, not necessaries of life, and the }and the condemnatory funeral oration of _ Antony, as we could not possibly reproduce | The total number of the blind in the four | Provinces is 2,576, and of these || are over | a hundred years of age. In point of sex 1,400 are males, and 1,167 females ; and they are distributed as follows: Ontario, 1,209 ; Quebec, 1,203; New Brunswick, 216, and 328 in Novs Scotia. There are in all the Provinces combined 5,026 males, and 4,397 females of unsound mind. Four of these are more than a hun- given. OPINION IN BRITISH COLUMRBIA. The Victoria Standard states that Mr. Mackenzie's intentions, as represented by the opposition, are objectionable. It cons | cludes an article on the Pacific Railway question as follows ;— When, however, we take up the accredits that looks wonderfulest beautifulest. You will gradually by various trials (which trials /are that you make honest, manly ones, not silly, short, fitful ones) discover what |isfor you the wonderfulest, beautifulest ; _whatis your true element and province, and be able to abide by that. True De- But here also you are to | 4. oo | discriminate carefully between fue desire | tions, and to penitentaries and jails, with and false. ‘The medical men tell us we | the additional information of the total num- | should eat what we frvely have an appetite regret to report, ill-attended. But the au- | ber of persons abiding in these institutions | for; but what we only fa/sely have an appe- | tite for, we should absolutely avoid. It is | ‘very true. And flimsy, ‘desultory’ read- long and a brilliant discourse on ‘“Shakes+ | of them, a dry subject of study, still, when ers, who fly from foolish book to foolish ‘carefully investigated and _ intelligently | book, and get good of none, and mischief The Chair being taken by P. R. Bowers, | handled, they afford much curious as well | of all—are not these as foolish, unhealthy | eaters, who mistike their superficial, false Professor Anderson | tables it must be borne in mind that the | desire after spiceries and confectioneries | then proceeded to show that the play of figures now furnished are nearly three | for the real appetite, of which even they Julius Cesar” is one of the most remark- , years old, so great is the delay in the issue | are not destitute, though it lies far deeper, able of Shakespeare's dramas. It had not of these volumes, of which, we believe, it | far quieter, after solid nutritive food? the depth of feeling aroused by particular | will require several more to contain the en- | With these ilustrations 1 will recommend Johnson's advice to you, ’ Another thing and only one other, [| will say. All hooks are properly the ‘ecord | What thoughts past men had in them, what actions past men did; the summary all books whatsoever lies there. It is on this ground that the class of books specially ol Let him study that faithfully, innumerable inquiries, with due indications, will branch out from it; he has a broad beaten highway from which all the country is more or less visible | —there travelling, let him choose where he will dwell. Neither let mistakes nor wrong direc: | tions, of which every man, in his studies | and elsewhere, falls into many, discourage | you. There is precious instruction to be | got by finding that we were wrong. Leta a man try faithfully, manfully, to be right; he will grow more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves. (ur very walking is an incessant falling; a | falling and a catching of ourselves betore point in England that indirect taxation cannet be increased. It was shrewdly in- ferred, therefore, that the abolition of the income tax just meant increased direct taxation, ere long, and perhaps in a more come tax. The country being rich and prosperous, people asked themselves why the national exchequer should be crippled, or if the taxes paid must be continued why there should be any shuffling about the mode of paying them. When the doubtful scheme of Gladstone was associ~ ated with the humiliating cheeseparing of Lowe, the people felt more disposed to pay the old taxes than to avail themselves of the new deductions Add to all this that Mr. Gladstone's sired by the Euglish people. Averse as they are to the intermeddling epirit ex. emplified by Lord Palmerston, they are more averse to truckling, whether it were to Russia inthe matter of the Black Sea treaties or to the United States in the Alabama matter, and as what was done in these respects did not please them, a great deal of irritation was caused which Mr. Gladstone's political foes turned to good account. Mr. Gladstone, being a scholar without cause separation from the people, never had that vinces 2,049 male, and 1,740 female deaf named History can be safely recommended personal popularity which Palmerston en- mutes. Of these latter 1,650 are in the as the basis of all study of books. Past | joyed and which Disraeli knows so wel] | census of 1870, the white population of the history, and especially the past history of | one’s own native country—everybody may | be advised to begin with that. how to cultivate, and did not realiy under- stand the public sentiment of the country. Owing to these and other causes, including | the English love of change of governments, | Mr. Gladstone s defeat can be understood, | Itis one of the greatest of modern times. It has not been without a cause, just as the | overturn in Canadian politics has not been but, while this is the case Gladstone may find solace in looking back oa pastin which he was a great and dis- tinguished figure, and we may say the same | /of our own Canadian lesders.—S/. John Telegraph. JAPANESE STUDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES. The recall of the Japanese students from this country and Europe in such large numbers has led some persons to objectionable form, than that of the | DS aaa “e | fill out a training ship. os In a late fight the Dutch troops in Aches ; foreign policy was not as firm as was de> | and a thinker, who lived in comparative | ' Study to do faithfully whatsoever thing in | find either expressly or tacitly laid to your’ the matter committed a great mistake in we come actually to the pavement! It is | that the Japanese Government has abans emblematic of all things a man does. | doned its policy of educating its youths In conclusion, I will remind you that it | abroad. This, however ia by no means | is not by books alone, or by books chiefly, | the fact. The necessity for the recalling of | that a man becomes in all points a man. a large number of students in foreign couns | tries arises partly from the lack of funds, | but mainly because those saving charge of your actual situation, there and now, you | A correspondent of the Standard on the” Gold Coast writes that a treaty has j i 5 signed by Wolseley and the King of the” | Ashantees. £5,000 for the benefit of destitute ; | captured an imporiani fort, killing 2.909 | detenders. The los: so the expedition ip only six killed and fifty-six wounded, | Mr, Dillion, a member of the Livingsteng search expedition, with Livingstones’s pe | mains, is expected ty reach Zanzibar ¢he | 20th inst. The Cameron expedition | proceed to Ujiji to obtain documents | property left by the doctor, . Francis John Parkham, Secretary of Brig 'ish Legation at Washington, and Wa | Secretary of British Legation at Copenhm gen, are to exchange places. Political disturbances have sppeared ig | Japan. The people clamor for a war with the Coreans. This, or a civil war, is inevib ; able. An insurrection has broken out ig | the district of Tizen. Rev. Mr. Moffatt, English Missionary to South Africa, doubts the correctness of the | reports concerning Dr. Livingstone’s death, | The Foreign Office likewise entertains some | doubt. A Jewish journal, called Glad Tid /has been commenced in Calcutta. It i published every Friday, and is printed ig | the Arabic Language and Hebrew chara } ter. | There are more negroes than white men in the Mississippi Legislature, which is nog }at all unreasonable, as, according to the | State numbered 383,000 against 444,000 | colored, The Times says a despatch received at Cape Coast Castle on the 28th January, from the expeditionary force, announees — that Coomassie, the capital of Ashantee, — surrendered to General Wolsey, and that the King and family were made prisoners, lhree railway accidents occurred in Engs land lately. The most serious happened to | the Scottish mail train, which ran intoa luggage train near Preston. Fifteen pers sons were injured, of whom two died. The | ears were all demolished. It appears from Parliamentary Blue Books that the last admini-tration of Mr. | Disraeli brought down the taxation of the | country from £2 8s 4d per head to £2 5s } 6d, and that Mr, Gladstone’s Government | has raised it again to £2 8s 2d. A despatch to the7%mes, from Calcutta says that 280,000 persons are distressed from want of food in the district of Tirhoot suppose | and Baylipoor, Presidency of Bengal. The /same dispatch says it is estimated that, but for aid furnished by the Government, | 500,000 persons would have perished, It is said that on the «ssembling of Parlia- ment, it willimmediate be prorogued until | March 12th, so that the members who ae- | cepted office from Mr. Desraeli may have |} an opportunity to go before their constit | uents for re-election. It is also said that Lady Burdett Coutts has offered bon - London, and the money is to be used to ‘ed organs of the Government, and read | charge—that is your post; stand in it like ever sending so many unprepared lads what they put forth as the sentiments and | a true soldier; silently devour the many | abroad. Most of them arr ved in America intentions of the Cabinet as a whole, it has | Board is further of opinion, that perman- } ency in the fiscal policy of the country is most important to its commercial and manufacturing interests. By telegraph to the Patriot of Saturday evening we learn that Senator Howlan proposed a resolution suggesting the necessity of pro- curing the fullest information on the Fish eries of the Dominion, and that a Com. | | read them for themselves, now, whilst the! | conscious-stricken Brutus, who, at Phillipi, ,hess of appreciation and an eloquence | a tendency in a great measure to dispel our | the masterly reading of Professor Anders | fears as to any intention on the part of the | son, We can only request our friends to | Government to violate the conditions of the agreement made with this Province. ‘They | ; ae : tell us the railway is to be commenced at impression is fresh upon their minds. The) the earliest possible date, simultaneously | workings of remorse in the mind of the ‘on both sides of the mountains, and that | | by utilizing the vast stretches of water com-~ : oe munication lying between a point not far perceived that his crime had produced no- | from the Rocky Mountains and Fort Garry, thing but disaster, was given with a keen-| and between Lake Superior and French | River, on the Georgian Bay, communication | chagrins of it, as all human sitwations have | or Europe unable to spesk a word, and many, and be your aim not to quit it with- | having but the merest elementary acquaint~ out doing all that #4, at least required of | ance with a foreign language. Encouraged you. A man perfects himself by work, | by injudicious foreign advisers, and without much more than by reading. ‘hey are a fully considering the wisdom of the step, growing kind of men that can wisely com> | they sent hundreds of tha lads abroad, bine the two things; wisely, valiantly, can | who, instead of studying science and liter- do what is laid to thair hand in their pre- | ature, had to begin the spelling-book and sent sphere, and prepare themselves withal first reader, and spend twe or three more for doing other wider things, 7 such lie | in elementary drudgery. A »outsix months | are on a very short allowance, | have to live daily on the dole of charity. j taken place in Costa Rica. the Queen’s speech will not be read until Parliament re-assembies. Sir. William Fite» | gerald will §probably be appointed under | Secretary of State for India, Want—hunger—famine still haunt the streets of New York. fens of thousands and thousands The rich men happily are very liberal, and | no case of want made known fails to be re- | lieved. It is hoped that in a few weeks better times will come. Meanwhile charity must hold her hand open A brutal massacre of Chinese has recently Some of the possessed has been completely lost. The Value of Goods paid climax of its humilistion wos reached last | s Session. A majority of its members, uv- | — der the guidance of R. P. Huaythorne, Value of Goods placed in Warehouse, 39735 were so bliuded by party jealousy and Value of Goods remaining in spite—so utterly lost to anything like a_ eee, just perception ot their functions,—to | Customs Duties Collected, eoything like patriotism or honor—that they passed a resolution in which they, Statement of the value of Exports from expressed their satisfaction with the terms | Prince Edward Island for a — gndeb whisk Mir. Loire tried to get the | COE Som: BP ‘“* ex Warehouse, 26538 Total value of Goods paid duty, $492317 —_—_———_—_—_—_ 29459 891997.76 which, to our mind, defied criticism. At | the close of the lecture, the Chairman made | the usual appeal to those present for any remark which they might think fit to offer, mission be appointed to report on the best means of protecting them. This resolu. tion was carried. A telegram to the News dated Feb. 26, reports :— will be opened across the Continent in five | years’ time, and that the entire line of rail- | way between the Pacific Ocean and Fort | | Edmonton, at the eastern base of the. | Rockies will be in running order. If Mr. “The Dominion Board of Trade have pas- sed resolucions in favor of a uniferm system of gauging liquors, and in favor of a passage of a law requiring foreign mercantile agencies to appoint agents who shall be liable to act- | ions atlaw. They also advise that the vari- ous Boards of Trade appoint local average adjusters, and urge the government to sub- sidize a line of steamers to ply between Do- minion ports and the West Indies. <A re- solution approving of the land and water route to Manitoba was rejected by a vote of thirty-five to eleven. Senator Howlan has been elected Vice-President of the Board, | but no one had anything to su t | Mackenzie succeeds in doing this, and hay-~ ny 8 ” ey eee ing accomplished the work so far, asks from | express the general satisfaction felt; and a | British Columbia a relaxation of the terms, | | motion of thanks to the lecturer was moved | so far as we can see at present, we should ‘and carried, nem. com. say no serious objection will be oftered | The Westminister Review for January has | time is concerned, should further time be | just been reprinted by the Leonard Scott | — necessary. i utilization of the | ae , " . > x | American system of railways, pending the | Publishing Co., 140 Fulton Street, N.Y. completion of ou: own through line, we | | The following is a summary ef the contents Arr. I. i |' endowment of the Church of England.” } a British Columb:a standpoint. As for the} sands thek th eblahied dil Geis th completion of the line through oa British ler- which has adjourned to meet at St. John, | in its present condition fulfill the needs of ritory, we may safely leave our eastern cousins | Island to enter into Confederation, and | Seis Soy cectebs. Woe then connived at having it sent by tele—| prema St Pe, peckave care graph to Ottawa, so that the efforts of | a cetil Products, _ 148988 Messrs. Pope, Howlan and Haviland to | Manafactares, 2267 obtuin better terms of union might be de Other articles, s me feated. The design, happily, miscarried. Total Produce of Dominion, — 8357780 Still Better Terms’ were cranted, and | a arcaaes Bs the Island is now richer by $25,000 a) year. But the infamy of the act remaiaos. : lee 363829 It can never be blotted out. The Legis- V = rie ae é } 192600 lative Council has taken upon itself a load of disgrace which, no matter how) honest and patriotic the members who. compose it may io future be, it cannot | wholly throw off. Then why not abolish | it at once, and let its very name be forgot- ten? We think that, under the shameful | cireumstances, even those who compose it immediate aboli- | should consent to its Total Exports, $556,429 SOUTHPORT FERRY. The inhabitants of Vernon River and vicinity, intend petitioning the Legisla- ture to remedy a “great grievance,”’ viz , the ill-appointed, ill-regulated Southport Ferry—its docks and boats. Good. We N. B., in July” “A visit from the members of the Board and their wives and daughters to the Maritime Provinces,”” says the S¢. John Telegraph, “ would be a most pleas- ing result of the meeting of the Board. Our people would be delighted to meet their friends from the Upper Provinces, and no less so those from the United States. We shall look forward to the visit in the summer, and expect to see the strance seendi St. ‘inga fair and substantial equivalent. The a PNR RE ~ ae ame | of reform. : ey a Pacific Province does not want the ‘pound Restigouche, taking a ride over the Prince | Any. Il. ‘The Christian Missions to the | of flesh’ which, according to the ‘ bond,’ she Edward Island Railway, or regaling them- | Heathen ' | the people ; mentions the abuses connected | with it, such as the sale of livings, ete. ; and j . : : . : { | points out the necessity which is forcing ‘ aks ; ‘itself into prominence, of separation of | The Colonist, having quoted largely trom | tiaieiitls dani tiles {the Toronto organ of the Government | } ; j i i ‘ “ite ’ ~ | Arr. II. ‘The Metropolitan Police Sys: | which said, ‘The people of British Colum- | | bia are too reasonable to expect Canada to | tem.’ We hay : Soon oe ere Se Gene: 0 commit itself to an impossibility ’’—pro- excellence of the London Police Regula- “ceeds to remark : tions, that it is with interest not unmixed | At the same time we beg to assure our with surprise, that we read this account of | big contemporary that the people of British the working of the system, and find how Columbia are too sensible to relinquish or imperfect it is and what great need it has | relax the railway covenant without receiv- | | lay as possible. An able paper, suggesting that | might demand ; nur sue pors WANT Justice, | before them. With many good wishes and encouragements, I remain yours sincerly, Tuomas CazLyLe THE COMMUNE IN NEW YORK. In a special telegram to the A/. John Telegraph. it is said that * The French de- driven from Tompkin’s Square, New York, rome time since, both before and | ago, seeing their mista’ e, as well as warned | by asin’ ing treasury, they sent Mr. Ku‘i, an Official of the education department, to order back to Japan all whe had failed to | men employed on the railroad had offended the chief of the camp. an irascible Frenehs | man named Lafeychine, in consequence of | which they thrashed them with a whip. | The Chinese resented this treatment, and make progress, or who had not reached a drove all of the white men ont of their certain standard. Only a very few out of the hundreds sent abroad time. a language is the task of years Notwiths standing jcamp, whereupon one of the contractors ~ |mamed Meyers, in his fright, telegraphed wasted their to Cartago for troops The large majority of those recalled | five drunken soldiers consequently arrived thereto, at least so far as an extension of | tective, who mixed among the rioters | were able and diligent ; but the mastery of | in the middle of the night, and at once A force of thirty. proceeded to fire into a body of 300 Chinese as they lay asleep in their tents, Six were good schools, gocd teachers, and | killed and nine others mortally wounded. after the riot, in his full report to the good friends, no student found a royal or a | The officer in charge is now to be tried by the houses of the wealthy, and Jr, May, | who is their leader, told them after the riot to attend to that matter, as no doubt they will, | that it had been a day of great success, as | who remain. it being to their interest fo have the road coms | it had shown that the working men would | worthy, diligent and promising, must re- pleted through their territory with as title de- | stand by them even to death, and that | turn their organization was now made sacred by blood. They say that they will be ready hereafter, by orgenization and with arms to overcome their enemies. At a recent meeting of these Communists, one of the committee of safety reported the following was adopted. ‘ The working men of all sections and companies. Each secticn will ' | should look uponas a wise step on the part | chief of police, states that they are almost gilded road to learning. Toomany of them | ‘‘ The disestablishment and dis | of the Dominion Government, viewed from | all Communists, who advocate sacking of ruined their health or lost their lives, Those who were grounded ia the language before they left Japan, are the lucky ones The others, perhaps as It seemae a pity to recall these young men, and fo acknowledge tie commission of a vast, organized and expensive blunder ; but the sending of these lads abroad at the wrong time was nothing less They should | have spent from two to fou~ years in good | grammar schools, under experienced for- | organization of working men here, which | eign teachers in Japan. so that when in Europe or America they could appreciate nationalities must organize themselves by | what they saw, heard, and tried to learn. There have been some selves with the scenery of the Bras d’ | religious instruction would be likely to take ' AND SHE SHALL HAVE iT! The railway oblis other officers. Men will select theirown had utterly forgotten his own language, } j i | } ; court-martial; and the residents are re- gretting this episode in the history of the Costa Rica Railroad The Siamese Twins eclipsed.—The Albury | Border Post records the death of the wife of Mr. F. W. Tietyerns,-who had recently given birth to twins. -[ue extraordinary complication attending the birth caused great exhaustion, from which deceased never rallied. ‘Ihe infants, who are full grown, and in every respect perfect, are joined together froni about an inch below the armpit to the upper edge of the hip bone, and about four inches in width ; with this exception, the infants (both females) are well proportioned, and in every respect each in itseif perfect. The case is one which will doubtless possess many features of interest to the medical profession no | record being known of any case so extradr curious in-|dimary—the union «f be composed of 100 men, each company | stances of wasted or misspeat time among | of 40) men commanded hy captains and | these returned students. One from France | the infants being more complete and of much greater extent than that existing between the | celebrated Siamese twins. Fase TeetH anp Morasses Canpy.—A officers, and every one of them will be remembering only a very faw words but | | trust their representations may have the tiou. Qr.”’ These sentiments we heartily en. deeper root by following in the footsteps of | gation entered into by Canada constituted (tae consideration which induced British | elected by the working men of each com- jncapable of forming a Japanese sentence. If i Sie die intel til aes | desired effect. We, not long since, made “a were, ver, the oniy chee . : . . the House of Assembly —if without it the some practical suggestions respecting this | disgrace to the Island—this source of | Lower House would be possessed of su-| * steal : ld witl ding | 22Boyance to people living south of the | preme power --we would, notwithstan ing | eth: Wie all sig leek cetere the disgrave which is attached to our Leg- | i aati Loe a | ! a . : _. | to the subject. islative Counci , vote against its abolition. | We would say, reconstruct it, and purge | it; but do not abolish it. For we ful y — recognize the danger there is in permit-| AN engagement has taken place in tidg avy holder of power, whether an in- | Ashantee, during which the British lost dividual or an assembly of individuals, to| nearly three hundred men. The following be supreme and untrammelied It is not, | despateh from General Wolesly has been we think, right that any body of legislotors received :— | Coomassee, Feb. Sth—We reached here I THE WAR IN ASHANTEE. should be exposed to the corrupting in-| | yesterday, afler five days hard fighing. The | civilization, than preceding it. Art. 1V. ‘The Working Classes.’ The ‘labor question has attained such promin, ‘ence in all countries of late, that it is un- dorse. “ en THE SCHOOL QUESTION. Administrator’s | WE trust that the ; /necessary to call attention to anything speech at the opening of the Legislature | bearing upon that subject. on Thursday next, will contain the an-/ fers particulary to the English labourer, /nouncement that a measure is about to be | his temperament, condition, and habits in submitted to amend the Education Act, | all of which he differs i1 n any respects from so that Catholics may hereafter be re- | his prototype in this country. Trade. lieved from the necessity of supporting a Uionism Is represented as useful in many school system to which they have such “°)" bat an Being ealy's Sanpeaney erg well-grounded and deep-rooted objections and which works with such manifest justice to them. ’ | dustrial Co-operation is to be developed. m-| arr. V. ‘John Stewart Mill.’ An ex- This paper res | Columbia to cast in her lot with the Domin~ _ion, and if that obligation be found impos~ ' sible of fulfilment as to the element of time, the people of this Province have a right to demand, and will demand, a substantial compensation for loss arising from delay. Taxes are an awful reality in South Caro. | lina. Negro and carpet~bag rule is a costly business, It is said that while taxable pro- rty has fallen from $500,000,000 to $175,. 000. taxation haa been increased from | $400,000 to over $2,500,000, so that the people are compelled to pay about twenty times as much as before the war for the ery of the people is, how this tremendous load can be lightened faences of undivided authority But the | jroops behaved admirably. Our casualities House of Assembly is now-—apart from | are under 300. The King has left the town ibe Legislutite ‘ ouveil ~ checked by two | to-day, but he promises to visit me to-day voi } and sign a Treaty of Peace. We hope to separate and distinct powers. On one) start on our return to the coast to-morrow. band, the people—sided by the press— | The wounded are recovering, and the health f the remainder of ’ will guard well their rights aad libertics. | signed) Wonca,” A free press and quadrenaial Parliaments _ This despatch occasioned great relief in are potent ¢ ecks to the power of the England. Legislature, and safeguards of the liber. Qars,—During the past week oats sold Tur Wax ts Cusa.—Late advices by tele. graph from Cuba state that another battle has been fought near Puerto Principe, in which 3,000 Spanish woops and 5,000 Cu- bans engaged. Over 300 Spaniards were killed and wounded, including Brigadier General Bascomes, the Spanish command- er, There is no evidence that any Cubans were captured, or that they were more than ties of the people. On the other hapd freely in this city at 41 cents per bushel. barely repulsed. cellent article, givinga ‘brief viewof the paris lost a great deal in various ways sources and method ofthe Mr Mill’s educa~ when the Germans were driven from it, | . > - ‘ . } _ mind and character, with ‘the opinions of | “ee : | his mature years,’ and ‘some of the results | rag Some Frenchmen carry their hatred _ of those opinions upon his labors in moral The and political science as well as in practical | works of art in Paris reproduced by photo. politics.” _graphy. The photographer who were em. The remainder of the eriew is devoted, ployed found out, when part of their work as usual, to brief notices of Contem was completed, for whom it was intended, he present time 1s not likely to bring them Literature, which will suggest to each read» | and refused to deliver it. We read in one er the new books that will be most attracts of to~day’s pe soe photographers are unico, _ ive to his mind, ' being sent | pany. Four companies of 400 men cach He*could talk French like a native Parisian ; | will form a legion of 1,00) men, commands | but knew nothing of the usual branches, ed by a superior officer. Each one of the ' men shall be very obedient to his officers, ‘and taithful to his duty of a working man | tilldeath. A meeting of each section will take place every week ; a general meeting | of each company (400 men) will take place ‘separately every month, to report to the ‘committee of safety, the proceedings of every meeting of each section.’ The names ‘of all the leaders and their places of resis ization from which, in cou se of time, In- | support of their State Government. The “ence or business are known to the police.”’ Emigration to New York in 1875.—The | report of the Commissioners of Emigration | for the year 1573, shows an alien immigra- ‘tion into the port of New York for that ‘tion, and the primary effect it had on his but the tone adopted towards them up to | year, 266,818 persons, being a falling off of 26,763 from the returns made for the year ending Dec. 3, 1872, which was an ex- int injurious to their own interests. | ceptional year for immigration, showing ing of Bavaria desired to have some | the largest returns since 1847, excepting | As to nation. | | two years—1852 and 1854. alities, England has decreased 3,110, and Germany 28,491. Ireland is almust the same as last year, there being a decrease of 135 in her emigration; Scotland has de- ereased 622, Sweden 2888, and France 3,991 while Norway has increased 1,378, /such as arithmetic, geography, etc. The examination of these returned students is | now becoming part of the regular duties of the professors of the Imperial College in | Tokei. The student is examined by pro- fessors who are natives of the country in which he studied. With every desire to | give the student a fair chance, not a single | applicant has yet been able to enter the first or second classes of the College, though a few have answered a sufficient percentage of the questions propounded to admit them to the third class. The students of the first and second classes in the Imperial | College already average three years of study devoted to the English, French, or German It is intended tc send abroad Newark, N. J., husband brought home # hunk of molasses candy for his wife the lother evenng. His wife wears false teeth. ‘The candy was of an adhesive nature. She helped herself to a generous hunk, and planted both rows of teeth in it. There they remained Strenuous were her efforts to release them, but she was not sue vessful. Sne wanted her mouth free that she might say somethingto him. She wanted to say something to him that the candy not only prevented, but the tone of whch from is | prominint quality it debauched. But she ‘could not get her jaws apart, Then she | Went to the sink and dropped the whole | mass, teeth andcandy, into a basin, Agaim she jooked at him as ifshe was on the joint of saying something that he would be | interested in, but every effort vas broken |and destroyed by the orphaned jaws. im- languages. |agine a woman,a direct descendant of Eve, a certain number of students annually ; but | in such a fix Thin« of they will be young men already thoroughly | | think of the torrent of eloquence busting grounded in the language and elementary studies of the country in waich they will reside. If American teachers are pleased with their Japanese pupils, it will please them to know that therg are scores more who are just as good and bright and much better prepared in the College of Tokei, waiting very patiently for their turn to come to go abroad and see tie things they are already familiar with by taeir daily de- scription and long study,—., pendent { place, and with which that wretched Y. Indes | subdued his merriment and tore | out into the air and vapour the mighty thoughts surging and battleing through her bam from her throat with a roar and striking think of the blazing eyes, the distended a the ‘trembling frame, the nervous hanas. ture corte tearing the misera ble candy from the glistening teeth, and compres hend if you can, 0 man! the ve | with which the treed teeth were into man out of that house, — Danbury News. ie oh ee: Pi th ye mane ee eS a oa oO