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     denomination, 
     
     Intion would meet the views of the hon 
     
     momber for Strathalbyn whose enlightens 
     
     ed remarks Le hud Loan glad to hear, and 
     
     who-e mind would, he hoped, he. still 
     
     further enlizgha,ned before the present 
     
     di cussion was © oncluded, so that he might 
     
     see that the resolution contained nothing 
     
     but what was just and liberal All that 
     
     was asked was that in schoo!s where the 
     
     chil ren were all of one denomination. they 
     
     should hive such religious instruction as 
     
     their parents or guardians required. Was 
     
     there anything unjust ia this? The statu 
     
     ties of the Island toa certain exent auth. 
     
     oriaed religions instruction in public schools. 
     
     This wasthe Statute 
     
    

    
     “The mtroduction of the Bible to be 
     
     read in all the public schools in this Is- 
     
    
   
   
    
     re 
     
    
   
   
    
     land of any grade receiving support from | 
     
    
   
   
    
     the public Treasury, is hereby authorized, 
     
     and the teachers are hereby required to 
     
     Open the school, each day, with the read- 
     
     ing of the sacreé Scriptures, by those child. 
     
     ren whose parents or guardians desire it 
     
     without comment, explanation or remark 
     
    
   
   
    
     thereupon by the teachers, but no children | 
     
    
   
   
    
     shali be required to attend during such 
     
     reading, as aforesaid, unless desired by the 
     
     parents or guardians."’ 
     
    

    
     This authorized the reading of the litle 
     
     in the public schools. He did not think 
     
     that the hon. member for Strathalbyn would 
     
     consider the demand o! the resolution a 
     
     grievance, for his constituents, if they were 
     
     sound in their religious views, as be (Mr. 
     
     Sullivan) believed they were, could, if they 
     
     thought proper have the Bible read in 
     
     their schools, and such form of prayer used 
     
     by the teacher as they wished. 
     
     ail the children attending any school were 
     
     ef the same religious opinions as the hon. 
     
     member for Strathalbyn, would their pa- 
     
     rents consider it » grievance if they were 
     
    
   
   
    
     itted to have such form of prayer as | 
     
    
   
   
    
     they thought proper? This was all that 
     
     was sought for by the resolution. In mix- 
     
     ed communities the resolution did not 
     
    
   
   
    
     seek to have religions instruction in the | 
     
    
   
   
    
     public schools. The hon member for 
     
     Strathalbya would see, when he considered 
     
    
   
   
    
     He hoped that the reso- | 
     
    
   
   
    
     eredit and an ornament to the city. In 
     
     Pownal Street school, and in the Convent 
     
     on Hillsborough Square females were edu- 
     
     eated; at St. Patrick school males were 
     
     taught, and the attendance at these insti 
     
     tutions aggregated about 50 I ose child. 
     
     ren had been, by the Bishop and the Ro- 
     
     man Catholic population, taken off the 
     
     streets and placed in these schools, which 
     
     were furnished and provided with every~ 
     
     thing requisite for first cass educational 
     
     Nnstitutions, at no expense to the State. 
     
     Ihe demand pow made that these 
     
     schools should receive the same allowance 
     
     from the State that other schools received. 
     
     | No grant was asked on account of the reli- 
     
     gious instruction only for the secular edu- 
     
     cation. There was nothing unfair in this. 
     
     if the Bishop, with the utmost charity and 
     
     liberality, had taken 500 children off the 
     
     | streets, and placed them in large and com- 
     
     modious schools, why shoud he not re 
     
     ceive for their secular education the same 
     
     rate that was patd for schools which were 
     
     pronounced a disgrace to the city by the 
     
     Visitor of schools? Would any hon. mem- 
     
     ber take upon himself to ignore these 
     
     rights, which no man would deny, were 
     
     | just and fair? {It was in the recollection of 
     
     { hon. members, that before the school over | 
     
     the way, (St. Patrick School) had been ess | 
     
     | tabliched there was a school the majority 
     
     | of the children attending which were Roman | 
     
     Catholics, and which was taught by Mr. | 
     
     Roche, and in connection with avhicl there | 
     
     | was a female school. These schools, which 
     
     had been abolished about five years ago, 
     
     | had cost the country about £200 per an» 
     
     jnum. For five years this expense had | 
     
     | been saved, making a saving to the State 
     
     ,of £1000. Would there be any injustice 
     
     jin placing that sum at the disposal of the | 
     
     | Bishop, to remunerate him in part for the | 
     
     | expense to which he had been put. Lle | 
     
     (Mr. Sullivan) did not know that anything | 
     
     | which could be said would induce hon. 
     
     }members to change their minds, which | 
     
     were probably pretty well made up on both 
     
     sides of the House. Simple justice only 
     
     | was asked. [t might now be denied, but the 
     
    
   
   
    
     was 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘time would come when justice would be | 
     
    
   
   
    
     | dune. be 
     
    
   
   
    
     | and recieved state aid as others did. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ERIE TTT 
     
    
   
   
    
     (Mr. Stewart) had said that the Presbyteri- 
     
     ans were also making a move in the same 
     
     direction. 
     
     schoels were satisfuctory? This was the 
     
     strongest proof that the system, so far as the 
     
     City was concerned did not work well, and 
     
     it was necessary for the religious bodies to 
     
    
   
   
    
     establish schools after their own heart. We 
     
     had been sometimes referred to the system 
     
     of edueation which was ia force in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     United States ; after which, he believed our 
     
    
   
   
    
     system had been modelled by Mr Coles; | 
     
    
   
   
    
     but many complaints were made by 
     
     eminent men of the manner in which the 
     
     system had worked there. 
     
     for the benefit of the hon. 
     
     Strathalbyn the opinion of an eminent Pro- 
     
    
   
   
    
     testant gentleman, Principa! Elliot, of Hars | 
     
    
   
   
    
     vard College. He did not agree with all that 
     
     gentleman's opinions, but with those on the 
     
     subject under coo-ideration he did. Prin- 
     
     cipal Elliot said : 
     
    

    
     “ Religion is the supreme human interest, 
     
     government ts the supreme human organ- 
     
    
   
   
    
     | ization, therefore gove:nment ought to take 
     
    
   
   
    
     care of religion, and a christian government 
     
    
   
   
    
     should maintain distictively christian reli- | 
     
     This is not theory alone, | 
     
    
   
   
    
     gious institutions. 
     
     it is the practice of all christendom, except 
     
     in America and Switzerland.” 
     
    

    
     The learned Principal was thus firmly of 
     
    
   
   
    
     opinion that it was of the utmost import 
     
    
   
   
    
     ance to impart religious education in 
     
     schools. The system in forve in the United 
     
     States was the same as ours, but it had been 
     
    
   
   
    
     | found to work so badly in the city of New 
     
    
   
   
    
     York that they had been compelled, so he 
     
     learned by reports, to make an exception 
     
     in order to save the youth of the city, and 
     
     religious instruction was there permitted in 
     
     the schools. Why should the Protestant 
     
     majority here refuse to grant whit was grant- 
     
     edtin Prus-ia,in Switzerland,in Great Britain, 
     
     in Ontario? {In Prussia the Jews even were 
     
     permitted t ,teach their peculiar doctrines 
     
    
   
   
    
     He 
     
    
   
   
    
     Why was this done if the public | 
     
    
   
   
    
     He would quote | 
     
     member for | 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     a ert 
     
    
   
   
    
     MEN AT OTTAWA. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Iv is greatly to be deplored that the 
     
     electors of this Island, under the mis- 
     
     guided patronage of his Lordship Bishop 
     
     | MeIntyre, should have made such a grand 
     
     mistake in the selection of their repre 
     
     ‘sentatives to the Dominion Parliament. 
     
    

    
     We have good men in the Senate, but 
     
     powerless to originate such 
     
    
   
   
    
     they are 
     
     measures as are required by the exigen 
     
     cies of this Province to save it from the 
     
     | degrading position which the Bishop's 
     
     nominees are likely to entail upon it. 
     
    

    
     The appointment of person 
     
     thoroughly unfitted by position, manners, 
     
    
   
   
    
     a so 
     
    
   
   
    
     experience and business qualifications as 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr. Laird, to fill such a responsible posi- 
     
     ‘tion as that of Cabinet Minister, is, in- 
     
     | deed, one of the greatest misfortunes that 
     
     could have befallen this Island, 
     
    

    
     Once seated in power, with a large 
     
     majority at his back, Mr. Mackenzie 
     
     would doubtiess retain a lively remem— 
     
     brance of the méans by which he had 
     
     accomplished his object, and naturally 
     
     conclude that a person who had contrived 
     
     to be introduced to the Legislative Cham- 
     
     ber of the Dominion by, and leaning on, 
     
     the arm of, a distinguished chief, and on 
     
     ‘the next day betraying him for a pecun- 
     
     | iary consideration, was not a porson to be 
     
     | trusted; and fearing lest he, too. might 
     
     | some day be made the subject of a simi- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     THE TARIFF. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Fortunately, the 
     
     awoke to the critical position of their af- 
     
     fairs, and the most incapable and unprin- 
     
    
   
   
    
     people of this Island 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Tur tariff which Mr. Cartwright at- 
     
     cipled Government that ever disgraced | tempted to foist upon the Dominion, was, 
     
    

    
     : in some respects, so very unfair, that 
     
     this or any other country Was, after e even pe ee cia pill 
     
     months’ trial, ignominiously dismissed. | the Geverument — om : r 
     
     lhis brief and inglorious period includes | justify it. The on admitted t at the 
     
     sll the parliamentary experience of the people of the Lower Provinces had great 
     
     official life of the Minister of the Interior. reason to complain of the tax imposed 
     
    

    
     Driven from power in the Local Goy- upon shipbuilding materials. No taxa- 
     
     tion could be imposed whici: would be so 
     
    
   
   
    
     ernment, he next tried what intrigue 
     
     | exceptionally unfair to the Maritime Pro 
     
    
   
   
    
     through the Bishop of Charlottetown | 
     
     would do. The Bishop, although an | vinces as this tax upon shipbuilding ma- 
     
     amiable map, who hus done much to pro- | terials and outfits, beeause the sea-going 
     
     mote education within his own circle,| ships are nearly all built in these Pro- 
     
     unfortunately, it is alleged, has suffered | vinces, These ships are built principally 
     
     himself to be influenced by several mis~| for sale in the mother country, The 
     
     guided laymen and their strong—minded tariff imposed a tax equivalent to one dol- 
     
     wives, and the result was that Laird, Sin- lar per ton on the cost of the ship, and 
     
     clair, Davies and Yeo, (four of the most | although those vessels will be sold in the 
     
     uacompromising opponents of the Roman | very market from which the iron, and all 
     
     Catholic claims io former times) and | other duty paying materials have beea 
     
     Perry and the Bishop’s nephew, were re- | imported, no drawback was to be allowed 
     
     cegnized by the general voice of the coun-| on these materials, and the duty paid 
     
     try as His Lordship’s nominees,—Mac- | would thus become a dead Joss to the ex- 
     
     Kenzie having duped the Bishop into «| porter or builder. It is evident that the 
     
     beliet that he would override the author- shipbuilding interests would have to suf- 
     
     ity of the Local Parliament by Dominion | fer severely had the obnoxious duty been 
     
     legislation in favor of the Catholic claims continued, There is no branch of com- 
     
     on the School Question. Howlan and merce or manufactures in the Provinces 
     
     Austin McDona'd, both Roman Catholics, which benefits such a large class of people 
     
     —two of the most capable members who as this business does. 
     
    

    
     offered,—were denounced from the altar, Mr. Cartwright attempted to justify his 
     
     and the Bishop’s threats to unmake every three millions of additional taxation, by 
     
    
   
   
    
     agreed with thohon. member for Tignish | j4y negotiation, no doubt sagaciously con- 
     
    
   
   
    
     | that the change asked for was intended to | 
     
     | benetit the poor. ‘those who had means | 
     
     | could send their children where they pleas- | 
     
     ed, and beside, the poor,not having reciev-~ | 
     
    
   
   
    
     cluded to ignore the influence of this in- 
     
     cubus his Government; and by 
     
     treating the interests of this Islaud with 
     
    
   
   
    
     ou 
     
    
   
   
    
     : Th uestio i as we 
     
     the question, that no injustice was asked. Ss oon Mages aa. wail 
     
    
   
   
    
     The other part of the resolution set forth 
     
     that such persons could, in certain cases, 
     
     be employed as teachers as should produce 
     
     to the Board of Education satisfactory cer 
     
    
   
   
    
     grappled first as last, for it was impossible 
     
     | that the present state of educational matters 
     
     | could continue long. 
     
    
   
   
    
     . --,. | concerned. A biil had been passed which 
     
     tifieates from some colleze, or other insti- | would, he hoped, settle it forever. fle did 
     
    
   
   
    
     tuions of learning - Europe bayonet | not think it too much to ask that hon. mem, 
     
     This, he presumed, was intended to apply | ».7, should sink differences tor a time, and 
     
    
   
   
    
     more particularly to the city. Several |p... un this au co . 2 
     
     sebools had been established here by the, p this question and set it at rest. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The land question | 
     
     | had been settled so fur as this House was | 
     
    
   
   
    
     ed the advantages of education themselves, f : 
     
     did not take so much much interest in edu~ | neglect and contempt, induce Mr. Laird 
     
    
   
   
    
     cation, were somewhat careless in that | go resign. If such was bis expectation, 
     
    
   
   
    
     | 
     
    
   
   
    
     respect. He did not think, when wis 1 a 
     
     [the state was paying a large sum | Mr. Mackenzie will be disappointed. 
     
     'for education, that the poor people; The man who, as a just punishment for 
     
    
   
   
    
     should be prevented from receiving a certain | i. untruthful statements, and slander of 
     
     portion even it it went to schools in which | ~~ : : 
     
     religious education was imparted. As he | private character, has bad publicly in- 
     
    
   
   
    
     | would have another opportunity of speaks (flicted on him in this community the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bishop, in which secular education fof a} 
     
     highly satisfactory character was imparted, | 
     
    
   
   
    
     and where religious instruction was also 
     
     imparted. 
     
     that the State had no right to prescribe the 
     
     religious instruction which should be im, 
     
     parted to the rising generation. Such was 
     
     not sought by the resolution. All that the 
     
     Roman Catholic people asked was that tha 
     
     State should pay for secular education in 
     
     the schools. In those schools, where re 
     
     ligious education was imparted, secular in. 
     
     struction wis also given. |t was only ask~ | 
     
     ed that the Government py for the secular | 
     
     education which was afforded, and if pro- | 
     
     9 ignore the religious instruction entirely. 
     
     t was not inconsistent with the duty of | 
     
     the State when it took upon itself the} 
     
     important duty of paying for education | 
     
     to pay for secular education though 
     
     i imstruction was given in the} 
     
     same schools. fie trusted that this ex- | 
     
     planation would be satisfactory to the hon. | 
     
     member for Strathalbyn. The question had | 
     
     been asked why had the Bishop established | 
     
     his schoo's in this city—had we not here the | 
     
     same free school system as in the country— 
     
     did it not give general satisfaction—was it | 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ; 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     not a great and glorious system —was it not | 
     
     the system established by the Liberal party, | 
     
     and why ignore it? There was very great | 
     
     reason for ignoring it. He would ask the | 
     
     hon. member for Strathalbyn ‘o take up the | 
     
     report of the visitors of schools for Queen's | 
     
     County, and he would find that the schools | 
     
     of the city were a di-grace to the colony. | 
     
     No one knew this fact better than the hon. | 
     
     member for Strathsibyn. 1 was not to be | 
     
     r onderesd at that the Bishop being respon- | 
     
     s:b.e for the education of those under his | 
     
     esre wished to have them educated in other | 
     
     imstitutions than the common schools of | 
     
     this city. Heasked the hon. member to | 
     
     bear with him while he brought to his notice | 
     
     the School Vi.itors Report for ihe past year. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Speaking of the city schools the Visitor | 
     
     ssid :-— 
     
    
   
   
    
     “The decrease, the past two years, in 
     
     the number enrolled at the ‘ City Schools’ 
     
     is $2. Instead of progressing they are re- 
     
     trogreding, with a few honorable exceptions. 
     
     The school-room accommodation is no 
     
     better than itwas yearsago Were details 
     
     to be given,they would be a mere repetition 
     
     of my presented to your Board in 
     
     April IST1, without any improvement to 
     
     note, except iu the rooms in Kings Square, 
     
     occupied by Miss Lawson and \ias Scantel- 
     
     bury, one above and the other below stairs. 
     
     They are comparatively comfortable. In 
     
     Miss Lawson's room, however, there is a 
     
     deficiency of light. The schools in the 
     
     Temperance Hall and DesHrisays lane, 
     
     should be closed immediately unless decent 
     
     outride conveniencies be provided at once. 
     
     The Pownal (city) school has been re-open- 
     
     edina room in Sydney Street. It seems 
     
     hard that the teacher of this «choo! shoud 
     
     be obliged to find the desks seats, maps 
     
     and blackboards, at his own expense.” 
     
    

    
     The Visitor next set forth the low ebb to | 
     
     which the city «chools had fallen. 
     
    

    
     ‘The very low ebb to which the common | 
     
     achools of Charlottetown have fallen ought | 
     
     w be cause of alarm to al who take any 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     He entirely agreed with the | 
     
     hon. member for Strathalbyn, when he said | 
     
    
   
   
    
     | ions were rampant, all the domestic ties 
     
    
   
   
    
     | tended for was that the truths in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     It had been said by the hon. member for | 
     
     Strathalbyn —who was the only Protestant 
     
     | who had yet spoken, and to whose speech 
     
     | he was therefore compelled to mase the 
     
     most frequent reference—that there was a 
     
     great difference of opinion among Protes 
     
     tants regarding the desirability of impart | 
     
     ing religious education in schools. He | 
     
     would bring to the notice of that hon. 
     
     member some utterances of very distin- 
     
     guished Protestants on this subject. The 
     
     tirst which he would quote was a resolution 
     
     moved by the Earl of Shaftesbury, one of | 
     
     the foremost Protestants of England, at a 
     
     meeting held in London on the 6th Novem- 
     
     ber last. The resolution was— 
     
    
   
   
    
     * That special exertions are required at 
     
     the present ime to maintain Scriptural 
     
     instruction in Board schools. and to coun- | 
     
     teract the attempt to reduce our primary | 
     
     schools to be places of mere secular train- | 
     
     ing, by which Christianity would be dis- 
     
     honored, and our national well being im- | 
     
     paired.” 
     
    

    
     In supporting the Resolution 
     
     Shaftesbury said thet he— 
     
    
   
   
    
     * Sympathized with the Roman Catholics 
     
     on this matter; they must insist upon a} 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Earl 
     
     } 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     | distinctive teaching on religious matters. | 
     
    
   
   
    
     They desired something detinite and dis 
     
    

    
     tinctive; distinctive on the great truths of 
     
     the Gospel on which the scripture teaching | 
     
     rested. They did not want the morality | 
     
     of Greece, Rome, Budhism, or the Koran. | 
     
     They wanted the great and saving doctrines | 
     
     of the Gospel, under which so large a pro~ 
     
    

    
     portion of the world bad lived and died. | 
     
     Otherwise they would be brought in the 
     
     course of time to the morality of Strauss, 
     
     Spinosa and John Stuart Mill. They must 
     
     be earnest in their determination to resist 
     
     this. They had come on a time unlike 
     
     anything that had preceded it. Wild opin- 
     
    
   
   
    
     were loosened, filial obedience was very 
     
     slight, and parental authority nothing at 
     
     all In po'itics, in morals, in religion, all 
     
     were convulsed. And was this a time to 
     
     give up the Bible, our only guide, to east 
     
     ballast overboard, and leaye the rudder to 
     
     itself?” 
     
    

    
     The Bishop of London, who presided at 
     
     the meeting in which the reso!utions quot- 
     
     ed passed unanimously, said : 
     
    

    
     “This meeting was meant to be an as+ 
     
     sertion that denominational schools — the 
     
     schools where the consciences of all should 
     
     be treated on fair and equitable terms— 
     
     should be respected and maintained. 
     
     (Cheers). He used the word ‘denomina, | 
     
     tional’ and not ‘Church’ schools because 
     
     the meeting was not held in support of 
     
     creed or party, but of principle—(loud | 
     
     cheers )—and was asserting the right of all 
     
     schools enjoying distinct religious educa 
     
     tion to be treated on an equality with | 
     
     others in which no distinct religious educa-~ 
     
     tion was given. As aChurchman he should 
     
     be glad to have all the children taught 
     
     Church principles; but, unfortunately, | 
     
     partly by the faults of our forefathers, we | 
     
     were divided ; and what the Church con- 
     
     sible 
     
     should be taught to the children of those 
     
     who did not object to the teaching. 
     
     (Cheers). The position he took was that 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ing on this matter, he would say no more 
     
    
   
   
    
     Government that refused to grant his 
     
    
   
   
    
     Almost every influential member of the 
     
     Roman Catholic religion in this Island 
     
     disapproves of the advice under which 
     
     Bishop has acted. Antagonism on the 
     
     part of all the Protestant Ministers on the 
     
     Island has been aroused ; the claims of 
     
     the Bishop have been defeated in the 
     
     Local Legislature by a division of 17 to 
     
    
   
   
    
     terms were thundered forth in a Pastoral, 
     
     backed up by the authority of his Church. | 
     
    
   
   
    
     referring to the large expenditure of his 
     
     | predecessors. This argument is a very 
     
     poor one at best; for, if they proposed to 
     
     /expend money on improper works, or for 
     
    

    
     unnecessary purposes, why do uot the 
     
     present Government stop such works. 
     
     Nor will the statement that the Revenue 
     
     _would be short of the expenditure about 
     
     $850,000 ; but this excess of expenditure 
     
     ‘he took out of the $1,639,000 of sur- 
     
     |plus revenue of the previous year. 
     
    
   
   
    
     | the people of Belfast put forward. 
     
    
   
   
    
     | would bring all his liberality to bear upon 
     
     | this question, Mr Welsh was also an econo~ 
     
     | mist of the first water andif he wished to save 
     
    
   
   
    
     aes aah ae “pl 
     
     | now, but would ask the hon. member for | Steatest indignity of which ‘Shylock ’ com 
     
    
   
   
    
     | Belfast (Mr. Welsh) who had day after day | plained, will not be likely to relinquish 
     
    

    
     }and night after night stood upand asked | pis orasp u 8000 per annum. op 
     
    

    
     for justice, whether he would refuse this de | ia geep ape 6 ¥ : ae 
     
    

    
     mand. /account of any personal indignity that 
     
     Mr. Weusa.-- Who refused | could be offered to him. 
     
    

    
     tice for which he had asked ? 
     
    
   
   
    
     the jus 
     
    
   
   
    
     Previous to Confederation, the salary 
     
    
   
   
    
     Hon Mx. Scutrvan had not refused it,} . ; ‘ : A 
     
     r of the Lieut. Governor of this Province 
     
    
   
   
    
     and would support any just claim which | 
     
     He was | 
     
     a liberal of the liberals, and he trusted he 
     
    
   
   
    
     same as that of the Governors of 
     
     Nova Seotia and New Brunswick ; and 
     
     he had the privilege of importing his 
     
     wines, ete., duty free. One of the first 
     
    
   
   
    
     was the 
     
    
   
   
    
     the expenditures upon Courts and Jails let 
     
    
   
   
    
     $; and Mackenzie’s promises are as near | Nor will it help Mr. Cartwright's state- 
     
    
   
   
    
     their fulfilment as they ever will be. ment to bring in Prince Edward Island as 
     
     His Lordship’s nominees in the Dominion | the scapegoat; for it was not overlooked 
     
     Parliament are powerless, Laird’s in— | by Mr. Tilley. The receipts from Cus 
     
     fluence and, if were not, he ‘toms and Excise collected in the Island 
     
     would not risk his personal iaterests for _ have gone into the general revenue of the 
     
     all the Bishops in Christendom. Davies | Dominion, so that the deficit on this ac- 
     
     and Sinelair are too insignificent to make ‘count for the year must be a very small 
     
     The Pacific Railway, which the 
     
     three prefer the society of Riel—and, no! present Government state was to entail 
     
     doubt are looked upon with that contempt such a heavy burden upon the Dominion, 
     
    
   
   
    
     is 
     
    
   
   
    
     gone ; 
     
    
   
   
    
     themselves prominent; and the other | one. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Examiner, 
     
    
   
   
    
     interest whatever in the future welfare of | to endeavor to destroy or supersede suck 
     
    
   
   
    
     him in God’s name bring his good sense to 
     
     bear upon the matter and give to the) 
     
     Bishops schools in the city s sum for the 
     
     education of children who would otherwise 
     
     be running round the streets and every day 
     
     entering upon a career of crime. The hon. 
     
     member might say that he was the repre- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' sentative of Belfast and bound to’speak their 
     
    
   
   
    
     views, but he thought there was sufficient | 
     
     liberality in the people of Belfast to grant | 
     
     justice if the matter was fairly brought be- | 
     
     fore them. He agreed with the hon: mem- 
     
     ber for East Point, that there was not one 
     
     code for the city and another for the couns | 
     
     try, but he did not think it practicable to | 
     
     have religious education where the schools 
     
     were mixed, If there was in any school | 
     
     one Protestont only, or one Catholic only, 
     
     he would not have religious educ ition in-~ 
     
     troduced. Let hon. members give this 
     
     matter their serious consideration. If the 
     
     question was Once setteled other questions 
     
     would arrise, which would divide political 
     
     parties. This question should not be made | 
     
     a stalking horse by one party or the other. 
     
     Insinuations regarding the conduct of office- | 
     
     holders on this matter had been thrown out. | 
     
     He happened to be one of these but he had 
     
     never been influenced in his conduct by | 
     
     that fact. He cared not what government 
     
     was in power, What little property he had | 
     
     he had made himself, and he was independ. | 
     
     ent ofany gov't. office. He had never hesi- 
     
     tated to express his opinions or to vote upon | 
     
     a principal of right. He had pleasure in 
     
     voting for the resolution, whatever was the | 
     
     result, whether the government was defeat- | 
     
     ed or not, because he believed it was a | 
     
     right and just principle. He hoped the 
     
     hon. member for Belfast would vote for the | 
     
     resolution, for he had heard that outside | 
     
     the House that gentlemen had not been | 
     
     unilavish in declaring that he was in favor 
     
     of settling the question so far at least as | 
     
     regarded the city 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     Ch’town, May 4, 1874. 
     
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     THE BUDGET. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr. Carrwricut it not happy in his | 
     
     allusions to Prince Edward Island. He | 
     
     would fain make us responsible for a large | 
     
    
   
   
    
     acts of our Minister of the Interior, has 
     
     been to fix the salary of our Lieutenant 
     
    
   
   
    
     Governor $2000 per annum below that of 
     
     the Governors of Nova Scotia and New 
     
     Brunswick, and to have: the exception 
     
     from duties on wine, &c., withdrawn. 
     
     Our Chief Justice’s salary has been 
     
     fixed at $3000 below that of the Chiefs 
     
     of Quebee and Ontario, and $2000 less 
     
     than that of Nova Scotia, and New 
     
     Brunswick, and Manitoba. 
     
     Judges receive $1500 less. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Our Pusine 
     
    
   
   
    
     This is a downright insult to our Bench 
     
     and Bar, perpetrated by a man who does 
     
     not blush to receive $4000 a year more 
     
     than our Chief Justice, besides Legislative 
     
     allowance, pickings and postage stamps 
     
     found him. No man of honor or princi- 
     
     ple would retain a seat in a Government 
     
     that would be guilty of such treatment 
     
     towards a Province that he represented. 
     
    

    
     Surely a just retritution is overtaking 
     
     the public men et this Colony; who, 
     
     through their apathy and indifference, 
     
     have allowed its destinies to be controlled 
     
     by such an incapable and _ selfish person 
     
     as the present Minister of the Interior. 
     
     Without manifesting much sympathy 
     
     with those who have not had discernment 
     
     enough to note the means by which this 
     
     hypocritical adventurer managed to foist 
     
     himself upon this community, asa public 
     
     man, it may not be amiss to reeall public 
     
     attention to the subject. 
     
    

    
     Having denounced Confederation as 
     
     ruinous to the Colony, and alarmed the 
     
     inhabitants of a district through which 
     
    
   
   
    
     | the railway did not pass, by stating what 
     
     | he knew to be wilful falsehood,—that the 
     
     | construction of the proposed trunk rail- 
     
     _way through the Island would entail an 
     
    
   
   
    
     additional amount of taxation of $27 
     
     hcad on every man, woman, and child 
     
    
   
   
    
     a 
     
     in 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Colony and promising, if returned, to 
     
    
   
   
    
     this the cap tal of one of Provinces of the | 
     
     great Dominion of Canada. The alarm 
     
     must surely be increased to every consider 
     
     ate mind when it is known that an army of | 
     
     sbout 80 children, of school age within the , 
     
     limits of tne city, or about one in three { 
     
     never enter a schoolroom at all. The twelve 
     
     er thirteen poor schoo'rooms now in use 
     
     with difficulty accomodate the 53) children 
     
    
   
   
    
     emroiled but it the 500 children, who dont | 
     
    
   
   
    
     j 
     
    
   
   
    
     go to school at all, could be induced to | 
     
     make their appearance, about sixteen ad- | 
     
     ditional schoo. rooms will be required. These 
     
     facts speak for themselves.” 
     
    

    
     Think of this. Eight hundred children | 
     
     in this city never entered school at all, but | 
     
     roamed a. large, acquiring vicious habits. | 
     
     Surely, as the Visitor said ‘‘these facts 
     
     speak for themselves.’’ In the quotation 
     
     just read, reference was made to the report | 
     
     of the same Visitor for 1371, and as some | 
     
     hon. members might not recollect the | 
     
     statements there mide, he would bring | 
     
     them to their notice : 
     
    

    
     “ At the Kensington schooi the attend 
     
     ance is very «mall indeed, yet numbers of | 
     
     edildren: were to be ceen al! around at play, | 
     
     igsteatl of coming to the school, which 
     
     was only a few yards distant. The out- 
     
     house here, which serves for al! the families 
     
     around is in a pestilential state, and utterly 
     
     beyond description. 
     
    

    
     “At the Spring Park Schooj, the size of 
     
     the room is not at all sufficient for the 
     
     number attemling. On the day of my 
     
     visit, | found the children closely packed 
     
     in double rows. The out house in a bad 
     
     state,"’ 
     
    

    
     «Generally speaking, there is not one Gov- 
     
     ernment schoolroom in the city fit, in all re 
     
     repects for the purposes of teaching, with 
     
     the exeeption. perhaps, of the ‘Normal and 
     
     Mode! Schoolrooms, and even these are 
     
     pow found to be too contrac’ed for the 
     
     sumber in attendance. The steadily ins 
     
     creasing attendance at the two last named 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     denominationsi schools by nonsreligious | 
     
     State schools, or to place them, uninten- 
     
     tionally it might be, at a disadvantage, was | 
     
     @ violation of the rights of conscience.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     He (fr, Sullivan) did not wish to quote 
     
     any authority belonging to the Church of | 
     
     which he was a humble and unworthy mem- 
     
     ber, but would cite another authority, — the 
     
     Rev. 4. M. Grant of Halifax, who was well 
     
     ‘nown to the people of this Island; and 
     
     there was no one who knew him but would | 
     
    
   
   
    
     give him credit for the highest intelligence | 
     
     asaclergyman. Mr. Grant said: — 
     
    

    
     “It is not a burning question now in No 
     
     va Scotia, but it may become so at any mo- 
     
     ment, because the present state of matters 
     
     does not give satisfaction to either side in 
     
     the long standing controversy. I content 
     
     myself with saying that the solution come 
     
     to in Ontario, after years of struggle ap- 
     
     pears to me the fairest, and therefore the 
     
     wisest —best for education and religton 
     
     for Protestant and Romanist, for that peace | 
     
     and mutual good will which are indispen- | 
     
     sable to progress and patriotism.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     He did not know whether the opinion of | 
     
     the Earl of Shaftesbury or that of the Bish- | 
     
     op of London would have much weight with 
     
     the hon member for Strathalbyn, but he 
     
     trusted that the utterances of Mr. Grant | 
     
     one of the ablest clergymen of the Church | 
     
     in which the hon. member stood high | 
     
     would have some effect upon him, The 
     
     Roman Catholics asked no more than Mr 
     
    
   
   
    
     force in Ontario. He did not see why Pro 
     
     testants here should be unwilling to grant 
     
     what bad been by their co-religiorists 
     
    

    
     ted to the Roman Catholic minority in 
     
     Ontario, which minority was much smaller, 
     
     comparatively speaking, than the Catholic 
     
     minority here. or why they should be loth 
     
     to concede what had been by the Catholic 
     
     majority conceded to the Protestant min~ 
     
     ority in Quebec. They ;the Roman Cath- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     schools is gratifyiug, and is certainly to be 
     
     attributed to the superior accommodation 
     
     ae well as to the superior teaching to be 
     
     found there. Whereas, on the contrary, 
     
     the attendance at many of the other city 
     
     schools is decreasing, and the reasons are 
     
     quite evident viz: want of respectable and 
     
    
   
   
    
     commodious school buildings, with decent | 
     
    
   
   
    
     surroundings, the generally low standard of 
     
     teaching power exhibited, and the culpable 
     
     indifference of those who do send their 
     
     children to school, as to whether they at- 
     
     tend regularly or uct.” 
     
    

    
     He would cal! the attention of the hon. 
     
     member for the city .Dr. Jenkins) to the 
     
     statements contained in these extracts. 
     
     He was Health Officer for the city, and he 
     
     eppesied to him to know if the state of 
     
     things here described, was not seriously 
     
     dangerotis to the health of the community 
     
     ot large. There was no hon. member in 
     
     the House, there was none within she sound 
     
     of his voice who would deny the correct» 
     
     ness of the statements made by the School 
     
     Visitor. None who resided in the city, 
     
     apd was acquainted with the fucts of the 
     
     case, but would admit that the City Free 
     
    

    
     were a disgrace to the Colony. 
     
     Was it 7 wonder that His Lordship the 
     
     Bishop, being responsible in some respect 
     
     for the education of those under his aaa, 
     
     should have established schools where the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     children might be taught? He had done 
     
    
   
   
    
     so, and been supported in it, and the 
     
     sehools wh gi bad estblished were « 
     
     i é ‘ . 
     
    
   
   
    
     olics) were willing to take either. They 
     
     were in @ minority here to-day, but was 
     
     that any reason why they should be denied 
     
     , simple justice? was that any reason wh 
     
     | they should be obliged to pay towards 
     
     | the support of two sets of schools? They 
     
     were compelied to pay the school assess. 
     
     ment collected by law. He himself paid 
     
     last year upwards of $28, though he had 
     
     }no one to send to school, and if he 
     
     }had he could not have availed him- 
     
     | self of the public schools. The Roman 
     
    
   
   
    
     | Catholics asked that they be relieved from | 
     
    
   
   
    
     | paying this tax—that when they had ess 
     
     | tablished schools of their own they should 
     
     not be obliged to pay for schools of whose 
     
     | advantages they could not avail themselves 
     
    
   
   
    
     | He did not think that this could be consid-_ 
     
    

    
     ered as unfair, or as doing any violence to. 
     
     | the conscience of any hon. member. The | 
     
     | Roman Catholics did not ask for any of the | 
     
    
   
   
    
     taxes paid by others, they only asked that 
     
     | the amount paid by themselves be handed 
     
     back to them for the education of their chil- 
     
     dren. It might be said that this was a mats 
     
     ' ter with which they had nothing to do—that 
     
     the state had taken upon itself the educa~ 
     
     tion of the children, and if they thought pro- 
     
     per not toavail themselves of the schools 
     
     established they had noright to make this 
     
     claim. But others besides the Roman Cath-~ 
     
     olics had estaolished schools. The Wess 
     
     leyans had done so also, and if the free 
     
     schools were sufficient to impart proper 
     
     secular education why had they gone to the 
     
     expense they had’ And the hon. member 
     
    
   
   
    
     j allusions that we have to thank the late ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     | He says in his Budget speech— 
     
    
   
   
    
     portion of the increased duty which he | sp the work, will it be credited that, no 
     
     has placed upon the commerce of the | soofer was he returned, than he advocated 
     
     Dominion; and so we receive “ honorable | the extension of branches at $1,000 per 
     
     mention ” in his Budget speech. mile over the former contracts, —thus 
     
    

    
     It would, however, appear from his | nearly doubling the charge upon the coun- 
     
     ry ; and atter denouncing the contractors 
     
    
   
   
    
     Government for any crumbs that may fall | and the Government as having eonspired 
     
    
   
   
    
     | to our share from the rich man’s table. | to defraud the public, actually selected 
     
    
   
   
    
     |the same contractors to construet the 
     
     “ For light-bouses and coast service they } work. 
     
     were compelled to ask for a small ta , The eleven moaths Government, of 
     
     appropriation—chiefly owing, he was inform- . ea . » se 
     
     ed, to the excessive liberality with which which he was a member, next sent to the 
     
     their hon. predecessors were willing to pro- | United States for competent engineers to 
     
     vide for > j » COE PP ne l-; » . 
     
     vide for the lighting of the coast of Princ inspect the work; and, fearing that the 
     
     opinion of these gentlemen would not 
     
    
   
   
    
     Edward Isiand.” 
     
     So it appears that we have to thank our 
     
    
   
   
    
     which such a preference would naturally 
     
     inspire. 
     
    

    
     The majority of the Ontarians is suffi 
     
     eiently large to enable them to dispense 
     
     with Mr. Laird’s special qualification, 
     
     viz: that of slandering and maligning the 
     
     public or private reputation of those who 
     
     differ from him on public questions. This 
     
     is manifest in his inability to resist the 
     
    
   
   
    
     ducts to the British market. 
     
     sion of Mr. Laird. To those who are 
     
     aware of Mr. Luird’s want of practical 
     
     business knowledge, his failure asa Min- 
     
     ister will not be a surprise. His rude 
     
     and uncultivated manner must, of itself, 
     
     have been felt as an infliction by all 
     
     those members of the Government who 
     
     are endowed with the feelings, and who 
     
     practice the habits, of gentlemen. 
     
    

    
     They, evidently, have found that they 
     
     can do without this bravo, and that with 
     
     his distinguished following he is not like- 
     
     ly again either to make or break a Min- 
     
     istry, to suit his own corrupt ends, at the 
     
     expense of this Island. 
     
    

    
     What has he done for our lighthouses 7 
     
     That part of our railway now nearly ready 
     
     to be opened, is without « telegraph or any 
     
     trained staff to work the road, while thou- 
     
     sands of tons of lumber are deposited 
     
     along the line waiting to be conveyed for 
     
     shipment; no arrangements are made for 
     
     dredging our harbors,—and the other 
     
     numerous iocal improvements for which 
     
     the foresight of Sir John Macdonald's 
     
     Government would have provided, but 
     
     which never entered the mind of the ob- 
     
     A day of 
     
     retribution awaits this dishonest politician 
     
    
   
   
    
     tuse Minister of the L[uterior. 
     
    
   
   
    
     when he will be called upon to account 
     
     for his sins of omission, as well as for 
     
     those he has wilfully eommitted. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     A DISGRACEFUL FAILURE. | 
     
     Latrb’s first attempt at Dominion 
     
     Legislation has not been a very brilliant 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sa. 
     
    
   
   
    
     our trade that gives a cash market to our | 
     
    
   
   
    
     to our mechanics and artizans, whilst it | 
     
     supplies the means of shipping our pro—| 
     
     But such | 
     
     considerations are beyond the comprehen- | $10,186,466.67. Upwards of ten mil- 
     
     lions of surplus revenue in six years! ! 
     
    
   
   
    
     /has been abandoned, and, according to 
     
     | their statement, a new route is to sub- 
     
    
   
   
    
     | stituted which only cost one-third the 
     
     | money, 
     
    
   
   
    
     It is, therefore, evident that no 
     
     _real necessity existed for this enormous 
     
     increase of taxation. 
     
    

    
     Under the Government of Sir John 
     
    
   
   
    
     |A. Macdonald, the revenue always ex- 
     
     ceeded the expenditure, notwithstanding 
     
     imposition of duties on materials used in | the reductions which he made in the 
     
     the construction of ships,—a branch of) 
     
    
   
   
    
     tariff. In 1868 the surplus revenue was 
     
    
   
   
    
     | $201,835.53 ; 1869, $241,090.52 ; 1870, 
     
     farmers and highly remunerative wages | $1,168,716.07 ; 
     
    
   
   
    
     1871, $3,712,479.09; 
     
     1872, $3,125,344.88 ; 1873, $1,639,000, 
     
     —making an aggregate for six years of 
     
     Confederation under his leadership of 
     
    
   
   
    
     And this with duties reduced on all ar- 
     
     ticles of general consumption — latterly 
     
     without any duty on tea—without any 
     
     duty on shipbuilding materials and out- 
     
     fits,—speaks volumes for the financial 
     
     ability of the late Government. 
     
    
   
   
    
     (moe 
     
    
   
   
    
     A PROTEST. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     A Resolution, involving a protest against 
     
     the imposition of a tax upon materials used 
     
     in the construction of ships, was submitted 
     
     to the Legislature by the Leader ofthe 
     
     Government, on Tuesday morning last. 
     
     Owing to a heavy press of distracting busi, 
     
     ness, Mr, Owen forgot to give the usual nos 
     
     tice of his motion. Will it be believed 
     
     that the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. L. 
     
     H. Davies, took advantage of this cireum- 
     
     stance, and objected to its introduction? 
     
     When the Colonial Secretary made a mo- 
     
     tion to the effect that the rule respecting 
     
     notices of motion be suspended in order to 
     
     allow an expression of the opinion of the 
     
     Legislature upon such an important sub. 
     
     ject as the proposed tax on ship materials 
     
     —a motion which requires a unanimous 
     
     vote—Mr. Davies was the man to oppose 
     
     it. For the present, we make no comment 
     
     —comment is needless, We publish the 
     
     draft resolution, as submitted :— 
     
    

    
     Whereas the duty of five per cent impos- 
     
     ed by the Government on ship materials im- 
     
     ported into the Dominion is most unjust 
     
     to the Maritime Provinces, and more par- 
     
     ticularly to Prince Edward Island; because, 
     
     owing to the complete isolation of this Is- 
     
     land during five months of the year, it can- 
     
     not become a manufacturing country and 
     
    
   
   
    
     the people are almost entirely dependent on 
     
     shipbuilding. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     affair. His friends here represented him 
     
     as possessing a heaven-born genius which | 
     
     Only required a wider field to gain distinc- 
     
     ion. Well, the wider field has been gains 
     
     ed, but we are afraid we cannot say much 
     
     about the “distinction.’’ Last week the 
     
     tinister of the Interior introduced into the 
     
    
   
   
    
     That the greater quantity of articles used 
     
     in the construction and outfit of ships, cost- 
     
     ing a very large amount of money, is sent 
     
     back to England, inasmuch as most of the 
     
     vessels built are forsale in the English mar- 
     
     ket, and no refund of duties is made as is 
     
     the case in all other goods exported. 
     
    

    
     ‘: That the character of our ships has been 
     
     very much raised during the last four years 
     
    
   
   
    
     Grant conceded to be fair-the system in | 
     
    
   
   
    
     late representatives for the lighthouses 
     
    
   
   
    
     | which the Government are to build for us 
     
     Tf it had not been for the | 
     
    
   
   
    
     this summer. 
     
     liberality with which Sir John’s Govern- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ment were willing to provide for our | 
     
     wants, we expect that it would be a long | 
     
     time before we would have a lighthouse | 
     
    
   
   
    
     on the West Cape, or any other Cape. 
     
     When Messrs. Pope, Howlan and Mce- 
     
    
   
   
    
     | Donald informed us, on their return from 
     
     | Ottawa, that they had got an order in 
     
     | Council passed for the different lights 
     
     | aecessary to render the navigation of our 
     
     | coasts safe, by night as well as by day 
     
     | we well remember how the Grit organs 
     
     | sneered at the statement. They told us 
     
    
   
   
    
     and devoted 
     
    
   
   
    
     | that it was “ all buncome ; ’’ 
     
     elaborate leaders to prove that nothing 
     
     | of the kind had been done ; or, if done, 
     
    

    
     that it was of no more value than so much 
     
    

    
     waste paper. But now we have the state- 
     
     | ment of their own Cabinet Ministers to 
     
     assure us that he has to ask for an un 
     
     | usual amount for lighthouse services, Le- 
     
     | cause his predecessors had provided for 
     
     | lighting the coasts of Prince Edward | 
     
     Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     We faney we see traces of the labors | 
     
    
   
   
    
     of our late members in another paragraph | 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the Budget speech. Referring to the | 
     
    
   
   
    
     | steam service, Mr. Cartwright says: — 
     
    

    
     ‘In the ocean and river service he had ins 
     
     cluded some ilems, the House would perceive, 
     
     of a miscellaneous kind ; but this was neces- 
     
     sarily out of their control for some consider- 
     
     , able lime, and it was possible something 
     
     might be said under this head ; but he could 
     
     hardly venture to estimate to what extent it 
     
     might hereafter be found possible to reduce 
     
     that expenditure. * 
     
    
   
   
    
     bear out the charges preferred by that 
     
     Government against the constructors of 
     
     the railway, they resorted to the meaness 
     
     and dishonesty of endeavoring to procure 
     
     such a report from the engineers as would 
     
     Justify the base and malignant charges 
     
     they had made. Having, however, to do 
     
     with gentlemen of integrity, who would 
     
     not pander to their dishonesty, they met 
     
     with such a rebuff as no men in their po- 
     
     sition ever before brought upon themselves. 
     
    

    
     Confederation and its ruinous conse- 
     
     quences had yet to be dealt with; and a 
     
     self-appointed deputation, consisting of 
     
     the Leader of the Government and the 
     
     present Minister of the Interior, at the 
     
     public expense, sneaked off on a Saturday 
     
     night to Canada,—as was supposed by 
     
     many, to try to prevent Confederation. 
     
     But it turned out, their object, instead of 
     
     opposing it, was to obtain it at any price. 
     
     They did their best to sell our interests 
     
     for a sum ot $35,000 per annum Jess than 
     
     was subsequently obtained by the present 
     
    
   
   
    
     Government. 
     
    
   
   
    
     At the same time they granted a ped- 
     
     lar’s license to an agent, whom they dub- 
     
    
   
   
    
     i bed “ Colonial Secretary,’ to hawk the 
     
    
   
   
    
     debentures of the Government through 
     
     the Provinces, selling some at discount, 
     
     and pledging $28,000 worth with a bank 
     
     in New Brunswick for an advance of 
     
     $25,000 for three months, at 74 per cent. 
     
     Having made no provision for meeting 
     
     this demand at maturity, they agreed to 
     
     the rate of 12 per cent. for three menths’ 
     
     further accommodation, having at. the 
     
     same time over $50,000 in the banks in 
     
    
   
   
    
     We fear from this that we will find the | Charlottetown, not bearing interest. The 
     
     subsidy for steam service to Crapaud or same securities were subsequently sold 
     
     Belfast, or Georgetown, or Mount Stewart by the present Government to the same 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bridge, suddenly stopped some day; al- 
     
     though the Government of Sir John pro- | 
     
    
   
   
    
     bankers at par, payable in sterling bills of 
     
     exchange, and are now worth from three 
     
    
   
   
    
     vided for the payment of the subsidy to | to four per cent. premium in this mar- 
     
    
   
   
    
     the boats running to those places, 
     
    
   
   
    
     owing to the fact that Jarge quantities of 
     
     yellow and muntz metal (the use of which 
     
     entitles vessels to higher classification 
     
     has been used in the construction, and com- 
     
     plete outfits have been imported; this,to a 
     
     great extent, will have to be abandoned under 
     
     the new tariff, and inferior classification ac- 
     
     cepted. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘* That the very large amount to be raised 
     
     from thig.tax will have to be paid by the 
     
     Maritime Provinces, whilst Ontario and the 
     
     greater portion of the Dominion will con- 
     
    
   
   
    
     House of Commons a Bill relating to the | 
     
     Half-breeds of Manitoba. We regret that 
     
     we cannot lay before our readers his orator- 
     
     ical effort upon this occasion, for he was 
     
     either inaudible, or the reporters did not 
     
     consider his speech worth reporting, for we | 
     
     have been unable to find more than a few | 
     
     lines of incoherent remarks in any of the | 
     
     newspapers. But no sooner had Mr. Laird 
     
     resumed his seat, than Sir John Macdonald 
     
    
   
   
    
     pointed out that he was quite wrong and 
     
     out of order; for that the Bill should be 
     
     founded upon resolutions originating in a 
     
     Committee of the whole House. Mr. 
     
     Laird was speechless, and Mr. Mackenzie 
     
     came to his rescue. He said there was, no 
     
     doubt, a good deal in Sir John’s remark-, 
     
     buthe asked him not to press his objec- 
     
     tion until he had time to look at the pre- 
     
     cedents. Sir John good-naturedly consent- 
     
     ed; and the result was, that at the end of 
     
     that day's parliamentary report in each 
     
     hewspaper published in Canada, there is 
     
     the following short but sadly significent 
     
     statement : 
     
    

    
     “Mr. Laird’s half-breea@ lands bill was 
     
     withdrawn.” 
     
    

    
     Of course the Patriot, knowing that con- 
     
     cealment is impossible, will endeavor to 
     
     draw comfort and consolation from this 
     
     magnificent specimen of legislative know- 
     
     ledge and ability. And we shall anxiously 
     
     await until it is pointed out to us wherein 
     
     Mr. Laird’s first attempt at legislation 
     
     brings credit to htmself or reflects it upon 
     
     its constituents. 
     
    

    
     MaNaGEMENT oF THE GraND TrUNK.— 
     
     Though no announcement has been made 
     
     of the fact im the daily press, it is stated 
     
     that Mr. Brydges’ connection with the Grand 
     
     Trunk Railway ceased on the acceptance of 
     
     his resignation, which was sent by Atlantic 
     
     cable. The duties of Managing Director 
     
     are, for the moment, performed by Mr. 
     
     Hickson, to whom the orders to take charge 
     
     of the road came with such startling s 
     
     denness that he is said to have asked t 
     
     to be repeated, to make sure there was no 
     
     mistake. The change has been announced 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ket, 
     
    
   
   
    
     by circular to the different station masterz. 
     
    
   
   
    
     i ——The Nation. 
     
    
   
   
    
     -| 
     
    
   
   
    
     tribute comparatively nothing; but, on the 
     
     other hand the imposition of this tax on the 
     
     principal industry of the Maritime Proyin- 
     
     ces will afford increased protection to manu- 
     
     factures of Canada whilst none of the manu- 
     
     factures of that portion of the Dominion are 
     
     crippled by the imposition of any special or 
     
     exceptional tax. 
     
    

    
     Resolved therefore, that this House, whilst 
     
     it does not question the right of the Domin- 
     
     ion Parliament to impose such taxes as it 
     
     may see fit, deems it its duty on behalf of 
     
     the people of this Province, to express its 
     
     entire dissatisfaction of the imposition of 
     
     this tax which will bear with exceptional 
     
     harshness upon the Isiand—in the hope that 
     
     the Dominion Government will make such 
     
     alterations and modifications in the tariff as 
     
     will do jnstice to the Maritime Provinces.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     “soem + 
     
    
   
   
    
     MODIFICATION OF THE TARIFF. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Weare gratified to learn that, notwith- 
     
     standing the disposition ef Mr. L. H: 
     
     Davies and his party, to sustain Mr. Cart- 
     
     wright’s tariff—a tariff which, had it been 
     
     enforced, would have heen a dead weight 
     
     upon the shipping interests of this Pros 
     
     vince,—the politicians of Ontario have had 
     
     the justice and the generosity to remodel it 
     
     | to a certain extent, in favor of the Mari- 
     
     time Provinces. Ina despatch,signed ‘David 
     
     | Laird, and addressed tothe Hon. L, C. 
     
     | Owen. it is stated that the ‘general ade 
     
    

    
     valorem duty is made seventeen and a 
     
     half per cent, black tea three cents, and 
     
     ' green tea four cents per pound ; sugar, 
     
     | iron, copper, hemp grass or iron cable, 
     
     chains, wire-rigging, and sheathing, re- 
     
     | stored to the old tariff. Sparkling wine 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     | are raised one dollar per dozen, others are 
     
     _ reduced ten cents per gallon.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     } — © 
     
    
   
   
    
     | Satcrpay—May second, was the fin) speech, Hon. Mr. Dingwell, in response 
     
    
   
   
    
     really fine bright day of the spring season, 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     EXCURSION TRIP 
     
    
   
   
    
     TO SUMMERSIDE AND BACK BY Rall-—-THE EX~ 
     
     CURSIONIS1S — THE CARS-—THE SPESD-——DINNER 
     
     AT THE CLIFTON HOTEL—TOASTS AND ®PERCH- 
     
     ES—THE RETURN TO CHARLOTTETOWN. 
     
    
   
   
    
     April, in the year of Grace 1871, have dared 
     
     to predict that our politicians and our press, 
     
    
   
   
    
     like a happy family—in the enjoyment of 
     
     an excursion trip to “ Summerside by rail’ 
     
     in the month of April, in the year of Grace 
     
     1874, would have been, by many, deemed a 
     
    

    
     visionary,’ and by some, a ‘fool.’ But 
     
     he would nevertheless have been a true 
     
     prophet. 
     
    

    
     On Wednesday last, the 29th inst., at 
     
     about halfspast nine o'clock in the morns 
     
     ing, an “excursion train’’ left the railway 
     
     station at Charlottetown. The excursion-~ 
     
     ists were invited by Messrs Schreiber and 
     
     Burpee, through the medium of their effi. 
     
     cient and gentlemanly representative— 
     
     Charles C. Gregory. Esq. And, truly, they 
     
     formed a curious assemblage -—a strange 
     
     and unexpected junction of antagonistic 
     
     elements. There were the Hon. J. C, Pope 
     
     and the Hon. Edward Palmer, President 
     
     Bell and Speaker Howatt, the Leader of the 
     
     Government and the Leader of the Oppo- 
     
     sition, the Attorney General and Hon. Ben- 
     
     jamin Davies, the Solicitor General and Mr. 
     
     Rowe, the Rev. James McDonald and the 
     
     Rev. Mr. Barnard, Currie and Fletcher, 
     
     Bowers and Brennan—and so through a long 
     
     line of antagonisms—mental and physical, 
     
     moral, politicaland religious. Yetall there 
     
     united in the determination to enjoy thems~ 
     
     elves and the disposition to felicitate the 
     
     country on the successfui issue of the “rail~ 
     
     way policy.’ 
     
    

    
     The train proceeded swiftly and smooth- 
     
     ly at the rate of about nineteen miles an 
     
     hour. A gentleman—who knows—was 
     
     heard to remark that “ there is not an easier 
     
     riding railway in the Dominion.’ This we 
     
     believe, isa fact. Not the slightest incon-~ 
     
     venience was felt as the train ran round the 
     
     ‘ graceful curves.’ On the contrary the en- 
     
     joyment was rather heightened bythe change 
     
     ed motion of the cars,by the rapidly shifting 
     
     scenery,and the unexpected prospects, In 
     
     summer when the “garden in the gulf’’ 
     
     ‘ooks its best, a pleasanter road to travel 
     
     upon need not be desired. Bleak and des- 
     
     olate as the bare fields ard leafless trees ap~ 
     
     peared on Wednesday last, we could not 
     
     help admiring the broad stretches of uns 
     
     dulating upland, the panoramic views, of 
     
     copse, and dell, and running stream which 
     
     came in sight as the train dashed on. 
     
    

    
     The first-class cars are elegant and com- 
     
     fortable. Each is about forty feet long and 
     
     Each rests on steel springs 
     
     attached to eight car wheels. Each 1s fitted 
     
     up with ventilators and all the “modern 
     
     conveniences.’ Each will accomodate thir 
     
     ty-six passengers. In each the seats are 
     
    
   
   
    
     six feet wide. 
     
    
   
   
    
     sable backs —the whole neatly covered and 
     
     cushioned, and arranged so that three 
     
     persons may sit abreast. 
     
    

    
     The train, although detained at several 
     
     stations, arrived at Summerside about 12-50, 
     
     —making the trip in three hours—a little 
     
     more or less—and running at the rate of 
     
     about nineteen miles an hour. At two 
     
     o'clock, the party sat down to a sumptuous 
     
     dinner, provided at the expense of the con~ 
     
     tractors, and prepared and set forth in Mr. 
     
     Mawley s best style. Over the “ walnuts and 
     
     the wine,”’ the following toasts were pro~ 
     
     posed and duly honored :— 
     
    

    
     1. The Queen, 
     
    

    
     . The Governor General, 
     
    

    
     . The Administrator, 
     
    

    
     . The President of the United States, 
     
    

    
     The Gov't. and Parliament of Canada, 
     
    

    
     The Legislative Council, 
     
    

    
     The House of Assembly, 
     
    

    
     The Railway Contractors, 
     
    

    
     9. The Press of Prince Edward Island, 
     
    

    
     10. The Bench and Bar, 
     
    

    
     il. Pope and Howlan, 
     
    

    
     12. The Contr’ tor's Eng’r—C. C. Gregory 
     
    

    
     13. The Gov t. Engineeer —John Boyd, 
     
    

    
     14, The Farmers of P. E. Island, 
     
    

    
     15, The Opposition and its Leader—Mr. 
     
     L. H. Davies, 
     
    

    
     16. The Government and its Leader— 
     
     Hon. L. C. Owen. 
     
    

    
     The speéches were short. Mr. Dunn, 
     
    

    
     United States’ Consul, briefly responded to 
     
    

    
     the toast with which the President was hon» 
     
    

    
     ored. He said he liked the Island welt: It 
     
    

    
     seemed like home ; for the people were of | 
     
    

    
     the same race, with like laws, manners and 
     
    

    
     religion. Hon. Attorney General said on 
     
    

    
     behalf of Lord Dufferin, that he had acted 
     
    

    
     his part prudently and impartially, and he 
     
    

    
     would likely prove himself to be ‘‘one of 
     
    
   
   
    
     OWI Crm Gt 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ayxy man who would, in the month of 
     
    
   
   
    
     our lawyers and our divines, could unite— | 
     
    
   
   
    
     placed on a frame~work of iron with rever- | 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
     gs a 
     
     | Edward Island,” said he was sure 
     
    
   
   
    
     way—and he was equally =e ae 
     
     would not fail to appreciate jtg — 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Attorney General proposed 
     
     sition and its Leader, Mr 
     
     responded, and proposed the 
     
     ment and its Leader, Mr. Owen 
     
     returned thanks on behalf of his 
     
     | Both Leaders were mutually congratul 
     
    

    
     and conciliatory in their remarks, 
     
    

    
     About half-past five o'clock the excyy 
     
     sionists again took the train, and arri 
     
     at Charlottetown at a few minutes — 
     
     eight. We are convinced that every mem 
     
     ber of the party were—thanks to ; 
     
     pitality and kindness of the Gon 
     
     and Mr. Gregory—thoroughly w pleased 
     
     with the excursion. mere 
     
    
   
   
    
     briefly 
     
     party 
     
    
   
   
    
     _—o— + 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE LAND QUESTION. 
     
     Tae “‘Lanp Pvurcaase Act, 1874," ings 
     
     passed both branches of our = Loe) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Legislature. The original Bill blished 
     
     in the Examiner a hontai cgi not 
     
     undergone any material change, The 
     
     amendments to which it has been subject: 
     
     ed affect only the details of the 
     
     The absurd idea of vesting the appoi 
     
     of the third Commissioner in the 
     
     Generai was abandoned at the last moment 
     
     Mr. Haythorne’s nostrum was not admin. 
     
     istered. The amendments are in brief: . 
     
     That the term “proprietor” shall be con, 
     
     strued to mean any person entitled to re. 
     
     ceive rents of lands exceeding five hundred 
     
     acres ; that a notification of the arbi 
     
     served upon the proprietor or his agent, 
     
     either by posting through the Post Offigs 
     
     or by publication in the Roya! Gazetteshal) 
     
     be sufficient , that in the event of the death 
     
     or illness of an arbitrator, the party whom 
     
     he represents may appoint another, agd 
     
     should either the proprietor or government 
     
     refuse, then the Supreme Court shall 
     
     point the substitute: that the arbitrator 
     
     shall have power to examine witnesses op 
     
     oath, and to enforce the production of gj 
     
     documents relating to the estate under an 
     
     bitration, by a penalty of from #5 to $50 or 
     
     imprisonment for three months; timt the 
     
     arbitrators shall have pewer to go upon the 
     
     land to examine and enquire into its value, 
     
     that the fact of proprietors being compel. 
     
     led to sell shall not be an excuse for in- 
     
     creasing the price of the land ; that the an 
     
     bitrators shall take into consideration the 
     
     price of other estates sold to the Goverm 
     
     ment—also the term for which the land is 
     
     leased —also, the arrears of rent and the 
     
     years over which they extend,—also, the 
     
     number of acres of unleased land and their 
     
     quality—also, the gross rental, and the 
     
     actual nett receipts for the last six yeam— 
     
     also, the number of acres held by squatter, 
     
     for which the Government is not liable, 
     
     The Act also provides that the award of 
     
     the arbirrators shall be final and admit of 
     
     no appeal. In case of disagreement the 
     
     Supreme Court may remit the award to the 
     
     arbitrators for reconsideration. The Sus 
     
     | preme Court is to make rules and regula, 
     
     tions for the better carrying out of the Act 
     
     | —such rules and regulations to be publish: 
     
     ed inthe Royal Gazetle. No tenant shall 
     
     be liable at law for the non-payment of 
     
     rent. 
     
    
   
   
    
     z 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     that no person whose name is not inciuded 
     
     in the following list shal! be an arbitrator 
     
     on behalf of the tenantry ;— 
     
    
   
   
    
     A'exander Laird, L. C. Owen, 
     
     A. A. Macdona d, Dr. Jenkins, 
     
     R. P. Haythorne, Peter Sinclair, 
     
     Wm. Medill, Wm. McNeill, 
     
    
   
   
    
     John Balderstone- 
     
    

    
     The Bill to amend the “ Land Purchase 
     
     Act, 1853."’ was, we regret to report, thrown 
     
     out by the Legislative Council. The pr 
     
     prietors wiil, we fear, make a “strong 
     
     point”’ out of this circumstance. 
     
    
   
   
    
     2+: a. > 
     
    
   
   
    
     SERVED HIM RIGHT. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr. Parry has been served with a writ 
     
     for $2000 a day for every day he violates 
     
     the law abolishing dual representation, 
     
     by sitting in the House of Commons of 
     
     Canada while stilla member of the Local 
     
     Assembly in this Province. Some people 
     
     may say that, in view of the constant warms 
     
     ings he received from the Examiner, he bas 
     
     been served right. We are charitably dix 
     
     posed ; and, therefore, we will not send 8 
     
     fyle of the Examiner to Ottawa to prove 
     
     that if Mr. Perry broke the law, he did se 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     the best Governors who ever trod the soil | 
     
     of Canads.”’ On behalf of the Administra- | 
     
     tor, Mr. Brecken said, with truth, that the | 
     
     “ better he is known the more he is esteem- 
     
    

    
     ed.’’ Speaking of the Government and 
     
    

    
     Parliament of Canada--although opposed 
     
    

    
     to the present administration—he was pre- | 
     
     pared to admit his belief that they were 
     
    

    
     actuated by a desire to promote the public 
     
    

    
     good. The Leader of the Opposition, in a 
     
    

    
     short speech, proposed the “ Legislative 
     
    

    
     Council,’ to which toast the President of 
     
     that body as briefly responded, and then 
     
    

    
     proposed the “ House of Assembly.’) The 
     
    

    
     Speaker in response, said that his observa- 
     
    

    
     tions during the last session led him to be~ 
     
    

    
     lieve that the same House contained nearly, 
     
    

    
     if not quite as much ability now as it had 
     
    

    
     previous to Confederation. He thought the 
     
    

    
     Legislature had done as much real work 
     
    

    
     this session as ever it did before. Mr. 
     
    

    
     Bell proposed the health of “the Contract- | 
     
     ors.’’ This toast met with an enthusiastic 
     
     reception. It was briefly responded to by 
     
     Mr. Gregory. Judge Palmer proposed 
     
     ‘The Press,” and in doing so took occa- 
     
     sion to remark the perceptible improve~ 
     
     ment which had of late years taken place 
     
     in the style of our newspapers. He re- 
     
     marked also that he believed railways to be 
     
     Anecessity and was pleased to observe the 
     
     success which had attended the undertak~ 
     
     ing in this Island. Messrs. Fletcher and 
     
     Bowers responded. Hon. Mr.Strong pro-~ 
     
     posed the “Bench and Bar,” which toast 
     
     called up Judge Palmer and the Attorney 
     
     General. Hon, E,. McEachern proposed 
     
     the health of the men, without whom, he 
     
     said, Prince Edward Island would not have 
     
     had a railroad to~day—Hon. J. C. Pope 
     
     and Hon. G. W. Howlan. Mr. Pope res 
     
     sponded. fle cogratulated Judge Palmer 
     
     on his conversion to the railway policy, and 
     
     commented upon the success of the nars 
     
     row gauge railways, as illustrated by the 
     
     working of ourown. He complimented the 
     
     contractors; and said if there was one thing 
     
     more than another on which they were to 
     
     be congratulated, it was in having such an 
     
     efficient and energetic representative 
     
     here. To the exertions of Mr. Gregory he 
     
     attributed the great success of the under; 
     
     taking. He concluded by proposing Mr, 
     
     Gregory's health. Mr. (iregory responded 
     
     in a fitting manner. He showed the great 
     
     difficulty of running a straight railroad 
     
     through this Island. He pointed out that 
     
     in hard and rocky soils it was easier to 
     
     make a straight road for forty or fifty 
     
     miles, than it was through soft friable soil, 
     
     where there were water sheds every three 
     
     or four miles, He said that the contractors 
     
     and their agents had been treated with 
     
     uniform courtesy by both Governments. 
     
     The Leader of the Opposition proposed 
     
     the health of the Government Engineer, 
     
     Mr. Boyd. Mr. Boyd responded in a neat 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     after we repeatedly warned him to beware. 
     
     We trust that the “ Bili of Indemnity ”’ may 
     
     save him yet. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tae Seat. Fisnery.—The North Sydney 
     
     Herald says: ‘The steamer Merlin, while 
     
     on her second sealing voyage, put into this 
     
     port last Monday short of coal. She had 
     
     on board 700 seals caught off St. Paul's 
     
     Island. Captain Walsh, who has been in the 
     
     seal fishing busines for a number of years, 
     
     says that he never saw the seals so thick, 
     
     but could not get near them on account of 
     
     the ice being ansafe to walk on.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     SHIPPING. 
     
    
   
   
    
     PORT OF CHARLOTTETOWN 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ENTERED. 
     
    

    
     Ap’l 25 —Sarah, White, from Pictou, ® 
     
     tons coal. 27—Addie, Geivan, Shediac, 
     
     lumber; Aggie Davieson, Hulihan, Pie- 
     
     tou, coal; Ocean Wave, McEachers, 
     
     Cape George, ballast; Sea Flower, 
     
     Budroit, Picton, Railway materials; 
     
     Gulf Ranger, Langile, Tatma 
     
     boards. 28—Ellen, Leadwell, Pictou, 
     
     coal. 20—Dashaway, Palmer, Crapaad, 
     
     58 bbis pork; Niobe, Forrest, via Geo 
     
     rgetown, Coal. 30—Emmanovel, Hall- 
     
     day, Pictou, coal; Alexander, Andersea, 
     
     coal; Theresa, Deagle, Halifax, mem 
     
     chandize; Margaret Jane, Mcl 
     
     Halifax, mdse: Adventure Beaudreat, 
     
     Halifax, mdse; Achates.Warren, Pictot, 
     
     coal; Str. Somerset, Doan. Boston and 
     
     Halifax, merchandize. 
     
    

    
     May 1,—Ava, Decrace, Pugwash, shingles’ 
     
     Bonnibell, Giffin, New York, flour and 
     
     meal. 2—Gulf Ranger, Langill, Tata® 
     
     gouche, metal castings; Sarah, White 
     
     Pictou, bal 
     
    
   
   
    
     CLEARED. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ap’! 27,—Mary Kate, LeBlanc, Halifas,pro 
     
     duce, 28—Gulf Ranger, Langill, 
     
     Brule, turnips flour and fish; 
     
     White. Pictou, ballast, ; Fearnot, McNeill, 
     
     Sydney, potatoes and turnips; 5. 
     
     Irwin, Giffin, Halifax, produce. 
     
     J.J. Marshall, Hughes, Pictou, ballast; 
     
     Alexander, Anderson, do ; 
     
     Raven, Logan, Pictou, ballast; Ellen, 
     
     Leadwell, Pictou. ballast; Geiven, Pit 
     
     tou, ballast : 
     
    

    
     May 1,—-Aggie Davieson, Houlihan, Picto’, 
     
     one half ton copper; Maria Louisa, 
     
     Duun, Pictou, ballast. 
     
    
   
   
    
     PASSENGERS. 
     
    

    
     Per Steamer Somerset from Boston, Meset™® 
     
     A. A. Evans, James McLean, i 
     
     ing, F. Fuller. E. G. Faller, A. Mca 
     
     Thomas Doyle, Robert Watson, Kew 
     
     Henderson, James M. Henderson, 
     
     Sheppard; Misses Sarah Power, AanieS: 
     
     Carrol, and Maggie Toal. 
     
    
   
   
    
     —— 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     LOLOL LLLP wae? 
     
    

    
     In this city, of consumption, on sunday 
     
     evening, 3ra inst., Mr. John McNeill, carpea® 
     
     ter. 
     
    

    
     In this city, suddenly, in the 27th year 
     
     of his age, V. 1H. P. Wetmore, E 
     
     and Architect, son of ©, P. Wetmore, Bet 
     
     Fredricton,N,B. His loss is deeply re 
     
     by all who knew him. 
     
    

    
     At her Son's residence, Kensington, 0 
     
     April 9th, Bridget, relict of the late 
     
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