* * Fi ia | La rt - ,©* s ; t J i ‘ ' t; 7 4 > 7? ‘» :? 4 : - t+ f ’ s ’ 5 “a 7 i . i Y . "rr + ry ; 1i* * Re. F a i Fp ' i ; : a a F . . t ‘? | & * 2 ll my F al A, ww y e 7 : ‘ 2 ’ , =. | 3 “ «ll ' ry ; ’ ; y : f + . fi 2 : a ’ Hf «* r ms - < . Sg. eae sateen ee a ; = | a me 7 ‘ ” q 4 = Toe Day HXAMINER. TANUAKY 31, 1880 al etek aan One of “ the Delegates” on Canaca The Halifax Mr. Bruce, one of ‘* Auld Countrie.’ of the conversation reported : The following is par’ ; ‘tO ‘ i Reeorrer—What part of the Old Coun . b - - ‘ aes ? try” lo you come from, Mr. Bruce | cd . awn from Aberdeen, Scot- Mr. Bruce—ls rortherly dele: at land, am the most Northerly delegate tha has visited Canada in this inspection. Rerorter—What experience have you had to enable yeu to criticize Canadian ca- abilities for agricultural pursuits | Mr. Bruce—I have 400 acres der cultivation, and employ a large of labour. So that you will see my expe rience amounts to something. — Rerorter.—Generally speaking, what is your idea of Canada as you have seen 1t : “ Mr. Bruce—Woll, [am so well pleased . ’ ° ; . 7 } the delegates from the ).4¢ their charity will flow more freely ve of land un-} amount) ‘ask them to send some of the food he just read of. Mr. United States. suffering for want will not be made in vain, the but ' sims at in his visit to the Appeals for relief for those Parnell we hare mere respect for Herald lately interviewee | 4 rican people generally than to think cause a political agitator asks tor Il. ‘The New York ITerald points out thas to discuss in ene country the domestic reforms | needed in ‘and not likely to have any good efferts. | ‘That Parnell will hold large meeting, sne | get numerous vetes avout changiag the | ‘and laws in Ireland is certain, but wa good will it de. | We note the death of Hepworth Dixon, | author of ‘New America,” ‘*History of she | |'Tower of London,” and other works. | | yents are thickening in Maine. ‘I'he | Fusionisis, or Democrats, have formed a with it, that I parpose coming out myself, | {ezislature and elected or appointed offic als and at no distant day, either. Rerortrr—Have you travelle in eonmpany. d alone or Mr. Bauce—Alone; so that my opinions |of officers claiming the allegiance of ale my own, and not the result of ideas ex- presse] by companions. i EP o—— — Notes of the Month. Gerwasy anv Russta have been grow!- ing and showing their teeth at each other, like two quarrelsome dogs ; and, as an ad- ditional sign of bad temper, Germany makes a nasty snap at France. [t may mean nothing, just as sometimes dogs, after a good deal of noise, wag their tails and walk off. It was a rather curious affair. The Cologne Gazetie is generally acknowledged to be inspired by Prince Bismarck, and it, in downright scolliug terms, threatened France for appearing too friendly with Russia. Russia was and is moving large bodies of troops and.war material to the German frontier, and both countries are increasing their armies. What are we to expect from the new Ministry of France? Itis hard to keep the run of their political parties. When a country is satisfied with two, such as the old-fashioned Whigs and Tories, er their modern representatives, Liverals and Cen- sorvatives, we know where we are in talk- ing about them, With ourselves there is a tendency to use subtle distinctions between Liberal-Conservatives and Conservative- Liborals, but if they go on sub-dividing in France, as they have been doing, they will seon reach the ideal condition ot the radi- cals when each ‘“‘individual” becomes ‘‘a party” himself. The left has now feur div1- sions, viz., Centre, Pure, Advanced, Extreme. The right has at least three. The new Ministry is formed from the Pure and Advanced left. The Centre (which numbers 88 members in the Chambers) is wholly unrepresented. possible for the Ministry to have both the Centre and the Extreme with them, and if It woutd seeem im. either of those joins the upposition, the fate of the Government is doubtful. M. Wad- dingtou’s refusal to join itwill not conciliate the Centre. The retuining a Liberal for Sheffiield in place of Roebuck,has given rise to as much variety of opinion as has the result of thi North Lanark election with us. In both countries we see the same phenomenon, @ach party claiming to be dolighted with the result—the victorious party because they havo won —the defeated because they have lost by so small a majority. It is 4, to a friend of humanity in geveral to see everybody so well pleased. On the whole, the English bye-elections have not beon iinfavorable to the Beaconsfield Administration. There has been consider ably’ over a hundred since the general gratifying election, and the Government majority has been only decreased by 10—five seats hav- it is almest unprecedented fora majority to be so little affected by ing been lost. six years ef rule. ‘She British Board of Trade Returns for the iatter part of the year show a most gratifying increase in the exports of cotton, linen copper and iron. The exports to the United States of hardware ani woelens are largely inereased--a natural result of the large American exportations of grain to England Famine and its gaunt ally ifever actually devastating Silesia, and more than threat- ening ireland. These are painful facts. That the Lord Mayor of wealthy London should telegraph to {Halifax and St. John for help, seems rather strange—but it is not We have lately been boast img a goo! deal about the fertility of our soil —the increase of our wheat fields, and eur ability to supply Great Britain with ail the food she required. What then more likely thaa that wo should be asked to give a little of that of which we say we have so much. liost Englishmen have very hazy ideas of Canadian geegraphy, and it would appear quite natural to a Lord Mayor of London, after reading ef the millions of bushels of wheat that the North West produces, to telegraph to Halifax and unaccoun able. from a Governor down. The Republicans have done the same. So there are two sets he bu’ it people. This is far from creditable ; ey “ jis very creditable to see thai, so far, ihe battle has been fought under legal and con- stitutional forms, and that not a blow has The Anglo-Saxon’s inborn been struck. reverence for }the Constables’ Staff, shows ' . . Y } » me itself strong. Far differently do they man- . . ’ . 1 things in the Seuth American Repvod- age lies. Daza, ex-President of Bolivia, who has just fled from. that country, murdered, and put a : s creature of He cid not himself become -President until one or in 1870, the then President, his own in the chair. two other murders had cleared tho way tor him ; when, after holding the chief place a short time, he ran away to escape the treit- mont he had given to others. iXdison still continues to tantalize ua with hopes which have net yet become realitics. May they soon beceme so. If he fufils his promises he will ba one of tho greatest be- nefactors, if not of the world, at least of thea gas consuming portion of it. After a successful experiment, his lamps have sud- out. Some scientific men soy an old and discarded plan ; that the incandescence of carbon in a vaci- um when subjected to an electric current, is a fact long knewn ; but that, if there is the least increase of the current beyond a certain point, the carbon is at onee des- troyed. So that, if fifty houses were light- ed, unless as each house turned off its lights, the force of the current from the generator was proportionately decreased all tlie others would very soon be left in darkness. It certainly would makd one rather nerv- ous over his evening’s work, to feel that the continuance of his light depended upen the time when his neighbor went to bei. If this is so, cities that adopt the elecric light, must with it restore the curfew. The establishment of the Montreal Poli- tical Club has received an amount of atten, tion which it would hardly have obtained ; yut from the fact of Sir Francis Hinck.’ ame having beea brought forward so srominently by a New York paper—and ‘rom the controversy thence arising Political Clubs often become exceedingly influential where they are the ergans through which any strong public feelin: Io the absence of such feeling ther devote themselves rather to iiterary or eve. sastronoimic purposes. The Montreal Clu > is intended to form ratier than express »pinions—so 16 will probably not be mors than a political debating and dining clu» in existence can show itself and act. - for dilettanti statesmen. The report of our worthy Mayor upon the financial state of Charlottetown is no: pleasant reading. When a debt is in curred for permanent improvement, it car ve patiently borne ; but it is most provok. | ing to think of this large debt being chiefly caused by deficits on the ordinary ex penditure. Mr. Micawber put briefly bu: forcibly the result of his experience ir Jomestic economy: ‘Income £20; expen. | ditureo nineteen, nineteen sin— result hap- piness—Income £20 ; expenditure twenty, ought, sin, result misery and despsir’— (is equally true of civic economy—er to put it in Carlyle’s words, ‘Be it want of fiscal genius, or some other want, there is | } oie Bere et : the palpablest discrepancy between revenue | and expenditure ; a deficit of the revenne ! You must choke the deficit, or the deficit will swallew you.” Before our next monthly netes we shall | have Parliament in full blast ; and so,| probly, no lack of political subjects for comment, a | tt ME SE a —_—_o Well informed observers believe that the | corner in grain which has been engineered by what the New York Herald calls the “Keene Clique,” will soon collapse and ipat } Xf r } tiat the export trade of New York and viner grain ports will again resume its usual channel. The corner has already | = . . Y Gone an Immense ameunt of injury both to inerchants and ship owners, and it is likely to injure the men who brought it about more than any one else. In spite of the persistent efforts of the ring to keep up the price, grain has continued to fall until it, as very nearly reached the exporting | peint, ' 1 rad It is hard to see what re sult | i published only in the Patriot and New jnouncet the meeting as @n ‘indignation | one. inot have been surprising if a majority © PS be : } ‘of the electors constituting the ‘ing next is a paper by Rev. D. Fitzgerald, abe ene nano a ocemeapeeeent The Mesting at St. Peter's. [ne meeting at St. Petor’s yesterday, re- ? aa ' , . ha : rey’ . sulted in a splendid victory for tne Gevern ti ‘ire pullers called the ment. Opposition wire pus meeting for the purpose of condemning the ‘ } Bias actions of the Local Government, hoping to catch a side wind from the ruiiie caused by \4 th >m- the appointment of wit. Carrell te Line Dom inion Senate, Notices of the meeting were r irda, end a most strenuous effort was mace The Patriot an- around St. Peter's Bay. saad Under these circumstances it would --, meeting should have been found opposing the Gov The epposite of all this,however, has proved to be the fact. After short dresses from Messrs. Bolger and Hooper, the meeting was addreased at length by the Commissioner of Public Works, W. D. Stewart and the Attorney General, after which the following resolution was proposed by Hilary Mcisaac, Esq., and seconded by ernment. ad- Mr. Alfred Winsloe. Resolved, That this meeting is satisfied with the explanations made by members of the Government, and have every confidence in their administration of public affairs. Mr. Robert Lewis submitted an amend- with ment, for which he found a seconder great difficulty. On a division an over- whelming majority—eertainly not less then 5 to 1, andin the opinion of many 10 to 1-- voted against the amendment,and the meet- ing broke up with three hearty cheers for the Government, in which many of their former opponents were found to join. Mr. W. D. in the recklessness of his attacks. val Stewart out-heroded hered As +} particu ‘ in at- The Educa- de- usual, he was wrly lant tacking the absent and the dead. popular and eflicient Secretary of Donal l McNeill faithlass «a } TAiLHIBSS ana it tion, the Rev. was clared by him to be incom- ryt ° ; 4 : 2 petent. The private characters of several } } latehate , w hyve h o absent men, the liatcnets of whose shoes W. D. Stewart is unworthy to were most unjustly assailed. As at Pownal unloose and Bonshaw, he disgusted everyone by his We say again, as we did after the Bonshaw * grossness, vulgarity and mendacity. meeting, “ Long live W. D. Stewart.” Sr = ——_—_—- — — St. Paul’s Church Association. St, aie filled last evening, on the occasion of the ad- Paul’s School-room was well journed discussion on Dr. Leeming’s able paper-—‘* The Intreduction of Christianity into Britain.” Dr. Leeming opened the discussion by replying to some objections made on the preceding evening. He was Dixon, Shaw, Davies, Newbery, Warburton, Williams and Welsh, ct 3 } tT asco ra followed by Messrs. and Revds. FitzGerald and Osborne. It appears to have been admitted by ail the speakers that the Dr. had proved the fact of the introduction of Christianity at a very early period ; and the discussion last even- ing seemed to hinge chiefly upen the ques- tion of the destruction of that early Church tine and his forty monks from Rome. A large number of conflicting authorities were asserting the utter annihilation of the British Church, and others speaking of conferences heid by Augustine with British bishops several years after the ar- rival of the former, and indicating a con- siderable vitality existing in the British Church. The weight of testimony seemed to be with the latter view, but it was ad- mitted by all that the Roman finally obtained the mastery both in Eng- land, and alse in Scotland, where the British Church remained in an active state after lusing its identity in England. The discussion took a rather wide range, de- spite the efierts of the Chairman to limit it to the subject announced, and several novel theories were advanced. Dr. Leeming re- plied to some of the objections raised, and elucidated several doubtful points in his paper. These discussions cannot fail to be of great advantage te the members of the Association, stimulating as in this instance, investigation inte portions of history, which usually do not receive much attention at the hand of the ordinary reader. The subject announced for Friday even- read, some on ‘*Missions to the Heathen.” GOLD MEDAL, JOSEPH GILLOTT’S STEEL PENS. BY ALL DEALERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. eee NOT Dog fax Due lst day of Feb., 1930, ——- =e ees fi tie § QoF Hem 5 concerned are hereby A LL PERSONS 4 i notified that this Tax must be promptly paid to the undersigned, or summonses will be issued to enforce payment thereof, ALFRibD ¥. TUMLINS, Cierk of the City Courts. to | another is at least unseemly, «nd ipack the meeting by two or three puppets | by the Saxons, before the arrival of Augus- i : { 1880. “Northern Light,” several cases of New Black Silk Velvets, New Colored Silk Velvets, New Colored Satins, New Black Satins, NEW LACE CURTAINS. Berlin Wool and Yarns, Wool Damasks, Fringes and Curtain Holders. n= OS SPECIAL, The remainder of our Church Jan. 30, 1880—2j Fur Goods, Laties’ Cloth Jackets, Laties’ Ulsters, Knitted Wool Goods, and Blankets, —WILL BE SOLD AT A— BiG In order to clear them out before the season is over. Cash customers in want of any of the above Goods will save money by giving us a call. IMS & SETH January 6, 1830, JANUARY! First Arrival this Year. We have just received, ex Str. W GOODS New Black Velveteens Hrillings, Edgings and Laces. iSCOUNT, | CHARLOTTETOWN =” Mutual Fire Insurance Gp, FFICE HOURS, from 16 a. m., te] 7 QO Pm t H. V. PALMER, +e Actin Secratany Secretary's Office, Kent Street, . - Jan. 26th, 1880-—lwk eod ~ = Je ‘ae ea | BUDA’ FLOUR, AND OTHER Choice Brands, — FOR SALE AT 9 Jan. 12, 1880. Dissolution of Partner, rPX\HE Co-Partnership heretofore carried by the Subscribers, under the name ef ‘i Dorsey & Jost, has this day, been dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due by the ‘oe will be paid by R. K. Jost, to whem a parties indebted to said Firm are ay to make payment-—-at McGill’s old at Queen Street. ae JOUN DORSEY, RICH’D K. Ji 3 Charlottetown, Jan. 15, 1880—rg ar pat 3j NOTICE. _ é I TAKE this epportunity to inform the public that I have leased the new recently fitted up at MeGill’s Old §S ie Queen Street, a few doors below the House; and having bought the Stock ang Machinery of the late Firm of Dorsey & Jost, I shall be prepared, in a few days, te on the Boot and Shoe business in all its branches. Custom work a specialty-—on cash principles. = JOHN DORSEY. hg Ch’town, Jan. la, 1880—ar pat ' Herring. Codfish, — (amr FOR CaSH,— : 50 bbls. Herring, ; 100 gtls. Codfish, 200 bags Salt. SMALL, = D. Head Queen’s Wharf, opposite I. C. Hall's, BEER & GOFFS, NE TON AMERICAN MANILLAMAR. © LIN (Tarred and White), Cotton Li +e : Twines, Leads, Hooks, Bait Mills, Fishing Anchors, Cotton Ducks (light and‘ heavy), 1 gs coils Manilia Rope, Hemp Rope, Wire Rope, Paints, Oils, Tar, Oakum, Ships Chandlery, Sail Making, Light,Dueks for Boats’ Sails. he D. SMALL, — & 4 ; Jan. 21, 1850.—tf e be 8, §, “NORTHERN LIGHT," ILL MAKE DAILY TRIPS between ¥Y Georgetown and Pictou, until further - notice, (Sundays excepted) leaving Georgetowm at 6a. m., and Pictou at 1.40 p. m., weather permitting. WM. MITCHELL, : ento Dep't Ch’town, Dec. 19, 1879. ” : COOK HD CORNED BEEF Most Economical for Family Use, being More than Twice its Weight of Uncooked Meat. Sold by the Ib, and in Tins, BEER & GOFF’S. Jan. 13, 1880. SRR ra gener or reeae enn: SC ARE a OEE ERE: x ie dias . Pas nf GOLDEN SYRUP. Very Choice. ) 8 CTS. PER POUND, —AaAT— BEER & GOFF'S. Jan. 13, 1580, HOMINY! — 4 Gents Per Pound, BEER & GOFFS. 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