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LONDON GOSSIP BY CABLE.
111111t100 11M 'mulled general surprise. It is
regarded am an assured in that the Gov
ernment considers that Ireland is hemming
settled. The platers tor trainiog have been
itrrenged entirely Without refeeenee to the
political situation.
A Nerve^ Move Among the .
t TUE necupaN rillTV4Tifeei, •
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--_,..... neasy ereeling iftegarding General Der*
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dow.-Aneiltest Promised Beitimh Expe.
A CREMATORY FOR THE METROPOLIS. tiiitien.,..4. Attempt. to he Diane re
'rite/amens
eat ettned,camman pitema's Whet.,
Political, Social, Beligioun andThe feeling of disgiuet in regard to
'General *Gordon has been hemmed but
Other Notee.
. not extinguished by the newt) Ur Mareh
A London cablegram says : Mr. Glad. 15.th. Hie position la regarded as extremely
stone'', Wino, whim originaliy waa only a precarious. It ie felt that the curtain be
Wight cold, Was developed,partly through sea* fellen uPon Khartoum at a Moet
neelect and Pak tly through worry, into a orltioal moment- Until the belle of the
Benous affection Of the Ittriex, involving battle between General Gordon and the
nearly a total lose of voice: Be Oontitineu Arab army on the 16th is known the
transacting but inees by writine, till under anxiety for bis fake will °engem° unabated.
his . physioiane&dyne he left town for But, even if General Gordon was successful
Coombe Warren. Shim then he hat; relin. in that engagement, it is now generally
quiehed nearly everything. The amounts believed that his mission is a failure. The
published of his health indicate that there moue of the Egyptian garrisons from the
mut been little or no improvement. Priests MAXIM& is now admitted to be impossible
without the intervention of the English
retinrte admit that it will bo imposeible for
him to be present in tin House of Com. forces. The absence of advioes from
mom, 'next week to take charge of the Berber is a source of fear thet General
Reform Bill, and that a project for s jeer_ Gordon was repuleed in the battle of the
ney to the south of France is seriously 'eon- lfith. He is hemmed in at Khartoum on
eidered by the fatellY• His colleagues are ail aides, aud maintains lie potation in the
opposed to it unions it is imperative, expeotatien that an English army will
recollecting thin his last absence, nearly opepiily appear to give him succor. It is
ended in his resignation. repented that at the Cabinet meeting to -day,
OrematiOn has been gaining ground in despatch( e frOW Cairo were considered
England ever time Juetioe Stephens ruled which stated that brimediate danger of the
that it was lawful. The London 'city fall of Khartoum was over, but Sir Evelyn
authorities have rest lend to establish a ore- Bering, the British Minister at Cairo,
matorY 'at Ilford, it suburb of the Emit Urges the dispatch of it British contingent
End, on the recommendation of the mai, to Berber, either by way of Kermit° or
cal officers that cremation is the least two equadrone from the troops at Suakim.
objectionalile of all known methods' of die. The Marquis of Hartingen, Secretary of
posing of the dead. • State for War, has appointed a Council at
In consequence of the smallnese of the the War Office. It is believed' that the
majority with which the French share- • Cabinet is infavor of an expedition from
holders of the Suez Oanal Company aP- Suakim. In view of the likelihood of it
preyed of the convention which M. de -joint naval and military expedition up the
Leese/Is had at -fanged with the English Nile, the Admiralty has directed Admiral
Shipowners, M. de Lesseps deolinee to carry Hay to survey the upper waters of that
out the preposition to admit tenon addi- .strettm so as to learn whether it would be
tional members to the Board of Directing. 'feasible to send gunboats thither. Several
As this formed the leading English stipule. navel officers have left Alexandria to °ex*
tion -it -is- prObable that the whole, •conven- nut the survey. . .
tion will fall through. , •' • , , . Nobody knows whether General Graham
The Naundorff claimants to the throne will be allowed to advance. Preeious time
of-Franee-have -arrived in Paris. , Prince has been wasted in waiting for General
Charles and Princess Amellit, the Ohildren Gordon's opinion., The Radicals have in:1-
ot ,Naundorff, who died forty tenni ago at 'proved the omission by attaiikieg Colonel
Delfthees, . issued four eitatione to the Burnaby for preferring to .shoot Arabs
Count ot Paris, the Countess of Chambord, rather than to be shot by them. , The
Count•Bardia and the Duke cif Parma to country • seems about equally, divided
show their rights to thentitlee andestates.. between iiimatienoe with obetruction in the
Long legal proceedings are expected, its .EI, me, and impatience, with continuing
BOMB Paris lawyers are taking up the suit. inaction and 'uncertainty in Egypt, ,, Mr.
The Pall Mall Gazette indicates the tenor Vincent, the Acting Minister of Finance for
of General Gordon's unpublithed theologi. Egypt, it is reported is insisting that a loan
cal work; e Instead of opening new views," of six millions sterling (630,000,000) will be
it says, "the writer reminds us of the time wanted to restore Egyptian finances., -.
of the Puritan, when the love of parallel- The !event& suspense about General
isms between the Old and New Tenements Gordon has been broken by news from the
was at its 'height, when the soldiers of ' Timer oorrespondent that he has rescued a
Cromwellprayed aloud to be delivered ,garrison to the north.of Khartoum, but -the
from the old Adam. Fou•e'VerY incident- IMMO correspondent d.esoribes 8,000 Arabe
connected with , the fall of man General blockading the town, and everybody awaits
Gordon traces in the New Testament not anxiously the result., The future . of Gen -
only a counterbalanaing remedy to enable '.eral -Gordon in any ono is very uncertain,
the fallen to recover the lost ground; but as the Government cannot Drake up its
an identity of the mettiiif ifirediiiieery with Mind whether to desert him or to send him
the cause of the original transgression. English troops. It is too afraid' of tbe
Thus he recognizes in the eat of partaking anti -slavery party at home' to follow his
of the sacramental elements the meet and, advice and give , him Zobehr Pasha, who
fitting remedy against Bin introdnoed' into would be the most.effectite pacificator.
the, world bY the'aot Of eating the .fruit of The first important news from Egypt of
the tree of life." ' , • - the•Week appears to -day. in a despatoh to
„ The Lord's' Day Rest Association are the Times. from, Khartoum; @hewing that
sorely grieved over the pitting of the.House Gen. Gordon is engaged in active and ' mo-
ot Como:toils on the Sabbath, and no'lese oessful hostilities withthe natives, and was
Shan . ten bishops .Were voting against the intending.to attack the Main body, 6,090
adeuiesion Of the pubdo to museums on strong, last Sunday. .
eintidays at the very nroment Friday night
when in the 00132a101113 a resolution for their JP1101.0911Arelic MEMO vESIESITs
abolition as p.eers went within eleven votes
of being earned.. . Enterprising Sian Whe-Tahee and Prints
Vanity Fair, correeting the New York Pkill,r" Nighinad ith13'•
Herald's account of an interview with a A New York -photographer;by aid of the
colleague of Mies Forteeoue, denies that 'electric light, takes pictures, and prints
the rupture of her ongagenient to Lord them, as well' by night as day. His bine-
Garmoyle was caused by the influence of nese has gone on all winter without -inter -
the Duke of Riehmend, or that the Queen ruption, while work at other studis has
intimated that Miss Forteseue could not be been hindered by lack of sunshine, and so
presented at court, or that when Miss For. expert have the operators become in hand-
tescue visited Lord and Lady Cairns the lieg the electric light, that better pietures
bowie Was full of notables who made much are obtained by electric light than byday.
of her. - - -light, andlehilira-partieulairly flue picture
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The Osseroatore Romano publishes a air- .is wanted, the sitter is always asked to go
oular dated March 15th- b the Propa,anda to the down -town studio. Another advan-
.Fide to bishops stating t at all legaoies and tage of the eleetriO light is 'that the pie -
donations given to the Propaganda will tures oan be taken at night just as well as
henceforth be received -in foreign branch by day, and gradually people are getting
establishments. , Branches are to be °stab- in the habit of making appointments to sit
lished iti the principal European capitals for pictures in the evening., The work of
and at New York,San Francisco,. Quebec reproduaing outs and pictures for news -
and Toronto. The Monitewr de Rom w men- papers is now done entirely by electricity,
tions it rumor that Malta hes been eeketed the plates from European illustrated papers
as the (mare for the administration of the being resat, for the preee :within: twelve
funds of the Propaganda under the Dana-. hours of the arrival of the ship, which
__lion of the British Government. . brings the papers.
The 'lethal week has been so bright, the • •
weather having so euddenly °hanged from
its summer eunnineee and heat to penetrat-
ing wind. • A eoore of prominent people
havilieen compelled to keim to their rooms.
The Princess Louise, who has been going'
about a good deal, is looking handsomer
than ever.' Mrs. George Bentinek has been
bold enough to give a. dinner at whioh
every lady, like herself, was iin American.
Ladies Mandeville and Randolph Churchill,
Mrs. Ronaldand Mies, Chamberlain were
her guests. .
The 13uddhiet craze has spreadfrom Lon-
don to Pane...Titer° are now 800 Buddhists
there, and probably their demand, fora
temple will'be granted.
The epeoial war correspondents are reap.
ing great honors from the campaign. A.
correspondent of the Times wrote his account
while suffering from it nevem bullet wound
in hie thigh. When Davies' square was
broken at Temanieb several oorreepondents
saved their lives by using their revolvers.
Pastor& House, the residence) of William
Black, the novelist, at Brighton, caught Are
the other day. The family had -shut -up -
the house and left Brighton, and the same
day fire was discovered breaking through
the roof. It was got under control Without
destroying the interior. •
The English edition. of "Tho Memoirs
-
of Princess Alice" will„be ready in April.
The oorrespondenoe of the Princess with
the Queen from English originale in pots
amnion of the queen and other members of
"the Royal family extends from 1862 to1880.
Mr. Parnell's neteMeliay, that -the farmers
of Ireland refuse to pay the police tax im.
posed Under the OriMes Act, is reoeiving
practical approval in Ireland. The ctn.
poratione of Limerick and Cork lead the
way in Oppoeing the tax -Limerick
(Undue to subunit to it mandamus direeting
the payment of the extra police quartered
there by the fernier magistrate, Mr. Clifford
Lloyd,. end Cork refuemi money for Capt.
Plunkett's reinforcements.
Theptited Ireland, of which Mr. William
O'Brien, M. 13,, is editor, bi an artiole in-
dicating the line of resistance, says: If
” ihe authorities ali the Male tvatit blood
money and polio° tax let them send police -
Men to life it. Then if the -people take
advice from Mr. dehden and Mr. Bright
they will enter upon it &eel revolt, and
shove England the impede}, of nenishieg
thousands of innocent people for the Bins
of the feW guilty.
The announcement calling out the Irish
Berzon el the nettileneln.
The London Daily 1Vbtos correspondent
writte of the battle of Teti in Egypt on
Feb. 291h : "Our line of March coincided
with the path of retreat of the 4th of Feb-
ruary. Beginning near the fort, skeletous
half covered .with flesh., dotted
either side of the line of advance
for miles. On the. Roane of the
massacre of Baker's Square it was strewn
literally with hundreds, numbers of them
in the most extraordinary attitudes, and
with fleshless fingers clutching into the
sand. I noticed most of them lay on their
faces, and ibii-wed one or more epear
thrusts in the back, head and neolC -It
was a hideous picture -those - grinning,
half -decomposed skeletons; in their pole.
-tion-so signifloant of abjeeektlespair, and it
would have horrified the Wiest hardened
against such sights."
The bread of life is love; the salt of life,
work the sweetness of life, poesy; the
water of life, faith. .
A biblical drama, "Job," will be per-
ormed in April at the Brussels Con-
ervatory. The musio is by Signor
Chittiomonte,mnifeasor of ,singing. in the
nstitution. • ' •
The curious travelling stones of Australia
ire paralleled in Nevada. They are de-
soribed as aitneet perfectly round, about as
large se- a, walnut and of an ivory nature.
When distributed about upon the floor,
table or level surface, within twoorthree
feet of each' other, they immediately begin
travelling toward it oommon oentre and
there lie huddled up in it bunah like it lotli
of eggs in alien.A . single stone, renewed
to. a &stance of three and it halt feet, upon
being released, returns to the heap, but if
taken away four or /Iva feet, remain,'
inotionlees. They are composed of mage
netio iron ore.
Wisdom prepares for the womb, but-folly
leaves the worst for the day when it comes
-Au- interesting experiment is to be
made by Dr. ZintgratT, wno, in Company
with Dr. Ohavanne, is about to visit the
Clongo and the interior of Africa. He
taken with lurn it phonograph wherewith,
to fix the epeeeh and nielothee of hithert�
tinknoWn tribes whioh, thus received? y
the instrument, ;gill be forwarded ,r,.-fioiete,
title Men in Gennany.
s
linlifint
Mr. Cameron (Huron) asked leave to
introduce an Act to *Mend the grinding
law. He explained tbat the object of, the
Bill was to prevent the introduotime into
Canada of immoral prints and publicatiene.
Bill read first time.
bir John bIttodonald, in reply to Mr.
Weldon, said it Wite not the intention of the
Government this peseiop to obtain an altera-
tion in the ley? whiela would render Dominion
ofdaial WOODIBB liable to texation.
Mr. elositige.n moved for tbe second read-
ing of a Bill respecting -gee at d gas meters.
The /3ill provided that the otandard
tfiumitiattng power should be, sixteen 01111 -
ale!, which was less thou in England or the
United Sites. The Bill was read it 13000/14
time.
Sir HeOtOr LaDgf1V111 MOW34 the emend
reading 61 the Bill respecting fortifications
and military buildings and their mainte.,
nanoe and .repair He explained that
under the Bill attention to these works
would be trabeferred to the Militia Depart-
ment. It was thought the work could be
done more ecientifitially and eoonomioally
under that Department.
After some further disoussion the Bull
WUB read it Beeencllitne and panted through
committee.
Sir John Macdonald in moving the
enema reading of it Bill to amend the
Indian Act ef 1880 explained its provisions.
Among these is tire prohibition of ,, potlaoh,"
a terrible oreie practised by British
Columbia Indians.
Mr. Mille asked if there were provitions
to enable the unenfranohised Indian to die -
pogo of the fruit of his industry. At pres-
ent a purchaser buying from such an Indian
took borne risk, and consequently paid a
lower price.
Sir John Macdonald said there was
sufficient provision in the present law,
where each Waal Indian agent was author-
ized to regulate the conduot of Indians
under his charge. In this respect it would
DOt dO to allewthe Indian to dispose of all
TiergOoile;beinuse often he kvould sell out
to the first whiskey trader and leave tie
family to starve/ The Bill was read a sec-
ond time.
Tete PATIezet PH011incrioN
Why wear Dew Began nis campaign
'Whieli Hatt Lasted limit tt• century.
A Portland,Mq., telegram says: Yesterday
Geri. Neel Dow celebrated his 80th birth-
day in it quiet manner. He is still • very
vigorous, and probably has loin nothing of ,
phyeioal or • mental strength within the
past -1 ow years.
Mr. Dow.was a teetotaler . from early
youth. The custom Of offering wine among
refreehinents at social parties in Portland
Was largely put down by him and big two
sisters, who, the first of all in that city, en-
tertained their 'friends in large numbers
without intoxicants. He was drawn into
the warfare against the liquor truffle acci-
dentally. . • , • • '
There was it lady well-known to Mr. Dow
and his family, whose husband, an educated
man, holding an important publio • office,
was it dipsomaniac. This lady sent for
Mr. Dow one day and told him that her
hueband Was away again OD it time. • Mr.
Dow went to a certain rumehop where Mr.,
Blank resorted, and told the runneller the
whole story, entreating him not to sell the
rml imendn
a: y more liquor. The rumeeller re -
"It's my business tO-CUT1 rumiand I have
a license for it. • I'll sell to anybody ,who
sake for it who has the money to pay for it.
I support my family by selling liquor."
Mr. Dow indignantly replied; .
"It's your business, .then, to sell ium,•
and you have it license for it? You support
your family, do you, by destroying other
people's families? Heaven helping Me, I'll
change
Mr. Dow led Mr. Blank home, and from
that day commenced an active, persistent,
unceasing warfare against the grog shops.
Innumerable Meetings were held all ovet.
the State, in small towns and villages as
well as in large towns and cities, every.
where denouncing the liquor traffic. 'When
publio opinion was prepared for the other -
throw of the grog shop, as Mr. Dow sup-
posed, he prepared it Bill entitled " An Aot
---forthebuppression-of-drinking houses and
tippling shops." His friende_said_ it was
Edo radical. He went to Augusta.with his
Bill in hie pooset, had a public hearing in
the Representatives' Hall before it Joint
Benet coMmittee, which , agreed un-.
ammouslyto report. the Bill without'
ohange. The next day own, the last 11110 of
the session. That night Mr. Dow had his
Bill printed; it -was placed on the desks of
the members early in the morning, and on
that day was passedthrough all stages
to be enacted, and went into effect on its
approval by•the Governor.
-Within six months the, jails in five of the
counties.were empty, as well as the houses
of aorreotion of Cumberland county. 'The
openliquor trafficicame immediately to an
end. •
,
• Late terertuweit News..
•
The only oases in the smallpox hospital
at present are two diphtheria patients. -
Winnipeg Times. -
Winnipeg is to have it new drill shed at
a coat of $16,000;of which the Government
pays half and the oity half.
Seventeen gamblers were arrested at the
Lacrosse and Pacific, Hotels, Winnipeg,
last week. They were all fined ten to twenty
dollars. .
The official abbreviation of Assiniboia is
11 AaSa." ; of Albeit -C-17 Alta."; of Sate
katehewan, "Bach.," and of Athabasca,
" Atha."
The Indiana around 13attleford are (tut-
ting wood and burning lime for it living,
having 1,000 cords of wood and two kilns of
lime ready.
Salvinee audiences are deoreating w1th
every fresh performance. , After bie tour
*1 the Provinces he will go to Rus$l. Next
year he will take his farewell o the stage
in,Re* York.
• Though Fanny Devotee
the Mager for twenty -live yenrti ahe is now
but 82 years old. Her fitet appearance
eineum, Boston,
are.
has been on
was at the Howard A
when she was aged 7 y
The late Joachim
Marion, thirty years ago
plain the whole subjee
composition in halLan h
son with ordinary brain
could clomprehend_ttiL
Mme. Modjeska kola m
-told William
hat he could ex.
01 harmony and
ur 00 tbat a po-
und intelligence
urioe Barryinore
have fallen out twee thli latter play of
Nadjezda." Modjeirke deolares she is not
strong enotagli, to play it continually, and
Barrymore gays he will not heve the play
Made a makeshift of. He has aleeedy had
several fiatyling offers for the piece.
Mlle.06o, who its now singing in Niee,
signed -lin agreement on Thursday with Mt.
itlitnriee Qom tor an engagetnent in . the
inted States. The (tendinous are 80,000
Irmo per month for ten months, Mlle.
Theo will leave for ,New York in August.
Ill; Vantiotheil, director of the Grand Opera,
has offered el. Gayarre 200;000 franca for
an engagement of five months.
KUNO LEOISUTIAL
PrOrOgatiO/a, Of the House
Of ASserrlbly.
At 8 teelook in the, aftarnoon, Ris Honor
the Ron. John Beverley Robinson, the
Lientenaneetoverner, proceeded in state to
the Chamber of the Legiiilative Assembly,
and took his seat oaten Throne.
The Clerk Aseinant then read the titles
of the Mlle that hail passed.
To there Bine the Royal wont was.
announeed by the Oierk of the Legislative
Assembly in the following words:
In Hee Majesty's name, His Honor
the, Lieutenant -Governer doth went to
these, Bills."
Mr.. Speeker then :
May it please Your Honor:
; 'We, Her Majesty's most dutiful and
faithful aubjeote,, the Legislative Miserably
of the Province of Ontario, in session as-.
eembled, approach Your Honor at the doe°
ot our leibers with sentiments of unfeigned
devotion and loyalty to Her Majesty's
person and Government, and humbly beg
to present for Your Honor's aceeptance it
Bill Intituled ,." An Aot for granting to Her
Majesty certain sums of money to defray
the expenses of civil government for the
year 1884, and for other purposes therein
mentioned," thus placing at, the disposal of
the Crown the means by which the Govern-
ment oan be made efficient for the service
and welfare of the Province. -
To this Bill the Royal assent was an-
nounced by the Clerk of the Legislative
Assetnbly in the following words:
His Heger the Lieutenant -Governor
doth thank Her illajestyb dutiful SO loyal
subjects, ascent their benevolence and
ass•oit to this Bill in Her Majesty's name."
Hie Honor was then pleased to deliver
the following l3peech
Mr. Speaker and °engem= of the Legitlative
Assembly:
ti:2ItnieB,reilidesysinirge ytooueifprroenies ymoyu ra p lpergeillaattiiovne
of the ability and earnestness with which
you applied youreelves to the arduous
labors of the session.
It gave me much pleasure to traneinit
your Addresses to His Exeeller oy , the
Marquis of Lttnadowne and His Lordship
the Marquis of Lorne, congratulating Hin
Excellently on .his appointment to 11 peed -
tion where opportunity is afforded for the
exercise of the statesmanship that has long'
oharesterized-the noble family of which be
iB Bo distinguished it repreeentative ; and
congratulating the Marqnie of Lorne on the
close of's career in Canada marked alike by
devotion to the interaets of the Dominion
and by sympathy- with all Our ,institutions:
I am glad to give my assent to Your Bill
affirming the provisional agreement entered
into between my• Government and that of
Manitoba for referring to the Judicial Com -
mined of Her Majesty's Privy Counoil the
questions in .dispute between the two Pro-
vineee ; and, as the Dominion Government
has . since intimated its willingness to be-
come a. party to the 'reference, I trustthat,
before you are next summoned for the
despatoh of bushing, a eatiefadary deter-
mination of the long controvereyas to our
northerly and westerly- boundaries will
havebeen arrived at, and the bleb claims of
the Province affirbiell by the highest judi-
cial tribunal in the,Ernpue.
_Lread with satisfaction your Bill for the
further improvement c1f the election laws..
As the main object of the Bill ie to secure
the purity Of the' franchise and the un-
biassed, expression of public opinion, I trust
the effect of the provisions which you have
adopted Will .be to lessen, if not outbid&
those corrupt prao ices which theexisting
lbws had failed to prevent and which the
Election donne have disoloped.
heartiiy accede to your request for tho.
issuing of it Commission ' of Inquiry. into
.the nature and extent Of recent atteinpte
whioh you discovered to have been made,
but happily -without memo, to corrtipt the
integrity of members of 'this Legislative
Assembly. :
The Act for the Preservation of the
,Pnblia. Health will do much, I trust; to
prevent the'epread of contagious diseases,
as well as to mitigate the sufferings of
manywho from poverty or indifference
disregard obvious satlitary precautions. '
, By the Act relating to Factories, addi-
tional security will be givento a large ones
of our population engaged in industrial
pureuits. The regulatiene adopted for their
personal safety, .and for the protection of
_their morals and their, • heattb, will, I
trust;not only lighten theirburdens,'but
also sweeten 'their labora,- and promote.
their happiness. '.1 rejoice no lees at the
wisdom of theprevnions of the Aot than
at the genetotis motive by which you were
actuated in framing them.
• By the confirmation of Provincial jinn -
'
diction over the liquor traffiii, to which I
referred at the opening of the •Hoine, the
way was laid, for further legielation on the
eubjeot ; 'and I was glad to find that by the
Bill to whioli I have .•assented you, have
done tiff thatseems at preeent practicable •
for furtherliiitigating the evils of intern-
perance by imposing greater renriotions on
the sale of liquor, and eeverer perialtieefor
the violation of our Inenee 'awe -
•The proposal to spread over a longer
period of,years the paymentpf the money
heretofore voted in aid of railway's has MY
hearty approval.. By.this. means the funds
of the Province are lees heavily taxed, and
our resourgin are preserved for the other
wants of the Province.
The aniendmeirts made to the School
Laws and the University Act will tender
&int, to the advanoement of educettiolr
The measures which youhaeS adopted
to save,farmers, fruit • growais, and othere
from injury, by °heatingthe spreee of
noxious weeds, „and of diseasesaffeeting
fruit trees,and for preventingthe spread
of contegrode diseases among horses and
otherddomestio anirnitis, will; 1 trust, , be
effative for . securing them objects, • so
ifinportatit to the community, Bald, Of snob
popu-
lation.
. interest to Ouragricultural
I have given.,my hearty anent to the
various measures which you ' have paned
for !anther aeouring the administration of
justice, and the. perfeeting of our: muniolpal
and other laws. Your private Bill legisla-
tion has been varied and important. • -
I thank you for the liberality which, you
have displayed in Making the natieseary
appropriations for theleiblie service, and I
assure 'you that the eupplies you have
voted will be itxpended as economically as
is oompatible with the effigiency of
public service. '
• In bringing to it close thie first amnion of
a new Parliament, I oheerfully bear testi!,
mony t� tts high capaoity for the diecharge
of its arcluan legislative duties, and to ite
z2iftlegiisniagutivaied4gy.
Its inIportant privilegeli a
ail
.The Provinoial Secretary then Najd
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the pogielative
Assembly t
it is His Honor's' Will and pleasure that
Silo_ Legislative Assembly be prorogued
and this Legislative Asi3emblY iBa000rditigly
prorgueci, '
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The ,reniaine Of ,the celebrated tenor,
Mario, have been removed to their final
resting plena in Cagliari, Sardinia, at the
expense of the State and the Commune of
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A letter from Rome, Feb. 26th, to the
Nati York Herald, says 1. The ball at the
whioh had been postponed on
amount of the deathof the Prumees of
Saxony, oarne off last night and was a
magnificent enema. The palace was
superbly deoorated and flooded with light.
Two thousand mete responded to the
invitation issued by the prefect of the
palace and the letly in waiting in the pewee
of the King and Queen. The guests went
away delighted with the kindly warmth said
hospitality of their retoeptiott.. Cerrisges
began to roll into the Quirinal wart
yard as early as 9.80. At 19 precisely she
Wrung straine of tne "Royal March "Were
heard inthe ball -room, heralding the arrival
of King Humbert, Queen Margaret and the
nobles and Wire of the royal household.
Tne Queen, ea meal, looked radiant as she
,entered, smiling and bowing graciously to
her guests, and took her place in the quad-
rille of honor with Baron von Kendeli, the
German Arabasseder, facing Mlle. tittngli etti
and Baron-Art/shun. She wore a simple
but wetly dress ot white moire, ending in a
long train and very decollete, wbiola gave the
Herald correspondent, who was standiug
just behind her, an opportunity of once
more admiring her lovely neck and shoul.
dere. Round her throat she had it neck-
lace formed by. eight rows of flaw-
less pearle. A triple chain of emeralds and
brilliants glittered in her corsage. Two
diamond butterflies did duty as Shoulder
knots, and her shapely head was crowned
by a diadem of pearls and diamonds given
her at Christmas by King Humbert. Be-
tween the dances the Queen, attended by
the Princess di- Triggiano, Countets di
Santa Flora, and Marchese, di Villamarina,
three belles of the. Italian Court, glided
from room to room, chatting unaffectedly
with the guests ancsingling out the moat
retiring for marks of special favor. Prin-
cess Triggialie, an American, like many
ornaments of the court, hardly less dazzling
.than the Queen, . Wore a white - dress
decollete, diamond necklace and a diamond
tiara. Another American lady of
more mature age age no figure worth
speaking of attracted both , envy and ath
mtration by the beauty of her pale pink,
dreae, almost coveredwith Bead peerle. The
Marohesa Villamarina and Countess Santa
Flora wore rich brocades and had enough
diamonds in their hair to.keep six German
princelings in comfort for a lifetime.
Among other costumed which deserve men-
tion ',were those of Mnie. Pierantoni-
Mancini-, red satin and them d'acier ; Mme.'
Cairoli, faded blue satin, a la Watteau;
decollete rammed round the 'throat with
blue ostrich feathers, and PriDOBBS Stem-
matvel-,atripecl white satin
and velvet, out very low, terminating in a
long tram. The whole surmounted by a
diamond diadem. The dancing was kept
up under diffiaulties to the music of a capi-
tal band until LBO, when the King and
Queen withdrew. • -
Pridoe .for Queen Victorind
Rev, Robert elollyer spoke in the Church
of the Messiah, New York, ott Sunday even-
ing on the subject: "Twenty Years in the
Life of a Queen." „ He described the life of
Queen Victoria, as given in the book just
published •by her. The pioture it presented
was that of a loving wife, a good mother,
and a eitirple and true -hearted woman, who
delighted more in it quiet home life than
the pomp and splendors of the palace and
the tinsel of royalty. Her affection for her
servants was one of her higheektraite. Mr.
Conger said the oftener her life was read
the better would the reader appreciate her
character as it true woman.
He Went
They were standing at the front gate.
" Won you come in the parlor and eit a
little while, GeOrgie, dear? "
"N -no, I guess not," replied George,
hesitatingly.
"1 wish you would," the girl went on.
"It's awfully lonesome.__ Mother has gone
out and father is upstairs groaning with
rheumatism in the legs."
"Both lege?" asked George.
Yes, both legs."
...e -Then I'll come in a little while." -
Philadelphia Cell.'
Look how night -sessions wear out
legislative bodies, and, then look at a hen,
and see hint, ehe can sit night and day for
two weeks at a stretoh. Where la the
boasted superiority of man? ,
•
The Canada Conference of the United
Brethren:1in Christ meets the second•Thnrs.
• day in April, at Forke Road Chapel, Wel-
land County, Ontario. There are 21 pastors
of the -Church in °made. .
Nothing is so gkeat an instance of ill -
manners as flattery. if you flatterall the
'company, you please none. 11 you flatter
only one or two, you ill/Tont the met.
Cthezity makes the best construction •of
things and persona, 0110111313B weakness,' ex!
linuates miecerriage, makes the best of
everythizig, forgiven everybody and serve
all.
Good breeding is the art of,ehoeirig men,
by external Rips, the„internal regard we
have for them. It arisen from good sense,
improved,byiiienversing With good Oom.
*
' 'Self -distrust is the cause of most of our
failures. In the assurance of strength there
is strength, and they afe'tie'w-eakest, how-
ever strong, who have no faith in themselves
or their powers.
Every lady patron of theatres has dis-
covered --that-her-escort ie generally
annoyed hetween tbe sots by being corn -
tolled to go out to see " a Man." For the
Bake of the fair sex it may be as Well to
say that the " man " generally wears it
white vest, a big dieter pin in his shirt
bosom, is tentless, has it mil -black mous-
niche and displays it finely colored nose.-
Fteund's Weekly.
Canon Boyd Carpenter chose for his nub -
kat of his Lenten addresses to business
meg in M. Peure_Cathedral what at first
eight seertied it very, nneavoury subject,-
Thei duty of hefted ' ; but he worked it
out so logically and clearly as to rivet the
attention and command the assent of his
large audience. In effect, the Canon
showed that as an insensibility to bodily
pain was proof of lowered vitality, eo the
logs of power to hate evil was one of the
worst and darkest symptoms of a deterior-
*erecter.
The business of detecting orime in Lon -
den is admitted to be badly done. Tbe
precincts of the Savoy and Thames Em-
bankment are not safer now than Hounalow
Heath in the days of Jonathan Wild. . One
hundred, and twenty.four preens dintp.
peered in London 'last year, of whom no
tran has after been found, and each week
numbers of dead bodiee, known as "stiff
tine," are brought in by toilers of the
Thames with marks of violence on them.
Since the time of the late Inspector Pield,
no one of the deteotive order has Won an
established fame but Druecowitoh, end he
ruined it great career by being inveigled
into the De Ganoourt bettinglrauds.
•
Lao mom 0: III SCOW
Tite neyeintonneersti Always *geom.
pstMed by the Pettre.
An Ottawa despond* nays; Governor
Lansdowne, to -day, In oonrse of retly to an
eeerese periceeted to him by the Collegiate
Institute Board, *aid
"Yon have every reason to be proud of
the provision Which hap been me de for the
education of the, yonth. of the Province of
Ontsrio. Your ;wheel syetem appears jo me
to have three strong pi into. It °ovens, with
almeet entire oompletenees, the whole of
the ground which it is netieseary to oover
It affords ep edueistion whioh, owing te the ,•
extremely reasonable terms upon which it
is ;oven, is aocessible to all, and it has this
great merit, that from the public aohooheat
the bottom, to the unuversity. utthe tep of
the smile, the path wki.,L1s 14ml the
primary to the highest IberaL eduestion is
oontinuous and uninterrupted. In, fa
succession your Collegiate Iustitttee occupy
a most important poaition. They are the
bridge by which the gap which divides the -
elementary sthoole from the colleges and
universities is spanned, and in that reepect
they supply a want which, I am sorry to
say, has been up to the preeent tiroe but
partially and ineffectually met in the Old
Country." '••
Governor Lansdowne in now acoompanied
by an escort of Dominion Police wherever
he gee&
Latrol plerikwiesi AritWo.
Fresh eggs have been held at 75' cents
-
and 51 per dozen all winter at Edmonton.
An Order-in-Couricil has been passed'
making Calgary a customs and warehous-
ing outport under the survey of the Collec-
tor of Customs at Winnipeg.
There 18 a good deal of iuquiry in Bran \.
don, Man., for horses fdr tonal purposes
just now, and as good horses are somewhat
scarce in Ontario it is expected that prices
will rule pretty high. They say that from
5400 to 5500 will be the usual price for,
good horses,
The residence of 0aptain-Ye0rg, near
Brandon, Malt., was destroyed by tile lain
week. His brother narrowly escaped with
his life. He remained in the stable all
• night after the fire, and in the morning ran
•two miles to a neighbor's how in hie bate --
feat, He had his foot frozen during the
joprney, a severe blizzard being on rt. the
time.
New Yost-onIceo Opened.
The following new poet -offices • were
opened in Canada on let March, 1884:
•-Adolph's, Selkirk, M. ; Alexandria, Carleton,-
N.B. „; Allendale, York, N.B. ; Beveridges •
Bay,Lanark 'S.R., 0. ; Big Springs,
Hastinge RR., 0.; Bradley, Bruce E.R.,
0.; Carlingville, Marquette, M.; Chumah,
Marquette, M.; Cross Creek, York, KB.;
Eel River Lake, York, N.B. ; Elm Valley,
Selkirk, M. ; Eekdale (re -opened), Bruce
W.R., 0. • Hayfield, Selkirk, M.; • Mas-
carene,- Cliarlotte, KB.-; New Market,
York, N.B. ; Nimttau, Selkirk, M.; North
Framboise, Richmond, ; Pendennie,
Selkirk, M.; Red Head, St. ,John, N.B. ;
Sea Gull, Algoma, 0. ; Totonka, Marquette,
M. ; Waskada, Selkirk, M. ; Woodworth,
Selkirk, M. The officio at Boob Village,
.
Russel County; Sligo, in Cardwell ; and
Vauve River, Algoma, have been closed.
Accident to Conadinho Out West.•
• A Minneapolis despatch eays : •The emi- •
grant party on the train which was re-
• ported wrecked on Saturday night Were for
Winnipeg and came through from Durham, •
• Ont. -Seventeenwere injured, and a -Red ,
Wing correspondent telegraChe that two at
least of that 'number were fatally hurt.
Among the ,injured reported •are Alex:
Payne, his wife,,two daughters, Nina and
• Matilda, and two eons, George and John, all
seriously but and bruised. The father has
• his arms broken. 'Wm. Ruddy, hie wife,
• and infant Maggie were all wounded in the
kind, the child having its skull crushed.
Mr. • Robe. Edgar has resigned his pool -
tion of section boss on the EL &i:N. W.
Beltway, at Cheltenham.
Suite by citizens of Kingston against the
corporation for illegal collection of frontage
tax are on the 'tains.
Mr. Jas. E. Marshan, of Honeywood,
Peel Co., has a grade cow that gave birth
recently to a calf weighing 115 poueds.
Bretllarte will soon place two of hit.
oreatione on the stage. One is his play and
the other his eon. • .
The life of a inereworldly man hi like
an African river that wastes iteelf.by soak-
ing into the desert Fiend% •
Mr.Michael Baker, of Steventiville,t„
'Welland County, died a few days ago, aged,
85 years; He was 62 years on one fern). -
that on which he died.
F. A. Beckon& of Woodstock, Ont,efiss
just won the first prize offered`by the
Rural New Yorker for an,,,,elisay upon
BWinoer."
onio street .giare'srwye
T ;;' running last
Friday,aftees,..celiklitionof eighty days,.per-
haps the-it:ingest period in their hietory in
that ray. Busses take theplace of the tiara
in winter . ,
The 'widow of Geo. Mitchell, who was
killed last Wednesday at the Paris station,
will receive 9700 from the Grand Think
Ineurance and Provident Seeiety., .
•
"Tho woman who hesitates is a goose."
This remark refers espeoially to leap 'yelfe.'
The man who made it has not been dead
long enough to be considered a gage.
Queen Victoria dines at 8.45 in the even-
ing, the Emperor of . Brazil at 1 in the
Afternoon and the Erin eror of Germany
half Way between.
By the death of James White, of Over-
toun, Glaegow, has lost one of her chief
millionairee--a gentleman who, says 'the
World, possestied it very,. long purse, the
strings of which he Was never afraid to un-
do when the oocasione (and 'they were
many) were fitting.
tWhen a young man: tries for three
min4tes in church to brush it sunbeam oft
hie coat, under the impression that it is. .
otreak of dust, Eta than looks up and sees
a pretty girl laughing at him, he kind of .
loses the thread of the sermon, temporarily,
as it were.
Men of sense often learn from their own
enemies. Prudeittie is the best safeguard.
This principle cannot be learned from a,
friend, but an enemy extorte it im-
mediately.. It fa from their foto, not their
'friends, that °ides learn the lesson of build-
ing high walla and ships of war. 4od this.
lemon &wee their children, their Wmee and:
their properties. ,
Lord Eversley (Charles Shaw Lefevre),
who is now inhis 910 year, was present at
the farewell seene in the House of Oorn-
mons, over which he act long presided, on
the retirement of Sir Henry Brand, now
Lord Hampden.He wee elected' in 1889
by it majority of 1.8 over the Right Honor..
able Henry Goulbotirn, M P, for Cambridge .•
University, who filled high official poei-
toms Under many Governmente, and was
Chancellor of the Exchequer under l ir
Robert Peel. Lord Everidey, who is Sib
feet two in hen)* ip still erect and main-
tains his splendid premium,