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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1884-2-15, Page 44 Y�r1 ., , •,.`ry{'�!p��j 4' ^ •'•fI 'J THE HURON SIGNAL, FRIDAY FEB. 15, 1881. t•'aotetr :till ;ilk! THE HURON SIGNAL T le p.Ytsbed every Fridayby Mr- OILce., LIcuainv Raat their Ogee. MOMS et e/the &quarts GOI)ERICII. ONTARIO. £ad is despatched t. •u parts .t Or earsennd ag eoualry by lM earliest scalls and Isalns. Sy mineral edaelssioa it has a larger eMesb a they say other *ensnarer in this part of the coccus, 4 le sae of the raciest. ttrwesset sad mos reliableournals 1a Osrert° puseses1.g, es it des.. time tore-sdos eeseettals sad Wag le addition t. the &bete, • Mw-cl•s. family •ad dree de paper it 1. therefore • Meet desirable a4Pertlesap malt en Teach -$1.50 1■ advance postage prsatd by publishers ; 111.7paid, if pabp before lis �ontbe MAIO not so paid. T►le rule will be strictly oaf owed. Hares or Aovasrains*.-Labs ecnts pe toe for Snit insertion; three scale per line fey each subsequent issertba. Yearly• half -yearly sad quarterly oostruota M redaeed rates. �s rRI1T7171ei.--Ws hays s se•Om-classpdtyththe most eesupiete out -dam i end hestfacilitiees harming out murk to °adern-h. are prepared etrYfaeee is that nee at price. t bat cannot be sL awl ie Mod /t cannot be s. 1PRJDAY, FEB. !bar, 1814. AT /T AGAIN. Tres Orur)e 8antiael seems to take a great interest in Huron politica its latest efforts have leen dimmed to eudasvor- ing to prove that M. C. Cameron, M. P., who was the medium of bringing Fre- &try to take a division on the motion. outruns discretion, but we do know that seat. from Rome to three Roman Cath- Mr. Walters, M. PP. for North Middle- a little over eighteen centuries and • half clic clergymen it Huron, caucused his sex, speaking on the same question, said afro, there was ane whom the Chrutuns kind offices fur the purpose of obtaining that when the subject was up before he of to -day are pleased to acknowledge as an undue influence with the priests in had voted for the appropriation, and their lord and Saviour, who did not question. We in Huron who know the when he went back to his constituents disdain to go unto the highwaysto entice ciroumstsnoM of the case, and the pert for re-election the leader of the Opp o- from sin the weary and heavy -laden, taken in the presentation by Mr. Came- sition used the fact of his having voted just as Dr. n ikon, in humble imitation, ton, are well aware that there is no M the str,Ogest card against his candi- has been endeavoring to do. And we ground fur the innuendo thrown out by dature. He was not its favor, therefore, know, also, that there were pharisees in the Stv.tiful against the rev. gentlemen, of going on with the erection of new the days of nld, full of conceit and self - and it comes with a bad grace from a buildinbs unless both sides united on the suffiicieney, just as we have them to -day, jourral professing to be It Christian question. His own feelings now were who held up their hands in holy horror, urgan to bear false witness in this in- that so long as the old ro.f was good and said, "Behold this man eateth with dance. This is out the first time that enough fur a Conservative it was good publicans and •inners. Aril the the S. ttinrf has, through ovcrzeal for enough for him. The effort et lir. pharisees of u:dyzysecute l the Man, the Tory party, proved itself a political Clarke to place the Goverhrnent in a Christ, and rested not until they caused marplet to those whom it professes lisI false position on this question thus end- his ii;numimious death cn the cross ; and serve. in the election of February last e1 in failure. If our Tory friends want the pharisees ..f ti.day persecute Dr, it was universally cenceol!d by the ; new buildings erects.: all they Lave to Wilson, and w.,uld do worse, were it nut Orangemen and Tories of Huron that do is cisme out fairly and abet board that the enh:'.tentnent .1 the nineteenth the intulerattcu of the&nliwt/ mg the on the matter, and the (lt,rernntent will ceutury hunts their powers of persecution violent denunciations of Cath--a---'lies m its note bait -wird iia providing the never- ;o certain metes and bounds. . _We! have editorial columns did tore to raise the eery accum.uudattot. majority against the Conservative mai- date than any other agency. Ile alta':.1 "JT REFER -'1 Tit Mk. MEREDITH." on thew unoFsndin>; err gentlemen on . The Lotd•.n Fr.e /'rise Rot into a nice the present corrasion simply to hit over hobble on Monday t.last. 1. a garbled their shoulders at a ie.litical appunent, report of the decision it the Weeks' will be remembered it the time to come . perjury rose, that journal undertook to by the parishioner* of the insulted prove that S luire Hanna, the presiding .r a titan is•• Jew. a Maho•mmedan, a clergymen. If our make -belief pious tnagistrste, iia goring his decision, cion $ed'ihi•t or a Chnstion• n.• sect or creed r,.r,frere would Arc to more of its speer cured strongly Rowland and his friends should says that ire most worsht, God to s courteous dise•u.ui• n .•1 the theol••gi- for their action in regard to �1 Weeks. The otherwise titan as hise•.u.ci:uce dtctatea cal points at issue between the ProtestWe hare been brought up to respect • my •tj the contention ..f the I'er, freedom of .pinion rind to abhor forst- was • bodies and the Church of FG,we, in- .) was connpletely exposed by the strati of its present style of blackguard-Adentlisei of Tuesday, which published i cution of all kind*. For this reas••ti est ing those opposed to it in creed, it would ' q interview sew with Squire Hanna, in ham ptituecuton of all eludes -and the worst kind of persecutor .s the pharisee of to -day, as was his prototype in the days "f the Saviour. NEW LEGISLATIVE HALLS. THE PHARISEE STILL LiVES. In the Legielstur. ou Tuesday Mr. I $..rue tine ago Rev. 1)r. Wastes, Clarke, M. PP. for Wes Torcasio, ;curate of tit. Gourge•s cathedral, King- sfr.ugly urged the Ilo.rrnraent to at stun, ideut.tird himself with the work- ing of the 'salvation army in that city. This action of the cu...to did not suit the aristocratic Christian tedious of his su- periors to the church, and at a certain stage It was smgwted to him that Lis lwrgoatiuu would be accepted at linearly day. The questa scut in his resignation accordingly and received his dismissal from Bishop Lewis. Now what is the head and front of 1)r. Wilson's offending, according to the statement of Isis pert - tutors i Simply that he has seen tit to go out upon the highways and assist those who ,were endeavoring to cumfurt the poor and the afflicted and rear up the taller. This did not suit the high-toned Christianity of the Kingston "chapel -of - ease" dignitaries, and hence the removal of the man who had dud to be seen at religious exercises with publicans and MOOS make an appropriation for the cos- atrucuoa of new parliament buildings in Ture•nt.. He contended that the pre- sent structure was behind the loses, ia- outrvauent and insecure f. r the proper trausaetcou of business. After advanc- ing hos reasons for the pressing forward of the stork, he stated if any opposition to the undertaking was made by the leader of the (apposition :n the House, he would, although • follower of that gentleman, at utter "go over to the enemy." Hon. Mr. Frazer replied on behalf of the Government, and showed that when action was taken before by the Government, the Opposition en- deavord by every means in their power to maks it a political issue. He like- able stated teat although Mr. Clarke had promised to deset,t his party if his leader took exception to the erecti..n of sinners. Now, we have no connection the new buildings, the deserti•.n would with the salvation army, and are of only be • temporary one and would not opinion that amongst the rank and file in last longer than the two minutes Pecos- soonne;,tiun therewith, zeal very often rotaries al Mr Lreaare. $saoLarur has besot again gaoluded from the Imperial House of Continuos. It is title tau farce close 1. The into: grant aeth•s of the majority in Cie House W done much toward gaming .y.ui• tthy for tit free tlmnier Itradla/tli, en 1 those of his school, have always couteo 1 • 1 I hat professing Chr',uaus are notining if Out iutulerant Hie personal expert •lice at tliM hinds of the m tjo .tae et the Imperial House of Cummom• -:it my of whom are as sadly in need ut 'openers two as himself -will n ,t tend t:. change his former low estimate of Christuuily. If • new genor d election were held, mind Bret/laugh were again ele,;ted, he cool l not be hiuderel from taken: it. seat. Such being 'Its case why is he debarred our - -- - not written this in defence of Dor Wile* personally, nor to advocate the cause of the salvation ariuy as against other methods of religious belief, but sitnply because we believe religious intolerance should not be allowed to exist in a so called flee cu;:"tel-. We care not wheth- do a great deal more t., forward the cause which the fi.11owin{p occurs : - which it espouses than it has dear in the i With a view of being clear on a pont past. The day for clenching an argu-' nt two in the Magistrate s decision on mutt by consigning the Pope to a sultry Weekes cosy, nett .4deerfia. r represents - hereafter is, we are pleased to say, past i tine called on Squire Hannah yesterday lo now tuna out that the number of in Canada : and if the entiaef does not forenoon and read over to him the closing ballots auntul at sen cyclic[ the pn•Iling S .,..n recognize that fact, its occupation few sentences of the decision, as read by the Magistrate on Saturday hove. as fol - will be gone, shortly. lows : _ i "At the same time I think I am not seb-divisions in Kent during the recent electoral contest between Smyth and Samson, was largely in excess ..f the going beyond bounds in despising the number of voters on the list. The Phil - THE ell A ILEA f • AI'PGIA'TME-\-T. ',tines. as of old, "got Samson where his 1 conduct of the parties who prevailed !tis They who read the remarks of Sir upon a weak young man to commit so hair was short." Jahn on Mr. Chapleau s appointment to ' erkring an act as demonstrated in the the high shrievalty of the Northwest will fraud practiced on the defendant... Toone* CxemaRv, for srnne year, least be amused at the special pleading revert - 1 Reporter -Now, Squire, how am i to editor of the London Times, died nn Sun- t construe these words f Take the word da He was a superior oriental scholar, ed to by the chieftain. Sir John admit ..parties” for instance. Does that refer but was not successful a. • moulder of that Chapleau's be:ng in collusion with to Mr. Rowland & Co., or to Mr. Mere the coi.tractors when in the public works dith E (:u. f public opinion. During his rry.n.- the department wa "grace indiscretion," The Magistrate -T.. Mr. Meredith, Tinos kat to a considerable extent thatwitsboot contends that, as the delinquent nas 1u must auredly. grasp upon the public mind which it had signed his posit , and had for three, placeds differenteconse tstruction on i men when it was under the alio man- signed • to do without /Internment employ -Meaning. They wish to make it went, sufficient punishment hal been! you despise the action of Rowland & Cel. asp trapping tteekea. A glumly!. ear feet in connection with agement of Delano. masted out to him :and hence his ap Magistrate -Then the Free Press is ithe C. P. R. resolutions before the House pointmeut to the shrievalty of the north -' very inrch mistaken i never sought to of Commons is that Le ''rasa fu, the west. Moreover Sir John states that I r.eonyey such an idea. On the contrary, personal trgran of Sir Hector Langevir, Chapleau was • "man of marked alai- 11..cert,er rather re -assert, that ithey- is bitterly opposed to the demands, and hlsty," and of "gond family' and therefore! coafrR. dispise the conduct of Nieuwe.• tics et chem as beint rttniuout to the W. R. Meredith, Chas. H. Mackintosh, Pe the country should not lose his services. youne Maclean and ..then in the room i country and as out hating been justified, Which may or may not be good reasons in the Queen's Hotel, Strathrey, for pro- thus far• to Parliament If Sir Hector for appointing the said Chapleau highvilmng on a weak young roan t.. commit should see tt to step front under as a sheriff of the northwest Fur the infer- "" glaring an act as demortstnted ria the supporter of ,8ir? Jthna. the Dotwitti.n • n ation of the Premier wit, might state; Repuefraud pia ase, ed un ills defendant. government would out that there are roan men of "marked 1 + ekes' i sw flint maks► ifo hPsa like a how y much plainer, and the public an noir of car'ds,��ispf i a pewasee ability" and •'goa.d family" :as families see at • glance who the "parties" are you abnormal majority, go,) in the l)••mii.t.m p.enitentieries, hut referred to in your decaion. - Jiagnatrete -- Yes, I might Curr been o the fact of their haired of inch high marc explicit in the wording of the latter it is now generally emended that Mer - order of "ability" and of so hightoned I Met o1 my decision ; in fact, I omitted a edtth did not ezercies prudence in the an extraction would not warrant the taw words which if I had put in would conduct of the debate on the address. Government in appointing them to p'er'i here mate tt much plainer. He forced a division of the House at too tions .f trust i.1the `!tate. The Premier's Itep.rter tt'hat aro one won!►early a stage, and at once laid bars the contention in the rhe Esau case os the t Magistrals The words I omitted are, , 1 "By getting hien to sign such a lrclars falsity .1 the assertions made by the weakest defence •.f a hs 1; appa•intuuent tion." My cl.eing remark• would then 'Tory press that Mowat hal nit a good we have ever kilos ti him to make, and , have read, ''1 &m not going boeyonrl , working inajenty at his hack. The ma - is a good many rent c.s (p.m the real b.nmds in despising the conduct .4 the j,rrity is now clear! define 1, and will pert les who prevailed upon a weak yo g y ma Poe for tie. apo ...t;..: ant, which teas !man to commit ro glanng an act as dor ,not vary materially (term!. the .essi,.n. follows : Sime y.•ar. rat' prat c.mha. t"r. m.m•trsted to the fraud practiced ..n the The Moil cannot cry -Nlotvat ei.ist gas\' were kept informed .`t!t - inward work• olefendant by getting tum t.. sign such a with its accustomed vigor now that it inv.of the puhluc stork. drtnr'nornt d Kuaihretto-TAen y•ar dn.t n allude to has been clearly pr.trd that h. retsina The (set beewme p 0,1,,.. and w ‘1,.!,14, of Mr It .and in veer rrmae ka grfttt the e.ence of so .1,-.• led a f.o't •sir•: n indignant wrath wait , ole I.y all.• h, .1 kl tri :rite -N..., 1 did not inteint to of the department. 'f.. show t.. the 1 wra6er it •.t r. cti..n whitever on klr. i.,w- Co rwttu in "1.-.. EIho•tt in the public that the chief was not in the ring, 611'1- psi .dlnding to hire my remarks course .d his rnmi•Ln: remarks et the • sonpe-gual Maa selecM.l, and Chapleau 1.n'' if •nytuin:, •v.orahlk, as t'on will tt'dnwd•y et emit: council ntertinv. , noises i say, "It suight eon have 10031' acts! that Tna i;tamat !.ad • .kee .4 Ma. dismissed the service. For w couple anticipated that a prosecution t o k' ru i" of years the diacharteil public servant' stilt from the denial hy the defemlant of his .r"n"n'iral *meiet-the joining of stood firm aw&p wet. but aft.,r it wee the statements c•oiltainw.l a, the .lrrl.ra the .4c••. .4 •,.•e...... a •Ilert. r .End tion .4 it.•w land oriel others he Lagan to chafe. Thrnn it was that hejdrrat i .•L.wt..r e. . chersepwrinv I 'nwurr. am,l i,,,-4 t.. d.•t sympathy for Mated he had earned the sill. of the 1 1s the denatr .an the ■ idi-esti ler. Nle hinnae!f ti orehy Cooncillor Elliott if whole department long en..u•.th. and )Iah.rt., of Weed worth, p•nnt.•d oast that by w,.rr s see world hat ,• •walloowr.l his nuked for another Fillet ('h.ideau's' triols was. dull nmolfactonwcompsr.,t1,e wrath We n"•ant .•tartly what we lxrother had, in ih•• meantime. ent.•rwl It Ale tooter the N I'.. and for at. doing 1 said. (''.se' rill. r Elko. to a "chewer - the Cabinet, and asp onwl the (4ine.• of has g.n.e.l the t!1 till of the town e•.oin f'arwr.. .1• a nod ..1 a 10,.,.0o t, with no his brother against Topper The du .11 ..f I)un.las. That bialy, et its km Iegialatrrw •huht,, rase.:re .1 knowledge, missed Chapleau was 4 $dad woo woe meeting, pewr.f a res•.IulK.n calling np.n and lacking in enterprise, It is jest be .vns.st .serwts, and was liable to "e.• stk. M 1'1'. t•. retract his words. \\ kilo cause .eeh ' •.licks in -thio -marl as Elliot of at oar am.rw.nt, lie ww't • sale 1 the me.nl.ria of that town council sur- aro t itehforred into .sats in the eowneil man to be out of • Q.'terss.et bilk* I vtve. op ohs 10..11 in Dundas sill cut be that U.odereh retrains half a century tie - pear.. I:A,,, tas..t.hood t► t paid his cane before the (lover ant 441411411144 • ire•.. sen. -[Toronto Telegram (lt>fi,) PRESS ECIIOES. Om. Mwatp .a).relt• It is rather • curiously instructive coincidence that on the tint square party rote of the third Parliament of (bit.rio, taken on the 9th of December, 1875, the Mowat Ministry was snetained by • ma- jority of 11, via. 44 to 33. This shows that, at the very worst, it is now trine better than it was more than eight years ago. This does not hook very muck like "vuing," at lent If one may judge from the past.-(Olobe. The last call of the Syndicate is fur 830,000,000 of the taxpayers money. That is, they ask the people of Canada to pay $6 a head, man, woman and child for their benefit. Aa to their paying back the money, who believes that when tits tome comes they will have either the will or the ability to pay one single dol- lar of it 1 How many of the men who now form oho Canada Pacific Railway Company will he members of that cent - puny it. 1891 is a question which even the famous Philaselphie lawyer would tind it impossible to answer.--(Coruwall Freeholder. twee sltrkrm et.iSMlrs. The average atteudau.:t• at the Toronto soup kitchen is 450 immune eo.h day Trout this fact various conclusions may binning at. " In the tirst place': would be aosstro..ly unjust to induce opera- tives to emigrate from Europe to Onta- rio. In the next place it is clear that a population subsisting by manufactures and working in factories are subject to greater vicissitudes than a farming popu- lation. But the whole principle of the N. P. is to raise up an operative class. It succeeded partially. It has raised an operative class in the cities, and in the Toronto 450 each day beg a mess of soup at a charity kitchen. So much for the N. 1'--111ohc.ey.fe..n Inde .etdent. Tiery -'recere.eivrerie.' Truly this is a progressive country. Sts John Macdonald telegraphed 'I Craig, the abec.ndmi>; president of the Exchange hand. telegraphed Sir Leonard Tilley, 'I shall re.tuire smother $100,000; and though this was the second time of ad u' Sir Leonora let him have not only that sum, but atoll another $100,000, making in all $300.000' And now the Pacific syn hods say, `We must have 825,1413,000,' and the too willing ministers and subservient ministerial majority in the house will let them hare it. This is an enterprising country and we are a fad peopleoft . -[Lindsay Post.JadesMrJades Open Letter. Mr. Joly, ex premier of Quebec, has written a patriotic, ..pen letter to the people of his province, in which he states that if it is right to grant a future loan or subsidy to the Candian Pacific Railway ' Company, there is n.. need 'to bribe any province in order to pin Eta support. Speakiny .1 the idea that is gaining gr.und that the present it an excellent I opportunity fur Quebec t, fill its treasurynu at the oxpee of the rest of the Domin- km, he says : "Rut even supposing that it were allowed to support a wrong mea- sure on such grounds supposing that the feelings of fairness and ,honor which rile ns in private life shoulhave been completely banished from our political life -What would such an arrangement I lead to 1 Each province would claim its fair share of compeaatum, to nae a mild term. N'ho will .sty that compensation 1 44 it is established on • fair hams, will not each province hare to ply, indirect- ly, ndireet- 1 if not directly, for its own share of t compensation 1 • Continuing, Mr. July lays the adoption of the dangerous system of bribing provinces t.. :ole for big compensations and political grabs 'will ultimaty result in general ruin." However shortsighted Quebec doesn't care a straw. Thew Cypherasrapaaeh.s. The cypher messages emit by the .gents of the Ontario (:onernment do not reseal as much as the public was led to believe they would They show !het applications were made for money assistto atst in carrying •.:i the Algoma election, but they do not show that the money was s41,t. As a matter of fa. -t, the Conserve ti were be. smart Ger th±ir opponents •ed control .f the local newe- 1 which it was p:op.,•,d to hay. There a nothing ettror•Iinary in the Government receiving telegraph moseagee in cypher. Their agent• were in • ter• ritory which was in dispute, and it etase• not neeesary that o ver mote they made should he ,known by the euewny EMO the .idiocy contractors have their own cypher in whish to send meninges, en that the mere feet that messages sent to the Gnrsenment were in Or proves nothing A g•o-ernmet:t cora .ping with it. agents and sending instructions by *telegraph could not depend upon the rdmary uorwns r.f rommunic..tion. There .nay 1.e more behind these mr.sags. then appears upon the surface, but it `wont lee , said that, so far, the Opposition has net established its chasers ofpa sons) sweep - tion event. against any member .4 the gemeei event. Whether any Mots attbsisese win attend it in the emirla .sleeks to he If any ewpl..yer I ad a servant who uiie•pq,rulntoted Iris waster s money mid seed tt es promote his own interests, on a diec.very biome made he would at least he duniased, if not male to answer sac rJm.g to law Illnt biro.kvtl!e Re- corder. The _sacs. Weddle. It appears that the Orange bill is tube handed around parliawart wits, and an effort nude to have it put through. Hav- ing b. -en thrown out last easel in in the lace .d lair John's peonies to have it emoted, it is uut at all lively that it will bud favor iia the eyes of the Yr.uch Tones this session. It could Ice put through if the !ter, rulers would rule for it ; tnut the Reformers naturally take the groom! that as the onstage vete has always mate for Sir J,hn Maodooald and helped to put him in power mrd keep him thee, a. Y the person who ehoutd be looked to to pas. it, not the party against whivh its inhuesca ha. b'e"' need and which has never received m.o. fav"rs at its hands. It Sir Jolla Slectluat:u the head of the party lie is understood VI lead lie should put the bill through If he is not, he secured support on L.' are pretences when he entered into a com- pact with the Orangemen that tf they withdrew their opposition to the elevation of Mr. John O•Donoh.e 4. the Semite he would gine them incorporation -(Toron- to Telegram.. TiLLEY'S TROUBLES. The Tory Pinsnoe Minister Or*$. sized. teswrks se ear n.akt.g systems afire Scatula. Nareased in Termite ea. ether Ita•ken. TERRIBLE FLOODS, The Obi° laver Mese Dangerous_ 27 Blah. Mees Miming Anew be eaters• Maes Yoe. La... awe lianas. lemmas, Mase TM ',woe s.stwssa err Wass es reed awl asrlace Financiers and banking men thn.ugout the cuuutry are much agitated over the remarks • f Sir Lenard, and claim that a grave error has been c••mmitteti by him which needs immediate rectifying. The utterance .1 a Finance Minister c.trry weight, and that in this instance the warmth of debate should have run away with the statesman's characteristic cau- 1' is a ,utter generally deplore.! What annoys bankers most is the rash and unfounded statement that certain banks might be called upon to redeem their circulation, • theory claimed by some to be as wild as it u impossible. Mr. C. F. 14wsithers, of the Bank of Mustitsl, in that city, said he believed the sttillewiets MOO made as • subter- fuge to make the Governments case, in the matter .4 honing funds to the crip- pled Ezclange bank, as strong asrou- ble. Mr. O. Hague, of the Merchants Bank, Montreal, tsouoht the remarks were probably not accurate. If Sir Leonard was correctly' reported, he had only to say that the speech was very in- ljudicious. Other gentlemen in the saute ine expensed themselves as mimed at the Minister's "tuulish.' utterances. Mr. James McLaren, president of the Bank of Ottawa, characterized them as "rii- culously untrue,' and akulate i t.. du an amount .4 mischief. The press he thought, should unite in the endeavour to counteract the evil effects of sueh thoughtlessness. HAMILTON $ The bankers of the Ambitious City are fully as outspoken in regard to theseran 0. nese of Sir Leonard Tilley's remark.. The Ministerss excuses, were, in the opinion u( the majority. fallacious in the extreme and cakulated t-• harm the money market. it is generally believed that the safety of the bunks had little weight with Sir Leonard Tilley when he came to the rescue of the Exchange Bank. It is stated that Canadian bank bills in Buffalo have been refused, owing to 8ir Leonard Tilley's remarks. TORONTO BANICRM AND TOR *PRECIS. Mr. Yarker, manager .f the Bank of Montreal, in this city, on being shown the obnoxious paragraph, said he did not wish to discuss the subject, and the less sad about such matters the better. Sir Leonard Tilley's remarks resolved tbem•eltes into two points, whether any bank could be forced to liquidate in a day, and whether it was to discuss the question. He thought the banks are perfexly sound, and do not require to be "written up," no matter what is said about thein. Mr, Stratby, of the Federal Bank. Toronto, went further. "i think," he said "that the remarks of the Minister of Finance were uejust, unfounded, and uncalled tor. S, far as our loot! banes are concerned there is not one in my opinion who could not meet ail its circa - lation within • week if called upon to du so. It IS Dot the duty of the Govern- ment to bulster up a bank unless in case of • panic, which certainly was not the state of things when it went to the aid .4 the Exchange Bunk. Mr. Bethune of the Dominion Bank, sadly shook his heed and refusal to speak. The other baiik managers were equal- ly reticent, but it waa easily perceivable that they, like the gentlemen mentioned above, were "nursing their wrath to keep it wares.'' Thio following art the objectionable re narks of 8ir Lenard Tilley. quoted from his speech in defence of the $.7011, 000 loan to the Etchanite Bank • "We all knew by looting at the returns that if to day two-thirds of the banks in the Dominion were called upon to re.lesm their circulation where them banks would bac, and where the holiness .4 the country would be. Utter these circum- stances we felt that w. were perfectly justified -feeling, at the saese time, that we were safe in doing so --in ende•rnr• ing to save the country from the annie- gtrences which would follow from the breaking down, it weight 1'e. .of two, or three, or four, or five of the hank.. (Ti•ronto Telegram. Aeenrling to the annual report of the Ontario C.mmiesioner of Public Works for 1883, the total milesge of the rail ways of the province. melodies of floe p woke% of the Canadian Pae.le west of Lake Wipusiwg, amounts to 3,847 .wiles Of this 1,444 miles were er.mplet d prior en Cowfedorstim, sad 2,383 sebsagwent M tl.at date. Upwvds of VD miles an at ,recant wader a wsernettow er eowtraet. The ns.ahar of Wks befit derirt* the year was RAt .,d..7 i.►`rt'•r, nt►gt, ,., p ra e r ati 4.4 614 ar••.saNrfC+t1► r. t W healing, W. Va., Feb. IQ -The river h.. reee•ded steely. TM dis- tend ..l water ..telae reveals the •&- tent of the r.irer.s of the Seed. The sight rx•.r.d i. duh.wrtenutg. Hun dreda of lar-.. houses and Lees Sr, gathered at pouts when the surface water age obstructed by trees. Fifty hone.s ere jammed asp arid miaow each other at the south end of the city The Ita.ue p. tr•e:k brtwo.wm bare andltinRuurwtrandd is(bhouvsre.l with huildmgs and drift wet ch had to he pullet! (noises' 1.y engines to altar iM track. Every ,kart in theUlm: bete distributed t.. h••menw� "i „Ther. is • great scarcity "f Irew'4'�K At Martin's terry last night Dr. Hyusotau, under Lail for malpractice, wee 44Y+11 r••bbmtg a I..udrd store. He wet !entre gm:1y dead and is mussing to day. The uurook f .r the future a gloomy. Many eases o premature cun6nmrast are reported. Seim suffrren on the south side aro rsi .cell to the extremity of cut- ting .weal from cows found dead as the 6.w.ds recede. The ohm river rsilreed u believed to be entirely twined. Settle,* after section •,f trestle work, bridges and Mn are washed away. Pi.rt.tno.uttu /nli.., Is tllatell wtirely under water and conspletelledint off from outside communication. The water is fourteen inches higher than the flood of l83 Z. The river 'satin rising, and many houses are 6. sling away There is great suffering. and worse is still expected. At daylight this morning tiro brut[. out mo a feel store in the midst of the bush ores p.•rti..i...1 the city, caused by slack - .ng pine sutunerlted m the ruing water. Sit bnildfmgs were learned t, the water's elite, and the walls fell in. The churches are al! under water. Every emture house and school bouse in the city .a tilled with our .In.wned people The river is risiug over halt an inch an hour. It is mining hard. We have not heard trust any place for three days. The people are in great distress. Ripley, O. Feb. -The river at noon reached the Good pant of last year, There is much destitution and • public robe( meeting is in progress. All busi- ness has been ssapended. sa all the boat• Mss houses are wbmerged. Several dwellings were swept away this morning by the devastwing waters. ConesmaTs, Feb. 9. -The impression that a large tract of the city is covered by water is erroneous, and the portion subinergd except in the suburbs, is not much used fur rersAencee. The main residences and business portion of the city stands on high ground far out of the reach of the highest flood. Arrangetueota for preserving the peace and preventing crime are veal better than where there is no fined. Not only are the police more watchful but they are reinforced by 100 militia who patrol the streets at night. The relief work grows daily as the stock of provisions of poor families im- pli . ned in houses diminishes The hest men in the city are directing the work and giving it constant and personal attention. In Newport, Ky„ the burden has grown ao great that the mayor has called on neighboring towns for help. Two cases of drowning were reported today. (Inc was El. Walsh, leaning over • hndge across the Licking. He lost his balance and fell into the river. The other was Michael Lackner, who fell from a boat into the Ohio river. Thos. Ryan, in the same bust, also fell out, but was rescued. An unknown woman was drowsed in the Fifth ward last night by falling from a second story window into the water. A baby of a family named Lash, on the island, also fell into the water and dis appeared from sight. Neither bodies recovered. Man narrow escapes are reported and donbtleseeevenl lives were kat which have net yet been discover - d. Cincinnati, Feb. 10. -The 6etoodf 1834 was surpassed at nee o'clock this meriting. The river has been constantly rising all day. At nine Otis evening the water was 65 feet 2f inches. Vicksburg, Mies., Fele 10. -The rapid rtes in the river is causing great unmet- inli 'gfed stars in this mo• tion It is feared the water will attain sob a height is to seriously threaten the levees. Larson -The flood has not yet abated THE DOMINION ALLIANCE •niel lest/.. -lire Mre'arthy set D - *sws.ed. (maws, Jan. 31- The annual meet- ing of the Council of the Dominion Al - barite commenced this morning in the City Hall under the Presidency of the Hon. Senator Vidal. The Cheirsan re- ferred to the end boss the Alliance sue- taine:l in the death of Ms Secretary, the Rev. Mr. Gale, and complimented Mr. Abbott. the temporary secretary. for the alreeessfsl manner is which he bad trans- acted his work. The report of the Secretary Mowed a satisfactory stat. of affairs, bat regret was expressed that it was hemming more (Mkt& to procure fends. A pub ie meeting was held this evening in the Dominion Methodist Church. Senator Vidal occupied the chair. and there was also present on the platform Senator Giroward and Mr. Jamieson, M P. The fleet speaker was J. J. McLaren, of Mosttreal, who con- demned the set known se the McCarthy Act of the Iasi session, whish was drawn hy an astute hand He totee►.d myna particularly an the disuse which required thr.. lftbs of a vote of the whole messi- cipality for prohibitory purposes, whin he declared was impossible to get, there tieing • only two members of Parliament who, is the the gtmssal shako of 1*, rot the loajeriby of rates of their wane- sweep, an i- s eep, and noes three -UAL • 11 1 .I 11 1