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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1891-6-18, Page 7eneneeneneweeenseesseeesselasee' THE LATE PREMIER SKETCH OF HIS CAREER, Ms Early Home me—First Appearance ea Po i iti S -no rly posi mite Par eer—as , Prime Allafstee—tIls Part in trouredera- , tioa, etc., etc. Of the story era life so full of incident as . , was that of the deo:toed stateemane and ea bound up with the hit tory of Canute during the past forty years, it le possible only to give but the beiefest outline at this time. The biographer and the historian can. alone do justice to the subject, John Alexander Ideedonald wae of etteoteli parentage, hie father being Hugh efecdonald, of Sutheri landthire, who *married. Helen Slim; of Badenecto ,loyerociasnire. Tile former had moved in early life to Glasgow, where, on Jazuary 11, 1815, ids eenind son, John Alexander, eves born. When t he future Premier of Cituaila woo in Ma fifth year the family joined in the eutigra,tiou Movement and came out to Canade, settlirg at Kingeton, thou the most important town of what is ROW Ontario. After few years` reeitienee in that town Mr. Hugh Macdonald moved to Adolphustown, on the Bay of Quinte. leaving his son John Alexanderunder the tuition ef Dr. Wileoe, a fellow of Oxford Unive.ity, at the Royal Grammar School, where he remained until Ids sixteenth year. The father kept a atore a ?hart dis• temente the east of the Quaker meeting- house on Hay Bay on the tient conceesion. It we la, emelt clap. baartlea building, taint- ed re, and stood for many years. A limiter to Aeolphustown recently wrote : °Stand- ing itt Cie old Methadistelturch at Hay Bey the visitor cm en tho modest rein. It markt; the dwelling•place of the parents of Sir John Mocdonahl. The house was hurnea long einem and the cellar and its wane alone mark the spot." ant eoite'S EARL'S: IlOtIE. In his book "Country Life in Canada Fifty Years ago,"Dr, Mt nal' Haight says :— "1 remembee-ht.ing at a nomination in the village of Bath, on wheat ocetteion there were servi al speakers from Kingetonaamong them .141,:i A. Macdonald, then a young lawyer ins. [(alit% his way into politica e life. Ile made a speech, and began SWIM - tit ingin tide way :— 4 Yeomen. of the County of Lenge and Addingtm, I remember well when 1 an about in this district a bare- footed 1 oy,' eta" In le:ei Mr. Hugh Matelonald returned to Kin:: ton, where he lensed the Kingston Mils, a few miles out of the city, and at the same time orrice! on Ititetheea on Princess . street. Young Meedonald has been de- } wilted re home, in his school tlays "a very! intellh telt and pleatiing face, strange, fuzzy- I l kf ' ..,air triatet in a dark Illa$S, ant 0 a sttiking nose." His father had al ways l intended him for the legal prolession, and upon leaving school in 18e1 he ENTIMED TnE LAW OITME of Ain George MacKenzie, where ho applied himself diligently to his etudies. Be *pent six yaws here, and proved a most exemplary student. Before he was quite twenty-one be was called to the bar of Upper Canada, and opened an office in Kingston. In a short time he had -worked up a gobti business, anti had become solicitor for the Commercial Bank, and also for the Trust rind LoanCom- pane', with which latter corporation this re- lationship continued up to the time of his . death. These were the days of the Re- belliou, and it was in connection with one of the incidents following that outbreak that young 'Afacdonald earned bis first legal lanrels. He was engaged to defend Von Shoultz and others of the two hundred "Hunters" who invaded Canada at Prescott from the United. States in November, 1838, and were taken prisoners by Co]. Young. The trial at Kingston caused intense excite- ment, and the young barrister's brilliant defence of his clients, thoueli fruitless, was acknowledged to be a masterly one. From that time forth John A. Macdonald' abilities were reccgn: hy all, and his future greatness was of eedicted. It was seen that, he was a mite :utterly fitted to to take a prominent 'p -cc in the stormy politics of the Canada of that day, and, as a prellininsay step, he was elected a member of the Kingston Council in 1853. NIS FIRST ArrEAEANcE IN POLITICS,, In the following year, after a most excit- ing contest, Le was elected to represent his city in the Assembly, which then held its sessions there. In his reply to the requisi- tion asking him to be a candidate—which, by the way, was signed by the father of the Hon. Oliver Mowat—he said that in com- plying he had no personal ambition.to gratify except adesire to advance the interests of the town and "to maintain those principles of public policy which you jnstly style sound" lip and T eral, and which have always actuat- ed ou loyal old town." "In a young coun- try like Canada, " he continued, "1 am • of opinion 'that itis of more consequence to endeavour to develop its resources and improve its physical advantages them to waste the time of the Legislathre, and the money ' of the people . in fruitless discussions on abstract and . theoretical questions of . government One great ob- ject of my :exertions, if elected, will be to direct the attention of the Legisla- ture to the settlement of the beck townships of the district, hitherto soutterly neglected, and to press for the construction of the long projectedplank road to Perth and the Ottawa, and thus make Kingston the market for a large and fertile though hitherto valueless country., Ties desirableolejectonce attained the prosperity of Our town will be establish. ed on a firmer basis."The young politician 'tho thus made the construction of a plank road one of his first cares lived to become, as Premier of his eonntry; the chief bastrement in building one of the greatest railways in the world, . • On the huetings Mr. Macdonald's ability as a popular speaker made itself strongly .41?,,..F.040,4Wo.400woMR0•4(•14.0VOIR,Orclet...._ felt, an.1. his vietere sr.. an eeeewheltning Tilley, Peter itliteheil, H. L. Lengevin, one,ile elute became a mer of the, Chet/mite. A. G. Arehibeide Ediseted Kew • Canadian Assembly of lee t, in, which Mr. ney. Ogle R. teowen and Mr, 'Joseph Edouard Canehomaleo made their entry into political life, aud in which the Tories Lad o majority of but three. EAELY roteniont. onnsen. Of the einitieft vicissitntle-e of e.; per Canadian polinirs from tios time until fou- leanatia was deeply interested, committeeo federation leak of space forhide teey ehennet ers were appointed oa both sides to arraog here This WAd .111..i era ot the thud struggle. a treaty. They met to eleasbington in 187 between the older order of things and the and among the Joint High -thuirmiettione new, when the battle for" rep. by Pep." Wai and Plenipotentiaties representing the Im being fought, when the eeat of troverement • pedal Government WAS Sirjohu Mactionah was itinerant, said when Adminieteationsied *hose position AS Snell while at the seen short lives and stormy eines. It would he tone prennee of Canada was oo„f p„olzo, out of the question to attempt even to out- difficulty. Speaking of thie afterwards i line here the sequence of events. Suffice it eau), e ted maternally before me n to soy that John A, Alamicinald's influeneea °uterine ne eel quietly exerted at best, gradually mode; it the Dontatien of Canada, which I was there self fele, and it WAS not long before he ieft, especially to represent, anti the difileuity of the ranee, oneein nposition ot Prom_ Ine1100 my position was, 'het if 1.gave undue mo- lds rise WAS still more rap:41. In 18.)4acenly nljnenee to the interests of Canade, I might tee years after his entry into the politics! justly I. ; 1 .1 t. , ee.4., ,n nannann be tineaig arena, he became Attorney -General 01 purely coloeial and aselfish view, regarieese Upper Commie in the eitteNete Morin .Ate- • of the inteeests of Canada Asa portiou of the ministrittiou, aud soon atter sueceetled thr heap re end, on the ottier bailee, if I kept Allan MacNeil as Prime telinister„a nrc ey s sohk on lwperi reeinetulatton only can begen mi.:dm la, held ea neelceting Inv seecial dut h d „, p . ,nsl p - i• • toward .iiiy own country.' Au ineviteble. He was a memeer of the Ea:me:hie tioaneei melt eves that Sir John wes eed to Awe. at Canada from elav 110, 1847, to eetwele don 10 UMW exteto he interest of Canesta, 111111, 1848 (In the .441nainfWation of the tar and for teis he wes severely taken to cask Hon. W. Morriel ; from sePteuthee 1 ifn• elm -wards. During the session of 1872 1851, to July lath. MS On 11:0 N1,aeXall- huwever, ?eroded hinwelf end himennie: Morin, e Tache-elaedonald, and the Mae- try in a sp,.„4 which is eonseiorea to have donald-Cartier Aentinistrationsi ; if041 Aug' been one of the ablest ()Torte of Lis life, mit onto year, to May 231•41, litfla int OPPASITION. the Certier.e. laetlonald Adminittrationi from March 30th. 1804, •until the Uni'oo 'XI Ewe years of Bettina Government folloir • the Tacheeefacdoeald end the lielletee•Maei the appeel to the country itt 18711. end clonald Adminitithniored ; nini lie was, giT John found hinitelf in Opposition. Ile in these several periails. ithecieeraiisioe• 15441 wishedd to retire from the leederaliip of al from May f7.1tit to December 7t1I, 1847 the party to liae so often led to vietoey at neneeniesioner of Crown Lends froin the the none ail perliatneut, but, hie felon& latter date to March Itith, 184.4 ; Attorney. 30,t hew of it, fir, miieheezie. took General for Upper awoke trent SeP101l1b0r .oliire with only a nominal majority- At Ms 1e54, to teeth July, 185e, when, Wein stud, feeling he famid not earry an the 1,5 tt1Mit MINIsTElt Govet went ememesfully under the eireum. -steneee, dieeolvell Parliament. At the elect he and ide Cabinet resigned, being defeated tiest that. tool: piece early in 1874 the "P onthe seat of Government question. He re. eat soandat t. was the ery, awl the tieverii • turned to otlice on August Oth, same year, ment was endorsed by a good majority. Vila as Postmaster -General, a pdeition Ite resuni- Whetted that for five veers at lost the ed •the folicwing day, on his re ippeint meat- Mited.tuald °lenient ihoela he in Oppesitiort. isa Attorney•General 4 Upper Cittitt4e. widen Looking ahead, therefore, Sir John took aol- office he continued to hold until the defeat of mew° of the well.enotenbee teeee pent the Achniuistration on the Militia hill, May.- eageerk the Matthig members of the Goy.. eStel-, when lie amnia colleagues eg. tin retired, ennnenti and developed hie .44 National them Mike. The late Sir George lee Cartier. poleian Wit and the leading wen of his aud he led the Oppesition in tee Aesetubl h . tusup cia thisplaifnr.n,aw uutel the defeat ot the needed; Maelloneli inenittrated it series of political pienies a Dorton Government, when the iteelm•Mac- erten:, the pulite- was developed with good doneldlloveraraeut was thientel, etervit eeeett wen, pitennalent enien.,1 ni Sep and he returned. to his old office) of. tembee, lees, the .eieetien took piatre, au* Attorney -General, and wee a; neeeinneetta the Conservatives wore the vietors by leader in the Aseetubly from Oat time until •grcarvr j than er tee io t the union of the British North Animicen . House of ComitiOnS before. But eter Jolt PIevinees in 18°7' fie hal fin' °al° ni 'himself, for the 'first time in thirteofou Moister of Affairs jointly wIth that years. WAS left without a seat. Eletted i of Attorney•Gentral from January to _May, 1844, Ite had been Omen for Kingston a 1We, end front August, liffie, until the every election mail 1878. This time he wa Union. Ile WAS requested to take the place defeated, but be enlitequently encored th of Sir E. P. Tache as Prime Minister on the teat for vietorit, 13. 0, - death of that gentleman* 1805, bitt waived his claim in tevour of Sir N. F. Belleau. • Is row= :WAIN. During six years of this period be bnel been a member of an Opposition which had only nineteen members in a Ilenee of eiehty-foar • Tenter or evosnisorox. The most inmortaut event of the period whieli followed waa the settlement of the W ash ingten treaty. The Reciprottit y treaty hail expired, and yarious itnportent ques. tione between Great Britain and the United Stateslioning arisen, he certain of which a - to 1878. one of the andienee. A SSOtell Re- former, who had been disposed to interrupt Sir John, stole around VO him after lee bed speole ond 'hurriedly shook hie hand, evidently auxious not to be ought ill thiS act of bermlese treason eo bit AWA party. In eta Louis II. 'Tache's admirable portreit gallery of Canadian " Men of the Day," Mr. J. Ie.. Watere How writes of Sir John as a speaker z—" The veteran Premier cannot be teamed among oratork yet few o orators can gain end hold the Attention of thellouee so Suecte*sfully endoiegnetically as rs he. :Much of this is doubeless due to the „ feet that it is John" who speeles! •and it note; ally everyone wants to know whet, the. first Men in Canada has to say but not a lit- e tie is due to the ttter of Sir John's speech ,e which is unceinnionly characteristic of hint ot him—is, indeed. Rid yo'lleri The Premier, - in speaking, atiopte that Stirle ApnatirintialinennetT more tu 13,1:OUT an the Imperial than in the' Parliament of Canada, that is to say, be is uot reinakeley fluent, hesitates, indeed, almost, on pureote, id matter.of-fact rather than rhetorl el, and is withal never embarrassed Sir ,Tolin's dieceurees are, livieje:leoviner,,neepeta444011,, antlyt hveaviiite 4a, sto(z ebily ems brief aueedote tlret toneorous, kind which ). 1:ever labs to Nottet down the llouemi is very happy. ale; in making a nutmeg commentary on the speech of another, inter- im:0i% a shaft of niter inerrimentwhenever a mark is offered." Oa two momentous oc- casions his deliverances so far exeelled kis ordinary efforts asto heworthy of pre,e.erva- tion in history. Both were speeches rnatle iu the Hoittee—the firat masterly argument of houra in length with reference to the 'Washington Teeety, the second the Pre. utieret defeetie of Mown on the Pacific rail- way °Nage; when he spoke for five bouts. IN I-RIVAT5 LIFIL Itt private life Sir John Macdonald was ono teethe meat genial and approachable of men, fie was tnoat effective in personal (minus, and his cordiality secured bun hosts of frieuda, even arnoug political opponents. He woe the life and soul of any festivity io which he joined, veld being singularly well informed on all eubjecta, he wasit brilliant convereat ion al iste He watt an excellent after d peer speaker,and an inimitable etory-teller full of rendniseenves of past days and path stalesmen, renier EEL tTl955, Sir John was twice married, first th leta- belle, daughter of the late Alexauder Clark. Eq., of Dainavert, Inverneemshire, laud; and in 1867 te Soap Agnea delatehter oi the late TIM. 'IN J. Bereard, A =alba at t Her hfajeste "e Privy Connell of the Islantl of Jamaica. The latter survives him, with • two chiblen—a daughter. elite a son by the 1 firat marriage. who ot present repreeeate a Winnipeg in the Homo of Commons. PISTiNcTONS. etir John Nrolomm was the reeiplent n • during Ms Iifetline of Ineuv lion -tura In t ltele reeeived the deence of D. C. L. • (hon.) from Oxford University. He was O alto an LLD. of teneett's teniveraity, Kingaton, and McGill University, Montreal, • and a D. C. L. of Trinity College, Toronto. Ire was eireated K, C. in July, 1807, and h C. B. nt eseweinber, 1884. itt January, r 1871, Ito received the title of Knight Grand e thou of the Royal Order of Isabel la Catolien. of Spain. Ile was nominated a ' member of her Majesty's Mose Honourable PrivY Connell in duly, 1872 and was sworn 8 in Augnet, 1870. He also held the rank of Past hi rana Sonar AN arden of the Order of Ancient, Free, and Accepted Masons of Canada, and. was a Grand Repreeentotive in Canada of the Grand Lodge of Euglextd. Returning to pewee! then, in 1878, Si John Maetionaldho tune° remained there but the experience was a valualile one, as, email% three „general elections since the indeed, was hie whole peliticaltareer during time, in every nistancte, neve the last, per the stormy quarter 01 5. contury„whieli pre, naps. by sure majority. The leading ceded the krrnation of this Dominion. His nodded and semi.political events of thi powera of debate werestrengthened,his one. latter period of his rule are fresh in the Walton into men and them motives:31aq> minds of Canadian'. Chief among them cued, monis natural tat dove:aped, so that may to mentioned tbe construetion of the Ito was thoroughly schooled for Isis long reign ( %median Paeific Railway, the paesege •of over Canadian affairs width was to follow. the Franchise' .Act, the leiel the various legal fights with the province, the nts MET IN 470=DEltATION. dispute over tho fisheries question and sub - When in 1804 Mmes. John A. Macdonald aequent proccediugain commotion therewith, a,nd A. T. Galt met Mr. George Brown for and lastly the events immediately prior to the purpose 01d:sensate; the tonnution of a end during the recent etunPiti811. To tbe Coalition Government, tibia the balance of nervous strain causeel by this great struggle, parties neutered necoesary to stable ,govern- eonpled with old age andsessioual cares and mot, Mr, brown asked ii1C113 how they pro- lumetott greatly aggravated by a.1Iuna. posed to settle the seetionel difficulties be. Oriel "scandal "is undoulatmlly to bo tween tJpper toul Lower Canada. and they bete 1 the Premier's collapse and ease uen t death. lle had orrived at an age when oily and mind axe illtitted to cope with extritor. clinary worries aud exbausting efforts. ins .ACIIIEVEMENTA AS A =cannon. replied t ut their remedy was "a federal union at all the British Northeamericau pro- vinces." Of this scheme Conservatives as- sert their late leader to have been the parent, while Liberals claim the honour for Mr. Brown. Both men, itt all events, were Eir John Macdonald's great esl achieve. leaders in the oegotiatious for carrying it ments sis a havonaker are thus set forth in into °Sect, and by virtue of his office as the "Parliamentary Companion ": " The Attorney -General, if for no other reason, secularization of the clergy reserves; the Mr. Macdonald was looked upon as the improvement of the criminal law ; the pro. chief spiritlie was heaa of the Can. motion of public instruction ; the extension adieu" delegation at the Charlottetown Con- of the municipal system; the reorganization ference af 1S64, convened for the purpose of of the militia; the settlement of the seat of effecting a union of the Maritime Provinces Government question; the establialiment of direct steam mail communication with Europe; the establishment of additional penitentiaries, criminal, lunatic asylums, and reformatory prisons, and providing for tho internal economy of the House of Com - mous; the reorganization of the Civil Ser. and at (he subsequent Quebec Conference to arrange a basis of union for all the British American colonies. At the London Confer- ence in 1866-07 he was unanimously chosen chairman, and his share in the momentous work of that gathering has thus been described by one of his biographers — vice on a permanent basis; the construction "Though some of the aolese men our of the Intereolonial railway; the enlarge colonies have ever :produced were instru- ment of the canals; the enactment of a mental in framing the new constitutional stringent election law; the ratification of character, Mr. Macdonald, it was readily the Washington treaty; the Confederation admitted, was the master -head. Many a of British North Ainerica ; the extension time duringthe progress of the negotiations and consolidation of the statues." The de. i conflicting nterests arose which, but for ceased statesman's former political °ppm careful haodling, might have wrecked the nents may take exception to this recerd, scheme ; and here the matchless tact of the but it represents what the Conservative Attorney -General of Coaled& West pre. party regard as his chief claims to the eminently asserted itself." Another writer; gratititle of his °Gantry apart from his has said :—" His perfect knowledge of all general services as its political ruler for details, has marvellous tact, and irresist- many years. ible persuasive powers proved equal to the herculean task of reconciling the vast and varied interests which at times seemed so seriously conflicting as to menace the whole scheme. Confederation may, indeed, be justly regarded as Sir John Macdonald's magnum opus." Confederation accomplish- ed, and the new constitution' brought into force on July 1, 1867, Mr. Macdonald was called upon to form THE FIRST GOVERNMENT of the new Dominion, and was sworn a mem- ber of the Privy Council and appointed Min- ister of Justice and Attorney -General of Can - „aide, which office he filled until November, 873. One of the first acts of the first Goyer- nor-General, Lord Mole*, was to confer upon the Premier the honour of Knighthood. The new Ministry was composed of gentle- men representing,the majorities in the vari- ous provinces. 'I do not want it to be felt,” Sir John Macdonald said, "by any section in the country that they have no re- presentative in the Cabinet and no influence in the Government. And there are now no issues to divide parties, and as all that is required is to have in the Government the men who are best adapted to put the new machinery in motion, I desire to ask those to join me who have the confidence of, and represent the majorities in, the various sec- tions, of those who were in favor of the adoption of this System of government and who with to see it satisfactorily carried out." Of the thirteen members of tide 'first Govern- ment of the Dominion Sir Hector Langevin is to -clay the only one still in office atOttawa. Its composition was as follow : John A. Mead oi aid, A. T. Galt, Alexander Canne- lla. A. J. Fergusson -Blair, W. P. Howland, Ceoige E. Cartier, Wm. McDouga,11, S. L. AS A POLITICIAN no public men was ever more bitterly and unforgivingly abused by his political oppo- nents, on the one hand, or more loudly and unceasingly eulogized by his political friends, on the other, than Sir John A. Macdonald. Both facts bear testimony to the wonderful extent of his success as a politician. That success was in part due, no doubt, to his remarkable power of drawing men to him and holding them—to his extraordinary "personal magnetism," a gift in which his rivals for popular favour have always been conspicuously lacking. But, beyond this, he united in himself, as few men do, an un- usual number of those qualities which are invaluable to the successful politician and statesman. He had a marvellous knowledge .of human nature: is rare insighb into men and their motives; an inflexible will, ad- mirably united to is remarkable power of adaptability to circumstances; . a gift of leadership which had been likened the feat of the juggler in keeping half a dozen bells in the air at once; an extraordinary ability for holding together diverse elements and interests. He possessed the uncommon faculty of tieing able to evolve success out of defeat ; his greatest disaster was •soon followed by his greatest triumph. ' As a public speaker Sir John Macdonald was by no ineans great, from an oratorical point of view, but he was always effective. Although he never spoke rapidly, his ideas, after he had fairly begun, flowed freely and steadily, and' the happy humour with which his speeches to the. people abounded:always kept his audience an good spirits.. Even those who had been taught to hate him, often failed to resist his platform " magnetism. It is related thatait .a .pienie meeting prior LIVES IN AN APPLE TREE, -- A Madly Intone old elan who l'annotStay indoors. Leslie Buchanan, of Lexington, Va., has recently become insane through grief for the death of his eldest, son and has develop. eit craze which 14 gamely distressing aud annoying to his friends. 111r. Buchanan is an old man in hia seventy-ninth year and though peculiarin his actions, is still so mild and inoffensive that his relatives can- not bring thenwelves to peace him in an asylum. His 'Mese vagary is that ha is suf- focated whenever in the houso, so that he as htaken up his abode in a largo apple tree in an orchard near his home, and out of which he cannot be persuaded to come. It is now two or three weeks since he establish- ed himself in hie singular dwelling place, and strange as it may seem the old gentle- man's health has not only not suffered, but aetually seems improved under the ex- posure and physicians have advised his family not to interfere with him as long as this is so. Mr. Buchanan sits smiling and happy in his parch, which has been rendered as com- fortable as possible by means of a suspend- ed platform. His food is carefully hoisted to him by his directions, though it could be as easily handed, as his tree is not over &Lilt feet in height. Crowds from all over the county have come to see the old man, who seems pleesed at the attention ansi w11 discourse to them by the bour of the advantages of an outdoor life. At night he is guarded from molestation by a servant who sleeps at the foot of the tree. Centipede Poison. A strangestory comes fromBaxter county, in Western Arkansas. .A family of five persons left their home in the neighborhood of Baldwin, Tennessee, about the beginning of Mara, trying to reach Texas iu a team of their own, and one night camped near a way -side spring, where they were found dead or dying the next morning. _All rem- edies failed, and the death of the entire family was at first ascribed to the contamin- ated condition of the spring, which shortly before had formed the eentre of a Gypsy camp ; but a coroner's inquest revealed the fact that the ill-fated travellers had cooked their coffee in a on that contained the remains of a large centipede. The plan of pursuing and lynehing the Gypsies was then at once abandoned, but it could have done 110 harm to analyze, or at least to clear, the sus- pected spring. The centipede hypothesis, at all events, is based on the popular error which confoundsthe effects of mineral and vegetable poisons with those of an animal virus. Serpent virus kills only by its direct injec- tion into the circulation of the human body, and an ounce of the virttlene substance might be swallowed with impunity, unless the experimenter should happen to be afflict- ed with gastric tumors, Many birds and animals, in fact, devour all sorts of venomous reptiles; the Merops apiaster'or Turkish starling, kills and eats scores of wasps, and in dry seasons when the herbage of the parehed hillsides withers to •the roots, the Abyssinian baboons subsist largely on scorpions. The English naturalist Burkland swallowed with impeuity the virus of three different kinds of serpents, The bite of venomous 'insects has undoubtedly, though very rarely, led to fatal results, but a quart of boiled centipedes would not furnish poison enough to kill a child. AUDIENCIE vnTE OR:NA'4414- PEROE, The sou or aeaven Seen .99d So.onein With by the " rereigie The andience of the Foreign Ministers. With the Emperor in Peking took place al - Most exactly on the thirtieth anniversary of the otahlishrnent of the British and French Legations in Peking.The Ministers, ettachee, secretarieseanel ituerpretent • started for the great ceremony of meeting the "Son 5Yitehe'illiTeene7, 48,1110‘e1t 118i'l el tke:111 e Lahel ni ng ° tx.lni ei Di eg ofLeget it tions shoultaneonely. The Corps Diplome tig ueall rode in gceen eed au chairs,each paten quin beieg herne twiner coolies, with relief of equal numbers of bearers, wearing offic*0 livery, and eecit hlinister being followed le four meunted Reroute io resplendeve un forms. A couple of mounted Chineae sae= also accompanied the procession in th capeeity, of guides to the piece of aodieuce The Tse Kuang-ko, where the audience too 'doge, is siettat,ed close upon the shores a the Middle Lak-e, which tons through th palace grounds, and is crossed in us nar rower parts by magnificent bridges of white atone or marble. 'The ,grounds are entered from the Tartar city' by the FA Hue Man (Gate of "Flowery Prosperity"). end o pErrempeeeroorh, pin:, whir remdsobeniadecarethilenie (•itiaatl$eautod laid them oo the telele in front of the Em- peror, kow-towing as he dtd so. The Em- peror merely bowed in acknowleetioneut, and did not speak till the Minister 1101 re sumed his former place between eine "Drag acOvepri.:11.1airoSw.'voyeitt,1i1141,100.5aatymettlieun:adeprkr;84eingdill4 short speech to Prince Ch'ing who listened kneeling. The Prince then rose, and dee scentlidg the steps with his arms entspread of like wings twhich is in acute:4.0o with the te cifaasie Confucian style), echoed it aloud, - ; the text being repeated in Ensile/a by the - ; MinislF's interpreter. When the latter ' I hail finished his Majesty siguta—ed that the e emparaneeaudienee wo _emacitetied, end db. 1 ; messed the Minister with a slight how, the 3' Mmister retinog backward making threa 1- ohmonees, AS on entering. 'When theindi- e-ideel audieuees with the Ministere were c over, tbe entire diplorantic comet was re- . caved, the thirty.the pertains bora rho k various legations being moged in three f rows before the throne, and end: one mak- e ing three obeionees as he came and retired - Canada's Position iet the British Btapire. Gee of the reselts of the dicipueeeleetweeni 11 Canada and the United Stothie—the North met by the beget °Mode of the Teemed the Ministeni reeching !his point they were difficulty—is thot our neighbore are there - Yemen, who joined the procession, wine was also augmented by volt crowds of Tar- tar cavalry. The " Porbidden City" Watt curiously still, though itis inhabited by ebout at* women and 4.000 eunuchs—bet only 940 man, hie limpet:NI Majehty th youteg Empanel.. In an tenet room tisCorps Diplometique were regeled with all sorts of Atlantic fishery 'trouble and theBelning sea h by gaining a elearer conception of the inn portance of the Dominion and of her proper position in the British Empire, And m t truth there waa much need for thio lesx0P. ,. . wow, ot tho nttOrallOOS MM.% per repeee ei ontative citizens of the republic are to b0 ' 12fgarde4 as an iodon of the general epinien, talus, when the astern. (potion was under consideration in 1860 Preisideut Grant ax - pressed his surprise, in 9Ile of hite epessagete to Congress, that the "Imperitet Coverei. i meat should have deiegeted the whole, or a there, of ite juriediettion or cootrol elite in- shore fisheries eo the Colonial imthority • lolOWa aS the Dernieien of Canada, and that theeemitindependentbut irreeenteeible, agent has exercised ite delegated Delvers in an unfriendly way."So Mr. Ilamilten Fieh, lett reretee4 of Stale:: " wy sharply re u e _the i erpoeitio of lee tioverne men o Canadae—to au* tem ensilage of b Ur. Blaine, in_ hisreinew of the correspond.- enee of which Mr, Beale* lettere were pert— Incense it hail pressed on the Imperial An. thoritio ita right to be coneulted. es tO the choice of Commissioners appoiated te c9n- eider the value of the Comedian fieltertes, opened up to the fishermen of the United States uuder the \Wellington Treaty of 1871. Cemiug dowmeto a later time, when the Behriug sea difficulty aroma to create soma feelhig between 11,14ada and the Ueited Stotes, we tied edr. Rhine himeelf ateruming the position that Canada, whatever might teller stake in the questiou at ileum ehould lie kept quietly in the background, whilst the stateemen of lengleeid end the United States settle matters with as Little Oterfer- ence as possible from mere °Maiden; like the C.inadinus. is it any wonder when their Iodine exhibit such dense ignorence of Canada's constitutional rights and pnvie ?ego that the people generally should re. mend the action of our government In eon - election with these long-standing dieputee as an interference unwarranted and Inver. tinent. Now, though the meausby tvigeh these fiche impressions regarding the Dominion are lacing removed are not such as good neighborhooa could have deserved, and though the fact that these rmikling disputes should exiet must be deplored by.all who pray fer peace among =time it Is never- theless seam consolation to know that the authorities at Washington are twinning to recognize that in all matters of Domin- ion concern, Canada is is free agent. This fact, clearly apprehended will tend to prevent future unsunderstondings awl cetn- plications. it is well for the Americans and all nations to kno.v that, as the Quarterly Review peel it, while the titte,en is still the 'head of the executive auth- ority, and etue alone initiate treaties with foreign nations—that being an act of eamplete sovereignty—and appeals are still open to her Privy Council from Canadian tourts withiu certain limitatione—it is an admitted principle that, so far as Canada, has been granted legislative rights and privileges by the Imperial Perliament— rights and privileges set ferth explicitly in the British North America Act of 1867 - she is practically sovereign in the exer- cise of all those powers, as long as they do not conflict with treaty obligations of the -parent State, or with Imperial looislation directly applicable to her with -her own consent. It is true tfiat the Queen in Come - oil can veto Acts of the Co.neelian Parliament, but that supreme power is only eaercised under the conditions just stated, and can no more be constitutionally used in the case of ordinary Cenadian statutes ideating the Dominion solely, than can the /sovereign to -morrow veto the Acts of the Imperial Parliament—a prerogative of the Crown still existent; but not exercieed in•England since thedays ot Queen Anne, seed now in- consistent with modern rake and Parlia- mentary Government. mem= eateleeteine CS well as enth champagne ma eigare end Peinee Cletng, the Peesident of the Tatnig.1 Yanles, and severel high metrepolitan olfii cialettetee as haste for hour or more, Thee wait, no dentin, was part of the programme The room in which the hlinietete were eni tormined was handsomely furnkhed And the floor was covered with a foreign carpet, WhUo this early banquet WAS in Progress the cement in_ whieli the Minieters hed redden were e,arried out of sight, when the Wince tumounced that it WAS UM M go to the Audience Hall. The GeTnlAn Minister, Iferr van Bretult, was t te &at to be summoned. Two Munetere of the Toung.ii Ymmeu cooducted him awl his utterprever, Baron von der Go*, to the Audience Hall ; but they had namely gone fore they were baele again, so brief was the Ant interview between the repreeentae tivo of the Kaiser and hie Majesty of the Middle Kingdom. Then followed the Amer - lean 3,114ister, Cal, Doty ; the *Melt Min- ister, Sir John Waltham ; the Japanete Minieter, Id. Otori ; the Italian Minister.. Chevalier Pattea, mei the Netheriaede Mtn. iter, Mr. Fergueon ; mit Munoter being acconmenied by his interpreter, miq, as in the first. instance, eicorted by two eihnistera et the -Yemen. The leant, ceremony erenvery simple. The Emperor was seated on is throne, raised on a dais atthe north end of the hall handsome bannieter and a flight of eteps led it to the tetrad°, in front of which stood a couple of carved,. ornamental standa, while a table wasplaced Immediately in front of the throne, whieh was, therefore, with lea 04011. pant, partly concealed from view at least the lower part. It hind the throne was raised n. huge slab of black marble, covered with Chinese anal Ilanoliti inscriptions —the names of :200 distinguished officers who bad conquered the Mohammed ins in the reign of Keen Lung (1760) and others who had taken part in the war of 1770. The two Princes known as the Pao Wang and Ito Wang—the "iron -capped princes"—stood one on each side of his Majesty. One of the se:Iodate/ore mentioned supported a magni• ficent vase of &henna and the other a curiously carved wooden cover in which rested A NANED swonn, of which the hilt, in the shape cIa golden dragon wi tit emerald eyes, alone WAS visible. The Prince known as Pao Wang is the grandson of the great General Stunko.lin- sin, who wee killed in 1865, while Prince Ko is the Grand Chemberhun. The hall, which WAS well lighted, owing to the large doors being thrown wide open, was covered with a flaring and tawdry foreign carpet of cheap make. Ono both sides, from the en- trance to the foot of the dais, were ranged numbers of military officials of high raiik whostood silent and motionless, with avert: edehYees Tmagnificence of the attire contrasted strangely with the simplicity of the e,ppear- ance of the young Emperor, who rules a fourth of the human race, and whose fea- tures have never before been seen save by the highest of his own subjects. Whatever the impression the "barbarians" made on him, the idea which they carried away of the Emperor Kuan_g_ Hsu was pleasing aud almost pathetic. His air is one of exceed- ing intelligence and gentleness, somewhat frightenednand Melancholy looking. Hb face is pale, ond though itis distinguished by refinement and quiet dignity, it has none of the force of his martial ancestors, noth- ing commending or imperial, btu is altogeth- er mild, delicate, sad and kind. He is es- sentially Manchu in features; his min ia strangely pallid in bus, which is no doubt accounted for by the confinement of his life inside those forbidding walls, and the ab - once of the ordinary pleaele es and pursuits of youth, with the constant discharge of on- erous, complicated, and difficult duties of State, which, it must be remembered, are iccording to Imperial Chinese etiquette, ti noetly transacted between the hours of 2 and 6 in the morning. His face is oval shaped, with a very long, narrow chin and it sensitive mouth, with thin, nervous lips ; his nose is well shaped and straight, his eye- brows regular and very arched, while the eyes are unusually large mid mournful in expression. The forehead is well shaped and broad, and the head is large beyond the average. He looked anxious, watchful, somewhat nervous, and more overcome than any present by TEE trausuAL EXPERIENCE. His dress was is plain puce-colove silken robe with a golden dragon embroidered on the breast and shoulders. Ile sat cross-leg- ged like a Bundha, in front of t'ne table and played nervously with his hands while the ordeal lasted. Ile wore nothing in the shape of a crown or other emblem of his high office, his head covering being an or- dinary Chinese official hat of felt, surmount- ed by a button of knotted crimson silk. At the foot of the throne knelt Prince Ch'ing, who was also somewhat plaitaly at- tired. On the Ministers entering according to the ceremony agreed upon beforehand, they advanced slowly to a point between two pillars in front of the platform on which the Emperorseat and made three low bows as they came forward. Each" was then intro- duced by name to his Majesty by Prince Ch'ing. 'The German Minister alone read an address of a few words in English, bis interpreter repeating the text in Chinese, end Prince Ch'ing, still kneeling, translating it into Manchu —the language of the Peking Court. The Minister then advanced a few steps to within some three y rds of the • oeiiilitooneen, Benefits of Physical Development. It is interesting to note how one by one tbe popular fallacies which have long in- fluenced the thous:lit aud action of men ere yielding before the irresistible lagie of fact. Of sneli erroneous views one is that the mind and body of the scholar are in inverse preportion and that physical development is not a favorable or at leaet eecessary condition of success in echelon -ship. That this opinion is not well Sounded the follow- ing from President Hyde's eontribution lo the June Foram will show. Says Presieent Hyde: The awards of the Smyth mathematical prize in Bowdoin College for the past six classes present a remarkable, if not a representatnee, phenomenon. This peize of 9300 is based on a coarse in mathe- matics extending over two years, and is the most important college prize. Of six con- secutive recipients of this prize the Cunt was the winner of the quarter -mile run ; the second was the pitcher of the college base- ball nine; the third was the moat brilliant performer on the trapeze; the foneth was a man of good physical development without special athletic attainment.; the fifth was the catcher of the college baseball nine and the best general athlete in college; the sixth is a candidate for a position cm the college boat erew, and will next year be a member of the foOtball eleven." The inference from these facts, which do not stand alone but may be duplicated from the records of many other educational in- stitutions, is plain, and is that otiose things being equal the odds are all in favor of the student with a good physical development. Let parents and guardians take a note of this and cease to despise the things which make for the building up of strong and vigorous bodies. No Place for Little Boys, Mother—"Johnny, leave the rocsa my dear ; your father has just smelled his ntlexele.'