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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Expositor, 1869-06-18, Page 2-e 2` NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. . . New advertisements must be _given in by Wednesday •noOn. . Changesof Advertisements, which arespe ciallyranged for .weekly changes, -by esday noon. Changeie of -Advertisementassiehich are not speCially arranged* lo'r *weekly ehinges, . by Saterday night. We cannot guarantee inseriion unless the above be coraplied with. ttustiqss Norice.—All accounts. for ad- vertising and, 3-011t)ing must positively be set- tled'Quarterly, oD the 1.5th days of March,- June, September and December. , - the Xliaritter• The Qffleind Paper of the County; FRIDAY, JUN 18, 1869. THE debate on the "Irish Church Bill, in the House of tcrds hasbeen very interesting during the past week. The pritbabilities are now favourable to ,its p issage. Fall particulars in the " Forel Column: 1:131.0T TRE after b here an Pereede _ Protect change ready a view, fluctua market It 0 leeseeeNeeeesseseeesimie OTIVE DUTY ON FOUR. uestion of .protectionon salt, 'ng thoroughly ventilated /both • elsewhere; is likely to be su- , for atime at least, by that of on on Flour. •The COM Ex - Association of Toronto is al - work, in this direction, with a hey allege,' of preventing the •on* prices to injurious -to the ust however be evident to the merest tyro in political economy that a matter how iarge, will never a uniformity in price. De- -d supply havr always been the eitity n produ mand a comme Legisl• has do derang it has basis u an.d pr t . icapra flour. • Bruns epon pntario orthe United' States for a sup lee of breadstuffs. We haire prom' ed in the Conf deration Scheme, interc impo would hdvan Thers beth; Here one . slow t tion c .11Pda lion cellars in buying up the leading aeitat rs.• Be ides Protectiod is A ,.game that two , can play at. We want Nova Scotia coal iu Ontario. The American market is our cheapeSt soerce of ,supply. Any duty' on this supply would cast us en the teneer inertl'ies of the Nova It ,THE SEAFORTH EXPOSITOR. DomnsTroN PARLIAMIONT, ITILE NOVA. SOOTIAN SUBSIDY. e -question of grants to Nova Scotia as by agreement between Mr. Howe and the Government come up for disoussion in the House last week. The view °taken by the 'Opposition is closely set'forth in Mr. Illake's amendMent to the original motion :- • .. "That the British North: America Act of 1867 has fixed and, settled the mutual liabilities of Canada, and of each Province, in respect 'of the public debt, and the amounttpayable by Ca- nada. to eaeh .Province for the support of its Government 'and Legislature ; That the said Act does net empower the- Parliament of Canada to chenge the basis of the Union thereby fixed and settled ; That the authorized as- sumption of such' potter • by the Peri -fa- . reek of Canada would injure the inter- ests of the several Provinces, weaken the basis of •Union, and shake t'ae sta- bility of the Constitution t That the proposed resolutions on the subject of Nova Scotia involve the assumption of such power : And that, therefore, this House, while ready to give.its best cote= side] ations to any proposals to prom& in a eonstitutional way any. needed chanes in thebasis of Union, deeMs it expedient to go into Committee an the said proposed resolutions." the ground chosen in this instance was admirably defended. Mr. Blake urged that to violate the Constitution cial regulator of the world. don in the w y of tariffs, etc., e Much mischt f and frequeatly • d commercial intercOurse, but - ever yet been able to alterthe on which pr ces ae regulated duce cheapene •e present tii4 it would be very ant to lay a duty upon American The Nolte Seutians and New ickets are ciepenclent either lonial free tra a„tax npon A. be a diserimin• ago of Ontari n the Lower losers to the 't- hen would be hich Repealer' use, and pith., uld be again ould have to e. Did we now erican flour, it - tion only 'to the and, the contu- ravinccs, Would tent of this tariff. real grievance— would mit be ps before_ concilia- rought about, Ca, - ay out a fetv mil - 11 . • _ Seotiens, and in the long run we would, be but little •profitted. We hope our _government \till not be influenced .by any hue 1,1).c1 cry originating rather- in selfishness than public interest._ We want no "Corn Laws' in -Cariida. Let; 'US keep the "etaff &life" flee from all vexatious duties, and stand by those well known commercial principles ' arta& give "equal benefits to, all and ex- clusive privileges to wine:" in any casse .was a dangerous prede• dent.. The safety -of Confederation was endangered by su'eh a .course. All the Provinces had equal rights With Noire Scotia. .Any special grant to her was. so much taken from the others. On the same principle, Ontario and.Quebec might demand a subsidy._ They we're equally entitled to a share, of the peb- lic funds, and why not give them their rights t Other 'members of the OppositiOn ably supported Mr. Blake's amendnaerit, and though the government brought all their forensic pfiwers to the„ rescue, their deferice was feeble and puerile. However, as Napoleon once said, "God is always on the aide of the ttrongest battaliop," in. turned out in this case that the most numerous party was on the Government side, and accordiagly the amendment. was lost by a vote of 96 against 57. The precedent of spoi- lation being. DOW established, it re- mains • to be seen where it will end. If a few grumblers on the Bay of Fundy get eighty thousa,nd dollars a Year to keep them. still, whet should the_ mil- lions Of Ontario get provided they be- came obstreporousi Mr. Rose is good at figures, probably he will bp able to tell us. JAMES BEATTY, M. P., is again before Parliament with a pe ition for conhierr- - cation in the matter of the York .Roads. He demands an arbitration to decide the extent of his claims on the grounds that damages have been inflict- • ed on the Company hrough the illegal interference of the Government. We think it is high -time that Mr. Beatty 'should have a settlement, not arbi- teation, because he has Already received reore than his eights, but by a complete quelehing% of such exhorbrtant de- - wands as his flexible ccnscience enables him to make Di. Oasriseoer has declined the call Chi o. Eight thousand in gold has been no •tem itation to him . In his own own Canadians such, atriotism. 1 • orcls "he preferred to stay n his untry and among his pwn peo-: ANOTHER foiassacre of the settler should be proud of the natives has taken place in IZealand. 'THE NORTH-WEST ROAD. 3 So far as we are'yet able to learn, it is not the intention of ithe GoVernment to build a'railroad to the North-West; • The most.that w1 be done is to make a good wagon road 'along thetweter- courses between Thunder Bay and Fot Gar iee This is .certainly a nlet way of opening up a. new country now-a-dayse It would have one very well forty years aga, and would then be considered even a great boon; but in this age of steam, anything short of a railroad will not •meet the wants of colonization. Emigrants going by St. Paul will hesitate a good. "while before undertakieg an overland journey :of several hundred miles. It is certainly desirable to secure a speedy occupation of the country, and to that and the ut- most facilities of communication should be afforded. eeeThe Americans have already on hand the project of building the „North Pa- cific Railroad, thus bringing London •nearer to Canton by 1,500 miles, than it is bv—the Union' Pacific. Should this be aCcomplished socn, the result would be evident. A leading Ameri- can paper makes the following reflec- tions : "The opening by us of a North .Pa- cifie Railroad seals the destiny of the British possessions' west of the 91st meridiem They will' become so Ameri- canized in interest and feeling that they will be in effect severed from the New Dominion, and the questio.0 Of their arnexation will be but a question ot time." Our legislators should consider that the mere possession of the country is but of little use. We want to occupy the country, to Canadianize it, and in Order to do this, there must be the same facility to get there on British soil as through foreign territory. WHEN the Cable was opened, £20 weye charged fort each message of ten Words, and under that tariff an average di.y 13u sin ess of 1505 was transacted . - After tlyee months' trial the ratio were reduced precisely one half. rhe Cable was still able to do all, the business that offered, and at the redueed price the aeily receipts rose- to £579. After a year's. trio I another red uct ion of al mOst one-half was made, . and a message of ten words was transmitted for 15 5s. With charges thus only one fourth of e hat they were at the outset, the daily receipts still rose, DOW _averaging £635.. On the first oi September last the charges were reduced to 13 7s. 6d., about 011e-si-,<th, of tee original- tariff, and under this rate the daily reccilits rose to a.. average of L150 -more than at the price charged when the Cable began. operations Ten days ago the Company made one more .reductihn. For -what, at the outset, they, charged £20, they now charge £2. t Tete Repeal League of Nova Rcatie is dik.banded because Attorney Genlyal Wilkins finds it impossible t� stem the tide of Union feeling which set in im- mediately after the election of ke. Howe. Itis _rumored that an Annex - ellen League will take its place. .A certain section of the "Bluenoses" be- ing determined to oppose Confederailion at any hazard. Couldn't Sir John' A. give some of those mal -contents a s berth somewhere in order to pa there, and thus save the :Union I THE WEATHER, CROPS, ETC. The present season has been a pecu- liar, one certiinly. The snow'and frost did not leave the earth till after the usual time of ploughing, and even sow- ing. Immediately thereupon however, the weather turned very firAnd warm, making an excellent seeding_ time, of which the yeomanry took every ad- ' vantage, and in a few weeks the seed was all sown, which enceuraged by ge- nial showers .soon made an 'appearance on (the- fields. Latterly though, Idle weather has been cold and chilly, vari- ed only by still colder reins, and for the past few weeks vegetation has made imit little progress. In some parts of the country, we learn that frosts have done material injury, but through this section. it affected things but little. st few days have been', a little ike what June days should be, e __imagine that we shall now ug ify by ew The. le more 1 and w " see" things grow. The present indications are, that grain crops will he heevy, bay extreme- ly so, while frem the moisture which the land now, possesses pastuie may be expected to be excellent for a long tune, at lea The backward season has been very pretu licial to gal dens, many have "come. to grief,' and the owners finally comity, to the -Very ,seneibl conclusion, that from a commercial point of view ame- , teur gardening is a poor busineas, as it eertainlyr pays far better to 'My vegeta- blc s of those who make it a tpeciefity, than to spend their own time pl3inting and 6owing to n ) purppse. For potatoes and Other roots the in- dications are favourable.. In sinning all up we hope to see the present stetson very productive. iiltuasbetet non. Mr., Rose moved cOneurreilee in the-reseiutiens respecting the Union of Newfoundland. Mt. Blake objected to the transfer to the Dominion of .the public lands of the Colonyeand moved an amendment for the retention. by Newfoundland of her lands. .After a Jong debate, the amendment -was lost onto division, 48 to 93. A few other amendments were put and lost.and the resolutions passed wi.hout amendment. The House then went into committee on the; resolutions respecting the ad- mission of Prince Edward's Island into the Union, which were tigieed to. PR1DAY. Mr. Rose moved the .House into Com- mittee- on the reeolutions respecting the additional subsidy to Nova BOotia.. Mr. Blake opposed the motion, contending that the General Government had no power to alter the terms of Union as fixed by the British North Ainerican Act. lie moved that it was expedient in the opinion of the Haase to go into Committee on the resolutions. After A very lengthy debate the amendment was lost on a division, 57 to 96. SATURDAY. The additional subsidy to Nova Sco- tia again came up for discussion. 11 on. Mr. Wood moved an amendment set- ting forth the expediency of. urakiug grants also to the Province 9f. Ontario and Quebec. After a debate of some length, the amendment was lost on a division, 46 to 48. • On the third Reso- lution. Mr. Forbes moved an amend ment, making the additional subsidy payable on lst July 1869, instead of at the end of three years, which was car- ried on a division, 80 to 5L The re- solutions were thou concurred in. Yea.1I8, nays 7. MONDAY. • Several private BiP.s were advanced a stage after which Ham leir. Galt sub- mitted a motion for printing the corre- . spondence with the Imperial Govern- ment relatiVe to the claim of Canada on the United States for indemnity for outlay' and damages consequent on the Fenian raids. At the suggestion of Mr. McKenzie the motion was witlr- drawn, the matter being left to the care of the Printing Committee. Mr. Bodwell Made a motion for altering the time of the sitting of the House tc a period -earlier in the year. The motion was agreed to with- the addition of a qiralifying clause. • After recess the House adjourned for want of a quorum the number of menabers present being only seventeen. TUESDAY. •Mr. Rose announced the decision of the Government to postpone the con- sideration of the Baelting..ResolutionS. The House. then took into ccnsideration the Insolvency Bill, which, after being Abtssin*. The second bulletin of the Italian Geographioal Society for 1_869 contains • ' interestibg Memoir on the Englieh eampaignin Auyscalsia, from the pen of a. member of the association, Captaiit Egiclio Osio, of theltallan Staff Corp, • one of the two officers appointed by their Goverpm,ent to aceempany that • remarkable expedition. His narretive fully confirms -what we alteady know of the magnitude of the difficulties sur- mounted, and of the skill and energy displueed to vanquish them. Never- • tireless, Captain Osio's paper, which fills about 60 ()dame, nag, wonld be read with interest ,in England, especi- ally -by person' w -ho .were present in the army. It inclecle,s a lively narrative of the attack on Magdala, its capture., the- discovery of Theodore's eorpse, Pte. lie was present at Sir Robert Napier' reception of,the Prince of Tigre's En- voy on uhe ith of February, of which ilegit es thiti following description. "At five o'clockm. all the troops were under arms and formed in square, ready to pay due 110110r- to the - mission. The Envoy, a relative of the Prince, is a young max between 20 and 30 years old, of ugly and insienificant physiognomy, dressed in red silk_ go n, embroidered with silver flowers, and wrapped in a shee t lined with reel th ro vra over his shoultlers by way of mantle ; his head and feet were bare, and he rode one of the small horses. of the conntry. With him, also on horseback, wele a priest, a great diguitary of the Court and two or three servants ; .50 • foot soldiers escorted Inin. Of three - latter the sole dress was a pair of lifien trousers and the nsual sheet ; about ten of them earried muskets and the others ience and shield. They followed their chief without any order, like a flock of ,sheep. This modest equipment, the squalid and threadbare garments of his highness the Envoy, and the style of liis horse's trappings contraAed strange- ly with the smart appearance of the English soldiers and with Sir Robert Napier's brilliant.suite. Tue ceremony of the reception over, the Envoy was conducted to a tent prepared on pur- pose. Sir R. Napier seated 'himself ins an arm chair .ancl signed to him to take his place orlon a carpet. On th& one hand. the English officers, O'n the Other the priests anu the aCendants, were' present at the inter, view. The inter - pi eters were set to wm k, and the result arrived at was that the Bever( ign Prince would not cense in person' be- cause he wished "to spare the Countey the misfortune of being •traversea by - the numerous soldiers he shouldhave been compelled to take with him ;" but he ebnt a relation of his own to convey his friendly sentiments, to the comman- der of the English troops, and to ex- piets4bis desire to aid the expedition against its greatest enemy; Ring' -Theo- • dore. The audienee over, the General ordered presents to be -given to the En- voy—two red blankets, two shawl omended, was. passed. The Criminal knife and a match box. The En eand withdrew of to is four - Law and several other Ri-ls were ad- r:aiitt priainegct_gthroatriinkcsi tothesound vanced a stige. WEDNESDAYwcoden trumpets. Next moimmiiir, there HenMrRose moved the . was a review of treops and anInvres readine of the Nova Scotia Subsidy . . second in ids honor, mid lolen these were at • Gen Priin. who is a well known op- ponent of the ambition .. of Mountpen- stela has felt called upon to say that the refusal of the Spanish throne by -Ferdinand of -Pertrgal is not irre- vocable. The Regency ,cnce established, be believes there will be no end to can- didates for the throiae. Both state- ments are credible, and yet it may hap- pen that Spain will prefer tio continue her regency) and postpone the mon- archy. • PRINCE ARTHUR is to visit Canada this fall. " • THE annual Convecation of Toronto lJniversity took.place on Thursday. , an end the preneral-in-Chief invited all Bill. Hon. Me; tioltoss moved th it the officers to accompany him -4_0 the the Bill be net now read a second time. church of Addi Gherat. . That church After a protracted debate, the amend - placed upon a, height and surrounded — merit wes lost, and - the Bill was rettd by a Wall, is a 'rectanguler biildn g, second and thitd time and peed, with an internal crurt and corridor with an amendment of Mr. Blake's. running round it ; the wane of the .Hon. M1 . hose then °moved thecon- court and corridor are covered -With sideration of the • resolutions, iespect- paintin es on VasF• th Meirtin(' e ine the admistiou of Prince_ Ed -sara's b ' - 6 principal events of Scripture history; Island into the Dominion, which wee oat, of them ipiesejnts l'haroah's army, ._ agreed to with an amendment of Mr. t armed with muehet , abont to lee overt. Mackenzie's. Se-veral other Bills Were whelmed by the wit ers of the Red tied ; advanced a step. - another is a battle piece, and just in _--- the centre of tl-e pi ture the views is .THE Government has withdrawn thr seen in the very aet of mutilating his bankine scheme for the present. The! e t', vanquished foe. '1 he space comprised were only two banks in "e _Dominion hetween the ehurch and the sarroued- that ever -gave it any countenance and ing all is planted with ch,olpial ; from a bar of wood, supported by two trees, these were actuated ey E elfish motives. Mr. Rose was afraid to substitute ga) two stones are suspended, whieh, when mtruck by a hammer, give out eaoh 14 vernment'notes forthetwelve millions_ ;iffret.ent settee, of Banking Capital now in it the Corm- band do the duty of - t try, and we can hi more freely el la" r frem the certainty that a great teem- Among the Pixtv4tte prisoners from at Magdala, and the maiority of , - merciall*crisis is averted. - whom weie Germans who had gone to Abyssinia in the suite of the Mission - THE Hou. Malcelin Cameron is now aries, Captain Osio found one . country - hard electioneering in South Renfrew. man, a Piedmontese, who hed gone. He isto be opposed .by a local man of thither with Cameron, whose compars hope, however, that Mr. Cameron will fieers - - ' four years. He showed the Ithlian of ion t -I captivity had been for nearly considerable influence and ability the marks Ring Theododa be successful and soon take his place in fetters had left upon his arms, and see - with whom lie battled for Reform in men. prised them no little by cierAyring that the house, by the side of those . he should not return to Europe, but -,c-.- days gone by. • THE Bili providing for the amalgarna- tlon of the Royal Canadian Bank with some other Bank in the Dominion is precisely .s.imilar to the one passed for •the amalgamation of the Commercial with the Merchants' Bank. PARLIAMENT Will likely prorogue about the 23rd inst. . establish himself in Abysemat as a tii- der of the soil. • The last thing Captain Osio saw befote setting out on the march to the meet Was the sale by alio- tion of the things found in Theodore' brie -a -brae, which comprised an rnense variety of objects, some of tbein very curious in their way, sold at prodi- gious prices and realized a inin 'some sum, a spoon being knocked down at 30 rr.peesarid a shield, said to have bwil carried by Theodore himself; fetching £40. r .r N ID STRIC THE Rou;an Catholfel Gederit-ii are erecting a! pastoral residence for tl Ott Monday net, serai-annual meeting Csoacty Orange Lodge 'in thfs E have been req Veal to all the attentac subscriiaed foi rinateg have not peiel up, to tlie THE Huron Rifle took pktee ii this vi but it was rust teemplete: to publish the prize *core next ;week. BY tittering ene we, lia.ve stimulated Signal to search the sc! der what are sti that book?! Bast: BALL- kA galIlt a B.:B., w1.11 I forth, between the leyv Ile, and the Seaforth, on Domini° r Tettreetteteet — Huron Temple will 14 futl meeting is teque as matters of impel. come up. As will 1)e seen. in Govenleck- advert ties of etariptte kindso1 1 This she* arrest thei ties about to build, To CoeetassPeeenerale, publish the coma -armee ick," it being- too_pere we think the matter tr has Already been suiI in the Star.. APPOINTMENT-.-- 1 lips, P. L. St, o. g., of been appointed. Survey of the TorOnto and, Nip between Storifreillean work commencee on 1,C THE Mayor of God feels that he has got, pretty pickle on accom the County Council, eti ors to take the "spit-it,"1 to that; body 1)%T quiblti • Save.eaN'e Thick 1;Cr01l - vine are capable of txr' bricks 13er diem. The ; owine te the machineryl bricks can be sold 30 le ' than those made oy the THE Seafarth Conn' e day nieht, The B labor was adopte app:nted Pound ,Reej of accounts were passeL -nesseuoNf za tztoisc.e,,• nhitatvil Bankrupt ettock of Ja eisting of, crectkery, cI groceries, etc., at a gre prices, and teill portiopate rates. Hon teive th is their atteutiot KI CKING tittienatitt ternoon the ceder at jo, got a seeele kiek of - Hie jew was broken, at th base of the e iebletwtfittlyan simitb,o isall it4a,dangerous injury. THE Tuck( rS113. th cietv have let the ettet tic -lilt -oat& Hall to The building will L deseription 'ae the Pollee, anti will cost )i L4 finished by the LieI A large and. tion aem 1 1 ed in the -copal ;Chat, h 0116%141'14 to hear the Rev; Mt; ' Prealitte.tiriv tlae. lie 1I )1i{I1 agai chuh, on ahbat1i eve hour of. hdb-paet- 6 Rotate WAN,f,..A. that the Iiireetors ferring with the 'toe to, ou-Triday, the 25t li itag of the stesIholtleissii thie Roti,. ez.•414)i--Gb, 'on mon, 0 appoint del ronto ineertng. IVE„Ui conliXtou men, ocaasienally reeett- to die:patinae sending indignat t eubscrieers, v. -cation has l*ext reected talunane," etc. To sueh to say that if this -condo five cents' worth of pipe Areal) pleasure, lima/Inc] cost us one tent's wortji