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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1874-02-13, Page 4-„ • t 4. • "0 111111M11111111111115311131191111111MISIM TH URON NEW AT/VERTISEMEITTS. 777-A. G. McDougall. - Teas, Teas -J. 0: Laidlaw. Public Notice -Wm. Thomson. • Furniture, Furnitue-WJ B. Porter. Spring Seed Show-JohnEfannah . Estray Steers -Matthew Ward. ' Take Notice -John Thompson. Opened Out-Jatnee Wright. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, EB. 13, 1874. .Ontario Fin noes. The Public Accounts f the Province of ()uteri.° for 1873 were laid before Par- liament on Wednesday 1 t. The exhibit made is most encouragin , and shows the financial affairs of the -Pr vince to be in an excellent position. lihe total expen- diture of the year amo d to $2,460,-- 212 23, against $1,847,96 57 expended in 1872, or an increased butlay of $512,- 255 66. Of this sum $543,968 is repre- sented by the six following items : Col- onization Reads, $70,150 ; .Public Works and Buticlings (capital account); $287,- 625; Immigration, $101,428 ; Eclecation,. $41,703 ; Maincipaliticis Fund (a, matter Of account only), $43,02, Grown Lands, $9,776. The following is a -comparative statement of the expenditure under its several heads in the years 1872 and 1873 respectively : 1872. 1873. Civil Government.. ... 4142,218 -85 $156,646 82 Legislation. 99,559 42 120,400 68 Colonization Bonds- 75,799 19 145,950 00 Administration of Jus- tice._ . ' . 191,647 66 204,604 84 Public WOrks and ... '' .. . 266,764 95 554,389 71 Toronto LunaticAsylum 76,182 06 82,458 95 'London Lunatic Asylum 66,60.99 71,922 85 Deaf and .Dtimb Insti- tute, Belleville... .28,133 41 29,144 80 Blind Institute, Brant ford..- ......_ .. 15,888 94 19,875 26 Beformatory MEtinten- . ance. . . .. 23,824 68 22,506 77 Central -Prison Main .... I ance 598 83 Agriculture and Arts._ 79,762 10 80,967 93 Immigration... 57,750 49 159,178 55 Agricultural . . 1,707 29 Hospitals and Charities. 42,100 00, 43,020 00 Literary and Scientific Institutions 1,850 00 1,850 421,763 53 468,406 Miscellaneous. 26,029 61 16,859 Municipalities 71,703 25 114,765 Crown Lands Expendi- tun. ' 128,716 50 • 188,492 44 Technological College . Maintenance ......... 4,285 97 5,826 51 LandImproverdentFund 24195 63 25,639 58 Stationery Account. ... 3,187 50 ....... . 00 03 54 35' .. .$1,847,956 57 $2,460,212 23 On examining the other side of the account, it will be found that the revenue of the Province, which the Treasurer a year ago estimated would amount to $3,000,000, has amounted to $3,314,516, thus exeeeding the expenditure by $854„- 304. This does not look as if the funds of the Province were being reeldessly squandered, ores if there was anyimnaecli- ate danger of having to resort to direct taxation. The 'cash balance carried for- ward from -the previous year was $352,- 991 24. The revenue for the past year was made up of the fallowing amounts, /and. Was derived froin the sources below „given : From Granunar Seh ol Land Sales, $19,754 01 ; from CrO Lands • Sales, $189,665 36, from. W ods. and Forests, $643,637 56; from Alines? Cas- ual Fees, &c., $36,852 95, f ore Sus- - pense Account, $7,462 .04; from. Muni- cipal Loan Fund, $28,951 26; from In- terest on Investments, $258,040 43; from Licences, $82,152 78; from. Ca ual Rev- enue, $77,355 83; 'from Algo a Taxes, $3,801 90; from Law Stamsj $95,249 08; from Education Department, $51,- 480 21; frtm Reformatory, Penetangui- shene, $2,618 03;: from Lund -tie Asy- lum, Toronto, $19,182 28 ;- frail Lunatic Asylum, London, $2,811 21, irem Lu- natic Aeylum, Ito-elf:wood, $1,322 ; from Deaf -and Dumb Institution, $4,- 576 10; from Institution for the Blind, $1,153 94; from . Agriculteral Farm, Mimic°, on account of sale of lots, $3,- 713 14, frOIR Dornrnion Of Canada, $1,- 207,841 71 ; from Municipalities Fund, $150,126 75, from Common- School Lands, $73,765 76. 'Total amount - 83,314,506 55. ; The cash. surplus at the end of 1873 amounted to $4,672,482 67. , Of this $4,394,534 62 were invested or at de- posit, and $277,948 05 in hand. The in- - vestments were composed of the follow- ing : TN VESTED. Dominion 6 per cent. bonds purchas- ed Tune 5, 1868. .. . .. .......... Dominion 6 per cent. stock prirthas- ed ea. 28, 1868 Dominion 5 per cent. debentures, purdhased March 2, 1869 ... . Dominion 5 per cent. .bonds purchas- ed July 19, 1871 500,000 00 ,350,000 oo 763,471 (38 1,1192,883 88 DEPOSITS. Canadian Bank of Commeree......... 300,000 00 Ontario Bank ..... ....... ... . .. . 800,000 00 Dominion . 253,174 88 Bank of Toronto 98,380 92 Royal Canadian Bank 300,174 81 Bank of Montreal 450,000 CO Quebec Bank ... . 150,000 00 ,Total .$4494,584 62 In addition to the sum at deposit on he first of January, 1874,, the Tinasurer as since deposited $550,000, so that at the present moment the ineestm nts and leposits approximate closely to 5,000,- 000: In view of such a tate4ieut as he above, the people of Ontar o may yell congratalate themselves u on, and eel proud of, the favorable fina cial po- ition of their Province. So long as the resent riders of Ontario cont rie to 've such A. good account of ' theii stew- , rdship as they do this year we lo not t link that any fault can justly i4 found ith theta. That fault will be found, -en with this financial statement, we ave no doubt, but then it is the special rovince of some to Make complatna no atter how little ground Complaint may - h ve to rest upon. THE DOMINION PARLIAMENT 1 n unced to meet at Ottawa on. or ° thle 18th of March. isan- about From Registtar ' the follow regard to The repor December, are not for form the 1, these even The repor Statistics - o last annual-, report of the mend. of ()Mart) we glean g statistical information with irths, deaths and marriages. s for the year ending 31st of 1872, and although the figures • very recent period yet they Itest statistical information of s which we'have on record. which was issued only this year, continus much useful information, and the oily pity is that it has 'been so long in co se of preparation.. So far as We can se1 there is nothing in it which might not asily have been given to the world nin months ago, when the dates which the gures refer to were compare- , Jr igivento th tively roc et The great trouble with all these depa tmental reportsis, that so much time is c fsumed i0. their compilation that whe public the infor- mation tl r contain is so old as to ..i - - al- most des y its interest. g our author- ities •could devise some means,. and. we think th y could., whereby the informa- tion conai, ied in these reports could. be commtimc ecl to the public before it be- . comes s al it would. be a ,great advan- tage to 1tiioe whom they profess to serve. From tie report referred • to we learn that d , 'ring the ' twelve months ending 31st Deceiriber, there were registered for , • Outer -id' 24 367 births, 12,186 of which 1 ' , were male!, 11,159 females and of 22 the se -I wa not given. Of these births 235, o rm. ly one per cent., were illigit- i mate,.id 7 still bone There were 76 iNteairre,sf t ins. In Huron the births v lee 592, females 597. For the sante erio there were registered in On- tario, J1C45t marriages. In Huron 337 marritges ere registered; of these 50 were lEpis palians, 77 Presbyterians, 77 Afethoc 'st, 21 Roman Catholic, 4 Baptitt, 9 utheran, and. 12 of other de- nomination ; of the -whole there were only87 nest nces in which the bride and bridekroem were of different denomina- .tions.. In 1. teron there were 63 more marriages r gistered. in 1872 than in 1871. Duridie th year in question, 10,745 deet occu red in Ontario and 501 in Huro . Of those in Huron, 186 were uncle 3 yea s of age, 70 over 3 and un- der 1 , 34 o er 10 and under 21, 84 over 21 aul. und r 40, 22 ever 40 and under 50, 2 over 0 and: under 60, 23 over 60 and u t-dere7 1, 30 over 70 and. under 80, 13 ov-tr 80 d under 90, and 5 were 90 and ipwards Of the 10,745 who died in On ario, died at the age of 100, 1 at 101, at 10 , 1 at 103, 3 at 104,2 at 106, 1 at 17, an 1-1 at 123. Of these aged perso s 6 w re &etch, 4 Irish, 1 English, 2 Ai4eucar , and 1 Lower Canadian. Of tlilose wl o died in Huron, 1 died of small pear, 8 of scarlatina, 9 of diph- theriaf, 17 of Whooping cough, 9 of dysentery-, 1 of cholera, 5 of cholera in - I croup 2 of t irush„.17 of diarrhoea, 34 of feature, 19 a typhoid, fever, 3. of rheum - tic fever, 7 of 4 ysipelas, 11 of fever ; 1 d ecl of old age, 1 died a sudden eath and 1 q die violent deaths ' Th Ree str r General complains great of e i eagre returns received from pally tf ti e Division Registrars, whiel 'show • th t a very large number of th se wh se duty it is to attend. to the re stret on •tf births, marriages and death , fail tloobey the requirements of the la v. - Ti e st tistics are of vast im- portal ce and use illness to the country, and. i is a pity t let some means could not b devis d to compel full returns to be gi xi1 le lew now provides for the imPos tion o a 1 eavte penalty on those who • not °nip y with its provisions, but tl ere se ins io be no person whose duty i is toee that the requirements of the law art strictly enforced. If Di- vision RegiStrarslwere better remunerat- ed. for their services, and paid by fees instea 1 of by fixed., salary they would be more pt to 1 ok sharply after those who fail to make ie proper returns or returns atiall. a , 2 cl THE WEEK.. • ( T BRITAIN. ENI OF T SHANTEE WAR. -Fur - T ther o °jet a lvi es received front Cape Coast Castle tat that the King ,of the a, et Wolseley, and has Ashantees hat re ewed his avertures for peace to SirG offered -tiFt pay it 00,000 sterling indem- nity. ; By th Ji nes order the white men i-eeent1y en prisoners by the Ashantees h ve • een. released. Latest officialelespat ',he from the Gold .Coast announce tha, th Ring of the Ashen - tees nes uric ndi ionally accepted the teems �f peae& pdsed by the British It RE. ta CommTh ander. s is regarded as end- ing the war. is expected that the full terns of pe ce will be received shortly from ij arnet Wolseley. Tele BEXGA IINE.-The famine is increasing. It is stimated that 150,000 natives are ahead •distressed.. CABLE. -The organi- pany to lay a light st of Great Britain to zores is announced. 0,000, and the teros- the intention off the company to- co nye: messages on its cable at the. rate of ne hitting per word. THE E '�L1 �{ ELECTIONS. ALL um. WI H.J. R. GLADsToNE.-The Daily l'elegra h s ys the opinion of the ronomiced, and. it is Mr. Gladstone. He he decision, as he is 11 follow the consti- set by Peel, Mel - under similar circum - Parliament with a ither resigned there - o formal defeat. Not , but is lost most de- ult is to be attributed' pular Licensing act; iberal party on side NEW ATLA1 zation of a ne cable from th HAlifax, via t The capital i. pectus says i ir co co ±:3 is country has hien strongly aclver e t will coniply ve' th , bound to do, a cl tuitional prece lent bourne, and oti ers stances. Thee me Royal Speech, nd upon or subini ed only is the fielc lo cisively., and t ere to Mr. Bruce's np the division of he issues, such as the male Suffrage, he and deep and. n t u at the violent Education act, Fe - Permissive bill, &c., nnatural displeasu.re nge age • EXPO used by supporter of Wcitkingmen's can- didates, and the aoit sympathy shown by seve -al membe s a the Administra- tion. = THE CONSERV VE Reicrioier-The Times s ys it is low evident that the countr has retu led en adverse answer to Glad tone's a meal: The elections in Ireland may sho • unlooked for results, but not ing 4 lik ly to restore the losses • of the iberals Great Britain. Dis- raeli is ound to ccept offlee if the Gov- ernmen , followir g his exaniple in 1868, resigns without a aiting the re -assembl- ing of arliament - The Post, in- an edi- torial o a siniilar strain, says the blun- ders of he Gover intent are far more than the av rage. its exercise of -power has been a absolute as 4 hat; been indis- creet. It is iimi teric 1 whether th.e ad- verse r Lsults of t ie eleictions are due to the dis atisfactio of the country at the pea, o- the unc rtainty regarding the policy f the Got eminent in the future. THE NEXT P i LIAMENT. --Up to Feb, 10, th total in mber ineinbers elected was 5, 6. Of t ese 283 ere Conserva- tives, 253 Libe als and Home Rulere. Coese • atives h ve been returned for 80 teats •ccupied ay- Liberal* in the last Parli merit, an Liberals have replaced 28 Co servativ . The nuinber of mem- bers eturned f om Ireland is 55. These are ivided a follows : Thirty-one nom Rulers, iiteen Conservativeand eigh Liberals. D OVEMEN TS. - it is an- nou cecl that reconciliation has been effefr ed betty en Mr. Disraeli, 1 the Mar uis of 5 lisbin7 and the Earl of Car iarvon, :a cl that the 'Marquis and Ear have con ented to assist Mr. Dis- rae i to form is Ministry. Mr. Disraeli address at Buckingham. ated his constituents on he elections. Erones.--The' London press recognize the, completenese of the Government in th . del vered an congretu the result -of V-entous uniciimously of the defeat e.1 ctione Mr. Gla sion of t to what c e. It is sai arice with h nt on the ie Premie 11 itaraec el as ta 111 si si -e to -wart sembles. I raeli has alr -The Ti lstone will await the cou e elections before decidin urse the Goverement is- to 1 Mr. Gladstone is "at vari- s colleagues in the Govern - question of it resignation. wishes the Ministry to re- ately, while the others de- ntil the new Parliament as - is also stated. that Mr. Dis- a•dy arranged his Ministry. nes advises the Goverrunent to resign d ing the tin* intervening be- tw, een the cenclesion. of the elections and tlie assembling of Parliament. irRiitNoR AND GERMANY. • • Notwithstanding the alarming reports concerning the relationbetween Fiance and Geemany, with nndoubtedly con- siderable had feeling existing, war is not anticipa ed. Bismarck' is known, to be ended at the tone of the French d the Germansa,re considerably at the utterances of the French The Bismarck organ at Berlin "No one in Europe believes that we seek a quarrel with France ; deeply o press, a incensed bishops. declares • but, on he other hancl, people are . not wanting «ho think that . if the French wan re rganizecl and a had allies they would- fl. 1 on us to -morrow., The 'weak-• ness of - nonce, of which Fiance hertelf is deepl conscious, insures ,for the Mo- ment th peace of Europe." The French Roman _Catholic organs, on the other hand, d_e lare that "Bismarck has been tooanxi us to cousolidate. his conquest. His war might have been more success- ful, as -it certainly would have been easy, if he hac ercise of THE G allowed more scope for the ex - he religious seutiment." UNITED STATES ANCES.-A 'Washington special says rangesthave fought their first, battle the Rouse and won a decided. victory i in positi power of ways en n passing a resolution. asserting ve language the constitutional Congress to r egulate the reli- ning from one 'tate to another: Political, lhe only hope left many of the Con- servative papers is that Mr. Blake will retire - from the Cabinet; that Hon. Gorge Brown will _ be call- ed to tal e his place, and that the "in- compatiblity of temper7' which is sup- plied to haracterize that gentleman will result in he disruption of the Ministry. • -The ollowmg candid admission is from the Exeter Times : "It is almost "sufficient to say that although the Con- " servatite partv have been guilty of el-- " ery cri ate upon the calendar, they "weren t guilty of having this cargo of "roughs shipped t� the riding." If our Conserve ive friends are willing to own up to "e rein, crime upon the calendar," we will n t insist upon their having com- mitted ti e trifling " indiecretion of im- porting roughs. --The 'o• derich Star consbles itself on the resul of the late elections as follows : "Although defeated we are not con- " quered, there is still life left in the old -The St. Tho subject ever so America "Canada era' elect of , one.-- a.nce---ha icled. T day. Sc the police turbances been foun itary." -For the newly ber for H been pare " D following paragraph from the as Journal might furnish a f reflection to those Who are ready to decry Canadian and institutions and customs : has just passed through a gen- on. England is in the midst ere there has been no disturb- dly a street fight has been ch ron- ere rioting is the order of the rcely a meeting is held without being called out to quell dis- and in some instances it has necessary to call out the mil- . he benefit of 1). B. Chisholm, elected "independent"mem- 1ton, Hon. Efoeea biglow has hrased as follows: B. C. is a &dile smart man, - 's been on all sides that nag places and pelf. B t consistency still is A p t of his plan; H 's been- true to o e party, And that is H/MSELF." -Mr. licDonald, of Pictou, Nova Scotia, SinJohn's right bower, has been defeated by a large majority. This gentleman e performances es a member of the Pacific, Scandel Investigation Committeel will yet be tresh in the minds of oer readers. -The Olttawa correspondence of the Mail says Sir John Macdonald has been round t ee a number of his friends since he re urned to Ottawa. He has not looked, o well for years. He steps along the treet as actively as a young man oftwe ity, and it is evident that the "little fell r's spring is not broke yet." -The to al returns from the elections, so far, sho 146 Governmeet, 40 Opposi- tion and 7 ndependent. -Riel h the Houvea tifyinghis against society,lion• and • caused to be published in Monde a lengthy letter juts- urse in:the Red River rebel- () his action in causing the death of was a tu tion was order tri -Poor Nova. S co the phida eminent i ITOR. temelemeee homes Scott. Seett, he says. bulent fellow, and his execu- eccesary, to make the Tee of mph. Tepper will some up from ia alone, the only aurviver of of supporters of he late Gov - his Province. ONTARIO LEGISLTURR. • Aldine h a very great amount of legis- lation ha not been transacted since our last, yet jome very -important measures have beel. introduced, diseased and ad- vanced astage. OiiFriday a, number of private b'lls were introduce . chiefly re- latingtothe orgaeizatifin a d incorpora- tion of m ning companies. The measures of the ttorney General, 1" respecting the inco poration- of BeeeVolent, Provi- dent au other Societies," aid " respect- ing the incorporation of Joint Stock Compan'es by letters p , tent," were .. passed ii committee, wit out amend= merit, o her than a few ver al changes in the first of the two bills. Mr. Tooley enquire whether it Was t• e intention of the Go ernment, during ti e present ses- sion, to make provision fo the erectiou of a Noi mal School in We tern Ontario, and, if So, where the scho 1 is to be le, cated. The Attorney Gm era( answered that s ch was not the,i ention •of the Gover ment. Mr. Cta'g (Glengarry) asked whether any dist 'bution of the Muni ipal Loan Adjust ent Fund will take lace this year, ani. , if. not, when such distribution is lii t ely to be made. The 4ttorney General t phed that the distri ution would be in de immediately, and hat the money w now on hand. Mr. Lauder moved for 1jLn "Address for a ret at showing the number of the vari- ous its, with concessions and townships, whi have been located in the Free • Gra$5 Districts durin and 1873, giving the • loca ees, with the date of settlement; saidtreturn to show whether or not said lots I have been abandd,ned by such le catees." In . making this motion, Mr. Lauder intimated thatle had received a nur4ber of reports, by letter and other- wis , that the Free Grant system had pcoeed a failure, and that he wanted the Ho se to know the facts of the case. Ho . Mr. Pardee said the Government hac no objection to granting the return ask d'for. though he thought it entirely um ecessary, as all the - information sou ht that could be of any use to the country would be tound M the reports already made to the House, but as the preparation of the return would entail a heavy expense, he must insist that the mover of the motion must assume all the responsibility incurred in the prepar- ation of the document required. Messrs. Boulter, Deacon, Deroohe, McColl; and Reid, as well as the Commissioner of Crown. Lands, bore testimony to, the c. II plete success of the Free Grant us- teI, , though they edmitted that in some particular instances, where poor lands had. been located, there had been failures; but these were - the result of mistakes made by the localities. The return was ordered. Mr. liodgins moved "an address for a return, showing the number of criminal and civil oases entered for trial at the several Assizes thoughont Ontario since 1870, and showing the number of cases tried, and the number Of remands and criminal cases left over at each Assize" This motion gave rise to a very general expression of opinion on the part of the legal gentlemen in She House as to the defects of the present judiciary system, the overworking of the judges, the great delay caused in getting suits through the courts, the consequent expense to liti- gants,, the failure of justice in many cases and the absolute necessity for the - introduction of some scheme of Reform in the present mode of administering justice. Messrs. Bethune, Deacon, Hod- gius, Prince. Cameron, Hardy and Mc- Coll took part in the discussion. Mr. Bethune stated. that there were 83 re- mands at the Fall Assizes of 1873 and. 72 at the Winter Assizes • that there were also a number in Hamilton, at Belleville, Ottawa and other places in the Province. Mr. Hardy thought it would greatly ex- pedite the. administration of justice if short -hand writers were appointed to • take dow,n the evidence for the Judges at the Superior Courts. No plan or scheme was suggested for the correction of the evil complained of, bat it was urg- ed upon the Government to prepare a scheme for submission to the House. This ciesed the busuiess of the Session and the House adjourned until Monday. On Monday after the transaction of routine and unimportant business. Mr. Farewell•moved for a Select committee to inquire into the working of the Tavern and Shop License Act' of 1868, with. re- ference to influence upon the increase of intemperance in the Province, and into -the effects of the liquor traffic upon the health and morals of the community; also to baquire as to the best means of prevent- ing iuteniperance. The motion was car - rid, and a Select Committee accordingly appointed. Hon. Mr. Crook's bill respec- ting the Railway Fund and the Railway Subsidy Fund was called up for second reading. The bill is one of the mostim- portant yetintroduced during the session. Mr. Crooks, in moving the second read- ing of the bill, went over the various clauses, and gave a lucid explanation of their nature and _intended . operation. This act completely changes the whole principle of the system introduced by the late John Sandfield Macdonald Govern- ment, for the appropriation of the fund. The first clause of the bill provides that the aid intended by the for - the years 1872 names of such rner Railway Funds Act, shall be deemed. to apply t the construction of any rail- way of jublic utility or advantage, whether s ch railway do or do not appear to fall within the classes of railways de- scribed in the recital to the first act passed On the subject. The second clause protides that, "Iri addition to the authority granted by previous acts to the Lieutenant -Governor in Council to make payments out of said funds respectively, the Lieuteaant-Govereor in Council may, by Order in Council, subject to ratifica- tion by resolution of the Legislative As- sembly (without which such order inoper-- ative), and subject to the terms and con- ditions of the previously recitea acts, authorize payments to be made in respect of railways which have been constructed, in part since the 18t of July, 1867, but which, by reason of having been under contract prior to 7th day of December, 1870, have hitherto been excluded from any aid from the said fu.nds, which pay- ment shall be at the rate of one thousand. dollars per mile, when payable out of the Railway Fend, or at the yearly rate of $97.20 per mile, payable half yearly for the full period of twenty years, comput- ed from the let day of January, 1872. *hen payable out of the Railway Fund." These two clauses i of the bill, and the et ectory and refer to Mr. Boultbee thoug power'should not be eminent of allolving cause, in corisequenee ence railway men hav ment and the 'House, • corrupt purposes. releasing future gene twenty years, apply tthe payment of t 'e • yearly for the Rail Mr. Lauder •apPio clause of the bill, an two funds, the Rail the Railway Subsi made one Fund: the bill, if passed• ; ' don and Kincardine contract, by dimif granted to that e -o Council. Attorney - at considerable kn -the measure. He 1 lve the principle er are Merely dir- m tters of detail t hat: too much giVen to the Gov id -to railways, be - of the great left- over the Govern- ,x4a,y be used for Was in favor of %Wins to come, for the surplue to :$100,000 granted y Subsidy Fund. d of the second was- glad that the ay:Aid Fund and .Fund, are to be Meredith thought he, defeat the Lon- tailway now under shing the subsidy d by an Order in enciralitfowat spoke h in advocacy of 'ontended that the . restriction of aid. ta a certain class of k railways as pnovicle in the act passed during -die aaministe tion of John Sand - held Macdonald, wall) only apparent, not real ; that it was nq restriction at all,. and. therefore tett rly useless. Mr. Richard* eulogizedi lhe Government of John Sandfield Ma onald, and ditected his anathemas ag4inst - the. Blake and. us Ma,ckenzie Govern nt, charging them with wholesale cor ption.. He said he opposed i the actioi f that Government ivith regard. to eh ix orders in Co-ancil without knowing ai ything as to what their orders were. i fr. Prince thought that the act passed b rJohn S. Macdon- ald was a monstr • us 7rongto.thewestern counties which p yi xeir. share 6 -weeds the Funcl Whenc r t ie railway aid is • drawn, and conte II dei that the western counties, to whiih 4he Sandfield Mac- •donald Governm nt vould not allow any railway aid, 'wer en itled to aid. just as much as any oth r s ction of the Prov ince. Mr. Fras:r re 'ewed_ the speeches of Alessi's. Ric • • rd.a ncl Boultbee with great severity, hoc% 'ng that they had made broad. asse tion which' were con- tradicted by ti e y ry facts on which they based .the r as ertions. The dis- cussion was i nostdesu1tory and ram- , bling one, nine- enthe of it having not the remotest inference to the bill before the House. It was a sort of general fight over the past, present and future, covering a period of Canadiau history of about forty years. • No one appeared to offer any serious objection to the bill, or to any of its ‘la, ses, but all seemed anxious to hav so ething to •sty, and cared little wh t rt -was, whether perti- nent or nett Iij weuld be a great saving of the time of the House if each party in the Chamber would elect two. speakers l on each side to eo duct the debates, while all the rest reina ined silent, It is a fact that the discus i0118- in the Legis- lative Assembly frequently degenerate into something 'worse than the common- est debate in a cou try_ school -house, conducted by young rustics just out of _ school. The bill pass d second reading, and this closed the si ting. When the House to t on Tuesday; the Treasurer laid on th table the public accounts of 1873. Th Attorney General moved the second tea. • g of the bill to provide for the inspection of railways. He explained that t e prosent, bill was to provide for the saf ty of the traveling public. . Under- thee 'sting law, .a new railroad could not . be opened until the 'Company had given not* to the Board of Railway Commissioners at Ottawa. The Governer in Council appointed 'from time to time an Inspector -to exam- ine the road and report m regard to its safety, and in regard to the proVisimas the Company had made. as to the work- ing of the road. The Inspector's report upon these matters was submitted to the Board of Railway Commissioners, sand, if the report were in favor of the safety of the road,. the sanction of the Governor in - Conned was given to the opening of the road. The bill also proe vided for certain retuens being Made in regard to the accidentq which took place on the road, and all he particulars re- lating. to them. Thee provisions were undoubtedly necessary in the preserve. - tion of the safety of thle public, but they bad beea unavaji:abiel in Ontario since (..;onfed.eration, becau e -they had no Board of Railway Commissioners to which these notices' c uld be Addressed. s • 1 Various companies be ore opening- their toads had sent notic s to the &minis ioner of Public Works, as well as to the - Dominion Board of Railway Commis- sioners, and the 'Ontario Government had sent an engineer to examine the road. They felt they were unable under the existing circurast. noes to exereise , further powers of .th Act, and they deemed it desirable f that the Lieutenant Governor in Councilehould. nave the same powers in regard to Ontario in this ' particular which the Governor Gen- eral possessed over the Dominion. The 13oard would dentist of the mem- bers of the Executive ,Coinicil. • Mr. Lauder suggested ;that the - Dominion Government should be mpowered to in- spect all railroads. Tb e- Attorney-Gee- eral resented the idea of delegating any of -the functions or authority of the Gov- ernment of Ontario to the Government of the Dominion. - Mr.1 Lauder asserted and Mr. .Fraser cleni41 that the Do- minion Government h4.d any authority Over Ontatio railways. Mr. Boultbee agreed with the Attorney -General that they ought not to delegate their powers or surrender their rights to anybody. The bill was Teed a second. time. The Attorney General explained 'Mita he hadi •• received severel valuable suggettions re- I specting his bills incorporating Benev- olent Societies, and would therefore pro- pose to defer the discuseion of these and other measures. After a short debate on this proposal the House, on motion of the Attorney -General, a journed. , On the _House reasseribling 6n Wed- nesday, the bill reunitin the County of Huron r for registration purposes was, ainong others, - read a first time. Dr. Clarke (Norfolk) more4 an address to the Governor General in favor of powers being granted to. the several Provincial Legislatures to enable them to make laws suppressing wholly, or in part, the traffic in intoxicating liquors. . The mo --- tion was passed without a division, . The remainder of the sitting was mainly taken up with an irregular and useless discussion, brought on by a motion of Mr. Ardagh for all cortespondence that had taken place with the Public Works Department in regard. to the removal of a bar at the mouth of a river in the County of Simcoe. In this discussion the conduct of the Government during the late Dominion. elections was reviewed and commented. upon by the Opposition, and. was wound up by, "again, for (the three hundredth time, dragging in and dissecting the never-to-be-wornout "Pro- ton Outrage." The diseussion was at ttmesimeettmeeettoresnni length cut short by the Attorney Gen- eral 1 movnig the ad jou it of the House. : The Famine in Be gal, - The London papers last received dis- cuss the scarcity of food in Northern India with a somberness of 1 tone and statenjent ti at readily explains the grow- ,ing - irtensity of public anxiety on the subject. The colonial govArriment of ithilitai throughthe acts, to a certain extent, ative vice -regal prince, has steadily decl , led to interfere m ith the reek ular couret Of the rice trade, except by going into the market as a parchaner. It has permitted the export trade to go on, and the weekly exports of rice front Calcutta have probably exceeded the am- ounts bouet up by the government for popular d. teibution. They have exceed- ed theimports five -folds At the last ac- counts, the vice-roy was buyien in Bur- mah, and, it was supposed, would secure about 200,000 tons of Burnieee rice, an article quite different from. the Indian, and 'many riroductiVe of entetic diseases in people acenstomecl to the latter diet. 'he govern -Mena therefore, in obedience to a very squeamish respect for the laws of commerce, has permitted Over 60,000 tons of native rice to leave the country, and is rinportfing, m return, the soft Bur- mese article. • By paying fan -fine prices, ert it is thought hat 400,000 tonsiore may be provided'. r from other sonaces. The - whole rice intact is made stlingent, as -. s ii, as the crop o Siam and .Java ii•meth un- der the aver get ft is now e•,alculated that the familue imperilone-thirkof the Population or 20,000,000, who Will con- sume weekly at the very leest, 40,000 tons. Railronds give 'partial I access to this immerne people, and have been sup- plemented. hyli other means of transporta- tion for thid oacasion. There is no means of ca1c61at1ng the duration of the femme. It Must continue tilt the earth again yields her increase, Which .indy happen, next fall, and may not happen for two years J The London Times, after suinming up all the facts of Which it is in possession,Isees n.ohope in Anything ' but miracle to prevent the calamity of Wide- spread. starvation. The Verdict. On Thursday last, the electqrs of On- tario and Quebec, with the exception of some.half dozen constituencies, delivered. 'their verdict ton the gravest *sue ever submitted to them. It was net a mere decision between Reformers and Conser- vatives, but 'between moral .right and wrong. We repeat what we i said last week.: the question was 114 'one of " naere partizanship," but tht electors this country, were to be condutted. hon- ' i were asked to say,whether the affairs of - estly or dishonestly ;2 righteourly or un - righteously. , We confese, we have wondered more - than a littlehow any Chris- ian in -an could hesita touching his d ty. We are aware that with some men party is everything; ut we submit evIten the honor of the country 16 at stake ; when the decision is between trnthfuhiess and lying, between - morality and immorality, vice and virtue, . party should avail nothing ; and, judg- ing from the returns publis*, many hundreds of the late followets of Sir John A. Macdonald took our view of the question, and recorded. their 'votes in favor of righteousness. It is 4ot to be . supposed that the men Who pile up such large majoriti s for the advo ates of righteousness in the conduct tf the af- fairs of State, have actually i changed their political treed ; nay, but-rbytheir votes they have subscribed td the de- claration "Righteousness exalteitta a na- tion, but sin is!a reproach to any -people" And. in so voting they- havee in our - opinion, sin -nein, discharged a I solemn duty. The verdict delivered_ on the Iglorious 29th of January, 1874, is very rlassuring to all who have their country's i welfare at heart, showing, as it does, that the Doneinien is Ound to the corn ; and , - g„ . doubtless it w 11 serve as a beacon to . the present andevery succeeding admire- . istration, teach,ing that there is a point beyond which an enlihtenetpnblie ! opon will tn ot tolerate corruption in I high places. i Some four or five of our friends ihave, in a very friendly way, remonstrated with us, because we have condemned; the un- righteous doings of the late Adthinistra- tien, and some two or three perstns have said, " Stop mtf paper." The iitlea, is, that the Obser4e2 must not make. note of " party polities." We contend that that e is the very thing we have avoided, and shall, so far asi these columns - re con- cerned, continuto avoid. We claim, however, that ittis within Our legitimate sphere to -condemn immorality, and to do our humble endeavor to • becure" la right - teous conduct of State, without Any con- sideration for political leaders and. their partizans. We have attended but one political m.eeting for the testi twelve months. 1 .. In reference to what is knowri as the 'Pacific' Scanclal.1 We have read the re- port of the Rovid Commission, with the - evidence given under the solemn eanction - of an oath befoee the Commissioners, and we have also read the debate' in the House, when the accused partiee113d1111 opportunity ofn, defending theMsel v ts, and confess oue inability to resist Vhe conclusion, " Out of thine own I rnou h.' will I judge thee, thou wicleed s vent" If, when a great moral wrong is °mat- ted, a religious journal is to be silent, pray what is its use in the community ? We opine if the guilty parties hid. been on the other side in politics, then we should have escaped the tensuresnif those who pow- condemn us. As it is, we have done our duty, and patiently submit to the crsequences.-Bowman Dille Thserv- • -?r, Organ qi the • Bible Christian CI urett. to • ell• Clinton. DEATH OP AN OLD RE.' /D ENTI. --Mt Brown, grocer, of Clinton, el ed. last SIM - day morning, after the very shOrt illness of one week. Iles disease M first ap- peared to be diphtheria and fins, v result- ed in fever. He Was bullied on uesclay, at 2 o'clock, a great nuraber es towns- men turning mit, to show their regard for him. The firemen, a compa.ty, to which he belonged, were also pr•esent. Mr. Brown has king been a resident of Clinton, at one time as a clerk, and af- terward proprietor of a groeery, where he secured a large 'and flourishing busi- ness by his holiest and energetic dealings. ---- -- --neenue------ - - A. WEALTHY LONDON enter of four brass founders have just dissolved partnership. Three of them ' could not sign their names, and have always put their cross to the firm's documents. " If thev eouhl have used their pens well," remark's the Court Journal, " theymight heee be- come Government clerks at 15 shillings a week," - FEB.. .13, The ll1ect1l To the Edilor of/ &R,• III your piece -of-co respoin t4on 'day 1, i BayV article, besides ta . to party, contains' tiosunis; nn tctl the sp hepewrril a -' • who ha4 oc asioe f place Yo , r. corl by stating that" - so were, reat n especially about 1 ptathe1yaeetra:vs2eNsalr.:'d'r e rigit:' dent, frequent She: not speak, but in 4 being no quarrelin I think a oiling - been more rderly of flags, th only ed was 4.1Taion .4 respondent is noto be ashamed to be a • ' SWage.arililhae‘r:dnal(trit whole Of '1/4siiieli ; • "-Tome," it grossl manner lin N hith li -the idea th t none aid any oft hese tli in this light any et , ed mind ea see th -upon the fa e of it follow his iporS a • rest of ft i as 00 which I have nol gi...,..7.ehthisclitea- dteeer that these *bo we •:tehlene-attidam rieme re tioaYmi ltecl: STANLEY, e . 9, 13 COUNCIL Mnnant. on Feb. 7, ,All t Minutes; of former bemi eg 10 ihv.ee c. Ce lad.113y33.. it ntr. . s 1: te Ili , ui ve it Leary, that C. Pr salary as lett year, • thattreJohnl'i1li 1y an 4.4 na ab e .1 of $f55. Triazurer money -s in. ank -of by Air,. I)a.r orts, se that thiS Council p efliPil.lanrliTr°sleelsofglr rt:;:mIlhar -Iil to pay otsmir ehesMg Other avt ehei mostprofitat'ele for t by Mr. :Leary, sec that the treasurer • the money. Clerk bond. M. Finkpin making !fire in in The following, orde Hodgins trustees School See house for neunicipa, tepairm' g bridge 14 Finkpiner, • =kin Ceasis-ejoi,2iMrs, Carey, et gravel, 2 1{,bi70agr1 eal t:f( :a'rrev ••`: A CIoninie news t Wingh ay, th is frit When the tion reached the election ing amongt• areosZilitei°,11the fW Omni •"10 o'clock ,elr. sleigh from blneva14 the Joheeton lions hrrival being vied. • (rush. was 'made for' 7 Farrow intended m The bar -tooth was l:1te'1sligisa4.ral1saia44ntm .adtiMtosai, gave wear, eind the bering about 200 I * stsutit • tate4nettbeere,ellai glasses, ! Then icor scrambling one, debris, and could n( sisted ; some were and shouIdert of eti nothing hut heir te ately, nobody Wa•S' Mr. Farrow, nvho connter, WS ione • e.ppearenee, eli ,floor ,of the tfash-roi the winciewsl and t the outside, as eot streetIle had f&, the edge of 'the et eonsiderable pain for little help, he was down to Ditisley's *Thornton WAS sevA the baa, but hopes; he will be all night two Wm. Wonesl . years if age, ivas bat on the facell ana. slightly injared. 0 boiler of laot vat'l -wiraitshedt;hbeultnttrbad6nr.eg bee: steaan sinoke, tared around,! soon 1i_ twinagteushed waterat hal/1d, th rder 'Mere had been a short time since by die of the sill, but ployed in fitting in and they had. neghi. The less to Mn J less thant-t200." ' en* i MC/ COI, NI 1,, M ,ETI CU met on the 7th n, 111 in • meeting read and lowing orders iwe nren VIZ.: John order previously gran Thomas COulten, funded. to Mrs' Hai ity ; Hem -y : Aloola salary, extra, posa Th: e(ltrtis-teelaazies i(nt l(le.rl sig following, persons W the necessary eertitiei Inspector, vize: W. kick, -John Erni th,' Thtleofjrmit'etcls tilrotleLin.• i thei e nisaews to fpeeerss ot: shop licenses was $3( A"