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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1874-04-10, Page 11• • • ••• LE IR FROM ENGLAND.. aft Ojcetaiotiai Gotaeaporideat. LialtDON, Atareh 14, 1874. rile time toward the end of " May is to a grand family *council at 4aCoboarg, where the future position e Duke of Edinburgh, as heir to his cle, the Duke of Saxe.Colieurg, will discussed and itettled. , Qeeen Vic. THE EX ()SI'170R- APRIL 19, 18744. will be there, and the Emperor of rmany and the Emperor of Russia; are alsoaaxpected. The Emperor William Artaausin of the Queen, and uncle of the ••-r Czar. and the Queen is mother-in-law of the Emperor William's eldest !son: and the Czar's only daughter. Tile" "Czar is corning over to England in Ilia steam - t, and prepiirations are already be - mg made to pay him due honor. A. grand naval review at Portsmouth is en of. The Czar will spenda couple o l dais at rtrussels, and will probably take sea again for Antwerp or 'Welling. . A. PitEALIER,'s. TA810- Nothing could be more characteristic of the late Premier than the manner - in whieh he has taken the defeat which was - - Precipitated by his own willfulness and arrogance. Two months ago he was per- fectly ready to undertake the govern - meat of the country for any length of time ; and the position of at Priam Minis- ter is, it is needless to say, fixtremely laborious and fatiguing. All the anxie- ties and responsibilities of administration fall Mainly on his shoulders, and he has also the internal difficulties of the Minis- try to -contend with. When tine of his colleagues quarrel, he has to make it up between them. When one of hem falls in.to a hole, he has to fish him out again. he i Apartkom the mental strain, he mere if* part'ofthe W0tIC, is ve y seVerea Prime Minister is busy ins office, at Downing street, all the moaning, read: inglettem, writing or dictatin letters, giving- Instructions, and seeing people on all sorts of subjects. Every fewdays he Ina a deputation to receive and to answer. At 4:30 he Mast be in his place in the House of Commons to reply lo any questions that may be put to him. : It is not every,night that he can snatch an hour to go home to dinner, and a hasty cutlet in the dining -room, must be *swal- -- lowed instead. As a rule he is. back in the House at 9 o'clock at the latest, and remains until the end of the sitting, which is seldom before 2 o'clock, and is sometimes as late . or earlyas!1 3 or 4. When he gets to bed nobody knows. It is necessary that the head of t he Gov, ernmeat should be acquainted! with the general working of all the departments, and with all questions of contraversy as they arise, and this naturally involves a vast amount of reading andistu.dy. Com with this close, harassing- and; ex- stingawork the duties! of a leader of the Opposition. He has no office to at- tend, no questions to an wer no cot- leagues.to look after. He is bound, of rse, to keep a sharp watch on the rent business of Parliament, and the embers of his party- look to him. for 'iunsel and guidance. A wise leader, under such circumstances, is pretty con- stant in his attendance in the House of Commons, -and Mr. Disraeli certainly did not neglect this part of his Still, it is not the close, anxio .dance that, is required from Minister of the Crown. 7 The leader can -often slip away to • party or the opera ; and -ea -en if he is up very late, he does not need to get up early. His forenoons, at least, are his own. In short, his life is the life of a gentleman at ease compared with that of a drudging slave. ' GLADSTONE'S NEW VIEWS. Yet Mr. Gladstone, who only the other. day, as I said, was perfectly willing to go on as head of the Government, has now discovered that his health is quite er of the are much as int.- ountry as he criti- pposition pry work - 1 is an unetions. s atten- he First pposition dinner - unequal to the duties of lea Opposition, which, though the, lighter, are, in their way, qui portant to the welfare of the thoseof the First Minister. aisms and- restraint of the were essential to the satisfact jag of the State machine, an axiom of parliamentary life at at those who have held, or aspire to hold, office are bound also to give the public the benefit of their services during the time they are in Opposition. In fact the Op- position is _called "Her al aje ty's I -OP/ - position," and its duties and functions are quite as indispensable as th se of. the Government of the day, the only differ- ence being that the leaders of the Op- positionserve without salary. This rea- sortable and well -understood obligation .Mr. Gladstone is now anxiousto rept-. diate. His health, he says,will not al- lawhim-te accept the burden, although it is only a feather to the leaden Weight of Ministerial responsibility which he would have had no objection to endure for any number of years if he could 'only have had his own way. It is impossible to exaggerate the amount of public incon- "avenienceand even danger which must arise from the want of an effic4nt resist- ance to the measures of the Ministry. The human body is jeid together by the pressure of the atmosphere, mid the po- litical solidity of -a nation is Maintained by a similar process. The best of states- men "require very sharp watching. No party has at any time a -monopoly of altogether It is plea Gladstone s health is .ba must have repose but *if can only have arisen in t last few cla:adish ai ed that Mr. , and that he this is so, it e course of the reeks, and can only be due to isappointrnent. Mr, Gladstone t to office for Lord Russell's d distempered It no d ubt true that has- alway been indiffer its own sake, he broke u Governm nt by his impel ence toget out of office 4nd he was cert inly sincere in whiling it, Disraeli to s idoeed him last year. ' It is not the ofi e that he cat'es for, but the satisfactio • of doing the best that can be done in t quiet, patient, self-denyi g way, for t e good of the couutiy 1 His ambition is fixed on the enjoymeu of personal ggrandizement,• and the 1 absolutism of I dictatorship. When he Ilinds that he c nnot rule as a despot, with the country creeping at his feet, he flings tire coun ry to the dogs, and will ave no more to e o with a. This arrogant nd unscrapulo s egotism is the real key loth to his, pol cy and personal character Mr. Gladstm e now . says he is anxiou " to turn his position to ac- count for other purpose than those of polities." He thinks of a trip to the Holy Las d, and it woul be well if he would de -ote the remain er of his years -to the dis overy of the lo t tribes. ARTHUR OR. ON. "The lainaantr has s ttled down into the quiet and obscure ro tine of prison life. Ch .ries Orton, w19, on receiving an allowance, took an a davit that the claimant *as not Arthuzj Orton, but af- terward, n- the allowin e being stepped, went ove4 tothe other si e, has publieh- ed an! ac I nowledgment hat the claim- ant was really his brot er ; whereupon the two sisters, whowerb subsidized by the claim at, insist that he is not their brotb.er 1 They were in . fraid, however, .1, to say t at the . wit iess-boa; and. if they bad they would no have been in jail waits ig for their trial for .perjery. It has be, u proposed to hold meetings to denounce! the Judges in he Tichborne case, and to get up subseriptions for the claimant family, who are destitute. It seems hat the benchdrS of Gay's Inn are not 4lisposed to t ke proceedings against - Dr. Kenealy, lon the ground. that, if !he ' did anything wrong, the lied him. .T. F. avisdom and discretion. An ( without a leader is really no at all; it becomes a mere 1 without coherence or corepac and, this is the conditionito O1ndstone is willing to reduce the par; ty to whose loyal devoticai he , owes so many triumphs. Great ipressure has, however, been broaght to bear , on him to reconsider his final determinationto retire at once, and ie. a letter to Lord Granville, which is apparently ntended as a matailesto, he intimates that he will try to go on a little longer, reserving the fullest freedom to retire at any Moment. are as n This, of course, will place the party cora- ards about as great as Wien it began. letely at his mercy. He will lead, as a The volatile of orisons made a momen-. voa but he will exact blind and ser- tary ita ression on the air, excited the vile obedience as the price of his contin- ued. guidance. If any objectioi is raised. to anything he proposes, he will at :once threaten to retire, and as there will be a difficulty in suddenly filling this place; he will most likely be allowed to carry his point'. It is impossible that a party can }Iola together for any purpose under a temporary leadership which ie liable at any moment to be withdrawn) A party in this miserable position can from hand_ to mouth and. fro pposition ppositioa ose mob, ed force, rhioh Wr. t . Judges s iould have pun' Canadian Ent A great deal of intere Heated in. all parts of Oi to the " Polar and Tto book that is being published by Mr. J. W. Lyon, of G-uelph. We have seen the book ourselves and -can safely say that it ded to be. It formation that to find in the er, binding and e all first-class. he is selling it ice in the Old. ,000,000 copies e fishing should be sustained in Canada. The following. are theo imons of our ministers and other good judges of books, w have examined the comp lete work before giving their 41r opinion f its merits: I have examined this excellent- book with gre t pleasure, aiid confidently re- commen it to the publie' as containing vastatud varied inform ation on subjects of great practical interest, among others "‘ Natural History " an " Physical Ge- ography," accompanied with appropriate and well! executed engravings. Its data is fromthe highest and. most reliable authority, and will pro' interest I and valuable family uise. In its mec it is all that -could be d r-. T. Minister, Canada Presl Seaforth. rprise. tl is being man- tiirio in regard 'Cal Worlds," a is all that it is recommen contains much valuable in it would be impossible largest liarary. The pa material of the book a The publisher says that much. less than the pi Country, where over have been sold. Bookt general rule, allowed these women try their powers, They have failed, an their failure is another fact to. demo strata that no irrational treatment w cure the evil of intemperance. It cannot be denied thaatherc is a va t deal of drunkenness in the country. t cannot be denied that drunkenness is a evil,—a very great evil: Nor does ai4y one question that it is an evil that de- mands a remedy. The only question is, What shall the remedy be ? The ten pomace legislation of the country hithe to has done nothing to diminish inte perance. Our legislation mi the matt thus far has, therefore,r been a failtir Prayer has been tried, and the pra,yin too, has been a failure. Is all- hope discover a remedy, therefore, lost ? think not. •In the drunkard there, are We elementsa—tqe man and the drink. _ The man without the drink will never be a is 0 e a book of rare formation for iaiiioa1 execution ired, GaraossirrH, yterian Church., I haver over ethyl& " Polar and. Tropical Worlds," Mid must say that it aippears to me t worthy of the many " have bedn already pron a work f geographical tereat. REO-INAi Incemb rit of St. Tho forth. I ha'e carefully g truly fa cinating book. are beautiful ; the inf varied.; the mechanic paper, b nding, materia be desired, and. its c These, With other a " Polar and Tropical to general patronage, CHAS. LA Pastor Wesleyan. Me Seato tth. IlartWig's " Polar Wotlds," published by of Guelalle is a hands° of about 800 pages. in every way ulagiams " which u-nced upon it as and historical in - D IL STARR, as' Church, Sea- . lan ed over reco• mr Tie engravings ation rich and 1 eecution, as to is all that can eapness withal. tractions of the orlds," entitle it ELL, M. A., hodist Church, • . and Tropical Mr. J. W. Lyon, ely 'bound volume oth the print and paper are excellent, an the illustrations ii are nualerous and wel executed. This volume, written in a p easing style, con- tains a and inte ter som fund of info ation, instructive resting to old or young. Af- ewhat carefuHy examining its ly recommend its penally to our 321 AL DEWAR, apector, Seaforth. e contents of the orld," I can most contents, I can cheerfu perusal Ito all, more young,achers. ARCH tiP1ublic School Ir flavi g glanced at t " Polar and Tropical . heartily recommend this book to all, and being f4niliar with other works by the same author, I ani the more confident _that ths apparentlit the excelsior work of Dr. Hartwig,- can but be re: plete with interest and fu tion. 1 li, B. M. E. Minis r tJ drunkard. This is so clear a propoeitio that no philosopher will question Another equally undeniable truth is th drink of itself, when not taken by a y one, does not make a drunkard. It is only when the man and the drink conko together that we have the Compourld known as the drunkard. What name' a chemist would give such a composition we do not know, nor does it concern us here. But it is not every kind of beverage which, taken into a man, 'will mace him a drunkard. All experience teaches that men will drink stimulating drinks. To prevent the formation of an inebriate there are, therefore, only two ways : eibhe so to change the constitn- tion of the man that the drink will not affect him, except as water does, or so to change the nature of his potions that they will not make a beast of- him. It is an established fact that men can dna k certain liquors and not become sots. It is an established fact, too, that certain other liquors, continued for any length of time, do make bacchanals of men. If ever the evils of intemperance are minished in this country, it must be in the light of these facts. Hitherto Ove have been legislating only for the men who drink, forgetful that our legislatibn cannot reach appetites or change them. Is it not time that we should begin to legislate concerning the drink, the beer, the wine, which we can reach? There may be abundance of wine in a country and its inhabitants be sober. A very great quantity may be *drank by them without their becoming drunkards. Ger- many, France, Spain. and Italy are proofs of this. There can be no quest On that those countries in which stimulat g drinks are cheapest ancl most abunda are the most temperate. The reason is that the liquors are pure and do not . create an artificial appetite. Now, if this be the case in Southern Cli- mates why may it not be made so in Northern climates ? Why cannot we, by •legislation, cause pure and -wholes°, ine liquors to be manufactured ? Why hot legislate the liquor, not the Man? There is certainly a very great inconsistency in the law which punishes the sale of an - wholesome food. and permits that of un- --wholesome liquors. This is the direction it seems to us which enlightened legisla- tion on the matter before us will take in the future. If the demonstrations of the praying women should have called at- tention to this, they will not be entirely without fruit —Chicago Tribune. .11* • 011° Bound to Get a SubsOriber Any Way. He was once out on a jaunt in the township of White Oak, Ingham Co n- ty, sticking to every farmer until he ot his name and money, and it so happened that he came to a house where death had called a few hours befcie. The farmer's wife was laid out, and the husbandatan and. his children were grieving over her loss when the editor knocked at the door. What's up ?" inquired the editor, as he saw the farmer's solemn countenance before him. " My wife is dead," replied the farmer. " Is that so ?" musedthe editor, a little disappointed. "-Did she die easy?" " Dropped off like a lamb." " Did she say anything ?" " Not a word—just went right to sleep like." " I didn't know," continued. the editor, a sad look en his face, " but what She might have "requested you to subscribe for the Cascade, which you know is the best paper in the County. If you want it I'll take your name right in, and under the circumstances I won't charge a cent for the obituary notice !" The farmer hung off for a while, but before the editor went a.way.he had two additional dollars in his pocket, and had written out an obituary notice for publi- cation in the next issue, which the be- reaved husband pronounced "a mighty smart piece."—.Detroit Free Press. 1 of 113fOrMa- PAI:MER, ter, Seaforth. 1 _ • • Ow Temperance Legislation. ,r1 The fervor of the intemperate-. tetnper- ance woMen is abating, dying; and yet the world, it would se 113, is no better off than velen..it was first kindled. Saloons mterous' ; the number qf drunk - only -live hour to hour. It can settle nothuig f r the fu- ture—nothing but the fletink business of the moment. It can have Ino broad and cbroprehensive policy. Anld it is to this - that Mr. Gladstone has br ught the great ,Liberal Party. He wi1j1fil1y de- rived thein of Mr. Card ell, .who *ould have made an excellent eader, by bin him to the House bfLords, to re. ridicule of the antil-relianous world, awake *••ig regret in the breasts of those whose r ligion is not wholly .irrational and sen tional—and.t ese are the only results which have beefiprMuced by the "praying women.." I prayer is a cure •for the evils of intern erance, it is cer- tainly as effectual when offered up at ,hopie as in a saloon ; wken performed in a legal manner,—that ia, without infring- ing the rights of other,—as in an illegal and fanatical way. W • logic, hd3wever, the wo prayers nore eflicaciou in a olden than at. hortie. Not in pray- er itself, but in the place where it was offered, did they put their trust; as if the Hearer of the prayer were more like- ly to hearken tot it whenHis aid was in- voked in or in front 0 a saloon, as if Be were nearer so holy a place, than any other. ith truly feminine en imagined their when performed _ t. • Old E t blished 4 -- -4-•,....-- , What Killed the Ingham Conn- ty Herald. . 1 • Fifteen or sixteen years ago a Man named Harvey started a weekly pa er at Williamston, Ingham County. cal, ed the Ilercad. The town was M1all, he times dull, and Harvey was probablythe •laziest editor who ever had anything , to do with a Michigan paper. The Citizens encouraged him all they could, and filial- ly the gentleman who famished most of the capital dropped into the offie ane Friday to see Harvey and spur ' him tup a little. rt was publication day, but the outside, only half made up, was ,on the stone, and 'not a line !had been et for the inside. Harvey was in the yard back of the office, digging fish-Woz las, and was'called in. • 1 : "See here, Harvey, you •are not doing as you should," commenced the gentle- man ; "here it is Friday and you haven't even worked the first side of your paper." • " I—see—I—haven't !" slowly replied the editor, looking in the drawer fot a fish line. " Well, when are you going to get. the paper out • e: . 1 , "Some--time—next—week." " " Butthisia no way to do business, Mr. Haraey. When you came here • didn't you agree to issue the paper every • Friday ?" " 1—presume—I—did,," drawled Har- vey, "but — I— didn't—know— that— fishing—was—so—good." He took his rod and went to the banks of the Cedar, and when he returned the office was packed up in boxes marked " " old-type,).7 and..a note on the door read: " The Herald is dead—too many suckers killed it. "—Detroit Free Press. A conductor on the .Grand Truak Railway, named Weatrop, and Mr. Janlies Glascot, Clerk in the Waverley Hotel, Stratford, are to walk -from Stratford to Sebringville, on the Queen's Birthday, for a wager of $100, $50 a -side. The ar- ticles of agreement have been signed, and. the money put pp, and. a "tall walk" 'Pate - Editing New aid1 44. Always A LARGE ASSORTNIENT OF ',Plain Glassware in Sets,, Fruit Bowls, • Preserve Dishes, Goblets, Wine Glasses, Sec. 1-M.A.1•TI), LOT OF BOSTON FIRE -PROOF CHIMNEYS. • A WELL ASSORTED OCK OF BAR BOTTLES AND STOPPERS • CONSTANTLY ON HAND. A lot of Three Pieced RUTTER COOLERS formerly sold at from $i to $1 25, • now selling at 35c to 45c each. We STONEWARL AND CHINA_ cannot be surpassed either in assortment, quantity, quality or choice. Note This: 57 different Patterns in China and Stone Tea Sets to select from. Just Think of It. 40 different styles of Toilet Sets to choose from. • LAMPS. We are selling off our large and varied stock .of Lamps at bottom prices, before i)urchasing an immense Fall Stock. A good Lamp complete for 25c. Ivory Handle Table Knives, Ivory Handle Dessert' - Steels, Carvers, Knife Sharpeners, Butter Knives. Knives and Forks, Pocket Knives, Scissors, Riazors, • uning Knives, T, amster's Knives, Ladies' Companigns, Gents' Companions, 0 Double Plate Cruets, • Cake Baskets, Pickle Stands, Spoon Holders, Toast Racks, Syrup Jugs, Butter Knives; Pickle Forks, Butter Coolers, Nut Crackers, Sugar Tongs, Muddlers, Fancy Mugs, Napkin Rings, eze C CC C t t C CC GC Ct Ct. -CC ‘C • The aboye List will only serve to give you a faart idea of the extent of our stock, the only one method is to call, see, amine -and price for ylourselves. Customers showi around our Triammoth.establishment free, gratis, and for nothing. GROCER1S, We make a business of keeping on hand a large and varied stock of Fresh -Grocer- ies,; such as Tas, Sugars, Syrups,, Prunes, Rice, Barley, &c. ex- .• A well 'selected stock of Scrub Brushes, Boot Brushes, Horse Brushes, (Yz.,. • • q3e Notwithstanding. In fact • a general assortment of Family Groceries throughout. ADVANCE in a number of the above mentioned goods especially Crockery, we will give our cus- tomers the benefit of our early purchases. Thereby maintaining the , reputation we 1ave always held for selling good goods at the lowest possVe figures. ••;- Butter, • EGGS and other Produce taken in exchange at the highest market price. • E. III K ON. Co • At. 4