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TRE. CLINTON NEW ERA. SEPTEMBER 18, 1879
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Farm for sale.—R. Bale.
' Farm for sale. --H. Hale. •
` Insolvent Act.—R. Gibbons.
'For hargeine—J. C. Gilroy;
Strawbetry.—Dr. Fowler
Live stock sele —M. Y. Mel:teen
Servant Want -d—Mrs W. Doherty.
Servant Wanted—;,Mrs, W
Ammesoisumenomme
(WW1 Qi (NW's Nnw E1A may *Oa atL et tbe Beck
Store et Ilecers. Dingman it 'Jumble, and W. IL
ituastord, Albert street. Price B omits ler eery
nfoi I:4.
OFFICIAL, PAVER 001:MTV.
THTIkSli.A.Y, SEPT, 18, 1879. .
• THE 4VEBEC: OF,APIAOCKe
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The only ohange to note in tbe Que-
bec deadlock affair is the resignation of
Chaveent, ProvinCial.": Secretary,
who 'favored coalilioe as the Way out of
the present. difficulty, bat was opposed
by. Ur.. Joly,. who appeal* deterniiried
to stand Or fall on his own Merits. Fronn.
all accounts that we receive, from that
quarter, he 'appears to -be gaining' in po-
pularity, and both the. Uriiiiess and SW;
whichpre not very 'strong party papers:
• . •
Confidently assert his triumphant return,
• with a larger following„. ifhe was to
abaft1 to the peaple; which is inost
likely will be theCtiSe. 'Before the 28th
of Ootoberrs when -Parliainent again -
meets, .Mr.. joly I will .1mve, his course
plainly Marked out, ,ehcittld the :Legishi-
tive Council still 'adhere. •to:their ob-
struOtiVe course Which Will no 'donbt
•. • •
include., the abolition of the:Senate. If
..thie should succeeda great gain 'wbuld
/ • , •
resalt te the', imusatey fmth the etubboime
theirresporteibles. •
EDITORIAL NOTES.
A year ago yesterday witnessed the
restoration „to power of Si John A.
Macdonald. •
We are informed by a gentleman who is
in a position to know, that there i$ only,
one feeling among the farmers of Eastern
Ontario about the National Policy, and,
that is, that the 17th of September wit,
nemed the inatignration of the biggest
freed ever perpetrated on the agrieultur.
ists of the Dominion ; vide, the present
prices of bate'', cheese and wool.—Oltaws
Free ,Press.
With very few exceptions, farmers in
Western Ontario are of the same opinion.
•
'A state dinner wee given at (Riven-
• silent House Torockvign Saturday,
lien nuinher of prominent residents
dined With the lqarquis. and Princess,
.aniong the romber -being Hort. George
• Brown and ,Senator 1NInOpherson. How
the fingers:Of the. Venerable senators
must have twitched to• -get lute each
• other's hair, and. What imaginary inapre,
_cations they one another. •
. .
A. very Strong. at:gement against the
usefulness of Coroner's Inquests, is foiled '
An. Interesting -Letter. on the north %vett c emer ef l‘fintleciota.
Now mark the differtuce in the p dicy of
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The following interesting and somewhat land. in t3t. Vinc-nt were sellin lots , Prom ansebarles Iiorrow. • he two conntriein The proprietors of the
vigorous letter has been written •hY Mr. ll!tkieeell%(71;t*sclnalcliteanut.Tneluincitilitel:v118igultdhehast:retebta,
Chariee hLitiow, late ot this place, to a on whigh were gangs of' men et work,
Mead here; and will repay perusal 1— Houses were sprinter/1g 111.) like Jeee,10
like myself has favored,. you of Ontario with gourd; and every pe son, place or thing
DEAR FRIEND,--ati se inaity truvellers
deeeriptions. of their journeying through mewed hill of life awl anialettion.
pail:171)k the ferry heat over the river to
Ulis " Great L'" 14"(1," I will "t. tak° of the fiver, rendered fautooe by beim, Lite
up your time with what. must of neemeity the Dakota side
Pembina, it small town on
be ,alinertt a recapitulation, but premed as Pity of refuge fur the aide Wanitering'\Vil-
yell temtested Le give you a brief etatement lie, While holding the office of Governor
On the evening of July 18 h we left Cul exile), of autiroint. I again celled at
the laud office (united state( land office
this time fOr tt.ohaege), and • sure enough
of my own observations, and. my opinious
grounded thereon ;— .
Emeraon on the international boundary the scene had changed. There I found a
for St. Boniface, opposite Winnipeg. young men sitting with his chair tilted
,road had been well graded, but owing to
The back and his feet up on the table. I asked
the -tolueual wetness of •the Season, it was him if he had any goverment 'land for
but slowly. Wheu about tweety five ve miles ,h,:)Nnie°48:e4tdolwillg::.p, :`; Yes, I presume se."
in a very bail condition, so we proceeded "Yes, within, three or.
on the .avey one of the ears inn off. the four miles," "Good bind 19' " Yes, iiood
as any iti Dakota, I reckon." " kny' res.
traCks, which left ns eo alternative but 'to
remain there for the night. 'P serves ?" "No reserves, all open for leitnes
re° 'us who steads." - After ribtaining a Itst of: lota thati.
had been ton the care. for suver41.days•and
acceptaole, especia4 as it was here tho
quite.
nights already, this delay was anything bet /a i;
doubtable " variaint,"' the Manitoba um- good land and plenty of it mid' no regerves.
tv.e got our first introduction te that re. found it just as the young man had. said,
It was literally a. tight the whole Altu)st* every second. inatt yen tneet.in•Das
setnan:an and r hired a horse and buggy
had not beet; taken ep, enether diagusted
end took a drive mit in the country, -end
night, which was • dark and'dreary, 'tint nas, owl sttlengeeta ie a .0anadian; the
time and patienee brotight the dawn, with
which we once more started 7on our way,. bow
sante answers oeme frous each. Aek.hiut
and at ten o'clecit ateived -ist the capital of wen,bb%tlikweisitiltillieriteth"te7r4:in.CialifertaClititivteill.7e'
'Manitoba,. which I found • much more ad. could gat land•within a reenitnahle distance
,venced than I had anticipated. It -is his of a railroad: Ask how he likes lirlaft.
cated at the Confluence ot the Adainaboinesnissa t "Lila it very well but • hate to
with the Red River, and for beauty of lo-
. take that Musednatitstf allegianee,''.
• The land seemed So good, the tertne so
advantageous, the prospects so inviting,
that., I was- iritiaistablY driven' to the elm.
clueion • that the interests of myself, .and
family demand 'that I should take land and'
elecate-theress-Illossomesiterintylesense-light
matter to leave' one coentry and neeetne
the citizen of another; bot when it comes
1.0
to Alto .poitit, old 'habits and associations
will assert themselves. 'Fond thonglita of
Canada, recollections of the friends of my
yonth, 'and cotepanions of My ripe years,
. and of iny dear oldhoine in • I•luron- will
uninviteclly crowd themselves- in upon my.
attentioo, and nothing ' but the,, strongest'
promptings- of duty to my :family -Would.
chive me to an act so Utterly repugnant to
.the sentiments of my heart as.. to take
What is terinerl the cast-iron - oath, viz ;
The oath of ' allegiance, made needlessly
repiiiiiive to Canadians- by tbe insertion of
a, clause . which obligates. es to "If needs:
iiary take up arms in defence of the United
States against any other country, especial-
ly Great Britain. This•oath we are °Inn.'
pellecl.te . wallow, While; we,at the very
.moment, are ready from 'Par verse- 'hearts
to-'exelmorr-,31-011+ Eng,lan dr with all thy
'finite Ildee thee stilts'''. I•can assure 'you-
Inger& it as no trifling matter to be sworn
if umeasary. to take tip'erms against my
fellow.coeutryrnen, who have - birth 'guilty
of no crime savethat 111 011 Mg' hour they
have unguardedly entrusted the Manage-
ment of their affairs into the hands of a
-orrupt governmentestehoseAisregtard-for
the true ieterestsof the people is se cltsas.
trees' to • the :prosperity:of • 'the • country.
Had you seen scone others of the disgust-
ed_ana.mysolf,...and _heard our lamentations -
hi conteMplation of the .eventful change,
you Might have mistaken us for as Many
Jews . that had bung their liarpisOn the
willowe, and sat down' by Bbl's streams
to weep' over the destruction of JeruSalem,..
whose dust isnot More dear to them, than.
'its our native Canada to us, who are now
driven by the intriguing pattizahehip of a
government 'composed of - men abandoned
to every principle of froth; jnetiee or pat-
rietism., tesseee'k ' competency :in.. a loiogn.
country,' while we cennetsebtainsit in our
:native land, which, in justice, is oer own
by birthri:slit, But wherever :my lot May
be .cast, Il will ever Pray: God saVst °the
.:Qateein. Pitd.saveCanada•mia preserve her
' alike trona avetSed enemies and 'intestine
fees. • , .
• • ee s••• se ..• • -
. wultioNero''ingiust.-.DINNIEts IN lIONI)It OF
THE •GOVERNOW.G.ENERAL. , • ••
in a few dart. we shall not only have the-plette-
are of inspeeting the exhibit*, het of eceing
some of the live steels which is now enjoying
each favoeset &nay in Utinada, but also, luckily
for Europe, iver the water. That examination,
will be for me one of peculiar intereat. I look
forward to that trade developing a new And—
es I trust it will be—a permanent,source of
revenue ti) 01% country, (Cheers). see you
have Landseer's pictures o 'Peace' And! wa,,
upon your walls. I know of no more et:1144g
contrast that can be seen between peace and
war than at Quebec, for instance, where ander
the frowning gnna of that magnificent fortress
the nir is daily full of the lowing of cattle tied
'bleating of sheep, and vast numbers aro to be
seen being embarked upon the large and fine
vessels of the Allan Line for transport to Eu-
rope. (Cheers): We may congratulate Canada
not only that she has begun that trade, but
that site has done so in so energetic a fashion,
that though the shippers expectect there would
Ise but little shipping done this -year, the trade
has been came ea with increasing volutne
throughout the autumn, and depend upon it,
it will bring you 'good return, not only to the
farmers alrefittly there, but by -bringing more
gesple to Canada. These•peeplepre the class
you want, and'T believe 'that rfor every fel
hundred cattle or sheep you serel to Liverpool
you have 'every pros peen of getting in exchange
astont farmer. tLoudtheers). Gall.
I haedly expected that epee- this, my
firet official visit, I should have Mal this oppor,
tenily of expressing my gratitude to the To-
ronto club for entertaining.nie in so friendly a.
fashion at -so pleasant.a banquef, in meeting
yea here to -night 1 feet I am in the presence
of a representative assembly of those ah e lead
the intellectual and Gem mereial life of this city,
one of the greatest already and at the same
time nne of the most promising, not only in
the Doinithon but on the American continent.
Before you, then, gentletnen, wish I conld.
-find words Warns enough, to give. you an idea
of the manner in which we have been touched
by the efforts niade in enr behalf by the citi-
zens •of Toronto. (Loud cheers): It would
not he reasonable to seek any justification of
such kind feeling, but, at all events; I can say
to you that if a hearty and earnest interest in
-beery phase of your netionallife can be taken
as any excuse forsugh welcome, this justifica-•
tion, at all events, exists to the full. (Loud
and prolenged cheering). iti-oneeense, Mao,.
I ankno'stranger to r your affairs, for d,o not
feel that in studying Canada I haveembarked.
on .a sea hitherto unk'nevvn to 1110.. It is not
only since any arrival here that r have watched
with unflagging entlfusiasm the current of
events which is so lithely leading this country'
Lo a full enjoyment of .a great ieheritaneei for
long before we landed onsymar shereeniunlr of
in- the disgraceful proceedings witnessed • entity and natural advantages is not sur -
at Ottawa; on IVIonday. It seems that I passediby any city in the Deli -anion ; and
' ^ •
were t not for the unstatesmanlike lanO
policy of opr Doinunon Government, Chi-
cago itself woulkl need tolae,up and doing
least this same Winnipeg ;night pluck
the laurels from, her brow.' •
stayed. four slays making enquiries re-
specting the places most desirable for lam -
Oen. • Found the lands near the town all
"too low and flat to he desirable for settles.
meet except that along the river banks,
which is held by half-breeds. Most of
these • lots,along the river are not more
than two or three chains wide,and eilend,
perhaps, two milea tank ; few of them have
more than four or -five acressinder cultiva-
tion, while the Arab-likesewner is Away.
sometimes 900 Miles driving A team con•
stituted of one single ox. Taken on the
wholethe •half-breeds of. Manitoba are
about as miserably' shiftless a class. of in-
habitants -as your fancy can well depict.
Yet it is •for this class that the very choic-
•ost lands of Manitoba. are all reserved.
This",is one.of the drawbacks to Winnipeg.
Unfortunately there are aeVeral Others of
-them
s_sae-charapters Besides-thes letsalen 0
..
lest week t'w'o women wereecidentally
drowned at the same time, and on the
clay in question, two separate inquests
were held on their remains; the doctors.
having it row as to who should give
medical evidence in the ease. • If in-
quests were the exception, instead of the
rule, 'such scenes wapiti not occur,
5.EV
6CIIC IN ti
'A.NA.DA.
•
Below is an extract from a late issne
•. of a St. Louis paper, cleated merely -to
• show .wimt our.neighbora across the lines
think 'Of us,
The extraordinary dispatch from Toronto
of the 'attampt to abduct I -16n. • George
Brown, and the successful abduction of
-1)ItT.laffray-, a -Wading Liberal, when -taken
together with recent events in the Domin-
4 ion, indicate a -rather- n pierts a ti tss tates-ef
society there The polttical and religioue
qiiarrels of 6;6 -Canadians and their
s , • pipet riete have a frequency and •iris.
We coMmend the letter of...MI...Chas. tensity that are more Mexican than Ame-
• •
. in character, and nless they soon
1/orrow, which Will,be found in another turn -civet a new leaf the United States will
the f
have to interfere, if- it is only to teach
colperuse,.
MR. atoittovins ' i.errEn.
umn, -Co °eyeul• of our
them better m'anners and protect -thh re -
readers, as it .completely shows hp the putatiolt ol the Continent. .The fact . 'is,
injury- thatls ne tethe" cetintr;that.;while, Comeau is remonehly prosper.
',
oven Ina quiet dull way, there ere extreine-
by the land policy of the'present govern- ly distordent elements there; politically
ment. The Morrow
endsocially, and the principal . evileatises
itateinents -Of 'Mr. i
from the -hybrid eystem of • government.
are corroborated . by many . parties who There is an unacknowledged strife.between
.i
have hta
ad an 'oppoinity of knowtheopiciosOf, thepeople and 'th
ing.all cal institutions .and practices. Their politi-
e kale,
about the anatter. • • We should m
• have ence of the Aerican republichas, insen,
siblyl affeeted popular- sentiment
thowtht Canada had lia.d enotieh of land an
. it a drift and color antithetic to' thd given
e vain .
monopoly. coMpanies,. Without being af- shims of 'royalty. and itsbelongings with
Cans ntly
flicted with anr:nioie.. .. The fartnerS hieh. theanadiare 'constaregat-
of w
. . ed.. They have all the elements of en iti-•
Huron; Perth and Tarece; shave paid an.
.. •
enormous amount sit money to the Oa
nada Com pany,-..and will 'still Lhave • to
pay gl'eftt .cleatbeforie .the.country
rid of the incubus There is scercely
. 'any ..dotM • hitt What • ...Present. land:
,
policy in the North Wept- Will• have to
be changed, as no tine iew
.pleased „ip it,
and it Might result in serious difficulties
in the -fu,ture a squatteris Might go• on.
the Jana,in-,:large nnielhers, 'and there
would be. great difficillty " in • evicting
tlieth, which has heallae ciiiIto
fore. • • • .
VRAIN .!4/P.P141i..
• Although. very desponditig accounts
.haye been .reeeived from England. and,
Fiancewith resPeCt to the crop' prospects, there is n9 likelihood.. that the
supply. of :food will be so short, as to .
'prices to -go-up:to. any Se.rious ex-
tent, .The weather in, the • earlier part
of the .seeson, . was very wet; but... it • is
- nowiwpiovihg. The follow Lig '6xtracts
will show that. &idea ere not going to
••be as high tie many anticipated, so there.
,
will. be - no induciiinent to ,lield wheat
over till next y'ear
, The follewing waswasthe visible supply et
grain on.the dates named, in America:—
8054t. 0, 1870, Sept. 7, 1578.
Wheat, bushels ,,17,046,000 12,804,000 .
Cern, bulhele 13,004,000 11,902,000
Oats, bushels ,2,704,000 3,041,000
nye, bushel,.,, 037,000 077,000
Barley, bushels .. . . 501,000 1,550,000 —
The cable reports thet M. Estienne, the
• great agricultural aatitority, itt a de.
taller" annual statement relative to the
Vrerielt harveat, that it has been very geed
in (bur Departnninta, good in seven, fair
' twenty-four, poor in forty, Mid bad, in
fifteen. This year's aggregate crop will be
90,000;000- hectolitres, against 05,000,Ci00"
hectolitres last year. This will necessitate
, the ,49- or already neforred .to there- are re-
serves for the half-breeds everywhere to
he •met with together, with which • there
are also Hudson. Bay Comp,any Reserves,
I,celandiciteserves, Stettin Navigation Re-
serves,- Polied. Reeetyce,- Mennonite • Re.
serves, and, twist of all, Paeige Railway
Resetves,. For wonder, there seems.stobeno reserves for the heroes Of the Paci-
fic Scandal. [1. appears that they choose
to ptoVide for themselves, in atother man-
ner. By nisans of this reserve Policy the
Imids-Sof Itlaniteha tire auseffebtfially lecke
up froin settlement:ea though it' had never
been prided .to Canada at • all.. Further-
more,' I .havesbeen. informed that in, Mate
instances .where it few families have settled
in aome of the few back toweships left
open for hoMeiteading, -the remainder of
•the township hits been immediately with-
drawn .from themarket.and- held at fancy
prices by sone favorite of the Government,
'leaving the settlers who •moved there in-
dependent, •self-reliant nation; whiels they .anticipation ofits mei) bemining an ire,.
are not,.but. Maintain • it relationship to. proved country.,- without' the, Menne of
Ob-
Eagland that, krill 'the more :an onialouie tatting- either schools; churches, , post,ofli-
beeituse it is 'of • na benefit to the -Another'
coontty, but, Otos the Canadians a milit-
ary protectorwithout cost: • We • admit
0.at the majority of educated people there'
prat*, entire loyalty, to the -present. Os -
tem, .end wastenn abundance of iinan•end
nioney indancing attendance on viceregal
parties and cultivating English testes ; but
among the great body of •the population,
and particularly the **big classes the
tendency ie in • the -opposite direetion.
During the visit of the Prince , of Wales,
some -years ago, there wag at several points, -
decided lengor • in the reception, .and in
_Canadien_cities_teActy.tbere_is_offeu.lear
much rude but supercilious criticism on the
royal appendages to the government. -
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Whenever there is a dirreetd between. the
.opinionsi_ahd syrnpathiestef a . people and
their institutions, !there is a fruitful Tomlin'
fiat :social dist:urbanises. This; 'is Acidly
what is.the case in some parts of Canada,
.and it is the indirect Mame of many of their
:troubles. The hard timent have doubtless
touchedsome of the Canadian Cities. .This
fact alone; of course,- would canto transient
difficulties, but the exasperating element
in their polities*. and society; independent
Of such inetters,. arises from the causes
indicated. Therceis a lerieen in the Minds
of the people that is working up true re-
.
publican ideas and desires,- and it will in-
evitably develop itself: sooner or later in
a -practical •cliarigo of poIitical Condition.
The robust Canadian royalists, or loyalists
repudiate such a: suggestion as this with
scorn,butdeclamation cannot resist des-
tiny The idea .with them is, that the
Americting are hungry to antiet the Cana-
dati, which is all tneonehine. 'A, worse fate
might impven tho Canedians than forming
-
several great states in this Union, the over-
shadowing power of a new • world; • but we
have more territory now than wo can; take
mire of, and -we etiVY not theirs. What wo.
would like to see thoin do 15 tO Wept an
independent , political course—to haeteh
their evident destiny as it self -controlling,.
self-reliant national power, vindicating rtnd
illustrating„republican principles. In this
way. alone can they exert it ptopor influence
in the caned of civil and religious liberty,
certainly—in cipite of having such advocates
as some of our Fouttli of July orators—
the best and neblest. moo among mon. hardy song 'of toil front t7/
The Marquis of Lerno.and his royal lady the States of the neigh
the rinportation of o,000,000 or 0,000,000 are worthy of till respect, biit if their emit- with the best ,plass of s' Mors the world
hectolitree, (kbout 20,000,000 bushols.1
/ • , ing to Canada results in creating .un -Arno- has over produced, 'causing their barren
We donot look for, More than half a' ricer' social testes, in exalting the reverence Plaine to give forth frnit in due season,
a erOP of Wheat this Year, but Present for mere wealth and station, and substittit. and their waste lands:to bud and bloSSoial
Afileriotitl*erOP figriros overshadow tab ing admiration of the.ttalpinga geVern. 0.8 the rose. "
arrivals ere :equal to Country's comiumpt
tion at the reto of 23,000,000 qrs. (184„
000,000 btit.) per annum, —.4endon :raper
ges,•or, any Of the other Privileges of civili-
zatitm.- It tri.a perfect mockery, a delu-
sion and a-stiare, to sped industriousinni-
grants here expecting. to ket lands .on mo-
Oerate 'terms; awl within reasonable dis-
tance of the inearis of. intercourse with the
outtride world. /lard as it may peem for
you to bolitrve that the Dominion Govern.'
ment would be ,guilty of such -wanton cruel-
ty to settlers of De netv Muntry, WhOSO
hardships must, • pt.. best, be .suflicientl
heavy and grievous to be borne, it is, nev-
ertheless, the ease that as 't Nero fiddleel
while Rome buined," so Sir Sohn A. its
cemplacently and smiles at the mieeries of
the victims'of this obnoxious policy of fs.
voritisin, which he inangerated when he
sent (! Wandering Willte" to
occupy the gubernatorial chair; and which
he has continuously pursued itt. his deal-
ings with IVIarritialia over since. '' , •
Having found out that there id no landts
open for homesteading' nearer to the RR:.
than 150 miles, and not feelin.g disposed to
stiend. tity life and energies In .improving
those remote regions and thereby deuble
the value of the land in the intervening
township •Lor the benefit of stime govern-
ment-fevored landshark, I 'balms to the
"oonclusion that Manitoba is net the' place
for me • to settle in, sO I took theatre for
Emerson'. Th6e I fotind our old friends
John Armstrong and familY,. formerly df"
the base line, mirth of Olititon. I called
at the land, office there and found it the old
story, no lands for hothesteeding nearer
than Rock Lake, ninety miles west, seven-
teen' splendid tow,nships lying between
hero and there, all reserved•for the RUB -
signs. • This is the sad sequel to the mph
vaunted policy of "Canada for Canadians,"
of which we heard re) mach triumphantly
spoken prior to that (for Canada) unfortu-
nate electien on Septembet 17th, 1878.
It is this unstatesmanlike, system of re.
serves, this amused polies, of locking up
the lands for the favored few, so unswerv-
ingly. cerried out by the compact of imbe-
ciles controlled by :
• "that wretch concentrated all in self,/,
who rules ont destiniesitt Ottawa, thitt is
•going to be the ruin of Manitoba, and leave
_her a waste and howling wildetimas for
gefterations yet unborn b driving the
nada to' peeple
o'ring Republic
ment tether then devotion fb Art principlea, ,
On the day after my Arrival at UnieMon
they.will lower the tnaelmod of Canada and lt1r. Armstrong and myself took a Walk
rettetalib politiceLadeaneentent. Otter to St: Vincent, a village just started
your history and of your present cotelition waa
well keown. to me. A brief..vieit, paid many
years age,. eonld give me but little real insight
ieto your conditlen, but everyman in England
Wife has had anything to do with Public life
'has, since the Confederationof the British
. North American Proviecesseenaidered his pot
,litical studios AS wholly wanting .it a pretty
thorough knowledge of year resoureas and pa.'
.sition were uot inchided inhis surrey of the
empire, (Oheers)...cenfederation has had this ;cutive headof. the 'Government. 41.1d •uowl.
advantage,' that your deititiies have bedpt� ilemep, r have. only -to -thank • yOli re:-
pot to travel far, to be easily reached and
visited by his fitendo, he may reuutie in the
minus on the ground floor—am spacious Inert-
titne provinces, where he will tied himself
very neer hie fiehmouger (ettecre and laugh -
ten) close to the pm tradesmen with whona he
has dealt in Europe, and warmed by a great
kitehen well furnishee with a stove of Pictots .
coal. (Laughter and cheers) If he prefer
other departments he may a sceod to thosegreat
aud most comfortable looins, our ancient and.
populous Provinces of Quebec and Ontario --.
the first -floor rooms of eur Canadian mansion
winch are so ainply provided with the. old.:
fashioned associations which, he may love ,•
while, if still more aetive, he may select
accommodation in the vast oliamtfer.of- the,
second floor—the wonderfal districts of the
Northwest, which have boort so bountifully
furnished by beneficent Nature, that he will
require hut little capital to make his abode
exactly stcooretug to his own taste. (Loud
oheers,) And if he prefers another and still
more airy location—(laughter)—he may go oa
again and inhabit our recently erected and
lofty story of the Rocky. Mountain District,
•near which he would Again find an atnplesup-
pl
.
of coal; nearly ass geed as that which lie
mind down below. And now, dropping all,
fenoifal metaphors, I must speak in lunge
serious terms for a moment, and exRress.my •
I admiration for that most able House, the ex-
cellence of whose debates would he a credit
to any assembly. (Cheers.) Dating its ses-
sion 1 have minetirees bog reminded of an •
exclansation of the late Baron Bunsen, the.
Gerinan diplomatist. and author, Chevalier
Bunsen, looking on at the proceedings of the
House of Commons, said that to him it was a.
marvel how an Englishman meld ever rest
until he bail sought to become a member of .
'that Assembly, where the Ministers 'Or the
Sovereign and they, who endeavored to win a
share in the government Of a powerful people,
Met face td face. as championis of different
policies to discuss before the country the
principles which should guide a mighty no- '
tion, As in England, so bore, let go One tarn
his beets on political Mart too hard, as bring.
iug too much contention, or as occasioning
too much unpleasantness. Orie of the worst
.signe of a country's condition is when they
who have leisure, or ,property); or social infitt;
mice look upon public life lei toe dirty for
them, and hang back from the honorablrf .
rivalry, allowing other hands to have a tom-",
mauding share in government. .(Hear hear;).
anrcenfident that this will not be the case
here, and long may it.be before a Canadian
prefers his ease, if he may command it, to
that noblest labor to which he can be called
the•voice °this fellow citizens, the voice
of his Ooniftfylli her-Parlienients (Cheers) sss.
srscon- BY HiS EXbgiLEXPT.
• . . •
On Priday evening a dinner was given at the
Toronto cluh in honor.of His Bxeellency the
Governor-General. After the cloth had been
removed a brief, programme of toasts was en -
toted, neon. The first ttiast, The Queen "
Wart:propeciedand. duly, honored ; after which
the chairman.gave the toast of the evening.
His Ekent,LENov, intis reply, said :—Gren-
tlemee,—Ifisrising to return: you my heartfelt
thanks for the loyal and cordial meaner in
which You have remitted the toast of the health,
of the queen's representative, I thank myleare-
ed and honorable friend on my left for the
manner in which he has proposed that toast,'
and you, gentlemen,for the way in whit* you
have been good enough to receive it. Ilium
that in a Canadian company that toastwould
be received with all heifers, because
there is no nation in this world which has mom
profound love,for its 'sovereign thanthe Cana-
dian peoples. 1Loitdtheerrib..... With reference
to the Prince of Wales, to *hose visit yeti have
made allusion, I know that he was delighted,
as was also the Duke Of "Connaught, with the
visit they paid to Canada, and they have both
expressed a confident hone that during my term
of office they May revisit Canadian soil. (Loud
cheering), With regard to ourselves pergon-
ally, ',shall accent with gratitude everything
that has fallen to -night from your eloquent
lips, sir, with regard to the, princess, my wife.
.(Great. cheering). I3ut fot myself, I must
demur lo the exee4sive k dness Of some of your
expressions; and althoegli it -May lie a bold
opinion feet), layman to ley clown in the pries,
mice of 40 many distinguished iti the law, I,
believe my learned friend hae filmoot for titer
first time—end I hope for the last—in his life
, departed front that attiturle of strict billiard -1
ably whieh it is hialltity, as well as my owe,
to maintain; (Gteat laughter and cheering).
I have a theory on the enhicet, of whicili I will
let you into the secret, My honorable friend.
has confided to mo that it was his peinful day
to Make seine very severe obtervatione from
the bench to -day. I think that it may be pos.
sibly owing to g hate -tea reaction of fooling
that he has found it almost obligatory to make
steno observationshi my favor to -night almost
.too kind. (Loud laughter), We have been
delighted with the reeeption we have mot with
in Toronto, and 1 mast say that Rhea been a
matter of goorl forterir?, itt my.iminicie, that
we have been able to visit this great city at a;
time when 11.8 citizens are ticoupieO With the
great ehow winch is being held withiu a,short
instance of its walls'mid. whith is a Most rt.
marltable exhibition to hrtie beed ea oil foot
and carried out by any city, (Cheers), And
'Instriving to be a member of the Dominion
,Parliarnent, er to have a potent vbice In the..
election Of such an one, each man, whatever
_may be his circumstances, Must reel tliat 11.
is a high and proper ambition to do what in
him lies to direct the:policy of this Royal
commonwealth, wit* sees its Will express-
ed by the Cabinet—which is but a Commit-
tee of Bic Parliament elected by the people.
—carried out loyally and fully by the Exe-
sled-fiver by'men wit -ailed weight aila ems
theiltratstrumessandswittrwere-irblettaeritt
before. the English people, in attractive fortn,
the remarries bt this Muntry., And especially
was thie the ease detain; the six anti a half yetis's
Lord Dafferin has beer in this country • tot
hie epeeches, given in so practical a form, and
with such mastery.ordietinfi and such a grasp
bt compreheneion of your material and politK,
conditioe, were universally re-lid-ana autivers
sally admired. (1.:ond chects).. Perhaps in.
termer days, and before the country had be-
come one, so much attention wield not bave
been -given te your -affairs, but Since oorifetler-
ahem, as we all know in England --every poli.
ticiaii in England knows --that he is wit to
consider this errantry as a small group•of dire
conneeted,colonies, but as agreat and consoli-
dated people, ,growing in importance •not only
year by year, but hour by hour. (Great Order-
ing); You now :term ' 4 people for whom the
colonial office and foreign office, alike arede-
sirous to apt with the utmost' strength of the
en•pirei in forwitisling yoni. interests ; and itt.
speaking through the imperialToreige .0flico
it is impossible thatyou' should notientember
that it is not only the voice of two, three, Or
four Or, fiveInillions, as the case may be, but
the voice of a nation of over forty millions.
(Great cheering), As I said before; I -believe
that informer days perhaps the interest was•
hot so lividsts -although. perhaps it would be .
unjust to saythat too -strongly, bensame within
thelast, few months ;we have had a striking
exempleiet how taillitie Great Britain in to un-
dertake Warlike fikpenditure for colonies.by no
means as , united or as important -as Canade.
:(Prolonged cheers). But the feeling' with re-
gard to Canada as a raerenongeriecf.colonim,
'and Canada, as one people and government,
may perbaps be comparedto the -different feet-
inge that a -mother maybe supposed to have
in the pride With 'whieli ehe may regard'a nur-
sery full of small infants, and the far different
pride with which she looks upon the career
and stature of her grown-up and eldest soh.
(Laughter aud cheers). To be sure, ao it is
with ell•sons. and all m &hers, fittlapaSsing
and temporary misconceptions may 5/e0ee-
locally occurs and which Only show bow
deep in reality IS theirm*1ml love: The top-
ics on whieli a Goternor-Generailnlay speak
without offence are somewhat- 'Malted, but
in making my frrst appearance among you I
may be expected to record general impres-
sions. , lina,y perhaps be permittedto mai-
den a subject which is, generetly tuiderStoOd
as giving a good opening for conVerstitiOtt
and acquaintance, and likely to letid to no
serious difference. of se -Anion; namely, the
subject ef the weather. I cannew speak
with some authority upon that momentes to-
pic hecausei have now Spent a winter; n
,spring, a 'Summer, and 140 of an autumn. ill
Canada, and I believe that any one who has
had a sitiniatsexperlenee with:me will -agree
that the seasons and climate eujoyed bete
are singularly pleasant • and. salubrious:
(Ohms.) Yon have, gentlemen, real seasons,
there ig a real whiter aud a real summer..
(Lead -Taught er.) :You are not troubled, with
.thanis in that respect—(laughter)—no shoddy
manufactures of dint nature are importeLl.
ever liere,from Ettrope, where winter -is °heft
like a 'Taw " summer apd: summer like ri" wet
winter. How different luta been the reality
of your winter, for, as an old womah time
Wrote home to her friendO-iii Scotlatd, " All
the children here may run about in, the show
without wetting their feet," - (Groat laughter
and cheers.) Wistutve only m
iybtto•elb000kfac•paettitleast
°attain, on which a, splen
is hanging, to see a trophy which should bring
many to oat door; but it is only a small sam-
ple of a vast crop of A similar nature which
you have iti Western Ontario, for, as I em
informed by my honorable friend on my
right, Mr, Ilaelrosizio, the peaches arer.eften
givell to the pigs (Great laughter.) The
pleaseet and braeing eertsens of Canada eon
be onteyed in o, catiotry without its equal, for
nowhere has the settler a more varied tango
of choice in the scenery, the locality, the mil
which will Anally determitie him whore tb
found it home. His fatten° may be mole
Ipatca to thet of a man mitering mut of them
,
now houses where each may have his own
flat—a magnificentlabode, whore, it he wish,
peatedly-ands-most-searresstly-for your Wel- -
T. inscrthe-citizens of Toronto 1 Would -
thank through you at large for the extreme
kindness with winch they have been pleased
toreceive us. But Is believes -gentlemen; it
is not mere kindness that is• shown, hyssuch
cleinonstratiblis as thbee we have recently
seep.. If it were that only it would perhaps !•••
lose someofitsssigniftcance; Ili the display s'
made we have seen the outpourings of the
,heart of p peep;e whose loyal passion is ,
strong for the unity which binds our great
history to a greater present, and which -
under the temperate scentre of our beloved
Queen is leading Canada and &item to-
getheninfreedom to an assured and yet ,
more glorious future. •
At the conclusion of the speech the mem., •
beM of' the Club stood --up and cheered and
applauded again and again. . --
acsuergicciggcrg..
,BORN.
DiNstgy.—in Winghara, on the 2nd inst., the'
wife of Sir. J Dinsley, of -a son
• MA RRIED
Coissey—Peitusois.--On the 9th inst.; by th
ltev. Joseph Philp, at the residence of Mr..
John Steep, Clinton, Bar. Joseph Cokley to •
• , Miso Annie Steep Pearson, -both of 'Godb•-
ryth T0wflbip. ' •
•
Ilners—Bsace..--At the residence of the
• bride's brOther, Wingham, on the 8th inst.,
by the Rev. Wm.; Bryers, Mr. W. T, Efieks, •
•of London Township, to Mary E., danghter
of Mr. D. Black, late of Wroxoter, •
oassopas0n--31.ssoN,By the Rey. G:R, San- •
derson,• D., lather of the grooms in the
Welliiigten St. Methodist Church, London,
on the 10th inst., the Rev. 10, H. Sander-
-son, of Hamilton, to Mary R, only &nigh- ,
ter of Mr. John Mama, of New Brightett, •
sEraseess-Batx-.-----At the residence of the bride's
father, E. Waivanosh, by the Rev. A. Mc.
Lean, on the 10th inst., Mr. P. Eldersof the
• firm of Taylor sre Elder, of Blyth, to Miss'
Bella Bain. •
Onscrie---Lawritsree,-:-On the 4th inst., at the
regidence of the bride's father,Hallett, Dr,
• 'Grapey, late of Blyth, to MissM, Lawrenee,
DIED. • ,
W:Hallahen, aged 78 Steers. „.., .. •
IlAsLanittr..-4st Waivenoshon the llth hist .
CIANT(lig PIAltItihrS. • •
•Sehtember 18, 1979:
There, is no change, in priges, With the
eeteption of Wheat, Which is a trifle
higher and flriner„ The indieations are,
that prices fOr Most all kinds of prOcluce
-will rernain steady and without change.
• Wheat, full, recl,Vbnali, $0 93 a 0 95
• Wheat, fall, white, •0 93' a 4 96
Spring, Redchaff, - 0 8,5 a 0 90
Fife, -' 7 7 090 a 0 91
• Oats, 0 25 a 0 25 .
B1.4arlse,Y,
0 50 a 0.52
- 0 45 a • 0 50 •
BPI lo:tt utst etv s , -• 5 00 s a 5 00
• 0 25 a 0 30 „,
"Begs) • 0 7 a "0 10
- . 701) a • 800
() 09, a 0 10
•
Hides, . • ' 4 60 it 625
Sheopsitituftt
Clover 03 25°0 3° 76:tii
Timothy , •1 75 a • 2 25
EA it,rit•
Septernber 18, 18;0,
•Wheat:—Vall - $0 03 a 0 05
„ Spring • ;0 85 a 0 00
•Oats • - •4 0 25 a 026
Peas -
-Batley
Potatme
Hey -
Batter
• 'Eggs,
Hides
• Wood -
Viotti°,
• 050 it 052
0 45 a 0 60 •
" 025 a 030
*7 OP °a 8 00
▪ 0 8 a 0 10
0 0 a 010
450 a 525
•• 250 a 250
* 500 a 500