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alatbe wor1e. of malice woken,
Half M earnest, half in eat.
Loving heerts ere day brace,
liearta tan owes') aua tbe best.
Liston, Ora/aerobe diecreet
weeds of ream() no'er repeat;
Loving hearts ere touder Mingo,
Woede of mane() deadly stings.
By the words or love wian spolcon
To tae lowly antloppressee
Loving ttearts, tar almost Melton,
Peei as efforeverblessal. •
sisters, brothers, comfort, cheer,
Banish thus the sileut tear,
Words (glove yen may be eine,
Wonnetea harte 01411 quickly euro,
words of truth when bahuyspeeen,
Faitliftelyroproving sin,
Ever is the surest token
of a Beira pure whine. '
siStierni>-1gOthee8eem4dt11e tongue,
Utter not a word tbee's wrong,
Boldly speak tee ivories or truth,
Thus become the guitte or yoatu.
not believe Moses to have been the 'author
of Deuteronomy, or that that book
• Wee written at the date assigned. IIe
•looks on it m a tplitsi-fictitious work com-
posed in Jooifill's reign, and put dramati-
cally into the mouth of Moses, not so much
as a pious frand, but as a literary device to
revive the spirit of the Xosaic legialation.
While he does not accept the Dutcli theol.
ogY, he accepts the results of its criticism,
and looks upon the as not his.
torically true, but as a late literary corm;
pila.tiou whose historical element; II:mot bo
Subjected to a thorough criticism. At the
same time he professes in its integrity the
general theological fait1 . of the Free
Church, except so far as those viewmay
be slipposed to modify it.
Bev. S:A. Dyke gives in the Canadian
'Baptist an account of an interview with
Mr. Beeeher, which is worth reading, as
• giving the estimate .of tho two greMpreach-
ors of each other. Ile says: After
serVice,I, with others, went up to ploilte
hands with Win and introduced myself
as a Baptist minister and one of
Mr, Surgeon's students. As soon as
mentioned Mr. Spnrgeon's name
be said, (:), yes ! Well, I admire
Mr. Spurgeon's' spirit, but he is no
theologiaw-He clings too mueli to the old
theology, as, Mcleod, too many Others do.'
Remembering Mr. Spurgeon's words in
referenoe a. Mr. Beecher on the clay I mid
goon -by, nine years ago, and fooling that
tho opportunity was too good to be lost,
osj.c1 : Would you like to know Mr. Spur-
geon's opinion of you He spoke of you
the last time I saw him before returning to
Canada.' Yes,' said be. In speakilfg of
you he said.: What a wonderful dellow
Beecher is. Ho is a philosopher,' and then,
with a most expreSsivo ohru,,d of the
shoulders, ho added, but as a theologian
he is nowhere.' .1 may have been bold, but
it was deserved.''
ALIVE ON A IIIOIMITE SLAIL•
ollunams MD CIERDY11.1E1‘.
In the Free Church Assemble; the Vote in
favor of disestablishment was overwhelm-
ing -417 to 01- •
The death is announced on Anticosti is.
laud, in the gulf of S. Lawrence, of Bev,
Joseph Little (Uncle Joe), •ti venerable
Methodist minister. .
• The very word humanity," says Max
Muller, the noted philosopher, 8dates from
Chrietianity. No ouch idea, and therefore
no such terni,'was found anionginen before
Christ came.'
The presbytery of Now York includes
17,303 ohurch members and its contribu-
tions to horde missions .were last year
258. One family alone gives annually
625,000 for this purpose. •
Some. NeweastleOn-Tyne heatlionsiately
pulled a little girl captainof the Salva-
tion Army ' down a flight of- stops and
kicked her, bemuse olio spoke to them
• obmewhatIse pointedlyas to their vices,
It has been rided by a Dublin magistrate
'and a higher court that to offer a Protes-
• tant controversial tract to a Boman priest
is an assault, Mu then& no words were
exchanged, entailing a fine of 55.50. and
costs.
. An eminent Boston preacher once said
that it was mockery to pray at night for
sweet and refreshing sleep, Without •seeing
telt that thebed-room is- well..ventilatocl..
God takes care of those who take care of
themselves.
Monsignor Copal has boon made a' bank:
rupt. He is described its of Cedar Villa,
now of Scarsdale Lodge, •Rensington,•clork
in holy orders. , At the first meeting a
• statement of affairs was produced showing
the total dehts unseoured, £7,205; debts.'
fully secured, 18,550;;3and assets nil:
Miss Libbio Chedworth, of •Holland, N..
Y., has begunsuit against .the Bev. N.
' Burns for defamation 'of her character and
abusing her in thppulpit, she 'having
smiled audibly in church at the •mistake of
an evangeliat who was holding forth at the
time, • . ••
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The following Ourious directions 'to wor-
shippers in the church of St. miebaoi and
AllAngels, at,dinswiek,: require some • ex-
planation 'During prayers all are request-
ed to kneel. The .kneelers should be hung
tlie hoOke'providedlor.•the EfUrpme..by
those who have, used thein.'
At a recent iheoliti,g'et-the TiOndiaPreS-..'
bytery arrangements were triode fer the iii-
-dnetnairef 111-61 ev. Dr. Gibson, forrcrerly of
Chioega, '_to_tate_SPaetere,te
• WencralitteloteaRilaselerylieteleeenafixied
et. £1,200 per annum and the .congregation
have allowed hiin a grant of £300 to defray
the expenses 'of -his removal froze • Claioago
to Leaden. • • • . • '
The Hen-guwan7ji of .Eicito, •one of the
wealthiest and iniiat influential Buddhist
peas in Japan, has a . Chinese Mission in
• 1.tanghai, whichdispenses mediciees with .
its religious instruction of the poor; and
the home society in instructing a number
of young men in English and • theology, in-.
tending to send them asenissionariesto the
Christian heathen of .Europo mad the
. United Stet& ' •••• ' • •••
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Rev. Washington Gladden, of Spring-
field, &timers the qttestimi, 'Why don't the .
masses come to choral?' by assorting that
• *they do ; .at least, that .proportienetery
there is more church -going, now than theree
was in the last century.. • At the time of
the revolution thee •was on6. church te
1,038 inhabitants; while the present -ratio
is one to 536 ; and he thinks the churches
are as nearly filled now is thee.•
.•.
The Salvation. Arniy in England • and
Scotland now numbers 5,280 ' men and
women speaking, in &bile every StindaY
and nearly every night. These areunpaid ;
.. and theta' are beside • 207 ceptains, paid
evangelists. -*Altogether there are now 151
stations throughout the vountry„ and du-
ring the year ended the 12th of April, L14,-
069 had been' collected loonily and •apenda
ed locally in this -works every penny so
taken and spent being strictly accounted
for. •
At the Anglican Sy'n'od inToronto a long
and lively discussion-. toek piece ono propo-
sition to declare that no persons shall vote
in the election for lay reprisentatives to"
the Synod unless they be cotemunicants.
, The motion was voted clown by a consider-
able majority, • boteprovision Was made
Whereby only bona fideovorshiPpers will be
able to vOte.'. A voters' list, after' the• elec.• .
tore; pattern, will be prepared and bung on
the churchdoot, and would-be' voter's will
be compelled to declare that they are of
age, have been habitual Worshippers. auriog
three months; nod do not intend to 'vote
any other •dieesioh. • ,•
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A clergymen ip Pittsibniglately niterfied
a lady with ‘whont be received the substan-
tial dowry of 510,000 and a fair prOspect
for more. Seensiterward, while occupy-
•ing the pulpit, be gave out a hymn,' read
• the first four etanzes, and Was roading the
fifth, al•
' • 170t0Yer lettey gateau/ Wart "
Ms boundless grace adore-
-when he hesitated:, and exclitioted Ahem i
'The choir will omit the fifth vase,' and sat
down, The congregation, tittracte,4 by his.
apparent 'Sonftision, read the remaining
linos:
Which gives ten thousand blessings now;
And bids me bopo for more.
• The Popo nOw gives audience to Italia/1S,
even to those devoted to the king. lteeently
be received about 600 ladies, and they aro
not required to kneel' and kiss his' slipper, -
as forniorly. Ile now contentsliitself with
giving his ring to kiss, The gratitest fano.,
ties who attend his audience are the French
ladies. It is with the greated difficulty, ho
can restrain theft, • They Over big foot
_with kissesand tug at his, skirts lilic
maxima. Ho io obliged at times to be
rough with them find to push them off by .
force, Sometimes; he laughs, though sera -
times ho looksguite- angrily at them. But
• Whether ho laughs or frowns they continue
their road antics until' foreod away from
blit, and then thoy stand aside gestieniat-
ing and rolling their eyes in eestaey, much
10 the arnusemoutof thoother ladies, whom
obeisance te.the, Pope is IMO lona and
latubermit.
Pref. Smith's (Freo Churoh of Scotland)
;pinions hold strongly to tho oupernatnra• l
in the Bible, and to revgation, but not to
inspiration as generally defined. Ilo doeS
ret.pooty coroner's Timeiy Discoveryn
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she Case of a Little Wulf.
• . A deserted girl baby, about six Weeks
old., was found by a policeman. It was
sent to police headquarters, whore it was
cared foi.• by Ma.Eron *Webb up till about
noon, when it Was pot in the charge of the
-Department Of Charities and Correction.
Tho superintendent ordered the child te_be
• sent to Randall'S isIttiid; and tlio little 4nif
was taken in tho next waggon that started
fot the foot of East Twenty-sixth -street.
While on the way, however, the driver con -
eluded that the child had died, as it uttered
no sound, and that its proper destination
was the morgue, Accordingly, in passing
down East Twenty-sixth street, he stopiied.
and left the infant lying ou one of thci•
• ble slabs provided for the reception of
dead bodies until 'identified by; friends.
Deputy Cormaer Waterman happened to
be in the dead house making an autopsy on
another. `body. Ile was accompanied by
Dr. Finlyson, of Illinois, When ho had
finished the autopsy Dr. Waterman went
• to 'where the body of the infant was ly• •-
ing, and called Dr. Finlaysim'eatttention to
a wey of determining the ago of dead in-
fants. While henaling• the bedy the deputy
.coroner discovered. sign0 of life, and at 0140
sot to work to -try end reguecatete the little
etrangee. He worked vigorously for nearly
• au hour end was finally rewarded with sue-
Aattficiell respiration wee_ _kept „op
and hot baths and stimulants were given.
The child wasasent. to Wird 5Q iiiBelldviie
'kerb eetiftleh• ellY 74 -Attend
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. Something Like a Den. •
. Lord Fife's dinner and ball to tlie Prince
and Primess of Wales ere admitted to beim.
been an unusually brilliant success. The
'Princess of Wales was eliarming in white
tulle spotted with silver,. andeaeried an
enormous bouquet Of white exotics.. Eaph
.01 the lady -guests at the dinner was treated
• with • liko attendee, and . was presented
with, a; smaller bouquet of correspoodiug
flowers by tho gallantry of the noble host
Theptairease and 'ballroom offered ,
scope for the most beneetiftil floral echoer-
aticinea All the youth and beauty of .Lon-
don Were gathered tegether, aiid sporting
their best frocks •endall the jewels they
possessed; made a most brilliant coup
.The honors wore ,doho by the Countess of
Dudley. •Attirecl in .black, and • biasing
with diamonds, she Was indisputably the
most beautiful woman there. Lady Dad-
alWays pre-eminent 1 or her beauty
vitheneyer she apeioars : but Lady .Dodley
has another charm very necommon to the
tair sox and that is her. apparent einem-
soiorisoess • of her liadoulated -supeemaey..
:The 'most perfect .00up:d'oeil .Was in the
'simper -room. A spiteitfoe tent' had been
erected et.the back* of the niengioo.; .the
sides were of old tapestry hangings,. ence'
• the bright bloe canopy -ceiling was -at 0110Q
a tasteful and nova idea. At the furthoe
codwas a•etand-iip buffet; and at the -two
sids of the tent; iu front of it, wore form.-
• tains of .wato throwing their spray •into.
. basins ofwater,' which were edged. with
exotics and ferns, in which red and •• white
'were blooinieg in • abundance. The
body of the tent *as occupied by many•
round tables,gro main g with fruit andflowers,
at whial a hot supper was served...But,
perhaps, the Meet beautiful feature in the
:whole clisplokevere the six. enormous rose-
liushestwo 'white, • two ain,14 and two
• crimson-whibli . filled the corners:* and
boautifiy adereed the sides Of the • tent..
Those rose -trees, in point of size and for
Mese Of Womb., eould. have Vied successfully
,withtlicise'splendid specimens of the•queened,
flowers with which every (me is familiar
who attends; the iloWer-showe in the Regent's
eiark or at South Rensington. Altogether
the coup dacil ef this sopper-room was like
fairydand. •• . . • • •
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..U1110 Liverpool ingpeetore of explosives
„report that it quontity.- of- honey recently
'mime irate that port with a labolewcill cake-
lated te• aware peeper' Inindlieg for the'
package. In well displayed Mel largo
. letters, the caution' te .porters and others
ran thus': 'Handle gently as dynaiIiite. A
drop of ono inch will eaueceeertfun degtrue-
don to the contents.'' The word); 'brindle,
gently," dypatnitea oral certain destruc-
tion,' were, of course, printed in more
prominent typo than tiro reel), end mot (lee
well understand that little dernagowee
done. to the contents of that Ptielmg(s• •
The fifth vanntal cohforence qf believerd
.for Bible otudy' is how in motor) ft.VCI I flee
• Springs, There aro 250 par8Oltlihi ILLIPli
dance., miniptors, evengolletg, end Ch rnitisa t •
Workers from different parts of the .Goitd(I
StiddS Wad. Canada, reprolichtifig *wham
religious denominations. • •
Everything in nature indulge; in ihnune
moot. The lightning plays, Go whol
whistles, the thunder rolls, tho snow .111 es,
tho waves leap, and the fielde tonne. Even
tho buds shbot and the rivers run, •
uow cOftlea it that you dared
break into this • gentleman's house in
the dead of night?' Prisoner -J Why,
judge, the other tirno you roproaolied nie
for stealing in broad day, Ain I.not to ba
.alleWed to work at all?'
Creamy Roman pearl heads aro fashion-
tiblo as neeklaeo$ for young holies', Clusters
of flowers small worn at the centre of the
• Corsage above the bolt.
SeAeutifie asid_Useital JotthigS;
. It Las been estimated that 100,000 miles
of underground chambers exist in the lime.
tone of Kentucky.
England bas a new pest, the tipula grub,
which ultimately develops -into a daddy
long -lege.' It is very destrutive to vegeta-
tion, and its ravages have 1)econao quite
serious.
Paris gets its water oupply frothsixteen
largo reservoirs situated, on elevated points
in different parts of the city, iuto which the
water is pumped and from which it flows
out through more than 875 miles of pipes.
Prof. Alilne hes found the Jepaueso to be
very keen archaeologists. They have made
numerous valuable collections of stone im-
plements, ancient pottery, eta., from the
abundant remains of their country, the
general belief among them being that such,
objects are freaks of nathre.
A. rain of dust in the Besses.Alpes during
five days of last April gave a reddish tinge
to the snow on the mountains to a height of
nearly 10,000 feet, the snow higher up re-
maining white, The dust is supposed to
haxe been of terrestrial although not vol-
canic origin, Somewhat similar showers
fell in France in 1.840 and 1803.
Among the elegant nOvelties of the hour'
now offerag for sale on the Paris boule.
yards are phosphorescent flowers, which
glow with a lambent light in the dark and
rival their natueal tints, They are render-
ed luminous by coating the petals with
transparent size and then dusting them
with phosphorescent substance, such as
sulphide of calcium.
From carefully studied records of the
occuiience of certain diseases in the pet,
an English physician infers that epidemics
sweep over the couutry. in (mite regular
periods, tho cycles being of abut the fol-• •
lowing length ; 'Whooping cough, four
Yeers"; small -pox, four to five years;
measles, seven years scarlet fever, fifteen
to twenty years. ,
In a vecent note to the VionotoAcademy,
Herr Selzer offers an estimato*(basell on
numeration) of the probable nunabor of
optio nerve fibres aud of retinal cones in a
Lumen eYe. The oumbot of the fotmer.ho
supposes to be about 438,000, that of the
• latter 3;300,000. • This gives seven or eight
cones for each nerve fibrie supposing ell
' fibres of. the optic nerves to be conneeted
with !cnees, egequally- distributed among
th
The plant.most sensible to electricity is
:the Ville. When lightning strikes iu a
vineyard the Idaves affected are turned red -
brown or deep'green, which circumstance
shows, in the opinion of Prof. Colladon,
that the electeicity descends in a shoot or
shower, and net in it single point," as is
• usually believed, the large number of vines
touched proving that the' lightning hae
covered a large (tree, The peofessor finds
this theory coefirmed by au -observation on,
-a -tree which eve.riately struck. • •
• A foreign Medical journal reports that
hypodermic injections of philocarpine in
certain diseases of 'the eye laidenot eolY
the effect ot curing the diseases, but of
restoring the 'hair pa the heads of patients.
One men, ciente bald, was suffering frore
double catered. Three' iojections of the
phibeearpine wore.performed ia fourteen
days. The membrane over thepupil of the
eye disappeare.d.', ondthoheadetiret becitraa.
, covered with a thick down' and then' with
• an abundant crop. of hair. ,
. A snieular pheimmenon . was rafelk•
7.41..igar-ieLee1eeanCu, raerinkVa: •.:"Jfif4t
beferie polarise ' an . enormous nunib'er
luminous betties' rosefrom the horizon and
passed in a horizontal. coarse from east to
wept. Sante of them seemed of the size Of
a Walnut, waile-ethersaeseinleled the.sriarke
flying from a chimney. They moved
throegh space like it string of beads,' and
emittedat. remarkably 'brilliant light. Tho.
belt. doutaining table 'appeared about ten
feetin lengthandtWo or tareefeet inevidth.
•The clynogrePh earewluch the Boston. La
'Albany Railroad Company are testing on
• theirroad, accomplfshos the .recoedieg ot
the motive power aged in drawing a train
by the transmission- orthe :force imparted*
,by the car's draw:bar, to it piston
working . in . e, cylinder filled with . oil
.to a pen Which draws a • diagram' of the
train's resistance on a voll.pf paper. -*Other •
pens • record the, .distance stravelled, 111
seconds, minutes and houts; the • -revoln--
• tions of the clriaing Wheels, the mite posts
they are passed, th.e curves etod straight
Ji1eso1 the track:the:Water used and etteli
hovelfol ef cool put on the engine fire,
every' °escapement of hie& smoke from
'the chininey, and the tale of the mietaothee
ter en the top of the pa
be, used te determine...the relatiVe differ,.
ence.between the. vatieue ,kinds ' of joints
and ballast:061=011y ueed du railreadsa
question which has been pioolitientl.y Mere •
the general niaatagete,of Alto anclhrhen onde
settled will be the -means 'of ' saving large
sums of Molloy tei the-• • corporations and
bringing about better roaddaechi. ; ."
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short time age,' -writes C.CootributOr
to " Landand Water, ''•a, friend of mine) • saw
two sparrows -reale and feniale-Which
ovidentlY had some elisptito to.settle; as
they • twittered about each other.fOr soneca
time, • then commenced ifi downright
earnestness to fight. Being uueholiestedin
this dornoralizing game, they continued in •
doer) combat for seVeral, Minutes, 'neither
giving in , • ancl ball appearances they. had .
made up there minds tofight until there
was nothingloft butthero tails.' My friend,
having no porticultir call :Upoo hie. time,
tbought ho would lido ,the end of awe fray,
if end there. was to be, go he *watched the
pugnacious .bipeds until' it was a mutual
give in," they haviiig' fought.. until they
couldnoither walk not fly. He thequietly.
walked up and deliberately •piolted" •tho
oeinbatants up, . just as ho Weald .have
picked up anything Hideo, sopowerless
wore they. to -get out of hik reach.' -
A lady writes in the LOndinf, Trull) cone,
corning a repent drathatio representation:
.had noticed in an .oepportite. box. a lady in"
crearteeoloread setin and superb orimments,
who•appeored to be more than half
As I woe coming out I encountered her. • A
gentleman in f amities's evening dross Was
fuldrefising her ip a leer voice. I heard. him
}My:. 'Stand 0.5 straight SS you cad. The
(wring') will bo here in a mothent, * You
Intuit Mend staraglit." • A kind' of "e.
1001( WM; 011 MS face.- , His companion Was
toXicatedi • A tow man -lents later lip' al.
meet lifted her into teearriageewhieli relied
(may to 0e0 of the statlies•t homes in Eng,'.
ir a can be ..called whore the
wieder gime the oyo of his own servants,
!Mowing' time they are aware of his wifo's
11 I ;carom,.
(in" "aridity morning at; Naa • 5 G. T. 11.
)811,1111, WKS bOtsveen Carelechie end
leo (ma a lady intenefiger gave birth to tv
lino boy. Mother and child aro cluing well.
onsip of the tee store Iloilo, Brown,
evlett are yore cluing 11(1,0 7 tliought y01.1
L111410(1 tit iillOr1.W010101 ? 1)1(111't 110 Still
you 7, Brown (itioderateiy)--.' Well, yes,
he suited. inc, but lie did uot ;suit mo to it
tea;.' •
A west end man whose wifo olefins houso
four times a.year and sweeps nine timeo.8.
week, sap; sho is hopelesoly afflicted with
chroule hroomatisna,
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rarclE TRADE ArreAlto
Address of the Cobden Chid, to
the American raroters.
bosT OF PROTECTION-CONDEU-
NA.TION TIIE AMERICAN
i
In a, crible des)p°aCtclliitolfNJune 13th, it was
stated that the Cobden Club is sending to
Americo large numbers of a brochure en-
titled The Western Farmer of America;
by Augustus Mongredien, the object being
to sbow western agriculturists how much
they pay for protection. T,he pamphlet in
question consists of thirty pages,
In the introduction the anther says
the golden rule for successful
• trading is to buy itt the cheapest, and
sell in the clearest market ;' but, strange to
say, the American farmer, by whom is
meant the producer of all articles derived
from the soil, whether grain or cotton,
=teeter tobacco, reverses thiefrule, selling
in the cheapest and buying in the dearest
market. M. Mougreeion thou endeavors to
•flow ']tow =loll is actually taken ecteh
year out of the pocketa of the American
farmers by compelling them to buy dear,
instead of allowing them to buy 'cheap goods.'
Taking the figures . of the last census
he says there were, in round numbers
2,000,000 ef persons engaged in manufac-
tures who wore exclusively privileged to
supply nearly all the physical wants
(except food andlodging) of the other
10,500,000 _workers and their
Confining himself to the 0,000,000 of agri-
culturists, who, he estimates, must by this
time have increase(' to 7,000,000 with their
tho, author ' asks, What is the
average animal expenditure on all articles
..of consumption, except food end •driuk, by
each of these familiee?'
elm mamas eon Toe entire.
Ou careful investigatioo end consulta-
tion with eonsctentious iuquirors, and with
persons most competent to judge, he says,
we feel confident that we Aro within the
mark in computing puck annual expendi-
ture at e200 per family, including within
that average the small minority of unmet-
ried men among the 7,000.900 agriculturists.
It 11111St bo borne in mind that this amount
inOludes L Woollen, cotton, linen and
fabrics,- awl, therefore; evtry.species
of clothing for nettle and female, as
also shoots, curtains, blankets, carpets, etc.'.
2. Iron and steel manufacfares, end there-
fore all ironavdrk, wire, cutlery, tools,
farming implements, farriery, agricultural
machinery, as well as eailWay conveyance
on iron, which cost very much more thaw
it would have 'cosb liad it been imported
frona, abroad, • 3. Leathern fabrics, And
therefore boots and shoes, saddlety,
gloves, etc. 4. Earthenivare and crockery,
tinware and glass and 'numberless ether
household necessaries, all" of which
comp under the pvioe inflating infloonae—
'of tho custems teriff. It is on these
objects that the, greater portion of- the
agriculturist's outgoings VA expended, for lio.
is but at little expense for his food. More-
over, this yearly average of $200 per family
comprises- a largo umber' of rich end well
to do persons, audit May sefely be aesuined
cia rather metier than -ver the reality. Haig/ -
nag now Cleared the way thus far it is easy
to calculate the total sum ammelly ..speut.
Sli
baittinfactured-gocclety-the'farroersand
'agriculturists' generally of the great pentral
•-aaarloveeterheatateee, Ara,91-int being
$200 to ---7,0a0,000-inIailies,-iaS -
Cleared the carrying trade of the world. with
England; alba.' not only that is lest, but
your own produce is carried away from
your own ports in foreign bottoms. Is it
that the American of to -day has degener-
ated itt euergy, kibl or enterprise? Not a
bit of it. But here also protectioo hae
stied its baneful influence. -Iron has super-
seded wood in the enistruction of large
ships, and your tariff makes iron nearly
twice as oostly to tho American shipbuilder
as it is to las 'British rival. Abolish your
import duties, and you will epeedity seo
your mercantile merino restored to it$
former splendor.'T1tn I11:41311r:
AL Mougredien's remedy is, of course, the
repeal of the tariff. lie 001101100K as fol.
lows: Let the American fermees give their
support to no cautlidate for a, seat in the
Hoose of Represeutativee who acme not
pledge himself if elected. to prolame, or at
least to vote for 88. reduction of five per
cont. every successive yeer on Alio import
duties till the whole are abolished' Never
mina what party he may belong to. The
relief of the farmers from an intolerable
burden is not, menet be, arid must not be it
party euestion. 11 18 itparamount and in,-
evitttble measure which comeit before,
overrides and taste into the shade all party
distinctious. To refuse the abolition of
the tariff is to refuse justice to the agricul-
turists. It amounts to a persistance iu the
iniquity of couti•ecating the farmer's pro-
perty. Up with the tariff meaus'cloym
with the farmer.'
If it be saide tett abrogation of the
tariff would suppress one of tho sources
of state revenue, the western _farmers
ready reply avoateLlegot of the $100,000,-
000 yearly taken Tram us only e60,000,000
go to tho revenue. • Tliere are plenty of
-ways of raising a.00,000,000 of revenue
withouta..esorting to the clumsy, 'wasteful,
roundebolit precess of inflicting on us a lose
9211400,000,000 to enable the state to got
§C0,000,000. You Might as well pay that
there is ne other way of roosting it pig thee
by burning clown the 'muse. 'We anal bo
all the bettor able to pey the taxes necoa-
sertarrg
yintos replace the import duties if our
n
aro loft with us intact.'
11;011.i.ES., '
The death of Robert aadito Tennant;
D. L., and ex-rucznber of Parliament for
Belfast, is recorded.
Tile Lords of the Treasury have ;Minsk
to lend the municipality of Dublin more
money, It already owes ever 5,000,000. •
In it return just published it is stated
that the total uumber of emigrants who.
left Ireland during tlio • quarter ended
March 31st was 15;551. ••
• A young man untried. Thomas Hall has
been remencled in Dublin ea it charge of
having stolen £1,080, tho property of his
falter, a cattle dealer in Mumehester.
An iatellident correspondent of tho Deb -
lin Freeman's Journal prepheAiee the ger-
oaring of abundant Moe -este he heeled this
year from July to November: • '• .
Lord Leonia:id bas remitted .12 per cent.
of his tenants' rents itt Eildeseat diserict.
• His lordship hos aleo pool:ideal hie Unseats
With:flour and setid peteteeta • • ,
In tha.townland:of Dallynotity
rick', a house itt Winch an evicted. tenant
,-(Patrielt aleleeye. lived was recently
initil-
ci�us1 bottidd to the grotto& :by gemvP-Ora-
sou or pelefoup onkumvu, . • . • •
Theltish..pepulationit-tluigunlaiLl",lay
--terairle,130a-,5;10•,-h-treirecobettreeettrittels
agdit
cTurbig
tlie: eiliaVtlerao readetrt abyseritieattatiotee-
Thik brings it back (tiniest to the number
of 1803-0,210,320, einpo whictotimeit had
continued to inereaSe... • " .
a1,1.0fa000,000-itotheregate-a-eTheenest
step is to -ascertain what portion of
.that amount the. western farmers would
save if, by the abolition of import duties,
they Were left *free to supply their wants
froin the clidapest .market, wherever that
might be, whether in America or in
rope, whether in New England or iu Old
• England. To or On. the gide of ceution'we.
histead- of:50 per cent. or 421. , per
ent.,`talto 40 per pent- asthe overoluergo"
which'ethe western farmers- have to pay
f or the geode which they require to supply
their wants.• Now we., have . shown. that
their: antival " expenditure on the sup-
ply' of those wants amounts in the aggro.
gate to a1,400,000,000. Let he SW what pro -
'portion of that sum is onnecessarify squaia-
dared, ...It the. American farmers were
• allowed to buy, as they could buy, for $100
what they are. now compelled to ay$140
:for, it is creep that they .ebuld buy' for
.51,000,000,000 what they 110W pay 1,400,..
000,000 for, and eonsequently they wotild
save 'It400,0.00,000 every yea, In other
words, by being left free to buy where they*
epuld buy cheapest, they would benefit to
the extent of 6400,000,000, which the , new
• ose y re opera ion 0 t le protective'
• . • .. • -
• • • . .
° Wilt= T114,X0'$.EY•C;ous, • •
, • M. ISIcalgredien next entice/eel-a to aeon -int;
for tho e400,009,000,- whiele 'lie says; • are .
taken •oatelf, thepockets of the farmer.' ile
• sari The penoontof eustomS revenue in.
1878 ,wn,s' $130,000,000, of which: ho esti-
mates the *fern:lees Contributed about
009,000,1eavina$340,600,000.to he accounted
for. Straelge- as it may apPeara ho adds',
' analysig and extunination show
thet ftlI this money has been end is
spian-
dered and wasted, spent as. recklessly .the it
would be in hieing an army anion to
dig holes and fill thane op. again. Nto
• thing whatever is got by anybody in
return .for those 010,000,060,- and that
suite is simply. thrown, away and -sacrificed
to make nr, fer the want of skill.or of eapi-
.tal,'or of Whatever else it may be, by reason
of which-tho eastern opumfacturer makes
ntertiore profit by. selling AU artiele•at t 140
*then the lirieishereclee's by gelling the sante
article et -a100. If„ indeed,. the eastern
manufacturer could produce the: article for
e100,-andif he did get e1•40 fen it, he would
be bonefitted end enrioliee and 11 might
. some' consolation to, the farmers for their
loss.of 5310;000,000. a year that it, went to
form largo acearaulations of 'wealth irt
thepockets of their• fellow-citiZerie
• in ' Sic eastern' states. • But this . eon-.
solatimt does nOb exist, ...end wo•'• shall
presoutly ;Show tett, in spite • of the
ecormotts siuraovercleargocl.to•the farmers,
the profits of the easternonanufacturot are
procarmas, elactuatipga awl by no means
above tho average •of other efectmations.
His charge of '5140 for what • the Britisher
can afford to sell for .0100 only loaves' him
a bare- living profit, beeneaseit assts him
$4Q more to -produce the article • than it
costs the Dritisher.. ;Why this should be
'the case we :eatinot 'here -POI to inettire,
hub "guell is the fact Indeed,. 'how oleo
could British • geode bo largely inmorted
into tbue States in spite ot tho •it;), per
cont, intrOrt duties which they have to
. fit support of his position AL Morigiorlieft.
points to the commercial depresmon of leee
years, and pertioularly to the decay of
American •commoree. Ito 'Writes; "In
spite of the vast expansion of tlorworld's
commerce tho tomiago of the ttnitea Settee
mercantile navy is actually lies now then
11 was twenty years ago. Vrcon 1855 to
1863 it was upward of 5,000,000 tons ; front
1.871 to 1878 it was little more than
000. Englisletonnege itt 1801-wo,s 4,350,000
tons; and in 1877 it , was 0,115,000f
Within the lost twenty -years English
tonnage hag 'hennaed"by, 2,000,000
tons, while yours has diminished by
1,000,000, l'ormerly your mercantile bevy
. .
• • A.yoting girl. nained Valiancy, residing
at the Rock; Lencloncletry, died lately from.
hydrophobia.. The girl was bitten .some
tee- day s •beforeby o cat: • liaegerous symp,
• •
toms develepeil •cluring ethe week, 'and site;
died after teueli agony.. .• ••
'
. Mia meeting of the North Dublin Guatcl-
• inttsa resolutionhas bemi adopted calling
f or. the immediate publicotion oethe.11oyal'
• Commissioe's report,,on. the sanitarystate
of thweity, in view of 'the continnance of a
high death rate„,and the evident inereaSe of
sinall.pox and fever. -
'An aPplication is about to be made- to
Forstele: Chief Secretary for Ireland,.
to (tea Inne to ecceive a•deputation•of ladies
interested in the subject Of intermediate.
education fee girls,in Ireland: The.recent
'appropriation of ono million leom the
surPlas funds of the Disestablished Chureh.
of 'inland has helped materially in the
• edu.cetion of be3r$ of the .middle class; but
I •
•
tion of girls in the smile condition off life.
The • "Gel -ideal 'Assembly of -the 'Presby
teeitto Chinch ine Ireland ,e6mmenced its
minuet deliberations --on •tho 7th inst. itt
Belfast, :wheal n Pere:ton • was' pi:Oohed by
the •eutgeingmoderetor, the Rev. Professor
:Watts, D. De of.Delfeat. •• The -election of
• -the new moderetoe Was .thon 'proceeded'
With. Twenty-five presbyteries nominated
t he Rev. Jeckson Smyth, D. D„ of Armagh,
• brother of the'late Professor Smyth; M. P.
for:Londonderry ; and twelve presbyteries
returned no ninninaticms. Dr. .e.inytle was
accorelipobe elected unanimously..
Smythe who Was tot:011;4. with loud. 4 -
plats(); delivered' an ralchess.
• • ire:A.04E05 ON DitlAitte slur. .
• • • —
A Sailor Pibo; Tstncl by tile eiecond
elate Of toot -ova sentient vessel,' .
• Sr. ;Tenet, N.B.:Jame 27.-a1io arrival of
tho ship Lillie Soullard, .fronaPhiltitlelphie
• today, cligelesea tho .faei; that rt.' tragedy
.aceterred •911 board that vessel yesterday'
morning. It appears that there was some
trouble on Friday night between tlio ilist
mate audit Kalov homed. James Lanibern
reltitiVe to storing. The olieputt was re-
newed betweele 4 and e o'clock on Saturday
morning when the vessel wee. off • Machine,
Seel .ieland. Leathern x1.18110(1 at the first
niatewith e. belaying pinewaereupon. Wina
Mullielland, second mato, drew a revol-
ver in the Mat mete's defence and tired.
• The bullet:Mitered. the right side and
severed. an . artery ancl the unfortunate
man died in ten minutes. ••Tho affair wits
"witnessed by nearly all tho •crew. Whene
the vessel arrivoilltere today the. inflator,.
Captain Hillan, sent •word to the • authori-
ties, Artilholland was brought ashore -and
placed in tho police station, and the corpse
vets removed. to the morgue. Mulholland.
halls from Belfast. 'Whoa intervicsVecl this
evening„ li professed. great regret for his
not, 81141 Baia, it Wag 1111int011ti011fth TIO de-
cateed he drew the: revolt•eea ititending
merely to if; timidete the man, '-and that
the deadly weepet; o Reif -cocking revolYer,
tiff .necittentaiiy.----Tioreittierree (myth()
shooting was unnecessary. Tlie decemed
llailu from London, and was about 40 years
of ago. An inquest will be held to -morrows
The Lillie Soullard haile trent Yarmouth,*
N. /3.
In retied hats preference is givoli to.
Italieng wows named Zulu braids. As a
rule they are not boconiing nor aro they
pretty, though every tenth women one
meets has it Zola on her head. At tho
seaside these hats aro suitable, as they
shade the face, and the • fiction of tho S1111
and air does not seem to affect the color el -
the straw.
•
aca7.OSe7aa"7.•=ca."•=s3"•aresallaaa'20FOre'—
WIRE lia3A1419l_tt00.15; IT:X10.00lNift
*r."0...;;;;;Avr rgrovning40 Of ;he Shooting:
et poasioble 24.orrigon. •
Gram, June 28. -On Seturday it wale
i
.reported n the city that it rourder•bad oc-
curred ttt Bueltinglitto), a man named Wee„
Honey shooting it constable named 11forri-
sou; wig/. Was endeavoring to arrest 'brit -
V (waxer particulars have now been received:
and it appears that the affair -took place nt'
Bearbrooki Ituseell county, ,some.
twenty-two miles . from the city. The'
feets of the ceseare as fOITOWS About 1.30.-
o'cloek• on Friday afternoon, Morrison',
who is the owner of a stallion, was engaged
itt . Mr. Gilbert Nelsou'e, itfootnote
residing twomiles from his own placee,
when Wm. lIesieo and his brotherdn4w, it
man reveal Ilarrae, came up to the gate
and tola Morrison, WhO ?Vas in the ban/ -
yard, that they wanted him. Morrison
replied tied he would come 0.8 90011 as:begot
through what lie weeat, and Heney and
Harris- waited. Wheii Morrison went down
to the. gate Honey .swore 8.1 bien and dared .
hiro to arrest him now. 111errison replied,.
Ifeney, 1 have no warrant to take you and
want nothing at all to do with ;you,' •
Harris made a race lit. -Morrison
for .the purpose of -beating him,. •
hilt was caught Alia thrown down*
by 0, 'pile of logo near- the gate... When.
Harris got him he attempted to seize hold
of Morrisowby the legs for the purpose. of
throwing him. down. Morrison .olinehed.
iiia, and while they wore •itt this position
Haley drew a, reeolvet end Allot Morrison
ie the left side, the . bell lodging • in the,
spine of the back.. After tho sheeting •
Morrison walked from the gate to N•elson'a. .
house., two acres distaet. He ley down
on the sofa; but his wounds were eo
Lul that he was carried. out 'into the: yard,
and laiadown dialer it tree. A (looter was • . •
ent for andon liiarrival cleeleredth
-.wound was fetal. Mr, Nelsoil wanted_ to.
*scud ta Ottawa for a (looter, but was 'tad. •
tli
•s$ tlutt.. • ,
et it was no. use, as nothing could saved
Merrison's•life, This proved to be the case ;..
he•liogerecl on in. -great pain for some 24 , ..'• • ,
hours, when death put snood to los suffet. • • '
inge.. Yesterday meriting, an inquest Was
held, and a verdict of murder' aeiaa
• doted:, against Honey, Iii the afteroome -
• the- funeral tool( plecotoftline"x1Neloriu-:gtiNe4tae.l.asoilitiee'ers...
. was a Man "about 25 -years, af age„
:four weeks teem Maley is ealephow of John • • • .
(Ilieffalo) Homy; ef Ottawa, and ie abut
• 30 years. qf age. 'The Affair originated Out • •
Hatri
and Ellie got out - a., warrant for. his . arrest •
wbiich waeplacod. in thd lianas of Morrison, -a .
house; where Morrieou died. • • The•decea,secl -
but loa.ves a wife and thee° children. .
generally. liked. -His father. was buried. . •
of e diflioulty winch occurred last •Merch. •
IIe• 'Was raised. ill the tawnsbip and was •
Honey is said, Vahave beltea Aire.
who Was .0 'coifs -table,
wont to Honey's houso. one., n
dark, but tho offender Managed after it •..
• scuffle' to effeet hieescape, emilaiiiing. away '
until lately when he returned and 'renewed • , • •
•the quarrel as• already stated. Ile is still. • - „
• abeargebut there is.. reason . for believing • .. •• .•
that he 'weiin elle day yesterday. In any • • • .
events:), blac'. whiskerecianen resembling; . ...•
hint is, said to beve:Tioeitleeti IyinginT tire' •-• •••
liaittolii• bra' geaggeff-afeeelliell'alediatia Ofsaae
las was dieting to .•Ottawee Tlio local au- . • '
thorities. de: pot •appear ;to ..aeve made '0,ny... • „•
attempt to arrest- him. • . „ • ,
• ''''''.14iii4iing,1,7i.iiii.ai.fEre'eff.r.ctir
• px.;'Sieinelas home, lose read before the. .
•
oaSpapteanteethozeactiteitoplictitionatifathoetoe..•":Oat.-
"tlyptimo-electrie. current •to • Metallurgy.. •
horticulture, • and • the ...teansmission 0 • • ••
prOter,..in which he gives the latest restilts.•-•
' ofhis iovestigetiope and experiments Qfl.
this subject,. alp • :deporibecl; an electric• , • •
fuenece Which heaays is 'Moro oce.nomicel .
thee:the ordiutiry cir furnace; .and which„ •
_so tar as eeeocatty of fuel..is oouqemned, is .
•.imarly equal tothdrOgendtati•vegestOrnecee • '". •
DePiales other 'adv.antages .cleireed for it, it. .. . •
is •capealeef analnaost 'unlimited degree Of • - '
• heat • Successful' experiments . With • the .
epparatos mado. by the lecturer la • the. '
.presence of thoe. ethicai. andienee were • • 7.
'latiledwith ringing ouioer. Dr. Siemens' -
leteet havestigatioas ponfirm the announee- •
'moub made .sometimo. ago coneereing the.. .
•aalue' .of theetectrici light in - horticulture:. •
He has reached the Conclusion thatelectrie •
1ightprtluoest1io coloring mettevelildrophyle • •
itt tac'eleteVeS ..ef plento belps .grewth, • ;
•eminterectsethe effects of night frosts.; and. -• . •
..fielvitnees. the settingand ripening:of feuitio
• tho. epoi!--;...e.•eNo).t-en•to-.4o .plants not need . •
most .diering the . 24 llama:, but their, gtOWth.: .•
may be materially advaimedby exposure to . "
•-authatletaolt-tr44.egotheealte-y-and-to eleCtrie "
light (luting the night. At. least, this is
tlicresttlt of eeporimeats catriedenduriug ; • .
cerettio short periods. . tine eenclusion," .. • ,
_is:. -ie.' harmony •Orith'eeliat Dr: ; •Sebobelee' :•
Anna in. "Norway; . namely," that in -
prolonged doylighe of ..N.orthete, .serepners .
oilepte.produce• mere". beilliant flowers, an1l • -
...tart* end more arm/lathe fruit than :are - •
. semi in •thore southerlY countries WIteee the "
light of day end the darkness of night are .
..about • equal ..in daretion. Dr: Siemens•
..bayipramend that plants uildo the infla- • • . •
ence otelectric. lig-ht 'cam stand iecreased.
artificial heat expressos the •opinion that • • . -
forcing maybe successfully .effeeted,, and •
•that excellent fruit and-beentifut flowers ..
may he grewn. Without ineinedittte oeolar. • •
.help .• pr, -Siorpolia . has . mule extensive
preparations . for • experienenting • .on. . a. .
worlaeg •spolo itt his -felon next winter.
Arteeng • other questions whichlue ovishere
to -determine is 'Which part of the •• reys.
'coastline)* ev.hito light OrOduees ..•
phyl„ starcheanclwoody fibreo•and."tebieln • • -
pert ceases theiruie to-rtheo. •• • • •
Werirthe Citizen desirous Of eating justly.
in regard to the Turtle Mountain Settlers it.
wonlii publishtheir menorial and state
tho ;whole case. "rho fact -that they settled
in 'Start Of Bolt E, which has since been .
found unusuallyfertile'does 'not invalidate.
their clainiS, establighed under Orders -in.
Connell in force at the time they went.
there. -Tho fact pf the Matter is-, that it - •
conipanY, coMPosecl of certain supporters of
the Government, has secured a charter for-
a railway .threngli the Turtle' •Mountain •
region; and it is "tide eeinpany .which is .•
letieging.pressure to hear on the Govern.
malt '' to • 'alter the • regekaions, • 86
that its Member() inay derive all
.banefitof the• sales •of land •
at a high1i
er :ilea Mum could 'otherwise be
obtaindd. It is nothing elsollian 8.11 atterapt
by a colathituttion of capitalists to monopo-
lize a most valuable stretch of cot:Entry under
the nameof a railway conipany. .
Government IP playing .into the hands ni •
these speculators and hence the. Vexatious.
orderioin.coancil of.whiali the settlers com-
plain. • Aleantiate, the effect of the land
policy linus been to statt an Geodes from:
Manitoba and wo aro assured that hundreds
of Canadian settlers aro pulling up stakes
and crossing the: lino into Dakota, where
they can obtain land ef equal, if not groat. • •
or valitel free front the In1luence/1 now un-' •
fortunately dominant in Canada..; ---Ottawa.. •
Free Press,.
The Vietoria Assembly has rejoeted the
bill for refortning the Constitutio'n by it
vote of d13 to 41, and the Governor will. .
probably dissolve thelfouse, Tile Ministry
have advised the Governor to diesolve•
Piano/moot.
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