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SHEE ER RRP ART ] ] $i He pi 7 | RAXD TRUNK TIME TABLE OSEAW.A STATION. OSUAWA TIME GOING WEST, | GOING EAST. wogiy moda'n, 7:48 am. Mall. « « : TiS am. Sprees, - - 12S am. { Mised, «= + «3% pm. | BNxed,. . . 52 pm. | Express, - © - ®press, « - 10:13 pom. | Passenger, - «7:17 pom The morning express goes upon Sunday morn- :g, ut not on Monday. x | WHITBY STATION. Trains going East Jeave Whitby Station ten | inutes earlier, and those goligz West fifteen inutes later than the above. Gulmio Beforaer, | ee -- eee n. A Cehawa, Friday, Feb. 23, 1872 It is expected that thd present seision . 'of the Ontario Lezislature will be brought | So a close by the middle of next week, and do that end in view, business is being Jexpedited as much as possible. Quito "a arge number of public and private Bills | | "have received consideration and obtained | '§ 'the sanction of the House, and the busi- | } "ness of the session includes many measures. | which will prove of the greatest benefit to the Province. The ability and vigor | which have characterized the new Ministry | i thus far in their administration of public ance of the building. The entrance is on | Mz: DatryyprLE has given notice of an | . King street, by to doors, one on each | enquiry in the British House of Commons, | corner ; and from the one on the east | whether the British Government which they had erected ; and hopeil that | Tnx Dominion Parliament will meet the balance yet required to pay off the {on the 11th of April. debt on the church would be subscribed | Sir John's chances of English honours before the meeting closed. ! for his share in the treaty business are Subscription lists were opened, and in a | beginuing to grow beautifully small. short time more than thie full amount-- | . £1,003 --was subscribed, thus releiving the . ¥The Hamilton Standard advocates | voting by ballot, and wants to know who Pastor of " great deal of anxiety. will second him." -- London Advertiser. The choir furnished good music at inf}. Some other fool, wo suppose. tervals during the meeting ; and a vote of | thanks was tendered to them and to the | . chairman for their efficient services. | men of Hamilton, ta the number of 150; * The church is a very handsome edifico-- have issued a protest against the nine inside and out, built of white brick, and hours' movement. is of the Romanesque style of architecture, 36x30. The tower on the east coruer of believed in official circles that no attempt the building is not yet finished ; but when | will bo made to carry the fisheries clause completed will add greatly to the appear- | of the Washington Treaty. have corner access to the gallery is obtained, which rans across the front of the Church. The pulpit is American style--a platform during the approaching fi with a small moveable desk, and is fitted | up very neatly. taken steps to provent a collision' between ing seasom. Tue Attorney General Yrought his great : Mr. Langley, waa the | speech to a close on Wednesday in the Tich- nichiveet 3, May Brother, masons ; Gay, | borne trial, sud the examination of wit nd J. & R. B. Dickie, enrpenters ; and | oases for the defenco then commenced. J. Brewer, painter and glazier. ~ 5 | Lord Bellow was placed in the witness- (| E-- | box, and his evidence was very damaging Mi Nos~, agent for the Chemical | to the claimant. Fire Engine, wa) in town yesterday and | Tre Geneva Arbitration, and the pre- put one of those engines to a severe test. | . : ga ry : | posterous claims put forth for consequential A large pile of dry pine boards, saturated | damages by the American Government still Tas manufecturers, builders and trades- | A Desrarcu from Ottawa says: Itis | | the American and Canadian fishermen | || MR. ROEBUCK AT SHEFFIELD (From the Liverpool Mercury.--) The present aspect of political and socia | allairs was the topic of Mr. J. A. Roebuck | in an address to his former constituents at Shefliald last evening. The address had beea postponed for a month, owing to the | illness of the Prince of Wales. The Music Hall was filled in every part. T. Moore Ysq., Mayor of Sheflicld, presided. Mt. Roebuck, on making his appearance | on the platform, was received with enthu- | sinstic applause. He began his address by simply because he was asked. He Lad no personal object in coming, and none that | one who had paid somo attention, through | a long career, to tho politics of the coun- | try, and' also, on the other hand, togive some friends of his an opportunity of hear- | ing those opinions publiely expressed. (Ap- plause.) He had passed his life in the turmoil of politics, and was now cast, as it | were, on the banks of some rushing river. | He might look at that river with calmness | and equanimity, and to greater advantage { than if he was mixed up in the turmoil of | what was taking place on its bosom. (Ap- plause.) The opinions he was aboit to express, 'must not be taken as the direct | inspiration of the moment, but as tho re. | sult ofa life passed in the contemplation affairs, give promise that with a little more | with coal vil, was set on fire; and after | co 1 agitate the public mind in Eng- bof affairs about which he was talking. i gime to devis: and mature measures, the | i interests of the country will be advanced in a degree hitherto unapproached by any. * Administration. , Remedies have already been provided for many existing abuses | of public funds and properties, the rights | of settlers on new lauds more fully gnar- | anteed, an ead put to the control of eur | the flames had gotten full headway a small | h 3 : land. stream was turned on them and they were | point has yet been manifested, either by instantly extinguished. The Reeve, Mr. | the English people or the English press. Glen, and others who were present ex- | pressed themselves as perfectly satisfied | with the result of the trial. We have nct | room for an extended notice this week ; | The Teachers and Pupils of the Sabbath but. will add an extract from a ** Card of | gchool, Dunbarton, held their Anniversary No disposition to yield on that DUNBARTON. local affairs by the Dominion Government, | Thanks ¥ s guarantee given that ths House shall not be filled with the paid servants consequently subsarvi whatever Government "and other reforms of Judging then, 1y what has been already ; done in the very short tenure of office of | mentality the Ref rm Government, we say the conn- | try has ciuse to rejoice and ent supporters ol may be in power, like importance. -- at the cliange Te" which appeared in one of the |.8ocial, on Friday evening, the 16th inst., Belleville papers, after the fire there on | | 6th inst, from Mr. A.-L. Bogart. After | £| returning thanks to the fire brigade he | adds : "And partieularly to Capt. Nunn, | | for the: use of one of his Chemical Fire | Engines, 'mainly through wh:se instru- | jicered by Dr. Tucker, Revds. W. K. Ross, the fire was stayed." and. Pesttio. B= = EEEESBE H A Sociar will be held in the lower story cently effected, and to expect that a caree" | of the Sons' Hall (where tables will be when a large number of friends met to en- joy the evening. John Parker, Esq., the Superintendant | of the School, presided on the occassion. | Able and interesting addresses were de- 4 The music by the choir was said, by competent judges, to be par ex- | cellence. An abundance of cakes and fruit, provided by the Ladies, was served during of unexampled prosperity and development | crected for the purpose) on Tuesday even- | the evening. The meeting was one of the inin store for this Pruvince during the | ing next, 27th inst., in connection with | best; everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, "coming few years. Tru 1g, we must expect | the Division. It is to be got up by the | that the party of Slander and Obstruction, { unmarricd members of the order, who are and went away well pleased with the even- | ing's entertainment. The Children's Mis- "There were two great parties in the state, |'headed by two leaders, whose only object | 'was power. One, for the purpose of gain- | ing power, made a bid for popular appre- | ciation and approbation ; that bid was over- I bid by his competitor ; and thus they went on bidding, one against the other, uutil at {last Mr. Disraeli, one of those leaders, played his card of household suffrage. That was a large card--one too difficnlt to oyer-trump, and it required some ingenuity to know how to meet it ; but it was met, apd admirably met. It was a game of party politics. Down came the thunder- ing card of Irish disestablishment. That ovér-trumped the card of household suf" frage ; the man who played it was now in power, and that'was the time to which he would first direct their attention. At that time the world's affairs were all in a state of turmoil, combustion. and uncertainty, even in regard to religion and morals, as well as politics--in fact, during the last saying that he was there to speak to them he could further. He wished to lay béfora | them distinctly and clearly the opinions of DEG Ep a -- wt | planse.) There was something in looking back to an ancestry that had a benefit and | an influence on the human wind; it some | times made a man foolishly proud, but it generally made him jealous of doing any thing that would besmudge the honor of | his ancestors. (Applavse.) 'He believed | they would find they had got together in ths House of Lords, as bold, as chivalrous, as honost, and as stubborn a body | as they could get for a checking chamber. (Applause.) He held that the House of Lords, when the Ballot Bill was thrown into the faces of the Lords at the end of last session, were perfectly justified, and did no more than their duty when they said --** No ; you have not given us time to think for the people. We are here to do a great duty. We are called upon sud- | denly, and in haste, and at the command of Mr. Gladstone, to carry the ballot." As English gentlemen, they said, ' No"-- they would not #6 coerced ; they would { not be dragged by any man. | Then, there | was a great howling, more especially in | that great place of howling, namely, Bir- ! mingham. (Great laughter and cheering.) | Birmingham said, ' These men are not fit tobe in the position they are in. Turn them out. Let us have no more to do { with the House of Lords." There were | men going about the country, howling and | hooting over this matter. One was a son | of an old courtier. Youth was impetuous | and lacked prudence ; bat still youth was | sagacious, and it knew protty well which | way the wind blew, and this young man-- | this young scion-of an old courtier--is the { man who is chief in the raco against the lords. He might bo called a suspicio! : old man, bu* he could not help believing i that all that, was done with a full know. ledge of the consequences. He was going 23 foar, hut with anxiety upen what was to | ONTARIO LEGISLATURE. | come. He said to them if they. allowed ' | the domination of Mr. Gladstone to pro- ceed as it had been procecding they would | bes ¥ rv Soul yuvplo-(old Spmlas gi! | mittee appointed to investigate the circum. | . : I. | stances connected with the resignation of degrafiat Wy ha i i yf | the late Treasurer, Mr. Wood, presented | jocted. 0) y use. Ou \he motion of Sir John "Drown, { the report of the committee, and moved | Knight, of Endcliffe Hall. a voto of thanks | he Siopiion of the same, was cordially awarded to Mr. Roebuck, | Mr M. C. Cameron objected to the mo- who Briefly acknowledged it, and the pro- | wi boing Pt iho ig Say a tien } " | | A y ceedings ended. | Lad 8 e speaker ie motion put : The committee of investigation adopted | the following resolution unanimously ; Part. of the apeech of the Attornoy- {+ " Be it resolved, That ne coxmpt induge- | General for the defendants in this extra- | ment or offor was made to the Hon. E. B. i ordinary case--alike extraordinary wheth- | Wood, as 3 member of this House, Sodm | erwe believetho claimantto bethe true heir | 49% him to resign his position ds Treas or an impostor--appears in the English journals. That the plaintiff is an impostor has bgen the opinion which has impressed itself| upon our own minds, though'there were undoubtedly facts and pieces of evi- | P dencg which tended in the contrary direc- { Taurspay, Feb. 15th Several petitions were presented after | which, Dr. Boulter, chairman of the com- ee ----D> 0 ~C---- THE TICHBORNE CASE. | Hon. E. Blake, while a member of the | Opposition in the Legislateve Assembly." | Several Bills were read a third time and assed. - ! | Mr. Mackenzie movid the toduige ot i of , tion, especially until their true bearing was | She Ronen of She a I shown on cross examination. The Attor-| =. Coo wood to. ney-General's speech naturally confirms | lg H. 8. Macdonald objected to the that view. + The learned gentleman's argu- | Speaker's salary being | ised to $1,500. | nth Howeves, wo ng Sicopt | Yiey | He thought $1000 was sufficient, and mov- are supported by evidence, DU L - s i ji Finis sy supplied by documents | od in smengucnt Rut the Sopect: be i { ahout which there can be no mistake, and | Commitiae of ho ward: to ert the by the claimant's own. sheir assertions in Speakers sal ab 31 000, : the witness box. It may be remembered, | pa d a x - i for instance. that he made an ex{raordinary os ment | t. aa, 18 ; nays, GL. statement to the effect that he had seduced | The main motion-- (legislation), was thon his cousin, » Miss Doughty, now Mrs. Rad- | carvied ; and the report of the committee | | as to the item of $116,940.60 was adopted ; as was also the item for colonization Roads cliffe, Well, a large number of papbrs and d ts were ted by the Attorney- | Genapap, whieh showed thas Roger Tiehs | ~ $7000.40. ! After recess, a number of Bills were borne left his regiment and his eountry | 4 1 6 J | read a second time ; when the house went vertised | very much afraid that all other tefms will | fruitless, e ing thosc } by urer of the Province of Omtario, by the |: VERTISEMENT.) 0 "i 4 the Oshawa Vindicator ; : AR Sir to state 40 'the. iterested public that Mr. ok ¥ ed my nt ir 67 Podiar a2 ot Aecept- prove made to suit himself. that hie actually starts mn Ba rtisement tions in, 80 8s 10 prevent any understanding being arrived at. Oshawa, Feb. 13, 1872. ol To the Editor of thg Oshawa Vindiaater ow me through the medinm of a per to disabuse the pu from ow impressions they may have formed ls reference to the above Bombastic letter, for ow the ving of which I sent Mr. the follow : A) Oshawa, Feb. I, 1872. MR. LaRARD, a M, DEAR SIR, ~ . RT LARARD. forthcoming. preventing an Feb, 20th, 18572. : . lenge inthe TRL... Ay Ky for a fair of te eT Tore Hot heaters, namely, m) and Pedlar's Poel Saver. Awalt- Tur New York Tribune says: * M is were right to wish for eyil because good might come of it, we might wish for s war with England, because npthing could be more likely to strengthenthe bonds of the American Union." W4¢ are inclined to believe the very Uppositd 'effect would be produced by a war with! England. The South would again be tempted to take up arms and re-assert its independence, aided by so powerful an ally, as England would be. © Had the South been aided by the | English navy during the late civil war, they never could have been subdued, and" would te-day have been am independent ation. A Alluding to the Alabama claims, the valu | about the country, and his wisdom was to { because he was refused the hand of his | | govern the country, to break down this old, | cousin, on account of his habits of intoxi- | long-established British constitution. We | eatioh, which he confessed and 'deplored ; were to sce a Dilke and an Odger, and a | bitt shat, down to the. moment of his de- | somebody else-- (applause) -- breaking down parture he still loved Miss Doughty with that which hid been built up by the wis- | an affection, which, if words can make any | dom and gallantry of ages. The British | proof on such a subject, was as hiomorable constitution was to be cast down by the | ag aay man could entertain for any woman tilting spear of Sir Something Dilke: (4p- The real letters moreover showed that | plause.) Why did he call himself baronet | the real Roger Tichborne was an habitual { Why did he not at once strip off this vul. i letter "writer, and though his style was | gar display of aristocratic weakness? Why | somewhat awkward, and his spelling not (did he not call himself plain Charles | always correct, was capable of expressing | Dilke 7 (Loud applause.). Why did he, | himself sensibly, and like a high-minded | wherever he went, mark baronet after his | yontleman. "The letters: of the claimant (name?! Why? into a committee of supply, and passed the New York Times remarks --" The claims | following items: for public works and | against England for #pecial damages, | buildings, $528,850.27, adm nistration of | arising out of the depredations of particu- justice, 81,710; fcr live stock in conpec- | lar vessels, are estimated roundly te | tion with the Agricultural College, $2,000; | amount to $20,000,000: The claims for | for Agricultural College, 897,424; for the indirect dsmages are estimated to unt' Technological College (re-voted) $11,490; | to about $4,000,000,000--more, as ltas-Boerns | for the removal of the bar of the Kaman- | pointed out, than Germany exacted' from istiquia River, $11,802 ; miscellaneous Ex- France after a bloody war and » complete penditure on Public Works and Bu.ldings, | conquest. People hero generally smile $22,817.97. The next vote was for Asy- | when this last little bill is mentioned. | lum Maintenance, $234,401. Penetanguis- | The common remark i: te Nobedy ever hene Reformatory, 821,710 ; agriculture | ®xpected that to bo pail." Every man and arte, 831,100 ; immigration, $89,000 ; mentions it with » broad grin. That be- | hospitals and charities, $42,100; literary ing so, is it net a pity to see a good Treaty led by M. C. Camaron, will pursue the | determined to outdo the married members course they are at present following, and | in théaork of getting up an entertainment will retarl the progress of Ontario as for the 'people. This will be hard to do ; _sionary Box was opened and found to, con- tain 818.20, which sum, it was resolved to ! send to the Indian Mission at Red River. four or live years they had hod new re- { his generation. Because he was wise in | aro those of a coarse and utterly unedu- > He knew what ke was | sated man. : ligions andl new morals introduced. (Ap- | doing. = (Hear, hear.) Another remark- | pitulste the argument, which our readers | thom, $417,818 ; unforeseen and unprovided We need not however, reca- | and acientific institutions, $1,850 ; educa- lost for the sake of a fictitious claim? Is there no way of meeting this difficulty ® Surely this is a case, if there ever was HHH! _ ; 1 j= plause.) - All that the world thought sacred | able transaction had taken place of late, | may [peruse for themselves. { The proceeds taken at the door, amount- | 450 binding bad been considered light as | which was not yet fully accomplished. He | therefore, merely add two obscrrations. | Municipalities fund, $38,030.50 ; Crown | ing to about $32, will be spent in increas. | gir qq thifigs to be taken like a piece of | spoke of his friend the late Attorney-Gen- { Oncis hit the Attorney-General, althongh Lands expenditure, $118,015.66 ;: Techno- | paper; held over a candle, and burnt in a | eral, for whom he had personally a great | denying that he was bond to show <b i logical College, $7,000 ; land improvement moment. (Applause) Nobody who fol- | regard. He was sorry to see Sir Robert | tho claimant was, if he only showed that | fund, and common school fund, $62,181.27. | lowed what was called the light literature | Collier playing a part in so sorry a comedy. { he was not Roger C. Tickborze, avowed | To cover expenditure under unforeseen We shall, | expenses, $50,000 ; miscellaneous, $47,158; one, In which. a little: diplomatic skill wight wisely be exercised. Is it too late to save a Treaty which premised so. niuek for the future peace of the world }' Tae Fisk Murpze.--It is said, by. Inte accounts, that emg ground of defence to be setup by the counsel employed by Stokes, the murderer of Fisk, will be that the latter shot himself while in the set of taking a pistol from his pocket lo use against his enemy. It is said to be cer= 'much as possible : but we. belicve their | but nevertheless they feel certain they _splenetic efforts will prove unavailing, and can do it. © After tca an excellent pro- that progress will bs sicured in spite of gramme will be gone throngh with, in the | ing the Sabbath School Library, which al- them. The Grinders, were held together, | Division room.. A number of the mem- ! ready numbers about 500 volumes. --Cox. and kept in power, solely by self interest ; bers of Bowmanville Division are expected | aud not having a pablic principle in com- | to take p part in the programme. Ten to | mon, they now abuse one another and | be served at seven o'clock. Admission ! sock to obstract the course of thyir sac | 25 cents, Proceeds to be applied to the | ; building fund. The paplic arc cordially | gy, peeting of the Dominion Parlia I's | invited to attend. | ment has been definitely named for April MA CLAIMS. i mre - a |. 11th--some two months later than the rT. _. | Mzerios of the Village Council were | ;; 5,1 time for assembling. The timidity a received by the latest English held on Mondayeind Tuesday last. On | panifested in this late calling of the Com- bp contain reports of the speeches de- | Monday, by-laws were introduced for | yong jg not surprising. The tide of pub- The Dominion Parliament. (From the London Advertiser.) : sce. Sn ---------------- of the day, coull help seeing what he | The act did not mean a nominal judge--a | his belief that he was able to prove him to and unprovided and unpaid accounts of would nut wish his wife and daughter to judge of five days. Wasit nos doingsome? | be Orton, and in his speech he gave very 1870 and 1871, $59,186.13. (Hear, hear.) They wonld find these | thing to degrade an act of Parliament- | good reasons for the opinion. The other i The committee then rose and reported writings upon drawing room tables from Was it not putting a sorry cheat upon the | is, hat/some of the evidence which was the adoption of the resolutions. one end of the country to the other. Peo- | People? Did it ix enchance the idea of | oil relied apon for the claimant is eom- The House adjourned at midnight. ple were looting at one another to know that man's power, seeing that he could pletely | destroyed by the acta in their en- Fripay..--A number of petitions were whether a man was really marriod to his | lead men of high honor, character, and |g opr | Thus the claimant wroto to his al. | Presented, and Bills introduced. Beveral | tain that two different pistols were fired wife or not. (Applause.) In politics the station, to back him up in that proceeding. | |, Ils were tead a second and third time. upon the cecasion of the murder, as two condition of things was very remarkable, Here they have it. Sir Robert Collier, | Mr. Mackenzie moved tha reception of ! bullets wer found, one in Fisk's body and ged mother that she would remember"! Bi him [by the brown mark oun his side--a A ed by Gladstone and Disraeli in the | granting a bonus of five thousand dollars lic sentiment, as shown in the total rout They had a direct attack upon all the old . | after five days, was made a member of the | one on the floor of the hall in the hotel, ouse of Commons, with re{grance to the American claims for indirect losses. From Mrs. Tubrel's lot for a site for Town Hall ; | to the Hat Factory ; for the purchase of of Sir John A. Macdonald's Ontario licn- tenants at the polls and in the Legislature, the following extracts from Gladstone's and for providing penalties for non-clean- may well set the members of the Ottawa speech, it can easily be seen that the Brit- | ing sidewalks of show, ice, and dirt. The | Government thinking., Delay has liclped ish Go ment will never allow: the two last were passed ; the first will be | gir John A. Macdonald before this ; we claims to becoma a subject of arbitration : | submitted to the electors and voted on on Ry, 4,4 think it will help him in his pres- "We don't admit that the language of the first article, even jf it, were taken by jteelf, would bear the construction which it has been endeavoured to attach to it. "We contest that point, of course reserving it to ourselves to fall back on this appeal. A man must be insane, a nation must be insane, to suppose that we should admit impossiole claims of this character, in a peacefal arbitration, "which, not even in' the last extremity of war, not even in the lowest depths of misfortune, a people with a spark of spirit with a hundreth part of the -traditions and courage of the people of this country, would consent at the point of death to adit." (Ljul cheors) * * * * - * We may point out to the government of | the Ulited States that their claims are claims of a character that no one with his ! eyes open--no nation in possession of its | senses can possibly admit, even in the last! the 26th of March next. A motion was made to grant Neale & Todd a shop license ; but, un motion of Mr. Cameron, | was laid ever till regular meeting of Coun- cl Irwix's Waste Steam Hrsrez.--One of these heaters, which has been run in the Joseph Hall works for over three months, was opened andi cleanéd out on Saturday last, in the presence of several manufacturers, who were all thoroughly satisfied with the results. There was tak- en from it about five bushéls of Lime and mud, which, had the heater not been used, would have been deposited in the boiler. A full description of this heater, and-the advanteges claimed for it over any other heater, will bg given in our next issue. xX A Brass Baxp has lately - been organ- ized' in connection with the St. Patrick's Society of this place. At consists of eleven resoirce. But we do that simply for ar. 'players, under the leadership of Prof. ent strait : rather it will give time for the prevailing want of confidence in his Ad- ministration to erystalize,' organize and sweep Ontario at the polls. But though | Sir John A. Macdonald may think delay | may help his fortunes, no such reason | will satisfy the pablic that this procrasti- nation in calling Parliament until an in- | convenient season is anything but. repre- | hensibler . | The eoming session of the House of Commons will be the fifth and last of the present Parliament. Then the general elections! The séssion will be unusua ly important. +A number of weighty ques- tions, including the Treaty of Washington, will come up for consideration. The last sessian of a Parliament is proverbially difficult for Ministers to manage ; memb- ers are shortly to face - the popular judg- ment ; they cannot afford to be too pli- ant; they must assume a virtue if they institutions of the country ; for, depend | Jaticial body of the Privy Council. «- Brighton. But the mother's reply stated | The item for Central prison passed. On upon it, the Hyde Park riots covered over | (Shame.) I tako this (said Nir. Roebuck) | 1.04 sho knew nothing about the brown a vast conspi acy against the English con- stitution. it was headed by persons sup- posed to be obscure, but behind the black- guard and the vagabond there was a power pushing them on, and detgrmined to take advantage of the riot, they might create and seize on the -power that might be thrown into their hands by the artifice. . At that very mo nent he wished to know, if the great principles of the British consti- tution were not called in question, and whether they did not feel that some great ! support was given from behind! What ! did he mean by that? He meant that all | these things were supported by a party in the state that did not know whither they were tending ; but they were governed and guided and thrust on by a man who knew { perfectly well what he was about, his ob- ject being to attain very much the power in England that M. Theirs had in France. (Applause.) thing had been made and used to create a | power in some one individual, who should govern the state and gll in it. The first | thing was to obtain, as far as possible, the gument; simply to throw light on the cha- | Williams. The instruments arc all new, pscter of the negations" We have gone | and were speeialiy imported from Paris po further with the Puited States, nor | by the Messrs. Nordheimer, of Toronto. eaall we, when the proper time comes, than'! The boys are progressing well with their raise the question 'as a matter of right, to | practice, and hope to have, in a few _ beargued, to be discussed, to be disputed months, a band which will be a credit to between friends iu a friendly spivit. It is | the town as weil as to the Bociety. We ju i friendly spirit that the Treaty of Wash- | wish them every success, isgton was framad; it is laa fri nly spirit | A 'Hove is being erected on the Foun- that the wortifying impidimont, as the dry lot corner of Simcoe and Duke streets, right honorable gentleman calls it, will be! for No. 2 fire engine. The siding is met and encountered by us; it isin aly iched, inside and out, and the space friendly spirit that we shall undertake to | |, 4 ween is to be filled with sawdust, so as argue it, and itis in a friendly epirit that | ¢ keep the frost from the engine as much we confidently belicve that wo shall be { as possible. . A company is to be formed snet ; but under no circumstances, I trust, | fn, among the men in the foundry ; and | have it not by at least occasionally giving | support of what was called the Radical | an independent vote. | members and the dissenting interest. For A confrere who lives, moves, and has his i this purpbse the disectablishment of the | being for the purpose of upholding that Irish Church was launched, and then the whatever Sir Johu A. Macdonald says or-! dissenters and the Radicals were bound to | support "him in conduct like this. the chariot wheels of Mr. Gladstone. He would not go into the Irish Church ques- tion, but ho would ask if that measure had promoted peace and tranquility in Ircland, or abated in any way tho determination of the Catholic party, headed by Cardinaj does is right, throws oat the suggestion that the glections will probably not take | place until the early fall. Itis well to take these representations with a consider- | able grain of allowance. We should no be surprised if the elections weresprung | the éountry in the middle of harvest or | any other unsuitable time. The discredit- | Catholic Church in Ireland. | able conduct of Sir John A. Macdonald | last year, in springing the local elections on this Province in the mud and discom. | tirongh~--the'rule which lawyers spoke of | fort of early spring, is calculated to make | sui juris. The Government had inter- (Appiause.) Cullen, to obtain the suprémacy of the | to be as barefaced and sorry a cheat as was ever passed off on a gaping multitude by a_thimblerigger. (Applanse.) That was not all. Mr. Gladstone wauld not only do without the House of Lords, but without the House of Commons on the | army question. He brought down the royal prerogative, doing what Charles I. | might have done with his militia, doing { by royal prerogative what he was unable {to do by the forms of the constitution. { That was a seripus ecunt in the indict- ment of Mr. Gladstone. It could not be got over by a curt, he might almost say an insolent letter. The Lord Change'lor { would find that there were gentlemen {around him who could point to a long line of ancestry who would bring hing at | last to bovk. (Loud applause.) He should { not be at all surprised, but greatly pleased, to hear that the House of Lords had come He would show them how a to a resolution complaining in dignified | during the but severe terms of the manner in which the Lord Chancellor had conducted him- iself. (Applause.) Our condition was a bad one, when one man--he did not care { how talented, how fluent of speech, or | how many ways he had of winning public | regard--when one man could lead a large | body of his countrymen, his Cabinet, to The { man who had done this, though he might | be gifted with many great powers, was at the same time gifted (if he might so speak) | 'withmany great weaknesses. He wasa great speaker, but, to his mind, no orator. He | had great powers of what was called elo- quence, and certainly a command of re- sources in the business of deception that For the first time in the history of our | fairly distinguished him from any other country the great rule had been broken | speaker. (Loud applause.) He hoped the ladies present would not be angry at | what he was about to say, but he had that shall we' allow ourselves to forget our 8a- ' wi },v6 no doubt old No. 2 will yet be | Reformers look with suspicion on state- | fered with the freedom of contracts made | sort of feminine vindictiveness that al- cred, paramount duty tw our country. made to do good sarvies. 1 » § Bi a I Wx have heard a great deal lately about Opening of the new Baptist Chureh. | tie excellency of the Presbyterian Church This church was opened for divine ! soirecs, but never had an opportunity of | ice on Sunday last. Three eermions | trying for ourselves till last night, and we were preached ; in the morning by tho were not at all disappoiated. Everything Rev. Dr. Fyfe, afternoon by the Rev, WA! was excellent from ths oatmeal cakes up to Btewirt, and in the evening by the Rev. | the three story fruit cakes, or, as a Scotch- Dri Davidson. At each of these services | man would say, *' from the fruit cakes up 1 | inaction and dangerous security. (Applause.) But that was not all. An- | other movement was made, and the army | was shaken to its centre. would yet say more. | A xmmtine of the leading fish dealers : | and fishermen, on the great lakes, is to be | 3 England yas still | held at Detroit, on the 20th of March, to 'De ®¥ of surounding nations. We | take into consideration what action is |". freer than any other body of men on | necessary to protect themselves under the | the fase of the globe. ; Thiers yas net hee the tyranny of the majority--not yet; not | Washington Treaty, which injures their | ments probably designed to lull them into | by parties able to contract for themselves. | Of that he | the churel was filled to its utmost capae- ity. Ou Monday evening a tea meeting was | to the oatmeal cakes." A ciFT auction sale will be held this and to-morrow evenings, in the stand lately | right to fish or to cure their fish on British | soil. The Treaty of Washington concedes | those rights to fishermen of New England, ang also grants them the right to purchase just yet ; but how long they might remaiu in their happy eondition, he was not pre- pared to say. (Hear, hear.) Th> next ! bauble held before their eyes, was the at- held in the church, which was again occupied by D- Tripp, Henry's block, one tack upon the House of Lords. If a priori, ways runs in the weak-minded man.-- ; (Cheers.) Apd he could understand how | it arose in the feminine mind. She was, unturtunately for herself, the weaker { vessel of the two; she had been ill-treated ; | feeling in a weak and painful position, certain feelings crept over her in spite of herself. "So with this man; whoever | crosses his path is punished by a cr power brought to bear in many curious { ways. During the wile of the last elec- ! tion campaign in not a single speech he | made did he forget to allude to the Shef- | field election. | (Hear, hear.) He atiained vety| large one--and by the card casc at | the report of the committee of supply. the item of immiggation quite a long dis- cussion took place, some favoring and | some opposing the Government scheme: {PJ 'mark ; and it was certain that Roger Tich- | borne had nothing to do with the Brigh- and that only one of these bullets will fit the weapon produced. It is yet to be proved to which of the two men this pistol belonged, as no other is yet forthcoming, | onl Gio ne | ton ¢ard case, and was not there when it | The item --880,000--was finally adop { occurred. Moreover the recognition of | The item of $42100 for hospitals and | the claimant by the Dowager Lady Tich- | charities, after some discussion, passed. | borne, which séems so conclusive to some | The increased vote of $8,000 for super- | persons, has a different effect when con- | annuated teachers; and the item for | sidered by the light of her letters to him school inspectjon, were passed. The item and his advisers in Australia) in which she | of £5,000 reward for the apprehension of | not [only sets aside the *' brown mark," | of the murderers of Thomas Scott, was | but acknowledges that his statement about | opposed by M. C. Cameron : but finally | the family were all wrong, anid at the same | Passed. The rost of the estimates were | time expresses her undoubted belief in the | concurred in: and the House adjourned. | identity of this person, whs could remem- Moxpay.--The greater part of the day | ber nothing of what her son ought to know, | ¥as taken us in discussing railway matters. | | Mr. J. S. Maedonald said the country was | anxious to knows, now that the session was [ - The Value of Ashes. } Sewing to a close, when the distribution niidaitos sein. rallies aven with of the railway fund would take place. Mr. | | Blake said, he could tell the member for govd farmers to let the woud iy ade | Cornwall that the fund would be distrib- winter season either go to | Eh waste, or sell it for a mere trifle ha the wed a great deal lier Phan a gehatle- . man would have distributed it. He could | soap-maker, who sends round his team to | say anything more at present. ! collect them. Their value as a manure |, y t 8 the Li ps | to apply to grass crops or fruit trees is | esmage {3am the Lientsnrat.Clovern. | | soarocly known, Usually they ave sold) 7 Jecvmmending the fullowing /gapple- | for from five to ten 'cents'per bushel, for } * eae Selimuiet; was laid on the table | soap-making, when their real value for | id roaster | manufial ses, #f kept stored away | Crown Laxps Exrexpirvre-- | in a dry place till they can be applied to | To pay inspectors valuing lauds, $1,000. | the land, is not less than forty cents per | EDUCATION -- | bushel. To the fruit grower they are | worth even more. If the ashes have been | | MISCELLANBOUS-- | usest for soap-making, and the potash con- | pCa 0 Rifle ge 00. | tainted in them thus extracted, they are | : nd | then of little manurial value, though still IE public buildings. . 5,000. | well worth the trouble of spreading on the . | soil, for the sake of the mechanical effect ae bdtving steior | produced, which is to make hard clay mileage to deputies returning | more friable, and light sand more compact. poll books Mixed with plaster of Paris at the rate of | To add to wages of messengers a bushel of ashes to'fifty pounds of plaster, and House servants | the) manurial value of the eombined ma- | terials to pasturage or meadows imtended | for hay is fully double that of the plaster alone. In fact, we consider the addition | Tuzspar.--A number of petitions HH of |unleached ashes--especially if made | presented praying for the establishment from hard wood--to the plaster, greatly | of an Inebriate Asylum, and for certain increases its manurial action, by assisting | restrictions On the "sale 'of spiritnons decomposition, and, as|it were, makes liquors. i three values out of two. In the compost! The supplement heap for garden use, or the manuring of fesred to counnitton of supply. | fruit trees, unleached ashes play an im- Several Bills were read a third time | portant part, both in assisting to decom- | and passed. { pose the vegetable matter that goes to Mr. Blake moved the second reading of | make up a large portion of such compost, | yg Bill to amend the law as to the fees of j and |m giving what all plants need, and | registrars, on which there was a lengthy Super 2,200. $23,300. ™ y esti wore re- to the oficess, has not yet been examined as to how is came into her possession. Taz snow blockade on the Pacifie Rail. way exceeds anything ever before known of such difficulties. It bas now lasted for about a month, and as yet shows no signs of abatement. ; snow bound at various points, from Swerty to thirty passenger trains, with more than: atl passengers, wha at times pear to have been reduced almost to verge of starvation. Over a themsand freight cars, Inden with valuable menchan - dise, are caught in the same trap, and prov- ing that the shortest route across the Con- tifient may sometimes prove the longest. To make the matter com some two hundred tous of letters newspapers are invelved in the same catastrophe. What with snowed-up business men, the non- A a he ary of od Tue confusion y y ant letters, tho snow-blgckade is doing no small amount of injury to commercial cir- cles in New York and elsewhere. The in- jury to the business of the road itself is of course immense, and must be numbered by millions of dollars. Hses she is again. Mrs. Gloverson, of East Cleverland, over 90 years old, walked three miles one of the coldest days of thi* month, borrowed a cast iron kettle weigh" it home, and made a barrel of soft soap before supper time, and would have taken the kettle home that night if she had not been compelled to knit a pair of stockings for her son, who was going away next morning. She has taken snuff and smoked the usual number of years. i Ir is to wine-drinking we owe the erigin of kissing. After | camght his wife sucking his finest wines through the bung-hole of a barrel with a straw, tha custom became general in Rome for the husband to kiss the lips of their wives, that they might discover the qualities of attention of all eaveful heads of families, « - ANOTHER conspiracy Tas lesked cut im Paris. This time the friends of Napoleon were to dispesse the Assembly by fores, and take possession of the Government, in which they were to be supported by a number of "officers from| the morth. In consequence of this revelation the Belgian frontier is carefully guarded, and no ene who handed the revolver There are now on the road, their good ladies stolen libations, and Cato recommended this plan 0 the serious ° crowded. wag called to she chair ; introductory remarks, ead the report of the | Mr. Patterson thon after thanking those w "Price of church lot, on chnreh building in cash up to date, "(February 19th) the sum of (83,265. work and value, at leas ed to.comp.ete the building, not including ' the finishing of tower, £220. nded on ehurch building t Fo the above might donations of material, discount on a- | Gregor-- Mr. Conan terial, sud work amounting to, probably, | oe Lore and after a few | coe street. called on the Rev. uilding committee. | came forward, and ho had sc liberally | Sons of Temperanee, will lecture in the coutiibuted tewards the building fund, | Sons Hall of this place, on Monday even- read the' following report ;-- ing next, £250. Expended la | commence at 7.30. t $420, Yet peed- | about $200, and which cannot be stated | now more defimitely. church shus far, $4,110. k "scriptions received or yet to come, $2,482. . balance yet required to pay of Labilitics | and complete the church, $1,008, : | Whole cost of the | Cash and sub- Factories, Shost speeches were then made by the | hint. chairmpn, the Rev. Messrs, Stewart and Davidson, ers congratulating the | of the chneeh on the vastor and members hastitif! buiting "Lis advertisement in an Wher colntnyr, A. oy Tre Rev. Joel Briggs, The reverend gentleinan is a | good speaker, and we have no doubt will be greeted with a full house. = Lacture to | Admission free. t paying Mr. Mc. for | Myers, Scott, i Me. Geo. Hopper is giving what he each of the speak- | considers good advice to the electors. To arranged to come off on the Thames in | find aut what it is, we refer our readers to ' June, between the London Rowing Club ' After tea, T. N. Gibbs, Esq, ' door south of .the Reroruer office, Sime | free of duty, in: British Proviuces, tackle A large lot of Fancy Goods, Jewellery, Plated Ware, ete., will be sold. Mr. Patterson, pastor of the church, to Every third article sold will draw a prize. { and salt, but denies the fishermen on the | | lakes this privilege. ¢ Coming events cast their shadows be- | fore" is an adage as true asit is old. Since the ex-Empress Eugenie sold her jewels | | three hundred and fifty thousand chessa- | pots captuged by the Prussians, and offer- ed for sale; have been purchased and are | bolieved to be in Paris.! Napoleon ,it is G. W. P. of the {'known, is selling property to a large ex- | | tent, and that the money thus obtained | Tur Hat Company and. Mr. Conant | §,,4q its way through France is not doubt- | Total ex. | couldn't come to terms about the land on | oq o date, ¥3,010 | which to erect their factory, and have se- | 5 or unhappy France. be added smaller | cured two acres and a half from Mr. Me- | 1s the war cloud about to breok anew | t= Ix the Lower Province Mr. Mackenzie | { is highly respected. The Halifax Chronicle | | says :"** Hon. Mr. Mackenzie has received, | Oxz engine does the work on the Port | yo gheerve, the unanimous nomination of | Whitby and Port Perry Kailway. It takes | idl he next : | several to do the work in the Oshawa bit Middioadt 101 fio nest Botte S$} Let Bowmanville take ihe Commons. He will serve any constituency | i wlich has the honor of electing him, with | | unsurpassed fidelity and ability." An international rowing match has been | Yand the Atlgatic Cod of Now York, RT ------------ | have here a scheme take, and he said so. a man had come and said to him 'I for governing this great people of England," and showed forth to him tie abolition of the Heuse of Lords, he should Wve laughed in his sleeve at him ; but, when a man came to him and | said, * I am not bringing forward a vain theory, a thing untried," he would ask, looking back on years past, if they could | produce a better second checking cliamber | than the House of Lords. (Cries of ' No" and applause.) He remembered in his youth writing a paper " Of what use is the House of Lords 1" He made a grand mis- He was too old now, if he had the wish, to sit in the House of Lords ; but he had no aspirations in that way. He waa even considering how he could frame for himself a better checking chamber than the House of Lords. The House of Lords, with startling and dis- g.aceful exceptions, was composed of a | le should k | body of men who could point to ancestors | aud long who were great men--men wha had done ! their for great deeds for their country, great deeds | their time long enough. They might call which were shown by the fact of their desl { Rim a suspicions old fellow if they liked-- + cemlants being now in that hwmwes (Ap- | his end--for him (the speaker), as far as | without it cannot thrive, viz: potash. | the body was concerned, a happy one. | For fruit trees, especially when they are He was mow particularly well and very | set in' grass, and it is not thought desir- happy. (Loud applause.) 'That man was able to break up the soil about the roots, ) "of feminine weakness. - He could not | there is nothing equal to a good cost of i > his! own weakness: out it came ; | ashes, spread half an inch thick over the what was within him he must declare, | surface of the ground around them ; but (Hear, hodr.) What was to be done 7 | not piled up about the trunks as we have | Englishmen should do as they always | often seen. That is concentrating too had done, preserve their courage--be not | much just whereit is not needed or can afraid of aly man, be not too trusting of | be of little material value. any man.'| (Applause.) He admired a loyal confidence and a loyal people, but Of there were things which might be done | in addition to acting as a manure to the which should startle the most loyal, and | trees, also destroys a great many of those | frighten the fhost undaunted. Buch things | insect enemies that harbor in the soil, ~ had been dhe. (Cheers.) Were he to| Coal ashes are of little value, in| fat | go overall tHe doings that had been per- | should not bo applied to the soil in any petrated in various deprrtments of the | Way: | Government if he were to travel through If the farmers would but fully under- | the admiralt§, the treasury, and the law, | stand the value of good unleached wood e8p them there till midnight, and take the trouble to go round ond his own strength and | collecting them in the towns and cities, ance, but he had oocupied | they would find it much less costly and more valuable than many of the so-called artificial fertilizers they too often throw away their time and money upon. surface dressing of unleached ashes, which, [herr snpicigue he lacked, not with 'Old orchards | are particularly benefitted by a liberal | discussion. | amendments. | A few Bills were advanced a stage, and | the House adjourned. | © WEDNESDAY.--A number of petitions | were presented, Mr Prince moved that Mr Pardee be | relieved from attendance upon the Proton : | Inquiry Committee, on account of sickness, | seats, &c., were previously nailed to the | and that Mr Farewell bo appointed in his | floor that they could not be used = place. = | missiles. He had also a strong force of Some little discussion took place on the | police in attendance. above motion : when MrJ S Macdonald | Tas Emperor of Germany sod the raised the point of order that notice should | Queen-Dowager are both ill, apd their have been given of the motion. The mo- | condition causes much public suxiety. The tion was then postponed. | Emperor is 75 years of age, and {the Queen Mr Mackenzie here congratulated Mr | is 71. Macdonald his humanity. The remainder of the day was taken up in di ing aailway matters. is permitted to cross into France without a passport. ' Dike has held anc don to advocate Republi The Bill was reported with sr meeting in Lon i His con~ was perched up on a platform so high " that it conld not be scaled," and all General of Canada, Lord Monck, is to 'succeed Earl Mayo as Governor-General "of India. coe Tuc police authorities of Berlin have { information tliat a man is concealed in s | that city who hds sworn to take the life of Lenworth, over 500 'conversions have al | Bismarck, and an active search is going on | ready taken place. The meetings are con for the would-be assassin, ducted by the Rov, E. P, Hammond. i ' 3 . fidence in the approval of his sudience may: _ be judged from the fact that the speaker - Ir is reported that the late Governor wal pte de gn dal 2 ro Hi 4: adil | > | DHE i x