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ocription_ List until _me money 1: pam, Subscnbers now 1n an tears for three months and over will be charged 81. 50 per annum. A "be" given. rm: FRANCHISE ACT. J 1 While provision is made fornotice\ being given under the Act to any person, whose name is sought to be struck off the preliminary list, it does not seem to be contemplated that any enquiry as to the right of such name to be on. the list, nor yet as to the right to be then placed on the list, shall take place at the prelimin- ary revision, the Revising Qflicer being directed by the`Act merely to note such objections on the list. i _ - , , Allsuch objections will be enquired into and decided at a subsequent sittings to be held in each municipalityfor the nal revision of the list for that municipal- ity, of which, of course, due notice will ` A --," L.-- ._..._..--... A THE ENGLISH SITUATION. _ `Mr. Gladstone has found anything but a bed of roses upon his return to oice. The Irish problem is not yet solved. and it is extremely doubfful if the scheme which the Premier is preparing will be found practicable. We have no faith in the land scheme which has been enun- ciated. If Irish tenants cannotpay a. rental for the use of the lands they culti- vate, it seems hardly likely that they could pay the purchase money for the lands th'emselv_es even in instalments, which wouldbe found to be more burden- some than the rents.` And if the Irish peasantry refuse to -`pay rent on the as- sumption that the land belongs to them, ' would they be willing to purchase from the government what they already claim as their own? Whatever measure of Home Rule Mr. Gladstone's, scheme em- braces may he used as a factor to bar the payment 0fthe'lar.'{e sum which it is pro- posed to give the landlords for their claims. In point of fact, whatever money is used in purchasing land for the Irish peasantry. hiust be regarded as a gift rather than a loan What would be the I eect of this on the English, Scotch and Welsh tenants? They also would claim the "three acres and a cow, and their claims would have to helmet. The entire situation is one of cliiculty and perplex- ity that may well cause anxiety to_British statesmen and to society at large`, Persons who may at any timereceive notice of objection to their names being _on, or being inserted on, the list,` will be glad to "know Llwti they need not `travel out of their own inunicipality -to uphold their rights as voters. Indee-dn as such notice may be sent to themes late as the c`.e.y before the preliminary sittings,'it woiild in many. cases be -impossible for- them to attend such sittings in time. -come law and the volume of statutes will MR.1iibWAT;s Lmcrsiion. The session of the Ontario Legislature is about ended, and it is now ,a.` tting time to take stock and see what 4 has been given to us for the -cash which it has cost. A very considerable number-of bills have been introduced some of which have be- be of the orthodox size, but it is question- able if the country needs the constant law tinkering which every session witness- ,... TI... -`l____-_;___ 1| .1 1 n . amend Divhi - V-vo , _ , ___n ._ __ - _, I-IV|l|5VJII vuuucnr es. The character of the legislation either attempted or completed may be seen from the following partial list of bill; `intro- duced. An act `respecting leases. Acts to amend the Municipal Act, quite a number. Last session about half the act; introduced were of this nature. An act further to amend the. Asgessment Act. An act, to amend the Cou.hnty`C_o,nrte L Act.,_ ` An act respecting snow` fences. An` act to amend '_ the Act. An act jto on 0`ovurtI.A>ot-. . .An : not 155 liamendvi the Registry Act.` An" act to : amend the act respecting the .Court of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas.--V An` act to amend the Surrogate Courts Act. An act to extend the operations of the Land Titles Act, 1885, to the County or -` Perth. An act? amending the act respect- ing the provisional County of Haliburton An act to amend the act respecting the taxing of patented lands in Algoma. d An act respecting the `audit of. criminal justice accounts. An act for improving the practice of conveyancing and amend"- ing the law of property. An ` act to t further". amend the law for the protection` ` quenting billiard and other places.- / societies. of game and fur bearing-animals. An act respicting mechanics institutes and art schools. iAnact to prevent minors fre- An act to regulate the width of sleighs . to be used on public highways. 9 An act to amend the Ditches and Water Courses Act, 1883. ' An act respecting liquor licenses. An act respecting building An act respecting the estates of deceased persons. An act to `amend the revised statutes, respecting master and - servants. An act respecting return of l convictions by stipendiary and police magistrates. An act respecting gas and water companies. An act to amend the County,Courts Act. An act to amend | the act respecting the agricultural college. An act- to amend the law respecting com- pensation to persons killed by accident andiin duels. An act to facilitate the quieting of titles when the Land Titles Act is not in force, etc., etc. A glt will be seen that these acts are chiefly` to amend lawsalready in the statute books and may be properly designated as law tinkering It tells the story of hasty and immature law-making. The laws enacted during one session are changed during the next, and so on to the end of the chapter. It apptars to us that it would be _a good thing to give the country `a rest in this matter.- There would be more time for better maturing proposed laws by giving our law makers two years to prepare the legislation they intend to propose. At all events there would be less tinkering and changing of our laws andwhat would be ablessing to the country, less money spent in keeping the Ontario law changing machine at Toronto in motion. . THE` SEA. The loss of the magnicent steamer Oregon o' Sa" dy Hook on the 14th forcibly calls attention to the dangers of the deep. The Oregon was one of tte nest steamers afloat, worth at least a million and half of dollars, constructed _in ten water tight compartments, and supposed to be per- fectly safe as far as any ordinary accident is concerned. Yet within a few miles of her destination she is struck by a myster- ious vessel, and in a few hours goes to the bottom of the ocean. It is true. by reason of good discipline on board the fated steamer and vessels at hand to lend as- sistance, the passengers and crew were saved. " Had the accident occurred -in been lost.` There is something mysterious about this collision. Where. is the schooner that struck the steamer? Were the rulesof the "ocean road observed ?. It is strongly hinted that the sin king was not caused by a collision with a schooner, but that dynamite was usedby the enemies of England, and consequently there is quite a panic in New York over this idea. A strict and thorough investigation is re- qnired, so that" whatever mystery now surrounds the sinking `of the Oregon may be cleared up. The safety of those who commit their lives to these steamships de- mands investigation on other points. Can a ship which carries a thousand people carry boats suicibnt to enable all to es- cape from the sinking vessel ? What means for the safety of her passengers and crew had the Oregon ? Why did a vessel with ten compartments sink when at most but two were broken by the collision C? It ap-- pears also that vessels passed by the dis- abled sreamer and either did not know she was in distress or if they did would not stop to render any assistance. If there are such defects in the signals of distress that they cannot be understood, then it is of the utmost importance that a change be made, and ifany master of a vessel is so inhuman as to pass a. ship in a. sinking "condition without stopping to render assistance, such a man should not only be deprived. `of his command, but be subjected to the severest punishment. There is scarcely a town or locality in the country that does not add something to the annual ocean` travel, and therefore directly interested in all means that tend. to make ocean travelling safe. It is to be hoped that the investigation `into the Oregon disaster will result in making it nidecian hundreds of lives must have `less perilous to the lives of`, those who go I down to the sea in ships`. 7 nrumrnnrsu. The money problem seems as _puzzling and unsettled as it was a century ago. Hundreds of volumes have been written upon its nature and functions and whether it should be simply a measure of value being itself valueles. or whether it should have a marketable value in itself. equal to- its stamped yalue. The same diversity of opinion exists. whether the government should delegate its power to banking ear- porations to issue money, or that -power and use italone. One class `of writerspmske positive assertions on the one'side'and`anothe_r glass as positively` assert the contrary`. class claim that making gold the basis and standard of values results in the commercial disasters we frequently have, while another as" posi- Z tively claim to demonstrate that if gold "be not thestandard alone all our business transactions `would be reduced to hope- 3 less wreck and chaos. The mo-netizing of silver making it bear a certain V relative value to gold is now held forth by eertain writerstas a panacea for all the. ills from whichthe world of commerce and of labor is suffering. England, which has always refused to adopt the bimetal theory is `now disposed to give it some considera- tion. As long, however, as the `tunda- mental principle that money should be simply a measure of value the same as a yard stick, or an ounce weight, and` not an article of value itself -the money dif- culty will remain. 7 nmuu: Ann -rnnmmx. DEBATE. ' , Mr. Blake's speech on the Riel debate is eminently characteristic of the man With" evidence of marked ability there is a pitiable lack of moral _courage'and manlv principle. The.` speech exhibits the clever: lawyer pleading for his client, but not a. title of high and broad states- manship It shows the political partizan willing to go _down to any denths for the purpose of defeating the Government and. attaimn,__r power,yet cribbed, cabined and confined bythe recollecticn of his own and his party sinconsistencies, but noth- ingof the-pat1'i'nt willing to act for the country's good in an important._. crisis of its history. There is the trimmer earn- estly trying to gain the` favor of opposite factions for party arlvantarze, but a mani- fest lack of moral force to enunciate his honest convictions. Professing to be actuated by lofty and noble conceptions of duty in declaring that the execution of Riel was a judicial murder, in view of. his past opinions of the rebel and what ought to have bcfallen him, is one of the saddest exhibitions of human weakness and hypocrisy which the political history of this V or any other country can furnish. It 18 almostenough to destroy the faith of the people in the honesty of public men. Mr. ` Blake may be brilliant and scholarly and profoundly learned in constitutional and legal pro cedure,but in those grand` principles` right as opposed to party exigency and _that moral courage to resist the trickery ot party wire pullers which characterize the true statesman, he is woefully and hopelessly wanting, and in any emergency requiring these great qualities, he would prove an utter failure. It would be a sad day for this Dominion should the Govern- ment be defeated upon the issues involved in the execution ot a rebel and the sus- taining of the law. Never was there a more complete degradation of a political party in its struggle for "power, than the once great Reform party has suffered, in its use of the Northwest rebellionland the Reginaiscaffold as means of gaining possession of the treasury benches. The United States Commissioner of Education, has just issued his report on the state of public schools in that coun- trywhich contains some very interesting facts. The Commissioner says, the United States has the very best system of public instruction in the world. There are vari- ous other countries that profess the same thing. The Scotch regard their system as the best in the world, and we are often told that there is nothing in the world equal to the public school system of On- tario._ The report under consideration says, that in the public schools last year there were 10,739,182 youths. `and in private schools 606,517, out of a total school population of 16,510,463 or 67 per cent. of the school population. There are 307,804teachers, three fths of whom are females. The income during 1884 was $110,667,567, and the expenditure $103,- 349,528. The total value of school` pro- party is given at $240,635,496. The amountexpended oneducation is about one third as much as the cost of the gen- eral government. 0 T In eixteenl Southern States there were 4,2l`6,9'}'G white children of `school age, and 2 546,4-18 enrolled, besides 2,032`926 colored children, and 1,002,313 enfolled.` Amount expended in those States for edu- cation in 1884',` $17,053,167. Help from the government isasked from the govern- ment for the Southern States, Great pro- green has been made in the last few years. - A GRAND counrrnv 'ro>-mvs: IN. It is doubtful if there is another pro- fessedly Christian country in the world in which such an event could take place as the shooting hy_ lg nchers of 13 negroes in the court house of Carrolton, State of Mississippi. There is something fear.` fullv revolting to all our ideas of justice and personal security in that way of doing things. People may have an idea. that . justice is too slow, and that it may possi- bly fail in the usual channel of the courts and therefore make short work of the sup- posed criminals, but it is clear enough that the very foundations of justice. and personal `rights are endangered by the process of lynching. Take these lynch- ings which are frequently happening with- out one attempt to bring these self ap- pointed executors of the law to justice, and also-the*rnurdo r of the Ohinese at Rock Springs with the intimation of the ProI1l,nt..thst,, the United` _St_s_tes is notresponsible forthe" `out:-s;'ze inpon on V ` PUBLIC mnucari mu: U. STATES THENORTHERN -ADVANCE. alien people, and not bound to make geod the damage to prnperty,- and 9. person would not feel like changing from the security of person and property under the old Blitigh ag "to a. life under the Sta_rs and Stripes. - % V First threedays Cash Sales more than the elevey daysprevious. % ` ONLY TWELVE DAYS MGRE. - Best Ba.rgfa,1ns bemg plcked up. Come a3_1(:i cure some of them. % A % Our25C. and 50c._ Kid Gloves, 650. Co1"se1:%:%?% iv and a. half, 15 and20c. Dresseoods, 20. to 505 broideries,goingo:` lively. A NOTE COMMENT. Tm-3 Simcoe Iambsavill hold a monster demonstration at Bradford on Saturday. Why this working up of` Orange and Tory constituencies? So Sir John quietly working out another little scheme.-Toronto Morning News. Is it not reasonably fair it the News wovld give the people of this country the credit of acting according to their own judg- ment instead of being always prompted to follow the directions of Sir John Macdonald. .If the people give their con- dence to Sir John it is because they feel that he is sincerely desirious of forward- ing the best interests of the "Dominion- No one pretends that the premier is per- fection and that he has not committed mistakes in his lengthened political career, but the majority. of the people of the Dominion believe that the true interests of the country are innitely safer under his direction than in the hands of such a trimmer as the Hon. Edward Blake. The Simcoe lambs are level headed and will go for the right without - any out side prompting. ' In thanking the public of Barrie and `vicinity for the liberal patronage bestowed upon him in the past, begs to state that he has at con-- siderable expense increased his baking facili- ties and I8 now prepared to do a. larger business than ever. BREAD Made in the various styles and quality the best -Deli_vered in all narts of the town`. . PIC-NIC PARTIES WSVOCIALS 8: WEDDINGS annnlln of aha-uuf nnfinn uni! l\'I I-nnannnl-do All orders sent by mail win be delivererl free of freight char cs, evcry_ Saturday and Mon- day, to patrons rom Barrxerand vicinitv. ""l'1`I"l'?Ir'ur\a'A-I11-u-5--_._ suks,chen111es and Fe ncy Wools of all kinds . V Toys, etc. 1 A nnII anilnltnj I--1--- --_-1_ _ _s__ _, ,1 f u I bg `to stat that I haS*_c opened a.Kcw family - Wines nd Lmqvor Store, xuyu, unu- call solicited before mrchasinsz elsewhere. _~;%;_:...j}* .:_.__.__ nnv nouns. CLOTHING AND MILLINERY, A DECIDED SUCCESS. W3!`-IES n:aMovED! } FAi}V'565%f3D} LEADS_'l'__I_-_1_E VAN. NF.a`. Zl3ZEl()'VVI\`I mus AND sum` mms. AMMUNITION, to. -g. MRS. __s'rL=._|=HENsd manlltaotured fresh every day. Ask your grocer for them and you will use no other. DOMINION 3A|(E ........ . v---v 7 us. MANH'SOLD TAND. LL/`LVJKJ FAR 1111.0 DUUIALD N; VV IMUJJILVKI supplied at short notice and on reasonable 1 terms. "PEDERIPK J PPOVV N In a. much larger scale than heretofore. AT%SUTTON! [Where she intends carrying on the QDJZZ -g--L: jj 'ij"iIZI"5Z}if1E}'5N, \ New Spviing Gods in glreat-variety at NV. R Philiips & Co's. See our Dress Goods, Gfoves, Hosiery,` Embroideries, etc , all imported, prices low. See our Sccjtch, Engli8h,,IriSh and Canadian Tw.e4-ds, French and English \Vox'stexl.v. AH suits guriragnteed a. perfect. fit at ' V VV.R. PHILLIPS& CO S. \e---AND"'\- BISGUITS L|QuaR$.] Has removed to E173 I-I. PULLAN . I CAU'l`ION.-A Fiaing Tackle,` GO TO PULLWSI 1 \ SUTTON. A0i~I'r'. IMPORTANT TO ALL 1 `FUR .. W are b@L11x.1 to sell Boots and Shoes at lower prices than bought. elsewhere in tho cmmfy. The reasons why we can do this are these : V Our expensw are very low for the business-_ we do. We -pm ; goodsand get the I-u'g: ;.-;s.iL1-.3 discount; T` We have a largn and co mLodions store av.~:iI;Ll->19 and mnrw-x;i ......L....-I.... partlcnlar. `Wh-ave eXpm'iencm.l.' :1n'(lA accmnpli-olled -s'a'le.:m e=n who _r` ' u{v`I pains t4o'4t'peoApl`o well and honestly advise them as to _their r0qx`.iI'r1:`. W \Ve make no lusseulin av-C:-11n_ta__. for we l1,:u'e none. `s\'<,v YE 3 for cash; and for cash onl_v._ _ We carry'a iunnnmnm swck of good serviceal.'e and .~r_~.Ei.~ll Shoes that can be thoroughly relied upon. T ` THE NORTAI-IERN`ADvAI}1cE,` ems: sr.a*s'::3:;a v : mew - ` ~ ' ALL NEW AND LATEST DESIGNS. % ALI lj1!>`~,?l}{!}H ,-\N0\`& .\`, BLXXK B02}KS, PASS %B0(!KQ, }!E1l()%;\ .`il7?l" ii. E E QEWIIQICEASSORTMENT IF CHRISTMAS CARDS-..:1 Eiglt L`1 8 of 0`d Stand. McCarthy s .f'l(ci> To FARMERS AND THRESI-I-I.;:Q..-V-:1' . bt for Mach! ' Tor1' __ I run -14.1... I____ ,u '.-'- 5 '-ABDINE MACHINE 0:5 OurLoW Prices ! N.B.--You will nrl Clayton at his old stand, next door to Grocery, having re-leased his new store in Brown's new` block to M. Vair &/Booth. ' AB!*!9`!E.LAf!D WW5" WORKS: BARR &- HEN-RY, MANUFACTURERS. L :-:~s\_A (BAHRIAGES, J` I?UGGIE.s', nu: ---__- An 8 Page. 48 Column Newspajier. _ ' T is Published from the Ofoe, Dunlop Street, . Barrie. in the County of Simcoe, the Pro- vince of Ontario. Canada. every Thurs- day morning, by SAIVIUEL \VESLEY, PROPRIETOR. ;------ -ill`I -Any dealer found selljng othorils as hardware MERCHANT TAILOR, \Vish es to; '4 -3-; 7:-C` A`N.EN;I`I`I{E_TV-OU_Kz)'F NE\V <:oo1)s. N CLAYTON. DUNLOP STREET. E AI'-'lF{.IE. ~ a.1u`1ou1;cc that he has opened out in And all kinds of VVhee1 Work. The :7. are kept [in stock and made to _0rd.-r. large stock at our Show Rooms to H from, _ DE-MUL' HEAVY J; LIGHT \VAGOI\ .i\, ` DRAYS, CARTS, A .1`; K ICE: , TERMS on` SUBSCRIPTION. $1 Per Annum in Advance, $1. car No new name will be added to- the 'sub- 1 ocription List until the is paid. Qnhunrihnrsl nnw in av rears for PHA E'r<;>>.'s, 0113 will be prosecuted. March 25, 1886, AWHEELBA mu \\".(v* to l_"a1j;11h. Messrs. (" EML)L`l:A frnngsir-zREEvE's_ CHAMPION. _ ' The Examiner folk professed to be in extaeies last week because C. H. Ross had again got into the Council against such great odds." The Grit sheet acknow- ` ledges that it was largely the inuence` oi the .~\1w.-x.\'m; that defeated C. H. last January. When, however, the Al)\'A.\'(`E' learned that a man who had occupied the position of Reeve and who was so ignomin- iously defeated was resolved to creep into the Council in almost any capacity, it did not think it worthwhile to take any notice of him. So little interest was taken in the by-election that nobody seemed to know or care that an electionrwas taking place. As it was, however, Mr. Ross got in just by the skin of his teeth. The ADVANQF`. _hoped too, that the ex-Reeve would have learned a lesson by his last January`s ex- perience and when in the Council again `would have ceased his obstructiveness and _his everlasting talk and have gone to work as a good honest non-political Councillor, should. We were, however, mistaken, and at the proper time the ADVANCE will have to take the ex-Reeve s case again in hand. Let him take that word of warn- ing. There is something positively re- freshing in our Grit neighbor s pretended indignation at partyism in municipal affairs, in view of the Grit schemes for Council proceedings concocted in the Grit hatching ground--the Dunlop street drug shop. Out upon such hypocritical cant.