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> SE alone at 4,238,721 tushéls~showing an in- erase during the existence of the National Policy of 1,105,017 bushels of wheat, over JRAND TRUNK TIME TABLE. | and above all other grains, except Indisn { cofn. What say our protectionists to this? 1 { | How in the face of thess facts, we desire | to ask, can Mr. Gibbs' friends account for f "his vote upen flour, wheat and coal, unless ithey admit he sold the interest of every |'conl consumer as a reciprocal for the privi- | "OSHAWA STATION, OSHAWA TIME. GOING WEST. GOING-EAST. = Accommoda'n, 8:00 am. | Mall, - = « + - 705 am. Express; - « -9:45 a.m. |. Accommodan, 7110 p.m. Express, - - "9:45 p.m. Express, - - - 837 pom. have a fine row of shade trecf in front of farma-- which, while 4 will indicate the taste and refinement of a ¢lass of which Ontario is justly proud, will add to the value of thir estate, and at the same time affird a cooling shade to the pedestrian, and supply to some extent the want of the green hedgerows of older conntries, TE -- MIX. BLALE AT BOWMANVILLE. Mixed, - - - - 4:30 pam. | Mixed, - + - - 250 pam, WHITBY STATION. - Trains going East leave Whitby Station fifteen | minutes earlier, and those going West fifteen minutes later than the above. | leges afforded him under the duty wpon | | flour and wheat ! I-"Wo have no doubt, if the Viudicator, or Edward Blake, Esq., M. P. for West | Durham, visited Bowmanville on Tuesday Mr. Glen, will only give the above facts PICKERING SPRING FAIR. The annual spring show in connection with tho Pickering Agricultural Society was held at the village of Brougham on Wednesday of this week, and' passed off very successfully. The busy season doubt- less kept many of the farmers from attend- ing who would otherwise have "been pre- ent. The competition was keenand close, aud the excitement ran high regarding the award in the aged bull class. The celo- brated entire dranght horse "Robby Burns," the property of Mr. Henry Evey, of Markham, was on the ground, and very EFFECTIVE ALLIES, Tue Locks on the Scugog, at Lindsay, lis a notable example in Canadian history having been completed, one of Capt. Cran- { of the spirit and class in question ; and a | dall's steamers, is now making regular trips | recent vote given in the Dominion Parlia- between that place and Port Perry. | ment towards the close of the scmsion is of | Lo ntry "40 Mr. Blake, 'showing as it | Tue leader of the Nova Scotian Gov- | the same character. docs" how important they consider the | ernment gets credit for being notoriously A few days ago the country was startled ! weakening, by fair means or foul, 'of his immoral. Ontario, unfortunately, isin a [80d alarmed at tho news that our repre- : influence. . Our contemporaries~would do position to sympathize with Nova Scotia. | sentatives at Ottawa had passed resolu: { well to remeniber the results of their for- | tion the object of which, if carried out, | mer crusades against tho said gentleman. would cost the country as much #s the pre- The Ministerial organs are once more in | full dry against Mr. Blake. This is com. | It is said that ITakifax will be tempore the absence of Lord Lisgar, whose duties will be performed by Sir Hastings Doyle, | Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. " Dax Rice will make another farewell arily the capital of the Dominion during { sent entire debt of the whole Dominion. | It is proposed--and the country is now pledged--to begin a, railway within two and finish it within ten years, extending | { In the late Ontario elections his course wes endorsed hy the whole Province, while | Sandfield Macdonald and his organs were unmistakeably rebuked ; and Mr. Blake | personally achieved the distinction. of be- | Harp to beast--A boiled egg. Tue infant's divinity--Wesn-us, © = A urLrrary conference is nowbeing held at Ottawa. Bavtimone annually ships 40,000,008 cans of oysters. - Tug cholera is raging in all fhe pg of thé Persian Gulf, Tue weather of England is fave to the growing erops. Lapes, matrimonially - inclined, aré wanted in the Muskoka district. | candid consideration they will® be able | in the next izsus of Mr. Gibbs' organ to explain, if they only will, why Mr. Gibls has gone with the Government through 'thick and thin upon such rascally bad {«¥otes as the Tupper scandal, the Scett { murtier, the Pacific' Railway ; and | particularly why his unswerving adherence | to the "coming man" (Dr. Tupper) in sup- IN our number of Friday last we pro- [Port of the Naiional Policy. mised a reviewal in. our' nex® of the TT ~Vindicator's reckless reply to tha article | ROWE'S APOrOuNT 3 headed "The National Policy," which ap-i| peared in our first issue. It will be re- | gure of it's prey when it endeavored to road membered the imagiyary loss sustained by | {he Reformer a lecture on consistency with Mr. Gibbs had an €ntirely - different ap- regard to it's remarks upon the conduct of pearance in our columns to what it had | {he Hon. Joseph Howe at Fort Garry. Tt GOuimin Reforrier, : Oshawa, Friday, April 28th, 1871 THE NATIONAL POLICY AND ITS DLFENDERS, more ® i! | Wednesday's Vindicitter fancied it made to Dritish Columbia on the Pacific, which, | much admired for his symmetry and ex- | cellent proportion. He did not compete for a prize, not intending to travel in the [ township. The names of sucessful ex- | hibitors will be found annexed :-- tour this summer. He's the farewellest | man, in the business," -- Er. There was a most successful Farewell tonr | | into the office on Wednesday, and one of ! the hands remarked that eaid dog evidently belonged to the "" Herring" gang. the | nency, and by a majprity of 407 in andther. | | of one hundred ve "Do write, and fear not," is what the girls say to théir correspondents.' : Way is a dankey that can't hold up head like next Sunday | Because its neck weak, ing elected by acclamation for one constit- Mr Blake's majority in South Bruce in | 1867 was only seveh votes, showing a- gain | per annum for four | years, Such areth¢ consequences of being' | opposed by the Toronto Telegraph and its | ministerial confreres. We esteem Mr. Blake so highly that we would be glad to see him returned tothe Honse of Commons | at the next elections by a majority of 1,000 | votes. To this result noth'ng could contri- bute so much as the peculiar opposition of | the Toronto Telegraph, with perhaps an occasional paragraph from the Belleville We would feel much satis- |/ A poc weighing four ounces was recent: ly sold at Boston for $2560, just $62.50 per ounce. z : A NEw YORK postmaster is named Good- ale, and when he is in a hurry he signs it XXX. i ; Oar Pasuza, well known as the com mander of the Turkish army during the' Crimean war; is dead. : A MAN went up in a baloon on January 1st from Messina. He hasn't come down yet, so far as heard from. | | | Intelligencer. Lanadian Draught Entire Horse 1st, Joseph | Friday. constituents and "hemselves well to con- when paraded in the colutins of the Vin- says: '"This charge against the Hon. Mr. dietlor. What it endeavored to show as Howe, (about his ordering the 'rag' to be fartion, therefore, if] they would continue in the excellent course, which seems to have Léhman's "Sie William Wallace ;" 2nd, Robert | | Annan's "Ploughboy ;" 3rd, D. WuEN the, Toronto Telegraph wes asmall | Sider this matter before doubling the debt, | 8. McFarlane's | Mr. Gibbs, by-bis vote, | Pee mapped. out--not, perhaps, by Mr. 8 heavy loss, we showed to be an absolute | {aken down) was denied by him and those ~gein. In other words, we clearly proved | who wert with him, upon his return."- "that instead of Mr, Gibbs losing, through WW ask the Viidicator, who ever saw a the duty upon wheat, the enormous sum | graitor if charged with traitorous acts of *"nearly £3000," he actually netted the | who would not fib, and make all sorts of reat little sum of $13,780. We may just | claims to loyalty to screen himself from here remark there can be no longer any 'public odizm ! doulit, if indeed there ever has been any, | © My. Howe's dxcosers onght to knew as to. whose instructions the Vindicator is | {hore ars mon in the North-West (quite as "subject to. In the article to which it di: competent to speak: the truth asthe Hen. rected its reply we carefully avoided nam- | Joseph Howe; and much better fitted, in de- irg any particular paper. We spoke .of meanor, particularly at thet me of the occur- 'Mr. Gibbs' organs," *' his organ," &c. The Vindicator launched out in defence at once, and after a few muddled assertions-- none of them tending, howeves, to'estab- one whom the Viadicatoralludes to as de- lish its previous statement @bout Mr. ! nying the charge on behalf of Howe. We GibLs' lcss--concluded after the manner ak the Vindicator, is there any proof that rence, to take cognizance of Howe's language | than either himself or his associates. We presume Mr. Turner, of Hamilton, is the instructed ; namely, 'Mr. Gibbs voted in | Mr. Turner had charge of the Hon. Joe's monies and he voted, for the railway. deed representative government, when reinstalled in the position) which was, pass man declares he will not on such an all: ed on the route, was brilligntly illumin- ated. The meeting was held inithe large | absorbing matter as this, stoop to consult T i either constituents or country. Intending competitors must re- | 7 mit one dollar to the Treasurer, Mr. M. | Porter, Bowmanville, on or before the evening last for tha purpose of addressing his constituents upon political matters, and king them for additional honors latel ; BE Som thanking Shem Bs fos y according to the lowest estimagte of Minis- | conferred--this being his first visit to the ; iad 4 : pe! 1 " . ters themselves, will cost not less than riding since his election by acclamation as in Bouth ! 5 y . . i g : ] . : ] : : $100,000,000. The astounding thing is, the representative. thereof in the Local | Ontario a few weeks ago ; but it won't be ' a rr a : 4 AE | od that the people of British Columbia did Legislature. Upon hisarrival at the Bow- | the §st. { : i a lle stati by the evening train | j o { not even ask this as a condition of confed- manville station, b e @ draught Horses1at, Simon Deattie's "Con- | - Our dog Paddy brought an ancient fish ati ri : | i an. ane . rating ; hat they wero from Toronto, lie was met by an immense | queror;" 3nd, James Whiteside's " Glenesk ;" 8rd, | A - : ig with wi nay, that oe 1 -re yg »s Laurie's *Tento." { much surprised s lve sck- assemblage of eléctors from all parts of the | James Laurie's "Tento, | ATprised as. olirse Ves a): te reg ve : . . 4) | © Two-year old Entire Colt 1st, Jas. Whiteside. lessness of such a proceedur=. Yet one of riding, accompanied by the excellent Inde- | General Purpose 'Hore Tot. Robert Mutch's wis SE : Gib . + Pu Sand of the t As dhe | "tideic Si :y ) wth: V last acts of T. N. Gibbs, M. P., our | pendent Brass Band of the town, s the htt ec Samson;" 2nd, J, Stouteniburgh's "Sir | rather scandalous to insult a dog in that represéntative at Ottawa, was to vote for iz he band played ire Colin Campbell ;" 3rd, R. 8. Wilson's *" Youn, % Se an Amawa, had Of 0; train stopped, the band played a stirring 3 Bi manor t 43 . : : : 1 Mx Blake's ajpenn i | Moss Trooper." manner. this plunging his country and constituents | a oy a Wh iy . f pen . wes py { Two-year old Colt- 1st, Win. Heron; 2nd, Chas. | A LETTER from " Pro Bono Publieo,"| into such unheard of extravagance. Truly uns T aM of hes heers. Faller ; obert.Crur EE. : i . f Signa JOr 3. TOU Oh SALLY Sacer. 4 Pule ay 3, Robert Crummer. in reply to an article which: appeared. in | * whom the gods would destroy they first deputation from. 'the Reform Association | Saddle and Carriage Horses -1st, E. Majorly | : poy : +» - 1 > i he rid; Ycomed the. » " a | "Green Mountain Morgan" 2nd, Jolin Rayner's | the last issue of the Vindicator, has been | make mad. Mr. Rymal, a Reformer, y o Welcomed 4 pT; | . re orig | v +: . | : : ie ie ns Yo 1 - re ri ME "Rainbow," 3rd, Simon Doattie's "Grand Trunk." | sent in for publication, but too late for || moved that no.such vote be passcd by Par- a I TL." spend new | _ Two.year old Entire Calt--ist, Sinton Beuttie's | this wock's issue. It. will appear next/ liament until time shoulil-be given their carriage in waiting for his reception, an | "Cleveland Lad;" 2nd, Warren Hastings, immense procession waa formed, and pro- ceeded up through the principal portion of ; > } sheet. it was o n* itn Rize: ire it Of the country. the town, headed by the director of cere- | 'Moss Trooper." | sheet, it was good for its size; but sinee it | © 1 "N J {ii not consider 3t forth > Ball, aged Ist, John Miller's "Fawsley Chief: | enlarged it' has been an utter failure, 53d "No, we will not consider it further, | Mr. M. Porter--the brass band, se y ; . | 2nd, John M. Bell's "Highland Chief;"" 3rd, John and a large number of persons bearing | miner's "Oxford Mazurka." flanring torches. The residence of Mr. | Bull, calved since January, 1870. 2st, Birrell & | y . ts + John McLeod, ex-member (and soon to be | Johnston's " Lothair;" ind, Isaac Middleton ; 3rd, climbs the more he shows his tail. | Jobin Miller. ; | Tee West Durham. County Agricultural | Clover Eecil- Jst, Rébert Fuller; 2nd, Joseph : : 1 i Willson. Association have decided to throw their Judges on Light Horses and Studs George | Fall Exhibition open to the Province of . . : Merden, John Ellis, D. M. Decker. Ontario battalion dr ad mn ha Jing \ WD. ntario. Hey ttalion drill J shed---the town hall being | Judges on Heavy Horsesand Balls - I). Lawson, found quite inadequate to contain the | wintiam Blair, James Pebbles, Alex. Waddell, crowd of people--and upon Mr. Blake's | Thomas Annan, this disclose the old fossil'spirit that would say, "You are only fitto pay the taxes; + "Tis ever held a certain rule, end never | DOT shall time be given to our SunsiiSuents known to fail, the higher up a monkey | to pronounce on this important matter; This is in- | | a | Does not + Blake, but certainly to his advantage. -- London Advertiser. | RAMU (-- THE SAN JUAN DIFFICILTY, The San Juan boundary question scems | to stand in the way of a comprehensive ecttlement of all difficulties between Bri- |; tain and America. The island in dispute is worth rothing, but it would | be a great | thing for the United States to own the | arrival thereat ho was again greeted with | rousing cheers by the host within. Mr. Geo. Haines was called to the chair, and after a few preliminaries, Mr. Bl was called upon to speak. When all had entered the. building there must 'hive been abont three thousand persons with the present, including a large nnmber of ladies. | The Annual Spring Fair in connection Agricultural 'Associations of the above municipalities, was held in the Town | of Whitby yesterday. The very inclement © | state of the weatherprevented the attend- when the track-laying will commence. The For two hours | | ance of a great number of people and ani- we will lay them on, but would scorn to ask your opinion as to how they should be Unless we #re much mistaken, the channel on onc side of it, and command | that on the othor side from it; whereas it | { would be equally important for th: Do- | people are sufficiently intelligent to resent | mirion to own the channel on one side conduct like. this. - A day of reckoning has | free from interference. ¢ channel on just passed; but another looms in the dis- | the American is, if we are rightly inform- tance. , If for handing over a constinency ed, too wide to becommanded by batteries | to its political enemies, contrary to princi- | onthe islind, so that American commerce | first day of June next. It is expected that the Whithy and Port Perry Railway will be in running order ['early in August. spent. The iron has bedn ship- ped for the entire length of the track, and is expected to arrive aboutthe 15th of May contracts for the stations have been let, Tere was a fire at Chiselhurst lately , tand Louis Napoleon personally helped te * stay its progress. . Soroxox's wisdom is ssid to be due to the fact that'he had 700 wives, whom he | doubtless consulted on all occasions. Tuere is a darkey in Knoxville, Tenn., who earns fifteen cents by standing bare- footed on a hot stove for two minutes. A Me. Raymoxp, of Montreal, for re fusing to answer the census enumerator, | has been fined seven dollars, or a month in jail. QueeN Victoria has had nine childrén ard twenty-one grandchildren, of whom only one has died ; that one was a grand-' | child. SENOR CASTELAR, the Spanish Orator, announces his intention of introducing a ples of representation, the onehasbeen flag- would be secure even if the Island belongs | motion in the Cortes demanding the de- i ellated with cords, for violation ef the same | to the Dominion ; but the channel on the | thronement of the King. = principle and | excessive extravagance the side of Vancouver's Island is said to be T Washi o ; ; : : rrespondent of . the being held in the hotel sheds. There were . ; other must be scourged with scorpions. | entirely atthe mercy of San Juan, so that | N Fan WW schington the Fann High some splendid animals in competition, and | Ministry are numerous. . It is reported Representatives, if by the fate of .others | to abandon it to the United States would | & : wn : i i that the H W. McDouzall Col. F - . ! x es { Commission will probably leave the Sam the Judges, particularly in the draught | tha } ol Oe Sli JIG ol H igh OL *. | they willnot learn wisdom, must be taught | be to give up in ime of war, the only out- | J nestion to arbitration class, had a difficult task to perform. The | fo reriand. will succeed Hon. Stephen |g 4 they are but our mouth pieces to | let to the ocean.' If- this be the, stats of | © 0 1 ow : 2 | ili . i lichards as Commissioner ' of Crown . . | rs , 1 A PENNSYLVANIA cow swalloweda | following is a list of persons to whom prizes | | and that . Wood" stirement is | €arTy jout our behosts in all important | the case, it is easy to see how difficult i | NNS 3 ido { 3 sands, "and that - Wood's retirement is P | § . a | i oN : Ton i | were awarded : -- foreshadowed by his opposition to the Do- | legisldition; they must learn; when an all- | will be to obtain an agreement ypon it. | °F PAL! pouch a-year ago, and. whe she : HORSES. minion Government. The assertion is also t question (such as the Pacific | The only solution of the question/that we | ¥®8 lately killed every nail was found in - Blood Stallion--1st, N. Ray. ade that Sandhe vil Cons + This : a . > idn" 2 made that Sandfield will reconstruct his y) comes before 'the House, to turn [can see is, to meutralizé that island so far | the pouch. She didn't lose'one Saddle and Carriage Stallion 1st, Simon Beat. | Government on a purely Conservative basis. | tie ; 2nd, John Wilson ; 3rd, E. Major, * --I -- the interests of 'his constituents, and not tongue when at Fort Garry? Or, did the for his own profit." i Since, therefore, the Vindicator has not touched upon the old story' about Mr. Gibbs' loss, we must take it for granted that it desires to yield that point. The exeuse set up now, howevcr, is that Mr. Gibbs in voting as he did, voted in the in- terests of his constituents. Ourfriend, we suppose, intends in a hypercritical sense to convey the idea that the sole object' Mr. Gibbs had in view was the public good ; he held the undivided attention of the mals; and the Judges had to labor under and they re to be completed and in readi- immense audience, while he exposed the | 43e disadvantage of want of room, the show | 1 by the first of July. gross mismanagement, of affairs by the : Dominion Government, and pointed out the evil consequences which mast inevit- ably arise from the operations of several of the acts of the Ottawa coalition. He like: wise pointed But the bardfaced ncopats'- ' ency of numerous parties, 'who have lately been employed in maligning and villifying | hin, because of his giving one vote on the Hon. Gentleman have Mr.' Truner's ears attached to his mouth from the time they entered thé territory until they left! It has been stated upon good authority, and more than that --never denied ta Rumors as to changes in the Ontario Sf that Howe and his associates at Fort: Garry wera obliviously happy ever Riel's brandy at the time he uttered ths words attributed to him. During his fiaternizations with the "bandits," dil heinpt instance his own : and left to us, therefore, to extricate versal massacre war a8 hip very doors - Tour beleagt , " ATES they sent Riel 'reproscutatives 10 . « American wheat was with the view to pre- success in Nova Scotia as engouragement same side 23 did their masters ; and clear- but by a sort of accidental coincidence | for them to "hold out?" Where was ths | ly exonerated 'himself fram all blame in 2nd, R. 8. Wilson ; 3rd, James Ogilvie. the matter. the vote had tlie doubleefect of benefitting | Hon. Gentleman's friend and fellow travel- himself and his constituents at same tim-. If the Findicator could succeed in showing In order that readers 'may judge for themselves," we will endeavor to give the speech in full next week: The following resolutions were then submitted to the meeting, and carried unanimously : | John Medland ; 2nd, W. Herring. Mz. Wit. THOMPSON, of Bow- | Draught, Brood Mares i es manville, moved, sceonded by Mr. W, fd, Jambs Median; Sed fieorge Liddle, F. Aves," Deputy-Reeve of Clarke, -- *" That having heard Mr. Blake's Bo ad- dress, this meeting hns much pleasure in 1g its entire satisfaction with the ler at this time? mon Beattie ; 3rd, James Whiteside, Two-year old Draught Entire Colt Farewell ; 2nd, James Whiteside. Two-year old General Purpose-Entire Colt And who is the member from Manitoba, 1a, A. W, us that such was really the case, «it would | that statéd ** he 'had 'made enqnirics at be but charitable: of us to give Mr. Gibbs | Fort Garry, but he had never found aman the benefit of the doubt, and join our Who had heard Mr. Howe nutter such an friend the Vindicator in desig ating the expression." vote "disinterested,"--* patriotic," honest. 1st, leeve That member I presuma to ¢ --even | bd Donald A. Smith, who when sent to But it happens the Vindicator | Fort Garry, as Commiissioher fiom the Ot- fails to advance even a fragment of proof | tawa Governme that such was the intention, and more par- had no jurisdic ticularly that it had the effect of benefitting | Commissioner both partics, as stated. 'Even the eccen- with those in rebellion, obeyed the dictates tricity in the sime column, over the signa- jof Riel, and canvassed the loyal and peace- ture of F. W. Glen, fails to assist him any; ful scttlers with represintations that uni- ~ ston ; 2nd, James Stokes >», Geo. Rodd. General Purpose Filly, 2 years old 1st, Thama: Morrig, « % ught Filly, 2 years old 1st, Wm, Jeffrey. ra 38 L *. gentleman's: course in the Do%ainion | gle: 2nd, Clement Dawes. Parliament, and as the lesfler of the Oppo- J. P. Powell's special prize for Saddle Horse is : ay f i Ist, Clément Dawes; 2nd, D. Holliday, Jr. sition in the Je#isluture of Ontario, and | wouldr™ dso unhesitatingly conden the u nt--the Government that i rémimber, yet som a 1 of remonstrating orse af any class--1st, Thomas Evans. "Coaiition Governments and the question: | BULLS. "Durfiain, aged -1st, Wm. J-ffrey ; 2nd, il. W Me. J. E. Fanzwers moved, seconded | Wilcox ; 3rd, James Mitchell. nd 8 . irade, asec 3 ro 4 by Ms,' F.F. McAurays--That whilp | - Dopey t Bt GuueeOmton. | = this mecting congratulates Edward Blake, B. F..Campbell ; 3rd, Alex. M:Kenzie, M. P. P. elect for this riding, upon his {. Ayrshire, aged-- 1st, Thomas Guy. Ayrshire, 2 years old 1st, do. . Durham, 1 year old---1st, John Dryden; 2nd "m. Keofr; 3rd, George Ogston. able means employed to retain power." culty, : join in dictating terms which they hitherto The Vindicator asks: "How .does the had shown no desire to possess: to 'ac- National Policy 'man dccount for the fact | quiesce, or - dissent -- if "they. dare, to such that the strongest opponents of that tariff demands as an armal, threatening rebel 'were the millers of Montreal and St. Cath- | faction should submit; and from whose erines I" We answer, very easily. We lips not a word of rebuke was heart, al account, for it in this way. Those in Mon- the time he was there; concerning the foul treal and St. Catherines who opposed the murder. tariff do not, nor hitherto hire not imported wheat ; but théy hive burned and do burn | Donald A. Smith. coal. And 'the difference between those Viadicator, olesr your éycs of that mist, millers and Mr. Gibbsisin that particular; forthe time is fast approaching when your , for Mr. Gibbs does import \wheat, but he | monfh-keeper will be forced to clear his. does not burn coal ; therefore he cannot in a practical sense sce the disadyantage of the 50 cents duty on coal. But he ¢an | see, and appreciate, too, the advantage of of a scheme enabling him to buy and im- port wheat at a nice little, profit, and at the same time cut the Canadian producer down in his price. Every farmer is aware that veryoften the wheat market of Bowman. wille and Whitby is from 2¢. to 3¢. in advance of Oshawa prices. Yon, Mr. Viadic itor, are not let into these little secrets, .nor are you likely to be, lest you might cease to display such extraordinary credulity about Mr. Gibbs' losses, or become clear in your ideas as to what really coastitutes inter- ested or disinterested legislation. election for the samé by acclamation, and | also upon his return for South Bruce by a-| triumphant majority, it recognizes the prior claim of the electors.of South' Bruce by whom he was first elected to the Ontario Legislature, and expresses its willingness that he shall resign the representation of this Riding, should he deem it advisable in the interest of the cause of good goy- :t to sit for South Bruce." Ee ------------ A nice apologist, trily,. for Howe, is EE SHADE TREES, ernment to ele South Ontario, being present, was called upon for a speech, and -upon rising was received with cheers. = Owing to the late- ness of the hour he made but 'a few re-. 8qma years ago Capt. D. F. Burke gave the planting of shadd trees in Oshawa his special attention, and being ably seconded by the people of Oshawa, much was ne- complished in' this respect. no town in the Dominion has so great a number of trees (in proportion to its pop- ulation), planted with so little expense to the public treasury, as Oshawa. We believe ! and cited late elections as evidence that cape the poople were tired of coalition rule, and kh = Lied : ave made desired the overthrow of the present Min- istey. will not serve the end they desire. So much has been done that our p ople are justly proud of the trees planted, and vie with {}, Qucen, the meeting was concluded b the jband playing the National Auther 7 | their case still worse by " ri ki tho ot SEFY . each other in looking after their preserva- mn. wreng doing. tion. The boys, who in other towns have the 'reputation of destroying many fine trees, here give thom/a severe letting If we understand Mr. Glen, his argu- alon». We trust that this spring there ment is but a re-echo of Mr. Gibbs' excuse | will be much done in supplying these new by the Vindicator; namely, that the object strects which a1 present havi no tres. A ENGLISH VIEW OF AMERICAN PROTECTION | ricans against the importation of coal from General 'Purpose Stallion 1st, Robert Mutch ; Draught Stallion 1st, Thomas Evans; 2nd, Si- Ist, 'James Mitchell ; hi | General Purpose Brood Mare lat; George Og- t Single Horse in Harness 1st, James Prin- J. A. Campbell's special prize for best Entire | Tue RerdEMer has caused the greatest guaking among the dry bones of the coal- ition camp-followers in South Ontario that | has ever beel witnessed, ard the fear- stricken servants of Macdonald, Cartier & Co., are driven to their wits end in trying Abram Farewell, Esq, M. P. P. for to harrow "up some ground of complaint against the truths advanced in our columns. | Our space will not permit of immediate re- | iply to all the effusions of the eoalition | scribes ; but in due time their froth and marks, in which he expressed his admira- | fury will be blown back upon them. Their tion of the course pursued by Mr. Blake ; | attempts to raise side issues, and thus es- from the consequences of the facts we public regarding their master, : If the After a vote of thanks Lo the chairman, | truth is distasteful to them, better that and cheery for E. Blake, A. Farewell, and | they should *' grin and bear it," than make attempts to justify Tue Whitby Gazette had something to | We subjoin, clipped from the London ' say last week about the first nmmber of Telegraph, the view taken by England of | the REvorMER, and tried to road us a les- the protective policy adopted by the Ame- | son on * fair play," but unfortunately for | master, and ask, "How shall I vote I". Ti ey must not contemptuously turn d and say, ""We will not allow: our tituents to pronounce; we shall be the dges as to whether their debt shall be id he Lle - ¢ o Th 4 av Pat three o'clock. for schools and | filoubled or not, 'and they shall pay. oronlo Pape s speak of the exhi- ey must nit use the argument that un- . in the very highest terms of praise, and | Jess they shall be sole" judges of how they declare that its equal was never seen in the city it 3 ot i 3 rote s equal to Ang > of Toronto, M: Geo. S. 8. Wallace, the Agent, shall vote, it I= om lt Eng up their informs us that at Hamilton, on the opening marhood, When they presume "unas to | nian] he sold 1,383 tickets ; while at 'ma c, on | speak, do they ask themselves' Whether ay of lagt 'week, nearly. 1,200 children pall | hore be not thousands of those who send ffor admission--every child receiving a prescit. ) i Dash y " Some very valuable gifts will be given away them to Parliament that will reply, And leach 'mizht., We hope to see a full house. FRANCO-GERMAN WAR PANORAMA AND CONCERT COTIPANY. This superb work of scenic art will be exhibit. | I ed to our citizens, at Hobbs' Hall, bn Wednesday y, May 2rd and ith. The managze- ppged a grand matinee for Thurs- 5 what, sirs, becomes of our manhood ? Are we to'be of no account, and you sole arbi- ter in all fhat vitally concerns us 1" All | members who thus act and 'think will cither have to get into another train of acting and thinking, or, my word for it, The rapid advancement of intelligence | tyior2 is arod in pickle for their "skunkish" among all classes in England since the be- A ginning of this century, but especially during the last fifty years, has very greatly | changed the constitution of the country. | In'olden times might was held to bd right; the King was supreme in the state; life and death were inhis hands,and he despotically ruled the péasant and the nohle. With the art of printing came knowledge and a clearer 'appreciation of the relative rights of men ; and although' it was all but uni- versally acknowledged that the King ruled by Correspondence, || To the Editor of the Ontario Reformer: REPRISENTATION, | 1 hides. Nor will it do for those gentlemen to re- ply that we desire to make of them mere machines, having no mind of their own. | We desire nothing of the kind. We look upon their position as an honorable one, and in raising them above their fellows as we do, we declare we have confience in their--I will not say superior-- ability and judgment to deal with all orlinary meoasures introduced into the House with- nb de : . out much reference te the general constit- ght divine, still his acs' were more : uency. - But when an election comes we expect them to declare their views on all current important political questions and parties ; and having received the assent of he people, these views they are bound to carry into ¢ffect, and not change without | the consent of the represented. closely scrutinized, and petition or remon- strance began to be made agamst his most oppressive and cruel acts. Even the great Barons in their time, feeling the onerous yoke, combined, and in a voice not to be mistaken nor slighted, demanded and ob- tained Magna Charta as a check upon | the undue domineering of the . Throne. They petitioned for this measure not only in the interests of the titled nobility, but also in that of the great body of their re- tainers and dependents. This was the at act under our constitution which | led to the establishment of representative So when such an immensely weighty measure 2s a Pacific Railway, costing from £100,000,000 eleétions, and the people have had no time to pronourice upon it, the member mist not presnme (this word is not too strong | in stich a case) to say that he alone shall | determine the matter. Yet that is what | our member, T. N. Gibbs, M. P., has done on that monstrous costly Pacific folly. Pro Boxo Puerico. first gre | government. y With the advancement of learning, com- | merce and manufactures spread over the land; and like the higher orders, the:| wealthy commoners and middle classes be- | to $180,000,000, ,comes ap between two | of either country, either in peace or war. { --Montreal Paily Witness. : | | BeruiN, April 24. --Parliainent has pas- | sed the loan bill. - ae | Bismarck stated in the House that 'al- though the French should pay the first in- | | stalinent immediately, the forts north and east of Paris would not be evacuated un- til the final trdaty of peace was concluded. | The negotiations' at Brussels made slow progress, the French trying to better the i Germany was inflexible. The movement of [the commune entailed | sacrifices to Germany, but she would not meddle with the internal affairs of France. Count Moltke has given notice that he | will make a line of Yortifications to guar- | antee against all attack on the occupied | provinces of France, until the indemnity | be fully paid and a regular government firmlo established. Wasnixcron, April 21.--A special says the British High Commissioners have re- | | cdived despatches from their Government | approving of the treaty recently made by | the High Commissioners for' the" settle- | ment; of the "Alabama claims question.' The full details of this treaty. are as yet unknown, except to a few persons, who | have close official relations with the Presi- | | dent, and one of them is the authority for | | the statement, that™the treaty provides a | fixed commission to examine and pass | | upon the validity, of 'all claims presented, | and that the Emperor of Brazil is to be ar- bitrator as to the treaty in general. It is pronounced very favorable tothe United | States, at least as favorable as can be ne- gotiated now or for a long time. { Loxpox, April 25.--The great race, two thousand guineas stakes, three year olds, | colts and fillies, came off to-day at New- | market. Out of eighty-two subscribers | only thirteen faced the starter. The race | was 'won by 'Bothwell: 'Sterling" | second, and *' King of the Forest" third. | Lire 15% tee Op Lio Yer.--An Eng- | Ish paper of recent date says:--In order to test how soon in the dead of night and [*mental shade t eyes constituency-ward, asthe sorvant | as to prohibit its occupation by the forafs | Oxe hundred French soldiers have ar-- | rived at New. York and "are "looking foe employment. -Thisis the beginning of the emigration in which Canada will share, WHAT a world of gossip would be sre. vented if it was 'only remembered tha person who tells you of the faults of oters intends to tell others of your faults. THE strongest propensity in 's nature, says-a careful student leer, | is to vant to know what is going onind the next strongest is to boss the job. Tue corporation of St. Catherinad- vertises to-pay fifty cents for every aa- ree planted 'in or neathe Street. ; SH A FEW iron nails placed in' a vasdth flowers will keep the Water end! flowers fresh. This arises from themhur eliminated from the plants combin rith the iron. oie Dram-suors are utterly prohily in Vineland, N. J., both by law and due: whelmning public sentiment ; an{as a consequence, pauperism and crime pb but little known. | - Prohibition could § ne harm to any ong, and would bea ) service to many. : : CANADA now stands eighth, insti] eleventh ab last yedr, in the list of bo tries trading with England, porting proportion to population, mete goods fim England than any other country inje world, and three times as nich as United States. : LoueArp telegram says | been taken to enable 200,(¢ I be concentrated in Pari + hours' notice, should necessary, and that | tioned on the Seine to protect Versaill es, "Tue German last week teen miles, being tretcheq the entige zg 4, of the imposition of four cents duty upon | little attention to this of the part of froe- holtlers will complete a work of which our. peaple may well be proul. At the last ses- sion of the Ontario Parliament an act was vent American merchants from competing against Canadian produce in cur Canadian h : : himself commenced his task by garbling gan to perceive their interest in having a. To the Editor of.the Reformer. Now Scotia. The article will be well and misquoting from our columns. The | yiice in the making of laws upon which | = Sir, Desirous of being at peace with worthy of perusal by our ultra pretection- | article was one of the greatest *' mixtures" | their happiness and prosperity depended. | all the world, and more especially with Mg. ist friends : { we have seen for a long time, and it was { 7 | without previous warning the fleet could be bronght in active engagement, at about 10:30 at night the crews of the various : 1 "The coal-fields of Nova Scoti . Passing of "Tately attracted notice in-connection main- ve pe > a r Was i - eS importers before the Guly was imposed! ' the same, every shade free, shrub and sap-| ly with one of the recent developments We answer, Canadian merchants. = And ling now growing on eithor side of anys from the. protectionist extravagancies of who have been the importers since ? Cava- highway in this Province, shall'be deemed | the United States. markets. But, let us ask, who were the passed providing "that after the ed to say. - He however intimate the | this week. a have | hard to understand what the writer want- d that he | whole people became had not room for much in that issue---only | To please the coal in- | & column--but would return to the subject | theory and the practice that the We await something intelli- Hence the ever-extending Reform Bills | Gibbs' '"'organ-grinder," I for one admit passed from time to time until nearly the that Mr. Blake done decidedly wrong in represented as in our | paying a hurried visit to West Durham It is now both the | for the purpose of thanking his constitu- members | ents for the unbounded confidence reposed existing Parliaments, | ships of war stationed at Portland were roused by an order from the ship to practice at general qu the short space of five minutes signal was given, (the first gun dian merchants-- Mr. Gibbs one of them. tobe the propefty of the owner of th, land terests of Pennsylvania and Ohio, Then if the imp si ion of the duty was in- adjacent "to oh hizhway. "domosit : % + tended to keep out importatiors, as clain- which such tres, shih. To "iy lng is.' ed, why, we isk did it not keep out Mr. acer Gibls' importations! Will Mr. Gibhs' « apologists answer us that question ? We do not find fault because a scheme was provided to imposea duty upon wheat; but becanse coal was included. in tht scheme ; and that any person owning land adjacent to any highway, -may plant trees on the portion thereof contignons to his land:" and that every trae; shrub or sapling so planted shall be deemed the property of ud the owner for the time being of the land use the duty, if it w 3 thought to | whose owner planted the same"? These be a protection(?) wis nat ple d upon | provisions are contained in the first two t at : 4 ha gure as to afford the pro: | scetions of the Act, and apply to all town- tection claimed for it; and | rerent tht aw yr- ships, but do not apply to towns and vil- gin ld profit for Canadian millers iust mced Inges without a by-law hein wn Mr. Gibbs transactions. . We find fault the Municipal Cound, makin because Mr. Gibbs, as an offset for this | tions apply to them, : marginal profit of 8 cents per barrel, sacri- We noti ficed the interests of his constituents on | tho last moet the item of coal. This is the pith of our Bowmanville, introduced a by-law making complaint. these sections apply to the town of Bow- All that is necessary now. in" answering 'manville : and wé 'rust soma of our village 'oar National Policy supporters "is to fathers will introduce a similar by-law NeFe: meet two points. § The first point is, did The penalties provided by the Provincial the duty of fourcqnts prevent the importa. = Act for injuring shale trecsare very so- tion of American (wheat, as its advoeatés vere; and one-half of the fines imposed said it was intended to do? The scetnd | by it go to the informer and the other half ss, 454 thet duty serve to decrease the im- | to the niinicipality. Power is given "to portations, as compared with the twelve | the municipalities to provide and expend mouths previous to its imposition} The | money in planting and preserving | fact that Mr. Gibbs imported $68,000 | shade trees. - I money is ever to be ex- bushals last "season (a larger Pmportation | pended in Oshawa ini this way, now is the than he ever made before) fully answers | timé, while thete ave no public works o the first question. The official returns of | any magnitude being carried on. the Province of Ontario for the last two | We may ~ further mention that as in and he: 4 wile { > that Mr. J. E. Farewell, at 13 of the Town Council 6f 3 i American Congress had enacted a he: import duty against foreign coal. As the principal spuply of this kind came from was o3tablistel immodiataly after the Re- ciprocity Treaty with Canada'had come to | an end, the effect naturally enough was to add greatly to the discontent felt by the Nova Seotiang towards the new Dominion. Indeed, some ingdnious American politic- | Ix Montreal the velocipederinks flourish inns of the Benjamin Butler school advo- | catéd the imposition of the 'duty on the | ground that the supposed movément of the maritime provinces in favor of annexa- tion to the United States would thereby be stimulated. As usual, however, this | exceedingly suibtle policy has defeated its own ends. 'In their eagerness, to satisfy | the Pennsylvanian coal interest, and to spite Canada, the politicians at Washing- ton quite forgit a by no means unimpor- tant person--the nniversal consumer. To kim the effects of monopoly and prohibi- tory tariffs wore soon apparent. Coals went up in price, the pitmen struck for Ligher wazes and then ensued what our New York coptemporaries in sensation headings, termed a * coal famine." Pro- tection in the abstract seemed a very good | fGoob sized feet will. he the fashion for | #ho feel it derogatory thing; but, when it came to signify fuel at £5 or £5 per ton, the luxury was pro- | nounced dear for the monéy. Then came a re-action, and Congress, yielding to a general demand, has repealed the impor- tant duty. > Nova Scotia and the Ameri- can consumers will alike profit by this sen- sible step, and we are quite certain that | the moral will be at least equal to the ma- | terial effects." It appears to us that the Dominion Goy- WY | gible town. | Lrvpsay is busily engaged in the erec- tien of new buildings. on Sunday. 0) Monday next, May 1st, ulation of that town at over 5,000. | CLEAN your back yards, if not die in spring time." | BowMANVILLE has an attack of the Shade Tree fever. Good thing for the wn. * Lorp I®scar will leave Ottiwa for Eng- lend early in June. His servants and bag- | ! gage precede him. | ladics this summer. Louise Lorne wears { 0's. Nothing like a good "understanding." | . . | A wooLeN manufacturer in Maine runs his mill with ten hands, all of them his own children. - How is that for ** home manufacture " 1] x Way isthe Patent Combination like a cértaiil rowdy greanization in Oshawa ! to reply to, and will try to obtain pa- pers containing the Whitby mixtures--the | to that of their constitueifts Nova Scotia, and as the restrictive tariff only one we saw being in a neighboring } Trout fishing is lawful 'on and after Tue Port Hope Times estimates the pop- you ""would | of the Legislatures are elected to give ef- | in him without notifying them of the fact fect, not to their own personal views, but through the local papers of that place'; and ; and it is held | 411 T ask in retwrn is an admission on the they have no right to pass very important part of the "Grinder" that Mr. Gibbs done "| measures until thoy shall have ascertained equally wrong in coming from Ottawa, bag the wishes of the electors. | with blank cartridge. This | diately followed by such a cag | was never before heard in world. The nighe being i still, the noise caused co Forthis express | and baggage, on Sunday morring, not for |; ont and constern ! purpose we have the frequent dissolution { the purpose lof thanking his constituents ing town of, Weym of the House of Commons; and when any | for honors conferred upon him, but for |. ¢ persons rushed) one or'more members take so important a stumping this riding three consecutive}. harbor. Amid step as to accept of a seat in the Cabinet, | weeks thaough mud and mire in behalf of [4 rm of the enormg the Constitution expressly declares that he one of the most subservient * tools" in arch and Hercules. must return to his constituents for their |g. afield's flock, without giving us the | rished from the { approval 'of his personal acceptance of | joaqt intimation of his intention through | es The f | office aud of the general policy of the Gov- | the local paper here. ? | : % irit for 2 Fame Prav. | : i | This advanced state of progress in the P. 8.--Mr. Gibbs complains that coming | q | right direction (as we think) has not been | from Ottawa on 'the occasion referred to | A Bras | attained without arduous struggles on the | was-much against his will, but was com- | Rochester. | part of Reformers, and a' bitter, persistent | pelled to do so by his Jord and master, G. | i"8 the ph | and determined opposition to all advance- | E, C. This, however, is no excuse for sky as far | ment in the path of freeddm on the part of | hin ®He"shouldthave notified us through | the blue a large body of persons who imagine | the paper here. = hb. | themselves cast in a sfiperior mould, and April 27, 1871. : 1. mount ernment. » their dignity to | a [take counsel of their fellows. These peo- | The | ple generally deem the mass of their fellow RE ! | Tive's Coavces.--There is no such » | countrymen as much beneath them a | thing as a "Tey to be found in West tim ! hardly to be worthy of the franchise, and Durham now. ~ X few liberal conservatives | tin fit only to bear the burthen of contributing stil remain, but they are 'becoming rery | jy to, but never to, be consulted nor trusted liberal ; and by the time we have amother | with the expending of the national funds. election or two, with Mr. lake as stand- We find mien of this cast' resisting equal | ard bearer, it will require close searching | Et thd shite is not | rights, civil and religious, to all others,and | find an elector in the riding who: is not | ernment lite Congress, saw the folly of | "Because it. is an "Bring gang. "How arrogating to themselves all positions of | a Reformer, acknowledging the correctness years placed in contrast give'the very best "Townsltips all trees planted by farmers answer we could desire to the second. We | on the roadside belong to them or whoever find the returns for the year preceding the | purchases theif lands, and that they wi'l | duty give the importations of all grains, | have ample means of punishing parties except. Indisn corn, at 3,133,694 bushels; | who may injure them, great encouragemen* | hile the returns for tho' year the duty |is offered for them to expend the smal Rs & foroe give the intportations of wheat |pmount of time and labor neccesary to their movement in the adoption of the Na- tional Policy. . Protection, in the abstract to them, as in the case of the Washington politicians, seemed a very good thing vintil a general demand for repeal from the uni. ! versal consumer came from all parts of the try. | high ish dat?" A STRONG re-action, favorable to the res- apoleon, is re- | provinces, | toration of the Emgetor ported to have set in in Numbers ff 'the deputies to Assetably | | are known to desire to make Dus® D"Au- i mule President of the Republic, BY add of Mr. Blake's views on the public ques- | emolument and trust. They are to be " . | found in the old fossil Tories of the past tions ofthe day. So mole it be.-- Statesman. and present, who resist any change what- | AN eccentric old man was found on his ever in the Constitution and laws which | knees before the Russian guns in Montreal | tend to Joosen their grasp, and are content | the other day, exclaiming, "Good cannons, with things as they are, because they hold | bring plenty of war." He was sent to the © the vantage ground, The Family Compect | police station. :