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a ONTARIO REFORMER, OSHAWA, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1871. aléne at 4,238,721 tuahéls--showing an in- { have a fine row of shade trees in front of | erease during the existence of the National | farma--which, while # will indicate the | Policy of 1,105,017 bushels of wheat, over | taste and rofinement of a class of which AND TRUNK : ABLE. and above all other grains, except Indicn | Ontario is justly proud, will add to the UR D TRU TIME T cofn. What say our protectionists to this! | value of thoir estate, and at the-same time OSHAWA STATION. OSHAWA TIME. | How in the face of these facts, we desire | afford a cooling shade to the' pedestrian, = | to ask, can Mr. Gibbs' friends account for - and supply to some extent the want of the x {his vote upon flour, wheat and coal, unless | green hedgerows of older countries. Accommodan, 8:00 acm. | Mall, TOS am, | % oy b : - Express, - - 9:45 a.m. Accommodan, 7110 p.m, | they admit he sold the interest of) every | Express, - - "045 pm. Express, - - - 837 pm, | coal consumer as a' reciprocal for the privi- : Mixes, - - - [mam Macl,- + = *S0nm. legen afforded him under. the duty pon | | pwd Binke, Beg, M. P. for West ; WHITBY STATION, | flour and wheat ! Trains going Fast leave Whitby Station fifteen | Wo have no doubt, if tha Viedicater, or minutes earlier, and those going West fifteen N il al v giv bov ac | Mr. Glen, i above facts minutes later than the above. fr. Glen, will on y give the above fac GOING "WEST. GOING EAST, . MZ. BLAKE AT BOWMANVILLE. Durham, visited Bowmanville on Tuesday evening last for the purpose of addressing | his constituents upon political matters, and candid consideration they 'will be able! thanking them for additional honors lately | in the next icsuo of Mr, Gibbs' organ to conferred-- this being his first visit to the | gxplain, if they only will, why Mr. Gibts riding since his eloction by acclamation as (has gone with tho Government through | 4, representative thereof in. the Local | 'thick and thin upon such rascally bad |p. idature. Upon his arrival at the Bow. | {votes as the Tupper scandal, the Scett . ; | | Ontario Reformer, Oshawa, Friday, April 26th, 1871. THE NATIONAL POLICY AND ITS PLFENDERS, manville station, by the evening train | murier, the Pacific Railway ; and more | go Poranto, he was mot by an immense | particularly why his unswerving adherence | assemblage of electors from all parts of the | to the 'coming man" (Dr, Tupper) in sup- riding, ace apaniod by the excellent Inde-. Ix our number of Friday last we pro. | Port of the National Policy," ] | pendent Brass Band of the town. As the "mised a reviewal in our next of the | ; -- € train stopped, tho band played a stirring | Vindicator's regkloss reply to the article | MOWES Arelansm. air, and Mr. Blake's appearance was the | headed *'The National"Policy," which ap- | . Wednesday's Vindicator fancied it made | signal for 'a rotund of hearty cheers. A | peared in our first issue." It will be re- | gura-of it's prey whenit endeavered to read | deputation from the Reform Association membered the imaginary loss sustained by | the Reformer a lecture on consistency with | of the riding welcomed the member; and | | for a prize, not intending to travel in the PICKERING SPRING FAIR. Tue Locks on the Scugog, at Lindsay, : ul having been completed, one of Capt. Cran- dall's steamers is now making regular trips between 'that place and Port Perry. Tux leader of the Nova Scotian Gov- ornment gets credit for being notoriously immoral. Ontario, unfortunately, is in a position to sympathize with Nova Scotia. It is said that ITalifax will be tempor- arily the capital of the Dominion during the absence of Lord Lisgar, whose duties The annual spring show in connegti with the 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 farmersfrom attend- iig'who would otherwise have been pre- sent. | The competition was keenand close, aud the excitement ran high regarding the award in the aged bull class. 'The cele- is a notable example in Canadian history of the spirit and class in question ; and a recent vote given in the Dominion Parlia- | ment towards the close of the session is of the same character. 3 A few days ago the country was startled and alarmed at the news that our repre- sontatives at Ottawa had passed a resolu: tion the object of which, if carried out, sent entire debt of the whole Dominion. brated entire ' draught horse ' Robby Burns," the property of Mr. Henry Evey, of Markham, was on the ground, and very much admired for his symmetry and ex- cellent proportion. He did not compete Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. ¢ Dax Rice will make another farewell tour this summer. He's;the farewellest man in the business." --Er. : There was a most successful Farewell tonr in South Ontario a few weeks ago ; but it won't be the Yist. Our dog Paddy brought an ancient fish into the office on Wednesday, and one of | the hands remarked thateaid dég evidently belonged to the "Herring" gang, It was rather scandalous to insult a dog in that manner, A Lerrer from * Pro Bono Publieo," in reply fo an article which appeared in the last issue of the Vindicator, has been township. The names of successful ex- hibitors will be found annexed :-- Draught Horses 1st, Simon Beattic's *Con- queror;" Ind, James Whiteside's " Glenesk ; 280d, James Laurie's "Tento," i 4 Two-year old Entire Colt 1st, Jus, Whiteside. General Purpose Tlorse 1st, Rabert Muteh's | "Shittle Samson" 2nd, J. Stouteniburgh's "Sir { Colin Campbell ;" 3rd, R. 8. Wilson's * Young Moss Trooper," , Two-year oll Colt 1st, Win. Heron ; 2nd, Chas, Fuller; 8rd, Robert Crummer, Saddle and Cafriage Horses 1st, E. Majorlp "Green Mountaln Morgan ;" 3nd, John Rayner's | "Rainbow;" 3rd, Simon Neattie's "Grand Trunk." | will be performed by Sir Hastings Doyle, It is proposed--and the country is now pledged--to begin a railway within twe and finish it within ten years, extending | to Dritish Columbia on the Pacific, which, | according to the lowest estimste of Minis- | ters themselves, will cost mot less than | $100,000,000.- The astounding thing is, | that the people 'of British Columbia did | not even ask this-as a condition of confed- ] | erating with-us ; nay, that they wero as' | much surprised as ourselves at the reck- | lessnecs of such a procecdur=." Yet one of | tho last acts of T. N, Gibbs, M. P., our representative at Ottawa, was. to vote for this plunging his country and constituents would cost the country as much #s the pre- | | into such unheard of extravagance. Truly *" whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." Mr. Rymal, a Reformer, | Mr. Gibbs had an entirely different ap- pearance in our columns to what it had when parsdéd in the columns of the Vin- regard to it's remarks upon thé conduct-of | he having been escorted to a splendid new | the Hon. Joseph Howe at Fort Garry. Tt | carriage in waiting for his reception, an | Yorg p says: "'This charge against the Hon. Mr. immonse procession was formed, and pro- | Two-year old Entire Colt 1st, Simon Beatties ! "Cleveland Lad ;" 2nd, Warren Hastings, | Canadian Draught Enti Léhman's "Sir Willlam Wallace ;" Horse 1st, Josep) | sent in for publication, but too late for | moved that no such vote be passcd by Par. this wock's issue. It" :will appear next | linment until time should bo given their EFFECTIVE ALLIES, The Ministerial organs are once more in full cry against Mr. Blake. This is com- plimentary to Mr. Blake, showing as it does how important they consider the weakening, -by fair means or, foul, of his influence. Our contemporaries would do wall to remeniber the -results of their for- mer crusades against ths said gentleman. In the late Ontario elections his course s endorsed hy the whole Province, while Sandfield "Macdonald and- his organs were unmistakeably rebuked ; and Mr. Blake personally achieved the distinction of be- ing elected by acclamation for one eonstit- uengy, snd by a majority of 407 in another. Mr. Blake's majority in South Bruee in 1867 was only seven votes, showing a gain of one hundred votes per annum for four years, Such arethe consequences of being opposed by the Toronto Telegraph dnd its ministerial "confreres. We esteem Mr, Blake so highly that we would be glad to | see him returned te the House 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 Intelligencer. We would feel much satis- | fartion, therefore, if they would continue | in the excellent course which seems to have "+ Friday. | constituents snd "%hemselves well to con: sider this matter before doubling the debt dicator. What it endeavored to show as 8' heavy loss, we showed to be an absolute goin. In other words, we clearly proved that instead of Mr. Gibbs losing, through "the duty upon wheat, the enormous sum of "" nearly $3000," he actually netted the reat little sum of $13,780. We may just | Howe, (about his opdéring the 'rag' to be | ceeded up through the principal portion of | taken down) was denied hy him and those ' the town, headed by the director of cere- who went with hin, upon his return."-- wonies--Mr. M. Porter--the brass band, We ask the Vindicator, who ever saw a and a large number of persons bearing | traitor--if ¢harzed with traitorous acts-- flaming torches. The residence of Mr. | who would not fib, and make all sorts of | John McLeod, ex-member (and soon to be claima to loyalty to screen himself; from reinstalled in the position) which was, pass- d, Robert | Waex the Toronto Telegraph was asmall Annan's "Ploughboy;" 3rd, D, 8. McFarlane's | i on i : * Mohs Trooper." 4 sheet, it was good for its size; but since it Bull, aged 1st, John Miller's hii iiy Chiet;" | enlarged it has been an utter failure, 2nd, John M. Bell's Highland Chief; 3rd, John | *' "Tis ever held a certain rule, and never Miller's "Oxford Mazurka." i ighe > Ball, Salved sine rena, A 1a, Weert & | known to fail, the higher up a monkey Johnston's * Lothalr;" nd, Isaac Middleton; ard, | Climbs the more he shows his tail." Jokn Miller. | Tre West Durham County Agricultural Clover 'Secil 1st, Robert Fuller; 2nd, Joseph | of the country. Mr. Gibbs, by bis vote, | said "No, we will not consider it further, | nor shall time be given to our constituents | to pronounce on this important matter;" and he voted for the railway. This is in- | deed representative government, when a | been mapped out--not, perhaps, by Mr, Blake, but certainly to his advantage.-- London Advertiser. THE SAN JUAN DIFFICULTY: The San Juan boundary question scéms here remark there can be vo longer any doulit, if indeed there ever has been any, | as to' whosé instructions the Vindicator is - subject to. reeted its reply we carefully avoided nam- ing any particular paper. = We spoke 'of "Mr, Gibbs' organs," " his organ," -&ec. The Vindicator launched out in defence-at once, and after: a few muddled assertions-- | none of them tending, however, to estab- lish its previous statement about. Mr. Gibls' lcssisconcluded after the manner instructed ; namely, ' Mr. Gibbs voted in In the article to which it di- | public odivm! - > ed on the 'route, was brilliantly illumin- | Mr. Howe's excnears enght to knew ated. thore ats mon in the North-West ymite as = battalion drill shed--the town hall being competent to speak the truth asfhd Hen. found quite inadequate to contain the | Joseph Howe; and fiuch better fitted, in de- | crowd of .people--and upon" Mr. Blake's | meanor, particularly at thet' me of the occur- | arrival thereat ho. was again greeted with | rence, to take cognizance of Howe's langnage | rousing cheers by the host within. When | | than either himself or his associatés, We all had entered the building there must presume Mr. Turner, of Hamilton, is the have been abont three thousand persons | one whom the Vindicator alludes.th as de- | present, including a large nnmber of: ladies. nying the charge on behalf of Howe." We Mr. Geo. Haines was called to the chair, | |-ask the Vindicator, is there any proof that and after a few preliminaries, Mr. Blake | | Mr. Turner had charge of the Hon. Joe's was called upon to'speak. For two hours | Willson. i The meeting 'was held in the large | Judges oh Light Horses and Studs George | Fall Exhibition open to the Province of Merden, John Ellis, D. M. Decker. Judges on Heavy Horses and Bulls D. Lawson, Willlam Blair, James Pebbles, Alex! Waddell, Thomas Annan. . | ---------------- et ------ i |S WHITEY & EAST WHITBY SPRING FAIR. | | The Annual Spring Fair in connection with the Agricultural Associations of the T early in August, above municipalities, was held in the Town | of Whitby yesterday. The very inclement state of the weathergrevented the attend- | man declares he will not on such an' all- | to stand in the way of a comprehensive absorbing matter as this, stoop to consult | settlement of all difficulties between Bri- : i ither constituents or country. = Does not | tain'and America. The island in dispute: Intending competitors must re- | it Sue ARR { y . uit one dolar " a mi M | this disclose the old fossil spirit that would | is worth rothing, but it would be a great Porter. Bowmanville. 'on -or before the |» "You are only fito pay the taxes; | thing for the United States to own the Association have decided to throw their | Ontario. | first day of June next. | we will lay them on, but would scorn to channel on ono: side of it, and command | ask your opinion as to how they should be | that on the othor side from it; whereas it ; . ! spent. 'Unless we #re much mistaken, the | would be equally important for the Do- Perry Railway will be in. running. order.| | oople are sufficiently intelligent to resent | minion to own the channel on one 'side , The iron has been ship- | conduct like. this. A day of reckoning has free from interference. * The channel on ped for the entire length of the track, and | just passed; but another looms in. the dis- | the American is, if we are rightly inform- is expected to arrive aboutthe 15th of May | tance. If for handing over a constinency | ed, too wide to becommanded by batteries when the track-laying will commence. The to its political enemies, contrary to princi- | on the island, so that American commerce IT is expected that the Whitby and Port contracts for the stations have been let, the interests of his constituents; and uot tongue when at Fort Garry! Or, did the he held 'the undivided attention of the | ance of a great numb#r of people and ani- | | ples of representation, theonehasbecn flag- for his own profit." Since, therefore, the Vindicator has not touched upon the old story about Mr. Gibbs' loss; wemust take it-for granted | that it desires to yield that point. The excuse set up now, however, is that Mr, Gibbs in voting as he did, voted in the in-: terests of his: constituents." Our friend, we suppose, intends in a hypereritical sense | to convey the idea that the sole ahject Mr. Gilbs had in view was the public good ; "ibut-_by a sort of accidental coincidence the vote had the\doubleeffoct of benefitting himself and his constituents at same 'tim-, If the Vindicatyr could succeed' in showing us that such was' really the case, it would be but charitable of us to give Mr. Gibbs the benefit of | the doubt, and join our friend the Vindicator in designating the vote "disinterested," + patriotic," --cven honest. But it; happens 'the Vindicator fails to advance even a fragment of proof that such was the intention, and more par- ticularly that it had the effect of benefitting » both partics, as stated. . Even the eccen- tricity in the same column, over the si; ture of F. W. Glen, fails to assist him any; and jij aft to us, therefore; to extricate The Vindicator asks: "How does the National Policy man account. for the fact that the strongest opponents of that tariff 'were the millers of Montreal and St. Cath- erines I". We answer, very easily. We account for it in'this way, Those in Mon- treal and St. Catherines who opposed the tariff do not, nor hitherto hare not impor'ed wheat ; but they hive burned and do burn coal. And the. difference between those millers and Mr. Gibbs is in that particular; for Mr. Gibbs does import wheat, but he does not burn-eoal ; therefore he cannot in practical sense see the disadvantage of the 50 cents duty on coal. But he can see, and appreciate, too, the advantage of of a scheme enabling hi 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 very often the wheat market of Bowmdn- wille and Whitby is from 2c. to 3c. in advance wof/Oshawa prices. You, Mr. Vindic itor, "are not let into these little secrets, nor are you likely to be, Test you might cease to displasnch extraordinary credulity about Mr. Gibbs' losses, or become clear in your | ideas as to what really constitutes inter- | ested or disinterested legislation. If we understand Mr. Glen, his argu-.| wient is but a re-echo of Mr. Gibbs' excuse | by the Vidicator; namely, that the object of the imposition of four cents duty upon | American wheat was with the viéw to pre- | . vent American merchants from competing against Canadian produce in cur Canadian markets. . But, lt us ask, who were the importers before the duly was imposed ! We answer, Canadian merchants. . And who have been the importers since ? Cava- dian merchants-- Mr. "Gibbs one of them. Then if the imp si'ion of the duty was in- tended to keep out importatiors, as claim- ed, why, we sk did it not keep out Mr. Gibua' importations! Will Mr. Gibbs' apologists answer us that question ? We do not find fault because a scheme was provided to imposea duty upon wheat; but because coal was included in that scheme : and bes use the duty, if it igs thought. to be a protection(?) wis nd plied upon whe ot «of such a figure as to afford the pro- tection ilaimed for, it, and prevent thi m - ginal profit for Canadian millers iust med in Mr. Gibbs transactions. We find fault because Mr. Gibbs, as an offset for this marginal profit of 8 cents per barrel, sacri- ficed the interests of his constituents ou the item of coal. This is the pith of our complaint. All that is necessary nowygin answering oar' National Pdliey supporters is to meet two points. The first point is, did the duty of four cents prevent the importa- tion of American wheat, as its advocates said it was intended to do? ; The scetnd 4, G64 thet deity serve to decrease the im- portations, 'as compared with the twelve | months previous to its imposition) The | fact that Mr. Gibbs imported $68,000 | bushzls last "season (a larger #mportation | than he ever made before) fully answers | the first question. The official returns of the Provinee of Ontario for the last two years placed in contrast give the very best | answer we could desire to the second. We | on the roadside belong to them or whoever | tional Policy. Protection, in the abstract find the returns for the year preceding the | purchases their lands, 'and that they wi'l | to thom, as in duty give the importations of all grains, | have ample means of punishing patties | politiciays, _#xcept Indian corn, at 3,133,604 bushels; | who may injure them, great encouragemen® | a genefal demand for repeal from the uni- srhile the returns for the year the duty | is offered for thém to expend sthe smal; | versal consumer came from all parts of the gs & force give the importations of wheat | gmount of time and labor neccesary to ¥ mtay, ¥ : F 1 Hon. Gentleman have Mr. Turner's ears attached to his mouth from the time they entered the territory until they left? It has been stated upon good authority, immense audience, while he exposed the gross mismanagement of affairs by the { Dominion Government, and pointed out the evil consequences which mast inevit- | mals ; and the Judges had to labor under | the disadvantage of want of toom, the show | | being held in the hptel sheds. There were | some splendid animals in competition, and | the Judges, particularly in the draught | | and more than that never denied--that ably arise from the operations of several of | { Howe and his associates at Fort Garry. the acts of the Ottawa coalition. | He like- i wera obliviously happy ever Riel's brandy | wise pointed dut the barcfaced inconsist- | | at the time he uttered the words attributed | ency of numerous parties, who have lately | to him. During his fraternizations with A ben employed in maligning and 'villifying | the "bandits," dil he not instance his own | Juin, because of his giving one vote on the | success in. Nova Scotia as encouragement same side as did thgir masters'; and clear- for them to "hold out!" Where was the ly exonerated himself fram all blame in | ' Hon. Gentleman's friend and fellow travel- | the inatter. In order thet readers may | ler at this time? judge for themselves, we will endeavor to | Arid who is the mémber from Manitoba, | give the speech in full next week. The | that stated "he had made enquirics at following resolutions were then submitted | Fort Garry, but he fad never found ajnan to the mecting, and carried unanimously : | _who lad heard Mr. Howe utter such an, Mr. Wa. TromrsoN, Reeve of Bow- | expression." That. megber I presums to. manville, nbved, scconded by Mr. W. | be Donald A. Smith, who when sent to ' F. Avex, Deputy-Reeve of Clarke,-- Fort Garry, as Commissioner from the Ot- *' That having heard Mr. Blake's able ad- | tawa Government--the Government that dress, this meeting has much pleasure in | had no jurisdiction, remember, yet soot a expressing its entire satisfaction with the | Commissioner-- instead .of remonstrating hor. gentleman's course in the Dofdinion S oS with those in rebellion, obeyed the dictates | Parliament, and as the Jemller of the Oppo- of Riel, and canvpssed the loyal and pepcs- | sition in the Legislature of Ontario, and ful settlers with represen'ations that -umi- | woudd™ also unhesitatingly 'condemn the versal, massactp waz, of, 'hi ir very doors Coulition Govermpnents and the question- | toy cont Ricl roprescutatives to alle means employed to retain power." join in dictating terms which they hitherto | ~ Mr. J. E. FarzweLl moved, seconded had 'shown no desire to possess: to ac- by Mn. F. F, McArraUurR--*'That while quiesce, or dissent--if they dare, to such this meeting congratulates Edward Blake, class, had a difficult task to perform. The | | following is a list of persons to whom prizes were awarded :-- HORSES, Blood Stallion--1st, N. Ray. Saddle and Carriage Stallion 1st, Simon Beat- | tie ; 2nd, John Wilson ; 3rd, E. Major. | General Purpose Stallion 1st, Robert Mutch ; | 2nd, R. S. Wilson ; 3rd, James Ogilvie. | Draught Stallion 1st, Thomas Evans ; 2nd, Si- mon Beattie ; 3rd, James Whiteside. | Two-year old Draught Entire Colt Farewell ; 2nd, James Whiteside, Two-year old General Purpose Entire Colt- 1st, { John Medland ; 2nd, W. Herring. _ Draught Brood Mares---1st, James Mitchell ; 2nd, James Medfand ; 3rd, George Liddle. General Purpose Brood Mare Lak, George Og- ston ; 2nd, James Stokes 3 an, Geo. Rodd. General Purpose Filly, 2 ycars old 1st, Thamas Morris, 5 mraught Fiily, 2 years old 1st, Wm. Jeffrey. Best Single Horse in Hamess-- 1st, James P'rin- | gle: 2nd, Clement Dawes. J. P. Powell's special prize for Saddle Horse | 1st, Clement Dawes; 2nd, D. Holliday, Jr. Ist, A. W. J. A. Campbell's special' prize for best Entire | Horse af any class--1st, Thomas Evans, BULLS. | Wilcox ; 3rd, James Mitchell. Grade, aged 1st, George Ogston. Durham, 2 years old 1st, James Forest; 2nd B. F. Campbell ; 3rd, Alex. MaKenzie, and Hey ag lo be rh and in readi- | ellated with cords, for violation ef the same ness by the first of July. principle and excessive extravagance the RuMORS as to changes in the Ontario | other must be scourged with scorpions. Ministry are numerous. It is reported | Representatives, if by the fate of 'others | that the Hon. W. McDougall or Col. F.'| they will not learn wisdom: t be taught Cumberland will succeed Hon. Stephen | a A av, us Yu lang Richards ' as Commissioner of Crown that they are but Gur mouth 'pieges th Lands, and that Wood's retirement is | carry jout our behests in all important foreshadowed by his opposition to the Do- | legislation; they must learn, when an all- would be secure even if the Island belongs to the Dominion ; but the channel on the side of Vancouver's Island is said to be | entirely atthe mercy of San Juan, so that | to abandon it to the United States would Hazp to beat--A boiled egg. Taz infant's divinity--W A MiLrTary conference is no at Ottawa. : Barron annually ships cans of oysters, ~~ ® . Tue cholera is raging in all the of the Porsign Gulf. Tue weather of England is favoral to the growing crops. wanted iwthe Muskoka distriet. | "Do write, and fear not," is what the girls say to their correspondents. | an head like next Sunday 1 Because its weak. i A poo weighing four ounces was recent ly sold at Boston for $250, just $62.50 per A NEw York postmaster is named Good- ale, and when he is in a hurry he signs. it XXX °° * 5 "Omar Pasua, well known as the eom- ? " Crimean war, is dead. A Max went up in a baloon on January 1st from Messina. He hasn't come down yet, so faras heard from. Trere was a fire at Chiselhurst lately , and Louis Napoleon personally helped te stay its progress. . wr n---- SoLoxMOoN's wisdom is said 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. Raymon, of Montreal, for re fusing to answer the census enumerator, has been fined seven d in jail. Queex Victoria has nine children ard twenty-one grandchildren, of whom only one has died ; that ne was a grand. child. ! : SENOR CASTELAR, the Spanish Orator, announces his intention of introducing a thronement of the King. Tue Washington correspondent of the Way is a donkey that can't hold wp fie mander of the ~Turkish army during the or a month motion in the Cottes demanding the de . New York Tribune says the Joint High be to give up in ime of war, the only out- let to the ocean. If this be the state of the case, it is easy to see how difficult i | will be to obtain an agreement upon it. | "Durham, aged 1st, Wm. Jaffrey ; 2nd, nw | minion Government. The assertion is also imp made that Sandfield will reconstruct his | R Governmont on a purely Conservative basis. -- © -- FRANCO-CERMAN WAR PANORAMA AND CONCERT COTIPANY, t question (such as the Pacific | The only solution of the question that we y) comes before the House, to turn | can see is, to mentralize that island so far eyes constituency-ward, asthe servant | as to prohibit its occupation by the forces master, and ask, "How shall I vote?" | of either country, either in peace 'or war. gy must not contemptuously turn | --Montreal Paily Witness. d and say, '"We will not allow our : tituents to pronounce; we shall be the | Bru, April 24.--Parliament has pas- ges as to whether their debt shall be | sed the loan bill. t three o'clock, for schools and ubled or not, and they shall pay." Bismarck stated in the House that al- 'oronio papers speak of the exhi- ey must not use the argument that un- | though the French should pay the first in- bir -- in the very highest terins of praise, and | Jess they shall be sole judges of how they | stalment immediately, the forts north and | declare that its equal was never scen in the city | shall vote, it is equal to giving up their | east of Paris would not be evacuated un- informs us that at Hamilton, on the opening manhood. When they presuma Vir 40- Tt Shorr treaty of pesce was concluded. | might, he sold 1,383 tickets ; while at matinee, on | speak, do they ask themselves whether { The negotiations 'at Brussels made slow Fuydoday of last eek: earl 224 shidren Js there bé not thousands of those who send | progress, the French trying to better the Some very valuable gifts will be given away | them to Parliament that will reply, "And | conditions, but Germany was inflexible. each night. We hope to see a full house. | what, sirs, becomes of our manhood ? Are | The movement of the commune entailed - = we to be wf no account, and you sole arbi- | gacrifices to German , but she would not Correspondence, ter in all that vitally concerns us?" All | meddle with the Ee affairs of France. | To the Editor of the Ontario Reformer: | members who thus ect and think will | Count Moltke has given notice that he REPRISENTATION, cither have to get into another train of | will make a line of fortifications to guar- acting and thinking, lor, my word for it, | antee against all attack on the occupied there isarod in pickle for their "'skunkish" | provinces of France, until the indemnity | hides. | be fully paid and a regular government ail thei i to This superb work of scenic art will be exhibit. | I ed to our citizens, at Hobbs' Hall, on Wednesday | ¢ , May 2rd and 4th. The manage- ged a grand matinee for Thurs- ~ The rapid advancement of intelligence among all classes in England since the be- | whose owner planted the same." demands as an armed, threatening rebel faction . should submit; and from whose lips not a word of rebuke was heard, al the time he murder. A nice apologist, trul Donald A. Smith. "© | Vindicator, oles Your eycs of that mist, for the time is fast approaching when your mouth-keeper will Wy fogrod to clear his. was there, concerning the foul y,. for Howe, is Bi ------------------------ SHADE TREES. Soma years ago Capt. D, F. Burke gave the planting of gh le trees. in Oshawa his special attention; and being gbly seconded by the people. of Oshawa, nich was ac- complished in this respect. We believe no town in the Dominion 'has so great a number of trees (in proportion to its pop- ulation), plantéd with so little expense to the public treasury, as Oshawa, So much | has been done that our people are justly proud of the trees planted; and vie with each other in looking after their preserva- | tion.' The boys, who-in other towns have the reputation of destroying many fine | trees, here give them a. severe letting alons.* We trust that this spring there: will be much dene in supplying those new streets which at present have no trees. "J little attention to this on the part of free- holders will complete a wdrk of which our people may well be prow 1.-At the last ses- | sion of tha Ontario Parlisment an act was passed providing "that after the passing of the same, every shade treg, shrub and szp- ling now growing on either side of any highway in this Province, "shall be deemed to be the property of tha owner of the land adjacent: to stich highway, opposite to which snch tres, shrub. or sapling is, an] that any person owning land adjacent to ay highway, may plant trees on the. pertion thereof contiguous to his land." and that every tree, shrub or sapling so planted shall be deemed the property. of | the owner for the time being of the Lind These sin . . M | 'provisions are contained in the first two | nections of the Act, and apply to all town- | ships, but do not apply to towas and vil- |! lnges without a by-lazy being passed by the Municipal Connell, ma 4 these soc- | tions apply ta them, ' We notice that Mr. J. E. Farewell, at the last mieeting of the Town Council of Bowmanville, introduced a by-law making these sections apply to the town of Dow- manville : and we trust some of curvy illage fathers willintroduce a similar by-law here. The penalties provided by the Provincial Act for injuring shade trecs are: Very so- vere ; and one-half of « the fires imposed by it go to the informer and the dther half to the municipality. Power is given to the municipalities to provide and expend money. in 'planting 'and preserving shade trees. If proney is ever .to'be ex- pendéd in Oshawa in this way, now is the time, while there ave no public works of any magnitude -being carried on; : We may further mention that as in Townships all trees planted by farmers { ginning of this century, but especially Nor will it do for those gentlemen to re- M. P. P. elect for this riding, upon his election for the same by acclamation, 4nd 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 hat he shall resign the representation of this Riding, should he deem it advisable in the interest of the causa, of good gov- erninent to elect to sit for South Bruce." Abram Farewell, Esq., M. P. P. for South Ontario, being present, was called upon fora speech, and upon rising was received with cheers. Owing to the late- ness of the hour he made but a few re- marks, in which: he expressed his admira- tion of the course pursued by Mr. Blake ; and cited late elections as evidence that the people were tired of coalition rule, and desired the overthrow of the present Min- istry. After a vote "of thanks lo the chairman, and clieers for E. Blake, A. Farewell, and the Queen, the mooging was concluded by the band playing the National Authem. Ayrshire, aged--let, Thomas Guy. Ayrshire, 2 years old--1st, do. | Wm. Kerr; 3rd, George Ogston. | I ---- has ever been witnessed, -and thy fear- stricken servants of Macdonald, Cartier & | Cp., are driven to their wits end in trying to harrow up some ground of complaint | against the truths advanced in our columns. | Our spage will not permit of immediate re- ply to all the effusions of the eoalition scribes ; but in dune time their froth and | fury will be blown back upon them. Their | attempts to raise side issues, and thus es- | cape | have made public: regarding their master, | will not serve the end they desire. If the | truth is distasteful to them, better that | they should *' grin and bear it," than make | their case still worse by attempts to justify { wreng doing. Durham, '1 year old---1st,- John Dryden; 2nd, Tue RerorMERr has caused the greatest | guaking among the dry bones of the coal- | ition camp-followers in South Ontario that | m the consequences of the facts we | ENGLISH VIEW OF AMERICAN PROTECTION | -- { Tre Whitby Gazette had something to | We subjoin, clipped from the London | say last week about the first nember of | Telegraph, the viow taken by England of | the Revormek, and tried to road us a 1és- | the protective policy adopted by the Ame- | son on 'fair play," but unfortunately for | ricans against the importation of coal from | himsélf commenced his task by garbling | Nova Scotia. The article will be well | and misquoting from our columns. The | worthy of perasal by our ultra pretection- | article was one of the greatest " mixtures" ist friends : ~ | we have seen for a long time, and it was "The cwal-fields of Nova Scotia have | hard to understand what the writer want- | . . . | lately atiracted notice in connection main- | ¢d%o say. He however intimated that he! ly with one of the recent developments from the protectionist extravagancies of | had not room for much in that issue--only | the United States. To please the coal in- | & column--Dbut would return to the subject | terests of Pennsylvania and Ohio, the | this week. We await something intelli- | | government. ; [ during the last fifty years, has very greatly | | changed the constitution of the country. | | In olden times might was held to be right; | the King was supreme in the state; life and | death were inhis hands,and he despotically | ruled the peasant and the néhle. With! the art of printing came knowledge and a" | clearer appreciation of the relative rights | of men ; and although it was all but uni- | 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 versally acknowledged that the King ruled | by right divine, still his acts were more closely scrutinized, and petition or remon- out much reference te the general constit- uency. But when an election comes we t bownn to be nad mst hi t expect them to declare their views on all Sirance Lega to Mace aghits. 18 most 1 current important political questions and oppressive and cruel acts. Even the great i : : : Pata : | parties ; and having received the assent Barons in their time, feeling the onerous | 3 | yok bined li D t10 be of ,he people, these views they are bound {159 re, Somviliees. AN(-IN: A Voicy nol 20 to carry into effect, and not chnge without the consent of the represented. So when es unis | such an immensely weighty measure asa Fhe u¥lve Soninseivg of the Thatoe. | Pacific Railway, costing from £100,000,000 wv petitioned fo ----_ onl ey petitioned TO HIS Measure Rob OMY | ¢, $180,000,000, comes wp between two in the interests of the titled nobility, but : i : Fi elections, and the people have had no time | also in that of the great body of 7their re- | i . ; | to pronounce upon it, the member m tainers and dependents. This was the | t presume (this word is not too stron first great act under our constitution which | "°° PTe*" ine 8 led to the establishment of representative | | mistaken nor slighted, demanded and ob- | | tained Magna Charta as & check upon | in such a case) to say that he alone shall deterniine the matter. Yet that is what our member, T. N. Gibbs, M. P., has | done on that monstrous costly Pacific folly. Pro Boxo PueLico. To the Editor of the Reformer. Sir,--Desirous' of being at peace with all the world, and more especially with N Gibbs' "organ-grinder," I for one admit that Mr. Blake done decidedly wrong in whole people became represented as in our | paying a hurried visit to West Durham existing Parliaments. It is now both the | for the purpose of thanking his constitu- theory and the practice that thé members | ents for the unbounded confidence reposed | With the advancement of learning, com- merce and mannfactures spread over the land; and, like the higher orders, the wealthy commoners and middle classes be- gan to perceive their interést in having a | voice in the making of laws upon which | their happiness and prosperity depended. Hence the ever-extending Reform Bills passed from time to time until nearly the of | measures introduced into the House with- | | cated the imposition of the duty | ean consumers will alike profit by this sen- | American Congress had enacted a heavy import duty against foreign coal. As the principal spuply of this kind came from Nova Scotia, and as the restrictive tariff . was o3tablistel immodiatoly after the Re- | town. ciprocity Treaty with Canada had come to | an end, the effect naturally enough was to add greatly to the discontent felt by the Nova Scotians towards the new Dominion. Indeed, some ingenious American politic- jans of the Benjamin Butler school advo- on the ground that the supposed movement of the maritime provinces in favor of annexa- tion to the United States would thereby be stimulated. As usaal, however, this exceedingly subtle policy has defeated its In their eagernéss, to satisfy | | the Pennsylvanian coal interest, and to | own ends. spite Canada, the politicians at = Washing- | ton quite forgot a by no means unimpor- tant person--the nniversal consumer. To kim the ¢ffects of monopoly and prohibi- | tory tariffs were soon apparent. Coals | went up in price, the pitmen struck for | higher wages and then ensued what our | New York contemporaries in sensation | headings, termed a * coal famine." Pro- tection in the abstract secmed a very good | Goo sized feet will be the fashion for | who feel it derogatory to their dignity to thing; but, when it came to signify fuel at | Ji ies this summer. £5 or £5 per ton, the luxury was pro- nounced dear for the money. Then came a re-action, and Congress, yielding to a general demand, hes repealed the --impor- tant duty. Nova Scotia and the. Ameri- | (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 Gov- ernment like Congress, saw the folly of their movement in the adoption of the Na- case of the Washington ed a very good thing until {Because it. is an 'E¥ring, gang. gible to reply to, and will try to obtain pa- pers containing the Whitby mixtures--the only one we saw being in a neighboring | LiNpsay is busily engaged in the erec- | tion of new buildings. | Ix Montreal the velocipederinks flourish { on Sunday. | Trour fishing is lawful on and after Monday next, May 1st. Tue Port Hope Times estimates the pop- ulation of that town at over 5,000. CLEAN your back yards, if you 'would not die in spring time." BowMANVILLE has an attack Shade Tree fever: town. Lorp I®sear will leave Ottawa for Eng- of the Good thing for the lend early in June. His servants and bag- gage precede him. Louise Lorne wears 5'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 ed manufacture | { Way isthe Patent Combination like a certain rowdy grganization in Oshawa ! "How high ish dat?" | " | A STRONG re-action, fw sorable to the res- toration of the Emgeror Napoleon, is re- | ported to have set in in provinces. to Numbers ff the deputies bly | are known to desire to make D'Au- | mile President of the Republic, we ' the -Legislaturcs 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 t to that of their constituents ; and it is held all 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 firmlo established. : WasmiNaToN, April 21.--A special says | the British High Commissioners have re- | ceived 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 t 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 to the 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, | ¢olts and fillies, came off to-day at New market. Out "of - eighty-two subscribers only thirteen faced the starter. was won by '" Sterling" second, and " King of the Forest" third. " Bothwell: Lire 1x THE Op LioN Ymr.--An Eng- Lish paper of recent date says:--In order 'to test how soon in the dead of night and without previous warning the fleet could be brought in active engagement, at about 10:30 at night the crews of the various ships of war stationed at Portland were reused by an order from the Admiral's ship to practice at general quartefs. In the short space of five minutes after the signal was® given, the first gun with blank - cartridge. This diately followed by such a ¢ fired onade as world. The night being vy measures until thay shall have ascertained | equally wrong in coming from Ottawa, bag | the wishes of the electors. For this express | and baggage, on Sunday moruing, not for | purpose we have the frequent dissolution { the purpose of thanking his constituents | | of the House of Commons; and when any | for honors conferred upon him, but for | one or more members take so importaiit a | stumping this riding three consecutive | [step as to accept of a seat in the Cabinet, | { A | weeks thaough niud and mire in behalf of the Constitution expressly declares that he t one of the most, subservient "tools" in must. return to his constituents for their | Sandficld'se flock, without giving us the { approval of his personal acceptance of | least. intimation of his intention through | office and ofthe general policy of the Gov- | fhe local paper here. | ernment. : Farr Prav. | This advanced state of progress in thie] P.'S.--Mr. Gibbs complains that coming | right direction (as we think) has not beén | from Ottawa on the occasion referred to attained without arduous struggles'on the { was much against his will, bit was com- | part of Reformers, and a bitter, persistent | pelled to. do so by his lord and master, G. { and determined opposition to all advance- BE. C. i i ,.is no excuse for | ment in. the path of freedom on the part of | him * He should have notified us-through a large body of persons who imagine | the paper here. | themselves cast in a superior mould, and | April 27, 1871. | take counsel of their fellows. These peo- | ple generally deem the mass of their fellow odin 3 Thats uh ho a countrymen as; much beneath them as | Es us s 4 Ib . i atives hardly to be worthy of the franchise, and { I i id Aer SE aves fit only to bear the burthen of contributing | i ass ut t ey are ming ory to, but never to be consulted nor trusted | Yererals and by the time we have amo' er with the expending of the national funds. | elgetion or two, with Mr. Blake as st - We find men of this cast resisting equal | % d bearer, it will require close sear ng | rights, civil and religious, to all others,and | fo find an elector in the riding who i. aot arrogating to 'themselves all positions of { a Reformer, acknowledging the oorTeCtagn emolument and trust. They are to be | of Mr. Blake's views on the public ques- found in the old fossil Tories of the past tions okthe day. Somo'e 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 loosen 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, e ¥ still, the noise caused comp ishment and consternatigr in the neighbor- ing town of Weymout}A, and a large num- ber of persons rushed} to the hills around he din, the sullen the harbpr. Amid boom of 'the enarmqfus guns of the Mon- arch and Hercules (ould be easily distin- guished from the ph cannon. The firing great spirit for FO minutes, and then sud- denly ceased. : A REMARKABLE mirage has been seen at Rochester. fA writer in the Union describ- ing the phgfnomena, says the entire north sky as farfas the angle or bison, was lifted ; the blue er of Lake Ontario, while re- flecting firom her. bosom 'could be seen the mount: hills; valleys, bays and rivers on thg® Canada shore, inland for miles. -- The could be plainly seen over a kh of fifty miles, and so perfect at one tim that the forests could readily be dis- tindmished. The reader can form some ida of its grandeur by knowing that a cofantry, separated from Rochester by a » seventy miles in breadth, was as if fdderly, by the great hand of its Creator, pghinted upon the heavens so plain as to be en 'fram a standing point one hundred iles distant. pilir with the Canada shore could readily Co | listinguish Rice Lake, Belvidere and other minent points in Canada. The 'lake as though a great tidal wave rolled hpon Rochester, and covered one entire half of the city, as no building could be n north of Maine street, or any land ecn the city and the lake: 00) ? The race™ was never before heard in that / part of the y dark and derable aston- p reports of smaller was kept up with Gentlemen . who were fa- | Juan question to arbitration. A PENNSYLVANIA ¢ow swallowed er nail pouch a-year-agh, was lately killed every nail was found in the pouch. She didn't lose one. : nd employment. This is the beginning of the : emigration in which Canada will share . WHAT a world of gossip. would be ee vepted if it-was only remembered this" person who tells you of the faults of oters infends to tell others of your faults. : THE . strongest propensity in. 's nature, says a careful student ll he is to want to know what is going ond the next strongest is to tps the job. Tye corporation of St. Catherinad- vertises to_pay fifty cents for every aa-. mental shade tree planted, in or neahe street. 1 A FEW iron nails placed in a vasdth flowers will keep the water ny flowers fresh. This arises from eliminated from the plants combing §th' the iron. ! Dran-sHoPs are utterly pro Vineland, N. J., both by law and whelmning 'public sentiment ; -a consequence, pauperism and crime pbut little known. Prohibition could § ne harm to any one, and would be ofvit: seryice to many. in CANADA now stands eighth instd of eleventh as last year, in the list of tries trading with England, - proportion to population, mete goods England than any other eountry im world, and three times as much : h United States. . LoxBARD telegram skys p'oasunss hare been taken to enable 200,50 Prysians fo be concentrated in Par® tventy-lour hours' notice, should 'doch & slop Doan necessary, and that th® avai eciyota tioned on the Seine received gg to protect Versailles, called wpon. last week d " » distance of teen miles, bei g the entige rg 'ainéd 45,000 mon, ¥arriages, 130 bands of muse trete jon between New York and Liverpool dur- ing the month of May, to convey excur: open at- London on the 1st. The steamer cursion trips; the price will be only $25. Taz Buffalo " Express," usually well in- formed on Canadian matters, has the fol- lowing: "It is said that one reason why Parliament to a close was the fear that the action of the Commission on the Fisheries would not be acceptable to that body." It will be riews of ifiterest to the Government and people of the Dominion. y A music teacher once wrote that the art of playing the violin requires the nicest perception and the most sense of any art in the known world. Whereupon a West- ern editor comments thus: ""The art of publishing a newspaper and making it pay, and at the same time making it please everybody, beats kite." 20 "We are daily and hourly put in posses- this pitiable business, and everythingtends to convince us that the Dominion has been [as any reported from the States ; in short, this 'census-taking' is a fat harvest fd" hundred times removed. We know of lone | party, a French Canadian, of course, hold- | ing a lucrative Government situation, and' | drawing his §3-a day for census taking st | the same time. Now, it is very certain | that one or the other of these. situ ng, an exéeedingly important, must beine- | glected, and we have good } | saying that both are, the referred to | having a great pro#v-00. for Bow 3 | i | straight Commission will probably leave the San when she Ox hundred French soldiers have ar. ' rived at New Yerk and are looking for : 6ddling higher than a LO - Tux following is from the Montreal Star : made the victim of as disgraceful la 'job' hangers-on of the Government and' theit friends and relations down to cousins one icles. ; AE Tao Wisp Sor sow it Bai than steamship Great Eastern will be pus sionists to the great exhibition, which will | is to be fitted up expressly for these ex: ' the Government brought the Canadias . + sion of most damaging facts relating to