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SERDAR AA BAR AAAAK SARAAEN® LAAAANS Ch’town, June 8S, IS74.

Shh acai eis santie nse aan eighties AFTER THE BATTLE.

: Past te session of Parliament is

Now that the over, persons are asking themselves, what

effect has «had on the Government? Are

they st: r or weaker since they met the representatives of the people, an

were subjocted to tha:

stitutional Governments which a Parlia-

mentary session imposes ?

The question scarcely admits of a direct enswer. and-out supporter would have their cut But what would

A violent opponent, and an out-

and dry answers ready.

an impartial observer say ? The Gov- ernment met Parliament under peculiarly favorable cir umstances Th y chose their own time to dissolve; and the resul ef the elections jus ified t least th poliey of their acti The country tre

ed t! em with Y rous nfidenc n said—‘ we desire a chang f ruler you have been loud in denunciation of your opponents, and not r modest in sounding your owa praises; we give you

all you ask; make good your many pro- mises.” How have they done so? W are inclined to think that while the Gov ernment are numerically very strong in the House; and while the country is, |

d to give them a fair trial, there is aw skening in the minds of |

many an anxious suspicion that, after all, |

loubtless, still prepare

his Governme 1 e s vatched, : ’ tT this Government must be closely watched | good policy for all that.’’ Unless the Pre-

and more than a suspicion that they|

greatly overrated their own abilities. |

The impartial observer would probably | say—‘ This Government was and strongly supported. boasts,and so awakened great cxpecta-

is

tious and challenged criticism.

have shown to some extent, what they |

are; and all we can now say is,—they may be, we hope they are, honest—they

eertuinly are not brilli

A brief review of the past session would justify this verdict. Among the prominent «questions on whic their

strength or weakness was display d, were

—the Election Law, the Tria! of Con- troverted Elections’ Act, the Pacific Railway, and the Tariff. Of these the

1

the whole, good laws,

was

first two are, on though there it is matter of Senate was much more liberal than th of the Legislature ; to the Senate that we owe manhood suffrage in this Island. In fact, the discrimination in the Bill ezainst this of those mistakes which,in the eyes of a diplomatist

in neither of them

much originality displayed; and curious to observe that the Franchise, the

in the

popular branch

as it is

Island was

one

is worse than « crime. In adoptiug the

joeal franchise of each province a great |

difficulty was got over, perhaps, in a common sense, matter of fact way—though the same result might have been obtained, Macdonald

ning the risk of that

as «Sir John B82 2 ilsion and ents which it must always be the aim of our statesmen to avoid. The Pa *ific

without r of jurisdic..ons between the gencral ioeal Gove

Railway policy of the

Government is one which will cause them |

to be closely watched. The Act allows the work to be vigorously prosecuted, and it

of any of delay. The Government have kept the matter

& BOn-commital one.

alse admits

amount wholly in their own hands. The country is in earnest about the work being done. It wishes for prudence and economy ; dilatoriness. Al! that ean be said, so far, is that their to the dis-

but it will not allow undue

policy, in leaving so much

eretion of the Government, ¢ strongly with that of their predecessors, Should that diseretion be wisely exercised,

the country will support their action.

should it be an excuse for attempting to |

evade our pledge d obligations, it will be found that the Pacific Railway wil! wreck ai least one more Giovercment. Probably nothing has more injured the prestige of the Government than their Tariff bungle. Granting that the deficit was a real one, the first attempt to meet it was a remarkable display of financial incompetency ; the plan finally adopted, a remarkable tribute to the financia! abi- lity of their predecessors, Something more than a mere arithmetician is re- quired for a Finance Minister of this Dominion, with its many varied, and delicately sensitive intereste. Delighted with his brilliant and original diseovery, that 164 is exactly one sixth of « hun- dred, the Finance Minister proudly took that as the basis of his od valorem, and then proeeeded to make up whit was still wanting apparently by a simple appli- cation of the rule of three and the m iltipli- eation table. But any ordin iTy school boy could have done this. So the « yuntry had to take the matter in hand: and de putation after deputation hurried to Ot- tawa to show him, what apparently he had little considered, the ruinous eflect to

severe test of con- |

They made loud | |

They | already overweighted with not a few men

pointed out, |

So far, it has been |

ntrasts |

REE Nae nw} ot ee eee FS aie une anil

ira a ; COl re (ry 3 . ? oo his unlortunate proq : = e wh ea! : . ; tariff had t J } “ reater part « 1 1 by ar increase of the { duties-- by t fi a é }, fia che ) cy i tie P s ‘ : : z s Governmen while t parts which are original—the taxes on shiy building materials and tea and coffee | . ye . are precisely those the policy of which ; «

is most doubtful. | All this shows, as we have said, that their ability is considerably under their | own estimate of it But we also said that | the suspicions of the country were being Probably has had

aroused. nothing

| more effect in this respect than their ac—

ltion about the Civil Service employes. | It is not so much the number of the dis

| missals, though these have been more

'than enough to attract the attention of the c itry, } i ly i there is & | great jealousy about the intr luction of the Amet in yst But the most | startling thing is the striking contrast be-

} tween the pr when they were the Op] sition, and th action now that they are the Government.

When tl i Mr.

Mackenzie al Griffin matter, and

| the speeches with which he and his col-

move j by

resolutions

out the

leagues supported it were remembered, it was thought that we should have a Gov

ernment scrupulously careful about the

» . ee least appearance of the coercion of officials, |

¥°

m any thought of dis

Yet

| and far removed fr:

| missa] from mere political motives,

| not only have many such dismissals taken '

place, but we venture to say that to-day

there is uneasy feeling prevailing

throughout the country that we are more Americ in

than we have ever been |

an

the system

And the

dangerously near

Lore

effects of this makes itself felt in every-

thing connected with the Government. fin this respeet they have

far

little 7 | so i1ttie Mora

courage—have fallen so short of the

standard they themselves set up—what we that in other matters

guarantee have their practice will come n tessic nf

A writer in a late number of Black- d, contrasting the present Govern

ment of Great Britain with the previous

nh Walting on a

one, says :—*' A deputati

| Minister, or 2» Member of Parliament -asking information in the Hou , may now calculate upon being graated a pa- tient hearing and recei i

wer.” <A similar contrast might be drawn between our two Administrations; but the order would certainly be reversed. It

ut straight—

is all well enouzh to talk ab

forward honesty :

ss of speech ; and to boast of th ibsence of i compliments. But there is 1 connection between rudeness and honesty ;

and the most scrupulous truth-teller need polite,

The people are right ial

not cease to b writer says,— condemning ministerial brwsqueries, and in taking strict order to prevent their re- petition. Your blazing statesman de>

ises Liensenace, but good manners are

mier remembers this truth next session bet- ter than he 4id this, we shall, before long, have a forcible example of how damaging “ ministerial Lrusqueries’’ may prove.

It is generally known that some changes | will coon take place in the Cabinet which,

| of less than mediocre ability, has just

now been further weakened by the removal of one of its ablest Ministers. The ap- pointment of M. Dorion to Chief Justice- ship of Quebec has certainly been an act of self-sacrifice om the part of the Govern- ment. However, they may so manage the changes consequent upon this appoint- ment, as to strengthen the Cabinet, by | getting rid of some vi ry weak members. Should they de #0,—and should they, by h ynestly wi rking out a sound

Railway policy, by carefully abstaining |

from manipulating the Civil Service for party and by learning and showing a little courtesy, succeed in re—

purposes

storing a confidence generously given,

but rud ly shaken, they may manage to | maintain the occupy. But should the contrary to all these take | place,—if party exigencies force them to burden the Cabinet with men né ither use- | ful nor ornamental! ;

position they

if the ‘just cause

to the holding of different politic al Opinions

| for dismissal should turn out be if the charge that | they will never build the to be

j should sacrifice the intere sts of the coun-

| from the Government;

Pacific Railway

is seen rue; if Senator Brown

| try to an extravagant desire for reciproci- ity, and if the Premier makes every an | who asks him

| doing he risks a snubbing or a rude

a question feel that in so

ans-

Mackenzie

take Mr. a shorter | time to convert a majority of ove hund-

it will

}red into a minority, than

| John Macdonald to ace mplish the sam

}

| feat. A GREAT IMPROVEMENT.

WE are glad to observe that the Steam Company have altered their time table that passengers tor Hali- fax can now take the &

50

from Pictou, and react ing Halifax « arly in the afternoon, to transact hess so as to return next day. | } |

in

Navigation a.m (tra

have time busi- This isa {great improvement, and will be a vreat | boon to the travelling public. Better to travel by the slow train, than to wait for hours at Pictou.

doubtless at som

In making this change,

inconvenience and ex

pense, the company have shown consider- ation for the pub!.c convenienee, and will, we hope, find their reward in increased patronage.

oe

Henri Rochfort, and two fellow refugees, have arrived in New York. They would not permit any demonstration te be made by the French Societies, who were pre- pared to give them a grand reception.

Mrs. H. B. Stowe is about io commence yet another story, under the title of ** We and Our neighbours,” illustrating the tem- perance agitation.

A bill has recently passed the American Congress which gives to all soldiers and Sailors who have lost an arm at or above the elbow, and are so disabied that they cannot wear an artificial arm, a pension of twenty-four dollars per month.

At the Michael Angleo celebration. at Florence, on the 6th of March, 1875, the greatest collection of Buanorotti correspon- | dence is for the first time to be opened to the world. The seal of secrecy which has | perplexed so many wrtters,is to be removed. | {It contains 700 lettersof Michael Angelo, | and 1800 addressed to him by his eminent | contemporaries. With this large mass of } material at hand, Signor Gotti is to about | publish a new lifeof Angelo. It is to be | published on the same day in French, Italian, ) and German. He has secured a competent | English translator,

gentlemen | ir

oe ' rer their pro—

As the same |

in |

Pacific

wer,—it needs no prophet to foretell that |

it took Sir}

THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF QUEBEC.

Crvii is the handmaid of Justice.” To be a good Judge, M. Dorion wi!l need to be rather more strictly truthful than }he was when Attorney General of the Dominion. <A the

an that

no intention of the

short time before Parliament

to

| prorogation assured

he had

bench.

retiring Now, we have news that he has

faccepted the vacant chair of the Chief

| Justice of Quebec! But, perhaps, Mr. | Dorion may, in tho meantime, have } a .

changed his mind, At any rate, now

| that he has left public life, we will “ give him the benefit of the doubt.”’

The new Chief Justice, Anteine Aime

asonof Mr. P. A. Dorion, who

| represented Champlain in the Local Can

| aditn House of Assembly from 1830 to

He in 1818; and edu-

Dorion, is

1838. was born

)

eated at Nicolet College. In 1842, he was called to the bar of his native Pro- ivinee. In 1863, he was made Queen’s

Counsel. position at the Bar of Montreal ; and he of Civil Coburg. In polities, his talents

He oceupies a distinguished

is Professor law for Colle re, have always been recognized. Ever since

he

Leader of the French

entered Parliament, he has been

Canadian

party. He was first member of the Ex-

ecutive of Quebee in 1858; was Provin-

cial Seeretary from May, 1862, to Janu-

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS oecur our railway near ly every day. hey are generally eaused by planks, stones o1 fence rails on the

We that these

obstructions

not b lieve

do

have ever bec

track, n placed on the rails with We cannot believe that any man, woman or child on the Is] could be so wicked

liberately attempt as sassination by whole

malicious intent. . as to de

sale. We refuse to believe that any one would place a plank or stone on the rail

way, knowing it might eause the sudden

death of severai men. No, Carelessness, : tie : reprehensible, criminal, carelessness—and

| no erime more heinous—it is which jeo- |

|

| left a plank on the track would have been Victoria |

| railway should be very careful, and they

Radical |

{

ary, 1863; was Attorney General of | Lower Canada from May, 1863, till March, 1864 At the late election he

was chosen M. P, for Napierville; and, on the formation of the Mackenzie Cabinet,

beeame Minister of Justice. Mr. Dorion was apt to be carried to the

interests of his party. the

extremes in

| He was one of those who advised private letter to Mr. Pope—an offence which may be forgotten, but cannot pos— sibly be excused. In the high and hon orable office to which he has attained, his be more moderate As Chief Justice of

will have ample scope for the

course will, doubtless,

and more dignified.

| Quebee, he

exercise of his unquestionably great ta-

BETTER TERMS”’—AN LNTER- ESTING QUESTION.

Unper the terms of union, the Domin- ion became liable for the publie debt of Prince Edward Island. of the la

Parliament for the

In consideration rge expenditure authorized by construction of rail- ways and canals, it was provided that the Col ny sh

to fifty di

uld be entitled to incur a debt equal lars per head of its popu- lati yn. Railway—of which this Province could

The proposed Canada Pacific not, by reason of its isolated position, re—

principal reasons for this provision ; and

its estimated cost was taken into strict ac- count by the delegates who negotiated the terms on behalf of the Island.

According to the scheme of the late Government, the railway was to be built by a chartered company, and its ¢ st to the country was to be thirty millions of dollars, and fifty millions ef acres of

Mr. David Laird,

on returning from Ottawa with Ais terms,

land,—and no nore,

took great pains to impress upon the minds of our people the fact that Sir John A. Macdonald’s Government was bound by Parliament not to expend, in the con- | struction of the road, more than thirty million dollars.

Under Mackenzie’s scheme, which has

received the sanction of Parliament, Gov-

ernment is authorized to build the railway, and agree for its construction on terms ‘to be settied by the Govefnor General in Council.”? Thus

to with contractors

| the Government is not bound down or re- stricted in any way; and the cost to the country is not definitely fixed. Mr. Mac- kenzie, in his famous speech at Lambton, declared that it would cost $160,000,000 ;

scheme,

and, under his it is admitted on

all hands, that it cannot cost the country less,

Now the question interesting to Prince Edward Island—supposing, of course, that the road will be built on Mackenzie’s

terms—is this: Has not this Province

a claim on the Dominion Government for “ Better Terms ’

to an amount propor- | tionate to the share it will be required j to pay of the interest on $70,000,000 ? | —that is, the difference between the $30.,- 000,000 to which the late Government was restricted, and §$100,000,000 more) which Parliament

(or has authorized Mr. Mackenzie’s Government to expend

in the construction of the Pacific Rail- | way !! |

7

Had not the Minister of the [utexior

been, all through the late session, decided- ly inimical to this Island, he would, of

| course, have already fully ventilated this | interesting question in the hearing of his

| colleagues and Parliament. LEGISLATIVE UNION OF THE MARI.- TIME PROVINCES.

COMMENTING on the proposed union of the Maritime the Montreal Th r tld say I

‘With regard to the principle of such a union there can scarcely be any difference of opinion, but in the arrangement of details doubtless many difficulties will be encount- ered, which can only be overcome by a liber- al and conciliatory spirit all round. The interests of the provinces are common and require the same character of legislation. We can see no reason why one legislature could not dothe work now divided among three, and do it equally well. ‘This would effect a large saving of the public money. ‘The expenses of keeping up three Legislatures, each with twe branches and two sets of officials, for a population not one half of Ontario, are about double the expenses of that Province. This is a feature of the ques- tion not without interest to the rest of the Dominion. We have already had the spec- tacle of more than one province knocking jat the door of the Federal Treasury for an ncrease of subsidy,on the plea that the Loca! Treasury is depleted aud local service ean- not be mantained. The practice is fraught with evil results, apart from the financial aspect of the question, and if the three Eastern Provinces can agree upon a scheme of union, which, while giving them more | Money for lucal purposes, will at the same | time unite them more closely in sentiments ; and interest, we are satisfied it will be a } matter of congratulation for the whole Dominion.

Provinces,

<a

Setting bull-dogs upon inoffensive China- men, is one of the pastimes of the civilized heathen of San Francisco.

A plan for a monument to Charles Sums ner, in either bronze or marble, to cost $50 000, has been presented by an eminent artist to the executive committee of the Sumner national monument association. The monument is to consist of one large central statue of the senator, and life-size statues representing respectively freedom, war, peace and debate.

ceive any direct benefit—was one of the |

publication of Sir John A, Macdonald’s |

pardizes the lives of the railway employes

So far, this carelessness has not been fol lowed by fatal results But several per- sons have been seriously injured. Only the other day we “interviewed” a vie-| tim of one of these accidents who, had hi

skull been ordinarily thick, would have Had he died, the

person who thoughtlessly and carelessly

been killed instantly.

indicted for murder,and convicted of man-

slaughter. Farmers living on the line of

should warn their children and servants to be very careful, not to place or leave a stone or stick of any kind on the track, The law is-

“If any person shall wilfully and = mati ciously put, place, cast or throw upor

across any railway, any wood, | matter or thing, or shall wilfully -| ciously take up, remove or disp iil sieeper or any other matter or thing belong- ing to any railway, or shall wilfully and ma- liciously turn, move or divert any points or

other machinery belonging to any rail

or shall wilfully or maliciously make or hide or remove, any signal upon or near to any railway, or shall wilfully or maliciously lo or cause to be done, any other matt ry} thing with intent, in any of the cases afore- | said, to obstruct, upset, everthrow, in ri or desti any engine, tende rt k, | using such railway, or to encangt ; | of any person travelling o1 y | such railway, every such | at guilty offelony, and be im not exceeding s 1 years.’

|

ACCOMMODATION FOR TRAVELERS.

EDWARD natural attractions.

|

PRINCE ISLAND has many

It is the annual holi day resort of thousands who have their their

Dominion aud the

and business in the large | the

Every visitor who ean obtain ac-

homes cities of

States.

| United | commodation is pleased with the place

to the

good rest and a pleasant holiday

} and the people. Only those who—eoming | Island in the hope of having are un- able to find a respectable hotel at which to stay, go home disgusted to circulate re-

ports prejudicial to the interests of the

Province. j

( f late years, there has been a creat | ; : improvement in our hotels, and strangers

may rely on good, wholesom

Mr. Holman ha

at Summerside; the

cead mille failte, ‘Ocean House,” Rustico, 1s’ pleasant resort ; and

class hotel

houses in Charlottetown, open to the trav~ elling public, are numerous and well-kept, though not large or very luxuriously fur- nished.

A large number of persons come here health.

and whole-

and their These want repose, pure air food. They like the country far better than the city. The majority of our farmers have just the accommodation they require, and many of them would be

to rusticate renew

some

glad to market their fresh eggs and butter on the little

respectable

farm and make a cash at

by

strangers.

home accommodating The difficulty is, that, at pre- nor the latter have the means of making their wants nor

and

sent, neither the former wishes known; so neither are Would be a vood ilea

for farmers, desirous of taking a boarder

their satisfied. it not

or boarders during the summer months, to enter their names and addresses on a register kept in some convenient plac | say the Reading Room—-so that strangers could, without trouble, know who would

accommodate them? We offer this suge gestion. We are pleased to learn that some of

leading business men seriously con-

our template the establishment of a first-elass hotel in this city, <A hote!—

backed up by our railway and our sterm

first-c!ass

ers—would attract many wealthy visit- ors; and money, which would otherwise be spent in Halifax and St. John, would be laid

establishes a

out here. The company which

first class hotel, will do th city a great service; and will, in the end, be well repaid the necessary out] iy.

THE RIGHTS OF P. EE. ISLAND,

\

{From the Toronto Nation. ] The latest character in which the Senate

has appeared is that of a determined

defender of popular and democratic rights in opposition to the reactionary

‘The latter Chamber had decided to accept the

policy of the House of Commons.

provincial suffrage for the election of its own members in all the Provinces except Prince Edward Island, where manhood suf- frage prevails, and where a great decrease in the number of voters was resolved upon. The Senate saw its opportunity and hastens ed to profit by it, by rejecting this restricts ive provision, and constituting itself the champion of popular rights in Prince Eds ward Island. !t had been told the day be fore that it could make itself the defender of the weak against the strong, it might set itself in Opposition to the Commons with some chance of escaping censure and possibly securing a little applause. Prince Edward Island proved to be the Ginks’ Baby that required its guardianship ; and they threw the shield of its protection over the puking infant with many marks of real affection. ‘! his act of the Senate, so far as we have seen, has not been challenged. The reason of this immunity from attack is not because it is clearly in the right for it was not less so in the case of ‘Tuckersmith : the folly of uttering idle menaces may have restrained the rash pens of the critics, There was xo valid reason fur subjecting Prince Edward Istana to an exceptional treats ment; and the proposal to disfranchise

larye portion of the population was a politic

outrage, which it is lucky we had a Senate to restrain, Welike the signs of courage in the Senate, though we should be the last to encourage it in an obstinate and ill-advised contest with the popular branch of the Leg- islature. Courage, when united to prus dence, never injured any man or body of men ; though the want of it often invites encroachment and insult, submission to which creates contempt for the object of them. The Senate will be all the better thought of for occasionally asserting its own individualty and independence. When Crown nomination expires, We trust that it will leave the world without uttering craven Cries over its fate; but that it will try to realize that there may be circumstans eos in which ic is a privy ege to die for

| has, for this and other reasons,

one’s country,

7F SAL

rm Scottish American. ]

o} rom i?

Che very intelligent tone which has char- weterized the discussion by the press of the d States of the proposed Reciprocity

Unite rreaty is due in noslight measure to the idual change of public feeling in this

gr

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

country, in regard to the future relations | ‘creased facilities for the acquirement of

hetween the Dominion and the Union. (his is due in turn to the decline of what has been aptly called “The American Les Yearafter year sees the people of the United States are less and less disposed ‘age the lust for new territory, the

gend

to encour

hankering after a confederation which shall

extend from the Gulf to the Arctic circle, nd the temper and national policy which we ary for the attainment of these things. As the nation grows older it be, comes conscious of political problems, which in its heedless youth it fancied it

could safely disregard, and as the difficul- ties of preserving good Government ove1 the vast domain already acquired becemes more painfully apparent, the desire to add new elements of difficulty to the working out of a colossal experiment suffers a subs stantial decrease,

The recent discussion about Reciprocity

been con-

| ducted on the part of the press with a nos

ticeable absence of all more or less offen- sive reminders about the certainty of an- nexation the impossibility of seriously de- fending Canada against the invasion, and so forth,

newspaper readers in

It is also dawning upon the mass of the United States that there is across the border a communis ty of four millions of people, with an area or an indefinate expansion of three and a half millions of square miles, and with a productive energy which in portions of Ups per Canada has achieved matetial triumphs as striking as any which have been witness- ed in the most progressive sections of the Union. When bank disconnts show an in- crease in one year ef 12,500,000, equal to twelve per cent. on the gross amount, when foreign trade has reached an annual value of $240.0006,900; and when, with trade on a specie basis, the country is pro ceeding to the energetic development of public works, for which money can be bors rowed at a lower rate than by any commus nity in the Union, the progress of Canada the favorable presents that Reciprocity will be of advantage

is as unmistakable as

conditions which it for progress,

to both countries, but the mutual good un-

| derstanding which it will serve to maintain

may prove of greater importance still.

THE ENGLISH GENTLEMAN. “The English gentleman, (Mr. Taine declares) is not the French ¥ ntilahomme, The qualities of his temperament are cold- er, more serious. Tis courage is not fiery, headstrong and chivalrous, he is slways calm; he danger except to display his indifference. Neither is he

neither seeks nor likes extreme

the honn homme of Louis

XIV. He is less of a courtier, less polished, less easy, He never quite abnegates hims self; he respects himself too much to put }on an air of nothiagness or admire it. in others. What in the feudal baron was

indomitable pride, has in the lapse of cen-

turies become quiet assurance. Per con- tra, egotism, that sentiment by virtue ot which a min dares to be himself, is accom- panied by a scrupulous regard for the rights of others, a delicate reserve that borders at times on timidity. But there is no finer trait in this character than its manly love of truth, The soul clings to it with such intensity thatit isimbued with it, and falses hood becomes an impossibility. The Eng- lish aristocracy is the most trustworthy, the most truthful in the world. A gentleman would blash to change his name or usurps ing title. Nor would he find willing dupes to so low a deceit. Nowhere has the value of human words been more carefully weigh. ed. We must go to the English courts to study the art of giving testimony, and of understanding and interpreting testimony, The Anglo-S.xon lie is not the naive, swag - gering the southern people, a lie that has no object, and is tickled with itself, rhe Ang!o-Saxon lie

of

seems, even to those who

are guilty of it, a horrible extremity. rhe eye never loses the ability to discern

}

the lig false. The soul goes straight for the truth, like awell-aimed arrow, and swerves from its path only with great effort. Conven- tionalities, prejudices, fictions are so many veils in which the spirit envelopes itself that it may got perc-ive the truth too clearly. If people proceed slowly, it is only because they do not like to contradict themselves. Ifa child, says Johnson, de- clares that he has lovked out of this wins dow, anl he has looked out of that, flog him. ‘he air of freedom is fatal to de» ceit, Tos

the best praise that one can give.

iy of a man that he is safe, is The English gentleman has no trouble ih keep ingasecret. His life is woven of prudence Ile he

no! like to expose to the eyes of an-

and reserve does

other the weaknesses, the contrdictions, the

has few confidants ;

incoherencies of his hidden life. He does not give himself up to the idle complains ings, the indisereet imprecations of the peoples of the South. We feel in every man the intimations of a hidden life; the heart is nota gate whose hinges are worn,

Concience, is more deli-

Words are acts, lhe Englishman fulfils the obligations of friendship wiih a scrupulous care which suggests too much of duty and too little of pleasure. Itis the same with his hospis tality Ile owes it to himself to treat his guest well; he shows him flowers, pictures

Loves arid hates are silent. cased in wrappings

thicker g3, cate, more tender, more morbid because words

are measured,

horses, everything that he possesses—of hin:self, very little. In the land of aris- tocracy the type of the gentleman repres sents the principle of equality. The least shade of servility or flattery, instinctive emotion in the presence of rank or wealth, imitation, affectation are dissonances. Imis tation in every shape is vulgar, affectation isa shock to sincerity. The utmost that can be tolerated is a certain kind of awks wardness resembling shamesfacedness. But the ideal is a perfect equilibrium be- tween and appearing, between thought and action, with a quiet ease that ignores, even more than it disdains, all shams, all insulting homage, the useless luxury of vanity. Thus it is that virtue honor, the culture of the mind, have en gendered a certain equality even in the very lapof privilege. Just as, in the ans Gient military noblesse in France, one géntilhomme was as good as every other, so in English society a gentleman is a gentleman.

being

ie ieekiaes cau ‘The first salmon that has been caught in the Connecticut river for many a year Was captured a few years ago about two miles. below Hartford. It was dV inches in length and weighed 6 1-2 pounds. Eighty years ago salmon abounded in the Connecti- cut, but they were driven away by dams and saw mills, ‘lhe reappearance of this delicious fish in the river is believed to be the result of Uie meéasnres taken by the Fish Commissioners, who have stocked the Upper Waters Will salmon fry.artiticially hatched, and caused a apron to be built at one end of the Holyoke dam, so that shad and other lurge tish cau work their Way Over that ob- struction. Itis hoped that ina year or two more, Connecticut salmon will become dientiful,

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TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN CANADA,

[PROM THE LONDON MINING JOURNAL. }

As the future prosperity of the Dominion is admittedly dependent in a great measure upon ‘the judicious developement of her mineral resources, it is particularly gratify- ing to find that the efforts to provide ins