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II ID WAID REILLY.

IDI‘I‘OI “ID PIOPIII‘I'OI.

at his once. Queen Street. ' ran-s run run “nausea.”

For 1 year. paid in advance. £0 11 0

" " “ hali-yeariyinadvaacc.010 0

Advertise-sate inserted at the usual rates. JOB PRINTING-

Ofe dsscrl 11. performed with nestaess and (1 tell and wmmmms. at the Rum: once. up.

Almanacs son Tulle. soon I ruasas. Pull Hoes, 6th day, 211. 43111., more. 8. W. Last Quarter. 13th day. 0h. 11m. morn" N. New Moon. 2001 day, 10h. 33m., morn., S. E. First Quarter. 37th day. 1h. 3811). norm, 8. 1C.

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1 Monday 4 177 37' 7 30 2 31'15 20 3 Tuesday 17 38 8 30 3 3 21 s Wednesday to col 9 17 s so 23 4 Thursday 10, 4010 6; rises. 24 5 Friday 16] 41 10 541 7 54 26 s Solurday 15 4211 35' e 45 27 7 Sunday 14 42 even. 9 33 98 8 Monday 14 43 1 01016 29 9 Tuooday 14 M 1 41 10 51 30 10 Wednesday 14 45 2 2311 Rt, 31 11 Thursday 14 45 3 51155 32 19 Friday 13 46 3 49 morn. 33 to Saturday 3 1:1 46 4 so 0 20 33 14 Sunday 13 47 5 26 0 46 34 16 Monday 13 47 619 l 15 34 16 Tuesday 13 47 714 l 42 31 17 Wednesday 13} 48 8 9 2 23 35 18 Thursday 13; 49, 9 5 3 0 36 19 Friday 13' 49 9 59 3 43 36 20 Saturday 13} 4910 55 sets. 36 91 Sunday 13 5011 46 8 44 37 28 Monday 14 50 morn. 9 28 37 33-Tucsday 14 49. 0 3310 22 36 94 Wednesday 15 49 1'2910 59 35 25 Thursday 15 49 2 21'“ 3t 34 36 Friday 16 49 3 12 morn. 34 27 Saturday 17 4914 5 0 s6 33 28 Sunday 17 49 6 1 0 39 32 29 Monday 17 49 5 5o 1 5 32 30 Tuesday 18 49 6 55 l 40 32

Prices Current.

Cnsnwrrsrowrt. June 19, 1868. Provisions.

Beef. (small) per lb. (id to is Do by the quarter. (it! to 9d Pork. (carcass) 35:1 to bid Do (small) 5d to 8d Mutton. per 1b.. (id to 9d Lamb per quarter, 4a to 15s Veal. per 1b., lid to (1d 11am. par 1b.. 611 to 7d Butter, (fresh) 911 to is Do by tho tub. Cheese, per ib.. (id to 3d Tallow, per 1b.. 9d to 10d Lard, per 111.. Flour. r 1b.. 311! to 31d Oat-ea , per 100Ibs.. 20s to 22- Eggs. per doxen, a ‘ 7d to 9d 1‘. I. Barley. per bushel. be to as 6.1 Oats per do.. Vegetables. Peas. per quart Potatoes. per bushel. 2s 3d to 3s Turulps per bush nod to 1s 9d . Poultry. 003'. none Tu ays. each. 4s to 7s 6d Fools. each. ls to Is rid Chickens per pair. Ducks, 1s ad to 1s 0d . rich- Codlsh. per tl.. 20- to 30. “strings. per ml, 25s to 40s Mackerel. per dose». I. b ill Ore Boards otulock) 4. De“ sues is to be Do as) 7a to 9s Shingles. per 1! 13s to 18s . ludrisse lg" Me 123. row porowt . My 8nd. to to 11- gloost flood. per 1:}. 4 1. 66d Mnns '5' y. a I 30 I W. IRI- .. co to 2: r .. Wool. Pi.” lsbto 1a,?d W s I 30 I. Anise. par doa.. Partridgss,

GEORGE LEWIS. Market Clerk.

W A. HERMANS.

GUN-SMITH.

summon m arm-emu. IGS to Inform his friends. and the bile generally. that he has is commenced Bu ucson Dorchos- ter Btrect. next to the Reading Room Building. where he is prepared to execute all orders In his line with asatness and despatch.

est man.

A t “scanners of flowers,

~ “Elm tensile. so. see. issladia the tent Bow T011 Corvus Per. which re- ceived t a Go d Xedal Prise. at the Paris Exposition of 1897. Also. EON TON LANTEBNS. which will surpass lag in the Market. and suitable for either for. use or on board Vessels. ' A few Warns Ooouaasoc band. which t r with argovarlsty of other Stock willbs sol cliespJ‘or

Kr. m1“ is out for SAWYER‘B CRYSTAL 81.03. a nu. spoqu ‘ i of“:er in washiag w re a sav r ceo M- M‘alad whic’hhoboztcsc tthe pstrcoagsef

3| navgaiticn permits.

QORNS 35 WARTS

BOBINSON‘S PATENT CORN SOLVENT. For Sale by

as; DrugStorc.Dsc.18. 1se7.w' 3' wagon

RONALD MCDONALD. Commission admiral. audience. counserfiih sum. Sourls. Jan'y 2. 1868. IV a nannrif

attorney and autism nt yaw.

CONVAYNCER, so-

oucerutircat-George 8t.. Charlottetown. (Near the Catholic Cathedral.) August 22.1863. E tf

Wk. hbbhhhil,

(Late of the Customs Department)

SHIP BROKER, &c .,

Having rented the SCALES on

(union’s wharf,

lie will attend to the weighing of COAL, OATS HAY, &c.

Charlatans)», 7' " P. E. Island.

Co-Partuerslup Notlce. IIE SUBSCRIBERB have his da entered into CO—l’Ali'l‘NEliSiilP as BARRIS' E115 and AT— TORNIES-AT-LAW. under the unme.'stylc and firm of ALLEY & DAVIES. 011100 - - - - O’Hulloran’sa Building, Great George Street.

GEORGE ALLEY,

LOUIS 11. DAVIES. Oct. 23. 1867. if

SHOP TO LET. O LET. one of the Shops 1n BEDDIN'S NEW BUILDING. immediate-iv adjoining the Drug Store of W. It. \Vatsoh. Esq. Lower Queen Street. For a business stand this shop is not surpassed in the city. Possession can be given about the 1st of A wil next. En ire of ii. D. RE)D1N. C 'town, Feb. 26. 1868.

. CHARLOTTITOWN MUTUAL Flre Insurance Company.

Board of Directors for the current year: lion. Gannon llssu. President. \Villlam Drown. Earp, Mark Butcher. Esq. “on. George Colea. Mr. Thomas Essery. lien. 11. J. Calbeck. John Scott. Esau Bertram Moore. 3.11.. Thus. w. Dod . limp. William Dodd. Esq. lion. W. W. Lord, Artcmas Lord. Esq.. Wm. lieard. Esq. Otllce hours from 10 a. m. to 4;. m. 11. PALM it. Secretary. Mutual Fire insurance (lilies, Kent St.. } Charlottetown. 1st Feb..1838. p i

PACKET

our-wens SOUBIS & CHARLOTTETOWN. ..—°.— THE Fur-suurto and Couuomous Schooner "A. n. McDonsw." will run between Scum & Charlotte- town. calling at the intermediate ports, as soon as the

DOMINICK DEAGME. Master. January 20, 1868. l y

ON HAND. TOTE of HAND Books. Blank Forms of Sheriff‘s Sales. Executions.8ummonscs. d:c.. kc. at the

Quaax Srassr lloousrous. ' E. REILLY.

DAWSON’S ESTATE- Important Notice!

HE SUBSCRIBERS have been instructed bv the

TRUSTEES of w. n. DAWSON‘S ESTATE. to SUE all parties. withoat no distinction. whose unset- tlde Accounts or Notes of land. to W. 11. DAWSON or GEORGE ICOLL, are not immediately paid.

ALLEY a DAVIES. Atty ’s for Trustees of Dawson’s Estate.

Ch'tawu. Feb. 98. 1868.

M A I L S . Crammer- Arrangement.

[IE Mails for the United Kindgdom.thc neighboring Provinces. the United States, 510.. will. until further notice, be closed at the General Post Office. Charlotte- town. as follows. vis :— For Canada. New Brunswick and the Unit“ Slates. via's‘l’skediac. every Tuesday and Friday evening. at 7 do . For Nova Sootia. via Pictou, orgy Monday. Wednes- day‘smi Friday evoning. at 7 0'0] .

alls for Great Britain, Newfoundland and the West indies. every alternate Monday and Wednesday evening. at 7 o‘clock. as follows. vis :— liondsy. May. 18. Monday. September 7.

Wodneoda .do 20. Wednesday, do 9. Monday. one 1. Monday. do 21, Wednesday. do 3, Wednesda , do 23. Monday. do 15, Monday. ctober. 5, Wednesday. do 17. Wednesday. do 7. Monday, do 20, Monday. do 19, Wednesdayululy. 1. Wednesdfi. do 21. Monday. do 13. Monday. ovember 2, Wednesday. do 15, Wednesday. do . Monday. do 27. Monday, do 18. Wodaoaday. do 29. Wednesday, do 18. Monday. 10. Monday. do 30. Wednesday. 0 12. Wednesday. Dec. . Monday do 24. Monday. do 14, Wed Wednesday. do 16,

a , do 26

Mails for Jummersidc. St. Eleanor‘s and Iiedequc. to be forwarded per Steamer. will be closed every Tuesday and Friday evening. at 7 o‘clock. Aotl Halls for Georgetown and Sonrls. per Steamer. every Friday evening. at 7 o'clock. Letters tubs ro srod and news npers must be post- ed half an hour be are the time of osingNths Mails.

THOMAS OWh. . Postmaster General.

General Post Otilcs.

ry be. Oh‘tsws. July It. 1867. o

Are Permanently and Eu'ectually Cured by the use of

CHARLOTETTOWN, ‘PRINCEMEDWARu.1SLANDQ'”WJUEE 24, 1

DEBATES AND PROCEEDINGS LEGISLATIV? ICOUNCIL.

(Continuedd

Hon. Mr. Has-mouse: I wish to call the attention of your honors to a subject which has been brought to my notice this morning. relative to the mode of paying teachers. It appears that a very cumbrous face of machinery has to be set in mot on, and every Council day a large number of warrants has to be issued. They have all to run their course. be en. tered in the Treasurer's books, the war- rant bocks, doc... and considerable expend- iture is also incurred in printing. which it is thought might be obviated. it has been thought advisable to ofl‘cr a suggeso ticu to the House of Assembly.witl1 a view of rendering the mode of paying teachers more simple, and. as I am not acquainted with drawing up Acts, I obtained the val- usble assistance oi his honor the member for Charlottetown. I therefore propose the following suggestion :—

“ Warrants for the payment of the ssla-

ries of school teachers shall he issued not oftenrr than two days in each month through» out the year. such days to he named by 111.1 Excellency the Lieutenant Governor. and the aggregate amount due and to be issued each day. in order to avoid a multi licity of Treasury warrants, shall be inc udcd in these or more warrants. us in the estimation of the Lieutenant Governor in Council shall appear convenient, and shall be drawn payable to one or more of the public or in- corporated llunks established in Charlotte- town. and each school teacher shall be en- titled to receive. at any such llank. being so ll‘OViiletI with such funds. the amount or cred for him when in Council and which «ball he paid at said Bank. on the produc- tlor. of such voucher as heretofore would entitle such teacher to receive his or her Treasury warrant from the Clerk of Illa Executive Council." I am confident that the plan suggested is just the one to meet the contingency, and I am aware that the attention of the public ofliccrs has been directed to it. To lesson the labor of public ofliccrs is the principal object in view. and if this suggestion will have that cflect, an im- portant point will be gained.

lion. Mr. BEER : I ltavcntuch pleasure in ascending the suggestion. for i think it Will have the effect of lessening the labor of the public officers. and it will lessen expense also.

lion. Mr. Dmowrzm. : if it will lessen thclubor of the public oillcers, i think it will increase the inconvenience of the teachers.

lion. Mr. I‘Atusn: I do not see that it can produce any additional inconve- nieucc tothc teacher. If he has his certi- ficate that he is entitled to receive his warrant, he has only to carry it to the Bank to receive his pay. I believe the signature of the Secretary of the Board of Education is now required, and it would still be required. The oillcers at the Bank would be as conversant with that signature as the Treasurer is now. I cnuuot therefore see that there would be any inconvenience, unless the distance between this building and the Bank is considered such. It would lie in the power of the Governor in Council to is- sue the aggregate amount in £200. £300 or £500 warrants as they could dispose of them. The only question upon my mind is, whether the Banks would attend to this busincs without some remunera- tiou.

The question was then put on the sug- gcstiou. and it passed in the affirmative.

House resumed and further progress reported.

Adjourned till to-morrow at ten o’clock.

Wsunasusr. April 3211 d. EDUCATION BILL.

line. Mr. McDonsuo. on rising to move that the committee on the Educa- tion Bill be resumed, said: I wish to make two or three observations in refer- ence to some remarks which ware made upon the Bill yesterday. “is honor on my right (Mr. Walker) expressed his disappointment and said the Bill was not such as he expected, and I am will- ing to ndmit.tl1st it is not such a Bill as he and his co-religiouistsmight cvpect from tho Government. liut it should be remembercdthst there may be strong reasons for bringing in this Bill as it is. We must look at the history ofthis ques- tion for past years, and at the agitation which has gone through the length and breadth of the Isaiud in reference to Education. The action, and indeed the Legislative sin of the late Government appeared to have been to educate public opinion against giving any religious, or what are called sectarian grants. and the feeling of a great portion of the Protestant part of the community has been in opposition to such grants. Therefore, I think it would have been bad policy in any party or an Govern

mcut.uo matter how desirabe it may have been, to have introduced a Bill of that kind, when public opinion is so go- uerali against sectarian grants as it has been or some years past. But I be- lieve the education which is bein dis- seminated throughout the Islaa . the very eiicct of the free education system. will enlighten the public mind; prejudices which warp people‘s judg- ment will be removed by education 3 than it will be seen that in order to give a sound education to youth. the foundation

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should be religious instruction. In

course of time public opinion will change. and the Government will then come to the aid of those who have taken the edu- cation cf a portion of the youth of the colony in hand. and are giving them in- struction which they would not receive under the Act as it stood. 1 am of c i— uloo that those who take a part of tie duty oi the State, in educating the youth, and do that better than the Gov- ernment could do it without their assist- ance. have a right to expect that the Government will help them so 3far as to devote the same amount from the public funds as those children would cost the Government, if they were instructed in the ordinary schools of the colony. But public opinion has not arrived at such aststc as to demand such a change. and, therefore, I do not think it would have been good policy to have intro,- duccd anything of that kind at present. My colleague (Mr. Gordon) also said he was disappointed with the Bill, and of course it is easy to-oxprcss disappotnt- ment with any measure, much easier than to propose a change which would make the working of it more efficient. Iiis honor, though he found fault with the bill, has not proposed any amendment. lie would not go for compulsory educa- tion. but he thought more inducement should be given to the areuis to send their children to school Well, it may be easy enough to pro se something of that kind, but not so aQ to carry“ out. and till he does s w new it can be carried out. perhaps not worth while to say more about it is also said it was an unfounded large against the Conservative party, but they had re- duced the salaries f the teachers. 1- wns surprised at that statement. for if he willscarch the public records, he will see that it was not on unfounded charge. In 1863 the Couscrvative party was in power. and in a summary of the P10. cecdiugs oi the Session cs' that year, published in the Examiner of the 13th April, I find the following :

“ The Edutintion Act was introduced'

by the lieu. Mr. Lougwcrth. and read a first tune. The hon. member cxplmu- cd that it was proposed, on one hand, to reduce to some extent the expense of working the Educntion Act-au expense which the country was unable to bear: and on the other to levy some taxes with the view of supplying the deficiency in supportiugiho system. The bill con- templated roduciug the amount to be paid to the teachers by the Government on a certain scale; for example. those teachers who were entitled to £55 under the present Act, would receive £40; those o! the highest class who had now £60, would receive £45. those who had .050. would receive £35, and those who had £40 would be reduced to £30. A proportionate reduction would be made in the salaries of teachers in Charlotte- town and Georgetown.”

Now, I thiukhis honor must have for- gotten that fact, for we sec that the very member who introduced the Education Bill at that time, stated that it was to reduce the sultwies of the teachers. If his honor had been able to show that at that time, that party had reduced the taxation of the Colony, he would have some ground for his statement, but in the very some year the duty was raised from twOepcucc to six-pence per gallon on molasses, so, they not only increased thciaxotiou in that way, but they in- creased it further upon those who had children to send to school, for they had to make up a portion of the teachers’ salaries. "in honor also contrasted the state of Edn- eqtion in various countries of Europe with this Island, and he said that one-sixth of the population of Great Britain attended school, but I do not agree with him, for the Statistics given by the Commissioners appointed by the BritishGovcrnment show that there are 3,500,000 children of the school age, of whom 2,450,000 are on the school registers. but the average at- lendauce is only 1,700,000. In many districts the average was very much be- low this. The same Commission cu- quircd into the state of education in the town of Birmingham. and it it was found that only about 5'2 children out of every hundred could read well, 18 moderately, and 10 not at all, 84 out of every hun- dred did not know anything about arith- metic. In Rome, the population Is 215,- 563, children 2‘2, “251, attending school 18,804. In Glasgow. also, several thou- ssuds did not attend school. In this island the number attending school is not what we might expect. considering the large amount of money expended for that service. There must be somewhere shout 22,00. children of the school age on the island. perha s more. and accord- ing to the Reports 0 the School Visitors, as far as I can understand, for it is diili- cnlt to arrive at the exact number from them, 11,450 children are registered for school, or not more than lulf the num- ber of the school ago. It is very true, these children, after they come up to the last year of the school ago, are useful at home on the form and otherwise, and that may be one reason why there are not more attending school. lint I think if a certain number of the youth of this island were examined they would be found to compare favourably, as far as reading and writing is concerned, with an equal number, of an equal ago, in Great Britain or any other courrtr we know of. The cost oi Education ornc

bydhe Government lost year was £15,-

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737 10s.. which is a large proportion of the revenue devoted to that service.

lion. Mr. Goaooa: I he that boro, as in every other place, I w i not make

of other so a statement which I am not pro rod to 7' . substantiate. The statement made yum l.

with regard to the number of children attending school in Great Britain. was taken from a t of the Education Commissioners in England. which was issued in six large volumes. 1 think

that Report contains the best Statistics 1 i"

could referto. Ills honor sags that the Conservative party reduced t o salaries of the teachers, but I said, and I say again, that they did not. They only re- quired that a part of the amount each teacher was to receive. was to be pasd by a difl'erent mode. The gross amount was not reduced. If argument were required to show that there was reason for making that change. I might refer to the Report I have already named. which says that “ No system' of edu- cation will be prised, unless the people contribute directly to the support of the schools." That was the view held by the Conservative party, and they tried the experiment.