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The Examiner.

Charlottetown, August 21, 1876, RESULT OF THE CONTEST.

Iv is not necessary to dwell upon the

It is

> | enough that we have been beaten. Never-

eauses of our unexpected defeat.

theless, we feel assured that a majority of | the people of the Isiand will, ere long, ens | dorse, as correet, the proposition that it is an inherent and binding right and duty of every parent, rich or poor, to educate his own children ; that, if it be deemed delegate that duty to the State—if it be thought that the State should provide education so that all may be taught, parents, in the selection of the branches of | educatioa to be imparted, should—to use | the homely but pertinent phrase of Judge |

Hiensley—‘ be humored as mach as _ pos- | sible.” Right is not always immediately | successful. But, if stouwtly maintained, it triemphs in the end. By the courage, | the steadiness, the perseverence of their | advocates, great political reforms have,

after lone years of agitation, been accom-s |}

plished. Let not the men who consci-

entiously believe that their religioa should not be banished from the publie school- | room, be discouraged by the defeut of Thursday. They have right on their side. | lf true to themselves and their cause,they will, before many years have passed away, see the vexed question settled on the just principle, that recognition should be given to patental rights—that children should be educated, not as the State en- acts, but as parents desire.

In asserting this principle, the Hon. J. C. Pope has acted a manly and a honors able part. Voluntarily he surrendered the certainty of an election by acclama= tion. Courageously he grappled with the most difficult question ever submitted to the people at the polls. obloquy, he did battle in the cause ot justice to those tax-payers who have heavily taxed themselves to provide and

Regardless of

| earnest.” / humored pushing and squirming was, we | believe, never before witnessed,

| derstand that it is proposed to erect a : GONE Tl ee 8 , ‘| made for extinguishing fires rapidly, is a

CONTEST.

Tr electors who voted in Charlotte— town must have been “very much in Such enthusiastic and good-

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machine in the yard of our “ Castle of Indolenee”’ with which to eXereise those

pets of the town who ordinarily come

under the ken of His Honor the Stipen diary Magistrate. We hope those con- cerned in the project did not fail to make a note of the peculiarities of the “ tread- mills” in which the “free and independ- ent’ did duty on Thursday last. The vote was the largest ever polled in Char- lottetown. Nearly every elector on the side of our opponents came to the front. The Catholics of the town also came out

as one man and putin a surprisingly large

vote. Considering the heat aad excite- ment incident tothe contest and the ex- treme toil and trouble of voting, the elee- tion passed off creditably to ail concerned

| The scene at the last was, however, very

Mr. Davies should have

disgraceful. He was the chosen man of

been heard.

a majority of the electors—the prospective

He had, there- fore, a special claim upon the attention of the erowd, Those who refused to hear him were probably too drunk to reflect that they were injuring a good cause and

Leader of a Government.

throwing reproach upon the men who

had maintained it so gallantly and well. The triumph of a cause, depend- ing only upon its inherent justice and the

'suasive ability of its advocates is always

retarded by such exhibitions as that which took place when Mr. Davies attempted to speak at the close of the election, Apart from this, free men should, in all cases, be permitted to speak freely.

Respecting the elections, we have few particulars upon which we can rely. The returns—without counting the special yotes—are :—

QUEEN'S COUNTY. FIRST DISTRICT.

Lot. Stewart. Campbell. Holmes. McNeill

. : : : : . 7 77 738 267 94 maintain schools in which their children - 165 a oe are secularly and religiously educated in| 29 196 120 = po

. : a : 2 5 116 accordance with their wishes. He faced zs . aa ,o 108 public opinion like a man. He said what} 20 189 204 16 16 he would do. He frankly told his sup 794 789 767 649 porters what he would not do--if elected. é' ao SECOND DISTRICT.

He has been defeated. Public opinion on =

‘ as : : 3 this one question, is against him. But as z 2 aman who possesses the courage of his > a z = Opinions, he stands higher than ever in = : = 4a the estimation of the party of which he is A al -

> nek ledge ps ew tia i, | & Mite Creek’ 219 237 49 46 the acknowledged head. To-day he is, esti Rives 63 > ie . ae we believe, by all odds, the most popular} Wiltshire ae ee. volitician in the Province. Friends ; Wheatley River 344 270 122 96 politician in the Province F riends and New Glasgow 107 es’ te ‘108 supporters who withdrew their counten- domi ain ance because they could not conscientious- 88. 408... OB. OE ly endorse his policy on the School Ques- THIRD DISTRICT, - “i tion, will rally round his standard in any 2

’ . . 1 . . = struggle in which the School Question is ie c6 not the question to be decided. 2 8 te

And those friends of his who stood by | Brackley Point Road 29 244 22

mith wi ae >. | Saw Mill Bridge — sm 6 him in the late struggle—those Protes- aati tan 297 97-959 tants who refused to see anything in the! Fort Augustus 269 64 207 School Question which should separate | /°t 48 = 6 ” them from their Roman Catholic fellow- 895 820 654 citizens—have done nothing of which they FOURTH DISTRICT. need be ashamed. When it is remember- Welsh. Robertson. O’Keiffe. ed, that as “good Protestants as ever 3 49 149 140 95

ne oe oa _ . | Lot 50 175 172 104 broke bread’’ are now in favor of denomi- Murray Har. Rd. 179 177 41 national schools wherever they are prae—| Eldon 247 247 38 ticable ; when it is remembered that the | Belle Creek a0 380 1 scheme proposed by Mr. Pope, on the 1030 1016 379

settlement of our school difficulty, was almost identical with that propounded by Dr. Chalmers and endorsed by Hugh Miller ; when it is remembered that Pro- testant Scotland and England and On- tario, have conceded to Catholies more thao Mr. Pope proposed to concede to the Catholics of Prince Edward Island, the taunts and jibes, to which Protestants who uobly stood by their leader and did that which they deemed to be richt, are even now subject, will fall harmless and un- heeded. Messrs. Brecken, and Ferguson, and Huot may truly say :—‘* We have supported Mr. Pope regardless of obloquy. Senator Haviland We wil! never hold seats in the House ot As We

are sure that our elections could not be

We have learned from to consider such obloqay true glory.

sembly by an ignominious tenure.

lost in a more honorable way than in do- ing what we cousider to be right.”

His Honor the Lieutenant Governor, will, probably, in the course of a few days or weeks, call upon Mr. L. H. Davies to We look forward to the formation of the “ Davies Adminis. aud the announcement of Mr. In the

form a Government.

tration” Davies’ policy with some iaterest. meantime, we rest.

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The average of suicides in Cincinnati is one for every eleven days.

Thg belle of Canton, Mass., became so enraged during a game of croquet the other day, that she knocked a fellow down with a mallet.

A rumor is current that Lord Lytton wiil resign the Governor-Generalship of India next spring, to be succeeded by the Duke of Buckingham.

A cow was found last week standing stark and stiff ina pasture in Maine. She had been struck by lightning, killed, but not thrown to the ground.

The heat in France and Spaia is repre- sented as fearful. Count St. Vallien, mem- ber of the Senate, had to be removed, being overcome by the heat. In Madrid the heat excee Js any recollection since 1800, Forty field Jaborers died of it a few days ago near Seville.

The death rate *of the Central Provinces of India is stated in the * Englishman ’ of Cal- eutla to be 21.95 per thousend per annum, That of the city of Montreal is 32.78; The birth-rate of Montreal, however, is 49.10, while that of the Indian Provinces above mentioned is only 37.60. Both the mortality and natality of our French Canadian popu, lation are very large, the former heing 42.50 per thousand, and the latter 6501. The latter average Dr. Larocque believes to be unsurpassed by that of any other country in the world,—Montreal Gazelle.

The United States Senate has acquitted Belknap—or rather has failed to convict him —on strictly technical grounds. More than the number necessary to a conviction voted ‘not guilty’ because they believed that the Senate lacked jurisdiction. And by doing so they have prepared the way for the utter abandenment ef the process of impeachment except in cace of officials who are still in office when charges are preferred against them. In spite of the vote by which the Senate asserted its right to try an offender who is no longer an officer, the late trial has convinced most persons that in future the course of justice will be more inexpensive, swift, sure and honest if con- fined to courts having jurisdiction in crim- nal cases. Neither the Senate nor the House bas strongly impressed any one with its desire for an iropartial wial of Belknap, while the expense to the country has been enormous. As to the offender who has technically escaped punishment, his judges may be numbered by huwireds of thou- sands, and none of them will be led by the verdict of the Senate to alter their Opinions in any way,

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KING’S COUNTY. FIRST DISTRICT. McDonald and McLean—no opposition.

SECOND DISTRICT.

Siciy Bbovnig cay am Z. ae = Lot 56 79 62 56 42 St. Peter’s Bay 230 209 182 140 Morell 203 lll 79 148 St. Andrew’s 90 59 104 96 602 441 421 421 THIRD DISTRICT.

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7 oT) oo 5 = 5 e = ND © 18 Mile Brook 108 104 117 Cardigan 223 202 184 Grand River 249 216 142 580 523 443

FOURTH DISTRICT. s s $ b 2) 3 Ee 3s fy = ° & ou = = Lot 64 266 21 279 Lot 63 245 234 215 Montague Bridge 83 289 42 Let 66 43 51 2 637 595 538 GEORGETOWN.

McDonald. Gordon. Westaway. 144 141 110 PRINCE COUNTY. SUMMERSIDE.

McMillan 549 | Hunt 308 Lefurgy 545 | Green 285 THIRD DISTRICT.

Aresaault 556 Gaffney 435

McDonald 535

FOURTH DISTRICT. Calhoun 692 | Ilolland 579 Lea 632 | Howatt 536

A Belgrade despatch says that Mahomed Pasha, with twenty thousand men entered Fucivaiey on the Montenizro frontier. His troops were attacked from all sides and driven back. under cover of guns, to Pod- garitza, in Turkey, with a loss of eight thousand men.

There is a rumor to the effect that Gene- ral Crook has almost annihilated the Sioux, and has the remainder in such a position as to force their surrender. The party who bring this news from the Crow Agency may have greatly exaggerated the story, if it is not entirely false.

A correspondent of the ‘ Daily News’ writes from Philippopolis on the 10th inst., that three thousand men, women and chil- dren were killed by the Turks at Ottukkui. Children were carried abont impaled on bayonets, and human beings were burned alive. At Bazardjik one thousand persons were killed. A bag full of haman heads was emptied before the house of the Italian cousul at Jambuli, and left there to be

} eaten by dogs.

The Chief Justice of New Brunswick has spoken against Orange Societies carrying arms in their processions through the streets -—‘* He would not pretend to say that the Orange Society, or any other So- ciety, had not the legal right to walk in procession, but what we wish to call their attention to was the fact that no body of men had the right to arm themselves in direct violation of law, and if it was true as had been s that almost all the men in that procession were armed, then he had no hesitation in stating that the procession was illegal. If people were allowed to go about armed in this way the slightest pro» vocation might produce most serious res sults. The question, he added, was one on which the jury could probably express an opinion, and perhaps it would have a good eflect, but of one thing he felt bound to apprise the public, and that was that pro- cessions of armed men such as this Orange procession was said to have been were de- cidedly illegal.

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DEPARTMENT.

Tur letter addressed by R. R. Fitz- gerald, Exsq., Stipendiary Magistrate, to the Chief Kngineer of our Fire Depart- ment—published in the last issue of the EXAMINER — deserves attention. That the best possible arrangements should be

THE FIRE

proposition which no man in bis senses will pretend to deny. Under the manage- ment and control of our public-spirited fellow citizen, Donald McKinnon, Esq., the Department has been greatly improv- ed. Itisnow supplied with two fine steam engines, a big bell has been provided, a hook and ladder company, under command of an active captain, has been formed, one fire engine house has lately been built and another is in course of construc- tion. The firemen themselves are brave and active as any in the world. There are, however, four requisites to the perfect working of the department:

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1. A plentiful supply of water.

2. A fire alarm telegraph.

3. Training, discipline and organiza- tion of firemen,

4+. Non-interference of citizens at fires.

The first requisite will, we trust, be The second is not to be thought of at present. The third and fourth, only, receive attention from the Stipendiary Magistrate. Mr. Fitz- Gerald proposes that the full controi of every fire be given to the officers and men of the Fire Department. Because, —

supplied in a few years.

Ist. The men composing the Fire Depart- ments have received a certain training which the general public have not had the advan- tage of, and consequently have to a greater degree that coolness and decision so ne- cessary on such occasions.

2nd. The number of the men composing the force being amply suflicient to work at and coutrol a fire, increased numbers do not cause increased efliciency.

3rd. The utter impossibilty of firemen performing their duty expeditiously aud effectively with the promiscuous crowd of loafers, women, and children, that always throng together where they are most in the way, and so impede and hamper firemen, that one half of their time is occupied in keeping them back.

4th. The great danger there is likely to happen to inexperienced persons is standing too close to fallen timber, and in the way of rapidly moving engines, and so near to the apparatus of Hook and Ladder Companies that itis almost impossible to ntilize them without great risk of serious injury to by- standers.

oth. The excellent opportunity such pro- miscuous assistance affords dishonest per- sons of appropriating whatever property they can lay their hands upon.

6th. The reckless destruction of property by persons who though honest in their in.

| tentions, by their intemperate zea!, cause,

in Mapy cases, more damage to be done by their own action than could possibly be done by the fire.

It is needless for us to comment, at any length, upon these reasons of the Stipen- diary Magistrate. Any citizen in the habit ot going to fires (and what citizen is not ?) will admit that they are good, that they are to the point, and that they are seasonably brought forward. We trust that they will receive the attention of the proper authorities, and be dealt with in a practical manner.

THE SCHOOL QUESTION IN

HALIFAX.

VeRY soon after the death of Arch» bisbop Connolly, the School Question loomed upin Halifax. Some one ques- tioned the right of the Archbishop to nominate teachers for Catholic Free Schools. The City Board of Education promptly and wisely settled the difficulty. The Citizen—alluding to the settlement, says :—‘‘ We feel inclined to regret that cir- cumstances have forced a settlement in terms of the school question as{it has existed in this city. Hitherto our school matters have worked along smoothly and success- fully, and no one has had reason to feel that any private or public rights have While the fact was well known that ‘there were certain schools in

been infringed.

the city in which all or nearly all the teachers were Roman Catholics, and that in the remaining schools all or nearly all the teachers and children were Protestants yet no section of the School Law was violated, and nothing was done to mar in any way the efficiency of the ‘schools. Now, however, the public is brought face to face with a broad and well-marked line which separates the schools of the city in- to two classes—Cuatholic and Protestant— and which makes the distinction between those two classes not only well defined but irrevocable. Perhaps it is deemed neces- sary that certain schools should be taught by Catholic teachers only, and that others should be taught by Protestant teachers ouly, but such hard and fast lines are re- pugnant to those who look at not the teacher’s professional creed, but at his professional qualifications, However dis- agreeable as the broad staring terms of the resolution adopted yesterday may seem to persons of liberal minds, it is, perhaps, the best course that could be adopted, seeing that a solution of the ques- tion seemed to be imperatively called for by the force of circumstances, and that while effectually settling the questson, it follows that middle course which is said to be always safest and best.”

The following is the resolution referred to in the above paragraph :—

Whereas, the system of appointing teach- ers heretofore adopted wes, upon the whole, satisfactory, and the Board are of Opinion that the practice heretofore followed in the appointment of teachers should, with some modifications, be continued.

Therefore Resolved, That the practice with reference to the appointment and employs ment of teachers in the public schools of the city of Halifax shall hereafier be in accord- ance with the following scheme:

1. None but Roman Catholic teachers shall be appointed to, or employed in, the schools where the tecchers are now exclu- sively of that denomination.

2, No Roman Catholic teachers shall be appointed to or employed in, any other of the existing public schools than those re- ferred to in the proceeding paragraph.

3. The Roman Catholic teachers shall be appointed on the recommendation of the Roman Catholic members of the Board, an. all the other teachers upon the recommen- dation of the members of the Board not be- longing to that denomination,

4. Xtl teachers after their appointment, shall, subject to the foregoing provisions, be under the control and management of the whole Board,

5. This scheme shall not apply to the pro- posed High School.

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At Wolverhamption, Lawson, the bicyclist, has completed his feat of riding 600 miles on a bicycle in six consecutive days. He finished at 8.40 p. m. The last fifteen miles took one hour and one minute.

Fifteen prominent parties have been ars rested in Constantinople, including Izzed Pasha, the leader of the old Turkish party, charged with conspiracy to murder Midhat Pasha, and other leaders of the liberal party.

A Constantinople despatch says the Porte disavows any intention of interfering in the election of a ruler to oceupy the throne of Servia, but a heavy indemnity will be de- manded from Servia, with guarantees against hostilities,

REPRESEN PATION BY M- NORITIES, From the Toronto Ne

No better testimony could !\3 offered of the fact that Mr. Llare’s idea: in regard to parliamentary representation are taking hold upon the mind of public sts than that three promincein pots writers have, within the lact twelve staonths, advocated them in the pages of the ‘Fortnightly Re-~ view.’ Inthe July number of that period- ical, Mr. Leonard Courtney, a gentleman who has long held an eminent journalistic position, and who, it has recently stated, is about to offer for a seat in the British House of ‘Comnions, contributes a paper on ‘ Political Machinery and Political Life,’ which is worthy of a priest of Liberalism, One or two of the concluding passages of Mr. Courtney’s essay we cannot do better

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than quote, as showing the direction in which political thought in England is tak~- ing in the matter of parliamentary repres sentation, After arguing out his premises he says :—‘‘ Instead of compelling voters to bring themselves down to a common level in the hope of forming part of a ma- jority, I would allow them to associate to- gether freely according to their opinions in several groups, obtaining representatives according to their numbers. The imme- diate adoption of Mr, Hare’s system in its entirety | neither expect nor desire, but its introduction into use within the limited areas of our great towos and more populous counties may be anticipated, without exs travagance of thouglit, within the lifetime of the new generation. If, as [ am _ per~ suaded, its value is proved by experience, its extended application will follow; and we may leave to others coming after us the task of determining the range of dis- trict witain which it can be benefically put into operation, The preliminary objection that to found such hopes on a change vf system is to look for production of life by dead machinery, has probably been sufli- ciently answered, We cannot create life, but life is always being born about us; and we have power to determine what forms of life shall come to maturity, and what shall be chocked and strangled at birth. We may continuously degrade or we may con. tinuously improve the surviving species. The whole scope of my argument has been designed to show that our present system operates to limit the quantity and worsen the quality of life in every division of the nation; and were it not for counteracting influences, it would be as vain to expect a healthy result as it would be in a body every limb and member of which was separately swathed and bandaged, Instead of trusting to counteracting influences, which can but partially counteract the mischief gratui- tuously inyjted, why should we not adopt the regimeofiberty instead of the reyime of construction? Instead of forcing men to work together because they happen to live in the same street, or the same ward, or the same hundred, under the penalty that their direct influence on the legislation of the country shall be oought unless they can contrive to form part of the majority of the district, why not ‘et them associate with their true neighbors in thought and feeling? We must go much further than that, as | have declared, I hold it now to be possible or desirable, to make this liberty of assoc~ ation perfect; but there is ample scope for its exercise within the area of constituen- ces of cities and counties that might at once be created, and if I dwell on the idea of the future it is to make plain the mean- ing of what is immediately possible.’

Towards the conclusion of his essay Mr. Courtney says further: ‘The representa- tion by minorities is not urged as a means of defeating the power of majorities. Its perfect adoption would in truth secure the predominance of majorities. Under the present system, a majority in the Legisla- ture must often correspond with a minors ity in the country, and upon questions that unexpectedly arise we can never have a thorough assurance of the identity of the policy of Parliament with the policy of the people. Ifthe proposed change were ad- opted the representative chamber would be a trustworty mirror of the mind of the nation. Objection may be taken that the enthronement of the democracy would be thus facilitated ; but I confess for my part I face without fear the triumph of a demo- cracy which is consummated in the Gov- ernment of a nation by a chamber cons taining within itself representatives of all forms of political thought of the nation. The majority may vote minorities down it they will frst hear what they have to say. Democracies are sufficiently docile, and, indeed, it may be said that their greatest errors have arisen because they were too quick to learn. Unincumbered by this world’s goods, and with avenues of thought unchocked by riches,they accept new truths too easily and think they have mastered them, before they have understood their relations to old facts; but their motives of judgement and of action are in the main right, and it isa painful confession, that if we examine the history of our own country during the last fifty years it will be found that the ignorant multitude have put the educated classes to shame in the generosity and justness of their conclusions, The power of majorities when minorities are ad- mitted by their side to argue, to remon- strate and to instruct, is not terrible; the evil histories which inspire fear of them were perpetrated under false systems which banished from their presence the representatives of other forms of thoughts than their own, and that plentiful lack of imagination which affects autocrats, aristo< crats, and democrats alike, enabled them to be cruel and unjust to the absent whose complaints were unheard and whose suffer- ings were unseen ard unrealized.”

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THE TURKISH WAR—THE CHRIST- IANS OF BULGARIA,

The poor, .Bulgarians are the greatest sufferers. The suflerings of this poor people are most terrible, and the atrocities perpetrated by the regular and irregular Turkish soldiery are unparalleled in the history of modern times. I have been at some trouble to ascertain the truth in this matter and I believe the statement to be at all exaggerated that 46,000° human beings of all ages and both sexes have been massacred in the province of Bulgaria, Macs donia and Epirus, since the first of January, 1876. Orders have been received from Constantinople to search out and punish the authors of these wholesale murders, but eas icult to do cither when so many ofevery rank are implicated. At Plevno were found thirty-five old guns, pieces of rusty iron, valuable perhaps, to a curiosity dealer, but more than dangers ous to their owners as weapons of offense; there were no catridges, nothing, indeed, to indicate that they had been used for centuries; but their proprictors were taken before the Local Governor, and when they were released they found their wives and daughters in the slave market, and adjoins ing Turkish villages and Plevno a heap of smouldering ruins. So it is ali over the country, a history of rape and massacre, but now everywhere unresisted and unre- venged.—Correspondence of London paper.

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Servia has pawned part of her crown jews els to Austria for 62,0v0 florins.

ARTE GREY TL OO A TRIP TO THE MAGDALEN ISLANDS.

I.

‘‘ What in the world are you going thee for ?” was the exclamation of those of my friends whom I imparted my intention of spending a fortnight in the Magdalens, or Madalenes as they are called, Well, I wag pretty tired of seeing Halifax, I hate St. John, Prince Edward Island J had seen bes fore, 1 felt too lazy to visit any of the Cans adian cities or show places, and as for the States, | certainly didn’t intend going there whilst everybody is Centennial-mad, es- pecially as L object very strongly to cen- tennials in general, and Yankee ones in particular; moreover I have already visited many of the American cities, including the much overslauded Philadelphia, So I was desirous of striking out in somewhat of a new line, and without aiming at entire originality, yet trying to get decidedly out of the beaten track, where “ Air Line ” and “ Day Boats’’ were unknown and Hotel Clerks did not exist. Accords ingly ascertaining that the SS. Albert left Pictou every alternate Saturday for the un- known regions above} mentioned, | iput myself on board the gallant vessel resolved to turn up somewhere, Mr, King, who is, I believe, managing owner, and who accom- panies the boat, is a jovial, pleasant, oblig- ing old gentleman, and the Albert isa strong, sea-worthy boat, and when these facts are mentioned, all has been said that possibly can be said in her favour, In the first place, she is very slow, only managing to achieve seven knots, I be- lieve, at her top speed,—which, by the way isas much as the Prince of Wales’ Serapis made,—then she is frightfully ugly, and worse than that she rolls—well, ‘*aw- fully ’ is no word to describe it—she roils like all the rotund things in existence, in- deed one could not help thinking of that absurdest of the Bab Ballads where a ‘‘ Miserable Wretch ” addresses the terres~ tial globe, and after complaining of the loss of his shirt buttons, and the number of his tailor billand other small troubles, finishes with the highly unnecessary piece of con- descension :—

“ Never you mind, Roll on which the author caps with the still more preposterously unnecessary remark: Jérolls on! But these disadvantages are natural to the Albert, and unavoidable, not to mention the further ones of.the dirt; noisome smells and over-inhapited state of the berths, which surely might be improved with a little eare ; and although I intend “cracking up” the Island, presently, yet this undoubted draw- back must be mentioned, I know she does not aspire to be much of a passenger boat, but still her accommodation need not be made worse than itis naturally.

The welcome sight of the Western hill of the Island of Amherst, which is tbe first land seen by vessels from the south, pre- sented itself about 9 o'clock on Monday morning, and by between 2 and 3 o'clock we were at anchor in Pleasant Bay, off Am- herst, the capital of the Islands. There is no pier,and the harbour is not deep enough for the steamer, so we landed in a_ boat; among the passengers were a young Roman Catholic Priest from P. E. Island, (a native Magdalener, on a visit to his relative, the Priest of the place) anda gentleman, ona Government Survey, with his wife, so I was the only one who was there for excursion- izing purposes. I will proceed iirst to give a few particulars of the Islands, for some of which I am indebted (by the courtesy of the above mentioned gentleman, who lent it to me) to a small pamphlet written by a Rev. George Sutherland, and published in Charlottetown sixteen years ago, and then I willrefer tosome of my personal “ad. ventures.”

There are about 11 islands altogether, though some of them are not properly is- lands, being joined to other land by sand. ridges. ‘The North Bird Rock is the furthest point north, and South Cape in Amherst Island,is the furthest point south ; whilst the Great Bird Rock and Deadman’s Isle are the extremeties east and west res spectively. The space occupied is not less than 57 miles in length, by 14 at its great- est breath, not including the numerous sunken reefs and the solitary D.adman’s Isle. Amherst, the most important island | in the group, is 5) miles distant from the East point of P. E. [., 6) from Cape North, in Cape Breton,, 150 from Gaspe, and 120 from Cape Ray, in Newfoundland.” Mr. Sutherland further says:—“In form and appearance the greatest diversity prevails. Some,are mere rocky islets rising precipit- ously from the sea to a height of 140 or 170 feet, with concave and convex summits. At one place the sea may be seen rushing madly against cliffs 400 in height, and wild- ly dashing far up on the face of the rocks; in other places the white crested waves roll heavily over acres of low shelving beach and mustering its strength heaves its pon derous mass upon the yielding but impass-~ able sand-barriers. On the other hand is seen a succession of conical sand hillocks, heaped up by the whirling blasts, and on the other hand the jow and treacherous morass, or the widespread but shallow la- goon. Here you may walk over lofty height of sedimentary rock, and a mile hence you may circumambulate the base of the crater of an extinct voleano. One is. land rears its dark,irregular summit dense- ly covered with wood, another presents its one, two or three bleak, bare conical peaks, at a height of three, four or five hundred feet above the sea. You land at one spot, and you can place your foot on nothing but the small angular rocks of crumbling trap, you beach your boat at another place, and the cliff before you presents its sandstone strata with no less than eight different colours,—gray, pink, yellow, red, blue, orange, brown and variegated, and so soft as tu crumble beneath the pressure of the fingers.”

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Entry Island, so called from its positien at the entrance at Pleasant Bay, is nearly circular, and is only about eight or nine miles in circumference, and about two or threein diameter. It contains the loftiest peaks in the group, or indeed of any island in the Gulf, rising to over 600 feet; they may be climbed to the very summit, and a magnificent view is obtained therefrom. Amherst Island named after the British Gens eral, is eleven miles long and four broad; in shape it is something like the human foot, the heel consisting of lofty wooded heights, rising to 550 feet in the West, and its long slender toe of sand hills sweeping round <o the North-East; on the instep as it were are three hills, the central one af which is called Demoiselle, and is 280 feet high, from the summit of which a fine view is obtained. “ The surface of the Island is everywhere uneven. ‘The conical hills and circular hols lows, the low, shelving beach, the marsh or lagoon, and the steep cliff or hill, are in close proximity.” Deadman's Isle is closest to Amherst and deserves a word; when one sees it at once it looks very much like a corpse floating in the water, though of course that of a giant, for it is ascertamed to be 170 feet high, though only a quarter of a mile in length. It is a bare rock. Grindstone Island is about eight miles due North of Amherst, and is oval in shape, about five miles in extent in one direction and about four in the other; it contains some thickly wooded heights, some of

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which are between 590 and 690 feet high, On the north-eastern front ‘ every few hun- dred yards one is met by circular cavities, some small and others of very large dimen, sions, which afford abundant evidence from the crumbling lava around their slopes that no distant period of antiquity they were the outlets of voleanic action. Some are dry, others communicate their accumulating waters, when they reach a certain height, to the adjoining harbour, and others have been into lakes, one of which is reported to be fathomless, but which must simply be regarded as of more than ordinary depth.” There is a similar lake in Entry" Island, Grindstone has no proper harbour, but by meeting the next island, Allright, it forms one called Havre aux Maisons. The sand. ridges belonging to this island and those of Grindstone form a long lagoon measuring more than 20 miles in length, which is calls ed the Grand Entry or Great Lagoon, The Grosseisle is the next, though this is only one part of that which in its widest sense includes four islands improperly so called, one of which is named Coffin Island, after the proprietor, ‘Much of this island is occupied with shallow lakes, the chosen rex sort of the wild duck, and its moist beeches from the richest cranberry grounds.” Ten miles across an open strait northward is Byron Island with a difficult and danger- ous shore, and with several shoals surrounds ing it. ‘Yet once landed upon it, it looses much of its -epulsiveness, and many fine agricultural »pes invite the attention of the farmer | the herdsman.’”’ Lastly there are tk ird Rocks ; they are in the extreme north _ the Magdalen group and are distant from Amberst Harbour in a dis rect course 52 miles. “ From the immense multitude of birds, chiefly of the gannet species, which make these islands their summer resort and which are seen in clouds hovering over their summits, or whirling in dozens around their cliffs,or ranged in rows along their terraces, the visitor will have no difficulty in perceiving the origin and pro- priety of the name. The Rocks are distin- guished as the Great Bird and the North Bird,the latter being smaller and lower than the other,and distant one mile to the North~ west of it. They both rise perpendicularly from the sea, the Great Bird at the height of 150 feet. The upper clifis being shelved or terraced, they are only three hundred yards in diameter. In reference to the Geology of the Magdalenes, Mr. Sutherland says he gathered thirty different specimens, of which the sandstone was found in eight different colours, there are four varieties of gypsum, ochres of various colours, and also alabaster lava. With regard to the fisher- ies it is recorded that from 500 to 300

barrels of herring may be caught in one |.

haul of the seine, and as many as 50,- 000 barrels have been taken in fifteen days. The following account of the pro. prietorship of the islands may not be with- out interest, and I may mention in passing that a ‘ land grievance” similar to that in P. E. I, exists, though I cannot pretend to say anything as to its merits, “Jt is rex ported that in passing the Magdalen Islands in 1798, in command of a ship of war carry- ing one of the Governors to Quebec, Cap- tain Coffin expressed a wish to the Govers nor, most probably Guy Carlton, Lord Dors chester, that the Islands might become his. The Governor promptly consented to use his influence to obtain the grant; the re. quest was at once complied with by the Home Government, and the Islands became the property of Captain,afterwards Admiral, Sir Isaac Coffin, The Admiraldied in 1839 and left the Islands to his nephew, Captain, now Admiral, John Townsend Coffin, and they are now an estate in his possession.’, VoyaGEur,

“SWEETAUBURN” ASITISTO-DAY.

The site of the “‘ Deserted Village ” is on the road from Athlone to Ballymahon,about six miles from the former town; and as crops of new ‘‘Auburns ” are springing up around in all directions, it is necessary to mention the poet’s name in order to be set on the proper track to ‘‘ Goldsmith’s Aus burn,”’ as the Westmeath peasantry call it.