Tus Dainty EXAMINER, : JUNE 13, 1878. SHORT ANSWERS.

1. Tue Patriot insinwates that the ‘* facts and figures” we presented on Tuesday last are unreliable. If the Patriot can show that they are, in any one particular, not it the strictest accordance with the public ac- counts, we shall be happy to correct them

| These mere trsiurid-

or any one of them. tions and ASSERTIONS are unworthy of a journal of the Patriot's pretensions.

2. The McDonald Government held pow- er for three or four months of the financial year 1873-4 ; the McKenzie Government held power for the remaining eight or nine months. Yet the Patriot objects to holding the latter responsible for the large increace of expenditure for civil government which mirked that year. Well, the McDonald Government had certainly nothing to do with the expenditures of 1874-5 and 1875-6. Let us see how they compare with the ex- penditures of the two preceding years.

In 1874-5 Civil Govern-

ment cost $909, 500 In 1875-6 Civil Govern- ment cost 842,000

$1,751,300

In 1872-3 Civil Govern-

ment cost $750,900 In 1873-4 Civil Govern- ment cost 883,700

$1 634.600

Showing an inc-ease dur-

ing two years of the

relon of economy

and reform, over

the two preceding $116,700

years, of Onze Hunprep anp Srxreen THousanp Seven Hiunprep Dottars! Was the Lib- cral Conservative Party (out of power) res- sponsible for this imerease ? Or was the Organized Hypocrisy—in power responsible! Take another view of the matter : In 1874-5 the cost of Civil Govern- ment was ; ; ; $909,300 In 1876-7 it was reduced to . 812,200

A difference of ; . §$ 97,100

Now, if in the year just previous to a general election the Government were able to make a reduction in the cost of Civil Government to this enormous extent, must they not have been rioting in extravagance in 1874-5 and in the other years of their term ! If the Grits could, without apparent effort, spend in Civil Government $97,100 less in 1876-7 than they expended in 1874-5, there must certainly have been something radi cally wrong in 1874-5 ; — also in 1875-6, when the cost of Civil Government was $30,000 mere than it was last year. If not, will the Patfiot please explain /

3. It is to benotedthat in 1876-7—the last and most economical year of the Grit Gov- ernment—the cost of Civil Government was $812,200; while in 1872-3--the last and most extravagant year of the Liberal- Conservative Government—the cost of Civi] Government — was $750,900. In other words, the late Government—when most profuse—expended $61,300 less than the paesent Government did when most econo- mical !

4. The great fact remains that, under economical McKenzie and Cartwright, the Public Debt of Canada increased, in four years, by $37,000,000.

5. It cannot be said of this debt, as it was said by Mr. Cartwright of the debt in- creased by the preceding Government :—

‘‘The whole of the debt has been in- curred for legitimate objects of public utility.”

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Great -Liboral-Conservative Dem-

onstration in Pictou.

Tuk following item appeared in the Pat- riot of this morning; and may, therefore, be accepted as true—even by the faithful :-—

“The Pictou County Convention of the Liberal-Conservative party was held yester- day. Their was a very large meeting, every part of the county being fully repre- sented. The Hon. James McDonald and Mr. Robert Doull were nominated for the Dominion Parliament, and Messrs. 8. H. Holmes, H. J. Cameron and Alexander ander McKay for the Local. Dr. Tupper arrived there by train at ten on the 10th, and was escorted around the town by a large torchlight procession and two bands of music. He spoke for about three-quar- ters of an hour from the carriage,”

Hovsruotpers residing in the north- eastern part of this city would do well to be on the alert, as several suspicious looking females have lately, been seen prowling around hen-roosts, the appearance of whom is generally the signal for a ‘‘foul” com- motion. On Monday evening last three of these worthies, having secured a fine speci- men of the Cochin species, were about making off with their prize; but in this they evidently ‘‘reckoned without their host,” as Cochin, annoyed at being snatched from repose in the bosom of his harem, vociferously objected to further proceedings being taken, and the ladies were obliged to drop their “‘little game” and run.

Peru is reported to be better off finan- cially than at any time in the past ten years.

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' 7° Iyer € Very yo England’s Programme,

Tur St. John Telegraph remarks that when this Congress is over and the bound- aries of Turkey are definitely settled, the work which Earl Beaconsfield has set out to do will be only half done. He has so fal

} : ® i sta P EP ess sueceeded in checking the ambition of ius ieved that r task, the reform of the

‘ ® ° Pe on a4 sia: but it is bel he is about to

essay a much greate Turkish Empire, so that the abuses which have been hitherto made the pretext for

Russian invasions will no longer exist. Some hint of this is given in the articles in the London sting a British

Protectorate over Turkey in Asia, and the

Times, sug

Daily Telegraph, taking up the same strain, indulges in magnificent dreams of the future of Asia Minor under a British Protectorate. We quote a portion of this article, which is certainly one of the most suggestive utter- ances which has appeared in the British press for a long time. Yet, seeing what England has already done, who will venture to say that there is anything impossible or even extravagant in the programme which the Telegraph thus marks out for the Mother Country ?

Many a month ago we said that the right way to ameliorate Christians was to amelio- rate Turkey altogether, by helping her to establish reformed institutions and to de- velop her splendid natural gifts, steadfastly protecting her while so engaged. ‘This course, Which finds many an awakened ad- voeate now, is the grand benefit which must emerge from the chaos and misery of the erusade. If we regard only the Asiatic possessions of the Porte, excluding their wilder regions and desert frontiers, what might not be made of those magnificent ter- ritories by means of peace, reformed laws, wise administration and English supervi- sion! Spread open the map of that garden of the earth, Asia Minor ; and every corner

prosperity waiting to be renewed. There, around Brusa, clustered the rich provinces of Bithynia, Phrygia, and Mysia. Smyria is the centre of what was Lydia, Ionia, Caria and Pisidia; Konieh was encircled by Pamphylia, Cilicia, Lycaonia and Cappa- docia ; Trebizond by Pontns and Colchis. Everyone of these ancient names recalls to the scholar’s mind ample revenues, great proconsulates, thronged cities, rich harvests and thriving manufactures ; with refined arts, and all the gifts that fertile soil and glorious climate can bestow on human in- dustry. What, then, prevents Kastamuni and Khudavend, Aidin and Karaman, Bozok and Trabezoun from seeing the pros- perity of the old times revive! The Halys and Sangarus have not ceased to run ; the three seas which washed Anatolia still bathe its shores ; the boundless forests, the rich marble quarries, the inexhaustible mines of copper, lead, silver and iron are still where the ancients scarcely more than opened them ; the vine and the mulberry, the olive and the cotion-plant grow thickly, and would cover the land if it had proper cultivation and communications. There is undeveloped wealth enough in the soil of Asia Minor alone to redeem all the past of the Ottoman Empire, with a bountiful and progressive future, and to he

restore the

plenty, if not the culture and grace, of the fIonian and Roman. days It has been calculated tha! the

plains of Mesopotamia alone could grow twice as much grain as all France. the Euphrates and Syrian coast a third of the land now fallow would make one rich cotton field; wood and coal are abundant on the shores of the Euxine; and harbors xist west and south, to

which the vast trade of Tyre and Sidon bore witnesses. What needs this splendid heritage of the Caliphs, we ask again, to become what it was and what it ought to be once more? It first needs peace from its perpetual foe, Russia: next, reformed internal at laws;

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administration and equal thirdly, roads, railways, and markets; and, above and beyond all these, the protection of English power and the assistance of Eng- lish gifts of Government. Ina quarter of a century the world might witnesss again the old exhaustless fecundity of that fair land, with the strong hand of England helping the docile peasants, Anatolia, Syria and Palestine would win back pros- perity; the roads of the Old World to the East—which are still the nearest and best— would be re-opened and full of life and traffic; Turkey would take her part in universal civilization and commerce, to the profit of all the Mediterranean nations, and the reconcillation of the East and the West; and England, already ruling fifty millions of the people of Islam, would become the protectress of the rest,and find her suflicient reward in the contentment and prosperity which a state of settled political life and just adininistration would bring back to this neglected but opulent dominion of the Sultan.

So. far our contemporaries have over- taken the rear of our oft-repeated argument and constant course, and some of them al- ready see that only half the Hastern Ques- tion will be settled when we have made peace between Turkey and Russia, and placed that peuce under rigid guardianship. [t would be well, however, if they opened their eyes a little wider, and nerved them- selves to discern and to proclaim the yet larger necessities which new times are about to bring to the British Empire. The view of those well-meaning people who have been talking sentiment while Russia struggled for Asiatic supremacy is that Eng- lana has done enough, and should hence- forth confine her political activities to Burial

sills, rural sanitation and the like. They agree with Mr. Bright, who measured the distance to Constantinople, and, finding it much further than Rochdale; declared we had no real interests there. But the world is not about to grow less busy; the Hast is coming closer to us, not receding, and the

Imperial power which does not augment,

of it will be found to have a history of long

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ne strengthen must most

spr sad, broaden, a 5 , : : It is not within

‘ely dwindle and decay. our cl such a ‘at of Britain, to shun its duties and shirk of We must increase or diminish wax or wane, in the vast rule committed to us by Heaven’s will, and the deeds of nobli ;

oiee, holding sovereignty as wi 9 ow >

lories.

bygone Englishmen; we cannot stop fast and stagnate while the world rolls on, and while history offers to us tasks worthy of the in-

mense capacities of our race and the store of unused ener ry in our midst. We might ad- minister Asia Minor, Syria, Mesopotamia, and the Islands, for their ruler and their populations, better by far than the Romans, who made them granaries and treasure- houses. We could keep the peace between races and religions with less friction than any governing agency known in old or in new times; for where we come roads and traflic follow, sails whiten the seas, a 1d cities are built in calm security. With half our Empire lying uider “ie rising and half under the setting sun, it is too late to call Anatolia and the Euphrates Valley ‘‘far away,” or to blind ourselves to the truth that this Russian war must be the last fought against a neglected and undeveloped Turkey. Day by day India and England come nearer each other in relations, inter- ests and events; between them lie those capable regions which are the high road of our wealth and power; and they must not be again endangered: but to secure this, the policy of England henceforward must cease to be peddling and parochial, whoever gov- erns. We covet no territory, we tolerate all faiths, and we wish their natural develop- ment secured to ali races; but in return for faithful and useful development from the Ottoman Empire, we can give it repose, progress, prosperity; and it will be cheaper for us to manage an extra dozen of provinces than to be always saving them from ruin and seizure. In this recent diplomatic in- cident something of the hidden power of Great Britain has been seen; but something of her pohtical resources as a friend and protectoress of the Eastern world remains to be manifested bye and bye. Let those, therefore, who understand, even tardily, the magnitude of the events which aro pass- ing sustain and animate responsible states- men in their purpose to evoke peace for Asia and profit for mankind out of a sanguinary chaos which else would seem utterly fruit- less and deplorable. +>

City Council.

The City Council met last evening. There were present: The Mayor, the Recorder, Councillors Stumbles, Davy, Heartz, Smith, Morrjs, Quirk, Peake and Hooper.

On motion of Councillor Peake, a Bye-law providing for the collection of tax on Real and Personal Property was read a first and second time and ordered to be engrossed and read a third time at the next meeting.

On motion of Councillor Stumbles, a Bye-law to repeal the Bye-law imposing a tax on horses and carriages was read a first and second time, and ordered to be read a third time at next meeting of Council.

Council adjourned to meet this evening a 74 o’ clock.

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Ben Putler Again.

Upon Decoration Day Butler discoursed upon the Alabama claims, and utterly ig- noring the fact that they have been paid over and over again, made use of the fol- lowing apostrphe :—‘‘Hereafter when the sailor boy shall’ say to his father, “Where are the vessels that you once had as the de-

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pendence of your old age?’ the old man shali answer, ‘Boy, your father’s vessel was burned by pirates sent out from British ports by British builders, who were cheered

for so doing by the British Parliament.’ The boy will say, ‘What shall be de- manded for so great a wrong? and the old man shall write the single word ‘Repara- the in-

tion’—and so shall remembrance of

| juries be kept alive in the hearts of the \people.” No one better than Genera! i p>

i ition has been made upon the basis of a (valuation made by the United States them- selves. “> Buajoy Life.

What a truly beautiful world we live in ! Nature gives us grandeur of mountains, giens and oceans, and thousands of means for enjoyment. We can desire no better

when in perfect health ; but how often do the majority of people feel like giving it up disheartened, discouraged and worried out with disease, when there is no occasion for this feeling, as every sufierer can easily ob- tain satisfactory proof that Green’s August Flower will make them as free from disease as when born. Dyspepsia and Liver Com- plaint are the direct cause of seventy-five per cent. of such maladies as Biliousness, Indigestion, Sick Headache, Costiveness, Nervous Prostration, Dizziness of the Head, Palpitation of the Heart, and other distress- ing symptoms. Three doses of August Flower will prove its wonderful eifect Sample bottles, 10 cents. Try-it. ee

Michael Stell, a Bradford cotton spinner, has failed for £84,000.

A violent shock of earthquake was felt at Lisbon on Saturday night.

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The recovery of the Emperor is progress- ing wonderfully. 49th anniversary of his marriage.

Arrests for treasonable utterances among the classes infected with Socialism continue very frequent.

Lancashire cotton spinners are said to be contemplating importing foreign workmen to supply the place of the strikers.

William and Walter Andrews sailed from | Boston on Saturday for Havre in the Neu- ‘iB y f 3

| tilus, a vessel 19 ft. 2in. long and 6 ft. 4 in. | beam.

| The United States Senate, on Saturday |last, passed the resolution paying the $5,- , 500,000 Halifax award, with an amendment authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue bonds to secure the necessary funds.

| Butler knows that more than full repara-,

WAR NOTES.

Bulgarians have been committing fearful atrocities among the Mussulmans.

The Porte has consented to surrender Shumla, but still holds out against giving up Varna to the Russians.

All the British Regiments of the Ist Army Corps have now their transport in full work- ing order.

The Servian Skuptchina has been con- voked to meet at Kragujevatz, on the 6th of July.

Lord Napier, of Magdala, will shortly be promoted to the rank of Field Marshal in the British Army.

The Moscow Oruiser Committee are fitting out at Nicolaelf a large steamer, to be com- manded by the famous Captain Baranoff.

The Russian Ministry of War has con- cluded its arrangements for the defence of finland. Three divisions, each of 26,000 men, are told off for the Grand Duchy, and the principal ironclads of the Baltic fleet will rendezvous at Sveaborg.

of war between England and Russia, are passing their vessels under the Swedish flag. The fishermen of Aland have sent all their spare vessels into Swedish harbors, and it is believed that, immediately war breaks out, most of the Finnish coasting craft wilt be sent to the same place of refuge.

The been ordered to be prepared for sea is now ready, but the Lords of the Admiralty hesi- tate about having the boats launched from the slips at Haslar. They have been given their torpedo equipments and are now fitted for the use of the spar torpedo, which will make them as unpleasant at close quarters as their 80-ton guns at long range. Launch- ing them would entail a considerable ex- pense, but they are none the less ready for service at the shortest notice.

comes as

REVISION OF THE Lists of Hilectors.

Public Notice is hereby given that the next Sittings for the County Court of Queen’s County for Revising the Lists of Electors for this County, shall be held as follows:

Ist. Belle Creek, Lot 62, at or near the Schoolhouse, 18th June.

2nd. Eldon, County Court House, Lot 57, 19th June.

3rd. Green Marsh, at Cross of Douse’s Road and Murray Harbor Road, 20th June.

4th. Pownal, at or near the Hall, Lot 49, 2ist June.

5th. Fort Augustus, Lot 36, at or near Schoolhouse, Monaghan Road, 22nd June.

6th. Clifton County Court House, Lot 21, 25th June,

7th. New Glasgow County Court House, Lot 23, 26th June.

8th. Brackley Point, Lot 33, at or near the Hall, by Chas. Kennedy’s, 28th June.

9th. St. Peter’s Road, County Court House, Lot 35, 29th June.

10th. North Wiltshire, Lot 31, at or near the Schoolhouse, Ist July.

llth. Springton, Lot 66, at or near the Schoolhouse, 2nd July.

12th. Crapand, at or near the Hall, Lot 29, srd July.

13th. Sth July.

14th. Charlottetown, July.

3onshaw County Court House Lot 30,

Court House, Sth

Public Notice is hereby given that the next Sittings of the County Court of Prince County, for Revising the Lists of Electors of this County, shall be held as follows :

Places in Prince County at or near which Courts of Revision shall be held in each year :

Ist. Tignish, at or near Grammar School,

Lot 1, 18th June, 1878.

2nd. Alberten, Lot 4, County Court House,

19it- June, 1878.

3:d, Springfield, Lot 8, at or near Spring-

field Schoolhouse, 21st June, 1878.

4th. Beaton’s, Lot 6, at or near Carleton

Schoolhouse, 25th June, 1878.

Sth. Abram’s Village, Lot 15, County Court

House, 27th June, 1878.

6th. Port Hill, Lot 13, County Court House, 238th June, 1878.

ith. Kensington, Lot 19, Ist July, 1878.

Sth. Malpegue, Lot 18, at or near Mechanics’ [nstitute, 3rd July, 1878.

9th. Centreville, Lot 26, County Court, 5th July, 1878.

10th. Lot 28, at or near Augustine Cove Schoolhouse, 9th July, 1878.

llth. Summerside, Lot 17, County Court House, llth July, 1878.

Public Notice is hereby given that the next sittings of the County Court of King’s County for Revising the Lists of Electors of tis County shall be held as follows:

ist. At or near the Schoolhouse, St. Peter’s Barrens, Lot 39, Tuesday, June 18, 1878. 2nd. Tho Court House, Head St. Peter’s Bay, Wednesday, June 19, 3rd. At or near the Bear River Line Road eT ee Friday, June 21. ; 4th. At or near the Big Bush S Lot 45, Monday, June 24 ee 5th. At or near the Lakeville Lot 47, Tuesday, June 25, ne 6th. The Souris Court House, Lot 45, Wed- nesday, June 26,

He has celebrated the,

7th. The Dundas Court House, Lot 85, Fri- day, June 28.

Sth. At or near the Cardigan Bridge - house, Lot 53, Tuesday, Suly 2. . € ae

Sth. The Baldwin’s Road, at or near the Schoolhouse near Kenny’s, Wednesday, July 3

10th. Montague Bridge, at or near the Hall. Friday, July 5. :

llth. The Murray River Cour 64, Monday, July S. oe

12th. The Court House Tuesday, July 9.

When the Revision of the Lists of E within these Counties shall be rodent yess by the said Courts, all persons claiming modi- fications in any of such lists shall have to be present at the place, at the time and date afore- said, with their witnesses and papers, to have their claims decided according to law.

G. W. DEBLOIS,

Prov. Sec’y & Treasurer.

in Georgetown,

June 13, 1878.

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