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hi ¥ i : . "EUROPEAN NEWS. Latest by Atlantic Cable. | -- GREAT BRITAIN. Loxpox, Sept. 1.--The Timer this morning publishes further partivulars of the n ations between vhe Vice Ad- miral Yelverton and the Carthagena in- surgents, in regard to the removal of the Spanish i lads, Al and Victoria. Upon notice frour the Admiral of his in- tention to take the vessels, the Shautgeths answered thas the forts would open # upon the British squagdron if-the attempt was made. This was on the 28th ult. ENGLISH MAIL. The Prussian, whose mails arrived in thie city early yesterday morning, brings papers to the 21st August inclusive, A telegram from St. Petersburg stated that the Czar would shortly leave; to be | present at certain military inspections in | the South of Russia. He will then pro ! ceed to Livadia, where all the members of | the Imperial family were to receive the | Duke of Edinburgh, next month. The | marriage is to take-place next January. | Holyhead Breakwater was, on Angust 1 10, #eclar d eemplete, the ceremonial woelamation being made by the Prince of | Wales, who with his brother, the Duke of | Edinburgh, had arrived in the Ruyal kyacht Victoria, in the very small hours of | the morning. ONTARIO REFORME "stitutional points ifs opinion is weighty and Eimer @rand Tronk Time Table. OSHAWA STATION.--OSHAWA TIME, "1 QOING wx JOING WEST. 9.45pm. | WHITBY STATION. Trains going East leave Whitby Station te. nates earlier, and those going West fifteen nutes later than the above. The Ontario Beformer | mons an oppurtunity of exprepaing an hence deserving of particular atteation." | The italics are ours ; we put them there because they point a moral. Here is exactly »hat the Times did say on the subject : ¢ Lord Differin is represented as inter- vening like William IV. on the eve of the Reform Bill, if not like Charles I. in the evil days of the grand remonstrance, to stifle free discusmon by an act of prerog tive The objection which way now be taken, and cannot admit of a complete answer, is that, in acting upon Sir John Macdonald's advice, without giving the House of Com- opinion, Lord Dufferin has enabled his Miiister to override the fiee action of Par- lament. The Vindicator and the Government, i X R, OSHAWA, ONT., riuDAY, | conrsuprmLz raLsFYING. |TWENTY-SECOND MNUAL REPORT The Vindicator, with its usual deception, télls its readers that Mr. Mackenzie's " political wission" to Nova Scotia was a failure, &c., &c., which it goes on to prove as follows : " In the first place he refused to accept Hou. Dr. Tupper's challenge to moet hime | and discuss the political situation. | Secondly, he adiressed but one publie | meeting,at which Mr. James Macdonald, the member for the county opposed him, | and altho' it was in the most rabid anti | locality im the province, th» managers were afraid to submit the resolutions con- demmatory of the Government which had As is well known, Mr. Mackenzie did | second Aunttal Meeting of Shareholders, { SEPTEMBER 5B, 1878. OF THE SHAREHOLDERS oF Gorvespondence, The Wos Insurance Company rem aa a us tara pany. We do not hold onrselves as responsible for,of S-- endorsing, the opinions expressed y Our corres The Directors have much pleasure in Ponders, Gut columns te open So all, for the . N u presenting their Report at the Twenty- | Yiarnssivn 91 wil matters of public interest. | -- a---- { STREET IMPROVEMENT. on the business for the year terwinating | 30th June last. There is submitte! herewith the usual | To the Editor of the REFORMER. Annuzl Statement of Assers and Liabilities | with Balance Sheet and Auditors' Report, | ing on 'street improyemetits with a ven- all which the Directors feel assured cand eance. It seems that this mouth 'we fail to be highly acceptible to the Share-fhave been put to the expense of holders. paying forty-one men at the rale of a The following is an abstract of the busi- | dollar a day, for street labor, excluse of ness done, with Statement of the Com-! 8476 far lumber.. Is this not going it pany's affairs closing the year : | rather steep ! LEck1PTs. -- Fire Premiam, $323,930.16 ; | RATEPAYER, Marine Premium, £241,810 62; Interest Sir, -- It seems to, me that we are carry- The ® BEST pP Only Profi Millinery | Millinery 1 For Style in Millinery, ~ Go to Brooks', For Cheap Goods, Go to Brooks® Ladies' Furnishing Store by means of 'thence to V Reru d is expected wmerrow frou Sr. Joser The ram Numaneip was brought to an- ; chor x6 the entrance of Bucobera bay, 1 The gtitity. of Hie ged within range of the Lord Warden, British | work was aptly demoustrated by a ti flagship, and thie two vessels lay with their | Borwester, that blew 34 if on purpose to y | prove how necessary had been the engi- " TRIBUNAL. Divadeties Ro Jutach ther, ub Lord | neering labour of five-and-twenty years. . THE PACKED TRIBUNAL iron-plated screw steamer of 4 080 tons. | Mr. Gladstone had delivered the inau- | The Royal Commission is proceeding not go to Nova Scotia on political busi- Oshawa, Sept. 2nd, 1873. and those who are wont to be enlightened by the local organ, are welcome to that crumb of comfort, and we quite agree with it that it is "deserving of particular at. tention." The oracle goes on to say : Not one paper condemns the appoint. ment of the Commission to make the in- vestigation. Some go farther than the Times, as for example, the Morning Bost which says * 'Indeed, so reasonable does the ap pointment of the Royal Commission seem to be, that it is probable that the House would itself have agreed to an address for it RABBRE SR SRN ET Oshaws Friday, Sept. 5th, 1878. Account, $20,794.72. Total, 8586,535.7 0. | DissunrseMexTs. -- Losses (including an | | appropriation for losses reported at 30th which same business comvelled his almost | June, waiting proof and adjustment), immediste return. Like the coward that | $341,409.13 3 Re-Assurances, $46,208.87 ; e } wavs proven himself. Sprin } General expenses, Agents' commission, e a8 always proven yo $ | and a]l otler cliarges on the business, Bill Tupper went to Nova Scotia, not to 100,166.28. Total, $487 874.38, meet Mr. Mackenzie, but to avoid him, snd Net profits for the year, 898,661.22. he skulked around the eonntry, for over a ProriT AND ross Accouxt.-- Balance | Wolseley has: heen ordered to the com- ck. wntil te ascertained that Mr. * Mae: from last year's Statement.£8,374.15; | mand of the forces agringt the Ashantees, weet wy : a Profits for the year ending 30th June, [is an indication that the war in that . kenzie's business compelled his imme- | 1373 98 551.27; Total $107,035.37 ; | quarter is to be vigourously prosecuted. * Dividends paid, $20,276.66 ; Sundries | General Wolseley's experience and charac- written off, $1,669.68 ; Reserve Fimd--to | ter eminently fit him for cmnmand where | credit of this acco int, $60,000.00 ; Total | shark work and prompt action are re- ' ; | $81,946.34. 4 | quired. readers that previous to this challenge, { Credit balance, 825,089.03. Mr. Mackenzie refused an invitation to | = Assgrs.--Capital Stock called in and | speak at Amherst becanse Dr. Tupper was | unpaid, $16,862.08 ; Cash in Bank, $74,- | 170.47 ; Dominign Stock, under Insurance | sons in Musi were resup 1873. Saree Bn make this fal tage to get th RerorMer off ness, but on the business of the Insurance Company of which he is President, and Smuggling is carried on to sych an | enormons extent in New York that the | Customs authorities have resolved to have detectives in the® Post Office to examine | al} foreign mail matter that may fall under | their suspicion. been prepared. | | | | & BROKEN LOAF, © The Numancia is an iron-clad steamer, | gural address at the opening of the Welsh bund . 3 and carries forty 68 povnders. On the | National Eisteddfod at Mold. In the but sh,wly in its conflict with the House 20th uli. Vice-Adniiral Yelverton re- | course of his remarks he avowed an entire | of Commons. It has appointed a brace of plied that Re would allow forty hours for | change of Spiien with Feope et to the | ronartors, and issued summonses to attend reconsideration, at the expiration of | language and antiquity of Wales. At a] . : ced last which time he would take the vessels. | former time, he aid hs had shared: the | © ¥370U¢ patios. As bau hiont On the 30th Senor Aqueilas communicat- | prejudices which tosome extent prevailed | week, the prosecutor of the impeac ed 'to Vice-Admiral Yelverton the hope of | in England and among Englishmen ; but | in the Commons has refused to transfer the Junta that the affair might be amic- having nad océeasion to acquaint himself | hig case frum the High Court of the Na- ably arranged. No later inteiligence has | with the subject, he had come to the con- | : 1 kod by the mocused been received from from Carthugena, but | clusion that it was a fatal mistake in policy tion, 108 Seba Pag th y ands thus; it is believed that the insurgent Junta in- | and in principle to éndeavor to change the | Ministers. The-case then stands | : tended to propose a compromise, by which | language, customs, - traditions, and affec- | The Commission is not a judiciary tribum 1 they stionld' consent to the.removal of the | tions of a people by physical compulsion | with its duties and powers fixed by any Shas iin the Nigtoria, oa the Sandi or by moral pressure. organic law, to which they may turn for 10D: thal e; at Gi Tr under | i i i . : a guarantee Ho the Britah commander | During the week ending Saterday, Aug. | guidance in such an emergency. It is PRESERVE 80a ARs, The announcement that Sir Garnet "~ FRISF ER ANOTHER | tried their ki: and were ag boys may as Musicat.-- prospect of a that town on next. I diate departure, when he sent the "chal- lenge" the Vindicator borsts of. The lo- cal Pacific Railway organ forgets to tell its PES VERY OXNmap T; Zn - * *. "It is understood that the chief objec- tion is that the Government would have control ov r the decision and reco nd- ations the Commission. Bat such an ob- Brovonan turn match © Bew Advertisements, a p ie e not to be present, although he might hav | Act. 830,000.00; Municipal Debentures, -- AT { 16, there were, according to the Regis- LEER not to surrender them to the Spanish Au- thorities until the differences between the Madrid Governmewt and the Junta of ! trar-General's return, 5,273 births and | | 3,834 deaths in London and twenty other large cities and towna of the United King- | Cart! are settled. There is little | 3 © "myo ie w ; p : . | dom. o y was at the rate of | doubt that insurgents will attack the Bri- | twenty-seven deaths annually in every © tish fleet if Shey attempt tc remove the | sonninBo Spmaish Yeasels withont coming to some | thousand of the population." The annual | simply a machine authorized to procure | information undegghe Executive, and to | ing refused to prosecute the case they have the Executive from which it derives it being, it must look for direction in the present emergency. Me. Huntingdon hav- jection must, to all not excited in or by this political embroglio, appear void of cogency." Let us supply the and complete the Post's opinion. Here is what the Vindicator thinks is not worth of re- producing : * - » been if he had been possessed of that ar- | dent desire to meet Mackenzie which he now professes. At the only political | meeting which Mr. Mackenzie addressed | the valiant Tupper 'was conveniently ab- | in his stead. The "most rabid and anti $130,645.49 ; Bank Btocks, $48 599.00 ; Building Society Stock, $12,720.00. | Loans by Mortgage on Real Estate, $57,- | 330.94 ; Building account and Office Furniture, $100.340.28 ; Interest unpaid and accrued, | sent, bat sent his henchman Macdonald | 84 601.95 ; Agents' Balances, Re-asfui ances | and other Accounts, $22,711.09. Total, | $21,763.15 ; Bills Receivable, | ---- | Servant Girl Wanted. VY ANTED IMMEDIATELY, A SER- vant girl, Apply to MRS. BROCK. Solina street, Oshawa. St. Joseph's Convent two villages 3 place last Sat 3 3 mont on & Ar Durm den will give on Tuesday 1 4 rate of mortality in Edinburg is e¥ghteen agreement on the subject. : j . | per thousand ; in Glasgow it 1s twenty- The hte Goi this svening aye the | sax ; and in Dublin sixteen. ve - determined to submit a § statement of the Budget to Parliament ! early in the next session, on the basis of | 3" ; the abolition ef the income tax, on | Liege. On arriving at the station they which, if the Bouse refuses to sustain | Were met by a unmber of gentlemen con- théin, they will appeal to the country. | nected with the Belgian iron trade, and will be arrang offered. SexciaL P state that N give a prize of small fruit, bited at the but two courses open--the oné to quietly, | abandon the proceedings ; the other to take The members of the Iron and Steel In- l instructions to proceed from the Govern- stitute of Great Britain, had arrived at 'The Government and the Governcr- General have incurred the pdinm of acting with a high-hended authority that was not required. isi ST. JOSEPH'S CONVENT OSHAWA, | STEELE BROS, 3 Lessons in Music, Vocal and Instrumental, | | were resumedon Monday, Sept. 1st, 1873, 1.3 | Sw FORSALE. WO BUGGIES, AND A NUMBER of Wagons, for sale, on easy terms, Apply to : : : | 8539.7 5 localit 1 P ince." the | $539,748.45. od in the iy nee, M ¥i | LiasiuiTes.-- Capital Stock, and ealled a ator, speaks i i; Smes | in, $210,0000.00 ; Losses under adjust- | Macdorall's own of Picton ! | ment, $42 596.57"; Unclaimed Dividends, which returns of Dr. | 2,063.85; Reserve Fund Account--at Tipper!! and yet even in that Tory | cradit, $260,000.00; Profit and Loss | couaty, the revulsion was so great that of which was County two supporters ment, who thus become the prosecutors, | This course they appear to have determined upon, and we thus have presented the most novel phase of a judicial trial ever Speaking of the general expressions of the London papers, the Vindicator says : "The Globe has also a branch in England one of i's duties it is believed to be, to Acconunt--at credit, $25;089.03. Total, £539.749.45. Sm -- FRANCE. | representing the Reception and Oryam- Pangs, Sept. alder has made its | Spc Siang § e troo| uartered at avre, having been phe it is thought by German emmigrants en route for the United States Fashionable loun- | gers arg much alarmed and are leaving as fast as possible. GERMANY. Bruix, Sept. 2. --Yeste Anniversary of the 'German Victory at | Sedan. A monvifient commemorative of | thateveut was unveiled in Koniggsgr Platz, | amidst the enthusiastic acclamation of thousands of citizens. The city was gaily decorated and the day was given over to festivity. was the | Bavoxye, threatening Caspe, in the Province of Saragossa, which is garrisoned by a small 'body of Republican troops. The Cariirts claim that desertions from the Republican ranks are very frequent, and . that most of the desert 3 . KHIVA, Loxpox, Aug. 30, 6.30, a. m.-- Aspecial foom Taschand, Ang. 26th, to the Telegraph, says that an insurrection has broken out in Khira and Khokiind, against the Russians, during the absence of Gen. Kauffman, but it was utterly crushed and 000 insufrectionists were executed. Brussers, Aung. 30 --The Nerd, the Russian organ published in this city, pro- nounces the report of an insurrection in { Khiva and the execution of six haudred onists a hoax. CUBA. Havaxa, Aug. 29.--In enmsequence of the monetary crisis and the scarcity of Specie, the Iutendente has issued a decree wing the free impertativn of gold from the United States and South American countries;. which shall cirenlate at its in- trinsic value. The export duty on gold _ has been increased 5 per cent. on the pre- | sent tariff' -- -- a -- AMERICAN NEWS. i 4 Very Latest by Telegraph a Creviraxp, O., Sept. 1.--Steamer Jay, Cooke, playing between here and Put-in-Bay, ran down a yawl to-day con- taining nine men, four were drowned and one hadi his shoulder broken. Se. Louis, Sept. 2.--A despatch from Oakville, Ill, twenty-five miles from here, on the St. Louis and South Eastern rail- road, says Cholera of the true Asiatic type | is raging there fearfully. Twenty-three persons died in twelve hours. Among | zation Committees. | dent. The King was to en- | heard of in this or any othér country. tertain one hundred of them at dinner. | The Judges nominated by the accused, At two o'clock the "'wine of welcome" was | . brash 0 given by the Mayor at the Hotel de Ville. | acting under the direction of the ucsused The President of the Institute, Mr. lsaae : Lowthian Bell afterwards delivered au |engniry, but compelled to seek the in- Tess, tepretation of their legal powers from the There had been another death among | chief of the accused. the Attorre; General the suiters by the Wigan Saiby accl- Comission ; and yet Mr. Robert Goodman, the com- : : mercial traveller, who after the amputa- | "8%" the accused, Acting as the prosecu- tion of a terrilly mntilated leg, was not | tors of thomeelves 1 Wis ever such an an- expected to survive a single night, suc- | omaly heard of before! | not only in the ordinary process of the | who issued their Parties accused | | enmbed to those injuries which were from | of high public crimes and misdea.ennors | the first declared by the surgeons to mortal. The Board of Trade was con- | tinued. |. Between Mr. Merryman, solictor, and | the Claimant to the Tichborne estate a d s- | which the former is said fo hold. An a plication for an order to restore them was | made at Westminister Police Court, lut | was refused by Mr. Arnold. At | Nottingham County. Hail, a man named Samuel Lowe was committed for cormstacks. He admitted the act, stating as his motive 3 wish to be transported. | As he had twice previously enjoyed this privilege--once for arson and once for | hurse-stealing -- it is evident that his tastes were no less confirmed than peculiar. The thirtieth congress of the British ! Archeological Association was opened at Sheflield on August 18 and would last all tte week. A memorial to the Home Office for the remission of a sentence of six months' ! imprisonment passed upon the trades- { union carpenters, Tamplin and Pyle, for 'assaulting a fellow workman who had ratted during the builder's strike, had elicited from Mr. Lowe a confegsion that he was powerless in the matter. He ad. | ded that he could not rehear a case which had been pronounced upon by a judge and jury. The vestry of St. George's, Hanover | Square, had a resolution ironically thank- | ing the Rishop of London for his letter on | anricular confession, and expressing its painful disappointment st the comparative indifference wich which his lordship | seemed to view the introduction of this | | institution into the Church. | At a meeting of the members and con- gregation of the Surrey Chapel, in the | Blackfriars-road, London, and pastor, the Rev. Newman Hall, who was about to take a tour in the United Stated for six months, gave some iteresting parteculars | relutive to the new e¢hurch now being erected in the Westminister-road, from | which it appeared that the total cost will | be £45,000, which there was already in hand zbout £30,000. : themselves the Judges, Counsel. Pr)- secutors, Jury, the Law! The thing would be too ludicrous for contempt, and | were it not that it involves the gravest . . > oi troops have | pute had arisen ecneerning some letters public question that has ever sprung up entered the town of Cantavizi, and are | ap arbitrary usurpation of Parliamentary privileges by ths Executive, that it is a | bold violation of the libarties of the peo- ple, and conscription of the dearest rights ers take tervice for Don Carlos. | trial on the charge of setting fire to some | of British subjects. A similar high-hand- ed outrage on the part of the King's Min- isters in the'day of Charles I., nobly and | - Verily, Mr. Gibbs hath need to pray | successfully resisted by a people jealous of their liberties, resulted in the following paragraph being inserted in the Consti tution of Great Britain--the great Char- ter of our Rizhts and Freedom : "That the freedom of speech and des bites, or proceedings in Pailiament, onght not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliawent." This declaration, the re- of years of stern suuggle of sufferings, ~ tyranny, und bloodshed-- of a noble battle fought in the nane of the people against corrupt misgovernent-- embalmed by the blood of martyrs, and transmitted a glorious heritage, by them solemn sult to us--what has it becomes ! A mere noth- | ing which"may be overridden and cast aside, to give way to che political exigen- cies of a dishonest ministry reeking in corruption !| The wedge once inserted, who can tell what the end may be. If the people suffer iu silence the guil'y ministry | to rend the vitals of the constitution, what | security have they that ths same traitors to their country's interests will stay their hands until every'sacred heirloom of the set English newspapers right on the Op- position side of our affairs. | there is little to complain of in the pr - sent case, for they hive obtained a fair |. knowledge of the facts and their judgement | has been rendered impartially." |. Again the italics are ours, and we give | below the jidgements which the Vindica- tor admits, are "impartial." The Pall | Mall Gazette, the high Tory organ of Eng- | land says emphatically : "Sir John Macdonald has certainly not improved the aspuet of his ease by de clining to encounter a Parliamentary de- bate on Mr. Huntington's charges, anl by sheltering himself by an extreme caercise of prerogative." | And another leading journal, the Lon- | 4 don Globe also Conservative, completes I : Gs | P- | in this duntry--that it is the result of | the vindication of Sir Johns course, | which is-so satisfactory to the Vindicator, | a8 follows : "Constitutional rights have beeen invaded ) by the high-handed dismissal of the Cum- mons. They, and they alone, had a right | to say how the enquiry against the Gov- | ernment should be prosecuted." ! The Vindicator sums up in the following per- oration : * "It will 'be thus seen that apart from | prorogation upon which they could not | come to a conclusion on the imperfect | evidence before them, the conduct of the | Government is SUSTAINED BY THE | LEADING JOURNALS uf Englard en | every censtitutional at point." It is hardly necessary in the face of the | Heaven save him frown his {riends § | | facts given above, to say anyt'ing of this | extraordinary conclusion of a still more { extraordinary argnment. Nothing eould | Government, but mandlin wilful and designed misrepresentation and perversion of the facts. ignorance, or THE SITUATION., "The Opposition asked the Governor. | General to turn the Ministry cut of office before proving them guilty of the offence laid at their door, but when he appoints | his deputies to receive the evidence of that | guilt, they cooly inform it is none of his | basiness. -- Vindicator. The local organ says the Opposition have suggested such a defence of the | nation shall have disappeared 1 Let the | asked Lord Dufferin to turn the ministry people reflect upon the struggle that it | out of office. What did they do? They | cost this young country, even within the | s5ked the Governor-General not to pro- | recollection of most of us, to attain the'| pope parliament wutil it had an oppor- privileges of responsible Government aud | ey of completing the investigation Parliamentary supremacy, and let the | ypich it had undertaken. Fourteen Gov- l knowledge that uiiprincipled ministers are | gry yment supporters joined them on this re- CANADIAN. at this moment striving with might and them were, the principal bridge buslder of the South Eastern and three of his children. Five died in one famil three hours: -- The patients die within fif- teen minutes after the attack and turn black immediately. Medical aid will be sent fica the surrounding towns. The of | man named H. Panel was y m | ghot while partridge-h i { man named Plested. Barrie, Sept. 3.--This afternoon &'| main to preserve themselves in authority accidentially | by the utter subversion of all those dearly- The contents of the bought privileges, rouse a up deep-swell- resistless indig- gm edged between the hip and the knee, | ing wave of the peoples | and being scattered, may cause trouble. | Dr. Crookshanks was in attendance, and | extracted a good many of the shots. Iw- mediate danger is not apprehended, but the case may be serious.' . citizens are rapidly leaving the place. The Tory papers are sedulously engag- | ed in the hopeless task of showing that | Cuirrox, Sept. 1.--Last Saturday night Mr. Haurtington's refusal to appear before | about ten o'cluck, » man named John Cor- the Commission was prompted 'by an | ry, employed at Mr. W. EB. Tench's saw aversion on the part of himself ang friends | mill, Drummondville, was stopped by two to give their evidence under oath. These | negroes while ou his way to Chftem, along eenveniently forget that it is not iy | the C.8.R.R. track, between Clifton and testimony of himself or friends that | Clifton House station. They asked where "Miz. Huntington proposes to justify his | he was going, he replied to Clifton. One of the nc7roes then tired a pistol at Corry, nation that shall sweep away the vultures | from the heart of the country, and "Put a whip in every honest hand To lash the rascals naked through the land." A DISHONEST CRITIC. For an elaburate editorial, scintillating t with wit and bristling with logieal points, i and like unto a sumething sought after by { all, iu that it "passeth all understand- | | quest. The statement ofthe Vindicator isan | admission that the Government are guilty and dare not face a parliament in which they claim a majority of thirty. THEE ENGLISE PRESS ON THE PA- CIFIC RAILWAY SCANDAL. We re-print in another place, the opin- ions of the London P.e s, on the recent outrage in the Hunse of Commons, given fully and fairly, and not garbled as in the Vindicator. 1t will be seen thet all Con- servative as well as R.form, umite in the | very sentiments expressed by the 100 pro- testing members at the celebrated Indig- | the immense throng present refused to | | hear Mr. Macdonald speak at all, until However, | | requested by Mr. Mackenzie to allow him | to speak as long as he wished ! The * con- the | Vindicator speaks never had any existence | { demnatory resolutions" of which at all, except in t he eccentric brain of the | | veracious editors of that sheet. | nothing but a diseased mind could induce Surely | any one holding the responsible position | of a.public journalist, to insult the intelli- | gence of his readers by such impudent and | unvarnished falsehood as that by which the Vindic itor secks to create prejudice against Me. Mackenzie. it In that, how- | ever, is but like moet of its fellow organs. Sir Hugh Allan's tutorage seens to have had that effect on them, that they | are about as well clad in honesty as that | | celebrated regiment of whom Falstaff says : 1 pany." es -- "OR NO, WE NEVER MENTION IT." A few months ago the Ministerial prints teewed with quotations from the pen of | Professor Goldwin Suwith. an eminent Eng. | lish coustitutional authority, and of marked | liberal principles, but who having adopted a political Imbby of "no-pany Govern- | ment" was at times severe on the Opposi- | tion, because they were a "party." "These | journals never maation Goldwin_ Smith's } | nate now, having been shocked by the profligate ty- ranny and corruption of Sir John and his hs Here is what crew, that he has dév. ted able peu | to the cause of the People. | Ministerial journal reprint it? "When a Muaister, and the Minister of Public Justice, resists a reform of the electiok law, and keeps the law in wn in- effective state, in order that with money obtained from a competitor for a pubhe cufitract he way debauch great masses of le people, we are constrained to ask whether he can be decently entrusted with the infliction of penalties for any violation of the law !" "Ihe question now is, whether a Minister shall be permitted to trample under foot the fundamental laws of the British empire, for the purpose of taking out of the hands of Parliament an enquiry to a tribunal appointed by hiwm- self. This is the issue between the Gov- ernment and the nation. his own judge 1s a rale not of any pariica- lar consutution bat of common justice. le has been palpably violated on the present occasion. We need not impugn the mo- tives of the gentlemen who hae consented to serv# on the Commission ; we need not even critize the appointments individually. accused Minister, and incapable of doing justice between him and the nation, THE REGISTRATION LAW, riages since J saunar) ls, 1873, which were as follows : | business of the Company by cqmparing | O shawa, Sept. 2, 1873. | * * There's but a shirt anda half in all my com- that gentleman's moral sense | Goldwin Sith says now! Will not some | The Directors, in closing their Report, | A preliminary meetin That the accus- | ed shall not be permitted to appoint his | It is well to review occasionally the | i . EWING, mf. | one year with another, and thereby mark | -- its progress. Confining the comparison to | the last four years, the following shows | the Premioms received for Fire and In- | land Marine : BRITISH AMERICAN ROTEL. Whitby, Ontario. and furnished throughout, and put in first-class | order for the receptiyn of guests. An omnibus sample rooms. 20-1y. AY'S, LATE ROBSON .HOUSE, House newly renovated | 10 and from all trains east and west. First-class THE FAVOURITE EL 3 and 18h inst New Pouis something ne polish, which goods without Wellington piano polish, GLASS PRESERVE JARS, «ve SRT877.34 | . 523,062.14 | The foregoing figures show very con- | clusively the steady and onward progress | | of the Company's Husiness ; the Fire Pre- | minum of 1873 being nearly double, and | the Inland Marine not far short of three times that of 1870. In Ocean Marine the Premium Receipts 265,359.20... .. 323,930.16. ......... ROBBIE BURNS : S. POWELL | the celelirated Clydesdale Stallion, will | following prizes at the Coun'y Fall = | Colts of the above Horse, viz :-- | Second Prize, $6; I'hird Prize, $4. Brooklin, Aug. 27, 1873. ive w 20-1w. JA Of THE GLOBE ¢J Hotel, Brooklin, the owner of Robbie Burns for irst Prize $10; Tas T usual Sand meeting was and was abl Manning There was a Larke in the --FOR SALE in 1870 were £08.550.86 aud in 1873 re- duced to $42,651.64, arising from the | business in this Branch being restricted | now to moderate lines 'ou the lower St. HOUSES TO RENT. Lawrence, with cargues occosionally by | steamer for Britain. The Interest Account in 1870 was $11,- | 235.91, which was gradually increased since to $20,794.72 in 1873. | During the period under review there | has beer paid out of the profits dividends { to the Sharehiollers as follows :--10 per | cent. in 1870----12 per cent. in 1871 ---- 1d per cent. in 1872, with bonus of 40 per on paid up Capital, credited to | Stock--=--and id per cent. in 1873, with | the som of $60,000 carried to Reserve | Funds. In presenting these Btatistics of the 1 working of the business during the past four years, the Directors have good reason to eengratulate the Sharcholders 'on' the | fresh and salt, rish, Fowl, &e., ulwiys on ba 1) . or | In season. Company's present position, and its pro- | spects for the future. I'o weet the wishes of the Shareholders { generally the Directors withdrew the issue | of fresh Capital Stock. referred to in last | | ous house, four rovms each. Apply to AMES HORN, Whitby, JOHN BOYD, Insurance:Agent, Oshawa. [a 'R_.HOPPER BUTCHER. KING STREET OSHAWA. or to 9 | cent. | { USTOMERS CAN BE SUPPLIED / at his Shop, opposite Hawthorne's Store, or at their own Residences, with the best of Meat RICHARD HOPPER, oshawa, Skpt. #th, 1873 sm gr-- ------ T.-M C. A MASS MEETING OF ALL IN- terested in the welfare of young men will be held in the Oshawa, year's Report, having arranged for the prosecution of the United States business by making the deposit required of fureign | A Companies in the State of Hlinois. This | & | business has been limited to three or four Agencies at western Ports, and confined | to moderate lines on any one risk ; the result so far has been satisfactory. | Fince closing the Accounts, there has | been to the Company's Securities the sum | { of 925,225.50 invested in Bank Stocks, | the Convention of the Y¥. M. C. A., lately as | Municipal Bonds, and Mortgages on Real | sembled at Guelph, and will be addressed by | Estate. | Richard C. Morse, of New York, and other pro- y/ minent gentlemen from Toronto and elsewhere. vill be held in the after- same place. All are edt 2indl Music Hall, On FRIDAY, 12th instant, | at 7} o'clock in the evening. ADDRESSES AND MUSIC! noon at { o'clock at tl earnestly invited. refer with much pleasure to the general | efficiency of the several Officers and Agents in the discharge of their respective duties. All which is respectfully submitted. J. McMvrricH President. B. Haupax, Managing Director. WESTERN AssURaNcE CoMPaNY's Roums. Toronto, 27th August, 1873. AUDITORS' REPORT. ToroNTO, August 16th, 1873. To the Present and Directors of the Wes- Auction Sale. Insolvent Act of 1869. [ Bd PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER i from His Hon.Judge Burnfian,I am authorized 0 Se. PUBLIC AUCTION at my Store King St., Oshawa, on SATURDAY, 13th 1873, tern Assurance Company :-- t 0 RENT, ON THE CORNER OF Mary and Agnes streets, a new commeodi- Also, two rough cast houses on Albert strect, This meeting is called under the authority of | GENTLEMEN, at 2 o'clock, the Books and _acceunts of Wm. A FEW DOZENS ReaLny.--4 (not Riel) had He got too m ing about the by the ever reeled off to relieved bim 4 antly.relingui ProMENAD Concert given, day evening, dering the ple from their given cheer: have a reason yy STEELE BRES. : ; FINE PLUMS. , ing west of O cident on Han was thrown waggon, and passed over wounds, fro doubtful Mr. Mosis, Smith, uncil to Mr. W.itby, fo m STEELE BROS. i Y.M.C.A z of the Young : of Ontario an h AiR hold a Series o branches of t} OSHAWA. wp acs 3 inst., of whi Mr. R.C. M Secretary of donald and ( "Thes. Muir, and D. A.Sinc| and I. 8. Batd Part Hape,. A "Vm ARIVING DAILY ----AT-- September 2nd 1873. It is enough that the court as a whole is manifestly packed in the interest of the | Shaw, an Insolvent and the Books and accounts of the late Firm of Tripp & Shaw. The Books and accountscan be scen at any time by appli- cation to the undersigned 7. G. HAWTHORN, Assignee, 213w We beg respectfully to report thet we have this day completed the esamina- tion of the Company's affairs for the fiscal year ending 30th June, 1873.- All your books pertaining to Account, OSHAWA Through the courtesy of Mr. English, | the Registrar, we are enabled to obtain the | following statement, showing the pamber of registrations of births deaths and mar- | the relative Vouchers, your Bank, Book, and all the Securities, (together with ad- ditional Scurities, amounting to §25,225.- 50, purchased subsequently to the 30th June last,)have passed through' our hands and been duly audited ; and, having been most carefully kept, we have much satis- faction in reporting them, with Balance Sheet of Assets and Liabilities and Profit and Loss Statements herewith, as strictly correct and corresponding with the various entries in the Books. We have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Sewing Machine Factory. HE "MODEL" SEWING MACHINE will be found the most perfect machine ever introduced to the Canadian public. Some of its points of excellence are, AF Silent Motion, . 4" Perfect Elasticity of Stitch, &4 Simplicity of Construction, £4 A sell usting needle, #4 Light running and repid in operation, &# No under gearing to perplex the operator, no screw driver required to ee its parts, and no Helping the Machine to run over a seam. - ## It will sew the finest cambri¢ without fray On Monday | . excursion fro peas the ¥ i met by . and escerted u Ws paid to them. GROCERIES: [| riwim 12 by the worst drunken lilo Streets making and endeavori arow. On boat they ente 'one or two' of not leave fruit CHEAP - DEPOT SR : Marriages ............. 22. hg, but by that of Tories, guod and! h This cvaseless pother about Grit testimony" will be shown by an examina- tion of the list of witnesses submitted by | Mr. Huntington to be wtter nonsense. | . There is not a "Grit" among thew all : | Bir Francis Hincks, Geo. W. McMullen, | . Hoa. DL Macpherson, Hon. M. Hh | Cochrane, Hon. A. B. Foster, Hon. J. C. | R.V.CHUBB LL = BN we trust we } ] like again. V (SUCCESSOR TO G. HENRY) _ occasion, op in ' ; EL [| = 'Toronto peop dongs the dou { ing," eommend us fo the: political editor [ of the Vindicator. This writer seems in- | deed a sort of Journalistic Tapley, bound | to be jolly under the most depressing cir- cumstances, and éxulting im the liveliest | cheerfulness, the mere nonsensical tie doctrine which he is paid to preach, Your obedient servants, Jorn MavcHAN, Rosert R. Catunoxw, nation Meeting in the Railway Committee Room at Qttawa, nor do we find that a single one of thom has scented anything like an"insult to the Governor-General ind thé proceedings evoked by the high-hand- 4 ed proceedings of his Ministry. These | mush be evident to any one that the sentiments speak for themselves, and we j former, . must far exceed the latter, ing it and the heaviest material without strain- ing the machine. ersteceivéd will be filled ir two or three weeks without fail. GEORGE YOUNG, : 'acturer. Oshawa, Sept. 1, 1873. anni OTHER NEW LOT OF LADIES the ball striking him in the forehead, it then glanced 0, but so stunned him tha' he fell insensiliie after walking about 200 yards. The two negroes then came up and robbed him of twenty-tour dollars and' a watch, sud left him ,, tig where he feel: Curry has no idea who they were, and ne clue has been obtamed so far as to | Auditors There is an evident discrepancy here between the actual number, and the num- ber showa by ths ragisirac's hook, as it Orrawa, Sept 3. The arrangaments for the proceedings of the Commission to-morrow retoken an ntention on the part of the Commission- 1S STILL SELLING a BIE i ~~ win , Norman W. Bethune, And Louis Beaubien, Vict,r Bean - Q. Beaub en, Hon. E. L. Belle. 'Hon. J. T. Beaudry, R. 8. Mur- pm - A. Le Blane, Jackson Rae, J R. 4 Ral, James "Hauei, NM s Sirdohn A. Macdonald, Hon, H. L. Langevin, Dansel McMullen, Char. ' - Coursol, J. B. Beadry, F. W. Cum. berlsnd, E. R. Burpee, ' Saudford 'Fle... ing, H. Nathaa, junr., D. A Smith, D. Hon. A. Campbell and Hon, P, ill bo remembered that | Huntington subinitted these | Was anxious to proceed with Eeaminetion , the Premier pleaded for delays 1 Sir Hugh Allan' return hoatswain was rescued 'rom ground. that their rte, that is, one- from on the rn liad oh the peefiy y all he we all know: to- "it would lean, he witueses being yy | corpses of their indentity. | as to be arcand. | Havurax, N. 8, Sept, 3. | 'About B50 bodies, i Awerican fishermen, been washen ashore on the north side of Prince Edward Island. Thirty-three more were picked up between the North Cape and Cascnmpec. | The schooner C. W. Lyle, of Lunen- | burg, N. 8. loaded with codfish, is a total vreck at Goose River. The barque Helen, corn laden, from Montreal, is a total wreck on flagg Island, rorth side, ' the ssrf] by Captain McDonald of the Dominion. I A quatity of wrecked materials, | boat and two bodies, floated ashore at Campoellton, lot four, Prince Bdward nd. Some of the materials had the | name of the schooner, James G. Tarr, Gloucester, Mass., written upon them, and on the buat the name "Tarr" was painted. The ain and crew of the abandoned brig, Point, were res cued by the Amerian fishing schooner Gertie Lewis, of Booth Lay, Me. on the 200, Ale crew sre loud i theis praises of the bravery of Captain wis, and the meu. of the Gestic Lewis, in standing Wy the disabled' vessel for 36 hours, Captain Howard, of the brig Oak Point, staves that an "American captain, whom he sew at Canso, reported having pessed at sea after the gale » foreign aque painted white, an firesnd burned to the w wegian --probabl Nor i 2 Roetazer, which on New York. oo Corry has recovered 0 | : ! my eall npon him to defend. Like all others | too confiding people, however, his admir- stppused to be | ab. ; i have | Sir Jon Medonald, and in the immmacu- Seven of the crew perished ; the captain, | last issue, or the blacker the sins which his masters faith in the lamblike innocence of late purity of all his actions, sometimes léads him to accept as gospel truths things that never existea but iu his own imagina- tion. Under some iisapprehension of this kind, (surely not by avsigned misre- presentation? he applies a colu.1n of Job's | eomfort to his mustews at Ottawa, in Lis whervie be endeavors to herald forth to all and sundry of the | #* faithful" who may be credulous enough | to accept is, declaration as, the evidence | | of things Bot seen, that the English press, has takdn the field in behalf of the chosen to whom no doubt Lord Dufferin referred in his speech-aé Halifax --8ir John Mac- donald, the ldBkef the Tories. His faith press, under"$*ese circum- nded. Hear him! country, hited States, if is nwt in the worst possi- ble pliase of our affairs. ~ First cf these stands the of Times. The Times is notoriously ignorant of our affairs and hence on matters of fact cannot be de- pended and often, unwittingly it is true, wl ts as. In the present instance 6 has ¥idently taken: pains to go¥at the When, however, it touches ow con- of Sir Hugh- Allan --the Mumbo Jumbo," commend them to the attention of our Conservative readers, to whow perhaps the light may c>me, after many days. Can anybody tell the public anything about that packet of letters impounded with Mr. Starnes of Montreal! There is anxiety concerning it, and it should be relieved. Thoy were taken in charge by the Investigation Committee--to be held until the meeting of Parliament. Parlia- ment met ; but was not permitted to make | un order in reference to the papers--hence ab is 'eared Sir Hugh Las claimed themy as | his jersomal property. If the Govem- ment bas permitted this to be done it will | be held responsible for the act and much indignation will bo felt. -- Tie East Whitby Towaship Council met at Columbns yes'erday, and as the clerk has not furwarded the report we are unable to give it to our readers this week. Generally the repor" is received two or three weeks behind time, thus preventing the people, who are not able to attend the mettings, to have any early knowledge of what their Councillors are deing. * As weportsere inserted 8 little more attent'on from the Coun Wedo not kuow whether it isa past Clerk's duty to forward these , but we Sprohond that itis. - we hope fur greater pun future. 2 is, we lool especially in the mortality rofl. As the vital statist'cs of the country can only be Lproperly compiled by means of accurate returns from the Towns and Town- ships, an effort should be made to have these returns as full as pos. sible. There is @ compulsory clause in the law regarding such registration, bat it way in which it can be properly carried out is for the people to assist the registrar by making prompt returns in all cases where it becomes their duty to do su. Mauy, no doubt are ignorant of the law, and we hope by calling public attention to work the unportance of which is not Fon erally suderstood or appreciated. mence on the 6th of October. Asturias, will shortly proclaim his sacces- sion to thé Spanish throne: : The United States Treasury during the curtent month will sell $6,000,000 of gold and bay $1,500,000 of bonds. It is reported that France will to Germany the last instalment of war jipdemnity om the 13th of October nex. Bock: Foul SHOW.-The fall Show of the BrockTownship Agricultural Society will be is practieally inoperative, and the only | | other : J ol | Secretary of the Commission. it to remove this plea, and thus assist in a | desk and chair on the | are placed for the accommodation of the | The trial of Marshal Bazaine is to coo- | It is announced that -Alfonew, Prince of | crs to proce:d to business, although there is little reason to suppose that the public interests are at all likely to be advanced by these elaborate preparations for the game of, - *" How not to do it." Judge Gowan arrived from tie east by the morn- ing train, and Judges Day and Polette came in the afternvon;. The headgnartars of the tric are at thé Rasell House. The Railway Committee-room in' the { Parliament buildings has been fitted wp | to vepresent as nearly as possible a const | of law A long table is stretched across | the head of the room, in the centre | of which are desks for the three Com- missioners, whilst at one end wilh sit the two official reporters, and at the end Mr. Salter Vankoughnet, A small right, and =o cf the Commissioners, SPANISH BACK COMBS, LADIES BELTS. Sofa Pillow Tassells in GREAT VARIETY, AT IN PRESS. To be published in November, 1873 OVELL'S GAZETTEER OF BRI- tish America, containing the latest and most authentic descriptions over six, thou- sand Cities, Towns and Villages in the Provin- | ces of Qutario, Quebec Nova Scotia, New | Brunswick, New 'oundiand, Prince ward | Island, Manitob», British- Columbia, and the North West Territories ; and general informae- tion, drawn from official sources, as to the | names, locality, extent, &c., of over fiteen hun- ad Eakes and Rivers, with a I'sble of Routes showing the proxmity-of Railroad Statious, and Sea, Lake and River Por's,(0 the Cities, Towns, Vil dc..in the several Provinces. Price ir Cloth, $2.50 ; Price fa rull Calf, $8.75. Agents wanted 10 can' for the wer "SOHN LOYKLL Publi . Montreal, 9th Aug.. 1873. | NOTICE] little in front witness under examination. Immedia- | t:ly facing the Commissioners is a row of desks for the nie of members of the press. To the rear of these ame benches for the accommodation: of the publie Adjoining the Cowmpittee room is a smaller apartment, to, be used should the Comuissioners desire to retire for consultation. The first meeting of the Commission will be held to-morrow at noon. Sub- nent sittings will be commenced dairy at Wa. m, and be continued till 3p. m. for luacheon. Sir Francie Hincks arrived from Mont- rooon. It is understood he tell what he knows about immediately after the expiration of Twenty days from the first publication hereof, Abplica- tion will be made by SAMUEL DEARBORN, of the Township of Fast Whitby, ia the County of Ontario, yeoman, to the Jud«é of the Surro- gate Court of the County Shon R. WELLINGTON'S. NoTce 1S HEREBY GIVEN THAT homas woo $ . Ey of deccawrd. | Henry's Old Stand, oppusite: well behaved MB CHUI The anuive Groceries, dist Episcopal past off very pl Crockery, is ( "Practical earne v Jivered by Rev ket, titorning ad J. Kenner in t Monday eveni good things, an excel' at or pl Phes oe of the ; ta.enh.ne the After tea t given in the Ch fon, Pastor, to exercises concls #ure in seeing s| Yearly gathering God had favore Perity and paacq in church men they hadMone b Year. - Pithy were then deli ] Simpson, Denik| ; Curts, inferpri Br: hie of the 0 uve the Queen" Glassware, & x &e.; &e. AT A SAGRIFIGE! ee ( CHEAP TEAS A SPECIALTY. 4 REMEMBER the' bo $ i Hotel, Simcoe S