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Till Postmaster-General‘ has decided M gllow book packets, up to the usual ilimit of weight, four pounds, -to be for _Vtrded to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Book okets addressed to othm places In nnlioba, or the Northwest, on Blitish "Columbia: will continue to bo subject M the pl'elenhlimit. of weight, 2 lbs 3 'W‘l‘ Tfll‘Qntario Government have sub- "mitted plans for the new Parliament buildings, to be erected in the Queen' 8 Park, Toronto. The estimated cosmiu .IOO, 000, and it is expected that the hawk will be completed in three years. vvvvvvwwwn TORONTO has suffered an innovation. ;A“un§ational company of low comediofin ithat' played in one of the theatres during the week, announced a “ sacred concert." {0; Stupday evening. It was held, and the house crowded so his said. Two The ' Adwoata. A. alumnus breach of promise can in to come up for adjudication at. Ibo next Guelph assizes. The parties yore introduced to each other, engaged, ‘the engagemenuing given, the wedding- mimetic punchased and mude, the wed- ding ring bought, the parson engaged, the license procuned, the meats baked. inpmbers of the Local Imgislatm'el'wetje agonipiouous among the croWded niiiii'r' anon. . The sort of-sncredness about. the 'Qonoort can be understood frpm the ibompany,,and whaeit ,will result in can be judged from the experience of United' Bum cities. Toronm is unclean enough _now without the further addition of Mill Sabbath breaking domorulization. " Tn: Dublin, Mansion House Relief Coihh'iittoo ‘onnounce that the fund amounts to. £82,422, and that grants hive [you made to date amounting to £42,814, including sixtyâ€"two grants finds on Thursday'of .61.? 10. Then-'0 Bun-show mooived from Brigham, (Katalin, £2,000; imm Dunedin, Newfiealnnd, £470; from? the New . IZADI'IBL'S almanac, the prophetic ut- Lethe.» ‘Under the heading of Febru» if}; it ieys 24â€"“ The third week of this mcfitli firings Mare over the ancendam (eii'i pieces of tho'lluminariea) of a greei personage; endover the place of fine qu'et the birth of e certain princess ; air-a "Illould‘ therefore he examined in lteveiiing; ‘*‘ " “ or suffering may malt." The hitthdey of the Pi-iuceas com" on‘ the 18“: of March, which is non enough to make the coincidence a Iti‘ikingone. ‘Zadkiel Mll find more beiievore'ehain ever on the score of this lucky guess. Tun: seems no longer any reason to doubt that Gon. Chant will be the Re- Imblionn nominee for the Plelidency em: your. State after State in the North declare: for him, the latest b... in; Nay York and Connecticut. In ting Wou’tLthéro can be little doubt thut be ,yill, c913,." boforé himâ€"oven the PM haby,’ Shormgn, Blaine, Conln ln 'nnd the, other qpimntu mty an $01 witbdny their pretensions nt fines. It is mayo than likely that u ' ‘gy mpocublg phat-o of the Southern _, nitotowill fpll to, his share, ' that“. “NT-lightest modality for reâ€" ' "tinixtho Loni-inns and Florian min in 1876. “ Let us havo _ ace" _ nomad, prqvidod alwayg that gyms i It hudqqgrtgru. ._ mm. of which will find acceptance with 3 great many people' In England, I” 'mndo a very palpable hit. m cannec~ .1032 with the accident m the Princess no license procur,ed tlie meats baked, no company invited, the day set, theI ngagement. brokc n and the Writ issued, ll inside of ten days. In! D is far {mm being the only Gantry which in nu prounc Iufl'oring m a widespread untionnl «may, at, oflng to our intimate connection ‘mh' her poop]... the famine under [Nah they .nro 'po‘rishing has altogetbgr ham-ed from View the“ greater ovill‘ [more ro‘inom lands. Tho range- of thnrls are stated to have carried 06‘ ’ ,000 paoplu in two Ruuian Prdninc‘ ialnoo Novomlmr last, whole villus. “up almml A-nAâ€"..I..A-~.I D._ L: - II, 70%.,Zea'lnnd,’ £470; from? the Ned ’ork,.00mmittee, £200 ; and from [“13“, India, £1,000. in; almost dopdpuldted. Fawn}; Mug terrible headway in Portia, WOOD VILLB, MA R01! 4," I880. gum: and gym. “ Pro Bono I’ublico." bu In discussing the late attempts of the Globe at photo engraving the Orillia Packet says: “ As- His Excellency the Governor-General is using most praise~ worthy exertions to promote the fine _srts in Canada, he will be deeply in. terested in seeing the samples of them, which have recently appeared in the Globe, labelled as nortiaits of this or that person connected with the Dona -nelly tragedy. These' 1nspiring exam» ples of what the engraver’s srt can eta tain to in the hands of the right kind of artists cannot fail to impress His Excellency with the enounously wide field of usefulness which there is for 1 him' in Canada. in the line which he has chosen to work. As a people, we com- menced life with the axe, and there is probably no people in the world who can handle that useful instrument with greater dexterity than the people whom His Excellency now governs. Almost .everyGanadian boy,whether his parents are rich or poor, learns to swing the new with a lightness and artistic finish .‘ofiit‘roke which makes it but a feathers weight in his hand. Axe worlr, in fact, may be said to be part of the gen. in? of our people. His Excellency will euily see broad traces of that genius in the int specimens in question.” there being 30,000 starving families nest Oroomiale with little chance of any outside alleviation of their distress. The Silesian famine, the distress in Hungary from the same cause, and the destructive floods in Tripoli, also combine to make this season mem- orable as one of extreme suffering and destitution in widely separated lauds. Discussmo England's course on the Irish famine, the Telegram argues as follows :-Englsnd does not spend .a penny in getting these unfortunate peo- ple‘to leave Ireland so that the redun- dant population may be relieved. The upshot of all this is thet England, who receives the benefit of the great bulk of the Irish rents spent out of Ireland by the absentee landlords, besides refusing to make such reforms'in the land laws as would prevent the recurrence of these periodical Irish crep failures, actually allows her Irish taxpayers to be when .ed in the hour of their direst distress by the .hand of the stranger, and is not evengenerous enough to pay the ocean passage of thousands who can never get more than a bare subsistence on Irish soil while the present system of land tenure prevails. if any other country than England treated her own people so gingerly we should probably hear of it soon enough. The chief duty ofeyery government is to secure the comfort and prosperity of the people who maintain it. Clearly, in the case of the Irish people, the British Government, while squandering millions of pounds sterling in the alleged conversion of - heathen Zulus and Afghans by means of gun- ' powder, has failed in its chief duty. Mn. CRAWFORD, of Russell county, has received a letter from Mr. James Johnston, one of the practical farmers who was sent out 'to instruct the Indi- ans. Ho writeofrom Fort Pelly, and any: he has n very high opinion of the country. “ _It’s_soil,” he naysi‘icannot be surpassed. The people of Ontario imagine that the country is a vast level plain, but there isrolling prairie, and the hills rise to an altitude of sev- eral hundred feet, the tops of which are rich as’ your valleys, producing wild vetches in great abundance. I have seen them growing from {our to six feet high, just as succulent and nutrin tive as your cultivated vetches. It would do you good to see the cattle wallow in them, as sleek and as fat as they can comfortably be. The climate is somewhat ditl'erent from that of On- tario. The summer months are beauti- ful, and not in general so warm." ' -â€"â€"-'-qâ€"-.efleoâ€",--â€"â€"- 'l'nl correepondent of' the London New at Alexandria points out the ex- treme injuetice lo the people of Egypt involved in the recent settlement of the financee, arranged under preaeure of the external force of Great Britain and France. While £4.350,000 is allowed for the bondliolilem' loans, only half of which reached Egypt, only £3,300,000 is allowed fer the expenditure of the country itself. The army and navy have been out clown to £430,000 a year, though Egypt is threatened from Ahyulnia, £460,000 only’ is allowed to ublio works, such an canals, on the .me ntenenoe of which public prosperity depende ; only £60,000 is assigned for eduoellnn, of which £20,000 is spent in “expenses," that is. management; and while £140,000 is spent on inter- national tribunale, the main ohject of‘ which ie to protection-Mn ereditore,‘ only £00,000 in dented to "localized 1 Tun completion of the St. Gothard .tunnel, the greatest engineering work of the kind in the world, is daily antiei.. pated audit is expected that in afew months trains will run from Basle, Switzerland, to Milan and Rome. The work was undertaken in order to accrue to Switzerland and Germany a through line to Italy and the Mediterranean, in the face of the great natural obstacles formed by the Alpine chain. The first conference on the St. Gothnrd Railway was held at Borne in September. 1869, Italy, Switzerland and Germany being represented. An elaborate scheme was adopted. which it was found necessary to modify considerably in 1877. As new contemplated the read begins at Immensee, running along the Eastern shore ol the Lake-oi Luoerne and the River Reuse and entering the tunnel at Goschenen. Its course on the other side is down the Valley of the Tioino, terminating at Pine, on file Eastern shore of the Lego Maggiore, where it unites with the Italian railway system. The trunk read is 147.6 kilometres in length and its subsidiary lines are 39 kilometres long, making a total of near- ly 116 miles. The cost is estimated at 227,000,000 francs, or ab‘out‘845,000,~ 000. The tunnel, upon which 3,000 men have been steadily employed since 1872, is 14,900 metres, or 9} miles in length. The famous Mont Oenis Tun. nel is 12,849 metres long and the Hoes sue Tunnel 7,630 metres, or a little more than half the'length of the St. Gothard. justloo between native snd native" in the whole of Egypt, e sum preposter~ onsly inadequate. All this while, £700,000 is set aside as tribute to the Sultan, who neither governs, nor sd- ministers, nor owns the country ; and £150,000 for the food and protection of the pilgrims to Mecca, who are in very small proportion Egyptians. It seems impossible that so‘infunious a system of plunder should last ; hut Egypt is very small and its populatiou vm'y wank, while France and England are great powers. ALnxannsn, of Russia,. seems des- tined to realize to the utmost the truth ‘ of our great dramatist’s words: “Un-l easy lies the head that wears a crown." l On five occasions, within a very short time, attempts have been made upon his life,‘ which for deliberateness of purpose, ingenuity to! device, and bold~ ness of 'execution,'.cm unexampled in the records of the crime of regicide. These schemes for' his “ taking 06'," viewed in order of time, present them~ selves as a climax,â€"-»each being more dellberate, more ingenious, more san- gniuary than the one proceeding it. The atr: ity of the lastâ€"if the atrocity of such acts can' be measured by the hurt done, surpasses that of any record- ed attempt upon a ruler’s life. It is no wonder that, as reported, the unhappy Czar of all the Russias is on the verge of madness. His positionis more piti- able than that of the meanest bind in his immense realms. He dare not ven- ture abroad, for every one he meets may be sworn to murder him ; even his bedside has to be guarded by sentries , any dish he may partake of is just as likely as not to be poisoned ; he cannot crush out his enemies by any force he can employ, neither can he appease them by any liberal concessions he dare offer. The most elaborate machinery that can be depised for the detection of their purposes breaks down through the infidelity of those whom he entrus'ts with the working of it, and the pinn- ielrment of any on Whom his agents lay their hands is, a martyrdomâ€"4n apoâ€" theosis. Other Continental rulers are reported to share, of course in less de- gree, the terror which these regicidal attempts have inspired in the mind of the -Csar. The Emperor ‘Willinm is said to be harassed with similar sp- prehensions, and other potentates are taking additional precautions to ensure their personal safety. Such anxiety is natural enough, but still the movement. in Russia is unique, and from what the public are permitted to know, there seems no great tendon to believe that a regicidal period has set in. Tm: final settlement between the township of Brook and village of Can- nington Was just completel last week. It will‘be remembered the last summer a basis of agreement for a settlement between the two municipalities was signed, but it was not till hunt week tlmta final settlement wan made. By this uottlement it appear. that the total amount of indebtedness of the villuge to the towmh‘lp for their allure of the ruilwny uiebb is 81181.40, w‘hich is to be id in eleven yearly instal- ment: ORIO'IAO each, with interest on the whole “Mpg!“ mm yearly nt'alx per cent. The (in: paymeht {mount‘ n; to ’17830 has been paid.- Gian". THEY have a neat way of doing it in Bradford. A tramp begs to be sent to jail. 'I’ The constable tells him he must first steal something. The two start down town, the tiamp enters the first store they come to, appropriate: Iomo article, is taken into custody by tho con-table and the thing is done. Mas. Tnoe. MARTIN, of Oshewe, died veiy suddenly this week. She had been very busy about the house during Monday end went to bed as usual in the evening. Next morning just before the time for getting up, the complained of great pain. Her hue- band at once sent for e doctor, but be- fore he could reach the house el1e wee dead. The cause was heart dileeee. She has left a large family, one of them on infant, AT the last Council meeting of the town of Oshawa the Hotel keepers peei- tioned for a reduction of their licenses but the committee concluded to keep them at. the old rate, 8200 for shops and $150 for hotels. T111: trade and navigation returns {or the yeui 1879 show the customs re- turns of Coiling wood to ban boon $8. - 8183;4 and Bun-,i» $2, 857. 31. The amounts paid fou collection wereâ€":00!- lingwood, $1,002.12 ; Bariie, 8400. AN Orillia man he: received a letter from his son in Manitoba in which the letter mentions his first experience of flehing through the we on Lake Meni- tobe. A party of thirty caught 4,800 fish between noon of one day and noon of the next: The ice on the lake woe three feet thick. Many of the people feed their pigs on fish. Tm: school census toker of Port Perry also took note of the children which were in attendance at the Bulb day schools of the village and thus ro- porta it :â€"Church of England 89, Presbyterian 98, Baptist ’14, Episcopal Methodist 83, Canada. Methodist 136, Roman Catholic 8, Brethem 5, not attending any school, 178. Amman shocking accident from the explosion of u coal oil lamp took place near Clifford, on Saturday evening, 30th January. The unfortunate viotimwee Annie Morrison. e girl of fifteen years, who lived with her gmndmother. .flhe had teen preparing for bed Saturday evening, and wee partly undressedmhen ehe tried to blow the lemp out with her breath down the chimney without first turning down the wick. The lemp eud~ denly exploded, probably from an ac- cumuletion of guemnd the flames ceught her night:dre§e and burned her eo ter- ribly on the breast and elsewhere that she suffered untold agony until death came to her releif the following day. This fatality should exert an influence in winning people from the den tone hth of extinguiehing lamps wit the breath, without first turning the wick well down. ' Ocntammâ€"l have much plenum in Guti- fymp to th‘u'morm of your Yellow 051 for outward a plication'. in relievin pnin from Spnuluo. raises, Burns, Noun 'a, “0., having tried it my-elf and and t in my] hmil for than pnrpoaea. um found it to be one o the moat efl'noocious oml soothing ro- mulioo tho: I know of. Your: tmli'. W. H. FILTS, R»! Ifahh Agony «onto, PAINF'UL Acmbnsr.-'-Iast week while Captain Carson, Victoria Road, was nearing wood at his place with a drag new ,by some meene he got his hand caught. in the gearing of the hereon power, and before he could extricate himself neerly ell the flesh was torn off his arm as far es the elbow. Fer- tunetely no bones were broken, but it will be a long time before he again In: the free use of his arm. Dr. Fis ma called in epd dreeud the wpun .3". Post. ' Tu Diroobon of the Man Branch Am. cultural Society hold a dinner. recent! at Uptorgrovo. whm they pruuntqd Mr. In. Boultun, the Sccmury, with h mtiInoniAl. for his no vice: to the Socidty. M mans Minus, 31mm! 3% Panama Tn Port Perry council, 'liko tho Ouhnwa council, refuse- to reduce the linen-0'10» this year. Tun Richmond Hill Liberal aye :â€" The email-pox epidemic thet has been raging in Markham seems, to some ex- tent, to be Itopping its revagel. Evan-y precaution is being used, and feel- of contagion ie not so prevelent now. Two; houses are being used a: hoe 'tehl, thoee of Mr. Homer and Mr. else. 'l‘here here been up to the preeent in all fifteen ceeee, mo of which here proved iatel. The nemee of the per. tie: are W. J. Homer, wife, mother, two children. and adopted eon, Mr. Zeller and wife, Mary Hilts and Henry Hallie end wife, and Jacob Atkinson, in Markham, and Jeremieh Don‘er, Isaac Sider. and C. Hmver, in Whit- church.‘ W. J. Horner, and hie motho er, Mrs. Homer, 8n, Wm. Homer, their son, end Mrs. Feller, are the only, casesfthat have proved fatal. Mr. C. Heine deserves n great deal of credit for the attention and time heis devoting to the requirements of the'nick end the promptitnde with which he convey- new cases to the hmpitale. 6m: gcighhum. PARTIES indebted to me by Note or , Book wcouac malt pay at ouoou I must hav- monoy to can, on buuineu with. A LL parties whose T 15on am unpaid on , SATURDAY. 20“; MARCH. 3880, wlll positively hue flair goods diutruiud. without respect to persons. ° Unpaid TAXES! FARM PROPERTY ! FOR SALE. TOWRIII’P or Ewen :â€" South \Volt hotter, lot 13. Con. 7, fifty octet, 25 01 with log house. South hull, lot 14, Con. 2, 100 who. 30 cleared. With log homo, barn, mm. and other building. undo good orchud. Eutlulf, lot 10, Con. 6. 100 men. 50 cloned, ordinary buildings. ‘ Part lot 8. Con. no, 88 m, 20 cloud, with ordinary building. Lot 32, Con. 8, 116 Iona, Noland. j ‘ Lot)”, North Portage Rood, 100 acre-.30 eluted. Town-m! o! Lmox :- AME into thug” remin- of the nndcrllp ed, Lot ngD .5th Con. ,Eldon, about tho lot of November. 1879. Wat half lot 4. Con. 2.1m eluted, with log house and outbuilding. Towxsmr at 133ch z - Part lot- 7 and .8. Con. 14, 150 acres, I“) cleared ; with log house and bun. Pert lot 12. Con. 10. three-eighth- o! In em, in the n e of Derryville, with heme honu end berg?“ brick “one. Immigrente end others wishing to m Cheap Homeeteede, will find these Pro. per-tie: worthy of their Incl-l et- untien, .- they will' eold cheep, end on very eeey terms of payment, For further pertionlere epply to ;...Eatra5:_Heifer- A m alumni a sum. ' I- W MWNOIIW. 5! one year old. Owner will 51m all. pun property, pay expenses. :11 take it "my. ARCH. D. CAMPBELL. Eldon Shtion. Fab. 7, 1880. 166.! V All kinds of "patting promptly am Op. "N and Copper - Wm! L MAVIEE, Muhuhotumd from the but mud-h a! at flu 01:»th rages eoqgsfihh with . T. A. CLOUSTON. Woodvillo. Much lat. l880. _ JOHN MERRY. Collector for Edna. Woodvillo, Much lut,l880.188 3 Stoves 2 LAST CALL. TI NWARE' KING 81$, WOODW mm. hm Wm, .30- TOWNSHIP OF ELDON n- A RED HEIFER, J. C. GILCKBIST, Woodvilla. â€"lMPROVED~ gdvmiacmmti. â€"-nnm “- ‘