The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-11 00:00:00

not the case. The members ought to walk, `especially
members of the Government, who received £6OO
per annum of the public money. Another member
proposed to settle all differences by having an om-
nibus. To this it was objected that the Ministe-
rialists and the Opposition could not be expected to
ride in one vehicle. Another and more practical
disputant said that the simplest, best, and cheapest
mode was to abolish the coaches altogether, and re-
quest his Excellency the Governor to walk—or to
ride at his own expense, if he preferred riding—
down to the house every day of the session, and
there wait in an ante-room fromll to 12 o'clock that
members might present their addresses without the
trouble of " hunting him up." A Mr. Hill solemnly
averred that this was not a question of funds, but of
principle, and that he knew of no evil which so
seriously affected the country, or about which there
were so many complaints from the people, as this of
coach hire. Mr. Needham, the Mayor of Frede-
ricton, ridiculed such miserable economy. If they
wanted to be so very stingy, why did they order the
purchase of a new gown for the Speaker ? (Here
an unknown member interrupted, " Because the old
one was worn out.") " So," replied Mr. Needham,
amid loud laughter, " was the old Speaker."
" Then," he continued, " there was the Sergeant-at-
Arms. Why not abolish him to save the expense?
The Sergeant-at-Arms was no terror to honourable
members, and might well be dispensed with. Then,
again, there was the messenger. Why could not
honourable members carry their own letters and buy
their own stationery and sealing-wax ? As to the
idea that the representative of her Majesty should
come down to the house whenever the members had
an address to present, it was absurd nonsense."
Here the proposer of this indignity to his Excel-
lency inquired why, if it were nonsense, the Go-
vernor of Canada should come down to the house.
Mr. Needham was ready with a crushing reply :
" Why do they do so in Canada? Why did theyrebel
in Canada? If they had a rebellion in Canada, was
that a reason why there should be a rebellion in New
Brunswick? We are not compelled to do as Canada
does just yet, though the friends of Confederation are
trying hard to get us to." It is difficult to say how
long these portentous discussions would have lasted,
and into what high political inquiries they would
have branched off, had they not been interruptedby
the usual hour of adjournment. As the subject was
not resumed during the session, it may be presumed
that the members rode as usual to confer with his
Excellency, or took their wives and daughters to
evening parties at the public expense, oblivious of
their duty to their constituencies and of the best in-
terests of their imperilled country.
A more important, though scarcely so amusing,
debate took place on the subject of the proposed
bounty for the killing of the bears by which the re-
moter districts of the colony are infested. This year,
in consequence of the paucity of berries and other
wild fruits on which these animals principally sub-
sist, they have ventured down into the settled coun-
try in greater numbers than was ever before known,
and, driven by hunger, have made sad havoc in the
sheep folds and poultry yards of the colonists. After
a long audanimated discussion, in which many curi-
ous facts with regard to these animals were elicited,
it was agreed that the province should pay a bounty
of $3 per head for every bear killed, or production
of the snout or jaw, the said snout or jaw to show
the molar teeth, and the person claiming the bounty
to swear that he himself had killed it. .Since this
law came into operation in May last, the bounty
has been claimed and paid in nearly 500 cases.
There was formerly a similar bounty for the killing
of wolves ; but although wolves in the province are
more destructive than the bears, frequently killing
whole flocks of sheep in a night, by biting their
throats and drinking their blood, it was consithred
that the universal repugnance felt to these animals
was quite sufficient inducement, without the offer
of bounty money, to insure their destruction
wherever they became troublesome. This is not
the first time that the Bear Botinty has been autho-
rised in the province. Prior to the year 1850 a law
was in force by which a bounty of $3 was paid
to every person who produced the snout of a bear
and made oath before a magistrate that he had
slain it. The bounty was for the most part claimed
by the Indians, of whom about 1,100 remain in the
province. On investigation it was discovered that
a large proportion of the snouts were made of
caoutchouc and gutta-percha, and were expressly
manufactured to defraud the Government of New
Brunswick by the unscrupulous Yankees in Maine,
who sold them to the Indians at half a dollar each.
To prevent this fraud it was provided that the
upper and lower jaws should be produced, and
should contain the molar teeth of the animal slain.
Yankee ingenuity has not been able to manufacture
a spurious article sufficiently natural in appearance
to deceive even a backwoods' justice of the peace,
and the consequence is that every snout truly re-
presents a dead bear, though the bear is quite as
frequently killed in the Yankee State of Maine,
where there is no Bear Bounty, as in the province
of New Brunswick. The measure this year was not
passed without strenuous opposition, it being urged
that in the case of the bears, as in that of the wolves,
the farmers needed no inducement to destroy them;
that the true way to get rid of the pest was to use
the axe in the wilderness, and to promote the
building of the Inter-Colonial Railway, and other-
wise by highways and byways to open up the
country. One of the most singular arguments by
which the measure was supported was that the
white people owed something to the sad remnant of
the aboriginal Micmacs and Millicetes who had
been gradually exterminated by the progress of
civilization, and that the bounty paid to the Indian
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BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.—Homoeopathic practitioners, and
the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as being
the most healthful of all beverages. When the doctrine of
homoeopathy was first introduced into this country, there
were to be obtained no preparations of cocoa either attrac-
tive to the taste or acceptat le to the stomach ; the nut
nut was
either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully
manu-
factured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London,
homoeopathic chemist,
was induced in the year 1839 to turn
his attention to this subje t, and at length succeeded, with
the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to
produce an article pure in its composition, aid so refined by
the pert ot trituration it IC:TIVCS in the process it passes
through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach.
For general use Epps' cocoa is distin2ulshed as an invigo-
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, with a delicious aroma
Dr. Hassell in his work, "Food and its Adulterations,"
principles;
s tSys—" coa
every contains
gr
ingredient
erne
ta t vari ty of important nutritive
necessaryto the growth and
sustenance of the body." Again,
"As a nutritive, cocoa
stands very much higher than either coffee or tea." Direc-
tions : —Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a breakfast cur,
filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured in tin-lined
i-lb , and lib. labelled packets, and sold at ls. 6d. per
lb. by grocers, confectioners, and chemists.