, 1876-01-25

nAFo IN tnn country, ~ IN all cOunffteB Fovotnoo
revenue can only 10 raissd-that ts can 500 no
o.her why-by customs and oxose tlnttes. Now
NO have put as much ~ wo thought NO con1d
make the whisky boar,--if I could put moro on
And Tho fac: thai "A'ock" In. mt tasted
whisky for thirty years, mud Is 0 Presbyterian
deacon Of tho atrafghscas eect. will give proof
that ho noaut What Ao said. Ho continued.
"Wa have Put EooA deal on tobacco, ks tho
| enokers kuow; and also on bcor,"
Mackenzie uses nolther. lilo Is ona Of that
class Of uncomfortable men In thia fcspeoi TO
whom DsfA oil i cauBtic eplgrammAto desosintion
q Gladstone applies" ll,s chs!.oter ls unre-
ave haro to get The greAt baIance OF our rev.
en.1ea In customs. hnd. 40 long a. that 10 neces-
sary. go simply for the p1IicY that Will distrb.
nle these duties II sneh = way as TO confer tho
faotuEera and farmeFs altko.a
To which happy stason,ent OF opinion aven tho
veteran Tupper could not object. Mr.. Maokon-
2lo is wias enough to SEQ tho folly Of Canada NJ
ktatos. aud also to bo[iovo that The present
rlorcial doprpsaion under which this countrr ia
lsboring could have bean avoided or alIoviatod BY
tho !mpoeitlon OF protective duties. boHom
1'Eietor Of tho Globe newspaper, says ,o 10 sin
cern tn bis reRrots that tho efforts nado by tho
veteran politician snd editor to secure tho pas.
ssgo t. Of Reciprocity sToasy with the United
GkAtG1 lAl16us
4 Funny grBrEM or nALIoTIHu.
Ihe fight betwoeu theHo two champions Will
t.e renewed in the Parliament Chamber, and
then Vlth moro 1efuitiyo rosults. Meanwhile,
iheto Aro not wanting events OF pollticsl char
aeter tha. will not fail to arousc. tho rsibltles
Of American Eeadors. Disputed election cahes
arc tricd BY the Chhnoory Court, and many arc
tho vs1ed questions that como bofors that esn-
orally august and aeyere body. Ono provision
Of tue Ballot law requires that thn oec.or should
make cross 10 the right Of the name Of tho
candidate for whom bio yotcs. At the e1eo-
sion In the County Of Monok, tho
Tory candidate mas returned By majority OF
uas demanded. This has been had. under tho
nwtu! directions OF tho Court Of Chancerv, with
llorrlfSiug results. l quote sono Of the objoc-
tlons on which ba!lots wore thrown out: Single
tt1oko instead Of cross, throo csossos, cross
ilnuor nAmo, additional cross OIL back pencil
mark nnar croBs, word "on" written On ballot
thow nould this amply to the editor Of ynir
chicago eonsempors1y, the Times, The report Of
whose tdiosyncraoy in shta regard hsa csen
underneath name. torn ballot, marked In ink,
imperfect croaB, erasure. and 10 on. Tho Court
having almost exhausted isa mental enoryles in
tl'is inspection Of bal'o.lnH papcrs, prepared a
ttatomont OF tbs rbstt OF It's shnrB in thAt df,
tlon. With An evldeut horror Of ths hopeiessly
unrsgonerato and God -forsakeu character Of tho
lnen who, while o1efo.BlnR the nostlnaolo rights
Uf citizenship, cnuld pcrpetrAto such en0s mites,
too flco-taaocel!or tpa S4V.uuu peI 9nHutoj 40"
cided to report a. rejected ballots fifteen which!
had but asoglo stroxe instead OF tho Legitimate
erosa; ul1o haEIuE tho ynters' namn or initials
written on souo part Of tbs papoI four bavlng
ctoseos or other marks on tho Gao&, two having
peculiar maTks {bupposel to be treasonnble Ut
lrrsncos In ctpher q Fensan votoss). Other
ballots prosontod difficulties shat could not bo
disposed Of 80 summary. md they wers re-
heIyed for further consideration and cuneulta'
tion by the different nsmbors os ths court.
'F1f& 1ntnrn{n {nntt0 rnnHArR nk nr {rnD1n.
Hiblc 10 staso whether the country il saYed, or
not.
wonder IL American readers will think this Ia
I'LL farce. It might vol be so. but It is, on tho
CONTRARY, stern fact. 90 tmpottantta thls qucs-
ton ot propsily shared crosses in proper places
thkt three dlatngui.hed barflstors. two OF them
.,eurcn'a Counsel, lnve appeared In tho case.
Who shall asy that tho purity OF The battot'box
Ia not cared for ID this " Canada OF ours 2"
IN conn ectlon With theso political matters.
and IN Importance on par With "hat haYo
juss htnted, It ID necessary that should inform
IuE TRIBUNE that ........
THE yExEp QUESTION or PREoepESoE
.learly.boloycd guardians In Downing slrsot
nave furnished III with code which 10 modeled
after the most approved Imperial fashion.
But Il haa not bgen snthuslastIcally re-
pareatags. Canadians sro inclined to da,nocfasle
rays and ideas. and the peoples Of tho aeyorhl
provinces do not relish tue idea Of seclnR their
ChtoE Executive Obliged To follow, when ho at
sendn oonrt Ia tho Ioar Of some inferior olIlcia(
connected with the Dominion Government.
ghawbscau' from s'io bachwoods who has been
stcctaf BY ba,f-breoie to seat tn tho Dominion
Parlianeat Is entitled to place beforo Tho chIcf
Executive Anu tile Cabinet OF bis own province,
lnd %ill DO entitled 70 sit as the upper table,
aod drink ont OF the hnger-ho"i whilo ha bot
torn sro oaat1nE about tlo corridors waiting for
me second tanlo. Tho responsibility for tlta
tdcuiots net OF ruloa Is lalu ~ tue doors NJ Sir
john A.. Macdouald. WHO IL known TO bave tho
aar OF tho Tory authorities 1t tho Colonial Oalca
far moro than tho prosont body OF Lbosal Mln~
1sters.
Dus The terribly oxhnussinR question il dond-
81. and when. during tho coming eesnlon, we 90
aver 70 tako state dinner with Eall Dufscsin,
II Hedodu Castle, well-thcro will be no awk-
"ard eo"|retentps such as have 10 daTs gone mado
eyou tho aandY comple1ion Of Scottish officials
grow crimson with honest blushes.
THE issTIrt1TE oAKApiEs,
Of Montreal. ii Ia fair way Of wlpi1E of the
olu ueDt tuat 0Ah auH3 !iRo cog upuQ ita moro
mcnta for the past two ycara. Tho Institute.
Hhich hha exated fur Thirty years, has aehioyed
sosno considerable potorietJ in connection with
the butial of Uuibold, Who foil. "a Que ot its
monbeio, under the ban OF tho Roman Catholic