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power to aid us in our present crisis. But, added he, no approach, no re- quest has been made by the Cana- dian authorities. Further it is no- torious that President Cleveland is in favor of the closest possible alli~ ance with Great Britain. In the re- cent election, the: unconcealed hos- tility and truculenl attit ide of Blaine to England were powu‘ ul causes 0! his defeat. In the lace of these facts, denied by none, why did not the Ottawa administration ask Dennis The Dominion Government did not see fit to ask the United States authorities for permission to send our troops to Winnipeg over Ameri- can 501]. It is conceded on all hands that the latter route would have saved days of invaluable time, and, what is of nearly equal moment, terrible and most dangerous hard- ships and suffering to our young volunteers, not one in fifty of whom know an) thingot ‘roughing it.’ The. Government's omission to do this re- quires explanation, but it has not seen fit to give it. Nor is this at all strange. It is not long since Sir Hector Langevin declared in the House ofCommons that the relations (at the American and Canadian Gov- ernments were most friendly. In case of trouble, he assured, we had nothing to expect but active good- will from our neighbors. It is cer- tain that Mr. Bayard, United btates Secretary of State, has declared that the administration of which he is a member, was willing to do all in its “ TELL ME l , v -...-... v. vvllulllUll, n': WUUIU beahopeful prophet who should venture to assert that France's present difficultie; will be settled without profound commotion, nay, without riot and bloodshed. "J the most ambitious from attemptingy to guide the vessel of state. Paris is fast reaching a white heat, Mon- archists and Imperialists are on the alert, the whole nation in fact is rap- idly becoming a prey to rage and fear. With the knowledge before him of Gallic exc1tability and fatu- nus reliance on radical change for improvement of condition, he would be a hopeful prophet who should The signs are ominous in France. lnacountry where what ought to be the slow outgrowth of centuries is the violent and hot-bed \vork ot a week. it is useless to speak ot the future. But just now the stability of the French Republic is undergoing an extreme tension. The unjustifiable, predatory war in China is bearing its natural and de- served ti‘uits. The defeat at Lang son is terribly galling to French self love, especially as it has been in- flicted by a despised enemy on per haps the most vain-glorious nation in the world. In their wrath, the people have turned fiercely on the Ferry administration, which quickly succumbed to the storm. With difficulty, PrCSIdent (Jrevy has found any one either willing or able to form a new cabinet. The French are determined to prosecutc the Chi- nese war toa successful issue, and such determination may well deter v H * "'o Creighton. But for a man at once able and modest, disinterested and laborious. its envenomed malevo- lence, its partizan judgment, have nothing but abuse and slang. To serve one’s country for only legitimate purposes, to do one's duty faithfully and without ostentation, such a line of conduct is sure to meet with the disapprobation of the chieforgan of the Conservatives. It can, and does, wax obsequiously elo- quent over a Big-push VVllkinson. over a Yankee speculator Kirkland, over an interminably maundering r‘,.,:, I The Toronto Mail finds matter for sneers in our article of last week on Mr. Badgerow. Of course, it advances nothing to show that what we said was either ill~timed or ill- placed. But to admit that any good thing could proceed from a Liberal is not a. part of the Mail's creed. Unable to substantiate itsi nonâ€"existence, it takes refuge in a‘ grimace. the affected Sign of a con- ‘ tempt which it does not feel. the ap- ish expressmn ofa hatred which it cannot hide. R_x_caMuND HILL. ThTrsday, April 9. ’85 THE TORONTO “MAIL” AND MR. BADGERO W. We E‘iheml. To tho Publicâ€"Geo McDonald To Horsemenâ€"LIBERAL oflice Public Noticeâ€"Rom Willcock For Saleâ€"Geo Elliott mangeâ€"Steele Bros& Co Attentionâ€"Chas Trevethun NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ', GENTLE SHEPHERD, WHY .7 ” FRANCE. ll) bells and mouth is given tn Chum leadincss. Bi: Springhill Lita-dry and Debating So- ciety met in the club rmun on Munduy Pvening. Subjectâ€"Rcmvlwd, That City Life is more preferable than Cnunlry Life Captain T. Butt opened the debate in guud style by skewing the cnnnrry buys the pleasures and amusemean the city had in preference m the country. He was fulluwed by CAptMill Wu). Bentley in his humorous way. After many wuighty pman had been weighed, Chairman A. Ferguson gave the decision in favor of city lile. From Our Own Cm respondent. A shouting match hat ween C. Hall and Wm. Bentley took plucu on Wednesday, April 8. The stakes w~~re $5.00 on each man. C. Hall won by sewn pnmts. Buth parties shewed great ski“ in handling a gun. A large cmwd co!lected to witness the sport. A ludv writes wve the owns 36 of Hollowa The fhin cannot gain in weight if they are truubled With dyspepsia, because the fund is not converted Into the due pro- portiun of nourishing blood which alone can furnish the elemean of flesh. But there is no reason, when this wearing, at- tenuating disease is conquered by Nurth- "up & Lyman‘s Vegetable Discovery, WlIV there should nut be an appreciable gain in weight, which indeed is usually the 0 NS. It is a peerlesu remedy also for Constipacinu. Liver Cnniplnint, Kidney troubles and roots out all impurities from the blood. lâ€"a taste proverbially easier to ex- cite than to destroy. Nor will it tail to strike our semi-civilized country- men that any concessions which the Government may now make to them are due not to a sense ofjustice but to an inability to lorger grossly mis- manage their affairs. The result of a redress of grievances which is ac- tuated not by a feeling of right but by a fear ofconsequeuces is not grat- itude and restored loyalty, but rath- er an overweening pride and con- tempt. The Ottawa Government. which awakened only ac the eleventh hour, has sent out a Royal Commis<ion to confer with the disaflcctcd. Its suc- cess is now very problematlcal. Some at least of the Indians and Haltbreeds have had a taste of blood Where Riel is, what are his inten- tions, his hopes, the number ol those who have actually Joined him, the state ofleeling among the Indians, however vitally important to know, are still enveloped in profound dark- ness. We can onlyhope and pray that when the clouds do break, there will be disclosed victory for our gal- lant men, bloodless, ifpossilfle. but at all hazards, victory. The Ottawa Government, which awakened only at the eleventh hour, , ulys l However, from the deluge of re- ports, for the most part lies. a gram of truth may here and there be picked out. The battle of Duck's Lake, which Only failure of ammuni- tion changed from a Victory into a retreat or our forces. was, up to date the only serious fighting. Besides the casualties of that unfortunate scrimmage, it is tolerahlv certain that at least three Government in’ structors of Indians have been killed. If to these meagre lacts are added the positively ascertained movements of our troops, there is nothing 'else which is not pure matter of conjec- ture. The news from the NorthVVest is confused and conflicting. The fact is that the great city dailies are bent on gratifying to the full the intense greed of tidings lrom which an anxious and tearful public is now suffering. The charge is made, and we can readily believe it, that a great part of the dispatches, said to be sent {mm the scene of the Rebel- lion, are bogus, and are actually manufactured in the very offices at the papers. So difficult is it to resi:t the temptation of making a penny, even should it be known to be a dis« honest one. sion to do what a friendly power would most assuredly have not re- fused ? We do not say ; there are others far more competent to answer, and they are the men who constitute the U. P. R. Syndicate. A corpor- ation, it goes without saying, which can make with a government a bar- gain of which it dictates all the terms, which can force it to give a trifle ofthirty odd millions as a sort of bonus, which in twelve months later can come forward in Confidentl impudence with still further de- mands. which with unsaleable stock can pay a (livident of twenty tour per cent.â€"-â€"is it at all strange that such a corporation can force such a Government to use its lines, no mat- ter what the danger, what the cost P Wo trow not. get ready ynur uld mnskets, saws- ! A A ‘ SPRINGHILL. TH E REBELLION . I was enabled tn re nus, 3n when the cal‘ anus ym: may he in rl this time. r. and branch, by the urn Cure.” mrespondent. «,tween C. Hall and cuun Wednesday, v~~re $5.00 on each E1 pm; (I) SUITING-S IN BLACK & COLORED. WORSTEDS, TWEEDS, 800. TAPESTHY, WOOL, UNION & HEMP CARPETS. BEST VALUE IN TO\VN. INSPECTION INVITED J ISAAC CROSBY. NE\V DRESS GOODS, MUSLINS, VELVETS. Cashmeres. Prints. 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