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The public meeting in the Council: Chamber on Monday night to dis- cuss the proposed branch Railroad from Richmond Hill Station to this Village was fairly representative and large in point of number. The conclusion arrived at, and the de- cision made, were the outcome 01 neither hasty nor slovenly consider- ation. Both sides of the shield were brought out in strong relief. The burdens to be entailed, the difficult- ies to be met, no less than the ad- vantages to be derived, were fully “stated. No attempt was made to conceal the fact that the enterprise is ot a very serious kind, especially when undertaken by such a small municipality as Richmond Hill. It; ‘was freely admitted, however, that“ a great portion of the prosperity which will assuredly flow from the branch will come to the village, and accordingly, moved by a spirit of justice, our citizens unanimously decided to head the subscription :list with the magnificent sum of ten Kthousaud dollars, nearly half ot the sum estimated by the officials of the .Northern Railroad to be necessary tor the construction of the new-high- way. This is a splendld‘commenceâ€" ment, and cannot fail to convince neighboring municipalities which are little less interested in the ques- tion than ourselves. that we are thoroughly in earnest. RICHMOND HILL. Thursday, Dec. 10, ’85 éififiigelh’. fihlfiimon. Changeâ€"B. GRENNAN. Seedsâ€"STEELE ‘Bnos. & Co. Indeed the importance of the. branch to a large part of Vaughan .and Markham cannot be well eXag- igerated. These wealthy townships have it now in their power to have regular and easy communication with Toronto almost from thelr very doors. lustead of being at the mercy of a single buyer of their grain, given a market at Richmond Hill, and there will be a dozen eager 'to purchase their produce. The long, cold and dreary drives, at once costly and irksome, Will become a thing that was, and both men and‘ horses will be spared great and pain- ful hardships. It is needless to enlarge on the effects which the branch line will have on Richmond Hill. We are better situated than Aurora for man- ufacturing purposes. We are sur- rounded by an excellent farming country. The inference is therefore inevitable that our ambition will not be overreaching itself in hoping to become at least all that Aurora is. The debt to be incurred will in a few years be compensated for three- fold by the increased value of prop- erty. The trip to Toronto will be lessened in time, and completely :shorn of' all its disconiforts. ‘7We can» not then but wish the enterprise ev- ery success. We sincerely believe that we are throwing a sprat which will catch a herring. And we heart- ily hope that our villagers will not slacken in their efforts until the new line is an accomplished tact. ‘Whatever may be the result of the British elections, one thing is certain. Parnell will be the arbiter of the party in power, unless Tory and Liberal alike flatly refuse 1115 support. At present, it would ap- pear that the Liberal vote in the next parliament will tie, it it does not exceed, the united votes of Con- servatives and Parnellites. But it must not be forgotten that the Lib- eral party from its very nature is never as compact and as readily moved as Is the Conservative. in England, there are even now harsh ana conflicting elements In the Lib- eral Tanks. A Chamberlain, with strongly pronounced raoieal, nay, socialistic, opinions, a Hartington who is in his timid \Vhiggery almost Conservative, a Gladstcne with his grasping {or more power for the peo- ple and his straining to leave intact the prerogatives of the crown, a Brightfinnllv, with his Visionary schcmcs of universal penceâ€"these are not the tomes likely to coalesce in one single instrument {or the attainment of a common object, pecially it is hard to imagine (night which such discordanmcs conltl agi'cenpon. There may he the (‘l‘ill.l!§§'i21531l) of fanaticism ; cer- tainly that: can be no piccision of the machine. {:‘~ Noisemhowevor, is it with the Not an, however, is it wifh the [‘orics, The mains of tiie landlord. 5 y NEW ADVERTISEMENTS 1w iiith THE 15111 TISH ELECTIONS. RAILROAD MEETING. the rights of the Established Church, these are in themselves sufficient to bind them all firmly together. They may vie with Liberals in lliberalityo, they may may out-herod Herod in promises to the Irish, but the mo- ment their vested privileges are touched, they Will be found the ‘un. flinching opponents of change. Change they may, but only with the bayonet of compulsion pres‘sed a- gainst their breasts. But the spirit of the age. be 1t good or evil, is a- gainst them. The waves of democ- racy are now rolling high and migh- ty. The tide is steadily rising, with its ebb alone will Conservative ideas prevail in the country. A That partyism has become so fierce, so inextinguisha’ble in Engâ€" land that rather than give up oflice, either Conservative or Liberal will consent to retain power on terms dictated by Parnell, ‘is hard to be- lieve. Indeed, Mr. Gladstone has already declared in no doubtful tones that he will never agree to any such status. Salisbury cannot but fol- low suit. We may therefore, safely, conclude that, whatever may be the fate of the next House of Commons, some six hundred members will point blank refuse to be a flute to be played on at pleasure by the Irish dictator. Parnell has proved him- selfa consummate master in man- aging and marshalling his country- men. No Irishman ever wielded a nation so completely and efTectually as he does the Irish. But there is a limitation of all power, and this he Wlll speecily realize when he at- tempts to coerce with his eighty four followersthe remaining six hundred representatives of Great Britain. Neither Globe nor Mail has made a creditable figure in the French craze. The Globe, in its desire to rout its opponents, has signified a WIHingness to jam hands with those whom for years it has been cursing with all a Journal's vehemence. The Mail has not scrupled to'threaten its old Bleu al‘lies with extermination at the hands ofa Protestant-English majority. Who can regard the at» titudes of both without scorn and shame? Who can respect the mo tives of either? \Nhom the gods wish to destroy, they first make gluttonously greedy of office. M We know that Conservatives laugh and blush at the Mail's ‘bloody_ shirt.’ We know that Reforniers' must be shocked at the Globe‘s squinting towards the French Bleus. For ourselves, we had rather see Mr.Blake die in opposition,than gain the treasury benches by such a to- tal abnegation of principle. \Vhen Sir John Macdonald received into his told the late Hon.Jos.How;c,when he afterwards made colleagues 01 'l‘upper and McLellan, we had no feelings but disgust and derision. When the Hon. Mr. Mackenzie took the late Hon. Mr. Cauchon in to his cabinet, we were filed with shame and indignation. Let Re- lormers stoop no more to such guilty practices. The government 0t Sir John Inlght go to pieces to-morrow, and we should hail his downfall with joy. But that joy would be turned inte bltter humiliation, if that gov» ernment should be succeeded by an alliance of Reformers and any of the present French Bleus. From our own Correspondent. Nothing of importanca has transpired here lately, even the execution of Riel did not cause any riots or indignation meet.- iugs among, the citizens. The services of our public school teach- er, Miss \Vallace, have been appreciated to such an extent that \he trustees have raised her salary for the coming year L0 $400, being an morease of-$50. -u Mr. Wni. Butler who bought out Mr. D.~ilohnson, has moved into the store, and havmg laid in his winter’s stock of goods. is prepared to give great bargains for the good of the poor and the benefit of himself. No doubt he Will be patron ized by the people of this vicinity where he is known as an upright and business like man. Mr. R. Brimson and wife spent a. few days in? the yilmgg last week. The friends of the Methodist Church are making preparations for their annual Xmas Tea-Meeting. At this distant time nothing definite can be announced, but we believe they will do all in their power. to make it, a success and to sus- tain their high reputation in me direc- tion of Christmas parties. D0 no violence to ilie liver and general system by repeated doses of mercury in the shaye of cnlomel and blue pill Many persons thus dose themselVes without even the advice of a physician. The best substimte for such perniciuus drugs, and the use of which is never fullowvd by {llFHHil‘OHS 0th cts upon the general health, is Nurlhrop & Lyumn’a Vegetable Dis- covery and Dyspeptic Cum», which per- manently t0i es the stumnCh, regulates .tlm bowels‘ and givca a hemlthfml glow to lie cheek. TEMPERANCEVIALLE. (1'00 late igl- last. week.) CONSIS’I‘ENC Y. 35m FEM wwwwbm. “2.2.9.23 mmpfifiH u mOmHEWM. >7. GEM»? 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