Daily evening mercury, 28 avril 1880, mercredi 28 avril 1880

[" Pas\" the Royal Eugiveurs at \u2014_\u2014_\u2014_\u2014\u2014_\u2014_\u2014\u2014__\u2014_\u2014A\u2014\u2014\"\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 =\" Yern YEAR\u2014NO.100 \u2014 o THE DOMINION GUVEBNMENT AND TUE NORTH SHORE RAILWAY.It Is no secret that meny of the sup.riers of the Dominion Government m the Province of Quebec voted with very great relactanco sgninst Mr.Blake's motion to postpone fur the present the construction of the British Columbia section of the Pacific Rail way and more than one remark dropped during the debate tended to arouse suspicion as to tho meuns by which their woruplçs were ultimatuly -overcome.Nuither is it any secret shat the Quubve Government ure anxious to get wid of tho North Blhore Ruilway connceting Ottawa with Quebec, for the sale of this read to the Dominion constituted the chief plank in Mr.Chaplenu's published platform when he took ofico.It is not surprising therefore, that an impression has gone abroad that tho Dominion Governbave promised to purchuse the Nurth Bbore Ruilway, and thus ut once relieve the Chaplcau Government from their financial embarrassment, and at the same time secure 8 solid vote from their Quebec contingent in the House of Comimons.That such an impres sion prevails'not ouly in the west but spongst the people of Quebec is un deniable, and, therefore, tha sooner the policy of the Government is announced the better.If this is the Price the country hes to pay for minis rial unanimity it is time the truth were known.\u2014 Globe.THE NEW CABINET.London, April 21.The following mppointments have becu finally made : - Duke of Argyle, Lmd Privy Seal; Earl Kimberioy, Sceretary of State for the = Coloniul Department ; John Bright, Chuncellor of the Duehy of Lancaster; the.Marquis of Ripon, Viceruy ot India.He was offered the Viccroyulty either of lrelund or India.Eur} Granville, Secretary of State for the Forcign Department ; the Marquie of Hurtingian, Sveretury ot State for India; h.C.E.Childers, Sccretury of State for War ; Lord Selborne, Lord High Chanceilor; Wm.E.Forster, Chief Secretary for Irvelund, Lord Northbrook, First Lord of the Admir- a \u2018be report thut Lord Durby wus offered a sent in the Gladstone Cabinet is untrue, The abgonce of advanced Liberals, ufter long negotiations, bus been met by conceding a seat in the Cabinet to Mr.Chumberluin, who will probably be President of the \u2018Board of rade.Bir Churlos Dilke accepts the fon of Under Secietary of the oreign Department.Earl Spencer will be Lord President of the Council instead of the Duke of Argyle ne; reported, he Times states that E«rl Kenmore has been appointed Lord Grout Cham berluin ; fn Sydney, Lord High Btoward ; Earl of Cork and Orrors, Maser of the Horse; \u2018Mr.Shaw Lefuvre, Secretary tothe Admiralty and W.P.Adam, Chiof Commissioner of Works.Besconsfield took leave of the Queen esterday | The other lote Ministers \u201cwnt to Windsor by the 12 10 pm.ruin, ard the uew Ministers by the 310, train, OBITUARY.Unlifax, N.3., April 24.Colonel JW.Lovell, Whore death bas leew hourly expected, died thi morning at 416.Colonel John Williumsen Lovoll, C,B., commanding Matifux, NS, revsived his commission as second , Lieutenant, June 19th, 1841; Licut., 16th August, 1843; Ciptain, êth Deçomber, 1861; Brevet-Major, 12th December, 1854; Lieut Colonel, 18th December, 1871; Colonel, 5th January 1879, Col, Lovell went te Turkey on service in March, 1854, and wus employed surveying the position ai Burpuk Tehehmidje; was appointed à division ongincer (0 the 2nd division of the Army of the Kast wäich ho accompanied thiough Bulgaria and the Crimea; was the Royal Engineer officer Eppoitites Lu attend Sir Geo, Brown and nrbal Canrobert tu thy Toeonmmissunes of the Wost const of the Crimea protiods to thé Bing of Wis\u201d Allied - Armivs, landed with the army at the Old fort, and wan present at the afluirs { Bebastopol, wheneo he wus invalided MORES ET STUDIA ET POPULOS ET PRALIA DICAM.~ Viry.Georg, IV 8.SIX O'CLOCK EDITION QUEBB 0, WEDNESDAY.APRIL 28, 1880.PRICE ONE CENT battles of the Almu (montioned inj despatohes) and Inkorman and sioge ot while Brigade Major of the Royal Engineers, in Novomber, 1854 | Medal with three clusps, Brevot of Major C.B., fitth clase of the Mwijidie, und Turkish medal, \u20142 CANADIAN ARMY RESERVE.The Toronto Muil enyu :\u2014* The London despatch concering a Canadian militia reverve for Imperial service in case of war is.if not quite n mistako, at least premature.Tiore is no present nocd of such & force, but the grants of the pnst two years have shown that if the novensily arose, à force of 10,000 mon could be raised in Canada moro quickly than in any other purt of her ujenty\u2019s dominions.\" COAL OIL TESTS AT OTTAWA.One Gallon Canadian Oil Burns 145 Hours to United States Oil 110 Hours.For some time past Mr.J.D.Noble, of Petrolia, has been at Ottawa pursuing certain ecientige tests in petro.leuns oils, with the view of shuwing the superiority of Canadian burning oil both iu its illuminating nnd lasting Qualities.In this he hax been very sucocnsful.The article produced from the wells, at Petrolia, is found not only to ufford as good, bul a fur mor: durable and u safer light than that im ported from the United States, At the same time it hus been underatoud that considerable quantities of the lutter havo been used in tho oustern section of Cunadu.Why this is the cave is stated by Mr, C.8B.Shaw, of Ottawa, in à recent interview with a reporter of the Citizen.He sclls a a grout deal of coal oil, and keepn both American and Canadian oil in stock The proportion he hus been selling in about two burrels of American at due.a gallon to three of Conudiun at 30e, Ho finds no difficulty whatever in the fire test, being able to get any firo test American oil he requires, Mr.Shaw seid he had witnessod Lhe tests made Ly Mr.Noble at Custom House; they were very interesting, and proved tbat *Cunadians can make goud oil if they want to.\u201d He had made simple tests in the lamps in bis store of the burning qualities of the best Canadiun and American oils.These extended over eight nights.He used differens burners and wicks ench night, but always with the samo result \u2014the America lamp burned out firat ; the Canadian oil lasted the longest every Lime.Hi found that a gallon of Canadian oil will burn over one-fifth longer than the sumo quality of Awerican oil, The reason is that the American is more vointile.An Imperial gullon of the beat Canadian oil will burn 145 boûrs, which is equal to one lump burning six hours ench night for twenty-lour nights.This is ubout the average timo lumps are bained during the winter months.In summer, a gullun of the best Canadian oil, will buru in a Jump for abaut forty nights at the usual rate of common use, An Imperial gullon ot American oil will buen for 110 hours only._ Some customers prefer American oil because, as compared with a poor sample of Cunndiun, it gives a better light, But if the stundurd of Canudian oil was raised it would give even moro satisfuction, and tho ure of American wil would be discontinued.Tho best Canad an oil will give us good a light, and at the saving ot about one-quuiter in cost.Mr.Noble hus been doing un excellont and valuable corvice in bringing this phase of the matter betore the nutice of Parliament by means of his experiments, which wili doubtless result tn tho passage of such ulations as will insure for Cunudisn SE better character and larger home consumption than bitherto.It is believed, although not as yot demonstrated, that the candlo power of our best Canadian oil is even superior lo American, Should this prove to bu the case, there is a probability that Canadian oil may yol prove a strong competitor with American iu the foreign markets.The work of changing the gauge of the Cagada Cuntral Railway was vom.at the Buigunse and McKousie's furm;} THE FORTUNE BAY AFFAIR.) On Sunday, Janusry 6th, 1878 a mob thy crews of soveral Amcericun fishing smucks in Fortune Buy und compelled thom to desist from reining for herring.the strangers wus injured, und some fish thas had boon sarrounded by nots wero allowed to estupo.The actual demsago to proporty umountud ut most to a couple vb tbuusund dullurs.\u2018Tho American fishing fleet engaged au Fortuno Bay ut once left fur home, and (bo owners sul éaptains of the craft luid their euse bolurs the Unitel States Guvernment.They = wero instructed to draw up a claim for damugew, und by veckouing the value vf fish that they might have canght during the seuson, together with tho cout uf their equipment and the sete) loss ot tneklo destroyed hy the mob, they brought in & bill for over $103, vou.This was tormully presented to tho British Government, and we now learn thut Lord Salisbury definitely refused Lo consider it.In anv cade tbe bill wae gremtly in excess of tho loss to American fishermen, bat that matter has not buen discussed by the lmporial authorities.any part was rufused on the ground that no legal claim for dumages can rise from losses incurred by purties engaged in illegal acts.The American fisherman committed four distinct breaches of tho law.First, they disreguided a Provincial Aot which prohibits tho sending ot lierring on the cos-t between the 20th of October und the 26tb of April; sceund, they violuted n apecial clause in the law which provides for the ob servance of Sunday by coust fisher wen; third, they were \u201cbarring\u201d fish in violation of the Act, which demands that svines shall be immediately hauled; fourth, they were uiterforin,g with the rights of private property by drawing seines from the shore, indirect contravention of the terms of the Washington Treuty.Mr, Evarts contendod that the rights which Amcricun fishermen bad guinod by the treaty could not be limited by trovincial statutes, that they had, in fuct, been placed in possession of privileges denied tu the inhabitants of Newtoundiund.Ho admitted that vr strice tions might bo applied to Amoricun and Canudian fishermen alike, but us sorted hut thowe restrictions could only be legally contrived by the joint action of Lhe two prinvipals to the treaiy.Lord Sulisbury in his notu of Nov.Tth, 1878, held to tho opinion that the local authoritios hud power to make luws applying to visiting us well as lo native Hshormen, He admitted that there were subtle questions of law to bo debated in thin regard, and any one can see that there is something to bo suid on both sides.Fur instance, ILis out of the question that foreign fishermen should be permitted to vio lute Sunday laws.lt is ulso evident thut the Local Legislature could not be ullowed (odeteut the intention of thu troaty by laws bonring more oner- vusly on American than on native fishermen, The assertion that the United States can do exactly us they please tho your round in British waturs because they buve boon given a right Lo fish tbervin, is, however, vntirely untonuble.But it appears that Lord Salisbury has refused to consider the American claim tor a reuson which does not brin up the question as to the powers of lov) British Legisluture, He rests his cuse on the fuct tbut the Americans ul Fortune Bay wore drawing mince from the shore und intertering with private property in contravention of the terms of the Wushington Treaty.Lauving nest laws out of view, the visiting fishsrmon set at naught the provisions ot the instrument on which they found sclaim lor damages.The British case can only Le wenkenod by -proot thut the fucts were tot in accordance with the slatements of Captain Sullivan, wlio wus commissioned to inquire into the Fortune Bay affair.Even the Washington Government will hardly have the face lo assert that men violuting the pluin provisions of the Wushington Treuty itrell have a claim to damages Locauso thoy were avsaulted iu the get.And ifit could be shown that tire American fishermen were not infringing, the truauy itaelt, the British Government woul still have the violation of the local laws to fall back on.It ie very much to be menced on Saturday night and com pleted yosletdiy, - | Tegroited that the rveidents at Fortane' of Nowfoundlvod fishermon attacked.In the course of the row the tackle of Puymont of \u2014\u2014re pr Buy took tho law into their quan bande | and destroyed property, but the fuet that they did so does not give the foruignors who acted illegully any fair claim to dnmuges.About eleven o'clock in the forenoon the Duke of Edinburgh, with the captains of the guubouts, wrrived on the Constellation, and wus vegeived by Captain Potter and all his officers.Apr the distinguished visitors hud been shown through the ship, the whole party returned to the dock when they had their pictures taken, Details of the distribution ag fur us the flect was concerned were nottlod ut a conference bold on board the Lively on Friday night at which \u2018the Duke, Cuptain Morant, of the Valorous; Ouptain Hughes, of the Imogene;.Wiritopworth, Colonel King-Havægn, and Mujor Guskell were progent.Tho discussion lasted till one in the morning Tho officers suid thut some parte of Galway tave food for oniy five days, snd that it wus necossary io soud thither ut once.It was finally arranged su follows :\u2014 The Tmogeno is to go to North Donegul, the Hawk to Wust Donegul with the islands and headlands, tbe Goshawk 10 Sligo, the Amelia to North-west Mayo, the Bruiser to the West Galway coast, Lhe Orwell, the West Galway lslunds, the Vulorous und Lively to South Gal way und its islunds.The object of the committee is to give the greater part of the foud to those pluces where | it isdificult to God provisions at any price, such us on tho wlunds.It Is | evident that where meal may be bought it is better to send money.| This is what the committee is doing.Unloading begun to day.The Imogene, | coming alongside about one, took ubourd 160 assorted barrels and started for Skibboreen, Cork.She will! return fur another cargo for Dunegl.As she departed her captain ran the American flug up the foremust.The_ other gunboats, including the Lively, did the sume.It was u nest compliment to the Amurican visitors and u recognition that the vessel had Amcricun stores aboard, The most cordial feeling exists betwcen the re- presentutives of both navies.The Duke's sailor like and unostenlatious bearing hus won the admirution of the Americans, while equally warm praise is given to Captain Potter und his gul- laut officers and men.After Le fleut has Leen loaded the reminder of the cargo will be distributed by rail.Iu is expected that the Constellation wil) bo entirely cleardd out by May 15th or 20th.GEORGE TAILOR, NO.31 BUADE SIRKKI.(Late W, 8, Valleau and George Thomsen.) FALL\u20141879.THOMPSON, FALL IMPORTATION, comprising the latest * nd most select good