Abstract

The Week

The article comments on political and economic developments all round the world. The Opposition in Canada have gained a great victory in the Pacific Railway scandal, and forced the Government to throw up the contract out of which the scandal grew. Considering the amount of money involved, and the magnitude of the political interests bound up with the Pacific Railway scheme, this victory deserves to be recorded in brass as a monument, even in these latter days, of the power of public opinion when founded on justice and truth. In an another news, the Treasury has insisted upon it that the square flat-bottomed boats or scows carrying coal on the canal between the Pennsylvania mines and the port of Wilmington, are boats requiring to be furnished with enrolments and licenses, and the Custom-house officials have seized several boats belonging to poor men, and subjected them to heavy expenses.