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Show i Mil lii dttniit'. Nnia fioni Canada It not of Ihe nunt paclflo character. Intense excitement ex-citement prevails lu the province of ue lc. Thu situation at Ottawa, tlia Domlaiou capital, Is not reassuring. The Conservative ministry now In liowerhashadserlcut complication for aome time. An event occurred last week which Is likely to Lrlug matters lo it crisis. Ill point of weslth nnd potsilatlon uelu Is Ihe second irotlnce of the Canailan Dosiliilon. It parliament consists of a leglstatlvu council of 1 members, appointed for life, nnd a legislative assembly of 03, elected by qualified voters for four years. Tl.s executlvo power Is vcted In a Lieu tenant Governor, appointed by the Governor General of Canada assisted by a ministry selected from nisinber of the larllamcnt, excel t a Hoilcltor General apiiolnted by himself. The present Lieutenant-Governor was uppolnte-J In 1857. Ho I a Conservative. Con-servative. The pronator of the ministry until a week nga was a well-kuowu French-Canadlsn uamed Mereler. Ill party rule the proviuce. Ho was formerly a Literal, but at Ihe time of thu Kiel execution lu Manitoba he and his party styled Ihemteltes National. They claimed that Kiel sutlercd death la-cause he was a I'reuch Canadian and uphelJ his race and language. Kver sluco then, the Mereler party has stood on a platform the principal planks of which are thu reservation ol race, religion aud lajguage. Tor aome time charge of malfeasance malfea-sance In ufllce have been pending against tbo Mereler mlulstry. What Is known as thu llay Chaleurs railway ha occasioned a good deal of scandal. The provincial parliament aldei In Ihu building of this road, aud lu the distribution of patronago aud contracts It was charge! that Ihe mlulstry adopted New York aud Chicago methods. A royal ooinmlttlon composed com-posed of three imminent uJges was appointed to Investigate. Two ot the Judges made a piellmluary statement In advanto of the formal report-about report-about ten day ago, earing that Mereler wo guilty at charged. Tho third JudgudWieuleJ, or at any ralo did not Iguthe I'll er. lly virtue of the advanced decltlon Lieutenant-Governor Auger dismissed the Murder ministry. Mereler Immediately Im-mediately apiualed to the peoplu. Ha stated that the two Judge who pro. uouueed him guilty were bitter Con tt-rvallves, that Anger dltmittud hhu lu advnme of thu formal report, nud that hi action wat autocratic and un constltutltnal. Tho Liberal party throughout the Provlnco look the matter up, aud at preseut tolltlcal excitement It Intensa, there I talk uf anuexatlou to Ihu United Htttet, of rebellion and so forth. The Provincial Parliament, It I thought, wlilto dissolved. The now Premier cannot command n majority In either house, therefore his chance of transacting any business are doubtful. doubt-ful. The excitement 1 spreading le-jond le-jond thu Province, and the whole Liberal party look ou the action of Ouvcruor A ngers as u political outrage. |