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Philip, in his letters te Ellen, seldom reminded |

tastes or feelings would have become perverted.
His faith was centred in a belief of her high prin-
ciple, her truth, and Her warm heart, and seo when
he heard from herself, as well as from her uncle,
of the continued sejourn vf the handsome stranger
at the Manor, and of the attention which he paid
her, no jealows pany wrung his heart, and he hope-
fully looked forward te the time when emancipa-
Yion trom his etadies would place him once more

of there betrothal

withia the domestic circle at the Maner

About a week before the time when Philip was
te arrive at the Manor, the ‘Merton Arms’ receiv-
ed an accession of guests, in the shape of two tra-
‘vellers, who, if net as aristocratic as the one whe
had dashed ap teits door in acurricle some mouths

All earth's powe
wever have persuaded hun that in his absence her

rs could

A A ST a. aes See NS

MISCELLANEOUS,

A RECENT TRIAL AT THE OLD BAILEY,
IN LONDON—AFPFECTING SCENE,
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE TINDAL PRESIDING.
George Hammond, a portrait painter, was
placed at the bar, to be tried on an indictment
tyund against hime by the Grand Jury, for wilful
murder, with malice aforethough, of Geo. Baldwin,
a rope-dadeer and mountebank. lie waa @ man
of medinm height, but slepder form. Hjs eyes
were blue and mild. His whole bearing gave
evidence of subdued sadness and melancholy re-
signation. He was 41 years of age, bad a soft
veice, and his appearance and manner bore evi-

before, preceded by outriders, were, at any rate,
equally mysterious im their movements.
‘them was a man of some five and forty years,
Yatlier short in stature, and whose features were

ha

reh and nnprepossessing.

One ot

Lut there was a cer-

fain amoant of plausibility in his speech, and he
‘evineed cousiderable tact and cunning iv the man-
ner in whieh he coutrived to acquire information
relative to the various families iu the neighbour-
heed, and the principal items of local gossip.
Much of his time, furs day or two after his arrival,

Was spent in the bar-room of the ‘ Merton Arms,’ |
in the company of Hugh Dalrymple’s two servants, |

whe still rewained there, although what he was
able tose in their society was mone than the portly

landlord could fathon,

When not thus

engaged,

he busied himself in his own apartment in the care-
ful perusal of various bundles of papers, while his
companion, who wae much more reticent and re-

served in his manner, availed himself of the privi- |
lege accorded to residents at the ‘Merton Arms,’ |
by Frank O'Malley, of visiting the grounds sur-;
: ln the course of these ram-
« he new and again encountered Ellen and

‘rounding the Manor.

h

alrymple strolling through the demesne,

and

upon these occasions, although it might have been

observed that he respectfully stood aside to allow |

‘them to pass, he would follow their after move-

ents With a degree of scrutinizing zeal that}

evidenced the interest he tovk in them was of ne
ordinary kind.

te

And that he and his companion had a motive in| yarket
their apparently cecentric proceedings, Wag 8000 | their feats.

tury of that quiet little village

cumstauce.

One fine afternoon Charley Grace, then the
doutler, but at oue period the huntstan of Frank
O'Malley, perceived, with no small ‘surprise, the
two guests at the ‘Merton Arms,” leisurely walking
up the avenue that led to the Manor, and to nad
still greater amazement,saw that they were accom: |
‘panied by the village coustable.
nota J. P., and what the latter's objee*, im thus) done. At’ the moment I regretled that I was
seapeug the Manor, was quife beyopa Charley's lable to kill but once.”
comprehension, and, theretote, he hastened to ap- |
prise his master ,who was in lis study, of the cit-| Christian seutiments.
O'Malley was 06 less surprised as to
the meaning of this unusinl visit, and directed the |
trie te be shown inte the parlour of the Manor,
where he speedily joined them, anxious to know the |
cause of their appearance there.
on this point, the sejourner at the ‘Merton Arms,’
te whem we have more particularly alluded, said: | that mah had done.
““T have the hendur, I believe, to address Mr. |

Frank 0" Malley ?”

to your notice, he

"”

“ The same, sir, at your service.

“ And I, sir, have the honor to intruduce myselt
»wever unpleasant iy visit uiay

ultimately prove, as John May.”

“The name is ove that 1 do not immediately
eall te mind. i

* Probably not, sir, but it is one well known inj
London, 1 ai, in short, as well gsiny eymrade, a] vediet.”
Bow-street officer, and diy present business here is |
to arrest a person who hits
pitality for, [ believe, some months. My justitica-
tion for this seeming strange proceeding, is

”

Perhaps you would

¢iear, for a circumstance vcecrred, sO rmiuch out ot i
the ordinary course of events in Merton, that to}
this day it forms the most notable ébent in the his-|

O'Malley was

To his inquiry |

ep enjoying your hos-

warrant,” he added, produting that document.

“ Arrest Iny quest, sir!" said O'Malley. “ I do

bot egaeily comprehend you.”

explain mys

bank, in

him at last, and wlflle nly Success is to me a source | twenty, reputed tobe his daughier. They lived
of more than mére gratification, I have only to
tender yu, awkwardly it may be, Lui I ea. as-
eure you sincerely, my resret that my professional | was cealled—thought it a slight attack, aud left #| of

into the residence of a gentleman whose character |
is beyond any suspicion, and whose ouly asseeia- |

which I experience at the fact of my roof-tree | soon attracted attention by receiving much company,
having fer a second sheltered one whose autece-| keeping a generous table, and opening parlors to
dents are such as you have described. Aud this S0™eWhat high play, at which it was afterwards

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should have necessitated my

cog iywed of that, air, but allow me to |
, ie gs tew words as possible. There! obliged to surround him with an escort. The
harges Against the person in ques-| women were determined to
E you would be hardly able to comprehend
the general nature of the proceedings instituted
against him. Nor is it necessary that you should
do se, but the specific charge upon whieh I held |
this warrant for his arrest, is his malversation, to |
au ineredible extent, of the funds of a London
which he held the positien of cashier.
continued the officer, * for the last six |
or eight months 2 stern chase atter him, and that)
is ptoverbially a lengthened one,but I haveearthed | semi-military bearing, with a young woutan about

intrusion

ose

"rank O'Malley at.the econelu-
peech are indescribable. Mutioning
the eee and his colleagues tu seats, he remain-
ed si

sat fur a few minutes, but at last observed :
“TL nerd not remark how puignant is the regret

regret is the more irritating, seeing that the plausi-

bi

lity of his manuers has gamed Tor

him se much

of the seciety of my daugliter, while his qualifica-

tions as a sportsman have secured his accéss
cireles of all the

‘of

Merton.

to the

chiet families in the neighbourhood | hastily seut for, «bile the man hang over his dangh-
He is not at present within,

but Tex-

‘pect him every minute, and will gladly atfurd you

every
funds wus not the only one against the gerfleman |

-ility te aid the ends of jy tice.”

But this viiarge of malversation of the Bank's

whe wititled up toe the * Merton Arms’ one May
yuorning, fellowed by a pair of out-riders; whose

distingue appearance aud off-handed manner so
coinpletely awed the good people ot Mefton; who | able actors appeared on the same stage. This time
followed thé county hounds with such sportsman. | the scene was at Liverpool; the man a ship owner
like ardour and dash; who was the cynusure of all | of reputed wealth—with whom lived his niece, an
eyes; whe so coully wade himself at bome at the | unmarrred lady, owning considerable landed pro-
Manor ; and whe Wooed and almost won the daugh- |
terofitauwner. “ugh Dalrymple,” (as he ealied |

himself wheu he did condeseend to give

had so.many aliases that-it would be
task (even for Jolin May) to trace
nymie, There were tew of the ¢

~

a name), |
a difficult | dispensed his hospitulities in a most graceful man-
his true patro-| ner. j
aming-tables in | venta ten had oecyrred to which he frankly owned,
continental cities at which he was not dleddyan-|™eDtioning graduatly that his affairs demanded

tageougly Known. be was, in fine, ay aceomplish-

ed segue and blickleg, and it Was whispered even |
worse, a'though it was difficult to fix the darker |
sTiines poll hun.” How he contrived to obtain a | singular transaction, he found no diflleulty in getting
a of trust ina London Bank was never | underwriters.

nown; the only feasible opinion hazarded w as, | matter be kept seeret; and under cover =: ‘his se-
tnat having got the son of one of the firm inte hix | Tet be succeeded iv effecting insurance with no less
power mm some ‘ hell,” he had employed his advan- |

tage in seeuring a he tth ip the éatablishivent—wit

what result we have seen. So cog! and consuinmafe
a scoundrel was he, that when arrested by John
May (whom he at once recognised as ‘an old

acquaintance) on his
Ellen, he cool

iu

remarked that there were few pledsanfer da, 8 ini
his eareer tlian those which he had spent

M

| ’
custod we

anor,

Aud what said Ellen to the denouement of this |
strange but true story !

return from a stroll with| set in, and in the morning all Liverpool knew that
raised his hat as he left the place | the merchant's niece died suddenly.
with one of his moet elegait bows,| . This time, no haste wus made with the funeral.

4 ‘ w
at Merton4 or

/ . She flung herself upon | careless about his affairs; and in no haste at all to
her father’s neck, and while her bosom heaved and | claim the insurances, most of which steod for months
throbbed, as her feelings sought to gain utterance | after {t became dune. He had selected his men with
in speech, no words could @xpress thein. They!

were toy deep Tor speech, and it was not until ber
parent soothed her with all a parent’s tenderness,
that she at length revealed how deep a hold the
stranger possessed of her affections,‘and in what a
new light Philip stood ju her estimation. Never be-
tore had she appreciated his patient and enduring

aitachment.

‘ressing her hauds upon her burn-

ing forehead, she remained some moments buried
ju deep thoiiyht, but at length she exclaimed :
“ Oh, has it at list coine'to this; and is my onge

happy home to be rendered

lafe

for ever

rough me. Uh, Philip! Philip! how my poor

rain racks and furubs — how
loathe me when you learn all!”
learn ell, when a few days afierwards
he Manor, and found Ellen prostrate

he

~— =

reac

you will hate and
~ j

on a dick bed; and delirious through an attack ot

fever.

And when af length some reason

glimuner-

ed through the dark feelings of desolation that had
for a tine clouded her faculties, the first low voice

tue heard beside her éodch

yaured her name.

war
iy

“ Ellen! dear, dear Ellen!”

1. wae Philip, who strove by every means to
assuage the grief that se entirely depressed her
spirits; but, though be never once alluded ty the
ainful cause ot her Dlyess, she had herself awoke
more her delysjye ayd besyildering dream.

‘Tv no explanation would he listen; and if the
wonted peace aud quiet of Merton was singularly
disturted when the dashing guest at the Manor

ve

nader the safe conduct of John May,) con-
a handeutied, from his snug quarters there

te the * Merten Arms,’ und thenee, in his own cur-
pele, (without the outsiders, ) to the county geal,
pending his transmission to the locale of his last

bifenee, i was myre than parralleled
Which that pleasaut hauler pe oe
atter Elicia, recovery.
rang ot nerry peals;
math with fluwers, and the
nis lair cousin — 80 unexpectedly

ote
cy

then the village
ew ed the
Mathey hd

by the seene

not long

Thea the church bells

children

n Philip

Wwoourt aad se providentially Lost by another,
nod now tine ly aud menouraviy WON by hinuseli—
to the altar, ‘wid ia wiler years, many were the
geldeu-taived chuidiey Uiat joyously gambolled

in

wne

with old Prauk O'Malley aud iheir pdreuts, be-
neath the auewnt syeamores that ‘shaded ti
grounds of Mewron Manor.

: a a i
Houses iN Tae Usrrep Sravres.—There js

house Ww every wix

New Orlegye pearly seven,

persons in the country. Lu

New York city there are thirteen persons to a
dwelling on the average; in Bostua about nive ;

this deliberate.”

I Seid for their operauions.

u- | doeior could be recalled, died in great agony. He
tien ‘With the busines¢ Which I have in hand, is that j cume, felt her pulse, placed his hand on her heart,
he has unwittingly allowed himself to be unmade | shook his head and intimated that all was over.
tue dape of an im

“The feelings of

sion of this »

deneo of his bwing a man of distinguished education,
| in spite of the poverty of his dress.
On being called out to plead, the prisoner ad-
| mitted that he did kill Baldwin, and he deplored
the act, adding, however, that on his soul and
conscience he did not believe himself guilty.
| Thereupon a jury was impanneled tg try the pri-
‘soner. ‘The indictment was they read to the jury,
| and the act of killing bein admitted, the Gevern-
| ment rested their case, and the prisoner was galled
upon fur his defence eel, :

‘The prisonéy theu addressed himselé ty the Court
and Jury :— ' ‘

“My lord,” aaid he, “my justification ig to be
found in a recital of the facts. Threp years ago 1
Hlost a dayghter, then four years of age, the sole
| menortil of & beloved wife, whom it had pleased
| God to recall to himself. I fost her, but I did not
| nee her die. She disappeared — she was stolen |
from me. She was a charming child, and but her
L had nebody in the world to love me. Gentle-
ined, what P have suffered cannot be deseribed ;
you cannot comprehend it. 1 had expended in
| advertising aud fruitless searches everything I
| possessed—furniture, pictures, even my clothes.
| All haye beet) Adld. Por three years on foot Lhad
ibeen seeking for‘ my child in all the cities, and
fall the villages in the three kingdoms. As soon
jas by pajuting portraits Thad succeeded in gaining
la little money, Lretdrned to Loudon to commence
wy advertisements iti the newspapers. Atlength
jon Friday, the 14th of April ‘a:t, I crossed the

sumed for the season under the able management of
Mr. Lanergan, with whom are associated a com-
pany of very efficient stage actors. A few plays
only have yet been dramatized, and full honses
attended on these occasions, thus imparting an eclat
to the Lyceum and encouragement to its enterprising
proprietor. What degree of snecess will continue
to attend these dramatic exhibitions itis net diffi
cult to predict, if the encouragement long accorded
tothem in St. John be not suifered to decrease.
For my own part, a little of thip sort of pastime
suffices, and I experience no real pleasure iu obsery-
ing thg noisy conduct emanating from the pit, nor
the less objectionable manduvres of sickly and sen
timental personatofs. A learned critic says that
Shakespeare well recited would be better under
stood than on the stage ; for in recitation we escape
the weariness of listening to poor performery, who,
after all, fill up most of the time atthe theatre.
But L believe thig opinion is not appicable to the
company of professional players now in St. John,
for those who are competent to judge of their merits
incline to give them much prajse for thejr acting.

The headquarters of the Toth Meximent and its
magnificent and hgwe left our ann ene preceean
to Fredericton, where they are temporarily station
ed. So delighted with this removal were the citi
zens of the Proyiyjecial metropolis, that their im-
paticyce tO catch ‘the eupert sounds of the band
oveyéome all other considerations, and a number of
the elite of that beautiful city proceeded by steamer
down the more beantiful river St. John, to meet the
gallant soldiers who were being propelled to their
destination by the powerful agency of steam. Both
purties encounter each other midway between the
two cities, and upon the surface of a noble river,
lined with Scenery not easily surpassed for grandeur
and rural beauty fu America. A salute is exchanged,
banners flout in the gentle breeze, music heightens
the guiety of the scene, the fair women and brave
men that throng the decks of the two steymers fol-
low their course to the place of beginning.

Smithfield cattle market. In the centre of the
a troupe of mountebanks were performing
Among them a child was turning on
its head supported on a halberd. A ray from the
svul of its mother must have penetrated my own,
| fer me te have recognized my child in that con-
|ditien. It was my poor child. Her mother
| Would perhaps have precipitated herself toward
her, aud locked herselt in hef aris. As for me,
a veil passed over my «yes. I knew tet bow it
jvras—I, habitually gentle, even to weakness,
seized him by the clothes—I raised him in the
air, then dashed him ‘to the ground—then again ;
Atterward I repented what I had

| he wis dead.

Lord Chief-Justice Tindal —‘* These are not
How can you expect the
| Court and jury to look with favor oy your defeuce,
or God to pardon you, if you cannot forgive.”
Prisoner—* I know, my lord, what will be your
judgment, and that of the jury; but God has
rddned me; I feel it in my heart. You know
not, I kriew not then, the whole extent of the evil
When some compassionate
poeple broaght me my daughter in prison, she
was no lojg®r pure and angelic as formerly; she
| was corrupt, body and soul—her maaner, her
| language iyfgmous, like these with whom she had
| been living “J did not recognize her myself. Do
‘you comprehend’ vow? That man had robbed me
lof the love and soul of my child. And I—I have
{killed him but once.”
Foremau—“ My lord, we have agreed on our

Chief-Justiee—“ I understand you, gentlemen,
| but the law must take its course. ‘The Court must
| comms up the case, and theu you will retire to

| The Chief-Justice having summed up the case,
| the jury retired, aud in an instant after returned
| inte Court with a verdict of “ Not guilty.”

On the discharge of Hammond, the sheriff was

earry him off in
triumph. ‘The crowd followed him all the way to
'his lodgings with deafening shouts and huzzas.
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FEIGNING DEATH.
| No sooner did the principle of life insurance begin
to find favor, than ingenious kuaves found bere a

oceurred in 1830. la that year, in an obscure part
of London, lived a tall, middle-aged man, with a

| respectably though poorly, and being very quiet,
| a few acquaintances, and ne friends. Suddenly
vec Divht the woman was taken ill. A physician
| prescription. But almost immediaveiy aiver wards
the patient grew rapidly worse, and before the

| She was buried in due form; the sorrowing father
| presently claimed and received # considerable sum
| which bad been insured on the life of his daughter,
j and disappeared.
Not very long thereafter, an old yentheman and
his daughter tuok possession of a respectable house
| in the neighbouhood of Queen Square, where they

| remembered, that though the ojd nan gid not engage
}no one ever won the hand of the young womay.
But a stop was soon put to the amusements. The
lady was taken suddenly ill; of the heart
| s00n convalsed her frame ; several physicians were

| ter in apparent agony of spirit. One physician only
| arrived in time to see her imitate the appearance
,of death; the others, sutistied that life had fled,
gave their certificates and pocketed their fees. ‘The
coffin was put into the ground,and again the bereaved
father received many thousand pounds from the
various underwriters,merchants and e« mnpanies with
whom he insured the life of the departed.
Again—this time a few years later—these two

perty.in her own right. This was the report insi-
divusly spread and generally believed on theChange,
where he came to be much rgspectéd by those who
dealt with him. His house was open, and his niece

Presently it was rumored that unsuccessful

| some ready money which he would be forced to
borrow. ‘To do sé and secure his niece's property,
it became necessary that he should insure her life
| tor abvut two thousand pounds. As this was not a

To save his credit he asked that the

than ten different merchants and companies in Lon-
don and elsewhere. Once more the game was in
his hands. Ina few days the lady was taken ill.
| The physician summoned, found her in convulsions,
jwlministered a specitic, was recalled during the
| night, but came too late, as death had apparently

he latly 4lmost la} in state for several days and
iis Visited by pnmbers ; thé physician certified that
é Utefef a diséide “he could hardly name; the
urave veceived the éoflin, and the sorrowitfg unele
wet about his business ; he seemed to suffer much,

eaté, ‘and knéw flat they would pay. Finally con-
ceiving a Aidks Sie'a'place where be had suffered
so much, he removeg for a change of air, aud was
beard from no mere. Some time after his final dis-
appearance, suspicions were aroused, and on com-
paring notes and ‘descriptions, the life insurances
were fercéd W the’ contiadon that they had been
victimized by the shrewdest and most ‘ious of
villains. He was never heard from afterwards, and
no doubt pradently enjoyed, ii some distant coun-
try, the fruits of his successfu) swindle. It is diffi-
cult to account for the repeated success of so bold
a fraud; and it js gongnigy thought that the young
woman possessed the on «me of simulating death, of
which we read remarkable cases in the records of
various times.

CORRESPONDENCE,
NEW BRUNSWICK AFPALKS.

(From opr owp Correspondent.)

I believe the mails for the Eastward will be des-

tched in the course of an hour‘or two, and not
one encumbered with imperative duties, nor as
yet irritated by disappointed hopes, I think it
wouldn't be amiss to send a small contribution to
the ‘ Examiner, under the nen of New Hruns-
wick &ffairk.”” ae éffect this desirable purpose, I
bey'té farnish the following highly important mat
ters of information, and which LT respectfully re-
commend to the most serious consideration of the
mblic authorities and all loyal subjects in P. E.
Plaunel The author of * Junius’ Letters’ reminds
us of the indisputable podition that, “as we are
Englishmen, Ure least considerable amongst us has
ay interest equal to the proudest nobleman in the
laws and coustitation of his conutry.”’ This is high
authority for the privilege aaserted, + higher
than ite unquestionable truth. And Alpxguder
Pope somewhere wrote the following couple; for
young ladies to treasure in their memory ;—~

“O, name for ever sad, for ever dear

Sull breathed jn sighs, stj}) usherd with @ tear.”

Having now fortitied myself with sach eminent
precedents as the ubove for the objects of this‘com-
munication, and without further preface, I begin,
with perfeet eomposure, the record of some un-
doubted facta, and whieh | truat will lyst as Jong a
the warks of an ave permitted to epdure, J sha
make uo pcuarene of zeul for the interest and
welfare of posterity; but this mach 1 may be al-
lowed to suny, that no person eherishes a more sin-
cere concern for the happiness of future geuerations
than the writer hereof.

To commence, then. Friends and countrymen,
leud me your—eyes. ‘Theatrical pe

gocrs in our city. These diversions buve be

The first known fraud | P*

Colonial Railway ia aguin assuming considerable
importance. Messrs. Howe aud Tilley's departu e,
the other day, for Quebee, Montreal or Portlind, or
so;ne place not accurately understood, is somewhat
mysterious, and has caused the local press to e. cay
on the probable agreement between the Provinces,
to adcept the proposition of the Secretary of State,
which js leas Le tm to Colonial interests than the
terns recently urged by the Delegates ou the ln-
perial Government. In this Province, the first and
most important point to settle will be the route the
proy osed line of railroad will take. In the northern
co! x es the people contend for its being run
| through their section of the éountry, while another
}section of the Provinee is equally zealous for a
| different course being sdented, But an opinion,
{quite unlike €ithér of those, has been guining
jyround, and Which is, that the adverse claims be
tween the contending localities wil' be adjusted in
a manner, though perhaps not equally satisfactory,
will be equally im artial, namely, by relinquishing
in tote the idea of the much talked of Inter-Colonial
Railway. :

At the last Cireujt Gout heiden here, one Wm.
Mackie was convicted of wilfal murder and sen
tenced to be hanged on the 3rd of August. This
unhappy culprit is quite a young man, and by no
meurts a vicioug looking person. He is said to be a
citizen of the United States, and without friends or
uequaintances here. Mr. Thomson ably defended
him, and in his eloquent appeal to the Jury, when
alluding to the prisoner's relatives probably expect-
ing the return of a son or a brother, while he was
being led to saffer upon the scaffold, a copious flow
of tears coursed down the unfortunate man’s cheeks.
Lut on listening to the admonitions of the venerable
Chief Justice and the sentence of execution, he pre
sented a stern and undauuted front. Not a muscle
moved; not a feature changed, and the intrepid
criminal walked, with a light step and independent
air from the dock, to be chained in a dungeon and
await his awful doom. A recommendation of
wercy, Which accompanied the verdict, will pro-
bably be the means pen his life.

We have bad no real wari weather here as yet,
though we were very near having it, and I should
not be surprised if it be here before another week

shali have passed.
St. John, June 13, 1862. P. E. I.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

Arrival of the “ China” off Cape Race.

THE BRITISH PRESS ON THE DEFEAT OF THE
CANADIAN MINISTRY — FRENCH INFLUENCE
IN MEX!CO CONTEMPLATED—MEXICAN PORTS
TU BE BLOCKADED.

The Steamship China passed Cape Race at 1]
o'clock on Sunday morning, June 8th.

Pakts.—The ‘ Constitutionel * publishes an ar-
ticle on America, signed Limayrue, showing the
impossibility of the South being conquered, and
maintaining that mediation alone will suceced in
itting an end to the war, disastrous alike to the
interests of humanity and Europe.

“At the request of the Atlantic Telegraph Com-
ny, the Admiralty have ordered the steamer

’orcupine to prepare to take soundings. She

will be ready in about ten days.

Seully had given notice of motion inthe House

Commons in favor of establishing conmunica-

tions between Europe and America — Steamers

calling every alternate day at Cork with telegra-
phie communications off Crockhaven on Cape

Clear; but was postponed in hopes of laying addi-

tional tacts before the Heuse, and that members

in the meantime would give the matter their at-
tention. Both houses adjourved for a week dur-
ing Whitsun holidays.

Mr. Pearson, owner of the steamer Circassian,
publishes a letter asserting this his vessel had no-
thing really contraband on board — that she was
legitimately chartered for a voyage from Bordeaux
to Havanna; and was within 2U miles of her des-
tination when she was seized by the Federal erui-
ser ;—nud says, further, that ber draught of water
precluded an entrance into any Confederate port.
Thenee, it is impossible that she could run the
blockade.

The rates at Lloyds for steamera running the
blockade are low, being from thirty to forty
guineas. Some policies recognize that six mouths
detention from seizure is equivalent to total loss.
A general agitation has commenced in East
Lancashire to induce the Government to remove
all duties on cotton goods imported into India, and
thereby relieve the distress existing in the manu-
facturing districts. A large district out-door meet-
ing has been called to discuss the question.

The ship Autonelli had left Liverpool with salt
for New Orleans. Others will soun follow.

Lord Brougham, in his inaugural address before
the Seeial Science Assyciation, expatiated on the
American question—pointing out the proneness of
democracy to war, and waruly enaiadhiadabed the
Federal Government for the new Slave Treaty,
which he regards as the last blow to the traffic.
The ‘Times’ editorially reproaches the Canadian
Parliament for neglecting to provide for the de-
fence of the country in defeating the Militia Bill,
and points out the question as a vital one for the
independence of the Canadians, but quite secon-
dary fur England.

The ‘ Daily News’ contradicts the attack of the
‘Times’ as unjustified, and says that no ove has a
right to charge the Canadians with neglecting
their duty to provide for the defence of the coun-
try, simply because they had differed upon and re-
jected the Militia Bill.

The freedom of the City of London has been
voted to Lord Canning for his services in India.
A rumor iscnrrent that Napolegn contemplates
a permanent establishment of Freneh inQuenee in
Mexico by means of Protectorate. The Emprese
Eugenie is expected to pay a private visit to Eng-
land during the Emperor's stay at Vechy.
France and Russia have both rejected the pro-
—_- of the Porte relative to the Church and
vly Sepulehre at Jerusalem.

The Italian Government have
six new brigades of infantry.
Austria continued to coneegtrate her troops at
Venetia. The Italian Chamber was debating the
question of confidence in members. Possession
Chamber discussing the addyegs to’ the king, in
consequence of a paragraph which takes strong
exception to the action of ministers. ©
A ministerial crisis had taken plage in Greece.
A — miuistry was also being formed eee

resolved to form

Casse f

LATEST.
Livervoot, Saturday pight.
_ FRance.—The Paris ‘ Mouiteur’ of this even-
ing contains a notification to blockade the Mexi-
can ports of Tampico aud Alvarado.
Iraty.—In the sitting of chamber deputies, on
the 6th, Signor Rutiazzi said the Government had
never encouraged premature hopes as to the so-
lution of the Roman “question. We ought to use
moral means to demoustrate our unshaken will
tw vecupy our capital, and convince Europe that
on our nght Government alone ought to regulate
the armament. It never sent nioncy to Garibaldi,
and has always refused to join expeditions which
were proposed. ‘The chambers rejected the mo-
tion of enquiry into late events, and adopted by
159 to 33 the order of the day. Having hegrd
explanation of Ministry in reference to recent
events, Chamber approves of its couduct and js
confident it will always maintain authority’ and
Parliament. 25 meubers abstained (rom yoting.
Sratn—Madrid, 6th.—The publication of effi-
cia] documents relative to affairs in Mexicy bas
aga an impression little favorable to General
*rim. it

The China's passage from Cork to Cape Race
was completed in 5 days aud 17 hours. :

BRITISH COLUMBIA.

PERILS OF TRAVELLING IN THE NEW GOLD
REGION.
Vieroryja, VANCOUVER’s ISLAND, JAN. 29,
1862.—I gaye arrived here quite safe,but you will
have theught before this ¢ the Indians have
got my not, but they did not quite. I am still
alive, though I have seen some very hard times
since ! wrote you last from Ked River. I then
caleujated te get through in three months. It

are
now the favourite source of anusemept with play-

was seven months within a few diye wheu J)

Public opinion amongst us regarding the Inter-;

landed in Victoria. ‘The first mouth of our jour-
ney we only made 240 miles, to Fort Ellice. We :
were twice lost in that distance; the country | .
through which we passed being so very swampy, |
and such a number of creeks and rivers to eross,
we made but little progress; the creeks were
swollen into rivers, and the rivers almost Mypas- |}
sable; the currents were feartul, Day after day, |)
travelling in mud and water, in some places so
deep that horses and — were wellay “4
appearing altogether-—they were continually ge
the prin drs. 0 to wade through the mud aud e
water, and put our shoulders te the wheels. The
mosquitoes tormented us almost to mad ness 5 no
rest did they give us night or day. We left our |,
guide at Fort Ellice; he proved to be a lazy, use;
less fellow. After resting a few days we started
for Fort Carlten,on the Saskatchewen (distant
350 miles}, without a guide, where we arrived ou
the 30th of July. Here we heard most discourag-
ing accounts of the Indiaus; we were told it was
madness to proceed further than Fort Pitt, as the
Blackfeet had swore to kill every white man that
passed through their country. —
to procure a guide, so determined to push on
alone, and on the ninth day arrived at Fort Pitt.
The reports concerning the Blackfeet were here
confirmed. We rested several days, bought fresh

4

to guide us to Edmenton. We were sow about
to enter the Blackfoot eguntry. Quer guly hope
of safety depended upon the buffalo If we did
not see any, we could safely conelude we should
not meet with Indians, and they were reported to
be south of our track. The first day we encamped
ina small valley to dine, our Indian guide was
deseribing a battle that: had taken place on that
very spot betyven a siusall party of Crees and |
a large number gf Blackfeet; the Crees were |
overpowered and scalped, two only escaping, one
of whom was our guide. He wag jn the act of
showing us an arrow wound which he had r-
ceived at the time, when we were startled by a
tremendoys yelling and whooping. We sprang
to ouy feet, and in front of us saw descending the
bill a band of what we (the guide included) sup-
posed to be Blackteet. In a moment, we formed
the cart into a circle and placed the horses in-
side, served our rifles, aud then patiently waited
their arrival, Qn they come yelling and cutting
up like ~avell, just like Indians, and they were
Indians, too, but they turned out to be Crees.
We had a talk and a smoke, they told us that we
should meet a baud of Blackfeet, 400 in number,
in about five days; however, we arrived safe at
Edmonton in nine days without seeing them. We
had now travelled about 1000 miles, aud this was
the last fort on our route this side the moyntajns.
We disposed of our carts, bought fresh horses (it
requires a good horse to cross the mountains, )
and endeavored to get a tresh supply of provisions,
but could only get a few pounds of dried meat
and two emall bladders of tallow; the hunters
were afraid to go out on account of the Indians.
Our greatest difficulty was in obtaining a guide.
We got one at last, an Assimpoata half-breed, for
the value of £25 paid in advance, to guide us
across the mountains. We started on the 2nd of
September with scant 30 days’ provisions. We
ealeulated upon reaching Colville in that time.
Our guide led us by a circuitous route through
the woods in order to avoid the Blackfeet, whom
he appeared to hold in considerable dread.
The sixth day we came in sight of the Rocky
Mountains, distance about 50 wiles, the 11th day
our guide vanished, It was impossible for us to
go back. On the 15th day we came to a broad
nver, we followed it up to the mountains, attempt-
ed there, and sueceeded. Arrived atColville Nov.
1], about 70 days from Edmonton. You cannot
conceive, nor can I deseribe, the dreadful hard-
ships we experienced; lost i the Rocky Mou.-
tains 30 days. In the month of October the snow
commences to fall in the valleys. The top of the
mountains are always covered. I think we cross-
ed them in the widest part. Our provisions ran
out long before we reached Colville. For several
days we existed upou roseberries; they are rather
woolly eating, but we had excellent appetites, so
much so, that we killed my poor dog, a tine Esqui-
maux sleigh dog; we ate him ravenously, leaving
only his skin. ‘The poor fellow was very tough,
but that was all the better, as the small portion
allowed to each lasted the longer. Atte the dog

stances where definite arrangements were nNepos-

so mueh divided between a desire y te
Sir Dowinick Daly and to bid suitable farewell to
Sir Richard MacDonnell, that little attention was

attended with many marksof loyalty. | 1
nothing like publie enthusiasm manifested, it was

wise than mingled with regret at losing the one
who has now left us. To entertain this feeling was

services when they have enjoye ’
which we hope will fow from them. Whilst,then,
the public yesterday devoted a day to welcome and
honour the newly-#ppointed representative of Her
Majesty, they did nos fail to bid a warm farewell
to the one who,for the last seven years, has so ably
We were unableja matter which must have reminded most persons
that Sir Dominick Daly had arrived here at a criti-
cal moment. I
ted by Sir Richard MacDonnell, will no doubt find
® -
. é ; : improbably see the utility of that movement full
horses, and succeeded in engaging a Cree Indian proved daring+his own term of olfles.

threatening all parts of Her Majesty's dominions, #

open to attack.

ible, and in the midst af proceedings so exeming as
hose attending the arrival of a new Goverier wattd

he departure of an old one. The — we
ithy to -

wid to the proeecdings themselves, or to the man-
ver in which they were conducted. ae

The reception of Sir Dominick in Adelaice was
If there was

sot on necownt of coldness. The truth is, the Joy
if receiving the new Governor could not be other-

1 diarespect to Sir Dominick, but, on the contrary,
t proof ‘strat the colonists will appreciate his own
the advantages

roverned the colony. : :
The military part of yesterday's proceedings was

the volunteer movement, inangura
warm supporter in his successor, who may not t
Ilis Read

eney comes amongst us ata mewent when war is

war in which these colonies would be peculiarly
This gives an importance to the
question of defence which it has not hitherto pos-
sessed, and that question is one which belongs more

—fhe departure of I
Ambassador, for England, has predaced soine
sensation at Washingten.
have au impression that he has geome home to
consult with his Government on matters which
they do not he to trust in manuscript, bast preter
verbal couversation.— Boston Journal.

It is stated that emigration from Jrelewd

America is ivereasing.

Coal has risen to $6 a ton in Bosten, ewing to

freshets in Pennsylvania.

The Duke of Devonshire has lowered the retn

on bts Lrish Estates 20 per cent.

Loup Lyons’s DerartrCat For ENGLAND.
awd Lyota, the British

The krewing ones

Coat OL AND Gas.—T'he experiment of light-

ing street lamps with oil instead of gas ie shout to
be tried in this city.
got the coutract for lighting the city at 812.50 per
annum, being considerably lower than the offer
of the Gas Company.
one, being the first attempt ever made in Canada
to light streets with the home manufactured il-
luminating oil.

Messrs. Young & Bro. have
The experiment is a new

Should the trial prove satisfac-
ory, We presume the more general introduction

of coal oil as an illuminating medium may be
expected.—Hamilton Times.

In Pennsylvania great loss has been caused by

floods—property wurth many millions of dollars
aud several lives.

a

than any other to the Governor of the colony.
llowever constituted our Government may be, the
power of the sword belongs to the Crown; and at
no period of our history has it been so desirable
that that power should be efficient and ready of

Che Cxrawiner,

application. The social and educational movements
commenced or nided by the late Governor will
doubtless find a warm patron in Sir Dominick
Daly; but these, at the present moment, ure
cecondary to the question of improying what has
already been done towards the defence of the colo-
ny, The Legislature will, no doubt, continue to
find fands jour this murpoke, bui experience has
shown that the eal of the Government may do
mach towurds making expenditure in this direction
eflicient.

COLONIAL NEWS.

CaNADA.—Three of the new Ministers have
been re-elected without opposition—Mr. McGee
for Montreal; Mr. Foley for Waterloo; aud Mr.
Evaniurel for Quebee.

Ninety-five dwellings were burnt down on the
7th inst in Quebee. The village of Drumbe, Ox-
ford, has also nearly all been burnt down, pro-
perty to the value of £70,000 being destroyed.

Parliament was prorogued on the 9th. The
Tariff went into operation on the same day.

The Hon. T. D’Arey MeGee, President of the
Council, has been elected by acclamation for
Montreal West. The other members of Govern-
ment whe have to appeal to their constituencies
will meet with opposition.

A commitice of the House on the subject off
Printing for the Province have recommended the
adoption of the English practice, which is not to
publish the Gazette on account of the Government,
giving it the full beuetit of all gain accruing from
the issue.

‘Two large fires have recently taken place in
Quebec. The one on the 10th inst. destroyed over
100 houses, principally wood, and the property of
workmen in the ship yards.

The Pictou (N. 8.) Standard says—a heavy
frost occurred on Saturday night, which we regret
to learn, has proved very injurious in several
= of the country, to early and tender vegeta

les. In some places the potato top: have been
blackened, and it is teared that the prospects of
the fruit crop are injured from the severity of the
frost. The same paper adds that a heavy rain
storm, though of but short duration, accompanied
by thunder and lightning, passed over this town
on Saturday afterneon. A horse belonging to
Mr. Patterson was killed during the storm, while
pasturing in a field at the back of the town.
Another horse attached to a waggen in which
were a Woman and a boy, took fright and ran off.

,

was finished, we fasted a few days by way vi
change, but we became so weak we were obliged |
to kill a horse; as soon as he dropped, cach cut |
a piece aud threw it inte the fire, my partaci diay
not wait te cook his, but ate it raw. We ate more |
that day than we had eaten for the three weeks |
previous, We packed the rest ot the dead horse |
on the poor fellow’s companions; the poor things |
were nearly starved to death, having nothing but |
pine branches to exist upon. The horsetlesh took |
us nearly to Colville,but it beeame highly flavored, |
and contained some very tine speciinens of mag: |
gots. For twe weeks after our arrival at Col-|
ville I did nothing but eat. Colville is a small |
mining town, the population apparently miners, |
thieves, and nhs dangerous even in day-
light te walk about. I was knocked down one |
evening a little after sunset by two fellows and
acarly strangled. Fortauatély; 1 had deposited
most of my p.ouey ib secunty, but they suceeeded
in rubLioe me of $25. The neXt day my partner
and self staried on foot, with eur blankets and
provisions strapped on ovr backs, for Walla
Walla, distant 220 miles. -On waking up the
morning after our first encamp...o"t we found that
six inches @f snow had fallenupon —° during the
night. It snowed all the way, and the «Ww be-|
came wet and slushy; we suffered much ou the |
journey, haviag started with nothing but mocea-
sins to our fect, and they will not keep out wet,
I doubt if we should have been able to walk any
distance in boots had we had them. I have
hardly got accustomed to them even how. Mo-
cassins are not worn this side the mountains. In
Red River they are worn by all. We arrived in
Walla Walla the luth day. It is a larger town
than Colville, with the same kind of population.
I lett my partner here, and tuok the steamboat on
the Columbia for the Dalles, Oregon, distant 210
miles; from tiere to Vancouver's, 170 miles;
thence to Portland, Oregon, 16 miles, where I)
spent Christmas—not yery merry; from Portland
to Victoria, 400 miles passage, $20. I am at
present working at carpentering, the wages are
2s. per day in the summer,and }6s. in the winter.
{ pay 24s. per week for my board. I do not think
[ shall go to the mines this year. ‘The Cariboo
are the richest yet discovered, and are about 600
miles from Victoria, through a mountainous
country. It is impossible to get in before the
middle of June, as the snow is 15 te 20 feet deep
in the winter. There will be a frightful rush in
the spring, provisions will be enermously dear, if
obtainable at all in sufficient quantities. Many
will leave their bones there. Meu who have iron
constitutions to endure the hardships must make
large fortunes. Hundreds will be disappointed.
We crossed the same range of mountains, but we
were too much worn out with hunger and fatigue
to think about gold.”

(From the South Australian Register, March 5.)
ARRIVAL OF SIk DOMINICK DALY.

One of the most interesting of all the ceremonies
which can take place in any of Her Majesty's Co-
lonies occurred yesterday. Sir Domiuick Daly, the
newly-appointed Governor of, South Australia, ar-
rived at Port Adelaide in the morning, and Sir
Richard MacDonnell, the late Governor, left Glen-
ely in the evening. In the interval all business in
and around Adelaide was suspended. Shops and
otfices were closed, flags were floating from the
most conspicuous buildings of the city, and crowds
of persons assembled both around Government
House, where the ceremony of swearing in the
Governor was performed, and on the North Park
Lands, where the volunteers, to the number of
about six hundred, were passed in review. The
day, in fact, was a boliday, and all classes of per-
sons joined init, anxious to show a last_mark of
respect to Sir Richard and Lady MacDonnell, and
to give a token of their respect to the new Governor
and his family.

were al! dependent ov the uncertain arrival of the
t eamer which was to bring Sir Dominick from Mel-
bourne. The delays which therefore ensued must
te excused, and the Corporation addresses whieh
were intended for presentation yesterday and whieh
wll, no doubt, keep, must be reserved for some
other occasion. ‘The arrival of the Havilah at the
Port, with His Excellency and family, was so much
earlier than was expected that the Municipal Conn-
cil of that place were quite unprepared, and enly
ot their address ready in time to hand it to Capt.
grinkly, as the viceregal party were leaving tor
town, and that gentleman,at the request of the Cor-
poration, who apparently did not know what to do
with the document, took charge of it. But if His
Excellency, by arriving thusearly, lost the address | ©
of the Corporation, he gained considerably by
avoiding the intended jutliction of a journey along |
the Port-roud. The arrangement made was that

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party from the wharf direct to town ; but fortunately, |!
considering the state of the road, the carriages-and- | ©
four did not arrive in tine, and the much more eon-
venient and comfortable conveyance afforded by ihe
railway was made use of instead. This no one can
regret.
doubt the prosperous state of the colony if he had
been brought to the city by one of the worst of all
our roads, and might have questioned the loyalty or
judgment of those who mude the arrangements, | I
secing that there is a good line of railway running
alongside of it. Bae even with his luck escape
from this intliction, there oecurred a little difficulty
on landing which must give His Excellency an idea
that we are rather a slow people. It appears that | |
Port Adelaide was unable to furnish any vehicle | @

steamer to the railway train,and that, after one had
been brought and found useless, walking had to be
resorted to as the only means of reaching the sta-
tion. Of course, all this would have been avoided
if the stermer had not arrived so early. But it is
weli, perhaps, that our deficiencies in’ these little
matters should be seen in their ordinary light.

The swearing in of Sir Dowinick Daly was
almost a private ceremony, though it was generally
supposed that it would be public. In this part of
the proceedings some delay arose ; and the review:
of the volunteers which followed was postponed
for an hour, much to the inconvenience of some
thousands of persons who were assembled beneath

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or
56

ordered away by Pde on duty, but soon
after returned, walke
and drowned himself.

arrived at St. Louis.

United States have dedicated ninety-five churches,
many of them very costly and maguificent.

condemned and sold, up to this time,
dent of the Baltimore ‘ Sun’ says that neither officer by Angus ¥
mously ;—

sales have ever reached the Treasury. The money

where it is likely to remain for an indefinite time,
as there is no law requiring the Federal otffieers w
make prompt returns of these funds.

cow-hiding aifuir.
two carriayes-and-four should take the viceregal | i@% him with having insulted

a few secouds most vigorously to the form of the
butcher, to the no small
ookers-on.
His Excellency would have had cause to |e same market,
many friends.

The woman was throwa out, but received no
serivgus injury,

BANISHED FROM 'TANGIER.—Our Tangier cor-
respondent writes us the particulars of the expul
xion a short time since from that district, of three?
disreputable men, one a notorious character, for
having decoyed a miner out of his dwelling at
uight time, and beating him in a most bratal
manner, The guilty parties were tried by a
Committee of the Miners, and sentenced to
banishment—the most guilty of the three to
receive an additional punishment of thirty-six
lashes,—z!l of which was duly carried out At
their departure they were accompanied to the
Tangier Bridge -by a fermidable escort. Our
correspondent closes by saying— Tangier has
borne a good name heretofore, and the miners are
determined not to have it tarnished by the lawless
activus of such desperadvoes.”’

We regret to learn that, on Thursday week
last, whilst returning from the Bras d’Or to the
North Bar, Mrs. George S. Brown of the latter
place, her daughter and Miss Austin of Halifax,
were thrown froin a waggoun and precipitated |
over a bank on the readside, the horse huving
taken fright. Mrs. Brown had three of her rite |
vroken, Miss Brown her collar boue fractured,
and Miss Austin her head severely cut.
gratified to state, however, that no further inju-
ries are apprehended, and that all three are
recovering. —C. B. Neics.

The St. John, N. B., Gas Company has reduced

Se much for the competition of cheap coal vil.

£500 worth of logs were swept through the
Falls on the St. John River and lost, on the night

of 11th inst.
8

A melancholy instance of death from loekjaw took
ace at Chatham, Miramichi, recently. A Mr.
sernard McCormack accidentally trod upon a nail,
which perforated the sole of his slipper, entering
the foot a little inside the ball of the great toe. |
About a week afterwards he was attacked with
lockjaw, and died in great agony on the second day.

There is great excitement in Montreal over an at-
tempt to reduce the current value of the British shil-
ling to 24e. The newspapers are reaping a good
harvest from the advertisements of large lists ef re-
tailers who will, aud those who wont agree to the

resolution.

A mysterious suicide was committed in St. Join,
N. B., on Saturday night last. About 12*0’clock, a
man was observed walking through the mud, di-
rectly into the water in the Market Slip. He was

deliberately into the water,
His nume was not known.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.

An Englishman who has resided near Augusta,

In August, 90,000 bales of |

the approach of the
Within the past year the Catholics of the

ae

It is known that more than one million of

short supply of | cx

The valne of prize vessels and cargoes actually
exceeds five

nillious of dollars, but the Washington correspon-

ior sailor bas yet received a dime of the prize money.
Mly forty thousand dollars of the proceeds of prize
sin the hands of Unived States District Attorneys,

sta

An unusual excitement was created in Washing-
on Market, New York, on Tuesday morning, by a
At 6 o’clock a lady appeared in

he portion of the market a /propriated to rive the setile y A
, i mutton | &Ven to the setilers on the Estates last mention-
dealers, and accosted one of > excitedly, charg- ed, # mecntio

i her, and declared her
ntention to chastise him therefor. Drawing from
he folds of her dress a cowhide, she applied it for | O
bie will delight of the crowd of
The heroine is the wife of a dealer in
aud is supported in the act by

ee

Among the most noteworthy attractions of the
nternatioual xhibtion will probably be the beau.

the price of gas to $3 per thousand enbie feet.! PY :
Oe ae te ee ee Execuiive Government of this Island, that gross

deception has been practised on the Tenartry,
many of whom were bed to believe, by the plausi-
bie statements of members and supporters of the

February: and further, because only a very few
Ga., until within the last three weeks, has just | of the Proprictors would be bound under the
He represents the Con-| Award.

federates in that section as still confident of |
ultimate success.
coitun were stored, and the commander of the
arsenal there had formed a committee of citizens
who had been appointed te consult him on the
subject, that in case of
nativnal forces all must be burned,

Meeting, the Bills passed last Session to confirm
the Award were
| People’s Representatives, and shoul
been passed,

P
lia),

unanimously :—

— Cunard and a few other Proprietors, and
ately
. . bj C y i
a , persons are suftering in the manufacturing districts Soames =a haha per tae enero
e arrangements made for the day's proceedings | o¢ direat Britain, owing to the
cotton, proprietors, and scarcely any thing at all in favour
of the Tenantry.

reasonable
principal Estates in this Island to be enabled to

similar to those allowed to the settlers on the
Worrell, Selkirk,
and that
should be allowed to tenants geverally as were

be publistied in the Examiner and Ross's Weelely.

Charlottetown, 23rd June, 1862.

PUBLIC MEETING AT MOUNT STEWART.

Ow Tuesday evening last, the 17th inst., a Pub-
lic meeting was held in. front of the fesidence of
James McWade, Esqr., Mouut Stewart, the ob-
ject of whieh was to elicit the opinions of the
people in that part of the country with respect
to the Bilis pazsed to confirm the Award, and
other measures which engaged the attention of
the Legislature during the late Session. James
McDonald, Eesq., (Alisary,) filled the chair, and
discharged its duties with energy and efficiency.

Che attendance was highly respectable, and wuch

larger than we expected, owing to the fact that
many farmers in that neighbourhood were still
busy with their planting operations, We should
suppose there were fully two hundrpd and fifty
persons present—before the meeting was organized
upwards of two hundred were gounted by a gen-
tleman present, and persons gaptinued to drop in
for nearly two hours after,

Messrs. Coles, Whelan, Alexr. Rebertsan, P.
Griffin, J. E. Kelly, and several others, addressed
the meeting — with what sucgess the resolutions
The Lillis to confirm the Land
Commissioners’ Award, the Proprietors’ Bill, and
the Lill te incorporate the Catholic Bishop for
certain trust purposes, were the principal topics
The feeling of the Meeting was

passed will shew.

of discussion.
very strong against the Award Bills, and the sen-

timents of Messrs. Coles and Whelan in reference
to them were frequently applauded. Allusions to,
and explanations on the Proprietors’ Bill, called
forth the strongest execrations; and the people
seemed firmly convinced—as we believe they are

everywhere throughout the Island—that the Bill
is only another link in the chain with which the
present Government have endeavoured to bind
the teuantry in abject and hopeless servility to the
Proprictors. The explanations on the Catholic
Bishop Incorporation Bill, into which Messrs.
Coles and Whelan entered at great length — the
latter reading the several clauses of the Bill from

the Royal Gazette, aad commenting on them as
he went along—were deemed highly satisfactory,
and most effectually removed any litthe miseon-
ception that might have prevailed with regard to
that measure.
how far he can damage the Liberal Party, or any
one of them, by repeating his old falsehoods with
regard te the Bishop’s Bil?
Meeting—which embraced the intelligence, influ-
ence and respectability of Lots 35, 36, and 37,
(without counting a large contingent from Lot 38)
—wus decidedly in favour of the present members,
Mexsrs. Coles and Kelly; and we have ne doubt
they will be returned, at the next eleetiva, by a
handsome majority, against all comers.

Will Mr. Secretary Pope now try

The feeling of the

We insert the resolutions passed at the Meet-

| ing, whieh, it will be seen, did net mect with one
We are | dissenting voice.

Proposed by Mr. James E. Kelly, seconded by

Mr. Patrick Griffin, and passed unanimously :—

Whereas it has been clearly shewn by the pro-

ceedings of the Legislature, and by the corres-

midence between the Colovial Office and the

sovernment, that there would be a large remis-
ion ci arrears of reuts allowed to all tenants on

Towuship lauds—that farms could be purchased
in fee, at a low valuation, and the purchase iweney
paid in instalments at convenient seasons. And
whereas delusive promises of this kind have been
held out by the Government, for more than three
| years ; but it is evident now that the object of the
party in power was to strengthen the hands of the
proprietors, and get some measure passed that
would secure them in the quiet possession of their
lands, notwithstanding their fuefeiture under the
original conditions, as well as to have their
unjust claims te the fishery reserves allowed, and
their liability fur the payment of arrears of quit
rents cancelled. And whereas these concessivns
in favour of the proprietors would be injurious to
the country, unless accompanied by concessions
| to the tenantry.
to confirm the Award would not secure any con-
cessions to the tenantry, because the Loan re-
commended by the Reyal Commissioners has been
set aside; and the Arbitration principle—which
might, perhaps, be attended with some litle
aor a in some cases—has also been set aside
)

But the Bills passed last Session

y the Duke of Neweastle’s despatea of the 7th

Therefore Resolved, that, in the opinion of this
unworthy of the support of the
not have

roposed by Mr. Ronald McDonald, (Garahe-
seconded by Mr. John Hagarty, and passed

Resolved, That the draft Bill sent out by Sir
blished by the Government, is still more

made practicable to any considerable extent ;
ntaining as it does every thing tavourable to the

Proposed by Mr. Alexander Robertson, seconded
cAulay, Esqr., aud passed unani-

Resolved, That it has been and ever will be the
expectation of the Tenantry on all the

mvert their leascholds into freehulds on terms

Lot 11 and Lot 54 Estates;
such a remission of arrears of rents

Proposed by Mr. P. Griffin, seconded by Mr.
weu Stewart, and passed unanimously :—
Resalved, That the proceedings of this meeting

THE official editor of the ‘ Islander’ devotes the

ti
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cartouche vives the tithes of
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f sphinxes, so beautifully
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old, wrought like a tress,

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i on sun on the North Park Lands. But no-

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1p pad yqus be St. Hele

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Her body was covered with objects in gold
all of great juierest,
gold incrusted with pre.
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Wrought that the urwus,
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the King Amuasis. The
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n captured by a

whole of the editorial department of that paper,
of Friday last, to our special entertainment. ‘The
subject of the leading article is the falsehood re-
cently fabricated by him, to the effect, that when
the Liberals were in power they passed a Bill to
tax the tenantry for the maintenance of an armed
force to enable the proprietors to collect their
rents. Mr. Pope now acknowledges that the Bill
referred to by him is entitled as follows :-—* An
Act to impose a Rate or Duty on the Rent Rolis
of the Proprietors af certain Township Lands in
Prinee Edward Island, in order to defray the ex-
penses of an Armed Force, which may be requir-
ed on acgount of the withdrawal of the Troops,
and for the further encouragement of Education,”
We need pot shew how absurd it is for any per.
80 to attempt to prove thas a Bill of this nature

could extract taxes from the pockets of
antry; bot Mr. Pope, knowing that ewe
an outrageous falsehood, tries to zive a slight
louring of truth to it, by quoting some exp”
from a despatch of Sir D. Daly, whieh warn’
warded to the Colonial Office, in ~

the Rent Roll Bill. $i 9. Daly stated, om
true envaga, that althowgh the measure _

some extent, be a burthen on the mites
was for thei interest to have it Pored, as ie
incomes depended on a due Oometvance of the
laws, and the general prace and Promperity of the
Cohowy. If an armed force is at alt

(and car present Government say it is, when they
squander six hundred @ year of the tenants’

ov the Volunteer movenent )—it ix omy

to preserve internal peace. No one but 4 mad-
man, or a fvol, or a base political charlatan wi
venture te assert that we could ever Faire & local
force sufficient to repel foreign Invasion, The
Company of Newfoundland i enreked in
1555, was merely intended to act as a general
Police, to assist the civil aduiinistration in carry.
ing out-the laws of the country, Precisely as the
Police of Charlottetown enable the © .

to enforce their ordinanees. As to the

of making the Armed Force an auxihary for the
Proprictors in the collection of their rents, no ene
ever imagined such a thing. The Liberals dia
not like the Proprietors so well as to pat such
power in their bands; and the Propristers know
the feelings entertained towards them, otherwiny *
they would uot have so strongly petitioned the
Crown tu lave the Bill disallowed.

In giving extracts from Sir D. Daly's despatch
accompanying the Rent Roll Bill, Mr. Pope garbles
and interpolates the language of the Lieut. Go
vernor; and, in order te force an improper com.
struction oa the extracts, he prints them ip Italie
and small capital type. Let Mr. Pope print the
whole of Sir Dominick's despateh in plain
and then his readers will be better able to give a
judgment upon it. Sir Douinick did, indeed, ey.
press some doubt that the Rent Roll Bill would
not realize a sufficient amount to support an armed
force. That doubt was entirely his own—it was
neither shared by the Executive Council, nor the
majority of the Assembly who passed the Bill,
If the Ferce could not be supported by the pro-
duce of the Rent Rell Bill, its proportions would
be diminished to such an extent as woukl make
the tax quite adequate to its support, or it would
be altegether abandoned. We believe that Sie
Dominick's object in expressing a doubt as to the
insufficiency of the tax, was to prevent agy alana
from taking proveeston of the wie of toe Behe
Minister with respwet to the extent of the burtben
about $y be laid ayo the proprietor. We always
regarded it a8 ap imgecent ruse to induce the
Minister to sanctioy the Bill. But even syppos-
ing that Sir Dominick really believed that the
Rent Roll Tax @ould have to be snpplpmepted
out of the general reyenue for the suppert of a
Military Farce, the Liberal majority in the As-
sembly were net bound by kas beliefs OF opinions
in any way. He was net the Orst, and we think
there is no doubt that he will nat he regayded as
the Las? Governor whe wrote things which ne
ody believed but himself. Mr. Dundas, for ea-
ample—for whom, xs a gentleman and as the
Queen's Representative we have a very great
respect—writes many despatches, (which, by the
bye, he does not submit to the Leyislature, OF
“intend for the eyes of the people,”) which he
may consider very statesnsulike productions; but
if we were in the Government we would not like
to assume the responsibility of them all. Sach
statesiuen as Mr. Laird and Mr. Siapson might.

The Colonial Seeretary ms very lond im his de,
Nunciatious sgainst the late Government fer con-
cealing certain despatches written by Sir Demimek
respecting some Bills passed by the Liberal Go-
vermment. We have no knowledge of any inaper-
tant despatches that were concealed. If anything
of the himd were ever written, they can be eusily
found im the Despateb Book, which Mr. Pape caw
have recourse tv at any memeut; and the Govern-
ment will, no doubt allow him te print any extract
he pleases from that book. He alludes te the divi-
sion in the House of Assembly, in 1856, respecting
Mr. Haviland’s motion to have produced the whuls
of Sir George Grey's Despateh No. 13, of the 17th
November, 1853. Mr. Haviland’s metion was re-
sisted on this very plain and constitutional ground,
that the minority—se long as thes coutinue to be
such—should never be pernitted to force the me
jority into any proceeding. We intend to carry
out this principle very strictly when we return te
power. If there is, however, anything in that
part of Sir George Grey's despatch which was not
produced in 1556, in obedience te the demand of
the Tory party, which may serve the purposes of
W. H. Pope and his friends, we see po obstacle
in the way of their publishing it. They haye the
whole document under their hands, and it is un-
reasonable for them te complain about a part of
it being concealed from. the public, while they help

to conceal it themselves.

<2
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

Mr. F. W. hiughes, the Superintewdent and
General Agent for Tue EXamixer Office, will
commence to make his annual visit te our Sub-
scribers in Queen's and Prince Counties in the
course of a few days. We hope our friends will
be prepared to receive bim, and ulanifest trse
friendship for us by paying the accou.ts which he
will furnish. ‘The publication of a newspaper in
volves very great expense for labour, paper and.
printing machinery, besides many incidentals. This
expense must be met from day te day, and from
week to week, otherwise the work must step. A
subscriber may say that he dees not ewe much,
and-it can be no great inconvenience te the pub-
lisher if he waits a few months, or even years,
beyond the time his subscription is due; but if a
thousand subscribers say the same thing—and
thousand may say it with the same reasgnablyness
as one—it becomes a very serious matter tor tip
publisher, who must either draw funds from other
than the legitimate sources to keep his paper
alive, or he must let it go down. We don’t with
to do either. Tnx Examiner has bpp a9
earnest and fearless laborer in the cayap yf :
lar principles-—it should be considered weal of
ite hire—it wants nothing more, For years it has
fought single-handed all the other journals under
the influence and in the direct pay of the present
dominant party ;—unseduced by theblandishmenta
and undauuted by the frowns of a petty oligareby,
and triumphant over all the persecutions and pro-
secutions by which it has been assailed—it hag
kept the even tenor of its way, and has been the
principal instrument in securing liberal institutiont
for this country. When we commenced the
career of a journalist in this Island such a thing
as @ Liberal Party was searceiy known. The
Escheat party was nearly defunct. Dunean Me-
Lean tried to raise a new organization under the
ery of Reform, bet Duncan saw that he could do
nothing without the “power of the tecps," and
many a weary day and night have we spent in
preparing his ugly serawlstor the public eye. At
that time there were very few men in Charigtte-
town who had courage enough to call their spuls
their own in the eyeand hearing of the old Family
Compact. MeLcan beeawme tired of the jabpur of
contributing to the press in defepee of Liberal
principles, and fell into the arms of the old Com-
pact, who bad more money to reward his exertivns
than the poor and scattered advocates of the papu-
The old system of exccusiveness, which recognized
the right of enly oue extensive family to the en-
joyment of all offices of honour and emolument,
was thoroughly broken down—and the sovereignty
of the people, ij matters of Goverument, was fully
recognized, That was a great advantage gained,
and will be serviceable fér all time to come. No
matter which party may be pt the head of claire:

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