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MISCELLANEOUS.
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lors or Two Vesseas wera Aut [anps.—
Un Saturday intelligence was received of
two Origantines having been seen to founder
ia the Bogheh Channel with all hands Gurtng
the recent feartal weather. The ship Mage
wrenne, Captaia Stanbury, bound to Vera
t'rus, which put inte Falmouth om the 6th,
reperts that on the afterncon ol the previous
Hay. when some 20 miles east of Usbant, an
heghsl brigantine was observed in distress,
with ensign down (reversed). Soon after-
wards a tremendous «ea strack her, and she
was not again seen, She toundered with all
jands, for no wit cowld be rendéred them.
Nobsing cowkd ix gleaned of the name of the

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A bedy of rebel infantry was posted between that thren as an indiserimmate bedy of men through.
/point and Orange Court House, and the whole out the entire Colony? Why were such articles
brebel force moved off in the direction of the latter | peuned as those which were signalized by the
place jsery significant Readings of “ Our second great

Loenst Grove is four milessouth of Germania Pretestant triemph,” &c., from some of Wineh I
)Pord in Orange Covnty, and within a shertdis- an at any moment readily quote as ainple eontir-
[tance @f the wiklersess where Hooker fought his (ation of what [now assert! ‘Tatalk aud write
battle af the so-called "So misnamed * Liberal party
' Mill Run is two miles frour Locust Grove, and here.” may in itself be adiissable enough to any

iro hee to Mowatain river, where the rebel Oh Whe really regard them as such; but to talk

General Barly, with FB

be im force, is about six miles. Orange Court patty hore attempting to thrust popish dogmas on

House ts ten or twelve miles further on ina south. Che whole community,” or ot Liberal Protestants

west direction. here being com

well’s old evrps, is said to 80d write ot the * so-enlled mismamed Liberal |

wed in no mconsiderable degree

&

weit ae ee ees beet tel mt SET
i : ' , s ; é ro. bn { ‘ ; . - . *, } r
project, I shall only further say, that in now pro- = We have no doubt that the venerable edito

will. as far as be can, make himself ueeful to his

ceeding to enter seriously upon it, L shall simply
employers, and worthy of his hire; but he should

write What I aetually belive te be the (ith — as

the truth, wor give wysell the sightest concern as

to who reads or who reads not. 1 have selected |
vimy motto trom TLorace; and although Lmay rot

j prove a practieal Wustration of it in my Own pee |
ison or achievements, still T adopt it as one whieh

levery right-thinking mind should strive, at least

; in some commensurate degree, to excuuplily.

* ulto-

He 2s unwarranted in saying that we are
gether ignorant” of the results ot the Dolegation ;
neither is there anythmg * extremely annoying”
te ws in the reticence of the Government party on
| the subject. On the contrary, we have reason to
rejoice that the Government are as dumb as mutes
about the Delegation, because their dumbuess

* The man that resolute and just,
Firm to his principles and trust,
Nor hopes vor fears can bind :
Nor parties for revenge engaged,

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not do this at the expense of truth and fair play. |

on the following instrnetions for your
‘hare founded upou rites and printi-
some of my predecessors in par
iz in former years: [t is “tengo
jouw of lis place by any

to convey try
i wuidance, whit
ples laid dows by '
ticuleraperotearrs ar
i istent with the rete
paid ottieer ttrder the Geoveriment of a colony to be
‘the editor of un newspaper. or to take why ge
| part in the management of it. While Tam gla

fusing information, 1 cannot '
Sone ‘thas it is anpossible tor a publie servant 4
take any part in condueting a newapnper Fi wr y
political subjects and the measures of the loenl Go-
‘yvermment are discussed, without being placed in
soxitiow towards those under whom be serves quite
incompatible with the proper ¢

its publishing art eles

lischarwe of hix duties. ’

THE EXPECTED CONFLICT RET Woes
DENMARK AND GERMAN any
It is stated that diplomatic effort :
made to prevent a conflict between rman
| Germany, and that * The Cabinet of St Pete
burgh, by an amicable intervention, seeks te
_ veut a struggle which might involve all Europe
| SWEDEN,
| Phe Government applied to the Diet for ay ere
00,000 thalera for militar,

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| tfaordifiary creda of 3
armaments, Great distrast of King Christian ]
and excitement against Prinee Frederick, prevail,

THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND.

Wasiuxeroyx, Nov 29.
The army of the Potomac advanced at 6 o'clock, }
a.m. of the 27th, from Culpepper and Jacoh's
tords, aud formed a line of battle, the centro rest-
we on Fredericksburg turapike, near Robortson’s

ot * cnuitiustndede,” and tle like, ave point blank |
statements, which, if they can neither be estab. |
lished nor yet were designed for the express pur- |
pose of misrepresentation by these who gave |
them birth, must have been designed in the ouly |
remaining inport which they can consistently |

Nor threatenings of 4 conrt enraged,
Can shake his steady mind”
W. KEIR.
Melpeque, Dee. 7th, 1863.

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iNt-fated Feteet. we other waturtunate ship tavern; the lett advancing along the plank read,

went down some 30 oF 40 miles to the east | toring a curve towards Gordonsviile, and the

ward of the Sperm. Captain Uadgraft, of, right terminating wear the Rapide_y, southwest of
the Mary of Ipswich, which had arrived at Jacob's terd. As the centre a? vanced i cate on

that pert, reported that the vessel had lost the enemy's pickets aud a sirmish line. Subse-
her »ihoom, and had ber mainsail blown in- quently the enemy's live was strengthened by |
torbbons. Three men were at the pumps, arrival of reiatercemenis trom Hwell’s corps, on

und ber ensign was in the riggiag. She had | the Rapidan trout,

a parrow white streak on her sides, with Abont Le’clock a «tow and irregular eannon-
height varnished mastheads. ‘I'he weather | (Nuk commenced on the pyar. lwneee towrrd
was most fearfal at the tune, and amidst an j vita sie ah hd and cousiderable firing oe-
overwhelming sea the veasel disappeared, | pes yy

sible—the still vile purpose of black defatmation—
Which we all know well amounts to ove of those
things Which in all goud society is justly held to
be absolutely unpardonable. No doubt such flagi-
tiously libellous tultuinations as these to certain
kinds of pivus ears may have sounded all very |
mee: but had “ Liberal Protestants here’ not
been possessed of sufficient g od temper and good
common sense te enable them to make themselves
-. very easy as te whether “a great Protestant” or
: z y. d “ ‘ we . > . rechiess did das ‘ ean,

lake the former untortunate ship, nothing | taut Hill's corps, which lad previously rested on we er ts th — wa ‘ieee

could be ascertained «f her namé except that the Rapidan, west of the railroad, was approuch- a4 siert-lived atairs indeed, thes wught perhaps
she was British —Leverpool Mercury, jing on che centre, and halt an hour later heavy jaye, loug ere this, taken much wore summary
oe | wuskhetry was heard on the right, showing that) og concerted measures to have brought their

Confederate Carreney has eo depreciat- ithe Srd corps, forming that wing, Was engaging poartless and wholesale detamers to something |
ed that the Richmond people say, “ht you go ) the eae 2 oY ; , tke a comparatively seasonable exercise of their
tu the market you have to take your money | Fla baad F stagany Nenpcbireang fp pe tp se te oo wens man senses. OF Besa
lee ) ‘ : beef i yd ’ Joc iad Protestant Liberals been so irritable anc

be Be eee eee Gee, Set da -e , rank at that time known so have been Killed Was) Cyildish as to have “ turned the tables,” and tor
} the Lieut. Col of the 72d Pennsylvania, , one moment have tergetten that respect which
Grege’s cavalry and batteries had a severe fight” thoy seem to know at least they shouid ever pos
with the evemy's right wing cavalry on Thursday | 255 for themselves by having allowed themselves
afternoon, We drove them back on their infan- 4, wisrepresent Protestaut Conservatives, or as

possess, for what is yet iufinitely more reprehen- |

— ee,
“Rive oot wito Bares! —In Liverpool ,
the othee Sumday aight aéa very late hour,

NEW BRUNSWICK AFFAIRS.
(From Our Own Correspondent. )

Winter — without any snow —has just set in,
and is likely to remain in until it goes out. Yes,
Winter is here; everything proclaims the fuct.
Yesterday wasas mild as you could desire; but lust
night and this morning indicate in the most feeding
daauuer the begining of a cold aud frosty season.
Che departure of a long lingering and beautiful
autumn, D sincerely lament, aud am in po degree

| Whatever in love with its grim and grizzly sue-

cessor, though--as becomes all right miaded
persons, of whom your correspondent ¢laiuts to
be one—I have resalved to submit to its presence
with as much fortitude as the “* nature of Lie case”
will adit.

‘To you, my icebound readers, it is unnecessary
to offer any suggestions witha view of persuading
you to be once more reconciled to your lot,
which, I do not deny, 1s a hard one; au the
coutrary Lavew it. Bat you should ever bear in
wind that submissieu—voluntary subunssion—to
the eecurrence of events beyond our control, is a
virtue that will most qssurediy reeerve is reward,
Keep that trath, then, constantly before your
winds, J need no adimenitian on that pemt, but I

'tenautry might be cajoled for a longer space of

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[ do not object to public servat (
uiues upon subjects o
hey abefaim from any

| signed with their u
‘interest, provided t
| connection with the newspaper than ;
by coutributing such articles, and especk
Writing on questions whieh ean proper be eullec
political, or discussing the measures of t e Govern-
ment, or the official proceedings of its officers.
“flourish of trumpets, | should also cousider it improper fer a public servant
‘to continue to furnish any articles whatever to a
newspaper which, in commenting on the meusores
of the Governweut should habitually exceed the
bounds of fair and temperate diseussion. Lu such a
case I should expect all publie servan & te abstain
* being “ failures,” if eur COMMON | From coutributing any articles Whatever fo He co-
ye lutans, [consider the rule that all articles what-
| itten by public servants should be signed by

' proves the truth of our “ propheey,” and shows gentoo
i thut they have suffered a lawenutable failure in
their Delegation scheme. lt they had wet with

‘a shadow of success, in any way in which the

tiie, there would be a
indeed, tin ones we suspect, aud cracked at that,”
theeditorofthe Islander says inanotber editorial.
We can afford to smile at the sneer about our

| as
|“ prophecies ’
jseuse observations on public questiuns can \
‘diguitied wiih the name of prophecy.
‘the measures of the present Government against
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which we have written aud spoken are “ failures, | be brought howe te one of them, on i im articles
iW all ve 2 ay “Land Com- | bearing their siguature, they should dircuse any po-
re " sr big Gn ; ., | litical subject, or the measures of the Government,
| mission’ was anything bat a huge failure, entail | oy the officia ‘beaten of its eprom, é peony

i re e i ’ ‘hat is the consider it my duty to direct the removal of the per-

ee — ” . aon so offending; since, if the writing of such ar-
| Delegation but avother failure, and a piece ot ticles were permitted, it would very clearly destroy
, i Fs ar ] § confidence among those

i unteer Movement, | that harmony and intent con! x the

What is the Volunteer who are employed by the local Government, whieh
/which we were told would be such an orvamest! i. ybsolutely required for the due adininistration

‘to the country and such an efficient means oi of alfairs.””

| defence—what is it but a contemptible burlesque
and failure in every point of view! Wall the
| editor of the Islander intorm us in what particular

a jever wr ' i ° a
Nearly all them, the best security against abuse of the privi-
! leve. it mst. theretare, be distinctly understood

that if the authorship of anonymous articles should

| deception !

= -- 4p
Ix noticing the late Complimentary Supper to

| George Bagnall, Esq., the Islander makes the fol-

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turther | New Zealand; for the
what is implied | ready ax our settlers to fight far ew
ily from js net now a question of mere domi

d

There is ne escape fran the appeal to arn in
Maries seem to be ay

preroacy, z

Souminiton wn’ ph
| cular settlements, but a conflict 1
jtions. We were undoubtedly the aggressors
the first instanee, but the rejection of all our coy.
| cessions has disclosed the exact state of feelj
towards the British colonists. The resue
| been long postponed, partially by a belief on
| part of the settlers that it was the duty of the
_ mother country te do all that was DeCesary in
| the way of custly hostilities, and partly by a dig
guited avoidance of a duty which we dared jug
to deny as proper to our colomal poliry. At laxg
‘natives and settlers stand face to tace with a cleag
understanding that they have to adjust the
question of supremacy by toice. There is ng
flinching on the part of the settlers, Bo hesitation,
but a thoroughly English cetermination to conquer
ix uppermost. Jt is only when English
that there is no loo; hole by whieh huwani
assert iis clus, that we ever indulge the
of extermination which the native inte
easily invents. It is not to be concealed
there is a strovg determi: a‘ion on the part of the
| courageous rave to drive us from their er
land that we siall be driven to erwcl extremi
‘for their subjugation. We have ourselves to
for the state of tlhimgs, because we have so
the natives and done so much © to elevate the

tue townsfolk were startled by hearing the
church bell tolhag veolently. Tbe mystery
was soon explamed to thuse who ventured ia

end found « young man who had falien asleep |

siwring event service, had been locked in
vnnotreed by the sexton, had come to himself
jn the dark. and run te the bell to ring him-
e4f ont? Ringing to get in is common
+ nongh, Sat a sleoper so sound is not so com-
mown, cren in our eity churehes.—Halifaa

Cis.
=o

An Enelith mercount may manufacture
cannon. aed all other mantis of war for a
holligerent, because there i he law to prevent
An Baglish stiphathder way not equip a

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try lines, when we were coupetled to fall back.
Ilis loss is said to be about 250 in killed and
wounded. The Sth corps coming up to the euemy
iu turn Were compelled to retreat,

About GO were wounded in the 2nd corps, 5
killed aud 7 mortally wounded.

On the right, Gen. Freuch, with the 3d corps,
when advancing, encountered Ewell’s corps be-
fore he connected with the centre, and after a
severe fight he held his position, but lost heavily
He, however, captured 900 rebels. “The 6th
| corps was then thrown forward and filled the gap
between the centre and the right.

A train of the Sth corps, advaneing on the plank
read, was attacked on the flank by rebel cavalry,
who destroyed 15 or 20 wagons, killed two meu
and several mules.

On Friday morning it was found that the rebels

rerhaps we should more correctly sivle them,
“Prince Edward Island Tories,” in the same |
disgracetil wmauner it would never suit at all
How marvellously inclined, however, are that | as eel! as Orangemen.

particular class of people the world ever “whe! Recollect, we are all placed here in this wilder-
hive in glase houses’ to be the first to “throw | ness of a world—nupon this ever changing Uheatre
stones.” J, for one, feel gratetul to find that! of life, with important duties to pertorm, with re-
| Liberal Protestants, whatever they may be in) verses to sustam, with many promises 10 muke,
j ether respects, have usually proved themselves) some te forget aud others ta violate. Therefore,
“a sort ot Christians” who have far too much | my good readers, although your sublanary fate is
real sense aud respect for their own character) such as enlists my warmest syhapathies and de-
ever to demeau themselves so much as even to .
istoop so low as te Ming back again such vile | stances
Sinissiles as unworthy of the origina from where |
they so habitually spring.
cal wartare as these

have your happiness deeply at heart. You may
depend upon it, Lam laying down a safe doctrine,
sud TL should like lo see it practised Ly Christiaur

: ere | consideration, [have deliberately game to the
Such modes of politi) conclusion that through good fortune and ill
, and such tissiles as these, | fortune we are each entitled to “ share and share

may still, perhaps, be retained as the favorite re-| alike.” This tact cannot be too stedfastly urged | to be slanderously said tiat no class of people in | Goverment House as agreeable as possible to them |

serves my condolence, yet, taking all the cireuin- |

i .. | lowing ill-natured remark :—
| lustance the Government have beeu successtul,

beyond getting the reins of Goverument under
false pretences, when the * Nu Popery” how!
| Was raised by Bigots, Hypocrites, and Cleats !

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TENANT OUTBREAK.

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We cannot, for the tife of us, understand why

We are informed that an attempt to enforce | Lady Bantverman’s name should be dragged into a
the payiwent of old arrears of rent ou the Melville | this atfair, We never heard that ber Ladyship The Waikato Maories are the prime mover jg
Estate, Lot 29 (near Crapaud), bas been met} interested herself in the polities of the Island.
of our respective conditions inte! with armed resistance, aud that something in the | We knew, indeed, that she was always extremely | (

native character,” 80 as to prevent any siirprise

“some of the toasts are highly amusing—we | that our civilizaven has only produced the revere
allude particularly to that in laudation of Sir of eur intentions. A quick and intelligent * people
Alexander Bannerman. Why did they net con- | are quite as ready to learn the principles of tort.
ect with it the name of Lady Banverman, for by | fication and construction of rifle pits a9 the
all accounts se was more of the Governor than | elements of arithmete and the rudiments of the

| Christian religion. It is ouly too likely that the
| arts which we have communicated to the e
‘inind will now be forgotten in favour of the aetive
| operations of the field.

the war, tor we can seareely eall it
they live not more than forty miles from Auekland,
dn the banksof the Waikato they have

form of a Tenaut League has been organized there, i kind and affable tu ladies and geatlemen of the ed “a perivet network of rifle pits,” whieh,
p aloot the Bailitfs of the Agent. It used ‘Tory party, and laboured assideously to make |!

robably, wili be easily taken by us; but it may
happen that we may be repulsed, and suffer
considerable loss of men. The captare of

vessel of Warot s transport ior a belligerent, | : ;
because there happeas to be au Kaglish Act had fallen hack frum our centre ty 2 miles wear) who have been wout to employ them hitherto
of Parliament which expressly protibits his Orange Court.

sorts and tactics of certain parties aud mdividuals | upon your serious alteution,

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but if so, they may af the same time rest well

ver remember it,
tout in doing so let me be uppermost Mm your
} thoughts. ‘To you, then, whe are a community of

the Island resisted the paywenut of rent but Trish while she dispensed its hospitalities. We had)

rifle pits will not bring ae victory, becaue the
Catholics. In this case, the “rebels” are not | hoped that she had lett no other feeling behind

natives are sure te escape, and to repeat the
same experiment elewhere. Mt seems w bea

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suduag. The Engliss Governmweat do not CoLumnvus, Ohio, Nov. 13, 1363.
jntertere with the firyt class of transactions, Joho Morgan, on escaping, changed with his |

jassured of this one thing, well understood by | yourselves—whose sitdation estranges yeu from : > . b
every Liberal Protestant ii the Island, that ae i matt bees a“ hy pulicy of the naliges ty bale,
phos 5” they secum te expect that they are te

attacked, and their capture does not sees
| operate on the native mand as a loss. The

is not te be done by sukliers alene, ter i

ef New Zealand has proved that we may lock for
a series of hostile efforts as each
experiences seine real or fancied grievance. ,
ouly plan remaining is te people the di
distnets with seitlers, who will wedertake to we-
cupy the land we shall ce:tain!y be obliged te eon-
fiscate by the laws of war, We are w
hope less from the servicers of the regular

than from the new zeal ef the veluuteers

are flocking trom the colonies of Australia and
Tasmania. The Mavories do net knew what,
it is te meet men who have @ mmtive for
fighting, exacdy similar te their own im agy ression,
The whole war will chaage its eharacter om the:
arrival of volunteers, whose character will ber
that of wilitary settlers, and who hope te held aa
their own that which new grves rise to heetilitive.
The old military policy of the Romans is about to”
be revived at the antipodes. Chains of torts,
around which wulitary settlers, trained te the use
of arms wand not disinclined to an eccasionab brush
Witt av enemy, will be construeted in the dival-
fected native country. Reads wall be made, which
may perhaps wot rival the reads whiebthe Romans.
tuade se &awous, but which will et feast evadble us
to penetrate the fasta -ssess beiund which the na-
tives now reting ‘The war in New Zealand is ine

Catholics or Irish, but good Protestants and | her than an enduring remembrance of her re-
‘ the rest of mankind trom the present Gime ontil |
a course of procedure on the part of any conse-

y | ,
) Lori d U li | i xt spring, the best advi hich I can bestow | strong supporters of the Government. We are markable good nature, and lady-like demeanour
leeanuse they have no authority to do s0;) brother Dick trom the top cell to the lower tier, | °°" ; , ; O | vext spring, Che best advice witch & Cd " | . Pa oe ee ‘ - . nei r So :
oaly sto . the este d Sienane it % their busi- The ‘aua-an a. Reig is om per a halt | Cittion of men in the world, ue matter uf their | is to cntreat you to take good care of yourselves, | Net at all surprised at their weting 10 the manner {on all occasions. We are serprised at the ingra-
ness te ts the law. —** Jlisturicus,”’ in inches thick, in which a hele was cut, under the | CUUS8e itself were good, must very shortly and! your homes, and your tamilies—to lead virtuous | deseribed to us, tor they, at least—having served | titude, to say the least, of the Islander—being as
“ . ’ —e > , soy i » 240 as » ae . . . . Y" tai — as pe
the New York Herald. bed, leading down inte a two and a half foot | istly be found to recoil on their own heads, and, | and pious lives, aud oh! my dear readers and | ty. Goyertimeyt at the elections—had reason to it is the organ of the party so highly favoured by

patent : ital ihe » Poni- | Without inflicting the slightest injury on their op-! fellow creatures, : : ’ F
, : nt , f \tentinry. ‘This el cteliates alter ait ve ber ponenuta, only tend, sooner or Ae to bring bath P . sacinen the to week there has been on exhibi- expect that they would be relieved from the pay- | Lady Bannerman. We cannot suppose that Mi.
THE WAR IN TILE STATES. escaped into the open country. The uight was themselves and their systeu: into the most unqua- | tien here, a fine Panorama representiug seme of | meut of the back rents, which had been sv often | Lawson dictated the rude and ungallant remark.
(From the New York Hera.) | made by the authorities for his recapture. ) which every Liberal Protestant in Prince Edward | curiosities of Europe. This “ Cosmopholoscepe
THE SILUATION. i o_ ss ~ | Island is not quite so dull ws not to be both tho- | —as it is designated, has attracted immense

he news from the army of the Potomac) A Frarrut Picrune.—The following obser- nga ans aren yoo 1 Spartanslike, | gatherings of persons to the Hall of the [uatitute,
shows thas it lias completely severed its eun- Yations made on a reovnt Visit to the hospital at pt Pees 4 ‘hat mar mg . pin a ie | Loenjey an imaginary continental tour. = oye
neetion with Washington and is now advane- Annapulis, ng rere anid madly whe and commendable sort of taciturnity which ie ee ae aera as cen as
ing, with anew basis of supplies to rest upon. caesar gta payne ps om yo Gerahoa a usually produced ou all seusible men, who kuow they were at once recegnized by uiny persons | fectually secured. It is not unpleasant to Lear of
Me. mennlel.s.cemens, hase hen seacheh as. os few York Timex by 7 janie Thats se that the ultimate ground on whieh they stand is | present, who, through the lapse of years, bad al- |g rebellion arising
‘Tue cannonading beard 1 the front was ete visitor of the haspitals in and around Baltimore aes only: in iteelf gud, but that alse their owl | most forgotten that such places still existed. His
ably nothing more than outpost skiruush- for a vear or more, and who has witnessed the cause, aided thus ad reality: as much by the ime, Exeellency the Lt. Governor attended the open- ; .
ing, P wenger reported ro Waaiingeun aah om | moet sctondutaibdlels cmtng nerdck ond wounded pe ~ prowess wa a apeareries = uy thing else, | Ing ieeture at the Mechanics Lustitute, andindulged | upon them by their uugrateful task-wasters. 1{ las the Congress sought to be convoked' by the
Friday morning ovr cavairy pasbed furward soldiers, enabling him to estimate the amonut beth |“! § veutually, however gradually, yet mest as-) in some pertinent remarks—priicipally ewume-| they pay their rents—well and good—no thauks | Penal: Steneen saith ill htt Meas
as far as Loeust Grove, four miles south of mee ;
German Ford, where they met the advance
vl the rebel cavalry, aod the latter were

| promised to them. But there never was a time
| Waen the payment of back rents was more rigor-
ously enforced than during the few years the pre- |
sent Government lave been in power, so that in
| most Cases the arrears lave been recovered or ef-

LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE.

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Tue Steamer Heather Belle arrived fron Pictou
: ti yesterday forenoou with the European, American
oer ee " oy and Colonial Mai's. We observe no material
| yorty~—they denerpy Seeepe Pep erey Sebtanes ichange in the aspect of European affairs, except

to thein,—if they dou’t pay, well!—let the screws

CTRINE.

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truc-learted men, the World over, no matter What | delighting his hearers for nearly au hour with this

sell their lauds wader the Purchase Act, these

their own personal creed or principles may be, to
extend the same ehristian charity and deferential

most captivating subject. Lt was net bad for Mr

Woodw ard.

measures were denounced by the Islauder as

| for ibis day's No.

itself a great calamits, tor it challenges the firet
principles of eur civiization. and makes sew and
het very agreeable demands in colonizatiom We

courtesy tome which Tam mest heartily ready to) A very important ease has eccup'ed the time | ‘undixguised attempts at spoliation;’ and it was THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
accord to them. ‘Phis is nothing were thaw We and attention of the Cirenit Court wm this eity,| Vehemeutly argued by our contemporary that! A proelaination of the National Goverament | forced upon us, it way be the means whieh Pie
may fairly demand (rom every human being as-| tor several days. ‘luis, was an, action brought | coercion should, on ne account, be used against has just been issued at Warsaw, which ainounces Vidence intends to euples tt wider ‘the basis of

against the Commissioners of the E. & N. | the proprictars ju the diepasal af their lands—that | continuance of the war us tle only means of progress in auother bewisyhere: — Nesey of the

suming any other name than that of heathen, |
even in the heat of the most keen public diseus-| Railway, to recover damages tor personal injuries at suving the couutry. Lt also states that ie forces} Murld, Nov. 22.

may, however, rest assumed that as the contest im”

: de ur negates suredly in due season again assume the ascendant. } rating the advantages that such sucieties offer te |
- a So cxttnteettendanetntes — peta ena pe liar accor t | those who avail shone of them. ‘The lecture seins dh hatitiedieene easthelt deities puller principal Earopean Powers. She struggle
“Lhe mea landed (at Annapols,) at 5 A. M.| from nee whieh. noite to iJ ‘adveated a? ade pa woe Sneeenas wed pee il ona a pe : . err Troubles 88 of the gallant Poles for freedom is maintained
driven across Russell creek, and afterwards i” the chilly dawa, and it rg i pt te present Conservative Government ef this Pro-| som Be es ig Nbr ee. sande ines ~nnewinigiliai linen. with unabated vigour, and Russia enlarges the
werved Mill ran, two miles from the grove. A | ae pa wae * thille Toland one Richmond Vinee, and think that uoder the protection of the | five years ead” te Worship ‘fe nat the most; THE “SPOLIATION” DO measure of her atrocities with the progress of
Inady of rebvi infantry wae posted between | Many po unable to walk, and were carried te Britioh flag have a pertect right ty do so, with- | felicitous in iis capacity of a lecturer, though he | nee ithe insurrection”
that point and Urange Court House, and the | 5). hospital. Those whe cull Gialh, aaah Ware — either EO a8 secular circumstances | mavaged to yet along on Lis uecasion pretty well. Some years ayo, wher the Liberals passed the | Our latest English papers’ are to the 29th uit
whuie rebel turce moved if in the €:revtion | presented a sight never to be furgotten; fur, be-| vane misrepresented by any honorable-minded | His lecture evinced cousiderable research, a8 be) Rent Roll aud Teuant Punpapaitiog Bills, | «, i wig p ” ;
of the latter place, whieh is nearly twelve | jor. leaving, the rebels not only stripped them «f| te low-provineialiat, “ batever his own private | informed his audience whe was the first President bs the eenmedariannaks i “naa Wemake ream tor the following extracts frou
miles to tue southward. levcks, shues aud blankets, but touk from thei | OPMeNs may be notwithstanding. LT expeect all) of the Institute, who was the second and se on, PUT pHae, 06, Sequcing TRC «e eApmetOrS fe | +e ou the exclusiun of ether auntter tatinded!
Phe report of Quartermaster General Meigs their shirts and pantaloons, except where the |
of the late grand battle near Chattanooga | rags could searee hold om Men y * with-
shows that it was & surprise sprung u the | out hats or caps, wilh thin evtten drawers,
enemy, var Croope pate te a Diclecens |and ag a to “ ae oes ee
Ridge im such pertect order that the rebels | Dleeding feet covered only by wi lalters thew
Lad no suspicrn of an attack, but regarded eran ee kad _ aaat enews bat :
the movements as a dress parade of our, Sad toca tal Helle Lats twhieh penbeg x bes

troops. Tne details of she fight are most) barren waste) without any protection from the |e “ any Aas ages apg be P tor eX+| sustained by reasan of the fatal collision which | they should not be fureed to sell, ar sell on any i. = ui a ure ca mane and that | re 4
subisiactomly given by General Meigs, who! weather, exer : “ anselves con. BPle, deem propetto issue a Political Pastoral) ceeurred some eighteen or tw@ity months age, | other terms but such as were perfectly agreeable |e Russians have proved themselves unable to) p py : 7 )
ye y zs, weather, except what they had themselves con- | 5), tele denominational adherents, I do vat ivel a: | I. a 132040 woe the perfectly agreeable | sever 4uliethi tas Wind by! Bt'ndd dwotd. REWARDS OF FEMALE LABOUR

near the Rothsay Station. 7 — ” ;

Plaintiff, and his case was conducted by the able : Now, it appears shat a moms | Jt is iupossible to give a precise statenieut of |
aud astute Mr. Thomson, as senior Counsel, ‘Phe | “terial change has come over the spirit of our the numbers of tae LKussiau acy in Polaud. The |
Court Room was full of spectators durmg the six) contemporary, and that he is prepared to advo. | Goverum ut of Warsaw is oecupied by (iz,200 |

declares that su well direeted and ev weil | gcructet. They had tain on the sand which was
ordered @ battle Las nut taken place durimg jte them beti bed aud covering, expesed, both |
the war. isick and well, to all extremes of heat and cold, |

Ver last reports from General Barnside | without clothes, without food, (exeept small

to thetusel ves. IN NEW YORK.
We find, in one of our latest papers, the follow-
ing startling facts showing the price that is eet

all disposed to quarrel with thea for it; bar yet,
most undoubtedly, I do expect fo be lett at liberty |
te form my ewn estimate of its at least apparently |

are w the 25th. He thea still held Knox- | portions of the mest repulsive kinds.) lor weeks |

“njudicious’ intention and, net very probable,
beneficial results.

jor seven days which were devoted te this un-

cate views somewhat jin adyanee of the spirit

jinen; the government of Lublin by 13,500 men ;

ville, and was in @ position tu do so tur ten}
days we come. The victory at Chattanooga |
has oo dowbt relreved him ere this froum much |
roleitude as tu the seeurity of his position.
by the arrcwal of the mail sicamship
George Washingten trom New Orleans, with
dates to the 2lst, we have some intercating
news relative to the movements of Gens Banks
and Dana, who orarched upon that place
overlaod from Brownsville. Arkansas city
was atteeked, and tsken after a very brief
resistanee. One bandred prisoners and three
guns were taken = =‘The British brig Dashing |

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aud jiouths, many havieg been aaeu prisoners af
or betuce the battle of Gettysburg. Many were |
sulfering frou: what are called saud sores, and the
surgeous ia vain attempted to produce general
circulation of bloed, the cuticle in many instances |
seemingly dried on the bone trom exposure, and |
nearly the color aud consistency of parchment. |
It food was denied chem, it would seen as it the |
veriest barbarian would bave given them shelter
to die beweath. |

Ou entering the first roam, same sick men,
sitting im silence near the fire, lifted their hands to |
show us, that with us was entecing the unseen,
but not wuexpeeted visiter—death. Before us jay |
a young wan just breathing his last, a mere

) gels inte an unseemly rage ata brother minister

It any Protestant clergyman | fortunate and ill-fated case. The Government |

tor disseuting trom that pastoral publication ou
account of this ite apparent and necessarily ob- |
vious lmpropricty, and threaten him with both an |
ceclesiastical and civil prosecution, 1 do surtise
that L have a very good right to fake a nete of
sich an unimitigatedly semi-barbarous course of |
procednre on the part of any hive man ina free) better—made au able and ingenious effort in |
British territory, m the midst of the nineteenth | behalfof his client. Neither of the learned gentle |
century. Such a note of such an impertinaciously | men's labors, however, had the desired effect, tor
and transeendently impertinent cirecmstance may | after several hours consideration the jury pniy
yet serve a rare purpose in the history of the agreed to disagree—four of them being disposed |
times. Wheu a govermuent like ours, in what! to tind for the Plaintiff, and the remaining three
should be an enlightened Britis Island, make | avaiust him.

General Johnston, Solicitor General Watters, and |
ex Attorney Geveral Smith Mr. Johuston de- |
livered one of the west argumentative and clear |
sighted addresses toe the jury that was ever)
listened to tu the Court house ; while Mr. Thomson |
—theugh be frequeatly acquitted himself muel |

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ithe government of Radom by 8,300; the govern.

and ‘Teuant Compensation Bills, t .
tron the dslander’s editorial, already noticed in jaut ctatinard ef Gay gavtionier spot, Sub —

; 4 ; ee jabout as flying columns wherever requisite. The
the preceding article, the following significaut |
passage :— é! ’
‘of Poland (with the exception of the goverumwent

* Qur great hape is, that the agitatix rill serve : ¢
oe ee of Augnatow, held by 6,200 troops) amounted to

to opeu the eves of theabsentee Proprietors to their | Of

own interest, The wilderness glale of the greater | 150,000 men.
part of their lands is ay prejudicial to themselves as |
It is injurions fo the Community, and they nmay
eventually tnd, auless they take some paius to in-
duce settlers to cultivate their foresis, that at uo
very distant period the Legislatare—whethor of the
Island, or of the United Colonies—may insist apou

greatly respected in the town of Sawalki, who
lus been confined for the last tour mouths in the

no trial.

Wave was exptured by the gunboat New ee my whose dying throes seemed to place in
London off the Riv Grande, with & cargo | stronger relief a frame Which must once cave be-
cvasisting of seventy thousand dollars in gold longed to a strong and vigorous life. We turved |
aod a large quantity of elothing aud wedi- away in our horrer, only to look upon another who |
cies intended for the rebels. | weuld soon follow his martyred comrade. Near)

The despatebes frou General Fraoklin, in thet stood two male warses, who, after wither sing |

special formal provision to cast any persou inte a
common gaol, who may chance to let drop any-

thing like wo temporarily discourteous allusion, |

either to themmelves er te their responsible pro-
ceedings, and probably all the while nothing like
halt so bad as they richly merit, Edo imagine that
1 have a natural, and pothing on earth more than

A similar case is now being tried, wherein
;A. Ro Wetmore, a clever St. Joan lawyer, is |
) Plaintitl. and lis couusel is the Heuble Jota HH. |
| Gray ; apnesed la Mr. Gray are Messrs. Jahusten,

Watters aud Smith.

One of the Boston boats has been taken off the |

route tor the winter; but the ether continues her |

turing them, and to an exteot that will compel
them either to part with, or settle them, either by
Ineans of WGhaulry or treelolders, We are the last
to interfere with the kuown legal rights of indivi-
duals. :
au interval of quiet possession, to be not only ridi-
caulous, but impossible. T i

We hold Escheat at this time, after so long |

Phe right to property is, |

the Teeve distriet, We stera Louisiana, report

l horrors of all kinds, both ou the battle tield aad in|

howeverjuerely convention 1, Bythe law of uature, |

unfortunate mother was not allawed to see any of
them before sue lett. The cries of the dying child
were most heart-rending, and the iwhabitants of
the town weat in deputation te the Russian com-
jmandant, begging lin to allow the child to see its
mother, but they met with a curt refusal, Gra-
bowski, the son of a Protestant priest, has also

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" We extract | Te these, however, must be added 35,200 men | the United States.

It is painful to contemplate
the condition of the poor slaves who are competied

eitire strength of the Russian army, therefore, at | te werk bard in close factories for 12 hours per
the commencement of tis wieuth, iu the Kingdew | day,at wages ranging from 25 to 30 cents; and they

are tertunate if they can pay for their miserable
board and lodging out ot that scanty income.

Mrs. Wicdska, a widow with six children,)| Numbers of our Island healthy girls go away

every Spring and Summer to the States, in the

‘cuscmates, has pow been put in irons and sent to | hope of bettering their condition there. We hope

Siberia. She is charged with uo offence, and had | we are doing a good service to those who remain,
One of her children is dying, and the |

and may be contemplating a rash step of the kind,
by pointing out to them what delefal prospects are
in store for those who, with fevered imaginations,
rush to the labour market of the wealthiest City
in the United States, under the belief that their
industry and skill will meet with aa ample reward.

a very natural right te intimate to my fellow. usual trips. A splendid new organ has been | yo wan has a chain to more land than is necessary
countrymen that possibly an age of “thumb | recently erected in the Carleton Catholic Chareh | for his own subsistence ; und his rightto hold more,
serews”’ and other inquisitorial instruments is Hot! [t was iaaported trom Boston, and was paid for by | and transmit it to his descendants, is derived from
far ahead. This is another such ultrasnaguani- | the proceeds of a Pie-Nie holden near the city last | the law ; wud the same power—the wall of the peo- |

| the hospitals, stood perfectly subdued and heart |
|wrung, in witnessing that most tearful of all
deatiis—death from starvation.

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a gelleat ate.ck of General Lee, chiei of
cavalry in that department, upon the rebel
Camp Pratt, on the 19th instant, in which |

| been put in the casemates, and when his wite came |
to pay him a visit she was not allowed to leave |

the prison. As she was yursing a child, she |

The working girls of New York had a large
meeting ou Thursday uightlast. Ouly four geutle-

Union troops eaptured one hundred of the |
enemy and killed forty, taking oll their arms

aod equipage. ‘

A correspondent ot the New York Hera/a,
with Baoks s exvedition writes trom Bruwns-
ville, om the Lich ultimo, as follows :—* On|
appruaching this town, 16 Was ascertained |
that the whole rebel tures, some six hundred, |
commanded by General Bee, bud skedaddled, |
aiter blowing up their maguzine and burning
# portion of their barracks. Tv prevent the
thieving Mexicans from pillaging the place |
the citizens turmed themselves soto a citizen's |
guard, ander the direction of the Mexican’
Geuweral Cobos. Un the appearance of our
forces, General Cobos, attended by a small
guard, came out, and alter a short interview
with Colonels MeNulta and Dye, turned the
city over them. tle alse expressed himsell |
well pleased by the appearances of our troops, |
and congratulated us upoa the success of the
expeditivm; and on tee following muruing, |
the Gth, we took possession of Brownsville |
aod Fort Brown. Brownsville is a neat little |
tuwn of several thousund mbhabitants, and |
presents quite a Mexican appearance. It
contains @ fine cathedral and market boase, |
» number of brick houses and stores, and a-

of good. hetels. Lhe town is new al-,

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most entirely deserted, but the people ares

gradually returning: the prevailing senti-
juent is jor the Union, and the people all seem
well disposed. CGireenbacks already circulate
io Brownsville, and the citizens have confi-
denee in them, Across the river is Matamoras, |
in which there is at present a considerable |
revolation; there exiets four parties, the
liberals, or those in favour of the old Mexican |
goverament, those who favor the French, the |
Secessionists, and the Uuivnists. ‘These par- |
ties are constantly renaing foul of each other
and ereatiag disturbagces.— The Mexican
Gien. Cobos @ day ur two since attempted to)
rao ap the Freneh flag, but was prevented.
He was arrested, and shortly afterwards tried |
sod «hut for treason. General Cortinas bas)
proclaimed himself Governor, and now eger-
evses the fauetions of that office. Cortinas
favors the United States, and ws well known. |
He ie the seme one that surrounded
tureat ned to byrea Brownsville some years
azo. There is @ great deal of excitement in|
Matamoras, god aguther reyulutivp in a day,
or so would not surprise any one.—A detach-
weat of yur wen captured @ short distance
trom this plage a day or two ago 4 rebel grain
ul twelve wagons, loaded with goods for the
rebe) States. {t cunsists of bouts, shoes, betes,
pails ad eotton goods, worth probably two

thouegad dullgts. This is a valuubie prize, |

aod the toes ut it will be severely felt by the’
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‘The Star say# that yesterday worging our cav-
alry pushed forward ge far us Jocyst Grove,
whee they wet the advauce of the rebel

cas aley, aed the lattes werd duseu deruse Kuseell
vpeok, oc cover, gud alterwards weross Jd Buy.

[i another root was a voor young boy, equally
squalid mw appearance, a network of bones,
pectectly crazed and tossing his arms about and |
talking wildly and indistinctly ; he, toe, could
live but a tew hours, and most probably never be
save again, The next patient was a respectable
loobiug, middle-aved German, with the bed-clothes
drawn tightly over bis bead, mowning aud writhing |
im his agony. My trieud begged me to listen, |
L could only distinguish tiese words; ‘1 au so |
tired, something to eat, What tornueut,” and then |
the ejaculation,‘ Ok, Holy Christ !'—Then we |
saw others, emaciated to the last degree, several
of whom were trying to eat—their kind aayons |
tempting them with delicacies and such food us
they could bear.—Sowe, alter taking the longed-
tor article and putting it to their lips, would turn
away with an agenized and loathing expression,
as if eager to swallow, but incapable of the effort. |
Others, after eating with famished haste, would,

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mous circumstance, too, as may well in due time | summer. Yesterday its magnificent music was
form a notable inewdent for the pea of some forth- | first heard at Divine service, aud the talented |
coming MeAulay. Some future shp of a poet, Miss McCormack, late of your city, is the person |
perchance, may, at some yet remote period, adopt | to whour this costly aud superior iustrument is to |
it a8 the inspiring theme of his rising genius, and | be entrusted. ' ’. EB
awaken the long slumbering ashes of the dead! st John, N.B., Nov. 30, 1863.

with some such glorious strain as this— ——— ge — —— a
Che Examiner,

Charlottetown, December 14th, 1863.

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Once upon a time there was

Au island called Prince Ned,

For which its sages made such laws

As Solon never wed.
If such, then, be some, really some, of the re-
doubtable fucts of vur recent civil history, as a
civil community — and who will now bave tool-
hardiness enough to insinuate that they are wot
facts—whe shall blame me if, by an honest etlort,
Lseck to place both myself and many others of |

my equally innecent fellow-colonists in something | We take from the Islander of Friday last the

A LAME APOLOGY FOR THE
DELEGATION.

begged that it might be brought to her. This
was refused, and the child died in frightful agonies
| tor want of its nataral toed. Auother widow, the
mother of four children, has been arrested : ud
| banished ta Kowne,

ple — which couferred the right may also abridge,
restrain, or abolish it. And that this has been
done, we have many modern instances, The eman-
cipation of the slaves in the West Ladies; the sell-
iuy of the Lrish encumbered estates ; land taken for

railroads and other public purposes, against the |” +p “eth theatin :
will of the Proprietors, are cuses in point. If the | The officral Dziennik announces the following

Government of Great Britain could compel the political executions :—" On the 6th, Ladieloki Was
West Indian planters to give up their slaves, at a | hanged at Radzyu. On the 7th, Trzcinski and
fixed price, there is no reason why it should not; Dominic were hanged at Lomza. Ou the 9th,
compel the Proprietors of Prince Edward Is!and to | Francis Owezark was hanged at Lenezyea. On
surrender their lands, on being a paid a fair com- | the 2ist, Joseph Piotrowski will be hanged on the
pensation—not what they wight consider such, but glacis of the citadel, having been found guilty (1)
What disinterested, impartial 1 might, from | of residing at Warsaw and other parts of the

reliable sources of information, determine to be, | 5-- . > 4
under the circumstances, the true value. And we j Kingdom of Poland under feigned names and with

cannot help thiuking that this wil! be the end of | tulse passports ; (2) of having belonged to a rebel
the contention.” organization cailed the National Goverument.”

The plain meaning of this extract ia: The), According to advices received at Breslau,

| like their true postion betore the unprejudiced |

)eyes of all disinterested wen, both at home and |

“aie : ‘ : /Chmieiski gained a victory over the Russians
_ Proprietors myst be required to sell their lands on year Czarnocala on the 20th inst., in consequence

following lame apology for the “ouineus” silence

after a few moments, eject it all, their stomach |
being too much weakened to bear nourishment, |
either solid or liquid. Could aaything be more

abroad? Can any “ injudicious” partisan of the | of the Government regarding the Delegatign:—
notorious ‘Tory clique, who just now so ineffi-| « It is rather, we should say, a proof of weak-

ciently and pusilanimously and unsuccessfully ness, than otherwise, in the Examiner to attempt

fearful than this living death ; this tamishing with |
food betore their eves and within their reach ! |
‘There were other patients who were better, they |
could digest light teod and had seme hope of lite.
[t was then the sixth day since they came, and |
out of 160 men 53 had died of ill treatment and
aetual starvation, The surgeons said at least
two thirds of the Ist would die, and if any re-
covered it would be with broken constitutions,
utterly incapable of supporting themselves. Many
had did on first arriving, unconscious trom their

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govern the country, take, by any possibility of prophesying about matters of which he is altoge- |
even-lguded justice, the sinallest conceivable wn- | ther ignorant, or drawing conclusions, Without |
brage at any such attempt on the part of any in-| being certain of the premises; and the more es-
dependent occupant of his native soil! If any | pecially since his prophecies have hitherto been
individual of the common race of man, no matier! fajjures and his conclusious erroneous. The
in what zone he may reside, should happen to find | silence of the Delegates has become extremely

| that his native country, beth as to its secial, civil, annoying to him, and given him what the ladies | A EINT TO THE CURRIES

and also religions covdition is one, which trem tern’ «the fidgets.” The truth is, if he would |
what he considers very unworthy causes, has, but coufess it, that he sees something ominous in

such terme as the Legislature chooses to propose; of Which Lhe insurgents occupied the town of

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if they are obstinate, and hold out, they must be | Gora, ou the \ istula. Frequent encounters take

aneey : ‘ : place in the Government of Lublin between the

taxed until their lands become a serious jneum- Russians and insurgents.

brance to them, and be thereby forced to sell. | THE CONGRESS AT AN END.

Neither the Examiner, nor any one of the Liv As we anticipated, the British Cabinet has re-

berals, ever advocated the * Spoliation Doetrine” fused te accept the invitation to a Congressional

tu the extent that it is done in the for palaver. The demand for information as te the

| points to be presented tor discussion resulted in M,

| Drouyn de Lhuys forwarding a short programme,

nS ee Y ithe first item of which—olaud—discloses the

THLE POPES, {feeling of the Emperor of the French. The other

We find the following despatch in some of our itews—Italy, Deumark aud the Duchies, and the

pegoing extract.

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neu Were present, one of whom stated the object
of the meeting, and called on the girls fer state-
ments of the amounts received for their labor in
the various trades in whieh they were engaged.
The prices reported ranged from ene dollar to
three dollars per week. The average price paid,
making all trades represented togetner, was
about two dollars per week. There were many
lustauces in whieh only about twenty eeuts a day
were received. The price paid for beard was
stated to be from $2 25 to $3, not including
washing, ii most cases taking every cent that a
girl could earn, and hardly ever leaving her wore
than twenty-five or fitty cents a week forall extra
expenses. The hours of work range from eleven
to sixteen each day. The general hours at the
shops being from seven in the morning to «ix or
seven at uight, with half an hour or three quar-
ters of an hour for dinner.
ease generally that prices were much lower than
a year ago.

The tollowing statements were made respecting
past and present prices ;—

“ Hoopskirts, when they first came out, bronght
a dollar a hundred springs for making, now the
prices in various shups range from fifteen to twenty
tive centsa hundred. From two to three hundred

It appeared to be the

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hoopskirt slides stated that she got three cents &
gross tor them a year ago, but that now only @
half a cent a gross was paid, and that smart girls
earned about a shilling a day at the business.

| been very unnecessarily rendered anything but) this reticence, and would rather bear the worst!

The silver burnishers get a centa piece tor t

happy, While at the same time most of its would- |
be reputed retormers are only tending still further |
to increase and complicate instead of simplify and |
diminish this its fast culminating ruin, who shall
undertake to charge him with either guilt or

suffering that they were among friends and in the |
| iand that they had died fur. Others were too far |
‘gone to say much, but thankful to feel that they |
(might die under the old flag aud be taken home
te be buried with their kindred.”

late papers; and although it purports to have been |

addressed to the Governors of the West India.

Colonies, there is every reason to believe that.

than be kept in suspense. Were it net se, he
would quictly wait a week or se, confident that
the truth must come out at last. Lt may posmbiy
turn out that the Delegation has not been able to :
effect anything of moment; the only question js, COP!S

have been sent to the Governors of the |

Danubian Priveipalities—~are merely set down in

order te provide for the necessary compensations |
which would be needed in order to satisfy Russia |
for the re-constitution of Poland. It is not bkely
that Russia wonld yield to mnited Europe what |

spoons, of which they can do thirty or thurty-tive
a day, making about a dollar and eighty ceute a
week.

Shirts bring about 60 cents a dozen, taki

CORRESPONDENCE.

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FOR THE PUBLIC.
(No. 2.)
* Justnm ae tenacem proponti viram,
Non civinm ardor pruva jabeutium,
Non vultus instuntis tyrannii
Mente quatit solida.” —-Honar.
Mr. Eprron: j
I stated ‘at the outset that one reason which

linduced tae thus ever to bave taken up my pen liar aspeet of hobgeblin-like complacity which |
‘at all was an intolerable amount of evidence | they now so euigmatically aud so needless y wear

having placed beyond cenjectnre the fact, that, |

even to serve the crude and unprepossessing cause with all its unultiplicity of superlatively ridiculous tell us what the nature of this case was, before prompted by the most selfish motives—the desire

we bave just had under easual review, seme of
its uv wary and high-pressure style advocates did

hot eer ty adupt sume of the most coutemp- |
tible yn era. means—did not blush even |
or placing in

at the bare jdea of misrepresenting,
a false position, sutiae, and not simply some but
‘actually many of thew own co-religionists, both at

crime, if, by a sincere effort to do good, he striv’s pave they done their best?”
to avert the coming storm, and pioneer some
brighter prospeet fur that country’s wellare !

I have now done with apostrophe. Let me, pou
then proceed to the task whiel ata previous date gation.
1 bad voluntarily undertaken, and which, from
temporary reasons, I bave as yet allowed to lay

We desire tu assure the {s/ander that we pro- |
dno prophecy now with regard to the Dele-

We did, indeed, “ prophecy” some |
months age that it would come to nothing, so far |

‘uncompleted—the task of giving my fellow-colo- 8 the public are concerned, aud nothing is the |

nists a brief synopsis of my own personal impres-| result. The very last sentence in the above ex-

sious of “things as they are and things as they | * cont hi : .
deplete tai” Beha, “ivuties, a date tent tract confirms this statement. When Messrs.

hack to the time when the coustituent secial af- | Palmer and Pope waited upon the Duke of New-
lairs of this Province began to assume that pecu-! castle, his Grace asked them to put in writing a
statement of the case they wished to bring under |

‘his notice. The Government papers took care to |

—the time when the reuwwned Bible Question, |
horrors and bheart-buruings, so shamefully first) the Delegates se

7 te , t out upon their travels. It was, |
became reduced to such a startling political engine | were a

of discordaney to the heretofore comparatively | f, to ask that the tenantry should be at |
quiet and inoffensive inhabitants of Privee Edward liberty to purchase the freehold of their farms at

she has refused to the Three Great Lowers; nor |
is it probable that Cugland would consent to a
settlement of the Danubian Principalities in order
to compensate Russia at the expense otf Turkey.
Italy would enter a Congress with hope; but be-

North American Colonies as well. [tis notorious |

that the defence of the Government of this Island, |
so lar as newspaper writing is concerned, has |
been chiefly contided to Mr. Douald Currie and | ure Austria euuld be called upoa to give up

Mr. W. H. Pope, public servants, subsisting on | Venetia, it would be necessary to provide an
the public funds. It is equally well kwown that equivalent; and Italy alse would be called upon
their writings are feeble enough, and generally more | 1? 0" France in auother form. Of course it ia
Bhs . ; easy lo tind Compensation for Austria in a media-
ijurious to their own party than to their adver- tien of the German Dachies, and Prussia
saries. We have no desire tesee them discontinue migit have a cousiderable share of them if she
their seribblings; but let it be known who thie| weld cat Sh warts yl ghar agg

esa : ie LO AS ae | Provinces. In any shape which the action o
writers are ; aud thatin continuing to scribble their | Congress might frame, France would be sure to
nonsense for the Government, they are undoubtedly | gain. Her title to Savey and Nice would be re-
/cognized us an“ acevmplished tiset;” the Rhine

to keep their places—and that, alse, they are
acting in opposition to the Imperial authonties,
These remarks will not apply to Mr. Pope, at

pense of other people ; but to effect this all Europe
must be disturbed, and Europe docs not choose to
jbe so disturbed because France cannot submit
| quietly to a defeat in diplomacy.

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a day and a half to fivish a dozen at very
work. Fine shirts, all finished, $1 a dozen.
Flannel shirts, 4 cents to 6 cents each, and from
nine to a dozen can be made in a day; $1 a dozen
was paid in 19560 for the same that now bring?
about 80 cents. Overalls, 50 cents a dozen.
Large cloaks, taking a day, 40 cents ; small cloaks,
taking about eigit hours, 25 cents. Capes, %
ceuts a dozen, taking a long day. Corsets,
5O te $3 a week. At book-sewing, about BS a
week is made. For button holes on coata, about
$4 a week can be made. At dress-making, $33 |
week is made, working from 7 A. M. to 7 P. M
Linen coats, 18 cents to 20 cents each; twe
them is a good ten hoars’ work. The girls iron
aad finish them, and have to buy their own thread,
which costs teu cents a spyol, and of which one

might be once more made her bowndry at the ex- Spool is used on {wo coats,

Press-lecders get four dollars a week some-
| times.
Shelter teuts, with forty-six batten holes aad
ixteen eyelets, brought last season twenty-tive

island. This question shall, therefore, form the! 15 and 16 years reut—those who were in arrears preseut, while on his farcical Delegation tramp; |

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)ceuts; they now are made for vight cents. Cavs

‘substance of my next and first systematic letter.
| L say systematic, for as yet L have not attempted

| to pay the higher sum. We shail offer no cour | but they will apply to him while he was in the

bouw and abroad. his may justly be considered | any inductive analysis of any prominent topic of meut now upen this most absurd proposal. The Colony, after his appoiutment to the office of Pro-

(a grave ebarge; but se much the graver so much | the day, nor bave 1 yet seen any thing of the kin’, Delegates covsplied with the Duke's request—they ' vineial Seeretary ; and there is no doubt that when

worse, wranifestly we much tae worse, so log
ws it can be clearly and eternally substantiate

.| mer controversialist.

| in so far as 1 am aware, trom the pen of any tor-
This question I propose
Livestigating or viewing im the oaly rational as-

“put their statement in writing—they left it'at the he comes back—if that event ever oceurs—he
Colomal Office; but when they did se, the Duke's ) will merit their application again.

| It is certain that the example of England will
be followed by other Powers, and it will be curious
‘to watel the effects of their retusal upon the Im-
perial system. “The Empire uust be a success, or
the Empire will meet the fate whieh attends all
who fuilin France, It is a very critien’ time in the
history of the Lioperial dynasty, for Easope refuses

jt way, peraps, be pled that misrepresentation ; ing i
was wot designed by the parties now implicated > peet which, to my mind, it ean ever or will ever! back was turned upon them and upon Downing |
but if they did pot intend te ysierepresent, why in be found to assume; und such an honest investi- Ri nek Boo bie Cateniteed hatin: Mani bi hin
sv many ul thely public speeebex and public writ-| gation ef it will lead me most naturally into the ite ° ‘ oon
ings io tavuuy uf to a) others but themselves. their!) main subjects which lie concealed under its) country seat in Notts; and Mr. Palmer retu

absolutely aud Instorieully inappreeiable, and in| chameleon features, as those which are really te Prince Edward Island without having another |
‘itself, fortune knows glready witheut theis aid, possessed of any true practical and decidedly vital jy torview with the Colouial Minister. Al this is

characteviatieully owerjusoleut eause, did they so legislative interest to every promiscuous inhabitant ee |
olt-n “une sah alain uncharitable terus of this colony at the preseut moment. Having | Well known to Mr. Lawson, the present editor

towards their dissenting Liberal Protestant byer | thus, then, come fairly down at last to my proper of the Isiaader.

to attend the call of the Master of France, and

PUBLIC SERVANTS AND THE Press. — The i
the Master aud his system are faced with the ep-

West India papers publish the following circular,
which has been seut by the Duke of Newcastle to
the Governors of the West India Colonies: —
* Downine-stReET, Aug, 20,

“Sin —My attention has been called to the course
caken by public servants in certain Colonies in coy
necting themselves with newspapers, elluer by
editing or contributing urticles to them, and | have

) France. M, Thiers laughed the Congress iato
scorn When he said he “ understood what a con-

stand the utility ofa congress of patients.” Neither

. aud so they decline to atteud tur atuputgtiou.

position of the most active political intellects in»

sulialionof physicans meaut,but he eould not under |

do the patients understand the use of attendance, , ge

‘alry tents ape eight ceuts a piece for basting

four can be basted in a day.

P Vest wakers get twenty-five or thirty ceats 4
a

y.
Parasols and umbrellas are fifty sents a dozea—
eight cun be made in a day. “
Some of the employers, if a girl is five minutes
late, charge her jive cents for it. .
In some of the estadlishiments, if a button is left
off a shirt it is a rule te deduct twenty-tive cents
from the pay.
Photographers get three dollars a week.”
The object of the meeting was stated by &
ntleman frem the Working men’s Union to be

hot a strike, but a combination of the working ¢